text:
Stanford Neurogenetics and Neurogenomics
The Stanford Neurogenetics and Neurogenomics Program is a collaborative effort amongst multiple clinics, research laboratories, and other medical professionals at Stanford who specialize in neurogenetic conditions that affect children and adults. In the Adult and Pediatric Neurogenetics and Neurogenomics clinics, we evaluate, diagnose, and provide comprehensive care including genetic counseling and testing for rare neurologic disorders. Our collaborators include basic science, translational, and clinical researchers who share the common goal of better understanding the disorders we diagnose and manage in efforts to develop novel treatments. We coordinate with other specialists to ensure optimal care for each patient and their families.
Our faculty and staff are committed to providing cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for those with complex neurologic disorders. The Stanford Neurogenetics and Neurogenomics program houses experts in: mitochondrial disease, leukodystrophies, neuromuscular disorders, and severe epilepsy syndromes, as well as undiagnosed neurologic conditions. By embracing a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, and by facilitating participation in clinical trials, we are well-positioned to support the rare disease community in an era of rapid progress.
Jacinda Sampson, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford Neurogenetics, Stanford Healthcare, Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Dr. Jacinda Sampson received her MD and a PhD in biochemistry from University of Alabama at Birmingham, and completed her neurology residency and neurogenetics fellowship at the University of Utah. She served at Columbia University Medical Center prior to joining Stanford University Medical Center in 2015. Her areas of interest include myotonic dystrophies, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and neurogenetic disorders such as neurofibromatosis, hereditary spastic paraparesis, spinocerebellar ataxia, among others. She is interested in clinical trials for treatment of neurogenetic disorders, and is the clinical application of next-generation genomic sequencing to genetic testing.
Maura RZ Ruzhnikov, MD
Director Stanford Neurogenomics, Stanford Children's Health, Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Dr. Maura Ruzhnikov is Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology and Medical Genetics at Stanford. She obtained her MD at NYU School of Medicine, and completed her child neurology residency and fellowship at UCSF followed by a clinical medical genetics fellowship at Stanford. She focuses on the diagnosis and management of rare neurogenetic and neurometabolic disorders, with a particular interest in severe epilepsy syndromes, leukodystrophies, and other neurometabolic disorders. She directs the Stanford Neurogenomics program, and co-directs the Neurometabolic Disorders Clinic with Dr. Greg Enns in Medical and Biochemical Genetics.
Stanford Neuroscience Health Center
The Stanford Neuroscience Health Center brings together world-class specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, and interventional neuroradiology. Using the most advanced treatments, diagnostics and imaging technologies, we address your complex and unique needs all within the comfort and convenience of a single location.
Our child neurology team specializes in treating the full range of neurological conditions in infants, children and adolescents, from head injury to genetic and neuromuscular disorders.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Support us by making an online donation today


This page displays sold house prices for Coledale Close in York.
Coledale Close in York YO30 consists predominantly of detached houses. Properties on Coledale Close typically have values around £200,000 - £250,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £300,000.
Map showing Coledale Close in York.


ASAP Reprographics offers state-of-the-art Envelope Printing for all common envelope sizes and styles. We offer 1-color, 2-color and full-color (4 color) printed envelopes. Our 1 and 2 Color Printed Envelopes are printed in any PMS colors, one side, with NO bleed. Our 4 Color Printed Envelopes are printed full color, and can be printed full bleed on 1 or 2 sides in any CMYK colors. Full-color envelope printing is available in multiple bleed options, which allows you to fully customize your envelope print job. Envelopes are printed in many different paper stocks and 19 sizes and styles to choose from.
Upload your own design for your envelopes, use our design templates, or let us design your envelopes!
If the envelope size or style you need is not listed, we have hundreds of specialty envelope sizes and styles to fit your exact needs. Please contact us for assistance with any specialty envelope needs you have.


Bet you didn't know the beloved author of "Green Eggs and Ham" had a few social media lessons up his sleeve. Try these on for size.
This story originally ran on PR Daily in March 2013. The older I get, the more I realize how smart my mother and Dr. Seuss are.
Dr. Seuss may have some crazy rhymes and guys drawn in his books, but if you look at the core of his thoughts and words, the man was brilliant. He can even teach us some nice lessons in regards to social media.
Authenticity and transparency in social media are the "green" in the green eggs and ham. I like realness, Sam I am! Don't be a different person offline than you are on Twitter and Facebook.
Stop worrying about what everyone thinks of you. Build your plan, work it and get out there. Yes, you will need to manage your brand, reputation and online image, but make it real.
Did you get laid off or fired from the corporate world, or did you just plain quit? If you're out of a job, quit crying. It's a blessing. Get on with your life and build a new one in your own way.
You're in love with the Twitter bird and you know it. If you're dreaming of him, it's a fact.
Isn't this the truth? Take charge of your life. Go, people, go! Think of the communities you can build, the business you can win and the people you can connect with if you only try. Quit following in your competitors' footsteps. Forge your own path and make things happen.
This one makes me think of how complicated we make social media. Think newbie questions like, "What's a retweet?" and "What's a 'tweet' as opposed a 'twit?'" The list goes on. The best advice I give people is to just do it. The answers are simple if you only engage.
Just because you have tens of thousands of followers on Twitter doesn't mean you're any better than the new guy who only has eight. You were there once, too. That person is a person, and probably smarter than you.
Listen and learn. Read, engage, watch your mentors and learn from them. You'll soon learn and build your own track.
I love this one. It reminds me of all the awesome people I've met on Twitter. I love my Twitter buddies. I've met people from around the world, and we all have a bit of quirky weirdness. Be quirky and you'll find others who are quirky, too.
Yes, have humor, but you need to add value. Inspire, educate and engage with your audience. Don't approach social media like a bird out of the crazy cage. You may be excited you learned how to tweet, but put some sense into those 140 characters.
Social media is filled with humor. Just look around. Do a Twitter search for the term "get more followers" and see just how many funny crazies there are who think they are making progress by spamming. Embrace the humor of social media folks.
Stick to your words and make your words stick.
Think bigger than a tweet, faster than a zoom, and what you can do if you reached for the moon! Be different. Be bold. Stand out from the crowd.
This one reminds me of the people who think social media is free, and that social media alone will save their businesses. Get over it, folks. Social media is far from free. It doesn't enable you to eat rainbows, and it sure as heck does not poop butterflies. It poops a bad return on investment and negative brand equity if you don't manage it and plan.
This happens to me every night on Twitter. I'll just get into it when I pass out on the laptop. If only there were more hours in the day. Time flies when you're having fun!
Pam Moore is CEO and founder of Marketing Nutz. A version of this article first appeared on TheMarketingNutz.com.


