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1 The word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying, | 1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: |
2 Thus speaks the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. | 2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you. |
3 For, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Yisra'el and Yehudah, says the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. | 3 The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their forefathers to possess,' says the LORD." |
4 These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Yisra'el and concerning Yehudah. | 4 These are the words the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah: |
5 For thus says the LORD: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of shalom. | 5 "This is what the LORD says: " 'Cries of fear are heard-- terror, not peace. |
6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? | 6 Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? |
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Ya`akov's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. | 7 How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it. |
8 It shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant; | 8 " 'In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, 'I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them. |
9 but they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. | 9 Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. |
10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Ya`akov my servant, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, Yisra'el: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Ya`akov shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. | 10 " 'So do not fear, O Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel,' declares the LORD. 'I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid. |
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished. | 11 I am with you and will save you,' declares the LORD. 'Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.' |
12 For thus says the LORD, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. | 12 "This is what the LORD says: " 'Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing. |
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines. | 13 There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you. |
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. | 14 All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many. |
15 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you. | 15 Why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no cure? Because of your great guilt and many sins I have done these things to you. |
16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey. | 16 " 'But all who devour you will be devoured; all your enemies will go into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered; all who make spoil of you I will despoil. |
17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Tziyon, whom no man seeks after. | 17 But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the LORD, 'because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.' |
18 Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Ya`akov's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. | 18 "This is what the LORD says: " 'I will restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwellings; the city will be rebuilt on her ruins, and the palace will stand in its proper place. |
19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. | 19 From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained. |
20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress them. | 20 Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them. |
21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says the LORD. | 21 Their leader will be one of their own; their ruler will arise from among them. I will bring him near and he will come close to me, for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?' declares the LORD. |
22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God. | 22 " 'So you will be my people, and I will be your God.' " |
23 Behold, the tempest of the LORD, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked. | 23 See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. |
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it. | 24 The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand this. |
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text: Stayed at Wilderness Lodge Villas recently and found great trails (paved and unpaved) between the Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness. In fact, I inline skated over to Fort Wilderness for the Segway Adventure tour. Fort Wilderness has even more trails than Wilderness Lodge, paved sidewalks are a dream for roller bladers like myself. In my town of 110,000 people, only one park (out of about 40) has smooth enough roads to inline skate so college campus walks and paved bike trails are the only place to explore.


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Home › Student Life › Living and Dining on Campus › ResLife TV
RLTV is a service provided by Housing to our students that provides entertainment both on-air and online. Students can pick up Channel 24 (RLTV) as well as online through CaneFlix while in any housing facility. RLTV offers Solutions which is a tutoring service. The channel provides tutoring for Physics I, Calculus I, Chemistry I, Conversational English, and Spanish I. RLTV serves as another advertising tool as well for the Housing Office through Bumpers (video productions) of events, guidelines and important announcements. Beginning in the fall, the office that services RLTV, will be also providing social media presence for Housing as well as other video and graphic needs. The office is 100% student operated from a Graduate Assistant all the way down to freshman who will be able to serve as Digital Media Assistants.
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text: Simone Ferracina is an Italian-born architectural designer with a keen interest in augmented/immersive environments and speculative projects. He is the author and editor of Organs Everywhere (Œ), an online zine aimed at imagining and exploring ways for the technologically enhanced men and women of the future to socialize, play, design, domesticate and inhabit (organseverywhere.com). The latest Œ issue "Alternate Ecologies," co-authored with Neil Spiller, explored the technological future of architecture with a focus on time-sensitive and kinetic structures, architectural remix, cyborgian geography and living technologies. Simone lives and works in New York City.


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Zero to eternity (9/11) - Today's Christian Videos
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September 11, 2001 attacks
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"9/11†redirects here. For other uses, see 911 (disambiguation).
September 11, 2001 attacks
The towers burn shortly after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower on the right. To its left is the still smoking North Tower, struck earlier by American Airlines Flight 11.
Location New York City, U.S. (1st & 2nd)
Arlington Co, VA, U.S. (3rd)
Near Shanksville, PA, U.S.(4th)
Target(s) World Trade Center and The Pentagon (fourth target is unknown, but suspected to be a location in Washington, D.C.; Al-Qaeda claims it was to be the United States Capitol)[1]
Date Tuesday, September 11, 2001
8:46 am – 10:28 am (UTC-4)
Attack type Suicide attack, Aircraft hijacking
Deaths 2,993 (including 19 terrorists)
Injured Unknown
Perpetrator(s) al Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden, see also Responsibility and Organizers on the right hand column
[The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced "nine eleven") consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[2] suicide attacks by Islamic extremists on that date upon the United States of America.
That morning nineteen terrorists[3] affiliated with al-Qaeda[4] hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Each team of hijackers included a trained pilot. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners (United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11) into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (1 WTC and 2 WTC), resulting in the collapse of both buildings soon afterward and extensive damage to nearby buildings. The hijackers crashed a third airliner (American Airlines Flight 77) into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. Passengers and members
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The Bay Area Council Economic Institute is a partner with the California Stewardship Network, California Forward and regional economic organizations throughout the state in sponsoring the California Economic Summit (www.caeconomy.org), an ongoing initiative for job and economic growth through state and regional action.
2013 California Economic Summit
For two days, 450 civic and government leaders engaged in solutions to the most important issue of our time–What must we do for Californians to prosper, for California to thrive?
The summary report on the 2013 Summit gives a roundup of attendee commitments, the result of the best thinking from across the state about how to drive sustainable economic growth in California.
The 2013 California Economic Summit Report can be read online at www.caeconomy.org/resources/entry/2013-summit-report and is also available as a Direct PDF Download (42 pages, 2.1 MB).
2012 California Economic Summit
More that 500 leaders from throughout the state convened in Santa Clara on May 11, 2012 for the first-ever California Economic Summit.
The Action Plan developed by the Summit, which emerged from dialog and regional forums around the state, was published in July 2012 and spells out seven priority Signature Initiatives that provide a roadmap for restoring California jobs and competitiveness by addressing both immediate and long-term challenges.
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Burrard Bridge Marine Bar & Grill's pirate pub serves it all up with a view, matey
Whoosh! Another cyclist rounds the curve of the sea wall next to our table. We're on the patio at the Burrard Bridge Marine Bar & Grill, where little more than a railing separates the physically active—cyclists, rollerbladers, and joggers—from lazybones like us, whose sole exertion is lifting a pitcher of beer. The location is fantastic for people-watching and gazing out over the deep blue sparkle of False Creek.
Last month, the somewhat awkwardly named Burrard Bridge Marine Bar & Grill opened in the old Fiddlehead Joe's location. On the north shore of False Creek, it's tucked into a bend in the sea wall just east of the Burrard Bridge. With 70 outdoor seats looking across the water to the marina and Granville Island, the restaurant seems to be mostly patio—and that's a good thing.
