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Case Study 2 – Contoso Ltd, Case A (Question 11 – Question 22)
Contoso, Ltd., is a healthcare company in Europe that has 2,000 users.
The company is migrating to Windows Server 2012.
The company has two main offices and two branch offices. The main offices are located in Paris and Amsterdam. One of the branch offices is a sales office located in Berlin. The other branch office is a research office located in Brussels.
The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link.
Current Environment
The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. An Active Directory site exists for each office.
The forest contains a child domain named research.contoso.com.
The functional level of both the domains is Windows Server 2008.
In each site, there are two domain controllers for the contoso.com domain and two domain controllers for the research.contoso.com domain. The domain controllers run Windows Server 2008 R2.
All of the domain controllers are global catalog servers.
The FSMO roles were not moved since the domains were deployed.
All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2.
Each user has a laptop computer that runs Windows 7.
The company has 10 print servers. Each print server contains several shared printers.
The company has 10 file servers that have the following disk configurations:
– A simple volume named C that is the System and Boot volume and is formatted NTFS
– A mounted virtual hard disk (VHD) named DATA that is formatted NTFS
– A simple volume named D that is formatted FAT32
– A simple volume named E that is formatted NTFS
– A Clustered Shared Volume (CSV)
The Paris office contains a server named PA1. The Amsterdam office contains a server named AMI. Both servers have the following server roles installed:
– DNS Server
– DHCP Server
– Remote Access
The DNS servers are configured to use the DNS servers of the company's Internet Service Provider (ISP) as forwarders.
Users often work remotely. The users access the internal network by using an SSTP-based VPN connection.
Planned Changes
The company plans to implement the following changes:
– Create a child domain named sales.contoso.com. Only the domain controllers in sales.contoso.com will host a zone for the sales.contoso.com domain. The domain controllers in sales.contoso.com will run Windows Server 2012. The client computers in sales.contoso.com will use the sales.contoso.com domain controllers as their DNS servers.
– Implement two servers in the Amsterdam office and two servers in the Paris office to replace PA1 and AMI. These new servers will run Windows Server 2012 and will not have shared storage.
– Decommission the research.contoso.com domain. All of the users and the Group Policy objects (GPOs) in research.contoso.com will be migrated to contoso.com.
– Migrate the existing print queues to virtualized instances of Windows Server 2012.
– Migrate the file servers to new servers that run Windows Server 2012.
– Implement RADIUS authentication for VPN connections.
– Deploy Windows Server 2012 to all new servers.
The company identifies following technical requirements:
– All changes to Group Policies must be logged.
– Network Access Protection (NAP) policies must be managed centrally.
– Core networking services in each office must be redundant if a server fails.
– The possibility of IP address conflicts during the DHCP migration must be minimized.
– A central log of the IP address leases and the users associated to those leases must be created.
– All of the client computers must be able to resolve internal names and internet names.
– Administrators in the Paris office need to deploy a series of desktop restrictions to the entire company by using Group Policy.
– The new sales.contoso.com domain will contain a web application that will access data from a Microsoft SQL Server located in the contoso.com domain. The web application must use integrated Windows authentication. Users' credentials must be passed from the web applications to the SQL Server.
You are planning the migration of research.contoso.com.
You need to identify which tools must be used to perform the migration.
Which tools should you identify?
A. Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) and Group Policy Management
Console (GPMC)
B. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Microsoft Federation Gateway
C. Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT v3.2) and Active Directory Federation
Services (AD FS)
D. Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) and Group Policy Management
You need to recommend a management solution for the GPOs.
The solution must meet the technical requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)
B. Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager
C. Microsoft System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM)
D. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)
Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) extends the capabilities of the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) to provide comprehensive change control and improved management for Group Policy Objects (GPOs). AGPM is available as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance
You need to recommend a solution for DHCP logging.
The solution must meet the technical requirement.
A. Event subscriptions
B. IP Address Management (IPAM)
C. DHCP audit logging
D. DHCP filtering
IPAM in Windows Server 2012 is a new built-in framework for discovering, monitoring, auditing, and managing the IP address space used on a corporate network. IPAM provides for administration and monitoring of servers running Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name Service (DNS). IPAM includes components for:
– Automatic IP address infrastructure discover)': IPAM discovers domain controllers, DHCP servers, and DNS servers in the domains you choose. You can enable or disable management of these servers by IPAM.
– Custom IP address space display, reporting, and management: The display of IP addresses is highly customizable and detailed tracking and utilization data is available. IPv4 and IPv6 address space is organized into IP address blocks, IP address ranges, and individual IP addresses. IP addresses are assigned built-in or user-defined fields that can be used to further organize IP address space into hierarchical, logical groups.
– Audit of server configuration changes and tracking of IP address usage: Operational events are displayed for the IPAM server and managed DHCP servers. IPAM also enables IP address tracking using DHCP lease events and user logon events collected from Network Policy Server (NPS), domain controllers, and DHCP servers. Tracking is available by IP address, client ID, host name, or user name.
– Monitoring and management of DHCP and DNS services: IPAM enables automated service availability monitoring for Microsoft DHCP and DNS servers across the forest. DNS zone health is displayed, and detailed DHCP server and scope management is available using the IPAM console.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831353.aspx
You are evaluating the implementation of data deduplicatton on the planned Windows Server 2012 file servers.
The planned servers will have the identical disk configurations as the current servers.
You need to identify which volumes can be enabled for data deduplication.
Which volumes should you identify? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose all that apply.)
C. E
D. The CSV
E. DATA
Answer: CE
It slices, it dices, and it cleans your floors!
Well, the Data Deduplication feature doesn't do everything in this version. It is only available in certain Windows Server 2012 editions and has some limitations. Deduplication was built for
NTFS data volumes and it does not support boot or system drives and cannot be used with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). We don't support deduplicating live VMs or running SQL databases. See how to determine which volumes are candidates for deduplication on Technet.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/21/introduction-to-data-deduplication-in-windowsserver-2012.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2012/10/08/data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
You need to recommend which changes must be implemented to the network before you can deploy the new web application.
A. Upgrade the DNS servers to Windows Server 2012.
B. Upgrade the domain controllers to Windows Server 2012.
C. Change the forest functional level to Windows Server 2008 R2.
D. Change the functional level of both the domains to Windows Server 2008 R2.


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It still seems a good idea to live below one's means, especially in this economy. When one owns a big house it entails big expenses as well. The Swedish have a concept that we seem to miss out on in North America, "lagom". Just the right amount, not too much, not too little. Moderation in all things is perhaps a way to express lagom as well.
"Lagom". Would that we had such a word and such a concept. Someone once asked me "How much is enough?" It seemed an innocent enough question but it has stayed with me for decades. Many times when I've been caught up in wanting, I've been saved by remembering "How much is enough?" Three years ago, I asked myself that about my house. It was a family home. I was living alone now. How many square feet do I really need? I sold and bought a place nearly half the size. "Lagom".


