Pope Francis yesterday took the unusual and rare step of remoing a cardinal's rights and duties, and on the cardinal's own request. Scottish Cardinal Keith O'Brien, retired archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh asked for the removal of all his rights and duties in the wake of a report about the accusations of sexual abuse against him which appeared several years ago. In 2013 this was also reason for him to retire as archbishop and not to attend the conclave that elected Pope Francis.
There was some confusion as to whether Cardinal O'Brien was still a cardinal, but it would appear that he remains one by name only. He no longer has any duties in the Curia (he was a member of the Pontifical Councils for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples; for Social Communications; and for the Family), including the right to attend and vote in future conclaves (although, being 77, the chances of Cardinal O'Brien taking part in the election of a new Pope were slim anyway), or to attend any future consistories. Gcatholic.org also indicates that he has lost his title church, Santi Gioacchino ed Anna al Tuscolano.
Cardinal O'Brien is not the first cardinal to have lost his rights and priviles that come with the red hat, although it hasn't happened since 1911, when French Cardinal Louis Billot, who asked Pope Pius IX to accept his resignation as cardinal, allegedly since he supported the nationalist Action Française movement, which the Pope had condemned.
Other cardinals resigned their titles for rather different reasons. Intitially, back in the fifteenth century, a number of pseudocardinals (cardinals created by a pope who was not accepted as legitimate) lost heir titles for supporting an antipope. Other cardinals wanted to lead a simple life of solitude, mostly in a monastery or other form of religious life. The most recent example of this is Carlo Odescalchi, who resigned because he wanted to enter the Jesuit Order. He did so in 1838, three years before his death.
A more secular reason for cardinals to resign was, since they often came from the nobility, the fact that their families had no male heirs. In 1807, Cardinal Marino Carafa di Belvedere resigned for this reason, became the prince of Acquaviva and married.
Political reasons could also lead to cardinals resigning. In 1788, Pope Pius VI made Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne a cardinal, but the latter never went to Rome to accept his red hat and title. He later accepted the terms imposed by the French revolutionairy government. The Pope severely rebuked him for his disloyalty, after which Cardinal de Loménie de Brienne resigned. In 1793 he was jailed, and he renounced his faith for fear of his own safety.
Other cardinal resigned or even refused to be created cardinal since they considered themselves unworthy of the honour or simply too old.
The reasons for cardinals to resign have been varied, but Cardinal O'Brien's case remains unique in that he has been allowed to keep his title, even if he has lost everything that comes with it.
Of course, the Pope does not send his tweets as directly as we do. They are his own words, but the buttons are pushed by employees of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary of that Council, recently explained how they had to find the best way of working with Twitter on behalf of the Pope. When Benedict XVI launched the accounts, a certain level of interactivity was proposed and experimented with, with followers asking questions using a specific hashtag, and the Holy Father answering a selection of those questions. Considering the huge amount of followers and the workload of sifting the honest and good questions from the jokes, ad hominems and attacks, this proved unworkable.
Listen to Msgr. Paul Tighe's excellent and entertaining keynote address at the Catholic New Media Conference taking place in Boston this weekend.
It offers an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of the Holy See's new media endeavours, as well as the way in how they want to relate to and work with us Catholic bloggers and other users of social media (from the Pope down to the average joe sharing his thoughts with the wider world via the Internet).
Msgr. Paul Tighe is the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and as such he has been involved with the creation of the papal Twitter account, the News.va website, the Pope app, and other social media efforts.
Find more reports, blogs, podcasts and other information about the CNMC at SQPN.com.
The Pontifical Council for Social Communications today launched the collected Messages for World Communications Day that Pope Benedict XVI wrote during his pontificate. And the interesting thing is that the Council does so in the form of a free eBook. Via this link you can download the book for both Apple/Android and Kindle.
Pope Benedict's World Communications Day messages, which may also be read for free via the Vatican website, are essential reading for all Catholics who are involved in some way in communications and media. And that includes all of us who even have just a Twitter or Facebook account.
As such, the new eBook is an anthology of sorts, a collection of the emeritus Pope's thoughts on modern communications for Catholics. As I said, required reading.
For the last time in this year of two consistories, a cardinal leaves the group of cardinal electors, by reaching the venerable age of 80. He is Eusébio Oscar Cardinal Scheid of Brazil, and with his birthday last Saturday, he leaves 119 cardinals who can vote in a conclave.
Born in the south of Brazil, Eusébio studied for the priesthood at the seminary of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, an order which he joined as a priest upon his ordination in 1960. His ordination took place in Rome, as he was studying Christology there. He eventually earned a decree in Sacred Theology.
Returning to Brazil, Father Scheid taught dogmatic theology and liturgy for some twenty years. In 1981, he was appointed as bishop of São José dos Campos, northwest of Rio de Janeiro. Bishop Scheid ministered to the faithful there for ten years, after which he was appointed as archbishop of Florianópolis, in his native state of Santa Catarina. He led that archdiocese for another decade, until 2001.
In that year, Archbishop Scheid was called to become the archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. Shortly thereafter, he was also appointed as the ordinary for the Eastern Rite Catholics in Brazil. He also served as president of Region IV of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference.
With the archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro also came a cardinal's hat, and Archbishop Scheid became Cardinal Scheid in 2003, in Blessed Pope John Paul II"s last consistory. He was granted the title church of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio. Cardinal Scheid retired as Rio's archbishop in 2009, and as the Eastern Rite ordinary in 2010.
Cardinal Scheid was at the centre of a small media scandal in 2005, when he publically criticised the faith of Brazil's president. Prior to the conclave which elected Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Scheid spoke in favour of an African pope, understood by many as support for the election of Cardinal Arinze.
Cardinal Scheid was a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organisational and Economic Affairs of the Holy See.
Special guest Dr. Lamar Vest of the American Bible Society, in the morning's final intervention, emphasised the role of the Bible and harkened back to the previous Synod of Bishops, which was devoted to the Bible.
The fourth general congregation began in the late afternoon with prayer, followed by voting for the members of the Commission for the Message. This commission will compose a nuntius or pastoral Message to the People of God, especially those involved with the Synod. The message will be presented at the end of the Synod. Cardinal Giuseppe Betori and Archbishop Luis Tagle presided over the election, which will select eight members in addition to the aforementioned clerics and two members appointed directly by the pope.
Especially some of the South-American Synod fathers, but also Cardinal André Vingt-Trois of Paris, emphasised the importance of countering secularism in the parishes and society.
Following the interventions, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, presented a report on the implementation of the Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini, published after the previous Synod of Bishop which, as mentioned before, was devoted to the Word of God.
The second full day of the Synod was closed with a viewing of an edited version of a documentary produced by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications on the Second Vatican Council.
Summaries of the interventions and Cardinal Ouellet's report may be found in the two bulletins devoted to yesterday's proceedings.


