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Posted on December 22, 2011
Dee Rees: The Power of the PARIAH
In PARIAH, Dee Rees' poetic portrait of a young woman struggling to find herself, Alike (Adepero Oduye) doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. To her family, her behavior, even though she is still in the closet, appears too manly. To her lesbian friends, she's not butch enough. While the film is not autobiographical per se, Rees drew on life experience in creating Alike. As the writer/director recounted to The Advocate, her family has a tough time accepting her as a lesbian: "It was a hard struggle to get them to realize that nobody did anything wrong and there's nothing wrong with me." But Rees had an equally difficult time fitting in as a lesbian: "I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt, I wasn't femme, so I felt like I was sort of invisible." In the end, Rees, like Alike, became a pariah, as defined on the film's poster: "a person without status," "a rejected member of society," "an outcast." But as both Dee and Alike discovered, this place of persecution can also be a place of power, a label that allows them to redefine who they are and what they want to do. Indeed artists, from Emily Dickinson to Audre Lorde, have turned the tables on those who would oppress them by affirming, rather than denying, their special pariah status.
Emily Dickinson: A Poet Pariah
Emily Dickinson, a daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, in December 1846 or early 1847; popular T-shirt of her poem.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is today considered one of the great American poets. Yet, of the more than 1700 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote, fewer than 12 were published while this famous recluse of Amherst, Massachusetts was alive. In her essay Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich writes that Dickinson found power in her identity as a female poet, removed from society, in that she "chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed...She carefully selected her society and controlled the disposal of her time...neither eccentric nor quaint; she was determined to survive, to use her powers, to practice necessary economics." One of her most famous poems sets out a poetics of being a pariah:
First published in 1891, this short verse has gone on to be one of Dickinson's most anthologized and written about works. And while there is little biographical information about its meaning, it speaks to, as the literary critic Harold Bloom points out, "a universal feeling of being on the outside." And, moreover, finds strength in being excluded.
Claude McKay: An Early "Outcast"
A Jamaican-born writer who moved to the United States in 1912, Claude McKay went on to become a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout his life, McKay continually refused any simple identification. While he moved to the U.S. in 1912, he put off becoming a citizen until 1940. Even while trying to find his place in America, he regularly lived abroad, writing about his displacement both in the States and in Europe. While radically left in his politics, he worked alongside, but adamantly refused to become a member of, the Communist Party. He regularly had affairs with men, but never identified as a homosexual. In 1922, McKay published the poem "Outcast" as part of a book of poems entitled Harlem Shadows. This poem, much admired by later writers like Richard Wright, helped define the pariah state of being African-American, but also is a personal indictment based on McKay's experience:
Langston Hughes: The "Darker Brother"
Langston Hughes, one of the great poets of the Harlem Renaissance, was quick to joke that his literary vocation was an accident of racism: "There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everyone knows — except us — that all Negroes have rhythm, so they elected me as class poet." Nevertheless, he excelled, defining a strong new voice, one filled with humor and anger. In 1926, at the age of 24, he published The Weary Blues, a remarkable collection of poems. One of the more famous inclusions, "I, too," begins as a powerful rebuttal of Whitman's blithe democratic spirit in Song of Myself:
That same year Hughes expanded on his black pride in a famous essay published in The Nation, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." He wrote in part,
Richard Wright: Born Apart
Portrait by Gordon Parks; an early bestseller.
When Richard Wright published Native Son in 1940, it became a bestseller, catapulting its author to fame and fortune. In 1945, he followed it up with Black Boy, an autobiography in which he explored his place in the white world — a world in which he was "held at bay by the hate of others" and "continuously at war with reality." In Chapter 3, Wright writes how he drew inspiration from his pariah status:
In 1947, Wright, more and more critical of race in America, moved to France. In 1951, he explained his need to be a national outsider in his essay "I Choose Exile." Originally written for Ebony, the magazine – once it got a sense of Wright's critique of American politics – put off publishing it. But his impassioned stance on being an outsider helped guide the next generation of writers, as well as the emerging civil rights movement. At Wright's death, James Baldwin wrote, "he had a tremendous effect on countless number of people whom he never met, multitudes whom he will now never meet."
Jean Genet: The Criminal Poet
Jean Genet 1947 photograph by Brassaï (Gyula Halász).
Few figures define the poetics of the pariah better than the French iconoclast Jean Genet – a gay writer, a career criminal (with substantial prison time to prove it), an outspoken champion of the political underdog. Historian Richard Ivan Jobs explains that, "Not only a thief and vagabond, Genet was also a homosexual, which further defined him as a deviant, both socially and sexually. His novels revel in lurid detail while presenting a tale of his youth as a self-proclaimed pariah. … Labeled a thief and a delinquent by society, Genet accepted these terms as transformative and, in the end, sacred."
In 1949, when Genet was facing a life sentence after receiving his tenth criminal conviction, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau successfully petitioned the French president to have the sentence set aside. That same year Genet wrote and published his autobiographical novel, The Thief's Journal, in which he wrote, "Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel."
Toni Morrison: The Conscience of the Pariah
Toni Morrison accepting her Nobel Prize
With a Nobel Prize for Literature and a Pulitzer to her name, Toni Morrison would hardly seem a pariah. But her work reflects deeply the ways in which African Americans have both been rendered pariahs by dominant American white culture and have used that outsider status to overcome their oppression. In her 1994 Conversations with Toni Morrison, Claudia Tate asked, "Do you take particular delight in the unusual character, the pariah?" And Morrison answered: "There are several levels of the pariah figure working in my writing. The black community is a pariah community. Black people are pariahs. The civilization of black people that lives apart from but in juxtaposition to other civilizations is a pariah relationship. In fact, the concept of the black in this country is almost always one of the pariah. But a community contains pariahs within it that are very useful for the conscience of that community."
In her 1970 novel, The Bluest Eye, Morrison dramatizes how dominant white culture renders African Americans into pariahs. The title comes from the wish of the black-skinned main character, Pecola, to have blue eyes to match those of her white doll. As Pecola sees more and more horrendous things happen with her non-blue eyes, Morrison makes clear how others simply don't see Pecola at all. Morrison writes, "Long hours she sat looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness, the ugliness that made her ignored or despised at school, by teachers and classmates alike."
In her 1993 Sula, Morrison celebrates the power of being a pariah. On her deathbed, the title character, a fun-loving social outcast, celebrates her difference. She explains that she's just like other women of color -- "Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world."
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider
In September 30, 1979, Audre Lorde took the stage as part of New York Institute for the Humanities' conference on Simone de Beauvoir called "The Second Sex: Thirty Years Later." As she looked over the audience of over 800 women, mostly white, straight and middle class, she exclaimed: "Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
Audre Lorde, born in Harlem to immigrants from Grenada, found in poetry her first tool to "dismantle the master's house." After writing her first poem at age 8, she created a powerful legacy of work that continually re-imagines her multiple identities as, in her words, a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." But also, as the title of her essay collection, Sister Outsider, expresses, she is a woman apart. For her poetry activism were one and the same. She explained to Claudia Tate in Black Women Writers at Work, "I loved poetry, and I loved words. But what was beautiful had to serve the purpose of changing my life, or I would have died. If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest." In her poem, "A Litany for Survival" (included in her 1978 anthology The Black Unicorn: Poems) Audre Lorde writes:
Dorothy Allison: Pride and Tragedy
Dorothy Allison was born to a 15 year-old unwed teenage girl, grew up poor, and sexually abused by her stepfather, in South Carolina and Florida. She was the first member of her family to graduate from high school, and later college. Allison wrote her life into fiction with Bastard out of Carolina, which was one of the five finalists for the 1992 National Book Award. In that debut novel, she wrote, "The day I was born started off bad and only got worse. I guess I was lucky I got born at all."
