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For a set-up that was set up for kids, this is ironical. Bhopal girl Vidushi Bhatnagar, 16, was thrilled when she saw two of her paintings printed on Unicef greeting cards. But wait ... the cards didn't bear her name. Her letters to Unicef in Bhopal and Delhi were ignored: no response, no credit. As for remuneration, forget it. "I thought an organisation like Unicef would care about intellectual property rights," says Vidushi who had submitted 10 transparencies of her paintings to their card office in 1994. After several weeks of inquiries from India Today, now Unicef's state representative Vinod Alkari says: "Unicef promises to print Vidushi's name on the cards whenever they are reprinted." Let's see.
Captain Milestone
Also Starring...
At this rate he might one day be Bollywood's most wanted. Suhaib Ilyasi, popular Zee TV anchor-producer-director of the crime-busting show India's Most Wanted, is playing himself in the forthcoming Juhi Chawla-Shah Rukh Khan starrer Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. Here's the story: as bumbling journos, the lead pair label an innocent man a terrorist. Truth comes out. They vanish. Enter Ilyasi, helping to track them down through his show. "Ours is a serious show. We were initially apprehensive that they might make a joke of us," he admits. "They did not." They wouldn't dare.
Positively Sizzling
The name's Mallika, just Mallika. "Because the name itself says a lot." After some music videos for T-Series, the self-assured 24-year-old from Bahrain is playing a Pak commando in the film Hindustan Ki Kasam. "It's a positive role and it's just the beginning," she trills. "The Mallika name won't just come and go." Positive? Hardly. Hear the gory details: "I try to rape Ajay (Devgan) in the film. The scene is a highlight of the film. It's a surprise for the viewers so I can't reveal more. I try very hard but I don't succeed ..." Kind of makes Bindu and gang look like saints.
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Blind Cave Tetras Breeding or Aggression?
Hi everyone,
I have 6 blind cave tetras, 3 males and 3 females. Sometimes they stick together, and sometimes they tend to split up 3 on one side of the tank, 3 one the other. At the moment, on the left side of the tank is one of the females and two of the males and they are all under the cave that I have set up, and the gravel slopes down to make sort-of a well/ ditch. Anyhow, for the last hour I have noticed the two males "play-fighting" if you will, as one gets right up next to the other they chase each other for a few seconds, then stop and repeat. One of the males however seems to be doing what looks like possible mating behavior with the female, but I am not sure if it is aggression or that. She is swimming very slowly or almost staying in the same spot right above a rock (which earlier she was moving regularly) as if she is waiting for the male. When the male comes up to her and kind-of bumps his head into her belly/anal area (as best as I can describe it), she swims off by a plants and then returns and hovers over the rock. I have never bred characins before, although I have seen videos of it happening. Just wondering if anyone out there happens to have bred blind cave tetras? Also I did do the temperature drop as recommended for breeding, and now the female is occasionally swimming in a circle or two really fast over the rock and then hovering/ swimming above it. I apologize for so much to read haha, and if it is confusing please ask away for clarification.
Much thanks
Hi kevinm. I've never bred blind cave tetras but I'm very interested to know how things have turned out. The behavior you're describing sure does sound like spawning behavior to me.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The parents of a south Georgia college student first learned from Facebook that their daughter had been found dead in a dormitory study room shortly before Thanksgiving. Now, they hope that Facebook and other social media sites can help solve the death of 17-year-old Jasmine Benjamin, which police are investigating as a homicide.
The Valdosta State University freshman was found unresponsive on a study room couch on Nov. 18.
A family friend forwarded the Facebook post about the teen's death to her parents before they were officially notified by authorities, said A. Thomas Stubbs, an attorney for the victim's mother, Judith Brogdon, and her stepfather, James Jackson. But many questions remain unanswered about how she died.
The family has hired a private investigator, and a new Facebook site has been set up in hopes that students and others might share tips.
While some Facebook comments have already been turned over to law enforcement officers, the family hopes friends, classmates or others who noticed suspicious comments will also alert authorities.
"Anything that reveals a little more information than what's publicly known about her death, those are the kind of comments police are looking for as someone who might warrant a closer examination," Stubbs said.
Also of interest are "unusual comments or unusually timed comments about her death," he said.
Police detectives have canvassed dormitories and interviewed several students on the campus, located about 250 miles south of the family's home in Gwinnett County, outside Atlanta.
Benjamin wanted to follow the career path of her mother and become a nurse.
Police say they're treating the case as a homicide, though autopsy results are not complete and they can't say for certain whether she was killed. There were no obvious signs of a crime when her body was found, but an autopsy raised questions, authorities have said.
"We're providing what resources are necessary to assist Valdosta State University police in solving this crime," Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said. "The crime lab is expediting evidence from this incident."
Shortly after Benjamin's parents learned of her death from Facebook, Lawrenceville police officers knocked on the doors of the family home to inform them officially that their daughter was dead, Stubbs said.
"As frustrating as that may be for the family to learn that way, they understand it's a different world," Stubbs said.


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Washington Trust's Marketing Department celebrates PRSA Award, left to right: Laura Dunleavy, Tammy Joslin, Christy Birchell, Monica Clearkin, Beth Eckel, and Sharon Walsh.
Westerly, Rhode Island... Washington Trust recently received an Excellence award, in the Community Relations/Cause Marketing category, from the Southeastern New England Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA/SENE) for the Bank's I Luv RI social media campaign. Introduced in July 2011 on Facebook and the Internet, www.iluvri.com, I Luv RI is the Bank's ongoing initiative to promote Rhode Island businesses and celebrate all that's great about the Ocean State.
"We are thrilled with the success of the I Luv RI campaign and honored to be recognized for our efforts to help support Rhode Island businesses, events, and causes," said Joseph J. MarcAurele, Washington Trust's Chairman, President & CEO. "In just over six months, I Luv RI has already attracted more than 10,000 Facebook "likes", with an average of 160,000 post views, and more than two hundred and fifty business coupons."
"Year after year, we continue to be overwhelmed by the amazing talent and accomplishments of public relations practitioners in the region, and we're very pleased to honor Washington Trust for winning an Excellence Award for their I Luv RI initiative," said Scott Fraser, president of PRSA/SENE and principal at Fraser Communications Group.
All Rhode Island businesses and non-profit organizations are welcome to like, post, or participate on the I Luv RI www.iluvri.com website and I Luv RI Facebook page. The site offers spotlights on Rhode Island businesses and non-profits, posts on Rhode Island events, special contests, discount coupons, videos, and fun facts. The Bank also offers free in-branch displays, digital advertising, and e-news promotions.
For more information about the I Luv RI campaign, or to get involved, visit www.iluvri.com or email the Bank at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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runnrchic- 04/07- Gulf Coast HM, Pensacola
Julia1971 - 4/7 - Cherry Blossom 10 Miler
Jackdyl11 - 4/7 - Cherry Blossom 10 Miler
Joe1775 - 4/13 - Glacier Ridge Trail Ultra 50
So_Im_a_Runner - 4/14 - Union Half Marathon (1:30 pacer)
AthenaofAmerica - 4/14 - Artichoke Half Marathon
Marco59 - 4/15 - Boston - goal: 3:05
markrice - 4/15 - Boston - goal sub 3:15
GregTR - 4/15 - Boston
JenRosie - 4/15 - Boston
onemile - 04/20 - Carmel Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 4/20 - DTF Endurance Race 50K
Xrayman: 4/21 - Lansing Marathon
GregTR - 4/21 - London Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 04/27 - Key Biscayne Half Marathon
SIAR - 4/28 - Glass City Marathon
GoneFishing - 04/28 - Big Sur, CA
Julia1971 - 4/28 - Nike Women's Half Marathon
hilltopper91 - 05/05 - Broad Street Run
jackdyl11 - 5/5 - New Jersey Marathon
Joe1775 - 5/5 - Flying Pig Marathon, Cincinnati OH
PressingOn - 5/5 - Tacoma City Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 05/07 - Puerto Rico Marathon
Patti678 - 5/11 - Gulf Coast Half Ironman, Panama City Beach, FL
RVDowning - 5/11 - Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon
AthenaofAmerica - 5/11 - Mermaid Run East Bay Sirena18 (18 miles)
SprinklesRunner - 5/19 - Run for the Red Marathon
Runmomto3boys - 05/20 - Green Bay Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 6/16 - San Francisco Marathon
AthenaofAmerica - 6/16 - San Francisco Marathon
Patti678- 7/4 - Peachtree Road Race 10K: goal: PR
Not too Swift - 7/4 - Peachtree Road Race 10K
AthenaofAmerica - 7/6 Dirty Half Dozen 6-Hour Endurance Run
Patti678 - 8/23 & 24- Hood to Coast- 199 mile relay with 10 person team
SprinklesRunner - Date TBD - Wineglass Marathon
GregTR - 9/29 - Berlin Marathon
Runmomto3boys - 10/6 Lakefront Marathon
GregTR - 10/13 - Chicago Marathon
RVDowning - 10/13 - Chicago Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 10/13 - Chicago Marathon
AthenaofAmerica - 10/19 - Folsom Blues Breakout Half Marathon
RVDowning - 10/26 - Silver Comet Marathon
not too swift - 10/27- Atlanta Marathon
ImNotScott - 10/27 - Marine Corps Marathon
JackDyl11 - 10/27 - Marine Corps Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 10/27 - Marine Corps Marathon
Julia1971 - 11/3 - New York City Marathon
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it's the fight in the dog. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
My blog is JT Running DC. It's awesome.
