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Episodes Archive
He's been called a post-millennial Schubert. Mohammed Fairouz has composed four symphonies and an opera while still in his 20s. He invokes John F. Kennedy and Anwar Sadat, Seamus Heaney and Yehuda Amichai in his compositions. He sees "illustrious language" as a form of music — and as a way, just maybe, to shift the world on its axis.
Episode Archive
December 2005
Could a Yiddish text from the Middle Ages serve as a guide to living now? Book composer and typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky revives unlikely sources of "customs" for leading a modern life and marking sacred time. For Hanukkah and all the seasons upon us.
Forty years ago in France, philosopher Jean Vanier founded an international movement, L'Arche. The L'Arche community in Clinton, Iowa is part of this movement — people of faith living and worshipping alongside developmentally handicapped adults. There are now over 120 L'Arche communities in 18 countries. The community in Clinton is one of the oldest and most rural of the 14 American communities. In this "radio pilgrimage," we take listeners into a radically different faith community that confronts our assumptions about service and diversity, and the worth of individuals.
Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.
Part two of this series delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives.
The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and medical issues that remain with us today. But missing in that debate was a real attention to the quality and the meaning of death. Joan Halifax tells us what she's learned and how she lives differently after three decades accompanying others to the final boundary of human life.
November 2005
What are the origins of communion, and what is its deepest social relevance? Two leading theologians of communion describe a ritual that is not just personally meaningful for the believer, but also collectively and ethically challenging for Christians.
We remember Studs Terkel, who recently died at the age of 96. The legendary interviewer chronicled decades of ordinary life and tumultuous change in U.S. culture. We visited him in his Chicago home in 2004 and drew out his wisdom and warmth on large existential themes of life and death. A lifelong agnostic, Studs Terkel shared his thoughts on religion as he'd observed it in his conversation partners, in culture, and in his own encounters with loss and mortality.
A 30-year-old, Indian-American Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar is setting out to change the way young people relate to their own religious traditions and those of others. Al-Qaeda is the most effective youth program in the world, he says, and we neglect this work at our peril.
Two people with unique perspectives both discovered ecumenism — the movement to reconcile Christian churches — during the Civil Rights era. They'll describe what they've learned about grappling with vexing clashes of difference, and why reconciliation among different Christians still matters in a multi-religious, post-Katrina world.
October 2005
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) held public sessions from 1996 to 1998, and concluded its work in 2004. In an attempt to rebuild its society without retribution, the Commission created a new model for grappling with a history of extreme violence. The basic premise of the Commission was that any individual, whatever he or she had done, was eligible for amnesty if they would fully disclose and confess their crimes.
Victims were invited to tell their stories and witness confessions. Through the TRC, many families finally came to know when and how their loved ones died. By the end of the hearings, the Commission took statements from more than 20,000 victims of Apartheid and received applications for amnesty from 7,100 perpetrators.
We explore the religious implications of truth and reconciliation with two people — one black, one white — who did the work of the Commission in charge of it.
Stereotypes tell us this: Evangelical Christians are politically conservative, closed-minded, morally judgmental, and anti-science. We speak with two creative members of a new generation of Evangelical thinkers and teachers, who defy stereotypes and reveal an evolving character for this vast movement that describes 40 percent of Americans.
Is there such a thing as the Muslim world? Is the "veil" a sign of submission or courage? Is our Western concern about women in Islam really a concern for the well-being of women? Our guest, Egyptian-American Leila Ahmed, challenges current thought on these and other questions.
One in ten Americans, and even more dramatically, about one in four women, will experience clinical depression at some point in their lives. We take an intimate look at the spiritual dimensions of this illness and its aftermath.
September 2005
Dr. Sherwin Nuland died this week at the age of 83. He became well-known for his first book, How We Die, which won the National Book Award. For him, pondering death was a way of wondering at life — and the infinite variety of processes that maintain human life moment to moment. He reflects on the meaning of life by way of scrupulous and elegant detail about human physiology.
Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She's also written several works of fiction in which she explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality. In this conversation, Anchee Min tells us what she learned about the human spirit in the forced labor camp in which she spent her teenage years, and how she's found healing in America.
Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. In this program, David Hilfiker tells the story of how poverty and racial isolation came to be in cities across America. He lives creatively and realistically with questions many of us began to ask in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Republican party. This veteran politician speaks about the values that have helped him navigate the line between private faith and public life and his current concerns about religion in his own party and in the world.
American ideals and rituals of marriage, family, and divorce are infused with biblical messages. But what does the Bible really say, and how has it been taught across the centuries as the institution of marriage has changed dramatically and often? A rabbi and Christian theologian help us explore the nuances of Jewish and Christian teachings and reveal the striking practicality of Jewish tradition across the ages and the surprising ambiguities of the New Testament.
August 2005
Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." Our guests reflect on the Twelve Steps and how they resonate in their personal stories and in Buddhist and Christian teachings.
In this close-up look at the human dynamics of the war on terror, our guest speaks about her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan shortly after 9/11. She talks about Buddhism, her ethic of spiritual defiance, and her hopes for the future.
Rachel Naomi Remen's lifelong struggle with chronic illness has shaped her philosophy and practice of medicine. She speaks about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us to live.
Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around the world. Our guest knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his personal history. We'll speak about what goes wrong when religion turns violent, and why, he believes, the cure for religious zealotry is not less religion but more religion — or rather stronger and more intelligent practices of faith.
July 2005
In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, scrutiny of the religion of Islam has become part and parcel of our public life. In forums of all kinds, often guided by non-Muslim pundits, we ask, what does terrorism have to do with the teachings of the Qur'an? Can Islam coexist with democracy? Is Islam capable of a reformation, or has it fallen into hopeless decay?
