The Boston Pizza Survey is an online mode of communication between the customers and the top tier administration. It ensures that the feedback that the customers provide is heard and due action taken to maintain and increase the rate of customer satisfaction.
Boston Pizza or BP was opened in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1964. It is a Canadian food chain that has its restaurants in various locations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. To be precise, there are 348 Boston Pizza locations in Canada and 40 in Mexico and USA. With its headquarters in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, the food chain serves pizza, hamburgers, ribs, pasta, entrees, and salads.
The Boston Pizza Survey is a smart way of getting feedback. When the participant takes the survey in a comfortable environment, he/she will be thorough and more candid. The survey demands the participant to take out less than two minutes. The customer isn't bombarded with questions, but all the questions are to the point and seem sufficient. The participants is asked about; the employees, the environment of the restaurant, the prices, quality and quantity, freshness of food etc. However, the survey should also allow the participant to shed light on the ease of parking, security and emergency precautions exercised at the restaurant. A progress bar is also present at the bottom of the webpage throughout the survey. The progress bar should also indicate the percentage of the survey completed. There should also be a tab allowing the participant to go back to the previous webpage, if he/she has second thoughts and wants to edit an answer.


Over the past, there have been reports of scams abounding in the auto transport service industry. When choosing an auto transport company for your pricey asset, you need to make sure that you are only getting down to a deal with none but a company of sure repute and one in whom you can surely trust. But considering the fact that there are such a number of these companies out there, the fact is that the choice of an auto transport service that you can rely on is not going to be as simple and easy unless you male use of some of the tips herein given to help you settle for one.
What comes first as you look for these companies is for you to select a company that you are interested in and visit their website and get a quote from them. Think of some of the available online resources and sites such as Angie's List and the Better Business Bureau to find some of these services that are available for you in your locale. So as to get the most accurate quote, make sure that you have entered all the details and specifications as accurately as is required.
When making your choice for the reliable auto transport service for your auto shipping needs, it is advisable for you to never base your choice all on the lowest prices or quotes given by the auto transport company. This is for the fact that there have been reports of some of the unscrupulous auto transport companies that have lured into their trap the unsuspecting customers their way. When you will have accepted their deals as so, they will then have to look for a carrier to physically move your car and in the event that the carrier fails to accept their low bids, then you are definitely faced with disappointments and frustration with the need to transport your car.
Looking at all these, it is as such advisable for you to consider doing some fair share of research into the particular auto transport companies you are looking forward to dealing with. This as such makes a lot of sense for you to consider using the vast amount of wealth and resource available from the experience that others have had dealing with these companies. Such resourceful information can actually be sourced from a variety of sources such as from friends and relatives and any other acquaintance you know of who has been served by these companies in the past. This is then to be followed by taking a look at their review of their quotes, their reviews posted online, their terms and conditions and as well and most importantly, take a look at the number of years that they have been in business, telling of their experience. Inspection is as well an essential and as such the good one should make time and provision for the inspection of your vehicle before transporting them.


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How One U.S. County Is Bringing Life Back To It's Citizens
by Neill Frazer April 6, 2020, 12:53 am 1.9k Views
As movie theaters have shut across the globe, one multiplex in the heart of Texas has found an inventive way to keep the projector rolling. The EVO Entertainment movie theater in Schertz, Texas, has converted its parking lot into a temporary drive-in theater. The company painted the exterior wall of the movie theater with high-grain white paint that films can be projected on and they use AM/FM radios to broadcast the sound inside each vehicle. Since opening March 27, every screening has been sold out and all showtimes through April 3 remain booked.
"This is a difficult time for everyone, so we've made it our goal to find a way to spread positivity within our community while sharing in the responsibility of social distancing during the crisis," EVO Entertainment Group CEO Mitchell Roberts said in a statement to Forbes.
The drive-in launched by showing evening screenings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster "Spider-Man: Homecoming." All screenings are free and spots at the drive-in can be reserved ahead of time. All scheduling for session times end at 10pm when the town's curfew goes into effect.
EVO Entertainment is making money by providing food options from its theater kitchen. Forbes reports: "The cinema has taken significant measures to ensure the health of its patrons. Guests will have the opportunity to order menu items from the theater kitchen via a custom mobile ordering interface that was built specifically for this initiative. All payments are made through the app and no cash is accepted. When orders are ready, an EVO employee equipped with nitrile gloves brings the items to the driver side door."
So is this an option for some of our own cities to take into account, something that might bring some life and sanity to their civilians. It's probably one of the few ways entertainment can be achieved with social distancing in full effect, and also adhering to the governments requests. If someone has the initiative, this is an idea you can put into practise….just saying.
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Did Illegal Voters Win Obama's 2008 Election For Him? - The Number of Illegal Votes is SHOCKING!
Did Illegal Voters Win Obama's 2008 Election For Him? – The Number of Illegal Votes is SHOCKING!
A new study carried out by the Conservative think tank, Just Facts, shows that during the 2008 Presidential election, there were up to 7.9 million voters registered illegally, and of these, it is possible that 5.7 million actually cast a vote!
When former President, Barack Obama was asked about the likelihood of election fraud taking place during the 2016 election, he said: "What does that mean?" Obama chose to pretend that he was following studies done by completely debunked professors who claimed that ""zero" noncitizens of about 18 million adults in the U.S. voted" in the 2008 election.
When we consider that the Presidency is won on Electoral College Votes, the addition of even a couple of million votes in well-placed locations could mean a complete swing from red to blue or blue to red. This is why it is so important that electoral integrity is absolute.
Just Facts President, James Agresti, used a far more rigorous and scientific process to determine if any of the non-citizens voted…He checked the ballot registrations. When people apply for a driving license, they get to state whether or not they are a legal US citizen; by checking those that said "no" against those who got ballots, he came up with a figure that shows it is highly likely that between half a million and 5.7 million people voted illegally.
He (James Agresti) believes the Harvard/YouGov researchers based their "zero" claim on two flawed assumptions. First, they assumed that people who said they voted and identified a candidate did not vote unless their names showed up in a database."This is illogical, because such databases are unlikely to verify voters who use fraudulent identities, and millions of noncitizens use them," Mr. Agresti said.He cites government audits that show large numbers of noncitizens use false IDs and Social Security numbers in order to function in the U.S., which could include voting.
Second, Harvard assumed that respondent citizens sometimes misidentified themselves as noncitizens but also concluded that noncitizens never misidentified themselves as citizens, Mr. Agresti said."This is irrational, because illegal immigrants often claim they are citizens in order to conceal the fact that they are in the U.S. illegally," he said.
Is it possible that Barack Obama, his Administration, and all of the available US government agencies really had no idea that illegal voting was taking place? Or is it more likely that they denied it in full knowledge that illegal voting benefits Democrats more than Republicans? For every illegal vote cast, that is one person disenfranchised; for a party that talks constantly of enfranchising people, it doesn't seem to care much about it.
Whether or not illegal votes swung the election for Obama is irrelevant now; what matters is that real democratic process is restored to the nation. Photo ID's awarded with proof of citizenship and identity are the only way to ensure that every vote really counts; if people oppose them on grounds of enfranchisement, then we have 7.2 million arguments against them. The only people who really don't want true democracy are those that benefit from the fraud.
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import _ from 'lodash';
import ROT from 'rot-js';
import Roll from '../lib/dice-roller';
import Glyph from './glyph';
import { GetColor } from '../lib/valid-colors';
import GameState from '../init/gamestate';
import Abstract from './abstract';
import Log from '../lib/logger';
import MessageQueue, { MessageTypes } from '../display/message-handler';

