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Q: storing result of array.foreach inside another array I have a sample of code like this :

  const iam = ['dd', 'aaa', 'cc'];
    async function bigTest() {
      async function details() {
        const arr = [];
        const files = [];
        iam.forEach(async (i) => {
          arr.push({
            name: 'test',
          });

          files.push(arr);
          return files;
        });
      }

      const result = await details();
      console.log(result);
    }
    bigTest();

and i want to store the final result of arr in the array files but it returns undefined
Inside the loop, it returns the array but outside the details function, it return undefined

A: You should use the function map.
As you need the async declaration, the array from the map function contains Promises, so you need to resolve them as follow:
Promise.all(files);

const iam = ['dd', 'aaa', 'cc'];
async function bigTest() {
  async function details() {
    const files = iam.map(async(name) => {
      return { name };
    });

    return Promise.all(files);
  }

  const result = await details();
  console.log(result);
}

bigTest();
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A: I think, what you really want to do is use the return outside of the forEach()

  const iam = ['dd', 'aaa', 'cc'];
    async function bigTest() {
      async function details() {
        const arr = [];
        const files = [];
        iam.forEach(async (i) => {
          arr.push({
            name: 'test',
          });

          files.push(arr);
        });
        return files;
      }

      const result = await details();
      console.log(result);
    }
    bigTest();

A: Array.forEach always returns undefined. You are looking for Array.map

A: None of this code should have to be asynchronous. Get rid of all of the async/awaits and you should be fine.

