text:
$modulePath = Join-Path -Path (Split-Path -Path (Split-Path -Path $PSScriptRoot -Parent) -Parent) -ChildPath 'Modules'

# Import the Networking Common Modules
Import-Module -Name (Join-Path -Path $modulePath `
                               -ChildPath (Join-Path -Path 'NetworkingDsc.Common' `
                                                     -ChildPath 'NetworkingDsc.Common.psm1'))

# Import the Networking Resource Helper Module
Import-Module -Name (Join-Path -Path $modulePath `
                               -ChildPath (Join-Path -Path 'NetworkingDsc.ResourceHelper' `
                                                     -ChildPath 'NetworkingDsc.ResourceHelper.psm1'))

# Import Localization Strings
$localizedData = Get-LocalizedData `
    -ResourceName 'MSFT_DnsServerAddress' `
    -ResourcePath (Split-Path -Parent $Script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path)

<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Returns the current DNS Server Addresses for an interface.

    .PARAMETER InterfaceAlias
    Alias of the network interface for which the DNS server address is set.

    .PARAMETER AddressFamily
    IP address family.

    .PARAMETER Address
    The desired DNS Server address(es). Exclude to enable DHCP.
#>
function Get-TargetResource
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    [OutputType([System.Collections.Hashtable])]
    param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]
        $InterfaceAlias,

        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet('IPv4', 'IPv6')]
        [String]
        $AddressFamily,

        [Parameter()]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String[]]
        $Address
    )

    Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
        $($LocalizedData.GettingDnsServerAddressesMessage)
        ) -join '')

    # Remove the parameters we don't want to splat
    $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove('Address')

    # Get the current DNS Server Addresses based on the parameters given.
    [String[]] $currentAddress = Get-DnsClientServerStaticAddress `
        @PSBoundParameters `
        -ErrorAction Stop

    $returnValue = @{
        Address        = $currentAddress
        AddressFamily  = $AddressFamily
        InterfaceAlias = $InterfaceAlias
    }

    return $returnValue
}

<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Sets the DNS Server Address for an interface.

    .PARAMETER InterfaceAlias
    Alias of the network interface for which the DNS server address is set.

    .PARAMETER AddressFamily
    IP address family.

    .PARAMETER Address
    The desired DNS Server address(es). Exclude to enable DHCP.

    .PARAMETER Validate
    Requires that the DNS Server addresses be validated if they are updated.
    It will cause the resource to throw a 'A general error occurred that is not covered by a more
    specific error code.' error if set to True and specified DNS Servers are not accessible.
#>
function Set-TargetResource
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]
        $InterfaceAlias,

        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet('IPv4', 'IPv6')]
        [String]
        $AddressFamily,

        [Parameter()]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String[]]
        $Address,

        [Parameter()]
        [Boolean]
        $Validate = $false
    )

    Write-Verbose -Message ( @("$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
        $($LocalizedData.ApplyingDnsServerAddressesMessage)
        ) -join '')

    # If address not passed, set to an empty array
    if (-not $PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Address'))
    {
        [String[]] $Address = @()
    }

    # Remove the parameters we don't want to splat
    $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove('Address')
    $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove('Validate')

    # Get the current DNS Server Addresses based on the parameters given.
    [String[]] $currentAddress = @(Get-DnsClientServerStaticAddress `
        @PSBoundParameters `
        -ErrorAction Stop)

    # Check if the Server addresses are the same as the desired addresses.
    [Boolean] $addressDifferent = (@(Compare-Object `
            -ReferenceObject $currentAddress `
            -DifferenceObject $Address `
            -SyncWindow 0).Length -gt 0)

    if ($addressDifferent)
    {
        $dnsServerAddressSplat = @{
            InterfaceAlias = $InterfaceAlias
        }

        if ($Address.Count -eq 0)
        {
            # Reset the DNS server address to DHCP
            $dnsServerAddressSplat += @{
                ResetServerAddresses = $true
            }

            Set-DnsClientServerAddress @dnsServerAddressSplat `
                -ErrorAction Stop

            Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
                $($LocalizedData.DNSServersHaveBeenSetToDHCPMessage)
                ) -join '' )
        }
        else
        {
            # Set the DNS server address to static
            $dnsServerAddressSplat += @{
                Address  = $Address
                Validate = $Validate
            }

            Set-DnsClientServerAddress @dnsServerAddressSplat `
                -ErrorAction Stop

            Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
                $($LocalizedData.DNSServersHaveBeenSetCorrectlyMessage)
                ) -join '' )
        }
    }
    else
    {
        # Test will return true in this case
        Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
            $($LocalizedData.DNSServersAlreadySetMessage)
            ) -join '' )
    }
}

<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Tests the current state of a DNS Server Address for an interface.

    .PARAMETER InterfaceAlias
    Alias of the network interface for which the DNS server address is set.

    .PARAMETER AddressFamily
    IP address family.

    .PARAMETER Address
    The desired DNS Server address(es). Exclude to enable DHCP.

    .PARAMETER Validate
    Requires that the DNS Server addresses be validated if they are updated.
    It will cause the resource to throw a 'A general error occurred that is not covered by a more
    specific error code.' error if set to True and specified DNS Servers are not accessible.
#>
function Test-TargetResource
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    [OutputType([System.Boolean])]
    param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]
        $InterfaceAlias,

        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet('IPv4', 'IPv6')]
        [String]
        $AddressFamily,

        [Parameter()]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String[]]
        $Address,

        [Parameter()]
        [Boolean]
        $Validate = $false
    )
    # Flag to signal whether settings are correct
    [Boolean] $desiredConfigurationMatch = $true

    Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
        $($LocalizedData.CheckingDnsServerAddressesMessage)
        ) -join '' )

    # Validate the Address passed or set to empty array if not passed
    if ($PSBoundParameters.ContainsKey('Address'))
    {
        foreach ($ServerAddress in $Address)
        {
            Assert-ResourceProperty `
                -Address $ServerAddress `
                -AddressFamily $AddressFamily `
                -InterfaceAlias $InterfaceAlias
        } # foreach
    }
    else
    {
        [String[]] $Address = @()
    } # if

    # Remove the parameters we don't want to splat
    $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove('Address')
    $null = $PSBoundParameters.Remove('Validate')

    # Get the current DNS Server Addresses based on the parameters given.
    [String[]] $currentAddress = @(Get-DnsClientServerStaticAddress `
        @PSBoundParameters `
        -ErrorAction Stop)

    # Check if the Server addresses are the same as the desired addresses.
    [Boolean] $addressDifferent = (@(Compare-Object `
            -ReferenceObject $currentAddress `
            -DifferenceObject $Address `
            -SyncWindow 0).Length -gt 0)

    if ($addressDifferent)
    {
        $desiredConfigurationMatch = $false

        Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
            $($LocalizedData.DNSServersNotCorrectMessage) `
                -f ($Address -join ','),($currentAddress -join ',')
            ) -join '' )
    }
    else
    {
        # Test will return true in this case
        Write-Verbose -Message ( @( "$($MyInvocation.MyCommand): "
            $($LocalizedData.DNSServersSetCorrectlyMessage)
            ) -join '' )
    }
    return $desiredConfigurationMatch
}

<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Checks the Address details are valid and do not conflict with Address family.
    Ensures interface exists. If any problems are detected an exception will be thrown.

    .PARAMETER InterfaceAlias
    Alias of the network interface for which the DNS server address is set.

    .PARAMETER AddressFamily
    IP address family.

    .PARAMETER Address
    The desired DNS Server address. Set to empty to enable DHCP.
#>
function Assert-ResourceProperty
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]
        $InterfaceAlias,

        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet('IPv4', 'IPv6')]
        [String]
        $AddressFamily,

        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [String]
        $Address
    )

    if ( -not (Get-NetAdapter | Where-Object -Property Name -EQ $InterfaceAlias ))
    {
        New-InvalidArgumentException `
            -Message ($LocalizedData.InterfaceNotAvailableError -f $InterfaceAlias) `
            -ArgumentName 'InterfaceAlias'
    }

    if ( -not ([System.Net.IPAddress]::TryParse($Address, [ref]0)))
    {
        New-InvalidArgumentException `
            -Message ($LocalizedData.AddressFormatError -f $Address) `
            -ArgumentName 'Address'
    }

    $detectedAddressFamily = ([System.Net.IPAddress]$Address).AddressFamily.ToString()
    if (($detectedAddressFamily -eq [System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily]::InterNetwork.ToString()) `
        -and ($AddressFamily -ne 'IPv4'))
    {
        New-InvalidArgumentException `
            -Message ($LocalizedData.AddressIPv4MismatchError -f $Address,$AddressFamily) `
            -ArgumentName 'Address'
    }

    if (($detectedAddressFamily -eq [System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily]::InterNetworkV6.ToString()) `
        -and ($AddressFamily -ne 'IPv6'))
    {
        New-InvalidArgumentException `
            -Message ($LocalizedData.AddressIPv6MismatchError -f $Address,$AddressFamily) `
            -ArgumentName 'Address'
    }
} # Assert-ResourceProperty

Export-ModuleMember -function *-TargetResource

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Offers over £210,000 for a 3 bedroom farmhouse with 5 large outbuildings set in 9 acre of ground on the island of Stronsay. The island is served by a daily RoRo ferry and has a junior/high school, 2 shops and a pub. The house has a view over a loch and is very private.
This is a private sale freehold. At present there are 50 ewes on the ground with a small rental income from other farmers. The island has internet access. The local hotel is called Stronsay Hotel. Tel 01857 616213 email cjdbuk@fsmail.net The hotel has wireless for the guests.
Stronsay is an island in Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland. It is 3,275 hectares (13 sq mi) in size, and 44 metres (144 ft) at its highest point and has a usually resident population of 349. The main village is Whitehall, home to a heritage centre.
Sights on the island include the Vat of Kirbister, a natural arch described as the "finest in Orkney" and various seabirds amongst which are Arctic terns.
Tel 07801 447907 or 01857 616264.


text:
Q: How can I use a widely-available cross-platform command line program to render a string containing emoji I would like to use a widely-available command line program, the lighter-weight the better, to render a string containing emoji into a raster image. The rules are:

*

*must work on a minimum of OS X and Linux. Windows is a bonus

*must be available from both homebrew and apt

*

*and work in its default configuration from both

*this eliminates imagemagick + pango, for example - homebrew builds im without it)

*must not require a full programming language environment (i.e. no "pip install" or "npm install"ing anything)

*must not require a browser

*

*if you can come up with a short way to do this with a browser that doesn't ask me to ask users to install puppeteer, it's marginally acceptable.

