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larson, jens fredrick, b. 1891 (architect) (10)
caufield & shook (photographer) (6)
frederick, warren kellar (photographer) (4)
john p. morton & co. (publisher) (3)
louisiana purchase exposition co. (saint louis, mo.) (copyright holder) (1)
ossian p. ward (architect) (1)
schmidt, martin f., 1918- (photographer) (5)
fougerousse, tom (photographer) (4)
dali, salvador (spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989) (1)
gruebbel, stephen l. (photographer) (1)
paul, clyde m. (1)
rapp, adolph (photographer) (1)
university (louisville, ky.) (14)
northwestern parkway (louisville, ky.) (4)
portland (louisville, ky.) (4)
anderson county (ky.) (1)
bardstown road (louisville, ky.) (1)
barren county (ky.) (1)
barret avenue (louisville, ky.) (1)
university of louisville -- buildings (14)
cupolas (11)
educational facilities (8)
dwellings (6)
university of louisville. speed scientific school (6)
health care facilities (5)
nitrate negatives (3)
wood engravings (3)
gelatin silver prints (2)
negatives (2)
oil paintings (1)
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John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Reprint sheet 20.
Buildings; Textbooks; Children; Reading; Newspapers; Graphic design; Stores & shops; Steamboats; Carriages & coaches; Seals (Insignia); Louisville Water Company (Louisville, Ky.); Dwellings; Houses; Slavery; African Americans; Drugstores; Cities &...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the word "AND" and the circular image of a house on an urban street, the images duplicate the earlier prints in this collection. Woodblock prints of, from left to right...
Wyatt Hall, University of Louisville, 1939.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. School of Law; Cupolas; Columns; Educational facilities;
Law School building now known as Wyatt Hall, seen through the Belknap gates. The cupola and weather vane, along with part of the columns, are visible. Several cars are parked in front of the building; its cupola and weather vane are visible. The...
St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, 1919.
Hospitals; Health care facilities; Buildings; Automobiles
Full front view of St. Anthony's Hospital at 1313 St. Anthony Place located at the corner of St. Anthony Place and Barret Avenue in Louisville, Ky. The brick building features four floors and a basement. Atop the center of the building is a cupola...
U. S. Marine Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, 1922.
Hospitals; Lawns; Porches; Balconies; Health care facilities; Marine hospitals; United States. Marine Hospital, no. 11 (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings; Historic buildings
Address: 2214 Northwestern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. The United States flag flies in front of the U.S. Marine Hospital. Sidewalks cross the lawn and a scattering of trees and bushes provide landscaping for the building. People stand on the...
Callahan residence, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924.
Houses; Winter; Dwellings; Buildings; Mansions
Address: 2106 Cherokee Parkway. Snow covers the ground in front of a stately home in Louisville, Kentucky. The wide steps lead up to a portico supported by Doric columns. The pediment above is decorated with dentils, carvings, and a crest. Most of...
Gethsemani exterior, Trappist, Kentucky, 1924.
Buildings; Religious facilities; Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)
Address: 3642 Monks Road, Trappist, Kentucky. A low stone building with pointed-arch windows sits at the edge of a farm field. Atop the structure is a small cupola with a cross which mirrors the cross at the top of a steeple in the background. A...
Madrid Building and Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 1939.
Churches; Religious facilities; Nightclubs; Buildings
Address: 539 S. Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky. On the left is the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. The church has a dome and cupola. On the right is the Madrid Ballroom. The Madrid Ballroom was added to the National Register of Historic...
Baptist Church and Liberty Female College.
Baptist churches; Churches; Education; Universities & colleges; Men; Liberty Female College
The Baptist Church of Glasgow, Kentucky, a brick church with a pointed turret and arched windows, is seen in the foreground; a man in a suit stands in front along one of the weathered picket fences encircling parts of the yard, which also contains...
Palace of Varied Industries, World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; People; Exhibition buildings; Buildings
Pedestrians walk in front of the Palace of Varied Industries, a long white building with columns, a portico, and a cupola, at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. A sign near a group of trees in a small plot of grass says "No Smoking."...
Anderson County Courthouse.
Buildings; Courthouses; Clock towers; Sculpture
Address: 137 South Main Street, Lawrenceburg, Ky. The Beaux-Arts style Anderson County Courthouse is shown. The building is made of stone with four columns holding up the cornice. The top of the building is noted for its cupola with inset clock. In...
Kalfus or Yann home near Buechel on Bardstown Rd. Side view.
Houses; Dwellings; Architecture; Buildings
Side view of a two story Italianate house with a belvedere cupola atop the roof. The entrance is slightly to the left of the center of the home. A tall narrow window is on the right side of the door and an additional three narrow windows are on the...
William Henry H. Frederick house being demolished, circa 1950s.
Houses; Dwellings; Architecture; Buildings; Men; Women; People; Demolition
A group of white men rest on the ground leaning against long wooden planks, eating from brown paper bags with thermoses on the ground next to them. A woman with her back to the camera, wearing a long coat and head scarf holding a child is looking...
Built by Allen Seaton. Later owned by Mr. Frank Jean at Seatonville.
A single story building with clapboard siding, a square cupola atop the roof, and a screened in porch. According to the journals of Warren Kellar Frederick, this building was located in the Seatonville area of Louisville, Ky. And was built by Allen...
Selema Hall, Louisville, Kentucky.
A two story brick house with Federal and Greek Revival elements located at 2837 Riedling Dr. in Louisville, Ky. Stairs with side railings lead up to an elevated first floor entrance above ground level. A portico supported by four ionic columns is...
John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Sheet 18-1.
Indians of North America; Children; Animals; Danger; Rescue work; Buildings; Textbooks; Steam engines
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: Indigenous people, most holding spears and one holding a quiver of arrows on his back, confer; two birds; turkey approaching boy wielding stick (with hoop and hat on the ground) and...
Labels; Women; Children; Disasters; Animals; Buildings; Cupolas; Carriages & coaches; Knights; Dragons; Supernatural beings; Dragonflies; Pagodas; Kites (Toys)
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: Label for "Smith's Tonic Syrup or Vegetable Febrifuge Caution," signed "Jno. J. Smith Proprietor" and bordered by leaves and fleur de lis; dark image, possibly of fireplace (sideways);...
J.B. Speed Hall, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Cupolas; Weather vanes; Driveways; Shrubs; J.B. Speed School of Engineering
J.B. Speed Hall, the Speed School of Engineering's main building. Eastern Parkway is visible in front of the building. Part of the building's half-circle driveway and greenery are visible, as is the weather vane atop the cupola. J.B. Speed Hall was...
United States Marine Hospital, side entrance, Louisville, Kentucky.
Buildings; Hospitals; Marine hospitals; Health care facilities; United States. Marine Hospital, no. 11 (Louisville, Ky.); Historic buildings
Address: 2214 Northwestern Parkway in Louisville, Ky. Three-story red brick building with inset porches on all three floors. Columns supporting porches are square. There is an octagonal, white cupola atop the center of the building. The building...
Address: 2214 Northwestern Parkway in Louisville, Ky. Three-story red brick building with inset porches on all three floors. Columns supporting porches are square. There is an octagonal, white cupola atop the center of the building. A wrought iron...


