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So with no money we headed out to try our luck. We made an early start, cursing our alarms and got to the main bank as it opened. We took the bikes first, we hadn't realised how close it was. Once inside we struggled to find someone who spoke English but a guy helped us out and gave us directions halfway across town. Worrying about fuel we took the bikes back. We tried to go down a side street but it turned out to be an alley so we turned about
The one speaking with me gave me some paper and told me where the bank was.
We walked and stopped at another bank for advice and were given directions to the central one we were apparently in need of reaching. We were walking along, noticing the amount of Pergeot 405s there are here, there are thousands, every 3rd car is a Pergeot 405, sometimes called other things but always the same. Then, another one passed us, honking its horn. We had learnt to ignore it. Honestly, there is no point in America invading this country. If they really wanted to do some damage then don't use guns, they hurt people, just take away their car-horns and the country would slump into a deep depression, their driving would become joyless and empty. We looked as this car carried on honking its horn. It was the guy from the bank and he was offering us a lift. This time we accepted his generous offer and on the way up we were glad we did, it was a long way and he pointed out the things we should see like any man proud of his town. So he dropped us off at the bank wanting nothing more than to shake our hands and wish us luck, this man knew we had no money so couldn't have wanted anything from us
So I left and we met up outside the bank. We were beginning to worry. We went and found one of the black market cash dealers who said it would be no problem. He took us to a place with a glowing neon sign that said "Visa Card". We breathed a sigh of relief. He came back and said it was not possible. We tried a few other people in a few other places and the same thing. We even went back to the visa place ourselves and they told us it was not possible. We went to find tourist information as we'd been advised they might be able to help. They were just typical government officials with their hands out. We told them what was going on, had some free tea and listened to him explain this happens a lot and he could help us. We met some other bikers outside of Istanbul and he let us try to ring them. They didn't answer and we didn't know if our texts were getting through. He tried to charge us for the phone call but I told him we'd come back and thank him properly later and he seemed happy with that. In desperation we rattled together our loose change left over from other countries. We had about �7, 6 euros and 50 Polish Zloti. It wasn't going to get us far and it certainly wouldn't pay our hotel fees. The tourist guy helped us turn it into the local currency and it should have been enough to fill both of our bikes and get us back to the Turkish border. Of course the hotel had our passports and we owed them money. What I could do at the border I didn't know, I was hoping I could wing something, bribe an official to let me get some cash at a cashpoint. I just knew we were getting nowhere in town.
Back at the hotel I borrowed a phone and called the embassy. I spoke to a woman called, Sandra who asked the obvious question, didn't you know about the situation in Iran? Well I would think the answer to that is pretty obvious by now. In the end she had a partial solution. I could transfer money from my account to a company who would forward it to the embassy in Tehran. It was still a long day's ride and we didn't have the fuel for it. We also didn't have any passports or enough money for fuel to get there but I took the details anyway.
We waited patiently for news from our fellow bikers and then finally a miracle. A text got through saying they could lend us some money. We were massively relieved, finally we were getting somewhere. Now we could get to Tehran and collect money once we arrived. It looked like we wouldn't have to turn back.
We went back out for a walk, this time with a bit more enthusiasm. Marcin wanted to buy a bulb, a H3 spotlight bulb to replace a blown one. We went into one place to be told they didn't have one and couldn't help. While Marcin was asking what to do a young lad came round and took us to the best place, a big mini-mall selling nothing but car spares, he then led us to a shop he said would be good. We tried there. The guy who clearly owned it came back with the right bulb, we asked how much and were told, "It's no problem. It's a gift." Before we could really say anything they brought us out free Tea and chocolate. We chatted about the country and left with nothing more than a handshake between us. For the next few hours we wandered and it was the same. People were friendly, interested and just wanted to come and meet us. We stopped to take photos of peoples bikes and in every case they invited us to sit on them, just happy we were interested in them and their city.
At one point we went back to the Bazar in a quest to find booze under the counter. A young lad dressed as Mickey Mouse wanted to have his picture taken with us!
As the hours dragged by we began to worry a bit about our friends as text messages didn't seem to want to get through. We finally got a message saying where they were and that they could spare us 250 euros. We rode down to the hotel which was only just down the street from ours but it was nice to ride our bikes without the bulk of the luggage on them. My little single managed 201.5 miles before we filled up and still no sign of reserve. I was dead pleased.
They were out getting some food so we wandered about. We found a bar full of old guys smoking those glass pipe things. They saw us looking and started waving so we went in to say hello. We were invited in with lots of hand shaking and tea was brought for us. We were invited to sit down and ended up at the back with the younger guys who spoke the best English. We're still not sure how they work but the guys didn't seem to be particularly affected by it. One of them told us, "What else is there to do? There's no drink, no dancing, no girls!" You can't argue with that.
So finally we met up with our friends. They're in Tehran in a couple of days and so are we so once the money situation is sorted we'll be able to buy them a drink and say thanks. For saving our arse.
The population of this town are amazing. Everyone is interested in what we're doing and there's a real sense of pride in the town, the culture, the history and the people. In a way I'm glad this happened. It got us off the bike and got us mixing with a warm and welcoming town in a great way. One of them told us, "The Iranian people are great, the government is bad." Where is that not true?
We chatted about things during the endless walking we did today and Marcin and myself agreed on something. America wants to invade, they want this country's oil. We met some soldiers, they were happy to have their picture taken, happy to chat and nothing but friendly but they're just kids. Kids with guns and the last thing they want is a fight. There is nothing here that could stop the juggernaut of American military power and no reason on Earth other than profit that it would have its eye on this great little country. The people are warm, decent family-oriented people who just want to get on with the business of tooting their horns at one another on the busy main roads. They're not looking for a fight and they don't want one. They've been sanctioned out of the international banking system so they just got on with making their own and it works fine. They have a really great balance of capitalism where there's a decent standard of living for most people without the trappings of too much excess.
When I hear on the news that America is warmongering here it will be a real blow. Everyone should visit here and see it for yourself. It's been amazing. Where else will people offer to help you when you tell them you have no money? Certainly not London.


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Ron Johnson, the new CEO of JCPenney, had a dog-and-pony show in New York this morning to discuss the company's go-forward strategy. The major change: fewer sales and a move toward an everyday low price (EDLP) program. He also mentioned some store redesigns that would create boutiques to make JCPenney more akin to European department stores. There was also an allusion to services (similar to Genius Bar). While that should help to weed out cherry-picking shoppers and improve JCP's assortment and experience (which already has significantly improved before Mr. Johnson thanks to partnerships with Mango and Sephora), it is unlikely to reverse JCPenney's downward revenue slide or to grow the challenged mid-tier department store sector. This is because the biggest problem with JCP is something that is very difficult to fix (the same challenge that Sears has, by the way) which is that it has over 1,000 stores mostly located in bad malls with declining foot traffic. The question I have isn't so much, can JCP reinvent its stores or the store experience, but how will it drive traffic back to those stores? Only the small fraction of its stores located in prime locations will even have the opportunity to re-engage shoppers; in fact, by our count, only 84 of JCPenney's 1,100 stores are co-tenants of Ron Johnson's old employer and the premier retailer today, the Apple Stores.

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Cortana will be available in the United Kingdom and in China "very soon," which Ash translated to mean a matter of weeks, not months.
While a welcome development, it will probably not change Cortana's "beta" status, rather, simply widening native reach so more developers and enthusiasts can take advantage of everything Windows Phone 8.1 has to offer.
When the developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1 was launched, Cortana was restricted to the US market only. There are workarounds to that situation, but there is obviously no support yet for Cortana to start understanding other languages or accents.
We have no official time line for how many weeks Ash means, we can always hope for something before the end of June, or early July.