We pose these questions to a spectrum of American Muslims who describe themselves as devout and moderate. Our guests take us inside the way Muslims discuss such questions among themselves, and they suggest that when we consider "the Muslim world" we must look first at Islam in this country. In this open society, they say, Islam has found a home like no other.
Krista Tippett speaks with philosopher Jacob Needleman. As new democracies are struggling around the world, it's easy to forget that U.S. democracy was shaped by trial and error. A conversation about the "inward work" of democracy — the conscience that shaped the American experiment.
Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, normalcy, and religion differently. Is there room in our culture to consider a schizophrenic personality as another form of human difference and diversity?
Our guest straddles the worlds of cosmology and social activism. During a live audience interview in Philadelphia, he tells us how he unites his convictions about faith, ethics, and cosmology.
June 2005
If sport is an American religion, is that bad for us? What is the metaphysic of baseball? In this show, we'll speak with a theologian and sports fan who has spent much of his career studying the religious character of rituals in sporting events and the spiritual significance of fans' attention to sports.
The writers Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy, social activist Dorothy Day, and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton — all four shared a complex Catholic faith. Paul Elie takes us on a kind of literary pilgrimage through a Catholic imagination that still resonates in our time.
The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and medical issues that remain with us today. But missing in that debate was a real attention to the quality and the meaning of death. Joan Halifax tells us what she's learned and how she lives differently after three decades accompanying others to the final boundary of human life.
In this personal exchange between a Jewish rabbi and Islamic scholar, host Krista Tippett explores the integrity of religious faith and openness to the faiths of others. In a world in which religious experience is implicated in violence, two thinkers discuss how it is possible to love their own traditions and honor those of others.
This program was recorded live at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles in June 2003.
Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious and secular belief systems. She suggests that only in modern time has doubt been narrowly equated with a complete rejection of faith, or a broader sense of mystery.
May 2005
There are an estimated 4,000 Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, though some counts place that number much higher. We'll speak with the first Muslim imam in the US Army Chaplaincy -- Major Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad -- about Iraq, faith, and military service.
Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline. Precisely the opposite has proven true; religious movements are surging and driving "alternative globalizations" across the world. Two leading thinkers offer a penetrating view of how and why religion of all kinds is shaping the global economy and political order.
Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We explore the subject of prayer, how it sounds, and what it means in three different traditions and lives.
A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some of his thoughts on modern-day Israel and Germany, his understanding of God, and his practice of prayer after the Holocaust.
April 2005
A few years ago, journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant today as he pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's core questions: Do desiring and acquiring make us happy? Does large-scale political change really address human suffering?
The biblical Exodus story has inspired believers and non-believers, Jews and Christians — and more than a few Hollywood movies. But this is no simple story of heroes and villains; it is a complex picture of the possibilities and ironies of human passion and human freedom. If you're not familiar with Exodus, you're in for a deeply sensual experience; and, even if you're well-versed in the text, you just might be surprised.
The American public supports the principle of capital punishment, but there is a growing consensus among Jewish and Christian thinkers — across traditional liberal/conservative lines — that it should be abolished in this country or suspended while the system for imposing it is made more just. Reflections on justice, forgiveness, and the nature of God shed new light on America's death penalty debate.
We explore the human and religious implications of natural disasters through the eyes of two scientists steeped in the workings of the natural world. We approach the morality of nature from a non-theological angle, tracing how natural disasters have sometimes fueled religious agendas and movements and how strictly scientific perspectives can both challenge and illuminate religious questions.
John Paul II's papacy was dramatic and historic on many fronts. We explore some of the critical religious issues of his 26 years as pontiff and discusses the great and contradictory impact he made on the Catholic Church in America and abroad.
March 2005
New Testament writings about Jews may sound inflammatory in modern ears. A New Testament scholar with ties to both Judaism and Christianity helps us put these writings in context and look for meaning in the Passion that Hollywood and popular culture can't convey.
The Vietnamese Zen master, whom Martin Luther King nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, is a voice of power and wisdom in this time of tumult in the world. We visited Thich Nhat Hanh at a retreat attended by police officers and other members of the criminal justice system; they offer stark gentle wisdom for finding buoyancy and "being peace" in a world of conflict, anger, and violence.
Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the universe might make space for prayer.
The idea of human cloning both fascinates and repulses many, and challenges us to ask difficult religious questions?
February 2005
We remember Studs Terkel, who recently died at the age of 96. The legendary interviewer chronicled decades of ordinary life and tumultuous change in U.S. culture. We visited him in his Chicago home in 2004 and drew out his wisdom and warmth on large existential themes of life and death. A lifelong agnostic, Studs Terkel shared his thoughts on religion as he'd observed it in his conversation partners, in culture, and in his own encounters with loss and mortality.
Born in slavery, the Negro spiritual conveys a generous understanding of the nature of God and of human life. A celebration in word and song — through its hidden meanings, as well as its beauty, lament, and hope.
We explore the ideas and present-day relevance of 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, an influential, boundary-crossing voice in American public life. Niebuhr created the term "Christian realism:" a middle path between religious idealism and arrogance. Exploring his wide appeal, three distinctive voices describe Niebuhr's legacy and ask what insights he brings to the political and religious dynamics of the early 21st century.
During the past decade, there has been an explosion of films and television programs containing religious and spiritual themes. Mel Gibson's The "Passion of the Christ" was only the tip of the iceberg. As new generations of Americans work out their spiritual and religious questions, they are increasingly turning to fantasy. We'll explore the deeper appeal of films like "Harry Potter" and "The Matrix," and we'll ask how fantasy in media reflects a changing spiritual imagination, especially in younger Americans.
