#Paul Lavers

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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (BBC, 1974)

"In what other parish church in the advowson of the good Abbot Thomas shall we find Bartholomew, Jude, Simon and Matthias all together in one window?"

"Not the 'good' Abbot Thomas, Peter. That was never suggested, not even by himself."

[willstafford]

Jury Fury

TWELVE ANGRY MEN The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Monday 30th October 2023 Reginald Rose’s classic play from 1955 is doing the rounds again and it’s well worth catching even if, like me, you have seen it before.  Based on Rose’s own experience of serving on a jury, this tense, taut thriller continues to weave its engrossing spell, as a dozen increasingly tetchy males gather in a jury room to…

[daikenkki]

Laver Cup 2023 Champions!

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PROMPT TWO: official profile.

Chaea (채아) is a South Korean soloist under MIDAS Music. She debuted as a soloist on February 15, 2016.

Stage Name: Chaea Birth Name: Song Chaea Birthday: February 19, 1995 Zodiac Sign: Pisces Height: 162cm (5'3") Blood Type: O MBTI Type: ENTJ Representative Emoji: 🧜🏻‍♀️ & 🥀 Official Fandom Colors: Siren Scarlet (#b51818) & Wild Violet (#6618b5) Instagram: @chaeaoffcl

Chaea speaks Korean, English, Japanese, and some Mandarin.

Chaea has never had a pet.

Chaea was in beauty pageants as a little girl.

Chaea started contemporary ballet when she was four years old.

Chaea was a YDH Entertainment trainee for four years before transferring to Midas Music.

Chaea learned pole dancing before her debut.

Chaea is considered the "nation's goddess."

The first song Chaea ever wrote and choreographed is 24 Hours.

Her favorite title tracks to perform are 24 Hours and Siren.

From 2020 to 2021, she was a brand ambassador for YSL. In 2022, she was announced as a brand ambassador for Calvin Klein and in 2023, she became a brand ambassador for Dolce & Gabbana.

Her favorite luxury brands are Dolce & Gabbana, Mugler, and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Chaea's signature fragrances are Black Phantom by Kilian and La La Love by Perfumehead.

Her favorite flowers are roses and spider lilies [from her manager].

Chaea's favorite foods are kimchi mandu and egg kimbap [from her manager].

Chaea likes to eat sesame oil laver when she's drinking [from her manager].

Chaea's likes horror movies and psychological thrillers. Some of her favorite movies are Lady Vengeance, Kill Bill, Nosferatu, and Jennifer's Body.

Chaea's favorite places that she has visited are Japan, Romania, and Prague [from her manager].

Chaea likes the cold [from her manager].

Chaea likes the ocean [from her manager].

Chaea has had multiple confirmed relationships: ▇▇, ▇▇, ▇▇.

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Hubert Hurkacz, Casper Ruud & Tommy Paul - Yonex

"The Laver Cup besties"🎾

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Rod Laver Arena // Mar 16th 2023 // Paul Miles

[chacha-5]

Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC, 16.03.2023

By 📸 Paul Miles / whatsmvscene.com

[petsincollections]

Dipping a pig a lime and sulpher solution, Division of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota

H.G. Laveral (right) and unidentified herdsman dipping a pig in lime and sulphur solution to control mange at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul campus. The poster in the background, produced by the University of Minnesota Extension Service, shows a hog louse and a hog mange mite.

Minnesota Veterinary Historical Museum

Minnesota Digital Library

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The Roman Catechism

Part Two: The Sacraments

THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM (cont.)

Matter of Baptism

Now since we said above, when treating of the Sacraments in general, that every Sacrament consists of matter and form, it is therefore necessary that pastors point out what constitutes each of these in Baptism. The matter, then, or element of this Sacrament, is any sort of natural water, which is simply and without qualification commonly called water, be it sea water, river water, water from a pond, well or fountain.

Testimony Of Scripture Concerning The Matter Of Baptism

For the Savior taught that unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The Apostle also says that the Church was cleansed by the laver of water; and in the Epistle of St. John we read these words: There are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood. Scripture affords other proofs which establish the same truth.

When, however, John the Baptist says that the Lord will come who will baptize in the Holy Ghost, and in fire, that is by no means to be understood of the matter of Baptism; but should be applied either to the interior operation of the Holy Ghost, or at least to the miracle performed on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost descended on the Apostles in the form of fire, as was foretold by Christ our Lord in these words: John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.

