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Monday, June 3, 2013
DOVER — As the graduates of St. Thomas Aquinas prepared to receive their diplomas, Principal Kevin Collins encouraged them to continue serving the community as they have during high school, and reminded them that being both a leader and a servant are not mutually exclusive.
He said that throughout their time at St. Thomas Aquinas, students of Class of 2013 have won championships, and have raised thousands of dollars for local charities.
"Together, we have served. Together, we have led," said Thompson. "United, we set the example for the school to follow."
Collins noted that in order to graduate, the seniors at St. Thomas Aquinas had to meet not only academic requirements, but also service requirements. He said he is certain that graduates will continue making a positive difference in their communities even after graduation.
Rev. John Fortin, the superintendent of schools, gave Class of 2013 heartfelt congratulations on graduating.
"We pray that your future is as successful as your high school career," said Fortin.
After diplomas were handed to each of the graduates, Chairwoman of the Alumni Leadership Council Julie Ford Bailey, Class of 1983, encouraged the new alumni to keep in touch with the school, and to come back often.
"May you have a wonderful journey," said Collins.
The 2013 graduating class from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover is listed below:
Michael F. Abbott; Gabrielle Rae Adams; Emily Morgan Antaya*; Nicholas Anthony Arau; Nicholas Ryan Arsenault; Marissa Nicole Mooradian Audy; Victoria Anne Avella*; Quinn Wyatt Bacon; Matthew J. Baughn; Corey P. Begley; Peter Stephen Bouchard; Thomas Joseph Boulanger; Leah Mae Brunelle*; Giovanni Ciro Cantalupo; Joshua Kenneth Carberry; Jay Yeabower Carmody*; Bridget Caitlin Carroll; Madeleine Helen Louise Cassidy*; Wooree Chae; Samuel V. T. Cheney; Cecilia Marie Chrisom*; Alison Marie Coffey*; Sara Kaitlin Colella; Samuel John Nicholas Collins; Sophia Alexa Concha Huusko-Pattison; Alyssa Beth Coneys*; Vanessa Lynn Croteau; Matthew Douglass Dailey; Grace Rachel Dastous*; Luke William Devaney; Madison Elissa Dion; Morgan M. Doney; Brennan James Donnell; William Matthew Donovan*; John Joseph Douglass; Timothy Patrick Downs; Catherine Ann Dunn*; Ryan Jay Dupont; Meredith Grace Eib*; Meghan M. Elliott; Brian Royal Ellis; Emily Ward Eno; Angelique Elizabeth Estey*; Alexa Renee Falcone; Katherine Anne Fanning; Emily Elizabeth Fernald*; Brian Christopher Finnell; Cailyn Elizabeth Flynn*; Meaghan Elizabeth Flynn*; Alexandra Jay Ford; Signe Pearson Frick*; Carlos Daniel Gajewski; Kelsey Ann Gallagher; Kurt Robert Gauthier; Matthew Shaw Geary; Ryan William Geppert; Sydney Mary Anne Gillis; Amanda Faye Girard*; Emma Goot�e; Casey Michael Graves; Melissa Noelle Greene; Robert M. Hamblet; Abigail C. Hannigan; Devon McGuire Harris*; Alison Lee Hiatt*; Leina'ala Ku'umomimakamae Akiko Hoover*; John Fitzgerald Hume*; Walter Wilson Hutcheson V*; Connor Roderic Jednak; Ariana Martina Jennell; Jun Young Jeon*; Kate Margaret Jones; Anthony Abraham Kassas*; Sean William Kates; Emma M. Keane*; Hyungee Kim*; Jesse M. Knowlton.
Also, Rachel Jane Sabol*; Celeste Lin Sartorelli; Natalie Adriana Saxton*; Noah Daniel Schwaegerle*; Casie Ann Sharp; Alexander Frederick Shea; Simon Quinten Smith; Laura Grace Somogie; Emily Elizabeth Standish; Keara Clare Sullivan*; Edward A. Suraci; John C. Sweeney*; Na Na Tan; Elizabeth Nicole Lightner Taylor; George Tapley Taylor; Madalyn I. Taylor*; Timothy J. Tetreault*; Garrett S. Thompson*; Patrick John Martin McClure Toomey; Michelle Lynne Trainor; Annie Lea Wade; Jocelyne Rolande Winter*; Virginia Mae Wojcicki; Marian Elise Wolter; Sarah Anne Wunderlich*; Jakob Paul Yameen; Peter Thomas Yarosewick; Chad William Young*; Shuyu Yuan; and Nicholas Dean Zottos.
*Members of the National Honor Society.


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Mansplaining is an Internet slang term used to describe condescending and inaccurate explanations that are given under the assumption that the audience is entirely ignorant on the subject matter or topic. The name stems from an online behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on female-oriented discussion forums, however, any member of either sex can be guilty of mansplaining.
