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One evening that Candide and Martin were going to sit down to supper with some foreigners who lodged in the same inn, a man whose complexion was as black as soot, came behind Candide, and taking him by the arm, said:
"Get yourself ready to go along with us; do not fail."
Upon this he turned round and saw—Cacambo! Nothing but the sight of Cunegonde could have astonished and delighted him more. He was on the point of going mad with joy. He embraced his dear friend.
"Cunegonde is here, without doubt; where is she? Take me to her that I may die of joy in her company."
"Cunegonde is not here," said Cacambo, "she is at Constantinople."
"Oh, heavens! at Constantinople! But were she in China I would fly thither; let us be off."
"We shall set out after supper," replied Cacambo. "I can tell you nothing more; I am a slave, my master awaits me, I must serve him at table; speak not a word, eat, and then get ready."
Candide, distracted between joy and grief, delighted at seeing his faithful agent again, astonished at finding him a slave, filled with the fresh hope of recovering his mistress, his heart palpitating, his understanding confused, sat down to table with Martin, who saw all these scenes quite unconcerned, and with six strangers who had come to spend the Carnival at Venice.
Cacambo waited at table upon one of the strangers; towards the end of the entertainment he drew near his master, and whispered in his ear:
"Sire, your Majesty may start when you please, the vessel is ready."
On saying these words he went out. The company in great surprise looked at one another without speaking a word, when another domestic approached his master and said to him:
"Sire, your Majesty's chaise is at Padua, and the boat is ready."
The master gave a nod and the servant went away. The company all stared at one another again, and their surprise redoubled. A third valet came up to a third stranger, saying:
"Sire, believe me, your Majesty ought not to stay here any longer. I am going to get everything ready."
And immediately he disappeared. Candide and Martin did not doubt that this was a masquerade of the Carnival. Then a fourth domestic said to a fourth master:
"Your Majesty may depart when you please."
Saying this he went away like the rest. The fifth valet said the same thing to the fifth master. But the sixth valet spoke differently to the sixth stranger, who sat near Candide. He said to him:
"Faith, Sire, they will no longer give credit to your Majesty nor to me, and we may perhaps both of us be put in jail this very night. Therefore I will take care of myself. Adieu."
The servants being all gone, the six strangers, with Candide and Martin, remained in a profound silence. At length Candide broke it.
"Gentlemen," said he, "this is a very good joke indeed, but why should you all be kings? For me I own that neither Martin nor I is a king."
Cacambo's master then gravely answered in Italian:
"I am not at all joking. My name is Achmet III. I was Grand Sultan many years. I dethroned my brother; my nephew dethroned me, my viziers were beheaded, and I am condemned to end my days in the old Seraglio. My nephew, the great Sultan Mahmoud, permits me to travel sometimes for my health, and I am come to spend the Carnival at Venice."
A young man who sat next to Achmet, spoke then as follows:
"My name is Ivan. I was once Emperor of all the Russias, but was dethroned in my cradle. My parents were confined in prison and I was educated there; yet I am sometimes allowed to travel in company with persons who act as guards; and I am come to spend the Carnival at Venice."
The third said:
"I am Charles Edward, King of England; my father has resigned all his legal rights to me. I have fought in defence of them; and above eight hundred of my adherents have been hanged, drawn, and quartered. I have been confined in prison; I am going to Rome, to pay a visit to the King, my father, who was dethroned as well as myself and my grandfather, and I am come to spend the Carnival at Venice."
The fourth spoke thus in his turn:
"I am the King of Poland; the fortune of war has stripped me of my hereditary dominions; my father underwent the same vicissitudes; I resign myself to Providence in the same manner as Sultan Achmet, the Emperor Ivan, and King Charles Edward, whom God long preserve; and I am come to the Carnival at Venice."
The fifth said:
"I am King of Poland also; I have been twice dethroned; but Providence has given me another country, where I have done more good than all the Sarmatian kings were ever capable of doing on the banks of the Vistula; I resign myself likewise to Providence, and am come to pass the Carnival at Venice."
It was now the sixth monarch's turn to speak:
"Gentlemen," said he, "I am not so great a prince as any of you; however, I am a king. I am Theodore, elected King of Corsica; I had the title of Majesty, and now I am scarcely treated as a gentleman. I have coined money, and now am not worth a farthing; I have had two secretaries of state, and now I have scarce a valet; I have seen myself on a throne, and I have seen myself upon straw in a common jail in London. I am afraid that I shall meet with the same treatment here though, like your majesties, I am come to see the Carnival at Venice."
