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Natixis Asset Management's 2017 outlook
Natixis Asset Management's 2017 outlook: in the current market context characterized by political uncertainties and increased volatility, diversification and a selective approach will be key in seeking out yield
2016 was eventful and full of surprises, from the Brexit vote to Donald Trump's election, and 2017 looks set to be equally unpredictable, with some major political events coming up and a likely divergence in monetary policies. According to Natixis Asset Management's experts, investors who are seeking out yield will need to adopt an increasingly selective approach in view of the number of risks we are currently seeing on the financial markets.
Shift in worldwide macroeconomic balance
According to Natixis Asset Management's Chief Economist Philippe Waechter, we are set to see a change in the economic system in 2017 as a result of an in-depth shift in the balance of economic policies in the US. "As is the case for other developed countries, monetary policy has so far underpinned private domestic demand", he states. "This explains why central banks kept their interest rates very low. But the tax cuts pledged by Donald Trump will buoy US domestic demand and give the Fed back some leeway, enabling it to raise its key rate and reclaim some flexibility as it manages monetary policy."
Across other developed countries, the framework remains unchanged: the central bank's policy is still the key decisive factor in driving growth momentum. In this respect, at its December meeting the ECB clearly announced that it would keep its key rate low, even after the end of its Quantitative Easing program.
"This new order for US economic policy is set to trigger a divergence in monetary policies and hence push up US interest rates" adds Philippe Waechter. "We are not expecting any strong moves to underpin economies in other developed markets, so this will lead to an increase in the dollar over the long term."
Inflation is set to remain limited, well under the ECB target in the Eurozone and close to this target in the US. Meanwhile, energy will no longer make a negative contribution to inflation, but against a backdrop of modest growth worldwide, Philippe Waechter does not see a strong or lasting rise in oil prices.
Bond markets faced with rising interest rates
2016 was characterized by renewed volatility due to political risk. Concerns on the cycle in China at the start of the year, question marks over OPEC's strategy after plummeting oil prices, along with various protest votes (Brexit, Trump, Italian referendum) turned out to be decisive for the financial markets. The Fed's caution and the ECB's active approach buoyed bond performances. The low interest rate context continued, particularly as the ECB extended its asset purchase program to credit in particular. However, the trend towards yield curve flattening gave way to a sharp steepening movement in the second half of the year.
According to Ibrahima Kobar, Co-CIO and Head of Fixed Income, uncertainties and political risk will still be ever-present in 2017. "Europe will remain at the very heart of concerns due to Brexit and elections in France", he explains. "Divergence of monetary policies may also trigger pressure on the bond markets. Lastly, OPEC members' resolve will be tested when faced with the expected rebound in US output. The steep yield curve will safeguard investors on the fixed income markets, but we should expect greater volatility in 2017. Diversification will be key."
However, against this backdrop, Natixis Asset Management expects neutral to positive performances across the various bond indices. "On the credit market, we prefer products where duration to interest rates is virtually zero, such as ABS or loans, followed by shorter duration products, High Yield as a whole as these bonds are negatively correlated with interest rates, and lastly, convertible bonds", concludes Ibrahima Kobar.
European equities: a year of two halves
On the equity markets, against a backdrop of ongoing very sluggish growth and weak inflation, Donald Trump's election quickened expectations of price increases and broke with the trend towards fiscal consolidation. "The configuration in Europe is different, but equities have followed trends on the US stockmarket, stepping up the sector rotation that kicked off mid-2016", states Yves Maillot, Head of European Equities. "Cyclical and banking stocks have swiftly corrected part of their discount, to the detriment of defensives." The key question remains the sustainability of this trend. According to Yves Maillot, the US recovery looks logical, but transposing it to Europe is not a given. "We therefore think it is appropriate to follow the shift towards banking stocks in the short term, but we must consider revisiting defensive stocks in the second half of 2017 as the recovery in growth will be more limited in Europe. We are also keeping an eye on oil stocks due to the combination of more stable oil prices, a drop in oil exploration spending and the increase in free cashflow. Lastly, small caps' increasing profit growth advantage over large caps continues to make this segment attractive", concludes Yves Maillot.
Asset allocation: emergence of new correlations between asset classes
According to Franck Nicolas, Head of Investment & Clients Solutions, we could see a number of shifts in the usual correlations between the various assets in 2017.
All eyes will be on changes in US economic policy. Tax cuts are set to swiftly prompt renewed confidence in both consumer spending and corporate investment, yet the fiscal stimulus from infrastructure will take much longer and looks less certain. "This change in direction comes at a time when risky assets are carrying demanding valuations due to several years of accommodative monetary policy, and this could trigger long-lasting disaffection in the shape of several months of stockmarket stagnation", explains Franck Nicolas. Similarly, political and economic risks in the Eurozone, such as the severe disparity of emerging regions, make a highly selective approach to asset allocation absolutely vital.
"More than ever, the secular trend towards a widespread rise for financial assets seems interrupted, so a more discerning stance will be required to seek out yield", adds Franck Nicolas. "We are fairly positive on US equities at this stage, although they are somewhat pricey. In the second part of the year, we will likely take profits, and if the yield curves steepen, we will bolster our allocation on US bonds. Meanwhile in Europe, we underweight both equities and fixed income. Lastly, on emerging markets, selection will be the watchword: fundamentals are admittedly stabilizing, but the rising dollar could hamper growth in some regions", concludes Franck Nicolas.
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There can be no assurance that developments will transpire as may be forecasted. This material is not an offer to invest in or a recommendation to acquire an interest in a fund. Any investment can be a source of financial risk and before investing, investors should consider any strategy or product carefully according to their financial requirements and objectives.
About Natixis Asset Management
Natixis Asset Management ranks among the leading European asset managers1 with more than €355 billion in assets under management and 744 employees2.
Natixis Asset Management offers its clients (institutional investors, companies, private banks, retail banks and other distribution networks) tailored, innovative and efficient solutions organised into five investment divisions: Fixed income, European equities, Investment and client solutions, Volatility and structured developed by Seeyond, Emerging equities developed by Emerise.
Natixis Asset Management owns also three subsidiaries asset managers: Mirova, Dorval Asset Management and H20 Asset Management.
Natixis Asset Management's offer is distributed through the global distribution platform of Natixis Global Asset Management and Groupe BPCE's two retail networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne.
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(1) Source: Natixis Asset Management – 30/09/2016.
(2) Source: IPE Top 400 Asset Managers 2016 ranked Natixis Asset Management as the 49th largest asset manager based on global assets under management, and by the country of the main headquarters and/or main European domicile, as of 31 December 2015.
Seeyond is a brand of Natixis Asset Management.
Emerise is a brand of Natixis Asset Management and Natixis Asset Management Asia Limited.
Mirova is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management.
Dorval Asset Management is a 50,1 % subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management.
H20 Asset Management is a 50,01 % subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management.
About Natixis
Natixis is the international corporate, investment, insurance and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the 2nd-largest banking group in France with 35 million clients spread over two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne.
With more than 16,000 employees, Natixis has a number of areas of expertise that are organized into three main business lines: Corporate & Investment Banking, Investment Solutions & Insurance, and Specialized Financial Services.
A global player, Natixis has its own client base of companies, financial institutions and institutional investors as well as the client base of individuals, professionals and small and medium-size businesses of Groupe BPCE's banking networks.
Listed on the Paris stock exchange, it has a solid financial base with a CET1 capital under Basel 3(1) of €12.7 billion, a Basel 3 CET1 Ratio (1) of 11.2 % and quality long-term ratings (Standard & Poor's: A / Moody's: A2 / Fitch Ratings: A).
(1) Based on CRR-CRD4 rules as reported on June 26, 2013, including the Danish compromise - without phase-in except for DTAs on tax-loss carryforwards and pro forma of additional phase-in of DTAs following ECB regulation 2016/445.
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|2004-04-08, 22:57
|Link #1723
scratch n' sniff avatar
Join Date: Apr 2004
Hey guys! did you ever say to yourself, "boy, i wish i can be part of the "never say" gang, but I'm not funny and/or lack the balls to do it." Now you can! With this new product from Nambla Inc! You can have the satirical wit of pepsi, and the comical genius of slade without all the effort! How is this possible??!??! Its so simple, even a 8 year old can do it! Well he should, because we cominded 2nd grade humor with the idiot- proof method of "paint by numbers"! Its soooooo easy to use, that the use of it is easy!!!!!!1111!1 But dont take my word for it, try this sample out for size!
