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The episode begins with Mike and Fi enjoying a quiet time as they need to lay low for a while. Gray arrives with Jesse and Gray tells Mike that Card is getting comfortable as their bodies weren't found and so now he has asked Gray to search Mike's loft and burn down anything connected to this mess. Fi is annoyed that Gray wants to burn down everything and Mike sees this as an opportunity to feed Card whatever they want. Fi wants to torch their home herself. They then plant false evidence enough to let Card join the dots. There is a knock at the door and they all draw out their weapons. It is Ayn.
She says she is in trouble and she needs to have a word with Fi. She tells Fi that Garza, a dirty cop has been haunting her since the time she got home. And the previous day he caught her on the street and said that she'd wish she stayed in. Mike says that right now isn't the right time but Fi says that they are going to help her anyway. Gray is not too happy and Ayn leaves. Fi then tells them that if it weren't for Ayn, she would have been dead. Mike says they can't go after a cop at the moment. Fi says that she will do it alone. Gray calls Card and tells him that he found something that Mike has been putting together. Mike and Fi set fire to their only home they ever shared and Mike assures her that it won't be the last. Mike then arrives at Maddy's place.
She is pissed as she knows that Gray killed Nate and she wants Mike to set up a meeting. Sam and Fi go to Ayn's place and Sam isn't too pleased about helping Ayn at the moment. There they meet Ayn's son. Inside the house, Ayn tells them that she killed one of Garza's informants as he used to beat up his sister and Garza let him do that. Just then Garza appears with her parole officer and Sam and Fi leave with Amare from the back door as Ayn doesn't want to run with them and violate her parole. Garza plants some drugs and arrests Ayn for using during her parole. Next, the gang is in the "world's nicest safe house", as Fi calls it. And she is also irritated that she can't walk up to the nearest station and point out that Garza is dirty. Mike declares that Garza has never gotten another CI to take down the crew he doesn't like.
So, they should give him one; Jesse. Jesse meets with Garza at a diner. Garza is skeptical about Jesse. Jesse tells Garza that he wants to take down the gang leader so that he can become the next leader and that way Garza too will get a partner. Garza wants Jesse to prove it. Garza wants Jesse to go to the bar and get inside the leader, Sherrod Washington's private office and take a picture of it. Jesse goes inside and asks Fi to come to help as he needs the job done and there is a gigantic human being guarding Sherrod's office; 10 minutes tops! Next, Mike and Sam are listening into Gray's and Card's conversation and Mike is worried that Card has figured out that they are alive. He thinks that since Gray is soft selling the plan, he might be making a double move.
He wants to go in and Sam holds him back. Mike confronts Gray and Gray tells him that Card is already spooked and so he cannot push him too hard. So he needs some time to reel Card in and they will get all the information they need. At the bar, Jesse creates a distraction so that Fi can sneak in and get the job done. But Jesse gets beaten up by Sherrod and his huge guard and Fi successfully gets the picture. Garza is waiting for him and he shows him the pic. Garza is convinced and he tells Jesse that they will meet soon. At home, Fi dresses Jesse's wounds and tells him that the plan is to make Garza steal a gun from the police locker and video tape him doing that. This will be enough to blackmail him to leave Ayn alone. Sam tells Amare to help him put together the listening device they are going to place in Garza's radio, so that they could track him.
Jesse then meets Garza and he asks him to give him his phone and radio so that he can ensure it's not bugged. He takes his chance and replaces them with the bugged ones. He then tells him that he wants Sherrod down and so he wants Garza to steal a weapon from an unsolved case and fire some shots and he would kill Sherrod and the bullets won't match. Reluctantly, Garza agrees. Maddy goes to meet Gray and thanks him for meeting. She wants to know why her son died if Gray was so good at his job; and he explains the physical factors like the wind etc that could affect the aim. So he switched to a higher caliber gun and the bullet went through; it was his job. Maddy then tells her Nate's full name and asks him to remember it when he pulls the trigger the next time.
With tear filled eyes, Gray says a sorry. Next, Garza arrives to meet Jesse in his full uniform. He didn't steal the gun as he doesn't want to screw other cops or victims. That is not who he is. He is going to take down Sherrod himself and asks Jesse to stay away from the neighborhood. If this happens, Garza will get himself killed, Ayn will rot in prison forever and Amare would go to foster care and they would have gotten a cop killed! Fi goes home to grab some in and Mike too does the same; he feels he too should have been in from the beginning. Sam and Jesse hear Garza praying before he goes in on Sherrod. Looks like he is preparing to die!! But they can't do anything without weapons. Garza goes to the bar and calls Sherrod out. The neighborhood clears up.
Sherrod comes out with three men and he hits Garza with a gun on his face. Mike and Fi show up. And it is like hell raining down upon Garza and his men. Mike radios Garza to surrender to detective Garza and they oblige. Garza thanks "whoever it is". Ayn is back home, and she is really curious to know as to why Garza let her go. Fi vaguely tells her what happened and she is happy to have a second chance. Mike arrives to meet Maddy and tells her that it is time to take down Card. She tells him that she is leaving Miami as she doesn't want to stay in a place that reminds her of her sons she lost. And after all this is over, she wants Mike to start over as well. Next, the four stake out a hotel where Gray is meeting Card.
They hear the greetings and then the signal goes off. Card has brought a team along with him. Not good! Mike and Sam go towards the hotel. Mike kicks open the door and sees that Card has a weapon trained on Gray. Card is surprised to see Michael Weston back from the dead. Card then aims at Gray and shoots him shouting that Gray killed Nate and Anson. Card then tells him that trying to Mike killed was like a personal hell for him.
He is like a son to him. He wants Mike to put all this behind them and move into the future. Mike nods and puts down his weapon. Card makes it look like Gray tried to shoot him and he got shot. Card then puts down his weapon and tells Mike that he is proud of him. And then, Mike shoots Card right in his forehead. The episode ends.
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I'm glad I don't feel like that...
Poor fellow.
There should be a follow up article called "Somewhere, Someone is Totally Thinking About Doing It".
*raises hand*
I didn't read the article, so I don't know what condition the poor kid has, but, on a related note, I want to suggest you see The elephant Man if you haven't--excellent film about Philip Merrick, who had several conditions that resulted in severe physical disfigurement.
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Good God... I thought that was some sort of Photo Shop job. If you ever feel crappy about your life, keep those photos for perspective.
The rider in my avatar is David Etxebarria, not me.