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In May 2012, the European Women's Lobby (EWL) passed a resolution on 'The Olympics and Universalism'. Proposed by the French Division, seconded by Germany, Cyprus, Greece and Italy, and adopted with six dissenting votes only, the text reads:
'On 25 July in conjunction with the opening of the London Olympics, a protest will be organised against the Olympic Committee's failure to respect the principles of equality and neutrality. The presence of the presidents or delegates from the EWL and from National Coordinations [member countries] would be of major importance. The aim of the protest is to ask for a strict implementation of the Olympic Charter based on universal principles.'
Universal principles incorporate the notion that fair play and sport are synonymous. That prejudice has no place in sport. That sporting capacities and achievements are valued without 'extra points', superiority or esteem being awarded by reference to sex/gender, race/ethnicity or class/status.
The pall of racism clouding the 1936 Berlin Olympics is well-known, often being the subject of comment and media coverage, including documentary film. Yet the continued and continuing scourge of sexism in sport is not recognised by the Olympics Committee and rarely remarked upon by commentators – unless in scoffing at women's performance, engaging in patronising commentary, or commenting lewdly upon women competitors' dress, looks, physique or even more intimately.
This runs directly counter to the 'Fundamental Principles of Olympism' set out in the Olympic Charter, holding the practice of sport as 'a human right … without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play', whilst the goal of Olympism is 'to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity'.
When it comes to sex and gender, how this measures up to the reality is questionable.
The sound of the Benny Hill theme echoing through the air at the beach volleyball venue is particularly apt – if beach volleyball is regarded as a matter of sexuality, a sexual rather than a sporting performance. Even without Benny Hill – notorious for his bombast when it came to women's bodies, wrapping up grossness-toward-women in a repartee purportedly funny – the Olympic Charter is not so much in evidence when women's sport is in issue.
The Charter makes much of notions of games prowess being necessarily combined with being a 'good sport'. High achievement in sport goes hand in hand, according to Olympic philosophy, with high standards of personal behaviour or, in colloquial terms, 'gentlemanly conduct'.
Yet so often, these are not on display.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, gains frequent media coverage, mostly on the basis that he is a 'loveable buffoon' or 'clown' – whilst at the same time being touted as a replacement for the current British Prime Minister, who is suffering a downturn in polls. Even before the Games' opening, Johnson was reported as making lascivious remarks about the volleyball events – no, not the men's but the women's. Upon viewing the sport-in-progress, his regular Telegraph column blathered:
'As I write these words there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyball in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto. They are glistening like wet otters and the water is splashing off the brims of the spectators' sou'westers. The whole thing is magnificent and bonkers …'
Beach volleyball is so often a target for these sorts of remark, making repetition boring. Still, commentators continue with the metaphorical (or sometimes literal) licking of lips as if they are the first to observe the players' shape and costume. The element of skill, together with intense and intensive training, which brought women to Olympic standard and into the teams in the first place is not the subject of these comments. Indeed, an observer might not be blamed for assuming from this media coverage that it is not the standard of play on the field that forms the criterion for selection or competition, but body-shape and shortness of skirt or shorts together with skimpiness of top-covering that merits the awarding of points and medals.
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Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt is a Barrister and Human Rights Lawyer in Mellbourne and Sydney. Her web site is here. She is also chair of Women Worldwide Advancing Freedom and Dignity.
She is also Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the payment of N30,000 as monthly stipends toReady.Set.Work (RSW) interns who have been placed in various organisations for six-month paid internships.
The Governor also approved N8million in seed funding for the top five winners of the RSW Business Pitch Competition, whose businesses will be placed in incubation, while the beneficiaries will commence their internships and incubation, respectively, on March 1st, 2018.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh in a statement on Sunday said the interns were part of the 2,000 final year students from six tertiary institutions in the State who took part in the 2017 edition of the 13-week intensive Entrepreneurship and Employability training programme.
He said that the Ready.Set.Work programme, which held its pilot in 2016 with 500 final year students from three tertiary institutions in Lagos State, was scaled up in 2017 to 12,000 Students from six institutions including Lagos State University, University of Lagos, Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos State College of Health Technology, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education.
"In 2016, we placed 76 students in internships with partner organizations like PwC, SystemSpecs, Total, GTBank, FCMB and Access Bank, to mention a few, who provided 6-month paid internship opportunities for RSW graduates. His Excellency, the Governor, further expanded the scheme by approving funds to place an additional 100 RSW graduates in internship positions with SMEs across Lagos State, with monthly stipends provided by the government.
"In 2017, we were able to scale up and secure internship slots in about 180 organisations across the State for 1,000 top performing RSW graduates. The placement process involved a series of Internship Fairs at which companies had the opportunity to interview and select their interns from a pool of qualified candidates," Bank-Olemoh said.
He also disclosed that preparation forReady.Set.Work 2018 has commenced, adding that the programme would be expanded to train 25,000 while 5,000 final year students would participate in the 13-week face-to-face classes and that 20,000 students in their penultimate year would take part in the RSW Online Academy.
Besides, Bank-Olemoh said the programme was also increasing the number of participating schools to accommodate more students in the programme, among which are Yaba College of Technology, Federal College of Education (Technical) and a private institution, Caleb University.
The Special Adviser added that the inclusion of new schools was in line with Governor Ambode's commitment to ensuring that every student that graduates from any tertiary institution in Lagos State is prepared for the world of work as an employer of labour or a value-adding employee.
Bank-Olemoh also called on professionals from different sectors to join the RSW Faculty, the largest volunteer faculty in Nigeria, as facilitators for the 2018 training programme, adding that the RSW Faculty recruitment would kick off officially on February 22nd, while the application portal will be accessible on the programme website –www.readysetwork.com.ng.


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The City of Peterborough is undertaking a study that will include a Transit Route Review, a Long Term Growth Strategy for the Transit System, and a plan for the Downtown Transit Terminal.The first part of the study, the Transit Route Review, is now underway. Come to a drop-in meeting on February 5, 2019 to share your ideas about how Peterborough Transit routes and services can better serve you and our community. Or you can provide feedback through our project website ptstudy.ca.
Please visit the study website at ptstudy.ca for more information about the study and to submit ideas, or email the project team at feedback@ptstudy.ca with any questions.
The Maria Street swing bridge will be closed on April 30 and the McFarlane Street bridge will be closed on May 1 as Parks Canada completes bridge maintenance.
The City of Peterborough Waste Management Division will hold 6 large article collection events in 2019. The first collection takes place on Monday, April 29, 2019. Book online or in person at City Hall or the Public Works Office by Thursday, April 25, 2019.


World Bank's Country Sector Coordinator Angela Prigozhina has delivered report "Access to Finance for Micro, Small, & Medium-Sized Enterprises in Azerbaijan. Demand-Side Assessment". According to the assessment, 51% of the Azerbaijani sector of MSME considers access to finance its main problem, while tax rates make up only 13.8%, transport 5.8%, corruption only 2.4%. At that, 65% of the companies in this sector have savings or current accounts and only 13.5% of the companies received loans. So, 91.9% of micro-businesses have no loans, and 7.9% – 1 credit. 81.9% of small businesses have no loans, 14.8% -1 credit, and only 3.3% – 2 and more loans. 72.7% of medium-sized businesses have no loans, 20% – 1 loan, 7.3% at least two loans.


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Алехандро Даріо Гомес (,  15 лютого 1988, Буенос-Айрес) — аргентинський футболіст, атакувальний півзахисник іспанської «Севільї».

Клубна кар'єра
Народився 15 лютого 1988 року в місті Буенос-Айрес. Вихованець футбольної школи клубу «Арсенал» (Саранді). Дорослу футбольну кар'єру розпочав 2005 року в основній команді того ж клубу, в якій провів чотири роки, взявши участь у 94 матчах чемпіонату і допомігши команді 2007 року виграти Південноамериканський кубок. Більшість часу, проведеного у складі «Арсенала», був основним гравцем команди.

На початку 2009 року перейшов у «Сан-Лоренсо», де провів наступні півтора року.

Своєю грою за останню команду привернув увагу представників тренерського штабу італійської «Катанії», до складу якого приєднався 21 липня 2010 року. Відіграв за сицилійський клуб наступні три сезони своєї ігрової кар'єри. Граючи у складі «Катанії», також здебільшого виходив на поле в основному складі команди.

До складу клубу «Металіст» приєднався в серпні 2013 року, де став виступати з шістьма своїми співвітчизниками — захисниками Крістіаном Вільягрою та Марко Торсільєрі, півзахисниками Себастьяном Бланко, Чако Торресом та Хосе Сосою, а також нападником Хонатаном Крістальдо.

В серпні 2014 року перейшов до клубу «Аталанта», підписавши контракт строком на три роки. Орієнтовна сума трансферу — 4—5 млн євро.

26 січня 2021 підписав контракт з іспанською «Севільєю».

Виступи за збірну
2007 року залучався до складу молодіжної збірної Аргентини, разом з якою виграв молодіжний чемпіонат світу 2007 року, зігравши у двох матчах на турнірі. Всього на молодіжному рівні зіграв у 11 офіційних матчах, забив 2 голи.

2017 року дебютував за національну збірну Аргентини.

У 2022 році був визваний на чемпіонат світу по футболу у Катарі, де зіграв за весь турнір 109 хвилин: 59 хвилин зіграв про Саудівської Аравії (1:2) і 50 хвилин у матчі 1/8 фіналу проти Австралії (2:1). Таким чином, Папу Гомес став першим переможцем ЧС, який виступав в Українській Прем'єр Лізі.

Статистика виступів

Статистика клубних виступів
 Станом на 3 серпня 2013

Досягнення
 Переможець Південноамериканського кубка: 2007
 Чемпіон світу (U-20): 2007
 Переможець Суперкласіко де лас Амерікас: 2017
 Переможець Кубка Америки: 2021
 Чемпіон світу: 2022

Посилання
 Статистика виступів у змаганнях під егідою ФІФА.
 Профіль гравця на TransferMarkt , ,

Примітки

Аргентинські футболісти
Гравці молодіжної збірної Аргентини з футболу
Футболісти «Арсенала» (Саранді)
Футболісти «Сан-Лоренсо»
Футболісти «Катанії»
Футболісти «Металіста» (Харків)
Футболісти «Севільї»
Аргентинські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери в Італії
Футбольні легіонери в Україні
Футбольні легіонери в Іспанії
Уродженці Буенос-Айреса
Натуралізовані громадяни Італії