The concept of "mansplaining" is widely believed to have originated from an op-ed article titled "Men who explain things," written by Rebecca Solnit and published in the Los Angeles Times on April 13th, 2008. While Solnit didn't explicitly mention the term "mansplaining" in the article, she explained her personal experience of getting patronized by a male friend. A month later on May 21st, the earliest known mention of "mansplaining" was posted in the LiveJournal blog Fandom_Wank's comments section under an article titled "Women Who Hate Dean Hating Women Hating… wait." The comment read:
Later that same week on May 24th, 2008, LiveJournal user BigBadWolf released a collection of forum profile icons, some of which featured references to "mansplaining." On the following day, the term appeared in the text of another LiveJournal blog post titled "You're Such a Special Little Snowflake, It's a Wonder You Don't Melt in the Laundry Room…" in describing an argument the writer had with another woman in the laundry room.
"Maybe I'm not explaining myself well," I swear this woman sounds like she's trying to 'mansplain' something to me, "people who are doing more than 2 or 3 batches of clothes should leave one washer and dryer free so other people can use the machines."
The word continued to spread across the blogosphere, however, "mansplaining" remained largely obscure outside of LiveJournal community until April 2009, when the first definition entry of the term was submitted to Urban Dictionary. On February 4th, 2011, the word chosen as the Urban Word of the Day.
To explain in a patronizing manner, assuming total ignorance on the part of those listening. The mansplainer is often shocked and hurt when their mansplanation is not taken as absolute fact, criticized or even rejected altogether. Named for a behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on internet forums frequented primarily by women. Often leads to a flounce. Either sex can be guilty of mansplaining.
Notable Examples
Privilege Denying Dude
In November 2010, an advice animal image macro series called "Privilege Denying Dude" (shown below, left) began circulating on Tumblr, which satirized the typical white male's patronizing viewpoint on a range of politically sensitive issues like racism, homosexuality and feminism.
Not Intended to Be A Factual Statement
In April 2011, the United States government stood still on the verge of shutdown as the Congress struggled to reach a compromise in budget plans. During the debate on Senate floor, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl put forth a false statistics that Planned Parenthood, a non-profit maternal and child health service organization, spent 90% of its budget towards abortion-related activities.
"Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."
The congressional debate was nationally broadcast via C-SPAN and several political blogs quickly reported on its inaccuracy, citing the organization's 2009 budget chart which shows only 3% of services performed were abortions. In response to news media inquiries, Senator Kyl's office then released an ethically questionable statement saying that his remark was "not intended to be a factual statement".
Ryan Gosling Blogs
Several instances of Ryan Gosling's "Hey Girl" single topic blogs have been brought up as examples of mansplanation, including the Feminist Ryan Gosling as well as Hey Girl, It's Paul Ryan, a spin-off blog based on the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate.
Todd Akin's Sexual Assault Gaffe
In August 2012, Republican congressman William Todd Akin was interviewed by the St. Louis television station KTVI-TV during his campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate. During the interview, Akin was questioned about his position on abortion in cases where the woman was impregnated due to sexual assault, to which Akin replied that he believe the female body is able to prevent itself from being impregnated in cases of "legitimate rape." Following the broadcast, Akin's remark became widely ridiculed on the Internet.
Mansplaining Paul Ryan
In October 2012, Time Magazine published a series of Paul Ryan's photographs for his runner-up position as Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2011, which featured Ryan sitting on a workout bench while performing bicep curl exercises. Coinciding on the same day with the highly anticipated vice presidential debate, Ryan's workout photographs soon led to the launch of Mansplaining Paul Ryan, a single topic blog that pairs up Ryan's workout photos with patronizing or patriarchic commentaries on key election issues like economy and women's rights.
Search Interest
External References
[1]Urban Dictionary – Mansplain
[2]Los Angeles Times – Men who explain things
[3]LiveJournal – Fandom Wank
[5]LiveJournal – A woman's born to weep and fret
[6]AlterNet – Why Mansplaining is Still a Problem
[7]Salon – Must Men Be Patronizing?"
[8]Fandom Wank – FandomWank Icons
[9]Tumblr – GraceBello
[10]TerrorWare – Mansplaining
[11]FandomWank Wiki – Oh, gosh, thank you so much for mansplaining this to us!!
[12]Red Light Politics – TODAY'S MANSPLAINING COURTESY OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE AND APPLE'S THESAURUS


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It is a non-invasive treatment where a client and the therapist (usually a psychiatrist or a trained social worker) converse for a period of time each week to help the person overcome powerful urges that dictate paraphilic behaviors. This method has not proved very effective, even in the case of cognitive therapy where the therapist tries to change the mindset of the sexually deviant person. Cognitive therapists try to change a persons maladaptive abnormal sexual behaviors by changing what he thinks about these acts. The reason why these therapies meet with very little success is that, other than the obsessive nature of deriving pleasure from such acts, the clients believe that the problems associated with these sexual acts stem from societys intolerance of their variant sexual behaviors.
Behavior Therapy
Aversive conditioning: Recent studies have shown some degree of success in the use of aversive conditioning to treat exhibitionism. An undesired sexual behavior such as masturbating to a paraphilic fantasy is given an aversive (negative) stimulus like mildly painful electric shocks or a nausea-inducing drug. These are also administered to a person while he is viewing photographs or slides depicting paraphilic behavior.
