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How Do Driving Habits Affect a Car's Wear and Tear?
Cars today last much longer on average than even 20 years ago. That's despite having more technology and recycled materials than ever. But there's one factor on a vehicle's operating life that still plays a major role: driving habits. How do driving habits affect wear and tear on a car. And more importantly, when you're choosing a used car, what should you look out for?
Low Mileage, Bald Tires
Tires equipped on cars from the factory are notoriously quick to wear out. You might only get 30k to 50k miles on a set of tires. But if the odometer on a car is lower than that and the tires are already bald, there's something to look for. Bald tires in a short time indicates the previous driver probably accelerated hard and braked hard. It's a sign closely associated with stop-and-go city driving too.
Pitted Brake Rotors
Brakes are designed to wear – it's part of the job they do, caused by friction. But if the brake rotors have pock marks or pitting on them, it's a sign that the car was parked for an extended period. While it's not a big deal to replace pitted rotors, you might want to check that tires, CV boots, and other rubber components haven't experienced dry rot from sitting.
Rust Spots on Paint
Ever seen a car covered in tiny orange dots of rust? It might seem like it's because of a really bad paint job. But instead, it's probably rail dust. For people who drive near or work in railway yards, the brake dust from train cars can settle on the paint. It oxidizes or rusts, making it look like the car is rusting out all over. Rail dust can be cleaned off if it's addressed regularly. If left for a long time, it can corrode into the paint and cause actual rust to form.
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If you come across a car with tons of miles on the odometer but in surprisingly good shape, it's probably a highway commuter's car. There's less accelerating and braking when you drive on the highway, resulting in less wear while the odometer keeps ticking upward. The powertrain often has more hours of use than a city car, though. This type of car is usually a good buy, as long as the engine and drivetrain maintenance is up to date. Looking for a used car? At Jay Wolfe Auto Outlet, we have used vehicles with a wide variety of histories. Come check out our inventory and find the used car that's right for you.
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Summa Theologiæ, Pars secunda, prima pars. (copy by Peter Schöffer, 1471)
The Summa Theologiæ (written 1265–1274 and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c.1225–1274). Although unfinished, the Summa is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature."[1] It is intended as an instructional guide for moderate theologians, and a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. TheSumma's topics follow a cycle: theexistence of God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God.
Among non-scholars the Summa is perhaps most famous for its five arguments for the existence of God known as the "five ways" (Latin: quinque viae). The five ways occupy one and a half pages of the Summa's approximately three thousand five hundred pages.
Throughout the Summa Aquinas citesChristian, Muslim, Hebrew, and Pagansources including but not limited to Christian Sacred Scripture, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali,Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Dionysius the Areopagite,Maimonides, Anselm, Plato, Cicero, andEriugena.
The Summa is a more structured and expanded version of Aquinas's earlier Summa contra Gentiles, though these works were written for different purposes, the Summa Theologiæ to explain the Christian faith to beginning theology students, and the Summa contra Gentiles to explain the Christian faith and defend it in hostile situations, with arguments adapted to the intended circumstances of its use, each article refuting a certain belief of a specific heresy.[2]
Aquinas conceived the Summa specifically as a work suited to beginning students: "Because a doctor of catholic truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but to him pertains also to instruct beginners. as the Apostle says in 1 Corinthians 3: 1-2, as to infants in Christ, I gave you milk to drink, not meat, our proposed intention in this work is to convey those things that pertain to the Christian religion, in a way that is fitting to the instruction of beginners."[3]
It was while teaching at the Santa Sabinastudium provinciale, the forerunner of theSanta Maria sopra Minerva studium generaleand College of Saint Thomas which in the 20th century would become the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas,Angelicum, that Aquinas began to compose the Summa. He completed the Prima Pars in its entirety and circulated it in Italy before departing to take up his second regency as professor at the University of Paris (1269–1272).[4]
The Summa is composed of three major parts, each of which deals with a major subsection of Christian theology.
First Part (in Latin, Prima Pars): God's existence and nature; the creation of the world; angels; the nature of man
Second Part:
First part of the Second Part (Prima Secundae, often abbreviated Part I-II): general principles of morality (including a theory of law)
Second part of the Second Part (Secunda Secundae, or Part II-II): morality in particular, including individual virtues and vices
Third Part (Tertia Pars): the person and work of Christ, who is the way of man to God; the sacraments; the end of the world. Aquinas left this part unfinished.[5]
Each part contains several questions, each of which revolves around a more specific subtopic; one such question is "Of Christ's Manner of Life."[6] Each question contains several articles phrased as interrogative statements dealing with specific issues, such as "Whether Christ should have led a life of poverty in this world?"[7]The Summa has a standard format for each article.
A series of objections to the (yet to be stated) conclusion are given; one such objection, for example, is that "Christ should have embraced the most eligible form of life…which is a mean between riches and poverty."[7]
A short counter-statement, beginning with the phrase "sed contra" ("on the contrary"), is then given; this statement almost always references authoritative literature, such as the Bible or Aristotle.[8] In this instance, Aquinas begins, "It is written (in Matthew 8:20): 'The Son of Man hath not where to lay His head'".[7]
The actual argument is then made; this is generally a clarification of the issue. For example, Aquinas states that "it was fitting for Christ to lead a life of poverty in this world" for four distinct reasons, each of which is expounded in some detail.[7]
Individual replies to the preceding objections are then given, if necessary. These replies range from one sentence to several paragraphs in length. Aquinas's reply to the above objection is that "those who wish to live virtuously need to avoid abundance of riches and beggary, …but voluntary poverty is not open to this danger: and such was the poverty chosen by Christ."[7]
