It is desire which leads to action, every action, and with that action, brought about by the desire for the object of senses, comes attachment, and that attachment is what is the cause of further desires. And there's no end to them, for one simple reason – that desire is not satisfied in the object of senses. It is not satisfied there at all. The fulfillment of desire does not come through the objects of senses, but from the heart within. And that's why he is such a tyrant, because he deludes us and keeps us in outward consciousness and away from the Real Consciousness within.
Let us just consider a few days ago we had, a celebration in which there was much turkey consumed, I presume; and those people who were attached to the turkey – they did not satisfy their desires, because they are just either waiting for Thanksgiving to come again, that they get at that turkey, or else they say, "No, we must have that turkey – let's have it next week again, or the week after. After it's used up, because it is that desire, because we have put our attention to the object of desire – the turkey. It is that which creates further desire – there's no end to it. Whereas, if we had turned our attention inward as we ate turkey, or anything, and felt the Giver in our hearts, that desire would have been satisfied, and there had, there would have been no more laying up of further desires.
Desire causes action. And action leads to fulfillment of desire in the object of sense. And as there can be no fulfillment or satisfaction of desire in outward things, we are bound to come again and again – be reborn – until we realize that the desire is not satisfied in outward things, but in God within.
Born of the activating attribute of Nature (rajo-guna), it is desire, it is anger, (that is the impelling force)—full of unappeasable craving and great evil: know this (two-sided passion) to be the foulest enemy here on earth.
– because it is desire that keeps us attached to things of this earth, and that attachment leads to further desire, because the desire cannot be fulfilled with the objects of senses. So the Gita speaks of it — ["know this (two-sided passion) to be the foulest enemy here on earth."] "know thou this as our foe here on earth."
... so this transcendental eternal consciousness – our soul – is enveloped by this tyrant, desire. It is kept subjugated – our soul is tied, bound by desire. Because desire keeps us attached to outward consciousness, which means the desires do not end. They have to be fulfilled. Therefore each one of us has to keep coming over and over. There's no end to it – to try and fulfill that desire – when really, the desire is fulfilled by simply turning to the heart within, satisfying your desires not by objects of senses, but by God within you as the Love in your heart.
"Enveloped is the wisdom by this constant enemy of the wise in the form of desire, which is insatiable as a flame." You cannot satisfy it. You get one automobile and you think, "This is it." And then it isn't long before you begin to find the faults in it and you get another automobile. And that goes on and on. You get a hat. "This is the most wonderful hat." No. Not for long. It won't be long before you'll have to get another hat, because desires create more desires because of your attachment. You think you'll be satisfied with that new hat. No, you won't! You will not be satisfied. But there is a little way to overcome desire, which I will come to shortly.
The senses, mind, and intellect are said to be desire's formidable stronghold; through these, desire deludes the embodied soul by eclipsing its wisdom.
"So the senses, the mind and the reason are said to be its seat." Sensation especially, is the seat of desire." The senses, mind and reason are said to be its seat. By these, enveloping wisdom, it bewilders the dweller in the body; therefore, O Arjuna, mastering first the senses, do thou slay this thing of sin and delusion, destructive of wisdom and of knowledge." Desire is no doubt a tyrant. Material desire is the tyrant that keeps us bound to outward consciousness, preventing us from knowing that we are children of God.
It is this desire, this king, this tyrant, which prevents us from the reality which we should know and realize, spoken of in Psalms, 82nd Psalm, the 6th Verse: "I have said, ye are gods, and all of you are children of the most high." As long as you are subject to desire and its attachment to the object of senses, can you realize that you are a child of God, as it says that we are gods? No. Only when we know that Consciousness of God within us, then we can realize that we are gods – that we are children of the most high. And so we must understand something about this desire.
Now, we can fulfill our desires, the desires of the heart with this body, right here and now. We don't have to wait 'til we pass on. If you wait, you pass on, you won't do it then anyway. You'll have to come again and use this body, because this body is the vehicle. It has taken, as we read in the Praecepta, eight million, eight million lifetimes of animals and lower forms to reach the stage of human being. Imagine! Eight million lifetimes to reach the stage where we have something whereby we can find and know God, and kill this tyrant, desire.
Now what are we gonna do? Are we going to, as the Master says, "Be like the moth that plunges in the flame of material desires and overlook the eternal things of life?" No. He says, "We must make full use of this vehicle. It has taken a good long while to get it! Why should we throw it away? Why not utilize it?" Why not make the best of it, its best use. Use it in the best way to know God; or speaking negatively, to overcome this desire – king material desire. We can utilize it, and we can utilize it right now.
And so realize that while we have this vehicle we must use it to the best of our ability. And by this vehicle we can attain God contact. In the Autobiography we read Sri Yukteswarji's statement that due to the uniqueness of the human being, with its, with its unique centers of the spine, it is possible to rise above all outward consciousness, all delusion, all desire, and attain oneness with God.
As the Master told me, he said, "Don't neglect your body, but don't be bound by it. Take care of it, realizing it to be the only vehicle which you will have to know God." Imagine it. So we should watch that, and we should use it, as the Master said, "To the best of our ability." Make the best use of it, and the best use we can make of it is to utilize those unique centers of the spine, whereby, if we arouse and awaken them, we can easily overcome desire and attain the freedom of the Soul. The animals cannot do that. They are bound by desire. And many, many human beings cannot do that – they are bound by desire. But those who wish to, and will to, can utilize the powers within us – the spiritual divine powers – arouse the Centers of the spine, and without too much difficulty can turn back the current from flowing outwardly to the objects of senses. Turn it back inward, to the heart, where all desire will be satisfied, because that's the Law. No desire is satisfied in the outward object of sense. Every desire is satisfied in the heart. And so you can know that way to turn back the current of the senses – turn it inward, that you may satisfy every desire of the heart in the freedom of God's Great Consciousness within. We will come to that in a moment.
Remember, when you lose attachment to the objects of senses, you are free. Now that doesn't mean that you cannot eat turkey, but when you lose the attachment for the turkey – that's the point. Then you are free. So next time you eat turkey, don't be engulfed in the, the leg, you know, which is so nice, or that nice white breast of the turkey, but turn it in and say, "Father, the turkey is from You. Thou art in everything. I feel the Great Joy as I enjoy the turkey, because You are in me, and all things come from You." If you do that, there will be no attachment, and you will not lay up any more new desires which are so binding.
And so in overcoming this kind desire, there are two spiritual laws which we must never lose sight of: First, this is very important – if at the time of the enjoyment of the fulfillment of your desires you turn your senses, which are the subtle currents in the voluntary and involuntary nerves – if you turn that current toward the object of sense, or outward, you will never be free from desire. You will lay up new and many more desires, and you will not attain the freedom of the soul.
Now that's the first important thing. When you enjoy anything through the fulfillment of the sense – sense of eating.
If you allow the current to flow outward toward the object of your desire, you will never be satisfied, because of the Law. The satisfaction does not come in the object of sense; it comes within, in the heart. But on the other hand, if you, as you fulfill that desire, and enjoy the fulfillment of it, do this simple thing: reverse the current – turn it inward; away from the object of sense, to the heart within, to the Soul Consciousness within; every desire will be satisfied.
But greatest of all, you will lay up no more new desires, and there'll be no attachment which binds us to this outward consciousness, and to birth and death. Now isn't that wonderful, that simple thing. That's the first Great Law.
Metaphysically, it means simply this; that if we can reach the state of interiorization of consciousness, and the reversing of the currents flowing to sensation; if we can turn them in, and have an Internal Consciousness and reverse the currents - by this, which is called Pratyahara, this practice of yoga – then we can be free from desire. Now this is done – this interiorization – is done by following the Self-Realization Fellowship yoga, with its various techniques.
Before we can do that, before we can get away from that outward object of desire – in this case the turkey leg which we are talking about – before we can do that, we have to have control of our mind and consciousness, do we not? We have to learn concentration. You cannot do it without that. And so, the Self-Realization techniques which the Master has left, of which one of the most important is concentration, plus interiorization, which comes from that concentration, is necessary to overcome, and turn back the current which is flowing outward to the objects of senses. Concentration is very important. Concentration is necessary to perform the higher techniques which give us contact with God.
The next important thing which we should remember is this: the second law is very important. The first law, as I have said, is to remember that when you enjoy the fulfillment of desire, which we have to do, we are living in this world, we have to do it, if you allow your senses and sensation to go toward the object of the sense, you will never fulfill your desire. It'll never be satisfied, because the desire is not satisfied in the object of sense, but in the heart within. That's the first Spiritual Law.
And the second is this, very important: if you contact God, when you contact God, that will counteract every other desire you can have, because with the Realization of His Presence, no other desire can stay. And so the second great thing to remember is, if you wish to overcome your desire, and kill this tyrant, material desire, get God contact.
so Great is His Love and His Companionship.
And to do that, Self-Realization gives you the techniques. As I have said, you first learn to get hold of, so to speak, Life Force, by the recharging exercises. Then you learn concentration, as we have just, just discussed. And then Self-Realization gives you contact with God within you as the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God." Self-Realization yoga will give you the technique to contact God within you as the Holy Vibration, with its Great Sound, its Great Light, and its Omniscient Love. If you have that, you will not be troubled with desires, because that Great Love of God, which is your own, will counteract, offset, any other little material desires.
So remember those two great things, those two laws, Spiritual Laws.
Do not be attached to the object of senses.
where all desires will be satisfied in the heart.
And do that until, by your perseverance, and the Grace of God, you will attain Companionship with Him, and you will not be bothered – you will overcome easily this tyrant of desire.
If you want to take the power out of this king material desire, if you want to subjugate him, do every action, do everything you do with one desire – one desire to please God. It's very simple. As we talked last time I was here about self-surrender; if you can surrender yourself to God, you will have one desire – to please Him. Isn't that right? If you surrender your consciousness to the One Eternal Consciousness within, taking it out of the duality of consciousness, surrendering it to God, you'll have one desire – to please God.
Now it says in the Gita that does not mean not to act. We are in this world, we have to act. We have to play our part. But we act in such a way as to please God. Krishna said, "I have everything. I have everything – universe upon universe – still I act. Still I do." That must be our attitude. But in doing it, we act to please God. That's the greatest thing. If I can do that, that is the greatest way to overcome desire, and with it overcome delusion – ignorance which prevents us from knowing that we are children of God, and that it is God's Omniscient Consciousness that is in us.
If we do that, if we act only to please God, then we will not have ordinary free will where we act to please ourselves or to please the environment in which we find ourselves, or the habits, or the latent impulses. That isn't freedom. That isn't acting to please God. But when you turn your attention inward – reverse the current from the object of senses inward toward the soul. Then when you act, you act in a different way. You act with true freedom, because by that action you unite your will and consciousness with God's Will. And in Him – in Him, is true freedom.
And so, in overcoming this tyrant, king material desire, remember Jesus' words when he said, he who makes the effort, he who makes the effort to go within and to know God, he attains true freedom, because he becomes one, as Jesus did, with God the Father. When he said in St. John, Revelation 3rd Chapter, 21st Verse: "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne."
And so everyone who overcomes, who lifts the Son of Man, when he hath lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am one with my Father and that I am set down with Him. So each and every one of us, when we do that, when we battle this king desire, overcome it, turn inward, turn the current of Life Force inward, that it unites with the Presence of God within. When we do that, as Jesus realized his Oneness with God, and set down, and had all the attributes of God; so each and every one of us will realize the same thing; will realize that we are one with the Infinite Father. He is our Father, and as He has All Things, and All Power, so each and every one of us, as His child, will have All Consciousness, All Freedom, All Power.


