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Q: Reading values within pandas.groupby I have a dataframe like below
    name    item
0   Jack    A
1   Sarah   B
2   Ross    A
3   Sean    C
4   Jack    C
5   Ross    B

What I like to do is to produce a dictionary that connects people to the products they are related to.
{Jack: [1, 0, 1], Sarah: [0, 1, 0], Ross:[1, 1, 0], Sean:[0, 0, 1]}

I feel like this should be done fairly easily using pandas.groupby
I have tried looping through the dataframe, but I have >1E7 entries, and  looping does not look very efficient.

A: Check with crosstab and to_dict
pd.crosstab(df.item,df.name).to_dict('l')
{'Jack': [1, 0, 1], 'Ross': [1, 1, 0], 'Sarah': [0, 1, 0], 'Sean': [0, 0, 1]}

Another interesting option is using str.get_dummies:
# if you need counts
df.set_index('item')['name'].str.get_dummies().sum(level=0).to_dict('l')
# if you want to record boolean indicators
df.set_index('item')['name'].str.get_dummies().max(level=0).to_dict('l')
# {'Jack': [1, 0, 1], 'Ross': [1, 1, 0], 'Sarah': [0, 1, 0], 'Sean': [0, 0, 1]}

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El Futbol Klubi Bunyodkor (en uzbeco cirílico: футбол клуби Бунёдкор, )  es un club de fútbol profesional de Uzbekistán, situado en la capital Taskent. Fue fundado en 2005 por varios empresarios petroleros, y juega en la Liga de fútbol de Uzbekistán, máxima competición nacional del país. Anteriormente fue conocido como PFC Kuruvchi, el nombre con el que fue fundado. El principal rival del Bunyodkor es el Pakhtakor Tashkent FC, con quien disputa el derbi de Tashkent.

El club cuenta en su palmarés con cuatro títulos de liga y tres copas de Uzbekistán, mientras que su mayor logro en una competición asiática fue las semifinales de la Liga de Campeones de la AFC que alcanzó en 2008. Desconocido en el panorama internacional, en ese mismo año apareció intensamente en los medios de comunicación al hacer una oferta por el delantero Samuel Eto'o, que finalmente no firmó. Sin embargo sí logró contratar a Rivaldo y a los entrenadores brasileños Zico y Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Historia

El equipo nació el 6 de julio de 2005 bajo el nombre Neftgasmontaj-Kuruvchi (Kuruvchi en español significa "constructor"). El nuevo club tenía aspiraciones de competir en la máxima liga nacional, siendo fundado por empresarios del petróleo uzbekos.

Ese mismo año el club participa en un torneo local, la Copa de Taskent, que termina venciendo. El equipo logró un ascenso rápido a la máxima categoría de la liga uzbeka, pasando de jugar en Segunda División (tercera categoría) en 2005 a ascender en 2007 a la Liga Profesional. Tras terminar segundo en 2008 bajo la denominación PFC Kuruvchi, el equipo participó en la Liga de Campeones de la AFC 2008 y en agosto de ese mismo año fue renombrado Bunyodkor.

El FC Bunyodkor logró darse a conocer en el resto del mundo al presentar una oferta de 25 millones de euros por el jugador del FC Barcelona Samuel Eto'o. A pesar de lo llamativo de la oferta, el camerunés confirmó que ha estudiado la posibilidad y acudió a Taskent para conocer los detalles de la misma. Además, el club uzbeko tiene firmados acuerdos de colaboración con el FC Barcelona, por lo que sus jugadores han realizado apariciones en la capital de Uzbekistán. Figuras que ficharon por el equipo fueron el brasileño Rivaldo —que firmó un contrato de €10 millones por dos años— y el chileno José Luis Villanueva. En septiembre de 2008 fichó a Zico, ex-seleccionador de Japón, como su entrenador. En julio de 2009 fichó al exentrenador de Brasil y Chelsea, Luiz Felipe Scolari.

El club ganó su cuarto título de liga consecutivo en 2011 con ocho puntos de ventaja, anotando 51 goles en 26 partidos y lograron clasificarse para la de la Liga de Campeones de la AFC 2012, sumando en ese momento cinco participaciones consecutivas.

Uniforme
 Uniforme titular: Camiseta, pantalón y medias azules.
 Uniforme alternativo: Camiseta, pantalón y medias blancas.

Estadio

El FC Bunyodkor jugó sus primeros años en el estadio MHSK. Tras el final de la temporada uzbeka 2008 se anunció que el estadio MHSK se había cerrado para someterlo a reconstrucción. En el lugar del antiguo estadio MHSK se construyó el estadio Bunyodkor, con capacidad para 34.000 espectadores sentados y una academia de fútbol para los jóvenes. Islam Karimov, presidente de Uzbekistán, realizó una visita al estadio el 29 de agosto de 2012 tras la finalización de las obras. El nuevo estadio fue planeado para ser completado a finales de agosto de 2012 y fue uno de los lugares propuestos para albergar los partidos de la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol Sub-20 de 2012 en Uzbekistán. Cuando se cerró el estadio MHSK, el Bunyodkor pasó a jugar, desde 2009, en el estadio JAR, con capacidad para 8.460 espectadores.

Rivalidades

Palmarés

Títulos nacionales (10)

 Liga de Uzbekistán (5): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
 Copa de Uzbekistán (4): 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
 Supercopa de Uzbekistán (1): 2014
 Primera Liga de Uzbekistán (1): 2006
 Segunda Liga de Uzbekistán (1): 2005
 Campeonato de Tashkent (1): 2005

Participación en competiciones de la AFC

Jugadores

Plantilla 2014/15

| colspan=7 style="background: #87CEEB" align=center| Porteros
|-

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| colspan=7 style="background: #87CEEB" align=center| Defensas

|-
| colspan=7 style="background: #87CEEB" align=center| Mediocampistas

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| colspan=7 style="background: #87CEEB" align=center| Delanteros

|-

  = Lesionado de larga duración
  = Capitán

Jugadores destacados

  Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov
  Oleg Belyakov
  Pavel Bugalo
  Server Djeparov
  Anvar Gafurov
  Jasur Hasanov
  Azizbek Haydarov
  Sakhob Juraev
  Timur Kapadze
  Hayrulla Karimov
  Viktor Karpenko
  Sergey Lushan
  Ildar Magdeev
  Orif Mamadjanov
  Ilhom Mo'minjonov
  Ignatiy Nesterov
  Shavkat Salomov
  Anvarjon Soliev

