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Supreme Court of India's Supreme Jirga Firman Against Nupur Sharma
On: July 6, 2022
Tagged: Ayesha, Blasphemy, Kanhaiyalal, Muhammad, Nupur Sharma, Pardiwala, Rangeela Rasool, Sar Tan Se Juda, Supreme Court of India, Surya Kant, Talibani Firman
JULY 1st, 2022 BLACK DAY FOR INDIAN JUDICIARY
July 1st, 2022 would be marked as the black letter day in the judicial history of independent India, which pales before even the infamous 'committed' judiciary during the dark Emergency period. It is a day when the Supreme Court of India put to shame even the Afghan Talibani Sharia Courts by its Ghaziesque firman demanding an apology from a harassed and beleaguered Nupur Sharma and put her life in further peril by holding her responsible for Kanhaiyalal's brutal murder by jihadis and asking her to face trial across India braving the blood thirsty jihadi mobs wanting to gang-rape and behead her.
Nupur had approached the apex court to bunch up and transfer all cases filed against her in various parts of India to Delhi as she faces death threats from jihadi mobsters who have vowed to gang-rape her and her mother, behead her and skin her alive in the streets of West Bengal, Hyderabad, Belgaum, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, etc. It is obviously a great security risk and harassment for her to appear in all the Magistrate courts to defend herself from the charges of Sections 295A and 153A of the IPC. Jihadi hoards openly boast that they are waiting for her to turn up at the local courts to burn her alive for her factual statements on Mohammad.
Instead of giving her the requisite relief, the Supreme Court of India has resoundingly proved itself to be a Sharia Jirga implementing Mediaeval age barbaric Islamic laws which holds the victim harassed by jihadis as criminal. The Supreme Court bench of Justices Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala sounded like Ghazis when they blamed Nupur Sharma for the barbaric beheading of Kanhaiya Lal by jihadis Riyaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad in Udaipur and riotous Sar Tan Se Juda mobs across India in Delhi, UP, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir.
Both the Judges made unprofessional, uncalled for remarks and blamed Nupur Sharma for "loose talk" when she made factual reference on a TV debate on TimesNow on 27th May, 2022 by quoting the Islamic Hadiths about Mohammad marrying Ayesha when she was six years old and consummating the "marriage" when she was nine. Nupur's statement on Mohammad was provoked by jihadi Tasleem Rahmani's obnoxiously profane comments on the Shivling found in Gyanvapi mosque built over pre-existing ancient Kashi Vishwanath Temple demolished by Aurangzeb. Talseem Rahmani has been an ardent supporter and promoter of Islamist organization, Popular Front of India which is under scanner for alleged terrorist activities and murders of Hindu activists in Kerala, Karnataka and even in Tamil Nadu.
The Supreme Court essentially justified the barbaric riotous Islamist mobs destroying public property, burning several buses and critically hurting policemen trying to control the jihadi mobs by giving them all a clean chit and blaming Nupur Sharma for the same.
Justices Pardiwala & Surya Kant Controversies
It is necessary to mention here that in 2015, Justice J.B. Pardiwala as Judge in Gujarat High Court had severely criticised the clamour for reservations on the basis of caste while deciding a petition filed by Hardik Patel, who had held violent 'protests' for demanding reservation for Patels in employment and education. Casteist political parties raised a furore over Justice Pardiwala's observations in the judgement and 58 signatures were submitted to the then Rajya Sabha Chairman, Hamid Ansari to impeach the Judge. Justice Pardiwala immediately expunged his scathing remarks on the reservation system to avert being impeached for the same. Notably, senior advocate Prashanth Bhushan has made some serious allegations of illegal property dealings by Justice Surya Kant when there was a proposal to elevate him as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Since both Justices Pardiwala and Surya Kant had their share of problems earlier and had been hounded by the prominent vociferous anarchist lobby, they perhaps decided to capitulate to jihadi forces by throwing to the winds the cherished fundamental rights of freedom of speech and right to life to get the anarchist lobby off their backs and even become their heroes by castigating Nupur Sharma, putting her and all Hindu lives in danger from the murderous jihadi brigade.
Indian Govt's Appeasement Policy Influenced Judiciary?
Apart from the general tendency of the Supreme Court and Indian judiciary in general to very generously interpret the law in favour of Islamists, in Nupur Sharma's case the Supreme Court judges seem to be influenced by the response of the Government of India which had through its Ministry of External Affairs issued statements calling Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal "fringe elements" to appease Islamist Qatar when it threatened to not sell oil and do any business with India due to Nupur Sharma's statement on Mohammad. This was followed by hypermarkets, malls and retailers in Gulf nations withdrawing Indian products from sales counters. However, MF Hussain who made a series of offensive disgusting obscene nude paintings of Hindu female deities was accorded citizenship by Islamist Qatar in 2010 and India did not even bother to lodge a formal diplomatic protest against it.
The Indian government instead of resolutely standing by right to freedom of speech, behaved like a colony of Islamic nations, with the National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval assuring Arab nations that the 'blasphemers' would be punished and claiming Nupur Sharma 'has damaged India's reputation'. The ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, suspended its spokesperson, Nupur Sharma from the party for six years and Naveen Jindal was sacked from the party merely for making factual statements about Mohammad. This set a signal for the Supreme Court, which instead of coming to Nupur Sharma's aid by allowing clubbing of cases against her to be heard in Delhi, issued Ghaziesque firmans against her putting the whole Indian civilization to shame.
Abuse of Hindu Deities Is Freedom of Speech!
Notably, when Prof. Ratan Lal of Delhi University made highly offensive comments on Shivling in the social media, the Courts reprimanded the Delhi Police for arresting him and charging him under Sections 295A and 153A of the IPC and immediately gave him bail by saying freedom of speech and expression is sacrosanct even if it offends the religious sentiments of Hindu community. Senior journalist and anti-Hindu propagandist, Saba Naqvi made obnoxious tweets by putting up a picture of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, which has a large elongated dome and sarcastically provoked Hindus to claim it as a Shivling. These hate-filled posts by the likes of TMC MP, Mahua Moitra, Ratan Lal, Saba Naqvi and several other big blue-ticked Twitter handles of leftists and jihadis abusing Shivling as phallus worship did not provoke nation-wide riots from Hindu community. The Hindus reacted to such grave provocations by writing counter posts on social media while some took legal recourse against them.
Sar Tan Se Juda A Norm For Criticism of Mohammad & Islam
Contrastingly, Muslim community reacted to statements made by Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal on Muhammad with murderous riotous mobs seeking to behead Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal. Nupur Sharma merely quoted authentic Hadiths of Shahih Bukhari and Quranic verses which have been cited by Islamic scholars several times. In fact, the jihadi terror doctor, Zakir Naik has himself quoted the Hadiths on Mohammad and Ayesha to give religious sanction to 60+ year old Muslim men "marrying" young minor girl children even today. So, the problem lies with the barbaric murderous jihadis who are brainwashed in Madrasas from a very young age that punishment for criticism of Islam and Mohammad is decapitation.
This is not the first time the Islamic mob went on a rampage destroying public property and two jihadis from Rajasthan with Pakistani connection with special motorbike number plate "2611", in reference to Mumbai terror attack 26/11, audaciously beheaded a 40 year old Hindu tailor, Kahiyalal in Udaipur. Massive murderous jihadi mobs in lakhs went on a rampage, across North India, last year with the same slogan, "Gustak e Rasul ki ek hi saza, Sar Tan Se Juda, Sar Tan Se Juda" in the midst of Covid pandemic, when the Dasna high priest, Yati Narasinghanand criticized Islam and Muhammad. The Islamists egged on by Islamic leaders went on a riot spree across India when Waseem Rizvi petitioned the Supreme Court to delete 26 controversial verses in Quran which promoted terrorism against Kafirs i.e. non-believers of Islam. Waseem was issued death threats when he adopted Hindu Dharma after renouncing Islam recently. In this case too, the Supreme Court appeased the jihadis and failed the reformist by summarily dismissing Rizvi's petition without even examining the matter by imposing monetary fine.
Islamic stone pelting mobs and targeted killings of Hindus are a regular feature in the Kashmir Valley even now, is Nupur Sharma responsible for all of this? The unassailable reason for such blood thirsty riotous behaviour is, Muslims even in the 21st century today, follow Islam in the same barbaric manner from the time it was founded in the 6th century. Criticism and debate about Islam is completely banned and swiftly punished with beheadings – be it for Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Mohammad or some purported "blasphemy" by a school teacher, Samuel Paty in France. Tasleema Nasreen and Salman Rushdie have never led a normal life after penning Lajja and Satanic Verses respectively.
Kamlesh Tiwari was mercilessly stabbed to death by jihadis in his own house, five years after he spoke about Mohammad and Ayesha. Farooq, a rationalist from Tamil Nadu was hacked to death by jihadis for his criticism of Islam on social media in 2017. Ramalingam was mercilessly butchered to death in 2019 by jihadis in Tanjavur for resisting Dawah (invitation to convert to Islam) mafia. Vellaiappan was brutally murdered by jihadis for spreading awareness against Sex Jihad in 2013 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Prashanth Poojary was publicly lynched by jihadis in Karnataka for resisting illegal cow smuggling and slaughter in 2015. Krishna Bharwad was shot dead by jihadis in Gujarat for his sarcasm of Islam on Facebook in January this year. The list is endless. There is a continuing genocide of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir where targeted killing of Hindus is business as usual for jihadis.
Beheading For Blasphemy of Islam in Colonial Period
In pre-independence period, other than the myriad jihadi riots across India killing millions of Hindus, Swami Shradananda was brutally murdered for criticisng Islam, Mahashe Rajpal was murdered by a jihadi for publishing Rangeela Rasul, a satire on marital life of Islam's founder, Muhammad. In both cases, MK Gandhi, the dubious pacifist Ahimsavadi, was not only critical of Swami Shradananda and Mahashe Rajpal but also justified their brutal murders by the jihadis. Mahashe Rajpal published Rangeela Rasool in response to three sacrilegious books published and circulated in mosques of North India during that period namely, "Sita ka Chinala", which portrayed Goddess Sita as a prostitute, "Krishna Teri Geeta Jalani Padegi" and "Unnisvi Sadi ka Lampat Mahrishi".
Beheading for so-called 'blasphemy' is not something new, it is as old as Islam and is an essential feature of Islam, scaring everyone to silence and deterring criticism of Islam. While all religions in the world have faced their share of criticism, including predatory dogmatic Christianity. All faiths other than Islam have world over given up primitive decapitation as punishment for blasphemy, while Islam still holds on intransigently to the barbaric Medieval age practices. It is pertinent to note that Hindu Dharma never had blasphemy law right from the beginning.