She later explained in her essay "A Question of Class," her novel was more than just a description of where she came from. Of course, she notes, "Me and my family, we had always been they." But she goes on to say, "Writing Bastard Out of Carolina became, ultimately, the way to claim my family's pride and tragedy, and the embattled sexuality I had fashioned on a base of violence and abuse ... Most of all, I have tried to understand the politics of they, why human beings fear and stigmatize the different while secretly dreading that they might be one of the different themselves. … To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us — extraordinary."
Holly Hughes: National Pariah
The performance artist Holly Hughes found her pariah status pushed to national headlines when in 1990 when she was one of four artists whose NEA grants were revoked after the National Endowment for the Arts was pressured by conservative groups to reject certain artists. Right-wing firebrands like Sen. Jesse Helms labeled her a "garbage artist." The then-chairman of the NEA, John Frohnmayer, publicly exclaimed (as somehow a self-evident reason for Hughes' de-funding), "Holly Hughes is a lesbian and her work is very heavily of that genre." Hughes, however, views her monologue-based performance pieces as something else. "My work may be perceived as shocking," Hughes told the New York Times, "but that's not necessarily my intention. To certain people the fact that I'm 'out' is a shocking thing. …I want my work to be open, for people to think about it in relation to family, to sexual shame, to visibility, to invisibility." As part of her performance piece Clit Notes, Hughes tells a poignant yarn about kissing her girlfriend in front of a Ukrainian meat market with the sign "We're free" on it. After the owner breaks her reverie by calling the two "shameless," Hughes identifies the power of shame in being a pariah and the need to act shameless in the face of it: "I would rather have that man with the ham see me as brazen. I would rather not have him see any of my pain, because I know how he would use it against us, how he would call that pain proof of the illness we are carrying, when all it means is, there is a war going on and all of us has been hit, some of us more than others."
Catherine Opie: Pariah Portraits
Self-Portrait / Cutting (1993)
Catherine Opie became noticed as a photographer for her "Portraits" series, a collection of photographs taken between 1993 and 1997 of members of San Francisco's and Los Angeles' queer communities. A political activist who took part in ACT UP and Queer Nation in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s, Opie saw how the people she loved were not only being marginalized but dying off. As a reaction, she focused on making her subjects' otherness the norm. Inspired by 16th century German artist Hans Holbein, Opie saw "an equality to his paintings — they weren't demigod portraits, they were just incredibly detailed and real. When I saw that, I realized that I wanted to mirror his work with members of my own community. It seemed like a good conversation to have, especially in relationship to the s/m community, which was thought of —and still is thought of, to an extent — as predatory or perverted. S/m was often framed in the language of the abnormal, which stripped it of its humanity. I wanted people to have a humble moment with my friends."
Poetry in Motion
Actress Adepero Oduye discusses that long process in creating the lead character in Pariah.
Transforming Passion into Pariah
The filmmakers behind Pariah open up about turning their dreams into a feature film.


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Quinoa Stuffed Poblano Peppers
- One 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled
- 1 chipotle pepper (packed in adobo sauce)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 small red onion, diced
- 1/2 small red bell pepper, diced
- 1 plum tomato, diced
- One 15-ounce can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 3 tablespoons chopped green onions, optional
- 2 large poblano peppers (4 if small)
- 1/2 cup grated reduced-fat pepper jack cheese
- Avocado Cream Sauce, recipe follows
- Diced tomatoes, for garnish, optional
- Green onions, sliced, for garnish, optional
- Avocado Cream Sauce:
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat Greek yogurt
- Juice of 1 lime
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Add the whole tomatoes, garlic and chipotle to a blender and puree until smooth. Add to a saucepan and simmer over medium heat until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and bell peppers and saute until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the plum tomatoes and cook until it breaks down, another 3 minutes. Stir in the beans, quinoa and chili powder. Turn off the heat and fold in the chopped green onions if using.
Split the poblano peppers in half and remove the seeds. Stuff the peppers with the quinoa mixture. Ladle about half of the tomato sauce into a 13- by 9-inch casserole dish. Place the peppers on top and ladle over the remaining sauce. Sprinkle the peppers with the cheese, cover the casserole dish with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil from the top and cook until the peppers are very soft, another 5 minutes. Top with Avocado Cream Sauce, diced tomatoes and sliced green onions if desired.
Slice the avocado in half and remove the pit. Scoop the flesh into a food processor and add the yogurt, lime juice and a big pinch of salt and pepper. Blend until smooth.
Recipe courtesy of Bobby Deen
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Members at the Dallas Arboretum help us maintain our nationally acclaimed gardens, provide hands-on science education, and allow us to test hundreds of plant varieties.
During major events at the Arboretum, volunteers assist staff members in selling or renewing Arboretum memberships. Volunteer are needed during Dallas Blooms (February 27 to April 10, 2016) and Autumn at the Arboretum (September 17 to November 23, 2016). On an as-needed basis, volunteers occasionally assist with mailings, data entry and other clerical duties. Volunteer shifts are from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1-5 p.m., and help is needed seven days a week. Training is required for this position.


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OMAK — The Omak School District superintendent was killed in a crash on Highway 97 near Pateros.
The Washington State Patrol says Arthur Himmler, 68, was trying to pass another vehicle Thursday when he lost control of his pickup truck.
KPQ reports the truck rolled. Himmler was ejected and died at the scene.


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While many dogs are lovable, friendly and easy-going, you will sometimes come across a canine who has been poorly trained and as a result is inherently aggressive. Unfortunately, people who haven't had experience with the former kind of dog may fear canines or be uncomfortable around them. This can be frustrating in family settings, when some members would like to bring a canine into the household, and others are too frightened. If this is your situation, you may want to politely encourage your loved one to overcome his fear of dogs, so you and he can both enjoy the benefits of a canine companion.
Figure out the source of the fear
Before you try and introduce your friend or family member to a dog, talk to him about why he fears or dislikes the animals. Perhaps he had a bad experience with a canine who exhibited dog aggression, or maybe he simply hasn't had much experience being around dogs. Understanding the source of the anxiety will help you figure out a good approach to overcoming it.
Finding the right dog for the job
Eventually, when you and your loved one both agree he's ready to spend some time with a canine, you'll want to make sure you find the right dog for the job. Ask friends who have pets, or inquire at local animal shelters, to see if there is any way you can spend time with a canine who is known to have a consistently sweet and mild temperament. It may be best to find an older dog, as she will be less excitable and more relaxed when meeting new people. Smaller dogs may also be preferable, since larger dogs can be intimidating to individuals who are inexperienced with pets.