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|2004-04-09, 00:11
|Link #1724
Join Date: Mar 2004
Age: 32
You managed to make fun of the "never say" clique, AND be hillarious, AND earn recognition by the gang at the same time. That's the best non-Naruto stuff I've read here yet
|2004-04-09, 07:53
|Link #1726
Terabyte needs anime!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Gaara Boy that was the best sexual experience I've ever had !
*and yes, boys and girls it's all caught on tape, when Ninja's go WILD volume 2! Order NOW in the next 10 minutes and get a free hunter's spoon (heck just melt them down if you have too many) let's watch Gaara's scene
ME I'm really Howard Stern (I know I'm not a Naruto character, but the thread is in the Naruto forum and so am I and I'm a character) Goes off wondering what the hell did Slade post that got deleted
Master Ran]*how did you know I thought that?* also, very wise and knowing
Sakura Oh Naruto Kun please come down and talk to me I've decided to sleep with you
Hinata Sakura, you can't really go thru with this, we just want the Kyuubi and I'm not letting a foreheadwhore touch my precious.
Sakura Shush, I'm just telling him that so he comes out of the tree *I want a little Kyuubi before they take it, come to your cherry bloosom*
Hinata Oh, bother forget you Sakura *lifts off coat and is standing there in just her fishnets*
Naruto Flies down, grabs Hinata and they are not seen of again?
of course
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|2004-04-09, 11:43
|Link #1727
Pirate Girl Nyuu
Wow I never realized I was a Naruto character too. Awesome!
*attempts to jump from tree to tree but realizes that ninjas FLY not DODGE in mid-air*
And yes Sasuke can fly because he uses his ki (magical Key?) to fly off to Oro where they wedlock (bad pun intended) and somehow have pirate zombie kitty babies!
Nice funnie sasukeXoro! I had never thought about making fun of ourselves because I was afraid that Dranz would decide to push the button that makes the forum crash.
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others.
Master Ran did you draw that? So cute! Love it! Everyone knows that Shika enjoys a little wine with his cheese, if you know what I mean.
Yeah...I didn't get that one either. Btw Pathy, Slade's post got deleted because he was asking Master Ran to join his army so that he could draw him insignias of little rabbits w/pancakes for him and his future empire. Everyone shall bow down to Teh Pancake Bunny!
Naruto *throws himself off a cliff and SPLAT* Kuso!! How come the main character never dies! Curse the shonen law of physics!!
Sakura *walks by and notices strewn Naruto guts on the ground*
Ino *eating* Wow Sakura! This is good meat! Tasty like dog! I guess I'll let you sleep in the big cage today. But only for today! Don't forget you have "orders" to fill! I run a tight whoring business ya know!
It ain't called a flower shop for nothing.
Sakura Really?! Yay!
The next morning...
Lee I'll have the usual today! Nuthin but hoes and alcohol here! Btw that smells delicious! *nice guy pose*
Ino Sure. She's waiting in her room. *starting up the bbq*
Lee Alright Sakura-san! Time to bend over and take it like a milkman!....
Sakura *inside a jar* Lee-san! Help me! I got stuck inside the big cage again!
Neji Hey, isn't that my old wank jar?
|2004-04-09, 14:16
|Link #1729
Terabyte needs anime!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Columbus, Ohio
LOL I love that pancake dutch bunny!!! Save the dutch bunny! How about a little pancake bunny being held and cared for by Gaara while he is hugging Hinata for our new sig-I still love the one we have now slade But with a new song for Naruto it might be time for a new WACWNS member Sig??
Kaoru, I just re-read your Sig and the idea of Oro running around without underpants is just *where is that barf-o-meter* I'm feeling sick, I'm glad he wares those long robes
Sorry, but I don't know how to do photoshop Gai-Kakashi heck no one wants to see my posts with pictures *Dranz spoons out eyes* see this is why i don't *plus to lazy to sit down and learn it* Just joking Dranz i wouldn't want to babysit this forum either *Gai Sensei thumbs up to you-honest*I'll pack up a chocolate bunny for Dranz to cheer him up then it will henge into Sasuke and that will really cheer him up!
shonen law of physics
Sakura will continue to whine and get none yet has great contract w/lots of air time!
Hinata will continue to be a asswhoping girl and be sweet and get no air time
Naruto, yes he will never die, unless he offers himself to be sealed in his best friends body Sasuke *puke*
Kakashi, the cool young guy with talent and all we see in one eye and his toes and his hands....bother then...
Jiraiya, the older horney guy who walks around with the coolest hair and uber strong talent however his shorts are baggy. (most skin shown of all male characters)
Tsunade, most talented all around, yet foolish (bad poker player) & LAZY..
(gosh could you picture her kids with Shikmaru's?- they'd be like "don't make me raise my finger"-when their kids are acting up)
Lee, has the lowest talent born ability yet works the hardest yet get's no girls (shit does anyone get any? ever-oh yeah they do in this thread) and get's injured the worst.
The 3rd: Super strong and stuck with taking care of village and has to ware the funniest hat ever seen (and in public) I don't get it as his ninja outfit is the coolest by far!
Neji: Strongest in clan, yet still just a caged bird and can never rule or lead clan.
Sasuke: well, we all knows he's gay :fingers: enough said, and all the girls want him.
so actually this thread is ANTI SHONEN
*the other day I heard the word "beads" and because of this thread my head starts thinking "me likey anal beads (repeat)" *ads more to barf-o-metre. I'm sure I have Sai to thank for this
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|2004-04-09, 14:39
|Link #1730
Pirate Girl Nyuu
Unfortunately this is the best I can do:
Let's see someone do something naughtier, as this is what this thread is all about it seems. "Gayest thread ever" Gay means cool in case your wondering.
Oh yeah Pathy-san, I was hoping it was something that Oro didn't say! and hopefully never will!
|2004-04-09, 15:47
|Link #1731
Pirate Girl Nyuu
LOL! Keeping it real Pathy-san!
I forgot Lee's Leaf protector thingy! Curse my short-term memory loss!
Kiba Ya know if I didn't have a dog right now, I'd be getting all the pussy!
Ino Well that's too bad because Lee over here tells me that he gets lots. Must be that flask he keeps in his suit.
Hinata Is that what it is? Damn and here I was thinking about making malevolent bunnies that eat your furniture. Or Naruto, your call.
Pathy I saw this picture and for some reason Sasuke popped into my head. Being the evil jumpsuit bunny that he is!
I don't know though...
it'd be more like Itachi cooking endangered animals just to piss off those Leaf animal activists.
Which Shika happens to a part of on the side. Love those fuzzy animels!
|2004-04-09, 16:14
|Link #1732
Terabyte needs anime!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Columbus, Ohio
ORO: Oh, Kabuto, get me some get me some *like little brat kid*
|2004-04-09, 16:48
|Link #1733
Coordinated Insanity
It's good to see the ladies are having a blast I saved the paint job you did Kaoru-chan, I'll work it into a parody when I have the chance... it was so adorable .
The following parody is not a manga spoiler. But it's more effective if read top to bottom.
Read Right to Left!!
|2004-04-09, 19:58
|Link #1734
Join Date: May 2003
The "What a character will never say" thread is now closed for a second time, thanks to the genius of pathyfinder who broke the Spoiler rule in major fashion by copying and pasting something very important from the Manga Chapter Discussion Thread, and even if the Spoiler rule wasn't in effect right now, he didn't even use a spoiler tag!
Now now, the blame isn't just set on pathyfinder, you can thank most of yourselves as well for being off-topic despite most of you knowing I've closed this topic just for that very reason before. Just one little more sign of trouble from any one of you, and I would've closed it just as fast, it just so happened that pathyfinder managed to be the first one.
I might reopen this thread, I might not. Maybe I will after I start seeing forum members actually abiding by the new spoiler rule.
|2004-04-16, 15:32
|Link #1735
Join Date: May 2003
You know, I wish people would stop asking me to open this thread because that annoys the crap out of me. The more people ask me to open, the more I'll keep it closed.
And since I'm fed up with it. This thread will be closed forever. Too bad.
.............is what I would've said if I was that mean of a person.
Actually, I am kind of annoyed by people aksing me but since I'm in a good mood I've decided to re-open the thread today (even though a certain Lexander started to bug me...///_^).
