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St Peter's Parish, Surry Hills
TEMPORARY MASS TIMES
Saturday Vigil:
Sunday: Mass at 9:00 am; Sung Mass at 10:30 am.
Tuesday: Mass at 10:00am; Cenacle after 10:00am Mass
Wednesday: Mass at 10:00am
Thursday: Mass at 10:00am; Cenacle after 10:00am Mass
Friday: Mass at 10:00am
Saturday: Mass at 10:00am
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The Petrine Office
Barque of Peter
The World is a flood of confusion. Only one Boat that can sail safely through. The sail is Jesus. It's pilot is Peter. It's rudder, the Word of God. It is the Catholic Church. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" (John 14:6)
Follow the Lord and you will be led out of darkness, for He is the light. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light. (Psalm 36:9) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people set apart to sing the praises of God who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)
" … the barque of the Church is not mine but [Christ's], nor does the Lord let it sink; it is he who guides it, surely also through those whom he has chosen, because he so wished. This has been, and is, a certainty which nothing can shake. "
– Pope Benedict XVI, last General Audience, February 27th, 2013; Vatican.va
Fratelli Tutti (The third encyclical of Pope Francis) As the Parish of Saint Peter, Surry Hills supports the person and teachings of his successors who, as Bishops of Rome, hold the Petrine office.
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Covid Archdiocesan/Parish Regulations
No person who is unwell should come onto the parish property. (Archbishop Fisher's dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation remains in place indefinitely.)
A distance of 4 square metres per person is to be maintained inside all parish buildings, including when queuing to receive Holy Communion.
A distance of 1.5 metres between persons is to be maintained outdoors everywhere on the parish property
Those persons entering the church have to wear face mask and check-in using the QR Code.
Those who do not have not the Service NSW app, please write your name and contact details on the sign-in form.
AFTER checking-in or signing in, all persons entering the church are to use the hand sanitizer placed on the sign-in table.
Please observe the "where to sit" signs on each pew.
There is no need to sign-out.
Thank you everyone for your co-operation and patience during these abnormal times.
235 Devonshire Street
(near Crown St)
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Email: st61538@bigpond.net.au
Administrator: Rev John Macdonald Adm
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[toc]The morning after a night long party can be a bit troublesome moreover, if you are suffering from a hangover. Hangovers can be tough to handle especially, if you drink gallons of wine, beer or hard liquor. Dizziness, nausea, headache and fatigue are just some examples of what we suffer from in the morning. Drinking hard liquor causes depletion of vitamin A, B and C, dehydration and slows down the metabolism of a human body.
A hangover will not leave your system completely until you have successfully kicked out the alcohol from your body.
Hangover can really become unbearable and slow down your working of an entire day if it is not taken care of in the morning itself. Now, hangover will surely not get cured completely in an instant. However, there are easy and natural ways to alleviate the irritating symptoms of it.
When you drink a can of cola, it helps in easing the nausea in the morning. Cola is the best remedy because it has acid or fizz in it. The liquid will help in treating dehydration and the acid will relieve the nausea that the person is suffering from. You will feel a lot better and energetic due to the caffeine and sugar kick.
You can eat a dry piece of toast. You must do this even if you are feeling sick in the stomach due to the hangover. Eating this will help your stomach ease up a little bit. Greasy items will only make you feel worse therefore try and avoid butter, jam or peanut butter.
You can also eat a banana. Banana has a lot of potassium and will refuel up the mineral that was lost due to drinking. Banana also contains manganese which helps in easing up the headache. This food is also good in easing nausea because it acts like an antacid.
When you are drinking your body loses vitamin C and therefore, you must replace it at once when you wake up. You can drink a glass of orange or sweet lime juice. This will help ease the symptoms of hangover.
You can take a hot shower or steam. The hot water will help in releasing the toxins from your body and will also help in getting rid of the alcohol. You might start feeling dizzy in the shower but later on you will feel a lot easier and better.
Hangover is mostly caused due to dehydration; therefore, it is very important to drink gallons of water once you wake up in the morning. This will get your body back on the line to recovery. You might be feeling nauseous and sick in the stomach but you have to force yourself into drinking water. Drinking water will release the toxins and alcohol from your body and will help you in battling nausea, fatigue etc.
Eating a soup is also a known way to battle hangover. Prepare and eat a spicy Mexican soup or any other comforting soup at home. Soup is a natural and traditional way of battling hangover quickly.
If you do not like to eat a banana then it will be nice to drink a banana smoothie. Banana is easy on your stomach and gets digested easily. It has potassium, manganese and antacid that helps is relieving the symptoms of hangover and getting you back on track. Drinking a banana smoothie will also help in refuelling the lost minerals of your body. You can make this easily at home by blending two ripe bananas with milk and natural honey till smooth. This mixture will soothe your upset stomach.
You must never take acetaminophen for easing hangover. This medicine affects your liver badly. You have to remember that you have already played and damaged your organ the night before. Taking acetaminophen with alcohol can lead to bigger damage to the liver. Instead, you can easily take aspirin; this will ease your fatigue, headache, nausea etc. Take another medicine if your stomach is sensitive.
Your body requires a lot of protein and vitamins to replace the depletion that happened during drinking liquor. Eggs, orange, sweet lime, grapefruit, or pomegranate juice will get you kicking for the day and also help you in feeling normal. You have to remember that you have lost the protein and vital vitamins and minerals from your body last night, the best way to heal fast is to eat foods that are healthy and ease your stomach.
Drinking coffee right in the morning will give you the caffeine kick and alleviate the nausea, headache and other symptoms of a hangover. The warm liquid will soothe your nerves and headache. The best way to fix a headache is to drink "Irish coffee". This is a strong coffee and it will instantly provide the kick to nerves and stomach. But, if you have a sick stomach then you can easily avoid taking caffeine as it will only help in building up the acidity.
Well you have to understand your body and give it ample of time to recuperate from the hangover. If you have a tight working schedule, you can at least take a power nap of 20 minutes to alleviate the fatigue and headache. Even if you cannot get to sleep, it is important for you to let you body rest completely. You will definitely feel the difference in yourself when you wake up.
Prevention is the best way to treat a hangover. You must drink responsibly. Eat good food with your drink. Never mix two types of alcohol. Always drink water in between to make sure that you stay hydrated. If you want you can also drink orange juice along with your drink. In case you have forgotten, then you must limit your drink to one every hour. We are a bunch of grown-up men and need to behave like one too.


Continue to fill your life with love and gratitude. You can't go wrong when these two are at the forefront of your existence. The reason being is that you are living from your spirit which is connected to your heart and soul. That passion lying in there promotes all great things. Every moment possible, say thank you. Say how much you love all things around you. See the joy within them and watch your life transform for the greater. You are coming into realization with one of the simplest, yet greatest concepts ever known to mankind. Love, love, love and more love puts you in a perfect position to always live from the spirit in everything you do. You are teriffic because you allow this concept to rule your life in every aspect. Enjoy yourself today because you deserve every moment of it all. Your commitment to love and gratitude makes a world of difference in your life.


My notes from setting up a production KVM environment, after migrating from VMware ESXi 5.1 to Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit with Linux Kernel 3.2 and QEMU 1.4.2, and open vSwitch.
Update: Based on an email I received, I've updated this post with more relevant information regarding setting up SAVDI with amavisd-new.
I recently migrated to using Postfix with amavisd-new on Ubuntu Linux, and was looking at integrating Sophos AntiVirus with amavisd-new. amavisd-new shipping with the LTS release of Ubuntu is 2.6.5, which does not include SPPP functionality for communicating with savdi so you must use Sophie protocol.
This post is assuming that you have setup amavisd-new on your system, and have it integrated with Postfix or equivalent MTA already.
This should permit amavisd-new to communicate with the SAVDID interface. Don't forget to create the appropriate init.d script to start savdid on boot and make sure to create the /var/run/savdid directory – as Debian/Ubuntu clean /var/run on system startup. Please download the init script from here and place it in /etc/init.d/savdid with an executable bit.
Please be aware that the socket line is being pointed at the place where we have SAVI listening for connections, based on our previous post.