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The Electorate of Capricornia:
Capricornia is one of the oldest Federal electorates in Australia, in fact it was one of the original 65 divisions that were contested at the first Federal Election in 1901.
Capricornia is named after the Tropic of Capricorn which runs through it. It stretches along the coast from Rockhampton and Yeppoon in the south to Sarina and the southern suburbs of Mackay in the North. Capricornia also extends inland to major mining centres such as Collinsville, Clermont, Dysart and Moranbah.
Its profile is as diverse as the Electorate itself which covers 90, 903 square kilometres.
The electorate includes significant agricultural and pastoral districts but over the last 30 years the region's economy and workforce is also dominated by the mining Industry as well as associated transport and export facilities.
In Australia's history there have only been four Prime Ministers from Queensland and one of them held the seat of Capricornia. His name was Frank Ford, who was briefly Prime Minister of Australia for 8 days in 1945.
Michelle Landry has held the seat of Capricornia for the LNP since 2013.
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During a disaster call the Local Disaster Coordination Centre on 1300 652 659
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Penny Hydraulics & Bott Ltd Partner to Celebrate Investment & Growth within the East Midlands
Posted Thursday, 24th September 2015
On the 15th of September, Bott held an industry event, Building British Fleets, to celebrate the opening of their extension to the Van Fleet Conversion and Enhancement Centre in Ashby.
The event was supported by key industry partners; Penny Hydraulics, Ashwoods Lightfoot, Maple Fleet Services, Vauxhall, BT Fleet and the Freight Transport Association, as well as input from Bott's workshop equipment business. Delegates enjoyed industry seminars from the FTA and Bott as well as providing a great networking opportunity, along with some good food!
The £1.1 million extension will add 13,000 square foot to the facility and create around 20 new jobs in the local community. This brings total investment in Ashby to over £5 million, and signifies their ongoing commitment to developing the business as part of the local community. This marks a remarkable journey which began 23 years ago with two individuals in a tiny workshop with a big vision. Kevin Woodward, Managing Director of the Vehicle Enhancement Division, was enthusiastic about Bott's future in Ashby, saying, "We have access to a very skilled workforce, with a good work ethic and, in terms of logistics, Ashby is so well connected."
Bott's goal is to provide businesses and tradesmen with tailored van conversions that let them work efficiently and safely. From design to manufacture and installation, the quality and service that comes as standard with a Bott product has been so high that many of the UK's leading businesses have come to rely on them to provide fleet conversions and cutting edge solutions for even the most unique and challenging situations.
During the last two decades of growth Bott has become a true one stop shop for both fleet and specialist customers, the company has invested in key areas such as compliance and electrical technology and vehicle graphics to provide services which deliver for their customers. In addition, the company has developed close relationships with key supplier partners, enabling the company to access a comprehensive range of capabilities resulting in a seamless customer experience.
The extension was officially opened by Councillor Richard Blunt, and brought together many of Bott's core customers and partners. The opening was a chance to celebrate the success of companies who invest in Britain, to create a strong and vibrant future for businesses and their local communities.
Penny Hydraulics based in Chesterfield, has been the lifting equipment supplier to Bott for over 20 years. Penny Hydraulics design, manufacture, install and service a wide range of lifting equipment and has its own purpose built premises housing its manufacturing and assembly plant, carrying out all the functions of a fully integrated company with design, manufacturing, quality control, aftersales support and nationwide service operation.
Bott has lifting equipment requirements which range from Penny Hydraulics SwingLift range of electric cranes with capacities as low as 100kg and bespoke boom lengths to suit small car-derived vans, to PH hydraulic cranes with over 7 metres of boom reach and capacities over 3300kg, as well as hydraulic loading platforms for vans from their range. Jessica Penny, General Manager of Sales at Penny Hydraulics comments, "We are proud to have an excellent long standing business relationship with Bott, so it was fantastic to collaborate to celebrate the opening of their new facility this week."
There are distinct similarities between the two businesses which contribute to their synergy. Jessica explains "not only are both Bott and Penny Hydraulics based in the East Midlands and manufacture their products in the UK, but we also have many shared values when it comes to business, with innovation, creating better working environments, efficient working and user safety at the heart of what we do. This has without doubt contributed to our combined success. "
Kevin Woodward, Managing Director of the Vehicle Enhancement Divisions at Bott ltd recalls a particular event 20 years ago which solidified the relationship between the two companies, "I remember on one particular occasion, being asked by a customer if we could fit cranes into the back of vans and at that time, I had no idea how this could be done. I think in those days, I found the number for Penny's in the yellow pages and arranged for John Penny to come to our old Coalville facility; to discuss my challenge.
He did no more than arrive in his old Volvo Estate complete with suit and tie.
I discussed my particular problem with him and after duly listening to me, he gave a wry smile and proceeded to advise me that he had brought one of his cranes along in the back of his Volvo; along with his overalls. He said if I was happy for him to work with one of our engineers, there and then, he would show us what we needed to know and do to fit a crane into the back of one of our vehicles.
He duly stripped out of his suit, togged up with his overalls and spent 2/3 hours on site showing us the ropes. I have to say that even after all these years that particular recollection sticks is my mind as the ultimate 'can do attitude'."
Penny Hydraulics has recently announced a record sales year with an annual turnover of £6.1 Million, almost 10% growth on the previous financial year. The company is partnered with industry leading professional and trade organisations and are approved commercial vehicle converters for major vehicle manufacturers including Renault, Nissan and Volkswagen. In addition to this, commercial vehicle body builders worldwide from USA to Australia and Hungary to Benelux, choose to partner with Penny Hydraulics to sell lifting applications all over the world.
Penny Hydraulics Ltd (www.pennyhydraulics.com) is possibly best known for its market leading range of hydraulic lifting equipment, vehicle mounted cranes and vehicle mounted platform lifts as well as goods lift solutions such as the Cellar Lift drinks delivery hoists and Mezz Lift, mezzanine floor lift range.
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Liz Kessler, Erin Farley (Illustrator)
Emily Windsnap ends up surrounded by pirates — and on a life-changing adventure — in the eighth installment of the New York Times best-selling series.
Traveling home by cruise ship should be a relaxing break after Emily's latest adventure, but things take a turn when the ship is overtaken by a pirate king and his crew. After the pirates collect everyone's riches, the pirate king's eldest son steals something even more valuable: Aaron. So Emily dives into action and joins the younger son's crew in hopes of saving her boyfriend. But Emily is surprised to find herself not only enjoying the pirate life, but actually bonding with the crew — especially Sam, the pirate king's son. Between helping Sam unravel riddles to beat his brother to the legendary Trident's Treasure and making sure that her friends are safe, Emily realizes that she needs to be true to herself. Will she cast aside her mermaid life to join her new friends, or will she find a way to follow her own path?
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BURROW, LSU CAP MAGICAL SEASON, BEAT CLEMSON 42-25 FOR TITLE
January 14, 2020 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — From small-town Ohio kid to Louisiana Legend, Joe Burrow capped his record-breaking, Heisman-winning season by bringing a national championship to LSU. Burrow threw five touchdown passes, ran for another score and finished off one of the most accomplished seasons in college football history by leading the top-ranked Tigers to a 42-25 victory against No. 3 Clemson on Monday night in the playoff final.
RICHINEL BRUG DONATES TO UNITED SUPER STARS FOOTBALL CLUB
Richinel Brug has again come to the aid of another nonprofit organization.This time his focus is on the United Super Stars football club of Sucker Garden. The club has been in existence since 2007. In April of this year the club elected a new board consisting of Stanley York as President, Vice-President is Leonidas Friday, Lourens Efrich as treasurer, General Secretary is Deshawn York, Eugene Heyliger as director and the public relations officer is Shirley Hilaire. The newly installed board has as its
VINCE CARTER'S NBA CAREER MILESTONES ARE PILING UP
December 17, 2019 -The milestones are piling up, and running out, for Atlanta's Vince Carter. His next game — which could come as early as Tuesday, when the Hawks visit the New York Knicks — will be the 1,504th in his career, which will tie John Stockton for fourth-most in NBA history. Barring injury, Carter will pass Dirk Nowitzki later this season for No. 3 on the career list.
RAVENS WIN 11TH STRAIGHT, CLINCH TOP SEED IN AFC PLAYOFFS
December 22, 2019 CLEVELAND (AP) — The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC goes through Baltimore, where its MVP candidate will be waiting. Lamar Jackson threw three touchdown passes — two to tight end Mark Andrews late in the first half — and rushed for 103 yards as the Ravens won their 11th straight game, 31-15 over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday to lock up the conference's top seed and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
COYOTES ACQUIRE TAYLOR HALL FROM DEVILS FOR PICKS, PROSPECTS
December 17, 2019 -The Arizona Coyotes are looking to end their lengthy playoff drought by adding a player desperate to get back to the postseason himself.Arizona acquired standout winger Taylor Hall from the New Jersey Devils on Monday for three prospects and two draft picks. The Coyotes will try to end their seven-year playoff drought by adding the 2018 NHL MVP, who has made the postseason just once in his first nine seasons.
AP ALL-AMERICA TEAMS DOMINATED BY LSU, OHIO STATE
December 17, 2019 No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Ohio State each placed three players on The Associated Press All-America first team released Monday.
Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow of LSU highlights the first-team offense and Heisman finalist Chase Young of Ohio State leads the defense on the team presented by Regions Bank that was chosen by a panel of 15 college football poll voters.
NO. 2 OHIO STATE RALLIES FOR 3RD STRAIGHT BIG TEN TITLE
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Nature photographer and writer John Scalzi first attracted the attention of science fiction fandom with his autobiographical work, Agent to the Stars, which describes how his people, the Jello-like Yherajk, first landed in Hollywood and learned to take over the bodies of multi-celled organisms. After that he started writing fiction, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. Scalzi went on to take over the w– um, SFWA, of which he voluntarily released control in 2013. His latest threat to humanity, Lock In, will be released on August 26, 2014.
In other news, I should really really be working on planning our move. Health things have been distracting, Spring in Michigan is wonderful and Rosie and I are having fun exploring new places outside, and Detcon1 work travels apace.
Speaking of Detcon1, we have 3K lovely postcards to distribute to places within driving range of Detroit. If you have a bookstore or comics shop or event you want to take some to, let us know.
So today I braved the snowy I-94 to head over to the Detroit Public Library and represent Detcon1 for a few hours at a Black Comic Book Day event. Seemed like a lot of people got kept away or delayed by the snow, but I enjoyed meeting the authors and artists who made it. We were in a huge room, so it never felt exactly busy, but I was chatting with interested people almost the whole time, and nearly our whole stack of PR1 had been given away by the time Tammy came to relieve me. Kudos to Maia Crown Williams for organizing a nice event.
Among other things it was a great chance to spread the word that nominations for the Detcon1 Members choice awards for Middle Grade and YA Speculative Fiction are open to the public and we're hoping lots of people will help nominate deserving works -- you can nominate online and you don't have to be a member, and the deadline is February 28 so we really need to get people passing the word around. I handed a big stack of paper nomination ballots to a YA librarian there.
I hope that Walidah can come to Detcon1 too, but she's out on the West coast, so it sounds unlikely.
That reminds me though: if anyone wants to donate money toward travel and hotel funds for people of color who want to attend Detcon1 but could use some help, I encourage you to contact Kate Nepvue at Con or Bust -- she coordinates stuff like that and would welcome your donations.
Oh! And exciting news-- Tammy said we have confirmation that Steven Barnes' wife Tananarive Due will be attending too. She's a fantasy and horror as well as an historical fiction and biographical author that I have become a big fan of in the past two years, so I am absolutely stoked to hear she's coming.