The Daniel Hospitality Group, the folks behind Delilah's, boasts other primo-patio restaurants in town besides this one, including Coal Harbour's Mill Marine Bistro & Bar and eateries at Stanley Park's Prospect Point and Malkin Bowl. "We believe that location plays a huge role in your overall experience," reads the company's Web site. In summer, I couldn't agree more. If I've been cooped up at work on a precious nice day (oh, the injustice of it all), I'll eat elsewhere if I can't snag a seat in the open air.
That said, if the patio at the Burrard Grill was full, I'd consider a seat inside. The wraparound, floor-to-ceiling windows make the view here almost as good as it is on the patio, and sliding glass doors that are kept ajar let the air flow.
Plus, the ship-to-shore atmosphere inside is kind of fun. Owner Daniel Frankel collects nautical antiques, and many have washed up here. The bar area is decorated with old buoys and hundreds of colourful wooden floats. Round Japanese glass floats hang from the ceiling in nets, and an ancient mariner's wheel marks the restaurant's entrance.
The place goes beyond the nautical, however. It aspires to be your local "pirate pub", in a Johnny Depp—rather than a Somali pirate—kind of way. A skull-and-crossbones welcome sign lays out the rules: "Keep yer filthy hands off me wench" and "Keep yer filthy hands off me rum." Yes, every day is Talk Like a Pirate Day here, which will entertain those who can't wait for September 19. (Brush up on pirate pickup lines at www.talklikeapirate.com/.)
If this is all starting to sound a bit tacky, it's not"¦exactly. Dark, polished wood tables lend some class, and the overall effect is modern and lighthearted.
When our server comes to take our order, we haven't even looked at the menu, we've been so taken with our surroundings. She's as perky as can be, and her skirt has a slit that goes up to her tailbone, but because she proceeds to give us good service, I don't hold it against her.
Opening our menus, we find a fairly standard mix of casual favourites: burgers, caesar salad, fish and chips, thin-crust pizzas, stir-fries, and nachos. A member of the Ocean Wise program, the restaurant is seafood-oriented, offering calamari, four kinds of moules frites, grilled salmon, and halibut. Mains run about $10 to $20. (At brunch, egg dishes are $9 to $13.) There's Whistler and Granville Island beer on tap, and a B.C.–centric wine list.
The two of us decide to split a bowl of Delilah's mussels ($13.99) to start. Though not a huge portion, the mussels are nicely presented, and arrive plump and juicy. However, the chipotle cream sauce, strewn with bits of diced tomato and red onion, is just okay.
My modestly sized blackened wild salmon entrée ($16.99) arrives next to a nicely spiced bed of barley, which is a welcome change from the usual rice. The salmon is ridiculously overcooked, however, and dry as July asphalt. I cut the kitchen some slack since the restaurant is still teething and phasing in new dishes, but they'll soon have to do better than this. My husband's halibut and chips ($17.99 for two pieces) is good but not remarkable, with a thin, blistery beer-batter coating the fish. The chips, however, are fabulous: piping hot, crisp, and deliciously seasoned—I just wish there were more of them.
The fries are the best part of the meal, which says something. But this place isn't so much about the food. Great fries, cold beer, and plenty of atmosphere—sometimes that says it all.
Usually the first section I look for, I will definitely skip the restaurant reviews in the GS.
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A court has dismissed the Illinois action, saying that to let such cases proceed "could potentially open the floodgates to subject family childrearing to … excessive judicial scrutiny and interference." [Chicago Tribune/SLT; Volokh]
Adult children's lawsuit charges "bad mothering"
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- 1 08.30.11 at 8:05 am
Frivolous! The plaintiff should have been forced to pay the defendant's legal bills. This was more a case of children manipulated by their father's hated of his ex-wife.
- 2 08.30.11 at 11:03 am
I'm curious as to how the case proceeded so far on the reported merits. It seems that Daddy is working for total humiliation of his ex-wife, not justice.
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Want something for nothing? Go online, because Freecycle's got company.
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Depending on where you live The Freecycle Network can mean a constant stream of fabulous freebie opps or a sluggish trickle of "meh"-ness. After all, people in affluent areas have more to give, and sometimes a Freecycle group can be less than well-organized.
Given that Freecycle is a volunteer organization, it's a little hard to complain. Besides, when it works it's fabulous. A relative has gotten furniture, children's clothing and other goodies. When I lived in Seattle, I received canning jars and tree fruit. I also used Freecycle to give away framed prints, a two-CD set of "The Nutcracker," a paraffin hand spa and an unopened pair of anti-embolism stockings (which saved car-free me from having to lug all this stuff to the thrift store by bus).
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You also need to keep in mind what I call the "flake factor." Flakes are the folks who offer you a futon or bookcase but aren't home when they said they'd be, or who gave it to someone else and forgot to tell you. Get a phone number or at least an email address so you can remind them you're coming over.
There's also the fear factor, i.e., you're going to the home of a total stranger/inviting a total stranger into yours. He or she might be sizing up the joint for future burglaries or, maybe, intending to do you some sort of harm on the spot. Think about meeting in a public place (for smaller items) or bringing the couch or bookcase outdoors when the trader shows up.
When I did business via Freecycle or Craigslist, I met the other party in the lobby of my apartment building. But I also made sure that my son-in-law, who has studied martial arts, was taking a cigarette break outdoors each time.
Encouraging consumer loyalty
Looking for an ongoing source of gratis goodies? Sign up with freebie bloggers like HeyItsFree.net, Hunt4Freebies, The Freebie Blogger and Absurdly Cool Freebie Finder, who uncover an amazing variety of free stuff, from housewares to snack foods to beauty products. (Tip: Start sending away for nonperishable freebies now and you might not have to buy a single stocking stuffer next Christmas.)
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A few best practices for social media freebie-finding:
- Focus on local businesses. The contestant pool is generally smaller (unless you live in a huge city).
- Watch local franchisees. Your local Chick-fil-A may give out freebies independent of the national office.
- Start a separate email account. Use it for all giveaways/freebies/contests, not just the ones on social media.
If you're willing to put some time into this, check out "tweet chats" and "Twitter parties." The former is a chance to talk about a specific topic (personal finance, parenting, education) and the latter is an online promo party that includes the sharing of ideas. Prizes are awarded randomly to participants; one that I attend regularly has been offering several high-value Amazon gift cards each week.
A site called Tweeparties maintains a calendar of upcoming Twitter parties, as do some deal and mom bloggers. For a list of chats, check Tweetreports or Tweetchat. Note: You'll have to spend up to an hour at each event, but if the topic interests you that's not so bad.
If you have opinions to share, you might get paid for them by joining Amazon Vine. Writing helpful reviews on Amazon can lead to an invitation to try out new and early-release products. Yay, free stuff!
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Want to make your next big trip a lot more affordable? Get your lodgings for free through organizations like:
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- Tripping. While this site seems to have a vacation-rental focus, its "Tripping Community" is a network of folks who offer free home stays all over the world.
- Servas. This international peace association has matched travelers to hosts for more than 50 years; today it operates in more than 100 countries. There's an annual membership fee of $25 to $85, but that's less than the cost of one night in a hotel in many places. For info on joining, click on the Web page for your country.
