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Brent crude oil eased to under $108 a barrel on Tuesday, losing more ground after almost a month of falls as geopolitical tension eased and further evidence emerged of rising oil supplies from Libya and Iraq.
Brent peaked above $117 a barrel in August on fears the war in Syria would spiral out of control and hit Middle East oil output, but it has slowly retreated since then as the chances of U.S. military intervention and a wider conflict have receded.
Signs of a possible reconciliation between Iran and the West have also calmed geopolitical worries and raised the chance of more Iranian oil sales after years of sanctions that have cut oil exports by more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd).
Brent crude for November fell 25 cents to $107.91 per barrel by 1300 GMT, after settling at its lowest close in four sessions on Monday. November U.S. crude was off 79 cents at $102.81 a barrel, down for a fourth day.
"Oil prices are continuing on their downward trajectory," said Carsten Fritsch, senior commodities and oil analyst at Commerzbank. "The declining risk premium and rising oil production suggest that further price falls are imminent."
Iran has agreed to talks on its nuclear programme with top diplomats from six world powers, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, raising hopes that Tehran's relations with the United States could thaw.
U.S. officials have also said a meeting is possible this week between President Barack Obama and Iran's new centrist president, Hassan Rouhani.
"Geopolitical tensions are reducing and oil output is rising, so these two factors are driving oil futures to moderate," IHS analyst Victor Shum said.
"The geopolitical tone over Iran has been dialled down. The other development is progress over Syria's situation," he added.
The United Nations may this week back a U.S.-Russian plan to rid Syria of chemical arms.
Syria is not a major oil producer but traders worry any escalation of Middle East violence could disrupt oil flows.
Oil supply has, meanwhile, improved as Iraq boosted output from its Rumaila field after plugging a leaking pipeline, although planned work continued to keep a lid on exports from OPEC's No. 2 producer after Saudi Arabia.
Libya is also gradually ramping up output after protests crippled its oil sector. The OPEC producer could reopen its eastern Hariga port this week but there has been no progress opening larger eastern terminals that have been shut for weeks, a senior government official said on Monday. (Additional reporting by Florence Tan in Singapore; editing by Jason Neely and James Jukwey)

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A9 TV; 26 October 2011
(In response to a viewer who said: "You compliment your female followers too much. What if you were to make a change and not make all these compliments?)
My dear brother, these compliments stem from the powerful joy in my heart. My love is no normal love. It is not the kind you are familiar with. You cannot imagine the effect that beauty has on me. There is a huge capacity for love in my soul. Nobody who has not experienced it can understand. You would be amazed. Because in society and the world, the way of the dajjal [antichrist] taken love away from people. That is also in the Torah and the hadiths. The first thing the dajjal takes away is love. That is why even an ordinary love amazes people, and a fervent love astounds them utterly. That stems from love being taken away by the dajjal. Otherwise, you would regard this love as quite normal and very pleasant in the time of the way of the Mahdi. That is why you must set your heart to the way of the Mahdi. It is because of the harm done by the dajjal that you are so amazed. That is the reason for the general amazement in society. People are also amazed by helpful types. They regard people who want to help others as suckers. Don't they? When you try to rescue someone they say, "What are you doing, why be such a sucker?" I saw this from China the other day. A car drove over a toddler and carried along on its way. Right in front of other Chinese people. One, two, three, they kept on showing it. People looked on and walked by eating their seeds. The child was writhing in pain. Another car came and ran over the child, too. But nobody did anything. Eventually that child died. Crushed to death. Then they took her dead body away. That is lovelessness. Now someone says to me, "You should be like that, too." I am not under the influence of the dajjal. I am the system that drowns the dajjal. That is why that does not happen in me. You will get used to it, insha'Allah. I will teach you love. You will learn to love and be loved. You will learn to love fervor. Do not expose me to the dajjal's propaganda, the propaganda of lovelessness. My job is to smother the dajjal. Muslims have a duty to smother the dajjal. The souls here, the little cats, also have a duty to tear the dajjal apart. We will all destroy the way of the dajjal. We will eradicate lovelessness, ruthlessness and injustice, insha'Allah. I have to be crazy in the face of this beauty, for not to feel fervor. I am powerfully affected by it. Why should I hide it? My soul is in fervor. Why should I hide it? I find relief by talking about it. I talk about my love. I look at a lovely child, at a lovely shop. Japanese children are really cute. Good enough to eat. But some people just stare around in a bovine manner. They never speak and are totally unaware. But I look, as if I were hypnotized. They are so cute and sweet. People kick cats on the street. But they are so cute. A mother and her kittens together, for instance. But people do not comprehend. Flowers grow up, but people look at them the same way a cow would. With hollow eyes. People tell me, "You are rather different." I am human, and a Muslim, that is why. A Muslim must be full of love.
(In response to those who say it is improper for women to appear on television)
If it were up to them, they would not be allowed out on the street, either. Laughing would not be permitted. If we excluded all the supposedly prohibited things, the only permissible thing would be dying. Nothing else would be permissible. That is so very wrong. You have misrepresented Muslims and thus ruined them. Look, that imbecile inflicted terrible trouble on Libya and they duly humiliated him. I watched his last moments on tape. The imbecile brought it all on himself. But if he had listened to me he could have finished the matter with honor. He had the foolishness and craziness of the fanatic, the stubbornness of the fanatic, and Allah inflicted a terrible end on him. The foolishness of the bigot is enormous. Women must be everywhere in life, in Parliament and hospitals, out on the streets and everywhere. Do not be so foolish. Look, let me give an example from the hajj [pilgrimage]. Men and women perform the hajj together. So where do you get that idea from? Bigotry knows no bounds. If you let bigotry take hold of you, it is a bottomless pit. Look where it has got to now. No appearing on television. And what about Parliament? They can't go there. Can they go to restaurants? No. Or school? No school, either. And what parts of the house are permissible? They will say, "The window must not be too close to the street." The house must not give onto the street. They must not laugh or talk or move. They want to stop them being human. These psychopathic ideas, the hatred of women of the old pagans and polytheists, are a left-over from former times. But women are everywhere when we look at the Qur'an. The Prophet Joseph (pbuh) and that woman were alone in the same room. He spent his whole life with her. The Prophet Moses (pbuh) talked with the daughters of the prophet, and women liked the Prophet Moses (pbuh). They said he was "strong and reliable." The Prophet Solomon (pbuh) brought the Queen of Sheba over and played a joke on her, telling her to enter the pool. She got her legs ready, but then realized it was a joke. He was instrumental in the woman coming to have faith. There are many examples in the Qur'an and the hadiths and in life, and you can see it on the hajj. But they are trying to get even further down into the bottomless pit of bigotry and to ruin Muslims even more, as if they have not already done so enough. And there are no such problems on other problems. They have music programs of all kinds. Women appear on them.