January 2005
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hindu international business analyst who offers learned, fascinating observations about how the world's myriad religions have shaped global business norms and practices.
We deconstruct the phrase "moral values," which has confused and divided Americans since November's election. As the second term of George W. Bush commences, political analyst Steven Waldman helps explore what these words do and do not convey to liberals and conservatives, and why they still matter. What is at stake when both sides fail to understand the moral convictions of the other?
Our culture's acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage has been framed in religious — largely conservative Christian — terms. We go behind the rhetoric to explore the human confusion, hopes, and fears this subject arouses. We'll name hard questions that these religious people on both sides of the issue are asking themselves, and that they would like to ask of others.
We experience the religious thought and the spiritual vitality of two Muslims—male and female—both American and both with roots in ancient Islamic cultural, intellectual, and spiritual traditions. Their stories and ideas, music, and readings, evoke a sense of the richness of global Islamic spirituality and of some of its hidden nuances and beauty. They reveal how sound, music, and especially poetry offer a window onto the subtleties and humanity of Islamic religious experience.


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In this Sept. 7, 2010, photo, University of Michigan alumnus and assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell speaks about the University of Michigan's student assembly president Chris Armstrong at a Michigan Student Assembly meeting in Ann Arbor.
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Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan) may be wounded and weak but the Original hybrid is still determined to make his sister, Rebekah (Claire Holt), pay for her betrayal in "The Originals" Episode 15 titled "Le Grand Guignol." The episode offers the return of the man that Klaus fears the most, Mikael, and another familiar face.
Spoiler alert: This feature contains major spoilers on "The Originals" Episode 15 titled "Le Grand Guignol." The episode begins with a flashback scene that tells Klaus and Elijah (Daniel Gillies) succeeded in unifying New Orleans with their rule.
In present day, Elijah calls Cami (Leah Pipes), the person he thinks Klaus will not immediately slaughter, and asked her to help in taking care of the wounded Original hybrid. Elijah also suggested that Cami should convince Klaus not to hurt his baby sister Rebekah.
Agreements are being made with Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) and Eve (Tasha Ames) asking their captive Celeste in Sabine's body (Shannon Kane) to undo the curse that she did on the werewolves while Elijah asks Monique Deveraux (Yasmine Al Bustami) to do a locator spell on Sabine. Meanwhile, Cami wonders on why Klaus would want to hurt his own sister so Klaus opened up about his past, the part where Rebekah managed to rip his heart out.
The flashback to New Orleans in 1919 showed Klaus finally gave his blessing to Rebekah and Marcel's relationship without knowing that the two have already betrayed him. "Turns out they have betrayed me and brought to town the one thing I've been running from for centuries. My father," Klaus revealed to Cami.
Rebekah and Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) run away from home to escape Klaus' wrath. However, the lovebirds decide to head back first and do something before they get as far away they can from Klaus. Their suicide mission: Kill the resurrected witch or all of them so that Davina (Danielle Campbell) can return and perform the spell that can hide them from Klaus forever.
In another 1919 flashback, Rebekah and Marcel happily go public with their relationship without knowing that "The Destroyer" is already in town. Mikael (Sebastian Roché), who has been observing the key players responsible for his return, initiated a conversation with Marcel leading to a deal where the Original vampire and hunter promised he will not hurt Rebekah and Marcel can have New Orleans on one condition: Marcel must tell him where to find his sons.
The "element of surprise." Rebekah and Marcel asked Thierry (Callard Harris) for help to meet up with the resurrected witches, with Bastianna (Shannon Eubanks) and Genevieve (Elyse Levesque) showing up, only to kill them but Genevieve managed to escape. As for Elijah, he was getting ready to see the opera when Mikael arrived and even asked his son to help him kill Klaus.
Klaus received information that Rebekah and Marcel were spotted in town so he takes out his own version of a white oak stake and left Cami behind to go after the lovers. Elijah, who initially snatched away Celeste from Hayley, returned with the powerful witch and the elixir that can reverse the spell on the werewolves.
Klaus vs. Mikael. The final flashback scene showed how Mikael destroyed the town that Klaus found as a new home making them leave New Orleans and think that Marcel died from the opera fire.
Elijah's alliance with Monique resulted Celeste's return to her original body and the Original vampire no longer hesitated to put an end to her evil schemes against the Mikaelson family. However, Elijah, Rebekah and Klaus all end up trapped inside the cemetery with the boundary spell that Celeste performed before Elijah stabbed her.
Celeste's death brought Davina back to life and the first person that she sees is none other than his protector, Marcel. The ending scene showed the Mikaelson siblings confronting each other and looking ready for an epic showdown to their personal conflicts.
"The Originals" returns with Episode 16 titled "Farewell to Storyville" on Tuesday night, March 11, at 8 pm ET on the CW Network.
More Articles to Read:
'The Originals' Spoilers: Klaus Having Fun at a Party with Elijah and a Woman Before Mikael's Arrival, Watch The Released Video Clip of Episode 15 'Le Grand Guignol' - [READ]
'The Originals' Season 1 Episode 14 'Long Way Back From Hell' Recap/ Spoilers: It's A Personal War, Klaus Mikaelson vs. Siblings Rebekah and Elijah - [READ]
'The Originals' Spoilers: Child Actor Perry Cox Cast as Young Elijah Mikaelson in Episode 16 Titled 'Farewell to Storyville' - [READ]


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In that scene, Emma (Hathaway) runs into with her ex-BFF's brother, Nate (Bryan Greenberg) and reluctantly goes with him to help him try on his tux (and, of course, tie his bow tie). Her relationship with her fiancé is faltering, her plans are falling apart and she misses her feuding friend. Nate asks her how she's doing. She says "fine." He prods, and she breaks down, all of those emotions: excitement, grief, uncertainty, coming out at once. She re-composes herself and leaves the store. It's an example of a skilled actor overcoming weak, lazy material, which is something I've come to see more and more lately.
