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found someone selling an Empire Kit 7 piece (tippmann threads) for $70usd shipped.
is it worth it to buy this for my tippmann? I currently have a lapco bigshot, and I still haven't been able to find any paint that comes close to a good match. A friend of mine got rid if his tippmann and bought a ADG Tac-1, I know its a better gun, but the last time we went out (the first time with his gun) its was obvious that it made a huge difference, he was getting hits that he would of never got before, the paint he was using was a perfect match i just wanna know is it the GUN that helps with the accuracy? or if I get this empire kit and in turn get good paint to barrel match with it, will my tippmann be as accurate as his tac-1? |
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I believe those were selling new awhile ago for $60 in a clearance sale on Actionvillage. I would reccomend looking more towards a Freak.
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I have one for my Angel, and it works pretty well. It is awfully long, though, and on a Tippmann...
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The director of Taylor Phinney's Garmin-Chipotle cycling team, Jonathan Vaughters, shares his favorite Denver bike rides.
Every second counts—he knows that all too well.
Straddling his bike in the driveway of his Boulder home, Davis Phinney waits for his son, Taylor, to finish getting ready. Already dressed in his Pearl Izumi cycling shorts, his jaw firm and his biceps bulging in his Maratona delle Dolomiti race jersey, he still looks like the guy in the old poster curling on the far wall of the garage, winning Colorado's famed Morgul-Bismarck road race in 1979—one of the first of more than 300 bike races he'd go on to win in his extraordinary career. The crazy thing is that the guy in front of me looks like he's maybe in his late 30s—which means he would have been in grade school in 1979. But athletes are like that, some of them. They stay young well after their prime. Normally.
The garage is packed nearly to the rafters with skis and bikes and kayaks and camping gear and other outdoor equipment, leaving no room for the family car; an Audi wagon sulks at the curb, covered in salt and grime. "I was like Adventure Dad," Davis says, "getting the kids out on everything, doing everything. But we don't use most of this stuff anymore."
The door to the house opens and 18-year-old Taylor Phinney appears, all six feet and four inches of him, clack-clacking down the steps in his cycling shoes before grabbing his own bike. They look almost nothing alike: Davis is lean and muscular, while Taylor is long and jangly-limbed, with the milky-pale skin and light hair of his mom, Connie Carpenter-Phinney, who, like her husband, is also a champion cyclist. "I've been waiting for you," Mini-Phinney, as Taylor is known, tells Davis, who'd spent the morning at church.
But now Adventure Dad is pushing the envelope: It's been a few hours since he has taken his pills, and soon, he knows, they'll begin to wear off. He'll feel the tingle in his left leg, and the tightness throughout his body; before long the tremor will start up again, and it will require a monumental effort to make his way through a complete sentence or finish a meal without flicking food onto the table.
"It feels like fingernails on a chalkboard," Davis tells me later. Even his balance is shaky. A couple of months ago, he fell on his town bike, breaking his wrist but refusing to learn the lesson that his Parkinson's disease has been trying to teach him: He's supposed to be getting old before his time.
They've got to hurry off if they want to get in a full ride, so they click into their pedals and roll down the driveway. I watch them disappear around the corner and accelerate up the road, one of the great American cyclists of the late 20th century leading his son, who is already well on his way to becoming one of the legends of the 21st.
Even from the cheap seats, you can hear the thing whine. Taylor Phinney is pedaling his bike on a stationary trainer on the infield of the velodrome at Los Angeles' Home Depot Center, and he's got it absolutely redlined. His long legs pump up and down, his cheeks flare in and out, and the blade-spoked rear wheel whips around so fast that if you were anywhere in the vicinity you might count your fingers just to make sure they were still attached.
The arena is practically full, with more than a thousand spectators in the stands. Hundreds of other riders, coaches, and officials crowd the infield—but Taylor is the only one with a battery of cameras pointed at him. A Sports Illustrated reporter skulks around, while a trainer stands by with a water bottle. One of his coaches, Neal Henderson, holds a stopwatch; a mechanic holds his racing wheels; and another coach stands ready to paste a number onto his back.
"It takes a village," quips Jonathan Vaughters, who had the bright idea to sign Phinney to his Garmin-Chipotle junior team before he'd competed in a single race. (5280 is a sponsor of Garmin-Chipotle.)
The next four and a half minutes—preferably less—will be the most important of Phinney's sporting life so far: It's the qualifying round of the individual pursuit at the U.C.I. Track World Cup, an event at which Phinney is ranked among the best in the world—having raced it exactly three times before tonight. If he does well, he will be one step closer to qualifying for the Beijing Olympics. If not, he might as well forget it.
It's mid-January, and in the past six months Phinney has gone from being a relative unknown—albeit with a famous name—to cycling's Next Big Thing. It started last August, when he won the Junior World Championship title in the time trial. Two months later, he went to the U.S. track cycling championships, never having raced in a velodrome before, and won the individual pursuit title, blowing the padded shorts off seasoned professional racers. Then he hit the World Cup circuit, and in his first two outings, against top international fields, he finished ninth and fourth.
Yet in spite of the pressure, and in spite of his age, Taylor seems an island of calm in the sea of frantic activity. It's not just an effect of his mirrored Oakley shades or his white iPod earbuds, either. "See how relaxed he is, how calm?" marvels Allen Lim, Garmin-Chipotle's sports physiologist. "Most teenagers would get incredibly impatient. I joke about dumping buckets of water on him during his workouts and hiring go-go dancers. He's immune to distraction."
This year, Taylor's been featured in Sports Illustrated and the New York Times, and hailed as his generation's Greg LeMond or Lance Armstrong. The yellow Livestrong bracelet on one arm came straight off the wrist of Armstrong himself, while the red "WristStrong" band on his other arm came from comedian Stephen Colbert. Whether or not he adds to his family's collection of Olympic hardware—his mom won a gold medal in 1984, while his dad took home a bronze the same year, which makes Taylor a sort of crown prince of Boulder's athletic aristocracy—sponsors are already lining up to throw lucrative contracts at him.