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Croagh Patrick - Climbing the Reek - Part 3
Guest blogger, Michael Mullen, well-known author in Ireland, presents Part III of his series of posts on Crough Patrick, the Holy Mountain in County Mayo.
Croagh Patrick is a singular mountain. Above all it is a spiritual place. Set about it are the remains of the Celtic Church. On Inisboffin to the south-west lies the remains on a small monastery. The window frames the great mountain. It was here that Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne came after the his defeat at the Synod of Whitby. He brought with him Irish and English monks. There was a dispute between the two groups, so he left the island with the English group and set up Mayo Abbey. Recent archaeological surveys indicate that Mayo Abbey was as important in its time as Clonmacnoise and that Saxon students were drawn to this place of learning.
One summer's day I sailed to this island. The waves were calm and a curious seal, well moustached, peered out at us from the tranquil water. We approached the island from the west for there is a small anchorage there, and the small hermitage, with its sacred slabs and crosses, is well protected from the south westerly gales.
St. Colman - Clare Island and Clew Bay
It is well called Cathair na Naomh or the enclosure of the saints. Many of the earliest Celtic ornaments are engraved on the slabs standing about the enclosure , particularly the Dolphin slab, which date it to the sixth and early part of the seventh century. Of these decorated stones Professor Herity writes,
It appears that the hermitages, both on the islands and the desert places of the mainland opposite, are foundations of the earliest centuries of Christianity, a fact demonstrated by the early dates of the cross-slabs. Further, many of these slabs demonstrate surprisingly direct contacts with centers of innovation in Ireland and the continent. Through them we can dimly perceive the presence in the west of early illuminated manuscripts and metalwork crosses which may have served to transmit some of the designs of the cross-carved slabs.
Saint Patrick's influence was firm and vital. All about the sacred mountain lie early churches, early symbols and early crosses. How can we catch the Celtic voice of that time? The most immediate voice is that of Saint Patrick's breastplate or Lorcia, which although not written by Saint Patrick catches the mind set of the time. It is a long poem and it is obvious that it is chanted like some incantation against evil. I quote and unfamiliar passage
I invoke to-day all these virtues
Against every hostile merciless power
Which may assail my body and my soul,
Against the incantations of false prophets,
Against the black laws of heathenism,
Against the false laws of heresy,
Against the deceits of idolatry,
Against the spells of women, and smiths, and druids,
Against every knowledge that binds the soul of man.
It possesses immediately spiritual strength and is the voice of the early church. Croagh Patrick, in a physical manner, dominated the Celtic Church. It possessed a simplicity and an intensity which a more formal church lacks. It possessed a joy and an awakening to a fresh and spiritual view of the world. It is a pastoral world, surrounded by the beauties of nature, where the saints can pray and meditate. It is a world where the natural is so close to the supernatural that the mind moves easily from one to the other.
Saint Columcille writes,
How happy the son is of Dima! No sorrow
For him is designed,
He is having, this hour, round his own cell in Durrow
The wish of his mind:
The sound of the wind in the elms, like the strings of
A harp being played,
The note of the blackbird that claps with the wings of
Delight in the glade.
With him in Rosgrencha the cattle are lowing
At earliest dawn,
On the brink of the summer the pigeons are cooing
And doves on his lawn.
For the early Irish church was filled with poetry and music, a delicate delight in nature, a direct relationship with God, unburden by complicated theology. After the death of Saint Patrick, the church flourished. Ireland did become the Island of Saints and scholars, and the three great monuments to this golden period are The Book of Kells; the Ardagh Chalice and Muiredach's Cross at Monasterboice. Thus the great period is marked in vellum, silver and stone, each a masterpiece and each carrying the mystical circles of an earlier age.
Croagh Patrick then is the sacred mountain, perhaps as sacred now as it was in the early Christian Church. As the twentieth century, reels from materialism and all the wars which have ravaged the century, the Holocaust and the local wars and the soul looks for some definition, it will find it in high and thin places, remote and awesome. That is why pilgrims, sometimes in bare feet, make their way along the path worn out by the footsteps of their ancestors.
Doo Lough - County Mayo
This great mountain has dominated my life. I know it in all its moods. On a summer day it stands sharp and pristine against a blue sky. It shimmers like some Greek mountain upon which the gods take residence. It dominates the landscape with its imposing presence and the eye is drawn towards its and the mind is called towards its summit. In autumn, as the strength of the sun wanes, it carries deeper colors. In winter, it is the first mountain to bear a cap of snow and then it is almost inaccessible and private. Springs brings a renewal and the beginning of pilgrimage.
It is a mountain of many moods. On wet and on windy days is becomes opaque. When the mists roll in from the sea it is shrouded and inaccessible and dangerous to attempt the summit. It becomes a private and introspective place. When luminous clouds pass above it, it carries their shapes across its surface. When the sun shines firmly on its surfaces, it is light purple and in the hollows dark purple. It fits all our human moods the variety of our spiritual desires.
The grey path, etched by pilgrim feet draw the pilgrim towards the summit.
One night as a young man, I set off for the summit with the pilgrims in July. I joined the human chain which stretched from the base at Murrisk to the top of the mountain. The pilgrims were funneled on to the path at Owen Campbell's pub and we began the arduous ascent. At this level some small bushes and shrubs gains sustenance from the boggy soil, but soon the trace of vegetation, falls away. Moss and rough grass is barely sustained on the lower limits.
The path is tortuous and uneven. Rough stones break the surface and pilgrims sometimes balance precariously on the rocks. The accents are familiar and they mingle together. Small groups call out the rosary as they move up the slope. Others, with pilgrim staffs, search for purchase. Some walk on bare feet. The young push optimistically up the slope, those who are older plod onwards. The level land has fallen away and small lights on the flatlands mark individual habitations, clusters of lights mark the towns and the light house at the eastern end of the bay, flashes out its warning beam.
Now I join a human river of feeling. A sense of individuality falls away and I become part of a spiritual process, part of something which has gone on for a long time. There are no words to define the change within or the link I feel with all those bound to the surface of the mountain and to all the pilgrims who have taken this track for more years than the archaeologists can ascertain.
On the lower summit, it grows lonely and the pilgrims bend their backs towards the slope . There is greater silence now. On the hip of the mountain there is a small respite. The path runs level. It is time to prepare for the final ascent. The winds curve up the mountain from the south. Even on a summer night their is wind on the mountain. It grows colder and the mind grows bleak. There is no icon or image to sustain one on the final push. At this point the mountain slope rises sharply. It is covered by shards of rock, which run beneath the pilgrims feet. One bends forward and clings to the mountain. Nothing is easy now and the darkness does not reveal the summit.
Those returning call out words of encouragement. Finally there is a small tilt and the going gets easy. A few more meters brings the pilgrim to the summit. I had reached the highest level. A great circle of people bound closely together in a human wheel moved about the church calling out the pilgrims prayers, their voices raised in petition. I join the pilgrims, individuality shed.
I had reached the platform on the mountain. Here Patrick had lived and slept for forty days. On this spot he has tussled with demons and deepened his spirituality. In this bleak place he could come to terms with himself and his mission. No one is unmoved on this platform on the very edge of Europe and while the comfort is cold, the weather variable and the body weary the spirit takes heart. One looks evenly on life and eternity, at the ephemeral and that which is profound and fecund. The better part of ones nature is freed for a time and from time, soars for a shot time on the back of an eagle's wings.
You come face to face with your better nature and that is a frightening thing. Who wishes to look into the clear face of God particularly a sin sodden soul like myself. But these are moments or epiphanies when light flashes within the mind, when the spirits is illuminated and charged. It happened to Paul in a dramatic fashion on the way to Damascus and quietly to Augustine at Ostia, and surprisingly to Aquinas at the very end of his days, when the most rational of men had a mystical vision.
I had none of these experiences on Croagh Patrick, but I did climb up out of a normal habitat and a normal world until I could climb no further. I stood close to a thin place, a place of white light before it is fragmented into weaker color. There is no need for voice or complexity on this platform, for that splinters vision.
That was a long time ago and I need to return to this place again. I need to climb out of existence, its speed, its vast communication network, its cynical propaganda, its Babel of voices and particularly the Babel of philosophers who eschew wisdom which is damn tiresome and a thin pabulum for my soul. I will never cross over to the other side as the mystics have done for like Sancha Panza I ride upon a mule and I never had the idealism to tilt at a windmill.
As I recall the first experience, I remember how the dawn broke uncertainly in the east, then how the sky was suffused with light, how the landscape and seascape took dark form and then final form. The great bay lay beneath me, the drumlin islands, en échelon, as the geologists say. They set the direction from which the great glaciers came and point in the direction towards which they departed. A cairn of rounded stones lie about each island base. They say that there is an island in the bay for every year, but I have never counted them and I do not know if it is true. To the north lay the mountains of Mayo, to the south the Skeffrey hills and in a line west Ahagower where Saint Patrick celebrated Easter.
The descent from the mountain was rapid. The scree ran before us and soon we were on the saddle, then we took the broader path towards Murrisk. I was secure on the flat lands, safe in its intimate beauty. Every pilgrim had been moved in some way by the mountain. The physical challenge alone has its own value, the spiritual challenge is profound and not easily described. But it is deeply felt and sets deep roots.
I have traveled in many places since then. I have stood on the plateau of Massada and looked across the Dead Sea towards Moab, walked across Red Square and looked at the waxen face of Lenin, lay upon my back and studied the Sistine chapel, visited Tsarkoe Selo and prayed in the small chapel frequented by the Romanov family, before they were transported to Siberia and execution. I witnessed the White nights of Saint Petersburg and sailed upon the Sea of Galilee. I prayed at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and took a bus to Bethlehem. But I have never been in a thin place comparable to Croagh Patrick, where there was no image and no icon, little comfort and dawn a toss away. What happened there was profound and silent and I could never catch it in the net of words.
If you cross the road at Owen Campbell's pub and continue the path to the sea you will come upon one of my favorite places, Murrisk Abbey. I will neither describe its architecture, its history or its topography. It was founded in 1457 and its function failed somewhere at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
In 1730 Father William Bourke was transferred from the abbey and sent inland. He expresses the sadness of departure in this Irish poem which I translate freely.
Fare well to you Murrisk,
A most pleasant , most joyful place.
Farewell to the to the honey bearing mountains,
South of the Reek.
Most glorious to me
Was the oyster catcher wading on the sea margin
More glorious than the fairy music of the world.
-all the fairy music of the world.
Now when I rise in the morning
I see in the distance the Reek,
My heart within is in frenzy
And my mind burdened.
I am not accustomed to these inland people
They are not pleasant and lack joy.
They are images cut from a green oak
With an axe.
If I can endure this place
Until the cuckoo speaks
I will then return home
And visit my favored place.
Were it not for the submission and respect
I always have held for the order,
I would never have abandoned Murrisk
And the beauty of its harbors.
There is little more to say. The rest is monastic silence.
St. Patrick and His Holy Mountain - Part I by Michael Mullen
St. Patrick and His Holy Mountain Part II by Michael Mullen
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Guest author today is Michael Mullen of Castlebar, County Mayo. Michael is a well known Irish writer of Children's Literature, Historical Fiction and many works written in Gaeilge, the Irish native language. This is the final entry of a three part series of posts on St. Patrick and his holy mountain known as Croagh Patrick.
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Richard Rohr - The Celts Didn't Invent Thin Places
Janus figure - Caldragh Cemetery, Boa Island
Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest, author, speaker and spiritual leader I have long followed and respected. His insights into spirituality, prayer and contemplation are some of the best in today's world of faith leaders. However, his post, Life on the Edge: Understanding the Prophetic Position in the Huffington Post today disappoints me. He relates living on the "spiritual edge" as living in a thin place.
The post points out that thresholds, doorways, bridges and other entryways, have long been linked to guardians or helpers appointed to assist with crossing over. He then links the same concept to spiritual thresholds and calls them thin places.
I don't mind if he wants to use "thin place" as his personal, spiritual term for a threshold to a spiritual state state of contemplation.
However, in his post, Fr. Rohr links the term "thin places" to the the Celts. He states, "The edge is a holy place, or as the Celts called it, "a thin place" and you have to be taught how to live there."
The Celts were a culture of people that arrived in Ireland after 500 BC. The idea of thin places or doorways to the Otherworld were solidly a part of the Irish culture long before the Celts came. Newgrange passage tomb is 5200 years old and has entrance stones with large spirals carved into the surface, common symbols for the pre-Christian Irish - and linked to their concept of thin places.
