A self-cleaning Reliance water heater is a handy device for supplying hot water to your home. With many innovative features and technological firsts to its credit, Reliance has been in the business of manufacturing water heaters for over a quarter of a century now. Dependable, almost maintenance free and with 12-years manufacturer warranty, these water heaters is the best ones around.
Get more hot water at lesser price and enjoy the benefits such as savings and peace of mind. Moreover, Reliance electric water heaters come with lifetime warranty on tank and heater parts! Producing both gas and electric hot water heaters for commercial and residential use, Reliance products are fitted with many excellent features like Blue Steel® class lining and Piezo ignition that makes it a 'one-handed' task to light up the pilot light on a gas water heater!
FVIR Technology: Flammable Vapor Ignition Resistant is a technology present in 30, 40 and 50-gallon gas water heaters. This technology meets the latest standards mandated by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for safety.
Flame Arrestor: this is a safety measure that is designed to allow waste gases to flow into atmosphere, while preventing heat flames from escaping in case of vapor ignition.
Thermal Cutoff (TCO): a thermal cutoff switch shuts the heating unit down in event of extremely high temperature, which can be caused due to improper combustion inside the chamber.
Whether you need a water heater for your mobile home or to fit in a tight spot, Reliance has all types of water heaters. From tall to short, a Reliance gas water heater is available in many different configurations.
Again, you'll never be short for choice when buying a Reliance electric water heater.
Maintaining a gas or electric water heater can become quite a problem, especially if you are tied for time. When you purchase a Reliance water heater, it's self-cleaning, Sta-Kleen, system does all the cleaning for you each time you use the unit. So if you are looking for a water heater that allows you freedom from monitoring it constantly, Reliance is the one for you!
I DO NOT recommend this hot water heater. We have had it for one week and have nothing but problems. The first day the water was so hot it would have burned you very badly. The next day no hot water at all. After a week of reseting the the reset button, we went back to where we purchased it. They told us it was probably a bad thermostat. They gave us the part because it is covered under the parts warranty. But we will have to pay to get it fixed after paying to have it installed already.
DON"T BUY THIS JUNK !!! Unless you like taking cold showers.
I have been very satisfied with my 1212; in the 2+ years I have had it, it's given consistently evenly heated water, runs reliably, and was reasonably priced. Very pleased.
I will never buy from this company again and will never take the word of a MDU repair guy either. We knew our hot water heater was a goner so was going to trot over to Lowes and get a new one. Had to have MDU come in and fix some questionable work by the previous owners and with speaking with him my husband is told the brand we were going to get is nothing but trouble but he has had nothing but good to say about the Relience. So he calls over to Ace Hardware and has one set aside for us. I grilled the guy selling us this jewel, told how great they are and how they take care of any problems you could have.
We obviously weren't sold the same Reliance they were talking about because here it is less than 2months later and the pilot won't re-light. Told to call the tech, no return call, called customer service again and told to go to the unit and figure it out over the phone. Given the part number to take to Ace to order, husband looks at directions and doesn't want to mess with this thing (it is a faulty wire?). Calls again the customer service and told they won't pay for a repair guy to put this thing in! Now Ace is paying the bill themselves and having a professional group come in and install this part. Can only hope that it was the right answer to the problem. Two weeks of no hot water has soured me to this company.
Moral to the story? Go to Home Depot or Lowes. Or even a trusted plumber and if the name Reliance creeps in… fire the guy!
We purchased a reliance hot water heater 14 months ago… had no problem during that time… since then on 8/12/15 or hot water heater pilot light went out…won't stay lite…had plumber out he said needs new thermal cupliar…contacted reliance they had us go thru all kinds of crap and didn't believe our plumber…we pay for 2 day shipping for thermal cupliar don't get it til 4th day…changing that out didn't fix it…so now call them back plumber says get control panel…pay for 2 day shipping don't get it as paid for…get that changed out…Still won't stay lite after about 15 mins pilot lite goes out and won't come back on… so now we contact propane man to come. Check out regulator and venting…He says no problem with any of these… call back to reliance they say oh u have to have a special cleaning brush to clean filter on hot water heater we will get that in mail to u which they pd for this time…5 days later get that plumber comes back out for like the 6th time to clean everything with there cleaning kit…lights hot water heater but after 15mins it goes out and won't relite..this has gone on for right at a month…my husband and I call reliance this a.m. and talk to a supervisor only to be told now it's probably the venting in our roof… NO ITS NOT… took vent off roof already and it wasn't dirty..cleaned it anyways..Reliance doesn't want to admit it but this hot water heater is BAD . if it was a venting problem why did it work for the 1st 13 months…I DON'T RECOMMEND this hot water heater..


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Tom Eastwick - Director and Owner - The company was formed by the Eastwick Brothers in Johannesburg in 2003, starting as a small family business renovating and refurbishing properties.
In 2006 Eastwick Brothers relocated to the KZN Midlands and started to build small developments and homes in the ever-popular Hilton and Midlands areas.
Experience includes: building and renovating properties in Chelsea and Hyde Park - London 2001 - 2003.
Eastwick Brothers have been building quality homes since 2003 and are now recognised as a luxury, top quality home builder, providing the highest standard of design and construction.
We understand that a home is more than just bricks and mortar. It is somewhere we feel safe, a sanctuary to relax, entertain, bring up a family; to be yourself.
Our business depends on us creating great places to live, carefully designed and well built homes that stand the test of time.
Our homes must blend with the local setting whilst also respecting the environment and creating open green spaces for families to enjoy, supporting nature and wildlife.
We have established ourselves as a reputable, reliable and high-quality builder and developer in KZN. We aim to build outstanding, beautifully designed homes and uphold our excellent reputation in this fiercely competitive market sector.


Your newest post reminded me of this tasteful and aesthetic morrocan carrot salad I had recently. It comes from peace food (a cookbook of Ruediger Dahlke I immediately fell in love with!). I slightly changed the recipe and made up this vegan version. I replaced the coriander with fresh mint, used soy instead of a classic dairy yoghurt and added one red chili as I love spicy dishes. I am totally rapt away by this mixture of spices that perfectly match with carrots and bring along this special wistful feeling that makes you dream of faraway countries.
Start with peeling the carrots. Cut them into pieces and cook for about 10 minutes in salty water, so they are soft but still firm to the bite. Meanwhile prepare the spice mix. Chop the onions, chili, press the garlic and grate the lemon zest. Heat olive oil in a large pan and roast onions gently until brownish. Add all other ingredients except the yoghurt and mint and mix.
Drain the carrots and add them to the pan. Stir again until well combined.
Place in a serving bowl, garnish with soy yoghurt and fresh mint.


