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Roman Daily Life

From the early days of the Roman Republic through the volatile reigns of such ignoble emperors as Caligula, Nero, and Commodus, the Roman Empire continued to expand, stretching its borders to encompass the entire Mediterranean Sea as well as expanding northward to Gaul and Britain. History records the exploits of the heroes as well as the tirades of the emperors. Despite the sometimes shameful deeds of the imperial office, the empire was built on the backs of its citizens - the unsung people who lived a relatively quiet existence, and who are often ignored by history. Rome was a cosmopolitan city with Greeks, Syrians, Jews, North Africans, Spaniards, Gauls, and Britons, and like any society, the average Roman citizen awoke each morning, labored, relaxed, and ate, and while his or her daily life could often be hectic, he or she would always survive.

Population Movement

Outside the cities, in the towns and on the small farms, people lived a much simpler life - dependent almost entirely on their own labor. The daily life of the average city dweller, however, was a lot different and most often routine. The urban areas of the empire - whether it was Rome, Pompeii, Antioch, or Carthage - were magnets to many people who left smaller towns and farms seeking a better way of life. However, the unfulfilled promise of jobs forced countless people to live in the poorer parts of the city. The jobs they sought were often not there, resulting in an epidemic of homeless inhabitants. The work that was available to these new émigrés, however, was difficult to obtain. Slaves performed almost all of the menial jobs as well as many of the professions such as teachers, doctors, surgeons, and architects. Most of the freedmen worked at various trades, for example, as bakers, fishmongers, or carpenters. Occasionally, poor women would serve the affluent as hairdressers, midwives, or dressmakers.

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The District attorney dropped the charges due to an investigation into text messages of the police department…the DA felt that the officers who burned her body were targeted in the investigation despite the fact they were caught on video setting her afire.

The men were captured on security cameras borrowing a dolly from a 7-Eleven and pushing the dumpster four blocks to a paved trail, where witnesses from a nearby homeless encampment saw them allegedly pour lighter fluid into the dumpster and set Sharlman's body on fire, Eason said. Roughly a week later, after Sharlman's family reported the 25-year-old as missing, Eason said authorities confirmed her death.

The sister of a woman whose torched body was discovered in a dumpster last year slammed Northern California prosecutors after they dropped charges against two men accused in her death, citing the case’s link to racist and derogatory text messages that have shaken a local police department.

Nicole Eason told NBC News that the messages — which were released earlier this year after a joint investigation into the Antioch Police Department by the FBI and the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office — should have had no effect on the prosecution of Ashton Montalvo and Deangelo Boone.

Eason called the decision to drop the charges “unacceptable” and said that prosecutors should “recant and scrutinize" evidence that she described as insurmountable, including security video and eyewitness testimony.

“We’re getting ready to lawyer up” Eason said. “We’re getting ready to fight.”

A spokesman for the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office declined to comment. In a statement Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office "extended its deepest sympathies" to Sharlman's family and said it would seek to renew the prosecution if possible.

The spokesman, Ted Asregadoo, said in an earlier email that prosecutors are "hopeful APD can pursue other investigative avenues and bring our office more evidence to review for a charging decision."

The statement said the prosecutor's office dropped the charges because the case relied heavily on the investigative work of officers associated with the text messages.

"After thoroughly reviewing the officers’ role in this case, applying relevant legal principles, and considering ethical responsibilities, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office no longer has confidence in the integrity of this prosecution," the statement said.

The officers were not identified, and it isn't clear which messages they sent or received.

An Antioch Police Department spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment, nor did a lawyer for the local police union.Homophobic slurs, racist images

The messages, from 2020 and 2021, were sent and received by dozens of officers and include homophobic slurs, racist images and the casual discussion of using “less lethal” weapons on people, including the city’s mayor, who is Black, according to an investigative report compiled by the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office.

California's Attorney General opened an investigation last month to determine if the police department engaged in a pattern and practice of unconstitutional policing.

Asregadoo said Wednesday's announcement marked the first time the prosecutor's office has dropped a felony case linked to the messages.Overdose death

Eason described her younger sister as the "life of the party" — someone who loved praise dancing at church and dreamed of opening a salon. She fell in with friends who were into drugs and began experimenting, Eason said.

The medical examiner determined that Sharlman died of a fentanyl overdose, said Eason, noting that her family had attended all of the court dates in her sister's death, including the preliminary hearing, where a judge determines if prosecutors have sufficient evidence to make a defendant stand trial.

Eason said that during court testimony Montalvo and Boone were accused of dumping her sister's body in a dumpster they grabbed from a nearby building after she overdose at an abandoned apartment in Antioch, a city of roughly 114,000 northeast of San Francisco.

