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The below is a re-blog from the Society of St. Pius X website.
Editor's Note: The Deus Ex Machina blog posts have been exclusively focusing on the Synod of Bishops that will commence on the 4th of October 2014, beginning on the 12th of January 2015. Over the past 2+ weeks, this blogger has tried to analyze different observations, occurrences and events that are related to this upcoming Synod. Other parties are observing these same phenomena, and are beginning to put their observations and commentary into the public domain. Furthermore, their analysis is in alignment with what has been written on this blog's pages and posts. This is a very good development since the more these "main stream" writers and bloggers "shine the light of day" on the corrupt prelates that are attempting to change the doctrine of the Catholic Church by stealth, for their own personal needs and gains, the lesser are the chances that these corrupt prelates will succeed. Below this blog reproduces a post from the SSPX website for your review.
And one final thought. When reading the below, please keep in mind the age old adage that states: "sunshine is the best disinfectant'.
From the SSPX website. (see here)
The scandal of the Family on the Synod doesn't seem to end: is it money that is unifying the German bishops in their new "pastoral approach"?
From the just-published DICI issue #309, we offer the editorial of Fr. Lorans followed by an insightful piece on the next Synod on the Family that is currently being prepared discretely and what is a possible motive behind the unified German episcopacy.
This disturbing news comes on the heels of the report that Pope Francis approved the Synod's scandalous Relatio prior to its publication.
Money at the root of the Synod?
Why is Cardinal Walter Kasper, who wants to change Church doctrine about the indissolubility of marriage by giving Communion to the divorced-and-remarried, supported by the German episcopate in its entirety? Whence this rock-solid Germanic unanimity? George Weigel reports in the current issue of the American monthly magazine First Things the answer given to him by someone who knows the Church in Germany very well, and the answer can be summed up in one word: money.
Indeed, the German dioceses are very rich thanks to the church tax paid by the Catholic faithful; but they are leaving the Church in droves and no longer provide that manna. Hence the very simple calculation by the bishops: let us avoid the flight of the faithful (and of the funding), let us make doctrine more flexible and broaden our pastoral outreach.
Could it be, then, that these arguments in favor of mercy, as opposed to doctrinal rigidity, are in reality nice-sounding arrangements aimed at the bottom line? If so, the bishops would be abandoning a not very interesting doctrine for the sake of a not at all disinterested pastoral approach! In order to dispel the suspicion that weighs heavily on them, it would be enough for the German bishops to declare unanimously: "We prefer the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage to church tax revenues. We serve Jesus Christ, not Mammon." It would suffice… but would it be sufficient for them? For the answer, stay tuned for the next Synod in October.
Fr. Alain Loran | DICI 1-30-2015
The next Synod on the Family is being prepared discreetly…
After the very lively reactions provoked by the first meeting of the Synod on the Family (October 5-19, 2014) (see DICI no. 303 dated October 24, 2014), preparations for the next assembly of the bishops (October 4-25, 2015) are being made discreetly, as though calm had returned after the storm and everything was normal again. Should we rejoice blissfully or worry seriously about it? In an interview granted to Le Figaro Magazine (December 18, 2014), Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, one of the chief opponents of the scandalous proposals of Cardinal Walter Kasper concerning communion for the divorced-and-remarried (see DICI no. 301 dated September 26, 2014), admitted:
I am very concerned, and I call on Catholics—laymen, priests and bishops—to get involved between now and the next Synod assembly, in order to bring to light the truth about marriage."
A very slanted working document
On December 9 the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops published the lineamenta (the working document) for the Synod assembly in October 2015. Besides the final report from the October 2014 Synod, the secretariat proposes 46 questions addressing the challenges of pastoral ministry to families, so as to "draw near to families in extreme situations".
The bishops' conferences are supposed to fill out the questionnaire "while avoiding, in their responses, a formulation of pastoral care based simply on an application of doctrine" (sic). Taking up again the topics that shook the assembly of bishops, the Roman document asks, as though about a trivial matter, how the Christian community "can assist in discerning the positive and negative elements in the life of persons united in a civil marriage"; it even asks, with regard to divorced Catholics, "How can the procedure to determine cases of nullity be made more accessible, streamlined and possibly without expense?"
The Roman questionnaire even assures the reader that "with regard to the divorced-and-remarried, pastoral practice concerning the sacraments needs to be further studied," and it asks what advances are possible in light of the "second chance" (sic) proposed in certain cases in the Orthodox Church. This document likewise poses the question of pastoral care to homosexuals: "While avoiding any unjust discrimination, how can such persons receive pastoral care in these situations in light of the Gospel?" The answers to this questionnaire are supposed to arrive in Rome by April 15, 2015.
The uneasiness expressed by Cardinal Burke during the above-cited interview is understandable, therefore:
In an age filled with confusion, as we see with Gender Theory, we need the teaching of the Church on marriage. Yet, we are being pushed on the contrary towards admitting divorced-and-remarried persons to communion. Not to mention this obsession with streamlining the procedures of annulment of the marital bond. All this will lead de facto to a kind of 'Catholic divorce', and to the weakening of the indissolubility of marriage, even though the principle thereof is reaffirmed. However, the Church must defend marriage, and not weaken it. The indissolubility of marriage is not a penance, nor a suffering. It is something very beautiful for those who live it; it is a source of joy."