It seems safe to say, then, that it's a pretty good time to be Taylor Phinney. While he was technically still in high school this past spring, he was taking just two classes, one of which was Literature of Film. He finished up at 12:30 each afternoon, which left plenty of time for training and playing Burnout Paradise, his favorite video game. And then there's his girlfriend, Sophie Allen, a Boulder High junior, all-state swimmer, and six-foot-tall model. As Lim puts it, "He's on the ride of his life right now."
Back at the Home Depot Center, someone hands Taylor a smooth, white helmet that's shaped like a spaceship to reduce drag as he flies around the track. But the helmet doesn't fit; it belongs to another rider, who evidently has a smaller head, and the straps are too short. Now Davis steps up, limping and slightly stooped, his head bobbing and left hand quaking like an animated figure in a video game. Carefully, he tries to will his trembling hands to do their job, which is to thread a green zip-tie through the helmet loops and thus lengthen the strap. The job is not made easier by the green cast on his wrist, a souvenir from his fall a few weeks earlier. Taylor stands patiently while his dad manages to join the ends of the tie and pulls it snug. Then Davis reaches in with a pair of pliers, ever so slowly and carefully, to snip off the excess length of the tie, rolling and bobbing until—snip!—mission accomplished. Taylor gives his dad a grateful hug and rolls off to the start.
The symptoms started showing up a few months after Taylor was born, at the end of June 1990. Davis—who was known by his teammates as "Thor"—had to rush off and ride the Tour de France, and within a few months of his return home Connie noticed that he seemed to be tripping over his own feet. Cyclists generally detest walking and often aren't very good at it anyway, so Connie chalked it up to laziness. "I thought he just wasn't picking up his feet," she says.
There were other signs. Davis became more easily fatigued, which he first attributed to the stress and travel involved with his post-cycling job as a commentator for NBC, CBS, ABC, and the Outdoor Life Network (now Versus). Connie started to worry: Her mother had suffered from multiple sclerosis, and Davis' symptoms seemed eerily familiar. Then, she read an article in People magazine about Michael J. Fox, who had just revealed that he suffered from Parkinson's disease. "I remember saying, 'Huh, this might be what you have,'" she says.
Parkinson's is a disease of aging that generally shows up in people in their 60s and 70s. Davis was only 40 when his doctor sat him down, in May 2000, and told him there was no doubt he had Parkinson's. Scientists aren't sure what causes the disease. It may be genetic, in part, but it might also be related to environmental factors or a history of head trauma. The Phinneys wonder sometimes if Davis' problems didn't start in 1988, when he crashed headfirst through the window of a team car in a Belgian race and needed more than 150 stitches.
Parkinson's originates in the subthalamic nucleus, a bean-size region of the brain that produces dopamine, a neurotransmitter responsible for, among other things, smooth, controlled movement. For an athlete, Parkinson's is a particular form of torture. "A lot of what you lose is just your natural ease of movement," Davis says, "and your sense of feeling comfortable in your own skin."
The good news is that you probably won't die of Parkinson's. The bad news is that it will never get better. Your speech becomes slurred, mumbly and sloppy, and your balance starts to get dodgy. Muscle groups sometimes simply don't do what they're told, even for such simple tasks as swallowing. There are medications that can relieve the symptoms, but there is no cure. The closest thing, for Davis, is to go for a ride with his son—to try and keep his body fit, at least, until medicine figures out how to write a new ending for his story.
While Davis and Taylor are out on their father-son training ride, Connie taps out e-mails on her laptop and watches the Tour of California from the kitchen of the Phinneys' Boulder headquarters. The previous weekend, Taylor had been a VIP guest at the race, hosted and feted by elite cycling teams like High Road and CSC. His younger sister, Kelsey, is sequestered in the TV room, suffering from a flulike virus that she probably caught from her brother. She's an athlete in her own right, a promising cross-country skier; right after the U.C.I. Track World Cup in L.A., Davis had flown to Salt Lake City to watch her place third in an important junior race.
Racing runs in the family, but Davis got the winner's genes. Right from the start, he showed a talent for being first across the line that hasn't been matched in American cycling since. He won more than 300 races, more than any other American bike racer—including Lance Armstrong—and in 1986 his gifts took him across the Atlantic as part of the legendary 7-Eleven team, the first American squad to race the Tour de France. Three days in, he nabbed a thrilling sprint victory, becoming the first American ever to win a Tour stage.
I wonder aloud how Davis' illness has affected the family. What a tragedy, I opine, especially for an athlete. "He hasn't allowed it to be a tragedy," Connie says firmly. "There's so much more in life."
Taylor agrees. "I hate for him that he has to deal with that, deal with being shaky," he'd told me over breakfast at Turley's. "But it's also made us a lot closer as a family, because we had to kinda rally around this."
After the diagnosis, Davis quit his TV-commentating jobs; the travel and stress weren't doing him any good, and it was getting difficult to hold a microphone.
Then, when Taylor was 12, the family decided to move to Italy, where they had been running Bike Camp cycling clinics during the summer and fall. They settled in a small town near Bassano del Grappa, in the foothills of the Dolomites. "We decided, let's just do this," Davis says. "We thought we would stay there through the end of the year, so we went with four suitcases, and we stayed three years."
Cycling is like a second religion in Italy, and the Phinneys were at least demigods, so Taylor did the natural thing: He joined the soccer team. Come July, however, Taylor and Davis would visit the Tour de France, with Taylor acting as his dad's de facto assistant. He met Lance Armstrong, he posed for pictures with Sheryl Crow, and in 2005 he was introduced to Axel Merckx, a thirtysomething Belgian pro rider whose father, Eddy Merckx, is widely regarded as the greatest cyclist of all time.
"I don't think he got into bike racing because he imagined himself like his dad or his mom," Connie says. "I think he just realized, these guys have body types similar to mine, they're tall, they're handsome," she laughs. "Every kid needs to imagine himself as someone, and I think he imagined himself as one of those guys."
When the family came back to Boulder in the fall of 2005, Taylor signed up for the high school cross-country team, mostly because it seemed like fun: It was a big team, co-ed, with 100 kids and lots of social events. Not everyone had lived in Italy or spoke Italian fluently, and nobody else's dad had Parkinson's. Yet he managed to fit himself into Boulder High's social life, while eschewing—for the most part—its infamous party scene. "It's just kinda like watching kids get hammered, and I don't need to do that," Taylor says in his slowed-down, laid-back way. "That's what I like about having lived in Italy for three years: I don't have that obsession with alcohol."
