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Nostalgia is big business in music. It's why the Rolling Stones can still sell out stadiums, why "Beatles Cover Band" is a profitable occupation, and it's why Cheap Trick is still on tour.
Remember Cheap Trick?
Music sticks with us as we grow older, and a song from our youth is one of the few forces in the universe that can, ever so briefly, turn back the hands of time and make us feel young again.
Now: I didn't really like pop music as a kid. It wasn't a hipster thing; I just didn't have much taste. On the other hand, I've seen The Symphony of the Goddesses at Madison Square Garden and scored a production I directed of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with remixes of old Final Fantasy tunes hand-picked off of OC Remix. Why did I do those things?
Because old-skool 8-bit NES soundtracks were fresh as hell. Here's the ten best.
10. Blaster Master (Composer: Naoki Kodaka) – If you played Blaster Master as a kid, and you drive, you've either hummed the opening warm-up riff that accompanied Sophia 3rd's initial blast-off into Level 1 while turning your car's ignition key, or you're lying. Sunsoft games back in the day were known for having tricked out soundtracks, and Blaster Master had the best of them. The first half of the game had stronger music than the second half, it's true… but since the game was freaking impossible (SHUT UP IT WAS) that's all anyone ever heard, so it worked out.
9. Super Mario Bros. (Composer: Koji Kondo) – Millions of thirty and forty-somethings around the world can hum every single piece of music from Super Mario Bros., and not just because Nintendo has re-released the game on pretty much every console they've made since. Crafted by legendary in-house composer Koji Kondo, the score to Super Mario Bros. might well be the perfect video game score: catchy and loopable without being annoying (except maybe the castle levels), and better in MIDI form than when played by a full orchestra (although a jazz trio can do wonders with it.) Why so low on this list, then? Maybe it's repetition; I've heard it so often over the years it just doesn't seem special anymore. Probably, though, because it's so utilitarian: it's more practical than it is beautiful. Still, why every 2D Mario game doesn't use the original 1-1 music for its opening level is beyond me.
8. Punch-Out!! (Composers: Yukio Kaneoka, Akito Nakatsuka, Kenji Yamamoto) – Recently on Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN's excellent Nintendo podcast, in a discussion about (what else) Breath of the Wild, the show's hosts mentioned a moment in the game's wonderful score they particularly enjoyed: when the player defeats a Stone Talus, the mini-boss' battle theme quickly shifts into a victory motif that incorporates the explosion of the enemy into the score itself. The crew on NVC rightly pointed out that this is no mean feat to accomplish. What they didn't mention is that it's a trick that appeared prominently in a Nintendo-published title thirty years earlier: Punch-Out!! Punch-Out!!'s score is simple: a title theme, a fight theme, a jogging theme, and other bits of incidental music. They're all great ditties in their own right, but when the game's hero, Little Mac, gets knocked down by one of his towering opponents, the game's soundtrack shifts seamlessly into a distress-inducing knockout theme, and by the way, it does the same with a much more hopeful piece of music when Mac knocks down one of said opponents. Punch-Out!!: beating Breath of the Wild to the punch by three decades.
7. Mother (Composers: Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka) – Here are the genres of music you can find represented on the 8-bit soundtrack of the RPG classic Mother: Rockabilly, Jazz, Gothic, Gothic Funk, New Age, Metal, Industrial, Orchestral, Electronica, Bubblegum, Pop, Alt-Rock, Avant-garde, Japanese traditional, Blues, Medieval, Easy-listening contemporary, Ethereal, Ambient, Novelty, R&B, and Baroque. Here, just listen to all of them.
6. Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (Composer: Akito Nakatsuka) – The Legend of Zelda introduced the Zelda series main theme, composed by Koji Kondo, and it is one of the most iconic and enduring pieces of video game music ever written. That first game also included one or two other tunes that were mostly forgettable; its dungeon theme, though iconic in its own right, is one of the most grating pieces of video game music ever created. But Zelda 2, the much-reviled red headed stepchild of the Legend of Zelda franchise, has a score that begins with a warbling, ethereal title tune and transitions into an overworld track inspired by the franchise's main theme. Along the course of your adventure you'll be introduced to the excellent pieces of original music that accompany overworld combat, spelunking, town visits, and the game's final dungeon. Best of all, in the game's first six palaces, the player is treated to the track that eventually became everyone's favorite Smash Bros song. Zelda 2 may not have been a better game than The Legend of Zelda… okay, it definitely wasn't… but in terms of music, the sequel has it all over its older brother.
5. Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest (Composers: Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima, Kouji Murata) – We could arguably put the whole Castlevania series on this list, but as great as "Vampire Killer" from Castlevania and "Beginning" from Castlevania 3 are, the all-around strongest score in the franchise's early days is from the most all-around inscrutable game of the entire series, the you-can't-beat-this-without-a-guide-but-go-ahead-and-keep-trying Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. One of the first major adventure games to introduce a day-to-night enemy cycle, Simon's Quest had two distinct overworld themes based on time of day and enemy toughness: "Bloody Tears" and "Monster Dance". The best track in the game, for my money, is "Dwelling of Doom", the tune that plays in each of the game's dungeons. So while you may not… okay, will not… be able to beat Simon's Quest without a walkthrough, at least it'll sound terrific underneath your screams of frustrated rage.
4. Mega Man 2 (Composer: Takashi Tateishi) – There's 50 games under the Mega Man brand, so it's kind of a shame that the best game in the entire franchise was the second one. What IS nice is that the series' best game has one of the NES' best scores. Mega Man 2 opens with a musical preamble and scroll up a building to a helmet-less Mega Man, followed by a transition into the game's driving title theme, a bit of cinematic flair that is dirt simple by today's video game industry standards but that in 1989 blew my twelve year-old mind. The eight robot master stages and the boss fight theme are all also standouts of MIDI, but the real bookend to the excellent opening track is "Dr. Wily's Castle", the first of two tracks that are used as the background music for, well, Dr. Wily's castle. If you're interested, at least twenty hard guitar covers of that one are on iTunes right this second. Enjoy!
3. Final Fantasy (Composer: Nobuo Uematsu) – If there's a video game composer whose legend rivals that of Koji Kondo, it is doubtlessly Nobuo Uematsu, the man behind three decades of music for the granddaddy of all RPG series: Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy was the 8-bit swords and sorcery game of J.R.R. Tolkien's or George R.R. Martin's dreams, and the score includes multiple compositions and themes that would become evergreen editions to the Final Fantasy franchise. Fantastic mood-setting fantasy music accompanies overworld travel, combat, dungeon crawling, and town visits, but the game's soundtrack truly makes its mark in the piece that would become synonymous with Final Fantasy itself. (Not the "Chocobo Theme"; those giant chickens didn't show up until Final Fantasy II.) The greatest high fantasy game to grace the NES does not open with a fanfare and crash of thunder, but with the crystalline and meditative "Prelude", an almost reverential piece of music that belies the grandeur and scope of the adventure it precedes.
2. Double Dragon (Composer: Kazunaka Yamane) – This might be cheating. Double Dragon was an arcade hit that was then ported over to seemingly every home video game console of the day, and then continued being ported to the video game consoles of every other day. Point being, the score to Double Dragon is arguably not a NES score. Like the game itself, the music for the arcade was re-orchestrated (so far as MIDI files can be re-orchestrated) to fit the technical specifications of the NES. But… Double Dragon's soundtrack is one knockout blow after another (heh heh), the perfect beat-'em-up, chopsocky, 1980's B-grade Kung Fu movie soundtrack. Faux-"Oriental" motifs mix with wailing synthetic guitar riffs in what might be the single must crunchable video game soundtrack you can shred on with your hair metal tribute band. I don't know if I've used any of those terms properly, but check this out if you want an example of just how righteous the Double Dragon soundtrack can be.
1. Metroid (Composer: Hirokazu Tanaka) – If it were somehow possible to convert claustrophobia, depression, and loneliness into musical notes, the resulting composition would probably sound a lot like the Metroid soundtrack. While until this point in popular culture sci-fi adventure came packaged alongside pulsing electronica, Star Wars-style orchestral accompaniment, or the ominous humming of the 1950's take on the genre, Metroid (partially due to technical limitations) took a different approach: using music to constantly remind players that they were lost deep within the caverns of an alien world and likely would not get out alive. The game greeted players with a discordant, droning title theme interspersed with high-pitched alien-sounding chimes, and opened up with the one up-tempo action cue it would offer. That track, "Brinstar", was a fake-out, for the further the player guided heroine Samus Aran into the depths of Zebes, the grimmer and more hopeless the soundtrack became. Even the tune that greeted Samus in the chambers that hid weapons upgrade seemed to be singing, "You. Will. Soon. Die… This. Will. Not. Help. Much." You know what? Here's the entire Metroid soundtrack. You can have a listen, but be sure to have your therapist on speed dial.
0. Silver Surfer (Composer: Tim Follin, Geoff Follin) – I'mma credit my man Johnny Womack of the pop culture/video game/pro rasslin' podcast Happy Hour with Johnny & the Duce for reminding me of this gem. The thing about Silver Surfer is that it's not a particularly bad game. It's just not a particular good one, either. It's completely forgettable, not to mention balls-out impossible. But. BUT. Listen to this soundtrack. It's well known among the small circles who know such things that the soundtrack to Silver Surfer for the NES is apeshit banana-pants. Although it is admittedly on the short side, music this good shouldn't be doomed to live alongside a game this mediocre. I mean, could the NES even MAKE sounds like this? Was that a thing it could do? Maybe Silver Surfer was so "meh" because they used all of the game's memory to record the unbelievable epicness that is its soundtrack for all of history to enjoy.
Or maybe Silver Surfer is a terrible character who doesn't deserve a game better than this. Still, seriously: listen to this soundtrack, and prepare to have your face melted.
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Q: Proper imputation of missing values for machine learning I always struggled to get imputation for missing values right, and it doesn't help that you can find contradictory opinions online about it.
Say I have data X that I split into X_train and X_test, and I want to use a machine learning algorithm that does not handle missing values (say logistic regression or a neural network).
My approach right now is to fit the standard_scaler of sklearn to my train data X_train, then use that fitted scaler to transform my test_data X_test, then fill missing values of both with 0s. The standard scaler subtracts the mean of the training samples and divides by the samples standard deviation.
I combine the resulting X_train, X_tet via concatenation to get a new X (to use when evaluating etc.).
In the past, I simply used the standard scaler on X before doing a train_test split, filled nas with zeros and went along with my machine learning. It seemed to me that was wrong, as I used information of my test data to fit the standard scaler. Is the approach described above reasonable and does it avoid potential pitfalls?