But make sure you abide by the rules and not go off-topic, but if for some reason which you all seem to find that you do go off-topic, please contribute to the thread at the very least. So don't make me close this thread again. I don't care how many of you will be annoyed, I'm not afraid to close it down for good.
With that settled, enjoy the revival of the thread!
|2004-04-16, 15:41
|Link #1736
YES!!!!!!!!!!!! THE THREAD IS BACK!!!!!!!!!! w00ts are in order! w00t w00t w00t w00t!!!!
just so i'm still on topic.........
Naruto: i want ramen!
Get it? there's no datte bayo at the end!!! BWHAHAHAHAHHAH kneel before my humoristic skills BWAHHAAHAHAHH
|2004-04-16, 15:47
|Link #1737
Pirate Girl Nyuu
Holy pancakes on bunnies Batman! We're back!
I'm gonna give Dranz a lollipop now!
Oh oh quick ON TOPIC!
Kiba: I think I'll sell Akamaru to Ino for money for a new car.
Hey last I heard there were no cars in the Ninja world.
|2004-04-16, 15:59
|Link #1738
Killing Intent
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Cyberspace
Sasuke: Hey you Neji!! Always told you my Sharingan was way cooler!
Neji *with red eyes*: You wish Uchiha.....
Sasuke: Sure...so what's up with the eyes then?
Neji: *cough*gotsunburned*cough*
Sasuke * bursts out in very high pitched laughter*
I know...it sux big time...but the idea was good....i think...
|2004-04-16, 16:31
|Link #1740
has big feet
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: UK
Age: 30
shikamura : damn it konohamure how'd you beat me again at chess.
naruto: i look like the fourth hokage on the big rock
naruto : (victory song plays in background)kakashi is soo last summer.
lee:should i try a different hairstyle
gai: ditto
Jiraiya: (on telephone) thats right i would like to cancel my porn sky package and sign up for the discovery channerls
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Davis discusses Texas run with DGA
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis has met with the Democratic Governors Association in recent weeks about a possible gubernatorial run in 2014, according to a source familiar with the conversations.
Davis, who burst onto the national stage earlier this year with a filibuster against proposed regulations for abortion clinics, is viewed as the Democrats' top prospect for the open-seat governor's race. Longtime GOP Gov. Rick Perry has announced his retirement, and the presumptive Republican nominee to replace him is state Attorney General Greg Abbott.
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Public polls have shown that Davis would start out as a serious underdog against Abbott, but the Fort Worth legislator has not ruled out entering the race. She said at a National Press Club event Monday that she will either seek reelection to the state Senate or run for governor in 2014, quashing speculation about a possible bid for lieutenant governor.
( Also on POLITICO: Davis: I will run for reelection or governor)
The latest DGA conversations aren't the first contact between Davis and the national Democratic campaign group. POLITICO reported in June that after her filibuster, Davis received a congratulatory phone call from Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who chairs the DGA.
Davis held a major campaign fundraiser in Washington late last month, and received encouragement from national Democrats — including New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — about a 2014 gubernatorial campaign.


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I wanted to.... but yours wasn't the best.Quotekidding!
Always happy to help, even more so when very little work is involved. Are we helping you win anything apart from pride and glory?
Trying to do it on my phone with my bogus facebook account because I kind of don't hate you, but it's just showing me a bunch of cosplay pictures and none of them look like you.There's one Milla there that I'm falling in love with so help me figure out where I'm fucking up before I profess my love for her.
I see it, but my phone said the page is a lie, so it must be true.I'll see if I can force my sisters to like it maybe...but they're phoneweb users too. PCs in my family are fairly uncommon.
Done! I've done my good deed for the year. I have to go commit a sin to counteract this now.
I'm still pretty new here and could use the good will/ I am a sheep and will do what is asked of me. So I voted, the joke was pretty funny too in that terrible lame way. I need to get around to playing a Tales game again some time soon.
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The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on John 6.
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever." These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. (6:53–59)
Although confronted with their willful unbelief, Jesus did not tone down, soften, or even clarify His words. Instead, He made His teaching even harder for them to swallow by adding the shocking concept of drinking His blood. To drink blood or eat meat with the blood still in it was strictly prohibited by the Old Testament law:
And any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, "No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood." So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, "You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off." (Lev. 17:10–14; cf. 7:26–27; Gen. 9:4; Deut. 12:16, 23–24; 15:23; Acts 15:29)
Jesus, of course, was not speaking of literally drinking the fluid in His veins any more than He was of literally eating His flesh. Both metaphors refer to the necessity of accepting Jesus' sacrificial death. The New Testament frequently uses the term blood as a graphic metonym speaking of Christ's death on the cross as the final sacrifice for sin (Matt. 26:28; Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:25; 5:9; 1 Cor. 11:25; Eph. 1:7; 2:13; Col. 1:20; Heb. 9:12, 14; 10:19, 29; 13:12; 1 Peter 1:2, 19; 1 John 1:7; Rev. 1:5; 5:9; 7:14; 12:11). His sacrifice was the one to which all of the Old Testament sacrifices pointed.
But the concept of a crucified Messiah was a major stumbling block for Israel. In response to the Lord's declaration, "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself" (John 12:32), "the crowd then answered Him, 'We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, "The Son of Man must be lifted up?" ' " (v. 34). On the road to Emmaus, the resurrected Christ rebuked two of His disciples for their hesitancy to accept the necessity of His death: "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?" (Luke 24:25–26). "We preach Christ crucified," the apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "to Jews a stumbling block" (1 Cor. 1:23), and in Galatians 5:11 he referred to the "the stumbling block of the cross." Thus, the major thrust of Paul's evangelistic message to the Jews at Thessalonica involved "explaining and giving evidence that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, 'This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ' " (Acts 17:3).
It should be noted that the verbs translated eat and drink are aorists, not present tense verbs. That suggests a one-time appropriation of Christ at salvation, not the continual eating and drinking of His body and blood portrayed by the Roman Catholic Mass (see the discussion of v. 52 above).
In verses 53–56 Jesus made four promises to those who eat His flesh and drink His blood. The first one is expressed negatively; those who reject Jesus have no life in themselves. Conversely, then, those who appropriate Him by faith do have such life. They are guaranteed abundant spiritual life, even now, by the Lord Himself (5:24; 10:10).
The second promise is that the one who eats His flesh and drinks His blood has eternal life. The abundant life that believers experience in the present will not end with death, but will expand into completeness and last forever. That this verse does not describe a ritualistic act is obvious when it is compared with verse 40. The results in the two verses are the same: eternal life and resurrection. But in verse 40, those results come from beholding and believing in the Son, while in verse 54 they come from eating His flesh and drinking His blood. It follows, then, that the eating and drinking of verse 54 are parallel to the beholding and believing of verse 40.
The third promise, that Christ will raise up on the last day all who eat His flesh and drink His blood, is repeated here for the fourth time in this passage (vv. 39, 40, 44). The resurrection to everlasting life is the believer's great hope (Acts 23:6; 24:15; cf. Titus 2:13; 1 Peter 1:3); apart from it, the Christian gospel is meaningless. To the Corinthians, some of whom were questioning the reality of the resurrection, Paul wrote,
Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. (1 Cor. 15:12–19)
Jesus introduced the fourth and final promise by declaring that His flesh is true food, and His blood is true drink—the sustenance that provides the very life of God to the believer. In light of that, the Lord declared, "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him." The promise here is that of union with Christ. In John 14:20 Jesus promised His disciples, "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." In 15:5 the Lord declared, "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing." "If anyone is in Christ," Paul wrote, "he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come" (2 Cor. 5:17). Later in that same epistle the apostle exhorted the Corinthians, "Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?" (2 Cor. 13:5). To the Galatians he wrote, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me" (Gal. 2:20). "Christ in you," he reminded the Colossians, is "the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). In his first epistle the apostle John wrote, "We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life" (1 John 5:20; cf. 2:24; 3:24; 4:13; John 17:21; Rom. 6:3–8; 8:10; 1 Cor. 1:30; 6:17; Eph. 3:17; Col. 2:10).
In verse 57 Jesus declared the source of His authority to make such promises: "the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me." Jesus had earlier stated, "As the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself" (5:26). Therefore, those who believe in Jesus will live because of Him. Jesus has life in Himself; and believers also have life in Him.