Drombeg and other stone circles in Ireland date 800 - 1200 BC. Tombs on the Hill of Tara date back to 3000 BC. The Poulnabrone dolmen in the Burren dates back 5000 years. We know that sects of the pre-Christian Irish believed there was another world - and Underworld where a parallel civilization (often linked to enchantments) lived. They believed there were openings where the inhabitants of the other world came and went between worlds - thin places. Legends of fairy forts or nodes where passage between worlds was possible were known as thin places or enchanted places.
The Hill of Uisneach was believed to be a thin place, not so much because of its being an opening for passing between worlds, but for the strong energy that comes to the through the earth from below - supernatural power that humans could draw from.
The thin places concept was a part of the pre-Christian or pagan charism and these beliefs or sensitivities - existed prior to the Celts. The concept is rejected by many of the present day Christian communities, often being linked to "new age" heathenism.
Fr. Rohr also writes, "To take your position on the spiritual edge of things is to learn how to move safely in and out, back and forth, across and return. It is a prophetic position..." He uses this phrase not to relate that the place where you physically stand (on the edge) puts you in a prophetic position. He's writing about something ephemeral or of the consciousness or mind. The physical place doesn't appear to have any significance in his definition.
These pre-Christian Irish people believed the thin place itself had the mystical or spiritual power. One didn't create a thin place simply by moving into a state of contemplation or spiritual trance. The site itself was thin and that made spiritual contemplation more powerful.
I have no issue with people who want to give their own definitions to the term thin place. But I find it frustrating when writers recreate the pre-Christian Irish definition to suit whatever spiritual premise they happen to be writing about.
Considering Fr. Rohr is a scholar and has traveled much of the world, his "thin places" reference in this post appears to be reaching .... and sounds trite and sappy. It seems to be a feeble support to a lofty, contemplative concept.
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Croagh Patrick - Climbing the Reek Part 2
This is the second of a three part series of posts on St. Patrick and his holy mountain known as Croagh Patrick written by Irish author, Michael Mullen. Read first post in the series - St. Patrick and His Holy Mountain.
If one studies the movement of the sun On 18th of April and 24 August the setting sun rests on the summit of the mountain and then slides down the northern flank. So perhaps the mountain marked the movement of the sun across the heavens. How many other markings lie about the county aligned with this sacred mountain? To ascribe a low intelligence to our ancestors a lack of a deep religious instinct to diminish both them and us. The story of Saint Patrick has been well and often told. It is pivotal to the story of the Mountain. The outline of the story is familiar. As Daphne C. Pochin Mould says in her books The Irish Saints.
Patrick, apostle of Ireland, head of the belief of the Gaels, as he is styled in the Martyrology of Gormon, is a person of whom we know, as it were, everything and nothing.
He is the author to two works -his Confessions and Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. The Lorica or Breastplate of Saint Patrick, once attributed to him, is believed to be of later provenance. But let us see what is firmly established about the man.
St. Patrick the man
We cannot give a date for his birth but it is believed that he died in 493 and is buried in Armagh. He was born near the west coast of Roman Britain and was given the name Succat. His people were Christian and his father an official of some importance. He was taken captive by Irish raiders and brought to Ireland where he was sold to a pig farmer. Many associate him with Co. Antrim but there is equally strong evidence that he served out his time in County Mayo, perhaps in North Mayo. He spent six years herding swine on a mountain. In fact he must have been attracted to the loneliness of mountains. While herding swine he became prayerful.
So he became familiar with the solitude of the Irish hillsides and the Irish woods. He learned the Irish tongue and through his master Milchu, he became familiar with the rituals of Druidism. One the mountain of Slemish he was visited by visions and in one he was instructed to escape. There is a tradition that made his way to Mayo and sailed out of Clew Bay. He was taken aboard a the ship which carried Irish wolfhounds. If he did then one of the last things he saw as the coast receded was the great mountain of quartzite. His journey was eventful. They were shipwrecked and traveled through a strange and desolate landscape.
He gives us the following tentative information concerning his life.
I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many. My father was Calpornius, a deacon, son of Potitus, of the village of Bannaven Tuburniae; he had a country seat nearby and there I was taken captive. I was then about sixteen years of age. I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity to Ireland with many thousands of people..
And I used to get up for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain, and I felt no harm, and there was no sloth in me-as I now see, because the spirit within me was then fervent.
Eventually he reached home and would have stayed contentedly with his own people but he head the voice of the Irish, close to the Wood of Voclut near the Western Sea, which called him to come and walk with them. Had he been more accurate and was he familiar with modern autobiography we would have a much clearer knowledge of his life. Wishing to become a priest he went Saint Martin's Monastery at Tours, and again to the island sanctuary of Léirns. It is obvious from the life of Saint Germain that Patrick was a capable and suitable candidate to send to Ireland to convert the Irish. Others had failed. He arrived with a retinue of people knew exactly what he was about. He must have been familiar with the landscape of Ireland and the centre of power and culture. Contrary to the law of the high king he lit a Pascal fire on Slane hill, a hill within view of Tara. With that gesture he challenged the druidical power.
The following words are ascribed to the druids although there is no historical proof for this event as the Pascal fire goes back to the 8th century.
O King live for ever; this fire, which has been lighted in defiance of the royal edict, will blaze for ever in this land unless it be this very night extinguished.
So he took on their power of fire with the Pascal fire. It was a symbol of what was to come. With fire he dealt with fire. This was an affirmation and a moment which marks the firm beginning of conversion. His life as a missionary was not an easy one. In fact it was dangerous. He writes of "twelve dangers in which my life was at stake-not to mention numerous plots." This phrase alone opens up a whole field of speculation. What were the dangers and who were his enemies? No doubt he was engaged in a power struggle with kings and druids. He lived dangerously and his mind was singularly determined.
St. Patrick's Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick
During all his travels and visitations he came to Croagh Patrick. He traveled to Aughagower in 440. He would have journey along the ancient path from Cruchan. Aughagower was an important location and the seat of a chieftain. When Patrick arrived he came with his house hold. We have a list in the life of Saint Patrick written in the seventh century by Tírechán. He arrived with his bishop, his priest, his judge, his chaplain, his psalmist, his chamberlain, his bell-ringer, his cook, his brewer, his charioteer, his masons, his woodsman, his cowherd and many others.
In other words he was equal to any chieftain. He was also well organized. Most likely he built a church there and set about appointing bishops. As he looked west he would note the high, quartzite cone of Mount Eagle as it was then known. He would have been curious about the mountain and known its importance to the ancient Irish. Here too he would leave the Christian mark, as he had left it on standing stones and in other places sacred to the druids.
And so he set out to climb Mons Aigli, the Mountain of the eagle, as it was then called. He passed along the path, worn by other visitors. As he mounted the minor flanks he would observe the breathtaking scenery about him; towards the south the Sheffery hills running directly towards Killery harbour; to the north, the lone shape of Neiphin Mountain and the mountains of Mayo. As he reached the base of the central cone, the myriad islands in Clew bay, with their humped backs would become more distinct.
Now the path rises steeply, and small, flinty rocks, sharp and jagged would have slipped beneath his feet as he arched forward and clung to the steep mountain. Finally he reached the summit, with its slight, platform. Now he could see the bulk of Clare island, stout and firm at the opening to the bay. Beyond that lay an unknown world, which Saint Brendan would later navigate. He would have looked all around him and observed every interesting, outcrop of rock and mountain. He stood above his kingdom. Indeed this moment was a watershed for the Celtic Church.
It is said that he remained on the mountain for forty days. He would have no doubt remembered the visit of Moses to Mount Sinai. It was on such a high pinnacle that Moses received and formulated the ten commandments He could also have been preparing for Easter and the Resurrection. But it was a remote time for him, a time for prayer and reflection and Saint Patrick and a period when he could be removed from the sea of trouble which washed around the base of the mountain. It was this time period which gives the mountain its vast spiritual significance and it is here that the old ends and the new begins. The pagan pilgrimage path would become a Christian pilgrimage path and the stone buildings on the mountain be supplanted by an oratory.
Excavations of Croagh Patrick
Recently excavations have discovered an oratory, not unlike the stone oratory at Gallaraus, which was made of dry stone, and shaped like the centre of an upturned boat. This is the moment of silence and reflection and since then every pilgrim has been drawn to the mountain by the same spiritual instinct. They say that he banished the snakes, but there never were snakes in Ireland. That he banished demons in another thing; the demons were the demons of paganism.
In the Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick the following strange image occurs.
Now at the end of those forty days and forty nights the mountain was filled with black birds, so that he knew not heaven nor earth. He strikes his bell at them, so that the men of Ireland heard its voice and he flung it at them, so that its gap broke out of it ... no demon came to the land of Erin after that.
Croagh Patrick - a thin place
A precipice to the south side of the mountain is known as the Hollow of the Demons. This makes Croagh Patrick relevant on many levels and it is the core reason why pilgrims have been drawn to the summit for seventeen hundred years.
Croagh Patrick with Famine Ship
On this arid summit, where the winds blow hard, where no root takes hold, where distance seems infinite and heaven close, the spirit is tested and replenished, for the pilgrim had reached a thin place, where one steps into the highest dimension of one's existence.
The deserts of Egypt drew the early fathers to is dry expanses. The summit of the mountain is a hard desert where only the spirit can flourish, where the ground is covered with sharp rocks, where the back drops to ordinary life are removed. It is here that the human spirit passes from the comfortable world into a spiritual world. That is why it is a significant place.
On this singular mountain, forty days before Easter, where Patrick faced came face to face with himself, perhaps where he was tested by temptation and visited with visions. It is from these forty days, or period of silence, prayer and penitence that Mount Aglie derives part of its intense spiritual energy and which set standards for the early Celtic Church. It became a symbol of Ireland's enduring faith.
St. Patrick after Croagh Patrick mission
Having finished this, the most intense spiritual period of his life, Patrick descended along the pilgrim path, energized and refreshed. He walked to Aghagower to his friend, Senach the bishop and Mathone the Nun and celebrated the Easter festival with them. This was a decisive moment for Saint Patrick and the early Christian church. It happened in the year 441.
Patrick had twenty more years of missionary activity. He developed a native clergy, fostered the growth of monasticism, established diocese, and held church councils. He was a man of action who lived a vigorous life, who intellectual ability and honesty had been questioned, whose suitability to the priesthood had been challenged and who had lead a life of hardship and danger. When he died his body was interred in Armagh.
Watch this blog for St. Patrick and His Holy Mountain - Part III
Read first post in the series - St. Patrick and His Holy Mountain.
Guest author today is Michael Mullen of Castlebar, County Mayo. Michael is a well known Irish writer of Children's Literature, Historical Fiction and many works written in Gaeilge, the Irish native language
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Two St. Patrick's - Armagh - Twin Symbols of Conflict and Unity
St. Patrick's Cathedral - Armagh - Roman Catholic
Coming into Armagh from the Monaghan Road one gets a dramatic view of the city skyline, especially at twilight. The view is dominated by two buildings on two hills - St. Patrick's Cathedral and St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Both are diocesan bishoprics, both built on holy ground and both tied to legends of St. Patrick. One is the Church of Ireland cathedral built on the ancient holy site where St. Patrick is believed to have built his first stone church in the 5th century. The other is a stunning Gothic-style Roman Catholic Cathedral, its cornerstone laid on St. Patrick's Day 1840. It was completed in the early 20th century, with a serious halt to the construction during the Great Hunger.
St Patrick's Cathedral - Armagh - Church of Ireland
One view of that skyline speaks volumes. The twin pinnacles of the city bolstering two similar houses of worship whose congregations have withstood centuries of conflict and division. Some say they mirror the ancient story of the twins of Macha, birthed after an exhausting (and pointless) race. She cursed the land as her revenge.
My first entry into Northern Ireland through Armagh in April of 1998. just a week after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. I didn't know much about the conflict except for what I acquired listening to Irish ballads. I always wanted to see that movie with Daniel Day Lewis about the Northern Irish Catholic father and son, but never managed to get my hands on copy. I knew our relatives were from Derry, and we were a part of this genetic landscape. I had great interest in the culture, people and places here, but had little information. I entered Northern Ireland full of curiosity.
We checked into Padua House Bed and Breakfast, run by Kathleen O'Hagan. It's a brownstone, townhouse located on the main road at the base of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral. Kathleen was (and is) one of the most hospitable hosts I've encountered in all my travels. Her home was simple and warm as was her sense of hospitality.
Notice the Details. Mark the Coincidences. Chart Synchronicity
