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Sauk is a really good economical choice when it comes to a starter school. The environment is really friendly and the staff is helpful, depending on which professor you have. Some professors are very concerned and dedicated to helping students pass, however other professors don't care if you pass or fail and don't make helping their students a priority. The school is great as long as you choose your professors wisely and stay dedicated.
I'm a single mother and the fact that Sauk offers the nursing program makes it convenient for me to attend. It's close to home, daycare, and work. The professors are very understanding of my situation and are always available for questions and such.
My major is Social Work, and with my first semester, I was able to take a class that was taught by an actual social worker, which I found really helpful and interesting because of his experiences that he shared with us. So far there hasn't been much of a hard workload; the teachers realize that you have jobs and families, and they give you enough to get you to learn the information, without putting you into overdrive. As far as the internship/job opportunities, if you are eligible, Sauk has a work study program, as well as AmeriCorps which allow for students to fit in a job as well as going to school, and they are really good at working around your class schedule so that you can get your homework done when you need to.


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looks like kirk should send us a bump on sunday before he shifts away
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Thread: Can I believe this!?!?!
Aug 29, 2012, 09:48 PM #12
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Super fish im not talking about Kirk, there is another system southeast of kirk that they are forecasting to head to the east coast and then running a few hundred miles from the coast before heading north ...lets hope that happens, i could use another round of swell...lol
yeah the updated forecast looks good. but i have gotten too excited this summer and have been let down everytime. i am not going to believe it till it's here... and if it comes, i still wont believe it lol.
I don't even look at MSW anymore. It's like the "little boy that cried wolf" of forecasting sites. All I want are waist to head high mostly clean waves and I'm happy. Saturday afternoon and evening was awesome down here in Jax beach.
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Swell is showing on Swellinfo as well, but hopefully we have all learned are lesson with regards to Tropical Storm forecasting. This next storm will likely be named in the next day or two, so lets keep our eyes on it and hopes high.
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Surfline is showing the swell too, but then again all forecasts were pointing to a good swell from Joyce and we all know how that played out.
Aug 30, 2012, 12:06 AM #17
hello kirk,my name is tony!!!we hope you bless us with your wickedness and let us throw enough spray to chase the barnies out!!!!!this summers been a bummer,wtf are all the storms?the 1st thing i do when i get online is check all the forecast sites like this,msw,and they all overshoot or undershoot the swell.for instance,it says 1.6ft and u see guys getting chest high barrels,or its 6ft and barely above knee high.just do what i do!wait the dual dopplar radar for a little colorish blob,preferbly purple moving off the coast!!it never prevails!!!!!!!
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Just in time for school!
Aug 30, 2012, 02:53 AM #20
Well, I always doubt MSW; however, SwellInfo is now showing 5.5 ft @ 14 seconds on the 5th. I swear, could it be the reward for a terrible summer in South FL, I'm praying for it. (Not sure who to pray to though?)
I've got this crazy feeling I'm going to get food poisoning at some point next week.

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CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONTuesday, November 12, 2013
Infighting grips Chilean right as vote nears
Renovación leader Carlos Larraín says Matthei's candidacy was the result of 'mistakes'
SANTIAGO — Carlos Larraín, the president of Renovación Nacional (one of the two parties that form the ruling coalition Alianza), considered yesterday that "it was a big mistake" to remove former minister Laurence Golborne as the right's presidential candidate.
Golborne, who won the right's primaries, was forced to quit the race in April after local media revealed he had several undeclared bank accounts in the British Virgin Islands, known as a fiscal paradise.
Larraín's statement, made during an interview with Chilean newspaper La Tercera, comes as the ruling coalition's candidate Evelyn Matthei struggles to narrow the gap between her and frontrunner Michelle Bachelet, who according to a recent poll may win the Presidency in the first round of voting next Sunday. It would be the first time since 1993 that the right fails to get a spot in the runoff.
According to the Public Studies Centre (CEP), Chile's most respected pollster, Bachelet will take 47 percent of the vote, while Matthei will finish more than 30 percentage points behind, with 14 percent of the votes. CEP analysts believe Bachelet will easily get the absolute majority she needs to win in the first round once blank votes are taken out of the lot.
'We should have left it
to the primaries'
A recent poll has shown that, despite the scandal, Golborne is still the most respected politician in the Chilean right, which is currently going through the worst crisis in its recent history. During the interview with La Tercera, Larraín considered that even in April the former minister was the right's best chance to beat former president Bachelet.
"I think it was a mistake to remove Golborne as the candidate. We should have left it to the primaries. The primaries should have decided who was who," Larraín said.
Former Economy minister Pablo Longueira (representing UDI) won the right's primaries against Andrés Allamand (RN) but eventually quit the race because of health issues. Matthei was then named the right's candidate.
'The right needs
unity and loyalty'
Following Larraín's statements yesterday, Golborne said that the right should imitate the Concertación — the centre-left coalition behind Bachelet's candidacy — and "learn to compete without bleeding to death."
"Nobody criticizes Bachelet, not even her hairdo...They are all uplifting the candidate. In our sector, it's the complete opposite: we always end up resorting to destructive criticism," Golborne said.
Regarding Matthei, Golborne considered "she is an excellent candidate" and said he felt "represented" by her.
He added that what the Chilean centre-right most needs is "unity and loyalty".
Following Larraín's statements, Matthei said that "he has he right to say what he wants" and claimed that the RN president's assertions against her "won't damage our friendship."
Several Alianza officials refused to refer to the controversy sparked by Larraín yesterday and instead urged Chileans to cast their votes on Sunday to "help Matthei get to the runoff."
The vote next Sunday will be the country's first presidential election in which voting will be voluntary. Several pollsters have forecasted a low turnout and political parties have been calling on Chileans to exercise their right to vote.
In one of the last rallies prior to the closing of her campaign on Thursday, Bachelet yesterday urged her followers to back her on Sunday "so that we have more time to prepared for government."
President Sebastián Piñera will hand over the Presidency to whoever wins next Sunday's election (or the runoff scheduled for December) in March, 2014.
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are you certain none of your plugins are blocking the "magic wand"? Try disabling your plugins one by one to see if this changes anything (especially ones interacting with your Dashboard). It works fine for me using a clean installation of the theme.
Not working for me either. The popup comes up (takes a while) at it will have the header (like customize icon box style) but there are no options and clicking on the cancel button (or insert button) produce no results.
Hi Kriesi
Love Abundance, awesome theme. Having the same issue with the shortcode generator as above. I have only just downloaded Abundance about a month ago and am using it with the latest WordPress and Mac OS X 10.7.3 through Chrome. Any ideas?
The only plugin that I have in there is Woocommerce.
I have also tried it now in Safari browser, and also by uploading the Abundance theme to another domain (afresh) and trying it there too, still no luck. There may be an obvious workaround that I am missing because I am still new to this, apologies if I am missing something quite simple.
