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June 2, 2009
Review of The New Jew: An Unexpected Conversion by Sally Srok Friedes (New York: O Books, 2009).
Every conversion is different but there are issues that remain constant in every convert's story. Prospective converts will often talk about having had a crisis of faith, feeling a disconnect from religion in general or from the religion of their birth. This eventually turns into a hunger to fill that void. Though many Jews seem to believe otherwise, most converts to Judaism do not convert for marriage. At odds with the idea that no one converts to Judaism out of conviction are stories like that of Sally Srok Friedes who married a Jew but didn't decide to convert until long after the wedding.
New Jew, the latest conversion memoir, is not just the story of how Sally, a Catholic from the Midwest, finds her way to Judaism, it's a love story. Not with her New York Jewish husband, but with the religion her husband tells her after proposing he hopes they will pass on to their children. "Is that a problem?" he asks. Aside from Passover and the High Holidays, he has never expressed much of a connection to this religion. Sally is surprised but she agrees, neither she nor her husband fully understanding where this decision will take them.
Judaism does not proselytize. Non-Jews need not convert to go to heaven or be "saved" as Christians call it. Because of this, Judaism's relationship to prospective converts is complicated. People warn converts they are supposed to be turned away three times. They even take it upon themselves to turn people away. Nobody clues Sally in to these mysteries as she tries again and again, against all reason, to connect with a faith that doesn't want her.
Hers is an unrequited love. When Sally shows up for her first Judaism classes and for her first Jewish services, she finds herself surrounded by Jews like her husband who don't know much about Judaism. She discovers that while they are welcome even with their lack of knowledge, she is not. She is told time and time again, though surprisingly not by her mother-in-law, that shiksas (derogatory Yiddish term for non-Jewish women) like her are a harbinger of doom, the end of Judaism. Early on, Sally finds Judaism is a very exclusive club, determined to shut out non-members.
For a time, Sally turns her back on Judaism. She is no masochist. The religion doesn't captivate her, especially since most of her friends are unable to explain why they feel so connected to a religion they know nothing about. Her book is disheartening as it highlights a sad symptom of American Jewry, the total lack of knowledge about their religious roots. Sally learns quickly that for many Judaism is not a religion but a "culture" and while this is enough for some like her husband, she discovers that it isn't enough for her.
Sally's spiritual awakening terrifies her husband. She bates him to take a class with her by saying, "It would seem, since you insist our children be raised Jewish that you could learn a little about it yourself. That is, unless you don't want to raise the kids Jewish. Then we can forget the whole thing." This is a funny, telling point since many converts will tell you they dragged their spouse, sometimes kicking and screaming, back to Judaism. Her husband, mostly good humored about this, jokes, "I thought I married a Catholic girl from Wisconsin and it turned out she's a Jew from Westchester."
As other converts have written of their experiences, the more Sally learns about Judaism, the more she loves it. We revel as she takes on more and more, insisting on Shabbat dinners ("Next thing you're going to want to keep kosher!" her husband rails), reading through Jewish books, stumbling through Hebrew and feeling totally overwhelmed by services that are utterly foreign to her. Reading through these tales as a fellow convert was touching. It brought me back to a time when Judaism was still shiny and new, when I would devour books on Judaism as if they were Godiva chocolate. This thirst dulls after conversion but it is never quenched. There is always more to learn about Judaism.
When an overwhelmed Sally second-guesses her decision to convert, worried she will never be accepted as a member of the tribe, I was flummoxed. This was very different from my experiences. I'd never experienced doubts. Once I had tasted a little bit of Judaism, a little honey drizzling over challah, there was no turning back. One concern I had, one other Orthodox converts have relayed to me, was of dying in a freak accident before converting and not having a proper Jewish burial.
It is in describing her moments of doubt that Sally seemed to me most honorable. She notes that the Reform movement did not require her to convert. Choosing Judaism was not a rite of passage she had to adopt in order to raise her children Jewish. Like others in her congregation, she could choose to be a gentile mom raising Jewish kids. But what started as a journey to raise Jewish children turns into a gift … to Sally herself. It is the end, the reward, of a long road of soul searching.
The writing is always warm and pleasant, mostly light and never too effusive though it opens with a sad chapter focusing on the death of her mother-in-law. In this love story between a woman and Judaism, the mother-in-law plays the role of Cupid. When her son marries a Catholic, she doesn't sit shiva or express regrets. Instead she rather amusingly recruits her new daughter-in-law to work for the National Council of Jewish Women. It is this early acceptance by her mother-in-law, not by rabbis, that draws Sally closer and closer to Judaism. In the end, this warmth expressed by her mother-in-law and her Jewish friends, far outweigh the other negative experiences Sally has in the Jewish community.
But the negative experiences Sally has in the Jewish community are poignant and painful to read because they illuminate how inclusive and forbidding Judaism can seem, at first glance, to outsiders. Perhaps, what Sally's story does best is highlight that however much the Jewish community has to teach, it has much to learn.


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Ashwaubenon couple rides tandem bike across country
ASHWAUBENON - Think road tripping across the country with your spouse might be tough? Try doing it on a tandem bike.
Peter and Tracy Flucke are back in Ashwaubenon this weekend, more than half way done with their 4,300 mile trip.
The couple started on June 1st in Bellingham, Washington. They plan to finish in Bar Harbor, Maine in the third week of August.
"We just really like being on the bike together," said Tracy Flucke "We're pretty comparable in our abilities and our strengths so we work really well together. Its just fun."
The Fluckes have done bike tours before, just not to a coast to coast magnitude.
"Really for us, this timing was just perfect," said Peter Flucke. "Both of our children are out of the house. We're still very healthy and really strong."
"It was something we built up to," said Tracy Flucke. "I wasn't ready to do it right away, but once we got to a certain point, I'm like I think we could do this."
The couple rides about 75 miles a day. With only the essentials on board, they average 14 miles an hour.
"We have our tents, our stove, so we're completely self-supported," said Peter Flucke. "We're not averse to staying in a hotel. We carry two days of clothes with us so on day three a hotel with a washing machine and clean sheets is looking pretty good."
Through their travels, the Flucke's have experienced plenty. Even with sights like a ride through the Cascade Mountains, they say the people they've met are what they might remember most.
"We'd get somewhere like a restaurant or hotel and they'd go, oh you're the tandem couple from Wisconsin, you're the ones that go really fast," said Tracy Flucke.
While the couple is looking forward to a weekend pit stop, they say they won't let the brief comfort of home put the brakes on their cross country journey.
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Despite the striking design elements and some smartly stylized fight scenes and chase sequences with choreography by Laura Peterson, Noir is dramatically a bore. Written by Kalle Macrides, its wordy script captures the tone but lacks the punch and color of film-noir dialogue. The narrative—a murder mystery launched by a killing that happens on a movie set when the prop gun is secretly replaced by a real one—is appropriately convoluted but unengaging. It involves all the stereotypical film-noir characters—femme fatale, corrupt cop, inquisitive newspaper reporter—but is played with uninspired gravity by a cast of merely competent actors. There is not a hint of parody, exaggeration, or humor—except in the music.