What activities are best
You'll want to encourage your loved one to participate in activities that are soothing for both him and the canine you choose. Dog grooming is a good start, as many dogs love the feeling of a brush on their fur. Going to a dog park or on a walk can be fun too, but make sure your friend knows the proper way to control a dog on a leash, and understands the ins and outs of exercising with a dog. Training is also a good idea, as teaching a dog a new trick and rewarding her with treats can be a bonding experience for both canine and human.
When it's time to adopt
If you reach a point when you and your loved one are ready to adopt, you should make sure he is 100 percent comfortable with the canine you choose. You may want to consider adopting a young dog in need of a home, as allowing your friend to participate in puppy training is a good way to foster a long relationship that will likely become very meaningful for a first-time pet owner. It's never a good idea to rush into this kind of a decision, so if you don't find a dog quickly, don't settle for one that won't fit in well in your household.


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Days Of Our Lives Spoilers And Videos For February 2 – 6.
Be sure to return to this page regularly for the latest "Days of our Lives" spoilers and videos brought to you by Soap Opera Fan Blog.
As soon as Aiden, Hope, Ciara and Chase arrive at his fabled vacation home on Puget Sound, the lawyer gets busy trying to cover something up. Back in Salem, Brady and Melanie uncover each other's bodies and hit the sheets for the first time. Although that might put an end to the perpetual awkwardness between them, things aren't looking so good for Paul. He admits to Sonny that he's been seeing another guy, but will he reveal who it is? Read the rest of this entry »
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Topic: Persist error_messages_for(:object) across a request
Is it possible to hang on to the error_messages_for(:object) for the duration of a redirect_to? I know the convention is to use render :action instead of redirect_to when there are errors saving a model, but in this case, the form is generated by a different controller than the one saving the model. What would be the Rails Way to pass the errors over to the other controller action?
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Just KilianThe Spaniard Kilian Jornet is taking the trail-running world by storm. A self-described "mountaineer," the 23-year-old takes a surprisingly Zen approach to distance trail running
Kilian pounding down Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet), at around 16,000 feet, not far from Lava Tower camp; in October 2010, he set the up-down speed record of 7 hours 14 minutes on Africa's tallest mountain. Photo by Stephan Repke.
This article appeared in our December 2011 issue.
The video clip opens with a person climbing a serrated, snow-covered ridgeline. He is wearing a white spandex racing suit and eggshell-thin ski boots, and, slung tightly to his back, are a pair of skis. The background music is dramatic, catchy—an inspirational three-chord rock anthem, something Hans Zimmer might have composed. He is taking deep methodical breaths. The clip switches to a helicopter view showing the earth drop off precipitously thousands of feet all around.
The season changes from winter to spring as the athlete trades out ski boots for running shoes and sets off at a sprint through the thin, fresh snow. His wardrobe morphs throughout the clip too, all threads committed to a theme of tight and bright. Ascending one mountain, descending another, launching off boulders, scrambling down steep, treacherous terrain to the crescendoing background music.
After dropping below snowline, he stops, crouches down and feels the grass and earth at his feet. The music pauses. You hear him breath. You hear his heart beat. The music kicks back in. By the end of the video the viewer half expects the star to climb into an Aston Martin alongside a beautiful woman or BASE jump off the mountain to machine gun down some bad guys.
This is the trailer for season three of Salomon's high-budget, trail-running video series called Kilian's Quest.
One Namer
He fills in his race entry form as Kilian Jornet Burgada. By the time the start list has been finalized his mother's name, Burgada, is usually dropped for brevity's sake. Increasingly, though, as his fame has rapidly grown, he is being elevated to the ranks of Madonna, Bono and other one namers, and is known as just Kilian.
Soft-spoken Kilian.
Humble Kilian.
Kilian with the short, black hair and the soft chin.
Kilian with the calm and quiet presence of a librarian, a demeanor that allows him to go unnoticed on a crowded starting line.
In 2007 Kilian won his first of four consecutive Skyrunning World Series, a series of highly technical up-and-down races at altitude of up to a marathon in distance scattered around Europe and beyond. In 2008 he won what is generally considered to be the most competitive 100-miler in the world, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UMTB), which starts and finishes in Chamonix, France. He broke the course record by nearly an hour. In 2009, Kilian won the Sierre-Zinal in Switzerland, a 32K mountain race that prides itself in stacking the starting line with several sub-2:15 marathoners from Mexico, Ethiopia, Colombia and beyond, each year. In June of 2011 Kilian became the first overseas winner of North America's most competitive 100-miler—California's Western States 100—and, in September, again took top honors at UMTB.
Having either won races, broken records or both on five continents, Kilian is arguably the most accomplished and recognized trail runner in the world.
In addition to being the sole star in his own on-line trail-running series, over July 2nd and 3rd, 2011, the first annual Kilian's Classik was launched—a casual race weekend where fans could run and chat with Kilian himself. The release of his book, Córrer o Morir (Run or Die, available in Spanish, French and Catalan for now), followed later that month. Oh, and he's 23 years old.


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My family moved from Kansas (a state I had never been out of before) to Arizona when I was 13. I kept in touch with a couple of friends for awhile but then got involved with my new life in the desert.
Through Facebook I have found some of those Kansas friends and that is cool.
I've also found groups for my elementary school, the high school I would have gone to and the one I did graduate from here in Arizona. Also a site for those who grew up in both towns I've lived in.
On each of these sites people have posted photos from their childhoods which overlapped with mine. Also memories of teachers, the playground, local stores and events. It is amazing!
I've found the kids who lived next door and shared memories with them. One day I hope we will be able to share photographs as I don't have any of them.
In return I've posted some pictures I took of my home town. I went back to visit a year or so after we left and I took pictures of all my favorite places. Even those who still live there were excited to see some of them such as this one of the swimming pool.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (140 votes).