Looking forward to your response,
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Win XP FF (last) the hortcode generator works fine at my end
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CFP: BenCOS workshop with CVPR 2007 (Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation, and Surface Reconstruction from Images)
*** New deadline: Thursday, March 15, 2007 *** CVPR authors: dual submissions are allowed - see policy below The second international ISPRS workshop BenCOS 2007 =========== Towards Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation, and Surface Reconstruction from Images held with IEEE CVPR 2007, Saturday, June 23, 2007 Workshop webpage - now including online submission page: http://vision.middlebury.edu/conferences/bencos2007 Subject Areas: Performance evaluation, surface reconstruction, multi-view stereo, camera (self-) calibration, image orientation, motion/pose estimation. Call for Papers --------------- We invite contributions on automatic methods for surface reconstruction from images, multi-view stereo, camera (self-) calibration, motion estimation, and related topics. We especially encourage submissions of performance evaluations of such methods. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Algorithms for shape-from-X (stereo, motion, silhouettes, shading, focus, ...) * Markerless sensor orientation methods (motion estimation, (self-) calibration, ...) * Integration of surface reconstruction and sensor orientation methods * Surface representations and dynamic surface models * Performance evaluation of reconstruction and orientation methods and surface models: - accuracy and reliability - efficiency and versatility - robustness in automation * Applications for remote sensing methods and close-range sensors NEW DATES: Submission deadline: Thu, March 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Fri, April 13, 2007 Camera ready papers due: Mon, April 23, 2007 Workshop: Sat, June 23, 2007 Submission policy: Dual submissions with CVPR are explicitly allowed, with the understanding that if the paper gets accepted to CVPR, it will automatically be withdrawn from BenCOS. Now that the CVPR rebuttal period is over, and authors have seen their CVPR reviews, they have the opportunity to submit a (possibly revised) version of their CVPR submission to BenCOS. Dual submissions with CVPR must be clearly identified as such, and must include the CVPR paper number. In case the BenCOS submission is different from CVPR submission, a list of changes should be included (in case both version get reviewed by the same person). Workshop goals: 1. To communicate new scientific results in the areas listed above; 2. To bring together researchers from the computer vision and photogrammetry communities; and 3. To establish benchmarks for orientation and surface reconstruction methods. Working towards the third goal, the workshop organizers will prepare data sets with ground truth, which will be made available during early 2007. Researchers are invited to test and tune their algorithms on this data. Shortly before the workshop a second round of different test data (without ground truth) will be made available. Researchers will have one day to run their algorithms on this data and submit their results. The results will be evaluated (regarding completeness, correctness and speed) during the workshop and one session will be devoted to discussing the test and results. Reviewing Process: All papers will be subject to a double-blind review process by a program committee of leading international researchers of the computer vision and photogrammetry areas. Each paper will be reviewed by 3 members of the program committee. Based on these reviews, the workshop organizers will decide on acceptance and presentation mode (oral/poster). Organizers: Olaf Hellwich, Technische Universit�t Berlin, Germany Ilkka Niini, Oy Mapvision Ltd., Finland Camillo Ressl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniel Scharstein, Middlebury College, USA Peter Sturm, INRIA, France Program Committee: Niclas B�rlin, Sweden Andrew Fitzgibbon, UK Wolfgang F�rstner, Germany Armin Gr�n, Switzerland Henrik Haggr�n, Finland Janne Heikkil�, Finland Christian Heipke, Germany Heiko Hirschm�ller, Germany Karsten Jacobsen, Germany Olli Jokinen, Finland Reinhard Koch, Germany Kyros Kutulakos, Canada Yi Ma, USA Hans-Gerd Maas, Germany Helmut Mayer, Germany David Nist�r, USA Norbert Pfeifer, Austria Marc Pollefeys, USA Fabio Remondino, Switzerland Richard Szeliski, USA Tieniu Tan, China Olga Veksler, Canada Bernhard Wrobel, Germany Workshop format: * Invited plenary talk by Rick Szeliski * 2-3 sessions with about 8-10 oral presentations * A poster session * One demo session (open to anyone, i.e., not restricted to accepted papers) to discuss experiences with the provided test data * One panel session on the topic of establishing benchmarks More information can be found on the workshop webpage at http://vision.middlebury.edu/conferences/bencos2007


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New Millennium Planetary Life Cycle of Liberty
March 7, 2013 in Science
The Lord says,
"I love justice and I hate oppression and crime.
I will faithfully reward my people
And make an eternal covenant with them." Isaiah 61:8
"For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior." John 3:16-17
WARNING: Earth will be destroyed once corruption overruns.
"Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him." -John 1:3
"The Lord made the earth by his power; by his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens." -Jeremiah 51:15
There is a terrestrial planetary cycle that has been occurring within our Solar System for eons. Venus and Mercury were each once long ago earth-like planets. Mars and the six largest moons of the gas giant planets are individually proto-earths. These ten certain astronomical bodies shift in an ongoing cycle around every 567 million years. As one shifts it will eventually be replaced by the next.
*Earth's formation process begins inside of Jupiter. Within its "Great Red Spot" an embryonic earth is undergoing formation and will emerge from the Jovian atmosphere to become the next Io. Current Io will become the next Europa. Current Europa will become the next Ganymede. Current Ganymede will become the next Callisto. Current Callisto will become the next Titan orbiting Saturn. Current Titan will become the next Triton orbiting Neptune. Current Triton will become the next Mars. Current Mars will become the next Earth. On the Day of the Lord, planet Earth will pass and become the next Venus. Current Venus will become the next Mercury. Current Mercury will ultimately fall into the Sun. Yahweh controls this entire process, have good faith and safeguard freedom. —Creation within our solar system is ongoing, the formation stages of our planet are tangible! At least two earth like planets have already passed and eight more will one day be, each having its own Genesis giving rise to unique human civilizations.
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done." -Sir Isaac Newton
Scripture from Good News Bible: Today's English Version
Luke 21:25
"There will be strange things happening to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On earth whole countries will be in despair, afraid of the roar of the sea and the raging tides. People will faint from fear as they wait for what is coming over the whole earth, for the powers in space will be driven from their courses. Then the Son of Man will appear, coming in a cloud with great power and glory. When these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your salvation is near."
2 Peter 3
"My dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written you. In both letters I have tried to arouse pure thoughts in your minds by reminding you of these things. I want you to remember the words that were spoken long ago by the holy prophets, and the command from the Lord and Savior which was given you by your apostles. First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you and will ask, "He promised to come, didn't he? Where is he? Our fathers have already died, but everything is still the same as it was since the creation of the world!" They purposely ignore the fact that long ago God gave a command, and the heavens and earth were created. The earth was formed out of water and by water, and it was also by water, the water of the flood, that the old world was destroyed. But the heavens and the earth that now exist are being preserved by the same command of God, in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the day when godless people will be judged and destroyed.
But do not forget one thing, my dear friends! There is no difference in the Lord's sight between one day and a thousand years; to him the two are the same. The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead, he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins.
