So that's Black Library Live been and gone and it was a lot of fun. I even managed to pick up a copy of Slaves To Darkness, one of the very first projects I ever worked on at Games Workshop back in the day. It contains the very first encounter of the Emperor and Horus ever written as far as I know (written by me too!), and Adrian Smith's excellent black and white picture in which I modelled for the Warmaster.
I very much enjoyed doing the Warhammer panel with Gav Thorpe, Sarah Cawkwell and Josh Reynolds and it brought a whole lot of ideas bubbling to the surface of my mind, particularly about elves and dwarves. It reminded me that I had actually written posts on the subject for my old Trollslayer.net site. I checked back and it seems like I only managed to salvage one of those so I thought I would reprint it here. Before I do so I would just like to point out that it's a bit dated and none of it should be construed as being in any way official. It was just something I wrote to amuse myself and give me some insight into the background of a certain dwarf. Anyway, without further ado here it is.
Slayers belong to a dwarvish cult whose members seek death in combat against overwhelming odds. They do not seek victory, nor do they simply seek death. If they were merely suicidal, jumping off a cliff would do just as well. If they sought martyrdom, walking unarmed into a troll's den would do the trick. Its not just death a slayer seeks, but a particular sort of death, a glorious death in battle.
This tells us something about the tortured nature of the dwarvish psyche. It also tells us something about the sort of dwarves who shave their heads and become slayers. Most of them claim to want to atone for some sin or crime, but they want more than that-they want to be remembered, and I suspect, in some ways they want to give their famous one fingered gesture of defiance to the society that spurned them, a subject of which I will write more later.
To see why Slayers behave the way they do, you need to consider more "normal" dwarvish psychology. Dwarves are a very clannish race who live in tightly knit, very regimented communities. They are, and they perceive themselves to be, a dying race surrounded by enemies on every side who seek to take what is rightfully theirs. Virtually every dwarvish settlement of any size is a fortress. Every dwarf knows everybody else in the community, and, dwarves being dwarves, they know the deeds of everybody's ancestors and relatives unto the umpteenth generation. A dwarf takes great pride in the deeds of his ancestors, and a deed that brings dishonour upon a dwarf also reflects upon his kin. This can result in ostracism from the very community upon whom a dwarf depends for his very identity.
From earliest childhood, every dwarf is subjected to near military discipline, and every dwarf knows his place in the great scheme of things to the smallest degree.
Age and experience are respected by dwarves, youth and innovation are not. They are a practical and hardheaded race and have a great respect for what works and, more importantly, has been proven to work over the centuries. They are also very commercially oriented, and prize gold and wealth. They value hard work greatly. Indeed one of the worst insults a dwarf can use is to call another lazy.
Hair, in particular in the form of a beard is greatly prized by a dwarf. A long grey beard is seen as a sign of wisdom, experience and having been tempered by the world. Give the violent nature of the world in which dwarves live, it's not a bad indicator. Although the natural span of a dwarvish life is considerably longer than that of a human, few male dwarves in this age of the world will live to die a death of natural causes. If a warrior has lived long enough to acquire grey hairs and a long beard, it is a fair indicator that he is very tough indeed.
Dwarf society is very hidebound, polite and ritualistic. Less senior dwarves have many ways to prove their humility to their elders. There are eleven different degrees of respect in the dwarvish tongue, and just as many variations in bows. Dwarvish etiquette is very complex, and difficult for an outsider to master, and woe betide any dwarf who makes a mistake in protocol. The incorrect use of the second person singular pronoun has resulted in many a battle between dwarvish clans.
Perhaps to counter-balance their naturally long lives, dwarves have a very low birth-rate. It is not uncommon for many dwarvish couples to be childless. A cruel Elvish joke states that this is because both sexes are so repulsive that they cannot endure to breed. (This is not a jest that you are advised to repeat in the presence of Dwarves-on matters of courtship and breeding they are extraordinarily touchy). In any case, children are prized when they come along, and family is everything to a dwarf. A clan's children are considered a blessing on all its members. Dwarves work long and hard to provide for their future. Many childless dwarves seem to take to commercial enterprise as a substitute for the close family they lack.
The origins of the Slayer Cult are lost in time. Some scholars have speculated that it is somehow connected with the death quest of the dwarven Ancestor God Grimnir who vanished into the Chaos Wastes before the dawn of recorded time. The dwarves themselves, as always, remain closemouthed on the subject to outsiders. All that is known for certain is that the primary shrine of the cult, at Karak Kadrin was said to be the birthplace of Grimnir.
At its simplest level, becoming a Slayer is easy, assuming you are a dwarf. You simply decide to become one. You take the slayer's oath, and you shave your head, and perhaps your beard, as a sign that you have done so. The symbolic importance of this cannot be overstated. In a society where hair is considered an important symbol of status, such an act is supremely shocking.
Other aspects of the distinctive appearance that most people associate with slayers come later. It would seem that many slayers seek to draw attention to what they have become by acquiring tattoos, adopting the strange spiked-strip hairstyle common to slayers, by lowering their standards of personal hygiene and developing some new, and often repulsive personality quirks.
They also become far freer of speech, less respectful of authority and much more prone to aberrant behaviour than most normal dwarves. If you look closely, you can see that in many ways they are turning themselves into the exact opposite of what is considered typically dwarvish. They stress their individuality not their membership of their community.
Most but not all Slayers choose to make a pilgrimage to Karak Kadrin to take their vow in the great shrine of Grimnir there, and ritually burn their hair, and acquire a few tattoos. From the city of slayers they normally leave by the east gate onto the so-called Slayer's road. Even if they do not head east, to fight the gobbos, this is the traditional route out of the city. Those slayers who have not made their pilgrimage but set out immediately on their death quest, will usually, if they survive, at some point try and make it to Karak Kadrin if only to boast about their battles to their peers, and renew their vows.
Now, having considered all of this, let us take a look at Slayers. In many ways a slayer can be seen as an affront to decent dwarvish society. They do not work, they rarely concern themselves with the accumulation of wealth (except what they can loot) and they do not seek to build a well-run business or a large patrimony they can pass on to their descendants. They are a rootless, restless crew who spend much of their time engaging in two of the other great passions of the dwarvish race, fighting and drinking. They show respect to no authority figure save perhaps the Slayer King, and the priests of the gods.
It would seem only logical that such figures would be ostracised by their fellow dwarves, as indeed they are, but that is not the whole story. Slayers can and do get away with a level of rudeness within their own society that would result in blood feuds, clan wars and mass destruction among the people, if the insults were perpetrated by any other dwarves. And they are in some ways, tolerated and even granted a great deal of respect by dwarves, far more so even than their formidable martial prowess would normally command. Indeed summoning the slayers is fairly normal practise for any dwarven king or clan lord before going into battle.
It might seem that providing a pool of formidably dangerous, and fearless cannon fodder would be enough of a reason for dwarves to tolerate or even encourage the Slayer cult, but I suspect there is another reason.
In every society, even our own, there are malcontents and rebels. Many of these are drawn to the dark and the forbidden cults of Chaos and work tirelessly for the overthrow of our realms. As far as is known, there are no similar cults among the dwarves. The so-called Chaos Dwarves are a different matter, and demand separate treatment which they will be given elsewhere. Given these circumstances, does it not seem possible, likely even, that one reason for this, is such naturally disruptive characters have been given a different outlet for their rebellious energies?
I contend that the Slayer Cult is one such outlet. It channels discontented young dwarves out of the mainstream of dwarvish society and into a short-lived but useful career removing threats to the clans, and fighting on their behalf. Of course, most of these dwarves have their own reasons for wanting to slay. Many have been crossed in love, becoming slayers when the dwarf woman of their choice chooses another. Even here we can see a purpose. In a society where men outnumber women by a large number, the cult may well provide a method of removing potentially disruptive rogue males. Other dwarves become slayers when they have lost face or honour. Given the nature of dwarven society, such an individual becomes all but useless anyway-for a dwarf who commands no respect can expect little from his fellows. The career of a slayer gives such people a way out, and a method of redeeming themselves and the good name of their clan, while ensuring they will not return and provide an embarrassment for their kin. I could go on, but I think the discerning reader can see by now the basic outlines of the picture I am painting. Far from being a leftover from a lost age of violence, the Slayer Cult represents a vital and useful part of dwarven society and one which demands much further study.
Wilhelm of Praag was tarred and feathered and run out of town by a group of angry dwarves shortly after he gave this lecture at the Faculty of Unnatural Sciences at the University of Nuln. He has not been seen since.
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I never knew about Trollslayer.net, though as someone who still misses the Chaos Dwarves who worshiped the Chaos Gods it's always nice to see more of the writers views on the background of the Warhammer World even if they don't always match the modern versions of the setting. It's a creative hobby so there's always room for conflicts and personal canon and all that.
That's actually great to know. I thought those essays were lost forever!
Just went and checked, mate, and you are absolutely right. I am clipping them for future reference now. Again, thanks for this!
I hope the Gotrek & Felix Gazetteer can be rescued – the version that appeared in the third anthology was heavily abridged.
It looks like it's there on archive.org, Robert, but I am not sure about how to extract it. Unfortunately the trollslayer.net site backup was Angela's computer and the hard-drive brewed up.
Let me know how it goes, mate!
Nice read, thank you very much for posting this! Is there by any chance a similar text regarding the Chaos Dwarves?
Sadly no, Bjorn. I wrote this about ten years ago! I never wrote anything about the Chaos Dwarves.
It would be great if you would someday.
Normally I write this sort of think when it's connected to a project I am working on Bjorn, so it may be a long wait :)! Sorry.