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community heritage
globalization and me
community cultural heritage study
'Alekoko Loko I'a
('Alekoko Fishpond)
The Legend, or Mo'olelo, of this Special Place
'Alekoko Fishpond is commemorated in a legend about two chiefs who were brother and sister. Some residents say these two children had super powers so that sister could change herself into a lizard and brother took the form of a shark. In this way they were guardians of the pond. The story is told that these two royals (ali'i) commissioned the building of the fishpond by enlisting the help of master builders known as the Menehune. The Menehune are considered a mythical race, extremely small, but strong in stature, leprechaun-like, and famous for completing massive building projects in just one night. They gained a mythical status as unsurpassed builders and notoriety for being quick-witted, mischievous, and playful trouble-makers when not at work.
It is said that one night when the moon was full, the Menehune began to work on the fishpond project for the two chiefs. They worked only at night, in silence, and under terms that no one was allowed to see them building. But the brother chief, whom we now call 'Alekoko, broke his promise by peeking at the Menehune while they worked, causing them to cease the project, and in so doing they humbled this mighty chief. The Menehune washed their lava rock-scraped and bleeding hands in the unfinished pond before the sun came up, and to this day, the chief and the pond are called 'Alekoko, meaning bloody-ripple, for the reddish, rippling water in the pond. The 'Alekoko Fishpond is affectionately known as the Menehune Fishpond in honor of the many workers that helped in building the thick stone kuapa wall with stones that were passed man to man for 25 miles from a place in the west called Makaweli.
The Menehune Fishpond is located on the island of Kaua'i in the eastern land division or ahupua'a called Niumalu. The pond is adjacent to the Hule'ia Stream, nestled below the verdant Ha'upu Ridge. The Hule'ia Stream flows east and empties into the sea at Nawiliwili Bay. The 'Alekoko Fishpond was originally built by damming a bend in the stream with a rock wall about half a mile long which created this 32 acre pond called a loko wai (freshwater pond).
Fishponds in the Hawaiian Islands are cultural sites that tell of a well-developed civilization dating back to more than 1,000 years ago. According to scientific research, the number of fishponds across the islands at one time was estimated at 300 to 500, ranging in size from less than an acre to 600 acres! At approximately 350 pounds of fish per acre, that adds up to a lot of fish!!
Raising fish in ponds is not uncommon throughout the world, but what is different about Hawaiian style aqua-culture are the shore ponds built with rock walls and sluice gates that let fish in at high tide and kept them in as they grew to maturity.
Although food from fishponds was a privilege for higher rank before commoners, they are evidence that a thriving aqua-cultural system sustained hundreds of thousands of citizens. The ingenious engineering implemented clever techniques of recycling and ecological conservation, required leadership to mobilize whole communities as workforce, and they remind us of important cultural values at work for this kind of endeavor to succeed in a barter economy. Values such as laulima (cooperation), malama (caring), pa'ahana (hardworking), and kuleana (responsibility).
The reasons that these fishponds came into disuse and subsequent disrepair are complex. Factors include social and economic changes such as the loss of traditional fishpond management skills because of dramatic decline in Native Hawaiian populations, alternative work becoming available, and the economic exchange of money replaced bartering. Natural forces also contributed to the fishponds' decline; from poor water quality to land erosion filling in ponds with silt, to destruction of walls due to storms and lava flows.
When archaeologists surveyed the different types of fishponds throughout the state in the 1970's, 56 ponds had the necessary integrity for restoration and these were nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. The 'Alekoko Fishpond was one of these that rated a place on the National Register, and was slated for restoration, but until today no action has been taken toward restoring this cultural site to use and manage it as a food resource, for economic viability, or as an educational site for cultural preservation. The idea of restoring this historical site could be revisited by the Government of Kaua'i and the issue proposed to the people to decide by a referendum.
Cultural and Education Connections to Hawaiian Fishpond Restoration
The way that a fishpond restoration project can get off the ground is by following the model of other such projects going on around the state of Hawai'i. By no means an easy or short term enterprise. However, this type of restoration project offers a wonderful opportunity for an educational site to be developed where cultural preservation and community rehabilitation is possible.
By networking with cultural, educational, and community organizations and establishing curriculum and service learning, the entire island community stands to benefit. There are a number of organizations who have already taken leadership to develop project oriented learning sites that are based on cultural practice and these have shown positive impacts on youth and community at large, as well as restoring dignity to the Native Hawaiian Community in particular. Perpetuating culture through practicing culture transfers knowledge to the younger generation.
Useful Resources Related to Fishpond Restoration
The Pacific American Foundation, Educational Curriculum Emphasizing Values of Aloha 'Aina
Kahea Loko (The Call of the Pond), Educational Integrated Curriculum on Fishpond Theme
Many Ponds, (Recommendations and Notes on Fishpond Restoration)
Gate or Makaha to Fishpond Overgrown with Mangrove Fishpond Walls covered with Mangrove
Challenges and Future Possibilities
Mounting the restoration project at the 'Alekoko Fishpond will require extensive work. It will be necessary to remove invasive mangrove plants from the wall that encloses the pond. This will have to be done carefully with chainsaws and other equipment. Then the wall will need to be rebuilt according to the traditional manner of stone masonry. It is a work that will take years to accomplish. But it is a significant work and one that can be translated as an act of social justice. It could be considered as restitution to the community for the loss of customary lands during events of the GreatMahele, when a land commission was formed and lands were divided and lost due to new and unfamiliar policies about land ownership.
Of all the challenges, the biggest one facing this particular restoration project are the costs involved. The costs entail both a financial commitment for funding the project as well as factoring the cost of labor intensive removal of invasive mangrove plants, rebuilding (kuapa) rock wall, and managing the site once the fishpond is ready to be stocked with fish. A lot of volunteer hours would no doubt go into the project, but according to Graydon "Buddy" Keala, a leading authority on fishpond restoration, the first thing to do is to apply for permits... and the starting costs for this process is estimated at about $50,000.00!
Permits are expensive and time consuming to apply for. The government permit process includes the Federal United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Hawai'i State Department of Land and Natural Resources, and at the County level, Grading and Land Management Permits are needed. Procuring an Environmental Impact Assessment, and planning for the project's educational and commercial components must also be included in the proposal. It is not an impossible mission, but it will take the help of many experts and many hands to make the work light.
...Laulima...
...Pa'ahana...
Hard working
...Kokua...
Helping
...Malama...
Caring
...Kuleana...
Responsibility
Everything in the ecosystem should be treated in such a way that order, harmony, and balance is restored and maintained. As young people get involved with the restoration project in a beyond the classroom experience like this, there are opportunities for understanding this kind of balance as integrated learning effectively combines studies in science, language arts, social studies, math, and fine arts in an experiential, authentic context where inquiry and mentored learning is put to the test.
...Ho'ihi...
Wetlands that surround the Menehune Fishpond are also treasures to be protected and cared for.
Unobstructed kuapa and makaha
(stone wall and wooden sluice gate)
Sheri Majewski, Loko I'a, 2009
Pastel on Paper

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Cimarron (1931 and 1960)
Upon hearing a disagreeable melody, one might wonder whether one was hearing a good song sung poorly or a bad song sung well. I had a similar reaction in watching Cimarron with regard to the character Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix), a man imbued with the pioneering spirit in the late nineteenth century. I kept wondering if he was supposed to be an admirable character portrayed by a bad actor, or an irritating character excellently portrayed by a good actor. By the time the movie was over, I had concluded that it was the worst of both worlds. Richard Dix gives a hammy performance of an insufferable jerk that we are supposed to admire. And this notwithstanding the fact that the movie won the Oscar for Best Picture and Dix was nominated for Best Actor.
In other words, this movie would not be so bad if it wanted us to regard Yancey as obnoxious, and Richard Dix merely overacted the part as if he were performing on stage, where a loud resonating voice and sweeping gestures are needed for the benefit of those sitting in the back rows. But the movie goes to great lengths to get us to admire Yancey, and the dissonance between what the movie expects of us and what we are actually feeling as we behold this preposterous character is grating.
Irene Dunne, who was nominated for Best Actress, does a decent job of playing Sabra, Yancey's wife, for whom we have sympathy, given all she has to put up with, even though the movie really does not want us to like her very much, because it is continually showing her as lacking the virtues that Yancey possesses. For example, Sabra is a racist who despises Indians, while Yancey is respectful of Indians and regrets the way they have been treated by white men. (There is the suggestion that he is part Indian himself, made explicit in the novel, but whether Sabra knows this is not clear). Also, Sabra is a heartless prude, who wants to run Dixie Lee (Estelle Taylor) out of town for being a public nuisance (i.e., a prostitute), while Yancey realizes that Dixie is more to be pitied than censured, and successfully defends her in court against the legal action brought against her by Sabra. And when Yancey deserts Sabra and the two children so that he can have some fun pioneering again, the movie wants us to think it is her fault for not being willing to go with him. Of course, we are eventually allowed to like her once she finally realizes that Yancey has always been right and she has always been wrong.
Underscoring all this are their children. Their daughter is a shrew, while their son is such a nice guy he even intends to marry an Indian. But why stop there? The whole town is like that. With the exception of a few scoundrels, the men are genuine and likable, while the decent women of the community are snobs and prudes. It is hard to believe this movie was based on a novel written by a woman, Edna Ferber.
When Yancey abandons Sabra again, the movie sees no need to belabor his second desertion of her, but merely mentions it in an intertitle. Many years go by, during which time Sabra becomes a United States representative, her reward, presumably, for finally realizing how enlightened her husband had been all along. At a political banquet in her honor, she gives credit to the contribution women have made in civilizing Oklahoma. Given all the misogyny we have seen up to this point, this belated tribute to women almost sounds like an apologetic afterthought.
Sabra barely manages to fight back the tears as she tries to tell herself that Yancey is still alive somewhere. But then it turns out that some old roughneck working on an oil rig right nearby has been severely injured because he used his body to shield the rest of the crew from some exploding nitroglycerin; and Sabra, hearing that the man's name is Yancey, rushes to him, where he dies in her arms while blathering about what a loving wife and mother she is. Of course, we cannot help but think that even though he was working right there in the local oil fields, he apparently did not want to have anything to do with her, because he never even let her know he was in town.
And then the cover is removed from an obscenely huge statue of Yancey in honor of the pioneers who made Oklahoma what it is. There is another figure, somewhat smaller in stature, standing behind him, but it is not Sabra. It is an Indian. A male Indian, of course.
Though the 1931 version of Edna Ferber's 1929 novel is not any good, yet we make allowances for it owing to the times in which the movie was made. It seems to be trying to say prejudice is bad, but makes its point with stereotypes of African Americans, Jews, and Native Americans, often set up to show how enlightened Yancey is and what a great guy he is for coming to their rescue. Yancey is also supposed to be enlightened when it comes to women, hence his defense of Dixie Lee, but this is done at the expense of women like Sabra, making her out to be narrow minded. And so, we handicap the movie for when it was made, making allowances for both the style and content.
But when watching the 1960 remake, we lose all patience. To take an extreme example for comparison, we are glad to have Birth of a Nation (1915) as a document revealing the racist attitudes of the times, and as such, we watch the movie with fascination. But that does not mean we want the movie remade today, even if we could do it better, so to speak, by making it with sound, in color, and in widescreen, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Perhaps the land rush for the Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma in 1889 begged to be filmed in color and in Cinemascope, but that could have been depicted in an entirely different story. Placed within a remake of Cimarron, however, it is simply wasted. Some of the misogyny is eliminated by simply eliminating Yancey's bigoted daughter and by eliminating the persecution and trial of Dixie Lee (Anne Baxter). The African American stereotype is avoided by eliminating the boy who sneaked away with Yancey and Sabra early in the 1931 movie. However, Sol Levy (David Opatoshau) is still depicted as the stereotypical Jew, one who is a helpless victim, which allows Yancey to play the savior.
In the 1930s, Richard C. Kahn directed a lot of B Westerns with an all-black cast, but starting in the 1960s, perhaps as part of an effort on the part of Hollywood to make amends, African Americans began showing up in mainstream Westerns as men that are good with a gun. But have you ever seen a Western in which a Jew strapped on a gun, killed all the bad guys, and then got the girl? Of course, I'm speaking of the character in the movie, not the actor. Eli Wallach was a Jew that often played Italians, and in Westerns, he played Mexicans, as in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). It's lucky that these movies were made before it became politically incorrect to cast someone in a role with an ethnicity other than his own, for then we would have been deprived of some great performances. As for reality, there were a lot of Jews in the Old West, many of whom, I have no doubt, were good with a gun. But you would never know it from watching the movies. But I digress.
I mentioned that in the 1931 version, Yancey Cravat is an irritating character played by a bad actor, Richard Dix. In this 1960 version, Yancey is played by a much better actor, Glenn Ford, but he is just as irritating as ever, if not more so. However, the 1960 version makes apologies for him by having Sabra (Maria Schell) tell him she never wants to see him again when he refuses to accept the appointment as governor, instead of simply having Yancey abandon her again the way he did in the 1931 version. So, by making it all be the woman's fault, the misogyny finds another outlet in this movie.
The melodramatic death of Yancey in the oilfield is eliminated, with Yancey dying in the First World War instead. A more modestly sized statue of Yancey appears at the end of the 1960 version, though with Yancey still towering over the Indian he is helping up.
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Cámenca (; ; ) es una ciudad ubicada la orilla oriental de río Dniéster, parte de la parcialmente reconocida República de Transnistria, y capital del distrito homónimo, aunque de iure pertenece a Moldavia.

