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When Hilaria Thomas said yes to the dress, she picked a simple yet beautiful confection by designer Amsale Anberra. Pics inside!
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We've already gotten a sneak peek of the gorgeous jewels Hilaria Thomas—sorry, Hilaria Baldwin—wore when walked down the aisle with Alec Baldwin two weeks ago; now, though, we've hit the big time: A look at her wedding gown!
Hilaria sat down with People two days after her wedding to chat about the epic event. "I originally went [to designer Amsale Aberra] wanting something very simple, she said; "I tried on maybe three dresses: One was short, one was a big puffy thing and then this one"—that is, the one she ended up wearing—"I loved it!"
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Amsale noted that Hilaria's attitude towards the wedding was nice and low-key, which is one of the things that made the dress she chose so perfect for her. "She is really down-to-earth and having that simplicity was important to her," the designer told People. "It's not about saying, 'Make me something nobody has seen! Make me an outrageous dress! She's a very easy-going person, and it did fit her personality." To honor her roots (her family is from Mallorca), she finished off the look with a traditional mantilla.
People's latest issue has loads more photos; it's on newsstands today. Talk about saying yes to the dress!
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Clint Eastwood's "Jersey Boys" is a handsome-looking movie. As with "J. Edgar," Eastwood and his cinematographer Tom Stern shoot this one in mostly low light giving the entire picture a noir-ish look that also punctuates James M. Murakami's production design and making the period décor — the movie spans from the 1950s to the 1990s — pop off the screen.
Based on the hit Broadway musical, "Jersey Boys" recounts the story of the music group Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons — from their origins in a tough New Jersey neighborhood, to their fame and, finally, to Valli's solo career. Unfortunately, the production design is the only thing that really pops as the movie — despite featuring some great music — suffers from a narrative that gets increasingly less interesting and more cliché, and from a general lack of energy. Even the musical performances failed to resonate.
The film does gets off to a pretty great start. When we first meet The Four Seasons, they're just a bunch of young Jersey hoods getting into trouble and, in their own words, "busting each other's balls."
There's bandleader Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza), the biggest troublemaker of the group; bassist Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda); and, of course, Mr. Valli himself (John Lloyd Young), the shyest member of the group but also the one with the voice that would catapult the band to fame. There's also Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen), the songwriter of the foursome who joins a little later.
The only section of the movie that has any kind of energy in it is when the four of them mess around with one another, as they play nightclubs and try to stay out of trouble, usually failing to do so — it's intoxicating. Not to mention that the four actors have incredible chemistry, playing off each other almost perfectly. Even Christopher Walken in a minor role as a mob boss and supporter of the group manages to make a small but memorable impression.
It's when it moves away from being about The Jersey Boys (a group of scrappy underdogs from the wrong side of the tracks) and more about The Four Seasons (the band) that the picture begins to decline in quality. "The Jersey Boys" falls into the typical musician biopic traps: There's the "we're getting famous montage," showing them writing and recording songs, as well as some heavy partying. And, of course, there's the falling out among the group, as DeVito runs up a huge debt to some mobsters.
There are moments between the band members that are meant to be taken seriously but are undone by some really bad overacting and dialogue. All that easygoing, genuine energy that's built up in the first 30 to 40 minutes practically dissipates, and Eastwood puts the film into autopilot.
Things get even worse when the band breaks up and the focus of the movie turns to Valli's solo career (with Gaudio writing and producing). That's because Valli, as a character, is, well…bland. He can sing, but he's by far the blandest of the group. He's the good boy, the only one who gets married and has a family and the one who gets stepped on. And he stays in this one-note for the entire movie.
He's tolerable in the early section of the movie because he's part of a group and the brotherly relationship he has with the other three is endearing. But when it's just Valli, it's not compelling. Newcomer Lloyd Young does the best he can as Valli but the role simply doesn't have enough to sustain the last act of the movie.
On top of that, more drama is shoehorned into the plot. Valli's fame and being constantly being on the road takes its toll on his family. Eastwood handles this in such a flimsy way, introducing this domestic drama at seemingly random moments. At this point, the picture has pretty much slowed to halt.
Also, the musical numbers don't really stick with you. Since this is a movie adaptation of a stage musical, screenwriters Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (the original authors of the musical) must have had to add a lot more story and dialogue. At two hours and 15 minutes, the movie is weighed down by its cliché story and drags on.
It's a good thing that the music is what lives on — this movie will be quickly forgotten.
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Because everyone thought Paris Hilton's political ad was so effing adorable, she somehow roped Martin Sheen into helping her beat a dead horse then rape its carcass. If The West Wing going off the air didn't effectively end Martin Sheen's career, this thing put him out of his misery.
EXTRA CREDIT: While I was typing this post, I couldn't help but think "Wow, Paris Hilton is literally just a diseased labia away from careening into obscurity." Which is sweet justice considering, up until recently, she was the queen of undeserved celebrity. But now Heidi & Spencer are mugging like trained chimps for that title. So, here's the question: If you had to choose between the Douche Twins or Paris, which would you rather see fall off the face of the planet while the other remains a "celebrity?" (And you have to choose or else something catastrophic will happen like, I dunno, beer no longer tastes delicious.) DISCUSS.


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The only thing that is predictable about Talladega is that it's unpredictable. You never know what to expect, and the final lap is always one of the most exciting laps in all of NASCAR racing.
Maybe the unpredictability of Talladega comes from the fact that the track was built over the site that was originally an Indian burial ground. Legend has it that the Indian spirits are still upset over being moved to a new location during construction.
Talladega has at times catered to experience, with five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champions - Matt Kenseth, Brad Keselowski, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon - winning races on the 2.66 mile tri-oval since 2007.
However, experience does not always lead to victory. In fact, the old saying that ignorance is bliss might be true at Talladega, as it has produced 10 first time NASCAR Sprint Cup winners, several of which have never won another race in the Series.
As we enter this week's event, Richard Petty Motorsports driver Aric Almirola seems to be leading the list of possible first time winners based on his three top 10 finishes in 2013. Still, there are other first time Talladega choices to choose from in David Gilliland and David Ragan from Front Row Motorsports.
If there is not a surprise winner, you might want to keep an eye on Hendrick Motorsports as you make your picks for this week. Only two drivers have won more Talladega races than Dale Earnhardt Jr. He posted four consecutive victories on the Alabama high banks between 2001 and 2003 and a fifth win in 2007.
Providing stiff competition to the Hendrick camp will be Richard Childress Racing drivers Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton. Both came off impressive runs last week in Richmond, with Harvick taking the victory and Burton coming home in fifth. RCR has 12 victories, which is more than any other owner, and its teams seem to be peaking at just the right time.