Good morning foolish runners! I'm so glad I realized it's April Fool's Day early today because I'm so gullible.
My hamstrings are still very sore. My schedule says 6 with strides but I'm definitely going to pass on the strides and I may cut the mileage down, too. I'll see how I feel when I head out there.
I did some stretching last night and am kinda shocked by how much flexibility I've lost in the last couple of years. I really need to start stretching. I hate stretching, though. It seems like such a waste of time while I'm doing it.
Bad Ass
Morning! I have a short recovery run and weights. I did 9 last night with 4 @ MP. I could barely breathe for the 18 Saturday and yesterday I was all energetic breathing. Weird!
Julia, hope your hamstring feels better. If you end up doing the strides, do them slower.
Damaris, Marathon Maniac, Ultra Runner, INKnBURN Ambassador
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
It's always fucking hot in Miami!
Finally PRed!!!
Julia: Hope your hamstrings feel better soon. I'm pretty bad about stretching too. For a while last year, I was pretty regular about doing the routine in the Pfitz book a couple days a week after running, then when my mileage got higher I tended to skip it.
Docket: Glad you had a good run yesterday, hope you have a good recovery run and weights.
I can't run until later today, not sure how many I'll do, but at least 5-6. Shooting for about 35 miles this week, then next week I'll start my plan for the Peachtree (which means I'll have to finish making the plan sometime this week).
Have a great day, everyone!
PRs: 5K: 22:09, 10K:44:55, 15K: 1:10:35, HM: 1:42:49, M: 3:32:09
mostly harmless
Good morning! I'm working from home today and the weather forecast has me considering taking the afternoon off for a drive down to the trail for a nice run. I'll have to wait and see how the morning unfolds.
Julia - I am right there with you with stretching. I hate doing it but I really need to. I hope your hamstring soreness passes soon and your run is enjoyable.
Damaris - Good luck with the recovery run and weights later. I hope the breathing continues to be good like yesterday and not crappy like the day before. I imagine it can be very frustrating never knowing how your body will react until you get going. You seem to deal with that well.
NTS - Cross posted. Have a good run later and good luck finishing your plan. Are you writing your own plan from scratch or are you using something as a guide?
Morning, no time for personals...
Cross fit this AM, then maybe a 3-4 mile run (I was pretty sore yesterday, so may take an URD), plus *MAYBE* some paddle boarding this PM.
Rest of the week:
Tuesday: I work, but if I rest today, I will do 3-4 miles on the treadmill, then doing some paddle boarding (I'm going to be a member of a SUP race team this summer, so I have to train). Otherwise if I run today, then rest and PM SUP
Wednesday: 6-8 miles
Thursday: 3-4 miles *hopefully* (packet pick up starts, so I'm sure to be BUSY!!!)
Friday: 6-8 miles
Saturday: Rest/Race Directing today!
Half: 1:48 (March 3rd, 2013)
Full: 4:05:40 (March 17th, 2013)
2013/2014 Goals:
Sub-4:00 hour Marathon
Sub- 125 poundsSub- 1:45 hour half.
never heard from coach about what I should do today so I'll be takin it off. I'll email/txt her later.
gotta git. cuttin it too close this morning
Dec 23 - Apocalypse Survivors Half Marathon
Jan 13 - Houston Chevron Marathon
Feb 17 - Austin Half Marathon
March 2 - Woodlands Marathon
got up at the usual time but skipped the run and came to work....probably the third consecutive RD for me....not feeling too well and may go home sick
Go figure
Hey all...I ran 6.5 this morning. I ran in some older shoes, hoping that they would work still for easy miles even if they're out of the tempo rotation, but they're shot. I ended up skipping my hill sprints because the shoes just weren't feeling good on my feet at all. RIP Asics Skyspeed, you lived a good 444 miles.
Hope you all have a good day that is both ache and pain free.
Trying to find some more hay to restock the barn
It is frustrating, especially when it happens on race day. As soon as I crossed the starting line at the LA Marathon, I knew it was one of those days. It sucks when you're trying to PR, but meh, the only that cares about that is me, haha.
Good morning! I'm working from home today and the weather forecast has me considering taking the afternoon off for a drive down to the trail for a nice run. I'll have to wait and see how the morning unfolds.
Julia - I am right there with you with stretching. I hate doing it but I really need to. I hope your hamstring soreness passes soon and your run is enjoyable.
Damaris - Good luck with the recovery run and weights later. I hope the breathing continues to be good like yesterday and not crappy like the day before. I imagine it can be very frustrating never knowing how your body will react until you get going. You seem to deal with that well.
NTS - Cross posted. Have a good run later and good luck finishing your plan. Are you writing your own plan from scratch or are you using something as a guide?
Hi all! I'm back. Though with my lack of posting lately you could all assume this is simply an April Fool's joke and it's not really me. Sorry. The weather has been unusually warm and sunny, my running has been not as high mileage as I recovered from the last marathon, we've had a cold running back and forth through our family, grandma's illness & funeral and the travel, and I found myself wanting to do anything but get on the computer. Sometimes I need to mentally step away from the online time sucker and actually get stuff done in the real world. But, mileage is back in high gear this week as I prep for my May marathon and spring break has begun so ... I'll enter the online world again. I've missed you guys.
Julia - Stretching is good for you. Do it! I actually enjoy stretching. I think it feels awesome. I just got the "Yoga for Athlete's" dvd and am loving the stretches it has.
Damaris - Well, at least the breathing seems to be on the right track. Hope the energetic trend continues.
Swift - Enjoy your run today!
Scott - Hope you can take some time for a run today.
Jodi - Enjoy whatever you wind up doing today for exercise.
CC - Enjoy the rest today.
Marco - Feel better soon!
SIAR - Good idea to not risk an injury running in worn out shoes.
My 5K on Saturday went pretty good. It was a small race ... 18 runner's. Good note, I came in 1st place female and 2nd overall. On a bad note, I'm not sure of my finish time. The last reading I had on my Garmin was 27:45 but I forgot to turn the thing off at the end and I'm not sure how much time passed between me finishing and realizing it was still running (small race so no big timing clock). And of course, I didn't check it from mile 2 on so I can't even say where I was at mile 3. The results have me listed as 26:30 but I'm not entirely sure that's correct. The results also had me listed as 1st place finisher overall and had me as finishing the 10K which I did not run. I would love the 26:30 to be correct though as that would be a PR. Dang, does this mean I'll have to run another hard 5K? This one hurt. There was a cold fog and it was burning my lungs to breath it in. I've been fighting the cough/cold my husband and daughter have had and wow, cold fog was quite irritating to my throat. It made me think of how Damaris must feel when she tries to run with her asthma. I had a bit of a cough the rest of the day after but it's all gone now. Phew. Last time that happened in a race (snow and wind) I went home with pneumonia. It felt just like that and sorta psyched me out on the course.
Hope you all had a great Easter! I'm heading over to read all your RR's now. Finally.
thinkin about glory days
Hi, Everyone- I did a little over 5 this morning at a nice easy pace. My little streak ended last week at 9 days - my legs just needed a break. Probably not a good idea to start a streak from just about a month of no running. If I didn't know better, I would think that my scale was playing an April Fool's joke on me. I'm up almost 17 lbs. since my last marathon in November. Yikes! Time to get serious.
Julia, good luck with the stretching - I'm terrible with it too. We should have some sort of running game that gives you extra points for stretching.
Damaris, I hope your breathing stays under control.
NTS, hope you enjoy your 5-6.
Scott, you picked a great day for a trail run.
Jodi, sounds like a good week.
CC, enjoy the day off.
Marco, hope you feel better soon.
