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by Alan Britt
Guilt is like a bridle.
It swings you
from altar
to altar,
then swings you back
to the conventional feed bag
of wisdom,
leaving reptilian glyphs
on terrazzo floors
that tell you
where to bury
your discarded life
once you're ground down
beneath a ten-inch heel.
Beyond that
I'm a complete moron,
but a moron
by choice, I say.
So, let air conditioners,
and cats,
and Egyptian streetlamps
vibrate a blood
so thick
so humid
that the raspy tongue
of an Italian grandmother
creates quite a stir.
Jesus should protect us
from eating flesh,
from eating life forms,
yet we dine
on his soul
at regular intervals.
I feel toxic love
for the white and gray cat.
I feel her solitude
like a sponge
through my shoulder blades.
I'd too carry
the weight of owls
and rats
in my dark pupils
if I could.
Governments lie sprawled
beneath a full moon.
Confederates sleep
against sheds and overgrown barns.
with bones of mercury
rattle in unison.
A single ball
penetrates a thick door
killing Jennie Wade instantly
as she bakes bread
for her family huddled
in the dark cellar.
The only civilian victim
of Gettysburg
flies to her death
like a torn and bloody swan.
So it goes—
dog clippers rattle their teeth,
Norway maples sprout
emerald parachutes
for the new spring,
while Bob Dylan
in the kitchen
laments middleweights and Methodist bells.
Until, finally, guilt curls up
like a mummified millipede
inside the black hole
of an arthritic carport brick
supporting one corner
of my chilly universe.
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The Pentagon's brain implants that could REVERSE memory loss caused by brain damage
A new implantable probe could reverse memory loss for the hundreds of thousands of troops who've suffered brain injuries since 2000.
And while The Pentagon-developed project is focused on the more than 280,000 troops who could benefit from this research, seniors with dementia and athletes with brain injuries could also profit from the medical breakthrough.
The project is creating a stir as attempts to develop drugs for brain injuries and memory loss have been stymied for the past decade.
Testing: First Lieutenant Jay Park undergoes pre-deployment cognitive testing at the Fort Campbell Army Base in Kentucky. It's estimated more than 280,000 soldiers have some form of brain injury
Brainwaves are pictured on a computer screen. DARPA hopes to develop a device that is portable and wireless and that 'must incorporate implantable probes' which will both record and stimulate brain activity
'The way human memory works is one of the great unsolved mysteries,' Andres Lozano, chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, told Bloomberg. 'This has tremendous value from a basic science aspect. It may have huge implications for patients with disorders affecting memory, including those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.'
In the project, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hopes to build on neuroengineering advances such as brain implants already available from Medtronic Inc. to treat Parkinson's disease, as well as a device helping people with limited motor functions to communicate.
The Pentagon has reached out to leading companies and organizations, soliciting ideas on stimulating brain tissue and memory restoration.
Should the research prove beneficial, the potential could attract major companies including General Electric Co. and International Business Machines Corp.
Medtronic's implant is already authorized for sale in the U.S.. Similar devices manufactured by Minnesota's St. Jude Medical Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp. in Massachusetts are also seeking approval.
Epidemic: There are at least 1.7 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with memory loss every year
The DARPA project is a section of President Barack Obama's BRAIN initiative, created to fund research that could treat common brain disorders.
Eventually, DARPA hopes to develop a device that is portable and wireless and that 'must incorporate implantable probes' which will both record and stimulate brain activity.
Companies submitting proposals for the project must not the number, size, weight, spacing and power requirement of the probes in their proposal.
They must also note what areas of the brain they plan to target.
Medtronic's device is made up of thin wires which can carry a signal to the brain's electrodes that 'deliver stimulation to the brain.'
In that example, the electrical impulses are powered by a device just under the skin in the upper chest.
31-year-old Army sergeant Thomas Green III is one of the many who stand to benefit.
In 2004, Green was driving a five-ton truck in Iraq when it struck a roadside bomb and flipped over ten times, leaving Green with a crushed pelvis, fractured back, and brain injury.
Today he sometimes forgets his wife's name. Immediately after the attack he had trouble remembering how to brush his teeth or put on a shirt.
Super soldier: DARPA could combine the implants with suits that help reduce a soldier's risk of fatigue and injury
Green left the military in 2005 and said he's since developed ways to deal with his handicap, such as setting up reminders on his phone and computer.
There are at least 1.7 million people in the U.S. diagnosed with memory loss every year.
Federal health care studies claim the annual cost to the nation's economy is north of $76 billion while the Department of Veteran's Affairs estimates that $4.2 billion will go to care for former troops suffering brain injuries between 2013 and 2022.
The DARPA project would be most useful for the type of memory used to recall 'task-based motor skills' such as driving cars, tying shoes, and, at the highest level, operating machinery or flying planes.
In the past, DARPA projects have helped lead to the creation of the Internet and stealth fighter jets.
Other projects in the works inlcude 'geckskin,' a program to help soldiers scale walls the way a lizard would, and robotic pack mules to carry equipment.
Yet another DARPA program is aimed at developing bodysuits to make soldiers stronger and less vulnerable to injury or fatigue.
Breakthroughs: DARPA initiatives also hope to create combat suits, robotic pack mules, and tech that would help a soldier scale a wall like a lizard
'If you're saying, well, at the end of the program will they actually turn out a brain chip, or put somebody in a warrior websuit, the probability of that is probably 10 to 15 per cent,' Mike Hopmeier, a former contractor and consultant with DARPA, told Bloomberg.
Justin Ihle, a spokesman for Medtonic, declined to comment on what his company might bid for the DARPA brain project, saying only that his company is 'interested in forming partnerships with institutions, such as DARPA, that may one day lead to new treatment options and better technology.'
GE Global Research reps said the company would not submit a proposal, while IBM did not respond to requests for comment.
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Skip to comments.To Save Traditional Marriage, End State Involvement in Marriage (Bingo)
Posted on 03/20/2013 5:57:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Within the next few months, Justice Anthony Kennedy will likely rule that same-sex marriage is mandated by the Constitution of the United States. The ruling will offend both common sense and Constitutional law. But it will nonetheless become the law of the land. With it, states will be forced to recognize same-sex marriages; same-sex marriage will enter the public school lexicon; religious institutions will be forced to recognize same-sex marriages or lose their tax-exempt status. Religious Americans will be forced into violating their beliefs or facing legal consequences by the government. The First Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty will largely become obsolete.
