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Q: Short intervals with all numbers having the same number of prime factors How to prove that for some $k, n_0$, for all $n \ge n_0$ it is never the case that all integers in $\{n, n+1, \dots, n + \lfloor (\log{n})^k \rfloor\}$ have exactly the same number of prime factors counted with multiplicity?
I can prove that for any $\epsilon \gt 0$, there exists $n_0$ such that for $n \ge n_0$ not all integers in $\{ n, \dots, n + \lfloor n^\epsilon \rfloor \}$ have the same number of prime factors: assuming that they all have $x$ prime factors, we must have $x \gt \log_2{n^\epsilon} = \epsilon \cdot \log_2{n}$ because the number in the interval divisible by the largest power of $2$ has at least that many factors.  So the smallest prime factor of any number in that range is at most $n^\frac{1}{x} \le n^{\frac{1}{\epsilon \cdot \log_2{n}}} = 2^{\frac{1}{\epsilon}}$ which is constant, and for sufficiently large $n$ we have a contradiction.  I think the same argument might work for even smaller intervals like $\{n, n+1, \dots, \lfloor n+n^\frac{1}{\log{\log{n}}} \rfloor\}$.
The harder problem with $(\log{n})^k$-size intervals is implied by Cramér's conjecture (since with $k \gt 2$ there would always be a prime and a non-prime) but not vice-versa and it seems like it might be tractable given that I can solve the $n^\epsilon$-size case.  How to prove it?

A: The problem is difficult and there are only partial results. For example Heath-Brown showed that $$\Omega\left(n\right)=\Omega\left(n+1\right)$$ for infinite $n$ (Heath-Brown, A parity problem for sieve theory, Mathematika, 29, p. 1-6, 1982), where $\Omega(*)$ is the function that count the prime divisors with multiplicity. But is quite easy show that your sequence is rare (if exists). In fact, assume $$x=\Omega(n).$$  Using the the fact that $\Omega(*)$ is a completely additive arithmetic function, i. e. $$\Omega(ab)=\Omega(a)+\Omega(b),\,a,b\geq1,$$ we have $$\underset{k=n}{\overset{n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor }{\sum}}\Omega\left(k\right)=\Omega\left(n\left(n+1\right)\cdots\left(n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor \right)\right)$$and from hypothesis $$\underset{k=n}{\overset{n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor }{\sum}}\Omega\left(k\right)=x\left(\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor +1\right)$$so$$\Omega\left(n\right)=x=\frac{\Omega\left(n\left(n+1\right)\cdots\left(n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor \right)\right)}{\left(\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor +1\right)}.$$Now, on LHS we have $$\Omega\left(n\right)\sim\log\left(\log\left(n\right)\right)$$as $n\rightarrow \infty$ and on RHS $$\frac{\Omega\left(n\left(n+1\right)\cdots\left(n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor \right)\right)}{\left(\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor +1\right)}\sim\frac{\log\left(\sum_{k=n}^{n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor }\log\left(k\right)\right)}{\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor +1}\sim\frac{\log\left(n\log\left(n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor \right)\right)}{\log\left(n\right)^{k}}=\frac{\log\left(n\right)+\log\left(\log\left(n+\left\lfloor \log\left(n\right)^{k}\right\rfloor \right)\right)}{\log\left(n\right)^{k}}$$which tend to $0$ if $k>1$ and $n \rightarrow \infty$.

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The traditional fall education campaign of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace is on hold until Oct. 15 while staff and volunteers scramble to come up with less political material that will gain the backing of all of Canada's bishops.
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops president Archbishop Richard Smith and general secretary Msgr. Pat Powers informed Development and Peace Sept. 5 that several bishops had objected to the fall campaign and did not want the material distributed in their diocese. It is the first time in the 45-year history of the Catholic development agency that the bishops have intervened to block an education campaign.
Neither the CCCB nor Development and Peace could tell The Catholic Register how many bishops have objected to campaign materials, which have been printed but not yet distributed. Through a spokesperson, Smith declined to be interviewed for this story as "the bishops have not had a chance to discuss the issue."
Bishops on the CCCB's Standing Committee on Development and Peace were not consulted on the move to halt the campaign and have not seen the materials.
"I haven't had it explained to me, so I can't really comment," said Toronto's Bishop John Boissonneau, chair of the committee. "I was aware that the president of the conference sent out a letter, but there's been no follow-up with me directly."
"I kind of feel out in the cold on this," said committee member Bishop Richard Grecco of Charlottetown.
The last time the bishops' committee met was May 31 for a consultation with the Development and Peace liaison committee for relations with the bishops. Meanwhile, work on the fall education campaign had been delayed until June while the organization dealt with major restructuring to accommodate a drastic cut in Canadian International Development Agency funding.
The fall campaign was to have veered off-course from Development and Peace's five-year plan of environmentally themed education campaigns. This campaign, which included postcards addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, was conceived as a national consultation on the direction of Canada's foreign aid policy.
A copy of a Development and Peace postcard addressed to Harper was obtained by The Catholic Register. It asks Harper to "launch a national consultation on the future of Canadian development assistance." The card also urges a "Special Parliamentary Committee to examine the new direction of Canadian assistance."
"The trend in how Canada's foreign aid programs are administered has changed quite dramatically," Development and Peace executive director Michael Casey told The Catholic Register. "The role for civil society organizations like us is becoming less apparent. More of the money is going to multilateral institutions, private sector development.... We wanted to see if a constructive critique of this policy from our perspective could get a hearing."
The campaign did not mention the $35-million cut over five years in CIDA funding to Development and Peace, said Casey, and is not an attempt to revisit the funding decision, he said.
"Concerns were expressed regarding the nature and methodology of the campaign with respect that it could create some divisiveness within the Church community and that perhaps there should be some more consultations within D&P and also with the broader Church," said Ronald Breau, Development and Peace national council president.
Breau wrote to the Development and Peace membership Sept. 17 to explain the delay.
"We are fully aware that our decision will disappoint many of our active and engaged members," Breau wrote.
While the campaign will be modified, the fall action campaign will remain focussed on Canada's development aid policies. But the national council is heeding Smith's warning that the original campaign would "lead to division among our base, among bishops and among our supporters," Breau wrote.
"The bishops are concerned that ongoing dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Government of Canada on some important, timely and sensitive issues might be compromised by our approach at this time."
Parish Development and Peace leader Greg Kennedy is left wondering what his group will do while it waits for the campaign to launch.
"Traditionally Development and Peace at the parish level operates basically two times a year — one in the fall with the education campaign and then the Share Lent or ShareLife in (the Toronto archdiocese)," said the Jesuit, who is studying for the priesthood and helping out at Our Lady of Lourdes in downtown Toronto. "Without those bookends, really there's not much to do until Lent."
The appearance that the bishops are divided or opposed to Development and Peace has become a challenge for parish groups, said Kennedy. And the idea that the bishops' conference did not inform its own standing committee will be even more confusing.
"The bishops set up these avenues through which both they and Development and Peace would work and all of a sudden that gets over-ridden. That's disturbing," he said. "What's the point of having them if they're not going to be used."
But lobbying the government on policy does not amount to education, said Grecco.
"We can have that dialogue (on Canadian development policy). I just don't think it should be a campaign. That's not what D&P should be about."