export class Item extends Abstract {
  constructor(opts) {
    super(opts);
    opts.glyph = _.extend({ fg: GetColor(), key: opts.symbol }, opts.glyph);
    _.extend(this, opts);
    this.enchantment = this.enchantment || 0;
    this.slotsTaken = this.slotsTaken || 1;
    if(this.attacks) {
      _.each(this.attacks, (attack) => attack._itemRef = this);
    }
    if(this.range) {
      this.range = _.extend({ numShots: 1, damageBoost: '0d0', ammo: [] }, this.range);
    }
    if(this.charges) this.charges = Roll(this.charges);
    if(this.startIdentified) this.identify();
    this.glyph = new Glyph(opts.glyph.key, opts.glyph.fg);
    this.generateBUC(opts.bucProb);
    if(!this.material) {
      Log('Item', `${this.getType()} has no material set.`);
    }
  }

  isIdentified() {
    const myType = this.getParentType();
    return GameState.identification[myType];
  }

  identify() {
    const myType = this.getParentType();
    GameState.identification[myType] = this.realName;
  }

  pickFakeName(choices) {
    const myType = this.getParentType();
    if(GameState._idMap[this.realName]) {
      return GameState._idMap[this.realName]; // this item has already been generated
    }
    const currentTypes = _.keys(GameState.identification[myType]);
    const validTypes = _.difference(choices, currentTypes);
    const name = _.sample(validTypes);
    GameState._idMap[this.realName] = name;
    return name;
  }

  canUse(owner) {
    if(this.manaCost) return owner.mp.gte(this.manaCost);
    if(this.charges) return this.charges > 0;
    return owner.isEquipped(this);
  }

  hasValidAmmo(owner) {
    return this.getValidAmmo(owner).length > 0;
  }

  getValidAmmo(owner) {
    return _.filter(owner.inventory, (item) => item.canUse(owner) && _.contains(this.range.ammo, item.getType()));
  }

  use(owner, extra = { healVal: 1 }) {
    if(this.manaCost) owner.mp.sub(this.manaCost);
    if(this.healRoll) owner.heal(extra.healVal);
    if(this.charges) {
      this.charges--;
      if(this.charges <= 0 && this.autoRemove) this.disintegrate(owner);
    }
    if(this.range && this.hasValidAmmo(owner)) {
      this.pewpew(owner);
    }
  }

  pewpew(owner) {
    for(let i=0; i<this.range.numShots; i++) {
      const chosenAmmo = _.sample(this.getValidAmmo(owner));
      chosenAmmo._tempAttackBoost = this.range.damageBoost;
      const attack = _.sample(chosenAmmo.attacks);
      owner.doAttack(attack, i);
      delete chosenAmmo._tempAttackBoost;
    }
  }

  disintegrate(owner) {
    owner.unequip(this);
    owner.dropItem(this);
    GameState.world.removeItem(this);
    MessageQueue.add({ message: `${this.name} crumbled to dust.`, type: MessageTypes.ITEM });
  }

  isCursed() { return this.bucName === 'cursed'; }

  curse() {
    this.bucName = 'cursed';
    this.setBUC();
  }

  uncurse() {
    this.bucName = 'uncursed';
    this.setBUC();
  }

  bless() {
    this.bucName = 'blessed';
    this.setBUC();
  }

  setBUC() {
    const hash = { cursed: -1, uncursed: 1, blessed: 2 };
    this.buc = hash[this.bucName];
  }

  generateBUC(opts = { cursed: 5, blessed: 5, uncursed: 90 }) {
    if(!this.bucName) {
      const status = ROT.RNG.getWeightedValue(opts);
      this.bucName = status;
    }
    this.setBUC();
  }

  value() {
    const atkValue = _.reduce(this.attacks, ((prev, cur) => prev + cur.value()), 0);
    return this.buc * (100 - this.rarity) + this.enchantment*5 + atkValue;
  }

  toJSON() {
    const me = _.omit(this, ['bucProb', 'startIdentified', '_tempAttackBoost', 'symbol']);
    return JSON.stringify(me);
  }
}

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Q: Suppose $f(0) = f(2 \pi)$. Show there is a number $c \in [0, \pi]$ such that $f(c)=f(c + \pi)$ I'm a student taking a real analysis course at university. I'm working down my problem sheet and have been asked the following (which is the full version of the shortened question in the title).
Q:Suppose $f:[0,2 \pi] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a continuous function satisfying $f(0) = f(2 \pi)$. Show that there is a number $c \in [0,\pi]$ such that $f(c) = f(c+ \pi)$.
The question seems to be referencing $\sin(x)$. A solution I know exists in the range $[0, \pi]$ is $c=0$, therefore $\sin(0)= \sin(\pi)$. However $\sin(x)$ doesn't appear to be directly referenced and I am not sure how to show a value for $c$ only knowing $f(0) = f(2 \pi)$.
If anyone can help it would be much appreciated!

