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Martin O'Neill plays up Ireland underdog tag ahead of Euro 2016 revenge mission
Suddenly, against every expectation, the Republic of Ireland find themselves with a chance to avenge the moment when that hand of Henry's denied them a place at the 2010 World Cup. Martin O'Neill was not setting out to make a diplomatic incident of it on Thursday but said enough to reveal that he quietly appreciates its value as a weapon. The manager is not one to pass up an opportunity like that.
Henry had been reluctant to talk about that goal in the 18 hours since Ireland's 1-0 win over Italy had sent them into a last 16 match against the French in Lyons, O'Neill was told.
"What a surprise," he said.
The French feel a guilt about it, it was put to him. "Why shouldn't they? It was a serious breach of dishonour," he said. "Don't put that down…"
Some feel there was a badge of honour to have saved France, however disreputably, it was then suggested. "Oh well done, brilliant, so I bolloxed it up. Put that back in again. So it was honourable, Thierry Henry lives forever…"
The tone hovered between humour and sarcasm because O'Neill knows all too well the psychological advantage presented by the national complex which seems to be surfacing again here about the events of 2009 in Stade de France. "Les Irlandais dissent avoir oublie la man de Thierry Henry – mais ils n'en pensent pas un mot." (The Irish say they've forgotten the hand of Thierry Henry – but they've not forgotten a word)" one national title declared on Thursday.
O'Neill finally made it to his bed at 5.30am on Thursday morning, was up again at 9am and though Shane Long's singing was still on his mind from the coach trip back to their Versailles base – "he is a dreadful singer" – thoughts were turning to where competitive advantage could be pursued against Didier Deschamps' more technically-gifted players.
Working with the underdog mentality is a fundamental part of the strategy. The former Ireland assistant manager Marco Tardelli has done O'Neill more favours than he knows by declaring in the Italia media in recent days that this Irish side lacks intelligence. "I'm not wildly sure what Marco was saying talking about players who don't play with their heads," he said, returning to the theme again and enjoying the last laugh.
This is all part and parcel of a method. Working to the last is the core philosophy and O'Neill has this capacity to make players ready to run to the end of the earth for him. The football is not always pretty and certainly not the most technically proficient, but the psychological strength is there. It is why last-minute goals like Wednesday night's come so often for the team.
"You have to try and get into their heads and feel they actually belong there for at least that game," O'Neill said. "The players have got to believe. And I think if a player comes from a Championship side then the biggest thing is you have to make players believe they can belong on the big stage."
He also took some big decisions before the match against Italy, not least dropping his captain John O'Shea and installing Everton's Seamus Coleman – not one of football's monumental personalities – as captain. The sight of O'Neill walking the pitch deep in conversation with Coleman the day before the game seem significant in retrospect. "Whatever I said to him and he said to me, it was 'We have to be ready for the game, got to be ready for it'. Not only was he ready for it, he galvanised the team as well, which was great because he is, off the field, a really quiet lad, but he has a bit of grit and determination about him which is very evident."
Coleman is now the man in possession, where the armband is concerned, though less clear is whether Stoke City's Jon Walters, a huge part of the Republic's journey under O'Neill, will be fit to play for Lyons on Sunday. The side are a different proposition when he, their stand-out striker, does start. "[I would] absolutely, absolutely [love him to play]," O'Neill said. "Because if anybody deserves it he does, really."
O'Neill spoke just as passionately about the role of Roy Keane. The affection of their embrace in the aftermath of victory in Lille was surprising to behold, in Keane at least. "He doesn't always have to be balling around and thinking he has to live up to an image," O'Neill said. "There's loads of times when it's quite the opposite and he's rather self-effacing."
Keane will sit down to talk about Sunday's game ahead of the weekend and the French nation will certainly be listening. A good man to have in your corner.
Be sure of one thing: the Irish won't be going quietly.
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I would love to hear ways people have or plan to announce their pregnancies. Also, what factors affected when you told people?
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Reply by Dilbert06 » Jan. 11, 2017 11:01am
I got my BFP just a few days before my dh and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary :) I figured that was just too great an opportunity to not take advantage.
We went to dinner at the restaurant we had our first date and I'd convinced him to bring our "anniversary" gifts with us to open there. While waiting for our meal I had him open his gift which was a Ford t-shirt to throw him off and a photo frame that i had separately wrapped. On the outside of the wrapping I put the note that said "the only thing better than having you as my husband, is our kids having you as their dad" (I have four teens from a previous marriage that he helps me raise full time and is an incredible father to!)He commented awww and how much he loves our kids.
Once he tore the wrapping off he first noticed the frame was identical to the rustic wood theme of our wedding and he commented how beautiful but then he realized what was inside the frame, a photo of the BFP digital test. I had captioned the photo. Updated pic coming 9-15-17. He froze asking seriously, really, are you kidding?!? and then teared up (this is his very first child) He was quick to share it with our waiter hahaha and the restaurant served him up a slice of "big daddy chocolate cake" on the house after our meal.
We haven't told anyone else just yet (waiting for February) but we have thoughts on how to tell our parents. The big one for us will be how to tell our teens that a little one will be joining our highly active family haha The toughest will be telling our 12 year old "baby" girl as she loves that title so much.
The factors affecting when to tell others for us is- I, of course, need my husbands support right now as we go to first appointments and process thoughts of all the changes coming soon.
We are holding off telling our kids until after the first appointment I think just to make sure all is well and to give us time to consider the best ways to talk to them about this change that honestly affects us all.
We will tell parents after that because well they all tend to want to share with just "this one person" lol and so we are going to wait until its ok that it spreads to the world around us before we share with them ;)
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That's so sweet! Thanks for sharing. Yep, I totally get the 'just this one person' sentiment. That's how my family would be too. Hoping for this cycle!!
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Book Review by James Colt Harrison
Bette Davis was the quintessential film actress. She entertained audiences for five decades or more with her unique style, her dramatic histrionics, and her captivating screen presence. Author Charlotte Chandler has compiled extensive interviews with the actress in this book.
The fascinating and intriguing aspect of this new book is most of it is in Davis' own words. Chandler has let her speak on her own, interjecting only occasionally to clear up some points of the actress's career. What the reader gets is the genuine article and not the author's point of view. Davis, and Davis alone recounts her life in amazing detail. It's essentially an oral account of Hollywood during Davis' heyday, and in that respect, it grasps the reader and doesn't let go. Nothing is more gripping than having the actual participant of a Hollywood career discuss that profession.
Chandler interviewed Davis during the last decade of her life. Davis died at 81 on October 6, 1989 in Paris. But before she departed, she sat down with Chandler and openly discussed her life, her lovers, her failed marriages, her career disappointments, and her triumphs.