Noir sports a deliciously edgy musical score composed by Tara Gladden and the Evil Horns, a combo of sax, flute, drums, bass, and clarinet. Performed live by the Evil Horns with band leader Nicole D'Agostino under the musical direction of Gladden, the hard-driving jazz music brilliantly evokes the postwar period, pays homage to classic movie music, and provides the emotional content the text and actors fail to deliver.
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U.S. allies around the world have been briefed by American diplomats about an expected release of classified U.S. files by the WikiLeaks website that is likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations' relations with the United States.
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman, Steve Field, said Friday that the government had been told of "the likely content of these leaks" by U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman. Field declined to say what Britain had been warned to expect.
"I don't want to speculate about precisely what is going to be leaked before it is leaked," Field said.
Italy's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said he spoke Friday with the U.S. State Department, which told him that there would be documents regarding Italy in the leak, "but the content can't be anticipated."
"We're talking about thousands and thousands of classified documents that the U.S. will not comment on, as is their custom," Frattini said.
The governments of Canada and Norway also said they had been briefed by U.S. officials. Israel's Foreign Ministry declined to comment on a report that it, too, had been informed.
The release is expected this weekend, although WikiLeaks has not been specific about the timing.
In Iraq, U.S. Ambassador James F. Jeffrey told reporters that the leaks represent a serious obstacle to international diplomacy.
"We are worried about additional documents coming out," he said. "WikiLeaks are an absolutely awful impediment to my business, which is to be able to have discussions in confidence with people. I do not understand the motivation for releasing these documents. They will not help, they will simply hurt our ability to do our work here."
In Norway, U.S. officials released a statement from the ambassador to the newspaper Dagbladet with the understanding that it would not be published until after the WikiLeaks material came out, but the newspaper published the material ahead of time.
It quoted U.S. Ambassador to Norway Barry White saying that, while he could not vouch for the authenticity of the documents, he expected them to contain U.S. officials' candid assessments of political leaders and political movements in other countries. He said diplomats had to be able to have private, honest discussions to do their jobs.
Diplomatic cables are internal documents that could include secret communications between U.S. diplomatic outposts and State Department headquarters in Washington. WikiLeaks has said the release will be seven times the size of its October leak of 400,000 Iraq war documents, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history.
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Picked this one up at the 8/22/08 show. It was the last show of the tour. Liam Finn was brilliant. Sean Penn came out to lend a hand on "Hard Sun".
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So, I had a Wii a while back, bought it like 2 years ago. It was working find with my Rock Band 3 drums and guitar.
I swapped it out for a replacement through Best Buy and they gave me a refurbished system, I think it's older. I did the soft mod, same as my previous Wii, but my Rock Band instruments won't work now. The dongles will detect the instrument and show the light and all, but the instrument buttons don't do anything in the game or even in the Wii menus. Also, I have to turn the Wii on with the dongles plugged in while the instrument is turned on as well. If I press the buttons on the dongle to "detect" the instrument, to sync up with it, the dongle will turn itself off and doesn't function until I restart the Wii again.
Any ideas? Is this a Wii problem, not compatible with the newer Rock Band 3 instruments, or is it a softmod issue that I need to update something?
That didn't work. The dongle and instruments are synced, and they work just fine, but the buttons and all do NOTHING in menus or game.
It doesn't work on another Wii I have either, which is also an older Wii.
I know the instruments work though. I can plug them into a PS3 and move around menus (unfortunately they only act as a regular controller so I can't use them for it).
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Hmm, this is similar to what I posted above but try this:
If you would have followed the softmod any wii guide, your instruments would work. You need to load the game with either d2x v8 cIOS with a base of 56, or hermes v4 cIOS with a base of 37+38 merged.
It would be easier to tell you what # you have those installed, if you followed the softmod any wii guide. You can post a system check, and we can see what you have installed.
Or update your softmod with said guide (link in spoiler below). Then load the game with 249 or 223.
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I did follow the guide, and the game loads with 249, but the instruments still don't work.
I tried the instruments on an older wii, not my own, with the same mod from that guide, and the instruments don't work. I also modded my sisters system the same way, with the same guide you linked (older I'm sure), and my instruments work just fine on her system.
I'll play around with it some more.
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Alice Ward, who was portrayed with Oscar-winning flare by Melissa Leo in "The Fighter," died Wednesday morning at a Boston hospital after a long illness.
She was 79.
Ward was the mother of "Irish" Mickey Ward (they're both seen pictured left) and Dicky Ecklund, the boxers respectively played by Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in "The Fighter."
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Album Rating: 1.5sucked is a great word
I had a worse opinion about this album when I first came out, I heard that was again and was more enjoyable, still a poor effort by a band that could do it si much better. They are now an average gopu that release a lot of mixed bags.
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Okay review, album's not as bad as everyone says it is
Better than Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace.
Album Rating: 5.0good record
Spare me the details is very solid.
I love Conspiracy of One... But probably a nostalgia thing.
Album Rating: 3.0Love their 90's-early 00's stuff, anything past that is a bit.....average.
Digging: Big Dumb Face - Where Is Duke Lion? He's Dead...
Album Rating: 3.5I don't know, I loved it when it came out and still like it... One of their best post-American album. I think you guys are taking When Your In Prison too seriously... It shouldn't be considered a song, it's a joke ;)
All the songs are average but some are great, at least in my opinion.
if this is shit, then y would I do that?
Album Rating: 3.5Do what?
Conspiracy is pretty enjoyable, pure nostalgia, reminds me when I was playing crazy taxi 3.
I really like "(Can't get my) head around you".
Album Rating: 3.8The thing with Offspring in the past decade is that everyone is focused on those 1 or 2 joke/dumb songs, but rarely on the good ones that make up the bigger part of Splinter, Days Go By and to a lesser extent Rise And Fall.
Album Rating: 3.5I didn't like Days Go By though, if you want I made a review on it.
Album Rating: 3.8I find Days Go By better than Rise And Fall. There are some strong songs on Days that have that old-school Offspring feel.
More jokier? Lol
Digging: Langhorne Slim - Lost At Last, Vol 1
Album Rating: 3.8"Splinter is considerably harder, yet it is also more jokier, with a handful of joke tracks as well."