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Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Partial Observer Theorem
(Dept. of Economics, Rice University)
Atsushi Kajii
(Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
Ben Polak
(Cowles Foundation, Yale University)
Zvi Safra
(Tel Aviv University and College of Management)
We provide an axiomatization of generalized utilitarian social welfare functions in the context of Harsanyi's impartial observer theorem. To do this, we reformulate Harsanyi's problem such that lotteries over identity (accidents of birth) and lotteries over outcomes (life chances) are independent. We show how to accommodate (first) Diamond's critique concerning fairness and (second) Pattanaik's critique concerning differing attitudes toward risk. In each case, we show what separates them from Harsanyi by showing what extra axioms return us to Harsanyi. Thus we provide two new axiomatizations of Harsanyi's utilitarianism.
Simon Grant & Atsushi Kajii & Ben Polak & Zvi Safra, 2006. "Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Partial Observer Theorem," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 1578, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
Handle: RePEc:cwl:cwldpp:1578
File URL: https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d15/d1578.pdf
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Generalized utilitarianism; Impartial observer; Social welfare function; Fairness; Ex ante egalitarianism;
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France to take on EU's rotating presidency
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France will take on the rotating EU presidency from January 1.
It comes during a key period for French President Emmanuel Macron, who is expected to run for reelection in April.
"If I had to sum up in one sentence the goal of this [EU] presidency, which will run from 1 January to 30 June, I would say that we must move from a Europe of cooperation within our borders to a powerful Europe in the world, fully sovereign, free of its choices, and master of its destiny," Macron said, laying out France's plans.
Take a look at the video above to learn more about France's goals for the six-month presidency.
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The days of people waking up to their morning coffee and opening up the morning paper are gone. I needed no further proof than when my dad recently cancelled his newspaper subscription, which was a sign to me that you can start writing the obituary for the printed newspaper (but I'm not sure where the obituary will end up when printed newspapers are gone). It's been looming on the horizon for a long time, but the soaring popularity of Craigslist, cheaper more effective advertising with Google, and the recession that's been going on over the past few years the death of the print industry has been significantly accelerated.
A recent blog post by Sam Rainer somehow made me see a connection between the print industry and the church. Sam's post was discussing how some churches run on a much smaller percentage of their budget devoted to staffing than what is average in American churches. I'm not sure the two are related, but it kind of feels like there might be something going on in churches similar to what the newspaper and print industry has experienced over the past decade. Newspapers are dying quickly in our country as they've struggled to figure out how to maintain profitability when their traditional revenue sources (classified, ads, subscribers) disappear.
The church doesn't live on advertising dollars, but it does need to re-think many things in light of how communication has changed. There are many ways for churches to cut back on traditional costs, but they would require a shift in thinking. For example, almost every church has physical offices somewhere on their property. This is what churches have always done, so it seems like it's needed, right?
Well, in today's broadband powered Internet age, I'm not convinced that it is. Church telephone numbers can be pointed to cell phones or services like Phonebooth or RingCentral that eliminate the need for a centralized system. Staff meetings can happen completely online through video chat services like Skype or TokBox. Starbucks can be a comfortable place for pastors to meet with church members throughout the week. There are many other ways churches could cut back on their overhead devoted to staffing, too.
The reason I see a connection between the print industry and the church is that in both instances things have become more and more decentralized and information has become more and more readily available. Pastors are no longer the only ones who have access to biblical research tools that previously only usuable by seminary graduates. Videos of sermons from outstanding preachers throughout the world are just a click away. And with the increase in the number of "internet campuses" that churches offer more and more people will be attending church in their pajamas in bed.
There's a desperate need for churches to continue to refocus and reshape who they are and how they manage their resources. We have the most important message the world needs to hear, so we need to do whatever we can to ensure that we offer that message in as effective and efficient way possible.


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Q: Crontab executes only first line I'm trying to setup several cron jobs on VPS under centos/whm.
I've added to /var/spool/cron/root following lines:
*/5 * * * * find /some-dir/* \( ! -iname ".ht*" \) -delete
*/10 * * * * find /some-other-dir/* \( ! -iname ".ht*" \) -delete

but only the first line executed ( for /some-dir/). If I swap lines - /some-other-dir/ executed, /some-dir/ - not. I've tried to put semicolons at the end of each line, to put spaces, tabs, change file encoding - nothing.
How can I make cron process both tasks?
here is the /var/log/cron output:
Sep 18 11:05:01 host crond[3302]: (root) CMD (find /some-dir/* \( ! -iname ".ht*" \) -delete)
Sep 18 11:10:01 host crond[3303]: (root) RELOAD (/var/spool/cron/root)

thanks!

A: It seems like cron requires an empty line an the end of crontab. I accidentally left such line and viola! both tasks executed.