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will be burned up. Since all these things will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and dedicated to God, as you wait for the Day of God and do your best to make it come soon—the Day when the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat. But we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home.
And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God's sight and to be at peace with him. Look on our Lord's patience as the opportunity he is giving you to be saved, just as our dear brother Paul wrote to you, using the wisdom that God gave him. This is what he says in all his letters when he writes on the subject. There are some difficult things in his letters which ignorant and unstable people explain falsely, as they do with other passages of the Scriptures. So they bring on their own destruction.
But you, my friends, already know this. Be on your guard, then, so that you will not be led away by the errors of lawless people and fall from your safe position. But continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, now and forever! Amen."
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Revelations 20:11-15
The Final Judgement
Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence and were seen no more. And I saw the dead, great and small alike, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of the living. The dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. Then the sea gave up its dead. Death and the world of the dead also gave up the dead they held. And all were judged according to what they had done. Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. (This lake of fire is the second death.) Those who did not have their name written in the book of the living were thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelations 21:1-8
The New Heaven and the New Earth
"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth disappeared, and the sea vanished. And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her husband. I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: "Now God's home is with mankind! He will live with them, and they shall be His people. God himself will be with them, and He will be their God. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, no more grief or crying or pain. The old things have disappeared."
Then the one who sits on the throne said, "And now I make all things new!" He also said to me, "Write this, because these words are true and can be trusted." And He said, "It is done! I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end. To anyone who is thirsty I will give the right to drink from the spring of the water of life without paying for it. Whoever wins the victory will receive this from me: I will be his God, and he will be my son. But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars–the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Mark 13:32-33
"No one knows, however, when that day or hour will come—neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son; only the Father knows. Be on watch, be alert, for you do not know when the time will come."
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Jeremiah's Vision of the Coming Destruction
I looked at the earth—it was a barren waste;
at the sky—there was no light.
I looked at the mountains—they were shaking,
and the hills were rocking back and forth.
I saw that there were no people;
even the birds had flown away.
The fertile land had become a desert;
its cities were in ruins
because of the Lord's fierce anger.
(27 The Lord has said that the whole earth will become a wasteland, but that he will not completely destroy it.)
Jeremiah 4:23-27
"On the day when the Lord shows his fury, not even all their silver and gold will save them. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of his anger. He will put an end—a sudden end—to everyone who lives on earth."
Zephaniah 1:18
"God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known. God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain. Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!"
Romans 1:18-20
"But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control. There is no law against such things as these."
Galatians 5:22-23
"For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge; to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness; to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love. These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
2 Peter 1:5-8
"I fear, from the experience of the last twenty-five years, that morals do not of necessity advance hand in hand with the sciences." –Thomas Jefferson
"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing."
― Isaac Newton
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Letters to the Editor
BY John Lilly
August 6-12, 2006 Issue | Posted 8/7/06 at 9:00 AM
Mass Translation Matters
In our July 9-15 issue, we asked Register readers why they see Mass translations as an important issue in the Church today. We devote this week's Letters section to a sampling of the responses we received.
I consider anything related to the Mass as more important than any issue that the Church is dealing with. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass brings to us the Word of God and Jesus himself in the Eucharist. And, for most Catholics, the one hour a week we spend at Mass is the only instruction in our faith and only encounter we have with Jesus and the Church for the entire week. Thus every element of the Mass must be sacred and treated with great fidelity and accuracy so that we, the laity, are not misled or deluded by weak or erroneous translations.
What we believe can be reinforced, changed or destroyed in that one hour a week. What occurs at Mass cannot be left to an individual bishop or priest but must be in union with the teaching of the universal Church under the guidance and direction of the pope. It is in and through the Mass that our encounter with Christ transcends our senses and drives us to rely on faith — faith strengthened by God's grace.
But all of this can be lost or severely distorted if what we are taught by word or example is incorrect. We are the sheep and we can be led to the slaughter by the shepherd. The Eucharist is and has to be the center of every Catholic's life for without it we will fail to gain heaven and eternal happiness with our Lord.
By rejecting the earlier
translations and insisting on fidelity to the original Latin, the
John Vega
Why are translations an important issue? Because translations can either transmit an accurate or a confusing if not false version of the original context. Therefore, promoting an accurate and orthodox translation of the liturgy is most important so that the Word of God is not distorted for us.
Frank W. Russell
We must look at the effects of the ill-conceived post-Vatican II translations of 40 years ago. I remember those well, since the English Novus Ordo translation came into effect when I was a senior in high school. To me, the "new" proposed translations are not new at all, but a restoration to the language I read on the English side of my 1955 English-Latin missal for years. For example, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts" was what I read every Sunday, opposite "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth."
Why is the wording of the
vernacular translation of the Latin important? Simply because the holy
sacrifice of the Mass is the most sacred act we can participate in on this
earth. Catholics should approach the altar of God with a reverence at least
equal to the reverence of the high priest entering the holy of holies in the
temple in
I maintain that the pedestrian, ambiguous language used at Mass during the past 40 years is responsible for many Catholics losing their belief in the Real Presence. That loss of belief is responsible for millions of Catholics staying away from Mass — and for entire families drifting away from their Catholic faith. The loss in vocations, shortages of priests and nuns, and the closing of Catholic schools, can all be traced back to an abandonment of a sacred liturgy that reinforces belief in the Real Presence.
The restoration of noble language to the Mass will start the Church back in a direction of faith and growth, rather than disbelief and decline.
Wording matters. Basically, I think it boils down to words — to their effect on those who use, read and hear them. To me, there is no question that words do matter.
As some quick examples, even commonplace words that are similar have different connotations, as in the adjectives "childlike" and "childish." Both mean "like or characteristic of a child," yet the first conveys innocence while the second conveys immaturity, silliness.
Then there is the old saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword." If words did not matter, how could that be the case?
What arguments I like best for the power of words, though, come straight from the Bible.
"You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain" (Exodus 20:7).
And, most of all: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1).
Thanks for asking.
Kim Kluge
would fewer problems facing the Roman Catholic Church in the
Joel Fago
The Mass
translations are a priority at the insistence of the
Left to themselves, the bishops may indeed have given priority to the other problems. However, they approved the translation. I for one am grateful that they did.
Ann Hysko
I, for one, do not feel that translations are an important issue. In this day of more important issues — abortion, clergy abuse, war, poverty — it seems a waste of time and manpower to worry over "I" versus "We" when we are supposed to be a believing community and not a community of one.
This issue is consistent with the Church's desire to go back to pre-Vatican II days when we were not allowed to think, express ourselves or experience our faith in a manner consistent with our culture and society. The good ole days were never that good and Jesus came to give us the new law of love, not legalism.
Are we being called to be Pharisees or disciples of Christ?
Fred Scarletto
via e-mail
Translations of the English for Mass are very important indeed! What we lost with the revised translations of the liturgy introduced after Vatican II was a sense of the sacred. Losing that focus has contributed greatly to the loss of faith, infrequent adoration of the Holy Eucharist, declining Mass attendance, the priest shortage, etc.