Geert Wilders Questions Supreme Court & GoI, Calls Nupur Brave
Followers of Islam throughout the world run riot on a killing spree for perceived "blasphemy". Geert Wilders, Dutch member of Parliament came out in support of Nupur Sharma for speaking factual truths about Mohammad. He also urged the Government of India to not appease the Islamic nations and jihadi elements in India and stand by Nupur Sharma for her bold statements when she was unceremoniously suspended from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for her statements on Muhammad. Notably, Geert Wilders' life changed when he made a documentary on Muhammad and Islam 20 years ago which resulted in constant death threats from Islamists. Geert Wilders too was bewildered with the Supreme Court's order and wondered whether democratic India had Sharia Court.
Supreme Court's Double Standards
The Supreme Court, which has a history of treating people who abuse Hindu deities/Hinduism and people calling for the destruction of the nation as "free speech champions", "rationalists" and "human rights activists", today takes offence to Nupur Sharma's statement on Mohammad. For the Supreme Court calling for waging a war against India by Maoists like Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Bharadwaj and umpteen Jihadis is "dissent" and "safety valve of pressure cooker" in a democracy.
Justice DY Chandrachud openly claimed that the judiciary needs to be anti-majoritarian, so rule of law, justice and equality seems to be subject to the religion of the person approaching the courts for justice.
Till Nupur Sharma's case, there has been many occasions when the Supreme Court has allowed desecration of Temple traditions (Sabarimala case), banned traditional burning of firecrackers during Deepavali, allowed government take over of Hindu Temples singularly while staying away from controlling mosques and churches, formed a Constitutional Bench to determine whether Sanskrit shloka "Asato Ma Sadgamaya" recited in Kendriya Vidyalaya school prayer is communal, etc. – all done by giving woke interpretations of constitutional fundamental rights. While the same apex judiciary either endlessly drags on petitions seeking ban on FGM among Bohra Muslim community, allowing entry of women in mosques; washes its hands off petitions seeking ban on polygamy among Muslims and all types of unilateral Talaq by claiming it as exclusive domain of the Parliament.
UR Ananthamurthy Urinated On Idol
In another note, communist writer UR Ananthamurthy, born in a traditional Brahmin family in an Agraharam, in his autobiography had boasted about how he "overcame" the fear of God by urinating on a Hindu deity idol as a 10 year old boy. He even proudly mentioned about his feat in an interview to Indian Express. UR Ananthamurthy was bestowed with Jnanpith in 1994 and Padma Bhushan in 1998. UR Ananthamurthy was never tried legally for outraging the religious sentiments of Hindus, neither did Hindus run amuck calling to behead him for his highly obnoxious writings. The author of this article has serious doubts if he would have ever dared to urinate on a Hindu religious idol as a 10 year old while he lived in an Agraharam as a child. He most probably invented this act to look cool in front of his commie and anti-Hindu mentors to climb the social ladder in anglophile circles after his stint abroad for education. It is one thing to question idol worship, it is another issue to be deliberately provocative by urinating on idols. Many Sanatani Hindu intellectuals did criticize his infantile ignoramus understanding of idol worship but none called for his punishment by incarceration, leave alone brutal murder.
With such legacy, the Supreme Court certainly comes across as a Sharia Jirga when it declares Nupur Sharma as a threat to national security! Leave alone Mohammad Zubair of the Alt News, he amplified Nupur's statements on social media as a dutiful jihadi Muslim, it is the Supreme Court and supine Government of India which dog-whistled and egged on the jihadis to hunt down Nupur Sharma for quoting the Hadiths on Ayesha's age when she was married to Mohammad.
Pertinently, the Supreme Court few years back threw out petitions by Kashmiri Hindus seeking justice for the genocide in 1989 by claiming it as old case! So if you are a Hindu in India you neither have Freedom of Speech nor basic human rights of right to live. Justices Pardiwala and Surya Kant sacrificed the exalted values of fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression which is the hallmark of a civilized nation at the altar of Islamic Jihad. It seems like Justices Surya Kant and Pardiwala have in their wisdom amended the Preamble of the Constitution of India to declare India as an Islamic Republic.
Welcome to the neo-Sharia Land!
Should Hindus do a Palace of Justice Siege if they want some semblance of justice from a Sharia Compliant Jirga as impeachment does not seem to be a viable option with all political parties falling over each other to appease Islamists.
Time for Hindus to hit the streets for justice or simply perish.
Image sourced from internet.
Gayatri N
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Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae
Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae is a collection of articles by Rev Dr Athanasius McVay, pertaining to the history of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. It is inspired by great works of ecclesiastical history, such as Baronius' Annales Ecclesiastici, Harasevych's Annales Ecclesiae Ruthenae and Athanasius Welykyj's Analecta OSBM.
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Rev. Dr. Athanasius D. McVay, HED
Edmonton - Rome - London, United Kingdom
Priest and Church historian specializing in the history of the Holy See's diplomacy and of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the XIX and XX centuries. Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto.
biretta for a pontifical doctor of Ecclesiastical History
Society of St John Chrysostom
Archbishop Cyril Vasil, SJ
Secretary of the Vatican department
for the Eastern Churches,
receives the Budka biography
"Russia and Ukraine: A Violent Past, a Cloudy Future," Dorothy Cummings McLean for Catholic World Report. Includes info on the Budka Biography
"Historian Takes a Hard Look at Budka's Accomplishments" Ramon Gonzalez for Western Catholic Reporter
"Biography of Bishop Nykyta Budka Launched in Edmonton" Press release of CIUS (Українською)
Budka Book Launch (CIUS) with photos
"Banff Symposium a Timely Examination" Press release of UofA Wirth Institute
Video Interview with Jan Bentz for EWTN
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Labels: Budka Biography, ecumentism, Nykyta Budka, Russia, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Микита Будка
Participating in the presentation: Jars Balan (CIUS), Father Peter Babej (St. Josaphat Cathedral) Volodymyr Kravchenko (CIUS), Father Peter Galadza (MASI), Orest Eveneshen and Serge Cipko (Budka Society), Father McVay, Bishop David Motiuk.
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton
Labels: Budka Biography, First World War, Nykyta Budka, ukrainian bishops, Ukrainian martyrs, Микита Будка
Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies has issued the following communique, announcing the publication of the God's Martyr, History's Witness: Blessed Nykyta Budka the First Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Canada:
Sheptytsky Institute Co-publisher of Groundbreaking Biography
Father Athanasius McVay, a Canadian Ukrainian Catholic who has spent years working in the Vatican archives, has just published his long-awaited biography of Bishop Nykyta Budka. The Sheptytsky Institute was pleased to be the co-publisher along with the Eparchy of Edmonton. The 614-page book is meticulously researched and illustrated with rare photographs.
"With this publication, Father McVay has established himself as the premier historian of the modern Ukrainian Catholic Church," said Fr. Peter Galadza, acting director of the Sheptytsky Institute. "We await many more publications from this outstanding scholar."
Following the official launch in Edmonton on 24 October 2014, the book will be available for purchase from Sheptytsky Institute and the Edmonton Eparchy.
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Metropolitan Lawrence, Patriarch Sviatoslav,
Bishop David, Bishop Ken (photographer)
On 10 September 2014, during the Synod of the Hierarchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Lviv, Ukraine, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major-Archbishop of Kyiv-Haklych and Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, was very pleased receive a copy of my biography, God's Martyr, History's Witness: Blessed Nykyta Budka the First Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Canada. It was presented to him by Bishop David Motiuk and Metropolitan Lawrence Huculak.
Eparchy of Edmonton
and Archeparchy of Winnipeg
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God's Martyr, History's Witness:
Blessed Nykyta Budka
the First Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Canada
has been published by the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton
and the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
Institute of Eastern Christian Studies.
An abridged table of contents of the 615 page book may be found here.
A private launch for contributors and benefactors took place on 22 August (photo)
Copies are available via the Edmonton Eparchial Chancery
and Sheptytsky Institute
at a cost of $25
The publication is announced at Edmonton Eparchy,
the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, and RISU.
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With Dr. Karen Lemiski,
curator of the Basilian Fathers Museum, Mundare, Alberta
Vatican Radio's Christopher Wells spoke with Fr Athanasius McVay, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest from Canada, and an expert in early 20th-century ecclesiastical history. Fr McVay says that, in addition to the positive commemorations of the men and women who sacrificed themselves during the war, it is important also to remember the victims of the war, at home and abroad. "Alongside the brave soldiers who gave their lives, there were our own Canadian citizens and immigrants… who were deprived of their civil rights, and many were interned in internment camps during the war."
During the war, he says, it was "not so much the government, but the general population, [that] became very suspicious and fearful." Although the government needed to take steps to ensure there was no activity that could be detrimental to the war effort or the morale at home, Fr McVay says, "I think it's generally recognized today that they exceeded their mandate, because the internment was really not necessary, and it was really not caused by anything these people had done."
Fr McVay says: "These commemorations should be about remembering. History is often called the memory of mankind, and I think that we owe it to history to remember these events and to make some symbolic redress – but to move forward, and learn from our mistakes, and to make a better value world, to promote our Catholic values."
Christopher Wells interviews Father Athanasius McVay on Internment of Ukrainian-Canadians
Labels: Internment of Ukrainian Canadians, Nykyta Budka, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainians in Canada
To the Rev. Clergy and all the faithful Ruthenians:
Not long ago the world was stirred by the news that Austria is fighting with Servia. All other powers decided to wait and mainly England with all her might and efforts tried to make the war local and maintain peace.
At the time when no state was endangered by war except Austria and Servia, when England did not call her citizens to defend their homes, then, we issued a circular in which we stated that Austria, through the Austro-Hungarian Consulate challenges her loyal subjects to stand under the Austrian flag. We also stated that the Ruthenians who arrived here only for a short period ought to bey the call of Austria and go to defend their homes and families.