The plot has people-pleaser Emma and her pal, control freak Liv (Kate Hudson), growing up together, waiting through their empty lives until the moment that a man proposes to them so that they can live out their dream: a June wedding at the Plaza in Manhattan. They get their proposals at the same time, and sadly, due to an error, there's only one opening at the Plaza. So the friends begin to fight and play dirty tricks on one another to get each other to change dates. (What about a double wedding, you might ask, just as I did? Nope. For some reason it's out of the question, tossed out in a line of dialogue.) Moreover, each girl is forced to choose a backup Maid of Honor, since they were going to be each other's. Emma picks her obnoxious fellow teacher (Kristen Johnston), and Liv picks an ambiguously gay co-worker (Michael Arden). There are fiancés around from time to time, but I found it difficult to care about any of these bland pretty boys. (Neither does the movie; the boys are friends, but the movie doesn't show how their friendship is affected after the story's outcome.) Candice Bergen plays the ritzy wedding planner, and, just in case we found it difficult to follow the story, she narrates for us.
Director Gary Winick has a warm place in my heart for creating the low-budget digital filmmaking production company InDigEnt and making some good films there, but he's not much of a director himself; his other credits include the equally lazy, gutless films Tadpole (2002) and 13 Going on 30 (2004). In Bride Wars, he continually panders to the audience, explaining everything through dialogue and throwing in not one, not two, but three pop music montages to advance the plot. Montages can be useful in more skilled hands, but the ones used here annoy me because 1) they're not funny, and 2) they're designed mainly to pad the movie and sell soundtrack CDs. I guess I shouldn't even mention that films like this send womankind hurtling backwards at least 40 years with lines like "Your wedding day is the first day of your life. You were dead before now."


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OSHAWA -- It will be a special Mother's Day on Sunday for an Oshawa woman as she celebrates it with her birth mother for the first time.
Cindy Elliott, a lifelong Oshawa resident, was born in 1959 at the Oshawa hospital when her mother was just 17 years old.
At the time, Myrna Pacione had left New Brunswick and followed her GM worker older brothers to Ontario so she too could find work.
"This happened and I just didn't have any support from my boyfriend at the time," she said, adding that most of her family was back east and her brothers were all single. "I just couldn't make it on my own and I knew that."
Staff at the Oshawa hospital advised her to make a clean break after giving birth to her daughter, and she did not see the baby before giving her up.
"It isn't the easy way out, let me tell you, but I felt at peace, I felt there was a special family waiting for her."
Indeed, Ms. Elliott grew up with an older brother, also adopted, and said she couldn't have asked for a better childhood. Ms. Elliott describes her adoptive parents as wonderful people and said the family would spend summers at a cottage in Coboconk. Both children knew from a young age that they were adopted.
"They said we were special, we were chosen," said Ms. Elliott, who now has an adult daughter of her own.
Meanwhile, Ms. Pacione met her future husband in Toronto and the two went on to have two children before the family moved back to New Brunswick. From the start, she told her husband about the daughter she had given up but she didn't tell her children until they were teenagers.
"She was on my prayer list every day and in my heart every day but I never thought I could find her," said Ms. Pacione.
It was Ms. Pacione's son and Ms. Elliott's half-brother Cory Pacione who began the search for her.
Ms. Elliott didn't begin her search for her birth mother until last year.
"I always felt I wouldn't look for my birth mother until my parents passed away," she said, adding that her mother left her adoption papers but she misplaced them for several years.
When she finally initiated the search, she got a match within weeks and was able to contact her half-brother, Mr. Pacione. In May 2012, Mr. Pacione flew to Toronto to meet Ms. Elliott before telling their mother that her firstborn daughter had been found.
The two siblings hit it off right away and Mr. Pacione told his mother that he had found his sister.
"I was just in shock, I just couldn't believe it, it was a miracle," said Ms. Pacione.
Ms. Elliott's first communication to her mother was a letter, and the two met in person last June when Ms. Pacione visited Ontario.
"I looked at her and I just started crying, very emotional, I said 'you're beautiful'," said Ms. Pacione.
Meanwhile, Ms. Elliott was hoping to learn more about her birth family.
"When I met my mother in June, I said all I ever wanted to know is our medical history. She said, 'Cindy, we have breast cancer'." Ms. Elliott had a mammogram in July of that year that was all clear. In August, she went to New Brunswick to meet her large extended family, which includes 109 cousins, and during that time she discovered a lump.
Despite the mammogram results that said she was fine, Ms. Elliott immediately sought medical attention, knowing her family history. She was ultimately diagnosed with breast cancer.
Ms. Elliott recently completed her chemotherapy and said all through the process she's had her birth mother's support.
In fact, she has dozens of cards that seemed to arrive almost every other day. Some are touching, others are funny, but they're all from her birth mother letting Ms. Elliott know she's thinking of her.
For her part, Ms. Elliott proudly displays the cards in her home as well as a family tree hung with photos of her new relatives.
She says having her birth mother in her life is like finding a really good friend and the two just click.
"She shops, I'm a shopoholic, she has the same sense of humour, it's amazing how much we are alike," she said.
Ms. Pacione will join her daughter in Ontario for Mother's Day and Ms. Elliott has been busy planning ways to celebrate the day.
"We're both very excited to be spending Mother's Day together," said Ms. Pacione.
For both women, finding each other has brought a sense of closure.