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First Christian Church of Tacoma – Moses: A Mentor for Ministry Amidst Change – 4. What Scripture Do We Pass Over?
Moses: A Mentor for Ministry Amidst Change – 4. What Scripture Do We Pass Over?
What Scripture Do We Pass Over?
(Exodus 12:1-14 NRSV) 1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. 4 If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year‑old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 7 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. 10 You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
The Greeneville, South Carolina television station reported that she was well-liked. Neighbors said that she was a very pleasant person. One neighbor was quoted as saying "I'm completely shocked." This story is about a woman named Barbara Glenn, who was recently arrested in South Carolina thirty-five years after escaping from prison in Michigan where she had been convicted of assault and writing bad checks. But that was a life that none of her South Carolina neighbors knew; they knew her as a pleasant person who fit well into her affluent community, "a good neighbor and the last person you would imagine to be an escaped felon." We heard an even more horrific example this very morning from the family of the young man who wrecked havoc and death in Chattanooga this week as the family said, "There are no words to describe our shock, horror, and grief. The person who committed this horrible crime was not the son we knew and loved." It's the sort of story that comes all the time, isn't it? Stories about persons who seem to live very different, and even incompatible, lives. In fact, the way these stories are reported is predictable: the neighbors express shock at the other life that someone had led, and they talk about how nice, how pleasant, how decent he or she seemed.
One doesn't have to search far through even the icons of American history to find this same phenomenon: one person, two seemingly very different lives. Thomas Jefferson, the man who would pen the words about all people being equal not only owned slaves but fathered children with one, and then used his own children as slaves. One person, two seemingly very different lives. Lyndon Johnson could courageously defy his upbringing and his friends to lead Congress to pass an historic voting rights act, a civil rights act and the legislation behind the war on poverty. But Johnson could also be vicious and mean to those who worked for him, taking delight in humiliating them. He used the most vile language for people of color. And he cheated on his loving and long-suffering wife. One person, two seemingly very different lives.
One person, two seemingly very different lives.
The fact that we are so familiar with this phenomenon about life ought to help us understand our scripture reading for this morning. It is a deeply troubling one, if we really pay attention to the story. Oh, we preacherly types love to tell the part of the story of God sparing the children of Israel from harm and bringing them out of slavery and into freedom. But there is a darker side to this story, isn't there? And we cannot simply dismiss it or avoid it or gloss on over it for two reasons: first, the story of the Passover and God's intention that God's people be liberated from anything that would hurt and enslave and mar their lives is the basis on which all of Judaism was built. Which, of course, is to say that it is also foundational to the Christian faith, for, after all, the last supper that Jesus celebrated with his disciples, what we remember and re-enact every first Sunday in Holy Communion, was in fact the Passover Meal that was instituted by this passage in Exodus. But second, this story goes to the heart of how it is that we need to read and interpret our Bibles and how we will make a terrible mistake if we wrongly interpret them.
Let's start, then, with the first reason that this story is crucial. To do so, we need a bit of recap. Last week we left Moses there at the burning bush with God telling him that his purpose in life was not simply to be a contented shepherd in a land far from his people, but to lead his people out of the awful slavery in which they were enmeshed. But you may have noted that we skipped from chapter 3 which we read last week to chapter 12, which Esther read for us this morning. And what's left out between last week's reading and this week's is Moses contending with Pharaoh and there being successive plagues on the Egyptians. The locusts and the boils and so forth. And now the story is moving to its conclusion and God tells the people that to honor and memorialize the liberation that they are about to receive, they are to prepare a special meal in a special way. The centerpiece of that meal is to be a lamb cooked in a certain way. Moreover, they are to be dressed in a certain way for this meal. They are to be in their traveling clothes, ready to go with God on a moment's notice. And in contrast to Moses being instructed to take off his shoes in last week's text. In this week's text, Moses and the people are instructed to put those shoes back on, so that they will be ready for their long walk in the wilderness.
The symbolism is powerful. It is no accident that in virtually every culture and every religion there is a ritual of eating that is associated with the deepest things believed about God. For eating is ubiquitous; without eating we die. When we eat, we live. And the point of linking eating and God is to say that when we eat knowing that it is God who provides our sustenance body, mind, and soul, then we will not only be eating but we will be eating well and will be nourished for life's journey. And we dress in our traveling clothes to acknowledge that God feeds us always and at every point on the journey that is our life. As I say, this powerful meal, first celebrated there in Egypt, became the basis for the Jewish people's understanding of their life under God, that God is the one who always, always feeds and frees.
But now to the second point: too many preachers pass too quickly by the awful part of this story or gloss it over because we just don't want to deal with it. You heard it: part of what will happen while the Hebrew people eat that meal is that every firstborn, from humans to cattle to kittens and puppies will die that night. And, in fact, the reason that the meal comes to be called "the Passover" meal is because it is asserted that God indeed was the one killing Egyptian children and that God "passed over" the houses where the Hebrew people had marked their doorposts in a certain way. And the inescapable conclusion, if you simply read this text at face value, is that God's liberating and freeing some people comes at the price of God hurting and murdering other people and animals.
But, my friends, this is where we need to remind ourselves of what we know about how we should read our Bibles. This is why it is a mistake to think that you can simply pick up your Bible, turn to any verse in it, and treat what falls under your finger as equal in weight or meaning or truth to any other verse. I opened this sermon with stories about people — and that likely includes all of us — who in some way have dual lives. And what we need to know is that throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is that it apparently looks like God has a dual life. For there are indeed two kinds of streams that run throughout the Bible: on the one hand, there is the God who is understood like a warrior, a mighty tyrant, one who uses violence to get his way and do his will. But there is another strain, a gentler stream, that runs throughout the Bible too: that is the stream that shows that when God creates it is not by violence, but by the persuasive power of a word; that is the stream that shows that no matter how badly we screw up, God abides and cares and seeks to forgive and heal and make whole.
But we don't want to say that, do we? We want a God we can worship rather than an inconsistent tyrant that we placate. But how do we have such a God when scripture seems to depict God as indeed having such a dual personality? By remembering an utterly key thing about how to read and interpret and understand our Bibles and that is this: the Bible is not just the record, as if it were some kind of super Tivo or DVR, of what God is like and what God did; no, the Bible is the human attempt over three thousand years to understand what God is like based on God's dealings with them. Do you hear the difference? It's the difference between saying something in your own words, and hearing what you said repeated in a way that you may not even recognize! There was a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago in the early twentieth century who never published anything himself about his teachings and beliefs; rather, after his death, his students published books under his name that were their collection of the lecture notes they had kept. Now, some of you in this room have been teachers or parents. Would you want an evaluation and assessment of what you taught based only, only, on what your students or children thought you had said? Don't you think that there would be opportunity for them to utterly miss the point? No doubt!
And sometimes, my friends, in the long history of the Jewish and Christian people, when a writer wrote something about God that eventually made its way into scripture, that something tells you far more about the person writing than it does about God. Do you really want to think, based on the God that has been shown to you in the face and hands and words and voice of Jesus Christ, that the God of whom it is said in Psalm 147 is that He delights when the Hebrew people dash their enemies' babies to death on the rocks is saying something about God? Or is it saying more about the situation and the fury of the writer? You cannot simply pick out a verse here and there in that book or any other and say "this is what God definitely and truly is like" because sometimes those verses are in fact the record of a mistaken or incomplete understanding of God, an understanding that God continues to try to correct and improve.
You have no doubt heard quoted the Rev. Theodore Park's line (a line that became a favorite of Dr. Martin Luther King's): "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."  We could also say this: the arc of the Biblical story of our Jewish and Christian forebearers is also long, but it has bent, in the life of both the Jewish people and the Christian people, towards understanding that God is not a dual personality, not inconsistent, not abusive, not the sort of God who would help to free some folks while hurting and killing others. No, that arc of Biblical faith continues to bend, I believe, towards an understanding that God is the God of all, that God cares for everyone and everything God has made. This is the God whom the writer of Second Peter was describing when he said "It's not that God is slow in keeping the promise; it's that God is patient and does not want or will that anyone–anyone! — should perish." And what is that promise that God so patiently moving us towards? It is exactly what Christ said: the promise of life abundant and life eternal for all people, for all people.
I am indebted to a Professors Clark Williamson and Ron Allen of Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana, for their wisdom expressed in private emails with my husband Chuck and I as this sermon was being prepared. I am also very indebted to the Rev. Chuck Blaisdell for his always perceptive thoughts. I am blessed by their insight.


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Igor Gluščević (cyr. Игор Глушчевић; ur. 30 marca 1974 w Budvie) – czarnogórski piłkarz, który w czasie kariery zawodniczej grał na pozycji napastnika.

Gluščević rozpoczynał swoją zawodową karierę piłkarską w dawnej Jugosławii, w zespole FK Vojvodina. Po zdobyciu siedmiu goli w ciągu dwóch sezonów, zdecydował się na przejście do Hiszpanii, do CF Extremadura. Z tym zespołem spadł z Primera Division w 1997, ale już rok później cieszył się z awansu.