And the "new" translations are not new at all. The bishops have returned to the traditional translations I grew up with.
Now can they help us with the music? This morning at Mass, we were led in a song that claimed "I am the bread of life; I bring Christ to others." Bishops: Help!
Mary Schwarz
If I am
not praying a correct translation of the Syriac
Divine Liturgy, then I am not faithfully worshipping God in communion with
Patriarch Nasrallah. If I am not in communion with
the current patriarch, then I am not in union with the whole line of bishops
and patriarchs going back to Mar Kefas, the first
bishop of
That is my line of reasoning.
James G. Davis
I believe the new translation of the Mass is something that is long overdue. My hope that its implementation will accomplish two things.
First, it will reintroduce a certain reverence back into the Mass that has been lacking for decades. It will force us to actually think about what we are doing instead of just going through the motions as we have done for years. It will also help us to rediscover the sacredness and true beauty of the Mass while we grow in understanding of what is actually happening.
Secondly, I hope that this will help to curb much of the "creative liberties" many priests and parishes have taken with the liturgy. They need to help the faithful understand that the readings are not just a sharing of stories but, rather, God actually speaking to us through the Word.
We participate in Jesus' sacrifice
on Calvary every time we go to
We seem to think that we somehow need to make the Mass more "relevant" or entertaining by adding to this already perfect prayer.
We need more formation — not more lay ministers, liturgical dance and music performances.
Dan Czarniecki
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Defense pivotal during winning streak
The Rays have gone 10 consecutive games without making an error, tying a franchise record. The improved play in the field is clear to see for manager Joe Maddon.
"I think I've seen the routine plays being made, we are playing a better game of catch, period," Maddon said.
Maddon said the Rays were not as sharp as he would've liked during the first half of the season, so a conscience effort went into improving the defense on the field.
"I thought we had a lot of throwing errors in the first half and I think we've cut down dramatically on that. Throwing begins with the feet. I know [coach Tom Foley] spent a lot of time with the infielders regarding their feet, so that may have had an impact. It just can't be that easy, but maybe it was," Maddon said.
Tampa Bay is errorless in 20 of its past 23 games. The seven errors the Rays have made since the All-Star break are tied for the fewest in Major League Baseball. Prior to the break, Tampa Bay committed 71 errors in 86 games, second most in baseball.


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Huawei wins "Best Innovative Technology of the Year" Award
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, received the "Best Innovative Technology of the Year" award at the annual flagship event "Convergence to Casablanca 2010" held by SAMENA telecommunications council, the tri-regional telecommunications consortium. The "Transforming Challenges into Growth" themed event was held under the patronage of H.E. Ahmed Reda Chami, Minister of Industry, Commerce and New Technologies of Morocco.
The conference provided members with the opportunity to discuss key technology areas and their impacts on the technological progression and revenue generation.
"Winning this prestigious award is in recognition with Huawei's leadership in innovation. It is a result of Huawei's continual focus on customer-centric innovations and commitment to creating pioneering solutions that meet customer's needs while reducing their total cost of ownership." said Mr Yi Xiang, President of the Middle East, Huawei.
Bocar A. Ba, President of SAMENA Telecommunications Council said, "Huawei Technologies is a leading provider of telecommunications products and solutions and has played an active role in supporting various efforts in promoting collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the industry. The company has been at the forefront in providing various innovative solutions to its customers and it is great to see the organization being recognized for its efforts and winning the SAMENA award for 'Best Innovative Technology' of the year."
Huawei will continue investing in research and development to prolong its commitment to providing the best technologies for its customers worldwide.
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Hosting stage 2 of the USA Pro Challenge, Aspen will soon be abuzz with everything cycling. But our town always has something for everyone. Here are our top picks for week.
Aspen won't let France have all the fun. The USA Pro Challenge will take cyclers to the highest elevation the Pro Challenge has ever offered—a starting elevation of 7,900 feet rising to 12,000. Spectators can catch the action on Main Street. DETAILS Aug. 19, usaprocyclingchallenge.com
Peloton 2013 will bring locals and cyclists together to benefit the Boulder-based Davis Phinney Foundation which helps individuals inflicted with Parkinson's. Sponsored by Shane Aspen Real Estate, the intimate dinner features silent and live auctions and interviews with Tour de France winner Chris Froome and his wingman Richie Porte by NCB Sports commentators Bob Roll and Paul Sherwen. DETAILS Tickets $500. Aug. 16, pelotonaspen.com
Gina Murdoch's Aspen Yoga Society presents internationally renowned musician Michael Franti for the launch of "Do It For The Love." The cocktail reception and acoustic performance at the home of Michael Goldberg and Ramona Bruland will raise funds for Franti's newly launched nonprofit devoted to bringing live music experiences to individuals diagnosed with life threatening illnesses. DETAILS Aug. 20, 5:30-8pm, bellyupaspen.com
Italian vocalist Roberta Gambarini will perform two shows at Jas Café this weekend. Come downstairs at The Little Nell to enjoy her swinging vocals at our favorite spot for jazz. DETAILS Tickets $35. Aug. 17 and 18, 7 and 9:30 pm, jazzaspensnowmass.org
Spring Cafe offers delectable vegetarian and vegan options. Our favorites at this airy spot include the falafel wrap and Highlands bowl—mixed vegetables, tofu and brown rice served with a housemade peanut sauce. It's easy to eat healthy with a menu like this. DETAILS 119 Spring St., springcafeaspen.com


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If you've ever thought about traveling the world for a good cause, but just got a little intimidated by the whole process, this post is for you! Once we show you the easy steps to getting on board with a Good Neighbors volunteer trip, you'll see how simple it really is and be well on your way to the adventure you only dreamed you could one day be a part of! Check it out>>
1- Pick Your Trip
In any given week, we often hear about issues such as the water crisis, human trafficking, or poverty in general, but can feel helpless to do anything about it. These issues loom like a dark cloud that stretches across the sky. How is one person supposed to even poke a hole in that? Well- you're doing it! No one person is going to chase away that cloud, but a whole lot of people poking holes will let more and more sunlight burst through. A volunteer trip is your way to make some light break through by doing something practical and lasting for people in another country. You'll get to experience daily life through their eyes, help with urgent needs, and most importantly, empower them with friendship and knowledge. Be warned though, they will most likely steal your heart and become friends and "neighbors" for life. As you're scanning our info page of volunteer trips, a specific country or project is bound to catch your eye. "Hey, those people look cool" you might think. Or "I could do that!" That's a good indicator that it might just be the trip for you!
2- Ace Your Application
This isn't an application for a job or a college entrance exam, so just be yourself! Take a few minutes to really think about what it is that impacts you about the work Good Neighbors does, and how it connects to your dreams or heart for people. Maybe even throw in some ways that you first got interested in volunteer trips or making a difference in the world, and future goals and plans you have to do it!