To stay in touch while you're traveling – or while you're driving to work – check out the option of free cellphone service, through companies like FreedomPop and Scratch Wireless. You need to have a specific type of phone, but how are you gonna argue with free? For details, see "How to Get Free Cellphone Service."
Free meals, movie tickets, beauty products, gift cards, ice cream and more are available to you every year in honor of your birthday. Since some of these are good for the week or even the month of your birthday, you can s-t-r-e-t-c-h out the celebration and pocket the savings. For more info, see "How to Find Hundreds of Birthday Freebies."
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One thing you shouldn't do: a general online search for "free stuff" or "freebies." You're likely to find websites with viruses or malware that will infect your computer, or "free" offers that ask you to provide a credit card. Guess why.
Some additional avenues for free stuff:
- Join rewards sites. Get gift cards or cash for doing online searches via InboxDollars, Qmee.com, the Bing search engine and Swagbucks. You won't exactly get rich, but why not make your searches pay? The rules vary; for details, see "Get Paid to Do Online Searches."
- Send away for rebates. But only if you're organized enough to do the paperwork/online form immediately after getting the product. Plenty of rebates just never get filled out. I'm pretty diligent because I like those free-after-rebate items, whether they be toiletries or office supplies.
- Use rewards credit cards. If you're going to charge something, why not get a little payback? Points from several cards paid for almost all of my holiday gifting this year. For the best rewards, use our credit card search.
- Be a loyal customer. Retailers and restaurants let you rack up points to trade in for free food or store credit (hi there, all you CVS ExtraCare fans!). Sign up for any rewards programs offered. Tip: If you're making a coffee or lunch run to any rewards retailer, ask if any co-workers want to put in an order. They'll pay for their drinks or Danish but you get to keep the points.
- Stop buying books. Millions of public domain classics are available for free at sites like ManyBooks.net, Open Library, Google Play (formerly Google Books) and Project Gutenberg. Check a site called Gizmo's Freeware for a list of 913 sites for free e-books and 224 for free audio books. Or go to the Kindle or Barnes & Noble bookstores and type "0.00" in the search bar; that day's list of free books will pop up.
- Get creative with eBay. If an item you like went unsold after being listed for less than $1, email the seller to see if he's willing to part with the item in return for postage. This article on eHow.com notes that folks sometimes just want to get rid of a bunch of clutter. Or try this: If the person has similar interests, let him know what you've got and propose a trade.
- Write a letter. Drop an email to your favorite company and you may get a free product, or at least some high-value coupons. Instead of saying "I don't know how I lived before I found Stacy's Pork Rinds," give a concrete example of how a product improved your life, e.g., "ZapStains removed all the blueberry stains from my son's shirt after a pie-eating contest." If what you get in return is a "Thanks – we love hearing from our customers," well, all it cost you was a few minutes to compose the email. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Put it out in the universe. Another blogger I know is crazy about coin collecting. When I found an old buffalo head nickel whose date had been worn clean off, I figured it wasn't worth more than 5 cents to me. So I mailed it to the blogger, who was delighted with the coin (and a few extra karma points won't hurt me a bit). If there's something you want, let it be known.
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In Arcadian, I said that the space ship in Galaga was the best in all the arcade, and I stand by that. The colors, the lines, and the little gun barrels at the bottom make this look like a sleek Buck Rogers or Battlestar Galactica ship.
This ship is so cool, it has been featured in the Day in the Extra Life series.
This awesome ship, though, wasn't the only ship in the arcade. There were several others.
The Galaxian ship. Not nearly as sleek. To me, it looks more like a cargo vessel.
The Pheonix ship. Again, more cargo vessel than fighter. But it did have the benefit of shields.
The Defender ship. Now this one could give the Galaga ship a run for its money.
The Space Invaders ship. This one wasn't a ship at all, but a laser base.
The Asteroids ship. Pretty sleek, but it fought asteroids, not alien invaders.
There were dozens of others. I think it's safe to say, though, that the Galaga ship was among the best, if not the best.


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I've never been an EMHC, and I don't believe to be called to be one. So I've never gone through any training, or preparation of any kind to become one. So my question is an honest one - it's being asked snark-free. Is there a greater danger of abuse to the Sacrament in this practice than during a Mass? Granted, no one knows the state of any other individual's soul when they present themselves for Communion. But when distributing outside Mass, is there an obligation on the part of the EMHC to ascertain a person's worthiness?
Which leads to my next question - if that's the case, then wouldn't a priest be more appropriate? I personally believe that distributing Holy Communion outside of Mass ought to be restricted to priests and deacons - and while this seems impractical given the low numbers of ordained available to do this - though I believe there ought to be sufficient numbers of retired priests capable of performing this duty, and even non-diocesan priests as well - so that the opportunity for abuse can be mitigated.
What abuse am I talking about? Well, read the following, and come to your own conclusions. I've extracted a couple excerpts from an article at US Catholic On Call: An Excerpt From Paul Wilkes' "In Due Season".
...Over the many Thursdays that followed, I gave Holy Communion to some 4,000 people. I was honored to touch the faces of the living and the newly dead. I was welcomed and was occasionally angrily told to leave. I stood with a spouse whose loved one had just received a terminal diagnosis. I was in the room when all tests came back negative. Each Thursday morning offered me a time to be humbled and dazzled by the deep faith of these men and women. Through these patients I came to a clearer understanding of my own life, my church, and my God.
What follows is taken from various visits, but let us call it a richly representative Thursday, for each Thursday presented its own unique chapter in the book of lives.
In Room 940 is Edna, a black woman in her 50s, who when I introduce myself ("Good morning; Paul Wilkes from St. Mary with Holy Communion for you") immediately apologizes that she's been away from the church, but assures me she is coming back. It is a frequent first volley: Guilt finely honed by my church.
I look into her bright eyes and say, "Well, I wouldn't worry too much about that right now, Edna; the church has come to you. We deliver!" She smiles.
I come closer to her bed. Is this 8 o'clock in the morning in Room 940, or is it the vineyard at day's end? And didn't the vineyard owner see that the needs of those who hadn't had the opportunity to put in a full day's work are really no different from those who had worked all day long? Each needed to be fed, each acknowledged as having done their best, having given their time, with whatever abilities they had.
The popular "What Would Jesus Do?" litmus test-both a subterfuge for appalling abuse and grounds for grace-filled acts-might seem a bit facile a way to guide my actions. But, quite honestly, it seems to make more pastoral sense than the third degree recommended by my Grand Inquisitor eucharistic instructor. Well, what would Jesus do? I am not Jesus, so I can't know for sure. And I am not a priest, so I cannot hear her Confession, which she might normally do before receiving Communion. But does a simple Act of Contrition rising up from this hospital bed from a woman in an advanced stage of respiratory failure and pneumonia not reach the ear of God?