text:
Preview: Nor'easters host rivals Reading United in massive game on Youth Soccer Night on Saturday
Ocean City's playoff hopes on the line as they face Reading for the 48th time
There are just three games (and one friendly) remaining for the Ocean City Nor'easters in the 2018 Premier Development League regular season. If Ocean City wants to have a chance at qualifying for the PDL playoffs, they will have to win all three. Luckily for the Storm, all three of those games are being played at home, and the biggest challenge of their remaining games arrives in Ocean City on Saturday as the Nor'easters will host long-time rivals Reading United AC.
Saturday's game is Youth Soccer Night at the Beach House. All kids wearing the jersey of the club soccer team that they play for will receive free admission to the game. All other tickets are available at the Carey Stadium box office for $10. Click here for more information about group ticket packages, birthday parties and how soccer coaches can get in free.
There will be no live stream available for the game. Fans unable to make it out to the Beach House can follow the action as it happens on the Nor'easters' official twitter account @OCNoreasters.
Ocean City and Reading United are one of the longest-running rivalries in the PDL, dating back to 1997. Saturday's game will be the 48th meeting between the two clubs and the series is currently tied 20-20-7. When the two teams met in 1997, the two teams (known as the Reading Rage and the South Jersey Barons) were both professional teams in the D-3 Pro League. Reading had joined the league the year before. Ocean City had the edge in the series during the first decade of the rivalry (17-6-3), but the second decade has largely belonged to Reading (14-3-4).
After Reading swept both regular season meetings in 2016, the two met in the Eastern Conference championship game. It was the first time the two long-time rivals had met in a playoff game and it was Ocean City that pervailed, winning 4-1 on the road. Last year, the two teams played each other three times, with Reading winning both games on their home field and Ocean City edging United 1-0 at the Beach House on July 2.
Reading United will arrive at the Beach House undefeated in league play (10-0-2) and sitting in first place in the Mid-Atlantic Division. They will have motivation of their own as they need a win to clinch their second division title in the last three years.
This is the third year in a row that the two rivals have faced off three times in one season. In 2016 and 2017, two games were hosted by Reading and one game was hosted by Ocean City. This year, the Nor'easters will host two of the three meetings. Saturday will mark the final time the two teams will meet in the regular season with Reading winning the first two games. United won 3-1 on their home field back on June 16 and then picked up a 2-0 win in Ocean City four days later.
Reading is on the verge of clinching another division title, but they hit a stumbling block with a scoreless draw against the New York Red Bulls Under-23s midweek.
The player to watch for United continues to be their star midfielder Aaron Molloy. The Penn State product is one of four Reading players listed on the PDL's Top Prospects list. Molloy is currently ranked No. 1. The Nor'easters have a pair of players ranked on the Top Prospects list: Alec Smir (North Carolina / Greensboro, NC) and current PDL Eastern Conference Team of the Week member Alex Rose (North Carolina / Cary, NC). Another former Ocean City player, Nikola Fimic, is currently ranked No. 11.
Rose leads the Nor'easters in scoring with six goals due, in large part, to his hat trick in Ocean City's last game on June 30 against FA Euro. The Nor'easters won 5-0 at the Beach House with Fredlin "Fredinho" Mompremier (Fairleigh Dickinson / Limbe, Haiti) scoring his first league goal of the season (third in all competitions) and adding two assists. That goal was so impressive that Mompremier was voted as the PDL Goal of the Week. Fredinho, last year's Offensive Player of the Year, has had a relatively smooth transition to outside defender as he enters Saturday's game leading the team in assists with five.
Todd Morton (Delaware / West Chester, PA) earned his third clean sheet of the season against FA Euro. The Delaware goalkeeper now has seven shutouts in his Ocean City career, which ranks second in the team's PDL history.
Most recently, the Nor'easters played a warm-up exhibition game last Monday against National Premier Soccer League side West Chester United. Ocean City defeated the Philadelphia area side 1-0 thanks to an 85th minute goal by Abdul Mansaray (Wilmington / London, England) and an exceptional performance in goal by a pair of Ocean City goalkeepers Jimmy Slayton (Hartford / Wethersfield, CT) and Gus Valeriano (California-Pa. / Southampton, NJ).
WILD CARD STANDINGS
Top second place team earns playoff berth
UPDATED through July 6
TEAM GM LEFT RECORD PTS GD
New York Red Bulls U-23s 3 8-2-1 25 +23
North Carolina FC U-23s 1 6-3-4 22 +6
Long Island Rough Riders 3 7-3-1 22 +9
OCEAN CITY NOR'EASTERS 3 7-4-0 21 +7
GPS Portland Phoenix 3 6-3-2 20 +3
Boston Bolts 3 5-4-2 17 +1
REMAINING SCHEDULES
New York Red Bulls U-23s
7/8 - vs. Evergreen FC (0-9-2)
7/13 - at Long Island Rough Riders (7-3-1)
7/15 - at Ocean City Nor'easters (7-4-0)
Long Island Rough Riders
7/11 - at FA Euro New York (2-9-0)
7/13 - vs. New York Red Bulls U-23s (8-2-1)
7/7 - vs. Reading United AC (9-0-2)
7/11 - vs. Lehigh Valley United (1-9-1)
North Carolina FC U-23s
7/14 - at Charlotte Eagles (3-5-3)
GPS Portland Phoenix
7/7 - at Westchester Flames (1-5-6)
7/8 - at AC Connecticut (4-5-2)
7/15 - vs. Western Mass Pioneers (3-4-4)
Boston Bolts
7/7 - vs. Black Rock FC (8-2-3)
7/11 - at Seacoast United Phantoms (2-6-3)
7/14 - vs. Westchester Flames (1-5-6)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
News / Moray
Chernobyl children arrive in Moray to enjoy healing properties of region's fresh air
by David Mackay
August 23, 2016, 11:47 am Updated: August 25, 2016, 1:54 pm
Children whose homes were devastated in a nuclear disaster have arrived in Moray to enjoy some fresh air.
Youngsters, aged from seven to nine, are returning to the region from Belarus, which is still feeling the after-effects of the Chernobyl explosion 30 years ago.
Some of the most vulnerable children have been selected to stay with families in Moray to give their immune systems a rest from fighting the radiation in their homeland.
Since the disaster happened, there has been a massive increase in cancers and birth defects in the country.
Clare Cotton, coordinator of the Friends of Chernobyl's Children Moray group, has already noticed a dramatic improvement in the health of the youngsters who returned from last year.
She said: "There was one young girl who came with a respirator last year because she had chest problems, she couldn't have cold drinks or ice cream and had trouble breathing.
"Every year, she would be off school for about three months during the winter. When I went to visit earlier this year, I couldn't believe she hadn't had a day off.
"That's all down to a month in the fresh air in Moray to give them a break. Her family described it as a miracle.
"A lot of the host families have noticed a big improvement in the condition of their hair, it's less like straw and more like silk. A few of them are almost unrecognisable."
The youngsters are given a year's supply of vitamins to maintain their health when they go back home.
All 19 children who are in Moray for a month were measured and weighed at Duffus Hall yesterday to monitor their improvements during the stay before excitedly taking to the playground.
Olympic-themed events have been lined up for the youngsters as well as visits to the Findhorn Ecovillage, Pictish centre in Burghead and kickboxing classes.
School classes are also being run for the children, who live about 150 miles away from the Chernobyl plant.
Interpreter Olga Sapunova, who has travelled from Belarus with them, said: "This really makes a huge difference to their health, but also personally.
"A lot of them have never travelled in a car or train before. It helps them learn English and boost their confidence."
Children of Chernobyl
Clare Cotton
Duffus Hall
Friends of Chernobyl's Children
Total buys 20% stake in Indian solar developer from Adani
Total has bought 20% of solar developer Adani Green Energy (AGEL) from Adani Group, India's leading infrastructure platform.
Global Energy Group appoints Tim Cornelius as new CEO
Global Energy Group (GEG) has today announced the upcoming appointment of Tim Cornelius in the role of group chief executive.
Waha Oil cuts production on pipeline work