TORONTO - When 21-year-old Tia McGregor sees the younger kids who like her have grown up in foster homes — kids who have to figure out life without a family to support them the day they turn 18 — she tells them to follow their highest ambitions and their most cherished dreams.
"Do what you love and the rest will follow," she says.
The fourth-year Queen's University drama student knows her message is pretty hard to take seriously when you're 18 and have just been kicked out of your foster home.
"It didn't help me when people told me," she said. "For youth in care, there is so much more you have to think about."
Most former foster kids think they can't afford ideals, dreams and ambitions, said McGregor. They've got to worry about the rent, groceries, tuition. They've got to walk the tight-wire of daily life without the safety net of a family.
McGregor attended her third annual Hope For Children Foundation awards dinner Sept. 19 at Hart House on the University of Toronto campus. She collected a $2,000 scholarship to help with another year of post-secondary education. In total, the Hope For Children Foundation gave out $140,000 this year in scholarships to Catholic youth who had been through the foster care system with Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto.
One-hundred-six young people collected scholarships this year in amounts of $1,500 for community college students and $2,000 for university students.
For these kids the scholarships are a very small part of their financial picture, said Catholic Children's Aid executive director Mary McConville.
"We wish it was more," she said.
Statistics Canada released a study Sept. 12 showing the average Ontario undergraduate pays $7,180 in tuition fees alone. Since 2006 Ontario tuition fees have increased by a cumulative 71 per cent, said the Canadian Federation of Students — Ontario. Add in modest living costs, books, transportation and the real cost of an academic year is more like $11,000, according to the Hope for Children Foundation.
But still, the high-achieving McGregor urges idealism and big dreams on younger foster students. A high school math and science whiz, McGregor began university in astrophysics, trying to pursue the safe science career people expected of her. She wanted to study a little theatre on the side, but chemistry got in the way of a drama minor.
"In the end, I couldn't lie to myself," she said.
She switched programs despite the expectations of her foster family and former high school teachers, because the alternative to following a dream is grim and lifeless. She's blossomed as a writer, comedian and actress and spent last summer with the Thousand Island Playhouse summer theatre program acting and leading writing workshops for high school students.
None of this success was built into McGregor's beginnings. Her mother discovered she was pregnant at 15, and because the father was black the family rejected their daughter and granddaughter. McGregor's mother developed a drug addiction and her father was mostly absent. At six McGregor took refuge at her best friend's house every day and then every night.
Eventually that best friend became McGregor's foster sister and by the time she was eight the neighbour family officially became her foster home. Soon afterwards, McGregor's foster family moved from Scarborough two-and-a-half hours' drive east to Campbellford, Ont.
Small-town life was stable, warm, accepting — all she could have asked for. Unlike many foster children, McGregor stayed in the same home until she went away to university.
But she never had to look far to see how much more difficult things could have been. One of her foster sisters turned 18 last year before graduating from high school. Under Ontario law foster children are no longer crown wards at 18 and must immediately move out. McGregor's foster sister found a place with a school friend 45-minute's drive from her school. The 18-year-old managed to finished high school despite the dramatic dislocation and is now attending college.
McGregor believes the things she's experienced and seen in her life as a foster child have done more than toughen her up for life. They've also made her a better writer.
"I have more life experience, maybe," she said. "And that makes for a good writer."
TORONTO - When Immigration Minister Jason Kenney walks into a room full of bishops in St. Adéle, Que., Catholic refugee agencies are hoping the minister gets an earful.
Five Catholic immigration and refugee organizations in Toronto have written to the bishops asking that they challenge the minister on changes to Canada's refugee and immigration laws. Kenney will address the bishops between Sept. 24 and 28 in a private, off-the-record session at the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual plenary meeting.
o Why Canada is treating refugees from some countries differently than refugees from other countries?
o Whether it's fair to rush certain cases through the system before refugees hire a lawyer and prepare a thorough case?
o Why the government is limiting basic health care for refugees?
o Why do so many of Canada's 200,000 foreign workers have no stable pathway to permanent resident status?
o Why are refugees smuggled into Canada as a group blocked for five years from re-uniting with their families even if they are found to be legitimate refugees?
Romero House director Sarah Villiger hopes this approach to Kenney through the bishops will draw a warmer response.
"We knew that (Kenney) would be there, personally invited. I think that in itself is a bit of a different tone, as opposed to just writing him a letter," she said.
"Openness should be shown to persons of all cultures and origins, no matter their immigration status. Christians are to be among those who refuse to let injustice toward migrants continue, let alone increase," the bishops wrote.
"We thought it was important that they get the input of people who work on the ground with refugees," said Villiger.
The organizations also took the opportunity to remind the bishops of the many refugees and immigrants who actually occupy pews on Sunday morning.
"The Canadian Catholic Church has historically been an immigrant Church, and today many of the Catholic faithful are immigrants and refugees who form a vital part of and make a significant contribution to the Church in Canada," they wrote.
TORONTO - Nobody disputes that forgiveness is the right thing to do, or that it might sometimes be difficult. Immaculée Ilibagiza has much more than that to say about forgiveness.
The Rwandan genocide survivor and best-selling author believes forgiveness can be the basis of our society — the foundation for a different kind of politics, a better sort of media, a more purposeful economy, higher ideals in education, stronger families and a new world order.
"It's about understanding that forgiveness is peace. Peace starts in the heart. It starts in the family. It comes to the country," Ilibagiza told The Catholic Register.
Ilibagiza will be at the Marylake Our Lady of Grace Shrine in King City, Ont., Sept. 28-29 to tell her story and nudge the audience into a deeper understanding of forgiveness.
Ilibagiza's story of survival in the midst of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is as raw and inspiring as any. She and seven other women spent 91 days in silence hiding in a bathroom at the church rectory. She began those 91 days as a 52-kliogram (115-pound) 24-year-old surrounded by family everywhere she went. She emerged just 30 kilograms (65 pounds) as one of the last surviving Ilibagizas. Only one brother, who happened to be abroad during the orchestrated massacre of 900,000 Rwandan Tutsi and Hutus judged too friendly with Tutsi, survived.
In the cramped bathroom, Ilibagiza had a Bible, a dictionary and a rosary her father had given her. With the Bible and the dictionary she learned English. With the rosary she deepened her relationship with Mary.
In the aftermath of the genocide, Ilibagiza worked for the United Nations and eventually moved to New York to work at United Nations headquarters. She would quietly tell her story to co-workers and friends, but it wasn't the sort of story that could stay quiet.
Eventually she wrote Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. No ordinary venture into religious publishing, Left To Tell became a New York Times best seller, has been translated into 15 languages and has been added to the curriculum for thousands of high school and university students around the globe.
By now, Ilibagiza has told her story hundreds of times. DVDs of her retreat talks sell online and she's signed a contract with MPower Pictures to transform her story into a feature film. But the 42-year-old mother of two continues to be surprised by the effect her story has on audiences.
Ilibagiza has been confronted with many audience members who, either at the end of her talk or weeks later, discover a capacity to forgive husbands, wives, parents, children, brothers and sisters. But Ilibagiza also emphasizes how personal and intimate acts of forgiveness within families and among friends can begin a process that reaches beyond that immediate circle.