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July 11, 2014
Chris King's Visit to Grovemade
Chris King recently featured us on Cielo Cycle's Buzz blog, in a post titled, "Like-Minded: A Tour of Grovemade". Cielo Cycles is a fellow Portland manufacturer working in world-class handmade bicycle fabrication. An arm of Chris King Precision Components, Cielo Cycles creates handmade, small-batch bicycle frames of the absolute highest quality. Chris King began manufacturing frames and bicycle components in 1978, and the company prides itself on integrity, precision, design, and reliability.
We enjoyed having their team visit our workshop. Sharing our processes and space with a company we hold in high regard is a great experience. They took some gorgeous photos and made some wonderful comments on the way we do things here. It's definitely a blog post worth checking out! Here are some highlights from the post:
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"Out of this fertile community companies have risen that address the party line that 'manufacturing is dead in the US,' head-on with an explicit show-don't-tell attitude. One such business is Portland manufacturer Grovemade, makers of modern and sophisticated wood based office supplies and personal electronic accessories. Their products are designed and produced in their SE Portland facility where they maintain a strict focus on both the quality of their product and the environmental impact of their production."
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"[...]Grovemade has continued to expand their offerings," states Cielo, "drawing design inspiration from Alvar Aalto sparse wood textures and Dieter Ram's functional fineness of line."
"Currently Grovemade has 19 employees and they continue to assess, tweak, and improve every aspect of their company from their product offerings to their production process. 'We don't really have a direct competitor, no one out there is doing wood products like us, the tolerances and fit that we maintain doesn't exist anywhere else in our market,' says Ken. And they are not interested in changing that by devaluing their process to increase their profit margin.[...]We know they will continue to grow and we hope that they will add many more annual rings to their business. Be sure to check out their site for more insight into their products and process."
Image source: http://cielo.chrisking.com/2014/06/18/like-minded-a-tour-of-grovemade/
We not only share Chris King's enthusiasm for making things the hard way and the best way, but also we share that company's enthusiasm for meeting like-minded designers and sharing stories. See more photos of our space by Chris King, and read the rest of their rad blog post here.
Written by Mary Yajko. She is a copywriter and member of Team Grove originally from upstate New York. She enjoys opened minds, uncontrollable fits of laughter, and large amounts of french fries with ketchup.


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Alan Colmes on Obama: "And just where is he wrong?"
He's wrong because he is implying that small town folks who have strong faith and are owners of firearms are somehow not normal. It's as if people who are not of a different mind-set than his are extremist right wing nut jobs.
kyarnes on April 12, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Now if Obama had said that there are some people bitter, envious, and jealous of their neighbors he would have been correct. Especially if he had also said that mostly these people are immature juveniles, whatever their calendar age, and most are liberal, he would have nailed it.
Where he went wrong was saying that because they are bitter, and jealous they find comfort in the idea of getting a gun, and getting even.
Unless he was talking about the people he knows from his church and his neighborhood.
rockhauler on April 12, 2008 at 10:20 PM
I live in small town America and have always and wouldn't live anywhere else. And..yes, I'm offended at being called "bitter", my faith has nothing to do with my economic situation, my wishing to keep guns is a function of the Constitution allowing me to and I think it's a good idea and don't want it changed, and, yes I'd like the border sealed and the laws enforced and where do Obama or Colmes(sp)get off telling me how I REALLY feel and why!!! Just shutup you two, you know from nothing!!
jeanie on April 12, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Check out the comment at 10:17 by Dave S. at Colmes' blog. It's spot on. Hysterical.
IrishEi on April 12, 2008 at 10:26 PM
The comments over there and on all the lefty hangouts are enlightening as always. Their Messiah lets slip something he really believes – something taken as an article of faith amongst his ideological brethern – near a microphone and see them all scurry around like rats.
I had Obama pegged as a condescending academic Marxist the first time I heard him speak in Illinois. Finding out what he did before politics and who is friends were confirmed it for me. Yet I feared that that point would never be made during his campaign, that somehow he'd succeed in selling Euro-socialism in the US. But lately I'm not so afraid. And it's still early, isn't it….?
Hannibal Smith on April 12, 2008 at 10:31 PM
I'd never heard of that website before but the map of America as being composed of dark blue states and light blue states is like a perfect conservative criticism of the Republican Party under Bush/McCain.
So much to say, so little time. Bottomline, those who grew up in NYC don't know the West. Period. Stop!
Don't understand why you would need a gun. Don't understand the rest of the country. Don't understand the wilderness. Don't understand middle america.
They are hepcats to apartments, pavement, and the local organic food distributor. Never really seen a cow. UH, pathetic.
thatcher on April 12, 2008 at 10:38 PM
From an obvious non-liberal at LiberalLand:
Personally, I think that you go into some of these left-wing blogs, and like a lot of self-proclaimed "liberal" enclaves, they perceive that their true died-in-the-wool leftist candidates have been gone now since 1968 and nobody has replaced them. They saw huge losses in the 80's, and then later with Kerry and Gore… so it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to environmentalism or Marxist dogma or antipathy to people who aren't like them–anti-religious sentiment, perhaps–as a way to explain their frustrations. It shouldn't come as a surprise that they latch on to some vague, ethereal concept of "change" to give purpose to their lives…
by DaveS April 12, 2008 at 10:17 pm
IrishEi on April 12, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Hey, Alan! Here's a clue:
If Obama had said that Americans are fed up with politicians who make promises they don't keep, it would be correct to call that an accurate premise. (Of course, the more one relies on politicians the more crushing the disappointment, and anyone who thinks Obama the Marxist will do a better job is setting themselves up for more crushing disappointment, but I digress).
Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Buy Danish on April 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM
IrishEi on April 12, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Damn, I was gonna post Dave's comment…this thing needs to be spread around, how pithy! Dave, you are too cool for school man.
surrounded on April 12, 2008 at 10:58 PM
IrishEi on April 12, 2008 at 10:40 PM
I think they pulled that comment. I don't see it there.
Guardian on April 12, 2008 at 11:03 PM
never mind. I didn't scroll down far enough…
Guardian on April 12, 2008 at 11:06 PM
its vintage duh on April 12, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Is this blog really BY Alan Colmes or is it a fan site? There is no where on the site that says who runs the thing?
Warner Todd Huston on April 12, 2008 at 11:45 PM
…Oh, wait. I remember this one now. It was the blog Colmes was trying to keep a secret a while back. Never mind.
Warner Todd Huston on April 13, 2008 at 12:15 AM
This seems to be the point in American history when leftists insert a demonstration of how far removed from reality and the rest of the world they really are—and we owe it all to Obama.
Thank you, Obama, for demonstrating the definition of the word, "elitism" to the entire nation. It couldn't have come at a more opportune time. The elitists are crawling out of the woodwork like they've been sprayed with a can of RAID, as it should be.
FloatingRock on April 13, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Copied and pasted from "Liberal Land" – because it's just so darn good.
"I believe that is how you bring a nation together. We should be praising him for something that makes one group of Americans more understandable, and for generating identification and consolidation of all elements of America." –Connie Star
It might be even more effective at bringing the nation together if you capture some members of that little understood group of Americans, and tagged their ears with GPS tracking devices. Then you could follow them around and study them, maybe even make a documentary!
You people are so out of touch that it is becoming hysterical. I literally laughed out loud at your comment, and, yet, you probably don't even understand how intellectually inferior you sound to most Americans–those bitter, small-town Americans–who would look at you with a combination of pity and curiosity.
Do none of you–Alan?–realize the extent of the unelectability of this undeservedly pompous moron that you are about to nominate?
by DaveS April 12, 2008 at 10:23 pm
The fact that he made this statement on Billionaire's Row, IMO, is worth just as much as his actual words. All those hoity-toity people just ate it up.
So in the past month, he's smeared his granny, mainstream black churches, the unborn by calling them punishment, and now Middle America. He's free-falling big time. Then again, the LSM gives this guy so much cover and time to make his non-apologies.
I used to be able to tolerate Alan, but GEEZ! He's become a parody of himself. His points never make sense and it's as if he's there to be a thorn in Sean's side or whomever the Conservative/Republican/Rational guest is. Kirsten Powers during the Colmes-free weeks annoys me too.
