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#stopcreating
By Shia LaBeouf January 20, 2014
There's been an explosion of writers employing strategies of copying and appropriation over the past few years, with the computer encouraging writers to mimic its workings. When cutting and pasting are integral to the writing process, it would be mad to imagine that writers wouldn't exploit these functions in extreme ways that weren't intended by their creators.
While home computers have been around for three decades and people have been cutting and pasting all that time, it's the sheer penetration and saturation of broadband that makes the harvesting of masses of language easy and tempting. On a dialup, although it was possible to copy and paste words, in the beginning (gopherspace), texts were doled out one screen at a time. And, even though it was text, the load time was still considerable. With broadband, the spigot runs 24/7.
By comparison, there was nothing native to the system of typewriting that encouraged the replication of texts. It was incredibly slow and laborious to do so. Later, after you finished writing, then you could make all the copies you wanted on a Xerox machine. As a result, there was a tremendous amount of twentieth-century postwriting print-based detournement: William S. Burroughs's cut-ups and fold-ins and Bob Cobbing's distressed mimeographed poems are prominent examples. The previous forms of borrowing in literature, collage and pastiche—taking a word from here, a sentence from there—were partially developed based on the amount of labor involved. Having to manually retype or hand-copy an entire book on a typewriter is one thing; cutting and pasting an entire book with three keystrokes—select all / copy / paste—is another.
Clearly this is setting the stage for a literary revolution.
Or is it? From the looks of it, most writing proceeds as if the Internet had never happened. The literary world still gets regularly scandalized by age-old bouts of fraudulence, plagiarism, and hoaxes in ways that would make, say, the art, music, computing, or science worlds chuckle with disbelief. It's hard to imagine the James Frey or J. T. Leroy scandals upsetting anybody familiar with the sophisticated, purposely fraudulent provocations of Jeff Koons or the rephotographing of advertisements by Richard Prince, who was awarded a Guggenheim retrospective for his plagiaristic tendencies. Koons and Prince began their careers by stating upfront that they were appropriating and intentionally "unoriginal," whereas Frey and Leroy—even after they were caught—were still passing their works off as authentic, sincere, and personal statements to an audience clearly craving such qualities in literature. The ensuing dance is comical. In Frey's case, Random House was sued and forced to pay millions of dollars to readers who felt deceived. Subsequent printings of the book now include a disclaimer informing readers that what they are about to read is, in fact, a work of fiction.
Imagine all the pains that could have been avoided had Frey or Leroy taken a Koonsian tact from the outset and admitted their strategy was one of embellishment with a dashes of inauthenticity, falseness, and unoriginality thrown in. But no. Nearly a century ago, the art world put to rest conventional notions of originality and replication with the gestures of Marcel Duchamp's readymades, Francis Picabia's mechanical drawings, and Walter Benjamin's oft-quoted essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Since then, a parade of blue chip artists from Andy Warhol to Matthew Barney have taken these ideas to new levels, resulting in terribly complex ideas about identity, media, and culture. These, of course, have become part and parcel of mainstream art world discourse to the point where counterreactions based on sincerity and representation have emerged. Similarly, in music, sampling—entire tracks constructed from other tracks—has become commonplace. From Napster to gaming, from karaoke to torrent files, the culture appears to be embracing the digital and all the complexity it entails—with the exception of writing, which is still mostly wedded to promoting an authentic and stable identity at all costs.
I'm not saying that such writing should be discarded: Who hasn't been moved by a great memoir? But I'm sensing that literature— infinite in its potential of ranges and expressions—is in a rut, tending to hit the same note again and again, confining itself to the narrowest of spectrums, resulting in a practice that has fallen out of step and unable to take part in arguably the most vital and exciting cultural discourses of our time. I find this to be a profoundly sad moment—and a great lost opportunity for literary creativity to revitalize itself in ways it hasn't imagined.
Perhaps one reason writing is stuck might be the way creative writing is taught. In regard to the many sophisticated ideas concerning media, identity, and sampling developed over the past century, books about how to be a creative writer have completely missed the boat, relying on clichéd notions of what it means to be "creative." These books are peppered with advice, like "A creative writer is an explorer, a ground-breaker. Creative writing allows you to chart your own course and boldly go where no one has gone before." Or, ignoring giants like de Certeau, Cage, and Warhol, they suggest that "creative writing is liberation from the constraints of everyday life." In the early part of the twentieth century, Duchamp and composer Erik Satie both professed the desire to live without memory. For them, it was a way of being present to the wonders of the everyday. Yet it seems every book on creative writing insists that "memory is often the primary source of imaginative experience." The how-to sections of these books strikes me as terribly unsophisticated, generally coercing us to prioritize the theatrical over the mundane as the basis for our writings: "Using the first-person point of view, explain how a 55-year old man feels on his wedding day. It is his first marriage." I prefer the ideas of Gertrude Stein who, writing in the third person, tells of her dissatisfaction with such techniques: "She experimented with everything in trying to describe. She tried a bit inventing words but she soon gave that up. The english language was her medium and with the english language the task was to be achieved, the problem solved. The use of fabricated words offended her, it was an escape into imitative emotionalism."
For the past several years, I've taught a class at the University of Pennsylvania called "Uncreative Writing." In it, students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity. Instead, they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patch-writing, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive. Suddenly, what they've surreptitiously become expert at is brought out into the open and explored in a safe environment, reframed in terms of responsibility instead of recklessness.
We retype documents and transcribe audio clips. We make small changes to Wikipedia pages (changing an a to an an or inserting an extra space between words). We hold classes in chat rooms, and entire semesters are spent exclusively in Second Life. Each semester, for their final paper, I have them purchase a term paper from an online paper mill and sign their name to it, surely the most forbidden action in all of academia. Each student then must get up and present the paper to the class as if they wrote it themselves, defending it from attacks by the other students. What paper did they choose? Is it possible to defend something you didn't write? Something, perhaps, you don't agree with? Convince us. All this, of course, is technology-driven. When the students arrive in class, they are told that they must have their laptops open and connected. And so we have a glimpse into the future. And after seeing what the spectacular results of this are, how completely engaged and democratic the classroom is, I am more convinced that I can never go back to a traditional classroom pedagogy. I learn more from them than they can ever learn from me. The role of the professor now is part party host, part traffic cop, full-time enabler.
The secret: the suppression of self-expression is impossible. Even when we do something as seemingly "uncreative" as retyping a few pages, we express ourselves in a variety of ways. The act of choosing and reframing tells us as much about ourselves as our story about our mother's cancer operation. It's just that we've never been taught to value such choices. After a semester of forcibly suppressing a student's "creativity" by making them plagiarize and transcribe, she will approach me with a sad face at the end of the semester, telling me how disappointed she was because, in fact, what we had accomplished was not uncreative at all; by not being "creative," she produced the most creative body of work writing in her life. By taking an opposite approach to creativity—the most trite, overused, and ill-defined concept in a writer's training—she had emerged renewed and rejuvenated, on fire and in love again with writing.
Having worked in advertising for many years as a "creative director," I can tell you that, despite what cultural pundits might say, creativity—as its been defined by our culture with its endless parade of formulaic novels, memoirs, and films—is the thing to flee from, not only as a member of the "creative class" but also as a member of the "artistic class." Living when technology is changing the rules of the game in every aspect of our lives, it's time to question and tear down such clichés and lay them out on the floor in front of us, then reconstruct these smoldering embers into something new, something contemporary, something—finally—relevant.
Clearly, not everyone agrees. Recently, after I finished giving a lecture at an Ivy League university, an elderly, well-known poet, steeped in the modernist tradition, stood up in the back of the auditorium and, wagging his finger at me, accused me of nihilism and of robbing poetry of its joy. He upbraided me for knocking the foundation out from under the most hallowed of grounds, then tore into me with a line of questioning I've heard many times before: If everything can be transcribed and then presented as literature, then what makes one work better than another? If it's a matter of simply cutting and pasting the entire Internet into a Microsoft Word document, where does it end? Once we begin to accept all language as poetry by mere reframing, don't we risk throwing any semblance of judgment and quality out the window? What happens to notions of authorship? How are careers and canons established, and, subsequently, how are they to be evaluated? Are we simply reenacting the death of the author, a figure such theories failed to kill the first time around? Will all texts in the future be authorless and nameless, written by machines for machines? Is the future of literature reducible to mere code?
Valid concerns, I think, for a man who emerged from the battles of the twentieth century victorious. The challenges to his generation were just as formidable. How did they convince traditionalists that disjunctive uses of language conveyed by exploded syntax and compound words could be equally expressive of human emotion as time-tested methods? Or that a story need not be told as strict narrative in order to convey its own logic and sense? And yet, against all odds, they persevered.
The twenty-first century, with its queries so different than that of the last, finds me responding from another angle. If it's a matter of simply cutting and pasting the entire Internet into a Microsoft Word document, then what becomes important is what you—the author— decides to choose. Success lies in knowing what to include and—more important—what to leave out. If all language can be transformed into poetry by merely reframing—an exciting possibility—then she who reframes words in the most charged and convincing way will be judged the best. I agree that the moment we throw judgment and quality out the window we're in trouble. Democracy is fine for You-Tube, but it's generally a recipe for disaster when it comes to art. While all words may be created equal—and thus treated—the way in which they're assembled isn't; it's impossible to suspend judgment and folly to dismiss quality. Mimesis and replication doesn't eradicate authorship, rather they simply place new demands on authors who must take these new conditions into account as part and parcel of the landscape when conceiving of a work of art: if you don't want it copied, don't put it online.
Careers and canons won't be established in traditional ways. I'm not so sure that we'll still have careers in the same way we used to. Literary works might function the same way that memes do today on the Web, spreading like wildfire for a short period, often unsigned and unauthored, only to be supplanted by the next ripple. While the author won't die, we might begin to view authorship in a more conceptual way: perhaps the best authors of the future will be ones who can write the best programs with which to manipulate, parse and distribute language-based practices. Even if, as Bök claims, poetry in the future will be written by machines for other machines to read, there will be, for the foreseeable future, someone behind the curtain inventing those drones; so that even if literature is reducible to mere code—an intriguing idea—the smartest minds behind them will be considered our greatest authors.
In 1959 the poet and artist Brion Gysin claimed that writing was fifty years behind painting. And he might still be right: in the art world, since impressionism, the avant-garde has been the mainstream. Innovation and risk taking have been consistently rewarded. But, in spite of the successes of modernism, literature has remained on two parallel tracks, the mainstream and the avant-garde, with the two rarely intersecting. Yet the conditions of digital culture have unexpectedly forced a collision, scrambling the once-sure footing of both camps. Suddenly, we all find ourselves in the same boat grappling with new questions concerning authorship, originality, and the way meaning is forged.
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
By Ryan Ruby
An act, followed by a text, followed by an interpretation of both, of one through the other and back again: suicide has a great deal in common with literature.
Even unfinished, it is a brilliant work, an exploration of some of life's deepest challenges, and an enterprise of extraordinary artistic daring. David set out…
(via) Even unfinished, it is a brilliant work, an exploration of some of life's deepest challenges, and an enterprise of extraordinary artistic daring. David…
Open Channels
By Megan Milks
Fan fiction is more than a genre. It's a technology for generating new feelings out of old texts.