The men were captured on security cameras borrowing a dolly from a 7-Eleven and pushing the dumpster four blocks to a paved trail, where witnesses from a nearby homeless encampment saw them allegedly pour lighter fluid into the dumpster and set Sharlman's body on fire, Eason said.

Roughly a week later, after Sharlman's family reported the 25-year-old as missing, Eason said authorities confirmed her death. Eason compared the events to labor pains.

"I didn't have the joy of getting the baby out," she said. "We got death instead."

Lawyers for Montalvo and Boone did not respond to requests for comment.

The family found some solace in learning of Sharlman's cause of death, Eason said. She died before her body was torched, Eason said. The family was further heartened by the department's handling of the case, which Eason described as "nothing short of amazing," and by the arrests that followed.

"For us to have suspects in custody was exceptional," she said. "It was a win, and it doesn't always happen like that. Although they're under scrutiny now, they did their due diligence before they detained these two men."

Eason added that her family was "devastated" to learn that a detective involved in the case was linked to the text messages.

"However, this scandal came out after my sister's death," Eason said. "It shouldn't have had any bearing on the evidence."

Tim Stelloh

Tim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.

[desoax]

theres a convoluted political drama going on with the Antioch-Pittsburg Amtrak VS Oakley Amtrak (presently in development) where Oakley is claiming they were allowed to open a station because the Antioch-Pittsburg one agreed to close it due to the homeless "issue" at the station, and how it compromises safety.

there is a bunch of he-said she-said nonsense, and as someone who has used those stations since i was a child, witnessing its decline as gentrification impacted the local economy, im pretty unsettled with what Oakley is doing, a more conservative area in comparison. Pittsburg is known for its high immigrant population, when i grew up there it was around 40%...... Antioch in comparison has a rather high African American population...

anyway... the Bay Area is a mess. destroying an out of commission station makes sense but only doing it because of someone camping there discretely is fucked up and is avoiding the deeper issues at play in the East Bay. why shut down a whole station because of it? if one on the San Joaquin line needed to go, there are more unused stations to eliminate......

[catsofcalifornia]

Tobey and Honey from Homeless Animals' Lifeline Organization in Antioch, California

Click here for more information about adoption and other ways to help!

Click here for a link to H.A.L.O.'s main website.

These young adults need a new forever home! Honey and Tobey are sweet, playful and enjoy being held. Their owner passed away and they are looking for a new home.

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Saints&Reading: Saturday, October 22, 2022

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SAINT JAMES ALPHAEUS (1st.c.)

Holy Apostle James the son of Alphaeus one of the Twelve Apostles, was the brother of the holy Evangelist Matthew. He heard the Lord’s words and witnessed His miracles. After the Descent of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle James Alphaeus and the Apostle Andrew the First-Called (November 30), made missionary journeys preaching in Judea, Edessa, Gaza, Eleutheropolis, proclaiming the Gospel, healing all sorts of sickness and disease, and converting many to the path of salvation. Saint James finished his apostolic work In the Egyptian city of Ostrachina, where he was crucified by the pagans.

THE MONASTICS ANDRONIKOS AND HIS WIFE ATHANASIA (500)

Saint Andronicus and his wife Athanasia of Egypt lived in Antioch in the fifth century. Saint Andronicus was a craftsman who divided his earnings into three portions. One part he gave to the Church, the second to the poor, and the third he used for his family. When the Lord took the son and daughter of Andronicus and Athanasia, the pious couple decided to devote themselves fully to the service of God, helping the poor and the sick. Soon the saintly spouses set out for Alexandria, where Andronicus entered a skete monastery, and Athanasia entered the women’s Tabennisiota monastery.

After twelve years of ascetic life Saint Andronicus went to Jerusalem to pray at the holy places. He met a co-pilgrim, Saint Athanasia, who, foreseeing the difficulties of the journey, had donned men’s attire. They did not recognize each other, since long ascetic effort had altered their appearance. When they returned from Jerusalem, both monks settled into a single cell and for many years lived the ascetic life in silence. Saint Athanasia wrote a note to be read after her death, revealing her secret.. Saint Andronicus died soon after Saint Athanasia.

LUKE 10:16-21

16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me. 17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." 18 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

1 CORINTHIANS 4:9-16

9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now. 14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

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Six Biblical Emphases That Also Happen To Be Political

Certain biblical themes are increasingly becoming political—at least in many people’s minds. But keep in mind that all six of the biblical themes I will list below were biblical long before they became political (in the sense most of us think of politics). Furthermore, all of these themes are clear and emphasized in the Bible.

