Today is the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time; on this date we honorВ Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor (diedВ 430).
Born in 354 in Tagaste, Numidia, North Africa (Souk-Ahras, Algeria) as Aurelius Augustinus, today’s SaintВ was the son of a pagan father.Raised as a Christian by his mother, Saint Monica, he lost his faith in youth and led a wild life, living with a Carthaginian woman from the age of 15 through 30, and fatheringВ a son whom he named Adeotadus, which means «gift of God».He taught rhetoric at Carthage and in Milan, Italy.After investigating and experimenting with several philosophies, he became a Manichaean for several years; it taught of a great struggle between good and evil, and featured a ratherВ lax moral code.Augustine finally broke with the Manichaeans and was converted by the prayers of his mother and the help of Saint Ambrose of Milan, who baptized him.On the death of his mother he returned to Africa, sold his property, gave the proceeds to the poor, and founded a monastery.Becoming a priest and preacher, he was namedВ Bishop of Hippo in 396.He founded religious communities, fought Manichaeism, Donatism, Pelagianism and other heresies, and oversaw his church and his see during the fall of the Roman Empire to the Vandals.Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than a hundred separate titles.Augustine is probably best known for his Confessiones (Confessions), which is a personal account of his earlier life, and for De civitate dei (Of the City of God, consisting of 22 books), which he wrote to restore the confidence of his fellow Christians, which was badly shaken by the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410.In the 11th century the order of Augustinian Monks came into being, claiming lineage from the religious communities founded by Saint Augustine.Augustine was canonized by popular acclaim, and later recognized as a Doctor of the Church in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII.He is the Patron Saint of brewers, printers, theologians, sore eyes, and a number of cities and dioceses, including the city and diocese of St.Augustine, Florida.
When we got up for work, Michelle was again asleep on the couch.We went to work, and I spent the day as the dealer on Pai-Gow Poker.Tropical Storm Jose formed east of Bermuda at 7:00 am, On my breaks I marked the July 2011 photos, organized the December 2010 photos, and started marking the December 2010 photos.At 10:00 am Hurricane Irene became Tropical Storm Irene.(All day on CNN the only news was Hurricane Irene hitting the East Coast; we in the break room kept asking, what would they have done if Irene had been more than a minimal Category One storm?(At one point Irene had been a Category Three storm, which is four times as bad, roughly, than a Category One storm.)
On our way home from work we stopped at Super 1 Foods for some groceries; once home, I ate my lunch salad and read the Sunday papers.I then took a nap from 1:30 pm to about 6:00 pm, which meant that I did not go to the 6:00 pm Ma*s.I ate my dinner (red beans & rice, and cornbread) and got busy on tonight’s Daily Update.After I am done with today’s Daily Update, I will go watch the first half of the New Orleans Saints versus the Oakland Raiders in their third pre-season game, then I will go to bed.The New Moon will arrive tonight at 10:04 pm.
In the Tropics Tropical Storm Irene is 65 miles south of Rutland, Vermont (which is very far from the Tropics), with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, and moving to the north north-east at 26 miles per hour.The expectation is that the storm will become a post-tropical cyclone later tonight.Tropical Storm Jose is now 80 miles southwest of Bermuda, with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour, and moving to the north at 17 miles per hour.The storm is expected to make a turn to the north north-east, to start moving faster, and to weaken.An elongated area of low pressure a*sociated with the remnants of Tropical Depression Ten is producing disorganized weather about 700 miles west north-west of the Cape Verde Islands; the system has a 10 percent chance of developing into a Tropical Cyclone within the next 48 hours.Finally, a system about 400 miles south of the Cape Verde Islands is becoming better organized, and has a 70 percent chance of developing into a Tropical Cyclone within the next 48 hours.
Tomorrow being Monday, I will spend my breaks at work marking photos.(There are a lot of December 2010 photos, due to the wedding.) Richard will be fasting to have his blood drawn after work for lab work, with his appointment at the Clinic to go over the lab work on September 9.Once home from work I will do the Weekly Computer Maintenance and do some Advance Daily Update Drafts.
On this Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary TimeВ our Parting Quote comes to us from Paul MacCready, American aeronautical engineer.BornВ Paul B.MacCready, Jr.in 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut, to aВ medical family,В he was an inventor from an early age and won a national contest building a model flying machine at the age of 15.After graduating from high school in 1943 heВ received his BS in physics from Yale University in 1947, a MS in physics from Caltech in 1948, and a PhD in aeronautics from Caltech in 1952.In the meantime, he trained as a US Navy pilot at the end of World War II.Some ofВ his work as a graduate student involved cloud seeding, and in 1951 MacCready founded his first company, Meteorology Research Inc, to do atmospheric research.He had started flying glidersВ after World War II and was a three-time winner (1948, 1949, 1953) of the Richard C.du Pont Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the U.S.National Open Cla*s Soaring Champion.In 1956 he became the first American pilot to become the World Soaring Champion.He devised the MacCready Theory on the correct speed to fly a glider depending on conditions and based on the glider’s rate of sink at different air-speeds.Glider pilots still use the MacCready speed ringВ to maximize the average cross-country speed by optimizing the airspeed in both rising and sinking air.He was the founder (in 1971) and Chairman of AeroVironment Inc., a public company (AVAV) that develops unmanned surveillance aircraft and advance power systems.В With Dr.Peter B.S.Lissaman he created the first practical human-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor, and thereby won the Kremer prize in 1977; the seven-and-a-half-minute flight covered a figure-eight course a half-mile long in Shafter, California.The award-winning plane was built out of aluminium tubing, plastic foam, piano wire, bicycle parts, and mylar foil for covering.In 1979, he built its successor, the Gossamer Albatross, which won the second Kremer prize for successfully flying from England to France;В it weighed 70 pounds and had a 96-foot wingspan, and took three hours to make the crossing over the English Channel.He later created solar powered aircraft such as the Gossamer Penguin and the Solar Challenger.He was involved in the development of NASA’s solar-powered flying wings such as the Helios, which surpa*sed the SR-71в