"I'm just very happy, I just feel like I can die in peace now and everything's altogether, I'm very happy we found her," Ms. Pacione said.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg Introduces his Executive Budget for City Fiscal Year 2012
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With his hands tied regarding HASA case worker cuts, Bloomberg in his budget goes after other HIV services in a "rob Peter to pay Paul" strategy. Not only does the budget once again fail to restore recurring cuts in HIV services, these reductions go much deeper than ever before. The reductions primarily are aimed at case managers in supportive housing programs and HIV nutrition services, which are provided solely through The Momentum Project. The nutrition funds for VillageCare's Momentum would be completely eliminated by the Bloomberg budget – effectively bringing an end to this vital service after 25 years. Supportive housing programs face additional cuts of $5.4 million. The Mayor also targeted anti-stigma programs for elimination as well as a GMHC program to help HASA clients with financial management, which faces substantial reductions. To make it even more challenging, the recently passed FY 2011-12 State budget significantly cut the State's contribution to supportive housing programs for single adults. The State match has been reduced from 50 percent to 29 percent for these programs, making the City's cuts exacerbated by State policies. For The Momentum Project, which has seen its other sources of funding evaporate over the years, funding from the City of New York is the only thing left that keeps this program open. Should City funding be dramatically curtailed or even eliminated, The Momentum Project, which just celebrated its 25th year of service, may not survive much into its 26th year. More than 2,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS rely on Momentum for congregate meals and pantry bags at four sites throughout the City. In addition, HASA clients are now faced with an entirely new change in City policy that is dramatically impacting the ability to find housing. A few months ago, the HIV community began to learn, without any public notice from the City's Human Resources Administration (HRA), or from HASA, that NYC would no longer pay security deposits to landlords but instead would give them vouchers. To what extent landlords are willing to accept these vouchers in lieu of security deposits is unclear, but certainly some may seriously hesitate before accepting any new HASA clients. In addition, the City decided to only give half a month's rent, not a full month's rent, as is the normal practice, to brokers who find apartments. This essentially amounts to a 50 percent reduction in brokers' fees. The new practice to reduce by half the normal brokers' fee was listed in the budget as a savings of $4.8 million. These combined practices pose a serious barrier to finding housing for many persons living with HIV/AIDS. HIV advocates will confront the City administration on this, questioning whether this policy change will truly provide a savings if, in fact, individuals end up staying longer in SROs, which charge the City much higher rates than a normal apartment would cost. The budget also lists a reduction of $1.257 million for rental assistance at HASA. No further details on what exactly this cut means, how it would be enacted and its impact on clients was available at this time. Advocates and providers are bracing for very traumatic changes in City policy towards HASA clients. This Bloomberg proposed budget seeks a significant curtailment of HIV funding, with some advocates contending that it exceeds cuts to AIDS services that had been sought during the Giuliani administration. Other Cuts of Note Other areas of the proposed budget that VillageCare has noticed as also potentially troubling include: Reductions in certain types of cash assistance to some public assistance beneficiaries. Reductions in payments to providers who help public assistance beneficiaries find employment. Reductions in protective service contracts. Finger printing of residents at inpatient substance abuse programs. Elimination of 119-to-200 HRA positions. Requiring families in emergency shelters to pay more for staying in shelters. Reductions in broker fees for Department of Homeless Services recipients. A 30 percent reduction in case management contracts at Department for the Aging Senior Centers to Expand At the same time, not everything is being subject to cuts. The Bloomberg administration said that it would open ten new senior centers, each serving approximately 250-300 people. In addition, one of the centers will officially serve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered seniors, a first for the City. Your Help is Needed! As is the usual budget cycle, the Mayor's Executive Budget will have to be negotiated with the City Council. The City Council will begin budget hearings in a few weeks. Providers and clients will be urgently needed to speak at these hearings and let the City Council and the Mayor know how important these services are for persons living with HIV. The City fiscal year begins on July 1.
Friday, May 6, 2011 – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced his Executive Budget for the City fiscal year that starts on July 1, 2011, and goes through June 30, 2012 (CFY 2012). The proposed budget of $65.7 billion includes $1.2 billion in cuts, and that is on top of a series of reductions that have already been phased in over time that in total reach $5.4 billion for FY 2012. What stands out in this budget is his proposal to layoff more than 4,200 teachers and eliminate another 1,120 through attrition – a substantial number that will surely bring out the teachers union and education advocates in force to oppose these cuts. More than half of approximately 10,000 in proposed City worker reductions are coming from the Department of Education. If there was a theme laid out by the Mayor this year, it was the message that NYC's fiscal woes can be blamed directly on Albany and Washington's declining fiscal commitment, a problem he says has accelerated in past few years. He made it a point to highlight State cuts in education to the City, arguing that teacher layoffs should be blamed on outside parties. "The budget details the expanding gap between strong City support for services and declining State and Federal support for services, which has forced City taxpayers to cover the increasing costs of services. Further, much of the increase in cost for services is dictated by State and Federal mandates," Mayor Bloomberg said in his press release on the 2012 budget. State funding alone to the City was cut by $1.8 billion according to City Hall. The message from the Mayor – blame them, not me, for proposed cuts in services. HASA City Workers Spared at Expense of Major Cuts to Many HIV Programs Last year, the Mayor sought to cut one-third of the case managers at HASA (HIV/AIDS Services Administration), which most advocates described at the time as a violation of both Local Law 49 and a standing federal court order (Henrietta vs. Bloomberg). In anticipation that the Mayor might attempt this again, Housing Works went to federal court and was successful in securing strong language from the judge that warned the City not attempt to cut HASA staff this year. As a result, this year's budget does not include a proposal to cut HASA case workers.