If we are to grow spiritually from travel, noticing coincidences is part of the learning. I keep a log when I travel and jot down events, feelings and coincidences. Synchronicity is the language of the spirit. It's when unrelated events seem to come together in a common purpose that we know we are touching the otherworld. The events may not speak to us until long after the journey is over. Tracing the path in words and recollections can reveal wonders later.
Here's an excerpt from my travel log written the first night in Armagh.
April 19, 1998 - 11pm ~ Armagh
I write from a bedroom located in Padua House, a B&B in downtown Armagh. I am lying on a bed in front of a large window. I was startled when I pulled back the drapes. Consuming every inch of the glass is a spectacular view of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Catholic) - a prominent sight in the Armagh skyline. If I turn off the incandescent light in my room I can still write by the lights coming off the Cathedral - and when I look up, I'm consumed by the awe of those twin spires and that Gothic face.
Three blocks from the Catholic Cathedral, skyline is the CI Cathedral, also named St. Patrick's. It was from that hill that St. Patrick himself led the Irish Church in 5th century, and became noted for being one of the only leaders in history to spread Christianity throughout a nation without inflicting or creating bloodshed in the process. The bodies of Brian Boru and his eldest son rest in the ground here, noted by a plaque on the Cathedral wall.
The Armagh skyline with these two holy places climbing out of the landscape speaks volumes about the Irish people. Two separate groups reaching for the same prize, claiming the same name, but can't seem to reach each other.
Coincidences and events -
I'm arriving in Northern Ireland for the first time one week after the Good Friday Agreement was reached - a turning point in deescalation of violence between Catholics and Protestants. Also one week to the day from Easter Sunday.
I am staying at Padua House named for my close spiritual friend [Anthony of Padua] - a patron of the owner as well.
My room has is the smallest in the house, but has the magnificent view of the Cathedral and is the only room in the house with a view of the Cathedral. No one appreciates the view of a holy place like me.
Mrs. O'Hagan served us tea before we retired to our rooms. Larry and Sheila [my traveling companions] were exhausted but I was wound up. I was invited to watch television with the family and we watched In the Name of the Father, a film about the troubles in Northern Ireland. Seeing this movie with a Northern Ireland family who had their house - Padua House - destroyed by a bomb was strange - but strangley meaningful.
Just as I conclude writing these coincidences and events, the cathedral bells begin to chime marking the midnight hour.
What wonderful gifts .... Mrs. O'Hagan, Pauda House, In the Name of the Father, the view of the Cathedral, the sound of the bells.
This moment stands still in time. I figure I'll always remember it. Who knows for what?
The next day we saw the occupying forces crouching in doorways, carrying machine guns as they lingered in Portadown and Armagh. Ornate graffiti with militant images, razor wire around buildings, and IRA signage was a eerie shift from the loud tourist welcome we experienced in the Republic [of Ireland]. But I loved that visit to the north. I never felt unsafe. I knew the anger was not with tourists. My travel log entry from that day was more vivid than my memory.
April 20, 1998 - 9 pm
At breakfast, Mrs. O'Hagan shared the story of how her house was destroyed. Someone planted a car bomb outside her house and when it exploded she and her family were in the back yard. The windows were all blown out, the fireplaces destroyed. All wiring and lighting fixtures, and windows had to be replaced and the walls re-plastered. The bomb was a random act, not intended for anyone in particular. One of her grandchildren was sleeping near the stairwell, and while he was not hurt badly, he was terrified and covered with glass. They found the front window curtains in the back yard. Insurance covered none of the cost of restoration.
Mrs O'Hagan said there was a nice brick mason who came in to rebuild her fireplaces and chimneys and commented, "Pity, the poor man was shot and killed by a British soldier just weeks after he finished the work." I asked why he was shot...was he a member of the IRA or targeted because of political ties. She replied "No. He was just a Catholic." She then went on to say, "Everyone here has been touched by the Troubles."
We went up the hill to attend 10:00 mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Cathedral is magnificent! It's the combination of the ancient and the modern all woven into a masterpiece that stirs the spirit and proclaims the greatness of God. I had two thoughts as I walked through. One - all the saints depicted are Irish, most with names I've never heard. It seems that the Irish are so into being Irish. Would a Cathedral in France or Spain or Italy only depict native saints? Does any country have this many saints? Two - not one square inch of this massive structure is blank or vacant. It is all covered with art. Even the paint on the walls is covered with Celtic designs. And all the art means something or is remembering something or someone. It's almost impossible to take in that much meaning...
…On our way to Lurgan we went through Portadown. The British forces in uniform stood with grease paint on their faces and machine guns prepared for use. Their tanks blocked a section of the street. We ate lunch here and again experienced the cold apprehension of the people of the North. Two days after our visit here, a Catholic cab driver (father of 5) was gunned down randomly in a parking lot.
Armagh - a City Transformed
Since that visit thirteen years ago, a generation has come of age in Northern Ireland, and the people there have achieved success in mending divisions and unifying communities. It's a safe and comfortable place, still with differences, but tempered by common purposes. All in the North I've spoken to admit to wanting more united communities and less focus on differences. Tourism has flourished, the apprehensive facades have fallen away and been replaced by enthusiasm. Economic growth and a regional pride in one common heritage have laid a foundation for the visitor to have rich, meaningful, fun experiences.
One quality I love about the North is that tourism has not (yet) overwhelmed the country as it has in parts of the Republic. One can still visit "old Ireland" and connect with people that carry qualities of the ancient, mystical culture. Many of the rural landscapes seem more pristine, and less interrupted by development. I encourage all to visit Armagh and all parts of the North.
Visit Armgah's Thin Places
Both St. Patrick's Cathedrals in Armagh are rich in history and art and worth an hour visit each. Nearby are some remarkable thin places including Killevy, Emhain Macha, Slieve Gullion passage tomb, Clontygorra, and Kilnasaggart. The Ballykeel dolmen is also worth visiting and is very near Killevy.
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Labels: Armagh, Celtic Spirituality, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sacred Sites, Travel Stories
Guest author today is Michael Mullen of Castlebar, County Mayo. Michael is well known in Ireland as writer of Children's Literature, Historical Fiction and works in Gaeilge, the Irish native language. This post is the first of a series of three posts on the holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, and ancient mystical site where St. Patrick is said to have spent 40 days in contemplation.
Christian and pagan, this is a sacred mountain. Set at the western edge of Europe and standing above Clew Bay, it dominates the landscape and the sea scape. Its spine is franked with a gray path, traced out by pilgrim feet, for pilgrims have made their way to the summit of this majestic mountain for many thousands of years.
It is the quartz core of a much larger mountain, but time, and weather have worn it down and polished it into a pyramid. At its northern base, scree, lies about it, a testimony to the wear and tear upon ancient things.
Each day of year some pilgrim makes his her way to the sacred summit. Sometimes only a few pilgrims are strung out on the mountain path but during the great festivals, it becomes a living path. Day and night they come and go along the tortuous path, each linked together by some sacred purpose. On the important nights it is a river of living light. This has gone on for two millennia, perhaps three, and it will continue while the mountain holds and that will take it to the rim of forever.
Croagh Patrick - "It is a singular place, set in a primitive landscape, lonely and challenging"
For on this high and remote place one is close to the gate of heaven, close to the early Christian spirit and perhaps close to ones best aspirations. It is a singular place, set in a primitive landscape, lonely and challenging, like the sharp pinnacles of Schelig Mhicil in Kerry or Mont San Michel of the coast of France
The mystical and the pilgrim parts of our nature are attracted to such places. It is as natural as the air we breathe. In fact the first poem in Irish literature, written by Amergin has the following strange lines. It was composed well over two thousand years ago and possesses a haunting, magical quality. The poet stands at a point where he is in a thin place and passing towards some magical or spiritual plain.
I am the god who creates in the head of man the fire of thought. Who is it who throws light into the meeting on the mountain?
These lines have the ring of spirituality. They represent something profound, and when Saint Patrick arrived in Ireland on his mission he knew something of the ancient rituals and the mind set of the druids and the kings. He was Roman and Celt and this gave him a singular advantage in his missionary work. He imposed a new spirituality on an old spirituality and there is a continuum in the thought patterns between the pagan and the Christian mind. On many of the pagan symbols he and his followers cut the firm cross of Christ. Perhaps we could say that the ancient Irish possessed minds that were naturally Christian.
The beginning of Tóchar Phádraig
at Ballintubber Abbey
St. Patrick imposed a new spirituality on an old spirituality
In recent years, through archaeology and historical research, our fragments of knowledge concerning this singular mountain are taking a more definite shape. The mountain is being restored to its important place in our archaeology, history, spirituality and culture.
The mountain is singular in its presence, not unlike the great central arch of a Gothic cathedral, supported by two lesser arches. It is clean cut against the sky and arrests the eye. No other mountain creates such an impression except perhaps Knocknarea in County Sligo, with its great megalithic cairn of stones. Knocknarea is set above Sligo bay and has a seminal influence on the poet W. B. Yeats.
What Jacqueline O Brien and Peter Harbison say of Knocknarea in their book Ancient Ireland is applicable to Croagh Patrick.
Strong religious beliefs and social circumstances must have motivated the creation of the eleven meter high megalithic monument on top of Knocnarea in County Sligo- and undertaking as difficult to achieve as trying to work out how many Stone Age man hours went into its undertaking.
This gives us a method of reading the sacred history of Croagh Patrick, for as I said it has always been sacred. It gives us also a method of reading ancient and Celtic spirituality, for the Irish Church was different to the Roman Church and this created much controversy at the time; many assemblies, many arguments and defeat in the end for the Irish. It came to a head at the Whiteby.
The Ancient History of the Mountain
One must place the Mountain in its archaeological context for it is part of the archaeological remains which stand on the mountain side and lie about the base and stretch far into the surrounding country. Man and women has left their mark upon the landscape from the very beginning. The date of the arrival of the first settlers in Mayo cannot be ascertained definitely, but we can say with some certainly that the arrived some seven and a half thousand years ago. They were Stone Age people and they were a highly organized and religious people.
We know this from the excavations at the Céide fields in North Mayo. Here Doctor Seamus Caulfield discovered a civilization beneath a vast blanket bog. It is all quite exciting how this discovery was made. For many years turf cutters had encountered wall places beneath the bogs. This argued that prior to the growth of the bog cover a system of fields had been built. Though archaeological excavations it was discovered that an extensive filed pattern covering some thousand acres lay beneath the blanket of bog. So a highly organized society lived here many thousands of years ago. It is the beginning of archaeology.
Linked to these fields were huge burial tombs, with their great orthostats, their stone caps and their orientation towards the east, the source of light. We can argue from the presence of these Iron age monuments that these first settlers followed rituals that we no longer understand, but they were the rituals of life and death; rituals that must have been related to the seasons and the harvests. They were a reasonable and intelligent people and the great and mysterious monument, Newgrange was built a thousand years before the pyramids. It remains a mathematical and mysterious puzzle. The markings the tomb have never been deciphered, but the building is linked to the movements of the sun and the stars.
Ancient Meanings Linked to Today
All this is central to the importance of Croagh Patrick. If ritual was part of the old world then there is no doubt that ritual was central to their great quartzite mountain. The path which the pilgrims take is very ancient and stretches far back into history and right to the centre of Ireland. The ancient route from Cruachan, to the summit of Croagh Patrick, is now call Tóchar Phádraig, which in translation means Patrick's Causeway. It led, we believe along a road which stretches from Roscommon to Mayo. Today this route is marked out by ruined churches, abbeys and settlements. Thus, we establish the first tentative link with the sacred mountain on the very edge of the Atlantic. We are more definite when we take up the pilgrim route at Ballintubber Abbey. A pilgrim can now take the route from the famous Abbey and travel through Aghagower on the way to Croagh Patrick. One is almost certain that this was Saint Patrick's route to the sacred mountain.
It is only now that we are coming to understand the great monuments of the ancient world; the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge, the Mexican temples, Newgrange, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and many others. The were more than massive monuments, requiring great engineering skills. They were solar temples, celestial observation points, centers were the rhythm of the seasons and the passage of stars across the heavens were computed. Croagh Patrick seems to be locked into some understanding of the movements of the sun. There is a remarkable rock outcrop decorated with Prehistoric Art.
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Yury became a graduate student in the Applied Physics department at Caltech in 2013. In the Atwater Group he is doing research on quantum entanglement in plasmonic structures.
Before joining Caltech Yury was a guest scientist at Fermilab, working on optical stochastic cooling, and did research as a summer intern at Caltech (optical characterization of Ceria thin films) and at Fermilab (measurement of magnetic permeability at microwave frequencies).
Yury received his BSc with honors in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in June 2011. His Bachelor's thesis was dedicated to studies of acoustoelectric effect in Josephson junctions.