Geografía
Se encuentra a una altitud de 36 m sobre el nivel del mar.

Historia

La ciudad fue fundada en 1608. En el siglo XVII estaba ubicada en el Voivodato de Brátslav de la República de las Dos Naciones y era propiedad de un magnate polaco de la familia Koniecpolski. En 1672, según el tratado de paz de Buczacz, junto con Podolia, quedó bajo el dominio del Imperio otomano, y después del tratado de Karlowitz de 1699, regresó a Polonia. En ese momento, pertenecía al Maestro Jan Aleksander Koniecpolski. Durante la segunda partición de Polonia, fue ocupada por el Imperio ruso. Como parte de Rusia, el pueblo se incluyó en la región de Olgopol de la gobernación de Podolia. En 1803 se construyó un palacio en el pueblo.

De 1924 a 1940, formó parte de la RASS de Moldavia, y luego hasta 1991, fue parte de la República Socialista Soviética de Moldavia, a excepción de 1941-1944, cuando formó parte de la Transnistria rumana.

El distrito de Cámenca se formó el 10 de enero de 1969 por Decreto del Presidium del Consejo Supremo de la RSS de Moldavia.  Con el colapso de la URSS y la guerra de Transnistria (1992), Cámenca quedó bajo control separatista .En 2002, Cámenca recibió el estatus de ciudad y es  el centro administrativo del distrito homónimo.

Demografía
La evolución demográfica de Cámenca entre 1939 y 2019 fue la siguiente:
La población de la ciudad a 1 de enero de 2014 ascendía a 8871 personas. Según una estimación de 2010, contaba con una población de 9543 habitantes.

La composición étnica de la población según el censo de 2004 era:

Economía
La mayoría de la población trabaja en las empresas del complejo de construcción y procesamiento, emprendimiento y agricultura. La ciudad cuenta con una fábrica de mantequilla (no funciona), una fábrica de conservas de frutas y verduras y una panadería (no funciona). En Cámenca hay un conocido complejo turístico: el sanatorio "Dniéster", el más grande de toda Transnistria.

Infraestructura
La ciudad cuenta con 3 escuelas secundarias y una escuela primaria. Existe una escuela técnica agrícola que forma especialistas en el campo de la viticultura, ordenamiento territorial, construcción, fruticultura y silvicultura. La ciudad tiene un museo histórico y de tradiciones locales.

Transporte
Cámenca está conectada con los asentamientos de Transnistria y la orilla derecha de Moldavia por autobús, y también hay conexiones de autobús con las ciudades de Ucrania. Las rutas de autobús de Tiráspol a Rusia y otros países europeos pasan por la ciudad. Anteriormente, había una estación de tren cerca de la ciudad, que estaba conectada por una línea ferroviaria de vía estrecha con Rudnytsia (era una rama del ferrocarril de vía estrecha Gaivoron). Ahora, la mayoría de los residentes de la ciudad utilizan las estaciones de Rudnytsia y Vapnyarka. La ciudad también tenía un aeropuerto ya cerrado.

En 1972, se construyó un puente sobre el Dniéster, que ahora separa la orilla derecha de Moldavia de la no reconocida Transnistria. Del lado de Kamianka hay un puesto de control, al otro lado del puente hay un puesto de control aduanero de la República de Moldavia (el pueblo de Seneteuca, distrito de Florești).

Galería

Personajes ilustres

 Nicolae Coval (1904-197): político soviético moldavo que fue primer ministro de la RSS de Moldavia (1945-1946).
 Pyotr Vershigora (1905-1963): escritor soviético y uno de los líderes del movimiento partisano soviético en Ucrania, Bielorrusia y Polonia.

Véase también

 Distrito de Cámenca
 Transnistria

Referencias

Localidades de Moldavia
Localidades de Transnistria

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Q: Button doesn't appear at SWT on Jython I've been tried to put a button at my class at Jython. I'm using SWT components to create my GUI. The button doesn't appear, but the window appear normally. I already create this class at Java, and works well.
This is my code, what is wrong?
from java.lang import Thread as JThread, InterruptedException
from org.eclipse.swt import widgets, layout, SWT
from org.eclipse.swt.layout import GridLayout, GridData, FillLayout
from org.eclipse.swt.widgets import Composite, Listener#, Event
from org.yakindu.sct.runtime.java.new64 import New64CycleBasedStatemachine
import time

class Cycle(object):
    def __init__(self):

        self.display = widgets.Display()
        self.shell = widgets.Shell(self.display, SWT.SHELL_TRIM | SWT.APPLICATION_MODAL)
        self.shell.setLayout(layout.RowLayout())
        self.shell.setText("Message Window")
        self.shell.setLocation(300, 300)
        self.shell.setSize(300, 150)
        self.thread = JThread()
        self.shell.open()

    def run(self):
        self.statemachine = New64CycleBasedStatemachine()
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            self.statemachine.getInterfaceNewTest().getVarMessage()
            self.statemachine.runCycle()
            try:
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        self.thread.start()

    def show_window(self):
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    def create_button(self, statemachine, shell):
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        self.buttonCompositeGridData =  GridData()
        self.buttonCompositeGridData.horizontalAlignment = GridData.FILL
        self.buttonCompositeGridData.grabExcessHorizontalSpace = True
        self.buttonComposite.setLayoutData(self.buttonCompositeGridData)
        self.buttonCompositeLayout = FillLayout()
        self.buttonCompositeLayout.type = SWT.HORIZONTAL
        fillLayout = FillLayout()

        self.buttonComposite.setLayout(fillLayout)
        self.button = widgets.Button(self.buttonComposite, SWT.PUSH);
        self.button.setText("Ok")

foo = Cycle()
foo.run()
foo.create_button()
foo.show_window()

A: There are multiple issues:

*

*The position of the self.shell.open(). You are calling create_button() after opening the shell !! See the javadoc of shell.open().

*You are using RowLayout, then creating a GridData and then setting a FillLayout. I won't tell you the problem. Run the code and see.