The Lord concluded this magnificent teaching by repeating the thought of verses 49 and 50. The invitation is as clear today as it was that memorable day in the synagogue … in Capernaum. The one who pursues material things will die as surely as the rebellious Israelites died in the wilderness. But he who eats the bread which came down out of heaven … will live forever.


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Konerko hit a two-run double to highlight a three-run third-inning rally, and Thome launched a home run as the Sox beat Seattle 4-2.
Those contributions were part of a resourceful effort as the Sox started a 10-game, three-city trip with Nick Swisher on the bench.
"We got one big inning, and the homer by Thome was a good note," Guillen said.
Swisher was given the night off after going 10-for-70 in his previous 18 games, and either he or Thome may sit Saturday night against left-hander Jarrod Washburn.
Brian Anderson, Swisher's replacement in center field, leaped near the top of the fence to rob Richie Sexson of an extra-base hit with Jose Vidro at first in the fourth, preserving the Sox's two-run lead.
"Sexson's got so much juice and the ball was carrying so well that I just put my head down and ran," Anderson said.
That was the big break starting pitcher Jose Contreras needed as he retired the final eight batters he faced to win for the third time in his last five starts.
"I feel like I got my rhythm back," Contreras said.
Contreras has allowed a total of three runs in those victories. Contreras threw a complete game at Toronto but lost in his previous start.
"I said in spring training we're going to be how Jose is going to be," Guillen said.
But the offense gave him some early support.
Juan Uribe started the three-run third with a single and moved up on Carlos Quentin's one-out hit.
Thome worked Carlos Silva for a walk to set up Konerko's double.
Konerko was 1-for-14 before his hit.
Jermaine Dye, whom Guillen is considering moving up in the batting order, hit a sacrifice fly.
Thome, who was 2-for-10 and batting only one point higher (.216) than Konerko, ripped a solo home run deep into the right-field seats in the seventh off Silva.
The Sox were hitting only .151 with runners in scoring position in their previous 12 games.
It marked the first time since April 26-27 they won consecutive games, and they have won three of four since losing six straight games.


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A visit to a unique country store and restaurant
A few weeks ago, I was invited to lunch at Helen's Place, to help celebrate the 82nd birthday of my neighbor. Miss Margie.
I was a little surprised when I learned that this restaurant is located in Kirkmansville, KY. Kirkmansville is a tiny village in the extreme northwestern corner of Todd County. It sets at the intersection of Highways 171 and 107, which are not major highways. (Nor are they wide or straight highways!)
Miss Ardell, Margie's friend since childhood and the inspiration behind this expedition, drove us over to Kirkmansville in her Buick. Margie's daughter Sandra and I rode in the back seat.
We took Pilot Rock Road (Highway 507) to Allegre and turned north on 171. The roads wound around the hills, through the trees, and over the creeks. Usually, I would have enjoyed the scenery, but I felt a little carsick. I'm not used to the back seat.
We pulled into the parking lot at Helen's Place a few minutes before noon, entered the little building, and looked for a place to sit. The main room was full of tables and chairs, but Helen invited us to sit in the back room.
BBQ ribs
Chicken and dumplings
Creamed potatoes
White beans
Macaroni salad
Homemade rolls
My companions decided to have dessert. While they were getting their pie, I took some pictures of the back room and enjoyed the exhibit of old-time photos from Kirkmansville's past. (The white bands across the photos below are the unavoidable reflections of the overhead florescent lights.)
The back room has tables on one side of the aisle and chairs on the other side. On Friday nights, local musicians meet here to jam and to entertain. At the front of the room, a microphone and speakers stand ready. Plaques over the mantle honor two beloved musicians who performed regularly in the past: Frank Phipps and Donnie McGehee.
(To place this music-making in its proper perspective, one must know that thumbpicking originated in this precise area of Kentucky. Merle Travis is from Muhlenberg County, just a few miles north, as is Eddie Pennington. Odell Martin, also a thumbpicker, was from the little town of Allegre, six miles south of Helen's Place. The Everly Brothers learned thumbpicking from their father, a Muhlenberg County native and an accomplished musician.)
But back to Helen's Place and our visit there. While we were enjoying our meal and conversation, the tables in the other room had filled with diners. Many of the customers were men who had come in from the fields. I suppose they find it easier (and more fun!) to come to Helen's for a hot meal than to pack a lunch.
Helen came back to talk to us again before we left. She said that she was honored that we'd come there for a birthday celebration. We complimented her on the delicious meal, and she insisted that it was "just plain country cookin'."
Miss Ardell asked how many people were employed there. Helen explained that she has a staff of five, counting herself. They work together preparing the food, without any firm rules about who's going to make what. Usually, they fix two main dishes as well as a variety of side dishes.
When we went to the front room of the store to pay, I spotted a box of college-rule spiral-bound notebooks on the shelves. I bought a few for Isaac; I had tried unsuccessfully to find them at WalMart the night before. My meal was surprisingly inexpensive. As I recall, it was less than $7.00, including the tea.
Someone at Kirkmansville paints rocks and sells them at Helen's Place. Sandra bought one for Margie that had a fawn painted on it. When we started home a few minutes later, we saw a doe and a little spotted fawn along the road, just outside of Kirkmansville.
After we went around the first few curves, Sandra suggested that we stay on Highway 171 at Allegre and go home by Butler Road, instead of turning onto Pilot Rock Road. It was still a winding road back to Allegre, but after that, the road was somewhat less crooked. I was glad.
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No one is under the illusion that anti-Semitism died after the Nazi Holocaust. But for decades following that dark chapter, it was certainly taboo to openly express anti-Semitic positions or demonstrate anti-Semitic behavior.
It would seem with the escalation in anti-Semitic incidents in the West of late that what was once taboo is again socially acceptable, at least to enough of a degree for anti-Semites to once again openly peddle their particular brand of hate.
A recent incident in Antwerp, Belgium is demonstrative of this phenomenon.
Last month, a local Jewish woman and her Israeli girlfriend (the two are in an homosexual relationship) were assaulted by neighbors after daring to openly identify themselves as Jews by placing a mezuzah on the door of their apartment.
Belgian Jewish magazine Joods Actueel reported that at first, the assailants confined themselves to banging on the walls and shouting "stinking Jews." But that didn't last long, and the anti-Semites' appetite soon led them to breaking down the apartment door and beating the local Jewish woman to the point that she required hospitalization for 15 days.
As the Jewish woman was being taken away by an ambulance, she reportedly saw the responding police officers joking and laughing with the unrepentant assailants.
The assailants later stated that they had come "to finish what the Nazis started," according to lawyer Mischael Modrikamen. Israel Today wrote about Modrikamen last year after he launched a pro-Israel political party in Belgium.
The Antwerp incident and the police reaction to it "sounds like something from 1930s Germany," Joel Rubinfeld, co-chair of the European Jewish Parliament, was quoted as saying by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
One of the chief enablers of this renewed wave of anti-Semitism has been has been the rise of anti-Israel sentiment, or anti-Zionism. Conveniently cloaked as "legitimate" criticism of the State of Israel, anti-Zionism in fact takes aim at the hopes and dreams the Jewish people harbored for thousands of years as they suffered in foreign lands. In essence, it says that the Jews deserve, at best, persecution and exile.
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By Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A major problem as we age -- especially for women -- is bone loss.
Bone is living tissue. As we age, new bone is created more slowly than old bone is removed. When we're past 35, we lose, on average, about 1 percent of our bone mass each year.
If our bones become so weak and brittle that minor stress can cause a fracture, the condition is called osteoporosis (porous bones). About 50 percent of women and 25 percent of men over 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
Women are much more likely than men to develop osteoporosis because they have less bone mass to lose to start with, they live longer and bone mass loss tends to accelerate after menopause.
The risk of osteoporosis and osteopenia (bone mineral density is low but not yet dangerously low) can be reduced through diet and exercise. If we walk a mile or more a day, we can add about 1 percent a year to bone mass, research at Tufts University indicates. That's enough to offset bone loss from aging.
We can increase bone density if we wear a weighted vest when we take our walks or when we work out, says Victor Prisk, an orthopedic surgeon for the West Penn Allegheny Health Care system.
"Bone responds to stress," said Dr. Prisk, who in his spare time is a champion body builder. "If you add more weight to your skeleton, you'll grow more bone faster."