Dubn8tr on April 13, 2008 at 1:06 AM
Obama, clinging to his stupidity.
And bitter than he is being found out.
profitsbeard on April 13, 2008 at 1:07 AM
The elitists are crawling out of the woodwork like they've been sprayed with a can of RAID, as it should be.
FloatingRock on April 13, 2008 at 12:43 AM
That's because they're giddy in April, when the election is in November.
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 2:07 AM
The fact that an invited "billionaire for Hillary" operative went to the billionaire row party, had the speech recorded in secret, then gave it to the HuffPoo, normally Obama's playground, to give Hillary the opportunity to get back on top, at the most critical time, is Shakespearean.
She's so full of caca, and in the same billionaires' laps, and might get away with it because Obama's naivite made him say such stupid things in San Francisco, in the bossom of idealistic, rich, elitist, billionaire filth.
If she does, imagine the wrath, the hell Pelosi, Reid, Richardson, the Kennedys, and a slu of others will pay.
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 3:06 AM
They took down Dave's posts of 10:17 and 10:23…can't have ugly truth cluttering up Alan's Leftist Echo Chamber, now can they?
By the way, Dave, well said in both posts.
You the man!
SuperCool on April 13, 2008 at 3:38 AM
I don't think they took them down… they're still showing up for me, at least.
DaveS on April 13, 2008 at 4:16 AM
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 3:06 AM
Careful now. "Billionaire filth" sounds like what a lib, or dare I say, Bill Ayers, would say. Moreover, "idealism" is not evil. But I'm with you on the Shakespearean thing.
I do look forward to the ABC debate.
Buy Danish on April 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM
He's wrong because he is implying that small town folks who have strong faith and are owners of firearms are somehow not normal. It's as if people who are not of a different mind-set than his are extremist right wing nut jobs.
Well, firstly, he's not implying that at all. You're misconstruing his comments, probably deliberately. And secondly, he's right.
Grow Fins on April 13, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Buy Danish on April 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Good point. I never like to hear someone attacked for being successful. Slicing and dicing Americans into various classes and sub-groups is a standard tactic for the left. All it shows when a left leaner gets rapt attention from a group of wealthy donors is that political ignorance isn't confined to the less educated. In fact, given the state of our University and College system, it's hardly surprising that a group of people who have gone to the "very best" schools would actually be the most clueless.
TheCulturalist on April 13, 2008 at 11:25 AM
DaveS. Simply brilliant.
kyarnes on April 13, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Grow Fins on April 13, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Right about what? That poorer people "cling" to more guns and, heaven forbid, go to church? And that is somehow a negative?
kyarnes on April 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM
NONE OF THIS IS THE POINT. Many people "feel" something is wrong with this statement, but don't seem to be sure what.
Forget about "bitterness" – Obama said that gun rights support, and religion, are EQUIVALENT to racism.
As a self professed "person of faith" Obama should know better. Perhaps he only "converted" (assuming he was baptized) for political reasons, and doesn't really believe it.
Agrippa2k on April 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I would've agreed with Obama on part of his remark when he referred to anti-immigration sentiments and the bitterness it created. If he would have used the words "anti-illegalimmigration," then he would have been correct. And rightly so. I know a ton of struggling folks who are directly affected by the toll of illegal immigration on their prospective employment and lack of ability to get affordable healthcare because the system created for the poor is already broke, here in TN.
kyarnes on April 13, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Two of the smartest operatives on the Left have been Messrs Gore and Edwards. They are the two who held out from the 'Obama-orgasm' and stand to reap the rewards if her highness becomes inevitable again.
What melodrama, because a good percentage of the Obama love-fest contingent will never vote for her. It's hardly conceivable that Obama could take the VP slot, without being perceived as the Black second fiddle to the vicious white woman, who "stole the slot" from what was deservedly his.
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Agrippa2k on April 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Exactly. The word "bitterness" has nothing to do with the offensiveness of Obama's words. Strike it from the statement altogether and he still said that the reason people cling to religion, the second amendment and presumably other American Constitutional principles is the same reason they cling to xenophobia and racism.
He is essentially saying that conservative American values are deranged.
Why would Obama equate core American values with racism?
Considering the church Obama has been attending for the past 20 years combined with the fact that he's a leftist, it's no wonder he feels this way. Wright may have said, "God damn America", but it seems Obama took it to heart. I think Wright and Obama feel that American principles are the principles of slavery and racism and reject them. I believe this is the mentality that led Obama to say what he did. And even if I'm wrong about the specifics of the underlying cause it doesn't change what Obama said.
FloatingRock on April 13, 2008 at 1:29 PM
And just where is he wrong? Pointing out why people may be bitter or frustrated, that there is xenophobia, that people sometimes cling to religion or feel paranoid about the government and embrace guns doesn't mean you hate or disdain a portion of the population.
As Colmes suggests, one can both have xenophobia but not dislike a portion of the population? Huh?
Weebork on April 13, 2008 at 2:08 PM
You may have already noticed liberals talking heads, such as Mr Colmes here, do when caught red handed is attempt to frame the specifics in whatever was either written or spoken into abstractions. Abstractions can be argued, tweaked, molded, and shaped any way without really any resolution. They do this to keep the specifics, that is, what really happened, from being discussed. If they permitted the specifics to be discussed, it is damaging to their cause and their candidate.
By reframing what Obama said into a discussion about the use of language, or the validity of the issues he brought up, liberals are attempting to force conservatives to prove that Obama meant what he said, rather than the other way around. They are attempting to put the burden of proof on Obama's opponents and to some degree they have done it.
Weebork on April 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM
If you have to ask that question, then it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt you lack the capacity to be human. Alan is a disgrace to his race and his religion (oops, does he have one?). Liberal lapdog!
sharinlite on April 13, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Could be small town America is fed up with their communities and nation being made a petri dish for the experiments of leftists, not to mention the vote fraud aided by illegal immigration. The corporatist elites are just as bad, deciding that factory jobs are obsolete in America (after donating to leftist causes and pandering to leftist politicians for decades). They take the serf labor and "externalize" the costs of open borders by dumping the crime and medical bills on taxpayers.
Small town America still has a strong streak of independence and is less malleable to demagogues. That frightens the messiah. Boo!
Feedie on April 13, 2008 at 3:06 PM


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Photo gallery: Sheringham Carnival street races
PUBLISHED: 16:27 08 August 2014 | UPDATED: 16:27 08 August 2014
Hundreds lined Sheringham High Street, to watch wacky contraptions ranging from a wheeled lobster pot to a steam train take part in carnival street races.
Nineteen carts, from family groups to workmates, raced up and down the hay bale-lined street, with a group of hotel and pub workers joining in the fun by competing in a waiters and waitresses race.
Onlookers pelted contestants with water bombs, eggs and flour-filled paper bags, with youngsters bringing along "super soaker" water pistols to fire at the carts.
Children's race winners were 13-year-old pals Theo Hafford and George Osborne, who sprinted to the finish line in their cart, which was modelled on cartoon character Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine.
Adult race winners were Tom Jackson and Emily Dykes in their "caveman" cart, while taking the parent and child and best decorated titles was Kevin Pitcher and his daughters Roseanna, 3, and Ruby Jean, 5, who competed in their giant lobster pot, the Shellfish Shuttle.
Best overall prize-winner was Julian Harmer, who impressed judges with his steam train cart, with Lauren Minchen, who works at Roy Boys café, winning the waiter and waitresses race for the third year running.
Carnival chairman Stuart McClean said the races were one of the highlights of the carnival programme.
"This year has been fantastic, one of the best yet," he added. "The amount of support we have has been absolutely overwhelming and I think the fact that the races have been so well organised has contributed to the event's success."


