Kinetic Model is a pretty new company in the field of armor subjects, previously they dedicated their time to the subject of aircraft.
The MRAP is a new class of vehicle introduced both in Iraq and Afghanistan. The main feature of this vehicle is the V-shaped bottom hull to protect the crew from land mines and IED's. The original design came from a special design done by the Rhodesian Army in the early seventies and further developed by South African manufacturers, beginning in 1978 with the Buffel (Buffalo) armored personnel carrier.
Nowadays, urgent need to replace the obsolete Humvees provided an opportunity to design new vehicles with extraordinary dimensions and looks such as the Buffalo, MATV, Maxxpro to name just a few.
•	1 bag with vinyl parts: tires, mudflaps and hydraulic lines.
At first sight, I was amazed at the quality of the engineering detected by intensive reading of the instructions. After carefully inspecting the plastic parts, which are molded in beige, I found noticeable flash that need extra work to clean and can be tricky especially on small items. The details are present but not as crisp as they could be. Generally speaking, the quality of the molding can be improved especially on the K sprue with the jerrycans and M2 where flash and lack of plastic is noticeable. So ejection pins are located in the floor of the cabin but they will not be visible after construction. This kinetic kit is a first of its kind for them in 1/35 so there is so adjustment in molding those needs to take into account. The exterior details such as bolt heads are soft and some corrections may be desired by the most demanding modelers.
The tires are molded in glossy vinyl without sidewall details, and the lack of details is striking: no brand name, no dimension data although this is clearly due to licensing issues but the most important point I need to comment on is the odor of the vinyl parts. I am surprised to find this in a modern kit and it is clearly an item that needs to be addressed immediately by Kinetic.
Kinetic decided to thoroughly reduce the use of PE, only the front of the bonnet and some parts of the tool racks are done in this medium.
Regarding the dimensional issues, it is clear than the Kinetic kit is oversized and from my calculation the excess is around 5-7mm in all directions.
One interesting point is the presence of a complete radio and FCB2 system, a very welcome detail.
So as usual, I will review the kit following the instruction set.
This part is covered in the first 4 steps and numerous pieces are used. Small pieces of details are used such as nuts, so extra care will be needed while building this component. Using two pieces for the universal joint makes construction a bit more finicky but allows the front wheels to be easily turned and positioned which is a plus. The level of details is great here although cleaning all the small parts can be tricky…but the results should be worth it.
Same approach as above, tiny connectors are present for the hoses and lines which are provided in vinyl, a nice addition to the kit. The attachment of these is covered in step 9, and this is a nice addition to detail.
A cross member was broken in my review sample on the chassis, clearly due to transportation issues, which can be fixed with a styrene strip. In order to achieve the rear bumper: 3 pieces are needed; normally such pieces can be achieved with one plastic piece.
The front and rear suspensions are attached to the frame and the protective hull V-shape is assembled here. Extra pieces are affixed here to provide more detail. The foot step is also attached at this point.
The exhaust pipe comes in two halves so you will need to carefully fill and sand the seam as it will be clearly visible on such long part.
The interior starts off by assembling the gunner step and radio rack. The seat belt connectors are present and after cleaning and removing the extra plastic the results will be great. As a nice addition, the bottom part of the seats can be folded so you will have the option to fill up the cabin with extra gear.
The SINCGARS radio or communication set are present, they are good in details especially on the dials, screen and buttons. Some sink marks are present on the top of certain electronic elements which will need to be addressed if they will be visible after construction. No handsets are provided in the kit but the presence of the radio set, as well as the FC2B2, is a great addition to the kit. All antennas are also provided, see below.
The front windshield is nicely done, the windows are thick and some distortion on the plastic can been seen. The dashboard is nice in detail but some of the detail around the AC duct is missing and will need to be added with putty or styrene, although this may not be noticeable after the cabin is closed up.
The doors are constructed in two pieces to approach the scale thickness of the doors. The handles are nicely detailed, some drilling may be required. I cannot comment if the doors can be displayed open or not.
The rear and side parts are glued together onto the floor. The rear panel has the box for the storage of the electronics of the anti IED device. The roof has the inside light connector present which is a nice addition, although some sanding will be required.
The exterior details include the search lights assembly with transparent parts and is nicely done, the main body lights will need some extra cleaning up due to excess plastic. The small plastic parts need to be reworked since there are no details and are basically blobs of plastic (mainly all the reflective lights). The anti IED device on the right hand side of the truck is nicely done, while the Duke shows a noticeable seam line. All the antenna bases are lacking sharp details, meaning the springs are not clearly shown.
The bonnet is molded in thick plastic with the grill furnished in PE (this is the first use of PE and we're at the 21st step). The front lights are simplified and there are some dimensional and shape discrepancies found here.
The rear compartment is detailed here, with again some PE for the accessory boxes. The mud flaps are too thick; this would have been a great area to use PE.
The assembly of the rear main frame is covered in one step, again the bolt heads and small details are softly molded. All the antennas such as the X-wing, GPS, and bend antenna are lacking in details but can be easily fixed following reference pictures. The Duke is glued here, but needs some extra work to reach a decent look since a mold misalignment deforms this part.
Step 24 covers the accessories, which in my review sample, the mold was not aligned properly. The handles are filled in on the water cans and will require work to open them up. Excess flash is present on the handles of the fuel cans and the boxes have a sink mark. In order to use these pieces extra work will be required. In this sprue is also located the M2 which is molded in two pieces, the cooling jacket holes need some drilling and a barrel is a single plastic rod, a brass one will be a good replacement.
All sub components are glued on the frame in steps 25- 27. The spare wheel is attached to the rear frame and the V shaped protective unit is added underneath the chassis.
The OPGK turret is simplified and the bolt heads need some extra work because the surfaces are all flat and the bolts heads are really too small and look like dots. The Rhino anti IED device will require some sanding and trimming if this will be used.
You have the choice between a M2 with nothing to use because it is molded in two pieces. As mentioned before, the cooling jacket has the holes perforated but requires a lot of drilling due to the excess styrene from the poor molding. The barrel is bent and has no details; it is only a plastic rod. Regarding the Mk19, it is the prototype of the Mk19 as depicted in the old Verlinden kit. The muzzle flash on the gun is absent due to poor molding. The weapon will best be replaced with an aftermarket item.
The turret, Rhino and wheels are glued in place to complete the kit.
I did not thoroughly check the instruction set but some mistakes are present in the numbering of the parts. Moreover, the overall quality of the parts can be improved. According to Kinetic Model, my review sample was from a pre-production run, so I will need to do some extra sanding and filling. This kit has good potential when the production issues are corrected.
Lows: Mold quality can be improved to achieve sharper details. Odor from vinyl parts needs to be eliminated.
Verdict: Since this was a pre-production sample it will be interesting to see how Kinetic improves on future production.
Copyright ©2019 text by Seb Viale [ SEB43 ]. Images also by copyright holder unless otherwise noted. Opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of AeroScale. All rights reserved.
Great review Seb! I've got a review in the works which is basically finished, just need to sit down and edit it it. So hopefully mine will compliment yours nicely. I will also have a build log starting up as soon as the review is published, building the kit basically ootb, except for the wheels cos they are too crap to ignore.
Thanks for the list Joe, that will save a bit of time! I think it would be easier to add parts F50 first, then F51. I added F51 first which seemed to follow the sequence in the instructions and ended up twisting F50 in...luckily the glue was still soft and allowed some play to get them in place.
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Doctor Who News: Lynda Baron returns to Doctor Who?
Lynda Baron returns to Doctor Who?
Corden was joined on set in Cardiff by well-known British actress Lynda Baron, Karen Gillan, who plays assistant Amy Pond, and Arthur Darvill, who plays Rory Williams, plus two bus loads of shoppers and a baby.
Lynda Baron appeared in the Fifth Doctor story Enlightenment (1983) playing Captain Wrack, and also sang "The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon" that featured throughout the First Doctor story The Gunfighters (1966). Outside of Doctor Who she is probably best remembered as nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the Ronnie Barker sitcom Open All Hours.
Update 9th March: No official confirmation of Baron's casting has been made at present, but the actress has been seen on location.
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Here are some advantages to online vacation booking. The main advantage is you don't have to spend a lot of time searching the location. One more advantage is you will have lots and lots of options to choose from. The website will have a huge database so that you can search for a particular place and specify your budget. Also, some websites offer their customers unique search facilities like private home, chalet, apartment, villa, etc. to say the least. Once you are ready, you can make a payment right on the website. These are some of the useful things you won't see on a normal vacation rental site.
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ФК Пансерраїкос () — професійний грецький футбольний клуб з міста Серрес, Центральна Македонія. Заснований 1964 року. Основні клубні кольори — червоний та білий.