Dr. Prisk was a gymnast in high school and college. He began wearing a weighted vest while he was doing resistance exercises, such as push-ups and pull-ups, to build strength faster. A study of athletes at Texas Tech University indicated athletes who wore a weighted vest during traditional resistance exercises had "substantially" better results after six weeks than athletes who didn't.
If you wear a weighted vest while exercising, you'll burn more calories, so it may also accelerate fat loss. People who wore an 8-pound vest while exercising burned 23 percent more calories than people who didn't, according to a study by Prevention magazine.
Dr. Prisk's wife, Kristini Curci, a psychiatrist at UPMC Mercy, who is also a body builder, wears a weighted vest sometimes when she works out on the treadmill or the elliptical machine they have at home.
"I used to do it mostly to increase the intensity of the workout, but now I do it mostly to prevent bone loss," Dr. Curci said. "With women you've got to watch that spine."
Several small studies of post-menopausal women who wore weighted vests while doing exercises such as jumping or climbing stairs increased bone density.
Some of the same benefits can be obtained by carrying weights in your hands when you walk, jog, or climb stairs. But, said Dr. Prisk, "one of the nice things about a vest is it hugs your body. It's much safer than weights in your hands or ankles in that it keeps it close to your body."
Although they're safer, there are some risks with vests if they fit poorly or you use too much weight. For beginners, a vest that adds about 3 percent of body weight is recommended. It shouldn't ever weigh more than 15 percent of body weight.
Dick's Sporting Goods sells a dozen weighted vests, ranging in price from $39.99 to $139.99. Dr. Prisk has endorsed the GNC Pro Performance vest, which sells for $69.99.
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Illinois has lived lately in a state of ethical emergency and Cindi Canary has been on call.
You must have seen or heard her. When a government ethics committee needs a member, when the national or local media need a nonpartisan comment, Canary's there, with her throaty voice, her quick laugh and a refreshingly unblustery take on the state's skulduggery.
Curious to know more about her, I went to meet Canary on Friday at the River North office of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, which she helped found with the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon when her son, a high-school senior, was in 1st grade.
Canary's short bio: Born in Massachusetts. Dad worked for Oscar Mayer. Moved 16 times before she landed at New Trier High School. Attended Hampshire College. Lives in Edgewater with her son and her husband, Adam Brooks.
Here's an edited version of our conversation.
Q. Why did you make campaign reform a career?
A. It was an accidental career. I'm pragmatic, kind of cynical, but there is this part of me that's Pollyannaish. Like: 'It's our government, people!' We can do better! It was like Alice into the rabbit hole, though.
Q. Is Illinois at an ethical turning point? Or is the current agitation just more hot air?
A. There is certainly a lot of hot air. This could play out in two ways. A lot of the low-hanging fruit could be picked -- tighten up lobbying, improve disclosure a little. Lots of self-congratulation and some headlines. Or people who vote can really speak out and push and we can get the issue of money and politics on the table.
Q. Will people stay interested when the scandals over Rod Blagojevich and Roland Burris fade?
A. That's one of the quirky things about reform. It needs a narrative and it doesn't have a natural one. Instead of saying, "Why don't we make sure we don't have a rascal like Rod Blagojevich again?" ask, "What does good government look like?" In this state we tend to think about what good prosecution is.
Q. Does being a woman affect how you do your job?
A. A lot of the negotiating skills that I bring to the table are skills I used when my son was 5. Sometimes I'm in Springfield and I'll talk to one chamber of the legislature and I'll say, "Did you pick up the phone?" The part of me that's a mom stomps her feet and says, "You guys are going to have a meeting. We're going to work this out."
Q. What would you be doing if not this?
A. I'd like to spend time doing some writing that's more thoughtful than crisis du jour. Or radio because you don't have to wear shoes.
Q. Would you run for office?
A. No.
Q. How do you relax?
A. Travel. And I like to read. In the past two weeks, I've read "The 19th Wife," "The Senator's Wife" and "American Wife." A wife theme.
Q. One thing about you that might surprise the public.
A. I like to cook and throw parties. My husband is in the arts and we have a lot of friends in the arts and there's a lot of time we spend not talking about politics.
Q. Name two things Illinois needs to do to change its political culture.
A. Cap political contributions. And everyone in this state needs to commit five minutes a week to speaking out on how government runs. Send your legislator an e-mail.
Q. In your years on the job, has Illinois become any more or less corrupt?
A. The corruption has morphed. I think there's less corruption because there's a fear of [federal prosecutor] Pat Fitzgerald and the wiretap. You see that fear down in Springfield. And I think there is less public tolerance.
Q. Talk about the difference between George Ryan's corruption and what's alleged against Blagojevich.
A. With Ryan it was old-school corruption, friends and family. With Gov. Blagojevich -- I keep calling him governor -- it was not as much about enriching those around him, not about building his political power, it was about building his wealth. We didn't see sharing. He was not a good sandbox governor.
Q. Name two Illinois politicians you're sure are honest.
A. Do they have to be alive?
Q. Should Sen. Burris resign?
A. [A long pause.] We may learn more that makes that more clear-cut. What Roland Burris should have done is speak directly to a public that feels very aggrieved by the reports of political corruption.
Q. Do people comment on your name?
A. Yeah. When I was a kid it was "tweet, tweet."
Q. Five years from now: your corruption prediction.
A. I think it will be better. If we don't work to make it better, my question to people is why the hell do you live here? Why are you raising your children here? Why are you investing here? Is this really something you want to tolerate?


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Relay: Bee Bravery
"They're more scared of you than you are of them" was simply not true when it came to me versus stinging, swarming, flying creatures. As a Woody Allen-esque city kid dragged to the Hamptons on weekends or for vacations, those insects — bees, wasps, hornets — were lumped into one scary interchangeable species.
If I heard the dreaded, low-pitched buzzing noise, I would proceed into a series of swatting, hopping motions that came to be known by friends and family as Bridget's "Izzitonmee" dance.
But as I aged, I began to see the value of bees. At least of honeybees. They do, after all, make honey. They pollinate flowers and, more important, crops. And I felt the stirrings of compassion, mixed with growing alarm, when I heard the piece on NPR's "Morning Edition" in 2006.
"Wild bees across the country are in a state of decline," said the show's host, Steve Inskeep, introducing a story by John Nielsen. "And that could cause problems for anybody in the following categories . . . gardeners, farmers, people who like to eat."
"Hey, I like to eat," I thought. Making one of many snap decisions I've been known to make — which have included, in the five years leading up to hearing that broadcast, quitting my job, leaving the Hamptons for New Hampshire, becoming a minister, leading women's retreats, buying an inn and restaurant, and raising goats — I instantly went from stark raving bee terror to buying books on how to raise them.
"We're going to keep bees," I told my family after doing about three hours of research and going to one beekeeping seminar.
The word "bees" was still echoing in the air when the screaming started. It was apparent that I was faced with a choice: keep bees or keep my family together.
My husband and kids have put up with a lot of Mom's Krazy Adventures but there was no way, no way in hell! that they were okay with the notion of swarmy, buzzy things.
"I will leave," said my daughter, Georgia Warner, with a solemn face, saying each word distinctly while staring into my eyes. "And I will never, ever return." The two smaller ones were actually on their knees, making those bothersome puppy eyes at me.
And the truth is, I had no experience whatsoever with bees. I had never even been stung. In fact, I still did the "Izzitonmee" dance on occasion. So it was clear, in this case, that my concept was full of holes and my family was right on the money.
But I kept beekeeping in my heart and respected, even revered, those who tended to the little critters and kept the farms of America running smoothly.
When I was afforded a chance to interview Robin Blackley for a story in this week's arts section, I donned the full hazmat uniform she provided so there wasn't even the slightest chance of getting any bee on me. However, I chose, since I was a grown-up now, not to wear the gloves.
Robin was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. And sandals.
During the interview, she picked up a particularly heavy frame, covered with "her girls" and filled with honey. There was a tiny, half-inch space where one hexagonal section was not covered in little black-and-yellow bodies.
"Stick your finger in there," Robin said.
"In where?" I asked, squinting to see the space between the crawling bodies. "In there?"
"Yes. Stick your finger in there."
"In there?"
"Yes, in there."
"In where? Where the bees are?"
"Where the honey is."
Finally I surrendered. What the hell, I thought. Never been stung anyway. There's a first time for everything.