To keep this post simple, let me just list the six themes, along with a few supporting Scriptures. To each of these themes could be added other supporting Scriptures and theological observations—and for someone disposed to disagree that a given theme is important, these few Scriptures will seem inadequate—but this is, after all, only a blog post and has to be kept short. Someone could also legitimately argue that all six themes are not of equal importance—and I would agree. But I would not agree that they aren’t important biblical themes. Someone might further notice—correctly—that these themes are not all developed in the same way and with the same kind of reasoning in the Bible. That also is true. But all six themes are individually significant in the Bible.

Okay, here is a list of six biblical themes that of late have come to be viewed as political.

1. Sanctity of Life

Genesis 9:6: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.”

Exodus 20:13: “You shall not murder.”

Psalm 139:13-16: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made…. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Luke 1:15: “…he [John the Baptist] will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb” (cf. Luke 1:41, 44).

2. Care for the Poor

Isaiah 58:6-7: “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?”

Luke 4:18-19, quoting Isaiah 61:1-2a: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

James 2:15-16: “If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?”

3. Sanctity of Gender

Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Genesis 5:2: “Male and female he created them, and he blessed them.”

Mark 10:6: “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’”

1 Corinthians 11:11-12: “Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman.”

4. Care for People of Differing Ethnicities

Acts 13:1: “Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.” [A multi-ethnic ministry team]

Acts 17:26: “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.”

Colossians 3:11: “Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.”

Revelation 5:9: “And they sang a new song, saying, ‘Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.’”

5. Sanctity of Marriage

Genesis 2:24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”

Matthew 19:6: “So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Corinthians 7:2: “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

1 Thessalonians 4:3: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.”

6. Care for the Sojourner

Leviticus 19:33-34: “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”

Deuteronomy 24:17-18: “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge, but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.”

Hebrews 13:2: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

Now, let us grant that individual Christians can legitimately disagree about the manner in which each of these themes should be addressed in our current cultural context. For example, Christians can disagree about the best way to protect marriage or care for sojourners. But what Christians cannot disagree upon is that these six themes are clearly emphasized in the Bible, and thereby ought to matter to us.

So, here is my question for you today: Are there any of the six themes listed above that you really don’t care about (or don’t care much about), or because of current political rhetoric you have inadvertently (or advertently, if that’s a real word) de-emphasized?

If the Bible emphasizes something, let’s also emphasize it. Even if it is politically unpopular.

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Events 1.7

Holidays

Charlie Hebdo Day (France)

Distaff Day (Medieval Europe)

Estelle Reel Day (Wyoming)

Festa del Tricolour (Tricolour Day or Flag Day; Italy)

Flash Gordon Day

Harlem Globetrotter’s Day

Hydrogen Bomb Day

I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day

International Programmers' Day

International Silly Walk Day

Invisible Pain Day

Jupiter’s Moons Day

Limestone Day (French Republic)

Millard Fillmore Day

National Alaskan Malamute Day

National Bobblehead Day

National Job Hunting Day

National Nicholas Cage Day

National Old Rock Day

National Pass Gas Day

National Plagiarism Day (Ghana)

National Run-For-Your-Life Day

No Pants Subway Ride Day

Old Rock Day (a.k.a. Roc Day)

Pioneer’s Day (Liberia)

Remembrance Day of the Dead (Armenia)

Tommy Johnson Day

Tumbes Anniversary Day (Peru)

Usokae (Bullfinch Exchange Day; Japan)

Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)

World Day of the Postage Stamp

Food & Drink Celebrations

Jinjitsu (Festival of Seven Herbs; Japan)

Nanakusa no Sekku (Festival of Seven Herbs; Japan)

National Tempura Day

1st Sunday in January

Ati-Athan Festival begins (Philippines) [1st Sunday through 3rd Sunday]

Feast of the Holy Family [Sunday after Xmas]

Second Sunday of Christmas [2nd Sunday after Christmas]

Trappist Beer Day [1st Sunday]

Festivals Beginning January 7, 2024

Carnival of Limoux (France) [thru 3.17]

Golden Globe Awards

Independence & Related Days

Bascal (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Constitution Day (Ghana)

Empire of Agber (Declared; 1998) [unrecognized]

Matthew City (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Albert Bierstadt (Artology; Saint)

André Bessette (Canada)

Baptism of the Lord (Christian)

Bl. Widukind, Duke of Saxony (Christian; Saint)

Canute Lavard (Christian; Saint)

Charles of Sezze (Christian; Saint)

Council of the Holy Prophet John the Baptist (Romania)

Distaff Day (a.k.a. Saint Distaff’s Day; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Easter Day (Sudan)

Feast of Sekhmet (Ancient Egypt)

Felix and Januarius (Christian; Saint)

John the Baptist (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Justicia I: Themis’s Day (Pagan)

Koshogatsu (Shinto Goddess Izanami)

Lucian of Antioch (Christian; Saint)

Merelots (Remembrance Day of the Dead; Armenian Apostolic Church)

Nativity of Christ (Orthodox Christian)

No Knitting Day (Pastafarian)

Numa (Positivist; Saint)

Orthodox Christmas (a.k.a. ...