*but I would like something much lighter weight than this

*must render full color emoji

*must use system fonts, no asking a user to install or muck around with their fonts

Things I've tried:
ImageMagick
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 72 "label:Hot  stuff" png:- | imgcat

*

*I'm aware that imagemagic can be built with pango and apparently this will work, but it's not by default on homebrew, and I don't want to require users of my program to install a custom build

rsvg-convert
I was really hopeful for this one! Unfortunately:
echo '<svg viewBox="0 0 450 80"><text x="0" y="80" fill="#ff0000" font-size="80">Some  text</text></svg>'  | rsvg-convert  | imgcat

ffmpeg
ffmpeg -ss 1:57 -to 2:00 -copyts -i /tmp/ytgif_cache/video_httpswwwyoutubecomwatchvnrqxmQruto.webm -filter_complex '[0:v] fps=10, scale=640:-1, split [a][b], [a] palettegen [p], [b][p] paletteuse, drawtext=borderw=1:bordercolor=black:fontcolor=white:fontsize=30:x=(w-text_w)/2:y=(h-text_h)-10:text= flames ' flames.gif

What have you got
That's all I've tried, and I'm kind of out of ideas! It feels like this should not be a challenging thing to do, as all the software I use day to day does renders emoji effortlessly. What else could I be using?
Surely something works to handle this?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


The government of Karnataka and Information Technology (IT) industry lobby group, Nasscom, has recently joined hands to launch one of Asia's largest startup warehouse of 50,000 square feet and also the country's first "hack-celerator", a combination of a hackathon-like programme and an accelerator. It has also announced to launch a new "Internet of Things" lab and a mobile development lab as part of the program.
The Internet of Things lab will incubate startups that are attempting to build new products around the Internet of Things.
With this the government has also announced an ambitious plan to ensure public access to wi-fi all across Bangalore in about a year. This will make Bangalore the first metropolitan city in India with such facilities.
"Our competition is not with neighbouring states; our competition is with the Silicon Valley," Karnataka IT minister S.R. Patil said.
The Karnataka government is investing about INR 4-5 Cr to build the 50,000 square-feet startup warehouse, which may house over 200 startups and will be located in the Diamond District locality of Bangalore. The warehouse is expected to be up and running by November.
Last year, the Karnataka government and Nasscom had built the first state-level startup warehouse, which had attracted about $1 Mn of investments.
The warehouse will basically become a one-stop shop for angels, VCs, startups!
Apart from this, the government has also announced that nine engineering colleges in Karnataka will be receiving funding of up to INR 40 Cr to set up incubation centers. These colleges will be located in towns and cities such as Mysore, Belgaum and Shimoga. It will also be conducting hackathons for student teams from these nine colleges in September and October. Each selected team will receive upto INR 3 lakh to develop and scale up their ideas.
The state IT department is also partnering with ecommerce firms such as Amazon and Snapdeal to help bring SMEs online by using their marketplace platforms.


Take a look at our amazing, unrivilled cover plan packages starting for, only £8.99. Choose our Silver package, for only £12.49 and receive a free boiler service worth £60.
If you would like to sign up for one of our cover plans, please email including your full name, address and contact details.
All packages are subject to terms and conditions.