A: Firstly, the approach you describe (apply a scaling- and imputation-approach created on the the training to the test data) is the correct way to assess the performance of the approach. You are right that doing this before the train-test split (and even doing it before the train-validation split for each fold for cross-validation) is potentially problematic. As things go, this is a much less bad leakage between training and test data than other things one could do, but should be avoided as a matter of principle. In this case, I would be hard-pressed to figure out exactly which effect not doing it has, it's so much easier to do this after splitting than trying to figure out what it does (and this only becomes more critical, once you do imputation, feature building or encoding that somehow makes use of the prediction target).
By the way, it seems common to also add a 0/1 variable for "is this variable X imputed" (i.e. one extra variable for every variable that could be missing).
Is this the best method for imputing missing data/and or one that will generalize well to new data? That depends... E.g. if the missingness has predictive value in itself that should be used (then having a mean value + a flag could be decent: example when people do not have a previous purchase history with your online shop [=missing previous purchase information], they might plausibly be riskier customers in some sense than those with a long history) vs. when it should not be used (e.g. missingness is related to the outcome, because the predicted outcome causes the missingness, but you cannot really use this in practice to predict the outcome because of the temporal order of events - e.g. you try to predict death and you measure something on patients and they need to be alive for the measurement, but some die before you get your measurement; it could also be really bad from a discrimination perspective where some underserved communities might have missing data) vs. the missingness in itself is not informative, but one could impute quite well (then something like multiple imputation could work well or perhaps missForest or the like). There's all sorts of variations of this.

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I know that via laser plasma channels can be produced.
Through this plasma-channels current can flow.
I know this has been used as a lightning rod.
Is there a way, to have lasers interfere with one another in such a way, that there is a controllable method to print complex plasma patterns into a 3dimensional, gas filled space?
Finally, if i understand it correct a current flowing through such a printed coild would deform it massively, so any shape would have to anticipate that deformation.
Are there any papers on the limits of magnetic force exerted by a current flowing through such plasma?
Thank you for even considering this thoughts - any answer detailing problems of this approach would be very much appreciated.


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"The delegation is here to witness the country's impressive growth efforts and will meet with various Government counterparts to learn about this successful mode of cooperation with WFP," said US Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome Gaddi Vasquez who is on the Executive Board mission. "Egypt has achieved tremendous progress towards reaching its development goals. WFP can yet support further accomplishments with the help of various donors and partners, including the United States," added Vasquez. Former Peace Corps Director Gaddi H. Vasquez is U.S. ambassador to U.N. food agencies based in Rome.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launching of a new operation in Egypt which aims to reduce poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition among nearly 400,000 of the poorest Egyptians.
The operation, costing US$44 million, and to be implemented under the new Country Programme 2007-2011, will focus on capacity building activities and technical assistance to strengthen the Egyptian Government's capacity to reform safety-net programmes and address food needs of the poor; as well as integrating internationally successful food-based models into national programmes.
"We will definitely focus on strengthening our cooperation with the Government during the coming period," said Bishow Parajuli, WFP's Country Director in Egypt. "Experience and history have showed us that development efforts are sustained only in the presence of strong partnership between people, governments and aid agencies," he added.
Through the new operation, a food-for-education component will ensure the health and nutritional status of children in rural areas by providing daily snacks in some of the poorest governorates.
Additionally, WFP has a goal to expand early childhood education from 13 percent of the population to 60 percent by 2010. In Upper Egypt, a special emphasis has been placed on increasing the school attendance of girls, particularly in areas where their enrolment is very low.
"The nature of WFP's scope of work in Egypt has changed due to the socio-economic breakthroughs achieved by the Government," said Parajuli. "We have begun the transition process with the conviction that the country is moving forward in its development and the most vulnerable people will be taken care of by the government when this operation ends in 2011," he added.
Egypt has been a recipient of WFP aid since 1963. The UN agency has assisted Egypt during humanitarian crises and in development activities which improve the food-security status and quality of life for thousands of Egyptians, with particular emphasis on women and children. The total amount of assistance delivered over more than four decades amounts to US$637 million.
This week delegates from WFP's Executive Board in Rome, which is made up of 36 donor countries, are visiting Egypt to learn about the successful cooperation between WFP and the Government. Among the delegates will be representatives from the United States, Canada, Ethiopia, Mexico, China and Slovenia.
"The delegation is here to witness the country's impressive growth efforts and will meet with various Government counterparts to learn about this successful mode of cooperation with WFP," said US Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome Gaddi Vasquez who is on the Executive Board mission. "Egypt has achieved tremendous progress towards reaching its development goals. WFP can yet support further accomplishments with the help of various donors and partners, including the United States," added Vasquez.
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: each year, we give food to an average of 90 million poor people to meet their nutritional needs, including 58 million hungry children, in at least 80 of the world's poorest countries. WFP -- We Feed People.
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Here is one interesting response….
here is the short version: Employers have repeatedly emphasized that they want to hire college graduates whose talents include writing. Ah, writing. Not something that biz majors are expected to do very often.
Business students could very well be the most broadly educated students at a university. They take the same core writing, speech and general education classes as liberal arts students do. They are as apt to study abroad as students in other majors. But on top of that, they spend considerable time on practical skills.
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I have a plethora of things I want to say in this blog and trying to find the words to say it all is where the true quandary begins. (Let us hope, dear reader, you are not intimidated by long paragraphs.) But I am eager to accept the challenge—the challenge to become both a better writer and human being. Mayhap you'll find something worth taking away with you as well. Like a little secret, you found in the woods, precious and sacred, cradled in your hands waiting to find a place on your shelf to be glanced at in certain moments when needed and to be reminded of the reason you held it close to your heart to begin with.
Maybe this is asking too much of both myself and you, but I don't think so, in the end. Often, our greatest reminders of things that helped us grow, helped us form a new language to speak with, to see with, come in the little things. Or come in the things forgotten for a time, until your mind reminds you in a conversation, or with a glance at our knick-knacks. It is not wrong to forget those moments for a time, but the truly great ones, both in word and deed, seem to nestle a bit of itself in your mind, waiting to be used again and again. Something that informs the way we live, even if unconsciously.
So it is with this thought in mind for myself, that I wish to tap some of that found wisdom that I can now trace to books, dialogues, lectures, articles, or simply—words—that have come to define who I am. Who has provided me with a language worth remembering. May this become the little shelf near my desk that harbors many loved things. Old things from others that I have kept to remind myself of their important memories, and found-things that I have come to bring into my home, as a way to welcome those little secrets I brought with me from the special places I have journeyed. (Let us not lose that child-like wonder, my friends: it is a powerful tool.) And here, maybe, I can find some shared space for those new words that currently journey with me, that have left me pondering, and to those that may come after—may they find a haven here, in this space.
Some important things to note are that I will be trying to release this segment on a bi-weekly basis. I also hope to release my other segment about art books that have shaped me and are worth checking out, on the opposite week of this segment entitled The Inspiritors. Because of this, I will be creating a newsletter in which people can see and be reminded of what is going on, as well as new art that I might have created, interesting songs, poetry, or other snippets I have been enjoying, and other random things worth mentioning (in my mind). Once I get my newsletter up and working I will be letting everyone know! Until then, feel free to subscribe to my mailing list so you will be on the up and up when everything is finalized!
As I mentioned above, I will also be doing a segment created for the art books that have also come to impact my life, both the living and the now dead. In bringing to attention the great artists who have shaped me, I hope to give a remembrance to those voices that I have let speak deeply into me, and those new voices that have been giving me great insight and inspiration.