This method of exposition is derived from Averroes,[9] to whom Aquinas refers respectfully as "the Commentator."
References within the Summa
The Summa makes many references to certain thinkers held in great respect in Aquinas' time. The arguments from authority, or sed contra arguments, are almost entirely based on citations from these authors. Some were called by special names:
The Philosopher: Aristotle. He was considered the most astute philosopher – the one who had expressed the most truth up to that time. The main aim of the Scholastic theologians was to use his precise technical terms and logical system to investigate theology.
The Commentator: Averroes (Ibn Rushd). He was among the foremost commentators on Aristotle's works in Arabic, and his commentaries were often translated into Latin (along with Aristotle's text).
The Master: Peter Lombard. Writer of the dominant theological text for the time: The Sentences (commentaries on the writings of the Doctors of the Church)
The Theologian: Augustine of Hippo. Considered the greatest theologian who had ever lived up to that time; Augustine's works are frequently quoted by Aquinas.
The Legal Expert (iurisperitus): Ulpian (a Roman jurist), the most-quoted contributor to the Pandects
Dionysius: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. Aquinas refers to the works of Dionysius, whom scholars of the time thought to be the person mentioned in Acts 17:34 (a disciple of St. Paul). However, they were most likely written in Syria during the 6th century by a writer who attributed his book to Dionysius (hence the addition of the prefix "pseudo-" to the name "Dionysius" in most modern references to these works).
Avicenna: Aquinas frequently cites the Aristotelian/Neoplatonic/Islamic philosopher, Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
Algazel: Aquinas also cites the Islamic theologian, al-Ghazali (Algazel).
Rabbi Moses: Rabbi Moses Maimonides was a Jewish rabbinical scholar, a near-contemporary of Aquinas (died 1204, before Aquinas). The scholastics derived many insights from his work, as he also employed the scholastic method.
Notable points made by the Summa
Theology is the mostly speculative of all sciences since its source is divine knowledge (which cannot be deceived), and because of the greater worth of its subject matter, the sublimity of which transcends human reason.[10]
When a man knows an effect, and knows that it has a cause, the natural desire of the intellect or mind is to understand the essence of that thing – natural, because this understanding results from the perfection of the operation of the intellect or mind.[11]
The existence of something and its essence are separate. That is, its being and the conception of being man has or can imagine of it (for example, a mountain of solid gold would have essence – since it can be imagined – but not existence, as it is not in the world) are separate in all things – except for God, who is simple.[12]
The existence of God, his total simplicity or lack of composition, his eternalnature ("eternal," in this case, means that he is altogether outside of time; that is, time is held to be a part of God's created universe), his knowledge, the way his will operates, and his power can all be proved by human reasoning alone.[13]
All statements about God are either analogical or metaphorical; one cannot say man is "good" in exactly the same sense as God, but rather that he imitates in some way the simple nature of God in being good, just or wise.[14]
Unbelief is the worst sin in the realm of morals.[15]
The principles of just war[16] and natural law[17]
The greatest happiness of all, the ultimate good, consists in the beatific vision.[18]
Collecting interest on loans is forbidden, because it is charging people twice for the same thing.[19]
In and of itself, selling a thing for more or less than it is worth is unlawful (thejust price theory).[20]
The contemplative life is greater than the active life,[21] but greater still is the contemplative life that takes action to call others to the contemplative life and give them the fruits of contemplation.[22] (This actually was the lifestyle of the Dominican friars, of which Aquinas was a member.)
Being a monk is greater than being married and even greater (in many ways) than being a priest, but it is not as good as being a bishop. Both monks and bishops are in a state of perfection.[23]
Although the Jews delivered Christ to die, it was the Gentiles who killed him, foreshadowing how salvation would begin with the Jews and spread to the Gentiles.[24]
After the end of the world (in which all living material will be destroyed), the world will be composed of non-living matter (such as rocks) but it will be illuminated or enhanced in beauty by the fires of the apocalypse; a new heaven and new earth will be established.[25]
Martyrs, teachers of the faith (doctors), and virgins, in that order, receive special crowns in heaven for their achievements.[26]
Overview of the entire Summa
The Summa Theologica is meant to summarize the history of the cosmos and provide an outline for the meaning of life itself.
This order is cyclical. It begins with God and his existence in Question 2. The entire first part of the Summa deals with God and his creation, which reaches its zenith in man. The First Part therefore ends with the treatise on man.
The second part of the Summa deals with man's purpose (the meaning of life), which is happiness. The ethics detailed in this part summarize the ethics (Aristotelian in nature) which man must follow to reach his intended destiny.
Since no man on his own can truly live the perfect ethical life (and therefore reach God), it was necessary that a perfect man bridge the gap between God and man. Thus God became man. The third part of the Summa, therefore, deals with the life of Christ.
In order to follow the way prescribed by this perfect man, in order to live with God's grace (which is necessary for man's salvation), the Sacraments have been provided; the final part of the Summa considers the Sacraments.
The entire Summa can be summarized roughly in this chart:
Summary of key opinions in the Summa
The following is from the New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge[27] (a public-domain work):
The Summa, Part I: Theology
Aquinas's greatest work was the Summa, and it is the fullest presentation of his views. He worked on it from the time of Clement IV (after 1265) until the end of his life. When he died, he had reached Question 90 of Part III (on the subject ofpenance). What was lacking was added afterwards from the fourth book of his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard as a supplementum, which is not found in manuscripts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Summa was translated into Greek (apparently by Maximus Planudes around 1327), Armenian, many European languages, and Chinese.