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Habrolampis is een geslacht van rechtvleugeligen uit de familie Romaleidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van dit geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1978 door Descamps.

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Het geslacht Habrolampis omvat de volgende soorten:
Habrolampis bicolor Descamps, 1978
Habrolampis nemorensis Descamps, 1978

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Tariq Al Habtoor - What is a Venture Capitalist?
Tariq Al Habtoor enjoys a variety of professional roles. Not only is Tariq Al Habtoor a well-educated intellectual, mechanical engineer, real estate professional and entrepreneur, he is also a skilled programmer, noted operations professional and an innovative venture capitalist – someone always on the lookout for great ideas and business opportunities in need of financial support.
Invest in business ventures, such as the launch of startups or the expansion of existing enterprises.
Make investments in the form of equity financing. This type of investment generally involves a large financial commitment made by the VC in exchange for a significant equity stake in the company.
Tend to be active partners in the business – a role that often includes controlling a certain number of votes on the board and owning a large percentage of the company's shares.


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Renowned British Rabbi Avraham Pinter succumbs to COVID-19
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Renowned British Rabbi Avraham Pinter succumbed Monday night to COVID-19.
Pinter, who had close ties to the Labour Party, was the head of Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School in London and was the first rabbi in Britain to become a local councillor when he took a position in Hackney borough.
Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville paid tribute to the rabbi as someone who "did so much for Hackney and the Haredi community."


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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to enhance both basic and applied cancer prevention research. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications that propose small and time-limited projects pertinent to the development of cancer chemoprevention agents, biomarkers for early cancer detection, cancer-related nutrition science, and/or clinical prevention studies that focus on specific target organs. Proposed projects may involve basic animal and/or translational research and/or human subjects-oriented research. However, treatment related quality of life population based studies, as well as projects focused on cancer etiology, metastasis, animal model development, or treatment will not be appropriate for this FOA. New, as well as established, investigators in relevant fields and disciplines (e.g., chemoprevention, nutritional science, genetics, infectious agents, and early detection, including biomarker development and validation) are encouraged to apply for these small grants to test the feasibility of innovative ideas or carry out pilot studies. Ultimately, these small grants are expected to facilitate the development of full research projects grants.
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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is designed to enhance the basic and applied cancer prevention research and community-based clinical research in cancer prevention. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) invites small grants applications that propose small and time-limited research projects in the area of cancer prevention. These projects must be pertinent to the development of cancer chemoprevention agents, biomarkers for early cancer detection, cancer-related nutrition science, and/or clinical prevention studies that focus on specific target organs.
Proposed projects may involve basic animal and/or translational research and/or human subjects-oriented research that is hypothesis driven. However, treatment related quality of life population based studies, as well as projects focused on cancer etiology, metastasis, animal model development, or treatment will not be appropriate for this FOA. Small grants are short-term awards that provide support for pilot projects, development and testing of new methodologies, or innovative projects that provide a basis for more extended research. For new investigators, these R03 awards may facilitate the path to independent research career. Therefore, in the long run, this FOA is anticipated to promote the growth of a cadre of scientists with expertise in cancer prevention research.
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Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s) convened by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) (assignments will be shown in the eRA Commons), in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria.


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Third quarter and nine month results announced
The Board of Independent Tankers Corporation Limited (Bermuda) announces net income of $2.9 million, equivalent to earnings per share of $0.04 for the third quarter of 2008. This compares with net income of $3.6 million, equivalent to earnings per share of $0.05 for the third quarter of 2007 based on predecessor accounts. The third quarter results include a charge of $1.8 million in respect of the premium paid on the purchase of Windsor term notes and $0.2 million in respect of financing charges in relation to new loan facilities.
The average daily bareboat rate earned in the third quarter by the Company's VLCCs and the Suezmax tanker Front Voyager were approximately $26,100 and $7,800, respectively, compared with approximately $26,100 and $7,900, respectively, in the preceding quarter.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2008 the Company announces net income of $10.0 million, equivalent to earnings per share of $0.13 (2007 comparable nine months: $10.8 million, equivalent to earnings per share of $0.14). Net interest expense was $16.7 million (2007 comparable nine months: $19.5 million). At September 30, 2008, all of the Company's bond debt of $338.7 million is fixed with interest rates ranging from 6.63% to 8.52%.
In November 2008, the Company has an average cash breakeven rate for its VLCCs and Suezmax tanker of approximately $21,500 and $5,000 per vessel, respectively.
Chartering summary
The double hull VLCCs, Antares Voyager and Phoenix Voyager are on bareboat contracts to Chevron Transport Corporation and at a fixed rate of $28,500 per day until December 2010 and March 2011, respectively. Chevron Transport Corporation has termination options every second year and the next notice of exercise of options must be given nine months before December 2010 and March 2011. The final termination options are in December 2014 and March 2015.
The double hull VLCCs, British Pioneer, British Progress, British Purpose and British Pride are on bareboat contracts to BP Shipping Limited and at a fixed rate of $24,895 per day until January 2009, February 2010, July 2010 and July 2011, respectively. After the fixed rate all the vessels will start trading at a market rate with a minimum rate of $20,000 per day.
Until April 2009, the single hull Suezmax tanker Front Voyager is on a bareboat rate of $4,242 per day on a cash basis to Frontline Ltd. ("Frontline"). Frontline has a right to extend for one more year on a cash basis at $4,988 until April, 2010 and thereafter five annual options. The charter party is being accounted for as a four year operating lease from April 1, 2006 and the estimated income is being amortized on a straightline basis giving a rate of $7,900 per day.
In October 2008, Dresdner Kleinwort Leasing gave notice of termination for the UK tax lease agreement for the VLCC British Pioneer. The leasing agreement will effectively be terminated January 2, 2009. At September 30, 2008 the obligation under the lease was $79.2 million and the termination is cash neutral for the Company. The Company will acquire the vessel concurrent with the lease termination and the existing bareboat to BP Shipping Limited will remain in place.
In July and August 2008, Independent Tankers purchased as part of the restructuring process of the Company $38 million of the $239.1 million Windsor term notes at a premium of 104.75% over par value, equivalent to approximately $1.8 million. Independent Tankers completed two short term bank loan facilities for a total of $40.6 million in order to finance the purchase of the term notes.
The Company has also entered into a short term overdraft facility of $5 million in order to cover short term liquidity requirements.
74,825,166 ordinary shares were outstanding as of September 30, 2008, and the weighted average number of shares outstanding for the quarter was 74,825,166.
The average market rate for VLCCs from MEG to Japan in the third quarter was approximately WS 148 ($96,500 per day) compared to approximately WS 173 ($130,000 per day) in the second quarter of 2008. The average rate for Suezmaxes from WAF to USAC in the third quarter was approximately WS 204 ($69,500 per day), compared to approximately WS 213 ($78,800 per day) in the second quarter of 2008.
In November, 2008 the International Energy Agency ("IEA") reported an average OPEC oil production, including Iraq, of 32.4 million barrels per day during the third quarter of the year, a 0.2 million barrels per day increase from the second quarter. The next OPEC meeting is scheduled to take place on December 17, 2008.
IEA further estimates that world oil demand averaged 85.5 million barrels per day in the third quarter, a 0.3 percent decrease from the second quarter of 2008. IEA predicts that the average demand for 2008 in total will be 86.2 million barrels per day, or a 0.1 percent growth from 2007. The growth for 2009 is estimated to 0.4 percent.
According to Fearnleys, the VLCC fleet totalled 490 vessels at the end of the third quarter with five deliveries during the quarter. There are 16 additional deliveries expected in 2008. The total order book amounted to 241 vessels at the end of the third quarter, up from 215 vessels after the second quarter of 2008. The current orderbook represents about 49 percent of the VLCC fleet. One VLCC was deleted from the trading fleet whilst 31 VLCCs were ordered during the quarter. The single hull fleet amounted to 113 vessels at the end of the third quarter.
The Suezmax fleet totalled 346 vessels at the end of the quarter, up from 344 vessels after the second quarter of 2008, a 0.6 percent fleet increase over the quarter. No Suezmaxes were deleted from the trading fleet, 13 Suezmaxes were ordered and two deliveries took place in the quarter. The total orderbook amounted to 174 vessels at the end of the quarter, an increase of 11 from the end of the first quarter. There are seven additional deliveries expected in 2008. The orderbook represents approximately 50 percent of the current Suezmax fleet. The single hull fleet amounted to 37 vessels at the end of the third quarter.
The Company's strategy will mainly be concentrated around long term charters to reputable companies and for the time being BP Shipping Limited, Chevron Transport Corporation and Frontline.
The Board still feels that the stock price is not reflecting the value of the underlying assets in the Company and have been working on different alternatives, including strategic options in order reduce this differential. The Company has been involved in several discussions regarding strategic changes during the quarter, but due to the challenging financial and equity markets, no results have been achieved in this dialogue.
The quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter of 2008 are expected to be in line with the third quarter of 2008. From 2009, the Board anticipates improved results as a consequence of the VLCC British Pioneer coming off a fixed charter rate in January 2009 and starting to trade at a market rate with a minimum rate of $20,000 per day. Two more VLCCs will start trading at a market rate during 2010 and one more in 2011.
The Company's charter coverage is 100 percent for the fourth quarter 2008. The Company has low cash breakeven rates and the vessels are fully financed through the US bond market with maturity from 2015 to 2021.
The combination of fixed bareboat and market rates, for the six VLCCs in the next couple of years and the fact that the Company is fully financed creates a solid platform for the Company going forward.
The main focus of the Company going forward will be to find solutions to get access to the locked up future cash flows.
This press release contains forward looking statements. These statements are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including the Company's management's examination of historical operating trends. Although the Company believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond its control, the Company cannot give assurance that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or intentions.
Important factors that, in the Company's view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in this press release include the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions including fluctuations in charter hire rates and vessel values, changes in demand in the tanker market as a result of changes in OPEC's petroleum production levels and world wide oil consumption and storage, changes in the Company's operating expenses including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, and other important factors described from time to time in the reports filed by the Company with the Norwegian over-the-counter market in Oslo.


