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Back in action tonight against the Pelicans at @PhilipsArena! Tickets start at just $12 here: bit.ly/1ty9E8p http://t.co/1vW0KzOfHO
Five things to know about Pelicans on Friday (New Orleans has weekend back-to-back at Atlanta, Washington): on.nba.com/1FBcDDu
Thabo Sefolosha listed as questionable (flu-like symptoms) for Friday's game vs. Pelicans. #ATLHawks
Pelicans coach Monty Williams: Anthony Davis needs 20 shots per game cbsprt.co/125YYas
Flip called tonight a more disappointing loss than the ass-kicking Pelicans laid on them. Interesting to me since they had no PG, no bigs
Mark Cuban wants to move Mavericks, Spurs, Rockets, Pelicans to Eastern Conference dlvr.it/7f6dVb
Mark Cuban's grand plan to get the Mavs -- and Spurs, Rockets and Pelicans -- to the East. es.pn/121EEqA
Eric's Suggestions for the Pelicans' Offense bit.ly/1yijem0 #Pelicans #fb
In order to build a contender around Anthony Davis, the Pelicans may have to get creative, writes @NateDuncanNBA: basketballinsiders.com/nba-am-the-pel…
"NBA Superlatives" with Pelicans F Luke Babbitt (watch clip of his #1 dunk, over Ed Davis): on.nba.com/1ATMfa6 http://t.co/cJptCNOreq
DeMarcus Cousins shot chart (22pts) in #Kings 99-89 win v #Pelicans #NBA #SacKings #KingsTalk @CSNAuthentic @CSNKings htt
Omri Casspi shot chart (22pts) in #Kings 99-89 win vs #Pelicans #NBA #SacKings #KingsTalk @CSNAuthentic @CSNKings http://
Cool stat: Anthony Davis has 44 blocks this season and the #Pelicans have gained possession on 30 of them.
ICYMI, column from last night: #Pelicans @Anthony Davis continues to be shut out of NBA's weekly, monthly honors.bit.ly/1vNDzjN
Please send any questions you would like answered about the Pelicans for this week's Twitter mailbag- J. Fredette, Eric Gordon injury, etc.
Chat about Anthony Davis and the Pelicans' problems sharing the ball with John Reid at 3 p.m. s.nola.com/0a8KYGM via @nolanews
Estadísticas, Box Score Sacramento Kings Vs New Orleans Pelicans: bit.ly/1yffEJ7 #NBA
Observations on Kings v Pelicans bit.ly/1yV8to2 #Pelicans #fb
BTW, Cousins defends Davis when the Pelicans go small with Davis as a center with Anderson at PF.
Kings outplay Pelicans in 2nd half, post 99-89 win, partly by limiting Anthony Davis (14 pts): on.nba.com/1yeCr7X http://t.co/Guu0D1qJbJ
Instant Replay: Kings beat #Pelicans w/out Darren Collison, Rudy Gay bit.ly/1tsuK89 #NBA #SacKings http://t.co/Pb6Ya0GI64
#Pelicans PF Anthony Davis apparently was under the weather tonight. Perhaps that's the reason for his sub-par game.
Column: #Pelicans @Anthony Davis surprisingly still hasn't won player of week or month award. bit.ly/1yetHyJ
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The @Sacramento Kings beat the @New Orleans Pelicans 99-89. Kings are now 9-5 to start a season for 1st time since 2004-05.
Bad loss for the Pelicans tonight -99-89- to Kings. They were without Rudy Gay, Darren Collison, and Coach Mike Malone got ejected in 2Q.
FINAL: Kings 99, Pelicans 89.. Cousins and Casspi with 22 points each to lead the Kings.
Kings beat Pelicans 99-89.
The Sacramento Kings improve to 9-5 on the season, beating the Pelicans on the road 99-89.
Final: Kings 99, #Pelicans 89.
Pelicans out of sync in this fourth quarter. Too many forced shots, bad spacing and not enough touches for Anthony Davis.
#Pelicans have scored just 11 points in fourth quarter with 4:05 remaining.Kings leading 95-81.
Join the @Cowbell_Kingdom Road Reaction Show following the Kings/Pelicans game tonight. shar.es/1XxTRH
Omri Casspi, waived by New Orleans over the summer, has 20 points on 8-12 shooting. Pelicans SFs have 2 points on 1-5.
Stat of the night so far - Ryan Anderson 3/6 from 3-point land, the rest of the Pelicans 0/9.
With 5:25 left, the Kings lead Pelicans 88-81. This game is going to come down to defense. The Pelicans must get stops.
Kings doing a fantastic job by limiting Pelicans bigs. Anthony Davis limited, Omer Asik practically a non-factor
Might be time to put Anthony Davis back in game. Pelicans trailing 85-76 with 8:54 remaining in 4Q.
Pelicans got to get the ball in Anthony Davis' more in the fourth quarter. He scored two points in the third quarter.
Pelicans outscored 26-21 in third quarter. Kings leading 75-70 heading into 4Q.
At the end of 3Q: Kings 75, Pelicans 70.
Seems like just about every possession I've seen in this Pelicans game there's a NO player missing a lob opportunity with Davis.
Pelicans starting center Omer Asik has grabbed six rebounds and has altered some shots tonight.
Casspi and Cousins running the Pelicans ragged in the third. Kings lead 64-57.
#Pelicans @Jrue Holiday picks up PF4 with 9:14 to go 3Q. @Austin Rivers in the game.
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Just like they have been doing for the last couple of years, a WWE 2K14 challenge was held during Wrestlemania 30 week, where various wrestlers participate in a tournament to see who is the best at the video game. This year, Xavier Woods, an avid video game player, won the entire thing. His prize was a championship belt and a Playstation 4.
April 11, 2014
A video created by a WWE fan that showcases the Wrestlemania winning streak of the Undertaker as seen through WWE 2K14.
April 6, 2014
A video of a simulated match on the WWE 2K14 video game featuring Randy Orton, Daniel Bryan and Batista fighting for the heavyweight championship at Wrestlemania 30.
April 5, 2014
A simulated match on the WWE 2K14 video game between Triple H and Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania 30.
