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COLUMBIA CITY — Andrea White, of Columbia City, has literally been around the world.
She wants to go back to the other side of the planet, but first, she is going to live in a cardboard box.
In a project called "Hope for the Philippines," White and a few friends will stay in a cardboard box shelter they will set up on the lawn of Columbia City's City Hall for 24 hours.
The purpose of the project is to demonstrate the conditions some people are living in at a squatter village in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
"There are about 50,000 people just in Manila that live in squatter villages like this," said White. "I thought, 'Why not live like them for 24 hours, try to raise some funds to go on the trip, as well as bring awareness to their situation?' Not that we don't know it in America, but it's really easy to forget when we get busy with our lives that people live like this daily, not just for 24 hours."
White intends to go to such a village in Manila this May for two weeks with Kids International Ministries (KIM).
"There I will do mission work and bring some hope to the people in this squatter village where this ministry site is," said
She will minister to Filipino children and adults living in poverty, help in the children's home there and feed those without food.
Before she goes, White will live for a day like the people she is going to serve in the Philippines.
"Hope for the Philippines" will last from 7 a.m. Saturday, April 27 to 7 a.m. Sunday, April 28.
White said while she is spending her time in front of City Hall, she'll be happy to talk to anyone that wants to know more about the ministry she is working with, the people she will be helping and where she will be in the Philippines.
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iPad mini already installed in a car dashboard, could be the perfect in-car entertainment device
The iPad mini was only available to buy yesterday but it has already found its way into a car dashboard. The guys from Soundwaves in Tampa, Florida were really on the ball with this one by pre-fabricating the necessary dashboard mods all ready for the iPad mini's launch.
Once they got their hands on an iPad mini yesterday morning, it was all systems go. To make this project even more interesting, the guy's filmed the install and testing for your viewing pleasure. The iPad mini is fully removable too so no need to worry about leaving it behind when you leave your car.
The prospect of having an iPad mini as your in car entertainment system is certainly one that whets my appetite. It would probably be better to wait for the iPad mini with LTE to enable the GPS features as well as the possibility to access streaming services as well all as everything else an iPad mini can do. Looking at this set up, using an iPad mini as an in-car entertainment system seems like the perfect solution.
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Honestly, on its own, it wouldn't be. Without the control add on it requires you to look tahrd iPad mini in order to tap the right buttons. Distracting and not so safe. With an add on or other control with bigger knobs (ha), you can feel for the control without having to take your eyes off the road.
I would be more a fan of just iOS Integration
unlike what others are saying to your comment, jib21, i have to agree. I currently have a self-made mount to have my iPad 3 in my car, and while it is great to have a 9.7" screen for GPS and music and such, i cannot really do any real navigation with it unless I am at a full stop. This all still doesnt stop me from having my iPad 3 set up in this manner, but i just have to limit my interactions with it while on the drive.
I really like it. I agree that the targets should be bigger, but that's on the regular-sized iPad, as well.
When I'm playing music, the buttons to play, skip, etc are way too frickin' small. I can mis-tap them, even when stationary. It can be a challenge while driving.
This may be a pretty good look at the future, though. I doubt many in-dash systems are much better than this set-up.
Toss in (better) Siri, and we all out of excuses. :-)
Now that's how a professional does an iPad mini launch. By being ready for product launch with products certified to work for it. If everyone did that, everyone would be selling Apple products. The simple fact is that, people do by accessories for Apple products and they do buy apps. There is an entire unbroken large quantity resource of apps, most of which are reasonably priced. Someone with a 32 gig Apple device has a ton of storage to use, and the apps just work. Anything you don't like, you can uninstall and go looking and find something you do like. It may be free or a few bucks but that's it. and it's always there. So really, anyone complaining about it isn't one of the millions of app and device makers who are going to get rich from an iPad mini or iPhone 5 device. Even if less people bought them than someone else, you know SOMEONE bought them and is using them and that's a built in audience for you to sell something to. Case in point? Right here, our friends at the iMore store. I've bough very reasonably priced phone cases from them and they and their platform partners are great to do business with. And they have solid customer support too. More companies selling Apple products is good for everyone. The company. The employees. The stock holders. The consumers.
One other thing. I've had the Kindle Fire HD and I have to tell you that as usual, despite the fact that it has this and that and does this and that, it's performance is sluggish and slow like my old HTC EVO 4G had become when it upgraded to Gingerbread. It should be moving faster and more smoothly, but it's not. The iPad Mini meets this one. As for the Nexus 7, I dunno. Those don't have an SD slot but with 32GB, you don't miss not having one. But where can you go try out a Nexus 7? You can't. But you can go to an Apple Store and see the iPad mini. Feel it. SEE it work. And then if you have the money to do it, how can you not buy it. That's how they get you. It's difficult for me to consider doing it at the price they're asking, considering that my iPad 2 runs like a champ and sits in a nice leather case. It definitely won't be the Kindle Fire HD.
Oh yeah cause fumbling around with finding tapes or CDs for the previous 3 decades was not distracting at all.... Having Siri imput for turn my turn audio so you don't have to really look is so distracting. And hitting a button on a screen instead of a tiny number on a regular deck is so distracting. If anything this is 10 times easier to use then my current pioneer Avic double din touch screen
Shouldn't be messing with those things either. It's a 2 ton automobile. Set your gps before you leave, stop to eat like a civilized person, load your cd changer before you go. If you don't have a cd changer then just listen to the date I say radio? Yor responsible for more on the road than just yourself.
I agree, but you are missing one thing. The idiot factor.
This device can also play movies and videos. In my state it is illegal to have DVD players mounted in the front seat....not sure what the law is in the other states. How many idiots do you think are going to try and watch a movie and drive at the same time? That number may surprise you.
That, too, comes down to an issue of personal responsibility.
People who can have an iPad installed in their dashboards can have an iPad in their laps. So the answer isn't to force a limitation on them, for every possible gadget and scenario, but to give people the knowledge and tools to do what is right. Those whose choices lead to damage or tragedy are the ones whose rights and liberties should be in-jeopardy because they'd have made such mistakes with or without the safeguards and extreme self limitation that you suggest.