... Our new home of Canada challenges her faithful subjects to gather under the British Standard and be ready to give their lives and properties for the British cause. Today all the nationalities living under the British flag send their sons to defend that flag.
In this event when to us as loyal citizens comes England with appeal to have us gathered under her flag, when Britain needs our aid, we, today as faithful citizens of the part of the British Empire the Canadian Ruthenians have before us a great and solemn duty to flock under the flag of our new land and under this standard give our lives and blood.
Ruthenians,– Canadian citizens: It is our great duty to defend Canada, for it is the land that not only received us and gave us shelter under the Constitution of the Great Empire, but more than that, it gave us liberty in developing ourselves spiritually.
Once more Ruthenians; it is our holy duty to be in readiness and offer everything for Canada.
It isn our home to which we swore allegiance, for which we declared to give lives and all in its defence when necessity demands.
It is our dear Motherland whereon our families, relatives, children, property, our hearts and future depend.
Therefore, in these most critical times as now, we must remember that as true Sons of Canada bound y the Oath of Allegiance to our King, we must flock to the British Standard.
Put aside all party and radical feelings, aside all indifference.
We conscientiously and with deep feelings of loyalty and duty want and will help our new country when endangered by enemies.
Ruthenians, Canadian Citizens: You that have already sown allegiance to be loyal to your King George 5th, and you that intend to do so, remember that the present moment demands you. For any unloyal word or action here as in any other country in time of war death is punishment for treason.
Loyalty binds you to deeds and sacrifice and when the Empire calls for this everyone must be ready even to put up his life.
If it were necessary and possible to organize a regiment of the Canadian Ruthenian Citizens, it would be obvious sign that the Ruthenians in Canada are true subjects and are ready to sacrifice everything for their new home.
Secondly we declare that we must fulfil our duties not only from the standpoint of the law but with deep feelings of duty.
Only God knows how this war the greatest in history is going to end.
Pray God that He may with His almighty power shorten this terrific storm and cause its end and that our new home may not suffer loss.
In view of the fact when our former letter was issued then, the war was exclusively between Austria and Servia, and only few believed that it will spread over other Kingdoms; viewing the fact that there existed a peace in England and that England did not call her subjects to action, we declare emphatically that our letter of the 27th of July, in view of the new altered political situation, is irrelevant and must not be read in public and churches.
Instead we urge the clergy t read the present letter during the sermons in their parishes and inform accordingly the Ruthenians of their solemn duty to the Great British Empire.
— + Nicetas Budka, 6 August 1914
(English translation of the Bishop's Chancery, August 1914)
published in Kanadyiskyi Rusyn, 8 August 1914
Labels: austria-hungary, Budka loyalty, Canada, Canada at war, Canadian patriotism, Nykyta Budka, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainians in Canada, Микита Будка
"Call to Austrians in Winnipeg," Manitoba Free Press, 31 July 1914
The official proclamation of the partial mobilization order issued by the Government of Austria-Hungary was published in Winnipeg yesterday in "The Ukrainiann Voice" and other papers of the nationalities concerned. German is the official language of Austria, but about ten languages are spoken by the people within the boundaries of the Empire. Consequently, the proclamation of the partial mobilization appears in the two German papers of Wpg., in the seven Ruthenian and in the one Hungarian paper of the west.
The men concerned in the mobilization are being informed by announcement cards, in addition to the mobilization orders. The order promises that expenses of travelling will be paid, and this will make considerable difference in the returning, as it is considered that many of the men, in these hard times, are too poor to bear their own expenses.
When the expenses are to be paid, and even advanced to those unable to meet them at the moment, it is expected that a large number of the men will respond to the call to arms.
The Austrian proclamation issued from the local consulate is an interesting document, and as published in the papers yesterday, reads as follows: [...]
It is very difficult to obtain any information regarding the spirit of Servians in Western Canada and whether orders of mobilization have been issued to them. There are not many Serbs in Winnipeg, but Moose Jaw and Regina number quite a few among their cosmopolitan population.
Deserters Pardoned
By Austrian Emperor on condition they offer for service now
(Toronto July 30/14). Local Austrian subjects of various races have been officially advised that they are wanted only if they receive individual notice to that effect. Those who do not receive such notice will remain where they are.
It is stated with absolute authority that a manifesto has been issued by the Austrian Government granting official pardon "By the grace of the Emperor" to all subjects under military discipline who have previously deserted, or in any other way evaded their military duties. All to whom this applies must, in order to receive pardon, present themselves at once for military service without waiting for a summons.
It is anticipated that when this becomes widely known there will be an exodus of some thousands from Canada.
Austrians Leaving to Fight
(Montreal, July 30) The German liner Millahad, now in port from Rotterdam and Antwerp, will carry back to Europe the first Austrians to sail from Montreal to the seat of war. When the vessel clears from thisn port Saturday morning or possibly on Sunday morning there will be at least 200 of the local Austrians on board hurrying back to Austria at the call of the Emperor. 5000 Austrians in Montreal are supposed to answer the call of the sovereign for they are in te first and second reservists. Quite a number of the collony have become British subjects and so are exempt from military service in the conflict. Austrian labor agencies are crowded today. On the door of each one is posted in a conspicuous place the order from the local consul requiring the first reservists to leave for home at once. They are to report to him to arrange for passage. The notices are dated the 28th inst., and stamped with the local seal.
Labels: austria-hungary, Canada at war, First World War, Manitoba Free Press, ukrainian history, Ukrainians in Canada, Winnipeg
Ruthenian Partial Mobilization.
Announcement.
In Austria-Hungary His Imperial Majesty has proclaimed partial mobilization (___) supplement the general forces ___ on war footing).
Those who are obligated to the call to arms as reservists are being notified of the fact by summons cards.
Those called will be reimbursed their travelling expenses.
Those called, who do not have sufficient funds for the journey, have to call on the nearest Imperial and Royal representative, presenting their summons cards, and there the funds for the journey will be paid.
All others summoned will have the funds for the journey to join the colours returned later.
Those among the summoned whose home is on the frontiers of the Monarchy, instead of to the nearest representative of the Imperial and Royal Governemnt are to report directly to their government station at home..
His Imperial and Royal Majesty Emperor Franz Josef І granted amnesty to those who did not report for conscription and also to those who are classified as deserters, if they immediately return home.
Winnipeg, 26. July 1914.
Labels: austria-hungary, Canada at war, First World War, Habsburg, Internment of Ukrainian Canadians, ukrainian history, Ukrainians in Canada, Winnipeg
Historians such as Margaret MacMillan, John Polland, Roberto De Matei, discuss the causes of the Great War, which began on 28 July 1914. The video, produced by Catholic News Service, features the often ignored Vatican's diplomatic efforts to mediate between the powers and to end the war.
Labels: Benedict XV;, First World War, Holy See, Karl of Austria
This morning, my biography of Blessed Nykyta Budka was submitted to the printer. It will take about six weeks to print and then an additional few weeks to bind. Stay tuned for updates. Here is a history of the book's composition and an abridged table of contents.
Labels: Budka Biography, First World War, Nykyta Budka, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian martyrs, Ukrainians in Canada, Winnipeg, Микита Будка
... For quite a number of years the war-cloud has hung over our country which, however, did not realise it, and it was held off by the efforts of the peace-loving Emperor Franz Joseph I. Then happened an incident which would exhaust the patience of the most patient of men. On June the 28th, Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, a man of great hopes in the present difficult moment for Austria, was assassinated in Sarajevo, together with his wife, by the bullet of a Servian student. This loss was greatly felt by the monarch and all nationalities of Austria, and especially by Ruthenians, who held great and deserving hope in him. The enemies of Austria, and especially the enemies of the Ruthenian Ukrainians, do not conceal their satisfaction on account of this tragic loss. The Canadian Ruthenian Ukrainians sympathise with the sorrow of our Motherland, and give proof of it by special services in the churches for those assassinated and in the prayer for the welfare of the maternal country. ...
—(Pastoral Letter, 27 July 1914: version printed in the Northwest Review, 8 August 1914)
Labels: austria-hungary, First World War, Habsburg, Nykyta Budka, Ukrainians in Canada, Микита Будка
"As I write this, I feel that I am in Lviv, where a war is going on after the world war. It is a war for values that in theory have already been won in the world, but in our homeland they are yet being birthed in blood and agony. Merciful God, how bitter it must be to live there—have mercy upon us and finally grant us peace! The Faith of our brothers and national freedom are constantly foremost in all our thoughts. We know little of what is happening there, but we believe that one and the other are progressing."
— To Metropolitan Sheptytsky, November 1918, during the war for Ukrainian independence (p. 275 of the upcoming bio)
Labels: Budka Biography, Eastern Galicia, Nykyta Budka, sheptytsky, Ukrainian Catholic Church, ukrainian history, ZUNR, Микита Будка
Petro Kamenetsky: Priest, Patriot, Prisoner of War
In the Vatican Archives, Nunciature in Canada series, there is a fascile containing correspondence from the Prisoners of War Committee at the Vernon, BC internment camp to the Apostolic Delegate, dated April and May 1919. I was surpised to find that one of the documents had been notarized by Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest, Rev. Petro Kamenetsky, "himself a prisoner of war in this camp." Although he was not the only Ukrainian Catholic priest arrested in Canada, during the First World War, Kamenetsky apperas to have been the only one to have been interned. For this reason alone, his interesting life-story deserves to be explored during this centenary of the outbreak of the war.
Born: 26 June 1891, Vikno, Skalat (Husiatyn), Ukraine
Arrived in Canada: 28 September 1913, Halifax, NS
Ordained priest: 23 March 1914, Toronto, ON
1st pastorship: 1 April 1914, Sifton and Ethelbert, MB
Interned: August 1918, Vernon, BC
First pastor of the following churches:
- 1917, St. George's Church (Cathedral), Saskatoon, SK
- 10 October 1937, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Toronto, ON
- 1962: Protection of BVM Parish, Toronto, ON
Appointed honourary canon: 1940
named domestic prelate (Monsignor): 1959
elevated to mitred archpriest: 1969
died: 31 January 1973, Toronto, ON
Full Biography published here
Labels: Canada, First World War, Internment of Ukrainian Canadians, Nykyta Budka, Petro Kamenetsky, Ukrainian Catholic Church, ukrainian history, Ukrainian priests, Ukrainians in Canada