The key to my success in this endeavor will be training, training and more training. Right now, if I were to grade the shape I am in, overall I would say a C+ / B-. For hiking shape, I am I would pull about a C-. One thing that people don't realize is that hiking can be very brutal on your body. A lot of pounding, carrying heavy packs, difficult balance and so on. After long difficult hikes your entire body can feel wrecked. For this particular adventure you need to be at an A+ for overall shape and an A+ for hiking shape.
The training plan is comprised of two major pieces. First is overall fitness. About three months ago, before I thought about this project, my friend Megan convinced me that it was time to get into yoga. So I have been steadily working on my practice (under the amazing tutelage of the Greener Postures Yoga instructors). In addition, I have started running again and it is almost time to bust out the bike from the basement. A daily routine of mixing in biking, running and yoga will help me in my overall fitness.
The second part is getting back into hiking shape. The Hiking Plan is a work in progress that currently resides in the very capable hands of Ben one of my closest friends and long time partner in crime for far too many shenanigans. Not the least of which has been many, many, many, many hikes over many, many hundreds of miles. Based on his experience and knowledge as well as our long history together, knowing all of my strengths and weaknesses, he is the perfect architect for this program.
Hike for speed. We will be setting pace times for the training hikes that they have to be completed in.
At this point we know that speed is the absolute biggest hurdle to clear and being able to maintain that over a long sustained climb is our barrier. Right now I judge my average pace to be about 1 mph. This is slow (very slow). For the Traverse I need to get up to about 2 mph so that we can travel the 20+ miles in about 16 hours. On top of that, we need to build in being able to have the strength, stamina and strength to plow through elevation gains which total about 9000 feet.
The plan is still in the infancy stages of being developed. We are looking at the timing, structure, measurable metrics, etc. All with the goal of being able to complete the Traverse in one day.
First hike is tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.
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The Noh theater performance is one of these totally unique Japanese heritage form of art. You may not understand it, but you will be mesmerized.
Small room with an half an hour show giving the opportunity to discover this kind of traditional show. Good seating in private lounge. Good explanation provided (translator recommended). Food served after the performance.
You may call it a restaurant. I'd call it a ceremonial where art and food are alchemically balanced.
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Please remember photographs will be added to the Y6 class page throughout the weekend. I have set up a page for each day for you to see the fun they are all getting up to.
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Articles / Incontinence Aids Seize the Moment in Brazil's Booming Drugstore Channel
Incontinence Aids Seize the Moment in Brazil's Booming Drugstore Channel
By: Rob Walker 07/15/2013
The local drugstore is normally the first port of call for Brazilians when they fall ill, not the doctor. As such, drugstores tend to operate as quasi-medical centres, and bigger outlets even have a designated space for free consultations. The ubiquity of drugstores – there are around 123,000 outlets nationwide (including health and beauty specialists) – makes them readily accessible. But, their distribution power runs deeper than sheer numbers. Owners of drugstores are trusted for their advice and confidentiality, and the small independents, in particular, have built up strong ties within local communities. These are major reasons why Brazil is bucking the emerging market trend in sales of incontinence aids.
Globally, incontinence has been the fastest growing category in retail tissue and hygiene for 10 years running, and is now a US$7 billion market. Sales have been heavily concentrated in developed countries, however. North America, Japan and Western Europe fuel collectively over three quarters of total value. Brazil is the only emerging market where the incontinence category has established a significant footprint (it is almost four times bigger in value than in China, for example). This is not because incontinence is less of a health problem in emerging markets. It has to do with barriers of price, taboo and distribution. The latter two have been broken down in Brazil by an entrenched drugstore culture.
Drugstores are big business
Brazilian spending on incontinence products grew at an average annual rate of 27% (at fixed US dollars) over the 2007-2012 period, with total sales breaking US$500 million in 2012. It is the category's third biggest market in the world, after the US and Japan. Despite cooling economic growth, demand is forecast to remain strong this year and well into the long term.
Health and beauty retailers accounted for 74% of category sales in 2012 and participation is growing (collective selling space expanded by 64% over the last five years). Drugstores are now among the biggest targets of new retail investment in Brazil. When Raia and Drogasil merged in 2011, they created a joint revenue stream of R$4.7 billion (US$2.2 billion) and became one of the top 15 retailers in Brazil by sales. Other big chains (and possible future M&A targets) include Drogaria São Paulo (based in the São Paulo region) and Salvador-based Pague Menos.
Lifestyle changes fuel the drugstore boom
Brazil's boom in drugstores aligns with key demographic, environmental and lifestyle changes. Brazilians are living longer, reflecting advancements in medicine. But, stronger economic confidence has brought in its wake new day-to-day ailments, most related to stress and changes in consumption culture.
A taste for fast food and snacking means that the middle-class is more prone to indigestion and heartburn than a decade ago, for example. Fuller employment has made public transport busier, and a haven for cough and cold viruses. Alcohol consumption has risen, and with it, hangovers. Professional lives are increasingly hectic, leading to more cases of muscular pain and constipation. The boom in drugstores has thus been a response to growing demand for consumer healthcare. In turn, this has created a platform for incontinence aids to flourish.
Brazil is a window into future opportunity
In Brazil, the trust that consumers have in their local drugstores has been key to incontinence products gaining market traction (by diluting the taboo, for example). Price points have also become more accessible as the middle-class has expanded. There have been fortuitous market inducements too. At the end of 2009, the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), which regulates retail healthcare, issued a ruling whereby OTC medicines had to be kept behind the counter, rather than stacked on shelves. This opened up more shelf space for personal care and hygiene products, including incontinence aids.
The ruling was overturned in the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2010, and in São Paulo in March 2012. Since July 2012, ANVISA has reversed it altogether. But, incontinence aids have shown themselves to be a strong rotation category for health and beauty retailers, thereby securing their shelf space into the long term.
Based on trends in developed markets, health and beauty retailers are key springboards for the development of incontinence aids. And this seems to be what we are seeing in Brazil today. The number of drugstores will continue to expand over the next five years, helped by a surge in new shopping malls and a mushrooming of residential real estate developments, especially in the northeast and centre-west regions.
Brazil is a window into the future opportunity of the emerging markets, perhaps. As dynamic as the incontinence category has been over the last 10 years, it needs to reduce some of its dependence on the developed markets. Brazil's drugstore culture shows a possible way forward.
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A Child Needs You! Louisiana's Children Need More Foster Homes.
Child welfare professionals were delighted in 2013 when the Congressional Budget Office reported the number of children in foster care had been on a 10-year decline. The CBO published a report about foster care, adoption and kinship care which looked at the past and predicted the future. Based on the past and hopeful about the next decade, the CBO report contained a graph projecting what the data suggested would happen in the United States between 2013 and 2023. You can see the predictions in the chart below.
Along the way, those positive trend lines took a bad turn. The number of children in foster care is actually increasing each year.
Between 2011 and 2017, the number of children in foster care increased by 8% in the United States. Today there are roughly 75,000 more children living in foster care in the U.S. than experts predicted there would be back in 2013.
What we know now is that the number of children who live in foster care will continue to increase until the prescription opioid crisis and heroin use decline.
What has increased the number of children living in foster care?
Increased parental drug use led to increased foster care. The opioid crisis has had a devastating impact on our nation's infants and children. All the trends prior to the opioid crisis predicted a 35% reduction in the number of children in foster care between 2011 and 2017. That did not happen.
Unfortunately, the reality of parental addiction created a different future for our nation's children. The reason is simple: a parent who is impaired by opioids cannot care for his or her child. A baby born to an addicted young mother will be born with her own addiction-related health concerns.
The overlooked victims of the opioid epidemic are infants and children and the numbers are swelling. Their parents' addictions lead to neglectful parenting.
The seeds of the opioid crisis were planted in the late 1990's and early 2000's. During those years, increased numbers of prescriptions for natural and semi-synthentic opioids were written for pain relief. These pharmaceutical painkillers were provided effusively enough that surplus prescription drugs were soon available from both pharmacies and on the street.
Of course, every pendulum swings. The over abundance of prescription opioids was countered by a crack down on over perscribing.
As regulations tightened, the street supply of pain killers like Vicodin and OxyContin decreased and individuals who had been using the pharmaceuticals for nonmedical purposes turned to illegal drugs. Heroin, a powerful opioid, became the street replacement for off-prescription painkillers.
This all happened in a single decade. In 2000, 0.33% of the adult population in the U.S., about 300,000 individuals, reported having used heroin at least once. Ten years later in 2010, that number of adults reporting having used heroin increased to 1.6% or about 3.8 million Americans.
While heroin use was increasing dramatically, the use of prescription painkillers continued. Nearly 10 million Americans, more than 4% of the adults in the U.S., reported using a prescription opioid for nonmedical reasons in 2012-2013.
Heroin use increased.
Heroin is the most deadly drug. The death rate of heroin users increased hand-in-hand with the increased use of heroin. In 2016, heroin-related deaths were five times more than in 2000.
According to a Robert Wood Johnson study released earlier this year, "heroin use appears to have become more socially acceptable among suburban and rural white individuals, perhaps because its effects seem so similar to those of widely available [prescription opioids]." The group of individuals whose heroin use increased most are young, white adults of parenting age.
With increasing numbers of young parents whose addictions prevent them from parenting and with more newborns experiencing prenatal substance abuse, it follows that the number of children living in foster care would increase.
What about Louisiana?
No state has been immune from impact of the opioid crisis. Louisiana is no different. The impact on Louisiana's children is similar. Like other states, Louisiana has more children in foster care today than in 2011. Unlike most other states, Louisiana has experienced a larger percentage increase in the number of children living in foster care.
Between 2011 and 2017, the number of children in foster care increased by 8% in the United States. Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services reported 3,968 Louisiana children lived in foster care in December of 2011. Recently, in November, 2017, Louisiana's DCFS reported 4,699 children in foster care. Louisiana's increase of 15.6% is almost twice the national increase of 8%.
Louisiana Needs More Foster Homes
Stated simply, Louisiana's children require more foster homes. The need is not temporary. The increase occurred over a ten year period and nothing gives one reason to believe there will be an immediate decline in the need.
It is not an empty request when you hear someone say, "Louisiana needs more foster homes. Would you help?" The need is real and the need is growing. A significant number of Louisiana's children need a safe home.
You can help by opening your home, by becoming a foster parent, for a young child.
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COVID-19: Lagos suspends reopening of worship centers - ITREALMS
The Lagos State Government has stopped the reopening of worship centers initially scheduled for Friday, June 19 (mosques) and Sunday, June 21 (churches), with immediate effect, reports ITREALMS.
Disclosing this Tuesday, the incident commander, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the decision became necessary as a result of the rising cases of COVID-19 in the state.
"Dear Lagosians, in the most recent guidelines which we issued on the gradual easing of the lockdown, based on the advice of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, I noted that we would shortly be permitting the restricted opening of religious houses, on the condition of strict compliance with detailed guidelines issued by the Lagos State Safety Commission.
"We have been closely monitoring the situation since then, and have now concluded that we cannot proceed with any form of re-opening for places of worship in Lagos State, until further notice," Sanwo-Olu said.
"This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, it is simply in line with our ongoing evaluation of evolving scenarios regarding the course of the infection in Lagos State and the corresponding public health advisory guidelines issued by the experts.
"So, let me say this again: we are now hereby suspending, with immediate effect, the plan to re-open religious houses and places of worship in Lagos State, until further notice. We will continue to monitor the situation closely, and continue to base our decision-making on data modelling; as well as on the responsibility we have to act in a manner that ensures the protection of all of you the people of Lagos State.
"Therefore, until further notice, all places of worship in Lagos State will remain closed. Social and events centers, and social clubs, will also remain closed, for now," he added.
On Monday, Nigeria recorded 573 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 16,658.
Of the new infections, Lagos reported the highest figure with 216 new cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 7,319.
Consequently, the state has remained the epicentre of infections in the country, closely followed by the FCT with 1,264 and Kano state with 1,158.
To curb further spread of the virus, the Federal Government had in March, imposed a lockdown on the three majorly affected states at the time (Lagos, Ogun State and the FCT).
Subsequently, other states began to impose varying degrees of curfews and governors eventually agreed on interstate lockdowns as they began to record new infections.
But weeks after the federal government-imposed lockdown, President Muhammadu Buhari announced again that there would be a gradual easing of the lockdown in order to allow economic activities resume as the country could not sustain an extended period of economic inactivity.
While essential workers and other levels of workers have been allowed to resume so far, the government has still appealed to those who can afford to stay at home, to do so.
Reducing interpersonal contacts and maintaining social distancing of up to 2-3 meters is said to be one of the ways to curb the spread of the virus but that in itself has proven to be a difficult task for most Nigerians.
Other measures to stay safe include sneezing or coughing into your elbow, washing of hands regularly, use of alcohol-based sanitizers and wearing of face masks.
By ITREALMS at June 16, 2020


