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I'm a fan of red lipsticks :D You should see my love for red someday, I'll show you my collection of red lippies and liners. I think red flatters my skin tone a lot and looks amazing on me and one day my beau also said that I look too **** in red lips. What! I mean he said I look beautiful in red lips :P My friend Sushmita also knows my love for red lipstick that she now named me Red Heroine ;) haha funny na! And by the way, did I say I'm now getting MAC Ruby Woo, don't believe your ears but ya it's so true, my love for red has forced me to get the hottest lipstick in town now. :D I shared the lip swatch pic on Facebook to let my friends guess the shade and none of them could guess this pretty shade so girls this is Non Stop Red from Maybelline Super Stay 14HR Lipsticks. Let's move on to read my review.
What Maybelline Says:
14HR Lipstick with an ultra-lightweight formula
• Stays fresh, light, and comfortable
• Super rich color that lasts for 14 hours
• Pigments are enveloped in a long wearing system
• 20 long wearing shades
Price: Rs. 525 for 3.3 grams
Total Colors: 20 shades, I have only 2 out of 20
My Take on Maybelline Super Stay 14HR Lipstick:
Packaging: Maybelline Super Stay 14HR Lipstick comes in a transparent outer case and a white cap where the bottom is red in color. The bottom half helps to identify the particular shade as if it's a brown shade, the bottom half is brown, if it's red like this non stop red, then the bottom half is red in color and every piece has a white cap with the respective color at the bottom. The packaging is nothing extraordinary or unique, I personally like round shaped outer case of a lipstick, and not oval shaped or circle shaped lipsticks except for MAC :D because that's unique and classy in itself.
Fragrance: The lipstick do have some yummy fragrance which feels like pastries or cake, all in all very yummy ;-) but the smell does not stay for long.
Pigmentation: These lipsticks are amazingly pigmented, just one swipe and they give intense color and with 2-3 more swipes you can get even more intense color depending on how dark you want the color on your lips.
Texture: Texture is more like semi matte. It feels smooth for the first few hours and then it starts to tug and crease from the centre of the lips. You would more probably want to use these lipsticks after exfoliating and moisturizing your lips properly and if you have excessively chapped and dry lips then you will not like the formula at all. For me, matte is what I like in lipsticks and this besides being matte is slightly moisturizing too, not fully matte and gives some sheen.
Staying Power: The color does not go off anywhere for the first two and a half hour after which it starts fading from the centre of the lips (where lips meet) and you can do with it by pressing your lips against each other. The lipstick lasts really long maybe like for the whole day but the problem is that it starts cracking and creasing at the side of the lips and in the centre. You can eat, drink and do whatever you want with your lips without fearing of the color being transferred or fading, it's one of those lipsticks which does not fade even on drinking or eating though a slight color may get transferred which won't be much visible even on your cup or on your lips that the lipstick has faded. I tried drinking, eating with it and I didn't face any such issue of its fading but I could see slight color on my spoon (just at the corner). These lipsticks are even hard to remove with makeup remover, I have to literally wipe it off 2-3 times with my current makeup remover (Maybelline) and then again with cream and then with my face wash, you see the color is so intense.
Non Stop Red is a pinkish red, say red with pink undertones, not exactly red and has slight hint of pink to it. I totally love this shade, it's a shade to own besides all the reds and maroons. It will look more flattering on fair skin tone and medium to fair skin tone and can wash off dusky skinned beauties. This is not for college or office as it looks too bold and would be great for clubbing, parties and marriage function.
Tried posing like Katrina Kaif's Dhoom 3 pose, tell me how it turned out :D
Pros of Maybelline Super Stay 14HR Lipstick:
- Amazingly pigmented.
- Yummillicious smell maybe like pastry or some flavored cake.
- Non stop red is a gorgeous red shade with pink undertones.
- This shade perks up my complexion and looks beautiful on me, will look good on fair and medium to fair skin tone.
- Smooth semi matte texture.
- Lasting power is great, lasts for as long as you want them to be but has a tendency to tug and crease after 3-4 hours.
- Gives opaque coverage.
Cons of Maybelline Super Stay 14HR Lipstick:
- Pricey!
- Dries and tugs over time, starts fading from the centre of the lips.
- I'm not much fan of the packaging, I like round shaped outer case.
- You need to have properly exfoliated and moisturized lips to wear these lipsticks or they can look very weird.
- This shade will not suit dusky skin tone beauties.
- Not everyone will like the formula but I like it!
- Color sets in to fine lines and creases at the corner of the lips after sometime.
BML Rating: 3.5/5
Do I Recommend Maybelline Super Stay 14HR Lipsticks:
This range is something to try for the great lasting power and opaque coverage they give. There are 20 shades and you can try any of the shades. You may not like these lipsticks if you are not much fan of matte finish lipsticks but these lipsticks are something to try once. I own two shades from this range and I love them.


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A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland;
with a Sketch of Its Earlier Annals,
And some Account of the Brothers of the Common Life.
By the Rev. J.M. Neale, M.A.
Oxford: John Henry and James Parker, 1858.
1725 — 1733.
1. The death of Cornelius Steenoven was undoubtedly a great blow to the Church of Holland, not only from the loss of a faithful and diligent pastor, but because his decease, so shortly after his elevation to the episcopate, was stigmatized by the Ultramontanes as a notable punishment of sacrilege. This argument, however, was, as we shall see, pushed a little too far, and recoiled on its inventors. The Chapter assembled at Utrecht six days after the Bishop's death, and nominated as Vicar-General, the see vacant, Gisbert van Dyck, whom we have previously seen entrusted with the same office, and Cornelius John Barchman Wuytiers, at the same time raised to the place in the Chapter vacant by the decease of Archbishop Steenoven. The latter was a man of noble family; had studied, first with the Oratorians at Huissen, then in the College of Viglius at Louvain, and then at S. Magloire in Paris, where he resided several years. During that period he was one of the priests ordained by Bishop Soanen of Senez.