"Edna, before we approach the altar together, so that you might receive this precious gift, let's lay down the burden of our sins," I say. We begin the Act of Contrition together: "O, my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee . . . "
My prayer complete, I look down at Edna. I hold the host in the still air before her. The only sound is the muffled gurgling of the machine valiantly trying to cleanse her compromised lungs. "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Happy are those who are called to this, his eternal banquet. O, Lord I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed." I add, "And you are healed, Edna. Your sins are behind you now. Even before you thought about whatever it was you did or didn't do that you felt was sinful, God forgave you. You are as pure and clean and sinless as you were the day you were born, and Christ awaits you with open arms."
For there is not-so-young Elisabeth with a baby boy nestled at her breast. To see the love in that woman's eyes, that sleeping child with unblemished skin and soul-I can't restrain myself. I touch his smooth cheek, play with his tiny toes, and finally bless the child's forehead with the sign of the cross. He stirs, as if he already feels God's presence. I begin my prayer. "Dear God, here we have this beautiful baby-a sign of your love, this mother's love, a father's love. Be with him to guide him so that he grows into a compassionate, kind, yet strong boy and young man. That he will always hear your voice even when the noises of the world tend to drown out everything. That he will be an obedient son, yet a man of his own mind. Bless him and this good woman, Elisabeth, we pray in your strong name, Jesus. Amen."
I look at Elisabeth. "In this tiny piece of bread, Elisabeth, is the God of ages. Here. Right here in this room on the first day of your son's life. He comes to give you the strength to be the mother you know you can be. He'll be with you in those late nights when you don't think you have another ounce of energy. He'll never leave your side." I begin the eucharistic prayer: "This is the lamb who takes away the sins of the world. Happy are those-"
"But, but I haven't been to church in so long, really since college," she says.
"I'm Catholic, and I will have my son baptized, but my husband isn't much of a churchgoer. I don't know how God looks on all this. It's so confusing."
I look down at her, the early morning sun making the host almost translucent. "This is food for your journey of life, Elisabeth. It isn't a reward for good behavior. What kind of God do you think he is, to offer this beautiful food on this incredible morning and then say, 'No, Elisabeth, sorry-you don't qualify. I've checked your bar code and you're not in the system.' That's not the God that I know." After her Act of Contrition, Elisabeth receives, her tears mingling with the host, a tear, then another, gently falling onto the cheek of her precious son.
There's more at US Catholic. For me, a lot of warning flags and emergency sirens were raised while reading this article. Bear in mind the writer is a lay Catholic. There's no denying his passion and love for Christ, but I sense a great attachment to the emotionality of the moment rather than the holiness of the Sacrament. There seemed to be an over-reliance on how Holy Communion made people feel rather than depending on the reality of what Holy Communion is. He also assumed some priestly duties - or at least came really really close - while distributing Holy Communion.
What are your thoughts? I'm interested in what EMHC's who go around to hospitals and nursing homes have to say. I'm also interested in learning how this was accomplished prior to Vatican II (yes, I'm making a presumption that the rubrics were altered at about that time - I'm open to correction if I'm wrong) - anyone have any information on this?


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SALT LAKE CITY - A radio program that first went on the air before the start of the Great Depression is being inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame, a second national honor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The Choir's "Music and the Spoken Word" program will be inducted April 20. Earlier this month, President Bush awarded the Choir the National Medal of Arts in a White House ceremony.
The weekly program, which began three months before the October 1929 stock market crash, is broadcast from the Tabernacle on Temple Square. It features music by the choir and a spoken inspirational message.
"We are so pleased and grateful to be chosen by the NAB for this honor," said Craig Jessop, the choir's music director. "It becomes even more significant for us to receive it during our 75th anniversary year, and when we consider the long list of accomplished names that are part of the NAB Hall of Fame roster."
Other inductees include broadcasting legends Bob Hope, Edward R. Murrow, Jack Benny, George Burns, Paul Harvey, Bing Crosby and Benny Goodman.
The first broadcast involved a KSL radio employee climbing a tall ladder and suspending a microphone above the pulpit to capture the sound of both the choir and the announcer.
"We obviously have come a very long way since that day," said Gregg Garber, vice president of Bonneville Communications, which produces and distributes the show. "But it's the enduring values conveyed and expressed through the choir's music and the message in each broadcast that have made, and will continue to make, this program appreciated and loved by listening audiences around the world."


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OOXML: ISO Meeting Causes Controversy
The ISO standardization organization meeting convened to discuss OOXML has now come to an end and contradictory reports on the proceedings have caused some concern. So much so, that ISO has now issued a statement.
At the end of February, member organizations from 33 countries met in Geneva to discuss the extensive comments submitted to the authority after the first round of voting went against the Microsoft format. The participants were asked to discuss more than 6000 pages of suggested changes; according to wear a statement by some delegates, this was absolutely possible. In order to find some kind of result, a vote was held, but there is some doubt about the legality of the proceedings, as Rob Weir from IBM stated in his blog.
All the most of the participants abstained, and some of them completely boycotted the vote, the final result was a four-four tie. After roping in further delegates, the final result of the vote was 6 for and 4 against. Of course, only the final vote counts, and Microsoft's Jason Matusow was quick to claim that "The Open XML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) Was An Unqualified Success". Matusow also points to positive comments by the Danish and Norwegian delegations.
The standardization authority has now spoken up and the tone of the statement seems more than slightly disgruntled: The BRM was a technical meeting open to delegates that were duly nominated by the ISO and IEC national member bodies and registered for the meeting. The BRM was not intended to be a public event but followed the orderly and inclusive process of ISO and IEC."
ISO also makes it quite clear that the meeting did not bring about a decision on the proposal, but simply reached an agreement on the amendments proposed in the comments following the first vote. Commenting on the unusual proceedings, ISO writes: "When it was apparent that it would not be possible for all comments to be reviewed individually, the meeting discussed and agreed on a voting procedure to decide on the remaining proposed modifications." According to ISO most of the resolutions were unanimous, some accepted by consensus, four by a simple majority and four were refused. ISO refuses to accept criticism concerning the experience of the committee, stating that: "The BRM was organized by subcommittee SC 34, Document description and processing languages, of ISO/IEC JTC 1. ISO/IEC JTC 1 is one of the most experienced and productive of ISO and IEC technical committees, having developed some 2 150 widely and globally used international standards and related documents."
In contrast to this, the legal commentary page Groklaw refers to documents on the proceedings and to audio recordings that would allow a contrary interpretation of the meeting. And representatives from various countries have also indicated that the voting procedure was inadequate. For example, Malaysia criticizes the fact that technical questions were not sufficiently covered during the meeting.
Independently of the controversy, the 30-day count down in which the 87 national member bodies can review their decisions of September 2 is now running. Members have until March 29 to withdraw their negative votes or abstentions. If this does not happen, it will mean the end of the "short track" for OOXML, and the Microsoft standard will have failed, at least for the time being. ISO writes: "With the BRM review completed, it is now up to national bodies to determine whether approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500 is warranted."