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A trio of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students recently got an intimate look inside the British Government. Carlos Rea MC/MPA 2014, Bevan Narinesingh MC/MPA 2014 and Ajay Bangale MPA 2014, who is concurrently working on an MBA at Wharton, spent one week in the United Kingdom under the auspices of the British and Commonwealth Office Future Leader Program. The program is designed to give selected HKS students, who have an interest in international relations in the UK, the opportunity to take a deeper dive into the nation's public and private sectors.
"It was an eye-opening experience for me," says Rea. "This was my first visit to London. It was valuable for my career and for my view of the world and has influenced me on ideas I have."
"The entire experience was excellent as it exposed us to workings of Parliament, the government as well as the private sector," says Narinesingh. "We were thus exposed to cross-sectoral issues that we would not normally encounter in our everyday activities. This, in my view, will enable us to think of 'out of the box' solutions to the problems we face in our everyday work, and to confidently consider novel approaches that we may not have initially thought of."
Their itinerary included meetings with local and national leaders from Parliament, Whitehall, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), and London City Hall to understand how these leaders and their institutions are working to address critical issues of governance and key policy areas.
"Our third and last day in London was very interesting because we experienced a totally different area of London – where start-ups and tech ventures are taking root, in a region where a few years ago, was poor and abandoned," says Bangale.
The students also had the fortune of attending a reception with the USA-UK Bicameral Parliamentary Group in the majestic Guildhall.
"It was really an amazing experience to meet several U.S. Congressmen and Members of Parliament working together for the good of both nations," says Bangale. "Here we understood the real meaning of the term 'the special relation.'"
"I am thrilled that these students were able to participate in such an exciting week. The Future Leaders program is the type of opportunity we are so pleased to offer to students at HKS," says Amy Davies, director of MPA Programs.
The FCO hosts a similar program for their sitting leaders, such as the UK equivalent to the Governor of Massachusetts.
(From L to R) Ajay Bangale MPA 2014, Bevan Narinesingh MC/MPA 2014, and Carlos Rea MC/MPA 2014 with Bridgette Gildea, British Consulate-General Boston.
"It was an eye-opening experience for me," says Carlos Rea.
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WELLINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The number of death cases related to Influenza A/H1N1 rose to 17 in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
The 17th victim, a man in his 30s, died in Auckland on Sunday. He had an underlying medical condition.
The number of confirmed cases of Influenza A/H1N1 rose to 3,130in New Zealand on Monday, though the real number would be considerably higher -- only a small number of those infected were tested, said deputy director of Public Health Fran McGrath on Monday.
"For most people, it's a mild illness and they will recover readily at home without needing medical treatment," she said.
Special Report: World Tackles A/H1N1 Flu


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It looks like someone at Ford accidentally leaked an image of the upcoming 2015 Ford Edge in a powerpoint presentation. The powerpoint slide was created for the Deutsche Bank Global Auto Industry Conference and showed Ford's global lineup. Rather than show the current Ford Edge, the slide contained a small image of the upcoming 2015 Edge.
The next-generation Ford Edge is expected to grow a bit to distance itself more from the Escape. From this single photo we can see that the Edge's new face will feature a very large grille that is similar to the Taurus.
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D & C Air and Water Treatment; Dan Crall; Tim Gilbert Faulty system - Ignores resolution attempts. Be very wary! Initial friendliness & helpfulness disappear when you no longer want to give them additional money Lutz Florida
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Faulty system - Ignores resolution attempts. Be very wary! Initial friendliness and helpful demeanor disappear when you no longer want to give them additional money. Will misrepresent their capabilities to get a sale and not back their products. Good salesmen, but not trustworthy
Asked for system to remove Iron from well without a water softener. They said "No Problem"
Performed no lab test on water. Sold us a system for $2,150. System did not work after repeated fix attempts. Contractor represented that they are certified water treatment specialists..(Later Investigation with the County and State reveals that there is no such Government Certification)
Contractor was friendly and professional and willing to "work" with us to solve the problem only as long as we were willing to spend more money to fix their faulty system. After spending an additional $1,000 to address their recommended "fixes", the system still didn't work. When we finally had enough and refused to spend any more money on a poorly designed and failing system, we asked for a refund. Their response was to offer yet another "fix" that involved a water softener. They then proposed to rent us a water softener and charge us another $300 for installation. Since we didn't want a softener to begin with, and were not willing to throw any more money at them we rejected their proposal. We did offer to settle with them for a $1,200 refund and a return of their equipment. With no additional revenue in the mix, they chose to ignore all attempts to communicate.
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Lynn and Don's Tilapia PiccataFeatured by LynnDon Cellars in the Gold Wine Club.
4 Tilapia filets
Freshly ground black pepper
2 large egg whites
2/3 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
Olive Oil spray
1 Tbs. butter
Juice of 1 lemon, lemon halves reserved
¼ cup dry white wine
½ cup fat free chicken broth
1 Tbs. capers, drained
Sliced lemon, for serving
2 Tbs. chopped fresh parsley, for serving
In a shallow bowl, beat the egg whites. Place the breadcrumbs in another dish. Dip each fish filet in the egg whites, then the breadcrumbs.
Heat a large sauté pan over medium to medium-low heat. Spray a generous amount of olive oil spray on one side of the fish, and lay it in the pan, oil side down. Spray the other side of the fish generously to coat and cook for 4 to 5 minutes on each side, until fish is opaque and cooked through. Set aside on a platter in a warm oven until you make the sauce.
Over medium heat in the same pan, melt butter, add the lemon juice, wine, chicken broth, and the reserved lemon halves, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil. Boil over high heat until the liquid is reduced to half, about 3-4 minutes. Discard the lemon halves, add the capers and spoon the sauce over the fish; place a slice of lemon on each filet and top with fresh parsley.


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Omega Stores, Monica LLC, Gabor Smatka, Monica Kovacs Smatka sold us a defective electric trike, did not give us the lithium battery we paid $249.50 extra for, does not abide by their web site warranty on returns Wallingford Connecticut
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We purchased an electric trike for my 82 year old husband. We received a threatening type letter in the mail prior to it arriving, telling us, do not refuse this box, even if it looks like the guy kicked it. The trike is defective workmanship.
The fenders are misaligned, the basket is crooked and the lid does not fit right, the seat would not stay up. It kept sliding down no matter how tight we made the bolt. It does not appear to have the power booster that we paid $289.50 extra for. It definitely does not have the lithium battery we paid $249.50 for. It leans to the right so he cannot ride it.
I do not feel comfortable on it and neither does either of my daughters who are 53 and 55 years old and both very physically active. They could barely make it back to our driveway which is literally level, and it was supposed to have a power booster.
They told me collect from UPS for the damages and send Omega the money and they will send parts. UPS did not damage this. It was manufactured this way. Omega will not accept this.
The website said we could return in 90 days if it was not suitable, that they would send a shipping label. However they will not send a label and the booklet inside the box with the trike said, cannot return.
I see other people have had the same problems with them sending it out with a regular lead battery, no power, no return, charging them extra.
I am hoping I can get my $2000.00 back and no other people get scammed by them. They need to pay up and be put out of business.
They would not accept a credit card. It had to be a check. That was a red flag as your credit card company will stand behind your purchases, and your check is gone!
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Selections from Death's Duel
Selections from John Donne's Death's Duel,
a Consolation Against the Dying Life and Living Death of the Body.
Converted to Modern English, Edited, and Introduced by theMB
In the year of Our Lord 1631, John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, left his sickbed and stood before the King's Majesty in his chapel at the Palace of Whitehall, there to deliver a Lenten sermon. He spoke for an hour or so, taking as his text, Psalm 68, verse 20:
He is our God, the God of our salvation;
God is the Lord, by whom we escape death.
He said something like this on that occasion.