There is only one way to stop this development: Get the government out of the business of marriage. Right now.
States and localities originally gave tax benefits and crafted specific legal systems in order to incentivize Americans to get married and have children within the context of marriage. But those legal institutions have been undermined over the past several decades by a culture that degrades marriage and child rearing. Incentive structures that used to provide the cherry on top of good moral decision-making no longer matter enough to drive such decision-making.
That gap between culture and the legal system has led to a cycle of defining deviancy down, with government taking the lead. The view of the value of marriage in American life changed in the 1950's and 1960's; the left used that cultural shift in order to legitimize no-fault divorce laws, legal custody and child support arrangements that incentivized divorce and social welfare systems that incentivized unwed motherhood.
The last bastion of the old value system was the state's approval of traditional marriage. But thanks to a decades-long cultural shift away from marriage, the left is now in position to use the levers of government to redefine the institution once and for all -- and in the process, destroy the American religious culture that under-girds American freedom.
Unlike the movement to retract laws restricting sexual behavior, the same-sex marriage movement has never been about freedom in any real sense. The push for same-sex marriage is not about wanting freedom to copulate; same-sex copulation has been effectively legal in this country for decades, and formally legal since Lawrence v. Texas (2003). The push for same-sex marriage is not about wanting legal benefits available to heterosexual couples; same-sex couples are largely able to make contractual arrangements to achieve those benefits, and in many states, civil unions equate legally with marriage.
The push for same-sex marriage is about placing the power of government in direct opposition to traditional religious viewpoints.
And conservatives cannot stop that push unless they are willing to restrict government power. Conservatism has always been about preventing the power of government from invading the lives of citizens. Leftism has always been about using the power of government to restrict the behavior of others. It is time for conservatives to recognize the reality of their situation, realize the dangers inherent in their insistence on government interventionism and act quickly.
Getting the government out of marriage would mean voluntary lifestyle arrangements governed by contract -- a practice that has roots stretching back millennia. Religious people would not be forced by the state to approve behavior they find morally problematic. They would not have to worry about their children being taught about such behavior. Conservatives would be forced to rebuild a culture of marriage rather than focusing on a crumbling legal bulwark.
Conservatives lost the culture. Then they lost the law. They can only regain traditional values by removing legal coercion and incentivization from the table -- the left will never hesitate to use those means -- and focusing once again on the raising and production of children within a culture of traditional morality.
Problem is....what is already happening...momma has ten children...5 boyfriends, collects welfare and we pay. It'll be a bigger snowball.
imho the government should have zero interest in whether someone is married or not.
Government has no interest in promoting a stable society?
Hmmm... I'll have to think about that.
make any government involvement in marriage such as taxes etc. be changed to a 'domestic partnership' as the legal definition.
Let churches/synagogues be responsible for marriage and those clergy can fill out the government partnership paperwork as well as their church's 'marriage certificates'
don't want to go to church? go to the justice of the peace, where you will only get a partnership certificate...
Same thing is true with illegal immigrants. We've always had 'em, but when the state was not giving away free stuff to all comers it was not a big deal. Now it is.
Not so unusual. My wife and I are religiously married (Jewish). The state has no business in my marital statis. Most of my wife family immigrated to Israel from the Ukraine. According the her it is common in Israel to marry without civil license.
The push for same-sex marriage is about placing the power of government in direct opposition to traditional religious viewpoints.
Ben Shapiro is absolutely correct here. I wish he weren't. But he is.
Marriage is a institution outside of the bounds of government. People who live on a desert island with no government can marry and respect the marriage of others. God invented marriage, not man.
Government was happy to get into the marriage business because when we gave tax exemptions based on marital status, or when we taxed a persons estate upon their death, or when the State stepped in to direct the disposition of an estate, or when we used the State to enforce marital fidelity, we had to allow the State to define who was married and who was not.
And with all things Statist, the secular States definition of marriage came to have more weight in society than Gods definition.
God defines marriage as being between men and women. While many men whom God called righteous in the Bible practiced polygamy, Jesus said is quoted in Matthew chapter 19 that from the beginning of humanity, it was Gods intent that marriage would only be one man and one woman.
God defines sexual relations between people of the same sex as sin, that is immoral. In Revelation 22:15, a book dictated to John by Jesus, God tells us that anyone who practices sexual immorality will not be granted eternal life.
But these are ecclesiastical considerations that are outside of secular government, that is unless we want government to police sexual behavior between consenting adults based on the standards of the Bible, that is if we can agree what those are. Do we want Congress to have that debate?
Maybe it is time to get government out of the marriage business and to return it to the private sphere. The problem for me today is that people who want to call themselves married against Gods law (as I read it) are willing to use the State to force me to recognize that marriage, which I cannot do. The want to have the States public education system indoctrinate my children that homosexual marriage is normal. They want to force me to subsidize the homosexual marriage in the tax code just like the godly marriage is subsidized.
If the State must force me to acknowledge its power to declare two men to be "married", then I must support efforts to remove that power from the State. If people who don't want God defining their personal morality demand a separation of church and State then let us also have separation of marriage and State as well. If those people don't want any displays of the Ten Commandments in government buildings, they cannot hide behind the Commandments that protect marriage when it comes to homosexual "marriage".
I doubt if it ever happens. There's people on both sides who want the state involved for completely different reasons. One one hand you have conservatives who recognize that a good state can potentially be condusive to a good culture by promoting traditional marriage through gov't. On the other hand you have statists and homosexualists who see the states involvement as a way to punish and keep punishing those who will never buy into gay marriage with state power. Statists like that that many are conditioned to think the state defines marriage, it provides too much control of the culture to give up.
That may, in fact, be the goal here, where the Government can then hide behind "single people are not being treated equally", in the future, and Revenues can thus be increased by eliminating deductions/Benefits for Married Filings.
And it's not "traditional religious viewpoints" they are opposed to. They hate Christianity and Christians.
Here in Maryland many couples have their Federal taxes go up because they get married, not down.
Mainly couples with no kids.
Alternative minimum tax takes away all their deductions and it is triggered by married couples combined income over a limit (a good incentive to have the wife work part time and take care of the kids)
Married couples working at the grocery stores dont have this problem though.
Hopefully the gays will be nailed by this, if the SCOTUS does this.
If you run a business that could provide services to the public, you will be sanctioned if you decline to treat gays as non-gays. For example, if you run a wedding photography business, you will be sanctioned if you decline to photograph a gay wedding. This has already happened in California and New Mexico [1].