Most female speakers have low necklines. I have seen that on all channels. They use women in advertising, insha'Allah. There is a video film about that. Can you show it? My apologies to my brothers there. I am not accusing anyone, but I can find no other explanation for why they are not made uncomfortable when watching programs everywhere else. "Why are their heads uncovered?" Do you know what would happen? You could not go out of doors at all. But you go to school and take the bus or the tram, and all the women there have their heads uncovered. The teachers are all uncovered. Seventy percent of Turkey is bare-headed. So what is this logic all about? I really cannot understand it. There are women everywhere. There is no end to them. The people who try to tell us what to do generally watch that kind of channel, and then try to give us advice. Why do women appear on the television? It should not be allowed, they say. There are women on all channels, and you see them everywhere, on the streets and in their homes. You see them in the markets and at the butcher's shop. What kind of savage thinking is this? If they could, they would put them all into sacks and sew the mouths shut. That is a totally fanatical mindset, and totally mistaken. It is nothing more than jealousy. Because my female colleagues are all very, very attractive, full of love, very classy, whose faces radiate love and passion. But they despise them and look at them as if they were horrible and filthy.
It is all envy. They find it very difficult as this is the first time they have seen women looking at them with passion. These are people who have never known love in their lives. No such lovely, high quality women ever appear before them. Because women do not regard such horrible people as worthy of them. They are repelled by them. So why dress up and groom themselves for them? Why treat such horrible men well, such base people? Men who are so utterly stinking and vile? They turn up before these men in the most unkempt state because they regard them as totally unworthy of them. They put up with all that filth because of their money. Of course, there is a huge passion, love and warmth here. They stink, and their wives stink. They are really filthy. They have no idea of beauty and their homes are horrible. They are horrible themselves. They are amazed when they see a life resembling paradise, because they are so used to that particular hell. Because women are genuinely repelled; these men have bad breath and terrible body odor. Everything about them stinks. The women are the same. They turn up just as filthy. They are used to it. And seeing a decent human being takes them aback. They must renounce all that, insha'Allah. Because these people have really lost the thread; they sit in their gloomy homes and look at one another and are mutually repelled. They fight and badmouth one another. They constantly fight and put one another down. A really hellish life. But they look at these other people and see love and friendship and brotherhood. Someone devotes many long years, he graduates and makes money, he buys a house and has more money in the bank, but he is still not happy. He has not found love. He has never found anyone to love him with a passion. But then he looks and everyone here loves everyone else with a passion. It is the first time he sees such passion and love, and it tears at his heart. "I have striven all my life but never seen even a millionth of that love," he says, "never a millionth of that respect."


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1) The Rangers have thieved games like this the past couple of years, but in most of those, it was Henrik Lundqvist doing the stealing. This one was hard to explain. Except that, as usual, the Rangers stuck to the plan, kept on playing, and somehow got two critical goals and another win.
2) Speaking of those two goals, how nifty are Marian Gaborik's hands, and how cool was that little play he made to tuck the puck past Tim Thomas? And then Derek Stepan's shot. He's had more than a couple of shots, in the games and in the breakaway contests, that made you go "Wow!" this year.
3) There were some fluky goals in this one, too. The third Boston goal was a play that Dan Girardi actually broke up with a dive and a stick on the ice. But the puck hit the stick and ended up right on Krejci's stick. Otherwise it's a nothing play. And the Carl Hagelin 2-0 goal never should have gone in … but give the kid credit. That was some kind of use of that amazing speed to get to the puck and sweep it around the back of the net.
4) On the other hand were the two up-the-middle cough-ups by Anton Stralman and Girardi. I don't recall a game all season in which the Rangers did that twice. I can't even remember one of those that ended up in the net this season. Both of those did on Sunday.
5) I don't blame Lundqvist for either of those. I really don't And you can't fault him for the third goal. That said, I thought he looked a little bit off, especially early on. And he got some help from his posts. Nevertheless, he was good when he had to be, especially at the end, and he deserved to win.
6) The Rangers got five out of six points in three games in less than four days without Ryan Callahan. Pretty impressive. But, man, they miss their captain. Also, Girardi, Michael Del Zotto and Ruslan Fedotenko played despite being pretty banged up. Why, with such a big lead in the standings and a playoff berth virtually assured? Because it would take an elephant tranquilizer for those guys to not play, especially against a team like the Bruins. Says a lot about the Rangers, doesn't it? The Block Ness Monster's arm was hideously swollen and discolored. And how about that hit on Lucic?
7) The game was as rugged and mean as expected, and the Bruins sure showed their nastiness again. But that garbage Milan Lucic pulled after the buzzer, jumping Ryan McDonagh, that was way over the line. The Rangers might want to file that. And since Lucic is never going to fight John Scott in a million years — nobody wanted any part of Scott yesterday — the best way to get revenge is for somebody to rough up one of the Bruins' skill players. Why not?
8) How about that brief time when John Tortorella used a line of Mike Rupp (6-5, 243), Brian Boyle (6-7, 244) and Scott (6-8, 270)? I am almost certain that was the biggest line in the history of the NHL.
9) Did the Rangers first power play really begin with John Mitchell on the ice and Marian Gaborik on the bench? Really?
10) Can NBC show a replay of a goal that's not shot by a camera nine miles away? And did NBC jump out of MSG quickly enough because Tiger Woods was making a charge in the PGA event to follow? Missed what nearly became a really bad incident when, after the Lucic cheap-shot, Scott and Zdeno Chara went toward each other with both teams completely on the ice.