SIAR, so sad about the shoes - have they discontinued the Skyspeed? I feel like every time I search for shoes on sale, the Skyspeed comes up.
PO, 26:30 for a 10K? That's gotta be a world record!
5k: 21:36
Oh my god I'm starting to freak out about my marathon already. I have 5 weeks to go. This is gonna get ugly. Also, can't forget to get all worked up about this weekend's race! I'm planning on 10 tonight, and will then start taking it easy to rest up.
Julia - That's good that you're not worried about your hamstrings. I'm the least flexible person in the world. I can't sit indian style, my legs don't bend that way. That is definitely something I need to work on and might be why I keep getting hurt.
DR - Glad you're feeling better. That must be kinda scary
NTS - Enjoy the run!
Scott - Have fun on the trails! I'm happy the weather has finally turned (for good dammit) too.
Jojo - Good luck on the last week before your race! You must be pretty busy this week, good luck finding time for all that working out.
CC - Have a nice rest day!
Marco - ouch, that sounds pretty bad. Hope you feel better soon.
SIAR - 444 is pretty good. I bet you'll speed up 15 seconds/mile in new shoes.
Pressing - Congrats on the victory! Those low key races are my favorite! I always talk myself into the big ones, but I think I have more fun when it is a small group of people. The 62 yo that came "second" in my last 10k (2x5k course) also ran about a 26:30. The RD didn't understand my sarcasm when I pointed that out to him. The 14 yo that "won" ran about 24:00. It took them 2 months to sort that one out.
Hill - Smart taking a break when you need it, instead of another longer break when you're forced to. Streaks are cool but PRs are cooler! (I wish I followed that advice a little closer sometimes though)
Hi! I kept reading the thread all day but never had a chance to post. Hope everybody is doing well.
3.14 and heavy weights done. The HR went crazy and apparently, my recovery run was run at MP heart rate, haha. Mostly it was the top was too tight and moving my HRM. Bah.


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Now into its 6th successful year, Asia Palm Oil Conference 2016 hosted by the
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Description: India's only international exhibition for Private label products, own brand FMCG retail and contract manufacturing.The market is growing exponentially as middle class consumers are price conscious & are hunting for new products which offer better value for money and the time is apt to develop Private Label Sales in India.This will bring together leading contract manufacturers & suppliers with India's retail sector owners and buyers, serving the world's second largest market.Recent trends reflect a continuous growth in the Private label market.In India, up-to-date styles, top-notch quality and accessible prices, all work for private brands and high demand & opportunities are the key forces driving the Private label market in India along with better margins and increasing consumer acceptance.
Annual Cancer Convention, hosted by the Cancer Control Society
"Learn about the prevention and control of cancer through nutrition, test and non-toxic cancer therapies such as laetrile, gerson, hoxsey, poly-MVA, enzymes and immunotherepy from medical doctors, clinical researchers, nutritionists and authors. In addition, learn about chelation, DMSO, oxygen, herbal, cellular and electro-magnetic therapies."
This supermarket tradeshow and educational event (www.fmi.org) is co-located with the U.S. Food Showcase (www.nasdatradeshows.org).
According to show organizers, "Fi Asia promises to maintain its exclusive position as the most important route to the entire Southeast-Asia food and beverage industry."
Co-located with the Organic Trade Association's All Things Organic tradeshow, Natural Products Expo East offers more than 1,500 booths and numerous educational events.
FSTEC is the industry's longest running tech showcase. FSTEC offers a "stimulating and fun program perfect for a hot spot like Miami." The meeting will still offer an inclusive meeting focused on foodservice technology with networking events, top-notch speakers and a showcase at FSTEC NexGen.
Casual attire is suggested.
The Global Market Development Center's Health.Beauty.Wellness marketing conference will feature workshops, a supplier product showcase and tabletop meetings for retailers, wholesalers and suppliers in the health, beauty and wellness categories.
Promotions, new hires, retirements and more.
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When I saw Hard Candy, I was blown away by Ellen Page's carefully controlled performance as a young girl who embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a man who trolls the internet for 14-year-old girls. I knew when I saw her in that film that she had a good career ahead of her, if she'd make some good choices around future scripts. Looks like she's done just that (I'm generously overlooking her role as Kitty Pryde in X-Men -- she was underused there), because she has no fewer than six films lined up.
Page is making some really smart decisions with her scripts -- she's mixing it up enough not to get herself boxed into one type of role, she's got a Sundance film, a mainstream film, and some decidedly edgier fare all upcoming. Page is one of the actresses I'll be watching with the most interest in 2007; here's what she has upcoming, so you can get her on your radar (if she's not there already):
First up for Page is An American Crime (pictured above), which debuts at Sundance. Film is based on a true story from 1965 Indiana about a housewife who kept a teenage girl, Sylvia Likens, locked in her basement. Page was reportedly the only choice to play Likens, and she co-stars with Catherine Keener, who plays Gertrude Baniszewski, the 37-year-old woman who led a pack of teenagers and children as young as 11 and 12 (some her own kids, and others just kids in the neighborhood) in the escalating beating, torture and eventual death of the 16-year-old, in one of the worst torture-murder cases in American history. In an interesting bit of casting, typically "nice boy" Jeremy Sumpter, who was fantastic in the title role in 2003's Peter Pan, takes on the role of Coy Hubbard, the 16-year-old boyfriend of Stephanie Baniszewski, who was one of the worst of Syliva's abusers, repeatedly practicing Judo on her by throwing her into walls. p>
When Likens' emaciated body was found by police after an anonymous phone call by one of the teenagers who had abused her led them to the house where she'd been held, they found that she had been repeatedly burned with cigarettes and matches, and branded on her stomach with the words "I am a prostitute and proud of it". Sylvia and her younger sister had been left in the care of Baniszewski by their father so he could travel the carnival circuit; he later admitted in court records that he had only known Baniszewski, who he knew as "Mrs. Wright," for a few hours, and didn't bother to inspect her home, where she lived with her own seven children. Not one of your uplifting stories, but I'm interested to see how filmmaker Tommy O'Haver (Ella Enchanted), who co-wrote the script, handles the harrowing tale. I'll be reviewing this one at Sundance (and we hope to interview Page as well) so stay tuned.
Next up for Page is The Tracey Fragments, a little indie directed by Bruce McDonald and filmed in 14 days. Film is based on the depressing debut novel by Canadian author Maureen Medved (who also wrote the screenplay), about a mentally-disturbed teenager, riding a bus through a blizzard, naked except for a shower curtain, on a search for her missing younger brother (who thinks he's a dog). If that sounds like your kind of weird and depressing, this might be right up your alley. I know I'll be there.
Currently listed as being in post-prod is The Stone Angel, based on a novel by Margaret Laurence about a fiercely proud and independent woman, Hagar Shipley (played by Ellen Burnstyn), who reflects on her life as she hides out to avoid being put in a nursing home. Not a lot of info on Page's part in this film, but her character is "Arlene," so if you've read the book on which the film is based, throw us a bone, will you?
Hot on the heels of that is Smart People, originally set to star Rachel Weisz (The Fountain), but she left the project and was replaced with Sarah Jessica Parker. Hrm. Of the two, I generally prefer Weisz, but whatever. Parker plays a doctor who falls for a grumpy professor who has wallowed in anger since the death of his wife. Dennis Quaid plays the widower, who you just know is going to liplock with Parker sometime during the film. Page plays Quaid's daughter in the film, and Thomas Haden Church (his presence, along with Page's, is a good sign) plays Quaid's long-lost adopted brother.
Page follows up that turn with an edgier role as a teenage lesbian in Jack and Diane (Dammit! Now that song is going to be stuck in my head all night!). But wait! That's not all! It's apparently a lesbian teenage ... werewolf movie! Page plays Diane who, after a night of passionately making out with tough-skinned fellow teen lesbian Jack (Olivia Thirlby, who also stars in Snow Angels, another Sundance film), finds that her newly awakened sexual desire turns her into a werewolf. Can I get a "hell, yeah!" people? The comments about the film on IMDb are truly hilarious, with some people upset that Page is playing a lesbian, others bemused that people are more upset that she's a lesbian than a werewolf, and still others simply liking the idea of seeing Page in lesbian love scenes. Page also plays the role of Diane's twin sister, Karen, and, according to the director's website, the film will include animation scenes by the Brothers Quay that take place inside Diane's body. Wow. They had me at "teenage lesbian werewolf flick," but that seals the deal. I am so there.