As is the case with most people in my life, the bees did not find me nearly as interesting as I thought they would. They just kept muddling about on the frame, doing bee things, and I got a luscious fingerful of warm, straight-from-the-comb liquid gold.
How many other times in my life have I let fear and useless worry get in the way of having a good time? I shudder to think.
Spending an afternoon with Robin Blackley and her girls, hanging out at the farm, and getting a taste of fresh nectar straight from the source was sweet indeed.
But conquering a lifelong fear that day was the sweetest thing of all.
Bridget LeRoy is a reporter at The Star.
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Student debate will air to millions of viewers in China
Students from Princeton and Tsinghua University in Beijing recently competed on campus in a Chinese language debate that will be featured in a China Central Television (CCTV) program to be seen by millions of viewers in China.
The debate between the Tsinghua students and junior David Cohen-Tanugi and sophomores Jonathan Kent and Tamar Walker was held Sept. 25 in Jones Hall. It was recorded by a CCTV film crew documenting the Tsinghua team's debates at Princeton, Columbia, Yale and Harvard, among other schools around the world.
The international debates were organized by CCTV, the state television network in China, and the Tsinghua team's journey will be the focus of a documentary featuring interviews with the Princeton students and showing campus life at Princeton and other competing schools. An airdate for the documentary has not been announced.
The Princeton students were selected and trained for the debate by Professor of East Asian Studies Chih-p'ing Chou, who also is director of the Princeton in Beijing language study program and the East Asian Linguistics Project, as well as lecturers Zheng Qu and Yan Zhuang.
"All three of our students did extremely well, and the team from Tsinghua University was very impressed by their command of the Chinese language," Chou said. "I believe that students are the best representatives of the University, and I'm confident that the Princeton debate team will impress Chinese television viewers with their Chinese language and keen analytical skills."
For the debate, the Princeton students were asked to take the affirmative position on the question of whether gambling should be legalized throughout the United States. The debate followed a three-part format: Walker made an opening statement, all three students offered an extemporaneous rebuttal of the Chinese team's arguments and Cohen-Tanugi made a closing statement. Each student also was asked to showcase a talent, with Kent performing a traditional Chinese comedic performance called Xiangsheng, Cohen-Tanugi writing calligraphy and Walker singing a Chinese song.
"We are constantly looking for new opportunities for our students to improve their Chinese proficiency and fluency," Chou said. "The debate encouraged them to use Chinese creatively and in a real-life situation."
In a report issued after the competition, debate organizers said the students' language proficiency made for an engaging debate. A translated version of the report said: "The students' exceptional performance cannot be separated from the careful and focused instruction that is provided to Princeton students."
Cohen-Tanugi, who is fluent in English, French and German and also is studying Spanish, said the debate was a unique opportunity to hone his Chinese language skills. The physics major said one of the reasons he came to Princeton from his native France was the University's Department of East Asian Studies and Chinese language instruction.
"The University's instruction of Mandarin is more than just intensive," he said. "It's also designed in an extremely efficient way, which enables students to learn very quickly."
Even with this instruction, however, Cohen-Tanugi said participating in the debate was much different than using the language conversationally.
"Surprisingly, there is a lot of memorizing that goes into Chinese debate competitions," he said. "Whereas speaking Chinese conversationally is naturally more spontaneous and unrestrained, competing in a Chinese language debate seems to be a time of strict adherence to an official position and of formal sentence structures."
Although Yale was selected by debate judges as the winning U.S. team, which means its debaters will travel to China to compete in a final round with students from Tsinghua and the other winning international teams, the Princeton students said participating in the debate and CCTV documentary were valuable experiences.
"I hope that the debate broadcast will show Chinese audiences the growing popularity of Chinese language learning in the United States," Kent said. "The program may also be many Chinese television viewers' first introduction to Princeton University, and it would be gratifying if our debate increases awareness about Princeton in mainland China."


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The Office of Orientation at the University of Central Arkansas recently announced its 2013 Student Orientation Staff.
These volunteers will lead the 72 member-Student Orientation Staff (SOS), which is responsible for UCA's Summer Orientation and Academic Registration (SOAR) program and for Welcome Week activities in August. By the time the Fall 2013 semester begins, each of these students will have logged 200 hours of volunteer service to the university.
"I am very excited about the leadership team that has been selected for SOS 2013. These individuals have shown they are committed to excellence in and out of the classroom through their academic achievements and service to the university," Colin Stanford, coordinator of New Student Programs, Office of Orientation.
Selected as student co-directors were Cody Stephens and Rachel Carlock, both seniors. Stephens is a Finance major from North Little Rock and Carlock is a Physical Therapy major from Conway.
Seniors selected as SOS team leaders were Sayre Upton, Austin Dodson, and Sydney Crafton; juniors, Joshua Dabney, Lindsay Dacus, and Luke Moix.
Upton, from Clarksville, Ark., is a physical therapy major. Dodson is an economics major from Redwater, Texas. Crafton is a North Little Rock native and is majoring in early childhood and special education. Dabney is a biology/pre-medicine major from Marked Tree, Ark. Conway native Dacus is a communication sciences and disorders major. Moix, from Rogers, Ark., is a biology/pre-optometry major.


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When Henry V. Porter died in 1975, funeral notices mentioned his induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as one of the game's pioneers.
Back in the day, Porter had pushed to adopt a ball without laces to make it substantially easier to dribble. And those fan-shaped backboards that are common on schoolyards and playgrounds? Porter designed them.
The obituaries also mentioned that he led the band and orchestra at Athens High in central Illinois, and that for decades he worked as an executive for state high school athletic associations. They even mentioned that he did not have children.
NCAA basketball: An article on the evolution of the term "March Madness," now used to describe the NCAA basketball tournament, in the March 20 Section A said that the term was first printed by Henry V. Porter, relating to the Illinois high school basketball tournament, in 1939. Although Porter is widely credited, word historians have found earlier references regarding March Madness being used to describe the annual high school basketball tournament in Indiana.
What they did not mention was
March Madness is now the colloquial name for the annual showcase that determines college basketball's champion — three weeks filled with buzzer-beaters, Cinderella teams, office pools and distracted workers.
There are 64 teams remaining in the tournament, with legions of followers hanging on every rebound and free throw. Last year,
The madness has been a windfall for the NCAA, prompting dozens of cease and desist letters mailed each spring to those who might infringe on those two words the organization guards with religious zeal.
Porter and his descendants, however, received no share of the bounty.
At the Buehler Home retirement community in Peoria, Ill., where three of Porter's closest surviving relatives live, there's only a vague conception of the swirl of conflict and cash around the name. Last March, Shirley Meagher, her sister, Lauralee Randolph, and their cousin, Carl Porter, tacked a few newspaper articles to a bulletin board to let neighbors know about their uncle's invention.
No one paid much attention.
But the slender book containing the two words that launched lawsuits and generated billions of dollars isn't far from Meagher.
The volume Porter self-published in 1939 is coated in faded orange, Meagher, 91, says over the phone. A handwritten inscription rests inside: "To mother and dad to show how the boy has been spending some of his spare time."
Among the essays and poems is the basketball-mad prose Porter penned to celebrate fans of the Illinois state high school basketball tournament. First printed in a magazine he edited, the words ushered March Madness into our lexicon.
"When the March madness is on him," Porter wrote of the rabid basketball supporters, "midnight jaunts of a hundred miles on successive nights make him even more alert the next day."
Meagher seldom watches television. She's never filled out an NCAA tournament bracket and doesn't follow college basketball closely. But Porter isn't far from her thoughts when March arrives.
"He was a very modest man," Meagher said. "I think he would've laughed. I think he would've gotten a kick out of it."
Then she added: "I don't think he ever took money for any of those things."
Others did. March Madness became the nickname for the Illinois high school basketball tournament in the 1940s; the Illinois High School Assn. made it official in 1977 and licensed the phrase to companies such as Pepsi and Wilson Sporting Goods. Other states could use the name for their tournaments for a $10 fee.
"We just naturally used that term," said Scott Johnson, the Illinois association's unofficial historian. "It kind of stuck."
The name jumped from Brent Musburger's lips and into the mainstream in March 1982. Calling the NCAA tournament for CBS, he uttered the phrase he heard covering high school sports as a reporter for two Chicago newspapers. Sports Illustrated and United Press International used the term in articles that March, as well.