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Ferguson 'Black Lives Matter' Activist is a Fake, Phony, Fraud
Steven P. Ahle
Shaun King, the "Black Lives Matter" activist from Ferguson, is known as the Facebook Pastor. He should soon have a new name. How about the Facebook Fraud?
It seems he may have pulled a Rachel Dolezal. According to the biographical information that he has offered up, he was attacked by over 12 white bigots and he was beaten within an inch of his life. He is lucky to be alive after that attack in 1995, when he was a sophomore in high school. It's a very moving story. It's also a bald face lie.
In checking his story against the police report, you will find a few minor discrepancies. Instead of being beaten by a dozen "racist" and "redneck" students, it was actually a one-on-one fight with another student. According to the detective who investigated the attack on March 1st, 1995, at Woodford County High School in Versailles, Kentucky, the two profiles that claimed it was the first hate crime charged in Kentucky is also a lie because the fight had nothing to do with race.
[Editor's note: Color me surprised… Not.]
Fake black NAACP prez Rachel Dolezal: Only blacks should lead #BlackLivesMatter movement
Majority of MSNBC's viewers say it's okay to lie about race and call yourself 'transracial'
Spokane police close investigation of alleged Rachel Dolezal hate mail
Reports: Spokane NAACP leader falsely portrays herself as black, family says
Liberal blogger, Think Progress award-winner charged with faking hate crimes


The fourth instalment of the heart-warming series, A Little Horse Called Pancakes And The Big Scare is once again adapted from real-life characters and events within the Cape Town horse-riding community. Set against the backdrop of an all-important dressage competition, the story see the legendary miniature horse taken ill by a life-threatening sickness. Disaster is averted by the love and care of Anna B, once again illustrating the amazing bond between human and pet, before Pancakes finds a unique way to repay her love.
Candice Noakes-Dobson lives on a small farm with her daughter and husband, surrounded by the animals that inspire her stories.
Wendy Paterson is a freelance illustrator who lives with her husband, two daughters, two cats, three rabbits, a guinea pig and a gold fish. This is their fourth book together.
Anna B and Pancakes return in a tale of almost-disaster, as Pancakes is struck by a life-threatening illness. Only the love and care of Annabel can save the day, before the clever little horse can repay her.