You may lose control of your own property. [2]
You might have to go out of business to stay true to your principles, so as to avoid being fined or sued into bankruptcy. [3,4]
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"Wedding vendors elsewhere who refused to accommodate same-sex couples have faced discrimination lawsuits and lost. Legal experts said Discover Annapolis Tours sidesteps legal trouble by avoiding all weddings.
"If they're providing services to the public, they can't discriminate who they provide their services to," said Glendora Hughes, general counsel for the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights. The commission enforces public accommodation laws that prohibit businesses from discriminating on the basis of race, sexual orientation and other characteristics."
To advance the legal case that a marriage between two people of the same sex is no different than a marriage as God defines it, the US Justice Department will base their arguments before the Supreme Court that a child does not need, nor have a right to a mother. [5]
In short, gays will demand that non-gays accept them as moral equals, which they are not and cannot be. When the State says they are equal it is forbidden for a private citizen to dissent from that status. In doing so, they seek to force me to give them approval for something that I will never approve of. It is that last point that galls gays the most.
Curiously, when advocates of gay marriage are asked if their policy also would allow polygamy or polyandry, they recoil in horror and insist that it does not. However, logic demands that it does. I would ask how same-sex parents are going to react in the future when, for example, Utah public schools officials require that teachers instruct the children that LDS-related polygamy is just as "normal" as same-sex "marriage". The fact that this will be an issue will show yet again that gay "marriage" is not about marriage at all it is about forcing the rest of us to approve of repugnant sexual immorality, something that LDS polygamists never demanded.
After same-sex marriage causes polygamy to be recognized polyandry won't be far behind. Brave new world!
[1] Refusing To Shoot Gay Marriage Is Discrimination, Says New Mexico Appeals Court
[2] Judge Rules Christian facility cannot ban same-sex civil union ceremony on its own premises
[3] Opposed to same-sex marriage, company ends wedding business
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[4] Baker refuses to make wedding cake for lesbian couple and 'calls them abominations unto the Lord'
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[5] DOJ: Children Do Not Needand Have No Right to—Mothers March 3, 2013 By Terence P. Jeffrey
I once lived in a relatively sane society.
This was the fundamental choice placed before Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. Their supreme court declared that ALL existing marriages were in conflict with the 'law' and thus would be declared null and void lest the state no longer required marriage to mean 'the union of a man and a woman.'
Had he called the bluff of the state supreme court on the matter, and protected marriage by no longer letting it be a tool of politics, this snowball would have melted away and the state would have reversed course, as I doubt that the state supreme court wanted to contemplate the legal ramifications of undoing more than 200 years of marriage.
When did Shapiro start writing satire?
I don't remember him being completely stupid, so this article has to be satire.
(Yes, I added the keyword)
Correct. The government is involved in marriage only because of the money and control of the population. Think about it. Income tax calculations, "entitlement" requirements (social security, ADC, welfare, social security) and the consequences of inheritance and property ownership. There are huge bureaucracies connected with all that and the cost.
To eliminate the involvement of government in marriage, education, and a huge list of other functions would revive the nation. But it will not happen, because this is all about control, subjection and social engineering. It is planned that way by the lefties. They want us all so dependent that we cannot make any decisions for ourselves.
Failure planned from the top. Despotism.
The only way out of the mess we are in is to DownSize DC and the state and local bureaucracies. That would have consequences that many would not at this point easily accept.
Actually the present statist style of government is not particularly interested in strong or stable family relationships. That's why they subsidize and encourage single parent families, and that's one reason there has been a steady increase in the number of children born outside of marriage.
To a government seeking to expand its role in society replacing the family as the primary caregiver is a wonderful tactic. We saw that on display in the last presidential election, where Democrats campaigned on how they, once in power, would take care of women's needs. Notice how our current president never takes to the bully pulpit to encourage young women to get married before having children.
So as it stands today I don't think you can characterize the government as a supporter of family life. They may want a stable society of people dependent on government, but they most certainly don't want a stable, family based society with little need for a strong central government. Recent actions by the Justice Department underscore the animosity of the federal government to families. Amazingly, when we have millions of illegal immigrants, the DOJ is litigating against a family of Swedish homeschoolers who are seeking asylum in the USA so they can continue to home school.
Given the hostility of government towards traditional families and religious institutions, it would be better if they simply had nothing to do with marriage. After all, why should any adult have to ask permission from the government to get married?
The first step in promoting a stable society is to reduce the negative effects of a large, overbearing government which is damaging the very institutions, like marriage and families, that society really depends on.
The current 1984 style fascists are promoting "anti-families".
The goal is dependence on nothing and no one but the State.
Mr. Shapiro has apparently never read the Constitution. Because in Article One, Section 1, law-making power is granted only to the legislative branch. The courts do NOT make law.
This article is part of the mass Republican surrender to the coup d'etat that is attempting to turn our constitutional republican form of representative self-government into a judicial oligarchy.
To put it bluntly, Shapiro and those who are taking this position are Quislings.
Well - that's not what I said.
Government should have no interest in marriage.
I'm not so sure Kennedy will rule that same sex marriage is a basic right.
First, that requires finding that marriage is a right, and by definition, it cannot be since it requires two cooperating individuals. How does a single person demand his/her right to marriage? Does the government find some partner and force that person to marry the other?
Second, that also requires finding that the government has some compelling interest in "marriage" and what that interest is. As this article points out, government isn't really necessary for marriage to take place. Anyone can pledge undying devotion to another at any time and any place without any government involvement whatsoever.
Therefore, the basis of the government's involvement must logically provide some benefit to the government. The only benefit involvement in marriage provides to the state has to do with government's interest in the rearing of the next generation of human beings, and that means its interest is in potentially procreative persons.
That pretty much includes any heterosexual union from teens to 60's. It is purely convention that elders marrying in their 70's receive marital concessions from the government.
HOWEVER, it makes more sense to deny that government support to those past any possibility of procreativity than it does to provide it to any couple which totally lacks any procreative potential whatsoever.
Third, children have an absolutely vested interest (a right?) to be reared by their biological parents, since that bonding and that interest has been shown throughout history to be the best working means of providing for the balanced social upbringing of children.
The radical homosexual activists literally stand and cheer when they hear those who have been infected by the Libertarian Ron Paul disease take a "leave it to the states" position on marriage. Because they know without a doubt that their divide and conquer tactics have worked, and that they have won.