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can we use BFS and DFS algorithm in sagemath?
hello, I want to color the vertices of graphs using greedy or BFS algorithm. can do that in sagemath?
What you get is the ordered list of vertices visited in both searches, starting from vertex 3.
In SageMath, if you define a graph G (for example G = Graph()), then G.coloring? gives the documentation of the coloring method for G, and G.coloring?? gives the source code.
Reading the documentation reveals two choices are offered: using the "dancing link algorithm" or using "mixed linear integer programming".
See also SageMath documentation for graph coloring.


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Q: How to control the Appearance of UIPickerView  Can anyone point me in the right direction here.
Im trying to use a UIPickerView that is displaying images.
The images are too big for the default pickerview setup so I was wondering how I could control how big the rows in the UIPickerView are and how wide the translucent selection bar is to accomodate for their custom size.
Can anyone provide some guidelines as to how big I should make the row images or where a good tutorial / book chapter is on this?
Thanks!

A: Why not use the UIImagePickerController instead of trying to customize a UIPickerView?  It is designed to enable you to allow the user to pick from their library of images if you use the sourceType of UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary.
There is sample code on how to use this controller at http://zcentric.com/2008/08/28/using-a-uiimagepickercontroller/
If the images are not from the user's library, then I would suggest you scale the images down to fit the constraints of the UIPickerView, or use a tabelView with the images laid out in it for the user to select.

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Jubilee FPSO completes first phase of Turret Remediation Project
Tullow Ghana Limited has completed the Interim Spread Mooring of the Jubilee FPSO, Kwame Nkrumah.
This milestone involving the installation of an interim anchoring system on the stern of the FPSO to hold the vessel in place, completes the first phase in the Turret Remediation Project which will eventually provide the FPSO with a long-term mooring solution.
In addition to the existing anchor lines on the FPSO's turret, the FPSO is now firmly secured in position by six anchor lines, three on each side of the stern of the vessel allowing the three tug boats which have been keeping the FPSO in place over the last 11 months to return to shore.
This phase of the project has been achieved with production maintained at optimal levels with the exception of short, planned reductions for technical reasons. Oil and gas offtakes have also continued in the new normal state of operations.
The JV partners are now analysing options for the next phase of the project which will involve modifications to the turret systems for long-term operations.
Detailed planning for these works continues with the JV Partners and the Government of Ghana, with final decisions and approvals being sought in the first half of 2017 and work expected to be carried out in the second half of 2017.
Charles Darku, Managing Director of Tullow Ghana Ltd commented "It is a highly complex and significant achievement for an FPSO to be held to one heading by tugs within a few degrees for 12 months and for production to have been maintained throughout. We would like to recognise the strong collaboration with our Joint Venture Partners, the Government of Ghana and our key contractors in achieving this important milestone."
Source: http://thebftonline.com/commodities/oil-gas/23251/jubilee-fpso-completes-first-phase-of-turret-remediation-project.html

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18th of October, 2017 - Facts, Nostalgia and Videos!
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LDGP Geometric Documentation of Heritage Lab.
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The geometric documentation includes a reference network observed by means of GNSS technologies and computed in absolute coordinates, a wireframe model generated by total station and a three-dimensional model (meshes with photographic textures) obtained by photogrametry.