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If it snowed on New Year's, it would have to mean good luck. That's what the old folks said. Or, so my motha told me.
To me, it would just mean magic: That no matter how dry the winter promised to be, we could wake up to an already sleepy town, with mellow women and hungover men; and we would move ever so slowly — ever so gently, for a change — through a brand new sheet of snow. It would mean a clean slate. A promise of a new beginning. A hidden prayer — for a better year.
The only citizens of the town still giddy from the night before would be the children. For us, the first of every year meant gifts under the sparkling pine trees in the living-room. And it meant truce, for all of us: for the tired adults, tortured by survival; for unhappily married parents; for the intrusive force of poverty, uncertainly and chaos. Truce, on just that one day. Truce.
The preparations for the celebration at midnight would be in full swing, in almost every household. Motha would prepare for it, weeks before. She'd start with a new haircut, and possibly new color on her nails. Regardless the tight budget affected daily by inflation, she'd manage to whip out a new outfit for herself.
The hunt for foods would begin several weeks before the holiday. Things would be preserved. Money — borrowed, portioned out. And just a couple days before the actual Eve, the cooking would begin.
School, of course, would be out for me; and I was expected to help out in the kitchen for that week. Nothing crucially important though: Peeling of potatoes or scaling of pickled fish. I would boil eggs and root vegetables for the layered Russian salads. I'd roast parts of chicken or grind the meat for the stuffing of cabbage parcels. I would battle with pots of rice that took forever to get soft, and then would burn immediately.
Some days, I would be trapped inside while watching pots of stews or motha's reinvented borscht. And as I tended to the burners, I studied the darkening sky for any promises of snow. Because, despite the obvious presence of poverty and chaos in our lives, snow on the Eve would still mean magic — if not some better luck.
On the last day of preparations, motha would be chaotic. All day long, she would run out in her leather, high-heeled boots: to get her hair done, to pick-up a missing spice from a girlfriend across town; to drop off a gift to a high rank bureaucrat at the City Hall. But mostly, she'd keep picking-up "deficits", all over town: produce, not necessarily delicacies, that we normally would not indulge in, any other time during the year.
Victorious, she would return:
"Hey, little one! Look at this here!" she'd holler me out of my bedroom.
Just by the sound of her voice, I knew she was in a good mood. I would emerge, with Tolstoy under my armpit, and find her beautiful flushed face in the hallway. She'd have her make-up done, and for New Year's, it would always entail sparkles. The smell of crispy frost would intertwine with her perfume.
"So beautiful!" I'd think, and with my father's eyes I'd understand the power of that woman's witchcraft.
And then, I'd see the fox fur collar of her coat glistening with tiny drops of moisture.
"Is it snowing yet?" I'd say while motha, still in boots, would begin passing to me the tiniest jars of caviar or cans of smoked anchovies.
"I think it's about to," motha would respond, flirting. (So beautiful!)
And for the first time in weeks, she'd suddenly remember that I was still a child. And children only need magic, for survival. Not wads of cash, or cans of "deficit". Not banners of protesting citizens against the old demagogues or the faces of the newest heros. We do not need untimely compassion toward the vices of our parents. We wish to know no gossip and no strife.
Just truce, if only on one day for every year. Just the simple magic — of truce.
Motha would retreat into the kitchen and immediately start banging metals. I'd brace myself for more work.
"Hey, little one!" she'd holler.
"You should check out that snow, outside!"
I would run out, in an unbuttoned coat. On every flight of stairs, new smells would smack my nose from every household. To call upon my friends would be useless on that last day of the year. Like me, my girlfriends grew up way too quickly and would be cooking in the kitchen until the arrival of their guests. But in magic, I rarely needed company.
I wouldn't even go very far: Just to the lawn in front of our apartment building. I'd watch the waltz of snowflakes against the darkening sky. They would catch the light of egg yolk foam colored street lights and descend onto my mittens of rabbit fur. There would be not enough snow on the ground to make braided patterns with me feet yet. But just the sight of a new beginning — would be magical enough.
Before heading back home, I'd look up to our window and often see my motha's face.
"So beautiful!" I'd think and understand the magic of truce, if only once a year.
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"We All Live in A Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine, Yellow Submarine."
Yes, it's a hard way of being: Living as an artist. But then, again, I wouldn't want to be living — in any other way.
And I've tried. In all honesty, I've tried to be many things: Anything else but an artist. An administrator, a teaching assistant, and a secretary. A proofreader, an academic, a critic. A manager. An accountant. A librarian.
"Oh, you!" my college comrades used to say. "You and your jobs! You're always changing jobs."
They had known me for years, and for years — they had seen me working. They had watched me giving a very fair try to living for the sake of a different profession. A "normal" profession. A job. And they had witnessed me change my mind.
Back then, I wasn't really sure which profession it would turn out to be, so I would try everything. And instead of entertaining things, I would satisfy my curiosity by leaping into every opportunity. Because I always felt I could be so many things; but I wanted to make sure that I couldn't be anything else — but an artist.
Being an artist resembled an exotic disease — a dis-ease of the soul — and I wanted to make sure I wasn't one of its victim.
"So, what's your major this morning?" my folks teased me during our phone calls. I was prone to changing my mind, and the flexibility of my American education confused the hell out of them.
"Still English, I think," I'd say. "But with a slight concentration — in journalism."
"Well, at least, you're getting an education," my best friend comforted me. She always comforted me. And it seemed to bother her the least — my proneness to change my mind, because I felt I could be so many things.
Come to think of it: It should have been easier, in my youth. During our college years, that's exactly what we were meant to do: To seek. To learn. To experiment. To be — so many things!
But somehow, my contemporaries seemed to be more certain about their paths. They would be teachers or administrators. The more city-savvy types were going into investment banking in New York. And I've even known one biologist and a chick who went to work for Fox News. But mostly, they would be teachers.
"How can they be so sure?" I wondered.
Because I wasn't sure. I could foresee the pleasure in having a day job with which I could identify myself for a couple of years; but the romance of its routine would expire as soon as some bureaucrat's ego would begin dictating procedures to me, on a daily basis. Some of them didn't like my language, or my dress code. They handed me time sheets and forms, along with the lists of appropriate jewelry. Some wanted me to tame my hair. Others preferred I didn't call my colleagues "Loves".
So, I would leave. I would always leave, but with enough notice and plenty of disappointment noticeable on my employers' faces:
"It's just that you had so much potential!" they would say.
"Then, why did you break my balls about my headscarves?" I would think in response. Still, I would leave with grace (even if I was leaving over burning bridges).
After college, I would be the only one in my class to leave for an art school.
"But you should teach!" my academic mentors insisted. "Most of your contemporaries teach!"
Everyone had an opinion. Everyone but me. I still felt I could be so many things, but I really wanted to be — just one!
Some seemed to be quite disappointed in my decision to stick to the arts.
"What are you gonna do — with an art degree? You could be so many things, instead!"
And I wasn't sure. I still wasn't sure.
"And how can everybody else — be so sure?!" I wondered.
After the first semester in my MFA program, the uncertainty about my profession would remain. However, the overall vision of my life was becoming clearer: I would be an artist. I WAS an artist. And it was starting to be enough — to be that one thing.
And so, there I was: Willing to risk my life's stability — the stability about which my contemporaries seemed to be so sure — for the sake of seeking daily inspiration. I would take on projects that would fuel my gratitude and curiosity. I would begin spending my nights in companies of others who shared my exotic disease — the dis-ease of the soul; and I would attend their shows and poetry readings, and loom in front of their paintings in tiny New York galleries. And none of us were still certain about our destinations; and yes, we were still filled with angst. But we did share the same vision: Our moments of happiness were simultaneous to the moments of creation — the moments of dis-ease.
Throughout the years, some of my contemporaries have disappeared into their professions: They turned out to be successful administrators and great teachers. Wonderful teachers, as a matter of fact! I would watch them moving with seeming certainty through their honorable daily routines.
"Still: How can you be so sure?" I would interview a few of them, years later.
I had succumbed to my disease fully by then, and I would learn to maneuver the demands of my survival jobs. I had surrendered.
"Are you kidding?! We aren't sure at all!" some would answer, honestly.
And for the first time, in their tired and good, decent and honorable faces, I would notice a slight glimmer of doubt.
"Oh!" I would wonder. "So, no one really knows, for sure!"
Strangely, I would find no comfort in their doubtfulness.
But I would find great ease in knowing that I myself had fully surrendered to my disease: The dis-ease of my soul — of an artist.
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"While You're Gettin' Your Cry On — I'm Gettin' My Fly On."
A cup of brutal coffee and a bath with a wrinkled Bukowski. Who said that mornings had to be unkind?
These days of waking in a vacuum of unpredictability — they make me think of all the big dogs that have come and gone, and suffered for centuries before me. Like my own fellow comrades — the big-dogs-in-the-making — they had to have wondered, at times, about where the next meal would come from, or the next rent.
They would hang, like poignant ghosts, at their regular spots, hoping the bartender would eventually remember their faces to comp a drink or two, just when they would be about do a touchdown with the rock bottom. (Those moments — are the best, in life: Three minutes before a suicidal thought or the a late afternoon phone call giving you a break.) And the bartender would nod, quickly, familiarly:
"This one's on the house…"
(Actually, I'll never comprehend the hopefulness of that post-midnight line; for I prefer to not suffer from other self-afflictions besides that hideous empathy of mine. That's a handful already. Don't hand me any more.)
Only at friends' barbecues — or at other people's office parties at Christmas — the big-dogs-in-the-making could get plastered enough on free liquor, to not mind their misery in sobriety. But elsewhere, at all other times, they could never afford enough drinks to get them there. So, they would loom on their scuffed-up bar stools, waiting for the bartender's charity: The wrathful face of Hemingway and the disappointed one of S. Thompson.
Or perhaps, if their beat-up faces were lucky enough to have appeared in black-and-white print a couple of times by then (they were the big-dogs-in-the-making!): Perhaps, a random nerdy fan would come out of the woodwork — or from behind a ping ball machine — and start lapping up their faces with his star-fucking gazes; then offer to pick-up their tabs with a handful of sweaty cash. The female groupies would be less useful at the bar, but better equipped to restore their ego elsewhere — anywhere! — like the backseat of their boyfriends' trucks, or the nook by the graffitied pay phone, near the john.
Somehow, the big-dogs-in-the-making would gain enough swagger to bed a woman: because there was always some wide-eyed girl or sinister-eyed widow in the mood for the struggling artist type. But then, someone's heart would get attached, then broken; and the big-dogs-in-the-making would scurry back to their crammed in joints, with other struggling types crashing on their couches or sleeping in their bathtubs; and they would write for long enough to finish a pack of cigarettes. Or to run out of their typewriter ribbon. Or to forget about a drawer full of rejection letters from agents and publishers:
"At this time, we must regretfully inform you…"
And what did they do, with all those regretful notes, by the way: so insincere, yet always signed "sincerely"? Did they glue them with gum, onto a white wall painted by someone with zero of imagination, during a sleepless night of annoying heat and warm beer, in a vacuum of unpredictability? Or did they tear them up, like I do, just in half — never wasting too much energy on anger, for fearing the flip side of it — then burry the pieces under an aged coffee filter from the morning before? And just how long would they sit in silence until trying their hand at yet another letter, yet another submission — another hand at that cunty luck: Would it take them a month? a year? a trip to Brazil? another broken heart of another wide-eyed girl?
And then, there were always those with annoyingly stubborn writing discipline: The respected academic of Nabokov and the celebrity hermit of Roth. Every year, their friends would catch them at yet another book deal, another fellowship, another grant. And surely, the big-dogs-in-the-making would feel the envy on the other end of the phone, as thick as aged honey; and just as grainy:
"Oh really?… Congratulations… We should celebrate…"
They had to have hated those ellipses loaded with a strained goodwill of their "friends". So many! So many had to get lost during this game of chasing the impossible, often self-destructive but hopefully somewhat self-redemptive career. Several had to be dismissed face to face, in a drunken fight when these "friends" dropped their pretenses. Others — would flake off on their own, with enough time and enough demands from their bratty marriages and whiny children. But the most relentless, the slowest of losses were those acquaintances sticking around for years, only calling after picking-up a few crumbs of new gossip:
"Saw you in The Paris Review… Congratulations… We should celebrate…"
And the big dogs would lie: Yeah, we should. But they never would.
No, they'd rather save up their new money for a better hermitage on the coast of New York. Or maybe even of Connecticut, if they got fed up with all that grime and despair — with that cunty luck — and if they could finally part with their superstition that well-fed artists lost their edge.
I also think of the new big dogs — the ones that are living and publishing now. They are all quite belligerent — Eggers and Sapphire — shooting out their words with such discipline and urge, that even the confused and the lazy can't dismiss their names. The ethnically ambiguous have come through in this century: The hilarious Diaz. The empathetic Smith. The diplomatically graceful Lahiri. They are all still quite young — and quite beautiful, physically — surfing through their academic careers to earn the respect of the white critics; but then always bringing it back to the streets, back to where they've learned to how suffer and how to make use of it; to the rest of the ethnically ambiguous and ethically confused: To the rest of us.
And somehow, I allow myself the vague hope that maybe, in this century, it needn't be so painful, it needn't be so hard to get to one's often self-destructive but hopefully somewhat self-redemptive career.
Because who said that the mere human suffering — wouldn't be enough?
And with an empty cup stained by coffee and a cold bath with a soaked Bukowski, who said that mornings — had to be unkind?
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Tagged academic career, anger, art, artist, authors, Charles Bukowski, Dave Eggers, despair, discipline, empathy, fiction, friends, Hard, inspiration, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, literary agents, literature, luck, Olga Kurylenko, Phillip Roth, poets, popularity, poverty, publish, readers, rejection letters, Rihanna, Sapphire, struggle, success, uncertainty, vices, Vladimir Nabokov, writer, writing, writing career, Zadie Smith
"Rum, Bum-Bum-Bum: Man Down!"
She was beautiful as shit, and very well-endowed, in her humanity. But the one thing that had made me fall for the creature — head first against the tiled floor of an empty pool (SMACK!) — was her ability to always say what she meant and to say it with the precision of a sniper: (POW!)
There was a gap though — a space where she lingered while choosing her words carefully and squinting her dark African eyes at her speaking opponents. Half a generation older than me and so many exotic heritages apart, she had patience — in spades. So, while I would be stepping on toes of the speaker — some over-read academic whose fear of our female flesh would make him work overtime at spewing out big words with which he hoped to dominate and conquer — while I would be wedging in my objections and stuttering with my youthful wrath (and with having so much to prove!), my girl would just hold there. She would hold her fucking ground, my brothers and sisters — like Joan of Arc before her tribunal — and she wouldn't fucking move!
It was so bloody impressive — it gave me a hard-on! It was like watching one of those big cats at their hunting game: You know better than to intrude, because you suddenly become aware that that cat's evolution has not been contaminated by a century of junk food, bad decisions and hedonistic behaviors utilized to shut out its guilty conscience. The cat is on top of its game: It's perfectly equipped — on point! — and it never has to work hard at proving jack shit. And you know, for certain, that when the time is right for that one outrageous pounce — meant to capture, never to just tease — the poor victim won't have enough time to even utter a prayer.
Well, it was like that, with this girl. She would watch the poor sucker who overcompensated his boner with words, words, words — BULLSHIT! — and she would seem so chill. Her glorious brown body appeared perfectly relaxed. There was no verbal jab in the world that could make her shiver with wrath; no words capable of making her lose her composure; or even shift your weight. Okay, maybe — may-be! — occasionally she would raise one eyebrow; but even that was barely noticeable. You had to be in dire love with her to notice that change. Which I was. So — I did.
And when she would pounce — OH, LORD JESUS! — it was so much fun to watch! If the asexual academic had been presumptuous at all about his vocabulary and degrees, the moment my girl unleashed: She destroyed the fucker. Because you couldn't tell by her youthful face, which she insisted on wearing without any make-up, but she'd had years of education and a lifetime of reading to back her up. She studied language for a living, working as an editor at every publishing house with its focus on radical writers: female and foreign and black! (FUCK!) And just for fun, on weekends, when others got busy shifting around their patio furniture for barbecues in Brooklyn — she wrote poetry.
Some shifted the mundane — she displaced the real.
And she would win. Always! Because she wasn't too hung up on the meaning of words. Language, to her, was meant to be played with. Otherwise, it was all dead. So, true to that same feline fashion of hers, she played a gentle tug o' war with concepts — tapping them, scratching the surface, or sinking her fangs into their gist — like a bored cat amusing itself with a caught prey before feasting on it.
Don't get me wrong: She had her truths. Better than that: She WAS all truth! Love, dignity, sex and ethics — those were non-negotiable. Not a thing to play with! But words themselves — those little rodents and birds — were way too much fun to not fuck with.
Back then, I had once confused a man for the love of my life and I worked so hard on earning him. At first, I tried on my ultra-feminine version: All high heels, and eye-liner, and ruffled skirts that carefully ended at my knees. I thought:
"Maybe he would love me more that way! Maybe if I'd waxed, tamed my eyebrows, painted my nails in pretty pink; if I spoke with Americanized inflections and curtsied when he picked me up at Grand Central. MAYBE!"
But after a year of still not being enough — of all that uncertainty and self-doubt — I began forgetting that I always hated make-up, especially in pink; and that I treading daintily — just wasn't my style. So, I gave myself a boy cut, loaded my closet with flats, white tank tops and tight jeans; and began taking the train into Manhattan thrice a week.
One day, my girl and I had stepped out onto Madison Ave, to do some hunting. It was one of those spring days that breathed down New Yorkers' neck with warm air and smells of budding cherry trees — but the sun had yet to come out. We strutted southbound. My girl lead the way. Despite the promise of spring, she had zipped-up her hoody; and not tempted for a second to absorb the one New York season that reminds its natives as to why they choose to suffer there for the rest of the year, she hurriedly strutted to our decided destination.
A Nuevo-Rican had come from behind us at a pedestrian crossing and studied our asses, in creepy silence; and when he realized my girl was one hot number underneath that zipped-up hoody, he began to whine, nasally:
"Ooh, mami!"
"Fuck you!" my girl shot him down over her shoulder and stepped off the curb, long before the light had changed in our favor. POW!
"So, what was your definition of 'forgiveness'?" Just like that, she was back to me. She was back — with me. MINE! I'd been out of breath for thirteen blocks by now: from trying to catch up to her, like that poor Nuevo-Rican doubling over behind us, at the street light. Not waiting for my answer, she resumed:
"Forgiveness — is like courage: It is only committed for your own sake."
"Forgiveness is like courage," I repeated in a half-whisper, as if asking for her hand in marriage.
"NO!" she threw over her shoulder again, like a fuck-you to those who were unable to catch up. "Forgiveness IS courage."
And off she went: strutting, leaping, pouncing and leading the way, half a generation ahead of me and through strange, exotic histories in between; running every red light and giving me the most generous go-ahead of my life.
Posted in Love, Self
Tagged academic, anger, beauty, big cat, Brooklyn, confidence, crush, dignity, Emanuela De Paula, exotic, femininity, forgiveness, genders, Grand Central Terminal, heartbreak, language, love, love of my life, Madison Avenue, Man Down, Manhattan, New York, New Yorker, Nuevo-Rican, prey, real, Rihanna, self-doubt, self-esteem, self-sufficient, sex, truth, uncertainty, woman, words

