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The original plan was for West Genesee and Liverpool's girls basketball teams to play four quarters Thursday night, with the Wildcats seeking its 10th win of the season and the Warriors looking to rise above the .500 mark.
They ended up playing longer – a lot longer.
In fact, it went to four overtimes before WG, by shutting out Liverpool in the last of these extra periods, finally emerged with an 86-76 victory in a game no one who played in it will forget.
It started routinely enough, the Warriors playing a solid, steady first half. Liverpool led, 13-9, after one quarter, and while the Wildcats' attack picked up as the half went on, the Warriors still led 26-23 going into the break.
Liverpool's production never wavered – it scored exactly 13 points in each of the regulation periods. But WG played its best in the third quarter, inching out in front 40-39 by the time it was done.
Through a tense fourth quarter, both teams had the lead, and both teams had chances to decide it, but it ended 52-52, creating the need for a four-minute overtime period. Liverpool made it this far despite 29 turnovers (it would finish with 37 overall) against WG's 1-3-1 zone.
Both sides were cold in that first OT, managing just four points apiece, and so the game went into a second extra period, where the production doubled, but again nothing got settled as it now stood at 65-65.
The third OT would prove decisive, despite it not settling anything on the scoreboard. Liverpool was on the brink of ending the long affair, ahead 76-73, when WG's Emily Tripodi hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to tie it yet again, 76-76.
Staggered by that shot, Liverpool slumped in the fourth OT, unable to get a point, while WG went on a 10-0 run to finally end it. The Wildcats' deeper bench proved enough in a contest where both teams saw three starters foul out.
It took a game and a half to settle matters, but when it was done, WG's Vicki Graveline had earned 10 of her 20 points at the foul line, while Marissa Hudgins had a career-best 19 points. Melissa Fumano put up 13 points (seven at the free-throw-line), while Claire Kelley had 11 points.
Tripodi managed nine points, none bigger than that 3-pointer that prolonged the contest, and her defensive work in 46 minutes of game action, including five steals, helped cause many of the Warriors' turnover problems.
Liverpool's Lyteshia Price led both sides with 23 points, including 15 successful free throws. Jacy Kocan had 15 points, while Shannon Seymour hit a trio of 3-pointers to account for most of her 13 points. Mackenzie Chase (10 points) and Rachael Windhausen (eight points) were close behind.
What makes it worse for the Warriors was that, on Saturday and Sunday, it has to turn around and play two more games in the Juggler Classic at Utica-Notre Dame.
The Warriors lost in the opening round to Albertus Magnus 50-43. Perhaps still tired from the events of Thursday, Liverpool fell behind 31-18 by halftime, but made a third-quarter charge to pull within 37-36 before stumbling late. Price led with 20 points, while Kocan and Seymour each had nine points.
Somehow, Liverpool turned around on Sunday to win the consolation game over Utica Proctor 38-37.
After gaining a 26-21 halftime advantage, the Warriors slumped the rest of the way, only getting a handful of baskets, but its defense still allowed them to hang on. Price and Kocan each had eight points, with Windhausen adding six potns.
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The Natural Land Institute needs volunteers on May 31, June 1 and 2 to plant thousands of tree and prairie plant seedlings at the 721-acre Nygren Wetland Preserve at 3190 W. Rockton Rd. about a mile west of Rockton.
Volunteers can come to the preserve anytime from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the three days and stay as long as they like. They can enjoy a scenic wagon ride to the planting sites and are asked to bring a small sledge hammer, shovel, their own food and be prepared for insects and the sun. Sturdy shoes and long pants are recommended.
The tiny seedlings, including bur oak, red oak, walnut and shagbark hickory trees, were nurtured by volunteers at a local greenhouse this past winter and spring and are now ready to be planted at their permanent home. Restoration of the natural beauty of the Nygren Wetland Preserve, where the Rock and Pecatonica rivers meet, is now in its second full year.
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I took a flight lesson thing. It was a gift for my birthday back in June but I didn't have time to schedule it until now. It was neat - they let me take off, fly and land the plane (with a bit of help from the instructor). Too bad it's like $12,000 to go through all the training, but it was still cool.
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2012-11-24 19:12:44
$12,000 holy crap!
$12,000 for a legit full on private pilots license - those things don't come cheap - that price includes stuff like government tests and airplane rentals along with professional instruction both on-ground and in-air
2012-12-14 21:37:15
I'm gonna win the lottery and give you 13 grand
Yes plz
2012-12-28 22:20:05
Woah, I never knew you could do that. Isn't $12k a little much though, or do you think it was worth it?
For like $100 they let you do the introductory thing I did. $12,000 is for actually getting a pilots license, which is like 60 hours of instruction, fuel, and aircraft rental


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You know I love this thing, this feeling if you are 100 % sure about something (people, friends, life generally, cultures, customs....), but you are at the end "dissapionted" (sometimes in a good way), because it ends up differently, and you think: "oh, ok, thats the way it goes". And I still have those kinda moments, so I am still searching! :)
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Local doyens of design Scally & Trombone join forces with the dapper chaps at Smart Alec Hatters this weekend for a one day garage sale spruiking everything from mens and ladies vintage to hats, accessories, Esther Williams bathers and previously unseen hat-making materials (though how many hat-making materials have you ever seen, really?)
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Making the story even more interesting was the clear evidence of ritual human sacrifice. Archaeologists excavating Mound 72, as they labeled it, found the remains of 53 women and one very high status man, as well as the decapitated remains of four men who may have been on the wrong side of some sort of authority. The discovery belied the common belief that American Indians lived in egalitarian communities without the sorts of often brutally maintained hierarchies that defined many other civilizations. Was Cahokia an empire, like the Mesoamerican civilizations to the south? It was too soon to tell, but something spectacular had happened here, and it became clear this was a mystery worth trying to solve.
If you want to understand Cahokia, the first thing you've got to do is climb the 156 steps to the top of Monks Mound. From the flat top of this colossus—with a footprint of 14 acres, it is larger at its base than the Great Pyramid of Khufu, Egypt's largest—you not only get a sense of how much labor went into its construction, but you can also understand why it might have been built in the first place. From here you can survey Cahokia's domain: the vast floodplain known as the American Bottom, stretching from St. Louis to a long line of bluffs three miles east of Cahokia and as far to the north and south as the eye can see. After directing the construction of what would have been the highest geographic feature in the 175-square-mile floodplain, a chief or high priest would have had a bird's-eye view of the land under his sway.
Of course, that scenario presumes we know that Cahokia had such a single leader, which we don't. We don't even know what this place was called—the name Cahokia is borrowed from a tribe that lived nearby in the 1600s—or what the people who lived here called themselves. With no written language, they left behind the same scattering of meager clues that makes understanding prehistoric societies everywhere so challenging. (Pottery's fine and everything, but how much would a foreign culture really learn about us by looking at our dishes?) If deciphering the story of history is contentious, try coming to agreement on the story of prehistory. "You know what they say," says Bill Iseminger, an archaeologist who has worked at Cahokia for 40 years. "Put three archaeologists in a room and you get five opinions."