Figures

The same was also signified by the Lord both by figures and by prophecies, as we know from Holy Scripture. According to the Prince of the Apostles in his first Epistle, the deluge which cleansed the world because the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil, was a figure and image of this water. To omit the cleansing of Naaman the Syrian, and the admirable virtue of the pool of Bethsaida, and many similar types, manifestly symbolic of this mystery, the passage through the Red Sea, according to St. Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians, was typical of this same water.

Prophecies

With regard to the predictions, the waters to which the Prophet Isaias so freely invites all that thirst, and those which Ezekiel in spirit saw issuing from the Temple, and also the fountain which Zachary foresaw, open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman, were, no doubt, intended to indicate and express the salutary waters of Baptism.

Fitness

The propriety of constituting water the matter of Baptism, of the nature and efficacy of which it is at once expressive, St. Jerome, in his Epistle to Oceanus, proves by many arguments.

Upon this subject pastors can teach in the first place that water, which is always at hand and within the reach of all, was the fittest matter of a Sacrament which is necessary to all for salvation. In the next place water is best adapted to signify the effect of Baptism. It washes away uncleanness, and is, therefore, strikingly illustrative of the virtue and efficacy of Baptism, which washes away the stains of sin. We may also add that, like water which cools the body, Baptism in a great measure extinguishes the fire of concupiscence.

Chrism Added To Water For Solemn Baptism

But it should be noted that while in case of necessity simple water unmixed with any other ingredient is sufficient for the matter of this Sacrament, yet when Baptism is administered in public with solemn ceremonies the Catholic Church, guided by Apostolic tradition, has uniformly observed the practice of adding holy chrism which, as is clear, more fully signifies the effect of Baptism. The people should also be taught that although it may sometimes be doubtful whether this or that water be genuine, such as the perfection of the Sacrament requires, it can never be a subject of doubt that the only matter from which the Sacrament of Baptism can be formed is natural water.

Form of Baptism

Having carefully explained the matter, which is one of the two parts of which Baptism consists, pastors must show equal diligence in explaining the form, which is the other essential part. In the explanation of this Sacrament a necessity of increased care and study arises, as pastors will perceive, from the circumstance that the knowledge of so holy a mystery is not only in itself a source of pleasure to the faithful, as is generally the case with regard to religious knowledge, but also very desirable for almost daily practical use. As we shall explain in its proper place, circumstances often arise where Baptism requires to be administered by the laity, and most frequently by women; and it therefore becomes necessary to make all the faithful, indiscriminately, well acquainted with whatever regards the substance of this Sacrament.

Words Of The Form

Pastors, therefore, should teach, in clear, unambiguous language, intelligible to every capacity, that the true and essential form of Baptism is: I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. For so it was delivered by our Lord and Savior when, as we read in St. Matthew He gave to His Apostles the command: Going, . . . teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

By the word baptizing, the Catholic Church, instructed from above, most justly understood that the form of the Sacrament should express the action of the minister; and this takes place when he pronounces the words, I baptize thee.

Besides the minister of the Sacrament, the person to be baptized and the principal efficient cause of Baptism should be mentioned. The pronoun thee, and the distinctive names of the Divine Persons are therefore added. Thus the complete form of the Sacrament is expressed in the words already mentioned: I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Baptism is the work not of the Son alone, of whom St. John says, He it is that baptizeth, but of the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity together. By saying, however, in the name, not in the names, we distinctly declare that in the Trinity there is but one Nature and Godhead. The word name is here referred not to the Persons, but to the Divine Essence, virtue and power, which are one and the same in Three Persons.

Essential And Non-Essential Words Of The Form

It is, however, to be observed that of the words contained in this form, which we have shown to be the complete and perfect one, some are absolutely necessary, so that the omission of them renders the valid administration of the Sacrament impossible; while others on the contrary, are not so essential as to affect its validity.

Of the latter kind is the word ego (I), the force of which is included in the word baptizo (I baptise). Nay more, the Greek Church, adopting a different manner of expressing the form, and being of opinion that it is unnecessary to make mention of the minister, omits the pronoun altogether. The form universally used in the Greek Church is: Let this servant of Christ be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. It appears, however, from the decision and definition of the Council of Florence, that those who use this form administer the Sacraments validly, because the words sufficiently express what is essential to the validity of Baptism, that is, the ablution which then takes place.