11) Continuing the Garden concourse dining tour: Finally tried the prime rib sandwich. Very, very good. Very, very expensive. I woulln't do it again at that price (like $19). Special thanks to somebody who knows what the hell I'm talking about.
12) So it's a 10-point lead on the Penguins in the Patrick Division, and a 12-point lead on the Bruins in the race for the No. 1 seed. Just wow.
My Three Rangers Stars:
1) Marian Gaborik.
2) Derek Stepan.
3) Carl Hagelin.
@HagsToRichards' Three Rangers Stars:
1) Derek Stepan.
2) Brad Richards.
3) Michael Del Zotto.
Photo credits:
Stick salute, Girardi, Hagelin goal — AP photos.
Prust — Getty Images.
Here is my column on the game, in The Journal News and on LoHud.com today.


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some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England
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Good for you!! I love the British English, favour, colour, and whilst ..ReplyDelete
love the pillow!ReplyDelete
i've been feeling mopey all year, too. i'm looking forward to spring... hoping that'll be the kick in the pants i need.
There's nothing wrong with flavour and colour or any of the other words that are spelled slightly different. Nothing wrong with those British Army officers on the pillow, either. I keep meaning to make myself a nice Union Jack pillow.ReplyDelete
i love this, and i'm not usually very patriotic at all..i cant' stand union jack prints, but i love these little soldiers! :)ReplyDelete
I love your cushion( as you and I know a pillow is what you rest your head on at night, but when in Rome and all that!),as to the guardsmen- I notice you haven't commented about their head-gear!!Apparently they are still made of real bearskin! I think they have static problems with fake fur!!ReplyDelete
These are adorable. I"m an English ex-pat too, and I'm always trying to sneak some British flavour into the house. You do some really cool things, I enjoy your blog.ReplyDelete
football...when it comes to it at world cup (maybe the only time anyway..) my man is portuguese and I am french..that's the only time every four years that I can become quite mad at him !! Stupid, I know...but it's fun too :-)ReplyDelete
Loooove your cushion !!!!
Hope you have a lovely day !!!!
Good for you Dawn!! Keep it up!ReplyDelete
I hope you got to see some of the rugby at the weekend! some fantastic games!!
I proudly wore my England jersey and hat for that game, and dressed up our dual citizen daughter in a pretty London dress! (good thing that game was a tie, it could have been an issue at our house!)ReplyDelete
My uncle was a queen's guard. I just love your pillows!
British soldiers look so much more interesting! Love the pillows =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Thank you for the laugh on so many levels: spelling, cultural, vocabulary, etc.ReplyDelete
i think the mopes are going around - it's time for spring, etc.ReplyDelete
i'm all for tipping the scales too. in my house it's tipping the scales in favor of gender (considering i'm the lone female in the group) rather than nationality, but it's the same general idea.
Love those fuzzy hats!ReplyDelete
I've been rather unmotivated for a few weeks also. It happens every once in a while. But the sewing bug always comes back. :)
Hup, two, three, four - you go! Pillow is insanely good.ReplyDelete
Oh dear... tax documents...ReplyDelete
Well, procrastinate on! And cheer up, after all you're in California where it's Spring already! Best from icy (not so badly anymore, I will confess) New York.
ugh...you've mentioned the "T" word!! no wonder you're feeling so mopey...i can't believe it's already that time of year again!ReplyDelete
the dual culture is tough! i could go on and on on that topic...you're handling it well... :)
love the pillow!! you've captured their postures beautifully :)
Just 'found' you! I love your cushion...I use pillows in bed too :o) Keep flying the flag.ReplyDelete
you've captured the movement of the legs beautiful. Quite something as I don't think I've ever seen a Beefeater actually move ;o)ReplyDelete
Lovely! And of course, I approve of encouraging the British-ness however you can:) Hope the mopes disappear with the arrival of spring.ReplyDelete
Greetings from Germany with TWO sisters in laws from the States...ReplyDelete
A wonderful British pillow - I love the soldiers!
And yes keep reminding the American nation about Europe and especially YOUR home country.
The German schools only teach British English. :>


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IchiEnSou is situated in an idyllic location, just off the main street in Gion, where you can see Kyoto's geishas and explore one of Japan's most traditional areas. We are close to both the city centre and numerous temples and shrines within 5 minute walk.
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The ex-player shall remain unnamed, but not unshamed. Ron Rivera just remembers that a teammate had become a problem, and when a problem arose with those now-legendary Chicago Bears of 1985, it was dealt with swiftly and decisively.
And ever so personally.
"We were getting ready for the playoffs and one of the younger players was screwing around," Rivera said. "A group of the veteran guys took that player and sort of pushed him down to the tool shed. The guy was told, 'Hey, get it straight. You're messing with our playoff checks.' "
Sitting on a cart at Chargers Park on only his third morning as the team's new defensive coordinator, Rivera offered the anecdote merely as insight and illustration of what made the '85 Bears work, not meaning it as any sort of mandate or greater statement about the current condition of the Chargers. Given the events of the past couple of weeks in San Diego, though, feel free to glean from it what you will.
"Taking ownership," Rivera continued. "That's what it was all about for us, taking ownership of each other. (Coach Mike) Ditka got us to take ownership. By that I mean, guys held each other accountable. Guys got on each other about practicing hard, got on each other about going out and being safe, being the designated driver, doing the right thing, not getting carried away. We were self-governing."
Tough as Army nails, too.
Naturally, with the struggles the Chargers have been having this season and the dismissal of Ted Cottrell as defensive coordinator, the onus now is on Rivera to create more pressure on opposing quarterbacks and receivers who have been having field days against San Diego.
Whether Rivera's schemes and play-calling are much different from Cottrell's – and they likely will be over these last eight weeks of the regular season – they surely shall be less important than how a well-manned, underachieving defense implements his strategies and hunches.
"That man knows his football," said Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher via telephone from Chicago, "and he knows how to get you to play football."