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I just returned from my soul journey to New Mexico where I took a Body Talk training, an amazing healing modality I plan to incorporate into my nutrition practice. This system allows me to tune into the body, find where there are any imbalances and repair them on the spot.
In addition to this course, I spent some quality time with my 91 year old grandma. She started the first health food store in Albuquerque back in the 1970's and worked there 5 days a week until just a couple of years ago. She is my original inspiration and I always love getting to talk to her to hear about her life and how different things were back in the day. She was born in 1922 and grew up on a farm during the Great Depression, made it through World War II, tended to my grandpa for years after he developed seizures and ultimately cancer from being sprayed with Agent Orange in the bee fields where he kept his bees. My grandma has this beautiful bone structure and teeth that one rarely sees anymore. It originated from folks eating nutrient dense foods close to the land and the diet she grew up on such as home grown veggies, fresh eggs, raw milk, butter and cheese, pastured pork, chicken and beef and plenty of organ meats. She knows certain tricks in the kitchen too that I don't know. Every morning as we made breakfast together, she would whisk up the eggs and then put a splash of water in them. I asked her why she did this but she didn't know. She says she has always done that.
I also learned bee keeping from my uncle which is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Bee keeping has been in my family for three generations starting with my great grandpa back in Sweden and I always knew I would take it on someday. I recently acquired a bee hive and now, thanks to my uncle, I actually know how to open it up, check on the bees and take out their delicious honey for my culinary and medicinal use. I also ventured up to the mountains of Santa Fe where I camped, journaled, prayed and had some beautiful alone time in nature. I treated myself to a wonderful morning of hot springs at one of my favorite spots, Ten Thousand Waves and followed up my soaking with a fabulous green chili egg breakfast at a popular local spot in town. What a great time – hot springs, camping, visiting my Native American friends on their pueblo, cool mountain air, pottery, green chilies, bee keeping – my idea of a great soul journey. Oh, and the Santa Fe Farmers Market, of course. Could not forget that beloved highlight!
I am heading off again next week for the majestic mountains of Colorado for some more hot springs, camping and a meditation retreat at Shambhalah Meditation Center.
I hope you enjoy the rest of this season. I look forward to sharing my seasonal menu planning service with you when I return and cleansing together as I lead an online group Nourishing Cleanse in September.
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By Rose Pastore, published on November 1, 2011 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016
Today's typical romance résumé looks something like this: "going out" as a teen, hooking up in college, dating seriously as a 20-something, and then, sometimes, marrying around 30. That's nearly two decades of falling in and out of love before (maybe) making what society views as the preeminent commitment: marriage.
"People are spending more of their adult lives in committed relationships but not married," says Paula England, a sociologist at New York University. "That leads to these vague, intermediate steps." Three new studies examine how we love now. —Rose Pastore
Stayover Relationship: noun. A committed, monogamous partnership, usually between college students, in which the couple sleeps together three or more nights every week—sometimes all seven—but doesn't live together or necessarily plan to in the future. Stayover relationships breed comfort and convenience as a couple without sacrificing independence. "If you're a student, you know you'll leave in a year or so," says Tyler Jamison, a researcher at the University of Missouri. "Those leaps in life keep couples from talking seriously about the future."
LAT: noun. "Living Apart Together." A committed relationship in which members maintain separate residences. They don't spend the night together frequently enough to be considered stayover. LAT pairs tend to be older divorcées who have kids and don't want to uproot their lives by combining their homes. In a 2009 study, researchers found that LAT couples value personal freedom more than married people do, but both types value emotional dependence.
LTA: noun. "Living Together Apart." A domestic relationship in which two people who have children together continue to cohabit after the romantic connection has ended. LTA couples are usually low-income and urban, and during times of high unemployment (e.g., now), one parent may move in to care for the kids while the other works. The reasons women give for being in an LTA are similar to pre-20th-century reasons for marriage: shared parenthood and pooled resources, rather than sex and love, a new study published in Family Relations notes.


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Drivers are still being cautioned to take it easy on bridges.
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Electronic Arts has revealed that the next SimCity will arrive sometime in February 2013.
Maxis is developing the game, which requires a constant internet connection. Producer Jason Haber describes the feature as "totally worth having." We'll learn more about it during this week's E3.
Haber also called SimCity a multiplayer game "from the ground up." So far we know that cities can interact with nearby areas to trade and sell resources in support of a makeshift global economy.
Players can respond to the Sims in their cities by completing pledges and unlock rewards and achievements by fulfilling their basic demands. The game allows players to specialize in specific industries, build customizable structures, and more.
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Big inning sparks AquaSox
PASCO — James Zamarripa hit a two-run single to spark a five-run seventh inning, helping Everett pick up a 5-2 Northwest League victory over Tri-City on Tuesday night.
The visiting AquaSox (10-2) entered the seventh inning trailing 2-0 before rallying. The offensive spurt was capped off by a run-scoring triple by Jamodrick McGruder that scored Bryan Brito and a squeeze bunt by Jack Reinheimer that drove in McGruder.
Richard White (1-1) picked up the victory with one inning of relief work. Steven Ewing, the starter, pitched five innings and gave up two runs in the first inning.
Jose Valdivia pitched three innings to earn his first save of the season.
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Two punters come to blows at the Eminem concert in Melbourne, with one finding himself out for the count. Courtesy Youtube/Scoopie Doop
AN Eminem fan has been knocked out by a sickening blow from a fellow concertgoer during the rap superstar's show in Melbourne this week.
Thousands of revellers flocked to Etihad Stadium to see Eminem — as well as Kenrick Lamar, 360, J Cole and Action Bronson — on his Rapture tour on Wednesday night.
But one fan will presumably remember little of the concert after he was punched to the ground in a tunnel behind the seats.
Video posted on YouTube shows the man pushing another man against a wall and holding his throat.
But when two security guards tried to intervene, the aggressor quickly became the victim, as he was felled with a violent punch to the head.
The offender stood over him and yelled as he writhed and twitched on the ground.
Security then struggled to restrain the agitated attacker.
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On a night the O's were 1 for 12 with runners in scoring position in the first five innings, they went 3 for 5 while scoring four in the 6th to beat the Tribe 8-1.
They are 3-1 on this homestand and 10-8 over the last 18 games.
Here are quotes from four Birds after the game.
Jeremy Guthrie on his outing tonight: "Felt good out there. Really was able to keep the fastball down for the most part and get some ground balls, which was good. We made some good plays on defense and the hitters did the rest and gave us that big lead. It was a good game all around."
Guthrie on retiring 16 in a row, was that his best stretch of this year?: "Statistically for sure it was. Retiring how many ever it was in a row. It wasn't one of those things where I necessarily felt that much different, they just put the ball in play early in the count and I got in a good groove. Everything flowed very smoothly."
Guthrie on why he is pitching better this year: "I felt at the end of spring that the adjustment I made arm-slot wise, that I felt confident again. I felt like when I pitch I have weapons to use against the hitters and that's something I never really felt last year, hardly in any starts. Confidence makes a big difference for every player."
Guthrie, did it feel good to beat Cleveland, your former organization?: "Yeah, I think so. I was very focused out there. When you face friends and people you've worked with, you want to show them the best side you have. It's nice to be able to win this game tonight."
Miguel Tejada was asked how he is doing after getting hit by that pitch near his left knee: "I'm good, the ball just hit me and I'm a little bruised but I'm okay. I'll play tomorrow."
Luke Scott on his current hot streak: "This is the best I've felt all year. I'm comfortable and really relaxed up there. If you want to know the truth, being a man of faith, I'm up there praying, talking to the Lord and enjoying it with him."
Scott said it's nice to score runs for a starting pitcher: "They've earned a lot of wins. They've earned more than what they have shown. If they can just hold on and keep pitching the way we are, we're going to do very well."
Scott said Tejada's two-run single in the 6th was the key blow: "Yes, that opened the floodgates. Real tough situation and he made a great adjustment, professional hitter. Miggy stayed on that slider, big hit for us."
Corey Patterson asked if he is looking to spark the team: "Yeah, I take pride in that. Maybe if I'm not doing it with the bat on a day I can make a couple of defensive plays like I did today. Get on and steal a base or two, I haven't done that just yet, but I'll get it going. It's exciting and I'm happy to contribute."


