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We hope you're enjoying and benefiting from John MacArthur's ongoing blog series on the local church. His next post will be up first thing Monday morning.
In the meantime however, we want to address a trend we've noticed in the comments. Some readers—perhaps many—are struggling to find a faithful, Bible-teaching church in their area.
If that's your situation, we're praying for you, and we hope John MacArthur's examination of God's design for the church is an encouragement during your search. This side of eternity, no group of people will perfectly fulfill God's design for the church, but we should all be committed to and striving to meet His standard. To that end, we want to point you to some additional resources to help you find a local church where you and your family can worship, serve, and grow spiritually.
"What Should I Look for When Choosing a New Church Home?" (article)
"When Should People Leave Their Church?" (article)
Marks of a Healthy Church (audio series)
Finally, The Master's Seminary offers an interactive map to help you locate graduates pastoring churches near you. We can't personally vouch for every man or church on that list, but we trust it will help narrow down and inform your search.
And at the end of all that, if you still can't find a faithful church to join, consider how the Lord might use you to help establish a solid, biblical church in your area. Just the other day, we heard from a commenter who is helping start a new church in his small island community.
What should be clear by now from John MacArthur's blog series is that Christians aren't meant to float through life, unattached to the Body of Christ. The Lord has a church home for you—even if it's just a half dozen other believers who love His Son and His truth. We'll be praying you find the church home God has for you, and soon.
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I live in the greater Orlando area and found NOTHING on the interactive map. However, I've heard John say that Dr. R.C. Sproul is a good friend, and he has a church in Sanford, just Northeast of Orlando. I don't see a thumbtack on the map for his church. Wouldn't John recommend Dr. Sproul and his church?
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Great resources! Thanks for posting.
It was just a couple days ago I sent an email to GTY mentioning that I live in a small community and can't find a local church with a strong fundamental theology and conservative, respectful worship style. I asked if there were any Master's grads pastoring churches near me and got a quick email reply with a link to the interactive map. It is easy to use and I found two grads pastoring churches nearby. It's a 25 mile drive down a two-lane country road to get to either one, but I will soon be visiting the two churches.
Would GTY consider having people who are going through similar situations list towns where they live so maybe they could worship together and support one another as well as maybe start a Biblical church? Just to know their are others out there?
Sandra (2),
I think John would recommend R.C. Sproul's church, but the map we linked to above only tracks where graduates from The Master's Seminary are currently preaching.
Thank you for your continued support in giving the Word of God and training men to shepherd God's flock. Praise the Lord
Thank you so much for this post. We have struggled while reading the current postings about being a part of a local assembly.
We are grateful that you posted the resources available for determining where to attend. We have used all of those when determining what to look for while trying out several churches. As of three years ago, we quit looking, as our disappointment level had gotten so low, we gave up.
We are planning on using your map and looking once again, but we would like to thank you for all the knowledge and wisdom from the Word that you have given us while we church at home.
It is a big problem finding a Bible Driven Church in my area also. Lived in this area since June 1999, attended 6 + different churches. I left all due too in-fighting, some of them spelt allowing women in the pulpit, others had such a total disinterest in teaching the truth of the Bible I simply stopped going. So tired of hearing preachers tell me about their last vacation, or using the pulpit mostly for church stuff that should be reservered for the round table of church planning. The sermons are at best 10mins long, with constant appologizes for those looking at their watches very anxious to get to the noon restaurant, so the preacher hurries to the end, or worst the church uses music as the meat of the service, or the intertainment is the service. The pulpit is used for everything except the Bible. I praise God for finding Grace to You about 6 years ago. My life is very blessed each time I listen to John MacArthur, and a long list of other preachers I came to enjoy, through The Ligioner Ministries. I've became way more serious about my Bible reading, praying and searching the word of God, reading the books and material from Grace to you and these other ministries. I know the difference now from the truth and the lies. One of the churches I left, went so far as to teach that it was correct to sit around a table and let each person give their own oppinion as to how a Bible verse was speaking to them and what the verse meant. I'd come away so confused and drained, that I simply had to stop going to these studies. The preacher ( of Charismatic background ) referred to these get togethers as bible studies). These midweek meetings main focus was a pot luck meal, the meal and food dishes received more praise and interest than the reason we came, Bible study. I've even asked other pastoral sources in my state for help in locating a church with very little help, most of them don't even bother to respond, others say they can only recommend their church, which in all cases would mean driving 1-2 hours away. Simply can't afford that expense. I attended a large church prior to moving here but that was when children were at home, I'm now retired. I will continue searching but it is such a blessing to know I can always go to the computer and reach John MacArthur, RC Sproul, RZIM, etc. etc. It is comforting to vent and connect with other christians caught in this struggle to locate a church family.
Jen(5) What a wonderful suggestion. I can add my name to that list. I hunger for a fellowship molded in John's teaching of the Word without the cheap grace and easy believeism mentality
Thank you so much for the new resources. I believe I have found the church I will become a member of thanks to your help!
God is SO good.
Ditto....Jen (5), James (10)
Hey Sandra,
We live in the St. Petersburg area and consider ourselves priviliged to be able to make it over to R.C. Sproul's church (Saint Andrews) in Sanford multiple times throughout the year, but especially when they are hosting their Ligonier conferences. I can ardently recommend this church if you live in the area as they have a strong commitment to preach through the Bible much like John MacArthur and they are unashamed in proclaiming the doctrines of grace. While R.C. Sproul is the primary pastor of teaching and preaching, members have the profound privilige of sitting under the teaching and preaching of Bible scholars who teach at the Reformation Bible College such as R.C. Sproul Jr., Keith Mathison, Michael Morales, and visits from men like D.A. Carson, Mark Dever, Sinclair Ferguson, W. Robert Godfrey, Michael Horton, Steven Lawson, Derek Thomas, etc. The day-to-day pastoral duties are so ably handled by Burk Parsons who himself is a joy to sit under as he exposits from the text of Scripture. For more information about R.C. Sproul, check out his ministry website at Ligonier.org, you can also check out a few of his sermons delivered from the pulpit of St. Andrews by going to http://www.ligonier.org/learn/sermons/. For more info about the church itself, you can check them out at their website http://saintandrewsonline.org/. I know that you will find the beauty of the church lifting your thoughts heavenward to God's glory and the Word of God being preached faithfully from the pulpit will refresh your soul. May the Lord richly bless you and keep you as you seek to honor Him in your search for a congregation with which you can worship Him every week for His glory.
Has anyone heard about this? This seems like a good resource:
Thank you deeply pastor MacArthur for this resource. We are indeed in need. The work of our Lord through you and your ministry team reaches, touches and teaches so many. How blessed we truly are and how much my wife and I have grown because of your exhaustive and thorough expository teaching. Your books and GTY resources are all treasures. Important also is a heartfelt thank you to your wife Patricia and family.
Also praying for the upcoming conference, "Strange Fire". Hoping to attend.
From Denton, Texas
God bless. Peace and Grace to you!
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Yea...another Monday...well, at least it is TeaDay!!!! I hope to consume massive quantities! How about you?
Welcome to TeaDay, please stop by throughout the day and share what is in your cup. If you need to, stop by at the end of the day and share your TeaDay then. Also see what is in other TeaChatters cups as well.
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From now on we can perform the update (or even the downgrade) with no need to wait for an official DOS updater from Samsung (if it's ever released).
The update process is risky and it can brick your NC10.
Make sure your NC10 will not shut down accidentally during the update process and, more generally, make sure you know what you are doing!
First of all we need to create an USB key bootable in DOS.
Download the image from the link below, extract the .img file from the archive, open a terminal and use the command
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sudo dd if=usbdos.img of=/dev/sdX
NOTE: the above command will wipe out any previous content of the USB key. If needed, make a backup.
Now you have the bootable USB key, the next step is to copy on it the needed files required to perform the update.
Unplug then replug the USB key in order to detect and mount the new DOS partition on it.
Download the bios version you need from the links below. Every zip file contains the following files in order to perform a complete update:
****B.WPH - The BIOS image.
****M.BIN - The MICOM image.
phlash16.exe - The utility needed to flash the BIOS image.
up104.exe - The utility needed to flash the MICOM image.
UPBIOS.bat - A convenient batch script which will automatically update the BIOS.
UPMICOM.bat - A convenient batch script which will automatically update the MICOM.
Copy all of the above files on the USB key, then unmount it: the USB key is now ready to be used.
Boot your NC10 with the USB key inserted, you will get a DOS prompt.
Use the following command to update the BIOS:
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When the operation is completed you will get a confirmation message and a long beep. Press any key to exit, you will get back the DOS prompt.
Now use the following command to update the MICOM:
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The update process will last for few seconds, then the NC10 will automatically shut down: you are done.
Remove the USB key and restart the NC10. Press F2 to enter the BIOS and reconfigure it.
Bootable USB DOS image: usbdos.zip
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cd1500rpm wrote:Let's hope all editions are released at the same time. I don't want to buy one edtion when it comes out and then have a "better" edition come out on a later date. I think a DVD edition of MAF was released a few months after the CD release of it.
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Today I experimented a bit and I liked a lot this one:
boil some fresh ginger for some minute (quantities have to be tested for your taste as always).
Let the water cool down a bit. Then brew Kukicha with that water as you would brew your kukicha normally (same times)
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Yesterday TeaChatters were asked, "What is the one positively worst tea you have ever had?" The number one answer was a flavored or scented tea. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic!
Welcome everyone to another TeaDay. Brew some brew and come share what is in your cup today, all day. Come back often to see what everyone else is sipping as well. If you need to, you can also reflect back on your TeaDay!
Today's TeaPoll is all about PRICE. How much emphasis do you place upon price when you select a TeaVendor? Share with us your thoughts on this costly topic. I suspect this will be an interesting discussion. Have fun!
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knackers wrote:nice work!Got to the gym at 6pm, left at 10.30pm. Hammered.
holy shit, 41/2 hr session, hope you bring food
Thanks mate. Yeah, I have a big meal before I leave, then I have some stuff to eat between snatch and C&J, plus some carbs to drink during the C&J.


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Of the many eulogies that have come out since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' death last week, perhaps none is better than his own. At a 2005 commencement speech to graduates of Stanford University, Jobs told three stories, the events of which came to shape his life and beliefs.
The final story centered around Jobs' battle with cancer. He said that when he was young he read a line that said something like, "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." From that point on, Jobs said he looked in the mirror every day and asked himself if he wanted to do what he was about to do that day. If the answer was no too many days in a row, he changed.
Although Jobs' story came from a somewhat fatalistic point of view, I think his message was incredibly poignant, and surprisingly relatable to flight training. The research on flight training that AOPA conducted about a year ago framed the ideal flight training experience. A series of major themes emerged, not the least of which was that the instructor is the key factor in flight training. This isn't particularly surprising, but the level to which it was reinforced was.
It became crystal clear from the focus groups and extensive survey that a good instructor gets students through the process with ease, while a poor instructor does not. Other contributing factors included the performance of the flight school, training value, and how engaged in the aviation community the student is. But ultimately, it all boils down to the flight instructor.
Another thing that was readily apparent from the research is that the majority of people learn to fly for recreation. They have a friend who flies, they are fulfilling a childhood dream, or they think taking an airplane on vacation would be a good time.
That's important because it says to me we can emulate Jobs easily by simply asking ourselves if we are having fun. Do you still enjoy going to the airport? Do you enjoy reading about flight? Do you feel good after a lesson, especially after paying the bill? Does all of this training seem worth it to you? If you look in the mirror before every lesson, and you don't want to do (or spend) what you're about to do, don't quit training–quit your instructor or school. Thousands of pilots have great training experiences where they enjoy virtually every minute of the process, and come out the other end with a certificate and a smile. You can too. But you need to make sure you are learning in the right place and with the right person.
There's no question it's hard to "fire" someone who may be nice and honest, but who just doesn't mesh with you. But here's the secret: A professional instructor will likely agree with your decision. Instructors worth their salt know that a proper CFI/student match is vital, and they should willingly give up a student if it's not working. Because a good instructor's goal is to get you to the finish line, not pad his or her logbook.
Remember, this is supposed to be fun, and a means to an end. It will be worth it.
–Ian J. Twombly
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Great set of fights tonight on ESPN2.
The first bout went less than 30 seconds, Guillermo Rigondeaux hit his opponent with a devastating body shot. The guy was hurt badly on the canvas for several minutes. Rigondeaux looks like a legit contender after just a handful of pro fights. Very impressive.
Glen Johnson also looked good, scored a sixth round KO over Yusaf Mack. The Road Warrior seemed more inspired than he's been in his last few fights. He's always been a favorite of mine, extremely tough when he's at the top of his game.
In the last fight, Ed Peredes scored a brutal KO over Joey Hernandez in their rematch.
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Honey-Mustard Pork Roast with Bacon
- Pork:
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons whole-grain mustard (recommended: Maille)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves
- 1 (3 1/2-pound) center-cut, boneless, pork loin roast
- 12 slices bacon (about 1 pound)
- Salad:
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 5 cups (5 ounces) baby arugula
Special equipment: kitchen twine
For the pork: Put an oven rack in the lower 1/3 of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a small bowl, add the Dijon mustard, whole-grain mustard, honey, garlic, and rosemary and mix together until smooth. Arrange the pork in a 9 by 13-inch baking pan and spread the mustard mixture evenly over the pork. Starting on 1 side, lay a piece of bacon, lengthwise, on the pork. Lay another slice of bacon on the pork making sure to slightly overlap the first piece. Continue with the remaining bacon, until the pork is fully covered in bacon. Using 3 pieces of kitchen twine, secure the bacon in place. Roast for 1 hour. Cover the pan, loosely, with foil and roast for another 10 to 20 minutes until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the pork registers 160 degrees F. Remove the pan from the oven and transfer the roast to a cutting board. Cover the pan with foil and allow the pork to rest for 20 minutes. Remove the kitchen twine and slice the pork into 1/2-inch thick slices.
For the salad: In a small bowl, whisk together the lemon juice and oil until smooth. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Put the arugula on a large platter and drizzle with the dressing. Arrange the pork slices on top and serve.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis
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text: Kenya Airways Constructs Dining Hall for Ikuu Special School Nairobi 30/3/2011... National carrier and Pride of Africa Kenya Airways announced the support of a school of children with special needs by building a dining hall for them as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. The school, located in Chuka, Eastern Kenya, is known as the Ikuu Special School for autistic and mentally handicapped children. Speaking while making the official hand over of the dining hall, Kenya Airways Commercial Director, Mohan Chandra said that the airline had built the hall following a request by the administration and on Kenya Airways seeing the need to assist the school. "This investment to the community targets to ensure that pupils and teachers access better learning and teaching facilities in a conducive school environment," said Mr. Chandra. He explained that population of the children had increased sharply over the years, outstripping the existing dining facilities, yet the children needed to take their meals in a clean decent environment. "At Kenya Airways we believe in sustainable living and have a strong sense of corporate social responsibility that is why we endeavour to lend a helping hand whenever we can," he added. The Ikuu School is a home to 119 mentally handicapped and autistic children; the school was started in 1996 to cater for the growing number of autism related cases in the community. During the occasion, the children demonstrated that disability is not inability by entertaining the guests with poems, songs and dance. Among them was Arnold Mugendi who won a gold medal during the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in the physically challenged category. Kenya Airways offers support to communities in countries that it operates; namely in the areas of education, environment, water and health as part of its contribution to the sustainable development of its destinations. The airline flies to 53 destinations across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.


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m0851 Fall and Winter 2012 Outerwear and Accessories Collection: Fashion Show
m0851 is a Montreal-based brand that began in 1987. Today, it is known for mixing modern and traditional materials to make the finest quality products and accessories, including bags, leather coats and outerwear. m0851 balances elegance with minimalism in its creations but also makes sure not to take away from the functionality of accessories and craftsmanship. The design house has built an international reputation and distributes its collections in 35 countries. In this video, WatchMojo.com heads to the Montreal Fashion and Design Festival to check out the 2012 Fall and Winter outerwear and accessories collection by m0851.


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Larry Polansky: The World's Longest MelodyPosted by Jay Batzner in CD Review, Jay Batzner, New World, tags: CD Review, electric guitar, Jay Batzner, microtonality, New World Records, New York School, postminimalism, saxophone quartet
music of Larry Polansky
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New World Records
- Ensembles of Note
- tooaytood 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 11
- for jim, ben and lou
- "…getting rid of the glue…"
- ivtoo
- The World's Longest Melody
- Ontslaan (toontood)
- toovviivfor
- 34 Chords (Christian Wolff in Hanover and Royalton)
Various aspects of Larry Polansky's music are given compelling and nuanced performances on this disc. The opening Ensembles of Note is a funky, rhythmic, semi-controlled improvisation based on a four bar rhythmic germ. When I first heard the disc, I really enjoyed the piece. It is quirky, it grooves, and the formal flow is natural and fluid (a gradual increase in the amount of activity). To my surprise upon reading the notes, the melodic materials are entirely improvised and only the rhythmic ostinato is given. Suddenly, my opinion of the piece and the performance skyrocketed. The ensemble has a wonderfully cohesive feel in their sound as well as to the shape of the piece. The music belongs to the performers as much as it belongs to Polansky and I think that is the right balance for a work that relies so heavily on improvisation.
The tooaytoods are all miniature miniatures (the longest being :24). Originally solo piano works, here they are electric guitar duets. Each tooaytood has its own internal logic, however brief, and each work as perfectly chiseled gems. Could they be developed into longer works? I guess so but I think that would crush their ephemeral beauty and wit.
My favorite composition on the disc is the trio for jim, ben, and lou for guitar, harp, and percussion. Each movement honors a composer important to Polansky's compositional language (James Tenney, Ben Johnston, and Lou Harrison). Microtonality abounds in the trio and Polansky's touch with this tonal palette is delicate, expressive, and extremely artful. No note, no matter the clash with other notes, sounds "wrong." The reverence for these three composers is communicated at a very fundamental level in this trio. Just to contradict myself, the trio has a very light touch, too. Simple formal structures, such as variation, are masterfully used. I've been listening to this piece a lot in the last few weeks. A lot.
The brief guitar solo "…getting rid of the glue…" is in some ways a flashback to how Polansky arrived at the style of these previous, yet more recent, pieces. Sparse pointallistic gestures create a timeless and directionless space. Harmonics, gentle humming, and detuned strings pass through this space created by the work. The next track, ivtoo, then sounds like the direct descendent of "…getting rid of the glue…" and the trio. Toon Callier's overdubbed acoustic guitars form a cloud of active-yet-directionless harmonies and colors. It is as if a pizzicato fog has descended. The directionlessness is merely an illusion, of course, as the piece slowly and inexorably oozes into more tense and strenuous areas.
The ensemble version of The World's Longest Melody (also the title of the trio movement dedicated to Lou Harrison but is not the same piece) rings in with epic power chords and drums. One might expect a power rock thrash will emerge but the piece stays fairly tame if that is your expectation. There is a cyclic and periodic repetition of ideas, a non-Western-inspired sense of form, that again has its own compelling logic. Similar temporal logic gets merged with Western harmonies in the next tracks Ontslaan (toontood) and toovviivfor. In Ontslaan (toontood) a very stock sounding chorale of electric guitars quickly gets warped and bent and twisted until almost beyond recognition (keyword: almost). toovviivfor uses a decidedly less comfortable and more abstract harmonic grounding and then proceeds in a similar manner.
Polansky's musical language is naturally complemented by the guitar. The timbre works well to provide a clarity to his pitch/temperament choices and the resonance (or sustain in the case of the electric guitars) works well to enforce the mood or emotional tone of the pieces. The final track, 34 Chords (Chrisitan Wolff in Hanover and Royalton) is another reverent homage that exploits these facets of the electric guitar to great effect (and affect).


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A New Year, A Ton of Optimism
The state of the city at the beginning of 2012:
Temporary residents have moved into Washington Square Park in downtown Rochester. Occupy Rochester has set up living quarters in the park since early Fall, and the beginning of the year will tell if the movement has made any progress or not.
Midtown plaza is a crumbling mess. But for good reason. The city is in the process of demolishing the old and bringing development-ready top-notch space to the heart of our city. Track and follow along with the changes here. For anyone who is interested, you can view a thorough review of the Mayor's and the city's vision of the Rochester's future here.
One of the most exciting projects that I personally would like to report on is the opening of the Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shop in the Downtown Library. I love Tim Hortons coffee! But whether or not you agree, there is a larger implication that comes out of this, and owners George and Nidhi Pino are at the forefront of it. The implication is that the city of Rochester is in the midst of a major turn-around. When a large, international chain (from Canada) like Tim Hortons looks to invest in a place, a neighborhood, a city—its owners must ask themselves some very tough business questions as to whether or not the place can viably sustain the operations. I believe that George and Nidhi are in front of the curve here in Rochester, and they will be greatly rewarded with their investment. Probably from me alone because I will be there everyday. And while they have already opened up one location in the Downtown Library, there is a second downtown Tim Hortons coming soon to 1 E. Main Street that should be opened in the first quarter of 2012. All Tim Hortons coffee is locally brewed, and you can see this process from this YouTube video. Congratulations George and Nidhi, thank you for serving the Rochester market!
New residents in 1 Capron moving into the Washington Square neighborhood in the heart of downtown Rochester. This residential project has been on-going for the past three years and is nearing completion. The building has attracted a mix of young professionals, young families, artists, and empty-nesters all at affordable, luxury-condo style living.
With this one project alone, there is a domino effect of activity around the neighborhood:
The city of Rochester has re-paved Capron Street.
A sushi/New American fare style restaurant called Nikkohas opened up just as 2011 closed out. Executive Chef Nucelli is looking to open the eyes of Rochesterians on some new offerings that we might not have seen before in this town.
The former Brickyard and Sully's Pub has been re-opened and re-named to Sully's Brickyard Pub. With arguably one of the coolest locations in town, next to the 490 overpass near the river and the Frederick Douglass – Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge (wow, we need a shorter version of that!), owners Mark Pascuzzi and Joe Geraci are looking to expand on the original menu while still providing some major favorites that the neighborhood has enjoyed all along like their incredible Wood Oven pizza. Look for more entertainment options as well coming from this duo, as Mark and Joe want to provide a warm, welcoming atmosphere to comfort those patrons as major changes take place in downtown Rochester.
To round this out, as a Board member and fan, I must make a plug here for the Rochester Young Professionals organization. Last year President Steve Vogt made incredible strides by revitalizing the group from a small, bar social-get-together club to an organizational force in our city that now has five different arms, including Volunteering, Socials, Community Outreach, and Professional Development. We are excited to have just added our fifth extension, Outdoor Recreation, chaired by Felicia Lombard, as many of our members love the outdoors and enjoy getting some fresh air in the midst of their hectic everyday lives. Whether you are looking to meet new people, gain new skills for your career, see what is going on in our community, help with a volunteer project or two, or even have a little fun outdoors—I can guarantee that you will find a group of like-minded, passionate individuals working together to make Rochester a better place to live, work, and play. Check out our new website here.
There is a lot going in Rochester, so as this year gets started, why don't you get started also by getting involved, getting out there, and putting all those interests and talents to work. We need you, Rochester needs you.
And that is just a little slice of where we are at for the beginning of 2012.


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1
Calories 380
Total Fat 19 g
Saturated Fat 4 g
Sodium 863 mg
Total Carbohydrate 26.5 g
Dietary Fiber 5 g
Protein 28.5 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Whole wheat bread, sliced into ½-inch cubes 3 slices
Olive oil 2 + 2 teaspoons
Garlic cloves, minced 1 + 1
Parmesan cheese, grated 1 + 1 tablespoon
Chicken cutlets 6 ounces
Salt ¼ teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Juice of ½ lemon
Low-fat mayonnaise 2 tablespoons
Worcestershire sauce ¼ teaspoon
Anchovy fillet, chopped (optional) 1
Romaine lettuce, washed, cut into ribbons, and dried 1 head
- Preheat the oven to 350˚F.
- In a small bowl, toss together bread cubes, 2 teaspoons olive oil, garlic, and 1 tablespoon of Parmesan cheese. Distribute croutons onto a baking sheet and bake in the oven, tossing occasionally, for about 10 minutes, until golden. Remove and let cool.
- Heat 2 teaspoons of the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Season chicken with the salt and pepper and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side, until lightly browned and cooked through. Remove from skillet and set aside. Once chicken has cooled off a bit, slice into strips.
- In a blender, combine lemon juice, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, anchovy fillet, and remaining garlic and Parmesan cheese. Process until smooth.
- Toss together lettuce and dressing and distribute onto plates. Top each plate with chicken and croutons.


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I have enjoyed Oolong #18, Jasmine Pearls, TKY, Pouchong, Oolong #40, and Peach Oolong. I have also enjoyed a sample from another vendor of Magnolia Oolong and Orchid Oolong (THANKS, VICTORIA! ) I also tried Oolong #8 but I thought it was tasteless...or, perhaps I gave up on it too soon.
Now I would like to try similar teas from other vendors, out of curiousity. Any suggestions? Also, with these types of teas as my favorites, what does this say about my tea classifications?
Also, going along with the oolongs that I enjoy, what other teas--perhaps Chinese greens--might I also enjoy? I want to have a good variety in case I tire of my favorite oolongs. (However, I am sure Victoria and Tenuki will not let that happen!)


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Alemán, Mateo
Mateo Alemán 1547-1615?
Spanish Golden Age novelist.
The fame of the Spanish Golden Age writer Mateo Alemán lies almost entirely with his Guzmán de Alfarache, typically regarded as the greatest and most influential picaresque novel. Published in two parts between 1599 and 1604, Alemán's fictional autobiography of an unscrupulous "pícaro," or rogue—who cheats and deceives his way through life until his final religious conversion—was the most commercially successful piece of Spanish literature of its day, achieving greater critical acclaim and popular sales than even Cervantes' Don Quixote. Although Alemán's masterpiece is seldom read today, scholars continue to debate the authenticity of protagonist's conversion. Critics agree, however, that the psychological complexity, engaging plot, and literary realism of Guzmán de Alfarache rank it with Don Quixote as one of the two greatest novels of the Spanish Golden Age.
Biographical Information
The exact date of Alemán's birth in Seville is unknown, although it was presumably within weeks of his baptism on September 28, 1547. His father was a medical doctor who, like his son, often struggled with financial difficulties. Despite being professing Christians, the Alemán family was suspected of being of Jewish origin, making its members ineligible for Spanish nobility or immigration to the New World. In 1564 Alemán received a Bachelor's degree in Arts and Philosophy from the University of Maese Rodrigo. For the following three years he studied medicine at the universities of Maese Rodrigo, Salamanca, and Alcalá, leaving school temporarily after his father's death in 1567. In 1568 Alemán ended his medical studies permanently and took several large loans in order to become a businessman. His businesses failed, and unable to repay his debts, Alemán agreed to marry the daughter of one his creditors rather than be thrown into debtor's prison. For the following decade Alemán failed at a series of business ventures before returning to the University of Maese Rodrigo in 1580 to study law. Later that same year Alemán was arrested for unpaid debts and sent to prison, where he spent several months before being bailed out by his wife and a prosperous uncle. Seeking a new life, Alemán applied to immigrate to the New World; however, his application was denied because of his Jewish ancestry. In 1583 Alemán was made a judge, but even this position ended in failure when King Philip II ordered Alemán jailed for overstepping his authority. Circumstances began to improve when Alemán got a government job as an accountant soon after being released from his second jail term; he moved to Madrid, augmenting his small salary by renting houses and making loans. In 1591, while in Cartagena on business, Alemán was nearly killed after being accidentally hit in the head by a cannon shot. Crediting his survival to his prayers to Saint Anthony of Padua, Alemán vowed to write a biography of the saint, a promise he kept over a decade later with the publication of San Antonio de Padua (1604; Saint Anthony of Padua). In 1593 Alemán again served as a judge, this time without complaint, gaining still more experiences which would soon find echo in his fictional autobiography of the rogue Guzmán.
Alemán was fifty before he began his literary career, publishing first translations of two odes by Horace and writing a prologue for a book by a friend, Alonso de Barros, in 1598. In 1599 Alemán published Guzmán de Alfarache, a book so immediately popular that within five years it had been reprinted in over twenty-five editions, many of them pirated. Although the success of the novel made Alemán instantly famous, the pirated versions of his work meant that Alemán gained little financial reward. Three years later, in 1602, Alemán was again imprisoned for failure to pay his debts, although he was soon bailed out by a cousin. That same year an unauthorized Part II of Guzmán was published by an pseudonymous author, sparking Alemán to begin work on an authentic continuation of the adventures of the popular "picaro," which was published in 1604. Despite the continued success of his work, Alemán remained in debt. In 1607 he applied again to immigrate to Mexico, bribing officials to gain permission. Arriving in Mexico in 1608 with his mistress and several of their illegitimate children, Alemán's financial situation immediately improved, probably in large part due to his friendship with Fray García Guerra, Archbishop and Viceroy of New Spain, whom Alemán had met during his voyage to the New World. In Mexico, Alemán continued to write, publishing the Ortografía castellana (Castilian Orthography) in 1609 and Sucesos de D. Frai García Gera (Happenings of Fray García Guerra) in 1613. Nothing more is known of Alemán after 1615, the year most biographers presume he died.
Major Works
Alemán's literary success can be attributed to his lengthy novel, Guzmán de Alfarache, published in two parts in 1599 and 1604, respectively. Regarded as the second picaresque novel published in Spain (the first being the popular Lazarillo de Tormes, published in 1554 by an unknown author), Guzmán de Alfarache is a fictional autobiography of a "pícaro" or rogue who looks back on his life of deceit and sin after he has been sentenced to life in prison for his wicked deeds. The illegitimate son of a prostitute and an usurer, Guzmán's story begins with a description of his humble origins. After his father dies, Guzmán journeys out into the world and attempts to improve his lot in life. Finding little success in a series of jobs, Guzmán falls in with a group of rogues and beggars from whom he learns how to gain a comfortable living by thievery and fraud. Cheating at cards enables him to pose as a successful merchant, and he soon marries a woman who leaves him penniless before she dies. Next, the rogue decides to become a minister because he considers this occupation easy, but he soon abandons this plan and marries again, this time acting as a pimp and living on the earnings of his wife's prostitution. When this wife finally deserts him, Guzmán once again gains his living from gambling and thievery until he is finally apprehended and sentenced to a life in prison for his many crimes. In prison, the narrator repents of his crimes, promising to lead a virtuous life in the future. The open ending of the second part of the novel has led many critics to believe that Alemán intended to write a third section; however, this remains largely speculative since Alemán did not write further adventures of his most famous character before his death in 1615.
Critical Reception
Not only did the publication of Guzmán de Alfarache gain Alemán instant popular success as an author, his novel was praised by critics of his day for both its highly entertaining plot and its moral teachings. Within fifteen years of the novel's first publication it was translated into French, Italian, and German, and Alemán's prose was widely considered superior to Cervantes' popular 1605 masterpiece, Don Quixote. Modern critics often regard Alemán's picaresque novel as a revolutionary step within the emerging literary genre, and contend that its unsentimental depiction of everyday life fostered the development of the modern realistic novel. Nearly all twentieth-century criticism of the novel focuses on the interpretation of Guzmán's religious conversion. Some critics conclude that the narrator's turn to religion is yet another example of a scoundrel who seizes the opportunity to turn to piety only in order to save his life, while others regard the conversion as authentic, teaching the lesson that all men are cursed with Original Sin but can be saved through repentance and divine grace. The psychological complexity of Guzmán's narration, mixing burlesque humor and satire with moral digressions chastising a degenerate society, has opened a wide spectrum of conjecture on the relationship between the character Guzmán and the author Alemán, a Christian of Jewish origins who may have wished to prove his devotion to Christian tenets. Whatever its interpretation, critics are unanimous in their praise of Guzmán de Alfarache as one of the seminal novels of the Spanish Golden Age.
Principal Works
Guzmán de Alfarache [Guzmán; or The Adventures of Gusman d'Alfarache (novel) 1599
San Antonio de Padua [Saint Anthony of Padua] (novel) 1604
*Atalaya de la vida humana [Watch-Tower of Man's Life; or Guzmán de Alfarache, Part 2] (novel) 1604
Ortografía castellana [Castilian Orthography] (novel) 1609
Sucesos de D. Frai García Gera [Happenings of Fray García Guerra] (novel) 1613
*Sometimes combined with the 1599 Guzmán de Alfarache and titled Guzmán de Alfarache.
Sherman Eoff (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: Eoff, Sherman. "The Picaresque Psychology of Guzmán de Alfarache." Hispanic Review 21, no. 2 (April 1953): 107-19.
[In the following essay, Eoff examines the psychology of the protagonist of Guzmán de Alfarache, dividing the story into sections which portray the protagonist's increasing shamelessness, deceit, and buffoonery.]
What is the psychology of a pícaro? Can we profit by study the varieties of this literary type as we would individual human beings enmeshed in their environment? There is general agreement that the Spanish picaresque novel of the seventeenth century, more than a special kind of narrative form growing out of literary...
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J. V. Ricapito (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: Ricapito, J. V. "Love and Marriage in Guzmán de Alfarache: An Essay on Literary and Artistic Unity." Kentucky Romance Quarterly 15, no. 2 (1968): 123-38.
[In the following essay, Ricapito examines themes of love and marriage in Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache, concentrating on the affair of Guzmán's mother as a pivotal episode in Guzmán's own unhappy love life.]
Critics, in evaluating the concept of love in the picaresque genre, have uniformly noted its absence or decreased importance as a literary theme. In one of the first modern critical commentaries on the picaresque, F. W. Chandler underscores the absence of sentiment in the picaresque...
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R. J. Oakley (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: Oakley, R. J. "The Problematic Unity of Guzmán de Alfarache." In Hispanic Studies in Honour of Joseph Manson, edited by Dorothy M. Atkinson and Anthony H. Clarke, pp. 185-206. Oxford: The Dolphin Book Co. Ltd., 1972.
[In the following essay, Oakley examines themes of honor and necessity in Guzmán de Alfarache, concluding that Alemán's work centers on the moral weakness of humanity and its need for divine help in obtaining salvation.]
In his recent biography of Mateo Alemán, Donald McGrady provided a summary of recent trends in criticism of Guzmán de Alfarache, remarking that although, on the whole, the twentieth century critics...
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Vivian Folkenflik (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: Folkenflik, Vivian. "Vision and Truth: Baroque Art Metaphors in Guzmán de Alfarache." Modern Language Notes 88, no. 2 (March 1973): 347-55.
[In the following essay, Folkenflik discusses Alemán's references to painting in Guzmán de Alfarache, many of which show the author's insistence that the visual world is an illusion.]
Towards the end of his description of his Italian travels, the narrator of Guzmán de Alfarache has occasion to lament that nowadays men judge only according to what they see:
Cuando fueres alquimia, eso que reluciere de ti, eso será venerado. Ya no se juzgan almas ni más de...
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M. N. Norval (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: Norval, M. N. "Original Sin and the 'Conversion' in the Guzmán de Alfarache." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 51, no. 4 (October 1974): 346-64.
[In the following essay, Norval argues against critics such as Alexander Parker and Moreno Báez who claim that Guzmán's final conversion is real, charging instead that Guzmán de Alfarache is a pessimistic story about man's inability to gain salvation without God's grace.]
The Guzmán de Alfarache is a pseudo-autobiography in which a pícaro tells the story of his evil life and his supposed conversion.1 More critics than not have dismissed the conversion as hypocritical, as...
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Hilary S. D. Smith (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: Smith, Hilary S. D. "The Pícaro Turns Preacher: Guzmán's de Alfarache's Missed Vocation." Forum for Modern Language Studies 14, no. 4 (October 1978): 387-97.
[In the following essay, Smith examines the sermons in Guzmán de Alfarache, concentrating on Guzmán's role as a preacher.]
It must become apparent to even the most casual reader of Mateo Alemán's picaresque novel Guzmán de Alfarache that the work is full of sermons; that not only the digressive discursos (a favourite term applied to contemporary printed sermons) but also complete chapters are cast in a homiletic mould.1 Whereas Unamuno expressed his dislike for...
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Carroll Johnson (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: Johnson, Carroll. Introduction to Inside Guzmán de Alfarache, pp. 1-9. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1978.
[In the following essay, Johnson examines some of the many competing interpretations of Guzmán de Alfarache, himself concentrating on the discrepancies between Guzmán's adventures and Alemán's sermonizing.]
The preeminence of Don Quijote in the history of the modern novel, while demonstrating a facet of the general debt of Western literature to the Hispanic tradition, has been largely responsible for the widespread ignorance or misunderstanding of the other great prose narration that stands together with the...
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Carroll Johnson (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Johnson, Carroll. "D. Álvaro de Luna and the Problem of Impotence in Guzmán de Alfarache." Journal of Hispanic Philology 8, no. 1 (Fall 1983): 33-47.
[In the following essay, Johnson discusses themes of impotence in Guzmán de Alfarache.]
It is customary to consider the interpolated novelettes in Guzmán de Alfarache either as more or less light-hearted entertainment and demonstrations of the author's virtuosity in several narrative conventions, or on the other hand as proof of Alemán's inability to free himself from his pessimistic world view, his preoccupation with frustration and deceit. In the first instance the critic finds himself...
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Linda M. Willem (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Willem, Linda M. "Variations on Engaño and Honra in the Interpolated Novelettes of Guzmán de Alfarache." Hispanic Journal 8, no. 2 (Spring 1987): 7-20.
[In the following essay, Willem discusses how Alemán inserts several novelettes into Guzmán de Alfarache to accentuate his overarching themes concerning honor and deceit.]
In general, critical opinion concerning the role of the interpolated novelettes in Guzmán de Alfarache falls into two camps: those who consider them to be significantly linked to the main narrative; and those who see them as extraneous stories which serve the essentially decorative function of...
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C. A. Longhurst (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Longhurst, C. A. "The Problem of Conversion and Repentance in Guzmán de Alfarache." In A Face Not Turned to the Wall: Essays on Hispanic Themes for Gareth Alban Davies, pp. 85-110. Leeds: University of Leeds, 1987.
[In the following essay, Longhurst surveys critical reactions regarding Guzmán's authentic conversion.]
Interpretations of Guzmán de Alfarache have undergone a drastic change of direction over the last ten years or so, thanks largely to the efforts of American scholars. I am thinking mainly, though not exclusively, of the recent books of Joan Arias, Carroll Johnson and Benito Brancaforte.1
What these...
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Nina Cox Davis (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Davis, Nina Cox. "Indigestion and Edification in the Guzmán de Alfarache." Modern Language Notes: Hispanic Issue 104, no. 2 (March 1989): 304-14.
[In the following essay, Davis discusses motifs of eating and digestion in Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache to explore themes of literary deception.]
The tendency of Guzmán criticism in recent decades has been to focus on the conclusion of Part II, the account of the narrator's alleged repentence and religious conversion while serving life sentence as a galley slave.1 By reading the nearly one-thousand page fictive autobiography solely in terms of its closing chapters, as an example...
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Nina Cox Davis (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Davis, Nina Cox. "Guzmán('s) Swindles." Symposium 43, no. 3 (Fall 1989): 194-208.
[In the following essay, Davis argues that the stories of how Guzmán swindles a silversmith, a merchant, and his uncle offer clues to the Guzmán's greatest deception of all—deceiving readers into believing his final conversion is authentic.]
Since its publication in 1599, Guzmán de Alfarache has been the subject of controversy, and its critics remain divided today. They debate Alemán's message, agreeing only that the novel is structured on a complex and problematic narrative. The fictive author Guzmán is made to relate his past and comment on it for the readers'...
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Judith A. Whitenack (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Whitenack, Judith A. "'Bonifacio y Dorotea' and the Merchandising of Love." Hispanic Review 58, no. 1 (winter 1990): 57-71.
[In the following essay, Whitenack examines the tale Bonifacio y Dorotea in Guzmán de Alfarache, concluding that mercantile interests are of far greater importance to themes in the narration than Guzmán's sexual deviancy.]
It is no news for readers of Guzmán de Alfarache that Guzmán's wife, mother and grandmother were all prostitutes. We also know that Guzmán, following the pattern set by the man who was probably his father, lived for a time on his wife Gracia's earnings and even acted as her...
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Further Reading
Arias, Joan. Guzmán de Alfarache: The Unrepentant Narrator. London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1977, 106 p.
Full-length study of Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache which argues that Guzmán's final conversion serves to demonstrate the Christian doctrine of original sin.
Cascardi, Anthony J. "The Rhetoric of Defense in the Guzmán de Alfarache." Neophilologus 63, no. 3 (July 1979): 380-88.
Concentrates on elements of social and moral defense by the narrator of Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache.
Davis, Nina Cox. Autobiography as Burla in the Guzmán de Alfarache....
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nursing students attending Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College was held recently in the auditorium at Harlan County High School. The event served to inform students and their families of the hard work and dedication involved with becoming a nurse. During the convocation, professionalism, integrity and ethics were promoted along with the need for compassion and caring. The students took the nursing code of ethics pledge and each received a nursing lamp pin that is symbolic of the dedication, care and devotion nurses must exhibit. Professor Kathy Guyn, the division chair for nursing and related technologies at SKCTC, presented a plaque to college President Dr. Lynn Moore, right, welcoming her to Southeast.
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I was going to post my thought on this one in my weekend thread but frankly this movie deserves a thread all its own.
Not all, frankly most sequals are not as good as their orginals and direct to DVD sequals are usually direct to DVD because they blow or suck (depending on your point of view) really hard.
So in the improbable words of Jim's Dad "There are two Stiflers?"
Why yes Virginia there is
This movie was funny. How funny? Well I have seen both "Wedding Crashers" and "The 40 Year Old Virgin" recently and I have to say, I am having a hard time deciding between "Wedding Crashers" and "Band Camp which I enjoyed more (Virgin is definetly the third). Even the special features on this DVD had my wife and I rolling.
If you liked "American Pie" and all that is good about naked girls, swearing, and classic camp movies you are going to like this one. I am still laughing thinking about this movie a day after watching it.


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Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic was contributed by Galileo's Daughter!
She was wondering, what natural flavor aspects/qualities do you enjoy/look for in a tea? This is not regarding added flavors, another poll for another day! I have a pretty good list started, but if I missed something, I am sure you will tell me here. So, tell us what do you look for in flavor from your tea? I think it is a great discussion topic!!!
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Microsoft Corp. has quietly started shipments of its Xbox 360 Arcade video game system with 512MB of local storage. The expanded amount of flash memory will hardly allow owners of the most affordable version of Xbox 360 to store lot of content on the system itself and resembles just a technical optimization rather than an intention to improve user experience.
The Xbox 360 Arcade 512MB, which doubles local storage compared to typical Arcade model, is based on the code-named Jasper mainboard design and the only difference compared to the previous-version is a new flash memory chip from Samsung Electronics that has higher capacity, reports Xbox-Scene web-site. Apart from a more capacious memory chip, there are no differences compared to similar consoles.
The code-named Jasper design of the Xbox 360 game console uses ATI Xenos graphics and memory controller hub (GMCH) made using 65nm process at TSMC as well as IBM Xenon central processing unit (CPU) produced at IBM's 65nm nodes. The new system design is consumes less electricity, use less complex cooling systems, produce less noise and is believed to be cheaper to manufacture compared to previous-gen versions.
Since makers of flash memory discontinue older memory chips in favour of newer that have higher capacity, it looks like Microsoft just had to switch to 512MB (4Gb) memory chip. Therefore, the company will hardly enable any new features with the new version of the Arcade.
Microsoft Xbox 360 console is based around triple-core microprocessor developed by IBM, high-definition visual processing unit designed by ATI Technologies, I/O controller engineered by SiS and some other key components. The gaming machine provides a broad set of multimedia capabilities in addition to games. Currently Microsoft Xbox 360 is available for $199, whereas more advanced Pro and Elite versions with hard disk drives are sold for $299 and $399, respectively, in the USA.
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Just to help you out Rich, but is there a way for Stevie D to enhance the content manager where after you upload the article you have the option to click a setting to have it auto-loaded to the site at a certain time? Rather than you (or someone else) having to go in there all the time to activate the article?
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Card craft ideas don't have to be boring or generic. Add a 3-D element to your greetings and learn how to make a stepper card using Ruby Rock-It supplies. Use the techniques outlined in this video for birthdays, holidays and more.
This project can be completed in four easy steps, so you can make a bunch in one sitting. Use scrapbook paper and decoupage to create a competely unique look - the more contrast between the embellishments, the more eye-catching your card will be. Incorporate these elements into other paper crafts and scrapbook pages - your pieces will stand out and make a huge impression.
For a step-by-step photo tutorial of this project, check out Stair Stepper Greeting Card.
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Qimonda Portugal, a DRAM test and assembly facility of insolvent Qimonda, may be saved by investors and the government of Portugal. The firm will get a new name and will operate independently. Unfortunately, the details are scarce.
A total of three partners have agreed on a new strategy: the state Portugal will hold a 18% share in the new company, BCP and BES will share the remaining 82% (each holding 41%), reports Evertiq web-site citing Portuguese local media. The partners will invest about €15 million ($22.3 million) into the new company. The newly formed chip test and assembly facility will receive a new name, the most probable new name for now is Nanium.
The rescue plan includes employment of 770 workers over the next 18 months.
It remains to be seen whether independent chip test and assembly facility can actually be successful in Portugal, the country that has no chip manufacturing. Potentially, European semiconductor makers may turn to Nanium for test and assembly of their chips, however, not a lot of semiconductors are produced in the European Union in general.
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Your All-In-One Guide To A Great Wedding
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Choose a wedding ring that is both appropriate for you and your future spouse; diamonds are always popular, but sometimes cliche and very costly. Sterling silver and white gold are more affordable than platinum and shine up just as well. There are many natural gemstones also available that make a great alternative to diamonds and are more affordable. Shop around to make the right decision because this is a ring that you will have for years to come.
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Calling all Street Cars! 100mphClub.com Invades Mokan June 28th, 2008.
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It's really a day for street cars. But we do have an event for non-street legal cars and they can be run during open time runs. We'll have the Fastest 16 Street Car shoot out. Street, Outlaw, and Diva brackets. Plus the second annual Tot Rod race for the kids and their power wheels. This year we're also adding a fund raiser for Children's Miracle Network (burnout contest with some great prizes.)
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I'm writing with final confirmation that the seats you requested for The Skinny ON:07 The Challenge of the New Reality have been reserved.
It's shaping up to be a really great event and has generated a massive amount of interest, with every seat in the Hall now taken. We have a number of inspiring speakers both on stage and amongst the audience, an audience that includes key figures from the music industry, academia and the press.
The conference starts at 4pm sharp - please try and make it to the venue half an hour before this to allow us time to get everyone seated; assemble in the Balcony Bar in the Teviot Building next door - there will be clear signage to direct you to the right place (we've also attached a map to help you find it). Free refreshments will be provided in the interval.
Thank you for your interest, The Skinny team look forward to meeting you there.
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FAA Approves REACH for Air Medical GPS Routes
Santa Rosa, Calif.-based air medical transport provider REACH Air Medical Services has obtained FAA approval to begin using its own GPS approaches and routes in Western Oregon.
REACH AgustaWestland AW109. Photo courtesy of REACH.
The authorization allows REACH to begin flying directly to hospitals and landing sites along the Oregon coast and Williamette Valley. REACH is the first helicopter emergency management services (HEMS) program to receive the GPS approval for this area of Oregon, which is often affected by weather that cannot be navigated by visual flight rules alone.
REACH uses a GPS navigation receiver on its fleet of AgustaWestland AW109, Eurocopter EC135 and Bell 407 helicopters with data from five global positioning satellites to pinpoint position in three-dimensional space, with an accuracy of up to 100 feet. The company currently uses GPS routes for hospitals that it serves in Northern California.
The technology allows REACH pilots to "fly extremely precise routes through mountainous terrain on our GPS routing system at lower altitudes than traditional air traffic control routes," said Vicky Spediacci, vice president of aviation operations. "This affords us safer flight opportunities that keep us out of prohibitive weather conditions, such as icing, for our helicopters."
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Strategy: Lessons Learned From Duqu
After Stuxnet hit, security researchers wondered what would come next. It didn't take long before Duqu and then Flame hit, and researchers are once again looking out for the next piece of sophisticated malware with the power to hobble, if not take down, large companies and potentially government infrastructure.
While the average organization may not be the target of Duqu malware, Duqu variants present a real and imminent danger. The stealthy Duqu has been dubbed the "steal everything" virus for its ability to steal just about anything on a computer system. It's important for enterprise IT security professionals to be aware of cyber threats such as Stuxnet and Duqu, including what entities are developing and waging attacks with them, as well as how the malware has been constructed and what its payload is.
In this report we unpack Duqu to determine how it was developed, examine how it got onto systems and what its payload is, and provide recommendations for deflection and detection.
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Brilliant (but pricey) half marathonIn full: Been to Mercedes World before and knew the track would be a quick start. Wasn't as flat as i'd thought which slowed me down a little but definite PB course if you are ready for a few inclines. Baggage drop, car parking and closed roads made this pretty flawless. My kids want me to race it again so that they can be abandoned with the cars! LolDate of review: March 25, 2015
In short: Great race again but PARKING HORROR!!! In full: Great race and well organised yet again and T-shirts are great. Well done CRC. HOWEVER.... due to the increase in numbers there were many more cars. Parkng was fine at the beginning but there was nobody marshaling the car park at the end and it became an abolsolute free for all with cars driving all over the place trying to find the quickest exit. Took nearly 40 minutes to get out of the field I was parked in. Where did all the marshals go??? Date of review: April 27, 2014
In short: Mud, wind, rain, frozen, sodden fun! Oh, and CAKES! In full: First year this event has been put on and it was competing with quite a few other races. However, those of us who chose to race this one had a treat. Loved the route despite the conditions under foot and the trudge around a few fields. The wind and water under foot made it really challenging. I was on the verge of quitting due to lack of speed a few times but was actually gaining on others! Ha! Nice to have a fast finish and I actually really enjoyed the fact that there were no mile or km markers. No fancy medal or t-shirt but who needs them when you can have inexpensive fun like this. Did I mention the cakes at the end? Had the biggest slice of chocolate cake! Yum.Will be coming back next year :)Date of review: February 10, 2014
In short: Off road mud and mayhem. Great fun.In full: Off road is not my specialist subject but I did enjoy this one. No silly obstacles just good clean off road running. Date of review: January 19, 2014
In short: Super speedy pre Xmas fun! In full: Great PB race if you want one. Next year I'll try harder ;)Really good fun. Don't know why there are so few reviews!Small Xmas pud at the end instead of medal.Date of review: December 2, 2013
In short: Ouch, my quads! Mud, hills, pain, hills, more pain, more hills and mud... but I'll be back for more! In full: What a fantastic race. I'm rubbish off road and on hills but can honestly say I loved this race. Stands up well against the Slaughterford 9 as one of the best off road events in the area. We're going to be back next year to crack 2 hours! Date of review: November 25, 2013
In short: Great funIn full: First time I've done this one. Actually it's not. I did a race on this course (or a similar one) in the early 90's but can't remember anything apart from the hill!!! Great course and a welcoming atmosphere. Made me laugh when some runners thought they'd made it on the hill - as someone had written "nearly there" on the road - and then realised it was only just starting :DDate of review: October 14, 2013
In short: If Carlsberg did half marathons! In full: Brilliant race. Excellent marshals. Bring back the other PA guy though, he was the highlight of previous years! Date of review: September 15, 2013
In short: Enjoyable raceIn full: 3rd time I've run this and each time I enjoy it. Set a PB this time so got to be good, right? T-shirts were a big improvement on previous years towel and the finish line went much smoother. Date of review: April 29, 2013
In short: great fun!In full: I turned up early and had no parking issues. However, the race has outgrown the facilities available and I saw several cars stuck in mud and others who had to park miles away. Apart from that though it was a great fun race. Exceptionally muddy after all the rain and the river crossings throughout the tunnels were more challenging than they might have otherwise been. If I'd been able to take in the scenery instead of watching my step everywhere I know I'd be raving about that but today it was just a real fun watery slog!!!Date of review: December 30, 2012
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Last night I purchased the 2003 edition of "people" magazine's paperback almanac. To my delight I saw that Stella made the A list of the celebrity short bio section of the book, right under her dad's bio.
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Research Focus Wins Award for Communication Professor
School of Communication Professor W. Joseph Campbell has been honored with the 2014 Teaching with Research Award by the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning at American University. Campbell was selected for the university-wide award in recognition of his efforts to promote and encourage student research at Washington-based institutions, including the Library of Congress.
Campbell was honored at this year's Ann Ferren Teaching Conference in conjunction with School of Public Affairs Assistant Professor Ed Stacyk. The competitive award recognizes faculty who creatively incorporate original student research into course experience.
Campbell (left) was honored at the 2014 Ann Ferren Teaching Conference in conjunction with School of Public Affairs Assistant Professor Ed Stacyk.
In Spring 2013, students in Campbell's Foreign Policy and the Press course conducted research on a leading daily newspaper's coverage of President John F. Kennedy's 1963 commencement address at AU. Drawing on the resources of Washington, D.C., students were able to conduct original and revealing research using primary source materials at the Library of Congress.
"The assignment not only enabled students to enhance their familiarity with an important moment in AU's history but encouraged them to become acquainted with the resources of the Library of Congress," said Campbell.
Throughout the years, many of Campbell's students have found their research projects have a shelf life outside the classroom. Graduate student Angelia Levy turned her research paper about the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate into a blog post, linked to by Real Clear History. And undergraduate student Win Brooks repurposed his Library
of Congress paper about the Salt Lake Tribune's coverage of Kennedy's assassination into a blog post for the newspaper.
"The Teaching with Research award recognizes my efforts over many years to promote and encourage student research—something I've incorporated into my syllabi since at least 1999 and will continue to do," said Campbell.
Campbell, who is the author of five books, is a past recipient of the AU student government's "faculty member of the year." He also has received the University's faculty award for service to the AU community and the University's Morton Bender Prize for promising associate professors. Campbell was promoted to full professor in 2009.
He has taught 17 different courses in SOC, including a number of honors colloquiua. He is faculty coordinator for the School's Communication Studies undergraduate program.
Campbell joined the AU faculty in 1997, after earning his doctorate in mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he was a newspaper and wire service journalist for 20 years, in a career that took him across North America to Europe, West Africa, and parts of Asia.
He is a past president of Kappa Tau Alpha, the honor society recognizing high academic achievement in journalism and mass communication studies. And he is a former chair of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.


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Matter and Interactions
Note that many of these articles are available online in PDF format. Click on the title to view downloadable articles
L. Ding, R. Chabay, B. A. Sherwood, and R Beichner, "Evaluating an electricity and magnetism assessment tool: Brief electricity and magnetism assessment," Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res. 2 (2006).
Chabay, R. W. & Sherwood, B. A. (2006). Restructuring the introductory electricity and magnetism course. American Journal of Physics 74, 329-336.
Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood, Matter and Interactions. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2004).
Chabay, R. W. & Sherwood, B. A. Modern mechanics. American Journal of Physics 72, 439-445 (2004).
Chabay, R. W., & Sherwood, B. A. Matter & Interactions I: Modern Mechanics and Matter & Interactions II: Electric & Magnetic Interactions. New York: John Wiley & Sons (2002).