Urlacher was Chicago's middle linebacker and NFL Defensive Player of the Year when Rivera – who spent his entire playing career (1984-92) as a Bears linebacker – was coordinator of a league-leading defense that put the Monsters of the Midway in their only Super Bowl besides 1985.
The Bears allowed the fewest points in the NFL in 2005 and the fewest in the NFC in his final season of 2006, and Rivera was widely credited for restoring the Bears' reputation for playing like commandos.
"From his intensity, yeah, you'd know (Rivera) was a linebacker," said Chargers outside linebacker Jyles Tucker. "He demands the best out of you. He has a high expectation level. If we go over something and he gives you great detail and you prepare the whole week on it, he expects you to get the job done."
Rivera got his toughness and sense of discipline from his father, Eugene Rivera, a former chief warrant officer and combat engineer who served two tours in Vietnam. Fittingly, Tucker got his first opinion of Ron Rivera from his own dad.
"My father (Gerald Ratliff) was a big football fanatic, a big Pittsburgh Steelers fan, so you know he was big on defense," Tucker said. "I thought the Steel Curtain was it for him, but he also talked about the '85 Bears and that defense when I was growing up. He told me about certain people, like Mike Singletary. One of those guys my father told me about just so happened to come here to coach last year."
Meaning, Rivera. Now, why Singletary's a head coach in the NFL and Rivera isn't is almost as much a subject of conjecture as the question why Rivera isn't still with the Bears.
Taking the latter first, the Bears didn't renew Rivera's contract after the Super Bowl season, ostensibly because head coach Lovie Smith wanted to bring in Bob Babich, a close friend since the two were college teammates.
So how's that working out? The Bears tumbled to last place in the division in 2007, 28th in yards allowed. This season they're back atop the NFC North at 4-3, but have had a habit of blowing games late. During Rivera's three-year tenure, the Bears went 26-1 when leading after three quarters.
Ironically, Smith was among those pushing hardest for another team to make a head coach of Rivera, who actually was victimized by the Bears' success of 2006. With the Bears busy preparing for a Super Bowl – and league rules prohibiting coaches from playoff teams to interview with other franchises past a certain point in the postseason – Rivera wasn't able to fully pursue openings.
Invariably, Rivera's name came up among the hottest candidates for teams without head coaches, and he interviewed with nine of them over a two-year span. That included the Chargers before they hired Norv Turner and the Dallas Cowboys before they hired Wade Phillips, who was San Diego's defensive coordinator before Cottrell, and the wheel went round and round.
"It's baffling to me sometimes," Rivera said. "Because you really wonder, especially when someone they choose over you doesn't have the success. Other times you say, 'I can see why they made the choices they did,' and understand.
"I can definitely understand what happened here because of what we've done here offensively (under Turner). I can understand what happened in Dallas. But there are a couple teams where I just sit there and go, 'Wow.' I really wonder about those. I wonder why. I still wonder."
Every vacancy was filled when Rivera, getting the clear impression that Chicago wasn't bringing him back, signed on with San Diego. Actually, he'd been asked during his interview for the Chargers' head-coaching position whether he'd be interested in an assistant's position if not chosen to replace Marty Schottenheimer, and it said a lot about Rivera's value that he was hired the same day as Turner and Cottrell.
Specifically, he agreed to coach inside linebackers, a bit like a supervisor going back to work on the assembly line. It gave Rivera a chance to not only join an AFC team with a certifiable shot at the Super Bowl, but to further enhance his résumé, to gain more experience with a system based on the 3-4.
"Defense is defense," Urlacher said. "It's a different scheme, but it's football. They're usually rushing four guys, too. There are just different concepts. We didn't blitz a lot when he was here. We were so good up front, we played a lot of Cover 2. If we needed to, though, we could.
"The thing about the blitz is that it makes you vulnerable. But if you stink and you can't get pressure on the quarterback, you've got to blitz."
As a player, Rivera followed the guidance of Buddy Ryan, whose junkyard-dog defenses had quarterbacks looking through their ear holes for seldom-open receivers. Before he was the Bears' defensive coordinator, Rivera was a position coach with the Philadelphia Eagles, a team that lives and dies with the blitzes called by ultra-aggressive coordinator Jim Johnson.
"I love Jim Johnson," said Chargers strong safety Clinton Hart, who spent his rookie season of 2003 with the Eagles. "I'm pretty sure Ron got some good ideas from him. Ron's worked with a lot of great coaches. He's coached the Bears in a Super Bowl. I'm sure there are things he wants to do. We'll see what those things are. But we, as players, have to be accountable."
The players, as noted by Rivera himself, could expect to see a different side of their new defensive coordinator. For obvious reasons, he said he suppressed himself in his role as assistant coach, respectful of Cottrell's position.
Just in his first few days after the promotion, Rivera showed that he still plans on staying very hands-on, working after practice with linebackers on techniques. A screamer, he isn't. Heck, he isn't even much on swearing, if only out of respect for a higher authority.
"I'm not a cusser," Rivera said. "We had a situation in Chicago where something came up and I didn't realize the media was as close as it was. They probably caught 65-70 percent of what I said and it was reported and put on the Internet. My mom (Dolores) heard it and called me and said, 'I can't believe you use those words.' I said, 'Well, they were for emphasis, Mom.' That's not who I am."
The Chargers also gave Rivera a chance to get his family closer to family. Born to the Army in Fort Ord, he was raised on military bases in Germany, Panama, Washington and Maryland, but the Riveras wound up back on the Central California coast. A three-sport star at Seaside High, he's still regarded among the greatest linebackers to play at the University of California, graduating with a degree in social science.
"I was limited athletically," Rivera said. "I didn't have the talents, didn't quite have the speed, that some of these guys have. So I had to understand my limitations to best put myself in position to make plays."
Rivera's wife, Stephanie, was a Cal basketball player who went on to coach in the WNBA. Their son, Christopher, recently graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts and daughter Courtney is a softball pitcher at Cathedral Catholic High. There's a patch of grass at Chargers Park, measured off at 40 feet, where Rivera catches his daughter's practice pitches during dinner breaks.
"That's our family time," Rivera said. "When I was coordinator in Chicago, it was hard, because there were days where I wouldn't see her awake until Friday. I'd come home Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and she'd already be asleep. We try to set some time aside. That's when we get to talk."