text:
Board index ‹ Welcome Center ‹ Tell us about your Faith Journey
49 years worth
Are you Christian? Any other faith? No faith? Tell us just a bit about the role "faith" plays in your life. Don't seek to evangelize here. This is a "story-telling" forum. All submissions are equally valued if given in a positive spirit. New Comers please post here.
NO NUDIST COMMENTS PLEASE!
by DaveT » Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:33 pm
All my ancestors since before 1900 were SDA. Then I was educated at home by my mother in a manner that taught me to think for myself, research info on my own, don't believe anything anybody says without sufficient proof of it's validity. The book at http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ gives some idea how modern science is seriously skewed to make it seem to support the theories the professors want it to support. I remain SDA only because I can't find any church closer to biblical accuracy, although I am seeing the church leadership going off the wrong way for the most part. They are loosing their relationship with Christ, failing to maintain biblical standards of worship and ministry, but keep playing church and keeping up a very nice looking fake front. Consequently I wouldn't recommend anyone join it at the present time, (I know that's a heretical opinion but I don't care) That's the doctrinal side.
Now on the spiritual side I was baptized at 11 with consent to the doctrines, but I didn't know Christ. Wasn't till I listened to my mother give a study on prophecy at about 17 that my conscience started to wake up. In the mean time I wanted to appear good on the outside but inside I didn't care. Was even involved in minor criminal activities (shoplifting) I was pretty sly about it and was never detected, but after I began to be converted I tried to pay back everything I'd taken, because I came to understand the value of salvation, and appreciation of Christ's sacrifice started working on my heart. That was early 80's. Since then growth in character has been gradual, there have been ups and downs, but overall a lot of advancement has been made which makes me happy. Late 90's I started praying for direction in life, was unsure what I should pursue. After some time I had a morning experience that was almost mind-boggling. I seemed to be seeing a group of people in heaven, I knew they were there because I'd invited them in some way, but the main thing was the extreme joy. Absolutely overwhelming mind blowing JOY, So powerful it seemed to bury all other pleasures in the dust. It was the joy that Jesus feels to have us there with Him, the joy we all will experience to be there, and that he shares with us as we work with and for Him to help bring others to heaven. The joy that drove Him to endure the cross just to rescue us from this world. The joy that His great love generates. That gave me purpose in life, put me on the way to developing much greater love for others. I know I have a long ways to go but the journey is interesting. Been praying for purity of heart and mind, and it's coming a little at a time. eradicating the evil thoughts and desires that keep trying to take control of my mind. Yielding to those desires is bad for me in several ways, bad for my physical health and polluting my mind. I have found that for me to become like Christ in character is the most wonderful exciting thing that I could ever experience in this world. Although I know it sounds pretty dull to anyone who hasn't experienced it. And when this life ends there will be far greater things to look forward to. The promise he made is; "He that overcometh will inherit all things" The King of the universe is our Daddy, Where does that put us? ------------ Overcome what? the rest of the Bible tells me what. Basically sin. And since the law of God is the basic statement of what sin is. I go back to that law and compare my life with it. I fall short, so I ask Jesus to make me clean, and He does. First by forgiving my past sin, and then His holy spirit cleaning up my life so I can quit sinning.
There were certain sins I had no strength to stop doing on my own, I had to throw myself on his mercy and ask Him to take over. In time He worked in my mind until those things no longer control me, I'm still wondering how it happened. And it's still in progress. Actually I think becoming more of a naturist, understanding the principals behind it, was a small thing that He drug me into to help me out, which some people I have talked to fail to comprehend. But I understand it and that's what matters to me. He's taught me that I should be ashamed of sin, repent of and forsake it, but not of these bodies He created. It doesn't mean I should expose myself to those who haven't learned not to lust after nakedness. But it's no issue when with those who have learned.
I want God to train me for His service and use me to the maximum, I feel as if that's the only thing worth doing, anything less and I will have wasted my time. I don't want to get old and look back on life and wish I'd done it different. Or feel like I wasted my life. I want to be satisfied. Money won't do it. There are already too many rich but miserable people around. Yah money is necessary to live in our society, but make it honestly and use it wisely. And if the Lord sees I can handle lots of it and gives me lots of it, It'll just be so I can help lots of people find that joy that I found. In the mean time I enjoy growing food and being a home mechanic of sorts.
I like technological activities, making things using metal, electronics, whatever. God gave me a good imagination for putting stuff together, so maybe I can put that to work for Him. As well as an enjoyment of gardening, and horses. I don't have enough time to do everything I enjoy doing. I have some knowledge of certain technologies that could be developed into a huge money maker, but so far most of the things I've tried haven't made much and I get by on very little. I don't need much and am happy with what I have, but if occasion happens that I do develop that high powered income machine I'll use it all for others benefit.
Re: 49 years worth
by jochanaan » Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:13 pm
Isn't it amazing how, even when we grow up surrounded by every spiritual advantage, it takes a personal experience to bring our beings back into His ways? I've heard it expressed succinctly: "God has no grandchildren."
To many looking in at SDAs from the "outside," it seems like a near-cult. I give the denomination credit for recognizing Jesus as God Embodied and our only Savior; yet in too many things they have followed inventions of humans, and the degree of control exercised by the church leadership distresses many of us. (If my saying this offends you, I regret that, but that's the way I see things.)
If you are looking for a Biblical Sabbath-keeping church, may I suggest the Seventh Day Baptists. I grew up SDB, and to this day I have close "Christ-family" ties with many in the church, including membership in a local congregation (which, sadly, is too far away from where I live now to permit regular attendance). As a group, they affirm the Trinity, the primacy of Jesus, and the Bible's accuracy and authority; yet on many more "esoteric" questions about doctrine there is great freedom of thought, and we (I still think of myself as basically Seventh Day Baptist) emphasize individual study and accept diversity in beliefs and practices. In other words, we're a stubbornly independent-minded folk. Very few of them, unfortunately, recognize the innocence and benefits of naturism.
by DaveT » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:05 pm
I've heard the cult thing many times. With some investigation I've found two reasons for it. One is based on serious misinformation. ( a string of lies) and the other reason is someone who uses the term "cult" really loosely without defining it's meaning. Some people like to label anything a cult that looks different than what they're used to. If there are any other causes I'd like to get to the bottom of it.
I don't believe or do one iota of anything because the pastor said so, or some church official said it. I want to believe and do what the Bible says, all of it. Not taking one or even a few verses, but everything the bible says on a given subject to ascertain it's meaning. And then when a new prophet or messenger shows up and proposes to be receiving information from God. Test them by the word. If they stand the test; are teaching in harmony with previous proven truth. then I can believe what they say, if not forget em. And as I understand it that's the basis that the SDA church started on. Which is basically the same position the true Church of all time has stood on.
I wonder if the "cult" element comes from this; When we throw out all of the pagan traditions and teachings that filtered into the churches during the dark ages, it can look like something really strange. Because the Christian world in general is so accustomed to those pagan customs assuming they are truth. Just because a lie is 1700 years old doesn't make it the truth.
But now if you look at the leadership or visit any one of many of the modern churches yer going to get a really bad view of what the SDA church is. If it had followed the instructions given it long ago, it'd be drastically different. God burned out headquarters once for their persistent disregard of His instructions. He's going to do it again. And when it happens it's going to be a horrendous event that'll almost empty the church.
Another prophet has arisen, not of his own will, he says he begged God to choose someone else. He's not any more perfect than any of us. But it's kind of reminiscent of the old prophets in that the message is condemning sin wherever it may be, no matter who's toes get stepped on. And as usual the church leaders hate him, point out all his faults, (even things that aren't faults as if they were) and ask why would God pick a man like that? Many similar aspects to most of the bible time prophets, specially Jeramiah, John the Babtist, and Jesus himself. Most of them were hated by the leaders and some killed by them. Lots of new information being told, many detailed descriptions of future events. But through it all so far I can't find a single departure from previously proven truth.
The SDA church can be compared to naturism in one aspect. That is when a church goes on for some period of time and gradually drifts into error, then a group of people who recognize the error and want to stay on the path of truth have to separate from the original main group and call themselves by a different name.
It was that way with Abraham when God called him out of Mesopotamia, the Jewish church when Jesus started a new group, The Catholic church and protestantism. Again with protestantism and SDA. Sometimes just returning to the original, sometimes discovering "new" truths that had been forgotten long before. And as time moved on it became more evident how prophecy was being fulfilled and that was added. (with the majority refusing to recognize how prophecy had been fulfilled because it "stepped on their toes", they would have to make drastic changes that weren't convenient if they recognized it)
With naturism, in old times when being naked was an every day working class thing, it was no big deal. But then a drift into a new system where clothing is cheap and plentiful and being naked is considered private stuff and also associated with inappropriate sex. The people who see the drift into not so good theology on the subject have to kind of organize a "coming out" in an attempt to correct the drift, and create a name for it.
by Bare_Truth » Sat Jan 31, 2015 10:56 am
I think what makes a cult a cult (in the pejorative sense) is not the leader(s) but the followers. When the followers put the leader on an undeserved pedestal (usually regarding the leader as utterly incapable of error, or other god like capabilities). This is perhaps what makes the heroes of the Bible so credible as human beings. The Bible shows them "warts and all" as the saying goes.
-- Elijah spoke powerfully against the priest of baal and brought about their downfall, and death. and then fled in fear of the wrath of Jezebel.
-- Jonah strove mightly to disobey God by fleeing.
-- Paul admitted that even after his calling he still strove against sin and often fell short.
-- Lot is listed among the righteous and yet he nearly prostituted his daughters and later got drunk and impregnated them (albeit with their collusion).
-- Abram dissimulated and passed his wife off as his sister rather than trust that God would protect him and their marriage.
-- Jacob was a swindler.
-- Even Jesus sought to avoid his execution which he knew to be part of the plan of God, and only with anguished prayer submitted to God's will.
-- David was a man after God's own heart but committed adultery and murder to cover it up.
-- Moses said must "I" fetch water and smote the rock rather than touch it with his staff as God commanded.
-- Etc.
The religion of the Bible is very unlike Islam. Islam preaches that every prophet is perfect and sinless and while it recognizes many of the righteous of the Bible as prophets, but regards the Bible as a corrupted text, as in the matter of Lot offering his daughter to the mob. But then Islam proclaims that Mohammed did not sin because he was a prophet, and then records:
-- "Special" treatment by Allah for Mohammed as in allowing him more than the 4 wife limit given to Muslim men.
-- Also there was a sudden change of the invalidation of the practice of adoption when Mohammed wanted to marry the wife of his adopted son.
-- Another special instruction was attributed to Allah when it came to taking Aisha as a child bride[1]
The denotation of the word cult is related to its etymology (origin) that it denotes group has a distinct culture, but the derogatory connotation of the word cult derives from the evils perpetrated within it when the followers accept evil practices because they regard the leadership as being beyond the possibility of error. And so we have the curiosity that a given group can have members in it because of:
-- sound doctrines found there,
-- and other members who seek the perceived benefits of being there, (e.g. a social group that accepts them, or a special express trip to salvation, or special deliverance from tribulation, etc.),
-- or fanatical devotion to an exalted leader(s) for whom they acknowledge a sort of apotheosis [2]
Curiously such adulation of the leadership is often more than a human can endure and the leader(s) become so mentally unbalanced that they believe what some of their followers believe and become ever more bizarre and go on to otherwise unthinkable extremes and take their followers with them, (e.g. Jim Jones and the people's temple). It is at this point, if not sooner, that one ought to consider that demon possession or influence has entered.
No doubt many reading this may have witnessed a "non-cult" denomination or congregation having members who have a "cultic attraction" either to the group as a whole or some particular person in a leadership position. A few of these do not make the organization a cult, but if the number increases it may become a cult, particularly if there develops a "critical mass" of such adherents or if such adherents are readily tolerated or even encouraged or specifically advanced within the organization. No doubt many of the televangelists mega-church leaders have such followers, whether they want them or not. If they want them, then they are de-facto cult leaders!
From:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha#Age_at_marriage
According to Sunni scriptural Hadith sources, Aisha was six or seven years old when she was married to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated. For example, Sahih al-Bukhari, considered by many Sunni Muslims as the most authentic book after Quran, states:
Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).
—Sahih al-Bukhari, 7:62:64
Some traditional sources disagree. Ibn Hisham wrote in his biography of Muhammad that she may have been ten years old at the consummation. Ibn Khallikan, as well as Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi citing Hisham ibn Urwah, record that she was nine years old at marriage, and twelve at consummation.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apotheosis?s=t
[uh-poth-ee-oh-sis, ap-uh-thee-uh-sis]
noun, plural apotheoses
[uh-poth-ee-oh-seez, ap-uh-thee-uh-seez]
the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
the ideal example; epitome; quintessence:
I never met anyone that I could not learn something from.
Bare_Truth
Location: Ozark Plateau, Southwest Missouri
by DaveT » Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:58 pm
The definitions don't fit SDA at all. any more than they'd fit southern baptist. However there is something that does sort of fit that I've observed, and it happens through all religious systems. And non religious as well. Part of human nature I think, which is why Jesus calls us sheep. Which kind of puts cultic type groups in lots of places where we generally don't think of it as such.
A person who becomes a teacher or pastor, or priest, leader in some capacity. Some people start looking up to the leader and hanging on every word like they were a god and could do no wrong. Then it's not uncommon for the undue attention to cause that leader to start thinking more highly of themselves than they ought. That's where it becomes dangerous. Many false religions have such a beginning. I know several more minor situations like that. In the SDA church and elsewhere. It always leads down the wrong path. I know God chooses imperfect people to work through, they make mistakes, but they need to repent and reform when their mistakes are revealed, just like I have to. That's one thing about Ernie Knoll that is just like the bible prophets. He made a huge goof, got caught up in inventing a story which he at first intended as an allegory of sorts, and then when he realized it was going too far he couldn't figure out how to back out of it. thought he was done for when it went public. It caused a breakdown in his ministry and most of his supporters pulled out. But he repented and it wasn't the end. (He wanted to end it and begged for release from the job, but Jesus wouldn't let him) But that error was a big hook for those to hang their doubt on who didn't like what he was saying anyway. It creates a filtering process, those people who are looking up to the man too much are thrown off their rocker. Those who believe the message based on it's own content, aren't so heavily affected when the man makes a big goofup.
I can take the message, judge it based on it's own content, if it agrees with all previous revealed truth and the law of God, then it may well be valid, and if the messenger is faulty it doesn't necessarily mean the message is too. David was a prophet, and yet we know how seriously he messed up. Solomon was supposedly a really wise man and yet I wonder why, seems like a breakdown of wisdom to take so many wives and drift off into idol worship like he did. And yet he wrote 3 books that are in the Bible. Even Elijah made the mistake of running from Jezebel when he should have stayed right where he was. And of course we know about Moses and his impatience. I think God allowed him to mess up just so he'd realize his own weakness, and so others wouldn't make a god out of him.
Peter goofed up and Paul had to reprimand him. Paul wasn't very forgiving of Timothy. He and Barnabas had an argument over taking him along. They finally parted ways, Paul found another partner and Barnabas took Timothy, who went on to become a respected church leader. (if I remember right he became the patriarch of the church at Alexandria)
So people following a leader blindly believing whatever they say as if they were infallible, is an element of what's been termed a cult. That makes sense. As long as the leader they are following is human.
I think if that leader were to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were God, then it would be OK to believe everything he says as if he were infallible. I think the only case in human history where the proof has been given is in the case of Jesus of Nazareth.
Sometime we; (prophets chosen by God included) are allowed to make serious mistakes, just to keep us from self exaltation, make us realize just how weak we are, and to help prevent other people from looking up to us as if we were gods and causing our pride to swell. Jesus was God, With His Father he was/is Creator and owner of the whole universe. But he was our example of humility. His act of washing his disciples feet was something only lowly servants did. To Judas it was the last straw, in his pride he wasn't willing to serve a King who would humble himself that much. The others allowed His act to humble their own hearts, which was the intended result.
I find true happiness comes in service.
by Bobby » Mon May 04, 2015 11:06 am
Hi Dave, I'm an SDA too. Welcome to CNV!
by Ramblinman » Mon May 04, 2015 3:29 pm
I won't dance around this, the problem is mostly how many SDA folks treat the writings of Ellen G. White.
Officially her words are not described as scripture, but when I see official books quoting her with a "that settles it" context just as most Christians would do only with the Bible itself, then this puts people in a position of treating her as an apostle.
I admire her devotion to the Lord, but I won't give her a status of apostle when she never claimed that for herself.
Far too many times, evangelists such as Doug Batchelor quote her as authoritative then turn right around and claim that they didn't do so.
There are quite a few Sabbatarian options, but most of them are legalistic to the extreme. Seventh Day Baptists may be one possible exception, but I don't know as much about them as Jochanaan. Some of the Messianic congregations are Sabbath-keepers without being legalistic. It's something you'll have to investigate case-by-case.
Legalism might be a badge of pride with the other Sabbath-keepers, but I have seen firsthand the burnout in the lives of people who try to live that way instead of focusing on the principles of grace that underlie the Mosaic law.
Ramblinman
by jochanaan » Tue May 05, 2015 11:19 am
Ramblinman wrote: ...There are quite a few Sabbatarian options, but most of them are legalistic to the extreme. Seventh Day Baptists may be one possible exception, but I don't know as much about them as Jochanaan.
Seventh Day Baptists can't afford to be legalistic; we're too diverse!
Ramblinman wrote: Some of the Messianic congregations are Sabbath-keepers without being legalistic. It's something you'll have to investigate case-by-case....
I have attended several Messianic congregations here in Denver. There is considerable diversity in their practices. You can count on hearing some Hebrew at every Messianic service; but some congregations observe every aspect of orthodox Judaism while affirming Y'shua (Jesus) as Messiah, while others are less strict in their observances. And from what I have heard, this diversity mirrors the state of Messianic practice around the nation.
by Ramblinman » Tue May 05, 2015 11:31 am
jochanaan wrote: ...I have attended several Messianic congregations here in Denver. There is considerable diversity in their practices. You can count on hearing some Hebrew at every Messianic service; but some congregations observe every aspect of orthodox Judaism while affirming Y'shua (Jesus) as Messiah, while others are less strict in their observances. And from what I have heard, this diversity mirrors the state of Messianic practice around the nation.
Every time a Baptist or Methodist, Presbyterian (etc...) sings "Hallelujah!" they have sung at least one word in Hebrew.
Every time they say "Amen" at the end of a prayer, they have prayed in Hebrew.
Those of us with Jewish heritage by blood or adoption do want to reconnect with Hebrew culture to varying degrees in our worship.
Ramblinman wrote:
Aye, indeed.
Ramblinman wrote: Those of us with Jewish heritage by blood or adoption do want to reconnect with Hebrew culture to varying degrees in our worship.
And even many with no Jewish heritage, such as myself, enjoy such reconnection.
by Ramblinman » Tue May 05, 2015 2:35 pm
jochanaan wrote: And even many with no Jewish heritage, such as myself, enjoy such reconnection.
You are simply my adopted brother, grafted in to the same olive branch that sustains me and we share the blood of Messiah Jesus shed for all!
by jochanaan » Thu May 07, 2015 11:18 am
Of course. "That they may be one..."
Return to Tell us about your Faith Journey