  Goçguly Goçgulyýew
  David Carney
  Stevica Ristić
  Slavoljub Đorđević
  Miloš Trifunović
  Ján Kozák
  Denilson
  João Victor
  Luizão
  Rivaldo
  José Luis Villanueva

Entrenadores

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio web oficial
 Bunyodkor en AFC.com
 FC Bunyodkor en PFL.com

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The relationship between Mennonites and the entertainment industry hasn't always been a good one. On the one hand, "we" (and I use that term loosely) haven't always been happy with the morality of what appears on our screens. On the other hand, we are often used as characters in their storylines that misrepresent us. Today's reality TV fascination with Mennonite/Amish/Hutterite lifestyle is a perfect example of this. They even use real Mennonite people and they still get it wrong. I've writted up a few ideas for new and better Mennonite themed TV shows, and it was well recieved, but I still haven't heard back from any studio people.
But this wasn't always the case. In 1985 Harrison Ford starred in the movie Witness. It told the story of a cop who found refuge in an Amish community while his corrupt superiors hunted him down. This was a Hollywood movie with Hollywood values (if you attended a Mennonite church, you probably wouldn't have been able to watch it in youth group), and yet it presented the Amish people in a positive light.
Witness also served a secondary role in Mennonite communities where if somebody asked you what it meant to be a Mennonite, you could point them toward that movie and then build from there to explain what it means to have Anabaptist Christian values in a contemporary world. Unfortunately, this movie is fading from public memory, so it doesn't serve that role well anymore. Thankfully, the solution is obvious; it's time for a sequel.
At first it might seem odd to film a sequel thirty years later, but stranger things happen. Hollywood loves sequels and remakes these days for a variety of reasons. There is a certain amount of guranteed income, assuming that fans of the original will be more likely to pay to see another version. It also requires less investment of energy and money in terms of generating new ideas.
Because of lobbying on behalf of the Pennsylvania Amish community, a promise was made to not allow film crews back to Amish communities. This promise was made after Witness as a way of trying to limit the intrusiveness of tourists on Amish property. It may or may not still be enforced.
Alexander Godunov, who played Daniel, the presumed future husband of Rachel, has died. He also played Karl in Die Hard. This loss is of course tragic on a personal level, but it also presents a number of storytelling limitations. Finding a replacement actor is always a step down in terms of quality. If the husband dies off in real life, it is either extra grief on a character or presents some sort of black widow scenario.
John Book moved on from the events in the first movie. He found a wife and started a family of his own. He has also joined an anti-corruption task force within the FBI. In the meantime, Rachel married Daniel, as expected, but it wasn't long before everything unravelled. The suspicions about her that arose within the community never went away and her new husband treated her accordingly. She had also developped a taste for the outside world. After an argument, she takes Samuel and they leave their home and the community. Rachel finds out about John's marriage and doesn't try to connect with him. She finds regular work and writes as a hobby until she writes a novel and becomes part of the Amish fiction craze, which is where the movie picks up.
John's wife, having heard of his time in the Amish community, is a regular reader of Amish fiction and finds a novel that bears striking resemblance to the story John told her. She tries to track down the writer to see if it's the same woman.
Samuel has now grown up, and after his first marriage ends in divorce he is struggling to find out who he is. Despite his mother's wishes, he returns to the community where he lived as a boy and because nobody else will break the ban he reconnects with his step-father's brother Moses (played by Viggo Mortensen) for a short-lived stay in the area.
Meanwhile, John has busted a network of criminal activity in a major police force, and certain people are out for revenge. They catch up with John's wife just before she is able to meet up with Rachel, and kidnap her as bait to get back at John. He has been so busy with his case that he had no idea his wife was trying to find Rachel, but the novel is the only he has to find out where she went. He tracks down Rachel, and together they follow the clues to discover where his wife is being kept.
When John realizes that his wife was abducted in connection to the case he had been working on, he starts to worry about his daughter. Rachel then sends Samuel to look out for John's daughter, who is attending a rural Mennonite church in California, and he finds his true spiritual awakening there.
John, Rachel and John's newly freed wife return to meet up with the daughter (and Samuel), who is not yet out of harm's way. Moses has heard what was happening, and he follows Samuel to California. In reconnecting with Rachel, Moses apologizes for what happened, and they fall in love. John and his wife grow closer, and while Samuel is too old to date John's daughter, she faithfully leads him on his spiritual journey.
The bad guys of course meet their fate, delivered via a more or less non-violent confrontation, but there is just enough fighting to appease those movie-goers looking for that.
Again, the Mennonites are presented favourably and it pretty much still fits the formula of a Hollywood movie. Win-win.
I wrote a storyline for the sequel to Witness not knowing anyone else had thought of it. Of course, how foolish since the movie was great and certainly deserved a follow up. I have sent the storyline to both Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis' agents requesting that they send it to Harrison and Kelly to review. My sequel only works with the original two stars at their present day ages which works perfectly. I have also written the lyrics to a song for the movie which would fit in with some compelling scenes. Of course the original song "What a Wonderful World" is featured prominently in my storyline. It is a great love story and my sequel fits. I have no ties to the film industry, just a retired businessman who liked the original movie and is a romantic.
How very interesting for someone else to conceive such an concept as well! Strangely, there is absolutely no fan fiction posted anywhere based on the film of Witness, despite it's popularity. I, too, have an idea for a "30 years later" plot that just won't really leave me alone, though it centers more around Samuel Lapp. Let me know if you are interested in knowing more!
Witness is one of my favorite movies. I would love to see a sequel and I have some ideas on that story line.