Історія виступів у національних лігах

 1964 — 1965: Бета Етнікі
 1965 — 1971: Альфа Етнікі
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Відомі гравці
 Сакіс Анастасіадіс
 Іоакім Хавос
 Траянос Деллас
 Евангелос Калогеропулос
 Христос Мелісіс
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 Зісіс Цекос
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Інші країни
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Футбольні клуби, засновані 1964
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Rosamund Felsen Gallery
A friend of mine has a term for the continuing spate, in art, of miniature sculpture (particularly little houses), born-again tacky decor, "bad" figuration, videotaped dog acts, verbal/visual one-liners, rhinestone paintings, all the varieties of post-Conceptual, post-everything cuddliness and whimsy. He calls it Cutism. This implies that the stuff is all a lollipop plague, and I don't agree, but you don't have to agree with a good, bitchy crack to find it useful in sorting out your responses. You can start testing for work that fits the letter but eludes the mean spirit of the designation: Are the dandyish jokes of Ed Ruscha, for instance, Cutist? They are cute: hyper-self-conscious, confected drolleries. But they also (also?) embody an attitude toward experience, Los Angeles division, that seems fairly compelling. I don't think it's too much to say that they are about how to maintain spiritual poise in a spirit-imperiling clime: by accepting the full force of the place, then diverting it, judo-fashion. They have a tough, wise, survivor irony that ought to be stirring to all the America-afflicted—to, that is, all sentient Americans.
Another artist very much of and about Los Angeles, and an apparent Cutist of the first water, is Alexis Smith, who by her very appropriation of the name of a halcyon movie star (confusingly enough, one now enjoying a Broadway comeback) declares her allegiance to the Western dream of self-invention. Smith's recent works are also appropriations, of scenes from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and of wisecracks from Raymond Chandler. These are typed on construction paper—the Mann in sequential panels, the Chandler individually—to which are added collage elements that relate brightly and usually none-too-subtly to something in the words. Thus Chandler's famous introduction of his sacred monster Moose Maloy—"He looked as unobtrusive as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"—is decorated with a rubber spider, and an old postcard of a crate of California oranges illustrates this bitter little profundity: "I gave the front door the heavy shoulder. This was foolish. About the only part of a California house you can't put your foot through is the front door."— Most of Smith's liftings from Chandler concern sex, the source, for that writer, of more authentic fear and violence than all the gunmen and crooked cops: "She smoothed her hair with that quick gesture, like a bird preening itself. Ten thousand years of practice behind it." (Two bobby pins.)
\Chandler remains the poet of Los Angeles, and his appeal to Smith is not surprising; but Thomas Mann? The four passages of The Magic Mountain she illustrates—the hero Hans Castorp's first experiences of the cinema and a gramophone, and his obsessive observations of a sunset and a pocket watch—are marvelous writing, but exactly what they mean to Smith cannot even be guessed. The one-point humor of her collage embellishments is uninformative. One is left, then, with the fact of a literary text, a very good one, presented with evident approval and enthusiasm.
In effect, Smith's new work is about the sheer phenomenon of having literary taste—and wanting to share it. On Halloween Night she gave well-attended readings of the séance scene from The Magic Mountain, backed up by jack-o'-lanterns carved with faces in imitation of German Expressionist paintings (images roughly contemporary to the book). The impulse here seems generous and even brave. (You have to live in Los Angeles for a while to experience how eccentric, not to say bizarre, a serious concern for literature can feel in a big city.) But there is something sadly hermetic, too, about the work, which speaks more of the loneliness of its excitements than of their pleasure. The collages are invitations to what turns out to be a pretty frustrating party. You like the hostess, but she does all the talking.
—Peter Schjeldahl

