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How Louisville hero Luke Hancock celebrated his title night
- Luke Hancock was the unlikeliest Most Outstanding Player in Final Four history
- Teammate Kevin Ware cried at the end of the night
- Hancock encapsulates the DNA of this team
ATLANTA — The unlikeliest Most Outstanding Player in Final Four history snakes his way around boisterous, delirious men, women and children inside the JW Marriott ballroom early Tuesday morning, stopping exactly 36 times to pose for pictures or sign autographs.
"Damn," sighs an exasperated Luke Hancock, wearing a crooked national title hat and admittedly overwhelmed by newfound fame that the 23-year-old won't shake the rest of his life. Hours after becoming the first non-starter in NCAA history to win the MOP award, he puts his arm around a USA TODAY Sports reporter, urging him and girlfriend Kaycee Loucka to follow the Louisville junior through a sea of fans celebrating their first national title since 1986.
This fan base was starved for a national title for two reasons: It had been 27 years since the school won one and just one year since that other school from Lexington, Ky., cut down the nets.
"You saved us! You saved the whole season!" a middle-aged woman with a cardinal painted on her cheek bellows.
Coach Rick Pitino, the first coach in NCAA history to lead two different schools to national titles, has coached more talented teams. He successfully managed egos while stewarding the 1996 Kentucky national championship team, one of the most dominant teams in the modern era. Leading this team required a deft touch to bring the players even closer together following the gruesome injury suffered by Kevin Ware in the Elite Eight victory against Duke.
Two hours after the basket was lowered so Ware could clip a strand from the net inside the Georgia Dome, the guard stands on crutches near the hotel elevator, head down with a net around his neck.
"I promised I would not cry tonight," Ware says. "I did cry."
Ware says he was spent emotionally and deeply touched by how his team sought to deliver the Atlanta area resident a national championship. He likes to say that this group is so close that they all "came out of the womb together."
Ware heads to his hotel room a few moments after Pitino, sounding as if he was losing his voice faster than Michigan lost its 12-point first-half lead in the national title game, greets hundreds of red-clad fans with a simple message that encapsulated this team: "Four years ago, we built a brand," he says. "Our brand was Louisville first. The back means nothing! The front means everything!"
The crowd roared and snapped pictures.
Billy Donovan, one of Pitino's prized pupils, said by phone this weekend that Pitino is an "extremist," someone who sees more potential in individuals than they see in themselves. Donovan, who noted that he would be surprised to see the 60-year-old Pitino retire now, acknowledged that winning a second national title at a different school would be a special way to go out.
Tom Jurich, Louisville's athletic director, says he simply won't allow it, adding, "He has got no options. He has got no options. I make that call on that one."
Pitino is happy, even if he now has to make good on a mid-season promise that he would get a tattoo if the Cardinals won the national title. Senior guard Peyton Siva says Pitino will get tattoos of a cardinal bird and the year 2013 on his back. It has been a good year, and Monday included a double dose of emotional highs.
"If right now, if you don't wish you are Coach P, something is wrong with you," guard Russ Smith says. "He is so lucky. It's just crazy."
He and his son Richard, newly hired at Minnesota, were at a downtown hotel early Monday for Pitino's Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame induction. Pitino, who has taken three different schools to the Final Four, was overjoyed and so was Richard, who said, "It's almost like this overshadows tonight's national title game."
It did not. After a season defined in part by unsightly games and low scores, Louisville and Michigan staged an entertaining, up-tempo contest short on whistles and long on fun. Whatever Michigan's Spike Albrecht could do – 17 first-half points – Louisville's Hancock matched, and at the most opportune time.
Trailing by 12 points with three minutes to play in the first half, Hancock made four three-pointers before halftime to narrow the deficit to one. That spurt was the game-changer, and the fifth three-pointer by the George Mason transfer with 2:47 to play swelled the Cardinals' lead to 10 points.
Hancock encapsulates the DNA of this team: a do-it-all reserve who is good enough to start but content not to so long as the team wins. And early Sunday morning, away from the Georgia Dome confetti and the press conferences, Hancock knew his life never would be the same.
Amid the chaos of Louisville's post-championship celebration with its fans, Hancock finally found an escape from the cameras and squeezed his way into an overstuffed elevator, apologizing to the 13 others inside.
"You don't ever have to say you're sorry again," says one man, drawing laughter.
The elevator shakes, prompting Hancock to say, "Please don't stop, I will (expletive) kill you."
Once Hancock is inside Room 612, at 2:35 a.m., he finds Siva lounging on one bed watching ESPN. And he finds peace among the 11 people in the room littered with backpacks, sandwich boxes, cell phone chargers, gym shorts and three half-filled Gatorade bottles on the night stand. Amid the mess is the detailed, multi-paged Michigan scouting report that Hancock and Siva had pored over the past two days. (Hancock politely declines a reporter's request to see the scouting report.)
Standing near the mirror, Hancock explains how perfect his first three-pointer felt just as he hears the unmistakable voice of Dick Vitale on the television praising his hot shooting. A small smile emerges on Hancock's face.
His girlfriend Kaycee interjects that when Hancock kept making threes, "I screamed so loud I almost fainted. I literally lost all my air."
Siva's father, Peyton Sr., sits on the floor as the television flashes to the scene at Louisville, where thousands have taken to the streets.
"Luke, look at this!" Kaycee screams.
"I wish I was there in the middle doing this," says Siva, holding both arms over his head.
Hancock, who had just grabbed a quick shower, slips on argyle socks and yells, "I can't wait!"
"Hopefully my car is safe," Siva says.
The fans in the streets were delirious because Hancock followed his 20-point performance against Wichita State in the national semifinals by tying a career-high 22 points against Michigan. He made all five of his three-point attempts against the Wolverines. The performances were even more impressive when considering what has been on Hancock's mind.
Hancock says his father, William Hancock, is "very" ill, but declines to elaborate on the nature of the sickness. Hancock says he has been aware of the illness for a long time but that it has become worse recently.
"It was really tough," Hancock says. "I didn't want to put it out there just because I didn't want him to have any added pressure to be here. I felt if I didn't tell anyone then he wouldn't be thinking, 'I've got to be here.' But it meant a lot that he was there."
Hancock's mother, Venicia, says she felt all day that Hancock was calm based on his text messages – a calmness she says he gets from his father.
After winning the national title, Hancock remains calm. Now past 3 a.m, he says he has one goal: Stay up all night.
"Absolutely," he says. "Then I think we're doing Good Morning America."
He is still trying to grasp exactly how all this has happened, reflecting in his mind how he went from a solid player at George Mason to a player Cardinals teammates elected captain before his first game with Louisville to a person who men, women and children are hounding in the middle of the night for autographs and pictures.
From Siva's heart to Ware's spirit, Pitino's second national title team is a consummate team, fueled by emotion and belief as much as talent and strength. As Ware would say, out of the womb together. And fittingly, the backbone is a reserve who will now forever receive star treatment anywhere the Cardinals colors are honored. In Louisville, Hancock will never have to buy another drink again.
"I hope not," Hancock says before heading into the night. "That is the plan."
Contributing: Rachel George


