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Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, a team of researchers headed by anthropologist Michael Krutzen from the University of Zurich has demonstrated that great apes also have the ability to learn socially and pass them down through a great many generations. The researchers provide the first evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots, thus answering the contentious question as to whether variation in behavioral patterns in orangutans are culturally driven, or caused by genetic factors and environmental influences. In humans, behavioral innovations are usually passed down culturally from one generation to the next through social learning. For many, the existence of culture in humans is the key adaptation that sets us apart from animals. Whether culture is unique to humans or has deeper evolutionary roots, however, remains one of the unsolved questions in science. About ten years ago, biologists who had been observing great apes in the wild reported a geographic variation of behavior patterns that could only have come about through the cultural transmission of innovations, much like in humans. The observation triggered an intense debate among scientists that is still ongoing. To this day, it is still disputed whether the geographical variation in behavior is culturally driven or the result of genetic factors and environmental influences.
Humans are not the only ones to exhibit culture "This is the case; the cultural interpretation of the behavioral diversity also holds for orangutans - and in exactly the same way as we would expect for human culture," explains Michael Krutzen, the first author of the study just published in Current Biology. The researchers show that genetic factors or environmental influences cannot explain the behavior patterns in orangutan populations. The ability to learn things socially and pass them on evolved over many generations; not just in humans but also apes. "It looks as if the ability to act culturally is dictated by the long life expectancy of apes and the necessity to be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions," Krutzen adds, concluding that, "Now we know that the roots of human culture go much deeper than previously thought. Human culture is built on a solid foundation that is many millions of years old and is shared with the other great apes."
Largest dataset for any great ape species "The novelty of our study," says co-author Carel van Schaik, "is that, thanks to the unprecedented size of our dataset, we were the first to gauge the influence genetics and environmental factors have on the different behavioral patterns among the orangutan populations." When the authors examined the parameters responsible for differences in social structure and behavioral ecology between orangutan populations, environmental influences and, to a lesser degree, genetic factors played an important role, proving that the parameters measured were the right ones. This, in turn, was pivotal in the main question as to whether genetic factors or environmental influences can explain the behavioral patterns in orangutan populations. "That wasn't the case. As a result, we could prove that a cultural interpretation for behavioral diversity also holds true for orangutans," van Schaik concludes. Literature: Michael Krutzen, Erik P. Willems, and Carel P. van Schaik: Culture and Geographic Variation in Orangutan Behaviour, in: Current Biology, Volume 21, Issue 21, first published online: October 20, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.017 University of Zurich All About Human Beings and How We Got To Be Here
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They have three separate menus. The first is their drink menu. It was great to have so many choices. They offer fresh organic juices, smoothies, coffee drinks, and elixirs (which are herbal combinations). The second menu is the breakfast menu. The breakfast menu has both sweet and savory selections as well as side items that can be ordered a la carte. Lunch offered a variety of salads, sandwiches, wraps, plates, bowls, and even a kids menu. Each day they have specials available as well.
My first trip in was for lunch. A few of my BFF's and I were meeting for my birthday lunch. The beautiful thing about this is that when it is your celebration, you get to pick the spot. My friends are definitely meat eaters and one is a very picky one at that. I like to expand their horizons and continually show them that vegetarian fare is delicious, fun, and plentiful. It took us a while to look through all of the menus. The specials looked wonderful as well. After much deliberation, we went up to the counter to order. The staff was very friendly and willing to answer all of our questions happily.
We decided to order a Gratitude Smoothie to hold us over while we made our lunch decisions. The gratitude is a combination of raspberries, goji berries, strawberries and pomegranate juice. Many of their items contain pomegranate juice for obvious reasons. I loved this smoothie. Usually smoothies are far too sweet for my taste. This one was not overpoweringly sweet and pleasantly tart.
After carefully considering my choices, I decided to order the special of the Soft Summer Tacos. The tacos were generously stuffed with quinoa, black beans, fresh summer veggies (peppers, zucchini, onions), vegan cheese with a fresh salsa on the side. They were served with a very colorful and fresh mixed green salad, fresh fruit, and blue corn chips. The tacos were huge. The tortilla was light and a perfect texture to allow the fillings to shine through. The salad was super fresh and wonderful. I'm very particular about tortilla chips and found these a bit lifeless compared to the rest of the plate. The salsa was pretty mild, but very fresh tasting.
My sister ordered the Buddah's Delight Bowl. This was a fantastic little bowl. She is not one to eat a lot of tofu, but was delighted to find that the tofu was perfectly prepared. It was slightly crispy on the outside and had a slightly chewy texture. The combination of the crispy tofu, the flavorful hummus, kale, and avocado were a big winner. I know I'm going to have to order this one again because I only got to try a little bit of hers.
My very non-veg girlfriend ordered the Smoking BLT. She is a hard core bacon purist, so she didn't appreciate the smoky tempeh so much. She did say that because she was expecting actual bacon for some reason, that this took her by surprise. She's never had tempeh. Sometimes I think this is an acquired taste. I, however, capitalized on this and got to eat her tempeh bacon! It was fantastic. Tempeh can often have a bitter edge to it. This was perfectly prepared with no bitterness and a wonderful smoky flavor. I gobbled it up. She loved the rest of the sandwich. The miso mayo is a nice change from just plain ol' mayo. The bread was perfectly toasted. Another one I am going to have to go back and have all by myself.
My third friend ordered a non-vegan version of the avocado sandwich. She said it was very good. I won't go into detail here, because after all this is a vegan food blog. But it is worth mentioning that the egg dishes are all organic an you can safely bring non-tofu eaters here for a delicious meal.
Because I was the guest of honor and I wanted to try as many things as possible for this write-up. I insisted we try not one, but two desserts. We ordered the raw berry cashew cheesecake (I'm not sure it that name is correct) and the Chocolate Pomegranate Cake. OK folks, I am a chocolate snob. For years when we'd do our girlie foodie dining expeditions I ordered exclusively chocolate desserts. I have to say that this is possibly one of the best chocolate cakes I've had. My girlfriend was shocked that I would rave so much about something chocolate that was "adulterated" with any kind of fruit. But they have a great formula here. The pomegranate is so subtle and the cake so moist, it was truly hard to share.
The cheesecake was delicious as well, but admittedly was overshadowed by my love for the chocolate cake. The crust was moist and tasty. The filling was a bit soft, but the berry flavors were wonderful. The goji berry garnish was pretty, but the flavor of gojis is very distinctive. I love them, but others may not. But heck, they can just pick them off the top. The color is beautiful.