All of which makes Taylor Phinney about the farthest damn thing from your Typical American Teenager. Last November, he faced a standing-room-only crowd at the Boulder Theater during a charity event to benefit the Davis Phinney Foundation, and he had the audience eating out of his hand. He can hold his own with the likes of actor Robin Williams and the luminaries of the cycling world, or he can hang with his Boulder High mates and cycling friends like Danny Summerhill, a Garmin-Chipotle teammate who is a rising star himself, having placed second at the junior world cyclocross championships this past winter.
Also unlike most teenagers, even teen athletes, Taylor is subject to big-league cycling's drug-testing regime, which requires him to keep three separate organizations apprised of his whereabouts on a daily basis—surely a wonderful thing for any teenager's parents. He can be visited at any time by drug-testers who can demand a sample of his blood, urine—even his hair.
He says he doesn't mind any of it. When he turns professional for Garmin-Chipotle, he'll be subject to the team's rigorous internal drug-testing program, which goes further than cycling's stringent tests. The point is to prove that cyclists can compete without drugs, and Taylor is seen as the big hope of a post-doping generation. His heroes include Garmin-Chipotle's David Millar, who confessed to doping and served a two-year suspension. But he expresses disappointment with disgraced Tour de France champ Floyd Landis and Boulder's Tyler Hamilton, both of whom tested positive and fought their cases to the bitter end.
"I respect Floyd a lot, but I just don't know. Or Tyler—there's no way to really know. I just wish that the people who are involved in [doping] would fess up to it and not just draw it out and make it into this huge deal."
"It's a really healthy time for Taylor to be getting into the sport, I think," Connie says. "I hope."
Thor and Mini-Phinney get back from their ride as Connie pulls some muffins out of the oven. Perfect timing, as always. "These have nuts," she says, placing them on the breakfast bar, "and these don't." Davis pulls up a stool and grabs a muffin.
He's a dedicated photographer, and it isn't long before the photo albums come out. One of the first shots is Davis and Connie at the top of a mountain pass in Italy, with an almost unrecognizably scrawny, goofy little kid next to them, riding what looks like a gigantic bike. "Here's Taylor when he was 12, and he would ride with our Bike Camps," Davis says. As Dad flips through the pages, Taylor grows up before our eyes, week by week and month by month, sprouting into a skinny teenager and then into a bona fide athlete, which makes his father no end of proud. "And here, you see his legs develop a little more," Davis says. "This is a good one, him and Lance. You start to see how he's sculpting now, how he's looking more like a real road rider."
Within months of entering his first bike race, in the spring of 2006, Taylor was good enough to jump up to Category 2, one notch below the elite level of the sport, but his parents decided to hold him back for a year. In June the Phinneys asked Neal Henderson, sports science manager at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, to help coach their son. One of the first things Henderson did was put Taylor through a battery of physiological testing, to try and quantify his generous genetic gifts. He was surprised, but not in the way he expected.
"His lab results are very good, but they're not this remarkable thing we've never seen," Henderson says. "He's got his mother's and his dad's genes, but I've seen other people with similar ability, laboratory-wise, who have nowhere near the [race] results."
What set Phinney apart was his hunger to win races, a characteristic he shares with his dad, whose teammates nicknamed him "Cash Register" for his reliable winning sprint. But this past August, it became clear that Taylor had inherited not only his father's will to win, but also his mother's gritty endurance. Taylor went to the Junior World Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to ride the individual time trial. He rode all out and blew away his competition by more than 20 seconds.
Around then, Davis had a crazy idea: Why not enter Taylor in the pursuit, on the track? It was a perfect event for him, blending endurance and speed. Connie became his unofficial manager, fielding calls from interested sponsors and pro teams, and the family brought on more coaches. Garmin-Chipotle's Allen Lim fed Taylor's scribbled training logs and lab-test results into a spreadsheet, while Coach Henderson tested and monitored Taylor's progress. Taylor also headed to Fort Collins to work on aerodynamics in the wind tunnel. "It became kind of like Project Taylor," Lim says.
In October, with hardly any training on the track, Project Taylor entered the U.S. national track-cycling championships, where he rode the individual pursuit for the first time. By the time it was over his parents and coaches had started to think about Beijing.
Accelerating out of a standing start, Taylor brings his bike up to speed with a few powerful pedal strokes, then settles into an aerodynamic tuck, flying around the banked oval track like a runaway roulette ball.
The fans are screaming for him, pounding the trackside boards as he blurs past, his carbon-fiber rear wheel practically snarling as it flies over the smooth wooden planks. It's sort of a hometown crowd: Taylor has been coming to Los Angeles to train for the World Cup for the past six months, taking four-day weekends here and there with the tacit approval of his Boulder High teachers—most of them, at least.
Despite its name, the individual pursuit is not a strictly solo race: Two riders start on opposite sides of the track, and basically try to catch each other. That's why it's called a "pursuit," but it's really more like a duel. Since Taylor had the second-fastest qualifying time, which got him into the final round, the worst he could do was win the silver medal. His opponent, Dutch national champion Jenning Huizenga, would be tough to beat. While resting in a borrowed motor home before the final, Taylor mused on his prospects.
"He said, 'Wow, second place is really good,'" Lim remembers. "Then he said: 'What the hell am I thinking? I'm here to win a bike race.'"
Which he is not on the way to doing, halfway into this race. After eight laps out of 16, he has fallen a solid half-second down on Huizenga. But then the time gap starts dropping, lap by lap. "I kicked it up a gear," Taylor told me. "It hurt, but it was now or never, so you might as well give it everything. It was painful, but I don't remember it as painful."
What he remembers is the crowd, the announcer screaming, his USA Cycling coach yelling time splits at him until finally he was in the lead. He always finishes faster than he started, while most of his competitors slow down toward the end of the race. He crosses the line a half-second ahead of Huizenga to win his first World Cup race—and to become, in four and a half minutes, an Olympic medal contender.
"Yeah!" shouts Davis as he bounds back down to the track infield. "There's a new sheriff in town!"