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Hard to believe, but today is the 10th anniversary of the 2001 incident in which a U.S. Navy EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft operating above the waters of the South China Sea was struck by a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) interceptor jet. The U.S. pilot, Shane Osborn (who has gone on to be a successful politician in Nebraska), managed to keep the crippled plane in the air while the crew members hastily tried to destroy as much of the payload as possible – classified equipment and materials related to the aircraft's surveillance mission. Unfortunately, due to the in extremis situation, the crew was only able to partially complete this task before an emergency landing was made at an airfield on Hainan Island. The crew was taken into custody and the aircraft seized.
The PRC lost the jet pilot who ran into the EP-3, but in the long run they gained a lot more. Writing in the November 1, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh detailed the take:
The plane carried twenty-four officers and enlisted men and women attached to the Naval Security Group Command, a field component of the National Security Agency. They were repatriated after eleven days; the plane stayed behind. The Pentagon told the press that the crew had followed its protocol, which called for the use of a fire axe, and even hot coffee, to disable the plane's equipment and software. These included an operating system created and controlled by the N.S.A., and the drivers needed to monitor encrypted Chinese radar, voice, and electronic communications. It was more than two years before the Navy acknowledged that things had not gone so well. "Compromise by the People's Republic of China of undestroyed classified material . . . is highly probable and cannot be ruled out," a Navy report issued in September, 2003, said.
The Navy's experts didn't believe that China was capable of reverse-engineering the plane's N.S.A.-supplied operating system, estimated at between thirty and fifty million lines of computer code, according to a former senior intelligence official. Mastering it would give China a road map for decrypting the Navy's classified intelligence and operational data. "If the operating system was controlling what you'd expect on an intelligence aircraft, it would have a bunch of drivers to capture radar and telemetry," Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer in the field of encryption, said. "The plane was configured for what it wants to snoop, and the Chinese would want to know what we wanted to know about them—what we could intercept and they could not." And over the next few years the U.S. intelligence community began to "read the tells" that China had access to sensitive traffic.
The U.S. realized the extent of its exposure only in late 2008. A few weeks after Barack Obama's election, the Chinese began flooding a group of communications links known to be monitored by the N.S.A. with a barrage of intercepts, two Bush Administration national-security officials and the former senior intelligence official told me. The intercepts included details of planned American naval movements. The Chinese were apparently showing the U.S. their hand. ("The N.S.A. would ask, 'Can the Chinese be that good?' " the former official told me. "My response was that they only invented gunpowder in the tenth century and built the bomb in 1965. I'd say, 'Can you read Chinese?' We don't even know the Chinese pictograph for 'Happy hour.' ")
This incident can be considered as the opening event in a series of clashes that have marked increased tensions between the U.S. and the PRC in the South China Sea. In the next instance of conflict between the two nations, in 2009 an unarmed U.S. ocean surveillance vessel manned by civilians ran into trouble in about the same area of the South China Sea. Chinese vessels harassed the ship and nearly rammed it, while at the same time attempting to snag its towed sonar array. Since then, direct U.S.-China confrontation has been supplanted by amplified pressure between China and other countries surrounding the South China Sea, many of whom have competing claims to land features and territories in the sea such as the Spratly Islands. These tensions came to a head at the 2010 ASEAN Regional Forum, where U.S. Secretary of State Clinton declared, as a counter to resurgent PRC claims of the South China Sea as a "core interest", that the U.S. had "a national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia's maritime commons, and respect for international law in the South China Sea."
The final chapter in this dispute has yet to be written.
H/T Cheng-yi Lin
To read more about the Hainan Island Incident, see Shirley A. Kan, et al., China-U.S. Aircraft Collision Incident of April 2001: Assessments and Policy Implications, CRS Report to Congress, October 10, 2001.
Related Articles
- South China Sea Tensions Rise (online.wsj.com)

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If you are starting into model rocketry, you may have been confused by the letters and numbers that are printed on the motor or on the motor package. You may have asked yourself "Which motor should I use?" or "What do the numbers mean?". Well, this is what I want explain. The picture below shows typical motors used in sport rocketry.
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Here is another useful little item that you can make from PVC pipe. It is a cradle you can use to hold your rocket while prepping, transporting, or just for displaying. What I like about it is that you can make it any size you need. I used 1/2 inch fittings and pipe for the ones I made.
Here is what you will need to make a cradle suitable for 3 or 4 inch diameter rockets
From ROCINews - Volume 1, Issue 7
At the last meeting, Mario passed around a milled piece of PVC pipe. Rick Weber, another ROCI member, had milled it inside and out to be used as a payload section. What a great use of PVC this was. After seeing this payload section, I wanted to share with the club one of the things I made for rocketry using PVC pipe.
From ROCINews - Volume 1, Issue 1
A dazzling Code Red rocket zooms skyward at speeds of more than a hundred miles per hour. A few seconds later it deploys a parachute and returns gently to earth. Within minutes of touchdown, the rocket is ready to fly again. Best of all, that scenario can become as routine as it is undeniably exciting. All it takes is a basic knowledge of the fundamentals or rocket flight.