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America's premise of justice is the Creator's will
by Alan Keyes on February 20, 2015
God and Our Rights
Cuomo deceitfully attacks America's founding principles
Christopher Cuomo denies the moral basis of justice
Cuomo rejects America's just consensus
Family and the exercise of rightful human sovereignty
All that may become a man
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God
Freedom means having the choice, Liberty means using it to do right
[Part 4 of eight]
At various times in my life I've delved into the Essays of Michel de Montaigne, the French aristocrat widely known as one of the early progenitors of secular humanism. In his essays he dwells at some length on the wide disparity of moral codes that have governed societies, at different times and places, in the experience of humanity. He aims to make it hard to avoid the conclusion that there is hardly an evil under the sun that has not been considered to be noble and praiseworthy, or at the very least normal and acceptable, in some society or other, at some point in that experience.
Some would argue that this observation casts doubt on the assumption that there are any "laws of nature and of nature's God" that reflect a standard for human existence. Be that as it may, (and I hold, with the prevalent view of America's founding generation, that it is egregiously false) the self-contradicting variety of human societal norms undoubtedly invalidates the assumption that a good standard of justice can be erected upon the shifting sands of human consensus and compromise.
The 20th century is littered with examples of massive evil perpetrated by people who were celebrated, at the time, as heroes of the "volk" or of the "Revolution", as just avengers, or godly warriors, for perpetrating what we now call "crimes against humanity." But even when thusly described, it is necessary to ask how humanity becomes a standard for just action when whole societies of men are capable of applauding characters of unimaginably depraved criminality, and/or revering them as living stelae that mark the way to higher planes of human existence?
The people of the United States are in the midst of an era of threatening turmoil that questions our judgment in exactly these terms. In the name of human equality, love and compassion a supposedly enlightened elitist clique is abusing the name of law to force the people at large to accept sexual and other practices deprecated by human reason and/or banished from the public mind, even before the end of ancient times, as degradations of human nature, unbecoming a human person. In all the courts of government where they have sufficient power, this elitist clique is advancing to honor child sacrifice, homosexuality, and self-murder. Pedophilia, sadism and law enforced religious persecution are commencing to petition for equal pride of place. In the course of this campaign, the understanding of law that insists upon its moral purpose and effect is being poisoned at the root.
Christopher Cuomo's attack against the Declaration of Independence is a bolder manifestation of this campaign than I have seen before. The elitist faction's strategy against the Declaration has heretofore aimed to inflict death by a thousand cuts, inflicted indirectly. or sapping the ground of principle on which it stands (as in promoting, for example the scientific validity of the anti-Creation mythology of evolution. Using the remnants of evidence as the basis for spinning tales and fabricating graphic images, when no database exists against which to test one's speculations about them, consisting of the systematically recorded results of direct quantitative observations of the phenomena under study (which the modern scientific method requires), hardly qualifies as empirical science. Even astrology does better than this.
So do the disciplines described, in modern terms, as non-scientific but which require evidence drawn from experience that is validated, in some way or another, by the reports of human witnesses who actually lived to observe and report on what they had seen. Of which of the dinosaurs and other theoretical figments of evolution can this be said? As humanly valid history, the theory of evolution has no weight at all in comparison, for example, with the Bible. Why then are we willing to suffer pundits like Christopher Cuomo to dismiss out of hand the premise of the Creator's authority, which is vital to the logic of our Constitutional government, of, by and for the people of the United States?
Of course, some Americans are shortsighted enough to believe that the political exile of God enlarges their "freedom". They at least tacitly applaud the understanding that freedom is the license to do as we please, and prevent others from interfering with, or even disapproving, our actions. Even as individuals we generally outgrow the conviction that such freedom is really consistent with our happiness. However, when it comes to society as a whole gravely salient questions arise: What is the price of such licentious freedom? Will it still be possible to impose any effective limit upon the activities of those who can afford to pay that price?
It is a mistake to read the first question as if it were the basis for some kind of social science research project. It is meant literally. The rich and powerful often say, as if from their own experience, that everyone has a price, a form of remuneration in exchange for which they will do whatever some purchaser demands. The fact that prostitution is as old as the cavernous hills (and not just in the sexual sense) leads common sense to nod reflexively in agreement. But it should also warn us of the degradation of the human person the maxim implies. Once it is simply allowed to be true, those who have sufficient wealth and power will be free to procure marionettes to service all their whims and passions, with no a priori limit except the extent of their resourceful power and will.
That's because, for what they regard as sufficient remuneration, people will gratefully sell themselves or others into slavery, even unto death. It is a fact proven true so often, in the event of conquest, that it has falsely been regarded as a source of right. If you think this through it soon becomes evident that the rule of "consensus and compromise" actually masks the domination of those who have the wealth to buy consensus, and/or the power to impose submission, by force and intimidation, and proclaim it compromise. Discard the God-acknowledging principles of the Declaration and this is what America will be left with. Which is exactly the powerful forces are at work in politics, the courts and the media, to produce that result. ("Let's compromise," the conqueror says. "You'll agree to do as I say, and I'll agree not to kill despoil you and yours, so long as I'm pleased with the result.")
The result (when it finally rises above a chaotic war of all against all) is some species of gangsterism, whether the gangsters are clothed in loin cloths, flowing robes or the latest contemporary fashions. Almost all the glorious empires in human history began when some gang of outcast thieves, rapists, and murderers stumbled upon better equipment, or a cult that enforced group loyalty and discipline more effectively, than that of their nearest neighbors. Such empires evince what Thomas Hobbes observed when he reported what was said about the Roman Empire:
…it was the speech, I say, of the public [people]…that all kings are to be reckoned amongst ravenous beasts. But what a beast of prey was the Roman people [public], whilst with its conquering eagles it erected its proud trophies so far and wide over the world, bringing the Africans, the Asiatics, the Macedonians, and the Achaeans, with many other despoiled nations, into a specious bondage…both sayings are true; that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. [De Cive, or The Citizen, Epistle Dedicatory]
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No new casino on Boracay reiterates Philippine official
Jul 12, 2018 Newsdesk Latest News, Philippines, Top of the deck
A report published on Wednesday by the official Philippine News Agency, quoting a named government spokesman, says "no construction" of a new casino will be permitted on that nation's holiday island of Boracay (pictured).
"The President [Rodrigo Duterte] had already decided and announced that no construction of a casino on Boracay will be allowed," Secretary Eduardo Año, officer-in-charge at the Department of Local and Interior Government, was quoted by the agency as saying during an event in Pasay City.
"The people go to Boracay to swim, not to gamble. So there will be no casino there," Mr Año added.
The reiteration of the President's position on the topic came the same day Roy Cimatu, the country's Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, affirmed that Boracay would reopen for tourism from October 26 onward after a six-month shutdown said to have facilitated an environmental clean-up.
In early April, prior to the temporary shutting down of tourism at the destination, presidential spokesman Harry Roque had already said there would be "no new casino in Boracay".
Mr Roque had added at that time that he wasn't aware of an announcement in March that the country's casino regulator, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (Pagcor), had awarded a provisional gaming licence to Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd for Boracay, with the development to be pursued in partnership with a unit of local firm Leisure and Resorts World Corp.
Galaxy Entertainment and its Filipino partner, AB Leisure Exponent Inc, had said they wanted to build a US$500-million gaming resort on a 23-hectare (57-acre) site at Barangay Manoc-Manoc on Boracay.
The national government ordered a shutdown of tourism to Boracay on April 26. Prior to the move, Mr Duterte had described Boracay as a "cesspool". It was reported he was referring to untreated wastewater that hotels and other establishments allegedly had been dumping into the sea.
The President has also raised the issue of land rights on Boracay, with a suggestion that post clean-up, locals would have more control over the matter.
(Updated 3pm, July 12)
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The Museum of Curiosity (6.30pm, Radio 4) is "a great big hungry baby suckling on the teat of knowledge", according to the comedian Bill Bailey, who co-hosts the show alongside veteran TV producer John Lloyd. If that leaves you none the wiser - and it would, wouldn't it? - you might prefer to think of it as a new panel show in which an unusual mix of entertainers, academics and scientists tackle an equally eclectic bunch of subjects. How unusual? How eclectic? Well, by the end of the six episodes guests ranging from Alan Davies, Ben Elton and Brian Blessed to paleontologist Richard Fortey and pigments expert Victoria Finlay will have plumbed the shallows of the Big Bang, pubic hair, Father Christmas, dadaism, yetis, 196,883 dimensional space, pineapples, Epping Forest and, er, nothing.
If that doesn't float your boat, how about a nice psychological thriller? Cobwebs (2.15pm, Radio 4), by David Hodgson, follows a man called Greg whose attempt to recover his wife's death is scuppered by a mysterious woman in plastic shoes.
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Pope Benedict's Red Thread
by Martin Mosebach 8 . 10 . 17
