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• Hometown: Fond du Lac
• Employer: Digital technologies manager for Best Buy
• Education: Dual bachelor of arts degrees in behavioral science and law and sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; master of arts degree in professional counseling - marriage and family therapy from Argosy University-Twin Cities.
• Family: Married to Brad with two daughters - Carley, 6, and Delaney, 19 months.
• Extracurricular activities: Playing flute in the Fond du Lac Symphonic Band.
n Top honor/recognition: Earning her master's degree, becoming a mother and completing her first half-marathon in 2011.
• Favorite thing about your career: "I am definitely a people person, so I thrive in an environment where I get to interact with and develop our employees on a daily basis."
• What do you do for fun? Hobbies? Reading, spending time with extended family and relaxing at home.
• Likes to travel to: Her family loves to travel to Disney World in Florida as much as they can, where she and her husband participate in half-marathons; they've completed two there this year and are currently training for a full marathon there in January 2013.
• Advice for other young professionals: "View every opportunity as a challenge; learn and grow from it. Don't have regrets."
Do you know a young professional who deserves recognition? Send nominations to Heather Stanek at (920) 907-7909 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Nominees do not need to be members of Young Professionals of Fond du Lac, but they should be between 18 and 40 years old and live or work in the Fond du Lac area.
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Lakeland, Florida -A two-and-a-half hour discussion about the state of the city's police department evoked feelings of concern, embarrassment, and even gratitude.
Facing the city commission for the first time since news broke of massive sexual misconductwithinthe Lakeland Police Department (LPD), Chief Lisa Womack said the agency is movingin the right direction toward rooting out all problems.
"This bell cannot be un-rung," said Womack. "But I can make sure that those who have dishonored the Lakeland Police Departmentbadge and uniform will no longer be Lakeland Police officers."
See also:State Attorney alleges Lakeland PD sexual misconduct
Womack, who has been chief in Lakeland fortwo-and-a-half years, said she has been focused on increasing accountability within the department since she arrived. The first hour of Monday morning's discussion centered around thetraining and policies she has established.
Womack said about a dozen officers have been terminated since she started because of investigations into serious behavioral problems.
Following Womack's praise for officers who had nothing to do with the scandal, Mayor Gow Fields offered a teary-eyed response and apology for the black eye.
"To the [officers] who have not done anything wrong," Fields said, "thanks for pursuing excellence and doing your job anyway."
Womack hinted several times that the investigation - which has a handful of officers on administrative leave - could extend to other city agencies.
The 37-year-old woman at the center of the LPD sex scandal, who first had consensual sex with co-workers before the relationships allegedly turned abusive, worked in other city departments for six years before taking an analyst job with the police department.
"People who allegedly engaged in thesebehaviors, whether they're my [employees], or anyone else' in the city, did not make these decisions because they're Lakeland Police officers. They made them in spite of being Lakeland Police officers, and I am appalled by that."
Womack added that LPD has also added fraternization language to its nepotism policy, requiring any employee to disclose a new relationship with a co-worker.
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How do I frost the cake? It seems like it would be awkard to frost a frozen cake. What type of frosting do I use?
Chelsea( niece) wants me to draw a dachshund on top of the cake as well. How would I do that? Im thinking maybe that writing gel from the supermarket.
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He is my baby...what more can I say? Chili is a nine year old Yorkie chihuahua mix so we tell people he is a CHORKIE. He is very smart and will sometimes fake having to go outside (to urinate) just so he can come back in and get a treat for a job well done. He knows the names of about 3 of his toys and can tell them apart. Chili will also be very tolerant of all the accessories I put on him and pose nicely for me during our little photo sessions. He is a little guy with a huge attitude and heart. We love him dearly and couldnt imagine our life without him in it.
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UNTIL SUNDAY, the words Art Modell and the Vince Lombardi Trophy had not exactly fit together like pieces in the perfect joint. The trophy goes to the Super Bowl winner. Mr. Modell's team, neither the original Cleveland Browns nor its Baltimore Ravens incarnation, had been to a Super Bowl, much less won one.
It wasn't so much the trophy that seemed incongruent in the same sentence
with the Ravens owner. It was the Lombardi name. In 40 years in the NFL, Mr.
Modell had earned a reputation as what Paul Brown, the first and legendary
Browns coach, called a "playing owner." Playing, as in meddling.
It was Mr. Modell's team. He could run it anyway (or anywhere) he wanted.
On Sunday, after the Ravens had dismantled the New York Giants, it wasn't
the Lombardi Trophy in Mr. Modell's hands that was the biggest change in Art
Modell's life. It was two of the men who flanked him -- Ozzie Newsome and
Brian Billick.
Mr. Modell, now 75, finally had surrounded himself with the right men and
allowed them to do their jobs -- Mr. Newsome, the Browns' Hall of Fame tight
end, in personnel, and Mr. Billick, the coach Cleveland had wanted.
It is hard not to be happy for a man who has learned a lesson before it is
too late and received the reward. It also is impossible not to wish he had
learned it sooner, in Cleveland.
Had Mr. Modell done so, the city would have built not only a new stadium
for him but also a pedestal and he might not have moved to Baltimore. An irony
of the Cleveland-Modell estrangement is that everyone wanted the same thing:
to win The Big Enchilada.
New Browns owner Al Lerner has proved himself to be a "non-player," but the
men he has allowed to run his team, Carmen Policy and Dwight Clark, seem bent
on repeating many of Mr. Modell's old management mistakes.
Maybe that is the final, Super irony.
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Briefcase House (2010)
Located inside a warehouse loft of 1400 sf with no partition, this project is a house within a house. The design engages two architectural issues: inside/outside and S/XL. It compacts the material possessions of the subject into one oversized briefcase – so large that the subject sleeps inside of it. The residual gap outside of the Briefcase House to the limits of the warehouse loft can be considered a super wall-cavity and rendered as blackened thick wall in an architectural plan. Converseley, when the subject occupies the wall-cavity for other activities, the house can be considered a solid obstruction. This project delineates the qualification of conceptual poche by the swerve of the figure and ground and the of blackening the thick-wall or the private volume.