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What IF...children could THINK of an idea then try it out with whatever materials they chose?
What IF... children could INVENT anything they wanted with whatever materials they chose?
|Mix mix mix all the colors on the palette...creating just the color she wants, needs, wants, needs.
What IF...teachers loved teaching BECAUSE the children invented and thought and created in their own ways?
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|KAPLA wood blocks in star shapes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and working on #9...
|Bears, red and yellow counters, rods, and geometric shaped pieces to work together to cover this flannel board!
|Using a ruler and black pen to make lines over a large water colored art piece.
|Magna tiles, cardboard tunnels, cube blocks, cones and one traffic orange-white striped cone on top!
THINK ABOUT the amazing creations that would not have been created if children needed (needed?) to do things like adults expect traditionally?
What kind of learning environment is that?
What kind of day is that for the child AND the teacher?
I have always wanted to have a joyful, surprising, wonderful day at school...just like children want.
|This block structure is NO ACCIDENT - different sized rectangles and slanted ramp blocks to exactly create this.
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Skills in CHOICE MAKING:
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Ofelia Garcia receives Correa Award as Bilingual Educator
HonorsOfelia García Receives Correa Award as Bilingual Educator
Ofelia García, TC Professor of Bilingual Education and co-director of TC's Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies, is the recipient of the Gladys Correa Award, given annually by the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE).
Gladys Correa was a teacher of bilingual education in New York City broke new ground in the professional development of bilingual educators in colleges and universities.
NYSABE praised García as "an exemplary teacher, researcher and prolific writer whose passionate advocacy for the linguistic and educational rights of all children and her quest for excellence will continue to inspire educators, students, parents and members of our society."
García—faculty coordinator for TC's bilingual education program—is the co-author of Imagining Multilingual Schools (with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Maria Torres-Guzman), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with Colin Baker), and Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman). As part of a series conducted by The Campaign for Educational Equity, she recently presented a paper titled "Equity in the Education of Emergent Bilinguals: The Case of English Language Learners," which argued that current U.S. policy regarding bilingualism is overly English-centric and at odds with current research.
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This weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday, which marks the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem. Throughout this Holy Week, we will relive the Last Supper and his Passion, Death and Resurrection through liturgical celebrations. I encourage you to participate in your parish's liturgies or to join me at the Cathedral as we celebrate this most important moment of our liturgical year.
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Last Thursday, I celebrated Mass and the confirmations of 48 youth at St. Mary's in Billerica.
It was a very attentive group and the pastor, Father Francis Sullivan, was very pleased with them.
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Our religious education office gathered over 100 of the leaders of religious education in the parishes for workshops on Friday. I gave an address and led them in Midday Prayer. This event is just one more example of how different groups within the archdiocese are making good use of the Pastoral Center, which is very encouraging.
One of the great priorities of the archdiocese is the faith formation of our young people and we are so delighted that Janet Benestad is coming on board to be our new Cabinet Secretary for Faith Formation and Evangelization. She brings great experience and dedication to this very important aspect in the life of our Church.
At the same time, Father Brian Kiely's Religious Education Committee, which has been working so diligently on an evaluation of our services and programs, is poised to make a presentation of their preliminary report. Of course, Janet will be very much involved in implementing those recommendations once we have had a chance to discuss them with the Presbyteral Council and other leaders of the diocese.
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Also on Friday, we were very happy to visit the Franciscan Hospital for Children, founded by the Allegany Franciscan Sisters. They do wonderful work there. It was originally a polio hospital but after the polio vaccine was introduced, it turned into a rehabilitation center for children.
I was there visiting one of their patients, Olivia Quigley, who is a first grader at East Boston Central Catholic School. When she had a very serious heart episode during her gym class, the teachers and the staff intervened by performing CPR and saved her life. This can be attributed to the training that the teachers have been given and their preparedness.
Olivia now has an implantable pacemaker like this one to make sure her heart keeps beating as it should
The amazing thing is that you might expect them to use those skills on the teachers — not on the children — but Olivia's story goes to show that preparedness can avoid a great tragedy.
I met with Olivia and her family in Olivia's hospital room before going downstairs to reception to celebrate the fact that Olivia was about ready to be discharged after about six weeks in the hospital.
I heard she loves to read, so I brought Olivia and her brother, Alex, books as a gift
I signed Alex's book for him
She certainly got a lot of attention from the media who were invited to the reception
The teachers who saved Olivia's life, Kathy Carabine and Robert Casaletto, and the school's principal, Maryann Manfredonia.
Olivia is such a wonderful little girl, filled with life and she could have slipped away had there not been the care that was available to her in that moment of crisis.
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As in recent weeks, on Friday evening we met with a group of seminarians at the Cathedral. We are trying to have small groups come from our seminaries on a regular basis as a way to know them better through shared prayer and conversation.
These two photos are from a recent gathering
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A number of the parishes in Westwood and Norwood brought their youth together for a youth rally at Xaverian Brothers High School on Saturday.
The theme for the rally was "Catch the Spirit." I spoke to them about being Catholic in today's world and how important it is for them to have the courage to live our faith, even in the face of obstacles, difficulties and persecution. It was a spirit-filled group and, as always, it was wonderful to see out youth gathered together to celebrate our Catholic faith.
Father Matt Williams, from our Office of New Evangelization, was also involved in the afternoon, celebrating Mass with them in the evening.
Professional soccer player Luke Vercollone inspired teens at the rally
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That same night, I celebrated the confirmations of a large group of college students who have become involved in campus ministry programs at the various colleges in the area. There were about 60 students confirmed at the cathedral and, as always, it was a very beautiful event that brought together a lot of the chaplains from the colleges and universities, as well as the students and their families.
Not all of the students who were confirmed are from the archdiocese — many of them were from different states and countries. In Boston we have over a quarter of a million students from all over the world. There are over 80 colleges and universities in the metropolitan Boston area and our campus ministry is a very important part of what we do as the local Church.
Father Richard Clancy, the director of campus ministry, was there and introduced the students.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor, for the past couple of years, have had what they call their Black Tie Gala fundraiser. This year it was at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston.
Greeting Sister Marguerite, who is the new Director of Nursing at the their house in Somerville.
As you might imagine, I very seldom get to the Four Seasons, but I was happy to see the doorman whom I knew as he was one of my deacons from the Fall River Diocese.
Craig and Nancy Gibson. They both serve on the Advisory Board at Little Sisters of the Poor and have been involved with this annual dinner for the last six years.
The sisters do such extraordinary works of mercy caring for the elderly poor at their house in Somerville where they have been present for over 130 years.
The event chairperson was Bill Raftery whose aunt is a Little Sister of the Poor. She is a missionary in the Philippines who just recently (at 75-years-old!) started a new home for the elderly there.
With Bill Raftery
He started this dinner six years ago and has chaired the event each year with outstanding success. He has raised almost $1 million dollars to support the Little Sisters and their important work of caring for the elderly poor. Bill is a senior executive at EMC Corp. Each year he reaches out to fellow EMC employees and other friends with encouragement to be part of the dinner.
We congratulated the Sisters on the wonderful news that their foundress, Jeanne Jugan, will be canonized in the fall. There will be representatives from each of their houses to participate in that wonderful event.
Sister Marguerite, Sister Rose, Earl and Flora Thompson, Sister Mary Vincent and Sister Gertrude Mary. Earl is a General Contractor and has been a friend and benefactor to the Little Sisters for over 20 years.
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Bishop Timothy McDonnell, from the Diocese of Springfield, and Father Douglas McGonagle, the chaplain at UMass Amherst, have been inviting me for some time to come and visit the Newman Center on campus and celebrate Mass for the students. After all, half of the students are from the archdiocese!
I was so inspired by the wonderful facilities that Bishop Weldon built there, which has become one of the largest Catholic missions found on a secular college campus.
They have a huge cafeteria and many meeting rooms. Apparently, it is a favorite place for students to gather to eat and partake in all kinds of activities. They have a beautiful, large chapel there, as well. The Mass was also attended by Gottfried Leich and his wife. Gottfried is a Lutheran minister who is a scripture scholar.
After Mass they presented me with a bound copy of Cardinal Cushing's inaugural sermon when they dedicated the student center around 60 years ago. I said I was relieved when they gave it to me because I was feeling guilty that I preached so long, but I'm sure my sermon wasn't a fraction of how long Cardinal Cushing's was at the inaugural talk!
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We had the St. Andrew's Dinner on Monday at St. John's Seminary in Brighton and there were 55 young men who came from a variety of parishes. They were there for Holy Hour and a program where four seminarians gave witness talks about their vocations including one in Spanish by Carlos Suarez. Afterwards they had the opportunity for a question and answer session with me and then I concluded the evening with remarks and blessings.
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The vicar general of the Sister Disciples in Rome, Sister Gemma Victorino, visited me at the Pastoral Center on Tuesday with Sister Agar, the treasurer of the Sister Disciples, on her visit to the houses across the United States. The Sister Disciples have a very important presence in the diocese, not only for the Liturgical Art Center but also through their work at Regina Cleri, our residence for retired priests, and now at the new Pastoral Center.
Theirs is a life of service and contemplation and, in a particular way, they have been so supportive of our priests in the archdiocese and we are very, very grateful for their presence. Because of them we have a lovely gift shop at the Pastoral Center and the opportunity for Eucharistic Adoration, which they organize each day here at the chapel.
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Tuesday evening, we had the Catholic Schools Foundation's Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner and fundraiser.
With Carolyn Lynch, John Silber and Peter Lynch
Talking with Mary Richardson and her husband, Stan Leven. Mary was the host of our dinner program
Carolyn and our Superintendent of Schools, Mary Grassa O'Neill
It was an incredible event. The student speaker for the evening was Poline Chhor from Cambodia, a scholarship fund recipient who is a junior at Lowell Catholic High School. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand.
I met his parents who came to the United States 16 years ago and resettled in the Lowell area through the Catholic Church.
His parents have always worked and sacrificed to get him into Catholic schools — he was in the Franco-American School, a Catholic primary school in Lowell, and now is at Lowell Catholic and has done a fantastic job.
Students from St. Peter School in Cambridge gave a wonderful musical performance
He gave a wonderful talk about the suffering of his family under the Khmer Rouge persecution and how the Church has given him so many great opportunities and a hope for the future — it was so moving. His aspiration in life is to pursue a medical doctorate degree and be a physician. He was just an extraordinary speaker. He thanked his parents and it was very, very moving.
And then, John Silber spoke. Of course, the reason that he was asked to give the keynote is that over 20 years ago he founded Boston University's Cardinal Humberto Medeiros Scholarship Program which has provided over $30 million in four-year, full-tuition scholarships to over 400 students from local archdiocesan high schools to study at Boston University.
John Silber
He talked passionately about the important contribution of the Catholic school system in Boston and throughout the country, and how superior it is to any other school system in preparing children for life.
He said the 98% graduation rate, in itself, could be challenged on the assumption of having low-standards. But, having 98% of the graduates admitted to college, he said, is a validation of the excellent education that these students are getting at our Catholic schools.
Then Dr. Silber talked about the discipline and values instilled in kids during their Catholic education and what an important contribution it is to their lives. He called everyone to double their contributions, which I thought was great.
He gave a very learned talk about the public school system, having been chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He has very strong opinions backed up by airtight research. He was very critical of many of the government policies in the United States that he feels contribute to the breakdown of family life.
He spoke of the importance of early education and his visit to the John Paul II School, which he said was one of the finest schools he had ever visited in his life. He says everything with such passion — it was a wonderful talk. He is just so extraordinary. What a tragedy that he was not elected governor of Massachusetts in 1990!
When you take into account his dealing with a handicap his entire life, it is extraordinary what he did at Boston University; as they say, he took it from a good university and made it a great university.
At the dinner, ICSF honored Roger Joseph and his law firm, Bingham McCutchen, with The Carolyn and Peter Lynch Award for their work that has contributed very, very generously to the scholarship fund, also sponsoring interns from North Cambridge Catholic.
Roger Joseph
Students from several of our inner Catholic schools were present that evening as greeters alongside other scholarship fund recipients who displayed some of their science projects.
There was a wonderful video presentation put together by Alison Birmingham, the specials producer over at WCVB-TV, on Catholic schools and their formula for success. The video was very well done.