Would you pay $2 for a ticket to see that in a side show tent? If you liked the PORTIS pics, Do a Google image search on "elephantiasis" with safe search off.
I don't think anyone could like those pics... it's terribly sad to see.
Damn.... I've seen better-lookin' people who've been shot in the head...

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Leadership Skill Development
What are leadership skills? What kind of leader do you want to be? Here are some good quotes about leadership skill development.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. – Alvin Toffler, writer
Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming. – from Hope for Alcoholics, Addicts, Inmates (And Those Who Love Them)
The key to success is self-confidence, and the key to self-confidence is preparation. – Jane Garton, Author
The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself. – Clint Eastwood, Actor, producer, director and composer
The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet. – Julia Butterfly Hill
First, be. Second, love. Finally, worship. We may find it's possible that if we do just one of those things completely we have done all three. – Ron Hansen, Author
Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. – Karen Armstrong, author
It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them. – Katherine Reutter, two-time medalist in speed skating, 2000 Vancouver Olympics
I always say "Be yourself," because everyone else is taken! – Rita Davenport, motivational speaker
Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. You're only saying that you're smarter today than you were yesterday. – Dave Gilpin, author
Don't go through life; grow through life. – Eric Butterworth, minister, author and radio personality
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. – David Viscott
Life is difficult, but those difficulties, when we face them squarely, are often the secret keys to growth and joy. – Edward Grinnan, Author, The Promise of Hope
Real personal change is a roller coaster, both exhilarating and disorienting. The trick is to hold on tight. – Edward Grinnan, Author, The Promise of Hope
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Goof: The payphone at the rest stop could have been easily identified and its location determined, since caller ID had been in effect since the late 1980's.
Goof: When the friends get out of the cab at the rest stop, there are no tire tracks in the snow behind the cab.
Goof: When the taxi is running out of gas, Phoebe is backing up away from a cement wall. However, after Ross puts gas in the cab they drive straight ahead.
Goof: When Chandler tells Rachel "You're not my real mom," Joey has both hands on the bottom of the Chinese food carton. In the next shot his right hand is on top holding a fork.
Goof: Nobody locks the doors of the Taxi when they all exit, so they should be able to get back in.
Continuity: This is the first episode where the cab sign on Phoebe's Grandmothers cab is not '2E85' as seen in "The One With Phoebe's Dad". From now on the sign reads '2X85'.
Trivia: The reststop they are stuck at in this episode is in area code 717 - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Goof: When Joey spelled "help" on the ground, he spelled it backwards. The 'e' changes in each shot. The 'e' has a curve on the bottom at first, the shot changes, the 'e' looks more formal, then the shot changes again to look at the group, and the 'e' is the same as the first time we saw it.
Continuity: Chandler says his parents got divorced when he was 9, but in an earlier episode he tells Janice they divorced when he was 11.
Joey: (to Chandler and Monica) Hey, does anybody else feel bad about Ross?
Monica: Why? Do you think he's still mad at us?
Chandler: (to Joey) Well, he's probably mad after you called him this morning to borrow his goggles.
Joey: What? Mine aren't tinted.
Joey: (trying to unlock the car) Relax okay? I, I, I can get this open. Anybody have a coat hanger?
Chandler: Oh, I do! Uh, no, wait a minute, I took it out of my shirt when I put it on this morning.
Monica: So, if you're parents hadn't got divorced, you'd be able to answer a question like a normal person?
Joey: You're smoking again?!
Chandler: Well, actually, yesterday I was smoking again. Today, I'm, I'm smoking still.
Monica: Guys. I thought you were taking Ross to the game.
Chandler: We are. He's meeting us here.
Monica: No! Rachel is meeting us here.
Phoebe: Oh come on, they can be in the same room.
Joey: Yeah, you should have been there last night.
Phoebe: Why? What happened now?
Joey: Well Ross was hanging out over at our place, Rachel comes over to borrow some moisturizer from Chandler...
Chandler: Hey, Joe! How hard is it to say "something?" Rachel came over to borrow... "something."
Joey: Hey, can you close that window Chandler? My nipples could cut glass over here.
Phoebe: Really? Mine get me out of tickets!
Phoebe: What town are we near?
Monica: Freemont! Westmont! Westburgh!
Phoebe: Okay, why are you answering?
Rachel: You're a terrible skier.
Ross: (sarcastic) Oh, hitting me where it hurts. My ski skills.
Joey: Smokey Joe here got half way to the highway and collapsed.
Chandler: I have the lung capacity of a two year old. (starts to light another cigarette)
Monica: Then why are you smoking?
Chandler: Well it's very unsettling.
Phoebe: There is no smoking in my grandmother's cab.
Chandler: In that case, I have to go to the bathroom.
Ross: Forget it, no one's staying.
Chandler: Okay, then I might as well offer to stay.
Rachel: Oh my god! Chandler, you're smoking again.
Chandler: Shut up, you're not my real mom!
Phoebe: I had a dream last night that Rachel and Ross were still together and we were all here hanging out.
Joey: I had the same dream.
Phoebe: Yeah, and no one slept with the Xerox girl.
Joey: Oh, I had the opposite dream.
Joey: Can I see the comics?
Chandler: This is the New York Times.
Joey: Okay, may I see the comics?
Monica: What's "PLEH?"
Joey: That's help spelled backwards so that the helicopters can read it from the air!
Monica: Ah... what's doofus spelled backwards?
Chandler: You know what this is like? This is like when my parents got divorced. Man, I hope Ross doesn't try to kidnap me after Cub Scouts.
Rachel (to Ross): Oh, I'm sorry, were you speaking to me or sleeping with somone else?
Rachel: No! I am not getting in a car with Ross! We will just have to... live here!
Carol: You slept with another woman?
Ross: You're... you're one to talk!
Joey: It's never taken me more than a week to get over a relationship.
Monica: It's never taken you more than a shower to get over a relationship.
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Czech Republic: Jak nedojeli na lyže (As the Skis Did Not Arrive)
This episode runs 22:47 on DVD (a typical sitcom runs about 22:00).
Chandler: I was being Shelley Winters from The Poseidon Adventure.
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 action adventure/disaster film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It stars Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters, a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Winters was also nominated for her role in this film.
Ross: (to Carol) I was just wondering, when you and I split up did you get the tape that was half the last episode of M*A*S*H and half the hostages coming home?
M*A*S*H was an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart about a team of doctors stationed in Korea during the Korean War. Elliott Gould, who plays Jack Geller on Friends, played Trapper John McIntyre in the 1970 film that inspired the television series.