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Conference Prep #2. Pulpit scripture and canon Scripture
September 4, 2011 by WVS
This is the second post in a series on General Conference. Part 1 is here. The followup post is here.
I have some continuing interest in antebellum American sermon culture and this post examines some legacies of early Mormonism on the topic of sermons. Protestants of the era inherited an ongoing question over the status of the pulpit. Where do sermons fit into the rule of faith? The issue was most touchy in the more severe "Bible Alone" strains of Protestantism and one can see the same concern in Protestant debates over creedal statements and confessions or the likes of the Book of Common Prayer. On the other hand, even though the early Latter-day Saints were liberals regarding "revelation," the relationship between pulpit and scripture in Mormonism was a curious one and bore a resemblance to that cautious calculus surrounding the subject among conservative Protestants.[1]
As a setup for what's coming, let me observe the obvious: early Latter-day Saint preaching and literature shows that the new movement was always painted on a biblical canvas. With the occasional exception in early imprints and manuscripts, when the word "scripture" appears in that literature it refers to the KJV Bible. It may also refer to a kind of urtext of the Bible, one that Joseph's bible translation effort sought to reveal, in part. (By urtext, I don't mean an actual ancient text necessarily, I mean the "scriptures . . . even as they are in mine own bosom" [D&C 33:20] – a few examples: D&C 6:27, D&C 20:11 and Joseph Smith's 1843 remarks on the demise of Lorenzo Barnes.
Focusing on some early revelations, two passages given roughly a year apart may be in tension:
1 Behold, I say unto thee, Oliver, that it shall be given unto thee that thou shalt be heard by the church in all things whatsoever thou shalt teach them by the Comforter, concerning the revelations and commandments which I have given . . .
4 And if thou art led at any time by the Comforter to speak or teach, or at all times by the way of commandment unto the church, thou mayest do it . . .
5 But thou shalt not write by way of commandment, but by wisdom; [D&C 28]
The background is familiar to most Latter-day Saints but I'll look at it for moment.
Joseph's revelations (consider D&C 8, 18:1-5) might be seen to open the door to others to add their own canonical extensions.[2] In August 1830, one such believer, Hiram Page, began contributing revelations. At a September Mormon conference, Joseph Smith dictated the revelation above which not only focused on Page, but Oliver Cowdery, second in command in the early church. The revelation formalized a hierarchy of value in religious expression. Important in the new movement, Cowdery was now no longer to "write by way of commandment" though he could render authoritative work from the pulpit. The meaning was clear: the written canon was Smith's domain, while Cowdery's work would be preaching. That preaching, stamped as ephemeral, could not really have the force of the canonical – by definition it was local and would not be written. At best it could propagate by word of mouth. Both culture and revelation within early Mormonism situated the sermon in much the same place it occupied in the parent faiths of early Latter-day Saints — important as exhortation — but clearly not within the canonical boundary (possibly Joseph Smith excepted).
The second passage of interest here, and as I said, somewhat in tension with the previous one, is from D&C 68:
1 My servant, Orson Hyde, was called by his ordination to proclaim the everlasting gospel, by the Spirit of the living God, from people to people, and from land to land, in the congregations of the wicked, in their synagogues, reasoning with and expounding all scriptures unto them.
2 And, behold, and lo, this is an ensample unto all those who were ordained unto this priesthood, whose mission is appointed unto them to go forth—
3 And this is the ensample unto them, that they shall speak as they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost.
4 And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.
D&C 68:4 and other prophetic imperatives led to a tradition that the pulpit could yield scripture. But what kind of scripture? I mean was it Scripture (i.e., on par with the Bible), or was it Cowdery's "oral scripture?" History offers two answers.
One is the LDS theme (#1) that made the pulpit into a source possibly SUPERIOR to written canon (LDS canon was a developing idea itself at the time).[3]
Another theme (#2) developed from the idea that there *was* a Mormon canon (eventually called "the standard works").[4] That theme categorized pulpit scripture as lower caste. Scripture with a small "s," while the standard works were Scripture as canon, to be used as a measuring rod (as the name implies) for all other rules of faith or "scripture." Any pulpit scripture in this scenario is subject to being measured by the written canon.[5] A nearly identical rule was in place among Puritans. Preaching or even "revelation" would come only "in and according to" the canon.[6]
I can understand the latter theme. It makes good sense from the point of view of generational stability (think Luther and Lehi). And the person many people identify with pulpit Scripture, Joseph Smith, was ever floating biblical justification/interpretation for his declarations. Whether this attempted consistency was often adaptive lubrication could be a point of discussion I suppose.[7]
The General Conference of the Church has become the premier source of pulpit scripture, with a trend setting justification arising in recent times from Harold B. Lee's remarks (April 1973) during his tenure as Church president. Other pulpit scripture(?) (outside of the conference center so to speak), even sermons given by general authorities under most circumstances, has lesser stature and is not even supposed to be recorded or distributed (the question of recording of sermons is a closely related issue/barrier and its genesis is important in light of D&C 28 above – but that is another post).
This internal structure of pulpit scripture is fascinating and seems somewhat related, at least in degree of emphasis, with a number of other (sometimes conflicting) movements, like correlation and the press toward "world religion" status.
In spite of the Lee/Kimball/et al. declarations, or paradoxically because of them in a way, pulpit scripture is still ephemeral. It does get used in proof-texting internal LDS discussions but to what effect? Pulpit scripture is by its nature a temporary fix (pun intended). When the next conference rolls around, that seems to set the agenda for the following 6 months.[8]
Theme 1 has not really died however. Another trend connected to both theme 1, theme 2 and pulpit scripture in general, styles the living prophet(s) as superior to dead one(s). Not in terms of their contributions or historical impact perhaps, but in terms of how their pronouncements (or less formally their pulpit scripture) are to be weighed (a perusal of Mormon sermon literature shows that LDS Prophets rarely quote their uncanonized predecessors for example). There is paradox lurking here with theme 2: if a living prophet's words are superior to the dead prophets, that can't really be confined to just post-Joseph-Smith-dead-LDS-prophets. (Indeed, large parts of (LDS) canon began either internally or externally as pulpit scripture anyway – assuming you believe canon *has* history).