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
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Spoken like a person who clearly hasn't been in downtown Niagara Falls since they tore down the wintergarden. The big problem with it was the location. It was right in the middle of Old Falls Street, cutting off the core of the downtown from the the falls and making navigating in the city an unnecessary mess.
With the Wintergarden gone, businesses are opening up on Falls Street all the way down to the Casino and it provides a great gathering place for summer concerts and other events that otherwise would not have been held there.
The rest of what you said is more half-truths and things you made up to prove some weird point of yours about how we should just leave Niagara Falls to rot and not even try anything anymore.
They have to bring back the fountain in that place! That and the glass elevator were the best! Of course I'm joking....
Niagara Falls is such a pit, everyone seems to lose when they do any development there. The maid of the mist fiasco (new report in buffalo new today) is disgusting. Wire Walker driven out of town. Winter Bazarre guy run out of town. This is just the past year, list goes on for decades...
I still can't believe they tore down the winter garden. I don't know how it is good enough for the World Financial Center in NYC, but isn't good enough for NF.
According to the Niagara Gazette, Baltimore Developer David Cordish gave the Rainbow Centre Mall building to Niagara County Community College.
According to wiki it's the culinary school:
Not to throw names around but didn't Milstein have a hand in this place? Or is that something else in the Falls?
Every iteration of this white elephant will always be tinged with tragedy. This latest reuse looks hopeful but we've all been there before...


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36 Chambers (entire album) ~ Wu Tang Clan
If we can dream it, we can do it
Urgent - Foreigner
(80s music channel off the satelitte dish)
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BRUSSELS (AP) - Diplomatic efforts to resolve the months-long standoff between Ukraine and Russia are kicking into high gear in two European capitals.
After the leaders of the Group of Seven major economies kept the threat of further sanctions against Russia on the table, Thursday's action was moving from Brussels to Paris where at least two tete-a-tete meetings were planned between President Vladimir Putin and European leaders.
If President Barack Obamas didn't envisage such an encounter, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the eve of D-Day commemorations in Normandy.
European leaders hope this week will offer a chance for a diplomatic breakthrough. The meetings will take place during a dinner, lunch and a double dinner.
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Completamente ristrutturato casa colonica su 8 ettari rurali. Farfalle e colibrì giardini circondano la casa. Stagno fornito per la pesca sportiva. Ogni camera in stile cottage ha enterance privato e bagno luxuary privato. Un sacco di comfort accogliente. Una ricca colazione a base di ingredienti naturali integrali viene servita nella "Morning Room", che ha una vista che si affacciano sul prato di fronte, o si può godere nella privacy della vostra camera.
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5 su gennaio 12, 2015
Our 2-night stay was perfect. The food was wonderful. We couldn't have asked for better service. We would recommend this B&B to anyone, any age.
5 su ottobre 09, 2014
We loved our 2 days at Meadow View Farm. I would recommend it to everyone who travesl in the Memphis area. It is far enough out in the country to get away from the city, but close enough to enjoy whatever you want to in Memphis.
4,8 su settembre 07, 2014
Meadow View Farm was delightful! We really enjoyed our stay. Julie was so nice telling us about things to do in the area and her breakfasts were delicious! I also liked the goats and chickens that were around the property. A peaceful setting for a fantastic weekend!
Risposta del proprietario
Your kind words are greatly appreciated!
I'm so glad you enjoyed your stay!
5 su agosto 27, 2014
This B&B comes with horses, goats, chickens, dogs and cats to spend time with. The lodging is relaxing and comfortable and the hosts are very friendly and accommodating. We ordered the meal basket for our evening arrival and it was a healthy meal with wraps, pasta salad, chips and iced tea. We have healthy appetites and there was so much food, we had to leave the chips for the next day. We chose to eat inside in the cool, and then we explored the grounds. There was a hot tub in back and a pond stocked with fish. Although we didn't take advantage of these since it was so late, they are a nice addition that we hope to enjoy on our next visit. The breakfast the next morning was delicious and served at a time convenient for our travel plans. If you are traveling through the area, or if you want a nice weekend getaway, I would certainly recommend Meadow View Farm Bed and Breakfast in Hernando, Mississippi.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed your stay! I look forward to hosting you
Again when you are traveling through North Mississippi !
5 su marzo 29, 2014
We've been to this beautiful, peaceful gem about four times - and have thoroughly loved it every time. There just aren't many places that offer the calming views, horses, goats, a few friendly pooches, and a house cat. The rooms have such warmth, and are so clean and comfortable. It always feels like we're coming home. Julie and Terry are wonderful, friendly hosts; are extremely knowledgeable about the area's vibrant history; and are always happy to offer suggestions for excursions, dining, etc. Julie is a fabulous cook and we enjoy the luscious breakfasts. It just doesn't get better than this!
5 su ottobre 28, 2013
This was our first experience staying at a B&B. We were very apprehensive about the stay, not sure what to expect. We had looked around Oxford for a hotel, but was unable to find one. I have to say, this was an excellent first experience. The place is very peaceful, the rooms very comfortable, and the breakfast was delicious. Julie is a wonderful hostess, she called a couple of days before to make sure we did not have food allergies. Very knowledgable about the area and made us feel right at home.
5 su ottobre 07, 2013
This was my first experience staying in a B & B. Julie was so friendly. True southern hospitality. I plan to stay here again.
5 su settembre 04, 2013
My daughter and I had the wonderful luck of finding the Meadow View Farm on our way from Florida to Arkansas in August 2013. We were taking her to College and combining work visits all the way there which made the trip take four days. This was a long trip for both of us - physically and emotionally. When we arrived at the farm it was even more wonderful than the pictures. We were greeted by the beautiful horses grazing in the Meadow while the sun was setting over the beautiful farm house. Immediately we were given a warm welcome by Julie and Terry who proudly showed us around and introduced us to the other animals but then gave us the needed space we needed to relax and just enjoy their gorgeous property. We stayed in the East meets West and enjoyed every detail. The morning we were to leave the owners left us to run some errands and my daughter and I enjoyed a few hours alone petting and feeding the horses. Later that night we arrived at her College and she was quickly picked up by new friends for a party. I will never forget those precious last hours with her as my "Baby Girl" before going off to College. We will be back and I encourage everyone who can to visit this special place - heaven on earth in Mississippi. Thank you so much Julie and Terry!
4,8 su giugno 13, 2013
My wife and I recently spent our Honeymoon at Meadow View Farm B&B, and we were beyond pleased. We stayed in the Loft room which was very cozy and comfortable. Sometimes it was hard even to leave the room! However, we did get out to enjoy the quiet countryside. It's settled on a farm with goats, chickens, and horses. We wish we had stayed longer and the weather had cooperated enough for us to fish in the lake. Each room has its own private entrance which is an added bonus. Above all, the service was impressive! Julie and Terry were so friendly and accommodating and went out of their way to make our stay a pleasant one. They really made us feel at home. We couldn't be happier with our first bed and breakfast experience and we will definitely be making a return trip sometime in the future
4,6 su febbraio 17, 2013
We found this B&B via an internet search. There is always a bit of reservation with such a discovery. We were not disappointed. Only a 40 drive from Memphis we feel like we were a thousand miles away. Julie and her husband were great hosts. While business owners they were very much about "community" and promoted theirs'. We took advantage of one of the package deals and were very satisfied with the service, the accommodation. The loft room was extremely spacious, comfortable and allowed us to relax. We were able to taste the breakfast meal only and were extremely satisfied. The only downsize we had was the weak internet connection at the opposite end of the house. We will visit again.