I knew this place would be a big hit with Phat Freddie and I also know I must go back and try breakfast. The cafe did not disappoint. We started off with one of their elixers, the Illumination. I love the presentation! The elixers are served in a champagne flute on a little plate that is garnished with fresh berries and...wait for it...dark chocolate. Fred is lucky he got any of it! I loved the light effervescence and slight tartness of the elixer. Dark chocolate and berries...what can I say? To add to the vegan excitement, they offer VEGAN lattes and capps, with a choice of several different non-dairly milks.
I didn't get pictures of our food today because we stopped in unexpectedly. Fred ordered the Maple Walnut Granola. I didn't detect any walnuts but there were pepitas present. I love pepitas. The granola itself was very tasty. Cassie, the owner, mentioned that there was a hint of cardamom in the granola. Cardamom can sometimes be overpowering, but it was very subtle here. The granola was so good! It was served with a ridiculous amount of fresh strawberries and the perfect amount of soy yogurt.
I got the Lumberjack Sandwich. This sandwich is available in a vegan or non-vegan version. I obviously chose the vegan version. Like the BLT, this sandwich had the awesome tempeh bacon on it. It also had seasoned tofu, avocado, vegan cheese, and tomato. Fred and I shared both. I don't know if he noticed, but I was jealously staring at that sandwich as it disappeared into his mouth. So hard to share such good eats, even with someone you love!
The first visit the food was very slow to come out. While the service was a bit slow, the staff was wonderful. The second visit the food came out quickly. The moral of the story here is that sometimes you have to wait a bit when you get such fresh and made to order food. Especially during busy times. It is well worth the wait.
I am thrilled there is such a wonderful, fresh, welcoming, charming, vegan-friendly place so close to home. They try to use as much local produce as possible, which makes my little heart happy. For those of you who aren't in the Ahwatukee area, it is worth taking a trip down the I-10 to check it out. They are open for breakfast and lunch and closed on Mondays.


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Borkar, Vivek S and Mitter, Sanjoy K (1996) Stochastic Processes that Generate Polygonal and Related Random Fields. In: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 42 (2). 606 -617.
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A reversible, ergodic, Markov process taking values in the space of polygonally segmented images is constructed. The stationary distribution of this process can be made to correspond to a Gibbs-type distribution for polygonal random fields as introduced by Arak and Surgailis (1989) and a few variants thereof, such as those arising in Bayesian analysis of random fields. Extensions to generalized polygonal random fields are presented where the segmentation boundaries are not necessarily straight line segments.
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a resident of Whisman Station
on May 1, 2012 at 2:17 pm
So does this mean that instead of there being a huge jam where 85 and 101 meet up, there will now be two huge jams? One where 85 meets 101, and another where the second carpool lane peters out?
I hope CalTrans knows what it's doing.
a resident of Waverly Park
on May 1, 2012 at 2:22 pm
One of the carpool lanes should be set aside for SUVs and trucks, they get better mileage when they don't have stop n go traffic to deal with.
a resident of Rex Manor
on May 1, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Any solution that encourages carpooling without making it harder for non-carpoolers gets thumbs up from me. Sounds like this fits the bill.
a resident of Shoreline West
on May 1, 2012 at 2:28 pm
So this new $72 million dollar section of freeway will now restrict four (two each direction) lanes of traffic instead of only two (one in each direction)? And this is supposed to lighten the gridlock?
Or is it all about the money? By creating MORE gridlock, commuters will be 'forced' to shell out the premium charge to use one of the two restricted lanes (which I guarantee won't be moving much faster than the non-restricted lanes).
I wonder how Google feels about the prospect of all that traffic that will be diverted through their campus (along Bayshore), once people realized they can drive along Bayshore for free??
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on May 1, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Link: Web Link
Some clarifications: the second carpool lane is an added lane, so it's really going from 2 restricted lanes out of 8 to 4 out of 11-12. Non carpoolers keep their existing lanes and get the benefit of the added merge lanes (NB 101 stays 6 lanes wide until Rengstorff, instead of 85 and Shoreline onramps both merging into the 4th lane right after Middlefield).
a resident of Willowgate
on May 1, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Utterly ridiculous. Every study conducted has shown that HOV lanes actually increase congestion (for example, Web Link), and that congestion is relieved by maximizing traffic throughput, which one does by opening up all lanes.
Doubling the number of HOV lanes will serve to decrease congestion within the HOV lanes. That's it. It won't provide any benefit to traffic throughput. Sure, it *may* provide a greater incentive to carpool, but a 3.5 mile stretch will have negligible impact.
HOV lanes seem like a good idea, but so far the research and experience shows that HOV lanes are merely a failed social experiment.
a resident of Castro City
on May 1, 2012 at 4:30 pm
What a waste is $$$ 90% if the vehicles are in the non carpool lane. Frkn VTA.
a resident of Waverly Park
on May 2, 2012 at 8:32 am
Waldo is a registered user.
@ Alex M - Thanks for the informative web link.
a resident of Shoreline West
on May 2, 2012 at 8:57 am
It seems that California has a new state motto: "If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is."
a resident of Monta Loma
on May 2, 2012 at 11:18 am
Last I saw, there was no troubles in the HOV lanes. Not sure why they would want to add another HOV lane since the problem is with the non HOV lanes. Another example of backwards thinking by the Gov.
a resident of another community
on May 2, 2012 at 10:42 pm
VTA wastes more taxpayer money than any other government agency. We would all be better off if they were disbanded.
a resident of Monta Loma
on May 4, 2012 at 7:54 am
Here we go again. The current carpool lanes aren't full. What do we need to add a second one?
And if you've ever been to L.A., which is the only place I've ever seen double car pool lanes, their traffic is still horrible.
But you frequently see TWO carpool lanes EMPTY while sitting in that horrible traffic.
The plan to get the traffic off the highways is to get the cars off the highways. So eventually all lanes will be carpool lanes and then you'll have nice and emtpy highways. We'll all eventally be crammed into filthy buses with terrible schedule on routes that don't go anywhere near where we work.
Big Government at its best. When the first plan doesn't work, THROW MORE MONEY AT IT! We just weren't trying hard enough the first time.