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SaaS-based unicorn Zoho has announced the launch of a new service Cliq. As stated by Zoho Corp CEO Sridhar Vembu, Cliq is an instant messenger with video, audio and group conferencing features. The new application is designed to serve as a unified communication system for enterprises.
Cliq, l'outil de messagerie instantanée de Zoho, s'intègre avec les applications bureautiques de l'éditeur ainsi qu'avec diverses solutions tierces. Ses fonctions peuvent être étendues à l'aide du langage de script maison, notamment à travers la création de chatbots. Un logiciel de messagerie instantanée vient compléter la suite bureautique cloud de Zoho.
Zoho has unveiled the latest challenger to Slack and Microsoft Teams with the launch of Cliq - a team messaging tool that integrates into its range of business apps. The core features found in Cliq will, for the most part, be familiar to users of established workplace collaboration tools, with group chat, file-sharing, video and voice call functionality.
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Seven Seas Is Now Reducing Its Carbon Emissions Through A Solar PV Rooftop Installed by TotalEnergies in Dubai
HomeSeven Seas Is Now Reducing Its Carbon Emissions Through A Solar PV Rooftop Installed by TotalEnergies in Dubai
Dubai, 19th October 2021 – Global maritime services group, Seven Seas, is celebrating the completion of a 3.38 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) rooftop system installed by TotalEnergies at its local facility in Dubai Investments Park, United Arab Emirates.
Sustainability is a core priority for Seven Seas and as such it is one of the key attributes included in the company's vision for the future. Seven Seas is not only committed to ensuring that it is compliant to the ISO standards of Quality, Health and Food Safety Management Systems, but also to taking steps towards a more sustainable way of doing business. Seven Seas wanted to improve the quality of the work environment and reduce carbon emissions and, in its most significant initiative to date, this led to a decision to partner with TotalEnergies on a ground-breaking solar project for its Dubai facility.
In 2021, TotalEnergies installed a 3.38 MW solar PV rooftop system at Seven Seas' Dubai facility. The solar rooftop is made up of over 8,000 PV modules that covers the equivalent of 3.3 football fields and is expected to generate above 5,400 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually. It will also cover more than 75% of the company's total electricity needs in Dubai.
The installation was completed in December 2020 and fully commissioned in January 2021. An inauguration ceremony was held in Dubai on 29th of September to celebrate the completion of the solar rooftop project at Seven Seas' site in Dubai Investments Park. The ceremony was attended by Senior Executives from Seven Seas including Mark Pontiff, Regional Director Middle East and USA, Ole Anton Gulsvik, Group CEO and Patrick Juhl, Group CFO, as well as delegates from TotalEnergies for Renewables Distributed Generation activities, including Gipin Mani, Country Director UAE, Mathieu Lauga, Key Account Manager and Aurelien Delahaye, Director of Operations.
I am very proud and excited to take part in this inauguration today. Not only is it a big step towards a better and cleaner future, but it is also our latest testimony towards doing whatever we can to go green. Many of our clients have shown great interest in the project, and some have even started considering similar projects themselves – for me, this shows that together we can make a difference," said Ole Anton Gulsvik, Group CEO Seven Seas group.
Mark Pontiff, Regional Director Middle East and USA added "This has been a very interesting journey from when we started working on this project back in 2019. I'm happy to see the finished product and that it is producing better results than originally planned. We have been able to save more energy than initially projected while making a difference for the environment. We will continue evaluating other initiatives to further improve our carbon footprint and encourage the industry and community around us to follow in our footsteps."
"TotalEnergies is proud to accompany Seven Seas in its journey towards using solar energy in Dubai. Seven Seas has been extremely involved from the onset of the project and we are happy that the solar plant is now in operation," said Gipin Mani, Country Director UAE, at TotalEnergies for Renewables Distributed Generation activities. "It is important for companies like Seven Seas, which have a global customer base to inspire more companies to think of a more sustainable future. TotalEnergies is committed to providing high quality and reliable solar projects that help our clients reduce their carbon footprint and energy costs. On behalf of TotalEnergies I would like to thank Seven Seas Group for choosing us and for their trust."
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TotalEnergies is a broad energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Our 105,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, clean, reliable and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.
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A diamond doesn't automatically shine and sparkle. When it is uncut, it is rough and not at all like a diamond found in jewelry. It has to be fashioned by someone who is skilled in cutting in order for it to glitter and reflect light. Although diamonds are rare, expensive, and highly prized – they are nothing compared to how God values us. Never forget that Jesus looked at an impulsive, uneducated fisherman named Simon and saw a 'diamond in the rough' who he later referred to as 'the rock' (Matthew 16:18). This very same Simon Peter said: "As you come to him, the living Stone–rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him – you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (1 Peter 2:4-5). God could have shaped us as beautiful sparkling diamonds. Instead He allowed us to be 'diamonds in the rough' because He foresees the ultimate creation of what we can become under His carefully guided hand. Pastor Rick Warren says, "God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds by using time and pressure. He is working on you too." God charges us to become better, to grow, and to shine. Today, let us consider where we might need a bit of polish and think about areas that need to be cut away. When you yield to the master cutter, you will then be able to "let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:16). What was once simply a 'diamond in the rough' will be no more!
REFLECTION: What are some areas of your life that remain like a diamond in the rough? After we have identified these weaknesses with the help of the Holy Spirit, do we trust God enough to grind back the flaws in our character and to polish our surfaces closer to be more like Him? How can we help others see that each one of us has our own imperfections that can only improve by the work of the Master's hand?
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«Ве́чер на у́лице Ка́рла Ю́хана» () — картина норвежского художника Эдварда Мунка, написанная им в 1892 году. Выставлялась как часть цикла «Фриз жизни» (выставка 1903 года в Лейпциге).

