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From the Second letter of Timothy (New Jerusalem Bible):


"Turn away from the passions of youth, concentrate on uprightness, faith, love and peace, in union with all those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.Avoid these foolish and undisciplined speculations, understanding that they only give rise to quarrels; and a servant of the Lord must not engage in quarrels, but must be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and patient. He must be gentle when he corrects people who oppose him, in the hope that God may give them a change of mind so that they recognise the truth and come to their senses, escaping the trap of the devil who made them his captives and subjected them to his will."

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"Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, charge you, in the name of his appearing and of his kingdom:proclaim the message and, welcome or unwelcome, insist on it. Refute falsehood, correct error, give encouragement-but do all with patience and with care to instruct. The time is sure to come when people will not accept sound teaching, but their ears will be itching for anything new and they will collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to their own tastes; and then they will shut their ears to the truth and will turn to myths.But you must keep steady all the time; put up with suffering; do the work of preaching the gospel; fulfil the service asked of you."

Blogging plugin for Firefox

On Call For Help TV show (episode 324) I heard about a plug in which speeds up blog posting. It's from
http://performancing.com/firefox
I've installed this and it seems to work well.

The hope of the little match seller

I remember hearing about the tale "The Little Match-Seller" by Hans Christian Andersen:
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_match.html

Hans Christian Andersen has thoughtful ideas, conveyed by memorable stories. He seems to have a theme that different people can look at the same thing and see it differently. This is obviously true of some of his other tales, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Ugly Duckling", but I think it is also true of "The Little Match-Seller". For some people, this is just a sad and sentimental story. But is it also a story of hope and happiness?

Scarlet and the Black

Watched the film "The Scarlet and the Black" starring Gregory Peck. This is the story, which I had not heard of, about Msgr Hugh O'Flaherty and Colonel Herbert Kappler. Msgr O'Flaherty saved thousands of prisoners duing the German occupation of Rome in the Second World War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_O'Flaherty
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlker/scarlet.html
http://www.terracetalkireland.com/profiles/hugh.htm
http://www.catholicireland.net/pages/index.php?nd=68&art=490
http://www.answers.com/topic/hugh-o-flaherty

Picasa on Linux

from:
http://picasa.google.com/linux/thanks-deb.html

Installing Picasa

If you have a Picasa window open, or you have the Picasa icon in your toolbar, please close them before installing a new version.
If you're using a recent version of Linux, you should be able to pick "Open With Default Application" or double-click on the downloaded .deb file to install.

If that doesn't work, save the file in the /tmp directory, then open a terminal window and install with a command like

$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb

or

$ su
# dpkg -i /tmp/picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb
# exit

Starting Picasa
Start Picasa by looking in your Linux distribution's Graphics menu. If you can't find it there, give the command /usr/bin/picasa in a terminal window.

Tips

* If you use NFS, when Picasa first starts, tell it to scan just your desktop! Otherwise Picasa gets real slow while it scans all your NFS directories!
* To get Picasa to see pictures on your hard drive, click "File / Add Folder" (NOT "Import").
* When adding a folder to Picasa, the default action is to remove the folder from Picasa. You have to actively choose Scan once or Scan always.
* Picasa is not supported over remote X connections.

Wow, Picasa found all my photos!

When you start Picasa, it instantly goes to work, organizing all the pictures on your hard drive by date in the "Folders on Disk" collection. If Picasa finds folders you don't want, go into Tools > Folder Manager to tell it which folders to scan once, scan always or remove. To remove individual pictures from your library, simply select a photo and right-click to delete it permanently from your computer or hide it from Picasa.

Visit the Picasa for Linux FAQs