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The Stanley Cup, which is making appearances all over the city and suburbs, is heading to Hollywood -- at least for a night.
Four members of the Blackhawks will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' on Monday, and they'll bring the cup with them, the show's Web site says.
Team captain and playoffs Most Valuable Player Jonathan Toews, series-clinching goal scorer Patrick Kane, and defensemen Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith (who, as fans know, lost seven teeth during a playoff game) will yak it up with Jay and show off the famed trophy.
In March, shortly after the winter Olympics ended, the entire team made an appearance on the show, and members of the U.S. and Canadian hockey teams showed off their gold and silver medals.
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Sídney, Australia
Ciudad del cine de la UNESCO
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On November 22nd, 2010, Sydney became the UNESCO City of Film to join Bradford in the network.
Film is – and has always been – a core part of what it means to be a Sydneysider. With regard to Sydney and its film industry, most of the developments are considered to demonstrate a dynamic balance between the different film-related sectors, public and private, as well as including the new media and technology field.
The strength of Sydney's film industry lies in its openness towards cinema of all cultures. Its mission to promote the cinema extends beyond its territory and allows the city to play a leadership role at the regional level. The recognition of Australia's aboriginal culture through cinema is highly appreciable. The large density of film festivals as well as partnerships the city has with other cities throughout Australia characterizes Sydney's film scene. In addition the city's actions in favour of youth, such as training programmes that are relatively new yet diverse and highly dynamic, proves the city's commitment to continuously generate innovation and creativity.