The Longboat Key Democratic Club is excited to welcome back Rob Lorei, Managing Editor and Moderator of Florida this Week, as our special guest speaker on Tuesday, January 12. Rob has covered West Florida politics for more than 20 years and will share his unique perspective on the upcoming races.
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Information on incidents comes from Springfield Police call logs. The status of incidents may change after further investigation. Locations are approximate. People arrested or suspected in crimes are considered innocent until proven otherwise.
Fight: 7:30 p.m., 1400 block Q Street. Ten people were seen fighting outside a residence. The dispute was resolved temporarily, but police later returned to the residence. A woman was taken to a substance abuse treatment center.
Drunken driver: 7:53 p.m., Eugene-Springfield Highway and 52nd Street. Police arrested a woman for driving under the influence after multiple callers reported that a vehicle was driving the wrong way on the roadway.
Shoplifting: 7:22 p.m., 2900 block Gateway Street. A shoplifting suspect reportedly ran out of the store � and out of the stolen shoes he was wearing � after being confronted by a security officer. The shoes were recovered, and police searched for the barefoot suspect.
Dispute: 4:57 p.m., 54th and A streets. A witness said a man was punched during a dispute with two other men. When the witness told them she was calling the police, they all left.
Theft: 5:43 a.m., 1000 block Gateway Loop. A duffle bag � containing a UO football helmet autographed by head coach Chip Kelly � was reported stolen after being left behind at a business.
Disorderly subject: 11:57 p.m., 500 block South 42nd Street. A caller reported that a man had attacked her boyfriend, who then ripped the man�s shirt off. Other callers reported that a shirtless man was running around and banging on cars.
Prowler: 7:26 p.m., 600 block 34th Street. Police searched the area after a baby sitter reported that a man had jumped a front fence and gone into the backyard.
Burglary: 6:01 p.m., 1300 block Water Street. Three handguns were reported stolen from a residence. Entry was made through an upstairs window.
Criminal trespass: 10:13 a.m., 1400 block G Street. Officers responded to a hospital and made an arrest after a woman reportedly began swearing at staff and refusing to leave.
Dispute: 4:02 a.m., 1300 block R Street. Several people were seen fighting in the stairwell of an apartment complex. A man was taken to a substance abuse treatment center.
Dispute: 3:26 a.m., 200 block 20th Street. Officers were called to a dispute. The caller said a woman was �going crazy� and swinging a chain at her.
Disorderly subject: 11:17 p.m., F and 18th streets. Police took a man to a substance abuse treatment center after a caller reported that an intoxicated man was making loud, offensive statements.
Suspicious conditions: 10 p.m., 700 block Laksonen Loop. A resident said a man was walking around in the backyards of homes.
Disorderly subject: 6:17 p.m., 3300 block Gateway Street. A disorderly man was reportedly trying to start fights with customers at a service station.
Burglary: 9:02 a.m., 1100 block G Street. A safe and a computer were reported stolen from a church.
Theft: 7:09 a.m., 300 block South 42nd Street. Three vehicles were found broken into and ransacked.
Found property: 9:54 a.m., 800 block A Street. About 30 to 40 empty movie cases from an adult bookstore were found under a stairwell.
Criminal mischief: 1:34 a.m., 1100 block South A Street. A window was found shattered and a door was broken at an adult bookstore. Several DVD cases were found out front.
Armed subject: 5:01 p.m., 400 block Lindale Drive. Police responded to an apartment after a man was seen knocking on the door and pointing a gun through the window.
Robbery: 9:36 a.m., 2600 block Olympic Street. A car owner said he was shot at by a woman who was supposed to be buying his vehicle. The woman then allegedly drove off in the vehicle.
Burglary: 8:23 a.m., 4700 block Main Street. A fenced lot was broken into and property was stolen. A caller reported seeing a man leaving in a vehicle that had been loaded with steel.
Drunken driver: 7:27 p.m., 2700 block Main Street. A man and a woman were seen in a dispute. The woman reportedly was going out in the street and running from the man. Police arrested a man for driving under the influence of intoxicants.
Animal complaint: 2:24 p.m., 2700 block South Cloverleaf Loop. A community service officer was sent to pick up a dog after a caller reported that the animal had been left behind when its owners moved out. The caller said the dog was skinny and had no food, water or shelter.
Suspicious subject: 9:09 a.m., 1200 block I Street. A resident said a man came to the door asking for donations for a newspaper program. The resident called the newspaper office and was told the program no longer existed.
Burglary: 8:30 a.m., 1700 block E Street. A caller arrived at a church to find that it had been ransacked.
Criminal trespass: 5:20 a.m., 1100 block E Street. A man was seen going into the backyard of a vacant house. Police responded, entered through a back door and arrested two people inside for trespassing.
Disorderly subject: 7:06 p.m., 500 block West Centennial Boulevard. Police were called to a sandwich shop after a woman began harassing customers. The caller said the woman also left dirt all over the bathroom.
Warrant service: 9:08 p.m., 300 block Fairview Drive. Officers were called to a dispute between a man and a woman at a bus stop. The caller said the woman had been knocking on the doors of residences and asking to be let in. Police arrested a woman on several outstanding warrants.
Burglary: 4:03 p.m., 200 South 47th Street. A resident returned home to find a back door kicked in and the computer on the couch. Police took a report for burglary.
Found property: 8:48 a.m., 2100 block J Street. A safe was found in the playground of an elementary school. Documents from a church were inside.
Fraud: 2:51 a.m., 2700 block Main Street. An employee at a service station said a man had given employees what appeared to be a counterfeit $50 bill.
Suspicious conditions: 8:30 p.m., 1800 block H Street. Officers responded to a vacant house after a neighbor reported hearing male voices yelling, possibly from inside.
Drunken driver: 6:41 p.m., Main Street and Mountaingate Road. A motorist said a vehicle had become stuck on a sidewalk. Officers arrested a woman for driving under the influence and driving while suspended.
Theft: 9:25 a.m., 800 block South 55th Place. An unknown subject broke into a vehicle and stole a knife, cash and several stickers.
Criminal trespass: 5:42 a.m., 700 block Harlow Road. A resident said she woke up to find a strange man sleeping on the couch. Police arrested a man on charges of trespassing and criminal mischief.
Prowler: 12:31 a.m., 1500 block Sixth Street. A resident reported that a man had rung the doorbell, attempted to enter the house and was now sitting on the porch.
Simrin, Nicholas A.: 29, on charges of possession of heroin and theft by receiving.
McKnight, Jason H.: 33, on a warrant for a probation violation on an original charge of first-degree criminal mistreatment.
Zapien, Rolando: 19, on charges of identity theft and second-degree trespassing.
Baker, Mark A.: 45, on a Eugene warrant for manufacture of marijuana, delivery of marijuana, possession of marijuana and money laundering.
Hendrickson, Derik R.: 25, on a warrant for possession of methamphetamine.
O�Neal, John H.: 58, on a warrant for a parole violation on an original charge of possession of methamphetamine; and an additional charge of possession of methamphetamine.
Williams, Steven C.: 46, on a warrant for a parole violation on original charges of two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a machine or short gun; and an additional charge of driving while suspended.
Fravert, Victoria E.: 25, on a Benton County warrant for a probation violation on an original charge of delivery of heroin; and an additional charge of third-degree theft.