Chandler: Well I thought if I littered, that Crying Indian might come by and save us.
Crying Indian was a character, played by Iron Eyes Cody, in the "Keep America Beautiful" public service announcement in the early 1970's.
Chandler: That's great. With my luck, that's gonna be him.
Phoebe: Him? Ross?
Chandler: No, Hymn 253: "His Eyes are on the Sparrow."
"His Eye Is on the Sparrow" is a traditional gospel spiritual, originally written in 1905 by Civilla D. Martin and Charles H. Gabriel.
Phoebe: Oh, my God! This is like 60 Minutes.
60 Minutes is an investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968.
Joey: Can I see the comics?
Chandler: This is the New York Times.
Joey: Okay, may I see the comics?
The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City. It includes news, opinions, and features (not comics).
Phoebe: Read the sign.
Chandler: "Beam me up, Jesus".
This is just like the phrase from Star Trek, "Beam me up, Scotty."
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Here's the latest example of an arbitrary, unnecessary and appallingly invasive U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) "patdown." I had the unfortunate experience of enduring such a procedure - which more appropriately can be called a sexual assault - on Nov. 25 at the Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Va. I was returning from Norfolk to Washington, D.C.
My passage through the security line checkpoint triggered no alarms. Yet, two TSA agents told me, I had to suffer the mortification and degradation of this "patdown" ostensibly because I was wearing a long skirt.
The search involved highly invasive groping and probing of my private areas. As part of the procedure, which took five to six minutes, the TSA agent reached into my skirt, exploring front to back. I did ask that the search be conducted in a private room and, happily for me, my request was granted - but had I not made such a request, I would have had to undergo the indignity and humiliation of this assault in front of hundreds of holiday travelers.
One of the agents told me that Norfolk International does not have a body-scanning device, so I had no recourse but to submit to this assault.
Nowhere on the TSA website is there any mention of a "patdown" requiring such a highly invasive and violative search. Nowhere on the site is there a citation of any regulation that calls for such a search simply because a passenger is wearing a skirt. Further, it is silent on whether any TSA agent has the right to conduct any such search on a personal whim or because she may choose to interpret existing regulations as she pleases.
I am horrified and disgusted by the experience - a clear example of absolute abuse of absolute power. I feel violated and raped. TSA agents who subject passengers to this odious, invasive and abusive "patdown" - a screamingly laughable euphemism if ever there was one - are operating under the same psychological principle that prompts prison guards to abuse and torture inmates - they do it because they can.
As a white American female over 40, a law-abiding citizen with nary so much as a traffic violation in my history, and an editor of an eminent international science journal, I hardly fit the profile of a terrorist.
This was no reasoned, logical attempt on the agent's part to prevent or preclude an act of terrorism by a passenger. This was pure and unadulterated security theater.
The TSA, a worthless and money-sucking artifact of the George W. Bush administration, must be disbanded, or, at least, stripped of the power it now holds to commit such assaults. The regulations that permit the agency's so-called security procedures must be changed immediately to bar these practices. They are wholly ineffective - not once since their implementation have they actually thwarted a potential act of terrorism - and they violate our personal, constitutional, civil and legal rights. They must end now.
Karen Kaplan is a native of Waterford and a former staff writer for The Day. She now lives in Washington D.C.
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Hugo Lloris showed substantial fortitude to remain on the pitch having been the unfortunate recipient of Romelu Lukaku's knee to his cranium in the 77th minute of the Premier League encounter between Everton and Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
The France international looked dazed and confused as he got to his feet and ambled toward the touchline. An eerie silence had descended over the stadium as a collective worry engulfed Goodison Park that they were witness to a Petr Cech-Stephen Hunt-esque incident.
That day, Hunt was able to continue after the coming together while Cech left the field with a fractured skull. On Sunday, such was the ferocity of the collision between Lukaku's knee and Lloris's head, the big Belgian left the field minutes later before applying an ice pack to the swelling joint.
Having lain prone on the pitch and out cold for a moment, Lloris managed to win an argument with captain Michael Dawson, a gaggle of Tottenham players and the visiting team's medical staff, as he returned gingerly to station himself between the posts once more.
That Lloris actually made one exceptional save after the injury does not mitigate the inexplicable decision to allow him to play on.
The sanitisation of British football from a combative past has been all encompassing – the importance to project a wholesome, consumer-friendly image is a far cry from the days of Bert Trautmann's infamous broken neck or the murky days of terrace hooliganism. Some say that the intensity of the British game has diminished in a blur of money and marketing.
While that argument holds some weight, what is not in doubt are the exponential increases in the much-derided health and safety procedures that regulate the national game. That is why the decision to let Lloris continue after such a serious collision is all the more baffling.
FIFA's attitude to concussion is quite clear, as set out in their Sport Concussion Assessment Tool:
"Any athlete with suspected concussion should be IMMEDIATELY removed from play, urgently assessed medically, should not be left alone and should not drive any motor vehicle."
Only those who were privy to the conversation will be aware as to whether there was a suspicion of concussion. However, it would not be too far a stretch to say that given Lloris's gait after the collision, the general concern from players in close proximity and the fact that Lukaku's knee had packed up that the keeper could have been in a concussive state.
Therefore, he should have been IMMEDIATELY removed from play. The decision should have been taken from his hands.
Manager Andre Villas-Boas stood by the decision after the game, despite Lloris having no memory of the incident.
"Hugo still doesn't recall everything about the incident," he said.
"It was a very difficult moment for us and I am happy he is well. I made the call to keep him on the pitch because of the signs he was giving. He was determined to continue and looked concentrated, driven and focused enough for me not to make the call to replace him. The saves he did after the incident proved that right."
We live in an age when the FA will dole out retrospective action at will – particularly when a player's safety has been put in doubt - but what of Lloris's personal safety? Yes, there was no malice in the challenge from Lukaku; neither was there malice in the decision from Spurs or the referee to allow the player to continue. Of course there should be no form of retrospective action against these parties. However, there is no doubt that the player's safety could have been placed in serious doubt.
The issue of concussion permeates through sport; one must just look across the pond to the NFL, who recently agreed to pay $765 million (£480 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of former players, many suffering from dementia and health problems as a result of concussion.
Therefore the responsibility lies with the FA to remind the game of the guidelines when it comes to suspected concussions. This is not health and safety gone mad. History paints a grim picture of the dangers of head injuries – look at the case of Michael Watson, for example.
