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Hundreds of people across Europe have been left stranded at airports or cut off in their own homes as heavy snow and freezing conditions continue to adversely affect transportation.
In Germany snowdrifts of up to two meters high meant many villages were "left to their own devices", police told the AFP news agency on Sunday.
Nearly 100 flights were cancelled at Frankfurt airport, Europe's third busiest, while more than 80 flights were cancelled at Heathrow airport in London.
Treacherous conditions have also disrupted Eurostar rail services between Britain and France, with only two out of three trains able to run under the Channel.
Harsh conditions
Villages on the Baltic Sea islands have been completely cut off by snowy weather, while around 3,000 homes in southeastern France were without power for a second day Sunday.
Germany has seen more than 1,000 car accidents in recent days, several of them fatal, with blizzards causing hazardous conditions on motorways.
In the Balkans, heavy rain and melting snow meanwhile led to flooding in parts of Croatia and Bosnia, with an emergency declared in the central Croatian district of Lika and 100 homes evacuated.
Several European countries sent rescue teams to Albania after 10,000 hectares of land were flooded in the north, affecting 2,500 homes, officials said, but no deaths were reported.
In Britain, where at least 29 people are reported to have died from the cold weather, the army has been called in to help deliver much-needed supplies of food to rural areas cut off by the snow.
Forecasters have warned of more snow to come overnight in Germany, while in Britain temperatures were expected to edge above freezing towards the end of the week.
The harsh conditions were caused as relatively warm humid air from the Mediterranean met cold air from the north and east, meteorologist Michel Daloz from Meteo France told AFP.
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February 15, 2011
American Marketing Association Hosts First Regional Conference
By Tara Cegla, Senior Public Relations Major, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) held their First Annual UWEC-AMA Regional Conference entitled "Coaching, Connections, and Communication." In addition to being open to all UW-Eau Claire students, over 60 AMA students from chapters located at UW-Whitewater, UW-Stout, and Winona State University traveled to attend the event.
The conference began at 10:00 am and included a variety of presentations with speakers from Altria, Primerica, and The Stone Group. The focus of the conference was to provide students with actionable strategies to improve their networking and communications skills as a way to connect with future employers and business partners. Due to the success of this first conference, the UWEC-AMA is looking forward to continuing this regional conference in the future.
In addition to the conference, UWEC-AMA members also volunteered to assist at Internship Mania 2011 which was being conducted the same day as the conference at Zorn Arena. The AMA welcomed employers before the event took place, helped with logistics, and provided support as needed to during Internship Mania.
Internship mania provided students the opportunity to talk with company representatives about internships and full-time opportunities with their companies. AMA members eagerly await Internship Mania each year so they can gain more professional experience and have an opportunity to network with an assortment of companies. Internship Mania and the associated Regional Conference allowed UWEC-AMA members to get involved with the campus community and to provide valuable resources for students.
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Located In Kansas City Missouri, atop historic Union Hill, Buttonwood Art Space is a place for all artists to share their work. Buttonwood Art Space hosts two-month long exhibitions in our Main Street space and curates the art exhibits at The Kansas City Club. Two great places to find local art. Celebrating First Fridays in the Crosroads!
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I had never once thought about what went into making pipes. It was something that just never crossed my mind and as a result, I kind of just ignored it. However, I do have to say that the process of pipe fabrication is actually a really interesting one that involves a number of large machines that take a big piece of heavy sheet metal that is then rolled and wielded to seal off the side of the pipe. These are then the pipes that are often used in a variety of different industrial settings.
From what I have read, I think that these pipes are then used in a setting in which power or materials are flowed through the pipe. When we hear about the big projects like the Keystone Pipeline that would take oil from the Canadian Tar Sands down to Texas to be refined, we are talking about the use of these large pipes. What would occur is a company that produces these pipes would be in the process of fabricating a large number of them that are then put into place by pipe fitters. These individuals would be tasked with making sure that all of the oil from the tar sands makes it down to Texas without having any spills or anything like that that could significantly harm the environment. Obviously, there is a lot of worry that would go into the making of a large pipeline like this.
There are a lot of different opportunities for something to go very wrong and for this, I think that it is important to keep in mind that there would be a huge number of negative consequences if something did go wrong. In order to make sure that the pipe was solid enough, I think that you would want to hire a bolt torquing service that would be able to take all of the various pieces and tighten the joints between them. This allows for the pipe to be more sturdy because it would be segmented and then held together with bolts and fasteners that have thousands of pounds of pressure that keep them together.
To me, this would probably be the safest route, but I have to imagine that those are the types of plans that would be put into place to make sure that no environmental disasters occur. If one were to occur because of the quality of the pipe fabrication, I think that there would be a gigantic uproar among not only environmentalists, but also the media and everyday folks that would be impacted. I am also certain that the pipe fabricators would be held legally responsible for anything negative that would happen to that site. It would be a very similar situation to the Exxon Valdez that sank off of the coast of Alaska. There were a huge amount of reparations that had to be paid as a result of the mess.


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BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- XOMA Corporation (Nasdaq:XOMA), a leader in the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies, today announced preliminary top-line data from an interim analysis of its Phase 2 proof-of-concept (POC) study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of gevokizumab, a potent modulator of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), for the treatment of the inflammatory facial lesions seen in patients with moderate to severe acne vulgaris.