2. A curious and delicate point now occurred. The Chapter of Haarlem, persisting in its selfish separation from Utrecht, had, nevertheless, to perpetuate its rights, elected a Grand Vicar, on the express condition that he should exercise no functions pertaining to that office. As early as 1715, the Chapter of Utrecht had [262] consulted the theologians of Louvain on the subject. It was granted on all hands that, if the Chapter of a suffragan diocese neglect, within the appointed time, to nominate a Vicar, their right lapses to the Metropolitan. The question therefore rose, — If the metropolitical see is vacant, does the right devolve to its Chapter? The divines found the enquiry one of difficulty. The Bishop, qua Bishop of a certain diocese, forms one body, they said, with his diocesan Chapter; whether the Metropolitan qua Metropolitan does the same, was a more difficult point[1]. They had, however, at length decided in the affirmative; and the Chapter of Utrecht, now acting on that resolution, nominated Barchman Wuytiers to the Vicariate of Haarlem. The Chapter of that Church was stimulated into action, and by a capitular act denied that the choice of a Grand Vicar had fallen to the Metropolitical Chapter by right of devolution. While this bye-controversy was proceeding, the Chapter assembled for the election of an Archbishop on the 15th of May[2]. The same formalities were observed by which the former election had been distinguished, but on this occasion the votes were unanimous, and the choice fell on Barchman Wuytiers. While application was made to Rome for the Papal Bulls, and — with the same strange foresight as before — for a dispensation that the consecration might be performed by one Bishop only, we must turn our attention to other matters.
3. Among the crowd of works which deluged Holland on the election of Steenoven, the "History of [263] the Church of Utrecht," by Hoynck[3] van Papendrecht, a canon of Mechlin, made the greatest sensation among those that favoured the Papal side. It appeared at Brussels and Cologne, in the shape of a small thin folio, containing, in the first place, a brief but most inaccurate sketch of the history of the Church of Utrecht, from its erection to a metropolis till the futile vicariate of Byevelt, then an appendix of letters, and then six dissertations against the rights of the Chapter, the last entitled "On the Illicit Consecration of Steenoven," — in whose lifetime it appeared. It must be confessed that the good Canon is not very complimentary to his Ultramontane friends; for Govaerts, the impostor Desirant, and De Cock had all attacked the national party; yet in his dedication he complains that the cause of truth had found "no defenders." No doubt the favourite theory of the partizans of Rome had, up to this period, been that Vosmeer and Rovenius had been true Archbishops of Utrecht, because in their days a Catholic prince was de jure sovereign of the United Provinces; but that the Peace of Münster had converted those prelates into Vicars-Apostolic, because there could be no national episcopate where there was not a Catholic monarch. Hoynck, however, saw the absurdity of such arguments, and such a conclusion, and he therefore boldly affirmed that, from the change of religion, Church and Chapter had collapsed, and that even Vosmeer was a mere Vicar-Apostolic. And this is the theory of modern Ultramontanes. A second, and much enlarged, edition of Hoynck's, carried his assertions to an amusing pitch of daring. He there affirms that the see of Utrecht is not vacant; it is so [264] utterly destroyed, that the Pope, even if he wished, could not revive it: a maxim on which Pius IX. has not acted. Hoynck, however, did good service to the afflicted Church by the answers which he elicited. Broedersen's first Tractatus Historicus, which I have so often quoted, though tedious and long-winded, is perfectly crushing. Van Erkel's Defensio Ecclesiae Ultrajectinae demolishes the unfortunate Canon, if not more thoroughly, at least more smartly. The Bishop of Babylon's "Second Apology" remained without an answer; and Van Espen employed his matchless pen in a "Vindication of the Resolution of the Doctors of Louvain."
4. But this great doctor was now himself in trouble, a trouble occasioned by his generous defence of Utrecht. One Damen, a doctor of Louvain, in attacking the consecration of Steenoven, declared it not only — in the words of the Papal Bull — execrable and illicit, but absolutely null and void; for, said he, three consecrating bishops, except by dispensation from Rome, are of the essence of ordination. Van Espen, consulted on the question by the indefatigable Van Erkel, completely demolished the Ultramontane partizan. He quoted the example of Pelagius, consecrated by two bishops only; of Evagrius, by Paulinus alone; of Siderius of Palaebisca, by Philo of Cyrene; and the first English consecrations, by S. Augustine. In later years, a Bishop of Nyssa in partibus, Vicar-Apostolic in China, had consecrated (1721) two bishops, without even any assistant priest. The Prince-Bishop of Liége had, Dec. 31, 1724, been elevated to the episcopate by a single bishop in partibus. In the same year, the Bishop of Antwerp had consecrated, unassisted, the Bishop of Rhodes. More remarkably still, a Bishop of Paraguay had, in 1657, distinctly [265] without dispensation, been consecrated by less than three bishops, and the Congregation of Rites allowed that the act was valid. At a later period, Herbert[4], a Canon of the Roman Catholic Chapter of London, reinforced this array, by mentioning that Stoner of Thespia in partibus was consecrated by Lucan alone; Petre, his vicar, by Giffard alone. Van Espen's treatise is known as the Responsio Epistolaris[5]; and though the writer was in his eightieth year, it exhibits no decline of vigour or learning, if compared with his earlier performances. It was published in Holland, and the editor unfortunately prefixed a short preface, in which he urged that the consecration was not only valid, but licit. Damen made a feeble reply, and was encountered by an adversary really as formidable as Van Espen, in the person of Philip Lawrence Verhulst, one of the ablest writers that Holland ever produced, and of whom we shall soon hear more. Damen, worsted in argument, betook himself to force. He appealed to the Council of Brabant, and after two years of negotiations[6] and chicanery, by a packed University tribunal, the book was condemned, and the author threatened with pains and penalties for a scandalous and pernicious work. No alternative but submission or flight remained to the great canonist. A niece, who had resided with him for a quarter of a century, and who, with true womanly feeling, cared infinitely less for the validity of consecrations by one bishop[7] or for the Church of Utrecht, than for a beloved and revered uncle, besought him, if he possibly could, to make some retractation that would satisfy his adversaries without compromising his own character: —
[266] "No, he replied; "I have for years studied the cause of the clergy of Utrecht, for which I suffer: and after diligent prayer for the assistance of the Holy Ghost, and careful consideration of the objections of the Papal party, I am more and more convinced of the justice of my first impressions, and am so certain of the equity and importance of this cause, that, if I hesitated to defend it, I should have occasion to fear lest Jesus Christ should be ashamed to own me as His disciple before the tribunal of the Supreme Judge."