Basketball-obsessed Chicago businessman Charles Besser picked up on the name. His company, Intersport, produced the one-hour "March Madness Coaches Show" previewing the tournament on television.
No one had trademarked "March Madness." Besser did so in 1989. The reasons behind registration No. 1571340 ran deeper than protecting an asset.
"I was a complete basketball nut on the edges of basketball craziness," Besser said. "If I hadn't have been so in love with college basketball I wouldn't have thought of doing it."
That trademark touched off a two-decade legal tussle over who controlled the two words. The NCAA began licensing use of the term in 1988 and in November 1993 sent its first cease and desist letter to the maker of a trivia game that planned to include March Madness in the title.
After a brief partnership, Intersport assigned its rights to the Illinois High School Assn. in 1995. Intersport retained the ability to use the name in certain circumstances. Then the NCAA and Illinois association sparred over the name for the next five years until they pooled their rights in 2000.
The Illinois association eventually surrendered its ownership stake, but retained the high school rights. The NCAA bought out Intersport's license for $17.2 million in 2010.
"It's a little bit of a metaphor," said Douglas Masters, Chicago-based outside counsel for the NCAA. "It captures something that resonates with people. It has that kind of power."
Porter's coinage is one of the most-used elements in the NCAA's arsenal of trademarks. The slogan once inspired by fans crammed into Huff Gymnasium at the University of Illinois to watch high school basketball now includes derivatives such as "Munch Madness" and "Print Madness" to hawk things such as chips and shipping.
When March's bracket-driven frenzy arrives each year, Masters and associates prowl for uses that infringe on the trademark. The NCAA is a regular customer in front of the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to swat away unlicensed attempts — Live the Madness, March Radness, Midnight Madness — to use permutations of the name.
"The collective value of March Madness to the NCAA cannot be understated," one sports media consultant wrote in a January court filing in an unrelated lawsuit against the NCAA.
The consultant meant that the cash connected to the tournament that comprises the vast majority of the NCAA's annual income. In 2010, CBS and Turner Sports paid the NCAA $10.8 billion for 14 years of rights to broadcast the tournament.
The FBI estimated $2.5 billion is illegally wagered during March Madness. One contest offers $1 billion for a perfect bracket.
A mathematics professor at DePaul University calculated 9.2 quintillion combinations in the 68-team bracket.
At the retirement home in Peoria, Ill., March Madness is one more creation by an uncle remembered for shooting home movies at family gatherings. Leading efforts to promote sportsmanship and codify rules for high school basketball and football. Playing the violin and mandolin. Encouraging writing. Meagher laughed about the frequency the phrase appears in advertising these days.
She recalled visiting the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. — her uncle entered with John Wooden in 1960 — and alerting staffers that Porter's biography didn't include one mention of March Madness.
"I told them they need to correct that," she said. "I don't think they were terribly impressed."


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SST does a fine job of capturing the feel and motif of classic Sega titles. Sonic's jungle-themed court crams a great deal of the original game's first stage into the background. Ulala's Space Channel 5 stage looks as though it's the after-party for her dancing escapades. Our biggest complaint lies with the 360 build. The loading might get optimized before release, but we noticed that loading is a bit longer than on PS3 or even PS2. At least the Achievements look rather easy; we unlocked a chunk of them in our first twenty minutes of play. Both HD versions are on par visually.
SST has some pretty robust options for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Beyond the usual ranked/unranked matches and leaderboards, there's some snazzy integration of online video clips. Top-ranking players can put their best clips up for others to study their techniques and greatest victories. In the vein of Project Gotham Racing, there's also a spectator mode that allows you to watch both ranked and player matches. Sega will also have a daily highlight reel set up for you to see the day's best rounds.
The mini-games are all fairly fun, although from our time spent with Sega Superstars Tennis, it looks like the single-player experience is going to run a bit short. There are a variety of things to do and play, but it's questionable whether or not this game will have much substance to it beyond a few fun hours of play, especially on PS2. On the other hand, there's some great online integration in the HD versions that could give it more legs. Either way, it looks like a fun and accessible variation on the Virtua Tennis 3 engine that could provide lots of fun for families and young gamers.


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Packers Rookie RB Eddie Lacy is Hulking Presence
By Jason Wilde ESPN Wisconsin
~GREEN BAY – There was no correlation, Eddie Lacy insisted with a laugh. His cinematic selection that night had nothing to do with his performance earlier in the day. Merely a coincidence, he said. The thought never even crossed his mind.
Then, he laughed again. It probably should've, he admitted.
When the Green Bay Packers rookie running back got home from Baltimore a few weeks ago, after what was, at that point, the most productive game of his young NFL career – 23 carries for 120 yards against the defending Super Bowl champions – he notified the roughly 66,000 people who follow him (@Lil_Eazy_Ana_42) on Twitter of his evening plans.
Watching The Incredible Hulk.
Suddenly, Lacy was getting all kinds of replies approving of his choice – and drawing parallels between the way the mild-mannered Bruce Banner morphs into the green brute, and the way Lacy changes from the easiest-going dude in the Packers locker room into a contact-seeking, tackle-breaking cement truck in Nikes.
"I don't know. I'm just more physical I guess," Lacy replied when asked how he changes when he has the football in the crook of his arm. "I wouldn't say 'transform' … completely."
Oh, really? Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly, whose defense must figure out a way to stop Lacy on Sunday, would like a word, Eddie.
"Big, tough, hard, physical runner," is how Kelly described Lacy during a conference call with Wisconsin reporters this week, after watching Lacy carry 22 times for a career-best 150 yards in Monday night's loss to the Chicago Bears. The, unprompted, Kelly added, "He seems like he runs angry."
And you wouldn't like him when he's angry.
And Lacy's running backs coach, Alex Van Pelt? If he had a Twitter account, he might've chimed in, too. But Van Pelt makes an important distinction. Lacy isn't one of those players who gets so amped up on game day that he's out of control. In fact, when he's not carrying the ball, he's just as calm and poised as he is the rest of the week. He may run violently, but he can be so calm during the game and during the week that Van Pelt has to remind himself that it's just the way Lacy is.
"He's very laid back. (But) he's not nonchalant, I don't think. I think it's just his makeup," Van Pelt explained, adding that Lacy's big-game experience in college at Alabama is likely a factor in that. "Good or bad – he's just Eddie. He doesn't overreact one way or another. He's pretty even-keeled throughout the course of a game. That's good at this level.
"It's not a rollercoaster. He's the same guy, good, bad, ugly. He just maintains his composure and goes on to the next play, which is a good quality."
In fact, Van Pelt confessed, there are times in the running backs room when Van Pelt isn't sure Lacy is paying attention. Yet he always is.
"You'll look back there at times and think he's not locked in. You'll ask him a question and he spits out the answer. He doesn't ask a lot of questions, but he's always listening, he's always alert in the meetings," Van Pelt said. "I think he's been in enough big games now where there's not one that's too big for him. That, with his makeup and his calm demeanor, I think it helps."
The Packers certainly will be counting on Lacy now more than ever. With starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers sidelined with a broken collarbone, the offense will lean heavily on the run, even though coach Mike McCarthy insisted this week that he won't alter the offense significantly – which is technically true, since the combination of Lacy's production, the offensive line's improvement and the play-caller's commitment to the run has made the Packers a legitimate running team.
"We're going to play our game," offensive coordinator Tom Clements said Thursday. "We're going to run it and throw it."
Perhaps, but that means a healthy dose of Lacy, who's carried the ball at least 22 times in each of the past five games. During that time, he's rushed for 545 yards (109 yards per game), the most in the NFL over that time frame. After going 44 regular-season games without a 100-yard individual rusher, the Packers have gotten two 100-yard games and a 99-yard game from Lacy in the past five weeks.
"He's a hell of a player for us. He's always getting positive yards, and that's what you want to see," right guard T.J. Lang said of Lacy, who fell to the second round (No. 61 overall) in the NFL Draft this spring. "He's a guy, even when he's wrong he seems to be right and get positive yards."
On the season, Lacy has rushed 134 times for 596 yards, ranking him eighth in the NFL despite missing essentially two games with a concussion. He suffered it on his first carry against Washington on Sept. 15 and caused him to miss the following week's game at Cincinnati on Sept. 22.