Watson had his career ended prematurely as a result of a near-fatal head injury sustained in a WBO super-middleweight title fight defeat by Chris Eubank in 1991 at Tottenham's White Hart Lane. It was the horrific aftermath of that fight, with Watson in a comatose state for 40 days, that heralded changes to event-side medical procedures which many of our sportspeople benefit from today.
The suggestion is not that Lloris's injury was anywhere as serious as the aforementioned Watson's but when there is even the slightest doubt then every precaution must be taken.
Sunday's episode was undoubtedly brave, but also seriously foolhardy and the custodians of Lloris's safety while he was on the pitch should have taken the decision out of his hands. Thankfully, it looks as though Lloris's injury was not a serious as it could have been, but that is not the point.
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Yes, There is a Santa Claus: Enabling My Son's Belief Even When I'm Over It
I expected this to happen sooner or later. After all, Diego is 9 years old and how much longer could I really expect him to buy into the Santa Claus thing? He really wants to be a believer in all the holiday fantasies. He enjoys the magic of all of it. He even had me enabling his beliefs when I ran out on St. Patrick's Day and bought him green gifts so he would think the leprechauns really did visit.
This year it's not even Thanksgiving and he's already asking about Christmas, and Santa. Honestly, I was just hoping that his belief would just fade away and this year he would admit to me that he didn't believe in Santa anymore. Last year Juan and I drove over an hour to Filmore so that we could have what I thought would be our last "Santa Experience" and Diego could ride a Polar Express train. I figured 8 years old was really the end of the Santa fantasy. I thought that by now he would stop believing and I wouldn't have to do the whole leaving cookies and milk thing or sneak around and pretend Santa paid us a visit. My three teenagers stopped believing long ago, and frankly I am kind of over it. I certainly didn't expect Diego to ask about Santa this year, much less today. I was caught completely off guard.
On the way to school this morning Diego started asking a lot of Santa questions. He asked, "Why don't parents get anything from Santa on Christmas? What would I want Santa to bring me?" I was not prepared to have this discussion before I had my first full cup of coffee. I just couldn't be that creative that early in the morning. I quickly detoured that conversation by saying I had to concentrate on driving in traffic.
On the way home from work this afternoon, in the pre-holiday rush hour traffic we had a lot of time to kill. We started talking about Thanksgiving which led to a discussion of how many days until Christmas, which of course led into another conversation about Santa. It was dark and I couldn't see his expression as he sat in the back seat, but he sounded sincere.
Diego: Do you believe in Santa? Be honest.
Me: Do you believe?
Diego: Yes, I believe.
Me: (Thinking) He's still a believer?! How could I crush his belief? Even if he really just wants to believe in the magic, but doesn't truly buy into the whole Santa thing, how could I tell him the truth? I don't want to lie. But I don't have the heart to ruin his fantasy. Especially now, when I am driving in traffic, and when I can't see how he'll handle the truth. And I'm tired. Can't he just stop believing without me having to be the bad guy and ruin it for him?
So, I kind of lied.
Me: Yes, there was a man named St. Nicolas. He would give presents to kids.
Diego: (Not missing a beat). You mean used to be? What about now?
Me: (Using my lawyer tactics) Well, what do you think?
Diego: I think he's real. My friend Nelly told me she saw him once with his elf. I think his toy bag is magic and refills itself with the toys for the kids. How else could he have toys for all the kids?
Me: Yeah. (Seriously? This kid has quite an imagination. Either that or he is really playing me.)
Me: Well, it sounds like you have it all figured out. Oh look, a traffic accident!
Crisis averted. For now. Damn.
Siri-ously Call Me Your Grace
Re-reading my last couple of blog posts, I think I need to lighten things up around here. I'm not all serious and gloom, even though I sometimes sound like it. One of the great joys in my life is laughing at my husband Juan's corny jokes and terrible puns. His unique sense of humor is often evident in the titles to my blog posts. If my post has a corny title or a play on words, you can bet he suggested it, e.g. the titles to the last three posts.
Juan is also my tech guy. If I ever have a question about anything tech related, I ask him. In fact, nearly everyone in my family calls him when they have a tech question especially if it has anything to do with Apple. Yesterday he sent me a link about an article discussing how to make Siri, the Apple voice assistant, simplify my life. I looked at the article and just learning how to operate Siri was too complicated for me. Forget about it simplifying my life.
I am learning to use Siri little by little and thanks to Juan and his tech savvy, Siri is programmed to call me "Your Grace." I didn't program her this way but after watching several episodes of Game of Thrones, Juan thought it would be funny if she called me by a royal title.
Juan taught Nico how to program his Siri and now she calls our 15 year-old son, "Supreme Overlord."
Diego and his friend are in on the fun too. One of his 3rd grade buddies recently programed his mom's iPhone to call her "Poop head." (He changed it back before he got in trouble.)
Last month Juan spent the afternoon helping my dad buy and set up his iPhone. Juan programed Siri on my Dad's iPhone and wanted to have her call him by the family nickname, "Chuy." I vetoed that idea. Then he wanted to program her to call him by his given name, "Jesus," but in English. I vetoed that idea too. I think he finally programed her to call him "Jess."
Juan used to have his Siri call him "Lord and Master." I guess he figured that would be the only time he'd ever have that title. Now, Juan has taught Siri to call him by his given name, perfectly pronounced, with a throaty spanish "J" sound, kind of like Hwan.
One of the ways I like to use Siri is to dial my cell phone when I can't dial myself. I will tell Siri, "Call Juan." Siri will then respond, "Calling One."
I think still have a lot to learn about using Siri. I guess I also need to learn how to pronounce my husband's name correctly.
Sunday Offerings: The Key to Re-Encountering My Faith
My Sundays typically involve church. Growing up Roman Catholic, church was a big part of my life. I felt God in the liturgy of the mass, the rituals of incense, candles, and music. As an adult I have found that going to church regularly refreshes my soul and keeps me connected to God, my community and my family. For the past several months, I have not been feeling quite the same about church. I have been struggling with feeling my connection to the Divine. I know a lot of my struggle with my faith is due to the challenges I have been dealing with in my family life. The liturgy of the mass offers little comfort. I don't know if it's a chicken or egg thing. Perhaps because I have been struggling in my family life, my church attendance has been spotty, or perhaps because my church attendance has spotty, I have been struggling in my family life.