The institution of marriage MUST be protected at every level of governance. It's a fundamental moral matter, but it is also a matter of national, physical survival.
Traditional marriage is inextricably linked to stable society. Do you care to deny that?
Nonsense. Natural marriage and the natural family are essential to the very survival of the nation.
That's why the ultimate stated purpose of the United States Constitution is:
"To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves AND OUR POSTERITY."
No sir I do not deny that at all.
My position is strictly regarding the legality or constitutionally of government involvement in marriage.
When we start straying from constitutionality, and make laws because we believe something, without regard to constitutionality - well that's when we get into trouble (and start sounding like leftists).
I stand by my statement: Government should have no interest in marriage.
To follow your logic: Government should mandate marriage for everyone. Divorce should be illegal. As you say: nonsense.
Absolutely correct. And if you look at sheer numbers, polygamy is far more prevalent (in most of the Muslim world) than gay unions (in isolated whack-job pockets of the liberal west).
I don't know how common polyandry actually is, but there would be no legal recourse to disallow it either in an equality uber alles society which sanctions gay marriage.
This reminds me of an old joke. A sociologist decides to maroon three sets of nationalities, British, French and Russian on separate deserted islands to see how they behave.
Each set consists of two men and a woman in their mid 20s.
He checks back six months later to see how they are doing.
The Brits are living in separate sections of the island. The scientist asks what is wrong. "We haven't been properly introduced," they reply.
The French are living in the same grass hut with nothing but a curtain dividing the single guy from the living quarters of the fornicating couple. The scientist is intrigued and asks how they decided which man got the woman. "Oh, we share her on alternating nights", reply the men. "The arrangement works wonderfully and both of us are needed to satisfy her frequent sexual needs!"
Last stop is the island with the Russians. Both the men are in the hut, drunk as skunks on homemade liquior and busy making more. The woman is hitched up to a plow outside in the heat cultivating a vegetable garden. Neither of the men is sober enough to talk about sex, or anything else for that matter. And the woman refuses to do so.
I keep asking everyone, on this forum and in my professional and personal life. What do they really want?
I think you have hit it, they want us to denounce 6,000 years of one man and one woman with God being the only true marriage. They will not stop with their homosexual "marriage" victory. They will spend the next decades cramming it down all of our throats, forcing our churches to accept them , marry them, celebrate them and most importantly they want to hear us denounce God and His commands on homosexuality.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Make no mistake: The homosexual movement will completely destroy this country. Spiritually, morally, governmentally, and ultimately, physically.
Constitutional republican self-government cannot co-exist with the abrogation of the laws of nature and of nature's God.
It's one or the other. Can't be both.
So, pick a side.
That's just silly. A government founded upon the moral basis that makes liberty possible, and still operating thereby, isn't going to force anyone to marry. Even though it is in the existential interest of that government that people do so.
Verrry Interesting....
Pick a side: God or the Constitution?
Well - when it comes to the LAW - I'll pick the Constitution.
When we start to make laws based on our personal beliefs, rather than our Constitution, then we go down the road of Lefties, Dictators and Terrorists.
I don't think that Maryland is the only state were taxes are going up when both husband and wife work. I remember when both my husband and I were younger and I worked also, we ended up having to pay instead of getting a refund.
Government should have no interest in marriage,
as long as those consenting to be governed by said government
have no interest in promoting a stable society.
Sounds like you agree with me: Government should have no involvement in marriage. You can't have it both ways.
So therefore: Anything that the government believes will "promote a stable society" is Legal and Constitutional?
Again - this is the thinking of The Left.
Is that a 32oz Coke on your desk?
-- John Adams, "letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, October 11, 1798," in Works of John Adams, vol. 9 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854), 228-229.
While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation [that is, hypocrisy] towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practicing iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candor, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
-- John Adams, "letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts, October 11, 1798," in Works of John Adams, vol. 9 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1854), 228-229.
Satire. Or Stupidity. Your call.
But read Shapiro's first paragraph again. This "We have to destroy the Village in order to save it" rhetoric is absurd.
The state wants control over non-religious marriage, so the flip side of this is for the Orthodox religions and the more conservative religions to take over "religious marriage", and only recognize marriages made by their mutual rules. The same applies to divorce.
Importantly, each religion can add to the requirements for marriage, but they will only recognize religious marriage as marriage.
As an example, start with Roman Catholic rules for marriage. Marriage must be heterosexual, consensual, and there must be at least the possibility that it can be consummated. Divorce, as such, is not recognized by the Catholics, and nobody divorced can be remarried in church, a rule not universal in other religions.
Importantly, marriage must be seen by all as sacramental, not a social contrivance. And they must be adamant that no marriage outside of religious marriage will be treated as marriage within their churches.
Because the Anglicans allow married clergy, the Catholics have set up a personal ordinariate, so that they can "be Catholic, while still following many Anglican rules."
Our government, our republic, even our economy, are built upon the first organizing unit of civilization, which is the natural family.
Again, you're gravely mistaken.
The very existence of our form of government and our republic depend on the family's defense.
I think I see our disconnect.
I have the view that the Constitution is based on certain cultural value assumptions (Western Christian) as to the role of government.
And, no, regulating a coke is not within that assumptive worldview, and my view is not "the same as the left", who use the government to impose their humanist worldview on our society.
A worldview WILL be imposed. There is no neutral.
The monetary and morality effects on this country will be disastrous if same sex marriage becomes law, or no laws regarding marriage.
Sorry, but I disagree. This is anything but satire
Excellent quote, my Friend, and I enjoy the conversation - because I think we are addressing a fundamental principle that goes back to the founding of our country, and of Man's Laws vs. God's Laws.
My interpretation of Mr. Adams letter to the officers is this:
Even though We The People have decided to base our Laws on the Constitution, it does not abslove you Officers and your people of your duty to live by God's Laws.
I totally agree with Mr Adams.
And therefore I hope you will see that I am not mistaken: Government has no business caring whether someone is married or not.
Marriage is a religous rite. Anything else is just a form of civil union no matter what you call it. As a Catholic, I don't recognize any union performed at City Hall as "marriage", even if the couple is heterosexual. That said, we need to identify the act as a sin, call on these folks to seek reconciliation with God for their sins and work toward not committing these sins. We do not need to be encouraging them to live in sin indefinitely. I don't think there is a government role either way. What I am hearing on the streets is much more worrisome than anything the government can or can't do.
Well you and I certainly agree on one thing: There is no neutral.