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Opinion / Q&A
Diabetes drug delivers multiple benefits for people with fragile X syndrome
by Polina Porotskaya / 17 September 2019
Randi Hagerman
Medical Director, MIND Institute
The Expert:
Researcher Randi Hagerman is a big proponent of metformin — a diabetes drug that helps people manage their weight. In fact, Hagerman takes the drug herself as a preventive measure against cancer.
Metformin has also unexpectedly shown promise for improving cognition in people with fragile X syndrome, a leading genetic cause of autism characterized by severe intellectual disability.
Hagerman tells Spectrum how the drug might work and why she is excited about the results of a three-year clinical trial that aims to quantify metformin's effect in people with the syndrome.
Spectrum: What treatment options are currently available for fragile X syndrome?
Randi Hagerman: There are no treatments approved [by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)] to treat the syndrome yet, but a host of medications work pretty well, including some stimulants and antidepressants. We also prescribe aripiprazole — [an atypical antipsychotic] — melatonin, antioxidants and different kinds of supplements.
But many doctors won't use any medications that are not FDA-approved.
S: Metformin is not yet approved to treat fragile X. How did you first become interested in it?
RH: A study published in 2017 linked impaired insulin signaling in the brain to cognitive and social deficits in a fruit fly model of fragile X, and the flies improved on metformin. A second paper that year showed that metformin reverses abnormalities in a mouse model of the syndrome, including the number of branches the mice's neurons form. It also improved seizures and hyperactivity in the mice — issues we also see in people with fragile X.
I began prescribing metformin to people with fragile X syndrome to help curb overeating. Many of the people I treat are overweight because of this habit — it's one of the symptoms of a subtype of fragile X called the Prader-Willi phenotype, not to be confused with Prader-Willi syndrome.
I was surprised when the families of these individuals told me they could talk better and carry out conversations, where they couldn't before. That really gave us impetus to conduct a controlled clinical trial.
S: How does the drug boost cognitive abilities in people with fragile X?
RH: The condition is caused by mutations in the FMR1 gene. FMR1 codes for a protein called FMRP, which regulates the expression of hundreds of other genes. If FMRP is disrupted, protein production may increase in the brain and elsewhere in the body because FMRP's inhibitory effect is missing.
Metformin dampens several pathways that are overactive in fragile X syndrome, and rescues some physical and language abilities.
S: You're conducting a clinical trial of metformin for people with fragile X. What is the status of that trial?
RH: We are in our second year of the study and are enrolling people in three locations: the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada; the Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal; and the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis.
Our study looks at people with fragile X syndrome aged 6 to 25. Participants take either metformin or placebo for four months, and we assess them using a whole battery of cognitive tests.
We have more boys than girls enrolled because our intelligence quotient (IQ) cutoff is 79, and many girls with fragile X have an IQ above 80.
We have more than 20 people enrolled at the MIND Institute and expect to get another 20 this year; the other two locations are just starting to enroll now. We expect to register 60 at each site per year over three years — enough to allow us to see changes in language and cognitive performance.
S: How are you measuring the cognitive effects of the drug?
RH: We are using an extensive language assessment and the NIH Toolbox, which has a whole battery of measurable neurocognitive outcomes. The scales have been adjusted to work well in individuals with cognitive disability. We are also using the Tobii eye tracker, which provides a quantitative measure of how the brain processes eye contact — something that people with fragile X often have trouble with.
These toolboxes are useful because behavioral checklists can be skewed if they're answered by caregivers; if a parent believes a medication will cure her child, her answers can be biased.
S: Does the drug have any side effects?
RH: Persistent loose stool is a possibility. But most of the people I see don't have any diarrhea. Starting the medication slowly and increasing the dose gradually helps avoid this problem.
S: What effect does the drug seem to have in people with fragile X?
RH: It's not a cure-all, but we do see some positive changes. It doesn't resolve intellectual disability, but we have seen IQ improvements of up to 10 points in two boys who have been treated with metformin. We are very excited about that.
Individuals on metformin tend to start eating less, and often lose weight as a result. I could kick myself, because metformin has been approved to treat obesity for many years, but I never thought to use it in fragile X syndrome. Oftentimes children with fragile X syndrome have so many problems that you aren't thinking about obesity as the top priority.
We've also seen a gradual effect on language, which we can detect after two to three months. Sometimes there are improvements in other behaviors too; I've seen mood-stabilizing effects. Many people with fragile X syndrome have issues with aggression, and it's possible these could be moderated with metformin too.
S: When do you expect to have final results from the trial?
RH: We have at least two more years of collecting data, and then we will analyze it. In the meantime, I'm prescribing metformin to some people with fragile X syndrome who visit my clinic if they cannot participate in our study.
S: If metformin controls weight and boosts language learning, why isn't everyone taking it?
RH: Well, I am! When I started reading and found out that it can also help prevent some forms of cancer, including breast cancer, I decided to start taking it myself. I even lost some weight. I don't know why others don't take it if they are overweight or concerned about their cancer risk. Ask your doctor.
TAGS: aripiprazole, autism, fragile X syndrome, language, obesity


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Disputò due amichevoli con la nazionale maggiore, la prima il 29 febbraio 1984 contro la Germania Ovest e la seconda  il 17 aprile dello stesso anno contro la Polonia.