So as we prepare for the edge-of-your-seat action this weekend, I'm sure that you will agree that the only thing predictable about Talladega is that it's unpredictable.
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This article was published 8/2/2013 (1656 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Good morning, Winnipeg. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and you know what that means, right?
It means it's time for another Really Romantic Weekend Weather Forecast you can clip out and hand to your beloved in case you forgot to buy a cheesy greeting card and a heart-shaped box of chocolates.
For starters, Winnipeg, have I mentioned how good you are looking these days? Seriously, have you lost weight? I saw you from across the room and (insert heavy breathing here) you took my breath away.
As I sit here at my office computer, heart pounding, pulse racing, sweat trickling down my fevered brow, I am reminded of how much our love is like the weather. (OK, I'm exaggerating, but work with me.)
Sure, sometimes you're a little cold toward me, but lately I've sensed a serious warming trend. For instance, Environment Canada says today we can look forward to a few sensuous clouds and a sultry daytime high of -4 C, well above the prudish normal high of -9 C at this love-intensive time of year.
On Sunday, Winnipeg, the R-rated forecast calls for a high of -6 C and a few gentle flurries, which means you can wear that sexy tuque I knit for you. Just the thought of you wearing that gets my Prairie juices flowing.
What I'm trying to say here, my Sweet Baboo, is that our love, like the weather, will be well above average pretty much all week. I confess that on Valentine's Day, the temperature should dip to -10 C, but that means nothing to legendary romantics such as us as we stay safe and warm, entwined in the burning passion of our all-encompassing love.
The important thing, Winnipeg, is that we do not hide our love under a bushel, whatever a bushel happens to be. We must shout our devotion to the masses, which we can do today at the annual one-day Winter Carnival at Varsity View Community Centre, 315 Laxdal Rd., featuring sleigh rides, a ring toss, cookie decorating and a social with a jam-pail curling tournament. Be still, my heart.
If that doesn't sound romantic enough, Winnipeg, let's rock our world by heading to Osborne Village this evening for the 24-hour bicycle relay in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The 24 hours of fun kicks off at 6 p.m. at Snap Fitness, 205 Osborne St.
I can sense the fires of your love burning brightly, but we are not done yet. On Sunday, we must bundle up in our parkas and broadcast our love by heading to the Living Prairie Museum, 2795 Ness Ave., for the fourth annual Snow Trek from noon to 4 p.m.
Get ready to feel frisky, because we're talking about cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, urban poling (which I hope we can mention in a family newspaper), geocaching and sitting around a campfire sucking down cups of free hot chocolate while listening to a voyageur family sharing stories. Catch me before I swoon, my love.
So, I wish you an early happy Valentine's Day, Winnipeg. You are the mustard in my ham sandwich. You are the peanut butter to my jelly. You are the spaghetti to my meatballs. And you are definitely the high-pressure system in my weekend forecast.
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OK, we're way past April. Way past May. On the way to July. And still no post-season report card. WTB?
Here's the deal, and it's honest to God.
I started doing report cards multpile times when the season ended, and each time I stopped and balled up whatever scratch paper I was using for notes, and winged it into the trash. And I deleted every post I began with the list of names on the Rangers roster when the season ended.
I'll tell you why. Too many guys on the team would have gotten decent grades for a team that finished ninth in an awful conference. That's just a fact, and it tells you all you need to know about the team you love. A good portion of the roster played as well as it is going to play. This, as currently constituted, is as good as it can get.
Understand? The elite goalie was pretty darn good for 82, and especially so in Game 82. The mega-scorer, whose only question was health, was pretty healthy and scored about as much as could be expected. The rookie D-man was sensational for a teen. The young veteran defenseman who is supposedly going to be a stud got better and better as the season went on. The young center did just fine, as did another rookie defenseman.
The fourth line, as it was at the end, exceeded all expectations and got tons of ice time (again: indictment on the roster). The waiver pickup played on the first line and quite well at times. Get the drift?
We all know what's wrong with the roster. It's bottom heavy. If the fourth and third lines remain intact going into next season, that'll be just fine. If the No. 1 line and No. 2 line remain as those, without upgrade, then you can expect more mediocrity, perhaps another run at a playoff berth, and nothing more.
I asked John Tortorella on breakup day how careful the organization needs to be when evaluating the whole season, careful not to get too wound up in what happened the last few weeks rather than what happened the first 70 games or so.
"You've got to be careful here," he said. "When you lose, you don't just blow everything up and cause more problems for yourself. I have a number of things that I think we need to fix here. I think people (in the organization) are going to ask me about a number of other things to fix that I'm going to fight because I just don't think they need to be fixed. I think you can cause more problems for yourself when you don't get in and you say, 'We've got to change this, we've got to change that.' Sometimes it's just execution."
But the top needs to be fixed, obviously, and that might not be entirely possible this summer given the cap restrictions.
Going back to the non-report card, obviously some players had sub-par to awful seasons. You know the names. Redden, Jokinen will almost surely be gone by opening night (Jokinen sooner). Some of the junk was already tossed: Higgins, Brashear, Kotalik. I don't know if Lisin gets another chance, but I doubt it. I don't know if Prospal comes back. Or even Christensen.
We know, barring a big trade, that Dubinsky and Callahan, Staal and Girardi all will be back, and all got better as the season went on. Drury, if his contract was a third of what it is, is a good player and a decent captain. They like Rozsival more than their fans do. A lot more. Avery didn't know which end was up, and that's not entirely his fault.
So, yeah, most of the team, on a player-to-player basis, did just fine. But as a whole, it was mostly lousy. There just weren't enough top-line players. And we've said that all along. For years, actually.
I disagree with the coach about it being just execution, though the execution of system — of forecheck, and of D-zone play, especially — could certainly stand improvement. The coach's grade, by the way, would be in the group with Drury and those who weren't good enough. I agree with him, that a lot of the players they had should come back. I agree they need to find some character players to add. And more youth.
But I don't think this year a lot is going to change.
What do you think?
For those of you who need hockey, who need Rangers hockey, and who need winning Rangers hockey … tonight's MSG "Countdown" is "Rangers Game-winning goals." Should be nothing but good news, right? The ends of good (maybe great) games. Should be a good watch. It's on at 8 p.m.


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I am advised by my service provider (FASTVISION) that Wordpress sites around the globe are currently undergoing a "Brute Force Attack", since 12April.
As a precaution, they are adding an extra layer of security to all WordPress login pages in the form of an additional login dialog.
Has anyone else heard of this attack?
I read about this on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22152296
Also, on Friday, when I tried to login to my WP backend, it returned a 501 for about two hours. I phoned my provider and they said that many of their WP customers were reporting this and had no idea what was causing it. No idea if it was related.