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Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482 -Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 - Section 3(1)(x) -Case Law Referred :1.Sarita Shyam Dake Vs. Sr. Police Inspector and Anr. 2008 (1) Bom.C.R. (Cri.) 417 (Para 13). 2.V.P. Shetty Chairman of Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd. Vs. Sr. Inspector of Police and Another 2005 (2) Bom.C.R. (Cri.) 891 (Para 13).3.Pradnya Pradeep Kenkare and Anr. Vs. State of Maharashtra 2005 (2) Bom.C.R. (Cri.) 431 (Para 13).4.State of Haryana Vs. Bhajan Lal AIR 1992 S.C. 602 (Para 10).5.State of Punjab Vs. Dharam Singh and Others 1987 (Supp) S.C.C. 89 (Para 11). ORAL JUDGMENT :1. Heard Adv. Shri R.N. Dhorde i/b. Adv. Shri V.S. Kadam for the petitioner A.P.P. Shri B.V. Wagh for respondent Nos. 1 to 3 and Adv. Smt. A.S. Mantri for respondent No.4. 2. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. With consent of learned advocates appearing for the parties the petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 3. This is a petition for quashing F.I.R. filed by respondent No.4 against the petitioner which is registered as C.R. No. 3015 of 2009 by Latur Gramin Police Station for offence punishable under section 3 (1) (x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 (for short ?Atrocities Act?) and under sections 323 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ?I.P.C.?). 4. Briefly stated facts giving rise to this petition may be stated as below :. Respondent No.4 lodged complaint with the police station alleging that he is an educated unemployed and Shri Ramdasji Athavale had given him recommendation letter for giving him contracts of construction. Accordingly he had taken construction work of road in the name of Sachin Vimukta Bhatkya Jamathi Majoor Cooperative Society Ekambi Tanda Tq. Ausa Dist. Latur. The work order was bearing MB No. 2968 (Major) and amount of bill was Rs. 5 50 000/. On 24.08.2009 along with one Mahavir Kamble complainant Rohidas Kamble went to the cabin of petitioner ? Ranjit Hande Executive Engineer for making inquiry regarding the bill. At that time it is alleged that the petitioner gave him shoves & pushes and spoke insultingly. The petitioner called him ?Dhedgya Mahargya? and demanded 2% commission and also abused the complainant/respondent No. 4 on caste. Mahavir Kamble intervened and thereafter the complaint was lodged. 5. In the petition the petitioner stated that no such incident had taken place. He has been involved in a false case and the F.I.R. may be quashed. In para 12 of the petition it is stated that respondent No.4 was insisting that since he had brought a letter of a very known influential person irrespective of the fact whether he had carried out the work or not he wanted payment. It is totally wild and incorrect allegation of demand of 2%. Bills were pending of various societies from MarchApril 2008 as funds were not available. 6. At the time of arguments the learned advocate Shri R.N. Dhorde has taken me through the various documents produced with the petition. As per clause 8 of the circular produced at Exh. ?B? (collectively) allotment of work is done by committee and not by the Executive Engineer. The committee recommends the allotment of work. As per circular dated 06.12.2008 minimum 25 labour members are required to be in the society. As per para 9 of said circular amounts payable to labour cooperative societies are to be credited in the account of concerned labour cooperative society in District Central Cooperative Bank. As per letter dated 15.06.2006 issued by the Superintending Engineer Public Works Circle Osmanabad to the Chairman Sachin Vimukta Bhatkya Jamati Majoor Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Ekambitanda Tq. Ausa the copy of which is at Exh. ?C? said labour cooperative society was informed that they would be registered for a period of three years and they will have to make fresh application for renewal. List of members of the committee so also list of directors and other office bearers of the committee are given with the letter and it does not appear that respondent No.4 was either member or office bearer of the society in question. Therefore it is argued that respondent No.1 had no occasion whatsoever to make inquiry regarding payment to the said society and there was no reason or occasion for demanding any commission from him. Infact this is a false case. Respondent No.4 was not concerned with the society in question. At Exh. ?D? there is a letter dated 27.02.2009 issued by the petitioner to the Chairman of Sachin Vimukta Bhagkya Jamati Majoor Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit whereby the work was allotted on certain conditions. At Exh. ?E? there is letter dated 10.08.2009 whereby the bill of said society for Rs. 5 48 586/was submitted by the SubDivisional Engineer Power Works SubDivision Ausa. It is clear from the endrosement thereon that the date of completion (of work) was 30.05.2009. It was case of the petitioner that on the day of incident i.e. 24.08.2009 funds were not available and therefore bills were outstanding. 7. No affidavit in reply is filed by the respondents. The learned A.P.P. Shri B.V. Wagh produced papers of investigation and stated that respondent No.4 has filed complaint which was a typed complaint. It is accompanied with recommendation letter issued by Shri Ramdasji Athavale M.P. There is caste certificate of respondent No.4 and the copy of F.I.R. registered. There are statements of various persons recorded by police. Arjun Mandale stated that respondent No.4 and one more person with him had approached the petitioner and requested for payment of bill. The petitioner showed him B.D.S. List and told that budget was not available and payment could not be made. At that time respondent No.4 said that if it is not possible to make payment he should be given new work. The petitioner said that within two days Code of Conduct would be come in operation and after period of the Code of Conduct was over work will be made available. At that time respondent No.4 raised his voice and no incident as alleged in the complaint had taken place. Arun Mandale was working as a Naik in the office of the petitioner. 8. There are statements of Dattatraya PotdarPeon in office of the petitioner Ramrao Awaghade who was working as a Security Guard Yashwant Kulkarni who was working as Dy. Executive Engineer and Pradip Raut Chairman of another society. But none of them supported the case of the complainant but asserted that no incident as alleged took place. 9. There is only statement of Mahavir Kamble who is alleged to have accompanied the complainant. He supported the case of respondent No.4 and stated as per the complaint. Investigation papers also show that statement of Baliram Chavan who was chairman of Sachin Vimukta Bhatkya Jamati Majoor Sahakari Sanstha recorded on 28.08.2009 and he stated that present respondent No.4 and/or Mahavir Kamble have no concern whatsoever with the society. They are not members of the society. They have no right to get payment in respect of work done by the society. The Public Works Department has passed bill of his society but for want of budget cheque was not issued. 10. Adv. Smt. Mantri cited two authorities. First is State of Haryana V/s. Bhajan Lal AIR 1992 S.C. 602. In para 108 of the said case various guidelines are laid down. It is argued that ultimately it is question of evidence before Court whether the case is true or false and this Court cannot strike down F.I.R. at this stage saying that the complaint of respondent No.4 was not trustworthy. 11. Adv. Smt. Mantri also relied upon case of State of Punjab V/s. Dharam Singh and Others 1987 (Supp) S.C.C.89. In that case the Supreme Court laid down that the Court is not competent to quash F.I.R. and proceedings taken in pursuance thereof thereby restraining the police authorities from performing their duties. It is also held that High Court erred in quashing the F.I.R. by not only examining the averments made in the F.I.R. but also going into merits of the case before investigation and collection of evidence by the investigating agency. 12. This Court referred to the papers of investigation mainly for the purpose of ascertaining whether there was any corroborative evidence and secondly whether the police collected any evidence to show that respondent No.4 has any concern with the contract in question or with the society which had taken contract and also to ascertain if there was occasion for the incident. This Court can very well consider such aspects in view of clause (5) of para 108 of case of Bhajan Lal (Supra). 13. Adv. Shri R.N. Dhorde also stated that present case also falls under clause (3) of para 108 of the case of Bhajan Lal (Supra) in as much as ingredients of section 3 (1) (x) of the Atrocities Act are not made out. He relied upon three authorities namely V.P. Shetty Chairman of Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd. V/s. Sr. Inspector of Police and Another 2005 (2) Bom.C.R. (Cri.) 891 Sarita Shyan Dake V/s. Sr. Police Inspector and Anr. 2008 (1) Bom.C.R. (Cri.)417 and Pradnya Pradeep Kenkare and Anr. V/s. State of Maharashtra 2005 (2) Bom.C.R. (Cri.) 431. The Division Benches in above three cases stated that for commission of offence punishable under section 3 (1) (x) of the Atrocities Act utterances must be in public view. Whenever the words uttered are not at a place accessible to public offence cannot be said to have been committed. In the case of V.P. Shetty (Supra) incident had occurred in closed cabin of the petitioner and in absence of any stranger it is observed that it can hardly be said that the accusation was in public view. I may refer to para 8 of the case of Sarita Dake (Supra). In the said case the complainant nowhere disclosed that any third person was present at the time of incident. The complainant did not also disclose that the incident could have been seen by any third party from outside the office premises. In the case of Pradnya Kenkare (Supra) there was no evidence to show that the expression was used in public view and there was any stranger present. Incident of insult or intimidation has to occur in plac e accessible to and in presence of the public.14. Considering totality of the circumstances in my opinion the case is filed for some ulterior motive and therefore the case falls under clauses 3 5 & 7 of para 108 of the case of Bhajan Lal (Supra) which I reproduce below for ready reference: ?x x x x x x x 3. Where the un controverted allegations made in the FIR or complaint and the evidence collected in support of the same do not disclose the commission of any offence and make out a case against the accused. x x x x x x x x 5. Where the allegations made in the FIR or complaint are so absurd and inherently improbable on the basis of which no prudent person can ever reach a just conclusion that there is sufficient ground for proceeding against the accused. x x x x x x x x x 7. Where a criminal proceeding is manifestly attended with mala fide and/or where the proceeding is maliciously instituted with an ulterior motive for wreaking vengeance on the accused and with a view to spite him due to private and personal grudge.? 15. In the result the writ petition is allowed. Rule made absolute in terms of prayer clause (B) and the petition stands disposed of.