Baptism In The Name Of Christ

If at any time the Apostles baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ only, we can be sure they did so by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, in order, in the infancy of the Church, to render their preaching more illustrious by the name of Jesus Christ, and to proclaim more effectually His divine and infinite power. If, however, we examine the matter more closely, we shall find that such a form omits nothing which the Savior Himself commands to be observed; for he who mentions Jesus Christ implies the Person of the Father, by whom, and that of the Holy Ghost, in whom, He was anointed.

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21 Ocak 2025 Tommy Paul Alexander Zverev Maçı

*Rod Laver Arena, 06:15.

*Avustralya Açık Tek Erkekler Çeyrek Final.

*Grand Slam, sert.

*Eurosport 1.

*Maç sonucu: Tommy Paul 1-3 Alexander Zverev.

*1. Set: 6-7[1-7].

*2. Set: 6-7[0-7].

*3. Set: 6-2.

*4. Set: 1-6.

*Sonuç: Alexander Zverev Yarı Final biletini kaptı.

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📖 LA BONNE NOUVELLE ✝️

C’est un geôlier de la ville de Philippes qui questionne les chrétiens Paul et Silas après un tremblement de terre(1). L’homme était saisi par la crainte de Dieu. Il se voyait perdu face à sa puissance et ses exigences morales…

Heureux celui qui s’interroge de la même manière car l’Évangile, la bonne nouvelle du salut, se révèle toujours dans ce cadre d’un Dieu juste qui jugera tous les hommes au dernier jour.

Sachez bien qu’il aime tous les hommes mais pas ce qu’ils font ! Il n’y a délivrance et paix que pour celui qui se reconnait coupable, et qui invoque secours et grâce par Jésus-Christ. Celui qui nie son besoin de salut se ferme de lui-même à cette bonne nouvelle.

Par elle, Dieu invite chacun au consentement du don de son Fils Jésus-Christ comme moyen de rachat des fautes commises. Sacrifié sur la croix, Christ est l’agent rédempteur pour celui qui croit. Dieu demande de nous soumettre à la vérité de notre culpabilité pour nous en laver.

Et, en plus du pardon, ce même Évangile nous ouvre à la vérité d’une vie nouvelle et éternelle par le Christ ressuscité. C’est cette possibilité de réconciliation et d’union entre l’homme et Dieu qui fait de l’Évangile, "La bonne nouvelle." Jésus en est le porte-parole, le contrat ratifié pour celui qui croit.

Dominique Moreau

1/ Voir la lecture proposée

__________________

Lecture proposée : Actes des Apôtres, chapitre 16, versets 23 à 34.

Vivre aujourd'hui, 11 janvier 2025

Copyright © 2025 Editions CAEF

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🎙️⚾🎾🏎️🏈 ERdF 558: Ohtani vs Judge, Cy Youngs y la Semana 3 de la NFL 🌟

¡Bienvenidos a otro emocionante episodio de El Rincón del Fanático! Hoy cubrimos desde el final de la temporada de MLB, hasta la situación actual en la F1 y la NFL. ¡No te pierdas nuestra trivia y debates llenos de pasión deportiva!

Desglose del Episodio:

01:00 ⚾ MLB: La temporada regular está por terminar el 29 de septiembre. Discutimos el declive de Texas tras ganar la Serie Mundial el año pasado, y cómo equipos sorpresa como Detroit buscan colarse como comodines. Hacemos un paneo de las ligas Americana y Nacional y analizamos cómo quedarían los equipos en distintos escenarios. Hablamos del récord de Shohei Ohtani con 50+ HR y 50+ bases robadas, y debatimos quién es mejor: ¿Aaron Judge o Shohei Ohtani? Además, discutimos los pitchers favoritos para ganar el Cy Young y por qué Paul Skenes no puede serlo. Cerramos con una cápsula y trivia.

40:57 🎾 Tenis: Hablamos de la Laver Cup, donde se enfrentan jugadores europeos contra el resto del mundo.

45:17 🏎️ F1: Resultados del GP de Singapur y análisis de cómo van los pilotos y las escuderías.

54:50 🏈 NFL: Brett Favre ha revelado que tiene Parkinson, recordamos a uno de los mejores QB de nuestra generación. Discutimos sobre jugadores que se retiraron jóvenes por problemas de salud, lo que sucedió en la semana 3, nuestra opinión sobre los Steelers y los equipos que aún están invictos. Hablamos del supuesto favoritismo arbitral hacia Kansas City y lo que esperamos para la semana 4. ¡No te pierdas nuestra trivia!