One shouldn't speak of a "cult of personality" when describing the papal devotional items that are offered to the hordes of pilgrims and tourists round about Saint Peter's in Rome: postcards and calendars, coffee cups and silk cloths, plates and plastic gadgets of every kind, always with the picture of the current happily reigning Holy Father—and next to them also those of Popes John Paul II, John XXIII, and even Paul VI. There is only one pope you will not find in any of the souvenir shops—and I mean none, as if there were a conspiracy here. To dig up a postcard with the picture of Benedict XVI requires the tenacity of a private detective. Imperial Rome knew the institution of damnatio memoriae: the extinction of the memory of condemned enemies of the state. Thus, Emperor Caracalla had the name of his brother Geta—after he had killed him—chiseled out of the inscription on the triumphal arch of Septimius Severus. It seems as if the dealers in devotional goods and probably also their customers (for the trade in rosaries also obeys the market laws of supply and demand) had jointly imposed such an ancient Roman damnatio memoriae on the predecessor of the current pope.
It is as if, on this trivial level, should be accomplished that which Benedict himself could not resolve to do after his resignation (disturbing to so many people, profoundly inexplicable and still unexplained)—namely, to become invisible, to enter into an unbroken silence. Those especially who accompanied the pontificate of Benedict XVI with love and hope could not get over the fact that it was this very pope who, with this dramatic step, called into question his great work of reform for the Church. Future generations may be able without anger and enthusiasm to speak about this presumably last chapter in the life of Benedict XVI. The distance in time will place these events in a greater, not yet foreseeable order. For the participating contemporary, however, this distance is not available because he remains defenseless in the face of the immediate consequences of this decision. To speak about Benedict XVI today means first of all trying to overcome these feelings of pain and disappointment.
All the more so, because during his reign this pope undertook to heal the great wounds that had been inflicted on the visible body of the Church in the time after the Council. The party that had assembled against tradition at the Council viewed the compromise formulas that had settled the conflict in many conciliar documents only as stages in the grand war for the future shape of the Church. The "spirit of the Council" began to be played off against the literal text of the conciliar decisions. Disastrously, the implementation of the conciliar decrees was caught up in the cultural revolution of 1968, which had broken out all over the world. That was certainly the work of a spirit—if only of a very impure one. The political subversion of every kind of authority, the aesthetic vulgarity, the philosophical demolition of tradition not only laid waste universities and schools and poisoned the public atmosphere, but at the same time took possession of broad circles within the Church. Distrust of tradition, elimination of tradition began to spread in, of all places, an entity whose essence consists totally of tradition—so much so that one has to say the Church is nothing without tradition. So the postconciliar battle that had broken out in so many places against tradition was nothing else but the attempted suicide of the Church—a literally absurd, nihilistic process. We all can recall how bishops and theology professors, pastors and the functionaries of Catholic organizations proclaimed with a confident, victorious tone that with the Second Vatican Council a new Pentecost had come upon the Church—which none of those famous Councils of history which had so decisively shaped the development of the Faith had ever claimed. A "new Pentecost" means nothing less than a new illumination, possibly one that would surpass that received two thousand years ago; why not advance immediately to the "Third Testament" from the Education of the Human Race of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing? In the view of these people, Vatican II meant a break with the Tradition as it existed up till then, and this breach was salutary. Whoever listened to this could have believed that the Catholic religion had found itself really only after Vatican II. All previous generations—to which we who sit here owe our faith—are supposed to have remained in an outer courtyard of immaturity.
To be fair, we should remember that the popes attempted to counter this—with a weak voice and above all without the will to intervene in these aberrations with an organizing hand as the ruler of the Church. Only a very few individual heresiarchs were disciplined—those who with their arrogant insolence practically forced their own reprimand. But the great mass of the "new-Pentecostals," unrestrained and protected by widespread networks, could continue to exercise a tremendous influence on the day-to-day life of the Church. So, for outside observers, the claim that with Vatican II the Church had broken with her past became ever more probable. Anyone accustomed to trusting his eyes and ears could no longer convince himself that this was still the Church that had remained faithful for thousands of years, through all the changes of the ages.
One is reminded of Carl Schmitt's scornful rhyme: Alles fließt, lehrt Heraklit. / Der Felsen Petri, derfliesst mit ("Heraclitus taught that all things flow; the rock of Peter—it's flowing too"). An iconoclastic attack like the worst years of the Reformation swept through the churches; in the seminaries the "demythologizing of Christianity" à la Bultmann was propagated; the end of priestly celibacy was celebrated as something imminent; religious instruction was largely abandoned, even in Germany, which had been highly favored in this regard; priests gave up clerical attire; the sacred language—which the liturgical constitution of the Council had just solemnly confirmed—was abandoned. All this happened, so it was said, to prepare for the future, otherwise the faithful couldn't be kept in the Church. The hierarchy argued like the proprietors of a department store, who didn't want to sit on their wares and so tossed them out to the people at throwaway prices. Regrettably the comparison isn't exact, for the people had no interest in the discounted products. After the "new Pentecost" there began an exodus out of the Church, the monasteries, and the seminaries. The Church, unrestrainedly pushing ahead with her revolution, continued to lose any ability to attract or retain. She resembled that baffled tailor who, looking at a badly cut pair of trousers while shaking his head, muttered: "I've cut you off three times and you're still too short!" It is claimed that this exodus from the Church would also have happened without the revolution. Let's accept for the moment this claim. If that had really been the case, however, the great revolution would not have been necessary at all. On the contrary, the flock remaining in the Church would have been able to persevere in faith under the "sign that will be contradicted" (Lk 2:34). There's not one argument in favor of the post-conciliar revolution; I certainly haven't encountered one yet.
Pope Benedict could not and would never allow himself to think in that way, even if in lonely hours it may have been difficult for him to defend himself against an assault of such thoughts. In no way did he want to abandon the image of the Church as a harmoniously growing organism under the protection of the Holy Spirit. With his historical consciousness it was also clear to him that history can never be turned back, that it is impossible as well as reckless to try to make what has happened "unhappen." Even the God who forgives sins does not make them "undone," but in the best case lets them become a felix culpa. From this perspective, Benedict could not accept what the progressives and traditionalists expressed equally and with the best reasons: that in the post-conciliar era a decisive break with Tradition had indeed occurred; that the Church before and after the Council was not the same institution. That would have meant that the Church was no longer under the guidance of the Holy Spirit; consequently, she had ceased to be the Church. One cannot imagine the theologian Joseph Ratzinger as laboring under a naive, formalistic faith. The twists and turns of ecclesiastical history were very familiar to him. That in the past, too, there had been in the Church bad popes, misguided theologians, and questionable circumstances was never hidden from him. But, while contemplating ecclesiastical history, he felt borne up by the indisputable impression that the Church, in constant development, had again and again overcome her crises not simply by cutting off mistaken developments but by making them, if possible, even fruitful in the succeeding generations.
It thus appeared to him imperative to combat the idea that this rupture had really occurred—even if all the appearances seemed to argue for it. His efforts aimed at attempting to remove from men's minds the assertion of such a rupture. This attempt has an air of legal positivism about it, a disregarding of the facts. Please do not understand it as irony when I quote in this context the famous lines of the great absurdist poet Christian Morgenstern: "what may not be, cannot be!" The Church can never exist in contradiction to itself, to tradition, to revelation, to the doctrines of the Fathers and to the totality of the Councils. This she cannot do; even when it appears as if indeed she has done so, it is a false appearance. A more profound hermeneutic will finally always prove that the contradiction was not a real one. An inexhaustible confidence in the action of the Holy Spirit resides in this attitude. A cynical outside observer could speak of a "holy slyness." In any case, this standpoint can be justified from both perspectives: that of trust in God and that of Machiavellianism. For a glance at ecclesiastical history shows that the continuation of the Church was always connected with a firm faith (or at least a fearlessly asserted fiction) that the Holy Spirit guided the Church in every phase. What Pope Benedict called the "hermeneutic of rupture"—whether asserted by the traditionalist or progressive side—was for him an attack on the essence of the Church, which consists of continuity without a rupture. Therefore he proposed a "hermeneutic of continuity." This was not so much a theological program nor a foundation for concrete decisions but an attempt to win others over to an attitude of mind—the only one from which a recovery of the Church could arise. When, finally, all understood that the Church does not and cannot rely on ruptures and revolutions, then the hierarchy and theologians would, of their own accord, find their way back to a harmonious development of Tradition.
From these thoughts speaks an almost Far Eastern wisdom, a principled distrust of all manipulations and the conviction that decrees issued from a desk cannot end a spiritual crisis. "Les choses se font en ne les faisant pas." No Chinese said that but the French foreign minister Talleyrand, who after all was a Catholic bishop. "Things get done by doing nothing"—this is a quotidian experience that everyone has encountered. But it is also a profound insight into the course of history, in which great developments remain uninfluenced by the plans of men—however excitedly the political protagonists in the foreground of the present day may gesticulate. That was what Benedict, as Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had already criticized in Paul VI's reform of the Mass. Here organic growth, the development shaped by the imperceptible hand of time, had been interrupted by a bureaucratic act, a "dictatus papae." It appeared to him to be not just hopeless but even forbidden to try to heal through another dictate this wound that Pope Paul's attack on Tradition had inflicted. A gradual transformation of thought, proceeding from the contemplation of the model that Benedict gave the world, would create a frame of mind in which the return of Tradition would ensue almost by itself. He trusted in the power of images arising out of his public appearances, where, for example, he employed the Roman Canon or distributed communion on the tongue to the kneeling faithful. To allow truth to act only through what Dignitatis Humanae called "the gentle power" of truth itself corresponded both to his temperament and to his conviction.