It could well be related. One of my providers has added an additional login as well to shield off the WP admin login from this attack.
Yeah, they weren't giving very much away when I spoke to them, so it's hard to tell.
I'm pretty paranoid when it comes to security and when setting any WP site, I follow most, if not all of the recommendations to tighten the security (e.g. delete the user "admin", alter the default table prefix, change the file permissions accordingly, and so on ...)
This takes quite a bit of effort at the time, but is invariably worth it when things like this pop up.
Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity) did a Blog article on this several days back: Brute Force Attacks Build WordPress Botnet.
I haven't noticed anything on my wordpress sites, and there hasn't been an abnormally high number of IP lockouts.
From what I read earlier, the attacks seemed to focus on the hostgator and LiquidWeb hosting providers.
I'm not using either.
If you go to http://bit51.com/software/better-wp-security/ and install that plugin into your WordPress site it can automatically apply all the changes you mention and many more security measures in just a couple of mouse clicks.
Yeah, I had done that already (paranoid, see :))I also recommend the Login Lockdown plugin which can protect against the kind of attack in question.I know the plugin page says it hasn't been updated in a while, but it still works exactly as it should.
From what I can see the functionality in the better-wp-security plugin includes the functionality of the login-lockdown plugin - I get quite a few emails from the security plugin advising me that certain users have been locked out for a period of time due to too many invalid login attempts having been made. Or have I overlooked something?
I always put an additional .htaccess login on the admin directory. Simple and effective.
From what I understand about this attack Login Lockdown will not protect users. They're using a botnet of up to 90k and so IP addresses are changing too frequently for the lockouts of a single IP to be effective. Better WP Security includes some more features that better protect websites (eg, changing the default user ID=1).
Also this is not just targeted at particular hosts. I'm sitting at the bottom of the world and using a local hosting company and seeing the evidence of these attacks over the last 30 or so hours. I'm using Wordfence and can see the login attempts and also the fact that they are changing too rapidly to be being blocked by the lock-out type functions of these plugins.
No, sorry, I did.I have quite a few sites running WP and the ones that keep emailing me that users have been locked out are running better-wp-security, not login lockdown.I do use login lockdown on one site, but this is a site that I have only shared with some family and friends and has thus stayed off the hackers radar.
I've not tried WordFence yet, so thanks for the recommendation.I'll have a look at this for the next WP site that comes up.better-wp-security also logs failed login attempts (as felgall mentioned) and I've been quite happy with it so far, but it's always good to know what else is out there.
Just wondering if any of you guys have received info from your service provider as to when this attack might end. It's 6 days since it started and the extra login is still in place on my WP sites. My service provider tells me that they don't know how long this attack will last - are you guys getting the same feedback? Apparently, there's around 100,000 compromised machines working on behalf of the hackers.


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Thank You From Workers of First Coffee Innovation Pilot
Fazenda Nossa Senhora de Fatima (FNSF) is a 230 hectare, 100% organic, family-owned coffee farm in the Cerrado Region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. With 110 farm workers in employment, 40% of whom are women, FNSF became the world's first Fair Trade Certified coffee estate in January 2012.
In the translated letter below—which has been posted with permission of FNSF—the farm workers express their deep gratitude for the opportunity to be included in Fair Trade, and their sincere belief in a brighter future for themselves and their families.
- Presidente, Directors and other partners at FAIR TRADE USA
- FAIR TRADE coffee buyers partners of Fazenda Nossa Senhora de Fátima
- FAIR TRADE importers and roasters in the U.S.
We, the workers of the Fazenda Nossa Senhora de Fatima, want to thank U.S. consumers for buying Fair Trade coffee from our farm.
Our farm recently became the first Fair Trade Certified coffee estate in the world (and only one in the world so far). This is a great honor for us and we are very happy to join the global Fair Trade community. As a result of our first sale to the U.S. market under the Fair Trade label, we recently received our first Fair Trade premium. We decided democratically to use part of this money to provide dental and eye care to the workers on the farm and our families. We are getting more access to medical exams and general healthcare. For some of us, this was the first time in our lives to visit the dentist, get examined by an ophthalmologist and be able to receive eyeglasses. Many of us did not have money to buy eyeglasses, but thanks to the Fair Trade premium, this became a reality for our lives.
We are happy and grateful to have this new opportunity for our families and our community. We understand that there is some debate going on about the rights of farm workers to participate in Fair Trade. We believe that farm workers like us should have equal rights to enjoy the opportunities of Fair Trade. We believe that more farm workers should be able to receive and use Fair Trade premium in a just and democratic way.
Thank you again for buying Fair Trade coffee from Fazenda Nossa Senhora de Fátima. This reality makes us dream of a better future for ourselves and our families.
Fair Trade Committee and workers
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We are deeply humbled by these words. They reaffirm our profound commitment to slow, transparent piloting, in the hopes of one day making a greater dent in global poverty.
Throughout the pilot phase we will be consistently monitoring, evaluating, and reporting our progress on each and every program, at both the farm and sector level. Like the workers of Fazenda Nossa Senhora de Fatima, we too believe that farm workers and small farmers alike "should have equal rights to enjoy the opportunities of Fair Trade."
Fair Trade USA understands that in times of growth and change there is often uncertainty, and we encourage open, honest, and respectful debate. We encourage those who are interested in learning more to visit http://www.FairTradeForAll.com as we continue to invest in and support co-ops to ensure they remain strong and competitive now and in the future, while simultaneously innovating with care to deliver more impact for more people.
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The genealogy news is coming thick and fast today, I just saw on Caroline Pointer post on Google+ that the live streamed sessions that have been on today can now be viewed on the RootsTech website. They have got them up and running so promptly, thank you guys and thank you to Caroline Pointer for letting us know.
Keynote Speech – Dennis Brimhall, Syd Lieberman, Josh Taylor
The Future of Genealogy – Thomas MacEntee and panel
Tell it Again – (Story@Home) – Kim Weitkamp
The Genealogist Gadget Bag – Jill Ball and panel
Finding the Obscure & Elusive Geographic information on the Web – James Tanner
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It was a confusing and controversial Monday morning at the MCA Bonspiel but when the smoke settled, two more berths into next month's Manitoba mens curling championship had been awarded and a three-way playoff ordered for the final remaining berth still up for grabs.
Carberry's Rob Van Kommer and Fort Rouge's Steen Sigurdson became the 30th and 31st teams to earn berths into the Safeway Championship in Neepawa without even playing a game today, while a three-way playoff involving East St. Paul's Rob Atkins, West St. Paul's Dave Elias and Petersfield's Dale Lott will take place tonight to determine the final berth.