April 5, 2014
A video of a simulated match on the WWE 2K14 video game between John Cena and Bray Wyatt at Wrestlemania 30.
April 5, 2014
A video of a simulated match on WWE 2K14 featuring Undertaker and Brock Lesnar, with Paul Heyman roaming the ringside area in hopes that his client is able to put the winning streak to rest.
April 5, 2014
A video of the greatest moments in Wrestlemania history as portrayed in the WWE 2K14 video game. One of the featured spots, as expected, is when Hulk Hogan body slams Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania 3.
April 3, 2014
A fan created this video of a WWE 2K14 simulated match between Manik and Tigre Uno, based on their performance at TNA Lockdown 2014.
March 23, 2014
A video of the Undertaker beating Brock Lesnar in WWE 2K14, which was produced by the company to promote their big match at Wrestlemania 30.
March 20, 2014
Since the game has been out for quite some time now, retailers are reducing the cost of WWE 2K14 down to $39.99. Sales should be assisted greatly by the added interest that Wrestlemania 30 is bringing. Vince McMahon is very adamant about this aspect of the business, as he feels that it draws in the younger viewers that he targets.
March 18, 2014
Alberto Del Rio does the Kofi Kingston entrance in WWE 2K14.
November 16, 2013
Chris Jericho does the Bret Hart entrance in WWE 2K14.
November 16, 2013
Damien Sandow does the comic Santino Marella entrance in WWE 2K14.
November 16, 2013
Daniel Bryan does the Randy Orton entrance in WWE 2K14.
November 16, 2013
JBL does the legendary Steve Austin entrance in the new WWE 2K14 video game.
November 16, 2013
Randy Savage does the CM Punk entrance in WWE 2K14 video game.
November 16, 2013
Wade Barrett does the Miz entrance on WWE 2K14.
November 16, 2013
WWE put together an entertaining video of the Shield doing the 3MB entrance on their new video game.
November 16, 2013
Damien Sandow will not be working live events for WWE this week because the company is sending him to France to promote the new video game.
October 29, 2013
When WWE was releasing employees left and right due to the forced budget cuts, there were several rumors floating around backstage. One of the stronger ones was that management would release Lilian Garcia and Tony Chimel. The idea was to replace them with someone younger and cheaper. Fortunately for the two of them, the release never took place, and they appear to be safe for the time being.
September 6, 2014
For story line purposes, WWE is reporting that Tony Chimel has suffered a concussion after being slapped by Alicia Fox, the diva who is currently working a story where her character is frustrated with all of the losing that she has endured over the last year. Alicia even mentioned on Twitter that she has sent him flowers. Chimel is actually fine.
May 15, 2014
In a rather interesting segment at a WWE live event in England, ring announcer Tony Chimel kicked Curtis Axel in the gut and delivered a Stone Cold Stunner.
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Final Score: Vancouver 8, Colorado 2
Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Henrik Sedin recorded his first career hat trick, and Roberto Luongo made 32 saves, as the Vancouver Canucks crushed the Colorado Avalanche, 8-2, in a battle between divisional foes at Pepsi Center.
Steve Bernier added a pair of goals for the Canucks, who snapped a three-game skid in convincing fashion. Tanner Glass, Mathieu Schneider, and Jannik Hansen each had a goal and an assist while Mason Raymond and Ryan Johnson each had three assists for Vancouver, which had been outscored 11-3 during its skid.
"It's always nice to get it. It's a little late after playing so many games. It's always nice to get a hat trick," said Sedin of his hat trick.
Matt Hendricks and Marek Svatos each lit the lamp for the Avalanche, who have lost three consecutive contests and five of seven. Craig Anderson stopped 18- of-22 shots before being pulled after two periods. Peter Budaj turned aside 4- of-8 shots in the third stanza.
"They outworked us in all aspects of the game. They got on us early and we can't let that happen. We have to be ready to play, and we weren't and it showed. From top to bottom we have to be better," said Colorado forward Paul Stastny.
Sedin got the Canucks offense going with a pair of goals in the first period. The former first-round pick lit the lamp at the 1:57 and 7:09 marks to give Vancouver a quick 2-0 lead. Hansen's score with 9:01 left made it a 3-0 game.
The only scoring of the second period came when Schneider tallied at the 8:22 mark for a 4-0 lead.
Colorado netted a pair of goals to begin the third to cut the gap to two. Svatos lit the lamp on the power play at 5:52, and Hendricks scored with 9:08 remaining.
Vancouver responded in a big way, scoring the final four goals over the last 8:43 of the tilt.
After Bernier found the back of the net, Sedin completed his hat trick with 7:07 to play while on the man advantage. Bernier scored again with 2:24 to go, while Glass capped the scoring in the final minute.
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The Avs got forward Milan Hejduk and defenseman Tom Preissing back from injuries on Saturday. Hejduk had missed the last two games due to a back injury, while Preissing (knee surgery) made his season debut...Colorado notched a 3-0 victory at home over Vancouver on October 3, but the Canucks repaid the favor with a 3-0 home win on November 1.


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As the evening's discussion made clear, our previous presentation of the whys and wherefores of the design was well understood. In response to questions and suggestions at the October 7 meeting, a number of new exhibits were submitted. The new elevations and sketches were submitted to better show the appearance of the rear of the building, complete with landscaping vegetation. We also eliminated two of the four doors to the terrace in favor of windows.
Other exhibits demonstrated the undesirable effect of lowering the roof height, both in external appearance and on interior features, including a lower ceiling height and its effect on the proposed cross beams.
Finally, we submitted charts detailing calculations of the volume of the structures, a list of Massachusetts Architectural Access Board requirements that require waivers of the need to make renovations to the sanctuary, and many photographs of other buildings in the historic district, to provide the context for the HDC's determination of whether or not the proposed design is appropriate.
Contrary to arguments in correspondence printed in the media, the new Stearns Room will not be larger than the sanctuary. The volume calculations, which reflect the size of buildings, and not merely the square footage on the ground, show that the white church has a mass of 56,560 cubic feet, and the new Stearns Room will be 35,448 cubic feet. As they stand now, the existing buildings total 83,432 cubic feet, and the new complex will be 92,008 cubic feet, an increase of 10.2%.