Last but not least, Page will star in Thank You For Smoking director Jason Reitman's next film,Juno , a dark comedy about a pregnant teenager (that would be Page). Page's character, Juno, gets preggers after one sexual encounter with her best friend, and then decides to adopt her baby out to a less-than-perfect couple -- but develops a crush on the ambivalent future adoptive father. Reitman is a comedic director with great instincts, and this is one of the films I am most anticipating in 2007.


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LAWTON, Okla. (AP) - The assessor in Comanche County has
resigned while a prosecutor reviews the results of an investigation
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County commissioners on Monday accepted the resignation of
Assessor Charlotte Hamilton.
Hamilton's attorney said only that Hamilton decided that
resigning is the appropriate action.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has been looking into
allegations that Hamilton's office paid an outside contractor to do
work that was performed by her office's employees.
District Attorney Dennis Smith says he's reviewing the OSBI
report and likely will decide within two weeks whether to file
Hamilton's race for re-election ended in a Democratic primary
loss last week.
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After flashing a handgun at employees, a suspect was able to get away from Walmart with several stolen items.
Police are now searching for the robbery suspect.
Around 1:15 a.m., the suspect was seen inside the Walmart on East Platte first gathering merchandise, then trying to slip out without paying. Several employees had been eyeing the suspect while he was in the store, but let him go after he showed a handgun on his way out.
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The large military base in southern Kosovo faces reduction or closure as strategic attention shifts from the Balkans, US ambassador Christopher Dell tells Jane's.
In an interview with Jane's Intelligence Review, ambassador Dell said it was a "myth" that Bondsteel was developed to project US power in the region. It was, in fact, a financial millstone, he said.
As part of the shift in strategic emphasis, US military assets stationed in the region will be drawn down, according to the interview.
Dell is quoted as saying said: "It [Bondsteel] is a huge liability, a very expensive property, and we have no desire to maintain it any longer than is absolutely necessary for the support of our presence here... we can even talk about continuing the US role here without Camp Bondsteel."
Kosovo is moving down the US agenda, Dell told Jane's, as other problem regions take priority.
"You can anticipate that the pressure of events elsewhere, whether it is the continuing situation with Afghanistan or the growing wave of democratic uprisings across the Middle East, simply calls policy-makers' attention towards the more pressing issues of the day," he said.
"It is never good to be on the front page of The Washington Post because that usually means that you are a country in trouble. The fact that Kosovo has moved off the front pages is a sign of its continuing progress and the real stability here," he continued.
Albania's football team has qualified for a Euro championship for the first time thanks to the efforts of its remarkable Italian coach.
When Macedonians and Albanians marched side-by-side at an anti-government rally in the ethnically-mixed town of Tetovo, it raised hopes that a common stand against injustice could set the scene for more ethnic unity in the future.


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Holiday Inn Express Liverpool-Knowsley M57, Jct.4
- Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 86 guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- 4 meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Front desk safe
- Laundry service
- Conference space
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
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- Croxteth Hall and Country Park (2.8 mi / 4.6 km)
- Anfield Road Stadium (5.5 mi / 8.9 km)
- Liverpool ONE (7.6 mi / 12.2 km)
- World Museum Liverpool (7.1 mi / 11.4 km)
- St. George's Hall (7.1 mi / 11.4 km)
Very noisy pillows very hard on the bed. Breakfast very limited for the price paid for…
In overall, we are satisfied with this hotel apart from the very uncomfortable bed we had…
Holiday Inn Express Liverpool-Knowsley M57, Jct.4
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $59
- Standard Room, 1 Double Bed with Sofabed, Smoking
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- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
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- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
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- Free buffet breakfast daily
- Restaurant
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- Number of meeting rooms - 4
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- Meeting rooms 4
- Conference space size (feet) - 452
- Conference space size (meters) - 42
- 24-hour front desk
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DiningThe Great Room - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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Deuter Aircontact 50+10 SL
This is a great pack for someone with a small frame…
Design: top load internal
Size: 60 liters
Number of Pockets: 8
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Height of Owner: 5'-1"
Price Paid: $150
This is a great pack for someone with a small frame such as myself. The way the weight comes down on your lower back is better than any other pack I have ever used, and I can rock hop confidently.
There are not too many pockets, so I can always find everything I need without forgetting which pocket I keep it in. Also, the side pockets are accessible from the main compartment, which is not common in all bags. The pocket on the hip belt is my favorite extra on this pack.
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A story in the Sunday New York Times highlighted the efforts Philadelphia's public schools are taking to combat childhood obesity— and the challenges they face in doing so. I took a look at the issue last year for ASBJ, traveling down to Huntington, West Virginia, which had once been billed as the fattest city in America, a dubious distinction that earned them a visit and a makeover from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who goes into greater detail about this project here:
School Board News
School Board News Today, an online publication of NSBA, provides timely and relevant stories and analysis from NSBA and other news outlets to school board members, administrators, and all others interested in K-12 education.
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Articles tagged with Childhood obesity
March devoted to issue we should mind everyday: good nutrition
As the lion and lamb weather of March rolls in, the American Dietetic Association kick-offs National Nutrition Month.
This annual campaign is designed to educate citizens about the importance of exercise and making healthy day-to-day food choices.
Changing habits as an adult is possible, but extremely difficultespecially if it means reinventing your entire lifestyle. That's why it's especially important to education children and teens about nutritionhelping them to understand that a healthy lifestyle should be a top priority.
Statistics about national childhood obesity are nothing short of disturbing. One third of America's children are overweight or obese, according to Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign.
On average, children spend nearly half of their waking hours in school, so it is imperative the nutritional school lunches are provided. A recent study in Michigan found that children who ate the school lunch regularly were at a higher risk for obesity, The New York Times reports.
Overweight kids+exercise=improved math skills
In addition to asserting that it "controls weight, builds lean muscle, reduces fat, promotes strong bone, muscle and joint development, and decreases the risk of obesity," Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign to fight childhood obesity can add "improves math skills" to the list of reasons to exercise.
Catherine Davis, a clinical health psychologist at the Georgia Prevention Institute at Georgia Health Sciences University in Augusta, led a study in which researchers analyzed MRI brain scans of 7 to 11- year-old overweight participants after they were randomly assigned to complete 0, 20 or 40 minutes of non-competitive physical activity daily after school, HealthDay News reports.
Results of the study, which was published in the January edition of Health Psychology, showed that the amount of daily exercise positively correlated with increased activity in parts of the brain associated with executive functions, such as complex thinking and reasoning.
The results confirm what school officials should have already known and implemented the need for a school-wide emphasis on exercise. Physical activity serves an important role "in helping kids stay physically well and mentally sharp," Davis told e! Science News.
One high school near Chicago has used exercise outside gym class "jump start [students'] brains," as one physical education teacher put it, for more than five years.
Naperville Central High School Students begin the day by attending gym class and continue to use yoga balls and treadmills throughout the day. As of last year, math scores had increased by 21 percent since the program was implemented and on average, students were reading more than one year beyond their grade level, ABC news reports.
In surprising alliance, Walmart join's First Lady's childhood obesity campaign
Why don't I shop at Wal-Mart? Oh, let me count the ways—the giant corporate retailer's destruction of small-town businesses that can't compete, it's tendency to build mass supercenters on the fringes of town, its bullying of manufacturers to lower the prices and thus quality of their products, the claims of discrimination, the claims of denying health insurance, the reopening of a store on Black Friday just hours after an employee had been trampled to death a couple years ago. I guess I could just say, their relentless pursuit of profit at any cost to society.
So I'm quite skeptical of their new campaign that says they're going green, and giving health insurance and valuable career pathways to employees.
And I was quite surprised to hear last week that First Lady Michelle Obama was endorsing Wal-Mart's new plan to require its suppliers to create healthier foods, with less sodium, fat, and sugar on its house-brand products, and lower the prices of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other healthier foods. And it's building stores in places where poor residents do not have access to grocery stores or fresh foods.
Wal-Mart is the nation's largest grocery retailer, and analysts say this position will have a major ripple through the food manufacturing community. According to USA Today, Mrs. Obama said the plan has "the potential to transform the marketplace and help Americans put healthier foods on their tables every single day."
"We are really gaining some momentum on this issue, we're beginning to see things move," she said at an event in impoverished Southeast Washington, D.C., where Wal-Mart plans to open news stores.
While I'm sure Wal-Mart's ultimate goal is to make a profit from this, it could bring some positive changes that could eventually help schools as they comply with the new Child Nutrition Act requirements (for more on the recently released regulations, read this School Board News Today story) In other words if you've got the power to be a bully, at least use it to do some good.