text:
Cheryl Blossom, the Redhead Femme Fatale From 'Riverdale,' Is Bisexual
Written by Matt Keeley on March 03, 2018
One of the things we like so much about the CW's Riverdale is how queer it is. (Even though, sadly, Jughead's asexuality doesn't seem to be a thing in the TV universe.) There's Archie's gay pal Kevin Keller — who even went cruising in an episode. There's also the new character Toni Topaz, who's bi. We've finally met Chic Cooper — though we're not sure yet if he's queer or just gay-for-pay. And now, someone else joins the queer ranks — Cheryl Blossom, who's bi. (Though we're not sure what Cheryl Blossom bisexual storylines are in store yet.)
In a video posted this week by Cheryl Blossom's actress Madelaine Petsch, Cheryl's bisexuality is confirmed. She answers fan questions. Most are either light (Madelaine prefers lemon in drinks, lime on food) or sidestepped (like whether or not the Cheryl-stalks-Josie storyline has been abandoned). However, she gave a straight answer (pun intended) when asked about Cheryl's sexuality.
Petsch said, "She's still figuring out what her sexuality is. Cheryl is definitely interested in both women and men, so I would say she's bisexual. I think you're going to see a lot more of her figuring out who she is."
While it's from the actress' point of view, we're hoping it's canon. And we got a little bit of a (potential) confirmation in this tweet sent out by Riverdale executive producer and show creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa:
And meanwhile, back in town… pic.twitter.com/Syb7QbkuzQ
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) March 1, 2018
While it might not look like much, our friends at Autostraddle point out the background lighting really looks like the bi flag. And, honestly, do you think a show that puts so much effort into its visuals is going to do something like that unintentionally?
Watch the video where the Cheryl Blossom bisexual rumors are confirmed below:
Riverdale returns March 7. What Cheryl Blossom bisexual storylines do you want to see on Riverdale? Let us know in the comments!
bisexuality Riverdale


text:
INC JOB OPPORTUNITIES
CARINDALE, BRISBANE • FULL-TIME, PART-TIME & CONTRACT AVAILABLE
Dear <<Preferred Name | string>>
As we announced at the end of last year, the INC Office is relocating in 2023 to coexist with CHC, which is located on the Citipointe property in Carindale. We are now taking expressions of interest for a range of positions commencing there this year.
If you get excited about the idea of supporting and advancing INC and its ministries – we'd love to hear from you.
Based in Carindale, Brisbane – full-time, part-time, and contract positions are available.
If you are interested, we'd love to see your resumé. You can email us at opportunities@inc.org.au. Or, if you know someone who might be the perfect fit, feel free to share this opportunity with them! For those based near Brisbane, you may also like to share this opportunity with your church community.
Any questions? Email us at opportunities@inc.org.au to have a confidential chat.
Copyright © 2023 International Network of Churches, All rights reserved.


India rising: The re-awakening of this sleeping giant is the best news of 2015 | City A.M.
"The Indian economy is a super giant, which moves slowly but surely." – Arun Jaitley, Indian finance minister.
After starting the year perpetually commenting on the gloomy tidings of the Greek crisis, Isis, and Putin, it is with palpable relief that I turn to what remains the single most positive international development of recent months – the re-awakening of the Indian giant.
While it is true that the government in New Delhi has confusingly just altered how it calculates GDP, that should not swamp the far more germane headline that India is economically on the move again, startlingly out-pacing even China in terms of growth, and set to do even better in the years ahead.
Wily old finance minister Arun Jaitely, one of the few members of the ruling BJP with experience navigating the shark-infested political waters of the capital, unveiled the Modi government's first complete budget over the weekend. By New Delhi's estimates, the country will grow at a pace of 7.4 per cent this fiscal year, and is set to rocket to a more-than-healthy 8-8.5 per cent rate of growth in 2015-2016. Reversing the last years of the Congress Party's economic torpor, that makes India easily the fastest growing major economy in the world. And for all the rightful niggling about the budget that follows, that – and that alone – is the story here.
True, as the candid finance minister makes clear, this budget does not amount to another "Big Bang". It doesn't follow in the footsteps of the revolutionary budget of 1991, when then finance minister Manmohan Singh finally took on India's stultifying "License Raj", unshackling the country and setting it firmly on the path to exceptional rates of growth.
In terms of delaying shrinking the central government's deficit, and not going further with structural reforms, especially regarding the country's welfare schemes, it is disappointing. But given the headline growth rates, the BJP budget is still unambiguously business friendly, and is more than good enough to keep the country moving in the right direction.
First, it provides for a further $11.4bn over the next year for desperately-needed infrastructure projects, to begin making India's dilapidated roads and railways fit for purpose for the new era, a fundamental step forward. Second, the government pledges to lower the corporate tax rate by 25 per cent over the next four years, in an effort to increase investment in the country. This is a long-overdue move which the still socialist-tinged Congress Party shrank from while in office, and it is refreshing and highly encouraging to see the new government move so quickly on what amounts to an economic no-brainer.
But the canary in the coalmine – which signals that the Indian takeoff will not amount to a false mirage – is the government proving itself ready to put a firm date to the completion of its epoch-changing goods and services tax. The new national tax on goods and services will increase revenues while in essence finally completing the Indian common market, as up until now different states have had a confusing and diverse series of local taxes in its place.
The local protectionist dragon that has for so long stymied Indian growth will at last be slain. Finance minister Jaitley has rightly made this his priority. By April 2016, the new tax is scheduled to be in place and India will finally function as a holistic economic entity. If this comes to pass, it will amount to the next "Big Bang" so desperately sought out by international investors, just as India – as this column has long argued – will secure its place as the next big thing on the global economic and political stage.
The good news heralded by this more-than-good-enough budget goes to a larger point. As I have argued before, the Brics concept – that a series of uniformly ascending emerging markets are set to dominate the world – obscures more than it reveals. In the clear light of day, it is now apparent that some emerging markets such as India and China are indeed on the path to long-term economic prosperity and global relevance. Other Bric countries – Brazil and South Africa – are in genuine danger of not fulfilling their economic promise (you can stick a fork in Russia, the fifth Bric state).
In other words, this column was right and Goldman Sachs was wrong; only by disaggregating the Brics – and not clumsily intellectually lumping them together – can you make sense of the confusing world we find ourselves in. The very good news coming from India merely confirms this.
Dr John C Hulsman is senior columnist at City A.M. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of Ethical Realism, The Godfather Doctrine, and Lawrence of Arabia, To Begin the World Over Again. He is president and co-founder of John C Hulsman Enterprises (www.john-hulsman.com), a global political risk consultancy, and available for corporate speaking and private briefings at www.chartwellspeakers.com.
The real man behind India's growth story?