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'You set your vision, you set your goals according to that, you get the players to believe'
McGeeney sure Lilies can take next step but admits he may not be there when they do
"I suppose it's just going back to the old clichés, the darkest hour is just before the dawn" – Kieran McGeeney on his 2013 championship hopes for Kildare.
Kieran McGeeney has a simple and straight answer for those who contend that Kildare 'need' to win a Leinster senior football title – he agrees with them.
"They only have two since 1956, so a third one would be nice. That is about as short and succinct as I can put it," he says.
It's McGeeney's 'subtle' way of letting his audience know that the expectation that follows Kildare around should have a perspective.
The Lilies are constantly referenced as 'contenders', but history has a funny habit of repeating itself and, until they can write their next successful chapter, that same conundrum will exist.
"It is tough when you are trying to change a culture, a mindset. Although Kildare have fantastic footballers and a fantastic football tradition, results will prove otherwise with regards to inter-county structure," says McGeeney.
"They have only two Leinster titles in the last 40/50 years. You are fighting against that, but you have a group of players who are well capable of doing that and more.
"But it is about getting them over that particular line."
Ahead of the Leinster football championship, launched in Croke Park yesterday, McGeeney is convinced that, despite the repeated setbacks they have suffered, the players he has assembled will have their time in the sun "soon enough".
"I am hoping that I will be part of that, but it may not be," he concedes.
The heat has gone off Kildare and maybe that's no bad thing for them.
This time last year, a difficult transfer business was hot and heavy, ill financial winds were blowing around the county and with a perception that Dublin, for once, may be sated in Leinster, it felt like Kildare's time had come.
But two bad defeats, first to Meath in Leinster and then Cork in an All-Ireland quarter-final, raised doubts about their capacity to win big games.
"I actually thought last year was one of our strongest years, apart from the Cork game. It was the first year we were quite comfortable in the league (Division 2)," says McGeeney.
"The Meath game came down to the last five minutes, as all our games against Meath have, except this time Meath took the right way, we took the wrong way.
"Then the back-door thing again, we were very, very comfortable. I know the Limerick game was a bit ... but we had enough chances in that too and in extra-time pulled away.
"Then we came up against a strong team (Cork) and those cracks we'd been maybe papering over were kicked wide open.
"From a management point of view, you have to look at it. Maybe there were things I was looking at, that I was convincing myself weren't true, that actually were true. They're not easy to take but we took stock of them.
"It's not easy admitting your mistakes, especially when sometimes your ego can take over, but that's what you have to do – you have to have that open type of mindset and hopefully learn all the time.
"I've made loads of mistakes, but that's part and parcel of learning."
McGeeney took stock of his own future in the county too, but it just wasn't in him to say 'I quit'.
"I suppose my own personality is that I don't tend to walk away from things," he acknowledges.
He is happy, though, that even without the shiny piece of silverware that would put a circle neatly around things, they can exist at high altitude.
"I think Kildare have reached a level of consistency now that they never had," he argues.
"We've struggled in some of the big games and that could be down to me. You do look at these things. But the players wanted me back and I said 'fair enough'.
"So I just went and had a look at different things, decided to change a few things about. We were able to do that in terms of the players. I'd been watching a lot of these players coming through over the last couple of years and I was keen to give them a chance, and it's worked out to date.
"Whether it works in the summer remains to be seen but these boys will play for Kildare and they will do well for Kildare."
McGeeney doesn't dispute that their epic 2011 All-Ireland quarter-final with Donegal that went to extra-time was a significant fork in the road for both teams.
Two young managers preparing teams in distinct ways. That night they battled for the belief to go on. One did, the other has run to a stand-still since. High stakes.
"One team gets it. If you look at the plaudits that Jim (McGuinness) would be getting for that, but belief is a big part of that. I believe in all the things Jim believes in. You set your vision, you set your goals according to that, you get the players to believe," says McGeeney.
"It doesn't even matter if it's wrong – people have talked about the likes of Mick O'Dwyer and his training. Everybody has different opinions on what's right and what's wrong. But ultimately when you get a team to believe what you're doing is right, it is right."
Sometimes he draws on his own playing experiences to fortify the belief that the pathway they are on in Kildare will eventually lead to a clearing.
"It took me 10 years to win one thing (Ulster title) – and then 13 years to win ultimately what you were looking for," he says. "We used to walk around thinking we were pretty good at football too, and Brian McAlinden came in and showed us actually what training was – we realised that we weren't actually training hard.
"We thought we were, but he definitely showed us that we weren't.
"He brought us to a point too, won the Ulster championship from the preliminary round, which hadn't been done in a long time, won two back-to-back and got beaten then in the quarter-final by Galway.
"I remember standing in that tunnel down there, being asked after the Galway game, 'Was that it?' ... and I was thinking to myself 'It was, that was it.'
"And I suppose it's just going back to the old clichés, the darkest hour is before the dawn.
"And you just have to tell these fellas to keep on pushing, and hopefully some day it will come for them."
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On this day, we pray with and for our sisters and brothers in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, who have called for an ecumenical prayer vigil across the globe on the 24th of every month.
This will continue until we can all celebrate an end to occupation and a just and lasting resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
We do this as the Church of Scotland, the Scottish Episcopal Church, Christian Aid Scotland, and in partnership with the worldwide ACT Alliance.
Use this service during the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (22-28 September) and on the 24th of every month as part of the ACT Palestine Forum Prayer Vigil.
Order of service
Gather in our hearts Lord,
bring peace through our words.
Gather in our hearts Lord,
bring peace through our listening.
Gather in our hearts Lord,
Bring peace through our actions.
Gather in our hearts Lord,
bring peace through our silence.
Gather in our hearts Lord,
bring peace through our lives.
Eternal God,
in your love for this world,
you have made places of great beauty.
And always where heaven is present,
hell is never far off.
This is our experience;
it is the lot of your people.
We recognise it in the world.
Today, we come to hold before you
that land on which your son put his feet
and first walked the path to heaven,
across the terrain of the earth.
Help us,
as we enter into solidarity
with those who are our brothers and sisters
in faith and in humanity,
not to keep apart Palestinian and Israeli in our prayers,
but rather to try with you,
and under your guidance,
to find a way of holding the broken pieces,
that in our lives and through our prayers,
some greater health
and some sign of wholesomeness might come,
and a glimpse of your kingdom appear in our hearts
and on this earth.
(from 'Fencing in God's People, WGRG 2007)
(optional, appended) by Jan Sutch Pickard
Lighting a candle for peace
In the name of Christ, who is our peace,
we light this light for peace in Palestine and Israel.
Sung several times as the candle is lit (CH4 784):
Come light, light of God, give light to creation.
Enlighten our hearts and remain with your world.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
'May they prosper who love you.
Peace be within your walls,
and security within your towers.'
For the sake of my relatives and friends
I will say, 'peace be within you.'
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek your good. (from Psalm 122).
Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth.
Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace. (James 3, 13 -18)
God of peace, encourage those who seek to establish a fair and just peace in the Middle East. Bless their efforts as they work to end conflict. Lead those who engage in violence to put down their weapons and to live in peace with one another.
God in your mercy
hear our prayer
Or sung response
God of peace and justice
Rain down upon us your peace.
God of peace and justice,
let every heart be filled with peace.
(Ya Rabba Ssalami, Palestine/Lebanon, in We Walk His Way, John L Bell, pub. Wild Goose Publications 2008)
God of justice, bless those who work for peace through justice. Strengthen their resolve in the face of seemingly endless violence.
Guide the leaders of the peoples of the Middle East to know your will and to support a just peace for all of your children.
God of love, lifting up the holy land for all humankind, breathe love and compassion into our prayers with a desire for nothing other than peace: peace in our hearts, peace for all creation, and especially peace in the land that is called holy.
God of hope, we lift up the city of Jerusalem, distracted and divided, yet still filled with promise as all the cities of the world.
Come again into our cities, places of worship, Upper Rooms and Gethsemanes, that we may be given sight to recognise you.
God of mercy, even as we long to understand that which is often beyond our comprehension, we lay before you the hearts, minds and bodies of all those suffering from conflict in Palestine and Israel and from the ongoing occupation. Shower upon all the people of the Holy Land the spirit of justice and reconciliation.
God of the nations, give to all our people the blessings of well-being, freedom, and harmony, and, above all things, give us faith in you that we may be strengthened to care for all those in need until the coming of your son, our Saviour and Lord.
(From ACT Palestine)
You may prefer to have a time of silence and free prayer, with petitions relevant to the current news. Some suggestions are given below:
End with a period of silence
May our silence sing the peace of God.
May our silence bring about the peace of God.
Pray not for Arab or Jew,
for Palestinian or Israeli,
but pray rather for ourselves,
that we might not
divide them in our prayers
but keep them both together
in our hearts.
When races fight,
peace be among us.
When neighbours argue,
peace be among us.
When nations disagree,
peace be among us.
Where people struggle for justice,
let justice prevail.
Where Christ's disciples follow,
let peace be our way.
The Jerusalem prayer for Sunday, 22 September 2013
Almighty God, thank you for your Word made flesh in Jesus Christ and for the challenge for unity, justice and reconciliation between all people, given to us in the Holy Scriptures.
As we focus this year on Jerusalem and its children:
We, the churches in Jerusalem, pray that Christians wherever they may be in the world, may remember the continuous emigration of the Christians in the Holy Land. Jerusalem is the Mother City of our faith and the spiritual Home for each one of us.
In Jerusalem, the city of Pentecost, every Christian was born. From Jerusalem the word of God spread to the ends of the earth.
We pray that the Christians in Jerusalem may be able to see their witness through their presence.
We, the churches in Jerusalem, pray that the word of God will be prophetic, bearing your voice in the present and future.
Everything that happens in our land, everyone who lives here, all the pains and hopes, all the injustice and all the efforts to stop this injustice, are part of the prayer of our Church and the service of all her institutions.
We pray that our Church raises her voice against oppression and works for justice, non-violence and reconciliation.
We, the churches in Jerusalem, pray for courage to speak the Word of God honestly and lovingly in the local context and in the midst of daily events.
If the Church does take sides, it is with the oppressed, to stand alongside them, just as Christ our Lord stood by the side of each poor person and each sinner, calling them to repentance, to life, and to the restoration of the dignity bestowed on them by God and that no one has the right to take away.
God is not the ally of one against the other, nor the opponent of one in the face of the other. God is the Lord of all and loves all, demanding justice from all and issuing to all of us the same commandment to love one another.
We, the churches in Jerusalem, pray for hope where hopelessness reigns, hope for a peaceful solution to the conflict that tears your people apart. In a time when reconciliation no longer seems possible and few believe in a two state solution we pray that you will inspire all people of good faith to take a step in solidarity with your suffering children in the Holy Land.
'Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom' (Luke 12:32).
We, the churches in Jerusalem, have faith in you, our teacher and with the bonds you made between us and our brothers and sisters to overcome.
We thirst for justice, O God, because we know that there will be no peace until equity prevails for all people and until the forces of evil are defeated by your commandment of love, respect, and honour.
God bless us with your love to keep our faith and actions towards a Universal and Holy Jerusalem for all. In Jesus' name we pray.
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(Updating Backgrounder Update No. 27, "Responding.to Libya's Terrorist War," October 10, 1986, and Backgrounder U o. 3, "Libya Must Pay a Price for Terrorism," January 9, 1986.) One year ago today, U.S. warplanes bombed Libya in retaliation for its sponsorship of international terrorism. The bombing raid sent a powerful anti-terrorism message that continues to reverberate to this day. Most important, Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi remain on the defensive, troubled by growing domestic disenchantment with his rule, a deteriorating economy' di I t*c isolation, and the rising costs of his unpopular war in Chad and his forces' hu "ating rout this year. Qadhafi has lain low since the U.S. reprisal raid, cha ' ed by his vulnerability and lack of international support. Fearful of-being overthr his own army, the mercurial Libyan has disappeared from public view for long periods of e and has run his government by remote control from secret fortified hideaways. Bunker Mentality. Qadhafi's bunker mentality was underscored by his January 1 decision to move the seat of government from Tripoli to Hun, a small town 300 miles to the southeast. Qadhafi's deepening insecurity has prompted him to close Islamic schools which were @ potential focal point for opposition and redouble repression of political dissidents. Nine Moslem fundamentalists, including three soldiers, were publicly executed in February, ostensibly for_plotting the assassination of Soviet advisers. These executions were televised to intimidate Libyans and forestall the growth of organized opposition groups. Althou h Lib an e He groups are growing stronger, the chief threat to Qadhafi is the l ros ect oil a mi7itary mCoup. Qadhafi has built up the 50,000-man Revolutionary Guards, a oy7cadre of zealous followers, as a counterweight to the 71,000-man army which increasingly has chafed under his erratic leadership. The Revolutionary Guards control access to Libyan ammunition depots and are positioned to deter coup attempts. Libyan grin own by time
armofficers resent the growin role of the Revolutionary Guards and the constant shu ing of commanders aimeyat preventing them from developing independentpower bases. Libyan soldiers, meanwhile, have been demoralized by missed payrolls and the interminable war in Chad. High desertion rates and recent defections to E t of Libyan Air Force personnel with their warplanes indicate severe unrest within the a. yan military. Stunning Defeat n Chad. The disastrous war in Chad is a potential rallying point for disgruntled army o cers and could become a catalyst for a coup. Libyan troops plaVed by low morale have su red a stunnig series of defeats at the hands of ou@pnned but ighly motivated Chadian forces. Using French-supplied Milan anti-tank missiles mounted on Toyota land rovers, the Chadians have outfought Libyan tanks and have overrun I 1bya's chief strongholds. Since January the Chadians have killed approximately 3,000 Lib ans and captured over 1,000, along with an estimated $500 million of military equipment. gadhafi has sought to limit the impact of the war losses as much as possible by sup ressing news of Libyan losses, ordering @ibyan wounded to be treated in field hospitals rager than in the capital and seeking mediation by Algeria and Nigeria. Washington should help Chadian President Hissene Habre complete the humiliating rout of Libyan forces. Qadhafi's troo s continue to occupy the uranium-rich Aozou strip in the north which was illegally annexerby Libya in 1973. Washinvon should step up military aid to enable the Chadians to press their attack before 11bya's dispirited army can recover. Ile Chadians have made gpod use of $25 million of emergency aid in the last four months and merit more assistance in view of their demonstrated effectiveness in resisting Libyan a es i . In particular, more Redeye anti-aircraft missiles will be needed to offset yan air superiority. U.S. Signal to Libya. The U.S. should work closely with France which has deployed 2,400 troops in southern Chad and provides the Chadians with logistical support and traiming. Washington should press Paris to extend its aircover north of the 16th parallel, while tEe U.S. and France should bolster the unity of Chadian forces which at one time were splintered- into eleven factions. In particular, the recent alliance between President Habre and Goukoni Oueddei should be strengthened. Oueddei's break with the Lib ans in October 1986 was a crucial development that set the stage for 11bya's current difficu ties. For the Ion$ run, the U.S. should monitor the Libyan army and establish discreet contact with disgruntled army officers. It also should work covertly to strengthen and unify the Libyan opposition. The risks of Qadhafi's vainglorious policies have been revealed by last year's U.S. air reprisal and the disastrous war in Chad. Washington now should signal that Libya will be welcome back into the family of nations once it has rid itself of Qadhafi and renounced his support of terrorism. James A. Phillips Senior Policy Analyst ffi ffe}}