As the debate over immigration heats up on Capitol Hill, Trump surrounded himself with mayors, sheriffs and other local leaders from California who oppose the state's immigration policies and who applauded his administration's hard-line efforts.
"This is your Republican resistance right here against what they're doing in California," said California Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, coopting a term used by Democrats opposed to Trump's presidency. She, like others, said the president and his policies were far more popular in the state than people realize.
"It's a crisis," Melendez said of the situation.
They were responding to legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown last year that bars police from asking people about their immigration status or helping federal agents with immigration enforcement. Jail officials can transfer inmates to federal immigration authorities if they have been convicted of one of about 800 crimes, mostly felonies, but not for minor offenses.
Brown insists the legislation, which took effect Jan. 1, doesn't prevent federal immigration officials from doing their jobs. But the Trump administration has sued to reverse it, calling the policies unconstitutional and dangerous. Some counties, including San Diego and Orange, have voted to support the lawsuit or passed their own anti-sanctuary resolutions.
During Wednesday's session, Trump thanked the officials, saying they had "bravely resisted California's deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws." He claimed those laws are forcing "the release of illegal immigrant criminals, drug dealers, gang members and violent predators into your communities" and providing "safe harbor to some of the most vicious and violent offenders on earth."
Trump also claimed opposition to the policies was growing, insisting, "There's a revolution going on in California." He referred to some who cross the border illegally as "animals," not people.
The event came as top House Republicans worked to head off an attempt by party moderates to force roll calls on four immigration bills. Republican leaders privately warned GOP lawmakers Wednesday that such a drive could damage the party's prospects in the fall's congressional elections by dispiriting conservative voters, according to people at the closed-door meeting.
The discussion also comes as the Trump administration is under fire for a new policy that is expected to increase the number of children separated from their parents when families cross the border illegally.
Trump also told Nielsen that she was "doing a good job," one week after berating her during a cabinet meeting for failing to halt border crossings.
Feinstein issued a statement accusing the Trump administration of "once again attempting to divide Californians and all Americans with today's White House meeting."
"Their decision to convene this meeting is about fueling fear of immigrants and scapegoating entire communities," she said.


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About Dalkey, County Dublin
Dalkey heritage town a popular location, both as a place to live and as a tourist destination.
It has a real village feel and is just half an hour by train or road south of the capital city.
Why is Dalkey so popular?
For a start it has an ancient, rich and varied history. It rose to prominence through great surges of activity and rested as a sleepy fishing village in the intervening times.
It grew from early settlers on Dalkey Island when the surrounding area was covered in forests and the only pathways were along the rivers and coastlines.
We know that both Dalkey Island and Dalkey mainland became places of early Christian ecclesiastical importance with their two churches dedicated to St Begnet as pilgrims made their way to Glendalough.
We have evidence of the Vikings making the island their base to trade slaves from.
We know Dalkey served as the port for Dublin in medieval times, with the large ships at anchor in Dalkey Sound. Dalkey declined and languished peacefully until the great sea tragedies of 1807 led to great activity in the Quarry for the building of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. When the railways came in 1830s & 1840s some of the fine houses we know today were built.
Today there is welcoming local community and the area is home to many creative artists such as writers, musicians, film directors and rock stars. This tradition goes back John Dowland the famous musician who was associated with the area in the 1600s. He was known in all the courts of Europe, the Bono of his day! Today many creative people live quite unobtrusively among the local community who are proud of their rich ancestral heritage and welcome the visitor to share the ancient history of their home town.
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Krzysztof Włodarczyk (Varsóvia, 19 de setembro de 1981) é um pugilista polonês, atual campeão mundial dos cruzadores pelo Conselho Mundial de Boxe.

Biografia
Włodarczyk começou a lutar boxe profissionalmente em 2000, tendo se mantido invicto pelos três anos seguinte, em um total de 20 lutas disputadas. Nesse ínterim, Włodarczyk conquistou o título inter-continental dos cruzadores da Federação Internacional de Boxe, uma conquista de menor expressão, mas que para um lutador de apenas 20 anos de idade, também não poderia ser de todo desprezada.

Ambicionando aumentar sua popularidade e credibilidade, Włodarczyk tentou em seguida capturar também o título inter-continental dos cruzadores da Associação Mundial de Boxe, em uma luta contra o russo Pavel Melkomyan. Realizada em abril de 2003, a controvertida luta entre Włodarczyk e Melkomyan terminou com a vitória do russo nos pontos.

Após sofrer sua primeira derrota na carreira, nos anos seguintes, Włodarczyk seguiu acumulando vitórias e outros títulos menores, tais como o de campeão mundial jovem dos cruzadores do Conselho Mundial de Boxe. Porém, finalmente, em 2006, a grande oportunidade de Włodarczyk veio com o convite para a disputa do título mundial vago dos cruzadores da Federação Internacional de Boxe.

Enfrentando o americano Steve Cunningham, em uma luta realizada em novembro de 2006, Włodarczyk foi declarado o vencedor do confronto pelos jurados, após 12 assaltos de uma luta bastante equilibrada. Então, aos 25 anos de idade, em apenas seis anos de carreira, Włodarczyk pôde enfim celebrar a conquista de um título de grande expressão no mundo do boxe.

No entanto, a alegria de Włodarczyk durou apenas seis meses, vito que na revanche contra Cunningham, ocorrida em maio de 2007, o resultado acabou sendo exatamente o reverso da primeira luta, com Cunningham vencedor nos pontos, após doze assaltos.

Após ter perdido seu cinturão, Włodarczyk não se fez de rogado e, em maio de 2009, desafiou o título do italiano Giacobbe Fragomeni, que era o então detentor do cinturão de campeão mundial dos cruzadores do Conselho Mundial de Boxe. O resultado dessa luta acabou sendo um empate, de modo que Fragomeni manteve seu título. Seis meses mais tarde, porém, Fragomeni acabou perdendo seu título para o lutador húgaro Zsolt Erdei.

Quando Erdei decidiu abdicar de seu título dos cruzadores, em janeiro de 2010, o Conselho Mundial de Boxe resolveu organizar uma nova luta entre Włodarczyk e Fragomeni, no intuinto de preencher o posto de campeão deixado vago. Ocorrido em maio de 2010, nesse segundo encontro entre Włodarczyk e Fragoemni, o polonês decidiu a luta no oitavo assalto, obtendo uma vitória por nocaute técnico.

Novamente de volta ao topo, Włodarczyk havia se tornado o campeão mundial dos cruzadores do Conselho Mundial de Boxe, título este que ele defendeu com sucesso por duas vezes, entre 2010 e 2011.

Ver também
Lista dos campeões mundiais de boxe dos cruzadores

Pugilistas da Polônia
Pugilistas cruzadores
Naturais de Varsóvia

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On April 9, 2018, the President of the French Republic honored the invitation of the Bishops' Conference of France to speak an evening event at the College des Bernardins before an audience of 400 guests.
In a speech that lasted over an hour, Emmanuel Macron answered Archbishop Georges Pontier, archbishop of Marseille and president of the Bishops' Conference of France. He called on Catholics to offer "three gifts" to society: their wisdom, their commitment, and their freedom.
These are more than three gifts; they are three carefully chosen words with which the president meant to send a clear, strong message to French Catholics.
With the word "commitment," the President of the Republic explained what he expects of Catholics in politics: a commitment essentially in keeping with the European perspective, which implies an urgent need to distance themselves clearly from all "Euro-skeptical" political forces at a time when this question is a source of debates even within the episcopal conference.
Using the term "gift of freedom," Emmanuel Macron asked the institutions of the Church of France to commit to remaining faithful to religious pluralism and the spirit of secularism "without seeking to please or seduce." The president used this last part of his speech to take a clear stance in the face of any contestations from French Catholics: "My role is to ensure that [each citizen] has absolute freedom to believe or not to believe, but I ask each citizen in the same way and always to respect all the laws of the Republic absolutely and without any compromise." The "iron law" is "secularism," that requires "absolute freedom of conscience". The message is clear: as a true son of the Enlightenment, the French president defends the primacy of the individual conscience over the divine rule, of opinion over the Faith, of the law over the Creed.