Now I realize that I have left out lots of things here, like extempore speech vs. prepared speech (ala "Lectures on Faith"[9]), etc. I'll cover this a bit next time.
Where do speeches fit in your own canonical rankings? Pulpit scripture vs. standard works.
Any opinions or examples here people?
I'm going to follow this up with something on one of Mormonism's most interesting pulpit scriptures. But first, more stuff on sermons coming up next.
[1] The point was unity. Adopting creedal statements shrouded potential prismatic speech under a restrictive umbrella, making even denominational differences seem less divisive. An early rector of Yale college illustrated what is still the common criticism of the Confessions: governing by confession (creed) meant that "the Scriptures cease to be a Rule to [us] and [the] opinions and determinations of others are substituted in the room thereof." The fact that the sermon might do the same thing on a local scale (or if published, on a larger one) was not lost on everybody. Quakers complained, "all expounding of Scripture is adding to it." "Why all these sermons," one critic asked. Why not just read the Bible Alone? On the other hand "canon" as "measure," has to measure something, doesn't it? Of course canon could be turned on itself – a practice alive and well among all sorts of critics. Yeah. Lots of fun here. See David F. Holland, Sacred Borders. 26. Brigham Young's July 24, 1853 sermon is a really interesting read (JD 1:233f. Start in about p. 237). I recommend it.
[2] See Robin Scott Jensen, "'Rely Upon the Things Which are Written': Text, Context, and the Creation of Mormon Revelatory Records," MLIS Thesis, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milw., 2009. 159ff.
[3] By superior, I mean it could trump the written word. This is infused with Joseph's notion that language is imperfect and all expression is subject to revision. Brigham's idea is parallel. On several occasions he repeated an experience involving Hyrum and Joseph Smith, where Joseph vouched for Brigham's claim that the living prophet was superior to the written Mormon canon – i.e., Bible, Book of Mormon, D&C. One example is Journal of Discourses 10:339f (An expanded version of the story is found in Elden J. Watson, "Addresses of Brigham Young" vol.5 p.49.) Also compare JD 13:95, not a recital of the story, but important in parsing Young's views, I think.
[4] This begins to solidify about 1880 with the canonization of the Pearl of Great Price. There are lots of references to this idea and it is clearly normative in today's Mormonism. It may be argued that there is an internal hierarchy in the written canon – an idea that echoes Luther. I won't touch on that here. There is something ironic about the idea of LDS canon: it opened the Mormons to a reapplication of a favorite argument of Deists like Tom Paine when he observed that there was nothing so strange as determining the revelatory status of a text by a vote of human beings. Another problem with Mormon canon is Joseph Smith himself. While early revelations seemed to be clearly defined experiences, later communications could be more difficult to classify: was a given oral (or dictated) declaration Scripture, scripture or merely thinking out loud? On the terminology "standard works," the term was originally used in a broader way than currently. The current more restricted usage probably begins to come on line about 1900. The use of the term signals a textual trend. The very forms of the Mormon books of scripture would gradually alter to become mimics of the KJV editions in use by Latter-day Saints: short verses, double column pages, footnotes, similar bindings, etc.
[5] This is essentially the Protestant idea (except the canon flow was stopped up with the Bible (KJV) in the conservative wing). One could argue that this is the heritage of Joseph F. Smith and James E. Talmage. There are lots of references here too. (Richard Bushman sees it as normative Mormonism for example.) Joseph Fielding Smith is a key source (for example, Doctrines of Salvation 3:203). On balance, the two themes find their homes in the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively. A sub-theme eventually developed in Mormonism very reminiscent of say, the Disciples of Christ: if an idea is not mentioned in the "standard works" it must be irrelevant to salvation and perhaps even theologically dangerous (this was my mother's response to my speculative ideas – it permanently scarred me – like Scott B.). Bruce R. McConkie stated a version: "The answers to nearly all important doctrinal questions are found in the standard works or in the sermons and writings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. If they are not found in these sources, they probably are not essential to salvation and may well be beyond our present spiritual capacity to understand." (Regional Rep. Seminar, April 1981.) Among some Protestants, this is the "regulative principle" or what might be called the "hermeneutic of silence." True religion should insist on what Scripture explicitly demands, but devalue anything not found in Scripture. Popular among early Campbellites, they eventually gave it up along with the hope of Protestant unification. A little hyperbolic maybe, but you get what I'm saying, right?
[6] For example, John Cotton, A Treatise on the Covenant of Grace. (3rd ed. London, 1671): 178.
[7] I think this really depends on the instance. I'll come back to this point in a later post.
[8] Recent post-general-conference practice has involved a take-turns mutual training sequence among groups of general authorities. Presumably this increased consensus among the various groups and provided background for later top down training. This view of things may suggest that pulpit scripture in Mormonism is ephemeral for another reason: it is driven by the needs of a changing society. This was a charge made against the Bible itself by all the canon expansionists of the 18th and 19th century. However I think scale is important here.
[9] Not JS's sermons, but sermons none the less, and they became canonical, for awhile. The LoF were rarely quoted in Utah and never extensively. With irony, an exception was Talmage who used them some in his first version of the Articles of Faith.
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natebergin says:
You might add that force of repetition also contributes the the hierarchy of status. Certain scriptures, like some of those uncomfortable ones D&C 132 are never quoted, and some are constantly quoted. Some sermons by prophets get picked up by other general authorities and repeated over and over, giving them a lot of power. If you only hear something once, it usually is as good as having never heard it at all.
Really cool post and I'm looking forward to the next one.
Both canonical scripture and pulpit scripture fall into one of four categories with me, in order of weight: direct revelation (stuff directly spoken by God, the Savior, or angelic beings), words of inspired men (prophets/apostles expounding on doctrine), poetic revelation (eg. most old testament prophecies, John's revelations), and words of uninspired men (eg., histories in the old testament written and analyzed by unenlightened scribes). The first category seems extremely rare, the third category is of dubious value (to me, anyway), and the fourth is often necessary for context but can be downright wrong. Over the pulpit we get categories two and four. Personally, I see no difference between pulpit scripture and canonical scripture, except for the fact that canonical scripture contains vastly more direct revelation.
