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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (NYSE: BPI), today announced the final results of its tender offer to purchase up to 10,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $19.50 per share, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Wednesday, December 11, 2013.
Bridgepoint has accepted for purchase 10,249,766 shares of its common stock, including all "odd lots" properly tendered, shares tendered through the conditional exercise of options and shares tendered by Warburg Pincus Private Equity VIII, L.P. and its affiliates, the Company's major stockholder, at a purchase price of $19.50 per share, for a total cost of approximately $200 million. Shares tendered through the conditional exercise of options represent 173,409 of the number of shares accepted for purchase. Based on the final tabulation by Wells Fargo Shareowner Services, the Depositary for the tender offer, 49,464,692 shares of Bridgepoint common stock, of which 872,092 were shares tendered through the conditional exercise of options, were properly tendered and not withdrawn (excluding any conditional tenders that were not accepted due to the specified condition not being satisfied). Bridgepoint has been informed by the Depositary that, after giving effect to the priority for "odd lots," the final proration factor is approximately 19.9%.
The Depositary will promptly issue payment for the shares validly tendered and accepted for purchase and will return all other shares tendered.
Bridgepoint's Board of Directors created and empowered a Special Committee to review and decide upon, with the assistance of management, alternatives for using Bridgepoint's available financial resources. The Special Committee, consisting of independent directors Dale Crandall, Marye Anne Fox and Robert Hartman, considered Bridgepoint's existing and anticipated capital structure and financial position, including Bridgepoint's outstanding common stock, financial ratios, the market price of its common stock and Bridgepoint's operations, strategy and expectations for the future.Barclays Capital Inc. is acting as the Dealer Manager, MacKenzie Partners Inc. is the Information Agent and Wells Fargo Shareowner Services is the Depositary. For questions and information, please call the Information Agent toll free at (800) 322-2885 or call collect at (212) 929-5500.
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I'm feeling SO much better now that my eating is mostly back on track and I'm exercising again. I'll be ready to move on to phase 2 of the 30 day shred on Monday (10 days) per phase is my goal). Phase 1 is starting not to be a challenge any more so I'm going deeper in my squates and lunges and really focusing on using my muscles more with the arm movements. The cardio isn't kicking my butt anymore and I'm not wheezing haha. Week 1 results:
Weight 185.6 (-2.6)
Waist 35" (-1")
Hips 44" (-1")
Thigh 24" no change
Calf 15.5" (-0.5")
Arm 12" no change
Not bad for one week!! I am also starting to fit more and more into a size 14. I'll post another blog of my zipping my "goal dress" and my new goal article of clothing...size 12 jeans! I'm really hoping to wear these jeans on my Ireland trip in October.
I have more energy during the day now, but getting up in the morning has been a struggle. I'm not sure if Jillian is wearing me out, or making me have more energy...but I've been pushing through and exercising every day. I think I need to add some more cardio, but I'm not sure my legs can handle it. Any suggestions?
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Thigh 24"
Calf 16"
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I started this yesterday. I have to admit, I was so sore today I did NOT want to get up and work out. I'm pretty sure Jillian Michaels is not human. Least to say, I did get up finally and worked out. My arms are killing me, my legs burn, but I know it's all for a good purpose! This is my way of getting back on track. I need to stick to a 30 day program, I'm determined. Eating is slowly getting back on track. I'm hoping to not be MIA anymore!
I know protein is an important nutrient for weight loss. When I get enough protein, I don't have headaches, I feel good, and I feel fuller longer. What are some good ways to get the minimum 60g of protein per day? I find myself struggling with this.
Also, fiber. Getting to 25g of fiber per day is difficult without consuming insane amounts of carbs. I'm doing well if I get 15-20g per day. Suggestions?
Actually...it wasn't that bad! I didn't lose very many inches, except my arm which is where I've been focusing. I actually lost weight! YAY!
May 13-June 10
Total inches lost: 0.5"
Weight lost: 1.4 lbs
Lbs until next goal: 17.2 (169)
Lbs until final goal: 36.2[150 (changed from 154)]
June 10
Weight-186.2 (-1.4 lbs)
Waist-35" (+/-0")
Hips-43" (+/-0")
Thigh-24.5" (+/-0")
Upper Arm-12" (-0.5")
Calf-15.5" (+/-0")
May 13
Weight-187.6 (-1.8)
Waist-35" (-1")
Hips-43" (-2")
Thigh-24.5" (+/- 0")
Upper arm-12.5" (+0.5")
Calf-15.5" (+/- 0")
Starting Measurements:
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Upper arm-14"
It seems when you get really off track and you're less active on here, you receive less support. Therefore, its a vicious cycle of staying off track. The past couple months have been nothing short of chaotic!! Here comes my rant:
-My knee was deemed as having lost some cartilage and that's why I was in so much pain. I have been taking glucosamine with chondroitin for almost a month now and it seems mostly back to normal thank goodness!! Most people if they couldn't exercise would watch what they eat even more, but not me! When I can't exercise, my whole plan just goes to the wayside. I have been eating HORRIBLY and have felt the effects. Thankfully I've only gained about 2 lbs in the past month, but it's two more lbs I now have to lose on top of the 37.
-I have also been really down with feelings of lonliness and sadness. My divorce has been final over a year now and it's not that I miss my ex, but that I miss having someone there. There's been a couple that have shown interest, but nothing I'm willing to write home about. My grandfather was diagnosed with cancer in the bladder (he had it in a kidney two years ago) and possibly the aorta. He's 77, so this will be no picnic.
-I had my wisdom teeth out Monday. Still recovering, but doing well.