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La bonne nouvelle 11/01/2025

Que faut-il que je fasse pour être sauvé ? Paul et Silas répondirent : Crois au Seigneur Jésus, et tu seras sauvé…! Actes des Apôtres 16.30-31

C’est un geôlier de la ville de Philippes qui questionne les chrétiens Paul et Silas après un tremblement de terre1. L’homme était saisi par la crainte de Dieu. Il se voyait perdu face à sa puissance et ses exigences morales…

Heureux celui qui s’interroge de la même manière car l’Évangile, la bonne nouvelle du salut, se révèle toujours dans ce cadre d’un Dieu juste qui jugera tous les hommes au dernier jour.

Sachez bien qu’il aime tous les hommes mais pas ce qu’ils font ! Il n’y a délivrance et paix que pour celui qui se reconnait coupable, et qui invoque secours et grâce par Jésus-Christ. Celui qui nie son besoin de salut se ferme de lui-même à cette bonne nouvelle.

Par elle, Dieu invite chacun au consentement du don de son Fils Jésus-Christ comme moyen de rachat des fautes commises. Sacrifié sur la croix, Christ est l’agent rédempteur pour celui qui croit. Dieu demande de nous soumettre à la vérité de notre culpabilité pour nous en laver.

Et, en plus du pardon, ce même Évangile nous ouvre à la vérité d’une vie nouvelle et éternelle par le Christ ressuscité. C’est cette possibilité de réconciliation et d’union entre l’homme et Dieu qui fait de l’Évangile, « La bonne nouvelle ». Jésus en est le porte-parole, le contrat ratifié pour celui qui croit.

Dominique Moreau

1 Voir la lecture proposée

__________________ Lecture proposée : Actes des Apôtres, chapitre 16, versets 23 à 34. 23 Après qu'on les eut chargés de coups, ils les jetèrent en prison, en recommandant au geôlier de les garder sûrement.

24 Le geôlier, ayant reçu cet ordre, les jeta dans la prison intérieure, et leur mit les ceps aux pieds.

25 Vers le milieu de la nuit, Paul et Silas priaient et chantaient les louanges de Dieu, et les prisonniers les entendaient.

26 Tout à coup il se fit un grand tremblement de terre, en sorte que les fondements de la prison furent ébranlés; au même instant, toutes les portes s'ouvrirent, et les liens de tous les prisonniers furent rompus.

27 Le geôlier se réveilla, et, lorsqu'il vit les portes de la prison ouvertes, il tira son épée et allait se tuer, pensant que les prisonniers s'étaient enfuis.

28 Mais Paul cria d'une voix forte: Ne te fais point de mal, nous sommes tous ici.

29 Alors le geôlier, ayant demandé de la lumière, entra précipitamment, et se jeta tout tremblant aux pieds de Paul et de Silas;

30 il les fit sortir, et dit: Seigneurs, que faut-il que je fasse pour être sauvé?

31 Paul et Silas répondirent: Crois au Seigneur Jésus, et tu seras sauvé, toi et ta famille.

32 Et ils lui annoncèrent la parole du Seigneur, ainsi qu'à tous ceux qui étaient dans sa maison.

33 Il les prit avec lui, à cette heure même de la nuit, il lava leurs plaies, et aussitôt il fut baptisé, lui et tous les siens.

34 Les ayant conduits dans son logement, il leur servit à manger, et il se réjouit avec toute sa famille de ce qu'il avait cru en Dieu.

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NFR Reviews #13: Multiple SIDosis

Released 1970 / Inducted 2000

Watch film here

In some ways, this short film is a throwback by a middle-aged man remembering a past career that never quite panned out, down to the old-fashioned opening music resembling a carousel organ. The first segment, which runs a bit overlong in my opinion, depicts a Christmas morning, a holiday whose popular conception is tied to reminiscing with family and sharing traditions. While the depiction of creator Sid Laverents being gifted a sound recorder by his wife is most likely scripted, it calls to mind a common form of amateur filmmaking: the home movie. In 1923, Eastman Kodak launched the 16mm film format (the name referencing the width of the film itself). Compared to the 35mm format used by professionals, 16mm cameras were smaller, cheaper, and more mobile. Advertising for this type of camera emphasized ease of use for the average consumer who lacked specialized knowledge, and also the creation of private, domestic films of happy life events. While the first part sticks to what was expected of amateur filmmaking, the second part deviates into something else completely.