I find it odd when people say things like "Well, the Proclamation on the Family isn't canon — the church hasn't voted on it". So what? The question is whether it's category one or two and whether there's any four thrown in. Whether the church votes on it or not has no impact on it's truth, just on how much it gets referenced in church.
Neal says:
I loved this post.
I think there's an additional category of texts that needs to be thrown into the pile here, but I'm not sure whre it fits? Many GA's, including prophets, have written books on various gospel subjects. For better or for worse, some of these have reached mythological and almost "scripture" status, including 'The Miracle of Forgivenss' and 'Jesus the Christ'. I had a Bishop once who kept a huge stack of paperback copies of 'The Miracle of Forgiveness' in his office. He handed these out to sinners like party favors (and even named his son Spencer!) Some of the ideas in these books are horribly prejudiced, outdated, and outright wrong (the chapter in MoF entitled 'Crime Against Nature' comes to mind), yet many members/leaders quote them like scripture and consider them such. I think these works have as much potential for good (or harm, as the case could be) as anything spoken at General Conference.
Knob says:
I'd argue it does matter (re: Family Proclamation), or else our own scripture wouldn't give us instructions on how to add to our canon.
The principle of voting in and adding to our scripture is supposed to be a great part of the restoration. The fact that we've gotten away from it and, instead, rely heavily on pulpit scripture is, to me, unfortunate. Pulpit scripture might be great, and cool, and inspired, but those things are largely left to the wind if not canonized. Seriously, you can quote as many old school talks as you want (70s, 80s, etc.) but if the idea isn't still being promoted today, then it's of no consequence to me [at least that's what leaders generally say – new Presidents and all]. In 10-15 years if the proclamation to the family merely remains a proclamation that isn't given over to the vote of common consent to be added into our canon, then I'd argue that it wasn't really that important after all.
I view these addition procedures as putting our money where our mouths are… if we really believe in revelation and inspired words, and especially in the case of the proclamation, if we go so far as to issue "proclamations" that end up getting printed without end by Deseret Book and others, then put it to a vote in general conference where the membership can vote on it being scripture.
Steve Evans says:
WVS, coming to this very late, but I deeply enjoy the canon of canonical discussion. We desperately want to rank and classify everything we hear, don't we?
WVS says:
Yes, it is a constant background in Church. Synchronize.
natebergin (#1)'s point is interesting but suggests that Edgar Guest and CS Lewis are now canon.
J. Stapley says:
Love this stuff, WVS.
In practice, I think that the written cannon isn't terribly important. What is important is the tradition of interpretation of the cannon. The D&C for example is completely anachronistic if we were to use it literally. The entirety of our current Church structure is pretty well outside of the text. But oral instruction or limitedly published instruction is ephemeral. Hence the primacy of handbooks. I believe that handbooks are the real standard.
I agree J, the handbooks are the standard in governance, but internally the FP and Q12 can agonize over D&C passages when they want to do something administratively. So the canon is not dead in that sense, just sleeping.
Steve, I think C. S. Lewis has made a run.
That would make sense as the FP and Q12 are recognized as the stewards of the interpretive tradition. That they would see themselves in such a role and take the original revelations seriously makes sense. But, like the recently published interviews with Elder Packer about the role of the Seventy show, extra-canonical tradition is prime.
Agreed. The same thing is manifest in both canonical and extra-canonical text flow through time.
Thank you Steve, I love that Edgar Guest is now in the cannon! I'll keep pushing for Khalil Ghibran, but so far only Elder Holland has quoted him.
Knob (#4), I think you have greater faith in the votes of the church membership than I do. Realistically, if the FP and Q12 were to put it up for vote, it would pass, with the vast majority never giving it serious thought (not to mention prayer). My point — I'm not sure are functionally any different from common consent. I tend to agree with Martin [i.e, The question is whether it's category one or two and whether there's any four thrown in.]
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The Hollywood Reporter has learned Sony Pictures plans to make a run for some awards this season for their raunchy animated comedy Sausage Party. While the prospect of a movie about a bunch of filthy, horny food in a grocery store spouting off double sexually explicit dialogue and naughty language doesn't sound like something the Academy would be interested in, having an animated film like this is rather groundbreaking, and it could at least end up getting a shot at the Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards.
Academy members are way smarter and more forward-thinking than people realize. They want to recognize bold, original, risky breakthroughs, and that's what Sausage Party is, however subversive. Plus, it's just plain cool.
We've never been this passionate about a film and we're thrilled to enter uncharted territory. It's rare you really get to break new ground, and we hope that people view it as a good thing for the medium.
However, the movie might have to overcome some controversy since a group of animators have accused the filmmakers and the production company, Nitrogen Studios, of forcing artists to work overtime for free, and then failing to credit many of them onscreen. That something Academy voters might be thinking about when it comes time to consider the movie for any awards.
As someone who loved Sausage Party and found it to be one of the funniest movies of the year, I'm not entirely sure it's worthy of awards love. While it offered up more than the raunchiness that we expected by including some smart social commentary on religion, it's not as if seeing raunchy things in animated form is anything new. Adult Swim and Comedy Central have crafted adult animated entertainment for years, but this is the first time it's been done on the big screen on this scale. It's undoubtedly something to be proud of, but I'm not sure it's Oscar-worthy. Again, that's coming from someone who totally loved the movie.
However, if the movie itself isn't good enough to get a Best Animated Feature nomination, there's always the Best Original Song category. And since the movie has an opening musical number composed by Oscar winner Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid), the chances aren't bad for a nomination there. If "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut can get a nomination, anything is possible.
The awards campaign begins next month with a screening and cocktail party catering to Academy members from the short films and feature animation sector, as well as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Honestly, I can see Sausage Party getting some Golden Globes love, but I think the Oscar run is going to take considerably more effort. At the very least, even if this awards campaign doesn't garner any nominations, we'll likely get to see some funny print and digital advertising trying to convince voters to give Sausage Party any nominations.