Now that everything is starting to normalize again, I really need to get back on track and get my booty into gear! I'm hoping my friends here will help me with that. I have joined a 10 week challenge at work for exercise and I really want to do well!! I need to get back into Zumba and strength training.
I ordered my bridesmaid dress for the November wedding in Texas today. I'm hoping by the time it comes around they'll have to alter the crap out of it haha. I really want to lose about 20 more before the wedding...gives me just under 5 months to do it. And Ireland is rapidly approaching, 4 1/2 months for that trip! Sunday I take mesurements for the third time, I'm a little scared of the results...
So thanks to the friends who have been checking up on me over the past couple months. I'm back!

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Really seems like they are just mostly adding Circle Pad Pro and native support for amiibo. So you should still be able to play new games with old hardware using the addons.
And the CPU thing...
Sony did the same thing with PSP, and it were only ever used to provide slight fps boost in some games.
I have been waiting for this.
@FilmerNgameR There kinda IS a sequal, thought not for 3DS - Pokemon TCG Online for PC.
It has CPU opponents, multiplayer and support latest cards.
And if you ever buy real pokemon boosters or decks, they all have code inside to give same cards for digital game.
@jakysnakydx Pokemon games have internal cheat checks that makes it impossible to make Pokemon that have higher stats or any moves unavailable to "normal" Pokemon.
So in no ways is "hacked" Pokemon BETTER than fully "legit".
And the argument about speeding the breeding of "perfect" Pokemon giving unfair advantage is ridiculous, most of the players that compete in nationals should already have bunch of old tournament Pokemons from older generations that can used as breeding stock.
Damn, I would really like to play new Yu-Gi-Oh! at the release day, but I have to wait for retail copy to get the promo cards...


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Big Food Sees Higher Dollar Sales
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The majority of food companies covered by star analyst Farha Aslam of Stephens in her latest note to investors saw their total dollar sales increase in the four week period ended December 27, as consumers loosened their purses at grocery, drug and mass outlets across the U.S.
The checkout scanner data used in the report doesn't include Wal-Mart, club stores and convenience outlets.
Aslam provides an overweight recommendation for Dean Foods (DF). Dean Foods' total dollar sales decreased 5.9% in the latest 4-week period. Milk sales were down 11.6%, driven by an 8.5% decline in pricing. Cream/creamer sales were up 10.9%, driven by a 9.9% volume increase. Soy milk sales were down 8% on pricing.
Aslam gives Del Monte Foods (DLM) an overweight recommendation. Del Monte's total dollar sales were up 4.5% compared to last year. Vegetable sales were up 12% on a 23.1% volume increase and a 9% price decline, while volume promoted came in at 60.2%. Fruit sales were up 0.9%. Pet treats were up 4.5% and dog food was up 13.7%. Cat food sales were up 0.6%.The analyst provides an equal-weight recommendation for Flowers Foods (FLO). Flowers Foods' total dollar sales were up 4.3% compared to a year ago. Fresh bread sales were up 3.3%, driven by a pricing decrease of 1.4% and a volume increase of 4.8%. Hamburger/hot dog buns sales were down 2.5%, with volumes up 1.8% and pricing down 4.1%. All other buns and rolls were up 5.7%, as price decreased 10.5% and volumes added 18%. Aslam gives Hormel Foods (HRL) an equal-weight recommendation. Hormel Foods' sales increased 0.7% versus last year. Canned meat (no ham) sales were up 2.7% on volume increases of 4.9% and a 2.1% price decline. Refrigerated meats were down 1.4% and bacon sales were down 2.7%, both on pricing. Chili was down 6.6% on volume. Microwavable packaged dinner sales increased 1.1% on volume. Lunch meats increased 15.9% on mostly volume.
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During her concert in Toronto, the Icelandic singer sings 'Declare Independence' and dedicates it to Martin, who was gunned down by George Zimmerman in 2012.
Bjork Demands Russian Authorities to Free Pussy Riot From JailAugust 11, 2012 12:08:15
The 'Wanderlust' singer also invites the anti-Vladimir Putin band to perform a song 'written for all enhancement of justice.'
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The 'It's Oh So Quiet' singer presents her fans with the moon and the night sky as an epitome of her harmony.
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Along with Ennio Morricone, Bjork was handed $136,000 and presented with a trophy at the ceremony of Sweden's most high-profile music award.
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We have the sun odt plugin installed sitewide.
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and we already have hundreds of ODT files onsite so it would be really simple to switch. (a reg key sets it as default save format
The blatant SIMS lock-in is the only technical reason we keep MSOffice. All teaching depts we spoke to have no problem with using OOO instead.
Eventually MSOffice will wither on the vine as it becomes less relevant. Most people don't know the difference, and the ones that do soon see Ooo has more features that interest them than MSOffice (2003) anyway - I mean the actual useful features like save to pdf, convert to wiki format, use a mysql database rather than having a facelift.
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From a management point of view OO has a long way to go on windows and OSX. The ADM version is not free is it?
Even Office and iwork can be configured with managed preferences on OS X.
One thing to consider also is what would replace outlook if you stripped Office out?
Web based email stuff is okay but its not as fancy as full outlook and our staff hated OWA to use all the time.
You could use pop/imap mode in some clients but its not as good as full outlook I believe.
I am all for office 2007, I think its amazing and well worth the cash as it will generally improve productivity for most. I have never been amazed with OO and I just see it as okay. I know people that hate it when working with tables in the Writer part as they have layout issues etc where as office was a breeze.