Just as his kids weren't yet around to see the '85 Bears, most of the Chargers probably identified Rivera more as coordinator of the Bears' last Super Bowl team than a player with the '85 Bears.
"Eighty-five?" said defensive end Luis Castillo. "I was 2."
He'd have loved them. They won. And they won fun.
"I've heard people call it the first rock-star team," Rivera said. "We had the different personalities. The Fridge and the punky QB and, God love him, Walter Payton. We had Ditka and Buddy and their clash of the titans.
"We had the Super Bowl Shuffle. We had the arrogance. We had the walk."
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Exciting results from the ArgusIIRetinalProsthesisSystem('ArgusII')clinical trial were presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) 2011 Annual Meeting. The clinical trial included 30 subjects implanted in 10 centers worldwide, and has run for nearly 4 years. The results that were presented from the trial showed that the Argus II System provided significant improvements in vision for the blind subjects who are suffering from profound Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Two paper presentations outlined the safety, reliability and performance of the system. In February 2011, Argus II became the first such treatment for the blind to obtain the CE Mark and make the leap from research to the marketplace in Europe. An application for FDA approval in the US is being submitted in 2011.
Argus II is Second Sight's second generation implantable device intended to treat blind people suffering from degenerative diseases such as RP. The system works by converting video images captured from a miniature camera, housed in the patient's glasses, into a series of small electrical pulses that are transmitted wirelessly to an array of electrodes on the surface of the retina (epi-retinal). These pulses are intended to stimulate the retina's remaining cells resulting in the corresponding perception of patterns of light in the brain. Patients can learn to interpret these visual patterns thereby gaining some functional vision.
Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Neurobiology, Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, presented the interim performance results from the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis trial:
With over 70 cumulative subject-years of follow-up on 30 subjects, this is the largest trial of a visual prosthesis to date. The results confirm previous reports of the ability of Argus II to provide visual function over the long- term.
"All subjects implanted with a SecondSight®ArgusIIRetinalProsthesisSystempreviously had only bare light perception or worse vision due to RP or related outer retinal degenerative disease. During the clinical trial we were pleased to observe the promising results of the system that revealed that all 30 subjects in the trial obtained visual perceptions from the device. A large majority of them experienced benefit from the system in terms of visual function tests that ranged from localizing and identifying an object to grating visual acuity. Functional vision orientation and mobility tests demonstrate that subjects were significantly better at performing visual tasks such as following a line or finding a door with the system ON vs. OFF. These gains in vision were maintained by many subjects during long-term follow-up (i.e. > 2 years)," explained Professor Humayun.
Dr. Humayun also reported on research conducted by Dr. Paulo Stanga, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon for the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, UK, that showed that subjects fitted with Argus II were able to consistently perceive colors.
"We were delighted to observe, for the first time ever, that nine participants were able to reliably and repeatedly perceive up to eight different colors using Argus II", said Dr. Stanga. "Color perception could be achieved by precisely controlling aspects of the electrical stimulation. Color vision obtained in this manner represents a unique feature of an epi-retinal approach employing an external camera and processor."
Argus II is the first retinal prosthesis in which the feasibility of reading sentences with prosthetic vision has been demonstrated.
As cited by Professor Sahel, Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology: Centre Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France. "The fact that two of our patients implanted with Argus II were actually able to correctly read 4-word sentences, was beyond our highest expectations. We were also excited to observe that reading speeds increased quickly for these motivated patients, and that one patient was able to read at the rate of ten words per minute".
April Lufriu, recently crowned Mrs. America, and Tampa Bay Chapter President for the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), was excited by the Argus II results. "It is a blessing that Argus II has already helped so many people suffering from severe RP. As a person who is afflicted with the disease, it was a pleasure meeting some of the trial participants, and to see that Argus II can restore some functional vision to them. We should all be encouraged that a treatment for this disease is now available in Europe and, hopefully, soon here in the US as well."
SecondSightMedicalProducts,Inc.,locatedinLosAngeles,California,wasfoundedin1998tocreate aretinalprosthesistoprovidesighttopatientsblindedfromouterretinaldegenerations,suchas RetinitisPigmentosa.Throughdedicationandinnovation,SecondSight'smissionistodevelop, manufactureandmarketimplantablevisualprostheticstoenableblindindividualstoachievegreater independence.ArgusIIisnotyetapprovedforsaleintheUnitedStates.EuropeanHeadquartersarein Lausanne,Switzerland.SecondSightisaregisteredtrademarkandArgusisatrademarkofSecond SightMedicalProducts,Inc.
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The Sensitive Lands sections of the Community Development Code regulate development in or near Sensitive Lands in order to protect wildlife habitat and water quality.
The City Council is currently considering major revisions to the Sensitive Lands program. The Council has developed an initial proposal to remove Sensitive Lands districts from private residential properties and use other methods to protect natural resources. Lake Oswego uses the Sensitive Lands program to comply with regional and state laws, so it will take time to develop a detailed plan that meets regional and state requirements. Staff began working on the plan this fall; click on the "Proposed Revisions to Sensitive Lands" link below for additional information and updates.
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After reading my columns over the past month you've built yourself a well-diversified, multi-asset class portfolio. But you have this lingering sense of doubt.
Two residual questions snake through your mind. What is my bedrock, all-weather, all-terrain asset-class? My go-to-guy when the world starts spinning off its axis? The second thing you wonder about is how to get more granular about our $3.6 trillion housing market. Where exactly should you invest?
If anyone tells you with confidence what is going to happen over the next year or so, you should probably switch off. Nobody can forecast our chaotic and complex futures over the long run. The best you can do is plan for a range of contingencies.
I find it helpful to conceive of two extremes. The first involves deflation, global recession, and ultra-low interest rates. The second is a world that has some growth coupled with rampant inflation and, eventually, stonking interest rates.
Put a gun to my head and I'd speculate that all roads ultimately lead to inflation. Most developed counties are wilting under the weight of ballooning public and private debt burdens. The quickest ways to reduce debt are to default or to allow inflation to chisel away at the fixed dollar value of your obligations.