The other five kings listened to this speech with generous compassion. Each of them gave twenty sequins to King Theodore to buy him clothes and linen; and Candide made him a present of a diamond worth two thousand sequins.
"Who can this private person be," said the five kings to one another, "who is able to give, and really has given, a hundred times as much as any of us?"
Just as they rose from table, in came four Serene Highnesses, who had also been stripped of their territories by the fortune of war, and were come to spend the Carnival at Venice. But Candide paid no regard to these newcomers, his thoughts were entirely employed on his voyage to Constantinople, in search of his beloved Cunegonde.
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KATZENBACH v. MCCLUNG(1964)
Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Marshall, Ralph S. Spritzer, Philip B. Heymann, Harold H. Greene and Gerald P. Choppin, for appellants.
Robert McD. Smith and William G. Somerville, for appellees.
Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, James M. Nabrit III and Charles L. Black, Jr., for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., as amicus curiae.
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The motion of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., for leave to file a brief, as amicus curiae, is granted. In this case probable jurisdiction is noted. The joint motion to expedite briefing and oral argument is granted and the case is set for oral argument on Monday, October 5, 1964, immediately following No. 515.[ Katzenbach v. McClung 379 U.S. 802 (1964) ]

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Cameron, 30, was arrested Friday at the upscale Hotel Gansevoort in Manhattan and faces federal charges of methamphetamine-dealing, according to The Associated Press.
It's not his first run-in with drugs. In 2007, Michael Douglas' only child from his 22-year marriage to ex-wife Diandra Douglas was arrested in California on cocaine possession charges. Cameron pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
Earlier this year, Cameron was evicted from his $4,200 a month home after falling behind on his rent. His landlord told Star magazine that he left behind a mess of drug paraphernalia.
Michael Douglas' representative declined to comment to ABCNews.com about the actor's son.
Cameron's drug problems, while sad, are not surprising. When it comes to addiction, the apples usually don't fall far from the tree.
"We have very good evidence that heredity plays a significant role," Dr. Timmen Cermak, president-elect of the California Society of Addiction Medicine, told ABC News.
In 1992, Michael Douglas went to rehab for alcoholism. In 2004, his half-brother, Eric Douglas, died of a drug and alcohol overdose at the age of 46.
Kirk Douglas, the 92-year-old patriarch of the family, addressed the pain of losing his son in 2007.
"My wife Annie and I discuss it. We know for years and years we tried to do everything we could," he said. "But nothing helped."
"[Addiction] runs in families," Tatum O'Neal told People magazine last year after she was arrested for allegedly trying to buy crack cocaine on a New York street corner, nearly ruining her yearlong sobriety.
O'Neal should know. Her famous party-boy father Ryan O'Neal, brother Griffin and younger half-brother Redmond have all had problems with drugs.
Griffin, in interviews with Vanity Fair and CNN's "Larry King Live," said not only did father Ryan supply the genetic predisposition to drug addiction, he often supplied the drugs themselves. When he was 11, Griffin said Ryan gave him cocaine before they watched a screening of Ryan's film "Barry Lyndon" because "it was a long movie."
Griffin told Larry King that Ryan also fueled Redmond's addiction. "My dad just let him do whatever he wanted to do, supplied him with cash for his drugs, supplied him with everything. It was a losing battle."
He said father and son used to party together and were even arrested together last May. The pair were accused of possession of methamphetamines during a routine check on Redmond, who was on probation for previous charges of meth and heroin possession and a DUI.
Ryan, 68, denied that a vial of methamphetamine allegedly found in his room was his.
"He would never use them," his attorney Mark Werksman told The Associated Press. "We know that when all the facts come out, he should not be charged with any crime here."
But Redmond, who was arrested on a second drug charge weeks later, was sent to jail and is now in a court-mandated rehab program.
Complicating addiction in famous families is the white-hot glare of celebrity.
"It was not just my father, but it was around where I was growing up. I mean, it's always been around me," Tatum O'Neal told Larry King about growing up around drugs and booze.
"Clearly if you are socialized in a family, in a community that is a high-drinking or high drug-use [one], then that becomes the norm to you," Cermak said.