3- Conquer Your Funds
Ok so you've decided on the country, and you know what you'll be working on while your there. Now what? Pillage and plunder! Just kidding. No pirates allowed on our trips. But you are officially an adventurer and activist, which is incredible! Your friends and family will want to get in on that! Not everyone can take a break from their job, family or responsibilities to go on a trip like this, so most likely they will want to support someone who can. So get out a pen and paper and write down every idea that pops into your head for fundraising or reaching out. Write down the silly ones, and even the massive ones! This will help get your creative juices flowing. Now pick a few favorites, and put all your effort into those. The cool thing is, even your friends who don't have money to give would probably LOVE to help you with a fun fundraising activity! Here are some ideas to spark your brainstorm session:
-A letter. A real letter. People love getting things in the mail that aren't bills! Haha. Write a heart-felt letter with all the details about the project and your desire to make a difference in the world. Don't forget to give them a website they can visit to donate, or include a pre-addressed envelope to slip a check in the mail for you.
-Set up an account on GoFundMe.com. Having a link online to share on social media where people can easily click and donate is a great option!
-Make a funny video (something people will want to pass on) about your fundraising. Get your friends in on this!
-Everybody loves merch! BonfireFunds helps you design your own T-Shirt and launch your fundraiser online!
-Ask a church or sporting event if you can have a BBQ at their location!
-Ask friends and family for unwanted items and hold a garage sale (everyone has stuff they want to get rid of!)
These are just a couple. Pinterest is a great source for more fun ideas!
4- Empower the People
You've raised the funds. You've made the journey. But how do you really make the most of your trip? Remember that above all, it's about people. You aren't there just to do a task and bounce. Even if it's out of your comfort zone- interact with people. Even if you don't speak the same language, there are other ways to communicate: through gestures, through smiles, through hugs. Show them you see them and want to know them. People are empowered by being known and being taught. Once they see you care about knowing them, they soak up everything you have to show them. We want to leave every trip with people thinking two things: "They care about me" and "I can take it from here."
"My experience in Guatemala prompted me to reevaluate my decisions and the values that I deem important in life. I realized the necessity of pushing yourself outside your comfort zone in order for self-growth. There is so much more to explore in the world, and now I can't sit still knowing there is so much more work to be done. Creating something meaningful is so much more exhilarating than you may expect." -Amy Chio, GN Volunteer 2015 *Link to her blog
5- Document Your Adventure
When you get back home, toss off your dusty sneakers and fall with a thud on your bed, that's when all the details will be fresh in your mind. But it won't stay that way! One week turns into two weeks and slip by fast, and you're already forgetting that silly thing the kids did to make you laugh, or the way that mother looked at you so gratefully as you put the last layer of paint on her new cookstove. If at all possible, sit down to write about your trip within the first week! If nothing else, write down a list of the highlights that you can expound on later when you have a good chunk of time. And in case you haven't noticed, we love to feature our volunteers' stories on our blog, so if you do write it down, let us know!!
Well that's it! Pretty simple right? You can get more info on 2016 trips or start your application HERE , or shoot us an email at email@example.com if you have any questions (or if anything still seems vague or daunting.) We can't wait to voyage with you and see lives changed- lives in the communities we work in, and yours!


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Thread: Twitter: BF4 only 720p
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Twitter: BF4 only 720p
08-23-2013 #2
What does it mean when it's upscaled?
08-23-2013 #3
Still 720p that's "upscaled" to fit a 1080p screen. Just like the current gen.
08-23-2013 #4
I'm ok with this. As long as its silky 60fps and INSANE graphics! Bring it on.
08-23-2013 #5
At 720p it's going to be difficult to have "insane" graphics. You can only make low resolution look so good. Especially if you've played BF3 @ true 1080p @ 60 fps like I have.
LOW settings @ 1080p looks much better then ULTRA settings at 720p.
08-23-2013 #6
Ehhh, please no. They would need to slather it with some anti-aliasing for me to even look at it. I was completely ready to move on from 720p and its much associated lagged edges.
08-23-2013 #7
so it's not even true 720p? -_- bargain bin.
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i can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a monitor.
08-23-2013 #10
Twitter: BF4 only 720p
Another tweet not long came in:
To clarify: BF4 running at a higher resolution than 720p in the PS4 dev environment. Final resolution when the game is optimised at launch!
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1 50" plasma [email protected] 1080p native sitting 4' away
1 32" LCD @ 720p native sitting 30" away.
Both 1080p screens were tested at both extreme ends of their graphics settings along with resolutions 720 and 1080.
The 720 32" screen was used to to test true 720p.
I didn't matter what screen was used. 720p is awful compared to 1080.
08-23-2013 #14
4 feet is awfuly close
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Hands on with BF4 on PS4
With the arrival of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, EA and DICE have promised to bring the Battlefield PC experience to consoles, including massive scale maps, 64 player matches, and 60 frames-per-second gameplay. But up until now, all of the demos we've seen of Battlefield 4 have been running on supercharged PCs, producing jaw-dropping, unsurprisingly gorgeous results. This week at Gamescom, however, I had an opportunity to play Battlefield 4 on a PlayStation 4 development system, and the resulting experience has me worried.
In spite of EA and DICE's emphasis on narrowing the gap between consoles and PC, this week's PS4 demo did not include a full 64-player match or the franchise's beloved vehicular combat. Instead, attendees were treated to a local 16-player match of Domination mode, which limited the play area to a small segment of the game's freshly minted Paracel Storm map. While certainly a demonstration of how the game can be scaled down to satisfy players' need for object-based infantry combat, it's hardly living up to the promise of the "true" Battlefield experience's arrival on consoles.
But what's more concerning is how the game looks.
From the moment I sat down, I was surprisingly underwhelmed by the visuals. Instead of the crisp, detailed textures I've encountered this week on the PC version or other next-gen shooter titles, Battlefield 4 on PS4 looked soft and muddled. Wall textures looked half-finished, lacking some of the smaller material nuances or 3D variation. Environmental destruction was more extensive than Battlefield 3 and explosions would send larger chunks of buildings into the air, but once again, the particles looked dull. Weapon models looked great at the hip, but as soon as I raised them to look down the iron sights or scopes, imperfections became apparent.
Another contributing factor was resolution. While EA and DICE have not confirmed what resolution the game will run at on next-gen consoles, for the purposes of this demo, it was running at a resolution higher than 720p, but not 1080p. Though the difference between the two formats may not be recognizable to more casual players, after spending the week checking out games running natively at 1080p, it was readily apparent to me.
As uninspiring as my demo was visually, it's also important to remember that we are still months away from Battlefield 4's release. It's clearly a work in progress. And most importantly, the game itself is still very much a blast to play. But if today's demonstration is any indication, DICE's commitment to supporting 64-player games and maintaining a solid 60 FPS on next-gen consoles could very well come at the cost of visual fidelity, and as a franchise renowned for its state-of-the-art graphics, it's an unexpected compromise.
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Not the final res, well see
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08-23-2013 #20
921,600 pixels vs 2,073,600 pixels technically. Good PC hardware can show the difference. Current consoles, TV, dish, whatever, cannot. Like you said, at least nothing the human eye can see.