The touchstone of Ilibagiza's talks is the spirituality of the rosary. She has written a book about the apparition of Our Lady of Kibeho, a recognized Marian apparition from the early 1980s in a small town in Rwanda. The apparition included a vision of men with machetes and a warning about the dire consequences of turning away from God.
The economic and social implications of reconciliation and forgiveness are on display to the world in Rwanda today, Ilibagiza said. The number of universities and university enrollment have skyrocketed since the genocide. The economy is growing at eight per cent yearly and Africa's most densely populated and deeply divided nation is discovering a new sense of citizenship that transcends ethnic identity, she said.
Ilibagiza has taken her gospel of forgiveness to the Vatican and an audience with Pope Benectict XVI. She met with the Pope at the end of his Angelus address Sept. 4. She found the experience overwhelming.
Tickets to Ilibagiza's talk at Marylake are $50 for general admission or $100 for reserved seating, a reception with her and a signed copy of Left To Tell. Call (905) 833-5368 or visit www.luvn4gve.ca.
TORONTO - Not willing to admit defeat just yet, the Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association (OCSTA) will continue to push for changes to the Putting Students First Act.
"It is our intention to put forward some ideas and possibly have some input," said OCSTA president Marino Gazzola.
Under the legislation passed Sept. 11, Ontario's Catholic school boards are bound by the agreement the province reached with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA) on July 4. That deal means a more restrictive set of rules in hiring rights and management oversight of diagnostic testing, which public boards don't face due to a deal Dalton McGuinty's Liberals had to strike with the Conservatives in order for the legislation to pass.
According to the Ministry of Education, Ontario boards will soon have more information regarding the Policy/Program Memorandum development process and further information about the hiring practice regulation.
"The ministry will begin the consultation process soon for the development of a Policy/Program Memorandum on effective use of diagnostic assessments," said Gary Wheeler, a ministry spokesperson. "In the coming days, the ministry will provide additional information to school boards on the fair and transparent hiring regulation announced in August.
"The regulation is based on the memorandum of understanding signed with OECTA (Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association)."
"We'll have to see what those specifically say before we can say where we are going with this," said Gazzola.
OCSTA is still very concerned about the two provisions within that deal that will reallocate managerial rights. The association will "put forward some amendments that we had that would help protect the voice of parents and the quality of education in Ontario," said Gazzola. "We thought it would be very important to the legislation (but) obviously those amendments didn't pass so we're very disappointed."
While OCSTA knows what it wants, how it plans to achieve it is still undetermined.
"Right now we are almost in a holding pattern," said Gazzola. "We'll have to sit down and then see what our next steps are going to be."
What does have to be taken care of is the local collective bargaining process for each board, at least what is left of it.
"We remain opposed to the legislation, a legislation that puts Catholic and public boards on inequitable footings and weakens the collective bargaining process for all employees," said Mario Pascucci, chair of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. "We will, however, abide by the law and will move forward, seeking to bargain on the remaining local issues."
Although Gazzola encourages the conversation continue between trustees and teachers, he did caution against moving too swiftly.
"Boards are going to have to sit down and look at what they can still work with and talk about," said Gazzola. "I don't think anyone should take any rash actions or quick decisions. They're going to have to sit down and analyse everything and see where they have to go."
TORONTO - For the second time Tobias Enverga has made Canadian political history.
After being the first Filipino-Canadian to hold a publicly elected position in Toronto, the Catholic school trustee has been appointed to the Canadian Senate.
"I'm the first Filipino-Canadian (senator) and we have some unique values that the Senate doesn't have yet and I want to share that," said Enverga, who is now a former Toronto Catholic District School Board trustee after his appointment. "It's a big honour for me and a big honour for our community at the same time."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office announced Enverga's election to the Red Chamber on Sept. 7, which fills an Ontario seat vacancy. He, along with four other new senators announced the same day, will officially be sworn in on Sept. 25 in Ottawa.
The five new senators, who have an allegiance to the Conservatives, swells the majority government's chamber representation to 62 in the 105-seat Senate.
When Enverga received the phone call telling him he had been chosen as a senator, he was shocked. Not only did he not know he'd been nominated, Enverga, 56, didn't even really know what a senator did.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to be in one of the highest positions in the land," said Enverga. "Like any other new position there will be new challenges. I'm not sure what the new challenges will be because this is the first time that I've heard about the position actually."
But treading unfamiliar waters is nothing new to Enverga, who arrived in Canada in 1981 seeking "adventure and a good job."
Employed by the Bank of Montreal since arriving here, most recently as a project manager, Enverga sought adventure again in 2010 when he ran for Catholic school trustee.
As a senator Enverga had to give his two weeks notice to the bank and resign from his trustee position.
"According to the by-laws I cannot hold two jobs, especially as a senator and trustee," he said.
Although Enverga said he feels bad about leaving the ratepayers who voted for him, this new position will allow him to help a broader range of people. And he believes his experience with the TCDSB can only help him in his new position.
"The good thing is that the Catholic school board has given me the experience to deal with issues and deal with people at the same time," said Enverga, adding that the economy will be a large area of focus while sitting in the Red Chamber. "It's a big challenge but God will not give me anything that I cannot do."
The TCDSB has not decided how it will fill Enverga's seat. It could call a by-election or appoint an interim trustee.
TORONTO - The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition and the Intercultural Dialogue Institute of Toronto are pulling together Jews, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists to think and talk about social justice at a free dinner at the Church of the Holy Trinity.
The evening will be moderated by Salt + Light TV personality Deacon Pedro Guevara Mann, with opening remarks from Campaign 2000 national co-ordinator Laurel Rothman, and takes place Sept. 13 at 6:30 p.m. The Church of the Holy Trinity is tucked in next to the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto.
Campaign 2000 is the coalition of churches, unions and social work agencies that campaigns against child poverty in Canada.
Speaking on social justice from the point of view of major faith traditions are Sean Hillman, Buddhist PhD candidate in religion at the University of Toronto, KAIROS executive director Jennifer Henry, Muslim scholar Halil Simsek and Avrum Rosensweig, founding director and president of the Jewish volunteer agency Ve'ahavta.
To register for the evening go to www.interfaithdinner.com. Space is limited.
TORONTO - The long-standing shortage of Catholic foster parents in Toronto isn't getting any better. The Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto has 297 foster care spots available on its own roster. This year it has had to rely on 412 out-of-town spots it purchases from private contractors.
Out-of-town care costs a lot more and it removes kids from their school, their circle of friends and family — everything that can help maintain their sense of belonging. Trouble is, there aren't a lot of couples like Nellie and Bernie Desroches left in the city. And it is likely there will be fewer in the future.


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The entire story turns the values of our modern world upside down..(by George Wolfe PCN on December 1, 2019)
This is the time of year we hear those beloved Christmas Carols. And if you come from a Christian family like me, you delight in watching children participate in re-enactments of the nativity story from the Gospel of Luke. We re-create the pastoral scene of the shepherds, "keeping watch over their flock by night" (Luke 2:8) to whom appeared a multitude of angels announcing the birth of a Savior. But these portrayals of the Nativity are highly romanticized and omit the underlying theme of struggle that is found throughout the story.
To build bridges it's important to find connections wherever they may be
Bridging divides isn't just about building unity but becoming more comfortable in our disunity, says Oliver Robertson.
To build bridges it's important to find connections wherever they may be – including over a cup of tea .