Because the new Stearns Room will remain much lower in height than the sanctuary, and be set back by a connector section, it will much more effectively emphasize the primacy of the white church, and it will present an attractive and welcoming primary entrance for all people.
We are pleased to have received these two approvals from the HDC, and will now proceed to request site plan approval from the Planning Board. As we said at the hearing, this has been a long and arduous process for all concerned, and we know that there have been many improvements to the design along the way. We look forward to this better design making a significant improvement in the structure for our congregation, and in the appearance of the Historic District.
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There is a quiet buzz building, just behind some door, a gathering horde of holiday festivities. When their bonds are loosed we will be swept along, in a mix of terror and glee, until we find ourselves spent and a little disheveled sometime around the middle of January.
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There is a quiet buzz building, just behind some door, a gathering horde of holiday festivities. When their bonds are loosed we will be swept along, in a mix of terror and glee, until we find ourselves spent and a little disheveled sometime around the middle of January.
In the meantime, in the chill and quietude of mid-November, we stop and think a moment about what this all means. For many of us, the holidays are deeply about home- about returning home, about creating home, and about finding a home. The holiday rituals and traditions that we employ, quirky though they may be, connect us to our sense of home in the past and, we hope, offer some meaningful connection to the future.
We are all, in some sense, prodigal daughters and sons. We so often find ourselves far from home, disjointed and disconnected, on the outside looking in, standing apart from the flow of life and from ourselves. We knock on doors, and wander down alleyways. The holidays, we hope, offer us a familiar address, and a door that will open to us.
We have faith that there is a home for us in this world, and that each of us in some sense belongs. We pray, Oh Lord, that through your love and grace, little though we may understand it, we can find that place where we are truly known, and embraced, and challenged. We pray for those who wander, and we pray that this holiday season helps bring us home, and in doing so restores us.
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The gift was revealed to me during a two-week vacation trip last June to the national parks of Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Rhoda and I toured the parks in a rented car, and as many of you know so well, the wide diversity of ever-changing views is spectacular.
They proceed one after another, each offering a new panorama of mountains and rolling flat plains, singing brooks and meandering rivers, varieties of shades of green and vivid color displays in thermal baths. But most remarkable was to be both enthralled and embraced, able to drink in the scenes slowly and deliberately, and to be joyful in so doing. It happened every day, and the ability to do it has stayed to this very day.
It seems that the losses of aging, physical and mental, have freed up the ability to be enthralled.
Returning to Lincoln this past summer, I found myself driving our roads slowly, maintaining the habit gained through the strictly enforced – and respectfully followed—low speed limits in Yellowstone, which enable drinking in its natural beauty.
During the first few days at home I noticed cars bunching up behind me, impatiently yearning to push me on.
Throughout the summer I have sat in our back yard again and again and simply celebrated for brief times the panoply of bushes and the swishing, singing hiss of the tall pines we are so fortunate to have at our home.
Much of my prayer of thanks is offered to all of you, our church community, because the spirituality of encounter with the beauty of nature is so much a part of First Parish.
The Earl of Rochester once said, "Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now I have six children and no theories." John Mason Brown once affirmed "Reasoning with a child is fine as long as you can
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The Earl of Rochester once said, "Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now I have six children and no theories." John Mason Brown once affirmed "Reasoning with a child is fine as long as you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own." And an unknown philosopher once commented, "Heredity is what a parent believes in absolutely until his/her child begins to behave like an idiot." Raising children is a humbling topic for everyone.
Anyone who dares speak of it needs to establish some credentials first. Here are mine. My wife and I, together, raised two children who are now adults, and we have five grandchildren. To the best of our knowledge, none of our children or grandchildren is a serial axe murderer yet. None is a mass murderer of any kind. They are not perfect or even nearly perfect, but they are sturdy enough for the lives they lead, which make my credentials on sturdiness as good as any and we all have very modest credentials.
When I talk about sturdiness I mean inner strength. I want children to have the strength to cope with the predictable crises of living. I don't know what perfection would look like in a human being. I believe that success lies only in the eyes of the beholder. I suspect that trying to raise a perfect child or even a successful child is chasing an illusion. What we can do is raise children who can live productively, happily and bravely in a difficult world.
In the service that I use for the naming and dedication of young children I ask the congregation to commit to raising children who are "Aware of the world as it is." It is tempting to write services which dedicate the child to a fantasy life of sweetness and light, but believe me they had also better be ready for the world as it is.
It is a world in which some people will expect them to prove themselves. Others will test them to see if they will defend themselves. Some may try to cheat them. Much as we value the innocence of children, there are real lions and tigers in those jungles they are about to enter, and some pretty difficult people too. They need to be prepared for the world as it is.
This same dedication service speaks of raising children who are also aware of the world "As it ought to be," remembering that one person can make a significant difference if that person has courage as well as good intentions. One person can make a difference if that person is sturdy enough to face what must be faced.
Obviously this is not just a sermon about children. This morning I want to reflect with you on what it means for all of us to be "aware of the world as it is and as it ought to be." I promise you, however that because I also believe that parents and grandparents are the most over-instructed people in the world, I will try to do this without laying down any guilt on those who happen to be raising children now. Instead of rules or instructions, I will speak of six hopes I have for all of our children, and, of course, for all of us.
1. I hope that our children and grandchildren learn to live with some comfort in a world where judgments, evaluations and even rejections do happen to all of us. Sometimes painful judgments can be helpful. I hope our children will be willing to be challenged, and I hope they may discover that if the judgments of others can contain a seed of truth – however disagreeable – that may give them a push they actually need. I would not want them to turn away from every difficulty, just because they find it hard to accept that you can't get an "A" in everything you do.
It seems to me that over the last ten or fifteen years, many parents have gone to one of two extremes, neither of which leads to sturdiness in children. One extreme is to believe children ought to meet the highest standards in every skill they attempt. In fact, our children cannot excel everywhere any more than we can. So, recognizing that the impossible is expected, they give up trying. But the other extreme is to believe that no adverse judgment should ever be made over what children do. This, too, is unrealistic because the goal in life is to learn from or at least cope with evaluations – not to avoid them.