Not only is Leonardo Dicaprio teaming up with Baz Luhrman after Romeo + Juliet, but also with long time friend Toby Maguire. It seems that Baz Luhrman is bringing a lot of his trademark elements to this adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald classic novel.
The film is shot in 3d and adding to that the visual energy which Baz is known for in all his movies and the amazing cast supported by Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan ("An Education") and Joel Edgerton as Daisy and Tom Buchanan; Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke as Myrtle and George Wilson; and newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker.
Mouling Rouge had quite a few Bollywood elements in it so Baz probably knows the hindi cinema a bit at least.


We have a great new supplier relationship to announce at Shire. We have recently formed a partnership with Ergo Computing, providing their business customers with finance and lease options to acquire new equipment. This new relationship is just one of many that demonstrates Shire Leasing's commitment to becoming a leader within the IT sector.
Ergo, part of the VIP Group, is a leading IT solutions provider, offering managed products & services for over 2,500 business customers annually within the UK. With a full journey offering, they mix consultancy, bespoke hardware manufacturing, software design, training, supply technology and many other managed services, so Shire's leasing options are excellent in increasing their growth in the market.
Ergo have an excellent reputation within the public sector, especially education, making Shire Leasing a perfect match to enhance their service offerings. With our recent launch of EducateIT (Shire's 1:1 parental donation scheme) into schools, Ergo can offer their technology products cost-effectively to education establishments on an operating lease agreement. Schools then open an online branded portal that parent's access and choose from a range of products their student can use in exchange for financial contributions.
At Shire, we are very excited about this new alliance & we will keep you posted on our successes together!
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Go Hands-free On Your Smartphone With AINA Wireless!
Boggled with work or tied-up with friends in a party? But somehow you've gotta make a phone call (or leave an instant message) to someone. How do you do it without affecting your on-going activity? Your modus operandi is to take out your smart phone and make a call (or leave a text message). This by-and-large is an impediment—but with little or no options whatsoever, you're mostly sandwiched between events!
What if you had simpler ways to communicate? AINA Wireless Inc. gives you the luxury to go hands-free with your Smartphone. With products like the ALLCOM™, you have the option to respond, answer, reply or initiate all sorts of communication without actually having to take out your Smartphone from your pocket. Does it ring a bell? Yes, you have several smart phone apps that mimic the walkie-talkie experience of instant push-to-talk communication: Zello, Voxer, Azetti, Talk-IP and others. The ALLCOM™ serves as a cherry-on-the-cake by allowing users to go hands-free while using push-to-talk apps in the market.
Meet the brains behind it!
AINA Wireless Inc. is the brainchild of Maximilian LeRoux (Founder & CEO). With over 15 years of experience in international business development for telecom and IT, LeRoux has worked and lived in several countries like Germany, Finland, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and US. Later on, he was backed by Pasi Auranen (CTO), who like Maximilian LeRoux left Savox Communications in 2013 to take up higher responsibilities. In 2014, they got together to extend their dreams and aspirations.
Presently, the team is powered by the punch of five engineers; each having 15-20 years of experience in designing and building hardware, software and audio devices (cellphones, accessories, embedded Bluetooth software, and land mobile radios). While AINA Wireless Inc. is a start-up, it's certainly not a bunch of enthusiastic kids in a garage but a team of highly 'professional' and 'experienced' people.
Every river has its origin and so does every start-up. Max and Pasi used to work for Savox Communications; a company in Finland that develops and manufactures accessories for critical communication in situations like fire, emergency and safety. Max was responsible for building their worldwide market for Bluetooth devices used in Push-to-Talk over IP, while Pasi used to be their Chief Engineer. Max left the Company in 2010 with the vision of creating something of his own and he got the support of Pasi in 2013—the year when he too decided to leave 'Savox Communications'. In 2014, they got together to build a product that would be a 2.0 version of what Savox has been selling. They have been seeing the market trends for long and are now ready to combine their accumulated knowledge of how-to-build-such-products.
The biggest difference is that AINA Wireless builds products directly for walkie-talkie style apps, instead of customizing existing accessories for land mobile radios. Such innovations enable the products to act like a remote for Smartphones and are as versatile as using your phone. You'll never have to touch it and you can keep it in your pocket while staying hands free and connected to your Smartphone all the time.
Professional communication (Push-to-Talk) is converging from Nextel and 2-Way Radios to IP based communication: Smartphones with Walkie-Talkie style apps. Users of Walkie-Talkie-Style apps cannot always look and operate touch screens. Hands free communication is indispensable; it has almost been like the law-of-nature. The end-users demand products like ALLCOM™ and the biggest players need it to sell more of their PTT infrastructure and apps.
As a Company that develops hardware, challenges are inevitable. Starting from the basics like 'how to build it' or 'where to build it', to warrantees etc, the scalability is different to develop such products. Since it is 'hardware' at the end of the day that the company deals with, there is always 'proactive' business for it. You don't have Google or Amazon coming up with the same thing for free to drive out business over night, so, the idea holds its own identity. While it's a challenge to do hardware, especially when trying to find VC's, the company's conviction is that it is a steadily growing business.
All vendors with accessories for land-mobile-radios can be termed as 'competitors', because they are realizing that the time of traditional walkie-talkies is coming to an end. With the US government investing 7bn into FirstNet, there will be a time of co-existence after which most critical communication will be based on IP. Anyone who wants to stay in business will sooner or later have to change its business model.
AINA Wireless Inc. will launch their product in spring time of 2015 and will follow up with 1-2 additional products that will build out their portfolio. They will be based on similar functionalities, but will focus on the different scenarios that users have. One device alone can cover a lot of customer problems, but it is better to offer a small variety to give more choices. They hope to grow and then either continue to do so or eventually raise funds from external investors. There are pros and cons in both. Their main aim is to follow their product, technology and growth strategy. It is important for them to make sure they maintain control over it. Therefore they are very picky on investors; because money is also a commodity at the end of the day. For them, it is essential that an investor also adds real value to their operations.
Push-to-talk enthusiasts who use Zello and Voxer are among the 'prosumers' that are one branch of target audience. Many people use PTT between friends and at work or when volunteering. Those people have a hard time getting their hands on professional devices. AINA Wireless is set to be of advantage for such people. The largest group of target audience are the ones they have initially built this product for: police, fire, rescue, emergency, industrial users like private and public transportation, aviation, warehouse management, and even military.
Their device is based on an embedded Bluetooth Software that cannot be copied easily and requires intense co-operation with the developers of Push-to-Talk style Smartphone apps. Their manufacturing process is set up in a way that will make it extremely difficult to copy what they are doing, especially because–while they build a Bluetooth device, the solution is in the software. There is far more demand on the market for such viable devices with their technological head-start. They hope to grow and become the market leader and draw attention of some of the largest players in the Critical Communications industry.
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The Killer Hunters: Book One Lexi
by Damon Peel
Mindstir Media
book review by Michelle Jacobs
"Those villains—or Killers, as we call them—are real, and we do what we can to derail them as much as possible."
Colt Crimson and Lance Emerald hunt killers that mysteriously materialize from horror movies and wreak havoc in the real world. Through meticulous preparation, research, and training, this tactical duo targets walking nightmares like Scarecrow Brady and Isaac the Killer Marionette, setting traps for their destruction. In this first installment of the series, new recruit Lexi hopes to prove herself against these murderous foes. In her youth, she survived an attack by a horror movie killer who attacked her at a party, and she narrowly escaped with the help of Crimson and Lance. Haunted by the trauma, she channels her hope and recovery into fighting killers and saving lives. As she embarks on her first mission, she learns many lessons in a horror-filled cornfield fighting the scarecrow killer.
Peel dispenses horror film tropes in this unique urban fantasy series. This story pays homage to horror with humor and thrilling action and adds a fresh take on the genre that caters to familiarity but bursts through with new hair-raising thrills. The characters are well-developed, with original voices that come alive through first-person narration. Profanity-laced machismo marks the characters with swagger and renders them believable as hunters that kill. Crimson and Lance's encyclopedic knowledge of horror movies makes them reliable experts when the killers come to terrorize real-life communities, vulnerable families, and rebellious teenagers. For some, horror movie killers coming to life is their worst nightmare, but for others, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. Not everyone feels helpless against terrors in cornfields, closets, and sleepovers. The powerful commentary about how fear drives evil but also generates opportunities for bravery offers intriguing and thought-provoking themes for readers.
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Q: Get Value of Selected Codemirror If I have Multiple on Same Page I have multiple codemirror on same page i want to get value of selected cpdemirror how can i do that.
I have created a function to make codemirror from different textarea. This is the code below which i am using.
I am trying to make editor like codepen
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You can also suggest me the code to update textarea of each codemirror div.