EDIT: El' reg has a review of it for linux now http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11..._dot_o_review/
We pay nothing to use Zimbra - it is free open-source software. The server hardware cost just under £2,000.
Zimbra is expensive (for push email parts - yes we do need push email) and would require replacing exchange in our situation and thats before we get to the fact yahoo own it and I hate yahoo junk with a passion. They will stitch you all in the end (my conspiracy theory there)
Zimbra also is not exactly as fully featured as outlook but they are limited by ajax tbh as certain things just wont work due to the way IE etc security is. One big thing I suppose is you cant do a mail merge email.
We have been using OpenOffice and OpenDocument for the last 2 years.
It is easy to do if you aren't already locked-in to technologies like Exchange, VB, SIMS or some of the proprietary VLEs.
I'd love to move away from MSO but unfortunately OOo is just not as good as MSOXP/2003 for usability (I HATE 2007) and it is quite clear it was designed by a coder, not a designer. Also as we use exchange, we are tied to Outlook.
If OOo want to replace MSO then they have to either get a fully working Outlook replacement, or an exchange replacement.
SaaS is never good enough for most heavy users. so AJAX/Silverlight/etc are no good.
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Just to go off at a slight angle, MS have announced that Office 14 will be available either as a series of advert funded web apps (free?) or via a subscription model
Obviously competing with Google Apps but may mean that folk stick with Microsoft
We've been installing OOo alongside MS Office, Now that I see that ADm for OOo we can control it better.
We only install Outlook for certain users, usually, when they need to have two logons to the email server (reception staff: their own, and the general one). We always found that Outlook never quite coped with running on wireless laptops, it went offline, and never came back. The Mdaemon server we have has a "lookout" theme that looks very much like outlook, so keeps them happy.
OOo is also missing a publisher clone... or even something that would open .pub files.
I still have to pop back into excel, when I need to do any importing, but this is because I don't know it well enough. I am being subtly subversive, OOo is installed everywhere now, and so I personally create files with it, and when people ask, that's what they get the odt, file, not the .doc equivalent.
I've opened some of my word documents in Open Office writer and some documents especially if they contain a lot of pictures lose their formatting so open office just is not viable for me.
I would love to move away from Office to OOo but there are just too many issues to resolve: staff retraining, compatibility with sharepoint, features etc. etc.
This issue is part of a whole wider dilemma for me - to open source or not to open source? I'd love to, but my instinct is it's not quite there yet....
I installed OO in all my schools when I first started working in them many moons ago.
Out of 12 - only 1 said they didn't want it and preferred to pay for MS Office and 1 other "reverted" after 2 years when 2 new teachers turned up and said they couldn't work with it
I install it on all pupil machines and give the teachers MS office.
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Of course the world is full of violence and death these days, from Gaza to the Central African Republic, and from Syria to the Ukraine, but sometimes it all hits particularly close to home. 285 innocent people were killed yesterday, and at least 189 of them were Dutch. The reason for their death? They flew over a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, at an altitude of 10 kilometers. Someone somewhere launched a surface-to-air missile at the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, apparently mistaking it for a military transport plane.
^No photos of wreckage here, but a shot of the Boeing as it left Schiphol Airport yesterday.
In my social media circles, there are at least two people who have lost friends or acquaintances. The outpouring of support and prayer on Facebook and Twitter struck me yesterday and today, even though the sheer scale of the death and destruction is mind numbing.
Pope Francis had a statement released via the Holy See press office today, which reads:
"The Holy Father, Pope Francis has learned with dismay of the tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft downed in east Ukraine, a region marked by high tensions. He raises prayers for the numerous victims of the incident and for their relatives, and renews his heartfelt appeal to all parties in the conflict to seek peace and solutions through dialogue, in order to avoid further loss of innocent human lives."
The Dutch bishops also shared their grief and called for prayer:
"We ask all faithful to do everything possible to support the families and friends of victims. And we encourage all the faithful to commend the victims to the mercy of God during the services of this Sunday, and to pray for strength and courage for those left behind."
Individual bishops als commented. Cardinal Eijk said in an official statement:
"The world heard with shock of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 near the border between Ukraine and Russia. All of the nearly 300 passengers and crew, including at least 154 Dutch, were killed. Sentiments of sorrow and frustration dominate all aircraft disasters. According to the first reports this civilian airplane was shot down with a missile – which would make this disaster even more unbearable.
We pray for the eternal rest of the people who died in this tragedy. Our thoughts and prayer are also with the family members, friends, acquaintances and colleagues of the victims. For them a time of great uncertainty and mourning has begun. I ask all parishes in the Archdiocese of Utrecht to pray for the victims and their survivors in next Sunday's services."
The bishops of Haarlem-Amsterdam and 's Hertogenbosch have also called for prayers and support for the victims and their families.
But, in the end, words are words. In these cases whatever we do never feels like it is enough. We can only pray, hope and love.
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A life for God sometimes ends in the most earthly ways possible, as was the case for Dutch-born Bishop Vital Wilderink in Brazil on Wednesday last. The 82-year-old retired prelate, who had lived as a hermit since his retirement in 1998, was killed when the car he was in crashed into a 300-meter deep ravine west of Rio de Janeiro. The driver of the car was also killed, while two further passengers came out injured but alive.
Bishop Vital João Geraldo Wilderink was born in Deventer, Archdiocese of Utrecht, in 1931 and entered the Order of the Carmelites in 1957. As such he was sent out to Brazil, where he became auxiliary bishop of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda in 1978 and the first bishop of Itaguaí in 1980. He retired early in 1998, when he was 66. Since that time he lived as a hermit.