The project pays homage to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House and the paintings of Lucio Fontana and Robert Motherwell. The core of the Farnsworth House is key in producing the four architectural programs without erecting one single wall. Like the core of the Farnsworth House, the presence of the Briefcase House inside this warehouse carves out distinct dimensions for appropriate activities. Sitting on castors, the house can be rolled around to distort program proportions. The paintings of Fontana and Motherwell heighten the awareness of negative spaces. As an obstruction, the Briefcase House is a permanent cut on the canvas that gives birth to a new healthy body.
Design: Jimenez Lai
Construction Drawings: Brady Schneider, Cyrus Penarroyo
Construction Leaders: David Ruffing, Brady Schneider, Jimenez Lai
Photography: Jasper Reyes and Kamil Krol
Thank you to the assistance of Jonathan MacGillis, Lauren Turner, Jasper Reyes and Connie Lin
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I know how excited you all are when realizing that many scenes from your favorite movies have been shot in physical models (SS example : Coraline)
Lets take it back to oldskool references on this topic
Dolls Replace Drawings in Film Cartoon
THOUSANDS of carved wooden dolls give a three-dimensional effect to a new type of animated-cartoon film developed by George Pal, Hungarian photographic expert. Instead of using pictures drawn and photographed in sequence to provide movement, the new cartoon-film technique employs numerous doll figures carved and painted to represent the various movements and facial expressions of a single cartoon character. As many as thirty different carvings of one figure may be photographed in sequence for one simple change in a facial expression.
This makes those dorky 3D walk-throughs seem a lot more useful doesn't it?
Lilliputian's-eye viewer puts you inside tiny model
A slender optical tube fitted with 18 miniature lenses provides realistic views inside architects', landscapers', town planners', and other scale models. With a camera and adapter on the eyepiece, you get photos like the circular ones at left.
The British-made Modelscope is a combination microscrope, periscope, and telescope with an aperture at one side .3 inch from the end. On the floor of a 1:200 model, this corresponds to eye level at the same scale. At other heights, it shows vistas from windows, balconies, and other points. Made by Optec Reactors, Ltd., of London, the unit is distributed in the U.S. by H. C. I. Sales Corp., NYC.
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This issue of the Credit Crunch Digest focuses on recent developments in Libor and the Foreign Exchange market litigation; Credit Suisse's $885 million mortgage settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency; Irving Picard's new clawback attempts on Madoff funds; individuals found guilty of fraud for their role in the Madoff Ponzi scheme; and Dodd-Frank stress test guidelines for medium-sized banks.
Libor and Foreign Exchange Litigation
Litigation and Regulatory Investigations
Ponzi Schemes
Government and Regulatory Intervention
Emails Main Evidence in First U.S. Dollar Libor Prosecution
The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office noted that its prosecution of three former Barclays traders will heavily rely upon the individuals' email communication. Peter Johnson, Jonathan Mathew and Stylianos Contogoulas are facing criminal charges by U.K. and U.S. authorities in connection with their alleged attempt to manipulate Libor. All three have been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud.
While others in the U.K. have been prosecuted for Libor manipulation, Johnson, Mathew and Contogoulas are the first defendants facing criminal charges related to the rigging of the U.S. dollar Libor. The U.S. dollar rate was one of the most relied upon rates of all 10 Libor currency calculations. Previous charges brought by the U.K. and U.S. against individuals focused on the manipulation of Japanese Yen Libor. ("UK Prosecutor Says Has 'Vast Amounts' of Documents in Libor Case," Reuters, March 4, 2014)
Class Action Lawsuits Filed Against Major Banks Alleging Foreign Exchange Rigging
Multiple proposed class action lawsuits filed against several major banks alleging manipulation of the foreign exchange market have been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. This litigation alleges that employees at some of the world's largest banks, including Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS, conspired to manipulate the approximately $5.3 trillion-a-day market.
Class action plaintiffs could include thousands of traders who used market information as a guide for their trading transactions. The banks allegedly violated federal antitrust laws by allowing their traders to communicate in chat rooms, with names like "The Cartel" and "The Bandits Club," for purposes of exchanging market information and conspiring to manipulate benchmark rates in the foreign exchange market. Plaintiffs claim that this collusion influenced the market causing traders to lose value on their transactions that relied on these rates.
Plaintiffs began filing these lawsuits after the U.S. Department of Justice and other regulatory agencies around the world launched investigations probing the banks' foreign exchange trading behavior. As a result, many banks recently started to place certain foreign exchange traders on leave status. Scott and Scott LLP has been appointed lead counsel in the consolidated foreign exchange benchmark rates antitrust litigation. ("U.S. Court Appoints Law Firm to Lead Foreign Exchange Litigation," Reuters, February 13, 2014)
Credit Suisse Settles FHFA Lawsuits for $885 Million
On March 20, 2014, Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second largest bank, announced that it had reached an $885 million settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in connection with lawsuits filed against the bank concerning mortgages the bank sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In 2011, the FHFA sued multiple banks to recover on approximately $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities purchased shortly before the financial crisis. The settlement will result in an after taxes charge of $312 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. According to Credit Suisse, the FHFA settlement will resolve the largest mortgage-related litigation exposure to the bank. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Freddie Mac will receive $651 million and Fannie Mae will receive $234 million. The bank will continue to face other claims involving mortgage-backed securities, including one filed by the state of New Jersey as recently as December 2013. ("Credit Suisse to Pay $885 Million to Settle FHFA Lawsuits," Bloomberg, March 21, 2014).
Court of Appeals Considers Clawback of Madoff Fictitious Profits
Irving Picard, the trustee liquidating Madoff's assets, seeks to recoup fictitious profits paid to Madoff's former customers up to six years before Madoff Investment Securities LLC went bankrupt in 2008. Picard has already recouped approximately $9.8 billion of the estimated $17.3 billion lost from Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held a hearing on March 5, 2014, and intimated that it will likely limit the scope of Picard's clawback because federal statutes only allow a trustee to recoup payments made up to two years before a bankruptcy. Moreover, the law permits this clawback only after satisfying a fraudulent intent element. Customers affected by Picard's attempted clawback are challenging the length of the period and assert that they were unaware of Madoff's fraudulent activity.