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Originally started as a daily Blog update of news reports on the
Papal Conclave and ongoing news on Pope Francis, it is
now a general Blog updated daily on traditional Catholic topics
Updated Every Day • Book mark this page • click here
Update: CFN Conference on the Apocalypse
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Chicago area, May 29-30-31 - click here for details
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Cardinal Brandmüller: Advocates for changing Catholic teaching on marriage are 'heretics' – even if they are bishops
"It is evident that the pastoral practice of the Church cannot stand in opposition to the binding doctrine nor simply ignore it ... A change of the teaching, of the dogma, is unthinkable. Who nevertheless consciously does it, or insistently demands it, is a heretic – even if he wears the Roman Purple." Cardinal Brandmüller - click here for interview
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YQA: Malachi Martin & the Papal Consistory; was it true?
brief video
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Misericordiae Vultus: Bull of Indiction
of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
April 11, 2015
Note from JV: We post "for the record" Pope Francis' new "Jubilee of Mercy" Bull, wherein Francis gives a repetition of John XXIII's infamous quote to prefer "the medicine of mercy" rather than condemnations. It is thus fitting to recall the keen observation of Professor Romano Amerio in his brilliant work, Iota Unum, where Amerio exposes John XXIII's sentimental sophism as follows: "This setting up of the principle of mercy as opposed to severity ignores the fact that in the mind of the Church the condemnation of error is itself a work of mercy, since by pinning down error those laboring under it are corrected and others are preserved from falling into it..." For 9000 + word Bull, click here
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Vatican Cardinal to religious:
Those who abandon Vatican II are 'killing themselves'
Francis' Vatican remains committed to the catastrophe - click here
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Francis' Vatican Remains
Silent as Homo-Fascism Rises
by Christopher A. Ferrara
As Cardinal Burke warns that the "gay lobby" within the Catholic Church is plotting for disaster at the Synod, civil society is increasingly dominated by a "homo-Fascism," aided and abetted by the mass media... click here
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"...according to Müller, the current pontificate – and John XXIII's too – lacks sufficient theological 'structure'."
Müller suggests new task for Congregation for Doctrine of Faith
CFN note: We are aware that Müller is a Vatican II, ecumenical prelate. Yet even he sees the lack of theological prowess of Pope Francis, and recommends that the CDF provide the "theological structure of a pontificate". As the last line reads, "...according to Müller, the current pontificate – and John XXIII's too – lacks sufficient theological 'structure'." click here
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"The Overhauling of Straight America" by Marshal E. Kirk and Hunter Madsen was expanded into the 1989 book, After the Ball, How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s. It is a blueprint of media and psychology manipulation for widespread public acceptance of homosexuality. One of Kirk and Madsen's key strategies is to vilify their opponents: "We intend to make the anti-gays look so nasty that average Americans will want to disassociate themselves from such types."
Tactics of the Homosexual Movement
1987 "Overhauling of Straight America"
In light of last week's hysterical Indiana homosexualist/"religious liberty" news, we repost the following. Step 2, Step 3 and Step 5 are especially apt in understanding the anti-Christian fury of last week's events... click here
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Special Video Report
CFN Media 7
Pittsburgh: SSPX Rededicates Former Diocesan Church
Where in Pittsburgh do you think Pope Pius XII would find a Mass at which he would feel at home? - click here
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Photo Report:
Pittsburgh: SSPX Returns Local Church
to the Mass for which the Church was Built
The Dedication of St. James Church: March 28, 2015
by John Vennari
March 28: Today I had the privilege of attending the Solemn Blessing and First Mass of St. James Church, a former diocesan church now owned by the Society of St. Pius X. click here for photo report
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As Opposition to the Phony Synod Rises,
Francis Says "Gossip" Against It Must Cease
by Christopher A. Ferrara
Seeing the rising opposition to his "Synod on the Family," which is widely perceived as a frontal attack on the family, Francis has issued another of his finger-wagging rebukes of insufficiently progressive Catholics: "Everyone — cardinals, bishops, priests, men and women religious, lay faithful — we are all called to pray for the synod. This is what is needed, not chatter and gossip!" - click here
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Blessed Pius IX, Father De Smet and the American Indians
An Exchange between Pius and the Coeur d'Alénes
Excerpted from Father E. Lavielle, S.J.
Despite persecutions, the Catholic Indians [in America] with but few exceptions remained faithful to the Church. A Methodist minister who for some time labored to turn Ignace, the chief of the Yakimas, from his faith, asked him one day how much he would want for changing to Protestantism.... click here
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"Even when it concerns the execution of a man condemned to death, the state
does not dispose of the individual's right to live. It is reserved then to the public power to deprive the
condemned man of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his crime, he has
dispossessed himself of the right to life." - Pope Pius XI
The Church on Capital Punishment
By Raphael T. Waters, D. Ph., L. Ph., Ph.C.
It appears a number of influential Catholics,and now even Pope Francis, seem intent on asserting the death penalty is contrary to the Law of God. This assertion is not true. The late Dr. Raphael Waters (d. 2010), eminent professor of Thomistic Philosophy, and an expert on the topic of the Death Penalty, presents a compendium of Scripture and Church teaching on the issue. click here
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CFN Media 6
Pope Francis Says Tridentine Mass a Step Backwards
John Vennari, Catholic Family News:
Pope Francis celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the all vernacular liturgy on March 7, 2015; takes another hit at Traditional Catholics; voices unqualified praise for Vatican II's liturgical revolution. And what has the Church magisterium throughout the centuries said about an all-vernacular liturgy? Why do our post-Conciliar leaders celebrate defiance of these perennial teachings? click here
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Announcing Catholic Family News Conference
Children of the Latter Days
A Catholic Treatment of Apocalypse,
Apostasy and Antichrist
Weekend of May 29-31, 2015
Catholic Family News is pleased to announce its 2015 Conference to be held in Deerfield Illinois, just outside of Chicago. The dates are May 29, 30 & 31. The Conference theme is in the headline above: "Children of the Latter Days: A Catholic Treatment of Apocalypse, Apostasy and Antichrist." Ten speakers will address this topic throughout the weekend. - click here
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Note from CFN: This piece appears in the UK Tabloid The Daily Mail. Why do I take it seriously? Because it tallies with the other research I've done on Papa Bergoglio, particularly the fact that Bergoglio, as I've reported in the past, appears to be of one mind with the late, radical Cardinal Martini of Milan, whom Pope Francis publicly praised as a "prophetic" figure and "Father of the whole Church." - j vennari
Close: Oscar Crespo, 77, grew up with Pope Francis in Buenos Aires and is pictured here during his trip to see him in the Vatican in October.
Daily Mail Report: Pope wants to scrap centuries-old ban on priests marrying and told divorced woman 'living in sin' that she COULD receive Holy Communion, claims confidante
- Oscar Crespo, a childhood friend of the Pope, said the pontiff revealed his 'priorities' for his papacy during a visit to the Vatican in October
- Mr Crespo, 77, from Buenos Aires, claimed the Pope told him he wanted to allow priests to marry because the law is 'archaic'
- The Pope also told him to pass a message to a woman 'living in sin' who had been divorced that she could receive Holy Communion again
- Argentinian teacher Claudia Garcia Larumbe told MailOnline she was 'speechless' after receiving the message from the Pope
- The Vatican said that 'if' the Pope had these conversations they were private and 'does not have any bearing on the teaching of the Churcb
click here for report
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More of the Francis Free-Fall:
Vatican hosted feminist conference featuring
unspeakably perverse pro-homosexual professor
from Lifesitenews' Hillary White
March 11: This weekend the Vatican formally hosted one of Britain's most virulently pro-abortion and pro-homosexual writers, as well as the head of an American organization promoting female ordination, at an officially sanctioned event inside Vatican City walls. Organizers spoke to Vatican Radio as well as the secular press, praising the new atmosphere within the Church's leadership that made the conference possible... click here
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A Priest Responds to the 2015 "Family Synod" Preparatory Document:
"Vague, secular, naive, sentimental, discouraging."