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TEPSA Newsletter Editorial September 2016: "The European Union is in an existential crisis: how to get out?", Jaap de Zwaan
The European Union was for a long time a stable organisation. She is now under serious threat.
External challenges affect the stability and unity of the Union. To mention a few: the migration crisis, the tensions at our eastern boarders (Russia/Ukraine), the situation in Turkey, the continuing conflicts around the Mediterranean (Syria, Israel/Palestine, Libya) and terrorism. Vigorous and timely responses are needed.
The Union's cohesion is also challenged from the inside. The economic crisis is not over yet, several Member States are suffering disproportionally from the influx of migrants, populism is progressing in many Member States, governments of some Member States are involved in discussions about the violation of fundamental EU values and principles, and the citizens of the United Kingdom have voted to withdraw from the Union. Wise and effective reactions are asked for to address all these problems.
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker stated in his State of the Union 2016 speech on 14 September before the European Parliament that the "European Union is, at least in part, in an existential crisis". He stressed the Commission's priorities and presented new initiatives. Certainly good suggestions. However, action is what we need.
The Informal Summit of Heads of State and Government in Bratislava of 16 September in its turn proposed a work programme (the 'Bratislava roadmap'). Essentially good intentions, but that is not enough. Rather concrete plans and time schedules have to be drawn up.
Having said that, the impression is that the available EU instruments and procedures don't suffice to overcome the crises (plural) mentioned. New approaches are indicated.
One of them is flexibility. Those Member States who want to go forward on the path of integration should be allowed to do so. The original principles, unity and uniformity, reflected by a situation wherein all Member States act jointly at the same moment and with the same speed, are not appropriate anymore. The world where we live in has apparently become too complicated! A recommendation thus would be to simplify the conditions to trigger enhanced cooperation, the treaty concept according to which a forerunner group of Member States can start acting in a given policy domain, whereas the other Member States may follow later. At present the Treaty texts prescribe a formal Commission proposal to be approved by the Council by qualified majority before enhanced cooperation can be established. Instead, a super-majority (i.e., three quarters) of the Member States should be allowed to start such a cooperation without prior permission when, after a reasonable period of time, it is observed that a common solution cannot be reached by the Union as a whole.
One may even go further. One can think at simplified procedures to amend the treaties. According to the present situation the approval and ratification by all 28 Member States is required to have treaty amendments entering into force. Also in this case three quarters of the Member States should be able to move forward once they have ratified the treaty amendments concerned. Member States ratifying later, will be bound only at that later stage. On the contrary, Member States whose parliaments in the end do not approve the amendments shall not be obliged to respect the new engagements. So, no Member State can be bound against its will.
Last, but not least, ideas like the ones mentioned require treaty amendments in order to be realized. Now, certainly politicians these days do not like to make decisions implying treaty amendments. It may therefore be that the suggestions are considered politically less feasible at this juncture. On the other hand, the discussion regarding the future of the Union necessitates that new ideas are put on the table. 'Muddling through' is not an alternative anymore.
A wake up call has to be addressed to our political leaders. It is up to them to be creative and to make the right choices in the interest of a well-equipped and stable European Union.
Jaap de Zwaan
TEPSA Secretary-General
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BREAKING: Perry drops out, endorses Gingrich
CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby
(CNN) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry suspended his struggling presidential campaign Thursday and threw his support to Newt Gingrich, a development that could alter the dynamics of the Republican race just two days before the tightening South Carolina primary.
"I believe Newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country. We've had our differences, which campaigns will inevitably have, and Newt is not perfect, but who among us is?" Perry said at a press conference in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Perry said "there is no viable path forward for me in this 2012 campaign."
"I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement. The courage to tell those Washington interests to take a hike if that's what's in the best interest of our country," Perry said.
Shortly after Perry's speech, the former House speaker said he was "honored and very humbled to have Perry's endorsement.
"He understands exactly the mission of defending and expanding freedom and he understands that every citizen has different ways to participate," Gingrich said at a press conference in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Perry made the final decision Wednesday night and spoke with Gingrich on the phone shortly before he held the press conference Thursday morning, one source close to the Perry campaign said.
"He believes we need a conservative for president and Mitt Romney is not conservative," the source said.
Speaking to reporters Thursday after the announcement, Perry's spokesman Ray Sullivan said the governor will return to Austin and remain there through the weekend. While there are no plans for Perry to campaign for Gingrich at this time, he said those plans will be re-evaluated after Saturday's South Carolina primary.
Asked if Perry's wife, Anita, agreed with the governor's decision, Sullivan said the family is all "supportive."
The move comes two days before the South Carolina primary and hours before the final debate ahead of the voting, which will take place on CNN Thursday night.
The campaigns of Gingrich and Rick Santorum reached out to the Perry campaign Thursday morning in an "aggressive effort" to get his endorsement, according to a source close to Perry.
Perry placed fifth in Iowa and last in New Hampshire - a state in which he did not actively compete - and had said he would launch a bid to win in South Carolina.
"South Carolinians are looking for a conservative candidate that will get this country back working again and I am it," Perry told CNN last week.
On Wednesday, CNN asked Perry about a poll that showed him with only 6% support among likely voters in the South Carolina primary. He insisted he was continuing with the effort to have a strong showing in the state.
"We're convinced that that's our goal, so the idea that we're going to do anything else, other than try to impact this election is - that's why we got in it," he said. "We didn't get in it because it was our purpose in life to be the president of the United States. We did it because it was our purpose to serve this country, and that's what we've been called for, and that's what we're going to continue doing."
When Perry entered the race in August, he immediately did well in the polls. But a series of gaffes, particularly at debates against his rivals, sent his support plummeting.
On Thursday, his campaign website continued to say "help Rick Perry win South Carolina and get America back on track."
Perry's official campaign Facebook page was filled with posts, largely from disappointed voters.
- CNN's Dana Bash, Mark Preston, Josh Levs and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.
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zeke2112
Guess he didn't pray hard enough and God didn't really want him to run after all...
January 19, 2012 02:36 pm at 2:36 pm |
I wonder what those Republican ladies will think when they hear about Newt's request for an "open marriage?" Someone forgot to tell Rick Perry.
Good! Let him come back to Texas and continue the job of ruining the Texas government.
baaaadboy
What a joke–he shoots his one foot about Palin, then Perry shoots his other. . .
I wish Mitt and Newt would drop out too. They are both so arrogant and we don't need another arrogant president.
Barry Goldwater must be turning over in his grave seeing the GOP candidates for President!
The more he speaks, the dumber he looks.
No more dumb Texans!
Dang! I guess this means we Texans get him back. Double dang!!
God took it back.
hitobito
God if there is a God, probably died of a stroke on the possibility that Rick Perry was running for President. Its shocking that anyone with half a brain in Texas voted for this moron. He embarrassed himself and Texas. He actually has a degree from an accredited university in Texas? They should be ashamed! And lose their accreditation if they actually were accredited. Perry went to Texas A&M? Well that explains it. All the Aggie jokes must be true.
snowyowl
So who's left?
Romney, Gingrich, Paul, Santorum
The flipper, the cheat, the lunatic, and the false prophet, not necessarily in that order.
Where is Sarah Palin, the Geo-Bee winner, when we need her?
Oh Gov. Goodhair...we hardly knew ye (...or perhaps we did.) Goodbye.
RINO Bil
Rick Perry was the Al Bundy of the Republican Tea Party, but without Bundy's charm and intelligence.
I feel so sorry for the people of Texas, but as they say, "Right back at ya!"
jaintn
The heart of a conservative reformer and the morals of an alley cat.
Newt's Kiss of Death. Thanks, Rick.
Sorry for the people of Minnesota and Texas! Their best candidates are not even being considered by the American people. It must feel real bad to be them!
GIUK
Ricky is a very modest man, with a lot to be modest about.
Carla Hurst-Chandler
Glad to see Perry go! completely unelectable. All hat/no cattle.
Trouper
Although I wouldn't have voted for him, Rick is a decent and honest man. What I want to know is, why must candidates who withdraw from the race, feel they have to endorse someone? Can't understand that.
Expat American
Texas Doc
Newt might have baggage, but at least he's a Christian.
God Bless America.......
newt is on a rise
Mike Buck
I thought God told Rick and Michelle to run for president. Is God a flip -flopper? You betcha!
SafeJourney
I guess God really did not want Perry to run for President. In Fact, I think God "punked both Perry and Bachman and eventuly Santorum. lol
mb2010a
One has to wonder what Gingrich promised Perry for his endorsement...a cabinet post, an ambassadorship or maybe our representative to the UN??? I shudder to think about it...
bye bye Rickie! laffing at rethugs!!! hahahahaha
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News & Opinion » Letters & Guest Essays
Letters for the Week of July 18, 2012
Readers sound off on gun rights, the Jean Quan recall, and pathogens in pot.
"Slashing Democracy," Feature, 7/4
A Provocative Conspiracy
Had this article presented a scintilla of evidence to support any allegations made by its writers, one might be more prone to consider the arguments. But hyperbole and soap-box soliloquy don't stand for much when a decision is to be made based on fact.
Florida, a state where widespread voter fraud was proven in a 1997 Miami mayoral primary, initiated (by Florida legislature passing a state law in 1998) corrective procedures to verify that votes are cast legally, and the votes being cast are not those of persons deceased, those with felony convictions, and those adjudicated mentally incompetent. The current process seeking federal database records to ensure votes are cast by US citizens is an extension of that validation process.
Why any thinking citizen should abdicate the choosing of elected leaders (at any level of government) to a process subject to fraud is beyond the scope of this politically-based article. In the Miami election, the trial judge, Thomas S. Wilson Jr., concluded that "the evidence shows a pattern of fraudulent, intentional and criminal conduct that resulted in such an extensive abuse of the absentee ballot laws that it can fairly be said that the intent of these laws was totally frustrated .... This scheme to defraud, literally and figuratively, stole the ballot from the hands of every honest voter in the city of Miami." Yet the authors have the audacity to claim that preventing such fraud is worse than the fraud itself!
The recent decision by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle allowing the State of Florida to carry on its process, refusing The US Department of Justice's suit to halt it by injunction, is evidence from the federal court that the wild accusations posited in this article cannot withstand legal, fact-based scrutiny.
These East Bay Express editors have crafted here a provocative conspiracy treatise, complete with its adoration of yet another conspiracy theory from past House Leader Nancy Pelosi - and none of it holds water.
William Thompson, Walnut Creek
Gun Control and Tunnel Vision
It seems the Express favors writers whose dislike of firearms is so great that they cannot write an article about anything without dragging in the totally irrelevant topic of gun control. The latest example is the otherwise excellent article by Billy Manes and Erin Sullivan on the purge of Florida voter rolls by Governor Rick Scott on the pretext that the rolls are full of illegal aliens.
The most amusing thing about this for me as a pro-gun progressive (there are a lot more of us than you think) is that the solution Manes and Sullivan advocate for addressing voter fraud without attacking large numbers of minority voters, severe prosecution of the rare cases of voter fraud, is the same solution advocates of civil rights for gun owners want used to prevent gun violence. They want current laws used for serious prosecution of those who commit gun violence, not senseless attacks in the form of gun bans on the rights of the 99 percent of gun owners who obey the laws.
As for gun owners' attacks on Attorney General Holder, they are justified. He either concocted or signed off on a plan to allow US-made firearms to be transferred to Mexican drug lords so that when they inevitably showed up in traces of firearms at Mexican crime scenes, he could use this as evidence of the need to reinstate the Clinton-era ban on so-called assault weapons, firearms that were never popular with American criminals. What he failed to consider was that people would be murdered with these firearms, and one of those murdered would be a US Border Patrol agent who was slain by a drug smuggle using a gun he, Holder, allowed to leave the US.
Holder would have gotten away with this deception if it was not for several honest licensed American gun dealers who reported suspicious buyers to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and US attorneys from Arizona who were whistleblowers after they asked to prosecute the suspicious buyers and were ordered by superiors in the Attorney General's office to let the traffickers escape. No wonder he refuses to turn over documents to investigations by Senate and House committees. They show criminal offenses on Holder's part in the Fast and Furious scandal for which he should be arrested and tried.
Eric Thompson, Berkeley
"Oakland Police Commission Faces Obstacles," News, 7/4
It's a Start, Not a Solution
This article, as well as the initiative promoted by Rashidah Grinage and others, ignores a critical aspect of the work of a police commission or other public-safety oversight office for Oakland. That is, the improvement of public safety in Oakland, which is afflicted with outsize crime problems, including one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
It is amazing to me that the writer, Grinage, and others seem to be able to overlook what Oaklanders experience every day and what is eating the heart out of minority and economically disadvantaged communities in this city. What about the black families whose children cannot succeed in school because they are traumatized when a parent or a sibling is shot? What about the hopeless job situation for so many young men in Oakland because small businesses cannot succeed in a high-crime environment? These are all consequences of failures not only of police but of a host of public safety-related aspects of Oakland governance. As David Sklansky at UC Berkeley pointed out, a police commission, to be successful, needs to be part of a series of coordinated efforts. One of the most significant functions of a commission is the actual management and coordination of all related public-safety work, including policing, social programs, probation, and other justice-system relationships. Again, the writer and Grinage et al seem to be blindfolded.
Oakland has many problems with policing and police policy, well beyond discipline of officers who misbehave. Crime is out of control; police reform toward more community policing needs to be instituted; the number of sworn officers is half of what it should be; and violence-reduction programs fail because no agency is coordinating them. A police commission is a means to deal with these problems. The function of a police commission is far more than simply to discipline officers who misbehave. A commission also protects the legitimate functions of police, ensures high morale among officers, and ensures that police have the resources to be effective in protecting public safety.
Oakland's citizens need not only ethical policing but also effective policing, well-coordinated with other public safety efforts. A police commission in Oakland could be a step away from the current situation in which police are tripping over their own feet while shootings continue every day of the year.
Mike Ferro, Oakland
"Quan Recall Ends," Seven Days, 7/4
I am glad the recall campaign is over. It has been divisive and takes attention away from real solutions that move Oakland forward.
It's interesting to note that the most silent councilwoman, Kaplan, is also the most favored one. As brainy President Woodrow Wilson once said, "If you want to make enemies, try changing something." Change is what Mayor Quan is doing. Some police members probably dislike the pension contribution and the greater accountability that they now face.
Angie Tam, Oakland
"Turning Pot Into Medicine," Feature, 6/20
Pathogens Are the Problem
While cannabinoid levels are interesting, and even vitally important in rare cases (such as Jayden's), the true danger in untested cannabis comes from the potential pathogens — pseudomonas, aspergillus, and E. coli are routinely found by our laboratory (CW Analytical). While these microorganisms present little danger to healthy individuals, they can be deadly to someone with a compromised immune system. Thank you, David, for highlighting the effect on patient's health and safety that this crackdown has caused.
David Egerton, San Leandro
In our July 11 music story "Tolerance and Zero Progress," we incorrectly stated that Matt Saincome booked Zero Progress' American Tour. It was in fact booked by his brother, Ed.
Our July 11 music pick "Punk Funk Mob" contained a number of errors: It misspelled Femi Andrades' surname; stated that Andrades is a Berkeley native when she's from Oakland; and misstated that the band's drummer is named Mike Logan (it's Mike Williams).