A characteristic expression of his approach was his care for overcoming the many aberrations in the liturgy that obscured the Eucharistic mystery. He hoped to be able to eliminate the abuses through a "reform of the reform." "Reform"—now that's something the justification for which is completely understandable. Everyone demands, after all, continuous economic, political, and social reforms. Indeed, wasn't "reform of the reform" well-nigh an intensification of this positive word, an expression of the maxim ecclesia semper reformanda? And wasn't an evaluation and reassessment of the ad experimentum phase which the liturgy had gone through since its revision by Paul VI also necessary? The progressives, however, were not deceived regarding the innocuousness of this "reform" initiative. They recognized even the first ever-so-cautious steps of the Cardinal and even more so those of the Pope as a danger for the three great objectives of the revolution in the Mass (even though the popes had already contested all three). What Benedict wanted to achieve would stand in the way of the desacralization, the Protestantizing, and the anthropomorphic democratization of the rite. What struggles were involved just in eliminating the many errors in the translations of the missal into modern languages! The philologically incontestable falsification of the words of institution, the well-known conflict over the pro multis of the consecration, which even with the best (and worst) of wills cannot mean pro omnibus, has not yet been resolved in Germany. The English-speaking and Romance worlds had submitted, more or less gnashing their teeth, while for the Germans, the theory of universal salvation, one of the dearest offspring of the post-conciliar era, was endangered! That at least a third of the Gospel of Matthew consists of proclamations of eternal damnation so terror-inducing that one can hardly sleep after reading them was a matter of indifference to the propagandists of the "new mercy"—regardless of the fact that they had justified their struggle against Tradition by the desire to break through historical overgrowth and encrustation to the sources of the "authentic" Jesus.
The same thing happened to another central cause of Benedict's—one that really didn't touch Pope Paul's reform of the Mass. As is well known, that reform did not require a change in the direction of the celebration. The liturgical scholar Klaus Gamber, admired by Pope Benedict, had given the scholarly proof that in no period of the Church's history had the liturgical sacrifice been made facing the people instead of facing East, together with the people, to the returning Lord. Already as Cardinal, Pope Benedict had pointed out again and again how greatly the Mass had been distorted and its meaning obscured by the celebration's false orientation. He said that Mass celebrated facing the people conveyed the impression that the congregation is not oriented towards God, but celebrates itself. This correct insight, I admit, never made it either into a binding document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or into papal legislation. Here too, truth was supposed to prevail through the "gentle power" of truth—so appeared the rule of the "Panzerkardinal" or "God's Rottweiler" (or whatever other compliments public opinion dreamed up for Pope Benedict). The consequences of the effects of this "gentle power" are today apparent to everyone. The unique hope of the present Curia, Cardinal Sarah, who teaches and acts in Benedict's spirit, has been given no power to continue the mission he inherited from Benedict, even though he is head of the Congregation for Divine Worship. "Reform of the reform," which was always a motto instead of a policy, is now even forbidden as a phrase.
Is it then still worthwhile to ask how the "reform of the reform" might have looked had it been achieved? Pope Benedict did not think of calling into question the use of the vernacular. He considered this to be irreversible, even if he might have greeted the spread of occasional Latin Masses. Correcting the incorrect orientation of celebrating the Mass was very important for him, likewise the reception of communion on the tongue (likewise not abolished by the missal of Paul VI). He favored the use of the Roman Canon—also not prohibited today. If he had, moreover, thought of putting into the new missal the extremely important offertory prayers of the traditional rite, one could say that the reform of the reform was simply a return to the post-conciliar missal of 1965 which Pope Paul himself had promulgated before his drastic reform of the Mass. In regard to the 1966 edition of the Schott missal, the Cardinal Secretary of State at that time, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, specifically wrote: "The singular characteristic and crux of this new edition is its perfected union with the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy."
What drove Pope Paul to disregard the missal he himself had promulgated and shortly thereafter to publish a new missal—one which no longer corresponded to the task set by the Council—is among the great puzzles of recent Church history. One thing is certain: If things had remained as they were in the 1965 version, which although inflicting many senseless sacrifices, left the rite as a whole untouched, the rebellion of the great Archbishop Lefebvre would never have occurred. But one other thing is also true: Even today nothing prevents a priest from including in his celebration of the Mass the most important components of the "reform of the reform": ad orientem celebration, communion on the tongue, the Roman Canon, the occasional use of Latin. According to the books of the Church this is possible even today, although in an individual congregation it requires considerable courage and authority to find the way back to this form without support from Rome. In truth, the reform of the reform would not have been a tremendous achievement; it would not have won back many spiritual treasures of the old Rite. But it certainly would have led to a change in the atmosphere—it would have allowed the spirit of adoration and of sacred space to arise again. When an individual priest undertakes this in a parish alone and on his own account, he risks an exhausting struggle with his superior and trouble with his liturgy committee. Thus, that which is possible and permitted quickly becomes practically impossible. How helpful would be a single papal document that recommended ad orientem celebration!
While entertaining (perhaps pointless) thoughts regarding "what would have happened, if…," it may be appropriate to recall what would have been more important still than work on ritual details. Anyone who has dealt more thoroughly with the great crisis of the liturgy in the twentieth century knows that it didn't simply fall down from heaven or rise up out of hell. Rather, there were developments reaching into the far past that finally led to the catastrophe: a mindset which, looked at in isolation, doesn't seem dangerous at first, cannot be understood as simply anti-liturgical and anti-sacral, and can be found even today among some friends of the traditional rite. One could call it Roman-juristic thought or misunderstood scholastic analytic thought. In any case, it was a manner of thinking and perceiving that was completely foreign to the first Christian millennium that formed the rite.
According to this view, some parts in the rite are essential and others less important. For the mindset influenced by this theology of the Mass, the concept of "validity" is critical. It is a concept derived from the realm of civil law, which inquires into the prerequisites that have to be present for a legal action to be valid, and those things that do not contribute to this validity. This perspective necessarily leads to a reduction, a formal minimalism that only wants to know whether the minimal prerequisites for the validity of a certain Mass exist. Under the influence of this understanding, reductive forms of the rite were created early on, for example, the "low Mass." We can certainly love it, but we cannot forget that it represents a conceptual impossibility for the Church of the first millennium, which continues to live in the various Orthodox churches. Choral music is prescribed for the Orthodox celebrant even when he celebrates alone. For the liturgy moves man into the sphere of the angels, the angels who sing. And the men who sing the songs of the angels, the Sanctus and the Gloria, take the place of the angels, as the Eastern liturgies expressly state. The low Mass developed when, in monasteries, several priests celebrated at the same time at different altars. Easily understandable practical considerations sought to avoid musical chaos. But you only have to have been in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to experience that in the spiritual world of the first millennium practical considerations had no legitimacy in matters of the opus Dei, the liturgy. Greek Orthodox, Egyptian Copts, and Armenians sing at different altars each in their own chant, until a holy noise fills the space. Admittedly, that may confuse, perhaps even repel people of the North in their search for Protestant inwardness and contemplation—especially when from a nearby mosque the call of the muezzin gets mixed into the whole. What interests us here is that even in the face of such jarring consequences, the Eastern liturgies could not even imagine a minimalization, a "reduction to the essentials," the omission of elements that do not concern the consecration, etc.
The essential distinction between the thought of the ancient Church and the more recent Western Latin conceptions consists in the understanding of the consecration of the offerings. Ancient Christian belief understood the entire liturgy in all its parts as "consecrating." The presence of Christ in the liturgy is not centered only on the words of consecration in the strict sense, but runs through the entire liturgy in different forms till it experiences its summit in the form of the sacrificial death made present in the consecration. Certainly, whoever understands the Mass in this way does not think of reduction and even less of arbitrary interventions, for, from the outset, the presence of Christ excludes any arbitrary arranging and staging by man. It was the new Western way of perceiving the "real" sacred act as narrowed down to the consecration that handed over the Mass to the planners' clutches. But liturgy has this in common with art: Within its sphere there is no distinction between the important and the unimportant. All parts of a painting by a master are of equal significance, none can be dispensed with. Just imagine, in regard to Raphael's painting of St. Cecilia, wanting only to recognize the value of the face and hands, because they are "important," while cutting off the musical instruments at her feet because they are "unimportant."