The book covers every aspect of the Davis' early life in New England where she was born, and her life of abandonment by her father. Always looking for the love her father never gave, Bette turned to her loving mother for never-ending support.
Under contract to Warner Bros. Studios where she was dubbed "the fourth Warner Brother," rumor had it her films made so much money that several sound stages were built on the lot because of her popularity. In the 1930s and 40s she was Queen of the Lot, but she was also a feisty young woman who wanted good parts and constantly fought with mogul Jack Warner to get them.
"I was a pioneer in trying to break the studio system's hold on actors," she remembered. "In 1936 I rebelled. I wanted more say in the choice of my scripts. I wanted a chance at the great directors and the best available actors. Jack Warner made some concessions and said, 'Just be a good girl, Bette, and everything will work out.' I ended up in an English court being sued by the Warner Brothers (for refusing to do some very bad movies). They won, of course; but I paved the way for Olivia De Havilland's eventual victory over the studio system."
After being offered so many miserable pictures at the studio, Bette made a big mistake when she walked out on a part Warner had chosen for her. "I've just optioned a wonderful book for you," Warner told Bette. Her furious retort was, "Ha! I'll bet it's a pip!"
Davis then explained, "Famous last words. It was Gone With The Wind and Errol Flynn had been selected as Rhett Butler." The book is filled with gossipy tidbits such as this that keep the reader turning the pages to see what comes next.
"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" was just one of the campy and memorable lines written by writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve. It turned out to be a career-defining role as Davis was the perfect age to play a fading actress.
"I gave a lot of thought to the character of Margo. I knew she was a fabulous character, and I wanted to give her my very best. Margo was a treat, and I really wanted to understand her. I decided that she was suffering from an inability to love or be loved, a very serious condition." In statements such as this, we see the inner thoughts of Davis as an actress as she delves into the heart of her characters.
Davis, ever the honest woman, never hid her age. "I've never been one of those women who won't admit she's 40 until she's past 70." However, being an actress, she had an enormous ego. During the shooting of Deception in 1946 she complained to cinematographer Ernest Haller that she was worried how she looked. She said to Haller, "Ernie, why can't you make me look the way I looked in Jezebel?" Haller quickly said, "Bette, I was seven years younger then," thereby taking the blame for getting older. This is one of the tidbits that make the book so enjoyable.
Another informative aspect of The Girl Who Walked Home Alone is a synopsis of Davis' films in between her reminiscences about a particular project. Thus Chandler wraps Davis' recollections about the film around the short synopsis. This device makes it easier for the reader to understand what it is Davis is referencing.
Bette Davis was famous for being an outspoken woman. Part of the fun of this book are her many pithy comments. In particular, she didn't have much use for her co-star Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? "It was important that the makeup show the desperation," Davis explained about her character Baby Jane. "Miss Crawford wanted to look as nice as she could. I wanted to look as terrible as I could. Miss Crawford was a glamourpuss. I was an actress."
The book is fun and unusual because it presents Davis' actual words and thoughts. It was wise of Chandler to let Bette rip away, and rip she does. For Bette Davis fans this is a book not to be missed.
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone, Bette Davis: A Personal Biography
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Some of my readers have, over the last couple of days, commented on the script documentation from the perspective of our discussion of syntax and semantics:
The language in which the scripting documentation is written consistently gets in my way when I'm looking for information on the semantics of a scriptable API, by repeatedly addressing the syntax, probably in the assumption that scripting languages are for beginners and beginners tend to forget about the syntax.
Look at the CLR or PSDK docs, which essentially target non-scripting programmers; while they have their own share of problems, they have at least the advantage of actually being reference texts, in that they precisely and concisely define a specification for an API. The scripting runtime docs just leave too much to the imagination.
I think that it is fair to say that no one who worked on the scripting documentation is entirely thrilled with it, and yes, there is certainly room for improvement. But I'd like to take this opportunity to state clearly that this is not evidence that the documentation team consisted of a bunch of bozos. Far from it! The User Education people I've worked with over the years have a deep understanding of the technologies they work on, and excellent communication skills. People who can rapidly come up to speed on a brand new technology, understand the usage scenarios, write sample code that uses that technology and have excellent command of both English and the specific requirements of technical documentation are rare. They are in considerable demand at Microsoft, and there are often too few to go around.
Every time a new feature is proposed, representatives from all the disciplines sit down so that we can figure out if there are enough warm bodies to change a lightbulb. Are there enough developers with free time to write and test the feature? Are there enough testers to verify that the developer did a good job? Are there enough program managers to write the specs and herd the cats? Are there enough writers to produce the documentation? If the answer to any of these is "no", then either the feature gets cut, or we negotiate. If UE is the bottleneck then we might make the feature less complex, cut a less important feature, borrow a writer from another team, get the devs and testers to help write and test the sample code, scale back the depth of the documentation, and so on.
When making feature decisions the script team was often constrained by our overworked UE team. Something had to give, and we ended up doing all of those things I mentioned at one time or another. We made sure, however, that extra effort would be made for particularly tricky topics -- the file system object and regular expressions come to mind. I wrote a lot of FSO sample code and spent a lot of time scrubbing the regular expression docs.
The docs are far from perfect, but I hope they are at least somewhat useful. I also hope that by blogging, I can provide some of the extra conceptual context missing from the documentation. If people have specific ideas for future topics, please let me know.
Mike (who is one of those rare people who can write code and learn new technologies in great depth extremely rapidly and then write sensible documentation) pointed out
different types of documentation are written in different ways. The example you cite is from a reference topic. That type of documentation is traditionally written tersely because reference docs are to some extent written for the already-experienced programmer who does not need a bunch of background information repeated when all they wanted was the syntax of method such-and-this. You'll note that almost all reference material for all languages -- JScript, C#, Java, T-SQL -- follows this philosophy.
Good point. I want to talk a bit about the design and documentation of APIs from the perspective of the various constituencies I mentioned yesterday. Recall that there are three large buckets of developer customers that we think about a lot here:
- the LOBDev -- the line of business productivity application developer
- the ProDev -- the professional application developer
- the Architect -- the design-the-whole-system developer
One aspect in API design that we think about when designing APIs for these various constituencies is how "global" does your understanding have to be to use the feature?
That's a bit vague, so let me give a few examples.
- To use the WSHNetwork.UserName method you need to understand how to create an object and call a method on it. That's two lines of code, which can appear pretty much anywhere in your program.
- To create a type-safe dictionary object in .NET you need to understand classes, inheritance, protected vs. private data, the relationship between enumerator objects and collection objects, etc. The scope of understanding is larger -- you need to have a pretty thorough understanding of how the base class works, what those half-dozen collection interfaces do, and lots of OOP concepts.