На картине изображена центральная магистраль Осло — Карл-юханс-гате, освещённая вечерними огнями. По тротуару движется буржуазная публика — господа в цилиндрах и пиджаках, дамы в модных шляпках. Их бледные, лишённые каких-либо эмоций и отличительных черт лица напоминают безликие маски (искусствовед Арне Эггум сопоставляет их с лицами-масками на картинах Джеймса Энсора). Поодаль от этого человеческого потока виднеется одинокая тёмная фигура, идущая в противоположном направлении — c нею художник, вероятно, идентифицировал самого себя. В его дневнике имеется запись, близкая по своему содержанию к тематике картины: «Прохожие кидают на него странные, многозначительные взгляды, он чувствует эти взгляды — они уставились прямо на него — эти лица — мертвенно-бледные в вечернем свете — он пытается уйти в свои мысли, но не может — ощущение пустоты в голове — он пытается смотреть куда-то вверх, на окно вдалеке — и снова прохожие заступают ему путь — он дрожит с головы до ног, весь в поту». В отличие от выполненной в импрессионистской манере «Весны на улице Карла Юхана» (1890), «Вечер на улице Карла Юхана» отличается мрачным, тревожным настроением. Композиционно картина близка к таким работам Мунка, как «Крик» и «Девушки на мосту», в которых также наблюдается любимый художником мотив исчезающей в перспективе дороги и некоторое смещение фокуса к краю полотна.