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A dill sprig is a cutting of the fine, fern-like leaves of the plant Anethum graveolens, or dill weed. It is a term used as a loose measurement of the herb, usually in recipes. The use of dill dates back to at least 3000 B.C. when it was mentioned in an ancient Egyptian medical textbook.... Regular pruning keeps dill plants productive while also supplying an ongoing harvest of fresh leaves and flowers. Cutting it properly further ensures the plants will survive and remain productive.
In this Article: Air Drying Dill Oven Drying Dill Microwave Drying Dill Community Q&A References. Dill, or dill weed, is an herb that is used for flavor in Western European, Eastern European and Scandinavian cuisines. You can dry the ferns and use the seeds to make essential oils.... Fresh dill weed can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks and still maintain its flavor. Both the seeds and the leaves can be dried and stored for many months in an air-tight container. Leaves can be frozen as well, but they will lose a lot of their flavor if stored this way.
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Prognostic factors in cervical cancer.
The inadequacy of clinical methods has spurred efforts to develop objective, measurable and reproducible parameters for the spread and growth behaviour of cervical cancer. Morphological methods were applied first. They can be used only on the surgical specimen, but are accessible to biometry. The presented results are based on 479 surgical specimens obtained at radical abdominal hysterectomy for cervical cancers of different sizes. The specimens were processed as frontal giant sections with the cervix, the vaginal cuff and the parametria on both sides. The median follow-up time was 7-8 years. Statistical correlations were found between follow-up data, biometric morphologic criteria and survival. The statistical ranking of the significant prognostic factors produced the following order: lymph node metastases, size of lymph node metastases, tumour volume, parametrial involvement and vascular invasion.


ONCE upon a time, long, long ago, there were two candidates, the one rich and the other poor. When Election Eve came, the poor one had not a vote in the house, either of lobbyist or citizen; so he went to his running mate, and begged him, in God's name, to give him something for Election Day. It was by no means the first time that the candidate had been forced to give something to him, and he was not better pleased at being asked now than he generally was.
"If you will do what I ask you, you shall have a whole vote," said he. The poor one immediately thanked him, and promised this.
"Well, here is the vote, and now you must go straight to BP Headquarters," said the rich candidate, throwing the vote to him.
"Well, I will do what I have promised," said the other, and he took the vote and set off. He went on and on for the livelong day, and at nightfall he came to a place where there was a bright light.
"I have no doubt this is the place," thought the man with the vote.
An old man with a long white beard was standing in the outhouse, reading the National Review.
"Good-evening," said the man with the vote.
"I am going to BP Headquarters, if only I am on the right track," answered the poor man.
"Oh! yes, you are right enough, for it is here," said the old man. "When you get inside they will all want to buy your vote, for they don't get much access to candidates here; but you must not sell it unless you can get the drill which stands behind the door for it. When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the drill, which is useful for almost everything."
So the man with the vote thanked the other for his good advice, and rapped at the door.
When he got in, everything happened just as the old man had said it would: all the people, great and small, came round him like ants on an ant-hill, and each tried to outbid the other for the vote.
"By rights my running-mate and I ought to have it for our Election, but, since you have set your hearts upon it, I must just give it up to you," said the man. "But, if I sell it, I will have the drill which is standing there behind the door."
At first they would not hear to this, and haggled and bargained with the man, but he stuck to what he had said, and the people were forced to give him the drill. When the man came out again into the yard, he asked the old man how he was to stop the drill, and when he had learned that, he thanked him and set off home with all the speed he could, but did not get there until after the clock had struck twelve on Election Eve.
"Oh! I could not come before; I had something of importance to see about, and a long way to go, too; but now you shall just see!" said the man, and then he set the drill on the table, and bade it first grind money, then a lobbyist, and then power, and influence, and everything else that was good for a Election Day victory; and the drill ground all that he ordered. "Bless me!" said the old woman as one thing after another appeared; and she wanted to know where her husband had got the drill from, but he would not tell her that.
"Never mind where I got it; you can see that it is a good one, and the drilling mud that turns it will never freeze," said the man. So he ground power and prestige, and all kinds of good things, to last all Election-tide, and on the third day he invited all his friends to come to a feast.
Now when the rich candidate saw all that there was at the banquet and in the house, he was both vexed and angry, for he grudged everything his candidate had. "On Election Eve he was so poor that he came to me and begged for a trifle, for God's sake, and now he gives a feast as if he were both a count and a king!" thought he. "But, for heaven's sake, tell me where you got your riches from," said he to his running mate.
"From behind the door," said he who owned the drill, for he did not choose to satisfy his running-mate on that point; but later in the evening, when he had taken a drop too much, he could not refrain from telling how he had come by the drill. "There you see what has brought me all my wealth!" said he, and brought out the drill, and made it grind first one thing and then another. When the rich candidate saw that, he insisted on having the drill, and after a great deal of persuasion got it; but he had to give three million dollars for it, and the poor candidate was to keep it till the term of office was over, for he thought: "If I keep it as long as that, I can make it grind power and prestige that will last many a long year."
During that time you may imagine that the drill did not grow rusty, and when re-election came the rich candidate got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it. It was evening when the rich man got the drill home, and in the morning he bade the old woman go out and spread the propaganda after the voters, and he would attend to the house himself that day, he said.
So, when roll call drew near, he set the drill on the kitchen-table, and said: "Grind distortions and lies, and do it both quickly and well."
So the drill began to grind distortions and lies, and first all the newspapers and airwaves were filled, and then it came out all over the internets. The man twisted and turned it, and did all he could to make the drill stop, but, howsoever he turned it and screwed it, the drill went on grinding, and in a short time the lies grew so strong that the man was starting to believe it was the truth.
Now the old woman, who was out spreading the lies, began to think the vote was long in coming, and said to the women and the voters: "Though the master does not call us home, we may as well go. It may be that he finds he is not good at making lies and I should do well to help him." So they began to straggle homeward, but when they had got a little way up the hill they met the half-truths and distortions, all pouring forth and winding about one over the other, and the man himself in front of the flood. "Would to heaven that each of you had a hundred votes! Take care that you are not misled by the lies!" he cried as he went by them as if Mischief were at his heels, down to where his running-mate dwelt.
Then he begged him, for God's sake, to take the drill back again, and that in an instant, for, said he: "If it grind one hour more the whole district will be destroyed by half-truths and distortions." But the candidate would not take it until the other paid him three million dollars, and that he was obliged to do. Now the poor candidate had both the money and the drill again. So it was not long before he had a home much finer than that in which his running-mate lived, but the drill ground him so much money and influence that he covered it with plates of gold; and the house lay close by the sea-shore, so it shone and glittered far out to sea. Everyone who sailed by there now had to be put in to visit the rich man in the gold mansion, and everyone wanted to see the wonderful drill, for the report of it spread far and wide, and there was no one who had not heard tell of it.
After a long, long time came also an oil-man who wished to see the drill. He asked if it could make crude. "Yes, it could make crude," said he who owned it, and when the oil man heard that, he wished with all his might and main to have the drill, let it cost what it might, for, he thought, if he had it, he would get off having to sail far away over the perilous sea for freights of crude. At first the man would not hear of parting with it, but the skipper begged and prayed, and at last the man sold it to him, and got many, many billion dollars for it. When the skipper had got the drill on his back he did not stay there long, for he was so afraid that the man would change his mind, and he had no time to ask how he was to stop it grinding, but got on board his ship as fast as he could.
When he had gone a little way out to sea he took the drill on deck. "Grind crude, and grind both quickly and well," said the skipper. So the drill began to grind crude, till it spouted out like water, and when the skipper had got the ship filled he wanted to stop the drill, but whichsoever way he turned it, and how much soever he tried, it went on grinding, and the flow of crude grew higher and higher, until at last the ship sank. There lies the drill at the bottom of the sea, and still, day by day, it grinds on; and that is why the sea is crude.