"The challenge that young people of means or with famous parents have is they're raised differently," said Ed Diehl, CEO of New Jersey rehab center Seabrook House. "When they start to play around with alcohol and drugs, they find that they live in an environment where they are walled in and highly protected and have exceptional privilege."
That privilege can keep them from hitting bottom and getting sober.
"Wealth can both open the doors of treatment," Cermak said. "It can also protect people from the consequences. They get a DUI, they hire a great lawyer."
Here are some other high-profile families who have struggled with addiction:
The Lohans
After her third stint in rehab and her second arrest, Lindsay Lohan pleaded guilty to cocaine use and driving under the influence in August 2007 and was sentenced to one day in jail and 10 days community service.
In a statement released to the media, she said, "It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."
Lindsay's father, Michael, has talked openly about his own struggles with drugs and alcohol. Since serving time on assault and DUI charges, he has maintained his sobriety by working as a counselor with a Christian ministry.
The Downeys
Robert Downey Jr. famously battled addiction.
From 1996 to 2001, he was arrested on numerous drug-related charges. He was finally sentenced to a three-year prison term in 1999 when he told a judge, "It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and my finger's on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gunmetal."
Downey explained his many relapses by his early use of drugs, which he has said were introduced to him by his father, director Robert Downey Sr.
In an interview for the 1988 book "The New Breed," Downey said, "There was always a lot of pot and coke around."
Drugs, he said, became an emotional bond. "When my dad and I would do drugs together," explained Downey, "it was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how."
The Barrymores
If stardom came early to Drew Barrymore, so did addiction.
Barrymore, now 33, has admitted that she had her first drink at age 9, began smoking marijuana at 10 and took up cocaine at 12. By the time she turned 13, she had undergone extensive drug rehab -- twice.
Acting and addiction appear to be part of Barrymore's lineage. Her grandfather John Barrymore, a star of stage and screen in the 1920s and '30s, drank himself to death at age 60. Her aunt Diana Barrymore detailed her love for booze and drugs in the 1957 bestseller "Too Much, Too Soon."
And her father, John Drew Barrymore, a sometime actor and poet who never lived with her, had a history of alcoholism and drug arrests.
After a period in her late teens of appearing nude in Playboy and making five films, Barrymore cleaned up her act, choosing a successful string of romantic comedies, becoming a Cover Girl model and getting involved with a U.N. charity.
Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland
It seems that for most of her life, Liza Minnelli has been living up to and trying to escape the shadow of her mother, Judy Garland.
Not only did she inherit her mother's talent for singing, dancing and acting, but she also inherited her mother's addictions to drug and drink. Garland died from a drug overdose at 46. Minnelli became a star in her own right but also succumbed to the darker forces of her mother's personality.
After waiting until 30 to sip her first drink, Minnelli fell deeply into booze and drugs in the hard-partying '70s. By 1984, her half-sister Lorna Luft was forced to literally kidnap Minnelli to save her from a downward spiral of alcohol, cocaine and pills. Luft wrote in her 1988 memoir, "Me and My Shadow," of how Frank Sinatra loaned her his plane to fly Minnelli to the Betty Ford Clinic in California.
Liza has returned to rehab a handful of other times since then, including in 2003, when she checked herself into an eight-week "self-help" program, according to Reuters.
Mackenzie Phillips and father John Phillips
It almost seemed like Mackenzie Phillips' battles with drugs were behind her. The "One Day at a Time" star saw her career, which had skyrocketed in the 1970s and '80s, suspended when she suffered two near-fatal overdoses, went through rehab several times and repeatedly relapsed.
She returned to television in the 1990s, playing a counselor on the original "90210," and recently she played a rock star mom in the Disney Channel series "So Weird."
Then came news in August that the 48-year-old actress had been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, after police found a "small amount" of drugs and a hypodermic needle in her possession. Shortly after, TMZ.com reported that she was entering rehab -- for the 10th time.
Phillips just can't seem to escape either her genes or her past.
"I grew up in mansions, but everything was dirty and broken," she told USA Weekend magazine in 1999. "Very little was going on inside except sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll."
Her father, John Phillips, founder of '60s folk rock group The Mamas and the Papas, was widely known for his heavy narcotic use. On "The E! True Hollywood Story," he admitted that he shot cocaine and heroin into his body "almost every 15 minutes for two years." Even after receiving a liver transplant in 1992, he was photographed drinking. He died in 2001 at age 65.