- To create an MFC MDI application, you need to understand the model-view-controller design pattern, how documents and views are implemented in the MFC framework, and all the details of how to implement each in an object-oriented fashion. If you don't understand that pattern, you simply can't write sensible MFC MDI code -- even with a wizard generating most of the boilerplate for you.
See what I'm getting at? The LOBDev likes to design methods which call other methods. The ProDev likes to make classes which extend and use other classes. The Architect likes to make whole systems where various parts interact in complex conceptual ways, but based upon system-wide design patterns.
The needs of the developer we are targeting have a huge impact on both the API design and the documentation.
- Documentation for Architect features starts with broad conceptual overviews and philosophical justifications for the whole design, and then delves into specific arcane details of how to make the interactions work. (Architects like nothing better than going on summer vacation with a big stack of Design Pattern books and a few thousand pages of framework documentation.)
- Documentation for ProDev features starts with an overview of the class and describes what the superclasses, subclasses and related classes look like. Most of the .NET Framework documentation was designed for ProDevs.
- Documentation for LOBDev features concentrates on the syntax and the most common usage cases, and little snippets of code that can be cut and pasted. The script object model documentation was written with this constituency in mind.
Now, obviously the Architects and ProDevs are going to need to know the syntax of individual methods at some point too. But my point is that if you are designing a feature for use by LOBDevs, you cannot require them to read ten pages of conceptual documentation describing the model-view-controller design pattern! LOBDevs have a big pile of widgets to frobnicate! By Wednesday! LOBDevs want a chunk of sample code that they can copy, tweak, and get on with life, not an essay on framework design.
LOBDevs want documentation where one page explains everything they need to know about making one method work -- which is why the script object model documentation seems so repetitive, and why there are so many seemingly-pointless little code snippets. The usage case goes something like this. "I'm writing a script to run the widget invoices through the gnustotron. Dump them to a temp file, run the gnustotron, hmm, I probably should delete that temp file. Let's google 'msdn script delete file', I feel lucky… and I am lucky! I'll just cut and paste that, change the file name, done." And then next time the LOBDev needs a method on a file, just type MyFile. and hopefully Intellisense will help, no need to look at the documentation at all.
This is also why the script object models are, by and large, collections of methods that do stuff. Fetch this user name, delete that file, etc. That's not very OO, is it? In a traditional OO design, objects encapsulate state, methods manipulate state. To understand what an enumerator does, you need to understand how collections work, how changes in collection state affect enumerator state, blah, blah, blah, lots of doc to read -- the ProDev has time for that. Heck, the ProDev is paid for that. For the LOBDev, life is too short to spend it reading about the OO design patterns that motivate collection semantics.
There's no doubt that we can make the documentation and the tools better, but better for whom? is an important and extremely difficult question. I'll try to discuss these tradeoffs in more detail in future blog entries.


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No fancy pictures today. But I've been thinking about where wedding dresses fit into our wedding plans. I got some flack for suggesting that $1700 was too much to spend on a wedding dress. Let me try to explain why that is.
There are a lot of ways in which I conceive of our wedding day:
The beginning of an indissoluble union that will fundamentally and forever bind us together.
A solemn declaration of our love for each other.
The first day of the rest of our life.
The creation of a new family.
A giant party celebrating Life and Love.
The bringing together of our family and friends as part of our new family, part of the rest of our life.
Notice what's missing from that list? "Fashion show." Of course I want to look nice. But I've never been a fashionista, and so beyond that, I'm not sure how much time or effort should go into picking out what I'm going to wear on my wedding day. Wedding websites and books recommend allocating 10% of your wedding budget to your dress. That seems nuts. My clothes are not 10% of the experience of my wedding. Going to David's Bridal and spending $300-$500 on a dress seems much more in line with the proper place that a dress should hold in the grander scheme of the wedding. 1-2% of the budget, 1-2% of my time and effort, 1-2% of the wedding experience.
(Note: There is every possibility that I will be eating my words when I find a gorgeous, expensive wedding dress that I just fall in love with. Don't judge.)
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Meet Anant Gupta HCL Technologies' new CEO
Meet Anant Gupta HCL Technologies' new CEO
ET Bureau; Shelley Singh
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' new CEO, has inherited a healthy company from predecessor Vineet Nayar. That will be his biggest strength and, perhaps, also his biggest vulnerability...
Selling ideas to large global customers
Anant Gupta, only in his second month as the new chief executive officer of the $4.2-billion HCL Technologies, is already toying with the idea of writing a book. His predecessor Vineet Nayar wrote one too, on employees. But Gupta, 45, wants to write one on sourcing strategies.
Gupta is in no great hurry to get down to the writing bit. He first needs to take a shot at doing it. He has already begun selling his ideas to large global customers of HCL Technologies —India's fifth largest IT services company, following TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Cognizant.
It is an oddity that Gupta has the time to think about a book and the freedom to experiment with new ideas, at a time when many large IT companies, including some even in the lead pack of five, are wrestling with growth concerns and eroding profit margins.
Foundatation that Nayar built
That's largely to Nayar's credit. Under him, HCL Technologies' revenues ballooned from $1.3 billion in 2007 to $4.15 billion in 2012. He led HCL Tech to the biggest acquisition post the 2008 slowdown, beating rival Infosys to buy Axon, a UK-based business software consulting major.
Nayar, who transitioned to the role of vice-chairman and joint managing director in mid-January, now spends time mentoring future leaders in E3+ grade of HCL (mid-management).
This foundation which Nayar built, industry sources say, will be Gupta's strength and perhaps also vulnerability.
Gupta's succession was well planned
Both Gupta and Nayar worked together for almost two decades, yet they have contrasting styles. Nayar went to B-school (XLRI Jamshedpur), while Gupta, a telecom and microelectronics engineer from the University of Liverpool, UK, didn't.
But Gupta's succession was well planned. He was appointed COO in July 2012 and promoted as CEO on January 17, 2013. Gupta's rise, incidentally, was also at least partly Nayar's doing. Much of HCL's growth in Nayar's stint came from infrastructure management services (IMS).
Initially called HCL Comnet, this start-up within HCL was Nayar's brainchild. Gupta joined the startup back in 1993 and rose to head it in 2006. Gupta took a $196-million business, rechristened as IMS under him, and turned it into a powerful $1 billion revenue engine by 2012.
Creating a Deal Pipeline
IMS manages computers, does software upgrades, anti-virus protection for clients and scales it up to manage data centers and networks. For example, it bagged a contract from Freescale Semiconductor, replacing IBM to do tasks like desktop support, storage and security in 20 countries.