Мунк также создал литографию по мотивам этого произведения. Оригинал картины представлен в постоянной экспозиции в  в коллекции Расмуса Мейера.

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Racing for Charity has all the earmarks of being a runaway success. On Sept. 20 at Great Meadow in The Plains, the Virginia Equine Alliance presented Virginia Downs, an afternoon of six Thoroughbred flat races with pari-mutuel wagering. The VEA invited Fauquier SPCA to participate by handling the ticket sales and parking, and their efforts harvested $15,000 (see photo): win-win, wire to wire.
This is the new concept of racing in Virginia, and it fits in very well with the vision of the horsemen who collaborated to form the Virginia Equine Alliance. They were intent on saving racing in the Commonwealth, because Colonial Downs in New Kent, after 17 years of operation, turned in its racing license.
The non-profit VEA united four longstanding equine groups: the Virginia Gold Cup Association (VGA), Virginia Harness Horse Association (VHHA), Virginia Horseman's Benevolent and Protective Association (VHBPA), and Virginia Thoroughbred Association (VTA).
These four organizations offer an impressive roster of knowledgeable horsemen with expertise in all facets of the horse industry, as well as serious business acumen. The VEA interim Board includes Dr. Will Allison, ex-MFH, Executive Director Virginia Gold Cup; David Ross, President VHBPA, Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, President VTA; R.C. Dunavant, DVM and former President of VHHA.
They, in turn, appointed Debbie Easter as VEA interim President. Easter is the current Executive Director of the VTA. Her business is Thoroughbred racehorses and she has a lifetime of experience as breeder, owner and bloodstock agent. The VEA interim Executive Director, John (Jeb) Hannum, served as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association and several years as Racing Commissioner. He's also a former amateur steeplechase jockey.
In addition to Virginia Downs at Great Meadow, the VEA sponsored three graded turf stakes, at risk to lose their graded status, which ran at Laurel in Maryland on two consecutive Saturdays in September with combined purse money of $800,000. On the second Saturday at Laurel, VEA ran the five Virginia Bred/Sired stakes on the card. Harness racing enjoyed a four-day pari-mutuel meet over two weekends at Oak Ridge Estate in Nelson County, highlighted by the $300,000 Harness Day of Champions for trotters and pacers on October 18. Four flat races, including the Old Dominion Turf Championship (VA Bred/Sired), rounded out the racing action at the International Gold Cup.
VEA's vision for 2016 includes more racing, Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds. Board members have been looking for venues suitable for flat and harness racing.
Last year and again this year, the VEA held a fundraiser event the night before the International Gold Cup. To date, the relatively new non-profit has helped to raise about $150,000, benefitting the Fauquier Free Clinic and Fauquier SPCA.
There's a lot of potential for the VEA to take racing in Virginia to a whole new level. Non-profit local charities might want to consider the benefits of Racing For Charity. After all, there's nothing to lose.


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Dr. Sharmila is a doctor, actress, social activist and YouTuber from Tamil Nadu, India. She debuted in a STAR Vijay show, Puthira Punithama? along with N. Mathrubootham, which made her popular. She went on to act in various television series in both Tamil and Malayalam, and a couple of Tamil films.

Early life
Sharmila was born on 15 November 1974 into a Brahmin family. Her father Kothandaraman owned a pharmaceutical concern.

Sharmila's younger brother Hari died sometime before 2022.

Education
Sharmila attended C.S.I. Ewart Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Chennai, and was a topper there. She also learnt Bharatanatyam for ten years under Nandana Gopalakrishnan.

Medical career
Sharmila went on pursue an MBBS degree in Orthopedics at Kilpauk Medical College (Chennai) in 1993. Later, she worked as a house surgeon at Government Royapettah Hospital around 1996.

Television career
Sharmila started anchoring quiz shows on Jaya TV (formerly JJ TV), following which she conducted a talk show Indha Vaaram Ivar, in which she interviewed celebrities. She was subsequently selected by reputed psychiatrist Dr. N. Mathrubootham, who wanted to conduct sex education discussions on television, to read the letters from the public. The show, Puthira Punithama? brought Sharmila, who was dubbed "gutsy" for hosting the show, to popularity. Director K. Balachander took notice of her and offered her roles in his tele-serials such as Jannal and Irandaam Chanaakiyan. Sharmila considers Balachander as her mentor and guru who taught her the nuances of acting.

Shows
 Hero Heroine (Sun TV)
 Candit Camera (Sun TV)
 Puthira Punithama?(Vijay TV)
 Quiz program (JJ TV)
 Indha Varam Ivar (Vijay TV)
 Kitchen Super Star - Doubles (Vijay TV)
 Puthandu Saval (Sun TV)
 Roja Rojadan (Sun TV)
 Maathi Yosi (Sun TV)
 Kalviya? Selvama? Veerama? (Sun TV)

Filmography
All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.

YouTube career
On 24 February 2022, Sharmila announced her YouTube channel named "Sharmila Talkies". The channel's content includes politics, society, art, literature, food, life, health, soap opera, and cinema.

Awards
 Won, Asianet Television award 2015 for Best Character Actress (special Jury) for Karuthamuthu
 Nomination, Vijay Television Awards for Best Negative role 2017 for Pagal Nilavu

Personal life
Sharmila married AL Mohan, a TV production executive, but later they filed and were granted a divorce. Later, she married S. S. Balaji, a member of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK).

Her daughter Rithvika was born on 28 December 2004.

References

External links
 Sharmila Talkies

1974 births
Living people
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Tamil television
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses in Malayalam television
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Indian film actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Indian television actresses
Indian YouTubers