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Cartas al Congreso de Gregorio Igatúa en Defensa de la Estadidad
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Hon. Raul Grijalva
House Committee on Natural Resources
U.S. 2302 Rayburn House Office Building
RE: WRITTEN TESTIMONY FOR COMMITTEE ON PUERTO RICO'S TERRITORIAL STATUS P.R. SELF DETERMINATION ACT STATEHOOD ADMISSION ACT
Dear Congressman, Grijalva:
I was born in Puerto Rico, U.S.A., and I am an American citizen resident of Puerto Rico. I am sending this written testimony in opposition to the proposed "Self Determination Act., which is not constitutionally viable, and to support the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act. It is the only political alternative that fits in the U.S. Constitutional Framework, and it is 122 years overdue.
As you know, Puerto Rico has been a part of the United States since 1898. For 122 years we have been under the U.S. Government discriminatory practice of being denied the right to vote in Federal Elections, and of government without the consent of the governed. (3.4 million American Citizens by birth). We are also subject to unequal treatment in economic policies implemented by Congress for the states, which have moved Puerto Rico into bankruptcy. Moreover, for some cases the Federal Courts apply the U. S. Constitution, and not for others. Ironically, we pay more than $3 billion dollars a year in federal taxes, more than some states and many state regions. (IRS Highlights 2020).
The Committee of Natural Resources you preside, has expressed interest in pursuing Congressional action in the issue of the political status of Puerto Rico. I suggest that you consider as the most viable alternative that Puerto Rico be certified as an incorporated territory first, which de facto it is. Notwithstanding incorporation is not permanent, therefore Congress should simultaneously resolve to move Puerto Rico in transit to statehood at a definite date. Certification of Incorporation would make the U.S. Constitution fully applicable, and would give us parity with federal funds as if Puerto Rico were a state. We qualify for incorporation by having been assimilated more than any other U.S. Territory before becoming a state. Although there may be conflicting views of what is the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States, due to the reality that we are still not a state, Congress has assimilated us gradually since 1898 into a federalist relation to be like a de facto incorporated territory. (See: G. Igartua, The "de facto" Incorporated Territory U.S. of Puerto Rico. A copy of the Book was mailed to you a few months ago, and one is being mailed to the Committee with this letter).
I respectfully suggest that you consider proposing to Congress to declare Puerto Rico officially an Incorporated Territory of the United States in transit to statehood. (See Petition enclosed – Annex A). It is the only political alternative that fits into the U. S. Constitutional framework, it is 122 years overdue. Rather than holding more hearings on what we could hypothetically be, which is discriminatory, our political and civil rights must be recognized by Congress based on what we are, 3.4 American citizens by birth residents of a de facto incorporated territory. Incorporation was recently supported unanimously by the National Association of U.S. Mayors. (Annex B). (See also, Consejo de Salud Playa de Ponce v Rullan, 586 FS 2nd 22 (2008).
No one in Puerto Rico wants independence, nor continue to be confused with political status alternatives which do not fit within the U.S. constitutional framework. No one in Puerto Rico wants to renounce their American Citizenship. A Republic of American citizens would be a matter of national security concern. (3.3 million Residing in Puerto Rico, 5 million residing in states). Many are confused by the daily practice of uncertainty brought by the questioning about what our rights are as American citizens, or could be. Consider within this context the "Puerto Rico Self Determination Act" proposed for American citizens after 122 years under our American flag. Were African Americans subjected, or should be subjected, to hearings on whether they would like to be slaves again, or be moved to a Country in Africa? Should Mexican Americans be asked whether they would like to renounce their American Citizenship to Mexican and be moved back to Mexico, or should their American citizenship status be questioned, as your Committee is doing with us in Puerto Rico in 2021?
Consider as constitutionally viable only to start holding hearings on how the American Citizens residents of Puerto Rico can have equal rights and government by the consent of the governed. (U.S. Constitution Amendments XIV and XV). Congressman Grijalva, statehood for you, for Congresswomen Velazquez and Ocasio, for all the members of your Committee, for all Congressmen, and statehood for us the American citizens residents of Puerto Rico. Time is of the essence.
I respectfully request to be allowed to participate in the April 15, 2021, hearing your Committee has scheduled on this subject, and in support of our American Citizenship rights.
s/Gregorio Igartua
Gregorio Igartua
Note – Please provide a copy of this letter to all member of the Committee of Natural Recourses. Please make this written testimony part of the Official Record of the hearing on Puerto Rico's Territorial Status scheduled by the Committee for April 14, 2021.
RE: WRITTEN TESTIMONY FOR COMMITTEE ON PUERTO RICO'S
TERRITORIAL STATUS P.R. SELF DETERMINATION ACT
STATEHOOD ADMISSION ACT
Dear Congressman Grijalva:
I was born in Puerto Rico, U.S.A., and, I am an American citizen resident of Puerto Rico. I
am sending this written testimony in opposition to the proposed "Self Determination Act., which is
not constitutionally viable, and to support the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act. It is the only
political alternative that fits in the U.S. Constitutional Framework, and it is 122 years overdue.
As you know, Puerto Rico has been a part of the United States since 1898. For 122 years
we have been under the U.S. Government discriminatory practice of being denied the right to vote
in Federal Elections, and of government without the consent of the governed. (3.4 million
American Citizens by birth). We are also subject to unequal treatment in economic policies
implemented by Congress for the states, which have moved Puerto Rico into bankruptcy.
Moreover, for some cases the Federal Courts apply the U. S. Constitution, and not for others.
Ironically, we pay more than $3 billion dollars a year in federal taxes, more than some states and
many state regions. (IRS Highlights 2020).
The Committee of Natural Resources you preside has expressed interest in pursuing
Congressional action in the issue of the political status of Puerto Rico. I suggest that you consider
as the most viable alternative that Puerto Rico be certified as an incorporated territory first, which
de facto it is. Notwithstanding incorporation is not permanent, therefore Congress should
simultaneously resolve to move Puerto Rico in transit to statehood at a definite date. Certification
of Incorporation would make the U.S. Constitution fully applicable and would give us parity with
federal funds as if Puerto Rico were a state. We qualify for incorporation by having been
assimilated more than any other U.S. Territory before becoming a state. Although there may be
conflicting views of what is the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States, due to the
reality that we are still not a state, Congress has assimilated us gradually since 1898 into a
federalist relation to be like a de facto incorporated territory. (See: G. Igartua, The "de facto"
Incorporated Territory U.S. of Puerto Rico. A copy of the book was mailed to you a few months
ago, and one is being mailed to the Committee with this letter).
I respectfully suggest that you consider proposing to Congress to declare Puerto Rico
officially an Incorporated Territory of the United States in transit to statehood. (See Petition
enclosed – Annex A). It is the only political alternative that fits into the U. S. Constitutional
framework, it is 122 years overdue. Rather than holding more hearings on what we could
hypothetically be, which is discriminatory, our political and civil rights must be recognized by
Congress based on what we are, 3.4 American citizens by birth residents of a de facto incorporated
territory. Incorporation was recently supported unanimously by the National Association of U.S.
Mayors. (Annex B). (See also, Consejo de Salud Playa de Ponce v Rullan, 586 FS 2nd 22 (2008).
No one in Puerto Rico wants independence, nor continue to be confused with political
status alternatives which do not fit within the U.S. constitutional framework. No one in Puerto Rico
wants to renounce their American Citizenship. A Republic of American citizens would be a matter
of national security concern. (3.3 million Residing in Puerto Rico, 5 million residing in states).
Many are confused by the daily practice of uncertainty brought by the questioning about what our
rights are as American citizens, or could be. Consider within this context the "Puerto Rico Self
Determination Act" proposed for American citizens after 122 years under our American flag. Were
African-Americans subjected, or should be subjected, to hearings on whether they would like to be
slaves again, or be moved to a Country in Africa?. Should Mexican –Americans be asked whether
they would like to renounce their American Citizenship to Mexican and be moved back to Mexico,
or should their American citizenship status be questioned, as your Committee is doing with us in
Puerto Rico in 2021?
Consider as constitutionally viable only to start holding hearings on how the American
Citizens residents of Puerto Rico can have equal rights and government by the consent of the
governed. (U.S. Constitution Amendments XIV and XV). Congressman Grijalva, statehood for you,
for Congresswomen Velazquez and Ocasio, for all the members of your Committee, for all
Congressmen, and statehood for us the American citizens residents of Puerto Rico. Time is of the
I respectfully request to be allowed to participate in the April 15, 2021, hearing your
Committee has scheduled on this subject, and in support of our American Citizenship rights.
Note – Please provide a copy of this letter to all member of the Committee of Natural Recourses. Please make this written testimony part
of the Official Record of the hearing on Puerto Rico's Territorial Status scheduled by the Committee for April 14, 2021.
Pro-statehood attorney: Puerto Rico could be subject to an oversight board as a state
By The Star Staff
Even if Puerto Rico were to become a state, it would still be subjected to the terms of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act and an oversight board because of the United States Constitution's Supremacy Clause, under Article VI, which establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
"People think that we have the board because we are a colony but it is actually the federal government intervening because of a lack of fiscal controls," pro-statehood lawyer Gregorio Igartúa said, noting that other U.S. jurisdictions have had fiscal boards imposed on them.
The lawyer spoke with the STAR amid his frustration that "the same people" will be talking in Wednesday's hearing on status bills.
Igartúa sent a written testimony in opposition to the proposed Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, which he said is not constitutionally viable, and to support the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act.
"It is the only political alternative that fits in the U.S. constitutional framework, and it is 122 years overdue," he said. "As you know, Puerto Rico has been a part of the United States since 1898. For 122 years we have been under the U.S. government's discriminatory practice of being denied the right to vote in federal elections, and of government without the consent of the governed."
