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D-War Movie Review
by AVForums Jan 22, 2008
D-War Movie (2007)
You thought that it was safe to settle in that comfy chair of yours safe in the knowledge that those cheesy but ultimately fun (after a few beers anyway) rubber suited Godzilla thrillers in vanilla ice-cream had passed long into the depths of celluloid hell. Well think again because the 'B' movie is back with a vengeance. Well really it never went away if you think about it; from the far east we have the wonderful Host to contend with which has all the hallmarks of this genre and even the big budget Hollywood suits brought us ID4 which is just a blast from the Commie hating 50s past. No they never went away, like their subject matter before them they just swallowed some new radioactive CGI material and got bigger, literally.
So it begins, a mumbled and totally incomprehensible history lesson from Jack (Robert Forster) about ancient lands invaded by dragons, the evil Imoogi, or Buraki. The Buraki coveted the Yeouijoo, a gift from the heavens and ultimately drove it insane. A rampaging army, followers of Buraki, determined to capture the Yeouijoo storm a small village because the Yeouijoo has bonded with a small girl. This way the Yeouijoo is protected somewhat; however it is the girl's ultimate destiny to bond with the good Imoogi so the good dragon can descend to heaven and bestow goodness on the whole earth. It is this girl's destiny to repeat this every 500 years, to be reborn, to offer up her soul for the cause of the good Imoogi whilst keeping the Buraki from devouring it's prey. To guard her against the Buraki her protector will share the same fate, to be reborn every 500 years to protect his love. Told you, try and keep up please!
All of this is told to a small boy, Ethan (Cody Arens) in modern day and he is informed that it is he who has been reborn; it is he who must seek out his new love and protect her from the evil which awaits. Now that's a pretty big burden to land on someone who's only 10, but I do suppose that they grow up so quickly these days. We jump to the present day; Ethan (Jason Behr) is in his early 20's, a reporter for some news channel. Slowly he starts to see the prophecy come true so he seeks out the woman who holds the key to this mystery; the woman, Sarah (Amanda Brooks), whom he must protect before she reaches her 20th birthday. Standing in his path is the evil Buraki, a snake, lizard creature devoid of pity and intent on swallowing Sarah whole to merge with the Yeouijoo. From here on in, it's cat and mouse.
That's it really, there's no depth to the movie at all to look into, so don't go in here looking for method acting or taught direction. This is intended to be exactly what it is, a fun popcorn type of movie which will be destined to travel the wastes of Middle Americas drive-ins for years to come. The director, Shim Hyung-rae, seems to have a thing for dragons having made a few feature films with them in his past. He's firmly entrenched in fantasy cinema with titles such as Power King (Power Rangers power up) and Dragon Tuka (time travelling romp with... dragons) and he shows no deviation from the formula that has earned him a few bucks over the years. Intending this for an American audience he chose an American setting, American actors and American sensibilities and this is where the system falls down somewhat. I have enjoyed the emergence of Korean cinema over the past few years with some fresh talent appearing from those borders, what we have here though is by the book, regurgitate the plot and characters, make it for the bucks production. Of course there's nothing wrong in that per-se, Hollywood do it all the time with degrees of success financially and artistically but unfortunately this tale is not told well enough to be enjoyable to that degree.
The story loses you before it begins, well it did for me anyway and I found myself rewinding a couple of times just to piece together the story which Robert Forster inflicts upon the small Cody Arens; god knows how the wee boy (a) took it all in and (b) remembered it all later on in his life. Forster must have left a lasting image on him. The history story though is where this ultimately should have been played out, the medieval nature of the dragons with hoards of Mordor type armies suited that time period, updated it turns into a run hide, run hide affair and looks a little out of place. Jason Behr wades through his part only wondering if his perfectly coiffured hair is standing up to the strain of running round another corner. Amanda Brooks is also sadly lacking in the acting department and I fully expect her to haunt the hospital dramas of American afternoon television. Perhaps I'm being a little harsh, after all both do have busy schedules with work flooding in for 2008 so it'll be interesting to see where they end up.
Direction is almost non-existent, the scenes stumbling from one to another without any real sense of cohesion. The areas with Buraki rampaging across the landscapes of past Korea or downtown Los Angeles fare well enough and perhaps they should have left it on an animation front. CGI anime, now there's an idea; Pixar take note! The end result of the good and evil Imoogi battling for Sarah's immortal soul sounds as though it would have been a good enough ride but all too frequently the battle is lost in murkiness and you wonder just which one is winning. Anyway, think about it this way... you're Sarah the good Imoogi wants to consume your soul for the good of mankind, the evil Imoogi wants to consume your soul so he can have a good party at everyone else's expense; bummer either way for Sarah really. One way or another it looks like old Sarah is going to be souless and that pretty much sums up this film.