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This summer has been insane and the past two months have been non-stop for me. I've zig-zagged across America and then dived headfirst into Australian life. Everything in an attempt to figure out who I want to be. When I left England at the end of May, my parents took me to the airport and we hugged goodbye before I left to head through security and into the unknown. "Find your happy." My mum said, brushing back my hair.
I still feel as though I have a long way to go in figuring out what I want but slowly, as the days go on, I'm working out what is and isn't good for me. Writing has always been a release for me and something I love, but when I have a lot to do, it becomes an easy form of self- punishment to take the hobby away from me. My brain is very good at convincing itself that I don't deserve to write because there's always something else I should probably be doing instead. However, I'm learning to put writing and exercise on a higher level of priority in my life. Both are habits I push back when I feel overwhelmed but both help me to feel better when I push myself to commit to them. And feeling better has to become my top priority for once in my life.
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A Brooklyn school-uniform store's business booms, as COVID wreaks havoc with the opening of public schools, and parents try the parochial route.
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At the Bensonhurst outpost of Flynn O'Hara, a school-uniform store, the busiest time of the year is usually the Tuesday after Labor Day. By late September, families have stocked up on the insignia blazers and tartan jumpers that are commensurate with a Catholic education. But this fall, with Mayor Bill de Blasio twice delaying reopening the city's public schools, Flynn O'Hara had lines around the block. Harried-looking mothers gave themselves away by asking the telltale newbie question: How many pairs of pants should I buy?
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Dana Conlon, who manages the Bensonhurst location, started working at Flynn O'Hara ten years ago. Her son and daughter attended Catholic schools on Staten Island—Monsignor Farrell and St. Joseph by the Sea—and she went to St. Brendan and St. Mark. "We still sell that uniform," she said, on a recent Monday. "Plaid eighty-seven was mine."
Every plaid has a number. At Flynn O'Hara, the mostly navy-and-green fitting-room curtains are eighty-three, the weave worn by students at St. Bernadette, in Dyker Heights. Eighty-seven, the plaid Conlon wore, is navy, yellow, and gray. "Which happens to be one of the oldest plaids," Wayne DeAngelo, a district manager of the chain, said, stepping out of a storeroom.
"Thank you, Wayne," Conlon said.
"I'm not implying that you're old, but that plaid has been around for probably forty years," he said. "It's very classic."
The previous day, the union representing the city's principals announced that it had lost confidence in de Blasio's plan to reopen the schools. Conlon, expecting a crowd, had called extra salespeople in to help. A customer named Thomas Aellis came in at around 4 p.m. to buy gym shirts for his three daughters, who are all at St. Bernadette. The year had taken a toll, and he mentioned that he was thinking of leaving New York. "I own a limousine company on Eighty-sixth Street," he said.
Giulia Troia, a longtime summer worker who just graduated from Fontbonne Hall Academy, looked up: "Romantique? We had Romantique for my prom."
"This year?" he asked. "That was the only school that did something for the kids."
Aellis's wife is a public-school teacher. "So she's in the middle of the bleep storm," he said. "Two of our best friends pulled their kids from public," he added, and enrolled them at St. Bernadette. "Kids are in full days, one-hundred-per-cent capacity, every day," he said of the school. "My kids wanted to go. They were tired. They missed their friends."
"I hope it's not just a temporary switch," Louise Romano, an assistant manager, said. "Where families are just putting their kids in there for now, then in a year they're going to put them back in public schools, because a lot of the Catholic schools are in danger of closing." She listed a couple of casualties: St. Anselm (which merged with Holy Angels and became Bay Ridge Catholic Academy), Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Aellis paid thirty-five dollars and fifty cents for three yellow gym shirts with the St. Bernadette crest. On his way out, he passed Michele Cartelli and Andrea Gatti-Bryant, sisters who swirled in with a dozen questions. They needed Our Lady of Grace uniforms for two nine-year-old boys, who were starting school the next morning.
"What's the one they wear every day?" Cartelli asked.
"I thought I saw kids wearing beige pants," Gatti-Bryant said.
No, a clerk explained, Our Lady of Grace requires "graphite twill"—gray pants. Gatti-Bryant sent her son, Renzo, a skinny kid she calls Bird Bones, into a changing room with a size eight slim, and he emerged grimacing. The pants were baggy and flared at the ankles. "You can't go smaller, because I'm going to wash them," his mother said. Renzo slunk back into the fitting room. "Drip?" he asked, using a hip-hop fashion term as he examined the uniform. "Not at all." He went on, "It's my choice. It's my body." He yanked the eighty-three-plaid curtain closed.
"I'm sorry," Gatti-Bryant told him. "That's what it is for Catholic school."
Renzo didn't have to endure the baggy pants for long. A week later, Governor Andrew Cuomo closed Our Lady of Grace and all other schools in nine neighborhoods across Queens and Brooklyn where rates of the virus had spiked. The sisters hoped that city officials would come up with a better plan. Cartelli, a physical therapist, said that balancing her job and remote learning for her son, Matthew, had been chaotic. Gatti-Bryant had initially signed Renzo up for what the public schools are calling blended learning, "but they were only going to be in person about five days a month," she said. "People need to work. What are you going to do with your kids? Leave them home alone?"
"Not every parent is cut out to be a teacher," Cartelli said.
Gatti-Bryant looked at Renzo, then shook her head. "I could never." ♦
Published in the print edition of the October 19, 2020, issue, with the headline "Glad for Plaid."
Casey Parks was a 2019-20 Spencer Fellow in education reporting at the Columbia Journalism School. Her first book, "Diary of a Misfit," will be published in 2022.
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Q: How do I allow changing of Active Directory passwords via unsecured LDAP? As you might already know AD does not let you change the password through LDAP if you don't have a secure connection to AD. I heard that there is a registry setting to change this behavior but so far couldn't find where it is... Anyone of you know how can I can change this behavior?