This hearing occurred at the same time as jurors heard closing arguments in the district court for a criminal action against five of Madoff's former employees who allegedly assisted him in the Ponzi scheme. ("With Billions at Stake, U.S. Court Weighs Madoff Clawback Claims," Reuters, March 5, 2014)
Five Former Madoff Associates Guilty of Fraud
On March 24, 2014, a Manhattan jury found five former Madoff associates guilty of fraud for their roles in the Madoff Ponzi scheme. Specifically, Daniel Bonventre, Annette Bongiorno, Joann Crupi, Jerome O'Hara and George Perez were convicted on 59 counts, which included securities fraud and conspiracy to defraud clients. Bonventre was the back-office director, while Bongiorno and Crupi were portfolio managers at Madoff Investment Securities LLC. O'Hara and Perez were employed as computer programmers. Each individual faced anywhere from eight to 20 separate charges.
The trial lasted five months, and is the longest white-collar criminal trial in the history of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Witnesses at the trial included others who previously pleaded guilty for their role in the Ponzi scheme, which cost investors more than $17 billion in principal. ("Former Madoff associates found guilty of fraud," Reuters, March 24, 2014)
Financial Regulators Finalize Medium-Size Bank Stress Test Guidelines
The Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued finalized guidelines explaining stress test expectations for medium-sized financial institutions. In accordance with the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, any bank that holds between $10 billion and $50 billion in assets must conduct a stress test by March 31, 2014 and meet the regulatory guidelines.
The rules require medium-sized banks to evaluate three macroeconomic scenarios of baseline, adverse and seriously adverse events and their effect on consolidated losses, revenues, balance sheets and capital. The banks pass the stress test by sustaining a sufficient loan-loss reserve under the various scenarios. However, the stress-test guidelines do not require medium-sized banks to preserve a specific capital ratio or establish or submit capital action plans. Banks with less than $10 billion in assets currently do not have to perform stress tests under the Dodd-Frank reforms. ("Final Stress Test Guidance Issued for Medium-Sized Banks," Compliance Week, March 6, 2014)
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About a year ago, my daughter moved into an empty studio apartment.
She previously had lived in furnished apartments. As a result, she had a good start on household supplies such as dishes, a TV set and bathroom supplies.
But this was the first time she had to deal with the logistics and cost of furniture.
The way we approached that dilemma was in functionality. We started thinking through what she would need in that space, such as a place to eat, a place to put the computer, a place to watch TV, a place to sleep and a place for a friend to sit.
Then we looked for pieces that fit those intended purposes on both the second-hand and retail markets.
Now, it's fair to say that the most basic pieces such as a bed, chair or kitchen table can be hard to find in good condition as hand-me-downs, thrift shop sales or garage sale items. But here's a tip: The end of spring semester is a great time to look for furnishings in college towns such as Ann Arbor. Because the logistics of moving furniture involves more money and hassle than many students are prepared to handle, they often unload whatever was in their apartments or rooms for free or cheap.
If you add some paint, new fabric or replacement hardware pieces to those items, you may have turned a piece that was destined for the curbside into a do-it-yourself brag.
If a search on the secondhand market isn't successful, one way to cut the cost in the retail market is through assemble-it-yourself pieces. For example, my daughter found a dinette set at Ikea in Canton last summer. We had no problem packing the boxes with the furniture pieces into her car for transporting to her apartment, which is where we did the assembly. And when I was her age, I assembled a wooden rocking chair kit that I bought at a discount store.
Another suggestion is to focus your budget on one really good piece that will last for years, while you get by with frugal hacks on other items. I did that in my early 20s when I bought a blue fabric love seat at retail. The mini sofa is still in my living room, and in much better shape than one might expect given the fact it was purchased in 1990.
Another tip is to look for furniture pieces that can serve more than one function. For example, a kitchen table can double as a desk and a day bed can double as a sitting space.
Readers may contact Paula Wethington at email@example.com or 240-5745. Check out Paula's blog at monroeonabudget.com.


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The conference is scheduled for April 2-3, 2007, in Springfield, MO. See session details below:
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Monday, April 2, 2007
Morning Coffee, 8:30-9.00 a.m.
Welcome, 9:00-9:30 a.m.
- Dr. Ken Rutherford, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
- Dr. Muhamad Olimat, Conference Organizer, Department of Political Science
- Dr. Lorene Stone, Honorary Chair, Dean, College of Humanities and Public Affairs
- Dr. Michael Nietzel, President, Missouri State University
Critical Issues in Contemporary Middle East, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Moderator: Dr. Dennis Hickey, Department of Political Science
- Dr. Andy David: An Israeli Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process
- Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim: An Arab Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace Process
- Dr. Roger Fontaine: The War in Iraq
- Dr. Ahmed Irvani: Iran-American Relations
- Dr. Mohamed Ben-Ruwin: Causes of Instability and the Prospects of Peace in North Africa
The U.S, the Middle East and the Islamic World, 11:00-12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Ms. Missy Shelton, KSMU/Ozarks Public Television
- Dr. Emile Sahliyeh: The US Foreign Policy toward the Middle East
- Ms. Marve Kavakci: Turkish-American Relations
- Ms. Viola Holland: My Sister: A Voice Silenced: "Fern Holland and Her Struggle for Democracy in Iraq"
- Dr. Sulyman Nyang: Public Diplomacy and the Islamic World
- Ms. Edina Lekovic: Muslims in America
Luncheon, 12:30-1:50 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union Ballroom, Third Floor
Moderator: Dr. Beat Kernen, Department of Political Science
- Welcome: Dr. Belinda McCarthy, Provost, Missouri State University
- Keynote Address: M.E. Mr. Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador of Egypt to the United States
Religion, War and Peace in the Middle East: Faith-Based Perspectives, 2:00-4:00p.m.
Moderator: Dr. John Strong, Department of Religious Studies
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Executive Director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
- Dr. Pauline Nugent: A Christian Perceptive
Professor of Classics and Hebrew
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Temple Israel
- Bishop Karl Pruter
Prince of Peace Cathedral, Highlandville MO
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Department of Religious Studies
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Dharma Drum Mountain, Taiwan
A Bridge Underway: "Dinner Across the Great Divide," 5:00-8.00 p.m.
Location: Trolley's Grille: 107 Park Central Square, Springfield, MO 65806
Moderator: Louis Maione, MIAA Program, Department of Political Science
Host: PSGSA, The Political Science Graduate Students Association
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Inside Islam: "Struggle for the Soul of the Faith," 6:00-8.00 p.m.