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London, England—June 1819
The silken curtains around the bed fluttered from the summer breeze that blew through the open windows
of the duke's bedchamber on number 31 St. James Square. Candlelight flickered across the room, a place she had only passed by while living here with him, peeking inside, won- dering at the depths of his private chambers. The light of the candles made wavy shadows against the creamy paneled walls and Alexandria, the new Duchess of St. Easton, tried to ignore Clarissa's incessant chatter as the maid helped her out of layer after layer of her wedding costume.
Alex tried to look anywhere but at the bed, and yet she couldn't tear her gaze from it—the royal blue counterpane trimmed in gold, the massive four posts of carved wood draped with dark curtains, the piles of pillows. She swallowed against the knot in her throat and turned, lifting her arms and follow- ing the nudges of the maid.
"Great heavens, Your Grace, sit down before you faint. You're as white as a ghost, you are."
Alex obeyed, relieved to sit and rest her wobbly knees. She stared in the mirror at her reflection and watched as Clarissa took out the spiderweb-thin, diamond tiara from her hair, which Gabriel's mother had given her as a wedding gift, and brushed out Alex's long, dark hair. A suspended feeling of dread and terror surrounded her.
He would come in at any moment.
He would come in and find out about everything.
The fact that she wasn't exactly sure what it was he would find didn't help at all.
Clarissa clucked and shook her head as she plucked at the delicate chemise, her last article of clothing. "I don't know why they let a bride wear white on a night like this. It only makes it worse if there's any bleeding. Saints a mercy, somebody should think of dark bedding and clothing on a night like this."
"Blood?" Alex whipped her face around toward Clarrisa's animated frown. "Does one always bleed?"
Clarissa patted her shoulder with a reassuring smile. "Only the first time, Your Grace, and some girls don't bleed much even then. Don't you be frettin' now. I shouldn't have said anything seein' how nervous you are, but since I did," she shook her head in an ominous way, "just know some bleedin' is normal. It won't last long."
Had she bled before? With John that night in Iceland when he had, well, might have violated her body while she was drugged from the cup of tea he had given her? Just thinking back to the details of that night made her stomach fold inside itself and a wave of nausea flooded her throat. Alex closed her eyes and tried to remember as she had so many times since that fateful evening. She didn't remember any blood. Not on the bed or on her clothing, but she'd been so shocked, so hurt and confused that she hadn't really looked either. There may have been a little and she just hadn't seen it.
Father in heaven, help me get through this!
The sound of the door opening made her start. She turned, saw him—saw his beautiful, fierce, and beloved face—which made her heart hammer like the pounding of a horse at full gal- lop. Clarissa bowed, quiet for once, and crept away. Alex stood but took a step back until the backs of her knees pressed against the bench at the dressing table. She tried for a wobbly smile and failed.
Gabriel Ravenwood, the Duke of St. Easton, and now her husband, stepped out from the shadows of the room and walked toward her. Instinctively Alex reared back, her gaze locked with his. Gabriel continued toward her and when close enough gave her that smile that always made her knees turn to mush. One side of his mouth quirked up a little higher than the other, as if he knew his effect on her, his eyes intense with depths of emerald green. His steps held the stealthy grace of the animal people often compared him to—the panther. Dark, lethal, green-eyed enchantment.
She held her breath. Excitement and terror warred within her as he came right up to her and stopped, so close she could see the dark, shadowy beard that had grown across his face over the course of the day and the thick, black eyelashes that were almost too pretty on a man.
"You're not frightened, are you?" His hand came up to lift her chin so she had to look into his eyes for him to see the truth or lie in her answer.
"No." A bad lie, but she hoped he hadn't been able to hear the squeak in her voice.
His hand moved from her chin to trace along the curve of her jaw with a mere brush of his fingertips. "I like your hair this way," he murmured, taking another step closer, his fingers coursing through her hair, the weight of his hand making her head fall back, her throat exposed. "Do you have any idea how beautiful you are, Alexandria?"
She closed her eyes and shook her head, turning away. How could she be beautiful after what John had done to her? And not telling Gabriel before they married that she was quite possibly not a virgin? There wasn't anything beautiful about that.
But he didn't know all of that yet. She stood beneath his exploring fingertips on her face, trembling like a leaf about to give way and drop to the ground. With one forefinger he traced the arcs of her eyebrows, her cheeks, and then the curve of her mouth. She opened her lips to let out the rush of breath. Her head fell back in submission to his touch as his lips finally came down on hers.
Her arms crept up to wrap around his wide shoulders. Love for him, an intermingling of welling emotions, rose to her throat in an aching pulse, pushing aside her dread and fear. She wanted to laugh and weep at the same time, but mostly she wanted to give him everything, all of her.
She was finally his.
Gabriel immersed himself in the feel of her—her petal- soft skin, her quivering lips, her lashes against his face. With his hearing gone, he reached internally for her reactions, reading vibrations from her throat and the thudding of her heart pressed against his chest. She didn't seem afraid now, not like when he'd walked into the room and seen her pale face. No, now she seemed pliant and eager to be in his arms.
When the back of her legs came up against the feather mattress, he leaned over her, kissing her more deeply, bending her back toward the blue counterpane, the heavy folds of the
bed curtains creating a secret space of flickering twilight. She blinked, opened her eyes as he lifted her and laid her on the blue silken surface. Standing, he saw the questions return to her eyes.
He said nothing. There was no need for words with Alexandria much of the time. They communicated with a look, a touch, their own special body language of signs and signals and long-locked gazes. It had started with letters . . . and become so much more.
Dear God, I love her.
She scrambled underneath the counterpane and he blew out the bedside candle, flooding the room with darkness. He slid in beside her. "Come here, Alexandria."
Without sound and now little sight, the feel of her in his arms roared through him, making her seem soul-deep close to him. Fragile . . . sweet, delicate, woman . . . wife. His hands roamed over her body, branding her and making her his in truth. She tensed and, he thought, cried out, whimpering against his shoulder. He held her close, running his hand over her hair and murmuring words of comfort. He hoped the worst was over.
Afterward, he pulled her back against his stomach and sighed deeply into her hair. Within moments, a deep lethargy took over and he fell asleep.