text:
You are here: Home / Michalopulos Blog / Another Narrative Fail
Another Narrative Fail
December 4, 2015 by Gail Sheppard
Seriously, things are getting too easy for me lately. The collapse of the Liberal/Progressive Narrative is almost now totally complete. One has to be either mentally challenged or extremely delusional to not see how that Narrative has lost all moral credibility.
Let us just consider the recent atrocity in San Bernadino. The Elite media sprang into action even before the bullets stopped flying. A "reporter" for CNN cautiously informed the public that this latest outrage had "all the earmarks" of an "anti-government militia" or perhaps "the Tea Party."
Here's how easy it is:
Monomakhos First Universal Law of Official Reportage: "When a mass shooting happens, the longer it takes the Media to report anything about the shooters, then you can be sure that they're moving heaven and earth to find out anything about him (or them) that would tie them to the NRA/Tea Party/Militia/whatever." The corollary of this Law is: "When a shooter is white and/or Christian, the speed with which this is reported is instantaneous and the volume and frequency which this will be broadcast will rise in direct proportion to the number of victims."
Monomokhos Second Universal Law of Media Reportage: "When it is clear that the perpetrator(s) were radicals/Moslems/minorities, then the velocity with which an official grievance group and/or academic panel is assembled will be in direct proportion to the number of victims."
See? I just popped those off the top of my head. I'm sure that you could come up with your own if you put your minds to it.
When it became apparent that the perpetrators were a radicalized Moslem couple, our President was "not sure what the"motive" was. Perhaps it was "due to terror." Or maybe "workplace issues" were in play. Worse, while he was in Paris attending a Global Climate Change summit (take that! Isis!) he went on to criticize his own (?) country yet again: "only in America" are there mass shootings like this he calmly informed us. Considering the fact that he was in the very country where an even worse mass shooting took place just two weeks earlier, leads me to think that he's ironically challenged. (Can you even begin to imagine what the Elite Media would say if it had been George Bush who said that?)
Gimme a break. Still, it's been comical to watch the Left grab for any straw whatsoever as they cling at the cliff's edge.
When it became obvious that the elephant in the room could no longer be ignored, the Elite Media went into high gear in order to misdirect the people. That's basically their job anymore. A new word entered the public lexicon: "Prayer Shaming." We are told that the calls for prayer by certain Republican candidates even when this was the express wish of several of the hostages was nothing but a cheap stunt. What was needed was "action." Yeah, more gun control –that's the ticket.
Seriously, I don't know how much longer this insane clown posse that is the Mainstream Media/Ruling Class can continue. Their now-open hatred of God is obvious to a blind man. Eventually, it's all going to come crashing down.
May God speed the day.
Misha says
I saw that there had been a shooting and read about some of the details. A friend of mine said that they don't know who did this yet. I said, "Let me take a wild stab at it."
What I told him was that this happened in California and therefore, until the evidence made it undeniable, there was a strong bias against calling it terrorism and a taboo against calling it Muslim terrorism. But the shootout and the bomb left behind looked like an extremist Muslim plot to me. I just said to wait til tomorrow. The truth can't be suppressed forever.
Sure enough, Pakistani and Saudi Muslims, connection to Isis, amateurish but clearly following some terrorist playbook.
So what is the predictable reaction of the Liberal media? Gun control. Even though everything was purchased legally. Perhaps you have forgotten Paris in the heart of the gun control capital of the world?
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf
If you look at the data for the United States from the 1980's to 2008, you see that the rate of black perpetrated homicide is about 8 times higher than the rate for whites. Thus, the homicide rate in the United States for whites is more comparable to that in Western Europe.
It's not about gun control. It's about a sick subculture.
Another sick subculture, that of extremist Islam, is responsible for the Cali terrorism attack.
But I encourage liberals to keep their heads in the sand. It will lead to the destruction of their sick culture.
Here is why you are wrong and the obvious missing piece.
The media is not concerned about left or right. They wish to sensationalize everything.
CNN is so horrible. Erin Burnett said the other day Laquan McDonald was killed for jaywalking. I was infuriated. And CNNs coverage is so nonstop on one piece that after an hour I could vomit.
Sorry George, they are not liberal media. They are just bad media. And Fox is no better.
The only decent outlet is BBC. And even BBC said shooters named.. It should have said Muslim shooters.
Political correctness is on hyperdrive.
And for that I will credit the liberals. But for sensationalism, they all do it.
Anything to whip up a story.
By the way I'd like to add the media's unwillingness to say Islam terrorism is really annoying.
The efforts to not infuriate Muslims is way over the top political correctness.
I can tell you what this red neck liberal says, but you won't print it.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and dives like a duck, well, then, it's a fake duck!
Lori Goldberg says
Wake Up! says
The burning question is, "Did Syed Farook take out rental car insurance?" Just kidding. The real burning question is, "Who is Tashfeen Malik?" It's day 3 and there is no picture, despite the fact that pics and fingerprints are required for immigration and driver's license. Is she the personification of everything that is wrong with the Immigration non-process, or is something else going on? Is her background being electronically invented as we speak?
Rymlianin says
The chickens are coming home to roost. The US's playing footsy with Salafist extremists, the overthrow of secular governments and their replacement with religious extremists in Iraq, Libya , Egypt and Syria are finally bringing us to "payback" time. You reap what you sow.
My dad and I spoke about this when Bush invaded Iraq.
J Clivas says
How do you know that, if you wait long enough, an ordinary rank-and-file Moslem won't become a "radical" Moslem?
There is the rub. The founders of my parish were forced out of their homeland by a Moslem pogrom against them often carried out by neighbors whom they had been at peace with for some time.
Bishop Tikhon (Fitzgerald) says
What nationality were the Muslim perpetrators of that pogrom," Michael Baumann? What nationality were those founders of your (unnamed) parish?
Syrian/Lebanese. What other Orthodox have been pushed out of their homeland my Muslims often with the collusion of the west in the last 100 or so years. You know that. Oh and you continually spell my last name incorrectly. Only one n.
Those stories are part of the tradition of my parish which I have named frequently on this blog BTW and which unless your memory is failing drastically you know. So don't try to paint me with your spurious "anonymity" brush.
I know you think that only Russian Orthodox can conduct pogroms but you would be wrong. And your question is simply an egregious attempt to raise a spurious ad hominem suggestion and continue to be an apologist for Muslim treatment of Christians.
By the way, the IOCC is selling for donations a small lapel pin with the Arabic N on it and the caption, "I, too, am a Nazarene" as a way of raising some money and standing in solidarity with our Christian brothers and sisters being persecuted by ISIS. A persecution which I am sure you will find some way to excuse and minimize. Because the victims are anonymous?
"My parish was founded by victims of a Muslim pogrom?" Survivors you mean?
And would that be like the Christian pogrom when they entered Jerusalem in the First Crusade, or like the Christian pogrom of the 4th Crusade in Constantinople? Or like the Christian pogroms which Roman Catholics visited on Lutheran towns in German and vIce versa in the Christian THIRTY YEARS RELIGIOUS WARS? How about the religious pogroms visited on the Muslims and Jews of PREVIOUSLY multi-religious Spain, which resulted in Spanish (Sephardic) Jews being scattered all over the tolerant and "ecumenist" Ottoman Empire?
If you are going to label every victory by Muslims in Lebanon a pogrom, does that mean that the Christian militias' victories there, and those of the Druzes, etc., are also "pogroms?"
Hieromonk Mark (Kerr) says
Michael, Serbian Orthodox have also been pushed out of their ancient homeland of Kosovo and Metochia, and the relentless pressure of genocide and cultural obliteration against the faithful remnant clinging to their patrimony and the ancient, sacred and culturally important monuments continues, perpetrated by Albanian Muslim terrorists. Nationality doesn't really seem to play much of a role in the situation; it is not in any way a defining factor. Islam is the defining element and the root (i.e., radical) source of the problem. It is an idolatrous, barbaric, theocratic, globalist totalitarian ideology deceptively called a 'religion'. And the personal failings of individuals and groups identified as 'Christian' to live by the Gospel in no rational way can be equated with what Islam is and what the results of fidelity to its teaching are.
Hieromonk Mark. Who has visited more harm on ORTHODOX Serbia, Albanian Atheists and Muslims or Roman Catholic Croats?
Matt says
How do you know that, if you wait long enough, an ordinary rank-and-file Christian won't become a "radical" murderer at the local Planned Parenthood?
Michael Warren says
The greater probability is that Planned Parenthood will murder more babies and then sell their remains for profit to the highest bidder.
But that is the acceptable violence of liberals who are licensed to take human life, isn't it? You all fantasize about politicizing murders to further your lunatic fringe narratives, literally praying to be enabled with a pretext to engage in persecutiom and purges. Simply sickening.
Listen to yourselves, swooning in anticipation to celebrate tragedy while you participate in a trade of human vivisection Dr. Mengele himself would blush at…
Mr Warren,
First let me recommend two things: up to 24 mg per day of Ondansetron, a 5-HT3 antagonist for nausea & vomiting; I would caution you that the FDA has not approved it for melodramatic "sickening," ineffective for what Kierkegaard and Sartre have described as nausée, which is an existential problem. Secondly, you need to educate yourself in the reality of the "brokerage" of human tissue and "specimen," which in our society, is completely legal. As one who lives in the in one of the largest university and privately sponsored research-oriented cities in the US, Planned Parenthood is no more guilty or culpable than the hundreds of facilities who practice the identical "vocation." We are a culture dependent upon the next "medical miracle" derived from "tissue" donation. You purposely confuse the issues: Planned Parent does not murder for profit; they murder, then charge the accepted rate to prepare and deliver "specimens" like every other ghoulish broker in the business, pursuant to prices established by the FDA. No more, no less. There is no auction to the "highest bidder."
I, for one, tire of self-righteous, mouth-breathing neck-beards such as your self who finger point & scold "liberals" on the internet as if you were Elijah confronting the heathen. Mr. Warren, I was "separated" from my job last week because of my extended illness – and I'll let the lawyers argue the matter – but it had nothing to do with my extended illness. All the lawyers and the California Dept. of Fair Employment believe it was because I was vocal about my ethical opinions regarding abortion, homosexuality, and transgender, refusing to follow the county "policy" of accepting as "normal" what the Church condemns as sinful. Do not puff your chest in self-righteousness at me. You are a "sickened" paper tiger, bloated with what Hamlet declared, "Words, words, words."
Yes, I understand that narco-sensualism is a pillar of the white, liberal, paternalist plantation. And although I am nauseated by the obscenity of liberalism, as a social democrat I find my solutions in free speech and the revolution, and I don't look for an escape in drugs. I am a man, not a dehumanized liberal.
I honestly feel pity for you, because you rejected Orthodoxy and Truth for a narcissism which will die with you, and, indeed, a hall of mirrors playing tricks on your soul and never allowing you to see reality as it is. Sartre would define you as one addicted to opiates, for you never will allow reality to emerge so that you can live a true existenz. Whereas, Berdiaev would also pity you for creating a subjective construct of self mythology preventing you from truly living toward objectivized christocentrism.
Human life begins at conception. That's just science. No, because debauched liberals have made laws which can declare life unworthy of life does in no way diminish the inherent humanity of that life. Nor are these laws legal in the sense of humanity. Just as it is immoral and evil to buy NAZI leather goods made with human skin or mattresses made from human hair or soap made from human tissue, it is obscenely immoral to trade in the vivisected remains of human children! What you wrote is bathotic, debauched, ideological pornography attempting to amnesty crimes against humanity. The fact that you try to rationalize something as heinous and foul as the trade in vivisected human remains indicts you and your ideology as craven and reprobate evil. People who thought as you do were tried for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg. There is nothing even human to your point of view, not to mention Orthodox.
Your words indict the evil of your sick and twisted liberal ideology. It is pathetique in the fullest existentialist understanding of the world. It celebrates moral fugue and anomie to create a reality Dr. Mengele would find repulsive. Your liberal gestalt is profane.
Words which come to mind when I read your insane rant are bezobrazie, urod, chudovische, zlo. I was oppressed by your lack of humanity.
One last thing in regard to your polemic: do you want to know why your effette liberalism is a dead ideology, outside of the blatant evil you advocate? It is dead because it refuses to take responsibility for its history of failures and to change. Instead it would rather abort morality and human decency in the hopes the zeitgheist would one day allow it to pull humanity deeper into a lumpen sewer of rationalization for evil. Narcissist neopaganism aside, liberalism crucifies all objective standards to fit round pegs into square holes and achieve whatever ideological end justified by any and every immoral means. It is a mutant ideology of orcs and spiritual vampires. And your defense of commerce in human vivisection here shouts that to the world. Dr. Mengele is ashamed for you.
Actually Mr Warren, you distort Stankovich horribly.
It is clear you are a better reader than writer.
Seems you are a better ad hominem critic than polemicist. But of course you aren't unagendized.
You almost "hit the nail on the head," Daniel. It's too bad the draft was discontinued–it got some people out of harmful ruts. Oh, how horrible and pitiable–"unagendized!" And always the "Of course…." next comes "Actually…."
M. Stankovich, too, really nailed it!
Mr. Warren, I suggest you calm your outrage and try listen to what M. Stankovich is saying. He writes in a difficult bombastic style (much like yours). A style that does a great disservice to himself and his beliefs. As one who has contended with him for many years now and still disagrees with him in substantial ways in much the same manner as you do here today, he is not the person you paint him to be. I had to repent of my vituperation. Please re-think.
Thank you for your advice, but anyone demanding amnesty for the trade in the vivisected remains of human children is advocating reprobate evil. The fact he derides others for condemning this heinous and black practice attempting to shout them down is self condemnation before my response even rebuts his morally bankrupt, liberal diatribe.
Michael has constantly asserted the Holy Scriptures, Sacred Tradition, Canons and Fathers of the Church. Where is he wrong? Who made you the arbiter of all things Orthodox? This is the fundamentalist bs that needs to be denounced and exposed. You should apologize to Michael, and seek to be much more humble in your life.
You need Jesus.
Unlike renovationists, we in the Orthodox Cburch don't have innovators as authorities. We in the Orthodox Church recognize innovators as the founders of heterodox movements and departures from orthopraxis. We in the Orthodox Church have Holy Canons and Holy Fathers which anathemize such innovators as schismatics and heretics. We have the Holy Fathers and the Mind of CHRIST. Where it seems in the mind of every neopagan Eastern Rite Protestant Renovationist the Church, the Holy Canons, the Holy Fathers, the Mind of CHRIST, the historical and cultural orthopraxis of every local church, all that embodies the life of Orthodoxy in the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition is 'fundamentalist bs" because it rejects their iconoclastic worldview as heterodox, heretical.
So the choice then is two millenia of CHRIST's Church Orthodoxy and fidelity to her or a century of Eastern Rite Protestant innovation which knows better than the Church and has self-proclaimed, original "authorities" in the place of the Holy Fathers, Holy Scripture, Holy Canons, orthopraxis, Tradition expressing the Mind of CHRIST and saving the People of GOD in theosis. Before anyone decides let him understand that renovationism calls for ritualism of/for/by men in nominalized humanism accomodating the secular world while Orthodoxy leads one in theosis in Life in CHRIST JESUS. Salvation in CHRIST in Orthodoxy or death in man in Renovationism: that is the choice. Renovationism knows better than CHRIST and HIS Church in its orthodoxism. Or people can choose Orthodoxy, but they can't have both and be Orthodox. Orthodoxy is mutually exclusive from Renovationism which is an heretical counterfeit of it. I urge people to follow CHRIST and avoid the organ grinders to save their souls in the Orthodox Church.
Michael. This is an UNTRUTH of yours:
"we in the Orthodox Church don't have innovators as authorities."
NOT TRUE!
"Behold, I am doing a new thing." "..I bring you a new commandment…."
..make all thing new…"
All innovators are anathemized in the Orthodox Church, Your Grace. I am sure you are familiar with the Anathema service on the Sunday of Orthodoxy.
Mr Warren must be among those who objected when I used to serve what HE calls "the anathema service,' but which is called. in fact, by educated Orthodox: "The Office of Orthodoxy." The most prominent features of The Office of Orthodoxy are THREE: the Creed, the Polychronia, and the Anathemata, All sing the Creed, the Protodeacon intones the Polychronia and the Anathemata , while the choir/people respond with Many Years or Anathema at the appropriate times. I suspect that I am MUCH MORE FAMILIAR with what Mr Warren calls the Anathema service than he is. Has it EVER been served in Detroit? Has he been present when HIS bishop served it? There is NO heresy called "innovation." Some in Holy Russia formed an ad hoc group called, usually, "Renovators" They are often included amongst those anathematized in Russian Diocesan Cathedrals, but not always,
The present Archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop Benjamin served as Archdeacon several times with me in the old days in the Office of Orthodoxy,
When has Mr Warren prayed at the Office of Orthodoxy, in what Cathedral and what Hierarch served it?
Innovators and innovations by the Holy Canons and at the Sunday of Orthodoxy.
It is pointless to write anything to you, because your sole interest is spam, personal attacks and cyber stalking. That is simply pathetic. Respect your episcopal dignity, Your Grace.
My personal life is none of your business, Your Grace.
Settle down Francis. Put a little water in your wine.
Mr. Warren,
If you were any dumber, more-self-righteous, or unjustifiably arrogant, your head would rattle when you walk. You are a classic troll, come here to feed your obviously weak ego needs by mocking everyone – pious people whom you know nothing about, have never met, nor heard speak, including a Hierarch of the Church – by your "name-calling," labeling, and disparagement with all the key phrases directly from Fox News: liberal gestalt, narcissist neopaganism, "a lumpen sewer of rationalization for evil." Words, words, words, pal. You would wilt and flee the human tragedy I have witnessed and attempted to intervene in fear: the most despicable, loathsome, and rejected of God's creation. And I continually bear in mind that "For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again." (Matt. 7:2) You would judge my faith – pitying me for having "rejected Orthodoxy and Truth for a narcissism which will die with [me]?" "Dr. Mengele is ashamed for you." You bait for a fight? Not with me. You are a classic troll, and not even a good one. Be gone. You are toxic to this forum.
It is all too telling how you readily are the hero of your own narratives, transfer to others the indictments of your own poor formation and behavior and even try to label a social democrat with a faux news smear.
Will you be trying to associate me with the KKK or the murderers of JFK next? Will I be found again guilty for impugning the evil of the trade of the remains of vivisected children? Is it arrogant and sanctimonious to insist on inalienable, human rights? Or is it just fashionable for liberals to whine when they are shown to have no clothes and be the advocates of horror, terror, evil not known since Hitler's death camps?
Seems all my words have visceral meaning and they fit the condemnation of liberal debauchery with sovereign intensity.
Your liberal narrative is failing not because of my social democratic and Orthodox Christian rebuttal but because it is a contemporary antireligion of amnesty for all that is false, immoral and evil, bending the knee to a narcissistic, neopagan baal. Your self indulgence which you agitate for is the evil and degeneracy discrediting everything you stand for. You are responsible for the darkness you believe, its sin, your behavior.
You just justified and amplified every word I wrote in a tawdry pastiche of liberal irresponsibility and moral fugue.
Frankly, as an Orthodox Christian, I can say it is the obligation of all well adjusted and pious coreligionists to reject the Anti-Christian, maladapted anti-formation your reprobate liberalism and depraved moral renovationism represents. Don't be surprised by people living by moral standards trying to pursue Orthodox piety rejecting the base and unadulterated evil your liberal mutation of renovationism represents.
Your rhetoric is all too familiar of individuals who have run headlong through this and Fr. Han's site with the identical jingoism, insult, judgment, and "righteous assault," only to vanish when they have exhausted themselves, or are eventually ignored. You are on a manic roll, compelled to comment to everyone over everything with "dank memes," punctuated with perseverations of "zombies," "fugues," "liberalism," and "renovation," all of which are completely empty phrases, void of content & common sense. You do not tower over me (cf. Gen. 11) with your verbosity.
You would suggest that I support amnesty for abortion? You are more ignorant than I imagined. Apparently your mania precludes you from reading: I said it is the reality. And what was my point? If you would stop Planned Parenthood then stop all brokering of human tissue and specimens for research; and back to the reality: it will never happen because our society is addicted to "medical miracles" derived from research conducted with human tissue and other materials. 25 states have enacted "Right to Try" laws that require pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to provide terminally ill patients with trial medications & devices even in Phase I clinical trials (establishing safety phase). What does that tell you? Tough talk, but trolls like you are nothing but "words, words, words."
You say my "liberal narrative is failing?" A cheap, empty troll convention you all use which has no meaning nor content. You are all alike, grabbing as much negative attention as possible, insulting as many as possible, and then running. If you were near me, I would recreate the encounter of our Blessed Father Nicholas The Wonderworker with Arius, and slap the vulgarity out of your mouth. You are an arrogant troll. Nothing more, nothing less.
Nothing but petty attempts at guilt by association and ad hominem.
This is why a mind on MSNBC is something Barnum and Bailey would have showcased in their freakshows as an abnormal oddity. But of course keep on trying to vilefy the message by personally insulting the messenger. We understand that is all you have. Hate.
This is precisely why your subhuman and rejected liberalism is vanquished in the war of ideas. It is patently flawed, degenerate and evil.
Again not only the hero of your own narratives, but the equal of St. Nicholas in your alternate reality contending with the "Arian heresy" of human rights, that no life is unworthy of life much the less human vivisection. What arrogance!!! How dare anyone challenge the vile and reprobate liberal, renovationist narrative?!
Delusional, sanctimonious and sociopathetic. Your religion is fugue and your church is anomie. Your standard of sainthood is Anton LaVey.
M. Warren! Define your "narco-SENSUALISM" PLEASE!
It is not my narco-sensualism, Your Grace, but the libertine debauchery of liberal McCivilization indulging consumption for pleasure, profligacy, promiscuity through the use of narcotics. Moral iconoclasm by doped up masses led to degeneracy on the paternalistic, technocratic, limousine, liberal plantation. Something the generation of Woodstock and send indulgent, pagan excess defined as its culture and foisted on America.