The Museum of Historical Treasures in Kiev is a chronicle of the Ukrainian land imprinted in silver and gold.
It was opened in 1969 as a branch of the National Historical Museum of Ukraine and occupies 17th-18th century building of the former bakery in Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Monastery.
The core of the Treasury funds came from the private collection of Kiev Maecenas Khanenko thanks to whom the Historical Museum was opened in 1904. The 20th century exploration and excavation works have enriched the museum collection with the most ancient valuable artifacts.
Among them are original samples of the 9th century BC – 4th century AD of Cimmerian art decorations; Scythian famous golden pectoral, ritual vessels, weaponry; Sarmatian earrings, bracelets, torques, masks and Tauri tribes decorations.
Findings of the 4th-14th centuries gather Huns sword, diadem, belt buckle; Avars belt decorations with colorful incrustation; Khazarians breast and neck adornments, pendants with granulation, buckle decorations, coins and Eastern Slavs plaques.
Kievan Rus of the 9th-13th centuries artifacts are represented by bowls, chains, breast decorations, torques and pendants; Pechenegs decorated bridle; Polovtsians helmet, pendants, censer; Golden Horde scoop and goblet.
Eventful 20th century was quite challenging for the treasure preservation.
In 1922 there came a Decree about withdrawal of ritual objects made of precious metals. Synagogues and Orthodox Christian shrines suffered equally. Golden and silver items were withdrawn to be sold "for the sake of hungry people fund". Thanks to Scherbakivsky, the museum founder, we can appreciate Ukrainian Goldsmith collection of the 16-20th centuries including gospels, chalices, crosses, tabernacles, censers, icon decorations, wedding crowns, etc. Silver Judaica collection features Torah's crowns, rymmons, pointers and shields, Chanukah lamps, scrolls of Esther, bsamims and other ritual and home decorations.
Soviet government was always in need of money, and in 1929 it was decided "to withdraw museum exhibits from Ukraine for amount no lesser than 600000 of roubles". Regardless protests of museums directors and scientists, valuable items were collected and sent to "Antiquariat" State Enterprise for future sale at international auctions.
In 1933 the State Bank has merely collected all the precious metals artifacts from Ukrainian Museums for storing.
During WWII the major museum funds were transferred to Ufa via Moscow and were safely turned back after the war. Less happy fate overtook the funds remaining in Kiev.
The year of 1954 was a fateful one for the Museum. Ukrainian famous Scythologist Terenozhkin, after a 50-year pause in exploration of Scythian tumulus, has discovered findings of immense value, numbering to 196 samples of golden decorations. Ukrainian scientists decided to leave precious atrifacts in Ukraine, Melitopol and Kiev, thus breaking an Empire habit to give all the findings away to Moscow and Leningrad. Having learnt about Terenozhkin's discovery, the director of Hermitage in Leningrad insisted on transfer of the values to Hermitage. Still not known how and why, the authorities decided to leave the newly found Scythian gold in Ukraine with a note to keep any future Ukrainian findings in Ukraine too. Before long a State Commission would visit the treasury exhibition in the Historical Museum and would make a resolution about creation of the separate Golden Treasury Section. By 1969 this section would grow into the Museum of Historical Treasure of Ukraine and would welcome its first visitors in Lavra.
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Better Together: Hispanic Heritage Month and the Gift of Culture
Last August, Genesys Chief People Officer Eva Majercsik wrote a blog announcing the upcoming celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at Genesys. She explored the complexities of Hispanic experiences and expressed her belief that "this month of celebration will help jumpstart the formation of an inclusion group for Latinx employees."
Shortly after Eva's blog was published, my Genesys colleague Alberto Rodriguez and I formed Genesys Latinx in Tech, or GLiT. The complexity she mentioned is reflected in our choice of the word "Latinx" in our name; the challenge was to find a word that encompassed origin countries from all Latin America, including Brazil and island countries from the Caribbean to the Philippines. We also wanted a name that wasn't gender specific. Now we're closer to having a single term that embodies this.
Latinx people make up 19% of the US population, while comprising only about 9% of the technology workforce. This year, Genesys published its inaugural Sustainability Report, which included our diversity numbers. The report provided a baseline number on which to build. We've learned that, at Genesys, 4% of the US workforce is Latinx.
So, in quantitative terms, our mission is simple. With an objective to increase our Latinx participation to the national number of 9%, we're working with internal teams to cast our recruitment net appropriately — and to assure that people who work at Genesys find the fulfillment they seek.
Qualitatively, any path to success in this regard is awash in culture. The culture of Latinx people, of which I am one, is rich, noisy, colorful, familial and has deep spiritual roots. We've carried all this within us since our infancies, long before we knew anything of engineering, computer science or business. This core part of who we are isn't always apparent as we go about exercising our newer skills and capabilities at Genesys, which are very fulfilling in their own right.
National Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM), from September 15 to October 15, creates an occasion to bring this cultural richness to the surface — celebrating and sharing with our Genesys colleagues. Our GLiT team has planned events throughout the month we believe will facilitate this sharing.
I feel an affinity for HHM. California Congressman Esteban Torres sponsored the bill that expanded the celebration from a week to a full month. He grew up in the same Boyle Heights neighborhood in East Los Angeles as my parents. He went to the same high school as my mom, Garfield High, the rival of Roosevelt High where my dad went. Garfield was also the school where Jaime Escalante taught AP Calculus to under-estimated Mexican American kids, events immortalized in the movie "Stand and Deliver."
Torres went on to represent the Congressional district where I grew up in Pico Rivera, California. My parents and I lived in those neighborhoods, walked those streets, knew those people. I feel some understanding of what he had in mind when he sponsored the bill — and why he did it.
As much fun as the month will be, and as much as we hope to put on display, it's not the distinctiveness of Latinx culture we want the Genesys community to remember. We want to foster an awareness of our commonality. The music, art, food, ways of thinking and being with those from every culture on earth — different as they may appear — are simply expressions and affirmations of what we all share. It's our common humanity — our hope, our love and our need to tell the world, "This is who we are." These are the fundamental elements that bind us together. We see Hispanic Heritage Month as an opportunity to strengthen those bonds through our contributions to Genesys and the community as a whole.
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Through these combined experiences, our community will become stronger and we all become better together.
Learn more about diversity at Genesys, and our commitment to improving representation, in our "2020 Sustainability Report."
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JSC donates to Schon Park project
The Village of Glen Carbon received a $39,209 donation from the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Junior Service Club Tuesday, Dec. 19 at the last regular meeting of the Village Board.
After gathering funds through various fundraisers each year and making donations to local organizations in the community, JSC made the contribution to go toward purchasing new playground equipment for Schon Park in Glen Carbon.
The equipment is set to be installed in the spring of 2018.
Glen Carbon Mayor Rob Jackstadt said at the meeting that both he and the village are grateful for the JSC's donation.
"On behalf of the village, I want to thank the Junior Service Club for its dedication to the community. The Junior Service Club raises a lot of money throughout the year for a lot of good things and we can't wait to see the development of the park and the playground come into fruition. Thank you," Jackstadt said.