Thursday 12th December 2019 | Author: Peter Bellenes
discovering the female in God through thinking about Mary -
On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe a prayer is uttered ….for those of us of a more Protestant mind which sees engagement with the Blessed Virgin as a corrective to an overly patriarchal God it seems to me one we can adopt and address to God as Mother.
"we spread out our cloaks before whomever it is who feeds our fantasies with the certainty that they are about to pull our White Rabbit out of the voting machine" -
Reading Sr Jioan Chittister in the National Catholic Reporter it looks like politics in USA and Britain are on the same trajectory.
Joan writes:- George Will, veteran journalist and social analyst, intoned in his avuncular way, "The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism." While looking for virtues suitable to a country in political and social disarray, I couldn't help but be particularly happy at the thought of nominating skepticism as the electoral foundation of the future.
Why? Because I hope he's right. Without skepticism, democracy is dead. Then there's nothing but monarchy, tyranny and autocracy left.
The Nativity Story is much more than a charming tale for children at Christmas. In the words of Adrian Alker, it is a tale that reminds adults that light can overcome darkness, peace can overcome conflict, humility can overcome power, and life is best founded on love, joy and goodwill.
Everybody knows the story of the birth of Jesus - or at least they did once upon a time. See Luke, Chapter 2: vs 1-12.
Luke tells us that Joseph, who lived in Nazareth, had to go to Bethlehem. He was of the house and line of David, and Bethlehem was David's town: a place where it was prophesied that a future 'Messiah' would be born.
Luke says that "Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph", but the New Bible Commentary, 21st Century Edition says that Mary and Joseph would have already been married, and the reference to Mary being "pledged to be married" should be interpreted as indicating that the "marriage was not yet consummated".
Thursday 14th November 2019 | Author: Howard Grace
"Is there an inclusive narrative, a story of our Shared Humanity, which can bring us together as human beings, beyond all our attachments of nationality, religion, language and culture? While maintaining the riches of our own identity groups is it even realistic to think there is an embracing vision we can all buy into? Or are we destined to largely engage in a multitude of 'them and us' agendas?"
This was the underlying theme that was explored during 26 events in three universities, six school Sixth Forms, a variety of other public events and more private occasions, by Letlapa Mphahlele and Howard Grace during the month of October 2019. Fifteen towns and cities were visited: Oxford, Faringdon, Reading, Thatcham, Coventry, Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Carlisle,Liverpool, Bournemouth and London. Based from my home in Newbury, we travelled about 1,600 miles in total.
Hildegard's genius is to introduce the language of the living natural world into the often fixed corridors of religion, so that God, the world, and humanity are never unchanging, but always emerging, always sprouting seeds of new possibilities, always evolving, always greening.
There's a concept in particular that ebbs and flows throughout Hildegard's writings: greenness, or, in Latin, viriditas….it sums up the essence of Hildegard's theology, because for Hildegard, the whole universe is "green." It's alive, ecological, more of a verb than a noun. The whole universe is, as it were, pulsing with divine essence, sustained by Spirit's evolving life-energy. God and the universe are greening.
Has the Church merely to gather up those whom the wheel has crushed or has she to prevent the wheel from crushing them?"
In the chapter entitled "'Personal' and 'Real' Ethos" Bonhoeffer debates another German Christian ethicist named Otto Dilschneider who, in Die evangelische Tat (1940) argued that "Protestant ethics is concerned with man's personality alone." (316) In contrast and contradiction Bonhoeffer responded with several rhetorical questions put to Dilschneider and those who agreed with him. (Nobody knows the exact date of this essay by Bonhoeffer but it had to be between 1940 and 1944.) Here is Bonhoeffer's response:
"The question here is whether within the field of Christian ethics any assertions may be made with regard to worldly institutions and conditions, e.g., the state, economics or science, i.e., whether Christian ethics has an interest in worldly institutions and conditions or whether these things fall within 'the zone of the demands of ethical imperatives.' In other words, is it the Church's sole task to practice love and charity within the given worldly institutions, i.e., to inspire these institutions so far as possible with a new outlook, to mitigate hardships, to care for the victims of these institutions, and to establish a new order of her own within the congregation? Or is the Church charged with a mission towards the given worldly orders themselves, a mission of correction, improvement, etc., a mission to work towards a new worldly order? Has the Church merely to gather up those whom the wheel has crushed or has she to prevent the wheel from crushing them?" (316-317) (Italics added.)
read full Pathos article at www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2019/08/dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-spoke-in-hitlers-wheel/
Sr. Helen Prejean is known the world over for her commitment to social justice, particularly for her ministry to and advocacy on behalf of those incarcerated and sentenced to die. Her ministry has garnered attention and has helped to shape public sentiment about the injustice of the death penalty, especially among Catholics. But how did she become filled with that prophetic fire and righteous passion for which she is known today?
Her new memoir, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, chronicles the path from pre-conciliar nun to modern-day voice of conscience. This book (her third) ends where her first, Dead Man Walking, begins. It is the story behind the story — how the devout schoolteacher and aspiring mystic grew into her vocation, which took her behind bars and into the world of America's inhumane pseudo-justice system in order to bring the compassionate face of Christ to those least sympathetic in our society.
Reading the book, I was reminded of the famous passage in the Letter of James, which tells us starkly that: "faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead" (James 2:17). I believe this is the constant refrain of Sister Helen's story.
A meditation for the Feast of the Transfiguration - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima
Dom Bede Griffiths (1906–1993) was born in Britain and lived the latter decades of his life in India. Some of our Living School students have been deeply moved by studying his work which sought to make connections between Christianity and Hinduism. It has not diminished but rather expanded their faith. Robert Ellsberg describes Griffiths' journey to God through both Western and Eastern spirituality:
In his old age [Griffiths] looked every bit the part of an Indian holy man—with long beard, flowing white hair, and saffron robe. But while he felt equally at home in the [Hindu] Vedas and Upanishads as in the Christian Scriptures, he remained thoroughly rooted in the church. He had come to the point where all religions, indeed all creation, spoke to him of Christ. . . . [A theme I explore in my book The Universal Christ.]
Friday 2nd August 2019
Missing God: the former bishop who lost his faith still hears the faint whisper of the transcendent
If you are married to a book dealer, you try to keep your shelves as clear as possible, holding on only to those volumes you feel you can hardly live without. One such, for me, has been Richard Holloway's Leaving Alexandria, published in 2012, and tracing his development from a boy who hoped to devote his life to God, to his disenchantment with a Church whose rules seemed to him not just wrong-headed but cruel, and his consequent resignation as Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 2000.
What Holloway conveys is not a progression from faith to triumphal, Dawkins-style atheism, but a painful sense of failure and regret: he no longer believes in God, yet he misses him, and has let him down. This is the most plangent and thought-provoking memoir I have ever read.
Holloway is now 85, tall, courteous and warm, his mind still sharp. He is working on a book called Stories We Tell Ourselves, "propelled by a kind of fatigue at the way religion and politics are constantly just shouting at each other, and a failure to admit that our ideas are intrinsically varied and unsettlable – so why can't we live with that gorgeous variety? Unless our stories make us cruel and violent, why can't we just tell them?" He's due to deliver to his publisher, Canongate, next April, and in the meantime he's happy to look back and chat about Leaving Alexandria.