You can appreciate, Your Grace, by renting the vintage film Woodstock or simply reading the platform of the Democrat party.
Michael can't it! As I thought. (Or doesn't know what definition is, thinking it means "any examples I can scrape up or make up"!
Actually, you have been answered, Your Grace, with a full definition. The film Woodstock can illustrate the meaning for you. Parts of it I believe are available on YouTube.
Then the concept can be amplified for you by reading the writings of Roshack, Foucault, Marcuse and Chomsky. Don't forget Bakunin's Revolutionary catechism as well.
Michael says I can define what he CAN'T define! Does he know the difference between a definition and an example of a word defined?
Daniel and Michael S. really nailed it with him! He can't think of a definition of "narco-sensualism", a word he made up himself and thought SOUNDED like something! Maybe it could mean DEA Agents visiting a bordello!
Is there someone who actually comprehends this statement:
It is not my narco-sensualism, Your Grace, but the libertine debauchery of liberal McCivilization indulging consumption for pleasure, profligacy, promiscuity through the use of narcotics. Moral iconoclasm by doped up masses led to degeneracy on the paternalistic, technocratic, limousine, liberal plantation.
"Limousine," you say? "Plantation?" And do you actually intend to attempt to silence everyone who challenges you with "Do not address me personally again" on Mr. Michalopoulos' forum? I strongly suspect you are a troll on the decline when you must attempt to order silence so disrespectfully on another man's forum. For me, having to watch someone attempt to open one of those impossibly packaged-in-plastic items, then resort to a sharp knife or scissor in frustration makes me cringe; once you cut yourself, however, I'm comfortable caring for the wound. It's the crash & burn part that makes me anxious. I could be wrong – though I am not a betting man – but you have repeated your "position" on nearly every matter I can think of with basically the same set of catch-phrase and jargon-laden rhetoric to last me well into 2016. You are overbearing, mean, judgmental, cynical, and in too many cases incorrect in your assertions, making the effort to correct you too burdensome, and frankly a waste of time. And the sad part is that, on the occasions you do make an insightful comment, you immediately obliterate its significance by insult, arrogance, or disrespect. My friend Michael Bauman referred to me as "bombastic," which I acknowledge and frequently regret; but I am correctable and admit so when I am wrong. That is the opposite of you, the troll, Mr. Warren, because you invade and attempt to take every discussion you enter hostage whether by discussion, insult, judgment, or flat out meanness. And you are deep in it, brother.
You still are the hero of your own narrative trying to float a personal attack against me to try and silence me because you have lost the argument.
I have elucidated my position and explained what I have written. Those who aren't their own messiahs AKA delusional trolls ask for clarification when they don't understand what is written. Then they read the answers given them. And when all they have is ignorant personal attacks to offer, they are asked to take that elsewhere.
You don't know the difference between a SOCIAL DEMOCRAT and a Republican. Neither do your friends, yet you expect to be taken seriously with your contrived and immoral nonsense?!
You floated a reprobate argument for the trade in the vivisected remains of human children on the ridiculous attempt at linking the legality of what Planned Parenthood is doing with some anti rightwing rant against other corporate entities and lumped me in with them by some sort of asinine suggestions for drug therapy and continue to offer only childish KOZ type character assassination in the hopes of finding something to stick.
I am a SOCIAL DEMOCRAT. Look it up. But it is pointless. You are an irrational liberal refusing to admit that the failed ideology you advocate uses consumerism, sensualism and narcotics use as a means of controling the working class and keeping it on the liberal plantation for mob agitation. Narco-Sensualism used on the limousine liberal plantation.
You keep writing words, words, words because your liberal talking points box you in and render you incapable of understanding ideas, ideas, ideas. Dialogue with a liberal puppet like yourself you shout is not only pointless but an exercise only a remedial education for you and yours can make possible. Like a puppet on a string you do and say what the liberal, renovationist echo chambers tell you with a smugness tenth graders are known for. Anything else is above your paygrade
But here you are blathering about nothing, caressing your fallen liberal idol (mostly of yourself) and personally attacking me because I find what you believe and stand for repugnant, evil, while being totally disinterested in your personal life and whatever identity you have chosen for yourself. You resent that I speak out against what you believe and here you are whining about it with typical, liberal hystrionics. That's all you have to offer, and no one cares. So shout a little louder with your friends that you intend to continue in insipid personal attacks without any substance because I reject what you and they stand for as reprobate evil and can elucidate why. Keep shouting your concession with invective and ad hominem spam. Everyone can see that is all your tired and ridiculous ideology has to offer.
If you can't understand English and metaphor or simple political science, why are you troubling others with your ignorant and crass nonsense?
There are proper ways to ask for clarification of terms and concepts which don't begin by offering prescriptions, move to stupid personal attacks, evolve into equating social democrats with republicans then have you ridiculously morphing from messiah to St. Nicholas to Muhammad Ali. If there were a country called hubris, you would work in its sanitation department. The word bathos is insulted when you are mentioned with it in the same sentence. Here you are offering invective to act as a smokescreen for reprobate evil. Trolling and spam.
Do you really believe nonsensical personal attacks are in any way going to advance your agenda? Liberal, renovationist dilletantism aside, you and yours are just desperate.
I honestly feel sorry for the guy.
He has taken all positions on the left side of the bell spectrum and moved them to a common point well left of where many actually belong.
Many folks don't understand that political division is its own empire. Think of them as Rush Limbaugh's fish. He feeds them a daily dose of right wing nostalgia/hate/ideals where they all reminisce about 1776.
Opposing views are good-both ways.
Bathos. The one to feel sorry for seems to be yourself who not too long ago was trying to affix the conservative Republican label to myself in the hopes of somehow saving your failed liberal agitprop.
Well, that didn't happen so now your political illiteracy shifts focus and morphs into an ad hominem attack because that is all you can comfortably hope to accomplish. You don't have to share uninformed liberal talking points and engage in personal attacks.
This is precisely why liberals are obsolete eyesores
Or you can take your talking points back to KOZ to share with all the other minds rotting in the GIGO of MSNBC.
I honestly feel sorry for a pointless liberal with nothing to say who feels compelled to try and bolster his low self esteem by insulting people he neither knows nor understands.
Seems to be a few of them about.
While you zeal is admirable, Michael, it is painfully obvious that you neither know Mr. Stankovich nor understood what he wrote. His was no defense of human vivisection, I assure you. Quite the contrary.
He wrote of the acceptability of the trade in the vivisected remains of children and tried to shout down people opposed to it. I think that is all the foundation for my rebuttal necessary.
I don't want to know such people. As an Orthodox Christian, I am taught to avoid and flee evil while doing good in its place.
Once again, Mr. Warren, please re-read Mr. Stankovich's post. I quote from his post (emphasis mine):
As one who lives in the in one of the largest university and privately sponsored research-oriented cities in the US, Planned Parenthood is no more guilty or culpable than the hundreds of facilities who practice the identical "vocation." …they murder, then charge the accepted rate to prepare and deliver "specimens" like every other ghoulish broker in the business….All the lawyers and the California Dept. of Fair Employment believe [I was fired] because I was vocal about my ethical opinions regarding abortion, homosexuality, and transgender, refusing to follow the county "policy" of accepting as "normal" what the Church condemns as sinful.
Say whatever else you will about Mr. Stankovich, but your accusation is completely unfounded. He not only stands (with "words") but is willing to suffer for the Faith of Christ and His Church.
Mr. Stankovich, in his often "in your face" style, is rightly calling your attention to the fact that so-called Conservatives, as well as the so-called Liberals you (often rightly) decry are equally complicit in what you, he, and every Orthodox Christian understands to be pure evil.
Your zeal is admirable, as I said; but you really do owe him an apology.
I do not owe an apology to anyone so vicious who wantonly rationalizes the trade in the visected remains of human children. Or did you not get the boorish attempt at creating a contrived moral equivalence between Planned Parenthood and other businesses to float his unbalanced screed against myself and everyone else who despises what this would be liberal, renovationist messiah stands for? It isn't happening, and I suggest you allow him to fight and lose his own battles without badgering the people who point out the blatent evil and moral bankruptcy of his position and obscene worldview.
If anything, his over the top, poseur attempt at elitism by its very nature warranted him his comeuppance, outside of the reprobate vivisectionist propaganda.
Your sympathy for the man is your issue, not mine and not the public's. Perhaps you are enamored of his feigned, pharmaceutical acumen, dilletante agitprop, and loathesome faux elitism, but i can assure you that his orcish ways are sociopathetic and inappropriate. Please trouble me no further. I have nothing more for you.
The truth is that I have never met Mr. Stankovich and do not know him other than from his postings on this and some other forums. I never cared much for Mr. Stankovich's "in you face" style of commentary (nor for yours), but at least he reads and understands a person's post before responding. You, on the other hand, are in such a rush to find fault and assign your silly labels that you cannot even bring yourself to attempt an understanding of what has been written. You expect your readers to wade through your sometimes delusional tirades in order to discern whatever truth may be found therein, but you steadfastly refuse to return the favor.
What is it about his writing that anyone – liberal Planned Parenthood or conservative big pharma researchers – who participates in the trade of parts of aborted children is committing murder that do you not understand? Moral equivalence? Absolutely! How is this a defense of Planned Parenthood and human vivisection?
He who answers a matter before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him.
I suggest you substantively challenge what is "delusional" instead of using it as an ad hominem crutch to say nothing more than you don't like what I write. What is delusional is justifying crass and contrived personal attacks to use them as an oversimplified means of grouping ideological opposition together to not only vilefy but then go on to rationalize the evil policies of liberalism. And then put it all under an umbrella talking about trolling where one casts oneself as some sort of enlightened messiah. Ridiculous prelest and demonization. That's what delusional.
Instead of personal attacks learn to respect or ignore positions you neither understand nor can substantively appreciate. It helps your position when you ASK about what you don't understand instead of crouching it in dilletante invective. That's called dialogue.
Reiterating that the trade in the vivisected remains of human children is justified because conservative x or y do the same thing or whatever… HELLO, I AM A SOCIAL DEMOCRAT! That means I advocate a reevaluation of who controls the means of production to put it mildly. I regard capital as exploitative, amoral and retrograde. Lumping me in with the corporate prostitutes with ridiculous personal attacks to then say x does almost the same thing legally along witb PP is about as relevant to my position as disputing the density of volcanic ash at Mt. ST Helen's as a function of corporate pollution. Non sequiter, ad hominem nonsense.
And the trade in the vivisected remains of human children is reprobate and still patently evil while advocacy for it or rationalized ploys of human equivalence are simply reprobate calls for amnesty of evil. In this case crouched in politically motivated personal attacks which even a semiliterate missing link would find preposterous.
No doubt you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you.
Thank you for your reply. It will save me a great deal of time. A blessed Nativity to you.
The Peace of GOD!
Wisdom and Truth are immortal as faculties of the WORD.
A blessed Nativity to all who celebrate it for whatever reason on the 25/12, December! Happy St. Spiridon's/St. Herman's Feast to the absolute majority of Orthodox Christians who don't!
As an aside, my church is new calendar and that is a sorry division which has no need to be rehashed in controversy. The divisiveness of thirteen days at this critical hour is an indulgence we cannot afford. I and my family, however, celebrate the LORD's Nativity on the 7, January/25, December with the Mother Church, Mt. Athos, Jerusalem, Belgrade, Tblisi, with the 80%+ majority of Orthodox Christians and the historical Church.
Gregory Manning says
Give 'em hell Michael! I, of course, don't know all the players or the details of your battle, but it pleases me no end to imagine they have picked a fight with the wrong man! May they rue the day they did so!
Thank you very much for your encouragement. But remember morality, human decency, Orthodox formation, rejection of evil and sin is the obligation of us all.
Sorry Michael W. My "childish"* remarks were directed at Michael S. Frankly, I wish there were something about your presence here I could encourage but, so far, it doesn't look promising. Couldn't you consider another approach–something less vexing–honey rather than vinegar–that sort of thing? Speaking as a gay man of some years I've grown weary of outrage and generally avoid reading it when I encounter it.
*see Michael S.'s remark below at Dec. 12.
Thank you for clarifying your position and making clear where you stand.
Mr. Manning,
I personally rue nothing because – in the words of Mohammad Ali – " I fear nobody and I'm as pretty as a young girl." And even as I find your comment childish, greetings on the Feast of St. Spyridon.
Thank you Michael.
Antiochian Friend says
Mr. Stankovich,
Please forgive me if this question is impertinent. Having been separated unjustly from your job, have you likewise been separated from your health insurance or been forced to sign up for COBRA (which is often unaffordable) in the midst of your extended illness? If so, it would seem that the Parable of the Good Samaritan is playing out on this forum, and we aren't acquitting ourselves well. If your treatment is being interrupted or jeopardized by this adverse employment action, Mr. Michalopoulos has my permission to give you my contact information. I would gladly give a denarius or two if it would help you.
Dear Antiochian Friend,
I'm sorry for not seeing this earlier, and I am genuinely moved by your charity! You epitomize Matt. 25 and surely God will richly bless your intention! Fortunately, the insulting severance they offered me – while I was still hospitalized – was to continue my health insurance for the month of December, after which I am again covered by my wife's insurance. They "awarded" me a severance package of several weeks pay, and after deducting everything they could possibly deduct (including a fee for a key to the door!), I was sent a check for less than $12.00. I leave it in the hands of the State office of Fair Employment (the CA equivalent of the EEOC). A joyous Nativity Feast to you, my friend, and with gratitude and thanks from my heart!
Rdr Thomas says
Human behavior falls all across the spectrum, but when you start to see more occurrences of a particular behavior within a group, you stop looking at the behavior of single individual and begin to look at what is groups those individuals together. It's not rocket science.
This sophomoric rhetoric where one simply flips a statement around with different names inserted does not rise to the level of conversation even.
There is good and bad in everyone is not an effective suasion in combating ideological systems which are clearly reprobate and perpetrate evil. It is morally derelict, trite and banal actually. Nor is relativism an Orthodox response to amorality and social decay. That is what has gotten us to the point of cultural subhumanity.
We are taught by Holy Mother Church to worship the CREATOR and war with sin not deify a fallen creation to justify neopagan debauchery.
Which is more dangerous, a radical Muslim or a radical Christian, J. Clivas?
Your Grace–Please let me take a stab at this. I lived my first 15 years in Istanbul, Turkey and I am somewhat familiar with Islam and Muslims. If I may, I would like to be more precise with the terminology so I will define a radical Muslim or Christian as one who kills in the name of religion.
A radical Muslim is justified by the holy books of Islam and thus may be considered a good Muslim. For example, what the ISIS has been doing to the Yezidis and Christians is in complete consonance with the Qur'an and Sunnah (Hadith and Sira).
A radical Christian is not justified by the holy books of Christianity and thus is a bad Christians. For example, what the Inquisition did in Spain and what the Protestants and Catholics did to each other during the Thirty Years War are not in consonance with the Holy Bible, especially the New Testament.
To answer your question directly, radical Muslims and Christians are equally dangerous, even though their method of murder may be different.
But Carl you say that radical Muslims and radical Christians are equally dangerous and that in this, the radical Muslims are being true to their teachings, while radical Christians are betraying their teachings?
The media acts as a liberal ministry of truth funded by monied interests to advance an agenda aimed at manipulating the mob for the interests of the limousine liberal plantation. What tells you everything you need to know is what they intentionally distort or refuse to report.
Terry Myles says
Has it dawned on anyone that the "news" has become the vapid recital of press releases from the entertainment and commercial interests delivered by politically correct (right and left), blow dried, pretty faces that keep us focused on holiday parties and Christmas shopping. The dumbing down was as obvious during conservative as well as liberal regimes. It seems that most groupings whether religious, social or political are circling the wagons and listening to their compatriots to the exclusion of contrary opinions.
It is rampant sensationalism.
Pretty sure Erin Burnett on CNN recently said the kid in Chicago was killed for jaywalking, unless I heard her wrong.
What is the outcome of such crap?
It pisses off the social liberal because they know it isn't true.
It pisses of the conservative because they know it isn't true.
It fires up BLM bigtime and probably makes the BLM movement bigger which gives the media more fodder.
It feeds itself.
They are the cause of the great divide. Whenever my staunchly conservative neighbor sends me conservative media bits.. I generally first recognize the fodder factor.
Rush Limbaugh, Stephanie Miller, Bill O'Reilly, Rachel Maddow…. all of them make money by firing up their audience and it is never to suggest the other side has good ideas.
And most of the people posting here are Orthodox, we have a common belief system, and oddly enough many of us find common ground.
Yup! I agree.
The MSA with that stupid prayer shaming stunt definitely crossed the line. They were irrelevant and a bunch of liars in the past now they are completely and utterly anti God and filled with hatred towards us Christians. If we were not awake before this should wake us up. They hate us they have no use for us and we are beneath contemptible for them. How can this nation stay united with a type of garbage that is being put out on a daily basis by the lame stream media?
I cannot even begin to tell you how infuriating that prayer shaming stunt was to me and almost every other member of my family and friends that read it or became known of it. For the first time I am truly scared for my children's future not just economically but spiritually. They are going to be Christians and not just in a non-christian land, but Christian in an anti and hostile Christian land.
For all of those on this blog there are Orthodox and lean to the left understand something they don't like you either because you are Orthodox Christians. So you can keep on spewing your leftist and progressive ideology but at the end of the day if you're dedicated to Christ and to His Holy Orthodox Church you are on this country's hit list.
So regardless of their prayer shaming we as Christians should pray to Almighty God for His mercy for his grace and for his justice. God has been and always will be our protector especially in times like this.
May Almighty God bestow his blessings on us all ma events like this help us to realize then we need to stick together as Orthodox Christians because they are coming for us and they're not even hiding it anymore.
Peter A. Papoutsis
Don't you have CBS in Texas, George?
Anyhow all the news consisted of interviews with thr Sherif until the FBI FINALLY announced that the shooting was an act of Terror. Your beff should be with Law Enforcement, George. The Sheriff and ALL the local and state and federal lae enforcement personnel paiently anf Steadfastly REFUSED to get baited into the kind rant-producing "revelations" like yours. We had these law enforcement reports around the clock here in L.A., every 15 minutes 24 hours a day here in L.A. on, among other stations KNX-FM. The local CBS outlet. It must have been achingly frustrating for some.
There were no "narrative fails." because there was no narrative at all!! Why crank up the propaganda machine, George?
Is the local mosque in Los Angeles interested in adopting a retired Orthodox bishop? We might know of one who would be interested.
http://www.dailystormer.com/obama-says-solution-to-moslems-killing-you-is-to-have-no-guns/
Who are you, you anonymous coward, to mock the anointed of God, who served in the Vineyard of your Lord for a nearly a quarter-century; whose instructive writings continue to dominate the website of the DOW with his wisdom, and a Hierarch's patient & loving directives & instruction? He is both chosen & beloved by our God and held & protected for the job he did and never bringing scandal to his ministry. Do you disagree with his comments, or dislike him personally? Bear up & shut up! Argue as you will, but you violate the Holy Tradition of the Church to mock, or disregard the highest calling a man is bestowed by God Himself. Shame on you & others who would disrespect a man held in honour higher than the Angels themselves. If you need direction, I point you On the Priesthood by our Blessed Fr. Chrysostom. You need to apologize and ask his forgiveness.
THANK YOU Michael!! I completely agree! It is because of these regrettable incidences that I distance myself from the "American" Orthodox Church movement. If this is what American converts are going to bring to Orthodoxy then I don't know you.
You are a true coward.
In fear of government.
In fear of litigation.
In fear of liberals.
In fear of Obama.
In fear of Muslims.
In fear of blacks.
In fear of eighty year old men.
Go find a mirror.
Forest says
Law enforcement doesn't write the narrative. Investigators are looking for facts to support prosecution of violations of the California Criminal Code and United States Code. Journalists and politicians create narratives. To say that the Sheriff and FBI didn't use a particular rhetoric in thier press releases as proof the Exuctive Branch, Democratic party and CNN didnt try to create narratives is a red herring.
"The head of Canon White is worth a lot to ISIS, which have placed on it a bounty of 157 million dollars."
Good luck collecting that.
ReaderEmanuel says
I laugh when they keep wondering if the mass shooters have ties to the NRA. How many NRA members have committed mass shootings? None that I know of!
WHO keeps wondering "if the mass shooters have ties to the NRA", ReaderEmanuel? WHO?
Where may we learn of this? Come on! We'd all like to share that laugh of yours!
Why the liberals who want to punish and infringe the liberties of the innocent for the crimes of the guilty do, Your Grace.
I bet you looked hard for that non-statistic.
Seven posts in less than an hour–reminds me of the squid which, when threatened, secretes a bunch of ink to hide behind!
Zane Carides on An Open Letter to the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America: "Dream on lemmings! Chekov clearly debunks myths of Russian piety showing them instead to be drunken wife beaters with no…" Jan 28, 09:41
Zane Carides on The Story of the Muslims, the EP, and "The Fancy Pants Adventures": "There are plenty of photographs of priests, muftis and rabbis concelebrating civil ceremonies in late Ottoman times" Jan 28, 09:39
Alex on The Story of the Muslims, the EP, and "The Fancy Pants Adventures": "Thank you, Gail. This was quite interesting. Though, I already know about most of what you wrote, there were some…" Jan 28, 09:30
Joseph Lipper on The Story of the Muslims, the EP, and "The Fancy Pants Adventures": "Gail, the 1686 act was a concession made by the EP to allow the Moscow Patriarchate to ordain the Kiev…" Jan 28, 09:14
Deacon John on The Story of the Muslims, the EP, and "The Fancy Pants Adventures": "Thanks for the awesome resource so I can study the canons!" Jan 28, 09:07