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Synopsis: Watch Numb3rs online free. In Numb3rs Putlocker Full Episodes, Numbers is an American crime drama television series that ran on CBS from January 23, 2005 to March 12, 2010. The series was created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, and follows FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and his mathematical genius brother Charlie Eppes who helps Don solve crimes for the FBI. Brothers Ridley and Tony Scott produced Numb3rs; its production companies are the Scott brothers' Scott Free Productions, CBS Television Studios. The show focuses equally on the relationships among Don Eppes, his brother Charlie Eppes, and their father, Alan Eppes, and on the brothers' efforts to fight crime, normally in Los Angeles. A typical episode begins with a crime, which is subsequently investigated by a team of FBI agents led by Don and mathematically modeled by Charlie, with the help of Larry Fleinhardt and Amita Ramanujan. The insights provided by Charlie's mathematics were always in some way crucial to solving the crime. The series was the most popular show airing on Friday evenings throughout its first four seasons. In May 2010, CBS announced that Numb3rs had been canceled after six seasons.


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Apple Shares Down 11 Percent on Fourth-Most-Profitable Quarter Posted by Any Company Ever
Apple on Wednesday reported earnings that were impressive by normal standards — indeed, its first quarter was the fourth-most-profitable quarter posted by any company ever. But on Thursday morning the company's shares fell more than 11 percent to $450.66, as investors that had been hoping for an old-school Apple beat reacted to earnings and guidance they found disappointing.
The euphoria that carried Apple's stock to a record high of $702.10 last September seems to be over — for the moment, anyway. Some 18 brokerages cut their price targets on the company's stock today. Among them, Topeka Capital's longtime Apple bull Brian White, who finally trimmed his $1,111 price target on Apple to $888.
That said, there are a few on Wall Street who sounded optimistic notes, even while advising caution. Now that Apple's guidance is "real" rather than deliberately conservative, investor expectations for its performance should grow more realistic.
More to the point, the market's current pessimism is probably not an accurate reflection of Apple's momentum. Remember, in the just-reported quarter it sold 28 percent more iPhones and 48 percent more iPads. Sure, Apple sold only 47.8 million iPhones, short of the 50 million many had hoped. But, for crying out loud, it sold 47.8 million iPhones. In a single quarter.
"We believe a capitulation process is underway — and while painful — it is healthy since the loftiest expectations should be reined in quite a bit," Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes wrote in a research note today. "This spring, Apple should be readying a bevy of new products and services — and when the builds for these products become known — shares may act a lot better. We have seen sentiment turn quickly before with other leaders like Facebook (in 2012) and Google (in 2011)."


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Early Indications Say Paywall For The Times Is A Dreadful Failure
from the no-surprise-there deptWell, this will hardly surprise anyone, but as we predicted, Rupert Murdoch's new paywall for the Times is not looking so hot right now. Of course, there are no official stats (in part because Murdoch is hiding them, Michael Wolff (who is well connected in the Murdoch world, and wrote an entire book about the guy) says that his sources are reporting that almost no one is signing up to pay for the new site, and even those grandfathered in thanks to a paper subscription aren't using the site. As one of his sources explained, the new site is "an empty world."
Wolff's piece makes a few other important, but not surprising, points. He notes that journalists won't like being in such a world (and we've already seen some jump ship. But, he also notes that this makes The Times a lot less attractive as a place for folks to go with breaking stories:
A Murdoch and Fleet Street veteran with whom I've been corresponding about the paywall reported to me on his recent conversation with an A-list entertainment publicist: "What was really interesting to me was that this person volunteered a blinding realization. 'Why would I get any of my clients to talk to the Times or the Sunday Times if they are behind a paywall? Who can see it? I can't even share a link and they aren't on search. It's as though their writers don't exist anymore.'"Of course, some reporters might note that they don't need or want publicists anyway. But, from the standpoint of reporters being able to get a good quote from someone, it seems like most PR people/publicists will go where the traffic actually is, rather than an empty walled garden.
The other point that Wolff brings up is a point that we've raised numerous times before: the way many people interact with news these days is they want to "interact" with it. They don't want to just passively "consume" it. But the whole concept of the paywall is to passively consume it. I was thinking about that as I watched this promo video that The Times put out to try to get people to subscribe to the paywall. As the person who sent it to me noted, you keep waiting for the reporters to turn to the screen and say "Please! Help me! Subscribe or Rupert will shoot me! I have a family!" But the other telling thing is that many of the reporters focus on how they can use this new-fangled "web" thing to deliver news in interesting ways. There's very little mention of actually interacting with the community at all (one reporter mentions it, but that's it). To everyone else, it's still very much about "we are the experts, you take what we give you."
We already know that with a similar experiment, the newspaper Newsday in New York got all of 35 outside subscribers. You have to believe that The Times is doing at least somewhat better than that. The question is how much... and (more importantly) how will they adjust? In the meantime, I'm curious if folks from The Times are still standing by their prediction that newspapers who don't follow in their footsteps will go out of business.
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Heart2Heart with orangutans
"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future." -- Dian Fossey I have idolised Dian Fossey, the zoologist ever since I watched Gorillas in the Mist on television. She was the champion of the gorillas in Africa and had dedicated her life to preserve and protect the great apes from extinction. Without her painstaking research and groundbreaking studies, we might never have known or cared about the primates' existence. I may not have the single minded devotion that Dian Fossey had for the majestic mountain gorillas of Rwanda but I am passionate about the conservation of wildlife. Although I've made a practise of donating money to various wildlife organisations, I have never participated in any conservation programme. So, I believe it was fate that brought me all the way to Matang Wildlife Centre in Kuching, Sarawak, last July. I was in Sarawak for a holiday but a friend had invited me to attend the launching of a conservation programme called Heart2Heart with Orangutan at the rehabilitation centre.


