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Pope Francis, Atheists, and the Evangelical SpiritMay 23rd, 2013 | By Andrew Preslar | Category: Blog Posts
Some interest has been generated in online news media by Pope Francis's recent homily in which he affirmed that atheists can accomplish some good in the created order, which provides a "meeting place" for them and religious believers. The Pope went on to say that atheists have been redeemed by Jesus Christ. I immediately took this to mean that atheists have been redeemed in the sense that Christ died for all men. We have all been "bought back" from sin and the devil, which opens up new possibilities for every human being. But some people apparently found more than a hint of universalism in the Pope's declaration.
Although Pope Francis was not directly addressing this issue, his remarks also called to mind the teaching of the Second Vatican Council that God's saving grace can by extraordinary means reach people who have never heard the Gospel, who yet, being moved by enabling grace, are seeking God even in cases where through no fault of their own they do not consciously acknowledge the true God (Lumen Gentium 16). Following a few remarks on the Pope's homily, I want to take this occasion to discuss the matter of salvation by extraordinary means of grace, relative to the direct evangelism that is enjoined upon the Apostolic Church by her Lord (Matthew 28:18-20).
Redemption Accomplished
Pope Francis's point that atheists can and have done good works in the created order is simply common sense, and reflects the teaching of Vatican II (Gaudium et Spes 19-21). The point regarding universal redemption–as distinct from universal salvation–is clearly Catholic doctrine: Christ suffered and died for all human beings without exception (CCC 605; cf. John 3:16; 1 John 2:2). It is also Catholic doctrine, articulated at Vatican II, that God can and does work in both revealed and hidden ways to bring salvation to all persons, even though we might reject his grace and thus not be saved (Lumen Gentium 16; Gaudium et Spes 22; cf. Acts 10:34-35; Romans 2:14-15, 10:18). The key to understanding the Pope's remarks is to understand that there is a difference between being redeemed–as are all men (objectively), because of Christ's death and resurrection–and being saved or in a state of grace–as are only those who receive God's grace by faith and abide in his love.
It is also important to notice that the Pope was not teaching that atheists can be saved merely by doing good works. He made two distinct though related points; namely, that atheists can do good works and that Christ has redeemed everyone. For these reasons, we can "meet one another in doing good." Although no one is saved by good works in the sense of being translated from spiritual death to life (Council of Trent, Session VI, Chapter 8), good works can be a kind of preparation for both direct evangelism (Acts 10:1-2, 34-35) and those obscure, extraordinary means of grace by which people who have never heard the Gospel with their ears might be saved (Lumen Gentium 16).
Of course, the Pope's point about the universality of the Atonement is disputed by Calvinists, and the teaching of Vatican II concerning the possibility of salvation apart from explicit faith in Christ is widely debated in non-Catholic Christian circles. In what follows, I want to briefly describe how I, as a Catholic, think about the latter issue, with special reference to evangelism.
Emeth versus Evangelism?
Many of us are familiar with the scene towards the end of C. S. Lewis's The Last Battle in which Emeth, a Calormene soldier and devotee of the demon Tash, is cast into the "next life" and there greeted by Aslan as a beloved son. Aslan informs the abashed man, who had verbally opposed the Great Lion all his life, that in his heart, as evidenced by his character, he had really been seeking Aslan all along. As a conservative, Evangelical Protestant, I always accepted this as a good story–there was a rummy sort of something "fitting" about Aslan's interpretation of Emeth's life. But I overtly rejected it as a literal bit of soteriology because of what I perceived to be a contradiction with the implications of many passages in the Bible. Now, of course, on the basis of the teaching authority of the Catholic Church, I accept the possibility of salvation by extraordinary grace through implicit faith, though I confess to still being a little afraid of such grace and generosity, especially because it surpasses my own understanding.
The most obvious objection to "Emeth" is this: "Well, so much for missionaries and evangelism and baptism and all of that." Like Rachael Lynde, the Presbyterian "church lady" in the Anne of Green Gables series, we can be vexed to hear that some "heathens" might be saved not only in spite of our own best efforts but even apart from them. But of course that would be a rather self-regarding and legalistic way to think about the situation. It seems more reasonable, more generous and humane, to respond to the possibility of an Emeth by doing what the Church has always done: send missionaries to the ends of earth (including just next door) to bring the Gospel, in word and sacrament and loving-kindness, to everyone for whom Christ died–including atheists (cf. the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church, Ad Gentes). For, if anything, it should be a source of motivation to think that there might be people "out there" who are primed, so to speak, for the Gospel, having already been inwardly moved by grace, as well as people who have so responded to this grace that they have been converted and united to Christ in a mysterious manner. Evangelism not only proclaims the word of God, it is preceded by the work of God.