You either agree to abide by the Constitution, or you do not.
Again...once we start to veer away from the Constitution because of our own personal beliefs, we have lost that which makes the USA the greatest country in the history of civilization.
You are in effect saying that government has no interest then in fulfilling the ultimate stated purpose of its own Constitution.
You are saying that government has no interest in preserving the moral basis for our claim to liberty.
You are claiming that government has no interest in its very physical survival into the next generation.
Which is both illogical and unreasonable.
What about religions that believe in multiple marriages?
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The theme for the American Horse Council's National Issues Forum is "A Healthy Horse, A Healthy Industry." This year's event will be held in Washington, D.C. June 18, during the AHC's annual convention, which runs from June 16-19 at the Washington Court Hotel.
In addition to reports on the progress of the National Equine Health Plan and the AHC's Marketing Consortium, this year the Forum will host a panel on the future of the industry featuring four women who are leaders of national equine organizations. There will also be a presentation on how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (also known as Obamacare) will affect the horse industry.
"Women have always been leaders in the horse industry," noted AHC president Jay Hickey. "This year we have four outstanding women leading major national organizations. We thought it would be interesting to get their perspective on the future of various sectors in the industry."
Scheduled to speak are Johne Dobbs, president of the American Quarter Horse Association; Dr. Ann Dwyer, DVM, president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners; Cynthia Richardson, president of the Arabian Horse Association; and Chrystine Tauber, president of the U.S. Equestrian Federation.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed in March 2010, is expected to transform U.S. healthcare delivery and affect the horse industry like any other.
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REVIEW: This collection of intellectual tommy-rot about two eccentric Israeli professors is an instant cure for anyone afflicted with insomnia.
And yet the Israelis submitted Footnote for the Academy Awards foreign film, and somehow got it shortlisted.
The Oscar tag can be the only reason for patrons paying to watch such tedious drama. It duped me.
I felt for the poor Academy members who had to snore through it. While Footnote wasn't as perplexing as the complex Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, it just wasn't anything.
It caught me by surprise because Israel has turned out some fine stuff: Lemon Tree (2008) and Lebanon (2009) relating to the Palestinian and Lebanese conflicts.
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They are philologists, linguists who study written texts, hardly a profession suitable for a film, and both believe they are to be awarded Israel's highest prize.
Time Magazine called it a human comedy, and yet there's not a single giggle in the whole darned thing.
It would have been a bolter had not a few paying patrons blocked my escape route. One of them afterwards declared it excellent fare, but left in a huff when I suggested it was a cinematic sleeping pill.
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Tales of dreams and dreaming in the films 'The BFG', City of Lost Children and Oklahoma this Sat afternoon. Great scores too from The Danish Girl, Magic in the Moonlight, Room, Road to Perdition, Snow White, Mame and Mack and Mable.
Movies and Musicals begins the new year with guest presenter Rick O'Shea at the helm, indulging his love of music from stage and screen.
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Duration: 3:11
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Performer(s): Bernstein, Leonard/Sondheim, Stephen
Duration: 4:32
Title: Lawrence Of Arabia - Main Theme
Performer(s): Jarre, Maurice
Duration: 4:42
Title: Carpe Diem
Performer(s): Jarre, Maurice
Duration: 5:01
Title: Being Alive
Performer(s): Sondheim, Stephen
Duration: 5:18
Title: The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine
Performer(s): Carroll/Mcdonald
Duration: 2:42
Title: Ballad Du Paris (From Midnight In Paris)
Performer(s): Parisi, Francois
Duration: 3:29
Title: I Knew These People
Performer(s): Rooder, Ry & Dickinson, Jim
Duration: 8:58
Title: Just Blew In From The Windy City
Performer(s): Fain, Sammy/Webster, Paul Francis
Duration: 2:28
Title: Chicken Run: Main Theme
Performer(s): Gregson-Williams, Harry/Powell, John
Duration: 3:49
Title: Now Voyager
Performer(s): Steiner, Max
Duration: 2:48
Title: It's A Wonderful Life - It's A Wonderful Life
Performer(s): Tiomkin, Dmitri
Duration: 2:46
Title: The Swimming Pool- Main Theme
Performer(s): Rombi, Phillppe
Duration: 5:50
Title: Theme From Mic Macs
Performer(s): Beau, Raphael
Duration: 4:09
Title: Beaty And The Beast - Be Our Guest
Performer(s): Menken, Alan / Ashman, Howard
Duration: 3:59
Title: When I Grow Up
Performer(s): Minchin, Tim
Duration: 3:51
Title: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Main Theme
Performer(s): Jon Brion
Duration: 2:39
Title: Barry Lyndon - Sarabande
Performer(s): Handel, George Frideric
Duration: 4:25
Title: Good Morning Baltimore
Performer(s): Shaiman, Marc/Wittman, Scott
Duration: 4:06
Title: The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Performer(s): Nyman, Michael
Duration: 2:31
Title: One Day More
Performer(s): Schonberg, Claude-Michel/Boublil, Alain/Kretzmer, Herbert
Duration: 3:56
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Presenter: Aedín Gormley
Producer: Eoin O'Kelly
Production Co-ordinator: Linda McGlynn


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The black Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7KEB-K Compact System Camera with 14-42 mm Lens is a truly top-flight reflex camera for beginners who're serious about photography.Advanced image sensorWith 16 megapixels, the GX7 features a digital Live MOS sensor powered by a Venus Engine for enhanced responsiveness and more exciting photography.Your images will display exceptionally high quality, defined by true-to-life details, crisp edges and vivid colour reproduction. An ISO range of 125 to 25600 gives you unprecedented sensitivity, and there are Auto and Intelligent ISO settings to deal with quick-reaction or difficult situations.Even in dimly-lit scenarios, you'll achieve great sharpness and accuracy, and the resolution limit is enhanced by the advanced Intelligent D-range Control, which provides stunning tonal gradation with a broader tonal range and precise detail reproduction.Luscious lensCapture an exciting range of subjects and unleash your creativity with the 14-42 mm lens included with this Panasonic compact system camera.Equivalent to a range of 28 to 84 mm in 35 mm format, it's pleasingly versatile. A maximum aperture of f/3.5 lets you achieve good depth of field for compelling subject-background separation, and the lens is also equipped with optical image stabilization for more consistent results.From portraits and close-ups to dazzling images of scenery, this lens will let you achieve a variety of visual results with which to delight and amaze yourself, friends and family.Impressive focusing capabilitiesThe Panasonic GX7 System Camera with 14-42 mm Lens provides exceptionally fast and accurate focusing by transferring image information between lens and sensor at speeds of up to 240 fps. It's ahead of many other mirrorless cameras.There's a plethora of autofocus functions that lets you capture great photos in a wide range of shooting scenarios. Use Low Light AF to focus more accurately on your