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Arbitrary code execution
0x1500 control code arbitrary code execution (Crystal) | Cart-swap arbitrary code execution | Generation I custom map script pointer | Generation I invalid meta-map scripts | Generation I item ("8F", "ws m", "-g m", "5かい", "てへ" etc.) | Generation I move ("-", "TM42") | Generation I Trainer escape glitch text boxes | Generation II bad clone | Generation II Burned Tower Silver | Japanese Crystal Pokémon Communication Center SRAM glitches | Coin Case glitch | Generation II glitch Pokédex sortings | Pikachu off-screen glitch ACE | OAM DMA hijacking | Pikachu glitch emote | Generation III glitch Pokémon summary | Generation III glitch move animation) | Remote code execution | TM/HMs outside of the TM/HM pocket | ZZAZZ glitch Trainer FC
Cloning | Item duplication glitch (Generation I) | Pokémon merge glitch ("Q Glitch", Generation I) | Time Capsule exploit | Bug-Catching Contest data copy glitch (Generation II, Japan only) | Berry glitch | Battle Tower Lati@s glitch (Generation III) | (Mimic) Transform Rage glitch (Generation IV)
Transform held item glitch (Generation IV, Japan only) | Mimic glitch (Generation IV, Japan only)
99 item stack glitch | LOL glitch | Rival LOL glitch | Instant LOL glitch | RAM LOL glitch | Out of bounds LOL glitch | blockoobLG | Instant encounter infinite chain glitch | LGFly | Super Glitch (Generation I) | Party remaining HP glitch | Super Glitch (Generation III) | Text pointer manipulation mart buffer overflow glitch | CoolTrainer♀-type move | Double distort CoolTrainer♀ corruption | Yami Shop glitch | Party Pokémon box data shift glitch | Unterminated name glitch item instant encounter (Japanese Red/Green)
Generation I expanded items pack (Glitch Rocket HQ maps, Map FE (English and non-English European Yellow) | Map script pointer manipulation (arbitrary code execution | Map script pointer item ball manipulation) | Text pointer manipulation (arbitrary code execution | Item ball manipulation | Mart buffer overflow) | Trainerless instant encounter glitch
????? party overloading (Type 0xD0 move glitch | ????? map corruption | Celebi trick | Celebi Egg trick | Shiny Celebi trick | Glitch move map corruption | Overloaded party map corruption | Glitch Unown (Glitch Unown map corruption) | Duplicate key items glitch (Infinite items and item creation, Expanded Balls pocket (Wrong pocket TM/HMs, Glitch Pokédex categories))
Dokokashira door glitch (International) | Fossil conversion glitch (international) | Second type glitch | Skip to Level 100 glitch | Trainer mutation glitch | Walk through walls (International) | Lift glitch | Badge describer glitch
Pomeg data corruption glitch ("Glitzer Popping") | Charm glitch
Broken escalator glitch (Japan only) | Elite Four door glitch (Japan only)
Left-facing shore tile glitch (in-game trade shore encounter trick, Old man trick, Trade link up shore encounter trick, Fight Safari Zone Pokémon trick) | Viridian Forest no encounter grass tiles glitch
Safari Zone exit glitch | RAM manipulation | Out of bounds Glitch City (Generation II) | Slowpoke Well out of bounds corruption (French Gold/Silver/Crystal)
Storage box remaining HP glitch | Generation I max stat trick
Trainer corruption glitch
Generation I save corruption | 255 Pokémon glitch | Expanded party encounter table manipulation (Generation I) | Send party Pokémon to a new game (Generation I) | Generation II save corruption | Mailbox glitches | Mystery Gift item corruption | Trainer House glitches
Death-warp | Ditto trick | Experience underflow glitch | Mew trick | Text box ID matching | Meta-map script activation
Ledge method | Museum guy method | Rival's effect | Select glitch method (International Select glitch method), Brock Through Walls
Grass/rock Surfing glitch (Spanish/Italian only) (adaptions: Submerge glitch (international)) | 8 8 (0x7C) grass/rock surfing glitch (English Red/Blue))
Pomeg data corruption glitch or Glitzer Popping is a glitch technique of the "sending out a ??????????" ("Decamark") sub-glitch of the Pomeg glitch for Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen in which the player sends out the Decamark, views the summary of a Pokémon in the party and scrolls up to access Pokémon in the party beyond slot 6.
It is particularly notable for allowing the player to hatch an Egg containing any Pokémon in the game as well as many glitch Pokémon, by placing specific Pokémon in storage box 1 and 2.
The name Glitzer Popping is assumed to have no meaning in itself. It was chosen by the speedrunner werster who was one of the early researchers of the glitch, because he did not want the glitch to have a name which in his opinion would be 'too generic'.
Due to a memory address location randomization mechanic known as DMA, it can take many attempts for the player to get their desired corruption with the glitch.
Pokémon Emerald:
1. Prepare a party with a Pokémon to switch into ('switch Pokémon'), a Pokémon ('Pomeg Pokémon') with HP to be reduced using a Pomeg Berry which has a suitable number of EVs for its level (at least 10; e.g. a level 100 Pokémon with 10 or more HP EVs may drop 2 HP), and at least one fainted Pokémon (all of the Pokémon other than the switch Pokémon and the Pokémon to have its HP reduced must be fainted).The Pokémon to have its HP reduced with a Pomeg Berry may have its HP reduced to 1 (or alternatively 2 if the Pomeg Berry would cause a drop of 2 HP) by poison and have its status healed with an item such as a Pecha Berry or Full Heal. Alternatively it can be a Pokémon with Curse (such as Banette) and an odd maximum HP value. This Pokémon may use Curse twice with full HP so that the player can attain 1 HP faster than the poison method.
2. Enter a battle and switch into the 'switch Pokémon', then run away.
3. Deposit the 'switch Pokémon' into the Pokémon Storage System.
4. Either use a Pomeg Berry on the Pomeg Pokémon to obtain negative HP and heal it to 'raise' its HP to 0, or have the Pokémon's HP drop to 0 without having to use a healing item (which method the player has to use will depend on the Pokémon's level and whether it had 1 or 2 HP).
5. Enter a battle to send out a Decamark.
6. Open the Pokémon menu and view the summary of the first (fainted) Pokémon.
7. Exit the summary screen and scroll up (or down) to access Cancel. From the Cancel menu scroll up to corrupt data and access Pokémon beyond slot six. Scrolling up too much may freeze the game.
Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen:
The initial steps for Pomeg data corruption glitch in Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen are the same as in Pokémon Emerald, except that a Pokémon with negative HP must be traded over from Emerald to faint the party since the Pomeg Berry does not reduce HP EVs in these versions.
When the player scrolls past Pokémon beyond slot 6, to access Pokémon beginning from Pokémon 255 and working down, they will corrupt the data of unrelated data managed as a non-existing Pokémon.
In Pokémon Emerald, the data which the player is able to corrupt with Pomeg data corruption glitch is as such:
In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the Pomeg glitch will corrupt Pokémon Storage System data beginning from box 3 slot 1 instead of box 2 slot 24. [citation needed]
In Japanese versions of Pokémon Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen, the Pomeg Glitch Corruption begins 6-7 PC Slots earlier than in the other versions. [citation needed]
Pomeg data corruption glitch may be used to corrupt the attributes of Pokémon in the Pokémon Storage System. Below are some of the possible techniques for this.
When Pokémon in the Pokémon Storage System or Day Care are corrupted, it is possible for them to know useful Super Glitch moves. When the player opens the Fight menu or attempts to use one of the Super Glitch moves, it can have effects such as finishing the battle (instant flee) or changing a Trainer battle into a wild Pokémon battle; allowing the player to steal other Trainer's Pokémon or escape from battle using a Fluffy Tail.
The Pokémon stolen fom other trainers will have their Trained ID changed to match the player's TID. If the initial TID of the Pokémon isn't the player's TID, the stolen Pokémon will turn into a Bad Egg. Pokémon from Battle Factory trainers are the only ones who have the player's TID.
Decaswitch is a derivative of Pokémon Storage Box corruption discovered by voltage which is possible if one of the Pokémon in the Pokémon Storage System becomes an invisible Decamark Bad Egg.
Decaswitch allows a player to perform both Pomeg Glitch and Pomeg data corruption glitch without needing Pomeg Berries.
This is a popular exploit of Pomeg data corruption glitch that allows the player to hatch any Pokémon in the game, as well as glitch Pokémon which do not freeze the game after hatching.
In box 1 and 2 of the Pokémon Storage System, the player may place copies of Pokémon applicable for the glitch (obtained with cloning; ideally with the Battle Tower Pokémon cloning glitch) with attributes (e.g. Attack and HP EVs or a move) with an ID which would be converted into a species ID.
In order to know whether the Pokémon is applicable for the glitch and if so; which attribute needs to be converted into a species ID, the player must know the Pokémon's personality value and data substructure (determined by the Pokémon's personality value modulo 24). It is difficult to know a Pokémon's personality value (unless theoretically the Pokémon is a Spinda) without using an external device. For an illustration on how this works, see the section about the mechanics of Pokémon Storage System corruption below.