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Seth Adam Howard (born March 17, 1974) is an American politician from Maryland from the Republican Party. He is currently a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 30B, representing Anne Arundel County.

Early life and career
Howard was born in Cheverly, Maryland on March 17, 1974. He attended Glenelg High School in Glenelg, Maryland. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1994 to 1998, and in the Maryland Army National Guard from 1999 to 2003. Since 2004, he has owned the Broadleaf Tobacco and Smoke Shop in Severna Park, Maryland. He is currently a member of the South County Future Farmers of America, the Greater Severna Park Chamber of Commerce, the Southern Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce, and the Business and Community Advisory Board for Southern High School.

Howard ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in 2014, seeking to succeed delegate Robert Costa, who announced his intent to retire after redistricting moved him to District 33B. During the primary, the National Rifle Association endorsed his campaign with an 'AQ' rating. He defeated Anne Arundel County police lieutenant Jim Fredericks in the primary election, receiving 52 percent of the vote.

In the legislature
Howard was sworn into the House of Delegates on January 14, 2015. He has served as the Deputy Minority Whip for the Maryland House Republican Caucus since 2021, filling a vacancy left by the election of Delegate Christopher T. Adams to serve as the House Minority Whip.

In January 2020, the American Conservative Union gave Howard a score of 63 percent, making him the lowest-scoring Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates.

In 2020, Howard was an alternate delegate for the Republican Party National Convention.

Committee assignments
 Economic Matters Committee, 2015–present (unemployment insurance subcommittee, 2015–2017; consumer protection & commercial law subcommittee, 2015–2018; business regulation subcommittee, 2015–present; alcoholic beverages subcommittee, 2017–present; banking, consumer protection & commercial law subcommittee, 2019–2020; public utilities subcommittee, 2021–present)

Other memberships
 Anne Arundel County Delegation, 2015–present (county subcommittee, 2015–present; education subcommittee, 2015–present; alcoholic beverages subcommittee, 2015–present)
 Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus, 2015–present
 Maryland Veterans Caucus, 2015–present

Electoral history

References

Living people
1974 births
Republican Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates
People from Cheverly, Maryland
21st-century American politicians