What is decisive, however, is that the Latin world reached this opinion against the facts of its own liturgy, which spoke a totally other, increasingly incomprehensible language. Not only the Orthodox but also the Roman liturgy consists of a gradual increase of the Lord's presence, culminating in the consecration. But this is precisely not in the form of a division separating the parts before the consecration from those afterwards—just as the life of Christ is not separated from its climax, the sacrificial death, but logically leads up to it. Christ recalled and made present is the theme of the Latin liturgy from its first moments; the language of its symbols permits no other interpretation. The liturgy had taken over from the court ceremonial of the pagan emperors the symbolic language for the presence of the supreme sovereign: candles, which preceded the emperor, and the thurible. Whenever candles and incense appear in the liturgy, they indicate a new culmination of the divine presence. The priest himself, as he enters upon his liturgical function, is an alter Christus, a part of the great work of theurgy, Gottesschöpfung or "God-creation," as the liturgy has been called. He represents the Christ of Palm Sunday, who festively enters into Jerusalem, but also Christ come again on the last day, surrounded by the symbols of majesty. At the reading of the Gospel the candles of the Gospel procession and the incensing of the Gospel book as well as of the celebrating priest once more indicate the presence of the teaching Christ. The readings are not simply a "proclamation" but above all the creation of a presence. Then the offertory gifts, hidden by the chalice veil, are brought to the altar and are reverently received and incensed. The prayers that are recited at this moment can be understood to mean that these gifts, even though unconsecrated, just by reason of their having been set aside already have the role of representing Christ preparing for his sacrificial death. Thus, the liturgical understanding of the first millennium interpreted the removal of the chalice veil on the altar as a representation of the moment in which Christ was stripped of his garments.
The traditional offertory was a particular thorn in the side of the reformers of the Mass. Why these prayers, why these signs of reverence, if the gifts have not yet even been consecrated? A theology of the Mass of the second millennium had stolen in, from whose perspective this offertory had suddenly become incomprehensible, a detail that had been dragged along which only produced embarrassment. Now just appreciate the spirit of reverence of, say, the epoch of the Council of Trent. It had revised the liturgy, but of course did not think at all of changing a liturgical rite because it had been found to be theologically inconsistent. But when this offertory reached the desks of the unfortunate twentieth century, it could finally be eliminated. One senses the satisfaction of the reformer in eliminating the nonsense of millennia with one stroke of the pen.
It would have been so easy, on the other hand, to recognize the offertory as a ritual of representation if one had glanced over at the Orthodox ritual. But Roman arrogance preserved us from such digressions. It haughtily ignored the fact that one cannot make any competent statement concerning the Roman rite unless one also keeps an eye on the Orthodox rite. In it, the offertory is celebrated in a far more festive and detailed way, precisely because it is considered part of the consecration. Why did no one at the time of the reform wonder why the epiclesis, the invocation of the Holy Spirit at the consecration of the gifts, is part of the offertory in the Latin rite? That the liturgy thus contains a clear sign that the consecration has already begun at that point? But the more profound understanding of the liturgical process had already been so largely lost that one felt able to throw away that which one could no longer understand as if it were a meaningless frill. It must have been an exalted feeling, as a member of a future generation, to be able so blithely to cut down to size the greatest pope in history, St. Gregory the Great! Allow me here to cite an atheistic writer, the brilliant Stalinist Peter Hacks, who said regarding the question of revising classic plays: "the best way to revise classic plays is to understand them." A principle already heeded in literature—how much more so should it be when it involves the liturgy, the greatest treasure we possess? Among the greatest achievements of Pope Benedict was directing the Church's attention once more to Orthodoxy. He knew that all the striving towards ecumenism, however necessary, must begin not with attention-grabbing meetings with Eastern hierarchs but with the restoration of the Latin liturgy, which represents the real connection between the Latin and Greek churches. Now, in the meantime, we have realized that all such initiatives were in vain—especially because it wasn't death that interrupted them, but a capitulation long before one was sure that irreversible facts had been created.
The disappointment over the shocking end of the Benedictine pontificate is all too understandable, but threatens to obscure a sober view of the facts. Just imagine what the liturgical reality would be if Pope Francis had immediately succeeded Pope John Paul II. Even if the dearest cause of Pope Benedict, the reform of the reform, has failed, he remains a pope of the liturgy, possibly, hopefully, the great savior of the liturgy. His motu proprio truly earned the designation "of his own volition." For there were none—or very, very few—in the curia and in the world episcopacy who would have stood at the side of the Pope in this matter. Both the progressive side and regrettably also the "conservative" side (one has grown accustomed to putting this word in quotation marks) implored Pope Benedict not to grant the traditional rite any more freedom beyond the possibilities created unwillingly by Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict, who with his whole being distrusted isolated papal decisions, in this case overcame himself and spoke an authoritative word. And then, with the rules of implementation for Summorum Pontificum, he created guarantees, anchored in canon law, that secured for the traditional rite a firm place in the life of the Church. That is still just a first step, but it was a conviction of this pope, whose spiritual seriousness cannot be denied, that the true growth of liturgical consciousness cannot be commanded. Rather, it must take place in many souls; faith in tradition must be proved in many places throughout the world.
Now it is incumbent on every individual to take up the possibilities made available by Pope Benedict. Against overwhelming opposition he opened a floodgate. Now the water has to flow, and no one who holds the liturgy to be an essential component of the Faith can dispense himself from this task. The liturgy IS the Church—every Mass celebrated in the traditional spirit is immeasurably more important than every word of every pope. It is the red thread that must be drawn through the glory and misery of Church history, the path through the labyrinth; where it continues, phases of arbitrary papal rule will become footnotes of history. Don't the progressives secretly suspect that their efforts will remain in vain so long as the Church's memory of her source of life survives? Just consider how many places in the world the traditional rite has come to be celebrated since the motu proprio; how many priests who do not belong to traditional orders have come to learn the old rite; how many bishops have confirmed and ordained in it. Germany—the land from which so many impulses harmful to the Church have issued—regrettably cannot be listed here in first place. But Catholics must think universally. Who would have believed it possible twenty years ago that there would be held in St. Peter's, at the Cathedra Petri, a pontifical Mass in the old rite? I admit that that is little, far too little—a small phenomenon in the entirety of the world Church. Nevertheless, while soberly contemplating the gigantic catastrophe that has occurred in the Church, we do not have the right to undervalue exceptions to the sorrowful rule.
The totality of the progressive claims has been broken—that is the work of Pope Benedict XVI. And whoever laments that Pope Benedict did not do more for the good cause, that he used his papal authority too sparingly, in all realism let him ask himself who among the cardinals with realistic chances to become pope would have done more for the old rite than he did. And the result of these reflections can only be gratitude for the unfortunate pope, who in the most difficult of times did what was in his power. And his memory is secure, if not in evidence among the items of devotional kitsch at the pilgrims' stores around St Peter's. For whenever we have the good fortune to participate in a traditional Mass, we will have to think of Benedict XVI.
Martin Mosebach, a German writer, is the recipient of the Kleist Prize and Georg Büchner Prize. This essay, translated from the German by Stuart Chessman, also appears as a foreword in Peter Kwasniewski's Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness.
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A new exhibition at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, celebrates the bold architectural landmarks of the 20th century through images by influential photographer Ezra Stoller (1915-2004).
Pioneers of American Modernism captures internationally-renowned modernist structures including New York's The Guggenheim Museum; the former Whitney Museum of American Art; Manhattan skyscrapers; the TWA Terminal at Kennedy International Airport and Fallingwater house, Pennsylvania.
The show highlights Stoller's unique vision whilst capturing groundbreaking constructions by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Paul Rudolph and Marcel Breuer.
Reshaping perceptions of the urban landscape, the images play with the buildings' undulating curves and clean lines, crafting a polished and futuristic aesthetic.
The collection includes black and white photographs of public buildings, offices and private homes from the very beginning of his career in the late 1930s to the 1970s.
The exhibition runs until 9 February. Find out more here.
1. Ezra Stoller General Motors Technical Center. Eero Saarinen. Warren, MI, 1950 © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
2. Ezra Stoller Cohen House. Paul Rudolph. Siesta Key, FL, 1955 © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
3. Ezra Stoller TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport. Eero Saarinen. New York, NY, 1962. © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
4. Ezra Stoller Exxon Building on Sixth Avenue. Harrison and Abramovitz. New York, 1974 © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
5. Ezra Stoller, Guggenheim Museum. Frank Lloyd Wright. New York, NY, 1959 © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
6. Ezra Stoller, Miami Parking Garage. Robert Law Weed and Associates. Miami, FL, 1949. © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
7. Ezra Stoller, TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport. Eero Saarinen. New York, NY, 1962 © Ezra Stoller, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
A new publication from Phaidon highlights the shifting relationship between architecture and natural forms, taking the land as inspiration.
Drawing on the duo's ethos of looking beyond expectations, a new book from Phaidon tells the story of Snarkitecture's rise within the industry.


Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 18 (UNI) Fishermen has turned guardian angels for hundreds of flood victims who were stranded in isolated buildings for several days in Kerala.
Jammu, Aug 18 (UNI) A girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself while another was raped and one of the accused arrested in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Q: values not passing correctly? I have a simple program I am supposed to write. In three methods I need to read in integers, reverse them, and determine if they are palindromes or not. For some reason the numbers always come back as not palindromes even when they obviously are.
This is my code:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
public class main
{

public static boolean isPal;
public static void main(String[] args)
throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
{
    int num;
    int ctr = 0;
    Scanner input = new Scanner(new File("data4.txt"));
    num = input.nextInt();

    while(num != -999)
    {
        ctr++;
        reverse(num);
        isPalindrome(isPal, num);
        if(isPal == true)
        {
            System.out.println (num + " is a palindrome");
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println(num + " is not a palindrome");
        }
        num = input.nextInt();
    }
    System.out.println(ctr + " numbers were processed.");
    System.out.println("End of Program");
}

public static int reverse(int num)
{
    int dig;
    int rnum = 0;
    while(num != 0)
    {
        dig = num % 10;
        num = num / 10;
        rnum = rnum * 10 + dig;
    }
    return rnum;
}

public static boolean isPalindrome(boolean isPal,int num)
{
    if(num == rnum)
    {
        isPal = true;
    }
    else
    {
       isPal = false;
    }
    return isPal;
}
}

and the inputs are
3579
6336
5115
-999

A: You have two variables named rnum, one member of your class, and a different one local in your reverse() function. Fix that.


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The South of France produces some of the world's most delicious foods; seafood fresh from the Mediterranean, plump poultry, tasty charcuterie & saucissons and ripe fruit and vegetables. Camargue rice, Pélardon and Roquefort cheeses, Cassoulet and truffles are just a few of the mouth-watering foods you will encounter in Languedoc-Roussillon. To help you savour all of this we have some fabulous foodie tours to offer you. You might also like to read Wendy's blog about Food & Wine Matching.


Bristol based darkwave act New Haunts, the solo project of electronic music artist Alice Sheridan, has revealed the sci-fi synth encoded track "Escape".
The track is one of two upcoming singles which will be included on Sheridan's second LP, expected for release in Autumn 2019.
"Escape" was produced by Kindest Cuts, with all lyrics and music written and performed by Alice Sheridan.
Alice Sheridan began performing as New Haunts in the spring of 2017; writing and recording original material inspired by her passion for various dark sub-genres, and with a refusal to leave any of their influences exempt from her work.
New Haunts' debut full-length album Worlds Left Behind was self-released in 2018, following the release of her first single "Reactions" which featured on the catwalk in New York Fashion Week.
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Welcome to the QCOSS Community Door eTraining course An introduction to Cultural Integrity.
The information in this course is free for anyone to access. If you would like to complete the activities and obtain a certificate for the course, you will need to create a free account and then enrol in the course.
Once you have completed all the sections please try the quiz at the end of the course and you will be able to download a certificate of completion.
In this course, you can work through tasks to learn some facts and perspectives of the lives of people from various cultures. It is expected that while working through this resource, you will have a desire to read more and learn more of challenges that these people face in their everyday lives.
This is a safe space and while in this environment, you should feel safe to give your honest answers to any questions. This resource is the beginning of your cultural knowledge journey.
The meaning of culture and a reflection on your own cultural identity and predispositions.
Ways to communicate effectively with Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander peoples.
How to nurture cross-cultural understanding and an environment that supports all cultures.
The icons below will help you to understand how to follow the journeys.
The meaning of culture: reflect on your own cultural identity and predispositions.
Many workplaces have a variety of people from different cultures. This often includes Australian's First Nation people's; the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples. Knowing more about Australia's First Nation people's culture can support all employees to work in harmony in a productive inclusive environment that support Closing the Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
The first steps to cultural integrity and inclusive practice is to understand what culture actually is. Culture can be defined in many ways, but for most, it is the sum total of an individual's experiences, knowledge, skills, beliefs, values, sense of who they are and where they fit in their family, community, and society. Culture is also categorised into two types: Material culture and non-material culture.
Below is an activity about culture where you can think about the words that you believe define what culture is. Go ahead and think about the meaning of each word carefully as you go through.
Culture can be defined by everything from music and arts, language, religion, cuisine and social habits.
To move towards cultural integrity, we need to reflect on our own culture, and learn about other cultures so we can communicate respectfully and embrace multiculturalism.
Take a few minutes to reflect and think about where you come, where you belong, what you know?
Who and what is important to you in your life?
What do you believe in and value?
What is your culture and identity?
How much do you know and understand about cultures other than your own?
Hold onto those answers and thoughts and use them to reflect on your present level of cultural integrity.
The next part of the journey toward cultural integrity is to learn about Australia's First Nation people's history.
Awareness of Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander culture, history and language.
To gain awareness of the First Nation people's history, a starting point is to understand the symbolic meaning of the flags.
Yellow: Represents the Sun, the giver of life and protector.
The dhari (headdress) represents Torres Strait Island people and the five pointed star represents the 5 major island groups. The star also represents navigation, as a symbol of the seafaring culture of the Torres Strait.
To watch and listen about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's culture, follow the links for videos and more information.
Read a transcript of The Land Owns Us.
The Land Owns Us, by Global Oneness Project, is a testimonial by a traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), Bob Randall, talking about his culture.
'For those people who feel challenged by the Stolen Generations, we ask you to listen to just one of these testimonials to see if you feel the same. That's all we ask'. (Debra Hocking-one of many Stolen Generation's survivors).
Choose a person's story from 'The Stolen Generations Testimonies' to learn what happened to many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Read some Questions and Answers about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Then answer some Yes or No questions about the facts.
After reading about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples, answer the following True or False questions.
The next video, 'Brief Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Culture' by Haidarr Jones is a summary of some facts about the culture and contemporary issues of Indigenous people. Watch the video, then answer some multiple choice questions about the information you learned.
Answer these multiple choice questions about the video you just watched: "Brief Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Culture".
Watch this video about the Torres Straits: "Welcome to the Torres Strait" by the Queensland Museum. It gives an insight into the people and their culture.
To communicate with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander peoples, it is important to show cultural respect, community engagement and appropriate protocols. To learn more, explore the following readings.
Read pages 3-4 in the 'Guide to working with Indigenous Australian Staff' by the Charles Sturt University. Take note of what is says about communication, Agreement and 'Yes' responses, Family Relationships and Shame.
Look at and read a summary on 'Communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people'. This document is easy to follow and gives sound advice on communication.
Journey 2 examines the concept of cultural integrity; this being a desirable practice in our everyday lives. It requires you to look at your own cultural identity and any biases to help in the acceptance of others. Cultural identity can be described as the characteristics of any group with common beliefs, values, traditions and customs.
When looking at your own cultural identity, it is essential to look at the environmental influences in your life. You may have migrated to Australia and embrace your original language, hold an accent, and still follow your 'home' sporting team. Over time, these things may change, although never forgotten, and a new cultural identity can emerge through the impacts of new social networks, new employment, new surroundings.
Identity is influenced by many different things. These are called elements. Elements in our lives can shape our identity and it can also change depending on difference influences and time within the elements.
Elements of identity. Read and think about the following elements of cultural identity and tick the box once you have read and thought about all of them.
Attitudes to people of a particular race, gender, religion and ability can be influenced by experiences and personal history. If these attitudes are negative, it is a good time to consider how this can impact on a person's interactions and relationships with people from other cultures.
Knowing more about people who migrate to Australia can help in the understanding of their cultural identity. People migrate for many reasons; work, a better way of life, fleeing from persecution and asylum seeking. What ever the reason, they come to Australia because they believe it is a better life. Take some time to watch some YouTube videos. The first is a current short video inviting skilled workers to Australia, the next two videos are about people who have migrated to Australia.
The Australian Governments Department of Immigration and Boarder Protection (2014) has put out this short video inviting skilled workers to 'fast track your life in Australia as a skilled migrant'. Made by ImmiTV, National Communications Branch 2014. Ask yourself if you would be influenced to migrate to Australia if you saw this invitation?
Read a transcript of "If you have the skills, Australia has the lifestyle"
Watch this video to see how one family has embraced their new country. Megan Nguyen, shares her parents hardships and happiness in the YouTube video - Digital story of my parent's migration from Vietnam to Australia. Here is their story.
Living in cultural harmony is living in accordance with the society we inhabit. To have cultural integrity is to believe in and participate in an environment that promotes equity and respect to all. If you read about or hear something about a particular culture, remember that this does not mean all people from that culture have the same beliefs and values. That would by stereotyping.
Learning to accept that everyone is different, but a person first, helps to embrace cultural differences and create cultural harmony. Unfortunately, Australia's past shows it is not always supportive of cultural harmony.
Go to following page by the Refugee Council of Australia, which provides links to personal stories of former refugees who have found a new life in Australia. Choose one story to read.
The multicultural policy upholds four (4) Principles. Below is an activity that has the principles with some words missing. Look at the words and choose which one fits the sentence in the principle.
Think about what can you do in your home, workplace and/or environment to show your celebration of our multicultural society. Celebrate Harmony Day on March 21st each year? Share food from other cultures? Display flags and posters of different cultures? Get to know someone from a different culture?
A whole environment approach will send a message of cultural harmony.
Now that you have worked through Journeys 1 & 2, we hope this resource has helped you to move forward on the cultural integrity scale. Take the quiz to mark where you think you are now on the scale.
Congratulate yourself if you have moved up the scale!
Kara Dynevor – Educator , Cherbourg, Queensland.
Samantha Molloy - Caseworker , The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Melbourne .