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Restaurant Review: Launceston Place, Kensington
Vicky Smith on 17th May 2021 Tagged Fine Dining South Kensington
Launceston Place, once a favourite of Princess Diana's, is one of those restaurants that makes you remember why you missed dining out so much. It's chic, secluded and a bit of a London institution
Photography courtesy of Launceston Place
Note: this review is based on a between-lockdowns visit in November 2020
Launceston Place is one of those restaurants that makes you remember why you missed dining out so much. At time of writing, it's one week before indoor dining opens up once more, and we couldn't be more excited about planning a return visit to this elegant South Kensington spot. Here's why…
This chic and secluded restaurant, which is housed in an elegant mid-1900s townhouse, is a bit of a London institution. It's been popular with the in crowd ever since it opened in 1986, but not in a shouty way – it's always been more of an 'if you know, you know' type situation.
It was at one time a favourite of Princess Diana, and you can imagine her finding peace and comfort in its soothing surroundings – lights are dim, tones tastefully muted, and there's an air of refined calm that encourages you to relax the second you arrive. On a chilly evening, it's also welcomingly cosy, with a golden glow emanating from its large curved windows as we walk up the gorgeous street it shares its name with.
Launceston Place Head Chef Ben Murphy
Launceston Place, Kensington, was a favourite of Princess Diana's
Launceston Place is chic and secluded with muted interiors
It's late October, and while restaurants are operational at present, it's not quite business as usual. Masks are worn by staff, as well as us when we're not seated, and we suspect there are fewer tables filling the elegant dining room as there otherwise may have been.
The atmosphere, however, isn't impacted by the rules one bit, and as we take our seats at a corner table, everything that's brilliant about dining out comes flooding back: the glamour, the anticipation, the general thrill of being somewhere you know is going to look after you… It's all here by the beautiful bucketload.
'First up is 'egg and soldiers', which sees a painstakingly hollowed-out eggshell filled with light-as-air fois gras, topped with a flutter of truffle shavings'
Attentions turn to the menu, and it comes with a twist – a cartoon version of Head Chef Ben Murphy is printed on a square of paper in a small wooden stand on the table, with a QR code on his apron. Hover your camera over it and the menu of Modern European dishes appears on your screen like magic, with emojis indicating the nature of each dish. It's a fun touch you wouldn't normally find when it comes to fine dining – a theme that continues throughout the meal.
First up is 'egg and soldiers', which sees a painstakingly hollowed-out eggshell filled with light-as-air fois gras, topped with a flutter of truffle shavings, and served in an egg cup with feet. It's creamy and dreamy with big flavours and we instantly love – and devour – it.
First up is 'egg and soldiers' – a light-as-air fois gras with truffle shavings and sourdough soldiers
Everything comes with a touch of theatre
The pigeon sweetbread with blackberry is exquisite
Celeriac with mint and pecorino follows and is a total flavour-bomb, with the humble root vegetable elevated to heady new heights by clever cooking and thoughtful accompaniments.
Next, perfectly pink Presa Iberica arrives on its own mini barbeque, with a small shopping trolley containing wickedly crunchy-outside-luscious-inside potatoes alongside.
The theatre of all this is not lost on us – indeed, after a restaurant-free few months, it's the showmanship we've craved, and serves to remind us of just how glorious restaurants really are. The tiny Henry Hoover that comes out between courses to deal with your crumbs is a particularly nice touch.
'It's the final frivolous flourish of a meal that's memorable not simply for being the first eaten out for a while, but the very best example of what eating out can actually be'
Creative presentation and cookery continues until the very end, when homemade sour raspberry laces – almost identical to the ones we loved as children (in looks only – they taste much better) – arrive with tiny caramel and chocolate tartlets on a miniature metal clothes horse.
It's the final frivolous flourish of a meal that's memorable not simply for being the first eaten out for a while, but the very best example of what eating out can actually be. It's playful and fun, serious and impressive, and suitably showy.
Somewhere to please high-end diners, Instagram darlings and special occasion parties all at once – as well as those of us who simply want to remind ourselves of everything we've missed about restaurants.
Launceston Place reopens on 19 May at 1a Launceston Place, Kensington W8 5RL; launcestonplace-restaurant.co.uk
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When Nokia left the mobile business, their focus shifted towards networking and telecommunications equipment and the growing market for VR and health-related technologies. These markets has little to no competition and Nokia, as one of the world's trusted company, excel in this business. However, the present is restrictive and thinking ahead of the future isn't always a good idea, especially when you're throwing so much money on it. Nokia just realized that the effort and resources gambled for the technology of the future could've been something the present world is "ready" to adapt.
Nokia OZO recording a live band performance in 360° sound and video.
Nokia announced that it would cease development of its OZO VR camera. The company said that the current VR market is "slower than expected" in adapting the new media. They will instead focus more to health products and patent licensing business. As a result, Nokia will be laying off 310 of roughly 1090 employees in Nokia Technologies, mostly workers from U.S, U.K and Finland.
Nokia OZO set in the wild.
"Nokia Technologies is at a point where, with the right focus and investments, we can meaningfully grow our footprint in the digital health market, and we must seize that opportunity," said Gregory Lee, president of Nokia Technologies.
Nokia OZO set on a drone, ready to take off.
Although the company is shutting down their OZO department, they promised that they will "maintain its commitments" to those who have purchased the product.
Nokia OZO set to capture wildlife in 360° sound and video.
Nokia OZO VR camera made its debut back in 2015. It features eighth synchronously working cameras and microphones to capture 360° stereoscopic 3D video and sound. The starting price is a whopping $60,000 but was later dropped to, a still gut-wrenching, $25,000.
Filmmaker shooting video with Nokia OZO.
Some major media companies such as Sony Pictures invested on OZO to create future VR contents but unfortunately, it wasn't enough to strengthen the department.