The old expositors looked at the final part of the verse (God is the Lord, by whom we escape death) in three ways: First, it is in God's power and it is often his will to give us frequent escapes and deliverances, even when we find ourselves almost in the jaws and teeth of death, and on the lips of that whirlpool, the grave. In this way of reading, the verse refers to those frequent, but temporary, evasions or deliverances from death which we all experience from time to time, and this is the most ordinary reading, and that which may be most obvious at first, the escape from death. But there is a second way of reading it common in the old expositors, that unto God the Lord belongs the escape in death, that is, in the manner of our death; regardless of the kind of departure we shall have out of this world, whether prepared or sudden, whether violent or natural, whether in possession of our right minds or shaken and disordered by sickness. Of course, all of us will die, but the manner of our passing matters little for, howsoever they die, precious in his sight is the death of his saints (Psalm 116:15). And so, in this sense of the words, the escape in death, God sees to us in the hour of death; the ways of our departing out of this life are in His hands. Yet a third way of reading our verse is the escape by death; that is, this God the Lord having united and knit both natures in one, and being God, having also come into this world in our flesh, he could have no other means to save us, and he could have no other way of departing out of this world, nor could he return to his former glory, but by death. And so in this sense, His escape by death is our deliverance by death, by the death of this God, our Lord Christ Jesus.
First, then, we consider that in all the deadly calamities of this life, we may justly hope of a good escape. Consider that all our periods and transitions in this life are just so many passages from one death to another; our very birth and entrance into this life is an escape from death, for in our mother's womb we are dead, at least to the extent that we do not know we live. In the womb, we are dead to the extent that, as the psalmist says, idols are dead. In the womb we have eyes and see not, ears and hear not (Psalms 115:6; cf. Mark 8:18). . Of our making in the womb, the psalmist also says, I am wonderfully and fearfully made, and such knowledge is too excellent for me, (Psalm 139:6) for even that is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes; (Psalm 118:23) it is he that made us, and not we ourselves, (Psalm 100:3) nor our parents neither. Thy hands have made and fashioned me round about, says Job (10:8). Though I be the masterpiece of the greatest master (man is so), yet if you, O Lord, do no more for me, if you leave me where you made me, destruction will follow. The womb, which should be the house of life, becomes death itself if God leaves us there. As soon as we are men, animated, quickened in the womb, though we cannot ourselves, our parents have to say in our behalf, Wretched man that he is, who shall deliver him from this body of death? (Romans 7:24) And that deliverer must be He that said to Jeremiah, Before I formed thee I knew thee, and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee (Jeremiah 1:5). Eve had no midwife when she delivered Cain, therefore she might well say, I have gotten a man from the Lord, (Genesis 4:1) wholly, entirely from the Lord; she might well say it is the Lord that enabled me to conceive, the Lord that infused a quickening soul into that conception, the Lord that brought into the world that which he himself had quickened; without all this, Eve would have had to say, my body is but the house of death.
But then this first escape from death, the death of the womb, is but an introduction into death, the manifold deaths of this world. We have a shroud in our mother's womb which grows with us from our conception, and we come into the world wound up in that shroud, for we come to seek a grave. We celebrate our own funerals with cries even at our birth; we beg our baptism with tears; and we come into a world that lasts many ages, but we last not. God has given us earth for our material, to be made of earth, and he has given us earth for our grave, to return and dissolve to earth, but earth is given to us in these ways only and not for our possession. Here we have no continuing city, (Hebrews 13:14), no house that continues, no persons, no bodies, that continue. This whole world is but a universal churchyard, but our common grave. That which we call life is but a week of death, seven days, seven periods of our life spent in dying, a dying seven times over; and there is an end. Our birth dies in infancy, and our infancy dies in youth, and youth and the rest die in age, and age also dies and determines all. Nor do all these, youth out of infancy, or age out of youth, arise in the clean way in which the phœnix arises out of the ashes of another phœnix, but as a wasp or a serpent out of a carrion, or as a snake out of dung. Our youth is worse than our infancy, and our age worse than our youth. Our youth is hungry and thirsty after those sins which our infancy knew not; and our age is sorry and angry, that it cannot pursue those sins which our youth did; and besides, so many deaths, so many deadly calamities accompany every condition and every period of this life, as that death itself would be an ease to them that suffer them. Upon this sense does Job wish that God had not given him an escape from the first death, from the womb, Wherefore hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye seen me! (Job 10:18-19) And not only the impatient Israelites in their murmuring (would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt), but Elijah himself, when he fled from Jezebel, and went for his life, as that text says, under the juniper tree, requested that he might die, and said, It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life. (I Kings 19:4) How much worse than death is this life, when good men would so often exchange it for death! But if my case be as Saint Paul's case, that I die daily; though that be true of me, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me (there I died one death); though that be true of me, I was born not only the child of sin, but the child of wrath, of the wrath of God for sin, which is a heavier death: yet, God is the Lord by whom we escape death; and, if no other deliverance would give more to his glory and my good, yet he has the keys of death, (Revelation 1:18) and he can let me out at that door, that is, deliver me from the manifold deaths of this world, the every day's death and every hour's death, by that one death, the final dissolution of body and soul, the end of all.
But then is that the end of all? Is that dissolution of body and soul the last death that the body shall suffer? It is not. Though this be escape: it is an entrance into yet another death; though it be an escape from the manifold deaths of this world, yet it is an entrance into the death of corruption and putrefaction, and dispersion in and from the grave, in which every dead man dies over again. Except for that Holy One that HE would not allow to see corruption, all those who die now and sleep in the state of the dead, must pass this posthumous death, this death after death, this death after burial, this dissolution after dissolution, this death of corruption and putrefaction; when my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly (Job 23:20) upon me; when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction, if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. Even those bodies that were the temples of the Holy Ghost come to this dilapidation, to ruin, to rubbish, to dust. Truly the consideration of this posthumous death, this death after burial, that after God has delivered me from the death of the womb, by bringing me into the world, and from the manifold deaths of the world, by laying me in the grave, I must die again in the putrefaction of this flesh, and in a dispersion of that dust. This is the most inglorious and contemptible vilification, the most deadly and peremptory nullification of man, that we can consider. God would seem to have carried the declaration of his power to a great height, when he sets the prophet Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones, and says, Son of man, can these bones live? as though it had been impossible, and yet they did; the Lord laid sinews upon them, and flesh, and breathed into them, and they did live. But in that case there were bones to be seen, something visible, of which it might be said, Can this thing live? But in this death of putrefaction and dispersion of dust, we see nothing that we can call a particular man's. Can this dust live? This death of incineration and dispersion is, to natural reason, the most irrecoverable death of all; and yet, God is the Lord by whom we escape death; and by recompacting this dust into the same body, and rejoining the same body with the same soul, he shall in a blessed and glorious resurrection give us such an escape even from this death as shall never pass into any other death, but establish us in a life that shall last as long as the Lord of Life himself.
And so that is the first way of reading these words ("God is the Lord, by whom we escape death"); though from the womb to the grave, and in the grave itself, we pass from death to death, yet, as Daniel speaks, the Lord our God is able to deliver us (Daniel 3:17), and he will deliver us.