Which of the following are major explanations of the sustained economic growth that Australia has achieved over the past 50 years?
derived with the benefit of hindsight using the latest available data.
gas plants are 40% or more below US levels.
which is important part of every business today.
and poor employment opportunities for older workers.
4. Give two things that could shift the AD curve to the right.
6. i need answer for question 4.


Commercial heat pumps provide efficient heating and air conditioning for manufacturing facilities, schools and similar buildings. They are also installed in specialty locations such as zoo enclosures and data centers.
These systems deliver efficient heating because they do not burn fossil fuel. Instead, they use a small amount of electricity to circulate refrigerant that captures heat. In short, the heat is pumped from one location to another, giving the system its name. Ground and roof heat pump installation are options.
When in heating mode, a compressor pumps the refrigerant through outdoor coils inside a structure much like a radiator with fins. This design maximizes surface space and heat transfer from outside air into the refrigerant. Most commercial heat pumps can draw adequate heat from the air even in temperatures approaching the freezing mark.
The refrigerant carries the heat indoors to a commercial air handler unit that includes another coil. The refrigerant is forced through a valve and its heat is released. The heat radiates out from the coil. The air handler pulls cool air over the hot coil, the air picks up heat and is pushed into the building to provide warmth.
When in air conditioning mode, a reversing valve changes the direction and performance of the refrigerant. Heat is captured inside the building and is pumped outside for dispersal. As this occurs, the inside coil becomes very cold. Humidity from the air being carried over it condenses on the coil and is drained away. This lowers air humidity to produce a more comfortable indoor climate.
Our certified, experienced team of heat pump professionals will customize the right system for your building. The heat pump and air handler will be properly sized for efficiency, reliability and optimal climate control. Our commercial heat pump maintenance program will keep your system running in the years ahead, maximizing the value you receive from your investment.
We look forward to working with you to provide heat pump installation and maintenance for your building that will give you the best climate control while reducing energy consumption and cost. Contact us today, and let's get your project underway!