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As the IMFS expands its interdisciplinary research activities concerning the tasks and competencies of central banks and financial regulators, we are excited about moving forward with an extended team: Alexander Meyer-Gohde has taken on the Professorship of Financial Markets and Macroeconomics at the IMFS while Roland Broemel has joined the IMFS as Interim Professor of Public Law. Meanwhile, Helmut Siekmann continues pursuing a major IMFS project: The update and English translation of the Commentary on the European Monetary Union.
Furthermore, we are happy to report on progress made under the Macroeconomic Model Comparison Initiative (MMCI) joint with the Hoover Institution at Stanford. We expanded the coverage of the Macroeconomic Model Data Base. On the new website, researchers can now more easily share and replicate models that can be used to analyze monetary and fiscal policy. Check out the new features, including an interactive forum for discussion. We are also looking forward to great papers and discussions at the 2nd Research Conference of the Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison Network (MMCN) under the auspices of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The conference will take place in Stanford, California, on June 7-8.
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Springing Back Into Power
Events certainly do seem to be building rather significantly. The consequences of the sins of men and their nations are cascading.
Figures of Antichrist govern nations and global governance organizations.
Figures of Antichrist pose as officials of the Catholic Church.
As has been explained in numerous articles on this site over the years, the figures of Antichrist of Modernity in the world and the figures of Antichrist of Modernity in the counterfeit church of conciliarism both are possessed of the same anti-Incarnational spirit of Judeo-Masonry that is at the very heart and center of modern thought, civil law, education, science and cultural praxis.
It is enough for men, these figures of Antichrist believe, to join together in common purpose for the "betterment of the world" and the advancement of "peace" without acknowledging the Word Who was made Flesh in Our Lady's Virginal and Immaculate Womb by the power of God the Holy Ghost and dwelt amongst us or the fact that He has founded a perfect, visible, hierarchical community, the Catholic Church, to teach and sanctify men, a perfect community that has the Divine right to command rulers of men and nations in all things that pertain to the good of souls.
In order words, the lords of Modernity and Modernism reject the simple truth that the temporal fate and men and their nations and the eternal fate of all souls on the face of this earth depend upon the right ordering of souls according to the Sacred Deposit of Faith that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ entrusted exclusively to His true Church for their eternal safekeeping and infallible explication as they cooperate with the graces He, the Christ the King, won for us by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross that flow into human hearts and souls through the loving hands of His Most Blessed Mother, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.
Our popes have warned us about Modernity and Modernism's "respect for all religions" as they have reminded us that Catholicism is the one and only foundation of personal and social order:
Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God. (Pope Leo XIII, Custodi Di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892.)
The same applies to the notion of Fraternity which they found on the love of common interest or, beyond all philosophies and religions, on the mere notion of humanity, thus embracing with an equal love and tolerance all human beings and their miseries, whether these are intellectual, moral, or physical and temporal. But Catholic doctrine tells us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas, however sincere they may be, nor in the theoretical or practical indifference towards the errors and vices in which we see our brethren plunged, but in the zeal for their intellectual and moral improvement as well as for their material well-being. Catholic doctrine further tells us that love for our neighbor flows from our love for God, Who is Father to all, and goal of the whole human family; and in Jesus Christ whose members we are, to the point that in doing good to others we are doing good to Jesus Christ Himself. Any other kind of love is sheer illusion, sterile and fleeting.
Indeed, we have the human experience of pagan and secular societies of ages past to show that concern for common interests or affinities of nature weigh very little against the passions and wild desires of the heart. No, Venerable Brethren, there is no genuine fraternity outside Christian charity. Through the love of God and His Son Jesus Christ Our Saviour, Christian charity embraces all men, comforts all, and leads all to the same faith and same heavenly happiness. . . .
Here we have, founded by Catholics, an inter-denominational association that is to work for the reform of civilization, an undertaking which is above all religious in character; for there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. The new Sillonists cannot pretend that they are merely working on "the ground of practical realities" where differences of belief do not matter. Their leader is so conscious of the influence which the convictions of the mind have upon the result of the action, that he invites them, whatever religion they may belong to, "to provide on the ground of practical realities, the proof of the excellence of their personal convictions." And with good reason: indeed, all practical results reflect the nature of one's religious convictions, just as the limbs of a man down to his finger-tips, owe their very shape to the principle of life that dwells in his body.
This being said, what must be thought of the promiscuity in which young Catholics will be caught up with heterodox and unbelieving folk in a work of this nature? Is it not a thousand-fold more dangerous for them than a neutral association? What are we to think of this appeal to all the heterodox, and to all the unbelievers, to prove the excellence of their convictions in the social sphere in a sort of apologetic contest? Has not this contest lasted for nineteen centuries in conditions less dangerous for the faith of Catholics? And was it not all to the credit of the Catholic Church? What are we to think of this respect for all errors, and of this strange invitation made by a Catholic to all the dissidents to strengthen their convictions through study so that they may have more and more abundant sources of fresh forces? What are we to think of an association in which all religions and even Free-Thought may express themselves openly and in complete freedom. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
The lords of Modernity in the world and the lords of Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism are absolutely united in their refusal to accept the simple truth that men whose souls are held captive to the devil, either by means of Original Sin (as is the case with all non-Christians and invalidly baptized Protestants) or by means of Actual Sins, are more prone to conflict with others violently than are men who are trying, despite their own sins and failings, to please the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity, noting that being a Catholic in a state of Sanctifying Grace is not, quite obviously, an infallible guarantor of rectitude of intentions and the probity of judgment necessary to consider all decisions in light of First and Last Things.
The history of Egypt, for example, between the the time of the Mohammedan conquest there in 640 A.D. and the time that Mohammedans of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey took over control of the country in 1517 was marked by great instability and violence. Around one hundred twenty of the approximately two hundred five known rulers of Egypt in that period left office by means of being dethroned, jailed, assassinated, executed or exile. Several just decided to leave the country. The Ottomans subjected Egypt to nearly four centuries of rule by governors who received their commissions from Istanbul. Egypt was a difficult province for the Ottomans to control as a result of all the country's internal factions.
Thus it is that the man who rose to the Egyptian presidency in 1954, two years after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 overthrow King Farouk and ended the country's occupation by forces of the United Kingdom, which had been there for the better part of ninety years, Gamal Abdel Nasser, ruled with an iron hand until his death on September, 28, 1970. Nasser's successor, Anwar El-Sadat, who was assassinated on October 6, 1981, did so as well, including imprisoning the Coptic "pope," Shenouda III in 1981 just months before his assassination. Sadat's successor, Hosni Mubarak, who is now in jail and in failing health, ruled in a similar manner for nearly forty years. Now, however, the leader of the so-called Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammad Morski, has promised to work with "all Egyptians" upon bearing sworn into a vastly reduced (by the military generals) Egyptian presidency on Sunday, July 1, 2012, the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
Sure. Right.
Here is a report on his election as found on the website of Vatican Radio:
The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi who was declared the winner of Egypt's first free presidential election, Sunday has proclaimed himself a leader ``for all Egyptians,'' although he faces a struggle for power with the country's still-dominant military rulers. (Sean Patrick Lovett reports:
The announcement that the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammad Morsi had won the Presidential run off came after a delay in declaring in the result of the June 16-17 poll. It also saw tens of thousands of celebrating people cram in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak 16 months ago.
World leaders have been quick to offer their congratulations to Mr Morsi. US President Barack Obama telephoned the new President elect to congratulate him on his victory and offer continued support for Egypt's transition to democracy.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations and commended the Egyptian people for the peaceful atmosphere of their first free presidential election in history.
Speaking on Egyptian television Sunday evening, Morsi declared he wanted an Egypt where there was social justice, freedom and human dignity. He also said he would be President for all Egyptians.
The election commission said Morsi won 51.7 percent in the runoff--a margin of only 8000, votes--over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. Just a week ago the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued constitutional amendments that stripped the president's office of most of its major powers.
A court earlier dissolved Egypt's freely elected parliament, which was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, leaving the military also in charge of legislating.
According to the constitutional declaration, the new president won't appoint the defence minister and will lose the title of ``Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.'' Now that the country has a President elect, Mohammad Morsi's work is only just beginning.
Egypt faces major economic challenges as well as and maintaining law and order--both of which deteriorated in the post-Mubarak period. (Egypt: Morsi a president for all Egyptians.)
Ah, yes, the "Arab springtime" continues, at least in the warped minds of the usurpers who control the Vatican these days, a place where dancing to the tune of the "Arab springtime," with must be a corollary, I supposed, to the "springtime of the church" that is said to have "sprung" after the "Second" Vatican Council, has been quite joyous, although not without some caveats now and again following various bouts of violence against Christians by committed Mohammedans, in the past year.
Consider this report from 2011:
ZENIT: Is it the beginning of a path toward democratization or, instead, to give power to the radicals?
Father Samir [Khalil, S.J.]: I am inclined to say that we are moving toward a greater democracy. Seeing the photos and videos it is clear that they are not young men manipulated by radical movements, by extremists. It was quite clear in Egypt, for example, that Muslims and Christians were going hand in hand, and the extremists have not succeeded in pitting them against each other. The politicians have been unable to do this; they have disappeared. They tried to a degree to foment a counter-revolution, and then they left. They're not at all radical extremists.