And so we pass to our second way of reading God is the Lord, by whom we escape death: the escape in death; it belongs to God, and not to man, to pass a judgment upon us at our death. Those signs which physicians discern, and those predictions which they give for death or recovery in the patient, they discern and they give out of the grounds and the rules of their art; but we have no such rule or art to give a prediction of spiritual death and damnation upon any such sign as we may see in any dying man: we might comfort ourselves in the death of a friend, if it be testified that he went away like a lamb, that is, without any reluctance; but that may be accompanied with a dangerous insensibility of his soul's actual condition. On the other hand, even Our blessed Saviour suffered in the Garden in preparation for Death, a sadness even in his soul to death, and an agony even to a bloody sweat in his body, and expostulations with God, and exclamations upon the cross. So, make no ill conclusions upon any man's reluctance to die. The mercies of God may work momentarily in minutes, and many times invisibly to bystanders, or any other than the party departing. And then upon violent deaths inflicted as upon evil-doers, Christ himself has forbidden us by his own death to make any ill conclusion; for his own death had those impressions in it; he was reputed, he was executed as a malefactor, and no doubt many of them who agreed to his death did believe him to be so. Therefore make no ill conclusion upon sudden death nor upon an individual's reluctance or fear in departing. The tree lies as it falls, it is true, but it is not the last stroke that fells the tree, nor the last word nor gasp that alone qualifies the soul. Still, pray for a peaceable death and against violent death, and for time of repentance against sudden death, and for sober and modest assurance against reluctant or fearful death, but never make ill conclusions upon persons overtaken with such deaths. God alone is the Lord, by whom we escape death. Our critical day is, perhaps, not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life. I thank him that prays for me when the death-bells toll for me, but I thank him much more that catechises me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live. Our security is in the word of the Lord who said, do this and thou shalt live (Luke 10:28). But though I do it, yet I shall die too, that is, die a bodily, a natural death. God does not say, Live well, and you shall die an easy, a quiet death; but, Live well here, and thou shalt live well for ever. A good life here flows into an eternal life. But whether the gate of my prison be opened with an oiled key, a gentle and preparing sickness, or the gate be hewn down by a violent death, or the gate be burnt down by a raging and frantic fever, a gate into heaven I shall have, for from the Lord is the cause of my life, and with God the Lord is the escape in death. And this is the second sense of our text, as this escape in death is God's care that the soul be safe, whatever the agonies the body suffers in the hour of death.
And so, now we turn to the third and final way of reading the verse: God is the Lord, by whom we escape death. This final escape is a deliverance by the death of another. Now, at last. consider the end of the Lord, the end that the Lord himself came to, death, and a painful and a shameful death. But why did he die? and why die so? As Saint Augustine, interpreting our text, answers that question, (De Civitate Dei, lib. 17) because to this God our Lord belonged our escape by death. What can be more obvious, more manifest than this sense of these words? he says. In the earlier part of our text it is said, He that is our God is the God of salvation; or, as Augustine reads it, the God that must save us. Who can that be, says he, but Jesus? For therefore that name was given him because he was to save us. And so, to this Jesus, this Saviour, (Matthew 1:21) belongs the escape by death; having come into this life in our mortal nature, he could not go out of this life any other way but by death, to save us was to die. Though he were God the Lord, yet to him, to God the Lord belonged the escape by death; more cannot be said than Christ himself says of himself: These things Christ ought to suffer; (Luke 23:26) he had no other way but death.
That God, this Lord, the Lord of life, could die, is a strange contemplation; that the Red Sea could be dry, that the sun could stand still, that an oven could be seven times heat and not burn, that lions could be hungry and not bite, all these are strange, miraculously strange, but super-miraculous that God could die; but that God would die is an exaltation of that. But even of that also it is a super-exaltation, that God should die, must die, (said Saint Augustine), God the Lord had no escape but by death, and (says Christ himself), all this Christ ought to suffer, was bound to suffer (Luke 24:26); As the psalmist says, God is the God of revenges, he would not pass over the son of man unrevenged, unpunished (Psalm 93:1). But then (as it says in the same place), the God of revenges works freely, he punishes, he spares whom he will. And would he not spare himself? He would not. Says Christ, if it be possible, let this cup pass (Matthew 26:39), when his love, expressed in a former decree with his Father, had made it impossible. Many waters quench not love (Canticles 8:7). Christ tried many: he was baptised out of his love, and his love was not quenched; he mingled blood with water in his agony, and that quenched not his love; he wept pure blood, it seeped from his pores in his flagellation and thorns, and these expressed, but these did not quench his love. He would not spare, he could not spare himself. There was nothing more free, more voluntary, more spontaneous than the death of Christ. It is true, he died voluntarily for love of us; but yet when we consider the contract that had passed between his Father and him, there was a kind of necessity upon him: all this Christ ought to suffer. And when shall we date this obligation, this necessity? When shall we say that began? Certainly this decree by which Christ was to suffer all this was an eternal decree, and was there anything before that that was eternal?
Infinite love, eternal love; be pleased to follow this home, and to consider it seriously, that what liberty soever we can conceive in Christ to die or not to die; this necessity of dying, this decree is as eternal as that liberty; and yet how small a matter made he of this necessity and this dying? His Father calls it but a bruising of his heel (Genesis 3:15) (the serpent shall bruise his heel). He Himself calls it but a baptism, as though he were to be the better for it. I have a baptism to be baptised with, (Luke 12:50), and yet this baptism was his death. The Holy Ghost calls it joy (for the joy which was set before him he endured the cross) (Hebrews 12:2). And so, the Lord was God, yet could die, would die, must die for our salvation. And now, consider one last point: Our Lord refers to his passion and death as a cup, and no worse (Can ye drink of my cup) (Matthew 20:22). If such a thing as death on a cross may be compared to a cup, then the chalice of his passion and death was freely raised in a toast to our escape from death. In gratitude for so many and great escapes, but especially for this last escape, the escape by his death, what shall we render to the Lord (Psalm 116:12)? There is only one reply: we must take the chalice of his passion and death, accept the cup of salvation freely offered and drink deeply. This is the third and final way of reading our text: God is the Lord by whom we escape death.
And so, having demonstrated how the God of power, the Almighty Father rescues his servants from the jaws of death; how the God of mercy, the glorious Son took upon himself our escape by his death; and how the comforter, the Holy Ghost assures us that the escape in death is merely the entrance into everlasting life, the frail old Dean of St. Paul's, retired again to his sickbed where, three days later, his own escape in death was made good.
Homily on Luke 7:31-35
31″To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? 32They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, "'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.' 33For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.' 34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' 35Yet wisdom is justified by all her children." (ESV)
This passage from Luke's Gospel contains a lovely and evocative comparison that on the surface seems quite simple:
"To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, 'We played the pipe for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.'"
Our Lord goes on to tell us the comparison applies not only to "this generation," but also to himself and to John the Baptist. On first hearing, the comparison seems obvious, but on reflection, we may realize that it has a sort of parabolic complexity that keeps us turning it over and over again in our minds. Indeed, this passage in Luke's Gospel has been puzzled over for centuries.
In one possible reading, the children in the marketplace are "this generation" inviting wisdom's children (St. John the Baptist and the Lord) to join them first in play-acting a wedding and then in play-acting a funeral. But when the children of "this generation" played the wedding pipe-song, St. John didn't dance to their tune, but continued in his ascetic way by yelling back a call to repentance. And when the children of "this generation" later sang their funeral dirge, the Lord wouldn't weep, but came to them feasting and drinking. So, St. John seems to them like a madman possessed of a demon who does not know how to behave at a wedding, and the Lord appears to them to be like a drunkard and a glutton behaving badly at a funeral by eating and drinking when he shouldn't. In this way of reading the comparison, the people of "this generation" choose the tune, calling John the Baptist and Jesus each to a particular sort of game that has certain rules and expectations, but neither plays by the rules of the game being offered. Instead, they each propose an alternative.
In another possible reading, the flute player and the dirge singer, the "we" of the comparison are St. John the Baptist and the Lord: St. John is the singer of dirges when he calls upon the people to repent in preparation for the coming Messiah, and the Lord is the piper who calls the children of this generation to dance at the marriage feast that is the Kingdom of God. So, in this way of reading the comparison, the children who fail to respond appropriately are "this generation," and they behave as children sometimes do when in a fussy mood; they refuse all the games that at other times they love to play. But more than a simple refusal, the children of "this generation" deride the ones offering the game by calling them names.
These are just two ways in which the comparison has been read; there are multiple variations. –At this point, I suspect, you may be waiting for me to tell you the right way to read and apply the comparison. That is, after all, the way sermons and homilies usually go. But, even if I were certain, in my own mind, that I had discovered the correct reading—maybe I should not reveal it. Like all the best puzzles, the best riddles, the most intriguing parables: the fascination, and the fruitfulness, of the comparison is found in its difficulty, the benefit of it only to be gained by turning it over and over in the mind or in discussion among friends, until at last you are almost certain that you have arrived at the best solution, but with a niggling doubt that you may not have it right after all. To reveal a "right" answer to the problem the passage presents would be to deny you the real joy of it.