We are in 1665. Between the small towns of la Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, in the green valley of La Sagne, there is a place called "Les Bressel".
This is where the legendary Daniel Jeanrichard was born. He is considered as the true master of the Jura watchmakers.
Legend has it that the fifteen years old Daniel, then a blacksmith's apprentice, was given the opportunity to see his very first watch. It was a broken timepiece brought back from England by a horse dealer. Daniel studied and mended it, then made a copy. One year later, he created his very own watch, the first ever manufactured in the region.
Due to the lack of documentation, it is difficult to know exactly what happened. However, it is a known fact that watchmakers not only owe him the manufacturing of the first watches in the region: he also created fundamental machinery and tools and set strict guidelines ruling apprenticeship in the profession, thus ensuring that the know-how was properly handed down to the next generations. Today we still pay homage to this great master of watch-making. There is a museum in La Sagne, a statue of Daniel Jeanrichard in Le Locle, and a street is named after him in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
By creating its own museum, the brand JEANRICHARD reminds us of its origins and of the legend whose name it bears. The Museum allows visitors to discover the various specialties required for watch-making. JEANRICHARD Museum doesn't display watches, but reveals the hidden technical side of our profession. The tools and machinery from 3 centuries ago till today show the visitors the evolution in our ability of development, manufacturing, setting and much more. Nothing here is frozen in its time: all pieces are exposed thematically, no matter what their age.
Since the very beginning of watch-making, this art has always been performed at two levels: machine work which transforms raw materials into finer components and the putting together by hand, the setting and the finishing which bring the watch to life.
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Lewis Baumander is a director and acting coach from Toronto. Lewis has been in the industry for 50 years and has directed over 100 plays across Canada in theatres such as The Tarragon, The Manitoba Theatre Centre, and Skylight Theatre. During this time, he directed numerous classical theatre pieces, including Hamlet starring Keanu Reeves.
Beyond theater, Lewis has directed film, television, and the annual Industry Show for The Humber School of Comedy at Second City. He's also coached and taught 4 generations of working actors on shows such as The Boys, Ginny and Georgia, Sex/Life, From, Handmaid's Tale, among many, many others. Lewis has also been a casting consultant on many TV series. In his 50 years in the industry, he's coached thousands of talented actors including Keanu Reeves, Shamier Anderson (Awake, Goliath, Race), Nina Dobrev (Degrassi, Vampire Diaries), Dewshane Williams (Umbrella Academy, Supergirl, Bright Side), and Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim, Glow, Condor).
Beyond teaching at the University of Manitoba, University of Windsor, Ryerson, Humber, Sheridan and Seneca College, Lewis also founded the LB Acting Studio where works as a go-to coach for some of the top agents at Canada's top tier talent agencies including The Characters, Noble Caplan Abrams, AMI, and OAZ among many others. There's a reason why top tier agencies across North America trust Lewis full heartedly - you'd be hard pressed to find a TV show or film shot in Canada that doesn't have an LB Acting Studio actor on it.
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Home / Case Studies / Manufacturing / Robotic 3D Printer Transforming the Foundry Business
Breaking the Sand Casting Mold with Additive Manufacturing
When your foundry fills a city block and your production equipment and patterns fill the foundry, how do you grow? For Trident Alloys (Springfield, MA) the answer was a Viridis3D Robotic Additive Manufacturing (RAM) system, to 3D print sand molds and cores.
Quick Castings
Trident has long specialized in moderate- to low-volume sand castings, which traditionally require a three-dimensional pattern in order to build the mold. That process typically takes a matter of weeks, no matter how quickly the experienced team at Trident could pour metal and finish the piece. But a Viridis3D RAM system combines a robotic arm with a unique print head to deposit sand and a binder jetting fluid — to build complex molds within a few hours. No pattern required.
Jim Glaska, Owner, Trident Alloys
So as Jim Galaska, Trident's president, explained, "We can easily turn a job around quickly with the Viridis machine, versus four to six weeks just to get the tooling to go into production using traditional methods. We're always going after the newest, greatest technology and we realized Viridis3D would give us another edge."
Galaska was so eager to stay on top that he volunteered Trident as the Viridis3D beta site, helping perfect the technology over the last three years.
So after numerous product improvements and years of experience, Trident and their Viridis3D RAM 236 (a number that denotes a 2 x 3 x 6 foot build envelope) are now conquering new markets together. Today, the Viridis3D RAM also comes in three additional sizes, a RAM123 (1' x 2' x 3'), a RAM 224 (2' x 2' x 4'), and a RAM 336 (3' x 3' x 6'). Viridis3D can also develop custom solutions with this scalable solution.
RAM Opens Up New Markets
"It wasn't so much faster turn-around that got us into this technology," said Galaska, "but the ability to get into the prototype market, spare parts work, and work that doesn't have pattern equipment. We've always done prototype work and one-off jobs. But by eliminating the need for standard tooling, the Viridis gives us a much faster turn-around. It also gives us a price advantage. Together that has attracted entirely new customers."
For example, Galaska points to an instance in which a customer needed an impeller blade that was 10% smaller than the one he had. "We were able to quickly scan that pattern, decrease the part size by 10% in the 3D software we used to program the mold, and then print the mold and pour a casting." Duplicating that pattern in the new size would have cost them $5,000 to $6,000, easily.
"I'm also trying to take the skill out of making a pattern with this approach. We have one pattern maker here and pattern shops are becoming few and far between," Galaska said. "We can scan a part or a pattern, program a mold and run it profitably on the Viridis, yet offer three- to four-week delivery. If we needed to build or repair a pattern we'd have to quote ten to twelve weeks. So customers see the advantage."
Galaska has been promoting the idea of producing prototype castings on the Viridis3D for both new and existing customers, like John Deere and DuPont. Galaska said customers not only get their parts faster, but the parts cost less if you factor in the cost of the initial tooling. And with prototypes, there's always a risk that the design has to change before the part goes into production. Using traditional methods magnifies the expense in time and money that come with such design iterations.
"With the Viridis machine we can just make the change on the computer and produce another mold," said Galaska.
This also underlines another key point in Galaska's strategy: "The Viridis helps feed my foundry. Because a lot of jobs that start as a prototype eventually go to hard tooling and become production jobs in the foundry. In short, the Viridis has made it possible to increase our sales without having to increase capital equipment."
Better castings
The quality of the parts being produced with Viridis molds is "far superior" to what the foundry can produce with traditional tooling, Galaska added.
"That's because everything is modeled in our solidification program (SolidCast), and we're able to incorporate gating systems that can't be done conventionally. That makes for better molds," Galaska explained. "For example, with Viridis we can run a casting at any angle we want. We can run it at 45 degrees or whatever we like. We can also program the gating to run underneath the casting and come up to optimize the flow of the molten metal in a way that would be very tough to do in a conventional casting."
In fact, the Viridis3D can print molds, cores, and patterns and all the associated gating with almost limitless complexity. "It can also print multiple layers, so we can produce two or three different molds at the same time," Galaska added. "For example, one of our customers traditionally ran the castings for their pump impellers horizontally. We print the molds on the Viridis to run them vertically and we can mix and match, say combining a nine-inch impeller with a seven-inch impeller. It would be very difficult to incorporate the gating systems and positioning we use to do this with traditional methods."
The Viridis3D RAM system has also broadened Trident's reach beyond the alloys it pours inhouse, which includes all the common steel allows, Inconel and Hastalloy.
"It's broadened our market," Galaska said. "Whereas before if a customer asked for an aluminum casting or a bronze casting, we'd send him to a bronze or aluminum foundry. Now we print the mold and bring it to the foundry ourselves, they'll pour it, and we'll bring it back and finish it. So it broadens our market into different metals."
Digitizing inventory
Another bane to the "old way" of doing things is the giant collection of tooling that builds up in a foundry like Trident. "So we're talking with our customers about digitizing the patterns that haven't run in seven to ten years," said Galaska. "It might not run for another seven to ten but it's taking up storage space. And often when you bring an old pattern out it may need repair or the gating systems changed because it hasn't been used in a while. That adds time and expense to repeating an old job."
The smarter approach is to scan the existing patterns and store them in a database. If it's ever needed again the file can be retrieved and a mold programmed and printed on the Viridis3D.
EnvisionTEC is the exclusive strategic partner to Viridis3D.
CAPTION: Gov Coleman, above, of Metalurges (Conway, Mass.) hand coats a mold for one of 13 large and detailed torchieres for a Manhattan building that were to be cast in bronze, weighing 450 pounds a piece. "I specialize in high-end architectural pieces that other shops won't take on," Goleman explained, which is why he turned to the Robotic 3D printer at Trident Alloys to produce his unique pieces. "I tend to have clients with very exacting standards. It may take longer for my shop to turn out a piece, but that's because I am so meticulous, and everything is hand finished."
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Q: how to get last record from many to many relationship with condition in laravel Please look over this image
Phone: has many phone status
Phone_status: has many phone
But I whan phone status the latest status in phone_status table
In Phone model:
public function phoneStatus(){
  return $this->hasOne(PhoneStatus::class, 'phone_id','id')->latest();
}

Now, I want to get filter all phone that latest status is "sold".
Somethings like:
[
 id=> 1,
 name=> 'iphone XYZ',
 phonestatus => [
    phone_status => 'sold'
 ]
]

My code in controller:
 $getProjectData = Phone::whereHas('phoneStatus', function ($query) use
       ($status) {
            $query->latest()->where('status', 'like', '%'. $status.'%');
        })->with(['phoneStatus' => function ($query) {
            $query->orderBy('status', 'DESC');
        }]);

My proplem:
although the latest status is "restore" but $getProjectData alway return all phone have "sold" status.
Please help me to sovle :(

A: In Phone model add this relationship
public function allStatus(){
return $this->hasOne(PhoneStatus::class, 'phone_id','id');
}

In controller
$getProjectData = Phone::whereHas('allStatus', function ($query) use
       ($status) {
            $query->where('status', 'like', '%'. $status.'%');
        })->with(['allStatus' => function ($query) {
            $query->where('status', 'like', '%'. $status.'%')->orderBy('status', 'DESC');
        }])->get();

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Q: Concatenate multiple arrays in a array of strings I have this multiple array:
var array = [["par0_0","par0_1","par0_2"],["par1_0","par1_1","par1_2"],["par2_0","par2_1","par2_2"]];

I would like to transform this array in the following array of strings:
var result = [["par0_0,par1_0,par2_0"],["par0_1,par1_1,par2_1"],["par0_2,par1_2,par2_2"]];

What is the most efficient way?