A: Go through each editors wrapper, find the editor, and either get or set the value.
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Inner West actors, performers and those in the artistic sector could soon see their jobs under threat as the Abbott Government undermines them by a process of stealth.
Last week a discussion paper reviewing visas for foreign workers in the entertainment and cultural industries was posted on the Ministry for Arts website.
There was no announcement by either the Arts or Immigration Ministers and it was left to the sector to discover the news themselves.
The Inner West is a vibrant diverse community.
It is home to more actors, performers and artistic workers than any other area in Australia.
Australian audiences are fortunate to have access to the best in world culture.
At the same time local industry should be encouraged to employ Australian skills and creativity.
Currently foreign workers can be brought in to work temporarily on a project, following the approval of the Arts Minister, consultation with the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, and confirmation that the project will bring a net employment benefit to Australia.
This discussion paper canvasses the removal of all those protections, and could see more foreign workers brought in to work on film and television productions.


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Wonder Momo – 01
Posted by Stilts on February 6, 2014	 February 6, 2014 First Impressions / Series Introduction / Snapshots
Home First Impressions Wonder Momo – 01
Hunter X Hunter 2011 – 115
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei – 05
OP: 「Wonder Wars」 by Fujiwara Yuka feat. Area 11
「敵は女子高生にお任せあれ!」 (Teki wa Mesukousei ni o Makase Are!)
"High School Girl Fights the Enemy!"
Suddenly, one of the webcomics I read has a 5-episode anime short series. Surprise!
To me, Wonder Momo is a webcomic on ShiftyLook, a subsidiary of Namco Bandai I became aware of when The Adventures of Dr. McNinja creator Christopher Hastings began working on Galga for them. While I was primarily there for Hastings' writing – seriously, if you don't read Dr. McNinja you're doing yourself a disservice, it's amazing and hilarious to the first degree! – something about Wonder Momo caught my eye. The art, I think – Omar Dogan is a pretty talented guy, and it shows in both the comic and the anime. I read a lot of webcomics, and I fantasize about some of them being turned into anime – seriously, the day Dr. McNinja or Order of the Stick became animated is the day I lose my friggin' mind – so imagine my surprise when one did!
Wonder Momo follows the story of Kanda Momoko (Fujiwara Yuka), a slightly ditzy high school girl who wants to become an idol. The daughter of the original Wonder Momo, she is one day given the Wonder Momo power orb by alien freedom fighter Glooder (Imaruoka Atsushi) and transforms into the superhero idol Wonder Momo in time to fight the invading Waru.
The Anime
The anime suffers from a simplification of the characters and plot. In the original webcomic Momoko was clumsy, yes, but she never felt this ditzy – she'd trip or screw up, but she didn't seem as silly and vapid as anime-Momoko does. The plot is also put on the fast track, likely because they want to get some plot and character introductions in despite only having five 5-minute episodes to work with. That's to be expected, but there were also pacing problems – some of what I said in the previous section wasn't mentioned in the episode, such as anything about Glooder, and only comes from my knowledge of the source. All well and good, you don't have to explain everything up front, but this smacked of "We're not going to bother explaining" rather than "We'll get to the alien dude in a minute, there's a fight happening!". Not particularly adroit storytelling, in other works. The seiyuu are all newbies too, which is fine except for how flat and uninspired Fujiwara Yuka's performance as Momoko is. The animation is pretty decent though.
It was a pleasant little surprise to see this animated, if only because the idea of one of the webcomics I read getting animated is so novel. In the end, the anime does leave something to be desired – they captured the art style of the comic without taking the essential spirit of its writing that made it interesting to read – but at five minutes and episode and only five episodes long, it's not like it's a large time commitment if you see something you like. So far I would suggest the webcomic over the anime shorts though. As is often the case, the source is a lot better.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go reread 8-bit Theater while I wait for new Misfile, Sinfest, and Order of the Stick strips to be released. Oh, and No Need For Bushido, and Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, and…
tl;dr: @StiltsOutLoud – Wait, the webcomic I've been reading is suddenly getting five anime shorts? Mind blown! #wondermomo
Just kidding. I'll go blog Mikakunin de Shinkoukei now. Onwards!
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Someone mentioned 8-bit Theater? Gah, I miss that sprite comic, it was awesome! Have you read Atomic Robo by any chance?
Now regarding the episode… It wasn't bad, but man, Momo's voice is seriously grating. (might just be me though)
katsudon
Atomic Robo is amazing! I love that series so much. It's one of the few I keep rereading (and it's the only American comic I actually follow/buy). Clevinger and Wegener are such a great team!
I hope to be able to write that well someday. Or rather, I intend to make sure of it >:D
Onwards-desu~!
NKNKN
They made a parody mahou shoujo anime of a webcomic that was parodying mahou shoujo anime.
RECURSION LOOOOOOP!
February 6, 2014 at 12:34 pm	7 years ago
I suppose this could have been based off the original game that the webcomic claimed to be based off of instead, but that's not as much fun to think about. :p
The plot is definitely based off the webcomic – it said as much in the opening credits. So it's an anime based on a webcomic based on a game. Probably why I can't like this as much as comics like Order of the Stick or Dr. McNinja…it's three steps removed from truly original!
I will shift perspective a bit for now. I have absolutely no idea what you wrote in the first paragraph. I know no source of this, I don't know who Omar Dogan is, I also don't know why the hell Namco Bandai made this show, nor do I want to really know. I just downloaded it to check what it is…
..and bloody hell, that was the shittiest thing I've seen this year. The animation was not bad, sound too, but the story (?), half-dimensional characters, this whole "te-hee~~", goddamn everything seem pointlessly ridiculous and ridiculously pointless. I wasted 7 minutes on that and was pissed off for every lost second. Maybe this is a service for some gamers, readers or someone else – then it might have some purpose, but as a standalone show it hit the bottom and asked for a shovel.
Kinza Datteri
Two-dimensional, that's what I was trying to say! Yeah, the characters in the source webcomic have more depth, but none of that is seen here. They even demoted Natsuhiko to a high schooler instead of the actual newspaper reporter he was in the source, for reasons. A shame.
can someone explain how this turn from a web comic into an anime?
azalea23
ShiftyLook is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai that is trying to resurrect old Namco IPs. Apparently the Wonder Momo webcomic got enough traction that they tried to do this. But even with Namco Bandai backing the whole thing, I'm still pretty surprised this happened, which is why I wanted to talk about it a little bit.
Also I wanted to mention all my other favorite webcomics ^_^
It's rather a surprise to me. Even the webcomic when I read it seemed rather niche to me, and I would think if you wanted an anime built from it to get attention you'd want to add more depth to appeal to people, not less. I suppose that could be a budget issue as well…
Well, whatever. I don't actually have the interest to watch this series, you just caught my attention because I have a passing familiarity with the webcomic.
It's not surprising that Wondermomo got an anime, being made by the Japanese and all, so don't get your hopes up that other would-be webcomic could follow this kind of anime treatment.
I also see you have a refined taste in webco-
{OPINION DISCARDED}
Mediafag
Oh hey the first episode premiered in the MIDDLE of a season instead of the start of a season like the other shows! Odd. I'll see what this is about.
*reads*
….uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh………
http://www.shiftylook.com/comics/wondermomo/in-the-spotlight
Webcomic link here, in case anyone was wondering. Also check out ShiftyLook's other webshows: Bravoman (just about done with its second season) and Mappy. They're both great.
Also, this short has little to none of the character and personality of the comic, so you'd best just stick to that.
February 7, 2014 at 5:24 am	7 years ago
" if you don't read Dr. McNinja you're doing yourself a disservice, it's amazing and hilarious to the first degree"
It TRIES TO BE hilarious, would be the rather more apt description.
Well, I think it's funny. You're of course welcome to disagree.
Read through the comic thanks to Stilts' link, and I'm… Amused (yes, let's go with that) at the liberties taken with original Momo's backstory, which is hugely changed from the arcade games and even her most recent appearances in Namco x Capcom and Spiral Chaos (though the majority of the special attacks shown in the comic seem to be lifted from the Spiral Chaos incarnation).
That aside, I think it's got a neat story and interesting characters even if it's not being super faithful to its source material… Which is more than I can say for this animated version (thus far)…
She looks like Birdy.
You know, for kids!