In addition to the JSC's contribution, the Village has also launched a campaign for the development of the park – the "Make Schon Park Shine," campaign. So far, $2,102 has been raised in donations from the public.
Currently, the village is in Phase 2A of the Schon Park project, which is estimated to cost a total of $1.6 million. The site work includes the construction of the parking lot, playground and restrooms, as well as storm and sanitary sewer work, grading and erosion control, landscaping and lighting.
The final plan for the 36-acre park also includes bicycle and walking trails, a baseball diamond, basketball and tennis courts and a concession stand. The total cost of the project is estimated at $6 million. It's located on Main Street across from the Village Hall.
The next upcoming event for the JSC will be its Casino Night Saturday, Jan. 27. Tickets are $100 per person and the event will take place in the Leclaire Room at the Lewis and Clark campus in Edwardsville. Casino games, a Texas hold'em tournament, heavey hors d'oeuvres, open bar, music and a live and silent auction will be featured.
For more information or to purchase tickets to Casino Night, visit www.edglenjuniorservice.org/jsc-casino-night.html. To make a donation or learn more about Schon Park, contact Village Administrator Jamie Bowden at 618-288-2614.
Junior Service Club supports Watershed, plus wide variety of organizations with fundraising efforts
EDWARDSVILLE - The Junior Service Club of Edwardsville/Glen Carbon's mission is to foster volunteerism by developing member talents and interests through a variety of fundraising and philanthropic projects and at the same time, building valued relationships.
Each year, since 1938, women in Edwardsville/Glen Carbon have participated in a wide variety of Junior Service Club community projects and also given back to local organizations and individuals with large amounts of contributions of time and money.
One of the most impressive Junior Service Club contributions announced this year was a $25,000 donation to Watershed Nature Center for and Educational Meadow.
This is a description provided by Watershed Nature Center about the contribution for an Educational Meadow:
"The educational meadow will be installed on an area that will require significant fill to achieve the desired grade. This area will consist of an natural play are that will be an open lawn for relaxation and recreation as well as a small natural play area for children, which will include logs, stumps and boulders for crawling and climbing. Included will be two different teaching gardens that will serve all nature students – "K through Grey". Surrounding the lawn area will be a new native meadow, consisting of a mixture of grasses, forbs and wildflowers to attract birds, insects, butterflies, and other wildlife."
Junior Service Club President is Karen Marcus. She firmly believes in all of Junior Service Club's work in the community. She said the group is exceptionally supportive of Watershed Nature Center.
She said this about the Watershed Nature Center Educational Meadow contribution:
"Our thought on that it is kids go there on field trips to Watershed and the Nature Center and we just feel like that education is the one thing that will make the next generation appreciate the area."
Marcus continued and said it is amazing to stand in front of a group of 100 women and ask if they would like to donate $25,000 to a project like the Watershed one, and have everyone support it.
"As females and moms in the community, we know Watershed is a vital part of helping our kids and community understand nature, animals and vegetation in the area. A lot of kids would never been able to experience that growing up in a residential area. Watershed truly serves so many purposes and is a place to go and educational nature."
During the year, Junior Service Club has an Adopt-A-Family service project for families in need at holidays, birthdays and special events. The Junior Service Club constantly contributes financial and volunteer work to the Glen Ed Pantry. Meals on Wheels, Project 612, both which are related to delivering meals and food are annual projects.
JSC members also participate in events at nursing homes. The Boundless Playground in Edwardsville Township Park was a Junior Service Club Signature Project.
Marcus said in September, anyone who wishes to apply for grants through Junior Service Club can fill out an application. She said the group starts its calendar year in September.
For more see edglenjuniorservice.org.
Junior Service Club Holiday House Tour Set for Dec. 4
The Edwardsville Intelligencer, Friday, November 18, 2016
http://www.theintelligencer.com/local/article/Junior-Service-Club-Holiday-House-Tour-set-for-10761029.php
For more than 20 years the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Junior Service Club has hosted its biennial Holiday House Tour which serves as a perfect way to kick off the holiday season. This year the tour, which will feature eight beautiful homes decorated for the holidays, takes place from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 4.
Sarah Dawson, a Junior Service Club (JSC) Holiday House Tour committee chair, noted that having eight homes on the tour is the most homes they've had on the tour in recent years. "We're very pleased with the variety in architectural style and décor that can be seen among the houses," Dawson said.
The homes in the tour are all located within Edwardsville and Glen Carbon, and the tour is self-guided so participants can start at the house of their choosing.
Tickets are $25 when purchased in advance or $30 when purchased the day of the event. Remaining tickets will be available the day of the event at each homes on the tour.
Tickets can currently be purchased during regular business hours at Miss Bailey's Poppy Patch, YMCA (both locations), Metro Eye Care, Gingham Buffalo, Where They Roam, Holiday Cleaners, What To Wear and Stix & Stones.
The JSC will also be collecting canned goods and diapers at each home on the tour which will then be donated to the Glen Ed Pantry.
"The Glen Ed Pantry is such a valuable resource for se in need in our community. We wanted to help the Pantry get ready for the holidays since this is typically when they need it the most," Dawson said.
Children under 12 years of age will not be permitted on the tour. It is recommended to wear shoes that are easy to slip on and off since they must be removed when entering each home.
This year's Holiday House Tour sponsors include Ala Carte Home Design, Bin 51 Wine & Spirits, Butler Marcus Realty Group, Fischer Lumber Company, Viviano Heating & Air Conditioning, Mortgage Makers, R.P. Lumber, CS Gems, Joni Yost Interiors, Saving Grace Beauty, and Stix & Stones Interiors. "We're grateful to all of our sponsors and the businesses selling our tickets," Sara Musch, also a committee chair, said. "We are fortunate to have such a supportive community."
The JSC, comprised of about 85 local women, is an extremely active organization that is dedicated to making a difference in the community, and all funds raised from the Holiday House Tour go directly back into the community through the JSC's multitude of programs and projects.
Kerry Stricker, JSC's Community Relations Chairperson, explained that one of the JSC's larger projects this year had been a $25,000 donation to the Watershed Nature Center for a new educational garden and just last week the organization donated $15,000 to Got Your Six, an organization committed to providing specialized service dogs to Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and/or sexual trauma. Got Your Six's mission is to help these men and women regain their lives through the healing power of dogs.
"We were at Petco this weekend - over Veterans Day," Stricker said. "The Junior Juniors group took donations from the public outside of Petco, and then they used that money to go inside the store and buy dog food for the service dogs. And then we purchased a service dog that will be trained and gifted to a local veteran."
There were about 35 local groups or organizations in total that the JSC granted funding requests to this year. "Everything from the Children's Museum to a company called Curtains Up Theater that is doing a Christmas show at the Wildey, to Got Your Six, the Glen Ed Food Pantry, and District 7 nurses," Stricker noted.
Other large projects the JSC has funded in the community in recent years include the Boundless Playground at Township Park and the dry playground at the new Splash Pad in Edwardsville.
"All the money that we raise we spend here locally. It's a great organization," Stricker said.
Visit www.edglenjuniorservice.org for additional information about the Holiday House Tour or to learn more about JSC and their upcoming events. The Junior Service Club is also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/EdGlenJuniorService.