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Moderator: Dr. Jeff Vandenberg
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Moderator: Dr. Gary Brock, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
- Guest Lecturer: Dr. Hamid Eltgani: Genocide in Darfur
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- Coordinator: Ms. Kara Dial
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America, Islam and the Middle East: "The Cultural Make-Up of the Middle East," 7.00-9.00 p.m.
Location: The Library Center Auditorium, 4653 S Campbell Ave, (417) 874-8110
Moderator: Lorraine Sandstrom
- Speakers: Dr. Sulyman Nyang, Imam Mahdi Bray
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Embracing Diversity, Encouraging Unity, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
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Moderator: Kathy Clancy, Director, Human Rights Commission
- Speaker: Dr. Zahid Bukhari
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Location: Kickapoo High School
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Overview on Charismatics (Part 2)
Interview With Matteo Calisi, of "Catholic Fraternity"
BARI, Italy, OCT. 29, 2004 (Zenit) - Ecclesial communion helps to harmonize the charisms of the new movements within the Church, says a key figure in the Charismatic Renewal.
Matteo Calisi, president of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships, spoke at length with us about the charismatic phenomenon. Part 1 of this interview appeared Thursday on Catholic Online.
Q: Is communion between the ecclesial movements a need or a reality? From your experience, how can a spirituality of communion be disseminated and carried out between movements and new communities in the Church?
Calisi: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal has collaborated for many years with the other ecclesial movements and new communities. Since the beginning of the '80s, the Pontifical Council for the Laity has organized colloquiums with the ecclesial movements and new communities.
Subsequently, since 1996, the dicastery has convoked periodically an ad hoc group made up of six or seven founders and leaders of the ecclesial realities. Personally, I have had the joy and honor of representing the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal these years until today, first as vice president of ICCRS -- International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services -- and now as president of the Catholic Fraternity.
In the beginning the meetings were held in the framework of knowledge and respect. But we began immediately to collaborate together.
One of the first events that has characterized our collaboration and communion was the organization of the 1998 Vigil of Pentecost, when more than 500,000 members and sympathizers of the new communities and movements were convoked in St. Peter's Square by the Holy Father, John Paul II.
On that occasion, the Pope addressed those present with words of encouragement, support and appreciation. Afterward there have been other occasions of communion, especially during the Jubilee of the Year 2000.
This communion continues today, and the proof is that some of these founders of the main ecclesial movements will participate in our 11th International Conference in Fiuggi, precisely to emphasize this will of communion and mission.
Q: How do charismatics collaborate with the other realities of the Catholic Church?
Calisi: There is a natural relationship of communion, because the Spirit that works in the charismatics is the same one that acts in the parishes and in other movements.
Many gifts of grace that charismatics receive are for the spiritual help of the Church in general in her new tasks of evangelization and Christian witness. In regard to communion and mission, the charismatics live and wish to live an "ecclesial" experience of service.
It is ecclesial communion that harmonizes the charisms and puts them at the service of the Church and the People of God.
Q: At the beginning of the third millennium, do the movements appear as an evangelizing force in the context of the mission of the Church?
Calisi: Secularization tends to eliminate man's supernatural vocation and restrict him to the life of the present time. The ecclesial movements and new communities, however, with their concrete experience of a life led by the Spirit, give witness that God lives and calls man to share in his very divine nature.
Moreover, there must be a reinforcement of the Christian faith to carry out the New Evangelization and the new holiness of life, which can only come from a Pentecostal experience of the Holy Spirit, as happened at the beginning of the Church, when the first apostles of Christ had to confront the pagan society of the time.
Q: Are the movements and new communities called to work for Christian unity?
Calisi: The members of Christ are not distributed haphazardly in his Body, which is the Church, but according to mysterious correspondences.
Because of this law, today Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox charismatics meet easily together to praise the Lord, because the Spirit has united them by the correspondence that exists in the experience of baptism in the Spirit received in the praise of God with charisms of tongues and prophesies, in spontaneity in the way of worshipping God.
It is only an example of unity among Christians by "correspondence of spirituality." There are many other examples that I could mention, which many of us have experienced. The most recent phenomenon of the spiritual unity of Christians, gathered by correspondence, was the meeting in Stuttgart of 175 movements, communities and groups of different churches of Europe.
About 80 were Catholics, some 80 were evangelicals from Germany, and the rest Orthodox, Anglicans and interconfessional.
Christians of 163 European cities were gathered via satellite around the Stuttgart meeting, while in the rest of the continents, 45 meetings of the same type were being held at the same time.
It is estimated that some 100,000 people participated. It is as the sound that Ezekiel heard in the valley of the "dry bones." Those "bones" today are Christians, who are being rebuilt in one body.
In this period of the Church we are witnessing many new ways of manifesting the existing unity among Christians -- although still divided in churches that are not united -- and this is due to a great extent to the spiritual and ecumenical ecumenism, which has as its main protagonists the ecclesial movements and new communities of the Church of today. These new realities have been inspired by the Holy Spirit for the rebuilding of Christians in one only Church.
This vision refers to our common baptism. We are all members of the Body of Christ because we have all been baptized in the one Spirit of Christ. Therefore we should live from the Spirit, says St. Paul.
Our Christian unity will not be able to occur except in a powerful life of the Spirit living in all the members of the Body of Christ. This powerful life of the Spirit does not consist in everyone working miracles or healings, but in the fact that all will be animated by the greatest charism, charity, of which St. Paul speaks in Chapter 13 of the First Letter to the Corinthians.
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Lane Johnson and Landry Jones each spent the week leading up to Saturday's Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., making strong impressions on NFL scouts.
Oklahoma football: Lane Johnson, Landry Jones tried to make strong impressions on NFL scouts at Senior Bowl
Both former Oklahoma standouts had something to prove; Johnson, whose strong senior season might've elevated him into first-round status, remains relatively inexperienced at his offensive tackle position.
And for Jones, questions regarding consistency and his lack of experience in more traditional, under-center offenses won't go away anytime soon — especially after he struggled in Saturday's game.
The Senior Bowl represents just one stop for the two former Sooners on the long road between now and Thursday, April 25, when the 2013 NFL Draft kicks off.
But the week was important, as each were able to showcase their talent with different teammates and in an unfamiliar environment.
Johnson began skyrocketing in mock drafts about midway through last season, continuing his unique path from junior-college quarterback to potential first-round NFL offensive tackle.