So, instead, I'll ask you to consider only what the readings have in common: the scornful treatment of the Baptist and of the Lord. And, of course, we know the murderous outcome of that scorn: the Baptist's head brought in upon a platter, and Our Lord led to a Cross. But, lest we unfairly stigmatize the generation of that day, we must admit that our own generation is no less scornful: for instance, a hostile media is eager to misrepresent the Church and its claims, and to use its own misrepresentations of the Church's message to destroy its effectiveness, to sideline, marginalize, and silence the Church and Christians in public life. But the tendency to scorn what is not understood—or to be unwilling to understand—appears to be a more pervasive tendency in fallen humanity. Consider, for example, the behavior of this generation in the online world of social media. In that arena, the tendency to scorn has attracted a special label: "haters" are those who diligently seek out some apparent misstatement or, if none is present, who manufacture one and generate from it an assassination of character. And "hater" is as good a label as any for the phenomena because scorn simply seems to be an objective, behavioral evidence of hate. Or, if that's going too far, at least we could say that being scorned certainly feels like being hated, like having one's own head presented on a platter. Many of you may have already felt the acid-burn of scorn: when you first heard your call to ministry, did any of you also hear—perhaps even from some close companion—an incredulous voice: "You, a priest!" It is not an uncommon experience: "The scorn of those who scorn you has fallen upon me," says the Psalmist (69:10). As much as I wish that we might all evade a scornful reception, the Lord's word is certainly true: "The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord" (Matthew 10:24). We are likely to get the same reception he got.
We might, however, hope not to encounter scorn within the Church, among those who have committed themselves to the Lord Jesus whose new commandment is to love one another as he has loved us (John 13:34). And yet, scorn slithers its way in here too. If we are not vigilant, we may find ourselves casting scorn upon an opponent in some controversy in the church. Even among seeming friends, scorn can come—in the jovial guise of humor.
But, scorn is particularly hateful when it occurs between brothers and sisters in a school of the Lord's service like this House. We all come to this House unfinished, with much to learn, with many failings to correct, needing time and space to be transformed and fitted for ministry. And we have each of us committed ourselves to the spiritual program of this House. We must place our trust fully in that program. And if we find ourselves distracted by the errors and failings around us and if we are tempted to reform them or to scorn those who commit them, we should, instead, redirect our attention to our own hearts. (If you are anything like me, you will find more than enough there for reforming!) And if the temptation should reappear, consider this: we are all members of the body of Christ, and what is done to a part of the body is done to the whole ("as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me."—Matthew 25:40).
It seems to me that—no matter how advanced in years—we can all be—in some areas of our lives—like the littlest of children who haven't yet learned the tune or how to play. If we really want to help our neighbor, the best way might be to learn our own parts well, trusting that the Holy Spirit is also piping in the secret places of the hearts around us, so that all may, at last, join the song.
On John 14:2 for the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena
"In my Father's house there are many dwelling places" (John 14:2) or "mansions" as the King James Version has it. The image is beautiful and has spawned many a lyric. There's the song sung by Elvis Presley— "In my father's house are many mansions/If it were not true he would have told me so/He has gone away to live in that bright city/He's preparing me a mansion there I know." There's folk-singer Pete Seeger 's progressive version: "My Father's mansion's many rooms/Have room for all of His children/As long as we do share His love/And see that all are free."
I don't voluntarily listen to country and western music—unless I'm stuck in a car driving across Texas—but there's also someone with the improbable name of Moe Bandy who has apparently written a song that goes like this: "In my father's house [are] many mansions/Though tonight some make their bed along the streets." There's also the exuberance of the Mississippi Mass Choir singing: "I'm leaving my house/On my way to god's house/My house is decaying ya see/but in my father's house/ there are many mansions/And one of them belongs to me." Or in Bob Dylan's turn as a Christian singer, there's a sly reference: "They say in your father's house, there's many mansions/Each one of them got a fireproof floor."
However, none of these contemporary songs really do justice to the gospel text: "dwelling place" is a much better translation than "mansion." For the King James Version translators, the word "mansion" did not mean a large and luxurious home; it simply meant "a dwelling place" or, more specifically, "a dwelling place within a larger house" (See Shorter OED). But popular culture didn't catch onto the changed meaning of the English word "mansion." And so, "preparing a place" in one of those "mansions" came to mean, in the popular imagination at least, restoring the balance between the have's and the have-not's—"dwelling place" became, in pop culture, a heavenly McMansion to be doled out in compensation for earthly deprivation. Now, I don't doubt that such a putting-right of want and injustice will indeed take place. But I don't think that is really what this morning's gospel passage is actually getting at: rather, it is about union with the Lord in the bosom of the Father, which can occur as well—maybe better—in a cell as in a mansion.
Our text falls in John's gospel after a section in which the Lord has described the death that he must undergo, and his words are comfort for the understandably anxious disciples. The disciples fear that the Lord's death will be the end. Only in retrospect would it be possible for them to fully comprehend the words of Jesus. Experience will eventually make it clear: the Lord's crucifixion and resurrection will bring the indwelling Spirit, and Jesus will be with them always (cf. Matt. 28:20), intimately united with them in his Church—a union dramatically realized in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Only in retrospect would they see the place prepared as an extension of the intimacy they have already enjoyed. So, yes, the place that Jesus goes to prepare certainly has its eschatological aspect, but isn't there a foretaste to be experienced while still on the way?
Catherine of Siena, who we commemorate today, describes how we might begin in the here and now to move into that dwelling place prepared for us, how we might begin to move into a state of union with the way, the truth, and the life. In a dream, she heard the Lord saying to her:
"Do you know, daughter, who you are and who I AM? If you know these two things you have beatitude in your grasp. You are she who is not, and I AM HE WHO IS. Let your soul become penetrated with this truth, and the Enemy can never lead you astray" (in the Legenda ).
It's such a simple thing to say (beatitude results from self-knowledge and from knowledge of God), but throughout the remainder of her brief life, Catherine returned over and over to this fundamental point, trying to plumb the profundity of her dream, developing its implications in her Dialogue and letters. In order to be "united with and transformed in God," she says, we must "dwell within the cell of […]our soul[s]." And then, in one of her charmingly mixed-up metaphors, she tells us that within the cell of our souls is a well which at first appears dry, filled with earth. On descending into the well, we find earth and water: "in the earth we recognize our own poverty: we see that we are not. For we are not. We see that our being is from God. " The earth in the well within the cell of the soul is self-knowledge. We see ourselves as we are—radically dependent on God for our very being. But the cell's well's earth reminds us not only that we are entirely dependent upon Him for our existence, but also that we are broken and sinful. But, as we excavate the well, we also discover the water: the "ineffable blazing charity" of God toward His unruly creatures: "I see next that as we discover the earth we get to the living water, the very core of the knowledge of God's true and gentle will which desires nothing else but that we be made holy." Catherine later calls the soul "a dwelling place [that] is spiritual and [that] you carry … with you constantly."
So, in one sense, when Jesus says that he goes to prepare a place for his disciples in that House with many mansions, he is offering his disciples something far more than a consolation prize for having had no earthly place to lay their heads during this life. He is offering them a dwelling forever with Him in beatitude. And, in another sense, there's no need to wait for the hereafter, because it's here today. No need to call the movers, just enter the cell, climb down into the well, face the earthy self, and let the grace of God flood in.


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Ohsaka (Haruto VA): No! unless it's a recap. I won't get any roles otherwise!
Kimura: (L-Elf) Yes!
They think Thunder is an awesome guy. Betrayed, or not, he is willing to protect others
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They thought the orange suit fight scene was really memorable
Which girl you do like if it was real life?
Ohsaka Haruto VA: Saki. It took only a second for him to answer.