Systematic desensitization: This Behavior therapy works on the premise that people are sexually deviant because of a sense of inadequacy and lack of interpersonal skills that trigger anxiety and cause deviant behavior. The technique aims to help such people to overcome their anxieties and condition them to relax in socio-sexual situations so they can replace deviant behavior with satisfying sexual relationships. The basic technique links gradual exposure to anxiety-inducing situations with relaxation training.
Orgasmic reconditioning: In this behavior therapy masturbation plays a central role. The client is instructed to masturbate to his usually desired deviant fantasy and when orgasm is imminent he is to switch to more socially healthy fantasies particularly at the moment of masturbatory orgasm so that he may get conditioned to sexual arousal from socially acceptable behaviors.
Satiation therapy: In this technique too masturbation plays a central role. The client is encouraged to masturbate to orgasm while fantasizing on appropriate sexual situations. Immediately after orgasm he/she is instructed to continue masturbating while switching to his/her desired deviant fantasy. The idea behind this technique is to experience reduced sexual arousal to inappropriate stimuli.
Drug Treatment
Anti-androgen drugs thatcan drastically lower testosterone levels are widely used to block deviant sexual arousal patterns in coercive paraphilic behavior. Sex offenders who are referred to therapists by legal authorities are commonly treated with Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) and cyproterone acetate (CPA). Drug treatments are most effective in sexual deviants when combined with psychotherapy or behavior therapy.
Social skills training
This treatment is based on the premise that sexual deviants have difficulty forming healthy relationships that give access to healthy forms of sexual expression. The training is designed to teach clients the necessary social skills like conversation, courtship, companionship, to cope with rejection etc, to enable the person to enter into and maintain satisfying intimate, healthy relationships with a sexual partner.
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The trick is to develop an attitude of witnessing- like when you watch traffic from the top of a building. It just passes by-don't try to dig up the root cause of each thought. Just be aware of the thought. And preferably you should have a center-focusing on the breath will give you a stable center to hold on. Whenever you feel uncomfortable emotions and thoughts, breathe. Breathe into the emotion or the thought. Don't bother about when it will end. Our job is to maintain awareness of all that goes on in us. In the light of your calm, non-judgmental, awareness, you will heal. :) Cheers.
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I've searched all over the net, and can find next to nothing about the causes and treatment of coprophilia, other than many sites who say it involves misconceptions about nudity and sex being dirty, and that it is caused by morbid depression, and both of these explanations are very much false in my opinion and experience. Most coprophiliacs have no problem, appreciating the pure and natural beauty of the human body, and they are not morbidly depressed, as coprophilia makes them very happy. I like being a coprophiliac, but again I will not actually eat feces, and I would sometimes like to moderate these urges, which can sometimes get very intense.
i have my own theory on what causes coprophilia, from my own experiences, but I'd like to know what you can tell me about this more generally or specifically.
Also, as I am a British person, sadistic scatological humor is very much a part of our culture (as it is in German society), and so there's not much of a taboo about it here in the UK.
please shed more light on all of this, or point me in a better direction, because I can find next to nothing on the net about it all, and I want to know a lot more about it.
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I've searched all over the net, and can find next to nothing about the causes and treatment of coprophilia" if you read some of Freuds theories on human sexuality you will see that at the end of the day all our sexual drives boil dowm to oral or anal fixations because thats what we do as babies...put things in our mouths and poo! you mentioned looking on the net for treatment... any freudian based psychoanalyst would be able to help...
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Obama the Job-Killing Owl-Killer
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Welcome to the pretzel logic of liberal environmental protection: In order to "save" owls, the Obama administration is going to shoot them dead.
This is not — I repeat not — an Onion parody.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House released a big fat policy turkey: its final critical habitat rule for the endangered northern spotted owl. The Obama plan will lock up 9.6 million acres of land (mostly, but not all, federal) in Oregon, Washington and northern California. This is nearly double the acreage set aside by the Bush administration. Thousands of timber workers (along with untold thousands of related support jobs) will be threatened in the name of sparing a few thousand spotted owls from extinction.
As House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings, R-Wash., pointed out earlier this year, timber-dependent counties hit hard by the federal land grab and unending environmental litigation remain racked by high unemployment. "The loss in economic activity caused by the original spotted owl plan caused an astounding decrease in federal tax receipts of nearly $700 million per year — all from rural Northwest communities."
Despite two decades of massive government intervention and the near-destruction of the northwest timber industry, the furry bird is vanishing faster than ever. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, "(t)imber harvest on 24 million acres of federal land had dropped 90 percent from its heyday" by the year 2000. Yet, northern spotted owls are now "disappearing three times faster than biologists had feared." Indeed, spotted owl populations in key parts of Washington State "are half what they were in the 1980s." And overall, the bird has seen a 40 percent decline over the past 25 years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Punishing loggers and bringing the timber industry to its knees have made vengeful environmental groups fat and happy. But the northern spotted owl they claim to care so much about is catastrophically worse off thanks to green zealotry. One root cause: habitat loss (thanks in part to raging wildfires resulting from poor forest management and green opposition to thinning/controlled burns).
The other major, nonhuman culprit: the barred owl.
These barred owls began migrating from the East Coast in the 1950s, and the USFWS reports that the larger, more aggressive and more adaptable birds "are known to displace spotted owls, disrupt their nesting and compete with them for food." Barred owls are more prolific breeders, less finicky about their food and less picky about where they live. They also don't bow down before the Endangered Species Act or the hallowed "threatened" status of its weaker brethren. They are brutal predators known to slam into spotted owls, slicing them with their talons and decapitating them in their nests.