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Pokemon Go Augmented Reality Game for Android and iOS Announced
Not content with Pokemon games released at a regular pace on the Nintendo 3DS, the Pokemon Company – the corporation responsible for marketing and licensing the Pokemon franchise – announced Pokemon Go for Android and iOS. It's an augmented reality game that lets players find and battle Pokemon in the real world.
And unlike most games in the Pokemon series, this is not being developed by Game Freak. Rather Niantic Labs is making this, which is not a bad choice considering its experience creating Ingress, the one time Android only augmented reality game. Niantic Labs used to be owned by Google but split soon after the latter's corporate reorganisation as part of holding company Alphabet.
(Also see: Why Nintendo Making Mobile Games Is Great News for Everyone)
As is the case with most games on mobile devices, Pokemon Go is free-to-play and features an assortment of in-app purchases. While the details of these are not known at the moment, given that Nintendo's take on microtransactions has seen some disruptive models emerge on the 3DS, it will be interesting if we'd see the same here.
Pokémon Go is slated for a 2016 release.
This won't be an app-only affair either. Nintendo is working on a companion smartwatch device to enhance the experience. It's called Pokemon Go Plus (pictured above) and it allows you to check if there are Pokemon present to capture with your smartphone without having you permanently glued to your phone's screen.
and iOS Announced Pokemon Go Augmented Reality Game for Android 2015-11-28