A: You can use toString() on array to convert the array values to string and concat them.

var myArr = [
  ['par0_0', 'par0_1', 'par0_2'],
  ['par1_0', 'par1_1', 'par1_2'],
  ['par2_0', 'par2_1', 'par2_2']
];

var myArrLen = myArr.length,
  myOutput = []; // The output array

for (var i = 0; i < myArrLen; i++) {
  var arrEl = []; // Initialize the array for inserting sub-array
  for (var j = 0; j < myArr[i].length; j++) {
    arrEl.push(myArr[j][i]); // Add items from same column into sub-array
  }

  myOutput[i] = [arrEl.toString()]; // Assign the string to output array
}
document.write(myOutput);
console.log(myOutput);

jsfiddle Demo

A: You can also use reduce() function twice
[par0_0, par0_1, par0_2].reduce(function(previousValue, currentValue, index, array) {
   var result = "";
   if (index != 0)
   {
      result = ",";
   }
   return result + previousValue + currentValue;
});

A: You can use join(). Here is an example:
var arr = [["par0_0","par0_1","par0_2"],
["par1_0","par1_1","par1_2"],
["par2_0","par2_1","par2_2"]]

for(var i = 0 ; i < arr.length; i++) {
    arr[i] = [arr[i].join()] ;
}

join() accepts an optional separator argument if you do not want to commas. Default separator is comma.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/join


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Q: Get value from Dictionary holding generic type in C# public class Table<T> where T:SomeClassWithIntegerID
{
    private Dictionary<int, T> map = new Dictionary<int, T>();

    public bool isInMemory(int id)
    {
        if (map.ContainsKey(id))
            return true;
        return false;
    }

    public T setIt(T obj)
    {
        map[obj.id] = obj;
    }

    public T getIt(int id)
    {
        return map[id];
    }
}

Example:
private static Table<User> table = new Table<User>;

class User : SomeClassWithIntegerID
{
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string password { get; set; }
}

class SomeClassWithIntegerID
{
    public int id { get; set; }
}

I can now check if the Table holds a user with a certain ID, because I use that as the key, but there is now no way for me to check if the Table holds a User with the name Bob or whatever. I want to be able to do something like table.isInMemory(name, "bob") but how is that possible with a generic type?
I need to create a function that allows the end user to specify the field and expected value of said field, after which Table will go over all objects of that class, stored in the Dictionary, to see if one has the field that matches that value.
Is this possible at all?

A: public bool IsInMemory(Func<T, bool> predicate)
{
    return map.Values.Any(predicate);
}

You can then call it as:
table.IsInMemory(u => u.Name == "bob");

If you want to use a property name and value to match on you could add an overload:
public bool IsInMemory(string propertyName, object value)
{
    PropertyInfo property = typeof(T).GetProperty(propertyName);
    if(property == null) throw new ArgumentException("Invalid property name: " + propertyName);

    var predicate = new Func<T, bool>(item => object.Equals(value, property.GetValue(item, null)));
    return IsInMemory(predicate);
}

A: I would complement Lee's answer with a Where-method to enable querying with LINQ:
public IEnumerable<T> Where(Func<T, bool> predicate)
{
    return map.Values.Where(predicate);
}

And an example:
table.Where(x => x.name.Contains("natli"))
     .OrderBy(x => x.name);

To answer your actual question, you can (if you're using .NET 4.0) use the dynamic type, which resolves all methods and such at runtime, to call methods or properties that the compiler doesn't know about from its context.
dynamic dynObject = someObject;
dynObject.SomeMethod("Hi there", 27); // Call whatever method or property you "know" exist