It consists of three parts. Part I treats of God, who is the "first cause, himself uncaused" (primum movens immobile) and as such existent only in act (actu) – that is, pure actuality without potentiality, and therefore without corporeality. His essence is actus purus et perfectus. This follows from the fivefold proof for the existence of God; namely, there must be a first mover, unmoved, a first cause in the chain of causes, an absolutely necessary being, an absolutely perfect being, and a rational designer. In this connection the thoughts of the unity, infinity, unchangeability, and goodness of the highest being are deduced.
As God rules in the world, the "plan of the order of things" preexists in him; in other words, his providence and the exercise of it in his government are what condition as cause everything which comes to pass in the world. Hence follows predestination: from eternity some are destined to eternal life, while as concerns others "he permits some to fall short of that end". Reprobation, however, is more than mere foreknowledge; it is the "will of permitting anyone to fall into sin and incur the penalty of condemnation for sin". The effect of predestination is grace. Since God is the first cause of everything, he is the cause of even the free acts of men through predestination. Determinism is deeply grounded in the system of Aquinas; things (with their source of becoming in God) are ordered from eternity as means for the realization of his end in himself. On moral grounds Aquinas advocates freedom energetically; but, with his premises, he can have in mind only the psychological form of self-motivation. Nothing in the world is accidental or free, although it may appear so in reference to the proximate cause. From this point of view miracles become necessary in themselves, and are to be considered merely as inexplicable to man. From the point of view of the first cause all is unchangeable, although from the limited point of view of the secondary cause, miracles may be spoken of.
In his doctrine of the Trinity, Aquinas starts from the Augustinian system. Since God has only the functions of thinking and willing, only two processiones can be asserted from the Father. But these establish definite relations of the persons of the Trinity, one to another. The relations must be conceived as real and not as merely ideal; for, as with creatures relations arise through certain accidents, since in God there is no accident but all is substance, it follows that "the relation really existing in God is the same as the essence according to the thing". From another side, however, the relations as real must be really distinguished one from another. Therefore, three persons are to be affirmed in God.
Man stands opposite to God; he consists of soul and body. The "intellectual soul" consists of intellect and will. Furthermore, the soul is the absolutely indivisible form of man; it is immaterial substance, but not one and the same in all men (as theAverroists assumed). The soul's power of knowing has two sides; a passive (theintellectus possibilis) and an active (the intellectus agens). It is the capacity to form concepts and to abstract the mind's images (species) from the objects perceived by sense. But since what the intellect abstracts from individual things is universal the mind knows the universal primarily and directly, and knows the singular only indirectly by virtue of a certain reflexio (compare Scholasticism). As certain principles are immanent in the mind for its speculative activity, so also a "special disposition of works" – or the synderesis (rudiment of conscience) – is inborn in the "practical reason", affording the idea of the moral law of nature so important in medieval ethics.
The Summa, Part II: Ethics
Part II of the Summa is divided into two parts. The first part comprises 114quaestiones, and the second part comprises 189. The two parts of the second part are usually presented as containing several "treatises". The contents are as follows:
First part of Part II:
Treatise on the last end (qq. 1 to 5)
Treatise on human acts: Acts peculiar to humans (qq. 6 to 21)
Treatise on the passions (qq. 22 to 48)
Treatise on habits (qq. 49 to 54)
Treatise on habits in particular (qq. 55 to 89): Good habits, i.e. virtues (qq. 55 to 70)
Treatise on law (qq. 90 to 108)
Treatise on grace (qq. 109 to 114)
Second part of Part II:
Treatise on the theological virtues (qq. 1 to 46)
Treatise on the cardinal virtues (qq. 47 to 170)
Treatise on prudence (qq. 47 to 56)
Treatise on justice (qq. 57 to 122)
Treatise on fortitude and temperance (qq. 123 to 170)
Treatise on gratuitous graces (qq. 171 to 182)
Treatise on the states of life (qq. 183 to 189)
Content in general
The first part of the Summa is summed up in the premise that God governs the world as the "universal first cause." God sways the intellect; he gives the power to know and impresses the species intelligibiles on the mind, and he sways the will in that he holds the good before it as aim, creating the virtus volendi. "To will is nothing else than a certain inclination toward the object of the volition which is the universal good." God works all in all, but so that things also themselves exert their proper efficiency. Here the Areopagitic ideas of the graduated effects of created things play their part in Aquinas' thought. The second part of the Summa (two parts,Prima Secundae and Secunda Secundae) follows this complex of ideas. Its theme is man's striving for the highest end, which is the blessedness of the visio beata. Here Aquinas develops his system of ethics, which has its root in Aristotle.
In a chain of acts of will, man strives for the highest end. They are free acts, insofar as man has in himself the knowledge of their end (and therein the principle of action). In that the will wills the end, it wills also the appropriate means, chooses freely and completes the consensus. Whether the act be good or evil depends on the end. The "human reason" pronounces judgment concerning the character of the end; it is, therefore, the law for action. Human acts, however, are meritorious insofar as they promote the purpose of God and his honor.
By repeating a good action, man acquires a moral habit or a quality which enables him to do the good gladly and easily. This is true, however, only of the intellectual and moral virtues (which Aquinas treats after the manner of Aristotle); the theological virtues are imparted by God to man as a "disposition", from which the acts here proceed; while they strengthen, they do not form it. The "disposition" of evil is the opposite alternative. An act becomes evil through deviation from the reason, and from divine moral law. Therefore, sin involves two factors: its substance (or matter) is lust; in form, however, it is deviation from the divine law.
Sin has its origin in the will, which decides (against reason) for a "changeable good." Since, however, the will also moves the other powers of man, sin has its seat in these too. By choosing such a lower good as its end the will is misled by self-love, so that this works as cause in every sin. God is not the cause of sin since, on the contrary, he draws all things to himself. But from another side God is the cause of all things, so he is efficacious also in sin as actio but not as ens. The devil is not directly the cause of sin, but he incites the imagination and the sensuous impulse of man (as men or things may also do).