If you saw two people playing tennis, and you observed that they were having difficulty sustaining a volley, would you think it might be helpful to them if you offered to remove the net and erase the lines of the tennis court? Or do you think it is only by working to meet difficult challenges that we begin to taste something of the sweetness of an active life?
My wish for all of our children is that they become sturdy enough to find and use the gifts that have been given specifically to them – the gifts that will enable them to excel at something they enjoy. My wish for all parents and grandparents is that we find the strength to support our children's gifts, the courage to challenge them to find and use their gifts well and the wisdom to know when they have struggled enough.
2. There are however judgments and rejections that we do not learn from but we find the resilience to get beyond them. For example, I suspect many of us have been through the seductive job interview. The person or persons who are interviewing us seem warm and upbeat. The job itself sounds like a day at Disney World. We feel we are at the top of our interviewing game. We go home eagerly awaiting the phone call, but eventually we find they have chosen someone else.
When this happens, it feels like your heart and soul – the essence of your life – has been rejected. But that's not true. You may want to refine your interviewing skills or your resume, but the greater likelihood is that you didn't get the job for reasons that have nothing to do with you as a person. We all have to learn that and learn it well.
Every year when college acceptances or rejections come out, a Boston Globe columnist reprints the same column for high school seniors who have gotten one or more thin envelopes. He writes it's not about you unless you take it that way. A college chooses students who better fit a profile they have or an image they have that has nothing to do with your talent, your abilities or your soul. I hope our children and grandchildren will grow sturdy enough to recognize the truth of the statement that "It's not always about you."
3. Along similar lines, I hope that all of our children will learn to take appropriate responsibility for their inner lives. We've all known people who we say "make" us angry or humble or afraid. Something they do provokes this feeling in us. Sometimes we can stop them from doing it. Often we can avoid them. Some people will even apologize when we explain how their behavior makes us react.
However there are people who will intimidate or belittle or anger or humiliate others from day one until the last day we know them. In a perfect world, we might say that a person who does all of these things should be convinced or forced to apologize and make amends. It rarely happens. And when it doesn't happen, we have a choice either to make that hurt effective by holding on to it, or we can choose to let it go. "Letting it go" means we take responsibility for our emotional life.
There are evaluations and rejections that are painful and personal and meant to be so. But whether or not they tangle up our lives becomes our responsibility.
I also want to say something about the way we react to hurts that were on the past. It is possible that as our children grow to maturity they will spot a mistake or two they now believe we made while raising them. They may even favor us with a report of what they found. Even the children of religious liberals, whose parents worked very hard not to imprint them with any dogmatic values or beliefs, tend to complain that their parents did not imprint them with any dogmatic values or beliefs against which they could rebel. There is no way out. Sooner or later we all come to grips with the fact of having been raised by human beings.
When this happens, the question everyone must answer is, "Now that you believe this mistake was made in your upbringing, what are you going to do about it? No one but you can do much of anything about it now. Only you can change the way you respond to what has happened or to what will happen to you. My third hope is that our children will find some way to prevent their hurts – past, present or future – from defining who they are.
4. And I hope that our children will discover that by themselves they are incomplete. There is a phase in our growing up in which our own life is the highest drama, the most compelling tale and the most sacred story that we or anyone else could ever imagine. Adults who continue to have this exclusively self-focused view of their own lives are called, among other things, "Jerks."
Maturing means recognizing that by ourselves, we are incomplete. We enter and leave this world in the care of others, and we are never really alone no matter how much we imagine otherwise. The joy and laughter that comes our way, the comfort we receive, the confidence we have in our own abilities and the conviction we have that somehow things will come out all right – all of this comes to us because we are completed through our relationships. With maturity comes the realization that without some companionship each person is missing that part of himself/herself that others encourage.
5. I hope our children find a goal for their lives that is greater than their own self-interest or a standard of values they will feel is worth their firmest commitment. It is so easy for well-intentioned folks to be tempted to sell their souls or their integrity for security. It doesn't take much of a devil to complete that transaction.
Under the pressure of events – some ordinary, some threatening – one thing leads to another, and there is a need to make some quick decisions. Most people – if they are sworn to no larger ideal for their lives, if they have no standard of values higher than expedience – most people will make the decision that promises the quickest release from what troubles them the most. After the first expedient decision, after the first mild betrayal of their better judgment, well that act of betrayal becomes easier and easier and easier. May we leave our children with a standard of values they will never be tempted to sacrifice on the altar of convenience.
6. My final wish for our children, our grandchildren and ourselves is that they and we will not stop hoping for a better world or working to make their hope a reality. The great Unitarian reformer, Theodore Parker, once said, "The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." We see the truth of this in the history of our own country. Every major successful reform movement has succeeded because it had the strength to survive the defeats that lay in the path toward acceptance. That is the final form of sturdiness that I wish for all of us.
In a sense, all that I have mentioned is what liberal religion, at its best, should be teaching our children. They are not alone nor are they free of responsibilities to other people. We can hope they gain a rich appreciation for the truth and a healthy optimism about living in the world where there are standards and values and even rejections that are not always easy to live with. We want them to become adults who have taken responsibility for their inner lives, but who recognize nonetheless that they are incomplete without the companionship of others. We want them to live hopeful lives.
We wait and wonder. Sometimes we feel a little helpless, because we know they will have to do some of the most important learning on their own. Watching your own child go through a painful learning experience is one of the most difficult moments of parenting. It may be that this communal sense of helplessness is what gives rise to our bringing our children to church. We are in awe of the mystery of life that evolves within our children as they seek to find their own sturdiness and their own integrity.]]>
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Albert Schweitzer reflects on how "so many people gave me something or were something to me without knowing it." And then he suggests, "If we had before us those who had
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Albert Schweitzer reflects on how "so many people gave me something or were something to me without knowing it." And then he suggests, "If we had before us those who had thus been a blessing to us, and could tell them how it came about, they would be amazed to learn what passed over from their life into ours."
Much of my life has been inspired by gifts that were passed on to me by people who could not have known how important their gift would be. I suspect the same may be true for many of you.
The gift passed on to you may have been a remark made by someone whose respect you coveted, a remark that challenged you and then made a major difference in the direction your life took. It may have been someone who patiently stuck with you at a time when you were just being tedious and difficult. It may have been someone who loved you through a serious illness, or through a depression or a life crisis.