I've never, I tell him, seen a book get more rapturous reviews. But, for Holloway, what were most poignant were the 500-odd letters he received from priests – some Catholics, some bishops – telling him that this was "their story. That's the most moving thing about being a writer – getting letters from people who feel less lonely for having read you." He has, he says, "a strong affection for broken priests".
"An autobiography," Holloway says, "can be quite self-serving. Whereas a memoir is a piece of self-discovery – a piece of personal archaeology, self-examination, confession if you like. It's a kind of delving into one's own story to try to make sense of it, because I think – and maybe this is more true of men than women – a lot of us don't really know ourselves. And it would be a tragedy to die not knowing who you are."
Tuesday 9th July 2019
"The Enlightenment deposed the Cosmic Christ and made the quest for the historical Jesus necessary".
Jaroslav Pelikan, a church historian who is part Orthodox and part Lutheran says: "The Enlightenment deposed the Cosmic Christ and made the quest for the historical Jesus necessary", Matthew Fox tells us.
When we read about evil, such as demon possession, like the Gerasene demoniac, what can we take out of such incidents and apply to today's world?
Recently I have had to make a long journey in my car. Rather than waste the time, I decided to listen to David Suchet narrating the four Gospels (something I often do, but generally just one Gospel at a time).
One of the incidents that appears in all three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) is the story of the Gerasene Demoniac. Each time I heard the account there were questions I wanted to ask about demon possession; questions which I am now going to address.
Monday 1st July 2019
Carl Jung said that "the main purpose of organized religion is to prevent persons from having an experience of God."
A number of years ago I was being interviewed on Dutch television by a young (about 40 years old), bright, dynamic and professional man who had done his homework. Immediately after the interview ended and the bright stage lights had been turned off, he leaned over and said to me: "I am dying to ask you a question that I did not want to ask on air–Do you Americans actually believe that people can still experience God?"
Obviously this question hit me hard—otherwise I would not have remembered it all these years. I suspect behind it is the near collapse of religious practice in Europe where in Germany about 5-6% of the population practice their Lutheran faith; in England about 6% of Anglicans; in France about 6% of Catholics, etc. etc. And in America the numbers are in free fall as well though they started at a more elevated place. Having just returned from lecturing in Ireland, there the numbers have fallen from 95% Roman Catholics practicing fifteen years ago to 14% today.
Silenced by Pope Pius XII for twelve years, he was forbidden to publish because he had supported the Worker Priest movement in France after WWII
M. D. Chenu, Grandfather of Liberation Theology and Creation Spirituality By Matthew Fox June 10, 2019
Père M. D. Chenu, named the Creation Spirituality tradition for me when I studied with him in the Spring of 1968. Yes, it was that climactic spring, when Paris and many university towns were shut down by rioting students opposing the Viet Nam War, but also a sclerosis of frozen academia that was preventing, it seemed to our generation, a fuller experience of learning.
Today some one asked me for more information about this amazing elder. In naming the Fall/Redemption vs the Creation Spirituality tradition for me, Chenu can rightly be named the Grandfather of Creation Spirituality.
Patriarchy with its compulsion to control and extract and take and dominate and play reptilian games of being #1 is killing the earth
On Mother's Day, May 12, 2019, in honor of Gaia, our wounded Mother Earth, Matthew Fox and a dedicated team of helpers, launched a series of daily meditations to support your being and your work. Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox supports your inner and outer work, your contemplation and your action, your mystical and prophetic vocations. Some of the meditations will be brand new and some will be drawn from Matthew's past writings. Suggested practices and short videos will be offered at times as well. You are welcome to blog or interact with other subscribers along the way. Building on our Mother's Day launch, the first few weeks of our meditations will focus first on the return of the Divine Feminine; and then the ushering in of the Sacred Masculine—these themes lie at the heart of the eco-disasters we are facing as a species.
Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and religious thought
Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way in to spiritual depth and religious thought — through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: male formation and what he calls "father hunger"; why contemplation is as magnetic to people now, including millennials, as it's ever been; and how to set about taking the first half of life — the drive to "successful survival" — all the way to meaning. Podcast
Wednesday 5th June 2019 | Author: Harry Houldsworth
What is wrong? Why is it that what goes on inside a church no longer inspires the general awe and reverence it did only a century ago?
The Church Does Not Inspire
In Britain, for many people Christianity has become a one-hour-a-week church activity, or even less.
What is wrong? Why is it that what goes on inside a church no longer inspires the general awe and reverence it did only a century ago? In the March edition of Progressive Voices, Edward Hulme had one answer. He suggested that Communion has now become a barrier to spiritual growth, to Christian Faith, and to God. He further suggests that the sacrament and the associated church services were never vital to discipleship. And I think this subject is worthy of further development.
First, there is a strong case that the Eucharist has been developed into forms that are radically different to how Jesus might have imagined events at the "Last Supper" would be interpreted.
It is most unlikely that Jesus would ever have envisaged Christianity as a world-wide religion separate from Judaism. Nor would he have imagined the ritual of Mass as it was later developed by the Roman Church: after the time of the Emperor Constantine and during the period when Christianity changed from being a persecuted sect, worshipping in the houses of Christians, to being a state sponsored, powerful religious institution, wealthy enough to build cathedrals and churches as 'houses' of God.
Tuesday 4th June 2019
With his trademark brilliance and compassion, McLaren invites readers to seize the moment and set out on the most significant spiritual pilgrimage of our time: to help Christianity become more Christian.
The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian by Brian D. McLaren
The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life.
It's time to move again.
Tuesday 21st May 2019
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious" (Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018)
"The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.
And it is the natural religious sense" (D. H. Lawrence)
Stand under a big old tree and look up. (The tallest trees in Australia are all eucalypts, of which there are more than 700 species. While Australia's oldest tree is a clonal male Lagarostrobos franklinii, Huon Pine, in Tasmania that is 10,500+ years old, with individual stems 1,000 to 2,000 years old).
Can you see the passing of time in its gnarled trunk? The network of bugs and insects burrowing into bark and foraging in leaves? Wildlife taking refuge in nests and leaf-lined hollows? Bacteria helping to nourish it with nitrogen?
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Have you been thinking about taking some underwater shots while you're on your Hawaii vacation? This is just one of the questions we answer on today's show. We also talk about the stairway to Heaven trail which is one of Oahu's most popular forbidden adventures. The hike, also known as Haiku Stairs. In the past, people used to climb up here for the fantastic panoramic views, which await all those who made it to the top. The hike is difficult. First you have to make the 2,120-foot, 3,922-step ascent. But even though the trail is closed today, some avid hikers go anyway because of the spectacular view that awaits from the top. If you're wondering what it cost to travel to Hawaii be sure to listen to our segment at the end of the show where we discuss packages that have been booked in the last 24 to 48 hours.
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The Air Force chief of staff recently published his 2016 professional reading list. This year's list contains books, TED Talks, a film, work from Air Force photojournalists, journals, and, for the first time, military-themed blogs. Print selections of the books will be arriving in base libraries in the coming weeks, but Airmen can find many of the works available electronically through Air Force Libraries' OverDrive system. The complete 2016 reading list is available online.