The inflationary path is superficially more palatable. It is less destabilising in the short run and allows you to leave rates comfortably low for a time. Everything looks peachy until you end up having to cauterise spiralling inflation with destructively steep rates. The Bundesbank understands this endgame, which is why it advocates fronting up to austerity now instead of kicking the can down the road.
Unsurprisingly, myopic politicians have opted for Easy Street. Increasingly non-independent central banks are running near-zero interest rates with the aim of stoking inflation. Over-the-horizon problems are not on their radar screens.
They are printing trillions of new dollars to buy government and corporate debts, and to lend directly to banks, to artificially suppress rates.
People forget that central bank balance sheets have to balance. So the new assets they create by printing money must be matched by new liabilities. Overall taxpayer indebtedness is mounting.
Central banks have no magic wand with which to disappear debt. It is being passed from one hand to the next with the hope inflation will cause it to atrophy.
At call, variable rate cash assets are the Humvee of all investments. If the global economy endures an acute recession and deflation, cash preserves the value of your capital and offers the prospect of decent real or deflation-adjusted returns. If and when robust inflation starts materialising, we are in the fortunate position of having a central bank that explicitly targets consumer prices with its official rate.
In Australia, if not in other countries, high inflation leads to high short-term cash rates. Recall that in January 1990 you could earn 17 per cent on a bank deposit.
Crunching the past 22 years of numbers, I've found the correlation between the Reserve Bank of Australia's cash rate and core inflation in Australia is a strong 60-70 per cent. After deducting inflation, the RBA's cash rate gave you an average annual real return of about 3 per cent, which is what most super funds seek.
A word of warning on fixed-income, though. Fixed-rate bonds expose you to the risk of capital loss if interest rates rise. This is why there is a popular perception that bonds are bad inflation hedges. Even in Australia, longer-term yields on fixed-rate bonds are at historically low levels. Funds that hold these assets could suffer substantial losses if rates start rising again. Variable-rate cash investments do not carry this duration risk. The returns these assets produce move in sympathy with the RBA's rate with no changes in the capital value of your investment.
What about your second question? Today housing is an extremely interest-rate sensitive sector. While Australia's household debt-to-disposable income ratio has not risen for six years, it remains at elevated heights. So one needs to be mindful of market timing.
In good news for property investors, the RBA now has an easing bias. Indeed, it is toying with the idea of shaving rates again before the year is out. Taking these facts as given, where should you put your money?
Since the end of the last housing boom in 2003, Sydney dwellings have provided staggeringly low annual capital gains of just 1.9 per cent (that is, they've declined in both inflation- and income-adjusted terms).
In comparison, Melbourne homes have done nearly three times better furnishing annual capital growth of 5.5 per cent. A trade-off of superior asset price appreciation has been weaker yields. Whereas Sydney apartments today offer gross rental yields of 4.9 per cent, you only get 4.4 per cent in Melbourne.
Crucially, however, these long-standing dynamics have started to reverse. In the past nine months, Sydney prices have outperformed all other major cities with 2 per cent growth. In contrast, Melbourne home values have contracted by a similar margin while the national market has moved sideways.
To inject more detail into this picture, I asked Rismark to identify the best and worst-performing suburbs across Australia's cities over the last year.
Suburbs in west and south-west Sydney, and the Fairfield-Liverpool regions, have been top of the pops with capital gains of between 5 per cent and 8 per cent.
This is a notable turnaround: for many years housing in south-west Sydney was the perennial dog.
Australia's worst-performing suburbs have been those located in south and inner Melbourne, where home values have slumped by 8 per cent to 10 per cent.
Our research shows that past housing performance tends to persist for several years. Accordingly, when looking for assets, you should carefully quantify recent rates of return.
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After IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo back in 2005, it seemed likely IBM would also in time shed itself of its only marginally profitable commodity x86 server division. Now IBM's done just that by selling its x86 server division to Lenovo as well, a move long rumored to be in the works.
But this $2.3 billion sale isn't merely about Lenovo trying to find new markets and profitability in commodity hardware. With it, Lenovo could in time become an IBM -- a sales-and-software juggernaut -- with IBM's current customers as a starting point.
On the face of it, Lenovo ought to be able to wring decent profits out of a server business, and not just because the profit margins for servers are consistently fatter than they are for the desktops. Lenovo has shown it can eke out good results in a bad market: It's one of the few PC makers to see an increase in sales across the course of 2013, even while the PC market as a whole has crumbled.
Lenovo's made fairly major hay from IBM's PC business, thanks not only to expanded sales outside of Asia, but also doing smart things like keeping Windows 7 widely available on its device lineup. But the x86 server market demands a different set of tactics than the desktop.
What might well work to Lenovo's advantage, though, is how this sale will give it access to a whole swath of IBM's existing client base. Such was the hypothesis cited by analyst Tony Yang at BOCI Research in Hong Kong, in a Bloomberg piece about the sale. His conceit is that "the service business will be Lenovo's major driver in the future" -- in other words, Lenovo is setting itself up to evolve into what IBM is now: a services-and-software company with hardware as a shrinking part of the overall picture.
Also, while IBM was happy to divest itself of its commodity x86 server business, it isn't about to give up its blade servers, let alone its high-end x86, Power, or mainframe offerings. IBM would be well-served to keep them all close to the chest -- not just because of the technology portfolio they represent, but also because of the lucrative vertical customer base and support contracts that goes with them.
Lenovo can't beef up IBM's commodity x86 server business overnight, but if Yang's insights are correct, it may not have to. There might well be secret sauces that Lenovo adds to IBM's low-end server lineup in the same way Lenovo kept the ThinkPad brand alive and well by edging it into tablet and convertible territory. But ultimately Lenovo's new server business may simply function as one piece of a larger services-oriented puzzle that Lenovo is putting together over time.
Another such piece, one that Lenovo has yet to act on decisively, is mobile. Lenovo has flirted distantly with mobile, in part by offering no-contract, pay-as-you-go cell service for some of its ThinkPad devices (albeit through a partner, Macheen), but it clearly wants a more central piece of the business mobile market, as it allegedly did with BlackBerry. Maybe the also-beleaguered HTC would be an easier buy -- perhaps not the most business-centric mobile device maker, but also one less likely to spark a row about security.
