Mindaugas Lukošaitis (b. 1980 m.) graduated from the Sculpture Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The artist regularly takes part in international group shows and holds solo exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. He represented Lithuania at the 26th São Paulo Biennial and participated in the Populism exhibition curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen at the Frankfurter Kustverein. Lukošaitis' works have been exhibited at institutions like VOLTA NY in New York, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, and Galerie Fons Walters in Amsterdam. They have also been included in Phaidon's encyclopedia "Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing". Works by Lukošaitis are featured in the collections of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), Lewben Art Foundation (Lithuania), MO Museum (Lithuania), as well as private collectors in Lithuania and abroad.
Lukošaitis uses a sketch-like manner in his drawings: the strokes are free and swift, yet acutely precise. He tends to rely on the classical, academic drawing technique, where a pencil is used for shading and outlining. The academic approach here is relative, because he draw "his own realism" without using models or pictures. One of the most significant aspects of his works is certain aspects of imagery, tendencies of human imagination, and strives to promote a responsible outlook on history.
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Revised: Saint Patrick and the "C" Word
Today is the feast of our glorious Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint and Apostle of the Emerald Isle, Ireland, and the Commemoration of Thursday in Passion Week.
The Feast of Saint Patrick is not about leprechauns and Irish beer and pagan celebrations. It is a about a saint who sought to convert the pagans of Ireland by engaging in that which is forbidden in most instances today by the counterfeit church of conciliarism: proselytism. Saint Patrick wanted to convert the chieftains of the pagan Irish tribes in order to save their souls and thus to convert the people over whom they ruled. Saint Patrick knew that there was only one means of salvation, that provided to us in the Catholic Church that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope. He sought with urgency the conversion of those to whom he was sent as a missionary to preach and to save.
The glorious saint of the Emerald Isle, the Land of Erin, Saint Patrick, teaches us much about our duties as Catholics to seek the conversion of all others to the Catholic Faith. No obstacle was too great and no penance was too severe to deter him from doing the apostolic work that Pope Saint Celestine the First had given him to convert the people of Ireland out of their pagan beliefs and practices to the liberation from the power of sin and eternal death to be found exclusively in the Catholic Church. Saint Patrick was not concerned about finding "common ground" with the Druids. He was not concerned about incorporating pagan practices into the Immemorial Mass of Tradition that he offered. He was concerned about one thing and one thing alone: the subordination of all things in Irish life to the Catholic Faith without any exception whatsoever.
Saint Patrick's zeal to convert souls inspired countless others to imitate his holy example. The whole history of the Church prior to 1958 is a consistent story of one saint after another who sought to go to distant lands to bring people into the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Missionary zeal for souls filled the heart of Saint Francis Xavier himself, who converted the entire population of Goa, India.
Missionary zeal to bring souls back into the Catholic Church prompted Saint Peter Canisius and Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, who was killed by those wretched people known as Calvinists (many of whose anti-Catholic beliefs are the foundation of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service) to seek out the conversion of Protestants.
Missionary zeal for souls impelled Saint Josaphat to seek back the lost sheep who had been lured into Orthodoxy, causing him to lose his life. This stands in sharp contrast to conciliarism's discouragement, if not outright prohibition in many instances, of the conversion of souls to the true Faith. The Balamand Agreement, entered into by representatives of the counterfeit church of conciliarism and various representatives of Orthodoxy, specifically forbids that Saint Josaphat gave up his life to do: to convert members of the Orthodox churches to the true Faith, Catholicism:
22) Pastoral activity in the Catholic Church, Latin as well as Eastern, no longer aims at having the faithful of one Church pass over to the other; that is to say, it no longer aims at proselytizing among the Orthodox. It aims at answering the spiritual needs of its own faithful and it has no desire for expansion at the expense of the Orthodox Church. Within these perspectives, so that there will no longer be room for mistrust and suspicion, it is necessary that there be reciprocal exchanges of information about various pastoral projects and that thus cooperation between bishops and all those with responsibilities in our Churches can be set in motion and develop. (Full Text of the Balamand Statement)
And then there were the saints who wanted to go to mission lands but who were prevented from doing so. Saint Anthony of Padua wanted in the worst way to be a missionary to convert the Saracens (yes, Saint Anthony wanted to convert the Mohammedans; there is that nasty "c" word again, conversion). He fell ill when arriving in North Africa and could not live his life as a missionary. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini wanted to go China, winding up ministering to the Italians who had migrated to the United States of America at the personal behest of Pope Leo XIII himself. Missionary zeal for souls filled the heart of Saint Francis Xavier himself, who converted the entire population of Goa, India, and destroyed false idols aplenty.
Saint Patrick and the other great missionaries of the Church proved themselves faithful to this injunction of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, given to the Eleven before He Ascended to the Father's right hand in glory on Pentecost Sunday:
And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And seeing them they adored: but some doubted. And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Mt. 28:16-20)
The zeal of Saint Patrick, who personally baptized 120,000 sons and daughters of Erin, and the other great missionaries of the Church stands in sharp contrast to the demands of the novelty of false ecumenism that teaches us that we not seek the conversion of others to the true Faith. That is why we must invoke Saint Patrick's holy intercession to bring an end to the abominations of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, which reaffirms people in false religions while no effort is made to bring them into the true Church.
As has been noted frequently on this site, both the late Karol Wojtyla/ohn Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI discouraged "proselytism" among Protestants and the Orthodox. The "preacher" to the conciliar "papal" household, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, has said, without being contradicted by His Apostateness, Benedict XVI, Antipope Emeritus, that the Catholic Church "had the lost right" to convert Jews because of the "way this had been done in the past." Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI rejected what he calls the "ecumenism of the return," placing him in direct and incontrovertible contradiction to the work of the Catholic martyrs mentioned above and to the very appeals for such a return made by Pope Pius IX in Iam Vos Omnes, September 13, 1868, and Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928. Jorge Mario Bergoglio has warned constantly throughout the past three years that "evangelization" is not "proselytizing," going so far to state over and over again that one must not seek to convert a non-Catholic. He has thus taken false ecumenism to the next level by obliterating all distinctions among the "world's religions."
Bergoglio has even told Protestants that he has absolutely no intention of seeking their conversion, that "love," not "doctrine," is all that matters.
Indeed, Bergoglio told an American "evangelical," Brian Stiller, that he was not interested in converting him or any "evangelical" to the Catholic Church, thereby showing himself to be an enemy of Christ the King and of the souls for whom He shed every single drop of His Most Precious Blood during His Passion and Death on the wood of the Holy Cross to redeem:
It's fair to ask what kind of Catholic Church we as Evangelicals want to see. At lunch I asked Pope Francis what his heart was for evangelism. He smiled, knowing what was behind my question. His comment was, "I'm not interested in converting Evangelicals to Catholicism. I want people to find Jesus in their own community. There are so many doctrines we will never agree on. Let's not spend our time on those. Rather, let's be about showing the love of Jesus." (Of course Evangelicals do evangelize Catholics and Catholics do the same to us. However, that discussion we will raise another day.)
We spoke about how in our diversity we might find unity and strength. Borrowing from Swiss Protestant theologian Oscar Cullman, we reflected how "reconciled diversity" allows us to stand within our own understandings of how Christ effects salvation. And then we press on to deal with global issues like religious freedom and justice and other matters, which affect our wellbeing. (Lunch with Jorge. See also the post at Novus Ordo Watch Wire.)
Phoney-baloney "Bishop" Tony Palmer of the "Convergence Movement" was allowed to die outside of the bosom of Holy Mother Church, the only means of human salvation. Yet officials of the conciliar Vatican referred to him as a "bishop" and cited the fact that Bergoglio himself sent him "greetings" when Palmer was "ordained" a "bishop" for a false church that is an agent of the devil. Then again, so is the counterfeit church of conciliarism.
Additionally, as has been noted frequently on this site and in the text of No Space Between Ratzinger and Bergoglio: So Close in Apostasy, So Far From Catholic Truth, the current "antipope emeritus" addressed Jewish rabbis on many occasions now during his false "pontificate," and he never once invited them to convert to the true Faith to save their immortal souls. Not once. Not even close. Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis is even more rabid in his support for the ancient enemies of Christ the King, who endorsed his "election" three years ago and have praised him with particular relish ever since. Why not? The apostate has gone so far as to pray with his favorite pro-abortion, pro-perversity Talmudic rabbi, Abraham Skorka, straight out of the blasphemous Talmud, and he has followed the examples of Karol Josef Wotyla/John Paul II and Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI by being treated as an inferior by Talmudists at the Rome Synagogue, to say nothing of his hiding his pectoral cross when in the presence of Talmudists.