In short: Run Wirral - Run Liverpool - Run the Tunnel !In full: Disclaimer - My experience may be influenced as I PB'd - and on a course that I don't think is the easiest around...The start was well organised - time markers up to tell you where to be. Luggage lorries were well manned and no problems there. The grass was muddy but you can't control that !The course is a great mix - a quick lap of the Park - not that you can take in the views really, then out onto the Wirral. Going through the Docks is always interesting, and then a fast descent to the promenade. A nice out and back there let you assess how everyone was doing, and then avoiding starbucks we get to go round the Marine lake - Irish Sea lapping at the sea wall.Then we get to the promenade with views over to Liverpool - this is the view that the tourists want. Perfect. Historic Hamilton Square is next and then you descend into the Tunnel - this makes for a fast end to the first half. After that - its uphill through the city and into Sefton Park. Just one lap of that though and already you're on your way back home. Nice fast descent down again - so you've a chance to keep the pace up. The last mile or so always go on forever - but the crowd support is good. Through the finish and you're done. Organisation was perfect - no worries on that. Teeshirt, Foil Blanket, Medal and some other goodies too. The only downside of the whole event is that it made my legs hurt. But I will return.Cheers Alan !Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Excellent race, perfectly organised with some stunning scenery.In full: From start to finish, the organisation of this race was top notch. A helpdesk the whole day before, perfect transport details, incredibly organised kit baggage couriers, plenty of water stations - all with outstanding volunteers and a text with your time and position 15 minutes after you finish. As well as this, you had collaboration from The Gym Group to provide free showers for all runners and cheap all day secure parking from Liverpool ONE Q-Park for only £5. Superb.The scenery was glorious. A beatiful run down the New Brighton promenade to lead you into the Queensway tunnel (which was an experience to run through). Through the City Centre and up to the fantastic Princes and Sefton parks and back down along the Kings and Albert Dock to the Pier Head finish by the Liver buildings. It wasn't hills and countryside, but this was so much better.For me, I got my pacing all wrong and did the first half marathon in 1:33 - and I was aiming for 1:42 so I suffered a bit in the second half, but it goes to show the first half was certainly quick. There were some killer hills (for me) though. The half-way point is slap in the middle of the tunnel - meaning the climb from 13 to 14 miles is uphill (and quite steep), but the sound of the drums outside the tunnel spur you on. Once you then get to around 17 miles, you have another one-mile hill, which was the first time I had to stop for a walk - and then again from about 22 1/2-24 miles is an uphill gradient... which by this time I was a bit of a mess. But alas! 24-25 miles was downhill leading you back to the sea-front and the last mile was flat with crowds all around you - especially the last 800 metres or so where there were thousands of spectators. There were times when this was very much a training run though - but at least once every mile there were small crowds cheering people on. I seem to remember reading there were meant to be a few music stages along the course but only remember the one at the finish - which was playing bloody Gangnam Style as I crossed the line. Being 50 years since Love Me Do, where were The Beatles tunes?? :o)This was my first ever marathon and I am so glad I chose such a fantastic city to run it in. I've run about 20 half-marathons and can easily so that (along with the Birmingham Half) this was the best race. Fingers crossed I get to do the Great North and London at some point in the future.Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: A brilliant race which was perfectly organised In full: Alan Rothwell the organiser of this race deserves massive plaudits, he was well in touch with people before the race and every point from parking to travel to pacing was covered. The route is great coving parks, beach fronts, tunnels, city centres and historical areas like penny lane and the old dock area. best of all it finishes with a down hill section into a crowd lined city centre stretch, perfect for dragging you across the line. drink stations were perfectly placed and the marshalls were fantasic all the way round. Collecting baags after the race was so seemless that within 10 mins from finishing I was in my car and on my way home, on top of which I had my result and placing texted to me before I got home (a 1 hr drive). Seamless and flawless, very impressive Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Brilliant event,route,support and organisation!In full: Really good event well organised amazing support especially out of the tunnel and at the finish! Well done Run Liverpool team. worth every penny for me.Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Superb, just superbIn full: Glad to say that the couple of niggles from last year that stopped this from being the perfect race (late start, tedious trek round and round Sefton park) were well and truly resolved yesterday. Organisation was brilliant all round. Atmosphere amazing as ever, big thanks to the people of Liverpool for the support. The exit from the tunnel is something I'm not sure can be matched by any race, anywhere. The hill at 18 is definately a bit of a killer, but the fact that the first half is super fast and that you go back down the hill at 24 still makes it a reasonably quick course overall (I managed my first sub 3).Had intended to try Chester next year, but Liverpool will now be an annual highlight of my race calender. Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: First of many marathons hopefullyIn full: My first marathon and what an experience!! Amazing atmosphere but the road side helpers made it for me - always cheering me on and the crowd got me through the final miles - can't wait until 2013!!Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Taken on board improvements from last year - shaping up to be a great raceIn full: Don't think I've ever done such a perfectly organised race, nice to see the problems at the start from 2011 have been resolved, and the tweaks to the course added to the event. Hills in the 2nd half make it quite tough, though I did get a new PB, so can't really complain. Atmosphere was fantastic once again - hopefully the organisers have already re-booked that drum band for next year (....and the year after, and year after that, etc!)Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Really well organised. Absolutely loved it!Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Great organisation, great crowdsIn full: Went off bang on time, very well organised, crowds good throughout and great mix of scenery with park, docks, seafront, promenade, city centre... oh and a tunnel! Also I did it 14 minutes quicker than last year so very happy with that.Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Amazing Experience - fantastic supportIn full: Very well organised race. What really made it was the support of the people of Liverpool and Birkenhead, especially when emerge from the Queensway Tunnel into Liverpool and hit by a wall of soumd with masses of support either side of the road. I have never seen so many supporters at a race! Marshalls and helpers made event run like clockwork. Within 30 seconds of finishing had collected my bag! Date of review: October 15, 2012
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) will celebrate Olympic Day by honoring two of the world's most recognized Olympians, Bart Conner (gymnastics, 1976, '80, '84) and Nadia Comaneci (gymnastics, 1976, '80) at a special reception on Monday, June 23 at the U.S. Olympic Complex in Colorado Springs, Colo. Conner and Comaneci will speak to members of the U.S. Olympic family, including USOC and NBG staff, resident athletes, in addition to invited guests from the Colorado community about their Olympic experiences and their continued involvement in gymnastics and the worldwide Olympic Movement.
Conner made a dramatic comeback from his second torn biceps injury to win two gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Calif. He won one gold medal as a member of the U.S. Gymnastics Team and his second competing as an individual on the parallel bars. As a member of the Romanian Gymnastics Team at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, Comaneci became one of the stars of the Games by scoring a perfect 10.0 on the uneven bars, marking the first time in modern Olympic Games gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. Over the course of the Games, Comaneci would earn six additional 10's, en route to capturing gold medals in the all-around, balance beam and uneven bars and a bronze medal in the floor exercise. Married in 1996, Conner and Comaneci own several gymnastics-related business ventures, including the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Okla. The couple also continues to travel the world delivering inspirational speeches, as well as promoting charities, gymnastics, fitness and healthy lifestyles.
Olympic Day is a worldwide commemoration of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's June 23, 1894 convening of the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, which would result in the founding of the Modern Olympic Games. National Olympic Committees (NOCs) throughout the world will participate in the international celebration, with each Olympic Committee sending Olympic Day greetings to participating nations.
In the spirit of Olympic Day, the USOC will also host a Community Olympic Celebration on Saturday, June 28 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Complex. The event is free and open to the public. The Community Olympic Celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will include autograph signing sessions by U.S. Olympians and Paralympians; sports demonstrations; live-bands; car clubs; radio live-remotes; a U.S. Olympic Team merchandise sale; sports information booths; and prize giveaways. U.S Olympic Team sponsors McDonalds, Tyson, 24 Hour Fitness and Oroweat, the official bread supplier to the U.S. Olympic Team, will host booths with giveaways that promote healthy lifestyles.
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- Autograph Sessions with U.S. Olympians and Paralympians
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with neverwood, and spc, closed and the abandoned house no longer playable.. and the city of spokane pretty much anti gun there really isnt many places that are still playable with out driving to ford or newport or to cdl...
idk if knight owl is still dealing with paintball i haven't talked to him since spc went down
that and when the economy took a shit in 2008 many of us Spokane ballers didn't have the funds to throw $200-$250 at a weekend to go play a scenario...
i was planning to go out and play this weekend for the first time since i quit in late 2008 (clan wars) but other then dealing with that guy at action sports/virtual assault "KC" i really don't have a clue where to go.... any one got some spare land or a field that that is playing this weekend that has a chrono?