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Otdimjh 1 November 1478 Pope Sixtus IV issues Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus establishing Spanish Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile
Posted on November 1, 2014 by richardsh
The basic accusation of the Inquisition was that Jews who converted to Christianity were still secretly Jewish.
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Christian Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.
The Inquisition was originally intended in large part to ensure the orthodoxy of those who converted from Judaism and Islam. This regulation of the faith of the newly converted was intensified after the royal decrees issued in 1492 and 1501 ordering Jews and Muslims to convert or leave.
The monarchs decided to introduce the Inquisition to Castile to discover and punish crypto-Jews, and requested the pope's assent. Ferdinand II of Aragon pressured Pope Sixtus IV to agree to an Inquisition controlled by the monarchy by threatening to withdraw military support at a time when the Turks were a threat to Rome. The pope issued a bull to stop the Inquisition but was pressured into withdrawing it. On November 1, 1478, Pope Sixtus IV published the Papal bull, Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus, through which he gave the monarchs exclusive authority to name the inquisitors in their kingdoms.
The Spanish Inquisition had been set up in part to prevent conversos from engaging in Jewish practices, which, as Christians, they were supposed to have given up. However this remedy for securing the orthodoxy of conversos' religion was eventually deemed inadequate, since the main justification the monarchy gave for formally expelling all Jews from Spain was the "great harm suffered by Christians (i.e. conversos) from the contact, intercourse and communication which they have with the Jews, who always attempt in various ways to seduce faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Faith".
The Alhambra Decree, which ordered the expulsion, was issued in January 1492. Historic accounts of the numbers of Jews who left Spain have varied enormously. Historians of the period give extremely high figures: Juan de Mariana speaks of 800,000 people, and Don Isaac Abravanel of 300,000. Modern estimates, based on careful examination of official documents and population estimates of communities, are much lower: Henry Kamen estimates that, of a population of approximately 80,000 Jews, about one half or 40,000 chose emigration. The Jews of the kingdom of Castile emigrated mainly to Portugal (whence they were expelled in 1497) and to North Africa. However, according to Henry Kamen, the Jews of the kingdom of Aragon, went "to adjacent Christian lands, mainly to Italy", rather than to Muslim lands as is often assumed.
The Sefardim or Anusim descendants of Spanish Jews gradually migrated throughout Europe and North Africa, where they established communities in many cities. They also went to New Spain, the Ottoman Empire and North America (the American Southwest), Central and South America.
Tens of thousands of Jews were baptised in the three months before the deadline for expulsion, some 40,000 if one accepts the totals given by Kamen: most of these undoubtedly to avoid expulsion, rather than as a sincere change of faith. These conversos were the principal concern of the Inquisition; being suspected of continuing to practice Judaism put them at risk of denunciation and trial.
Peter Hocken writes:
"I realize the depth of the suffering inflicted on the Anussim by the Inquisition. This has to be confessed for the sake of the Catholic Church and the whole Body of Messiah. It is a Catholic responsibility to acknowledge this massive evil, when the Church, through the Pope and the Kings, created a 'monster' (the Inquisition) that got out of control. The story of the Inquisition is a story of multiplication of evil and represented the climax of replacement teaching. As a Catholic priest, I am here to express this sorrow and ask for forgiveness from my Jewish brothers. We need to seek guidance from the Holy Spirit of God and let it work in the midst of the Church."
Prayer: Father, forgive the terrible things that have been done in your name. Cleanse our hearts, and the misdeeds of the past, so that we may know and share the true love you have for us through the Messiah, both for Israel and all nations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Expulsion_of_Jews_and_repression_of_conversos
See here and here for the confession and act of repentance led by Peter Hocken and Johannes Fichtenbauer


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Solution Establishes New Benchmark for Australian Organizations to Protect Their Staff
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 26 October 2020 – Chubb and CriticalArc have joined forces to enable SafeZone®, CriticalArc's award-winning cloud-based safety, security and emergency management solution to be monitored by Chubb's 24/7 Graded A1 (Redundant R1A) monitoring centers.
The SafeZone App makes it easy for staff members to summon help via a simple tap on their phone, sharing their location, identity, and need directly to Chubb's monitoring centre response team.
Additionally, when a SafeZone App user enters a high-risk environment or is simply working alone, they can check-in using the SafeZone App. If they don't clear the check-in timer before the set time, an alert will be activated and Chubb's monitoring response team will respond.
This new partnership between Chubb and CriticalArc means the SafeZone solution is now suitable for all organizations whether they have their own security response team or not. The solution can be configured so all alerts are responded to solely by Chubb, the organization's own responders or a combination of both.
The SafeZone solution is scalable and can be configured as a simple lone-worker check-in and duress-based smart phone solution or a complete holistic emergency management solution including mass notifications, analytics and indoor positioning capabilities depending on your organization's requirements.
SafeZone uses cloud-based, SaaS technology so it can be deployed in days and will deliver a highly scalable distributed command and control environment, that connects SafeZone users with a response team in real time.
This solution was recently deployed into the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to manage the security and safety of its staff working in both its offices and in the field. SafeZone solution puts ATO's front-line staff directly in touch with Chubb's monitoring centre response teams, letting them summon for immediate assistance at the touch of a button when required.
SafeZone fundamentally transforms an organization's ability to manage its staff safety and security in emergency situations, the capability to direct alarms into Chubb's 24/7 monitoring centres ensures a consistent and fast response to protect organization's most important asset, their people.
"Chubb's integration of SafeZone at our Monitoring Centre's has established a new benchmark for organizations to protect their staff, streamline operations, which is easy to use and quick to deploy." – Joshua Simmons, Managing Director – Chubb Monitoring Solutions
"As a result of this partnership between CriticalArc and Chubb, tens of thousands of public and private sector workers are being protected by SafeZone," said Darren Chalmers-Stevens, Managing Director, CriticalArc. "Now organizations of all sizes, from small enterprises to major corporations, will be able to provide enhanced protection for their people, nationwide."
"Chubb is a natural partner for CriticalArc given that the company operates the highest ASIAL graded security monitoring centre in the country. This, coupled with SafeZone's unique capabilities, will transform safety standards for many more customers."
Chubb and CriticalArc will be attending the Security & Government Expo on Thursday November 12th, 2020, to demonstrate the combined offering. For more information on SafeZone go to www.criticalarc.com or www.chubb.com.au
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Hrithik Roshan dances to Lollipop Laagelu with his Super 30 co-stars, screams 'Garda uda diye'. Watch video
Hrithik Roshan shared a fun new video of himself and his Super 30 co-stars dancing together on the sets of their film.
Hrithik Roshan with his co-stars from Super 30.
Actor Hrithik Roshan shared an endearing new video on Twitter on Monday, kicking off the week with a tonne of fun. In the video, he is seen dancing with his co-stars from upcoming film Super 30 to some hit Bhojpuri songs.
"A very different side of super 30 class. I really enjoyed my young co-actors who are from diverse backgrounds and most of them are facing the camera for the first time," he wrote in his tweet. The video, shot at night at shoot location, shows him tearing apart the dance floor as he dances to superhit song Lollipop Laagelu. Around him, a bunch of young kids dance with a lot of energy, clearly having a lot of fun.
A very different side of super 30 class. I really enjoyed my young co actors who are from diverse backgrounds and most of them are facing the camera for the first time.
.#super30 #keepcreating #keepgrowing #wearetheworld #studentsforever pic.twitter.com/mgctcIULGD
— Hrithik Roshan (@iHrithik) July 1, 2019
Also read: Priyanka caught wiping tears at Joe-Sophie's wedding in France, see pics
Hrithik mixes his Bihari dance steps with his classic moves from songs like Main Aisa Kyu Hoon. At the end, he screams "Garda uda diye (We shook the ground)."
Super 30 stars Hrithik as real life Bihari tutor Anand Kumar. It tells his journey from tutoring rich children in a top coaching centre to opening an institute of his own in order to teach the underprivileged children. Anand is a Patna-based mathematician and founder of the Super 30 educational programme who trained Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants crack the entrance exam to the prestigious institute.
"The papad selling phase of Anand Kumar's journey is an important one as it was cathartic and became the genesis of all that he did later on in his life." #Super30 #12thJULY pic.twitter.com/I7FCbXyphG
— Hrithik Roshan (@iHrithik) June 27, 2019
Hrithik recently shared a still from the film which showed him selling papads by the roadside. In the caption, he reveals why selling papad was an integral part of the character's journey. "The papad selling phase of Anand Kumar's journey is an important one as it was cathartic and became the genesis of all that he did later on in his life," he captioned the post.
Directed by Vikas Bahl, the upcoming biopic is one of the highly-anticipated films of 2019. Produced by Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Films, the film also stars Mrunal Thakur, Amit Sadh, and Nandish Sandhu in pivotal roles. The film will hit the theatres on July 12, this year.
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Q: Bind html string in controller to template does not trigger click event I have a html string in controller and I bind this to view, but the action does not trigger on clicking.
I already applied the triple braces or htmlSafe to avoid html escape, the button shows on the template but when clicking on it does not trigger action newAlert
## hello.js