text:
package job

const (
	UnknownOperation = Operation_UnknownOperation
	Host             = Operation_Host
	Trace            = Operation_Trace
	Report           = Operation_Report
	Replay           = Operation_Replay
)

const (
	UnknownStatus = Status_UnknownStatus
	Running       = Status_Running
	Succeeded     = Status_Succeeded
	Failed        = Status_Failed
)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
/*jshint node:true*/
module.exports = {
  description: 'Generate an instance-initializer to add services to Cerebral.'

  // locals: function(options) {
  //   // Return custom template variables here.
  //   return {
  //     foo: options.entity.options.foo
  //   };
  // }

  // afterInstall: function(options) {
  //   // Perform extra work here.
  // }
};


text:
Q: Debugging GQL Queries I have been trying to run this query:
my_post = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Post where __key__ = KEY('Post', 1)")
self.render("showpost.html", my_post = my_post)

and my template showpost.html looks like this:

{{ my_post.subject }}

{{ my_post.content }}

</div

Instead of getting the details of the Post of id=1  I'm getting a blank page. Although there exists a post with id=1 i'm not sure how to confirm if the GQLquery is actually returning something. Is there a way to check?
On trying the following:
my_post = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Post where subject = 'hello_world')
self.render("showpost.html", my_post = my_post)

I get the same issue (blank page), even though there is post who's subject is hello_world
Thanks a lot

A: GqlQuery is a class.
Your code has created an instance of the GqlQuery class.
To return something from the datastore you need to use either of the following instance methods:
.fetch() # requires number of entities as first argument
.get()

Example:
my_query = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Post WHERE subject = :subject",
                       subject="hello_world")
my_post = my_query.get() # the magic happens here
self.render("showpost.html", my_post = my_post)

A: Bernie is right in that you need to use .fetch or .get to actually retrieve results from the GqlQuery that you created, but for the first version, where you have a key or an id, you don't want to create a query at all. Rather, use the methods that are provided for using them directly.
If you have an id, use:
my_post = Post.get_by_id(id)

this will be much faster than using a query object.
If you have an entire key, use:
my_post = Post.get(key)

That is the fastest and most efficient way to get an entity out of the database.


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Eric Crawford, master of music program coordinator at Norfolk State, and Matt White, assistant professor of music trumpet and jazz at Coastal Carolina, proposed the project, Crandell said. They provided 80 hours of recordings, and students recorded another 20 hours on St. Helena, she said.
They used a studio-quality mobile recording unit to record the performers in their homes, Crandell said.
"We hand over the projects to the students," she said. "So most everything ... is done by students."
All the performers are song leaders in area churches who were born on St. Helena and in Beaufort, and they represent the Gullah culture's spiritual heritage of music, she said. Many of those traditions began in praise houses, where slaves were free to worship.
"They have kept a lot of those traditions of the praise house alive," Crandell said.
Crandell said the next phase of the project is to spend about a year building partnerships with people and organizations in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, which stretches from Wilmington, N.C., to Jacksonville, Fla. A focus will be placed on Horry and Georgetown counties in South Carolina.