Bishop Jozef De Kesel of Bruges has an excellent message on the topic of suffering and death in the perspective of the Resurrection.
"All that is written about us, will be fulfilled by you in these days". Thus the opening verse of a song that Willem Barnard wrote for the start of Holy Week. Much is said in those few words. That He shared our existence to the very end. That nothing human is unknown to Him. The final days, the days of His passing. These are also the days that refer to what is impossible, but what the Church counts as her deepest conviction: that He is risen. The final days: they are the days of 'pascha', the passing from death to life. And in these days He fulfilled all that was written about us.
What is striking is that that also includes His death. You would think that the Resurrection makes everything in order again and that we would better forget this dying and that death. Especially considering how scandalous that dying was: condemned and executed. But that dying and death does belong to what He fulfilled in those final days. No Easter without Good Friday. Death is also part of the Pascal mystery.
The Church has never been tempted to hide or trivialise that death, let alone suppress it. Paul says with emphasis: "We are preaching a crucified Christ" (1 Cor.1 :23). And when Holy Week begins with the introit of Maundy Thursday, we sing: "Let our glory be in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In Him we have salvation, life and resurrection, through Him we are rescued and set free."
Glory in the Cross, that is a strange and alienating thing to say. Isn't suffering being cherished here? Isn't it explained as something positive? That is something that the Church and Christianity is sometimes accused of. A sort of mystification of suffering. When, a few weeks, the expansion of the euthanasia bill for minors was voted on, we were confronted again with that criticism. Are faithful not aware of the suffering of people? Shouldn't people be freed from that suffering? Is that not the ultimate at of compassion? Or is it perhaps meaningful and good that people suffer?
Suffering is something we should pursue. That would be absurd. Pain must be relieved and that is possible today. Therapeutic stubbornness can't be justified. Christianity does not cherish suffering. Not even that of Jesus. Jesus did not seek out suffering. The Gospel informs us that Jesus, when things did indeed get dangerous for Him, retreated more and more. Now and then we read that He did not show Himself in public. In the end He even prayed that that cup could pass Him by. He tried to avoid danger as much as possible. But not at the expense of His mission. He would complete that mission to the end. And if the Cross was part of it, He would accept it. He said so to His disciples: "Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it" (Mark 8:35).
But there is one question that remains. Why did God not answer the prayer of Jesus? Why couldn't He change the minds of those who wanted to kill Jesus? Why couldn't God arrange this differently, without that suffering and without that Cross? For faithful people the Resurrection is the ultimate answer to that question. Here, God breaks through all barriers. Indeed, what awaits is neither more nor less than a new creation. But not without that detour of suffering an death. Like the People of God once, when it left Egypt and tried to escape from a life of slavery, had to make a detour through the desert, a place of testing and suffering. Why no direct route to the promised land? Why that detour? Why Jesus' death? There is only one answer to that question: because that detour, because suffering and death are a part of the human condition. We are not gods but human beings. About Jesus it is also said: "Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. […] and being in every way like a human being" (Phil. 2:6-7).
In the media debate about the expansion of the euthanasia I gradually started to ask myself this question: doesn't all this also have to do with the fact that death is loosing its place in our secular society? That life is being arranged in such a way that it doesn't really exist? It is being banned as much as possible from life. And when it comes and can't be avoided, let it strike as quickly as possible. The euthanasia file is no longer about the physically unbearable suffering. It is increasingly about psychological suffering. And while the danger of a slippery slope as denied at first, the transition seems fairly obvious. Psychological suffering is real suffering, so why exclude it? And why not go further? Existential suffering also exists. Suffering because the meaning of life itself has been affected. It is striking that suicide is no longer a taboo today. Of course it is shocking in the case of young people. And that is the focus is rightfully on prevention. But the elderly? These are people that are "done" with life and so "step out of it". That language says much. Suicide becomes a lucid and courageous act. Death is being made harmless from the start because it is no longer recognised for what it really is: a sign of radical finality. A sign that I did not decide or want my existence but was given it. A sign that I am not my own origin.
In a column in De Standaard rector Torfs rightfully notes, "life must be beautiful, and if it is not, death is an option. Suicide is today not just an escape for people who are deeply unhappy. It is equally there for someone who, after careful deliberation, decides that his happiness is not enough". Where one no longer realises that finality and mortality, and so also death, are an essential part of what it means to be "a human being on earth", life itself in its deepest sense becomes trivialised. Life in itself has then no meaning or value. Meaning and value depend on a presupposed quality to which it has to answer. But what is quality? The lightness with which "stepping out of life" is being discussed ultimately refers to the lightness with which life itself is being discussed.
The Christian faith in the Resurrection does not trivialise death. It belongs to our finite and mortal existence. And it is that finite existence that Christ wanted to share with us. Everything that is written about us, is fulfilled by Him. Including our death. Even if our culture tries to keep death as much as possible out of sight, death is and remains a mystery that we will never fully comprehend, let alone solve. Christian is no mysticism of suffering. But it does not deny death. But – and this is the heart of our faith – it is taken up in the even greater mystery of God's love defeating death. That is what Christ fulfilled for us."
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, Apostolic Administrator of Freiburg im Breisgau, speaks about the freedom and life that God gives at Easter, through the Resurrection of His Son.
"Dear sisters, dear brothers in the community of faith,
"Why is this night different from all other nights?" That is the question that the youngest member present must ask the head of the family during the Jewish feast of Pesach. And in answer, the latter describes year after year the liberation of his people from slavery in Egypt, as we have just heard in the reading from the book Exodus. Of course, all who have come together for the feast known this: and yet it is valuable to hear this history anew every time. And this becomes clear to them: It is God who leads to freedom! He who entrusts himself to Him, can stand up to even superior numbers. With His strong arm he gives new courage and leads us to His goal.