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module ROM::Kafka
  # Describes the gateway to Kafka
  #
  # The gateway has 3 responsibilities:
  # - registers the datasets describing various topics and partitions
  # - instantiates the producer connection to Kafka brokers that doesn't
  #   depend on a specific topic/partition settings
  # - stores settings for the consumer connections to Kafka, that
  #   depends on a specific topic/partition/offset
  #
  # Every dataset uses the same producer connection (defined by gateway) and
  # individual consumer's one. The consumer's connection is reloaded
  # every time the topic, partition or current offset is changed by a relation.
  #
  class Gateway < ROM::Gateway

    extend AttributesDSL

    # Attributes used by both producer and consumer
    attribute :client_id, required: true, &:to_s
    attribute :brokers

    # Producer-specific attributes
    attribute :partitioner
    attribute :compression_codec
    attribute :metadata_refresh_interval_ms, default: 600_000
    attribute :max_send_retries, default: 3
    attribute :retry_backoff_ms, default: 100
    attribute :required_acks, default: 0
    attribute :ack_timeout_ms, default: 1_500
    attribute :socket_timeout_ms, default: 10_000

    # Consumer-specific attributes
    attribute :min_bytes, default: 1
    attribute :max_bytes, default: 1_048_576
    attribute :max_wait_ms, default: 100

    # Initializes the gateway to Kafka broker(s).
    #
    # The initializer is attributes-agnostic. This means it doesn't validate
    # attributes, but skips unused.
    #
    # @example Initialize a producer's gateway to Kafka
    #   gateway = Gateway.new(
    #     hosts: ["127.0.0.1", "127.0.0.2:9093"],
    #     port: 9092,
    #     client_id: :my_user,
    #     compression-codec: :gzip
    #   )
    #   gateway.brokers # => ["127.0.0.1:9092", "127.0.0.2:9093"]
    #
    # @example Alternative syntax
    #   gateway = Gateway.new(
    #     "127.0.0.1:9092",
    #     "127.0.0.2:9093",
    #     client_id: :my_user,
    #     compression-codec: :gzip
    #   )
    #   gateway.brokers # => ["127.0.0.1:9092", "127.0.0.2:9093"]
    #
    # @example Mixed syntax
    #   gateway = Gateway.new(
    #     "127.0.0.1:9092",
    #     hosts: ["127.0.0.2"]
    #     port: 9093,
    #     client_id: :my_user,
    #     min_bytes: 1024 # wait until 1Kb of messages is prepared
    #   )
    #   gateway.brokers # => ["127.0.0.1:9092", "127.0.0.2:9093"]
    #
    # @param [nil, String, Array<String>] addresses
    #   The address(es) of broker(s) to connect (optional).
    #   Brokers can be alternatively set with `:hosts` and `:port` options.
    #
    # @option options [#to_s] :client_id
    #   A required unique id used to indentify the Kafka client.
    # @option options [String, Array<String>] :hosts
    #   A host or list of hosts in the form "host1:port1" or "host1".
    #   In case of a consumer, only the first host is actually used.
    # @option options [Integer] :port
    #   The port shared by all hosts.
    #
    # @option options [Proc, nil] :partitioner
    #   A proc used to provide partition from given key.
    # @option options [:gzip, :snappy, nil] :compression_codec (nil)
    #   Type of compression to be used.
    # @option options [Integer] :metadata_refresh_interval_ms (600_000)
    #   How frequently the topic metadata should be updated (in milliseconds).
    # @option options [Integer] :max_send_retries (3)
    #   Number of times to retry sending of messages to a leader.
    # @option options [Integer] :retry_backoff_ms (100)
    #   An amount of time (in milliseconds) to wait before refreshing
    #   the metadata after we are unable to send messages.
    # @option options [Integer] :required_acks (0)
    #   A number of acks required per request.
    # @option options [Integer] :ack_timeout_ms (1_500)
    #   How long the producer waits for acks.
    # @option options [Integer] :socket_timeout_ms (10_000)
    #   How long the producer/consumer socket waits for any reply from server.
    #
    # @option options [Integer] :offset
    #   An initial offset to start fetching from.
    # @option options [Integer] :min_bytes (1)
    #   A smallest amount of data the server should send.
    #   (By default send us data as soon as it is ready).
    # @option options [Integer] :max_bytes (1_048_576)
    #   A maximum number of bytes to fetch by consumer (1MB by default).
    # @option options [Integer] :max_wait_ms (100)
    #   How long to block until the server sends data.
    #   NOTE: This is only enforced if min_bytes is > 0.
    #
    def initialize(*addresses) # @todo: refactor the fat initializer
      options = Hash[addresses.pop]
      brokers = Brokers.new(addresses, options).to_a   # @todo: refactor using a factory
      super options.merge(brokers: brokers) # prepares #attributes

      @producer = Connection::Producer.new(attributes) # @todo: refactor using a factory
      @datasets = {}
    end

    # @!attribute [r] producer
    #
    # @return [ROM::Kafka::Producer] the producer's connection to Kafka brockers
    #
    attr_reader :producer

    # Returns the registered dataset by topic
    #
    # @param [#to_sym] topic
    #
    # @return [ROM::Kafka::Dataset]
    #
    def [](topic)
      @datasets[topic.to_sym]
    end

    # Registers the dataset by topic
    #
    # By default the dataset is registered with 0 partition and 0 offset.
    # That settings can be changed from either relation of a command.
    #
    # @param [#to_sym] topic
    #
    # @return [self] itself
    #
    def dataset(topic)
      @datasets[topic.to_sym] ||= Dataset.new(self, topic)
    end

    # Checks whether a dataset is registered by topic
    #
    # @param [#to_sym] topic
    #
    # @return [Boolean]
    #
    def dataset?(topic)
      self[topic] ? true : false
    end
  end
end

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Welcome and wait for all the kids to arrive with coloring pages of blue.
Took pictures of each kid with Joe in front of (plastic table cloth) Blue's house. Talked about Blue's Clue and that we needed to use Blue's Clues to find out what Blue's favorite part of Jack's bday is.
First Activity Built Tickety the Clock from paper plates and paper...lead to finding first clue on a paper plate.
Got handy dandy notebooks from side table drawer and drew first clue.
Second Activity played musical paw prints. Each child stood on a paw print with a number on it. There were matching numbers in a bag. Music started kids walked around. Music stopped and so did kids. I pulled a number out of the hat, whichever child was standing on that number got a piece of candy. Went as many times as all kids got two turns....lead to second clue on a number candle.
Third Activity was mail time. We sang the mail song. Each child had their own envelope with Shovel inside. Then we matched up Shovel to a giant Pail that was on the wall (a little like pin the tail on the donkey). At the end of this activity it lead to third clue on a yellow fork.
Now that we had all three clues we sat in thinking chair and figured out that Blue's favorite thing at Jack's birthday party was Eating Birthday Cake.
Said our "thank yous" and "good byes"
Mom promptly collapsed on couch.
I am super happy to share any and all details on how to pull all of these ideas off. If you want more detail on any part of this party feel free to email me see side of blog.
I am exhausted just reading it! Sounds like a fun party!
quite amazing, my friend. Hey, for some reason, my blog posts aren't updating on my friend's who have me on their lists. I've got tons of stuff on there since what shows on your page, if you want to check it out and see cute pics of my girl.