Pope Francis intervened twice, along the lines of the lineamenta and of the accompanying questionnaire, on January 23 while addressing the members of the Apostolic Tribunal, and on January 24 during the conference organized by Gregorian University on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the instruction Dignitas Connubii (The Dignity of Marriage). To the first group he declared that the Church cannot ignore the suffering of many households that are disintegrating, leaving behind the debris of their emotional relationships, plans and shared expectations. The judge is called to determine whether there was a defect of form in the matrimonial consent, and so he must take into account the context in which that consent was formed. Thus the pope is saying that he wishes to see a pastoral conversion of ecclesiastical structures so as to come to the aid of those who turn to the Church to shed light on their marital situation.
During the conference at the Gregorian, Francis called for a streamlining of procedures, insisting that the appeals process should be simplified so as not to subject couples to painful, exhausting delays. And in order to avoid complicated, useless formalities, he does not rule out the possibility that new norms may be issued in the future. In his two recent interventions everything suggests that the experts are gradually moving toward an alignment (modestly presented as a "harmonization") of the prescription of canon law with the concrete situations of contemporary society.
The forceful critique by Cardinal Velasio de Paolis
The reason for this alignment, theoretically, would be "pastoral mercy" as opposed to doctrinal intransigence and legal rigidity. But that is an artificial contrast, as Cardinal Valsio de Paolis, President Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, explained during a conference given at the Canon Law Faculty of the University of San Damaso in Madrid (Spain) on November 26, 2014, during which he magisterially critiqued Proposition 52 of the final report of the October 2014 Synod.
Here is an important excerpt from it:
The issue of access to the sacraments, especially to the Eucharist, on the part of the divorced-and-remarried was the object of reflection at the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops last October. This is referred to in proposition no. 52 of the final Relatio, which says: 'The Synod Fathers also considered the possibility of giving the divorced-and-remarried access to the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist. Various Synod Fathers insisted on maintaining the present discipline, because of the constitutive relationship between participation in the Eucharist and communion with the Church as well as her teaching on the indissoluble character of marriage. Others proposed a more individualized approach, permitting access in certain situations and with certain well-defined conditions, primarily in irreversible situations and those involving moral obligations towards children who would have to endure unjust suffering. Access to the sacraments might take place if preceded by a penitential practice, determined by the diocesan bishop. The subject needs to be thoroughly examined, bearing in mind the distinction between an objective sinful situation and extenuating circumstances, given that 'imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors'" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1735).'"
And the high-ranking prelate asks: Is the question about communion for the divorced-and-remarriage a question of discipline, of doctrine or of Magisterial teaching?
We observe that the wording of the text of the proposition generates ambiguities. It speaks of the 'current discipline' and a possible modification of this, but this prompts a few doubts that require examination. In reality, the regulation in effect is not only a 'current discipline', as if this were a matter of a merely ecclesiastical norm and not of divine norms ratified by the Magisterium, with doctrinal and magisterial motivations that concern the very foundations of Christian life, of conjugal morality, of the meaning of and respect for the Eucharist, and of the validity of the Sacrament of Penance. We are looking at a discipline founded on divine law. It is not emphasized enough that the documents of the Church in this matter do not impose obligations originating from its authority, but rather affirm that the ecclesiastical authority cannot act otherwise, because this 'discipline' cannot be modified in its essential elements. The Church cannot act otherwise. It cannot modify the natural law or respect for the nature of the Eucharist, because this is a question of the divine will.
To the extent to which it provides for the possibility of admitting the divorced-and-remarried to Eucharistic communion, the proposal actually constitutes a change of doctrine. Notwithstanding the fact that its proponents say that they do not want to modify doctrine. Moreover, doctrine by its very nature is not changeable if it is the object of the authentic Magisterium of the Church. Before talking about and discussing any change in the discipline currently in force, it is necessary to reflect on the nature of this discipline. In studying this question one must, in the first place, reflect on this doctrine and on its level of certainty; there must be careful study of what can be modified and what cannot be. The doubt has been insinuated in the proposal itself when it calls for more in-depth study, which must be doctrinal and prior to any decision.
We can also ask ourselves whether it is the competency of a Synod of Bishops to deal with a question like this: the value of the doctrine and of the discipline currently in force in the Church, which have developed over the course of centuries and have been ratified by statements of the supreme Magisterium of the Church. Moreover, who is competent to modify the Magisterium of other popes? That would constitute a dangerous precedent. Furthermore, the innovations that would be introduced if the text of the proposal were approved would be of unprecedented gravity:
a) the possibility of admitting to Eucharistic communion, with the explicit approval of the Church, a person who is in a state of mortal sin, with the danger of sacrilege and profanation of the Eucharist;
b) in doing so the Church would call into question the general principle of the need to be in the state of sanctifying grace in order to be able to receive Eucharistic communion, especially now that a generalized practice has been introduced or is being introduced in the Church of receiving the Eucharist without previous sacramental confession, even if one is aware of being in a state of serious sin, with all of the harmful consequences that this practice involves;
c) the admission to Eucharistic communion of a Catholic who cohabits more uxorio (as though married) would also mean calling into question sexual morality, which is founded in particular on the sixth commandment;
d) moreover, in acting this way, the Church would also lend support to cohabitation or to other arrangements, which in fact would weaken the principle of the indissolubility of marriage."
The very concrete motives of the German episcopate
Another enlightening commentary, less doctrinal and much more concrete, is provided by the American scholar George Weigel in an article that appeared in the January issue of First Things magazine. If you know that Cardinal Walter Kasper is supported by the German bishops as a whole, by the very admission of Cardinal Reinhard Marx, President of their Bishops' Conference, you may wonder what drives those bishops—and them especially—to their militant advocacy of communion for the divorced-and-remarried. Here is the answer that Weigel got:
Ten months before the Synod met, I asked a knowledgeable observer of German Catholic affairs why the German Catholic leadership insisted on revisiting the issue of Holy Communion for those in civil second marriages, which most of the rest of the world Church thought had been sufficiently aired in the 1980 Synod on the Family, and which seemed to have been settled by the reaffirmation of the Church's traditional teaching and practice in St. John Paul II's 1981 Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio (The Community of the Family) and in the 1983 Code of Canon Law. I got a one-word answer: 'Money.'