A: You should be able to disable this by changing the local security policy on  the domain controller(s) for 'digitally signed server communications'
This can be found in
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Obviously you  need to be aware of the security hole you would be opening on your DC when doing this.


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THRESHOLD: Chapter 4
And now the return of another old friend...
Nicholas Glendale leaned back in his chair, relishing the lightness of one-third gravity—though not quite as much as he was enjoying the majestically rotating view of the Red Planet through his office window.
Phobos Station was shaping up nicely. Basically the habitat ring of a Nike-class vessel with a docking hub, the Station was one of the subsidiary conditions of the Mars Treaty, a centralized location where missions to and from Phobos and Mars could be launched or concluded. Nicholas had wasted no time in making it clear that he intended to permit ships of any and all types to avail themselves of the station's amenities, so long as they were willing to help support the station—or to out it more crudely, pay for the privilege. True, such use was implied in the nature of the Interplanetary Research Institute, which essentially owned Phobos Station. But by making it explicit and enthusiastic, Glendale hoped to ensure that the IRI would be more than just an overseeing body, but an active force in the exploration of the Solar System.
And, as Madeline pointed out, it would also make it a lot easier for us to keep tabs on all the other players. It was a bit of a jarring shift of gears to start thinking in those terms. While you did try to keep an eye on other scientists' work in academia, the level of paranoia and security needed for his new job as Director of the IRI was something entirely different, and one of the least-pleasant parts of that job.
Having Fathom as his new head of security, however, certainly made it easier. As he thought that, he heard the faint chime from his door announcing her arrival. "Come in, Madeline."
"Good morning, Director. Or is it afternoon?" Madeline glided in, every golden hair impeccably in place as usual.
Easier on the eye as well as on my schedule, Nicholas mused. He was quite honest about the fact that he thought both Joe Buckley and A.J. Baker were exceedingly lucky men. Or perhaps just much easier to live with, he corrected himself. As an admittedly handsome and very well known figure, he'd been "lucky" that way four times, each time ending with a divorce; one friendly, one neutral, two savage. He'd been single for some years now, and suspected he'd be smart to remain that way. For whatever reason—probably flaws in his own personality, he'd readily admit—Nicholas Glendale and marriage just didn't seem to suit each other.
"I suppose it depends on your preference," he said, in answer to her light question. "The standard Martian time is early morning. Hopefully we should be concluded by the time Joe is ready to call you."
She gave a slight frown. "I shouldn't be that transparent."
"Madeline, my dear, you should be that transparent about something that isn't at all a secret. You have to bounce constantly between here, Phobos Base, and Mars; the last thing I want to do is cause you to miss out on whatever you married Joe for. This may be a mystery to the rest of us, but as long as it keeps you happy…"
Fathom grinned, sticking her tongue out.
Glendale smiled in response. "Always glad to be of help. It's time for the general briefing, is it?"
"With new wrinkles and info, yes. I've sent it to your email too."
"Which I will file with the others after I get the live presentation, yes."
Maddie sat down across from him. "Well, I'll try to make it fast. First, Ares. I am required to tell you 'thank you!' once again by everyone on Mars. Yes, I know, that's the fifth time, but they'll probably send the same message for the next five times anyway."
"And tell Glenn, Joe, A.J., and the others they're all welcome. Again." Nicholas had stretched several points to make a considerable portion of the shipment he'd brought with him from Earth, ostensibly intended to help set up the IRI, be delivered to Ares at very reasonable price. That wasn't, in his view, charity. The division of Mars had given Ares essentially all of the Melas Chasma area as well as a number of other notable claims elsewhere—except for, of course, the Bemmie base on Mars. This made the IRI a political and economic island with exactly one neighbor: the Ares Project. It only made sense to be neighborly. The fact that many of the people involved were his friends just made it easier.
Maddie consulted her notes. "Walter Keldering is requesting another meeting with you. Probably wants to try to push for more U.S. direct access to the research."
"Of course he is," Nicholas sighed. "I suppose you'll have to set one up; I don't have any reason to antagonize the United States, even if I'm going to have to once more refuse him special privileges—whatever justification he's come up with this time." Nicholas' hopes had been that whoever was sent to replace Madeline would be a pure political yes-man, someone who just did exactly as he was told. Keldering was political, but unfortunately was very competent indeed. The former CIA operative had not attempted any bluster or bullying, as might have been expected from the current administration's attitude. Instead he seemed to be almost infinitely inventive at finding legal and practical arguments that would lead to preferential treatment of the United States with respect to any new discoveries in the alien bases. Even Maddie had more than once voiced a grudging respect for Keldering's unfailingly polite, doggedly resourceful approach.
Privately, Nicholas suspected part of Madeline Fathom was actually pleased with the situation; she enjoyed having an adversary who might occasionally test her steel. For Nicholas himself, however, Keldering was just an annoyance. "Put him down for an appointment in a week or so."
"Yes, sir. On the positive side, the finalized cooperative agreements with Ares have arrived and the Ares board of directors just signed all of them. Once you countersign, all our arrangements will be in place."
"Good."
"Let's see… America's got the second engine built and tested for Nike and is building two more for Athena. Europe's keeping tight lips on the Odin. They're making some major design changes, and I think what they're planning is something more suited for outer system exploration. Based on preliminary hints and the fact that they've hired a number of people in a couple of related specialties, Jackie Secord and Dr. Gupta have both told me they suspect Odin will be designed to use a mass-beam drive as well as the NERVA rocket and standard electric ion drives." She glanced at Nicholas to see if he understood.
Nicholas nodded. "Ions or small particles fired at the ship which catches them, probably magnetically, thus transferring the momentum directly without need for using fuel. Very power hungry, however, yes?"
"I think they're also planning on attempting solar powersats to run the thing. Do it far enough away from Earth to be no particular danger or nuisance and once you've proven the reliability, you can also then market the satellites to supply energy. We'll have to keep a close eye on them. Japan's well along in the construction of Amaterasu, and current buzz is that they're planning to also build a real orbital colony. This has been a perennial favorite of Japan's space enthusiasts, so that's no real surprise.
"China, unfortunately, had their engine go bad—you heard about all that. I think what's going to happen there is that the U.S. will apologize, promise to repair the thing at no cost, and probably sell them or give them another engine eventually. It'll still slow down China's deployment significantly, probably putting them last in terms of getting a functional reusable interplanetary craft going. They may benefit to some small extent from watching other people's mistakes along the way, but overall it's a bad break for them.
"India's moving forward with the creation of the space elevator. They've named the project 'Meru,' by the way, after Mount Meru, the legendary world pillar in Hindu mythology. Preliminary calculations show that their proposed design will come in under a thousand tons total mass. Modifying the NERVA reactor to act as a power generator – not the best design if you start from scratch, but having the reactor already up in the sky counts for something – they'll have plenty of power for dragging cargo up and down and keeping a station above the world running. You asked me about anchoring the thing down last time—something I didn't know much about—so I checked into it. The design they're using doesn't really require much anchoring force—about as much as the designed transport capability, actually. They're going to be splitting the base and anchoring it to several nearby ships, so it doesn't have a single simple point of failure. Time to completion, about another year."
"One year?" Nicholas sat up straighter. "That seems awfully fast!"
"Apparently it's within reason. And building up its capacity will be built into the design. In a few more years they'll be able to send a thousand tons per week up or down. With the IRI and Ares having first call on much of that capacity, we will be a lot more comfortable—and after you made sure Ares got a cheap shipment," she gave him a grateful smile on behalf of Joe and his friends, "they'll definitely make it long enough to survive the crisis."
"Which means we're missing just one element: how are we going to get the stuff from geosynch orbit around Earth to here?" Nicholas said. "Slingshot?"
He was referring to the fact that if you placed a load farther out than geosynch, you could literally let it "fly out" like a slingshot, propelled in essence by the Earth's rotation, just like a real sling spun about someone's head.
"Possible—and, once Meru is fully operational, I'm sure they'll be building some orbital slingshots anyway. But using Meru itself as a slingshot is limited by a lot of factors of timing and relative position between Earth and Mars. Some packages could be shipped up with their own little electric drives—once you're in geosynch it's a lot easier to get elsewhere—but that'd cut down on the actual cargo arriving here and make it a lot more expensive. We really do need our own ship."
"Well?"
She grinned. "Bruce Irwin's willing to be the captain and pilot if we get one built. As you know, Jackie Secord's already offered to run the engineering side, and she's keeping the reactor-engine assembly maintained now. Pricing on the standard Nike or Phobos Station habitat ring segments, though, is totally out of our league, even if we could get them to slow down their build schedule to supply us."
"We really do need something like that, though, don't we?"
Maddie nodded. "Anything much less than one-third g as constant living conditions will cause a lot of health problems. In fact, I'd really feel more comfortable if we could push that up, and on some of the new ships like Odin they might well. They'll have more time and luxury for crew selection, so they won't have to worry about spin disorientation as much."
"Does Ares have a solution in mind?" This was one of the major reasons for establishing cooperation between the IRI and its closest neighbor. They were, as India had already recognized, the only talent pool of space-qualified experts who were not currently committed to a specific country's space program.
"Since the full agreements haven't been signed, I can't officially say anything, but Joe told me to tell you 'damn straight we do'. If it's what I think, it will work, too."
Nicholas leaned back slowly. "Then get me those originals pronto, so I can sign them. Let's get to work!"
Nicholas refused to disappear from the story when I wrote Boundary; I'm glad of it, he's fun to write with.