My Buddhist friend, who knows my struggle, and feels my despair, invited me a lay Buddhist meeting. She talks to me enthusiastically about how her life and her children's lives have turned around since they started chanting. We went to lunch one day and I met with one of her Buddhist leaders. It was an inspiring and insightful conversation. I have no doubt that the Buddhist faith is working in their lives. I accepted the invitation to the Buddhist meeting. At first I was a bit self-conscious about chanting words I wasn't even sure I was pronouncing correctly. But, as the sound washed over me in community with the other women in the room I felt peace. It was a very positive experience that was both familiar and strange. It was strange in the sense, that the language was foreign and I struggled to find meaning in the words we chanted. It was familiar in the sense that the ritual of the prayer beads, the gong and chanting seemed a lot like the rituals I had grown up with and which gave me comfort.
This morning Juan and Diego had to go to soccer practice. The other kids were sleeping in. I didn't want to go to church by myself, so I decided I would take Molly on a walk to the big outdoor church. Nature. It's the other place I feel God. I don't get outdoors nearly enough, but today the air was crisp, the sun was bright and I needed to move my body. I announced to my kids that we weren't going to church this morning. I think they were a bit relieved they would have a leisurely Sunday morning.
I drove to nearby Eaton Canyon, took my car key off the ring and stuck it in my iPhone case. As Molly and I hiked the canyon I listened to a talk given by Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran preacher who had visited my church a couple of weeks ago. At one point during the talk she explained how she had grown up in the fundamentalist Church of Christ, and then decided to become a Lutheran when she experienced and fell in love with the liturgy. She said liturgy feels like "choreographed sacredness" and that it was like a "stream that flowed long before us and will continue long after us so that we… can be immersed in the language of truth and promise and Grace." Her words rang so true for me.
I listened and worshipped the nature around me, trying to feel the presence of God. It was challenging because Molly kept pulling on her leash and the canyon was filled with hikers, joggers, and a lot of dogs. By the time we had hiked over a mile,
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About halfway back to the car it occurred to me that the key I had placed in my iPhone case was no longer there. You know the key? The one with the computer chip in it that costs hundreds of dollars to replace? I panicked. Whatever sense of peace and Grace I felt during my hike evaporated. Molly and I sprinted back to the spot where I took the picture. Along the way, I kept dodging hikers, dogs and the occasional horse and dog poop, all the while looking, hoping, praying to find the key.
I have lost a lot of things before. I have found them too, in odd, unexpected places. My mom is the same way. She has taught me to pray to St. Anthony whenever I lose things. Along the trail I prayed to St. Anthony again. I laughed at myself at the absurdity of me losing the key and the even greater absurdity of finding it along the well-traveled trail covered with leaves, dirt and rocks.
I arrived at the spot where I had taken the picture. I looked among the shrubs, under leaves and turned over rocks. It wasn't there. I made the walk back to the car my eyes downcast, searching for the key, missing the beauty of nature and ignoring the presence of God around me. I thought of the irony in losing the key in my quest to find God. By the time I reached my car, I still hadn't found the key and felt resigned that it was probably gone. I called Juan and told him the bad news, and ask that he bring me the one spare key we had left.
Juan and Nico arrived, prepared to do one more sweep through the canyon. I refused to go, saying it was a lost cause. Before we left, I decided I'd go into the ranger station to see if the key had been turned in. The ranger told me that no one had turned in any keys and asked me for my name and the key description. Just then another ranger walked into the office. The second ranger asked, "You lost a key?" Then she pulled out my key from her shirt pocket. She said someone along the trail had just turned it in.
I took the key and in a moment of evangelizing told the ranger about St. Anthony. She said I should go buy a lottery ticket. I replied that I was going to light a candle instead. Nico drove home with me and along the way we laughed and talked about the miracle. In my best Southern evangelical preacher voice I shouted, "Allelulia!" I asked him "Can I have an Amen?" Getting into the spirit of it, Nico shouted "Amen!" I enthused, "See? You just need to have faith." Nico asked, "Well, what's the lesson here?" I paused and thought about it. Then, I replied, I guess the lesson is that I just need to have faith that what has been lost will be found.
Master Suite or Master's Suite?
When Juan and I married and blended our families we decided to remodel my two-bedroom, one bath house into a four bedroom house. There would be one office/guest room, one room for the boys and one for the girls to share. Juan and I would have our own master bedroom, which we have since learned we have to share with our dog Molly, and occasionally Diego, whenever he has a bad dream. Our house remodel also included a master spa bathroom, which we have since realized is not for our own exclusive use.
Whenever we complained to the kids about them using our bathroom, they protested that we had the good shower, more bath products, and better towels. True, I did splurge and furnish our bathroom with plush linens. I wanted to create a spa atmosphere. Maybe if the kids actually hung up their towels instead of leaving them on the floor, I would be inclined to splurge on their linens too. Last week I had to replace our bathmat. I splurged again and bought a nice plush one. It had a thick pile and matched the palette of our bathroom's warm gold color.
This week, our Southern California weather and its endless summer finally turned to Fall. I came home from work and turned on the heater to take the chill out of the air. When I walked into my room, I smelled something musty. I shrugged it off as the heater firing up. Later that night, as I was getting ready for bed I went to my bathroom to perform my evening ritual of brushing, exfoliating, moisturizing and all manner of fighting against the aging process. Again, I smelled something odd. I noticed that the toilet seat was up and looked at Juan
accusingly suspiciously. He assured me that his aim was perfect. We complained to each other that Diego was probably using our bathroom again. He must have missed the mark. To his credit, Juan cleaned up around the toilet. Better. At least it smelled like disinfectant.
The next day, after work, I walked into our bedroom and again detected a musty odor. I looked at the pile of shoes on Juan's side of the bed. Could it be? No, foot odor is distinctly different. That night Diego again used our bathroom for his shower. After his shower, as I trimmed his nails I smelled it again. I sniffed his hair to make sure he washed it. It was fine, like coconut. I smelled his hands. His nails were still a bit dirty, but his hands smelled fine. As I bent over to trim his toenails I smelled his feet. Musty! I sent him back into the shower since I was sure the feet of a 9 year-old soccer playing boy needed more scrubbing.
That night we fell asleep to the sound of our first Fall rain. In the morning, as I was taking a shower Juan groggily walked in and nearly slipped on our tile floor. He looked down and saw that the floor was damp. I got out of the shower and stepped onto my new bathmat. My feet felt like they were stepping into a puddle. The new bath mat felt wet, actually soggy. Hmm, that's weird. Wet floor, damp mat. Could we have a leak in our roof? Juan and I started inspecting the ceiling to see if we could find the source of the water. No leak.
Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the source of the leak wasn't the ceiling. I looked down at the new bathmat. I remembered that Molly, our fox terrier, had been housebroken on pee pads. Juan grabbed some paper towels and as he cleaned up the wet floor, we discovered what he was mopping up was not water. It was yellow and had a musty smell.
I guess I will have to buy a new bath mat. Maybe this time I'll buy one that's not so plush.


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A Coffee Lover's Guide to Seattle
A trip to Seattle for most coffee tourists begins in Pike Place Market, home of the first Starbucks, but it should never end there. While the Mermaid receives plenty of praise for turning a nation of Styrofoam cup guzzling, freeze-dried, caffeine consumers into so-called coffee connoisseurs, it's Seattle's royal roasting court that lays claim to the "Caffé Crown." Take a look at our coffee lover's guide to the city for Seattle's best coffee shops.
Seattle's eclectic roster of roasteries offers the best reflections of what's brewing locally, be it buzzworthy neighbourhoods or cultural styles. Look no further than cool Caffé Vita, owned by Mike McConnell, a local kid who discovered the allure of good coffee during his challenging formative years.
"In the 80's we used to save up our money and go drink espresso at the Nordstrom Coffee Bar," he recalls, "a bunch of ragged teenagers with unintentionally ripped jeans sampling Italian coffees in a high end department store."
McConnell's flagship Caffé Vita sits on Pike Street, smack in the middle of the Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle's most dynamic district. The minimalist ambience reflects its founder; the baristas tattooed and pierced, the music loud, the coffee outrageously good.
Like Seattle's grunge music movement, when musicians routinely sat in with other bands, Seattle's espresso culture remains a cooperative affair. McConnell credits Espresso Vivace's David Schomer with teaching him the trade and encouraging him to strike out on his own right around the corner.
A revered pioneer, Schomer began roasting coffee in the Northern Italian style over 25 years ago. Concentrating on espresso blends exclusively, Schomer has opened just three local outlets, though he exports his beans around the world. (Caffé Vita has 11 outlets, including New York, Los Angeles and Portland.)
Vivace's flagship café, brightly framed in Tuscan yellow, sits on Broadway in the Capital Hill neighbourhood. Vintage lamps hang from the ceiling, rotating galleries feature local artists and permanent drawings celebrate the Italian coffee tradition. The espresso here is considered the finest blend of its kind in the city.
Deming Maclise launched Caffé Fioré with another singular focus, to create an organic coffee roasting operation that stood up against the best non-organic blends. Bathed in rich reds and dark stained wood, the flagship Fioré warms visitors against the Seattle chill. Adirondack chairs line the front, serving as the Queen Anne neighbourhood's front stoop on summer evenings.
Zoka Coffee Roasters provide a living room for its Greenlake neighbourhood, Seattle's answer to pub culture abroad. Locals get competitive over board games, regulars slump in overstuffed leather chairs browsing the paper and the glow of laptops suggest the city's robust digital work environment. Zoka once roasted in the back of the café, but like its peers, demand now dictates a larger, industrial environment.
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Letters to the Editor - 12/22/2005
Reason for the season
My sincere thanks and respect to Bob Hayward for his excellent Community Forum article of Dec. 10 ("NCT misses reason for the season").
Thanks, too, to all of the other readers who have written to profess their belief in the miracle of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Composers like Handel, Bach and Hanz Gruber knew years ago.
Merry Christmas, Agnes!
San Marcos
A pagan holiday
So much ado about nothing. I like the inclusivity of the phrase "Happy Holidays" rather than the single-mindedness of "Merry Christmas."
But, mostly, I think some people need to be reminded of history.
Before there was Christmas, there was the pagan holiday celebrating winter and the solstice. Christ was not even born in December let alone Dec. 25. The Christians, in all their infinite wisdom, forbade the old holiday and introduced their own. Now Christians, in the same tradition, are selfishly asserting their views an others. As a pagan, I will continue to enjoy the holiday of the season, but not with the selfish spirit of those complainers who refuse to wish one and all happy holidays.
A gift for all seasons
This year, give yourselves and your children a gift. Learn how to lovingly say "no." No to that ice cream that you purchase on your way out of the store. Let your children know that you love them and want them to stay well and strong. It's easier than explaining the whys of the needles, etc., that come with juvenile diabetes and obesity in children.
Spend a little on a gift for both of you that will last all year, rather than just a week or two. Health and accident insurance is available through your school district from grades K through 12, for a nominal cost. Less than 15 ice cream bars. Less than one 24 pack of beer.
Give a gift of child-care exchange, with a neighbor or relative, so you can attend classes. Practice using your own resources, and don't wait for the city or the school districts to provide these things before you go on with your life improvements. You will feel stronger for it. A gift from you, to you.
These are gifts of love for your children and yourselves. This is your duty as guardians of your children's lives and your own. Give where it really counts, and share these ideas with everyone you know. Learn to lovingly just say no. Merry Christmas.
The purveyor of plastic turkey
The first Thanksgiving of the war in Iraq, the president made a surprise photo-op to Baghdad to serve plastic turkey to the troops. They must have appreciated that.
Official estimates of the cost of the Iraq war are now at half a trillion dollars. Who knew plastic turkey would cost so much? The president, talking out of both sides of his mouth, said that protesting the war was patriotic, while directing the Pentagon to spy on Americans who protest the war. Besides the dishonest contradiction, the problem the Pentagon has is that, increasingly, people there are against the war.
Now that the president has admitted that the reasons for the war were false, wouldn't that half a trillion been better spent elsewhere? An amount of that magnitude could have solved the energy crisis and we would have no more need for oil as fuel.
Even though Bush admits that the reasons for the war were all a mistake, he says he still would have made the same decision — kind of like a malfunctioning robot trying to assimilate new data updates, but continuing to spit out the same old nonsense. But, what else would we expect from a plastic turkey purveyor?


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In 1838 the Sultan of Turkey sent twelve neutered rams and one female to Port Elizabeth, halfway across the world.