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The Kansas City Chapter of Amigos de las Americas will serve its annual Mexican Dinner on Sunday, March 3, 11:30am-2:00pm, at Bishop Miege High School, 5401 Reinhardt Drive, Roeland Park, KS.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and free to children five and under. They can be purchased from volunteers, board members, or at the door.
The Mexican dinner also offers something new this year: a raffle for the chance to win four KU
basketball tickets for Senior Night the following evening, Monday, March 4. Tickets are $5.00.
The Amigos program prepares young leaders for full-immersion cultural exchanges and community
service projects in nine Latin American countries. Community-building initiatives include health and hygiene programs, environmental and nutritional programs, and national park improvement projects.
For more information about Amigos de las Americas , please visit our website.
If you're looking for lunch this Sunday, have a hankering for Mexican, and want to help send a group of SM East and Bishop Miege kids southward for a summer of cultural exchange, plan on attending the Amigos de las Americas feast:


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It should be no surprise to anyone that Heather Filley is considered super fund-raiser, according to City Administrator Harold Selby.
When the Backpackers cook-off chair was invited to city hall to be recognized for her current fund-raising project, she turned the tables on officials, inviting them to team up to help fight cancer.
City officials invited Filley and other organizers of the 2013 and upcoming 2014 American Cancer Association Relay For Life in Pacific fund-raisers to city hall April 1 to be recognized for their success at recruiting walking teams and raising funds.
For the 2013 event, Pacific organizers fielded 16 teams and raised a total of $8,288. Between 300 and 400 people attended, according to Alderman Mike Pigg, who presented certificates of appreciation to Filley and other volunteers.
"As of today they've already signed up 15 teams for this year," Pigg said.
Filley said it's heartwarming to be recognized for something that is near and dear to her heart.
"So many of us have family members who have battled cancer and some lost," Filley said. "There is a great need to help people with this disease."
The 2014 Pacific Relay for Life will be held at Pacific High School, 425 Indian Warpath Drive, Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21, from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"Since we're new at this we don't walk all night," Filley said. "We walked six hours last year and we're extending that to eight hours this year."
Filley said she wants to give credit to the school district for helping organize the late night walk and the Tri-County Senior Center for allowing the group to hold their meetings there.
"I encourage you to come out and set up a team of city individuals," Filley said.
There is no minimum. The goal is for the entire eight hours each team should have someone on track at all times walking in honor and memory of all those who battled cancer ceremony.
Walkers will see a row of candles lining the track while names of those who lost their battle with cancer are read.
"It's very empowering," Filley said. "Many people in our community have been affected by this disease."
Selby said Filley should be recognized for all of her volunteer efforts.
"It's great that Heather was selected for this," he said. " You'd need a billboard to show everything she does. I was at an event two weeks ago Sunday in Clayton at Westport for a half marathon. It was 24 degrees and it was cold, really cold, and when I reached the finish line there was Heather telling runners where to go.
"When I went to get a number there was Jill Pigg. This event was for the Down's Syndrome Pujols Family Foundation. Pacific was really represented."
Joining Filley in the Pacific Council Chamber were Stephanie Godfrey, Debby Hailey, Jill Pigg and Meramec Valley School District Superintendent Randy George.
Those interested in participating in the Relay for Life can register online at www.relayforlifeorg/pacificmo.
For more information, contact Filley at 314-578-5143 or firstname.lastname@example.com RelayForLife.org or call 1-800-227-2345.


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Now that the kids are back to school, why not spend a few hours a week volunteering at Syracuse Home Health & Rehabilitation Center right here in Baldwinsville? You really can make a difference in the lives of long-term care residents who would greatly appreciate your time and friendship.
Syracuse Home strives to improve the quality of life for older adults by providing long-term care, short-term rehabilitation and independent retirement living.
"Our skilled nursing facility provides excellent, conscientious nursing care in a beautiful home-like setting," said Audrey Gibbs, director of development and public relations at Syracuse Home.
Volunteering is a great way for stay-at-home moms to meet new people, gain a better understanding of the needs of the local community, help others who are less fortunate, learn new skills and to use as a job reference in the future.
There are many volunteer opportunities available including: transporting residents to activities and beauty shop appointments; taking them outdoors for walks; playing pitch, pinochle and Scrabble games; participating in BINGO; accompanying the staff on resident outings; and helping out with administrative duties in the activities department.
"We have a special bowling night at Syracuse Home that is the perfect opportunity for a family to volunteer together. This is a fun, high-energy activity that residents, staff and families thoroughly enjoy," said Kelly O'Neill-Rossi, volunteer coordinator at Syracuse Home.
"If you have a musical talent or hobby to share, our residents would greatly appreciate it."
The Syracuse Home Auxiliary is also recruiting new members to join. There are many exciting programs to choose from such as friendly visitors, gift shop attendant, worship, arts and crafts festival and many more.
For more information about volunteering at Syracuse Home, call O'Neill-Rossi, volunteer coordinator, at 638-2521 ext. 1400.
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I'd like to see a real variety of cast members again... and I prefer them not to have a ton of prior dance experience. I think part of the enjoyment of this show is seeing people work hard and better themselves.