Working Example From Your Snippet
from java.lang import Thread as JThread, InterruptedException
from org.eclipse.swt import widgets, layout, SWT
from org.eclipse.swt.layout import GridLayout, GridData, FillLayout
from org.eclipse.swt.widgets import Composite, Listener#, Event

import time

class Cycle(object):
    def __init__(self):

        self.display = widgets.Display()
        self.shell = widgets.Shell(self.display, SWT.SHELL_TRIM | SWT.APPLICATION_MODAL)
        self.shell.setLayout(layout.RowLayout())
        self.shell.setText("Message Window")
        self.shell.setLocation(300, 300)
        self.shell.setSize(300, 150)

    def show_window(self):
        self.shell.open() // I have moved it here. After all the control creation !!
        while not self.shell.isDisposed():
            if not self.display.readAndDispatch():
                self.display.sleep()
        self.display.dispose()

    def create_button(self):
        self.buttonComposite = Composite(self.shell, SWT.NO_SCROLL)
        #self.buttonCompositeGridData =  GridData()
        #self.buttonCompositeGridData.horizontalAlignment = GridData.FILL
        #self.buttonCompositeGridData.grabExcessHorizontalSpace = True
        #self.buttonComposite.setLayoutData(self.buttonCompositeGridData)
        self.buttonCompositeLayout = FillLayout()
        self.buttonCompositeLayout.type = SWT.HORIZONTAL
        fillLayout = FillLayout()

        self.buttonComposite.setLayout(fillLayout)
        self.button = widgets.Button(self.buttonComposite, SWT.PUSH);
        self.button.setText("Ok")

foo = Cycle()
foo.create_button()
foo.show_window()

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Greetings Earthlings! It's been a few months since my last newsletter so I figured I should share some of the things I have been working on.
I have been telling people that I have been learning how to create database-driven Flash applications. I can finally show where some of the fruits of these projects.
Andrew Penry and I built a flash site for Bullet Jones (www.bulletjones.com) . On that site Andrew focused on the Flash and database aspect. My work was the graphical element. That is probably the most graphically integrated site I have ever worked on. It shows the direction I am taking in regards to melding content and presentation.
Another site that I built in Flash was a Flash front-end for Last Minute Villas at http://www.lastminutevillas.net/floridavillasflash/lmv.html . In that project, I used the database backend that was already present and built a Flash application to browse the data. I created the 3D video in 3D Studio Max.
I have started planning a Flash version of the Artistic Network, and I may also make a Flash utility for the front page of my site. I spent so many years avoiding Flash... but now I wish I had familiarized myself with it long ago. I actually enjoy the possibilities for greater interactivity and multi-media that Flash offers.
In other news, the bulk of my work with Last Minute Villas has come to a halt. While I am still overseeing maintenance, active development has ceased; a slumping travel industry has affected this more than I had hoped. As such, I am now open to take on more projects. So if you need someone like me to help your site, or know someone who does, don't hesitate to call or email me.
One of the upsides of the lull in my work is that I have some free time for photography and other creative outlets that I have neglected these last few years. Attached are some recent photos. I have a batch of new insect and spider photos that I will load this week. Expect some new cartoons, mazes and maybe even some 3D animations in the coming weeks and months.
Stay Safe, Healthy and Creative!


We are delighted to share some photos from site of the works in progress on the new Ramada hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The interior designed by us is currently being fit out and it was great to see progress when on site in Ethiopia.
ROOF TOP RESTAURANT OPENS IN RAMADA HOTEL – ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA OUR DESIGN FOR THIS HOTEL INCLUDED A ROOF TOP RESTAURANT. EXCITED TO SEE THE FINISHED FIT OUT AND ENJOY GOOD FOOD.
Completed visual of our latest hotel project in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, works are currently underway on this project and we are looking forward to a room with the amazing views over lake Tana.