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As a means of promoting diversity and developing talent, Scholarships.com has created a new set of scholarships for high school students and undergraduate students. The "Fund Your Future" area of study scholarship consists of thirteen $1,000 awards to be granted to students who pursue a postsecondary education in one of thirteen designated fields and 185 related majors. Included is the Scholarships.com Culinary Arts Scholarship, an award for students who plan to or are already majoring in the culinary arts.The way to someone's heart may be through their stomach, but that's not the reason so many students pursue a culinary arts degree. Whether you dream of opening your own restaurant or joining the future cast of the Food Network, culinary arts classes can help you accomplish your goals. If you have the drive, Scholarships.com will help you buy the gas. By applying for the Scholarships.com Culinary Arts Scholarship, you may find yourself $1,000 closer to becoming a chef.If you're interested in applying for this essay scholarship, respond to the following question in 250 to 350 words (entries that fall outside of this word range will be disqualified):"What has influenced your decision to pursue a career in the culinary arts?"
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Young adults often join the army hoping that their contributions will serve the nation's good and aid them in affording a quality education. Army.com admits that, "Ninety percent of servicemembers enter the armed forces for the educational benefits." Unfortunately, an increasing number of veterans are finding their promised aid insufficient in paying for tuition and other costs.
In an interview with MTV, veteran Evan Aanerud expressed his surprise upon finding that, even with financial assistance, he would have to work full time to cover college expenses. When Evan returned from Iraq and enrolled in the California Polytechnic State University, he received only $430 each month. "That's about the cost of one-quarter of the books, and that's about all that I got," he said.
Even servicemen who receive the maximum $1,100 per month as determined by the GI Bill—a law made to cover each veteran's college expenses---often find the assistance lacking. With College Board estimating the four-year cost of a public, four-year, in-state university at $54,356 and the private one at $129,228, the maximum $39,636 veteran budget just doesn't cut it.
But there is hope. If a revised version of the current Montgomery GI Bill is passed, veteran students may soon receive a federal student aid boost. According to the proposal, the new GI Bill would pay the full cost of in-state tuition (up to the cost of the most expensive in-state public university) in addition to a housing and book stipend. With bipartisan support, the bill has a chance at passage if opposing congressmen can be convinced that costs are manageable. Having put their lives on the line to serve the nation, many veterans feel that it's the least they deserve.
May 8, 2008
As expected, President Bush signed into law the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008. After receiving bipartisan support from the House and the Senate, the bill aimed at ensuring student loan availability was approved by the president.
Worried that the departure of student lenders from the FFEL Program could make student loans more difficult to obtain, legislators hurried to secure a backup plan. According to House Representative George Miller, "The bill carries no new cost for taxpayers."
The Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008 indicates that:
o The limit on federal loans will soon increase. Students will be able to borrow $2,000 more to cover tuition and other costs.
o Parents will have more time to save for PLUS Loans. Rather than having to pay as soon as money is disbursed, they will have until six months after the child graduates before initial payments are due.
o Families slightly behind on their mortgages or medical bills may still be eligible for PLUS Loans.
o The Secretary of Education has the authority to advance federal funds to student lenders and guaranty agencies acting as lenders of last resort if the lenders run out of capital.
o Shall a lender of last resort plan be put into practice, guaranty agencies acting as lenders will have to abide by rules and restrictions similar to those governing FFEL lenders.
o Congress may call on the Federal Financing Bank to consider injecting money into the student loan market at no cost to the taxpayers.
May 7, 2008
Complicated student loan legal jargon is an unfortunate component of the borrowing process. Two words all students should be familiar with before borrowing are "subsidized" and "unsubsidized". Let's break these down:
Subsidized Loans Students who borrow subsidized loans through the Federal Direct or the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs will receive government-backed college money. Because the government agrees to compensate FFEL lenders for loan defaults, student lenders agree to offer low-interest loans. They do not charge students for the interest that accumulates during the college years and post-graduation six-month grace period as the government takes care of these costs. Unfortunately, not all students are eligible for federal subsidized loans because finances are among the eligibility criteria. Students whose FAFSA results suggest financial need and those whose parents applied for but were denied a PLUS Loan may take out subsidized loans.
Unsubsidized Loans While federally unsubsidized loans boast fewer benefits than subsidized ones, their interest rates still tend to be lower than those offered by private lenders. Students are responsible for all interest that accrues during their years in school, deferment, and grace periods. As long as students don't exceed their annual loan borrowing limits, they may take out both subsidized and unsubsidized loans. Because unsubsidized loans are not based on financial need, students who are not deemed needy by the government may still take out these loans. The borrowing limit on these loans will vary based on year in school and dependency status, but the sum may not exceed the estimated cost of attendance for each school minus other financial aid a student receives. Students may borrow both subsidized and unsubsidized loans during the same period as long as the limits for each are not surpassed.
May 6, 2008
The rising cost of college rates has been a headache for families across the nation. However, college tuition is not the only expense expected to increase. Due in part to the high costs of gas, the price of food transportation—and therefore food—has been on the rise. Like consumers, campuses have to deal with the effects that food costs have had on meal plans.
If you're one of the many dorm-residing students subscribing to an on-campus cafeteria plan, especially one with a buffet-style layout, you can imagine how quickly prices could escalate. Numerous students make it a habit to fill their trays with one of everything…just in case. The quantity of wasted, expensive food has college representatives worried that a hike in cafeteria prices is inevitable.
Colleges are doing what they can to minimize expected charges, but pricing continues to be a problem. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, some schools have taken to skimping on the amount of ingredients used in each dish while others have managed to save by eliminated cafeteria trays. In an interview with Mr. Simon of Western Washington University, it was reported that, "Western Washington dining halls observed a 34-percent reduction in waste during one week last month when the institution went trayless."