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Your thoughtful words are greatly appreciated.
I look forward to your next visit and meeting
Some of your friends.
Thanks for your recommendation!
Bisogno di essere rejuvinated? L'Oriente incontra l'Occidente Suite farà esattamente per voi. Il blues docili nella zona notte con il cuscino-top letto matrimoniale arredata con biancheria di lusso e trapunte comodi creerà un effetto calmante su di voi. L'ultra confortevole zona salotto con scrivania sono in attesa i vostri momenti di ispirazione. La ragazza 75. retro dotato vasca ammollo vi rilasserà oltre l'immaginazione e la doccia di pioggia caduta è delizioso. Inoltre, il vostro enterance privato vi porta al salotto all'aperto dove si può godere il paesaggio rurale senza interruzioni.
Prezzo per notte: $95 - $125
Vi meritate di andare "indietro nel tempo", quando le cose erano "meno stressante". Cotton & Kudzu lo farà per voi! I colori rilassanti e texture di cotone saranno confortare i vostri sensi, mentre il cuscino-top letto matrimoniale ricoperto di accoglienti cuscini trapuntati e lenzuola di lusso vi avvolgerà in un bozzolo di relax. L '"accogliente" zona di seduta creerà una sensazione di serenità e doccia di grandi dimensioni walk-in "di pioggia caduta" si rilassarsi e ringiovanire il tuo stesso essere. Il vostro molto proprio enterance privato sfugge al salotto all'aperto dove sarete ispirati dalla natura.
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Physician team is among the first groups in the U.S. to successfully complete natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery or NOTES
Utilizing a procedure performed previously at only one center in the U.S., a team of physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital successfully removed a patient's gallbladder through the mouth. Traditional means call for abdominal incisions. However the new technique formally referred to as laparoscopic assisted natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is being characterized by many in the medical profession as laying the groundwork for truly "incisionless" surgery.
"NOTES holds the potential to not only mitigate the pain and discomfort associated with traditional procedures, but may eventually reduce a patient's recovery time to as little as one day by eliminating incisions through the nerve-filled abdominal wall," said Nathaniel Soper, MD, the Northwestern Memorial surgeon who together with colleagues Eric Hungness, MD and John Martin, MD, a surgeon and gastroenterologist respectively, performed the procedure August 31.
Soper, who is also the Loyal and Edith Professor and Chair of Surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, says factors contributing to the growing interest in incisionless surgery include the fact that the stomach and GI tract have very few nerves that register pain. In the future this may allow surgeons to carry out NOTES procedures with the patient under sedation, rather than general anesthesia. The natural orifice technique may also help eliminate the risk of post-operative wound infections or hernias.
"This evolutionary step towards an incisionless surgical technique could reduce costs, speed recovery and reduce pain," adds Hungness who is also Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Feinberg School. "I see incisionless approaches applying to a wide range of procedures in the future."
Martin, Director of Endoscopy and Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Feinberg School, explains that physicians have been conceptualizing natural orifice surgery for years, but current endoscopic devices do not offer a platform for it. By utilizing a stable operating platform, instruments can be manipulated to view, cut, grasp, and suture tissue without ever cutting into the skin, which may be attractive to some patients as these procedures can eliminate all visible scars, and eliminate much of the pain that may occur in abdominal surgery involving skin incisions.
Medical devices that were utilized for this procedure included the EndoSurgical Operating System™ by USGI Medical and endoscopic equipment made by Olympus™. For this case, three small laparoscopic ports were used in conjunction with the endoscopic system in order to assess the safety of the procedure and to assist in refining the technique. Current risks include proper suturing of the incision that is created in the stomach, as if not closed properly, complications could occur. The team expects to gradually eliminate these external ports in future procedures.


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SUMMARY The Comenius multilateral project "EuTeens in Search of New Role Models" was developed out of the necessity to offer teenagers positive alternatives in choosing their idols, especially in this time marked by difficulties of all kinds and moral turmoil. We have to invest in the education of the young generation in the spirit of adopting a healthy and moral system of reference and living up to ethic principles, which can be done by prompting them to choose positive role models that can have a good influence on their personal development. Thus, the main aim of the project is to provide our pupils the essential tools that will guide them to make wise choices and to distinguish between positive and negative role models.
During the two-year partnership, youngsters from eight European countries - Romania, Italy, Turkey, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Poland - will identify and analyze the role models teenagers have nowadays and, more important, they will search for other people who are really worth looking up to. We are interested in helping our pupils rediscover great personalities of the past and we also intend to make them conscious about the positive role models around them, within the communities they come from. Moreover, we expect teenagers involved in the project to realize that they themselves can become models to be followed and, as a consequence, they should make sure that their behaviour and way of thinking respect the ethic values commonly accepted by society.
OBJECTIVES The objectives of the partnership are as follows: - to elicit teenagers to identify and adopt the criteria which lead to choosing a positive role model - to make the pupils able to distinguish between positive and negative role models - to enable teenagers to find people who are worth looking up to, especially from their local community - to develop pupils' assertiveness and critical spirit - to promote moral and ethic values in teenagers' life The project will deal with teenagers' choice of role models, a very important matter in youngsters' life because they are at the age when they are looking for people who can be an inspiration to them and, unfortunately, most of the times, they don't make the right choice. Thus, in this context, we will create a motivational environment for them to re-evaluate their choices on different levels - international, national and local - and, more important, to search for new role models, on the same three levels.
EXPECTED IMPACT This project is chiefly expected to foster a healthy growing of the youngsters, because by prompting them to make wise choices regarding their role models, they will become better adults. Moreover, the pupils directly involved are expected to realize, in their turn, peer education towards choosing positive role models and thus, to promote the true values that will shape a better and moral future society. The great chance to take part in this international partnership and the fact that they will be involved in all its stages, will increase our pupils' autonomy, self-confidence and motivation, which will lead to the improvement of pupils' school achievement and to a lower rate of school leaving. Nevertheless, the activities of the project will offer the pupils the opportunity to interact with colleagues from other countries, to work together during mobilities and to cooperate by using modern means of communication, which is likely to help them establish long-lasting friendships. Improvement of communication and writing skills in a foreign language, i.e. English, are also expected both from pupils and from teachers. There will be lots of materials to be translated from and into English and also project meetings will offer the most adequate context for practicing speaking. The 2 years of cooperation within the framework of the project will provide excellent opportunities for teachers' personal and professional development through the direct contact with colleagues from other countries, that will encourage an effective experience exchange regarding teaching approaches and methods. The fact that one of the main activities of the partnership is to discover and promote people from the local communities that can be looked up to as positive role models, will guarantee the direct contact of the local communities with the project, which will strengthen the cohesion between the school and the community. The parents and other members of the local community will be constantly informed about the project, will be invited to visit the exhibitions put on by the schools and the ones among them identified as new role models will be invited as guest speakers in class. Thus, the local community will be actively involved in the project. All these will enhance the prestige of the partner institutions within their own communities and regions.