Bozic (Serbia)

Christmas (Russia, Eastern Europe)

Christmas Remembrance Holiday (Armenia)

Coptic Christmas (Egypt)

Craciunul Pe Stil Vechi (Moldova)

Eastern Christmas (Sudan)

Genna (Ethiopia)

Krishtlindjet Ortodoske (Kosovo)

Leddet (Coptic; Eritrea)

Palestinian Martyrs’ Day

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (Artology)

Raymond of Penyafort (Christian; Saint)

Rudder Rabbit (Muppetism)

Russ Meyer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Say No To Knickers Day (Pastafarian)

Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian New Year's)

Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Coptic)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [2 of 24]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [5 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 7 [4 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 1 of 60)

Premieres

Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2), by Pink Floyd (Song; 1980)

The Avengers (BBC TV Series; 1961)

Bad Day at Black Rock (Film; 1955)

The B.B. Beagle Show (Hanna-Barbera TV Pilot; 1980)

The Birthday Party (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Cook Book; 1896)

Building a Building (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

The Butcher of Seville (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)

Cannery Woe (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Changes, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)

Crossroads of Twilight, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2003) [Wheel of Time #10]

Empire (TV Series; 2015)

Fame (Film; 1982)

Fred Ott’s Sneeze (Early Short Film; 1894)

Hare-Brained Boris or The Dumb Bunny (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 246; 1964)

Henry V, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Homeless Homer (Oscar the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Hooch Coochie Man, recorded by Muddy Waters (Song; 1954)

The Hustler, by Walter Tevis (Novel; 1959)

The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch (Science Book; 1960)

Lion Hunt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

Little Quacker (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

The Lone Stranger and Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

Mckeesport on the Prod or The Pennsylvania Poker (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 240; 1964)

Mules and Men, by Zora Neale Hurston (Folklore; 1935)

Paranoid, by Black Sabbath (Album; 1971)

The Pelican and the Snipe (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Pop Team Epic (a.k.a. Poptepipic, Anime TV Series; 2018)

Pretenders, by The Pretenders (Album; 1980)

Robinson Crusoe Isle (Oscar the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

Saturnin, by Zdeněk Jirotka (Novel; 1942)

The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)

Spitfire Girl, by Jackie Moggridge (memoir; 1957)

The Spirit of ’43 (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Start Mater, by Gioacchino Rossini (Opera; 1842)

Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1958)

Werewolf of the Timberland (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #17; 1965)

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (TV Series; 2020)

Today’s Name Days

Raimund, Valentin (Austria)

Ioan, Ioana, Ivan, Ivanka, Ivayla, Ivaylo, Ivet, Kaloyan, Vanya, Vanyo, Yoan, Yoana, Zhan, Zhana (Bulgaria)

Lucijan, Rajmund, Zorislav (Croatia)

Vilma (Czech Republic)

Knud (Denmark)

Hirvo, Kanut, Nuut, Susi (Estonia)

Aku, August, Aukusti (Finland)

Aldric, Cédric, Raymond (France)

Reinhold, Valentin (Germany)

Gianna, Giannis, Ioanna, Ioannis, Jeannette, John, Prodromos, Yanna, Yannis (Greece)

Attila, Ramóna (Hungary)

Luciano, Raimondo (Italy)

Juliāns, Rota, Zigmārs (Latvia)

Julius, Liucijus, Raudvilė, Rūtenis (Lithuania)

Eldbjørg, Knut (Norway)

Chociesław, Izydor, Julian, Lucjan, Walenty (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Bohuslava (Slovakia)

Raimundo (Spain)

August, Augusta (Sweden)

Alda, Aldea, Alden, Aldo, Aldric, Canute, Knut, Knute, Millard, Miller (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 7 of 2024; 359 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 26 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 26 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 25 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 7 White; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 25 December 2023

Moon: 17%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 7 Moses (1st Month) [Numa]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 18 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 17 of 31)

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Holidays 1.7

Holidays

Charlie Hebdo Day (France)

Distaff Day (Medieval Europe)

Estelle Reel Day (Wyoming)