"Why is this night different from all other nights?" For us as Christians the focus of this question goes even further. The night of Easter is more than the feast of the one liberation from slavery of a superior people. It is about more than the experience that we can trust God in our lives. We celebrate the resurrection of Christ, we celebrate life having defeated death and sin once and for all. We have become "free from sin", as we have heard in the reading from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans (6:7). Jesus having risen from the dead means for us that we "should begin living a new life" (Rom. 6:4). Everything is different from one moment to the next. The event of the Resurrection of Jesus changes the view on our lives. From now on it stands under a different sign. In the end, meaningless and emptiness do not remain. Life is victorious, hope defeats all doubt and fear. Yes, for us it is this night, in wich we experience permanent freedom, in which we are given new and eternal life. It is the basic message as given in an Easter song: "Freed we are from fear and distress, Life has defeated death: the Lord is risen."
And yet, dear brothers and sisters, we do not find this message very easy. Can it be really true that death has lost its terror, that life has won the final victory? What we hear is almost too great. Do we really dare trust this news, even in the face of so much suffering and injustice in the world? We are at least not alone when we react hesitantly. The women, who wanted to go to the grave early in the morning to show their closeness to the deceased, find it difficult to have faith in the surprising news that jesus is risen and lives. It's almost too bizarre: the message of the liberation of mankind from sin and death must be so strong that it works by itself . But that is not the case. In the face of the enormity of this message, the joy of the women at the empty grave is mixed with doubt. "Do not be afraid!" (Matt. 28:5, 10) – they need the encouraging words from the angel and from Jesus Himself to face the new situation and to take courage. It would have been far simpler if everything remained as it was! But perhaps we can somehow accept it. Every life ends at some point. The message of life and liberty is not so easy against this supposed realism. We much rather stay with our supposed certainties and are not so quick to let ourselves be surprised by God.
That is why this night differs from all others. It wants to encourage us. We must not be satisfied with too little. Supposed realism, which is often nothing more than pessimism in disguise, is only plausible on first glance. This night tells us: away with pessimism and all prophets of doom! Trust freedom and life! God Himself gives it to us! Pope Francis summarises it: "Let us not be closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives! […] Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him." Yes, dear sisters and brothers, the call of Jesus: "Do not be afraid!" – it also applies to us! We can trust the possibilities that God grants us. We can live in the freedom into which He leads us. We have every reason to be lieve the promise that He gives us life, eternal life. Like the small light of the paschal candle that has driven the darkness out of our cathedral, to God defeat all darkness and gloom of the world with the Light of Life. There may be needs and misery, sickness and death in our daily lives: these do not have the final word. Love and life are stronger than all indifference.
This night teaches us that we are fundamentally freed by God, because do not need to be held prisoner by our concerns and needs. It shows us that we should not have any fear, since life is stronger than death. But it is not content with that. It looks for our answer. The event of this night wants our voice for life and freedom! It wants us to be carriers of hope ourselves and distributors of light. We should gather the courage that the women had; while they were still fearful, but hurried with joy to the Apostles to tell them of this nigh-unbelievable news. Yes, he who has experienced that life is victorious, can't keep it to himself but carries the message further into the world. Whoever it is, he stands for life and freedom.
This becomes especially clear, dear sisters and brothers, in the Sacrament of Baptism. "Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." (Matt. 28:19). This commandment from Jesus to His disciples concludes the encounters with the Risen One. The liberating message of His Resurrection is not ours alone. It applies to all people. That is why we bless the water of Baptism, with which the Sacrament of Baptism is conferred, in every Easter vigil. At the same time it reminds us of our own Baptism. That is why I am pleased that we will give, in this Easter night in our cathedral, new life through the water of Baptism, given to us in this special night, to Ms. Nina Shokira. And she wants to share this life with her son Yuri, who will also receive the Sacrament of Baptism. Baptism is the external sign in which we experience the liberation from the trappings of sin and are called to new life in Jesus Christ. In the extent that baptism changes our lives, so important it is that we agree with from within and always remember what it means to belong to Jesus Christ and to be blessed by Him with new life. When we live from this, we feel how much this night changes our lives. Because all our days are permeated and carried by the liberating power of God. So: "Freed we are from fear and distress, Life has defeated death: the Lord is risen." Amen.
Marking Easter – which is more than just one day – I want to share some of the messages that our bishops have given for the Feast of the Resurrection. First is the archbishop of Berlin, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, who speaks about how the hope of Easter opens us up to Christ, every day anew, so that we can help others to also meet Christ.
""He is not here, for he has risen, as he said he would" (Matt. 28:6). The angels' Easter message is not only directed to the women at the empty tomb, but also directly to us. Full of joy we join in with the Alleluiah of Easter. At the same time, many people have difficulties believing in the Resurrection, which makes me think.
Easter brought something new into the world: a hope which tells us, over the power of death: "For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (Joh. 3:16). Easter is the answer of the Christian faith to the provocation of death.We are called to life in unity with the living Lord, we are called to eternal life. In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis reminded us of this: "Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction" (EG 7)*. It is the encounter with Jesus Christ as the risen and the living. Scripture tells us of these encounters of people with the Risen: Jesus Christ is risen, He lives!