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Ontario's Bill 210: A Sweeping Expansion of LHIN Powers over Health Service Providers
By Michael Watts
Ontario's Bill 210, the Patients First Act, 2016 passed first reading on June 2, 2016 and, if enacted as drafted, will significantly expand the powers of local health integration networks (LHINs) over "health service providers" in two important ways (and among other things):
by mandating LHINs to identify and plan for their local health system's needs regarding "physician resources," and
by empowering LHINs to manage physician resources through Service Accountability Agreements (SAAs) that they will be able to unilaterally impose on "health service providers", as agents of the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care.
This has broad implications for physicians and practitioners who are compensated through alternative funding agreements (AFAs) on a basis other than fee-for-service billings to OHIP, which under a variety of current models may cover or include:
Family health teams and community health centres,
Specific communities and under-serviced specialties,
Individual departments in a single hospital,
Entire services of all physicians at a single hospital,
Services of all full-time specialists at an academic health science centre,
Province-wide gynaecology oncology, radiation oncology and medical oncology services,
Emergency services in hospitals, specialist services in the north and agreements with specialists and subspecialists associated with academic health science centres,
Regional trauma hospitals to ensure the 24-hour availability of high-level care for patients with serious trauma (Trauma Team Leader global funding agreements),
Academic Health Science Centres, for clinical services, education and research, or
Services such as psychiatry, the Regional Surgical Network, neurosurgery/neurology and anaesthesia in northern regions.
(Source: Health Force Ontario).
This also has broad implications for hospitals where AFAs may be in place in addition to hospital-SAAs or "H-SAAs", because it appears that there will be overlapping responsibility under the Local Health System Integration Act, 2006 (LHSIA) and the Public Hospitals Act for oversight and management of hospital resources and utilization, particularly in emergency departments.
The "Patients First" discussion paper released by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in June 2016 forecasted that "LHINs would take on responsibility for primary care planning and performance improvement, in partnership with local clinical leaders" and that the Ministry would give LHINs "additional responsibility for health system planning of physician resources".
Bill 210 amends the Health Insurance Act to allow the Minister to appoint a LHIN as its agent for the purpose of carrying out any function, obligation or right under any SAA or AFA, provided the Minister gives notice of the appointment to the other parties to the arrangement. The LHIN will have all rights and obligations of the Minister "despite any provision of such arrangements."
Bill 210 also empowers LHINs to direct that providers that receive funding from them (a) engage or permit an auditor to audit their accounts and financial transactions, and (b) engage in or permit an operational review or peer review of their activities. This is in addition to the existing powers of LHINs to require such providers to provide "plans, reports, financial statements and other information" required to carry out the duties and responsibilities under the LHSIA.
The scope of information that could be requested is wide. Bill 210 empowers the Lieutenant Governor in Council (the Premier) to make regulations under the LHSIA requiring "prescribed persons and entities" to provide information and reports to a LHIN about the following:
physician resource issues such as opening and closing of practices, transitions and changes to practices, retirements from practices and change of location of practices, and
physician practices in the local health system such as policies for accepting and discharging patients, practice profiles, practice wait-times, and practice coverage for after-hours services, vacations, leaves and other absences.
The LHINs' funding powers under Bill 210 will also allow them to fund providers for services provided in or for their own LHIN or another LHIN. Providers will be required to enter into SAAs with the LHIN, the terms of which, failing good faith negotiations, may be "set" by the LHIN on notice to the provider and the Minister. It appears in this regard that all AFAs howsoever termed (AFP, APP, RNGPA, HOCC Funding, etc.) will effectively become SAAs under Bill 210.
Finally, LHINs are granted the power under Bill 210 to appoint investigators or supervisors over providers that have entered into SAAs (but these powers do not apply to long-term care homes or, in the case of supervisors, to hospitals). The only "check" on these powers are the overriding powers granted to the Minister under Bill 210 to issue binding directives to LHINs or appoint investigators or supervisors over LHINs.
Michael Watts is a Partner in the Toronto office of law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.
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I have felt your call of several days, but I have not answered. It is still difficult for me to integrate multidimensional consciousness into my third dimensional world, but I am working on being conscious in many realities at one moment. I am ready to receive another message.
We are glad that you are receiving our call. We aboard the ship are always on alert to ones who are able to hold a conscious connection to our vibration. It does not matter at this point in your "time" if you are receiving a language message. Just to "feel" our presence is of a very great service to the Galactic Beings of the Ashtar Command.
We are so appreciative of the "embodied ones" who are receiving our call via their third dimensional earth vessel. Those of you who can perceive our call are acting as step-down transformers to ground our multidimensional message in your physical world. The grounding of our message in Gaia's physical Earth is a very special event.
We remember when we were comrades in the Great Orion wars. You were so brazen as a man. In your present life, you anchor that portion of your Soul who enjoys giving yourself permission to release all reason and restraint to feel the complete freedom of action without consequences. However, eventually the consequences do catch up with you.
You are now in the process of solving the question of how can you allow the complete release of free and unlimited thoughts and actions while still in physical body without a storm of emotions? And then, these emotions bring forward reactions that make you sorry that you ever took that risk.
But in the final telling, the consequences were not of the same powerful impact as that beautiful moment of freedom. That moment in which you could soar above all limitation and become a portion of yourself that is not captive of the rules of the third dimension was well worth the payment of uncomfortable emotions.
Now Suzille, you can join with your inner "Wild Woman" and allow her take take the lead. She is the portion of your SELF that is the most masculine and, therefore, the portion that will be the first to embrace androgyny. We ask that both male and female third dimensionals embrace the Goddess within your heart and mind to raise Her from her slumber.
Congratulations dear Earthlings. The moment to embrace your Mother Earth is NOW!
AND IT TAKES A BRAVEWARRIOR TO FACE THEM!
I heard this line on television and it reminded me of you—finally. I thought of you and the part of my SELF that is your comrade and fellow warrior. I realize that I have been unable to face that component of myself because I hold shame my brutality in past lives. (I was still only thinking in time then.) Finally, I am ready to see our life together.
Commander Malteese and I are Antarian comrades on Antares. We are in the constellation of Scorpio serving as the defenders of this quadrant. I, Capt. Jaqual, speak to you from the timeline of my warrior days. In Scorpio, we hold similar energy fields as the planet Pluto in your Star System.
Yes, you have heard our call today. It is time now that you become conscious of my reality. Commander Malteese has already reminded you of our Antarian energy to prepare you for our meeting. Your reality as Suzille has been very different than mine (which is also yours). I am a warrior here, but I have retired from active duty. I recently have entered a temple where I can focus my attention on my inner life.
(Interestingly I just moved out my office a few days ago and for the first time in 40 years I am working from my home. Why? Because the Arcturians told me that I needed to create a simpler, calmer life so that I could meditate, walk on the beach, do yoga, relax and garden in my yard and commune with the Elementals.
My life exists in a different timeline than yours and I resonate in an entirely different area of space. For most of my life, however, I was too busy battling "the enemy" to deeply look inside. I was a warrior for fifty of your Earth years. That seems like a long time to you, but we Antarians have much longer lives. We usually live about 150 to 200 of your earth years.
We on Antares are usually fifth dimensional, but the warriors and the parents resonate to the third dimension when "working" and go home to the fourth dimension. The parents bring their new life down from the higher dimensions to begin their "time in form" in third dimensional form.