The German Church is funded by the Kirchensteuer, the 'church tax' collected by the Federal Republic from every citizen who has not taken action to opt out of it. The funds involved are considerable; in 2011, the Kirchensteuer provided the Catholic Church in Germany with $6.3 billion. Recently, however, more and more German Catholics have been choosing to opt out. In a clumsy attempt to stanch the bleeding, the German bishops issued a decree in 2012, stating that anyone who opts out of the tax has 'left the Church' and that such de facto apostates are cut off from the Church's sacramental life, except in danger of death. The decree was widely mocked and German canonists declared it a nonstarter, for it takes more to 'leave the Church' than signing a civil affidavit. In any event, payment of the Kirchensteuer has continued to drop.
Many German bishops seem to have concluded that this pattern of defection from payment of the Church tax can best be explained by the perception of the Catholic Church as a mean, narrow, and cruel exponent of propositions—such as the indissolubility of marriage—that no self-respecting 21st-century European can accept. That people have stopped paying the Kirchensteuer because they have stopped believing that Jesus is Lord and that the Catholic Church is his Body might seem the more straightforward explanation. But adopting that interpretation would require acknowledging that the meltdown of Catholic faith and practice in Germany has had something to do with the colossal failures of German theology and catechetics to transmit the Gospel effectively under the challenging conditions of late modernity and postmodernity. And that, to borrow an image from another battle, seems a bridge too far."
[Editor's note: The author alludes to the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far which tells the story of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, in which, after a crushing defeat, English General Browning admits: "We tried to go a bridge too far."]
(Sources: Apic/Imedia/Figaro Magazine/Chiesa.espressonline.it/First Things—DICI #309, January 30, 2015)


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Amazon has purchased PillPack, an online pharmacy, for nearly $1B.
A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon announced on Thursday an acquisition that underscores how it also hopes to have a more direct — and more commercial — role in the world of healthcare in the coming years. The company has purchased PillPack, an online pharmacy the lets users buy medications in pre-made doses.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed by Amazon, but sources close to the deal say it was for just under $1 billion. PillPack had reportedly been in talks with Walmart for an acquisition, but Amazon "came along offering more."
PillPack has a license to operate in all 50 states in the U.S., but it doesn't seem to be operational in international markets. Its PharmacyOS — the system it built that forms the basis of the company — is a platform that helps manage patient data and figure out how to balance medication together in safe doses for its customers.
PillPack was last valued at $361 million after a round of funding in 2016. This deal is expected to close in the second half of 2018.
Source: techcrunch.com
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Adidas warned late on Thursday that hackers may have lifted customer data from its US website.
The sportswear maker said personal data, including contact information (addresses and email addresses), and encrypted passwords may have fallen into the hands of criminals; but was able to reassure customers that neither financial nor fitness information was at risk.
"According to the preliminary investigation, the limited data includes contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords," it said. "Adidas has no reason to believe that any credit card or fitness information of those consumers was impacted."
The company has notified law enforcement and brought in experts to help investigate the breach, which Adidas said it became aware of on the 26th of June after claims by "an unauthorized party," implying that the breach was only detected once hackers attempted to sell the data.
This leaves an as-yet-unspecified number of customers at heightened risk of unusually convincing phishing emails. Extra vigilance and changing passwords is advisable.
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
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An experimental robot with an animated cartoon face has been sent to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Dubbed Cimon (short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), the device is intended as an "an AI-based assistant for astronauts."
Cimon weighs 5kg here on Earth, but in zero gravity it will float and move itself around using 14 internal fans.
It is an attempt to find out whether robots and astronauts can collaborate.
To this end, Cimon is equipped with microphones and cameras that help it recognise Alexander Gerst, the German astronaut with whom it will work.
An "offline" button has been designed for Cimon, which allows Gerst to avoid having audio streamed to servers on Earth during moments of privacy.
IBM engineer Matthias Biniok said, "Right now our main mission is to support the astronauts with their daily tasks to save time, because time is the most valuable and most expensive thing on the ISS."
Cimon, which speaks English, was developed by Airbus and IBM for the German national space agency, DLR.
It'll be able to give astronauts instructions to help them carry out scientific experiments and will be able to respond to verbal questions as well.
Source: www.bbc.com
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Facebook is giving up on its plan to create drones that beam down internet connectivity.
Project Aquila, first announced in 2014, failed to achieve the long flight times managed by airborne connectivity efforts from rivals including Google.
In one test, Facebook's craft suffered a broken wing as it came in to land.
The company said it would instead partner with firms such as Airbus to continue its efforts to connect more people to the internet.
The decision means the closure of a facility in Bridgwater, UK, that had been used to build the technology.
In a blog post, Facebook's Director of Engineering, Yael Maguire said, "It's been exciting to see leading companies in the aerospace industry start investing in this technology too - including the design and construction of new high-altitude aircraft." He goes on to say, "Given these developments, we've decided not to design or build our own aircraft any longer."
The Project Aquila craft had the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and weighed the same as a typical family car. It was solar-powered during the day and battery-powered at night, and in testing managed 90 minutes in the air.