Conservation groups whine that barred owls are victims of "scapegoating." But USFWS Director Dan Ashe spoke the truth earlier this year: "We can't ignore the mounting evidence that competition from barred owls is a major factor in the spotted owl's decline."
Instead of admitting failure and letting nature take its course, however, command-and-control bureaucrats have appointed themselves Mother Nature's judges, juries and executioners. Their "main priority" is "reducing competition from barred owls." How? By gunning them down. Final details are still in the works, but the agency has floated past removal schemes that involve "luring territorial barred owls into close range … using recorded calls and an owl decoy. … A shotgun would be used to prevent wounding and ensure rapid and humane death." Experts say such an eradication plan would need to continue for centuries.
Twenty years of regulatory salvation have failed the northern spotted owl. Who believes that another top-down government exercise in species engineering — this time backed with bullets — will do the trick? When the government picks winners and losers, taxpayers always get screwed. No matter the job losses. No matter the death toll. Arrogant and unaccountable central planners never give a hoot.
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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) For Arch Linux
Version 1.0
This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.
For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web based tools like phpMyAdmin which will also be installed in this howto. phpMyAdmin is a comfortable graphical interface which means you do not have to mess around with the command line.
This tutorial is based on Arch Linux and is an apdaption of the original how to for Debian Sarge. You should already have set up a basic Arch Linux system. On other distributions like SuSE, Fedora, Mandriva, etc. only the Proftpd installation is different; the configuration of Proftpd should apply to these distributions as well.
This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web.
This document comes without warranty of any kind! I want to say that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Install Apache, MySQL And phpMyAdmin
For installation instructions of Apache and/or MySQL see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apache.
2 Install Proftpd With MySQL support
In Arch Linux MySQL support is compiled in Proftpd. Install Proftpd with de command:
pacman -S proftpd
Then we create an ftp group ("ftpgroup") and user ("ftpuser") that all our virtual users will be mapped to. Replace the group- and userid 2001 with a number that is free on your system:
groupadd -g 2001 ftpgroup
3 Create The MySQL Database For Proftpd
Go to phpMyAdmin (http://localhost/phpmyadmin or http://192.168.2.5/phpmyadmin (if 192.168.2.5 is the IP-number of the FTP-server)) with username root and the password you gave in step 1.
Click in the upper side of the screen on "SQL" and paste the query below in the SQL window:
create database ftp;
Replace the string password with whatever password you want to use for the MySQL user proftpd. Still in phpMyAdmin, select in the left side of the screen for the database ftp. Then we create the database tables: We need to copy the SQL commands below and paste it in the query window of phpMyAdmin:
CREATE TABLE `ftpgroup` ( `groupname` varchar(16)
4 Configure Proftpd
Open /etc/proftpd.conf and add the following lines to it:
DefaultRoot ~
If you want to see a banner to see the use/available space after LIST, then add the lines below (by Martin Mrajca) to /etc/profptd.conf:
SQLNamedQuery gettally SELECT "ROUND((bytes_in_used/1073741824),2) FROM ftpquotatallies WHERE name='%u'"
Restart Proftpd:
/etc/rc.d/proftpd restart
5 Populate The Database And Test
To populate the database you can use phpMyAdmin. First we create an entry in the table ftpgroup. It contains the groupname, the groupid and the username of the ftp group/user we created at the end of step two (replace the groupid appropriately if you use another one than 9001):
INSERT INTO `ftpgroup` (`groupname`, `gid`, `members`) VALUES ('ftpgroup', 9001, 'ftpuser');
Now we are done with the table ftpgroup. We do not have to create further entries here. Whenever you create a new virtual ftp user, you do this in the tables ftpquotalimits and ftpuser. So let us create our first user (we are still in the query window of phpMyAdmin):
INSERT INTO `ftpquotalimits` (`name`,
`quota_type`, `per_session`, `limit_type`, `bytes_in_avail`,
`bytes_out_avail`, `bytes_xfer_avail`, `files_in_avail`,
`files_out_avail`, `files_xfer_avail`) VALUES
('exampleuser', 'user', 'false', 'hard', 1073741824, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
(Do not forget to replace the group- and userid 2001 appropriately in the last INSERT statement if you are using other values than in this tutorial!)
Now open your FTP client program on your work station (something like WS_FTP or SmartFTP if you are on a Windows system) and try to connect. As hostname you use the IP address of the system, the username is exampleuser, and the password is secret (if you have not chosen an other password).
If you are able to connect - congratulations! If not, something went wrong.
Now, if you run
ls -l /srv/ftp
you should see that the directory /srv/ftp/exampleuser (exampleuser's ftp directory) has been automatically created, and it belongs to ftpuser and ftpgroup (the user/group we created at the end of step two).