Ladies = Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia), Gail O'Grady (American Dreams), and Tyra Banks (model)
Men = Michael Vartan (Alias), Andre Agassi (tennis), Jacob Young (All My Children)
I'd also like it if contestants weren't voted off. They are not going for a monetary prize in the end - just a trophy. So, let us see them each week and have points awarded towards end totals. Then award trophies such as "Most Improved," "Best All-Around" and "Fan Favorite"


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Yeah right. Don't you know that Dolphins enjoy sex, not just for reproduction? That sounds like the female dolphin got herself a sex toy for the ages... I mean, 8 giant ribbed shafts ... think about it!
(LiveScience) An octopus got the joyride of its life last week when it somehow became stuck on the belly of a bottlenose dolphin in the Ionian Sea. More specifically, the tentacled sea creature had a seat on the dolphin's genital slit.
Researchers with the Ionian Dolphin Project, part of the Tethys Research Institute, were observing a foursome of dolphins near the island of Kalamos off the west coast of Greece. Suddenly, one of the dolphins leapt out of the water with something strange dangling from its stomach. It wasn't until the researchers examined their photos of the leap that they realized the unidentified object was an octopus.
The tentacled hitchhiker was attached to the dolphin's genital slit. Photographer Joan Gonzalvo isn't sure what the octopus was up to, though he told New Scientist that perhaps the dolphin tried to eat the octopus and the animal lodged itself along the dolphin's genital slit to escape.
The dolphin may have been leaping from the water to detach its uninvited guest, Gonzalvo, the project manager of the Ionian Dolphin Project, wrote on the organization's blog. After shaking the octopus loose, the dolphin continued to swim with no signs of discomfort, he added
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Yeah right. Don't you know that Dolphins enjoy sex, not just for reproduction? That sounds like the female dolphin got herself a sex toy for the ages... I mean, 8 giant ribbed shafts ... think about it!
I think this story and the calamari story need a poll attached...
Who's hornier?
1. a squid
2. an octopus
3. southslide
At least that dolphin doesn't have to wear teal and orange and suffer the indignity of having J-Lo and Fergie as part owners of his franchise.
I'd say he's doing quite well under the circumstances, all things considered.
I'm not saying I haven't flogged the dolphin before, I'm just saying I know what's going on here.


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Now, with Gal Gadot, you know what people's complaints are? Not acting capability. No, it's her size. Her breasts? I've heard some complaints about that but that's not what the majority of the complaints are about. They're about her weight. Her muscle - or lack thereof.
I suppose the internet and fans were pissed when they found out that Christian Bale, who, at the time, recently appeared in The Machinist at only 120lbs, looking just like a walking skeleton, was cast as Batman, right? No. People were concerned if he'd be able to reach the necessary weight in time, but they knew they weren't going to get a 120lb Batman. They were more concerned if he was going to reach his goal of 210lb, or max out at around 190lbs. Well, we got Batman Begins and as comic book legend Stan Lee would say, 'nuff said.


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Prec/Tough/Con Damage vs Power/Vit/Con Damage
Posted 03 December 2012 - 05:52 AM
I currently dont seem to have any issues critting to keep up the burn from Explosive Trait.
So is the change to Prec/Tough/Con Damage worth it for increased survivabilty and a small loss of upfront damage?
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Whose theory? With the extremely low power coefficient on pistols, I fail to see how power is very useful for P/P builds at all. Possible slightly useful if at all with P/S.
In theory a mix of both could be the best. Effective health is highest at a specific ratio of health versus armor. Also the procs have an internal cooldown, so if you're throwing grenades with Grenadier trait 33% crit chance should be enough to get a proc with every throw.
Now for the rifle it may be solid though.
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The effective health has a sweet spot which is somewhere around Health / Armor = 10 as far as I know.
So you could optimize two variables. Maybe not worth the effort.
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Sure we do, and very successfully I might add. Your making some extremely broad and pigeon holing assumptions there.
You don't play P/P without grenades/flamethrower or bombs anyway. If you proc every trait you can in the minimum amount of time any more crit chance is of no use.
The effective health has a sweet spot which is somewhere around Health / Armor = 10 as far as I know.
So you could optimize two variables. Maybe not worth the effort.
As I see it, with the limited damage scaling coefficient of power in 2/3 of the engineers weapons combinations, combined with the fact that precision aids in condition damage with all of the available "on crit" benefits, that precision as a general rule is more beneficial then power. That depends a lot on your play style and build format though.
To assume that everyone uses kit builds, and the kits you listed, to be more specific, is, well, uneducated at best, to put it politely. Elixir builds are very common. I know many who have learned to make turrets builds work great lately, particularly in dungeons. Gadget builds have been very common in pvp since beta, and are used in dungeons alot to control the flow of battle.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pursued his open dispute with American officials Thursday, blaming the U.S.-led coalition for Iraq's chaos and faulting its military strategy.
His comments came in an interview as the White House and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sought to play down the idea of a growing rift.
Rumsfeld urged critics of administration policy "to just back off" and "relax."
According to a partial transcript of his interview with the Reuters news agency, al-Maliki said he thought that Iraqi troops, left to their own devices, could re-establish order in six months, not the 12 to 18 months that the top U.S. commander, Gen. William Casey, had predicted Tuesday.
Al-Maliki offered a different set of priorities for fighting violence than U.S. officials, who've said the greatest threat to Iraq comes from death squads aligned with Shiite Muslim militias.
Recounting a meeting with the head of one of those militias, the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, al-Maliki said they agreed "that the efforts for all political groups should be focused on the most dangerous challenge, which is al-Qaida and the Saddam Baathists." Both groups are made up primarily of Sunni Muslims.
Al-Maliki also said U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was "not accurate" when he said that the Iraqi government had agreed to a timetable for dealing with Iraq's problems.
In Washington, administration officials again spoke out about what they expect from Iraq's government – and when.
Rumsfeld said there would be no set dates for Iraqi leaders to meet, nor any penalties imposed if they failed to meet goals.
He said the goals have no specific deadlines or consequences if they are not met by specific dates.
"You're looking for some sort of a guillotine to come falling down if some date isn't met," Rumsfeld told reporters. "That is not what this is about."
Noting that this is a political season, Rumsfeld complained that critics and the media are trying to "make a little mischief" by trying to "find a little daylight between what the Iraqis say or someone in the United States says."
He also said U.S. officials planned to increase spending on Iraq's army and police, but didn't say how much. The $70 billion in war spending that lawmakers tacked on to the 2007 defense-spending bill includes $1.7 billion to train and equip Iraq's security forces.
In Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi forces set up roadblocks Thursday and launched round-the-clock aerial surveillance of Baghdad as their search for an American soldier who may have been kidnapped entered its third day.
"We're using all assets in our arsenal to find this American soldier, and the government of Iraq is doing everything that it can also at every level," said Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq. "Make no mistake: We will not stop looking for our service member."
The search was so intense, Caldwell said, that military officials think it may have contributed to a sudden drop in the level of violence in the city, which had reached record highs in recent weeks. Caldwell said the violence had declined the last two days, though he cautioned that the reduction also might be the result of the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
He declined to provide details of the search for the soldier, who's been described as an American of Iraqi descent. Family members told U.S. officials that the soldier, who was a translator, came to visit them in central Baghdad. Shortly after he arrived, three carloads of masked gunman stormed the house and took him away in handcuffs, family members said.