For students who aren't fond of dorm food as is, the idea of having to save money to afford it is extremely frustrating. Unfortunately, many students see few alternatives. Unless they can stuff all groceries into a portable, shared fridge, it's just one more pain to deal with.
May 5, 2008
As a means of promoting diversity and developing talent, Scholarships.com has created a new set of scholarships for high school and undergraduate students. The "Fund Your Future" area of study scholarship consists of thirteen $1,000 awards to be granted to students who pursue a postsecondary education in one of thirteen designated fields and 185 related majors. Included is the Scholarships.com Business Scholarship, an award for students who plan to or are already majoring in business and related studies.
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May 2, 2008
After passing the Senate and the House in varying formats, a compromise was reached on legislation that would help lenders stay afloat in a troublesome student loan market. The Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008 was sent to the President yesterday, and rapid approval is expected.
If signed into law, the bill would give the Secretary of Education the right to buy loans from struggling lenders, thus providing them the capital needed to offer new student loans. Worried that lenders may continue to depart from the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program—as fifty have already done—legislators have been scurrying to provide financial assistance before the school year begins. Though the law would only serve as a backup plan, the hope is that knowledge of a federal cushion would make both lenders and students more willing to engage in business.
To decrease student dependence on private lenders, ones generally offering loans options that are more expensive and less flexible than those offered by FFEL lenders, the maximum sum a student could borrow from the government was also increased. According to The Christian Science Monitor, the caps on unsubsidized loans available to students of any income level would increase by $2,000 for each school year. Dependent students would now be able to borrow up to $31,000 for their undergraduate education.
May 1, 2008
When doors to the new University of Central Florida College of Medicine open in 2009, they will open with a bang. In the hope of attracting the best and the brightest, medical practitioners and college representatives from the University of Central Florida have raised enough money to reimburse the first class for all four years of medical school. They will cover not only the tuition but also the fees and living expenses. With the Association of American Medical Colleges estimating the average debt of medical school graduates to be at about $139,000, the deal is sweet enough to cause a toothache.
"I think setting the bar high for the quality of the first class will set the stage for the caliber of every class that follows," said Tavistock Group director and donor Rasesh Thakkar. Fundraisers have been in place since 2007 to make that happen. After tapping all possible resources, the school is expecting to admit a class of about 120 students which, based on a four-year plan, will receive a grant worth approximately $160,000.
Students interested in attending the school may begin applying in June of 2008. If accepted, they will automatically receive the award---no lengthy essay competitions, no laborious commitments, just money. "UCF stands for opportunity," states the university website. When studies and internships leave little time for outside work, a full tuition scholarship is the epitome of such opportunity.
April 30, 2008
After an appeal by the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), an international grassroots network of students concerned about the impact drug abuse has had on communities, the court has once again rejected the claim that withholding federal student aid from drug offenders is unconstitutional.
According to the 1998 Higher Education Act, students who have been convicted for having, for the first time, used drugs are to be denied federal college funding, including free aid in the form of Pell Grants, from the government for one year. The length increases to two years for a second conviction and becomes permanent after the third. For those convicted of selling drugs, the punishment is a two-year federal aid loss or, for two offenses, the permanent withholding of federal aid.
The SSDPF has complained that the double jeopardy law, one which prevents an individual from being tried twice for the same offense, makes such procedures illegal. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Judge Kornmann disagreed with the claim stating that the law served legitimate federal interests by minimizing college drug use and preventing taxpayers from having to fund the education of drug users or sellers.
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Satire: Ho, Ho, Ho! 9/11 Was An Inside Job!
Posted By Adan On December 25, 2012 @ 10:43 am In Old Infowars Posts Style,September 11,Tile | Comments Disabled
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December 25, 2012
Seasons greeting from your old friend Santa! My, my, Christmas is [today], and everyone here at the North Pole can't wait to deliver presents to all you nice boys and girls this year. Yes, Jolly ol' St. Nicholas hopes you're all being as good as can be!
But today, Santa would like to tell you all about something very naughty, something very, very naughty indeed. Dear children, have you not heard? Why, 9/11 was an inside job! Oh, ho, ho, my, yes it was!
I mean, look at the facts, boys and girls! We already know the Bush administration was itching to go to war in Iraq, now, don't we? Yes, indeed we do, my darling ones! The Downing Street memo proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt. Then you look at the Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, the one headlined "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Ignored! Why, children, they threw that briefing aside like used wrapping paper on Christmas morning, didn't they?
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Syracuse, NY -- When business interests led his family to Texas, Syracuse native Frank Zaccanelli said care packages from Central New York always included a package of Hofmann hot dogs. "They were cooked five minutes after they came in the door," he said.
The former minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks has put together an all-star team of investors to bring his favorite brand to national stage.
The lineup includes Syracuse University Basketball Coach Jim Boeheim, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach and Auburn native Phil Romano, the creator of national chains such as Fuddruckers and Romano's Macaroni Grill. Former Syracuse police chief and two-time All-American basketball player Dennis DuVal will serve as the company's Northeast regional president of operations.
The acquisition of the 133-year-old Hofmann company by the Zaccanelli Food Group was announced Monday at the Shenendoah Golf Club at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona. Oneida Nation Enterprises is lead investor in the project. It's chief executive officer, Ray Halbritter, will serve on the Hofmann board of directors.
"The world needs a great hot dog," said Zaccanelli, who plans to roll out Hofmann's products on Memorial Day in to 67 Albertsons grocery stores in Texas.
A chain of quick-service restaurants featuring "Hofmann's World's Greatest Hot Dogs" will follow soon after, with the first few opening in Dallas followed by 40 to 50 more across the country, Zaccanelli said.
Zaccanelli's team of investors are fans of the brand.