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This is an impressive vocal, Jerry. That rich voice of yours just makes this sound superb.
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Woodbourne — At the end of the one-block hamlet of Woodbourne, you'll see a boarded-up Art Deco movie house with a rotted marquee held up by supporting beams.
Inside, you'll see torn velvet seats, rusted 35 mm canisters piled in a storage room upstairs and bare concrete walls, where two bright tapestries once hung on opposite walls.
But there are signs of rebirth in the Center Theatre, a place once considered the jewel among local movie houses in Sullivan County. It was built in the golden era of cinema, the 1920s to the 1940s.
Most of the leaky roof has been patched. The stage has been rebuilt. Bright-colored murals hang on an exterior wall facing the street outside.
The Sullivan Performing Arts Association, an organization which bought the theater eight years ago, is slowly restoring it, said Walter Keller, the board president.
By next summer, Keller said, the building may be ready to open for plays and musicals on a limited basis.
But years of neglect have left a big restoration job. And that job is expensive because the building was placed on the Federal Register of Historic Places in 2001. That qualifies the organization for a number of grants, but also means the restoration must be as faithful as possible to the original.
The organization needs to raise about $250,000 to rewire the building, redo the 600-plus seats and install new plumbing. The price tag could be $1 million for a total restoration.
"It looked like a bomb had dropped," said Keller, while climbing zigzagging steps to the projector room, where a rusted 1930s-era light board sits next to the square hole where the projector once flashed "All About Eve" and the "House on Telegraph Hill."
The Center Theatre opened on June 30, 1939. On opening night, Teddy King and his orchestra from New York City and a half-dozen vaudeville acts performed, according to an old newspaper advertisement.
Comics and musicians usually followed a long program that included Movietown news, cartoons, coming attractions and a feature movie in Technicolor, said Ceil Cohen, who used to hide under the seats during scary scenes in the cliffhangers.
In the early 1970s, two self-described Woodstock survivors bought the Center, renaming it the Peace Palace, where they screened midnight showings of "Reefer Madness" and other cult movies. The theater was later sold to a religious organization and has been vacant for several years.
An open house will be held 4-7:30 p.m. Thursday outside the theater, with food and music.


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Interestingly, I noticed the phenomena (and challenge) of the electric bike in Israel when I was there 2 years ago. We are only exploring the issue in the United States. I'm surprised the e-bike hasn't become more visible.
One day, I sat in a Tel Aviv park and grabbed all of these photos. They tell the story of a changing society. Comments and ideas welcome.
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Starwood Business Credit Card Review 2019: Worth $95?
Do you or your employees travel for work? With over 6,700 hotels and resorts, point transfer to select frequent flyer programs, and point bonus for those transfers, the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express is one of our favorite travel rewards cards on CreditDonkey for business owners. Read on to see what sets this card apart from the competition.
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Booking a hotel when you're traveling for business doesn't come cheap. The average room runs just over $110 per night at a mid-grade hotel, and the price climbs even higher for luxury accommodations.
Joining a hotel loyalty program is a smart way for business owners to make traveling less expensive.
You can score a bonus: This card offers a welcome bonus for new cardholders.
You earn points that you can redeem for free nights: When you make a purchase with your Starwood Preferred Guest Business Card, you earn points.
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Earning points is one thing. It's what you can do with it that matters. Read on.
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Tip: When you transfer the points to miles as you can score an additional 15,000 extra points when you transfer 60,000 points to eligible frequent flyer program.. This makes points worth 25% more when you convert them to an airline transfer partner like American Airlines AAdvantage.
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There is a $95 annual fee . While there is a $0 introductory annual fee for the first year, we have to think long term with our business. Not every business owner needs to travel.
If you don't plan to travel at least once a year, it is hard to justify the annual fee. In our opinion, folks should get the card to earn points toward hotel stays and airline flights. Otherwise, you are better off with a card with no annual fee such as the Blue Business Credit Card (See Rates & Fees).
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Radical Gender Ideology Invades Small-Town Schools
Sunday, Oct 30, 2022 - 03:15 AM
Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times,
When the school called his 14-year-old son to the principal's office for refusing to say a female student was a boy, Matthew Duncan decided he'd had enough.
Grants Pass High School in Oregon displays an LGBT pride heart over its main office entrance on Oct. 18, 2022. (Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times)
At first, Duncan's son thought his longtime classmate was joking when she told him to say she was a man. He refused.
"You can't do that! You can't call somebody by something that they're not," Duncan said school administrators in Grants Pass chastised the boy.
"Just so you know, if you do it again, you're gonna get in trouble," they warned his son, Duncan said.
After the school year ended, Duncan transferred his two children to a private school.
Grants Pass is a small, conservative town, but locals have found they can't control what their children get taught in public school. Families have found directives from Oregon's governor trample their own beliefs. Teachers who want a politically neutral curriculum say local schools have actively promoted LGBT ideology.
Matthew Duncan, photographed in Grants Pass, Ore., on Oct. 18, 2022, moved his two children to a private school after administrators at the local high school threatened to punish his son for refusing to say a girl classmate was a boy. (Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times)
"There was never a push towards dominance and control like it is now," said Duncan. "You can't voice your opinion."
In response, many families in Grants Pass have withdrawn their children from public school, enrolling them in private school or starting to homeschool, Grants Pass teachers, school administrators and parents told The Epoch Times.
But those solutions can be expensive and inconvenient, and private schools sometimes don't have enough space to absorb the exodus of students.
Boys Aren't Girls
In just a few years, LGBT ideology has swept into Oregon schools, said Betty, a former school employee who used her first name only to avoid backlash within the community. She retired early because she was tired of trying to help kids, while simultaneously fighting left-wing ideology, she told The Epoch Times.
Just a few years ago, there wasn't any LGBT indoctrination in her school, Betty said. Then, education workers slowly and quietly filled schools with pro-LGBT material.
"I mean, we're out in the country. It's conservative. And it's like [the truth is], 'Beware! It's not!'" she said.
One day, Betty discovered a poster in the library that stated left-wing talking points.
This sign promoting left-wing ideology was displayed at a public high school in Grants Pass, Ore. (Courtesy of Betty)
"We believe black lives matter, no human is illegal, love is love, women's rights are human rights, science is real, water is life, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," it read.
It didn't seem like education to provide just one perspective on controversial issues, she said. So she put up her own poster next to it.
"We believe all lives matter, legal immigration, marriage is one man & one woman, unborn female and male babies have rights, God's creation supports science, water is life, return to law abiding Constitutional America," Betty's poster read.
Then she got called to the principal's office.
"They said, 'You know what? This is unacceptable. You need to clear everything with us,'" Betty recalled.
The school forced her to take her poster down, but allowed the left-wing poster to remain, she said.
In another incident, when Betty stopped a young elementary school boy from walking into the girls' bathroom by mistake, administrators expressed their disapproval.
"Oh, did I get it for that!" she exclaimed. "They said, 'Betty, don't you understand? They can walk wherever they want.'"
Radical gender ideology broke into schools after younger teachers embraced it in their training in college.
"They bought the propaganda," Betty lamented. "They were immersed in the propaganda at the college level, so they're just spewing that out. My sense is that they don't have the same morality that us oldsters do."
Another conservative teacher, Deborah, left her job after facing pressure to resign, she said. Deborah chose not to use her real name because she was concerned about drawing criticism.
Before she left, a school-mandated lecture told all teachers to raise their hands if they had "white privilege," she said. She was the only one not to signal affirmation.
"No one else, as far as I know—no one else spoke up," she said.
A school bus outside Grants Pass High School in Grants Pass, Ore., on Oct. 18, 2022. (Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times)
In another incident, a student expressed panic after Donald Trump was elected president. The girl said she feared Trump would put her in a concentration camp because she was a lesbian, Deborah recalled.
Deborah assured her it wouldn't happen, she said. The student filed a complaint, and the school's administration talked with Deborah about the incident.
"It was so ridiculous," she said. "It never went anywhere, and is not even documented in my employment file. But I was visited by the administration because of it."
Then, after Deborah accidentally handed a graded test to the wrong student, the student filed a complaint against her. Documents she provided to The Epoch Times show that the school assigned her "focus goals" that included passing out papers to the correct students.
Deborah has 22 years of teaching experience. She said she believes the school used the complaint to make her job so frustrating that she would quit. She suspects the school wanted her out because of her political beliefs.
"I think that people knew that I probably wouldn't call a girl a boy," Deborah said.
After the complaint, the school subjected all her work to intense scrutiny, she said.
"I would have to email my every single detail [in a] plan, at 5 in the morning to the principal and the personnel director," Deborah recalled. "And then they would have people coming in my class every day. Different administrators were picking apart everything. And I found that many of the things that they said were just flat-out lies."
Tired of the pressure, Deborah retired in 2019.
Local Kids, State Standards
Some in the community believe schools have also swung left in towns like Grants Pass, because Oregon's state government sets educational standards that promote radical gender ideology.
"The whole system is set up to reprogram the kids. I mean, that's what they're doing. They're literally destroying these innocent little brains," said Betty.
The Oregon State Board of Education (OSBE) sets educational policies and standards for the state. The governor selects the board's members.
Democrats have controlled the governor's office since 1986. Oregon's current governor, Kate Brown, is the nation's first openly bisexual politician.
Some have accused the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) of pushing left-wing ideology at the expense of educational excellence. Its website urges administrators to educate while focusing on race and ethnicity.
Oregon's health education standards also say children should learn there are "many ways to express gender" in kindergarten. They should learn about sexual orientation in third grade, the standards state, and they should be taught how to prevent the spread of AIDS in third grade as well.
By third grade, the guidelines continue, students should "recognize differences and similarities of how individuals identify regarding gender or sexual orientation."
From kindergarten, students should learn to "recognize the importance of treating others with respect including gender expression," the standards read. Students of the same age should also "identify different kinds of family structures."
Sometimes, Oregon state curriculum is pornographic, in the opinion of Heidi Napier, a Grants Pass local who works with the area's Republican Party education committee.
Napier paid for a copy of the state's curriculum and discovered it included photographs of diseased genitals and line drawings of people having sex.
When Napier showed the pictures to a police officer, he told her that it would be a crime if she distributed them to children.
It's legal, however, to use the same materials in the classroom.
"These are from the CDC," the officer told her. "And as long as they're used by a schoolteacher, they're not pornography. But if anybody else used them, they would be considered pornography."
Napier wondered if she could even show them at a school board meeting without facing repercussions.
The outside of Grants Pass High School suggests the school promotes left-wing gender ideology. The school has a rainbow LGBT pride heart above its main entrance and LGBT pride stickers on the windows of its classrooms.
The Epoch Times requested an interview with the Grants Pass school district, but one had not been scheduled by press time.
Pushing Private School
In response to ideological teaching, many Grants Pass parents have removed their children from public schools.
Admissions for Grants Pass New Hope Christian School have skyrocketed in the last three years, according to school administrator Annie Burnham.
Since 2020, the school has gone from 190 students to 340, with about 30 students on a waiting list, she said. To meet the need, New Hope more than doubled its staff. This switch is part of a nationwide post-COVID-19 trend.