Baghdad residents reported that parts of Sadr City, a slum stronghold of Shiite militias and death squads, were blockaded. For much of the day every entrance but one also was blocked into the central district, where the missing soldiers' family lived.
The U.S. military said Thursday that four Marines and a sailor had been killed in combat the day before, raising to 96 the number of American deaths in Iraq so far in October. All but four were killed in action, making the month's combat toll the worst for U.S. troops in two years.
In other violence, 12 police officers were killed in fighting with suspected militia gunmen in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, officials said. Eighteen militants also were killed.
The deadliest month for U.S. forces in Iraq was November 2004, when fighting, mainly in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, left 137 troops dead, 126 of them in combat. In January 2005, 107 U.S. troops were killed.


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More protests as Ukrainians bury a 'hero'
Updated 10:55 pm, Sunday, January 26, 2014
Kiev, Ukraine -- Thousands of Ukrainians chanted "Hero!" and sang the national anthem on Sunday, as a coffin carrying a protester who was killed in last week's clashes with police was carried through the streets of the capital, underscoring the rising tensions in the country's two-month political crisis.
Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, was one of three protesters who died in clashes Wednesday.
"He died defending my future so that I will live in a different Ukraine," said Nina Uvarov, a student from Kiev who wept as Zhiznevsky's body was carried out of St. Michael's Cathedral.
The opposition contends that Zhiznevsky and another activist were shot by police in an area where demonstrators had been throwing rocks and firebombs at riot police for several days. The government claims the two demonstrators were killed with hunting rifles, which they say police do not carry. The authorities would not say how a third protester died.
Meanwhile, protests against President Viktor Yanukovych continued to engulf the country, now beginning to spread to central and eastern Ukraine, the leader's support base.
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Meanwhile, in Kiev, protesters seized the Justice Ministry building late Sunday, adding another government building to the several already occupied by the opposition.
The protests began in late November after Yanukovych shelved a long-awaited agreement to deepen ties with the European Union. Since then, they have been increasingly pressed by people seeking more radical action, even as moderate opposition leaders have pleaded for the violence to end.
Zhiznevsky's body was carried to Independence Square in central Kiev. Crowds shouted "Yanukovych is a murderer!" and "Down with the criminal," a reference to Yanukovych's run-ins with the law during his youth. The coffin was then carried to the site of Zhiznevsky's death at barricades near the Ukrainian parliament.
A crowd late Saturday besieged a building where about 200 police were sheltering, throwing fireworks, firebombs and rocks. The outburst came soon after opposition leaders issued a defiant response to Yanukovych's offer to make Arseniy Yatsenyuk, one of their top figures, the country's prime minister. While not rejecting the offer outright, Yatsenyuk said more of the opposition's demands must be met, including Yanukovych's resignation. He said protests would continue.


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Agriculture Sector Rehabilitation Project
- Référence: P-LR-A00-001
- Date d'approbation: 29/04/2009
- Date de début: 30/03/2010
- Date d'évaluation: 31/01/2009
- Statut: En coursOnGo
- Agence d'implémentation: MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
- Emplacement: GEDEH,KRU, MARYLAND,RIVER GEE,BASSA,MOUN
The overall goal of the project is to contribute to food security and poverty reduction. Its specific objective is to increase the income of smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs including women on a sustainable basis. The project has three components:
I. Agriculture Infrastructure Rehabilitation: The activities will include:
(i) Rehabilitation of water management infrastructure covering an estimated 1,620 ha for swamp rice cultivation in Grand Kru, Grand Gedeh, River Gee and Maryland counties;
(ii) Detailed technical studies in preparation for future investments in irrigated rice farming (7,000 ha);
(ii) Rehabilitation of 100 km of feeder roads; and
(iii) Development of community infrastructure, such as storage and agro-processing facilities, including 2400 square metres of multifunctional post-harvest/marketing facilities, 40 mechanised wells & sanitation facilities.
II. Agricultural Production and Productivity Improvement: This component will focus on:
(i) Agricultural Productivity Enhancement including the increase in crop productivity through an Integrated Plant and Pest Management Approach (IPPM), provision of farm inputs, facilitating women's access to land, employment of youth for the heavy task of land clearance;
(ii) Capacity Building of Agricultural Institutions, which will cover the re-equipping and re-tooling of the Ministry of Agriculture at national and local level (including provision of at most 35 motorcycles, 12 cars, 100 bicycles and rehabilitation of 1500 Square Metres office buildings) as well as the rehabilitation and equipping of a seed laboratory for the national research institution, in addition to facilitating farmers' organisational capacity through regular training; secondly, project will provide for short and long-term TA including bolstering the proposed Ministry of Agriculture PCU. Agriculture sector staff will be trained within the country and the region, including 80 Extension Agents, of which 20 will be Water Management Technicians; five Agricultural Research scientists; 15 Subject Matter Specialists, including three Agricultural Economists, three Agronomists, two Livestock/Veterinary Specialists, two Entomologists, two Soil & Water Management Specialists and three Agricultural/Irrigation Engineers;
(iii) establishing and training community-based agents who will facilitate transactions between farmers and agricultural inputs suppliers and/or produce buyers; and
(iv) community capacity building activities to ensure sustainability of project interventions.
III. Project Management: This component will cover project implementation support to the MOA. Grant resources will be used for payment of operational expenses, including TA salaries, performance-based and field allowances to competitively recruited Subject Matter Specialists (SMSs) who will be directly involved in project implementation. The SMSs will receive in service training and skills transfer from international/regional/national experts.
The specific project objective is to increase income for smallholders and rural entrepreneurs on a sustainable basis.
Liberia is in a recovery phase after being ravaged by a fourteen-year civil war. This devastating civil war has turned Liberia into a fragile state characterized by widespread 2 degradation of the country's socio-economic conditions. The World Bank, IFAD and FAO produced in 2007 a Comprehensive Assessment of the Agricultural Sector (CAAS-Lib) which provides comprehensive assessment of agricultural constraints and opportunities after the war, and was a major input to the PRS, as well as providing a sound basis for interventions in the sector. The CAAS-Lib indicates that about 86% of rural households live in poverty, and 80% of them are moderately or hig hly food insecure. The Agricultural Sector Rehabilitation Project (ASRP) will contribute to the revamping of agricultural infrastructure in 8 of the 15 counties in the country, contribute to food security and provide institutional capacity building support. The rationale for ADF's involvement in this project is embedded in its global strategy towards poverty reduction through, notably, increased investment in the infrastructure sector; but more specifically it stems from its Fragile State Facility whose 3rd pillar focuses on human and institutional capacity building, and its Africa Food Crisis Response (AFCR), which aims to ensure food security through enhanced availability of modern inputs and dissemination of NERICA rice. The project will contribute to promoting partnership among donor institutions, as it will be co-financed by the Bank and IFAD. The project has been acknowledged as necessary and complementary by other partners including World Bank, IMF, UNDP, EU, FAO and USAID. By supporting the current project the Bank will not only improve food security but also reduce poverty in Liberia.