The Phase 2 POC study is a double-blind randomized comparison of gevokizumab 0.2mg/kg and 0.6mg/kg versus placebo given subcutaneously once per month for three consecutive months. Investigators have enrolled a total of approximately 125 patients to date, and the interim results are based on up to 92 patients with available data. In line with FDA guidance, inflammatory lesion counts, the primary endpoint in this trial, and overall acne severity as assessed by responder analysis of the Investigator Global Assessment (IGA), defined as at least a two-point improvement on a five-point scale, were measured at different time points up to Day 84. The study was designed to have 80 percent power to detect at least an absolute difference of 15 versus placebo in the mean inflammatory lesion count at Day 84 with statistical significance defined as p≤ 0.10.
The 0.6mg/kg dose group showed a statistically significant reduction of 19 in mean inflammatory lesion count on Day 42 compared to a reduction of 13 in the placebo treated group (p=0.077). Each of the groups had a mean baseline of approximately 31 inflammatory lesions. The magnitude of the difference was substantially maintained throughout the study, but differences at later measurement points were not statistically significant. The 0.6mg/kg dose group demonstrated both a clinically and statistically significant improvement in IGA at Day 84, showing a 31 percent responder rate versus a 5 percent responder rate in the placebo group (p= 0.031). The 0.2mg/kg dose group showed no clinically or statistically significant differences from placebo at any time point in inflammatory lesion count or in IGA.
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Adam Sandler's 4-year-old daughter is apparently a bit mature for her age and is already interested in boys. The Grown Ups star revealed to David Letterman that he is preemptively handling the situation by offering his little player some tactical dating advice that only a father could give. Up next, native Brooklyn boys Chris Rock and Jimmy Kimmel discuss how one smuggles illegal contraband into the city, and over at The Daily Show, Jon Stewart and John Oliver get in a heated World Cup debate over Team America's historic win, with Stewart offering Oliver's English countrymen some help if they run into trouble with the Germans again. Last but not least, Apple fanboy Jimmy Fallon gets served by Heidi Klum when he tries to impress her with the size of the new iPhone 4. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.


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A bit late, but I came across this video recently. Back in July, Bishop Jan Liesen was a guest on EWTN Live with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. He spoke about the challenges of the evangelisation, especially in a post-Christian society like the Netherlands.
The interview starts at about 3:30 into the video.
Bishop Liesen speaks about the impulse that the Second Vatican Council gave to the renewed evangelisation fifty years ago, and which should have started then. He speaks so from his theological background and extensive knowledge of the history of the Council.
Worth a look, certainly to remind us of what the Council really gave us.
There has been little change in the composition of the College of Cardinals lately, but then suddenly one change follows another. One day after the 80th birthday of Belgian Cardinal Danneels (more on that later), the Church mourns the passing of Stanisław Kazimierz Cardinal Nagy.
The half-Polish half-Hungarian theologian was born in 1921 in the southern Polish town of Bieruń Stary, which had been German until earlier that year.
In 1937, young Stanisław answered his religious calling and joined the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, better known as the Dehonians, named after their 19th-century founder, Fr. Léon Dehon. As a member, he was sent to study Catholic theology and philosophy at the renowned universities of Kraków and Lublin.
In 1945, Nagy was ordained as a priest of the Dehonian Congregation, and was appointed as seminary rector in Kraków and Tarnów. He continued his studies at Lublin and in 1952, Fr. Nagy received a promotion in moral theology. He remained at the university as a professor in the same subject.
Over the course of the years, Fr. Nagy's theological career saw him as a member of the International Theological Commission, the Joint Catholic-Lutheran Commission and the editorial staff of the Catholic Encyclopedia, all in the early 1970s.
He also authored several books on topics such as ecumenism and his countryman, Blessed Pope John Paul II. In recognition of his contributions to the field of theology, John Paul II chose to include Fr. Nagy in the College of Cardinals. He did so in the consistory of October 2003. Prior to this, Fr. Nagy was consecrated as Titular Archbishop of Hólar.
Cardinal Nagy, already 82 at the time of his creation, became cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria della Scala. He never participated in a conclave, due to his age.
With the passing of Cardinal Nagy, and the 80th birthday of Cardinal Danneels, there are now 203 cardinals in the Church, of whom 112 are electors.
Pope Francis' recent homily about salvation, and even more so Father Thomas Rosica's comments about it, has led to much speculation, confusion and even anger about one of the most essential questions in the faith: the question of who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell. Maybe it's good to shine a small light on this difficult theological topic.
First of all, let's start with the words that Pope Francis spoke in his homily of 22 May:
"The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of God of the first class! We are created children in the likeness of God and the Blood of Christ has redeemed us all!"
The Church has always upheld the universality of redemption in contrast to some Protestant communities, who have limited it to a certain group of predestined faithful. A glance on the Catholic Encyclopedia page about this topic points our attention to some Scripture passages which bear this out. I'll quote a few, but do read the link above especially the subsection titled 'Universality of Redemption', to get an idea of traditional Catholic teaching about this subject.
1 John 2:2: "He is the sacrifice to expiate our sins, and not only ours, but also those of the whole world."
1 Timothy 2:4: "he wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth."
1 Timothy 4:10: "he is the Saviour of the whole human race but particularly of all believers."
2 Corinthians 5:19: "I mean, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not holding anyone's faults against them, but entrusting to us the message of reconciliation."
Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, by which He brought about redemption for humanity, was not in any way limited. It's target audience, so to speak, included every human being in past, present and future. But in order to properly understand this, we must try and understand how redemption works.
Perhaps it can be best likened, for the purpose of this blog post, to some form of medication, a pill perhaps, which works for everyone. It can relieve everyone of the pain of some illness. But it doesn't do so automatically: we must take the pill for it to work. It is no different in the case of redemption. In order for it to work in us, we must make the conscious decision to accept it. That is once again perfectly in accordance with the free will that God has created us with and which He always respects.
So, yes, Pope Francis is correct and in full agreement with Catholic teaching when he says that Christ also redeemed atheists. However, as is sort of their job description, they haven't accepted it yet. They haven't yet taken their medication, so it can't do its work. But unlike a pill, redemption has no sell-by date. It doesn't go bad if left on the shelf for too long.
Father Thomas Rosica, who is not the press chief of the Vatican as some media would have it, offers some answers to questions about the Pope's homily. He does not relegate all atheists to Hell (nor to Heaven, for that matter), but presents some much-needed nuance to the discussion, based on several passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Most important is that Christ is the final Judge: He will decide on the fate of everyone, based on how they have lived (and in that matter there can be no opposition between faith and works, as both are integral parts of a person's life).
Also important in the discussion above is Paragraph 171 of the Catechism, which asks "What is the meaning of the affirmation "Outside the Church there is no salvation"?"
This means that all salvation comes from Christ, the Head, through the Church which is his body. Hence they cannot be saved who, knowing the Church as founded by Christ and necessary for salvation, would refuse to enter her or remain in her. At the same time, thanks to Christ and to his Church, those who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ and his Church but sincerely seek God and, moved by grace, try to do his will as it is known through the dictates of conscience can attain eternal salvation.
In short, if a person knows that the Church that Christ founded is necessary for salvation, and nonetheless refuses to be part of her, he or she can not be saved. So, is this true for atheists, then? I would say that it isn't for the vast majority of them. Many people are atheist or agnostic out of ignorance, and generally not wilfully so. They do not know the Church as necessary for salvation, so it can't be held against them if they refuse to be part of her.
In his homily of last Wednesday, Pope Francis spoke much about "good works". This lines up well with the above quote from the Catechism: "those who … sincerely seek God and, moved by grace, try to do his will as it is known through the dictates of conscience can attain eternal salvation."
There is much more that may be said about this, but the post is getting overly long anyway, so I'll leave it at this. But I will add an addendum:
Fr. Rosica's explanations (and those of others) do not contradict what Pope Francis has said, and nor do they indicate some division in the Vatican between the Pope and the Curia. That many media do choose to present it as such, should serve as a warning to us to always remain vigilant when reading or hearing someone's interpretation of Church affairs and teaching.
In the run-up to tomorrow's inauguration of King Willem Alexander there has been much attention paid to Catholic notions of kingship. While Christ is the one King, the Church also teaches much about the duties of earthly kings. Bishop Jos Punt's homily is an excellent example of the latter. It also contains an interesting glimpse of the religious landscape of the Netherlands and the role of tolerance, as well as a theological explanation of the globus cruciger. Recommended reading (for Dutch readers, the original text).
A recording of the Mass, by Dutch public television, may be viewed here.
In closing, some words by Father Jim Schilder, priest of the basilica of St. Nicholas:
"Today is the fifth Sunday of Easter. But is also two days before the inauguration of our Crown Prince. That is, you could say, a moment of renewal. A threshold to a new era, without breaking with the past. That is also what we see in this time of Easter. On the one hand it is a time of revolutionary renewal through the resurrection of Christ, and on the other hand a time of a new covenant rooted in the old. It is still about the way that God wants to travel with us, about his continuous invitation to follow Him. We can do this by answering the call of Jesus in today's Gospel: "As I have loved you, so you also should love one another." This goes beyond the two commandments He gave before, and which were already present in the Old Testament: To love God, and your neighbour like yourself. In the Gospel of John He asks us to love each other as He has loved us. His love was characterised by the fact that His entire earthly life was devoted to the other. "I have come to serve." May the same, we pray, also be true for our new head of state."
Photo credit: [1] Isabel Nabuurs, [2] Fr. Jim Schilder.
His episcopal motto, taken from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians, was "Christ is Yes". Two days ago, Bishop Bernhard Rieger returned to that eternal positive confirmation, as he passed away in the quiet of the small town of Kressbronn on the shores of Lake Constance, south Germany, the place where he retired to in 1996.
Bernhard Rieger was born in 1922 in central Baden and reached adulthood as World War II broke out. This marked his late teens and early twenties, as he was drafted into the Labour Service, and later into the Wehrmacht. Until the end of the war, Rieger served as soldier and wireless operator on both the Eastern and the Western Fronts, and was taken prisoner of war by the Allies in France. There, he entered the so-called "barbed wire seminary" in Chartres. There he met the Nuncio to France, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli, who would later become Pope John XXIII. Returning to Germany, Rieger studied theology in Tübingen and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951 by Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht of Rottenburg.