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The Grow Show is a locally owned and operated hydroponic and organic materials supply shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We specialize in the equipment and information you need in order to become a successful organic gardener and horticulturist. Please use our extensive knowledge-base to get every one of your questions answered - stop by our shop or contact us anytime. You too can easily be enjoying fresh, organically-grown, fruits and vegetables in no time at all.
The Grow Show - Hydroponic Supply in Ann Arbor, MI Here's Alex from the Grow Show displaying a wide variety of hydroponic nutrients carried online and in stock at the store.
Video Description: Hi, I'm Alex at the Grow Show. We carry a wide variety, starting with products like House and Garden, General Hydroponics, Ionic, Botanicare, Maxicrop, BioBizz, Earth Juice. We also carry bat guano, earthworm castings, and the completely organic General Hydroponics line, General Organics. TechnaFlora's line, Humbolt's line, Fox Farm, Dutch Master, Trinity, Dark Energy, Hygrozyme, moving into Advanced Nutrients. We are a one stop shop for hydroponic supplies. This is all available at our Ann Arbor Store location at 4095 Stone School Rd, Ann Arbor Michigan. Or on the web TheGrowShow.org. Copyright © 2012 The Grow Show. All Rights Reserved.


Old Navy Credit Card is issued by Synchrony Bank which means you can pay for your Old Navy card via online account that was created automatically when you activated your card. The online payment is a convenient way of making payments anytime and anywhere, even in the comfort of your home.
Log in to your Old Navy card online account to make a payment. You can access the card sign in page by clicking on the 'Log In' button on the Old Navy credit card page.
This will get you to the sign in page where you will need to provide your User ID and password to login.
If you have problems with your payment, you can contact customer service at the number shown on the back of your Old Navy credit card or you can call Synchrony Bank at 1-877-222-6868.