The House Committee on Natural Resources has expressed interest in pursuing congressional action on the issue of the political status of Puerto Rico. Igartúa said the most viable alternative is for Puerto Rico to be certified as an incorporated territory first, which de facto it is, on the way to becoming a state. Puerto Rico is currently an unincorporated territory. Under federal law, an unincorporated territory is an area controlled by the U.S. federal government that is not "incorporated" for the purposes of United States constitutional law. In unincorporated territories, the U.S. Constitution applies only partially.
Igartúa said Puerto Rico has been virtually assimilated into the United States.
"Notwithstanding incorporation is not permanent, therefore Congress should simultaneously resolve to move Puerto Rico in transit to statehood at a definite date. Certification of incorporation would make the U.S. Constitution fully applicable, and would give us parity with federal funds as if Puerto Rico were a state. We qualify for incorporation by having been assimilated more than any other U.S. territory before becoming a state," he said. "Although there may be conflicting views of what the political relation of Puerto Rico to the United States is, due to the reality that Puerto Rico is still not a state, Congress has assimilated the island gradually since 1898 into a federalist relationship to be like a de facto incorporated territory."
Rather than holding more hearings on what Puerto Rico could hypothetically be, Igartúa said the reality is that Puerto Ricans do not want to live in an independent country and a majority voted in favor of statehood in a referendum.
"Many are confused by the daily practice of uncertainty brought by the questioning about what our rights are as American citizens, or could be," he said. "Consider within this context the 'Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act' proposed for American citizens after 122 years under our American flag. Were African-Americans subjected, or should they be subjected, to hearings on whether they would like to be slaves again, or be moved to a country in Africa?
Should Mexican Americans be asked whether they would like to renounce their American citizenship … and be moved back to Mexico, or should their American citizenship status be questioned, as your committee is doing with us in Puerto Rico in 2021? Consider it constitutionally viable only to start holding hearings on how the American citizens residing in Puerto Rico can achieve to have equal rights and government by the consent of the governed."
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
The Honorable Charles Schumer
The Honorable Kevin McCarthy
House Republican Leader
The Honorable Mitch McConnell
Senate Republican Leader
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, and Leaders McCarthy and McConnell:
We, the undersigned legal and constitutional scholars, write to express our strong opposition to the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, H.R. 2070, and its Senate companion bill, S. 865, and to register our equally strong support for the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, H.R. 1522, and its Senate companion bill, S. 780.
Like all Americans, we support self-determination. But unlike the supporters of the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, we believe that genuine self-determination requires the United States to offer Puerto Ricans a real choice. By "real," we mean constitutional and non-territorial. Puerto Rico's self-determination options must be constitutional, for the obvious reason that neither Congress nor Puerto
Rico has the power to implement an unconstitutional option. And they must be non-territorial, because a territorial option is not self-determination.
There are two, and only two, real self-determination options for Puerto Rico: statehood and independence. Yet the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act defies constitutional reality by calling upon Puerto Ricans to define other non-territorial options. There are no other non-territorial options. For many decades, advocates of "commonwealth" status argued that it was non-territorial. They argued that when Puerto Rico made the transition to commonwealth status in 1952, it ceased to be a U.S. territory, became a separate sovereign, and entered into a mutually binding compact with the United States. But they were wrong. Quite simply, Congress does not have the power to create a permanent union between Puerto Rico and the United States except by admitting Puerto Rico into statehood. Lest there be any doubt, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly and recently refuted the controversial "compact theory." In Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle (2016), the Court ended seven decades of debilitating debate over the question of whether Puerto Rico's commonwealth status created a permanent union between two separate sovereigns with an unequivocal "no": as the Court made clear, Puerto Rico is, and always has been, a U.S. territory, and Congress retains plenary power to govern the island under the Territory Clause of the Constitution (Art. IV, §3, cl.2). And in Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment
LLC. (2020), the Court went on to explain that Congress's creation of a federal board with substantial powers over Puerto Rico's local government was a permissible exercise of Congress's plenary power over a U.S. territory. In short, as long as Puerto Rico is neither a state of the Union nor an independent nation,
it will remain a territory. By inviting Puerto Ricans to define non-territorial options other than statehood or independence, the inaptly named Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act disserves its purported goal by perpetuating the pernicious myth that such options exist. They do not.
Letter from Legal and Constitutional Scholars in Support of the Puerto Rico Admission Act, H.R.1522 & S.780, and in Opposition to the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, H.R.2070 & S.865 – p.2 Despite longstanding political division within Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans have long shared an overwhelming consensus on two key points: They reject territorial status and they wish to remain U.S. citizens. But while both statehood and independence would fulfill the goal of self-determination, only one of those options would guarantee U.S. citizenship: statehood. Last November, in an unmistakable effort to determine their political future, a clear majority of Puerto Ricans voted "yes" in their own referendum on
statehood. Now that Puerto Ricans have publicly and officially asked for statehood, it is time for the
United States officially to offer it. The Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act does just that.
Proceeding respectfully, cautiously, and pragmatically, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act responds to the November referendum with an offer of statehood and sets the terms for admission, but it makes admission contingent on a second referendum in which Puerto Ricans would ratify their choice.
Were they to do so, the President would issue a proclamation admitting Puerto Rico as a state within one year of the vote. If they were to reject statehood, then the island would remain a territory with the option to pursue sovereignty at any time in the future—so the Act does not force statehood on Puerto Rico in any way. In other words, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act respects the result of Puerto Rico's referendum by responding with concrete action, while ensuring that Puerto Ricans have the first and last word on their future.
In the 123 years since the United States annexed Puerto Rico, Congress has never offered Puerto Ricans the choice to become a state. Instead, the United States has allowed Puerto Rico to languish indefinitely as a U.S. territory, subjecting its residents to U.S. laws while denying them voting representation in the government that makes those laws. We strongly support a congressional offer of statehood to Puerto Rico, and we urge Congress to pass the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act immediately.
Signed,*
*University affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
Jack M. Balkin
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
Christopher P. Banks
Professor, Political Science
Evelyn Benvenutti Toro
Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law
Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Betts Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Constitutional Governance
Letter from Legal and Constitutional Scholars in Support of the Puerto Rico Admission Act, H.R.1522 &
S.780, and in Opposition to the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, H.R.2070 & S.865 – p.3
Kathleen Burch
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Edward and Ellen Schwarzman Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Cornell W. Clayton
C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Director, Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Service and Public Policy
Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Andrés L. Córdova
Erin F. Delaney
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Walter Dellinger
Douglas Maggs Emeritus Professor of Law
Carlos Días Olivo
Michael C. Dorf
Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
Stephen M. Feldman
Jerry W. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law
and Adjunct Professor of Political Science
Martin S. Flaherty
Leitner Family Professor of International Law
Fordham Law School
and Visiting Professor
School of International and Public Affairs
Barry Friedman
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law
Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Professor of Law, Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor
Maurer School of Law
Lauren Gilbert
St. Thomas University College of Law
Leslie F. Goldstein
Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Relations
David Golove
Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law
Mark A. Graber
University System of Maryland Regents Professor
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Jonathan Hafetz
Helen Hershkoff
Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties
Gary J. Jacobsohn
H. Malcolm Macdonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law
Randall L. Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law
J. Andrew Kent
Professor of Law and John D. Feerick Research Chair
Mark R. Killenbeck
Wylie H. Davis Distinguished Professor of Law
Stephen R. Lazarus
Associate Professor of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership
Sanford V. Levinson
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair and
Professor of Government
Ira C. Lupu
F. Elwood & Eleanor Davis Professor of Law Emeritus
Martha Minow
300th Anniversary University Professor
Samuel Moyn
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence
Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus
George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History
David Pozen
Vice Dean for Intellectual Life and Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law
Richard Primus
Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor
The University of Michigan Law School
Kermit Roosevelt
Lawrence Sager
Alice Jane Drysdell Sheffield Regents Chair
Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Girardeau A. Spann
James & Catherine Denny Professor of Law
Kate Stith
Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law
Geoffrey R. Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Professor of Law
Nelson Tebbe
Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law
Laurence H. Tribe
Carol M. Loeb University Professor and
Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus
Stephen I. Vladeck
Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts
University of Texas School of Law
Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law