Sin is original sin. Adam's first sin passes through himself to all the succeeding race; because he is the head of the human race and "by virtue of procreation human nature is transmitted and along with nature its infection." The powers of generation are, therefore, designated especially as "infected." The thought is involved here by the fact that Aquinas, like other scholastics, believed in creationism; he therefore taught that souls are created by God. Two things according to Aquinas constituted man's righteousness in paradise – the justitia originalis or the harmony of all man's powers before they were blighted by desire, and the possession of the gratis gratum faciens (the continuous, indwelling power of good). Both are lost through original sin, which in form is the "loss of original righteousness." The consequence of this loss is the disorder and maiming of man's nature, which shows itself in "ignorance; malice, moral weakness, and especially in concupiscentia,' which is the material principle of original sin." The course of thought here is as follows: when the first man transgressed the order of his nature appointed by nature and grace, he (and with him the human race) lost this order. This negative state is the essence of original sin. From it follow an impairment and perversion of human nature in which thenceforth lower aims rule, contrary to nature, and release the lower element in man.
Since sin is contrary to the divine order, it is guilt and subject to punishment. Guilt and punishment correspond to each other; and since the "apostasy from the invariable good which is infinite," fulfilled by man, is unending, it merits everlasting punishment.
But God works even in sinners to draw them to the end by "instructing through the law and aiding by grace." The law is the "precept of the practical reason." As the moral law of nature, it is the participation of the reason in the all-determining "eternal reason." But since man falls short in his appropriation of this law of reason, there is need of a "divine law." And since the law applies to many complicated relations, thepracticae dispositiones of the human law must be laid down.
The divine law consists of an old and a new. In so far as the old divine law contains the moral law of nature it is universally valid; what there is in it, however, beyond this is valid only for the Jews. The new law is "primarily grace itself" and so a "law given within," "a gift superadded to nature by grace," but not a "written law." In this sense, as sacramental grace, the new law justifies. It contains, however, an "ordering" of external and internal conduct, and so regarded is, as a matter of course, identical with both the old law and the law of nature. The consilia' show how one may attain the end "better and more expediently" by full renunciation of worldly goods.
Since man is sinner and creature, he needs grace to reach the final end. The "first cause" alone is able to reclaim him to the "final end." This is true after the fall, although it was needful before. Grace is, on one side, "the free act of God", and, on the other side, the effect of this act, the gratia infusa or gratia creata, a habitus infusus which is instilled into the "essence of the soul," "a certain gift of disposition, something supernatural proceeding from God into man." Grace is a supernatural ethical character created in man by God, which comprises in itself all good, both faith and love.
Justification by grace comprises four elements: "the infusion of grace, the influencing of free will toward God through faith, the influencing of free will respecting sin, and the remission of sins." It is a "transmutation of the human soul," and takes place "instantaneously." A creative act of God enters, which, however, executes itself as a spiritual motive in a psychological form corresponding to the nature of man. Semipelagian tendencies are far removed from Aquinas. In that man is created anew he believes and loves, and now sin is forgiven. Then begins good conduct; grace is the "beginning of meritorious works." Aquinas conceives of merit in the Augustinian sense: God gives the reward for that toward which he himself gives the power. Man can never of himself deserve the prima gratis," nor meritum de congruo(by natural ability; cf. R. Seeberg, Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, ii. 105-106, Leipsic, 1898).
After thus stating the principles of morality, in the Secunda Secundae, Aquinas comes to a minute exposition of his ethics according to the scheme of the virtues. The conceptions of faith and love are of much significance in the complete system of Aquinas. Man strives toward the highest good with the will or through love. But since the end must first be "apprehended in the intellect," knowledge of the end to be loved must precede love; "because the will can not strive after God in perfect love unless the intellect have true faith toward him." Inasmuch as this truth which is to be known is practical it first incites the will, which then brings the reason to "assent." But since, furthermore, the good in question is transcendent and inaccessible to man by himself, it requires the infusion of a supernatural "capacity" or "disposition" to make man capable of faith as well as love. Accordingly the object of both faith and love is God, involving also the entire complex of truths and commandments which God reveals, in so far as they in fact relate to God and lead to him. Thus faith becomes recognition of the teachings and precepts of the Scriptures and the Church ("the first subjection of man to God is by faith"). The object of faith, however, is by its nature object of love; therefore faith comes to completion only in love ("by love is the act of faith accomplished and formed").
Treatise on Law
According to Question 90, Article Four of the Second Part of the Summa, law "is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated." All law comes from the eternal law of Divine Reason that governs the universe, which is understood and participated in by rational beings (such as men and angels) as the natural law. The natural law, when codified and promulgated, is the human law. In addition to the human law, dictated by reason, man also has the Divine law, which, according to Question 91, is dictated through revelation, that man may be "directed how to perform his proper acts in view of his last end," "that man may know without any doubt what he ought to do and what he ought to avoid," because "human law could not sufficiently curb and direct interior acts," and since "human law cannot punish or forbid all evil deeds: since while aiming at doing away with all evils, it would do away with many good things, and would hinder the advance of the common good, which is necessary for human intercourse." Human law is not all-powerful; it cannot govern a man's conscience, nor prohibit all vices, nor can it force all men to act according to its letter, rather than its spirit. Furthermore, it is possible that an edict can be issued without any basis in law as defined in Question 90; in this case, men are under no compulsion to act, save as it helps the common good. This separation between law and acts of force also allows men to depose tyrants, or those who flout the natural law; while removing an agent of the law is contrary to the common good and the eternal law of God which orders the powers that be, removing a tyrant is lawful as he has ceded his claim to being a lawful authority by acting contrary to law.