There was almost an atmosphere of celebration, a celebration of the people. I think they want more democracy. There is a fact that is not noticed in Europe, in the West, and it is that the people in the Arab world are aware, and they write about it every day, that the Arab world is not well at all. That we are among the worst in the world. This feeling is very widespread among intellectuals: What have we done for the good of humanity? And there is an aspiration to be able to live as the other countries do.(://www.zenit.org/article-31848?l=english.)
To paraphrase Snagglepuss (if you know the reference, fine; if you don't, just remember I wasted a good deal of time in my childhood watching television), "An Arab springtime even!" An Arab "springtime"? Here's what they call on the streets a "reality check":
At least 13 people died and 140 were injured in clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians in Cairo on Tuesday.
Both Coptic Christians and Muslims were killed in the violence, which began during a protest by Copts against last week's burning of a church.
Egypt's Sunni authority has urged Muslims to help rebuild the church, calling its destruction un-Islamic.
The clashes come two months after a suicide bomber killed 23 people at a Coptic church in Alexandria.
In January, an Egyptian man was sentenced to death for shooting dead six Copts and a Muslim policeman in Naga Hamady, southern Egypt.
The violence erupted when Coptic protesters blocked a highway in the Egyptian capital, protesting against the burning of the church in the province of Helwan.
The rally angered Muslims who wanted to pass through. Witnesses said both sides threw stones, and the army fired into the air to disperse the crowds.
The Grand Imam of al-Azhar issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the attack on the church in Atfih, Helwan governorate, as "a distortion of Islam".
Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyib called on Muslim residents of the town to help start rebuilding the church and to refrain from sectarian violence, Egypt's official news agency, Mena, reported.
Meanwhile, thousands of Coptic protesters continued their sit-in outside the state television building. They are calling for the rebuilding of the church, better protection for Christians, and a full investigation into last week's attack.
Copts - who make up about 10% of Egypt's population - have often complained of harassment and discrimination, and argue that attacks on them go unpunished or result in light sentences.
The government in the predominantly Muslim country denies discriminating against Copts. (Ten dead after Copt-Muslim clash in Cairo.)
A distortion of "Islam"? Hardly. The false religion of Mohammedanism was born of violence. It has been spread by violence. It has been maintained by violence. There has been, quite to the contrary of assertion made by United States Representative Peter King (R-New York), no "radicalization of Islam." (for a rather comprehensive report on the hearing being held by Representative King, please go to Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch and King Hearing Witnesses Say U.S. 'Failing' to Confront Radical Islam.) To assert this is to ignore the whole of this false religion's history of bloodletting, of constant efforts to batter Christendom, of the demands being made now in more and more Western countries for the recognition of the Mohammedan "law" of "Sharia" as those formerly Catholic lands have been depopulated of their indigenous people as a result of the widespread acceptance of use of contraception and the decriminalization of surgical baby-killing. God is indeed using the Mohammedans to chastise the so-called "civilized" West just as He used the barbarians of old to bring down the Roman Empire in the West. No land is civilized when its laws permit the frustration of the natural end of marriage and when they allow for the slicing and dicing of innocent preborn children by various surgical means.
A number of articles on this little-read, much castigated site in the past few years have focused on the violent, bloodthirsty reality of Mohammedanism (see, among others, Killing In The Name of The Religion of Peace. Hawaii Sleep-O, Pope Saint Pius V and the Conversion of the Muslims, Just Following Their "Pope's" Call for Cohesion, Mainstreaming Mosques, Still Trying to Make Everyone Happy Except God Himself, Combustible Material: Keep Back Five Hundred Feet This Truck Carries Naturalism, Bag Man in a Karakul Hat, Not Interested in Assisi III, American Pots Lecturing Egyptian Kettles and Blood Flows Freely in America and Libya). There is no need to repeat ad nauseam, ad infinitum each of the points that have been made in these articles. However, it is useful to note that the false distinctions being made by many conciliar revolutionaries and Western politicians between "radical Islam" and "the religion of peace" are delusions from the devil himself to keep people from recognizing that Catholicism and Catholicism alone is the one and only foundation of personal and social order. Nothing else.
Yes, Jean-Louis "Cardinal" Tauran said in 2010 that "dialogue" between his own false church of conciliarism and the Mohammedans was going "nowhere." Yet it is that he stated as recently as January of 2011 that the Vatican remained "open" to "dialogue" with the followers of the false "prophet" named Mohammed, who rejected the doctrine of the Most Blessed Trinity (see (see Hillaire Belloc, The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed.) And, of course, the false "pontiff" himself, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI remains committed to holding his "World Day of Prayer for Peace" in Assisi, Italy, seven months from now even though the Mohammedans have demonstrated time and again that they are truly not interested in Assisi III. They are interested in world domination, unaware of the fact that the forces of Antichrist will crush each false religion, including Talmudic Judaism and Mohammedanism and concilairism itself, in preparation for the apocalyptic battle with the true religion founded by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope, Catholicism. In other words, the Mohammedans lose. So does every other false religion no matter how much blood they shed in its promotion.
Moreover, it should be remembered that Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict has twice esteemed the blasphemous Koran with his own priestly hands, calling it "that dear book" as he did so in the Vatican, smiling greatly on the other occasion as he received a copy from a Mohammedan woman on Thursday, April 17, 2008, at the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, District of Columbia.
Ratzinger/Benedict also said the following during his visit to Jordan in 2009:
Just take a look at a few excerpts of the speeches given by Ratzinger/Benedict during his pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel between May 8, 2009, and May 15, 2009, and the speech given by Barack Hussein Obama today, Thursday, June 4, 2009, at Cairo University to see that there is indeed much "common ground" shared by these kindred spirits of the new world order:
My visit to Jordan gives me a welcome opportunity to speak of my deep respect for the Muslim community, and to pay tribute to the leadership shown by His Majesty the King in promoting a better understanding of the virtues proclaimed by Islam. Now that some years have passed since the publication of the Amman Message and the Amman Interfaith Message, we can say that these worthy initiatives have achieved much good in furthering an alliance of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world, confounding the predictions of those who consider violence and conflict inevitable. Indeed the Kingdom of Jordan has long been at the forefront of initiatives to promote peace in the Middle East and throughout the world, encouraging inter-religious dialogue, supporting efforts to find a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, welcoming refugees from neighboring Iraq, and seeking to curb extremism. I cannot let this opportunity pass without calling to mind the pioneering efforts for peace in the region made by the late King Hussein. How fitting that my meeting tomorrow with Muslim religious leaders, the diplomatic corps and University rectors should take place in the mosque that bears his name. May his commitment to the resolution of the region's conflicts continue to bear fruit in efforts to promote lasting peace and true justice for all who live in the Middle East.
Dear Friends, at the Seminar held in Rome last autumn by the Catholic-Muslim Forum, the participants examined the central role played in our respective religious traditions by the commandment of love. I hope very much that this visit, and indeed all the initiatives designed to foster good relations between Christians and Muslims, will help us to grow in love for the Almighty and Merciful God, and in fraternal love for one another. Thank you for your welcome. Thank you for your attention. May God grant Your Majesties happiness and long life! May he bless Jordan with prosperity and peace! (Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, Welcoming ceremony at Queen Alia International Airport of Amman, May 8, 2009.)
Places of worship, like this splendid Al-Hussein Bin Talal mosque named after the revered late King, stand out like jewels across the earth's surface. From the ancient to the modern, the magnificent to the humble, they all point to the divine, to the Transcendent One, to the Almighty. And through the centuries these sanctuaries have drawn men and women into their sacred space to pause, to pray, to acknowledge the presence of the Almighty, and to recognize that we are all his creatures.
For this reason we cannot fail to be concerned that today, with increasing insistency, some maintain that religion fails in its claim to be, by nature, a builder of unity and harmony, an expression of communion between persons and with God. Indeed some assert that religion is necessarily a cause of division in our world; and so they argue that the less attention given to religion in the public sphere the better. Certainly, the contradiction of tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied. However, is it not also the case that often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society? In the face of this situation, where the opponents of religion seek not simply to silence its voice but to replace it with their own, the need for believers to be true to their principles and beliefs is felt all the more keenly. Muslims and Christians, precisely because of the burden of our common history so often marked by misunderstanding, must today strive to be known and recognized as worshippers of God faithful to prayer, eager to uphold and live by the Almighty's decrees, merciful and compassionate, consistent in bearing witness to all that is true and good, and ever mindful of the common origin and dignity of all human persons, who remain at the apex of God's creative design for the world and for history. (Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, speech to Muslim religious leaders, members of the Diplomatic Corps and Rectors of universities in Jordan in front of the mosque al-Hussein bin Talal in Amman, May 9, 2009.)
In addition, of course, to his constant attacks on the nature of dogmatic truth by means of his logically absurd and dogmatically condemned "hermeneutic of continuity and discontinuity," which, after nearly twenty centuries, it was "necessary" for the Church to "learn" existed (as Ratzinger/Benedict contended in his December 22, 2005, address to members of his conciliar curia), Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI shows his apostate spirit and provides us with the evidence that he does not believe in the true God of Revelation by asserting there is a "need for believers to be true to their principles and beliefs is felt all the more keenly."
This is the precise apostate spirit of The Sillon that was, as noted earlier in this article, condemned by Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910