However, thanks to Emerald's RNG, it is possible to easily determine the PID of a Pokémon that was caught right after soft-resetting by calculating its IVs and finding back the frame that generated the Pokémon.
The in-game trade Pokémon "SEASOR" the Horsea and "DOTS" the Seedot are applicable for this glitch as their (constant) personality values of 0x0000007F and 0x00000084 respectively mean a successful corruption turns them into an Egg containing a Pokémon based on their Attack and HP EVs.
In order to obtain a desired Pokémon, the player must first know its index number. The upper two bytes of the four digit index number in decimal determines the number of Attack EVs required, while the lower two bytes in decimal determine the number of HP EVs required.
For example, in order to obtain a Mewtwo; the player can place copies of SEASOR or DOTS in the PC with an Attack EV of 0 and a HP EV of 150 (hex: 0096), and perform the glitch continually until one of the Pokémon in the Pokémon Storage System becomes a regular Egg containing Mewtwo. Often the Pokémon will become an Egg which still contains SEASOR or DOTS. This is normal, and if this occurs the player should reset the game and keep performing the glitch again until it works.
The following is a table of illusory Pokémon IDs and the required amount of Attack and HP EVs to force them into an Egg.
Instead of using SEASOR the Horsea or DOTS the Seedot, it is possible that a different Pokémon could have its first move ID converted into a species ID or EVs converted into species. For example, a Sneasel knowing Beat Up (move ID hex:00FD) might become an Egg containing Celebi (species ID hex: 00FD), depending on the corrupted Sneasel's original personality value.
If the player is unsuccessful with the glitch after many attempts, they may attempt to place different Pokémon next to the Pokémon applicable for the glitch, referred to as corruption initiators for example they could try random Pokémon or (if the glitch was successful before) they could try placing a specific Caterpie known as "Caterpie the perfect initiator" next to SEASOR knowing Waterfall, Protect, Surf, Return (US)/no move (FR).
Another good corruption initiator is the in-game trade Plusle untouched but with all moves but Growl removed. This is a useful corruption initiator that is easy to get (if the player hasn't obtained the Plusle already). It is ideal for obtaining wrong Pokémon Eggs or double corruption, and is much quicker to get than the Caterpie.
Double corruption is a method of obtaining a Pokémon in the Pokémon Storage System without hatching it. In order to exploit a double corruption, the player should attempt the steps to hatch any Pokémon with SEASOR (in-game trade Horsea), DOTS (in-game trade Seedot), PLUSES (in-game trade Plusle), or any other Pokémon with a beneficial corruption type with a specific attribute until the Pokémon turns into a regular Egg that is either a different Pokémon to the original or remains as the original.
The attribute to choose will depend on the Pokémon's personality value, which is constant for in-game trade Pokémon, as well as how substructure data will change after bit 6 is set on the upper bytes of the PID and TID. For SEASOR and DOTS it is the Attack and HP EVs that determine the Pokémon, while for PLUSES the Pokémon is determined by move 1's ID (but PLUSES is useful for obtaining moves and glitch moves, where the Attack and HP EVs determine the move of the Pokémon to be double corrupted provided it has at least 1 HP EV).
Afterwards, the player should save the game and continue to make corruptions to the Pokémon in the Pokémon Storage System (resetting if unsuccessful) until the Pokémon converts into an unhatched Pokémon.
During a double corruption, it is important that the player never picks up the Pokémon in the box with the glove otherwise the glitch will not work.
Double corruption may be used as a method of obtaining glitch Pokémon which would otherwise freeze the game upon hatching. It can also be used to obtain Pokémon holding an item chosen by the player, including unobtainable items (i.e. this can be manipulated from in-game trade Seedot's Speed and Defense EVs). All the data rewritten when an Egg hatches (EVs, Contests stats, Exp, Ribbons,...) can also be kept.
Pokémon News Reporter corruption is a derivative of using the hatch any Pokémon to obtain a Decamark with an exceedingly long name. When the player speaks with the news reporter in the Pokémon Fan Club of Slateport City's Pokémon Fan Club with a specific Decamark in the first position of the party, it is possible to corrupt data after she mentions the Decamark's name.
The "Guess Who?" glitch allows the player to play as random NPCs after speaking to the news reporter with a specific Decamark in the first position of the party and stepping out of Slateport City's Pokémon Fan Club.
This is a table of "Guess Who?" Decamarks applicable for the glitch.
Instant Pomeg glitch is a useful trick which allows the player to perform Pomeg data corruption glitch from the Pokémon menu without having to enter a battle, by forcing the first Pokémon in the party to be empty.
Glitch Pokémon 0x96B4 and 0x29C2 are examples of glitch Pokémon which enable instant Pomeg glitch in US Pokémon Emerald.
The new line arrow glitch occurs when a Pokémon has a 'new line' (hex:FB) character in its nickname. This Pokémon may be obtained rarely by performing Pomeg data corruption glitch when a Pokémon has the letter "A" as the fourth or eighth character in its nickname.
The new line arrow character causes a number of effects depending on the version, incuding:
FireRed differences:
Ruby differences:
In Emerald, if the player stops the up button scrolling from Cancel after about 17 whole seconds there is a chance that an item in the player's bag will have been duplicated. Sometimes this trick may 'remove' everything in the player's TM and Berry pockets although this effect does not occur every time.
A method of Pokémon cloning with the access Pokémon beyond slot six glitch was discovered by luckytyphlosion in 2014 before it was known that scrolling past those Pokémon will corrupt data. Sometimes in the expanded party there will be a Pokémon that the player can send out. If the player sends this Pokémon into battle and whites out, it is possible for the player to clone the last Pokémon in their party.
Sometimes after viewing the status of a Pokémon in the expanded party it is possible to have the game lockup with the foe becoming a white Decamark. Additionally, the HP bar may become glitched and be filled in beige.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may be used to sometimes corrupt NPCs on the map if the player escapes from battle using a Fluffy Tail instead of through whiting out.
If the player performs Pomeg data corruption glitch on a route with Trainers it can cause corruption of the player's challenge music, and/or corruption of their text (often long instances of "qÁF" in their text) or cause a full red screen. Sometimes after closing the text box (it may take a very long time for to finish printing it) it can cause a battle with a glitch Trainer to begin.
Reportedly the NPC outside of the Winstrate family house on Route 111 can be corrupted to a shop vendor, where talking to them brings up a BUY/QUIT option and items can be purchased (possibly glitch decorations) that are sent to the player's PC.
The same NPC may be used to trigger a 'super corruption glitch' in which the player's Pokémon, name, items, Pokédex data, play time and gender according to the save box is corrupted and saving may break the save, causing a black screen upon loading.
It is also possible to bring up the Game Corner slots with a script corruption.
Script corruption may be used in FireRed/LeafGreen to disable the guard to the S.S. Anne from checking if the player has a ticket, if the player performs the scrolling after fishing in Vermilion City. This may also be used to reboard the S.S. Anne or Surf in the harbour to where the truck is.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may be used in Emerald and FireRed/LeafGreen to change the coordinates of NPCs on the map. This is useful for accessing behind the Day Care on Route 117 and Four Island in both versions, by encountering a Pokémon in the grass in Route 117 or fishing for a Pokémon in Four Island before scrolling up past Pokémon 255.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may corrupt the data of Pokémon in the Day Care in Emerald if the player scrolls beyond stored box data (Pokémon 255-215) while scrolling up.[clarification needed]
Pomeg data corruption glitch can be used to corrupt in-game flags either directly through scrolling up past Pokémon 255 or with a derivative trick which involves a glitch Pokémon obtained with the hatch any Pokémon trick.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may rarely set the Fly flag that allows the player to Fly to Evergrande City (where the entrance to Victory Road is and not outside of the Pokémon League) if the player hasn't unlocked it already.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may rarely set the flag for an NPC to appear on the second floor of the Pokémon Center and give the player an Eon Ticket. This allows the player to access Southern Island and capture Latios or Latias.
In non-English versions of Pokémon Emerald including the French, German, Spanish and Italian versions of Emerald, it is possible for the player to use Pokémon News Reporter corruption with a specific glitch Pokémon (obtained with Pomeg data corruption glitch) to change an address telling the game which Pokémon to send out in battle and activate access to Faraway Island and Birth Island. A video explaining how to do this glitch may be found below and more information can also be found in this Pastebin.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may rarely affect the player's overworld position and place them in the wrong location (such as in the middle of trees) after escaping with a Fluffy Tail.
Rarely after instant Pomeg glitch is set up, it is possible for the player to Surf on Seaside Cycling Road of Route 110 if they perform the scrolling from one step out of Mauville City's Pokémon Center and walk up.
This will make the player go through a 'door' that leads into the water on Route 110 near the Cycling Road and the player is able to surf through Cycling Road. Going through the right-most door of the Cycling Road's entrance and out will allow the player to walk on Cycling Road.
See also: glitch decoration.
Pomeg data corruption glitch may rarely affect the Secret Base decorations they have in their PC. For example, TheZZAZZGlitch changed Thunder Mat (0x3C) into a 'ÛË ▼ÛË ÀÀÚËÔÀ ÀÀCAN' (0x7C) glitch decoration which acts like a portable two-square hole.