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NICHE magazine's annual Art Educator of the Year award was presented on February 18, 2011, to Lynda LaRoche, associate professor of Jewelry and Metals in the IUP Department of Art.
The award was presented as part of the 2011 NICHE Awards ceremony, which took place in Philadelphia in conjunction with the winter Buyers Market of American Craft.
The Art Educator of the Year award was established to recognize those individuals who have dedicated their careers to nurturing and guiding the next generation of craft artists.
The NICHE Awards competition annually recognizes excellence and innovation in North American craft. Professors are nominated for the award by their students, and the recipient of the award is chosen based on student essays.
LaRoche's students described her as "not only instilling a sense of design and appreciation for craft within everyone," but also having a "desire to push each creative project to the next level."
LaRoche is the sixth educator to receive the title of Art Educator of the Year from NICHE magazine.
Two of Lynda's students were selected as finalists in the student division of the 2011 NICHE Awards competition:
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From RICHARD SHOEMAKER
Recently, the Press Democrat seems to be covering public employment topics with more fervor that anything it has covered since the Obama campaign. That coverage has included some serious individual pay and benefits abuses in the public sector. Most readers agree these need to end. Not covered by those stories are the vast majority of dedicated and hardworking public employees and retirees who aren't abusing the system.
With the editorial "Issues of Pay" back in November, the editorial board of the Press Democrat has made a decision to promote the ongoing war and latest battle between working Americans. This is a class war propagated by the influence peddlers who control a huge percentage of America's wealth. The trumped up, public vs. private battles that pit neighbor vs. neighbor keep the attention of too many Americans distracted from the financial draining of America's public and private wealth.
The PD has not made the effort to compare public and private job descriptions and wages in any meaningful way. Generally, the statistics and numbers thrown out are presented without context making them deceitful. Their readers and public employees are dishonored by this. Real analysis, presenting an accurate picture rather than simply stirring public discontent would be more responsible.
Little or nothing has been written about massive private salaries, pensions or the robberies of rate payer money that permeates oil companies, private utility companies and other public trust companies such as newspapers. These private companies serve us in a manner that allows us little control on how the dollars we pay to them are expended. Show us those salaries and perks.
It would also be interesting to show us the incomes of the private sector folks you quote as regular sources for comment on the public sector. Explain to us why their pay packages are at justifiable levels. Give us something to compare. If we are to understand the public vs. private "debate" you need to show us salaries of the private enterprises that each of us encounters in our daily lives.
To help your effort in investigative reporting on public and private wages comparisons, I offer a recent study on wages. With other material it would be a start at understanding the issues. http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/wp/2010-03.pdf
To be really transparent, show the salaries and benefits of the PD staff with pay packages over $100,000. After all, we readers pay your salaries either by direct subscription or by frequenting your advertisers. Come on guys, show us all the money, private or public. Taxes or consumer dollars, it's our money and you owe it to us to do a honest job in presenting where it all goes.
In the end none of this addresses the reasons we are in this mess (Please reread 2nd paragraph).