Festa del Tricolour (Tricolour Day or Flag Day; Italy)

Flash Gordon Day

Harlem Globetrotter’s Day

Hydrogen Bomb Day

I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day

International Programmers' Day

International Silly Walk Day

Invisible Pain Day

Jupiter’s Moons Day

Limestone Day (French Republic)

Millard Fillmore Day

National Alaskan Malamute Day

National Bobblehead Day

National Job Hunting Day

National Nicholas Cage Day

National Old Rock Day

National Pass Gas Day

National Plagiarism Day (Ghana)

National Run-For-Your-Life Day

No Pants Subway Ride Day

Old Rock Day (a.k.a. Roc Day)

Pioneer’s Day (Liberia)

Remembrance Day of the Dead (Armenia)

Tommy Johnson Day

Tumbes Anniversary Day (Peru)

Usokae (Bullfinch Exchange Day; Japan)

Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)

World Day of the Postage Stamp

Food & Drink Celebrations

Jinjitsu (Festival of Seven Herbs; Japan)

Nanakusa no Sekku (Festival of Seven Herbs; Japan)

National Tempura Day

1st Sunday in January

Ati-Athan Festival begins (Philippines) [1st Sunday through 3rd Sunday]

Feast of the Holy Family [Sunday after Xmas]

Second Sunday of Christmas [2nd Sunday after Christmas]

Trappist Beer Day [1st Sunday]

Festivals Beginning January 7, 2024

Carnival of Limoux (France) [thru 3.17]

Golden Globe Awards

Independence & Related Days

Bascal (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Constitution Day (Ghana)

Empire of Agber (Declared; 1998) [unrecognized]

Matthew City (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Albert Bierstadt (Artology; Saint)

André Bessette (Canada)

Baptism of the Lord (Christian)

Bl. Widukind, Duke of Saxony (Christian; Saint)

Canute Lavard (Christian; Saint)

Charles of Sezze (Christian; Saint)

Council of the Holy Prophet John the Baptist (Romania)

Distaff Day (a.k.a. Saint Distaff’s Day; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Easter Day (Sudan)

Feast of Sekhmet (Ancient Egypt)

Felix and Januarius (Christian; Saint)

John the Baptist (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Justicia I: Themis’s Day (Pagan)

Koshogatsu (Shinto Goddess Izanami)

Lucian of Antioch (Christian; Saint)

Merelots (Remembrance Day of the Dead; Armenian Apostolic Church)

Nativity of Christ (Orthodox Christian)

No Knitting Day (Pastafarian)

Numa (Positivist; Saint)

Orthodox Christmas (a.k.a. ...

Bozic (Serbia)

Christmas (Russia, Eastern Europe)

Christmas Remembrance Holiday (Armenia)

Coptic Christmas (Egypt)

Craciunul Pe Stil Vechi (Moldova)

Eastern Christmas (Sudan)

Genna (Ethiopia)

Krishtlindjet Ortodoske (Kosovo)

Leddet (Coptic; Eritrea)

Palestinian Martyrs’ Day

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (Artology)

Raymond of Penyafort (Christian; Saint)

Rudder Rabbit (Muppetism)

Russ Meyer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Say No To Knickers Day (Pastafarian)

Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian New Year's)

Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Coptic)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fatal Day (Pagan) [2 of 24]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [5 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 7 [4 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 1 of 60)

Premieres

Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2), by Pink Floyd (Song; 1980)

The Avengers (BBC TV Series; 1961)

Bad Day at Black Rock (Film; 1955)

The B.B. Beagle Show (Hanna-Barbera TV Pilot; 1980)

The Birthday Party (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Cook Book; 1896)

Building a Building (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

The Butcher of Seville (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)

Cannery Woe (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Changes, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)

Crossroads of Twilight, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 2003) [Wheel of Time #10]

Empire (TV Series; 2015)

Fame (Film; 1982)

Fred Ott’s Sneeze (Early Short Film; 1894)

Hare-Brained Boris or The Dumb Bunny (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 246; 1964)

Henry V, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Homeless Homer (Oscar the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Hooch Coochie Man, recorded by Muddy Waters (Song; 1954)

The Hustler, by Walter Tevis (Novel; 1959)

The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch (Science Book; 1960)

Lion Hunt (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)

Little Quacker (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

The Lone Stranger and Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

Mckeesport on the Prod or The Pennsylvania Poker (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 240; 1964)

Mules and Men, by Zora Neale Hurston (Folklore; 1935)

Paranoid, by Black Sabbath (Album; 1971)

The Pelican and the Snipe (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Pop Team Epic (a.k.a. Poptepipic, Anime TV Series; 2018)