For most of his years as priest, Father Rieger worked as a parish priest throughout the Diocese of Rottenburg, and also as teacher of religion, advising the bishop on matters of education. In 1975, Fr. Rieger was appointed to the cathedral chapter and the priest council, and from 1977 onward, he held the title of Monsignor.
In 1984, Msgr. Rieger was appointed as auxiliary bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (the diocese had had a change of name in 1978), with the titular see of Tigava. Within the German Bishops' Conference, Bishop Rieger was a member of the media commission.
In 1996, Blessed Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation, and Bishop Rieger retired to the shores of Lake Constance.
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Following the example of many other leaders, Catholic and otherwise, the Dutch bishops also released a statement following Pope Benedict's surprise announcement that he would resign at the end of this month. Below follows the text in my translation.
Before this official statement, Bishop Jan Hendriks, auxiliary of Haarlem-Amsterdam, shared his own thoughts about the news. He noted how the Holy Father clearly seemed very fatigued when he last met the Holy Father in September.
"Today we received the news about the resignation, at the end of this month, of Pope Benedict XVI. As for so many others, this news was a surprise to us.
The Holy Father announced that his resignation would take effect on Thursday 28 February at 8pm. His age and health are the decisive reasons for this radical and historical decision.
Pope Benedict XVI is one of the greatest theologians in the Catholic world of the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. His knowledge is not only limited to dogmatics, which he taught in his younger years, but extends over the entire field of theology. This was also expressed in his encyclicals, other letters and addresses as contributions to the magisterium of the Church. He also showed himself a true shepherd of the Church. Pope Benedict XVI, then, has played a role in the Roman Catholic Church which should not be underestimated. We are very grateful for his pontificate.
In his statement, Pope Benedict XVI also announced the conclave in which a new Pope will be elected. Cardinal Eijk will participate in this conclave.
At the age of 78, Cardinal Ratzinger heard the call of the Lord and accepted the highest office in the Church. Now, almost 8 years later, he decided to retire. We pray for Pope Benedict, that he may be richly "blessed" by God, also after his resignation."
Bishop Hans van den Hende of Rotterdam also expressed his surprise at today's news. He expressed the hope that the Pope would continue to travel with us in prayer, "in the pilgrimage that our life on earth most deeply is". He asked all faithful in the diocese to pray for Pope Benedict and the Church.
Despite my impression that the length of Pope Benedict's messages is getting shorter, his latest one, for the coming season of Lent, is still an elegant theological discourse on the two virtues of faith and charity.
Starting from a raft of Biblical quotations and references, the Holy Father demonstrates how these two are "intimately linked," how the love of God is the source of our faith, and how our faith enables us to love God and the neighbour.
"Essentially, everything proceeds from Love and tends towards Love. God's gratuitous love is made known to us through the proclamation of the Gospel. If we welcome it with faith, we receive the first and indispensable contact with the Divine, capable of making us "fall in love with Love", and then we dwell within this Love, we grow in it and we joyfully communicate it to others."
An excellent read, and a text we can all study and reflect upon as we enter Lent.
My Dutch translation is available here.
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In an excellent CNS video, Father Wojciech Giertych explains why Catholic priests are men only, and also delves into the counter-cultural nature of Christ and the unique closeness to Him that women often achieve.
Fr. Giertych is the Theologian to the Papal Household and, as such, advises the Pope on theological issues and checks the theological clarity of papal publications.


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Insights, an international juried exhibition featuring visually impaired and blind artists, is sponsored each year by the Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco. Some artists are professional, others just beginning to express themselves using the creative process. The Radio Chronicles presents stories from several of this year's Insights artists, including Charles Curtis Blackwell, Mari Cardenas, Haley Goodlett and Bruce Hall. Kim Shuck has coordinated Insights 2008 and talks about the process and the work, which is on display at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery in the lower level of City Hall.
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Here are the highlights from Monday's Headlines on Dennis & Callahan with guest hosts Butch Stearns, Steve DeOssie and Fred Smerlas. To hear the segment, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
– Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball player stricken with ALS who was the inspiration for the ice bucket challenge, became a father on Sunday. Frates' wife, Julie, gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter they named Lucy.
Frates' father, John, told WCVB-TV that the birth was "the perfect ending to the miracle month of August."
"This is an awesome, awesome story that they have a baby girl," Stearns said.
Added Stearns: "I don't think any of us can imagine — there but for the grace of God go I with a disease like ALS, which, let's be honest, is a death sentence. It's just a matter of time. However, to me this story as it's gone on is not about how Pete Frates and others are living with what is a death sentence. To me it's about how they're living. And this is the latest example."
– A series of explicit photos appearing to show a nude Jennifer Lawrence hit the Internet as part of one of the biggest celebrity hacking scandals ever. A hacker reportedly claims to have accessed cloud storage that contains photos from the phones and computers of celebrities including Kate Upton, Candice Swanepoel, Cat Deeley, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, Kirsten Dunst, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez and Rihanna.
"Why are they putting naked pictures of themselves in some cloud thing?" wondered Smerlas, adding: "What are you thinking about?"
Joked DeOssie: "Kim Kardashian actually hacked into the hackers to put hers there."
– Following last week's settlement in the Demoulas family feud, the Market Basket supermarket chain is returning to full operations.