subject in -4EV situations, which are the equivalent of a night sky.Pin-point AF lets you set magnification from 3x to 10z enlargement by 0.1x step, and One-shot AF lets you use AF in manual mode so that you can approximately focus on the subject.Camera control in the palm of your handCombine these features with an impressive fastest shutter speed of 1/8000 sec, and you'll be able to capture slow or fast-moving subjects with equal clarity and expression when you use the DMCGX7-KEBK Compact System Camera and a compatible high-speed lens.Optical image stabilization has been incorporated in the camera body for better control, allowing you to take more good shots each time you pick up the camera. It's also compatible with Focus Peaking for more accurate performance.Video capabilities in a CSCUse your Panasonic Lumix GX7 to record smooth, high quality Full HD 1080p (50Hz) video in AVCHD progressive format, with stereo sound. Output high-quality MP4 files for easy sharing and editing on your computer.You'll be able to use full-time AF and tracking AF while shooting movies, and with a cinematic 24p video mode with a 24 Mbps bitrate, you'll be able to execute videos that are rich in detail and dynamism. The Live MOS sensor helps to maintain superior quality too.Features for easier camera useTake photographs more easily and even achieve new perspectives on scenes using the 3" colour LCD touchscreen, which is tiltable through 90 degrees to facilitate variable positioning for low or high shots.Access menus, settings and more with its intuitive touch functionality, framing and reviewing shots clearly and accurately on the 1040K-dot screen with a near-100% field of view and colour reproduction.Because the front panel is directly attached to the LCD screen, there's no containing air layer in between, so the reflection of external light is radically suppressed.Combine outstanding still and video imaging capabilities with excellent usability and a strong magnesium alloy, full die-cast body, and you have the exciting black Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7KEB-K Compact System Camera with 14-42 mm Lens.
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September means Back-to-Studio!
This month is packed with chances for you to take care of yourself--students of any level can choose to challenge and strengthen, OR calm and relax, OR anything in-between! Beginners can start their journey with our Intro to Pilates or Hatha Yoga, or join our six-week Beginner Meditation course. Can't make those? You can always book an Intro Private to get started, if you wish (based upon trainer availability). Come out and do some yoga and/or meditate for a good cause on Community Sunday. Fans of MyoFascial Release can choose a 1-hour class or a 2-hour workshop. Pilates Mat classes are back on the schedule this month, along with our growing selection of semi-private offerings. Additions to our extensive weekly class schedule include chakra meditation, and a new class focused on building balance skills. Yoga Basics has moved to Wednesdays, and Basic Vinyasa returns later this month. Bring the kids with you for Family Yoga, and finish out the month with some R&R in our monthly restorative session. Our studio is a place free from judgment, competition, or expectation; a safe space where ALL students of ANY level can practice in community with others, and we all learn and grow together! Come on in and join us soon!
Community Day is Sunday, September 11
To benefit Bread for Life Food Pantry
On the first Sunday of the month, we open our doors to the entire community and offer donation-based classes (give what you can). This allows everyone an opportunity to share in the practice of yoga, and it provides support for hard-working local non-profit causes. So come on in and help us help them shine the light of love! The yoga class style varies from month to month, depending upon the teacher. All levels welcome. No experience necessary. This month our cause is Bread for Life, a local food pantry at Collegeside Church of Christ, that serves up to 200 families each week. The organization's main goals are to subsidize physical needs, build relationships, and support spiritual growth. To learn more about Bread for Life, visit:www.collegeside.org.
- 2:00 Yoga with Nicole
- 3:15 Meditation with Petti
Meditation for Beginners, 6-Week Course
Wednesdays @ 5:30, starting September 21
Join ERYT-500 and Certified Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher Petti Groth for this six-week course that introduces beginners to a variety of meditation techniques. Each week's lesson will build upon the week before, Lessons will be +/- 75 MINUTES in length and will include group activities and discussion. Each student is asked to acquire a journal and bring it with them to the first class. All students are asked to commit to a minimum of 15 minutes per day to practice the techniques learned, and to complete additional homework assignments. $120. Early bird discount $100 if registered on or before Wednesday, September 7. Absolutely no experience necessary. Chairs are available. This is your chance to begin a life-changing journey!
*A small number of slots are reserved for Synergy clients who have taken this course before and want to repeat one or more of the sessions. If this is the case, each week will count as one off your current class package.
MFR (MyoFascial Release) Choices
Do you enjoy the deep stretch of yin yoga? Or the deep relaxation of restorative yoga? If so, you will simply love these special session with guest teacher Sheri Brimm, P.T., an experienced John Barnes MFR Therapist. Using props like small air-filled balls and foam rollers, MFR techniques will be combined with yoga to release long-held tension in the body. Sheri will provide hands-on adjustments to encourage students to sink more deeply into their practice. MFR employs the techniques of "Unwinding" and "Rebounding," active stretching and bouncing movements for the purpose of increasing vibration and hydration at the cellular level, releasing adhesion and scar tissue. Leave feeling relaxed and refreshed. Some students may experience decreased muscle spasm and reduced pain through these therapeutic techniques. No prior yoga experience is required. Space is limited; reserve early.
- MFR Yoga Class (60 min), September 8 & 15 @ 5:30 p.m. - $12 or use 1 off your class package to attend.
- MFR Yoga Workshop (2 hours), September 24 @ 10:30 a.m. - $25 or use 2 off your class package to attend.
Pilates Mat Class Options
Intro to Pilates Matwork, Saturday, September 17 @ 9:00 a.m.
Join us for this 90-minute session that introduces students to the fundamentals of Pilates (pre-pilates exercises) as well as several exercises from the classical Pilates mat repertoire. Are you an absolute beginner to Pilates and don't know where to start? Every Pilates practice should begin with learning proper breathing, contraction of the abdominals ("the scoop"), how to lengthen and decompress the spine, and stabilize our joints. This session will teach you all of this and more, through the fundamentals, or Pre-Pilates exercises, as developed by Pilates elder Eve Gentry. These exercises are the most important ones you will ever learn for everyday life. They provide the foundation upon which the entire Pilates repertoire is built. Having a thorough understanding of this series will allow you to progress to mat classes with confidence. If we neglect to learn these foundational principles at the beginning of our Pilates journey, often we are forced back to revisit this integral set of exercises. After we learn the fundamentals, we will move into some basic mat repertoire. Modifications will be given, so all exercises will be accessible to all bodies. 90 min. $25 or use 2 off your 10-class package to attend.