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When I was growing up, they were simply "Christmas cookies" to me—not butter cookies or cutout cookies. Just Christmas cookies: the quintessential sweet of the season.
As an adult, I consider these classics a family recipe, but in truth, the five-ingredient list is hardly complicated, or a secret: butter, flour, sugar, an egg, and—most importantly—a half-teaspoon of real almond extract (imitation is forbidden!). First, as with all cookies, the butter and sugar are creamed together before adding the egg and almond extract. Then the flour is carefully stirred in. For years I had to hand over the spoon to my mom when the last cup of flour went into the bowl, and for years I was in awe of how strong she was, as I watched her effortlessly finish the job my wimpy arm couldn't handle.
After the dough was chilled (a step I was never a fan of waiting through), my mom and I rolled it out to a careful ¼-inch thick round ready to be puzzled into Christmas shapes. It was with Christmas cookie dough that I learned to use a rolling pin: gently but firmly, keeping the pressure even between left and right hands, learning to lift the rolling pin slightly as it reached the outer perimeter of the dough, so as not to leave the edges too thin to be cut.
Opening up the tin of cookie cutters each December was as thrilling to me as unearthing my family's boxes of tree decorations. All the old favorite shapes were there—stocking, tree, candy cane, wreath, star, santa, and the gingerbread boy and girl (which we didn't hesitate to use on non-gingerbread dough)—as well as the surprise of a new cookie cutter or two we had added to the collection the year before. I learned to be strategic about arranging each shape before pressing it into the dough, minimizing the scraps of dough to be gathered and rolled out again. The outstretched leg of the reindeer nicely made use of a little strip of available dough left along the top of a tree's point, and the positive points of one star could utilize the negative spaces left by another star.
Frosting and decorating the cookies, though, was the best part of the process. The bowls of colored frosting and various sprinkles were laid out on the table, drawing the whole family as if they were a feast rather than work to be shared. Over the years, our approach became increasingly elaborate and creative. Armed with toothpicks, we discovered techniques for swirling two or more colors of frosting in the middle of a star, and for picking up and placing tiny candy balls exactly where we wanted them, along the hem of an angel's dress. In his teens, my brother went rogue with his approach, transforming traditional shapes into entirely different objects—an upside-down stocking became a hobby-horse, and bell became a space shuttle, with USA spelled out carefully using those small, stick-shaped chocolate sprinkles.
Our three daughters are now teenagers, and the "Christmas cookie" tradition continues—even beyond Christmas. Somewhere along the line, it occurred to me that "Christmas cookies" could be made at other times of the year, so I began buying new cookie cutters: tulips and rabbits, pumpkins and maple leaves, hearts and snowflakes.
A few weeks ago, on a cold Saturday morning, we sat down around the dinning room table, where stacks of naked autumn cookies waited for their sweet, creative disguises. Each of the girls had invited a friend to join us. "I didn't realize other people even did this any more," one of our guests said, picking up a toothpick and getting intricate with her design.
The cookies are definitely special—everyone who sees them and bites into one agrees. But for me, it's the tradition of time spent together—evolving as our family evolves, yet remaining the same from year to year, in a life where it seems nothing really remains the same—that I crave most this time of year.
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In a mixing bowl, cream 1 cup butter with electric beaters; gradually add 1/2 cup sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Then beat in 1 egg and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract. Gradually blend in 2 1/2 cups flower (switching to hand blending with a spoon, as needed). Gather dough into a ball, wrap in plastic, and chill (for at least a few hours).
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8″ – 1/4″ thickness. Cut with cookie cutters dipped in flour. Place on baking sheets. Bake 8-12 minutes (keep an eye out for reindeer legs and other thin sections that might burn!).
Lisa, the misty-eyed happy posts are the best kind, I think! And I love having a chance to prove that I can write something that's simply "sweet" (even if I did have to get a bit dark in my comment to Jen!).
Your post has me thinking about what my girls will remember about the Christmas season, years from now. Sometimes I try too hard to re-create the wheel every year, to get the balance between "stuff" and meaning just right, to not be too consumeristic without becoming a grinch, etc. So every year I over-think things and try something new, forgetting that its the traditions they'll remember.
Your post reminded me (and just in time!) that the simplest things matter.
Jen, this is a "happy post," and I don't mean to place it in a minor key, but your comment got me thinking. For a handful of years when my girls were young, I was struggling with depression, and then I was a single mom. After that, Jason and I were blending our two families, so there were plenty of other transitions.
I guess what I'm realizing just now is that having this very simple tradition—one that took place every December of my life, like clockwork—was so necessary. Not only did it provide a framework of stability for my girls, but it allowed me to do something special with them that didn't require a whole lot of creative planning and thought (which I simply didn't have the energy for at least some of those years). I think those cookies have been more of a gift than I ever realized!