Gupta believes there is a lot more juice left in IMS. "In traditional IT outsourcing, the penetration is in excess of 30% of the worldwide market. In IMS, it is less than 3-4%. Even at $1 billion, IMS is less than 1% of addressable market for us," argues Gupta.
And, more than that, he also believes that IMS can help pry open more business in other services from newer clients. Like in the case of UK-based pharma major AstraZeneca, with which HCL Technologies first won a five-year contract to maintain data centers in 60 locations and later expanded the relationship to implementing cloud computing solutions. IMS brings 28% of the business, engineering services 18%, BPO 10% and custom applications development 25%. This, too, is both its strength and vulnerability.
Navigating Change
"HCL has all eggs in two baskets — IMS and engineering services. BPO is a drag and applications services and it doesn't account for much," points out Viswanathan. "HCL has played the market share gaining game well for the last 2-3 years. But Gupta has to show that HCL can expand into new markets." Customers are now demanding more from offshore vendors.
Says Phaneesh Murthy, CEO, iGate: "Vendors can no longer get away with junior kids on the block being billed per hour and learning at the client's expense. Companies need a sales force that can have conversations around business value." Murthy also argues that the industry needs to pitch new ideas to customers rather than grab business from each other. "There has been a clear trend of companies winning deals from each other. Such deals may contribute to a company's growth but not to the industry per se," he says.
"Companies now need to be innovative, invest in IP-led solutions and offer ways in which technology can handle business challenges."
HCL has to be quick to respond to customer needs
Murthy's pitch is not too different from Gupta's book idea on new sourcing strategies. "We see a convergence of social, mobile, cloud and analytics. Mom-andpop shops will do the individual components. The key is using social media, mobile capability and use high-speed analytics to deliver results over the cloud," says Gupta.
Even as Gupta charts a new 'convergence' course, he realises that HCL has to be quick to respond to customer needs. Says Gartner's Iyengar: "Customers don't want to know the outcome of data analytics a month or two later, but in 24-72 hours. From project managers, they (IT workers) now have to wear hats of real-time business intelligence providers." Gupta has to navigate that change, but he can do so from a position of strength. Angel Broking's Somani sums it up well. "Gupta has nothing to worry about at least for the next two quarters, given the pipeline of orders HCL has. He has time on his side."


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Atlanta Braves vs. Detroit Tigers - 9/30/16 MLB Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Detroit Tigers (85-73) at Atlanta Braves (65-92)
MLB Baseball: Friday, September 30, 2016 at 7:35 pm (Turner Field)
J Zimmermann (9-6) (4.88) vs. Matt Wisler (7-12) (4.85)
The Line: Atlanta Braves +140 / Detroit Tigers -150 --- Over/Under: 9 See the Latest Odds
Headed our way from Turner Field in MLB action on Friday, the Detroit Tigers and the Atlanta Braves will be kicking off their weekend series.
The Tigers are coming off a four-game set with the Indians. Detroit dropped the first game but won the next two. On Thursday, the finale was postponed due to bad weather. If necessary, the game will be played on Monday.
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As for the Braves, they just finished up against the Phillies. Atlanta won the first two games of that set, and on Thursday, Atlanta took a 5-2 victory to finish off the sweep.
Pitching for the Tigers on Friday will be RHP Jordan Zimmermann. In his 18 games, 17 starts and 9-6 record, Zimmermann has put up a 4.88 ERA with a 1.36 WHIP in 101.1 innings. In three innings against the Royals his last time out, Zimmermann gave up four hits and one earned.
It's easy to find the big hitters in the Detroit lineup. Miguel Cabrera has logged 182 hits with 89 runs, 36 homers and 105 RBI. Ian Kindler holds 175 hits with 116 runs, 27 homers and 81 RBI. Victor Martinez has hit 160 times with 65 runs, 27 homers and 86 RBI.
Over on the Braves' side, we'll be seeing RHP Matt Wisler on Friday. Over 26 games, 26 starts and a 7-12 record this season, Wisler owns a 4.86 ERA with a 1.30 WHIP in 152 innings. In a no-decision against the Marlins his last time out, Wisler put up six innings with two hits and two earned.
The Braves have a few notable hitters of their own. Freddie Freeman has bagged 177 hits with 101 runs, 33 homers and 88 RBI. Nick Markakis holds 160 hits with 66 runs and 88 RBI. Ender Inciarte has hit 151 times with 83 runs and 29 RBI for Atlanta.
The Tigers are 4-1 in their last five inter-league games, and 4-1 in their last five Friday games. Detroit is also 19-7 in their last 26 game ones of a series, and 5-2 in Zimmerman's last seven starts during game one of a series.
As for the Braves, they're 4-1 in their last five game ones of a series, and 7-22 in their last 29 inter-league games. Atlanta is also 3-14 in their last 17 inter-league home games, and 4-1 in Wisler's last five starts.
Detroit is clearly the better team here, but I think Wisler will come out and pitch pretty well to keep it relatively close. That said, I'm going Tigers all the way in the opener.


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York reject Donaldson bid
By Alex Dunn
Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
York City have rejected a six-figure bid from Accrington for Clayton Donaldson.
Conference promotion hopefuls York City have rejected a six-figure bid from Accrington for leading goalscorer Clayton Donaldson.
The 22-year-old has enjoyed a fine season thus far this term, with his 18 goals attracting interest from further up the football pyramid.
Peterborough have already had a bid in the region of £100,000 rejected, for a player whose existing contract expires in the summer.
Accrington had hoped to tempt York into a sale with the offer of a significant fee, plus a player, but they have been told categorically that Donaldson is not for sale.
An Accrington club statement read: "The initial five-figure offer, together with a player, was turned down and although Stanley were prepared to move upwards York were clearly intent on keeping the leading Conference goalscorer at the KitKat Crescent."
Wolves, Hibernian and Scunthorpe have all in the past been credited as holding an interest in the former Hull striker.
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Clara City woman hurt in Tuesday morning crash
CLARA CITY -- A Clara City woman was taken by ambulance to Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar after a one-vehicle rollover crash around 7:40 a.m. this morning northwest of Clara City.
According to the Chippewa County Sheriff's office, Faye Harms was driving a convertible, hit the shoulder and ditch along County Road 13 and then crossed the intersection of County Road 3 and the vehicle overturned end over end.
The Clara City Fire Department was called to extricate Harms from the vehicle. She was transported by the Clara City Ambulance. The State Patrol also responded to the crash.


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I heard the President say one day that he should be judged by the people that he surounded himself with. I don't agree. Some of the people I surround myself with are absolutely wonderful, but there are those that I deal with who have intentions I don't want accorded to me. I keep remembering that I worked in a prison, and I don't want to be judged by the morals or motives of the people around me.