Pomeg data corruption glitch ultimately allows for arbitrary code execution if the player has favourable DMA.
It can be abused in two known ways:
1. By viewing the summary of Decamark 0x097D with a specific nickname Pokémon from the bottom-right corner of box 3 after saving twice. This trick may not work with certain save files.[why?] (See video; below)
2. With glitch move 0x27A2's animation and a specific stored item bootstrap code, which could theoretically be obtained with double corruption. (See video; below)
Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald introduced encryption for Pokémon in the party and storage box system, as well as a four byte value known as the personality value which determines a Pokémon's attributes such as its gender, ability, nature and shininess.
Pokémon have a stored checksum and calculated checksum, and a data substructures split into four sections, referred to as "Growth", "Attack", "EVs & Condition" and "Miscellaneous". The order that the sections appear is determined by a value that is calculated from the Pokémon's personality value modulo 24.
When the player selects a non-existing Pokémon from beyond slot 6, the game will attempt to verify the checksum of the Pokémon in what appears to be an anti-cheating mechanism. If it is found to be invalid, the game will corrupt it by setting bit 0 at offset 0x13, bit 1 at offset 0x13, and bit 6 at offset 0x07 from the 'Miscellaneous' data substructure).
Since the data for Pokémon beyond slot 6 corresponds with unrelated variables, it is possible (listed in the aforementioned exploits section) to corrupt data in a limited number of ways which include:
The variables which are corrupted during scrolling are random due to a mechanism known as DMA. DMA shifts the location of a memory address to one of 64 locations each time the player performs an action such as opening the Pokémon menu outside of battle, or entering battle. This is the reason why it can take many attempts for a successful Pomeg data corruption glitch corruption.
When Pomeg data corruption glitch touches a Pokémon's data, it will become a Bad Egg if its calculated checksum and stored checksum do not match.
However, sometimes[clarification needed] it is possible for Pomeg data corruption glitch to alter a Pokémon's personality value without the Pokémon becoming a Bad Egg.
For example, the in-game trade Horsea named "SEASOR" has an initial personality value of 0x0000007F (substructure: AGME) ; and the in-game trade Seedot named "DOTS" has an initial personality value of 0x00000084 (substructure: EGAM). When the glitch sets bit 6 of its upper personality byte, the personality values become 0x4000007F (substructure: MEAG) and 0x4000084 (substructure: GMAE) respectively.
This causes data from one substructure to be moved into another, for example; Seasor or Dot's "EVs & Condition" (E) data is moved into "Growth" (G) in which the species ID is stored; meaning that the Pokémon's Attack and HP EVs become the ID of the Pokémon inside of the Egg.
During a double corruption, both the Pokémon's personality value and Trainer ID is corrupted, and this causes the Pokémon to become a valid unhatched species as long as the player doesn't pick it up with the glove when it becomes an Egg.[why?]
After filling the Pokémon Storage System with Eggs and Bad Eggs, any unwanted Eggs and Bad Eggs created from Pomeg data corruption glitch can easily be removed with the Battle Tower inverse cloning glitch or fast inverse cloning.
Voltage first discovered the sub-glitch to send out a Decamark in early 2011.
On April 9, 2014 luckytyphlosion discovered that the glitch could be used to create both Bad Eggs and hatchable Eggs.
In May 2014, Sanqui, TheZZAZZGlitch and werster analyzed the glitch, discovered its mechanics and how it can be used to hatch any Pokémon in the game.
Metarkrai has thoroughly researched the glitch and has published many tricks such as information on methods to enter event islands, obtain obedient Mew and Deoxys and arbitrary code execution.


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Alumna Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke '99 has just been presented with the eTown E-Chievement Award. This is in recognition of the work she performs with Engeye, Inc., a non-profit that offers a health clinic and education outreach program to rural Ugandan communities. Van Dyke and native Ugandan John Kalule founded the Engeye Health Clinic in Ddegeya Village in 2006.
"It was a real honor to be awarded the E-Chievement Award," Van Dyke said, "both because it was a privilege that one of my childhood friends nominated me, and because it meant that Engeye would receive international recognition."
But the story began during her time as a Whitman undergraduate. Van Dyke majored in psychology and enjoyed the broad education that the college could provide. "Because I wasn't certain of my passions or life's direction while studying at Whitman, I kept a broad focus, studying psychology and being an active volunteer in the community," she said.
As a student she worked at a local preschool as well as with the Humane Society. After graduation, she continued volunteering while traveling around the world. Her first stop was Uganda, where she taught English in Katooke Village. The need for basic medical care in such small communities was clear, so upon her return to the U.S., Van Dyke set her sights on an M.D., with the goal of helping to provide healthcare to underserved communities.
"My coursework at Whitman was invaluable for preparing me for a career in medicine," Van Dyke said. "Studying psychology taught me how to be a better listener, a better observer, and generally how to better communicate and relate with all types of people."
These traits have proven invaluable in her medical career. As of today, the Engeye Clinic provides medical services including birth control, HIV testing and counseling, vaccinations, malaria testing and treatment and laboratory tests and treatments tailored to the community's needs. For Van Dyke, collaboration and community are what built such a strong organization.
"John Kalule and I started the non-profit organization, but the only reason it has flourished is the relentless team efforts both in the U.S. and Uganda. From building the clinic to the hard-working, local clinic staff and the board of directors' substantial time investments, so many players contribute to Engeye's success."
The other cornerstone of Engeye is independence and empowerment. In 2008, they added an education branch, with the goal of improving regional school resources and providing scholarships for students to receive better educations.
"We have been able to empower the local community rather than create a culture of dependency," Van Dyke said.
The organization is committed to sustainable solutions that do not create foreign dependence and believes that respect, partnership, and advocacy are more beneficial to the communities they serve than handouts or charity.
"Whitman prepared me to succeed," Van Dyke said. "Being surrounded by students and professors who had high standards and were passionate about a variety of causes empowered me to set the bar high."
Above all, she said, Whitman taught her to keep striving until she could be proud of her accomplishments.

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Indians trip Royals 5-3
CLEVELAND (AP) — With seven games still left this month, Jason Kipnis has already surpassed his statistics from last April.
That wasn't hard to do.
"I set the bar so low," he said.
Kipnis drove in Nick Swisher from first base with a two-out double in the seventh inning, sending the Cleveland Indians to a 5-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.
Kipnis, who batted just .200 with one homer and four RBIs in the season's first month in 2013, ripped his double off Kelvin Herrera (0-1) into the gap in right-center, deep enough to easily score Swisher, who reached on a two-out single.
"That was a real big hit," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "Sometimes you need a big hit at a big time and we got it tonight."
Kipnis has become big time.
After shaking off his horribly slow start last season, he made his first All-Star team, batted .284 and developed into one of the AL's top all-around players.
So, when he came up in another clutch situation, it wasn't surprising to any of the Indians that Kipnis came through.
Kipnis signed a six-year, $52.5 million contract on opening day and he's wasted no time in living up to the deal.
"I think he has less far to climb this year," Francona said. "He really dug himself a hole last year. He's always a threat, whether it's against a left-hander or right-hander. He can hit the ball all over the field or out of the ballpark. He can beat you with his legs.
"I don't really look up and see what Kip's batting average is, we want him hitting all the time."
The Indians tacked on an important insurance run in the eighth on pinch-hitter Lonnie Chisenhall's bloop RBI single.
Bryan Shaw (1-0) finished the seventh and got one out in the eighth. Cody Allen retired two, and John Axford worked the ninth for his AL-leading eighth save.
Michael Bourn had three hits and two RBIs for the Indians. Bourn, Nick Swisher and Kipnis, Cleveland's 1-2-3 hitters, combined for six hits and three RBIs.
Salvador Perez and Mike Moustakas hit back-to-back homers in the second for Kansas City.
Indians starter Justin Masterson remained winless through five starts. The staff's ace, who turned down a contract extension during spring training, allowed two earned runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 innings.
"I'll take as many no-decisions as come as long as we're winning," he said.
Down 3-2, the Indians tied it in the sixth off lefty starter Jason Vargas when Michael Brantley scored from first on two Kansas City errors.
Brantley singled with one out, and broke for second with two down and Yan Gomes batting. As Brantley slid safely into second, the throw from catcher Perez skipped into center field. Brantley hustled toward third and center fielder Jarrod Dyson took his eye off the ball, overrunning it and letting the tying run score.
"I came in too hard," Dyson said. "I should have come in and played it off the hop because I probably didn't have a shot at him anyway. I have to remind myself to slow the body down. I came in crashing like that. When you have two outs and your pitcher up there doing his thing you kind of have to settle down and not make that mistake."
Moustakas gave the Royals a 3-2 lead in the sixth, when an error by second baseman Kipnis helped set up Kansas City's unearned go-ahead run.
Eric Hosmer singled and was safe at second after Kipnis dropped shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera's low throw. Hosmer moved to third on a fielder's choice and Moustakas delivered his two-out RBI single.