Mr. Peter Foo Moo Tan is President and Chief Executive Officer, United Overseas Bank (China) Limited subsidiary of United Overseas Bank Ltd. Mr Foo joined UOB in 2011. He was appointed President and CEO of UOB (China) in 2016. Prior to this, he served as President and CEO of UOB (Thai) from 2012. He was also previously the Head of the Group's Treasury and Global Markets business for its overseas subsidiaries and branches. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Estate Management) (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has more than 30 years of experience in managing banking and financial markets businesses.


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Beryllium Mining
Beryllium (Be) is a silver-white and very light metal. It has a very high melting point at 2349 °F (1287 °C). It is found in nature primarily as bertrandite, which is mined in Utah, or as beryl. The combination of its light weight and high melting point makes it valuable for making metal alloys which are used in electronic and electrical components, aerospace, automobiles, computers, oil and gas drilling equipment, and telecommunications.
Type Crystal System
Element (Minerals/Ores of) Orthorhombic (bertrandite), Hexagonal (beryl)
Mineral Classification Color
Silicate Colorless to pale yellow( bertrandite); green, blue, yellow, colorless, pink and others (beryl)
Chemical Formula Luster
Be4Si2O7(OH)2 (bertrandite), Be3Al2(SiO3)6 (beryl) Vitreous, pearly (bertrandite), Vitreous, resinous (beryl)
Streak Fracture
White Conchoidal
Mohs Hardness
6 – 7 (bertrandite), 7.5–8 (beryl)
Relation to Mining
The most common mineral containing beryllium is beryl which is found in granites and special igneous rocks, derived from granites, known as pegmatites. Colored, transparent varieties of beryl may be gems, such as emerald (green), aquamarine (blue-green), heliodor (yellow), and morganite (pink). Some of the oldest known gems were mined by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, and Persians between 5000 and 400 B.C.E.
In addition to beryl, beryllium is found in the mineral bertrandite, which in recent years has become a major ore of this element. Bertrandite is found in certain volcanic rocks derived from granite.
Bertrandite ore mined in Utah makes up nearly all of U.S. production, which is about 90% of the world supply. China produces most of the rest, from beryl ores. Mozambique and a few other countries mine small amounts of beryl. The United States produces and exports large amounts of beryllium alloys and compounds, and thus is a net importer of ores, but a net exporter of finished beryllium products.
Small amounts of beryllium become available from recycling of beryllium-containing scrap.
Bertrandite Mining:
Unlike beryl, in which the mineral can be identified by color and crystal structure, bertrandite mineralization cannot be recognized by the naked eye. Consequently geologic and geochemical evaluations are conducted on a specific area, followed by a drilling program to determine if an economic ore body exists. After delineating an ore body, overburden is removed to within 2 m of the ore. In the 2-m cover remaining, drill benches are constructed on 7.5-m centers to take samples of the ore body at 0.6-m intervals. Information obtained from analyzing the samples allows cross sections and contour maps to be developed. These maps are used to plan the mining and processing operations. After the maps are prepared, the remainder of the overburden is removed, and the ore is mined, typically with a self-loading scraper. Because of the irregular ore-grade distribution in the ground, the ore is mined from areas defined by drill data and placed in a stockpile in layers to obtain a more homogeneous blend. Further drilling, sampling, and assaying of the stockpiled ore is then performed to generate a map that delineates ore-grade distribution throughout the stockpile. On the basis of the grade distribution, stockpiled ore is selectively trucked to the mill for further processing.
Most beryllium is used in metal alloys, which account for more than 70% of world consumption. Because beryllium is very light and has a high melting temperature, it is an ideal metal for use in the aerospace and defense industry, almost always alloyed with other metals. Beryllium metal also has the interesting characteristic of being elastic. Consequently, it is used in the manufacture of springs, gears and other machine components that need a degree of elasticity. Another everyday application is in the manufacture of gasoline pumps, because an alloy of copper and beryllium (beryllium bronze) does not spark when hit against other metals, nor emit sparks from static electricity.
Rods made of beryllium metal and oxide are used to control nuclear reactions, because beryllium absorbs neutrons better than any other metal.
Most organisms do not depend on beryllium for growth. In fact, beryllium dust and fumes can be dangerous to human health when inhaled. Consequently, the Clean Ar Act demands very careful handling of beryllium dust and fumes to minimize or eliminate its danger to humans.


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Making a First Offer on Buying a House
By Bridget Kelly
How Do I Avoid a Foreclosure By Selling a House and Owing Nothing?
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When all the footwork is finally over, and you have found the house of your dreams, it's time to make an offer. There are many things to consider when making an offer to purchase, many of which are routine to most real estate agents but foreign to you. The offer to purchase is a legally binding contract, so you need to be sure that your interests are protected at each step along the way.
Hire a real estate agent. The seller pays the real estate brokerage fees out of the proceeds of the sale, so the agent's services won't cost you anything. A real estate agent can not only help you to find a house, but can also protect your interests during contract negotiations.
Visit a lender to get pre-approved for a mortgage. This gives your offer more credibility than an offer without loan pre-approval. Shop around to locate a loan with the best rates.
Learn whether the house is priced correctly. Your agent can compile a real estate market analysis. If the house is overpriced, you may submit a lower offer or ask for other concessions from the seller, such as closing costs, repair work, new paint or carpeting. If the house is priced correctly, you may try a lower offer. If you really want the house, however, and there is a chance of other offers, a full-price offer may be called for. If the house is priced under market value, consult your agent; there may be problems with the home. On the other hand, the sellers may need to move quickly and are motivated to get the home sold.
Ask your agent to structure the offer to give yourself enough time to perform inspections and get bids for needed repairs. Your agent will give you guidance on how much time to ask for.
Ask your agent to place contingencies in the offer that allow you to back out of the deal. The home may fail to appraise for what you have offered, the inspections may find problems you don't want to deal with or you may not be able to get a particular interest rate on the loan. There are other contingencies you can place in the offer as well. Your agent can counsel you on these.
Give the seller a short window in which to entertain your offer if you suspect there may be other offers submitted. Twenty-four hours is generally acceptable in a multiple offer situation.
Based in the American Southwest, Bridget Kelly has been writing about gardening and real estate since 2005. Her articles have appeared at Trulia.com, SFGate.com, GardenGuides.com, RE/MAX.com, MarketLeader.com, RealEstate.com, USAToday.com and in "Chicago Agent" magazine, to name a few. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in creative writing.
How to Make a Counteroffer on a House
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How to Make an Offer on a Short Sale Property
Process: How to Buy a Short Sale
What Are the Steps for Buying a Home on a Short Sale List?
How to Give the Best Offer on Foreclosure Homes
How to Purchase a Short Sale Directly From the Bank
How to Cancel a Contract on a HUD Home Bid
How Do I Find an Auction Company to Sell My House?
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Bicycles were first driven by direct drive cranks, but a new paradigm in bicycle drive systems was needed, in the late 19th century. This need coincided with the arrival in England of a young Swiss man, Hans Renold. Working around machinery, he soon invented the roller bush chain, in 1880. This was just the power transmission device needed to power a rear drive bicycle, and was incorporated into the Starley safety bicycle. This method of power transmisstion is an incredible 98% efficient, and is virtually unchanged in today's bicycles, even though the rest of the bike has been almost completely redesigned. Matt D. Kidd and R.L. Rueben, of Hariot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh UK, have written a great paper on the efficiency of the roller chain.
The Renold Company is still in business making chains and bearings for industrial use.
I'm looking for some .25" pitch roller chain in which the roller really rolls. All of the .25" 'roller chain' I've found does not have a roller that really rolls.