5.1 FTP user management
For managing the virtual FTP users I made a simple PHP script. You can download the script here. You only have to unpack the zipfile and copy ftpusermanagement.php to the /srv/http directory of your Arch Linux system. Open ftpusermanagement.php in your web browser, for example http://192.168.2.5/ftpusermanagement.php (if IP number 192.168.2.5 is the IP number is your Arch Linux system). You now are ably to add ftp-users, edit ftp-users and delete ftp-users in a simple way. If you delete a ftp-user you have to delete the directory of the user manually. In the webinterface of the php-script I also mention some idaes for future posibilities, but at the moment I am going to spend my time in other projects. The copyright of the script is the GPL licence, so you are free to improve and extend the script.
5.2 Database administration
If you want to manage your virtual FTP users without webinterface, you only have to create entries in the tables ftpquotalimits and ftpuser. So below you can find an explanation of the columns of these tables here:
ftpuser Table:
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We really cannot begin to give directions of "How To" at Christ Church without first explaining our expectations. All of our worship and programs at Christ Church are offered to honor God, to bring individuals into a relationship with Him, and to graft them into this fellowship; so that together we will grow into mature, generous, and faithful Christian individuals, parents, husbands, wives, business associates, and citizens.
Contact: Anna Jewell at firstname.lastname@example.com or 210-736-3132.
Baptismal Dates: Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord on the 2nd Sunday of January; Easter Eve; Feast of Pentecost in late May or early June; Trinity Sunday in late May or early June; All Saints' Sunday on the first Sunday of November & one additional baptismal Sunday in mid to late summer.
Required: Christ Church 2.0 & Baptismal instruction.
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All baptized persons, regardless of age or denominational background, are welcome to receive Communion.
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Confirmation Dates: Two per year – late fall and spring
Required: For Teens – Youth Confirmation Instruction beginning in winter and ending with Spring Confirmation; For Adults – Christ Church 3.0.
Christ Church offers the celebration of the sacrament of marriage to -- couples who reside in the San Antonio area who are active* at Christ Church or who immediately get active in the parish or whose parents or grandparents are presently active in the worship and life of Christ Church. *Active - one who attends worship regularly and supports the mission of the parish personally and financially.
Contact: Anna Jewell at firstname.lastname@example.com or 210-736-3132.
Marriage Dates: Will be determined after signing letter of agreement and conference with the Rector.
Required: Christ Church 2.0 & Pre-marital counseling. Some fees are necessary for musicians and maintenance support.
If you wish to become a member of Christ Church notify Anna Jewell at email@example.com or 210-736-3132. If you attended a previous congregation, she will ask that your "letter be transferred." Regardless of whether you attended another congregation or not, all those joining the parish should complete Christ Church 2.0 & 3.0. Only adult members who have been Confirmed may vote in parish elections and serve on the Vestry.
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Burial Dates: Burials in the Church are to be scheduled on weekdays only. Graveside services can be offered on the weekends if necessary.
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College students find support in campus 'posses'
BRYN MAWR, Pa. When Sharhea Wade arrived at Bryn Mawr College from a big-city high school, it seemed as if every other student on the quiet, leafy campus had graduated from an exclusive private school.
"I felt intimidated by them," recalled Wade. "Bryn Mawr is a different world."
Yet whenever she felt like a fish out of water, Wade could turn to her "posse" – nine other girls who, like her, had been recruited from struggling Boston-area school districts and sent on full merit scholarship to the elite women's college.
Wade's posse is one of dozens sent to top-tier universities each year by the New York-based Posse Foundation. The combination of monetary and social support is a model that experts say could help move the U.S. toward President Barack Obama's goal of having America lead the world in the percentage of college graduates by 2020. Next fall, the program hits the Ivy League when it debuts at Penn.
So far, Obama's focus has been on increasing access to higher education – especially for minority and low-income students – through expanded Pell grants and simplified financial aid applications.
But paying for college is only part of the battle. Keeping students in school by supporting their psychological and academic needs is equally important, said Laura Perna, an associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.
Posse founder Deborah Bial started the organization in 1989 after a once-promising inner-city student told her, "I never would have dropped out of college if I had my posse with me."
Since then, Posse has sent more than 2,600 students to its partner campuses, including Vanderbilt University, Colby College and the University of California at Berkeley.
The program targets students in disadvantaged urban districts who have strong leadership skills but may lack the guidance to wade into what can be an intimidating college admissions process. Posse is not need- or minority-based, though many students fit both categories.
The demand for such help is dramatic, Bial said. Posse, which had been recruiting from six major cities, added Miami as its seventh this fall. The program received more than 12,000 nominations this year for 460 slots nationwide, Bial said.
Posse provides academic support and help with college applications, but admission decisions are made by individual schools, which offer full merit scholarships. A University of Missouri study presented last week links merit aid to increased freshman year grade-point averages, particularly for minority and low-income students.
Students headed to the same universities are placed in posses of about 10 that begin meeting in high school. The meetings continue weekly at college, creating tight-knit groups where members can find motivation or comfort when they feel lost or frustrated.
"I have this incredible sense that I can succeed and take on whatever I want at school because I have this intensely supportive network behind me who believes in my potential," said Augusta Irele, 21, a member of Wade's posse at Bryn Mawr.
Research shows that integration into a community is important for college retention, Perna said. Having a posse of peers with similar backgrounds creates a bridge to the new institutional climate while helping maintain relationships at home, she said.