"The story will fade out now, but it will be very interesting to see where Arthur T. takes this franchise now," DeOssie said. "If he takes this and builds it into a bigger empire, more power to him. But if he takes this and all of a sudden in what has become a very competitive marketplace in New England now with places like Wegmans and Hannaford and Price Chopper and Stop & Shop and Shaw's, now all of a sudden if he takes this and it goes south, where are all these people going to go?"
Here are the highlights from Tuesday's Three for All on Middays with MFB with Lou Merloni, Christian Fauria and Tim Benz. To hear the segment, go to the MFB audio on demand page.
– Greg Amsinger of the MLB Network made an impressive prediction Wednesday night, calling Buster Posey's walkoff home run that gave the Giants a 4-2 victory over the Rockies.
"Not only does he call what's going to happen with Buster Posey at the plate, but he's also going to call what the play-by-play guy is going to call," Benz explained.
"It was the next pitch '¦ It was literally like seconds," Merloni marveled.
– Merloni said he recently typed a text message to his wife but forgot to hit "send," making the message moot.
"Do you guys ever do that?" Merloni asked. "I find myself doing that like all the time. I answer the text and once I'm done typing it, boom, I'm done. And then I go back like two hours later and I realize I never his send, that it's still sitting there. Am I the only one who does that?"
Said Benz: "Invariably it's the wife, and invariably it's something in her world that's important."
Added Fauria: "That happened to me this morning. This very morning."
– Fauria called attention to the fact that Lifetime network's behind-the-scenes look at "Saved By the Bell" is set to air Monday night.
"All the hookups, all the fights, all the jockeying for position on camera," Fauria said.
Fauria noted that the show will air repeatedly on Monday night: "In case you miss it, you have lots of opportunities to watch it."
Said Merloni: "Make sure you text me. Hit send."
Here are the highlights from Friday's Headlines on Dennis & Callahan with guest hosts Steve Buckley, Jerry Thornton and Fred Smerlas. To hear the segment, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
– Comedian Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on Thursday after going into cardiac arrest while having surgery on her vocal chords at a nearby clinic, according to reports.
Rivers, 81, has been hosting a show on E! and continuing to perform stand-up comedy.
"She is 81 years old," Thornton said. "Her face is 12, apparently."
Added Thornton: "You know who's really going to suffer out of this is [Rivers' daughter] Melissa, because what skill does she bring to the table? Melissa is literally going to have to climb into the hospital bed and die with her, because she'll have no life."
– USC running back Anthony Brown, who quit the team last week, accused coach Steve Sarkisian of being a racist, an accusation Sarkisian strongly denied. Brown said Sarkisian swore at him repeatedly in a meeting.
Thornton, who admits to being "a Notre Dame suck-up and thus "a big hater of USC," nonetheless questioned if athletes nowadays are too soft.
"Do you get the feeling that this is the manifestation of that participation trophy generation — that like, nobody's been talked to in a negative way before? No one's ever been yelled at: 'Shut up, make your bed and get on the school bus.' "
Smerlas recalled a number on times coaches swore at him, and he said he sees a difference in how coaches interact now. "College sports and high school sports is totally — I call them the pastry and Pop-Tart kids out in the suburbs," he said.
– A youth dance team coach in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, was fired after an annual "lock-in" at the school gym in which she tries to scare younger members. Madi Salisbury shut off the lights with the intention of having a group of people scare the kids, something she compared to a haunted house. People jumped out and shot off pop guns, and parents complained that their girls were upset because they did not know if the guns were fake.
"It's not like they hit them with a board, or threw ice water," Smerlas said.
Said Thornton: "I'm going to guess that grief counselors are available for the girls on the Cannon Falls, Minnesota, dance team."


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Mercury Computer Systems Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2013 Results
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. – Where Challenges Drive Innovation ®
Mercury Computer Systems ( www.mc.com ) (Nasdaq:MRCY) is a best-of-breed provider of commercially developed, open sensor and Big Data processing systems, software and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications. With over 30 years of experience in embedded computing, superior domain expertise in radar, EW, SIGINT, EO/IR and C4I applications, and more than 300 successful program deployments including Aegis, Patriot, SEWIP, Gorgon Stare and Predator/Reaper, Mercury's Services and Systems Integration (SSI) team leads the industry in partnering with defense prime contractors to design and integrate system-level solutions that minimize program risk, maximize application portability, and accelerate customers' time to market.
Mercury is based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and serves customers worldwide through a broad network of direct sales offices, subsidiaries, and distributors.
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor StatementThis press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to fiscal 2013 business performance and beyond and the Company's plans for growth and improvement in profitability and cash flow. You can identify these statements by the use of the words "may," "will," "could," "should," "would," "plans," "expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "project," "intend," "likely," "forecast," "probable," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company's markets, effects of continued geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, changes in the U.S. Government's interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, changes to export regulations, increases in tax rates, changes to generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining key employees and customers, unanticipated costs under fixed-price service and system integration engagements, and various other factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.
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GRequests allows you to use Requests with Gevent to make asyncronous HTTP
Requests easily.