Or out another way, plenty of people drink and drive but we don't stop people from doing either until they screw up as a result of doing both. That's not to say that everyone should drink and drive. It suggests that neither extreme is the answer.
It seems easy enough to remove, but it IS an extra step when exiting the vehicle.
It shouldn't be too hard for them to make the enclosure lockable though.
I think its stupid especially since it doesnt have an FM tuner. And Facebook, FaceTime, and IMessage in your car? Just another accident waiting to happen. Cant even use the Maps because you need data. Useful if you tether or wait for the LTE. How did he get a fully digital connection? As far as I know there are no lightning adapters for that. Headphone jack only outputs analog. I think its a "cool idea" but you are limited to what you can do with it.
The iPad is most likely connected via Bluetooth. The Audisson (sp?) system would be driving everything else, ie: FM, CD, Telephone.
We have a Ford with Sync, and the steering wheel/console controls pass through Play/Pause and FF/RW commands through the Bluetooth link. I bet it isn't any different in this case.
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I still love the game because of the story aspect and also because it's star wars. But what made me quit the game was:
- All my guildies left so i pretty much played alone for a while.
- The static world, it doesn't feel alive like for instance WoW or GW2.
- The loading screens were driving me insane, i know it's alot better now but still not good enough.
- The time bioware took to release new content/improvements.
Overall i think it's a good game and i'll be back to it once it goes F2P, but i still can't help to think that it could have been so much more if it was in the right hands. :\
Hopefully if Bioware decides to make a Mass Effect MMO they do it right.
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I loved the class quest and had fun till level cap and class quest was finished ,then the horrible group based gear grinding killed game for me.
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While I still enjoy SWTOR and def feel it is not nearly as poor a game as many believe I do see a lot of the OP points other then the story, SWTOR has the best story telling of any MMO to come out hands down(that I have played). Of course that stops once you hit max level and that is where most people stopped playing the game. Lack of world events with any structure and lack of updates are big for me. I completely agree the graphics espcially on stuff like gear lack depth and variety. I also do not like the removable mod system to the gear I think that is poor design along with the entire crafting system. I do enjoy pvp in warzones a lot though I agree if you spend any length of time in them the constant stuns begin to devour your will to play.
Thats about it for me.
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"Pablo Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth."
It was nothing like the original three movies.
Thats it.
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There are many, many details to cite. If you recently went to Divinity's Reach in GW2 you SEE how an alife, animated GOOD city is. With NPC which walk and chat, with details to see! THAT is how a living city looks like! Not these dead zombie apocalypse world like Coruscant! Bioware devs ALWAYS said what was not important. Swimming wasn't important, funny sidequests weren't important, non-human races weren't important... but guess what: it is such small things which ARE important!
But above all: ARROGANCE. Sheer and bleak arrogance.
I hated it down to my guts and bones how they always brushed of every critique with their vision and how they knew ALL BETTER! Well better my ass!
I wrote what to make better here until my fingers bled! Read my f***** old posts!
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Originally posted by sleepr27
Welcome to the club. The club for those who love SW but think SWTOR was a downright cruddy game.
You were the last holdout, if all your guildies quit before you :-)
It won't be very enjoyable with all the freemium gimps scheduled to take place though, just sayin. You knew the game before when you could use the GTN, the mailbox, shout stuff in general, have adequate inventory/bank. Freemium downgrades you. Flashpoints are going to be limited in the new freemium game, along with PVP WZ's. So if you liked WZ's, you will only be able to do a small number per week. It was hinted at just a few per week via interviews with SWTOR staff.
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Took too long to release new content, friends leaving and moving from planet to planet was really badly done.
"The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."
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To be honest, there were multiple causes that I stopped playing.
1. No PVP. Open PVP was dead. Ilium was dead. Only 4 8vs8 warzones. You could be warned, banned for doing PVP even on PVP servers. When one guild on pvp server invided some planet and took control over it they got warned for doing so. WTF ?
2. Grind, grind, grind - lvl 1-50 is just full of kill 20-40 monsters (with multiple stages sometimes, kill 40 then 20 and then 10) AND NOTHING MORE. Then you are faceroll on lvl 50 and you must grind more. And it's always like this. Grind on easy mode set so hard stuff can become easy. Nothing more. Pathethic.
3. No replayability, 100% linear. All that lines, dialogues and voice actors and they were unable to do interesting story. Not even ONCE. Seriously - GW2 have branching in main story while you can't pick dialogue lines !. Biofail. You have 2 factions. While personal story (one short quest every few levels) are unique (yet still broing) everything plays the same. Same quests, same order, same place, same time. Everything the same. Once you played once both republic and empire - you are doomed to repeat same stuff over and over.
4. Pathetic combat and class system. I was expecting some side switching or something. NO. You are Rep or Imp. That's it. Combat is old school stuff and have lot of flaws. And you can use only 1 single weapon whole time. Now compare it to GW2 where every class can use multiple weapons, having different combinations of that weapons to have multiple sets of skills just because of that. And you can switch dam weapons. IT'S COMMON SENSE. When your rifle is out of ammo, pick up a pistol. In TOR you have nothing.
5. Boring like hell after you hit 50.
6. But the worst part is that they have NO F****** IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING. They nerfed my class (Operative Agent) to the ground making stealth burst dps class some mele fighter running around with a small knife. They nerfed it to the point where other class (Assasin) could do exact same thing as Operative but BETTER. Totally stupid. Then they buffed one of the best mele classes (Warrior/Knight) even more and make it next FOTOM class.
7. Nothing fresh. When I was playing TOR there was old smell all around. It was like WoW or Rift but with different textures. Except dialogues. I stopped playing probably after 3 months.
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The game is too linear in where to go and when to go there. One would think it would be safe to visit all those planets no matter your level to at least visit the capital city.
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I'll keep this relatively short.