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PASQAL - First Neutral Atoms Quantum Computer available on the cloud
Published by Henrique Silvério, 6th May 2022
Paris, May 6, 2022 – PASQAL, the leading quantum computing startup announces that its PASQAL Cloud Services is online and will allow end users to access Neutral Atoms Quantum Computers from all over the world. PASQAL Cloud Services is the cloud-based quantum computing platform of PASQAL. Our customers now have direct access to full stack Neutral atoms quantum computers to accelerate their development and complex business projects.
PASQAL's QPUs are programmable using Pulser, an open-source framework for neutral atoms. Pulser gives pulse-level control over the QPUs, allowing users to define their quantum registers with arbitrary geometries and control the evolution of the system with a sequence of laser pulses.
For now, PASQAL Cloud Services is in private beta. The first 2 customers accessing the platform are CA CIB and CINECA.
CA CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 12th largest banking group worldwide in terms of tier 1 capital. CA CIB relies on PASQAL's technology to explore quantum benefits of algorithms for capital markets and risk management.
CINECA is an Italian inter-university consortium, which operates one of the world's most important supercomputing centers. Members of CINECA's ecosystem are developing demonstration systems that integrate traditional HPC functionalities with the use of PASQAL's quantum systems used as coprocessors.
PASQAL Cloud Services is hosted on OVHcloud, the leading European cloud provider. PASQAL is also one of the laureates of the OVHcloud Startup Program and the first Quantum Supplier contributing to extending the scope of OVHcloud platform. "Cloud shall definitely be the platform on which you could challenge the most innovative and disruptive use cases. Therefore, we are delighted to accompany Pasqal in the frame of our OVHcloud startup program to explore the potential of Quantum in the cloud." said Thierry Souche, CTO at OVHcloud.
In Q4 2022, PASQAL will open publicly its access to its cloud services while prioritizing customers on the waitlist. "In our mission to provide the best full stack quantum computers, having our Neutral atoms quantum computers online is a key milestone. It will empower our customers to accelerate their computational projects with state of the art next-gen HPC resources.", said Benno Broer, CCO at PASQAL.
About Pasqal
Pasqal builds quantum computers from ordered neutral atoms in 2D and 3D arrays with the goal of bringing a practical quantum advantage to its customers in addressing real-world problems, especially in quantum simulation and optimization. Pasqal was founded in 2019 by Georges-Olivier Reymond, Christophe Jurczak, Professor Dr. Alain Aspect, Dr. Antoine Browaeys and Dr. Thierry Lahaye. Based in Palaiseau and Massy, south of Paris, Pasqal has secured more than €40 million in financing combining equity and non-dilutive funding from Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Runa Capital, BPI France, ENI and Daphni.
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Light on the Path, Fifth Mindfulness Training
Light on the Path
We take up the Mindfulness Trainings because in our moments of Awareness we know that we will forget... and in our frequent states of forgetfulness we need light on our path... we search out many sources and they are all true, deep, and good: Yeshua has stories and counsel, Rumi has poetry for the mid-night soul, Dorothy has a strong hand and a potato-peeler to share... Thich Nhat Hahn, our brother, suffered war and exile and the blessedness of return and teachings of peace. From the once-napalmed forests, fields, and villages of Vietnam (napalmed by American planes and chemicals), came the liberating insight that we are all One, that with this precious Planet, we all exist in the steady state of "inter-being"...
With the deep breath provided by sabbatical time, we are able to take a look at the Trainings and offer a few insights -- and an updating of the wording of the Trainings -- as a sort of "introductory course" in intentional community for the "mystic-activists" who will lead in the transformation of our culture, politics, economies, and religions, into the Way of Beauty and Kindness...
If you are new to these pages, please review the previous entries for the "Light on the Path"; especially give attention to the section entitled "Opening Meditation". Begin every reading of these pages with an attentive focus on this meditation (copy it for we won't be including it in the following pages). Begin with the
"Opening Meditation" followed by the "Three Refuges"... centered and focused in your sacred heart, let the gentle flow of your breath embrace these next few moments as we together shine a little light upon the path...
"In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate... Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty..."
Fifth Mindfulness Training:
Aware that happiness is rooted in gratitude, service, and compassion, and not in the pursuit or exercise of power, we are determined to practice simplicity of life, thought, and motivation.
We suppose, if there were to be only one mindfulness training, if there were to be only a thirty word summary of the Sermon on the Mount or a thirty word biography of Mahatma Gandhi or St. Francis, these thirty words of the fifth mindfulness training would suffice. Happiness is what every human being craves, and here in this training, the means to that end are articulated -- as well as the "tripping point" on our life-journey's: the pursuit or exercise of power... and then there is power's antidote... When we find ourselves covered in the mud of our power-tripping, we have the option of soaking in the hot tub of simplicity of life, thought, and motivation... and then getting back on track...
One need only briefly (very briefly) consider the plight of Mitt Romney -- his every word, his body language and facial expressions, everything about the man exudes a pronounced hunger for power. Unfortunately for us, he has convinced himself that his pursuit of power is a "public service" -- and not a "filler" for the emptiness of his heart...(but this is generally true for every political actor)... here, though, is another "but": but this is also true for every human being! The myth of power is that it can fill the emptiness of the human heart. And so on every level, we all follow the seductive gaze of power into the back-alleys of our minds and relationships -- this "following" has become entenched as the "dominator paradigm" which reveals its ugly face in predatory capitalism, fanatical religious fundamentalism, the justification of violence, the oppression of women and minorities, and the willful disregard and destruction of this precious blue Planet.
To write these thoughts down is, in a clear way, to present power as "something out there" and only marginally "in here" -- in our own heads, hearts, and lives. When we wrote "we all follow the seductive gaze of power..." we understood that the dominator paradigm is built directly upon our habitual thought patterns, ways of communicating in our families and work-places, and in our networks of relationships. The dominator paradigm exists because we feed it! We don't just toss it the bones from our plates or the dregs from our cups, but we give it entire harvests and the very best vintage -- year in and year out! Absolutely everytime that we are disrespectful to our partner, that we yell at our children, that we curse a lousy driver, that we marginalize and abuse a fellow worker, that we hunker down into smaller and smaller lives and circles of interests, we are feeding the dominator paradigm. This goes on and on and deeper and deeper, until it becomes our unspoken and unwritten self-definitions: we are not perfectly delightful images of the Holy One! We come to fear-believe that we are best defined as "sinners". We come to fear-believe that we are fundamentally worthless -- and that any "worth" that we might have only comes to us from outside of ourselves. We come, sooner or later, to the end of the human person: we know ourselves to be radically and truly unloveable. And that horrible knowing is the source of the emptiness that invades our hearts and gives power to the dominator paradigm.
This fifth mindfulness training is intended to alter "reality" by lightening our loads! "We are determined to practice simplicity of life, thought, and motivation." Okay! So we clear the deck of our minds and hearts and relationships! Let's get really radical and speak absolute truth (repeat after us): "I was created by Love, for Love, to become Love" (Simone Weil). "I am worth the very best -- always." "I am beautiful, right now, just as I am." "I can, and will, change my mind." "I will think and speak positively and constructively." "I will become an agent of transformation in my family, in my workplace, in my community, and in the world." "I am the one that I have been waiting for." "I will change the course of human history."
To truly live as a human being is to consciously choose a place to stand... this fifth mindfulness training suggests just such a place... Listen to this story... "Yeshua was walking with his friends by the lakeside, enjoying the gentle breeze and the blue of the water. The pathway eventually veered away from the lake and up a hill-side. Up ahead, there was seen to be a dead vulture lying directly upon the path -- they would have to step over it -- someone muttered that it was a bad sign. The steps of Yeshua, though, did not hesitate. He walked up to the dead body of the old vulture and stopped to gaze upon it. Some steps later, he asked if any of them had ever seen a vulture consuming another vulture? Coming to think about it, none of them had. Yeshua, remarked he wished people could be so judicious... and that was why his heart embraced the lives of the poor..."
And this story, too: We think of Frances, a homeless woman, someone who has spent years on the margins of our society. Her journey has carried her through the harsh realities of drug addiction, of losing her children, and of losing her way. Yet, she always came back to the Kitchen. As the seasons of her life changed, she found her place in our shelter. She found the beginnings of purpose in volunteering. She found meaning in facilitating a regular NA meeting... What was it that we could see in her through the many years? What is it that we strive to see in every person who somehow gets lost and finds her / his way here? What is it that keeps us going back for more and more? The answer is in the seeing. First, there is the living light that swirls around us, everyone, and everything. It's very brightness becomes a veil... yet, they are, each and all, transparent; their true reality or nature is desperately seeking ways for breaking through. In the end, we are tasked with assisting in the co-creation of reality through seeing the truth of what has always been there. By affirming the beauty of the person before us, we assist in activating her / his possibilities. The way of service for nonviolence and justice blesses us everyday with opportunities to help Frances name her reality: Who is special? "I am special!" Who does God love? "Me!" Who do you love? "Me!" Who else do you love? "You!" And what are you worth? "The very best! I am worth Love!"
An Alternative Fifth Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the common human desire for happiness, safety, health, and the sure knowing of being "wanted", I will exercise my will and energy in humble service of this common good.
How can we encourage people to commit to lifestyles that promote equality and the common good?
Practice for the Week:
Search the internet for "Get Money Out". Sign the petition for a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics and to re-define corporations as "NOT" people. Spread the word!
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is Love. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
I love, therefore being is, and life is worth the pain of having lived. --Emmanuel Mounier
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -- Eugene V. Debs
Love is an action, never simply a feeling. -- bell hooks
Walk the streets with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. -- Dolores Huerta
With love and End of the Year Blessings,
Michelle and Robert
"In the Name of the Holy One... Boundlessly Compassionate... Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty..."
Light on the Path, Fourth Mindfulness Training
Opening Meditation
We begin: In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty...
The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved, my Love, dearest one of my Heart. Come to me..."
We rest in the words, at-one with both the whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies... everything has it's being within this Call, "Come to me, my Beloved"...
This Sacred Mystery expands and deepens as the Call of the One, becomes the Call for the Many...
The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved... and bring All the Others with you. Leave no one behind, for I would abandon no One -- and so you must bring everyone with you."
The whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies become as a soup-ladle, lifted and poured out upon the Bread that is your Body, to likewise be lifted and given to the world, given to those who hunger for justice and who thirst for hope... everyone will find their safety, their health, and a joyous homecoming for their heart, lifted up by the wings of the Holy One, "Come to me, my Beloved... everyone is Wanted..."