The 6-foot-7, 303-pounder started off as a quarterback at Kilgore College, but switched to tight end, which is where he began his Oklahoma career. He changed to defensive end, then started 12 games at offensive tackle his junior year.
Early in fall camp before his senior season, Johnson wasn't even expected to start, but he overtook Tyrus Thompson and continued his meteoric rise throughout the season.
NFL.com draft analyst Bucky Brooks wrote this week that, "Johnson has demonstrated impressive footwork, balance and body control while snuffing out pass rushers in drills. In one-on-one drills, Johnson's capacity to anchor and redirect rushers has earned him high marks from scouts closely monitoring his game."
Two other NFL.com analysts — Daniel Jeremiah and Charles Davis — currently project Johnson as a top-20 pick; Jeremiah has the former Sooner going at No. 16 to the St. Louis Rams, and Davis puts Johnson at No. 20 to the Bears.
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"If I could go back and ask my grandmother Monteith a question," Mum said, "I would ask her how she became a teacher, late in the 19th century.
Where did she go to school? How long did she teach before she met and married my grandfather?
If I could be a fly-on-the-wall, I'd listen to their conversations about sending my mother and her three sisters to Kalamazoo College, back in the early 1900s. Imagine educating women like that, over a century ago."
Mom smiled, adjusting her listening machine on the table in front of her. "You kids come from an incredible heritage, you know."
I'd heard this phrase many times over the years. Our mother, Margaret, was approaching her 93rd birthday. Time was short. The opportunity for asking was upon me.
The irises of my mother's eyes were no longer bright hazel. Faded, yet she could see that my hair wasn't quite right and she'd tell me so.
"I have glaucoma and macular degeneration," she said, pronouncing the terms with the articulation of a doctor's wife. "I'm on oxygen 24/7, and I use a walker wherever I go."
Yet, she rarely missed lunch at her table in the Deli of Freedom Village, and dinner each night with special friends.
I was with her when her left leg broke. We were listening to Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," and I thought she was taking a dance step as she fell in front of the fireplace at our cabin in the Upper Peninsula. If I'd known she wasn't revisiting her dream to be a Rockette, I would have taken her misstep more seriously.
"I have titanium in both legs, so I won't be able to fly anymore. I'd set off the body scanners," she'd tell you with a smile. Truth is, she never liked to fly.
Two years later, she walked into the hospital emergency room under her own steam, only to discover she had broken a vertebra in her neck. "I had such a headache — I thought I might need to have it checked out." Without fail, my mother both amazed and charmed the hospital staff.
"I've broken my wrist and my heel. I don't hear very well, and I'm a cancer survivor — twice!"
Indeed, her nine lives went on and on.
Two weeks ago, her memory was sharp; her wit and humor as rich as ever. Strong shoulders carried the weight of tears shed by her children, and laughter bubbled up through her chest when we teased her about flirting with the doctor as she asked him, "And what shall I call you, Sir Galahad?"
"Here, I want you to take this," she said, passing me a $10 bill from her red change purse. "I can't believe they're charging over $3.50 a gallon for gas. Why, that's highway robbery."
She took such good care of her offspring, and her boys from World Vision — one in India and one in Jerusalem — Doctors Without Borders, Holland Rescue Mission, Habitat ... the list goes on.
My mother was born in India, a missionary kid. Her parents were members of the Arabian Mission in the early 20th century in what is now Iraq. In 1929, her father, Henry Bilkert, was killed by a warring group of Bedouin Arabs; he was 36, my mother was 9.
When my grandmother and Paul Harrison married a few years later, they returned to the mission field with the youngest of their brood, and left my mother and her brother in Kalamazoo with Grandma Bilkert.
"Mum," I asked her, "don't you have any negative feelings about being left in the states when Grandma returned to Arabia? You were only 12. I can't imagine that."
"Well, honey, that's just the way it was. It was hard on all of us, but we survived. God took care of us."
Five days short of her 93rd birthday, and still a survivor. That is why it was so difficult for us to accept that Mum and Grandma did not rally this time.
Mum listened to her children, with her tender ear tuned to our fragile heartstrings. God gifted us Mummy to be our rock, our safe place on Earth.
I hear my mother's voice and feel the touch of her hand on my knee; a cool cloth for my feverish anxious self. She affirmed me in a way no one else could.
Her strength came as an answer to the prayers of the faithful supporters of Margaret, the little missionary child from Arabia. She grew up kind and generous, compassionate, and fervent about so many things: good books, music, raucous laughter, nature and all-things the cabin in the Upper Peninsula.
The last words I spoke to my mother, minutes before she was swept into Heaven, were of celebration. She would see her father and mother; her first family would be together again.
I am thankful for the prayers of those offered 93 years ago, and to our faithful God who answered them.
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Video footage showing horses being shocked in chutes and calves being abused in a roping contest at the Reno Rodeo in June, in violation of rodeo policies, was just released by Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK).
"Literally, these animals have to be tortured to get them to perform, and that is animal cruelty pure and simple," said SHARK spokesman Stuart Chaifetz.
SHARK released similar footage last year from the Reno Rodeo, after which cameras were installed by the rodeo officials to monitor activities.
Rodeo spokesman Steve Schroeder acknowledged that the horses were being shocked after seeing the footage and also admitted that cowboys, being the geniuses that they are, found a way to mess with the cameras that were installed and worked "really hard to stay out of camera view."
According to Schroeder, the Reno Rodeo frowns upon shocking, even though the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) officially allows shocks, or 'hot shots' to be used. The identity of the person doing the shocking hasn't been released, but Schroeder told the Rapid City Journal that the individual and the company he contracted for, Big Bend/Flying Five Rodeo Co., would likely be facing fines and that the individual in question would not be allowed to return.
Unfortunately for the animals involved, the latest video release just proves that problems with abuse and disregard for the rules are ongoing and part of a larger problem in rodeos.
"The whole damn thing is rotten," SHARK's Steve Hindi told the LA Times. "Some horses were double shocked. They have tried to scapegoat one person in an effort to make the problem go away. They said he won't be allowed back at the rodeo. But we know that's bull. There are four guys doing this."
"It's not going on in a vacuum. The riders know, the judges know, the announcers know. It's a systematic problem."
Judging by the video, the cowboys doing the shocking weren't exactly even close to being subtle about it.