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Ronald Yearwood is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting's Cybersecurity practice and is based in San Francisco, where he serves as the office lead for Cybersecurity. Mr. Yearwood is an accomplished cybersecurity and law enforcement veteran whose expertise includes cybersecurity incident response, investigation, prevention, remediation, recovery, and neutralization.
Mr. Yearwood has more than 30 years of experience combatting the foremost criminal and national security threats. Having spent more than 23 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Mr. Yearwood led strategic and investigative operations against hundreds of criminal and nation state cyber threat actors. During his tenure in the FBI Cyber Division, Mr. Yearwood served as a representative to the White House Cyber Response Group.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Yearwood directed the FBI's premier network intrusion rapid incident response team, responsible for hundreds of successful operations, including advanced digital forensics, malware analysis, network intrusion investigations, and vulnerability/exploit analysis. As a Senior FBI Cyber Executive, he led national cyber response management during multiple high-profile cyber investigations and operations receiving significant public/private scrutiny and media attention. Mr. Yearwood also led highly decorated programs focusing on cyber intelligence operations and development of innovative threat agnostic cyber tools.
During his time with the FBI, Ron provided cyber risk/threat briefings to more than 1,000 private sector and government organizations/representatives, consistently including senior executive participation. Prevalent topics included incident response planning, preparedness, remediation, and prevention.
Mr. Yearwood joined the FBI in 1995 working in Boston conducting violent crime and cyber investigations. As a member of the inaugural Cyber Squad in Boston, his team provided the foundation for the thriving Cyber component currently in existence today. In 2000, as a program manager at FBI Headquarters, Mr. Yearwood's team broke new ground leading criminal and national security covert operations. In 2003, Mr. Yearwood led the Cyber Squad in the FBI Houston field office prior to an assignment in the Counterterrorism Division in 2007. There, he led several hundred agents and analysts investigating thousands of terrorism cases managing the most significant risks faced by the nation resulting in dozens of arrests/plot disruptions in both the United States and across the globe.
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Whoa! Beyonce wore white to a wedding. Is that ever OK?
American singer Beyonce has dared to wear white to a friend's wedding – and the Internet is not happy about it.
The 20-time Grammy Award-winner posted images on social media of her wearing a white wrap-dress at what appears to be a wedding and, as most wedding guests would be aware: only the bride should wear white at a wedding, never a guest.
1) we don't even know if she's at a wedding!
Either way, the pics have got everybody asking: is it ever OK to wear white to a wedding?
We, however, are much more interested in Bey's elegant egg shell wrap-dress. Her ensemble features delicate gold trimming on the hem and waist, bright crimson lips and glossy Hollywood waves in her trademark tresses.
But it wasn't just Beyonce and the mysterious guest sporting white. Even Bey's three-year-old daughter Blue Ivy donned the forbidden shade. One of the photos shows a proud Beyonce twirling her smiling daughter who is wearing an adorable (white) tutu inspired skirt and silver ballet flats. Her cute-as-a-button outfit is topped off with a sleek bun and fluffy bow, in white, of course.
The idea of wearing white to a wedding isn't a new concept to the songstress – or her family who all wore white to Beyonce's sister Solange's 2014 wedding and then again at her mother Tina's April 2015 wedding on a Californian yacht.
Traditionally, guests avoid wearing white at a wedding for fear of upstaging the bride but, let's face it, if you're going to invite Beyonce to your wedding, she's probably going to upstage you no matter what colour she wears!
What made you choose your celebrant?


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Dr. Howard Njoo, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer at Public Health Agency of Canada, speaks during a COVID-19 press conference at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Kawai
Vaccine distribution ramping up as 11% of Canadians get first shots: Ottawa
The federal government expects to deliver at least 1.5 million more doses within the next week.
Mar. 26, 2021 7:30 a.m.
Canada has hit a milestone in its COVID-19 vaccination drive and the federal government says it expects to deliver at least 1.5 million more doses within the next week.
Dr. Howard Njoo, deputy chief public health officer, said during a news conference Thursday that the country had surpassed the 10 per cent mark of residents over 18 receiving at least one shot.
"To date, over 4.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Canada," Njoo said in Ottawa. "This marks an important milestone, with more than 11 per cent of eligible adult Canadians … having received at least one dose."
Njoo said that includes 60 per cent of people older than 80 and 19 per cent between 70 and 79. More than 60 per cent of adults in the three territories have received their first shot, he said.
But he warned those numbers aren't enough to stop the spread as more transmissible variants continue to pose a "significant threat" until more people are vaccinated.
Federal officials said a total of six million vaccine doses have been delivered to the provinces and territories.
"With nearly two million vaccine doses to be distributed next week, we are clearly on track to receive eight million vaccine doses, reaching our objective for this quarter," said Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the military commander who is overseeing the country's vaccine program logistics.
Fortin said he doesn't expect any disruption to shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Europe, despite concerns about potential export reductions by the European Union.
He said 1.2 million Pfizer doses are to arrive next week — the same as this week, which was the largest shipment so far.
Another 846,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine are also being delivered, though there was word late Thursday that a batch of nearly 600,000, which was expected to arrive on the weekend, has been delayed until April 1.
Federal Procurement Minister Anita Anand blamed a "backlog in its quality assurance process."
"All of the doses have been manufactured and are authorized for shipment to Canada," she said. "Once Moderna's final quality assurance process has been completed, the doses will be released for shipment."
The first 1.5 million Oxford-AstraZeneca doses coming from the United States could also arrive next week, Fortin said, but a date has not yet been confirmed.
Fortin said there's no indication that shipments of vaccine to Canada from India will be delayed, but added those discussions are ongoing.
Media reports Wednesday said India has halted exports of Covishield, the version of AstraZeneca produced at that country's Serum Institute.
India has already supplied 500,000 of a planned two million doses to Canada, with another one million still slated for arrival in mid-April, followed by a final shipment a month or so later.
Health Canada noted Thursday it has updated the product label for the AstraZeneca vaccine to warn about blood clotting. Dr. Supriya Sharma, chief medical adviser for the federal department, said three cases of blood clotting have been reported out of 300,000 Canadians who have received at least one dose, but none appeared to be linked to the vaccine.
Sharma said she agrees with European health authorities that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any potential risks, and that all four vaccines approved for use in Canada are considered safe.
Canada's overall infection rate since the pandemic began a year ago is nearing the one-million mark. To date, the virus has killed 22,759 people across the country.
Health officials in New Brunswick are imposing circuit-breaker measures in an effort to contain an outbreak of the infection in the province's northwest.
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Ontario reported another 2,380 cases and 17 deaths, but officials noted that number was inflated because of a data catchup.
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British Columbia officials said they have seen an increase in cases among people who are 19 to 39 in the past six weeks even as COVID-19 cases decrease in people over 80.
Long-term care residents in British Columbia will soon be allowed more than one visitor and will be able to give their loved ones a hug after more than a year of strict restrictions.
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Quick Answer: What Is Portal Example?
Is YouTube a Web portal?
What is a portal in computer terms?
What is the number 1 most visited website?
What is the difference between a website and a portal?
Does Portal require Internet?
What are types of portal?
What makes a good Portal?
Is Amazon a Web portal?
What is the purpose of a portal?
What is an example of a Web portal?
What are portal services?
What is Portal and how does it work?
What is Portal explain?
What do you mean by online portal?
What is the best portal?
Is Google a Web portal?
Why do companies use portals?