An hour or so after he gets back from his afternoon ride with Taylor, a change creeps over Davis, slowly but perceptibly. As the afternoon wears on, his left knee begins to twitch up and down, his hand starts to wander. "I can feel the tremor starting to creep up my leg," he says. "It'll come on in a little bit. But it's OK because I'm here now and it doesn't matter."
The meds had allowed him to go for his ride with Taylor, to rebuild the strength that his Parkinson's has been slowly stealing, and to reconnect with his son. "That's, like, sacrosanct to me," he says. Especially because Taylor had been feeling depressed: He'd just gotten back from Copenhagen, where he'd placed 10th in a World Cup. Only 10th! He had been suffering from a virus, and his legs just weren't there. There were no crowds cheering for him, either—just his mom, in her usual corner, and he could hear her on every lap: "GO, T!!!"
"He's just had his first bad ride," Garmin-Chipotle's director, Jonathan Vaughters, says later. "But I think it'll be good for him in the long run."
In the short run, though, it meant he'd have to fight for his Olympic berth. Under the arcane qualifying rules, he needed to keep a top-five world ranking to snag one of the 16 coveted start spots in the individual pursuit. Which meant that everything came down to the World Championships, held in March in Manchester, England. Riding against some of the best riders on Earth, Taylor set a new personal record but still managed "only" eighth place.
It was good enough to make the Olympics, but, more important, it meant the Phinneys could concentrate on a more pressing contest.
The day after he returned from watching Taylor at the Worlds, Davis flew to San Francisco to undergo a radical procedure aimed at beating back the symptoms of his Parkinson's. In a five-hour operation on April 9, a team of surgeons led by Dr. Jaimie Henderson of Stanford Medical Center opened a pair of holes in Davis' skull and, while he was still awake, began probing different regions of his brain with a tiny electrode no thicker than a human hair.
The doctors were looking for the best location in which to implant a bigger, permanent electrode, which they would then connect to a kind of neurological pacemaker that would stimulate the circuits of Phinney's brain that Parkinson's had starved of dopamine. The procedure is known as deep brain stimulation, and it seems to relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's more effectively than medication.
Henderson switched on the device as a test. "All of a sudden they hit the right frequency and my tremors stopped," Davis remembers. "It was so cool, like they turned the power on. I feel a lot like my old self."
"The most gratifying thing is watching the life come back into somebody's face," Dr. Henderson says. "It's almost as if we've given them their soul back."
While Davis adjusts to his new life, which includes plans to see his son compete in Beijing, Taylor's looking at a busy summer. He graduated from Boulder High in late May after spending most of the month in Europe racing with the U.S. Junior National Team. This month, he's off to South Africa to defend his Junior World Championship title. Then, in August, he'll fly to Beijing for his big moment, the individual pursuit. "It's only a four-minute race," he'd said over breakfast, trying to downplay it, but it was clear it meant a lot more to him than that.
Meanwhile, it fell to Connie to make the airline arrangements—in addition to being cheerleader, muffin maker, and hospital bedside assistant, she's also the travel agent for Team Phinney. "Connie is an amazing, amazing lady," says Dr. Henderson. "Most other people would be just beside themselves, but Connie just maintains the same even keel."
Between her husband's battle with Parkinson's, her son's gold medal dreams, and her daughter Kelsey's own cross-country skiing career, she handles it all with iron discipline and an easy laugh. But she sometimes finds herself wondering when her family's life will return to normal.
If it ever does, it won't happen until this fall, after the Olympics, when the Phinney's passports and travel cases will finally get a rest. Between now and then, though, there are a lot of frequent-flyer miles to be earned. After weeks of online research to try to figure out Taylor's summer travel schedule, Connie concluded that it would be cheaper and easier for Taylor just to fly from South Africa to Europe and to train there for a while before going on to Beijing. Before he does even one warm-up lap on the track at the Laoshan Velodrome, Connie says, "He's gonna do a lap around the world."
Bill Gifford is editor-at-large for Men's Journal and the author of Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A word from Il Bolognese on Ocean
known throughout Europe as a capitol of culture and fine living, the wealth of good taste from Italy"s Bologna region now makes its home on Ocean Dr. in Miami Beach- at Il
Inspired by the authentic recipes and fresh regional ingredients of Northern Italy, this exceptional Italian eatery offers contemporary interpretations os classic favorites by chef Manuel Mattei.
Everything we do at Il Bolognese is focus around creating a hearty, European sense of welcome. From our delectable lunch and dinner selections to our playful list of hand-crafted cocktails to our extensive regional wine list to our intimate lounge for private events, we invite you to savor our unique culinary experience for yourself.
Our approach is simple only the best ingredients and only the best preparations.
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We chose to eat indoors but
outdoor dining was also available. The place was very clean and tables spaced nicely apart. My beef carpaccio appetizer was excellent as was my wife's salad. I had the penne amatriciana, a personal favorite, for my entre and it was made very well and was quite tasty. My wife had the seafood linguine and it was loaded with lobster, shrimp, mussels, etc. We both enjoyed our respective meals very much. We each has a glass of wine at only $10 per glass and it complemented the meal quite nicely. All in all a very good dining experience. Service was very good."
Dined on 2/27/2014
Like most places on Ocean Drive
you are paying through the nose for location. We had two luke warm pasta dishes that had probably been frozen and then microwaved. I had an appetizer of rock hard fried batter bits that was meant to have been calamari - again probably frozen and fried! Ok for sitting on Ocean Drive watching the cattle pass but don't waste your money on the food which is unconscionably overpriced!"
Dined on 2/23/2014
Pick this restaurant by chance on
Valentines day. Wanted some good Italian. Menu was great and service excellent. We wanted a good antipasto and allowed our waiter to put a special plate together. It was fabulous. Entree's were both good. We heard the Chef is the owner and he tests his staff often on the menu, service and wines. Brining on Ocean Drive at a patio table was all more special."
Dined on 2/14/2014
On a recent vacation, we had lunch
one day, dinner the next. We were not disappointed. Wonderful, fresh pasta. Fantastic seafood dishes. Wonderfully attentive service. All in all, one of the best in the heart of South Beach."