import { htmlSafe } from '@ember/string';
import { computed } from '@ember/object';

export default Controller.extend({
  htmlString: computed(function() {
    return htmlSafe('<button {{action "newAlert"}}>Test Alert</button>')
  }),
  actions: {
    newAlert: function(){
      alert('Hello')
    }
  }
});

## hello.hbs

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Could you guys help me shows what is going wrong?

A: As has been mentioned, there can be real security problems introduced by using raw HTML from the server. That said, there are times that is indeed needed and you may want that raw HTML to work with Ember's event system.
The simplest way to do this is to render the raw HTML inside of a component. In the component, also add a click method to the main component body. Doing so gives you the ability to intercept raw DOM events instead of working within the actions system that Handlebars enables.
Most of the time it is simplest to live in a Handlebars world, but at times you need to get back to raw JS events.
More details on the guides here: https://guides.emberjs.com/release/components/handling-events/

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On-chain metrics forecast a bullish future for NFTs: DappRadar
The NFT market remains solid in 2022 despite the overall declines across cryptocurrency prices.
Mainstream interest, development of new technology and growth in key platforms point to further adoption.
Key metrics include sales count, trading volume and unique active traders, DappRadar highlighted in a report.
A review of the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) market shows the sector continued to experience growth in 2022, despite the overall cryptocurrency industry hitting massive turbulence as the year progressed.
According to global dapp store DappRadar, key on-chain metrics and broader NFT trends suggest a bullish future for the space. The state of the NFT market, DappRadar notes in its recently published yearly report, is one where there's potential following the resilience shown during this year's harsh macro conditions.
Why bullish on NFTs
The latest outlook for the NFT market, which takes into account industry events, statistics and trends in metrics such as trading volume, sales, and unique active traders, suggest the industry is primed for further growth despite the bumpy ride that has been 2022.
NFTs have also registered significant growth in terms of the development of new technology and platforms designed to bolster demand for NFTs. The market downturn has also played a role in bringing more people into NFTs, while the rising adoption of NFTs across mainstream industries continues to drive global interest.
Also notable is the growth in and around NFT marketplaces, while top NFT collections remain resilient amid the crypto market volatility.
Key NFT metrics
As with the rest of the market, crypto winter saw NFT trading volumes fall from $12.46 billion in the first quarter to $8.4 billion in Q2 and just $4.4 billion generated in Q3 and Q4. The second half of 2022 just pales when compared to the $23.2 billion in trading volume generated during the same period in 2021.
Meanwhile, NFT unique traders fell slightly in the last three months after increasing throughout the year. For example, the number of unique NFT traders jumped 675% in the first quarter and 130% in Q2 year over year. Compared to the same period in 2021, traders count fell about 25% in Q4, 2022.
NFT sales were also huge in the first half of 2022, with 4.88 million sales accounting for a 483% jump in the first quarter. The 20.23 million NFTs sold in Q2 represented a 73.8% increase on sales recorded in the same quarter a year earlier.
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CBS – Content Banishment Syndicate. Advertising Age writes: Anti-Bush Ad Contest Submits Super Bowl Commercial. A spokesman for CBS said the Viacom-owned network has received the request from MoveOn to run the ad in the Super Bowl, but added that the ad has to go through standards and practices before CBS will say if it can run an advocacy ad during the game. The spokesman said he didn't think it was likely that the spot would pass standards and practices. Have you seen the ad, the one that won MoveOn.org's contest? What possible standard or practice does it violate? Is our country stronger because… [Joho the Blog]
if it doesn't pass it should be run on fox, they'll run nearly anything and given their apparent bias, it would be even more powerful.


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This article shows statistics of individual players for the Cibalia football club. It also lists all matches that Cibalia played in the 2012–13 season.

First-team squad

Competitions

Overall

Prva HNL

Classification

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Prva HNL

Croatian Cup

Sources: Prva-HNL.hr

Player seasonal records
Competitive matches only. Updated to games played 8 December 2012.