Most of the lords of Modernity and most of the lords of Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism are quite adept at ignoring truth in order to appease the tender sensibilities of those who they believe would be "offended" by stating the truth clearly and unequivocally. The current administration of Caesar Barackus Obamus Ignoramus is replete with individuals, starting with caesar himself, who have gone out of their way to avoid using the words "Islamic terrorism," attempting to cover-up and downplay the significance of attacks such as the one that was perpetrated by Major Nidal Hasan at Food Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009. United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and United States Attorney General Eric "I Got a Pardon for Marc Rich/Fast and Furious" Holder have refused to recognize, no less admit, that Mohammedanism is violent of its very nature and its spread across Europe and here in the United States of America represents a grave and vital threat to the personal safety of ordinary citizens. Many of the conciliarists understand the threat, believing in all of their utter insanity that "religious liberty" is the answer to these threats (see Unity and Peace Cannot Be Based in Error and Falsehood, part one, Bearing "Fruits" From Hell Itself, part one and Bearing "Fruits" From Hell Itself, part one.)
It is no wonder, therefore, that our own caesars are so "sensitive" to the "feelings" of Mohammedans when the men who claim to represent the true Church make it appear that each religion can contribute to the "building of a better world" as long as "religious liberty" is respected. Statements such as those below made by George Walker Bush and Barack Hussein Obama make perfect sense when you consider the fact that the devil has succeeded in placing spiritual robber barons in the Vatican and diocesan chancery offices, thereby robbing the world of the prophetic voice of Christ the King:
The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics -- a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam. The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans, and make no distinction among military and civilians, including women and children. . . .
I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your faith. It's practiced freely by many millions of Americans, and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah. (Applause.) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them. (Applause.) (George Walker Bush, Address to the Nation, September 20, 2001.)
As we know, these men belonged to al Qaeda – a group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world's great religions, to justify the slaughter of innocents. Al Qaeda's base of operations was in Afghanistan, where they were harbored by the Taliban – a ruthless, repressive and radical movement that seized control of that country after it was ravaged by years of Soviet occupation and civil war, and after the attention of America and our friends had turned elsewhere.
Just days after 9/11, Congress authorized the use of force against al Qaeda and those who harbored them – an authorization that continues to this day. The vote in the Senate was 98 to 0. The vote in the House was 420 to 1. For the first time in its history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization invoked Article 5 – the commitment that says an attack on one member nation is an attack on all. And the United Nations Security Council endorsed the use of all necessary steps to respond to the 9/11 attacks. America, our allies and the world were acting as one to destroy al Qaeda's terrorist network, and to protect our common security. (Barack Hussein Obama, Address on the War in Afghanistan, December 2, 2009.)
This kind of insane political correctness, which is practiced also on occasion by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, keeps American policy makers from admitting that Mohammedanism of its demonic nature is an assault against God and seeks to destroy those who will not follow its false "god" and its false teachings, therefore predisposing them to let domestic terror cells form in the United States of America as a result of immigration laws based on political correctness and electoral self-interest. Weak, cowardly American politicians have made this country unsafe by their refusal to keep out those who seek to dominate here as they are now dominating throughout parts of Europe.
There is only one solution to the Mohammedan threat just as there is only one solution to the threat posed by Talmudic Judaism and its related allies in Masonic lodges: Catholicism. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has sent His Most Blessed Mother to earth to implore us to pray her Most Holy Rosary for world peace and to pray for the conversion of sinners, starting with ourselves as we seek to make reparation to God through her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for our sins. Catholicism, not any false religion or any form of naturalism, including the falsehood that is "conservatism," is the solution. Nothing else: Who says so? Look once again for yourselves (repetition is the mother of learning, my friends):
This, nevertheless, is what they want to do with human society; they dream of changing its natural and traditional foundations; they dream of a Future City built on different principles, and they dare to proclaim these more fruitful and more beneficial than the principles upon which the present Christian City rests.
No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker - the City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is: it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. omnia instaurare in Christo. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
Please, my friends, do not deceive yourself. The babbling voices of naturalism that blather on and on and on about having "faith" to make the country "strong" again are themselves agents of the devil as they promote a renewed sense of religious indifferentism that is at the core of the false principles of the American republic. Each an every Catholic must reject and completely oppose any and all calls for a generic "faith" to combat the evils of the day as such calls come from the devil himself and from no other source, regardless of the "good intentions" of the complete and utter ignoramuses who make those calls. I mean, folks, why should we be opposed to Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI's calls for a kind of generic Christianity while embracing those of bombastic talk show hosts?
We should, obviously, recognize the truth of these words written by Pope Pius XI in Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937, that apply to the American sense of religious indifferentism just as much as they did at the time to the employment of the word "faith" by partisans of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany:
Beware, Venerable Brethren, of that growing abuse, in speech as in writing, of the name of God as though it were a meaningless label, to be affixed to any creation, more or less arbitrary, of human speculation. Use your influence on the Faithful, that they refuse to yield to this aberration. Our God is the Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity of Persons, tri-personal in the unity of divine essence, the Creator of all existence. Lord, King and ultimate Consummator of the history of the world, who will not, and cannot, tolerate a rival God by His side.
No faith in God can for long survive pure and unalloyed without the support of faith in Christ. "No one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Luke x. 22). "Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent" (John xvii. 3). Nobody, therefore, can say: "I believe in God, and that is enough religion for me," for the Savior's words brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also"(1 John ii. 23). . . .
Faith in Christ cannot maintain itself pure and unalloyed without the support of faith in the Church, "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim. iii. 15); for Christ Himself, God eternally blessed, raised this pillar of the Faith. His command to hear the Church (Matt. xviii. 15), to welcome in the words and commands of the Church His own words and His own commands (Luke x. 16), is addressed to all men, of all times and of all countries. The Church founded by the Redeemer is one, the same for all races and all nations. Beneath her dome, as beneath the vault of heaven, there is but one country for all nations and tongues; there is room for the development of every quality, advantage, task and vocation which God the Creator and Savior has allotted to individuals as well as to ethnical communities. The Church's maternal heart is big enough to see in the God-appointed development of individual characteristics and gifts, more than a mere danger of divergency. She rejoices at the spiritual superiorities among individuals and nations. In their successes she sees with maternal joy and pride fruits of education and progress, which she can only bless and encourage, whenever she can conscientiously do so. But she also knows that to this freedom limits have been set by the majesty of the divine command, which founded that Church one and indivisible. Whoever tampers with that unity and that indivisibility wrenches from the Spouse of Christ one of the diadems with which God Himself crowned her; he subjects a divine structure, which stands on eternal foundations, to criticism and transformation by architects whom the Father of Heaven never authorized to interfere. (Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937.)
Yes, my good and very few readers, the "Church founded by the Redeemer is the one, the same for all races and all nations," including the United States of America. We are not going to stop the tide of the threats posed by Mohammedanism and other false religions with any form of naturalism, with any highly emotionally laden appeals to waste one's Catholic time and money on compact discs and books and other materials produced by dopes who have not studied the Social Reign of Christ the King evangelize in behalf of one Americanist myth after another that can do nothing but reaffirm people in a welter of errors just as surely as do Ratzinger/Benedict himself and his "bishops." We must avoid all contact with these agents of error and indifferentism. Who says so? Look again for yourselves:
The belief held and stated so very frequently by Ratzinger/Benedict that "religions" can be a "force for peace" and the sappy sentimentality of inter-cultural cooperation spread by one American president after another (see Kindred Spirits of the New World Order and Not A Mention of Christ the King, which is perhaps my most comprehensive historical review of the Americanist ethos on our presidents) have no foundation in truth. Indeed, Pope Saint Pius X, condemning The Sillon whose false principles serve as the very foundation conciliarism's perverse "social teaching," eviscerated the apostasy of the conciliarists and the naturalism of the lords of Modernity in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910:
Indeed, we have the human experience of pagan and secular societies of ages past to show that concern for common interests or affinities of nature weigh very little against the passions and wild desires of the heart. No, Venerable Brethren, there is no genuine fraternity outside Christian charity. Through the love of God and His Son Jesus Christ Our Saviour, Christian charity embraces all men, comforts all, and leads all to the same faith and same heavenly happiness.
By separating fraternity from Christian charity thus understood, Democracy, far from being a progress, would mean a disastrous step backwards for civilization. If, as We desire with all Our heart, the highest possible peak of well being for society and its members is to be attained through fraternity or, as it is also called, universal solidarity, all minds must be united in the knowledge of Truth, all wills united in morality, and all hearts in the love of God and His Son Jesus Christ. But this union is attainable only by Catholic charity, and that is why Catholic charity alone can lead the people in the march of progress towards the ideal civilization. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
There is nothing serendipitous about Mohammedanism, which is springing back to life in Egypt as committed, as opposed to secular, Mohammedans once rule region a north Africa from Tunisia to the west to Egypt in the east. Events are certainly escalating very rapidly. Very rapidly.
There is nothing "redemptive" about the false, naturalistic, religiously indifferentist, anti-Incarnational and semi-Pelagian principles of Modernity with which the conciliarists have made their "reconciliation."
We have been given Our Lady's Rosary to help us in this time of apostasy and betrayal, in this time of chastisement. Let us use this instrument, well as we seek to deny ourselves more and more so that our hearts will yearn only for the things of Heaven and that we will be more and more able to view the world exclusively through the eyes of the true Faith as we, unworthy though we may be, plant a few seeds for the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen!
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and the hour of our death. Amen.
Saint Irenaeus, pray for us.