Centered within this Holy Secret, relaxing into the pregnancy of breath, we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I thank You". We let that awareness deepen and expand to include our loved ones, our communities and regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included this entire precious Planet. We let that awareness then receive the terrible weight of all suffering within our lives, within our loved ones, our communities, regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included all suffering on this precious Planet. We breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I bless You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will remember You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will give You reason to hope"...
We recite the Three Refuges:
I take refuge in the Holy One. I take refuge in Love. I take refuge in Service for Peace and Justice.
We take up the Mindfulness Trainings because in our moments of Awareness we know that we will forget... and in our frequent states of forgetfulness we need light on our path... we search out many sources and they are all true, deep, and good: Yeshua has stories and counsel, Rumi has poetry for the mid-night soul, Dorothy has a strong hand and a potato-peeler to share... Thich Nhat Hahn, our brother, suffered war and exile and the blessedness of return and teachings of peace -- from the once-napalmed forests, fields, and villages of Vietnam (napalmed by American planes and chemicals), came the liberating insight that we are all One, that with this precious Planet, we all exist in the steady state of "inter-being"...
Mindfulness Training Four:
Aware that looking deeply in the nature of suffering can help us nurture compassion and discover the Way of Love in our present circumstances, we are committed to a personal identification with those who suffer so we can understand their stories and situations deeply, and help them transform their suffering into hope and peace.
Week four of a profoundly personal / spiritual project together gives us pause: we are no different from anyone else! Life is a maelstrom of passion and conflict, of questions and darkness -- and, thanks be to the Holy One, at the very same time an oasis of possibilities and quest, of dreams and self-effacing courage...We pause to reflect upon our own journey's: many, too many, years separate... then our discovery of the Other and our coming together... our first kiss (which rocked the Universe to it's Higgs boson particles)...
our wedding, our twin sons, and then our daughter... our friends over the years, some gained and others lost... our work with children and the homeless... and still we dream! And still we dream of many lifetimes and adventures together!
One of our chosen symbols for our marriage and our love is that of a chalice, a cup to hold and then set loose infinite possibilities. Our lives together are meant to liberate the other into becoming "an agent for transformation" and to find both the strength of perseverance and the radical witness of courage. As awareness seeps into one's bones, and then into and through the marrow, the truest response to the pain and suffering that devastates lives and is threatening to destroy this precious Planet, is the Way of Love: the breaking and opening of our hearts to unleash the power of compassion and a personal identification with the "Other" -- whomever She may be. Compassion and identification are the two primary "tools" in the belt of the mystic / activist. With them fully available and activated, becoming "agents of transformation" is within our reach -- without them, we will only fool ourselves and others, and cause still more pain and harm...
We wonder what is in the news? A quick glance reveals these headlines: Landlord fights "White Only' pool sign ruling; Human Rights Watch criticizes Alabama immigration law; Inequality in the US - the top 0.1% gaining even more than top 1%; Threat of malnutrition dire in Africa's Sahel region... taking refuge in the Holy One, in Love, and in Service for Peace and Justice breaks one's heart -- and it just keeps right on breaking, leaking out all over the place...
Three Stories: 1. Two women, farm workers, showed up at our House asking for food for their families. A few questions later, they revealed that they both had been working for a labor contractor. Together, they worked from sun-up to sun-down. The contractor gave then one check -- which they showed us -- to split for their days' work: the check totalled one dollar. There were a number of deductions made... 2. We organized a free health clinic at a migrant farm worker camp. The volunteer doctors were dispersed in a number of the small housing units. The families would make the rounds for diabetes screening, eye exams, PAP smears, etc. I wandered the camp visiting throughout the evening. Every time I passed one of the units, a young girl would come to the door and ask if I wanted to come in out of the cold wind. After a while, thoroughly chilled, I accepted her invitation. she was overjoyed to be able to offer me something from the little they had, would I like some hot chocolate and a pastry? I said, thanks for asking, but I was fine and just glad to be getting warm. I could hear her puttering around in the kitchen, and a few minutes later, she came out of the kitchen with a steaming cup of chocolate, and the gooiest Mexican pastry I could have ever imagined. Ah, but the look on Her Face! She was as radiant as the most beautiful summer day... 3. A couple had been reading our newsletter for some months and was curious about our stories of farm worker children. Could I take them with me to a farm worker camp? They went with me that Thursday, following me in their car. We arrived, I parked, and they parked facing the Santa Lucia Mountains across the Valley. "M" volunteered to distribute the beans, rice, and other items in the back of my truck -- I went off to play ball with the kids. later, "M" came up to me, she had finished, and she and her husband would be leaving. As I was walking her to her car, she asked if I was curious why her husband never got out of the car -- I really didn't think about it, probably figuring he was just shy. "M" stopped in the middle of the dirt parking lot and pointed to a ranch house in the distance. She said, "My husband grew up on that ranch. He drove by this camp everyday of his life -- and he never knew it was here."
Just say the Word
And every border
Will vanish this very night.
We could tomorrow all wake up
And not know if we're coming or going.
Then we might finally understand:
We are all, each one of us, aliens
Until our pilgrim hearts
Find their rest in Your embrace...
"La Illaha, Il Allahu"
We think we are many,
But we are really only one...
(Just say the Word...)
Another story: It was nearing the end of time. There were huge crowds waiting in line, each one hoping to make it through the Pearly Gates. There was a steady movement forward -- no one seemed to be going away! Whew, maybe there's hope for all of us... slowly, whispered instructions were being passed back all the way from the front of the line, "Just say that you're a friend of Dorothy Day's. Pass it on." (Thanks to Milton Mayer for another version of this story from the February 1981 edition of "Enthusiasm" the paper of the Viva House in Baltimore).
An Alternate Fourth Mindfulness Training:
Aware of how my heart thrills to love, I will focus my daily intentions and actions upon living in solidarity with all those for whom to live means to suffer. I will listen deeply to hear their stories and their wisdom. I will walk with all of my sisters and brothers into our mutual liberation.
Question for the Week:
How would you re-imagine America if every cultural / social / economic / political / religious institution sought the full development and liberation of every person? (We know this to be a "big" question -- but if the big questions are never asked, how will we ever change course?)
Review the pages of "Light on the Path"; pick a quotation that especially resonates with your mind, heart, life, and vision; write it down, make as many copies as you can, tape / place the copies wherever they might catch someone by surprise; sign them from "Occupy Love"...
"We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in. We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form, saying, "We need bread." We could not say, "Go, be thou filled." If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread. We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us... And somehow the walls expanded... The most significant thing about The Catholic Worker
is poverty, some say. The most significant thing is community, others say. We are not alone any more. But the final word is love... We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship." --Dorothy Day
'Tis a gift to be simple,
'Tis a gift to be free,
'Tis a gift to come down
Where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
In the place just right
'Twill be in the valley
Of love and delight. -- An old Shaker hymn
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through'?" --Simone Weil
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." --Philo
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." --Anais Nin
"...What I want and all my days I pine for is to go back to my house and see my day of homecoming. And if some God batters me far out on the wine-blue water, I will endure it, keeping a stubborn spirit inside me, for already I have suffered much and done much hard work on the waves and in the fighting. So let this adventure follow." --Homer, Odyssey
With love and December blessings,
"In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty..."
Light on the Path, Third Mindfulness Training
We begin: "In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty..."
We rest in these words, at-one with both the whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies... everything has its being within this Call, "Come to me, my Beloved..." This Sacred Mystery expands and deepens as the Call of the One, becomes the Call for the Many... The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved... and bring All the Others with you. Leave no one behind, for I would abandon no One -- and so you must bring everyone with you."
The whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies become as a soup-ladle, lifted up and poured out upon the Bread that is your Body, to likewise be lifted and given to the world, given to those who hunger for justice and who thirst for hope... everyone will find their safety, their health, and a joyous homecoming for their heart, lifted up by the wings of the Holy One, "Come to me, my Beloved... everyone is Wanted..."
Centered within this Holy Secret, relaxing into the pregnancy of breath, we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I thank You". We let that awareness deepen and expand to include our loved ones, our communities and regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included this entire precious Planet. We let that awareness then receive the terrible weight of all suffering within our lives, within our loved ones, our communities, regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included all suffering on this precious Planet. We breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I bless You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will remember You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will give You reason for hope"...
Recite the Three Refuges: "I take refuge in the Holy One. I take refuge in Love. I take refuge in Service for Justice and Peace." Why "refuge", what does it mean? The meaning of the word reveals the answer. Refuge: 1. Protection or shelter, as from danger or hardship. 2. A place providing protection or shelter; sanctuary. Life is hard for everyone -- should it be any different for the mystic / activist? When doubt assails, when triumph is overwhelmed by tragedy, or simply on those days when getting out of bed in the morning is a struggle, we have a "place of refuge". When our minds are captured by doubt, we can embrace that doubt and shout into every fierce wind a proclamation of our sacred identity: "I will not be turned aside! I take refuge in the Holy One! Kindness and Beauty are what really matters! I take refuge in Love! We are all, every last one of us, all the way down through blood and bone and into naked soul, worth loving! I take refuge in Service for Justice and Peace! The blanket of my sacred dream of harmlessness covering all the Earth is worth my struggle and my every breath!"
Third Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the suffering caused by the imposition of our views on others, we are committed not to force others to adopt our views as we learn the inner meaning of nonviolence and encourage everyone to a deep practice of the "sacrament of conversation".
A quick review of the first three mindfulness trainings and these words jump out at us: fanaticism, intolerance, attachment, opinions, perceptions, imposition, and force. Whew! Do we take the time to scan the headlines for proof positive that these seven words succinctly define the current state of human relations on this Planet? And how scary it must be, to be a kid looking out upon a world of too many mad adults who are so skilled at justifying anything! Nevertheless, we have to look -- for mindfulness must be grounded in the genuine living experiences of people not precepts: "Syria kills 60 fleeing soldiers"; "As Romney's firm profited in SC, jobs disappeared"; "Ohio shooting of girl in Amish buggy a homicide"; and, "I'm freaked out: student vanishes after call"...