08-23-2013 #21
Not too bothered, pretty sure my 50'' TV is 720P; the resolution on the left when you select HDMI however has higher dimensions, oddly enough.
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08-23-2013 #22
Gaming monitors are reasonably big, lots of pixels and the end user is very close to it.
A TV, on the other hand, is normally much bigger and is anywhere from 1280x720 to 1920x1080 (roughly) and people sit 4+ feet away from it.
At those distances, people cannot really tell the difference between 720p and 1080p, with normal TV sizes.
You also presume I'm not a PC gamer, and I can very much assure you that I am and have been for well over 2 years. I have a very nice rig and a dual monitor set up.
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You guys are so lame, fun factor should out way the sillyness of 720 vs 1080.
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What Is New Thought?This Film Played Saturday, March 30th 2013
Created by area filmmaker Jon Miller, "What Is New Thought?" aims to reveal many of the ways New Thought has had an influence in our world.
Although its influence has been widespread throughout our culture, most people have little knowledge about this far-reaching spiritual movement. From the self-help industry to Alcoholics Anonymous and from Oprah Winfrey to the Word-Faith movement, the principles of this New Thought movement have been instrumental in transforming the lives of millions of people.
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LIVERMORE — California's historic drought that has ravaged the entire state has had little effect on this year's Livermore Valley wine harvest, but vintners are counting on a wet winter to stave off potential disaster next year.
"It should be noted that just because we made it through this year's harvest, that doesn't mean there's not a serious crisis on our hands," said Aaron Taylor, operations manager for Livermore's Retzlaff Vineyards and Estate Winery. "Last winter was the driest or second driest on record. If that happens again, there will have to be a rearrangement of how we think about water in this state."
The 50 wineries and more than 30 vineyards in the Livermore Valley wine region came through the record-breaking drought relatively unscathed this year. This year's harvest is yielding slightly fewer grapes, but other weather variations have helped to produce high-quality grapes.
"We've benefited by high humidity," said winemaker John Kinney, owner of Livermore's Occasio Winery. "The humidity has been running about 20 percent higher than normal for much of the summer, so it's cut down on water loss in the berries. It helps conserve water, but it also helps with the berry ripening process."
The mild overnight temperatures the area has experienced this summer also boosted the ripening process.
"The nighttime temps have remained particularly warm," Kinney noted. "Because we've had warmer nights, the grapes continue to ripen during the evening. Our harvest this year is two weeks earlier than it was last year. The quality of the fruits has been stunning. This could be a year for making wonderfully beautiful and balanced wines without too much alcohol."
The grape harvest at The Steven Kent Winery outside Livermore is down by as much as 30 percent compared to last year but is still above average because 2013 was a bumper crop.
"We have an awful lot of juice coming out of the grapes right now," said Steven Mirassou, owner and winemaker at Steven Kent. "I see some cabernet that has some smaller berries mixed in with the bigger berries. That's not a problem with cabernet because we don't want real big berries. We want smaller berries, so from a quality standpoint, (the drought) might be helping us a little bit."
Since vineyards have been forced to cut back their water use, it has led them to use the limited water supply in different ways.
"Everybody in Livermore is under 25 percent reduction, so we won't have 100 percent of the water we expected to have," Mirassou said. "That will mean shorter watering times. It could mean you're saving your water for your most important fruit. We have to be more cognizant of how the vineyard is doing, which blocks have the most potential and managing our water with a fine-toothed comb."
Retzlaff has cut back on water "by careful management of timing the number of watering cycles and how long we water," Taylor said. "We started with more diligent control of the weeds. They suck up a lot of water. By controlling weeds, we can reduce water usage."
The biggest problem is that as water supplies dwindle, the quality of the remaining water is compromised.
"Where we're seeing drought issues is with water quality," Mirassou said. "As water levels go down, you get more dissolved solids in the water, and it becomes more alkaline with a higher pH. It can burn leaves, which we're seeing. You get these brown leaves that would be typical of winter, but we're getting them now."
Fewer healthy, green leaves "drop the photosynthetic potential of the vineyard," he added, and the fruit doesn't ripen.
"If you have a bunch of leaves that were green and performing photosynthesis, then you've lost the sugar production engine (if they're brown)."
The vintners agreed that the real test for their vineyards will be with an enduring drought.
"We're over the hump as far as being seriously concerned about water," Taylor said. "Once the grapes are harvested, there's no active growth that you see until the spring. We water them one more time so that they're happy, but we rely on spring and winter rains to keep them growing. They'll grow up to six inches a day in the spring and summer. That's when they require the water."
Timing is critical since the new buds for next year's crop need the winter and spring rains to thrive.
"Without as much water as we'd normally have, the number of buds will be smaller than it potentially would be," Mirassou said. "Ultimately, that means less fruit. We might see yields being significantly smaller next year."
The vintners also agreed that the recent Napa earthquake should not affect supply and demand, since so few wineries lost any substantial amounts of wine.
"The valley's gone through earthquakes, and it's weathered droughts before, but the wine industry tends to come through stronger," Kinney said. "We haven't had the persistent fog that Napa has had this year. Our growing season has been absolutely stunning and spectacular."


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ESCONDIDO -- In a sport where one tiny slip can decide your future, the opposite -- a flawless routine -- just might get you a trip to Nationals. That's what happened for Lauren-Marie Simm and Devin Matthews while competing in the Senior Pairs division of the 2005 Pacific Coast Sectional Figure Skating Championships at the Escondido Iceoplex on Saturday night. The pair took to the ice knowing that they were in sixth place and needed to spin and jump their way up two spots to the coveted fourth position for a berth in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Portland on Jan. 9.
With the music of "Swan Lake" playing in the background, Matthews and Simm nailed their opening lift to start off what would become their best performance to date. It became a waiting game for the newly formed duo, and they could only watch as four more pairs skated, hoping for the best. But even before they heard the good news, that they had grabbed the No. 4 spot, Simm and Matthews were just happy to have skated well.
"We had a weird short program, so we really wanted to come out in the long and do it for us," said Matthews, a 25-year old from Manhattan Beach. "We really pulled together and did the best that we could have done."
"That was the best we've skated all season," said Simm, who at age 13 has been skating for eight years and calls Huntington Beach home. "It's going to be exciting to go to Nationals. We came in not knowing what was going to happen, but we just skated our best and we got in."
The top pair of the weekend was Stephanie Kuban and Laureano Ibarra, who were able to shake off an injury to win. Kuban fell during a lift in practice and less than a week before the competition couldn't walk. On Saturday night she did much more than that as the pair from Colorado Springs gained momentum going into Nationals.
"We appreciate (the win) more, after what she went through," Ibarra said. "We were ready and we gave it our all, and towards the end of our program I said, 'Come on Steph, let's do it!' And we finished strong."
After the pairs competition finished the dancers took to the ice and two locals, on separate teams, were among them. Stephanie Ellis of Encinitas, who represents the Escondido Figure Skating Club, skated with partner Ian Ross-Frye to a third-place finish.