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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 660 Collections and/or Records:
"1948 Nicholas' christening", 1948
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/283
Scope and Contents Photo shows WSC smiling at Nicholas [Soames] who is a baby in a pram. WSC reaches in to stroke Nicholas' cheek.
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/BRDW, The Broadwater Collection / Photograph albums / "Winston S. Churchill: A record of seventy-seven glorious years"
Acquired Papers, 1690 - 1960
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28
Scope and Contents This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others.The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28).The series includes a number...
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers
Acquired Papers: Letters and telegrams from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1915 - 1919
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/120
Scope and Contents From the Series: This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others.The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28).The series includes a number...
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Acquired Papers
Acquired Papers. Letters from CSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1917 - 1918
Acquired Papers. Letters from Frances, Duchess of Marlborough to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1874 - 1896
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/42
Acquired Papers. Letters from Frances, Duchess of Marlborough to Lord Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed., 1876 - 1894
Acquired Papers. Letters from John S Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1915 - 1919
Acquired Papers: Letters from Lady Gwendeline Churchill [formerly Lady Gwendeline Bertie] to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., [1908] - [1921]
Dates: [1908] - [1921]
Acquired Papers. Letters from Lady Randolph Churchill and WSC to John S Churchill., 1897 - 1907
Acquired Papers. Letters from Lady Randolph Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill concerning the disagreement between Lord Randolph and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales about an affair between Lord Blandford, later George, 8th Duke of Marlborough and Edith, lady Aylesford. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1876
Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to John S Churchill., [1890] - 1923
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A-B
Dates: [1890] - 1923
Acquired Papers. Letters to Lady Randolph Churchill from CSC. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1910 - 1914
Articles, 1943 - 1952
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 2/1/1
Scope and Contents Comprising: with Henry Bunbury, "Will the War Make Us Poorer?", 1943; "Scientific Policy Committee. The Social Sciences", 1948; "Small Man: Big World", 1949; "Fifty Million Unemployed", 1952; "For Richer For Poorer", 1952; and "Distribution of Income within the Family", 1952.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/YUNG, The Papers of Michael Young / Articles / Articles
Scope and Contents Comprising: with Ed Shils, "The Meaning of the Coronation", 1953; "The Planners and the Planned. The Family", 1954; "The Role of the Extended Family in a Disaster", 1954; "Kinship and Family in East London", 1954; with Peter Willmott, "Seven Million Bathrooms", 1955; "Challenge to Labour" or "Secret Social Services", 1955; with Ed Shils, "What is Living and What is Dead in Socialism", 1956; with Peter Willmott, "Mothers and Daughters: a discussion of some family research in London", 1959; "Mr...
Scope and Contents Comprising: "The Chipped White Cups of Dover", 1960; with Hildred Geertz, "Old Age in London and San Francisco", 1961; "A Note for Discussion on the Mother-Daughter Tie", 1961; "Is Your Child in the Unlucky Generation?", 1962; with John Gibson, "In Search of an Explanation of Social Mobility", 1963; with Bernard Benjamin and Chris Wallis, "The Mortality of Widowers", 1963; "Policy for Public Schools", 1963; "What Sort of People", 1963; "Family Life in 1984", 1963; "Announcing the National...
Scope and Contents Comprising: "SSRC Grants - the First Three Years", undated [1990]; "Slaves of Time", 1991; article on death for the "Encyclopedia of Time", 1992; "Open University Open About Death", 1993; introduction to "Innovations in Information", 1993; comment on the Commission on Social Justice, 1994; "Moral Intelligence", 1994; "The Significance of U3A", 1994; with Chelly Halsey, "Family and Community Socialism", 1995; " Why Where?", 1995; "Threatened Americanisation of Privatised Crematoria", 1995;...
Articles collected for an anthology, 1938-70
Scope and Contents Comprising: "Manpower in War", 1938; "Social Services in the Blitz" also known as "London Under Bombing", 1941; with Henry Bunbury, "Financial Mysticism", 1943; "Distribution of Income within the Family", 1952; with Ed Shils, "The Meaning of the Coronation", 1953; "The Role of the Extended Family in a Disaster", 1954; with Peter Willmott, "Social Grading by Manual Workers", undated; with John Gibson, "In Search of Explanation of Social Mobility", 1963; with Bernard Benjamin and Chris Wallis,...
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/YUNG, The Papers of Michael Young / Articles / Articles collected by Michael Young for an anthology, 1938-70
Bethnal Green and Debden surveys, 1950 - 1955
Scope and Contents Survey data used for Micheal Young's PhD thesis "A Study of the Extended Family in East London" (London School of Economics, 1955) and in Michael Young and Peter Willmott, "Family and Kinship in East London" (1957).
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/YUNG, The Papers of Michael Young / Books and research survey data / Research survey data
"Bricklaying at Westerham", 1930 - 1935
Scope and Contents Photo of WSC (cigar in mouth) bricklaying at Chartwell with Sarah [Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, Sarah Oliver and Sarah, Lady Audley] as a child.
"Celia's Christening Day", 1943-06-29
Scope and Contents Photo shows Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill] holding Celia Sandys, as a baby, in her arms. To the left of the photo is Duncan Sandys and WSC is to the right. Two children are also in the group [?Edwina Sandys and Julian Sandys].
Dates: 1943-06-29
Correspondence and papers about the mortality of widowers, 1959 - 1963
Scope and Contents Including drafts of the following articles: Michael Young and Chris Wallis, "Recent Bereavement and the Mortality of Widowers" and Michael Young, Bernard Benjamin, Ernest Gruenberg and Chris Wallis, "Death as an Influence upon Death - an Enquiry into the Mortality of Widowers".
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/YUNG, The Papers of Michael Young / Books and research survey data / Project files
Family, 1896 - 1972
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND A.35-A.47
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes two drafts of Bagnold's autobiography, published by the University of Arizona Press in 1991. There is a sequence of Bagnold's childhood letters to his family from St Wilfrid's School, Bexhill-on-Sea, and Malvern College, and also a letter to Bagnold from T. E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') dated 7 March 1928.
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/BGND, The Papers of Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold / Biographical
Family business survey, 1961 - 1963
Scope and Contents From the Series: Including the Bethnal Green and Debden surveys.
Family Correspondence, 1903 - 2003
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection of material held at Churchill Archives Centre provides a comprehensive picture of life in the Hankey family. The family correspondence in AHKY 1 illustrates the relationship between Adeline and her husband and provides detail of their life together and relationship with their children. Adeline's diaries (AHKY 2) mainly document the various journeys she made throughout her life, often accompanying Maurice. Scrapbooks and photographs (AHKY 3) provide a pictorial record....
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/AHKY, The Papers of Adeline, Lady Hankey
Household, 1871 - 2007
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/3
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the property, staff, finances and history of the Powell family. Also includes material on JEP's archive, and legal cases concerning him.
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some individual files have been closed under the 30-year rule, or where they contain sensitive information on living people. Please see individual files for details.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/POLL, The Papers of Enoch Powell / Personal
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Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 1
Archival Record 656
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) 450
Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord, 1849 - 1895 (politician) 24
Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer (1885-1977, née Hozier, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell) 21
Chartwell Manor 20
Conservative Party 18
Royal Navy 8
Liberal Party 7
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Labour Party 4
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Riddick House is a historic plantation house located near Como, Hertford County, North Carolina. It is dated to about 1795, and is a three-story, five bay, "L"-shaped Federal style frame dwelling with a two-story Greek Revival style rear addition. It is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a brick foundation, and has two double-shouldered brick chimneys on each gable end.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

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Q: Laravel 5, Call to undefined method stdClass::update() I'm using Laravel 5 and I have a simple edit page that must update database. when I try to run it, I got error

FatalErrorException in UserController.php line 47: Call to undefined method stdClass::update()

Controller :
public function userUpdate()
{
    if(Input::get('send')) {
        $arr = [
            'email' => Input::get('email')
        ];
        DB::table(Config::get('users_table'))->find(Input::get('userId'))->update(['is_active' => TRUE]);
        return redirect()->route('users');
    }
}

Database schema :
id bigserial NOT NULL,
username text,
email text,
permission integer NOT NULL,
is_staff boolean NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
is_active boolean NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
updated_at timestamp without time zone,
created_at timestamp without time zone,
remember_token text

Route :
Route::post('/user/update', [
    'as' => 'userUpdate', 'uses' => 'UserController@userUpdate'
]);

View :
{!! Form::open(['route' => 'userUpdate', 'method' => 'post']) !!}

Username
{!! Form::text('username', $user->username, ['class' => 'form-control readonly', 'readonly' => '']) !!}

Email
{!! Form::text('email', $user->email, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

Permission
{!! Form::text('permission', $user->permission, ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

{!! Form::hidden('userId', $user->id) !!}
{!! Form::submit('Update User', ['class' => 'btn green', 'name' => 'send']) !!}
{!! Form::submit('Cancel', ['class' => 'btn black', 'name' => 'clear']) !!}
{!! Form::close() !!}

I use this structure, specially this type of using Input and Form class in another function in my controller for make list of rows or get an individual row of table, and everything was ok, but in updating database I got Call to undefined method stdClass::update() error. Is there something that I am missing?