Logan County has one licensed solid waste facility. Cherokee Run Landfill, located on State Route 68 in Bellefontaine, accepts municipal solid waste, including household, commercial, and industrial waste. To contact the landfill please call 937-593-3566.
The Logan County Health District assists the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency with inspections of the facility to make sure that they are in compliance with Ohio's Solid Waste and Infectious Waste regulations.
Over 100 reports of open dumping are received at the Health Department annually. It is illegal to dump anything other than clean, hard fill in Ohio. Only concrete, asphalt, brick and similar materials constitute clean hard fill.
When property owners are financially or otherwise unable to clean up open dumping, the environmental and health hazards presented must still be addressed, therefore, open dumping costs the taxpayer millions of dollars statewide each year in clean up costs.
Report open dumping in Logan County to LCHD@loganhealth.org or call the Health District office at 937.592.9040.
Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream. That's a lot of waste to send to landfills when it could become useful and environmentally beneficial compost instead!
Composting offers the obvious benefits of resource efficiency and creating a useful product from organic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled.
Regulations for composting facilities are set forth by the Ohio EPA. The Logan County Health District performs inspections to ensure compliance with composting requirements.
Several yard waste composting sites exist in Logan County. Many villages and the City of Bellefontaine maintain sites for residential yard waste. Contact your municipal office for locations and times.
An alternative is to create a compost pile in your backyard or indoors, depending on your available space. Backyard and indoor composting are most suitable for households to convert small quantities of organic materials, such as yard trimmings and food scraps, into compost that can be spread in garden beds, under shrubs, or use it as potting soil for outdoor plants.
Infectious waste, also known as medical waste or biohazardous waste, is material that was used in health care, research, or postmortem exams.
Infectious waste generators are governed by Ohio Administrative Code 3745-27-30.
Further information about the Solid Waste program is available by contacting a sanitarian at (937) 592-9040, or e-mail LCHD@loganhealth.org.


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Менингоэнцефали́т ( (, род. п. meningis) — «мозговая оболочка» +  — «головной мозг» +  — суффикс, означающий воспаление) — воспаление оболочек и вещества головного мозга, может затронуть спинной мозг, вызывая паралич.

Этиология
Менингоэнцефалит могут вызвать бактерии (Listeria monocytogenes, Neisseria meningitidis, Rickettsia prowazekii, Treponema pallidum), вирусы (клещевого энцефалита, вирус Западного Нила) и простейшие (Trypanosoma brucei, Toxoplasma gondii, Naegleria fowleri), мутантные формы свободноживущих пресноводных амёб.

Клиническая картина

Клиническая картина заболевания менингоэнцефалита очень сходна с менингитом. Больные жалуются на головную боль, тошноту, озноб, рвоту, высокую температуру тела. Заболевание начинается остро. Возможен короткий продромальный период (несколько часов).

Диагностика

Диагностические методы менингоэнцефалита также не отличаются от диагностики менингита. Основой диагностики являются результаты исследования спинномозговой жидкости

Прогноз
Прогноз заболевания неблагоприятный. Характерно тяжелое течение заболевания и высокий процент летальных исходов.

Профилактика
Главным средством специфической профилактики заболевания является вакцинация. Обычно её делают в детском возрасте. Также одним из методов профилактики является химиопрофилактика (рифампицин по 600 мг каждые 12 ч в течение 2 дней).

Известные люди, болевшие менингоэнцефалитом
 Кристофер Прис — популярный британский телеведущий. Погиб от менингоэнцефалита.
 Моррис Иемма — бывший премьер-министр штата Новый Южный Уэльс, Австралия. Перенес менингоэнцефалит.
 Грачёв, Павел Сергеевич — российский государственный и военный деятель. Умер от менингоэнцефалита.

Менингоэнцефалит у животных
Основная причина заболевания — инфекция. Наибольшее значение имеют вирусные энцефаломиелиты, обусловленные нейротропными или пантротропными вирусами. Болезнь может развиваться при лептоспирозе и бактериальных инфекциях. Вторичные менингоэнцефалиты развиваются при ранении костей черепа, вследствие перехода воспаления с близрасположенных тканей, в случае сепсиса и тромбоэмболии при гангрене лёгких, эндокардите, эндометрите и гнойно-некротических процессах. Способствуют возникновению заболевания переохлаждение, перегревание, перенапряжение и другие факторы, снижающие резистентность организма.

Примечания

Инфекционные заболевания ЦНС
Вирусные инфекции


There is familiar routine around European games, and the day before the match itself there is a training session on the pitch and a pre-match press conference at the stadium.
First impressions of the MCH Arena is Herning were good. The attendances in the Danish Superliga averaged 5,880 last season, which is well in excess of what we are used to in Wales.
The stadium itself is nice and you can see 360 degree footage of that below, as the players trained. Finding ourselves 2-0 down from the first leg, it is going to be a tough one to overturn.
Like life itself, you have to be positive but you also need to be realistic as well. Whatever happens though, we have done Wales proud and singlehandedly have secured a fourth place in next season's European competitions, due to the results so far.
Yes, it's about The New Saints but also the big picture. Again, like life. Whatever is going on, there's always a big picture.