Top scorers

Source: Competitive matches

References

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Mobile payment technologies nearly ready for prime time.
Consumers enter 2015 with a new payment option at some retailers–a mobile wallet that enables users to pay with their phone rather than swiping a credit or debit card, writing a check or using cash–but this alternate payment method is still in its very embryonic stages.
Apple Pay, available on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, made some consumers aware of mobile payment options for the first time when it debuted in October along with a media campaign and backing by some early-adopting retailers.
Two of the retailers that promote their acceptance of Apple Pay are Panera Bread and Whole Foods, which each have several locations throughout Northwest Indiana. However, besides those two merchants, there are very few merchants that accept Apple Pay or other forms of mobile wallets today. In all, Apple Pay is accepted at about 220,000 merchant locations, a small portion of the estimated 12 million in the U.S.
Yet even with this small footprint for Apple and competitors, banking experts agree that mobile payments will grow quickly and become a viable payment option at an increasing number of merchants by the time the new year comes to a close.
Mobile payment proponents point to the ease of payment and the enhanced security of smartphone payments. Several studies have shown that people would rather leave their wallet at home than their smartphones. The phones also include additional security known as tokenization, which uses a randomly generated number rather than a payment card number to secure payments from hackers.
Payments run through a payment card the consumer enters into the Apple Pay platform, much like PayPal works for online purchases.
Apple Pay uses near field communications (NFC), a technology not included in most merchant point-of-sale terminals today. Many merchants are upgrading their terminals due to new payment card industry standards that will go into effect in October. But even if the merchant has an NFC-capable terminal, the feature may not be activated. In addition to the tokenization, the payments are secured by the iPhone's fingerprint technology.
Beyond limited merchant acceptance, other restricting factors for Apple Pay are the lack of any Android-based option, the inability of older iPhones to use this payment option and a limited number of payment cards that can be enrolled for usage.
With its media blitz and promotions from Panera and Whole Foods (which have Apple Pay signage in the stores), Apple Pay quickly became the mobile payment option that most people discussed, even though Google rolled out its Google Wallet mobile payment platform some three years earlier.
Google touts more than 10 million downloads of the wallet, according to the company's app store, but the number of active users is nearly nil. As with Apple Pay, only a limited number of merchants accept Google Pay, and only a limited number of cards can be used for payment.
There are other limitations as well. While Apple aggressively pushes its mobile payment option, Google is relatively quiet in the press and has limited the use of the mobile wallet to those Android phones running system 4.4 (KitKat) or higher. Just as Apple Pay won't run on Android devices, Google Wallet won't run on iPhones. Additionally, Google announced in early November that it would no longer accept its own digital wallet as a payment method for apps and software, though it will still support payments for Google Play Store apps.
CurrentC is in its earliest trials today, with a more aggressive rollout planned by the next holiday shopping season. Large merchants such as Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy joined forces to develop the Merchant Customer Exchange and CurrentC as a way to get around the fees charged by Visa and MasterCard.
Like Apple Pay, CurrentC Wallet will rely on NFC technology and tokenization. However, much of the wallet's functionality has yet to be determined.
Beyond the above three, there are also several "closed-loop" payment options that can only be used in a single merchant's store. The most notable and successful of these is Starbucks, which includes mobile payment as part of its app. According to the company, about 6 percent of U.S. transactions take place via a mobile device–about 7 million mobile payments per week, dwarfing Apple Pay, but they're limited to Starbucks locations.
Other merchants have tried to copy the Starbucks effort by enabling customers to enroll payment cards through the merchants' apps, but the results are still sporadic at best at this time.
Phillip J. Britt, owner of editorial services firm S&P Enterprises Inc., has covered financial services since the mid-1980s for a variety of local and national publications.


We've been working with The Royal Society on a number of live streaming projects at venues across the UK.
Over the past couple of months we've worked with The Royal Society to enable them to share their events to a much wider audience, via their YouTube Channel.
In October we worked with them at Reading University to film and live stream their climate change lecture and Q&A with Professor Brian Cox and his panel of experts. Over the past two months this video has been viewed almost 18,000 times, enabling a much more wide and varied viewing audience than just the audience of 500 on the day. It now acts as part of the The Royal Society's archive of events on YouTube and as a reference point for the public, scientific bodies and media.
This week we've worked on a much larger event on with them, Science Matters - Feeding the Future, with 1000 people in attendance at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. Not only were we there to live stream the event, but also to enable the whole audience to get the most out of the event experience, by relaying the action on stage throughout the room. By doing this everyone gets the best experience possible, can clearly hear and see the panel, wherever they are watching. With a four camera set-up we captured all the action on stage, and with the panel all using radio microphones the audio was as clear at the picture.
We have more events like this coming up, and we can always recommend the best solution, whatever the size or location of the event, give us a call on 01962 870408 to discuss your event and live streaming the experience.