WWW: https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/www/py-grequests/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install www/py-grequests
cd /usr/ports/www/py-grequests/ && make install clean
pkg install www/py-grequests
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 7
www/py-grequests: Modernise and fix tests
- Enable STAGE support
- Enable AUTOPLIST support, delete pkg-plist
- RUN_DEPENDS: Use requests 2.x
- Deprecate easy_install target
- Update LICENSE (BSD2CLAUSE)
- Add TEST_DEPENDS
- Make tests work using standard setup.py test command [1]
- Backport commit for tests using requests hook **kwargs [2]
[1] https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests/pull/47
Sweep www/py-requests dependants to www/py-requests1
Point all www/py-requests dependants to www/py-requests1 in preparation for
the upgrade of www/py-requests to version 2.x, which substantially breaks API
Maintainers of these ports can update their requests dependency independently
as time for sufficient testing permits.
PR: ports/185631
Fix properties on pkg-plist
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
www/py-grequests: Update to 0.2.0, use github and setuptools
- Update to 0.2.0
- Update pkg-plist
- Use GITHUB for distfiles
- Use setuptools
- Update requests minimum version in RUN_DEPENDS
- Add regression-test: target
- Re-patch setup.py to hook in unit tests
- pkg-descr: Tab->space in WWW:
Approved by: eadler, rm (mentors, implicit)
Update MAINTAINER address for all my ports. While I'm here,
standardise and canonicalise Makefile header format and contents.
Approved by: eadler (mentor)
GRequests allows you to use Requests with Gevent to make asyncronous HTTP
Requests easily.
WWW: https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests
PR: ports/168554
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First Federal, 5 Other Arkansas Stocks Rise in 2Q
by Lance Turner
Posted 6/29/2012 03:57 pm
Updated 2 years ago
First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas Inc., the publicly traded holding company for First Federal Bank of Harrison, saw its stock price improve by almost 19 percent during the second quarter, once again leading Arkansas' publicly traded firms in quarterly stock performance.
The stock (Nasdaq: FFBH) closed at $8.10 on Friday, up from its March 30 closing price of $6.82. The company, hit hard by loan losses in northwest Arkansas, was recapitalized last year and is now under the leadership of CEO Dabbs Cavin.
It was the biggest winner among Arkansas stocks during the second quarter of trading, which ended with the closing bell on Friday afternoon. It was one of only six Arkansas stocks ending the second quarter with gains. The state's 11 other stocks saw shares end the quarter unchanged or lower.
First Federal also recorded the biggest gain of the first six months of the year, with shares up about 84 percent from its Jan. 2 opening price.
Another bank company, Home BancShares Inc. of Conway, saw the second-biggest gain of the quarter. Its shares (Nasdaq: HOMB) closed at $30.58, up nearly 15 percent from its March 30 closing price of $26.61. Over the last six months, its shares have risen about 16 percent.
Only one other company recorded a double-digit gain. Shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville (NYSE: WMT), the world's largest retailer, rose about 14 percent to $69.72 per share.
The gain came amid allegations, detailed in The New York Times in April, that the retailer engaged in bribery and corruption in Mexico. Wal-Mart and the federal government continue to investigate the matter.
Here's how other Arkansas stocks performed in the second quarter:
- J.B. Hunt Transport Services of Lowell, up 10 percent to $59.60.
- Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock, up 3 percent to $15.11.
- Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock, up 1 percent to $63.68.
- Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. of Springdale, unchanged at 7 cents.
- Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, down 2 percent to $18.83.
- Deltic Timber Corp. of El Dorado, down 4 percent to $60.98.
- Bank of the Ozarks of Little Rock, down 4 percent to $30.08.
- Simmons First National Corp. of Pine Bluff, down 10 percent to $23.25.
- Murphy Oil Corp. of El Dorado, down 11 percent to $50.29.
- America's Car-Mart Inc. of Bentonville, down 12 percent $38.85.
- P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc., down 14 percent to $9.65.
- Windstream Corp. of Little Rock, down 18 percent to $9.66.
- Arkansas Best Corp. of Fort Smith, down 33 percent to $12.60.
- USA Truck Inc. Van Buren, down 38 percent to $4.78.


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Oh, the minor leagues, wehre the great players are few and far between, and the mascots get paid in hot dogs (literally).
This commercial, featuring Bernie from the Inland Empire 66ers is for Winning Smiles, a dental office in Fontana, California.
I have t ogive this dentist some props, he knows how to use his marketign dollars. Pimping out the mascot to draw attentio to yourself is pretty cool, and Bernie does a good job of selling it.
For a little while, I actually believed he had a toothache… Academy Award time buddy!
Bernie Bites Off More Than He Can Chew video after the jump:


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Here's Your First Look at Michael C. Hall As Hedwig
He takes over for Andrew Rannells on October 16.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
He takes over for Andrew Rannells on October 16.
"You don't have to eat prosciuttooooooo."
With a sing-along of "Friend Like Me."
Actress and singer Keke Palmer.
So long, Holler If Ya Hear Me.
John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, and Michael Mayer discuss how the cultish musical evolved into a Broadway darling.
"We had a weird bond with Sutton that we don't always have with everybody we work with."
It covers everything up through the middle of season seven.
There are worse things they could do.
Expect On Your Feet in 2015.
For a run in Sal Tlay Ka Siti.
In the West End.
The network wasted no time announcing a follow-up to Sound of Music Live.
From the composer of Matilda.