We function this way so that our children will be strongly rooted in a physical form to be able to procreate and be protectors of our quadrant of space. It is similar to your salmon that leave their natural saltwater to spawn in the fresh water.
Antares is a center for multidimensional awakening. We keep our third dimensional reality alive and active even though we could all raise our frequency above it. The reason that we do so is because we first colonized this area to assist in protecting those around us, as well as your world, from the Orion Draconians. What the Draconians have mastered with technologically, we have mastered with our minds.
Since we serve as protectors, at lease until the end of your Great Cycle, we have a strong warrior class. The leaders of our societies, as well as most of its citizens, resonate to the fourth and fifth dimension. Almost all of us, male and female, have spent at least 30 years in service as a warrior. I spent 50 years as a warrior, which is common only for the officers. Women are trained right along with men and are totally equal in all military actions.
On the other hand, men are not totally equal in the conception and childcare department. One does not become a parent until after their service as a "protector" has been fulfilled. We warriors use the word "protector" rather than "soldier." We do not fight because we are told to or because we want to gain power and conquest. We fight only to protect our people and our way of life.
Not all people on Antares become parents. In fact, less than 10% actually mate and give birth. However, almost everyone is actively involved in the raising of the young. Persons must go through a major initiation to become parents, much as is on Arcturus. However, we do not choose parents by aura color, as they do on Arcturus, but rather by initiation.
The initiation for parenthood takes three years. One must be a master in multidimensional awareness before they can be a parent. This mastery is best described by saying that a master can expand their vibration from the third to the seventh dimension of Oversoul. Also, they are able to open the channel to consciously being aware of all of these dimensions at once.
This expansion of consciousness and awareness is a great feat and the reason why only 10% of our people are parents. In order to become a parent, two harmoniously matched Souls raise their vibration into the Oversoul and invite a spark of life to enter our Antarian world. They then "walk" that spark down through each dimension and "plant" him/her in the female's third dimensional form.
The Temple that I will soon enter is the one, which teaches us to be parents. I feel that since I have taken so many lives that it is my best service now to bring in new ones. Couples usually only have one child. It takes three years to prepare (only 30% of those who enter the initiation complete it) and then another three years to "walk" the Soul down into the third dimension.
Then for three more years, the parents completely dedicate themselves to the raising of the child. At the end of three years the child has become an adult and joins the society. They usually study for about 30 years and then join the military. As you can see, most parents are about sixty years old before they are able to begin the process of preparing for parenthood.
However, since all parents have mastered multidimensional awareness, they usually live to be at least 300 years old. Some live to be 400. The last hundred years of their lives is usually spent in assisting others to become multidimensional. Once one is multidimensional, "death" is just a change of octaves.
There are, of course, others who die in battle, but this gives them a boost to at least the sixth dimension. Their lives are shorter, but their journey into the seventh dimension is easier. In our world, all individuation processes, or individual lives as you would say, originate in the seventh dimensional Oversoul.
We are asked to leave the Oversoul by our parents when we are "sparks of light." Then we must return to the Oversoul before we can again take another incarnation on Antares or an Arcturian world or Starship.
The Arcturians and Antarians realities are both multidimensional in nature. We both focus on assisting people, planets and star systems to embrace their multidimensional essence to ascend back to their Oversoul SELF. Those who find this process of raising their vibration back into the seventh dimension too difficult often incarnate on other planets and star systems. They may also chose a different version of reality for a variety of experience.
I was feeling you very much today while I was working out. I heard that you could assist me in being a warrior and, after reading your last message, I realize that you can greatly assist me in my process of becoming multidimensional. I do not think there is any Temple on Earth to teach me those things. Perhaps you could share with me what you are learning in your temple experience.
I can definitely assist you with the mastery of your physical habits and programming. The ability to truly be multidimensional is what allows you to gain mastery of third dimensional issues and challenges. I can also assist you to rise above your fear.
When one is able to raise their vibration to a dimension above their fear, they have entered their mastery training. That is part of the reason why my people have chosen to be warriors. A warrior must learn to face the fear inside of them selves. Once that fear is confronted and conquered, then they can raise themselves into their higher vibrational self.
I have felt your call over the last couple of days. I feel like I am finally ready to hear your story. I have avoided it because I knew it was about fear, and I have always had a problem with facing my fear. I am ready now to totally release that "problem" and live in my courage.
I am happy to hear that you are now ready to BE the warrior that you have always been. You have been afraid because you were frightened as a very small child and were unable to communicate that fear to anyone to ask them for protection and comfort.
That fear has maintained a hold on your unconscious for most of your life. As you now understand, everything that happened was part of your Divine Plan to awaken to the memory of your Higher SELF. If you had gotten the comfort that you needed in your physical world, you may not have gone deep and high enough into your Multidimensional SELF to find the protection and comfort that you needed.
Now in these closing chapters of your physical incarnations, you must clear your unconscious of unnecessary fear. We say "unnecessary" because we do not want you to erase all fear. Fear in itself is not your enemy. Fear only becomes your enemy when the messages it has given you remain after their purpose has been served.
Yes, think of fear as a messenger. It is a messenger that is telling you to be aware and careful. Without fear you could not survive in the third dimension where there are many dangers. Therefore, when I tell my story, remember that fear is actually our friend. Fear's purpose is to warn and protect. It is the memory and threat of fear that is the enemy.
If past fears cannot be released, they become a heavier and heavier burden. Also, if you do not trust that the appropriate warnings will come at the necessary time, then there is fear of the future. Fear from the past is the message that is gone and fear of the future is the message that has not yet arrived.
When you can live in total trust of and surrender to your Higher SELF, you be able to release all old fears into your higher vibrations where they can be transmuted back to light and love. You will also trust that all your warnings will be timely and lead you in the direction that will always afford you the greatest protection.
We learned these lessons on Antares, and they are the lessons that allowed us to learn how to raise our vibration into our higher dimensional selves. Please remember, that I am translating my words into English for you to better understand. Also, I am not of your time line.
Therefore, as I perceive you, I experience all of your lives in one package, like a book. I can look at any portion out of sequence or even change the sequence. It is the same manner in which you can perceive my life. This is why you have often felt confusion about what the timelines of our Antarian lives.
To your perception, I am in all these eras at once, and you can view any time frame you wish. I am a young Lieutenant (your term) at the same moment that I am an older man. Perhaps as you learn and remember more of our Antarian life you will be able embrace our mode of multidimensional perception. Then you may even be able to remember and understand more Antarian concepts.
I am standing in front of the Door of the Temple of Return. I have always considered myself to be a very large man, even by Antarian standards. It is quite normal for a man to be eight feet tall and many of the women are seven or even eight feet tall, as well. I am nine and a half feet (according to your earthly measurements) and always stand with my head above most crowds.
As I stand before the Doors of Remembering at The Temple of Return I feel very small. There is a series of doorways without doors leading to the actual door. Each of these doorways emanates a different vibration. Therefore, each doorway is a different color and emits a different tone.
I feel a pull on my body as I stand before the first threshold. I have been instructed that as I cross each threshold and stand in the hallway before the next doorway, I will experiences different lessons and challenges. These lessons and challenges need to be cleared and balanced before I can proceed to the next threshold.
I will continue with my story in our next meeting. Remember to call me into your daily life.