Since his return, though, Lacy has been nearly unstoppable. Against the Bears on Monday night, after Rodgers' injury, the Packers handed the ball to Lacy on their next four offensive plays and six of their first seven snaps – until he was replaced by James Starks and backup quarterback Seneca Wallace threw an interception on the eighth play of the possession.
While it stands to reason that the Eagles will be expecting Lacy to get the ball plenty on Sunday, the Rodgers-less Packers would be hard-pressed to find a rookie better equipped to carry the offense.
"He's a stud. He's a big-time player," Rodgers said. He was just getting warmed up. "He's a winner, he knows how to play the game, he finishes his runs, he's a tough kid, he's smart, he cares about it, he's got a great charisma about him, a great attitude around the locker room.
"I think the key is to continue to remind him that he has a great upside and we expect consistency every week. Consistency is the antithesis of complacency in our business. If you're not getting better, you're getting worse. We expect Eddie to continue to get better."
And then, there's that personality of his. In Rodgers' nine years in Green Bay, he's always said little-known offensive lineman Tony Palmer, whose brief Packers career ended with a neck injury, had the best laugh he's ever heard. Lacy has brought back those memories for him.
"I think he's got a great personality," Rodgers said. "He's laid back, he enjoys a good joke. He has one of those contagious laughs. I'm not going to put it on the Tony Palmer level; Tony Palmer had the most incredible, contagious laugh that you just couldn't help but start laughing. Ryan Pickett has a very similar laugh. So Tony Palmer's on top, then Pick, and then Eddie's kind of sneaking up the laugh boards there.
"He's fun to be around. He cares about it, he puts the time in, he's very sharp, but he's always good for a laugh as well."
Except when he has the ball.
"(I) just run physically. Try not to get tackled by the first person," Lacy said. "When you make contact, make sure the defender feels you. You just run powerful and don't go down by that first hit."
When reminded of the Hulk comparison again after that remark, Lacy laughed again.
"That's just how I am, man," he said. "I don't know, man. It's all for me about being comfortable. The more comfortable I am, the better I am."
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The alien invasion has begun with the announcement that id Software's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars published by Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Set in the year 2065, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars pits the armies of Earth's Global Defense Force (GDF) against the invading alien menace, the Strogg, in an all-out struggle for the fate of the planet. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is slated to arrive on European and Australian store shelves on May 30, 2008.
"Enemy Territory: Quake Wars raises the bar for next-gen console games with its variety and intense combat," said Kevin Cloud, Executive Producer, id Software. "Whether you're playing online with fifteen friends, or playing a single-player campaign against amazing AI, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars delivers a new level of team play and combat strategy to the PS3 and 360."
Set within the expansive Quake universe in the year 2065, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is the ultimate team and mission-based multiplayer warfare game offering console gamers distinct classes, vehicles and weapons to choose from, giving players countless ways to join the battle. Players work as a team to defeat the enemy and achieve objectives either online against other players or battle offline with surprisingly lifelike AI. Across multi-mission campaigns, players earn experience and promotions while stats are recorded globally for players to track their rank and prestige in the community at www.enemyterritory.com.
Based on the critically-acclaimed game from id Software and Splash Damage for Windows PC that has received over eighty awards and nominations, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars was developed for the Xbox 360 by Nerve Software.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars has been rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB. For more information about Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, please visit: www.enemyterritory.com.
About id Software
id - defined by Freud as the primal section of the human psyche; id Software, located in Mesquite, Texas, was founded in 1991. From inception to present day, id Software has relentlessly provided technical, design and artistic leadership as an independent game developer and technology provider. Transcending the games industry, id's iconic brands such as Wolfenstein, DOOM, Quake and Enemy Territory have become staples of popular culture for generations of gamers. More information on id Software can be found at www.idsoftware.com.
About Activision, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Founded in 1979, Activision posted net revenues of $2.9 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008.
Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan and South Korea. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, www.activision.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Activision's expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. In this release, they are identified by references to dates after the date of this release and words such as "outlook", "will," "remains," "to be," "plans," "believes", "may", "expects," "intends," and similar expressions. Factors that could cause Activision's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Activision's titles in its fiscal year 2009, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Activision's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next-generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Activision's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third-party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, the timing and successful completion of the combination of Activision and Vivendi Games, the combined company's success in integrating the operations of Activision and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated. Other such factors include the further implementation, acceptance and effectiveness of the remedial measures recommended or adopted by the special sub-committee of independent directors established in July 2006 to review Activision's historical stock option granting practices, by the Board and by Activision, the outcome of the SEC's formal investigation, the finalization of the proposed settlement of the derivative litigation filed in July 2006 against certain current and former directors and officers of Activision relating to Activision's stock option granting practices, and the possibility that additional claims and proceedings will be commenced, including additional action by the SEC and/or other regulatory agencies, and other litigation (unrelated to stock option granting practices) and any additional risk factors identified in Activision's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and the preliminary proxy statement most recent filed in connection with the proposed transaction with Vivendi. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Activision as of the date of this release, and Activision assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Activision and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.


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"For God and Country": Orthodox Education Day 2011 Honors Military Chaplains and Armed Forces
1 October 2011 • Campus Event • By Deborah (Malacky) Belonick
Military chaplains, solemn and dignified in crisp dress uniforms, were honored guests at our annual open house, Orthodox Education Day, this year with the theme, "For God and Country." The seminary, recognizing the "double Cross" Orthodox Christian chaplains bear in their obedience to the Church and military authorities, filled the day with special presentations and exhibitions, all of which paid homage to our military service men and women, and especially to the "fathers in the field" who serve as pastors to them.
The excellent keynote by The Rev. Dr. Philip LeMasters, "Orthodox Perspectives on Peace, War, and Violence," and the especially moving workshop by Dr. Stephen Muse, "Listen, Witness, and Weep: What Can the Church Offer Service Men and Women?," may be heard as podcasts on Ancient Faith Radio, here: Fr. LeMaster's talk will be available October 5th; Dr. Muse's talk will be available October 19th.
Also, notably, a commendation was given by seminary Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield to Archpriest Michael Kovach, the oldest living alumnus of our school, and the second Orthodox Chaplain ever to be commissioned by the U.S. military.
Watch a video of Fr. John Perich, curator of the Metropolitan Museum at St. Tikhon's Monastery, describing memorabilia of Orthodox Chaplains, here.
Other highlights of the day were captured in photos (by Deborah Belonick, David Lucs, and Kim Piotrowski):
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Each year, over 14 million tons of clothing go into U.S. landfills - in an effort to combat this growing problem, Canton has partnered with Simple Recycling to offer curb-side pick-up of clothing and small household items.
Simple Recycling is a for-profit recycler committed to offering residents the easiest way to keep usable materials from the landfill. The program is free of charge and simple to use.
Step 1: Place clothing, shoes and home goods into the green bags provided by Simple Recycling. Simple Recycling will also provide residents with tags for larger items that will not fit inside the bags.
Step 2: Place your bags at the curb on your regular collection day. Simple Recycling materials should be placed on the opposite side of your driveway from your refuse and set apart from recycling bins and yard waste containers.
Step 3: A Simple Recycling truck will collect the bags and recycle the items for reuse.
Please note, only items placed inside the bags or tagged with Simple Recycling labels will be collected. Simple Recycling will not pick up anything left outside of the bag or untagged.
Beginning Monday, November 7th, the following items will be accepted at the curb by Simple Recycling:
• Men, women and children's clothing
• Coats and Jackets
• Jewelry
• Shoes
• Purses
• Hats
• Toys
• Pictures
• Mirrors
• Blankets
• Drapes/Curtains
• Pillows
• Sleeping Bags
• Small Furniture
• Small Appliances, such as toasters, microwaves and coffee makers
• Irons
• Radios
• Lamps
• Hairdryers
• Tools
• Silverware
• Dishes
• Pots/Pans
• Glasses
• Backpacks
• Christmas lights (as long as they are in good working order)
All of the materials collected are graded and sorted locally based on quality and condition. The top quality materials will be resold to local thrift outlets, mid-grade is exported to international markets and "unusable" items are processed for raw materials.
Before the program begins, residents will receive two Simple Recycling bags and two tags for larger items by mail. For every bag Simple Recycling collects, a new bag will be left, usually they are tied to the handle of a refuse bin.
Additional bags can be made available by visiting simplerecycling.com, calling 866/835-5068 or emailing email@example.com.
For questions or more information on the program please call Canton's Public Works Division at 397-1011.