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Commander to decide whether case will proceed to court-martial
An investigative officer who presided at a hearing to help decide whether three midshipmen should face court-martial over a sexual assault allegation has forwarded his recommendations to the school's superintendent, the academy's spokesman said Monday.
The report by Cmdr. Robert Monahan has been sent to Superintendent Vice Adm. Michael Miller, said spokesman Cmdr. John Schofield. Miller currently has the authority to decide whether the case will proceed to a court-martial.
However, Schofield said Miller will not make a decision right now because of a pending federal lawsuit filed by the attorney for the woman the midshipmen are accused of assaulting. Attorney Susan Burke is suing to try to force the superintendent to recuse himself from the case.
Schofield said the report is part of an ongoing investigation and could not be made public by the academy.
Burke contended Miller is likely to be biased as the head of the school. She also argued that Miller did nothing to prevent lengthy and abusive testimony during the Article 32 hearing which ended in early September.
A hearing on the federal lawsuit has been scheduled for Oct. 7.
The case has drawn attention as the White House, Congress and the Pentagon have been focusing on the issue of sexual assault after a string of cases in the military this year.
The lawsuit refers to the woman midshipman in the case as Jane Doe.
Eric Graham, 21, is charged with abusive sexual contact, while Midshipmen Tra'ves Bush, 22, and Josh Tate, 21, are charged with aggravated sexual assault. All three also are charged with making a false statement.
The woman testified at the hearing in early September that she had drank heavily and has no memory of having sex with the midshipmen after a 2012 toga party at an off-campus house. She has said she became worried when she noticed lewd comments on Twitter that seemed directed at her and tagged to people she had slept with in the past. She also testified that rumors had spread rapidly that she had had sex with multiple partners at the party.
The lawsuit notes that the person who made the allegations was not the woman, "but some other person who attested to having personal knowledge of the crimes."
The woman said she awoke at the house the next morning with a sore back. She said she had consensual sex with a different football player that morning at the house, while two other people were in the room.


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I've grabbed the patch. I don't suppose it fixes my music bug though? I don't know if you want to fix it? It seems I'm currently the only one with the problem. I can certainly get by without it being fixed, though it is a shame as I love the WoD soundtrack so much. At least I do still get to hear it when it wants to play it.
It's the words on the bottom of the screenshots I was pointing out.
Quote from: Lorric on April 06, 2015, 05:34:07 pmIt's the words on the bottom of the screenshots I was pointing out.I thought it was cropped so I didn't consider that. My mistake.
Probably your computer, yeah.I'll suggest to you the same thing I suggested a page back, try under the troubleshoot tab in the launcher: 'Disable GLSL (shader) support'
@CFInsane: Here you go. I hope that helps.
... I accidentally closed the progress window while it was unpacking the rar file. I didn't think it did anything. Silly me. Can I have just that file since I don't want to spend another 15 minutes downloading the whole thing?
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Aw shucks, y'all — Duck Dynasty ends its third season Wednesday night. That is god-dog bad news for the people who enjoy watching forest-dwelling duck-hunters trade jokes.
Wait, what — you've never seen Duck Dynasty? In a nutshell: A&E's Duck Dynasty follows the Robertson family like Keeping Up with the Kardashians follows the Kardashians. It's a modern-day Beverly Hillbillies, except it's apparently real.
Who are the Robertsons? The family's company, Duck Commander, makes duck calls — and makes a lot of money doing it. You can tell by the fancy houses they live in. Phil Robertson started the company, and now Phil's son, Willie, runs the company. Willie tells everyone else what to do — that's all you need to know.
Duck Dynasty's ratings are big. The slickly produced A&E half-hour docu-comedy racked up this season around 8 million viewers weekly. Among the coveted 18-49'ers — it's second on all of cable after The Walking Dead. Golly gee. As Duck Dynasty drops the curtain on this season, here are five things to know about the show.
Duck Dynasty dominates ratingsBy the way, we hate ourselves for watching Duck Dynasty. It defines guilty pleasure. But we've seen all 12 episodes this year.1. Uncle Si. Pronounced "sigh." The cast's most natural entertainer. Wiry. Craggy with life experience. Fan favorite. He cracks jokes and says "Jack" a lot — as in "Where are you going, Jack?" He shoots his gun at random at fallen trees — saying he's shooting at snakes. While he's often trying very, very hard to get attention, he brings the funny.
2. Beards. Long beards the five Robertson men view as a sign of masculinity. They seem gross — who knows how much they groom those. Beards are incorporated into the trademark of the show — ZZ Top grants their song "Sharp Dressed Man" as the opening theme. These beards are so ... grimy.
3. No Jackass-inspired action or bad country stereotypes. Duck Dynasty doesn't rely on edginess or violence. It broadens the audience. Even gossip mags like Us Weekly and People like these guys. Instead of violence, a family prayer at the end that usually touches on religion. Wholesome as a glass of milk. No one gets hurt. Also, no flagrant misuses of country stereotypes, like, say, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. They fit comfortably into their skin. Not everyone finds their celebrity welcome, though — when the cast was scheduled to appear Feb. 26 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the singer Morrisey refused to appear — citing the offensiveness of the family's killing of ducks as a livelihood.
Honey Boo Boo's Mama June considers Dancing with the Stars4. Duck Dynasty's finale follows the crew to Hawaii. Willie flies the crew to the Aloha State — but his plans are usurped by the group's excitement to go have their own adventures. Just like the Brady Bunch, kind of! Let's hope they go parasailing.
5. What could we use more of? Serious story lines. That run multiple episodes. Not just plots like John Luke's teenage love life. It's creepy. Like if someone is dealing with an ongoing illness or personal struggle. We need more struggle in a show about hunting ducks.
Duck Dynasty's finale airs Wednesday, April 24, at 10/9c on A&E.
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[New York Sports]
Last week's 56-35 victory over the Arizona Cardinals was a clear indicator that they had a very good game offensively, even a great game. Yet the total number of points doesn't add up to other areas of their game.
"We've got a chance here with bye week to really go back and look at the things we've done over the course of the first quarter of the season and make some progress in all three areas," said head coach Eric Mangini, referring to offense, defense and special teams. "We need to continue to improve on third down. [There were] positive things in the running game, but that needs to be more consistent. We had a penalty on the goal line which negated a touchdown. We were able to overcome that, but that won't be the case every week."
The Jets defensively forced seven turnovers, five sacks and intercepted quarterback, Kurt Warner three times. However, the score at half time was 34–0 so what happened to the Jets in the second half.
"I don't want to take anything away from Kurt Warner or the excellent receivers they have, but you have to be able to execute a lot more effectively than we did. It's little things, and little things can become big things," said Mangini.
With 1:54 left in the fourth quarter and the Jets scored their final touchdown, instead of kicking the field goal the Jets opted for the two-point conversion which was successful. The reason being, it gave the Jets a 21 point lead obviously to avert disaster if the Cardinals happen to score three times within the time allotted.
"When I was playing in Arizona I had seen them do it before," said defensive tackle Kris Jenkins to win games within the final minutes. "We were down a couple of times and he would come out in the no-huddle and drive it down the field. It's one of those things that's tough for a defense. We really played the whole second half in a two minute drill which is not what you want to do."
The Arizona Cardinals are 2-2 and in first place in the National Conference West division. They are not a team to be taken lightly. In fact, if it wasn't for the turnovers the game would have been a lot closer.
"I think it's good that we had an opportunity to put a game like that together, but I think what we need to not only look at the positives, but look at some things that we can do to get better and not rest our hat on having that one performance," said wide receiver Laveranues Coles. "Because it is a long season. It's only one game. You don't want to get too excited about it, but it is a positive stepping stone."
Although, it's a positive stepping stone – still there's problem that the Jets have to work out to become a play-off contender this season.
"On special teams, I really liked the coverage units. I thought they did a nice job," said head coach Mangini" I thought there was a little bit of a drop in the kickoff coverage late in the game. Those will be areas that we work on, as well."
One good thing for the Jets is that special team coach Mike Westhoff is back after taking time out to heal from an operation. He's considered a guru in that position and each year has proven it, so there's no doubt that he will find someone on the bench or practice squad to step up their game. But for the Jets this season, they have shown brilliance and ineptitude this season, however, they must take one game at a time to prove themselves and their fate.
"We'll look at what we've done through the first quarter of the season, evaluate those things, make sure that we can improve on the things we haven't done well and make sure we can reinforce the things that we do like, and possibly expand those packages," said head coach Mangini.
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One half of me always feels that parents shouldn't overdress their children, kids are kids and they should run around in mud, dig in sandpits and jump in puddles. However, a Saturday afternoon shopping with mummy is enough excuse to put on the best outfit and who can resist taking photos of such a sweetie anyway :)
Isn't it nice when a city greets you with this as you step out of the house? Can I have a nice message written in the sky every morning Sydney? kthxbai! Oh no, not with this bloody rain as of late. Gosh I'm sick of the rain and storm… Ok ok, enough whinging… now the main item of the day.
Aleita below does a fur jacket with simplicity with an awesome bag and nice hat to top it off. I'm still keeping an eye out for that elusive and perfect fur vest, sigh, I suppose I'll be looking for a while.
Name: Aleita
Occupation: Works for Whitehouse Fashion college
Describe your style: Vintage and anything cheap.
Favourite fashion designers: Alexander Wang, Yeojin Bae, Camilla & Marc
Favourite clothing stores: Sportsgirls, Savers
A few weeks back I mentioned I got a new feature for xssat in the works, well, here it is, the first ever installment! xsstyle is a style profile of stylish people in their stylish homes, just like my street fashion hunts, I will aim to get a broad cross section of people and interiors for this feature.
For this first installment I've asked my good friends Grace and Hazim to let me into their cute cottage in Annadale, an up and coming suburb in Sydney's inner west. Hazim is an art director by day and illustrator by night and Grace is an interior designer, so this really is the creative couple!
Hazim's framed illustration and prints of Grace's interior works
I started thinking about doing this feature quite a while ago, but approaching strangers on the street for photos is 1 thing, asking them to let me into their homes is another, so I'm starting with people I know. Hazim and I used to work for the same ad agency, he doesn't talk much, he's really most happy when given time and space to simply draw. When I met Grace I was amazed at how adorable the 2 were together and how much more Hazim comes out of his shell. The 2 lovelies tied the knot over a year ago, I attended and photographed the wedding. Grace's outfit was stunning, the simple dress from Akira, the jeweled head wreath, the leather sandals, arh… that's when you can tell the couple work in the creative industry.
xsstyle is more than fashion, it's about how one's style translates into clothes, interiors and one's way of life. Style is life! Grace has always had a distinct style, I envy people with a distinct style. Going through Grace's wardrobe I was really surprised at the small amount of clothes, every time we met up she was dressed great and I barely remember seeing repeat outfits. Grace firmly believes in quality over quantity, she invests in classic pieces that are versatile and will last, chatting with her really made me think about my shopping habits and I'm proud to say I haven't bought any clothes for a whole 2 months! Quality, always think quality… woo uniqlo UK site ships to Australia…
A light lunch of cheese, ham, jams and fruits served on a George Jensen cheese board
Noodle, the couple's cute cat
Grace and Hazim's house really reflects their taste, simple good designs mixed with cutesy art and funky items. Everything worked together and at the same time it's a livable space, it's cozy, it's not an art gallery because that's the last place you would want your home to feel like. A photographer I met in New York told me he made his apartment as uncomfortable as he could, so he'd go out to take photos more often. Hmm… that's a little extreme for me, I do like a cozy home and my creature comforts.
G+H also had a cool attic which contains Hazim's study where he draws and creates til owl hours of the morning.
Awesome coffee table
Noodle's bed stylishly perched on top of a Missoni cussion
Love those Marc by Marc Jacobs boots
And as always, the usual mini interview!
Did I mention Hazim's a very talented illustrator? Please check out his folio here and H's just done a series of limited edition fine art prints inspired by bands, animal collective, grizzly bear, dodos, modest mouse… yes… animal bands! Buy some prints here and feed the hungry zoo!
Now it's time for me to curl up in the easy chair with a book and a cup of tea. Hope you've enjoyed the first installment of xsstyle, many more to come in the future.