I would rather be judged by the books I surround my self with. Most of the time when a book does not have ideas or content I want to be associated with, it doesn't stay in my library long. I refer to some books often because I value their wisdom or insight. Some I read over and over because a character is so enchanting. Some I pick up because I haven't read all the poems or I just want to hear them again.
This is something my mother taught me, but it didn't take much effort on her part to impress on me the value of books, especially ones that lead me to dream or inspire or, sometimes, just enjoy.


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Motel armed robbery accused to front court
A man charged over an armed robbery at a Wodonga motel is due to face court today.
Police say a man holding a knife entered a room at the Twin City Motor Inn on Melbourne Road on Sunday.
It is alleged he punched a man in the face before threatening him with the knife and stealing a prescription drug.
Police arrested a 26-year-old Wodonga man yesterday morning.
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The Ten Commandments According to Francis
Posted by Oakes Spalding on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2016
I have obtained a draft version. Sources tell me that the New Decalogue will be promulgated soon after the four cardinals are beheaded.
1. I am the LORD your Pope: you shall not heed strange Popes before me.
2. You shall not take Yes or No questions to me.
3. Remember the late 1960's and keep them holy.
4. Please report dissident relatives to the proper authorities.
5. You shall not discard that which can be re-used.
6. Life is complicated.
7. Let it go.
8. You shall bear false witness against your neighbor if it favors the progressive cause.
9. You want American cigarettes? You want woman? You want man?
10. The powers not expressly delegated to the Pope by this document are nevertheless reserved to him. See 1.
By Francisco I with Victor Manuel Fernández, Feast of Che Guevaro, anno Bergoglio 4.


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Short and sweet, this 16-second video promo from Secured Self Storage has all the elements of Halloween. It features moody music, animated Jack-O-Lanterns and a message scroll that works as a template for Secured's three facilities. This spot happens to showcase the Salida, Calif., location.


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By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 11, 2007
At Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, students can't just randomly stroll out to their cars to fetch a textbook or some other forgotten item. They need a pass because authorities worry about what might be stashed in the parking lot.
At McKinley Technology High School in the District, students are banned from listening to iPods during lunch. But much to their mystification, they are allowed to watch ESPN or "The Maury Show" on the television hanging from the cafeteria ceiling.
"We can watch people fight on TV about who's the baby's father, but we just can't listen to our music. That's kind of weird," said Letia Childs, 15, a McKinley sophomore. "When we listen to our iPod, that's our world. It's calming. Everyone gets rowdy when they watch Maury. Sometimes, in our own way, we just want to do our own thing, but we're limited."
A culture of control has Washington area campuses in an ever-tightening grip, many students say, extending beyond the long-standing restrictions on provocative clothing, cellphone use and class-time bathroom visits. Akin to the omnipresent "helicopter parents," these students say, are helicopter administrators who home in on their smallest moves, no matter how guileless or mundane.
Some administrators acknowledge that the list of rules meant to ban, limit or deter potentially inappropriate or dangerous actions is steadily growing.
"Where to start? It's getting huge," said Linda Wanner, a Blair assistant principal. "The word of the day is prevention. We're on high alert all the time." It's a result, experts say, of the many pressures on those who lead a modern campus with anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 teenagers and the potential for violence or a lawsuit around every hallway corner.
But teenagers, nothing if not skilled in the art of asserting their adulthood, say the accumulation of these little laws can be the most frustrating part of their high school experience. They feel micromanaged and nitpicked at every turn.
The rules are especially maddening when one school prohibits something that another allows. Or when the rules contradict themselves and students can't tell which one they should obey. Jerome DeMarchi, a McKinley assistant principal, said iPods are forbidden because they are easily stolen valuables.
At Forest Park Senior High School in Prince William County, students sought to rejuvenate Spirit Week with funky themes. They were over Twin Day, so they proposed Bling Day, which gave school officials visions of property -- i.e., pricey necklaces -- getting snatched at school. So that idea was a bust. Then students dreamed up Salad Dressing Day -- cowboy garb for ranch, togas for Caesar, Hawaiian shirts for Thousand Island.
Yes, even Salad Dressing Day was cut, for reasons that remain mysterious to some students.
School officials say they are more risk-averse than ever in a security-conscious era. They can face wrathful parents, legal threats and, worst of all, the specter of a school shooting.
Compounding the pressure, the federal No Child Left Behind law holds schools accountable for not only performance but also safety, requiring states to report the number of "persistently dangerous" schools. Even when there's only slight potential for harm, schools implement ordinances that seem inexplicable to students. At Blair, students hate being ordered to remove backpacks from cafeteria tables at lunch. "I can't think of a reason for it," said Spencer Bonar, 16.
"It's for hygienic purposes," said Wanner, the assistant principal. And about that rule that requires permission and a solid reason to go to the parking lot? "There could be any number of things out there, like alcohol," Principal Phillip Gainous said.
If students feel that the climate is suffocating, so do principals. Gerald N. Tirozzi, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, based in Reston, said school systems are frequently hard-pressed to find candidates for principal openings because those who take on the job are more accountable than ever for test scores, campus safety and much more.
"A lot of principals are on pins and needles. We have one or two school shootings, and suddenly everyone wants zero tolerance. Principals are overly sensitive to the students who are in their charge," Tirozzi said. "You've got one group of parents who want you to be more liberal and another group of parents who want you to be ultra-conservative."
Sometimes, tighter enforcement of old rules creates new controversy. At Blair, students have been steaming this year about a crackdown on tardiness. If they are just a few seconds late for class, they must attend detention or an academic support class during lunch or after school.
Blair students say they are still trying to figure out a way around that rule, but they have perfected strategies for dealing with a slew of others. Annie Ropeik, 16, a junior, hates when a school official asks her whether she used a pay phone or her cellphone to call her mother to pick her up when she's sick. Cellphone calls are verboten.
Telling the truth could get her cellphone confiscated. To avoid a lie, Ropeik said, she says nothing and simply walks out of school and gets into her mom's car.
"But the next morning, you bring in a note with your parents' number and signature, saying 'Please excuse Annie for the afternoon. Yesterday she was ill,' " Ropeik said. "They call the number, talk to your parents and it goes down as an excused absence."
Her mother, Jan Shauer, who volunteers at Blair, would prefer that she follow rules more closely. "I am fine with it, except for that she's breaking the rule," Shauer said. "I say to her, 'You're not supposed to be using your cellphone, and if they take it away, I'm not getting it.' "
Inevitably, students chatter about the injustice of a prohibition and the supposedly unreasonable reasons behind it. But often, the student version of a disputed event is much more sensational than an administrator's explanation.