Saint Patrick sought to serve only the New and Eternal Covenant instituted by Our Lord on Holy Thursday and ratified by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross. He did not have to "search for truth" in inter-religious "dialogue" with the Druids or anyone else in Ireland. He told them that they had to convert to the Catholic Faith, being willing to lay down his life for their conversion if it was necessary for him to do so. He confronted the chieftains on Easter Sunday, 433 A.D., winning the day for Christ the King and thus beginning his work for the conversion of the entirety of Ireland, a work that continued in the years ahead of him as he traveled throughout the Land of Erin, eventually establishing his own primatial see in Armagh.
Although Saint Patrick encountered challenges and difficulties now and again, he never flagged in his efforts to save souls by seeking their conversion to the Catholic Faith. Seeking the conversion of souls never goes out of date. It never has an "expiration date." It is incapable of being consigned to the Orwellian memory hole by the Modernist revolutionaries who exercised great influence at the "Second" Vatican Council and who have held the levers of power and influence in chancery offices and universities and seminaries and colleges and schools and parishes under conciliar captivity from that time forward. Saint Patrick knew that there was only one path to salvation: to preach the true Faith as it had been deposited by the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity made Man in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb in the one, true Church He created upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.
Unlike the late Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, who praised witch doctors and other shamans for the great "services" they provided to their tribes, and unlike many diocesan "bishops," who merrily participate in pagan rituals in the context of the offering of alleged Masses so as to fulfill the principles of the "inculturation of the Gospel," Saint Patrick wanted to put an end once and for all to the diabolical practices of Druidism. The fact that Druidism has risen again in Ireland in recent decades is partly the result of the counterfeit church of conciliarism's diabolical "reconciliation" with the principles of that "new era inaugurated in 1789," thereby putting an apparent "Catholic" gloss and the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic overthrow of the Social Reign of Christ the King. Saint Patrick sought to establish Catholicism as the one and only foundation of personal and social order on the Emerald Isle. Saint Patrick sought to work for the conversion of the masses by converting the chieftains, thereby establishing the framework for Catholic monarchism throughout Europe. The people, Saint Patrick understood, would likely follow the example of their leaders.
Taking advantage of the structure of hierarchical tribal life, Saint Patrick quickly sought to establish dioceses throughout Ireland so as to accustom the Irish people to the hierarchical nature of the true Church, the Catholic Church. He consecrated no less than 350 bishops during his apostolic work in Ireland. Among those he consecrated as bishops were several who later went on to be raised to the Church's altars with himself, including his own nephew, Saint Mel, Saint Guasach, Saint MacCarthem, and Saint Loman. His work brought about the conversion of Saint Brigid of Kildare, through Saint Mel, and produced a nation so steeped in Catholicism that it boasts of scores upon scores of canonized saints. Saint Aidan, Saint Brendan, Saint Kevin, Saint Colman of Armagh (as well as several other saints by the name of Colman), Saint Columba, Saint Columban, Saint Kieran, Saint Malachy, and Saint Ita, among many others, learned to love and to live the Catholic Faith as a result of the seeds planted by the glorious Saint Patrick.
Unlike most of the "bishops" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, most of whom are not exactly noted for austere lives of penance, Saint Patrick combined his great pastoral zeal to convert souls with severe penances, including spending time frequently in what became known as Saint Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Dearg. Saint Patrick spent long hours in prayers and subjected his body to many mortifications. He thought only to teach people to love God as He had revealed Himself solely through His true Church, giving no quarter at all to any false belief or false religious practice. He would NOT accept "gifts" from false religions, as the now-retired Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI did on Thursday, April 17, 2008, at the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, District of Columbia while visiting the United States of America and as Jorge Mario Bergoglio has done on many occasions, including when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handed him a menorah in December of 2013.
Saint Patrick wanted to eradicate false beliefs and false practices and all other types of sin from the lives of the Irish people and from every aspect of the Irish nation, which is why those who seek to march in Saint Patrick's Day Parades by identifying themselves as participants in perversity are dishonoring the great Apostle to the Irish. Saint Patrick despised sin. He knew that sin is what caused Our Lord to suffer unspeakable horror in His Sacred Humanity during His fearful Passion and Death and is what caused His Most Blessed Mother to have Seven Swords of Sorrow pierced through her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.
Although the Catholic legacy of Saint Patrick was attacked fiercely by the British following the English Protestant Revolt and has been undermined by cultural forces imported principally from the United States of America, which itself was shaped by the Protestantism and Freemasonry that undermined the Faith of many of the Irish immigrants to this country, Ireland stood out among the nations of Christendom for its sanctity and scholarship for centuries. Saint Patrick would have blanched at the mention of an oxymoronic conciliarist phrase such as a "healthy secularity." He lived and worked and died so that Catholicism would permeate every aspect of the lives of the Irish people. His intercession must be involved daily for the people of Ireland who still practice the Faith to hold onto the fullness of Tradition without compromise–and for those who have fallen by the wayside to return to the true Sheepfold of Christ. As the Patron Saint of all of the Irish people no matter where they have situated themselves. Saint Patrick's intercession must be invoked in a special way to help those of Irish ancestry outside of Ireland to honor him by their fidelity to the Catholic Tradition he brought to Ireland in the midst of cultural circumstances very similar to the ones we face in the United States today.
Saint Patrick worked for the Catholicization of Ireland. He wants the Catholicization of every land. How it must sadden him in Heaven to see so many sons and daughters of Erin in public life in this country who support all manner of sins under cover of civil law. How it must sadden him further to see so many conciliar "bishops" of Irish descent reaffirm those pro-abortion politicians as they themselves undermine the Deposit of Faith and make war in their own dioceses upon the Immemorial Mass of the ages that he brought to Ireland in the Fifth Century. How much we should pray to him to help us remain steadfast in the Faith on a daily basis so that our prayers, offered to God through Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, might be more efficacious in bringing about the re-conversion of Irish Catholics, both in Ireland and elsewhere, who have lost the Faith and have embraced the very cultural trends that Saint Patrick eradicated so assiduously.
I cannot claim Irish ancestry, at least not directly. There is much about my late mother's heritage that is unknown. We know that her surname at birth was Coomer, which we believe is Welsh. Nothing is known, though, about her biological father. What I do know, though, is that my wife is almost entirely Irish, which means that our daughter is about half-Irish. She has, therefore, many Irish saints praying for her as she grows in the Faith every day. One of the first things I do every day is to pray to my wife's and daughter's patron saints for their spiritual and temporal well-being. Saint Patrick is thus at the top of the list of saints I pray to each and every single day.
God knew from all eternity that Saint Patrick would die in Lent. He lived a penitential life to help the souls he was appointed by Pope Saint Celestine to serve to get them home to heaven. He lived a penitential life to help the Poor Souls in Purgatory. He lived a penitential life to help the land he converted to the Catholic Faith. It was only right that he should die in Lent and that his feast day should be kept in this holy season of prayer and fasting and penance and mortification. Indeed, Saint Patrick fasted and prayed so severely on one occasion, doing battle with demons, to have found himself rewarded by Our Lord by being granted the following petitions:
Many souls would be free from the pains of Purgatory through his intercession.
Whoever in the spirit of penance would recite his hymn before death would attain the heavenly reward.
Barbarian hordes would never obtain sway in his Church.
Seven years before the Judgment Day, the sea would spread over Ireland to save its people from the temptations and terrors of the Antichrist.
He should be deputed to judge the whole Irish race on the last day.
Keeping in mind the penitential spirit that characterized the entirety of Saint Patrick's holy life of service to the Church, which was fostered greatly by the six years he was a slave in Ireland from the age of seventeen to the age of twenty-three, we should not celebrate too exuberantly today. We honor Saint Patrick best by doing what he did throughout his priesthood and episcopate: deny ourselves permissible pleasures in order to united ourselves more fully with the Cross of the Divine Redeemer, at which stood Our Lady, who is always pleased with the voluntary sacrifices given to her through her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be used as she sees fit.
Saint Patrick is not honored by drunkenness and revelry. He is honored by hearing Holy Mass today. He is honored by the time we spend before the Blessed Sacrament today. He is honored by our praying of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. He is honored by our making of the Stations of the Cross during Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent. He is honored by our reading about his life and times in Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year. He is honored by our praying–and taking deep to our hearts–the prayer he recited before he confronted the chieftains on Easter Sunday in 433 A.D.:
I bind to myself today the strong virtue of the Invocation of the Trinity: I believe the Trinity in the Unity, The Creator of the Universe.
I bind to myself today the virtue of the Incarnation of Christ with His Baptism, the virtue of His crucifixion with His burial, the virtue of His Resurrection with His Ascension, the virtue of His coming on the Judgment Day.
I bind to myself today the virtue of the love of seraphim, in the obedience of angels, in the hope of resurrection unto reward, in prayers of Patriarchs, in predictions of Prophets, in preaching of Apostles, in faith of Confessors, in purity of holy Virgins, in deeds of righteous men.