He withdrew, not without some risk, to Maestricht, where he took up his abode in the February of 1728.
5. We have anticipated the course of events. Even before the death of Steenoven, the terror, as well as indignation, felt by the Papal Court may be judged by the extraordinary means taken to crush the Church of Utrecht. All Catholic princes were requested to use their influence at the Hague, for the banishment of those who supported it. Even the Republic of Venice wrote on the subject; and the States, in civil terms, bade it mind its own business. Rome now offered their High Mightinesses to allow a Bishop of Haarlem, if they would forbid the consecration of Barchman: but this mean and pitiful concession was made in vain. Other methods were therefore to be tried. The Bishop of Babylon was now on a visit at the Helder. In this dreary desert of sand, shared almost equally by men and sea-gulls, where that tremendous dyke of Norwegian granite protects the flat waste from the race of the German Ocean through the Hell's Door, (whence the name,) into the Zuyder Zee, — a spot the inconceivable monotony and barrenness of which can be realised only by him that has visited it, — there existed then, and there exists still, a faithful remnant of the National Church. A lady warmly attached to the Ultramontane party was heard to boast that the Bishop of Babylon would not long trouble the country. [267] A few days subsequently, that prelate received a pressing invitation from the captain of a strange vessel, perfectly unknown to him, to honour him by dining on board. He politely refused, and the ship instantly left the harbour. Had he accepted the invitation, there can be no doubt that he would have been carried off.
6. An offer of reconciliation to Rome was now made. The Papal Court, it was said, was beginning to open its eyes to the true state of the case. The Bishop of Babylon had warm friends among the Cardinals. If he would but consent to defer the consecration, things might yet go well. There could be no hurry. Premature action might defeat its own end, and put a stop to all hope of reconciliation. The honesty of these offers was soon manifested by the Brief of Benedict XIII. (Aug. 23, 1725) against the election of Barchman Wuytiers, in which terms more outrageous than those employed against Steenoven were unsparingly used. On this occasion the Pontiff gave a curious proof of his infallibility as to facts. Allusion was made to the death of Archbishop Steenoven, as a visible mark of the Divine vengeance. "So also was that of the layman Doncker," proceeded the Brief, "a great supporter of that party, who died in impenitence and damnable disobedience." On the Sunday after receiving this instrument, M. Doncker, who was a highly respectable parish priest in Amsterdam, and in perfect health, publicly read this Brief from his pulpit; and we may conceive him then to have addressed his audience on the reasonableness of the Formula, and of the Vineam Domini Sabaoth. Those, we may remark, who drew up the next Brief against Archbishop Barchman's consecration learnt caution, and named no one but the prelate, — whose [268] name, however, they were still so unlucky as to spell wrong.
7. The steps taken by the Chapter on this were the same as on the previous occasion. The neighbouring Bishops were requested to attend the consecration; they were those of Antwerp, Roermonde, S. Omer, and Rhodiopolis in partibus, coadjutor of Cologne. No answer having been received from them, application was made to the Bishop of Babylon, both by the Chapter and by fifteen of the clergy of Haarlem, the first being that Doncker who had been slain by the Papal Brief[8]. That prelate consented to grant their request, and on the 30th of September, 1725, being the eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, and in the church of S. James at the Hague, he consecrated Barchman Wuytiers Archbishop of Utrecht. The letter in which the new prelate announced his consecration to the Pope was met by the usual reply: a Brief of Dec. 6 declared him and his clergy excommunicated and schismatic, as well as all those who should in any way assist or encourage him. The Archbishop rejoined by another appeal to the Future Council, to which his clergy gave in their adherence, and which he explained to his people by a Mandement, which was much admired. In his letter to the Pope, Archbishop Barchman had offered to resign his see if tranquillity could thus be restored to his Church. Thierry de Viaixnes manifested some uneasiness on the point. "It is perfectly unnecessary," was the reply: "if I resign, it will only be on these three conditions: — 1. No Formulary; 2. no Unigenitus; and the rights of the Chapters recognised.''
8. The letters of communion which were received [269] at Utrecht amounted to more than a hundred, and were signed by at least two thousand ecclesiastics, principally French. Besides the bishops who had congratulated Archbishop Steenoven on his election, it is said on good authority that there were at least thirty French prelates who secretly acknowledged the rights, and gladly received communications from, the Church of Utrecht. The National Church was still further strengthened by the arrival of thirty-one Carthusians, compelled to leave France on account of the imposition of the Unigenitus in their order as a rule of faith; and fourteen Cistercians from the Abbey of Orval, in the duchy of Luxembourg. These were settled by the Archbishop in various localities of his diocese, and, on their settlement, they formally appealed to the future OEcumenical Council[9].