Take the Salad Dressing Day imbroglio. Students at Forest Park have stewed for several weeks, alleging that administrators rejected the idea this year out of a concern that people would come as ranch dressing, dolled up in western gear and armed with plastic guns, which, of course, are not a permissible accessory.
Administrators say Salad Dressing Day fizzled because the sophomore class was going to wear togas to depict Caesar dressing. That outfit is a perk reserved for seniors on a certain day of the year, said teacher and student council adviser Patricia Walsh; administrators were seeking to preserve the tradition of that senior-only privilege. Walsh waved off other explanations for the veto.
"Kids talk about everything, and they come up their own reasoning," Walsh said, "but they only came up with Thousand Island and ranch, and the sophomores and freshmen couldn't think of other ones."
Students cannot pinpoint how they came to think that administrators were worried about potentially fearsome ranch dressing costumes. But Lenise Phillips, 17, a senior, believed the student theory. "Students, they look for things that make them feel like victims," she said. "After you find out about something like that, you get angry and you talk about how ridiculous it is. It makes good conversation."
Gary Alonso, an administrative assistant at Forest Park, tried to broker a resolution, but his idea fell flat. "I suggested Suit-and-Tie Day," he said.
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Paul Giamatti in Talks to Play SPIDER-MAN 2's RHINO
In case you thought the comic book movie casting process had become too predictable, this might change your mind: Paul Giamatti is in talks to play Rhino in the 2014 Amazing Spider-Man sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.A bulky, powerful, dim-witted villain and Russian immigrant, Giamatti would seemingly be playing against both personality and body type for the role — likely suggesting a fairly thorough revisiting of the character, similar to what Jamie Foxx has stated is in store for his role of Electro. Giamatti, who played comic book writer Harvey Pekar in 2003's American Splendor film, has expressed his admiration for the character in the past. He was quoted in Showbiz Spy in 2011 as saying, "If they ever go with The Rhino I would be ready and waiting." THR further reports that Felicity Jones, an English actress who earned acclaim for her part in 2011's Like Crazy, is also negotiating for a role. The part is currently unspecified, but there are many female characters in Spider-Man's world beyond the already-cast Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and Mary Jane (Shailene Woodley, reportedly) that could be possibilities — Felicia Hardy/Black Cat, maybe? One of Spider-Man's longest-tenured villains, Rhino first appeared in 1966's Amazing Spider-Man #41, and was created by Stan Lee and John Romita. The Amazing Spider-Man sequel, with director Marc Webb and stars Andrew Garfield (Peter Parker/Spider-Man) and Emma Stone all returning, is scheduled for release on May 2, 2014. More from Newsarama:
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- Tenets of Prayer -
powerful salves for incurable wounds . . . written by the monk Gregory of Narek Monastery
- Prayer 1 -
The voice of a sighing heart
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My heavy laden soul . . . how can I describe you?
- Prayer 3 -
A new book of psalms sings with urgency through me
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There is no putting off the day of judgement
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My lawlessness is always defeated
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My sins are more numerous than the sands on the shore
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A teardrop of remorse sends the entire evil platoon into retreat
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What will you do, my lost soul? Where will you hide?
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My iniquities outweigh Mount Ararat
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Faith, that happy and favored word
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I, who was broken, am restored
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I long not so much for the gifts as for the Giver (Bedtime Prayer)
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Three persons, one mystery, separate faces, unique and distinct
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You brought joy to the gloomy heart
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You were called "Shepherd," not only did You care, You sought
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Great mystery, remember me, with mercy rather than legalisms
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Tormented by bitter grief, I pray to You, Keeper of imperiled souls
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Prayer of Healing – Hear the prayers of my embattled heart for mercy, when I cry to you, "Lord," in my time of need
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Cleanse the temple of my body, the vessel of my soul
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Lord, O Lord, who bears no grudges
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Since I of my own will mortgaged myself to death
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I continue to accuse my cursed soul – like a talking horse with a callous mouth, breaking my reins and shaking off my bit
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Treat my like a physician, rather than examining me like a judge
- Prayer 24 -
What am I worthy to ask of you in prayer?
- Prayer 25 -
The ways of my life are like the waves of the sea, my soul tossing in this world upon countless, endless swells
- Prayer 26 -
I lay open the grief of my soul, which is not totally dead to the world, but is not fully alive to God in poetry neither especially hot, or particularly cold
- Prayer 27 -
Indeed this "I have sinned" is a blessed phrase for the heart set on hope
- Prayer 28 -
I have all earthly ills and thus can serve as an emissary offering prayers for the whole world (Prayer for protection from illness of body and spirit)
- Prayer 29 -
You remain in all things infinite and unexaminable, good in all things, having no part in the wrath of darkness
- Prayer 30 -
Two impulses in one heart, one of doubtful hope, the other of certain doom
- Prayer 31 -
The soul's every movement is a reminder of God
- Prayer 32 -
O totally generous God, whose patience never ends, hear me though I cause you bitterness
- Prayer 33 -
Let the perfume, the bouquet of this book of confessions be redoubled and affect multitudes
- Prayer 34 -
Here is my profession of faith – the creed of the co-existing Holy Trinity, the rule of life and grace of salvation
- Prayer 35 -
How can our dances and songs of joy do honor to even one drop of your goodness?
- Prayer 36 -
No matter how great the mounting debt of my sins, the saving grace of your trials is greater by far
- Prayer 37 -
Melt the ice of despair
- Prayer 38 -
The spiritual life that liberates those born into the light through our Lord Jesus in baptism
- Prayer 39 -
I am a living book, a scroll listing lamentations, moaning and woe
- Prayer 40 -
Hear the sound of my sighs and the terror of imagined perils to come
- Prayer 41 -
Before the dawning of the uneclipsed rays of Your glorious mercy, sins melt away
- Prayer 42 -
Lord God of compassion, salvation and mercy, remember me, when You go to Your Kingdom
- Prayer 43 -
To heal our spiritual wounds, You do not need ointments, nor time, nor intermediaries, nor the passing of days
- Prayer 44 -
Boundless God, direct son of God, light who took human form like us, but are in essence like Him who send You
- Prayer 45 -
Now, confess, my ruined soul with hope in your heart for salvation
- Prayer 46 -
Behold, you were formed like an angel . . . O fool, why did you choose to be earthbound?