Pilates Prop Playground Series, Wednesdays @ noon
Join us for this fun 4-week series, where each session explores Pilates on the mat using a different prop. Sometimes props are used to modify or make exercises more accessible--sometimes they are used to add challenge. You'll get to decide what YOU prefer when you attend this class. All students can work at their own level. Each class will begin with fundamentals to warm up, then move into familiar Pilates exercises using the prop of the week. If you like variety, you'll want to attend the whole series! If you just need some pointers on how to use a particular tool to enhance your home practice, pick and choose the sessions that are best for you! $12 to walk in, or use your class package to attend. 50 min.
- Week 1: Miniball
- Week 2: Foam Roller
- Week 3: Magic Circle
- Week 4: Hand weights
Classical Mat Pilates, Fridays @ noon
Flow through the classical matwork sequences of Joseph Pilates. Begin with fundamentals, then move through the exercises with vigor and zest! Pilates Principles are emphasized during your session: Concentration, Control, Centering, Breath, Flow and Precision. Knowledge of fundamentals is recommended, but not required (consider attending our 90-minute Intro to Pilates matwork or an Intro Private). All levels may attend; work at your own level, and observe as your core strength and flexibility increase! $12 to walk-in, or use 1 off your class package to attend.
Now Enrolling: Advanced Mat Series, Thursdays @ 5:30, starting Oct 20
With Jan. This class is not for the faint of heart! We will be digging deep, and using our core in ways that are certain to build strength, flexibility, and coordination. The first two weeks we will learn the advanced mat exercises. The following three weeks we will sweat to tempo! You'll find this session challenging and invigorating! Prereqisite: Proficiency in fundamentals AND basic Pilates mat repertoire is required. There are no makeups for missed classes. 5 sessions, $60 or use 5 off your current class package. Walk-ins and online signups are not available for this class; please call or email the studio to enroll.
Pilates Semi-Private Options
Semi-Private sessions are limited to 3 or 4 people and provide an economical way for students to enjoy the equipment. These sessions meet at set times, like our mat classes, and are designed for our more experienced Pilates students. Prior experience on the equipment is a MUST. Ready to get started? Most of our groups are currently wait-list only. If you can't make it every week but would be willing be an alternate, please let us know!
Prerequisites: A minimum of 3 private sessions with a Synergy trainer, or equivalent. (Call and ask for our Semi-Private Prep Package: 3 Private sessions for $133.) If you have experience, but have not worked on the equipment in a while, schedule a FREE 30-minute skills assessment/consultation with the teacher to determine if the class is right for you.
Pricing: Pay in advance and get 5 for $100, or pay as you go for $25 per session. You can even use your mat class package—each equipment class uses TWO off your regular class package. If you have a current class package, you can reserve your slots online, or sign-up using the MINDBODY app on your mobile device. Space is limited. Advance sign-up is required. Cancellation policy applies.
- Reformer for Health with Jan, Mondays & Wednesdays @ 6:30 p.m.
- Tower of Power with Petti, Tuesdays @ 11:00 a.m.
- Classical Reformer with Petti, Tuesdays @ 2 p.m.
- Joe's Wunda Chair with Petti , Thursdays @ 4 p.m.
- NEW! Basic Equipment & Mat Semi-Private, Thursdays @ 2 p.m.
Basic Equipment & Mat Semiprivate, Thursdays @ 2 p.m.
This all-level semiprivate session is limited to 3 people, and will include matwork and basic exercises on the equipment. Some experience with Pilates matwork is required. The only Prerequisite for this session is our Intro to Pilates Matwork or an Intro Private. 50 minutes. Pay as you go for $25 per session, or use 2 off your class package to attend. Advance registration is required. Alternates needed.
Waitlist Feature for Semiprivate Sessions
Is the semi-private you wanted to sign up for today full? If so, you have the option to put yourself on the WAITLIS for that particular class. Using online registration from your computer (or with the MINDBODY app), if the class you attempted to register for is full, the system will ask you if you would like to be placed on the waitlist. If you say "YES," and one of the preregistered students cancels, you will automatically be put into the class. The system will send you an automated email when/if this happens. (Please Note: The cancellation policy still applies, so please do not waitlist if you are unsure.) This great feature saves time and trouble and can help you get the slots you want!
Intro to Hatha Yoga
Saturday, September 17 @ 9:00 a.m.
With Nicole. Are you intrigued about yoga but don't know where to start? This 90-min class is designed for beginners and is the perfect introduction to some of the foundational concepts of western yoga. You will learn about proper posture, and the four basic movements for a healthy spine, which will be done seated, standing, and even lying down. You'll learn a basic yoga breathing technique that can be used anywhere anytime, to help you focus, relax, and oxygenate your body. Learn how to connect movement to breath using short simple movements. Students will leave with a better understanding of different types and styles of yoga, and will experience a small taste of several styles that are currently being offered at Synergy. Class will finish with a deep meditative relaxation. Your teacher will be available after class to answer questions and for consultation. This class is the first step on the path of your yogic journey. 90 min. $25. If you decide to purchase a 10-class package, this class may count as the first two off the package. For this class, you may reserve your spot using our online schedule, even if you do not have a prepaid account.
Family Yoga
Sunday, September 18 @ 3 p.m.
With Laura. Family Yoga is a fun, joyful, and peaceful way for your family to move mindfully together. This special class will use some traditional postures, partner and group poses. It will be geared toward the young yogis, and will incorporate fun music and games. Class will conclude with relaxation and guided imagery. Families with children 1-year and older and ALL abilities welcome! 50-60 minutes. $25 per family. Online signups are not available for this class. Call or email the studio to register.
Restorative Yoga
Sunday, September 25 @ 4 p.m.
With Dawn. Join us for this special time of R&R. A deeply nurturing practice including deep cleansing breaths, affirming thought patterns, and a classical sequence of restorative poses. This sequence allows for complete rest, relaxation and restoration of the body & mind. Absolutely no experience necessary. Many props are used, including blankets, blocks, straps, bolsters, yoga chairs, and eye bags. Poses will be propped to allow complete comfort and deep release. Finish with a special relaxation/guided meditation. This is the perfect opportunity to show lovingkindness to yourself. Leave feeling open, balanced and serene. $25 or use 2 off your class package to attend. 90 min.