text:
University science
Collaborate Innovate
CSIRO invests $35M in future of space technology and AI
Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, is investing $35M in frontier research in Space Technology and Artificial Intelligence.
The investment will include the development of space technology such as advanced imaging of Earth from satellites, in addition to cutting-edge data science to support the growth of AI technology.
The investment is part of CSIRO's Future Science Platforms (FSP) portfolio, aimed at dedicating research to new and emerging opportunities for Australia.
They aim to help reinvent old and create new industries, as well as grow the capability of a new generation of researchers through specially-created student places in these 'future' fields.
Space Technology and Artificial Intelligence join eight other areas of future science, including in the fields of health and energy.
By 2022, the CSIRO Future Science Platforms program will have invested $205M since it was launched in 2016.
Space Technology will receive $16M to identify and develop the science to leapfrog traditional technologies and find new areas for Australian industry to work in.
It will initially focus on advanced technologies for Earth observation, and then address challenges such as space object tracking, resource utilisation in space, and developing manufacturing and life support systems for missions to the Moon and Mars.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will receive $19M to target AI-driven solutions for areas including food security and quality, health and wellbeing, sustainable energy and resources, resilient and valuable environments, and Australian and regional security.
The primary research areas include platforms to improve prediction and understanding of complex data; platforms to enable trustworthy inferences and risk-based decisions; and data systems to enable ethical, robust and scalable AI.
CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said the CSIRO Future Science Platforms have an important role to play in inventing and securing Australia's path to prosperity.
"Our Future Science Platforms aim to turn Australia's challenges into opportunities where new science can break through seemingly impossible roadblocks to give Australia an unfair advantages on the world stage," Dr Marshall said.
"Innovation needs deep collaboration, so our FSPs bring together this nation's world-class expertise across all fields of science, technology, engineering and maths to deliver real solutions to real world problems."
"CSIRO is here to solve Australia's greatest challenges through innovative science and technology – and to do that we have to invest in the big thinking and breakthrough research that will keep us ahead of the curve."
CSIRO's investment in Space Technology builds on the launch of CSIRO's Space Roadmap for Australia and supports the newly formed Australian Space Agency's goal of tripling the size of the domestic space sector to $10-12bn by 2030.
It will also grow CSIRO's 75 years of work in space, and role as a leading technology provider to the space sector.
CSIRO is uniquely placed to progress the science and application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
The FSP combines the full depth and breadth of CSIRO's research across all major Australian industries with deep technology expertise to create cutting-edge solutions while ensuring the ethical challenges are understood and protected.
View a full list of CSIRO's Future Science Platforms.
Originally published by CSIRO.
World champions of RoboCup soccer return to Sydney
Science and business are centre stage
Collaborate or crumble
The new carbon industry
Subscribe to receive fortnightly enewsletters, with a heads-up for what's happening in business and science.
How AI in health apps can make you fitter
PhD researcher Huong Ly Tong is adding AI to apps to see how fitness tracking can be personalised.
From self-driving cars to better basketball shots
Professor Simon Lucey, co-director at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning in Adelaide, South Australia has seen first hand the benefits of collaboration.
© copyright 2020 Refraction Media. All rights reserved.