Charlie and Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen has talked publicly about suffering from alcoholism. So when he saw his son Charlie headed down the road to addiction, he quickly sprang into action.
He recently told AARP magazine that he turned to Alcoholics Anonymous for help. "I only got involved with AA when I was trying desperately to find a way to help Charlie, because I didn't have any skills," he said.
Charlie, who had developed a bad-boy reputation for his partying and drug use, was hospitalized for a drug overdose in 1998 when he tried injecting cocaine.
"The only way I got to Charlie, frankly, was because he'd skipped out of the hospital," Sheen told the magazine. "I had to pay the bill.
"He'd consumed an illegal substance; he was on probation," Sheen explained. "This was a criminal matter. And so that was the wedge; that was the leverage I had. That is what I took to the court; that's what I took to the sheriff. It was the only way I got him."
After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Charlie signed up for rehab.
Daniel and Stephen Baldwin
In the famous Baldwin family, with brothers Alec, Daniel, Billy and Stephen, the glare of Hollywood is a fact of life. And so, it seems, for two of the brothers, is addiction.
Since taking his first hit of cocaine in 1989, actor Daniel Baldwin has been marred by failed attempts at sobriety.
His drug problem started making headlines after a very public overdose in New York City's historic Plaza Hotel in 1998, and he had another very public relapse in 2005 on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club," on which he erupted during filming. Daniel admitted to becoming addicted to pain medication and eventually left the show.
ABC's "Primetime" followed Daniel through rehab last year, when he admitted that he will always be an addict. "The addict will always be there, forever. I am an addict. That's just the way it is."
His younger brother, Stephen, also an actor, has written about his struggles with drug addiction in his book, "The Unusual Suspect." Going to rehab introduced Stephen to Christianity, and since then, he has become a born-again Christian.
"It's real. It's changed my life. It's transformed my heart. I'm not who I was," Stephen said.
ABC News' Lauren Cox and Rena Furuya provided additional reporting.


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Yesterday's transcription, The Expense Account of Two 1830s Cattle Drovers, offered a fascinating glimpse into the partnership between my great to the third grandfather, John P. Minor, and Lot Lantz. As with my checkbook today, I reviewed the ledger's figures with a scattered focus. Does all of this accounting add up? Meh! Close enough!
The real family dirt was in the places named: Bull Town; William Brown's farm in Preston County, Virginia; Caremont Tavern. Where did these fellas travel? How did they get the cattle from point A to point B? Where was point A?
Both John P. Minor and Lot Lantz were residents of Greene County, in the far southwest corner of Pennsylvania; their names and place of residence appear in multiple federal censuses and several family papers housed in my Minor Satchel File. Bull Town is in what is now known as Braxton County, West Virginia and Preston County is just to the north and east of Braxton County. What connected southwest Pennsylvania and mid-state (West) Virginia in 1832?
Mail routes.
Every map I have located for the first half of the nineteenth century includes the southwest corner of Pennsylvania in the map of Virginia. The water ways, rail roads and roads connected the western counties of Virginia to Pennsylvania forming strong economic and cultural ties for many decades.
The Monogehela River and its tributary, the Cheat River, may have been one means of traveling into Preston County. Or perhaps Minor and Lantz drove cattle down the one horse sulkey road from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania to Morgantown, (West) Virginia to Kingswood, Preston County, (West) Virginia.
At Kingswood the two drovers could have traveled on the Three Fork Road, the day's interstate highway. That 2 horse stage coach road would take the men and their cattle through Bridgeport to Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia. From that point smaller roads, just one horse sulkey wide, would connect the businessmen with markets in Bull Town.
Travel through the mountains of western Virginia must have been arduous. I am still trying to wrap my brain around the concept of driving 22 head of cattle or 145 head of cattle along roads shared with mail coaches, farmers and peddlers. Did they use dogs to help move their merchandise along? Where did they stop to water and feed their cattle? How long was the average drive?
Cattle drovers were often men of substance in their communities, helping farmers move their animals to distant markets. John P. Minor was just one of these businessmen, and I am grateful that his descendants have kept the details of his transactions.