However, Facebook's efforts paled in comparison to Project Loon, a similar idea using high-altitude balloons rather than drones. It is being worked on by X, the experimental arm of Google parent company Alphabet.
Project Loon balloons have flown more than 15 million miles of tests, with the longest continuous flight lasting almost 190 days. In 2017, the balloons were used by residents of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Source: www.bbc.com
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Ted Gibbons
After suffering an arm injury that had Ted sidelined from music for almost a year, he is back with his best musical project ever. "I used the time to re-evaluate my playing, and have evolved greatly because of it", says Ted, who is the quintessential gentleman jazz guitarist and educator.
He has once again joined musical forces with the remarkable Ken Foster to create a unique and delightful sound. Ted's mature, joyful and moving style, and Ken's warm and passionate melodious tone, create a perfect cohesion, while they promise to wind their way around great jazz standards in what will be a night to remember. In Ted's words, "If you love saxophone, Ken will add greatly to that love affair. And if you don't, you will after hearing him play". Gibbons has a knack for seducing the audience with his pure musicianship and ability to make the music sing and dance. Don't miss this chance to see one of our musical gems right here in the Region of Waterloo.
Ken Foster – Tenor Saxophone
Ken plays in Toronto with Double 'A' Jazz, and is a member of Kitchener-Waterloo's Big Band Theory, Sarnia's Bluewater Big Band, and the Jeff Daniels Group in Guelph.
The Ken Foster Quartet has accompanied many vocalists including June Garber, Denise Pelley and After Four, and has performed for the London Jazz Society and Jazz For The People concert series.
Larry Ernewein – Bass
Larry has been working as a bassist, both electric and acoustic, since the 1970's.
He has toured Canada and the United States as a classic rock bassist with several show bands, and performs in several styles including jazz, country & western and folk music.
He is one of the busiest bass players in Southwestern Ontario, playing regularly with several small combos, including the award-winning vocal jazz group After Four and The Ken Foster Quartet.
Sandy MacKay – Drums
One of Southwestern Ontario's most versatile and experienced drummers, Sandy is in demand in rock, pop, country and jazz genres.
Career highlights include opening for Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, and performances at several major international jazz festivals. He has shared the stage with many Canadian jazz artists including Peter Appleyard, Lorne Lofsky, Kirk MacDonald and Dave Dunlop.
Sandy is the artistic director of London's popular long running series "Jazz For The People" and hosts local radio broadcasts "Jazz Junction" and "The Beautiful Ones".
A Jack Richardson Music Award winner, Sandy currently performs with The Ken Foster Quartet, After Four, Enchanté, 60's rock trio The Young Ones, rockabilly/surf group The Stetson Brothers and dance band The J-Tones.


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A very dear friend wrote about How fair is it? and i couldn't stop myself asking myself that question! I know a couple of you might be thinking this post is about life being fair/unfair. Nope, sorry to disappoint you. This is about the changing views of the society on beauty.
The biggest untruth on earth is possibly the concept of 'inner beauty'. All the lovelies competing in beauty pageants can scream their lungs out in defence of the 'beauty within', but it will never make a difference to the rest of the world. Possibly because at the end of the tirade, it is the woman with the maximum skin deep beauty who wins anyway until this year. Leila Lopes proved the world wrong, or I hope she did!
With each passing day, the definition of beauty seems to be becoming more shallow. The cosmetics industry has never had it better. Prices of beauty products are sky rocketing, but they still have the highest takers. The desperate efforts of men and women all over the world to look better has never been well, more desperate. And I seem to be getting entangled in the vicious web of beauty as well.
Till recently, I lived in a utopian world where I believed that it is your character that matters the most. Integrity, principles, values… there were a whole list of things I considered much more important than having that flawless skin and the right nose. But as fast as baby oil removes makeup (yep, ignorant souls, note that down) I find myself sinking into a new misery- the misery of looking beautiful. It is really quite a quandary- whether to believe in my virtuous, moral world and escape harsh reality, or to resign myself to the materialistic, greedy side and throw myself at the mercy of cosmetics.Ugh!
By living in my own sweet world, I would probably be a lot happier. I would not have to bother about color combinations, the advantages of horizontal versus vertical stripes (horizontal make you look fatter, fyi), fairness creams, anti cellulite creams (endorsed by dear Malaika Arora Khan who herself went in for liposuction) and the other one million things that go hand in hand with looking good. After deep deliberation and calculation, I came to the conclusion that a 'good daily skin care regimen' would take about 25 hours. So instead of spending all my time in front of the mirror, I could actually sleep, eat and work on other things that interest me. If I dare chose to thwart the bewitching Goddess of Beauty that is.
On the other hand, by forsaking beauty, I would be risking the taunts of everyone. In every way, looking good is most important. From your career to your relationships, everything hinges on how you look and how you carry yourself. Yes, there are plenty of people out there who say that it is not what you wear, but how you carry it off that matters, but trust me- wearing that garbage bag and making it look like designer wear is NOT simple. (Of course, if Rohit Bal / Vikram Phadnis endorses it, it could be the next fashion statement) and there is a population as such who say they are not bothered about how someone looks but only bothered about how they are as humans?! ya right!!
And hence, my other choice would seem a more correct one. Subject yourself to all the cosmetics possible. Buy out Maybelline. But not only will this make you bankrupt (you can take this from me without any doubt), you will end up spending hours together trying to look nice only to have it all wiped off within minutes (lip stick does NOT stay when you are eating. It gets stuck on the glass, on the napkin… everywhere. There is some solution to this, but I haven't looked it up yet. So till then, my dates will have to suffer from seeing all the dinnerware I use rather pink)
Now, the best solution, of course, would be to find that balance. Believe in all those things you consider important, but indulge in a certain amount of self beautification. But that would mean something along the lines of campaigning for PETA even though you are a very strict non vegetarian- pretty meaningless. How can you say that you do not care what other people think when you are dying to know if blue eyeshadow suits you or not? How can you say you live life on your own terms when you are watching every episode of MTV Style Check in the hope that they will acknowledge the existence of size L and above??