It may have been someone who believed in you when you didn't believe in yourself. It may have been someone who lived generations before all of us but whose art or writing or music occupies a prominent place in our spiritual life. It may have been a parent, a teacher, a coach, a friend, a colleague, a spouse. There are probably several people to whom we owe an immeasurable debt for the specific differences they made in our lives. If we were to thank someone now for having made a tremendous difference in our lives, though they might not have been aware of it, who would we thank?
I remember a social studies teacher who once returned my term paper and said, "I really expected much better from you." And then she carefully explained why the paper had been given a "C". Coming from anyone else that comment would have first wounded me and then made me angry, but because I wanted her approval I pushed myself as I had never done before to do better work.
I learned from that teacher I could set a much higher standard for myself and achieve it, which led me on to college and graduate school. I never got a chance to thank her for pushing me although it was critical to whom I became. I sure she was never aware of how grateful I was and am.
I remember a man I worked for who was actually a terrible employer. He was stubborn always, sometimes irascible and he played favorites outrageously so that you always wondered just where you stood with him. At the same time he had a compelling vision of what a community could be. It was a vision, which inspired me for many years.
He introduced me to Quaker worship, and the theology behind that worship has made an enormous difference in my life. Now he is embarked on what he once called "my last great adventure" and though it is an adventure from which no one ever returns to this life, perhaps some day I will get to thank him, though I am sure he would be surprised at how much appreciation I now feel for what he gave me.
Several years ago at an annual checkup my doctor found a cancerous tumor on the base on my mouth. It required two surgeries which reshaped and repositioned my tongue with the result that for a time I could not speak intelligibly.
I was facing the loss of a career and an income. During the months that followed the surgeries, two speech therapists helped me regain my speech and the courage to speak from the pulpit. They were just doing their jobs. They undoubtedly have helped hundreds of patients and have no way of knowing what a profound difference they made for me.
Throughout this time many members of the First Church in Belmont, which I was then serving, led figurative cheers for me and told me I was improving weekly – whether I was or not –and I have told them how grateful I am.
This is not a sermon about me. It is a sermon about us, and I hope these reflections are bringing some of your own to mind. For example, whoever nurtured your sense of humor gave you the gift of life itself. Humor is what enables all of us to survive. Who was that person? Who ever encouraged you as a learner – your parents, grandparents, a teacher – gave you the gift of competence. Who instilled in you a demand for justice and a sense of injustice? Who loved you into believing in yourself? It may not have been the person you think it should have been, but someone did, and that is something to cherish.
Who first encouraged you to try to love a person outside of your family? However anxious and brief that first loving relationship may have been it was your first step in risking yourself and from that step you probably learned how to do it better.
Who ran along beside your first two-wheel bicycle until you could balance it on your own? Who kept tossing balls to you until you learned to catch them? When you were away from home and desperately homesick, who helped you stay where you were and not give in to the homesickness? When bullies invaded your life, who told you with an authority you could accept that they were not worthy of your time and concern? And who taught you that failures are an inevitable feature on the road to success?
All of these gifts are so incredible in their power to shape who we are and yet so simple and unassuming that they come and go unannounced, and the people who gave them to us probably are not even be aware of what they've done. As Schweitzer put it, "I always think that we live spiritually by what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These hours do not announce themselves as coming but they arrive unexpected. Nor do they make a great show of themselves; they pass almost unperceived."
Some of our gifts are inherent in our individuality. We can't be sure where we got them, but they define who we are and to some extent they define what we can't change about who we are. It is almost as if Creation touched us on the brow and said, "This gift is specifically for you."
Other gifts are different. They pass to us from someone we have known and respected and if we live those gifts well, the great likelihood is that they will move on to someone else who has also been in our life. For example sometimes I can be very dramatic. It is a gift from my grandmother. She was an orphan, and it seems quite possible that as a child she developed her dramatic talents explicitly to get the attention she needed.
It worked so well that her guardians decided to push her forward at a very early age as one of the first child actresses on the Boston stage. Her tendency to dramatize everything was passed on to me, although I am sure it was quite unintentional and, as it turns out, our son, who teaches social studies to seventh graders, has always been praised for his ability to make everything dramatic, make the story come alive — though I never consciously taught him that.
I have no doubt that if I could research my grandmother's side of the family better I would find that the gift that moved on to me extends far back in her family, and the gift which my son has will extend far into the future. We are all afloat in a stream of giving that began farther back than we can imagine and will continue farther into the future than we can even begin to contemplate.
Are you highly intuitive? Do you make friends very easily? Can you be stubborn when you need to be? Do you have an abiding curiosity about things you don't yet know? Do you have a knack for figures? Do you have a passion for putting things right?
I will say it again. There are many qualities which move on to us from people in our past and then they will move from us to people who will be influenced by the way we live. We are part of a stream of life, which contains folks who are no longer living, who are living now and who are yet to be born. All gifts pass down that stream, flow through us and then flow from us through others.
That is an enormous reason for each of us to be grateful. In fact one sociologist has suggested that gratitude is the moral memory of humankind. If we believed that we are isolated, unrelated individuals who are exclusively responsible for whatever blessings have come to us; if we believed that good things have happened to us happened only because we wrestled them away from a cold hard unyielding reality – well we would have no reason to feel any commitment to one another.
It is because we do know how much we receive from people living and dead that we stand in awe of something more powerful by far than our own effort and that is what calls us to religious community as well as to democratic government and to every effort to improve the community in which we live.
This time of the year calls upon us to do the work of remembering those who have given strength, courage, support, joy, love so that our lives would turn out better. The ancient pagan festival of (Sa win) Samhain was both a recognition of the harvest which reaped what half a year's work had accomplished and it was a harvest of honor and appreciation for all of the men and women who have gone before us. Specifically, they believed that at (Sa win) Samhain the veil between this reality and the next became so thin that it was possible to communicate across it and honor those who have gone before us.
In some parts of the world Paganism and Christianity tended to melt into each other and so this recognition of the dead became All Hallow E'en, All Souls Day or in the Catholic and Anglican communion, All Saints day. Of course we came to know it as Halloween. But Halloween now is not the solemn recognition of those who have gone before us, and as fun as Halloween is, we have lost some of the ancient meaning of honoring those gift givers who are gone from this life.