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March for Life theme borrows page from suffragist centennial
Posted on January 17, 2020 by Tereza Ma
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The March for Life, the annual march in Washington to protest legalized abortion in the United States, is tying itself in 2020 to the women's suffrage movement for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
The theme of the march is "Life Empowers: Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman." Jeanne Mancini, head of the March for Life, remarked how two noted suffragists of their day, Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony, were themselves staunchly against abortion. A video made to support the upcoming march, to be held Jan. 24, said the women called abortion "the ultimate exploitation of women."
An unnamed woman speaking in the video said 30 million female babies had been aborted since the twin 1973 Supreme Court rulings in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that legalized abortion virtually on demand.
A young woman joins other pro-life advocates outside the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life in Washington. The theme for the Jan. 24, 2020, March for Life is "Life Empowered: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman." (CNS photo/Leslie E. Kossoff)
Mancini said speakers lined up for the pre-march gathering include Louisiana State Sen. Katrina Jackson, a pro-life Democrat who authored a bill in 2014 to require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. It was ruled unconstitutional in 2017, but that ruling in June Medical Services v. Gee was reversed by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court said in October it would take up the case, its first abortion-related case since the death of Antonin Scalia and the retirement of Anthony Kennedy.
Also on the speakers' list is U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey, long a pro-life advocate, who has sponsored the Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, which would bar the killing of any baby who survives an abortion. Two such survivors will speak as well, according to Mancini.
The 2020 march will be the 47th such march. "We march regardless," Mancini said during a Dec. 3 news briefing in Washington about the march. In 2016, "we had 'Blizzard-geddon,'" she added. An even stronger blizzard in 1982 that crippled the Washington region and its transportation network did not deter those hardy but few marchers who had already made it to the nation's capital.
The 2019 march was "the first one we marched during a government shutdown," Mancini added. She said she is working with the U.S. Park Service to assure that there would be no complications to conducting the march should the government be shut down again.
The March for Life now bills itself as "the world's largest human rights demonstration" and "the world's largest pro-life event." Mancini, during the news briefing, called it "the single unifying pro-life event" bringing together people from all points on the pro-life spectrum.
Mancini said more legislation on the abortion front is being advanced at the state level, and that the March for Life would be replicated elsewhere, including Virginia, Connecticut and Chicago.
While the march promotes legislation reflecting pro-life interests, it also aims to "change hearts and minds," Mancini said.
Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, which is the sister organization of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund headed by Mancini, also spoke at the briefing. "If Roe v. Wade is overturned or weakened," he said, "there will be even more action in the states."
(Editor's note: Groups from around the Diocese of Jackson will be in attendance at March for Life 2020, including students from Natchez Cathedral and St. Joseph Starkville Catholic Campus Ministry.)
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Nativity sets keep Christ in Christmas year-round for Vermont Catholic
Posted on January 9, 2020 by Tereza Ma
By Cori Fugere Urban
GUILFORD, Vt. (CNS) – Christmas comes early to Shirley Squires' Guilford home.
Actually, it never quiet leaves her home if the scores of Nativity sets she leaves on display year round count as keeping Christ in Christmas 365 days a year.
Shirley Squires of Guilford, Vt., stands near a cabinet that holds only a fraction of her Nativity set collection Oct. 23, 2019. Squires, a parishioner of St. Michael Church in Brattleboro, has collected more than 1,500 Nativity sets. (CNS photo/Cori Fugere Urban, Vermont Catholic)
Squires, a parishioner of St. Michael Church in Brattleboro, has collected more than 1,500 Nativity sets, and though she leaves many on display in hutches and in one bay of her detached garage, come August she begins setting up the others throughout her white clapboard home.
"It used to be a two-bedroom," she said with a smile, explaining that those second-floor rooms are now the permanent home of part of her collection; one room holds a Nativity set of more than 200 pieces.
She now sleeps in a daybed in the first-floor sunroom, where plenty of sunshine pours in, shimmering through glass Nativities and illuminating colorful ones that fill two shelves built in front of the windows overlooking woods and fields.
When she takes the Nativities down in that room at the end of January, she replaces them with scores of family photographs.
Squires is the mother of eight and has 20 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren.
Members of her family have made Nativities for her – one uses photographs of family members as the faces of the angels and people in the Nativity scene. Another is made of shells.
Squires herself has crocheted or made of ceramics some of her sets.
Friends and family, children from St. Michael School in Brattleboro and even people she doesn't know, have been giving her Nativities since she began collecting them in the early 1990s after the death of her husband and son. She had long liked Nativities and had a few sets, but collecting them at that point helped her forget the tragedies she had endured.
At least 55 countries are represented in her collection – Brazil, Italy, Peru, Ecuador, Israel, Germany, Tanzania and Switzerland, to name a few. Some Nativity sets represent different cultures, like the Amish, and some feature penguins, bears or other animals in human roles. In a couple of the scenes Joseph holds the Baby Jesus.
The Nativity sets – with anywhere from one piece to a couple hundred – range from the sophisticated and expensive, the whimsical and handmade and the tiny to the nearly life-size (the latter displayed outdoors). She has a tissue box with a Nativity design, paper gift bags, music boxes, ornaments and even a footstool with a nativity picture. Some are vintage, others new.
And they come from a variety of manufacturers such as Lladro, Jim Shore, Fontanini, Willow Tree, Avon and Belleek, and they are made of various materials including wood, ceramic, glass, wool, beeswax, paper and wire. There's even a Lego Nativity her great grandson made, and she won a pewter one at a St. Michael's bazaar raffle.
Although much of her collection has been given to her, she has bought some sets – some on sale, some on trips, some in increments. It's difficult for her to pick a favorite, but the one her daughter Donna Rhodes made with photos of family members is one of them along with the large Fontanini set in an upstairs room.
And even though she is surrounded by Nativity sets, Squires never feels like there is too much Christmas. "It's my favorite time of year. It's always been my favorite time of year," she told Vermont Catholic, Burlington's diocesan publication.
From the first of December until the end of January, Squires opens her home by appointment to those who would like to see her Nativity collection, often wearing a special light purple Nativity sweatshirt. "When I see the joy on people's faces, it makes it all worthwhile," said the 89-year-old, who is living in the house she grew up in.
She makes friends with some of her visitors, and some have returned each year since she began displaying her collection for others to see 21 years ago; she's only missed one year after triple bypass surgery about six years ago.
She receives nearly 300 visitors to see the Nativity sets each year.
The Nativity scenes represent is what is most important: her faith. "Looking at them keeps it in my mind that it all started with a little baby," Jesus, she said.
"Without my faith I would not have gotten through all the struggles," she said, pointing to a photograph of one of her grandsons and his girlfriend who died in an automobile crash. "My faith means everything to me."
A glass Nativity set catches the sun in a display area at the home of Shirley Squires of Guilford, Vt., Oct. 23, 2019. Squires, a parishioner of St. Michael Church in Brattleboro, has collected more than 1,500 Nativity sets. (CNS photo/Cori Fugere Urban, Vermont Catholic)
(Urban is content editor/staff writer for Vermont Catholic, official publication of the Diocese of Burlington.)
50 years since White House conference on food, hunger issues remain
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Fifty years ago, the White House sponsored a Dec. 2-4 conference on food, nutrition and health designed to set the groundwork for a national nutrition policy and to advise President Richard Nixon on the best ways to eliminate hunger in the U.S.
The conference succeeded in initiating policies to improve school lunch programs and nutrition education and to give more consumer protection – which led to the nutritional labeling food buyers are now accustomed to.
The conference also helped develop the Women, Infants and Children program, which offers supplemental food assistance to low-income pregnant women and mothers and children up to age 5, and it paved the way for the first major expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income individuals and families buy food.
Fast forward 50 years and food policy advocates still have a lot on their plates, in efforts to address food insecurities as well as growing food-related epidemics of diabetes and obesity. They also want to ensure policies that took shape 50 years ago do not face pending cuts by President Donald Trump's administration.
Several of the event panelists cited troubling statistics on hunger. Notably, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2019 Household Food Insecurity report said more than 37 million people in the U.S. struggle with hunger.
Two girls receive food at an outdoor soup kitchen in Washington. Fifty years after a White House conference on food, nutrition and health, policy advocates say the overall lack of access to healthy food and good nutrition remains a major issue today in the United States. (CNS photo/Jim West)
Other statistics they shared, compiled by Hunger Free America, include:
– 14.3 million households were food insecure with limited or uncertain access to enough food.
– More than 11 million children are food-insecure.
– Many households that experience food insecurity do not qualify for SNAP and rely on local food banks.
No one needs to tell these facts to those who work in public policy at Catholic Charities USA or its local agencies providing food to those in need.
Anthony Granado, vice president at Catholic Charities USA, said there are several food policies that have the support of Catholic Charities, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Health Association, Catholic Rural Life and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Those groups submitted a joint comment objecting to the Trump administration's proposal to tighten eligibility standards for SNAP that would cause about 3.1 million to lose food stamp benefits.
The comment, submitted Sept. 23, called SNAP the "first line of defense against hunger."
They also said the proposed changes to SNAP would bring more people to charities for help when they are already feeding millions each year.
"Our organizations already struggle to meet the needs in our communities and are forced to turn away many for lack of resources. The proposed rule, if implemented, will only add to a demand that we cannot meet," their comment letter said.
Lizanne Hagedorn, director of Nutritional Development Services for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, knows all about food needs and hasn't seen them decrease by any means.
As the head of agency that administers local federally funded child nutrition programs and a community food program, Hagedorn said those who come for help are not always atypical; in recent years the agency has seen more senior citizens and college students. She also has seen a shrinking pool of volunteers to serve those in need at food pantries.
"It's in our blood as Catholic Christians to be good stewards of food and money and to bring everybody along," Hagedorn said. "Not in an overbearing way but understanding 'there but for the grace of God go I.'"
Priest delivers powerful testimony during Homeland Security hearings
Posted on November 25, 2019 by Tereza Ma
By Berta Mexidor
JACKSON – Father Odel Medina tugged at heartstrings as he read a letter written by a child pleading for his father's freedom after being jailed since the federal agent raids on Mississippi last summer.
Missionary Servant Father Medina, pastor of St. Therese Kosciusko and St. Anne Carthage, was among the many people presenting testimonies and stories and expressing concerns during public hearings Nov. 7 in Tougaloo before U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security members.
Committee members attending the hearing included Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Rep. Al Green (D-TX.) Also on hand was Rep. Steven Cohen (D-TN), who heads up the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Looking back. More than 600 federal agents raided chicken processing plants across Mississippi Aug. 7 resulting in the arrests of 680 people. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid was the largest statewide workplace operation in U.S. history with a price tag of $1.3 million so far according to reports.
For the most part, those arrested were not dangerous criminals, but rather workers in many cases outstaying their visas. There were six more serious charges involving domestic violence and two cases of battery that were reported but details were unclear. One recent report indicated that 300 are still living in detention.
In the aftermath of the raids, many are calling the operation inhuman and unnecessary. During hearings, Jere Miles, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security investigation office in New Orleans, was questioned on the project's costs. Other questions directed at him focused on the timing and execution of operations that took place on the first day of school when children were heading back to classes after the summer break.
According to reports, only county school districts were contacted about the raids. Communications with other schools were lacking and left educational facilities in crisis management at the end of the day when the parents were not there to pick up their children. Reports say that ICE provided 11 phones for the more the 680 detainees to use on that day to get in touch with loved ones and to seek help.
Miles defended his agency saying that his office was incompliance with the law, and as a result of the raid, 400 cases of illegally use of SSN or identity theft were found. When Mississippi Catholic questioned Miles about the outcome of the raids, he said, "After this hearing and each raid, the agency tries to learn how to improve this kind of operation. We are taking all the suggestions, but there are some things we cannot change because we need to take care of our country," he explained about the administration's press on immigration and security and enforcement efforts.
Several Catholic communities of the Diocese of Jackson have been facing the consequences of the immigration raids over the past months. In emergency response and social justice efforts, the diocese has been working with parishes to provide assistance to families faced with hardships struggling to pay rent, buy food and pay bills after heads of households lost work due to the raids.
Father Medina is heading up long-term recovery efforts at crisis centers established as part of the diocese's humanitarian aid efforts in coordination with Catholic Charities and other community organizations joining in the outreach. Help including financial assistance and legal advice is offered as part of outreach to families in the parishes and also residents living within the community-at-large touched by the raids.
Father Mike O'Brien, pastor of Sacred Heart in Canton, and Father Roberto Mena, Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity and pastor of St. Michael Parish in Forest, are also part of the diocese's humanitarian aid initiatives.
During the Tougaloo hearing, Father Medina gathered with community leaders who one-by-one shared their testimonies and concerns. They included Scott County Sheriff Mike Lee; Lorena Quiroz Lewis of Working Together Mississippi; Canton Mayor William Truly; Clift Johnson, director of MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law and Attorney Constance Slaughter-Harvey, president of the Board of Legacy Education and Empowerment Foundation.
One of the most troubling aspects of the raids on the minds of many speaking at the hearing is the difficult situations of the families, who are struggling to make ends meet. According to records, about 1,000 children are affected by the raids including the minors now without both parents and the ongoing psychological, economic and social effects. The language barrier between Guatemalan detainees, who speak Mam, a Mayan language, is also a concern that calls for special translators.
Monserrat Ramirez and Roberto Tijerina, members of Southerners on New Ground (SONG), broadcasted the hearing on the Facebook page of Mississippi Resiste, a grassroots organization dedicated to helping the immigrant community.
SONG's activists from Mississippi and other states are uniting forces with South East Immigrant Rights Network. Together, they are creating a network of individuals including lawyers, local authorities and Catholic lay and priests giving time and talents to help families in need of assistance and to get back on their feet.
During hearings, Father Medina talked about the generous support received from people everywhere after the raids. Donations poured into Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Jackson from 40 different states and several organizations reflecting the compassion and concerns that the people of the United States of America have for the immigrant families of Mississippi now in crisis and seeking social justice, guidance and help.
Father Medina thanked members of the committee for his opportunity to speak on the behalf of people in the diocese's family of parishes and to read the letter of the child from his own parish family hurting and traumatized in the aftermath of the raids. "I assure you of my prayers. God bless you," said the priest with a heavy heart, as he closed his talk.
(Linda Reeves contributed to this story.)
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The sisters of Holmes County, integral to community
By Dan Stockman
LEXINGTON – It's a Wednesday, and three teenagers are in Sr. Sheila Conley's tiny office, learning about finances.
Less than a block away, Sr. Mary Walz, a social worker, is at the Lexington Medical Clinic, running a diabetes education program.
Down the road in Durant, Sr. Madeline Kavanaugh is working on a statewide re-entry program for people being released from the state prison system.
The three sisters are continuing the ministries of Sr. Paula Merrill, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky, and Sr. Margaret Held of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee. Held and Merrill were murdered Aug. 25, 2016, after working in the area for six years and ministering to those kept poor for some 30 years, mostly in Mississippi. They were nurse practitioners and both worked at the Lexington Medical Clinic.
On Nov. 20, 2017, Kavanaugh, Conley and Walz moved into the house Merrill and Held had shared and started their own work in the area. Their arrival "meant a new beginning, a fresh start. It meant that we were going to survive," says Sam Sample, a parishioner at St. Thomas Church in Lexington and a friend of all five sisters.
Conley's students have already completed the Career Ready 101 class at the Lexington Multi-Purpose Complex, which consists of 200 hours of learning how to be employable, such as understanding you have to show up to work, on time, every day.
"There's a great vocational school where they can become an electrician or be certified to drive a forklift," Conley, a Sister of Charity of Halifax, Nova Scotia, says later. "But they don't know how to keep a job."