The Metropolitan Republican Club, a private club on 83rd St. on the Upper East Side, in many ways embodies the contradictions of the Trump-era GOP. But their most recent speaker goes far beyond the pale of a Manhattan Republican.
McInnis, an unapologetic nativist and self-styled "western chauvinist," founded the Proud Boys on the waves of the 2016 election. Labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Proud Boys embrace the worst of the alt-right – undisguised hatred of Muslims and Jews, fears of immigrants strung along by George Soros, and calls for blatant violence once confined to the dark corners of the internet. But there is nothing remarkable about the Proud Boys, nor any other group animated so singularly by fever dreams of the end of white civilization. They always say the same things, spreading fears that cut deep in our history and can be metastasized by the right opportunist.
McInnis, a co-founder of VICE Magazine, forfeits any veneer of irony at the helm of the Proud Boys. "We will kill you. That's the Proud Boys in a nutshell. We will kill you," he once said on his Compound Media show. Spoken by McInnis, the simplicity of the message is especially dangerous. Proud Boys members have been involved in repeated incidents of street violence and rioting across the country. Even before his lecture, law enforcement clashed with the Proud Boys.
McInnis's lecture centered on Otoya Yamaguchi, a teenaged ultra-nationalist who assassinated the leader of Japan's Socialists on live television in 1960. Yamaguchi was a member of the Great Japan Patriotic Society, which among other things sought to get rid of Western influence and restore Japan's traditional culture. Besides the familiarity, let the irony sink in.
After watching McInnis brandish a katana before departing from the Metropolitan Club, a handful of AntiFa protesters confronted a Proud Boys member who attended the lecture, the New York Post reported. It would be wrong to call what ensued a fight. After a tense exchange, between 10 and 15 Proud Boys descend upon the protesters, knocking them down and repeatedly beating them. People on the scene also reported hearing the Proud Boys shout homophobic slurs. The criminal complaint filed shortly after offers a blunt summary: This was a gang assault on the Upper East Side. The gang delivering the beating minutes before sat inside the Metropolitan Club.
McInnis ranted against political correctness and the evils of socialism in his speech, according to one source who attended. But the crucial moment was a reenactment of the assassination. It ended with a command from McInnis, "Never let evil take root!" You don't have to wonder too long to understand. If socialism is an existential threat, like Yamaguchi understood it to be, then even violence is a necessary tool. How fitting that McInnis delivered this message on October 12, 2018, the 58th Anniversary of the murder.
The report also reveals what it is like to be in the Proud Boys. If you want to join you have to endure a physical assault. If you want to attain "4th Level" status, fight AntiFa or get arrested. There must be a lot more ranking members after the McInnis lecture.
It is enough to make you wonder how closely the Met Club looked into their speaker. Ian Reilly, Executive Committee Chair of the Metropolitan, said weeks before that Gavin McInnis is simply another voice of the right. "We would never invite anyone who would incite violence," he said. Besides the bad omen, his rationale deserves attention.
The gang delivering the beating minutes before sat inside the Metropolitan Club.
Any expression of views that actually endangers others has limits, as the Supreme Court has upheld. If freedom of speech ends in the deliberate descent into violence, McInnis has repeatedly walked to the edge of that line. The Metropolitan Club's decision to invite him rings hollow after a lecture that glorified the murder of a political opponent; the violence that followed is no surprise.
Gavin McInnis has since resigned from the Proud Boys in the aftermath of the street brawl, eager to do away with any appearance of being at the top of a group mired in criminality. But it won't be easy walking away from his monster. With the Proud Boys behind him, he is no longer just a talker.


Understand that our mission is to advise our customers based on our knowledge and experience about biodiesel usage. Karmakanix is not here to rag on fuel manufacturers, whether they be large companies or individuals. Nor are we making any recommendation about whether a customer should use biodiesel or not. That said, this is what we see when we open a fuel tank or a pump on a vehicles that has had exposure to contaminated biodiesel, and/or fuel that did not meet the ASTM standards for biodiesel.
We regularly include fuel restriction tests before and after fuel filter replacement in our diagnostic procedures. These tests will reveal restriction issues from contaminants in the fuel filter, fuel tank and in the tiny check valves of the fuel sender. And we often identify the problem before it causes power loss, break downs or extreme fuel pump damage. Often we end up removing the fuel sending unit from the fuel tank to inspect the sender valves and the bottom of the fuel tank. It is our policy to check perform restriction tests and check inside the tank every time we replace a fuel pump on a car running biodiesel. We end up replacing the fuel sending unit way more than half the time, as the contaminates and clogged valves contributed to the fuel pump failure, and likely would cause the new pump to fail. Pump damage from restriction usually results from cavitation, and lack of lubrication and cooling.
Methanol contamination is a really really bad problem. We have seen a Rabbit Pickup with the entire plastic windage tray inside the fuel tank melted into a gooey blob. We have seen customers who needed fresh injector return hoses every year. We have seen a motor that started leaking from the fuel pump front seal so rapidly, that the timing belt got washed in biodiesel and broke within 100 miles, bending all the valves. Those days are pretty much gone. A few farmers are out there making home brew that is melting their plastic filter housings. But almost everyone now uses quality biodiesel from reliable manufacturers. And that fuel has no appreciable methanol content.
Generally, we do not see any real damage from glycerine with quality biodiesel usage. We have seen some problems: Once we opened a fuel tank in a Golf PD Tdi to find the fuel had turned to Jello, thank some mad scientist in Texas. Another Tdi Jetta had what looked like carrot juice and cottage cheese, which was glycerin plus rust. There have been a few other minor occurrences of glycerine contamination, but just from the home brew crowd.
We have had issues with biodiesel when combined with some "recommended" fuel additive. The interactions are mostly due to the ingredients that created acids. One customer filled up out of town at a reputable biodiesel station, and had about a 4 gallons of her local fuel still in the tank. As a precaution, she added a small amount of a fuel additive that we had never seen or heard of before. The resultant instant corrosion froze the pump within hours. The first rebuilt pump we installed went 30 minutes before it too began to freeze and throw a diagnostic trouble code DTC for the quantity adjuster. We at first thought the rebuilt pump could be at fault, although our rebuilder rarely makes any booboos. We did check the fuel quality and the fuel tank, and found the fuel to look and smell normal. But evidently we did not have the proper chemistry set to detect the anomaly. Another pump was installed, but before it got terminally damaged, the rebuilder called to inform us that the first rebuilt pump was full of rust. In 30 minutes. It turned out to be severe corrosion from extremely high acid and alcohol content. We know biodiesel to be compatible with Redline, Amsoil and Stanadyne diesel fuel treatments. Please do NOT pour anything in your biodiesel tank that you are not sure of its compatibility with biodiesel.
This topic needs its own section because the etiology of the issue is unclear. But it is worth mentioning as we get about one case per year where we diagnose a running problem to be caused by biodiesel that has gotten inside the engine wiring harness. How the biodiesel gets into the wiring harness varies with the type of fuel system. Vehicles up through 2003 have an external pump that feeds externally mounted injectors. The fuel could be getting in from either the fuel pump itself or from the sensor mounted on the number 3 injector. With the Pump Duse engines that start in 2004, the fuel is most likely getting in through the fuel temperature sensor. One might think that fuel pressure may be involved, but the PD fuel temperature sensor is on the fuel return side of the engine and has no fuel pressure to speak of. The contamination wicks through the system like a capillary action. Although it is made from oils, biodiesel is actually quite conductive, especially as it gets old. The problems are varied, ranging from filling up solenoids for the boost control and EGR until they jam, to shorting out other sensors and the ECU (Engine Control Unit). One car went so long that the biodiesel made it through the fusebox and was coming out through the headlight wiring. We are unsure if the acid content of old biofuel started the problems, or if methanol was involved. Although theses problems are rare, they emphasize the need to heed cautions about using quality biodiesel, and not letting the fuel get much more than two months old.
Let's just mention that the ASTM standard for water and sediment is .050%, and start there. Water content used to be a really big problem in regular petroleum diesel back in the 80's. Water was getting in the gas and diesel fuel mostly from filling stations with cast iron tanks. Water would either ingress right through the cast iron walls, or leak through the seals on the tank caps. Sometimes condensation from low levels of fuel in the storage tanks at the filling station for long periods plagued car owners as well. Sometimes a car would get towed in with a half gallon of water in the tank.
Water in the fuel is clearly the leading cause of almost all fuel related failures, both with regular petroleum diesel and biodiesel. There is more water present in Northern California biodiesel that is generated from recycled oils than the Midwest version of biodiesel made from GMO soybean oil. The cooking process causes some water to be bound to the oils that cannot be removed during the drying process. Additionally, and of more consequence, biodiesel is hygroscopic and will slowly pull water out of the air. Since water is involved in most organic reactions and growth cycles, chemical changes and contaminants result from the water in the fuel. Chemical changes and microbial growth in the fuel lead to the large amounts of deposits that we commonly find in the fuel tanks and filters of cars that have run on fuel that is too old. Most times, there are similar deposits in the fuel pump and injectors. The contaminants may have been formed after the fuel filter, or the filter paper could have been damaged by microbes. These contaminants are responsible for most of the fuel pump and motor failures that we find on diesel cars.
Shown are pictures of injectors from a 2004 Jetta with a Pump Duse (PD) engine. The vehicle was run on a tank of fuel that had been topped off with a 5 gallon jerry can of biodiesel that was two plus years old. The acids that had formed from the water content caused enough corrosion to render the car undriveable within weeks. The symptoms included stalling when coming to a halt, 10 – 15 seconds of cranking to restart, and stalling on the freeway when the throttle was released. The entire fuel system had to be replaced.


Contrary to Trump and GOP claims, voter fraud is not a national problem. Their claims are a trick to suppress votes, especially the votes of seniors, students, and people of color.
What is a national problem is voter turnout. People say they don't vote because of inconvenient polling locations, long lines, and getting time off in the middle of the workweek.
Voting should be easy as 1-2-3. That's why the national Vote by Mail Act makes sense.
Sign the petition telling Congress to pass the Vote by Mail Act.
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People sit at their kitchen tables with ballots, and can access information about candidates and ballot measures. They can take their time and do their homework from the comfort of home.
Paper ballots are safe and secure. They can't be hacked.
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And vote-by-mail is less expensive than machine voting.
Voting that's easy as 1-2-3? There's no reason for democracy to be any other way.
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