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\section{Introduction}
W UMa type binaries are cool short-period (usually less than 1 day) binary systems with both components filling their critical Roche lobes and sharing a common convective envelope during their main sequence evolutionary stage. The formation and evolution of W UMa type binary systems are still unsolved problems in astrophysics. The most popular evolutionary scenario is that they are formed from initially detached systems via angular momentum loss (AML) by means of magnetic stellar wind \citep{1982A&A...109...17V,1989AJ.....97..431E}. Model calculations suggest that these binary stars will ultimately coalesce into single stars which may be progenitors of the poorly understood blue stragglers and FK Com stars \citep{2006AcA....56..199S,2011AcA....61..139S}. It has been widely accepted that the eruption of V1309 Sco was the result of a cool short-period binary merging. In this paper, we focus on the high fill-out, low mass ratio overcontact binaries which are at the late evolutionary stages of the contact configuration. Photometric analysis and orbital period studies of them will provide important information for the evolution and coalescence scenario of these binary systems.

MQ UMa, also named GSC 3015 0374, is a typical W UMa type contact binary. It was first discovered by CCD observations from large-scale automatic sky surveys in 1999 \citep{2005PZ.....25....2K}. Since then, several times of light minimum have been published, and it is included in the Tycho-2 Catalogue and 2MASS All Sky Catalogue. The Tycho-2 Catalogue gives the magnitude of MQ UMa, which are 11.77 (0.09) mag in $B$ band and 11.22 (0.09) mag in $V$ band. The 2MASS All Sky Catalogue gives the magnitude of MQ UMa in $J$, $H$ and $K$ band filters, which are 10.616 (0.026) mag in $J$ band, 10.402 (0.028) mag in $H$ band and 10.387 (0.018) mag in $K$ band. However, there is neither light curve (LC) photometric solution nor spectroscopic information about this target.

\section{The CCD photometric light curves and times of light minimum}
The $V$ $R_c$ and $I_c$ bands CCD observations of MQ UMa were carried out in three nights on January 19, March 7 and  April 26, 2014 with an Andor DW436 1K CCD camera attached to the 85cm reflecting telescope at Xinglong Observation Base. The coordinates of the variable star, the comparison star and the check star were listed in Table \ref{Coordinates}. During the observation, the broad band, Johnson-Cousins $V$ $R_c$ $I_c$ filters were used. The integration time were 60s for $V$ band, 40s for $R_c$ band, and 30s for $I_c$ band, respectively. PHOT (measure magnitudes for a list of stars) of the aperture photometry package in the IRAF \footnote {The Image Reduction and Analysis Facility is hosted by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona at URL iraf.noao.edu.} was used to reduce the observed images. The average observational errors were 0.002 mag for $V$ band, 0.003 mag for $R_c$ band and 0.003 mag for $I_c$ band, respectively. The light curves of those observations were displayed in Fig. 1.

\begin{table}[!h]
\begin{center}
\caption{Coordinates of MQ UMa, the comparison, and the check stars.}\label{Coordinates}
\begin{small}
\begin{tabular}{cccc}\hline\hline
Targets          &   name            & $\alpha_{2000}$        &  $\delta_{2000}$   \\ \hline
Variable         &   MQ UMa          &$11^{h}21^{m}41^{s}.1$  & $+43^\circ36'52''.8$\\
The comparison   &   GSC 3015 0367  &$11^{h}21^{m}19^{s}.2$  & $+43^\circ38'09''.9$\\
The check        &   GSC 3015 0408	 &$11^{h}21^{m}19^{s}.2$  & $+43^\circ31'51''.4$\\
\hline\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{small}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=13cm]{figure1.eps}
\caption{CCD photometric light curves in $V$ $R_c$ and $I_c$ bands. The magnitude difference between the comparison and the check stars are presented. The standard deviations of the comparison-check observations are 0.015 mag for $V$ band, 0.015 mag for $R_c$ band and 0.017 mag for $I_c$ band. Crosses, open circles and triangles correspond to the data observed on January 19, March 7 and April 26, respectively.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

We also got three times of light minimum on January 19 and  April 26, 2014 while doing light curve observations. After that, one time of light minimum was obtained on January 3, 2015 using the 60cm reflecting telescope in Yunnan Observatories (YNOs), and another TOM was obtained on January 12, 2015 using the 1m reflecting telescope in YNOs. Basing on the least-square parabolic fitting method, five new CCD times of light minimum were determined and listed in Table \ref{Newminimum}.

\begin{table}[!h]
\begin{center}
\caption{New CCD times of light minimum for MQ UMa.}\label{Newminimum}
\begin{tabular}{cccccc}\hline
    JD (Hel.)     &  Error (days)  & Min. &   Filter    & Method &Telescopes\\\hline
  2456677.1653   & $\pm0.0004$   &   I  &   $VR_cI_c$ &  CCD   &    85cm   \\
  2456677.4031   & $\pm0.0005$   &   II &   $VR_cI_c$ &  CCD   &    85cm   \\
  2456774.0451   & $\pm0.0003$   &   II &   $VR_cI_c$ &  CCD   &    85cm   \\
  2457026.3616   & $\pm0.0006$   &   II &   $VR_cI_c$ &  CCD   &    1m   \\
  2457035.4084   & $\pm0.0004$   &   II &   $I_c$     &  CCD   &    60cm   \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\textbf
{\footnotesize Notes.} \footnotesize 60cm and 1m denote to the 60cm and 1m reflecting telescope in Yunnan Observatories, and 85cm denotes to the 85cm reflecting telescope in Xinglong Observation base.
\end{table}

\section{Orbital period change of MQ UMa}

The study of orbital period change is a very important part for contact binary stars. However, the period change investigation of MQ UMa has been neglected since it was discovered. During the present work, all available times of light minimum are collected and listed in Table \ref{Minimum}. Using the following linear ephemeris,
\begin{equation}
Min.I(HJD)=2451312.851+0^{d}.476066\times{E},\label{linear ephemeris}
\end{equation}
the $O - C$ (observational times of light minimum-calculational times of light minimum) values are calculated and listed in the fourth column of Table \ref{Minimum} and plotted in the upper panel of Fig 2. Minimum times with the same epoch have been averaged, and only the mean values are listed in Table \ref{Minimum}. The general $O-C$ trend of MQ UMa shown in the upper panel of Fig. 2 indicates a cyclic change in its orbital period. Based on the least-square method, a sinusoidal term is added to the linear ephemeris of Equation (2). The new ephemeris is
\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{lll}
Min. I=2451312.85732(\pm0.00029)+0.47606620(\pm0.00000003)\times{E}
         \\+0.005646(\pm0.000135)\sin[0.^{\circ}03438\times{E}+264.^{\circ}293(\pm1.^{\circ}356)]
\end{array}
\end{equation}
The sinusoidal term reveals a cyclic change with a period of 13.6 years and an amplitude of 0.0056 days. The residuals from Equation (2) are displayed in the lowest panel of Fig. 2.

\begin{table*}[!h]
\caption{$(O-C)$ values of light minima for MQ UMa.}\label{Minimum}
 \begin{center}
 \small
   \begin{tabular}{lclllcc}\hline\hline
JD (Hel.)      &  Min     &   Epoch      & $(O-C)$        &   Error   & Method    &  Reference       \\
(2400000+)     &          &              &                &           &           &\\\hline
51312.8513     & I        & 0            & 0.0003         &---        &  CCD      & 1 \\
54192.5885     & I        & 6049         & 0.0143         &0.0008     &  CCD      & 2 \\
54499.6476     & I        & 6694         & 0.0108         &0.0030     &  CCD      & 3 \\
54518.9277     & II       & 6734.5       & 0.0102         &0.0005     &  CCD      & 4 \\
54912.3940     & I        & 7561         & 0.0080         &0.0001     &  CCD      & 5 \\
54931.4375     & I        & 7601         & 0.0088         &0.0007     &  CCD      & 6 \\
55259.4448     & I        & 8290         & 0.0066         &0.0003     &  CCD      & 7 \\
55289.4355     & I        & 8353         & 0.0052         &0.0003     &  CCD      & 7 \\
55311.5753     & II       & 8399.5       & 0.0079         &0.0025     &  CCD      & 8 \\
55625.2975     & II       & 9058.5       & 0.0027         &0.0010     &  CCD      & 9 \\
55644.5823     & I        & 9099         & 0.0068         &0.0003     &  CCD      & 10 \\
55660.5289     & II       & 9132.5       & 0.0052         &0.0034     &  CCD      & 11 \\
55669.5757     & II       & 9151.5       & 0.0067         &0.0004     &  CCD      & 10 \\
55877.6101     & II       & 9588.5       & 0.0003         &0.0005     &  CCD      & 9 \\
55937.8357     & I        & 9715         & 0.0035         &0.0004     &  CCD      & 12 \\
56003.5322     & I        & 9853         & 0.0029         &0.0020     &  CCD      & 9 \\
56003.5325     & I        & 9853         & 0.0032         &0.0003     &  CCD      & 9 \\
56011.6263     & I        & 9870         & 0.0039         &0.0004     &  CCD      & 13 \\
56677.1653     & I        & 11268        & 0.0026         &0.0004     &  CCD      & 14\\
56677.4031     & II       & 11268.5      & 0.0023         &0.0004     &  CCD      & 14\\
56774.0451     & II       & 11471.5      & 0.0030         &0.0003     &  CCD      & 14\\
57026.3616     & II       & 12001.5      & 0.0042         &0.0006     &  CCD      & 14\\
57035.4084     & II       & 12020.5      & 0.0057         &0.0004     &  CCD      & 14\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\textbf
{\footnotesize Reference:} \footnotesize (1) \citet{2005PZ.....25....2K}; (2) \citet{2009IBVS.5874....1H}; (3) \citet{2008OEJV...94....1B}; (4) \citet{2009IBVS.5875....1N}; (5) \citet{2009OEJV..107....1B}; (6) \citet{2010IBVS.5918....1H}; (7) \citet{2011OEJV..137....1B}; (8) \citet{2011IBVS.5959....1H}; (9) \citet{2013OEJV..160....1H}; (10) \citet{2013IBVS.6070....1H};
(11) \citet{2012IBVS.6010....1H}; (12) \citet{2013IBVS.6050....1N}; (13) \citet{2013IBVS.6084....1H}; (14) present work;
\end{table*}