W 1998 roku Gluščević zdecydował się na kolejną zmianę barw, tym razem była to FC Sevilla. W andaluzyjskim klubie był ważnym członkiem drużyny, która w tym samym sezonie wywalczyła awans do najwyższej klasy rozgrywkowej. W Sevilli FC spędził zaledwie sezon, po czym obrał kierunek na Grecję i Aris FC.

W 2000 roku związał się z holenderskim FC Utrecht, gdzie w 84 meczach zapisał na swoje konto 39 goli. W sumie w Utrechcie spędził trzy lata i po krótkim epizodzie w Sparcie Praga w sezonie 2003–2004, powrócił do Eredivisie. Tym razem było to SBV Vitesse, z którego po dwóch latach gry wyjechał do Chin. W 2007 roku zaliczył kolejny powrót do Holandii, wiążąc się z Heraclesem Almelo. W barwach tego klubu zaliczył 7 trafień w sezonie. Najbardziej spektakularne trafienie miało miejsce w meczu przeciwko FC Twente. Gluščević popisał się fenomenalnym uderzeniem z około 35 metrów.

Po sezonie 2007–2008 jego umowa z Heraclesem dobiegła końca. Klub nie chciał przedłużyć jej o kolejny krok i 22 lipca 2008 Gluščević zdecydował się zakończyć karierę.

Czarnogórscy piłkarze
Piłkarze Sevilli FC
Piłkarze FK Vojvodina
Piłkarze CF Extremadura
Piłkarze Arisu FC
Piłkarze Heraclesa Almelo
Piłkarze FC Utrecht
Piłkarze Sparty Praga
Piłkarze SBV Vitesse
Piłkarze Shandong Luneng Taishan
Ludzie urodzeni w Budvie
Urodzeni w 1974

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1. My buddy thinks he can improve 10 strokes in one month.
I'm taking the over - he'll improve at least 10 strokes.
I'm taking the under - he'll improve less than 10 strokes.
My guess is he's already improved and he's setting a trap for you.
By the way, not that it matters but "he'll improve less than 10 strokes" is incorrect. It should be fewer than 10 strokes. Less is amount, fewer is a number. Teehee, don't you hate people who act like grammar police online?
My thoughts are the exact opposite.
Player A - above average ball striker for his handicap. short game and putting are his weaknesses.
Player B - below average ball striker for his handicap, short game and putting are his strengths.
Which of these two players is going to have an easier time dropping 10 strokes in 30 days? Obviously player A.
You can make improvements in short game much much quicker than you can in ball striking/full swing, especially if short game was your glaring weakness.
Don't understand what you are saying - if short game improvements are easier why would Player A be better equipped to improve 10 strokes. If someone is above average ball striker and average short game (most 8-10 handicaps are not overly deficient in either), after 5 years off it is going to be hard to get back where you were. Whereas if you were an average ball striker and above average short game, much easier to get back to what you used to do.
In the case of Player A, I'd also be concerned about body fatigue over practicing.
if short game improvements are easier why would Player A be better equipped to improve 10 strokes.
Because in my hypothetical scenario, since short game is a glaring weakness of Player A, he would be able to drop a lot of strokes really quickly by improving his short game since it was so bad to begin with.
Player B already has a solid short game, so the only way he is going to be able to lower his score is by changing his full swing, which takes a long time and a lot of practice and is much harder to accomplish.
Lots of variables as said above, if from 115 to 105, better chances, but 95 to 85 ish, tougher. I'd warn against too much practice and then an RSI and can't play at ll.
What y'alls are forgetting is that any improvements made are instantly negated once a golf trip is started. This applies to errybody including the OP.
So betting is closed. He's in it for $200 on his own. Prob not a fair bet, but he makes good coin and I think he's taking this as something to motivate.
To answer a few questions, his short game was 100% his strength. Dude used to get up and down from anywhere. His long game is just ok, he was carrying prob about 230-240 last few years. And honestly, last few years he would still hit a lot of pars and some birds too, but his scorecard would also have a bunch of quad+'s. I swear last year he was hitting 5 from the teebox like at least once per round.
So I bet with him, but it was more of me picking which team to root for. I figure in a month's time he'll at least be able to stop the 2-ob's from the tee mistake, which is 4 strokes right there. And the rest he can makeup with some improvements across the board.
Hmmmmm! Long game improvements mean swing changes! Last time Tiger did this it took him 2 years. I like my chances.
Y'all is already plural. The "s" is unnecessary and grammatically incorrect.
So these scores are strokeplay, no esc. given and played by the rules of golf 100%? I will go for under if so.
One of the guys was like an 8-10 index from 2008-2013.
Typical geographically challenged Southerner. A 'Yankee' first referred to someone from New England. Albany can only see New England across the Hudson.
And to add insult to injury, to folks across the pond, you are a Yank too!
No chance. 5 strokes of improvement in 1 month would be incredible. 10 it´s imposible, and even harder if his 1 month training isn´t a proper one.
All in on under 10 shots of improvement, i guess it would be around 3 strokes.
I have a golf trip w/ 7 buddies in early april. One of the guys was like an 8-10 index from 2008-2013. Since then he's gradually stopped playing (like 2 outings in 2018), and shoots 96 on average for the last 2-3 years.
He happens to have an entire month free right before our trip. He says he will (and i believe him) be playing or practicing that entire month. He thinks he can average 86 on the trip (10 strokes scoring avg improvement). This has quickly turned into huge action in our group. At least $500 already in play, and split evenly so far. He's late 40's, pretty athletic, and in great shape. We'll be playing Torrey Pines on the final round and 2 muni "easier scoring" courses before that.
Any thought on where I should put my money? Half of me think it'll be ez for him to get back into his old form, and half of me thinks it'll be impossible. Don't expect u guys to have the right answers w/o knowing him or the details, but would be interested in any related stories you may have heard of.
This is what I realized while trying to improve. No penalty Strokes, they kill your score. If he was a 8-10 means he had a good short game. So if he gets that feel back, it's possible. Good luck to him!
Going from 96 to 86 in a month definitely isn't impossible, depending on his weaknesses. If it were going from 86 to 76, then yeah, that's nearly impossible.
You're right, though, if he's just beating balls for a month, he's not going to see much improvement. He has to do this the right way to even have a shot at all.