Talking about extraordinary means of grace and the possibility of salvation for each person who has ever lived can given rise to at least an implicit assumption that just about everyone is somehow, more or less consciously, striding along the straight and narrow path towards the pearly gates. Thus the seeds of indifferentism and presumption are sown. But it is easy to discover that not everyone is in a state of grace, i.e., rightly related to God. Some of us can figure this out just by paying attention to the example of humanity nearest to hand, namely, oneself. In my own life, there have been times when I have turned away from God, despising the things of Heaven, in order to greedily pursue my own path towards Hell. And more than once, grace has broken in like a tidal wave, wrecking my own private Isengard. Among the floatsam and jetsam, in the washed out result, I find joy and peace, which is naturally something that I want to share, particularly because it stands to reason that there are a lot of other people just like me–desperately in need of God's grace, which he abundantly provides to sinners.
Such is the love of God. And doesn't love compel one who has found Christ (perhaps for the four-hundred-ninetieth time) to in some way "be Christ" to the next person who comes along? It seems to me that that is the gist of the evangelical spirit. It springs up from within, like living water. The Second Vatican Council's teaching on salvation can be twisted to suit nefarious ends or attitudes, such as religious indifference and presumption. The most obvious solution for these and related problems is to fix the twister, perhaps through more fully explaining and exploring the implications of this teaching in its broader dogmatic context (cf. the Declaration from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus, On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church).
The Gospel was made for simple minds, but there is a certain kind of simplistic mindset that can only see or reason about particular points in isolation. In this way, the theological tapestry of Catholicism is considered according to either warp or woof, but never the whole. The whole of Catholic theology includes both universal redemption and particular salvation, both nature and grace, both "Emeth" and evangelism; thus, to suppose that we must opt for one or the other of these is simply to miss the picture.


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Many of us knew about the Winston personnel changes back in '05 when Brackett and crew left and in '08 when Druckman left. What surprised me about your post is what you stated about the wraps. I scoured the Winston board for talk about issues like that and coudn't find any posts relating to that but admit I didn't look way back in history for any. That board is unique in that it is one of the few forums from a rod manufacturer not afraid to have a public forum. In my experience with the site (and I admit to not viewing it much as of late) you have to be pretty darned brazen to have a post yanked. Generally if an issue arises Kevin or whoever is aware of it will post a response right out there in broad daylight for all to see, not just Winston owners. You might try posting your poor wrap findings there unless you're just sort of kicking the bear a bit here.
My latest Winstons are all at least a couple years old. The newest, a BIIt is as smooth and flawless as the other older Winstons. Since they are indeed hand wrapped by local residents in the area, I guess it's possible bad wraps slip by but it's a bit shocking that the finisher and QC would both let less than ideal green sticks get out. I hope this isn't the case anyhow but mere mortals are heavily involved in building these rods.
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Art and the printed word
By Ruth Nerhaugen
Three of the Anderson Center's creative minds came together to create a new publication, "Poems Prose Poems."
Robert Hedin, director of Red Wing's artist community, wrote the poems. Art Kenyon, a resident artist at Tower View, created etch drawings to illustrate them. Scott King of Red Dragonfly Press hand-set the type and printed 120 copies of the limited edition book.
"We're always looking for ways to put artists in a position to work together," Kenyon said. "That's part of our mission" as a center for interdisciplinary studies.
"One of the great things about being here," he added, "is that we get to talk with each other, exchange ideas and look at ways to create artwork with more than one discipline."
Hedin proposed the project about two years ago, Kenyon said, by suggesting, "Wouldn't it be great to get three artists from the Anderson Center to collaborate on something?"
Hedin had completed a group of poems, which he brought to King.
"They all were written in the early morning, about the time the sun was coming up," he said, resulting in a lot of light imagery. "The tone is more playful than anything else of my work," he said, citing "Why I Can't Sleep" and "My Mother's Hats."
The poems also contain historical references, from Charles Lindbergh to Mohammed Ali, from airships to ocean liners.
"They place the poems in time," noted King, who quickly embraced the idea of collaborating.
"It had been years since I had done a project with (Hedin)," King said. "I was happy to have his manuscript. His work is of consistently high standards," he added.
"Red Dragonfly Press happens to be one of the finest presses in the state," Hedin said. He believes that King's selection of a classic Plantin metal type and French mould-made paper "made the poems better. ... That is what every poet hopes for — a wonderful coming together of poems and the ancient art of printing."
Next, Hedin said, "We needed an artist of real quality, one who could capture the sensibility of many of the poems." To them, Kenyon was the obvious choice.
"One of the great things for me, as a visual artist," Kenyon said, is having freedom to create illustrations without a lot of direction.
"(Hedin) said, 'Read the poems and just do what you think is appropriate'," Kenyon explained.