text:
Bid to boost markets amid footfall struggles
Jason Noble Local democracy reporter
Mildenhall market is in line for a proper power supply for the first time Picture: ANDY ABBOTT
A market is not set to close despite footfall struggles, council leaders have insisted as they unveiled a series of fresh measures outlined to boost the number of customers.
Councillor David Bowman said the success in Newmarket meant more could now be done in Mildenhall and Brandon Picture: FOREST HEATH DISTRICT COUNCIL
Forest Heath District Council's overview and scrutiny committee on Thursday quizzed operations cabinet member David Bowman on what action was being taken at Mildenhall and Brandon markets, following the recent successful revamp of Newmarket's stalls.
Mr Bowman confirmed that a power supply was being lined up for Mildenhall's market for the first time, but admitted a different approach was needed in Brandon.
A report prepared for the committee said Brandon's market has "in particular been struggling for many years" and planned to make a series of family fun days a part of the market to offer "an event market rather than a regular provisions market".
"I think markets in general had a bit of a decline and they are now starting to come back," Mr Bowman said.
Power at Mildenhall market will help attract more stallholders, according to council bosses Picture: ANDY ABBOTT
"It's more the niche stalls people are looking for and we are starting to get different people to come into the market – that's attracting the footfall."
He added: "We are not trying to close it [Brandon] – we want to make them better and that would be a sad day if we had to close it."
To help boost the markets, a free start-up package is being offered to new businesses and young entrepreneurs wishing to run a stall, which includes free insurance and business advice.
Elsewhere a new West Suffolk Markets website is being developed, which is set to launch at the end of the month containing all the key details on all of the district's markets.
A Forest Heath report said Brandon Market had been "sruggling for years" Picture: ARCHANT
In Mildenhall, work is on track for a power supply to be ready in time for the Christmas events, which it is hoped will attract more stallholders – particularly in the winter months.
Mr Bowman added: "If there are people coming to these places it will help shopkeepers as well as the markets.
"We were really putting a lot of resources into Newmarket to get the market on the up there, and now that's done we can start work on the markets in Mildenhall and Brandon."
He added: "We are looking to try and do what we can to get footfall, so if people can come out and support them that is brilliant."
Events being planned for 2019 will be shared on the new website once it is live.
Forest Heath District Council


text:
Valeriy Feliksovych Ivanov (born July 19, 1961) is a Ukrainian journalist, specialist in mass communications, Doctor of Philology, and professor. The President of the Academy of the Ukrainian Press since April 2001.
. The author of the first Ukrainian textbook in "The Ethics of Journalism". The member of the National Union of Journalists and the Journalistic Ethics Commission. Head of Advertising and Public Relations Department of the Institute of Journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Biography
Valery Ivanov was born in Luhansk on July 19, 1961. Valeriy's father is a mining engineer and his mother is a chemical engineer.  His career began at the age of 17 when he got a job at the Voroshilovgradskaya 1–2 mine in the Vorokhilovgradshakhtoprokhodka Association.

He was educated at the local pedagogical institute
 (now university), where he studied at the History Department. In 1988 he became a graduate student, research assistant, and associate professor of journalism at Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 1995 he has been working as Deputy Director for Research. In 1996 he defended his doctoral dissertation in "The Methodology and Methods of Researching the Content of Mass Communication." Since 1997, he has been a Professor of the Department of Periodicals, and later he became the Head of the Department of Organization of Mass Media of the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University.

Since 2001 he has been leading of the Academy of the Ukrainian Press, which is a non-profit, non-governmental and independent organization. It was founded in 2001 and has received support from the European and American organizations The Academy of the Ukrainian Press promotes informed and critical media consumption by the Ukrainian public and compliance with the socially responsible journalism standards in Ukraine.

Science work
Professor Ivanov is the author and co-author of more than 500 research papers, including 30 monographs, 10 textbooks, 26 manuals, and 48 brochures.
Main works:
 Это нашей истории строки (Производительный труд учащихся и студентов Луганщины на страницах молодежной печати). – Луганск: Молодёжное научно-экономическое объединение, 1990. – 294 с.
 Контент-аналіз: Методологія і методика дослідження: Навчальний посібник. – К.: ІСДО, 1994. – 112 с.
 Теоретико-методологічні основи вивчення змісту масової комунікації / За наук. ред. А.З. Москаленко. – К., 1996. – 202 с.
 Experience of Content Analysis: Models and Practices. – Kyiv: Center for Free Press, 2005. – 234 p. соавт. Kostenko N.V.)
 News vs. news: The election campaign in the TV news programs. – Kyiv: CFP, 2005. – 204 p. (Kostenko N.)
 Журналістська етика: 3-є вид., випр. – К.: Видавничо-поліграфічний центр «Київський університет», 2008. – 224 с. (соавт. В.Сердюк)
 Практикум із журналістської етики: Навчальний посібник / Передм. В.П.  Мостового; Під ред. проф. Іванова. – 2-ге вид., стереотип. – К.: Видавець О.Зень, 2012. 320 с. (свівавтор С.В.Штурхецький)
 Массовая коммуникация: Монография. – К.: АУП, ЦВП, 2013. – 902 с.
 Медіаосвіта та медіаграмотність: Підручник / Ред.-упор. В.Ф.Іванов, О.В.Волошенюк; За науковою редакцією В.В.Різуна; Видання третє зі змінами та доповненнями. – К.: ЦВП, АУП, 2014. – 432 с. (співавт.)
 Журналістська етика: Посібник для підготовки до державного іспиту / За ред. В.П. Мостового та В.В. Різуна. – Київ, ТзОВ «ЗН УА», 2014. – 224 с. (співавт.)
 Соціологія масової комунікації / http://journlib.univ.kiev.ua/lectures/IvanovSMC.pdf
 Сучасні методики контент-аналізу: Навчальний посібник. – К.: Кондор, 2018. – 416 с. (співавт.)