Later in November Americans specifically remember all of the blessings, which have come into their lives at Thanksgiving. Then in December while Christians recognize the new births that bring hopefulness into their lives, pagan celebrate the start of a new lunar and calendar cycle, creating promise and hopefulness even in the darkest moment of the year.
These eternal cycles of gratefulness hallow our appreciation for living and generate the joy we take out of it. We are not, each, adrift and alone on a wintry sea. We are surrounded by invisible witnesses who have given us gifts that will continue on in our lives and are very real. Life is a long stream of such gifts which began somewhere and have moved to our lives and now will spread to other lives – to our partners, our children, our friends, our colleagues, our students – who have received their gifts from us.
Our task in this wonderful creative and sustaining cycle is to stay awake and grateful and to give back what we have been freely given.]]>
It is gray outside, and wet, and a little bleak. The leaves have lost their luster, the late afternoons have lost their light, and the vitality of our natural world seems to be just slipping away. Things are dying, and the glorious, boastful promise of the spring and summer has now become a
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It is gray outside, and wet, and a little bleak. The leaves have lost their luster, the late afternoons have lost their light, and the vitality of our natural world seems to be just slipping away. Things are dying, and the glorious, boastful promise of the spring and summer has now become a bittersweet elegy for what was and what was not.
We are reminded, in this season, of the way that things come to an end – the way they burst open, and flourish, and sustain, and then fail and die. We are reminded today, on All Souls Day, of the persons we have lost. Of those we held most dear to us, of those who went too soon, and of those who left an empty place behind.
We pray as a Church for members of the congregation whom we have lost, and we find ourselves diminished without them.
We remember our lost ones, and in doing so we honor them. In other cultures on All Souls Day we might have picnics on their graves, telling stories and offering them gifts, and mixing egg salad with their memory.
Somehow, we believe, our love for them survives. We are a congregation of many faiths, but we perhaps come together in the hope and the belief that there is a sustained and transcendent meaning in the love that we shared, and in the lives that they led.
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When we get up in the morning most of us want a comfortable, safe, predictable way to get through the day. This is a staple of human nature. We seek a place for ourselves that feels familiar. We were not born for revolution or even to stop revolutions. And so, when we look back at something like the rise of the Nazis – and we ask ourselves "Why didn't they see it coming?" — the answer is that at one level they did see it coming, but they did not want to know what they saw. They didn't want to change their lives, to take the risks involved in stopping it. And indeed the risks were potentially fatal.
This leads psychologists and clergy to wonder, "What changes our minds and moves us to action?" What challenges our prevailing view of the world, what penetrates our overwhelming desire for security and then causes us to alter our behavior to do something differently?
Generations of orators have admired the drama of the prophetic word, the fiery sermon, and the ringing call to action as an important agent of change. For example, the OT prophet Amos addressed the growing disparity between rich and poor by saying, "I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
Centuries of preachers have rolled these words off their lips as they imagined themselves reproaching the forces of selfishness and greed. But, the truth is Amos changed almost no minds. He was not really a fun guy to be around. If you were sitting in the king's court and listening to Amos comment on your wife's extravagant tastes by calling her a "cow" you wouldn't be inclined to listen longer. If you heard him say that your friends ought to be dragged off by fishhooks and thrown into some very nasty places, you would not be thinking, "I really want to hear more from this guy."
The prophetic tradition is a storehouse for the Western conscience. It argues for compassion, mercy and justice. It keeps us from our own worst impulses and those of others. But in their own times the prophets changed very few minds. Even today, more people prefer to read from the comforting Psalms rather than the justice-obsessed prophets.
So, here again is the question. What does move people to risk their security by opposing injustice? What tips the balance that separates those of us who are settled into our private world of worries and cares from those who become a force that is capable of changing things. What makes the difference is probably not what we think it is.
We think it is thrilling speech, dramatic calls marshalling the evidence for action and laying it right out there. In this we are true children of the Puritans. They went to worship expecting to hear reasoned arguments on how to live properly and well. Their pulpit was not only the architectural center of their church it was the sacramental center of their worship as well. They expected to listen to their preachers speak on truth and righteousness for two hours on Sunday morning and at least an hour on Sunday afternoon. Those were the good old days of preaching.
We still believe in rhetoric and rational persuasion. Like the Puritan preachers, we spend hours trying to convince one another of the truth as we see it. Also like the Puritans, we write resolutions that sound a call for action but eventually end up gathering dust in some bureaucrat's file. And like the Puritans, we always wonder why the next generation isn't getting the message especially after we said it so clearly and often.
Here is my heresy for this morning. Rhetoric and rationality have their place, but I'm not sure they have much to do with what really changes our minds and hearts. Most people are not essentially rational about things that are difficult to accept or about issues that involve personal danger. When we feel threatened, we circle the wagons around our lives, and mere arguments or calls for us to do better usually will not tempt us forth. Instead, what tips the balance and moves us is much more subtle.
It is this simple, and this complex. The call to action must come from the right person. It must be presented in terms that make it as easy as possible to accept, and it must come at a time when we are able to gather our strength for action. We would like to think that the forces of change work in more noble and dramatic ways than this, but perhaps most of us are not as noble or as rational as we would like to think. Timing, context and personality are what matter. Let me give you three examples, which are taken from Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point.
The lesson of the first example is that just who brings the call for action is very important. In April of 1775, it became clear that the British troops were planning to march to Lexington and Concord to capture a store of arms, which they believed the colonists had hidden there. New Englanders had been expecting something like this. They had been meeting for months to plan their response. They had been drilling as local militias. It only remained for someone to spread the alarm.
Two men left Boston to spread the alarm that night, Paul Revere and William Dawes. They deliberately rode different routes in order to alert the largest number of local militia. Revere was captured by the British just West of Lexington, and Dawes was not captured. But no one on Dawes route – NO ONE on Dawes route – showed up to fight the British while Revere mustered a great army. For years historians wondered if the folks in those towns Dawes rode through – Roxbury, Brookline, Watertown and Waltham – had unusually strong British sympathies.