Footage of calf-roping was also obtained that showed two calves being injured in 'jerk downs,' where they're chased at full speed, roped and flipped over backwards, an activity that is illegal by PRCA standards. One calf injured its leg, while another broke its neck but continued to endure having its legs tied.
SHARK plans on holding a press conference in Reno on Friday to show more footage from the event.
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Yeah, it takes a real big man to beat up a terrified animal- way to go cowboys. I hope you're proud of yourselves. You must have to prove you're missing something- compassion, humanity, decency, a certain part of your male anatomy...
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Kathy, with all due respect, going to "a" rodeo ONCE is hardly personal experience enough to give one the right to judge all rodeos or all rodeo events. Try to understand that the bulls buck because they just naturally do that and are bred specifically FOR that, from stock that also were bred to buck. Brahmas are not the docile, placid animals that Jersey cows are, and you could put a light weight mannequin on them and they'd buck just as hard. Maybe if you talked to Lane Frost's parents or to anyone in the industry which participate in that event, they could explain it more to you. WHY any of them enjoy that is beyond me, but those bulls are treated like royalty and they're worth a fortune to their handlers/owners. None of them are abused by any means.
not just the horses are tortured. the calf they rope is terrified, and the bulls are only bucking because there is a heavy stranger on their back. it's very sad. I went to one once. I cried
Only cowards underkake in this kind of behavior. Truly disgusting and disturbing.
I thought the wild west was a thing of the past..but I tend to forget man against beast. Man has no brains God bless the animals for being in control of a human. I wish a horse would ride a man and make him perform to the expectations they are submitted to..Pitiful Ann
do to man as man does to animals!
Any venue that exploits Animals needs to be banned. Rodeos are extremely cruel MOB events, they are only slightly less brutal than Bullfighting. We are living in the 21st century, such violence against Animals is unacceptable in modern society, those that participate are simply uncivilized barbarians!
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More of our best of the decade coverage, which started on Tuesday. You can read the other posts at the link above. Here, we talk about a very aught-like phenomenon: the cult of celebrity.
There is no clearer metaphor for the concept of being a celebrity than the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You work hard to chase your dream and achieve a career for yourself by making your name known to the masses of the universe.
Then when you've grabbed that star and become a regular fixture in the flash bulb of the press' cameras, how does the public honor your tireless toil and efforts? They throw you down on a sidewalk and walk all over you.
In the Aughts, however, a new celebrity oozed out of the primordial muck. A celebrity that still suffered the slings and arrows of the tabloid press and a complete loss of the right to privacy, but achieved their stardom by simply cutting out all that pesky hard work and tireless effort nonsense. These are the celebrities who became famous by simply because they were famous.
The ShamWow guy...made a movie?!?
Vince "ShamWow guy" Offer (we soon learned his real last name is Shlomi, thanks to his arrest record for fighting a prostitute) was one of the minds behind the infamous Underground Comedy Movie, a lame attempt at a Kentucky Fried Movie-style film that will live in infamy for reasons other than its attempt at comedy.
You might remember the film (or you may not want to) from the late night infomercials and commercials that aired for it back in the late '90s and early '00s. The film has a long and sordid history full of more litigation and despair than an E! True Hollywood Story, assuming that Vince Offer has not yet become the focus of an E! True Hollywood Story.
News from the yellow carpet: Simpsons ride launches at Universal Studios
I went to Universal Studios in Hollywood on Saturday for the revealing of The Simpsons Ride. Celebs walked the "yellow" carpet. The mayor welcomed the crowds and led the countdown. A human cannonball was shot into the air. And a yellow sheet dropped to reveal a 32-foot Krusty the Clown face at the entrance to the attraction.
Despite the launch being for The Simpsons, there were hardly any members of the cast there on the yellow carpet. Kelsey Grammer (Sideshow Bob) was there along with creator Matt Groening and producer James L. Brooks but no other voice talents were anywhere to be found. See who I talked to and read more about the ride unveiling after the jump.
The Best and Worst of 2007: Rich's list - VIDEO
Here we are again. Another year has passed us by and what do we have to show for it? A little more gray hair, a little less money in our pockets (have you noticed how the price of, um, everything has gone up?), and a little more fear that the world in slowly unraveling. Normally, television is there to soothe our brows in these times. Alas, the current pissing match between the Studios and the Writers is stifling that ability to the point that we may all be having Chaucer parties by mid-year because there's nothing to watch on the tube.
Not sounding too bitter, am I?
Well, you're not here to read about doom and gloom (unless it's a review of 24). You're here to see what I, and many of my TV Squad colleagues, thought television's best and worst were for 2007. So, without further interruptions on how much I paid for my daughter's karate lessons (you DON'T want to know), here is my list of best and worst for the previous year.
Anna Nicole judge resigns for a career in...
When Seidlin was all over television a few months back, he was reportedly being wooed by at least one network for a little face time. In his resignation, Seidlin didn't say exactly what he'll be doing, except that he has "a further commitment to helping my fellow citizens through roles in the educational system, media, and non-profit organizations." I highlighted a key word there because I'm guessing we'll be seeing Judge Larry's emotional outbursts on television sometime soon.
Anyone want to guess what type of show he'll be getting?
*UPDATE: Yup, he's got a TV show. He'll be filming a pilot for CBS Television Distribution.
Trimspa prepping "TiVo-proof" ad, not featuring Anna Nicole Smith
The company plans to use before and after photos of hundreds of TrimSpa users in its new ad campaign. The images will be visible even when users are fast-forwarding through the commercial.
Of course, these types of advertisements aren't really TiVo-proof, so much as TiVo-resistant. All you have to do to avoid the images is program your TiVo remote to use the 30-second skip feature. Or use a different PVR that lets you skip commercials altogether.
TV 101: Why you're not allowed to complain about what's on TV
Over the last two weeks, I've been subjected to a rash of televised news about fluffy non-stories that I didn't care about. I bemoaned the state of American News Television and nodded knowingly when SNL (such a satire, that SNL) ran a skit that said the same thing.
Except here's the thing: I did sorta care about Anna Nicole Smith. And yes, I cared more about her than the genocide in Darfur. Does that make me a classless, shortsighted, anti-intellectual? Yep. It also makes me an American.
Entertainment Tonight should be ashamed
I promised myself - promised, promised, promised - that I wouldn't write another story about Anna Nicole Smith. But then I saw this video, and I had to post this. If it stops just one person from watching another second of Entertainment Tonight, then this post is worth it.