Kimura L-Elf VA: After considering between Kriem or Takahi, he goes with Shoko
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The fanletter asks them which female character they think would be popular if they were in the real world and that they (the person who wrote the letter) think it would be Takahi. Ohsaka and Kimura go on to discuss how Kreim would be popular with her subordinates (though they think it's more admiration than popularity), people who don't know Takahi's dere side like the viewers do will probably find her to be a mean girl and that Shoko would most likely be the most popular IRL.
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lol Oh thank god, so he does have good taste. xD
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And I think Ohsaka does like Saki
He said in an earlier web radio that Saki was his personal choice for most popular female character
In the fanbook he said that Saki was the kind of girl that would make your heart race. ( Kimura said Takahi )
And now, he votes for Saki again. And as noted, he answered that with little hesitation. xd
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Wouldn't you want an imouto to call you "Baka onii-chan" or a cuddly loli to hug?
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You know, I would have much preferred it if the season continued the pattern of allowing for multiple characters to get the spotlight like in the first one, rather than the increased focus on the two main ones that it took. Really, the only characters that had any development that weren't just to further Haruto's development and had personalities of their own were Marie and Liselotte, and even then they got just one episode of development before getting killed.
The reason the other pilots were so liked in the first season was because they all got development of their own, and indeed grew as characters. Saki went from someone who only cared about fame to a genuinely selfless and caring woman. Kyuuma's love for Aina is what led him to become a pilot and to channel his energy for good after her death. Raizo started as a typical jerk, but gradually stated to care about his friends and showed that he does indeed have a heart of gold. Finally Akira's interactions with Shouko enabled her to come out of her shell and confront her fears of other people, not to mention rekindle her with her brother.
Basically what I'm saying is that these characters were sympathetic because they grew, and because their motivations and personalities were so relatable and down-to-earth. We the audience (or at the very least I) wanted to see these guys continue to mature and conquer their flaws and emerge triumphant. The problem I feel is that the writers had their eyes set too high, and tried to make the story in the second season into this grand epic sprawling sci-fi fantasy, with political intrigue, death of main characters, and metaphors. Because of that, the characters were essentially shoved to the side in favor of these forced themes.
Saki got captured and tortured, all for the sake of showing how "evil" the bad guys were and because they needed a way to unveil the curse, not even getting into her abandonment by the rest of the heroes. Both Raizo and Kyuuma died because the plot demanded that they end with heroic sacrifices, not because their growth is what led to this logical conclusion. Akira came out a bit better, as she at least was able to rekindle with her brother, but that was all for one episode. The rest of the season was spent with Haruto and L-Elf as they tried to struggle against the Dorssian Empire and the effects of the curse. That's good and all, but in a show that is mainly about the characters, changing it from a character-driven story to a plot-driven one is almost always a poor choice.
To summarize, the term "less is more" is something that I feel the writers should have abided by, and focused mainly on the characters, like they did in the first season.
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well, I agree that it tried to be too many things, but upon retrospect I think it's clear that the script writer was only emotionally invested in L-elf and Haruto. (maybe a bit of Satomi too)
when the focus shifted to predominantly Haruto and L-Elf things became awkward for the audience
I'm not sure if more episodes would have solved all of its problems. I think it also needed a secondary script writer. Someone who cares, to handle the non-Haruto or L-Elf characters
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That too. I think that there needed to be more episodes and/or writers here so that it would give everyone a chance to grow. Because just when we are getting into one of the character's development, such as Saki being captured and the like, it cuts away to what Haruto and L-Elf are doing. Please cut back to the others. I'm more interested in them than on your main characters.
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Yes, but it would have been nice it was more of an ensemble cast
Can you imagine if Fate Zero was predominantly focused on Saber?
I know why they had to do things, but it feels that a lot of what they built up went nowhere
I think could have cut back on some of the L-Elf Haruto circular logic
Heck, cut the opening sequence in the last episode. That extra minute could have wrapped things a bit better
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Secondly, there are spin-offs for the pilots (a manga chapter each to explore them), Saki POV manga, A-drei POV manga (and H-Neun and X-eins special chapter) to flesh out the favorites. The show is rightfully focused on Haruto and L-Elf. If you wanted more of the side characters, there are manga specially made for fans to rely on.
The built up for the show was about revealing the truth to the world. It was announced in all previews, you know. You're asking about resolution of embellishment subplots, well, then I agree, but the main build up was delivered.
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Florence and The Machine - Hurricane Drunk (The Horrors Remix)
Last week, it was announced that the next single from the still-stunningly brilliant Florence and The Machine camp would be Hurricane Drunk. The song is an anthemically-chantable slice of glittery poprock from the debut album, Lungs.
The accompanying video was shot in Paris last Friday. The first viewing will take place following the Celebrity Big Brother Final, January 29th on Channel 4. (UK only) The single will be released on March 22 with a very unique remix from none other than The Horrors! Flo debuted the mix earlier this week when she filled in on BBC1 as a special guest DJ. The mix is something quite unexpected, yet equally amazing. It's had me in chills and saying "wow" all day long. Color us excited!
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Feb 22, 2012 - StaffJames O. "Jimmy" Christie, 76, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Lander.
Cremation has taken place. Inurnment will be in Chattanooga, Tenn., at a later date.
James Oscar Christie was born July 8, 1935, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Well, Mattel you have done it again. You have made a new doll in the likeness of Jennifer Lopez and once again have made her figure unrecognizable to anything that resembles JLo's curvy body
Well, Mattel you have done it again. You have made a new doll in the likeness of Jennifer Lopez and once again have made the figure of the doll unrecognizable to anything that resembles JLo's curvy body. Just as the original Barbie doll is overly exaggerated to be an unrealistic version of a woman, you have cut the curves from Jennifer like you were slicing corned beef in a deli; ultra thin and very unsatisfying to receive.
Jennifer has long embraced her curvalicious form to the great delight of millions of fans. She has built her wardrobe around her booty and her thighs to show she is proud of her womanly figure and not afraid to show it. But Mattel in their misogynistic-type judgement has decided Jennifer is not perfect enough to show in true form but needed a little sculpting. Hence the doll that looks like Jenny From the Block's super skinny counterpart.
Let's compare the two, shall we? Here are the dolls, dressed in outfits Jennifer has worn in real life. On the whole the dolls are pretty but with the trademark look that Mattel has established as a "real" woman's body; big boobs, small waist, skinny thighs.
A side view showing her "JLo booty":
Here is Jennifer dressed in the outfits in real life:
The doll is obviously not playing up her "ass"ets and is another disappointment to real women everywhere when the doll maker is once again promoting the idea that the "real woman" is going to be 36-18-33 in measurements. (Maybe in the 1800's when women were wearing whalebone corsets and squeezing their innards into organ damaging shapes.) For once, I would like to see a doll that really shows the configuration of the person that they are trying to sell.
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Well after a period of having a bit of extra weight on her, Gaga has obviously gotten her GoGo back.
Well after a period of having a bit of extra weight on her, Gaga has obviously gotten her Gogo back. Here she is having date night with Taylor Kinney and heading to Chateau Marmont for din din and a relaxing evening after releasing her new single "Applause".
She definitely looks slimmed down and back to her touring self! Taylor, and everyone else, had quite the eyeful all night. Looks like she wanted to show she was not the same girl she was just a few months ago.
For more on Lady Gaga's weight yoyo:
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About MeA career in modeling? Not exactly... but Im enjoying the experience and the exposure that modeling has provided me. My goals in this industry are simple; to have fun and to gain experience and simple success. I'm pretty open to most types of modeling and have done a variety of professional shoots. I'm excited to be a part of the model mayhem family and look forward to building my portfolio and working with other members in the industry!
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Credit NotesMontage Entertainment
CoverShoot Images
Michael Miller Photography
Paul Meyers Photography
Stephen Sexton Photography
Entice Photography
Swagg Photography
DMB Photography Glamor Photographer
C Belcher Photography Body Painter
Angmar Model
Euphoria View Photographer
Always Defined Photographer
After Six Photography Photographer
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