Bourn atoned for a baserunning blunder with a two-run triple in the second to tie it 2-2.
Perez and Moustakas connected in the second off Masterson.
With one out, Perez snapped an 0-for-22 slump with a drive over the center-field wall for his first homer.
Four pitches later, Moustakas made it 2-0 with a liner into the Royals' bullpen, the same place he hit a three-run shot on Tuesday in Kansas City's 8-2 win.
NOTES: Sloppy play has been one of Cleveland's main problems. The Indians came in tied for the AL lead with 20 errors. "As a team, we have not played very good defense yet," Francona said. "I think we will be better. We need to be better. We're that type of team where when we play clean baseball, we generally give ourselves a chance to win. When you give a team extra outs or extra opportunities, it certainly makes it tougher." ... Indians 3B/DH Carlos Santana is in a 2-for-46 (.043) slide. ... Cleveland relievers have stranded a major league-best 91 percent (32 of 35) of runners inherited.


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Sarah Jessica Parker is Still Deeply Upset About Kim Cattrall Feud
Sarah Jessica Parker is still reeling from the cancellation of Sex & The City 3 – and comments former castmate Kim Cattrall made about the drama.
The actress admits she was "deeply" upset by the fallout after revealing her plans to make a new sequel had stalled back in September (17).
She told fans, "I'm disappointed. We had this beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, joyful, very relatable script and story."
Cattrall took exception to the announcement, insisting Parker could have been "nicer", and confessing she was sick of being accused of being the person standing in the way of a third movie.
She took to Twitter on 29 September (17) to state she had long declared she was done portraying sex-obsessed public relations executive Samantha Jones following the release of 2010's Sex and the City 2, and went on to explain she repeatedly told producers, including Sarah Jessica, she wasn't interested in returning to the film franchise – but claimed they continued to hound her in an effort to make her reconsider.
Kim also lashed out at the film's producers for failing to dispel rumors suggesting her behavior was to blame for the project falling apart: "It's quite extraordinary to get any kind of negative press about something that I've been saying for almost a year of 'no' that I'm demanding or a diva," she explained during an interview with U.K. broadcaster Piers Morgan.
Cattrall also suggested Parker has "an issue" with her.
Sarah Jessica now admits the drama and Kim's comments took their toll on her, telling The Daily Beast, "I'm stunned by how deeply it still cuts. What happened, that was enormously painful for me."


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HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) Rayshawn Goins scored 19 points and Andrey Semenov added 17 as James Madison snapped a three-game losing streak with a 71-61 nonconference victory over Winthop on Saturday.
Goins scored six points during a 12-0 second-half run that gave the Dukes (2-5) a 54-34 lead with 9 minutes remaining.
The Eagles (2-4) never got closer than eight points after that.
Winthrop led 21-13 in the first half after a 3-pointer by Derrick Henry. But James Madison responded with a 15-3 run to lead 28-24 with 5:04 left until halftime. Semenov scored five points, and Goins and Charles Cooke each made three-point plays during the Dukes' rally.
Andre Nation had nine points and six assists for James Madison, and Devon Moore added nine points and five assists.
Andre Smith led the way for Winthrop, scoring 26 points and making 4 of 6 from 3-point range.


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Day three!
Following Rihanna's tour kick-off in Mexico City, the sultry singer pressed on with the celebration of her seventh album, Unapologetic, getting closer to knocking out seven performances in seven countries in seven days.
E! News, along with 200 other journalists, have been along for the ride with the "Diamonds" crooner on her whirlwind world tour, this time accompanying the star to her concert in Sweden.
U.S. & World
The day's top national and international news.
Rihanna's 777 tour kicks off in Mexico
When we arrived in Stockholm at 3:40 p.m., it was already dark outside! Most people had slept on the plane from Toronto, so it felt like dawn instead of dusk.
Rihanna was scheduled to begin at 9 p.m., but she didn't take the stage until 11:40 p.m.--over two and a half hours late.
"I know I'm a little late so I first want to apologize for all the inconvenience," Rihanna told the crowd. "I want to thank you for being the shit and so patient with me and being still this excited."
"I can't believe I'm back here this quickly. I must apologize. You guys make me feel so special," Rihanna continued, before singing "Only Girl."
Rihanna's 777 tour hits Toronto
The GQ Magazine cover girl stepped on stage wearing white Chanel oversized glasses and a huge gold Chanel chain, and a denim jacket--which she quickly took off because of the heat.
The venue was a gorgeous older building, the classiest of the trip so far. Unlike Mexico City and Toronto, the crowd was a bit older, but they enjoyed Rihanna just as much.
It was packed inside and very warm. Rihanna had to towel off twice, and you could still see her sweating through her shirt. But it didn't faze her at all.
She also definitely wasn't wearing a bra...but that's a different story.
Rihanna went on to perform her new song, "Stay," for only the second time ever live (the first time was on SNL). Before she started the song, she said to the crowd, "This is only my second time performing it so forgive me if I forget the lyrics."
Rihanna's guide to throwing a high-fashion party on a plane
She sang the slow ballad beautifully, and ended the show on a more upbeat note, with "We Found Love."
After the show, Rihanna joined the journalists and VIPs at the after-party and poured cocktails and shots for people. She was having a great time. Near the end of it, around 4:30 a.m., she took a swig of something and said, "I quit!"
It's baffling how she does all of this every day (and night).
"Stockholm thank you, I love you so much! I think I'm gonna spend the night with you guys!! Paris, I'll see you tomorrow tho #777tour," Rihanna tweeted following the festivities.
Off to the city of love!


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The 2001 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
Proclaiming the Gospel in a Wired World
Cell phones, email, MTV, the Web, Palm pilots, and pagers fill our lives and the lives of young people. Teens live in a world where "religious chat rooms and web sites act like spiritual supermarkets, offering an assortment of belief systems all within one click" (Newsweek, May 8, 2000). Whether you laud the changes technology has brought or long for yesteryear, there is no denying that today's wired world affects how we share the good news of Jesus Christ. Those who are engaged in ministry with youth are translators—charged with the daunting task of making connections for young people who are more familiar with gigabytes than with grace.
Rather than offering instructions on how to use e-‐mail, set up chat rooms, and design multimedia presentations, the 2001 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture examine the theological implications of modern technology and globalization. They help us to reflect on our modes of proclamation—not just preaching and worship but also storytelling, relationships, justice-‐seeking, service, teaching, and the daily practice of Christian life. They provide inspiration that will refuel us for bearing witness to Jesus Christ with youth in the wired world.
Thomas Beaudoin engages us in a provocative discussion of the relationship of the church to consumer media capitalism. He argues that consumer media capitalism functions strategically as an anonymous spiritual discipline, thus creating "theocapitalism." Beaudoin then proposes a tactical plan for Christian theology and pastoral ministry to contest the strategic discipline of theocapitalism. His lectures offer challenging insights on ministry in today's wired world as well as practical directives for discipling young people in this context.
Marva Dawn raises concerns about blind acceptance of contemporary fads and asks how we can teach youth to question their use of technology. The gospel, says Dawn, calls us to be hopeful realists about the wired world and enables us to de-‐idolize those elements of culture that begin to take primary place in our lives. She gives ten Christian practices that can help us to clear a space for the focal commitments of our faith in today's culture. Dawn then urges readers to take greater care in how they use words, and she provides insights from Luke's account of the walk to Emmaus (Luke 24) on how we might proclaim the gospel to young people.
Richard Osmer takes us on a rafting trip through the white water of globalization, exploring this cultural shift's influence on adolescents through the global media, the globalization of risk, and the new pluralism of globalization. Drawing on the research of the Princeton Project on Youth, Globalization, and the Church, he explains why we experience globalization as catching us up in currents of change that are beyond our control and discusses the practical implications for ministry with young people. Osmer calls the church to provide young people with three indispensable gifts for their white water journey: a creed to believe, a code for the road, and a dream to esteem. These gifts for the journey are developed out of the practices of catechesis, exhortation, and discernment found in Paul's ministry and are illustrated for today through case studies of two very different congregations.
Finally, Katherine Paterson blesses us with the gift of story. We are important, she persuades, not because we can teach our young people about the wired world or because we must warn them away from it, but because we are the church and we have a story to tell. Paterson explores how we might tell our story to the young who think they have nothing to learn from us. She challenges us to see the "invisible youth" by looking at young people as they really are and loving them as such. Perhaps, she notes, youth would welcome from us a vision of who, in God's sight, they really are, in a sharing of stories that illumine and heal.
May these lectures inspire you and equip you to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to the young.
Director of Leadership Development
Institute for Youth Ministry
2001 Lectures
- Celebrity Deathmatch: The Church Versus Capitalism?
- After Purity: Contesting Theocapitalism
- Technological Devices or Engagement in Practices?
- The "Humiliation" of the Word or Its Restoration?