First things first, though: Lenovo needs to show how this acquisition is going to be worth the trouble -- which its shareholders are no doubt going to be thirsting to hear more about.
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I see Messam is back, how are they going to work both Boyd and Messam in same backfield. Nice problem to have.
Simpson has done a pretty good job in Winnipeg. Wonder how Messam will feel sharing the backfield with Boyd, got to be bumbed out he didn't even make a practice roster down south. Want to see him play first. But I can't see the Esk's keeping them both.
Messam signed on till end of 2014. That takes care of him, what happens with Boyd?
About the only team that needs a back is the Argos, and I can't see him going back there. Don't know what he's getting paid, but I think its more than any CFL team would want to pay for a back up.
But I won't be surprised in the next few weeks that some running back gets injured and they'll come knocking on the Eskimos door.
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Interested to see what they do with all the backs. Don't know how they can carry 2 imports at RB, esp. when the back signed longterm is Canadian. See if all 3 are in the game?
Messam, Boyd, Charles, and Mccarty all had rushes in last nights game but only combined for a total of 11 carries. Meanwhile Joseph had 7. Its time for them to do something about it cause I imagine all the players are starting to get confused and angry with their roles.
^ Keep Messam and Charles and try to deal Boyd. I guess unless they just sit him and wait for a back to go down on another team then move him out.
Kavis Reed the first coach to be fired in the offseason this year. Can't say I'm surprised, it was a disappointing year all around for the Esks
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Caused by car crashes, falls, or assaults, every year 1.7 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury. Now something approved decades ago, for a much different ailment, is helping speed recovery for some.
Life for Kim and her husband John, changed in an instant. For unknown reasons, Kim suffered a brain hemorrhage when she awoke from surgery she was in a minimally conscious state.
"She could squeeze your finger, but wasn't communicative. She would say typically one word or up to three word answers for things and would tend not to speak at all unless spoken to," John said..
Dr. Joseph Giacino is the director of rehabilitation neuropsychology and associate professor of the department of PM&R at Harvard Medical School Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. There is no standard treatment for severe brain injuries, but Giacino hopes his research helps change that.
"This is the first trial to demonstrate that we can indeed influence the course of recovery from severe traumatic brain injury," he explained.
It focuses on amantadine, a common drug for Parkinson's that was originally used to treat respiratory infections caused by the flu. In the trial, brain injury patients were either given amantadine or a placebo for four weeks. At four weeks the flu drug group improved by one point over the placebo group on the disability scale.
"Restoring you know, human interaction between family to family, between a patient and a health care team," Giacino said. "I think that's a very significant step forward."
One that paves the way to testing amantadine on more patients like Kim. She's been on the drug for six weeks.
"it has kept all of our hopes for her alive," John said.
"I think it's going very well," Kim said.
Those in the study who received amantadine recovered the ability to answer yes and no questions and consistently follow commands within four weeks which was faster than participants taking the placebo. Two weeks after treatment stopped, the level of recovery in both groups was about the same.
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Los Angeles, Sep 12 (IANS) Music mogul Simon Cowell is going with the flow and is not ruling out the idea of marrying Lauren Silverman.
Silverman is expecting her first child with Cowell, who believes it is important to do whatever one feels is right, reports tmz.com.
Asked if he plans to marry Silverman, Cowell said: "I'm not ruling anything out in the future. If you asked me a year ago, at my age am I going to have a baby, I probably would have said 'no'. So you've just got to take each day as it comes now."
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So Close and Yet So FarRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I saw the happy pair pass by,
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While it doesn't provide a cure, it sure does provide a dose of soothing comfort. And, you don't need to have a cold to be able to enjoy this popular pick-me-up with time-tested botanicals Eucalyptus, Fennel, Horehound and other aromatics. Olive Oil, Aloe Vera and Allantoin are the perfect antidote to soothe the skin.
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Health Sciences Education Union (HSEU)
This state-of-the-art Health Sciences Education Union (HSEU) is located in the new heart of the Saint Louis University Medical Center.
The tiered 225-seat auditorium is designed to give students the ability to move around and form teams for group discussions. Computer connections and outlets are at every seat.
Since its opening in August 2011, the brick and glass 30,000-square-foot HSEU has been a hub of activity at the Medical Center, serving as a sleek and welcoming front door for future health care professionals.
The building is designed to bring together medical, nursing, allied health, public health and graduate dental students not only for lunch at the café but also for interprofessional education (IPE). This program is one of the nation's first of its kind to create a formal curriculum that teaches health care students from different professional paths how to work together as a team to provide the best possible patient care.
- Two student lounge areas — one designed for socializing and the other for quiet study
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Ever feel you've read all there is to read about China's growth as a world manufacturing power? Well, did you know that China now has almost complete control of the world's umbrella market?
China exported over $2.4bn of umbrellas, walking-sticks and whips in 2010, over three quarters – and rising – of global export share.


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Garcia picks up first victory as O's take series edge
Jones homers in third straight game; Valencia adds two-run shot
TORONTO -- The Orioles carried a comfortable lead into the eighth inning that quickly evaporated after Toronto strung together a rally to get back in the contest. But Baltimore clamped down to win its second straight game, 6-5 on Saturday, and has the long ball to thank, yet again, for building an early cushion.
Baltimore hit two more homers, giving it nine over the first three games of the series, and continued its strong offensive showing on the road, scoring five-plus runs away from Camden Yards for the eighth consecutive game -- the first time the club has achieved that feat since 1998.
Danny Valencia and Adam Jones each went deep, while Freddy Garcia earned his first win of the season in front of 35,915 at Rogers Centre on Saturday.
"We have a team that can drive the ball out of the park. We score in a lot of unique ways, and we trusted Freddy," said Jones, whose eight homers at Rogers Centre since 2012 is the most by any opponent. "I just see the ball good here."
With Baltimore ahead, 6-3, in the eighth, Toronto scored two runs off reliever Steve Johnson -- Darren O'Day, who entered for Johnson, allowed an inherited run to score -- to make it a one-run game.