Pretenders, by The Pretenders (Album; 1980)

Robinson Crusoe Isle (Oscar the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

Saturnin, by Zdeněk Jirotka (Novel; 1942)

The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives (WB MM Cartoon; 1933)

Spitfire Girl, by Jackie Moggridge (memoir; 1957)

The Spirit of ’43 (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Start Mater, by Gioacchino Rossini (Opera; 1842)

Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1958)

Werewolf of the Timberland (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #17; 1965)

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (TV Series; 2020)

Today’s Name Days

Raimund, Valentin (Austria)

Ioan, Ioana, Ivan, Ivanka, Ivayla, Ivaylo, Ivet, Kaloyan, Vanya, Vanyo, Yoan, Yoana, Zhan, Zhana (Bulgaria)

Lucijan, Rajmund, Zorislav (Croatia)

Vilma (Czech Republic)

Knud (Denmark)

Hirvo, Kanut, Nuut, Susi (Estonia)

Aku, August, Aukusti (Finland)

Aldric, Cédric, Raymond (France)

Reinhold, Valentin (Germany)

Gianna, Giannis, Ioanna, Ioannis, Jeannette, John, Prodromos, Yanna, Yannis (Greece)

Attila, Ramóna (Hungary)

Luciano, Raimondo (Italy)

Juliāns, Rota, Zigmārs (Latvia)

Julius, Liucijus, Raudvilė, Rūtenis (Lithuania)

Eldbjørg, Knut (Norway)

Chociesław, Izydor, Julian, Lucjan, Walenty (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Bohuslava (Slovakia)

Raimundo (Spain)

August, Augusta (Sweden)

Alda, Aldea, Alden, Aldo, Aldric, Canute, Knut, Knute, Millard, Miller (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 7 of 2024; 359 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 26 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 26 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 25 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 7 White; Sevenday [7 of 30]

Julian: 25 December 2023

Moon: 17%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 7 Moses (1st Month) [Numa]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 18 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 17 of 31)

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Thursday Morning What's Up: State Homeless Population Rises By 22500

Through the federal point-in-time depend, we now have an estimate that California’s statewide homeless inhabitants grew by 22,500 over the previous three years. The variety of homeless within the state was 173,800 as of February, and since 2019, the state has created 14,000 new shelter beds. [CalMatters] An East Bay Occasions editorial is looking for the mayor of Antioch, Lamar Thorpe, to resign. A latest investigation that detailed alleged sexual harassment of two subordinates whereas he was govt director of the Los Medanos Healthcare District provides to rising criticism of his habits as mayor. [East Bay Times] The final part of camp-clearing on the Wooden Avenue encampment in West Oakland has begun, and is predicted to final by means of November. The Oakland Metropolis Council simply voted to provide you with a plan to briefly use part of the Oakland Military Base to relocate among the camp residents. [KTVU] One individual died in a two-car crash on Outdated Rooney Ranch Street close to Vasco Street in Livermore early Thursday. [East Bay Times] Palo Alto police are investigating a doable hate crime by which a driver allegedly yelled a racial slur earlier than putting a bike owner together with his truck. [NBC Bay Area] The previous chief safety officer of Uber has been convicted of attempting to cowl up a 2016 information breach. [Ars Technica] A federal appeals courtroom has deemed the DACA or “Dreamers” program unlawful, and says the Obama administration lacked the authority to create it, however it’s leaving it intact for now. [CBS News / CNN] Picture: Daniel Salgado Supply hyperlink Originally published at SF Newsvine

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Roman Daily Life

From the early days of the Roman Republic through the volatile reigns of such ignoble emperors as Caligula, Nero, and Commodus, the Roman Empire continued to expand, stretching its borders to encompass the entire Mediterranean Sea as well as expanding northward to Gaul and Britain. History records the exploits of the heroes as well as the tirades of the emperors. Despite the sometimes shameful deeds of the imperial office, the empire was built on the backs of its citizens - the unsung people who lived a relatively quiet existence, and who are often ignored by history. Rome was a cosmopolitan city with Greeks, Syrians, Jews, North Africans, Spaniards, Gauls, and Britons, and like any society, the average Roman citizen awoke each morning, labored, relaxed, and ate, and while his or her daily life could often be hectic, he or she would always survive.