It took all of this morning for officials at MCA Bonspiel headquarters to sort out the confusing results of Sunday evening's late draw and determine that both Sigurdson and Van Kommer had already earned berths regardless of what they do on the ice today and that the three-way playoff would be necessary for the only other berth.
Curl Manitoba executive director Shane Ray explained the complication was the result of a false result which was reported late Sunday night in a Lucerne major event game between Fort Rouge's David Kraichy, whose team already have their Safeway berth, and Atkins, who is still looking.
Ray said the Kraichy team won the game on the ice but -- because they were unable to play today -- submitted a scorecard showing Atkins had won the game instead so that the Atkins team could continue to play on.
While false results are not supposed to be reported, it is not entirely uncommon at the MCA Bonspiel for winning teams who know they won't be able to continue to play on to submit losing scorecards to headquarters to allow their opponents to continue to play.
But because the bogus result in this instance had a direct bearing on who claims the final three provincials berths up for grabs today, Ray said Curl Manitoba insisted on the correct result being recorded when they learned today a false one had been reported last night.
"We found out about it and said, 'That's unacceptable,'" said Ray. "I don't think it's acceptable that you play a game, you win on the ice and then you let the other team get credit for the win -- especially when it's for a berth and affects other teams."
If the result had been allowed to stand, Atkins would have been automatically awarded the berth that will come out of the Lucerne event today, instead of having to play for it in the playoff tonight.
The ruling also meant Sigurdson and Van Kommer automatically claimed the two remaining berths today that were due to go to the highest finishing Free Press event team and the highest finishing remaining team in either major event that was berth eligible.
Atkins will now have to play for the Lucerne berth against the winner of a playoff game between Lott-Elias. Those games will take place tonight at Fort Rouge Curling Club.
Curtis Atkins, who is the son of Rob Atkins, plays on the Kraichy team that filed the bogus result to headquarters Sunday night, but Ray said he doesn't think there was anything sinister at play.
"This wasn't a conspiracy. This was just some guys who knew they couldn't play today for whatever reason," Ray explained. "A lot of times when these things happen, it's not this big of a deal. But with the magnitude of this situation, this was the right thing to do."


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Lester aces Royals as Sox complete sweep
Lefty fires eight shutout frames, while Nava drives in three
BOSTON -- After catching Jon Lester for the last two seasons, David Ross feels he knows the lefty pretty well.
The way Lester is pitching right now can and has been described in a lot of different ways: Elite, consistent, stellar, etc. But to Ross, Lester isn't in any kind of unusual groove.
On Sunday, Lester fired eight scoreless innings in a 6-0 win over the Royals at Fenway Park to complete a three-game sweep. Boston will head to Toronto for the first of 13 consecutive divisional games on Monday, an opportunity to make up ground in the American League East.
"I don't know if it's a zone. He's just really, really good," said Ross, who helped his batterymate by clubbing a two-run homer. "He's one of the top pitchers in the game and performs like it every time out. We've come to expect it out of him. It's a lot of pressure, but he's handled it well and we expect those kinds of outings from him."
Lester showed no signs of an All-Star Game hangover, allowing just four hits, while walking two and fanning eight. The lefty has given up one earned run or fewer in six of his last seven starts. Relievers Junichi Tazawa and Edward Mujica combined for a scoreless ninth.
Amidst outside chatter of a contract extension and trade rumors --- Lester will become a free agent at season's end --- the lefty has thrived in 2014.
"I just try to make sure I go out and pitch well for these guys in here," said Lester, now 7-3 all-time against KC. "If these guys are happy with the way I'm throwing and how I'm going about my business, that's all I care about. Like I've said in the past, that other stuff will take care of itself."
Lester has posted career bests this season in ERA, WHIP and K/BB ratio. Other stats tell the same tale --- his walk rate has never been lower, his strikeout rate is near a career high and FIP (fielding independent pitching) at 2.59 is a career best. Lester has been as good as he's looked to the eye in a contract year.
"He's been a model for others to witness as players get to that stage in their career," manager John Farrell said. "I think in a professional manner, he's been very forthright in not wanting it to be a distraction to his teammates or to us as a team. And he's been able to go out and maintain that high level of focus."
Boston scored six runs on nine hits, with three going for extra bases. Four players had multi-hit games, including Shane Victorino, who played in his second consecutive contest after spending nearly two months on the shelf. Once Royals starter Yordano Ventura exited after 4 1/3 innings, though, the Red Sox were held hitless.
Encouraging to some degree was that Boston's offensive uprising came with its three through five hitters, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia and Mike Carp, being held hitless.
The Red Sox gears were turning right from the start against the hard-throwing Ventura. In the first, Pedroia's groundout brought home Brock Holt, who had singled and moved to third on Daniel Nava's single.
In the third, Nava ripped a line drive down the right-field line that bounced over the short fence for a double, scoring Ross and Jackie Bradley Jr.
Ross then launched his homer over the Green Monster in the fourth. After Bradley and Holt singled, Nava's sacrifice fly brought Bradley home to give Boston a 6-0 lead. Lester did the rest.
Nava has been optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket twice this season, but he's made sure that won't happen again soon with his recent play. In July, the switch-hitter has hit .382 with eight RBIs in 34 at-bats. He is batting .337 since being recalled on June 2.
"Since Daniel's come back to us, he's been more the hitter that we saw all last year," Farrell said. "I think he had a good approach against Ventura today and he's swinging with a lot of confidence."
Kansas City's offense has struggled and running into Lester on Sunday didn't help. The Royals scored just five runs in the three-game set, while scoring seven in three contests prior to the All-Star break.
"The only thing you can do today is hope that Jon Lester doesn't bring his A-game," manager Ned Yost said. "And that he gets his pitch count up and makes mistakes, and you take advantage of it. But he was pretty good."
Ventura exited with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth. Francisley Bueno worked the Royals out of that jam, but Ventura's line didn't look any better because of it. He allowed six runs, nine hits and four walks with no strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings.
Steve Petrella is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Leftover shrimp/prawns or steak into Vietnamese-style summer rolls.
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In my ibanez which now houses a Distortion trembucker and an Alnico3 modified Humbucker from Hell (comes with A5 stock), I get this very cool sounding, but weird "cocked wah" type of sound when i'm in the middle pickup position.
I'm not sure if it's because of the vast difference in resistances (16.6k for the Distortion, 5.86K for the HFH), or the vast difference in tonality (distortion has those screaming mids, while the HFH is very bright but not much mids and lows, or a difference in impedances (1meg vol for Distortion, 500K vol for HFH), or if it's because I might've mis-oriented the mags when I was swapping them in the HFH
There are no tone controls on this guitar, just two volumes and the 3-way pickup selector switch.