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The discovery by Google is also significant because the ads do not appear to be from the same Kremlin-affiliated troll farm that bought ads on Facebook -- a sign that the Russian effort to spread disinformation online may be a much broader problem than Silicon Valley companies have unearthed so far.
Google previously downplayed the problem of Russian meddling on its platforms. Last month, Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville told The Washington Post that the company is "always monitoring for abuse or violations of our policies and we've seen no evidence this type of ad campaign was run on our platforms."
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The CLEX Final Report
The final report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (CLEX) entitled" Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World" has just been published.
The report built on work which began last year included a "Report of the review of current and developing international practice in the use of social networking (Web 2.0) in higher education" (available in PDF Format) to which I contributed the section which provided a history of use of Web 2.0 in the UK.
Article In Today's Education Guardian
The official launch of the CLEX report has been accompanied by an article entitled "Time to get with the program" published in today's Education Guardian. As I mentioned in a blog post on How Is HE Embracing Web 2.0? How Is Web 2.0 Changing HE?" published yesterday I had been interviewed by the author of the article, Anthea Lipsett, last week.
The article in the Guardian begins with a description of a student experience which is at ease with the social web:
The "Google generation" of today's students has grown up in a digital world. Most are completely au fait with the microblogging site Twitter; they organise their social lives through Facebook and MySpace; 75% of students have a profile on at least one social networking site. And they spend up to four hours a day online.
The article cites the CLEX report 's conclusions that although UK Universities are doing "pretty well" there are "major issues to address if universities and colleges are to keep up with these changes in student practice and attitude" since "use of Web 2.0 … is far from systematic in universities" and is "driven by enthusiastic individuals who have embraced the opportunities it offers" .
The CLEX report is very positive in its views on the potential of Web 2.0 in higher education. The report provides a series of recommendation including, for example, the recommendation that that "JISC continues to develop a research and support programme into the use of Web 2.0 for all aspects of university business".
Should this be regarded by higher educational institutions as encouragement to make more systematic use of the Social Web? After all, today's Guardian includes, as well as the Education supplement, a University Guide supplement which contains on the front page an article on "Tweet and lowdown" which describes how "most univerities are so desperate to come across as cool that they've joined Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, and are happy to meet you online" and how "a lot of institutions offer free podcasts of lectures and tutorial recordings via their individual websites or Apple's portal iTunesU".
Evidence that Universities are successfully embracing Web 2.0 technologies (despite the snide remark about 'desperation')? Or should we be concerned regarding the way in which social networking technologies are being institutionalised to support marketing purposes?
In our contribution to the "Time to get with the program?" article myself and Professor Martin Weller both warned of the dangers of institutions "infiltrating Facebook". Martin described how "If you ask students: do you want the university to come on Facebook, the answer is no. They don't want their professor as a friend" and I questioned whether "universities [need] to get involved in … informal learning" which can be supported by social networking environments.
But what if Martin and myself are wrong? After all the CLEX report concluded with a quotation from a student:
I think it's great to have tutors/university staff on Facebook. After all, it is supposed to be a social community network and I think they [deserve] the right to have their own community or form a network with students (if the students are willing).
The answer to this dilemma should be addressed by another of the recommendations of the CLEX final report: "JISC works with the HE funding bodies and Universities UK to explore issues and practice in the development of new business models that exploit Web 2.0 technologies". We haven't yet identified the best practices for institutional engagement (or not) with Web 2.0. But the report makes it quite clear that we need to be asking these questions.


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In technology, the word "revolutionary" is thrown around with gay abandon, and it's often used to describe a slightly newer version of something fairly unremarkable.
When people use the word to describe the ZX Spectrum, however, they're probably understating things. 30 years after it first went on sale, it's clear that the Spectrum is one of the most important computers ever made.
I never owned a Speccy — I ended up with an "educational" BBC Micro, for which crime I was regularly beaten by Spectrum-owning children, instead — but I coveted one. The games were brilliant, and while everyone has their favourites anybody who says Jetpac wasn't the best game ever deserves to be jabbed with pointy sticks.
Thirty years on, it's amazing how strong the memories are: those horrible spongy keys; the coloured lines and cassette screech of the games as they loaded; the logos of the games developers. But there's more to the ZX Spectrum than mere nostalgia.