I bind to myself today the power of Heaven, the light of the sun, the brightness of the moon, the splendour of fire, the flashing of lightning, the swiftness of wind, the depth of sea, the stability of earth, the compactness of rocks.
I bind to myself today God's power to guide me, God's might to uphold me, God's wisdom to teach me, God's eye to watch me, God's ear to hear me, God's word to give me speech, God's hand to guide me, God's way to lie before me, God's shield to shelter me, God's Host to secure me, against the snares of demons, against the seductions of vices, against the lusts of nature, against everyone who meditates injury to me, whether far or near, whether few or with many.
I invoke today all these virtues against every hostile merciless power which may assail my body and my soul, against the incantations of false prophets, against the black laws of heathenism, against the false laws of heresy, against the deceits of idolatry, against the spells of women, and smiths, and druids, against every knowledge that binds the soul of man.
Christ, protect me today against every poison, against burning, against drowning, against death-wound, that I may receive abundant reward.
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in the fort, Christ in the chariot seat, Christ in the [deck], Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
I bind to myself today the strong virtue of an invocation of the Trinity: I believe the Trinity in the Unity, The Creator of the Universe.
Not a bad prayer for our time. Not a bad prayer for all times. Not a bad prayer to be invoked in a day when false "popes," one of whom has kissed the Koran while another entered a mosque and took off his shoes before turning in the direction of Mecca and assuming the Mohammedan prayer position and has provided "space" for the false worship of Protestantism while at the same time calling a mountain upon which Buddhists worship their devils as "sacred," and false "bishops" themselves pay homage to false gods and bind themselves to the false laws of heresy and make incantations to false prophets, yes, even in the context of alleged Catholic "liturgies." Saint Patrick is the model for all Catholic bishops, zealous in seeking the conversion of all men to the Catholic Church as he sought to convert himself by his life of constant prayer and severe penances and embrace of Holy Poverty.
The aforementioned Dom Prosper Gueranger wrote the following prayer to our great and glorious Saint Patrick:
Thy life, great saint, was spent in the arduous toils of an apostle; but rich was the harvest thou didst reap! Every fatigue seemed to thee light, if only thou couldst give to men the precious gift of faith; and the people to whom thou didst leave it have kept it with a constancy which is one of thy greatest glories. Pray for us, that this faith, without which it is impossible to please God, may take possession of our hearts and minds. It is by faith, that the just man liveth, says the prophet, and it is faith that, during this holy season of Lent, is showing us the justice and mercy of God, in order that we may be converted, and offer to our offended Lord the tribute of our penance. We are afraid of what the Church imposes on us, simply because our faith is weak. If our principles were those of faith, we should soon be mortified men. Thy life, though so innocent, and so rich in good works, was one of extraordinary penance: gain for us thy spirit, and help us to follow thee, at least at a humble distance. Pray for Erin, that dear country of thine, which loves and honours thee so fervently. She is threatened with danger even now, and many of her children have left the faith thou didst teach. An odious system of proselytism [conducted by the Protestants] has disturbed thy flock; protect it, and suffer not the children of martyrs to be apostates. Let thy fatherly care follow them that have been driven by suffering to emigrate from their native land: may they keep true to the faith, be witnesses of the true religion in the countries to which they have fled, and ever show themselves to be the obedient children of the Church. May their misfortunes thus serve the advance of the kingdom of God. Holy pontiff ! intercede for England; pardon her the injustice she has shown to thy children; and by thy powerful prayers hasten the happy day of her return to Catholic unity. Pray, too, for the whole Church; thy prayer, being that of an apostle, easily finds access to Him that sent thee. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)
The readings for Matins in today's Divine Office teach us about the life of our dear Saint Patrick:
Patrick, called the Apostle of Ireland, was born in Great Britain. The name of his father was Calphurnius, and that of his mother Conchessa. She is said to have been a relation of St Martin, Bishop of Tours. When Patrick was a lad, he was several times taken prisoner by savages, and while being in their hands he was employed as a shepherd, he already showed marks of his saintliness to come. His spirit was filled with faith, and love, and fear of God, so that he would rise before the light, in snow, and frost, and rain, to make his prayers to God, being accustomed to address God in prayer an hundred times every day, and an hundred times every night. After being rescued from his third captivity, he was placed among the clergy, and for a long time exercised himself in sacred learning. To this end he travelled with much labour, through Gaul, Italy, and the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea, but at last being called of God to work for the salvation of the Irish, and, having received from the Blessed Pope Celestine a commission to preach the gospel, and likewise being consecrated a Bishop, he betook himself to Ireland.
In the discharge of his calling it is a marvel with how many evils, with how many sufferings and labours, and with how many adversaries the Apostolic Patrick had to bear. Nevertheless, by the goodness of God, that island, which had up to that time been given over to the serving of idols, was, through the preaching of Patrick, so wrought on that she soon brought forth the fruit which won her the name of the Island of Saints. Patrick caused many of her people to be born again by the washing of regeneration; he ordained many Bishops and clerks; he decreed rules for virgins and widows living in continency. By the authority of the Bishop of Rome he established the See of Armagh as the Primatial See of all Ireland, and enriched the Church with relics of the Saints brought from Rome. Patrick, moreover, was so eminently adorned with heavenly visions, with the gift of prophecy, and with great signs and wonders from God, that the fame of him spread itself abroad more and more, day by day.
Besides that which came upon him daily, the care of all the Churches of Ireland, he never suffered his spirit to weary in constant prayer. They say that it was his custom to repeat every day the whole Book of Psalms, together with Songs and Hymns, and two hundred Prayers; that he bent his knees to God in worship three hundred times every day, and that he made on himself the sign of the Cross an hundred times at each of the Seven Hours of the Church Service. He divided the night into three portions; during the first he repeated the first hundred Psalms, and bent his knees two hundred times; during the second he remained plunged in cold water, with heart, eyes, and hands lifted up to heaven, and in that state repeated the remaining fifty Psalms; during the third he took his short rest, lying upon a bare stone. He was a great practicer of lowliness, and, after the pattern of the Apostle, he always continued to work with his own hands. At last he fell asleep in the Lord in extreme old age, refreshed with the Divine Mysteries, worn out with unceasing care for the Churches, and glorious both in word and work. His body is buried in Down in Ulster. He passed away in the fifth century after the giving of salvation by Christ. (From Matins, The Divine Office, Feast of Saint Patrick.)
Whether we are of Irish descent or not, Saint Patrick is saint for each and every one of us. Have a blessed Saint Patrick Day as we make his prayer and that of Dom Prosper Gueranger our own as we seek to plant the seeds in our own land for what he accomplished in Ireland. the Triumph of the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen.
Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of Knock, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, pray for us.
Saint Patrick, pray for us.
Saint Colman of Armagh, pray for us.
Saint Mel, pray for us.
Saint Brigid of Kildare, pray for us.
Saint Malachy, pray for us.
Saint Columba, pray for us.
Saint Columban, pray for us.
Saint Kevin, pray for us.
Saint Brendan, pray for us.
Saint Kieran, pray for us.
Saint Aidan, pray for us.
Saint Ita, pray for us.
Saint Guasach, pray for us.
Saint MacCarthem, pray for us.
Saint Loman, pray for us.
Saint Cormac, pray for us.
Blessed Oliver Plunkett, pray for us.
Saint Tassach, pray for us.
An Afterword
Just a brief word about the fact that, yes, we continue to need Donations to help us pay the unexpected expenses that were itemized a few days ago.
The ultrasound confirmed, thankfully, that no deep vein thrombosis is present in my right leg. The burning and "discomfort," shall we say, that was intense enough on Saturday evening to prompt a physician-friend to encourage me to consider going to an emergency room, remain as yet unexplained. It is simply a penance that has been visited upon me and is not life-threatening as even our friend thought could be the case. I know that my sins richly deserve such penance, and I accept it with gratitude as it is a means by which Our Lord has chosen to make reparation to Him through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for my many sins. Deo gratias!
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Anderman, E., & Midgley, C. (2004). Changes in self-reported academic cheating across the transition from middle school to high school. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 29, 499-517.
Peer reviewed article in which data suggests that self-reported cheating is on the rise based on student's view that "everyone does it."
Cahn and Markie. (2008). Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Lay person's article that focuses on ways in which students can become More connected to school environment, therefore reduction in dishonesty.
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The Rumblin Rhythm Cloggers will be having beginner clogging lessons starting on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at Common Space II Room 106 at the corner of Hill and Holland-Slyvania from 7:00 – 8:00pm. No partner needed. Clogging is great exercise and great way to meet new people. The cost is $35.00 for ten weeks.
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Q: Padding in textview in example.java   StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (int x = 0; x <= 5; x++) {
       sb.append(x).append("\n");
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In the above problem the textView is printing
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I am unable to print the number with paddingTop or paddingBottom like the below given example
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Please help me to achive the above target.