Today, the subject is credit: credit cards, credit scores, credit card bills. They know there are credit cards and debit cards, but the only difference between them they know about is that a debit card needs a PIN; they don't know one operates on credit and the other requires money in the bank.
The classes that provide real-world lessons existed before Conley got here, but they were only online, and the students didn't have much success afterward. Now, they have Conley, a no-nonsense sister with a sharp wit, lots of stories and experience, and a mission to change their lives.
Since so many patients at the Lexington Medical Clinic have some form of diabetes, Walz, a Daughter of Charity, comes in contact with almost all of them.
"It gives you access to people who would never consider talking to a social worker," Walz says. "There are so many social aspects to diabetes. The doctors say, 'Lose weight, eat right, blah blah blah,' and it just overwhelms them. But one-on-one, you can really address the issues, from poverty to transportation to healthy cooking."
Like many rural areas, Lexington has few grocery stores and little fresh produce. Most people don't know how to make healthy food choices, she says. They can't find healthy food to buy and don't know how to prepare it if they find it.
Walz also helps patients navigate the often-bewildering world of public assistance and nonprofit programs to cover co-pays, find transportation, or get expensive hearing aids.
"The staff told me, 'They're calling you the Diabetes Lady,'" Walz said. "I told them, 'I've been called worse.'"
Kavanaugh, a Daughter of Charity, works with Marvin Edwards, a Secular Franciscan, on the prison re-entry program, the Mississippi Association for Returning Citizens (MARC). The program, "Getting Ahead While Getting Out," is designed to help people get out of poverty.
"They learn a lot of self-evaluation skills — how to evaluate their anger and their personality," Kavanaugh says. "It's very strong on studying the financial reality of the country so they can understand how it works and how to get ahead. Before they leave prison, they have to have a plan. Not just a plan for the first 72 hours, but a plan for life."
Plans often go haywire, and none of the three sisters had ever planned on ministering in rural Mississippi. But it didn't take long for them to realize they are exactly where God wants them to be.
Though it had been more than a year since Held and Merrill died, the community they served was still reeling when Conley, Kavanaugh and Walz moved in.
"What happened was catastrophic to this town," says Sample, a real-estate agent who helped the three new sisters rent Held and Merrill's house.
Held and Merrill had been stabbed to death in their bedrooms in a breaking-and-entering. Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko, a town about 18 miles east of Durant, was convicted of two counts of murder and is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 30 years for burglary and stealing one of the sisters' cars.
Sam Sample says he stood dumbfounded in front of the house, which was surrounded by police tape, when he got the news, unable to process it. When he called his wife, Jamie to tell her, she collapsed. She was so distraught, she was unable to drive.
"Our little world just crashed," he says.
Cardell Wright, city manager for the City of Durant, says he didn't know Merrill and Held personally, but it is impossible to escape their reputation.
"They exemplified holiness," Wright says. "Something that tragic — it shook the community. When something like that happens to people of that caliber, it has a big effect on society."
Today, the work of Conley, Kavanaugh and Walz is having a big effect, as well.
"When you see them, you know what they stand for. You know what they embody," Wright says. "They've changed my own mentality of what I thought sisters were. I thought they were isolated and stayed off by themselves. The sisters here are invested in our community, and especially our young people. They've been very instrumental and one of our biggest donors and supporters."
For example, Walz helped Wright organize a project for the Mayor's Youth Council. The teens collected hundreds of pounds of plastic bottle caps, and Walz put them in touch with Green Tree Plastics in Evansville, Indiana, which makes benches out of the material. She then arranged for Wright to stay with the Daughters of Charity in Evansville so he could deliver the plastic and pick up the completed benches.
"We collected 950 pounds of plastic, and the Daughters of Charity donated another 300 pounds to us. They had sisters around the nation sending them in," Wright says. "They're unstoppable."
The project resulted in several benches now installed around Durant, but more importantly, Wright says, it showed the teens how to follow through on a project and accomplish something.
Even more meaningful, though, was when students held a protest against gun violence after the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting, and Wright spotted the sisters joining the march.
"Just to see their involvement — they support us," he says. "It made my day to see one of the sisters come out and march with us. They were right there, talking about protecting our kids."
Wright marvels at the sisters' creativity and resourcefulness.
"It's the connections. It's about uplifting one another," he says. "They want the community to progress."
Though none of the three sisters had lived in Mississippi before, when the Sisters of Charity Federation asked for sisters to consider serving in Durant, they each answered.
Conley, who works with the youth programs in Lexington, had a career in education. Kavanaugh, who works on the re-entry program, spent 17 years serving in Bolivia, four years in the Cook Islands and three years as the pastoral administrator of a parish in tiny Georgetown, South Carolina. Walz, now at the Lexington Medical Clinic, had a career that included 25 years in social work and three years developing health and social service centers for people who live in poverty. She worked for 14 years in rural Gould, Arkansas.
Holmes County, though, is a challenge: 41% of the population lives in poverty, and the median income is $20,330 a year, less than half the median income for Mississippi and the second-lowest in the nation. The national median income is $57,652. The unemployment rate is 12.2%, more than triple the national unemployment rate of 3.7%. Twenty-five percent of those over 25 do not have a high school diploma.
"It's generational poverty. You have children having children, and it's the third or fourth generation of that," Kavanaugh says. "Now, we're hearing about job opportunities, but people don't have the skills to get them or keep them."
There's a new plastics factory opening soon — a big deal in a county of 17,622 where businesses only employ 1,981 people — but there is no public transportation. Holmes County Central High School ranks 228th out of 233 high schools in Mississippi. Wages in the area are low, so even those with jobs often struggle.
Conley says people living in poverty don't have stable lives, so they often lose Social Security cards and birth certificates, the documents needed to apply for jobs, job training or almost anything else.
"There's a lot of discouragement," Walz says. "There's so many parts of their lives that are out of their control, whether it's financial or transportation or housing."
Walz says the sisters know they won't change Holmes County overnight, but it's important they make an effort, and their ministry makes an important statement about the church and women religious.
"It's our little attempt to be present. The county was traumatized by [the murders]. Durant was traumatized by this event," she says. "It's that sense that sisters haven't given up on them because of this tragedy."
Walz says people often ask if she is afraid to live in the home where two sisters were killed.
"Not for one second," she says. "It's like holy ground."
(Reprinted with permission by Global Sisters Report, visit GlobalSistersReport.org).
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U.S. bishops examine challenges faced by church, society
BALTIMORE (CNS) – During their Nov. 11-13 meeting in Baltimore, the U.S. bishops elected new officers and discussed challenges in the church and the nation. They spoke of their renewed efforts to help immigrants, youth and young adults, pregnant women and the poor as well their steps to combat gun violence and racism.
On the second day of the meeting, Nov. 12, the bishops elected Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles to a three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit as conference vice president.
Archbishop Gomez, the first Latino to be elected to this role, was chosen with 176 votes from a slate of 10 nominees.
At the start of the meeting, the bishops voted overwhelmingly on a revised set of strategic priorities to take them into the next decade. The next day, they approved adding new materials to complement "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," their long-standing guide to help Catholics form their consciences in public life, including voting.
Bishops also heard a wide-ranging report on immigration Nov. 12, which included updates of policy, how programs to resettle refugees, including those run by the Catholic Church, have closed or reduced activity because the administration has moved to close the country's doors to those seeking refuge, and efforts on the border to help asylum cases.
The bishops' second day of meetings also included a presentation of the pope's document "Christus Vivit," which was issued following the 2018 Synod on Young People. Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a delegate at the synod, urged bishops to do more to support Catholic teens and young adults and to use the pope's apostolic exhortation as their guide.
The previous day, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles told the bishops the church is losing young people in greater numbers and must face the challenges of how to get the religiously unaffiliated, or "nones," particularly young people, back.
He presented a three-minute video on the issue and spoke of his concerns and ideas for bringing young people back to church which involved: not dumbing down the faith and involving young people in the social justice aspects of the church. Discussion about this from the floor lasted for more than an hour with bishops from across the country agreeing that the issue is of great concern and sharing other ideas to bring young people back which primarily involved catechism but also an increased devotion to Mary.
The bishops also heard that a new "pastoral framework for marriage and family life" should be ready for a vote by the U.S. bishops by next November at the latest, according to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.
At the start of their meeting Nov. 11, the bishops raised pressing issues that included the priesthood shortage, gun violence and the need to provide support services for pregnant women.
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States, mentioned some of these challenges in his opening remarks, along with the need to welcome migrants and fight racism. He also urged the bishops not just to focus on the challenges before them but to consider how they could further develop collegiality and collaboration with one another.
In his final address as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston told his fellow bishops that it has been "an honor to serve you, even in the difficult times."
"Let's begin anew," he said, at the close of his address.
Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, La., chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, listens to a speaker during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 11, 2019. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
In a presentation on gun violence, Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, said Catholic clergy and lay leaders can play a role in bringing together people along the rural-urban divide to build understanding of the need for sensible policies that can end the scourge of gun violence.
The bishop, who is chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, outlined the USCCB's long-held stance of the need for "common sense" legislation that governs the availability of guns. He also said it was time for people to come together so that there is greater understanding of how gun violence affects urban communities in particular.
He told Catholic News Service that the USCCB's work on the legislative front was important, but that a pastoral response to gun violence was needed.
"It's time for a different approach," he said.
In a new approach for the bishops' pro-life efforts, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, invited his fellow bishops to devote a year of service to pregnant women starting next March.
He said Catholic parishes can be one of the first places a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy can turn to for assistance rather than think of seeking an abortion and they could offer a variety of support services to women who may be thinking about whether to carry their child to term.
The bishops also voted for a new sixth edition of of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' existing Program of Priestly Formation for U.S. dioceses; before it can be implemented, it must first receive approval, from the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy. They approved a text translation to be used in the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults and OKd close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours.
The three-day meeting wrapped up Nov. 13 with a presentation by Bishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, who spoke about the ongoing work of the committee, highlighting the listening sessions that have taken place around the country.
At the meeting's close, Archbishop Gomez thanked outgoing president Cardinal DiNardo for his "excellent service to this body and to the church."
(Contributing to this report was Rhina Guidos, Mark Pattison and Dennis Sadowski.)
Pastoral against racism is starting conversations, healing, bishops told
By Carol Zimmerman
BALTIMORE (CNS) – One year after the U.S. bishops approved their pastoral letter against racism, the document is hardly just sitting on a shelf but is the basis for listening sessions in dioceses around the country and is an educational tool for individuals, schools and parishes, the bishops were told Nov. 13.
Bishop Shelton T. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, reminded the bishops that in the two years since the ad hoc committee was formed, it has been "hard at work as the church works to acknowledge past harms and cultivate racial reconciliation."
The document, titled "Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love – A Pastoral Letter Against Racism," sold out its first 2,000 copies eight months after it was printed and was recently sent out for a second printing. It is available online in English and Spanish along with study guides at www.usccb.org/racism.
Bishop Fabre said the ad hoc committee's most important work has been the listening sessions that began last August. So far there have been 13 sessions around the country, and more are scheduled for next year.
These sessions spring from the very words of the pastoral letter: "We must create opportunities to hear the painful stories of those whose lives have been affected by racism."
In these sessions, starting with the first one in St. Louis, the bishop said the committee's members have heard both the hurt caused by racism and the hope that church and society will root it out.
Diocesan bishops attending these sessions have been linked to the laity in ways that open "new possibilities for further healing," Bishop Fabre said, adding the bishops' committee is helping these dioceses with follow-up sessions or other ways to implement the pastoral letter.
All the offices and committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are committed to ending racism, he said. He highlighted the educational outreach of the USCCB's Justice, Peace and Human Development Office, which is helping to develop a children's book in response to the pastoral on racism called "Everyone Belongs."
The ad hoc committee has addressed several national Catholic organizations about their possible use of the pastoral letter. It also is working on developing catechetical resources for schools and supporting or developing Catholic college programs, seminary training and ecumenical efforts.
In closing, he said the "single cry" committee members hear most often at listening sessions is that "the laity never seems to hear homilies on racism."
"I would ask you to work with me to change that perception," he told the bishops, "so that we all will come to hear regularly, and with one voice, that racism is opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that the Catholic Church in the United States is committed to standing against the evil and sin of racism with all its strength."
To this end, he said his committee would seek to provide more homily resources to bishops and priests.
He also stressed that the committee's work "goes beyond simply calling out the evil of racism" but involves urging "all people to see the deeper reality of God's purpose and the in creating all of us with unique and unrepeatable value."
The bishop didn't say the work was easy, but he finished his presentation by saying: "With God's grace our efforts will bear fruit in these challenging times."
(Follow Zimmermann on Twitter: @carolmaczim)
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Cardenal Ramazzini visitará Jackson
Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos, Guatemala, was one of 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis Sept. 1, 2019. Cardinal-designate Ramazzini is pictured in a June 3, 2010, photo. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
El cardenal guatemalteco, Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri de Huehuetenango, Guatemala y conocido por el trabajo de justicia social en su país, visitará la Diocesis de Jackson en diciembre de este ano. En su agenda tendrá visitas a parroquias afectadas por las redadas de inmigración, en las cuales viven muchos ciudadanos guatemaltecos. En su vista se reunirá además con autoridades eclesiásticas de la diocesis.
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DACA en Corte Suprema
Por Rhina Guidos
BALTIMORE (CNS) – Es una población con la que casi todos los obispos en los Estados Unidos entran en contacto: 700,000 adultos jóvenes traídos al país como niños sin documentos.
Por lo tanto, era natural que el día en que la Corte Suprema escuchó argumentos orales sobre un caso importante que los involucraba, incluso mientras realizaban negocios regulares durante la reunión de otoño de la Conferencia Episcopal de los Obispos Católicos en Baltimore del 11 al 13 de noviembre, algunos obispos fueron monitoreando la situación ante la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos.
El tribunal escuchó argumentos el 12 de noviembre sobre si la decisión de la administración Trump de poner fin al programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, o DACA, es legal y su final puede continuar.
Los obispos de California, Texas, Kentucky, y ciudades grandes y pequeñas en el medio, emitieron declaraciones, escribieron a los periódicos de su ciudad o expresaron su opinión de alguna otra manera, tratando de correr la voz sobre lo que creen que debería suceder con el cientos de miles de receptores de DACA en el país. "Es un problema para todos nosotros", dijo el obispo Joseph C. Bambera de Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Sacerdotes Hispanos
WASHINGTON (CNS) – En una reunión para sacerdotes latinos, el clero congregado habló de la necesidad de cuidar de los unos a los otros, y afirmó la necesidad de caminar con los pobres. Cuando la Asociación Nacional de Sacerdotes Hispanos (ANSH) se reunió en Nueva York del 7 al 10 de octubre, los sacerdotes de todo el país discutieron prioridades tales como la necesidad de fraternidad y también de atender a quienes sufren en sus parroquias.
El obispo Octavio Cisneros, obispo auxiliar de Brooklyn, dijo que el sacerdote es escogido de entre los hombres para servir al pueblo, pero el sacerdote también es parte de ese grupo de personas y debe sentirse como uno de ellos.
El obispo Joseph J. Tyson, de la diócesis de Yakima, en el estado de Washington, también habló de la necesidad de servir a los pobres y el papel que juegan los sacerdotes en esa importante misión de la Iglesia Católica.
El obispo Cisneros recibió el Premio Buen Pastor a nivel nacional y monseñor Robert T. Ritchie, de Nueva York recibió el mismo premio a nivel diocesano, "reconociendo su trabajo entre los hispanos".
La organización calcula que hay unos 2,000 sacerdotes latinos alrededor del país y quien esté interesado puede visitar su página web en www.ansh.org, dijo el padre Molina.