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South Africa: Fear Helped Avert Day Zero
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Threats about Day Zero when taps would run dry, had a far greater impact on Capetonians' water usage than water restrictions.
This is one of the major findings of a study by researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University Cape Town (UCT). The study was published recently in the online version of the journal Water Research. The printed version will be available in February 2019.
"Our findings suggest that Capetonians responded more strongly to the threat of waterless taps than to the implemented levels of water restrictions. Our smart water meter data combined with billing data from the City points to a remarkable success on the side of citizens to drastically change their consumption patterns over a relatively short period of time," says one of the researchers Prof Thinus Booysen from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at SU. Booysen conducted the study with Martine Visser from the School of Economics at UCT and Ronelle Burger from the Department of Economics at SU.
"Our study seems to indicate that while inciting some level of fear may have been a risky strategy for the City of Cape Town to undertake, it may have been the single most successful intervention in changing Capetonians' behaviour as far as water usage is concerned."
Booysen and his fellow researchers looked at the sequence of events leading up to Cape Town's purported "Day Zero" in 2017 and 2018, and connected key events to the changes in behaviour of households that used hot and cold smart water meters that measured water usage. Hot water meters (Geasies) were installed in the Mpumalanga, Gauteng and the Western Cape from June 2015 to December 2016, while cold water meters (Dropulas) were installed in Cape Town from October 2016 to August 2017. Geasies enabled the researchers to compare the hot water usage in the three provinces.
Booysen says they compared hot water usage in Cape Town to that of Mpumalanga and Gauteng because although these provinces were unaffected by drought, they experienced many of the same drivers of change as Cape Town.
He adds that since households with Geasies and Dropulas are predominantly from the highest income quintile, and probably more informed and responsive to conservation messaging, they cross-checked their findings by mapping their data against that of the City of Cape Town's domestic users' total water consumption, as well as those in the highest income quintile amongst the City's users. Booysen points out that these households also use the most water.
He says their study shows there was an increase in water usage after the first week of September 2017 when the Level 5 restrictions were implemented and after 31 January 2018 when Level 6B restrictions were implemented.
"At this point the smart meter users were at 250L per day, which equates to 7,5 kilolitres per month (the Cape Town average was at 300L per day per over the month). The perverse effect of the contradiction in the Level 5 restrictions may explain the increase in usage to over 350L per day (or 10,5 kilolitres per month) at the end of the September school break."
As far as the difference in water usage between Cape Town and the two other provinces is concerned, Booysen says it dropped from the middle of August 2017, after the release of the Water Resilience Plan, but continued to increase to a peak difference of 9L per day after the second week of September.
He points to three events in the first two weeks of August that might explain the apparent levelling off and subsequent reduction in the last half of August: the national government derided the City of Cape Town for not reacting adequately to the drought crisis, the City threatened to install water restriction devices for heavy users, and the mainstay annual West Coast Flower Show was cancelled because of the drought.
Booysen says a week after the announcement of the disaster plan on 4 October 2017, the difference between the regions started to increase, reaching 21L per day in the first week of November, indicating a substantial reduction in Capetonian's water usage.
In mid-November, after the intervention by the premier and the national minister, the difference decreased to 6L per day at the start of the holiday period (18 December 2017 to 7 January 2018).
"A week after the Level 5 restrictions were introduced, hot water usage in Cape Town perversely increased, and the difference between the two samples quickly reduced to 2L per day in the following four weeks, apparently indicating diminished savings subsequent to Level 5 implementation."
"After the holiday, which overlapped with the implementation of Level 6 restrictions, the difference between the groups increased steadily, reaching 33L per day in the last week of January 2018, as Capetonians used less water in response to the looming crisis and the introduction of Level 6B restrictions."
Booysen says the cold water usage of households with Dropulas was similar to the City of Cape Town's.
"However, after the second week in January usage increased steadily to levels higher than before the holiday period, matching an increase in the City of Cape Town household data. This increase peaked shortly after the City's announcement of Level 6B restrictions. A further reduction followed the implementation of Level 6B on 1 February, after which usage plateaued and slightly increased with the announcement on 22 February that Day Zero had been postponed to July."
Mainstream media and social media
The researchers also analysed mainstream media and social media reactions to government announcements by searching for terms related to the water restriction levels and those related to the fear of the drought and its consequences.
They looked for terms such as "Level 5 or Level 5 restrictions or Level 5 water restrictions or water restrictions", "collection points", "disaster", "crisis", "South African National Defence Force", "bottled water", and "borehole".
"We wanted to identify points of heightened public engagement with the threat of empty taps, to understand how Capetonians digested, assessed and navigated the barrage of notices and news during the crisis," says Booysen.
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He adds that they restricted their searches to August 2017 to October 2017 because their data suggested there had been a strong and consistent decrease in water use by their sample of households in this period.
"Our analysis of the terms used during this period shows that the biggest response was observed, not when the restrictions or tariff increases were imposed, but in response to a three-phased disaster plan that warned of disastrous outcomes.
"During the week preceding the drop in usage there was an increase in terms related to drought panic and a decrease in terms relating to the Level 5 restrictions. Spikes in the frequency of terms related to drought panic, however, do not overlap with the announcement of Level 5 on 3 September."
Booysen says these spikes give the impression that the announcement of tighter water restrictions may have had less effects than the media frenzy and scaremongering that ensued after the release of the Critical Water Shortage Disaster Plan, which referred to the risk of running out of water, the possibility of having to queue for a ration of drinking water at collection points, and the increased threat of fire and disease in crowded settlements.
Source: Booysen, M.J.; Visser, M; Burger, R. Temporal case study of household behavioural response to Cape Town's "Day Zero" using smart meter data. Water Research 149 (2019) 414-420.
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Susan Kraushaar has over 25 years of experience in the banking industry, including work as an Operations Officer, Loan Officer, and Staff Appraiser for a major US bank. With this wealth of knowledge, Susan truly understands the banking industry backwards and forwards. She has over 20 years of direct appraisal experience, and is a California OREA State Certified Real Estate Appraiser and also FHA Approved.
Susan has been working in the insurance and banking industry since 1978, appraising high-end properties since 1990, is a graduate of Chico State University, has her California State Teaching Credentials, and is a recognized expert in the field of appraising.
Susan is an expert at the high-end Santa Barbara County properties, including complex multi-family units, large-scale ranchettes, and has performed reviews and appraisals on large estate properties of over 25-Million Dollars.
In addition, Susan also specializes in Desktop / Field Reviews, complex Retrospective Reviews, REO Bank Owned Foreclosure Properties, and difficult FHA Appraisals.
Wade Kraushaar is a California OREA State Certified Real Estate Appraiser, and helped launch the company back in 1991. Wade has remained involved in the business since its inception. Wade has over 5 Years of direct appraisal experience. Wade is a Certified FHA Approved HUD Roster Appraiser, and an REO specialist as well. In addition, Wade has also worked in the military/aerospace industry for over 25 years as a Logistics Engineer and Program Manager for General Motors and later General Dynamics. Through this extensive business experience, Wade has gained knowledge of Subcontract Management, and performs reviews of all appraisal sales contracts prior to submission. In addition, Wade also has a strong background in computer technology, and has developed specialized automation tools, Internet enhancements/interfaces, and automated quality assurance verifications for all the PAA appraisal reports developed. Wade brings a wealth of business knowledge, and is now focusing primarily on the appraisal industry since his retirement from Program Management.
In addition, Wade is also a Commercial/Instrument/Multi-Engine Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor, with hundreds of hours of professional flying time.
Teri Valdes has been the PAA Office Manager for over 5-Years. Teri's previous background and education was in Industrial Engineering, and she was a former Quality Assurance Engineer for General Motors. Teri leverages her strong technical/analytical skills, quality background, and attention to detail, to ensure the utmost quality in every appraisal report submitted. Teri has developed the company processes, and maintains a strong workflow organization, structure, scheduling, and oversees the ultimate quality of all appraisal reports.
Joshua Kraushaar works as a summer intern, and leverages his computer experience towards the many new PAA automated tools being developed to help improve the appraisal process efficiency, and the new automated quality verifications. Josh is working towards his California OREA State Trainee License.
Brenton Kraushaar is attending the University of Southern California (USC), and also works as a summer intern at PAA. Brent is a member of the USC Marching Band, and is finishing his Engineering Degree. Brent has great attention to detail, and assists in the comprehensive Quality Assurance Review of completed Appraisal Reports. In addition, Brent is using his strong GIS and Engineering background to assist in developing new specialized computer utilities to speed the direct and automatic entry of Public Records Data to improve the accuracy and efficiency of appraisal report entry. He is testing new GPS mapping tools, and also specialized GIS imagery for inclusion into our high-end Appraisal Reports.