A: Try appending more than one \n.
Something like sb.append(x).append("\n\n\n"); should do the trick

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When picking a new Student Cafe Executive Officer, we couldn't pass up the chance to work with Chris DiCriscio. Not only does the 21-year-old marketing major from Cherry Hill, N.J. exude positivity and obvious leadership skills, she has a truly unique work history. In fact, Chris ran a local music website and, at the tender age of 16, booked a show with some local bands. After that, she was hooked, booking shows and tours with indie bands, rock bands, spoken word poets and even went on tour with a metal band.
These days, she's putting her management skills to work at Saxbys, running all aspects of the Saxbys La Salle cafe. She'll spend the next six months earning college credit and a competitive salary while becoming a leader in team development, community leadership and financial management.
It's a major step for Chris but she's up for the challenge. She chatted with us shortly after starting the SCEO program and explained why she already loves her team, how she aspires to work at a record label one day, and why she couldn't wait for her turn to run a Saxbys cafe.
How did you get the gig?
I was an external hire and when I applied to be just a little barista, Sydney from recruiting encouraged me to apply for SCEO. Once I learned about the company mission and values I was obsessed.
What do you hope to achieve as SCEO?
The cafe was just established last year so my main goal is to spread Saxbys throughout the La Salle campus and become a part of the La Salle community.
Are you excited?
I'm so excited. I feel like I have more ideas everyday. I want to run a lot of fun events. I've talked to a few clubs and I'm trying to get them to have their meetings with us.
What are your career aspirations?
My overall goal is to become a marketing officer for an art or music based company. Maybe that's doing marketing for a record label or something in art industry. That's where I'm heading.
How does this role at Saxbys prepare you for your eventual career?
The role at Saxbys is preparing me for any career. It's teaching me so much about not only operational standards but how to build a team. It's teaching me so many life skills I'm going to use eventually in the future.
What are your thoughts on the team you're inheriting?
I love my team so much. They make me laugh. They teach me so much about the cafe. It's really great to hear their perspective on things because I can look at it from a higher level, operational point, then get their advice and learn how my ideas can make things more efficient for them.
How do you plan to build a culture based off your leadership style?
My leadership style is very caring. It's a mix between a mom and a boss. I want to make sure the team and community feels welcome. Instead of it just being a business, I want to become a quintessential part of a community — not just a place to buy coffee and leave. To get to that point, I will continue living by the core values, and care personally and communicate openly.
How do you plan to manage people the same age?
That's a very interesting dynamic. I still consider myself a team member rather than someone who works above them. I find that by working alongside my team and being hands-on breaks down that weirdness. Plus, it makes them more comfortable with me. Overall, I want my team to trust me. I want my team to know I'm there for them and there with them.
What ideas do you have to become a community leader?
Throwing open mic nights. Given my past in music that's something I really want to do. I'd also love to get clubs and organizations, maybe fraternities and sororities, linked up with Saxbys. On the philanthropic side, I'm still working on ideas but I'd love to have some kind of event where guests can round up their bill and donate to charity.
How will becoming a community leader impact your cafe?
It will affect the cafe in good way. It's not just a business. It's a part of the community that will be contributing time, making donations and running events. By being a community leader I am confident that I will be able to foster a positive environment and make positive changes in and around La Salle.
How did you plan to manage and understand your P&L?
When I was a manager at Hot Topic, I did financial management tasks so this isn't totally new to me. Doing it on a much larger level and doing it at my own cafe is different. I absolutely love the challenge. As I keep working at it, it'll become easier.
How will you keep your team members accountable for managing costs day-to-day?
Honestly having team members understand the bigger picture helps them stay on their own track. If they understand why I'm making a certain initiative — like focusing on less waste for example — it'll make more sense to them and they'll follow my lead.
How excited are you to get started?
I am beyond pumped. I was counting down the days until this semester began waiting for my chance to get started as SCEO. Now that I'm here, it feels amazing. It feels like home.