The project area comprises eight counties (30 districts) including rice production counties of the south-east (Grand Gedeh, River Gee, Grand Kru and Maryland) and major cassava production areas in the north-west (Grand Cape Mount, Bomi, Montserrado and Grand Bassa). The direct project beneficiaries are estimated at 9,610 households. The main project benefits include: increase in household incomes from USD 350 to 1,730; creation of jobs equivalent to 498,800 person days; 10% increase in rice production; 15% reduction in post-harvest losses; functionality of community based groups; and percentage of women among project beneficiaries as indicated in the Results-based Logical Framework.
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Success story from David Jennings, Coldwell Banker
Posted by mbarrus in Success Stories, Testimonials on February 9th, 2011
About a year ago I noticed Dirk Dahl was using these riders in the Whitfield Estates area. He and I have pretty similar business models so I asked him about them. He was quite satisfied but you know how the "day to day" goes…I never pursued the technology.
So, when it was introduced to our office I knew exactly what it was and immediately put up about 5 or 6 as a test.
One Saturday morning when I was opening up a house for a later showing I rec'd an e mail that someone had just called on a Patterson Drive listing. Being behind the wheel and only a few blocks away I decided to drive by and see if they were still there.
A Mini Cooper was sitting out front so I pulled up along side of the car in the opposite direction. I kept my distance so as not to alarm anyone. I rolled down my window and held up my Blackberry. This woman rolled her window down and I said…"Excuse me but I am testing out this new technology and I am wondering how long ago you called that toll free number?"
She replied "OMG! Less than 60 seconds ago and I am looking at these pictures right now!" I think she could see the sincere delight in my face which probably dispelled any thought I was a stalking her.
Anyway, making a long story short…we talked for a couple minutes car to car. Then we took a look at the house she was calling on. After determining it was not right, we went off to see another.
She is back home now which is 3 hours away but still shopping. I have set up an electronic search profile for her and we have talked regularly over the past two weeks.
We wrote one offer which did not result in an executed contract but I fully expect to see her in a contract by late March which is her most desired time frame.
If she did not have the opportunity of making that call I expect she would have spent the morning writing addresses down only to go back home in the afternoon and spend the evening searching Realtor.com. This way, she actually saw a few houses and met an area expert further qualifying the neighborhood.
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Posted by mbarrus in Trends & Research on February 2nd, 2011
I came across an interesting article with some great statistics and predictions about mobile marketing this year:
Mobile marketing spend to increase 59pc in 2011: study by Giselle Tsirulnik
From the article:
"The study found that a whopping 88 percent of brand marketers will use mobile marketing techniques in 2011. Seventy-five percent plan to increase their spend on mobile marketing initiatives by an average of 59 percent. In 2010, 62 percent of marketers used some form of mobile marketing for their brands."
Mobile marketing is becoming an every day part of all our lives. We are constantly surrounded by mobile devices, and so are our customers. What are you doing in 2011 to increase the frequency and effectiveness of your mobile marketing efforts?


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New Delhi: She was one of the earliest among the popular Video Jockeys (VJ) to make a shift to Bollywood. Now as names like Ayushmann Khurrana and Rannvijay are taking the trend forward, Shenaz Treasuryvala says VJs make excellent actors, given their confidence to face the camera.
"I think VJs make excellent actors as we are not camera-shy and already have confidence. It's all under the blanket of being an on-screen personality," Shenaz told IANS in an email interview.
Shenaz used to anchor music show "MTV'S Most Wanted" for many years, before she made a move to Bollywood with Ken Ghosh's 2003 movie "Ishq Vishk". After that she featured in films like "Radio" and "Delhi Belly".
The 31-year-old will now be seen in romantic comedy "Main Aur Mr. Right", in which she plays the role of a perfectionist looking for her 'Mr. Right'.
Shenaz feels every girl will be able to relate to the story. "Most girls, no matter how practical, independent, mature or modern they claim to be, cannot let go of the teenage girl inside them… the girl who's grown up on Shah Rukh Khan or Tom Hanks's films.
"Somewhere inside us, we are all dreaming of a man to sweep us off our feet and ride us away into the sunset on a big black horse. So I think women of all ages can relate to the movies," she added.
Asked if she is equally choosy in her real life as well, she said: "Not as much as my character. She takes picky to another level. I feel that no man is going to be perfect and check all the boxes so I need to pick my top five and go with a man who fulfills those."
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Jewellery and up to 40 wallets in presentation boxes were stolen in the incident at Whinwhistle Road, near West Wellow,and the police have now issued the e-fit likeness of the man who could help them catch those involved in the bur-glary, on November 29.
A double-glazed door was smashed to gain entry, sometime between 9.15am and 8.25pm, and all rooms at the house were searched by an intruder or intruders.
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The saga surrounding the left ankle of Warriors guard Monta Ellis has taken a step toward a conclusion. The Contra Costa Times has learned that Ellis has admitted to the Warriors that he wasn't truthful about how he hurt his ankle, and the two sides are in talks about how to put the situation behind them.
According to a team source, the Warriors now know that Ellis' ankle injury _ which was repaired during surgery on Aug. 27 _ was not sustained "in a gym," and "it happened out doors and not while playing basketball."
The source did not reveal what Ellis told Warriors management he was doing when he got hurt, only that he "was scared to tell the truth at first," but eventually did.
At first, Ellis told the team he was working out in Jackson, Miss., when he injured his ankle on Aug. 21, tearing a deltoid ligament and suffering a severe high ankle sprain. But he has been in regular communication with Chris Mullin, the executive vice president of basketball operations, with whom Ellis has a close relationship.
The team can fine and/or suspend Ellis if he injured his ankle by participating in a prohibited activity, such as motorcycle riding or snowboarding. Should he somehow not be able to play again, the Warriors could terminate the six-year, $66 million contract they signed Ellis to in July.
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Dell recently found itself in hot water with the Taiwan Consumer Protection Commission (TCPC) over a pricing mistake on its online store. That mistake saw 19″ monitors being sold for $15 for a period of around eight hours over June 25-26. In total 140,000 sales were made and the TCPC wanted at least the first monitor bought per customer honored at the price advertised.
After such a costly mistake you'd think Dell Taiwan would have taken measures to ensure such an incident didn't happen again. But last Sunday another pricing mistake was made; this time on a laptop. The Dell Latitude E4300 laptop was meant to be priced at $2,101.34, but for an eight hour period it could be bought for just $543.40 and 40,000 sales of the machine were waiting to be completed by Dell on Monday morning.
Dell has already apologized to customers through a notice posted on its site and offered customers who tried to buy the reduced items discounts on future purchases. Any attempt to access discounted products on the Dell Taiwan store is just met with an error.
The TCPC will now investigate further to assess if fair trade laws were broken and the practices of the company in general. Dell could yet be forced to honor all sales.
Read more at PC World
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I can't believe that after the monitor pricing error Dell Taiwan could do the same thing again. On top of that the pricing difference is worse and could cost them a lot more money than the monitors.
Dell's global management team will surely get involved now and drag the staff in Taiwan over the coals. Making such a mistake once is bad enough, but to do it again within weeks of the first mistake is unforgivable. The TCPC will not have a very good view of how the company operates and is probably now more inclined to punish Dell by forcing it to honor all sales.