Population Movement

Outside the cities, in the towns and on the small farms, people lived a much simpler life - dependent almost entirely on their own labor. The daily life of the average city dweller, however, was a lot different and most often routine. The urban areas of the empire - whether it was Rome, Pompeii, Antioch, or Carthage - were magnets to many people who left smaller towns and farms seeking a better way of life. However, the unfulfilled promise of jobs forced countless people to live in the poorer parts of the city. The jobs they sought were often not there, resulting in an epidemic of homeless inhabitants. The work that was available to these new émigrés, however, was difficult to obtain. Slaves performed almost all of the menial jobs as well as many of the professions such as teachers, doctors, surgeons, and architects. Most of the freedmen worked at various trades, for example, as bakers, fishmongers, or carpenters. Occasionally, poor women would serve the affluent as hairdressers, midwives, or dressmakers.

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Rethuglican Values

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“Ken Turnage II, chairman of the city planning commission of Antioch, located 35 miles east of Oakland, said in a Facebook post last month that “the sick, the old, the injured” should be left during the pandemic to meet their “natural course in nature,” The Associated Press reported.

“The World has been introduced to a new phrase Herd Immunity which is a good one,” he wrote in the since-deleted post. “In my opinion we need to adapt a Herd Mentality. A herd gathers it ranks, it allows the sick, the old, the injured to meet its natural course in nature.”

Turnage added that “homeless and other people who just defile themselves by either choice or mental issues” should also be allowed to perish as this “would fix what is a significant burden on our Society and resources that can be used.””

Really hope the natural consequences of being a fascist don’t befall former city official Kenneth Turnage the Second

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Saints&Reading: Tue., Jan., 11,2022

January 11_December 29

THE MONK THADDEUS THE CONFESSOR (818)

Saint Thaddeus the Confessor, a disciple of Theodore the Studite, was a defender of the veneration of holy icons. He was brought to trial and suffered during the reign of Leo V (813-820). The heretics, mocking Saint Thaddeus, put an icon of the Savior on the ground, picked the saint up, and stood him upon it.

After this the judge said, “You have trampled upon the icon of Christ. There is no point in further resistance, so join us.” Thaddeus replied that he had been placed upon the icon involuntarily, and he cursed the impiety of the iconoclasts. Enraged by his bold words, they beat him with cudgels. Then they dragged the martyr by the legs and threw him outside the city walls. He appeared to be dead, but he was still alive. A certain Christian took him into his own home and washed his wounds. Saint Thaddeus lived another three days, and then surrendered his soul to God.

THE MONK MARCELLUS, HEGUMEN OF THE MONASTERY CALLED "the Unsleeping Ones" (485)

Saint Marcellus, igumen of the Monastery called “the Unsleeping Ones,” was a native of the city of Apamea in Syria. His parents were wealthy, but died when he was young. He received his education first at Antioch, and then at Ephesus. All his possessions left him by his parents he distributed to the poor, thereby sundering his ties to the world.

Under the guidance of an experienced elder at Ephesus, Marcellus entered upon the path of asceticism. He later went on to Byzantium to Saint Alexander, igumen of the monastery named “the Unsleeping.” The monastery received its name because in it psalmody was done constantly, both day and night, by alternating groups of monks. Saint Alexander accepted Marcellus and tonsured him into the monastic schema. Zealous in the works of watchfulness, fasting and prayer, the saint received great spiritual talents and the gift of clairvoyance. Marcellus foresaw the day of Abba Alexander’s death and his own election as igumen. However, since he was still young, he did not want to rule others. So he slipped out of the monastery to visit other provinces and other monasteries, where he received edification from the monks who lived there.

After the death of Saint Alexander, when Abba John had already been chosen as igumen, Marcellus returned to the great joy of the brethren. Abba John made Marcellus his own closest assistant. After John’s death, Saint Marcellus was chosen igumen of the monastery in spite of his own wishes, and in this position he remained for sixty years.

News of his saintly life spread far. People came to Marcellus from afar, both the illustrious and the common, rich and the poor. Many times they saw angels encircling the saint, attending and guarding him. With the help of God, the monastery of “the Unsleeping Ones” flourished. So many monks came to place themselves under the direction of Saint Marcellus that it became necessary to enlarge the monastery and the church.

Saint Marcellus received donations from believers for expansion, and built a beautiful large church, a hospital, and a hostel for the homeless. By his prayers the monk treated the sick, cast out devils and worked miracles. For example, one of the monks was sent to Ankara and fell ill. Being near death, he called out mentally to his abba. At that very hour Saint Marcellus heard his disciple in the monastery, and he began to pray for him. He who was sick recovered at once.

When a ship with his monks came into danger on the Black Sea, the saint calmed the tempest by his prayers. Another time, when they told him that a fire was raging at Constantinople, he prayed tearfully for the city, and the fire subsided as if extinguished by the tears of the monk.