Moonmen was established in May of 2014, but it was a culmination of years of professional experience and late night dreaming.
Todd Heath, owner and founder of Moonmen, fell in love with bikes as a child. His parents embarrass him with stories of him pedaling loops around the neighborhood, oblivious to the passing of time or household obligations. That passion for bikes would eventually lead to a career in building them.
In high school, Todd dipped his toe into the bike industry through an internship at Black Sheep Bikes of Fort Collins, CO. He then pursued a career in the custom bike industry by attending trade school to specialize in the machining and welding techniques needed to advance. He then returned to Black Sheep as an employee and remained for 10 years. In 2005 he began building custom mountain bikes himself and has continued to create frame after frame with custom requirements and an artful design.
In 2014 Todd took his experience, talent, and lots of support from friends and family and created Moonmen Bikes. By creating his own business, he was able to find a place where he could use his talent and skills to share the joyful riding experience he had come to love so well.
Now Todd spends his days working on beautiful custom bicycles and his nights with his family or riding his bike. Though he is an avid day rider, every full moon you can find Todd out romping the local trails and howling at the moon on his custom Moonmen bicycle. He travels the world in pursuit of beautiful trails and new friends. He finds himself having some of his happiest moments on his bicycle where leaves behind everyday stresses and can be present on a comfortable ride.
Todd combines passion, knowledge, and skills to provide his customer with the same joy of the ride that keeps him going. His mission is to create custom bicycles and components that allow his customers to experience the joy of the ride without the worry about the bicycle.
Special thanks to Ryan McKee who helped build the Moonmen brand from word marks to webpages. He also gives special thanks to Paul Knowles for his investment of time and support that helped push Moonmen forward.