9. One of the most remarkable events which distinguished the episcopate of Barchman Wuytiers was the attempt made by him to bring about the union of the Eastern and Western Churches. The first idea appears to have arisen among some of the doctors of the Sorbonne, and more especially to have interested Monsieur Boursier, whose reputation for learning and piety gave him considerable influence at Paris. When Peter the Great was residing in that metropolis, among its other remarkable institutions, he visited the house of the Sorbonne; and some of the doctors took occasion to lament in his presence the divisions which separated Eastern from Western Christendom. He promised to submit any memorial which they might address to him to the consideration of his bishops — at that time under the influence of Theodosius, Archbishop of Novgorod, and Theophanes of Pskoff, by no means indisposed to forward a union with Rome. [270] Those prelates took the documents into their consideration, and returned two replies to the proposals which they had received. Their answers were unfortunately addressed to the infamous Cardinal Dubois, the same who traversed the negotiations between our own Archbishop Wake and Dupin for the reconciliation of the Anglican and Gallican Churches, — and he at once quashed the whole proceedings. They were renewed on occasion of the reception of the Princess Galitsin, the wife of Prince Dolgorouki, at that time in Holland, into the Roman Church. She made her profession of the Latin faith to Archbishop Barchman, on the Feast of S. Barnabas, 1727, and requested from him a priest of the Roman communion who might take charge of her family in Russia. He made choice of Mons. Jubé, ex-incumbent of Asnières, in the diocese of Paris, who had found it necessary to retire into Holland on account of his refusal to accept the Bull Unigenitus. The affair was discussed both at Utrecht and at the Sorbonne, and it was at one time proposed to invest him with the episcopal character; and it was understood that Javoski, Archbishop of Riazan, Lapatinski, of Tver, and the Metropolitan of Kieff, were by no means unwilling that the consecration should take place. Archbishop Barchman, however, contented himself with giving Mons. Jubé all the powers that could be entrusted to a priest, and that ecclesiastic, after visiting Paris, and receiving the blessing of the Archbishop, Cardinal de Noailles, took his departure for Moscow. He was received in the most favourable manner, and the negotiations seemed to be happily proceeding, till the death of Peter put an end to them, as it did to those which at the same time were pending between the Russian and the Scotch bishops. His successor, the Empress Anne, had conceived a mortal [271] hatred to the whole family of the Dolgoroukis: anything in which they had interested themselves was to be crushed; and M. Jubé, after inventing all the pretexts for delay which his ingenuity could furnish, was obliged to return to Holland.
10. During the progress of these negotiations in Russia, the attention of Archbishop Barchman was directed to another mission of great interest. It was proposed to endeavour to convert the islands of Laos, on the Malabar coast, and to form those missionaries in India who had refused to accept the Unigenitus, into a mission independent of the Propaganda. The Bishop of Babylon and the Archbishop exerted themselves strenuously in carrying out the project, and their efforts were redoubled when they received the intelligence that, on the death of the Bishop of Laranda in partibus, Vicar-Apostolic of Tonkin, the Court of Rome refused to appoint any successor, because his clergy, almost to a man, rejected the Bull. Great interest was also felt at Paris with respect to the scheme, and Father Terrasson, of the Oratory, was to have been appointed head of the mission. But before the ecclesiastics who composed it could sail, Tessier, Bishop of Rosalia in partibus, and Vicar-Apostolic of Siam, without whose co-operation success was hardly to be expected, drew back. He could not, he said, risk the certain indignation of the Court of Rome for the uncertain benefits derivable from such a mission: his brethren had better overcome their scruples, and receive the obnoxious Bull as best they might. The attempt, however, might in all probability have been notwithstanding made, had not the death of Archbishop Barchman intervened.
11. The increasing years and declining health of the [272] Bishop of Babylon naturally rendered the Archbishop anxious to provide for the maintenance of the succession in the Church of Utrecht. The episcopate, so wonderfully bestowed on that communion, must not, he felt, be lost by its own negligence. On all accounts it seemed most proper to fill the see of Haarlem, which had remained vacant since 1587. It was not only the first of the suffragans of Utrecht, but the number of Catholics in that diocese was greater than in any other, except Utrecht itself; the Chapter had perpetuated itself under its ancient title without adopting, as in the metropolitical see, the name of Vicariate; and till the year 1717, had named Vicars-general during the vacancy of the see. The canons, however, had, as we have seen, little by little deserted the cause of the National Church; their Vicars-general had been raised to that phantom of an office on the express condition that they should not exercise its rights; and, as I have already related, the Metropolitical Chapter had nominated, by right of devolution, another ecclesiastic to that dignity. After consulting various theologians, and more especially Van Espen, Archbishop Barchman gave formal notice to the Chapter of Haarlem that they were bound to proceed to the election of a bishop, and that if they neglected within the space of three months to do so, the nomination to the episcopate would devolve to himself, as Metropolitan. They allowed the three months to pass, and the Archbishop, after procuring another "consultation" from Van Espen, adopted by the French canonist Le Gros, convened his Metropolitical Chapter for the 16th of June, 1727. The principal among the clergy of Haarlem were invited to attend, and the Bishop of Babylon was present, as holding the place of a suffragan. After the mass of [273] the Holy Ghost, and a discussion as to the respective merits of various ecclesiastics proposed, the unanimous choice of the assembly fell on Theodore Doncker, whom we have already mentioned. The Archbishop had intended at once to proceed to his consecration, but various writings of his own on the subject of usury had at this time raised a storm which threatened the welfare, if not the existence, of the National Church; and the elevation of Doncker to the episcopate was for the present deferred. On his death, which occurred in 1731, the clergy of Haarlem made new efforts to obtain a prelate, — efforts, however, which were not crowned with success till some years later.
12. An event which occurred at Amsterdam at the commencement of 1727, occasioned as much sensation in that city as the miracles, real or imaginary, of the deacon Paris had done in France. A girl, by name Agatha Leenderts Stouthandel, who had been for some years suffering from dropsy, with a complication of other disorders, pronounced incurable by the physicians, had a strong impression produced on her mind that if she could communicate from the hand of the Archbishop, she should be cured. She did so on the Feast of the Epiphany, and, it is said, instantly recovered perfect health. Barchman appointed a commission, consisting of three of his clergy, to enquire into the authenticity of the alleged miracle. Their report is given by Kemp[10]. In the three months which their enquiries occupied, they received the depositions of three medical men, a hundred and thirty Catholics, and more than thirty Protestants, all of whom attested the reality of the disease, and the [274] suddenness of the cure. It seems hard to resist such a weight of evidence, which it was never even attempted by the Roman party to break down. The only circumstance which would seem in any degree to derogate from the authenticity of the miracle, was the fact that the avowed and principal wish of Agatha Stouthandel, in communicating, was not so much her own restoration to health, as the procuring an irrefragable testimony to the righteousness of the cause which the National Church supported. The Jesuit writers of the time ridiculed the occurrence, but made no attempt to discredit the witnesses.