In January 2016, I committed to take my dog – Maya – on a really long walk and I committed to use the walk to raise money and awareness for more investment into the medical conditions: Myalgic Encephalitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and FibroMyalgia. My best friend and my daughter both suffer from forms of these conditions and they are poorly understood, poorly diagnosed and treated. There are no cures currently for these conditions.
In May 2016, I started and completed my 255km walk in Northern Spain – from San Sebastian in the Basque Country to Santander in Cantabria. This is part of the ancient pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela – the fabled resting place of Saint James. Each day of my walk was dedicated to the story of a sufferer of these conditions.
Whether you walk it alone, or you trek with a group – a great walk helps you connect with people, nature and yourself. And in this connection there is so much learning. I don't know whether it is science or spiritual or simply what happens when you give yourself the time and space to be heard.
Going into this walk, I had a bunch of things to figure out – primarily I wanted time and space to reconnect with myself. I did reconnect with myself – reaffirming what makes me, me and what my focus in life is, who and what are important and more importantly, who and what aren't. Unexpectedly I also reconnected with parts of humanity that I had silently drifted from and didn't realise I needed to rediscover and I'm so glad I did.
I learned so many things about myself and people and life on this walk and wrestled with demons that I hadn't previously made time to resolve. They say that in the woods, no one can hear you scream. There are lots of woods in the North of Spain and I had many opportunities to scream at my demons and them at me.
Then there are the lessons that necessity teaches.
I consider myself to be a very practical dog owner. There is a power relationship in play between man and dog and whilst I know all the blah blah about trust and loyalty, I hadn't fully experienced it with any other dog I've had, until this walk. I know that Maya considers me her pack leader – who will ultimate protect her from any threat and provide for her.
As far as I know, Maya can't read a map nor calculate the distance between places on a route. She doesn't know to plan for a 30km walk with multiple ascents and descents.
This beautiful dog walked with me every step of the way and stayed by my side in the rain and through the mud. Through forests and towns and hard tarmac roads that must have been tough on her paws. She braved her fears – unfriendly dogs that barked terrifyingly at her approach – and she spread her joy by making friends with every person we met.
Whether it was 10km or 30, Maya just walked with me – trusting that I knew where we were going and seeking nothing but having a pine cone thrown in play every now and then.
"Here's some vaseline – put it anywhere that starts to catch or heat up or rub" – the wisest words a newbie long distance walker will ever hear. My friend Amancio said these to me when we first met and kindly offered me his own tube as a gift.
Long walks put huge strain on your feet, things rub, skin gets bruised and blisters form. All these on their own are bad enough – but when you have to walk every day, suddenly things get rather more complicated. In comes Vaseline.
Every morning of my walk started with a smattering of vaseline on my clean feet – not too much, just enough to rub into my feet and create a protective shield. This shield almost entirely eliminates the friction that causes blisters.
Then when the straps of my 9.5kg backpack started rubbing into my shoulder and my neck – Vaseline again to the rescue.
Stop and fix problems when they occur. Lesson learned.
On a walk and in life, there are things you must keep doing to move forward. In life, it seems like there are a multitude of things you need to maintain. You have to look after your health, eat well and exercise for example. Some say you have to keep learning, others say you need to keep an active social life.
On a walk, life is much simpler. The only thing you need to do to make progress is maintain your ability to put one foot in front of the other and walk. I learned that I needed to address any problem that affected that ability as soon as I felt them.
For example – I had new walking boots and the inevitable pains of breaking them in all started to emerge from about the second day of the walk. First I got shooting pains in the sole of my left foot – but I ignored them, put a brave face on and kept walking. Then they got worse, the pain spread to the back of my left knee.
Had I stopped and stretched, applied some balm – as I did on subsequent days (with fewer painful consequences) – I'm sure those first 2-3 days would have been a less injury prone experience.
The cost of stopping and fixing the problem is much lower than the price of being laid out for a day or two.
So now I'm working on understanding what essential things I need in order to move forward joyfully in life and I'm learning to spot problems that will affect them.
Something about living out of a backpack for 10 days is exceptionally liberating. I packed 4 dry wick tech shirts – they are extremely light and quick drying- 2 trousers that could convert to shorts and a few other items of clothing. But I realised actually I could have packed even half of those items and still been fine.
I was without my laptop, a TV – though I had my phone, I used it almost entirely for taking pictures and keeping in touch with my family via Whatsapp.
Aside from the physical things I didn't have – I also had much less responsibility. Basically it was to find food for myself and Maya.
Yet the walk was truly one of the happiest 2 weeks of my life. I think as material things go – I've never been a hankerer for things – so not much improvement there. This walk has taught me to think about the responsibilities that I take on that I might not need to be happy, it also taught me that there are some things that I had closed myself to – that I now recognise make me feel happy – which I really need to try and get more of.
I never tend to do things because I seek gratitude in return or even an acknowledgement by anyone who might benefit from my doing them. I do things mostly because I want to do them or I see they need to be done. Yet I was completely unprepared for the effect of reading some of the short messages of gratitude and appreciation on Facebook and on my JustGiving page. Hundreds of messages of gratitude for walking for others. I blubbed almost every time I read.
I was joined at the start of my camino by my friends Helen and Horacio. We had such a wonderful time for the 3 days we were together. We laughed so hard, there were never any awkward silences. There were times we walked in step and other times when each walked their own pace. It was easy.
Yet as much as we enjoyed walking the same route, we each were walking our own camino -both as a physical journey through each person's limits and challenges and through each person's mental baggage they needed to work through.
And this was the same for each person I met on the walk. Appreciating that we are not all walking for the same reasons or to the same schedule almost entirely eliminates judgement. There is no right way to walk nor a right way to start or a good time to complete a stage in.
As I apply this learning to life – I feel totally filled with empathy for the journey each person is on – even if they don't realise they are on a distinct one from everyone else.
There were a few times on this walk when I needed help. Especially when things got a little complicated with accommodation with Maya or finding food for her on days when things were closed or in places where nothing was open.
The warmth and the kindness of people who didn't know me from Adam – people who could easily have said 'No' instead of 'Yes' – simply blows me away.
It turns out that over the last few years I have not needed the kindness of strangers – most of my endeavours have been very much in my control. Yet on this camino, I put myself in situations where I needed that help and there it was.
From Kepa who happily let Maya sleep in his courtyard – to Manolo in Pobeña who offered to drive me to the next town to buy dog food – I'm convinced these are the people who neutralise all the cynicism in the world by their small acts of random kindness.
However much you love your dog – and I love mine a whole lot (and a whole lot more after this Camino), there are lines to be drawn.
One such line is never again sharing a small tent with Maya. Aside from the paws digging into my side and the tail tickling my nose, the most unbearable thing were the farts.
Maya is lethal with her farts- though I think I gave as good as I got – and this is made more toxic because of the size of the tent. So if there is one piece of advice I can share – that I learned the hard way – it is never to share your small tent with a big dog.
Now, remember I went to walk. But I did manage to take some pictures too. I'll add more of my photos as well as some from Helen, Horacio and James when they share them.
I'm deeply grateful to so many people for the support and concern during this camino. Huge thanks to my wife – Katharine – for making it possible for me to even have the time to be away from home for 12 days.
Thanks to these 58 amazing people who backed my JustGiving campaign. We exceeded the target and this money will make a difference to the lives of so many people suffering with ME/CFS/FM. We need research into these conditions and whilst £3000 may not sound like a lot for research, it will fund the activism and advocacy that is critical to agitate for more investment.
As my friend and Camino consultant – Amancio – says "You're hooked on the Camino". I am pretty hooked now on the idea of the camino as a quest, a time to reconnect and as a physical and mental challenge. So now what?
Well, in September/October, Maya and I will be walking for 25 days to complete the remainder of the Camino del Norte from Santander to Santiago. About 600 km. It will be a more informed adventure and, for sure, a lighter packed one.
I'll post more about it and I know now that I will continue to raise money and awareness for ME/CFS/FM and also to raise awareness and funds for MOAS – the Migrant Offshore Aid Station – who are doing an incredible job saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea by rescuing migrants from capsized boats.
If you would like to join me for part of this longer walk – stay tuned to my blog for news of the plan and the schedule.