The Summa, Part III: Christ
The way which leads to God is Christ, the theme of part III. It can be asserted that the incarnation was absolutely necessary. The Unio between the Logos and the human nature is a "relation" between the divine and the human nature which comes about by both natures being brought together in the one person of the Logos. An incarnation can be spoken of only in the sense that the human nature began to be in the eternal hypostasis of the divine nature. So Christ is unum since his human nature lacks the hypostasis. The person of the Logos, accordingly, has assumed the impersonal human nature, and in such way that the assumption of the soul became the means for the assumption of the body. This union with the human soul is the gratia unionis which leads to the impartation of the gratia habitualis from the Logos to the human nature. Thereby all human potentialities are made perfect in Jesus. Besides the perfections given by the vision of God, which Jesus enjoyed from the beginning, he receives all others by the gratia habitualis. In so far, however, as it is the limited human nature which receives these perfections, they are finite. This holds both of the knowledge and the will of Christ. The Logos impresses thespecies intelligibiles of all created things on the soul, but the intellectus agenstransforms them gradually into the impressions of sense. On another side the soul of Christ works miracles only as instrument of the Logos, since omnipotence in no way appertains to this human soul in itself. Concerning redemption, Aquinas teaches that Christ is to be regarded as redeemer after his human nature but in such way that the human nature produces divine effects as organ of divinity. The one side of the work of redemption consists herein, that Christ as head of humanity imparts ordo, perfectio, and virtus to his members. He is the teacher and example of humanity; his whole life and suffering as well as his work after he is exalted serve this end. The love wrought hereby in men effects, according to Luke vii. 47, the forgiveness of sins.
This is the first course of thought. Then follows a second complex of thoughts which has the idea of satisfaction as its center. To be sure, God as the highest being could forgive sins without satisfaction; but because his justice and mercy could be best revealed through satisfaction he chose this way. As little, however, as satisfaction is necessary in itself, so little does it offer an equivalent, in a correct sense, for guilt; it is rather a "superabundant satisfaction", since on account of the divine subject in Christ in a certain sense his suffering and activity are infinite. With this thought the strict logical deduction of Anselm's theory is given up. Christ's suffering bore personal character in that it proceeded "out of love and obedience". It was an offering brought to God, which as personal act had the character of merit. Thereby Christ "merited" salvation for men. As Christ, exalted, still influences men, so does he still work in their behalf continually in heaven through the intercession (interpellatio). In this way Christ as head of humanity effects the forgiveness of their sins, their reconciliation with God, their immunity from punishment, deliverance from the devil, and the opening of heaven's gate. But inasmuch as all these benefits are already offered through the inner operation of the love of Christ, Aquinas has combined the theories of Anselm and Abelard by joining the one to the other.
The doctrine of the sacraments follows the Christology; the sacraments "have efficacy from the incarnate Word himself". They are not only signs of sanctification, but bring it about. It is inevitable that they bring spiritual gifts in sensuous form, because of the sensuous nature of man. The res sensibiles are the matter, the words of institution the form of the sacraments. Contrary to the Franciscan view that the sacraments are mere symbols whose efficacy God accompanies with a directly following creative act in the soul, Aquinas holds it not unfit to agree with Hugo of St. Victor that "a sacrament contains grace", or to teach that they "cause grace".
Aquinas attempts to remove the difficulty of a sensuous thing producing a creative effect, by distinguishing between the causa principalis et instrumentalis. God as the principal cause works through the sensuous thing as the means ordained by him for his end. "Just as instrumental power is acquired by the instrument from this, that it is moved by the principal agent, so also the sacrament obtains spiritual power from the benediction of Christ and the application of the minister to the use of the sacrament. There is spiritual power in the sacraments in so far as they have been ordained by God for a spiritual effect". This spiritual power remains in the sensuous thing until it has attained its purpose. At the same time Aquinas distinguished thegratia sacramentalis from the gratia virtutum et donorum, in that the former perfects the general essence and the powers of the soul, whilst the latter in particular brings to pass necessary spiritual effects for the Christian life. Later this distinction was ignored.
In a single statement, the effect of the sacraments is to infuse justifying grace into men. That which Christ effects is achieved through the sacraments. Christ's humanity was the instrument for the operation of his divinity; the sacraments are the instruments through which this operation of Christ's humanity passes over to men. Christ's humanity served his divinity as instrumentum conjunctum, like the hand: the sacraments are instrumenta separata, like a staff; the former can use the latter, as the hand can use a staff. For a more detailed exposition cf. Seeberg, ut sup., ii. 112 sqq.
Of Aquinas' eschatology, according to the commentary on the Sentences, this is only a brief account. Everlasting blessedness consists in the vision of God; this vision consists not in an abstraction or in a mental image supernaturally produced, but the divine substance itself is beheld, and in such manner that God himself becomes immediately the form of the beholding intellect. God is the object of the vision and at the same time causes the vision. The perfection of the blessed also demands that the body be restored to the soul as something to be made perfect by it. Since blessedness consists in operatio, it is made more perfect in that the soul has a definite operatio with the body, although the peculiar act of blessedness (in other words, the vision of God) has nothing to do with the body.
Not only has the Summa Theologica been one of the main intellectual inspirations for Thomistic philosophy, but it also had such a great influence on Dante Alighieri'sDivine Comedy that Dante's epic poem has been called "the Summa in verse."[28]
Sentences of Peter Lombard
Summa logicae of William of Ockham