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Religion briefs for Oct. 6
Mormon church plans conference
Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will hold their 182nd Semiannual General Conference on Saturday and Sunday. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a worldwide Christian religion. Oklahoma has 43,905 church members, with 84 congregations. The conference, originating from church headquarters in Salt Lake City, is comprised of a series of two-hour meetings over two days featuring church leaders speaking on a variety of spiritual topics.General sessions, open to everyone, will be 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mountain time Saturday, and 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday. Live broadcasts are to be streamed to more than 7,400 church buildings in 102 countries. For a list of local meeting houses, go to www.lds.org/locations. The conference also can be viewed on the television or online. Live broadcasts are available at conference.lds.org.
Center will hold open house
The new Soka Gakkai International-USA Oklahoma Buddhist Center will host an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at 817 NW 12. Soka Gakkai is based on the teachings and philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism. RSVP by contacting Dee Freeland at 947-1101. For more information, go to www.SGI-USA.org.
Doctor will speak at meeting
EDMOND — The caregiver support group that meets monthly at Santa Fe Presbyterian Church will host a presentation by Dr. Robert Salinas from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the church, 1603 N Santa Fe. The presentation will be entitled "Rx for Sanity: How to Cope and Survive Through A Hospital Admission." Salinas is a geriatrician at the OU Physicians Family Medicine Center. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call the church at 341-3300.
OBU hosts convention leader
SHAWNEE — The Rev. Fred Luter Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will be guest speaker at chapel services at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Oklahoma Baptist University, 500 W University. Luter, senior pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, La., will speak on Psalm 119. He was elected SBC president in June, becoming the first black person to lead the denomination.
Wildewood Baptist plans musical
A "Men in Praise Musical" will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 13 at Wildewood Baptist Church, 60 NE 63. The men's chorus is under the director of D. Wayne Lee, Wildewood's minister of music. Admission is free and open to the public.
Music minister will be honored
Jim Henline will be honored for his 40 years of work in music ministry on Sunday at Putnam City Christian Church, 4215 N Grove Ave. According to a news release, Henline began as music director at the church in October 1972. Henline also has appeared in productions at Jewel Box, Lyric Theatre and more.
Interfaith group sets meeting
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation of Oklahoma will hold its annual meeting and awards banquet Oct. 18 at The Centre, 4325 NW 50. Registration begins at 6 p.m. A business meeting will be at 6:25 p.m., followed by a meal at 7 p.m. The keynote speaker is the Rev. Welton Gaddy, national president of the Interfaith Alliance. His topic will be, "Let Me Tell You Who to Vote For". The event will end with an awards ceremony. The Community Service Award will be presented to the Rev. Jeff Hamilton, and the Harley Venter's Humanitarian Award will go to Larry and Masie Bross. The dinner is open to the public. Cost of the meal is $25, and reservations may be made by calling the Interfaith Alliance office at 521-0568.Reservations and checks may be sent to the Interfaith Alliance at 301 NW 36, Oklahoma City, OK 73118


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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
Those were the words of the French author and poet Victor Hugo.
Those are the actions of Skyler Lykins of Franklin, Indiana — soon to be of Golden, Colorado.
To listen to his teachers and coaches, those actions, within the context of initiative, have spoken infinitely louder than any words.
The recent Franklin Community High School graduate earned 11 varsity letters, four each in wrestling and cross-country, and three in track and field.
In wrestling, he was a four-time Johnson County and Mid-State Conference champion, a three-time regional champion, a four-time semistate qualifier, a three-time state qualifier and a two-time state place-winner.
Morover, Lykins was the 2014 recipient of the Ward E. Brown Mental Attitude Award at the 2014 IHSAA state wrestling championship meet.
The son of Mary Jo and Matthew Lykins, the perennial honors student ranked near the very top of 339 seniors, twice earning Academic All-State honors and the Mike Dowden Memorial Scholarship.
"I've always had coaches and my parents that pushed me," Lykins said. "I always wanted to make them proud. They all said I had potential, and I wanted to live up to that."
Through four years at Franklin, that's precisely what he did.
"He applies what he learns," said Beth Foraker, science department chairwoman at Franklin Community High School and one of Lykins' favorite teachers who had him in two of her physics courses.
On a particular school day, after discussing a lesson in the physics of electrical connections, Foraker said, "He went home and rewired his truck so that the lights would flash along with the music he played.
"He is a fantastic kid all the way."
His success in wrestling wasn't an automatic one.
When Lykins began learning the sport under longtime Grizzly Cubs wrestling coach Bob Hasseman, he was a diamond in the rough of sorts. He needed to grow in terms of true wrestling savvy.
"He was a hard charger with not a lot of great talent then wrestling-wise," said Hasseman, who noted Lykins often, "wrestled from behind," but through hard work and sheer determination, made himself a stalwart in an already-stout program.
Victor Hugo would have been impressed.
"He had always been in great shape and always wanted to do his best," Hasseman said. "He was great to coach, and he really was a great leader for our team."
His mental attitude award speaks to that.
"I've wanted to wrestle ever since I was 4," said Lykins, who appreciates the accountability individual competitors have within the framework of a team. "You can't blame a loss on anybody else but yourself. At the same time, it's a team sport, and the team part is more important.
"You have to be focused as a team, or you won't survive. You have to be together."
Hasseman agrees.
"The idea of team first ... we really stress that," Hasseman said. "Our thing is the sum of the parts has to be successful."
"He has a great legacy," Lykins said of his high school coach. "He's a great guy, and he's been like my second dad. He genuinely cares about the kids he coaches.
"He even helped me with my homework sometimes."
Soon, Lykins will be heading west to attend the Colorado School of Mines on wrestling and academic scholarships, and he will have plenty of homework to do. His major will be petroleum engineering.
Lots of local high school student-athletes go on to attend college or play sports there, but not many aspire to all of that at a prestigious geology school.
"I applied to Stanford, Texas A&M and Colorado School of Mines," Lykins said. "Even with my grades, I didn't know if I would get in. School has always been more important to me than wrestling, and I won't be wrestling that much longer in the grand scheme of things.
"I'm going to be a petroleum engineer. I think our country is still going to need petroleum for a while."
In the coming school year, Hasseman will continue to talk about the total of his team needing to be more than the sum of its parts.
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Spectral Guise
30 sec cooldown Instant
Your shadow blurs into the darkness, leaving your true form behind. As a shadow you are stealthed, but remain in combat. Lasts 6 sec or until your true form is hit by 3 direct attacks.
Body and Soul
Your Power Word: Shield and Leap of Faith also increase your target's movement speed by 60% for 4 sec.