- Prayer 47 -
Clothe me, a lawless sinner, merciful and unvengeful God, with the clothes of my former innocence
- Prayer 48 -
Reflections on Solomon
- Prayer 49 -
God of light for all, do not let iniquity rule me
- Prayer 50 -
I, an exact picture of mankind, here mix their sins with my own
- Prayer 51 -
The Psalms were songs of everything for the pure in heart: a testament of life, written for all people
- Prayer 52 -
The venerable voices of the prophets, foretold the liberating mission of your blessed coming
- Prayer 53 -
You are offered in the divine mystery and distributed in indivisiable parts by the faith of those who confess to you
- Prayer 54 -
A horse does not go straight without someone at the reins . . . may this book remain as a guide for repentance . . . its letters like my body, its message like my soul
- Prayer 55 -
On the wings of my soul I have soared through endless generations of mankind
- Prayer 56 -
The agents of death . . . my sinister heart, my gossiping mouth
- Prayer 57 -
Accept this meager confession of my innumerable sins, you who see everything in its totality
- Prayer 58 -
Merciful heavenly ruler, work a miracle upon me divinely
- Prayer 59 -
Do not let your mercies be meted out in mortal measure
- Prayer 60 -
Daily seek the comfort of the familiar scolding voice of the Psalms
- Prayer 61 -
To what end should I receive the Psalms when they condemn me in unison
- Prayer 62 -
Add to the Psalms passages from the Prophets
- Prayer 63 -
By these great signs, You have foretold the rescue of long lost sinners by the caring art of Your love
- Prayer 64 -
In everything and toward everything you are upright, O God
- Prayer 65 -
I foremost among the impious have dared to say what is unspeakable: I have boasted of my humiliations
- Prayer 66 -
Whoever believes in the healing prayers of this humble book, praying sincerely, I too will join with my words
- Prayer 67 -
Look at me, I am unworthy of good, undeserving of favor, a broken palm tree, spilled wine
- Prayer 68 -
Recalling Your stern wrath . . . how can the flow of tears from my eyes be dried?
- Prayer 69 -
In the crucible of your love I am daily refined, but never purified
- Prayer 70 -
Reflections on the Old Testament Patriarchs
- Prayer 71 -
Reflections on the Saints
- Prayer 72 -
Reflections on Monastic Brotherhood
- Prayer 73 -
Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, only you can turn the discouragement of blame into joyous praise
- Prayer 74 -
You visit where there is no exit. Your greatness is clear where you cure the wound of despair.
- Prayer 75 -
Reflections on the Armenian Church . . . that the extent of her venerable glory might be told to the nations
- Prayer 76 -
Author of that new and amazing law of life: to do good to those who hate
- Prayer 77 -
Reflections on Good Friday
- Prayer 78 -
The time has run out for paying my debts, so turn Your face toward me, when I am in pain, You who lighten the darkness for the disheartened.
- Prayer 79 -
How shall I be consoled when my hope is cut short?
- Prayer 80 -
Prayer to the Holy Mother of God
- Prayer 81 -
Prayer to the Angels
- Prayer 82 -
Prayer to the Holy Apostles
- Prayer 83 -
Root out the vile ways of this world and plant the good in me and the world
- Prayer 84 -
Heavenly monarch, exalted king, cause of being and shaper of the future
- Prayer 85 -
Strengthen me, Lord, in my courageous labors to fight the good fight
- Prayer 86 -
Reflections on our earthly nature
- Prayer 87 -
If I reach old age, having been guided by you to a worthy death, do not abandon me in my frailty
- Prayer 88 -
Bless and sanctify the letters of this book of lamentation . . .this book will cry out in my place, with my voice, as if it were me
- Prayer 89 -
A Prayer of Glory and Thanksgiving
- Prayer 90 -
Benedictions upon those who pray this prayer book
- Prayer 91 -
Stand guard over me with your heavenly host that I might fall asleep and awaken anew with the grace of your joy
- Prayer 92 -
A Prayer of Instruction on the wooden bell that calls us to worship, symbol of the trumpet on the day of Judgment
- Prayer 93 -
A Prayer of Instruction on the Holy Chrism, the light-giving oil of consecration
- Prayer 94 -
Eternal God, almighty, doer of good . . . who with your ingenious wisdom turns the darkness of death into morning (Prayer for Protection against Evil)
- Prayer 95 -
Sun of justice, ray of blessings, form of light, cherished desire
- Colophon -
Prayer 80
Speaking with God from the Depths of the Heart
And now, after all this despair
and terrible heartbreak,
angry reprimands and divine wrath,
with a soul completely tormented by grief,
I pray to you, Holy Mother of God,
herald to mankind, angel in bodily form,
heavenly queen,
pure as air, clean as light,
clear as the image of the sun at its height,
higher than the forbidden dwelling place of the
holy of holies,
place of the blessed covenant, a breathing Eden,
tree of immortality, guarded by a fiery sword,
strengthened and protected by the exalted Father,
prepared and purified by the Holy Spirit that
rested upon you,
adorned by the Son who dwelt
in you as his tabernacle,
only Son of the Father, and for you the first born,
your Son by birth, and your Lord by creation,
together with your unsoiled purity, spotless goodness,
together with your immaculate holiness,
guardian intercessor.
Receive these prayers from me, who believe in you.
Together with my ode to you
offer and present them to God as your own.
Weave and mix into your prayers of happiness
and adoration the bitter sighs that I, a sinner, utter,
you, who are the tree of life bearing the blessed fruit,
so that always receiving help from you and through your
good deeds, and taking refuge in the light of your
holy motherhood,
I may live for Christ, your Son and Lord.
Assist me on your wings of prayer,
you, proclaimed Mother of all the living,
so that my departure from this earthly valley
may be without torment, leading to life in the lodgings
you have prepared,
that my death might be light,
though I am weighed down by iniquity.
Make the day of my anguish a festive holiday,
you, healer of the sorrow of Eve.
Speak on my behalf, beg and beseech for my sake,
for as I believe your purity is beyond words,
I also believe in the power of your words.
Blessed among women, I am in trouble.
Help me with your tears.
Ask on bended knee for my reconciliation,
Mother of God.
Care for me who am miserable, altar of the exalted.
Lend me a hand, for I have fallen, heavenly temple.
Glorify your Son,
by performing upon me the divine miracle of
mercy and pardon, handmaid and Mother of God.
Magnify your honor through me,
and my salvation will be manifested through you
if you find me, Madonna,
if you pity me, blessed among women,
if you rescue me in my waywardness,
immaculate one,
if you care for me in my fear, happy one,
if you lift my head bowed in shame, good grace,
if you intercede for me in my despair,
ever Holy Virgin,
if you include me in my rejection, exalted of God,
if you show me kindness, undoer of malice,
if you steady me in my doubt, repose,
if you calm my anxiety, pacifier,
if you show me the way from which
I have strayed, praised one,
if you appear before the tribunal for me,
vanquisher of death,
if you mellow my bitterness, sweetness,
if you eliminate my separation from God,
if you lift away my uncleanness, you who
stamp out corruption,
if you save me in my condemnation, living light,
if you cut off the sound of my wailing, bliss,
if you restore me, for I am broken, salve of life,
if you look upon me in my ruin, you filled
with the Spirit,
if you visit me with compassion, legacy given us.