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=13cm]{figure2.eps}
\caption{The $(O-C)_1$ values of MQ UMa from the linear ephemeris of Equation (1) is presented in the upper panel. The solid line in the panel refers to the combination of a new linear ephemeris and a cyclic variation. The dash line represents the new linear ephemeris. In the middle part of Fig. 2, $(O-C)_2$ values calculated from the new linear ephemeris in Equation (2) are displayed. The solid line refers to a theoretical light travel time effect (LTTE) orbit of the tertiary component in the system. The residuals from the whole effect are displayed in the lowest panel.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

It has to be mentioned that the data point at E = 0 seriously affect the $O - C$ fitting since there is no other time of light minimum between data point at E = 0 and E = 6049. Thus we check the first data carefully. Although the data point at E = 0 did not give its observational error, it was observed by CCD camera. We believe that it has a high time precision as other CCD data. So we add it to the $O - C$ fitting and give the results as above. The cyclic period change in Equation (2) may be caused by the light travel time effect (LTTE) of the third component. Actually, we can only ensure the existence of a tertiary component. The exact orbit period of the third body can not be determined  for the absence of data point between E = 0 and E = 6049. In the present work, we just estimate a typical period which gives a very nice fitting results in Fig. 2. In order to verify the periodic variations presented here, more determinations of light minima are required in the future.

\section{Photometric solutions of MQ UMa}

MQ UMa is a newly determined binary system, and neither light curve photometric solution nor spectroscopic observation has been published since it was discovered in 1999 \citep{2005PZ.....25....2K}. As shown in Fig. 1, the light curve variations in three colors are continuous and have very small magnitude differences between the depth of the primary and secondary minima. It means that MQ UMa ia a typical EW-type contact binary. In Fig.1, the light curve data have been shifted vertically which will make no difference to the results of W-D program as differential photometry method is used. The phases are calculated with the following linear ephemeris:
\begin{equation}
Min.I(HJD)=2456677.1653(4)+0^{d}.476058\times{E}.\label{linear ephemeris}
\end{equation}
To understand its geometrical structure and evolutionary state, the $V$ $R_c$ and $I_c$ light curves shown in Fig. 1 are analyzed using the W-D program of 2013 version \citep{Wilson1971,Wilson1979,Wilson1990,Van2007,Wilson2008,Wilson2010,Wilson2012}. The number of observational data points used in W-D program are 377 in $V$ band, 380 in $R_c$ band, 375 in $I_c$ band, respectively. According to the Tycho-2 Catalogue measurements, the color index of $B - V =0.55$, which corresponds to a spectral type of F9, but the 2MASS All Sky Catalogue gives the color index of $J - H = 0.214$, corresponding to a spectral type of F4 \citep{Cox2000}. Thus the spectral type of MQ UMa ranges from F9 to F4, which means the effective temperature of the primary star ranges from 6095K to 6670K \citep{Cox2000}. Meanwhile, we also use the following period - color relation derived by \citet{Deb2011}  to estimate the effective temperature of the primary star.
\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{lll}
$J - K$ = (0.11\pm0.01)\times{P^{-1.19\pm0.08}}
\end{array}
\end{equation}
The equation is derived from a total sample of 141 contact binaries, whose spectral type ranges from A2V to K5V, and has a period from 0.2211 days to 1.1318 days. The sample has covered nearly all kinds of W UMa type contact binaries which means it is appropriate to MQ UMa. The period of MQ UMa is 0.476058 days, so the color index of $J - K$ calculated by Equation (4) is 0.266 $(\pm0.042)$, which corresponds to spectral type of F5 to F7. Because of the advantage of $J - K$ color is not affected by interstellar extinction and uncertain reddening corrections as compared to $B - V$ color, the period-color relation using the infrared color $J - K$ will be much more accurate. According to the temperature estimated by the two merhods, the authors argue that MQ UMa is a late-F type W UMa contact binary system and adopt F7V as the spectral type of the primary star.

During the W-D processing, the effective temperature of star 1 is chosen as $T_1=6352$K according to the spectral type determined. Convective outer envelopes for both components are assumed. The bolometric albedo $A_1=A_2=0.5$ \citep{1969AcA....19..245R} and the values of the gravity-darkening coefficients $g_1=g_2=0.32$ \citep{1967ZA.....65...89L} are used. To account for the limb darkening in detail, logarithmic functions are used. The corresponding bolometric and passband-specific limb-darkening coefficients are chosen from \citet{1993AJ....106.2096V}'s table.
During the calculating, it is find that the solution converges at mode 3, and the adjustable parameters are: the mass ratio $q$ $(M_2/M_1)$; the orbital inclination $i$; the mean temperature of star 2 ($T_{2}$); the monochromatic luminosity of star 1 ($L_{1V}$, $L_{1R}$ and $L_{1I}$); the dimensionless potential of star 1 ($\Omega_{1}=\Omega_{2}$ in mode 3 for overcontact configuration); and the third light ($l_3$). Since there is no radial velocity curves of MQ UMa, a $q$-search method is used to determine the initial mass ratio at first. Solutions with mass ratio from 0.1 to 8 are investigated, and the relation between the resulting sum of weighted square deviations $\Sigma$ and $q$ is plotted in Fig. 3. The minimum values are found at $q$ = 0.2, which indicates that MQ UMa is an A-subtype contact binary. Then $q$ = 0.2 is set as the initial value and considered as an adjustable parameter. The final photometric solutions are listed in Table 4 and the theoretical light curves (with $l_3$) are displayed in Fig. 4. The contact configuration of MQ UMa is displayed in Fig. 5.

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=13cm]{figure3.eps}
\caption{Relation between $\Sigma$ and $q$ for MQ UMa. $\Sigma$ is the resulting sum of weighted square deviations. It is shown that the minimum is at q = 0.20.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[!h]
\caption{Photometric solutions of MQ UMa}\label{phsolutions}
\begin{center}
\small
\begin{tabular}{lllllllll}
\hline
Parameters                        & Values                        & Values       \\
                                  & without $l_{3}$               & with $l_{3}$   \\
\hline
$g_{1}$                           & 0.32(fixed)                   & 0.32(fixed)  \\
$g_{2}$                           & 0.32(fixed)                   & 0.32(fixed) \\
$A_{1}$                           & 0.50(fixed)                   & 0.50(fixed)   \\
$A_{2}$                           & 0.50(fixed)                   & 0.50(fixed)       \\
q ($M_2/M_1$ )                    & 0.211($\pm0.006$)             & 0.195($\pm0.008$)   \\
$T_{1}(K)   $                     & 6352(fixed)                   & 6352(fixed)         \\
$i(^{\circ})$                     & 60.70($\pm0.20$)              & 65.58($\pm0.69$)      \\
$\Omega_{in}$                     & 2.259129                      & 2.622506        \\
$\Omega_{out}$                    & 2.125046                      & 2.393652             \\
$\Omega_{1}=\Omega_{2}$           & 2.203736($\pm0.001206$)       & 2.117244($\pm0.021541$)           \\
$T_{2}(K)$                        & 6116($\pm12$)                 & 6224($\pm25$)        \\
$L_{1}/(L_{1}+L_{2}$) (V)         & 0.8211($\pm0.0009$)           & 0.8089($\pm0.0065$)   \\
$L_{1}/(L_{1}+L_{2}$) (R)         & 0.8172($\pm0.0009$)           & 0.8068($\pm0.0064$)   \\
$L_{1}/(L_{1}+L_{2}$) (I)         & 0.8138($\pm0.0009$)           & 0.8050($\pm0.0065$)   \\
$L_{1}/(L_{1}+L_{2}+L_{3}$) (V)   &                               & 0.5970($\pm0.0102$)\\
$L_{1}/(L_{1}+L_{2}+L_{3}$) (R)   &                               & 0.6057($\pm0.0099$)\\
$L_{1}/(L_{1}+L_{2}+L_{3}$) (I)   &                               & 0.6103($\pm0.0100$)\\
$L_{3}/(L_{1}+L_{2}+L_{3}$) (V)   &                               & 0.2620($\pm0.0068$)\\
$L_{3}/(L_{1}+L_{2}+L_{3}$) (R)   &                               & 0.2492($\pm0.0064$)\\
$L_{3}/(L_{1}+L_{2}+L_{3}$) (I)   &                               & 0.2419($\pm0.0064$)\\
$r_{1}(pole)$                     & 0.4963($\pm0.0023$)           & 0.5150($\pm0.0038$)   \\
$r_{1}(side)$                     & 0.5436($\pm0.0031$)           & 0.5710($\pm0.0055$)      \\
$r_{1}(back)$                     & 0.5707($\pm0.0030$)           & 0.6022($\pm0.0057$)     \\
$r_{2}(pole)$                     & 0.2510($\pm0.0115$)           & 0.2585($\pm0.0201$)       \\
$r_{2}(side)$                     & 0.2633($\pm0.0142$)           & 0.2735($\pm0.0257$)      \\
$r_{2}(back)$                     & 0.3114($\pm0.0330$)           & 0.3510($\pm0.1020$)        \\
$f$                               & $41.3\,\%$($\pm$0.9\,\%$$)    & $82\,\%$($\pm$17\,\%$$)  \\
$\Sigma{\omega(O-C)^2}$           & 0.005077                     & 0.004314             \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=14cm]{figure4.eps}
\caption{Observed (open circles) and theoretical (solid lines) light curves in the $V R_c$ and $I_c$ bands for MQ UMa. The standard deviation of the fitting residuals is 0.006 mag for $V$ band,
 0.007 mag for $R_c$ band and 0.008 mag for $I_c$ band, respectively.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=14cm]{figure5.eps}
\caption{Contact configurations of MQ UMa at phase 0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75,}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