When the Travel Channel's "Man vs. Food" visited Syracuse in 2010, Boeheim made a cameo appearance, sharing a "double-double" – a Hofmann coney and frank, together in one bun – with host Adam Richman at Heid's restaurant in Liverpool. The iconic restaurant has helped make Hofmann's dogs a local favorite.
"Better than ever," Boeheim said as he bit in.
As Turning Stone staff grilled coneys and franks at Monday's lunchtime announcement, Halbritter said his favorite Hofmann product is their mustard. "That's my mustard," he said. "It speaks for itself – it eats for itself."
Halbritter said the nation's involvement was driven by a desire to diversify as well as reinvest in Central New York.
"We are invested in the long-term success of the region," Halbritter said. "There is no one better than the people who live here to come together and make these opportunities happen."
Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who was on hand for the announcement, said the loyalty extends beyond the brand. "It says a lot about our community, about the loyalty that we get from people," Mahoney said of the investment from the Texas transplants, Zaccanelli and Romano.
Zaccanelli said he didn't have to school fellow Central New York native Romano on the taste of Hofmann products.
To entice Staubach, Zaccanelli sent the former NFL great his own care package. "He (Staubach) said, 'This is the best hot dog I've ever eaten,'" Zaccanelli said.
More celebrity and sports endorsements will be announced as the project moves forward, he said. "Sports and hot dogs, there's a tradition there," Zaccanelli said.
His other investors – Boeheim, DuVal and Halbritter — were among the names he wished for when first considering the acquisition. "Everyone knew this was an iconic company," he said. "This great local ownership can really do something here."
Founded in 1879 as a full-service packing plant and butcher shop, Hofmann's Sausage Co. has grown to become a household name in Central New York and beyond for its German franks and coneys.
During the summer, millions of pounds of the signature sausage roll off the assembly line of its plant near Carrier Circle in DeWitt.
The late Walter Flook coined the term "Ball Park Frank" in the 1930s, when Hoffman had its plant on Hiawatha Boulevard in Syracuse.
Former general manager Rusty Flook, the fifth generation of the Hofmann family to work in the business, said he will remain active in the company and feels comfortable with the transition.
"This group of people will continue that legacy for many years," said Flook, who will serve as vice-chairman of the new board.
Flook said the brand's longevity is one of many of Hofmann's successes. "We're still here," he said. "I think my great-great-great grandfather would be very proud of this day."
Zaccanelli said preserving the family's legacy and its ties to Central New York are part of his goal. "I am very proud of this area," he said. "I want to help in any way I can, to enhance the economic viability of what is going on here."
The new chapter for Hofmann's will start with "advertising, promotion and branding," Zaccanelli said.
The Syracuse-area plant, which employs about 30 workers, will serve as Northeast regional headquarters and the company's founding city. Zaccanelli said the company will reach out to markets in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia, and expects to more than double the region's business within 12 to 18 months.
"We have no existing footprint in those three national major cities," Zaccanelli said.
But the projected growth is even bigger for the national stage. Zaccanelli said the acquisition was a "multi-million-dollar deal" that he hopes to build into a "couple hundred-million" dollar company in short order. He declined to say exactly how much the investment group paid for the Hofmann operation.
The group's first foray into grocery store chains will be a big step. The Albertsons grocery chain includes 450 stores in nine states throughout the Northwest and West Coast. By comparison, Tops Friendly Markets, based in Buffalo, operates 132 stores.
Using the expertise Romano cultivated with Fuddruckers and other national chains, the Hofmann's restaurants will follow, starting in Dallas and expanding across the country, including Central New York, Zaccanelli said.
Business will continue as usual at existing Hofmann Hot Haus restaurants in Mattydale, Fairmount and East Syracuse.
"For Central New York customers, the only thing that will change is that no matter where they go, they'll be able to enjoy the 'World's Greatest Hot Dog' and be proud it all started in their home area," Zaccanelli said.
Staff writers Tim Knauss and Bob Niedt contributed to this report.


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It has been two years since my last cruise with Celebrity which was on this ship. How things have changed.
The food in the main dining room: The presentation has lost its wow factor. Menu very boring. Previously food has tasted fresh and now I have the feeling that most of it is cook/chill and just reheated on board - especially the vegetables. Where have the flowers gone? Where is the string quartet? (This is now a duo!!). The waiters also wore a different uniform for the evening.
The food in the Tuscan Grille was also disappointing - who ever heard of brown minestrone soup? Not worth the extra fee. The waitress wore a very dirty uniform.
How we missed being mobbed by the bar staff. The bar staff very quickly know who is on a drinks package. It could take 20 minutes to get a drink. We even waited 20 minutes for the waiter to ask what we ordered, and then we waited another 20 minutes for the drink to arrive. We did notice that those who paid for their drinks More
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The Southwest Credit Card worked well for me. Charged $2k as soon as it arrived. I got 40K points, booked two free one way tickets to Denver and two free one way tickets from Salt Lake City back to Ohio for a total of $20.00 in fees. All with zero hassle and little effort. All on line. What's great about this is both my brothers did the same thing and we are headed on a family vacation to the Black Hills and Yellowstone. No blackout dates or seat restrictions. Great deal!
I always check who is servicing the cards. I still use them, but with reluctance; I thoroughly examine anything processed by FIA Card Services. They make many mistakes and are too quick to post charges improperly. In fairness they made corrections, in spite of the great stress of contacting/ reaching the staff responsible- for resolving complaints....
I hadn't previously noticed that with the Fidelity cards. I'll be sure to check my statements more closely in the future. I usually just glance at them briefly. I know what you mean about the stress/annoyance of getting things corrected on bills; I've been putting that off on one of mine for about a week now.


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