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Joetta Sack-Min, Associate Editor
Let's Move!, more than just a White House initiative
It's always quite hard to find someone who isn't on a prescriptive diet, watching their weight, or at least trying to make healthy food choices. While much has been made of the fact that the nation as a whole is fatter than it's ever been, the good news is that we know a lot more about the effect of certain foods on our bodies and can use that information to make healthier choices and (hopefully) lifelong habits for ourselves and our children.
The August issue of ASBJ focuses on childhood obesity and new research that shows the eating and exercise habits we learn in childhood influence the rest of our lives. The current generation of students is not only the heaviest, it's the first whose life expectancy is expected to be shorter than their parents.
What's the role of the school board? While some board members don't feel it's their job to police school cafeteria lines and meddle with what parents are feeding their children, there's a role in teaching students healthy eating and exercise habitspart of the whole child movement–and it starts with healthier fare in the cafeteria. (Keep in mind, too, that these days more children are living in poverty and are relying on school meals as their main food source).
Child nutrition, a visible cause this year
Today the House Committee on Education & Labor will markup— consider and possibly revise— the Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act, which is the House's revamped version of the Child Nutrition Act.
If you've been following, the Senate agriculture committee proposed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in March, which was their stab at reauthorizing the bill that pays for school meals, income based nutrition programs and is the avenue the USDA uses to impose regulations and standards.
These efforts are part of a flurry of legislation and initiatives launched in recent months, aimed at tackling childhood obesity, a worthy cause few argue against though many hold different opinions on the appropriate strategy.
Campaigns to end hunger and childhood obesity, for example, have traditionally been viewed as separate issues. When a child is hungry, providing food is critical while providing healthy food is desirable.
Celebrity chef goes to Congress, lobbies for improvement in child nutrition
Rachael Ray is famous for her perky personality and 30-minute meals on Food Network. But the issue of childhood hunger brought her to Capitol Hill today, and the affable TV talk-show host was optimistic but serious as she stood outside the Capitol to promote a new bill that requires schools to serve healthier foods.
Leaders of the House Education and Labor Committee invited Ray to D.C., where she spoke at a press conference to introduce the "Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act," a bill to reauthorize the 1965 Child Nutrition Act. That law does not include the school lunch program but controls almost all other foods students eat at school and after-school programs.
"I really think that teaching a child good nutrition and the basics of cooking gives them the skills they need for self esteem and security for the rest of their lives," Ray said. "Just being able to eat a nutritious meal really improves the quality of your life."
Ray went on to say that good nutrition does more than keeping students focused in class, instilling healthy habits at an early age helps cut health-care costs and helps them learn to choose healthier options, particularly if they are short on money.
School lunches partially blamed for making the next generation unfit for duty
When considering the "dangers" of school lunch, parents' concerns probably don't go much further than worrying about their child trading his carrot sticks for that peanut butter sandwich that's an allergy attack waiting to happen. But a group of retired military leaders who call themselves Mission: Readiness say that school lunches are causing a threat to national security. A report by the Associated Press quotes one of the former officers as saying unhealthy school lunches are making kids "too fat to fight."
The group released a study that said 27 percent of Americans between the age of 17 and 24 are too overweight to join the military. A startling statistic, to be sure, but how much of this is really based on school lunches?
Playtime, a crucial key to fighting childhood obesity
A cowbell — that's what my mother used to call us to dinner after an afternoon (and, sometimes, early evening) of play. Bent, rusted, big, and loud, it rang from the back stoop, beckoning my brothers and me from the backyard or from an even more wild and wonderful place behind our house: a place we called, simply, "The Lot."
The Lot was a weedy ..well, a weedy mess, really. It was the drain field for the subdivision behind us. And I'm sure it was filled with ticks and chiggers and poison ivy and snakes. And, of course, we loved it. We played baseball there in the summer, and when it rained a great deal, as it tended to do sometimes in St. Louis, The Lot would fill up with water and become a lake. (Probably a dirty, germ-laden, storm sewer of a lake, but a "lake," nonetheless.)
I thought about "The Lot" today as I read a news release from the Alliance for Children on the importance of free play — both at home and at school — and its central role in fighting a childhood obesity epidemic that has become a cause célèbre for Michelle Obama and many advocacy groups, including NSBA.
"We're delighted that Michelle Obama has taken up this issue as her major focus as First Lady," said Joan Almon, the Alliance's executive director. "Efforts to reverse the obesity epidemic have until now focused almost entirely on nutrition and physical activity with disappointing results. The missing ingredient in this recipe is play — good, old-fashioned, child-initiated play, the kind that used to keep children moving and active for hours each day."
School food service programs feeling pressure in lean times
When it comes to discipline, few in the educational realm harbor nostalgia for the way teachers punished their students in days gone by. But Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), a proponent of healthier standards in our nation's schools, remembers one reprimand quite fondly.
"If a teacher caught you with candy, you got a ruler on the knuckles," he said at NSBA's Federal Relations Network conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
With concern about childhood obesity levels and how a lack of physical activity affects student academic growth, reforming nutrition and exercise in school will shape the health practices of the next generation.
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle called the National School Lunch Program, which feeds 60 million children across the country, a major threat to public health. Instead of providing students with the healthiest options, the program requires schools to serve the most available food commodities, meaning they will eat more milk and meat than fruits and vegetables.
Nationally subsidized food programs are especially important to students who may find their healthiest or most nutritious meal in the cafeteria and not on the dinner table. When money is tight, however, schools are thankful they can provide any meals to their students.
In California, the school lunch program that offers free and reduced lunch to students from low-income households could run out of money without $19.5 million in additional funds. During the 2007-08 school year, California served 770.6 million meals to students. A shortfall of that magnitude would leave far too many plates empty.
As budget woes threaten the security of school food services and officials consider reform, this may be a good time to remember our parents' scolding and stay out of the cookie jar.
For an in-depth look at the challenges of operating a school food service program, reach back into our archives and read this.
Christian Kloc, Spring Intern
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The union in one nature through the incarnation did not destroy the divinity or the humanity of Jesus, which were held together by a transfer of properties (Latin, communicatio idiomatum) from the former to the latter. This concept was used to explain the miracles of Jesus, which appeared to attribute superhuman powers to his body. Jesus was able to walk on water because his divine nature expressed itself in his body. Similarly, when Jesus spat on the ground, the mud which was formed was empowered by the divine saliva to heal the eyes of a blind man. This explanation of the miracles of Jesus seems plausible enough and is still given today. But there are difficulties. Having a divine nature, how could Jesus have been thirsty on the cross? And, how could he not have known when the Last Judgment would take place (Matt.24:36)? To these questions Athanasius and his followers had no real answer. They simply said that the weaknesses and ignorance of Jesus seen in the Gospels were feigned by the Logos who wished to accommodate Himself to the limitations of human mind.
Diodore also believed that the Logos as a personal nature was fully present in Jesus and, like the Alexandrians, he denied that it could suffer or die. But whereas Apollinarius was able to say that the Logos had experienced suffering and death, not in itself but by virtue of the complete transfer of properties to the human side of Jesus' one "nature", Diodore denied this. He insisted that Jesus had two natures, only one of which died on the cross. The dead body in the tomb was that of a man whose soul had expired, not that of the Logos, which remained untouched. In the end, Diodore denied any transfer of properties at all, on the ground that this compromised the integrity of the two natures. In this form, it became the standard teaching of Antioch.
The following table compares Apollinarius' teaching with Diodore's: [1]
|Apollinarius (Alexandria)
|Diodore (Antioch)
|1. The Logos dwells in Jesus and takes the place of a human soul.
|1. The Logos dwells in Jesus but does not take the place of a human soul.
|2. The transfer of properties is total.
|2. There is no transfer of properties.
|3. Jesus had one nature.
|3. Jesus had two natures.
|4. The Logos suffered and died on the cross, not in itself but by the transfer of its properties to the flesh.
|4. The Logos did not suffer or die on the cross, but only the human soul and flesh of Jesus.
Diodore's polemic against Apollinarianism seems to be have been aimed less at its mutilation of the Lord's humanity than at its monophysite tendency. In particular, the proposition that the Incarnate was a single hypostasis aroused his criticism. The divinity, he argued, must be compromised if the Word and the flesh form a substantial unity analogous to that formed by the body and soul in man. In reaction to this, Diodore's own theory attempted to hold them apart, and thus he was led to distinguish the Son of God and the Son of David. Scripture, he argued, draws a sharp line of demarcation between the activities of the "two Sons". The union was not the result of any fusion ("mixture") of the Word with the flesh; if it had been, why should those who blaspheme against the Son of Man receive forgiveness, while those who blaspheme against the Spirit do not? Rather it came about through the Word dwelling in the flesh as in a temple. The relationship, though similar in kind, differed from that of God with His prophets, for whereas they enjoyed the fragmentary, very occasional inspiration of the Spirit, the son of David was permanently and completely filled with the glory and wisdom of the Word. Yet both were united in worship, since the son of David shared in the devotion offered to the Son of God, just as the purple robe of the monarch can be said to share in the reverence paid to his person.