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Spot on. Constant head nodding from me, and encouraged me to better continue my serious building of drinking skill.
I think, what many people don't seem to realize, and especially what say, the wine drinkers mentioned here miss, is that drinking is a skill, and building any skill takes mindful involvement and critical thought and an actual pursuit of getting better. Many people seem to think if they drink a lot, eat a lot, do anything a lot, they know what they are doing and understand it better. It's just not necessarily true.
Lovely, and all too common in such endeavors.
But hey who am I to judge.
I've been meaning to ask you something for sometime regarding tea scene in China. In the west we tend to get our information from blogs like yours, perhaps some tea forums, 2 guys doing some crazy youtube videos 😉 and maybe some facebook tea groups.
What about in China? How to people get informed about new teas, for instance? Is it similar?
The most common way is just to drink with other people – there are lots. You can of course also hang out in online forums, etc, but face to face is by far the fastest way to learn. You go to your favourite tea shop and there's usually people who hang out there.


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Кястутис Броневич Рузгис (15 сентября 1962, Клайпеда, Литовская ССР, СССР) — советский литовский футболист, нападающий. Мастер спорта СССР международного класса (1987).

Известность получил по выступлениям за «Жальгирис». После распада СССР выступал в клубах Югославии и Германии.

В чемпионатах СССР (высшая лига) — 27 игр, 3 гола.

Достижения
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата СССР 1987 г.
 Чемпион Универсиады 1987 г.
 Чемпион Балтийской лиги 1990 г.

Статистика

Примечания

Футболисты СССР
Футболисты Литвы
Игроки сборной Литвы по футболу
Игроки ФК «Атлантас»
Игроки ФК «Жальгирис»
Игроки ФК «Сириюс»
Игроки ФК «Пардаугава»
Игроки ФК ОФК
Игроки ФК «Шпортфройнде» Зиген
Мастера спорта СССР международного класса

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People need liberation and healing, not condemnation, Pope says
Pope Francis leads an audience with students and staff of the Accademia Alfonsiana at the Vatican Feb. 9, 2019. CNS photo/Vatican Media
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN – Taking their cue from Christ, moral theologians can see that people need to be liberated and healed, not condemned, Pope Francis said.
But the earth – humanity's common home – is also in great need of care, he added, asking that moral theology expand to include an "ecological dimension."
The Pope held an audience at the Vatican Feb. 9 with professors and students of the Alphonsian Academy in Rome, a graduate school specializing in moral theology. The school was founded by the Redemptorists 70 years ago, inspired by the teachings of St. Alphonsus Liguori.
The Pope said St. Alphonsus knew what was needed was not defending oneself from the world or condemning it, but working "to heal and liberate, in imitation of Christ's action."
The church must give attention to people who are subjected to the many "forms of the power of sin that continue to condemn them to insecurity, poverty and marginalization," he said.
Moral theologians also should be inspired to face with "great willingness the new, serious challenges stemming from the speed with which our society evolves" and which in turn fosters attitudes of competition, the law of "survival of the fittest" and the "throwaway culture."
The same attentive response is needed "for the cries of the earth – violated and harmed in numerous ways by selfish exploitation," he said.
People are missing a sense of their responsibility and their nation's duty to care for the earth, the Pope said.
In all the years he has heard confession, he said, "rarely has anyone blamed themselves for doing violence to nature, to the earth, to creation. We are not aware of this sin."
Moral theology, he said, must do its part in helping people become aware of the urgency and conviction needed to work together in caring for "our common home through viable ways of integral development."
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Q: excel vba ping list of computers I am working on a project. My goal is, to ping all of the computers from an excel list, but can't figure out why it isn't working. I am quite new at this programming language, and I am sure that I miss out something, because I get the error message: Object required
so here is my code
the main:
Sub pingall_Click()
Dim c As Range
c = Target.Name

For Each c In Range("A1:N50")
    If (Left(c, 1) = "C" Or Left(c, 1) = "T") And IsNumeric(Right(c, 6)) And Len(c) = 7 Then
    c = sPing(c)
        If c = "timeout" Then
            MsgBox "timeout"
        ElseIf c < 16 And c > -1 Then
            MsgBox "ok"
        ElseIf c > 15 And c < 51 Then
            MsgBox "not ok"
        ElseIf c > 50 And c < 4000 Then
            MsgBox "big delay"
        Else
            MsgBox "error"

        End If
    End If
Next c
End Sub

The function:
Public Function sPing(sHost) As String

Dim oPing As Object, oRetStatus As Object

Set oPing = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}").ExecQuery _
  ("select * from Win32_PingStatus where address = '" & sHost & "'")

For Each oRetStatus In oPing
    If IsNull(oRetStatus.StatusCode) Or oRetStatus.StatusCode <> 0 Then
        sPing = "timeout" 'oRetStatus.StatusCode
    Else
        sPing = sPing & vbTab & oRetStatus.ResponseTime & Chr(10)
    End If
Next
End Function

I can get the result if I write sPing(""), but I want it to get the name of pc-s that are in the list.
This is just a test version of the script, I am testing it with one pc for now, that is why I use "MsgBox".
Thank you

A: The 2nd line inside the Sub pingall_Click() subroutine is the one throwing the Object Required error. i.e. the following line.
c = Target.Name

If you comment it out or delete it, it works. (I tried it.)
Also, you should not be assigning the return value from the function sPing back to c.
Because doing so will overwrite the name of the Server / IP address you have in the cell, since the forloop is looping over 1 cell at a time using the c variable.
So instead, assign it back to a new string variable, and then do whatever you want with it.

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HomeNL-2014-02 6 In the News
A selection of paddling-related news stories.
"Can Buffalo Bayou Survive the Latest Plan to Save It?" (Houston, TX)
"December 1935: The water was everywhere. After the rains drenched the banks of Buffalo Bayou, it had nowhere else to go. It slopped over the smooth, tree-lined banks, filling the streets, covering 25 blocks of Houston's downtown business district as it hissed and rushed, moved and reshaped the city trapped beneath it. This was the flood that changed everything..."
Complete story: Houston Press
Entry contributed by Louis Aulbach.
"Judge overturns New Braunfels river can ban" (New Braunfels, TX)
"A district judge on Monday overturned the controversial New Braunfels disposable container ban. District Court Judge Don Burgess ruled in favor of local river outfitters and a beer distributor that the city does not have the jurisdiction to regulate disposable containers on the river. A summary judgment has been issued..."
Complete story: MySanAntonio.com
Entry contributed by John Rich.
"Texas Rivers Protection Association, Annual Newsletter" (Texas)
"I had a call, not long ago, from a fellow who was trying to reach the Texas Rivers Protection Agency . It turned out that he had reached the right organization, he just had the wrong name. We are not an agency of the State of Texas. In fact, we are a totally voluntary organization. So, I thought it might be interesting for ya'll to hear the story from start to finish on how we were able to stop a bad water quality permit from being granted..."
Complete story: www.txrivers.org
Entry contributed by Bob Naeger.
"Canoe-makers losing key material for molding boats" (Warsaw, IN)
"Royalex is about to disappear. The material that revolutionized canoe-making back in the 1970s has lost its sole-source manufacturer. Royalex wasn't perfect, but it was affordable, functional and everywhere. Royalex had advantages over most every other material. It bounced off rocks better than wood or fiberglass, didn't bend like aluminum, was cheaper than Kevlar or other fancy composites, and lighter and stronger than the plastics commonly used to mold kayaks. The manufacturer, Spartech, was bought out and the new owner closed the factory..."
Complete story: Missoulian
Entry contributed by Paddling.net.
"Video: Snow Canoeing" (Asheville, NC)
"Don't try this at home. When Asheville paddlers miss liquid H2O they get creative. No lifejackets are needed for this extreme sport, but put on a helmet—you'll see why!"
Complete story: RapidMedia.com
Entry contributed by RapidMedia.
"The river was my teacher" (Everett, WA)
"It wasn't the easiest spiritual experience, but Rev. David Ellingson said his 2,200-mile kayak trip down the Mississippi River last year was plenty profound. "The river was my teacher," he said. "The biggest lesson I learned is I'm not in control..."
Complete story: HeraldNet
"Canoe Hunter" (Cincinnati, OH)
"Twelve months, a dozen countries and a nearly lost art learned in each. It was a dream come true for Cincinnati-native Will Meadows, 23. In fall 2012, Meadows embarked on a yearlong quest to visit indigenous canoe building masters around the world and learn their techniques..."
Complete story: RapidMedia
"Canoeing a Continent" (Europe)
"After more than five months on the water, expedition team Canoeing The Continent reached its goal of Istanbul on day 146 of their journey, after traversing almost 5,000 kilometers. The two British paddlers, James Smith and Nathan Wilkins, began their ambitious voyage on the Atlantic coast of France, with the goal of reaching Istanbul by connecting waterways and without portaging..."
"Man who terrorized families in BWCA" (Ely, Minnesota)
"The dramatic chase was the latest run-in between authorities and Lakner, an Ely resident with a history of law breaking in the BWCA that includes a 2007 rampage so severe it got him banned from the wilderness for five years. He and five other young men terrorized a vacationing family, demanding that the campers get off "their land," firing off an assault rifle in their campsite and threatening to rape and kill them..."
Complete story: Star Tribune
"Man appeals conviction in boy's boat death" (Boston, Massachusetts)
"The details of the boating crash were haunting: A power boat slammed into a man and his 10-year-old son fishing from a kayak, killing the boy. Prosecutors said the boat driver, Steven Morse, was impaired by alcohol and marijuana when he hit Gus Adamopoulos and his father. Morse contended that he was temporarily blinded by a sun glare off the lake while pulling a friend on water skis. Next month, the state's highest court will be asked to consider whether Morse's convictions for misdemeanor homicide by vessel should be overturned..."
Complete story: Chronicle
"Ocean sports surging in popularity" (Santa Maria, CA)
"A growing number of fitness seekers are turning to the great outdoors. Paddles in hands, they're taking up kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding, kayak fishing, canoeing and outrigger canoe racing in unprecedented numbers..."
Complete story: TimesPressRecorder
"Kayaker attemps second Atlantic crossing" (Poland)
"Retired engineer Aleksander Doba is not your typical retiree. Rather than settling down, the 67-year-old Polish kayaker launched his second trans-Atlantic paddling voyage. This time it was a 4,700-mile journey from Lisbon, Portugal to New Smyrna Beach, Florida USA..."
Complete story: Examiner