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Gal*Gun 2 Released in North America, Along with a New Wardrobe
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Gal*Gun 2 has arrived to North America along with some new DLC costumes.
We've written about Gal*Gun 2's release in Europe, but now, it has finally come to North America. The game mechanics in this sequel are similar to the previous game in the Gal*Gun series, Gal*Gun: Double Peace. It brings back an improved Doki Doki Mode and new defense missions. There is also a new cast of characters and a new story. In this game, you play as a young man chosen by Risu, an angel, to hunt down the demons that have been causing chaos at your academy. With the help of your pheromone shot and demon sweeper, it's up to you to return this demon infested school back to normal.
The first set of DLC outfits have also been released. This set has three outfits; the Meowvelous Sweater, Classy Bunny Girl, and Bubble Bath Bikini. Starting today, April 24th, there will be more DLC outfit sets released every two weeks. These sets will include classic costumes from the previous game and new ones for Gal*Gun 2. Each costume set will cost $11.99. If you only want a specific costume in the set, individual costumes will be sold for $4.99.
Recruited by the angel Risu, it's up to you, the only guy around, to rid your academy of a demonic infestation. But, there's a catch! You suddenly find yourself the object of every girl's affection – they're all outrageously hot for you, and it's going to take some serious focus to fend off this avalanche of affection.
Letters, kisses, declarations of love – this is one student body that can't wait to get up close and personal. Armed only with your pheromone shot and an innovative means of sucking up those menacing demons (and perhaps some other things as well...), you're going to have to work hard to fend them off, if you're ever going to complete your mission.
You can buy Gal*Gun 2 from Amazon or the collector's edition from Rice Digital for the PS4 or Nintendo Switch.
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As part of an Internship at United International University, I have been assigned for doing an internship project at Inpace Management Services limited, client servicing department. I have worked in planning Department as well. My Daily Activity was communication with the client based on as usual agency activities like activation forecasting, event follow up, vendor meeting, submit a design based on their demand. Client Support Activity is a complex process as in this department Executive needs to update a lot of supports and documents on a daily basis. As an intern, though I have face tough duty while doing intern, I have learned a lot of things that will help to do better in my future career. Inpace Management Services Limited was founded in the year 1997. It has been well-known for being the most consistently creative company in Bangladesh. They have been providing services of high standard when it comes to quality as well as value for money for customers for the last 20 years. Their unparalleled efforts in building customer relationships has made them capable of managing transactions that meet the demands and satisfaction levels of their clients in a major degree. They supervise each organizational scheme differently, irrespective of the size or budget which makes their services more unique than others. The versatility of skills and experience among the employees at Inpace is what makes them not another face in the crowd. Building customer relationships is the main moto of Inpace. The company claims, we listen and constantly re-address the ever-changing needs of our customers to ensure that we are always ahead of the game. The overall data collection of the research was done systematically according to the supervision of my research coordinator.