Consuming Shadow Orbs transforms your Mind Flay into Insanity, and your Mind Sear into Searing Insanity, for 1.91 sec per Shadow Orb consumed. These spells deals 100% additional damage.
Psychic Scream
3% of base mana
30 sec cooldown Instant
The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee, disorienting them for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.
Shadowy Insight
Your Shadow Word: Pain damage over time and Mind Spike damage has a 5% chance to reset the cooldown on Mind Blast and make your next Mind Blast instant.
30 yd range 1% of base mana
40 sec cooldown Instant
Creates a ring of Shadow energy around you that quickly expands and grows in power, up to 30 yds away. Deals up to 11,245 Shadow damage to enemies, with the greatest effect at 25 yds.
Auspicious Spirits
Your Shadowy Apparitions now deal 100% increased damage and grant you 1 Shadow Orb.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Dispersion
ShadowPassiveReduces the cooldown on Dispersion by 15 sec.
Glyph of Vampiric Embrace
ShadowPassiveYour Vampiric Embrace converts an additional 10% of the damage you deal into healing, but the duration is reduced by 5 sec.
Glyph of Mind Flay
ShadowPassiveYour Mind Flay spell no longer slows your victim's movement speed. Instead, each time Mind Flay deals damage you will be granted 15% increased movement speed for 5 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
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Glyph of Shadow Ravens
ShadowPassiveYour Shadow Orbs now appear as Shadow Ravens.
Glyph of ConfessionPassiveTeaches you the ability Confession.
Compels a friendly target to confess a secret.
Glyph of Dark Archangel
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Spectral Guise
30 sec cooldown Instant
Your shadow blurs into the darkness, leaving your true form behind. As a shadow you are stealthed, but remain in combat. Lasts 6 sec or until your true form is hit by 3 direct attacks.
Angelic Feather
40 yd range
Place a feather at the target location, granting the first ally to walk through it 60% increased movement speed for 6 sec. Max 3 charges. Only 3 feathers can be placed at one time.
Surge of Light
Your healing spells and Smite have a 8% chance to make your next Flash Heal instant and cost no mana. Can accumulate up to 2 charges.
Psychic Scream
3% of base mana
30 sec cooldown Instant
The caster lets out a psychic scream, causing 5 enemies within 8 yards to flee, disorienting them for 8 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect.
Spirit Shell
1 min cooldown Instant
For the next 10 sec, your Heal, Flash Heal, and Prayer of Healing no longer heal but instead create absorption shields that last 15 sec.
Divine Star
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15 sec cooldown Instant
Fire a Divine Star forward 24 yds, healing allies in its path for 2,247. After reaching its destination, the Divine Star returns to you, healing allies in its path again.
Words of Mending
Your healing and shielding spell casts grant you a stack of Word of Mending. When you gain 10 stacks of Word of Mending, your next targeted healing or shielding spell also casts a Prayer of Mending at them.
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Penance
DisciplinePassiveIncreases the mana cost of Penance by 20% but allows Penance to be cast while moving.
Glyph of Shadow Magic
Discipline, HolyPassiveFor 5 sec after activating Fade, you are immune to Silence and Interrupt effects, but the cooldown of Fade is increased by 60 sec.
Glyph of Weakened SoulPassiveReduces the duration of the Weakened Soul effect caused by Power Word: Shield by 2 sec.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of AngelsPassiveYour heal spells momentarily grant you angelic wings.
Glyph of Holy ResurrectionPassiveYour resurrection target appears bathed in holy light for the duration of the Resurrection cast.
Glyph of Borrowed Time
DisciplinePassiveYour Borrowed Time is now displayed visually.
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- HondurasRetailFunding via Prisma Honduras, S.A.
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Vilma SandraHondurasFoodFunding via Prisma Honduras, S.A.
Update on FloridalmaSeñora Floridalma is 40 years old and lives with her children in her home in the community of San Lorenzo, in the south of Honduras. She has made her living for the last ten years selling general grocery items.
Doña Floridalma's business is open from Monday to Sunday. Her customers are neighbors and friends who stop by on a daily basis.
Doña Floridalma is requesting the loan to purchase more food products like sodas, juice, malts, milk, cheese, eggs, rice, beans, bread, cookies, cooking oil, toilet paper, chicken, cold cuts, tomato sauce, spaghetti etc. With the help of this loan, she plans to increase her inventory and also her sales volume.
Doña Floridalma's dream is to see her two children graduate and obtain university degrees.
San Lorenzo, Honduras –April, 2013.
Doña Floridalma vende de lunes a domingo y sus clientes son sus vecinos y amigos que a diario le visitan.
Doña Floridalma está solicitando el préstamo para la compra de mas productos alimenticios como refrescos, jugos, malteadas, leches, quesos, huevos, arroz, frijoles, pan, galletas, aceite, papel higiénico, pollo, embutidos, pastas de tomate, espaguetis, etc. Con el apoyo de este préstamo pretende incrementar más su inventario y también el volumen de sus ventas.
Doña Floridalma su sueño es poder graduar a sus dos hijos para que puedan obtener título universitario.
San Lorenzo, Honduras –Abril del 2013.
Previous Loan DetailsSra. Floridalma is married and has two children. She resides in the neighborhood of El Estero, Alianza Sector, in the Department of Valle. Floridalma sells various merchandise in her business such as new clothing, cosmetics, school supplies, shoes, tennis shoes, and men's and women's footwear. ... More from Floridalma's previous loan »
Additional Information
Prisma Honduras, S.A.This loan is administered by Prisma Honduras. Prisma is one of Kiva's first field partners in Central America and has funded over 2,500 entrepreneurs through Kiva since 2008. Prisma funds smaller than average loans for micro-entrepreneurs to help them grow businesses in urban and rural areas. To improve living conditions in Honduras, the organization strives to empower women who lack access to traditional financial services, and promotes solar panels to deliver clean, affordable electricity to rural areas. Through its four branches in southern and central Honduras, Prisma provides access to financial products to some of the poorest and most isolated communities in the country.
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
About Honduras
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 14 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Apr 8, 2013
- Listed
- May 7, 2013
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
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My diaper making days are loooong over. :) And I have a home-made fitted pattern and diaper cover pattern to give away. I posted in the TP if anyone is interested.
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I apologize. I do not get on here much anymore, so did not realize I'd gotten replies. I checked back initially, though, so I'm surprised I did not see vtfiver's post. Since you asked first, let me know if you still want them. If not, I will send them to Tia Ruck. The best way to reach me is via email. My email address is [email protected].
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