13. During the course of these events, Archbishop Barchman was engaged in drawing up the constitution of the Seminary at Amersfoort: the excellence of his rules is proved by their remaining still in force. Nor was he behindhand in asserting from time to time the rights of his Church by his pen. He had the melancholy satisfaction of attending the death-bed of the exiled Van Espen, and of assisting at his funeral. I have visited, in the once magnificent church of S. George at Amersfoort, the tomb of this great canonist. He preferred, says his epitaph, exile from his country in extreme old age to the desertion of justice and truth, by giving up the cause of the Archbishop and clergy of Utrecht, and acquiescence in the too-famous Unigenitus. His tomb is in the family vault of the Foeyts, and at the entrance to the choir. Archbishop Barchman's pastoral letters of Dec. 30, 1725, on the duties and responsibilities of a bishop; that of April 10, 1730, on the death of Benedict XIII.; and the letter which he addressed to Bishop Soanen, of Senez, on the result of the Council of Embrun, received the highest commendations at the time, and are still much valued.
[It ought to have been mentioned that Van Espen, believing his residence at Maestricht unsafe, had taken up his abode at Amersfoort. - Author's Corrigenda]
[275] The Archbishop's death occurred suddenly at his house at Rhijnwijck, near Utrecht, on the 13th of May, 1733. The Bishops Soanen, of Senez, Caylus, of Auxerre, and Colbert, of Montpellier, lament it as one of the greatest blows that the Church could have suffered[11].
[1] The correspondence on this subject, which is interesting, may be seen in Van Espen's Works, vol. v. pp. 313, 314.
[2] The Chapter then consisted of Van Erkel, dean; Daellenoort, Oosterling, Van Dyck, Van der Croon, Kemp, Broedersen, and Barchman Wuytiers.
[3] This name is spelt very variously: I follow Hoynck's own orthography, as given in a book in my possession, once belonging to him.
[4] The letter dated Feb. 16, 1728, is in the Recueil, p. 277.
[5] Van Espen, Opp. tom. v. p. 484.
[6] All these negotiations are related at great length, and not very clearly, in De Bellegarde's Vie de Van Espen, pp. 167, sqq.
[7] Vie de V. E., p. 99.
[8] Both letters are given in the "Second Apology" of the Bishop of Babylon, pp. 487, sqq. That of Utrecht, by Kemp, vol. v. p. 95.
[9] Kemp, part vi. p. 80.
[10] vol. ix. pp. 53 — 68.
[11] Dom Pitra, in his Hollande Catholique, represents the episcopate of Barchman as one scene of confusion and internal disputes. The difficulties which really occurred on the subject of usury, and in which men equally earnest might fairly take different sides, are magnified by him into a perfect schism. The unanimity with which the election of his successor was made is a sufficient proof that there was no real division in the Church.
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UK retail sales were revived by the warm weather last month as shoppers flocked to spend on summer clothes, although inflation is thought to have been "fueling part of this retail growth".
New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG reveal a two per cent boost in total sales in June, 10 times the growth seen the same month last year.
Like-for-like sales grew by 1.2 per cent, up from a 0.5 per cent decline last year, while total food sales saw its strongest 16-week average since 2012 with a 4.7 per cent rise.
Meanwhile, online sales also saw a return to form from record lows in May, jumping 10.1 per cent compared to a nine per cent boost a year prior.
"For fashion retailers, the boost in sales could not have come soon enough," KPMG's UK head of retail Paul Martin said.
"Following a challenging year so far, it appears the higher temperatures thankfully provided an increased interest in summer collections.
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"Elsewhere, the sun also shone on health and beauty sales too, with the category continuing to be a top performer."
Despite one of the warmest Junes on record encouraging shoppers to the high street, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson attributes the latest figures to inflation on food.
"On closer inspection, the year-on-year numbers belie the fact that rising food prices are responsible for the main component of growth and have prompted more cautious spending towards discretionary non-food items," she said.
"The reality is that retailers' efforts in absorbing mounting cost pressures into their margins are already being tested, so the government must have the consumer front of mind as it enters the UK's trading negotiations with the EU, to avoid any further cost increases to retailers and their customers."
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Some people instinctively know what they want...what they treasure. The classified section of the Quay County Sun newspaper in June of 1978 contained this ad: "Farmer with 160 irrigated acres wants marriage-minded woman with tractor. When replying, please show picture of tractor."
At least, he knows his purpose.
Well, one man's tractor is another man's junk.
Matthew 6:19-21"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
He's basically saying…hey…your heart, your purpose, your hopes and dreams…are built around what you treasure…(I will come back to this). And he says when your purpose is around stuff here on earth, without God…it becomes junk.
What is our purpose? Does the Good News of who and what Christ is offer us a clear prescription for purpose and meaning? It is the question that we all end up asking. Why am I here?
Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, searched for purpose in stuff that ultimately became junk.
Ecclesiastes 2:2-8 "Laughter", I said, "is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?" 3 I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly-my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives. 4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem as well-the delights of a man's heart.
After a life dedicated to trying to find a purpose that would offer deep meaning and joy, Solomon has this to say: Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me. 10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. 11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
At the heart of GOOD NEWS is the truth that, God is restoring us to what our hearts long for most of all. Because of what Christ has done, we are being rescued to a life with God. We are being redeemed back to a life (like the garden) of living in the presence of God!