Working with models, namely three-dimensional illustrations of reality, is an integral part of any industrial design process. However, can we also use 'design' in relation to drug research? What is our understanding of these techniques today?
Anyone wishing to build a new kitchen will generally start planning with a pencil, a ruler and paper. However, the representational form of a two-dimensional plan has its limitations. In the past, the desire for structured, three-dimensional illustrations of reality frequently induced the committed DIY enthusiast to create intricate wooden or cardboard models crafted in meticulous detail. Today, we are able to 'click' together that dream kitchen in just a few minutes on a PC, observe it with astounding reality from all sides using 3D imagery, and also reject and revise any drafts we dislike. Working with models enables problems to be recognised at an early stage before actual realisation and facilitates better planning and more efficient work in general. As a result, computer-aided design (CAD) is now an indispensable part of industries such as car manufacturing, aircraft construction and shipbuilding, to name but a few. In this respect, skilled crafts and planning have not been replaced, but rather have been enhanced by material- and time-saving computer methods.
What is the significance of CAD within the realm of drug research? Can industrial design, as depicted above, actually be transferred to drug discovery?
The drug discovery process has always been dominated by 'trial and error'. Due to the lack of precise knowledge of molecular interaction in the human organism, thoughts of rational drug design have long been all but impossible. Drugs were discovered purely empirical, using natural products and screening approaches and optimized through the synthesis and testing of a large number of structure variations. Stimulated by advancements in molecular biology, protein production and x-ray crystallography as well as initial successes in structure-based drug design, at the start of the 1990s several advocates of this discipline were predicting that drug research would be heavily dominated by a rational approach in the near future. Ultimately, these predictions could not be realised in such a short space of time and consequently led to massive investment in other technologies, such as combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening. If we compare today's knowledge of molecular targets with that of 20 years ago, it is now clear how unrealistic these perceptions were. In 1990, the EMBL Bank held around 35,000 nucleotide sequences, today it holds over 250 million. In 1990, 450 protein crystal structures were stored in the Protein Data Bank (PDB), today the figure is around 78,000. In 2012, for example, the ChEMBL database contained around 10 million bioactivity data for 1.2 million different compounds on 9,000 target proteins.
So what have we learnt from all this data? Has our approach to drug discovery changed?
The testing of large substance libraries continues to represent an important pillar of lead structure identification. Today, however, coincidence is being aided ever-more frequently by the targeted design of compounds. Given the structurally well-understood target protein families, we are able to combine different parts of compounds on a computer screen, alter or supplement these in consideration of the synthetic feasiblility and subsequently draft proposals for entirely new active compounds. We call this 'protein structure-based de novo design'. Following synthesis and testing of the compounds, the approach delivered several new lead structures and a development compound in our hands. In contrast to the past, using our computer designs we not only consider the active substance's binding affinity to the target protein, but also aspects such as absorption by the body, metabolism and toxicity of the compounds. We have derived rules based on the many test results from earlier drug discovery projects and formulated these into computer programs, which now enable us to predict pharmacokinetic aspects in some measure. To this end, the design of new compounds is occurring against a background of close coordination between medicinal and computational chemists. Unfortunately, this highly targeted, design-oriented method does not succeed with all projects, with the result that 'trial and error' will remain an important element of drug discovery. At present, we still do not understand the complex molecular interactions in physiology to the same extent as, for example, is the case for the physics of fluid dynamics in aircraft construction. Nevertheless, I believe our approach in drug research is far more targeted today and that methods promoting such an approach will continue to gain significantly in importance. Enhanced programs to predict the binding affinities of compounds on target proteins or anti-targets, quicker access to available experimental data for the generation of knowledge, and the close networking of medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, biophysics, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics are just some of the success factors that will improve the efficiency of drug discovery through design.
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20-Foot-Tall Eiffel Tower and 8-Foot-Tall Indian
Paris, Michigan
During the 1930s, Paris Park had temporary bunkhouses that sheltered government workers for the WPA. The bunkhouses were eventually torn down, but the metal frames from the workers' beds remained, stored in barns.
Decades passed. Then, in 1980, high school students from the Mecosta-Osceola Career Center in nearby Big Rapids -- or from Chippewa Hills High School in sort-of-nearby Remus (accounts vary) -- discovered the beds and decided that the metal would make good raw material for an engineering and welding project.
As Dale Cox, the assistant warden of the park, explained to us, "They learned how to chop 'em up." The result is a nice Eiffel Tower replica (in Paris Park -- get it?) in a wooded glen just past the park's fish hatchery. It's less striking than perhaps it once was, as the trees around it have grown much, much taller than the tower.
On the other side of the fish hatchery stands a mysterious 2-D Indian -- a Chippewa Chief, according to Dale -- that was carved in 1937, as a WPA project, by a Bulgarian wood carver. Dale couldn't remember the gentleman's name.
Just north of the park, on the west side of Northland Drive, is a detached white garage on which is a sign, "Home of Dynamite The Circus Clown." We doubt that Dynamite had anything to do with the tower or the Indian, but we thought that he deserved a plug.
22090 Northland Drive, Paris, MI
US 131 exit 142 (19 Mile Rd). Drive one mile, then left (north) on Northland Drive. Paris Park is three miles, on the right. Park at the north end, and walk into the park on the trail past the fish hatchery. The tower will be on the right, the Indian on the left.
Park entry fee $6
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