And who should star in them.
"We could do this again — and again and again."
Laura Benanti's pantsuit, Carrie Underwood's acting, and those swastikas.


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aircraft maintenance and repair to aircraft management. Malta, which already has over 1,400 ICT firms, also has ambitions of becoming a software hub. It is already Europe's e-Gaming capital, offering operators a "well-regulated cost-effective" location to develop their business.
Malta Enterprise, an entity under the ministry of finance, has an office in Mumbai.
The writer was in Malta on the invitation of Malta Enterprise.
Calling Bollywood
Valletta: While Malta is quite popular with Western filmmakers, with big budget films like Troy, The Da Vinci Code and Munich extensively shot here, the Film Commission of Malta is now keen on Indian film makers choosing its picturesque locales for song and dance sequences.
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4 Pesky Expenses: Be Prepared
Everyone knows to save for retirement, education, weddings and home purchases. But many of us don't save for some things that are almost as likely, if not more so. Consider setting up a savings account for some of these less-popular spending necessities:
1. Death
According to the National Funeral Directors Association, the average funeral cost in 2009 was $6,560.That's no small chunk of change. But did you know funeral homes are required to give you a price list of all products and services? According to the Federal Trade Commission, this is just one of the protections offered to consumers who are often under great emotional strain when making potentially expensive funeral decisions. Best advice? Plan early. When faced with decisions such as casket styles, the cost can run the gamut from $2,000 to $10,000 and people can feel rushed into a decision. Even though it's a hard subject to broach, being calm and unhurried can save you plenty.
2. Taxes
Taxes are another fact of life, and while we know we should be prepared few of us are at tax time. Think otherwise? George Washington University notes that in 2011, individuals owed $258 billion in tax debt. If you generally have to pay on April 15, there are only two options: Adjust your withholdings so more money is taken from your paychecks, or start saving so you have enough to cover your shortfall at tax time. Some believe saving is the best option, because otherwise you're lending money to the government and not getting any interest.
3. Major home repairs
At some point, most homeowner need to address leaky faucets, window drafts, painting and more. Those small items are nuisances but what happens when a pipe bursts, the roof starts to leak or fire strikes? While homeowner's insurance should help in many cases, the reality is deductibles and hidden costs add up quickly. There are steps you can take to avoid costly home repairs, but some things are unavoidable. The government's lending manager Freddie Mac advises if you know your home will need a new roof, driveway or other costly repair in a few years, get started on a savings plan today.
4. UnemploymentFew of us ever plan to be separated from our jobs, but economic uncertainty can put even the most stable employee out of work. This is where the all-encompassing emergency fund comes into play. Set up a standard saving account or other readily available account like a no-penalty CD. While it's hard to save for a rainy day sometimes, the easiest way is to have an automatic deposit made every pay period. If you don't see it, you may be less likely to want to spend it. Make sure you have a solid definition for what constitutes an emergency so you're not dipping into your accounts for regular purchases, such as routine expected expenses or major impulse purchases that "feel" like an emergency but aren't really, such as a great deal on a new TV.
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Day out of Days: Stories
by Sam Shepard
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No current Talk conversations about this book.
Shepard is no Barthelme. Some of his recurrent images resonate with me but his attempts to come off as casual and everymanish just feel like lazy writing. What's up with obsession with mutilated heads?
This is exactly the kind of collection that one would hope to stumble across while rummaging through Sam Shepard's cupboards. There would be a kind of voyeuristic magic in that scenario. Unfortunately, the brevity of this otherwise engaging melange of miscellany renders the suggested retail price a bit excessive. An enterprising reader can get through the whole book in a single day; there's a lot of blank space on the pages. In this sense, it has more in common with a book of short poems... except without the impacted depth of same. Even so, it is both charming and quintessentially Shepard.
Lots of great one- and two-page stories in this collection. Vivid scenes of life along the highways of America and Mexcico. Little slices of life (and death). Some of the best stories are pure dialogue. One-act plays, in effect. Others are more like random memories than stories. There are some longer, more traditional pieces as well. A smattering of poems, too. It's all good.
Day Out of Days
I felt a sense of guilt as I started reading this collection of short stories by Sam Shepard. It seemed as if I was reading someone's journal, their diary, with all their personal ramblings being exposed to me, a stranger. I got over that, and went on to really enjoy this collection that contains very short stories, snippets of conversations, memories, poems, observations, and random musings. Shepard writes in the voice of a distant loner, hardened by truth and reality but still seeking, looking for a kind of lost artifact or talisman.
Some of the poems have titles, but most are simple and unadorned. Without the title (and sometimes without punctuation) you are left to figure out the point, and each reader could likely come away with a different impression.
Horses racing men
Mummies on the mend
What's all this gauze bandaging
Unraveled down the stairs
Has come apart
In here
Something without end (p. 126)
In "Rosebud, South Dakota (Highway 83 North)" he describes a deceptively simple scene:
Lakota church, "Open to Anyone", it says, but no one's here. Not a single sorry soul. And it's the Sabbath too. Imagine that. Sunday abandoned. Just constant wind ripping across the tattered yards and buried fences. Constant endless prairie breath. Like it's always been. Now and evermore. Unrelenting. Raw. And could care less about the state of the Union.