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5 of the Weirdest Flowers
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When you think of flowers you probably think of gardens full of roses or a rolling green field dotted with crisp looking daisies. These flowers will have you on the lookout for Harry Potter's Herbology teacher. There seems to be times when nature wants us to be in awe of its weirdness rather than beauty.
The Naked Coral Tree - Erythrina coralloides
Erythrina coralloides also known as the Flame Coral Tree is a species of flowering tree in the pea family or Fabaceae, ranges from the American state of Arizona to the Oaxaca in Mexico. The plant with its hard, red pointed 'petals' looks like misplaced coral growing up in the middle of sparse vegetation or desert.
Enter the dragon - Darcunculus vulgaris
Looking like something out of a science fiction movie the Darcunculus vulgaris is also known as Dragon Arum, Snake Lily or the Voodoo Lily. Native to the Balkans the planet is also found in Greece and south west to parts of Anatolia. Recently introduced to America it can be found in Oregon, California and Tennessee. This species has a large purple hooded spathe and spadix. The smell is very unpleasant at least to humans. Flies pollinate this plant as it traps them with its nightly inflorescence glow and in the morning the insects fly away loaded with pollen.
These planets look, they were designed in the 1960's by someone taking a psychedelic drug. Rafflesia is a parasitic flowering planet discovered by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles guide in 1818 during an expedition through the Indonesia rain forest. The only part of the plant visible other than the vine is the flower. The flower has five large rounded petals and can grow up to over 100 centimeters. Rafflesias smell like rotten flesh a tactic intended to attract insects such as flies or carrion beetles for the purpose of pollination.
Strange fruit - Barringtonia asiatica
Barringtonia asiatica also known as Sea Poison Tree is native to the Indian Ocean. The spiky fringe of petals resembles something you might find sitting next to a lava lamp. The middle size tree the petals sprout from produce a fruit that is almost box shaped.
Furry but strange - Stapelia grandiflora
If you are turned off of plants because they aren't furry and cuddly you'd find half the package in the Stapelia grandiflora a native of Southern Africa. Also called Carrion Flower and Giant Zulu this plant has a soft fluffy look that belies its true business of catching the interest of insects to pollinate them.
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June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. faces a further review for its planned takeover of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc as the stock today reached its highest since the initial June 2010 bid, potentially making the deal more expensive.
The U.K. government today asked rivals for the second time since March to respond to News Corp.'s proposed undertakings. The additional delay may force Murdoch to raise his 7.8 billion- pound ($12.5 billion) bid for the U.K.' biggest pay-TV broadcaster as the benchmark index has risen 15 percent since the offer last June, said Credit Suisse AG analyst Simon Baker.
"The starting point for Sky's independent directors should be the pre-bid stock indexed up by the 15 percent rise in the value of the FTSE 100," Baker said. BSkyB should open talks at about 920 pence and may settle for 870 pence, he said.
News Corp., based in New York, today moved closer toward price negotiations for the 61 percent of the pay-TV operator it doesn't already own after the government accepted plans to carve out the Sky News channel as a separate company. U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt today imposed new conditions and said the new consultation will run until July 8.
News Corp.'s bid has also become about $1 billion more expensive since the initial offer because of the pound's gain against the U.S. dollar. The bid was worth $11.5 billion when it was first announced.
BSkyB shares rose as much as 0.3 percent to 850.5 pence in London today, the highest intraday level since December 2001, and stood at 849 pence at 11:34 a.m., giving the company a market value of 14.9 billion pounds. The shares have gained 15 percent so far this year. News Corp. added 1.3 percent yesterday to $17.39 in New York.
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News Corp. will nominate a monitoring trustee to oversee the spin off process, and the Sky News board meetings must include an independent director with senior editorial or journalistic experience for decisions on editorial issues, Hunt said.
"I could have decided to accept the original undertakings but a number of suggestions were made in response to the consultation which could further strengthen the undertakings," Hunt said in a statement, as the government published the results of a consultation on earlier pledges.
News Corp., which owns four of the U.K.'s largest newspapers, has up to two months after winning regulatory clearances to negotiate the agreed offer.
News Corp. faces opposition from rivals who say full ownership of the U.K.'s biggest pay-TV operator would give Murdoch too much power. The government said today it received more than 40,000 responses to its initial consultation.
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"I don't think anyone anticipated that there'd be 40,000 responses to the first one and it would take as long to get through them as they did," said Paul Richards, an analyst at Numis Securities in London. "If there are a similar number of replies again then it could take really some time."
Enders Analysis said in a research note this week said it expected regulatory barriers to be cleared in July, with a purchase concluded by the middle of October if News Corp. and BSkyB can agree on a price.
Avaaz, an advocacy group that organizes campaigns for citizens, said in a statement today that it may seek permission for a judicial review of the government decision.
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Before no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from occupied territory in Kuwait?
But Israel the occupier, the stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives different treatment. Another massage to the national ego in one video, more embarrassing praise in another.
Now is the time to say to the United States: Enough flattery. If you don't change the tone, nothing will change. As long as Israel feels the United States is in its pocket, and that America's automatic veto will save it from condemnations and sanctions, that it will receive massive aid unconditionally, and that it can continue waging punitive, lethal campaigns without a word from Washington, killing, destroying and imprisoning without the world's policeman making a sound, it will continue in its ways.