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File this in the "dogs and cats playing together" folder. The world's biggest doughnut chain — and John Goodman's fuel that runs America — is set to release a brand new iteration of the Munchkin. That's right, the ubiquitous tiny pastry that everyone remembers from their hard-partying days in elementary school is getting a major update.
The new flavor? Bagel. You read that right. The DD will soon be making bite-sized bagel holes. We always wondered where all of that excess dough went. They are going to be called, of course, the Bunchkin and should go on sale later this year. The real question remains: will they have a cream cheese dunking sauce? Cutting them open to spread it seems like it would be majorly annoying.


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ACNM is working with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve vaccination rates in women. ASTHO is a non-profit organization representing public health agencies and professionals, while promoting excellence in public health practice. The project involves producing a resource of materials that midwives can use to educate women about immunizations.
In December 2013, we requested members participate in a survey about vaccines. This initial survey was used to develop materials for midwives, including talking points, and materials for women and their families. About 940 members responded to the survey. Over 80% of the respondents reported that they either screen or provide immunizations to their clients. The biggest information needs identified by the survey include lack of knowledge of the safety of immunizations, talking points for clients, contraindications/indications, updates on the schedule, and the state Immunization Information Systems. Barriers for those not offering immunizations were reimbursement, not enough interested patients, and not enough storage space. This project hopes to address these needs.
Following the dissemination of ACNM's influenza and immunization project materials, ACNM members were surveyed a second time in order to gauge the effectiveness of the resources and to gain further insights to improve immunization uptake among women. The final survey was sent out to ACNM members in June of 2014. The results have been analyzed and are being used to target specific gaps and guide the development of future resources.
Each vaccine has rigorous clinical trials before it can be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Clinical safety studies have been conducted for decades on vaccines and pregnancy, and although there are risks with vaccines as with any medication or procedure, studies have shown that immunization during pregnancy protects the woman, the fetus, and the newborn, and that the chance of serious harm is small. Side effects vary by vaccine, but the chance of severe side effects is less than the complications from getting the disease. The March of Dimes, FDA, CDC, NIH, AAP, IOM and the WHO all confirm the safety of vaccines.
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In his keynote speech at the Massachusetts Bar Association's
Centennial Ball, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer
celebrated the crucial role that lawyers plays in shaping laws,
fighting for the judiciary and educating and mentoring
MBA President Denise Squillante welcomed an audience of
nearly 1,000 people in the Sheraton Boston ballroom for the
Centennial Ball. Breyer's keynote address on May 19 was the
highlight of the two-day Centennial Conference.
"It isn't surprising to me that the Massachusetts Bar
Association holds the position of respect that it does," he said.
Looking back to the start of the MBA, Breyer noted, "This
organization was founded by Holmes and Brandeis. And it was
racially integrated from the start."
He rattled off a number of the association's historical
responsibilities - including public service, defending the
judiciary and nurturing students' civic knowledge - noting that a
century later, it's "the same job, but tougher now."
Breyer said he was impressed by the turnout, saying that seeing
so many lawyers turn out reflects well on the profession and the
important work lawyers are called upon to do, particularly in terms
of public service.
He ended on a rousing note in honor of the event's milestone:
"The only five words I really want to say are 'happy birthday,
Massachusetts Bar Association!'"
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary celebration, the MBA
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President Dana Mohler-Faria has announced a large gift from Bruce and Patricia Bartlett:
I am very excited to share some wonderful and historic news with the campus. Two of our most distinguished alumni, Mr. Bruce Bartlett, '68, and Mrs. Patricia (Quinn) Bartlett, '67, have made a $3-million donation to the University in support of student scholarships. This is the largest single gift in the history of the institution and follows a $2-million donation the couple made in 2012.
In sharing their terrific news, Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett recounted, "Pat and I really enjoyed our college experience at Bridgewater and we believe the education we received was extremely beneficial in helping us to have successful careers. We are so delighted to contribute in our own way to help out deserving students at Bridgewater State University."
The couple met during their student days at Bridgewater and later married. Bruce, a former mathematics teacher and CPA, went on to start numerous companies in the utilities, government, construction and steel manufacturing sectors. Patricia, a health and physical education major, went on to teach and become certified in elementary education.
Their donation will establish two endowed scholarships – one in Bruce's name, the other in Patricia's, with Bruce's being need-based and Patricia's merit-based. It is expected that a total of 30 scholarships in the amount of $5,000 each will be available to Bridgewater students on an annual basis. Additional details pertaining to application and selection procedures will be announced to students later this summer.
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I'd like to offer some more background on the Adobe TV Community Translation program, and respond to some of the concerns recently expressed to me.
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It's a striking headline on the front of today's Daily Telegraph: "Greener energy will cost £4,600 each a year." And no doubt it will fuel any incipient hositility to renewables among the broadsheet's large readership. But is it accurate?
Technically, yes. Professor David MacKay, a government adviser on climate change, has done the calculations on how much it will cost on sustaining and replacing the nation's entire energy system. The resulting figure – which is not synonymous with energy bills – is the total investment in energy needed (£2.4 trillion) over the next four decades. That is then divided by population to come up with the figure.
But as the article makes clear a few paragraphs further down, it could cost even more to rely on traditional sources of power such as fossil fuels and nuclear. (It also suggests we are already spending £3,700 a year already).
MacKay, who is a professor of physics at Cambridge – and has written a highly regarded book on the future of energy – has (with DECC officials) produced a "cost of energy calculator" setting out what Britain will need to spend in the coming years.
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The so-called 'creative industries' are what almost all major world cities want to be known for and base their future economy on. So, how does a city become a 'design city'? Mayors everywhere in the world are currently pondering this question. Oh Se-Hoon, the former mayor of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, who preferred landmark construction projects over welfare programs, spent 450 million dollars on a fancy, sleek new building called the Dongdaemun Design Plaza - or DDP for short.


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IW: So that's the velocity side of the big data story, but how are architectures changing to handle the onslaught of volume and variety?
Picciano: In the five use cases I described, we've seen the emergence of what we call analytic zones. The data warehouse is one of the zones inside a big data architecture. Then there's an exploration zone, which is typically Hadoop. Sometimes Hadoop is fronted with a data-discovery capability for indexing and categorization. In our case that's Vivisimo.
Real-time analytics is another zone. That's the stream processing we just talked about, and we see that as an important part of any organization's big data architecture. All of the companies that we're working with, whether it's General Motors or major telcos, have a need to look at information in real time for a variety of problems.
IW: IBM recently announced BLU Acceleration for DB2, which in some ways seemed like a throwback to 2009-2010, when IBM acquired Netezza. Is that still a problem that companies need to solve?