Two things:
1) Really hackneyed classic MMO endgame. Unfitting a Star Wars game, in my opinion. Bioware should have taken a good look at Star Wars and come up with at least *some* new gaming mechanics that would fit it; not try to fit Star Wars into classic MMO mechanics.
Also, bad implementation of said mechanics.
I would so like to see something closer to their original vision: A KOTOR 1, 2, 3... 9. More of a Bioware game.
2) Dead world. They've really botched that "living breathing Star Wars universe" feel. All the planets / cities feel like ghost towns. No sense of background, no proper NPC life... That's a big downer for me in an MMO. For a good way of doing this, see GW2's cities.
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Real Animal lovers are ONLY the vegetarians
1. no server chat channel
2. no cross faction communication at all
3. unbalanced classes
4. too many BoP items
5. crafting for the lols
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NGE, LOTRO, STO, KOTOR, Lego Star Wars > NGE 2 (SWTOR). SWG>ALL. Above hopefully subject to change.
The way they handled Server transfers mainly, looking at SWTOR as a game by itself
But overall, the fact that SWG was shut down. SWG and SWTOR would have made a great combination. I liked the crafting, housing, Beast Master, Space etc in SWG but SWTOR did not need to have that for me, if SWG was still going. I would have played both - probably SWG mostly and then SWTOR too. However as SWG is not going, it made SWTOR very shallow, and pretty much done with it now. If SWG was still active I probably would not have reached level 10 on one character in SWTOR by now, and probably subbed to it every month since Dec/Jan
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Joined: 1/06/05
Only reason I stopped playing is that I ran out of story and didn't feel like playing through another character as areas were becoming light on other players.
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Joined: 8/12/07
Too "Wowified". Everything, classes, quests, shear amount of specials, end game, character creator, everything. If I wanted to play WoW, I'd play WoW. The 1s who like WoW will still be there. Why developers insist on WoW copies, after so many have bit the dust, never ceases to amaze me.
You play in TOR's world, you don't "live" in it. As other have said, no housing, nothing to call your own, no making your mark on the world. Everything is as the other guy's with the same class.
Crafting reaked. There is simply nothing in TOR except combat.
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Joined: 4/04/07
All the reasons why this game failed for me is stated above. No reason to repeat it. There are things in the game that I do like, but the negative outweighs the positive.
In any case, I would have been happier if they would have just spent all that money on creating a CGI TOR movie and making KOTOR 3 than wasting it on this wannabe MMO disappointment.
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Joined: 2/08/05
Stand up for what you believe; Even if you stand alone.
Stale, dated design
Uninspired, horrible art direction
Poor character customization
Flash-game equivolent space content
Complete themepark thus zero freedom to really make the experience your own
Not everything, but a lot of weak writing, bland stories and just a general failure to capture the spirit of adventures in the Star Wars setting.
I'd equate the game to some of the average-to-poor episodes of The Clone Wars.
Everything was actually good in the game, except endgame.
I vividly remember nearly no complaints with the game, other than class balance woes and the fact they didnt have a high quality graphical settings...that is untill people started running hard modes/raids and playing on ilum. Thats when shit turned sour.
I remeber how boring the endgame pve was, how much of a pain it was to find a group since few did anything other than pvp (wich i found to be true in rift as well...for some reason people hate endgame pvp these days i guess rifts was good too unlike sw)...oh and since everyone was pvping and ilum was a laggy hot mess of zerg standoffs...everyone just pvp queued...which of course got boring fast.
Huttball was my favorite take on CTF to date however, really enjoyed that, the rest of the pvp maps sucked imo and you didnt get to choose.
Eitherway...from what everyone else here will say, know that it was a great game untill you got to endgame or started rerolling a bunch. Also note i hate themeparks for the most part, which is why i was surprised when i enjoyed the leveling and storyline.
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The terrible engine
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Joined: 2/06/04
The price of peace, is eternal vigilance.
I waas excited for this game. I bought the collectors, and a 6 month sub.
I was in denial, bought another 6 month sub while not playing much.
I am shocked this game isnt awesome. My favorite games of all time were from Bioware. MassEffect2, Knights of the Old Republic, and Dragon age Origins. I also loved Star Wars buying the blue ray 6 movie set.
The great aspect of the game is the story, incredible sound and Voice acting. Then its a sharp down hill from there.
The combat was not bad, but not great. character development was not complex or interesting to keep you coming back. While the storyline is good, you have to grind and grind to get to the next part of the story. So it becomes disjointed. Progression was very bland.
The BIGGEST most obvious thing with this game for me, is the complete lack of effort. There is no attention to detail. Classes from republic to empire are lazy mirrors. Funneled to the same story areas. The character creation was extremly weak and had me shocked. The graphics, animations, NPC movement, environment was poor. Its like they went quick instead of took pride in their work. One quest for example, I'm out to get a bad guy who had prisoners. Im walking around in a boxey looking room, and theres 4 slaves tied up to a bed. EACH Bed and EACH slave/prisoner, was the EXACT SAME BALD HEADED GUY. What? were they quad druplets or just lazy programming? They couldnt atleast make them look different?
I'm so dissapointed and felt that I had reasonable expectations.
Now Im giving GW2 a try. I was kinda mad at the GW2 crowd here on this site, because they seem to WANT to bash SWTOR. Well, it turns out they are right. The attention to detail, mentioned above, is through the roof. Everything looks hand placed and high quality. The underwater combat is the most amazing thing I have ever seen from ANY game doing underwater stuff.
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Joined: 3/06/04
"I'm your Huckleberry!"
combat sucked for me. Story line was good.
Loved UO, EQ, EQ2, Daoc, CoH, Vanguard, Lotro, SWTOR, WOW... looking forward to Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen!


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Dr. Davin Agustines:
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Following graduation from CMC, Dr. Agustines went to medical school at Western University of the Health Sciences where he earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. He then did residency training in psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, followed by advanced fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at UCLA.
Dr. Agustines has worked with the criminally insane at state mental hospitals, and currently works at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, teaching medical students and psychiatry residents the art and practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy. He was recently awarded UCLA medical student teacher of the year for 2013. The majority of his work today focuses on treatment of severely mentally ill patients, many of whom have significant medical, legal, and psychosocial stressors.