Of course, Levy is surely a self-hating Jew (like me, I'm told in emails from time to time) and Jeffrey Goldberg will soon be oh so cleverly referring to him as "Sheikh Hassan Levy". Such is the state of debate about the Middle East in the United States.
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Headquartered in Irvine, CA, the Broadcom Corporation is a very successful company in the field of semiconductor and electronic development. As a fabless manufacturer, Broadcom focuses on researching new technologies for which the manufacturing is outsourced. In early May, this company increased its market capitalization ranking among all S&P 500 companies to 264th overall, taking over the spot held by Harley-Davidson. Although Broadcom's mobile and wireless sector has been losing profits recently, its infrastructure and networking and its broadband sectors have brought increasing revenues in the past few years. Wireless internet technologies, as well as various semiconductor products for the growing Internet of Things, are currently being developed by the corporation.
Those who routinely read this feature know that we focus heavily on semiconductor developers in IPWatchdog's Companies We Follow series, and that makes Broadcom an organization that truly piques our interest. For the first time, we're profiling the recent patent applications and issued patents assigned to this company and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Our recent search of this corporation's innovations showed us a diverse field of novel technologies for many computing environments.
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In the immediate aftermath of the HealthCare.gov debacle, criticism focused on the government's inability to efficiently procure technology. Even President Barack Obama stated that the government probably needed to "blow up how we procure for IT" and that there was "probably no bigger gap between private sector and public sector than IT."
Around the same time, the blogosphere erupted with the narrative that a small and exclusive set of IT companies win government contracts because only they have the ability to navigate complex procurement rules. Furthermore, Standish Group research found that from 2003 to 2012, just 6.4 percent of large government IT projects were successful.
How did we get to this woeful state of affairs?
Some brief history is in order. In response to a series of acquisition scandals in the 1980s, Congress reformed laws to make it easier for the government to buy consumer products, including IT. In 1996, the Defense Department spent less than 1 percent of its budget on commercial items. By 2011, that number was about 20 percent -- equating to $75 billion. Not all of that was IT, of course, but the trend line is clear.
However, unlike any other customer, the government requires adherence to a rigid set of regulations that prescribe internal business operations for commercial companies -- in an expensive and intrusive way. Worse still, a firm must change its business processes and adhere to those rules simply to seek $1 of government business.
It's a simple economic choice for young innovators: When commercial markets are growing, why bother to endure all the "one-off" requirements to sell to the government? As a result, only IT companies that are already mature or have reached slower growth rates are willing to direct meaningful marketing efforts to the government. Although some of those firms do great work, a cohort of radically innovative disrupters finds the federal market repellent. For many firms, the government is the IT market of last resort.
The extraordinary cost of compliance is exemplified by the General Services Administration's IT Schedule 70. That schedule is probably the easiest way to get a foothold in the government, but it is not for the faint of heart. Its requirements are spelled out in a dense thicket of 129 pages where hardly a single clause would be familiar to even the savviest commercial IT company. Many clauses are uniquely onerous, and none are negotiable.
Furthermore, Schedule 70 business comes with considerable risks. In the past five years, sophisticated vendors Oracle, NetApp, Cisco Systems and EMC have collectively paid more than $400 million in fines for violating terms of the GSA schedule.
It doesn't have to be this way. Rather than ask IT innovators to wear the full cloak of compliance before a single dollar of revenue, the government should allow new market entrants to graduate into compliance. This could easily be handled through a GSA contract vehicle created exclusively for this purpose. If that vehicle removed the most repellent clauses for three years or a sum of $20 million in revenue, it could invite entry for innovators regardless of size or sophistication.
The government has compelling reasons for many of its regulations, which often involve promoting social policies or protecting tax dollars. Nonetheless, by temporarily lowering the barriers for new companies and taking a graduated approach to the most expensive compliance standards, the government could invite innovation with little risk. And young innovative companies could instead look at government as the market of first resort.
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What about all the beltway bandits that deliver incredibly poor solutions that have to be done over and over? It is not all the Government's fault - F-35 program comes to mind immediately.
The culprit is the onerous policies that make industry live down to government expectations. How many companies can say that rigid conformance to NIST Common Criteria actually was a source of growth and revenue for them. Dozens of innovative start-ups are frustrated by the impossible to navigate DITSCAP, DIACAP, FEDRAMP, STIG, ATO, PYP (Pick Your Poison) security mandates. I have been in the Federal and commercial IT space for 48 years and doing business with the government is getting exponentially worse by the day. Government is too big, too cumbersome, unresponsive, and focused on "rule enforcing" rather than "service providing." Government punishes the innovators, rewards the slackers, and is increasingly clueless on how to deliver citizen service and national security. By the way the root cause of the dismal performance of the Affordable Care Act was less an IT problem and more a mission/business problem. A bad web site can doom a good process, but a good web site cannot make a bad process good. I will stop here--the ranting is making me increasingly frustrated with our Federal IT procurement processes.
Michael-- you mention onerous barriers that could be removed temporarily-- which ones, in what order?