In sin, King David cried out for what his heart longed for most and for what the ultimate reason God had created him: "to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." So he cries out for what is at the heart of good news. David cries out "God, please "RESCUE ME" for that purpose."
"Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me" (Ps. 51:9–11).
Our treasure...our purpose is God. Everything else, without God, ultimately rusts.
Jesus doesn't say, "Don't treasure or find purpose in anything." He says, "Don't treasure or find your purpose in the wrong thing. Jesus says, "your heart's desire, purpose, and treasure is found in the worship of your creator (heavenly things)."
Consider the word of God. Colossians 1:16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
In other words, we were created for a purpose, our one treasure: FOR HIM, for His glory. That's our joy. Isaiah 43:7 "everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
Our lives were meant to experience the glorious presence of Christ and reflect that same glory. We were made for Him, specifically for His glory.
Our joy, our purpose, our treasure and hope is found in the reality that the good news of what Christ has done in rescuing His people from sin and death is restoring us to a life of worship. In Revelation, we get a peek at the treasure and purpose of His people as it will be experienced for all eternity!
Revelation 4:1-11 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. 4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.
In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying:
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9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."
Don't miss this Sunday as we walk through how the GOOD NEWS for EVERYDAY life restores us to our greatest joy, treasure, and purpose!
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SVG: Medicinal Cannabis Authority partners with software company
The Medicinal Cannabis Authority (MCA) in St Vincent and the Grenadines has partnered with Ample Organics to strengthen its medicinal cannabis industry by activating AmpleCentral- the world's first national Cannabis Tracking System built for regulators.
Ample Organics, which is a software company based in Toronto, Ontario, will provide sound industry-wide advice to the Authority as the medicinal cannabis industry emerges in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Canadian company says a seed-to-sale software platform will be deployed to empower the MCA, along with physicians and pharmacists, to register and service medicinal cannabis patients.
AmpleCentral is designed for governments to facilitate sophisticated reporting and to assist regulators with ensuring compliance, verifying product quantity and quality, taxation, and preventing diversion and inversion.
The technology connects data points across the national cannabis supply chain, providing regulators with the information necessary to assure public, product, and patient safety.
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In 2018, St Vincent and the Grenadines passed legislation for the decriminalization of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes.


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First official CA ride for January 2017 attracted a good bunch of riders. Amongst them were Micks Hunter chopper, Jon's chopped sporty and Pete's trike which is about a chopped as a trike can be in ANS (Australian Nanny State)...
The folks met at Reynella and cruised south...
... ending up at the Myponga Dam Loockout...
A number of the riders peeled off home but Jon, Kevin, Rob and a new applicant whose name's just slipped my mind rolled into Prof's. As they pulled in I got a call from Jett who was pulled up on the side of the road a mile out of Willunga concerned about an unfamiliar rattle on his new chopper just a few days old.
Kevin, Jon,Terry and I took off to help. Terry had come to The Chopper Shed by tin can (actually a very nice 2 door VG) and grabbed the shop Honda chopper to join in...
Jett's bike on the left...
Had to get a pic of Jon's sporty chopper as well...
As it turned out one of the baffles was loose, so we all blasted back to the workshop and sorted it out.
Kevin says the guys thoroughly enjoyed the ride which was in perfect weather... just need more choppers to join in...
January Adelaide southern ride 2017
Pics of yours or other interesting bikes taken out and about. Reports of Choppers Australia rides, with lots of photos and great stories. If you are not confident writing up a story, email Prof & get some help... choppers are all about riding, so let's hear your stories.
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Good to see all the bikes being ridden, mine's still in the shed........
Missed you by a couple of days, spent last Thu/Fri down at Normanville, went to Myponga ressie on the way home.
Missed you by a couple of days, spent last Thu/Fri down at Normanville, went to Myponga ressie on the way home.
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Amandla Stenberg's New Movie Tackles Tough Issues
It's a tough world out there, but one young star has done her best to make sure that her voice is used to speak out about societal problems that are important to her: It seems that Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg won't sit quietly when she has a platform that could be used to bring about change: Stenberg is an activist as well as an actor, and has been vocal about the Black Lives Matter movement, cultural appropriation, and feminism. She's also been open about how she identifies as bisexual, as well as her non-binary gender identity (she chooses to use female pronouns, according to KitschMix). As someone who isn't afraid of tackling controversial issues and illuminating them, it makes sense that Stenberg's new movie As You Are is doing the same thing.
The film, which was nominated for the grand jury prize at Sundance in Jan. 2016 and which a trailer was released for on Wednesday, tackles the story of a relationship between three friends, who, according to The Hollywood Reporter, "form a bond that is tested and maybe untethered while living in a small town." The film is set in the '90s — it's named after the Nirvana song "Come As You Are" — also seems to tackle something else: sexuality, and the complicated nature of it. The friends consist of two boys and Stenberg's character, the former of which seem to have a burgeoning romance — or perhaps something even more complicated. "I'm going to teach you to kiss," says Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton's character Mark to Owen Campbell's Jack. Later, when Mark's father is asked about their relationship, he says there isn't anything to tell — only to see Mark getting hit by his father in the next scene.
Though the trailer is cloaked in mystery, there certainly seems to be something romantic brewing with Mark and Jack, and the secret nature of the romance suggests that, sadly, not everyone in the film will be OK with that. The trailer's teased violent ending is disturbing, given the subject matter — might the film be making a point about how lack of acceptance of LGBTQ relationships can lead to violence?
If that's the case, it makes sense for Stenberg to have chosen this movie as her new project. Films can get the point across just as well as words, and as an advocate for LGBTQ rights and acceptance. As You Are may be making surprising points, cloaked in a coming of age drama, and Stenberg is one actor who has the passion to tackle that.