Only the Light "from Heaven" brightens our own life. Only the gaze "upwards" to Him opens up for us the meaning of all that Jesus Christ has done and said. His death on the cross seems to put into question his message and works. But through the Resurrection God the Father confirms the message and the work of His Son. The Resurrection, not death, is the final chapter of His and our life story.
"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe!" (Joh. 20:29). This is verse from the Bible puts it succinctly: Whoever is open to the Easter message, in him it changes something. The Kingdom of God is near, and the promise is already active today. In the night before Easter this becomes visible when the Churches festively receives the catechumens. Through Baptism they arise into new life in Jesus Christ. The same is true for all of us, who are baptised and confirmed in His name. In Jesus we arise every new day to new life. And when we suffer some setback in our life, the hope of Easter give us the power to stand up anew every day.
In this way our own life becomes an answer to the questions of those who struggle with the message of Easter: Every Sunday, every day he can encounter the Risen One himself! In the Eucharist we meet the Risen One like the disciples met Him on the road to Emmaus. Similarly, we meet Him in prayer, where He listens to us and our concerns. And we meet Him in our neighbour, and vice versa: "It is no longer I, but Christ living in me" (Gal. 2:20). As easter people we are the "Light of the world", the "Salt of the earth" (Matt. 5:13-14), and we become signs of His salvation.
I wish you a happy and blessed Easter, Alleluiah!"
* Pope Francis quotes Pope emeritus Benedict XVI here
An exemplary icon of steadfast dedication to those in need is no more. Father Frans van der Lugt was abducted, shot and killed this morning in Homs, Syria, the city and country that was his home for more than four decades. The Dutch Jesuit priest did not think of leaving his home and the community he was a part of – consisting not only of the few Christians in the city, but also, especially in later years, of his Muslim neighbours in the widest sense – as civil war engulfed Syria and cut off the part of Homs where Fr. Frans lived from the rest of the world.
Thousands of people in this pocket continue to struggle with hunger and poverty, something that Fr. Frans tried to alleviate in the ways he could. He brought the attention of the wider world to their plight and managed to get what little food there was – some of which he grew – out to the families who needed it.
In February, he illustrated the situation to a Dutch journalist as follows: "In the morning we eat a few olives. We cut vegetables out from between street tiles and make soup out of it in the afternoon and in the evening we see what's left."
A month earlier, he made the following emergency call:
"I am speaking to you from the old and besieged city of Homs. One of our greatest problems is hunger. There is nothing to eat. There is nothing worse than to see people in the streets looking for something to eat for their children."
Do you think that the world will do something or will everyone watch while we die?
"That is impossible. It is impossible that we suffer while the world does nothing. Not only the world has to do something, but we all have to as well. Otherwise we will die. We do not want to die from pain and hunger."
Father Frans did not see the world stop watching and doing nothing. He took but one side, the side of the people and their needs to live. That was not a side of guns and bombs, violence and war, but of faith, community and fraternal love. He was fighting the people's hunger and insanity that comes with it, as well as the world's impotence in doing anything about it. For that he apparently had to die.
In the days after the funeral of Bishop Jan Bluyssen, last Thursday, I've been reading a fair amount of criticism on how the Mass was performed. It was not in line with how the late bishop would have wanted it, some say. The large number of representatives of Church and state, the guild members in their folkloristic costumes, the clerics in cardinal red and bishop's purple… all this are not becoming a bishop who was close to the people, who was loath to portray himself as lording it over the laity, who was, for many, a man among men, trying his best to serve the Lord and His Church as a bishop.
It should be noted here, that the funeral Mass was offered according to the liturgy of the Church. Attending bishops and other clergy were there to pay their respects to Bishop Bluyssen and they did so as prelates of the Church, which is not a 9-to-5 job, but, in lieu of their ordination, their identity. Bishop Bluyssen would have worn his liturgical clothing for the very same reason.
^Bishops attending the funeral Mass of Bishop Bluyssen. Clockwise from the top: Frans Wiertz (Roermond), Gerard de Korte (Groningen-Leeuwarden), Everard de Jong (aux. Roermond), Theodorus Hoogenboom (aux. Utrecht) and Joseph Lescrauwaet (aux. em. of Haarlem-Amsterdam). Behind them Cardinal Simonis.
Funerals are important. They are the final moment in which friends and family can bid farewell to a loved one, and a time to mourn that person. In that light, it is understandable that people feel ill at ease when a funeral seems to be about something else than the person being mourned. But when the funeral takes place from a Church, when the deceased (and hopefully his or her family and friends) are Catholic, there is an important element to the funeral that secular ceremonies lack. It is a Mass, so the first and most important focus is on Christ, and the deceased is seen and remembered in His light.
What does that mean for the Catholic Church funeral Mass? Is mourning and remembering out of the question? Certainly not, but there are two things we need to consider: death is not the end, and those left behind are not powerless in the face of death.
A person's life on earth has ended, but we believe that the soul is immortal and will return to its Creator, barring any obstacles. Prayer is the most powerful tool we have to make sure those obstacles are removed or diminished, and that is where we, those left behind come in. Our prayer is an act of love for the person we miss.
The funeral Mass is a Mass. That means that it is primarily the remembrance and actualisation of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, the single most redemptive event in our entire history. Christ defeated death by rising after three days. Our loved one who has passed away follows our Lord in death, in the hope of one day rising with Him. Here, our prayer comes in again.
Catholic funerals, then, are not first and foremost a remembrance or even a celebration of the life that has ended. It is our sending off the deceased into the hands of the One who defeated death once and for all, and the start of our duty of prayer towards him or her.