I have taken shots of the same target under the same exposure time. We can directly compare the resolution loss of using only the Red channel of a OSC camera vs a monochrome.
Exposure Time: A single 15 minute shot each.
Debayer of Red channel only of OSC FITs image.
Dark applied to the SBIG shot. No flats.
Photoshop was used to create the animated GIF images at various zoom levels.
Hydrogen Alpha shots can be done using OSC, but these examples show how much detail is truly lost. If you are happy with cutting your resolution down to 50%, the detail is comparable. Conclusion is that nothing beats a monochrome camera when it comes to under-sampled narrowband imaging.
The slight curvature issues are due to using a field flattener on the STL image and the focal reducer on the M25C image.


This is the first in a group of posts in which I explain why I have advised some clients to adopt a "dynamic brochure" social media strategy, focusing on publishing, active listening and "pulse" metrics while ignoring "performance"-related metrics.
The answer lies in measurements of both the pulse and performance of social media activity.
Yes, I know measuring social media performance is almost universally considered a best practice. No, I'm not intimidated or uneducated when it comes to metrics (quite the opposite: I have an undergraduate degree in social psychology from a department with a hard-core approach to statistical methods). I am opposed to the abuse of metrics, however, and I accept the fact that not every organization is prepared to use them correctly.
For many businesses, the measurements that are accessible aren't actionable. And often enough accessible metrics are abused just because they are the only ones available. I advise those organizations not to focus on metrics, and the strategy described in this post is for those organizations.
What do I mean by pulse and performance? Let's say you are a rock star. (No doubt many of you reading this are rock stars in your fields already, but this metaphor is about the musician sort of rock star.) "Pulse" means finding out: is your microphone turned on? "Performance" means finding out: how much of what's going through your microphone right now is contributing to your band's sales?
Here's the problem: your microphone needs to be on, of course; but turning up the volume may or may not sell more song downloads. The amplifier settings alone don't tell you whether there is a relationship between volume and revenue.
Social media measurement, in simplest terms, involves counting the number of likes, comments, shares, mentions, clicked links, etc. that a brand's social media accounts are getting. But the question of what to do with these numbers opens a can of worms for many businesses. It's not clear to many what to conclude from the statistics they're being offered. Some have noticed that the easiest and most hyped metrics—number of Likes on Facebook, for example, or Klout score—don't mean squat in the abstract, without reference to sales.
Likes, etc.: that's pulse. Revenue per like: that's performance. The number of likes and the rate at which they arrive may or may not mean more revenue for your brand. So the tendency of many social media folks to focus on getting more likes makes little sense—in fact, it may be an expensive distraction—when they don't document ROI.
I've talked to product groups whose web sites are managed by other departments who were unwilling, either because they didn't want the responsibility or because they were too busy, to make simple modifications needed to track "conversions".
I've talked to executives unwilling to integrate their CRM with their digital marketing program because the advocates for integration didn't have enough political pull to justify the budget and learning curve…yet.
I've talked to sales people who have no incentive to attribute any portion of sales to anyone or anything but themselves.
I've talked to companies too small and frantically busy to shift anyone's focus away from their current, explosively successful, formula.
In a future post I'll describe the nirvana which can be achieved when organizations take the necessary steps to measure social media ROI. But in this post I'm going to recommend a framework specifically tailored to companies that are unable to get to that level. You know who you are (or you should).
You need to formally adopt a dynamic brochure social media strategy so that everyone in your organization gets on the same page about what actions generate value for your brand, and no one gets sucked into playing pointless numbers games.
A dynamic brochure strategy focuses on social media as a publishing platform, akin to a dynamic web site. With it you showcase your brand "personality" via current stories, events and images, including but not limited to your own content. Your dynamic brochure social media platform becomes a valuable marketing asset, projecting the company's point of view online 24x7x365. And combined with minimal monitoring for discussions about your brand around the web, plus sufficient resources to respond to anyone who reaches out to you, it's a bare bones but respectable social media solution.
But it's not a performance driven strategy. With a dynamic brochure strategy all measurement is pulse-and-temperature taking: "Is this thing alive?" Are you keeping up with your content publication calendar and participating in brand conversations? With publication going according to plan, and hailing frequencies open, you can stay focused on projects that are undeniably important for your organization. Marketing personnel and organizational leadership don't waste time studying irrelevant social media data and trying to influence the number of likes, follows, comments, shares, etc., their social media output attracts.
Why, without being able to attribute a contribution to sales, is it pointless—or worse yet a waste of resources—to pursue target numbers of likes, comments, shares, etc.? I'll dive deeper into this in a future post, but the short answer is: because increased volume of social media activity doesn't necessarily cause revenue gains, much less profit. Likes aren't that elusive. For instance, you can easily spend a fortune "buying" thousands of likes with advertising, celebrity endorsements or contests. But those likes may reflect a one-shot exposure to the brand akin to a single ad impression served to someone who isn't even a prospective customer. One frequently mentioned study found that 88% of people who like a brand's Facebook page never return to it; another revealed only 1% of followers "engage" via the page; then there's the fact that relatively few updates are even viewed by followers (notice that "reach" means could have been, but wasn't necessarily, noticed by a follower). Without measuring it yourself, there's no telling how many of your followers become customers or purchase anything in connection with their commitment-free "liking" of your brand.
I know of a mobile phone maker which, in one recent year, invested its digital marketing personnel and budget into purchasing the support of an entertainer with a large social media following. They succeeded in their goal of gaining an enormous surge in followers and buzz for their brand—which all but vanished after the endorsement contract ended and the entertainer moved on to actual interests. This experience was costly for the brand in both time and money but it teaches a valuable lesson: followers are not the same as customers.
Without the ability to connect activities to revenue you risk pouring resources and focus into an abstract numbers game that is divorced from business results. Don't ignore the seductive quality of social media engineering. It's relatively easy to score likes in the social media game if you put in enough effort, and that's a great motivator for managers and interns alike. But racking up points this way is akin to seeking to fire as many rounds of ammo as you can fire in a shoot-em-up video game without reference to whether it helps you win the game.
In part two of this series we'll dig into the benefits of the dynamic brochure social media strategy I sometimes recommend. Stay tuned….
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VW to stop making small diesel engines in wake of Dieselgate
Graham Scott - Autocar 2 years Monday February 13th 2017
UK driverless cars will require dual insurance policy
Land Rover Defender: new pictures of the 2019 model revealed
Road conditions 'hanging in the balance' as pothole damage increases
Revealed: how far your car will really get once the fuel light comes on
Mild hybrids are the new way to go
Although Volkswagen has just unveiled its latest Golf with a new 1.5-litre diesel engine, it looks like it's abandoning plans for a new range of smaller diesels. In the aftermath of Dieselgate, VW is counting the cost of meeting ever-more stringent emission legislation, as well as a decline in demand.
VW's head of research and development, Frank Welsh, says the real stumbling block is the cost of developing an after-treatment system that will meet new CO2 and NOX rules.
"The added cost is anything from six to eight hundred Euros in material costs just for the after-treatment system," he says, adding, "The after-treatment system is as expensive as the engine itself. To add a diesel in the Polo, it is 25 percent of the car itself."
So what is the alternative? According to Volkswagen, it is small-capacity petrol-electric hybrid power. Welsh sees those drivelines accelerating into production. "A mild hybrid, in the end, is cheaper and has the same CO2 (as a small capacity diesel) with a lot less NOX," he says.
"In most cases, it will be a 48-volt system for recuperation. Our latest system develops four times as much energy in recuperation," says Welsch.
One outcome of this decision is the pulling from production of the current 1.4-litre turbocharged three-cylinder diesel engine, as found in the current VW Polo. However, as yet no firm date for this withdrawal has been announced.