How are portals created?
It already comes with Amazon Alexa inside.
And now, Google's YouTube is part of the Portal app platform.
"Yes, YouTube.com is available through an optional install in the 'Portal Apps' catalog" a Facebook spokesperson tells me.
Previously it could only play videos from Facebook Watch, Food Network, or Newsy..
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. … Variants of portals include mashups and intranet "dashboards" for executives and managers.
YouTubeYouTube is the most visited website on our list, with more than 1.6 billion estimated monthly visits from organic search….Top 100 most visited websites in the US (as of 2020)#DomainMonthly traffic1youtube.com1,625,928,5442en.wikipedia.org1,032,257,6823twitter.com535,672,3294facebook.com512,517,20796 more rows•7 days ago
Website: What's the Difference? Websites are for driving traffic, whereas web portals are for limiting traffic to a specific group of users. Most web portals require a user to log in, which allows the site to deliver more specific content and services based on who that user is.
Portal itself doesn't connect to the internet, but Steam may need it to launch Portal.
Let's have a look on different types of portal development:1) Vertical Portals: When it comes to talk about vertical portals, these are one such type of portal that mainly focuses on particular domain and industry. … Corporate Portal: … Commerce Portal: … 2) Horizontal Portals: … Education Portal: … News Portal:
A good portal satisfies a number of different types of users by providing a thoughtful, easy to search and easy to navigate set of information in a variety of formats. A good portal provides documentation, videos, blog entries, and forum posts and serves them in a simple and effective fashion.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud-services platform, offering computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionalities to help businesses to grow. … Tens of thousands of customers use a broad range of AWS services.
A portal is a web-based platform that collects information from different sources into a single user interface and presents users with the most relevant information for their context. Over time, simple web portals have evolved into portal platforms that support digital customer experience initiatives.
Some of the common examples of horizontal web portals are government portals, educational portals, corporate portals, cultural portals, etc. Also known as Vertical Enterprise portals or vortals, these are the user-centric portals, that provide information related specific company, interest, or services.
(1) A Web portal or public portal refers to a Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls. … (2) An enterprise portal is a Web-based interface for users of enterprise applications.
What does Facebook Portal do? Since its inception last year, Facebook Portal mostly lets you video chat with your Facebook friends. The unit sits on a desk or table or near your TV, and the camera follows as you walk around, so you can talk to someone completely hands-free while doing other things.
A portal is a large and imposing gate or doorway. You're likely to find a portal in a castle, in a cathedral, or even on an internet site. Portal can be used to describe other types of doorways, both literal and metaphorical. For example, portal can refer to a web page that provides access to other sites on the web.
An Online Portal refers to the webpage (or website) that provides users an entryway to a variety of information, tools, links, and more. … Typically, online portals are designed to offer users an assortment of the most used types of information and services.
Portal TV. Facebook Portal TV is the standout in the Portal range. This device doesn't have a screen, but instead uses your TV to display video calls. It is essentially an intelligent webcam that plugs into your TV via an HDMI cable, then uses that as a large screen for video calls.
Google's goal is to give its users an expansive, one-stop home page. "It's Google formally declaring that they are a portal," said Danny Sullivan, the editor of searchenginewatch.com, a Web log devoted to the industry. … But it has steadily added services that provide functionality far beyond searching Web pages.
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Relentless by Patricia Haley and Gracie Hill
Relentless – Scarred by a childhood betrayal, Attorney Maxwell Montgomery vowed never to let his fate be dictated by anyone – not his parents, or God, and definitely not the church. He doesn't need anyone including the woman who's put her life on hold for him. He'll be successful, powerful and rich enough to avoid ending up like his father. Maxwell's on top of the world and isn't ready for what's heading his way.
The Redeemed Series is comprised of modern stories, loosely based on the attributes of the Apostle Paul and struggles he encountered with churches in the New Testament. Relentless is the first book in the series.
Excerpt from Relentless
Adrenaline surged. Maxwell couldn't think of a greater satisfaction than hearing the jury foreman echo those melodious words, "We find in favor of the plaintiff." The sum of the judgment didn't quench his legal thirst, although four million dollars wasn't bad for a day in court. Best news was that there were plenty more to come. So long as there were churches on earth, the exhilaration surfing through his body was a sensation he could ride indefinitely.
Maxwell saw the wave of reporters waiting on the courthouse steps. He jiggled the knot on his tie and straightened his Armani suit coat. "Are you ready to face the crowd," Maxwell asked his client.
She grabbed his arm, shaking. "Do we have to go out there? Now that we've won, I just want to get out of here."
Absolutely not is what he should have told her, but there was no need for further convincing. He'd proven that his plan worked best. She was walking out with a civil case victory against the almighty Reverend Morgan, the so-called anointed leader of one of the largest ministries in the tri-state area. Whatever he was supposed to be, reverend, doctor, Bishop, the well-deserved label of being a bona fide predator could also be added to his bio. No way was Maxwell going to pass up a prime opportunity to shout their victory over the airwaves. He'd send a message to the rest of the perpetrators that there would be no rest as long as Attorney Maxwell Montgomery was alive and breathing. Churches were on notice and they'd better take him serious.
He expeditiously ushered his client towards the door. She gave some resistance which didn't deter his movement. Six months ago she was deemed a fired disgruntle employee who was pressing false charges against one of the most prestigious ministers in Philadelphia . He kept pulling her towards the door, with the media closing in. Thanks to him, her indiscretions had been legitimized. It was no longer her fault, and on top of it, she was going to get four million, less his forty percent cut. So, as far as he was concerned, she didn't get a say in how the rest of the day was going to play out of course. He forcefully pushed open the door leading from the courthouse and braced against the gust of wind.
The clicking sound of cameras, microphones shoved near his face, onlookers lining the steps, and incoherent chants equaled mayhem for most. But the controlled chaos was a work of beauty to Maxwell. His client was squeezing his arm so tightly that he had to peel a few of her fingers back to loosen the grip.
"Do you feel vindicated?" one reporter blurted out.
As his client stammered, Maxwell jumped in. Microphones honed in. "Justice was rendered today. The past six months have been a pure nightmare for my client. Her reputation has been maligned. She's been hounded by church members simply because she was willing to come forward and expose the truth. She should be praised for her courage, not hounded, and today is the first step towards her getting back to a normal life."
"Were you really expecting to win such a substantial settlement from a church?"
"It's the only fair outcome, doesn't matter if it's the church or the Vatican , wrong is wrong, and we have the court of law to right those wrongs," Maxwell echoed, fueled with satisfaction.
"Do you see this as an indictment against religion?"
"No one is above the law." Maxwell broke the grip his client had, and raised his arm. He knew which network had the largest viewing audience and intentionally pointed his finger directly into their cameras and said, "I'm serving notice to the corrupt leaders out there. If you think the church is going to save you, you're sadly mistaken. I'm coming for you and you and you." Maxwell was charged, ready to sail out of the crowd and whisk back to his office to start the next case. He reclaimed his client and began maneuvering through the crowd.
"Attorney Maxwell, is that a threat to all local clergyman?" a reporter asked.
Maxwell screeched to a stop. "I don't make threats, only promises."