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Putting it together was straight forward, the instructions were easy to follow. The only downside was the screws could have been better quality as we managed to round off a few of the screw heads however they did do the job. Whilst putting it together I noticed a small crack in one of the pieces of wood and a tiny crack in the perspex window. Argos offered an exchange right away but as the faults were not that bad and easy fixable I decided against receiving a replacement. As a way of goodwill they sent me a Plum sandpit bench which my children love. We had really strong winds a few weeks back with a lot of damage in our area, mainly strong trees falling. I was certain that damage would be done to the playhouse as we live quite high up so everything gets battered by the winds. The morning after the worst night wind I have experienced I went out to check on the animals and survey the damage. I was amazed to find the playhouse stood strong, other bits and pieces had been thrown around the garden but the playhouse managed to withstand the strong winds.
The Chad Valley wooden playhouse is made using FSC wood so the wood uses has come from a sustainable source. The size is perfect for children, mine love having their very own house at the end of the garden to play in, sometimes they let me in to play, sometimes I am shut out and told I am too big to play in their house!. The size is H158, W140, D140cm now I tried to find the internal size before it arrived and I struggled to find the correct information I was not sure which was the correct size so I grabbed my tape measure and took some of my own measurements, the internal size is approximately W114cm x D88.5cm, the door opening size is H96cm x W37cm approximately. You will need to prepare the ground on which your playhouse will sit & I recommend a solid base. The minimum solid base size you will need is W122 x D132cm, with the roof on the size is larger due to the overhand of the roof so it then becomes the size which is advertised.
I would highly recommend this Chad Valley wooden playhouse and it can be bought for £139.99 from Argos at the minute as they have reduced the price from £199.99
If a playhouse is not what you need Argos stock a massive range of outdoor toys from trikes and trampolines that kids will enjoy most of which we have bought over the years and no doubt we will purchase more from Argos over the coming years.
I was sent the Chad Valley Wooden Playhouse for the purpose of the review, all opinions are of my own


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As a former Boy Scout, I am disturbed by the Boy Scouts of America's consideration of relaxing a part of it's standards to allow a controversial choice to be allowed into an organization that was designed to build boys into better sons, husbands and fathers.23 comments on this story
I try to respect people despite their life choices, I really do. However, respect only goes so far. If a decision to relax standards within the Boy Scouts does come to pass, I cannot in good conscience support that decision.
It seems that in all of the shouting and screaming about what people try to bring about as equal and fair, the final part of the Scout Oath is forgotten. That part is, "To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
It is a sad thing when the heads of this organization that has been a staple in this nation for around a century is wanting to relax the morals that has made generations of people better.
Eric Green


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A new show about 'real sex lives' is a bit like the act itself: the build-up is more interesting than the actual event
Channel 4
It was clear how unsexy Sex Box was going to be as soon as we saw the box of the title, in which three couples would bare their bottoms (unseen) before baring their souls (seen by viewers, a studio audience and a panel of sexperts). The cube, with its grey slatted walls, looked so cold and uninviting: it was less a love shack and more, "If Ikea made prison cells . . ." If this were a product in the Swedish store, its catalogue name would probably be Tötalturnöff or Töösadtoshåg.
Of course, this pared-down approach was Channel 4's intention. When it announced Sex Box, everyone thought it would be 50 shades of phnar; that old Channel 4 trick of taking…


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I have been trying to create a macro in which one of the commands is to move the current file to group 1.
I took out the rest of the macro and left only the move_to_group command in and it still doesn't seem to work, although if I use the same command in a key binding it works fine.
This is my macro file:
"command": "move_to_group",
"args": {
"group": 1
Is this ok or does move_to_group just not work in macros?
I've found a solution.
It seems that move_to_group isn't a valid command for a macro or something like that so I found out how to run commands via a plugin.
This is what I wanted to do:
[code]import sublime, sublime_plugin
class PyReplCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand): def run(self): self.window.run_command('run_existing_window_command', { 'id': 'repl_python_run', 'file': 'config/Python/Main.sublime-menu' })
sublime.active_window().run_command('move_to_group', {
'group': 1


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Rick Ross - Rich Is GangstaReport copyright infringement
Writer(s): Maurice Jordan, Byron Forest, Hanish Stuart, Rick Ross, Alan Gorrie
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If you don't know
I'm finna break it down
I just upped my stock, fuck them cops
If you love hip-hop bust them shots
Your man is priceless, if your man's loyal
Better give that man a raise your end up paying for it
If you cut it, call it Jam Master Jay
No Adidas but I rock a brick a day
Talk about the jewels outta reach
Nigga please, so I came back with a bigger piece
You still smokin' weed on your car chase
I'm pullin' off the car lot screaming: "God's great!"
Before the crib you gotta clear the guard's gate
Elevators like Frank's on Scarface
New Presidential had that pavé
Like a G, I gave the Cartier to Wale
Then I gave Meek Mill a Range Rover
Told Warner Brothers that the game's over
For me to move forward from here on I need 50
I ain't talking 50 Cent neither nigga, haha
I came back a rich nigga
Young mogul, Bo Jackson, I'm a switch hitter
They want me face down on the pavement
Gang members claimin' I need to make a payment
It's hard for a young black executive
Can't you see we're all fucking relatives
Relatively easy we can go to war
Fuck it, we can go to war
Chasing me a hundred million, that's inshallah
Fresh up out the Feds system, welcome home Jabar
I watch him pray five times a day, nigga
Same one that used to moved the yay' nigga
AK's in his heyday, nigga
Benz coupe, wood frames, low fade, nigga
Got the cubans, got the boats, got the zoes, nigga
Cocaine worth much more than gold, nigga
So what's your goals, nigga?
All my shit went gold, nigga
I remember smokin' mid grade
Till I went and got my shit straight
I'm spittin' like this bitch a mixtape
Till they seen a Ghost with a temp plate
Sittin' in the trap blowing thick smoke
Traffic in my dope, with a thick ho
Feds tore apart the squad, nigga
That's why I had to play the part, nigga
That wasn't me, it was a job, nigga
It gets deeper, that was just a start, nigga
Screamin' in my sleep, I know Lord hear me
Death to you fuckboys, on my 4th Bentley
Gangsta, nigga
Rich is gangsta, nigga
This is gangsta, nigga
You know where we came from
Look where we at


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Globalfoundries changes CEO, preps $6-bn spend
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Through the end of May 2011, ATIC had invested over $6 billion, to acquire the former manufacturing assets of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in Dresden, Germany ($2.1 billion in March 2009) and the assets of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing of Singapore ($3.1 billion in December 2009) as well as an estimated $1 billion to construct a new fabrication facility in upstate New York. Through the end of 2012, ATIC will invest another approximately $6 billion in manufacturing capacity in Dresden, Singapore and New York with initial construction to begin in Abu Dhabi.
"Doug Grose and Chia Song Hwee formed the foundation of Globalfoundries, bringing together the world's leading-edge manufacturing technology with the heritage of a full-service foundry partner," said Norling. "This new leadership team will build on that foundation, as we increase investment in technology, capacity and talent while optimizing performance."
Norling said an executive search for a permanent CEO has begun.
Manocha has more than 30 years of global expertise in operations, general management, and manufacturing. Having recently served as an advisor to ATIC, Manocha was previously executive vice president of worldwide operations at Spansion. Prior to Spansion, he was executive vice president and chief manufacturing officer at NXP and Philips Semiconductors. Prior to that Manocha held senior executive and management positions at AT&T Microelectronics and AT&T Bell Laboratories, and began his career as a research scientist.
Norling is the former chairman of Chartered Semiconductor and held various positions at Motorola Inc. between 1965 and 2000. Ajami has been CEO of ATIC since November 2008. He joined ATIC from Mubadala Development Company, where he led an initial investment in AMD in 2007. Prior to Mubadala, he held several positions in Silicon Valley.
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Central Lakes College announces Spring honors list
Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples, has announced its 2014 spring semester honors list.
The President's List includes students who earned a grade-point average of 3.75 to 4.0 while enrolled for at least 12 credits.
The Dean's list includes students who earned a grade-point average of 3.25 to 3.74.
Honors students from this area include:
Kelby Rogers, Dean's List
Deer Creek
Nicole Doll, President's List
Daryn Kirscht, Dean's List
Jada Hauser, Dean's List and Kalea Hauser, Dean's List
Kirsten Carry, Dean's List, Gary Doroff, Dean's List and Brianna Poppenga, President's List
Taylor Beiswenger, President's List and Amanda Reger, President's List