Scalabrini's most compelling quality is his capacity to translate pastoral ideas into concrete actions, which should permeate the whole Christian being from dawn to dusk of both day and life, just like his model St. Charles Borromeo. Grass-roots action is one of the main aspects of his pastoral approach: "He worked out all the means for an adequate preparation of young people for communion, he recommended even daily attendance, he spread the practice of the Forty Hours, and from the start of the new century he organized perpetual adoration ...; he also obtained commitments from priests for night adoration. He reactivated the confraternities of the Most Blessed Sacrament. He also renewed the outward signs of eucharistic worship, consecrating over two hundred churches, decreeing that altars of the Blessed Sacrament should be made of marble, chalices at least of gilded silver, and vestments decorous. He revived the practice of eucharistic processions for Corpus Christi, as well as monthly parish processions .... The monument to his eucharistic piety was the third synod ...; written personally by him in its entirety, it is ... an extension of eucharistic worship to all aspects of the life of priests and people, and also an example of the energy and enthusiasm of the Servant of God.
"We should also remember the creation of the Tabernacle Society, the founding of the Deaf and Dumb Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, affiliated with the Daughters of St. Anne, the support given to various priests' initiatives in Piacenza, such as the Pages of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the Association of Guards of Honor, and the League for Feast Day Mass.
"The main impulse to eucharistic piety came from his example" (Francesconi).
The extracts given in this publication are taken from the 1902 pastoral letter on devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament.
The extract speaks of frequent - indeed, daily - communion, with an openness that foreshadows Pius IX (to whom Scalabrini sent the acts of the eucharistic synod). Communion is not a prize, but a necessity, and in order to have access to it, it is enough to be in the grace of God, without demanding an "extraordinary purity of mind." The adjectives with which Jansenistic rigors are stigmatized - "dry and frozen piety," "small-hearted and savage doctrine" - well describe the opposite of Scalabrini's own attitude to the "memorial of all the wonders of a good and merciful God."
The first synod, held in 1879, had already in fact laid down the legal basis for this practice of frequent communion, and the underlying theological and pastoral motivations (pp. 65-70).
It should be emphasized that for Scalabrini the Eucharist brings not only personal, but also social advantages - and not only to Christians, but to "the whole of civil society."
The words of the second paragraph are a real hymn to communion, in other words to that union with God "raised up to the most sublime power" which makes our person Christ-like. The "holy doctor" referred to is St. Francis de Sales.
Especially the acts of preparation and thanksgiving, but also the fruit of sacramental communion, are typical aspects of Scalabrinian spirituality. See also Francesconi, Vita, pp. 368-370.
However, eucharistic devotion requires much more. It requires that in each parish a considerable number of people should take communion several times a month; others several times a week; and others every day. Where this frequency is not found, even the most essential part of Christianity gradually languishes and fades because it lacks life.
Communion is the spring from which the soul draws the water that wells up to eternal life; it is the place where its wounds are healed; it is, in a word, the principle and end of that union with God raised to the highest power and brought to that highest degree of perfection that can be hoped for in the present order. If the Word of God was united personally with human nature in the incarnation, it is united even more so to our personality in communion. In this way, he divinizes our essence, Christianizing, so to speak, our individual being; and his union with us has as its emblem the same one that transforms food into the substance of the body that eats it. So those who take communion, as a holy doctor wrote, have Jesus in their minds, hearts, breasts, eyes and tongue. This Savior corrects, purifies and vivifies everything. He loves in the heart, understands in the mind, imparts strength in the breast, sees in the eyes, speaks by means of the tongue, and moves every other power. He works all things in all people, and they no longer live in themselves, but is the Word of God who lives in them, setting nobler and higher aims and purer and more perfect motives for their actions.
As you can see, my loved ones, there is nothing beyond this union but heaven. So when the divine substance is conjoined with ours, if God were to transform our understanding into his and our will into his love in the same proportion, then we would see him clearly and love him with the love of the blessed. Now, what else is this if not eternal life?
However, if these are the fruits of communion, what can we say about those confessors and spiritual directors who do not exhort the faithful to attend it, preferably every day, but instead remove them from it, under the pretext of zeal for honor and reverence toward the sacramental Jesus? This is the result of a misunderstood, dry and frozen piety. These people are unintentionally contrary to the mysteries of divine love, perhaps because they are still permeated with a small-hearted, hypocritical and savage doctrine, and could do no better if they wanted to take Satan's side in bringing about the loss of souls. No, this is not the example left us by the early Christians, who nourished themselves on the eucharistic bread every day; it is not the teaching of the Council of Trent and the Roman catechism; it is not what we are taught by the most eminent fathers, doctors and theologians of the Catholic Church. The authoritative voice of St. Augustine can stand for all when he says: "This is daily bread: receive it every day so that it may be of help to you every day." Lastly, is this not the wish of the divine Master, who excluded nobody from the solemn feast described in the Gospel, which prefigures the Eucharist, except the person who dared come to it without a wedding garment, in other words lacking in grace. So a Christian who is adorned with sanctifying grace may even have imperfections and fall into venial sins, but he is still a child of God, an heir of heaven, and hence worthy of seating himself, even daily, at the great banquet that Jesus Christ keeps laid out in his Church, so that Christians can go forth from it with ever-increasing fervor and a greater desire to return. So why should the faithful be asked for an extraordinary purity of mind, heart and deed before being admitted to this feast? Surely daily communion is in fact the best disposition for approaching the Eucharist worthily? Ah, if everybody had a higher concept of the beauty and nobility of a soul in grace, frequent communion would certainly soon be revived, to the very great - indeed, incalculable - advantage of the Christian people and the whole of civil society.
Take communion, I shall now say to all of you, my very dearest children, take communion often, and you will find all you need. If you lack help, Jesus is strength; if you fear death, he is life; if you desire heaven, he is the way that leads there; if you flee the shadows, he is light; if you seek your food, he is the living bread; so taste how sweet is the Lord. However, so far as you are able, let your life be such as to be worthy of receiving the holy Eucharist each day. Come to Jesus with purity of mind, heart and body, and with the firm intention of never offending him again. Urge yourselves to the liveliest acts of faith, humility, hope and love before receiving him in your breast, and, after receiving him, stay with him for a long time, thanking him for every good thing. Then I am sure that you will always leave the eucharistic table better, and more disposed and ready to walk to the eternal pastures in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd.
This passage is an exhortation to his priests for renewed eucharistic devotion. And we should again note how this devotion entails (as was seen in essay no. 2) the "pious movement of the heart" ("What do the sanctuary, the altar, the tabernacle say to you? What impression do they make on you?" etc.) and the firm will to sacrifice oneself for Jesus. The Scalabrinian priest is thus seen as "a man who lives, works and sacrifices himself for the sacramental Jesus, the sole goal of all his aspirations." His solid but tenderly affectionate piety, made up of gestures, thoughts, and gentle attentions which extend to flowers, perfumes and decoration, finds its consecration in the very words he uses, which are the expression of a nuptial attitude: "Let your tongue speak often of him, let your heart sigh after him, nor let any hour of the day pass without dedicating a thought of affectionate gratitude to him." And the last adjective (printed in bold here) shows once more the special nature of Scalabrinian eucharistic piety, as was seen in fold-out 2.
In other words, revered brothers, if you truly yearn to call eucharistic devotion back to life in your parishes, show with deeds that you yourselves have it deeply rooted in your hearts. Let your devotion be interior and exterior, and let it proceed from a living faith and a sincere love for Jesus, the divine host.
Alas, however, we must admit that faith is often lukewarm, and often, after many years of priesthood, people no longer love the divine Master, or love him with a lifeless love. Nonetheless, the true priest is simply a man who lives, works and sacrifices himself for the sacramental Jesus, the sole goal of all his aspirations. Does this describe you? What do the sanctuary, the altar, the tabernacle say to you? What impression do they make on you? After receiving the body and blood of Jesus, do you not feel, as St. Vincent de Paul said to his priests, do you not feel your hearts being kindled with the divine fire? Now, does this fire, which burned so strongly in the breast of that humble priest, that hero of Christian charity, also consume your own, or does your heart remain always cold and frozen? ... How can you ever have the zeal to inspire a devotion in others that is a thousand miles distant from you? I beseech you, even if you do not feel called to a deeply interior life of high contemplation, be with the sacramental Jesus in heart and deed, in private and public, now and always. Let your tongue speak often of him, let your heart sigh after him, nor let any hour of the day pass without dedicating a thought of affectionate gratitude to him. Take the words that St. Lawrence Justinian addressed to the priest in general as spoken to yourself personally: "Approach the tribune of the altar like Christ, be present there like an angel, act there like a saint, offer the prayers of the people like a priest, beseech peace like a mediator, and pray for yourself like a man."
Scalabrini had a sense of values or degrees, and the Mass was the pinnacle of the scale. He heard Mass every day if he could, apart of course from celebrating it. "I celebrate and hear the holy Mass. Deo gratias!" (from Diario di bordo). The thought "If only a single Mass were celebrated a year" is taken whole from The Imitation of Christ (IV, I, 13). As we have already seen (fold-out 2), Scalabrinian eucharistic devotion echoes that type of spirituality.
So if it is a holy thing to foster eucharistic worship with processions and other solemn celebrations, is it not perhaps even more beautiful and obligatory to establish the practice of attending the divine sacrifice not only on feast days but other days as well, and spread it among peoples? If even Caesar's decrees or violent persecution were never able to prevent Christians from gathering in the catacombs in the days of the early Church to attend the bloodless sacrifice of our altars, why can people today not take half an hour from their ordinary occupations in order to devote it to the same most noble and holy purpose? If only one Mass were celebrated a year, and in a single place on earth, who would not feel happy to be there at least once in their life-time? And when Jesus sacrifices himself each day and in every place, why should you remain cold and indifferent? My very dearest brothers, this would be the worst form of ingratitude. You must therefore commit yourselves to taking part in such an august mystery at least as often as the concerns and tasks of your state allow you; and, in order to attend with those sentiments of faith, humility, hope, compunction and love with which you would have been present at the great sacrifice on Calvary, make use of the prayers that the holy pastors of the region of Emilia publish for this purpose.
May you be given thanks, O good Jesus, O eternal Shepherd, that you have deigned to sustain us poor exiles with your body and precious blood - indeed, inviting us with your own words: "Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest" (from The Imitation of Christ, IV, I, 13).


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The Constructors championship is the only front opened where McLaren could nonetheless have a likelihood to win, contemplating that it is based on the sum of each drivers' outcomes. Collectively Hamilton and teammate Jenson Button have achieved 206 points, 89 less than Red Bull's duo Vettel-Mark Webber, scenario that can only be reverted if McLaren starts to dominate the podium from now on.
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When the Spanish media keeps on filling up their pages with excuses to make their countryman Fernando Alonso from Ferrari Scuderia look as the greatest driver in the Formula 1, Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel keeps on proving them wrong race immediately after race. Not only did he snatched the title from Alonso final season in the grand finale at Abu Dhabi, becoming the youngest champion of all time, but also opened a 99 point gap in between them this 2011, year where he has won six races currently, with his most recent victory taking place at the European Grand Prix on June 27.
In spite of attempting to backtrack on his words by means of his Twitter account soon after realizing the effect of his title claims, posting that his "team will never ever give up and I will never give up!", the statistics did the job alone for Hamilton. This championship is fairly a great deal more than for him, but McLaren and their fans have their pride and nonetheless want to see Hamilton fighting as if there have been selections to clinch title.
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In the 1930's there had been well more than 2000 health resorts built around cold or hot springs. As soon as the rewards of spending time at a spa had develop into properly known several men and women made plans to devote at least some of their trip time soaking up the healthful waters found in the naturally occurring springs that are identified in several locations proper here in the U.S. Also named balneotherapy, the overall health filled therapy found in hot springs (even cold springs) draw crowds of people seeking a way to really feel improved, probably to heal sore muscle tissues or over stressed bones. Medical doctors recommend spa time to their sufferers who suffer from joint illnesses like rheumatism and arthritis because they know of the positive aspects to be discovered in these magic waters. But there really is no magic to the springs, they are component of nature and a organic approach of healing the sore and unhealthy.
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You have your resume completed. You have run spell check not once, not twice, but three times AND had someone eyeball it since we all know that spell check only catches the truly egregious mistakes. But it still has no pop, sparkle, or anything that will make you consider applying for that next position. Business News Daily has this really neat infographic—The Only Resume Cheat Sheet That You Will Ever Need. It helps with some current phrases to use and which ones to sidestep. The list also includes some action verbs which proves what Mrs. Johnston said in 12th grade English, "Active is always better than passive." Who knew? It also gives you font examples—just please, please don't use Times New Roman. To me, it shows no flair whatsoever but that is a personal pet peeve. This is only the first step; now you have to actually send the resume to someone.