Dined on 2/8/2014
I booked this restaurant despite a
few less than favorable reviews, but I have to say I have no idea why anyone would have a complaint. From beginning to end, the meal was a delight. Our waiter was knowledgeable, attentive without being intrusive, and made the evening wonderful. We both had pasta, which is made at the restaurant. It was cooked to perfection. The noise level was fine at our 7 p.m. dining time, although I can imagine with it being directly on Ocean Drive, it can get noisy. The view of the beach is wonderful. Great place to people watch. We couldn't ask for a better evening."
Dined on 1/27/2014
My sister and I had an incredible
dinner here! Our serve Leo was so friendly and personable. He was very attentive and was so knowledgeable! He recommended the sea bass and the seafood pasta. While both are a little pricey, they were worth every penny. So delicious and such a nice atmosphere!!!"
Dined on 12/31/2013
I have been to Il Bolognese before
and it was good, but this time not so. The food was okay, but the entire meal was let down by the poor service: Mains arrived before we had even finished our starters and we have to ask for bread, we also had to ask three times for a wine list and parmesan finally arrived when we were almost finished. Once our waiter had taken our order, we never actually saw him again until he asked us if we wanted dessert. As they automatically add 18% service charge to the bill the waiters don't actually feel they need to deal with you. Finally restaurant staff had a conversation with a group of other diners standing beside our table and knocked over glasses & oils on our table and the staff left it Never going back"
Dined on 12/31/2013
I have dined at some of the most
notable restaurants around the world, and never have I felt do dissatisfied and offended after being presented with a $110 charge for two extremely ordinary and readily available fish. If a restaurant is going to charge a ridiculous amount for "specials", the diner should be first informed. Not only was the dish overly expensive, it was just okay! When you consider the restaurant imposed gratuity, plus the inattentive service, plus the mediocre meal, plus the cost of the entrees, I would recommend you that you stay far far away from this restaurant!!!!! If you've never adhered to a review before, please seriously consider this one!!!!!!"
Dined on 11/15/2013
My pet peeve with auto gratuity is
that it gives the server little motivation to serve. We didn't see the server from the time he took the order until he came to offer us dessert. My pappardelle was not good...my boyfriends bolognese was excellent. Good wine...nice Sobe sight seeing. Water with dinner is VIP. It's sad when money is such a motivator you only see the waiter when he can "sell" to increase his tip. We are auto 20% tippers but this gives us a whole other view. Might return."
Dined on 10/24/2013
The food was very good, service
fair. We were offered a "spoken" menu that was much higher in price, unannounced. The server never came back after taking our order, so we were grateful for the bus boys."
Dined on 9/14/2013
Interesting indoor space. Lobby of
hotel. Food was good. Service was attentive. Modest to low noise level. I would visit again."
Dined on 7/27/2013
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...don't worry, be happy ......not a problem, Dude!!!The LightBringer 'gifted' the NYC area right after his elevation with Green Solar Panels AND Really Green Wind Turbines, so they are AOK!!!!!Obama's Genius has made the expanded NYC metro area energy independent!!!!Why...the Chevy Volt alone will run on magic fairy dust for well over 1000 years!!!! Click Here if you Like this Comment
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FEMA wasn't the problem during Katrina, Ray Nagin, the idiots who wouldn't evacuate and the crooked politicians who didn't reinforce the levees were the problem. Mississippi handled things remarkably well and they took the direct hit.FEMA looks to be totally unprepared here. How is it you're looking for vendors to buy water from 5 days after the storm hits? You should have had reserves in place before the storm. Same with fuel and mre's. Cuomo, Christie and Bloomie deserve most of the blame. Obama deserves the shame for pretending to be a leader. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
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2. Comments and recommendations: To discuss improvements that might take place over the next year.
Activities Undertaken in F/Y 2002/2003 |
Comments and Recommendations |
FinancesMaintenance and updating of financial systems Maintained ongoing communications Ongoing mgmt of day-to-day financial activities Financial statements are reviewed monthly by the Executive Board. Revenues and expenses are tracking to budget. Bonnie James and Elizabeth Clarke worked together with the Phil Heagy on the budgeting process throughout the year Preparation of financial statements, reports and files for the auditor Provided historical research for the audit process Fielded questions concerning finances on a daily basis. Managed Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable process. |
Although Phil Heagy has been outstanding in supporting the headquarters in the management of ARLIS/NA finances and he is responsible for much of the success of the financial picture of ARLIS/NA this year, it will be necessary for ARLIS/NA to establish more inclusive systems in the future. In doing this, it would be more fiscally responsible for each of the chairs of committees to be responsible for their own budgeting and reporting processes, providing for their own favorable bottom lines in the process. In the past the Treasurer has provided much assistance to this process but due to time commitments, Treasurers in the future may not have the time to dedicate to this process. |
and Conference Planning Baltimore
Conference Worked with the Conference Planning Advisory Committee (CPAC) for the SL conference. Met face-to-face in SL once to review plans. Managed the annual conference process in coordination with the CPAC and Executive Committee Negotiated contracts in conjunction with the conference (ie. Tours, Air Travel) Developed the conference database and reported to the appropriate committees. Assigned booth space for exhibitors Worked with the CPAC to design, produce and deliver all products regarding registration to the conference. Attended the conference with three staff for a period of nine days. |
During the initial stages
of the conference planning process, primarily Susan Rawlyk with the
assistance of Elizabeth Clarke worked with the committee to plan the
conference and prepare products (Preliminary Program, Exhibitors
Perspectus). There is little to add as
far as recommendations for the future for the conference.
With the outstanding guidance and development by Ted Goodman, there
is a comprehensive conference planning guideline for all committees to
follow with a very detailed headquarters section included.