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This astonishingly amusing plant is native to south east Africa, but it has been widely naturalized and is often used as an ornamental garden plant. The name "balloon plant" is an allusion to the swelling bladder-like follicles which are full of seeds. Blooming in warm months, it grows in the wild on roadside banks, at elevations of 2800 to 5000 feet above sea level where it prefers moderate moisture, as well as sandy and well-drained soil and full sun.


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Q: Asserting an object passed into a mocked method in the python mock Say I have a class called Client that creates an object of the Request class and passes it to a method of a Connection object:
class Client(object):
    def __init__(self, connection):
        self._conn = connection

    def sendText(plaintext):
        self._conn.send(Request(0, plaintext))

And I want to assert the object passed into the Connection.send method to check its properties. I start with creating a mocked Connection class:
conn = Mock()

client = Client(conn)
client.sendText('some message')

And then I want something like:
conn.send.assert_called_with(
    (Request,
    {'type': 0, 'text': 'some message'})
)

Where 'type' and 'text' are properties of Request. Is there a way to do this in python's mock? All I found in the documentation were simple data examples.
I could have done it with mock.patch decorator by replacing the original 'send' method with a method which asserts the object's fields:
def patchedSend(self, req):
    assert req.Type == 0

with mock.patch.object(Connection, 'send', TestClient.patchedSend):
    ...

but in this case I would have to define a separete mocked function for every method check and I couldn't check (without additional coding) if the function has been called at all.

A: You can get the last arguments to the mock with
request, = conn.send.call_args

and then assert properties about that. If you want facilities to express more sophisticated assertions about things, you can install PyHamcrest.
Note: Don't use assert in unit tests. Use assertion methods like assertEqual or assertTrue. Assertion methods can't be accidentally turned off, and they can give more useful messages than assert statements.

A: Well, I think that the easiest and better way of doing it, in this specific case, is to make a function to create requests and then mock it.
For instance, it'd be something like it:
class Client(object):
    def __init__(self, connection):
        self._conn = connection

    def _create_request(self, plain_text):
        return Request(0, plain_text)

    def send_text(self, plaintext):
        self._conn.send(self._create_request(plain_text))

And then, in the test, you could mock _create_request to return some specific value and then assert that send_text was called with it.
You could also get the parameters by call_args, as suggested, but I think it looks better this way.

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Huntington is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Oregon, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Baker County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 515. In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 479, een daling van 36 (-7,0%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van 1,9 km², geheel bestaande uit land.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 44 km rond Huntington.

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Duke & Georgetown Headline 2019 Empire Classic Field
Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski.
National collegiate basketball powers Duke, Georgetown, Texas and California headline the 25th annual Empire Classic benefiting Wounded Warrior Project (formerly the 2K Classic) which returns to Madison Square Garden this coming November.
General public tickets for the Empire Classic (@empireclassicbb) Championship Rounds presented by Continental Tire go on sale at noon (ET) on Wednesday, March 13, and may be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 866-448-7849 or through Ticketmaster.com.
In addition to playing in the Championship Rounds presented by Continental Tire at the World's Most Famous Arena on Nov. 21-22, Duke, Georgetown, Texas, and Cal will host a pair of regional round games on campus. The four regional round hosts combine for 126 NCAA appearances, 25 Final Fours, and seven National Championships.
The complete field and schedule will be announced at a later date.
Duke (Head Coach: Mike Krzyzewski, Atlantic Coast Conference) - Hall of Fame head coach Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in college basketball history, is in his 39th season at Duke and has led the nationally-ranked Blue Devils to a 26-5 record heading into the ACC Tournament this week...this season, Duke features what may go down as the best freshman class ever, led by the presumptive top two picks in the NBA Draft, Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett...next season, Duke welcomes a Top 5 recruiting class led by the nation's No. 3 recruit, center Vernon Carey, Jr...the Blue Devils are making their fourth appearance in the Empire Classic benefiting Wounded Warrior Project (1999, 2008, 2015)...they won the 2008 title and the 2015 title with an 86-84 win over Georgetown.
Georgetown (Head Coach: Patrick Ewing, Big East Conference) - After a Hall of Fame playing career, Patrick Ewing is in his second season as the head coach at his alma mater, Georgetown...after winning 15 games during his first season, Ewing has already guided the Hoyas to 19 wins this season as Georgetown heads into this week's Big East Tournament...10 of the 14 players on this year's roster are expected to return next season, led by a trio of freshmen who rank among the team's top four scorers - Mac McClung (13.4 ppg), James Akinjo (13.3 ppg, team-high 166 assists and 32 steals), and Josh LeBlanc (9.4 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 35 blocks)...joining this group will be N.C. State transfer Omer Yurtseven, who averaged 13.9 ppg and 6.7 rpg a year ago...this is their third appearance in the Empire Classic benefiting Wounded Warrior Project (1998, 2015).
Texas (Head Coach: Shaka Smart, Big 12 Conference) - In his four years, Shaka Smart has led Texas to two NCAA Tournaments and has guided the Longhorns to 16 wins this season despite playing the eighth most difficult schedule in the country...the Longhorns are expected to return four starters next season, including sophomore guards Matt Coleman (10.2 ppg, team-high 114 assists) and Jase Febres (8.7 ppg), as well as freshman Jaxson Hayes, who averages 10.3 points and 5.1 rebounds a game...they will be joined by the No. 12 ranked recruiting class in the country, per ESPN.com...the Longhorns are playing in the Empire Classic benefiting Wounded Warrior Project for the sixth time (1997, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014), having won the 2006 and 2014 events...Texas beat Cal, 71-55, to capture the 2014 Classic.
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First played in 1995, the Empire Classic benefiting Wounded Warrior Project is acclaimed as college basketball's premier early-season tournament. Featuring teams from across the nation, the Empire Classic annually attracts the top programs in the sport. Four teams from the most prestigious conferences in the country host a pair of games at home in addition to playing the Championship Rounds at the World's Most Famous Arena - New York City's Madison Square Garden.
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Oneida Indian Nation Language Program Publishes Fourth Children's Book – The Tale of Two Teams
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Oneida Indian Nation Homelands (January 6, 2021) – The Oneida Indian Nation announced today the release of its fourth Oneida language-learning children's book, The Tale of Two Teams, based on the Haudenosaunee legend that teaches every living creature is significant and has a purpose.
The Tale of Two Teams is made available through the continued collaboration with Madison-Oneida BOCES. The book, written by the Oneida Indian Nation Language Program, is illustrated by William Burns (Lakota-Sioux), a graphic media artist working in the Oneida Indian Nation's communications department.
In development for over a year, the new book utilizes a rebus format, which allows any person to pick up the book and learn specific Oneida words by the end of the story using pictures, color, and phonetics right in the middle of the sentences. The book features both the Oneida text and the full English translation.
"Preserving our language is a top priority for the Oneida Indian Nation and continuing this book series allows us to introduce the Oneida language to new generations of Oneida Indian Nation Members and their families, as well as to the broader community," Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter said.
The Nation's Language Department is committed to promoting and reinvigorating the Oneida language throughout the community. The magnificent artwork in The Tale of Two Teams will be entered for national awards as well, with hopes to reach a wider audience and to recognize illustrator William Burns. The book was also recorded by Nation Member Brooke Thomas (Wolf Clan) in English and by Language Instructor Mary Blau (Turtle Clan) in Oneida. (Click the highlighted links to be directed to each video.)
The partnership between Madison-Oneida BOCES and the Oneida Indian Nation has enabled the Nation to provide its Members with educational resources to introduce and amplify the language in the community so it can continue to be accessible.
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About the Oneida Indian Nation
The Oneida Indian Nation is a federally recognized Indian nation in Central New York. A founding member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Six Nations or Iroquois Confederacy), the Oneida Indian Nation sided with the Americans in the Revolutionary War and was thanked by Congress and President George Washington for its loyalty and assistance. Today, the Oneida Nation consists of about 1,000 enrolled Members, most of them living in Central New York. The Nation's enterprises, which employ more than 4,750 people, include Turning Stone Resort Casino, YBR Casino & Sports Book, Point Place Casino, The Lake House at Sylvan Beach, Maple Leaf Markets, SāvOn Convenience stores, RV Park and three marinas. Proceeds from these enterprises are used to rebuild the Nation's economic base and provide essential services, including housing, health care, and education incentives and programs, to its Members.
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Q: Javascript setTimeout Can you tell me why this works:
PageMethods.UpdateForcedDisposition(forcedDisposition, a.value, SucceededCallback, FailedCallback);