It turns out there is a simpler explanation. Paul Revere was one of those rare individuals who moved easily in all groups of people and connected folks with one another. We could call him and people like him "a connector." He knew the houses to go to. He knew the people he was getting out of bed, and they knew him. They trusted him. If Paul Revere pounded on their door in the middle of the night and said "Get out of bed, the British are coming" as far as they were concerned that's what had to be done.
William Dawes, on the other hand, did not know anyone outside of Boston. He had the same message as Revere. It was just as important. "The British are coming!!" But when the messenger doesn't really know the people – and they don't feel a kinship with him – the message – no matter how compelling – does not get them out of bed. That is point one. In every situation it matters who brings the message.
If people are going to think about getting out of their beds to do something, the messenger better be trustworthy. I often think about this when I notice that an individual, who has not been seen in church for a long time, if ever, suddenly shows up only to make an announcement. I don't think the announcement accomplishes much.
My second point is that a compelling message for change needs to offer us every possible way to accommodate ourselves to what it requests. We need all the help we can get to move ourselves away from the established and secure routines in our lives.
Back in the Sixties a researcher decided to test the difference between a fear-based message and a low-key message. He persuaded the Yale University Health Center to offer free tetanus shots to the senior class. He then sent out pamphlets offering students these free tetanus shots. Half of the pamphlets described the consequences of not having a tetanus shot in the harshest possible way with graphic photographs of the damage that an infection can do. The other half of the pamphlets was rational, quiet, and informative but low key. Those students who received the fear-based pamphlet remembered more of the information it contained, but a month later there was absolutely no difference in who actually got inoculated. Only 3% of either group, – low fear or high fear – requested their shots.
The researcher decided to try something different. He persuaded the health center to offer the shots again, but this time they printed a map showing how to get to the health center, and they printed the center hours on the pamphlet that went out to everyone. This time 28% of the people who received the pamphlet showed up for their shots as contrasted with the 3% previously.
Of course most students didn't actually need the map to find the health center, but because the message accommodated itself more to their lives they were able to accept it and act on it. Is this noble? Is this laudable behavior? If people were logical and rational most of the time when it came to their health it shouldn't be necessary to draw them a map to the health center. But many people – particularly young people – are not logical or rational when it comes to their health. I often think about this story when I hear someone make an announcement that leaves us all unclear at the end as to how to do what was requested of us.
Here is my third point. Under the wrong set of circumstances our best intentions can be extremely fragile. My favorite example of this is a study that was done at Princeton Theological Seminary. A pair of researchers decided to test out the parable of The Good Samaritan. You will recall that in this parable a traveler was beaten and robbed on the road to Jericho, and he was left lying almost naked by the side of the road.
Two wealthy and prominent leaders of the community came along, and they saw the beaten traveler, but they crossed over to the other side of the road, and kept on walking. It was the Samaritan – a member of the ethnic group most despised by all the beautiful people – who stopped and cared for the man.
At Princeton, a group of seminarians was told that in order to get paid for having participated in this experiment they were to present themselves, individually, to a classroom. Once there, they were first tested on their motives for entering the ministry. Then they were given a topic on which to preach a brief sermon. They were told they would have some time to assemble their thoughts on this topic, and then they would need to walk over to the chapel and give the talk to an audience, which was waiting.
Half of those who reported were given the parable of the Good Samaritan to preach on. The rest were given another story. All were given a few minutes to prepare their talk. At the end of a few minutes, the instructor said to half of the students, "You've got plenty of time. Just go on over to the chapel when you're ready." To the other half, he said, "They were expecting you a few minutes ago. You have to get moving."
In every instance, on the way to the chapel where they were to
give this speech, the students passed a man slumped in an ally, head down, eyes closed, coughing and groaning just like in the parable. Who stopped to help the traveler?
You would suppose that those who said when they were tested that they went into the ministry primarily to help those in need, and who had just prepared a sermon on the Good Samaritan, would be most likely to stop and help the unconscious stranger. There was absolutely no correlation between those two qualities and those who stopped to help. In fact, several of the men who had a sermon on the Good Samaritan in their pockets literally stepped over the victim in their haste to get to the chapel and preach it on time.
What made the difference? The only thing that mattered was whether or not someone was telling them they were late. Of those who had been told they were already late only 10% stopped to help. Of those who had been told they had plenty of time 63% stopped to help. The firmness of their convictions, even the contents of their thoughts, did not make as much of a difference as the fact that someone in authority told them they were late.
This is a sobering view of human nature, but is it pessimistic? I've heard much more pessimism, not to mention negativism and outright bitterness from folks who never let go of the belief that ringing denunciations, pronouncements and calls to action ought to work even though they generally don't. You can't reach people who are moving away from you. You can only reach folks who are willing to move toward you.
In the realm of important issues all real movement is local. It happens because the people who lead it are known and trusted, because the message is doable and the circumstances are right. Once we learn this we can stop trying to reproduce the Kingdom of God nationally or globally and begin succeeding at doing what we know how to do locally.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott launched the civil rights movement into national recognition, but if we look at it with these ideas in mind we find that people who were familiar to the black community organized it. Communications came from the churches, which were at the center of the community. Although many did walk to work during those times, people who offered the boycotters rides made it easier for larger numbers to participate. The boycott also came at a time when the power structure in Montgomery was beginning to think they were going to have to give in on something. They just didn't realize this was only the beginning of a giant step that would change America.
I believe in working for social justice, but I also believe it is hard to achieve and that it will only be achieved in small increments, because good, caring, well-intentioned people much like us are most of the time preoccupied with the business of staying alive and healthy and connected with the few friends that are really important to them.
This is not a reason to be discouraged. It is a reason to be wise about the little things that tip the balance and make it possible for good people to realize how they can and why they should mobilize to change themselves, their community or the world. The right messenger, the right message and the right moment make all the difference.]]>
Let us pray this crisp October morning for something that most every person in this sanctuary has in common–something that makes us different from the rest of the world– something that I'm sure you all appreciate– but something that your children might not even realize– I didn't, until recently. Let us give thanks
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Let us pray this crisp October morning for something that most every person in this sanctuary has in common–something that makes us different from the rest of the world– something that I'm sure you all appreciate– but something that your children might not even realize– I didn't, until recently. Let us give thanks for simply being part of this really small town.