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Posted 23 March 2012 - 02:38 AM
Looks like NiteHawk is still doing paintball.
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Posted 23 March 2012 - 03:38 AM
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yes i know that knighthawk in ford is still open and dale is a cool guy... but the point is that is over an hour away from me so in order to play for a few hours that $20+ in gas $60 for paint $7 for air and what is it $40 for entry??? so just to play for a few hours your talking $127 not including mountain dew and food and or energy drinks so thats hitting almost $150 just to go out and play a 6-8 hour scenario...
are there any outlaw fields in spokane???
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- Confusion. That is the one word summation of consumers thinking about the protections they have, or may not have, when they use prepaid cards.
"Most consumers have no idea what protections come with prepaid cards," said Leslie Tayne, a Long Island lawyer who specializes in debt and credit counseling. She added: "There are so many variations, it makes your head spin."
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Maher's point: different cards carry vastly different protections and therein lies a potential for a world of consumer misery.
Lose a credit card and matters are simple. The Fair Credit Billing Act caps losses on a lost or stolen credit card at $50, and zero if loss is reported before any misuse.
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Here's the problem with prepaid cards: With some, when you lose one, you lose, period; the dough evaporates. With others, protections - although not as good as credit cards - but exactly equal to those of debit cards apply, said Bertrand Sosa, a founder of prepaid card leader NetSpend who now is president of Rev Worldwide, a payments innovator. He admitted however that "there are fly by night operators who hurt the industry's reputation." And of course they also hurt the consumers they fleece.
This matters, because the prepaid card market is huge and it is getting bigger.
Research firm Mercator pegged the amount Americans will put on reloadable prepaid cards this year as over $200 billion, up from $28.6 billion in 2009, and now two of the biggest banks - Chase and Wells Fargo - offer their own prepaid cards.


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - Pictures by Badmintonphoto
Jan O Jorgensen (below), is not the type of person to give up easily.
Even a heart scare late last year has not derailed his ambitions of making it to the Olympics later this year and on Wednesday evening at the Putra Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, he showed the heart of a champion when he overcame eight match points to beat Du Pengyu in the Maybank Malaysia Open presented by Proton.
The Dane, who reached the quarter-finals at last week's Victor Korea Open before losing to Lin Dan, stayed cool under pressure to record a sensational 12-21, 21-11, 26-24, victory in 66 minutes.
"I was not worried even though I had to save eight match points. It was certainly an exciting experience and the crowd played their part," said Jorgensen, who received the full backing of the Malaysian supporters.
"It's a fantastic feeling. To survive eight match points before winning is marvellous. The crowd was fantastic and I've always said I enjoying coming to Malaysia as this is one of the best badminton stadiums in the world.
"The crowd were against me in 2010 when I beat Wong Choong Hann in a Thomas Cup match, but today they were firmly behind me and I dedicate this win to them."
Jorgensen failed to defend his Denmark Open crown last October when he withdrew from the quarter-final stage after he suffered from an inflammation of the heart valves.
He underwent several medical check-ups and while he still suffers from irregular heartbeats, he has been cleared to play.
"The medical team didn't find anything seriously wrong with me. I admit I was quite afraid at that time as I could actually hear and feel my heart beating twice as fast as normal," said Jorgensen, who will face China's Lin Dan who beat Viktor Axelsen in the second round on Thursday.
"The doctors said my heart is bigger than it should be due to all the training I've been doing and therefore, there is nothing serious. I can continue my career as normal and now I'm concentrating on qualifying for the Olympics."
He did his chances of doing so a world of good when he tamed Du Pengyu in an exciting encounter. The Chinese shuttler gave his all but could not break down the Dane.
A visibly disappointed Du Pengyu (right), said: "I had my chances, but I just lost it in the end because he played some fantastic shots towards the end of the match."
Chance after chance when begging in the decider as Jorgensen clawed his way back from 20-16 down before finally clinching victory. He even had the time to stare down his opponent at match point, raising a finger to indicate he would only need that one match point.
"It was my first match point and I indicated to him that one would be enough for me. I think he cracked under pressure!" joked Jorgensen (left), who closed out 2011 by winning his second Copenhagen Masters.
"I'm still not certain of qualifying for the Olympics as I've only just made it to the top 16. Doing well in Malaysia will certain boost my confidence and playing without fear like I did today will also give me hope for the future."
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It's that time of year again. That's right, if you've been a FUNimation fan for a while, then you're familiar with our annual San Gatsu no Madness tournament. Instead of filling out a bracket for a bunch of basketball teams that you probably don't care about (and believe me, this year's Big Dance is not really that amazing looking anyways) we put our anime titles in a head-to-head epic elimination match.
We're going to be doing things a bit differently this year, and instead of filling out an entire bracket in one go, we're going to have you vote for your favorites in each match using this nifty bracket app. This will also be done in 5 rounds. You'll pick your winning titles for the first round and then once the round is over and the victors have been declared, you'll vote again for the next round, and so on and so forth until the losers are eliminated and a supreme champion has been chosen. Here are the dates you need to remember:
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- Round 1 Winner - Wade Nelms (picked the Black Butler/FMA prize)
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- Round 4 Winner - John Walsh (picked the DBZ prize)
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Each evening we bring down all users and run save-while-active on
production files.
Once in a while the save-while-active job cannot get a lock on a file.
After bringing down the online system, we would like to run a job prior to
the save that sends a text message to a few people showing the JOB/lib/file
of any production objects with a lock on them.
This would avoid the scenario where the SAVE job cannot get a lock on each
and every object for a moment.
Is a good method to DSPOBJD to an outfile of all PFs in the lib, and then
RCVF thru the outfile with ???
Would it only be necessary to check PFs? Ie would a LF lock also show
that the underlying PF has a lock?
Then what? ALCOBJ to each object, trying to get a *EXCL lock on it? And
if ALCOBJ fails, then send a text message?
Is there a TAATOOL that will accomplish this? Or maybe a different OS400
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Fukushima has made nuclear power unacceptable to the majority of Japanese.in earthquake-prone Japan are a staple of the daily news. Anti-nuclear sentiment also runs deep because the face of nuclear power is Tepco, easily the country's most vilified company. Tepco's continued obstinacy and irresponsibility are breathtaking, especially for a company alive only through taxpayer bailouts. So while the regime of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda keeps trying to scare voters into acquiescing to nuclear restarts, voters' steadfast opposition has convinced local governments to block the Noda regime's efforts.
A governing party leader warned that shutting down nuclear plants is "mass suicide."governing Democratic Party, Yoshito Sengoku, warned in April that shutting down nuclear power plants is "mass suicide." For its part, Nippon Keidanren has repeatedly and stridently claimed that uncertainty about power supplies and price increases due to greater reliance on gas, coal, and oil will accelerate the hollowing out of Japan's industry. On May 22, Fitch ratings agency added to the overall impression of sheer recklessness with a downgrade of Japan's debt to A+, ranking it just one grade above Spain.
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The senior members of the Owen County High School cheerleading squad were recently recognized for their efforts. First photo: the seniors in this year's squad are Danielle Ransdell, Colton New and Morgan Forsee. Second photo: The Rebel Sweetheart Morgan Forsee, center, is accompanied by Cooper Taylor, left, and Paul Banks, right.