A: you can't use find method in query builder,you need to use where
public function userUpdate()
{
if(Input::get('send')) {
    $arr = [
        'email' => Input::get('email')
    ];
    DB::table(Config::get('users_table'))->where('id',Input::get('userId'))->update(['is_active' => TRUE]);
    return redirect()->route('users');
}
}

A: In my case I had to change from
first() to limit(1)

ie.
        $blog = DB::table('blogs')
        ->where('blogs.id', $id)
        ->first();

To
        $blog = DB::table('blogs')
        ->where('blogs.id', $id)
        ->limit(1);

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There are many benefits of souping. I just really got into souping over the past two years or so out of convenience and quick meal time however I have always loved soup for at least thirty years or more. My Mother and Grandfather would make awesome homemade chicken noodle soup and vegetable soup. Awesome I say! They had a gift for turning left over meals into the best soups.
So my souping journey came as no surprise when I embraced it, researched it and put it into full motioning with a healing mindset. Yes, souping can be healing and healthy. Let's explore how. For me personally the benefits of souping, healing and weight loss go hand in hand. Here is how.
Souping best benefit me in leaving me full for hours not just an hour. When I soup I eat soup five times a day for cleansing or weight loss and I am full all day and often have to force myself to eat the five soups during the day. Even when I just commit to one bowl of soup a day life is still grand because souping allows you to control your calorie intake and sugar in take like you would not believe. I have health challenges that truly appreciate and respect these level of control without it controlling me all day long.
Souping bring me a healthy variety to my meals because whether I make them myself or purchase them from a restaurant or delivery service the all offer a variety which I control and have a major input in. Please note I do not partake in canned soups because of the sodium and calorie intake. I am not knocking them because there are some decent ones available however because of my health challenges I have carefully chosen not to partake in them.
When souping I do a three or five day cleansing of soups only which provide a cleansing and/or detox. Here is a collection of cleansing soup recipes. . Dr.Oz has a pretty good three day cleanse as well and Jillian Michaels .
Soupelina , Soupure, Soups Online and Splendid Spoon.
Souping increases your vegetable intake to crazy new heights. An increase in vegetable intake means more fiber and as your get old more fiber is golden. Souping is very affordable and does respect the budget as well as my health. I will be souping for as long as I can. This has been a game changer for me and I hope it will do the same for you. When you are trying to physically heal soup is so comforting and portionately sized to help not to mention there is healing soups for different health challenges. Trust me on this and Google – Healing Soups.


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The texture-coordinates tag has no usage guidance.
While usinging shader nodes, I am trying to make a noise texture on a plane, start from the middle and project radially so when I shrink the necessary xyz, I can turn the noise into lines.
So I'm trying to make a gradient for my mesh but I can't seem to get it to go in the right direction, I want it to go straight from one color to the other like But I don't know how.
What is the basis for the scale of the wave texture node?
Why the mapping/coordinates/size have no effect on displacement modifier texture?
How to evenly unwrap / texture long extruded objects with folds and uneven segments?
How to unwrap from project from view using marked seams?
How to fix stretching issue with Image Mapping?
Move UV coords like Object coords?
as you can see a grew ghost frame shows up in paint mode but nothing shows up in mask mode if i hit X on the texture then this shows up. how do i see this with its texture underneath.
I use a Mapping Node for modify texture result. But the properties of Mapping Node are fixed. Is possible to add some sockets for Value Node? Then I can change values from somewhere else.
Cannot find the node called texture coordinate in blender 2.79?
I'm following a tutorial and in my node editor I don't have the texture coordinate node. I'm using blender 2.79, any idea where it is or what replaces it?
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Q: Perspective bug
I'm having the following div structure

div.a {
  -webkit-perspective: 1000px;
  perspective: 1000px;
  -ms-perspective: 1000px;
}
div.a div {
  float: left;
  width:33.33333333333333%;
  height: 30px;
  overflow: hidden
  background: transparent url(someimage) no-repeat;
}

All the divs (div.a div) are positioned with js and are having a background image so that it appears a single image (a image is broken in to 6parts)
The problem is that I'm having a line between div childs.
If I remove perspective everything is fine.
The div structure and css class presented here is just for simplifying the code.

A: I solve it by removing perspective after a square has been animated
I also use the following structure for a square

the perspective is applied to the parent and removed after animation (you can't apply it to the child anyway)


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Orthodoxy in Hawaii
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4 A Miracle in the Islands
Fr. Jacob, a well-known missionary priest, established churches in Canada, the United States, Alaska, Australia and the Phillipines. He was murdered in Odessa on June 23, 1941[1], but has not yet been officially recognized as a martyred saint. St. Tikhon of Moscow once quoted Fr. Jacob's missionary exploits this way, "He did much to convert the heathens to the Christian Faith and returned many Uniates to the Orthodox Church. He set the foundation for parish life in many places, built churches and assisted the unfortunate with his acquied medical knowledge."
In subsequent years, the Russian Orthodox church in Hawaii shipped or flew priests to Hawaii to care for the dwindling Orthodox population, becoming part of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). Fr. John Dorosh replaced Fr. Jacob in 1917. He was followed by several temporary priests, until Archimandrite Innokenty Dronov of Hilo, a contemporary of St. Jonah of Manchuria and St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco and Metropolitan Meletius of Harbin, was dispatched and served the entire Orthodox Christian flock on all the Hawaiian Islands throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Fr. Innokentiy had a large following of Japanese Orthodox Christians. He frequently returned to the Diocese in San Francisco to report to Archbishops Apollinary (Koshevoy) and Tikhon (Troitsky) and for medical reasons. He is now purportedly buried on the Big Island of Hawaii.
In the late 1960s, a group of Russian Orthodox Christians parted ways with the local Greek community and joined the Russian Orthodox Church in Hawaii under the Omophorion of Archbishop Anthony of Los Angeles; they formed the St. Mark of Ephesus Russian Orthodox Mission. In the early 1980s, this mission parish was later re-consecrated under the heavenly protection of the Mother of God and is now known as the Holy Theotokos of Iveron Russian Orthodox Church. In the late 1990s, the Council President of the Russian Orthodox community in Hawaii, Anatole Lyovin, was ordained to serve the Orthodox faithful in Hawaii. Currently this parish is without a permanent structure, hoping to build the first Russian Orthodox church in Honolulu. This church is also where the Miracleworking "Hawaiian" Iveron Icon of the Theotokos is brought on most Saturdays and Sundays for veneration, when not travelling to other churches. This community is under the spiritual care of Archbishop +Kyrill (Dmitrieff) of San Francisco (ROCOR). Two priests are assigned to this parish, Priest Anatole V. Lyovin, the rector, and Priest Paul Burholt.
In the early 1990s, a Serbian community established an Orthodox mission dedicated to St. Lazar of Kosovo. The Serbian mission later became inactive, and its remaining members joined the local Russian and Greek churches. There has been a recent interest within the Serbian Orthodox community in Hawaii to re-establish this mission. In recent months, visiting clergy (including the Serbian Bishop Maxim (Vasilijevic) of Western America) have come from the mainland to minister to them. This mission is now active and under the spiritual direction of Protopriest Blasko Paraklis.
In early 2004, a new Orthodox community under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) was established on the Big Island of Hawai`i, in Kailua-Kona. The pastor of this mission is Fr. John Schroedel, and is under the oversight of His Grace, Bishop Benjamin (Peterson) of San Francisco of the Diocese of the West.
A Miracle in the Islands
During the month of October in the year 2007, a great miracle occurred in the State of Hawaii when the Miracleworking and Myrrh-streaming "Hawaiian" Iveron Icon of the Theotokos began streaming myrrh in the home of an Orthodox Christian couple in Honolulu.
The Iveron Icon, a small mounted print, (a copy of the Montreal Iveron Icon), originally purchased at the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral's small church kiosk in Toronto by Rev. Anatole V. Lyovin, was given to the Reader Nectarios in Hawaii as a gift for the aforementioned name's day. This Icon was in the Reader's possession for eight years before it, along with a small hand-painted cross, began exuding a fragrant oil-like substance traditionally referred to as "myrrh" by the Orthodox Church. It was decided by Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco that this Icon of the Mother of God was to be taken to the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Cathedral in San Francisco where it underwent tests and was carefully examined by the Archbishop and a commission of priests to verify the Icon's miraculous attributes.
In June of 2008, the "Hawaiian" Iveron Icon of the Mother of God was declared to be a genuine and miraculous Icon, which was in fact exuding myrrh on a continuing basis. It was decided by Episcopal proclamation (Ukaz) that the Reader Nectarios, the Icon's original owner, be "Her" guardian and was to take the Icon to the various churches and monasteries of Holy Orthodoxy, in effect, to provide for the veneration of all Orthodox Christians.
Since that time, the Miracle-working Icon has visited over 350 churches and monasteries in North America, and has been venerated by over a quarter of a million people. The holy Icon has been a constant source of a growing number of miraculous occurrences, including the healing of cancer, blindness, demonic possession, and various types of physical and spiritual infirmities. People have felt a deep spiritual connection to this Icon, even spending hours on end simply standing before "Her", and watching the myrrh flow from the hands and stars on the image.
As She travels, the Holy Icon has been lovingly called in Greek, "The Wandering Panaghia" since She does not have a church to call Her own. When resources become available, plans are underway to build a proper chapel or church structure in Hawaii to house the Mother of God's holy Icon. It has also been affectionately referred to as the "Protectress of the Orthodox in Hawaii" by some of the Orthodox Christian faithful in Hawaii, since Orthodox Christians from all the Hawaii parishes have come to love and have grown very close to this miracle from God.
May She forever protect the Christian faithful of Hawaii!
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TWO HUNDRED YEARS ON THE ROAD: A History of the Orthodox Church in Hawaii by Amir A. Khisamutdinov and Rev. Anatole V. Lyovin. The book chronicles the history of the Orthodox Christian Church in the Hawaiian Islands from the 1700s to the present day. Containing rare photos and historical articles not seen before.
"From Island to Island with the Word of God on His Lips - How the Only Orthodox Priest on the Islands Lives and Works" An article about Fr. Innokentiy Dronoff of Hilo from 1937, translated by Rev. Anatole V. Lyovin.
Fr. Jacob Korchinsky: Missionary and Martyr A historical account of slain Protopresbyter Jacob Korchinsky.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS ON THE ROAD: A History of the Orthodox Church in Hawaii by Amir A. Khisamutdinov and Rev. Anatole V. Lyovin. (Honolulu, HI., 2011)
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Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae can colonize humans without causing any symptoms. However, gonorrhea and invasive meningococcal disease are serious health concerns. An essential virulence factor for neisserial adhesion to host cells, twitching motility and microcolony formation/aggregation is the retractile type IV pili (Tfp). The scope of this thesis stretches from the motility of single Neisseria cells, via the multicellular dynamics of N. meningitidis microcolonies, to the bactericidal and endotoxin-inhibiting activity of a novel anti-meningococcal peptide.
The Tfp machinery in pathogenic Neisseria is highly conserved. Nevertheless, our data demonstrate species-specific expression levels of the Tfp retraction ATPase PilT. By using live-cell microscopy and particle tracking together with visualization of pili, differences between N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis were also observed in piliation and twitching motility speed. However, these differences could not be attributed to the contrasting PilT expressions per se (Paper I). The importance of PilT for pilus dynamics is well established in the literature while comprehensive knowledge of the paralog PilU is lacking. In Paper II, results suggest that PilU promotes timely formation of microcolonies. Furthermore, both PilU and PilT were required for full virulence of meningococci in vivo.
The meningococcal response upon adhesion to host cells includes upregulation of the novel virulence factor Neisseria anti-aggregation factor A (NafA). Our data indicate that NafA limits microcolony formation by preventing excessive formation of Tfp bundles (Paper III). Microcolony dispersal is a prerequisite for close adhesion and mucosal invasion. Dispersal progressed rapidly on host cells and upon induction with host cell-conditioned medium (Paper IV). The dispersal phase was not altered in NafA-deficient meningococci. However, NafA may be important after microcolony dispersal on host cells for maintaining bacteria in a single cell state (Paper IV).
In Paper V, a screen of cell-penetrating peptides for antimicrobial activity towards meningococci demonstrated that transportan-10 (TP10) exhibited rapid membrane-disruptive and bactericidal activity. TP10 also decreased bacteraemia levels in a murine model of meningococcal disease. Furthermore, TP10 reduced the proinflammatory effect of endotoxin on macrophages. Thus, TP10 displays two properties that may be utilized for the development of a peptide-based treatment against pathogens.