There was at least one Alexandrian that saw difficulty in Apollinarius' teachings and tried to put it right, and that was Didymus the Blind (c.313-398 A.D.). He tried to provide the Athanasian Christ not merely with a soul but with a psychology, while at the same time safeguarding the unity of His nature in the Logos. Didymus said that the soul of Jesus could experience anguish and temptation, which were the beginnings of suffering [propatheia], but was prevented from actual suffering [pathos] itself by its union with the Logos. He also admitted that there was a twofold reality in Christ, but he would not call them "natures" in the Antiochene manner. Instead, he preferred to borrow other terms like "forms" [morphai] from Phil. 2:7 or "characters" [characteres] from Heb. 1:3. He did not define these terms, and the fact that he also used the word "persons" [prosopa] for this dual reality was to cause confusion in the West. Of course, Didymus recognized only one hypostasis in Christ, that of the Logos, but he identified this with the one nature of Apollinarius, much to the consternation of later generations.
Theodore did not follow Didymus, but took up where Diodore had left off. He fully supported the teaching that there were two separate natures in Christ and sought to explain their connection by means of the concept of "conjunction" [synapheia] rather than a "union" [henosis]. He dismisses Diodore's theory of two Sons as "naive", arguing that "the distinction of natures does not prevent their being one". According to him, each nature had its own identity or hypostasis, before the incarnation, as well as at its own appearance, which was now one instead of two.
The effect of the incarnation can be shown by the following table: [2]
|Before Incarnation
|After Incarnation
It was on this basis that Theodore was able to say that in the Incarnate Christ there were two natures in one person, a formula which in an inverted form was approved at Chalcedon ("one Person with two natures"). As Theodore expressed it, the formula is very weak indeed. The union of God and man is not real, but merely an appearance which is the result of a conjunction. The Alexandrians immediately labeled it heretical and were never reconciled to it, even when the Chalcedonian inversion managed to produce a very different Christology using the same words.
Cyril did not have long to wait. Before long somebody (we do not know whether in innocence or in malice) asked Nestorius whether it was proper to refer to Mary as Theotokos, a Greek word meaning "God-bearer" (it is usually rendered in English as "Mother of God"). This question sounds rather trivial, but it was important for two reasons.
Without fully realizing it, Nestorius had raised two vitally important questions:
Cyril wasted no time in denouncing Nestorius, and before long both men were appealing to Rome for judgment. This turn of events must have come as a welcome surprise to the Romans, who had never before participated in the Eastern Christological debate. But Rome was not particularly neutral. Ever since the days of Athanasius, it had been pro-Alexandrian and against the Eastern emperor, whose nominee Nestorius, of course, was. A Roman Synod considered the arguments on both sides, but nobody can have been too surprised when it decided for Alexandria. Pope Celestine sent a letter to Cyril supporting him, and asked him to convey the decisions to Nestorius.
The Twelve Anathemas.
Cyril lost no time in making the most this extraordinary request. He forwarded the Pope's letter, but attached to it Twelve Anathemas, in which he denounced virtually every major point of Antiochene theology. Deliberately provocative, these anathemas summarize the Cyrilline Christology in uncompromising terms.
The Council of Ephesus.
Nestorius was duly outraged, and asked the emperor to call a council to decide the issue. The emperor Theodosius obliged, and on 19 November 430 A.D. he ordered a council to assemble at Ephesus on Pentecost, 7 June 431 A.D. When the day arrived, only Cyril had turned up in force with some 60 like-mined bishops, though 68 supporters of Nestorius were also there. They waited until the 22 June when Cyril, fearing that events might not go his way if anyone else showed up, defied protests of the imperial commissioner, the count Candidianus, and under his own presidency opened the council on his own initiative. Nestorius, who was already a Ephesus, naturally declined to participate. In his absence, needless to say, Nestorius was quickly deposed ("the new Judas") and his teaching condemned, after having the correspondence between him and Cyril read out as well as a dossier of patristic authorities.
But four days later on 26 June the Antiochene delegation, headed by John of Antioch, turned up and the situation was reversed. Both Cyril and the local prelate, Memnon, was deposed, his Twelve Anathemas was repudiated, and Nestorius was reinstated. Finally, on the 10 July, the Roman delegation arrived and overturned the verdict a second time. Nestorius was again deposed, this time for good, and was banished to upper Egypt, and Cyril was able to celebrate a complete triumph. The Papal legates endorsed Cyril's gathering of the council, which has gone down in history as the Third General Council. Nestorus was never rehabilitated. After languishing at Antioch for some years, he finally died about A.D. 451.
The Council of Ephesus seemed to be in shambles, but its final decrees have managed to survive all opposition. Eight canons were passed on various doctrinal matters. On 22 July, it decreed that the Council of Nicaea should never be changed, but should remain forever as the standard of the Church's faith. The precise meaning of this decree has been disputed, and it is not clear whether the decree applied to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed as well as to the ancient Creed of Nicaea. The Eastern Churches has taken the stricter interpretation, while the West has preferred a somewhat looser interpretation. But one thing at least was clear; the age of official creed writing was over.
Formulary of Reunion
Reaction to the Council of Ephesus came thick and fast. Having deposed of Nestorius, Cyril was more accommodating and attempted to restore peace with the emperor, whose sympathies were Antiochene and wanted a reconciliation to preserve the unity of the Empire. In a very short time, peace was restored, when Cyril sent a letter to John of Antioch on 23 April 433 A.D., in which he included the Formulary of Reunion (also known as the Symbol of Union), which had been drawn up as early as August 431 A.D. This document granted Cyril's arguments, but avoided any reference to the "one nature" and treaded warily on the subject of the transfer of properties. It said in part,
"We confess our Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,Cyril greeted this Formulary with enthusiasm. At first sight, it seemed to make large concessions to the Antiochene point of view. Clearly, the Anathemas which he had made so much of had dropped into the background, and even his favorite expressions, "one nature" and "hypostatic union", had disappeared. Instead he found himself accepting the Antiochene language of "one prosopon" and "union of two natures", while one phrase [hos epi duo phuseon] emphasized the duality of the natures after the union. Theotokos was admitted, but only with safeguards which satisfied the Antiochenes, and it was balanced by the admission of their traditional description of the humanity as the Word's "temple". A form of communicatio idiomatum was sanctioned, but a much less thoroughgoing form than the one for which he had contended. On the other hand, Cyril had gains as well as losses to count. The condemnation of Nestorius had been accepted, and Theotokos, even though with safeguards, had been pronounced orthodox; and the bogey of "Nestorianism", with its doctrine of "two Sons", was no more. Moreover, the identification of the subject in the God-man with the eternal Word had been clearly recognized in the repeated, emphatic use of ton auton, "the Same". All talk of "conjunction", etc., had vanished, and the union was now described as henosis, "union".
perfect God and perfect man, consisting of a rational soul and body,
begotten of the Father before the ages as to his Godhead,
and in the last days the Same [ton auton]
for us and for our salvation, [was born] of Mary the Virgin
according to his manhood;
the Same consubstantial [homoousios] with the Father
as to his Godhead, and consubstantial with us as to his manhood.
For there has been a union [henosis] of two natures;
wherefore we confess one Christ, one Son, one Lord.
In accordance with this thought of the unconfused union,
we confess the holy Virgin to be Theotokos,
because the divine Logos became flesh and was made man,
and from the very conception united to himself
the temple that was taken from her.
And with regard to the evangelical and apostolic statements about the Lord,
we recognize that theologians treat some in common
because they relate to the unity of Person
[hos eph' henos prosopou],
and others they distinguish according to the two natures
[hos epi duo phuseon],
explaining acts befitting God in reference to the Godhead of Christ,
and the humble ones in reference to his manhood." [3]
Because of Cyril's prestige, this Formulary remained in force until his death in A.D. 444, though many of his followers regarded it as a sell-out to the Nestorians. The absence of a "one nature" clause, which Cyril had made a badge of orthodoxy in spite of its Apollinarian provenance, gave this element its main excuse to cause trouble later.