Dr. Aaron McMurtray:
Assistant Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Director, Dementia Clinic, Neurology Department, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Investigator, Neurology Department, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute.
Dr McMurtrays primary focus is providing patient care to the underserved populations of south Los Angeles. He also trains physicians in Neurology residency and fellowship programs, and conducts clinical research, including clinical trials, on a variety of neurological diseases.
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After graduating from CMC, Dr. Sather earned his MD degree from UC Davis, followed by postgraduate medical training at UCLA-Olive View and Cedars Sinai. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Sather supervises the hospital care of about 200,000 patients of HealthCare Partners Medical Group in the San Gabriel Valley area. About 30% of his time is providing direct patient care in the hospital or outpatient pulmonary clinic. The rest is administrative - managing employed and contracted physicians and working on ways to improve quality and value of health care for patients. He serves on the Bioethics Committee of Methodist Hospital of Southern California.


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An investigation is continuing this evening into a late Saturday afternoon collision that took the life of a 37-year-old Pender County man and a 12-year-old Duplin County girl.
The accident occurred around 5 p.m. on U.S. 421 south near State Road 1140, seven miles north of Harrells, when a 2000 Chervolet Tahoe, driven by 18-year-old Kathleen Regina Perez, 360 Pope Road, Rose Hill, crossed the center line and traveled into the path of an oncoming vehicle, driven by Adalberto Trejo Rodriguez, 37, of 108 South McCullen St., Burgaw.
Ms. Perez was traveling north bound on U.S. 421 and Rodriguez was traveling north on U.S. 421 in a 1999 Chevrolet truck.
Rodriguez was pronounced dead on the scene, said N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. Bryan Smith.
Perez and her passengers, all three minors, were transported to Sampson Regional Medical Center for treatment of their injuries. One of those, 12-year-old Angeles Nicolle Salazar of Rose Hill, died at the hospital just before midnight, and two others were transferred from Sampson Regional to UNC Hospitals. Condition reports on the two minors were not immediately available.
The cause of the collision is still under investigation.
This is the sixth fatal collision on Sampson highways in 2013. The lives of seven people have been claimed in those wrecks.


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March is always a tough time for me because this is when I was at my happiest, when Tyler was born on March 9th and my saddest, when Tyler left me on March 23rd.
This March 9th my husband (not Tyler's father) and I will be spending a week in London. We both need a vacation and I need to stay busy! I can not believe it has been almost 9 years already. I miss Tyler soo much. This time is particularly hard, it seems, because my sister is pregnant and a very close co-worker just found out she is pregnant. I find myself both happy and distant from them at the same time.
We have decided to put our adoption on hold for a little bit, but look forward to the day when we welcome home a little bundle of joy!
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Well said SJ. I had never thought about the competitive advantage one would have with a wealth of experience coupled with the younger mans strength and rejuvenation. I just thought of it giving them the ability to hulk smash more.
I am just curious as to how they (the Athletic commissions) determine what an acceptable level of testosterone for a certain age of men. Wouldn't levels be different from person to person? That depending on how you take care of your body through out your life change your testosterone level as you age? I just see it as a huge grey area. Do we even know how using TRT affects the body long term?


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Hilbert's History
Newcomers to Hilbert inevitably ask where our name originates. It's a good place to start because the answer combines both our history and our philosophy.
The college is named after Mother Colette Hilbert, who, in 1897, established the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, which became the college's founding congregation. In 1957, the community founded a teacher training college for its members; in 1969, having broadened its curriculum to include degrees outside of teacher training and expanded its enrollment to include both men and women, the institution officially became known as Hilbert College.
In 1992, Hilbert began to offer four-year degrees for the first time; today, it offers 16 four-year degree programs, including one of only a few Computer Security and Information Assurance programs in the entire country and the first undergraduate Rehabilitation Services Program in Western New York.
Hilbert's Mission
Hilbert College is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its Catholic Franciscan heritage and values. Students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed citizens committed to serving and strengthening their communities.
Regional Accreditation
Hilbert's degree programs are registered by the New York State Education Department and the college is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Telephone: (267) 284-5000.
Upcoming Events
- First Year Student Orientation
- Aug 14, 2015
- Summer Session A2 Ends
- Aug 21, 2015
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UFC middleweight champion has repeatedly and fervently discussed boxing Roy Jones Jr, but in a text to Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole, Jones says he is considering MMA.
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I'm stunned, but I just got a text from @RealRoyJonesJr and he said he is planning to talk to @danawhite about fighting MMA. Whoa.
Ross Miller @rossjmiller
@KevinI I'll only pay to watch @RealRoyJonesJr if he puts in bjj blue belt mat time; we've seen how this ends = ankle pick/choke
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The Wolves posted a 5-2-1-0 mark and .688 winning percentage in October, the team's best opening month of a season since the 2007-08 squad went 6-0-1-0; after opening the season with eight games in a 16-day stretch from Oct. 13-28, the Wolves will play just six times over the next 20 days.
--- Kevin Connauton: Bagged his first two goals of the season last week, scoring in back-to-back games on Saturday and Sunday ... Paces team blueliners and shares third overall on the team with 4 points (2G, 2A) in eight games this season ... Ranked sixth on Wolves and shared fourth among AHL blueliners with 13 goals and paced team rear guards with 33 points in 71 games last year ... Named to the Western Conference squad in the 2012 AHL All-Star Classic
--- Andrew Gordon: Shared the team lead with 2 goals in three games last week ... Tied for third on Chicago with 4 points (2G, 2A) in seven tilts this year ... Recorded 3 assists and 5 points in 37 NHL games with the Anaheim Ducks last season ... Accumulated 5 goals and 6 assists in 29 AHL games with Chicago and the Syracuse Crunch during the 2011-12 campaign
--- Jordan Schroeder: Notched 2 goals in three games last week ... Shared second on the Wolves with a career-best 21 goals and ranked third with a career-high 44 points while appearing in all 76 games last season ... Ranked fourth on the club with 23 assists and five power-play strikes
--- Zack Kassian: Scored his team-leading fourth goal of the season on Saturday, all of which have been the game's first tally ... Shares first on the Wolves with 5 points (4G, A) in eight contests this season ... Tallied 10 points (4G, 6A) and 51 penalty minutes in 44 NHL games with Vancouver and Buffalo as a rookie last year ... Bagged 15 goals and 26 points in 30 AHL tilts with the Rochester Americans ... Represented the Western Conference squad at the 2012 AHL All-Star Game
--- Michael Davies: Paced Chicago with 3 points (G, 2A) in three games last week after missing the team's first five tilts ... Tallied 11 goals, 13 assists, and 24 points in 53 games with the Wolves last season ... Ranked second on the squad with a +13 plus/minus rating
--- The Wolves have allowed an AHL-low one goal in the first period this season and that marker came in the team's seventh game of the season on Saturday against San Antonio.