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VIDEO: One small step for the European Union's spaceflight goals?
by Rob Coppinger | Oct 20, 2009 | Seradata News | 1 comment
In the above video European Commission (EC) president José Manuel Durão Barroso, recently appointed for a second term, extolls the virtues of space for society at 'The Ambitions of Europe in Space' conference held on on 15 and 16 October. But its the timing of this conference that speaks louder
This conference, which apparently brought together members of the European Parliament, EC, Council of the EU, agencies, industry, research entities, [satellite?] operators, financing institutions and the media – Hyperbola was in Korea at the time – has occured just before the 1st EU – European Space Agency international conference on human space exploration that is being held on 23 October in Prague – Hyperbola is attending this
Since 2003 the EU has been developing its space policy with green papers and white papers and agreed a joint European space policy with ESA in 2007. The green and white papers mentioned human space exploration but it was never included in the policy – under which "space councils" are held for coordination between the two organisations
The EU has funded research carried out on the International Space Station and ESA would be very happy with another source of funding for its activities. One beneficiary of this new relationship could be the Advanced Re-entry Vehicle (ARV) cargo return capable spacecraft. Starved of the €300 million in funds it was originally thought to need for a 2011 go-ahead for a 2016 entry into service this spacecraft could be the basis for "Europe" to pay for its astronauts to work on the ISS from 2016 to 2020 and beyond
After the ESA member states failed to stump up the cash the EU, which is awash with money not spent for its largest programe, agriculture (so much so it is paying for Galileo satellite navigation programme cost overruns with some of it) it could provide the missing €260 million
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The above picture is not me. I would never have smiled while I milked.
There has been an ongoing argument between Connie and Marilyn for years. At the risk of alienating one of my sisters, as a true witness, I feel obligated to set the record straight. Mother was there as well, but everyone knows how ditzy she is. Additionally, she tries to be impartial, so she sees the story both ways, depending on which sister is putting the most pressure on her at the time.
To begin with, milking the cow was the most universally hated job in the household, palmed off on whichever God-forsaken soul who had the least excuses and broke first. Of course, neither Daddy nor my brother could milk. It was a Biblical injunction, book, chapter, and verse known to Daddy alone. "Thou canst not take milk if thee cannot give it." I never heard this verse quoted by another and seriously doubted its existence, but if it was good enough for Daddy, by golly, the lowly women in the family were stuck with it.
There was no salvation for us on evenings, weekends and holidays. "I've milked all week. Now it's your turn!" Eventually, Phyllis and I fought it out. I grudgingly took mornings since I got up earlier and preferred to get the evil deed over with. She took evenings. It was horrible! First of all, milking involved wading manure and mud to lure the cow to the least manure slopped area. We never had a milking shed with fancy mangers to fasten the cow's head in while they eat their grain. I suspect there was no Biblical injunction preventing construction of a milk shed or manger, just unconcern on Daddy's part, since he didn't have to worry about getting hooked or the weather while milking. Milking, standing in mud and manure, with freezing rain running down my collar was my personal favorite. I feel sure all that rain that ran off the cow's back must have greatly improved the purity of the milk.
To the best of my recollection, I never milked a constipated cow. Invariably, Bessie or Star would feel the urge as soon as I got started. In the event she was a little slow getting started, I could always content myself with being slapped with a tail caked with dried manure left from the last episode. Just so you know, personal hygiene is not high on a cow's list of priorities. The milker could count on several solid tail slaps while milking, in addition to being stepped on if one is not good at following the cow's lead.
Enough bragging. On the day of the Great Cow Hoisting, there was no milking involved. Mother had dragged me out to help her separate the cow and new calf who had escaped his pen to join his mother in the pasture. For your edification, I'll explain. The cow and calf had to be separated all day to keep him from stripping her of all the milk that he felt was rightfully his. He got to spend a few minutes with her twice a day to nurse after milking, when the milk from one udder was saved for him. Afterwards, the cow turned out to pasture leaving the calf penned up.
Connie and Marilyn were standing nearby. As the cow ambled by, she turned her head to the side, hooking Connie's shorts. Surprised to find herself burdened with a little girl, she lowered her gently back to the ground, setting her on her feet.