If heads don't roll at Dell's Taiwan operation I'll be very surprised. New practices for pricing updates need to be implemented which sees checks made by multiple people before a change is made and the people responsible for both mistakes need to be identified and spoken to. If it is the same person making the mistake for both products I don't think their job is very safe right now.


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Nobody will call this a cheap shot.
San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson has been fined $100,000 by the NHL for his criticism of the Raffi Torres verdict.
The Sharks winger was suspended for the remainder of San Jose's second-round series against the Los Angeles Kings after a high hit on Jarret Stoll in the opening game, but Wilson argued Torres didn't target his head and that the collision didn't meet the criteria of the often-talked-about Rule 48.
"Although it's unfortunate that Jarret was injured on the play, we feel this decision is grossly unfair to Raffi, his teammates and our fans," Wilson said in Friday's strongly-worded statement.
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THOUSANDS of people are set to once again take to the pedals for a Hampshire city's cycling extravaganza.
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Am I being unreasonable to expect people attending a christening to behave as politely as they would like visitors to their home to behave. The church is the house of God and the second home of those who attend regularly. If the christening takes place during a normal service it is not appropriate to chatter among yourselves. Unless you are the child's parents or God parents it is not obligitary for you to attend the ceremony. You can meet up at the knees up venue afterwards. If you would like to attend the ceremony and don't know the procedure ask someone who does, or better still attend a service the week before so you have some idea how to behave. Finally please take your used tissues, crisp packets etc home with you. Someone has to clean the church afterwards and it is usually a small team of volunteers mostly in their sixties, seventies and eighties.
YANBU. I can't believe people would eat crisps during a christening, let alone leave the bags in the church afterwards!
I suspect you already know YANBU.
Crisp eating during a church service?
That is bizarre & very rude.
I agree.
We went to a Christening where the Godparents were late and the woman was dressed really casually and not appropriately at all imo.
Well obviously I agree with you.
I think people have forgotten how to behave in public - it's like we've gone back to Georgian times with all the pissing in public, picking their teeth, hoicking the nuts and norks...
People are grotesque sometimes.
Can i add to that that it would be nice to see folk dressing with a little more respect to the venue while in church.
I'm not religious, but can appreciate there's a time and place for dressing up like you're going out for a night on the town, and that Church isn't one of them.
Sounds like they think they're at the cinema or something! I would only invite people I know would behave. But it sounds like you're not the person holding the christening - are you the church cleaner or something?
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
why don't churches accept that christenings are going to attract a more diverse range of people than normal services, including small children, and schedule them separately? the last one I went to was close on two hours - I can grit my teeth for that long but my three year old can't. I have removed my (appropriately dressed) children from various churches when they've been unable to behave but people getting all catsbum about children behaving like children doesn't seem particularly Christian to me.
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
YANBU to hope people would behave politely and not take the church's hospitality for granted.
However the church is there for everyone, no matter who they are or how they behave, so a warm welcome should be extended to all.
Not sure that Christ was alive today he'd be subscribing to the more repressive middle-class codes of behaviour, housekeeping etc that get confused with Anglicanism. The records indicate he was a guy who liked a party. Much more, 'Suffer the little kids and their parents - however they happen to be dressed - to come to me.'
we had one a few weeks ago where the entire party (and we're talking about 25-30 people here) left after the hymn following the baptism part.
I behave politely in any public situation, couldn't give a flying fuck if it's a church or not, it should be a universal knowledge of behaviour in public places, not just for the religious venues
You didn't happen to have a visit from this lot, by any chance OP?
My sons christening was around two hours, far too long for the little children to stand so they all went outside to play with the Sunday school helpers
YANBU. Irrespective of your personal beliefs, if you agree to attend a religious ceremony, you need to conduct yourself in a way which does not impinge on those who are worshipping. That's just basic consideration (if you strongly disagree with the religion, then do not go).
So for a christening, you don't chat (except during the hymns) and you definitely don't leave litter.
You can arrange a private christening, but most churches hold them in a main service because it is a formal welcome to the Church community. Most people can conduct themselves to an adequate standard for an hour or so, and most churches have a Sunday School, crèche or just a bit at the back for smaller children who would find that hard.
Have people lost all common sense? Is this not obvious??
Yes, churches should be accommodating - ours offers to have Christenings as part of the (1 hour long) family service or as a separate (20 mins ish) service - whatever suits the family best
People should dress in what they feel comfortable in, but not with cleavages down to their navel, skirts up to their bum cheeks or men in vests
It is rude to chatter during anyone else speaking as part of a service - quite disrespectful to the family whose Christening (or wedding, or funeral or concert....) it is
It is rude to east noisily for same reasons above
It is wrong to leave litter anywhere - churches have bins, people have bags
I'm a regular church goer and I agree wholeheartedly that Jesus would welcome anyone and everyone and would absolutely love children to become part of the church. We have a corner in the Church that has books, puzzles, toys etc, and a big rug and children can play etc. There is a line however - its a service, an act of worship, so if your child is particularly noisy or upset for more than a couple of minutes, you have respect for the other members of the congregation and take them out. Similarly eating crisps?!! There is a difference between expecting a welcome at Church (which is right in my view) and ignoring that you're in a Church (wrong!). But have to say – 2 hours for a christening?!!
Children have only just been mentioned on the thread though, it started off as the behaviour of adult visitors to christenings.
Sure, Jesus "liked a party" now and again, but he was also thoughtful, reflective and considerate, so not just a party-goer. There's a culture in some churches that assumes all "young people" will enjoy a certain type of music and noisy worship etc. when this isn't necessarily the case.
I agree children should be made welcome and to feel comfortable in church, and this has been the case in most of the churches I've attended, whether Anglican or various other denominations. I've seen colouring tables, bags of toys and books that can be taken into the pews, chidlren wandering freely around the church to see what interests them, percussion instruments for them to join in the songs etc.
However providing children's activities does take someone to set them up and many churches already struggle to find enough volunteers to cover everything that needs doing.
Littleomar I have never attended a christening that takes two hours but have heard that services in some (new age?) churches do last a long time. I know some churches are unwelcoming but honestly ours isn't. The priest states at the beginning that he understands that children will become restless but hopes the adults will keep quiet during the service. Like many churches we provide crayons and pictures to colour in and there is also a box of soft toys to play with. Christenings used to be held separately but the modern thinking is that a new child is being welcomed into the church family so the christening is held during the normal service so that the church members can welcome the child. The service in our (High) church lasts 45 minutes. The behaviour of the children isn't the problem as usually they are quite well behaved as they are interested in what is going on and also the unusual (to them) building, no it is the rude behaviour of the adults who should know better.
Yes I am one of the cleaners but I really love a christening despite my complaints.
Badbride not yet but we did have one guy who thought he was meant to take something from the collection plate and asked how much he should take. Honestly.
I do agree and see how it can be frustrating to have the service spoiled (and crisps? Really?) but we live in a secular society now. People don't automatically know how to behave in church. Because they don't go to church.
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