This will provide all staff and committee members with a clear
understanding of their responsibilities in the future. |
York Conference 2004 Worked with the New York Conference committee to establish guidelines for the conference Negotiated with the Roosevelt Hotel to establish an appropriate contract. Contract negotiations completed. |
Elizabeth Clarke visited the Roosevelt Hotel during the mid-year meeting in New York. The site for the New York conference is established and we will attend the CPAC meeting for New York in June 2003. |
and Communications Provided production and distribution services for the Society's publications Label distribution |
With the assistance of Ion Communications, a strategic partner of Clarke Association Services, the publications were produced under the leadership of the respective publication editors. Over the period of the year, some changes were made to enhance the distribution of the publications to members with a new design look.Vicky continues to email the labels to those who order them. |
Management The new database design has provided ARLIS/NA with an effective solution to its database needs. The database has been designed based on criteria provided by various committees. The database is also designed based on current needs and required reports and printouts (including the annual Handbook) |
With the ongoing changes to requirements, the database will be updated once annually. |
Telephone & Fax Activities Bonnie James, Vicky Roper, Susan Rawlyk and Elizabeth Clarke opened and addressed all email, mail and fax communication during the year with regard to various areas of responsibility Elizabeth Clarke monitored, reviewed or actioned all emails sent to ARLIS-L, Board-L, and leadership-L Susan Rawlyk monitored, reviewed or actioned all emails received through leadership-L |
Most of the emails received were in relation to the conference and occurred during the last half of the year. This number has improved since last year. We will continue to monitor this activity. |
Site/List Serve Maintenance Maintained the web site as per instructions from the Secretary and Executive Board of ARLIS/NA The new membership only section was implemented this year. Mounted the Update on the website Addressed concerns raised by list serves. Created all conference related on-line registration services. |
The work of updating and redesigning the ARLIS/NA Web Site (AWS) is ongoing. All in all, we are pleased with the progress that has been made in the past year and look forward to the next phase of upgrades that will take place to the AWS over the next year. A Board only site will be included in this year's plans. |
Support and Executive Director Provided leadership to the staff in administering systems and working with the Executive Board on a daily basis. Provided guidance to the Executive Board in establishing and maintaining relationships with the staff Attended two Executive Board meetings Attended one CPAC meetings Worked with the Treasurer & B James on budgeting issues Monitored member correspondence Provided feedback and opinions in support of the Executive Board |
We hope to be able to review the two products that have been produced over the past couple of years by headquarters in support of ARLIS/NA: The product promotion proposal. Proposed Certification Plan Completion of the new design for publications. |


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Ticket #5087 enhancement new
Accept IPv6 address literals (with embedded scope ids) in IUDPTransport.connect
Reported by: | exarkun | Owned by: | |
Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | core | Keywords: | ipv6 |
Cc: | Branch: | ||
Author: | Launchpad Bug: |
Description (last modified by thijs) (diff)
At around the time #5086 is resolved, it would also make sense to support IPv6 address literals in the host argument to IUDPTransport.connect. This would only be supported for UDP ports which are listening on an IPv6 address.
It will have the same affect as using connect with an IPv4 address: future calls to IUDPTransport.write should only be made with one argument, the datagram, and the datagram will be sent to the address which was connected to.
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Height: | 6-1 |
Weight: | 215 |
Year: | Senior |
Hometown: | Fort St. John, BC |
High School: | North Peace Senior |
Position: | D |
Draft: | 2011: Toronto (6th round, 173rd overall) |
Previous Team: | Langley Chiefs |
2013-14 Captain
Drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 6th round (173rd overall) … Named ECAC Hockey All-Rookie and Second Team All-Ivy in 2011 … Earned Second Team All-Ivy for the second year in a row in 2012 and earned First Team All-Ivy honors in 2013.
2012 Recipient of a Silver Medal for Bravery and the M.G. Griffiths Award (awarded to a proficiency award holder who applied skill and knowledge gained through Lifesaving Society programs to aid a victim of an aquatic emergency) from The Lifesaving Society BC and Yukon Branch.
As a Junior in 2013|Stats: Served as the Bears' captain … Named to ECAC Hockey All-Tournament Team … Played as part of Brown's top defensive pairing and was one of seven members of the team to appear in all 36 games … Started all 36 games at left defense, partnering with Matt Wahl for 16 games and Brandon Pfeil for 20 … Finished the year ranked fourth on the team in scoring with 20 points and tied for first on the team with 17 assists … Scored one power play goal and was third on the team with a +9 rating … Blocked a team-leading 65 shots … Tallied at least one point in 18 games, including a four-game point-scoring streak to end the year … Registered 1-12-13 totals in ECAC Hockey contests … Big part of Bears' special teams, contributing on both the top power play and penalty kill … Averaged over 30 minutes of ice time per game … Matched his career-high with a pair of assists in 3-2 loss at #13 Harvard; named 2nd Star … Tallied an assist in 3-3 tie with St. Lawrence … Notched a power play assist in 3-0 win over Army … Scored his first goal of the season to give Brown a 1-0 lead at #13 Yale … Matched a career-high for both points and assist sin a game with a pair of assists, including one of the tying goal, in 3-3 draw with #12 Union … Earned an assist in 2-2 tie with RPI … Tallied an assist in 7-2 win over AIC … Posted an assist in 3-2 loss at St. Lawrence … Notched an assist against #11 Dartmouth … Registered a power play assist on the goal that gave Brown a 4-1 lead in 5-2 victory over Harvard … Tallied an assist in 5-1 win over Princeton …. Posted an assist on the goal that brought Brown to within 3-2 with 2:16 left in regulation in 3-3 tie with #1 Quinnipiac … Earned an assist against Cornell … Scored his second of the year to give Brown a 3-0 lead in 4-3 win over Clarkson in game two of ECAC First Round series … Posted a power play assist on the goal that got Brown on the board in game two of ECAC Quarterfinals at #16 RPI … Tallied an assist on the Bears' first goal as Brown won the series with a 3-2 victory over RPI in game three, advancing to the ECAC Semifinals for the first time since 2010; Was on the ice for all three of Brown's goals … Registered a power play assist on the goal that gave Brown a 4-0 lead late in the second period in 4-0 win over #1 Quinnipiac in ECAC Semifinals, as the Bears advanced to the Championship game for the first time since 1993 … Scored his third goal of the year, on the power play, to get Brown on the board in Championship game against #18 Union; Named 3rd Star.