The funeral Mass should be considered, planned and discussed out of its identity as a Mass. All other elements, such as eulogies and music, must be measured against this. And then, sometimes, the conclusion must be made (by the person who is responsible for the liturgy of the Mass: the priest) that some things are not suitable for Mass, but can be more suitable for a separate occasion before or after the Mass.
The Mass is the Mass is the Mass: we leave our beloved in the hands of the Lord and help him or her with our prayers, in the faithful hope of being reunited one day, as we follow the example of the first to rise from the dead: Jesus Christ. This transcends any personal preferences or opinions. Jesus can't be left out of the equation. In the end, a person's life comes to fullness in the light of the Lord, and there is no better memory than entrusting him to that light and expecting a future reunion.
^ Bishop Hurkmans incenses the coffin and mortal remains of Bishop Bluyssen, just like the offerings to the Lord, and the Word we receive from Him, are incensed during the Mass.
Photo credit: Ramon Mangold
While in the south we bid our farewells to Bishop Joannes Gijsen today, up north we rejoice as a young man is confirmed in his service to the Lord and His Church. There is always joy, even when we mourn the end of an earthly life.
I can't be there, so I'll just use this blog to express not only my heartfelt congratulations, but also my gratitude for his service, to Sander Zwezerijnen as he is ordained a transitional deacon at the St. Boniface church in Leeuwarden today.
Photo credit: Sander with Bishop Jan Hendriks, his seminary rector for most of his formation, upon receiving his magna cum laude diploma from the Pontifical Lateran University, last May/Tiltenberg.org
Another day, and another new bishop in Germany. This time it's the Archdiocese of Cologne receiving a new auxiliary. Bishop-elect Ansgar Puff succeeds Bishop Heiner Koch, who was appointed as ordinary of Dresden-Meißen in January.
The new auxiliary bishop joins Cardinal Joachim Meisner and fellow auxiliaries Manfred Melzer and Dominik Schwaderlapp in the archdiocesan curia. His titular see is Gordus in modern Turkey, a see previously held by the late Bishop Alfons Demming, auxiliary bishop of Münster, who died last October.
Bishop-elect Puff will be consecrated on 21 September, at Cologne's landmark cathedral of Ss. Peter and Mary. He will hold pastoral responsibility for the archdiocese's southern district, which includes the city of Bonn and is home to some 600,000 Catholics.
Bishop-elect Ansgar Puff is 57 years old and has been a priest since 1987. He has been a parish priest in, among others, Cologne and Düsseldorf. Since 2012, he has also directed the archdiocesan office tasked with pastoral care and formation of priests, deacons and pastoral workers.
In an interview with Dom Radio, the newly-appointed bishop said that, upon hearing the news of his appointment, he felt as if the ground fell away underneath him:
"As it should be, the cardinal told me the news, which I was first obliged to keep a secret. But now I am happy to be able to share it. As a first reaction, I was of course quite shocked."
In the same interview, Msgr. Puff also speaks about his vocation to the priesthood. Upon the interviewer's remark that it wasn't immediately clear that young Ansgar would embark upon a career in the Church, he said:
"The good Lord does write on crooked lines, and I took a long time to find my way. Piously said: the good Lord needed a long time before he had me where I am today."
How did he come to the realisation to become a priest?
"That is a long story. It was a search for the meaning of life. My core question was: If I am the best social worker in the world, and people still die some day, what point is there to life? Concretely: if death exists, why does one live? Without faith I was unable to answer this question and so I embarked on the search of faith."
About what he most looks forward too, Msgr. Puff said:
"To the meetings with people, to the contacts with the communities! I want to be like a travelling priest and proclaim the happy news of Jesus Christ."
Not unlike Pope Francis, then.
"I don't yet know him personally, but everything that I have heard and read about him has impressed me much. Especially his thought that you have to go out, not remain closed within the Church. Christ said, "You are the salt of the earth." And salt has to go into the soup. If it stays in the salt jar, it is of no use. We have to go out, give ourselves purely, disperse ourselves and give the taste to others. In the language of faith: to be a servant of the peace of the world. I think that is a good perspective."
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Yesterday I watched a movie befitting the national day of remembrance we mark every May the 4th in the Netherlands. Sarah's Key deals with a journalist investigation into the fate of a French Jewish girl whose family used to live in the house she and her husband have just bought. The girl's entire family was deported to and killed in the Polish death camps, but of the girl and her brother there is no trace in the records. A story, therefore, about a girl who was deemed unwanted, but fought and managed to survive her would-be captors and murderers' efforts to see her dead.
One storyline deals with the lead character's unexpected pregnancy. As she and her husband have tried for years to conceive and are now somewhat older than the average first-time parents, there is some conflict about what to do. She wants to keep the child, he pushes for abortion.
In a movie about the Holocaust this is an extremely poignant topic. The one lies in the past, the other is very current, but both are centered around death. Public opinion about the Holocaust is, rightly, one of horror and unanimous rejection, but abortion is extremely well-accepted in modern society: it is a medical procedure and an expression about a person's control over and right to her own body. Or so many genuinely believe.
But put both side by side and compare them: the Holocaust was the conscious and wilful murder of persons that some decided were unwanted, not worthy of life and without a place in their world order. Abortion is the wilful killing of an unborn person that one or more people have decided is not wanted, should not be allowed to burden other's lives and has no place in their world.
There may be seemingly mitigating circumstances in many cases of abortion, but those guilty of the Holocaust would have said the very same thing. "We had no choice, we were under orders, what could I do?" Today we hear, "I can't take care of a child, there is no place for a child in my life at this moment, I have no choice." And so human lives are daily sacrificed to other people's rights, choices and (perceived) limitations.