"The language of sin and redemption was missing from the documents"; "Throughout the document there is a sentimental notion of mercy which can be quite misleading."; more - click here
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The Popes on Thomism
from Dr. A.M. Woodbury's Introduction to Theology
March 7, 2015: As today is the traditional Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, we produce this short write-up by eminent Father Austin Woodbury (1899-1979), known as "Doc" Woodbury, about the superiority and value of the teaching of Aquinas. click here
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Father Daniel Themann, SSPX • Angelus Press Conference, 2014
Deficiencies of the New Mass
Father Themann at the Angelus Press Conference
By John Vennari
"There is nothing in the renewed Mass that can really bother the evangelical Protestant." So said Protestant Minister Max Thurian, who was a member of the Consilium that drafted the New Mass, which is now in virtually every parish and religious house worldwide. click here
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Sister Josefa Menendez Journeys to Hell
Compiled by Catholic Family News
"One of these damned souls cried out: 'This is my torture … that I want to love and cannot; there is nothing left me but hatred and despair. If one of us could so much as make a single act of love … This would no longer be hell … but we cannot, we live on hatred and malevolence' …" (March 23, 1922) - click here
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SSPX / Padre Pio Academy in Ridgefield Releases
Quality recording of Rosary and Way of the Cross
Click here for details
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Reports: Card. Baldisseri ordered interception of
copies of book mailed to Synod participants
The head of secretariat of the synod of bishops was reportedly "furious" about
"Remaining in the Truth of Christ," which includes chapters by Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller
Italian Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops (left), talks with Pope Francis during the morning session on the final day of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 18. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
CWR: Both Kath.net and Edward Pentin are reporting that Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, head of secretariat of the synod of bishops, ordered the interception of over a hundred copies of the book Remaining in the Truth of Christ, which had been mailed to participants in last October's Extraordinary Synod - click here
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Two Saints of the Eucharist
Tarsicius and Pius X
by Susan Vennari
When I was eight years old, I fell in love. The boy was not much older than I was; I first read about him, or maybe someone told me about him. His name was "Tarsicius" -- Saint Tarsicius, and he became my dearest friend. How those few words I learned about him burned in my heart. Tarsicius, the boy-saint of the early days of the Church. click here
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Padre Pio and the Freemason
By Father Pascal P. Parente, S.T.D., Ph.D., J.B.C.
"What, you here? You, who are a Freemason?" exclaimed Padre Pio the moment he laid eyes on the newcomer.
"Yes, Father," said Cesare.
"And what is your intention as a Freemason?"
"To fight against the Church from a political point of view."
click here
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ISIS/Al Hayat Media
From Breitbart News
The Islamic State terror group released a video on Sunday showing the Islamic jihadis beheading 21 Egyptian Christians who were previously kidnapped in Libya. The Egyptian Copts, who were dressed in prisoner-like orange jump suits, were lined up along a beach and abruptly beheaded in the graphic five-minute video. click here
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CFN Media 5 - Response to Voris Part 2:
'Reactionaries' and Blunder
Here is part II of my response to Voris. Hope you find it helpful. I want to be finished
with Voris here. As CFN readers know, I never mention him. But as I've said elsewhere,
we did not attack him, he assaulted us and we have no choice but to respond. I wish
Mr. Voris would keep his cannons pointed at the real enemy. (Part I is below) - jv
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CFN response to Michael Voris'
recent assault on Traditional Catholic Media
that he labels "reactionary" Catholics. - J Vennari
Contains a brief defense of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
This is part I: Part II is now uploaded and posted above.
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Tradwriter 25: Michael Voris almost gets the SSPX... from Louie Verrecchio on Vimeo.
Louie Verrecchio on Voris' latest attack against "reactionary" (Traditional) Catholics.
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The Coming Burke-Bergoglio Conflict
"I will resist" if the Pope allows
Communion for the divorced and remarried
by John Vennari
Cardinal Raymond Burke made headlines in early February when he said "I will resist" any effort of Pope Francis to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion.... It appears Pope Francis has already made up his mind to somehow "allow" divorced and remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist. We will demonstrate Pope Francis' determination on this point...
We witness here a heavy-handed abuse of authority, an attempt to force corrupt "pastoral" policy upon the Church. The entire drama reeks of that which Pope Francis claims to decry: authoritarianism, top-down centrist power and the worst form of clericalism...- click here
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CFN Media 3 - The Six Strikes Against Vatican II
What are the "Six Strikes Against Vatican II"? Is it really "unthinkable" to question the Council? What have both progressivists and Traditional Catholics said about the Council texts? Why is this Council unlike anything else in Church history? Who admitted the Council contains "compromised formulas"? CFN Editor John Vennari deals with these questions and more in this brief video. Please share with others! - click here
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Pope Francis to Celebrate the
50th Anniversary of Paul VI's Use of the Vernacular
It was announced in the most recent edition of L'Osservatore Romano that Pope Francis will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first celebration of the liturgy in the vernacular by Paul VI - on March 7 at 6:00 PM - click here
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Blessed Pius IX
Death and Miracles
Compiled by Catholic Family News
At the time of the Pope's death in Rome, a Belgian child, dying from an undiagnosed illness, told his mother he had a vision of Pius IX being crowned by the Virgin in Heaven. The child was instantly cured. Since news of the Pope's death had not yet reached Belgium, the mother sent a telegram to Rome. The answer indicated the child had been cured at the very moment of the Pope's death. click here
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Second CFN Video posted
The Synod and High Level Failure
Contrast: Pope St. Pius X's understanding of Papal duty as opposed to Papa Bergoglio's: What do we do? How do we respond? - click here
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On Wayward Pontiffs
"Peter has no need of our lies or flattery. Those who blindly and indiscriminately
defend every decision of the Supreme Pontiff are the very ones who do most to
undermine the authority of the Holy See - they destroy instead of strengthening
its foundations," Bishop Melchior Cano O.P., a theologian of the Council of Trent.
Can We Recognize and Resist?
By Robert J. Siscoe
The notion that Catholics cannot recognize yet resist a pope who deviates from the Faith, or that whatever a pope does or says, regardless of how far it deviates from tradition, must be followed blindly and defended, is a complete novelty. click here
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Announcing: CFN Media - a new feature!
This is the first of our new CFN Media video series. Our goal is to produce these short videos on a regular basis. Hope you find it useful. Please share with others.