Influencing everything
The Spectrum era is rightly seen as a golden age of gaming, but it was more than that. It was a golden age for publishing, too, with specialist magazines springing up to deliver hints, tips, cover tapes (tapes!) and a hefty dose of comedy to gadget-crazed computer fans. And it was also a golden age for coding, with many people discovering that they could program their computers as well as play games on them.
Code such as this:
might not seem a big deal today, but discovering that a few lines of text could fill an entire TV screen with Dave-related insults blew minds. You had a computer! In your house! And you could control it!
Today the Spectrum is a museum piece, but its influence lives on: chances are, if someone's British and works in or around the tech industry, they'll go misty-eyed over Manic Miner or wax lyrical about Jet Set Willy.
The Spectrum generation went on to become videogame developers, web designers and app creators, and while the hardware is obsolete its DNA is everywhere in tech. If you've played a recent video game, enjoyed an app or read something on this very website, you're in Clive Sinclair's debt.


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|Ala Moana Beach Park and Diamond Head 1975
Another beautiful day in paradise and while the skyline has changed considerably Honolulu is still a great town. Just left of center in this photo is the Illikai hotel with its revolving restaurant on top. About five years ago, the hotel had a major renovation and added time shares. One of my ex-colleagues from Bowker owns one. In the distance is Diamond Head (never any diamonds) around which I have run many times although I only lived in Honolulu briefly in the summer 1982. The Honolulu marathon goes around the edges of that going out and coming back. Makes it rather challenging.


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Sacramental expression is one of the hallmarks of Catholicism that distinguishes it from other Christian denominations. Many other churches recognize sacraments as a theological component to their identities as Christians. Yet, their utilization is not nearly as frequent or central as can be found in the Catholic Church. This spiritual trend emphasizes a fundamental premise that constantly permeates the Catholic faith — that the divine can be found in all aspects of life — birth, death, friendship, celebration, or even during occasions of illness, despair, and anxiety. In the words of Benedictine sister and renowned author Joan Chittister, "The sacramental system reminds us at every stage of our existence that the God of life touches us through the most mundane of things: through water and fire, oil and light, incense and flowers, bread and wine, salt and the touch of the other. It reminds us of the essential goodness — the godness, in fact — of the natural world. It doesn't teach us that nature is God or that God is nature. It teaches us that God comes to us through the natural because nature was created by God. Or at least it tries to teach us our immersion in life. When we allow it."
This philosophy is also a key element to the spirituality that animates the Society of Jesus, more commonly known as the Jesuits, of which Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) has been a member for fifty-three years. Discovering the presence of God everywhere and always is what has molded the Jesuit mission into one that is focused intensely on social justice and advocacy on behalf of the poor — embracing the inherent dignity found in all human beings.
Ever since his election, Pope Francis has consistently put these principles into practice through stirring words and visibly moving actions. Not long after the world had seen the white smoke that proclaimed his election as Bishop of Rome, Francis would embark on a path that would offer a notably different pontificate than has been witnessed in recent decades. Before giving his first papal blessing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis asked the immense crowd gathered in the square below to extend their blessing to him. He then closed his eyes, folded his hands, and humbly bowed his head, as if to signal that he was receiving the cosmic energy of their prayers. Amazingly, the throng of faithful who were gathered there to witness history followed suit, and grew silent, all immersing themselves in prayer on behalf of the new pope.
Many more dramatically unprecedented gestures have characterized the manner in which Pope Francis has exercised his ministry since being elected three months ago.
Francis has chosen not to refer to himself as "pope" but rather as the "Bishop of Rome." The semantic change is important for a variety of reasons. Rather than establishing himself as a monarch, juridically, over all of the other bishops of the Church, Francis illustrates that although he carries out a unique ministry as the leader of the See of Rome, ultimately, he is one bishop among many, in a Church where the entire body of members, clergy and lay, exercise a plethora of ministries — which are blessed and harmoniously guided by the Holy Spirit. To highlight this point, the pope notably only speaks Italian during public occasions. Even during papal audiences where international groups comprise the crowd, Francis reliably insists on speaking the native tongue of the faithful of the Diocese of Rome. While the Bishop of Rome is a universal pastor to the whole Catholic Church, Pope Francis seems to find it important to underscore his dedication to the flock in his own ecclesial backyard. This concept of collegiality among bishops was foundational to the sessions of dialogue that took place during the Second Vatican Council (1962 – 1965). It is also a theme that has great implications for ecumenical relations. The Eastern Orthodox Church severed its communion with the Church of Rome early in the Middle Ages because of the escalating, unilateral, claims of spiritual and jurisdictional prerogatives that popes were claiming to have over all sees of the universal Church. The churches of the East affirmed that the Bishop of Rome was always reserved a special place, designated "first among equals", as the leader of the ancient See where two of Christianity's most prominent apostles, Peter and Paul, were martyred. However, they vehemently rejected the notion that in virtue of this symbolic position, the Bishop of Rome had the authority to settle matters of liturgical and theological practice for all Christians. Since Vatican II, both sides have been working ardently to heal this rupture. Many advances have been made but there is still much work to be done — mainly surrounding the issue of papal primacy. Astoundingly, when Pope Francis was officially installed as Bishop of Rome, the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, was in attendance during the solemn liturgy. This was the first time such an overture had taken place during a papal installation ceremony since the Great Schism in 1054.