Shepard's subjects are dry, tired, lost, searching, guilty, sarcastic, sardonic, and grim. They inhabit truck stops, rest stops, desert paths and windy valleys. Remarkably, reading these doesn't feel depressing or dispiriting. Instead, it's almost like putting a story behind that stranger you noticed outside the diner's plate glass window, or hitchhiking outside of town, or passing you on the open rural road in that old dirty Ford pickup.
No writer wants to be seen trying -- Shepard's generation, in particular, has prized a seeming effortlessness -- but you can hear the gears grinding in his writing, especially in these stories, and it's part of their deep, abiding appeal. Even better, it's part of their usefulness.
Using fanciful anecdotes, lyric riffs, seemingly lifelike reminiscences and quotes from our nation's founding thinkers, [Shepard] drills down through the strata of our history into the bedrock of American myth.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307265404, Hardcover)From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an endless loop of Shania Twain songs on the overhead sound system. A wandering actor returns to his hometown against his better instincts and runs into an old friend, who recounts their teenage days of stealing cars, scoring Benzedrine, and sleeping with whores in Tijuana. A Minnesota family travels south for a winter vacation but, caught up in the ordinary tyrannies of family life, remains oblivious to the beauty of the Yucatán Peninsula. A solitary horse rancher muses on Sitting Bull and Beckett amid the jumble of stuff in his big country kitchen—from rusted spurs and Lakota dream-catchers to yellowing pictures of hawks and galloping horses to "snapshots of different sons in different shirts doing different things like fishing, riding mules and tractors; leaning up against their different mothers at radical angles."
Made up of short narratives, lyrics, and dialogues, Day out of Days sets conversation against tale, song against memory, in a cubistic counterpoint that finally links each piece together. The result is a stunning work of vision and clarity imbued with the vivid reverberations of myth—Shepard at his flinty-eyed, unwavering best.
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Sweet, peachy, richly complex and luscious with a spark of lifeQuinta do Centro Duas Pedras, Alentejo 2010 (Portugal) Ł8.95, Wine Society
A smoky touch and rich, deep fruit flavoursPassopisciaro IGT 2007 (Italy) Ł28.50, Corney & Barrow
sheer exuberance of this Sicilian red's upbeat flavoursCadet de Ka 2008 (Lebanon) Ł8.49, M&S
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The conversion process and data acquisition are controlled using CS and the serial clock signal, allowing the device to easily interface with microprocessors or DSPs. The input signal is sampled on the falling edge of CS and conversion is also initiated at this point. There are no pipeline delays associated with the part.
The AD7908/AD7918/AD7928 use advanced design techniques to achieve very low power dissipation at maximum throughput rates. At maximum throughput rates, the AD7908/AD7918/AD7928 consume 2 mA maximum with 3 V supplies; with 5 V supplies, the current consumption is 2.7 mA maximum.
Through the configuration of the control register, the analog input range for the part can be selected as 0 V to REFIN or 0 V to 2 × REFIN, with either straight binary or twos complement output coding. The AD7908/AD7918/AD7928 each feature eight single-ended analog inputs with a channel sequencer to allow a preprogrammed selection of channels to be converted sequentially.
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It took V about a week to really "get" the spoon thing. We did lots of dribbling that first week.
Now he doesn't miss a single drop! He opens wide and basically sings "mmmmmmm" as he's eating! Lol!
It took about a week and a half to get the consistency the way he likes it. And my nutty kid...loves the green veggies that most kids spit out! He'd actually prefer to eat food off a spoon than drink a bottle.
Give it time, he'll get it!
We were frustrated with the spoon at first too. He just didn't get it at all for almost a week. I ended up just coming up to him with an empty spoon when he was in his walker, instead of the high chair, and let him chew on it. Then I put a tiny amount of sweet potato on the edge of the spoon and let him chew on it again. I guess I was trying for "no pressure", just chew on this like you do everything else. Once he realized he really liked what was on the spoon, he became much more focused on using it
Anyway, either he was just finally ready, or it worked, I'm not sure which. He has been eating off the spoon ever since. Good luck.
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When you turn on Jasper for the first time, it will ask you to configure a new network connection. You have two options for connecting to a network: (1) ethernet, and (2) wireless.
(1) To configure an ethernet connection, simply attach your Raspberry Pi to the wired network with an ethernet cable. If network access is provided through another computer, you may need to configure that host to route network traffic through the ethernet cable. Instructions for how to do this on OS X can be found here.
(2) To configure a wireless connection, overwrite
/etc/network/interfaces file on your Raspberry Pi with the following code. Slightly different configuration options may be required for different types of wireless networks.
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wpa-ssid "YOUR_NETWORK_SSID"
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The most common way to speak with Jasper is with the following sequence:
After saying Jasper, you must wait for the high beep to speak your command. If you don't speak a command within a few seconds, Jasper will stop listening or ask you to repeat your command.
By default, we've included the following modules to demonstrate Jasper's capabilities:
To learn how to write your own module, check out the Developer API documentation.
If you've configured Spotify, Jasper will enter Spotify mode with the "Music" or "Spotify" command. Here's a list of example commands you can issue while in Spotify mode:
Jasper may have difficulty detecting your cues when the music is loud. In these instances, it helps to distance the microphone from the speakers, lowering the volume, and/or speaking closer to the microphone.
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