• Reckless statements from high places
• Pope Francis' fondness for liberal prelates
• Is he consciously advancing a modernist agenda?
....... click here
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Seek ye first the Kingdom of God: What good is preaching about "preferential option for the poor" if our leaders cannot even safeguard the necessary reverence due to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament?
Eucharistic Sacrilege at Papal Mass in Manilla: hand-to-hand Communion, Jan. 16, 2015
For more videos, including the prayer of reparation given by Heaven to repair for sacrilege: click here
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Who Am I to Judge Your Carbon Footprint?
Pope Francis and Climate Change
By John Vennari
Pope Francis is in the news for speaking out on the alleged dangers of man-made Climate Change. Unfortunately, Francis is outside his field in making comments on this topic, and seems to have accepted uncritically the unproven pop-science of the moment. Today's "Climate-Change - global warming" hysteria has all the appearance of a false crisis with a dark agenda. It is a means of pushing for massive population control and a pretext for more government control into the details of our lives; it is where the "grant money" is for scientific research; the news media seldom tells us the truth regarding the non-threat of so-called man-made global warming. Much of the science itself is fraudulent or at least questionable. click here.
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Pope Francis changes schedule to visit
Sri Lankan Buddhist temple [presented with 'relic' ritual]
Pope Francis has become the second pontiff to visit a Buddhist temple, changing his schedule at the last minute to pay his respects at an important place of worship in Sri Lanka's capital and to witness a key ritual for Buddhists: the opening of a casket containing relics of two important disciples of the Buddha. click here
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Training of the Christian Soldier:
Custody of the Senses
Considerations from a guide for young people are helpful for us all
We shall never be able to control ourselves until we learn to control our outward senses, because everything we learn comes through our senses. click here
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The Martini Pope
by John Vennari
We repost this as the reader will find much of the material about Francis has come to fruition over the past year, particularly with regard to the 2014 Synod.
In the 2005 Conclave that elected Ratzinger to the papacy, Cardinal Bergolgio was not only the leading contender, but "the votes of Martini's supporters, along with others, converged at the time precisely on Bergoglio. Eight years later, in March of 2013, it was again the 'martiniani' who backed the election of Bergoglio as pope. This time with success" - click here for CFN report
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Thought for the Day!
click here
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Let us lift high the Cross
A communication from the Lepanto Foundation
after January 7's massacre in Paris
"Charlie Hebdo" is a newspaper in which, from its foundation, satire has been placed at the service of an anarchical and libertarian philosophy of life. It can be considered an extreme but consistent expression of relativism in the contemporary West. "Charlie Hebdo" is famous for its cartoons of Mohammed published beginning in 2006, but the filthy blasphemous cartoons published in 2012 for demanding homosexual unions, are forgotten. click here
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Two Momentous Interviews
by Christopher A. Ferrara
Since his removal as head of the Apostolic Signatura (the Church's highest canonical court) and his rather brutal demotion by Pope Francis to a titular post, Cardinal Raymond Burke has made lemonade out of the lemons he was handed. As some rightly predicted, the demotion has freed him to speak more openly about the ongoing "Francis revolution," and in particular the first session of the disastrous "Synod the Family," which predictably degenerated into an attack on the family by the radical progressives Francis put in charge of this sham. In other interview, Bishop Athanasius Schneider said this about the midterm report: "This is the first time in Church history that such a heterodox text was actually published as a document of an official meeting of Catholic bishops under the guidance of a pope, even though the text only had a preliminary character." click here
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Attacks on Thomism
Thomism and Neo-Modernism
by Dr. John Lamont
Although the progressive opponents of Thomism were hostile to philosophy, their attack on Thomism was not a purely negative one; it had the purpose of displacing Thomism and the Catholic philosophical heritage generally, in order to replace them with their own views. These views, which revived essential elements of the modernist heresy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, need to be grasped in order to understand the current situation of Thomism and of the Church generally... click here
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Pope Announces 15 New Cardinals
None from US - Diversity Push:
Pope names new cardinals 'from 13 countries from every continent' - click here
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This is a ludicrous Vatican Production from the Pontifical Council for Culture.
Yes, this is for real, not a parody. The Vatican has since pulled this English version embarrassing video, but the warped heads at the Council who produced this farcical display are still there!
It's as trendy as it is tawdry! Once again, hokey gimmicks over sound doctrine. click here
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Who Owns Christmas? A Santa Fe Memory
By Edwin Faust
It was noon by the glowing green dial of my alarm clock, but the room was dark because it had no windows, save for one sealed square of opaque glass in the bathroom and another like it, heavily curtained, that looked into the dining room of La Cocina, the restaurant behind which I rented a room on the highway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. I would occasionally draw back the curtain and try to see through the milky glass into the dining room, but all I could make out were indistinct forms, shadow figures like those seen by the cave dwellers of Plato's allegory... click here
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Mrs. Madeline Vennari
October 17, 1924 - December 19, 2014
Please pray for the repose of the soul of my dear mother - click here
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Pope Francis Presides over "Creola Mass" at Vatican, Dec. 12.
Over 600 priests "concelebrate"
Yet more liturgical abuse
Yet more contempt for Catholic Tradition
Contrast with Pope St. Pius X's Instruction on Sacred Music - click here
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John Allen: Hot-button issues remain in
new questionnaire for 2015 synod
All things indicate we are headed for another raucous Synod in 2015, even if the new questionnaire appears to contain some traditional phraseology - an old tactic of progressivists to neutralize naive conservative opponents. click here
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CFN Special Edition
The 150th Anniversary of
the Syllabus of Errors
By John Vennari
December 8, 2014, marks the 150th Anniversary of Blessed Pius IX's Quanta Cura and Syllabus of Errors. Catholic Family News marks this anniversary with a special issue that contains eight articles related to Quanta Cura and the Syllabus. We plan to continue writing on these landmark documents throughout 2015. It is necessary to familiar ourselves with the Syllabus and the great counter-revolutionary Pontiffs. The principles of the anti-liberal Popes should be foundational and habitual in our thinking, for their fight against "Liberal Catholicism" is the same battle we fight today. This or that detail may have changed, but the conflict remains the same. It is one and the same struggle against the agents of the counter syllabus; one and the same struggle against the destructive Modernism these agents ushered in to the highest echelons of the Church... click here
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The High Cost of Obama's Executive Amnesty
by Phyllis Schlafly
Cost $2 Trillion to Taxpayers - Employers given $3000 incentive to hire illegals - click here
- plus - An uproarious SNL opening that mocks Obama's Amnesty
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Pope Francis vs. St. Francis of Assisi
Contrast: Francis at the Blue Mosque, Francis of Assisi before the Sultan
By John Vennari
Pope Francis has "dared to do what none of his predecessors had ever done," Le Figero's Jean-Marie Guénois rejoiced, "to pray openly, side-by-side with a Muslim dignitary". click here
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CFN Interview with Dr. John Rao on Gardone Riviera Summer Symposium
2015 Theme: "Forbidden Topics: A Free and Rational Catholic Challenge to the Frightened Modern Mind"
- June 29-July 10, 2015, 11 nights
"Words can't explain it. You have to live the Summer Symposium to know why people come back again and again" - Dr. John Rao - click here for brief interview
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Patti Smith
"The Bergoglio Effect" Pope Francis Invites Notorious Blasphemer To Headline Vatican "Christmas Concert"
by Christopher A. Ferrara
One sign of the spreading decadence provoked by the "Bergoglio Effect" is the Pope's outrageous personal invitation to Patti Smith, the so-called Godmother of Punk Rock, to perform at this year's Vatican "Christmas concert"... click here
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Where There is No Hatred of Heresy,
There is No Holiness
by Father Frederick William Faber
If we hated sin as we ought to hate it, purely, keenly, manfully, we should do more penance, we should inflict more self-punishment, we should sorrow for our sins more abidingly. Then, again, the crowning disloyalty to God is heresy. It is the sin of sins, the very loathsomest of things which God looks down upon in this malignant world. Yet how little do we understand of its excessive hatefulness! It is the polluting of God's truth, which is the worst of all impurities... click here
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Parody - Bergoglio and Synod
Written by John Vennari
Also at our daily blog: click here
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A Key to Understand the Synod:
More Ravages from the New Theology
The Psychotic Synod
The current crisis in the Church has "been not a crisis of faith,
but of a very grave malady of the intellect."
– Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, 1945
by John Vennari
The real principle at work is the Modernist tenet that there can be some transformation of the dogmatic message of the Church over the course of the centuries. The entire Synodal enterprise is Modernism in action, which is the same destructive poltergeist at work in the Church for the last 50+ years. We will demonstrate this truth, and will reveal the little-known Modernist "Inductive" method that is crucial to under October's radical Synod. click here
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1974 Declaration of Archbishop Lefebvre
Archbishop's Declaration fresh after 40 years - issued November 21, 1974
"We hold fast, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, Guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary to preserve this faith, to Eternal Rome, Mistress of wisdom and truth. We refuse, on the other hand, and have always refused to follow the Rome of neo-Modernist and neo-Protestant tendencies which were clearly evident in the Second Vatican Council and, after the Council, in all the reforms which issued from it." click here
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Louie Verrecchio and John Vennari - a brief discussion
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United Religions Webpage: May 2007: URI leader Bishop Swing Joins with Cardinal Bergoglio – now Pope Francis –
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United Religions Back in the Spotlight
Pope Picked to Lead One-World Church
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Isn't it extraordinary how something long in existence can be suddenly re-proposed as a brilliant new idea? Politicians and educators, hoping we have memory problems, often do this to fool us into thinking they are working hard to improve a situation. Another audacious example of this strategy was recently provided by the Holy See's support of a proposal for a "United Religions" - click here
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newbie to digital compares mp3 and ogg
can some one tell me somthing interesting about these things
i search for hard facts on mp3 and ogg compression ,and its hard to find. ''uses pyschoacoustic masking'' etc etc is all i ever hear.. what does my basic tests show? (they cant really prove much cos i didnt measure how accurate me pc,cooledit, etc is) mp3 ogg |
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I don't know about ogg, but MP3 sounds worse on my home system than the CD it's ripped from. I haven't done much in the way of trying different MP3 bit rates etc. But the bottom line are that it's a lossy format.
The CD standard is right on the hairy edge of acceptable, and lossy of information is not a good thing. I'd say in the car, I'd be hard pressed to hear a difference. But it's not worth the hassle to convert my music only for the car. Sheldon |
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AAC vs MP3 vs OGG
Since Apple came out with their music store, and claimed that the AAC sounded better at 128kbps than MP3 at 160kbps, and indeed sounds better than the CD in some cases, I decided to do a test. I used my computer to queue up randomly ten tracks in either AAC version or CD version. Without knowing which was playing, I recorded my observations and preferences on a notepad. Later I compared my notes with which version was playing. Invariably, I preferred the CD version when it was played consecutively with the AAC version.
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Refugees from the Karen people's 65-year ongoing rebellion against the Myanmar (Burma) government are playing a key role for Carrboro in the Jaguars' run in the state 2-A boys' soccer playoffs. ... Also, a look at all-state field hockey and cross country teams ...
Kernersville Bishop McGuinness overwhelms Voyager Academy 5-0 at N.C. State's J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center to win the NCHSAA 1-A dual-team women's tennis championship.
The N.C. High School Athletic Association state championships in cross country for boys and girls return to Kernersville for the fifth straight year Saturday, Nov. 1. The races will be run at the Ivey M. Redmon Sports Complex in Kernersville.
The 25th annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association state1-A and 2-A championships in women's dual-team tennis have been moved from Burlington to Raleigh and Voyager Academy and N.C. Science and Math will play for those titles, respectively, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1.
N.C. School of Science & Math, Voyager Academy advance to state 2-A, 1-A dual-team tennis finals ... East Chapel Hill in state field hockey quarterfinals ... Chapel Hill wins second round state boys' soccer playoff game.
N.C. Science & Math and Voyager Academy were well on their way to berths in Saturday's 2-A and 1-A NCHSAA girls' dual-team championships when rain forced the suspension of their semifinal matches Wednesday.
Northern Carolina 2-A Conference champion NCSSM (11-0) led 2-0 in its match against 15-2 Carrboro, trailed at No. 1 singles, led in two matches and was tied in a fifth when play was called at Rock Quarry Park at 4:55 p.m.
A team must win five of nine total matches to win. Six matches are contested in singles and three — if needed — in doubles.
Play is scheduled to resume Thursday, Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. at Rock Quarry Park, completing a rematch of a state 2-A semifinal pairing won by NCSSM a year ago. The winner — the 2-A East Regional champion — advances to the state title match against the Western Regional champion at 9:30 a.m. at the Burlington Tennis Center in Burlington.
At Treyburn Country Club, No. 1 seed and North Central Athletic Conference champion Voyager Academy suspended its home match against wild-card playoff entry Franklin Academy at 5:45 p.m.
Voyager, which split a pair of conference meetings with the Wake Forest visitors during the regular season, led in four matches and trailed in two when play was called.
The match will be resumed at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 at Treyburn.
Chapel Hill freshman Gina Kim's two-stroke lead at the turn Tuesday vanished in a 5-over-par finish as Sanford Lee County's Siranon Shoomee shot 5-under 67 to win the NCHSAA girls' 3-A golf championship at Longleaf Golf and Country Club in Pinehurst. ... Carrboro to meet NCSSM in state 2-A girls' dual-team tennis semifinals today ... Voyager Academy to host Franklin Academy in girls' 1-A tennis semifinals today as well.