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I've been talking to people about how they used to buy and build furniture, but it seems like they have learned to be more self-aware (and in some cases more self-aware) than they used to be.
The question is, do you feel you need to be more self-aware? Or do you feel like you can get by without it? It seems like you're in a place where you can be more self-aware, or at least not be constantly aware of all of the little things that could go wrong with your building. But maybe you're missing a lot of little things that need to be fixed.
It is a little weird that you think all of this stuff is so important to you.
Well, first of all, it doesn't seem to take much effort to be more aware of what the other person is doing. We tend to be pretty aware of what the person next to us is doing. But if you are aware of your own actions, you're much more aware of their actions.
I suppose we are all aware of the things that we tend to ignore. But it still takes effort to keep track of all of these little things. It also takes effort to realize that we have some small role in the grand scheme of things and that we are all interconnected.
It's not much of a secret that I am an avid gamer. I play games all the time, and I have a large collection of games. But I don't play games to play. My goal is to play games so that I can continue to play them. So it makes sense that I would be aware of what the people around me are getting up to because I am part of that.
The idea of playing to play comes to mind when I think about the things that I am connected to and the things that are similar to me. So often the people around me get to know what the people in my own social circles are up to.
What's funny about this meme is that many of us who play games to play games are aware of all these memes that pop up around us. But the memes we take for granted or automatically relate to are the ones that we know by heart, that we can recognize immediately. The memes that pop up without us realizing it are what we carry around with us, that are part of us.
One day I was sitting in the back of the bus with a few friends. There were a lot of people around us, but only one other person that I knew. I was going to the library to go to school and I happened to notice a meme on the bus. It wasn't just a funny meme, but a meme about how to stop a bus. I had no idea what the meme was about, but all I knew was that it was funny.
There are actually quite a few types of memes, but the ones that catch my eye and make me want to stop a bus are the ones about how to stop a bus. We tend to think of memes as sort of strange, quirky, and eccentric things, but I think most of them are actually very important. We use memes not only to remember the things that have been important to us, but to help form our opinions.
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I am a wife and mother of two. Together with my husband, aka Mr.Z, we are molding our house into a home through my amateur styling skills and Mr.Z's splendid carpentry abilities.
Here I will be sharing with you our DIY projects, the process of our home's interior design, various family matters and food recipes from our kitchen.
We hope that one day, this diary will become a fun memoir for our children.
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Joe Biden Makes His Second Trip to Florida as Trump Recovers From the Coronavirus
As the United States elections approach, the candidates are doing the best they can to reach out to people in all the states. Unfortunately, Donald Trump tested positive for COVID, and he might miss some campaigns. Meanwhile, Joe Biden made his second trip to Florida in a little over two weeks on Monday. During his campaign, Biden diverted from his usual campaign speech about rebuilding the economy after the pandemic and said Miami's richness and beauty were built with the connections of family, culture, and values that they shared with their friends throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
He also wished Trump a speedy recovery but criticized his administration's response to the pandemic.
Joe Biden is doing all he can to ensure he put Trump on defense across the country and build an advantage in the Electoral College so large that the president might struggle to contest it. Biden has another trip scheduled Monday to Arizona. He plans to spend $4 million on advertising in Georgia and over $6 million in television airtime in Texas.
Democrats have asked Biden to be careful in expanding his map. They said he should not make the mistake Hillary Clinton made in 2016; Hillary Clinton focused on Republican-leaning states like North Carolina and Arizona in the final weeks, only to lose the ones that long supported Democrats, including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Some of Trump's contacts have tested positive. Biden is also among the people who interacted with Trump as he shared a stage with the president during last week's first presidential primary debate, but he has tested negative. He said he has since been tested three times, all with negative results. His campaign team has promised he will be tested regularly and has committed to releasing all the test-results.
Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/america-votes/biden-aims-to-expand-map-as-trump-recovers-from-covid-19-1.5133795
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Rashmi Daga laid the foundation of one of the most exciting food tech companies- FreshMenu in September 2014. Armed with a rich experience in spearheading and managing several start-ups and diverse businesses, she wanted to bring the best of food on customer's table. Aimed at rescuing food- seekers from mundane meals, FreshMenu is on a constant quest to whip-up interesting food options in the kitchens spread out across the city that deliver freshly cooked food to the doorsteps of its customers.
Rather than setting up a restaurant, Rashmi Daga set up the food delivery platform under the FeshMenu umbrella for people to order. As per Daga, "The size of the food sector is huge, which attracted me plus a lot was changing around food and delivery food was taking shape around the globe." Ordering became the big change rather eating out was. She went ahead with her first prototype with a home kitchen making it the proof of concept. People got excited for such food to come home and were willing to pay. The 1700 strong army of Freshmenu employees deliver to three cities of Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore right now with 38 cloud kitchens. It currently serves half a million orders monthly generating revenue of 150 crore. "We have been very focused on building a retail brand for consumers. Institutional side is something we would love to look at in the future. Going forward, we would like to go the top ten cities in India like Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata," shares Daga.
At kitchen level the startup is making money, but at the corporate level they expect to achieve profitability in next 12 months. The venture so far has raised close to 160 crore. In the words of Daga, "Operating cloud kitchens is a different business altogether. This business needs lot of execution. Translating ideas into reality has been a hard part. Taste is such a subjective thing." For her, being fast, and not regretting mistakes has been the key to success. Things are dynamic, speed and agility helped her move fast.