So where, oh where do I draw the line? I cannot forsake my weekends rest-a-thon to go shopping for LOreal's glamshine lip gloss. And I cannot work on my skin any longer. I am sick of sitting around with foul smelling egg masks that tighten your face so much you cannot smile. And using a million creams that end up recoloring only my pillow and not my face. Why take so much pains only to find that the hot guy you are staring at is checking out the silly chick next to you anyway? (yeah, she must have used the egg face mask) Wouldn't it be a lot easier if everyone did not use any makeup and walked around with spotted faces and hairy arms?? Sigh. I did say I live in utopia. I shall retire there in a few moments. Or I shall just put a call through to a plastic surgeon. If tomorrow I put up a picture and you do not recognise it, you know which choice I made.


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Highlights From London Fashion Week Men's Day 1
London Fashion Week Men's has arrived. Here are our top picks from the first day, featuring ART SCHOOL, Bobby Abley, ICEBERG and St-Henri.
ART SCHOOL is known for blurring the lines between menswear and womenswear to create a fresh take on contemporary dressing. Founded in 2017, ART SCHOOL was first shown at LFWM as part of Fashion East's menswear presentation and has continued to grow as a brand. For their AW18 show, the theme was inclusivity with a diverse range of models, including male and female, young and old. The pieces were designed with the idea that the models are en route to the opera, with flowing silhouettes sitting alongside boxy jackets to give a feeling of elegance and opulence which contrasted with striking hair and makeup, including glitter beards and hair sculptures. The colour palette was striking, with acid pink and cobalt blue which was offset with gold and silver to give a luxuriously fun feeling to the collection. This is a menswear brand for the bold, with models gliding down the runway in a powerful and unpredictable fashion. A great way to kick of London Fashion Week Men's.
Bobby Abley
Bobby Abley was founded in 2012 and is instantly recognisable for clothing that is playful yet contemporary. Abley manages to master the blend of humour and craftsmanship perfectly to create stand out pieces. This AW19 collection was no different. Abley revisits his childhood with standout clothing featuring Pokemon motifs throughout the collection – on a poncho and a backpack amongst other pieces. As soon as the show started, it was immediately apparent that this was going to be fun. Walking down the runway was an array of fluorescent sportswear-inspired clothing with a twist. Fabrics like corduroy and vinyl were used alongside technical fabrics which featured repeat patterns that covered the garments. In a final surprise ending, a giant Pikachu appeared for the closing spot and acted as almost a mascot for the show. This was a show that was full of fun and surprises and we can't wait to see what Abley comes up with next.
Established in 1974 this Italian- American brand has a unique approach to menswear by creating formal casual wear. The clothing has echoes of pop art to give a youthful feeling with pops of colour. For their AW19 collection, creative director, James Long, is inspired by the Italian Alps. Knit hoodies sit alongside high-vis acid green looks which would turn heads on the slopes for all the right reasons. With Apres Ski in mind, the looks are sporty yet sophisticated, taking you from the slopes to the streets. Injections of graphic patterns and Mickey Mouse motifs feature on the pieces which depict the fun of Apres Ski but paired with sleek polo necks, the collection feels effortlessly sophisticated. If the Apres Ski style is something that you want to add into your wardrobe, then stay tuned for something exciting from Tessuti coming very soon.
St-Henri is a brand that is inspired by American fantasies that are characteristic of French-Canadian culture. Taking reference from music, literature, and visual arts, this brand creates clothing through conceptual ideas to give a timeless feel to the collections. The AW19 presentation depicted fashion in the everyday. The set was a living room with a nostalgic feel. Minimal interiors were matched with clothing that was clean and minimal. Away from the city, this collection has a feeling of a youth spent in the countryside before the internet and social media. Knit cardigans, slim jeans and over shirts appear in a neutral colour palette with a small pop of colour to give a contemporary yet wholesome feel to the collection. St-Henri celebrates wearable, capsule clothing and encourages paired back styling to give a collection that feels so timeless. We love it.
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I purchased this brass locomotive bell the other day and would like some information on it. It is 12" in diameter and is a smooth finish. I think it may be a EMD but the bell itself is not marked. It has the 8044623 EMD part number on the spacer block and a raised tag with the number 89 or 99 on the spacer block also. The clapper movement is marked Viloco – Chicago with model # BR 33 (or 23 hard to read). It is a brass movement. It is missing the lock plate and moisture separator.
One of my questions is; what was the power on this one , air or steam? The hole in the top is small about 3/16. It is possible the original air fitting was broken off?
I was planning on taking it apart next week to get it working so any information would be helpful.
Photos can be seen on my facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/Mantiques-Owner-Phil-Walter-141608502655308/
Thank you Phil
If it is a EMD bell, it's actuation would be air powered.
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I suspect this example came from a Canadian Pacific locomotive, they bought diesels with brass (or brass-painted) bells until about 1990, and the paint on the underside looks suspiciously like Action Red.
It will most certainly run on air, the question is what is the optimal pressure. Locomotive main air reservoir pressure is upwards of 130 PSI, does the bell line have a regulating valve to reduce that?
A side question, did any locomotives have steam-powered bells? I have only ever seen air and hand-operated examples.