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The art is of a lone fishing boat in Alnmouth Estuary, after the tide has gone out, it lies stranded on the wet sand. Oyster catchers scurry around on the sand looking for food as the night draws near. There is an air of peace and tranquility about this art which is true to fact of the beautifuol bay of Alnmouth.
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Russia is Developing 5th Generation Nuclear Submarine
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By Paul Antonopoulos Last updated Dec 16, 2018
MOSCOW, Russia – According to Admiral Vladimir Korolev, construction of a new fifth-generation nuclear submarine for the Russian Navy has begun.
Korolev announced the project during the opening of the scientific and historical conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Russian submarine fleet. The ceremony took place in Severodvinsk.
During those 60 years, scientists, designers and naval builders have taken a unique path, maintaining the best traditions that have today allowed the construction of a fourth-generation nuclear submarine, as well as starting work on creating a fifth generation nuclear submarine, according to the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
The new submarines will be able to deal with complex problems in any part of the ocean. In addition, the ship will have several improvements in line with current military experience.
Russia currently has multifunctional fourth-generation submarines of the 885, 885m projects equipped with Kalibr and Oniks cruise missiles. In addition, the Russian navy relies on the strategic nuclear submarines of projects 955 and 955A (Borei and Borei II).
Earlier this month the North Fleet Severodvinsk multifunctional nuclear submarine carried out a cruise missile and Kalibr sea-base firing in the Barents Sea.
According to Captain Vadim Serga, "as part of the preparatory events and military drills in the new school year, the North Fleet Severodvinsk multi-functional nuclear submarine successfully conducted cruise missile firing."
"The military exercise was carried out from the sea surface at a military training camp in the North Sea Fleet in the Barents Sea. The missile was launched at the Chizha polygon in the Arkhangelsk region," the captain said.
According to Captain Serga, the distance from the launch point to the target was more than 700 km. The firing was carried out with predicted degree of accuracy and in accordance with all technical parameters.
Severodvinsk is the only Yasen-class submarine in the Russian Navy's service. The submerged displacement of the vessel is 13,800 tons, with a length of 390 feet.
The submarine reaches the speed of up to 31 knots and can reach the depth of up to 600 meters. It is a fourth generation vessel with a reduced acoustic level. Severodvinsk is intended to destroy terrestrial, surface and submerged objects.
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You have cancer!!! These three words are the worst words you may ever hear. Not only for the person directly affected but also for everyone who loves this person.
Last year in August 2008 our Mom (I have one sister) was diagnosed with what was thought to be stage II uterine cancer. She was assured by doctors it was caught early and was in the best place cancer can be. After surgery and further testing we found out it had progressed farther than we originally thought. Now she faced months of chemotherapy and radiation, which she was told was only for precaution. Three months later, she went to get a check up, expecting she had a clean bill of health, but instead leaving the doctors office now knowing her cancer had metastasized to her lungs, colon and bowels. Not much hope was given to us that day. We were told they could only do chemo and only hope that it would slow down the spread. This was the most devastating news we have ever dealt with in our lives. My husband did hours upon hours of research hoping he would find something with a potentially better outcome. Approximately three weeks later she has transferred doctors and is now going to Princess Margaret where they tried a trail drug that helped two of her cancers (she has it in three places) but didnt help one at all. They stopped the trial. Mom ended up in the hospital from bladder pain and didnt get released until the next day.
One week before Christmas we rushed her to the hospital due to low oxygen levels and hallusination. They kept her there until Christmas Eve and sent her home still hallusinating. We had to take her back to the hospital on boxing day where she stayed until 1 week ago. She is still hallusinatig a bit but no brain tumor so we are unsure why. Also, she is vomiting and not eating or barley drinking and going down hill fast! I watch her fade away and lose weight and lose strength. She isnt on anything for cancer right now as she is way to weak. I cry every night all night and I pray she will pull through this! She has ascedies (sweating) in her bowels from the canceer that didnt take to the trial drug. She is suppose to fo chemo again but is too weak right now. They said IV would go to all the wrong places??!! She has to go to the hospital each week to be drained of this "sweat". She is sooo sick and throwing up even without food in her system. My poor husband listens to me cry every day!! My mom is only 54 years old - way to young to die!!! I just got married and I havent given my mom a grand baby yet - what she soooo badly wants from me! The doctor told me that if i tried now I would probably miscarry. I am 28 years old!
I know there are so many people who have gone through the same thing and without more research will continue to. We need to PUT AN END TO CANCER. Thank you for reading my story and please if you know how I can cope - any suggestions are welcome!