--- Rookie center Alex Friesen earned his first professional point with an assist on Saturday and followed it up with another helper on Sunday; he has collected 2 assists and a +2 plus/minus rating in four games this year.
--- Chicago held Grand Rapids scoreless in the third period on Sunday, which marked the first time since Opening Night on Oct. 13 the Wolves did not surrendered at least one goal in the final frame.
--- The Wolves open a five-game road trip on Friday in Rockford; the team's five-game trek is the second-longest road swing of the season.
--- Chicago surrendered four power-play goals on 10 chances to San Antonio on Saturday, which marked the most power-play goals allowed in a game since Nov. 16, 2010, when Texas netted five man-advantage markers.
--- The Wolves have scored the same amount of short-handed strikes and power-play goals this year (2); Chicago's power-play strike on Sunday snapped a zero for 20 slide on the man-advantage that dated back to Oct. 17.
--- Left wing Brett Sterling shares the team lead with 4 assists, 5 points, and a +3 plus/minus rating in six games this season; all 5 of the 28-year-old's points have come on home ice this year.
Sunday, Oct. 28
Grand Rapids 3, (at) Chicago 2 (OT)
--- The Wolves tied the score halfway through the third period, but the Grand Rapids Griffins bagged the game-winning goal in overtime to skate away with a 3-2 win at the Allstate Arena
--- Right wing Andrew Gordon and defenseman Kevin Connauton lit the lamp for Chicago
--- Goaltender Eddie Lack thwarted 34 shots in regulation and overtime
Saturday, Oct. 27
(at) Chicago 6, San Antonio 5
--- The Wolves exploded for six goals to earn a 6-5 victory over the San Antonio Rampage at the Allstate Arena
--- Forwards Michael Davies (G, A) and Bill Sweatt (G, A) and defenseman Brad Hunt (2A) netted multiple-point outings to pace Chicago's offense
--- Goaltender Eddie Lack posted 24 saves
Friday, Oct. 26
(at) Peoria 4, Chicago 1
--- The Wolves surrendered four goals in the third period to drop a 4-1 Illinois Lottery Cup contest to the Peoria Rivermen at Carver Arena
--- Center Jordan Schroeder scored for Chicago
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
An Eagle Nest Elementary School fourth grade student was suspended April 23 pending a formal hearing for bringing two toy guns to school, said Dorchester District Two spokesperson Pat Raynor. Suspension is automatic.
The guns were plastic toy Airsoft Guns that the student had in his book bag. While in the bathroom one was discharged but the student stated it was an accident. There was no danger to other students. These types of toy guns fire plastic-type projectiles.
Possession of such toys in school is a violation of school and district policy. The realistic looking Airsoft guns are "look-alikes" of real weapons.
The incident was brought before the district hearing officer and appropriate disciplinary action was taken. Confidentiality laws prohibit the district from releasing what those actions were, said Raynor.
The district is asking that parents speak with their children about bringing inappropriate toys or items to school that could result in disciplinary action.
Under the South Carolina Safe Schools Act, the incident was reported to the North Charleston Police.
According to the police report, this is not the first time this student has brought these guns to school. Allegedly, according to a parental statement in the police report, the child had brought the guns to a previous school and had faced the same disciplinary action. The parent claimed no knowledge that the guns were still in the student's possession.
According to the incident report the child was placed under custodial arrest with the parent signing a custodial promise.
The weapons were placed into NCPD evidence.
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Applicants far outstrip available spots at foreign language immersion programs across the county.
Fairfax County Public Schools awards the coveted spaces in its elementary school language immersion programs through a weighted lottery system that leaves parents such as Abbie Baker a bundle of nerves.
"I'm terrified," Baker said. "I really want to get in."
Registration for the online lottery for next school year started Jan. 2, and runs through Feb. 14 at 4:30 p.m.
Students in the immersion programs spend half of each day learning in English, and the other half learning in another language. Eleven elementary schools host immersion programs that accept applicants from across the county, regardless of their actual school boundary.
Last year, 55 percent of first-grade applicants got into one of the programs, or 604 students of the 1,107 who threw their hats into the ring, according to Gregory Jones, coordinator of the school system's World Languages office.
The application process for incoming kindergarten students is even more competitive. Four of the 11 countywide immersion programs begin in kindergarten, and last year, just 20 percent of the 843 applicants were accepted, Jones said.
According to Beatrix Preusse-Burr, an elementary world languages specialist, the number of applicants fluctuates from year to year, but these percentages remain steady: About 50 percent of first-grade applicants and 20 percent of kindergarten applicants make it into a program each year.
Last year, of the overall kindergarten and first-grade applicants, 40 percent nabbed a spot.
In response to the high demand, in the last two years, the school system has added five immersion programs that pull students only from within their population. The number of less-intensive Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools (FLES) programs also has increased.
"We are expanding the availability of immersion programs and other foreign language options, and we hope this will help the lottery situation," Jones said.
Still, competition continues to be fierce.
Parents can apply to as many programs as they wish. However, they need to consider not only language preferences — of the 11 countywide programs, seven are in Spanish, two in Japanese, and one each in French and German — but also transportation concerns. Busing is not provided to students outside a school's normal boundaries.