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Q: Not displaying Background image at the time of Build in React js Hi my app running good at localhost but when I create build then Background image not displaying.
my code is.
    <div  style={{ backgroundImage:"url("+require("assets/img/bg.jpg")+")", height: "400px",
                      backgroundSize: "cover",
                      backgroundPosition: "center top"}}>

Result at localhost as below

But at live server empty header with path

When I inspect this path then showing like this.
background-image: url(./static/media/bg6.488bc24….jpg);
Please help with thanks

A: You can try importing the image outside of the function instead of requiring it.
PS:- You can kindly attach a SS of your build folder for further info.

A: Perhaps, upon build, programmatically defined path is being changed or appoints to an undesired resource.
You could try to modify your DOM and apply css, by adding a dedicated  tag, like so:
         <img
          id="background-image"
          src="./assets/img/bg.jpg"
          alt="background-image"
         />

A: Put your file to public folder and replace require with string with path.
For example put file to public/assets/img/bg.jpg
And change path:
{
  backgroundImage: "url(/assets/img/bg.jpg)"
  ...
}

or you can use import and put imported image to img (src prop).


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Amazon's cloud outage left millions who use smart devices locked out of their homes, fridges, vacuum cleaners and house lighting
December 9, 2021 5:11 pm December 9, 2021 5:10 pm by IWB
Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn't start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news.
A major outage in Amazon's cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for hours, raising questions about the vulnerability of the internet and its concentration in the hands of a few firms.
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Amazon has still said nothing about what, exactly, went wrong. The company limited its communications Tuesday to terse technical explanations on an Amazon Web Services dashboard and a brief statement delivered via spokesperson Richard Rocha that acknowledged the outage had affected Amazon's own warehouse and delivery operations but said the company was "working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible." It didn't immediately respond to further questions Wednesday.
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The incident at Amazon Web Services mostly affected the eastern U.S., but still impacted everything from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services to Amazon's own massive e-commerce operation.
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The 2016 Dante Merlot is expressive in the glass, with aromas of black plum and freshly roasted coffee leaping from the glass. The mouth is soft and engaging with flavors of blueberries and milk chocolate woven within a well-supportive structure of French oak. Baking spices like cinnamon and nutmeg dance throughout the finish, which lingers on an extended caramel note.
Enjoy this Merlot with your favorite pasta in a classic marinara or bolognese sauce.


Maybe you do not feel fearful or angry when you stumble upon a mouse somewhere else except your home as it seems to be a small, inoffensive, and a playful creature. However, you cannot even fathom one… single… mouse… in or around your home. These squeaky pests simply destroy everything whether it is your pantry, or underneath the furniture, or heaven forbid, your clothes or your books! And on the top of that, this nocturnal animal brings with it many infectious diseases that transfer via their urine and feces. Gross!
One day, we noticed that our dog, Peanut, has dog food that was disappearing. Where in the world was it going, we thought. Until that moment when I dug deep into the utility room closet to drag out the old stereo speakers, we had from the 80s. You know that hole speakers have in the back? I am sure you see where I am going with this. When I moved the speaker, I heard a rattle of movement inside. With further inspection, I found couch cushion foam, insulation, and piles of dog food! Case solved! Except… where did the culprit(s) go? Sigh.
So, based on lots of research and methods tried and true… we have compiled a list of 12 natural remedies to rid your home from mice.
Place 2 to 3 mothballs in each container.
This method will make the mice, those are there in your home to run away and at the same time prevent the outside mice from entering your home.
This spray includes spicy, hot chilies, which will help you to rid mice from your house. When the mice will sniff this pepper spray, they will experience a burning sensation in their eyes and nose. It will also make them extremely uncomfortable and irritated to leave the place immediately.
Note: Do not use this spray on carpets as it may discolor it.
This mixture will work as a repellent for the mice.
Mouse and cats are born enemies. So, in this case, kitty litter works wonders to get rid of mice effectively. After sniffing the smell of cat urine, the mice will run away from your home in no time.
Keep the trays outside of the entrance points through which mice are entering your house and at the place where the mice come frequently.
You can also follow the same method with snake poo to keep your house free from mice.
It may seem weird, but believe me, it helps! The foil makes the rats run far away from the home and will save your things from being destroyed. Possibly, the mice do not like the noise it makes or may be that the foil creates a sensation in their teeth when their teeth come in contact with the aluminum foil or maybe the aluminum foil seem very unnatural for them to penetrate. Whatever may be the reason, but the rodents do not touch the things if you cover them with aluminum foil.
Use the aluminum foil to cover the surface of the things which the rodents usually attack.
Follow this process of covering the things with aluminum foil during the night.
Fold the foil in the morning and follow the same process of covering the things with aluminum foil at night.
The mice cannot handle the smell of the dryer sheet. So, you can use these sheets to eliminate the mice from their hiding places of your home.
You can also use the sheets to seal the small entrances through which the mice are entering your house.
Trapping the mice is another method to make your home free from mice, but it needs your patience and time. Apart from that if the number of mice is more, then this method may disappoint you. If the number of mice is few, then this method will help you to get rid of the mouse problem. There are various types of mouse traps that you can use for this purpose.
Place the bait inside the trap and keep the trap in the place where the mouse usually hangs out.
The rodents will get attracted to the bait and eat it, then it will be trapped inside.
On a tray, place some chocolate and invert the glass bowl on it.
Place this tray in the place where the mouse frequents.
Wait for the mouse to come. It will enter the trap to eat the chocolate and will upset the balance.
This method also works fine if you do it properly. Again, if your house is seriously infested with mice then this method will not work as expected. You can use this method to trap the couple of mice that are roaming here and there in your home.
Slip the LP under the rim of the wastebasket to seal it.
Pets, like a cat, can solve this problem very well. And you know that kitty-kitty plays the role of a predator for these little furry rodents.
If the cat is really energetic and loves hunting these rodents, then your problem is solved.
After a few days, you will find that there is a drastic drop in the number of mice in your home.


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The Morning Show may refer to:

Australia
 The Morning Show (TV program), an Australian talk show hosted by Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies that airs on the Seven Network
 The Morning Show (1992 TV program), the original title for the 1992–2005 Australian morning television variety program, Good Morning Australia, that aired on Network Ten

Canada
 The Morning Show (Canadian TV program), a morning show on Global Toronto

Ireland
 The Morning Show with Sybil & Martin, an Irish television show produced by TV3

Philippines
 The Morning Show, a morning show formerly broadcast by the National Broadcasting Network and its successor, People's Television Network from 2010 to 2013 (no relation to below)
 The Morning Show, a regional morning show currently broadcast by ABS-CBN Bacolod (TV-4) (no relation to above)

United States
 The Morning Show, the original title of the talk show Live
 The Morning Show (American TV series), an Apple TV+ drama series starring Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Steve Carell
 The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, a television morning talk show produced by Fox
 The Morning Show (Minnesota Public Radio), an American morning drive-time radio program
 The DVE Morning Show, an American morning drive-time radio program broadcast on WDVE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 The Early Show, a morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from 1999 to 2012

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 Breakfast television
 Morning zoo


The International Fair ENOMAQ, in Zaragoza (Spain), is an event of great relevance, mainly focused on the Iberian market. In this event it is possible to find the most varied technology companies focusing on areas such as winemaking and agriculture, suppliers and international buyers..
Le Salon Mondial at Bordeaux was the perfect place to launch the newest line of Winegrid sensors. Vinitech Sifel is the most important fair of machinery for wine production, and our new line of stainless steel sensors was a success. Lots of visitors were interested in all our potentialities of measuring parameters in wine production, in real time.
For the 6th edition of Hardware City hosted at Centro de Congressos de Aveiro, AGROTECH was the big focus of the talks developed through this meeting. Once more Watgrid was deeply involved towards this session, participating in the congress presentations, as well with a relevant stand for demonstration of our brand products.
Zagoragoza has the biggest event for the Spanish wine producing industry. Watgrid Solutions was present at Enomaq 2017 bringing our Winegrid range of products for parameters monitoring of wine maturation and fermentation. As usual it was the focus for many producers that were attracted with real time possibilities that we offer.
The fourth industrial revolution is arriving, focusing on the full digitization of physical assets and their integration into digital ecosystems. This was the theme to another cycle of presentations, where Watgrid was in, about digital economics. Hosted by PwC in partnership with Service Management Lab of the well known Católica Porto Business School.
As special guest of Watgrid and IEUA Sharing, the well known producer of Ermelinda wine, visit us to talk about her brands and the processes related to entrepreneurship in her particular life experience. This conference had a big appreciation between the participants as we could assimilate a vast range of knowledge from this great wine producer.
Le Salon Mondial at Bordeaux was the perfect place to launch the newest line of Winegrid sensors. Vinitech Sifel is the most important fair of machinery for wine production, and our new line of Smart-Bung was a success. Lots of visitors were interested in all our potentialities of measuring parameters in wine production, in real time.
After earning a place, as The Best Portuguese Tech, to be one of the 66 Portuguese companies that would represent our country, WEB SUMMIT as arrived. It was a huge success, and Watgrid Solutions showed what is the best that is being done in Portugal in innovation products in the most important technology show-roam of technology.
In the past September 15, 16 and 17, Aveiro hosted again one of the more important technological event made in Portugal. Watgrid Solutions was represented in partnership with other enterprises in Techdays, moving forward to show the Winegrid products as they are the most innovative for wine monitoring.
The biggest technology event of the world is arriving to Portugal in 2016. Every company wants to be represented at WEB SUMMIT. Watgrid Solutions earned a place, as The Best Portuguese Tech, to be one of the 66 Portuguese companies that will represent our country in the most important technology show-roam of this days.
The brand Winegrid was represented in one of the biggest Portuguese fairs of agricultural technology. At the stand AGRO Inteligente our brand could show what we stand for, to thousands of farming entrepreneurs, that were amazed with the new capabilities of motorization in real time of their wine production processes.
Watgrid Solutions presented at Paris their newest motorization products. The breakthrough of the Winegrid brand for monitoring wine parameters, at maturation and fermentation stages, was a big success in this 2016 technology event. This participation of Watgrid was an direct invitation from LVMH - Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.