On the Antiochene side, there was a extremist Cilician group which persisted in declaring Cyril a heretic. The sentence passed on Nestorius rankled the consciences of even those moderate Antiochenes who had come to recognize Cyril's orthodoxy. For example, Theodoret, bishop of Cyrus in Syria (c.393-c.458 A.D.), absolutely refused to endorse the Union Symbol. He accepted neither of the extreme positions, but held that Christ had two natures, united in one person but not in essence. At the Council of Ephesus (A.D. 431), Theodoret protested against both Cyril's procedural opportunism and his doctrine, and afterward wrote a refutation of the Twelve Anathemas directed by Cyril against Nestorius.
On the Alexandrian side, Cyril's right-wing allies viewed his apparent acceptance of the Two Natures doctrine with unconcealed dismay. In self-defense, Cyril had to produce arguments to show that, for all the objectable language in which it was expressed, the Union Symbol was essentially the teaching that he had always supported. Having gained the political advantage in Nestorius' defeat, Cyril was able while he was alive to restrain his hot-headed partisans. With his death in A.D. 444, the reaction against the Two Natures doctrine gathered force and is reflected in attacks launched on the teaching of Theodoret, now the leading theologian of the Antiochene school.
Dioscorus, the successor of Cyril and the Patriarch of Alexandria from A.D. 444 to 451, was an energetic and ruthless prelate, who put himself at the head of Alexandrian school. He became a leading figure in the Monophysite controversy. Dioscorus was determined, at any cost, to reassert the One Nature doctrine which, he sincerely believed, had the authority of the fathers behind it and which had only been compromised by Cyril in a moment of weakness. In A.D. 444, Dioscorus accused Theodoret of Nestorianism, and when Eutychus was accused by Theodoret and others of the opposite error, Dioscorus came to his aid.
Eutyches (c. 375-454 A.D.), who was an archimandrite or superior of a monastery in Constantinople and a rather simple-mined disciple of the Cyril of Alexandria, had come out of retirement to contest the error of Nestorianism towards which he believed the Union Symbol leaned. But he went to such an extreme in stressing the single nature of Christ that the supporters of orthodoxy in Constantinople became uneasy. His obstinacy in refusing the two natures of Christ brought the condemnation by Flavian, the Patriarch of Constantinople from A.D. 446 until his death in A.D. 449, who declared Eutyches' views as unorthodox. On 8 November 448 A.D., at a meeting of the Standing Synod of Constantinople, Eutyches was denounced as heretical by Eusebius of Dorylaeum. Formal discussion began on 12 November, the chairman being Flavian, the patriarch of Constantinople, who seized the opportunity to read a profession of faith containing the important formulary,
"We confess that Christ is of two natures [ek duo phuseon]Although the phrase, "out of two natures", became later the battle-cry of the monophysites, Flavian was using it to imply that the Incarnate had two natures. Also his identification of hupostasis and prosopon marked an important step towards Chalcedon.
after the incarnation, confessing one Christ, one Son, one Lord,
in one hupostasis and one prosopon". [4]
Eutyches refused to appear at this session, and when he did appear, on 22 November, it was to hear sentence passed on himself. The verdict of those present, all supporters of the Union Symbol, was that he was a follower of Valentinus and Apollinarius, and he was accordingly deposed. Historically, Eutyches is considered the founder of an extreme and virtually Docetic form of monophysitism, teaching that the Lord's humanity was totally absorbed by His divinity.
That such ideas were current at this time is clear. Theodoret the year before had aimed his Eranistes against people who, holding that Christ's humanity and divinity formed "one nature", taught that the former had not really derived from the Virgin, and that it was the latter which had suffered. Their theory was, apparently, that "the divine nature remains while the humanity is swallowed up (katapothenai) by it". The nature assumed was not annihilated, but was transformed into the substance (ousia) of the divinity. Though he named no names, it is fairly certain that Theodoret had Eutyches in view.
What Eutyches'actual doctrine was has never been easy to ascertain. At a preliminary examination before the envoys of the synod, he declared that "after the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ I worship one nature, that is, that of God made flesh and become man". He vigorously repudiated the suggestion of two natures in the Incarnate as un-Scriptural and contrary to the teaching of the fathers. Yet he expressly allowed that Christ was born from the Virgin and was at once perfect God and perfect man. He denied ever having said that His flesh came from heaven, but refused to concede that it was consubstantial with us. At this interrogation before the synod, he yielded the point that Christ was "of two natures" [ek duo phuseon], but he argued that that was only before the union; "after the union I confess one nature". He repeated that Christ took flesh of the Virgin, and added that it was a complete incarnation [enanthropesai . . . teleios] and that the Virgin was consubstantial with us. Flavian then pressed him to admit that the Lord was consubstantial with us. Eutyches consented to do so if the synod insisted. His reluctance hitherto, he explained, had been due to the fact that he regarded Christ's body as the body of God; he had been shy of calling the body of God "the body of a man", (he evidently took "consubstantial with us" as implying an individual man), but he had preferred to speak of it as "a human body", and to say that the Lord became incarnate of the Virgin. This, however, was a passing remark; he soon returned to his monotonous affirmation of two natures before the incarnation, one after.
The general impression of Eutyches was that he was a confused and unskilled thinker (a "muddle-headed archimandrite", as he was later called), blindly rushing forward to defend the unity of Christ against all attempts to divide Him. He was no Docetist or Apollinarian; nothing could have been more explicit than his affirmation of the reality and completeness of the Christ's manhood. His hesitation about "consubstantial with us" were due to his exaggerated suspicion that it might be twisted to imply the Nestorian conception of the humanity as being an individual man whom the Godhead assumed. If he had a horror of "two natures", it sprang from the fact that he, like so many of the Alexandrian way of thinking, took phusis, or "nature", to mean a concrete existence. Even more than Cyril himself, whose depth of insight and grasp of essentials Eutyches lacked, Eutyches had been nurtured on literature of Apollinarian origin which he pathetically believed to be fully orthodox, and he was devoted to Cyril's formula "one nature", although he omitted to add Cyril's saving qualification "made flesh". If his condemnation is to be justified, it must be in the light of more far-reaching considerations. The Church at this epoch was feeling its way toward a balanced Christology. The type of thought which Eutyches represented was one-sided to a degree. It upset the balanced Christology towards which the Church of this epoch was striving. Without the emphasis on the other side which the Two Natures doctrine supplied, Christology might well have drifted into the errors his opponents attributed to Eutyches.
The Robber Synod.
Although Eutyches was excommunicated and deposed, his disgrace did not last long. He wrote to the Pope Leo, but his letter did not get the results he wanted. Flavian had already informed Pope Leo of Eutyches' condemnation, and now he wrote in greater detail defining his heresy. Flavian's letter reached Rome on 21 May 449 A.D. As a result, on 13 July 449 A.D., Leo sent his famous Dogmatic Letter, or Tome, to Flavian, and made his hostility to the One Nature doctrine clear. Eutyches had greater success with Dioscorus, who from the start refused to recognize Eutyches' excommunication, and with the help of Chrysaphius, Dioscorus persuaded emperor Theodosius II to summon a general council. This met at Ephesus in August 449 A.D. It was dominated with brutal efficiency by Dioscorus, who acted as chairman, and although the Pope Leo sent three legates they were not given an opportunity of presenting Leo's Tome. They were arrested and thrown into prison, while many leading Antiochene representatives were beaten up or harassed. Flavian himself was probably treated in this way, and it seems that he died of his wounds not long after the council ended. Eutyches was immediately rehabilitated and his orthodoxy vindicated. The Union Symbol was formally set aside as going beyond the decisions of the council of Ephesus of A.D. 431, and the confession of two natures after the union was anathematized. Flavian and Eusebius of Dorylaeum, and along with them Theodoret and all the dyophysite leaders, were condemned and deposed. So ended the council which became known as the Robber Synod or "Brigandage" [Latrocinium], of Ephesus.
Pope Leo's Tome.
Apart from Tertullian, the West had made little or no contribution to Christology so far. Tertullian had long ago provided the structure and language two substantiae in one persona of a Latin Christology which to a remarkable extent anticipated the outcome of the Eastern disputes. The importance of Leo's Tome requires a closer look at its Christology. The Christology of Leo's Tome has no special originality; it reflects and codifies with masterly precision the ideas of his predecessors. The following are the chief points that Leo was concerned to set forth.