- Riding the Raft: Ministry with Youth in an Age of Permanent White Water
- A Checklist for the Journey: Biblical Foundations of Ministry with Youth
- I Love to Tell the Story
- The Invisible Youth
A Checklist for the Journey:
Biblical Foundations of Ministry with Youth
Many of us make checklists when we're about to take a trip, especially when we're going to be gone for a while and we've got a lot to do before we leave town. 1 We write down those things that we absolutely can't forget to pack or take care of: 1. Give the key to next-door neighbor. 2. Pack "blankey" for our toddler. 3. Put the first-aid kit in the car. 4. Remember the hanging bag with your dress clothes. This lecture is a kind of checklist for those working with youth. Most of your work with young people lasts for a relatively short period of time. Then, they are off to college or a new city and job. What are the things that you want to be absolutely certain that they take with them when they leave for the next stage of their life's journey?
We will be harking back to the issues raised in my first lecture and bringing them into conversation with the apostle Paul's writing. I will be working as a practical theologian who believes that we can identify certain core practices in Paul's ministry with his congregations that are authoritative and need to recontextualized in our congregations today if they are going to be the church. The checklist I'm going to offer you is generated out of these practices. I will illustrate how the process of recontextualization takes place by looking at two different youth ministries that have been studied as part of the globalization project by Dan Cravy and Caz Minter. Following standard research etiquette, I've changed the names of these congregations and some of the details of my description to protect their anonymity. The two ministries could hardly be more different.
Soho Presbyterian Church is located in a university town on the West Coast. It is a middle- to upper-middle-class church of 3,800 members and is predominantly white. It has a very large number of activities and programs for youth, run by a large department called "Youth Mission and Ministry." The department has its own youth pastor, receives help from numerous adult volunteers, and involves the young people themselves in planning and leading the program. The Sunday evening program for junior highs is called "the Rock" and for senior highs, "the Edge." The Edge has two hundred youth participants from thirty-three different high schools and thirty adult "sponsors."page 96
The Savior's Temple is located in one of the poorest neighborhoods of a large city on the East Coast and is predominantly Puerto Rican. About sixty-five percent of the residents of the neighborhood where it is located live below the poverty level. The high school dropout rate hovers around seventy percent, and it is estimated that two-thirds of all drugs coming into the city have their port of entry in their neighborhood. Its residents are four times more likely to be killed than those in any other area of the city. About fifty percent of the residents are under the age of twenty. Joel, the youth pastor, came to the neighborhood on a kind of mission project in 1988 and, in his own words, "never left." He moved into the community, married in the community, and is raising his child in the community.
You could hardly have two congregations more different. They serve as a nice test case of the idea that core practices found in the ministry of Paul can be recontextualized in our congregations today. These practices offer us a checklist for the journey. In summarizing this checklist, I thought back to my professor of homiletics in seminary, Gardner Taylor. Dr. Taylor was the senior minister of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, one of the most prominent African American congregations in the New York City area. One day, he told the class he was going to sum up his approach to sermon delivery in one, simple dictum: Start low; go slow; strike fire; retire. Since I've been able to remember this for many years now, I've been struck by the power of alliteration and rhyme as memory devices. With apologies to Dr. Taylor, I want to sum up my checklist in a similar dictum. As you send your young people off on the next stage of their journey, make sure you have given them a creed to believe, a code for the road, and a dream to esteem.
A Creed to Believe
At the end of the last lecture, I asked you to run the rapids one last time. You had just passed through your third set of rapids. Your arms and back ached, and you were soaked to the bone. Immediately in front of you was another set of rapids, with two more not far beyond them. You were exhausted already, but there was no place to land, not even a branch to hold on to. We had just been talking about the new pluralism of globalization and the challenge this poses to young people around the world. They want to be open to new people and ideas, on the one hand, but they also are struggling to hold on to their own identity—their personal identity and their cultural identity. I also pointed out that many young people are having difficulty handling the "truth question." In the face of the new pluralism of globalization, many are settling for relatively simplistic forms of individualism (it's up to page 97 the individual) or relativism (all perspectives are equally valid) when they are asked to sort out matters of truth.
This lecture is not the place to try and resolve the "truth question" on philosophical grounds. I am more interested in the ministry issues this research raises. Let me put them in the form of a question: How do we affirm the fundamental intuition of our young people that openness and tolerance are a good thing and, simultaneously, teach them that it is important to hold on to their own identity, values, and beliefs? If we simply affirm tolerance and openness without also giving them a creed to believe, then we have in effect abandoned them to the permanent white water of the new pluralism of globalization. They are going to encounter one new perspective after another new perspective after another new perspective without any place to land...not even a branch to hold on to.
Several years ago, I came across some research on children's playground behavior that gave me a new perspective on this set of issues. Throughout most of the modern period, we have been taught that holding on to a creed with passion and conviction inevitably makes you less open and more intolerant. This research made me wonder if this is really true. The researchers were studying children's behavior on playgrounds. They accidentally stumbled on to an important insight. It seems that if a playground has clear boundaries around it in the form of a fence or hedge, then the children feel free to play all over the place. If a playground does not have any clear physical boundaries, then the children spend most of their time playing in the middle. Clear boundaries apparently allow them to feel safe enough to play all over the place. It has a freeing effect.
My guess is that something comparable also takes place when young people form clear faith "boundaries." Far from making them more intolerant of others, boundaries can have a freeing effect, allowing young people to feel secure enough about their own faith to tolerate others who believe differently. While the new pluralism of globalization makes this more difficult, it also makes it more important. That is why first on my checklist is helping your young people form a creed to believe. I am using the term creed here metaphorically. I do not mean to imply that when your young people leave your ministry they should have memorized the Apostles' Creed or part of a catechism, as important as these might be. By creed I mean understanding and confessing for themselves the basic elements of the Christian faith. If this is to take place, then they must participate in a practice that presents the gospel to them and challenges them to give their life to it.
When you examine Paul's letters, it is clear that Paul's entire ministry page 98 is based on the proclamation of the gospel. This is what we would expect of a person in a missionary situation. If you look at Paul's letters closely, however, what is striking is the way he continues to re-proclaim the gospel to his congregations. An excellent example of this is found in 1 Corinthians 15. There he writes
Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received... For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve… Last of all, as to someone untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles...But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me has not been in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:1-10, emphasis added)
Paul describes himself as reminding the Corinthians of things they've heard already. He uses the language of handing on and receiving to describe this. These are technical terms from Paul's Jewish background that were used to describe the passing on of tradition, and this is what Paul is doing here. He is reminding the Corinthians of an early Christian creed that he first taught them when establishing the congregation. 2
I am going to call this re-proclamation of the gospel and handing on of the core elements of the Christian tradition the practice of catechesis. While it overlaps evangelism, its focus is different because it is directed toward persons who are members of the Christian community already. We would do well to probe Paul's language of handing on and receiving to understand what this is all about. This language conjures up a number of images in my mind—passing a baton from one runner to another in a relay race, delivering a letter by hand instead of by mail. Perhaps, you can think of others. The core image here is passing something from one person to another by hand. Catechesis is about delivering the gospel by hand, passing on Christian Scripture and tradition by hand. This cannot be done in a mechanical or rote fashion. It means coming face-to-face with others, taking their particular sit-uation into account.
This, in fact, is precisely what Paul does in 1 Corinthians 15. Some of the members of the Corinthian church have begun to adopt a highly spiritualized understanding of the gospel. 3 This has led them to reject belief in the resurrection of the dead. The idea of God raising up dead corpses is repugnant to page 99 them. Paul reminds them of the creed he handed on to them, a creed in which the resurrection of Christ is prominent. He, then, tries to explain to this group what they are giving up when they abandon belief in the resurrection. He is delivering the gospel by hand, addressing the burning issues and needs of this particular group. This is the heart of the practice of catechesis.
Do we see anything like the practice of catechesis in the youth ministries of Soho Presbyterian Church or the Savior's Temple? Yes, we do. Indeed, what is striking is how similar their catechesis of youth is. Both congregations hand on the gospel, first and foremost, through the way they relate to young people. Before they utter a word about the love of God in Jesus Christ, they show this love in the way they accept and care for their young people. We might call this catechesis through relationship. Let me share with you the story of Wanda, one of the "miracles" of the Savior's Temple. I will be drawing on Caz Minter's description.
Wanda's mother was a heavy drug user who often was absent from the home, that is, during the periods they had a home. When her mother was clean and not with an abusive man, Wanda remembers things being great. But that never lasted very long. Finally, Wanda's mother left her and her sister with a neighbor and did not come back for over a week. The sisters were sent to foster homes. Wanda's story then unfolds through a series of homes, confronting her with new situations of abuse and forcing her to run away at points. By the time she reached her teens, she was heavily into the drug scene. Nothing in Wanda's life was consistent or secure. She could not be sure of any relationship or institution, except one—the Savior's Temple. The church family provided her with the only stable and affirming relationships she had. The youth minister, Joel, and his wife even took Wanda into their home for a while. They stayed on her about attending school every day and coming home at a decent hour every night. They set clear boundaries for her. They helped her find housing she could afford and roommates with solid lives. They saw potential in her and encouraged her to stay in school. The whole church celebrated when she graduated from high school. Everything Joel and the other youth leaders said to Wanda about the gospel was given authenticity by the acceptance and support they gave to her. This is catechesis through personal relationships, and it had a miraculous effect on Wanda's life.