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Q: Openstack LXC containers missing DNS In my newly deployed openstack environment, I noticed that CEPH was failing within the 3 LXC containers.
016-05-03 02:18:38 INFO juju-log Unknown hook update-status - skipping.
Reading package lists... Donete-status
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Reading state information... Donetatus
2016-05-03 02:18:40 INFO update-status sudo: unable to resolve host juju-machine-1-lxc-3

Any ideas?  Is it standard that the physical nodes wouldn't be able to DNS the containers?  Seems highly unlikely, and also, when I deployed the same setup before, I didn't have any issue.  I'm guessing the DNS is why I am getting the HEALTH_WARN error.
Update: I've discovered the DNS error isn't actually why CEPH is failing, so I'm interested in both.  Should DNS entries be added to Bind for the containers, not just physical hosts?  Any idea on why Ceph might be failing?
Update 2:  Ceph is failing because the placement groups exceed the PG max set by ceph.  The fix is increase the OSDs without increasing the placement groups.  I've added an answer that indicates the bug.  The suggestion at the time of this edit, is to create some tuning in the juju charm to 'calibrate' settings after things are deployed.
Update 3:  Adding OSD's does decrease the placement groups count against the maximum PG limit warning value.

A: With some help, I was able to find this bug, which was what was causing the health_warn in ceph.  I haven't resolved the error yet with a work around, but I'll update this answer when I do.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/glance/+bug/1492742
Adding OSDs will resolve the warning.  The nice part is, juju handles it all for you.  Once the drive is put into the server, maas and juju play nice, and make it immediately an OSD.
ubuntu@juju-machine-0-lxc-4:~$ sudo ceph status
    cluster eabab000-231c-4edb-855c-dd30b1bab56d
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What would your life be like if you treated food and your body as you would a loved one — with patience, gentleness, playfulness, communication, honesty, respect and love?
Friends and clients often tell me how busy they are — and I often feel the same stress. We have errands to run and piles of emails to read and respond to. We feel the responsibilities for our lives, our work, and the demands of our relationships. These to-do lists create the feeling that there just isn't enough time in the day. We end up eating as we run out the door, in the car, in front of the TV or computer, while on the phone, standing in front of the refrigerator, standing at the stove, or while clearing the table.
The result is there is no chance of pleasure or calm. We need to clear out the mental clutter and bring mindfulness to the table.
Mindfulness means paying attention to what is happening right now in the moment. It's cultivating an attitude of open hearted non-judgment. When we are present with our experience, rather than caught up in constant thinking and analyzing, there is greater serenity and peace of mind. With that serenity comes the connection to self that is vital to existing in a loving state of being.
When we eat mindfully we can appreciate and derive pleasure from our food. Eating becomes an exercise where we can engage our senses. Pleasure is a huge part of the equation when finding freedom with food. When there is pleasure there is no guilt, no shame and no fear.
Do you eat while distracted, or do you eat in an effort to distract yourself from what is eating YOU?
For many, the confusion that surrounds our food choices creates a situation where we are questioning and judging what we are eating and how it will affect our bodies. Instead of experiencing the complexity and deliciousness of our food, we become disconnected from our hunger and fullness.
A different but equally challenging scenario is when we eat in an effort not to feel what is causing us pain or stress. When we eat in an effort to deflect and distract from what is real, we miss the opportunity to be nourished on a soulful level.
Eating mindfully, without distraction, allows us to discover and savor the sight, smell, texture and taste of our food. By slowing down, we can fully experience the elements of our food, creating awareness of and satiety with appropriate portions. We can answer the call to hunger and stop when we've had enough.
Eating mindfully and soulfully, allows us to develop a healthy, and ultimately a wonderful, relationship with food.
Mindful eating is a practice and takes practice to achieve.
The gift of mindfulness is that we can create the experience we are longing for, simply by setting an intention. Just like when we set out to learn to ride a bike or improve our computer skills, we set our minds to the task without distraction. It's not easy, but the rewards are great. We need patience, gentleness and some degree of playfulness in order to succeed with the tasks of our lives. Those same virtues are vital as we learn to honor, respect and love our bodies and ourselves.
Eat while sitting at the table, without distractions. This means eating without the distractions from TV, newspaper, computer, upsetting conversations, or loud music. When your attention is on something other than the food on your plate, you'll be distracted from what's happening inside your body.
Let go of any negative thoughts and judgments you may have about the food you want to eat. Instead, focus on the positive values. For example, "Healthy fat will make my skin soft and my hair shine."
Become aware of the smell, taste, and texture of the food as you focus on the positive energy you will gain form the experience of eating.
Swallow your food completely before you take another bite. Be aware of the consistency. Notice how it changes.
Observe everything about the meal that nourishes you — the people you are with, your surroundings, and the conversation you're having or listening to. Be present and become aware of how present you are. Let go of judgmental thoughts about the food you are about to eat.
Set the intention to slowly and gently return to the experience of here and now, being willing and loving in doing so.
You can achieve the lasting results you desire by practicing mindful eating. If you forget, be gentle as you remind yourself it's a practice, one meal at a time.