Modern diesels have an electric speaker that sounds like a bell.
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MantiquesThe hole in the top is small about 3/16. It is possible the original air fitting was broken off?
Judging by your photo, yes, the nipple has snapped off. It was probably 1/4" NPT. Careful work with an E-Z Out and some penetrating oil should remove the "stub".
This informative site has quite a bit of EMD bell, ringer and mounting information:
A recent photo in the Summer 2018 Classic Trains (P. 80) shows what looks like a bronze bell on a nearly-new (June, 1968) Erie-Lackawanna SD45, 3633.
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A 22-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were arrested and charged after police found drugs, cash and a gun at a Maryland home, according to a news release from Carroll County Sheriff's Office.
Terry L. Cooper and Breschae M. Cooper face various charges of drug trafficking, possession of controlled substances and possession of an illegal firearm, according to the release.
Officers from Carroll County Sheriff's office, in coordination with Baltimore City Police Department and The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, searched a home, located on the 1300 block of Breton Drive in Eldersburg, Maryland, Thursday.
They found 16 grams of heroin, 42 grams of marijuana and pharmaceutical promethazine with codeine, according to the release. Promethazine and codeine are the main ingredients in a drug-related drink that includes cough syrup, the release states.
A prohibited loaded firearm and $13,400 in cash were also collected from the home, according to the release.
The total value of the items seized is around $16,000.
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Yorkshire "success story" Rogers Geotechnical Services (RGS) Ltd is reporting strong trading figures from January to June 2015 and projecting a 30 per cent growth annually.
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- Winning the Eaton Smith Law Firm's Business of the Month.
- Continuing to support the local economy by creating employment and offering work experience and graduate jobs to Yorkshire's young people.
RGS' Managing Director Emma Lewis said, "I am delighted to report that we are very close to achieving £1m in turnover by month nine of the year, so we are on target to hit budgets and are likely to exceed them. Anticipated growth for the year based on the past nine months' trading is 30%, which is very encouraging. We continue to have a very strong varied client base, with no reliance on any single client or contract.
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From Google Translate to specialist tools, there is now a range of technological options for those seeking to translate text.
However, what value can these bring to a project? Can they ever take the place of a human translator? When is it appropriate to use them?
We look here at the ways machines are involved in carrying out translation tasks and weigh up some of the respective benefits and problems.
Machine translation
Machine translation applies software to translate text from one language to another and programs are gradually becoming more adept at understanding the intricacies of languages, phraseology and idiomatic differences, rather than simply substituting one word for another.
As software advances, it is gradually providing more opportunities to carry out swift and sometimes free translations as and when they are needed, particularly for cases in which concerns such as speed outweigh the need for absolute accuracy.
One of the most well-known machine translation tools is arguably Google Translate, which provides instant translations for any combination of 80 languages.
It uses algorithms to translate words, sentences and even web pages, looking for patterns that will provide the best translation. The detection software makes intelligent guesses and employs information gathered from patterns in documents on which human translators have worked.
Learning from patterns collected from millions of sources to translate text is called statistical machine translation, with systems incorporating feedback from users. Although it uses intelligent guesswork, not all translations will be completely correct and the level of accuracy varies between languages.
Another form is known as rules-based machine translation and involves the use of grammar and language rules in combination with dictionaries. It can be very useful for formal and specialised documents in which professional or specialist terminology is used, but can be quite limited in its scope.
Computer-aided translation
Combining human and machine translation elements is known as computer-aided or computer-assisted translation (CAT) and it can help you to manage high volumes of text by automating part of the process.
Packages may be customised and updated by translators to ensure that they are responsive to the material being fed in, enhancing productivity and carrying out tasks stored in translation memory.
Where machine translation is completely automated and involves no human input, computer-aided translation involves one or more people in the process.
CAT can be particularly useful for technical, financial and legal translation for which consistency of terminology and standardisation is important. Work should be carefully reviewed and checked, but translators can find that computer-aided translation significantly reduces the number of repetitive tasks they have to carry out, thereby improving work rate.
At their most basic setting, CAT tools break down documents by sentences. Once a sentence is fed into the translation machine and processed, the CAT tool will search the document for similar or identical sentences and insert or recommend its translation based on percentage of similarity. This can range from 55% to a 100% perfect match.
Depending on the CAT software, the translation returned may be colour-coordinated to grab the attention of the human translator, who may edit it before sending that entry to the translation machine, for it to 'remember' for next time.
By incorporating human corrections into the machine translation process through an interactive framework, it is possible to deliver accurate and high-quality translations within a shorter period of time.
When is machine translation appropriate?
Dating back to the 1950s, machine translation can be very effective when used in situations where text is formalised and tends to adhere to specific patterns that can be identified and fed into algorithms. For example, legal and government documents can be translated using customisable software to provide a relatively accurate version in another language.
If comprehension – rather than 100% accuracy – is the end goal of an exercise, machine translation can provide an effective way of getting rapid results. However, translation of sensitive documents – for which both the meaning and accuracy are essential, and an error could lead to high financial or other costs – is still likely to require significant human intervention.
Furthermore, in cases where grammar needs to be completely accurate or where there is a less formal, more conversational style being translated, then machine translation can fall short.
Specific problems with machine translation include disambiguation, where words have one or more meanings, named entities, and the translation of non-standard language, such as slang or colloquialisms – particularly where there may not be a direct translation of terms.
Crowdsourcing and machines
The internet is also providing a means to crowdsource translation, with some sites using algorithms to determine which translations are the most accurate.
Crowdsourcing is the process by which the capabilities of a large pool of people are leveraged to get work done or secure funding, and usually takes place online.