Picciano: It's still a red-hot problem. Most data warehouses are in the under-10-terabyte range and there are a lot of data marts out there... One thing that's been underemphasized about BLU is that it's an in-memory, columnar table type inside of the DB2 database management system. That means we can give anyone who's running transactional applications the best of both worlds by implementing BLU on a highly proven, highly scalable resilient row-store database [in DB2]. As workloads need the analytical and reporting aspect, you can utilize BLU tables for the ultimate in performance.
IW: So what's the use case for BLU versus PureData For Analytics, formerly known as Netezza?
Picciano: Netezza can handle extraordinarily large collections, and it has been tuned, over the years, for very specific workloads such as retail data and call data records in telco operations. We're talking about petabyte-size collections whereas BLU runs inside of a single system, so it's for collections under 50 terabytes.
IW: That's kind of confusing because DB2 is the enterprise data warehouse product aimed at the ultimate in scale. How does BLU work within DB2?
Picciano: BLU doesn't cluster, but the rest of DB2 does. So inside of a DB2 instance you would have a BLU table. BLU is especially helpful for reporting because one of the things that the in-memory, columnar technology does is perform extraordinarily well -- even if you write some very bad SQL.
For tools like Cognos, BusinessObjects or MicroStrategy, where there are line-of-business users who aren't up on their SQL skills, the database administrators can just create the table, organize it by column and load the information. The tool will generate the SQL and you'll see tremendous performance. You don't have to worry about whether you're going to do a star schema or a snowflake schema or whether you're going to implement multi-dimensional clusters and range partitioning. With BLU, all that goes away. It's like loading up a spreadsheet but it performs like a supercomputer.
IW: IBM has drawn competitive comparisons between BLU and SAP Hana, but if Hana is running entirely in RAM and BLU use a mix of memory and disk, how could it perform any better?
Picciano: That comes down to our actionable compression. With BLU, you don't have to decompress data [to determine whether it fits a query], so you're moving smaller amounts of information in and around memory and applying a [query] predicate inside of that compressed information.
IW: I take it that also assumes that the BLU workload is running entirely in memory?
Picciano: In the comparisons that we've run it has been an in-memory-to-in-memory comparison because that's their environment. But remember that when Hana runs out of memory, it's useless. That's a big bet for your company when you're, maybe, trying to go through a year-end close or the quarterly close and you find out that Hana was misconfigured. When you look at the price difference, SAP Hana is very buffered on the amount of memory required, which makes it very expensive. We compare very well, on a price-performance basis and on sheer performance, because of our ability to manage I/O effectively.
IW: Another hot database topic is NoSQL. We noted that IBM recently announced mobile and Web app collaboration with 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB. Why the partnership?
Picciano: The 10Gen work is about JavaScript and reporting, but we now support JSON natively inside DB2. DB2 is really becoming a polyglot. DB2 has an Oracle compatibility feature, for example, so you can put an Oracle application directly on DB2 without having to migrate. DB2 also speaks RDF for graph data. You see this polyglot theme in our big data initiatives as well. We've put Big SQL [IMB's SQL-on-Hadoop answer to Cloudera Impala] inside of IBM BigInsights 2.0. That opens up the available skills to work with the data in Hadoop.
IW: Being a polyglot doesn't necessarily make DB2 the agile development choice people associate with MongoDB or the highly scalable choice people associate with Cassandra. Is IBM going to get into the NoSQL market with a dedicated NoSQL database?
Picciano: If you look at what those database are used for and where they're used in the application tiers, I think that will be a low-end, very low-margin market for entry-tier SQL light. Then there will be more capable systems [like DB2] that can speak that dialect but that have security protocols, maintainability, backups and recovery where Mongo doesn't have any of those capabilities today. We think we can perform very well with Mongo workloads, plus we provide all the things that somebody who is really writing an enterprise app would require.
[Author's note: The MongoDB site offers several pages of documentation on replication functionality aimed at ensuring redundancy and high availability. 10Gen also has a managed backup service in beta]
IW: What about Cassandra, with its ability to support globally distributed databases? Can IBM address that need?
Picciano: Cassandra is not highly deployed in enterprise configurations. Out of all the engagements that I've worked on, I've run into Cassandra once.
[Author's note: DataStax, which offers Cassandra support, says it has more than 300 customers, including 20 Fortune 100 companies.]


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Wilder Conference
International House of Prayer
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM - Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 10:00 PM (PST)
The Wilder Conference, named for Robert Wilder of the Student Volunteer Mission Movement, is a two-day gathering for college students and young adults for worship, teaching, and prayer.
Over 100 years ago, God raised up the Student Volunteer Movement out of North America and Europe. The movement touched the ends of the earth as over 20,000 young adults, Wilder among them, committed themselves to "the evangelization of the world in this generation" (John Mott). These young adults gave up comfortable lives and the "American dream" to wholly abandon themselves to the purposes of God in their generation.
We believe the Lord is once again raising up a movement of young adults and students who are committed to unrelenting prayer and courageous missions work with the Moravian vision "that the Lamb who was slain may receive the reward of His suffering." The goal of the Wilder Conference is to equip a new generation of leaders to finish the task of world evangelization (Mt. 24:14), to disciple the nations (Mt. 28:19–20), and to pray for the return of the King (Ps. 2:6; 1 Thes. 4:16).
Friday night and Saturday morning will be dedicated to worship, teaching, and ministry time. The conference will culminate on Saturday with an eight-hour solemn assembly (Joel 2:12–17) of prayer for revival in America and a new Student Volunteer Movement.
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The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh - Guild Hall
Hours: Wed, Thu, Sun: 7:30pm; Fri and Sat: 8pm
Ages: TW,TE,AD
Price: $30; 10 students
158 Main St. - 631-324-4050
East Hampton, NY 11937
Description: Written by award-winning Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan is a strange and whimsical comic tale set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934. As word arrives on Inishmaan that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island of Inishmore to film the documentary Man of Aran, the one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy. An orphan who lives with his aunts, Billy yearns for stardom and a chance to escape small-town life. This Hollywood film may just be his chance. Includes some profanity.


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If you are installing a service pack (SP) on top of CQ5.5 you will see a dialog recommending to restart the instance after you have run the SP installation:
Do not restart the instance at this point, as the contents of the service pack are still being extracted and installed in the background. Restarting at this point could result in unknown problems, and you may have to repeat the SP installation.
You can monitor the log output in error.log and wait until the log no longer has new "BundleEvent STARTED" entries, before restarting the instance. This usually takes 2 – 5 minutes depending on server specifications.
Monitoring log output may not be a good solution for large enterprise organisations which may have many CQ instances to update, and may need to use some kind of automated install script or process documentation. In this case, you can either add a pause to the installation documentation (e.g. 15 or 30 minutes), or use a script to check for installation completion as described under 2 below.