The essence of this mindfulness training is the subtle, yet powerful, awareness that every "Other" is a trinity of being: her / him self, you, and at the same time another manifestation of the Holy One! This awareness is meant to shock us to the very core of our being. This awareness is meant to rip our minds apart. This awareness is meant to shatter every single one of our temptations to "think" intead of "live" the truth of "form without attachment". Ah!
"I gave my heart and soul. My fortune too.
I've no flock anymore,
no other work in view.
My occupation: love. It's all I do" (St. John of the Cross).
Ah! Ah!
"What is the life of the guerrilla fighter like?
His normal life is the long hike" (Che Guevara).
Awakening is not a "movement" into a unique, personal experience. But rather, it is a total, radical, self-emptying into EVERY OTHER as sister or brother, as servant and lover. Awakening is the discovery: "Hey! Everyday grace will see to it that there is less and less of me and more and more of You!" This "long hike" becomes something of a slow, beautiful, unveiling. Peeling potatoes, comforting a lost soul, listening to the scrambled words of an addict, organizing for justice, scrubbing the toilet, writing a paper, washing the dishes, teaching a class... everything becomes foreplay... everything becomes holy... everything becomes the deep practice of the "sacrament of conversation"...
"There is no sudden illumination. There is only a certain calmness, an empty-fullness, that is content with a moment of sacred space, of consecrated time.
A car speeds by. Tires squeel as the corner is turned. Dogs bark and gunshots penetrate both the night air and my interior silence. Words slowly form in my mind and my voice surprises my ears: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
I blow out the candle. I need to sleep.
But only moments later, I hear shouting and the rustle of many bodies coming from the street. I jump from bed and rush to the window. I see a crowd of young men wailing upon someone sprawled upon the the street. Seeing the force of their constant blows and kicks, I know that their victim's life is in danger. I grab my pants and run outside. Attempting to get in between the many attackers and the man on the street, I dance around him, all the while pleading, "In the name of Jesus, stop!" A car passing by stops. The driver jumps out and also begins to kick the man on the street. I'm wondering what the hell is going on -- while silently begging God to not let my pants fall down (in my rush outside, I had only buttoned the top button) -- I know that what little moral authority I had would quickly disappear if my pants fell down! Finally, all the attackers stepped back and then started to walk away. One of them pulled a gun out and fired half a dozen shots into the air... alive, yet with skin as gray as the road and covered in blood, the attacked man begged me to drive him away before the police arrived. We went about a mile into a neighborhood "safe" for his gang... a long story to get to the "sacred conversation" part: About a year later, there was a knock at the door in the dead of night. There stood a young man, and a young woman holding an infant. The young man asked me for a ride to a neighborhood safe for him, his bride and their baby. He knew that I recognized him as one of the attackers from the year before. As we all squeezed into my small car, I also recognized the strange "pregnancy" of that moment. He knew he could come to me for help, as I knew that a scary "dance of kindness" had created a little space for the sacrament of conversation..."
We look at each other in a deep appreciation for our opportunity to listen and adore another human being! Such splendor and delight in loving! We talk and tease each other of our favorite positions -- laughing loudly, we agree that it is holding hands and walking together. We wonder at how to overcome our human addiction to fear -- and all of the oppression and theologies that support it? All we know is that what we can do, we must. But with as much kissing, humor, loving, and talking as is humanly possible!
We both suddenly remember those volunteer meetings at the Soup Kitchen in which we're "training" our guest volunteers. Somewhere along the line we ask them, "Do you think there is a God?" They all agree that they are hopeful... even in the midst of their addictions and "sins". We ask them to describe their picture of God's characteristics. They all agree that the word "All" is good: "All Powerful", "All Knowing", etc. We ask, "How about All-Fast?" To the collective, "Huh?" we respond, "Get up Bustar! Put your toe to the line. Race me to the front door. Ready? Set. Go!" Bustar barely moves, he's not convinced we're not fooling him. But the explanation is forthcoming: "Okay, let's say that God is All-Fast. Our job is still to put our toe to the line and "race" God! Try to beat "Him" in Kindness, in Generosity, in Smiles, in Good Conversation, in Loving!"
An Alternative Third Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the sacrament of conversation, I am committed to maintaining an attitude of humility and a spirit of kindness in my familiy, associations, and communities. I will look for ways to honor, engage, and serve the "Other" by the practice of Beauty and Compassion.
The truth of liberation taken seriously is a way of life and of suffering resistance to the powers, my whole life in the service of truth. -- James W. Douglass
I will bow and be simple,
I will bow and be free,
I will bow and be humble,
Yea, bow like the willow tree.
I will bow, this is the token,
I will wear the easy yoke,
I will bow and be broken,
Yea, I will fall upon the rock. -- An old Shaker hymn
Love calls -- everywhere and always.
We're sky bound. Are you coming? -- Rumi
We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil
Light on the Path, Second Mindfulness Training
Opening Meditation:
We begin: "In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty...
We rest in these words, at-one with both the whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies... everything has its being within this Call, "Come to me, my Beloved"...
This Sacred Mystery expands and deepens as the Call of the One, becomes the Call for the Many... The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved... and bring All the Others with you. Leave no one behind, for I would abandon no One --- and so you must bring everyone with you."
The whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies become as a soup-ladle, lifted and poured out upon the Bread that is your Body, to likewise be lifted and given to the world, given to those who hunger for justice and who thirst for hope... everyone will find their safety, their health, and a joyous homecoming for their heart, lifted up by the wings of the Holy One, "Come to me, my Beloved... everyone is Wanted"...
Recite the Three Refuges: "I take refuge in the Holy One, I take refuge in Love, I take refuge in Service for Justice and Peace".
We take up the Mindfulness Trainings because in our moments of Awareness we know that we will forget... and in our frequent states of forgetfulness we need light on our path... we search out many sources and they are all true, deep, and good: Yeshua has stories and counsel, Rumi has poetry for the mid-night soul, Dorothy has a strong hand and a potato-peeler to share... Thich Nhat Hahn, our brother, suffered war and exile and the blessedness of return and teachings of peace --- from the once-napalmed forests, fields, and villages of Vietnam (napalmed by American planes and chemicals), came the liberating insight that we are all One, that with this precious Planet, we all exist in the steady state of "inter-being"...
Second Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the suffering caused by attachment to opinions and perceptions, we are determined to avoid being narrow minded as we learn to be open to others' insights and experiences.
We take a deep breath and pause... we remember that our chosen "sacred word" undergirding our marriage is gratitude. We nuzzle each other as we realize how our loneliness and separateness was transformed by our discovery of the other as our "self" -- in Love there is Only One and gratitude, gratitude, gratitude... our deeply personal realization suddenly expands into the sure knowing that this mindfulness training both compliments the First, and is also the seed-bed for the complete transformation that we seek... we want to focus our reflection upon two words: "other" and "unity"... so let's see where this goes...
But first another quick glance at headlines in the news: Bloomberg reports "Rich - Poor Divide widens in Developed World" (we digress into "He reports. And kicks out the Occupy Wall Street folks. Maybe because he likes the divide?) "School suspends some students linked to bullying suicide" and "Climate change will be good for Britain's growers". Aware of the suffering caused by attachment to opinions and perceptions...
There is a sufi story that goes something like this: a dervish left his favorite tavern in the dark of night for his walk home. Reaching into his pocket for his prayer beads, he fumbled them onto the ground. He spent some time on his hands and knees searching in the dark for them to no avail -- but looking up he saw a street light some distance away. He walked to the light, got down on his hands and knees again, and proceeded to search for his prayer beads. Meanwhile, a friend of his who likewise left the tavern for his walk home, approaches and asks if he can help. Both men are on their hands and knees searching for the prayer beads. Finally, the friend asks "Where did you drop the beads? They don't seem to be here." The dervish answers: "I dropped them way back down the road", to which his friend responds with, "You fool! If you dropped them back down the road, why are we on our hands and knees here?" The dervish answers: "Well, the light is much better over here..."
Another story: A volunteer showed up in the Soup Kitchen available to cook for a couple of days. He proceeds to cook a huge, righteous, pot of pasta for our two hundred or so guests. With his special garlic french bread and salad, we had a veritable feast! And then he does actually show up the next day to cook once more! We eagerly anticipate the day's meal. Ah, minestrone soup... a slew of fresh vegetables are chopped, beans are cooked on the side, small shell pasta is added at just the right time... the slow, deep, bubbling of cooking soup releases its sacred aroma into the waiting air... heads pop into the kitchen, and voices ask, "Hey, what's for lunch today? I've got a bag of cans for recycling, if I don't get back in time, would you save me some?" Then, about fifteen minutes till serving time, he pulls from the walk-in six gallons of mayonnaise, which he pours into the soup pot with as much pomp and circumstance as he dares under the shocked eyes of the assembled volunteers. Six gallons of mayo! "What the heck?" is everyone's startled question. He turns to face his accusers: "You've ruined the soup! Now what are we going to do?" He smirks and simply states: "Yesterday's gunk can become today's Unity." Unbeknownst to everyone, he had saved the liquid drained from yesterday's pasta. He'd saved the liquid in empty gallon mayo jars that he'd scrounged from our storeroom. The liquid had thickened over-night in the refrigerator and taken on the appearance and consistency of mayonnaise. "Waste not, want not". He was right. We were left speechless. And the soup was perfect, indeed!
Opinions-Perceptions-Attachments take the glorious colors of our lives and this world and shade them all gray. We will never find that which we are looking for if we are only willing to look "in the light" of our own opinions, perceptions, and attachments! We will never know all the possibilities the "soup of our lives" could become if we are unwilling to drop our opinions, perceptions, and attachments! The true colors of our lives and this world will bowl us over with their stunning beauty the minute we "recover our right mind"!
Away with words!
No... away with thoughts!
Let them all drop, like
The clothes you would shed
For one night with your dream.
Be like the moon, full
With only her lover's light. Trip!
And fall into a happy accident.
Empty your mind into adoration.
Sweat your bliss -- massage it
Through every pore, deep
Into your heart and soul...
"La Illaha, Il Allahu",
For this is the truth:
One is All there Is!
Opinions-Perceptions-Attachments: They'll only get us all more headlines like the ones highlighted above. Nothing will change, because our minds will remain the same! "If God lived on earth people would break his windows" (Sinead O'Connor). Of course that is true, but why? Well, just like Yeshua, if the Holy One were to come today striding through our lives, nation and world, She would shred all of our opinions, perceptions, and attachments because all they do is divide and separate us from love, gratitude, and One -- and we would be filled with such self-righteous resentment that we'd start looking for a way to get rid of Her... So long as 400 people have more wealth than the bottom three billion people, so long as even one drone missle is flying, so long as borders mean something other than pretty trees and rivers, we are supporting and perpetuating suffering.