The video is from Entertainment Tonight, who had EXCLUSIVE! access to the funeral in the Bahamas (*cough* $$$$$ *cough*), and while we get all of the expected weeping and slow motion and doves being released, we also see various friends and relatives of Anna Nicole taking a shovel and grabbing dirt out of the back of a wheelbarrow. I'm sure this is done at funerals, but it just seems odd to have everyone at the funeral grab the shovel and join in. After a while it seems like less a tribute than just doing some maintenance work at the cemetery.
Pay special attention to the job Anna Nicole's mom does.
Which is grosser: Howard K. Stern or The Apprentice?
Reprimand her mother all you want, but tell me something Howard, is it not wrong to consistently try to make money selling any sound bite you hawk to Entertainment Tonight? You alone are keeping Anna in the spotlight to be portrayed with exclusive coverage every night since Daniel's death.
It would be speaking too soon if we said that this is the last we will hear of the circus. Since Anna's passing, Howard has stated in court that he has no one to live off of but his parents, it's apparent that he will do anything to make a dollar.
TV Squad Daily with Brigitte - VIDEO
Today on TV Squad Daily:
- Dancing with the Stars, the fitness book, is coming soon.
- The inevitable Victoria and David Beckham reality show rumors have begun. And can someone tell me how why Posh is "hilarious"?
- How annoying: Larry Sedlin, the whacko judge in the Anna Nicole Smith burial hearing, was reportedly offered a TV gig.
Shocking news: Anna Nicole judge might get a TV gig!
Wow, here's something that was COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED.
Judge Larry Seidlin, who presided over the Anna Nicole hearing/circus last week, might get a regular spot on CBS' Saturday Early Show. One of the show's producers, Michael Rosen, sent Judge Seidlin a letter the other day (obtained by The Sun-Sentinel), saying that they want to hire him for a new segment on the show:
"I have been extremely impressed by your compassion in the Anna Nicole case and I would love to discuss with you the idea of being our judge on a new segment, `Morning Justice.' It would be a semi-regular segment in which you would resolve the ethical and legal questions of our viewers who send in the issues troubling them."
Nancy Grace is the father of Anna Nicole's baby
That's the claim she's making in a joke e-mail she sent to staffers at CNN Headline News. She's been so fed up with all of the people coming forward to claim they might be the father (the list so far includes Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, an ex who is in jail and J. Howard Marshall, the old guy she married years ago who might have frozen his sperm) so she finally declared that she was the father of the baby.
This would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that Grace has been covering the damn story from every single angle several times since Anna Nicole Smith died.
It's funny that she would say she's the father of the baby, since most people describe her as being a "mother."
[via TV Newser]
Charlize Theron as Anna Nicole Smith?
That's what Starpulse is reporting, anyway, citing "a source" that claims studios are "falling over themselves" to create a biopic about the late actress, model and reality TV star. I don't pretend to understand how this crazy machine called Hollywood operates, but are studios really in a mad dash to make this supposed biopic? If one is being planned, I would assume it would be some kind of made-for-TV affair, and that Theron is far too popular right now to even consider such a thing.
Let's play casting director: who do you guys think should play Anna Nicole Smith? I keep thinking Dolly Parton for two obvious reasons, but Parton's just too classy in my mind. They could always create a CGI Anna, too. If no one takes this alleged role they might have to resort to that.
Paula Abdul claims she's never been drunk
But it's all hogwash, according to Paula who told Us Weekly, "I've never been drunk. I have never done recreational drugs. Just look at my 20-year career. Tell me someone who is into partying or doing drugs that could have done that."
There, she's said it. Of course, celebrities say lots of things, and deny tons more.
The Five: Random TV thoughts
Various things I've been thinking about lately.
1. I don't know why I didn't notice this before, but the guy who plays Horn-Rimmed Glasses Man on Heroes, Jack Coleman, is the guy who played Steven Carrington on Dynasty in the 80s! I didn't recognize him at all. Not that I watched Dynasty. I was a Knot's Landing guy. Great hair though.
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Campaign Finance$84,892 Given
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- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
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Republicans vs. Democratsin dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.
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Lobbying$2,771,000 Spent
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Lobbying on Behalf of Texas State University
Names of Lobbyists
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- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Environment & Superfund
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Bill No. Title H.R.2419 Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007 H.R.2997 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 H.R.3617 Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2009 H.R.4899 Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act of 2010 H.R.5136 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 S.1498 Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2009 S.3454 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 H.R.1540 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 H.R.2847 Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2010 H.R.3326 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010
RegulationsMentioned in 127 dockets; Submitted to 5 dockets
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- Toggle 2 ED Teacher Preparation Issues 2014
- Toggle 1 CPSC Safety Standard for Magnet Sets 2012
- Toggle 1 FWS Four Central Texas Salamanders 2012
- Toggle 1 APHIS Traceability for Livestock Moving Interstate 2009
- Toggle 1 FDA Content and Format of Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products; Requirements for Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling 2006
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- Toggle 14 FWS Four Central Texas Salamanders 2012
- Toggle 11 CMS Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2005 2010
- Toggle 9 EPA Rulemaking for the Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Limitations Guidelines 2009
- Toggle 8 EPA Criteria and Standards for Cooling Water Intake Structures 2008
- Toggle 6 CMS Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Other Part B Payment Policies; Revisions to Payment Policies for Ambulance Services for CY 2008; and the Proposed Elimination of the E-Rx Exemption for Computer-Generated Faxes*** 2010
- Toggle 6 FWS Endangered Status for Smalleye Shiner and Sharpnose Fish Shiner 2013
- Toggle 5 ED Teacher Preparation Issues 2014
- Toggle 4 EPA Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units 2013
- Toggle 4 FWS Critical Habitat Designation for Smalleye Shiner and Sharpnose Fish Shiner 2013
- Toggle 4 PHMSA Longhorn Pipeline Reversal - Environmental Assessment 2012
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Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z were snapped on date night at a basketball match over the weekend but more importantly, the singer showcased her brand new hairdo!
The pop superstar swapped her naturally tousled curls for a seriously sleek, straight style.