Other visual gestures the pope has performed have garnered the most news attention. Francis ditched the elegant, red, papal shoes that Benedict, the Pope Emeritus, was fond of wearing, in favor of simple, but purposeful, black loafers. In place of Benedict XVI's gold-plated pectoral cross, gold papal ring, and gold, imperially-styled crozier, Pope Francis has adopted a recycled, gold-plated silver ring from the era of Pope Paul VI. He has also reverted to the silver, starkly realistic, crozier that was popularized by Blessed John Paul II, which depicts Christ vulnerably hanging in anguish upon the wood of the cross. His pectoral cross is also silver, and unadorned, bearing a simple engraving of Christ the Good Shepherd surrounded by a flock of sheep.
Further poignant acts carried out by the new pope have continued to abound, leaving the mass media and the world at large enraptured with curiosity. Shortly after being elected, Pope Francis personally insisted on paying his own hotel bill at the residence where the cardinal-electors had been lodged during the Conclave, on the grounds of the Vatican. Eventually, Francis would decide to make this hotel his new home, resisting the vast opulence of the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace. He later mentioned that he "psychologically" could not comprehend living in such an imposing, sterile environment alone. As a resident of the hotel, Pope Francis has taken to celebrating daily Mass in its chapel, even delivering the homilies, and eating his meals with the public in the dining hall of the residence. Essentially, he lives the same life that any parish priest throughout the world would, attending to the care of those around him rather than expecting menial service on his behalf.
All of these aforementioned incidents are indicative of a profound change in papal style, one that hasn't been witnessed since the days of "Good" Pope John. Pope Francis, before all else is a pastor. Initially, this was the ancient role that the Bishop of Rome fulfilled, to be a pastor for the whole, universal Church — existing as an avatar of unity for all Christians, while "presiding in charity." Through the centuries, the papacy has gradually been transformed from a vehicle of pastoral service to one of the last, conspicuous, examples of unchecked, authoritarian tyranny. Contemporary society has grown accustomed to regarding the pope as an archaic reactionary — particularly in terms of the church's previous two papacies, most notably on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
Although Francis is most likely firmly committed to a traditional understanding of many of the controversial pelvic issues that plague the Catholic Church in the twenty-first century, approaching them with an objective, positive tone could make all the difference in how the church is perceived in coming years. Merely by allowing theological discussions to take place on a variety of dicey subjects — such as women's ordination, homosexuality, divorced and remarried Catholics, and clerical celibacy — would lend to the view that Pope Francis is a genuine pastor, declining to condemn certain targeted paradigms as heresy, but rather welcoming diversity to flourish through a multiplicity of interpretations on the life of the church. The new pope has been intimately familiar with such experiences after serving as the provincial for the Jesuit order in Argentina for a period of six years. In this post, then-Fr. Bergoglio was widely viewed as being very accommodating, respecting and upholding the disparate polarity of theological views that flourished within the Society.
If an instant and tangible shift in various doctrines espoused by the institutional church will not be an immediate reality, could an ecclesial climate change not be the next best thing for a hierarchy that thinks in centuries? Is it too hard to envision that a renewed atmosphere of objectivity, diversity, and inclusion might ultimately end up, gradually, facilitating those longed-for changes in so many areas of church teaching? Pope Francis himself has stated that he will not consider being an ideologue as one of the components he will be looking for when screening candidates that he will be appointing as bishops. Instead, he specified that he wants any potential priests he elevates to the episcopacy to be, "close to the people, fathers and brothers" and that they should be, "gentle, patient and merciful; animated by inner poverty, the freedom of the Lord and also by outward simplicity and austerity of life."