When talking about the Holocaust we do not accept this: the murder of countless people is not suddenly alright because others wanted to exercise their rights or choices, and not even because they were forced to. The murders are not suddenly okay.
The same should be true when we talk about abortion (and, for that matter, euthanasia). Murder is never alright. Mitigating circumstances don't make it so. It is certainly never a clinical procedure, an industry as the Holocaust was in the past, and abortion is today.
Remembering the dead, as we did yesterday in this country, must never be a safe ritual which only refers to the past. There are organisations which rightly emphasise that many of the atrocities we remember still happen today in other parts of the world. But we are not exempt from that realisation. In our society there is also still a Holocaust taking place every day: a Holocaust against the unborn.
And those unborn are persons, just like the Jews and other unwanted persons during the Holocaust never stopped being persons. Many would wish it so, but there is no magical transition during birth which make a fetus a person. A person is a person is a person from the get go. Killing a person is never alright, never a medical procedure, never an industry.
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|Contributed Anthony Zunino, left, presents the Charles Downing Lay Environmental Leadership Award, the Housatonic Valley Association's highest honor, to Robert Houlihan, the organization's outgoing president at the recent annual meeting.
CORNWALL — Robert Houlihan was honored at Housatonic Valley Association's annual meeting recently with a special citation from the state's General Assembly recognizing his years of dedication to conserving the natural environment of the Housatonic River Watershed and making the state a better place in which to live. Houlihan has just completed a five-year term as HVA president.
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movie review: Midnight Express
Directed by Alan Parker
This movie (and the book it's based on) did a lot to dissuade Westerners from travelling to Turkey. It's the sort-of true story of Billy Hayes, an American who was caught trying to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of Istanbul and was put in prison for it. When Midnight Express was released, Turks were offended at the film's brutish, one-dimensional depiction of their country, and spoke out vehemently against it. Decades later, scriptwriter Oliver Stone admitted he had exaggerated Hayes' original story, and he and Hayes both apologized to the Turks for the overly harsh portrayal of their country.
Upon watching Midnight Express, I definitely thought it was, well, unsubtle. No one would dispute that prison conditions at the time in Turkey had room for improvement, but there is something distinctly unsavoury about the way all the Turks in the movie are portrayed: they're almost all cruel, or stupid, or both. There is a lot of "dark-skinned other" happening here on screen, a lot of caricature and cartoon.
That said, there are still some things that make the film worth watching, chief among them the actors. The late Brad Davis is amazing as Billy. He plays the character as someone who does something unbelievably dumb and then realizes far too late what he has sacrificed in his moment of stupidity. He's capable of acting in anger when pushed over the edge, but for the most part remains surprisingly sweet-natured and open. John Hurt is wonderful as the wry, sensitive Max, a Brit with a drug addiction who seems to spend equal amounts of time nodding off, lavishing affection on his cat, and hating Rifki, the prison's tea-and-all-sundries vendor and chief snitch. A very young Randy Quaid also puts in a good performance as a long-time prisoner who is desperate to escape no matter what.
The movie is definitely sensationalistic and very America-of-the-1970s in its approach, but it's an interesting artifact. If you want to spend a couple of hours getting a feel for what it would be like to be incarcerated in horrific conditions for a seeming eternity, this is the movie for you.
PS: This is totally beside the point, but I was intrigued by how much Brad Davis resembled Brad Pitt when his hair was long, and Channing Tatum when his hair was short.
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- Mark Landmann said...
Who wouldn't "want to spend a couple of hours getting a feel for what it would be like to be incarcerated in horrific conditions for a seeming eternity?" I've already put my hold on it at the library... :)
- Melinda said...
We are all lucky that there is no smell-o-vision yet. That would really round out the Midnight Express experience....
- juniormaster said...
So nice Blogger
- Shannon Whissell said...
Fun. I've been considering adding movie review to my blog, but it's so heavily book reviews of late that I'm trying to remember to write other things.
In other news, of all the countries my parents have visited, Turkey is by far their favourite (so far). They said the people there were gracious and warm in a way completely devoid of trying to sell them something.
I think I'll stick to that idea of Turkey, and leave Oliver Stone's in the 70's. :)
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Luau printable food labels
Product Info
These food labels go well with the Luau theme party. Let me customize them for you or for a more personal look order them blank and fill them in yourself. Upon purchase they may be downloaded and printed in your home or through a professional printing service. If printing at home I recommend using photo paper or cardstock 8.5"x11"for best results (I prefer cardstock).
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If you would like me to customize them then give me the names of the foods you plan to use upon checkout. You will receive a pdf file sent to your Etsy email address. No tangible items will be shipped. You may print this item as many times as you like but it is not for resale.
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Price $30 in advance / $35 day of
Age Suitability All Ages
Rebels with a Cause- Run, Walk, or Roll 5K
Saturday, Mar 16, 2013 7:30a to 10:00a
Flavet Field Gainesville, FL
Join the Gainesville Roller Rebels and STRIVE on Saturday, March 16th at Flavet Field for the Rebels With a Cause 5K. Proceeds will benefit Peaceful Paths of Gainesville and the Gainesville Roller Rebels. Participants can either walk, run, or skate the entire route! The first 100 participants registered will receive special edition race t-shirts. Registration: $30 in advance / $35 day of.
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Flavet Field
Woodlawn Dr
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-8020
Woodlawn Dr
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-8020
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1.2 mi 2 The Original Pizza Palace
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2.0 mi 8 Embers Wood Grill
2.8 mi 10 Mario's Bistro
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