When we travel across the country to Soho Presbyterian church in circumstances so different, it is striking how similar the heart of their catechesis is. As Dan Cravy describes the program, it is all about relationships—forming "deep friendships" in the youth group and deepening one's relationship with God. The leaders are very intentional about this. In his page 100 write-up of this ministry, Dan paraphrases their theological understanding of their ministry. He writes, "Because God chose to demonstrate his love for us by closing the distance between God and humankind in Jesus Christ—by coming to us in the flesh, entering into relationship with us, and suffering on our behalf—we must, likewise, go to high school students where they are and initiate relationships with them that both demonstrate God's great love for them and point them to a relationship with the living Christ." This means, concretely, that adult sponsors and staff regularly go to the high school, call students on the phone, and, more and more, keep in touch through e-mail. And the young people respond. When asked what makes the Edge the Edge, the students almost all pointed to the relationships of trust and acceptance that were formed in the group.
In pointing to the importance of relationships that embody the gospel as the first and most important part of the catechesis of youth, I am not saying anything new. Most good para-church and congregation-based youth ministries have known this for some years. We might say that this approach to ministry is as old as Jesus and Paul. We find Paul himself pointing to something similar in his very first letter, 1 Thessalonians: "So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us" (2:8).
While handing on the gospel in and through relationships is the heart of the catechesis of youth, it does not stop there. It also includes opportunities to think about the faith. In recent years, my ideas about this dimension of catechesis have been influenced by educators like Howard Gardner and David Perkins who have begun to write about the importance of a "culture of thinking" in education. 4 I have come to believe that there are two key elements to the creation of a thinking culture: providing young people with a sufficiently rich vocabulary and conceptual framework to think with and giving them plenty of opportunities to practice thinking in dialogue with others who are more advanced than they are. The importance of learning a vocabulary of faith is pretty obvious. It's impossible to acquire competence in any field until you've mastered its basic vocabulary. To play baseball, you need to know the names of the bases and positions and what a strike and ball are. To practice law, you need to know what a brief or tort is. An important part of our catechesis with young people is teaching them the basic vocabulary of the faith.
Equally important, however, is teaching them how to use this vocabulary reflectively and critically. In nonacademic settings, this occurs primarily when people join an ongoing conversation that gives them the opportunity to practice using their new vocabulary and to deepen their understanding over page 101 time by talking with others who are more advanced than they are. In effect, they are challenged to "think up." Soho Presbyterian Church's youth ministry, the Edge, embodies this in a particularly nice way. It is clear that young people who participate in this ministry are invited into an ongoing conversation about God. It takes place in many different ways in many different settings over the course of their four years in high school. Young people have the chance to overhear this conversation, to offer their own insights, to debate, to think, and to wonder in silence. It's the richness of this ongoing conversation more than any single program that makes it so effective. As Dan Cravy puts it, "the Edge is a ministry that values the mind."
Here are some of the ways that the Edge creates a culture of thinking in its ministry with youth. On specially designated nights the pastor comes to the meeting and addresses written questions. During the week, the group offers numerous small group Bible studies. These are same sex groups of the same grade level that meet with two adult sponsors. The Sunday evening talks are intentionally oriented toward the eleventh graders in the group, forcing the freshmen and sophomores to "think up." The church membership class for senior highs challenges participants to "look at and question the Christian faith." Students are required to list reasons why they should not join the church before they can decide to do so. The church staff regularly reworks the curriculum for Sunday morning to make sure that it pushes the students intellectually. And perhaps most important of all, the entire program is set up to have the youth leaders design and lead all aspects of the ministry, including writing their own talks on Sunday evening. They are not merely passive receivers of the faith. They have to articulate the faith in their own terms in front of their peers. To participate in the Edge is to enter a thinking culture.
I am confident that young people involved in the Edge for four years would move on to the next stage of their life's journey with a creed to believe. Through the catechesis of personal relationships, they would have experienced anew the lure of the loving, forgiving, and accepting God of the gospel. They also would have been given the opportunity to join a rich and deep conversation about this God. Over time, they would have acquired the language by which to articulate their creed and been given the opportunity to think about what it means.
A Code for the Road
That's the first item on my checklist: a creed to believe. The second is: "a code for the road." I realize that the term "code" can set off a variety of associations, some positive and some negative—dress code, honor code, page 102 code of valor. Some of these provide you with an explicit set of rules telling you how to behave. You can't wear a baseball hat in class or T-shirts with profanity on them. If you see someone cheating and don't report them, then you are just as guilty as the person who is cheating. A code can be a set of do's and don'ts, but it also can be an ideal to live up to. It is my understanding that the Marines have the code that they are never to leave a fallen comrade. This sort of code is not so much a set of rules as it is an ideal. It does not provide a specific set of do's and don'ts. It doesn't tell a Marine to rush headlong into enemy fire or what to do if three or four comrades are down and a medivac helicopter is coming in. Instead it is an ideal to live up to, to strive toward. That is what I mean by a code for the road. By the time young people leave your ministry, you want to try your best to help them develop an inner ideal of the sort of person a Christian ought to be morally. It's an ideal to live up to and strive toward.
I'm calling it a code for the road for one simple reason. In a world of permanent white water, your young people are going to encounter people and ideas that you can't possibly anticipate. An inner ideal will travel with them in ways simple do's and don'ts will not. Part of this has to do with the speed of change and the way it has altered the relationship between the generations. The social psychologist Kenneth Keniston spotted this several decades ago and called it generational discontinuity. 5 The life scripts followed by the generation of parents do not necessarily hold true for the generation of their children. There is too much discontinuity from one generation to another.
In my father's generation, for example, men worked outside the home, and many women did not. My father worked for the same large corporation for over thirty years. Over the past three decades, the economy has changed in ways that make this life script increasingly implausible for most young people. For one thing, many women are now choosing to work outside the home. There actually are more women in higher education today than there are men. Moreover, it is no longer likely that young adults will stay with the same corporation doing the same basic job all of their lives. They are likely to work with three or four different companies, and they will probably have to acquire new job skills along the way. A whole new set of moral issues has accompanied these changes. Couples are having to sort out how to balance career and parenting in ways that are fair to everyone. Young adults are having to sort out the ethics of making a commitment to a law firm, corporation, or medical practice. It is difficult to anticipate the sorts of moral challenges your young will face as they continue their life's journey. Your job page 103 is to help them form an inner ideal of what a good person is like. This will travel with them. It's a code for the road.
Here again, I think the apostle Paul has something to teach us. One of the new insights emerging from my recent study of Paul's letters is the importance he placed on the practice of exhortation. In virtually every one of his letters, Paul at some point challenges the members of his congregation to live moral lives that are pleasing to God. This is the heart of exhortation: the challenge to live up to a moral ideal. Sometimes, Paul is gentle in his exhortation—praising and cajoling. Sometimes, he is pretty critical, pointing out where the congregation has fallen short and even getting angry with them. But the thread running through all these rhetorical moves is the note of challenge. In exhortation, Paul is challenging the members of his congregations to lead moral lives that are pleasing to God. I realize that exhortation sounds old-fashioned, and some of you may feel more comfortable using the term "moral formation." The important thing is to see what is at stake in this practice and to examine your own ministry in light of it.
I want to lift up two aspects of Paul's practice of exhortation that have something to teach us today. I've linked each of these with one particular passage, but you can be assured that there are many other passages that are similar in the Pauline corpus. First, Paul points his congregations to moral exemplars who are to be imitated. First Thessalonians 1:6-7 is a particularly nice example: "And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for in spite of persecution you received the word with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia." This is a rich passage, but I have time for only a few brief comments.
Paul is reminding the Thessalonians of his own example when he was with them. Immediately before coming to Thessalonica, he had been treated terribly at Philippi, experiencing some form of suffering and persecution. 6 But this didn't stop Paul. When he reached Thessalonica, he went right head with his ministry, openly proclaiming the gospel with courage. In acting this way, Paul saw himself as following the example of faithfulness and courage of his Lord. Now, he is praising the Thessalonians because they have followed his example and the Lord's. They have acted with courage in the face of the suffering and persecution they've experienced at the hands of their neighbors. Indeed, they are now an example for others. The imitators have become the imitated! This is probably the most important aspect of the practice of exhortation. Young people learn to be moral by imitating exemplars of the Christian life. They, in turn, become examples for others. If we want our page 104 young people to form a code for the road, then we have to expose them to people who embody that code.
A second aspect of exhortation has to do with the moral teachings Paul consistently offers his congregations. To illustrate this, I've also chosen a second passage from 1 Thessalonians, although I could have used almost any of Paul's letters.
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you knows how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God...Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another...But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more, to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you, so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one. (1 Thessalonians 4:2-12)
Paul is reminding the Thessalonians of a moral teaching that he gave them when he first formed the congregation. In short order, he covers sexual conduct, love among the members of the church, and relations with outsiders. While personal example, no doubt, is the most important way of teaching people how to be moral, Paul supplemented example with instruction. It is striking how these same issues—sex, love among Christians, and relations to non-Christians—are still with us. Yet, I am struck by how many congregations shy away from offering their members, particularly their young people, moral teaching on these important areas of life.