HTF MI recently introduced Global Frozen Food Market study with in-depth overview, describing about the Product / Industry Scope and elaborates market outlook and status to 2025. The market Study is segmented by key regions which is accelerating the marketization. At present, the market is developing its presence and some of the key players from the complete study are Nestle, Nomad Foods, Bonduelle, Charal, Findus Group, FrosTA, Mascato Spain, Dr. August Oetker & McCain Foods etc.
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A 32-year-old Utah woman died Monday (October 8) from a motorcycle crash in the area of Akoni Pule Highway at the 28-mile marker.
A 35-year-old Utah man was operating a 2012 Harley Davidson motorcycle and traveling northwest on Akoni Pule Highway with his wife riding on the back, when he swerved to avoid a car that crossed the centerline into his lane. The motorcycle traveled about 150 feet down a gulch. Neither rider was wearing a helmet.
The victim, Jennie Wahlstrom of North Kaysville, Utah, was dead at the scene. She will be officially pronounced dead at Kona Community Hospital. Her husband was taken to North Hawaiʻi Community Hospital for treatment of his injuries.
Police have initiated a negligent homicide investigation and have ordered an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.
This is the 31st traffic fatality this year compared with 16 at this time last year.
Police are looking for the operator of a gray sedan or anyone else who may have been in the area at the time and may have witnessed the crash. Witnesses are asked to call Officer Larry Flowers at 326-4646, extension 229.