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#define _ALTOVA_INCLUDED_AIMXML_ALTOVA__ALTOVA_CComparisonOperator

namespace AIMXML
{

class CComparisonOperator : public TypeBase
{
public:
	AIMXML_EXPORT CComparisonOperator(xercesc::DOMNode* const& init);
	AIMXML_EXPORT CComparisonOperator(CComparisonOperator const& init);
	void operator=(CComparisonOperator const& other) { m_node = other.m_node; }
	static altova::meta::SimpleType StaticInfo() { return altova::meta::SimpleType(types + _altova_ti_altova_CComparisonOperator); }

	enum EnumValues {
		Invalid = -1,
		k_Equal = 0, // Equal
		k_NotEqual = 1, // NotEqual
		k_LessThan = 2, // LessThan
		k_LessThanEqual = 3, // LessThanEqual
		k_GreaterThan = 4, // GreaterThan
		k_GreaterThanEqual = 5, // GreaterThanEqual
		EnumValueCount
	};
	void operator= (const string_type& value)
	{
		altova::XmlFormatter* Formatter = static_cast<altova::XmlFormatter*>(altova::AnySimpleTypeFormatter);
		XercesTreeOperations::SetValue(GetNode(), Formatter->Format(value));
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	operator string_type()
	{
		return CastAs<string_type >::Do(GetNode(), 0);
	}
};

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John Hacker
State officials say legal immigrants have nothing to fear from Missouri's tough new stance against illegal immigration, but a Hispanic minister in Carthage is still concerned.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt was in Joplin on Monday to ceremonially sign a new law strengthening the state's stance against illegal immigration.
State Rep. Bob Onder and Sen. Scott Rupp, both Republicans from St. Charles County joined local lawmakers in blaming the inaction of the federal government for making this action by the state necessary.
"Immigration and border security should be a federal issue, but the federal government has badly failed us in this area," Onder said. "While politicians in Washington have debated amnesty bills, over half a million illegal aliens come into our country every year and in a post-9-11 world this is unacceptable. So while the federal government has done nothing, we decided to take action on the state level. I certainly commend Sen. Rupp and Gov. Blunt for helping me in pursuing this legislation."
The new law attempts to tackle illegal immigration in a number of ways:
• Prohibits illegal aliens from receiving welfare benefits or drivers licenses.
• Makes hiding or transporting an illegal alien a felony.
• Requires public employers and contractors to use a federal database to verify the immigration status of people they employ.
• Bans the creation of sanctuary cities in Missouri.
• Authorizes the Missouri State Highway Patrol to train in the enforcement of immigration laws so it can work better with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement administration.
• Requires law officers to verify the citizenship status of everyone they arrest for any kind of crime within 48 hours of that arrest.
"Really what this bill does is gives us one of the strongest state laws to combat illegal immigration in the country," Onder said. "I would summarize it as doing three things. First of all it gives law enforcement the tools they need to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law. It keeps faith with the Missouri taxpayer so that taxpayer money is never used to fund illegal activity and finally, it removes the magnets to illegal immigration, things welfare benefits and drivers licenses."
Concerns among immigrants
Francisco Bonilla is pastor of the Hispanic Christian Church in Carthage and works closely with immigrants in Carthage, most of who are from Latin America.
Bonilla, an immigrant himself who has lived in Carthage for several years, said he understands why legislators passed this law, but it's frustrating for the Hispanic residents who see it as representatives encouraging discrimination against immigrants.
"It is a political matter, and it shouldn't be," Bonilla said. "We are human beings too and in a way this kind of thing is very, very dangerous. I don't know how many, but there are large numbers of Ethiopians and Africans in Kansas City illegally, but it's easy for them to mix in to Kansas City because of the large African-American community. For us as Hispanics, it's easier to be targeted because we are physically easier to recognize."
Bonilla said he's concerned that the children of illegal aliens, many of whom are American citizens because they were born here, may be denied an education because of their parents' illegal status.
Bonilla said he understands and agrees with the conservatives who oppose amnesty for all illegal immigrants because that would allow criminals and drug dealers to stay in the U.S.
However, it's very difficult for even law-abiding immigrants to get into America illegally — it costs thousands of dollars just to put one's name in a lottery for a few thousand visas, then the chances of getting that visa are very slim.
"It's frustrating to apply for legal status," Bonilla said. "That's why people take the chance to travel here by sneaking across the border. It's nearly impossible to come into America legally."
He said the governments on the state and federal level are making millions off illegal immigrants even as they are complaining about providing services to those people.
Bonilla said many illegal immigrants are working using forged social security numbers, meaning Social Security deposits, federal taxes and state taxes are being withheld from their pay checks, but they will never be able to collect the benefits or file returns to claim any income tax refunds that are owed them.
"It is a business for the government," Bonilla said.
Nothing to fear
Gov. Blunt said legal immigrants have nothing to fear from state government, even under the new rules.
"We want legal immigrants to come here," Blunt said. "We want them to learn our language, to get a good education, to start new businesses. We want legal immigrants to succeed and make our state an even better place to live.
"But just as we have an open heart and that open heart has worked to make our country stronger, so to is the respect for the rule of law. Our respect for the legal process and our belief in equality before the law are two of the very reasons why people come to the United States. In America, no one, no matter how powerful or politically fashionable, is above the law."
Some have cited an exodus of Hispanics from Oklahoma for hurting that state's economy by depriving employers of needed workers.
State Rep. Kevin Wilson, R-Neosho, cited the Oklahoma legislation as well as one reason Missouri needed a similar bill.
"We need to always emphasize that we are talking about illegal immigrants," Wilson said. "Immigration is what founded this nation, but this is about illegals, people who are bypassing the system. Oklahoma passed a comprehensive bill and our concern was that if Missouri didn't then those folks leaving Oklahoma would migrate to Missouri and stop here."
Wilson said he hopes the bill does not intimidate legal immigrants, but that might be an unintended consequence.
"If you're going to crack down on illegal immigration and people leave, then you can't have it both ways," Wilson said. "We're either going to crack down on illegal aliens and take all that comes with that or we say we're not going to crack down. We've chosen to crack down and if we lose hard-working people, then we're sorry, but it is an illegal activity. If legal people leave because of that, that's not a good consequence, we don't want them to leave, but you just can't have it both ways.
"People talk about government not always being responsive, well we have heard from people over and over again. This has been the number one legislative topic that people have talked to me about. People have been saying, you need to do something about the illegal aliens, well here it is."