text:
Fr. Joseph Illo's Blog
In illo témpore dixit Pater Illo...
I pray that this site will serve to inspire
your life in Christ.
Salve Crux Spes Unica!
Hail, O Cross, our only hope!
Most saints are celebrated on the date of their death, the dies natalis, the day they are born into eternal life. St. John Paul, whose feast we celebrate today, was born in the city of Wadowice on May 18, 1920, and was borne into eternity on April 2, 2005. But we don't celebrate his wondrous life on either of those dates. We celebrate it today because on October 22, 1978, forty years ago today, Fr. Karol Wojtyla offered his first Mass in Rome as Supreme Pontiff. Six days earlier the crowds outside St. Peter's had echoed the joyful proclamation from the loggia balcony: Habemus papam!
On July 25, 2002, my little flock of teens and young adults was gathered at the World Youth Day site in Toronto, waiting for John Paul to arrive. Over the horizon someone caught sight of a white helicopter approaching and cried out "habemus papam! Pope John Paul II is coming!" The aircraft tilted a bit toward us and several in my group burst into tears, including myself. We were astonished. Why on earth were we crying? The reason for tears became clear over the next few days as the man of God spent time with us, listened and spoke, prayed and laughed with us. It became clear how much we longed for a father on earth who communicated the love of our Father in heaven. God gave St. John Paul the gift of fatherhood, and he readily gave it to us. We have a pope, but more precisely, we have a father. The pope is essentially a papa.
Fear had paralyzed his home country of Poland for many years by the time he became the Supreme Pontifex, or bridge-builder. Communist tyranny had established a generational terror into the entire Soviet bloc. In June of 1979, as I was graduating from High School, the new Holy Father arrived in Poland to dispel that fear with a few words: "Be not afraid to fling open wide the doors to Christ!"
Fear grips my country today. A tyranny more sophisticated than Soviet communism is growing in the west. No one dares question regnant anthropological ideologies imposed with sophisticated social media and ruthless political force. Appeals to rational argumentation are labeled "hate," and few dare question the logic of these assertions. These political and commercial powers have amassed immense sums of capital which no human power can gainsay.
John Paul II faced dictatorship like we do, but his courage did not falter. No ideological streams could poison the wells of joy from which he drank. And so he could be a father to us all, a Holy Father who could show the entire world reasons for hope. May St. John Paul, looking at us from his window in the Father's House (in the words of Joseph Ratzinger's funeral homily), bless us again. Speak the words again you gave us on earth: Non abbiate paura! Aprite, anzi, spalancate, le porte a Cristo!" Do not be afraid! Open, fling wide even, the doors to Christ!
500,000 Praying People in San Francisco
It's been two weeks since I posted some edifying words on this site, and a few people have let me know it's time to say something. I've got lots to say but little time to write it. So I simply post a talk I gave at a conference on the family on September 29 in Belmont, CA, sponsored by the St. John Paul II Institute.
How Many Wives do you Have?
A few weeks ago I was on a plane to Calcutta talking to the Muslim man sitting next to me. "How many wives do you have?" he asked me. A man of my age in Muslim countries would have typically taken on more than one wife over the years. I had to disappoint him: "Catholic priests are not allowed even one wife." He was shocked. But my celibacy raises a question: what have priests to say about marriage? You may have heard that Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the current head of the Vatican office for marriage and family, recently told an Irish magazine that "priests are not the best people to train others for marriage…They have no credibility; they have never lived the experience." I assume the good Cardinal means that priests need the help of married couples in family ministry, but if we take his words at face value, they are rash indeed. If priests have no credibility regarding marriage, the Cardinal himself should resign his position at the Vatican. Pope Francis' 250-page exhortation on marriage Amoris laetitia would have no credibility, and for that matter neither would Jesus' own teachings on marriage, for he too was a celibate priest.
But priests must offer their particular gifts to help support Christian families. After all, every priest grew to manhood within his own parents' marriage. Priests spend years studying the biblical and theological distillation of 30 centuries of Judeo-Christian experience in the marriage business. Priests prepare and counsel hundreds of couples; they listen quietly as spouses pour out their hearts in the confessional. And most important of all, the sacrament of Holy Orders gives priests the grace to sanctify married. God gives married couples holy and wise priests to help them build better families, and God gives the priests holy and wise families to help them live their vocations faithfully.
A gathering in San Francisco larger than the city's entire population
In October 1961 (two months before I was born) Fr. Patrick Peyton held a rosary rally in San Francisco. The mayor of our city and the governor of our state joined over 500,000 others in the polo fields of Golden Gate Park to pray with their families to God. That crowd was larger than the city's entire population at the time. They came, as families, to pray the rosary together.
Have you heard of the "People Power Revolution" of 1986 in the Philippines? Ferdinand Marcos was ousted without a shot being fired. But it wasn't the power of the people, in fact. It was the power of God—the power of the rosary. A Filipino friend of mine was there as a seminarian. They ran about the massive crowd in Luneta Park passing out rosaries as the tanks closed in on the crowd. Eventually the soldiers put down their weapons and began praying the rosary with the people. As St. John Paul writes in his 2003 letter on the rosary:
"The grave challenges confronting the world at the start of this new Millennium lead us to think that only an intervention from on high … can give reason to hope for a brighter future. The Rosary is by its nature a prayer for peace, since it consists in the contemplation of Christ, the Prince of Peace, the one who is "our peace." (RV 40).
As a prayer for peace, the Rosary is also, and always has been, a prayer of and for the family. At one time this prayer was particularly dear to Christian families, and it certainly brought them closer together. It is important not to lose this precious inheritance. The family rosary, prayed in the living room after the dishes are cleared, the homework completed, and the day's work is done, is the essential family prayer. But it's not the only way families pray together.
Three Kinds of Family Prayer
We see three kinds of prayer in the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. First, the liturgical public prayer of Passover and synagogue services as a family; second the personal interior prayer of Mary at the Annunciation, the 12-year-old Jesus staying behind in the Temple, and Joseph's silent obedience of the angel; and third the "domestic" family prayer of morning and evening prayers at home, including all the Jewish home blessings. For us Catholics, these three types of family prayer might look like this:
Personal Prayer individual holy hours before the Blessed Sacrament, quiet time with scripture and spiritual reading, annual retreats and evenings of recollection.
Domestic Prayer weekly Bible time with the kids, blessing and grace before meals, family trips to special churches, and above all the family rosary.
Liturgical Prayer Sunday Mass together, novenas and rosaries at the parish, processions, solemn liturgies at the cathedral and pilgrimages to shrines.
What Makes a Family?
St. John Paul II's family life was not ideal and not even normal. His mother died when he was 8, his only sibling Edmund died when he was 17, and his father died when he was 20. "I was not at my mother's death," he later wrote, "I was not at my brother's death, I was not at my father's death. At twenty, I had already lost all the people I loved." Fr. Woytilya spent the rest of his life searching to fully understand God's gift of the family. His foundational catechesis on family life, Familiaris consortio, was written in 1981 following the synod for families in Rome. His title for the document, however, is not familia but consortio ("familiaris" is the adjective in the title). The Latin noun consortio means literally 'having been thrown together by lot' or 'put together by destiny.' His use of that word is as if to say "You do not choose your spouse or your family; they are chosen for you." Our essential task, in other words, is not to choose the "right" spouse or identify authentic feelings; the task given us in matrimony is to love the spouse and children God gives me. As they say in India, we do not marry the woman we love, but we love the woman we marry.
How does a man come to love the woman he marries? How does a woman come to love the man with whom she finds herself sharing a bed? The surest way to love a person is to pray with him or her, to share not only a bed but to share a prayer beside that bed.
John Paul points to simple, but consistent, family prayer: "Family prayer is … husband and wife together, parents and children together….The words with which the Lord Jesus promises His presence can be applied to the members of the Christian family in a special way: '… where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them'"(FC 59).
A Field Hospital
With his unique gift of describing a deep spiritual reality with a simple concrete image, Pope Francis described the Church as a field hospital. "The family" he writes in Amoris laetitia, "has always been the nearest 'hospital.' So let us care for one another, guide and encourage one another, and experience this as a part of our family spirituality." When a person is bleeding uncontrollably, he needs immediate and effective medical attention. In the spiritual realm, that means a family that prays with and for him. Let those who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, those who cut themselves or act violently toward others, those who are suicidal or despairing—let them be brought into a family made strong through deep and consistent prayer. Let the family cover them with grace, and the sick person will be healed.
What can you take away from this little talk? I would be happy if you would make a resolution to plan your family prayer. Doubtless many of you have a plan, but our prayer lives need to be evaluated every year (usually during Lent). As Lent is still 6 months away, I propose we draw up a rough plan today and let it soak for a few months. Just before Lent (Ash Wednesday is March 6 this year) finalize your plan and implement. Of course, you don't have to wait until March to make some obvious changes. A basic plan in the three areas of family prayer might look like this:
1)Personal Prayer: a daily rosary; a weekly holy hour; an annual retreat.
2)Family Prayer: a daily prayer before and after meals; a weekly family rosary; an annual family trip to some nearby shrine
3)Liturgical Prayer: a daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament or spiritual communion; a weekly Sunday Mass as a family; a monthly confession with the whole family.
I'll conclude with a paragraph from St. John Paul's Rosarium Virginis Marie (2002):
Scarcely two weeks after my election to the See of Peter, I frankly admitted: "The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth." … It has always been a prayer of and for the family. It is important not to lose this precious inheritance. We need to return to the practice of family prayer and prayer for families, continuing to use the Rosary.
In October 1961, the month of the Holy Rosary and two months before I was born, Fr. Patrick Peyton led a rosary with 500,000 people in San Francisco, more than the entire city. Let the rosary, "marvelous in its simplicity and in its depth," be the foundation of our family prayer today, and maybe even our city, our nation, and our planet will enjoy a greater peaceful and holy order.
Homily: 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time
My father and mother walking down the aisle of a Manhattan parish in 1953. This year they are married for 65 years.
Let no man separate
Three years ago on the feast of St. Francis, Pope Francis opened the Synod (meeting) of Bishops in Rome on marriage and family. Pundits speculated that the Church would change her teaching on divorce. Providentially, the Mass readings that day delivered Christ's clearest teaching about marriage and divorce: "What God has joined let no man separate." Marriage is certainly a human relationship, but the Sacrament of matrimony takes us far beyond our human capacities. Bishop Barron describes the human aspects of marriage as "two people deciding, for mutual benefit, to live together in a form of intense friendship." Children, physical pleasure, recreation, emotional fulfilment, professional achievement, etc. are all fruits of this relationship. But marriage is not only a human relationship. It is primarily a relationship, through your spouse and children, with God. Marriage, and all forms of love, are God's, and so Jesus declares that what God has joined no man can separate; therefore whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. The Catholic Church does not recognize divorce, simply because divorce does not exist. A man who separates himself from a woman he has validly and sacramentally married is still married to her. No divorce certificate from city hall can change that. Neither can any priest, bishop, or pope break the bond that God has forged.
Youth, faith, and vocations
It's been three years since the Synod on marriage, and last Wednesday Pope Francis opened a second Synod, this one on "youth, faith, and vocations." Again the Synod begins its monthlong deliberations with Christ's words from Chapter Ten of St. Mark's Gospel affirming God's gift of lifelong marriage, and warning against the grave harm impurity does to our relationships. Again, however, the world is wondering if the Church will relax her biblical rules on sexuality. How can the Catholic Church, pundits ask, possibly expect young people to be chaste? But this Synod again opens with Christ's clearest teaching on God's plan for human love: "God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." A person's sex, or what we call today "gender," is not personal choice. Our sex is a gift from God. We either use our sexual gifts according to God's laws (and flourish) or we ignore the owner's manual (and suffer chaos). We do not break the law of God. We break against the law of God. Someone suggested that if you are confused about your sexuality simply go into the bathroom, disrobe, and if you have any questions call him. Biology and the natural law matters. I know that many young people have been thrown into confusion by our confused culture, and many bear wounds from the pervasive social dysfunction of our time. Young people, especially, have had the rug pulled out from under them in the sexual sphere. But the solution is not to pretend that we can create our own reality. The solution is to come back to the natural laws. Our Heavenly Father does not want us to break against these laws, which are beautiful, true, and good. He wants us to flourish by joyfully receiving the beautiful ways of nature.
I noticed a large sign in the store the other day: Love Wins. That is certainly true. While everyone seems to have their own definition of "love," there is a God and He is love. One who loves another brings the beloved to God who is love. When it comes to male and female, love by its nature is fruitful, as in all the animal and plant kingdoms. Love blossoms effusively. "Let the children come to me" Jesus says in the Gospel about marriage. Love wins because it transcends its own time and place in begetting new lives who carry that love far beyond the short lives of their mother and father. It is this vocation to which God calls young people— to offer ourselves as He offered himself for another. Let us pray that the Church, in this synod, calls young people to no less than Jesus Christ in this Gospel.
God our Father, through Holy Mother church, has opened both these Synods of Bishops with the Scriptures we hear today: "it is not good for man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." God is the author of love and the intensely relational form of love we call sexual. Adam wakes up to find Eve and cries out: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh." And that is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and the two become one flesh." We are not owners, but stewards, of our bodies and souls. Let us pray to the Blessed Mother in this month of the rosary to show us how to love, and how to live, in the Sacred Heart of Jesus her Son. Let us pray for the leaders of our Church, now gathered in Synod, to proclaim God's truth about truth and beauty and love, ever ancient, ever new.
From the Pastor's Laptop: Wonderful October
in honor of St Francis I include a picture of the Raven that perches every morning during Holy Mass outside the chapel window at the Missionaries of Charity Motherhouse in Calcutta. He looks through the window during Mass and sometimes sings with the sisters.
October. Happy and Blessed Feast of St. Francis, the patron of our fair City. October is my favorite month, with so many wonderous feasts: St. Therese (Oct 1), the Guardian Angels (Oct 2), St. Francis (Oct 4), St. Faustina (Oct 5), the Holy Rosary (Oct 7), St. Luke (Oct 18), the North American Martyrs (Oct 19), and St. John Paul II (Oct 22), among many others. The weather turned in San Francisco last week—goodbye fog and hello Indian Summer. And of course, Fleet Week! Friends will perch on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate to see the parade of ships enter the harbor this week, and climb to the roof of a downtown church on Saturday to see the Blue Angels soar and dip in the limitless azure above San Francisco. October is a month to be grateful to God (what month isn't?)!
Our New Mothers And then there are the new babies in my parish. Liz & Paolo, Mahta & Adam, and Johanna & David are all preparing to bring their children into the light of day. Many families have just had babies as well, such as Valerie & Andy, Jamila & Andy, and Rachel & Spencer. Wonderful it is to baptize so many children here in the heart of the City. Rachel coordinates our "Stella Maris" Mom's Group, which meets every third Saturday. Our lovely young mothers gather for breakfast and a book discussion while their husbands preside over strollers in the schoolyard.
They Lied to Us. For fifty years, the nasty negativity of the so-called "sexual revolution" has been telling us that children enslave women. To support its claim that sterility liberates society, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb in 1968. "The battle to feed all of humanity is over," he wrote. "In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death…." Erlich described world population as a "Bomb" in the years we all lived in dread of the real Bomb (the hydrogen bomb). Erlich was dead wrong, although some "experts" still reference his theories with a straight face. Instead, many nations now face a "demographic winter" such that the Japanese and French governments (in a panic) are paying women to have babies. Even the government knows that children are not the problem but the solution. "Saying there are too many children in the world," wrote Mother Teresa, "is like saying there are too many flowers in the field." Christ promised that, as our Loving Father provides for the birds and the flowers, He will provide for us. Do we, children of the "sexual revolution," believe in God or His promises?
Fr. Joseph Illo
Star of the Sea Parish,
Subscriber Count:
by 7:00pm daily
2012 Homilies
All Homilies
Altar Boy Program
Chaplain's Laptop
Extraordinary Form Of The Mass
For God And Country
God's Mercy
Good Samaritin
Humane Vitae
Marital Infidelity
Missionaries Of Charity
Natural-family-planning
Pastors Laptop
Pope Francis I
Prolife0ca0617dd7
San Francisco Oratory
Star Of The Sea School
St. John Paul
The Camino De Santiago
Tridentine Mass
Wedding Homily