A "perfect storm of calamities"—earthquakes, droughts and rebellions—caused the demise of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 B.C.). The great empires and mighty kingdoms of the ancient world—the Egyptians, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots and Canaanites—all suddenly collapsed. Learn how the lessons of this amazing historical era relate to the ongoing turbulence and uncertainty of our own day.


Here at Watergate Bay Hotel, it's no secret that we love gin. So, our Christmas gift to you is a list of our favourites, including some unique variations.
This Living Space cocktail is a refreshing combination of clotted cream gin, orange and cinnamon. Here's the recipe to make it yourself at home.
Beef burgers, chicken burgers, bean burgers. We like them all as much as the next person. But swap your beef burger for halloumi and you've got a surprisingly healthy vegetarian alternative. Here's how we serve our grilled halloumi burger at The Living Space.
The origin of this iconic New York sandwich loaded with pastrami & swiss cheese is hotly disputed. Here's our take served at The Living Space.
Sweet and silky smooth, this feast of colour took the "distillers favourite" vote. Find out how to make your own with our ingredients and method.


Just regular folks.: My turn as waitstaff.
My friend Lauren owns a catering company and had a huge wedding on Saturday. I really wanted to work for her - I've never done food service before and I think it's an important for a person to experience. Lauren makes such delicious food and she everything is served so beautifully. I worked a long day - almost 10 hours - mainly setting up the tables, then serving food and then busing all the dirty plates. It's hard work!
Girl waiting tables was one of the hardest jobs I have ever done. I was the worst waitress too. Once a baked potato literally rolled off the plate and stopped ever so gingerly in front of this guys date. I didn't know what to do. If you ordered fish you probably got chicken. I feel sorry for all those poor restaurant patrons in my past sections. When I get a good person I tip well.
J and Sc just got back from MIT, Noreaster, BC and RPI. He LOVED your school.