"Each form accomplishes in concert with the other what is appropriate to it,
the Word performing what belongs to the Word,
and the flesh carrying out what belongs to the flesh". [5]
"It is one and same Son of God Who exists in both natures,
taking what is ours to Himself without losing what is His own". [6]
More than five hundred bishops took part, the Pope as usual being represented by legates; the proceedings of the Council of Chalcedon opened on 8 October 451 A.D. Pulcheria's own commissioners controlled the proceedings. Pope Leo's Tome was read out and hailed as the expression of the purest orthodoxy. The decisions of earlier councils were reviewed and upheld, including the condemnation of Nestorius in A.D. 431. The council was most anxious to affirm the orthodoxy of Cyril, and its defenders claimed that Cyril's "one nature" Christology, properly understood, did not contradict the orthodox formula. Cyril may have suffered from terminological imprecision, but his teaching was perfectly sound. The acts of the Robber Synod were undone and Dioscorus deposed. Theodoret at last disowned Nestorius.
Chalcedonian Definition.
The whole object of the council, from the imperial point of view, was to establish a single faith throughout the empire. The majority of bishops present objected to the formulation of a new creed; they considered it sufficient to uphold the Nicene Creed and recognize the binding force of Cyril's Dogmatic Letters and Leo's Tome. But if the council was to succeed, the imperial commissioners knew that it must produce a formulary which everyone could be required to sign, and they made their intentions clear. Hence the Definition of Faith which was finally agreed took the following form.
"In agreement, therefore, with the holy fathers, we all unanimously teach that we should confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is one and the same Son, the same perfect in Godhead and the same perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man, the same of a rational soul and body, consubstantial with the Father in Godhead, and the same consubstantial with us in manhood, like us in all things except sin; begotten from the Father before the ages as regards His Godhead, and in the last days, the same, because of us and because of our salvation begotten from the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos, as regards His manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only-begotten, made known in two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation, the difference of the natures being by no means removed because of the union, but the property of each nature being preserved and coalescing in one prosopon and one hupostasis not parted or divided into two prosopa, but one and the same Son, only-begotten, divine Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets of old and Jesus Christ Himself have taught us about Him and the creed of our fathers has handed down." [7]
The Empire's adoption of this compromise Monophysitism encouraged the Persian church to accept Nestorianism, in order to widen its divorce from the imperial church, and so appear less obnoxious to Persia's rulers. After Nestorius' condemnation in A.D. 431, Nestorian strength had concentrated at Edessa, east of the Euphrates.
The Council of Chalcedon marks a turning point in the history of theology. It welded Western and Eastern traditions into a unity which would not be seen again, though the price paid for this in the East was to be very high. The Nestorians were finally discredited, despite Nestorius' plea that he subscribed to the teaching of Leo. The Monophysite reaction after Chalcedon prompted many of Nestorian leading figures to emigrate to Persia. There they were rewarded by the Shah, who in A.D. 484 gave Nestorianism legal recognition as the only form of Christianity tolerated in his dominions. In A.D. 486, the Persian church became officially Nestorian. The works of Diodore and Theodore were preserved in Persian as well as Syriac. The Nestorians developed great missionary zeal, and their churches spread from Babylonia to China. Unfortunately they were never able to consolidate their gains, and after the eleventh century decline set in. Today they are a tiny community, known as Assyrians or Chaldeans. About half live in Iraq and the rest are dispersed across the world, with the largest number in the United States.
The Nestorian church bequeath at least one legacy of lasting importance. The school of Antioch was Aristotelian in its philosophical method, in contrast to the Platonism of Alexandria. After the rise of Islam, Nestorians were influential in bringing Aristotle to the notice of the Arab world. There he was cherished, studied and improved, until in the twelfth century Spanish scholars translated his works from Arabic into Latin. The rediscovery of Aristotle in the West provoked a theological revolution which challenged the whole basis of classical orthodoxy and eventually resulted in the new synthesis of Aristotelianism and Christian orthodoxy by Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274 A.D.).
[1] Gerald Bray, Creeds, Councils & Christ,
Inter-Varsity Press, (Downers Grove, Illinois, USA, 1984),
p. 153.
[2] Ibid., p. 154.
[3] J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrine, 2nd Edition,
Harper & Row, Publishers (New York, Evanston and London, 1958, 1960).,
pp. 328-329.
[4] Ibid., p. 331.
[5] Ibid., p. 337.
[6] Ibid., p. 338.
[7] Ibid., pp. 339-340.


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Sad this had to happen in the first place, but for no one to notice after a period of 4 years...
A Wisconsin man everyone thought moved away in 2007 had actually killed himself, leaving his body to rot in his home for more than four years.
The shocking discovery of David Carter's remains came in January after his West Allis house was handed over to the city because of unpaid property taxes, according to the Journal Sentinel newspaper.
The 41-year-old's "nearly skeletonized body" was found on the second floor, according to the medical examiner's report. "A Smith & Wesson 9-mm. handgun was found lying on the decedent's chest," and an autopsy concluded he died from a gunshot wound to the head.
It is unclear exactly when Carter died, but it was likely in late 2007, which according to the Journal Sentinel is when he quit his job and told friends he was moving to New Mexico.
Carter may have been despondent at the time over a breakup with a girlfriend, according to CBS 58 News. The two had a daughter together, whom he hadn't seen since 2006.
"I knew he was alone and I wanted to talk to him," Theresa Bornheimer, an old friend of Carter's, told the local news station. "But I couldn't because of the fact that I never saw him at home."
Described as a generous man by friends and relatives, Carter had taken care of his mother for years before her death from cancer in 1997. He had no siblings, and never knew his father, the Journal Sentinel reported.
The city is expected to clean out the house and sell it. The money from the sale will likely go to the city, but could potentially be claimed by his daughter.
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Feb 6 @ 10:33PM
That is just tragic. All those bills he would have left unpaid...and absolutely no one thought to send a cop over to his house in all of that time?
At 41 years old, wasn't he paying on a mortgage? It just seems so weird that in 4 years no one thought to have a cop check on him? I mean, yeah, friends thought he had moved, but, what about neighbors? The mail person, utility company? No one noticed in 4 years that the lawn wasn't being cut? That the house never went up for sale?
Feb 6 @ 10:37PM
I saw another article on this on Yahoo, and I beleive it stated that he owned his own home. His house was foreclosed on because of all the taxes he owed on it from year to hear, along with the upkeep to his property by the city.
Feb 6 @ 10:41PM
Here's the Yahoo article on this.
The body of a Wisconsin man was discovered inside his home more than four years after he reportedly killed himself with a handgun.
The "nearly skeletonized body" of David Carter was discovered inside his home in January by a real estate agent sent to deliver foreclosure papers to the house, as first reported by wisn.com. But his actual death is estimated to have occurred sometime in 2007. So, how did Carter's death manage to go unnoticed for so long by friends, family, bill collectors and even the local government?
Like so many things these days, the nation's struggling economy is at least partly to blame. After Carter disappeared, his utilities were eventually shut off and it was presumed his home had been abandoned. But that's only part of the sad story.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl dug deeper into the story and discovered that Carter, intentionally or not, had nearly all of his bases covered before apparently choosing to end his own life in utter seclusion.
Carter told his friends and neighbors that he was planning to move to New Mexico. When he first disappeared, they apparently assumed he had followed through on those plans. Carter had no siblings and never met his father. The death of his mother in 1997 reportedly put him in a depressive state he never recovered from.
His friends described Carter as a "giving and funny guy." But as with many cases of severe depression, it appears Carter spent enough time in isolation that his disappearance didn't immediately register as alarming.
According to the county medical examiner's report, as quoted by Stingl, "Spider webs were noted all around the residence," and that a "Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun was found lying on the decedent's chest."
Carter's home was paid for, but while local property taxes still accumulated, the city was in no rush to collect.
In fact, Stingl notes that the city of West Allis continued to mow his lawn and shovel snow from his driveway in the years after his then unknown passing. The $3,700 in charges for the annual maintenance efforts was simply added to Carter's growing county property tax bills and fees, which had grown to more than $30,000.
Authorities finally moved in after Carter's house was awarded to Milwaukie County in a December tax foreclosure. It is now being put up for sale. Meanwhile, Carter's cousin, Kevin O'Neill, and some of Carter's friends are planning a memorial gathering in his honor.
Suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in 2007, claiming nearly 35,000 lives. Carter's friends says he was depressed in the years leading up to his death and had been drinking more than usual. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly 90 percent of all suicide victims experience issues with substance abuse and/or depression leading up to their deaths.
Feb 7 @ 12:05AM
That is so sad
Feb 7 @ 9:08AM
It is entirely possible that he planned this and had the utilities turned off and his mail forwarded. I am fairly certain that the post office, by policy, will notify authorities if there is a build up of mail.
Feb 7 @ 10:58AM
He did own it? Wow. 41 is young to have had a mortgage paid off...but I guess it can happen if he chose a 15 year mortgage. Ok. Didn't see that in the article when I read it.
Still, 4 years of nobody even wondering? That is really sad.
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