"It's so nice to be able to stay at home instead of in a hotel," Ellis said. "I was a little nervous because people who I know are watching, but we were happy with how we skated."
Benjamin Westenberger, a Rancho Penasquitos resident, danced on his home ice with partner Alisa Allapach, of Granada Hills. The pair trains at the Iceoplex three days a week. As they danced and lifted and glided to the Aerosmith song "Dream On," smiles lit up their faces and the judges scores, which were good enough for a second-place medal.
"We had a good time out there," Westenberger said. "It was so great to be in front of a home crowd and to have their support. It feels comfortable to be on this ice and it gave us confidence going into Nationals."
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De Jesus, Miles look set for Dodgers roster
Bullpen, left-field platoon decisions still on tap
By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
Meanwhile, the final bullpen spot will apparently go to left-hander Scott Elbert, with one caveat. Lance Cormier, the only other contender after Ramon Troncoso was optioned to Minor League camp Sunday morning, was asked to accept a Minor League assignment, but he said he told the club he would not.
Cormier has an out in his contract starting Sunday, but he said he was not yet a free agent and that "the ball is in their court."
"I signed here to pitch in the Major Leagues," said Cormier, who pitched all last season with Tampa Bay, making 60 appearances with a 3.92 ERA.
Veteran Juan Castro, a contender for the last utility spot, was also told by the club that, barring an injury, he won't make the team. He will remain in Arizona, working with the Minor Leaguers, and his agent has permission to look for a Major League job elsewhere.
Castro (.387 batting average) had a very good spring training, but so did De Jesus (.333) and Miles (.319). DeJesus, who has never appeared in the Major Leagues, is the future. Miles has more offensive potential than Castro, but lacks the slick-fielding hands.
While Casey Blake is hurt, DeJesus figures to get most of the playing time at second base, with Juan Uribe playing third.
With either Elbert or Cormier, the seven-man bullpen includes Jonathan Broxton, Hong-Chih Kuo, Matt Guerrier, Kenley Jansen, Blake Hawksworth and Mike MacDougal. The starters are Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley, Ted Lilly and Hiroki Kuroda. MacDougal, a non-roster pitcher like Cormier, said he still had not been told he made the club.
The infield has James Loney, Rafael Furcal, Uribe, Jamey Carroll, De Jesus and Miles. Rod Barajas is the starting catcher, and it appears Hector Gimenez (out of options) will be kept as the back-up over A.J. Ellis.
The outfielders are Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, Marcus Thames, Jay Gibbons, Tony Gwynn and Xavier Paul (out of options). One decision still to be announced is the left-handed hitting platoon-mate for Thames in left field. Gibbons, Gwynn and Paul are in the running, although all are expected to be on the club regardless.
Expected to start the season on the disabled list are Blake (back), Dioner Navarro (oblique), Vicente Padilla (arm surgery) and Jon Garland (oblique).
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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There have been many influential men throughout our countrys illustrious history: presidents, arbiters of peace, technological masterminds, but few have influenced our lives with the same impact as one man. His name? Ill give you all three: Charles Nelson Reilly.
While he sashayed into our world through off-Broadway stages, hes inevitably most notorious for his squirrelly shtick on game shows like Match Game and Ive Got a Secret. Ahh, it was a beautiful time in TV land; Reilly held court across the dial. But the world didnt start out pointed towards polyester shirts, oversized glasses, and male game show groupies, a fact thats made evident in the new documentary called -- you guessed it -- the Life of Reilly.
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He grew up feeling isolated. He was poor, gay, living in the Bronx, had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and a penchant for the limelight -- but eventually those signature chuckles and eyebrow wiggles became his ticket to bigger things. Before passing away, Reilly performed a one-man show about the whole kit n caboodle; a film crew captured his final performance (in 2004) for this documentary, which opens Friday at Gateway Cinema (1820 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale). Tickets range $6.75 to $8.50.
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Gathered here you will find all the printable games at Activity Village. Always fun for a rainy day, for taking on holiday (easy to transport and light, too!) or for filling in odd moments during the holidays, you'll find quite a variety here including old favourites and new.
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Print and cut out our bright and cheerful Chinese Zodiac File Folder Game, and your children will have fun spelling out the names of all the animals. The instructions below might make it sounds a little complicated, but once it is set up you will be able to have fun with it many times over.
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The kids will be learning all sorts of interesting things about the countries of Europe - while having fun with this "top trumps" style game!
There are 36 bingo cards here for our farm animal bingo game - perfect for a large class or group. You could use our Farm Animal Word Cards to call the game.
This farmyard bingo game is designed for younger children. There are fifteen A4 size sheets to print and hand out to the kids. You could use our Farm Animal Word Cards to call the bingo game.
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You can print out two sets of these printable farm animal cards to play snap or memory, or print 4 sets to play Happy Families. They also make fun mini flash cards.
The more hands-on practice young children have with counting, the easier it becomes to visualize numbers and give meaning to them. This farmyard game makes early learning fun!
This football board game is quick to print and fun to play! We've set it out like a tournament and you can use your own counters (or print out our Euro 2016 game counters if you prefer).
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Younger children can practice their sorting and matching skills with this fun ghost colour and shape matching game or activity. Print both pages, cut out the board and the ghosts, and laminate if you wish.
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Print out this set of Halloween dominoes. Cut out the cards and play just like an ordinary dominoes game, except that you match the Halloween pictures rather than the dots! Click the link below for our printable version.
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Print and assemble this simple heart number match file folder game, to encourage one on one correspondence, counting and number recognition.
Print these adorable monster sorting cards and use them for all sorts of sorting and matching games, including Memory, Snap and Old Maid.
Just for fun, here's a printable game of "pin the badge on Arnie" from Monsters University - it's a bit more original than a tail on the donkey!
Print out this set of Monsters University cards to play a memory game with all your favourite characters from the films.
Pachisi is a very ancient Indian game for 4 people playing in 2 pairs, also known as "Twenty Five". This is the original game from which Ludo and Parcheesi were derived, although you will see that the rules are different.
Our free printable Skeleton Game is played like "beetle". You will need a die and a copy of the print-out for every player (preferably on card).
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear is an ideal introduction to dice games for very young children. They can learn to count the dots on the die and begin to recognise the patterns on the die by looking for the matching pattern on the teddies.


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The Crown Prosecution Service has defended the decision to put the case of Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans before a jury.
The former Commons deputy speaker has this afternoon been cleared of committing nine sexual offences against seven young men.
A CPS spokesman said: "The complainants in this case provided clear accounts of the alleged offending and it was right that all of the evidence was put before a jury.
"That evidence could only be fully explored during a trial and the jury has decided, after hearing all of the evidence, that the prosecution has not proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. We respect this decision."
Police and the CPS have come under fire from Twitter users since the verdict was announced.
One user said: "Nigel Evans is not guilty. The case should never have been brought. Police and CPS have questions to answer."