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Kerala HC says defection is antithesis to democratic form of governance
Kerala High Court on Thursday said that defection and disloyalty of an elected candidate was nothing but an antithesis and an alien concept to the democratic form of governance apart from being an immoral and unprincipled act.
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Kerala High Court on Thursday said that defection and disloyalty of an elected candidate was nothing but an antithesis and an alien concept to the democratic form of governance apart from being an immoral and unprincipled act. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court comprising Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly dismissed a petition filed by Thiruvalla Municipality Chairman Varghese KV in which he challenged his disqualification which barred him from contesting as a candidate in elections to any Local Self Government Institutions for a period of six years by the Election Commission.
The petitioner failed to step down from the post of Chairman of Thiruvalla Municipality in spite of the direction issued by the District President of the Congress party under whose banner he was elected to the Municipal Council. The court further observed, "A candidate of a political party elected to any statutory institution shall always bear in mind that his political activities vis-a-vis his functions in the institution are regulated and guided by the laws of his party also, and his continuance as a member depends upon his continued unflinching loyalty to his party."
The court said, "All elected candidates owing allegiance to their respective political groups are bound to subscribe to such views and translate it in the real spirit to sustain the coalition formed prior to the election, which is a significant facet of democracy, required to balance the activities of those in power and to make their governance citizen-friendly adhering strictly to Constitutional values." (ANI)
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With around 90 percent of China's gay and lesbian group in 'co-operative relationships,' it's very clear which region offers further to go. Hook-up app Blued is actually seeking to pave just how.
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With homosexuality outlawed until 1997 and understood to be a mental disorder until 2001, China's model of Grindr got always planning to build a stir. But Blued—a homosexual hook-up software right now employed 15 million men and women nationally—has performed more than that, developing its neighborhood greater than seven-fold inside the 2 yrs since its launching and, as of this week, bringing in a $30 million profit injection from enterprise capitalists DCM. For a nation permanently breaking down on those perceived as veering through the erotic majority, are gay was ultimately just starting to spend.
Blued is not the initial homosexual app cascade over China, it's surely producing its mark—and with increasing standing in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou a strong sign of its capability succeed someplace else on earth, maker Geng Le's dream to generate a "global homosexual application" is properly underway. As wants of Zank, and that is rather evidently sold toward homosexuals but provides earlier shied clear of clearly admitting this, Gee Yu, and Laven are common reliable opponents shopping, it's Blued's available solution to gay a relationship that has protected their route to success.
"In Asia, Blued, offering separated network solutions for section, has shown as well as the company profits, but in addition their diversified and love-oriented sociable price [sic]," Geng mentioned in an announcement.
And so the present information of Tim Cook's released continues to strengthen the app's hold, Geng believes. "As make possess indicated with his open-letter, if those people who are experiencing the sex predicament or which really feel solitary and looking forward to equivalent proper could be comforted by experiencing the fact the Apple Chief Executive Officer is gay, it's valuable to me to surrender my personal privateness."
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The Waiver clause provided: "Article XV Waiver of Consequential Damages. In no event shall Seller [contractor] be liable to [owner] whether in contract, warranty, tort (including negligence or strict liability) or otherwise for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages of any kind or nature whatsover."
The liquidated damages clause provided: "Article VIII Liquidated Damages. In the event that the Caustic Prill Unit fails to produce Caustic Soda beads during the performance test even though all the conditions described in Article VII hereof have been satisfied and despite [contractor's] efforts to correct said failure, for each 5 percent or part thereof shortfall below the level warranted in Article VII, hereof, [contractor] will pay to [owner] an amount equal to 5 percent of the lump sum fee received by [contractor] for the failed Caustic Prill Unit. However, [contractor's] maximum limit of liability under the Agreement as to any failed Caustic Prill Unit shall be 10 percent of the Lump sum fee received by [contractor] for the failed Caustic Prill Unit. These payments are the exclusive remedies provided to [owner] under this Agreement. Except as provided in the Article VII, Contractor shall have no other liability whether in contract, warranty, tort, or otherwise."
The plaintiff, project owner, tried to get around the liquidated damages clause by arguing that it only applied in the event that the Unit failed the performance test. Since there was never a performance test, it argued the limitation clause had no effect. In interpreting the contract on this matter, the court explained that "the intention of the parties is a paramount consideration." Intent must be ascertained from the contract document itself when the terms are clear and unambiguous. The court concluded that the clause makes clear that although the five percent cap appears to apply in the event of a performance test failure, the ten percent cap applies to any claim under the Agreement regardless of whether or not performance tests were performed. The court emphasized that "When combined with the extremely strong liability-limiting language of the entire clause, these phrases make clear that the intention of the parties was to limit [owner's] recover under any circumstance to ten percent of the fee it paid to [contractor]."
The court also rejected the project owner's argument that the clauses were "unconscionable" and should not be enforced. The court said that the test under Pennsylvania jurisprudence for unconscionability is "an absence of meaningful choice on the part of one of the parties together with contract terms which are unreasonably favorable to the other party." It further explained that the principle underlying the concept is to prevent oppression and unfair surprise but that it is not intended to disturb the "allocation of risks because of superior bargaining power." In other words, just because a party has greater bargaining power and negotiates a more favorable and even onerous deal does not make the deal unconscionable in the absence of oppression and unfair surprise. In commercial settings, explains the court, a limitation of damages clause will rarely be found unconscionable.
In this case, the owner claimed that it was a small unsophisticated Indian company that trusted "an American behemoth" when its president flew to Philadelphia to sign the deal. It made no changes to the contract and did not seek counsel to assist with its negotiation. Although the court described this as a "sympathetic picture," the court concluded that the scenario did not suggest any lack of meaningful choice. In its conclusion with regard to this issue, the court said, "There is nothing in the record to suggest unfair surprise…. The clauses were not hidden boilerplate. The one point which gives this Court pause is whether a ten percent cap creates an adequate incentive to perform. However, there is no indication that the profit margin was any higher than ten percent. Therefore, [owner] has not demonstrated unconscionability." Mistry Prabhuda Manji Eng. Pvt. Ltd. v. Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Inc., 213 F.Supp.2d 20 (U.S D.C., Massachusetts, 2002).
Risk Management Note: This case provides valuable insight into the judicial interpretation and application of contract clauses that purport to limit liability of engineers and contractors. There is a striking similarity in the project owner's arguments with those that have been raised in so many other reported cases. This decision should be a reminder to every commercial entity entering a contract for the design or construction of a project that, generally speaking, courts will enforce the terms of the contract that result from arms-length negotiations between two commercial entities. This is true even if one of the parties was significantly smaller than the other and did not have equal bargaining clout. The key, as explained by this court, is whether the damage limitations would be unconscionable. In my own legal practice, I have had more than one client tell me that they wanted to ignore my advice and sign onerous contracts in which they would to be giving away substantial rights to the other party – with the expectation that they could convince a court that they signed the contract as a result of duress, coercion or unequal bargaining position and that the clause should be void as against public policy or as unconscionable. My advice has been that a court would not be impressed with their arguments for much the same reasons stated by the court in this case. Plus, my clients have had competent legal assistance with their contracts and this makes their chances of getting a court to let them out of a bad deal even more unlikely. Note, however, that the court provides significant pointers in drafting an enforceable limitation of liability clause, when it states that the clause in this case was not "hidden boilerplate" and that the question of whether a ten percent cap creates an adequate incentive to perform gave the court pause. I typically advise clients to make clauses such as indemnification, limitation of liability (LoL), and waiver of consequential damages clear and pronounced in the contract. If an LoL clause might be subjected to close judicial scrutiny it may even be advisable to have your client separately initial or sign their name beside the clause so they cannot later claim they were surprised to learn of its presence in the contract. In addition, you should be careful to make the LoL amount reasonable. If it is too small in comparison to the size of the fee or the significance of the potential damages that could occur, a court may refuse to enforce it. Most important of all, the decision of this court demonstrates the value of seeking contract language where appropriate to limit the liability or the types of damages that can be recovered.
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About the author: Article written by J. Kent Holland, Jr., a construction lawyer located in Tysons Corner, Virginia, with a national practice (formerly with Wickwire Gavin, P.C. and now with Construction Risk Counsel, PLLC) representing design professionals, contractors and project owners. He is founder and president of a consulting firm, ConstructionRisk, LLC, providing consulting services to owners, design professionals, contractors and attorneys on construction projects. He is publisher of ConstructionRisk.com Report and may be reached at Kent@ConstructionRisk.com or by calling 703-623-1932. This article is published in ConstructionRisk.com Report, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Mar 2003).
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package drcl.net.traffic;

/** A packet class that keeps a timestamp in addition to what is in the
 * superclass. */
public class TimestampedFooPacket extends drcl.net.FooPacket
{
	double timestamp;

	public TimestampedFooPacket()
	{ super(); }

	public TimestampedFooPacket(int pktsize_, int pktcnt_, long bytecnt_)
	{ super(pktsize_, pktcnt_, bytecnt_); }

	public TimestampedFooPacket(double time_, int pktsize_, int pktcnt_,
					long bytecnt_)
	{ super(pktsize_, pktcnt_, bytecnt_); timestamp = time_; }

	public String getName()
	{ return "TimedFOO"; }

	public void setTimestamp(double time_)
	{ timestamp = time_; }

	public double getTimestamp()
	{ return timestamp; }

	/** Returns true always. */
	public boolean isTimestampSupported()
	{ return true; }