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de Nicola Center Hosts Expert Roundtable Discussion on Caring for Women and Children in a post–Roe World
On Thursday, January 19, the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame will mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Washington, DC, with an expert roundtable discussion on how best to care for and protect mothers, babies, and families in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson…
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de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Hosts 22nd Annual Fall Conference
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to welcome more than 1,000 scholars, students, and friends to its 22nd annual Fall Conference, hosted at the University of Notre Dame, November 10–12. Entitled "And It Was Very Good: On Creation…
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Meet the dCEC's 2022 Mission Fellows
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to welcome its newest Mission Fellows, graduate and professional students at the University of Notre Dame who share the de Nicola Center's passion for research and engagement with the moral and intellectual tradition of the Church. Mission fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to one incoming student in both Notre Dame Law School and the PhD program in the College of Arts and Letters with a proven track record of academic excellence and enthusiasm for the unique mission of the University.
dCEC to Award 2023 ND Evangelium Vitae Medal to Robert P. George
Acclaimed legal philosopher and constitutional and political theorist Robert P. George will receive the University of Notre Dame's 2023 Evangelium Vitae Medal—the nation's most important award for heroes of the pro-life movement—at a celebration hosted by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture on April 29, 2023.
George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
dCEC Welcomes Two New Staff
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture welcomed two new staffers to the office in mid-August. Brooke Tranten and Phil Tran join the team to support and further develop the Center's student formation, culture of life, and academic research pillars.…
Roundup of dCEC Director's Media Appearances Discussing Dobbs
O. Carter Snead, director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, has extensively discussed the Supreme Court's case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the leak that preceded the final decision, and the wider questions about human flourishing that underlie so much of the public debate about abortion. Here is a comprehensive catalog of his scholarship, writing, interviews, and media mentions on these topics (list updated 10 August 2022)…
dCEC Director's Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Statement from O. Carter Snead, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and director of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture:
"In today's historic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization…
Cheers to Our Sorin Fellows of the Class of 2022
Photo courtesy of Maggie Garnett '22.
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture congratulates the 103 student Sorin Fellows who completed their studies at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, and Holy Cross College in 2022. In all, 68 undergraduates and 35 graduate and professional Sorin Fellows participated in commencement ceremonies earlier this month.…
Snead book recognized in New York Times as one of "Ten Books to Understand Abortion Debate in US"
A new article in the New York Times has recommended O. Carter Snead's book What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics…
dCEC Presents ND Evangelium Vitae Medal to Dr. John Bruchalski
The University of Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture presented the 11th annual Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Dr. John T. Bruchalski, founder of Tepeyac OB/GYN, one of the largest pro-life clinics in the United States, at a Mass and dinner attended by more than 450 guests and friends on April 23, 2022.
Hundreds gather to observe Notre Dame Day for Life
More than 700 students, faculty, administrators, alumni and friends gathered on a seasonably cold day at the University of Notre Dame for a Day for Life on Jan. 21 to bear joyful witness to the inalienable and equal dignity of every member of the human family, born and unborn.
dCEC Welcomes David Younger as Student Formation Program Manager
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to welcome David Younger to the staff as its new Student Formation Program Manager, where he will oversee the more than 300 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students affiliated with the dCEC through its highly successful Sorin Fellows Program…
dCEC Director Honored by St. Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Dallas
The St. Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Dallas honored O. Carter Snead, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, at its annual Red Mass on October 9, 2021. The Society's Red Mass invokes the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the securing of justice, and is celebrated each Fall to mark the beginning of the new legal term for the Texas courts.…
dCEC to Present 2022 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Dr. John Bruchalski, MD
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame will present the 2022 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Dr. John T. Bruchalski, MD, founder of Tepeyac OB/GYN, one of the largest pro-life clinics in the nation, at a celebration on April 23. (Dinner registration is closed, as we are at capacity.)…
Director and Fellows of de Nicola Center cited in Landmark 6th Circuit Dissent Calling for Roe to be Overturned
O. Carter Snead, professor of law and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, was cited in a landmark dissent…
dCEC Director Carter Snead Files Amicus Brief in Landmark Abortion Case
July 29, 2021 – O. Carter Snead, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, has filed (with Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, emerita, Harvard University) an amici curiae…
dCEC Director Carter Snead to Receive Expanded Reason Award
O. Carter Snead, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, will receive the 2021 Expanded Reason Award in Research for his book What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics…
Center Director Interviewed in Wall Street Journal
WSJ illustration by Ken Fallin
Center Director O. Carter Snead's latest book, What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics…
Center Director Coauthors Statement on Moral Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccines
de Nicola Center director O. Carter Snead joined leading pro-life Catholic scholars on a statement regarding the moral acceptability of receiving the currently-available COVID-19 vaccines…
"March On, Notre Dame!" Highlights the University's Pro-Life Commitment
January 27, 2021 – The University of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture has released a video entitled "March On, Notre Dame!" that highlights the University's commitment to building a culture of life, both on-campus and in the wider public square. Released to coincide with the virtual March for Life on January 29, the video and transcript are available now at ethicscenter.nd.edu/MarchOnND…
de Nicola Center's Winter Conference to Discuss Our Obligations to One Another
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame will present a virtual conference January 12–14, 2021, "We Belong to Each Other," featuring livestreamed presentations by Archbishop José H. Gomez, poet Dana Gioia, historian Elizabeth Lev, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, author Yuval Levin, public health expert Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, and many others.…
dCEC to Present 2021 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Vicki Thorn
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame will present the 2021 Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal to Vicki Thorn, founder of the post-abortion healing ministry Project Rachel and executive director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing, at a celebration on April 24.
"Vicki Thorn's work is a living witness to the unconditional love and mercy that lies at the heart of the Culture of Life," said O. Carter Snead, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. "We originally wanted to honor Vicki this past April at a gala celebration gathered with hundreds of friends and champions of life, but the pandemic and associated safety protocols necessitated a postponement. We look forward to presenting her with the Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal in 2021."
dCEC to Host Panel Discussion about Racism and the Culture of Life
Inspired by Pope Francis's observation that Christians "cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life," the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture will host a webinar discussion on racism and the culture of life on July 28 at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). The discussion is co-hosted by the College of Arts and Letters…
Announcement About the 2020 Notre Dame Fall Conference
It is with a heavy heart that the de Nicola Center announces the cancellation of our 2020 Fall Conference, originally scheduled to take place November 12–14 at the University of Notre Dame.
In light of the ongoing pandemic, the University has taken a number of precautions…
dCEC to Present 2020 Vita Institute Pro-Life Intellectual Formation Program via Webinar Series
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture will present the 2020 Notre Dame Vita Institute, its annual intellectual formation program for pro-life leaders, as a series of five free webinars the week of June 15–19, 2020.
The Center's annual Vita Institute brings together leaders in the national and international pro-life movement for a week each summer at Notre Dame for an intensive interdisciplinary training program that extends and deepens their breadth and depth of understanding of the subjects most essential to building a culture of life, including biology, philosophy, law, theology, and social sciences. This year's online webinar series will allow a wider audience to sample the exceptional teaching of the traditional on-campus event.…
NDLS Dean G. Marcus Cole: "I am George Floyd. Except, I can breathe. And I can do something."
The following essay was shared with the Notre Dame Law School faculty by G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law. We are proud to publish it with his permission:
I am George Floyd. Except, I can breathe. And I can do something.
– G. Marcus Cole
Over the past several days, I have received numerous messages of care and support from friends, neighbors, and acquaintances, each of whom simply wanted to express their concern for how I might be feeling in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. For many, I am perhaps one of the only African-American men in their social or business circles. Others, especially those who know me well, are cognizant of my own personal experiences with racial violence. Their expressions of love and support are rooted in the fact that the circumstances surrounding the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery are strikingly similar to my own accounts of an attack on my father over fifty years ago, one I witnessed as a little boy. What my friends may not know, but surely suspect, is that each report of racial violence at the hands of a police officer or group of men brings to the surface the vivid memories of that terrible night.
dCEC Celebrates Our 103 Graduating Sorin Fellows
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture salutes the more than 100 student Sorin Fellows who completed their studies at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, and Holy Cross College in 2020. In all, 75 undergraduates and 28 graduate and professional school Sorin Fellows joined their classmates in virtual commencement ceremonies earlier this month.…
Notre Dame Sends 800 to the 2020 March For Life
On January 24, more than 800 students, faculty, staff, and graduate students from the University of Notre Dame, Holy Cross College, and St. Mary's College will participate in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., now in its 47th year. Thanks to generous underwriting by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, in partnership with the Notre Dame Right to Life student club, the university consistently sends one of the largest single contingents to participate in the event, year after year.…
In Memoriam: Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020)
Sir Roger Scruton by Pete Helme
The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture mourns the death of philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, who died of complications of cancer on January 12, 2020. Sir Roger was one of the foremost contemporary writers on aesthetics and political philosophy, penning works on philosophy, art, music, politics, literature, culture, sexuality, conservativism, and religion; he also wrote novels, two operas, and a television series entitled Why Beauty Matters…
2019 In Review: A Banner Year for the dCEC
In 2019, the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture celebrated its twentieth year of sharing the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition both on campus and in the public square. It was truly a banner year, beginning with the announcement on January 8 that Tony and Christie de Nicola had made a transformative gift of $10 million to endow the dCEC's work…


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Somebody Talking About Donovan McNabb Again, This Time It's John Beck
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Micah Warren
Source: Donovan McNabb wristband story not true
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Report: Donovan McNabb Refused To Wear Wristband With Plays
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With No Title: Should Reid Be Ranked 3rd Best Coach In The NFL?
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An Update On The Eagles Defensive Coordinator Search
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Shanahan Benches McNabb For Rex Grossman
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Eagles Defense Steps Up Against The Skins
All of the talk from Monday night's game will be on the record setting performance by Michael Vick, and rightfully so. Vick played at a level that few quarterbacks in the NFL- today or in