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The Catholic University for Independent Thinkers
On February 5 a Prospective Romers meeting was held for students interested in attending Rome this Fall 2013 and Spring 2014. The application and eligibility requirements were discussed at the meeting. You will find the PowerPoint presentation shown at the meeting as well as other pertinent information for parents online at udallas.edu/rome/prospectiveromers/applicationprocess.html. Both Fall and Spring applicants will need to submit all application components to the Rome Office by March 1. A complete application for Rome includes a copy of a valid passport with an expiration date no sooner than September 2014. If your student does not have a passport or if their passport is expired, they should expedite their passport application in order for it to arrive by the March 1 deadline.
Tuition on the Rome and Irving campuses are the same, with room and board in Rome somewhat higher. Additional costs of the Rome semester relate to independent and faculty-led travel, administrative fees and international airfare. For more information please visit udallas.edu/rome/prospectiveromers/costsandfees.html.
If your UD undergrad has siblings who would like to "test-drive" a UD academic experience or if you are interested in an adult Rome experience, the Rome and Summer Programs Office offers programs in Italy and Irving. Programs for Summer 2013 include (for high school students): Shakespeare in Italy, Latin in Rome, and Arete: A College Preparatory Program, the Undergraduate Summer Rome Program and The School of Ministry offers theology courses for adults on the Rome campus in the month of June.


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I switched back to Firefox few months ago.
In Ubuntu, Chrome is a resource hog. I usually have several tabs opened at the same time. Just compared the RAM usage: 7GB in Chrome, 1.1 in Firefox.
Additionally, Firefox is a bit faster (in UI), and it just respects my look and feel (colors, borders, font sizes, etc).
And for address bar searches, Chrome privileges the google search instead of navigation history, which I really don't like (I usually visit the same sites, and even with several hits in a day for the same site starting with the same word, Chrome prefers, for few ones, to search when I type the word instead of display the known URL as first result).
I just changed few settings in Firefox (increased scroll speed, click in URL behaviour to select the entire address), and voilà.
Just annoying that every Google service keep suggesting to use Chrome until you dismiss this message.
"Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint." -- Dave Sim, author of Cerebrus.


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Budget analysts expect small businesses operating in Carbon County and across the state to benefit due to anticipated economic growth nationwide.
After stumbling during first quarter 2003, the United States economy should improve throughout the remainder of the year.
U.S. economic growth was miserly in first quarter, inching up at a 1.6 percent real rate, indicated the latest Utah small business index compiled by Zions Bank.
The national expansion level was slightly weaker than initially forecast and basically matched the prior quarter's weak 1.4 percent after inflation growth rate posted nationwide.
First quarter sluggishness was, in part, tied to "the CNN effect," explained the small business index.
Millions of Americans focused more attention on the war with Iraq than on supporting the U.S. business sector.
In addition, severe weather at numerous locations across the nation also crimped consumer spending.
Spending was sluggish in the January-March period, rising 1.4 percent versus a 1.7 percent rate in the prior quarter, continued the small business index.
Housing construction activity remained strong during the quarter, climbing at a 12 percent annual rate.
Spending on non-residential structures like office buildings and factories fell 3.4 percent for the sixth straight quarterly decline.
The drop represents a continuation of the worst slump in fixed investment since the late 1920s, pointed out the small business index.
However, financial analysts expect growth prospects to improve nationwide.
Recent jumps in the two main measures of consumer confidence and sentiment, combined with lower energy costs, bode well for stronger economic expansion in the second half of the year.
The Utah unemployment rate - the most heavily weighted component of the business index - was estimated at 5.3 percent in April 2003, down from March's 5.7 percent rate.
April's statewide joblessness level compares to an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent during 2002. A lower jobless rate is a negative contributor to the index, implying decreased access to Utah labor.
Utah's unemployment rate averaged 6.1 percent in 2002 and 4.4 percent in 2001. By comparison, the 3.2 percent average during 2000 was one of the lowest posted since the early 1950s. The rates compare to an average Utah jobless level of 3.5 percent between 1995 and 1999, noted the index.
Total Utah employment declined by 3,400 jobs, down 0.3 percent during the past 12 months. Employment gains averaged 38,300 jobs statewide annually from 1994 through 2000. period.
Weak job growth or actual employment declines, leading to lesser income creation and weaker retail spending, has a negative impact upon Utah's small businesses, indicated the report.
The index measures conditions from the viewpoint of the Utah small business owner or manager and shows a drop in the state's report to 92.6 in April 2003 from 96.3 in March. A lower index number is associated with less favorable business conditions.
The Utah small business report uses 100.0 for calendar year 1997 as the index base.
At the national level, the U.S. Department of Labor reported the net loss of an estimated 48,000 jobs in April 2003.
The nation experienced a 353,000 job loss in March, while employment opportunities dropped by 120,000 positions in February. The American economy has lost 332,000 jobs in the last 12 months, according to the Utah small business report.
The U.S. unemployment rate registered at 6 percent in April, up from March's 5.8 percent rate and matching December 2002s high for the economic cycle.
The jobless rate could approach 6.2 percent in the coming months, predicted the state's small business index.
The nation's goods-producing sector dropped 73,000 employment positions in April, led by the loss of 95,000 manufacturing jobs.
The U.S. manufacturing sector has posted declining employment for 33 consecutive months, with more than 2.3 million jobs eliminated since mid-2000.
Construction added 18,000 jobs nationwide in April, while the mining sector added 4,000 jobs nationwide.
Service-providing employment in the U.S. rose by an estimated 25,000 jobs in April.
The retail trade sector decreased by an estimated 10,000 positions, bringing the industry's losses to 470,000 jobs since June 2001.
The transportation and public utilities sector lost 19,000 jobs during the month, with nearly all decrease reported in the U.S. airline industry.
The public or government sector added 32,000 jobs nationwide, primarily in local education, while the U.S. health care industry created 13,000 new employment opportunities, concluded the Utah small business index.


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Transportation Technology Center, Inc.
Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI), is a railroad testing and training facility located northeast of Pueblo, Colorado. It originated as the Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Test Center as a site to test several hovertrain concepts. When those projects were completed in the 1970s, the site was handed to the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA),[1] Transportation Technology Center (TTC).Transportation Technology Center, Inc.,(TTCI) was formed on January 1, 1998, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR). Headquartered at TTC, Pueblo,CO, TTCI also has its subsidiary in the UK, TTCI(UK) Ltd. which was incorporated in June 8, 2004. The TTC site is home to numerous test tracks and laboratories.[2]
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