	/*
	public void duplicate(Object p_)
	{
		super.duplicate(p_);
		timestamp = ((TimestampedFooPacket)p_).timestamp;
	}
	*/

	public Object clone()
	{ return new TimestampedFooPacket(timestamp, size, getPacketCount(),
					getByteCount()); }

	public String _toString(String separator_)
	{ return "timestamp:" + timestamp + separator_
			+ super._toString(separator_); }
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Mutual Federal Savings Bank of Plymouth County, (Bank or Mutual), Whitman, Massachusetts has petitioned the Division of Banks (Division) to convert from a federally-chartered savings association to a state-chartered co-operative bank under the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws chapter 170, section 29 (the Conversion). The Bank is also filing an application with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) to become a member of the Federal Reserve. Mutual is a federal savings association whose primary regulator is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). As of December 31, 2012, Mutual had total assets of approximately $403 million. It operates two wholly-owned subsidiaries, MFSB Securities Corporation and Legion Parkway Securities Corporation, which operate and qualify as securities corporations under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 63, section 38B.
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Mutual's deposits are gathered from the general public primarily in the communities in which its banking offices are located. Mutual's lending activities are concentrated primarily in Plymouth County. Residential real estate mortgage lending and automobile financing comprise a significant portion of Mutual's lending activities although it also offers construction and commercial loans and home equity lines of credit. At the time of application, Mutual served its market area from nine full-service banking offices, all of which are located in Plymouth County. It plans to open a new branch office in Whitman during the third quarter of 2013. Mutual had assets of approximately $403 million as of December 31, 2012.
Section 29 of chapter 170 of the General Laws sets out extensive provisions for the conversion of a federally-chartered savings bank to such a co-operative bank chartered by the Commonwealth. One such requirement is that the bank become a member of The Co-operative Central Bank (Central Bank) and thereby have its deposits in excess of those amounts covered by the FDIC insured through the Fund. The Division received notice on September 3, 2013 from the Central Bank that satisfactory arrangements have been made with it by Mutual for its conversion to a state-charter. The primary deposit insurer for Mutual will remain the FDIC and the Division has received information on the continued deposit coverage by the FDIC subsequent to the Conversion through a certification by Mutual's President and Chief Operating Officer.
As discussed in the application, the Conversion of Mutual, in and of itself, will not result in any significant change in the operation of Mutual, the products and services offered or the locations from which it conducts business. Moreover, the financial characteristics of Mutual will not be impacted by the transaction. In the application, Mutual has discussed certain additional benefits that will result from the transaction. The by-laws of the Bank also have been reviewed and discussed relative to compliance with applicable provisions of Massachusetts law. The facts and the analysis of the record of this application, considerations relative to competition, public convenience and advantage, as well as financial and managerial resources, are all found to be supportive of this application by the Division.
Another factor reviewed by the Division on each pending application is the record of performance under the CRA by parties to the transaction. Since Mutual is presently a federally-chartered bank, the Division will also consider a publicly available descriptive rating and evaluation by a federal bank regulatory agency. Upon review, the Division noted that Mutual received a rating of "Outstanding" in its most recent evaluation by the OCC dated January 22, 2013.
Upon review of the application with reference to the relevant statutory and regulatory requirements, approval is hereby granted pursuant to section 29 of said chapter 170 for Mutual Federal Savings Bank of Plymouth County to convert to a state-chartered co-operative bank under the name of Mutual Bank and to maintain and operate all existing banking offices under the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws chapter 167C.
the proposed conversion be completed within one year of the date of this Decision.


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Q: How to pre fill Windows Forms controls on form load event from Web API? I have a solution with two projects: One web API and the other one is a Windows Forms application. In the Windows Forms application I send a get request to retrieve some data. So I have a method like this:
private async Task StartFillingEvent()
{
    var path = "api/Windows/GetEventNames/";
    List<EventItemDto> events = null;
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(path);
    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        events = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<List<EventItemDto>>();
        var eventList = (from c in events
                            select new ListItemVm<Guid>()
                            {
                                Id = c.EventId,
                                Name = c.Title
                            }).ToList();

        eventsDrp.FillDropDownList<Guid>("Please choose one", eventList, null);
    }
}

which gets my data and in form_Load i call this method:
private void frmOnlineBadge_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    StartFillingEvent().Wait();
}

I traced my application it goes to web API and retrieves data to the Windows Forms application. But the application sleeps in the if statement. I have no knowledge of multi threading. My goal is to interact with the web API. I googled and i found lots of tutorials with windows console application not with Windows Forms. I checked my program with console application but I have to work with controls in Forms application.
How can I manage this data retrieval?

A: Be careful when you wait on an async method. Since it is run on the same thread as you execute your Wait, you are running into a deadlock. The async/await multitasking is cooperative. That means the await is waiting for return of control from the caller. If the caller now calls Wait it will never return control.
The solution is to run your worker method in a task:
private void frmOnlineBadge_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Task.Run(() => StartFillingEvent()).Wait();
}

This will wrap the task into a proxy that will run as a real task. As a consequence you have to modify the part where you fill your combo box:
Action fillAction = delegate() {
    eventsDrp.FillDropDownList<Guid>("Please choose one", eventList, null);
};
dropDownList.BeginInvoke(fillAction);

The reason is that since you run your operation in the background now, you have to make sure you execute the part where you access the UI in the UI thread. That is done with Control.BeginInvoke.
Update:
I initially wrote you should use Control.Invoke. That is wrong, because this method will block until the UI thread has executed the action to the end. Since the UI thread is waiting, this also causes a deadlock. So you you have to use BeginInvoke.

A: You don't need to start new task, which will start new thread, you don't need to use some "hacky invokes" workaround.
Extract retrieving data in the own asynchronous method, make Form_Load asynchronous and fill control with data in maintainable, readable and clean way.
private async Task<List<EventItemDto>> GetEventsAsync()
{
    var path = "api/Windows/GetEventNames/";
    var events = new List<EventItemDo>();
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(path);
    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        events = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<List<EventItemDto>>();
    }

    return events;
}

private void FillWithEvents(List<EventItemDo> events)
{
    var eventList = events.Select(event => new ListItemVm<Guid>
                                 {
                                     Id = c.EventId,
                                     Name = c.Title
                                 }).ToList();

    eventsDrp.FillDropDownList<Guid>("Please choose one", eventList, null);
}

you need make eventhandler async.
private async void frmOnlineBadge_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var events = await GetEventsAsync();
    FillWithEvents(events);
}


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Dr John "The Sun,Moon & Herbs" 2002 Wounded Bird Records. 1971 Atlantic Records
I was fortunate to be a part of Dr John's London sessions for "The Sun. Moon & Herbs" Atlantic album. This was originally meant to be a triple album. I played an acoustic bass guitar from the mid 1800's, fretted to the 12th fret. It is also on the Manfred Mann records, and on the first Vinegar Joe record. I sold it to an antique musical instrument store in London prior to moving to the US. It was getting too fragile to travel . I owned it from 1969 to 1981, and have never again seen anything like it. We originally recorded about an hour of acoustic material with Eric Clapton on 12 string, Mac (Dr John) on piano, Freddy Staehle on drums, and most of the other musicians who were at the sessions. Mac told me in 1982 that he was trying to locate those tapes. We also recorded a version of "When the Battle Is Over" for Shirley Goodman of Shirley & Lee ("Let The Good Times Roll") . Carl Radle & Michael Henderson, both great bassists, also played on these sessions
Dr John "Sun, Moon & Herbs" 1971