The advent of these huts and office gardens are great. However, I just hope that they have durable structural steel design in case of bad weather hitting the areas where these huts are built.
What are your rules of shedworking?


Posted on April 21, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
Posted on April 20, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
On this Easter morning, I am delighted and grateful for your presence at Sacred Heart Church, Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Holy Rosary Chapel. I extend to you a heartfelt Easter blessing as we break through death and into the new life of Christ Jesus.
We proclaim John 20:1-19 this morning. Jesus' resurrection rings through to our souls. This gospel helps us enter into the scene of the unexpected. Mary Magdalene, Peter and John find the tomb of Jesus empty. Imagine them going to the tomb and not finding Jesus. They must have felt helpless and afraid.
The emptiness of the tomb requires much spiritual reflection. Mary Magdalene peered into emptiness. We can all imagine how fearful she was at that moment. Emptiness is where she realized that something new was happening. Emptiness still shocks us in our daily reality.
Ponder emptiness for a moment. A person who is ill or who has disabilities is often seen as not being whole. There is "emptiness" in our perspective that the person does not live up to being a complete or whole person. When a person is jobless, we may think of the person as not being fully present in our society. Even when we have unscheduled time, we may fear the emptiness and not know what to do, so we fill our lives with many things that do not matter.
Emptiness for Mary Magdalene is really the place where new insights and strengths were revealed. She found her life and voice emptied out by people's perception of her. She was female, a person with no formal or cultural power. She had little credibility since she was healed of seven demons. She was always socially scarred. She testified to emptiness. Imagine what people must have thought of her testimony, yet in the end people believed her.
I think emptiness still baffles us. We tend to fill a void when we are faced with emptiness in our personal lives, in our prayer and in our spiritual journey. Emptiness is often a place of fear. Interestingly, emptiness is also a place of conversion, new life and freedom. When we surrender to emptiness within our hearts, within our spiritual desire for love, God will fill us up as He did on Easter day. Mary found a deep spiritual wonder and hope from God when the physical tomb presented her with emptiness.
Jesus' Resurrection means that a new imagination is possible when emptiness happens in our lives. Easter reveals a new imagination in how we live. If Christianity is to survive in our culture, then we are to reimage how we pray and how we work for justice. Christianity cannot be complacent or lethargic. Following Jesus is more than a strict adherence to rules or to be obsessed about the past. A new imagination means we are to rely on the Holy Spirit in the nitty-gritty issues of our lives. We are to take to heart the love of God and live in creative and beautiful ways. Lent has emptied out our perspectives in order to view the beauty of new life at Easter.
I want to continue to create our communities in such imagination. I am grateful for our restored Sacred Heart Church. This is our first Easter back into our renovated building. I see the resurrection in the beauty of our renovation, how we serve one another and all the ways in which we break the mold in our churches. I pray that we can continue what we have started; trusting in the One who began this all.
Posted on April 19, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
Posted on April 18, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
In John 13:1-15, Jesus gives the disciples the heart of his mission. He shows them that they must learn how to receive his love by allowing him to wash their feet. This very human and tender act shows us still that we must allow Jesus to love us and to teach us how to serve other people in the messiness and confusion of life.
I always find it fascinating that in John's account on Holy Thursday, he does not mention the Eucharist. This is the gospel of deep theological reflection and we would expect high interpretation of what the bread and wine becoming his Body and Blood would mean for us. John's gospel does not even mention bread and wine. Instead, foot washing becomes a deeply moving and compassionate act, an act of his Real Presence. The meaning of this gesture is broad and even in our day and time; the holy action becomes a rich source of reflection.
What does it mean for us to wash feet from Jesus' command? We learn to care for an infant and to wash his or hers body out of love. We learn to wash the body of a grandparent or spouse who is ill or dying, surely with love and tenderness. We wipe the nose of our kindergartener on his first day of school from the love we have for him in his nervousness. We bathe our teen with cancer. We care for people in nursing homes and hospitals, in daycare centers and in our own homes.
Jesus asks of us to step out of our patterns of comfort and familiarity. He asks of us to bend down to serve those who are trapped by our prejudice. He asks of us to go another mile for our children who are trafficked. He begs us to reach out to people whose disease we think comes from their weakness, like drug and alcohol addiction. He invites us with profound tenderness to wash feet of people we do not know or even people we do not get along with or people who have hurt us. He asks of us to cleanse the feet and heal the lives of prisoners and orphans, of widows and people marginalized by economics, race and language.
Foot washing is healing. It invites us into communion not separation. We cannot blame people for their dirty feet or the situations in which they find themselves. We cannot judge or bind. We are called to wash the immigrant and the elderly, the baby addicted to cocaine. We are challenged to wash the feet of our enemy. We are asked to walk in the shoes of a stranger, even when they do not have socks or shoes. Jesus invites us to wash when we would rather shun, to wash and dry when we would rather judge or condemn.
On Holy Thursday, we celebrate the Real Presence of Jesus at Eucharist and we remember him on the night before he died. This Real Presence is also demonstrated in the action of foot washing. This profound and tender act coming from Jesus is sacrament for us. His action binds us to love and this love calls for us to give love and service to other people.
Holy Thursday links Eucharist and justice, prayer and service. In this ancient Mass, I find my home this night.
How do you receive the love Jesus has for you? Can you accept his actions of tenderness toward you, his willingness to wash your feet with mercy and forgiveness?
Whose feet is Jesus asking you to wash? Whom is he asking you to forgive?
What does Holy Thursday mean for you? Can you sit with its many layers of meanings and find a home in Jesus actions of Eucharist and service?
How would you articulate the link of prayer and service in the Mass of the Lord's Supper?
Posted on April 17, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
Today's gospel, Matthew 26:14-25, reveals much of our human condition. Judas betrays Jesus with a few silver coins. This betrayal brings Jesus closer to his cross and death. This moment for Judas is raw and exposing, even carving him a place in history with this one act toward his friend Jesus.
In our human condition, sin settles into us with a sure fit. We stumble over ourselves with words of hurt toward other people and viewing others only in light of blame and jealously. Even our betrayal of love and connection becomes a story that we tell ourselves over the real story of how love itself brings us to friendship and harmony. So often in our lives hatred and bitterness are the things we remember and hold on to rather than the real connections of love, hope and fidelity.
Our sin against others is real. Yet, the real story of Jesus' involvement with our hearts is that we also make a home for his love to settle into our hearts. How easy it is for us to forget this truth. Love changes us only when we invite Jesus into our lives to change the stories we tell ourselves about our darkness and lies.
As we move toward the Triduum, we bring with us the stories of our lives into the great story of Jesus' passion and death, his resurrection. We bring everything to him, leaving nothing astray. We offer the darkness within our hearts, the stories we carry of our loneliness and pain. We offer again to him, the times we have severed such love because of our ego, our sin, our heartaches, our loneliness and especially our fear.
Jesus heals every aspect of our lives, every single aspect. All we need is to cooperate with his fidelity toward us. He will melt away all the betrayal within our hearts, all the hopelessness we carry about the future, all the pain that colors our hearts dark and dreary.
Jesus becomes for us the full measure of reconciliation in the Easter event.
How have you severed relationships that used to provide life and hope for you?
Have you betrayed people in the past?
How have others betrayed you?
Are you willing to change your story about these friendships today?
Can you bring healing to them with Jesus' help?
What is the sin that you hold on to in your life?
Can you allow Jesus' forgiveness to become greater than your sin?
Posted on April 16, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
In today's gospel, John 13: 21-33: 36-38, we listen to Jesus tell his disciples that Judas will betray him and Peter will deny him. Also in the scene John, the Beloved Disciple, rests his head on Jesus' chest during the meal.
We all hold within our human hearts the duality of betrayal and love. We experience both with people we love. We have betrayed our loved ones. We have experienced such betrayal from someone we love. Our hearts have an amazing capacity to love and shun.
In this Holy Week, we all are invited to examine our human hearts to sift through the sin, the doubt, the denial, the rage, the anger, the injustice as well as our ability to love. Holy Week invites us into the truth, the truth that we may not always want to admit.
As we ponder the gift of the gospel today, I invite you to consider your divided heart as a place of radical love and unbelievable denial. We all hold this tension of being human. In this place, God beckons us into new and amazing life. The great healer of our souls waits for us with abundant grace and mercy.
Many people wish to cover up such divisions. We hold tightly to the rigidity of our denial and never want to admit that our hearts have the capacity to hold such turmoil. We tend to justify our negative thoughts against a thoughtless boss. We hold revenge toward to a spouse or an adult child. We may think that a negative choice of a child reflects on our lives and we hold anger. Jesus invites us to explore what we carry within, the dark and the light.
Today, this day within Holy Week is worth the effort and time to examine the multiple layers of our attitudes, our approaches to others, and our verbal blame to others, our misfortunes, and our inability to accept responsibility for our actions. Our hearts are restless in this week until we realize that only Jesus offers us the truth, wisdom and love that we are looking for in our lives.
How have you betrayed people you love?
Are you willing to find forgiveness within your own heart?
What relationships or images within today's gospel speak to you?
For what denials in your life do you need Jesus' forgiveness?
How can you hold within your heart the tension of love and denial?
How does Jesus begin to set you free from such tensions and insecurities?
Posted on April 15, 2019 by Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
John 12:1-11 offers us a scene of surrender and tenderness as Mary anoints the feet of Jesus with costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard. Mary dries his feet with her hair.
This image is so multi-layered with meaning. Judas, who will betray Jesus, baulks at such an action because Judas surrenders to money and greed and not to the person of Jesus. Money wins for him. Jesus says that her action of anointing is leading us all to his burial. This image also leads us to Jesus' action of washing feet on the night before he died.
This action of Mary, the tenderness of anointing feet with expensive oil, is ultimately a gift of sheer surrender to the gift of who Jesus is not only for her but also for us all these centuries later. She shows us how to surrender our lives to such a mystery, how to allow love to show us the way to Jesus. Mary helps us know whom Jesus is and how to give our lives to his passion, death and resurrection.
Surrendering to Jesus is a life-long journey. We so prefer to live feeling we are in complete control of our lives, to know that our answers are correct, our lives are safe and that we live knowing we are at the center of the world. Surrendering to the mystery of faith invites us into a life of deep prayer, of profound letting go of the image of ourselves we cling to. Surrendering to God, to the mystery of love, offers us a home in the mercy and love only God has for us.
Many people in recovery from any addiction understand this surrender. Entering into powerlessness is very countercultural. We are educated to live enclosed within our own egos, our own interpretation of life and to live under the false power of our own self-sufficiency. To live a genuine life of service, of love of neighbor and learning to walk in the shoes of people who suffer requires of us surrender to the love and life God has for us. Surrender to God invites us into unity and not separation, to love not hate, to communion and not self-sufficiency.
This gospel story invites us into the story of real love in this Holy Week. Mary's action helps us know that we are on the journey to offering our complete lives to Christ Jesus. This story of Jesus is not a story that is separate from our own lives. We must live the same surrender that Jesus lived out in the core of our faith, dying to our selves and living in the bountiful grace and beauty of Jesus' redeeming love.
What does surrender to God mean to you?
How have you experienced such a mystery in your prayer and life?
What do you resist in this Holy Week? What are you being asked to let go of?
The first reading today challenges us to realize God liberates us from the slavery of our selves. How do you pray with this text today? How can you realize this liberation of your own heart?