Families also must contend with the tangle of the lottery. Each program has its own lottery, with different procedures and priority levels for filling their class rosters.
For example, the four programs starting in kindergarten aim for an even split of native English and Spanish speakers, a set-up the school system calls "two-way immersion." The other seven programs reserve the first 10 percent of their slots for already-fluent speakers of the target language.
The next available seats are filled by the siblings of current students in the immersion programs.
After that, schools strike different balances of students from inside and outside their boundaries. Some aim for an equal number of in-district and out-of-district students. Others give priority to one of the groups.
That plays a major part in Baker's lottery anxiety.
Her first choice for her kindergarten daughter is the Japanese program at Fox Mill Elementary, then the Japanese program at Great Falls Elementary.
However, both schools award places to applicants from within their school boundaries first. While the numbers fluctuate each year, that could leave just a handful of spaces for the rest of the applicants.
That includes Baker's daughter, who attends a private school for kindergarten but lives in the Herndon Elementary area.
Great Falls Elementary Principal Ray Lonnett encouraged parents to stay positive on Tuesday night at one of 11 informational meetings held at schools with immersion programs. Still, he acknowledged that Great Falls was left with students on the wait list for its 28 first-grade seats last year.
There is movement on wait lists, which are maintained through the beginning of second grade, according to Preusse-Burr. But after that point, new students would be too far behind in language learning to enter the program.
Prospective parent Michelle Menza, who has a son in kindergarten at Great Falls Elementary, said she and her husband moved within the school's boundaries to circumvent the stress.
"We moved here for this program," Menza said. "Why worry about the boundaries? We came here because we didn't want to risk it."


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A truck driver was hospitalized with serious injuries after his tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 20 on Tuesday morning.
Joe Womack, 50, of Evans, Ga., was traveling westbound on I-20 at 7:55 a.m. when he lost control of his tractor-trailer near mile marker 17, ran off the left side of the roadway and into the median, overcorrected and struck a guardrail on the right side of the roadway when the truck overturned, according to Lance Cpl. Judd Jones of the S.C. Highway Patrol.
Womack was transported to Georgia Regents Medical Center with serious injuries, Jones said.
His condition was not known at press time on Tuesday.
No other vehicles were involved in the wreck.
Jones said Womack was on his way to pick up gasoline when the wreck happened. The truck did contain a small amount of diesel fuel that may have spilled, but Jones said there was no threat to the public.
One lane of I-20 westbound was shut down while crews cleared the scene on Tuesday.
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.0-BETA1
Fix Version/s: 2.0-BETA2
Component/s: None
Security Level: All
$dQuery = $this->_em->createQuery(
'SELECT p FROM entity\system\Group p WHERE (p.lft >= (SELECT t.lft FROM entity\system\Group t WHERE t.name = :name)) AND (p.rgt <= (SELECT t2.rgt FROM entity\system\Group t2 WHERE t2.name = :name))');
As you see this includes brackets around the subqueries.
SELECT s0_.level AS level0, s0_.lft AS lft1, s0_.rgt AS rgt2, s0_.id AS id3, s0_.name AS name4, s0_.description AS description5 FROM system_group s0_ WHERE (s0_.lft >= SELECT s1_.lft FROM system_group s1_ WHERE s1_.name = ?) AND (s0_.rgt <= SELECT s2_.rgt FROM system_group s2_ WHERE s2_.name = ?)
Brackets gone, resulting in:
'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT s1_.lft FROM system_group s1_ WHERE s1_.name = 'root') AND (s0_.rgt <= SE' at line 1' in /usr/share/php/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Connection.php:566
Brackets added and executed against database
SELECT s0_.level AS level0, s0_.lft AS lft1, s0_.rgt AS rgt2, s0_.id AS id3, s0_.name AS name4, s0_.description AS description5 FROM system_group s0_ WHERE (s0_.lft >= (SELECT s1_.lft FROM system_group s1_ WHERE s1_.name = "root")) AND (s0_.rgt <= (SELECT s2_.rgt FROM system_group s2_ WHERE s2_.name = "root"))
Works (MySQL).
Double brackets in the DQL results in
"exception 'Doctrine\ORM\Query\QueryException' with message '[Syntax Error] line 0, col 62: Error: Expected Literal, got 'SELECT'' in /usr/share/php/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Query/QueryException.php:42
This might be caused by recent AST optimizations and thus I suspect this to be a regression.
Is there a workaround (other than not using a subquery)?
Well, a workaround for any DQL issues that is always available is a NativeQuery (createNativeQuery). In essence, a DQL query is just a high-level abstraction for a native SQL query + a ResultSetMapping. http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/orm/2.0/docs/reference/native-sql/en#native-sql
The resulting objects from a native query are still fully managed and all, so its just a difference in query abstraction.
Nevertheless, this should be fixed soon.
Reproduced this successfully and already have a potential fix. Might not be a regression after all but a bug nevertheless.
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Luke Hill November 15, 2012 - 6:50pm
Assumption Church is in Barnesville, Minnesota, a town about 30 minutes southeast on I-94 from Fargo, North Dakota. Fr. Gary LaMoine is the pastor at Assumption who (apparently) has decided that supporting same-sex marriage is grounds for being denied the sacrament of confirmation."If you want to be a Catholic, you have to be 100 percent Catholic.Thats the lesson one family here learned after their 17-year-old son was denied confirmation after the priest at the Assumption Church here found a pro same-sex marriage post on the teens Facebook.The decision by the Rev. Gary LaMoine to deny the religious rite of passage for Lennon Cihak in mid-October shocked his mother, who said her son has gone to church every week and volunteered around the community in preparation for his confirmation this year.You kind of know the Catholic beliefs, but I never thought they would deny somebody confirmation because you werent 100 percent. I guess thats what shocks me, Shana Cihak said."