To make the photometric solutions of MQ UMa more convinced, we also do $q$-search of MQ UMa by giving the effective temperature of the primary star at $T_1$ = 6100K, $T_1$ = 6300K, $T_1$ = 6500K, $T_1$ = 6700K, respectively. As shown in Fig. 6, although the effective temperature of the primary star ranges from 6100K to 6700K, the shape of q-search curves do not have any significative changes. All of the $q$-search results get the best fitting mass ratio at q = 0.20 $(\pm0.02)$. The convergent photometric solutions (with $l_3$) are listed in Table \ref{rangeT}. As shown in the table, although there is some uncertainty of $T_1$ estimation (6100K to 6700K), the solutions give nearly consistent results, which means the W-D program can tolerate the uncertainty of the primary star's temperature estimated by us. Therefore, the solution of $T_1$ = 6352K is adoptable and we will take the photometric solutions of $T_1$ = 6352K as the final results of MQ UMa hereafter.

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=16cm]{figure6.eps}
\caption{q-search diagrams of T1 = 6100K (solid circles), T1 = 6300K (open circles), T1 = 6500K (solid squares), T1 = 6700K (open squares) and T1 =6352K (triangles)}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[!h]
\caption{Photometric solutions of MQ UMa for different effective temperature}\label{rangeT}
\begin{center}
\scriptsize
\begin{tabular}{lllllllll}
\hline
Parameters                        &    Values                     &     Values                  &       Values                 &      Values                 &    Values       \\
\hline
$T_{1}(K)   $                     & 6700(fixed)                   & 6500(fixed)                 & 6300(fixed)                  & 6100(fixed)                 & 6352(fixed)      \\
q ($M_2/M_1$ )                    & 0.202($\pm0.005$)             & 0.212($\pm0.004$)           & 0.216($\pm0.007$)            & 0.208($\pm0.005$)           & 0.195($\pm0.008$)   \\
$i(^{\circ})$                     & 63.09($\pm0.66$)              & 61.10($\pm0.58$)            & 61.33($\pm0.60$)             & 61.24($\pm0.60$)            & 65.58($\pm0.69$)      \\
$\Omega_{1}=\Omega_{2}$           & 2.158458($\pm0.015663$)       & 2.202068($\pm0.013527$)     & 2.209652($\pm0.018830$)      & 2.193309($\pm0.014472$)     & 2.117244($\pm0.021541$)  \\
$T_{2}(K)$                        & 6496($\pm19$)                 & 6270($\pm18$)               & 6085($\pm16$)                & 5898($\pm16$)               & 6224($\pm25$)        \\
$\Delta T(K)$                     & 204                           & 230                         & 215                          & 202                         & 128                  \\
$T_{2}/T_{1}$                     & 0.970($\pm0.003$)             & 0.965($\pm0.003$)           & 0.966($\pm0.003$)            & 0.967($\pm0.003$)           & 0.980($\pm0.004$)   \\
$\Sigma{\omega(O-C)^2}$           & 0.004314                      & 0.004317                    & 0.004317                     & 0.004321                    & 0.004314             \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Discussions and Conclusions}
Light curve solutions indicate that MQ UMa is an A-subtype overcontact binary system with a contact degree of $ f=82\,\%$. The two components have nearly the same surface temperature ($\Delta T = 128K$) in spite of their quite different masses and radii, which indicates that the system is under thermal contact. The obtained mass ratio is q = 0.195. We assume that the mass of the primary component is $M_1 = 1.33M_\odot$ \citep{Cox2000} according to its spectral type (F7V), then the mass of the secondary is estimated to be $M_2 = 0.28M_\odot$. The evolutionary status of the primary and the secondary stars are plotted in the H-R diagram as shown in Fig. 7. The evolutionary status of the primary star places it in the middle between the Zero Age Main Sequence (ZAMS) and the Terminal Age Main Sequence (TAMS) lines of the H-R diagram. The secondary component is evidently more evolved than the primary star, and it is clearly overluminous and have higher effective temperature for its present mass.

\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=14cm]{figure7.eps}
\caption{The two components of MQ UMa are plotted in the H-R diagram. Solid line represents the Age Main Sequence (ZAMS) and dash line represents the Terminal Age Main Sequence (TAMS).}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

During the photometric processing, the third light ($l_3$) is also included as an adjustable parameter, and the results suggest that the third light contribute nearly a quarter of the total luminosity in the triple system. According to the third light values in $V$ $R_c$ $I_c$ filters listed in Table 4, the color index of the tertiary component are calculated to be $V - R_c = 0.39$ and $R_c - I_c = 0.24$, which corresponds to a spectral type of F5V. It means that MQ UMa has a quite massive and an early type tertiary component. In addition, the existence of the third component may probably be confirmed by spectroscopic observations in the future.  As discussed by \citet{2013ApJS..209...13Q,2014AJ....148...79Q}, the existence of an additional stellar component in the binary system may play an important role for the formation and evolution by removing angular momentum from the central binary system during the early dynamical interaction or late evolution. The angular momentum and orbital period of the binary system will decrease, and the initially detached binaries can evolve into contact configuration via a case A mass transfer during their main sequence evolutionary stage.

High fill-out, low mass ratio overconact binary systems are at the final evolutionary stage of cool short-period binaries. They may merge into a single rapid-rotation star. As a consequence, high fill-out, low mass ratio overconact binary stars may be the progenitors of blue stragglers and FK Com type stars. A sample containing 16 high fill-out, low mass ratio overcontact binaries are presented in Table \ref{overcontact}. Most of them are triple systems and all of them are undergoing a continuous long time period variations (decreasing or increasing). System with a decreasing period will evolve into a single rapid-rotation stars when the photospheric surface of the binary systems is close to the outer critical Roche lobe, while system with an increasing period may merge when it meets the more familiar criterion that the orbital angular momentum is less than 3 times of the total spin angular momentum \citep{1980A&A....92..167H}. As for MQ UMa, the orbital period analysis based on observations collected from public available data and our own observations reveals that it is a triple system. However, we can not determine the exact orbital period of the third component and it is unclear whether it is undergoing a long time period variations (decreasing or increasing). Since the period variations are very important to understand their formation and evolution scenario, those binary systems listed in Table \ref{overcontact} together with MQ UMa will be long-time monitored in the future.