1. Monitor the log output to figure out when to restart
The release notes for SP2.1 do contain instructions relating to this process (http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/release_notes_service_pack_2.html):
Quickstart Install Process
- Login to Package Share and download SP2 package: cq-service-pack-5.5.2.zip
- Back in Package Manager – Install package
- After the package install is done – the PackageManager tells you to restart. DO NOT RESTART. The actual install of the package only starts now in background, given that the packages have been placed in /install folders. The best way to follow the process of the install is to tail the error.log
The background install starts with "com.day.jcr.vault.packaging.impl.ZipVaultPackage Extracting day/cq550/update:cq-update-pkg:5.5.8" and stops with bundles been restarted – best seen by "BundleEvent STARTED" log entries.
- After the error.log goes quiet with "BundleEvent STARTED" messages
- Restart the instance
- The Welcome Screen should now show the updated Version String: Adobe CQ, Version 188.8.131.5220220 Service Pack 2
2. Use a script to automatically check for installation completion
You can use the script below which polls the server to check when the SP contents have been extracted, and then waits another few minutes for the relevant bundles to be started. You can use the script on its' own, or you could integrate it into existing scripts which you use to automatically install the CQ servicepack.
1. use a script similar to the following (designer for CQ5.5 SP2.1, you may need to adjust the cq-update-pkg version for other service packs)
until [ $res -eq 0 ]
curl -u admin:admin -D- http://<cq_server_hostname>/etc/packages/day/cq550/update/cq-update-pkg-5.5.10.zip/jcr:content/vlt:definition/lastUnpacked.json 2>/dev/null | head -1 | grep -q "HTTP/1.1 200"
if [ $((count++ % 10)) -eq 0 ]
echo "Waiting for service pack installation to finish…"
sleep 1
sleep 300
echo "Service pack installation complete. You can restart the instance now."
2. start the script in a terminal
3. install SP2.1
4. check the script output and await the completion message
5. restart the instance
reference: (39810/CQ5-22648)


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(Redirected from Spirits)
Spirits are supernatural beings or essences — transcendent and therefore metaphysical in nature.
- Teach me to do your will,
- The heart's wave would not foam up so beautifully and become spirit, if the ancient, mute rock, fate, did not stand opposed to it.
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece (1797–1799), translated by Ross Benjamin. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2008, p. 55
- Variant translation: The heart's wave would never have splashed and frothed so beautifully, and become Spirit — had not the grim, old cliff of Destiny stubbornly opposed ...
- As translated by Gerald Malsbary in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948). South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, 1998, p. 129.
- During the prehistoric age of mankind, spirit was presumed to exist everywhere and was not held in honor as a privilege of man. Because, on the contrary, ... one saw in the spirit that which unites us with nature, not that which sunders us from it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak, § 31
- We said that the perceptive-ability of the animal, when compared with what is in plants, is a more far-reaching way of relating to things. Would not, then, the peculiarly human manner of knowing — for ages past, termed a spiritual or intellective knowing — in fact be another, further mode of putting-oneself-into-relation, a mode which transcends in principle anything which can be realized in the plant and animal worlds? And further, would this fundamentally different kind of relating power go together with a different field of relations, i.e., a world of fundamentally different dimensions? The answer to such questions can be found in the Western philosophical tradition, which has understood and even defined spiritual knowing as the power to place oneself in relation to the sum-total of existing thngs. And this is not meant as only one characteristic among others, but as the very essence and definition of the power. By its nature, spirit (or intellection) is not so much distinguished by its immateriality, as by something more primary: its ability to be in relation to the totality of being.
- Josef Pieper, "The Philosophical Act", in Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), translated by Gerald Malsbary. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, 1998, p. 85.
- To label Seth as a spirit guide is to limit an understanding of what he is . . . The minute I found out after my first book was published that this automatically put me in what people called the psychic field . . . I was so humiliated I could hardly hold my head up. I'm using my writing [and] my life to transform intuitive, sometimes revelationary material into art, where it can be enjoyed, understood to varying degrees, and stand free of the stupid interpretations . . . The whole psychic bit as it is, is intellectually and morally psychologically outrageous as far as I'm concerned and I want no part of it or the vocabulary or the ideas.
- Jane Roberts quoited in Susan M. Watkins. Speaking of Jane Roberts. 2001. Moment Point Press. ISBN 0-9661327-7-7, p. 194.
- The life of the mind, although supremely excellent in itself, can not bring health into the life of instinct ...it is, as a rule, too widely separated from instinct... to afford either a vehicle for instinct, or a means of subtilizing and refining it. Thought is in its essence impersonal and detached, instinct is in its essence personal and tied to particular circumstances: between the two, unless both reach a high level, there is a war which is not easily appeased. ...Thought which does not rise above what is personal is not thought in any true sense: it is merely a more or less intelligent use of instinct. It is thought and spirit that raise man above the level of the brutes. ...Thought must achieve its full growth before a reconciliation with instinct is attempted. ...
When refined thought and unrefined instinct coexist, as they do in many intellectual men, the result is a complete disbelief in any important good to be achieved by the help of instinct. According to their disposition, some such men will as far as possible discard instinct and become ascetic, while others will accept it as a necessity, leaving it degraded and separated from all that is really important in their lives. Either of these courses prevents instinct from remaining vital, or from being a bond with others; either produces a sense of physical solitude... so long as this sense of unity is absent, instinct and spirit cannot be in harmony, nor can the life of the community have vigor...
The life of the mind, because of its detachment, tends to separate a man inwardly from other men, so long as it is not balanced by the life of the spirit. For this reason, mind without spirit can render instinct corrupt or atrophied... On this ground, some men are hostile to thought. But no good purpose is served by trying to prevent the growth of thought, which has its own insistence, and if checked in the directions in which it tends naturally, will turn into other directions where it is more harmful. ...But the opposition is not irreconciliable: all that is necessary is that both thought and instinct should be informed by the life of the spirit. ...
In order that human life should have vigor, it is necessary for the instinctive impulses to be strong and direct; but in order that human life should be good, these impulses must be dominated and controlled by desires less personal and ruthless, less liable to lead to conflict than those that are inspired by instinct alone. Something impersonal and universal is needed over and above what springs out of the principle of individual growth. It is this that is given by the life of the spirit. ...
The life of the spirit demands readiness for renunciation when the occasion arises, but is in its essence as positive and as capable of enriching individual existence as mind and instinct are. It brings with it the joy of vision, of the mystery and profundity of the world, of the contemplation of life, and above all the joy of universal love. It liberates those who have it from the prison-house of insistent personal passion and mundane cares. It gives freedom and breadth and beauty to men's thoughts and feelings, and to all their relations with others. It brings the solution of doubts, the end of the feeling that all is vanity. It restores harmony between mind and instinct, and leads the separated unit back into his place in the life of mankind. For those who have once entered the world of thought, it is only through spirit that happiness and peace can return.