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Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's quickening economic growth is a signal to Barclays Capital Inc. and BCP Securities LLC that last year's record corporate bond offerings will extend into 2012 as companies seek to finance expansion plans.
International sales rose 149 percent to $4.3 billion in 2011, the second-biggest jump among major emerging-market countries after the Czech Republic, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Issuers led by Bancolombia SA, the country's biggest bank, tapped into a rally that cut average Colombian dollar bond yields to 5.32 percent from 6.64 percent at the start of 2010, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s CEMBI Broad index shows.
Companies' financing needs are increasing after a decade of military victories over guerrillas opened up the countryside to investment in oil, coal and gold, spurring central bank forecasts for the fastest economic growth since 2007. Slowing expansions elsewhere in Latin America and improved security in the Andean country are helping lure new investors to Colombian bonds, said Jim Harper, director of corporate research at BCP Securities in Greenwich, Connecticut.
"Colombia is one of the darlings of the market," Harper said in a telephone interview. "Everything that comes out of Colombia seems to be well oversubscribed and prices very well."
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Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA, Colombia's biggest banking group by assets, said in a regulatory filing this week it is meeting with investors to study an overseas bond sale. State-run power producer Isagen SA said in August that it may sell as much as $500 million of bonds abroad. Banco Davivienda SA, Colombia's third-largest bank, said that month that it plans to issue up to $350 million of bonds abroad. Officials from Isagen and Davivienda declined to comment further.
Colombian issuance "is going to grow," said Gustavo Ferraro, head of debt capital markets for Latin America at Barclays Capital in New York. "Besides the traditional emerging-market accounts, investors in general are now interested in Colombia as a player in the high-grade market."
Colombia was raised to the lowest level of investment grade by Standard & Poor's in March, Moody's Investors Service in May and Fitch Ratings in June amid accelerating growth and improved security.
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The Colombian government on Jan. 10 sold $1.5 billion of bonds due 2041 to yield 4.96 percent in its first overseas offering since July. Investor demand for the securities totaled about $3.6 billion, according to the Finance Ministry.
Sales will probably be led by commodities companies and public utilities, both of which are favored by investors, Ferraro said.
Colombia's economy will grow 4.5 percent this year, more than the region's 3.7 percent estimated pace, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America predicts.
The central bank forecasts the South American country grew as much as 6 percent in 2011, the fastest pace since 2007.
The economy expanded 7.7 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the most since the fourth quarter of 2006. Brazil's economy shrank in the third quarter for the first time in more than two years while growth slowed in Chile and Peru.
Foreign direct investment in Colombia jumped to $10.8 billion in the first nine months of last year, more than the whole-year figures since at least 1994, according to the central bank. Foreign companies put 60 percent of that money in oil and mining. The government forecasts foreign direct investment reached a record $13 billion in 2011.
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"Based on the outlook for Colombia, the opportunity is there for corporates to continue issuing," said Paolo Valle, who helps oversee $1.3 billion of emerging-markets securities, including Colombian debt, at Federated Investments in Pittsburgh. "There are very good companies in Colombia that we would like to see more often."
The likelihood the central bank will raise interest rates further in 2012 to keep inflation in check will keep Colombian companies issuing abroad as they seek lower borrowing costs, said Daniel Velandia, head analyst at brokerage Correval SA in Bogota.
The 149 percent jump in overseas issuance in local-currency and dollar-denominated bonds by Colombian companies in 2011 compares with a 24 percent increase in Brazil and declines in Mexico, Chile and Peru. In other major emerging-market economies, the Czech Republic's 298 percent jump is the only one that outpaces Colombia. Issuance in India, Russia and South Africa also declined from 2010.
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Colombia is the only major Latin American economy to have increased borrowing costs in recent months. The central bank increased the overnight lending rate 25 basis points, or a quarter percentage point, in November to 4.75 percent, citing "very dynamic" internal demand, loan growth and record housing costs. A majority of economists in a central bank survey published Jan. 12 forecast Banco de la Republica will increase the key rate to 5.5 percent by the end of the year.
Less appetite for higher-yielding assets and smaller issues, as well as reduced financing needs from Colombian companies that have already tapped the market, may mean overseas corporate bonds sales will fall this year, Federated Investments's Valle said.
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The nation's upgrade to the lowest level of investment grade in 2011, which was followed by similar moves for ratings in companies including Bancolombia and Empresas Publicas de Medellin SA, known as EPM, led companies to sell debt as they took advantage of the reduced borrowing costs.
Bancolombia sold $1 billion of 10-year bonds in international markets on May 24 to yield 6.01 percent. The yield has since fallen to 5.79 percent. EPM, a regional utility company, on Jan. 24 sold $675 million worth of 10-year peso- denominated debt abroad to yield 8.5 percent. The yield on the securities has declined to 7.66 percent.
The average yield on Colombian corporate dollar bonds at 5.32 percent compares to the 6.17 percent average yield for Latin American countries, 6.1 percent for Brazil and 6.29 percent for Mexico, according to JPMorgan's CEMBI Broad index.
"Everyone is in Brazil by now and people have been doing Mexico for a while," said Joe Kogan, a debt analyst with Scotia Capital in New York. "Investors are always searching for the next big thing and what we see in Colombia are good fundamentals."
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