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You can now go fishing during this lockdown - here's everything you need to know
Updated: Can I go fishing during the third national lockdown
Fishing is confirmed as being allowed during the third national lockdown
"WE are once again able to enjoy the sport we love at a time when many others cannot and we must ensure that every angler adheres to the rules."
That's the words of the Angling Trust chief executive Jamie Cook after confirming a U-turn on the situation regarding fishing during England's third national lockdown.
"The Government have now formally responded to the representations made by the Angling Trust," he explained.
"We have promoted the huge benefits of fishing on individual health and wellbeing and have been able to present a case to which the Government have listened.
"On this basis I am pleased to announce that fishing will be permitted during the third national lockdown in England."
The Head of Sports Participation at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport confirmed the news: "Fishing is allowed as exercise so long as participants adhere to the rules on staying local, gathering limits, social distancing and limiting the time spent outdoors."
And this has also been confirmed by DEFRA: "Cabinet Office have now officially confirmed that angling / fishing (incl. sea fishing off private boats, water sports) can be considered exercise and are hence permitted."
Angling was the first sport to return to action during the first lockdown which started last March and was allowed to continue through the November lockdown.
Cook continued in his statement: "We have worked extremely hard to reach this position and we as anglers have a duty to abide by the strict conditions under which fishing is once again permitted.
"With infection rates and death tolls rising we must stick to the Government's rules and ensure that angling remains part of the solution and does not cause problems.
"Please bear in mind these key points which will be reflected in the new Angling Trust guidelines which we will publish shortly."
"This is a strictly limited resumption of LOCAL fishing and very different to how we have been allowed to operate since May.
"We are in a National Lockdown and this must be respected. The law requires a 'reasonable excuse' to leave your home or penalties will apply.
"The Government has recognised that fishing can be seen as exercise, which is expressly permitted under the lockdown rules, although outdoor recreation is not.
"Organised sporting gatherings are prohibited so no match fishing.
"The exercise is limited to once a day so no overnight fishing whatsoever.
"To remain within the law you should follow the Government's guidance, and only fish locally within the district where you live. If you have no local fishing available then you will have to take your daily exercise in other ways.
He added: "I would ask all anglers who are not members to join the Angling Trust and give us your support.
"We have worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome and that is only possible thanks to the support of our new and existing members. I would ask all anglers who value their ability to go fishing to make the same commitment as your fellow anglers have and join the Angling Trust. We are stronger together!
"Stay safe and very best fishes."