Area golf (Monday and Tuesday) and cross country athletes (Saturday) active in state championship playoffs this week ... South Granville to travel to Carrboro for state 2-A volleyball semifinals at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Durham Academy loses NCISAA field hockey title 1-0 in sudden-death to Charlotte Country Day ... Area 2-A and 4-A state tennis finalists all fall in championship round ... Many area programs advance through regionals to state cross country championships.
New Voyager Academy basketball coach Mike Huff discusses:
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* what it was like working with Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski
Nine area girls' soccer players have been named to 2014 all-state teams by the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association.
The votes are in for the best players in the 3-A Big Eight and 1-A North Central Athletic conferences.
Voyager Academy had won 10 straight baseball games, but the Vikings' high-powered offense got derailed in a 5-0 Friday night loss to Whiteville in the quarterfinals of the state playoffs in front of a full house at Duke University's Jack Coombs Field.
The Voyager Academy baseball team was locked in a seesaw battle in its third-round North Carolina High School Athletic Association playoff game against Wallace-Rose Hill on Tuesday night. That was until Chad Sykes, one of eight seniors on the team, forced the issue, aggressively scoring the game-winning run in the bottom of the sixth inning as his team won 4-3 at Duke University's Jack Coombs Field.
Carrboro is returning to the state 2-A dual-team tennis championship today and the Jaguars hope to come away with a title — something that eluded them the last two seasons. ... Voyager Academy is eliminated in 1-A semifinals in Raleigh ... Durham Academy eliminated in 3-A NCISAA semifinals ... Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill and Carolina Friends School were both eliminated in 2-A NCISAA semifinals.


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Two months after giving birth to her third child, Elisabeth Hasselbeck waded right back into the gaggle of gab on The View Monday, even letting loose with an embarrassing revelation of her own.
First she shared a picture of her newborn son and related how tame it was compared to another photo she recently shared with her family. So how did a picture of Isaiah's first smile, which she sent out to her family e-mail list, cause such a stir?
"You know when your baby smiles for the first time – I reach for the iPhone and take the photo," she said. "No wonder why he is smiling – because my nipple is in the photo!"
"It's worse than drunk dialing," she said of inadvertently flashing her entire family. "It's embarrassing."
Despite that breast-baring gaffe, Hasselbeck, 32, didn't miss a beat being back into the show, where she usually takes the right-of-center position at the table.
"We haven't done any Sarah Palin jokes since you've been gone," co-host Sherri Shepherd joked.
"I don't believe you," the conservative Hasselbeck responded.
Among the topics the former reality-show star tackled on her first day back: "Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene, a Louisiana justice of the peace who denied an interracial couple a marriage license, Rush Limbaugh's failed attempt to buy the St. Louis Rams, David Letterman's sex scandal and the White House's media war with Fox News.
During her maternity leave, Hasselbeck was temporarily replaced by headline-winning guests hosts including Kate Gosselin, who was in the middle of her ugly divorce, and Meghan McCain, who recently got into a scrape with fans and the media over a supposedly inappropriate Twitter photo.
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A Computational Model of Goal Appraisal
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Published by SpringerGoal appraisal is formulated as a specific sub-problem of cognitive appraisal. A computational model of goal appraisal is built via a knowledge-based system. An empirical validation study compared model versus human performance by eliciting believability judgments from naive human raters. Results showed that computer model goal appraisals were, in most cases, as believable as human-generated appraisals.
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Trip was great. I had a great time.
Had a great time. Would recommend.
A must do in Vegas, amazing experience. We did the Helicopter + Boat option with No Skywalk which in my oppion was not necessary as you have amazing views all over the place and everywhere you look. Best day trip ever, however, be prepared for the early start!
Brilliant trip cover all transport and stop for Hoover dam photos lunch inc no complaints from us in England would do it again we included skywalk as well .
Everything was on time and although a packed 4 hours it was excellent! Went on a Saturday in early May and crowds were light.
Breathtaking view, will always remember it!
Everything worked out as planned. As a plus our driver had a great sense of humor and a lot of knowledge of the area's we traveled thru. Worth every dime.
Mixing bus visit, helicopter, and boat trips in one tour was a good idea.
We added sky-walk to the trip and enjoyed about 10 hours of fun and beautiful scenaries.
What a fantastic day we all had. We had a party of 6 and had an early start 6.10am but what a day. We had Thomas the coach driver who was amazing though out the whole trip with his information about each area to his funny wit and jokes all through periods of the journey. The helicopter ride was awesome. a first of all of us to the skywalk. Our photographs at the Skywalk did not turn out via the computer link which was extremely disappointing but that was noting to do with this tour. It would have been nice to have something to say we were on the Skywalk as you are not allowed cameras on the glass walkway. we have nothing to show that we were walking on glass:( . Would recommend this trip to anyone great value although an early start but Thomas got us back safely and dropped us off at our hotels on the way back. 10/10.
An excellent tour. Highly recommended. Tour guide and driver were excellent. Thank you
Fantastic value, and such a full day. The only thing I would advise, dont necessarily do the skywalk after the helicopter as all the adrenalin and excitement has been used, and you won't get the same buzz, but still brilliant.
Excellent tour.Highly recommend it. Our bus driver,Thomas, was great and very informative. The Helicopter ride and boat ride were perfectly timed so we never waited. The trip moved along so smoothly. Really enjoyed seeing the Canyon from many different views. Colors were constantly changing. The skywalk was awesome as well. Will do this trip again!
Best trip to the Canyon anyone can have! It's well worth the extra money to do the helicopter and boat trip. Although it was a long day, it was definitely worth it.... Our driver/guide was excellent and full of local knowledge. Would definitely recommend it.
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Concerns for life, justice and peace need to be heard loud and clear at the World Council of Churches' upcoming assembly, say African women.
Southern Ethiopia is being devastated by a drought that has taken the lives of more than 300,000 livestock, threatening the future of the pastoralist communities who rely on them.
Religious leaders are exploring short and long term strategies for communities to end reliance on food aid in Africa, in the wake of the current crisis.
The British public has contributed £42 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal for more than 10 million people in East Africa.
The African Union envoy to Somalia, Jerry Rawlings, has made an emotional appeal to the world to provide emergency aid to the famine-hit region.
Donations from the UK public to the emergency appeal for people suffering from severe food shortages in East Africa have now exceeded £15 million.
Christian Aid has called on the Kenyan government to open a refugee camp that is currently standing empty to cope with the 1,400 new daily arrivals.
Millions of people across East Africa are looking down the barrel of the worst famine for 60 years. Thousands of families have picked up their possessions to walk towards what they hope is better pasture land, towards countries that might hold the promise of food.