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Elon Musk: Self-Driving Cars Will Take Over the Roads in Less Than 30 Years
Wednesday, 18 March 2015 - 10:19AM
During an interview with Nvidia CEO Hen Hsun Huang at the 2015 GPU Tech Conference, Elon Musk was incredibly optimistic about the future of self-driving cars. Musk confidently addressed a few big questions about autonomous cars, and among other things, claimed that self-driving cars could be the norm well within three decades.
Technically, self-driving cars (made by Google) are already on the road. However, these cars have a lot of limitations that make them only selectively useful. The self-driving cars cannot handle rain or snow, spot potholes or humans signaling it to stop, recognize temporary traffic signals, and, most importantly, navigate parking lots.
Musk's vision is one with more widespread practical applications, allowing driverless cars to replace all other vehicles on the road. According to Musk, the technology needed is already in the works; "I almost view it as a solved problem. We know exactly what to do, and we'll be there in a few years," he states. A few years seems rather optimistic, but, rest assured, technology development is not the only part of the process. In Musk's view,"it's just going to become normal. Like an elevator."
But, he qualified, "we're a very long way from that because there's always going to be some - for a very long time there will be some legacy cars on the road. And it is important to just appreciate the size of the automotive industrial base... The total number of cars and trucks on the road is two billion and climbing... The capacity of car/ truck production is about 100 million a year. So if tomorrow all cars were autonomous, it would take 20 years to replace the fleet." Combining this 20-year figure with the "few years" it will take to build the first self-driving car, we could be looking at complete road takeover in about 30 years.
What sorts of technology will it use?
"You kind of need the hardware foundation, the sensory computing foundation, and then you can just keep updating software," says Musk. He thinks that this kind of tech can easily be developed from the current hardware, "We now have active cruise control, we use radar and camera fusion to track the car in front of you... it looks at brake lights, so it anticipates when the brakes are active... it's going to get smarter and smarter even with the current hardware suite."
The current hardware suite, by the way, "is 360-degree ultrasonic sensors that go up to just over 5 meters. There's a forward camera and a forward radar." And even with just those attachments, there's already been huge advances in what would be considered autonomous driving. "We can definitely make the car steer itself on a freeway and do lane changes," notes Musk.
What challenges does Tesla face?
Although it seems that current technology development looks very promising for a future of self-driving cars, there are, of course, a few kinks to work out. To start with, the current hardware suite is not equipped to handle environments in which the car would need to drive at middling speeds. It can handle slow or freeway driving, but has trouble with the speeds that would be required in a suburban environment.
"Right now it's fairly easy to deal with things that are below 5 to 10 miles per hour, because we can do that with the ultrasonics - we just make sure it doesn't hit anything, because you can always brake... Then from, let's say 10 miles an hour to 50 miles and hour - that area in complex suburban environments - that's where you get a lot of unexpected things happening. Let's say there's a road closure of manhole cover open, children playing is a big issue, bicycles... once you get about 50 miles per hour and you're in a freeway environment, it gets easier again... In order to solve that you need a bigger sensor suite and you need more computing power."
How dangerous will it really be?
Danger in self-driving cars comes in two forms - general safety of the system itself, and the risk of the technology being compromised. As far as the system itself, he believes there will be an uphill battle with the regulators to prove with certainty that the systems are safer than human driving: "The way the cars work right now, every system in the car, it's assumed, could have a mechanical failure of some kind, or a fundamental logic failure. You can always overwhelm the braking with your foot or overwhelm the steering wheel with your hands. But when there isn't a steering wheel or a brake pedal or something, then it's really, really dangerous"
As far as the security of the technology, Musk seems slightly more blasé. "Even as it is right now, where we spend most of our time on is that it's very difficult to do a multi-car hack. If you have direct access to a car, just like you've got direct access to a computer, you can do a lot of things to it, but that's less of a concern than somebody being able to hack an arbitrary car or multiple cars... And then certain parts of the car, at a very fundamental level - like the drive unit controller, or steering controller - have an additional level of security. So someone may be able to hack something thats cosmetic, but it's much harder to hack something that's actually physically dangerous. You may be able to display a funny message or something, but you won't be able to control the steering or the motor."
So there you have it. Safe, autonomous cars fitted with ultrasonics and radar will (hopefully) take over the roads in about 2040. It's weird to think about, even for Musk, who wraps up his discussion by reflecting "It seems strange that we'd be alive in this time."
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LET US TAKE CARE OF OUR COMMON HOME
LET US TAKE CARE OF OUR COMMON HOME - SOUTH SUDAN
Final Comminiqué of RSASS (RELIGIOUS SUPERIORS' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH SUDAN) at the end of the Workshop on the Papal Encyclical Letter Laudato Si
Juba, 1st May 2016
"Let us read the signs of the times" (Cf. Mt 16:3)
We came together in Juba from the 27 to 30, April, 2016, as representatives of the more than 500 religious present in South Sudan to reflect on the message of the Encyclical letter of Pope Francis "Laudato Si" (translation from the Latin language: May You be praised) and its implications for us today.
While the country is trying to come out from the violence, death and destruction of the civil war and implement peace, we are called to overcome our anxieties and fears and not to lose hope. We 'raise up our heads' (Lk 21:28) and try to read the signs of the times. We don't want to react to any kind of challenge we have to face but to interact with one another and with all people of good will and live our universal call of being co-creators of the world we live in.
Looking around at our reality in South Sudan, we SEE some worrying signs: pollution of the water, of the land, of the air; deforestation and cutting of trees without replacement, burning the forests, overgrazing and desertification and oil exploitation as the major income for the country but as a grave polluting agent.
Exercising our JUDGMENT, we see a breaking of the fundamental relationships that make us men and women created in the image of God. In the long years of war we lost the relationship with our brothers and sisters, becoming like Cain who killed his brother. We have lost our relationship with God who has entrusted to us, as stewards, his creation, and making ourselves lords of creation we put in danger our sacred home. We have lost sight of the common good because of greed and thirst for power.
As the prophet Micah (6:8) said we feel called to ACT justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with our God. Education of children and youth and formation of leaders is a priority in our parishes and schools. As a Church we feel the need to be a prophetic voice towards those who are decision makers in the political arena through our commitment to Justice, Peace, Care of Creation and Reconciliation. By using the media, particularly radio, we intend to spread the message of Laudato Si in our communities. Liturgical celebrations and international days of observance can be the chance to sensitize our people on the importance of planting trees, keeping the environment clean, particularly in urban areas, and improving and practicing agriculture.
Finally, we, religious men and women, call all the People of good will to make a personal reflection on our life-style, being self-critical and open to change, aware that the resources at our disposal are limited. Our spirituality has to be translated into our concrete actions.
Together with Pope Francis, Let us sing as we go. May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope. (No. 244)
Signed by: THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE ANNUAL ASSEMBLY 2016 OF THE RELIGIOUS SUPERIORS' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH SUDAN (RSASS)
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Consulting services in the approval of funding proposals, the drafting of procurement guidelines and lectures on project management.
Drafting of concept notes and writing of a funding proposals to the BMZ, for projects in Guinea / West Africa (Topic: Human Rights, approved in 2011), Columbia (Topic: Water and Sanitation, approved in 2011), Guatemala (Topic: Human Rights and inclusion, in process of approval), Phillippines (Topic: Adaption to Climate Change, approved in 2012) and Thailand (Topic: Adaption to Climate Change, in process of approval).
Writing of position papers on the subject of humanitarian aid including the development of priority sectors, project approaches, objectives of the humanitarian commitment, definition of target group, definition of programs and strategies as well as elaboration of financial instruments.
Lecturer on the subjects of EU funding / ECHO / Foreign Office / Budgeting and quotation / WAT / SAN, Humanitarian Aid, SPHERE standards and project budgeting.
Drafting of concept notes and writing funding proposals for maternal and child health projects in Guinea / West Africa (BMZ funding approval in 2009 till 2012), project management, administration and monitoring including regular field visits.