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A private undergraduate institution, Whitman College is located on 45 acres (18 hectares) in Walla Walla, Washington. The architecture on campus ranges from colonial-style to ivy-covered redbrick. Whitman began in 1859 as a seminary, becoming a college in 1883. It was named for medical missionary Marcus Whitman and his wife, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, who were killed in an Indian attack on their mission station.
The college enrolls more than 1,200 students, with the numbers of men and women attending being relatively equal. About half of the students are state residents, with many others coming from nearby states. The majority of students ranked in the top quarter or better of their high school class. Most students live in campus housing.
The academic calendar is divided into semesters. More than 80 percent of Whitman's full-time faculty hold doctorates. The college focuses on the liberal arts and sciences. Students can also major in art, music, or drama, or they can choose an interdepartmental major (most of which combine scientific, mathematical, and social scientific fields). The college arranges with other institutions to conduct cooperative programs in engineering, forestry, environmental management, law, education, and business.
Whitman was the first institution of higher learning in the United States to require undergraduates to pass a comprehensive examination in their major. All students take a freshman core that emphasizes reading and writing skills, a range of distribution courses, and a senior colloquium dealing with modern issues. The college offers a large number of off-campus opportunities, including scientific research internships, urban studies programs in major cities, and a semester in Washington, D.C. About a third of each junior class studies abroad. Select students teach English to university students in China. More than 75 percent of Whitman graduates pursue some sort of advanced study within five years of commencement.
Whitman conducts some 40 extracurricular activities, including a debate team, musical and theatrical groups, and a campus radio station. About three fourths of the students participate in intramural sports. Approximately half of the students belong to fraternities and sororities. Varsity sports teams compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. The college discontinued its intercollegiate football program in the late 1970s. School colors are maize and blue.
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May 12, 2008 Issue
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Daughters of the North, by Sarah Hall (HarperPerennial; $13.95). In Hall's unsettling third novel, a series of ecological and geopolitical disasters in Britain has caused all citizens to be herded into urban centers, where women are fitted with contraceptive coils. Hall's work covers familiar fictive ground in imagining a dystopia in which women's bodies have become the battleground for competing ideologies; what is new here, however, is the unflinching focus on physical control. This can make for squeamish reading, as bodies are continually being "stretched and scoured" in the most vivid terms, but the result is a powerful argument that, when civil institutions, or the bodies of state, are compromised, so, too, is the integrity of the body. The book sometimes lacks suspense, owing, in part, to the limitations imposed by its framing device, a transcript of a prisoner's statement.
Hardheaded Weather, by Cornelius Eady (Putnam; $25.95). This collection of both new and previously published poems showcases Eady's enormous range as a chronicler of contemporary American life—class, race, family, gender, jazz and blues, and the distinctions between urban and rural environments all play a role in these impeccable lyrics. Eady's plain-spoken, pragmatic voice is accessible yet distinct, and the experiences he describes (being a victim of discrimination, watching a tough-minded father die, surviving prostate cancer) manage to seem both intimate and universal. Eady writes of being "a black, / American poet" whose "greatest weakness / is an inability / to sustain rage." But, given the breadth and nuance of his palette, perhaps that is his greatest strength.
The Hebrew Republic, by Bernard Avishai (Harcourt; $26). The Bush Administration's fervent desire to broker a Middle East peace agreement before it leaves the stage, early next year, seems almost hopeless, given the fractures among the Palestinians, the heedless building of Israeli settlements, and the fact that the Administration itself ignored the problem for years. It is a grim moment in an endlessly grim situation, but Avishai, the author of "The Tragedy of Zionism," finds hope in a growing comprehension on the Israeli side, especially among technocratic and business élites, that the country cannot build an economy like Singapore's amid Balkan-like ethnic conflict. In his deeply intelligent and passionate essay, Avishai, a Canadian-born Israeli, shines a revealing light on the evolution of the peace camp and affirms the need for secular democratic institutions to assert their primacy in a country where religious authorities wield excessive power and twenty per cent of the population is Arab.
Planet Shanghai, by Justin Guariglia, with an introduction by John Krich (Chronicle; $24.95). It's amazing how much you can accomplish in Shanghai while wearing pajamas. In recent years, Shanghai newspapers have worried that this sartorial habit will give the city a slovenly image, but it seems that many natives see little divide between public and private space. Justin Guariglia, an American photographer who lived in Asia for nearly a decade, captures the city in its most informal moments. His book includes dozens of portraits of pajama'd Shanghainese: visiting the supermarket, riding motorcycles, walking dogs, playing mah-jongg, going to McDonald's, smoking cigarettes. Guariglia works close to the ground; he shoots the undersides of bridges and the sheen of vegetables at the market, and includes no fewer than sixteen pages of footwear, a common Chinese obsession. His search for street style uncovers moments of unexpected beauty: a rainbow pile of scrap wire, a heart-shaped decoration on an anti-theft gate, a boarded-up door crisscrossed with lines as straight and true as a calligrapher's best brushwork.
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Lil' Flip Wants Critics to Stop Worrying About Donald Trump and Help Hurricane Harvey Victims [VIDEO]
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Last week, President Donald Trump visited Texas and offered words of encouragement and support to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. However, some critics felt that Trump lacked empathy in his speech and criticized him for not helping out with the rescue efforts. But rapper Lil' Flip defended the president in his recent chat with TMZ.
The Houston rhymer, who has been helping in the relief efforts following Hurricane Harvey, feels that people should stop criticizing Trump and come on down to H-Town and help the people.
"At least he came, he didn't just sit in his White House and not come," said Flip about President Trump's visit. "You get an "E" for effort, for trying."
As for the criticism that Trump received, he feels it was unwarranted. He also questioned how many of those same critics flew down to Houston to help the people out. "If you are going to point the finger at somebody, then you should be out [here]," he said. "Whoever has a problem with how [Trump] handled it, then they should go out there and do something as well."
"But for a person to criticize somebody who at least is trying to do something while they are sitting at home a million miles away, he without sin cast the first stone," he added.
Lil' Flip is among several Houston natives who are helping in the recovery efforts in Texas. Rapper Trae tha Truth just launched his own Hurricane Harvey relief fund called "We Are One" via his GoFundme page. Fellow H-Towner Bun B is organizing a telethon for Hurricane Harvey victims.
Finally, Beyonce's BeyGOOD Foundation has partnered with two Houston-based charities Bread for Life and Greater Houston Community Foundation and is urging fans to donate to them through her website.