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BMW Apps Adds Stitcher SmartRadio, But Only for iOS Users
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While BMW has outpaced its German rivals in getting apps into the dash, the brand is behind Detroit in the app space, particularly in spreading the love beyond Apple. Case in point: Owners of BMW models equipped with the BMW Apps options (and also Mini vehicles with Mini Connected) can now add Stitcher SmartRadio to the system's handful of existing apps. This is more than a year and a half after Ford made Stitcher available for its Sync AppLink system and more than six months after GM added the app to certain Buick, GMC and Chevy infotainment systems.


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by Chelsea Slocum Grand Rapids Bicycle Company is shaking up the city scene left and right. This past March the store reopened at a new location on East Paris under new owners. Tom Smith, along with his sons Tom Jr., Brian, and Steven have brought ingenuity, forward thinking, and a well-rounded inventory to the 5 year old company, but thats not all. Adjacent to the bike shop and opening on Wednesday, May 30th, is Trailhead Cafe. The interior of Trailhead Cafe (1200 East Paris SE) provides potential customers with an open, clean space to enjoy breakfast and lunch fare at reasonable prices. Enlarged photos of cyclists in scenic areas coupled with vintage bikes hanging on the walls create a feeling of fun and activity. The cafe is connected to the GR Bicycle Company by open doors. Customers can enjoy a smoothie or cup of coffee while perusing the many varieties of bikes, clothing, and accessories the shop has to offer. Daniel Teliczan, culinary graduate of the Secchia Institute, describes the cuisine at Trailhead Cafe as gourmet food at reasonable prices. We make our food with premium products such as Boarshead Meat and bread from the Nantucket Bakery. We want our patrons to experience high quality cuisine without the cost, says Dan. The cafe plans to serve a variety of breakfast and lunch dishes including salads, sandwiches, paninis, and trailhead scrambles. The Cafe will be open Monday-Friday 7 am-3 pm and Saturday 8 am-3 pm. They had a soft opening last Friday in conjunction with West Michigan Stage Race providing cyclists with beverages and food samplings. We got a lot of great feedback from the racers, says Brian, we are ready to open our doors to the public this Wednesday. Come out and support the Grand Rapids Bicycle Companys exciting addition and see what you think about the new spin on food. Chelsea Slocum is a resident of Grand Rapids. She works as an educator and enjoys learning about new and different things happening in the city. Follow her on twitter @cslocum. Share Published: May 24, 2012 |
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We are 2 families traveling from central Ohio to Disney World in June of this year. We are open to ANY tips. We are driving down, with all 4 adults taking turns driving, and driving mainly through the night so that the 3 boys sleep. We are renting a condo for our 8 night stay.
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We drive down from WV. It takes around 12 hours for my dh and I to drive it straight through. We do fine, but after driving it, we wouldn't visit the parks on check in days because of the long drive. With the four of you driving, you should be able to split the driving to where it will be pretty manageable. Just try to nap in the car between taking turns.
As far as traveling with another family, I would suggest that the four of you sit down and talk about what your expectations are as far as how much time you are going to spend together. While it's nice to think that you can do everything together, it's also important to have some family alone time too, so I definitely suggest that you all set some boundaries as far as that goes for all of your sanity. Even the best of friends and the closest of families have ventured to Disney together with the expectations that they would spend every waking moment together, only to find that they end up aggravated because of lack of family/alone time. In addition to that, it's important to also discuss your daily itineraries. Are you early risers? Do they like to sleep in? Do you want to make rope drop? Do they prefer to stay at the parks later? All of these things are important and its best to be flexible because after all, it's everyone's vacation. For instance, if you like an early start, you and your family can head to the parks early and then once they get up and get moving, you can meet up for lunch and then explore the parks together, or vice versa. I know that the point of your family and their family taking the trip together is to spend time together and that is fine, but it's also important to have alone time too, for everyone's sake. If you are all early risers, then you could head out to the parks together and spend the morning exploring together. Then after lunch, you could split up to have some family time and then meet back up for dinner later. I'm not trying to discourage you, but the key to traveling together with other people is to set aside time for just you and your family. I just realized that you will all be in the same vehicle and your renting a condo, so coming and going will be a bit harder. However, you can still plan for time to yourselves. It's doable, just plan ahead. Last edited by Kristian; 01-15-2013 at 01:52 PM. |
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Like the PP said, don't try to stick together the whole time. I would actually recommend getting together for dinner each day, and doing things as a group for the rest of the evening. That way you get good family time during the day, and your families can each tour at their own style and pace without affecting the other family. If you tour together after dinner, it will give everyone a chance to hang with their friends at the end of the day when everyone is more likely to be moving at the same pace.
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Make sure you get a good group photo in front of the castle! We have two so far, going for three in October!
Our first two trips, we toured together, with the exception of occasionally heading off to different counter service food choices. Since my half of the group were newbies to WDW, that worked out perfectly. As others have said, agree ahead of time that all are welcome to join up or separate at any time...this has worked well for us! We LOVE touring with friends...in fact, we owe them for introducing us to WDW. HAVE FUN! |
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As part of its effort to highlight its 2012-13 class, the Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana has selected Dr. Elian Shepherd and Speros Batistatos as its October Innovators of the Month.
Shepherd is a spine surgeon and the medical director of the Spine Care Center of Methodist Hospitals.
He is part of a team that made history when Methodist became the only hospital in Northwest Indiana to host this GPS surgery technology.
"It is comparable to having a global positioning system in the operating room, assuring greater safety and accuracy," Shepherd said.
If Northwest Indiana was built by steel and changed by tourism, then innovation has been the lynchpin in shaping the South Shore as a destination, said Batistatos, the president and CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority
Batistatos said innovation has positioned the SSCVA as one of the most technologically advanced in the nation. Today, visitors to the Indiana Welcome Center have access to amazing digital technology.
He credits the staff for great exhibits like the "Christmas Story" and innovations, including unprecedented visibility and a newly redesigned mobile website driving in-market visitors.
The society is part of the Gerald I. Lamkin Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center of Ivy Tech Community College Northwest.
For more information, call O'Merrial Butchee, director of the Lamkin Center at (219) 981-4942, or John Davies, assistant director, at (219) 981-1111, ext. 2292.
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How do you get your fondant cakes so wet/shiny/glossy looking? I've covered a lot of cakes, but mine never look shiny like that. I've used a paint brush with water to wet the whole cake before (to do zebra stripes), but it looks streaky & it eventually dries.
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It's tricky questions like these that make gentlemen long for Spring and Summer when one can safely and comfortably forgo hosiery all-together. Who wants to try and coordinate socks with these guys anyway?