But the Orioles escaped Toronto's surge with a lead intact and turned to closer Jim Johnson for the ninth inning, who had a clean frame with one punchout to record his 15th save of the season.
"Jim Johnson closing a one-run lead on the road in the American League East against a team as hot as anybody, that's pretty impressive," manager Buck Showalter said.
Before the Blue Jays' comeback, the Orioles couldn't be stopped by Toronto ace R.A. Dickey.
Chris Davis put Baltimore on the board first by ripping a ground-rule double down the right-field line to drive in Manny Machado before the following batter, J.J. Hardy, helped the Orioles tack some more runs on the board.
Hardy drove a 1-0 pitch on a line to center field for a two-run single to put Baltimore in front, 3-0. It was the second consecutive game that the Orioles jumped out to a three-run lead in the first inning.
The homers soon followed, starting with Valencia's blast in the third inning.
After Hardy recorded his second hit of the game on a two-out double, Valencia crushed a two-run shot into the second deck in left field to put Baltimore ahead, 5-2. It was Valencia's second homer of the season and second in as many nights.
Dickey settled in after that, containing the Orioles for over three innings before running into Jones in the seventh.
Jones was seeing the ball well against Dickey, as he just narrowly missed a monster home run off him in the third, sending a long fly into the top level in left that hooked foul. In his next at-bat, Jones was robbed of extra bases on a fantastic catch at the wall from Melky Cabrera in the fourth, but he got some measure of revenge against Dickey and ended his day by depositing a 1-1 pitch into the upper deck in left field to give the Orioles a 6-3 lead. It was Jones' ninth homer of the season, and he has tallied one in each game this series.
"It was a really nice play. It happens," Jones said of Cabrera's catch. "[But] it didn't deter me from my mission to do what I wanted to do."
The knuckleballer lasted 6 2/3 innings, allowing six runs on nine hits, while walking three and striking out four to fall to 4-6. Dickey had a string of three consecutive quality starts snapped and suffered his second loss of the season to Baltimore.
In two games vs. Dickey this season, the Orioles have tagged him for 10 runs on 15 hits over 12 2/3 innings.
"It was just tough to get the feel of it early," Dickey said about his knuckleball. "I grew into it a little bit, but by that time we had already given up three runs."
Despite Dickey's inconsistency, Showalter was still impressed with his performance.
"He pitched seven innings almost. That's R.A," Showalter said. "They're going to like him. He's a special breed and they're lucky to have him. [If] they get tired of him, pass him our way."
Garcia, meanwhile, allowed one run each in the first, second, and fifth innings, but he was able to prevent the Blue Jays from a big inning. Showalter was impressed that he didn't issue any free passes, like starter Chris Tillman the night before, and Garcia ended his outing by inducing a groundout to strand two runners.
The 36-year-old logged five innings of three-run ball, while striking out one and surrendering a season-high nine hits.
"I made a good pitch when I needed," Garcia said. "I just tried to keep the ball down, and I did it because the ball carries here."
Baltimore will look to win its second consecutive series on Sunday, with starter Miguel Gonzalez squaring off against Toronto's Chad Jenkins.
Chris Toman is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A Tosa resident for almost 20 years, Karen is a mom and freelance writer, addicted to playing tennis. When not on the tennis court, she spends the fall and winter in the stands at Green Bay Packer and Marquette basketball games.
Karen is the author of "Grab a Bite," a dining out column and the former community columnist for the Wauwatosa NOW newspaper.
Who Moved My Catholic Cheese?
I've been Catholic for about 51 years, although, I sometimes refer to myself as "half-Catholic" because my mom was the only Catholic parent in our house. Regardless, I've had many years and many weekly, and sometimes daily, masses to have the prayers of the Catholic liturgy burned into my brain.
This weekend will be the 4th that Catholics around the United States will experience the "new mass." In case you hadn't heard, the Catholic Church has re-translated some of the text in the mass thereby throwing many of us into a bit of a religious tailspin.
When this change was first announced, I will admit, I was angry. My opinion was that the Catholic Church has FAR bigger issues than the accuracy of our liturgical language. I'd prefer that challenges such as bringing young people back to the church, priest shortages and giving women more leadership roles in the church are more pressing than the words we speak during the mass. I still believe those things are important, but I'm a little less worked up about the "new mass" than I was before.
The first weekend that the "new mass" was introduced, I went to my church, Christ King in Wauwatosa, and stood with everyone else, "cheat cards" in hand. Fr. Johnny Burns, the associate pastor, was kind enough to "cue" us throughout the mass when something new was spoken. Along the way, there were a few giggles here and there, but together we worked through it. Here's what I discovered: For the first time, in a LONG time, I wasn't just mindlessly reciting the prayers. I was reading them and thinking about what they meant. I realized that I hadn't done that in a very long time. We Catholics love our traditions and the prayers that we speak during mass, for me, had become so ingrained that I'm pretty sure that most weeks I was doing more muttering than praying.
The second weekend of the "new mass," my husband and I were in Nashville. The church that we attended there, ironically, Christ THE King, was experiencing the same changes we had here in Wauwatosa. There were fewer verbal cues but still we had the same "cheat cards" and stumbled through the newness together as we did the week before.
No doubt about it, the new mass still feels, for me, awkward. I still have NO idea what "consubstantial" REALLY means and I'm almost always the person saying, incorrectly, "and also with you," instead of "and with your spirit."
But what I've realized is that the new mass is a change and sometimes change is hard and a little unsettling, but sometimes it's also good. As Spencer Johnson M.D. wrote in the 1998 book on change, Who Moved My Cheese: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" Honestly, I was afraid of this change and found it might not be the worst thing in the world.
This weekend, with Christmas falling on Sunday, there will be a WHOLE bunch more people experiencing the new mass for the first time. No doubt opinions will be rampant. I can't wait to hear what my kids think about it. That will certainly make for interesting Christmas dinner conversation!
I'll leave you with this video of Stephen Colbert's take on the new mass. As always, he's got a unique perspective that made me chuckle. Hopefully it won't offend anyone too much.
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