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We are passionate about vintage watches. When you buy a vintage timepiece you buy into a piece of history as well. Most watches we sell have decades of stories to tell. By collecting and wearing such a watch you simply add your story and then pass it on again. There is no object we can feel such a deep connection with. We are really excited to connect you with your next watch.
At Bulang and Sons we have sold hundreds of watches over the years. We are a small team of experienced collectors and connoisseurs, part of an extensive global network of buyers and sellers. We are really proud of the great reputation we have for dealing only with high quality, high standard watches. We have one simply rule: we only buy and sell watches we want to own ourselves. And yes, we are still collectors too.
We know how intense the search for a specific vintage watch can be. Once you find it at Bulang and Sons, we want to make things easy, safe and fast for you. Therefore we offer the most comprehensive return policy and warranty; you will not find a safer place on the internet to buy a vintage watch.
We only offer individual timepieces and have a limited collection of the very finest vintage watches out there. The kind of quality we look for is rare to find, so we are very proud of every single watch in our shop.
It must be pretty clear by now, that we are not your average watch dealer. That is why we don't sell our watches with a simple 'Add to cart' button and often communicate the price on request. We want to get in touch with you personally, to give you the best experience possible and to make sure you find the vintage watch that is right for you. Whether you're building a collection or out to find that one unique timepiece, we're here to help. If there is anything you would like to ask, please do. Connecting with other watch lovers is the greatest thing about working at Bulang and Sons.


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Dear friends, we are glad to welcome you!
Here at North Caucasian Mountain Club we love Caucasus region and our job that's why we would like to share with you the true beauty of the North Caucasus, richness of its nature and wisdom of its traditions. Our primary goal is to discover this region and reveal yet unknown attractions. Moreover we will provide a new standard of services for our guests that has never been available in the Caucasus before.
Our club offers you to participate in unique adventurous journeys through hard-to-reach territories on our new specially equipped off-roaders "Land Cruiser 76". Join us through highland roads along the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and you will see magnificent pictures hidden from an ordinary travelers.
While constructing mountain eco-hotel on Elbrus at 3912 meters above sea, we made sure that early in the morning you would sit in warmth and comfort, sip herbal tea and enjoy the view of snow-covered peaks which are higher than the clouds through wide panoramic window. This place offers you the most beautiful views which are even better than you could ever dream of.
Our unique travel offers will be interesting not only for locals but for individual holidaymakers and corporate customers as well. We provide personalized attention to every client, so our offers can be easily adjusted to your wishes.
Environmentally concerned we always prioritize comfortable and eco-friendly projects and tours in the Caucasus.
We invite you to take a tour of our Internet portal: we will help you become a North Caucasus traveler, explorer and pioneer.