Drafting of concept notes and writing funding proposals for maternal and child health care project in Northern Uganda / border region to South Sudan (funding approval by Johannes Beese Foundation 04/2010 till 05/2011 and by Else-Kröner-Fresenius Foundation 09/2011 till 08/2012).
Drafting of a concept note and writing of a funding proposal to the BMZ for a basic health care project in Juba / Southern Sudan.
Supporting the planning, writing and distribution of education booklets about health prevention, since 2005.
Lectures and workshops on the subjects of project planning, project implementation and project accounting.
Writing funding proposals for public and private donors for projects in the field of development policy education (BMZ/ Engagement Global, Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung NRW (SUE) and others) (since 2014).
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Ducks, sheep, hikers, kids. Such are the hazards you will have to contend with when chugging and parping your way up Rosedale Chimney, one of the very steepest of a very steep set of ascents singled out for inclusion in Bankstone's charity monkeybike adventure, Mountain Monkeys, this summer.
Those, and gradients described by expedition leader Dicksock Tightrope as "blummin' steep".
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The Fifi UK fragrance awards – lovingly nicknamed the fragrance industry Oscars – are a series of awards voted for by members of the Fragrance Foundation and industry insiders. The Fragrance Foundation itself is an educational organisation setting standards of excellence for the fragrance industry in the UK, with a view to expanding the appreciation and use of fragrance in all its forms.
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NCB to hold drug paraphernalia exhibition
15 February 2016 Sally Piri National 1 minute, 33 seconds
THE Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will be showcasing different types of drug paraphernalia on the sidelines of the handover of this month's old-age pension at the Balai Raya Lumut in Belait District.
The mini-exhibition, held in collaboration with Lumut 1 Village in Mukim Liang, aims to educate the public, including parents, on the various tools used for consuming illegal drugs.
"Some parents aren't aware of the drug paraphernalia that is being used by addicts," Yang Berhormat Hj Mohd Shafiee Ahmad, a member of the Legislative Council and head of Lumut 1 Village, said recently.
He hoped that by viewing the display and information provided by the bureau, it will help the public identify such tools used for consuming drugs and they will take immediate action if they see such materials around their children or other family members.
Although drug use in the village hasn't reached alarming rates, it does occur, he said.
"When I heard about it (people using drugs), I passed on the message to the NCB to get help, and their representatives then monitored the area," he said.
He said the upcoming mini-exhibition is part of efforts to monitor the situation of drug abuse in the village following a recent discussion with representatives from the NCB.
Meanwhile, to improve the safety of the community, some villagers of Mukim Liang have also been actively participating in the Neighbourhood Watch programme, he said.
This activity, done in collaboration with the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) to fight crime, takes place in many villages and Mukims all over the sultanate.
He said crime prevention activities in Mukim Liang take place at least four times a month. Lumut 1 Village alone has a 20-member Neighbourhood Watch comprising retirees, four women and some youths.
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The Economics of Roman Catholic Apologetics
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James Swan, December 4, 2009 August 23, 2018 , Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholic apologetics has come a long way. In the written disputes and published propaganda between sixteenth-century Protestants and Roman Catholics, the mass-marketing victory clearly lay in the hands of Rome's detractors. Protestants out-published Rome's apologists winning the popular opinion. Roman Catholic works were unlikely to sell, and therefore not sought out by printers. Rome exasperated the loss by not supporting her apologists in their written endeavors. But times have changed. Now, there's an entire landscape of Roman Catholic apologetics to choose from. Unfortunately, with so many Roman Catholic apologetics organizations, these economic tough times have put a strain on donations.
Maybe you've heard Dr. White mention if you get on the Catholic Answers mailing list, you'll be bombarded with spam support requests. I learned first hand this is entirely true. I bought a product from Catholic Answers a few months back, and they've been spamming me for support ever since. Sometimes I get the same support request e-mail a few days in a row.
Here's an excerpt from the desk of Karl Keating sent last month:
"As you know, Catholic Answers is the largest apologetics organization in North America."
"If you could make a monthly pledge right now, we would be even more secure as we meet the needs of millions of Americans who, as I mentioned earlier, are starving for the Catholic faith more than ever before. Click here to make your pledge or send your donation."
I didn't realize that in the age of the Internet, satellite TV, and mass media publications via the big chain bookstore in town, people were starving for information about the Roman Catholic Church. Why not just go to the official Vatican website? Here you can get Rome's official answers, and not the interpretations of those answers by the largest apologetics organization in North America. And besides, for free I've got the Internet insights of a host of Roman Catholic apologists bookmarked in my favorites.
America isn't starving for information about anything. We're a culture over-stuffed with enough information that's only a mouse click away. It's like saying the obese family that regularly goes to the all-you-can-eat restaurant can't find any food. Perhaps one could argue the all-you-can-eat stuff isn't good food, so we need Catholic Answers to serve the gourmet feast of information. If that's so, then all those Catholic websites I've bookmarked are…. not healthy food.
Yesterday I received another e-mail from the desk of Karl Keating. This time, Karl let me know again about how important Catholic Answers is. Roman Catholics like Keating don't claim "I'm okay, and you're okay." If you're a Protestant, you're not okay. Keating explains:
"As you and I know, only the Catholic Church possesses the fullness of truth as revealed by God. Other faith communities have some of the truth. And some have more than others. But when it comes to having everything that God has revealed to man and how he wants man to worship him only the Catholic Church can make that claim."
"The fact is that, for anyone who wants to follow Christ fully and keep his commandments exactly as he instructed us, the Catholic Church is the answer. The only answer. That's why Catholic Answers has become much more than just an apologetics organization."
For those of you who think ecumenically that there isn't much difference between Protestants and Roman Catholics and we should just get along to fight bigger battles, read again what Keating is saying. Rome isn't giving away anything. They think you need Rome. This isn't going to change any time soon. If you give an inch, they are not going to give you anything back in return.
Here's some other economic pleas from Rome's defenders.
Catholic apologist John Martignoni only wants 10 cents a day:
"If just 1 in 10 of you will respond to this email, I could cut out one or two of my part-time jobs (I currently work 5), hire some full-time help, and invest in some equipment which would drastically increase our evangelization efforts by drastically increasing the amount of apologetics materials we can develop."
"I don't know of any other organization that reaches so many people with the truths of the Catholic Faith on such a small budget, nor one that raises money the way we do- asking for such a small amount, only through email, and only twice a year. I hope those facts, along with the results of the work we do, will be enough to persuade you to support our mission- to spread the truths of the Catholic Faith and to save souls for Christ and His Bride, the Church."
Of course, the oddest plea for support comes from Mr. Armstrong. To send Dave a 100% tax-deductible donation, you have to send the donation to John Martignoni. Martignoni then forwards the money to Armstrong. Well, this might be worth it, because contrary to the work of Catholic Answers, Armstrong states:
"I think it is accurate to say that I offer the most wide-ranging, comprehensive selection of Catholic apologetics available online (for free: no one pays a cent to read my blog), in addition to my books. It's been literally a constant labor of love for over twelve years now, since I began my website in early 1997."
If you're itching to send DA some $$, you can send it directly to him via Paypal. But keep in mind his website states in all caps, "DONATIONS THROUGH PAYPAL (NOT TAX-DEDUCTIBLE)". So to send him the 100% tax deductable donation, make sure it gets filtered first through Mr. Martignoni.
Gerry Matatics also needs some support, because unlike Catholic Answers, Gerry defends real Catholicism:
"I don't believe anyone else in the entire country does quite what I do full-time, traveling and speaking about real Catholicism and exposing counterfeit catholicism, and does it as much, and yet as inexpensively, as I do. I'm hoping I can interest one hundred recipients of this letter in each sending a sacrificial $100 donation, thus enabling me to raise the $10,000 (100 donors x $100 each) that I need to continue and complete my megatour this fall."
I think there's an easy solution to which Roman Catholic apologists Roman Catholics should support. If the Vatican would issue an official list of which apologists were worthy of donations, this would clear things up. Now, you may think I'm kidding, but keep in mind, Rome has time to come up with an official list of movies Roman Catholics should watch. Consider Keating's words above, and you tell me what should be important: an official list of recommended movies, or an official list of apologists?
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