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Yoga from the Inside was founded by Catherine Sherlock to provide yoga and mindfulness practices in the Hawkesbury area and beyond. The Yoga from the Inside mission is to help you connect to your inherent wholeness and the peace that is always within you, no matter what is happening externally; to improve your relationship with your body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Yoga from the Inside rests on the principle that for each of us there is nothing to fix or change, just some blockages and conditioning that may not be serving us and that can be released. The name reflects the understanding that the source and basis of our experience lies within us. We are empowered in life by our response to the changing experiences and movements of life rather than by changing, or trying to change, our external circumstances.


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Archive for Thursday, April 26, 2007
Nutrition menu
Friday/April 27
Herbed baked chicken or fish filet, baked potatoes, peas and corn, rye bread, spice cake.
Monday/April 30
Beef and macaroni or tuna and noodle casserole, broccoli, wheat bread, pear halves.
Tuesday/May 1
Scalloped potatoes and ham or chicken and rice casserole, succotash, wheat bread, ambrosia salad, *diet ambrosia salad.
Wednesday/May 2
Smothered chicken or pork chopette, wild rice, Capri vegetables, whole wheat bread, spiced apricots.
Thursday/May 3
Spaghetti and meat sauce or chicken Alfredo, Italian green beans, tossed salad w/tomato, French bread, lime sherbet.
The suggested donation/contribution is $2.50 a meal, however no one is refused service because of inability to pay. Reservations and cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance.
For more information, call the De Soto senior neighborhood center at 585-1762.
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A lengthy discussion over the implementation of an economic expansion zone (EEZ) in Innovation Park took place in the Oro Valley council chambers on Oct. 3.
The ordinance, specific only to Innovation Park, was designed by Town staff with a goal of attracting and retaining businesses with high quality jobs by eliminating steps from the typical zoning review process to include neighborhood meetings, review by the Conceptual Design and Review Board, and Town council review, thereby offering time savings for business applicants and increasing a competitive edge in the global market.
The new process is expected to shorten overall review time by about three months.
"We're trying to be unique," said Matt Michaels of Development and Infrastructure Services. "At worst, this will get us on parity with our competitors, and at best it will help us to stand out."
Michaels presented staff's justification for the elimination of each of these steps, arguing first that a lack of residential areas negates the need for neighborhood meetings.
He then offered that review by the Conceptual Design Review Board and Town Council is unnecessary in this situation because the Town has already adopted detailed design standards under its current zoning code, which will be maintained at Innovation Park.
The ordinance will, however, allow citizens and applicants to appeal to council.
During the Town's public outreach process, residents voiced concerns as to whether or not there would be opportunities for education or input regarding businesses coming to Innovation Park.
In response, Planning Division Manager David Williams proposed to council the implementation of an interactive webpage, Listserv subscription, submittal tracker tool, council reporting, and an open house session for each project to allow review and commentary by the public.
Councilman Joe Hornat initially took issue with hosting an open house, fearing it would slow the process for businesses.
"I'm concerned with the additions where we have a public comment period – that's a problem," he said. "I offer that those comments would come too late. We're telling them what the decision has been versus letting them have input – which is what we are trying to get rid of here anyway."
Councilman Mike Zinkin was the first to disagree with Hornat, though several residents would also take issue with the lack of an open house.
"I don't have a problem with opening it to the masses," said Zinkin. "I now think we do need a public meeting, based on the educated needs of the citizens. The purpose here is not to amend, but to be transparent."
Hornat refuted, saying it comes down to a "question of expectation."
"We're going to call these people to a meeting, explain to them exactly what we are doing with the code, which is the code, and what's going to happen with that?" he said. "Are they going to expect to have the ability to make changes? Why go to a meeting, listen to all this, and know that whatever input is given, it's over? This will kick back to going through the whole process, and that's what we are trying to eliminate."
Councilman Bill Garner asked staff for clarification as to how much time an open house would add to the process, to which Williams said it would be embedded in the 30-day notice given to the public prior to development occurring.
Town Manager Greg Caton reminded council that the meetings still take up staff time to organize.
Resident Shirl Lamonna argued that while not opposed to business, a lack of an open house would mean giving up rights to address concerns over development, a notion that resident Donald Bristow reemphasized, saying "This is a premier piece of land, and the whole Town should know what's going on in that area."
Resident Bill Adler was skeptical that the more expedient process would prove beneficial to companies looking to relocated or start business in Oro Valley.
"Saving two or three months to a company that is moving hundreds or thousands of people is nothing to a company that size," he said. "If that's what we think is going to give rise to competitiveness, that's flawed reasoning."
Prior to a vote, Mayor Satish Hiremath would respond to commentary made throughout the meeting regarding an alleged lack of transparency between council and the public.
"To have residents talk about it being a trust issue with council, I have said this in the past and I will say it again, trust is a two way street," he said. "This council is willing to meet you halfway, but the other part of it has to come from you. I get pretty darn cranky when I get residents that say 'We have an issue trusting you.' It's a hard pill for me to swallow."
The ordinance ultimately passed 7-0 with the inclusion of public open houses.


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Allied Wire & Cable, Collegeville, Pa., named Penn State Abington freshman Matthew Rayner as the first beneficiary of its new company-run scholarship program. Matthew is the son of Ron Rayner, a warehouse associate at Allied's headquarters since 2008. The scholarship program, which will run annually, is open to children of full-time AWC employees with at least three years on the job. Students are eligible to apply for the $10,000 scholarship during their senior year of high school. They must be college or university-bound and have a minimum grade point average of 3.0. Scholarships are awarded based on both merit and financial need, and are payable over the course of the student's college career.
Matthew Rayner will be awarded a check for $2,500. As long as he maintains a 3.0 GPA or higher, he will receive one check each year during his four-year college program, for a scholarship totaling $10,000. As a student at Roxborough High School, Rayner received honors all four years, and was a member of the school's wrestling, cross-country and soccer teams. He plans to study education at Penn State Abington, pursuing his dream of becoming a teacher.