While they might not be using the term "exhortation" to describe what they are doing, the youth ministries of both Soho Presbyterian Church and the Savior's Temple are very much engaged in the practice of exhortation. When you read Caz Minter's description of the Savior's Temple, what he writes about the leaders of this ministry is particularly telling. He's writing about Joel, the youth minister, and other part-time staff who were raised in the neighborhood and came through the Temple's program: "They eat and sleep in this community; raise families in this community; live Christ-like lives in this community; and they have been doing it for a long time. While the programs have varied and adapted over the years, the people who infuse them with life have been consistent." They embody a life of self-giving. No doubt, more than anything they say it is the life they live that has the greatest page 105 impact on young people in the community.
But it also is important to point out that there is a strong element of challenge in the way the leaders relate to young people. Take the case of Ralphi, who grew up in the church and experienced all the hardships of life in the neighborhood. He was raised by a single mother, whose boyfriend dealt drugs. He was homeless for part of the tenth grade and then his family pretty much fell apart. As he looks back at that part of his life, Ralphi shares that it was Joel and another leader named Coz who enabled him to survive. They not only offered him love and acceptance, he says, but they interjected a badly needed dose of discipline into his life. He points to his participation in one of the church's mission trips as a turning point. These mission activities are a big part of the Temple's youth ministry. Teams of students travel regularly all over the United States and Central America to share and serve. Some of these teams are singing groups; others build houses. In fact, they do all kinds of things. And they do them in lots of different places. They travel to the white surburbs, the slums of Mexico, and many places in between. Joel says an incredible transformation takes place in young people like Ralphi when they learn for the first time that something is actually expected of them and that they have something to offer. They learn that they are important and capable of contributing to others. This is exhortation: the challenge to live toward a moral ideal. And the paradoxical payoff is that as the young people of the Savior's Temple are challenged to give themselves in service to others, they get back a new self filled with dignity and self-respect.
No doubt, exhortation means something quite different to a group of privileged, middle-class, white teens growing up in a university town. Here again, however, I am struck by the similarities of the two ministries as much as the differences. Both place great emphasis on mission. They use it to challenge their young people to get out of their comfort zone and to take some risks. Like the Savior's Temple, Soho's the Edge constantly challenges young people to take part in some form of mission. Teams of students and adults regularly work in night shelters, serve food in soup kitchens, tutor at-risk elementary school children, invest in the lives of youth in Scotland and Ireland, and work for justice in Guatemala. The symbol of all this mission-oriented activity is perhaps the yearly Easter Project in which the group travels to Mexico to build homes with other students. Last year, they raised $95,000 in a silent auction to buy supplies for the trip. The trip challenges this group of middle-class kids. Almost all of them find the poverty of Tijuana shocking and discomforting. When they come back home, they see things with a different set of eyes.page 106
Participation in mission, thus, is an important way for the challenge of exhortation to take place in both the Savior's Temple and the Edge. There are two other aspects of the Edge's "exhortation" that I also want to lift up: the way they cultivate moral exemplars among the students themselves and the way they teach their young people to bring a critical lens to the surrounding culture. The leaders of the Edge intentionally try to cultivate a cadre of older youth leaders who model for the younger members the service orientation of the group. According to Dan Cravy, students are explicitly taught that "their leadership is to be modeled on Jesus Christ, who led by humble service." Those who are involved in this leadership must first demonstrate their readiness by their personal involvement in service-oriented aspects of the Edge. The criteria by which a teen becomes a leader in the group is not popularity or school-status; it is small signs that he or she is trying to live a life of service. Every year, the student leaders are taken on a weekend retreat to plan the program of the upcoming year. But, perhaps, the most important thing they do is study biblical models of servant leadership and begin to think through what this entails back home. The imitators are becoming the imitated.
Let me conclude this section by pointing to one final aspect of the Edge's moral formation. It invites young people to think critically about the surrounding culture. If the global media cascades around young people all around the world today, providing them with models of life and love, then the church must do a better job of helping them step back from these cultural flows and examine them critically in light of the moral teachings of the church. The Edge does this all the time and in a variety of ways. Here is just one of many possible examples. I'm quoting from a brochure that describes a Sunday morning offering:
Grunge theology is a time to think critically about faith and culture. We will explore several mediums that are powerful influences on us today: music, television, and advertising. What does the gospel of Jesus Christ have to say about the barrage of ideologies that we are faced with in popular culture? Bring your Bible and your brain to Grunge Theology.
A Dream to Esteem
I have covered two of the three items on my checklist for the journey: a creed to believe and a code for the road. That brings me to the final item: a dream to esteem. As I take this up, I want to remind you of some of the things that were said about risk and globalization in my first lecture. Coming page 107 of age in a world of global risk is a particularly powerful challenge to adolescents. Young people are inherently risk-taking. They are willing to take risks on behalf of the loftiest, most idealistic dreams. But without a dream to esteem, they are apt to take risks that are self-destructive or self-centered. It's hard to be idealistic in an age of global risk. The problems seem too big, too far away, too overwhelming. In our research, however, we found that at least some religious communities are up to this challenge. They are giving their youth a chance to take risks on behalf of a larger dream, and it is making a huge difference. Their youth were the most thoughtful about the global risks facing the human community, the most critical of those institutions that are creating these problems, and the most invested in trying to make the world a better place to live. The third and final item to add to your checklist then: Don't let your young people leave your ministry without giving them a dream to esteem.
Here again, I think the apostle Paul has something to teach the contemporary church. I particularly think we have something to learn from the way he teaches his congregations to engage in the practice of discernment. If you look closely at Paul's letters, you find him telling his congregations to use discernment in a number of areas. They are to discern the members best suited to accompany Paul when he takes the collection to Jerusalem. They are to discern the words of the prophets to distinguish those given by the Spirit from those that are not. People who carry out church discipline are told to discern their own lives first in order to see more clearly their own strengths and weaknesses, so they don't fall prey to spiritual pride. Paul gives us his most general statement about discernment in Romans 12:2: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect." This single verse could easily be the subject of an entire lecture. Our time is short, however, and my comments must be brief.
When Paul bids his readers not to be conformed to the world, he has in mind the patterns of the old age under the power of sin and death. These "lords" of the old age have been defeated in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But they still are powerful and try their best to seduce us into following them. Paul warns us not to be fooled by them and not to conform our lives to their ways. Rather, we are to be transformed through minds that have been renewed or made new. The root of the term translated "renewing" here is the same used by Paul elsewhere to talk about the new creation, God's promised transformation of the world taking place with the return of the Lord. In effect, he says we are to have "new creation minds" in order to discern the will of page 108 God. Our thinking must be captured by God's promised future for creation if we are to resist the powers of the old age and discern God's will for the present.
The person who has provided me with the best image of what this involves is New Testament scholar Louis Martyn. Christians, he argues, must learn to use bifocal vision. Bifocal glasses, you recall, have lens with two portions, one to see things near and one to see things far. This is how people with new creation minds see things. They have bifocal vision. When they look at things near, they see the new creation struggle taking place—the powers of the old age are contending with the promise of the new. Even amid this struggle, however, they can discern the signs of the new creation already beginning to emerge. When they see things far, they see the ultimate outcome of this struggle—God's promised future for creation made known already in God's triumph over death in Jesus Christ. The practice of discernment is about learning to use bifocal vision—seeing the new creation struggle in the present and, simultaneously, seeing the ultimate outcome of this struggle in the future.
In a world of global risk, when change is so fast and the problems so vast, teaching young people how to engage in discernment is especially important. While neither of the youth ministries of Soho Presbyterian or the Savior's Temple use the term discernment to describe what they were doing, both of them very much immerse their young people in this practice. They are teaching them how to use bifocal vision—to discern the small signs of the new creation already breaking in to their lives and communities and to nurture them in hope born of their confidence in God's promised future. While I want to focus most of my attention on the Savior's Temple, let me mention in passing a few of the ways the Edge is doing this.
Much of this is done in conjunction with activities I have mentioned already. Prayer, for example, is an important part of the Edge's weekday Bible studies. Participants are encouraged to discern God's will in their everyday lives. Mission trips, likewise, include structured opportunities for reflective discernment. On the group's recent trip to Tijuana, for example, it stayed in an orphanage. At the end of the day, the group sometimes would gather outside in silence, staring through the orphanage fence into a brown valley of makeshift shacks. As the Spirit moved them, individuals would ask questions aloud about who they are and their responsibility as Americans and followers of Christ. They were learning to see the new creation struggle in things near but to do so in light of God's promised future.
The best way of understanding discernment in the youth ministry of the page 109 Savior's Temple is to begin by describing the cross that stands on top of their building. An artist from the city made it for them because he believed that it embodied what the congregation is all about. They display it proudly and point it out to visitors. The cross is a compilation of scrap metal, pieces of garbage that were thrown away. The artist picked them out of the refuge and carefully sculpted them into a cruciform shape. It is a symbol of the suffering and brokenness of the neighborhood that is somehow miraculously refashioned into a sign of hope and glory. Caz Minter explains the meaning of this: "For the people of the Savior's Temple, there is a core concept here. God does not throw away the inner-city, the young, the poor, the oppressed, the broken. Instead, he redeems and transforms them. [God] does not wipe them off the earth and start fresh as much of our society would like to do; instead [God] makes them new, restoring them to be the children he wants them to be."