So long as the vast majority of the 65,000 thoughts we have on any given day are negative and destructive, so long as we live in narrow-minded justifications, so long as we pay only lip-service to the demands of the times in which we live and refuse to surrender to One Love, we are supporting and perpetuating suffering... but there is a Way... paradise is possible: "Suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise... well, I'll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, in one hour it could all be brought about at once! The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that's the main thing, and that's it -- absolutely nothing more is necessary: you would immediately discover how to bring it about" (Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man).
An Alternative Second Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the possibilities within gratitude and passion, I am determined to be expansive and delightful as I serve others and share in the mutual liberation of our dreams and visions for everyone on this precious blue Planet.
If the very fate of humanity and of this Planet depended upon your thoughts, words, actions, and example, how would you act, what would you do? What if you were to live everyday with as much passionate desire for social justice as a drowning man fights for air?
"We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. We must believe without reservation in the possibility and the necessary consequences of universal love." -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Truth is the orgasm of what is right." -- Alice Walker
"There is no such thing as military power; there is only military terrorism. There is no such thing as economic power; there is only economic exploitation." -- John Trudell
"If you are for real,
Risk everything for love.
If not -- get out of here!" -- Rumi
Light on the Path, First Mindfulness Training
We begin: "In the name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty."
This Sacred Mystery expands and deepens as the Call of the One, becomes the Call for the Many... The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved... and bring All the Others with you. Leave no one behind, for I would abandon no One -- so you must bring everyone with you."
Centered within this Holy Secret, relaxing into the pregnancy of Breath, we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I thank You." We let that awareness deepen and expand to include our loved ones, our communities and regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included this entire precious Planet. We let that awareness then receive the terrible weight of all suffering within our lives, within our loved ones, our communities, regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included all suffering on this precious Planet. We breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I bless You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will remember You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will give You reason to hope"...
First Mindfulness Training:
Aware of the suffering caused by fanaticism and intolerance, we are committed to the practice of forgiveness and reconciliation as we learn to look deeply and develop our understanding and compassion.
We quickly glance at a few headines in the news -- to center our Awareness in the real Reality of Now -- and we read: "Iran Protesters storm British embassy in Tehran"... "Norway gunman found insane by psychiatric evaluators"... "Anti-violence activist slain in Mexico"...
Aware of the suffering, and yet, and yet, we remember the words of Fr. Bede Griffiths, "We become ourselves as we enter more deeply into relationship with others", and "The ultimate goal of humanity is a communion of persons in love." And so the little awareness invading this moment of our lives resurrects the image of Martin Luther King, Jr. in our mind's eye. Like Moses of old, Martin gathered a people and shepherded them across a great divide with an example of grace in action and in words, "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude"...
This first mindfulness training jerks the chains of our opinions and justifications tight around our necks! We are tempted to choke on our righteous rage: "I have suffered! I am right! You need to change!" But wait! But wait! Awareness is an open invitation to "look deeply" -- and that "look" inevitably leads to a little awakening, like a ripe fruit dropping from the tree above, "Ah! Now that my head hurts I see that I have a choice. Do I curse the tree, cut it down, or eat the fruit?" We choose to eat the fruit, and "look"! Our minds are beginning to change!
Awareness leads to a small awakening which then becomes an invitation to action: another quick internet search. So who has suffered and chosen to use that suffering as a vehicle of change and service? Here's a short list: Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Wangari Matthai, the Dalai Lama, and Azim Khamisa. And from the rfkcenter.org these words from Desmond Tutu: "When God created the world, God did not create one set of rules for black people and another for whites. God did not say that the tall, or the blue-eyed or the big nosed were superior. God did not say women were better than men, or that only heterosexuals would go to heaven. Prejudice and discrimination are psychosis invented and perfected by people."
* Did you know that only an international outcry prevented Uganda from passing a law making homosexuality punishable by death in certain circumstances.
* Did you know that the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights presented the 2011 Human Rights Award to Frank Mugisha?
* Did you know that Mr. Mugisha is a gay human rights defender in Uganda and the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda?
Of course, searching the internet cannot truly be called an "action" -- nevertheless it can provoke thought, that deep look that leads to sacred conversation... "Do you remember the look on Gaby's face... ah, wasn't that a perfect moment!"
We had just finished a work-day with some homeless folks who were planning with us what their new home would be like... knowing ourselves not to be anyone's savior, we had been meeting with these folks for over a year hammering out our feelings and the details of what it would mean to live together (www.thedorothydayhouseofpeace.com). We were all together on a walk-through of what would become our home. The folks who'd been in tents or shelters for years couldn't believe in the possibility of a "welcome home"... the folks with a little sobriety under their belts wondered about living with someone else who was "planning" on quitting as soon as a home was just "around the corner"... and then all the issues of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, health, and work-ethic were suddenly magnified as we sat together in the dining room...
And then there was Drag Queen Gaby: former Party Girl (still looking over her shoulder) and former addict (still looking over her shoulder) with no idea whatsoever of where or how she fit in this brutal world... carrying in her handbag the sure knowledge of never having been accepted or "good enough", along with a heavy dose of fear of more rejection. Gaby plops down on the sofa just as a bit of sun fell through the sky-light upon Her Face: she looked up at Michelle and I and said, "I think I want to do this!" She knew that we saw her as she now saw herself, not as "Drag Queen Gaby", but as "Free Being Gaby" and she was "good enough", and in fact, it never was about being good enough. It is instead all about the love we refuse to keep locked up inside of our tiny hearts! Everything is about the love we give away in the building of communities of justice and peace.
An Alternative First Mindfulness Training:
"Aware of my desire to love and of the possibility of building Paradise upon this precious blue Planet, I commit my life to this sacred work. I will to live as an agent of transformation.
I will help in the building of a new world of justice, equality, peace, and liberation for everyone, everywhere!"
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Capetown, June 6th, 1966
"We have to fight injustice, and we can fight it in many ways. The best way is the way that can bring justice, not create more injustice... if you are calm and you get the right vision, you are going to succeed in bringing change into society." --Thich Nhat Hahn
With love, and December Blessings to All,
"In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty."
Robert Daniel Smith was privileged to serve the homeless and marginalized for 30 years in California. He is living now almost within shouting distance of the Twin Cities. He is an interfaith minister, a poet, artist, writer, and long-time Franciscan Worker / Companion of the Way currently dreaming Iona House...
Recommended Reading:
Be Love Now by Ram Dass
The Rebirthing of God by John Philip Newell
The Hope by Andrew Harvey
The Return of the Mother by Andrew Harvey
Creation Spirituality by Matthew Fox
Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day
Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
Occupy Spirituality by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox
Existence by David Hinton
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
The Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
The Wisdom Jesus by Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault
Living the Eternal Way by Rev. Ellen Grace O'Brian
Listening For The Heartbeat of God by John Philip Newell
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Jim Bob, Michelle, Jana, And More Duggars Visit Honduras And Face Major Backlash
Dec 5, 2018 9:23 pm·
The Duggar family proudly revealed they are visiting Honduras to do missionary work in a new post via social media on Dec. 4, sparking controversy amongst some fans. It didn't take long for many of their followers to take to the comment section and slam them for "forcing their religion or lifestyle" on others. Watch the video above to see the photos they posted and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
"We have arrived in Central America and we are so excited about what the Lord is doing here," the caption read from the Duggar family's Instagram and Facebook pages. Jim Bob, Michelle, Jana, James, and Jennifer, along with some friends, were all smiles while posing for a photo in front of a sign that read, "Bienvenidos A Honduras." Several nay-sayers expressed their outrage at the brood, making sure to explain exactly what rubbed them the wrong way. "Please leave the locals alone. They have their religion," one fan wrote, while another added, "This is just nuts."
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A third argued: "[Honduras] can teach us a thing or two." Several other commenters went back and forth in a heated debate. "I don't understand missionary work in already Christian countries. What do they do?" one asked about what the Duggar family was accomplishing before another responded, writing: "Try to convert people to the 'proper' form of Christianity. It's crazy." Jill and her husband Derick Dillard previously traveled to Central America with their son Israel to do missionary work, and Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo began courting shortly after a ministry trip there in 2015.
Some fans did have the Duggar family's back to the fullest, blasting those who they felt were only trying to stir the pot. "Such negative comments. I don't see any of you taking time or doing anything to help those in need here," one wrote. A different commenter even claimed to have first-hand experience. "I have personally been on mission trips with the Duggars to this exact location and with the exact organization. No one is encouraging and 'helping' Honduras to come to America. Rather the organization helps people get on their feet and thrive where they are."
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COST, founded in 1979, is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. COST contributes to reducing the fragmentation in European research investments and opening the European Research Area to cooperation worldwide. COST Actions provides financial support for joint activities such as conferences, workshops, short-term scientific exchanges, summer schools and publications.
COST is a flexible, fast, effective and efficient tool to network and coordinate nationally funded research activities, bringing good scientists together under light strategic guidance and letting them work out their ideas. COST is based on networks, called COST Actions, centered around research projects in fields that are of interest to at least five COST countries. COST Actions are 4 year international projects with partners from multiple EU contries (but some Non-EU countries are also allowed).
Every COST Action has an objective, defined goals and clear deliverables. These are described in a Memorandum of Understanding, signed by participating COST Countries. There are currently more than 200 Actions running.
In COST Actions the initiative comes from the scientists and technical experts and from those with a direct interest in furthering international collaboration. Due to this "bottom-up" approach, joining COST is very easy.