Not much happening around Monterey these days, however, Josie has recently contacted me to say that she, Andrew, Janis, Dixie and Chuck recently went to Lexington to visit with Skot Atha.
Josie said that Skot hadn't been feeling well and they wanted to go and check on him. She says they really had a great time and are looking forward to doing it again soon. She has also invited me to come along with them the next time. I may just do that. I miss Skot as well. One can never have enough friends. Good friends are hard to come by these days.
Free family movie 'Gnomeo and Juliet' to be shown Thursday at library
Bring the entire gang to one of Disney's favorite family movie adventures, "Gnomeo and Juliet," rated PG. This free movie will be shown at 5:30 p.m. May 26 at the Owen County Public Library. All ages are welcome. Refreshments will be provided.
The Student Technology Leadership Program's sixth-annual state championship was held May 13 in Lexington.
Students from across Kentucky demonstrated real learning in real time with real purpose.
There were more than 39 different competition categories, covering the arts, science, technology, engineering, mathematics and marketable career skills. Students competed in programming, web design, video production, networking, computer repair, video game design and more.
The countdown to what may be the largest Owen County Relay for Life event ever is beginning to wind down.
Hundreds of volunteers and cancer survivors, their friends and families are preparing to descend on Itron Field, starting at 7 p.m. Friday night.
Throughout the night, the battle against cancer will take the spotlight through fun, music and special events.
Here is the schedule of events for this year's event:
5-9 p.m., Kentucly Blood Center Bloodmobile, the blood center will be giving $10 Walmart gift cards to anyone who gives blood.
Editor's note: Look for more pictures from this year's Arts in the Park in our multi-media section.
A Nicholas County man was recently arrested at the Owen County Sheriff's Office following alleged thefts.
According to Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond, Larry B. Gaines, 29, of Carlisle, was located May 13 by a U.S. marshal and was told it would be best if he turned himself in at the sheriff's office.
Gaines allegedly broke into a storage building at 3040 Pleasant Grove Road and stole Snap-on tools valued at $3,500.
The tools, Hammond said, were recovered in Florence.
Fuel prices fluctuating and pricey utility bills were just two of the issues the Owen County Fiscal Court faced while planning for the 2011-12 budget.
The first reading of the budget was held during the May 10 fiscal court meeting.
The budget has been sent to the Kentucky Department of Local Government, which approved it. A second reading of the budget ordinance is expected to take place June 14.
Owen County Judge-executive Carolyn Keith said this year's budget was tougher to balance than the 2010-11 budget, due to a decline in revenue.
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In this tutorial, we will try to see what can be done with routes and what can't (at least with Routes 1.8). We are going to create a very simple application customized for each user.
import cherrypy class Profile(object): def __init__(self): self. users = { 'marc' : {'id': 1, 'email': 'email@example.com', 'interests': ['knitting', 'coding', 'beer drinking']}, 'paul' : {'id': 2, 'email': 'firstname.lastname@example.com', 'interests': ['kitty hunting', 'throwing rocks at children']} } def interests(self, user, id=None): user = user.lower() if user in self.users.keys(): if id and 0 <= int(id) < len(self.users[user]['interests']): return user + "'s interests: " + self.users[user]['interests'][int(id)] if not id: return user + "'s interests: " + str(self.users[user]['interests']) return user + " does not exist. Or the id specified is not valid." def home(self, user, field=None): user = user.lower() if field not in ['email', 'interests']: field = None if user in self.users.keys(): if field is not None and field in self.users[user].keys(): return user + "'s " + field + ": " + str(self.users[user][field]) else: res = "" for field in self.users[user].keys(): res += user+ "'s " + field + ": " + str(self.users[user][field]) + "<br/>" return res return user + " does not exist"
It doesn't do much. We have two pages, home and interests, which display information about the specified user.
Let's take a look at the URL we can have for this application. First thing is to get the Routes dispatcher, so that we can add routes and match url
# getting the Routes dispatcher d = cherrypy.dispatch.RoutesDispatcher() root = Profile()
Here is the standard way of doing things with routes: Thanks to "URL Minimization", uri like
/interests/marc /interests/marc/2
can both be matched by the same route : /interests/:user/:id with a default value for id. Here is how it is done :
d.connect('second route', '/interests/:user/:id', controller=root, action='interests', id=0) d.connect('first route', '/home/:user/:field', controller=root, action='home', field=None)
But what happens when you want to do prettier url ? Let's assume that your app is user centered. Having all url starting with the user name is by far nicer : /marc/interests is more attractive than /interests/marc. Moreover, it would be very nice to be able to access "home" through /marc and not /marc/home or /home/marc. The intuitive way of doing so is the following:
d.connect('interests', '/:user/interests/:id', controller=root, action='interests', id=0) d.connect('home', '/:user/:field', controller=root, action='home', field=None)
Note that the order is very important here, as Routes stops at the first route matched.
If you try this code, you'll see that accessing /marc does not display marc's home but the page you would expect to get at /marc/interests/0 Although it should not be this way, the url minimization in routes makes this possible. For further detail, look at Routes' doc. It has to do with minization and implicit values of variables. The only solution is forget minimization and only use explicit routes.
To do so, 2 things must be done:
- first of all: not doing things like 'field=None' (ie explicit minimization)
- second: disabling implicit routes
The default form for a route is /:controller/:action/:id. You can just do d.connect('/:controller/:action/:id') and Routes will interpret it as using the 'action' method on the specified controller with id as parameter (id = None if not specified). As you can see, there is some implicit minimization here, and letting it available will create issues.
A word about minimization: If you want to be sure that no minimization is done, you must disable it (and of course use only explicit routes). You have to upgrade to at least Routes 1.9 to do this (the feature is not present in previous version): easy_install -U routes to upgrade. Moreover, with minimization disabled, you have to specify routes for each type of URL. You can't do /:user/:field anymore with field default to None. You have to specify /:user and /:user/:field. This way everything is explicit and works fine
Here is the end of the code:
m = d.mapper m.explicit = True # no implicit values for routes m.minimization = False # no minimization (Routes > 1.9 only !) d.connect('interests-1', '/:user/interests', controller=root, action='interests') d.connect('interests-2', '/:user/interests/:id', controller=root, action='interests') d.connect('home-1', '/:user', controller=root, action='home') d.connect('home-2', '/:user/:field', controller=root, action='home', field=None) # setting the dispatcher into the CherryPy config conf = {'/' : {'request.dispatch' : d}} # note that since the dispatcher handles the matching url/method # we do not need to specify the root of the application anymore cherrypy.tree.mount(root=None, config=conf) cherrypy.server.quickstart() cherrypy.engine.start()
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2/20/2013 (3 years ago)
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The face of Jesus is found in the face of the poor, for those with eyes to see. The word of Jesus is spoken through the poor, for those who cultivate the ears to hear Him. The cry of Jesus is heard in the cry of the poor, at least for those who stop to listen. That is the deeper meaning behind this sobering scene recounting the last judgment recorded by the Evangelist Matthew in the 25th Chapter of his Gospel.