The people of the Temple discern their own experience and their neighborhood through this scrap metal cross, garbage turned into a sign of glory. It allows them to discern hidden possibilities of change and hope that the world can't see. It has led them to start a flourishing ministry of the arts in the midst of a neighborhood of death. Where many institutions, including the church, see the hip-hop music and graffiti that are so popular in the neighborhood as a sign of total degradation, the young people of the Savior's Temple see them as God's art and have brought them into the church. They have started an art group, providing supplies and a place to meet. Young people show up every week to paint, sculpt, and create...all in the context of the church. Each year they sponsor an art exhibit that draws in the whole neighborhood. They've also opened a small recording studio, allowing young people from their community to explore the musical talent God has given them. Their discernment according to this scrap metal cross extends further still. The youth group has bought several of the surrounding row houses and converted them into community-serving facilities. What once were crack houses are now after-school houses for children, weightlifting gyms, game rooms, drug recovery homes, and cheap apartments for new high school graduates. When a row house is abandoned in their neighborhood, they clean it out, board it up, and paint it to maintain the property value of the surrounding homes. This is God's neighborhood, they say, and that makes it worth investing in.
This is discernment. Seeing things near as part of the new creation struggle. Seeing things far: knowing the ultimate outcome of that struggle. This is how the young people of the Savior's Temple begin to form a dream page 110 to esteem. If discernment can take place in this youth ministry, it can certainly take place in yours.
This is my checklist for the journey: a creed to believe, a code for the road, and a dream to esteem. It has been developed out of three practices found in the ministry of Paul: catechesis, exhortation, and discernment. In an age of rapid social change, they are the most important gifts we can give to our young people as they embark on the next stage of their journeys.


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With the stock market strong and major tax changes behind them, donors and investment advisors focus on charitable giving
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Charitable, one of the nation's leading donor-advised fund organizations, reports continuing rapid growth in grants during its fiscal year 2014. Between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, individuals granted out $822 million to more than 34,500 charities of their choice, an increase of 38% from the prior fiscal year. This rapid growth comes on the heels of a 10% increase in grants for fiscal year 2013.
"Our donors have absorbed the new tax policies that took effect in 2013 and they are encouraged by an improving economy and a strong stock market. As a result, they are increasing their giving and supporting a wide range of causes," said Kim Laughton, president of Schwab Charitable. "Their donor-advised accounts give them a great way to unlock the value of their investments to give to their favorite charities, reduce their taxes and manage their giving simply and easily in one place."
Schwab Charitable also reported assets under management of $6.4 billion as of June 30, 2014. More than 45% of the funds contributed to Schwab Charitable accounts have been granted out to charities since inception. Investors have contributed cash or a variety of appreciated assets1 to their Schwab Charitable accounts in order to support their favorite charities over time while realizing the greatest possible tax benefits. Money in the account is invested and grows tax-free until it is granted to charity.
Schwab Charitable Expands Investment Options
Schwab Charitable also announced that it will expand the investment options available to donors by adding a new Income Index Pool in August. This will bring the total number of investment pools to fourteen, including four that are allocated across multiple asset classes and ten dedicated to a single asset class. The underlying mutual fund for the new Income Index Pool is the Dreyfus Bond Market Index Basic (DBIRX), chosen for its strong historical performance and low operating expenses.
"Underlying our investment pools is one of the largest selections of non-proprietary funds of any national donor-advised fund," says Barbara Benware, Vice President of Investment Oversight. "Our commitment to choosing best-in-class investment options from a variety of fund families gives our donors a wide range of investment choices to fulfill their giving strategies."
RIAs Support Interest in Giving
The number of Schwab Charitable accounts grew 17% in Fiscal Year 2014, as investors showed increasing interest in simple, tax-efficient charitable giving. Registered investment advisors (RIAs) have responded by making charitable planning an important part of financial planning and wealth management. According to the 2014 Independent Advisor Outlook from Charles Schwab, charitable planning is one of the top three services offered by RIAs to supplement their core investment advisory business. Charitable planning now outranks estate planning in popularity, and falls just behind long-term financial planning and advice on employee-sponsored retirement accounts.2
"Charitable planning is becoming a natural part of the financial planning and wealth management discussion between independent investment advisors and their clients," says Laughton. "Since many clients have appreciated assets in their portfolios, donor-advised funds are a natural solution to help investors simultaneously reduce their taxes and maximize the amount they are able to give to charity. Advisors strengthen their relationships with clients by taking part in such decisions because charitable causes and organizations matter a great deal to their clients."
About Schwab Charitable
Created as a national donor-advised fund with a mission to increase charitable giving nationwide, Schwab Charitable has received over $9.8 billion in contributions and has facilitated over $4.4 billion in grants to charities on behalf of its donors since inception. Serving a wide range of philanthropic investors, account sizes range from $5,000 to more than $800 million. Schwab Charitable has been a pioneer in enabling RIAs to manage the investments of donor-advised accounts and remains a leading provider of such professionally managed accounts.3 Schwab Charitable also offers a private foundation conversion service for private foundations considering donor-advised funds as a complementary or alternative charitable vehicle. For more information, visit schwabcharitable.org.
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3 Professionally-managed accounts are available only through independent investment advisors working with Schwab Advisor ServicesTM, a business segment of The Charles Schwab Corporation serving independent investment advisors and includes the custody, trading and support services of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.. While donors may recommend an advisor, the Fund must approve the recommendation. Advisors must meet certain eligibility requirements and adhere to Fund fee and investment guidelines. You may request a copy of the investment guidelines by calling us at (800) 746-6216.


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This was the verdict in Windpower Monthly's EWEA 2014 preview webcast, which looked into market predictions for the next five years.
The panel, featuring GWEC secretary general Steve Sawyer, EWEA regulatory policy advisor Pierre Tardieu and Siemens head of strategy Jan Rabe, found that flexibillty will be key as companies will need to prepare for a global market that is becoming more diverse.
Diversification into new markets and the challenges facing the European industry is likely to be a major topic at EWEA 2014.
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The Francis Howell School District (FHSD) is proud to announce that it has been selected as one of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Workplaces for the fifth consecutive year. FHSD ranked in the Top Workplace large business category, which is comprised of similarly-sized organizations and featured four school districts.
"It is an honor to be named a Top Workplace yet again, particularly because the results are based on the way our employees perceive our own organization," said Superintendent, Dr. Mary Hendricks-Harris. "We greatly value our wonderful staff. It is their hard work and dedication that drive the success of the Francis Howell School District and our students."
All FHSD employees had the opportunity to take the confidential workplace survey earlier this spring, which focused on organizational health and employee engagement. Nearly 1,500 responses were received over a three-week period from approximately 2,300 FHSD employees, a 63 percent response rate.
"The Top Workplaces award is not a popularity contest. And oftentimes, people assume it's all about fancy perks and benefits," says Doug Claffey, CEO of WorkplaceDynamics. "But to be a Top Workplace, organizations must meet our strict standards for organizational health. And who better to ask about work life than the people who live the culture every day—the employees."
This year, 120 companies, nonprofit groups, and government agencies agreed to participate in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Work Places confidential survey, conducted by Workplace Dynamics, LLC. The participants were from organizations that employ more than 65,000 people in the Greater St. Louis area; more than 35,000 responded to the confidential survey.
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Locale Translations (#7) - Locale Spanish for YAM 2.6 (#92) - Message List
How can i send to development team the catalog of spanish translation for YAM 2.6?
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How can i send to development team the catalog of spanish translation for YAM 2.6?
The easiest thing would be to create yourself an account at our main development site http://yam.ch/ and then open an enhancement ticket there attached with the locale translation file.
However, if you are interested in constantly maintaining the spanish locale translation you are free to directly join our development team by submitting your locale changes directly to our subversion (SVN) repository. For this you have to make yourself familiar to subversion and install a subversion client on your system. For more information please read the following pages and feel free to join our development mailing list as well where you will receive further help on how to join our team.
So please think about joining our team directly as this would make things more easily than having to open a new ticket for every change you want to submit.Jens MausMar 23, 2010, 4:51:30 PM (10 years ago)
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Hi i too want to contribute to spanish translation,a lready have (not finished) catalog (HELP texts missing). So if natman wnat some help i be glad sending him my YAM.ct
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The products from Pastaio di Gragnano are prepared using carefully selected wheat semolina, which is then slowly mixed with non-calcic water, extruded through bronze dies and slowly dried for up to 48 hours. In Gragnano (NA) the fresh air of the Vesuvio meets the breeze of the Gulf of Sorrento, creating a climatic harmony that is particularly favourable for making pasta. Thanks to their coarse texture, they exalt any type of condiment, gently capturing your salsas and sauces.