While another said: "So Nigel Evans is cleared. CPS really needs to properly think through its strategy on high profile cases."
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It looks like Hollywood is losing ground again in its annual battle against movie piracy.
According to a report by TorrentFreak, all 37 movies that have received some kind of Oscar nomination can now be illegally downloaded from pirate sites.
More than half of these appear to have been leaked by reviewers who received DVD screener copies. Although Hollywood studios had included additional security to prevent such copies from being leaked, those measures are clearly falling short.
The widespread availability of free, high-quality versions is no doubt driving movie executives crazy. Many of the more obscure films that get nominated count on receiving a boost in attendance thanks to the frenzy of publicity generated by the Oscars.
Indeed, all eight of the Best Pictures nominees are still playing somewhere in the Bay Area: "Room," "The Martian," "The Revenant," "The Big Short," "Spotlight," "Brooklyn," "Bridge of Spies," and "Mad Max: Fury Road."
On the other hand, it seems this piracy breach could open the door to a bit of creative thinking on the part of Hollywood and the awards Academy.
Going to see all eight best picture movies would cost at least $80 or more per adult. Personally, I'd pay $20 or more to have a service that temporarily makes every nominated film available to stream for the month between the nominations and the awards ceremony.
Rather than stomping out movie piracy, which seems to be a lost cause, it might be better for filmmakers to find ways to get their films in front of people like me who are willing to pay.


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Summoning's full-length debut "Lugburz" is a bit of an outlier from their more well-known and self-consciously "epic" style of their later albums. Don't misconstrue my low rating of this album as an endorsement of the way they went later, though. Neither "Lugburz" nor anything else I've heard by this Austrian duo is any good.
"Lugburz" fits squarely in the category of raw black metal with a hint of melody every now and then. It's a style of music most of us are familiar with, which should probably suggest that the band sounds pretty much the same as a whole host of other bands out there. The drums - recorded by a flesh-and-blood drummer, rather than the drum machine Protector and Silenoz have used for the rest of their career - spend most of their time blasting away like there's no tomorrow, with standard black metal vocals and tremolo'd guitars over the top of them.
The major problem that Summoning have here is a common one for black metal acts. There's not enough melody in the "melodic" parts to make them catchy enough to stick in my head, and there's not enough atmosphere in the atmospheric parts to give the album any identity. In their later career, of course, the duo would go all out for atmosphere and demonstrate that it's perfectly possible to have too much of it as well, but I digress.
A lot is made of Summoning's inspiration - the works of JRR Tolkien. Indeed, the lyrics here are apparently drawn straight from Tolkien's own works, a quirk which i believe only Rivendell (another Austrian act, strangely enough) emulates. This would be an important fact, were it not for the fact that the words can't be distinguished at all due to the vocal style and the amount of reverb on the vocals. This, I'm sure many readers will think, isn't a major problem, since it happens all the time in black metal - incomprehensible lyrics, that is. Well, I would argue here that if one of the major selling points is that the lyrics are all about Tolkien's legendarium, we have the right to pick them up every now and then. The lyrics could just as easily be the standard-issue Satanic material for all they can be deciphered on this album. Frankly, if I'm after Tolkien-inspired black metal, I'll go for Rivendell any day - there's variation, melody, atmosphere and brilliantly performed vocals throughout.
Some people even seem to have the idea that this album is "epic", which is frankly untrue. Summoning's later works are vaguely epic (as in, they're very long and have lots of keyboards), but nothing here could possibly be said to be epic. We get 7-minute tracks, by all means, but 7-minute tracks that go precisely nowhere. That's never a definition of "epic".
In conclusion, stay away from this one. I don't know why Summoning get such wonderful reviews, really, because they simply don't have the ability to put out good music.


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Wauseon (Ohio) offensive tackle Elliott Mealer has been to Ann Arbor many times in the past few weeks, but it was not until his official visit this past weekend that he was there primarily for football reasons. The experience of that Michigan visit was one he thoroughly enjoyed.
"I've been up there a lot of times, especially lately with surgery and Brock [Mealer's brother] being up there. But I haven't had that much fun, just in general, for awhile," said Mealer, whose father and girlfriend were killed Christmas Eve in the same accident in which his brother was injured. "I couldn't be more excited [for the future]. Each time I get back up there it gets me more excited. This weekend just couldn't have been any better."
The 6-6, 285-pound Mealer spent time at the University of Michigan hospital for surgery on his rotator cuff. During some of those visits he was able to get to know Michigan offensive line coach Greg Frey. This past weekend gave him another chance to build on that relationship as well as building relationships with the rest of the Michigan staff.
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"I've been spending a lot of time with Coach Frey. He'd been really helpful," said Mealer. "He was there for my surgery at eight in the morning and he's been awesome.
"Other than him I talked to Coach [Bruce] Tall quite a bit. He's my recruiting coach. He's a really nice guy and has been great. Ironically I talked to Coach [Fred] Jackson quite a bit this weekend too. He's the running backs coach, so it was funny that I talked with him. In general, the whole coaching staff is very cool. I would have thought they were all o-line coaches because they were all so nice."
Mealer was one of several committed prospects taking his official visit to Michigan this past weekend. Joining him on the trip were several of the prospects in this class he has grown closest with including offensive linemen Dann O'Neill, Kurt Wermers and Rocko Khoury as well as New Jersey linebacker J.B. Fitzgerald who was there on an unofficial visit.
"Next to Dann O'Neill and Kevin Koger, I'm probably closest with J.B.," said Mealer. "Me, Dann, Rocko and Kurt are extremely close and our whole class is extremely close."
Offensive line is a position of great need in the class of 2008 because of graduations and departures from last year's roster. Any or all of the four offensive line commitments who were in Ann Arbor this past weekend could be called upon next fall to play pivotal roles in the offense.
"I know that the coaching staff does know that all four of us are willing to play if they need us. If they want to redshirt us, we're willing to do that too," said Mealer. "We're willing to work with these coaches, but I didn't talk with Coach Frey much about playing time or what position I'd be playing."
While Mealer's relationship with his fellow commitments is strong, the bond he felt with the players already on the team gave him a stronger sense of team unity.
"It was great to have the camaraderie with the guys in my class and the will-be sophomore class. The hosts could not have been any better and they were really welcoming and took care of us," said Mealer. "My host was Ryan VanBergen. He was really cool.
"Of all the guys I hung out most probably with Steve Schilling. I find him to be my type of guy. We just chilled out and talked to each other. He's not too crazy of a guy and I'm not too crazy of a guy.
"The upperclassmen made us feel like we were in their class and had been there for a year with them. They were very nice guys and were excited about us getting there. That welcoming feeling - not only from the coaches but more so from the players - that makes us feel that much better. Just seeing the dorm life and the way they live, it's family-like and that's why I committed to Michigan."
Mealer said he will be trying to arrive in Ann Arbor as soon as possible this summer to start on rehabilitation for his shoulder with Michigan athletic trainer Paul Schmidt.


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