If pastoral, open-minded, prelates such as these quickly fill the ranks of the institutional church's hierarchy, who knows what subtle nuances in theological expression could soon be witnessed?
As Pope Francis continues to exercise a pontificate that is centered on the goodness, and inherent divinity, encountered in all peoples and circumstances, we can only hope and pray that such embracing sentiments will be accompanied by actions that touch the lives of so many who have long felt forgotten, denigrated, and ignored by the Pharisaic prelates of the institutional church.
All of these conjectures may seem supremely naive, but I cannot help but remain the eternal optimist I always have been. The Holy Spirit must have known what She was doing when She prompted the College of Cardinals to elect Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the first Jesuit pope. For as long as it lasts, I plan to wholeheartedly enjoy this breath of fresh air that has been gifted to the Catholic Church. May God grant long life, abundant strength, and a constant sense of objectivity to what could be the twenty-first century's best hope for an incarnation of John XXIV.
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Mexican Vuhl Supercar Boasts Ford EcoBoost Power
2.0-liter EcoBoost I-4 good for 285 hp, 310 lb-ft
If you're looking for something more unique than the KTM X-Bow or the Ariel Atom, Vuhl's new 05 lightweight supercar may whet your appetite. Powered by a version of Ford's 2.0-liter turbo-four EcoBoost engine, the Vuhl 05 is good for 285 hp and 152 mph. Enthusiasts may recognize the EcoBoost I-4 from the 2013 Ford Focus ST.
The Vuhl 05 was created by design firm ETXE, which is headquartered in both Mexico City and Detroit. The lightweight sports car weighs in at just 1598 pounds. The monocoque chassis is made from a combination of extruded and honeycomb aluminum and a chrome-moly steel subframe houses the engine and rear suspension. Body panels are made from RTM reinforced plastic, but buyers can order optional carbon fiber bodywork.
The lightweight materials mean that the mid-mounted turbocharged Ford 2.0-liter EcoBoost I-4 has little weight to push around. The result from the 285-hp, 310-lb-ft mill is a top speed of 152 mph, a 0 to 62 mph time of 3.7 seconds, and a rear-biased weight distribution of 37 percent front/63 percent rear. Power is sent through a six-speed manual. The 05 rides on OZ alloy wheels - 17 in up front shod in 205/45 Michelin rubber and 18 in with 235/45 rubber in the rear. To further aid in handling, the Ford-powered Vuhl uses unequal length double wishbone front and rear suspension. When things need to come to halt, four-pot alloy calipers grab onto ventilated cross-drilled discs that measure 12.2 in up front and 11.0 in rear.
Inside, the Spartan cabin is all business. ETXE intends for each Vuhl 05 to be specific to its owner, and offer track-day goodies like carbon fiber bucket seats, an electronic data acquisition gauge cluster, and an integrated HD video camera. Since the Vuhl has no roof, a 13.0-in quick release water-resistant suede-covered steering wheel and water-resistant Dinamica suede trim are offered.
Pricing for the Ford-powered Vuhl 05 starts at about €55,000, depending on exact specification. Sales start in North America and Europe later this year.
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PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) A southeast Kansas hospital will break ground next week on an $18 million expansion.
The Joplin Globe reports construction of the new surgery center at Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg will begin Nov. 19.
Crossland Construction Co., of Columbus, Kan., was chosen recently as the general contractor for the 40,000-square-foot addition. It's the biggest expansion since the hospital was built in 1971.
Via Christi officials hope the expansion will attract an additional 20 surgeons, physicians and other specialists to the Pittsburg hospital over the next three years.
The surgery center is expected to open within two years. The building will include five operating rooms.
Wichita-based Via Christi Health system has offices and clinics throughout Kansas, as well as hospitals in Wichita, Pittsburg, Manhattan and Wamego.


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Finally is friday!! I love weekends! :)
Today I wear a Polka dots dress. I love this print !! I wear my little red sweater again, that combines with everything!!
Usually I don´t use flats but today I break the rules... and the little photographic camera necklace is very cute!! isn´t it?? is one of my birthday´s gift!!
I hope you would enjoy the pictures!
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