Well, that's one way to redouble the Church's support for the traditional legal definition of marriage.Although there's apparently a fine theological distinction at play here that escapes me. "Lennon said fellow students in his confirmation class liked the photo on Facebook, but they were still allowed to be confirmed. " Perhaps some of our more theologically informed readers could explain what the exact limit is for a faithful Catholic's opposition to a referendum question that the state bishops' conference supports. Is "liking" on Facebook okay, but posting isn't? Or is posting allowed, but not photographs? (And what does the Catechism have to say about this? Where do Catholics go to find out the rules?)For me the most amazing and inexplicably hopeful thing about the whole incident so far is that "...through it all, Lennon said his faith hasnt faltered. 'I dont want the church to be put down. I dont want the Catholic religion to be put down...."
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Bruce wrote:Since marriage is instituted by God, it is impossible for the Church to change its terms: an indissoluble lifetime commitment. From the Churchs perspective, that also makes it impossible for any government to change the terms as wellShould I understand you to mean that the civil law should forbid all things that the Church holds to be sinful?Neither Augustine nor Aquinas believed that.
Should I understand you to mean that the civil law should forbid all things that the Church holds to be sinful?John Hayes,Your understanding is backward. In the case of gay marriage, we are talking about creating civil law that encourages sinfulness.
"That Christian marriage (i.e. marriage between baptized persons) is really a sacrament of the New Law in the strict sense of the word is for all Catholics an indubitable truth. According to the Council of Trent this dogma has always been taught by the Church, and is thus defined in canon i, Sess. XXIV: 'If any one shall say that matrimony is not truly and properly one of the Seven Sacraments of the Evangelical Law, instituted by Christ our Lord, but was invented in the Church by men, and does not confer grace, let him be anathema'" (http://newadvent.org/cathen/09707a.htm). So, "Christian marriage" i.e., "matrimony", is a "sacrament" within the Church of Rome. According to the encyclopedia writer, this teaching is a "dogma".Jesus, a Jew, is talking to an obviously Jewish audience in Mark 10 where he conveys God's prohibition of divorce and remarriage (http://www.usccb.org/bible/mk/10:11). Then we see Jesus distinguishing between the law of God and the law of Caesar in Mark 12:16-17 (http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/12). Jesus tells his Jewish listeners to obey, as appropriate, one or the other law. Today in the U.S., a marriage license bears the "image and inscription" of Caesar, not of God. Such being the case in a pluralistic society, it is the law of Caesar that governs for people who are outside the Church of Rome or who are members of the Jewish faith. It would appear that Luke Hill's comment (5:38 pm) is pertinent here.
It should be noted that the Church of Rome will not witness a marriage without a state-issued marriage license, nor will the Church of Rome act on a petition for declaration of nullity without a state-issued divorce decree. In other words, the Church of Rome acknowledges the legitimacy of state-issued marriage and divorce documents presented by its members.
A new push for meatless Fridays? Sounds like pouring new wine into old wineskins!
My quote from New Advent notwithstanding, I'm not aware of the Church of Rome having officially promulgated any list of dogmas.
"In the case of gay marriage, we are talking about creating civil law that encourages sinfulness."But this is not what the Minnesota referendum was about. Gay marriage is not recognized in Minnesota; the point here was to further build the prohibition into the state constitution.
(Put another way, I am relying on R.L. Burke regarding can. 915, Periodica Canonica 96:3 [2007], which is clearly conservative in approach. IANACL, or any other kind. I nonetheless have no idea how the parents are legally reachable in this case. "[T]he discipline requires the minister of Holy Communion to forbid the Sacrament to those who are publicly unworthy. Such action must not be precipitous." The action seems frankly penal.)
OK, I have to retract in part, as I failed to re-view the image, which goes beyond mere opposition to the referendum in question. "To remain silent is to permit serious confusion regarding a fundamental truth of the moral law. Confusion, of course, is one of the most insidious fruits of scandalous behavior." (Burke again.)
Lennon Cihak discusses his refused confirmation on Twitter (along with a lot of unrelated discussion of music, etc)https://mobile.twitter.com/LennonCihak/tweetsSomeone else has started an "i support Lennon Cihak" page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Support-Lennon-Cihak/305735312869261?fr..., there is a Tumblr page which opposes a number of other teachings of the Church on sexuality which claims to be from Lennon Cihak. If it is his, he has been pushed to a public position that isn't apparent in the initial news reports. It ends with "IM GLAD IM DONE WITH THAT CHURCH AND AM PROUD OF MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR SO MUCH SUPPORT AND STANDING UP FOR ME AND SUPPORTING MY BELIEFS BECAUSEAPPARENTLYTHE CHURCH CANT."http://lennoncihak.tumblr.com/post/35318877422/right-or-wrong-you-tell-meIs this the best we can do?
Bruce wrote:Your understanding is backward. In the case of gay marriage, we are talking about creating civil law that encourages sinfulness.i would describe it as removing laws that prohibit sinfulness. As we have removed laws that prohibited adultery.
Boonesville, Minn (Pop. 2300) may have exhausted its newsworthiness. Fr. LaMoine's letter to his parish explains it all. A second student also not confirmed is reported. Fr. LaMoine explains that the choice was Lennon's, although he wouldn't have confirmed him in any case. (Reminiscent of "I am not telling you how to vote, but ") He apologizes for the actions of the family. http://www.kfgo.com/on-air-details.php?ID=1498 http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/380685/group/News/ According to tomorrow's parish bulletin, a Sunday collection is about 100 envelopes and adult contributions are down almost 3% for the month. He may not care to be too scrupulous about going after others in the parish who may have agreed with the kids on the referendum and actually voted. http://www.catholicweb.com/bulletins/73402/Nov-18-2012.pdf
LaMoine's understanding of Confirmation is faulty.The sacrament does NOT make its recipients "full members" of the Church. They are full members already, thanks to Baptism. It does NOT bring them "into full communion with the Catholic community." They are part of the Catholic community already, thanks to Baptism. For this priest to talk about "defacing" a political sign and to misrepresent the effects of a sacrament is . . . http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04215b.htm (Confirmation in the Catholic Encyc.)