As a Sophomore in 2012: Named to the All-Ivy Second Team … One of four Bears who played in all 32 games, he scored 16 points (2g, 14a) as a defenseman, 14 (2g, 12a) of which were accumulated in ECAC Hockey action … Served in the starting defensive pairing for 29 games, leading all Brown defensemen in scoring for the second straight season … Ranks second on the team in assists (14), fifth for points scored (16), seventh for power play goals (1) and tenth for goals scored (2) … Contributed a pair of assists in a 5-4 win over Cornell … Assisted on the game-winning power play goal in a 2-1 win over #9 Union … Added an additional power play assist at #14 Yale … Notched an assist on an empty net goal in a 6-4 win over #14 Yale … Continued to perform on the power play with an assist in a 5-2 win over Providence in the Mayor's Cup game … Earned 2nd star honors for her performance in a 2-2 tie with Quinnipiac, scoring his first goal of the year on the power play … Assisted on a power play goal to help Brown to a 3-2 win over #12 Union … Contributed a pair of assists, both on power play goals, against St. Lawrence … Earned an assist against #13 Cornell … Netted his second goal of the year against Colgate … Named 3rd star in a 3-3 tie with Harvard, registering two assists and tying his career high for points and assists … Tallied a power play assist in a 2-2 tie with Quinnipiac … Helped to clinch Brown's 4-1 win over Quinnipiac in game #1 of the ECAC First Round with an assist on an empty net goal … One of 24 Bears named to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Team.
As a Freshman in 2011: Recipient of the James H. Fullerton Award, as the first-year player, who in the eyes of his teammates contributed most to the success of the team … Played in 30 of 31 games, missing one due to injury … Partnered with classmate Matt Wahl as Brown's top defensive pairing, logging significant minutes in all situations … Led all Brown freshmen & defensemen in scoring with 17 points (6g, 11a), fourth overall on the team, 12th in the ECAC for defenseman scoring, and 14th in the ECAC for rookie scoring … Broke the Brown record for goals in a season by a freshman defenseman (6) … Also ranks 9th for assists in a season by a freshman defenseman (11) and 3rd for points in a season by a freshman defenseman (17) … Was second on the team with five power play goals … Posted 3-10-13 numbers in ECAC Hockey contests … Was second on the team in blocked shots with 39 … Named 3rd star in season opener at #5 Yale, scoring a pair of power play goals to tie the score at 1-1 and give Brown a 2-1 lead 1:47 later ... Scored the game-tying goal on the power play, his third power play goal in as many games, with 2:51 left to play in 3-3 tie with Quinnipiac; named 1st star ... Earned his first career assist on the power play goal that gave Brown a 1-0 lead, then scored his 4th power play goal to give Brown a 2-1 lead in 5-2 victory at Colgate; named Time Warner Cable Sports Player of the Game ... Earned an assist on the game-winning goal in 3-2 win at Cornell, as Brown swept on the road at Colgate/Cornell for the first time since 1992-93 ... Tallied an assist on the power play goal that tied the score at 3-3 in 4-3 loss to #13 Union ... Earned an assist the next night against #15 RPI ... Scored a goal and added an assist in 4-4 tie with Providence ... Posted an assist on the short-handed goal that tied the score at 2-2 at #1 Yale ... Tallied an another power play assist against Clarkson ... Scored his fifth power play goal of the year in 2-2 tie at Quinnipiac to get Brown on the board, while breaking Brown's record for goals in a season by a rookie defenseman ... Notched two assists, on Brown's first goal and the game-winner 30 seconds into overtime, in 3-2 win over Cornell ... Earned another pair of assists in 6-4 win over Colgate … One of 23 Bears named to the ECAC Hockey All-Academic Squad.
Before Brown: Robertson spent the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons with the Langley Chiefs, of the BCHL … Named the Chiefs co-top-defenseman in 2009-10, Robertson posted 34 points (9g, 25a), including three power play goals and two game-winning goals, and 83 penalty minutes in 53 games during the 2009-10 season … Played in 55 games in 2008-09 and finished with 12 points (1g, 11a) and 64 penalty minutes … Named the Top Academic Player for the Chiefs in 2009-10, earning BCHL All-Academic honors … Named the 2008 Most Inspirational and Top Academic Player for the Summerland Sting (JrB) … Named to the 2007-08 KIJHL (JrB) All-Prospects Team.
Personal: Dennis Eamon Robertson is the son of Jeff and Regina Robertson of Fort St. John, British Columbia … Born in 1991 … Dennis has two sisters, Patricia and Erin … Honor Roll student at North Peace Senior Secondary School … Interests: Tennis, Golf, Fishing, Water Sports … Concentration: Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations.
Robertson's Career Highs
Goals: 2, at Yale (10/29/10)
Assists: 2, 7x, last vs. Union (12/7/12)
Points: 2, 10x, last vs. Union (12/7/12)
PPG: 2, at Yale (10/29/10)
Shots: 8, vs. Harvard (2/22/11)
Blocked Shots: 8, vs. St. Lawrence (1/21/11)
Robertson's Career Stats | ||||||||||
GP | G | A | PTS | PPG | SHG | GWG | BLK | +/- | Pen/Min | |
2010-2011 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 39 | -8 | 24/48 |
2011-2012 | 32 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | -16 | 25/72 |
2012-2013 | 36 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | +9 | 25/69 |


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Pinterest is used by more than 21% of all American adults. This is up from 15% on the previous year.
This figure comes from the last study by Pew Research, which also states the even more incredible fact that one-third of all women in the USA use Pinterest.
Pinterest drove an unprecedented amount of traffic to retail sites in Q4 2013 achieving a 50% quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue-per-visit (RPV). In fact, Pinterest has overtaken Facebook for UK referral revenue and is expected to do the same in the USA this year.
Also, with the amount of Pinterest Pin it buttons overtaking the amount of Facebook Likes on product pages, retailers are realising that Pinterest is a key way to drive sales.
Let's take a look at how the top 10 US retailers (in terms of 2013 sales) use Pinterest.
Read more...
by Christopher Ratcliff 13 March 2014 14:36pm 1 comment
In this two part series key content, consumer and digital marketing trends between the UK and US online marketers are explored.
Transatlantic differences and approaches to content and consumer culture are explained in this first post.
In part two we take a deep dive into UK and US digital, search and social marketers.
by Andy Betts 13 March 2014 13:57pm 0 comments
UK consumers are far ahead of Europe in terms of using smartphones for online shopping.
Out of 18 European countries surveyed, the UK has the highest percentage of people who make a monthly purchase on their smartphones, with 32%. This is compared to just 8% in France, 15% in Germany and 19% in Sweden.
These findings come from the latest TNS research commissioned by Google, which explores the growing importance of online platforms in the consumer journey, from research to purchase.