You alone shall be on the pure lips of happy tongues.
Indeed if but a drop of your virgin milk
were to rain on me, it would give me life,
Mother of our exalted Lord Jesus,
creator of heaven and earth,
whom you bore complete in humanity and
total in divinity,
who is glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
uniting his essence and our nature in a manner beyond human understanding.
He is all and in all, one of the Holy Trinity.
To him glory, forever and ever.
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1 ...... Heb. 9:7.
2 ...... Gen. 12:7, Gen. 2:8.
3 ...... Gen. 3:24.
4 ...... Lk. 1:35.
5 ...... Jn. 1:14.
6 ...... Lk. 2:7.
7 ...... St. Gregory wrote an Ode to the Mother of God in 984.
8 ...... Lk. 1:42.
9 ...... Gen. 3:20.
10 ...... Jn. 14:2-3.
11 ...... Gen. 3:16.
12 ...... Jn. 2:3-5.
13 ...... Lk. 1:42-43.
14 ...... Lk. 1:38.
15 ...... Jn. 19:27.
16 ...... Col. 3:11.


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HBO2 will air one episode from the series in order for the next 24 Saturdays, starting at 8 p.m. EDT/PDT tonight. It's the first time I can remember that HBO has shown the series in its entirety, and it's a great opportunity to meet the Henricksons if you've yet to make their acquaintance.
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Looking for some fun or casual games for Android to pass the time? With thousands to choose from on the Google Play Store finding good quality games can sometimes be a challenge. With that in mind below we've round up some of the best games to keep you entertained at work or sitting on the subway.
Obviously everyone likes something a little different, and a game like Clash of Clans can be considered fun and casual gaming for some, or hardcore to others. As a result this list will have a good variety of content for anyone and everyone.
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We won't be listing Candy Crush or typical games like that, and instead focus on those hidden gems or apps most don't know about. Everything from our list below has great graphics, is fun or addicting, and worth giving a try in your spare time. These are some of my favorite Android games.
Most casual Android games are the ones you can pickup and play in seconds and are easy. They're also great time wasters at work, or when you have a free moment. Gamers also want to be challenged, so these will do exactly that. We even have a few titles that you'll need to play for months on end, or years, to finally complete.
Again, everyone has their own preference, and what may be extremely fun to others isn't remotely appealing to someone else. As a result we've gathered some simple yet addictive and casual games that you absolutely have to try.
There's a little of something for everyone here. Whether you want to play for a few minutes waiting for the bus, or check on a village or plants multiple times a day for months on end and build (or grow) an empire. There are far too many excellent games to list, but below are 10, as well as some honorary mentions that are also worth checking out.
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You won't find Angry Birds, Candy Crush or Temple Run in this list. Instead, these are other games that are just as good or better, yet something you've probably never tried. Many are new or were released in 2015, but are still the best options available today. Get ready to blow through your smartphone battery playing some of the games below. Let's get started.
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First off we'll start with an awesome game Alto's Adventure, which arrived on Android earlier this year. It saw huge success on iOS, and was released for Android on February 11th. This is an endless runner style game similar to Temple Run, but you'll be snowboarding down huge mountains, collecting gear, running into llamas, and having a blast. It's hard to explain, so watch the launch trailer.
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Louisiana State gave Matt Flynn all the help he needed to be successful, and toyed with Miami before dealing the Hurricanes their most lopsided...
ATLANTA — Louisiana State gave Matt Flynn all the help he needed to be successful, and toyed with Miami before dealing the Hurricanes their most lopsided bowl loss.
Flynn threw two touchdown passes, Joseph Addai rushed for 130 yards and the No. 10 Tigers humbled Miami's proud defense, even running a couple of fake kicks after the game was a rout, romping 40-3 in the Peach Bowl on Friday night.
Trash-talking between players grew into a postgame brawl in a Georgia Dome tunnel.
Larry Coker, coach of No. 9 Miami, said two of his players were knocked unconscious.
There were shoves and punches between players immediately after the game as the teams left the field by the same tunnel. Georgia State Patrol officers intervened, and minutes later Miami's Andrew Bain, apparently dazed, was escorted by officers back out of the tunnel.
Coker said Bain and Miami's Khalil Jones were knocked unconscious, and the coach said no players were detained by police. No players were hospitalized.
"I don't know what happened, and I don't condone it," Coker said.
LSU's Jacob Hester, who ran for 70 yards and a touchdown said trash-talking, some involving LSU receiver Dwayne Bowe, a Miami native, began as good-natured fun.
"We had a guy who is from Miami who was kidding around with one of his boys," Hester said. "Miami thought it was something serious. They came in the tunnel and they were swinging, but it was just a joke between friends."
After a few minutes, the LSU team was back on the field celebrating the win with fans.
Flynn, a sophomore filling in for injured starter JaMarcus Russell, completed 13 of 22 passes for 196 yards with no interceptions.
"I was just trying to get the ball to the athletes around me," Flynn said.
Flynn also rushed for 39 yards and was named the offensive most valuable player.
"Our players come into the final game of the season with a new quarterback, a very capable quarterback," said LSU coach Les Miles. "I felt they had to control the line of scrimmage for him and find a back who would scrap for yards and play dominant defense, and that's what they did."
Led by Flynn, LSU (11-2) rebounded from its worst game of the year, a 34-14 loss to Georgia in the Dec. 3 Southeastern Conference championship game, returning to the Georgia Dome and delivering one of its strongest performances of the season.
LSU scored on eight straight possessions in a streak that started with a field goal late in the first quarter.
Even with a lopsided lead, LSU attempted to add to the rout, faking a field goal while leading 34-3 late in the third quarter and then failing on a fake punt with a 40-3 lead late in the game.
Miles said he called for the fake field goal but his players called for the fake punt.
Coker wasn't affected by the trickery.
"They can call whatever play they want to," he said. "It is our job to stop it."
LSU piled up 468 yards, the most allowed by Miami this season. The Hurricanes (9-3) entered leading the nation in pass defense and ranked third in total defense.
The Tigers were impressive on defense, holding Miami to 153 yards and six first downs — none in the second half. Kyle Wright completed a mere 10 of 21 passes for 100 yards.
LSU had its largest margin of victory in a bowl game, surpassing its 34-10 win over Wake Forest in the 1979 Tangerine Bowl.
Miami's previous most lopsided loss in a bowl game was a 29-0 loss to Arizona in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1, 1994.


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