John, the servant of a certain Arian nobleman named Ardaburios, was unjustly accused of something, and he hid out at the monastery to escape his master’s wrath. Ardaburios twice demanded that Saint Marcellus hand John over to him, but he refused. Ardaburios then sent out a detachment of soldiers, who surrounded the monastery, threatening to slay anyone who interfered with their mission. The brethren went to the abba, asking him to surrender John and save the monastery. Saint Marcellus signed himself with the Sign of the Cross, then boldly went out alone through the monastery gate towards the soldiers. Lightning flashed in the sky, thunder rumbled, and the Cross appeared shining brighter than the sun. The soldiers threw down their weapons and took to flight. Ardaburios, learning from the soldiers what had happened, was frightened, and because of Saint Marcellus he pardoned the servant.

Saint Marcellus peacefully departed to the Lord in the year 485. His faithful disciple Lukian grieved terribly over him, but on the fifth day after the death Saint Marcellus appeared to him and comforted him, foretelling his own impending end.

Source: Orthodox Church in America

MARK 11:11-23

11 And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve.12 Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. 13 And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 In response Jesus said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you ever again." And His disciples heard it. 15 So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.16 And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. 17 Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it a 'den of thieves.' "18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching. 19 When evening had come, He went out of the city. 20 Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away." 22 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:15-21 

15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

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The blessing Jar.

         Next to the tootsie rolls in our foyer is a large jar that has blessings in it.

I haven’t put any blessings in the jar yet.   One song that comes to mind is count your many blessings name them one by one and then you will be surprised what God has done.   

I am thankful that we only have one car.    Often times I think it would be nice to have a truck.   Right now one vehicle is all that we need.   Lois doesn’t drive much she just doesn’t feel like it.    Hundred miles a year is about her limit.  

I am thankful for our house.    Even though we are two months behind on the mortgage.   I am thankful that we are not behind with the car payment.  I am thankful that I was able to get the car payments caught up back in Feb.    I am thankful  for  our electric, gas, and water,   for the house.     I am thankful that we have the insurance for the appliances.   When you scroll over far enough you will find the Home Choice insurance.   Monthly premiums are paid and when ever I have a problem with an appliance   I pay 75.00 and it is fixed or replaced.   

I am thankful that I can live with the verse   “ In all things give thanks”   For this is His will in our lives.   I am thankful for my part time job.    It does help us.   I am thankful that I am able to take a cold shower  .    I must also be thankful that our Hot water heater has gone out.    This may be Gods way to help us keep the Gas bill down.   

I am thankful that I have the gift of gab and I have the gift of writing.   I am thankful that the dishwasher heats the water.    If I want to wash in  hot water I can because of a heating element in the washer .   I am thankful that I am able to endure cold showers.   

I am thankful that I haven’t had the need to see a doctor in the last 28 years.   I am thankful that I was able to write a poem which is called   I am Blessed.   

I took the poem and placed on postcards.    I am thankful for the 125.00 that the insurance company gives us for  food and certain  items at Walmart.  I am thankful for those who reads my Cross.   I am thankful for all of my cats and my dog.   I am thankful for good neighbors and a good neighborhood.   I am thankful for my church.    Scroll down far enough and you will see the church.    I am thankful that it is in walking distance   I am also thankful that I do enjoy singing,  cooking and  some gardening.   I am thankful for friends.    My family and my brother in laws sister in laws  Nephews and nieces  .    My parents and my sister and my mother in law .   I am thankful that I have a good attitude I am thankful that I have humor and that I can see humor in  dark places.    I am thankful that I can share good clean jokes  with others.    I am thankful for this ministry of  My Cross.     I will be thankful when I can get orders for my postcards which  has my cross on the postcards.   I am thankful for my wife of almost 29 years.    I am thankful that we don’t have any children.    I am thankful that I have a burden for the lost,   the homeless  the needy.   I am thankful that I have   Stash,   Acorn, Robinhood,  I am thankful that I bank at  Arvest.    All four of these I am able to earn money when others joins.    Before we joined the church.    The church voted to have  Sunday morning and Wednesday night services.   I enjoy going to church so  I am thankful that I feel welcomed at a Antioch missionary Baptist Church   on Sunday nights.      Back last spring I went to  The Current on Friday night.   I couldn’t make it the second week  which was the last week before Spring.   I do enjoy going to church .  

Tonight I thought I was finished with “The Blessing Jar”   I stopped at 10:30  so I could do my part time job.    I was pulled over by a deputy.    I am thankful that I didn’t get a ticket  I just need to fix my left tail light and I am thankful that I was able to give him  my calling card and asked him to read my blog  and share it with his church.   With faith somehow I will get the light fixed.   

Brother,

Timothy 

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