When this doesn't?
setTimeout("PageMethods.UpdateForcedDisposition(" + forcedDisposition + "," + a.value + ", SucceededCallback, FailedCallback);", 1000);

Interestingly, a similar call works with setTimeout:
setTimeout("PageMethods.UpdateSales(" + id + ", " + a.value + ", SucceededCallback, FailedCallback);", 1000);

…I'm stumped!

A: Avoid passing a string to setTimeout.  Where possible, use anonymous functions:
window.setTimeout(function () {
    PageMethods.UpdateForcedDisposition(
        forcedDisposition,
        a.value,
        SucceededCallback,
        FailedCallback
    );
}, 1000);

A setTimeout with a string executes in the global scope.  If you're trying to reference variables from the current scope, you'll hit an error.


Cynthia Brokaw received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. A specialist in late imperial Chinese history (ca. 1400 – 1900), she has taught at Brown University since 2009. Her first work, The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China, examined the role of popular religious belief in the formation of social ideology. Her current research focuses on the history of the book in China. Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods, based on archival and fieldwork, is a study of a rural book publishing industry active in distributing popular texts throughout south China. She has also co-edited two essay collections on print culture, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China (with Kai-wing Chow) and From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 (with Christopher Reed). She is now engaged in research on the role that print culture played in the re-integration of Sichuan province into the Chinese political and cultural mainstream over the course of the Qing dynasty.


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Direct Synthesis of 7 nm-Thick Zinc(II)-Benzimidazole-Acetate Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets
Feng Xue, Prashant Kumar, Wenqian Xu, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Michael Tsapatsis
Materials Research Science & Engineering Center
Projects and Grants (2)
Chemistry of Materials
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04083
This work was supported by the Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award DESC0001015. Parts of this work were carried out in the Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota, which receives partial support from NSF through the MRSEC program. SEM measurements were partially performed on a Hitachi 8230 provided by NSF MRI DMR-1229263. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. F.X. thanks Mr. Tao Zhang for helpful discussions.
How much support was provided by MRSEC?
Reporting period for MRSEC
10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04083
MRSEC IRG-2: Sustainable Nanocrystal Materials
Kortshagen, U. R., Aydil, E. S., Campbell, S. A., Francis, L. F., Haynes, C. L., Hogan, C., Mkhoyan, A., Shklovskii, B. I. & Wang, X.
MRSEC Program
Lodge, T.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY, National Science Foundation
Xue, F., Kumar, P., Xu, W., Mkhoyan, K. A., & Tsapatsis, M. (2018). Direct Synthesis of 7 nm-Thick Zinc(II)-Benzimidazole-Acetate Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets. Chemistry of Materials, 30(1), 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04083
Direct Synthesis of 7 nm-Thick Zinc(II)-Benzimidazole-Acetate Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets. / Xue, Feng; Kumar, Prashant; Xu, Wenqian; Mkhoyan, K. Andre; Tsapatsis, Michael.
In: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 30, No. 1, 09.01.2018, p. 69-73.
Xue, F, Kumar, P, Xu, W, Mkhoyan, KA & Tsapatsis, M 2018, 'Direct Synthesis of 7 nm-Thick Zinc(II)-Benzimidazole-Acetate Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04083
Xue F, Kumar P, Xu W, Mkhoyan KA, Tsapatsis M. Direct Synthesis of 7 nm-Thick Zinc(II)-Benzimidazole-Acetate Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets. Chemistry of Materials. 2018 Jan 9;30(1):69-73. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04083
Xue, Feng ; Kumar, Prashant ; Xu, Wenqian ; Mkhoyan, K. Andre ; Tsapatsis, Michael. / Direct Synthesis of 7 nm-Thick Zinc(II)-Benzimidazole-Acetate Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets. In: Chemistry of Materials. 2018 ; Vol. 30, No. 1. pp. 69-73.
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There is something special about gearing off the beaten track and Caving under Budapest fits perfectly into that category. Budapest is famous for its thermal bath's, thriving nightlife and stunning parliament, however, it is unknown to many tourists that beneath Hungary's capital city lies a thrillseeking cave system. This is the perfect adventure to tick off the bucket list for all you adrenaline junkies out there! I have put together a guide for my readers on everything you need to know before Caving Under Budapest.
Hike: I personally hiked up to the Pál-völgyi cave, with four of my friends. It took us approximately two hours to reach the caves from Keleti train station. The hike can be steep at times, however, it gave us the opportunity to see a side of Budapest we would have otherwise missed.
Bus: Alternatively, you can get the number 65 bus from Kolosy square. This route takes approximately six minutes. The bus stop is called Pál-völgyi cave.
Price: The experience cost 7000 HUF per person, which is roughly 23 euro.
Time: The tour is 2 and a half hours of excitement and fun.
Equipment: All equipment is included in the price, overalls, helmet, and torch.
Just be sure to bring a nice comfy pair of shoes, they do get dirty, however, I had no issues brushing the dirt off afterwards.
Book: This activity needs to be booked in advance.
More information can be found on the official website here.
Are you ready to go sliding through a 30km cave system? Do you want to experience something that is out of this world? Are looking to take part in an activity that gets your heart pumping? If you answered yes to all of the above, look no further, this is the activity for you.
This truly is a phenomenal experience one you will never forget. There is one moment in particular that I really enjoyed. At one point we came large open space, well as open as it can get when surrounded by a cave. We all sat down and our guide asked us to turn off all our lights. As a group, we sat there in complete darkness. It was a strange experience, I remember becoming extremely aware of each breath I took, I could feel my heartbeat, I also remember constantly thinking one of my friends was going to try to scare me.
My visit trip to Budapest was part 3-week week interrail trip through Europe, check out my itinerary here.
Thank you for taking the time to read this article. I hope it helps with your Budapest caving adventure if you have any other questions feel free to ask in the comment section below. Until next time, Slán go Fóill.


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Q: Thermal Pad Size CPU/Heatsink If using a 2mm thick thermal pad to connect the CPU to the heatsink, does the size of the pad matter? Should it be cut to the size of just the metal piece in the middle of the CPU (10mm x 10mm) or does it need to be sized for the entire CPU (25mm x 25mm) (i.e. including the green bit).

A: It would just be for the metal areas.

Follow these guidelines to install a heatsink on a processor, using a thermal pad as the thermal
  interface material. Thermal pads should be used with AMD Athlon MP, AMD Athlon XP and
  AMD Duron processors only. These processors are lidless, that is, the processor die comes into
  direct contact with the heatsink.

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*Verify that the heatsink has a thermal pad attached. If the heatsink does not have a thermal pad attached, locate the area of the heatsink that will directly contact the processor, and apply the thermal pad to this area only.

*Remove the protective film(s) from the thermal pad.

*Mount the heatsink onto the processor.

  Always follow the AMD-recommended procedures to install a heatsink onto a processor to
  avoid damaging the processor or motherboard. See the Socket A AMD Processor and Heatsink
  Installation Guide, order# 23986
  Do not re-use thermal pads. Before re-using the heatsink remove the thermal interface material
  and reapply a new thermal pad.

I highly suggest using thermal paste for capped processors though, it provides better conduction and paste life. This research paper from AMD has good instructions for both methods, as well as advantages and disadvantages.

A: I would personally recommend using thermal paste, two of my favourites are:

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*Arctic Cooling MX-2

*Arctic Silver 5

Using a small blob smoothen it out with a cut piece of card and make the application a thin layer over the processer lid, there should be just enough that it covers an even film across.
Thermal Pads provide a thick layer increasing heat and are only recommended for components like Memory

A: Most of the heat will be coming from the metal section, but I'd cut the pad for the full size of the CPU package.  The larger the heat transfer area the more heat you'll get out.


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