Laverents had played theaters and busked in the street as a one-man-band vaudeville performer. By roughly 1929, he aspired to make it in New York City. The city had a wealth of entertainment options which made it difficult for individual performers to stand out, and he was especially unable to compete with the recently introduced synchronized sound films. With the Depression on the horizon, he had to take any available job such as sales or dishwashing. Unlike some vaudevillians which found success transferring to film, his early work did not succeed in finding a wide audience in the public space of mainstream entertainment. By the 1960s, he was employed as an engineer at Convair, a part of the aircraft industry. When discussing his vaudeville past with coworkers, he was prompted to fix his instruments and recreate the act. This was the reason his 1964 film One Man Band exists. 

Made years later, Multiple SIDosis is a higher-tech riff on the same concept. Laverents heavily edits and plans out how to perform every instrument and vocalization of the 1910s Felix Arndt novelty ragtime song “Nola.” If this film had nothing going for it except nostalgia, it wouldn’t have gotten the same amount of later recognition. His ambition was to make the cinematic equivalent of Les Paul and Mary Ford’s multitrack recordings, in which they would record on the tape, play it back, and record it again so it sounded as if they were harmonizing against themselves. The number of different onscreen Sids increases throughout the film, peaking at eleven. The look of the film was created through a complex system of mattes. With each take, parts of the camera were blocked off save for a hole where one part of the song would be filmed. Then, he would record the next part on film through double exposures until all takes were completed. Since the whole thing was filmed in-camera without help from an optical printer, one mistake would throw off the entire enterprise. 

In 1960, movie writer Jonas Mekas predicted a total collapse of barriers between amateur and professional film in the future. This never fully came to be, but Laverents’ work offers a unique perspective on how amateurism shifted over the decades. He exhibited films to fellow members at the San Diego Amateur Movie Club, finding a community with likeminded interests. Many similar clubs faced difficulty with the advent of video, which existed in some form since at least the mid-60s with 1965’s Sony Portapak but really proliferated in the late 1980s. Video was supposed to make moviemaking more accessible, but many club members found the editing prohibitively complicated in comparison to cutting up film strips, especially once computer editing came around. Neither Laverents or the San Diego club quit here, though. The club lasted until the early 2000s, while Laverents continued making films into the same decade. By this time, younger generations were utilizing digital video, which offered similar visual quality to professional cameras, and desktop editing software such as Final Cut Premiere, Adobe Premiere, and i-Movie. (Also Windows Movie Maker, not that anyone would mistake my school projects on that software for a professional project). 

Social media became a route for amateur filmmakers to gain a higher visibility than ever before, especially YouTube, which launched four years before Sid Laverents’ 2009 death at age 100. Traditional media outlets exerted heavy influence over smaller creators through copyright claiming unauthorized remixes of their material, uploading officially sanctioned videos that compete with amateurs, and collecting user data for targeted advertising in new ways that didn’t exist in the era of pre-internet film clubs. Despite still-existing barriers and disparities in resources between studios and individuals, amateur filmmakers still make unique and creative art distinct from what the professionals are doing. Half the theater kids on that site unintentionally echo Multiple SIDosis in their own music videos, both in the editing structure and the general attitude of earnestness and sincerity.

This one’s a collaboration of two people instead of a one-man-band, but they still deploy similar person-harmonizing-with-himself techniques.

While Multiple SIDosis may not be among the most historically significant or well-known films on the registry, it’s a novelty that required a lot of technical expertise and innovation on less resources than the major studios had. Even if Laverents failed to “make it big” in entertainment in his youth, his recollections on that time ended up foreshadowing much later generations of amateur creators.

Sources

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/multiple-sidosis-and-disneyland-dream-two-amateur-masterpieces-1-180949236/

https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/other-histories/essays/multiple-sidosis-melinda-stone/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/im-short-not-stupid-presents-multiple-sidosis-456/

https://amianet.org/wp-content/uploads/Resources-Oral-History-Laverents-2006-1.pdf

https://cinema.usc.edu/archivedassets/098/15844.pdf

https://www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/filmmaker/s.-n.-laverents