On my first day of ninth grade last year at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, I was repeatedly asked, "Where are you from?" When I'd say I was from Lincoln, I would usually get perplexed looks and a response along the lines of "Where the heck is that?" And when they'd ask which school I attended in Lincoln, I'd always have to explain, "Well, Lincoln only has one school." Sometimes, it's not until you leave a place that you are forced to really dig deep and define what that place meant to you or why it was so special.
Oh mighty spirit, wherever you may be, let us give thanks for all the ways that Lincoln is so special. Let us be thankful for our close community of people who share the same common values: our love and care for the outdoors, whether it be the wide open fields, farms, trails, or ponds–our protection of our heritage, from preserving a stonewall from the Revolutionary War to continuing the long tradition of organic farming– and our commitment to education, making a public school as good as any private. Lincoln's incredibly small population also allows the members of the community to know each other so well. Most people know their neighbors, the families across the street– but in Lincoln, you probably know most every person who steps foot on the streets.
Let us give thanks for being with the same kids for preschool and grade school and Sunday school, Girl Scout meetings and travel soccer games and spelling bees. Let us give thanks for the meaningful relationships formed here between children and adults. I know my friends' parents as well as I know my aunts and uncles, and sometimes I would rather go to them with my troubles than my own (but, I love you guys too, Mom and Dad!) Let us give special thanks that we belong to a church that values these multigenerational relationships– that our ministers carve out time each week to sit down for dinner with the ninth grade students, as part of their curriculum. My peers and I felt so privileged last year to get to know Roger as a friend.
So, we ask you Lord, to help us find time in our busy lives to remember what Lincoln means to us, why it is so special, and what it is really about– perhaps ask ourselves why we moved here in the first place– and please allow us to just look away from our computer screens every once in a while, and gaze out the windows of our homes– to see the natural beauty that surrounds us, especially at this colorful time of year.
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This is a pretty quick and easy dress I whipped up over the span of a few weeks. (Normally would just take me a day or two). I sew for 10 minutes here and there. It is based on the sincerely Vivat Veritas dress I made 2 summers ago. I made this one slightly cap sleeved, V-neck, and with a different back cut out. The fabric is a slightly stretch cotton that is oh-so-soft. It has a one side border print that looks like shadows of grass growing out.
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I love the shape of the cut out back, the dress is very pretty!
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nice back to it,, sexy shoes
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As its lawsuit to keep her products out of J.C. Penney Co. suggests, Macy's, Inc. is not done with Martha Stewart, and, now, the retailer is placing upon her shoulders the mantle of American icon. As such, Martha Stewart and her products will be a major part of a new promotion Macy's has announced for this spring and summer.
The promotion, dubbed American Icons, is a multi-part marketing initiative the retailer bills as a cross-country tribute to the beloved traditions, people and landscapes of America.
"Macy's is America's department store and through this campaign, we're celebrating the unique people, places and things that make our country great," said Martine Reardon, the retailer's chief marketing officer. "In addition to collections from incredible brands including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Michael Kors, we're embarking on a nationwide tribute that will feature some of America's most beloved and nostalgic pastimes including the drive-in, baseball and grilling, along with a program to support and celebrate America's veterans."
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Chris Woakes has been selected ahead of Tim Bresnan in England's 15-man squad for the three Test series in New Zealand.
The omission of Eoin Morgan and Samit Patel are the other changes from the squad that beat India 2-1 before Christmas.
Woakes, Warwickshire's 23-year-old swing bowling allrounder, has played seven ODIs and three T20s for England but is yet to make his Test debut.
He has an excellent record at domestic level - a first-class batting average of 38.25 and first-class bowling average of 25.56 - and, despite a concern about the lack of pace in his bowling, has an ability to swing the ball both ways that could prove valuable in New Zealand. He recently had a brief stint with Wellington in New Zealand domestic cricket and claimed four wickets in two first-class matches at a cost of 57.50 apiece.
Bresnan, who has struggled to recapture his potency since an elbow operation in December 2011, will instead have the elbow assessed to see if any further treatment is required. Before the operation, Bresnan's Test bowling average was 23.60. Since the operation it is 55.43.
"We have a busy international summer ahead of us and the medical team felt this was an ideal opportunity for Tim Bresnan to take some time out to ensure his elbow is functioning effectively," Geoff Miller, England national selector, said. "Chris Woakes has impressed on the England Performance Programme and with England Lions and Warwickshire in recent years as well as with England in the limited overs formats. This is a good opportunity for him to gain further experience in the international environment."
England also announced that Craig Kieswetter has been dropped from the one-day squad and will return to Somerset to prepare for the new domestic season. Kieswetter has played 46 ODIs and 25 T20s for England, averaging 30.11 and 21.91 respectively.
"Craig has had an extended opportunity in ODI and T20 cricket," Miller said. "He has shown evidence of delivering performances on the international stage however we don't feel these have been delivered consistently enough. As we look forward to the Champions Trophy and Cricket World Cup in 2015 we will look to explore other options.
"The door is not closed to Craig, and he can fight his way back into contention for international selection through consistent high performances with Somerset."
Joe Root, Woakes and James Harris have been added to the ODI squad for the three-match series against New Zealand. Root's call-up means James Taylor has been appointed captain of the England Lions tour to Australia, for which Rikki Clarke, at the age of 31, has been called-up. The squad will play a series of limited-overs games in February.
Clarke has enjoyed a resurgence since joining Warwickshire for the 2009 season. Last year he averaged 32.14 with the bat and 18.00 with the ball in List A cricket. He played two Tests - both against Bangladesh -and 20 ODIs between 2003 and 2006.
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Stuart Broad (capt), Jonny Bairstow, Danny Briggs, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes, Luke Wright
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Alastair Cook (capt), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn, James Harris, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, Joe Root, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan Trott, Chris Woakes
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James Taylor (capt), Gary Ballance, Scott Borthwick, Danny Briggs, Varun Chopra, Rikki Clarke, Matthew Coles, Ben Foakes, Alex Hales, Simon Kerrigan, Stuart Meaker, Craig Overton, Toby Roland-Jones, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, James Vince, Chris Wright
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