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Staff Perspective: The Military Spouse Transition Program (MySTeP)
During the month of May, CDP is focusing on reintegration. I initially planned to share about my transition from active duty service to Veteran status and the resources available to Service members. However, as I was doing some initial research I came across a program that supports military spouses throughout their military journey. Given that there are not a lot of resources focused on spouse transition, and being a military spouse myself, I was eager to find out more. The program is called the Military Spouse Transition Program or MySTeP for short


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We had quite a few disappointed readers when Rogers revealed the Nokia Lumia 920 would be exclusive to their network in Canada yesterday.
Those same readers would probably not be too happy to hear the rumour, via MobileSyrup, that the carrier will also be getting the Samsung ATIV S, another Windows Phone 8 superphone.
Apparently the Canadian carrier will be going big with Windows Phone 8, offering 4 handsets in total.
The Samsung ATIV S is expected in November, with no specific date leaked yet, and is fortunately not, as far as we know, exclusive to Rogers.
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Biographical entry Timms, R. E.
- Occupation
- Food scientist
R. E. Timms worked for CSIRO Dairy Research Laboratories. One of his areas of research was modified forms of butter.
Related entries
Published resources
- 'Timms, R. E.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475720. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_t.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 25 May 2006
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Julia E. Smith Parker Translation
|The Bible in English
Title page to the King James Version
|Bible portal
The Julia Evelina Smith Parker Translation is considered the first complete translation of the Bible into English by a woman.[1] The Bible was titled The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues, and was published in 1876.[1][2]
Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Connecticut had a working knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Her father had been a Congregationalist minister before he became a lawyer. Having read the Bible in its original languages, she set about creating her own translation, which she completed in 1855, after a number of drafts. The work is a strictly literal rendering, always translating a Greek or Hebrew word with the same word wherever possible. Smith accomplished this work on her own in the span of eight years (1847 to 1855). She had sought out no help in the venture, even writing, "I do not see that anybody can know more about it than I do."[3] Smith's insistence on complete literalness, plus an effort to translate each original word with the same English word, combined with an odd notion of Hebrew tenses (often translating the Hebrew imperfect tense with the English future) results in a translation that is mechanical and often nonsensical. One notable feature of this translation was the prominent use of the Divine Name, Jehovah, throughout the Old Testament of this Bible version.
In 1876, at 84 years of age some 21 years after completing her work, she finally sought publication. The publication costs ($4,000) were personally funded by Julia and her sister Abby Smith. The 1,000 copies printed were offered for $2.50 each, but her household auction in 1884 sold about 50 remaining copies.[2]
The translation fell into obscurity as it was for the most part too literal and lacked any flow. For example, Jeremiah 22:23 was given as follows: "Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building as nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as in her bringing forth." However, the translation was one of only a few contemporary English translations out of the original languages available to English readers until the publication of The British Revised Version in 1881-1894.(The New testament was published in 1881, the Old in 1884, and the Apocrypha in 1894.) This makes it an invaluable Bible for its period.[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c Malone, David (2010-12-06). "Julia Smith bible translation (1876) | ReCollections". Recollections.wheaton.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
- ^ a b Paul, William, "Smith, Julia E. English Language Bible Translators, p. 212-213, McFarland & Co., 2003.
- ^ Metzger, Bruce M., The Bible in Translation, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2001
External links[edit]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071007124106/http://www.polybiblio.com/pjbooks/9862.html - About Julia Smith's translation of the Bible and her family.
- http://www.bible-researcher.com/ - Overview of translations from the 19th Century
- Julia E. Smith Translation Online
- Works by Julia E. Smith Parker Translation at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)


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We weren't allowed to bring our phones, which was good for us, but it also meant that I don't have any photos. So I'll write them for you.
We walked our stuff maybe ten minutes in, to a sloped clearing with blueberries and a cabin. The cabin's wood is still golden and new. Inside there is a loft, and stale S'more supplies. It was really beautiful, with one wall turned into art by cutting the panels differently into a quilt of golden hues. It was built by an NMH alumni and is free for the public to use as long as you tell him you're using it. You can tell he put a lot of effort into building something beautiful.
I slept in a tent though because I didn't want to wake the other girls up, I get up pretty early. So I helped set up the tent. We just sat around for a while watching the view. The hills below us were bathed in orange light. It was probably one of the coolest sunsets I've ever seen.
But then night came. It comes pretty quickly when there's stuff still to be done. The mosquitos were flocking around us and we couldn't see very well in the gloom, but we collected enough fuel wood to build a survival fire. Ben showed us how to place the logs on the bottom pointing in the cardinal directions, and then put a large ball of very small tinder in the center. Then you pile twigs around that, then small sticks, bigger sticks and finally big branches. That way it protects the inner wood from getting too wet in case it rains.
We put the flame in the center, and the way the fuel was arranged within a few seconds we had a huge fire. It drove away the mosquitos, and it was extremely hot.
Ben brought out the marshmallows right then. And the graham crackers and chocolate. And the bananas, peanut butter and nutella. Also known as ultimate smores. They are ambrosia, the food of the gods. They also happen to be even more ultimate when you are gluten intolerant, so can't eat graham crackers, so end up eating it straight from your hand. They are heaven.
After we had stuffed ourselves with s'mores Ben had another class activity for us. He led us down the trail to the lower part of the clearing. We could barely see our way down. Everyone was holding each other's shoulders and the sound of stubbed toes filled the night air.
We were told to spread out, and we had to sit still and be quiet for 30 minutes with no flashlights. We were listening and watching the woods. I heard a toddler crying down the valley. An owl who-ing. Down by the edge of the woods we heard knocks. Ben told us later it was deer, signaling us to see if we were deer too. But the main reason that we sat out there for that long was so we could get our night vision. It takes 25-30 minutes after seeing a bright light, and with it you have better depth reception and you can obviously see better too. It was really cool. Everyone practically ran up the hill now that they could see.