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He is a good host, but the award is for his radio show.
He is a good host, but the award is for his radio show.
Nobody outside of the US (maybe Canada) even knows who Ryan Seacrest is... And I've never even heard him on the radio. OOps. What a star.
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There are lots of folks that have a star that even people in the US have no knowledge of. Think of all the Silent Movie Stars etc. that were a force in their respective industries at the time but have been forgotten over the years. I say good for Ryan.Originally Posted by Cindirella
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Does he even get broadcasted outside of CA? If so then Howard stern should've gotten his a long time ago if he hasn't already.
Blow a kiss, fire a gun, we need someone to lean on
In my area, you can only here him on the top 40 countdown, on the weekends.
I don't live in CA.
He started his radio career in another state...can't remember which one though.
Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.
He's from Georgia...I think it was there he got started.....Regardless of opinions on this board...I Ryan Seacrest....I love his goofy outfits, his smartass comments to Simon, his metrosexual ways..I think he's a cutie patootie ...to me, he's another home grown Southern boy who's done good...gone a little Hollywood but still a good ole Southern mama's boy!Originally Posted by JLuvs
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Husband surrenders to police over Leahy-Arnold killings
The husband of a murdered far north Queensland woman has surrendered to police in Cairns.
Two weeks ago Queensland coroner Michael Barnes ordered a warrant be issued for Alan Leahy's arrest over deaths of Julie-Anne Leahy and Vicky Arnold near Atherton in 1991.
Mr Barnes found Mr Leahy should stand trial for the killings after rejecting the findings of two previous inquests and police that the 1991 deaths were a murder-suicide.
He gave Mr Leahy, 49, two weeks to surrender himself to Queensland police.
Mr Leahy arrived in Cairns on Friday morning and handed himself in.
Outside Cairns police station, Mr Leahy maintained his innocence.
Asked whether he had killed the women, he replied: "No, I did not."
In a statement issued last week, Mr Leahy's lawyer said his client categorically denies any involvement in the women's deaths and expressed his disappointment at the findings
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, atherton-4883, cairns-4870
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It's the most important shopping day of the year, but all the best deals go quickly. So given you'll be groggy from your turkey gorging, you need a surefire way to hit the stores early on Black Friday.
So here are seven of the most effective and unique alarm clocks around to get you up at the crack of dawn on Friday—if not earlier—ready to battle the crowds for this holidays' best deals.
Sleeptracker Elite Watch
While you doze your body goes in and out of deep sleep cycles, and waking up in the middle of one can make getting out of bed feel like an impossible task. So the Sleeptracker watch monitors your sleeping patterns throughout the night, using a motion sensor to keep track of when you toss and turn.
It will then intelligently wake you up in the morning during those times when you're moving, which indicates a lighter sleep cycle. As a result you'll feel more refreshed, and the prospect of getting out of bed just to go and stand in a long, cold line will seem slightly more bearable. $149
BioBrite SunRise Controller
Not everyone is programmed to wake up when the rooster crows, but we all seem to know it's time to get up when sunshine starts flooding into our room. So while alarms that recreate the effect of the rising sun using a built-in light that slowly illuminates aren't new, the SunRise Controller from BioBrite lets you plug in the wattage of your choosing.
So you can either wake to the soft glow from a bedside lamp, or put a set of industrial work lights next to your bed that will make being under the sheets feel like the last place you want to be in the early morning. $150
Wake n' Bacon
The sounds of DJ banter, the smell of coffee, the glowing sun, none of these things can get my ass out of bed like the smell of freshly cooked bacon. And that's the genius idea behind the cleverly named Wake n' Bacon alarm clock.
Instead of making an annoying beeping sound, a hacked alarm clock turns on a set of halogen lights that gently warm a pre-cooked piece of bacon you've inserted the night before. Even if you keep kosher, the smell of salted pork is enough to get anyone out of bed. And if you're not, your reward for waking is getting to then indulge in the perfect breakfast. DIY
Flying Alarm Clock
So far I've only brought you alarms that take a kinder, gentler approach to waking you in the AM. But if you're as heavy a sleeper as I am, you'll need something a little more motivational. Instead of a simple button to silence its morning cries, this alarm clock uses a special key.
A special key with spinning rotor blades that let it fly across your room when the alarm goes off, requiring you to get out of bed, hunt it down, and insert it back into the top of the alarm to turn it off. It's without a doubt annoying, but odds are once you're up and out of bed, you'll be awake enough to hit the showers and start your day. $20
Banclock Money Bank
On a day that's all about spending, you need every cent you can find to make your shopping spree count. So I can't think of a more perfect tool for a Black Friday morning than this Banclock Money Bank.
The only way to get a few more minutes of precious snooze time is to feed it some change, and that's money that could be far better spent on discounted electronics. Given how often I hit the snooze button, my future kids would be severely lacking a college fund if this alarm clock were by my bedside. But even if you just use it once a year, it's still worth the investment. $62
World's Loudest Alarm Clock With Dual 140dB Horns
This one's definitely a do-it-yourselfer, but I guarantee your days of sleeping even while the radio is blaring in your ear will soon be over. To ensure he was always up on time in the morning, Kip Kedersha upgraded his standard alarm clock with a pair of 140dB horns that sound like the equivalent of a car alarm going off right next to your ear.
Not only will this hack almost guarantee that you don't sleep in on Friday morning, it will also get your neighbors up, and probably everyone living on your block. But I promise they'll end up thanking you when they've scored a laptop for $200. DIY
Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock with a Super Shaker
Believe it or not, I'm not actually convinced that a couple of 140dB car alarm horns would be enough to reliably wake me after the most important eating day of the year.
So while this 113dB Sonic Bomb isn't quite the loudest solution out there, it goes one step further with a vibrator you can stick under your mattress, your pillow, or even directly under your head. There's a slim chance you might not hear the alarm when it goes off, but you'll certainly feel it. And let's be honest, you're going to end your shopping day with a headache anyways, so why not get started on those Tylenols first thing in the morning? $50
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More than 1,300 couples have registered to use the new âlisten and chooseâ service, which gives couples the choice of 25 hymns for weddings and 12 readings from the Bible.
John Newtonâs Amazing Grace is the most popular choice for a wedding hymn, closely followed by Make Me a Channel of Your Peace and All Things Bright and Beautiful. ...
My own favourite verse of this hymn says:
Through many dangers, toils and snaresI have already comeTis grace has brought me safe thus farAnd grace shall lead me home
I have found these few words a source of immense comfort throughout my Christian life. Jesus, by grace, gives us indeed his peace, in the midst of turmoil and despair.
My home is in heaven, I am a citizen of heaven, and I shall arrive there by the grace of God, no matter what befalls me.
I really like the history to the song and that it is to the same melody that slaves sung long ago. I wonder what the original words were to their song?
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
confuddled wrote:Is this Welsh John....?
John UK wrote:Can you not tell me where God did not forbid the singing of psalms in worship services?
Psalms Only wrote:God wrote His own Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual songs. Why reject these in favor of the sinners lyrics?
Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Do sinners achieve the same purity in their lyrics?
Psalm 17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Psalm 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.


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A Categorical Review of Recommender Systems
As more and more information became available electronically, the need for effective information retrieval and implementation of filtering tools has become essential for easy access of relevant information. Recommender Systems (RS) are software tools and techniques providing suggestions for items and/or services to be of use to a user. These systems are achieving widespread success in ecommerce applications now-a-days, with the advent of internet. This paper presents a categorical review of the field of recommender systems and describes the state-of-the-art of the recommendation methods that are usually classified into four categories: Content based Collaborative, Demographic and Hybrid systems.