The research also looks more broadly at internet usage across devices. Here is the online state of the UK in 2014, compared to last year:
by Christopher Ratcliff 13 March 2014 12:28pm 1 comment
Customer experience is all. This is the mantra being used for digital transformation roadmaps and the theme for this year's digital marketing trends.
One brand that understands customer experience is Nespresso.
Here's a rundown of exactly how the coffee-meets-tech brand provides great CX for its aspirational customers.
Kick back, allow me to bring you some creamy opinion in a glass cup.
by Ben Davis 13 March 2014 12:01pm 1 comment
Different types of blog post bring different benefits to your website.
Through painstaking research into all the blog content of one website, I have been able to identify clear patterns that should help you think about ways to plan your content strategy.
In this article I will explain the analysis that led to the results you will see here.
by Steve Masters 13 March 2014 10:49am 2 comments
Forgive the first person pronoun in the headline, but television is the most emotive of subjects.
Not for nothing does the Simpsons use the TV set as a cultural trope. Perhaps the emergence of broadband and the creative decline of the Simpsons is more than correlative?
Anyway, I don't dispute the second screen phenomenon, not one bit. I use my phone whilst watching TV all the time.
What I am disputing, outside of a few important examples, is the extent of consumer demand for contextual second screen experiences. Within this disputation comes the assertion that a lot of second screen use is indeed not contextual (aside from social media use) and cannot therefore be 'monetised' as such.
Of course, fans of the second screen may point out that the reason second screen usage isn't yet contextual is because second screen services and apps are nowhere near maturation yet. There may be improved uses and better content to come.
I'd argue that the same problems that beset social advertising (a place for branding but not sales) will ultimately beset the second screen, driven as it is by the demand for socialising whilst watching the box.
See if you agree with my devil's advocate's views.
by Ben Davis 13 March 2014 09:50am 1 comment
Whether it's a few hours, a day, a week, two months, or ten years, purchase cycles exist for every product.
The length of the cycle usually reflects the magnitude of the purchase, with smaller items such as cups of coffee having a typically short purchase cycle and more significant transactions such as cars or fitted kitchens tending towards far longer cycles.
by Simon Robinson 12 March 2014 17:28pm 0 comments
The web is 25 years old. Did you use it today? And yesterday? Wow, it's really catching on.
Here are some old websites from 1994 to 1998, when the web was in full swing (or so we thought).
If you've got your own to share, do leave them in the comments section below.
by Ben Davis 12 March 2014 16:14pm 8 comments
Although founded in 1939 as Timely Comics, the modern version of Marvel Comics that all fanboys know and love today was launched in 1961. With Fantastic Four, Spider-man, Avengers and X-Men all first appearing on comic book pages in the first half of the 60s.
With the arrival of the digital age, the expectation was that this 75 year-old company, whose very business is completely ingrained in traditional print media, would just be left to wrinkle and brown like the early-90's Ghost Rider comics I have boxed away in my attic.
However this has been far from the fate of mighty Marvel! (I can get away with exclamation marks here because I'm writing about comic books).
Marvel has played a huge part in the push to build a bridge between print and digital content since mid 2012 by revolutionising the way comic books are consumed, through innovative app design and comprehensive online and offline access to its brand new and vintage comics.
Marvel has also shown incredible skill in rebuilding its own brand through expert content marketing and becoming a peerless heavyweight in the summer blockbuster market.
How does Marvel market its huge amount of content online? Through its many and varied social media channels each offering unique content, tailored to the respective platform.
Let's take a look at how Marvel uses Google+, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter to 'make everyone's Marvel'.
by Christopher Ratcliff 12 March 2014 14:37pm 1 comment
Clothing retailer Threadless has unveiled a new iPhone app, giving its customers another way to shop and interact with the brand.
Threadless is a community website that specialises in unique designs for t-shirts, hoodies and other items. It is built around social media and allows users to follow their favourite designers, submit their own ideas, and vote for designs that they want the website to sell.
Alongside the standard ecommerce functions, the app includes a voting tool so users can rate new designs and a never-ending feed of original products.
Read on to find out what I thought of the app, or for more information on Threadless read our blog posts looking at how it uses welcome emails and online video...
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Tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association reports that women treated with Premarin (estrogens derived from horse urine, Wyeth) alone were 39 percent more likely to have a stroke during a 7-year follow-up period in the Women's Health Initiative, compared to women treated with placebo. This portion of the study included 10,739 postmenopausal women, aged 50-79, with a prior hysterectomy. Estrogens appeared to reduce hip fracture risk. The Women's Health Initiative had already shown that estrogens combined with progesterone increased the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, and potentially fatal blood clots. An accompanying editorial recommended against estrogen use for prevention of heart disease or fractures.
The Women's Health Initiative Steering Committee. Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2004;291:1701-1712.
Hulley SB, Grady D. The WHI Estrogen-Alone Trial—Do things look any better? JAMA. 2004;291:1769-1771.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Gratitude is a vital part of the life of God's people. To celebrate the holiday, here's a quick tour of what the Bible says about gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving!
In the Old Testament
Gratitude was key to ceremonies and customs. Gratitude was expressed in thank offerings acknowledging God's blessings:
"And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted." Leviticus 22:29
"Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and perform your vows to the Most High,
and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me." Psalm 50:14–15
Gratitude was expressed in shouts of joy and songs of praise:
"These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival." Psalm 42:4
"They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness
and shall sing aloud of your righteousness." Psalm 145:7
Gratitude was expressed in feasts and festivals:
"You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you. And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful." Deuteronomy 16:9–15
In the New Testament
Gratitude for the love of God is expressed in the redemptive work of Jesus and the ability to share the good news of the gospel:
"I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus." 1 Corinthians 1:4
"I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service." 1 Timothy 1:12
The Apostle Paul encouraged believers to give thanks in all things:
"The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God." Romans 14:6
"Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Let today be a day of worship to God as you celebrate with your family all the ways he has so richly blessed us.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Scriptures and themes adapted from Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (900–901). Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.


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My husband and I recently celebrated a big-time first for us: we bought a couch.
I don't skip my pap smear just because there's nothing weird seeping out of my uterus. It doesn't make any sense that I wouldn't also keep some sort of eye on my general mental health.