Awards
 In 1992, Ivanov received the gold medal from NASU for winning the young scientists competition. http://static.rada.gov.ua/intranet/ukrzmi/human/0132832.htm
 Certificate of Merit of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2009).

External links
 «Журналистская этика» — учебник
 Valery Ivanov talking about journalistic investigations, 2010, blog in UT
 Valery Ivanov talking about the media in the pre-election period, 2014, broadcast with Mykola Veresen
 Валерий Иванов. Valery Ivanov. Basic theories of mass communication, 2010, textbook
 Ivanov: The task of media educators is to teach children to distinguish between high and low-quality media products, 2013, interview with Diana Dutsykк

References

1961 births
People from Luhansk
Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukrainian journalists
Living people

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Women jockeys owe her a great respect because Pam O'Neill fought long and hard for their right to ride against men. She finally got her permit to ride against men in 1979 but was not allowed to complete an apprenticeship. It meant she rode more than 400 winners without ever having the benefit of a claim. O'Neill rode a treble on her first day riding against men at the Gold Coast and a month later won her first feature race in the Booroolong Handicap on Samei Boy. Her favourite horse was Supersnack on whom she won 18 races including the 1990 Rockhampton Cup. O'Neill won an international 'ladies' jockey race on Ropely Lad and also outrode the great Roy Higgins to win a unisex race at Moonee Valley in Melbourne.
Pam O'Neill rides Samoan Lady to victory at Southport Racecourse 1979 (Thanks to Geoff Shephard for contributing this photo).
Some of the great family efforts.


text:
Macbeth – Review
Anne Cox | June 24, 2016 | London and West End, Reviews | No Comments
Ray Fearon as Macbeth. Images Marc Brenner.
Shakespeare's darkest of plays, Macbeth, isn't the first you'd associate with comedy, much less stand up and vaudeville, but the brightest moments in Iqbal Khan's disappointing production at The Globe brings howls of laughter – and not always for the right reasons.
Here we see a doomed and eccentric king gamboling childlike about the stage, tossing his silver-tipped cane about, his lines tripping lightly off his tongue. I half expected him to break into a song-and-dance routine.
Meanwhile Nadia Albina's show-stopping turn as Porter is genuinely funny as she deviates from the traditional text to deliver a pithy improv sketch that includes mentions of both the referendum and Donald Trump. It brings the house down.
Here we have a beefcake Macbeth, played with heart by a muscular Ray Fearon. He always looks like he will acquit himself well in a battle scene, and so it proves in various skirmishes throughout the production, but he struggles to deliver the big speeches with any sincerity.
Tara Fitzgerald, as Lady Macbeth, briefly holds the Globe's audience with her madness scene as she twitches, wrings her hands and howls like a banshee but it's about the only time you actually hear what she has to say.
There is little voice projection throughout the entire play, making it extremely difficult to hear her. Didn't anyone tell Fitzgerald that this was an outdoors production?
This is a very restrained and plodding Macbeth with lines either over-egged or seemingly ad-libbed (I don't think Shakespeare wrote "whoa, watch it!" into the text but perhaps I missed it).
There's none of The Globe's trademark gore despite ferocious fight scenes and a handful of grisly murders. It's all very clean, mechanical and by-the-book.
Does it make a difference that both Macbeth and Banquo (Jermaine Dominique) are black? No, not really. Any more than it does that Khan has given the part of Ross to Elizabeth Andrewartha or the roles of three young men to Kerry Gooderson.
Elsewhere Freddie Stewart, who recently wore the hollow crown in Henry V, seems more at home as Duncan's son and king-in-exile, Malcolm, than his cameo as a surly, mud-splattered murderer who is dumped into the groundlings after a particularly lethal exchange.
His lengthy debate with the fiery Macduff (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) over the future of Macbeth, and the crown of Scotland, reveals him to be a man of intelligence and self-control, unlike Macduff who wants to storm the palace gates and take revenge with a sword.
The play's infamous witches use puppetry and gimmicks to scare the bejesus out of the murderous Macbeth but they're the least sinister or supernatural of any "wyrd sisters" I've come across.
This is a Macbeth that fails to excite or engage. There's no horror or brutality, little mysticism or emotion and, at times, the cast try too hard with the text and, at others imbue the poetry with leaden delivery. A workman-like production.
Macbeth runs at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre until October 13.
Ray Fearon plays the murderous thane & Tara Fitzgerald his troubled wife in Iqbal Khan's disappointing, workman-like production, of Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Review
City of Champions – Review
The Body Of An American Review
Big The Musical – Review
1 Comment | Sep 18, 2019


Microglia, the resident innate immune cells in the brain, have long been implicated in the pathology of neurode-generative diseases. Accumulating evidence points to activated microglia as a chronic source of multiple neurotoxic factors, including tumor necrosis factor-α, nitric oxide, interleukin-1β, and reactive oxygen species (ROS), driving progressive neuron damage. Microglia can become chronically activated by either a single stimulus (e.g., lipopolysaccharide or neuron damage) or multiple stimuli exposures to result in cumulative neuronal loss with time. Although the mechanisms driving these phenomena are just beginning to be understood, reactive microgliosis (the microglial response to neuron damage) and ROS have been implicated as key mechanisms of chronic and neurotoxic microglial activation, particularly in the case of Parkinson's disease. We review the mechanisms of neurotoxicity associated with chronic microglial activation and discuss the role of neuronal death and microglial ROS driving the chronic and toxic microglial phenotype.
Lull, Melinda E. and Block, Michelle L. (2010). "Microglial activation and chronic neurodegeneration." Neurotherapeutics 7.4, 354-365.


Two stories written by students enrolled in Introduction to Journalism at Pattonville High School were recently selected to be published on Best of SNO (School Newspapers Online). Out of the 4,530 submitted stories so far this year, only 816 have been published on the website.
Sophomore Imani Warren's story "What if you were the top of your class?" and sophomore Ava Woods' story "Alumni return to teach at the high school" have been published on Best of SNO.
The SNO Network includes 2,372 high school news sites including the Pattonville High School journalism website. Visit PattonvilleTODAY.com to read more stories written by the high school journalism students.
Imani Warren, left, and Ava Woods are shown with certificates after their articles were selected to be highlighted on Best of SNO.


Howdy folks, this image is about 15+ Creative Space Saving Desks (delightful Desk Space Savers #1). It is a image/jpeg and the resolution of this image is 561 x 752. It's file size is just 57 KB. If You want to download This photo to Your PC, you may Click here. You might also download more photos by clicking the picture below or read more at this article: Desk Space Savers.
Genuine price will be added by your 15+ Creative Space Saving Desks (delightful Desk Space Savers #1) to your house in case you include the inside rectangular recording sort and renovate the yard, along with it. Another best issue following the kitchen with regards to adding revenue and importance ability could be the bathroom. People definitely give attention to the restroom because this can be one location where you can shut the entranceway you will visit unlike the spare bedroom when seeing the house.
You should contemplate whether you're decorating for that long term because the bolder shades and designs might be out of fashion and also you need to enhance again shortly. Likewise if you go quickly then you need to consider attracting more individuals.
When choosing your Desk Space Savers, take enthusiasm in the areas you visit. You can then have a concept of what you want if you get products online or whenever you go to showrooms. Perhaps you 've witnessed household tiles or pals and like them. Probably in health and fitness center, bistro or a lodge. In case you have a camera, capturing with your phone can help the experts to match what you would like.
They'll perform the job rapidly and by the time all-the necessary equipment has been hired by you, you might not spend money that is a lot of. You might have even a toilet that is somewhat big or a wet bedroom. In both cases, the Desk Space Savers design can be considered by you. the moist area needs to be furnished although the more expensive bathroom may well not need tiles totally.
About how large your place is you should think. Are you able to suit in a sizable tile or it will merely seem bizarre. Maybe you can make some templates from use or cardboard trial to determine how it seems. Also the manner in which you customize the tiles could make the space look its own coloring and smaller or greater will help. For instance, if a white diagonal hardwood is installed while in the place can provide a of house.
Devote your own time together with the tile undertaking and be sure to've considered every one of the options available to you and what is the tile's use. So it could be recommended togo and vacation for the regional Hardwood Showcase we advise to get qualified advice.


The term "Resilience" refers to developing strategies that enable cities to effecively withstand and "bounce back" when faced with disasters, whether they be natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes, or disasters triggered by manmade events.
For the full explaination of the three credits, read the complete article here.
Because concrete is one of the most commonly used materials used in building construction, the need to construct collapse resistant structures and make concrete stronger and as a result, more durable, is a predictable by-product of this initiative. Redcucing the permeability of concrete, which would aid in the event of flooding, would be one of many ways that Spray-Lock Concrete Protection could be used to help achieve a high standard of Resilience.
When used at time of pour, Spray-Lock Concrete Protection also strengthens, densifies and hardens concrete and protects against environment hazards, such as salt water corrosion. Testing has shown that SCP 327 will increase the compressive strength of concrete by 7-20%. It also makes concrete last longer, thereby conserving valuable resources needed to replace concrete early should it become compromised in any way before it's expected lifetime has elapsed.
Along with founding the Resilient Design Institute in 2012, Alex is founder ofBuildingGreen, Inc. To keep up with his latest articles and musings, you can sign up for his Twitter feed.
How Does a Rising Water Table Negatively Affect Your Business?


Dil Chahta Hai Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is one of the gorgeous album of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy & Mike Harvey . Album's primary genre is Bollywood , it was released on June 22, 2001 and contains 9 tracks of duration 41 minutes with a soft, smooth, and pleasant sound.. .
This SongNew.net site provide the information just for the purpose of sharing and assisting promotion for Dil Chahta Hai Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy & Mike Harvey song download mp3 free. Search your favorite songs in our SongNew.net site and download these mp3 file in the best hd quality for free cc licensed music.