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NLFT threatened me for voting in favour of CAB: BJP MP
The Lok Sabha MP from East Tripura said he received NLFT's letter five days ago and was threatened of dire consequences for voting in favour of the CAB
AGARTALA , December 24, 2019 4:45 pm
Rebati Kumar Tripura (File image)
BJP MP Rebati Kumar Tripura has claimed he "received threats" from the proscribed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) for voting in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill (Now Act) in Parliament.
The Lok Sabha MP from East Tripura on Monday said he received NLFT's letter five days ago and was threatened of dire consequences for voting in favour of the CAB.
"The NLFT rebels have threatened me of dreadful consequences for voting in favour of CAB in Parliament. I am an MP from a party, which imposed a whip for voting in favour of CAB. Everybody knows what could be the consequence if I had defied the party whip," Rebati told reporters.
Rebati claimed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) would not affect them.
"The concern of the indigenous people to be further reduced to minority is genuine, but the amended citizenship will not affect them," he said.
Rebati said that illegal immigration should not be allowed to continue anymore.
"There was influx of people to our state for last 70 years. But in the CAA, it was clearly mentioned that the law would not be applicable in sixth schedule areas. So, it can be said that the interest of the tribals in the state are protected," said the BJP MP.
Regarding NLFT's threat, the MP said he would meet chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb and apprise him about the threat from the insurgent outfit.
Rebati said that he would not "bow down to the threat" and would continue to work to protect the interest of the tribals of the state.
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