text:
SACRAMENTO – In the wake of another tragedy and inaction at the national level, the Assembly Wednesday advanced a package of six gun violence prevention bills to the Senate, signaling California's commitment to doing everything possible to take action where the federal government is not.
The group of six Democratic lawmakers – Asm. Mike Gipson (D-Carson), Asm. Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), Asm. Steve Bennett (D-Ventura), Asm. Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), Asm. Brian Maienschein (D-San Diego), and Asm. Jesse Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills) – together brought their bills to a vote on the Assembly Floor. The Members expressed impassioned frustration with Congress's failure to act on the issues of gun control and gun violence prevention, and emphasized the corresponding need for California to recommit itself with urgency to the fight.
"Our number one job as legislators is to keep our communities safe — and on the issue of gun violence, our federal lawmakers are failing horrifically" said Assemblymember Buffy Wicks. "While we have strong gun violence prevention laws here in California, there's still so much more that can be done. We must do everything in our power under state law to strengthen protections for our communities, and be an example for other state legislatures to take action where our federal policymakers are not."
"Thoughts and prayers won't keep our kids safe. We need real action," said Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel. "While Senate Republicans continue to obstruct progress, we are committed to moving forward common sense gun safety measures to protect our kids and our communities. When Washington D.C. fails to act, California must lead."
The bills advancing to the Senate include:
AB 1621 (Gipson) - Limiting Ghost Guns: Increasing Gun Safety in Our Communities
This bill seeks to increase public safety by further restricting "ghost guns" and the parts and kits used to build them, while protecting the rights of legal gun owners in California.
AB 2156 (Wicks) - Firearm Manufacturing
This bill would close loopholes that currently allow individuals and corporations to manufacture large numbers of firearms without complying with standard manufacturer requirements.
AB 2552 (McCarty) - Gun Show and Event Regulations
This bill ensures proper background checks at gun shows in California, and increases the safety and oversight of these events to prevent guns and ammo from getting into the wrong hands.
AB 1769 (Bennett) - Ventura County Fairgrounds – Gun Show Ban
This bill prohibits the sale of firearms, firearm precursor parts, or ammunition on the property of the Ventura County Fairgrounds and Event Center.
AB 2239 (Maienschein) - 10-Year Gun Ban Expansion
This bill adds additional misdemeanors to the list of crimes for which the 10-year ban from owning or possessing firearms applies.
AB 1929 (Gabriel) - Medi-Cal reimbursement for Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
This bill will provide Medi-Cal reimbursement for violence prevention services for victims of gun violence and other violent incidents.
Additionally, Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) will bring his bill AB 1594 to a vote on the Assembly Floor before the end of the week. The bill will empower California citizens, the state Attorney General and local governments to sue manufacturers and sellers of firearms for the harm caused by their products when the state's strict gun laws aren't followed.
The Floor vote followed a press conference with Governor Gavin Newsom, the aforementioned bill authors and other legislative leaders, who together vowed to keep working together to expedite bills aimed at curbing gun violence and increasing safety in California communities.
There remains a great amount of work to do in California to improve community safety for all – 2020 saw record spikes in gun violence nationwide, and California was not an exception. Still, the state continues to lead the nation in terms of gun violence prevention efforts, enacting state laws that have made a critical difference for communities statewide. Researchers have documented how California's Gun Violence Restraining Order law has helped to prevent dozens of mass shooting attacks against schools, places of worship, workplaces, and the public at large – especially as compared to states with weaker gun laws:
In 2020, children in California (0-17 year olds) were more than 40% less likely to be murdered with a gun than children of the same age in Texas.
Laws including stronger domestic violence protections have made women about half as likely to be shot to death in California compared to Texas.
Restrictions on military-style weaponry have helped reduce the likelihood that shootings that occur will become mass casualty events. Three of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history have occurred in Texas while Gov. Abbott was Governor.
"We have an epidemic in our country when it comes to gun violence and enough is enough. In California, we want action and will continue to work on gun violence prevention," said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty. "My bill, AB 2552, ensures proper background checks at gun shows in California and increases the safety and oversight of these events to prevent guns and ammo from getting into the wrong hands. I am proud of the swift action of the Legislature to fast track not only my bill, but other gun reform bills."
"Unfortunately, the United States experiences far more gun violence per person than virtually every other modern industrialized country in the world," said Assemblymember Steve Bennett. "And what accounts for this? The United States has one of the most pervasive gun cultures in the world supported by a powerful gun lobby. Gun shows at the Fairgrounds enhance this and it is time for each of us to play a role in changing this culture."
"Far too often, gun violence tragedies are perpetrated by individuals who have shown previous signs of violence or intent to harm others," said Assemblymember Brian Maienschein. "AB 2239 would take firearms out of the hands of those charged with child endangerment or elder abuse, ensuring that these dangerous individuals cannot harm our most vulnerable."
"Today, as AB 1621 and other critical gun reform legislation passed the Assembly and now move to the Senate, and vice versa, it is critical we remain diligent in continuing to push for solutions against rampant gun violence happening across the nation," said Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson. "We are just 145 days into the year, and as of the Robb Elementary School tragedy in Uvalde, Texas just yesterday, where 19 children and 2 adults had their lives ripped away from them by a coward with an AR-15, the U.S. had its 212th mass shooting.
Gipson continued, "To say that this issue is personal to me is an understatement, and sending thoughts and prayers just isn't enough. AB 1621, which seeks to eradicate "ghost guns" from our streets, is an important piece in the puzzle to save lives, and it is a common-sense approach toward providing justice for families who have continued to bear the burden of losing a loved one through incidents that could have otherwise been prevented. Almost any style of gun, including an AR-15, can be built at home and remain untraceable. For all communities that have experienced similar tragedies, gun violence is a wildfire that we work diligently to try to contain. And the casualties are our babies, sisters, brothers, friends, and acquaintances - all deserving of life but were cut short of their potential. Enough is enough."
Erin Ivie (for Asm. Wicks)
Brenda Contreras (for Asm. Gipson)
brenda.contreras@asm.ca.gov
Dana Alpert (for Asm. Gabriel)
dana.alpert@asm.ca.gov
Simone Braithwaite (for Asm. McCarty)
simone.braitwaite@asm.ca.gov
Arwen Chenery (for Asm. Bennett)
arwen.chenery@asm.ca.gov
Emily Webber (for Asm. Maienschein)
emily.webber@asm.ca.gov


From tattered and primal dirty rags to more hyper-branded streetwear essentials.
We venture into KTZ's backstage dungeon.
Marjan Pejoski takes us into the future.
Combining traditional American collegiate designs and elements of futurism.
A bold, Kubrick-inspired collection from the cult London label.
A bold, yet wearable design from KTZ's A Clockwork Orange-inspired collection.


In its try and own extra of the traveler experience from begin to end, AccorHotels is leveraging the power of its loyalty program — one thing its peers, no doubt, will also need to do going forward. Many online travel sites have come up that feature airplane tickets to a number of airlines offer nice discounts. This is usually a little like gambling because resort charges and airfares are all the time in flux. When planning some journeys we discovered that it was in actual fact cheaper to journey to extra cities than only one metropolis.
You can avail of cheaper air tickets for those who supply to journey at off occasions (late nights or early mornings) or during off seasons. Sitting north of Miami, Fort Lauderdale is to Everglades excursions and wildlife what Miami is to nightlife and modern financial institution parties.
Or, if you would like the freedom of the open street, book a fly-drive with automobile rental in partnership with Avis. Extra importantly, you should make it some extent to contact the same travel agent every time you want a cheap flight for your self. Often flights in the course of the week will be cheaper that a flight leaving on Friday.
The applying takes the shopper by a number of brief steps that involve choosing the start line and vacation spot, the dates of travel, choosing a lodge and the flight earlier than permitting the user to e book their selections. Las Vegas, of course, has change into synonymous with world-class entertainment, ultracool nightlife, renowned restaurants and luxe shopping venues Beautiful inns have raised the bar for service and entertainment.
If you are flexible along with your dates, you will be able to deliver down the price of your flight. When heading to a destination serviced by a number of airports, make sure you check them all to make sure you're getting the best fare. Corporations that offer a number of forms of journey deals additionally give customers the option to bundle companies and create their very own trip package deal.


DENVER, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — More than ever, the consumer is at the center of today's leading health system growth strategies, and the ability to acquire, activate and retain them will be critical to any organization's long-term success. Tea Leaves Health, a Welltok company, announced the launch today of its new analytics-driven Enterprise Growth Solution designed to acquire high-value patients, establish longitudinal relationships and loyalty, and manage provider referrals to drive downstream revenue.
Tea Leaves Health designed its robust solution based on experience driving strategic growth for 30 percent of the nation's top health systems and more than 400 hospital clients. The new Enterprise Growth Solution features a unique combination of both provider and consumer-facing tools within a highly secure, compliant technical infrastructure. The solution enables hospitals, health systems, and large physician and specialty group practices to design, execute and measure the results of data-driven initiatives that drive service line growth, downstream revenue and capture the long-term value of a patient.
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry's leading consumer activation platform. Welltok's solutions empower leading health plans, employers, providers and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. Only Welltok leverages a machine-learning, multi-channel approach proven to help innovative organizations power growth and retention initiatives, improve healthcare value, and streamline the consumer experience, while upholding the highest security and compliance standards. Follow us on Twitter @Welltok.com.


Our hero leads the revolt … with an educational walking tour!
NOTE: *A big thanks to Bill Lindeke (of Streets.MN and TC Sidewalks) for the great Minneapolis skyway tour (courtesy of the Soap Factory's Common Room). For the record, in real life, talk of revolution was light, but the tour was stopped by two separate authority figures and told to leave.
Yeah, you go into that international Bank/ Telcom block off 6th and the New World Order cops are all over you. No photos! No photos!
They must be engaged in some huge crimes or something.. I was wrong when I assumed Lobbies where cool photography touring areas.
Of course, the Astor isn't connected via skyway.
From my understanding, the revolutionaries wanted to get as far away from the skyway system as reasonably possible on foot.


text:
/* eslint-disable */

'use strict';

/*::
import type { Fragment, ReaderFragment } from 'relay-runtime';
import type { FragmentType } from "relay-runtime";
declare export opaque type RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$fragmentType: FragmentType;
export type RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$data = {|
  +id: string,
  +message: ?{|
    +text: ?string,
  |},
  +$fragmentType: RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$fragmentType,
|};
export type RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$key = {
  +$data?: RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$data,
  +$fragmentSpreads: RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$fragmentType,
  ...
};
*/

var node/*: ReaderFragment*/ = {
  "argumentDefinitions": [],
  "kind": "Fragment",
  "metadata": null,
  "name": "RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment",
  "selections": [
    {
      "alias": null,
      "args": null,
      "kind": "ScalarField",
      "name": "id",
      "storageKey": null
    },
    {
      "alias": null,
      "args": null,
      "concreteType": "Text",
      "kind": "LinkedField",
      "name": "message",
      "plural": false,
      "selections": [
        {
          "alias": null,
          "args": null,
          "kind": "ScalarField",
          "name": "text",
          "storageKey": null
        }
      ],
      "storageKey": null
    }
  ],
  "type": "FeedUnit",
  "abstractKey": "__isFeedUnit"
};

if (__DEV__) {
  (node/*: any*/).hash = "1b4a25ad102257cf57bbce2a658d418e";
}

module.exports = ((node/*: any*/)/*: Fragment<
  RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$fragmentType,
  RelayModernEnvironmentCheckTestFragment$data,
>*/);