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A recent chain of events comes within a context that supports the theory of a Trump-Kremlin alliance. You've got to read it to believe it.
Dr. Robert Zubrin is president of Pioneer Astronautics of Lakewood, Colorado, and the author of "The Case for Mars." The paperback edition of his latest book, "Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism," was recently published by Encounter Books.


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Muenches Connected to Roosevelts
We Muenches have a presidential connection!
Karl Muench, M.D., recently discovered that the Muenches are connected by marriage to the Roosevelt family.
Marie Muench Follenius, the sister of Friedrich and Georg Muench, and her daughter, Mathilda Follenius Lange, had nine children each. One of Mathilda's children with William Lange was Adelheid Lange, who became a famous sculptress.
In 1905 she married Cornelius Louis Andre Roosevelt, a filmmaker, resort manager and cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt. Later they were divorced.
Adelheid's daughter, Leila Roosevelt, married a famous naturalist photographer, Armand Denis, with whom she made movies in Africa and other exotic locales. Armand Denis and Andre Roosevelt had made a famous 1930 movie about Bali together, "Goona Goona, An Authentic Melodrama." Whether Leila and Armand were introduced at that time is unknown.
President Theodore Roosevelt, whose face is on Mount Rushmore, gained his fame by cleaning up government, making it more responsive to the people and less tied to business by implementing moves that would begin the breakup of the Trusts, the vertical business monopolies that had dominated the development of the United States by the turn of the 20th Century.
The only U.S. president to serve four terms, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt guided the nation through the Great Depression and World War II.


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Montagny-les-Monts ist eine ehemalige Gemeinde des Bezirks Broye des Kantons Freiburg in der Schweiz. Am 1. Januar 2000 wurde die Gemeinde mit der ehemaligen Gemeinde Montagny-la-Ville zur Gemeinde Montagny fusioniert.

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Q: Python - How to define attributes not affected by __getattr__? I'm fairly new to Python.  In programming a lot of PHP recently I got used to some creative use of __get and __set "magic" methods.  These were only called when a public variable of the class wasn't present.
I'm trying to replicate the same behavior in Python, but seem to be failing miserably.  Given there doesn't seem to be a way to actually define class variables in a C++/PHP way, when I try to use variables normally within my class (i.e. via self) it ends up calling __getattr__!
How do I define attributes of my class that I don't want affected by __getattr__?
Some sample code of what I'm trying to do is below, where I'd want self.Document and self.Filename NOT to invoke __getattr__.
Thanks for the help!
class ApplicationSettings(object):
    RootXml = '<?xml version="1.0"?><Settings></Settings>'

    def __init__(self):
        self.Document = XmlDocument()
        self.Document.LoadXml(RootXml)

    def Load(self, filename):
        self.Filename = filename
        self.Document.Load(filename)

    def Save(self, **kwargs):
        # Check if the filename property is present
        if 'filename' in kwargs:
            self.Filename = kwargs['filename']

        self.Document.Save(self.Filename)

    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return self.Document.Item['Settings'][attr].InnerText

    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
        if attr in self.Document.Item['Settings']:
            # If the setting is already in the XML tree then simply change its value
            self.Document.Item['Settings'][attr].InnerText = value
        else:
            # Setting is not in the XML tree, create a new element and add it
            element = self.Document.CreateElement(attr)
            element.InnerText = value

            self.Document.Item['Settings'].AppendChild(element)

A: __getattr__ is only invoked when Python cannot find the attribute in the instance itself or in any of its base classes.  The simple solution is to add Document and Filename to the class so it is found.
class ApplicationSettings(object):
    Document = None
    Filename = None
    RootXml = '<?xml version="1.0"?><Settings></Settings>'
    ...

A: What you really need here is a descriptor. Hooking __getattr__ and __setattr__ like that is not really recommended method.

A: I would use Properties. Using the @property decorator makes it looks even nicer.
class C(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self._x = None

    @property
    def x(self):
        """I'm the 'x' property."""
        return self._x

    @x.setter
    def x(self, value):
        self._x = value

    @x.deleter
    def x(self):
        del self._x

You can then access C.x and it will automatically call the getter for x, and automatically call the setter for x when you assign to C.x.

A: Apparently if I check for the attribute name in __setattr__ I can then call object's __setattr__ for the attributes I want to use normally.  This feels pretty hoaky, but works.
    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
        # Check for attributes we want to store normally
        if attr == 'Document' or attr == 'Filename':
            object.__setattr__(self, attr, value)
        # If the setting is already in the XML tree then simply change its value
        elif attr in self.Document.Item['Settings']:
            self.Document.Item['Settings'][attr].InnerText = value
        # Setting is not in the XML tree, create a new element and add it
        else:
            element = self.Document.CreateElement(attr)
            element.InnerText = value

            self.Document.Item['Settings'].AppendChild(element)


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S/V Rutea Sails Around the World: A Seminar Worth Waiting For!
Alright, already! Enough of these Safety at Sea, All About Rigging, How to Survive a Sinking seminars! Let's get down to the real basics of cruising or What To Have For Dinner! And since our passage to the Marquesas will be about three weeks, the question is: What to Have For Dinner for the next Three Weeks! And quite possibly because typical provisions in the south pacific are not necessarily what we call comfort food OR because we don't want to empty out the stores of the supply boats that visit south pacific islands once a month, the question becomes: What to Have For Dinner between Banderas Bay and New Zealand (about seven months worth of meals)! Provisioning Seminar? Count me in! FYI- I sat front and center!
There are as many approaches to provisioning for blue water passages as there are people that provision! The seminar panel ranged from people who precook and freeze meals (that would be twenty meals!) for the passage from Mexico to the Marquesas to people who take bulk beans and rice and count on catching fish along the way! They would be the people that don't even have refrigeration. However, all panelists agreed that if you wrap limes in foil, they will last three times longer than if not wrapped. Common wisdom here is that any item that you buy un-refrigerated can remain un-refrigerated after opening if you don't contaminate it (like mayo, relish and other condiments). Eggs that have not been refrigerated can be kept in the pantry and turned once a week (just make sure they are in breathable containers so they don't mold). Whatever you do, do not take any cardboard on board the boat because it holds cockroach eggs, dip all stocks of bananas in sea water before loading (to flush out any roaches) and check behind all labels on cans for cockroach eggs as you are loading them ONE AT A TIME on to the boat…..
As well as provisioning for the voyage, each boat also (according to maritime law) must have a waste management plan for dealing with food scraps and regular trash. I trust you have heard about the floating island of plastic in the Pacific which is the size of the state of Texas. Well we don't want to contribute to making it the size of Texas and Alaska so we get rid of as much packaging at the dock as possible. This means decanting all products possible into reusable containers or ziplock bags. We also want to make everything as small as possible since storage is… well…limited! Once out at sea (in very deep water) compost may be thrown overboard after being cut up in very tiny pieces, glass may be thrown overboard after cutting off the bottom and cans may also go overboard with both ends open. Plastic can never go overboard so it has to be washed and cut up very small so it can be stored until it can be properly disposed. I can't imagine that many south Pacific islands have good ways of dealing with plastic….. so we will see. It's kind of interesting to think about keeping your trash as clean as possible while living in this small space!
Anyway, this is the part of cruising and planning for a voyage that I love! Making lists, organizing… checking things off of the list! In the meantime, we continue to enjoy the wonderful markets and cuisine of Mexico from tacos on the street corner to wonderful stews in rich sauces and of course, a wonderful, never ending supply of pan dulce!
All this planning! And thinking about cockroaches! And waste disposal! I thought you were just relaxing in the sun with a book in one hand and a drink in the other. ! Saw your delightful daughter today and she seems very well.
I'm still trying to think of something witty to say about roaches. Stuck. But I'm pretty sure I ruined Meg's day relating your roach avoidance trials to her :( Tell us more!