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After Mass one Sunday evening last month, one of those celebrated twice a month at the Church of the Assumption and St Gregory in London's Soho with a particular focus on the pastoral needs of LGBT (i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Catholics, their families and friends, I was talking to one particular member of the congregation. She is not in fact any of LGBT herself, but conventionally heterosexual and a mother, who had travelled into the West End from Kent, as she does as often as she can for our Masses – usually, but inaccurately, described as Soho "Gay Masses". She was telling me how much she enjoys the experience. "It's the community", she said.
And so it is. I have previously heard exactly the same sentiment from another heterosexual mother, married to her husband for over 40 years, who was also present at Sunday's Mass. She travels up for our Mass once a month only – all the way from Somerset, a very substantial journey. Later, I came to reflect on the achievement of these Masses, which have a particular focus on the needs of LGBT Catholics, their friends and families – but which take place in the context of a regular parish. When a visiting priest from my former parish in Johannesburg attended last October to see for himself how we operated, I was curious to know just what he thought. "But it's just a Mass", was his response.
Again, so it it – but what a Mass! Far from the hotbed of iniquity imagined by our critics, here's a run-down of what actually happened on Sunday night, and some other recent activity: a record that puts many conventional parishes to shame.
Well in advance of the Mass, our liturgist had prepared and printed Mass sheets, bidding prayers, and our regular, extensive newsletter.
Members of the organising team began to appear at the church from about 4 pm onward – a full hour ahead of the scheduled start.
Two people inserted the Mass sheets/ newsletters into hymn books, offering one to each Mass-goer in welcome, on arrival.
The celebrant for the Mass was Monsignor Seamus O'Boyle, parish priest and also the Vicar – general for the diocese.
Assisting Msgr O'Boyle on the altar was a sacristan / server
Music was provided by a highly skilled organist (one of a team of four), assisted by a superb cantor to lead the vigorous and enthusiastic congregational singing.
Readings and bidding prayers were shared between four readers.
Four more were Eucharistic ministers.
A further four people took the offertory collection, and a retiring collection for the registered Catholic charity, CAPS (Catholics for AIDS Prevention and Support).
Notices at the end of Mass included some matters concerning our planned pilgrimage to Rome, due to take place next April.
Out of about 100 worshippers, possibly 50 moved downstairs for coffee and biscuits provided by the catering team, and to browse through the extensive information tables and collection of religious themed books on our magnificent bookstall (with subject matter ranging across Scripture, spirituality and prayer, Christology, Vatican II, reflections on the liturgical year, and many more – and simply to chat among friends, or to discuss recent activities and future plans. When I left shortly after 7 pm, over an hour after the end of the service, conversation was still going strong.
I make that something like 20% of the congregation who had contributed directly to the planning and conduct of the Mass, and 50% who gathered for refreshments and discussion. Talk about community! How many conventional parishes can claim that degree of active involvement?
The "recent activities" under discussion will have included a successful Marian Day of reflection last Saturday, arranged by one of our team, led by a notable theologian and attended by eighteen members of the congregation, a weekend retreat the previous week for members of our Young Adults Group – the second retreat set up, planned and organized by the young adults themselves. Our young adults group have become a prominent, vigorous part of the congregation, as ministers of the eucharist, readers and on the Pastoral Council, as well as conducting their own regular social and religious activities – such as this, the second retreat they have arranged.
In addition to the young adults, we also have a women's group and a transgender group meeting monthly before Mass for discussion and mutual support, and we will soon be starting a regular men's faith-sharing group. Coming up for the Christmas season will be a Carol service, and for next year, there will be repeats of the successful "Next Steps" workshop on extending ministry to LGBT Catholics. Also on the horizon, is serious discussion on launching an RCIA program (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults), to welcome people wanting to join the Catholic Church.
Last July, we had a large group participating alongside other Christians in the London gay pride parade – promoting to the wider LGBT community the idea that they too, could be welcome in Church.
In addition to the deep involvement in our own parish community, I should also note the investment in travel time and money it represents, and that for many of us, this isin addition to participation in local parishes. I had travelled up from Haslemere in the south of Surrey – some 40 miles. Others that I know of had come similar or even greater distances – from Basingstoke, Salisbury, Somerset, Tunbridge Wells and Brighton and elsewhere in Sussex.
Many of our people also participate in local parish activities, as liturgists, musicians, special ministers – or passive pew sitters – and in affairs of the diocesan and even national church. Possibly also under discussion may have been the recent "Call to Action" gathering at Heythrop College, which some of us attended. Out of about 4oo total attendance, from right across the country, I spotted about ten of our community. (The whole of Arundel & Brighton diocese did not have many more than that).
Not all of us are active in local parishes: some have felt so rejected by the Church that they have not participated in any Catholic sacramental life for years. But our experience has been that many of the people who come to us for the first time after years outside the Church, become reconciled to the faith and move on to attendance, and then deeper involvement, in local parishes as well.
In this year of faith, Catholics around the world are reflecting on the twin themes of evangelization, and on the unfilled promises of Vatican II – one of which was much greater lay participation, in sharing the burdens of ministry. In the Soho Masses congregation, we have strong examples of both: extensive lay participation in planning and conducting our liturgies, and by our continually expanding pastoral programme, active ministry / evangelization to the broader community of LGBT Catholics.
Contrary to the apparent belief of the critics of the Soho Masses, the "face of Jesus" is not one of rigid enforcement of doctrinal rules and the loyalty to a religious hierarchy, but one of love and service to the community. (Jose Pagola, in "Jesus, an Historical Approximation ", describes Jesus' mission above all as that of preaching the immanence of the reign of God).
When I first joined the congregation in the days at St Anne's, the group was notable for comprising mostly older white men (at 52, I was probably at about or under the median age). No longer. We are now notably younger, and although there's some way to go, we are also notably more diverse in gender and ethnicity. We have grown in numbers, but more important is that we grown immensely in community and active life in the faith. Summarizing the points above, this includes, in addition to the Masses themselves the following characteristics which any Catholic parish would hope to support:
Growth in spirituality (retreats and days of reflection)
Special interest support and faith – sharing groups
A planned pilgrimage
Community outreach activities and regular charitable giving (in our case, especially to CAFOD, CAPS and some other causes)
Informal catechesis through our extensive bookstall / information tables
A possible start to formal catechesis and RCIA
And above all, a most remarkable, powerful community spirit and fellowship. Yet all of this astonishing achievement is produced by a group meeting for just two Masses a month. Although some people undoubtedly contribute more than others, this is no longer something arranged by just a small group, or even by the formal pastoral council. This is a collaborative venture, strengthened and invigorated I am convinced, by the Holy Spirit working through us all, in which many gifts contribute for the greater good – of our community, and of the church as a whole.
Soho Masses community – I salute and thank you.
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