That aside, the answer lies in the nuance of the distinction between matching and coordinating. Attempting to match the color of your shoe or trouser to your socks will often result in a "boot-effect" as one color bleeds into the next. The safest trick is to aim a bit darker than the trouser and a different color than the shoe. Example, light grey trouser, dark grey hosiery (OTC if it's more formal, but we're biased) and a black lace-up.
Once you're mastered the art of the compliment you can move on to the more sophisticated world of patterns such as stripes or argyles. Some truly skilled gentlemen even progress to a point where they treat their socks as though they were GTH trousers and sport reds, yellows, greens etc. all while tying them in with another subtle pop of color within the ensemble, such as a pocket square.


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Tracey Staehle - shoulder surgery
Jumping for joy: good health and fitness.
As a fitness instructor, Tracey Staehle of Simsbury isn't one who takes to resting easily. But when her left shoulder pain got to the point where she couldn't do a push-up, get a full night's sleep or be 100 percent for an upcoming fitness video, she knew something more had to be done.
Over a two-year period, Staehle had seen different doctors, tried physical therapy and received three steroid injections to her shoulder before a friend recommended she see Robert Belniak, M.D., chief of Orthopedic Surgery at The Hospital of Central CT.
Belniak, who specializes in sports medicine and shoulder conditions, performed minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery for Staehle, 38, who suffered from shoulder impingement (irritated rotator cuff muscles) and tendinitis (inflamed tendons) brought on by her occupation. Her outpatient surgery at The Hospital of Central Connecticut was in late May of 2007 and, Staehle, a first-time patient to the hospital, was thrilled with the care provided by the surgical team. "I loved it. They were so nice."
The certified aerobics instructor and personal trainer admits the toughest part of recovery was listening to doctor's orders. With a sling around her arm, Staehle was teaching a class at the Big Sky gym in Simsbury just two days after surgery. Within six weeks she had complete range of motion in the left shoulder and has since regained left shoulder strength. "I can fully function now."
Staehle, who has finished filming her eighth fitness video, is glad she came to The Hospital of Central Connecticut. "I had a really great experience. It couldn't have been better."
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Sports, surgery and success!
You might say Peter Knaus is a good role model for his family. An avid athlete, he values the benefits of exercise - often bike racing, wind surfing, snow skiing, and sometimes even playing basketball and soccer.
When the Kensington resident tore both his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and rotator cuff he knew to turn to The Hospital of Central Connecticut for surgery.
"My daughter took me out - swept my feet from under me and I fell backwards and landed on my shoulder," recalls Knaus, 51, about the day he tore his left shoulder rotator cuff while playing soccer with his daughter, Katie, in 2005. He knew something was wrong and an MRI confirmed a torn rotator cuff.
Orthopedic surgeon Robert Waskowitz, M.D., who specializes in sports medicine, recommended surgery to reconnect the torn muscle with the upper arm (humerus) bone. Knaus says it felt like he had a new shoulder after the post-surgery physical therapy. "It's pretty amazing what the surgery had done. I feel like I did when I was young," he says, adding that he had a great hospital experience.
This marked the second significant sports-related injury for Knaus, who in July 2000 suffered a torn ACL in his right knee playing basketball. "I pivoted and decelerated and the knee just popped." Waskowitz restored the knee's anatomy by using part of Knaus' patellar tendon in place of the torn ligament and securing it into the knee using screws, one of several ways to restructure the ACL.
Four months later Knaus was skiing in Vermont, following the physician's advice to be careful. "I didn't take crazy risks, but I skied. And it worked out. It worked out great."
Astrid Johansen - knee replacements
With new knees nothing holds her back.
Astrid Johansen remembers when her knees finally stopped hurting. It was just a few months after her bilateral knee replacement surgery at The Hospital of Central Connecticut.
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These are my last words. There's something I hate, and it's getting worse. It's marketing speak. Corporate jargon. Multisyllabic gobbledegook. It's enslaving the way we think about games, and it makes me want to cleanse every last motherfacilitator in the room.
Oddly it's at its worst on the internet, which is supposed to be forward-looking. I have a theory about this, which I'll come to, but first a disclaimer: the internet is here and now, and print will never again be a mass media. I'm OK with that. This isn't sour grapes. It happens in print too, though a little less, because there are at least a few sub-editors left to draw thick red lines through the vacuous crap before it gets published.
Online, nonsense is free range. For instance, you may not know what a 'SKU' is, but I'm sure you've read it. Wikipedia call it a 'stock-keeping unit,' which is 'a unique identifier for each distinct product that can be purchased'. Exciting eh? This is WHY I GAME. SHOW ME THE SKU. HERE COMES THE FUN. When will it go gold and ship? Whose IP is it? I don't care what guns are in it, Crispin, just tell me about the licensing.
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Empty words grow on gaming like fungus. Do you care about all these financial conference calls, global brand rollouts and franchises we're all writing about? Really? Then you must be studying marketing, or corporate law. I used to read about games, and what you did as the hero. Now I read about the latest iteration of the franchise, and the gameplay mechanics of the protagonist. How very multisyllabic.
It's pompous, long-winded and dreary. And I'll tell you why it's inside gaming like a cancer: fear. It's everywhere because so many people are afraid. They're afraid to sound childish. Deep down they're ashamed of liking games, which are things you play for fun. So it's all made deadly serious. 'Grown-up'. It's overcompensation.
To be fair to the explosion of 'journalists' who think they're part of the 'industry' now they've blogged about Call of Duty, it's not just the critics overcompensating. In the ten years I worked on games mags, I was never a journalist and was not part of the games industry. I was a writer - that's what I did - and I worked in publishing.
Writing about the CIA wouldn't make me part of the intelligence community and writing about games doesn't make you part of the games industry. That isn't how it works. But it's not just the commentators driving gaming's once colourful comedy car to Kwik Fit to get it lowered and sprayed matt black and street, yo. It's the publishers too.
How many games have gone 'gritty' in a quest to become 'adult'? Tomb Raider, Hitman, SSX even, every military shooter ever... the list goes on, but I seem to have jammed a propelling pencil into my leg to stop it. Even GTA lost its once-trademark humour for Xbox 360.
I'm sick of games with 'adult' themes. They take themselves too seriously. I don't care how tortured the man from Prototype 2 is unless I'm responsible for it. And for the same reason, I'm sick of beetle-browed articles about markets and brands and 'content', as if it meant something to me as a player.
What is content? It's ANYTHING. It's something inside a receptacle; it's a regular quantum mystery. It's SMOKE. "What did you do last night, Steve?" "I sourced some content and consumed it! It was my favourite iteration of Q3, FY13!" If you actually speak like this, go to your home, sit quietly and wait for your batteries to die.
Or, do you like fun? Do you enjoy games? Then do something for me, in this brave post-XBW world: drop the I'm-all-growed-up-now corporate horseshit and stand up for them. Screw the non-believers: they'll never take you seriously anyway. Games are things we play for fun, and there's nothing wrong with that at all.


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