^ Ross, James F., "Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae (ca. 1273), Christian Wisdom Explained Philosophically", inThe Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, (eds.) Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg, Bernard N. Schumacher (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), p. 165. [1]
^ Gilson, Etienne (1994). The Christian Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. p. 502. ISBN 978-0-268-00801-7.
^ Summa theologiae, I, 1, prooemium:"Quia Catholicae veritatis doctor non solum provectos debet instruere, sed ad eum pertinet etiam incipientes erudire, secundum illud apostoli I ad Corinth. III, tanquam parvulis in Christo, lac vobis potum dedi, non escam; propositum nostrae intentionis in hoc opere est, ea quae ad Christianam religionem pertinent, eo modo tradere, secundum quod congruit ad eruditionem incipientium."
^ Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P. Saint Thomas Aquinas, vol 1, The Person and His Work, trans. Robert Royal, Catholic University, 1996, 146 ff.
^ McInerny, Ralph, A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas, Notre Dame Press:Indiana, (1990), p.197, ISBN 0-268-00975-9
^ Summa Theologica, Third Part, Question 40. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
^ a b c d e Summa Theologica, Third Part, Question 40, Article 3. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
^ Kreeft, Peter. Summa of the Summa, Ignatius Press (1990), pp. 17-18. ISBN 0-89870-300-X
^ Turner, William. "Averroes."The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company (1907). "St. Thomas Aquinas used the "Grand Commentary" of Averroes as his model, being, apparently, the first Scholastic to adopt that style of exposition…" Retrieved 2009-11-06.
^ ST, First Part, Question 1, Article 5. Retrieved 11 July 2006.
^ ST, First Part of Second Part, Q. 3, art. 8, ibid, art. 6-7/
^ ST, First Part, Question 3, Article 4. Aquinas develops this line of thought more fully in a shorter work, De ente et essentia.
^ Rom. 1:19-20; ST, First Part, Question 2, Article 2. See also I, Q. 1, art. 8.
^ ST, First Part, Question 4, Article 3.
^ ST, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 10, Article 3. Retrieved 11 July 2006. However, at other points, Aquinas, with different meanings of "great" makes the claim for pride, despair, and hatred of God.
^ ST, II-II, Q. 40.
^ ST, I-II, Q. 91, art. 2; ST, I-II, Q. 94.
^ ST, I-II, Q. 2, art. 8.
^ ST, II-II, Q. 78, art. 1.
^ ST, II-II, Q. 182, art. 1.
^ ST, II-II, Q. 184.
^ ST, III, Q. 47, art. 4.
^ Supplement, Q. 91;Supplement, Q. 74, art. 9.
^ Supplement, Q. 96, arts. 5-7.
^ "Thomas Aquinas" The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. XI, (1911), pp. 422-427.
^ The Fordham Monthly Fordham University, Vol. XL, Oct. 1921–June 1922, p. 76
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20 março, 2014 às 10:35 am
Já está OK. Porém o editor é também o redator, o revisor, o office boy, o porteiro e o homem do cafezinho. E o pobre está sem tempo até para postar novos artigos. Em todo caso…
Anônimo says:
Bom dia, poderiam por favor consertar o link de contato com a página, preciso fazer um pedido especial aos editores porém não consigo entrar em contato pela aba "contato"
Heitor Azevedo says:
21 fevereiro, 2014 às 9:59 pm
Ebrael, volto esta noite para lhe pedir perdão.
Hoje, eu estava conversando com Frei Marco Aurélio, e versávamos pelo livro intitulado São Tomás, O Boi mudo da Sicília.
Antes, quero lhe dizer que tenho o dobro de sua idade. Meu colégio interno que entrei com 9 anos e saí no meio da adolescência chama-se Liceu Coração de Jesus, colégio fundado em 1885.. Onde o Latim predominava em muito na pedagogia, nos atos litúrgicos e no cotidiano.
Fui treinado desde cedo para ser "Linha-dura." e não me arrependo.
Após ter sido muito injusto com vc neste dia, fui buscar seu trabalhos e pesquisas na Internet. E cheguei à conclusão plena que vc é um homem de boa vontade. E um bom católico E católicos não devem brigar. Discutir, mas não da maneira grosseira que fui para consigo.
Pois bem, eu e Frei Marcos falávamos sobre o autor e conteúdo do livrinho. Convenhamos, alguém pediu licença ao Digníssimo Dr. Santo Tomás, para chamá-lo de Boi? Será que o Santo gostaria disto em vida? E numa obra que deveria ser tão elevada, o baixar o nível de semântica é o ideal?
Se no acaso, outrora, o chamavam assim, quem é que garante que ele gostava?
E daí prosseguimos com a palavra "mudo".
Analogicamente e por expressão também direta, ninguém que eu conheça foi tão eloquente com as palavras monumentais de seus livros.. E como este homem falava! Mudo? Uma "ova"!
Muito bem, este livrinho, que não passa de uma compilação de dados, mais parecido como uma cópia de tudo o que já se sabia do Santo, nada acrescentou no início, o meio era vazio e o final era podre. E por que podre? Porque culminava com uma pagina de testes onde misturava Dercy Gonçalves, Juca Chaves e alguns versos muito mal interpretados em Latim que em nada dignificava…
O autor no seu currículo, chamava-se o único Doutor brasileiro em Filosofia Medieval na época no Canadá. Devido à sua pequena modéstia, e sua atual e grande idade, já deveria ter mais compostura. Acabei lendo sua tese de doutorado que não passava de 10 folhas.
Daí, é que paralelamente interroguei vc na Suma. Gostaria de saber a sua resposta e posicionamento.
Algumas horas mais reparei na sua"foto" que se encontra acima, e realmente não gostei, pois o trabalho que vc está fazendo com muita galhardia sobre a Suma, acaba se esmaecendo com o menino do charuto.
Por mais jocoso que seja, convenhamos: Vc é o moderador!
Talvez numa outra ocasião e em outro tema seria bacana, mas não na Suma.
Volto a lhe pedir perdão com muita humildade, e que Deus sempre nos ilumine em nossa caminhada.
21 fevereiro, 2014 às 12:59 pm
David Sávio:
Eu vi uma criança.
Era uma criança especial, diferente das outras… Ela fumava um charuto.
O charuto faz mal à saúde física.
O deboche faz mal à saúde mental.
Caro David: Você, como um bom católico, sabe que nas escrituras há o que se segue:
"Não sento à mesa dos zombadores".
Pense David… Pense…
Tudo isso vale à pena?
Permita-me falar-lhe em Latim, pois é de meus atributos:
Draco maledicte et omnis legio diabolica. Vade, satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciae, hostis humanae salutis. Vade satana, espiritus imundus, eisque aeternae perditionis venenum.
E veneno faz mal, muito mal à saúde de quem o opera.
David Sávio.
Como moderador que você é, diga-me:
O que achou do livro "Santo Tomás de Aquino – O Boi Mudo da Sicília?
Somos um grande grupo que espera a sua resposta.
do contato says:
Salve Maria, mãe de Deus Agradeço o envio e peço que me seja mandado na língua portuguesa. Mayana. On Sáb 08/02/14 13:39 , "Suma Teológica – Summae Theologiae"
8 fevereiro, 2014 às 6:32 pm
David: Boa tarde.
Sempre surpreendendo, heim!
Note que no tópico "Pontos notáveis feitos pela Summa" escrito no primeiro tópico resume ou centraliza, ou sei lá o que, declarando-a – Teologia – como a mais especulativa das ciências.
E não é?
Quem se atreve a dialogar no sentido de duelar com São Tomás nesse campo?