NEW! On the Weekly Class Schedule:
Mind/Body BALANCE, Tuesdays @ 9:30 a.m. in September
With Petti. Four Weeks Only! Incorporating balance into your mind/body practice can improve joint and spinal stability. It can also help you move with more ease, preventing falls and accidents that can lead to other health problems as we age.In this class, we will learn tips, techniques, exercises and sequences for balance in your body, mind and breath—drawn from a variety of disciplines (yoga, Pilates & more)—all of them easy and straightforward enough to work into your daily routine. Using the body as a metaphor, this class plants the seeds for balance in our lives. A compassionate approach creates a safe environment for fun, experimentation, and change. Mindfully engage your entire being, challenge yourself on multiple levels, and create comfort and ease in your body & mind. 60 minutes.$12 to walk-in or use your class package to attend.
Yoga Basics has moved to Wednesdays @ 10:00 a.m.
With Laura. Are you looking for a yoga class that covers the fundamentals? Do you need to brush up on your postures? Are you a new yoga student? Or do you need a stepping stone to a stronger practice? Yoga Basics offers an opportunity to be fully present in your own body, work at your own level, and grow your practice at your own speed. This class will include basic yogic breathing techniques, modified sun salutations, basic standing and seated postures, simple transitions between postures, and time of relaxation at the end. Bring your body, your mat, a smile, and a willing spirit, and join with others in this uncomplicated, user-friendly class that is appropriate for all levels. 60 min. $12 or use your class package to attend.
Basic Vinyasa is Back! Thursdays, September 22 & 29 @ 5:30 p.m.
With Dawn. Two Weeks Only! Do you think you are too stiff, slow, old or "big-boned" to flow in a yoga class?Not in this class! This class is focused on the basics, incorporating body awareness andbreath-connected movement, and alignment-based asana. These posture sequences will allow students to move the spine safely in all directions. We'll drop in an occasional restorative posture for deep relaxation, and a mini-meditation for a well-rounded mind/body practice. This class will help you move with ease through your daily life. 60-75 min. $12 to walk-in or use your class package to attend.
Studio Etiquette: Mat & Equipment Cleanliness
If you have your own mat, we encourage you to bring it to the studio for your sessions. If you do not own a mat, we have some loaner mats that you may borrow, free of charge—we simply ask that you clean it when you finish. We even provide the natural cleaning solution, and the cloths with which to do so (on the bottom shelf in the lobby). ALL Synergy mats and equipment should be cleaned at the end of your session. We appreciate your help and understanding in keeping our studio clean and bacteria free! All Pilates equipment must also be cleaned and re-set at the end of a session.
Coming Soon (visit our online schedule for details):
- Warm Therapeutic 26 Series, Thursday, October 6 & 13 @ 5:30 p.m., Starting October 6
- Aquarian Sadhana, Saturday, October 15 @ 5:00 a.m.
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Del Webb at Woodbridge for the past four years has played a pivotal role in keeping Manteca's weakened new housing market from suffering a total collapse as it did elsewhere in San Joaquin County.
The "Ropin' on the River Rodeo" is coming to town.
In 1970 I was a member of the Manteca High School sophomore football team. As freshmen, my teammates and I had finished first in the Valley Oak League standings; we had every intention of doing the same thing as sophomores. Our coaches were Butch Linn, who had coached us as freshmen, and Jim Brown.
Mary Willis was up late Thursday night making sure that all of her federal tax forms were properly filled out – partially to avoid getting penalized and partially to make sure that she owed the amount of money to Uncle Sam that she calculated.
STOCKTON - What's new at the Stockton Asparagus Festival?
Team NEXT is a fashion show with a message.
Flooding concerns – and not planning initiatives – is what Manteca Mayor Willie Weatherford believes will determine Manteca's ultimate southwest city limits.
Richard W. McDonnell – known to his friends as Dick – had no problem sharing his opinions about the status of things that were going on in Manteca.
The cost of operating the Nick DeGroot Water Treatment Plant that provides surface water to Manteca, Lathrop, and Tracy will drop 7.9 percent over the next 12 months.
The complete $1.24 million restoration of the HOPE Family Shelter got under way this week with an official groundbreaking at the 94-year-old site of the first hospital in Manteca.
Five names will be added to the plaques of honor in the Manteca Unified School District's personnel department. They are the Educators of the Year for 2010-11 who were nominated for the honor by parents, students, and in at least two cases, by fellow teachers.
Congressman Jerry McNerney is behind legislation to secure $450 million in federal funds over the next 10 years to help build the Altamont Commuter Express high speed rail service between Stockton and San Jose.
South San Joaquin Irrigation District's board turned down a pitch to spend $25,000 in a bid to try and leverage $300,000 in federal funds.
Carol Crawford anxiously drives to her mailbox every afternoon looking for one piece of mail in particular.
Dio Gutierrez spends most of his days in intense pain.
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The City of Ripon continues to keep up with its strong water conservation efforts during the hot summer months.
Manteca Fire Marshal Lantz Rey dropped a bombshell of sorts Tuesday on those that believe they got away with shooting off illegal fireworks during the ...
Manteca Parks & Recreation's popular after school Kids' Zone program return Thursday, Aug. 4, on the first day of classes in the Manteca Unified School ...
Manteca is Lisa Blackmon's kind of town.
National Night Out was a success in Manteca as officers and citizens got a chance to better understood each other's viewpoints.
Members of the Lathrop High Class of 2020 met for the very first time Tuesday in the large gymnasium.
Roughly 40 percent of the signatures submitted by a group that wants the Lathrop City Council to overturn its decision to allow a Pilot/Flying ...
There is more water flowing these days in the Stanislaus River.
Sybrina Hernandez and Cyndal Miller were all too familiar with the Link Crew ice-breaking activities during freshmen orientation at Manteca High.
It may not have made a difference if the Lathrop City Council voted for the Pilot/Flying J Truck Stop on Roth Road at Interstate ...
Sam Fant doesn't know yet whether he'll be seeking another term on the Manteca Unified Board of Education.
There are 13 firefighters from the City of Manteca and Lathrop Manteca fire departments battling the massive Big Sur blaze that has blackened 40,000 ...
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