I was hungry and you fed me
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
2/20/2013 (3 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: poverty, poor in spirit, holiness, Dorothy Day, henry Nouwen, matthew 25, last Judgement, holiness, Chiara Lubich, Catholic Worker Movement, Focolare, Lent, holiness, Deacon Keith Fournier
CHESAPEAKE, VA (Catholic Online) - I was drawn to my knees by the words of Jesus contained in the Gospel (Matt. 25: 31-46): "I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you welcomed me; I was naked and you gave me clothing; I was sick and you took care of me; I was in prison, and you visited me."
How well I understand the question posed by his stunned disciples, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs." (Matthew 25.35-36) It was an extraordinary statement! However, as I have aged I have come to see the many faces of poverty and I am learning to recognize the face of Jesus revealed in them all.
Have you ever considered the significance of the fact that the same Jesus who promised to be with us always also told us that the poor would be with us always? That is because they are connected. Indeed, in a sense, they are one and the same - in a way that is revealed with the eyes of living faith. "The poor you will always have with you; but you will not always have me" (Jesus, Matthew 26:11) "And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age." (Jesus, Matthew 28:20)
The face of Jesus is found in the face of the poor, for those with eyes to see. The word of Jesus is spoken through the poor, for those who cultivate the ears to hear Him. The cry of Jesus is heard in the cry of the poor, at least for those who stop to listen. That is the deeper meaning behind this sobering scene recounting the last judgment recorded by the Evangelist Matthew in the 25th Chapter of his Gospel:
"Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?'And the king will say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.'"
This scene follows what is called the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25: 1- 28) where another sort of judgment is recorded. This one is a judgment concerning the contrasting way of life lived between two groups of people, those who believe that what they have is their own and those who understand that all that they have has been given - as a gift.
These two groups approach their relationship with the goods of this earth (which are all good because the Lord has made them) quite differently. The ones who were praised by the Master know the relationship they have with the Giver. They also know their obligations to bear fruit by living the call to love in deed and truth, the call to solidarity and stewardship, inherent in receiving those gifts.
These folks live their lives in gratitude. They look for ways to participate in the ongoing mission of the Lord. They know that He works now, through them. They understand what they truly have and they invest it by giving it away to others. Sadly, those who grasp on to the goods of the earth, thinking that they are their own and bury them, experience the barrenness of self centeredness and the hollowness of the empty pursuit of 'stuff'.
The point of this passage is as profound, in some respects, as the judgment scene. It participates in the same mystery. They both address matters of the heart and reveal what can be called the economy of heavenly scale. ""To anyone who has, more will be given, and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away." (Matthew 25:29)
Those who love the poor - like Jesus loved the poor- are given as a gift and instruction manual for the rest of us. They are a sign of the kingdom, making it present in their wake. They love in deed and truth. Dorothy Day, a heroic witness and prophetic voice of the 20th century, grasped this mystery so well. That is why she is moving forward in the cause for canonization.
She lived in the aftermath of the industrial age where human persons were too often as products to be used. Though some get stuck in her circuitous and intriguing journey into the fullness of the truth as found in the Catholic Church, her heroic witness is being considered by a Church which is built upon men and women who were profoundly converted through their encounter with Jesus Christ.
She gave herself away, living with the poor, because she truly understood and embraced her own poverty with brutal honesty. She learned to love in deed and truth. So too did her brother in that work of authentic solidarity, Peter Maurin. He once wrote with utter simplicity and searing honesty: "We cannot imitate the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary by trying to get all we can. We can only imitate the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary by trying to give all we can".
Another great Christian woman of the same age, Chiara Lubich, the foundress of the ecclesial movement Focolare, expressed the heart of this call to love in deed and truth:"Yes, love makes us be. We exist because we love. If we don't love, and every time we don't love, we are not, we do not exist ("Even what he has will be taken away"). There's nothing left to do but to love, without holding back. Only in this way will God give himself to us and with him will come the fullness of his gifts.
"Let us give concretely to those around us, knowing that by giving to them we are giving to God. Let's give always; let's give a smile, let's offer understanding, and forgiveness. Let's listen, let's share our knowledge, our availability; let's give our time, our talents, our ideas, our work; let's give our experience, our skills; let's share our goods with others so that we don't accumulate things and everything circulates."
"Our giving opens the hands of God and He, in his providence, fills us with such an abundance that we can give again, and give more, and then receive again, and in this way we can meet the immense needs of many."
The beloved disciple John wrote as an old man in his letters to the early churches dispersed because of persecution: "We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him."
"The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth." (I John 3: 14-18)
I knew a woman in Virginia Beach, Virginia named Brenda McCormick. She touched my life and challenged me to the core concerning this truth. She was not an easy person to be around. Prophets rarely are. She went home to the Lord years ago. She once wrote these words to me:
"In the end, there are two kinds of poor people: those who already know they are poor and those who don't know yet. Here is the crisis: If the latter don't discover this before they leave this planet, they are doomed to be poor forever. What can those of us who already know we are poor do for those who don't know yet? Love them."
As we enter into Lent I am reflecting again on what it means to love in deed and in truth; and how it can open the Hands of God. It was said of the early disciples that they "turned the world upside down" with their preaching (Acts 17). Well, they still can; if we learn how to love as he loved. We are invited to learn to love with His Love.
Like the Master whom we follow, we are invited to become the least of these. The late Fr. Henri Nouwen once warned of what he called the "lure of upward mobility" and referred to it as the greatest sin of the age. He spoke of God's extraordinary love, revealed in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, as an alternative, a "downward mobility."Â
How extraordinary is this love of God. How hard it is to comprehend its invitation. The God of the entire universe came among us as a man. He emptied Himself and took upon Himself our humanity. In His sacred humanity he lived a full and complete human life, walking in intimate communion with His Father. He now makes it possible for us to do the same.
Because He was fully God, Jesus accomplished for us what we could never have accomplished for ourselves, he redeemed us, set us free from the punishment merited by our sin, bridged the separation caused by sin, and capacitated us to live our lives differently by grace. He defeated the last enemy, death and overcame the evil one. He did all of this because He is Love Incarnate and He can do nothing else but love in word and in deed.
He now invites us to walk in His way, the way of "kenosis". This is a Greek word which cannot really be translated in English. It is a self-emptying love. Jesus invites us to become the least of these. St Paul writes of Jesus "Though He was in the form of God, He did not count equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, He emptied Himself" (Philippians 2)Â This emptying the Apostle refers to is "kenosis" in Greek.
Pope St Leo the Great once wrote of Jesus: "He took the nature of a servant without stain of sin, enlarging our humanity without diminishing his divinity. He emptied himself; though invisible he made himself visible, though Creator and Lord of all things he chose to be one of us mortal men. Yet this was the condescension of compassion, not the loss of omnipotence. So he, who in the nature of God had created man, became in the nature of a servant, man himself."
God became the least of these. Will we? Will we allow the truth revealed in the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ to become our pattern for daily living? Will we cooperate with the grace of conversion and be emptied of ourselves for others? We are invited to experience this mystery of faith and to make it real during this Lent.
When we empty ourselves, He comes and takes up His residence within us. Then, we can become His arms, embracing the world; His legs, still walking its dusty streets; and His Heart, still beating with the Divine Compassion manifested in Jesus Christ, the One who became the least of these in order to bring all of us into the full communion of Love.
By Fr. James Farfaglia
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"A sower went out to sow. And, as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for ... continue reading
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Not feeling so holly-jolly this holiday season? Here are some ways to break through your holiday blues.
The holidays are supposed to be a merry time, but not everyone feels the season's cheer. That�s probably not surprising: As holiday pressures squeeze already-crowded work and family lives, it can create undue stress, anxiety and even depression for certain individuals. �There are a lot of �shoulds� around the holidays,� explains Beverly D. Flaxington, a human behavior coach based in Boston and author of Self-Talk for a Calmer You (Adams Media, 2013). ��I should be happier. I should be able to buy better gifts or throw a better party.�� There�s all the hype about holiday perfection, and most of us fall short.� Feelings of loneliness can also heighten for people who have recently lost a loved one or moved away from family.� Add to that a junior-high like social pressure, says Flaxington, and no wonder spirits plummet. �You can feel like everyone else got invited to the party, and you didn�t.� All of that is more poignant at the holidays.� Another spirit-sapper is finances, says Flaxington: �You�re adding expenses to every day bills when you�re just making ends meet as it is.� Although it may seem to you that you�re the only Scrooge, Flaxington says that holiday depression is not only common, but normal. �That the dirty little secret that we�re not likely to talk about because we�re supposed to be joyous.� And some people do love the holidays and the cooking and the entertaining.� But they are the minority.� Most people�even if they aren�t in crisis�are worn out and stressed.� RELATED: Joy to the World Still, there are ways to de-Grinch and feel more attuned to the holiday cheer. The next time holiday blues strike, deploy these methods for deflecting sagging spirits: Disarm your sadness triggers. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.� So, make this year distinct from other years by avoiding whatever triggers your sadness, says Flaxington: �Identify what is most burdensome to you and decide that�s the thing you won�t do.� If not getting invited to a party saddens you, throw your own.� If finances are a burden, give gifts of time like offering a ride, making a phone call, or sending a card with a handwritten note.� Showing someone you care doesn�t have to be costly.� Set realistic expectations. �Ask yourself, �What can I do that won�t be a burden, but that will also let me participate in the holidays?�� says Flaxington. �Enjoy the holidays as much as you can but don�t expect a transformational experience.� Stick to a budget. �Most people wake up in January with a financial hangover,� says Flaxington. �Make a list of who you are buying for and what you can afford that keeps you in the comfort zone.�� Shop early as well so you don�t feel pressure to overspend.� And lose the fantasy of the perfect gift, says Flaxington: �Just buy something you think is meaningful.� Say �No.� Prioritize: If an event or duty is going to increase your stress, skip it, says Flaxington: �Figure out what you want to do and say no to the rest.� Halt sad sack chatter. Holidays can awaken memories that haunt your thoughts. �We tell ourselves stories about what the holidays mean�like �the last time at mother�s was awful and exhausting,� or �I�m always alone. � When you tell yourself such stories, you set yourself up for a bad experience,� says Flaxington. � Send yourself positive messages instead: �I�m going to approach things differently this year,� or �I will look for what joy I can.� They�ll give you more energy and confidence to get through the holidays.� Hang onto healthy habits. You may feel so busy that you no longer have time for exercise or sit-down meals.� But put them on your calendar, says Flaxington.�� Feeling physically well will help keep spirits from taking a nosedive. �And have strategies for choosing what to eat,� she adds. �At a party, walk through, see what�s there, choose one plate, and that�s it.� And pay attention: stop when you�re full.�� Add sleep to your calendar too, says Flaxington: �A good night�s sleep will trump anything else you plan to do.� Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Silver Is Being Manipulated, Platinum Is Not
Analysis was provided by a mining Web site. Unlike the pseudo-analytic drivel spewed by the mainstream media concerning commodity markets, this featured long-term, hard data and cogent reasoning -- vs. the short-term trivia, empty rhetoric and fear-mongering we generally get from the corporate media.
Specifically, the article noted that recycling in the platinum market had quadrupled over the last decade. Compounding that bearish supply factor, industrial demand has softened considerably, and even jewelry demand has been shown to be more price-sensitive than previously thought.
The combination of these factors has meant that platinum inventories are abundant, and with weak supply/demand fundamentals and abundant inventories, prices have floundered. The price of platinum is now trading below the price of gold (a very unusual situation).
With a concrete example illustrating both supply/demand fundamentals and how markets are supposed to respond to those fundamental, the extreme/serial manipulation of the silver market appears even more blatant in comparison. Now let's look at the "fundamentals" in the silver market.
We can begin by looking at the absurdly low, current price of silver. This artificial/suppressed/manipulated price can be illustrated in several different ways. Relative to the price of gold, silver is priced at less than 1/3 of its historic average.
During the nearly 5,000 years in which humanity has been mining/refining gold and silver, the gold/silver price ratio has averaged roughly 15:1. Yet currently (and through all the recent decades of silver manipulation) this ratio has been depressed to 50:1 (or lower).
We know that this is a case of silver being underpriced rather than gold being overpriced, through simply examining the supply side of the gold and silver markets: The miners. Gold and silver miners are experiencing their second "depression" in five years, as the radical underpricing of silver and gold has made it difficult for established miners to raise capital, and nearly impossible for the junior exploration companies, who are the life-blood of the mining industry, to do so.
Indeed, silver mining is so severely depressed that despite a six-fold increase in the price of silver over the last decade, most of the world's silver is still produced as a secondary byproduct of other mining -- while bankrupted silver mines remain shuttered all over the world and new projects are extremely slow to develop.
Further proof of the suppressed/manipulated price of silver comes from the collapse of inventories, where global inventories plummeted by more than 90% over just 15 years (from 1990 to 2005). Despite the collapse in inventories, the six-fold increase in the price of silver has barely registered any reaction at all on the supply side, where mine-supply limps higher at an anemic rate of about 2% per year.


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Pat's Broccoli and Chicken Stir-Fry
Recipe courtesy of Patrick and Gina Neely
- Down Home with the Neelys
Cooked broccoli makes the Neelys' recipe come together in a snap. If you don't have cooked broccoli on hand already, boil your broccoli[ in the wok before starting to stir-fry.]
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more if desired
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil, plus more as needed
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons peeled and chopped fresh ginger
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 green onions, sliced
- 4 cups broccoli florets, pre-cooked
- Hot cooked rice, for serving
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
In a small bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, orange juice, light brown sugar, rice wine vinegar, cornstarch, sesame oil and red pepper flakes. Reserve.
Set a wok over medium-high heat and coat with 1 tablespoon of the peanut oil. When the oil shimmers, add about half of the chicken thigh pieces. Stir-fry until the chicken is fully cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a plate and repeat the process with the remaining chicken thighs.
Add enough peanut oil to the hot wok to coat the bottom. Add the ginger, garlic and green onions and stir-fry until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the chicken back to the wok along with the broccoli florets and stir to warm through. Pour in the reserved sauce and stir until the sauce is thickened and bubbly, about 45 seconds. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve with rice.
From Food Network Kitchens; after further testing and to ensure the best results this recipe has been altered from what was in the actual episode.
Recipe courtesy of The Neelys
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