"How many more lives are you going to ruin," a voice shouted from the crowd. The mob was thick and Maxwell couldn't see who was speaking. "You have ruined my family and our church." As the woman got louder, it was like a pebble rippling in a pond. The crowd backed up and the media swarmed to her. "Who do you think you are, God?"
Suddenly there was a thumping sensation smothered by oos and ahs. The air felt light and the sky hypnotic. He seemed to be floating to the ground. Screams and a bunch of chatter faded out. Maxwell could see the people crowding around him. Every action was in slow motion. He wasn't sure but guessed that this must be what peace felt like, being oblivious to pain, shielded from the chatter, naysayers, and circumstances. As he was instantly jerked out of the clouds of euphoria, Maxwell's thoughts crashed back to reality, wielding a powerful headache with it. He placed the palm of his hand against his forehead, pressing in and feeling the coolness right above his eyebrow. He didn't need to see the blood to know it was there.
( Continued… )
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PATRICIA HALEY is a trailblazer in the modern-day Christian fiction genre. She is an award winning, #1 Essence national bestselling author of twelve faith-based novels and two anthologies. She's a senior project manager, born again believer, and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Patricia lives with her loving husband and precious daughter in the Chicago, IL area. Visit her on http://www.patriciahaley.com. Become a Facebook friend at Patricia Haley-Glass or join her fan page at Author Patricia Haley.
GRACIE HILL is the award-winning author of five faith-based novels. She has also contributed to a book of anthology and written for several magazines. Gracie is an entrepreneur and a Spirit filled woman of God. She is a member of the Chicago Writers Association and lives with her husband and children in the Chicago, IL area. Visit her at http://www.graciehill.com. Follow her on Facebook and become a Facebook friend at Gracie Hill.
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Scarred by a childhood betrayal, Attorney Maxwell Montgomery has vowed never again to let his fate be dictated by anyone—not his parents, not God, and definitely not the church. He doesn't need anyone including the woman who has willingly put her life on hold for him. He is determined to be successful, powerful, and rich enough to avoid ending up like his father by any means necessary. No one is immune from his vengeful pursuit of church leaders—or so he believes. Thinking he's on top of the world, he isn't prepared for the shocking turn of events headed his way.
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Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs (Tiny Folio #23) (Hardcover)
By Ansel Adams, Alice Gray (Introduction and notes by)
The invitation to photograph the nation's parklands was the perfect assignment for Adams, as it allowed him to express his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. These stunning photographs of the natural geysers and terraces in Yellowstone, the rocks and ravines in the Grand Canyon, the winding rivers and majestic mountains in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks, the mysterious Carlsbad Caverns, the architecture of ancient Indian villages, and many other evocative views of the American West demonstrate the genius of Adams' technical and aesthetic inventiveness.
In these glorious, seminal images we see the inspired reverence for the wilderness that has made Ansel Adams' work an enduring influence on environmentalism as well as art.
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was one of the most prolific and highly acclaimed photographers of the twentieth century, and the author of dozens of publications. He helped establish the department of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art and founded the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. A member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years, Adams was instrumental in the growth of the American conservationist movement.
Alice Gray is a writer and editor based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work has appeared in such publications as Art & Auction and ARTnews.
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Publisher: Abbeville Press
Publication Date: July 1st, 2004
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Q: Live streaming through mediaplayer in android How can I stream an online URL using MediaPlayer?

A: Basically, you need to do the following if you are using the Android MediaPlayer class:
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A: Working for me in API 28
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Please Remember to add permissions to manifest if using INTERNET
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Also careful with usesCleartextTraffic
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A: You may use this:
    MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, Uri.parse("YOUR URL HERE"));
    mediaPlayer.start();

A: The MediaPlayer  is buggy if you are streaming audio from remote URL. It works sometimes but hangs mostly for remote.
Have tried below which hangs
   mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, Uri.parse("YOUR URL HERE"));
        mediaPlayer.start();

also tried
    mediaPlayer.prepareAsync(); and implement onprepared listener. Doesnt work.. Device used is Samsung galaxy mini
Have been trying to read the URL content manually and update the MediaPlayer datasource with the buffered content. Works moslty, but yet to figure out how to switch URLs etc..
The example here is for VideoPlayer but should be same concept for audio player as well
http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/android-videomusic-player-sample-from-local-disk-as-well-as-remote-urls/
Edit
Ah just found this http://launch-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/android-play-audio-asyncplayer.html
Seems to wrap the calls to MediaPlayer nicely : http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/frameworks/base/media/java/android/media/AsyncPlayer.java

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Eagle Asset Management was established in the year 1976. The company is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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The owner of a diabetic dog has appealed to other animal owners not to give up on their pets after research revealed 1 out of 10 diabetic pets are put down at diagnosis.
Rebecca South, 40, from South Yorkshire, a Senior Account Manager at MSD Animal Health, has been managing her 16-year-old terrier Lottie's diabetes since she was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 10 in 2012. Lottie has since been kept under close supervision with a managed diet and insulin and is otherwise a healthy, happy dog.
Recent findings from the Big Pet Diabetes Survey (Neissen et al, 2017) have revealed more than 10 per cent of diabetic cats and dogs are euthanised at diagnosis, despite the fact that they can live normal, healthy lives – and some diabetic cats can even achieve remission.
Rebecca is sharing Lottie's story in a bid to inform other pet owners that their animals can go on to live happy lives following a diabetes diagnosis, whilst also urging pet owners to check in with their vet if they spot any signs of diabetes, including weight loss despite increased appetite, excessive thirst, vomiting or lethargy.
Rebecca said: "When Lottie was diagnosed with diabetes the vet advised me that she would need some lifestyle changes and insulin treatment for the rest of her life. If I chose not to treat her, the condition would rapidly progress and I would have to put her to sleep. The thought of putting Lottie down just wasn't an option. She is an important member of the family, and I wanted to do everything I could to keep her with us.
"Six years on, and managing Lottie's diabetes is second nature. In fact, very quickly we got into a routine and it is normal for us now. She has twice daily feeds with a specialised diabetic diet, followed by twice daily injections of insulin with a pen.
According to Blaise Scott-Morris MRCVS, MSD Animal Health's vet advisor for diabetes, further education is needed amongst pet owners to raise awareness of diabetes in pets and the importance of an early diagnosis to achieve better treatment.
She said: "Rebecca and Lottie's story proves that pets can go on to live a fulfilling life after a diabetes diagnosis. To help ensure the long-term health and well-being of our diabetic pets, successfully managing the various facets of the disease and treatments is critical.
"Often animals are put to sleep as owners don't feel they can cope with the medical side of injecting their animal every day. There are ways to make this much more manageable for clients, including the use of insulin pens similar to those used in the treatment of human diabetes.
"While 90 per cent of humans use an insulin pen to facilitate insulin injection, less than 20 per cent of diabetic pets are treated in the same way, which indicates an opportunity to improve pet diabetes management.
"MSD Animal Health has also launched a Pet Diabetes Tracker app to make the disease far easier to manage for pet owners. It's an incredibly useful tool that enables owners to use a smartphone or tablet to track water and food consumption, exercise levels, glucose levels and insulin injections. It also allows reminders to be set for vet appointments and medication timings, providing charts and trends that owners can share with their vet. Blaise is urging pet owners to check in with their vet if they spot any signs of diabetes, including weight loss despite increased appetite, excessive thirst, vomiting or lethargy.
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