Boris,Marriage laws must actively be changed to permit 'gay marriage'. At the present time, Minnesota says that only opposite-sex partners can marry; it is silent on gay marriage. But you are correct that the state wont issue a marriage license, however that is fundamentally different criminalizing the behavior. On the other hand, Jacks comment about adultery laws is not similar because the law was changed from criminalizing adultery to the current situation which neither permits nor criminalizes that behavior.
About half of the states have removed adultery from their laws. From a quick look, Minnesota hasn't. It also has a law on fornication.Which raises the interesting question of whether the Church would oppose a referendum to remove adultery and fornication from the Minnesota laws - and would it refuse to confirm people who supported the referendum?
This pastor and bishops of Minnesota say that voting/advocating NO on a constitutional amendment to add a prohibition on SSM is Catholic doctrine???? No State Constitution or the US Constitution has an explicit ban on SSM. To say a NO vote on thowing mud into the state Constitution is against Catholic teaching is and was a big loser. Because it's moronic and ugly. People don't like ugly in their constitutions.
This whole mess should be dismissed as a comedy except for the unconscionable treatment of two Catholic kids and their families by the Roman Catholic Church as they experienced it where they lived. LaMoine will disappear, but he leaves scars on Catholic lives. This might be another vote for married priests. Anyone who holds a 17-year old kid to his firmest convictions and expects to find them the same a year - much less a lifetime - later doesn't understand what he is doing. No comment now or any other time on adultery laws. Bruce misses his target.
"At the present time, Minnesota says that only opposite-sex partners can marry; it is silent on gay marriage."This is a tortured interpretation, to say the least."On the other hand, Jacks comment about adultery laws is not similar because the law was changed from criminalizing adultery to the current situation which neither permits nor criminalizes that behavior."I don't think you reach "not similar," but if the payload is that analogy is not isomorphism, OK. I fail to see the utility in such an observation all the same. The threshold question (which now departs from Mr. Cihak entirely) would seem to be whether it is permissible to oppose an escalation of secular legislation on grounds of principle even if the goal of that escalation is in accord with Church doctrine.
Minnesota also hAs a law against prostitution. Regarding that Aquinas said (quoting Augustine)
although God is all-powerful and supremely good, nevertheless He allows certain evils to take place in the universe, which He might prevent, lest, without them, greater goods might be forfeited, or greater evils ensue. Accordingly in human government also, those who are in authority, rightly tolerate certain evils, lest certain goods be lost, or certain greater evils be incurred: thus Augustine says (De Ordine ii, 4): "If you do away with harlots, the world will be convulsed with lust."AndAgain it must be observed that the end of human law is different from the end of Divine law. For the end of human law is the temporal tranquillity of the state, which end law effects by directing external actions, as regards those evils which might disturb the peaceful condition of the state. On the other hand, the end of the Divine law is to bring man to that end which is everlasting happiness
Personally, i am in favor of having a law against prostitution, particularly against forced prostitution. But that is a prudential decision, not a matter of doctrine. If someone promoted the abolition of the law, i would not see that as rejecting Catholic doctrine.
Ode to Fr. LaMoine, with apologies to Ms. Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas:Fellow Catholics, I am proudly standing here to humbly see.I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don't speak out as plain as day?And, fellow Catholics, I'm for tradition and the cross- long may it stand. I'm a poor boy, come to greatness. So, it follows that I cannot tell a lie.Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,cut a little swathe and lead the people on.Now my good friends, it behooves me to be solemn and declare,I'm for goodness and for marriage and for living clean and saying daily prayer. And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall.You can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon ya'll...Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,cut a little swathe and lead the people on.Now, Lennon Cihak, I don't know him, though I've heard his claim, oh yes. But, of course I've no close contact, so what he is doing I can only guess. And now, Lennon Cihak, he's a blemish on the face of our good church. I am taking certain steps here, someone somewhere's gonna have to close him down.Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep, now they see me now they don't-I've come and gone and, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step,cut a little swathe and lead the people on.Ooh I love to dance a little sidestep...And, ooh I love to sweep around the wide step...Cut a little swathe and lead the people on.
Because its moronic and uglyI actually find in moronic and ugly to encourage the use of alimentary canal orifices for sex.
Whoa, Bruce, do you really want to go down that path? Wouldn't kissing (using of a part of the alimentary canal) as a prelude to sexual stimulation be ugly and moronic, then? Or would you just draw the line at soul kissing? And what about the penis, a dual function organ for elimination of waste water from the bladder as well as sperm? Wouldn't that, loosely speaking, be part of the alimentary system?Please, rhetorical questions only meant to point out that much of our anatomy is multi-functional. Certainly NO ON should force you (and I don't think anyone here is even encouraging you) to have sex in ways you find morally and physically repugnant. But your blanket condemnation and the shame it attempts to inflict on others is one reason I often find the Good Catholic attitude moronic and ugly sometimes. It isn't so much what you condemn as how you do it with such certitude and pomposity.
"I actually find in moronic and ugly to encourage the use of alimentary canal orifices for sex."Does this mean it's time for a theological discussion of the Ligament of Treitz?
Bruce: you really need to check out what Your Kind of People practice in the privacy of their bedrooms. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/anal-sex-heterosexual-couples-r...'s a bit hubristic for you to be quite that shocked.
Regarding the earlier dscussion of the death penalty, it's interesting that Cardinal Dolan regrets that Californians didn't follow the recommendations of their bishops - but doesn't suggest that they have sinned in doing so."The death penalty is another issue of concern to those who believe that the promotion of the dignity of the human person and the protection of human life is the normative guide in our voting. Here again the results were not positive. The electorate in California had the chance to reject this lethal and unjust penalty. The Church in California did its best to preach the Gospel of Life, but apparently was less than effective. The referendum lost."http://cny.org/stories/Looking-Back-at-Election-Day,8444?content_source=...
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Rumor now is that when/if Y2J returns, he wants to reform JERISHOW with next return!!!
Y2J has said in countless interviews Show was fav partner and he wanted to reform tag team with next return if WWE didnt want him to be face.
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