\begin{table}[!h]
\begin{center}
\caption{Parameters of High Fill-Out, Low Mass Ratio Overcontact Binaries}\label{overcontact}
\begin{tabular}{cccccccccccccc}\hline
    Star name   &  $T_1$   & $T_2$    &   Period   &    $q$  &    $f$      &  $i$             & $dp/dt$                 & Cyclic    & Ref.\\
    &           &          &          &    (days)  &         &             &                  &  $\times{10^{-7}}$d/y   &           &      \\\hline
     FG Hya     & $5900K$  & $6012K$  &   0.32783  &  0.112  & $85.6\,\%$  & $85.25^{\circ}$  &     -1.96               &   yes     &   (1)  \\
     GR Vir     & $6300K$  & $6163K$  &   0.34698  &  0.122  & $78.6\,\%$  & $83.36^{\circ}$  &     -4.32               &   yes     &   (2) \\
     IK Per     & $9070K$  & $7470K$  &   0.67603  &  0.191  & $52.0\,\%$  & $77.75^{\circ}$  &     -2.50               &   yes     &   (3) \\
     CU Tau     & $5900K$  & $5938K$  &   0.41254  &  0.177  & $50.1\,\%$  & $73.95^{\circ}$  &     -18.1               &    -      &   (4) \\
     TV Mus     & $5980K$  & $5808K$  &   0.44586  &  0.166  & $74.3\,\%$  & $77.15^{\circ}$  &     -2.16               &   yes     &   (4) \\
     XY LMi     & $6144K$  & $6093K$  &   0.43689  &  0.148  & $74.1\,\%$  & $81.04^{\circ}$  &     -1.67               &    -      &   (5) \\
     V410 Aur   & $6040K$  & $5915K$  &   0.36635  &  0.143  & $52.4\,\%$  & $78.6^{\circ}$   &     +8.22               &    -      &   (6) \\
     XY Boo     & $6324K$  & $6307K$  &   0.37055  &  0.186  & $55.9\,\%$  & $69.0^{\circ}$   &     +6.25               &    -      &   (6) \\
     V857 Her   & $8300K$  & $8513K$  &   0.38223  &  0.065  & $83.8\,\%$  & $85.43^{\circ}$  &     +2.90               &    -      &   (7) \\
     AH Cnc     & $6300K$  & $6265K$  &   0.36044  &  0.168  & $58.5\,\%$  & $90.00^{\circ}$  &     +3.99               &   yes     &   (8) \\
     QX And     & $6500K$  & $6217K$  &   0.41217  &  0.233  & $58.9\,\%$  & $56.20^{\circ}$  &     +2.48               &    -      &   (9) \\
     EM Psc     & $5300K$  & $4987K$  &   0.34396  &  0.149  & $95.3\,\%$  & $88.60^{\circ}$  &     +39.7               &   yes     &   (10) \\
     V345 Gem   & $6115K$  & $6365K$  &   0.27477  &  0.142  & $72.9\,\%$  & $73.3^{\circ}$   &     +0.59               &   yes     &   (11) \\
     V1191 Cyg  & $6500K$  & $6626K$  &   0.31338  &  0.107  & $68.6\,\%$  & $80.4^{\circ}$   &     +4.5                &   yes     &   (12) \\
     CK Boo     & $6380K$  & $6340K$  &   0.35515  &  0.111  & $71.7\,\%$  & $65.9^{\circ}$   &     +0.98               &   yes     &   (13) \\
     DZ Psc     & $6210K$  & $6195K$  &   0.36613  &  0.136  & $89.7\,\%$  & $78.97^{\circ}$  &     +7.42               &   yes     &   (14) \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\textbf
{\footnotesize Reference:} \footnotesize (1) \citet{2005MNRAS.356..765Q}; (2) \citet{2004AJ....128.2430Q}; (3) \citet{2005AJ....129.2806Z}; (4) \citet{2005AJ....130..224Q}; (5) \citet{2011AJ....141..151Q}; (6) \citet{2005AJ....130.2252Y}; (7) \citet{2005AJ....130.1206Q}; (8) \citet{2006AJ....131.3028Q}; (9) \citet{2007AJ....134.1475Q}; (10) \citet{2008AJ....136.1940Q};
(11) \citet{2009AJ....138..540Y}; (12) \citet{2011AJ....142..124Z}; (13) \citet{2012AJ....143..122Y}; (14) \citet{2013AJ....146...35Y}
\end{table}

\acknowledgments{This work is supported by the Chinese Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 11133007 and 11325315), the Strategic Priority Research Program ``The Emergence of Cosmological Structure'' of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB09010202) and the Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (Grant No. 2012HC011). New CCD photometric observations of MQ UMa were obtained with the 60cm and the 1.0m telescopes at the Yunnan Observatories, and the 85cm telescope in Xinglong Observation base in China. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.}

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February 23, 2017 at 08:00	(Entertainment, Israel)
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Israel invited 26 Hollywood stars on all-expense paid trips to the Holy Land around the 2016 Academy Awards, but a year later none of them have visited, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Liturgy in lockdown: The Paschal Mystery without a presbyter
How a Poor Clare monastery in London remains creatively faithful to the Church's liturgical life
By Patricia Rumsey | United Kingdom
As a monastic community, liturgy is very important in our life. In fact, it forms the structure of our daily lives.
We firmly endorse the words Anton Baumstark (1872-1948) used to open his work Comparative Liturgy.
"In liturgy we become aware of the living heart of the Church," he wrote, thus highlighting the importance of the public prayer of the People of God.
To watch live-streamed Mass or not
So when we heard England was to go into lockdown, churches were to be closed and there were to be no more public services for the foreseeable future, we began asking ourselves some searching questions.
Perhaps the most pressing one was: "Were we, like so many others, going to watch Eucharistic services being streamed online from various churches?"
Having talked about this at some length in community we decided that to do this was to regress to a pre-Vatican II style of liturgy.
Rather than being the People of God gathered around the table in union with the Christ to praise and thank the Father for his goodness, the congregation was reduced to being a collection of invisible and silent spectators.
Or, as a dear friend of mine put it succinctly: "It seems to miss the entire meaning of the Eucharist and puts the laity firmly back in their box of being 'observers of us chaps doing the important stuff'!"
We decided that as a monastic community our daily prayer is the Liturgy of the Hours – the Divine Office, the Opus Dei – during which we are united with the Lord, "constantly making intercession for us" before his Father.
Therefore, the liturgically logical thing to do, in the absence of a Eucharistic celebration, was to make more of our celebration of the daily Office. This we have done by extending the readings to include the Mass readings for the day.
Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum
The next question was: "What were we going to do about Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum?"
The Archdiocese of Westminster being unable to provide us with a chaplain, we have been relying on local parish clergy (who are already overburdened). A Mill Hill Missionary friend had – pre-lockdown – offered to come and celebrate Holy Week with us, but this was no longer possible.
However, we certainly had no intentions of forgoing the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, the highlight of the liturgical year and "the pledge of our redemption", simply because we had no cleric among us. And so began a series of carefully thought out celebrations.
Palm Sunday: dramatic reading of Christ's Passion
Palm Sunday was comparatively simple.
We gathered in the Chapter Room, followed the prayers provided for the service in the Missal, distributed our palms, blessed them with Holy Water and formed our usual procession back into the monastic Choir. We then sat round in a circle and did a dramatic reading of the Passion, bringing it vividly to life.
Holy Thursday is perennially special in that we always have our own community celebrations. We gather in the Chapter Room in the late afternoon, celebrate being the community that we are, both its positive and its negative aspects.
We solemnly proclaim the Foot Washing from St John's Gospel and then the abbess proceeds washing the feet of each sister and before we wash each others' feet to fulfill the words of Jesus.
Holy Thursday: from foot washing to the Altar of Repose
After this, we have a very solemn evening meal in a refectory, which is beautifully decorated with flowers and white tablecloths. The abbess serves each sister with a broken (homemade) loaf and wine.
All this we did as usual and then went to the Choir for Vespers of the Lord's Supper, which we concluded by taking the Sacrament in procession from the tabernacle in the Choir to the Altar of Repose. We then sang Compline (Night Prayer) and there was, as usual, watching at the Altar of Repose.
Good Friday presented little difficulty. After the two first readings, again we had a solemn and dramatized reading of the Passion from John's Gospel, followed by the universal intercessions from the Missal.
Good Friday: venerating the cross
According to the rubrics, we then solemnly carried a simple wooden cross, accompanied by candle bearers, through the Choir to the proclamation of Ecce lignum crucis. We proceeded with the community veneration of the cross and, later on, again sang Compline as our last liturgical prayer of the day.
Holy Saturday needed rather more thought and planning. It is traditionally an empty day, liturgically speaking. It is a day of waiting and emptiness; for us a day of house cleaning and domestic preparation for the great feast about to come.
We gathered for the Easter Vigil in the dusk of a late April evening in a courtyard outside the Choir. There we began the age-old blessing of the new fire and the Paschal Candle. The ritual, though so familiar, still has the power to stir primal emotions deep within the heart.
The Great Vigil: fire and water
We then processed into the Choir with the great Paschal Candle and our own smaller lights to the joyous singing of Lumen Christi, which was as full of enthusiasm as ever and reached its climax in the glorious Easter Exultet.
Next were the full readings of the Vigil, followed by the blessing of the new holy water. Its original meaning was easier to understand this year: thanking God for a vital part of his creation, rather than the imposing of some extrinsic quasi-magical quality by an act of power on the part of a cleric.
We renewed our baptismal promises with as much gusto as ever and our celebration concluded with the solemn proclamation of Easter and the singing of the Easter collect.
Easter Sunday began with a glorious celebration of Lauds (Morning Prayer) and then a very festive breakfast!
We decided that, all things considered, our celebration of the Paschal Mystery had been extremely satisfactory and in many ways, the meaning of it all had come home to us perhaps more clearly than ever.
This was because we had to think through the significance of the ceremonies, both liturgically and theologically, and then plan and execute them for ourselves.
She that presides…
It certainly convinced us that a woman could preside at the celebrations just as effectively as a man. And, bearing in mind the role the women played during the very first Holy Week, perhaps even more appropriately.
The original title of this piece was to have been "A Priestless Passover", because we do not have a chaplain – a presbyter – attached to our community.
But after a conversation with a theologian friend, I realized that the Passover meal has never been a priestly activity. Rather, it has always been, as it was in Jesus' time, a celebration in each household among the members of the family.
So this is an account of how one household, one religious family, within the wider house of God, the oikoumene, celebrated the Paschal Mystery happily and successfully without a presbyter.
Patricia Rumsey is a member of the Poor Clare Monastery in Arkley (North London, UK)
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