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Projects and activities are the keys to a better understanding of PBL. They are no longer tasks that students need to finish after a traditionally-taught unit but rather a set of learning experiences and tasks that guide students in inquiry toward answering a central question, solving a problem, or meeting a challenge. Research has clearly proved that projects that are well-designed and based on students experiences improves students motivation to learn, help them see how school connects to the outside world by making learning relevant and meaningful, and promotes greater civic participation and global awareness.
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Flos lights are a vast selection of high quality, innovative lighting designed to fit and enhance any environment, ranging from basic all the way to luxurious. Products and projects carefully designed and developed to provide perfectly balanced lighting for any space.
Flos lighting was founded in 1962 in Merano, to produce modern lighting. The first Flos retail store, designed by the Castiglioni brothers (Achille and Pier Giacomo), opened in Milan in 1968.
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The very last thing Virginia Tech needs as it continues to prepare for its season opener against two-time defending BCS national champs Alabama is more attrition at just about any position.
Unfortunately, that's exactly the news the Hokies released Thursday evening.
In an injury update from trainer Mike Goforth, it was announced that starting outside linebacker Ronny Vandyke (pictured, No. 37) will need to undergo surgery to repair a right shoulder that was injured in last Saturday's scrimmage. The procedure and subsequent rehab will keep him out for a period of 6-8 months, ending his 2013 season before it ever started. Another starter, offensive lineman Mark Shuman, has a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee that will require surgery next week and keep him out for 4-6 weeks. That, of course, means he too will miss the Alabama game.
J.C. Coleman, listed as a co-starter at running back on Tech's most recent depth chart, has a pair of ankle sprains — a left high-ankle sprain and a right ankle sprain. In a glimmer of sunshine amidst the dark clouds, however, Goforth is quoted as saying the training staff is "hoping to get him back in less than two weeks" and "[w]e think he'll be ready and back in time for the Alabama game." Last season, Coleman led all Hokie running backs with 492 yards rushing.
Fellow running back Tony Gregory, No. 3 on the depth chart, has seen his Tech career come to an early end as he re-tore his left ACL. Backup right tackle Augie Conte has a sprained left ankle, but should be able to return to practice by Monday at the latest.
With the injuries to Shuman and Conte, three of the top four offensive tackles (right and left) are freshmen.
It had previously been announced that starting cornerback Antoine Exum, recovering from a torn ACL, would miss at least the opener against the Tide, while one of the players projected to replace Exum, Donaldven Manning, transferred from the Hokies a couple of days ago.
Additionally, running back Michael Holmes was dismissed from the team after he was arrested on felony charges that were ultimately reduced to misdemeanors. After rushing for 280 yards as a freshman last season, Holmes was viewed as a player who would've been expected to carry a more significant role in Tech's running game this season.
Gregory and Holmes were second and third among Tech backs, respectively, in rushing yards last season.


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The Daily Examen is a prayer technique developed by St. Ignatius to help us reflect on the events of the day to discern God's presence and direction. When Ignatius founded the Society of Jesus, he required the Jesuits to practice the Examen twice daily—at noon and at the end of the day. It's a habit that Jesuits, and many other Christians, practice to this day.
The Examen structure presented below is adapted from a technique described by Ignatius Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises. Click here for more information from our partners in ministry at Loyola Press.
Daily Examen
1. Become aware of God's presence
God, I believe that at this moment I am in your presence and you are loving me.
2. Review the day with gratitude
God, you know my needs better than I know them. Give me your light and your help to see how you have been with me, both yesterday and today.
3. Pay attention to your emotions
God, help me to be grateful for the moments when people have affirmed me and challenged me. Help me to see how I have responded, and whether I have been kind to others and open to growth.
4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it
God, forgive me for when I have not done my best or have failed to treat others well. Encourage me, guide me, and continue to bless me.
5. Look toward tomorrow
As I look to the remainder of this day, make me aware that you are with me. Show me how to be the person you want me to be.


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'One Tree Hill' Shocker: Is Nathan Dying Next Week?
Let's get real for a second: Someone's about to be fixing cars with Uncle Keith in heaven.
As the final season of One Tree Hill marches on, we're slowly getting explanations for the shocking flash-forward sequence seen on the premiere — and on the Feb. 29 episode, we'll finally figure out whose corpse Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) has to identify at the morgue! So who does the mystery body belong to? To figure that out, we'll have to play my favorite game ever: Tree Hill Corpse Roulette! (Actually, that's my second favorite game. My first is Dream Phone.)
Nathan: Considering he's currently in the custody of murderous basketball terrorists, Nathan is the obvious suspect. We know James Lafferty only appears in a handful of episodes this season, but that he's definitely confirmed for the finale, so perhaps we'll be seeing angel Nathan. And let's not forget that Barbara Alyn Woods is also returning for an episode. (She might want to bring a little black dress along for the trip!)
Dan: Considering he's going all "hero" and trying to save his son, it's totally possible Dan (Paul Johansson) will get killed in the process. Just think about it: Wouldn't it be so poetic — and so One Tree Hill — for Dan to receive the ultimate redemption in death? And of course he'd be buried right next to Keith.
Lucas: We know his plane took off… but did it ever land?
Clay: He's been sleep walking this season. Could he also be sleep dying?
Mouth: He's gotten super-fat this season. Mayhaps he's going to eat himself into an early grave?
Skills: I know this is random — especially since we've barely seen him this season — but wouldn't Skills' (Antwon Tanner) funeral be another good excuse for Deb to return?
Jamie: Doubt it. That corpse would be super tiny, and it's not.
Chase or Chris Keller: Doubt it. Haley wouldn't look so sad.
OK, my speculation is "becoming" nonsensical, so I'll leave the rest up to you. Who do YOU think is going to bite the big one next week? Celebrate democracy by voting in my poll below:


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There are certain things you just cannot handle in the Arizona summer heat. AC in your hybrid is certainly one of them. If you are travelling to and from work every day, it is vital your hybrid Air Conditioning system is in good standing. With 100 degree + temperatures just around the corner (sorry to remind you), having your hybrid Air conditioning inspected and blowing cold can be the difference between a smooth, comfortable commute to work and a disastrous journey.
In the video above, we worked with Mike from our Happy Valley store to discuss the main issues with your AC system, how you can prevent it, and what to do when it does go wrong. The first thing he touches on is the cabin filter. One thing you may not know is your cabin filter can affect your allergies. A lot of the newer hybrid vehicles are now using charcoal filters, which do a much better job of filtering the air from outside. The charcoal filters catch the dirt and retain it so it does not affect your allergies. The picture below shows the difference between filters as Mike highlights during the video.
I know there are a lot of do it yourself automotive mechanics out there which is great. We love anyone who is interested in the industry and we are here to help expand your knowledge. However, your Hybrid Air Conditioning system inspection is something we highly recommend to get performed by a trained/certified expert. The climate control system can be dangerous to service and it's not something that is always diagnosed easily. If your air is blowing warmer or "not like it used to", there are many issues than can cause this not just that your Freon is running low. It could be one of the following issues and even more;
- Fans not working
- Engine running hot
- Computer can turn it off due to a pressure issue or other electrical fault.
If it is low on Freon due to a leak, one other thing to keep in mind is, this could affect your level of your hybrid air conditioning compressor oil, which could lead to further damage. If you start to notice that your hybrid Air Conditioning systems effectiveness is becoming worse, then get it inspected sooner rather than later as it can cause lead to more costly to repair with time. As Mike mentions in the video, if you catch something like this early, it is a relatively easy fix. If you continue to drive with your system attempting to operate in a weakened state then the problem could become more complicated and the fix may become more difficult.
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Looted this from a on my rogue after it dropped from a Eternium LockboxLava Annihilator in Molten Core. Very low world drop and the first time I've seen it for myself in the 11 years I've been playing.
Very happy that I can finally add it to my warrior's BS profession without paying tens of thousands of gold for it. =D


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