Large numbers of gay, lesbian and bisexual Christians in east Africa are accepting their sexuality while continuing to live out their faith, according to the Other Sheep network, which supports gay Christians around the world.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - July 18, 2009 - Sweet Superior Fruit LTD. Co. of McAllen, Texas, is recalling 104 crates of fresh cilantro (coriander) because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonellaoften experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
The recalled fresh cilantro (coriander) was sold July 13-16, 2009 in 15 pound, black plastic crates to individuals and companies through cash sales at Sweet Superior Fruit LTD. Co., 2501 W. Military Hwy., Suite #A-5 and A-6, McAllen, Texas. The product may have been further sold through direct retail sales in McAllen, Texas and surrounding areas or used as an ingredient to manufacture additional products.
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Individuals and companies who purchased fresh cilantro (coriander) from Sweet Superior Fruit LTD. Co., July 13-16, 2009, should immediately discontinue use of the product. Companies should make efforts to recall the product from customers and consumers who may have purchased the product and ask them to return or throw it away.
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Under the ´weather´ in Baños
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After a week and and half of venturing north to south in the beautiful Oriente region of Ecuador in which we encountered great people, 'less joyful' people, tasted amazing food, saw spectacular scenery and enjoyed the best of weather while doing so. We have decided to leave it behind (including the humidity) as the path beckons us and we headed back west to see the great things that the central highlands region of Ecuador has to offer. Unfortunately, we also left behind the nice weather.
From Tena we traveled by bus to Puyo and on through the gorgeous Pastaza Valley to Ba�os. Ba�os is a quaint little town beautifully nestled in a steep cliff-like valley amid towering volcanoes. It's pretty. It's unique. It's well touristy. It also has a lot to offer. The town itself is very clean, has extremely wide sidewalks, a welcoming change, quite colorful and hence the name, is famous for its therapeutic mineral hot springs - Ba�os.
The difference between Ba�os and other Ecuadorian towns is that instead of panaderias (bread shops), fruterias (fruit stands) and kioskos lining the streets, they are replaced by a plethora of tourist shops selling authentic Andean regalia, funky restaurants (as opposed to basic ones) and sketchy looking tour agencies that come equipped with high pressure touts offering numerous �tourist deals` for a special price. Needless to say, I was a bit mixed up and a little part of me preferred Lago Agrio. I like real.
We opted to refrain from doing any so-called adventure trips which Ba�os is somewhat well-known for and thought it better to make it a time to catch up on things, not spend as much money as we had been doing and do more relaxing in the hot pools than anything. The bad weather helped. After going on a short jaunt above town and visiting an extremely depressing zoo that I recommend nobody visit unless they wish to feel inhumane just for passing through the gates and paying the rediculous $1 to do so and support the cause, we spent the rest of the day walking about, eating taffy, sucking on fresh cut sugar cane and catching up on internet stuff.
Just a side note. The zoo had some amazing animals including the puma, ocelot, jaguarandi, cougar, capibara, condor and parrot to name a few, but their cages/pens as I will call them were extremely small and more often than not, they did a bad job recreating the true natural habitat that they live in. Not even close. Mountain Lions frankly just don't instinctually live near cement and lawn grass. It was cool to see some amazing animals up close but on the other hand, sad to see them in such a bleak state. Especially when we later found out that many are not disabled were captured by locals and then found by the park service. Instead of adapting them to return to the wild they were deemed unsuitable to return sent to the zoo (bought and sold by rich land barons) even though many could have easily returned according to an old time national park officer that we later talked to. According to him, the man in charge finds it better to put them in zoos for the public rather than let them go. I guess it brings in money.
Late that night and the following day I was greeted by the stomach sickness fairy and spent the better part of the next 30 hours purging my system from both ends and toying with the idea of jumping off a cliff. I guess the monkeys much have ransacked the guys store in Tena and shit on the floor. Karma coming back to me. Meanwhile, Maya finished, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Poenix' later entering a state of withdrawal from her magical prince. We decided to wait no longer and off for Riobamba. Pepto in hand...


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Please Remake These Horror Movies
Sometimes a great idea is cursed with poor execution. Here 11 horror movies that we feel should get remakes.
Bartender Sets Customer's Face on Fire, Prepares to Find New Line of Work
Getting a drink at a bar can be frustrating, but when you do get the bartender's attention, chances are it doesn't end like this.
Deranged Man Drinks Gallon of Honey While Bees Cover His Face
There's a fine line between extreme and stupid. This guy has crossed it.
This Bizarre First Pitch May Arouse You
The ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game is usually forgettable, unless it goes poorly. Or, if the pitch is thrown by this woman.
Watch Nutcase Eat an Entire Watermelon
A lot of people splurge and pig out over July 4th weekend. This guy did it one sitting.
Kid's Insane Kick Is Off the Charts (And Off the Wall)
Just for kicks, this kid shows off a move that would make Bruce Lee jealous.
News Anchor Shamelessly Leers at Bikini-Clad Reporter, Gets Scolded [VIDEO]
Fox 5 New York anchor Greg Kelly must have missed his company's sexual harassment training.
Drunk Guy Makes Epic Faceplant at Luke Bryan Concert
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Livid Woman Destroys Car While Chill Ex-Husband Records It
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The final weekend in the Big 12 will illustrate both the risk and reward that come with the league's decision to do away with its title game.
Big 12 Hopes 'One True Champion' Good For Title Shot
With 10 teams playing a round-robin schedule and no championship game, the Big 12 is emphasizing its unique standing in the new playoff era.
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Jonathan Duncan understands that a perfect NCAA enforcement division won't catch every cheater in college sports. He still believes his team is getting the job done.
Big 12 Commish's Dire Warning About Pending Change
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby warns that anyone who likes intercollegiate athletics the way they are now will hate what's coming.
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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said on Friday, at the end of the league's spring meetings, that the eight continuing members of the league will each get about $23 million.
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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby believes that now is a good time to look at modernizing parts of the college recruiting model, using possibly Skype or FaceTime for interviews.
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Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that the new College Football Playoff poll will replace the old BCS standings as a potential tiebreaker if three or more teams have the same record.
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Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says he expects to be at the conference for a long time and would rather shape the future of college sports in his current job than as NCAA president.
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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Monday that there is "unanimity" among leaders from five power conferences that significant changes are needed now in the NCAA.
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The Big 12 wants to have a greater postseason presence in Florida and get into more bowls that its fans can reach by car.
Big 12 Commish: League Good At 10 Teams
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says the 10-team league feels good about where it is right now while also keeping an eye on what is happening with other conferences across the country.
Big 12 Commish: "League's Best Days Ahead"
After a month on the job, Bowlsby says there is a strength and stability with the current 10 members, including newcomers TCU and West Virginia after the departures of Texas A&M and Missouri for the SEC.