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Q: How to load data from api into searchDelegate function? I'm trying to use newsapi's data into searchDelegate. In order to to search and show result, i've no idea on how to load the data - any suggestions?
Here's my code =>
Main.dart
void main() {
  runApp(MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
        debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
        theme: ThemeData(scaffoldBackgroundColor: Color(0xFFf5f5f2)),
        home: MyAppBar());
  }
}

class MyAppBar extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _MyAppBarState createState() => _MyAppBarState();
}

class _MyAppBarState extends State<MyAppBar> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      backgroundColor: Color(0xFFf5f5f2),
      appBar: AppBar(
        backgroundColor: Color(0xFFf5f5f2),
        title: Text(
          'Search Bar',
          style: GoogleFonts.permanentMarker(fontSize: 30, color: Colors.black38),
        ),
        actions: <Widget>[
          IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.search), onPressed: () {
            showSearch(context: context, delegate: SearchArticle());
          })
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

searchFunction
How do i load the data in order to use it in buildSuggestion and buildResults functions.
class SearchArticle extends SearchDelegate<String>{

  @override
  List<Widget> buildActions(BuildContext context) {
    return [IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.clear), onPressed: (){
      query = '';
    })];

    }

    @override
    Widget buildLeading(BuildContext context) {
      return IconButton(icon: AnimatedIcon(icon: AnimatedIcons.menu_arrow, progress: transitionAnimation, color: Colors.grey), onPressed: (){
        close(context, null);
      });
    }

    @override
    Widget buildResults(BuildContext context) {
      throw UnimplementedError();
    }

    @override
    Widget buildSuggestions(BuildContext context) {
      throw UnimplementedError();
  }

}

models.dart
class Article {
  final String urlToImage;
  final String publishedAt;
  final String author;
  final String title;
  final String content;

  Article({this.urlToImage, this.publishedAt, this.author, this.title, this.content});
}

webService.dart
import 'dart:convert';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
import 'models.dart';

class News{
  List<Article> news = [];

  Future<void> fetchArticle() async {
    final url =
    'http://newsapi.org/v2/everything?q=apple&from=2020-07-29&to=2020-07-29&sortBy=popularity&apiKey={Your api key}';

    var response = await http.get(url);
    var data = jsonDecode(response.body);

    if(data == 200){
      data['articles'].forEach((e){

        if(e['urlToImage'] != null) {
          Article article = Article(
            urlToImage : e['urlToImage'],
            publishedAt: e['publishedAt'],
            author: e['author'],
            title: e['title'],
            content: e['content']
          );
          news.add(article);
      }

      });
    }
  }
}

A: Change the return type of fetchArticle to Future<List<Article>>.
Try using a FutureBuilder, load the articles using the future property like so:
Widget buildResults(BuildContext context) {
  return FutureBuilder(
    future: News.fetchArticle,
    builder: (context, AsyncSnapshot<List<Article>> snapshot) {
      if(snapshot != null)
        return Text("No articles found!");
      else {
        return ListView.builder(
          itemCount: snapshot.data.length,
          builder: (context, pos) {
            ....
          }
        );
      }
    }
  );
}

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Carlton players and supporters are keenly looking to regain their success, pride and confidence. In the longer term scheme of things, I do not believe the club will, in any way, regret this decision. If I was a Carlton member, then the excitement surrounding the actual on-field football set to spew forth from my beloved club in the near future would far overshadow any resentment I may be harbouring as a result of off-field embarrassments. I would be readying myself to promptly forget all of that off-season garbage. Winter is approaching, let's play footy!
Gibbs is yet to turn 18 years of age and has still been swiftly named as a leader of an AFL team, impressive enough in itself. Imagine how awed we will become once he inaugurates his AFL career. You can be assured that this is not a publicity driven attention seek, this is an act of recognition, a deed of appreciation, an identification of respect. A signal that the football club itself is well aware of the calibre of player that it has been able to acquire with their number 1 draft pick. An ominous precursor for all other AFL teams when they meet the Blues, keep an eye on that number four.


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Willows is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Californië, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Glenn County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 6220.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 6293, een stijging van 73 (1.2%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
7,5 km², waarvan 7,4 km² land en 0,1 km² water. Willows ligt op ongeveer 43 m boven zeeniveau.

Geboren in Willows
 Ace Adams (1910-2006), honkballer

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 40 km rond Willows.

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Plaats in Glenn County
Hoofdplaats van een county in Californië

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longipes
Flora of Mexico
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Ultimate War is a comic book limited series produced by Marvel Comics featuring the Ultimates and the Ultimate X-Men. The series contains four books, released between December 8, 2002 and February 23, 2003.  It was written by Scottish comics author Mark Millar with art by Chris Bachalo.

It is collected as part of the Ultimate X-Men series of trade paperbacks. This was the first time the Ultimates as a team had crossed over with characters from the Ultimate Marvel Universe.

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Previously, the X-Men defeated Magneto and pronounced him dead. Rather than turning Magneto over to the authorities and virtually ensuring the death penalty for him, Professor X secretly brainwashed his old friend and tried to rehabilitate him. However, the Beast inadvertently leaked this plan to Magneto's Brotherhood, believing that he was chatting with an online girlfriend. The Brotherhood used this to entrap Beast and gained enough knowledge to free their leader.

Meanwhile, Iceman has left the X-Men, forced out by his worried parents after he sustained injuries in the fight against Proteus, while three more X-Men, Wolverine, Cyclops and Kitty Pryde, are on a mission to the Savage Land.

The US government is irate over Magneto's reappearance and demands explanations from Nick Fury. Fury and his Ultimates track down the Xavier Mansion, whose location was hitherto unknown, and find it empty, the X-Men having relocated. Nick Fury comes to the incorrect conclusion that the X-Men have joined forces with Magneto to fight mankind.

In preparing to battle the X-Men, Captain America reveals he knows more about Wolverine; they fought together in World War II, when Logan went under the name James "Lucky Jim" Howlett. The X-Men's plane returns, with only Logan and Kitty on board. Wolverine claims Cyclops has died heroically in the Savage Land. The truth, which Jean later learns, is that Wolverine tried to kill Cyclops and left him for dead so as to be with Jean.

Charles Xavier meets with Magneto to negotiate a truce, intending to use the meeting as a diversion to allow Wolverine to track down Magneto's base. Magneto anticipates Xavier's double-cross, tracks down the X-Men's new base in turn, and anonymously tips off their whereabouts to the Ultimates. The Ultimates track down the X-Men and have an all-out fight.