It is now being put to use in the field of translation to produce fast, cheap translations, as it means that dozens of people are able to work on a piece of text at once. In order to deliver quality, users of a site can rate each other's work, ensuring that the quality of a translation improves.
However, crowdsourcing is of no use when the material that needs to be translated is confidential or sensitive, or in cases where the accuracy and attention to detail that a professional or specialist translator can provide is needed.
Additionally, there are concerns that novice translators might confirm rather than correct one another's mistakes and required levels of experience for translating text are not always there when tasks are completed in this way.
In conclusion, machine translation is here and its reach is expanding, with a growing number of situations in which it provides affordable, instantaneous translation. However, there will continue to be cases where it is unsuitable and only a human translator will suffice.


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The retail giant is soon to be in the courtroom as the defendant in a negligence lawsuit. According to recent reports, a customer was injured after tripping over a shopping cart that was left in a Walmart aisle in an Orlando Walmart.
On April 3rd, Linda Massey filed a complaint within the Orange Circuit Court against Walmart Stores Inc., dba Walmart Store #942 in Orlando claiming that on February 5th, 2016, she visited the defendant's store in which she tripped and fell over a cart that was left in the walkway. The complaint stated that the store failed to use due care to maintain its premises in a safe condition.
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I was thinking about the families in Connecticut this morning and what I would say to them if I could.
These were random thoughts but I knew the answer as I was cleaning the kitchen floor.
I needed to make a bunch of calls so I was configuring a blog post in my mind before I sat down to return them.
I would have said...
They're with you, just stop look and listen...
Because deep down in my soul I believe this.
And this has been my recurring experience since I lost my Dad earlier this year.
But those are private moments and quirky events all year long that are just part of my own special story.
The story that I WOULD tell this Holiday Season would be to stop look and listen.
When the favorite toy falls out of the closet or the favorite show turns on the tv or the favorite song comes on at just the right moment, enjoy that moment.
Because you carry that person with you the rest of your life. They are near and dear and always there.
Anyway, I decided NOT to write the post I had outlined in my mind and sat down to make my calls.
I needed to call my Dentist. Turns out he was overseas. I missed his Assistant's call several times.
Finally I reached Clarissa live and we resolved the issue.
I went back to retrieve more messages and the next one stopped me in my tracks.
Joyful, but sad, too, because I know this will be a very difficult Holiday for anyone who has lost someone, too.
Clear as day on my Voice Message, just minutes after cleaning the kitchen floor and sitting down to make my calls was Clarissa saying...
Cheryl, Dr. V will not be back until July 7..oops...Jan 7.
Tears rolled down. July 7. Happy Birthday, Daddy. Yes, I know you are always around.
So to the families in Connecticut and the clients and friends and neighbors and families I know who have lost someone near and dear...
May you find peace in the small magical moments around you this Christmas Season.
Yes, Clarissa, I went ahead and wrote this post as you requested. Merry Christmas!
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Books for joy, part 2 March 19, 2017Posted by dolorosa12 in books, fangirl, reviews.
Tags: erin bow, renée ahdieh, samantha shannon, sorrow's knot, the rose and the dagger, the song rising
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Normally when I review multiple books in the one blog post, I try to group things that have some thematic similarities, or at least some common thread running through them which makes discussing them jointly appropriate. However, the three books reviewed here — a YA romance with a fairytale twist, a gentle coming-of-age story about vocation, subsistence, and the quiet beauty of simple, everyday work, and a dystopian tale of revolution and oppression — have little in common beyond the simple fact that they brought me joy.
The Rose and the Dagger, Renée Ahdieh's sequel to her 1001 Nights retelling, The Wrath and the Dawn, is a wonderful mix of evocative, folkloric storytelling and the tense buildup to a rebellion. The first book saw the brave teenage girl Shahrzad walk into a palace full of danger and secrets, and willingly marry a ruler whose every wife was murdered after one night of marriage. Shahrzad was able to stave off death with her quick wits and judicious telling of stories, and got to the heart of the mystery that was causing the deaths of all the women who came before her. In The Rose and the Dagger, she's left the palace, hiding out in the desert with her family, childhood sweetheart, and the burgeoning rebellion against her husband's rule. There are lots of fabulous touches: flying carpets, dragons, and a soul-sucking book of magic that quite literally possesses its user, but most satisfying for me were the strong friendships between female characters with very different personalities, and a conclusion to the rebellion, simmering political tensions and supernatural threats which was delivered by a mixture of chutzpah, alliance between multiple women, and the pooling of very different kinds of strengths.
Enjoyment of this series is going to depend on your ability to deal with the fact that it is a YA romance retelling of the 1001 Nights played fairly straight. The central romance is between Shahrzad and her murderous husband Khalid, and although Ahdieh gives a fairly convincing reason for Khalid's murder of a series of teenage girls and women (it's not the reason in the original tale), it may not be enough to get beyond some readers' 'cool motive, still murder' reaction to this.
Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow is a much calmer, quieter affair. This book was recommended and lent to me by Ana, who described it as being very evocative of Ursula Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series. This is a very apt comparison: one of the most striking elements of Le Guin's writing is her ability to imbue the simple, ordinary work of everyday life with a sense of power and profundity, and Sorrow's Knot certainly possesses this quality. Although Bow's work is set in a secondary world, she has drawn on the histories and cultures of a variety of Native peoples of North America to create a matriarchal society which places great importance on vocation, and the interdependent nature of everyone's life's work. No one calling is placed above another — storytellers, hunters, healers and gatherers are all seen as vital and necessary — but binders, who repel and contain the dead by knotting cords, are in great demand. This is a world in which the dead rest uneasily next to the living, and are always threatening to break through and overwhelm the fragile stability of the waking world. The protagonist, Otter, is the daughter of a binder, and always thought she'd follow her mother's footsteps, binding the dead to keep them at bay, and serving as the last line of defence for her community, but with things carrying on much as they had done for living memory. However, simmering tensions and longstanding problems with how her community have handled their relationship with the past, and with the dead have finally bubbled over, and Otter and her friends find themselves clashing with a leadership whose desire to preserve the status quo has put everyone at risk. Otter and her friends must undertake a dangerous journey into exile — a journey which also takes them back to the source of all their stories and leads them to question the central assumptions that underpin their society.
I keep coming back to the word 'quiet' to describe Sorrow's Knot, because it takes a subtler, more roundabout route to make its many points than many bellowing, blustering stories of dystopia and rebellion. That's not to say I dislike the bellowing: the other two books reviewed here certainly could be described as such, and I thoroughly enjoyed them. It's just that there can be a certain kind of pleasure in a book that drops its themes like stones into still water, and lets them reverberate out like ripples, quietly and indirectly, but nonetheless powerfully.
The Song Rising, the third in Samantha Shannon's dystopian Bone Season series, is a much louder book. It picks up a few seconds from the cliffhanger where its predecessor, The Mime Order, left off, and takes the reader on a journey at breakneck speed through the underworld of Shannon's imagined London, and onward to an almost post-apocalyptic Manchester and Edinburgh. Shannon's dystopian series — which now consists of three of a projected seven books — imagines a world where a totalitarian government suppresses any instances of paranormal ability with brutal efficiency, and where this government is merely the puppet of the Rephaim, a supernatural race of immortal giants. Its protagonist, Paige Mahoney, has survived a Rephaite-run penal colony for humans with supernatural abilities (known as voyants, short for clairvoyants), and come out on top of the power struggles to control the Unnatural Assembly, the semi-criminal syndicate of voyants living under the noses of the authorities in London. The previous syndicate leadership was content to look the other way when it came to government brutality: as long as they could survive undetected and eke out a living through supernatural crime, protection rackets and grey marketeering, they were content to accept the injustices of a totalitarian regime that viewed them as an unnatural cancer deserving death on sight. Paige, however, understands that this state of affairs may not last forever: the government has been working on technology to scan for and identify voyants, so their days of hiding in plain sight are numbered. For her, revolution is the only option. However, she soon comes to realise that marshalling the various voyant factions and rebel Rephaite allies with their own agenda towards a common, revolutionary goal, and managing the inevitable clashes of personality that ensue isn't as easy as making inspiring speeches about hope and rebellion. There's a lot of hiding in dank sewer tunnels under London, tolerating unsettling allies, and bargaining, sacrifice and compromise for the cause.
The two elements that initially drew me to this series of books were its wonderfully evocative dystopian London (and many digressions into less travelled corners of London's history and geography), and its nuanced exploration of relationships between mortal and immortal characters. Both are very much present in The Song Rising, although the book's detours into Manchester and Edinburgh represent a welcome expansion of Shannon's alternative version of our world. Likewise, the evolution of Paige's relationship with the Rephaite, Warden, is handled with care and complexity. But it's the book's description of a burgeoning rebellion that makes the greatest impression. Samantha Shannon's pointed dedication of the novel to 'the silenced' is utterly appropriate. In these dangerous and frightening political times, The Song Rising gives the dispossessed a voice.
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It's been a while, but I'm back again with links: links that are important, links that made me think, links that made me smile.
Firstly, and most importantly, the fundraiser for Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is running until 9th November. Please support this if you can. Rochita is a wonderful person, and she and her family are going through a very difficult time.
The rest of my links are going to be grouped under headings, as it's been some time since I made a post of this nature.
Reading, writing, history, community
Submissions are now open for the People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction anthology.
This is an unbelievably powerful essay on the Salem witch trials. The line that stood out to me was this one:
But what rings most dangerously prophetic about Salem is the ideology that suggests imagining the most helpless and vulnerable in our communities as the most powerful, in a kind of 1984-esque doublethink that provides a rationale for causing as much harm as one wishes to that group.
Aliette de Bodard on 'History, Erasure and the Stories that Need to be Told'.
Annalee Flower Horne and Natalie Luhrs on the continued relevance of How To Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
Leila Rasheed on diversity in children's publishing.
Fred Clark on 'communities of misconception', unchallenged default assumptions, and how to respond when your assumptions are challenged.
Isabel Yap on Filipino monsters.
Tolkien's annotated map of Middle Earth has been found.
We have a title and a release date for Samantha Shannon's new Bone Season book: The Song Rising will be published in November, 2016.
Books I want to read
Kate Elliott talks about her new epic fantasy novel, Black Wolves, as part of John Scalzi's 'The Big Idea' series.
Poetry and Short Fiction
'Reasons I checked out of the diversity discussion du jour' by M Sereno (content note for colonialism, homophobia and racism).
'Song of the Body Cartographer' by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
'Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers' by Alyssa Wong.
Rebecca Merkelbach on outlaws, trolls and berserkers.
A bit US-centric, but I loved this article on the changing of librarian stereotypes throughout history.
No Award on imaginary Australia YA adaptations. (Caveat: I do not share their dislike of the Tomorrow series, although I can understand their perspective, and I also feel ambivalent about adaptations of stories that were/are meaningful to me. I still enjoyed the post.)
'A Day In The Life of a Brooding Romantic Hero' at The Toast.
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