Hunter S Thompson had immortalized golf shoes in his famous movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by writing "If we're ever going to get out of here alive we're going to need some golf shoes." Why? Because golf shoes have the grip to walk on the muck, he insists.
Whether you take the above quote seriously or not is a personal choice, but for every sport, your feet plays and important role as it carries a lot of body weight. What protects our feet and gives it support in return are the shoes that we wear. Thus golfing that involves a lot of walking and the player needs to be on his feet for the entire duration of the play, it is very important that you wear the right kind of shoes. Wrong shoes may end up hurting your spinal cord very badly.
Just as different sports have their footwear like tennis shoes, soccer shoes, running shoes, golf too has golf shoes. All professional players wear golf shoes. Do you need a golf shoe? Let's first see what is special about golf shoes that set these apart from other sports shoes.
The most important part of golf shoes are the walking surfaces; the spikes. Although traditionally they used metal spikes, these days rubber spikes are used so that the playing surface is not damaged and at the same time the player gets a good grip on the undulated surfaces. The traction in golf shoes is what that sets its apart from a sneaker.
Since as a golfer you will be on your feet most of the time, golf shoes are supposed to be rigid. These shoes give you a strong support and a good base for your swing shots. You do want to stay on your feet and not on your back at the end of your swing!
Now let's review the question again whether or not you need golf shoes.
If you are considering playing golf in long terms and do spend at least a day on the field in a week, it is advisable that you go for a golf shoe. The more you are careful about your gait, your support and your feet, the longer will be your golfing career. Slipping on a muddy area and injuring yourself just because you were wearing the wrong shoes will not be very wise!
On the other hand if you are happy with your athletic shoe, stick to that as long as it gives you a good tread and strong support to your ankle. The tire pattern for tread is often considered to be good.
Allow spaces for your toes to wiggle when you wear the shoes.
High-quality spikes that can be replaced.
Ensure that your toes are not getting pinched nor the back of your shoe is riding up.
So next time that you are out there teeing or golfing, do keep an eye on the shoes you are tying up; the shoes should give you support, grip and comfort.


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Riding the Zamboni – February 8th; Dirty hits dominate nightly discussion
By Joe YerdonFeb 9, 2011, 1:41 AM EST
Columbus 4 – Pittsburgh 1
A tough and ugly night for the Penguins in Pittsburgh as the Jackets jumped out quickly in the first with Rick Nash's 24th goal of the year and only saw things get worse in the second when Samuel Pahlsson and Jakub Voracek tallied to put the Jackets up 3-0. Steve Mason stopped 32 shots to earn the win for Columbus. Tyler Kennedy had a power play goal for the Penguins but it wasn't close to enough.
Making matters worse was yet another reckless and awful hit by Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke. Cooke boarded defenseman Fedor Tyutin in the first period putting Tyutin down on the ice and sparking a brawl that had Jackets center Derick Brassard squaring off with Cooke for the hit. Cooke was given a five-minute major for charging as well as five for fighting but was not kicked out of the game. This makes two games in a row where Cooke has made a highly questionable and dirty hit on a player. On Sunday, Cooke caught Alex Ovechkin with a knee-on-knee hit that had the Capitals in an uproar. Cooke has a disciplinary meeting with the NHL tomorrow as he'll be facing some brand of action from the league for the hit.
New Jersey 3 – Carolina 2 (F/OT)
A night filled with rookies scoring saw Mattias Tedenby score twice for New Jersey including the game-winner in overtime as the Devils continued to stay hot. Jeff Skinner scored two power play goals for Carolina while Nick Palmieri also had a goal for New Jersey. Johan Hedberg held strong with 20 saves to get the win in goal while Martin Brodeur is out of action. Cam Ward made 31 stops in the loss.
Anton Volchenkov drew the ire of both the Hurricanes and his own coach. Volchenkov picked up three minor penalties which upset his coach Jacques Lemaire. One of those was an elbow to the head of Zach Boychuk that earned him an elbowing minor. The shot to the head is a virtual textbook violation of Rule 48 and the NHL will be meeting with Volchenkov about it to determine what action to take against him.
Buffalo 7 – Tampa Bay 4
At one point in this game, Tampa Bay was up 3-1 in the second period. Thomas Vanek's second period goal to cut the lead to 3-2 set the tone for what was to come in the third as the Sabres rattled off five goals in a row to go ahead 7-3 and ultimately win 7-4. Drew Stafford had his third hat trick of the season while Vanek finished the game with two goals.
The wheels came off when Jordan Leopold scored to tie it early in the third. Dwayne Roloson was knocked down when Stafford was bumped into him by Marc-Andre Bergeron. Roloson tumbled to the ice and Leopold fired it over the prone goaltender. The Lightning protested to no avail and the Sabres rolled after that. Bergeron finished the game with a -4 rating by the way. Sean Bergenheim had two goals while Vincent Lecavalier had two goals and an assist for the Lightning in defeat. The Sabres are now four points behind Carolina for eighth in the East.
San Jose 2 – Washington 0
Toronto 5 – NY Islanders 3
The game turned into a must-win one for the Leafs before things even started when Islanders would-be starting goalie Kevin Poulin was injured in warmups leading to Mikko Koskinen making his first NHL start. The Leafs made the rookie's night an unmemorable one by having five different goal scorers light him up on the way to the win. Colby Armstrong had a goal and two assists while Tomas Kaberle had a goal and an assist. James Reimer had another outstanding effort in goal for Toronto stopping 31 shots in the win. Koskinen stopped 21 shots in the loss while Michael Grabner scored his 17th goal of the season for New York. Not a bad waiver pick up for the Isles there. Shame they can't get any goaltending help there.
St. Louis 2 – Florida 1
A great chance for the Panthers to eke closer to the Eastern playoff race was blown as they weren't able to crack through a healthy and rested Jaroslav Halak. Halak stopped 30 shots to pace the Blues to victory. Matt D'Agostini scored the game-winner with four minutes to play in the third period to give the Blues a sorely needed victory. David Backes also scored for the Blues while Dennis Wideman had Florida's lone goal. Tomas Vokoun was steady in the loss stopping 26 shots.


"True leadership lies in guiding others to success and ensuring that everyone is performing at his/her best." This adapted quote from Bill Owens resonates deeply for many leaders within ASCLS. Succession planning is one of the key tools that we use to ensure continuity and for guiding the next set of leaders within our organization to success. This type of planning allows us to periodically execute a retrospective analysis of what is working well, what is not working as well, what key systems or processes we have that could be working better, and if we have the tools or resources we need to be successful. Born from this approach is a systems perspective for managing our ASCLS organization and ensuring the key processes to achieve the right results are executed with performance excellence.
Imagine a time when you accepted a leadership role. You likely had many unanswered questions and a varying degree, or perhaps distinctly lacking amount, of resources and supporting materials to help you hit the ground running in your new leadership role. This likely made it more challenging for you to both be successful and ensure performance excellence for the team or project you are leading. This scenario demonstrates the vital need for succession planning that will drive optimal leadership continuity.
An essential component to this is ensuring an appropriate balance between planning and doing. That is, the best-created plans will only take you so far. At some point, the plans must be tested, assessed, and improved. It is through this iterative process that we can take the planning process to the next level while ensuring a constant focus on member and leader development.
By focusing on the future, we can demonstrate how we value our membership and partners, that we execute in a manner focused on both organizational and personal learning, that we bake agility and a capacity for rapid change and flexibility into all we do, that we manage by fact and for innovation, and that we focus on results that allow us to create value. This systems perspective and approach to managing our organization and its key processes provides a framework to achieve organizational and personal success.