- There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule. I know very well that this idea of spirit-matter is regarded as a hybrid monster, a verbal exorcism of a duality which remains unresolved in its terms. But I remain convinced that the objections made to it arise from the mere fact that few people can make up their minds to abandon an old point of view and take the risk of a new idea... Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. For in fact, pure spirituality is as unconceivable as pure materiality. Just as, in a sense, there is no geometrical point, but as many structurally different points as there are methods of deriving them from different figures, so every spirit derives its reality and nature from a particular type of universal synthesis.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe.
- One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.
- Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be (1952), p. 82.
- Therefore, all the spirits and demons have one half from man below, and the other half from the angels of the supernal realm.
- Zohar 3:76b-77a
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)[edit]
- The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
- Sholem Asch, The Apostle (1943), trans. Maurice Samuel, p. 804.
- Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;
Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!
Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;
Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!
knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,
Immortal, indestructible,—shall such
Say, "I have killed a man, or caused to kill?"
Nay, but as when one layeth
His worn-out robes away,
And, taking new ones, sayeth,
"These will I wear to-day!"
So putteth by the spirit
Lightly its garb of flesh,
And passeth to inherit
A residence afresh.
- Bhagavad Gita (The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita, trans. Sir Edwin Arnold (1934), p. 10–11). This is chapter 2, sections 20–22 in other editions.
- If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
- William Jennings Bryan, eulogy, Elks Lodge annual memorial service, Lincoln, Nebraska, December 2, 1906, as reported by the Nebraska State Journal, December 3, 1906, p. 3.
In "The Prince of Peace", a lecture delivered at Chautauquas and religious gatherings, starting in 1904, he phrased the idea this way: "If this invisible germ of life in the grain of wheat can thus pass unimpaired through three thousand resurrections, I shall not doubt that my soul has power to clothe itself with a body suited to its new existence when this earthly frame has crumbled into dust".—Speeches of William Jennings Bryan, vol. 2, p. 284 (1909).
- I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
- John F. Kennedy, remarks at a closed-circuit television broadcast on behalf of the national cultural center, November 29, 1962. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962, p. 846–47. Inscription on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
- Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, act III, scene i, lines 53–55.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 745-46.
- Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard a man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.
- Joseph Addison, The Drummer, Act I, scene 1.
- Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- II Corinthians, III. 6.
- Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
- Ralph Cudworth, True Intellectual System of the Universe, Volume III, p. 497. Ed. 1829. Isaac D'Israeli in Curiosities of Literature. Quodlibets, quotes from Aquinas, "How many angels can dance on the point of a very fine needle without jostling each other." The idea, not the words, are in Aquinas—Summa and Sentences. Credited also to Bernardo de Carpino and Alagona.
- A Corpse or a Ghost—… I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.
- William De Morgan, Joseph Vance, Chapter XXXIX.
- I am the spirit of the morning sea,
I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
- Richard Watson Gilder, Ode.
- Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.
- I am the Spirit that denies.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, I. 3. 163.
- Aërial spirits, by great Jove design'd
To be on earth the guardians of mankind:
Invisible to mortal eyes they go,
And mark our actions, good or bad, below:
The immortal spies with watchful care preside,
And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:
They can reward with glory or with gold,
A power they by Divine permission hold.
- Hesiod, Works and Days, line 164.
- The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
- Matthew, XXVI. 41.
- Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 678.
- Teloque animus præstantior omni.
- A spirit superior to every weapon.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, III. 54.
- Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
- I Peter, III. 4.
- Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly,
The light Militia of the lower sky.
- Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock. I. 41.
- He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
- Proverbs, XVI. 32. Mishna. Ethics of the Fathers, IV. 2.
- A wounded spirit who can bear?
- Proverbs, XVIII. 14.
- After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality…. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
- George W. Russell, The Economics of Ireland, p. 23.
- Black spirits and white,
Red spirits and grey,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act IV, scene 1. Middleton—The Witch, Act V, scene 2.
- Spirits are not finely touched
But to fine issues.
- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act I, scene 1, line 36.
- The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Suicide Club, In New Arabian Nights.
- Of my own spirit let me be
In sole though feeble mastery.
- Sara Teasdale, Mastery.
- Boatman, come, thy fare receive;
Thrice thy fare I gladly give,
For unknown, unseen by thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.
- Ludwig Uhland, The Ferry Boat, Skeat's translation.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)[edit]
- Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vail that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations, of the heart of the Infinite.
- James A. Garfield, p. 310.
- Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, p. 309.
- Millions of spiritual beings walk the earth unseen,
Both when we wake, and when we sleep.
- John Milton, p. 309.
- It may be that at this moment every battlement of heaven is alive with the redeemed. There is a sainted mother watching for her daughter. Have you no response to that long hushed voice which has prayed for you so often? And for you, young man, are there no voices there that have prayed for you? And are there none whom you promised once to meet again, if not on earth, in heaven?
- Dwight L. Moody, p. 310.
- Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"
- William Mountford, p. 310.
- Yes, thank God! there is rest — many an interval of saddest, sweetest rest — even here, when it seems as if evening breeze; from that other land, laden with fragrance, played upon the cheeks, and lulled the heart. There are times, even on the stormy sea, when a gentle whisper breathes softly as of heaven, and sends into the soul a dream of ecstasy which can never again wholly die, even amidst the jar and whirl of daily life. How such whispers make the blood stop and the flesh creep with a sense of mysterious communion! How singularly such moments are the epochs of life — the few points that stand out prominently in the recollection after the flood of years has buried all the rest, as all the low shore disappears, leaving only a few rock points visible at high tide.
- Frederick William Robertson, p. 310.


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STUDENTS did their bit to battle climate change for the love of the planet as part of Go Green Week, handing out locally sourced apples.
Charlotte Gibbs, 19, Sammy Smith, 20, and Sarah Blackwell, 20, all completing a sustainability module at the University of Worcester, handed out apples, all grown within 10 miles of the campus.
Go Green Week (February 10 to 16) is People & Planet's annual national week of action on climate change in schools, colleges and universities. Students run a week of activities to raise awareness and demand stronger action to tackle the climate crisis.
The students also handed out chilli plants paper flowers to mark Valentines Day as as a symbol of their love for the planet.
Sammy Smith of Henwick Road, St John's, Worcester, said: "It is all about raising awareness of climate change."
Sarah Blackwell, also of Henwick Road, said: "We all picked the module because we care about the environment and we want to prevent climate change as well."
They also raised money for Save the Children with a cake sale and a raffle, raising £50.


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