The Ultimates nearly defeat the X-Men, who are only saved by the timely return of Iceman. All of the X-Men escape except Charles Xavier, who stays behind to delay the Ultimates and is captured by Nick Fury.

References

External links
Comic Book DB Page

War, Ultimate
2002 comics debuts


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KIDNEYS ON FILM PART FIVE: POUND OF FLESH
Jean Claude Van Damme & Kidney transplantation. Two key elements that make up the fabric that is Marcus Pinn.
Like any young boy that came up in the late 80's/early 90's, I grew up on Van Damme's filmography (Cyborg, Bloodsport, Lionheart, Kickboxer, etc). And as some of you know, I had a kidney transplant back in 2007 (December 18th to be exact), so it's really special to see one of my childhood heroes tackle kidney disease when so many other films still haven't.
It's also pretty cool to see that Van Damme is still pulling off new innovative ways to do the splits in all of his movies...
Ever since I started doing the Kidneys On Film Series, friends often ask me whether or not kidney disease/kidney transplantation is accurately portrayed on film, and, with the exception of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, it usually isn't (I still find it odd that Uncle Boonmee gives such an honest portrayal of kidney disease because the rest of the film is incredibly strange).
one of the few scenes from Uncle Boonmee that shows the tedious dialysis procedure...
I would never expect a straight-to-video action film to be 100% medically accurate in the vein of Human Centipede, but there are a few things that did make me throw my hands up in disbelief and go "Oh c'mon!" while watching this...
In Pound Of Flesh Jean Claude Van Damme plays a kidnap & rescue agent currently in the Philippines to give his niece one of his kidneys. But after a wild night of partying, he wakes up in a bathtub of ice only to discover that one of his kidneys has been stolen. With the help of his estranged brother and an old buddy who happens to live in the area, he now has 10 hours to get the kidney back so he can get it to his niece in time.
Only a few hours after having his kidney ripped from his body, we see Van Damme roaming the streets & kicking ass in an effort to track down his stolen organ. Now...I'm no endocrinologist but I feel like no one, not even Jean Claude Van Damme, would be able to pull off roundhouse kicks & deadly throat punches HOURS after losing a kidney in what was probably a sketchy surgery job to begin with (his kidney is stolen while he's asleep in his hotel room which can't be sanitary. You mean to tell me he didn't get any kind of an infection? Isn't that why doctors scrub their hands before an operation? I feel like kidney thieves don't wash their hands thoroughly).
On the flipside however, Pound Of Flesh touches on certain technicalities of kidney disease & kidney transplantation that I have yet to see any other movie touch on. Even with all the terrible-looking CGI gun shots, green screens & predictable dialogue, this is the first movie I've seen that touches on the fact that transplant recipients have to take medication for the rest of their lives.
Taking anti-rejection medication for life is not that bad. In fact it's not bad at all. All you have to do is take 20-30 pills daily for life (depending on the dosage). If that honestly sounds like a hassle, imagine plugging your stomach, neck or arm in to a dialysis machine on a regular basis. Any time I hear of a kidney rejecting from a recipients body due to someone not taking their medication I literally have NO sympathy. In fact it pisses me off. Someone gave you an organ in order for you to live and all you had to do is take some pills at various times throughout the day. Sounds like a good deal to me. It blows my mind that some folks can't even manage that (if you feel like complaining about the ridiculous number co-pays you're stuck with for the rest of your life...then I understand)
Pound Of Flesh also shows that just because you're a blood relative doesn't always mean you're going to be an automatic match. There's a common belief that an immediate family member can donate a kidney with no problem but that's not always the case (I received my Kidney from my uncle by law). In the film, Van Damme's brother isn't a match for his own daughter (there's a little bit more as to why that is but I won't say anymore).
We even see a list of foods to avoid after a trasnplant (see the image at the beginning of this review). I feel like Pound Of Flesh didn't intend to be this detail oriented in terms of kidney diseas but it just kinda worked out that way (I don't see Van Damne doing organ donor research during pre-production to get in to character).
There's an interesting turn in the final act of the film when Van Damme & company figure that his kidney has probably already been transplanted and they're now going to have to steal it back directly from the mysterious recipient's body. This made me wonder why Van Damme didn't just steal the kidneys of all the various henchmen he killed off earlier on in the movie. They're dead. They don't need their kidneys anymore. The body count by the halfway mark was at least five people. Five cadavers makes the odds a little better for his niece to find a match.
This movie also cuts itself short when it came to the time frame given to retrieve the kidney. Typically, you have somewhere between 20-30 hours to use a (properly stored) kidney once its been removed from a living body instead of the 10 hour window in Pound Of Flesh. Cutting the window in half added more tension to the movie and pushed the story along (Pound Of Flesh, which clocks in at 90-something minutes, takes place over a 36 hour period).
So while on one hand this is a typical "Jean Claude Van Damme kicking ass in southeast Asia" action movie, it still shows some respect to the kidney transplant process, and it does tug at the heart strings a little bit, so I can't completely dismiss it.
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The Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador Adikalie Foday Sumah, today delivered a statement at the UN General Assembly during the 42nd Plenary Meeting, 71st Session of the Assembly on "The Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council [item 122]|".
As Coordinator of the African Union Committee of 10 ( C10) on UN Security Council Reform, Sierra Leone speaks on behalf of the African Group. Therefore, Ambassador Sumah spoke on behalf of the continent today .
HERE ARE PHOTOS OF AMBASSADOR SUMAH ADDRESSING THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
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Aperture size: F2.2; Focal Length: 12 mm
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Back: Glass; Frame: Metal
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This is the official OnePlus 8 Pro User Guide in English provided from the manufacturer.
This is the official Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite User Guide in English provided from the manufacturer.
Warp Charge 30 Power Adapter, Warp Type-C Cable (Support USB 2.0), Quick Start Guide, Welcome Letter, Safety Information and Warranty Card, LOGO Sticker, Case, Screen Protector, SIM Tray Ejector