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Super Firepro Wrestling X Premium
Even the name beats anything we've got in the States...
Developer: Human Entertainment Publisher: Human Entertainment Genre: Wrestling Players: 1-4 (um, not on the emulator, though) ESRB: Everyone(?) Difficulty: Adjustable (but still hard at first)
Curse you, Japan! Your food is better, your games faster to come out, your style of animation cooler, your women more attractive, your people more educated, and finally, your wrestlers have a higher workrate than anybody we've got over here! And if it weren't for the newfangled wonders of emulation, we wouldn't get this spectacular wrestling game, either! That's it, I'm moving next week...
Super Firepro Wrestling X Premium is the last installment of the Firepro Wrestling series for the Super Famicon. To make a long story short, Firepro Wrestling in Japan is to wrestling games what Mario was to platform games--the standard what other games are judged by. When compared to the games we have in the states (namely, the Acclaim series), SFPWXP makes me wanna Jim Bustaa my copy of WWF Attitude through a stack of tables. Even though it's 16 bit, and was made 4 FRICKIN' YEARS AGO, it STILL holds its own against anything in the market today. ECW Hardcore Revolution gets squashed by SFPWXP's great animation and controls, and WWF Smackdown's lousy Create a Wrestler feature pales in comparison to SFPWXP's. Wrestlemania 2000, so far, is the only game on the market that matches SFPWXP's all-round swankness--but it needed 48 more bits and 4 years to do it.
Gameplay-- "KICK! FLY! SUBMISSION! SUPLEX!"......the UNBEREIVABRE introduction not only says that, but if you look for a deeper meaning, you'll see that the game is saying, in stereotypical Japanese Engrish: "In Your Face Baka! Ha! Ha! Ha! ^_^". It beats WM 2000's "TOUGH 'n SEXY!" intro, at least.
But since there's no category for intros, I'll just get to the gameplay now.
To the non-wrestling fan, Firepro Wrestling X Premium plays like their stereotypical view on wrestling, only with simpler graphics: Two guys slap the spum out of each other for 5 minutes, then one gets on top of the other for three seconds to win. Of course, if you actually start playing the game, you'll see that, hot daiym, there's a load o' stuff that you can do! You can knock your opponent over the top rope, make your opponent bloody by whipping him into the guardrail, beat him down in the corner, grab the ropes after getting Irish Whipped, spit fire and mist, bump the ref, heck, I even pulled off a plancha onto a guy who was in the middle of vertical suplexing someone, causing a trainwreck on the outside (well, the game doesn't really have train wreck spots, but it was cool to see three guys down at the same time)! There aren't any life bars in this game; instead, the opponent's health is measured by how hard they're breathing! Izzat cool or what?
The game plays pretty easily...that is, after you've mastered the seemingly impossible tie up system (more on that later). After you've gotten past that, the game becomes much easier, and you'll start finding out about all the magical happy things included in the game. There's options for a tag team, handicap, and a four man battle royal, TONS of wrestlers to choose from, and an amazing Edit Wrestler mode (more on that later, too). The pace of the matches can be fast like a cruiserweight match, or slow and (as Christopher Robin Zimmerman himself would say) "deliberate", like a heavyweight match. Unlike the competition, SFPWXP doesn't let you pull off big damage moves like the Powerbomb right off the bat...you gotta wear the opponent down with weaker attacks (like the Chop) first. Otherwise, the computer will counter the big move all the time--just like a real match. None of these 40 second "matches" that we see in other games...nope...
Graphics--Toss that blocky 3D animation in the corner, and feast your eyes on these beautiful 2D sprites! Well...okay, maybe 3D DOES look better (after, however, the horrible motion capturing of the Acclaim games), but all the same, this is some pretty gosh damn good animation. Each wrestler, while small, has some nice detail on them (including...FACIAL EXPRESSIONS~!), and will even wear the "crimson mask" if hit with enough Rough moves (like Headbutts).
Hate to be cheesy, but SPEAKING OF WHICH, the moves are another part of the game that made it worthwhile for me! Each one, from the Elbow Pat to the Dragon Screw to the Orange Crush, looks great. And a big part of how great a move looks in the game (like in real-life wrestling) is how the opponent reacts, or "sells" it. For example, in the Hammer Blow, the opponent's face gets the sweat slapped off of it as their head snaps back from the punch. In the Western Lariat, the opponent's body flips over backwards from the impact of the clothesline. In the Screwdriver, they fall upside down from a suplex position, head literally BOUNCING off the mat. Part of the reason I watch wrestling anyway is to see all dem cool moves that are pulled off, and this game had them in spades.......... Uh, do people still say that?
Music--Well, it's a Japanese game, so you can expect lots of h3LL4 c00L guitar riffs and ditties that play over and over again...in the bleepy, blippy way that only a 16 bit game can. Some are pretty good, and compliment the action, but after a whlie, they get repetitive and annoying, and you'll just want to hear an MP3 instead :)
The SOUND EFFECTS, however...kick some serious arse. Everything--a slap (which sounds almost exactly like the real thing, BTW), slam to the mat, "WHOOOSH!" of someone off the top rope, or "PFFFT!" of somebody spitting poison fog--sounds great, and adds a punch to whatever's going on at the time. There're barely any voices in the game (no commentary...but hey, that gotten repetitive, anyway), but hey, there's no need for it. The sparse amount of voices that are in the game sound like a Japanese guy with his mouth full, so I guess less is more in this case.
Control--Simple as can be. You've got your standard kick, punch, and run buttons, as well as the taunt, and a button that pulls off a stronger standing attack (like a dropkick). Climbing the turnbuckle, rolling into the ring, springboarding and slingshotting back out of it can all be accomplished with one button...and hitting a move off the top rope is even easier. Each of the four buttons on the controller...er, keyboard, stands for a different attack when you're up top--no mashing two buttons together in here like in the Acclaim games. My only minor gripe about the controls is that it's a little frusterating to get big spinny kicky moves like the Solebutt or the Kneel Kick to hit correctly.
Well...that, and the INSANELY difficult tie up system. Right off the boot, you'll be losing every tie up imaginable to the ruthless AI. Time after time, you'll walk into him, saying "THIS is gonna be the one..." and tie up...only to get a clubbin' blow to your back by the opponent. And if you don't find out how to pull off moves before you get really POed, then you probably won't wanna play the game again, which is a big ol' mistake. Fortunately, I'm here to tell you that:
"To tie up, just press the Y, B, or A (for a light, medium, or big move) buttons RIGHT WHEN THE HANDS MEET! That's all! Same thing for Back Grapples! Presto! Bang-bang! Whee!"
Now, if you wanna learn everything about the game, just read the FAQ at Firewrestling.com. Don't ask me :)
Fun Factor--Super Firepro Wrestling X Premium is one of the most fun wrestling games I've ever played. Just about all the little touches in wrestling have made it to the 2D ring (well, except for weapons), and gameplay-wise, it makes for fluid, fun wrestling action. The moves, like I said before, are one of the best parts of the game, and beating your opponent down with one after another of your favorites, then pinning him with a flippy floppy top rope move is a blast. The game gets boring... but only if you play it too much in one sitting, which, for me, happens with every game anyway.
Finally, the Edit Wrestler mode is the best thing since I figured out how to do a moonsault in real life. You get to tweak around the colors of pre-existing costumes in the game, choose boots, kneepads and tights, and swap heads to make a wrestler that fits right into the rest of the roster (something that the fantasy wrestlers you could create in Acclaim games just weren't able to do, due to the lame costumes available). You're able to select each and every move that your wrestler has from one of the largest movelists I've ever seen, set their skills, choose their fighting style, and even set up every aspect of their CPU Logic! The appearence is just a little limited--since you can't make an individual shirt and pants combo if you want to have WWF stars in the game--but that's just a minor gripe.
Overall Satisfaction-- It's great to know that a 2D game made four years ago can still hold its own next to the fancy-shmancy games that say "d00dz c#3ck 0uT t#353 k3vvL 3D 6R4p#1x d00dz". No, of course it's not perfect--due to a Championship mode that basically throws you into 80+ frickin' matches back to back, and if you want the oh-so-thpecial Triple Crown, you gotta play another 50 or so matches--but it's definetely worth a play if you're a mark, a smart, a smark, or just one of the WWF "sheep" fans. Why those crazy Japanese didn't import this one to the States is beyond me.
Random American Guy: Yo, we need this tight game! You don't think 'bout nuthin' but yourself, bo!
Random Guy From Human Entertainment: >_<
Random American Guy: Awww...look at that...I can't stay mad at you for long...
Random Guy From Human Entertainment: TSUBABABABA! ^_^
Highs: Great animation, kickass Edit Wrestler mode, helluva fun!
Lows: Boring and repetitive quest-for-the-belt Championship mode, frusterating tie up system (at first)
SHAMELESS PLUG: I made my own SRAM data file, with just about all the stars from the WWF (along with some ECW and *shudder* WCW foo's) made to perfection! Download the game, along with that data (and, um, a readme)...here!
Back to the Midgar Swamp


text:
Q: old form keeps running with the old design even after the design of it has been changed I'm new to VB,I am working on a project and I have started with the design of my project,I design my main form of the project which I didn't like so I changedbthe design of the form but when I run the project the form with the old design keeps on popping up.
I deleted the exe of the project,I rebuilded the project but still nothing's seem to work.Please help me out with the problem.Thankyou

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Łukasz Ryliński (ur. 15 maja 1980) – polski piłkarz ręczny, występujący na pozycji skrzydłowego.

Życiorys
Występował w Olimpii Piekary Śląskie. W barwach tego klubu zadebiutował w ekstraklasie 9 października 1999 roku w przegranym 20:36 spotkaniu z Wybrzeżem Gdańsk. W Olimpii występował do 2001 roku, rozgrywając w jej barwach 45 spotkań w ekstraklasie i zdobywając 52 bramki. W sezonie 2001/2002 występował w Virecie Zawiercie. W 2002 roku opuścił klub.

Przypisy

Polscy piłkarze ręczni
Piłkarze ręczni Viretu Zawiercie
Urodzeni w 1980

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia