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Abercrombie & Fitch focuses on providing high-quality merchandise that compliments the casual classic American lifestyle. There will also be a section featuring children's clothing and accessories.
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Enjoy a relaxing massage by one of our Chinese Massage Therapists.
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Aerie is bras, undies and more... made with love and attention to even the smallest detail. We make lingerie for girls who are magnetic and naturally sexy, the radiant girl next door, the girl everyone loves. Aerie draws...
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A popular shopping destination for today's teenagers, Aéropostale is a leading mall-based specialty retailer that designs, markets and sells its own brand of casual, current apparel targeting 14 to 18 year-olds...
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Altar'd State is an energetic fashion boutique that offers a distinctive shopping experience for women interested in the latest fashion finds, the most anticipated accessories and that next great gift. Whether she is 16...
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Alumni Hall has everything you need to cheer on the Vols. Find great brands, selections and deals on University of Tennessee apparel, merchandise and gifts. Official sideline clothing from Nike, orange and white fashion...
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AE brings you high quality, on-trend clothing, accessories and personal care products at affordable prices. AE's collection includes modern basics like jeans, surplus and graphic tees as well as a stylish assortment of...
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Chic. Luxurious. Elegant. From the perfect little black dress to a gorgeous sparkling bracelet to an amazing wear-to-work collection— Ann Taylor is all about effortlessly chic pieces designed with a modern point of view...
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The Apple Store is the best place to try all of Apple's products and find great accessories. Our Specialists will take the time to answer your questions and set up your new Apple product just the way you want it. You can...
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Asian Chao features a fine selection of Asian cuisine.
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Whether you're shopping for the next generation phone, a digital TV package, or broadband Internet service for your business, AT&T is your go-to for communication solutions.
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Auntie Anne's provides 11 varieties of hot, fresh pretzel products, in sweet and zesty flavors. It's only natural to want to try one! And nothing goes better with your pretzel than one of our dips and our Old Fashioned...
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The True Outfitters of Modern American Style, Banana Republic brings a fresh twist on classic apparel to men and women around the world. The company that started as a safari outfitter in San Francisco now outfits a whole...
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Pretty attracts us, but beauty changes us. That's why Bare Escentuals is founded on our belief in beautiful, healthy-looking skin and that all women can achieve it. Every bareMinerals® product is designed to bring out...
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Bath & Body Works is the apothecary of the 21st century. It is the authority dedicated to helping people find their own individual paths to well-being by bringing them the very best personal care products the world has to...
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The mission of Belk is to be the leader in their markets in selling merchandise that meets customers' needs for fashion, quality, value and selection; and to offer superior customer service. Belk stores want their...
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The mission of Belk is to be the leader in their markets in selling merchandise that meets customers' needs for fashion, quality, value and selection; and to offer superior customer service. Belk stores want their...
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Personalized advice to help you find the right phone. Discover a better choice of phones and networks and get impartial, informed advice from helpful phone specialists at the Best Buy Mobile Specialty Store.
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Black Orchid Boutique is a Knoxville boutique specializing in women's fashion.
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Blue Naturals was founded in 2010 with the intention to be an instrument for health and healing on this planet, Blue Naturals endlessly strives to create the most effective skin care products in the world. Blue Naturals...
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Bohemian Baby is an upscale natural parenting boutique. We carry a variety of baby carriers, teething essentials, personal care products, and cloth diapers.
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BoxLunch is a gift and novelty retailer with a cause. For every $10 spent, a meal is donated to a person in need. Get Some. Give Back.
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From the start Brookstone wanted to create a fun, interactive shopping experience. At our stores, customers are encouraged to try products out for true, hands-on shopping. Every visit to Brookstone is an opportunity to...
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At Brow Art 23 you will find a variety of services such as: Eyebrow Threading, Waxing, Henna, Makeup & Skin Care, Eyelash Extension and Permanent Makeup.
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The Buckle is a specialty retailer offering a distinctive combination of selection and service. From denim and footwear to outerwear and accessories - the Buckle takes a lifestyle approach to fashion, tailoring the...
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Visit Build-A-Bear Workshop® a beary special place where you make your own stuffed animal! Make your furry friend unique with hundreds of fashions and accessories. We do parties too!
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California Nails started USA operations in 1995. After opening several Salons in Malls, California Nails earned a reputation for sophistication, style and cleanliness. California Nails is a now recognized as the leader in...
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Champs Sports, a member of the Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL) family, is one of the largest mall-based specialty athletic footwear and apparel retailers in North America. Its product categories include athletic footwear...
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Featuring mouthwatering cheesesteaks made with only USDA Choice sirloin steak, lean ham or chicken breast, combined with freshly grilled onions, mushrooms, and green peppers. They're topped with melted 100% real dairy...
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Charlotte Russe is a growing, mall-based specialty retailer of fashionable, value-priced apparel and accessories. We provide exciting, fashion-forward merchandise that appeals to a broad range of customers, with a core...
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Charming charlie made its debut in 2004 with one very colorful and clear mission: help every woman, everywhere, find her fabulous. We're crazy for color. We live for sparkle. We thrive on making a statement. Why? Because...
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We didn't invent the chicken, just the chicken sandwich. Offering tender chicken specialties and sandwiches.
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Chico's is a specialty retailer of exclusively designed, private label, sophisticated, casual-to-dressy clothing, complimentary accessories and other non-clothing gift items. Virtually all of the clothing, accessories and...
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Shop for children's clothing ranging from baby clothes to big boy and big girl clothing including shoes, shirts, pants, jeans, dresses, school uniforms and more.
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At Chipotle, we aim to do a few things but do them exceptionally well. When Chipotle first opened its doors in 1993, the goal was simple: to serve high quality, delicious food quickly with an experience that not only...
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Chocolate Monkey features in-store made treats including giant caramel apples, chocolate, fudge and ice cream
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Claire's Stores, Inc. is a leading international specialty retailer offering value-priced costume jewelry, accessories and cosmetics to fashion-aware tweens, teens and young adults.
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CM Gamers is the premier game store in Knoxville for trading card games and tournaments.
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Coach is a modern American luxury brand with a rich heritage rooted in quality and craftsmanship. All over the world, the Coach name is synonymous with the ease and sophistication of New York style.
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The newest addition to The Gymboree Corporation's family of brands, Crazy 8 offers fashionable outfits at a great value for girls and boys sizes Newborn to 14. The first Crazy 8 store opened in August 2007, and The...
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The Dakota Watch Company has been in the watch business since 1945. With over 200 watch stores in regional malls, we have grown to be one of America's largest watch retailers. Dealing directly with over three million...
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Dillard's focuses on delivering maximum value to its shoppers, with fairly priced merchandise complemented by exceptional customer service. Dillard's stores offer a broad selection of merchandise, including products...
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You already know that Dippin' Dots has over twenty different flavors including ice cream, sherbet, yogurt and flavored ice. But did you know they also have sundaes and floats? Choose your Dots layered and drizzled with...
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Disney Store is your destination for quality Disney merchandise and exceptional Guest service. Disney Store delights kids of all ages through interactive presentation and unique experiences, bringing Disney's most...
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Doc Popcorn produces fresh-popped all-natural flavored popcorn. Using 100% corn oil, the best corn and other real ingredients, they create gourmet flavors from Cheesy Cheddar to Hoppin' Jalapeno to Sweet Butter and other...
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Eddie Bauer was established in 1920 and continues to this day to be the first choice in fine-quality, all-occasion apparel, outerwear, footwear, travel gear and accessories for men and women.
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Edge is a women's fashion boutique.
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Express is the must-have sexy, sophisticated fashion brand for work, the weekend, or going out. It's what's new and what's now for young fashion-forward women and men. We started more than thirty years ago as an...
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Finish Line is a leading athletic retailer offering the best selection of brand name footwear, apparel and accessories. The company operates more than 660 stores in 47 states and online at www.finishline.com. We offer the...
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Charming boutique layered in style, classic inspiration and vintage decor
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Foot Locker is the world's leading retailer of athletic footwear and apparel. Headquartered in New York City, it operates approximately 3,900 athletic retail stores in 17 countries in North America, Europe and Australia.
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At Forever 21, style isn't dictated…It's inspired. Forever 21 is the leading fashion retailer of the latest trends and the season's hottest styles at can't-resist-prices. U.S. and international locations stay true to the...
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Francesca's specializes in the most fashion-forward styles in women's clothing, accessories, and gifts. Our stores are constantly filled with new treasures and our style is always one step ahead of the trend. Each...
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FYE For Your Entertainment- music, movies, games, CDs, DVDs, the latest hits, deep classics, rare imports, box sets, limited editions...all the entertainment you love.
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GameStop sells the most popular new software, hardware and game accessories for the PC and next generation game console systems from Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sega and is also the industry's largest reseller of...
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American Optimism is our attitude. Casual style is our aesthetic. Clean and confident, comfortable and accessible, classic and modern. It's the quintessential expression of Gap brought to life through iconic clothing. Our...
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GapKids is a leading international specialty retailer offering trendy clothing, accessories and personal care products children.
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Check out Garage for the latest in denim and casual looks for teen girls and the young at heart, set in a fun and relaxed shopping space. Whether you're looking for everyday basics or the latest fashion pieces, you'll...
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GNC sets the standard in the health and nutrition industry by demanding truth in labeling, ingredient safety and product potency, all while remaining on the cutting edge of nutritional science. General Nutrition Centers...
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Godiva was first to create the concept of premium chocolate. We did this by combining a fabulous product, stimulating advertising, sophisticated packaging and selective distribution. Godiva's standards of excellence...
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Gymboree® Unique from head to toe. Girls and boys clothing and accessories for newborns, toddlers and children up to size 12.
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There's a lot more to Hallmark than just our legendary cards. We also offer partyware from Party Express. Hallmark Card and Gift Collections offers a distinct point of view and helps you express your own identity and...
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Since 1915, Helzberg Diamonds has helped people celebrate their most heartfelt and meaningful occasions. Founded on a commitment to superior customer service, we offer a dazzling selection of fine jewelry – so you're...
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HerStyler is a fashion-forward brand of hair products and tools that keep your hair healthy and put it in the spotlight with dazzling styling results.
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Hollister, an abercrombie concept store, offers the latest trends in teenage junior-sized clothing and accessories.
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Do you have a passion for music, pop culture and music-inspired fashion? Hot Topic does. From the merchandise assortment to the staff to the exclusive in-store events and artist appearances - walk into any Hot Topic store...
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Check out the must have trends in accessories, jewelry, gifts, and fashion for young women at ICING by Claire's.
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Cracked screens, dropped your phone in water, no worries at iFixandRepair! iFix is the absolute best place to go if you need your electronic devices repaired. We service most makes and models of devices, including, PC's...
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J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP), one of the nation's largest apparel and home furnishing retailers, is dedicated to fitting the diversity of America with unparalleled style, quality and value. Across approximately...
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jcpenney Salons offers a variety of convenient, professional services: Haircut, Style, Color, and Texture – customized to fit your budget and hairstyling preference.
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It all began in 1983 as a collection of sportswear, shoes, and accessories featured in lifestyle images on the pages of J.CREW Outfitters. The company revolutionized casual dress by designing the first stonewashed chinos...
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Journeys is a destination retailer of shoes and accessories for diverse, young, 13-22 year old guys and girls in search of footwear that expresses their unique attitudes and lifestyles. Journeys offers a wide variety of...
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Launched in 2001 as an extension of the highly successful Journeys store, Journeys Kidz is a unique branded kids' footwear retailer, targeting customers 5 to 12 years old who like trendy shoes and accessories, including...
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Justice Clothing for Girls features the very latest in girls clothing and preteen fashion accessories, including tops, bottoms, dresses, outerwear, pjs and more.
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Every diamond is hand-selected to match beautifully and must pass exacting quality standards. Kay is diligent about the quality of our craftsmanship. We take the time to ensure the diamonds in your jewelry are well...
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A healthy alternative. Fresh, fast, delicious sushi and noodles. Sushi chefs preparing quality foods as you order them.
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With Lands' End shops in Sears® stores around the country' shopping for our high-quality products in person has never been easier. They carry a wide range of products, and customers can shop our full selection of...
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La Vie Nails offers spa pedicures and manicures. No appointment necessary.
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LensCrafters was the first company of its kind to offer the convenience of getting an eye exam and choosing stylish frames fitted with the latest high tech lenses in one location. Same day services available.
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Lids is the world's largest retailer specializing in the sale of officially licensed and branded headwear. Every store offers a vast assortment of college, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL teams, as well as other specialty fashion...
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WAY OUT WEST, WHERE THE SPIRIT RUNS FREE... and the big sky meets the wide open spaces of the plains, the American tradition of great steaks served with warmth and friendliness was born. Today that commitment to...
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In a world where everything is a little too big. Where nothing seems personal or original anymore, Lucky Brand stands out like the last bastion of quality and integrity left in a marketplace loaded and polluted with the...
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Go Straight to the Heart A gift of jewelry from Marks & Morgan is the perfect way to show how you feel. We invite you to use this site to find out where we are... then come in and see what we're all about.
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Discover MetroPCS® and its world of no contracts, unlimited talk, text and data plans and fast 4G LTE Network. Find your affordable MetroPCS® plan today!
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Microsoft stores are committed to delivering outstanding choice, value and service for each customer, featuring an assortment of best-in-class products, including computers, tablets, phones, software and games to music...
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Established in 1971, Mori Luggage & Gifts is the premier specialty retailer of quality luggage, briefcases, travel accessories, leather goods, pens and distinctive gifts. Mori features top brands including Tumi, Hartmann...
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Offering manicures and pedicures, Nail Care & Spa is your go-to pampering spot in West Town Mall.
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Great style. Great value. Always sexy. New York & Company is a lifestyle brand: the clothes are modern and trendy; the prices are affordable. New York & Company is available exclusively in our own stores. That's a...
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PacSun offers a wide selection of casual apparel, footwear and accessories for young guys and girls inspired by the California lifestyle. From boardshorts and t-shirts to jeans and hoodies, you can't go wrong anytime of...
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From its beginning PANDORA jewelry was created with the customer in mind. The company offers versatile, sophisticated pieces-charm bracelets, rings, necklaces and earrings – in 14K gold, sterling silver and some with...
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A Knoxville original: Chili, corn chips, sour cream, tomatoes, cheese and onions!
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Piercing Pagoda offers customers an extensive selection of popularly priced 10 karat and 14 karat gold chains, charms, bracelets, rings and earrings, as well as a variety of silver and diamond jewelry in select locations...
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At Pottery Barn you will find expertly crafted home furnishings and home decor. Designed for the modern home, our indoor and outdoor furniture and accessories enhance your way of life.
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Princess Diaries offers beautiful formal wear dresses for ladies of all ages.
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Use extension 3182 to reach the Proactiv in West Town Mall.
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Rack Room Shoes is the one-stop shop for your family's footwear needs. The brands they love, plus 50% off your 2nd pair, with services to fit the way you shop. Join Rack Room Shoes Rewards to earn dollars toward future...
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Regal Cinemas West Town Mall Stadium 9 features nine theaters with Digital Dolby Sound, stadium seating and concession stand. The box office opens daily at 11 a.m. Ticketing options include mobile ticket, print-at-home...
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At Regis Salon, we believe style and beauty serve to enhance your own unique journey. Our goal is to offer an engaging space where you can refine and redefine how you look and feel, to be confident every day. Our stylists...
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rue21 is a leading specialty retailer offering the latest fashion for girls and guys. We continue to strive for the best selection while offering a competitive pricing strategy. As new goods arrive daily, our choices of...
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Authentic, delicious Japanese dishes.
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Our famous pizza is only the very beginning of the Sbarro culinary adventure. Delicious seafood, vegetable pastas, salads, sandwiches, and homemade desserts are the nexus of the Sbarro concept. We're serving up fresh...
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Sears' stores sell apparel, tools, and appliances, as well as providing home services (remodeling, appliance repairs) under the Sears HomeCentral brand. Sears is the leading home appliance retailer in North America and is...
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Sears Auto Center offers a wide variety of tires, automotive products and services
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Since we opened our first store in Kansas City 50 years ago, Sears Optical Centers have been improving family eye care by helping families see better and look great. Everything you love about Sears is what you'll find at...
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For over 90 years See's Candies has been dedicated to making candy Mary See's way. Only the finest, freshest ingredients are used in making each recipe. We add no preservatives to our candy. Ever. It's quality you can...
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Let's Beauty Together at Sephora. Play in the world of prestige beauty, be inspired, and discover hundreds of products plus exclusive brands. Meet us at the Beauty Studio for complimentary classes, makeovers, and expert...
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Purchase gift cards for those hard to buy for friends and family, and get friendly, courteous customer service from our associates.
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Spencer Gifts, Inc. is the world's premiere retail specialty gift chain specializing in unique, irreverent, trendy and fad based merchandise. Our product mix makes us more than a specialty retail store; we are an Oasis...
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Sportz is located at West Town Mall, Knoxville Town Center (East Town), and Bradley Square Mall. We have NFL, NCAA, NBA, MLB, NHL, & NASCAR items.
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At Absolute Wireless we are people helping people. From the minute someone walks through our door or gives us a call they are reaching out and beginning a relationship with us. We love that. That's why we're here. As a...
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Starbucks purchases and roasts high-quality whole bean coffees and sells them along with fresh, rich-brewed, Italian style espresso beverages, a variety of pastries and confections, and coffee-related accessories and...
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Backed by more than 90 years of research, Stride Rite shoes are made especially for kids and wear-tested by kids. Scientifically Tested, Everyday Proven. No other company takes this S.T.E.P. Our RITE STEPs system makes...
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The SUBWAY restaurant chain is the undisputed leader in the submarine sandwich category serving fresh, great tasting, made-for-you sandwiches and salads, many of which have 6 grams of fat or less. Offering a healthful...
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At Sunglass Hut, our mission is to be the premier shopping and inspiration destination for the top brands, latest trends and exclusive styles of high quality fashion and performance sunglasses.
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Sunglass Hut stores offer consumers the latest branded products at competitive prices along with outstanding customer service.
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Founded in 1895, Swarovski is the world's leading manufacturer of cut crystal. Today, the Swarovski brand represents the height of unmatched quality, unique variety, crystal brilliance, and cutting edge innovation. We are...
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Taco Bell is the nation's leading Mexican-style QSR chain serving tacos, burritos, signature quesadillas, Border Bowls®, nachos and other specialty items.
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Great tea works wonders. The delicious tastes and health benefits make tea a wonderful beverage - much better than the unhealthy alternatives. The Teavana dream began with an idea that people would enjoy fresh...
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Thai'an offers delicious thai cuisine dishes and more
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The Art of Shaving is passionately devoted to the very best in men's skin care, and have created an innovative path to optimal shaving performance.
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The Cheesecake Factory menu features more than 200 menu selections made fresh from scratch each day using only the highest quality ingredients. We have expanded our offerings with a low calorie menu aptly named...
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Our mission is to help customers celebrate life's special moments through personalized gifts -- from the celebration of birthdays to commemoration of achievements to weddings to births of babies. Our focus is on the...
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T-Mobile USA has you covered whether you stay in one region or need service nationally or even internationally. We have coverage areas in over 80 countries with more than 180 roaming partners.
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Torrid designs and retails on-trend fashion apparel, accessories and lingerie for young, stylish women sizes 12 to 28. Its collections inspire them to feel sexy, confident and downright irresistible.
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At U.S. Cellular, we're not just in the business of connecting calls, we're in the business of connecting people. We believe pride and respect aren't just words, they're words to live by. And we believe the most important...
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Vans is the original action sports footwear company and a leading lifestyle brand for today's youth market. Vans collections include active and performance footwear, apparel and accessories. Vans supports and promotes the...
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Vera Bradley is a lifestyle brand that encourages self-expression through playful patterns, sophisticated solids and accessories that make every day extraordinary. Just like your best friend, all of our products — from...
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Verizon Wireless is the nation's leading provider of wireless communications. The company has the largest nationwide wireless voice and data network and over 100 million customers.
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Victoria's Secret is inspired by a love for lingerie, and the desire to bring beauty—and fantasy—into every woman's wardrobe.
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Last weekend, The Solar Living Institute campus was the place to be on Saturday for Earth Day Festival 2012.
Organizers Spencer Brewer, Vicki Milone, and Ross Beck put on a terrific event, with an estimated attendance of over 1,500 to taste organic, made with organically grown, biodynamic, and sustainable wines, along with many certified organic food products.
Live music, vendors, and exhibits – along with perfect Summer like weather – rounded out the incredible inaugural FREE festival event.
Having worked the event, I appreciate all the work put in by Spencer, Vicki and Ross that allowed so many folks to highlight an important aspect of the area we live in – our everyday care for the Earth.
Mendocino County has the highest concentration of green vineyards and wineries anywhere in America, and for the campus of the Solar Living Institute to play host to many of them on a site dedicated to responsible eco balanced living, in Hopland, was a powerful example of cohesive messaging through thoughtful event management.
Piazza de Campovida had a soft opening last weekend in Hopland at the location previously known as Lawson's Station, the former home of the McNab Ridge Winery tasting room.
Piazza de Campovida is home to an Inn, a Taverna, and a Pizzeria. The Inn is open now. The Taverna and Pizzeria were open only for the weekend to work out any wrinkles.
The second soft opening will be next Friday through Sunday to serve the visitors for the Hopland Passport wine weekend, in the Taverna and outside on the patio.
Soon after, the restaurant remodel will be finished, and both the Taverna and Pizzeria de Campovida will open for regular service at the Piazza.
This summer, another tap room and restaurant is supposed to open in Hopland where the old Hopland Brewery was located.
Together with Burgers My Way, Jalos Taco Truck, Blue Bird Café, Subway, and both the Hawk's Nest Bar & Grill and Pepperwood Steakhouse at Hopland's Sho-Ka-Wah casino, these new Hopland restaurants will provide a more complete Hopland destination experience for visitors who come for wine tasting at our 17 tasting rooms or a weekend getaway.
While there are 16 winery tasting rooms in the Hopland area, don't forget SIP! Mendocino, a tasting room serving many hard to find Mendocino county wine labels, and look for new winery tasting rooms to open in the not too distant future.
Both Campovida on Old River Road and Piazza de Campovida on Highway 101 provide lodging, and it is the sincere wish that needed renovation, repair, and reopening of the historic Hopland Inn may occur some day in the future. There are also many hotels in nearby Ukiah for visitors to our area.
I've said it before, I'll say it again and again in the future, but things are hopping in Hopland.
On Thursday, I had the good fortune to return to The Drive With Steve Jaxon on KSRO 1350 AM to talk about Hopland Passport, coming up next weekend on May 5 & 6 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm each day.
One dozen wineries made a bottle of wine available for possible tasting on air. Here's a list of the wines:
2006 Milano Echo, Bells Echo Vineyard
NV (2009) McFadden Sparkling Brut, McFadden Farm
2009 Jaxon Keys Estate Primitivo, Michael's Reserve, Norma's Vineyard
NV Rack & Riddle Blanc de Noirs, Sonoma County
2009 Atrea Old Soul Red by Saracina
2009 Weibel Merlot, Mendocino County
2009 Enotria Barbera, Mendocino County
2010 Parducci Small Lot Blend Pinot Noir, North Coast
2010 Jeriko Estate Pinot Noir, Dijon Clone
2010 Cesar Toxqui Cellars Grenache, Mendocino
2009 McNab Ridge Pinotage, Napoli Vineyard
2010 Campovida Viognier Estate Grown
A bit limited by time, we tasted just five of these delicious wines, but they were a great representation of what Hopland will be offering wine quality wise during Hopland Passport.
Steve Jaxon's favorite winery name was Jaxon Keys, which he remembered as Jepson, before the purchase and changes made by Ken and Diane Wilson.
In spite of time limits, I managed to compare the best attributes of Hopland Passport, value and accessibility, with the least favorable attributes of a larger event, price and unavailability. Subsequently, it was pointed out that my comparison was less than deft and I apologize to anyone listening Thursday afternoon that took umbrage. I tend to toil away well and then once a year I do something stupid, hopefully this was it for 2012. My only consolation is that my words will have as little negative effect on a perpetually sold out world class event as the effect of saying I prefer stainless steel Chardonnay would have on the sales of millions of cases of Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay…none.
Just like my last visit to KSRO, the boards lit up like a Christmas tree when we announced that there were some tickets to Hopland Passport available to be won.
I did manage to say a lot of good, smart, things too and we had a great time. I love seeing Mike DeWald dissolve into laughter as he works the board for Steve Jaxon. I am always heartened to see others who get to do jobs they love too. My thanks again to Steve and Mike for being such great hosts, I hope to see each of you if you do make it up to Hopland next weekend.
Another recent guest, Jason Stanford wrote on his blog, "A couple of days ago I got to go on what might be the best radio show in America not named Fresh Air, Radio Lab or This American Life: The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO. Steve and his producer Mike DeWald get ridiculous guests. When I was on Wednesday, I followed someone from The Daily Show, and the Sklar Brothers came on after me. I felt like the comedian at the strip joint."
I totally felt what Jason wrote, with a previous visit sandwiched in between days featuring Lily Tomlin and Andy Dick, I wonder at my great good fortune and the fun oddities that life sometimes presents.
Herb Crust Pizza with Shamrock Goat Cheese from Willits
With Pizza on my mind last weekend because of the opening of Pizzeria de Campovida, and set up for the McFadden Farm Stand & Tasting Room with the folks from Shamrock Artisan Goat Cheese as my neighbors at the Earth Day Festival, I was reminded of a terrific pizza recipe that owes much to a good friend Nancy Cameron Iannios and much to Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten, but a whole lot to organic and delicious local ingredients.
Ina Garten made some savory onion tarts that I stole the topping recipe for and used with pizzas. When I complained about my terrible pizza crust in conversation, Nancy shared her herb crust recipe.
The things that I do that make the recipe pop: After cooking down sliced onions, I revive them using organically grown stainless steel held McFadden Chardonnay and cook them down again. I use organically grown air-dried McFadden Farm herbs for the dough that makes the crust. I use Shamrock goat cheese. These three seemingly small choices make a huge difference; quality ingredients increase the finished pizza flavor tremendously.
Like any pizza, the additional toppings can be changed to suit your mood and what's tasting great seasonally, but in addition to the onions and goat cheese, for those that don't read Ina's recipe, I add tomato slices, Parmigiano-Reggiano, basil and olive oil.
There are many terrific herb crust dough recipes online, again the key is to use organic air dried herbs. Many commercial herbs are irradiated which boils off volatile oils resulting in weak flavored herbs; find a local organic grower that air dries their herbs. Visit your local healthy co-op market.
That's it. Have a pizza. With wine. In an eco-friendly way. And thanks again Steve and Mike.


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Rockstar Mayhem Festival -- Kansas City, KS -- July 21st, 2009
Running very low on sleep, so I'll try and be as thorough as I can. I'm worn out.
There was a really, really long line when I got to Sandstone Amphitheater, but it actually moved very, very fast. I got in and browsed the kiosks until the first band started.
Whitechapel started the day off, but they were bad. No, they were pretty terrible. Actually, they were one of the worst metal bands I've seen live. Every Whitechapel song has 148 breakdowns in it. And they have THREE GUITARISTS. What? Are they the Iron Maiden of wigger-slam? A few songs had some good moments, but ultimately, they were terrible. 3/10
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. Possession
5. Vicer Exciser
6. Prostatic Fluid Asphyxiation
7. ?
8. This Is Exile
After them was the Jaeger band, and for us it was Continent of Ash. I went and bought the Cannibal Corpse comic book and got in line to meet them, so I could just hear the band, but they sounded terrible as well. If I see them again, I'll review them for real.
Luckily, the Hot Topic booth was right in front of its' stage, so I got to see Behemoth. Unlike the night before where their sound was messing up, they absolutely slayed today. They know how to work a crowd and all their songs sounded spot-on perfect. Same set as the night before, however. 9/10
1. Slaves Shall Serve
2. At The Left Hand Ov God
3. Conquer All
4. Demigod
5. Ov Fire And The Void
6. Chant For Eschaton 2000
After meeting all the guys from Cannibal Corpse and getting their autographs, I saw God Forbid again. They changed up their set some from the night before. And they sounded better this time. The crowd seemed pretty into them. Still not great, but better than the night before. 6/10
1. Star Wars Intro/?
2. ?
3. Walk Alone
4. Broken Promise
5. To The Fallen Hero
6. The End Of The World
I hate myself for it, but I actually enjoy The Black Dahlia Murder live. They were better the night before in front of a smaller crowd because of all the stage divers, but their energy was still there. Everything up to the new song was good, but everything after it was really, really good. They do start to sound the same after a while, but they had a perfect set length so that it was awesome. 8/10
1. Tim And Eric Intro/?
2. Everything Went Black
3. Necropolis
4. A Vulgar Picture
5. Miasma
6. What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
7. Funeral Thirst
I have a lot of friends who are big fans of All That Remains, so I was eager to hear them for myself. While I really dig the song Six (because of Guitar Hero!) the rest of their stuff is just okay. The clean vocals sound like Linkin Park, to me, but the vocalist does really nice harsh vocals as well. They probably had the biggest crowd reaction of the 2nd stage all day. 7/10
1. ?
2. Chiron
3. Forever In Your Hands
4. Six
5. ?
6. Two Weeks
Job For A Cowboy was the 2nd to last band on the Hot Topic stage. I had higher than average hopes for them because I thought they'd change from a crappy deathcore band to a pseudo-respectable death metal band. Was I right? Eh, no. Not really. Their bass player isn't too much of a tool anymore and some of their songs sound better, but that's about it. The new stuff sounds very bad live, and they're still just a deathcore band. 4/10
1. Knee Deep
2. ?
3. Unfurling A Darkened Gospel
4. Constitutional Masturbation
5. Entombment of a Machine
6. Embedded
Never listened to Trivium before today. I heard that their newest album was good, that they're a metalcore band, and that they're a Metallica knock-off band. I just heard the metalcore side, today. It wasn't terrible: there were no breakdowns and some actually pretty good solos. But nothing special. They said they'd be back with a really good tour in the fall, so we'll have to see. 7/10
1. The End Of Everything/Rain
2. When All Light Dies
3. Down From The Sky
4. Throes of Perdition (part of this was real good)
5. Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
Cannibal Corpse. Still just as awesome as they were the night before. All newer stuff except for the excellent closer of Hammer Smashed Face and Stripped, Raped & Strangled. Awesome. 9/10
1. Evisceration Plague
2. The Time To Kill Is Now
3. I Cum Blood
4. Sentenced To Burn
5. Make Them Suffer
6. Priests Of Sodom
7. Hammer Smashed Face
8. Stripped, Raped, & Strangled
Now time for the mainstage. Well, that is after some nachos and a hot dog. I got to the lawn when Bullet For My Valentine were 2 songs into their set. They seemed alright, a lot better live than on album. The vocalist's accent is amusing to me, too. But overall, alright band. 7/10
1. ?
2. ?
3. Tears Don't Fall
4. Waking The Demon (I think)
5. Take It Out On Me
6. Scream, Aim, Fire
I don't really want to get into it here; I might write an "essay" or so later, but I can say this: Killswitch Engage is the worst band I have ever seen live, metal or not. The whole band is full of douchebags, what they play is killing "heavy music" and I feel sad to know that some people actually like them and will grow up thinking they are metal. They are worse than Annotations of an Autopsy, Panther and Cobra Starship. One point for one good solo during their horrendous Holy Diver cover. It's true: metalcore is the glam metal of the 2000's. It's all about trendy shit to get money. 1/10
1. My Last Serenade
2. ?
3. Rose of Sharyn
4. ?
5. ?
6. My Curse
8. Holy Diver
Is there something wrong with metal band's sound equipment these days or what? Behemoth the night before was bad, but what happened to the first half of Slayer's set was embarassing. Sometimes the guitars would be really loud, and then fade almost completely out. Sometimes the drums would be silent. Sometimes all the sound would cut out except for Tom's mic. It was extremely unprofessional and a lot of people were pissed off. It ruined many songs which should have been awesome (Chemical Warfare, Born Of Fire, etc.) Luckily, they fixed it halfway through, during Ghosts Of War, and Slayer kicked ass for the rest of the set. Nothing was their fault, they were awesome. 8.5/10
1. Darkness Of Christ/Disciple
2. War Ensemble
3. Jihad
4. Psychopathy Red
5. Born Of Fire
6. Mandatory Suicide
7. Chemical Warfare
8. Ghosts Of War
9. Dead Skin Mask
10. Hell Awaits
11. Angel Of Death
12. South Of Heaven
13. Raining Blood
I really hope Slayer comes back here and has a more competent person working the soundboard than whatever joker was tonight. All in all, though, the day was awesome. I can't wait to see who's on Mayhem Fest 3.
Thus concludes day 2 of 5 of my metal journey. Tomorrow is a day of rest, then it's off to Skeletonwitch! Stay tuned!
1/26 - Inquisition w/ Truckfighters
1/29 - Alcest w/ The Body
2/11 - Marduk w/ Incantation
2/16 - Pain of Salvation
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Badass review dude. I sure hope we don't get Slayer sounds problems. And it's a damn shame Behemoth have such a short set. But there will be another time.
"We praise an act of charity, yet shrug at an act of achievement."
Nice review.
I haven't seen Killswitch since Ozzfest, and though I don't think they were "werst band evar" material, you pretty much summed it up.
I'm still not regreting going to this, since the only band I really wanted to see was Slayer and they're only "headlining" for an hour.
3/10 Big Biz
Apparently, water got spilled on Slayer's soundboard and they were blowdrying it as they were playing.
1/26 - Inquisition w/ Truckfighters
1/29 - Alcest w/ The Body
2/11 - Marduk w/ Incantation
2/16 - Pain of Salvation
You though KSE were that bad? Damn, I'm a pretty big fan of theirs and this is gonna be my first time seeing them, so hopefully my experience will be not as bad as yours lol.
1/26 - Inquisition w/ Truckfighters
1/29 - Alcest w/ The Body
2/11 - Marduk w/ Incantation
2/16 - Pain of Salvation
Is the new Behemoth album on sale on this tour?
I don't wanna get into this tonight! Tomorrow!
@Butcher of Birth: Nope. There is that Ezkaton boxset, though.
1/26 - Inquisition w/ Truckfighters
1/29 - Alcest w/ The Body
2/11 - Marduk w/ Incantation
2/16 - Pain of Salvation
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The Creators Project: Neon Indian began as a one-man project and now you're playing huge festivals and getting interview requests by the dozen. Did you ever think success would happen this quickly for you?
Alan Palomo: No, not at all, actually. It's kind of funny. Ghosthustler was my first real attempt at music. If anything, that's where some of my more grandiose, ambition-directed expectations were focused.
When was this?
It was 2007 and there was this sort of influx of dance music. I think that I, like everybody else who was kind of tinkering with synths at the time, got really excited by watching live footage of Justice where they're in front of tens of thousands of people and falling into all these misadventures. It just looked like the most epic, exciting thing. Ironically enough, I had very low expectations about Neon Indian. It was all more of this thing of writing music with my friends than having the idea of being like, "Whoa, we could be traveling and playing music in front of people too!" It was the result of this really alienating year when I was at that final fork in the road of whether I would continue college or I would continue music.
Your gear was stolen while you were on tour last year. That must have had a serious effect on your music, but the band pressed on. How did you cope?
It happened right smack dab in the middle of the tour. The only thing I was surprisingly enough able to acquire again was a Prophet '08 synth, but of course the patches change and that in and of itself kind of changes what you can and can't do in a live performance if you don't have the time to retailor all of those sounds. It was definitely a game-changer for a while and I found myself going to friends' houses and tracking stuff there, which is actually how a lot of the remixes I worked on happened—the Grizzly Bear and Silent League stuff.
On that same front, how hard is it to interpret your songs in a live setting? Do you try to get it as close to the album as possible or do you let it become its own thing?
It does require a bit of recontextualization, I think. Much of the challenge that was behind trying to take Neon Indian on the road was that it was so very much a studio-based labor of love. When I was creating the sounds I wasn't thinking about reimagining them live or reinterpreting them. It's like the James Murphy quote that I always thought was pretty funny when he said that he played in the "best LCD Soundsystem cover band" around. In relation to the live show, that really is what you're kind of doing. You're trying to find these sort of vague approximations for a synth sound that you have. I really didn't want to be just some guy with a laptop and a microphone. Not that that's a bad thing, because I think a lot of people totally tear it up with that setup, and there are definitely some people who perform well under that condition live, but for me it's kind of a thing where I would have felt like a sitting duck.
Visuals are another aspect that's very important to your live show. How do you conceptualize those?
I collaborate on visuals with my friend Lars Larson, who lives in Austin now and works at this synth shop called Switched On where he's kind of the in-house repair guy. We tend to rely on technology that produced these cheap, esoteric ways of creating visual effects before there was anything that people took seriously. For some of the shows we did in New York, he had his whole video-synth rig set up and he was doing live video-feedback loops while we were performing. It's about taking these childhood references or these sort of buried references and reconceptualizing them. We want to bring it back for the summer tour, but he also has a family so it's really tough to get him on the road. We need to find a way to make it a more portable setup that we can take with us and interact with while we're performing—we could be feeding it some sort of data to be triggering clips while we're playing certain songs. The visual element is important to me because the bands that have created the strongest impression on me have been the ones that take advantage of different multimedia aspects. For instance, Black Dice has just a strong visual presence, or even something older like the KLF. I've definitely brainstormed some things for the future, and ideally if I could make some sort of short film and have the score be the next Neon Indian record then that's obviously an opportunity I'd seize.


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- Subjects:Literary Criticism and Analysis, Content Area Reading, Literature, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Tips and Strategies
- Skills:Literary Elements, Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction Texts
Analyzing Text Structures
- Grades: 6–8
This week I observed that in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the level of task complexity and the level of thinking necessary to complete tasks both increase over time, which makes it more challenging to scaffold text complexity. For example, at the beginning of the year, my students started out utilizing text-based details that accurately addressed the writing prompts. We applied this to reading informational and literary texts.
Last week, we began analyzing text structure, comparing and contrasting how two authors utilize information from historical events when writing in different genres: nonfiction and poetry. Teaching students how to analyze author's craft is challenging. It is even more challenging to engage them in higher thinking activities while increasing text complexity as we approach the end of the year. A pattern emerged in my quest to meet the instructional goal. The activities below depict how the focus began with comprehension of the text and then shifted to analyzing the author's craft.
Essential Question
In what ways do authors use details from historical events to create writing in different genres, informational and descriptive?
For this unit, you will need at least two paired passages based on a historical event, nonfiction and fiction or nonfiction and poetry. I have a subscription to Scope, so I have access to paired passages.
Sample materials include:
- The nonfiction article "Imagine" on the Dust Bowl, by Alex Porter and Kristin Lewis, from the March 12, 2012, issue of Scope.
- "Dust Storm" excerpt from Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse.
- Alternative descriptive passage: excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Chapter 1 describes the dust storm.
- Sticky notes.
Day 1
Goal: Read for information.
Activity: Students read the article and engage in a think-pair-share discussion in response to multiple-choice comprehension questions. They answer the questions, discuss their answers with a partner, and come to an agreement on the answers. One handout is submitted for grading.
Day 2
Goal: Analyze the text structure of a nonfiction article.
Activity: Students reread the nonfiction article. Working in mixed-ability groups of three to four students, they discuss how the article is structured or organized, paying particular attention to the headers. They reread the article, focusing on the cause and effect of the dust storm. Each group records one cause and effect on separate sticky notes, selecting accurate, relevant text-based details from the article. They create a class-size graphic organizer on the board, using sticky notes to place details in the appropriate cause and effect columns.
In this particular article, the structure is complex. It introduces the events on Black Sunday through a biographical lens. However, the structure shifts as the authors embed cause and effect information. For this reason, it offers great fodder for group discussion on text structure. Questions and answers might include:
- Q: How do the authors present the information at the beginning of the article?
A: The biographical approach hooks the reader and provides a personal account of the historical event, as well as a sequence of events.
- Q: Why do the authors use a flashback?
A: The authors use the flashback to introduce the causes of the dust storms, which are followed by the effects.
- Q: How do the authors close the article?
A: The authors revert back to the biographical approach. They bring closure to the article, or a type of resolution, by informing the reader about Ike's life after the dust storm.
Day 3
Goal: Explore the elements of plot in narrative verse.
Activity: Students read the excerpt "Dust Storm" from Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. Since this is the first time my students are exposed to narrative verse this year, it is guided, scaffolding toward independence and complexity. As a whole class, we discuss the plot structure (i.e., point of view, exposition, characterization, and conflicts), annotating the text. I project the eBook version of Out of the Dust onto my SMART Board, so the students can add digital annotations during our discussions.
Day 4
Goal: Compare and contrast how two authors use information from a historical event in their writing.
Activity: In small, mixed-ability groups, the students work to complete a compare and contrast matrix. Each group has to identify one similar or different text structure to add to the matrix and present to the class. In the beginning, the discussions focus on identifying the authors' craft, and then we explore why the authors made these choices. Observations might include:
- The point of view differs depending on the author's purpose, to inform or describe.
- Authors use sensory details in both genres to create imagery.
- Authors use figurative language in both genres to create imagery.
- Nonfiction writers chunk information together using headers.
- Nonfiction and fiction writers use transitions to indicate change in time.
- The nonfiction writers use a flashback, transitioning from biographical writing to expository writing to inform the reader of the causes of a natural disaster.
- Nonfiction writers use text features such as headers, pictures, and captions to add information beyond that of the text.
- One author uses informational writing while the other uses descriptive writing to depict a historical event.
- An author's choice of words gives clues about how they feel about the subject (tone).
At first, I felt awkward exploring these uncharted waters, but in the end, my students enjoyed the shift to studying author's craft. The students concluded that authors, depending on their purpose for writing, use varying structures and literary devices to meet their writing goals. This activity segues into a thematic unit based on the historical novel The Devil's Arithmetic. During this thematic unit, the students read and analyze paired text from multiple genres. They will practice and reinforce these skills in their reading circles.
Author's craft is a challenging concept. We welcome your ideas for studying it. Please feel free to share how you teach text structure in your classroom.
Comments (4)
I don't like the fact that in order to use this lesson I have to purchase a book in order to use a "portion" of it. Really Scholastic? I spend enough money in your store, the least you could do would be do provide the exerpt needed for this lesson.
This is a really well-designed, effective lesson. I'm impressed. Thanks for sharing. You've just raised the bar!
We read the Devil's Arithmetic, Out of the Dust and I am familiar with many nonfiction articles which will work nicely. This is a great idea! Thank you!
I love this plan--will definitley use it next year. There are some photographs available online that show people during the Dust Bowl--this could be a good addition to the lessons.


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Technical Director Terry Walsh Signs Contract Extension
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - USA Field Hockey announced today that Technical Director of High Performance Terry Walsh has agreed to a contract extension through the 2016 Olympic Games.
"We are extremely pleased we were able to reach an agreement to extend Terry's services with USA Field Hockey," said USA Field Hockey Executive Director Steve Locke. "Terry is one of the world's preeminent field hockey minds. We are delighted that he will continue his outstanding work with our athletes and coaches as we continue our commitment to international excellence."
"I'm very happy to return," said Walsh. "The longevity of the program is very important, to continually move forward. Continuity is critical as we move through to the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016. The legacy of this program will be how it develops over four, eight or twenty years, and that will determine our success."
As Technical Director of High Performance, Walsh oversees all aspects of USA Field Hockey's men's and women's national team programs and coaching development programs. Under his direction, USA Field Hockey has returned to the international spotlight, culminating in the Women's National Team appearance in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. He is a certified Master Coach by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
"The USA now has some impact on the world hockey scene," said Walsh. "That's been a major improvement in just the last four or five years. We've been able to secure international events and been able to provide performances in the Men's and Women's programs that made the world stand up and take notice."
Walsh's extensive resume includes serving as the head coach of the Netherlands men's national team, guiding them to a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He also served as head coach for the Australian men's team from 1997 to 2000, leading the Kookaburras to the bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. As a player, Walsh was a three-time Olympian for Australia and earned a silver medal in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and a fourth place finish at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. He also served as a consultant to the USA Women's Olympic Team at the 1996 Olympic Games.
Walsh originally signed with USA Field Hockey in January 2005.


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How good are you at estimating angles?
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Here's a chance to work with large numbers...
Two boats travel up and down a lake. Can you picture where they
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2012 China Tours > Grand China & Yangtze Cruise > Hotels
17 Day Grand China & Yangtze Cruise (2012)
Featured Accommodations
Yangtze Cruise
|Please note that we closely monitor all the hotels we use, reading our customer's feedback about their experience with the hotels listed below. Based on this feedback, if any of these hotels does not live up to China Spree's standards, we will change them immediately. Sometimes this may be a last-minute decision. Customer satisfaction is always our priority.
M.V. President Prime
China Spree 2011 Cruise Tours feature 3-night Yangtze Cruise, down the river, aboard M.V. President Prime, the newest cruiser and one of the finest on the Yangtze. The ship will be in operation on April 15th, 2011.
M.V. President Prime offers a maximum of 374 passengers the comfort and amenities you would expect from a 5-star hotel-for example, her grand lobby, elegant restaurant, library, gift shops, gym and spa facilities and onboard beauty salon. The ship boast a lounge bar, a sheltered bar on the sun deck with breathtaking 360-degree views, and an elegant restaurant on the main deck.
Its spacious stateroom features panoramic windows open to the private balconies, and is 260 sq. ft. including balcony - making it one of the largest stateroom among Yangtze cruisers.
President Prime is designed to meet the highest international cruise ship standards. It offers uncompromising comfort, quality, and service. You will cruise in comfort and with peace of mind knowing that the ships are equipped with the state-of-the art navigation and safety systems in line with our travel philosophy to offer our guests the very best value.
Sun Deck
Enjoy sunshine and fresh air while you take in 360-degree views of the scenery as you sail through the Yangtze's stunning Three Gorges region and beyond. Stand at the railings or relax in a comfortable deck chair. The observation deck is covered for those who prefer shade.
The restaurant is where all meals are served during your cruise. It features panoramic windows, so you will not miss any of the scenery while you are dining. The menu features Chinese cuisine with local characteristics. Royal Dining Room, on the Sun Deck, offer separate dining area for customers using Executive Suite.
Onboard Activities
Never feel bored onboard President Prime. The ship offers lectures on Chinese culture and history, Tai Chi lessons, lessons on playing mahjong and Chinese cooking, calligraphy demonstrations and unique evening entertainment.
Onboard Shopping
Located in the midsection of the middle deck, the onboard boutique offers items to help you enjoy-or remember-your journey. There is an excellent selection of gift items to bring home. Across the way there is an onboard tailor, who can create custom-made silk jackets, hats and other items usually in less than one day.
Marriott Beijing City Wall
This stunning landmark hotel in the center of Beijing is the largest Marriott Hotel outside the U.S. with 1312 rooms that are elegantly decorated, featuring the Marriott's trademark "New Bedding".
All rooms are luxuriously appointed with amenities that ensure a comfortable stay and equipped with 37" LCD TV, safe, IDD, high-speed Internet access and a spacious work desk, and bathroom with separate bathtubs & standing shower. Its spacious room size is 460 square feet on average.
Beijing Marriott Hotel City Wall features 7 distinctive restaurants, bars and entertainment venues full of gastronomic delights. The hotel's various facilities and services including Quan SPA, a fitness center, an indoor-heated swimming pool, 24-hour room service, laundry, high-end shops, gold key service, private chamberlain and a stay to remember.
Free High-Speed Internet Access for All Marriott Rewards Members, which is free to join and has no blackout dates on redemption stays.
The hotel is about 5-7 minutes walk to the famous Chang An Avenue, 2-minute walk to the subway station, and within walking distance (about 35 minutes) to the Tiananmen Square and the Silk Alley.
Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou
Welcome to vibrant and dynamic Shanghai. The Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel is ideally located on Siping Road in the central Hongkou District, convenient to everything. Our local neighborhood has it all. Our hotel is just 2-mile away to the Bund, considered the city's symbol since the 1920s, and is about 10-minute drive to the Nanjing Road, Shanghai's premium shopping street. We are also near the People's Square, Lujiazui and Huaihai Zhong Road central business districts, as well as the North Sichuan Road shopping area and historic Duolun Road.
Our 471 tastefully appointed guest rooms and suites feature river, city and Bund skyline views. The famous Sheraton Sweet Sleeper™ Bed featuring a big pillow-top mattress, cozy duvet and goose down blanket will guarantee a fabulous night's sleep. All guest rooms feature in-room laptop safe with charger, and the clock radio for iPhone/iPod. Non-smoking, connecting, and disabled rooms are available. High Speed Internet Access is available in all guest rooms, public areas, and meeting rooms. Our hotel's unique outdoor garden and riverside setting make it the perfect place to get away from the fast pace of Shanghai.
Sheraton Club guests also have privileged access to the Sheraton Club Lounge, which offers breakfast and evening drinks and light snacks. Take advantage of the private Club Lounge where you can connect with friends, meet with your team, or simply relax by catching your favorite TV show.
Link@Sheraton offers free internet-connected computers and free WiFi at hotel lobby and will help you stay connected to what's important to you - be it work, friends, family or even other guests.
The other bonus is our proximity to the subway lines 10 and 4. The subway exit (#5) puts you right across the street from the hotel. The Metro station is very close to the Bund, People's Square, and other popular stops.
We offer a variety of event facilities that are ideal for weddings, dinners, product launches and meetings. Our dedicated professionals are ready to assist you with any requirements or requests.
Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel, offers both style and convenience to satisfy your needs. Spoil yourself at Shine Spa and enjoy indulgent treatments including massage therapies, body treatments and facials provided by our specially trained therapists. Our new fitness facility features top-of-the-line cardio and strength equipment, and innovative technology with built-in LCD screens and a choice of TV, video, and music. The 30 metre swimming pool is one of the longest in Shanghai, and features natural light.
Hungry? At the Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel, we've got you covered. Our buffet breakfast is outstanding both in quality and selection, with choices of Eastern and Western food. Feast, our all day dining restaurant, offers a wide selection of international favorites for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yue, our signature Chinese restaurant, features Cantonese, local Shanghai and Sichuan cuisine. Miyabi, our Japanese showcase restaurant features open teppanyaki grills and a sushi bar.
Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou is one of the best Starwood hotels in Shanghai.
Xian Grand Noble Hotel
Remodeled in 2009, Xian Grand Noble Hotel features prime location in the heart of the historical Xian. The hotel is ideally situated on one of Xian's most prosperous commercial street, close to many of the city's historical sites including the Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Great Mosque, Shaanxi History Museum & the Forest of Steles stone library. It makes a major difference compared to all other hotels in terms of unbeatable location, and is very convenient for China Spree travelers to explore this historical city in the evening.
The hotel's 428 elegantly designed air-conditioned rooms are equipped with High-speed Internet, private bath, cable and satellite TV, in-time safe, refrigerator and mini bar etc.
This hotel has a western style bakery offering burgers and yogurt.
The hotel features Free high speed internet access in hotel room, and Free Wi-Fi in lobby.
Sheraton Guilin Hotel
Visit the Sheraton Guilin Hotel, ideally located along the Li River in the heart of the enchanting city of Guilin. Guilin has been an inspiration to Chinese poets and artists for centuries, thanks to its breathtaking scenery rich in limestone crags, deep caves, and lush paddy fields. Now, with the completion of a full renovation, the hotel is as beautiful as the landscape it calls home. Click Hotel Link
Dedicated to complete guest satisfaction, the Sheraton Guilin offers exceptional service including 24-hour room service, same day laundry and dry cleaning. The Business Center also offers fast Internet connection, postal, and other secretarial facilities. All rooms feature individually controlled heating and air-conditioning, IDD telephone, personal computer outlets, electronic door locks, combination of bath and shower with vanity and toilet, and more. Swim laps in the outdoor swimming pool or head to the gymnasium where you'll find all the gear for your cardiovascular training, bodybuilding, or simply toning your muscles. Sauna and massage facilities are also available, as well as poolside snacks and drinks in the summer.
Retreat to one of our 430 newly renovated guest rooms, including our 17 suites. Relax and unwind while you watch your favorite shows on flat-screen satellite TV, order in dinner, or surf the web online with our High Speed Internet Access. And get a great night's sleep on our famously comfortable Sheraton Sweet Sleeper (SM) Bed.


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3/26/2013 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
No matter what we've done in the past, no matter what we might do in the future, no matter how bad we think our lot is, no matter how unforgivable we think we might be, we can always turn to and trust in the Lord's mercy.
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
3/26/2013 (3 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: year of faith, lent, Fr. Roger J. Landry, daily homilies, Judas
FALL RIVER, MA (Catholic Online). We are in the midst of the holiest week of the Year and as we prepare to enter into Jesus' passion, death and resurrection anew, the Church has us ponder, all three days before Holy Thursday, the tragic figure of Judas Iscariot. It does this not merely because his betrayal chronologically preceded the events of the new and eternal Passover, but also because all believers have much to learn from the way the devil successfully tempted him.
In this Year of Faith, it's important for us to ponder in Judas' vices the virtues faith requires. Judas' greed puts the lavish love that should flow from faith, seen yesterday in Mary of Bethany's generosity in anointing Jesus' feet. Judas' despair highlights in contrast the type of trust Peter had, even though, like Judas, he was filled with shame for having betrayed and abandoned the Lord.
So let us look together at this tragic figure, the most notorious betrayer of all time, about whom Jesus said it was better for him never to have been born.
We learned yesterday from St. John that Judas was a thief. He robbed from Christ, from the other apostles, from the incipient Church. Jesus, for him, had become merely an excuse to seek after his own interests. Jesus was not the one thing necessary, as he was for Mary of Bethany. Jesus wasn't even an end, but merely a means for Judas to satisfy his own greed.
Judas supposedly had serious qualms of conscience about the failure to sell the year's worth of aromatic nard with which Mary had anointed Jesus' feet, but he thought nothing about selling Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Judas had been a disciple merely in his body, not in his heart. Judas had been called personally by the Lord, had lived with him for about 1,000 days, had followed him for three years, had heard him preach and teach, had seen him walk on water, still stormy seas, feed thousands with a five rolls and two sardines, raise three people from the dead, heal on countless occasions the sick, blind and lame and have mercy on countless sinners, had even received from the Lord the power to do many of these same things himself, and had been entrusted by him with the money bag for the Twelve.
But he tragically had never gotten to know Jesus, and even more tragically had never gotten to love him. He remained just a follower of Jesus on the outside, not on the inside. In betraying Jesus, Judas valued him less than a handful of coins, forgetting that it would profit him nothing to gain the whole world and forfeit his life.
This is in contrast to the example of St. Peter, whom we also see up close in today's Gospel.
Peter was an internal disciple, someone who followed the Lord not just with his body but also his heart. He desired to know the Lord with all his mind and to love him with all his heart, soul and strength. Peter wanted to do Christ's will. He wanted to follow the Lord.
I believe Peter really meant what he said, that he would lay down his life for the Lord (as he ended up doing upside-down on a Cross in the Vatican valley). But Peter failed to recognize what Jesus tells him in St. Matthew's Gospel: that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Peter's spirit did want to give himself entirely to following the Lord, but his flesh was so weak that he was willing to swear that he didn't even know the Lord - ultimately, to apostasize - just to stay warm on the cold dark night of Jesus' Passover!
A similar thing happened to Peter when Jesus was walking on water. Peter begged the Lord to give him the ability to come to him - Peter always wanted to come to the Lord and be with him - and then actually began to walk on water. As soon as he took his eyes off of the Lord, however, as soon as his weak flesh took account of the wind, he sank and this fisherman, who lived on that lake and who obviously had to be a good swimmer, cried out to the Lord to save him from drowning. Peter's spirit was always willing, but his flesh was frail. Even though his flesh would betray the Lord, his spirit believed.
We see the contrast between Peter and Judas especially in the response each had to betraying the Lord Jesus. During the scene in today's Gospel when all the apostles said, in response to Jesus' declaration that one of them would betray him, both Peter and Judas had protested with the rest, "Surely not I." But Peter couldn't fathom that before the cock crowed he would have denied the Lord three times. Judas, on the other hand, was continuing to live the lie he had been living at least for months with Jesus and the other eleven.
What is particularly and tragically moving in all of this the scene in the Gospel was taking place on what would be the last night of Judas' life. The following morning, as Jesus was about to be hanged by his limbs via nails on the man-made tree of the Cross to the northwestern part of Jerusalem, Judas would hang himself out of despair on a tree to the south in a field that became known as Hakeldama, or Field of Blood. He would hang himself with such force that an eviscerating disembowelment would result, as Peter tells us in the Acts of the Apostles. Judas, who betrayed the Lord ultimately to death for a handful of silver coins, would die even before the Lord himself died.
His personal catastrophe prompts us to ask: What had happened to this man? How could things have gone so wrong? How could, after three years with Jesus, he have given up all hope?
In speaking about his betrayer in the upper room before Judas had departed into the night, Jesus said "Alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! Better for him if he had never been born!" Jesus said this not because he would seek divine vengeance upon him for his betrayal, since Jesus came to die even for Judas and called him "friend" until the end. He said it not because Judas' very name would become ignominiously attached to betrayal for the rest of human history. He said it because Judas went to his death, as far as we can discern, never having known and loved the Lord, who would have forgiven him even this betrayal of betrayals.
Jesus went freely to the Cross. He himself said, "I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have the power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father" (John 10:17-18). Jesus freely went to his "fate," and if Judas hadn't been involved in it, someone else would have. After all, the Scribes, Pharisees and Herodians had been plotting to kill Jesus for over a year by this stage.
Judas had never realized that the point of life is to come to know and love Jesus, to trust in his mercy, to participate in his salvation, even if one doesn't explicitly know Christ, as Judas did for at least three years. Judas never realized this, and hence his life ultimately was tragically a waste - and it was better that he had never been born.
Unlike Peter, who - after his apostasy when he swore that he never knew the Lord after having sworn hours earlier that he would never abandon him - wept when he realized he had sinned against the Lord and who turned to the Lord for mercy; unlike the Good Thief on the Cross, who hoping in God's love and mercy, turned to the Lord and asked him to remember Him when he came into his kingdom hours before his death; Judas never understood the depths of God's love and mercy.
He never understood the meaning of the parable of the prodigal Son. He never understood the meaning of Jesus' teaching on the lost sheep and heaven's rejoicing more for one repentant sinner than for all those who never sinned and needed repentance. He never understood the meaning of Jesus' statement to Peter of the infinite forgiveness of God, seventy-seven times. He never understood that Jesus' whole mission was to come to save sinners, to save men just like Judas, to save Judas himself.
After Judas had recognized how wrong his action was, after he saw that Jesus was condemned to death, he returned to the high chief priests and elders, as we'll see in tomorrow's reading, and said, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood," throwing the silver pieces on the floor. Yes he had sinned! But rather than have that sin lead him to the One who was about to die to save him from that sin if only he would turn back to him, Judas, despairing of that forgiveness, went to field and took his own life. What a tragedy indeed!
Where is the good news in the tragedy of Judas? Only God knows if there were any good news for Judas between the tightening of the noose and his sad death seconds later. For us, however, there is good news in the fact that Judas' example illustrates just how essential hope and trust in the Lord's mercy are for our Christian lives.
No matter what we've done in the past, no matter what we might do in the future, no matter how bad we think our lot is, no matter how unforgivable we think we might be, we can always turn to and trust in the Lord's mercy. St. Peter did, even though he had considered a little warmth more valuable than his allegiance to Christ. St. Paul did, even though he used to kill Christians for a living, terrorizing the Christians in the 30s just like Nero would in the 60s and Roman emperors after that. And so should we.
St. Paul himself wrote, "If God is for us, who can be against us? . He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom 8:30-39). Nothing can keep us from God's merciful love - not even our sins against the Lord, unless we let them by refusing to come to receive God's mercy!
The same Satan who entered into Judas and turned everything dark seeks to enter into us. Very often we've sold out Jesus for far less than 30 pieces silver, choosing instead to work for minimum wage rather than attend Mass, or to choose some momentary warm of the fire of illicit love instead of remaining faithful. So often we have opted for Barabbas in disguise rather than uniting ourselves with Christ through picking up our Cross everyday and following him. We have denied Jesus many more than three times out of weak flesh. And this week we will remember the Crucifixion he had to endure because of those betrayals.
At the same time, however, we need, like Peter, never to lose hope in the Lord's merciful love for us. Jesus knew Peter would betray him, but Jesus also knew what Peter would do for him after he had received his forgiveness. That's why during the Last Supper, Jesus told Peter, "Satan has desired to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you, Peter, that your strength may not fail, and that after you have converted back to me, you will strengthen your brothers and sisters in the faith." And Peter did. The same Lord Jesus prays for us, for our conversion.
But he wants us to pray, too. In order to try to strengthen the weak flesh of Peter, James and John, he told them in the Garden of Gethsemane, "Be vigilant and pray that you may not undergo the test, for the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." We know that rather than doing that, Peter, James and John fell asleep, and that was doubtless part of their betrayal. This week the Lord wants us to stay away and pray that when Satan seeks to sift us like wheat this week and beyond, we may pass that test we undergo with a strengthened flesh to accord with a loving spirit.
Father Roger Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River, MA and national chaplain of Catholic Voices USA. His homilies and articles are found on catholicpreaching.com.
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