Now we all got ready for bed. It was slow because there was an average of one flashlight per three people, but eventually everyone got ready. Then all of us girls went into the cabin, and we started telling each other stories. I think everyone's favorites were the from Taizha and Natoma, who are both Native American. We heard about Skin Walkers, demons who haunt the wild and will stare at you through your bedroom window at night. Or the evil spirit that possessed Auntie during the full moon. But when we asked them if they knew any bright and cheery stories they couldn't come up with any.
I said this before, but I wake up early, with the rising sun. As Heather, who was in the tent too (as well as Belle) said, 'You just sat up and you were ready for the day. Do you usually wake up at 5?' It was sprinkling lightly outside. I was really bored because no one else was even close to waking up. So I ate some blueberries. I was still bored, so I started collecting wood for the fire this morning. After maybe an hour, no one was up still, I read some of "Lord of the Flies". I couldn't read long because I was cold and the pages were getting damp from the mist. I started putting the fire together, and the rain finally started coming down. I threw the last of the wood on and ran for the tent. I dove in, all wet. Of course, then Tim and Ben, our teachers, got up because their tent didn't have a rain cover.
Wow. Yep.
We used a huge amount of birch bark to start the fire, because it burns when it's wet, it has so many oils. We used maybe a whole (dead) tree before everything caught fire.
We got less miserable after that. For breakfast we feasted on sausages, bagels with cream cheese, pancakes, roast bananas, and more marshmallows. It was a great breakfast. Almost everyone slept in really late, and one actually went to sleep again after eating breakfast.
We (or more accurately some of us) lugged our stuff back, and then they actually gave us a taxi service to all of our dorms. But not to Crossely.
And that is my extremely short account of what we did on our camping trip.


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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
Quintuple Axe Attack!!
Toronto indie supergroup Broken Social Scene cobbled together several low-level Canadian acts into one internationally viable one. Barely. Andrew Whiteman, one of five guitarists in the ten-piece band, says the tour is always a clusterfuck: "Everyone asks us how we organize it all. The short answer is we don't." Nobody in the gang gets rich this way, he says. But their rider does include whiskey and wine as they globe-hop from Japan to Lollapalooza playing lively, rich, everything-including-the-theremin rock music similar to the Arcade Fire. With more than seventy thousand copies sold of its third, self-titled album, the band has played on Late Night with Conan and Letterman. "You need more guitars!" Conan told them. This is the band's final tour, as the members are pursuing individual projects, so don't miss them with Bloc Party and Mew in what promises to be a spectacular extravaganza Thursday, August 3 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. $35. 7:30 p.m. Ticketmaster.com (David Downs)
Piano Par Excellence
New-music pianist, radio personality, and Express contributor par excellence Sarah Cahill ventures beyond the safety of the Berkeley cloister Wednesday, August 2 for the wild unknowns of downtown San Francisco's St. Patrick's Church to present a decidedly un-Catholic concert of the captivating music of Leo Ornstein and Percy Grainger. $5. 12:30 p.m. 415-777-3211. (Jason Victor Serinus)
The Faulkner of Jazz
Mose Allison is in a class by himself. The bluesman, piano player, singer-songwriter, composer, and homespun philosopher resists easy classification. During his fifty-plus years in the spotlight he's carved out a unique niche, delivering his ironic tunes of life's vicissitudes in a honeyed drawl that invites us to laugh gently at ourselves and contemplate the mysteries of being human. He's a pretty damn good piano player too. Thursday through Sunday at Yoshi's in Jack London Square. 8 and 10 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. $10-$20. Yoshis.com (j. poet)
Mo' World Fusion
You wouldn't catch President Bush or his cronies at this event: Iranian musician Emam & Friends share a double bill with the Mo'Rockin Project, a band that combines North African and jazz musicians improvising on Islamic melodies. The two bands usually play clubs, but this week they perform at all-ages dancehall Ashkenaz. With Emam on percussion, his friends for this gig are oud and violin player Gari Hegedus, guitarist Matthew Montfort, and harpist Diana Rowan. Mo'Rockin is the creation of Moroccan oud player Yassir Chadly and trumpeter-bandleader Khalil Shaheed, who spent more than a year working up a way to combine their love of North African and jazz music, then put together a burning band driven by drummer Deszon Claiborne. Thursday, August 3. $12. 8:30 p.m. Ashkenaz.com (Larry Kelp)
Punk Politicos
San Francisco's Drogues remind us why the Minutemen were way ahead of their time. More than 25 years later, the combination of high-pitched, staccato guitar wrangling, politically minded speak-sing vocals, and hyperactive bass lines still sounds as relevant as ever. The threesome plays in support of its second, self-released album No Facts That Don't Fit on Friday, August 4, with the Don'ts and the Mayfire at the Ivy Room. $7, 10 p.m. IvyRoom.com (Kathleen Richards)
The Northern Ozomatli
La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley hosts a benefit concert for the Latin American component of IDEX, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that channels funds to more than five hundred self-help community projects around the world. Performing a select set of tunes will be singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman of Modern Lovers fame, alongside Latino alternative rockers Los Nadies. Since arriving on the scene a couple of years ago, the Nobodies, as their name translates, have garnered a loyal following by delivering no-holds-barred politically charged shows. Lead vocalist Juan Cuba and guitarist Francisco Ferrer are Bay Area rock en español pioneers maturing into leaders with a conscience. Thursday, August 3. $20. 7:30 p.m. LaPena.org (Jesse "Chuy" Varela)
Righteous Tuba
The aptly named Drums & Tuba proves that tuba blasts, drums, and guitar can concoct convincing post-rock grooves. With the addition of looped samples and electronics, the trio layers a sound much more dynamic than expected. The band's live show helped earn it a fan in Ani DiFranco, whose Righteous Babe label has released its last three albums, including the most recent, Battles Olé. Drums & Tuba plays with That One Guy and Loop! Station on Saturday, August 5 at 12 Galaxies in SF. $10, $12, 9 p.m. 12Galaxies.com (K.R.)
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