Nobody said that it can be done, but Bruce Timm and Paul Dini are working together right now to create an animated adaptation of Grant Morrison's rambling, borderline insane ode to hallucinogenic drugs Jack Kirby's Fourth World, Final Crisis.
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The adaptation of Final Crisis is meant to replace the current status quo of the DC Animated Universe first established in the movie Flashpoint Crisis. Both parts will be released straight to video and Netflix one year from now, April 1, 2018.
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Q: How can i use Cocoa/CoreText/Quartz for multithreaded drawing Are there any howtos?
What is the best practice here for background thread drawing.
Is it okay to store the rectangle data from [NSView drawRect] in a queue and let the background thread take the rectangle and create some bitmap and render the data into the bitmap and then use performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject to draw it? Or can i directly draw into the a context from the background.
I bought the book "Programming with Quartz 2D" from Bunny Laden but haven't read it yet and there is no hint about multithreading in the book. Also couldn't find anything in the normal Apple API Reference pages.

A: Yes it's ok to store the rectangle data from [NSView drawRect] in a queue and let the background thread take the rectangle and create some bitmap and render the data into the bitmap and then use performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject to draw it.
As long as you do it in a thread safe manner.
That has nothing to do with drawing, so there is no reason it would be mentioned in  "Programming with Quartz 2D" (which is a great book by the way - you should definitely get round to reading it). You probably want a companion book on multithreading.
Just consider the first part of your question. How are you going to store the rect in a queue? Add it to an NSMutableArray? Not thread safe.
Grand Central Dispatch is going to help a lot (you don't mention what platform you wish to support).


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Q: How do I archive and restore selected tables using SQL Server? How do I archive and restore selected tables using SQL Server?

A: You have to use a 3rd party tool such as Red Gate SQL backup pro to restore. Or restore as a different DB and copy across.
Selective restore makes sense, occasionally, but selective backup usually wouldn't. You-d have to roll your own selective backup with SMO for example

A: You could use the import/export feature in SSMS. You could export out the table to another DB, flat file, or other available formats. If you save your export package, you can rerun it every time you need to export your data. You should have integration services running though.
The same can be done for importing data back into the table. You can choose to append or overwrite the data. A bit of tweaking will have to be done to get the file formats the way you want it.

A: The only way to do this without 3rd party tools is by selectively backing up and restoring different filegroups, which requires some deliberate setup within the database.
In our environment, we use the "Object Level Recovery" feature of Quest Litespeed.
The workaround, as @gbn mentioned, is to restore a copy of the database with a different name, then copy the table/rows out that you need.

A: If it is a one time activity: Use import/export feature as already suggested. That feature uses SSIS on the background therefore you can tweak it.
If these backup and restore is continuous activity not a one time activity. Consider a database: some tables are not really important as others. For example invoice tables vs log tables (not transactional log files but monitoring tables). You would like to backup invoice tables more regularly than log tables. Log tables consume a lot of space but they are not as important as invoice data.
Consider using file group backups instead of full backups. Put all really important tables in one file group and other tables in another file group.
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RCN Corp. Tuesday announced a definitive agreement to purchase Consolidated Edison Inc.'s telecommunications subsidiary.
The company said it will acquire all of Consolidated Edison Communications Holding Co. Inc. for $32 million, funded with cash on hand.
Con Edison's boards of directors and RCN's required lenders have already approved the transaction, RCN said. The deal -- expected to close in the first quarter of 2006 -- is still subject to regulatory approvals.
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While filling in time waiting for my upcoming MSF job I have been getting into the hills as much as possible.
I visited Chamonix and the the large area of walkways, paths and refuges on the western side of the valley. This allowed for fantastic views across to the 'big' mountains (inluding Mt Blanc) on the main French Italian boarder.
I had a bit of luck on my way to the mountains one day as in a little town second hand sale I spotted a pair of TR12 ski touring boots. I had mine stolen along with my car just before leaving New Zealand and so picking up a replacement pair for 35 euro was great.
A great overnight trip was up another little valley in the Chamonix area to a little refuge which had an open 'winter' room to stay. The weather was not too cold at all and there were great views from higher up on the range.
I also visited the Grenoble area, and did some day hikes up a valley inland from the town of Allevard. The weeks of waiting for a mission have been a little frustrating but I'm off to Paris now for final briefing and plane tickets hopefully.


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Q: combining words in tm R is not achieving desired result I am trying to combine a few words so that they count as one.
In this example I want val and valuatin to be counted as valuation.
The code I have been using to try and do this is below:
#load in package
library(tm)

replaceWords <- function(x, from, keep){
  regex_pat <- paste(from, collapse = "|")
  gsub(regex_pat, keep, x)
}

oldwords <- c("val", "valuati")
newword  <- c("valuation")

TextDoc2 <- tm_map(TextDoc, replaceWords, from=oldwords, keep=newword)

However this does not work as expected. Any time there is val in a word it is now being replaced with valuation. For example equivalent becomes equivaluation. How do I get around this error and achieved my desired result?

A: Try this function -
replaceWords <- function(x, from, keep){
  regex_pat <- sprintf('\\b(%s)\\b', paste(from, collapse = '|'))
  gsub(regex_pat, keep, x)
}

val matches with equivalent. Adding word boundaries stop that from happening.
grepl('val', 'equivalent')
#[1] TRUE
grepl('\\bval\\b', 'equivalent')
#[1] FALSE