He did just that — picked out poems that he particularly liked, then sought out certain lines that he could use as visuals. It helped, Kenyon said, that Hedin's poems are strong and to the point.
Working together on the technical aspects of printing the collection, King and Kenyon decided that black-and-white images with the look of etchings would be the best choice for illustrations.
An etch drawing is what an artist would create before doing an etching, Kenyon explained. It is entirely lineart, with no half-tones.
He especially liked working with King on the printing of the book, which enabled him to get back to the raw creative process. "I got to run the press, Kenyon said. "It's an old traditional press. I could smell the ink."
"This is how books were done 40 years ago, before the arrival of e-press," Hedin pointed out. "It's a book that fits nicely in the hand. It's infinitely readable and feels good to the eye, all because of Scott's beautiful work on the letterpress. Very few books are done this way anymore."
King agreed, "This is the way books should be made." It took him about one day of labor for each page.
"Poems Prose Poems" is among few recent projects in which the entire book was created by hand. Red Dragonfly Press is one of only two privately owned literary presses remaining in Minnesota that use letterpress printing.
King printed 120 copies using a French mould-made paper. The cover, which features Kenyon's illustration of the Titanic, is St. Armand, a handmade paper from Canada. The binding also was done by hand.
Copies cost $35 each. They are available through the Website reddragonflypress.org. "There will be only one edition," Hedin noted; all copies will be signed.
Hedin is an author, translator and editor of 22 books of poetry and prose. The recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and other honors, he also has taught at the college level and been poet-in-residence.
Kenyon has focused on art since retiring after 32 years at Red Wing Shoe Co. He works in several media, including printmaking, and currently serves on the board of directors of the Anderson Center, where he is a studio artist.
King established Red Dragonfly Press in 1997 at his home and has built it into a literary press that produces limited edition letterpress books; he has published poets from around the world at Red Dragonfly, which is the press-in-residence at the Anderson Center. He is also a poet and writer.
My Mother's Hats
She kept them high on the top shelf,
In boxes big as drums —
Bright, crescent-shaped boats
With little fishnets dangling down —
And wore them with her best dress
To teas, coffee parties, department stores.
What a lovely catch, my father used to say,
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is getting in touch with his musical side. And, apparently, his feminine side.
The Inception actor took time out from filming his upcoming movie Premium Rush on Monday to lend his talents to HitRECord's Summer in the City concert at Pianos in New York. (HitRECord is "a professional open collaborative production company" launched by Gordon-Levitt five years ago.)
Levitt's choice of song for the event? The 1967 Aretha Franklin chestnut "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." And judging from his impassioned rendition, JGL really was feeling it.
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VIDEO: 25 Top Female Journalists Honor Barbara Walters on Her Final THE VIEW
Television legend Barbara Walters will be honored today, FRIDAY, MAY 16, with her final co-host appearance on "The View" (11am-12 noon ET) and a two-hour Primetime special celebrating her life and legacy (9-11pm, ET).
On this morning's THE VIEW, in addition to surprise visits from Hilary Clinton and Michael Douglas, Oprah Winfrey stops by the show and does a landmark roll call of introducing 25 female journalists who were influenced by the legendary journalist. Check out the historic appearances below!
Barbara Walters has arguably interviewed more statesmen and stars than any other journalist in history. She is so well known that her name and a brief biography is listed in the American Heritage Dictionary.
In September 2004, after 25 years as co-host and chief correspondent of ABC News' "20/20," Ms. Walters left the show to begin a new phase in her career at the network. She remains an active member of the news division and network, substantially increasing the number of Primetime ABC News specials, in addition to her "Barbara Walters Specials." Ms. Walters joined ABC News in 1976 as the first woman to co-host the network news.
Through the years she has interviewed such world figures as Russia's Boris Yeltsin, China's Premier Jiang Zemin, Great Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Libya's Moammar Qadaffi and Iraq's President Sadaam Hussein. She was also the first American journalist to interview Russia's President Vladimir Putin and the first interview with President and Mrs. Bush following September 11.
At the other extreme, in 1999 Ms. Walters conducted the first interview with Monica Lewinsky, which became the highest-rated news program ever broadcast by a single network.
She has interviewed every American President and First Lady since Richard Nixon. She made journalism history by arranging the first joint interview with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin in November, 1977. Another of her "firsts" was an hour-long Primetime conversation with Cuban President Fidel Castro -- an interview which has been printed in half a dozen languages and shown all over the world.
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water would bubble again in Isamu Noguchi's green marble fountain in the Ambassador Lounge, softly masking the tik-a-tik-a-tik-a-tik-a-tik chatter of a Solari di Udine split-flap display board announcing flight departures and arrivals [...]
The architects of the hotel project are Beyer Blinder Belle and Lubrano Ciavarra Architects. Beyer Blinder Belle was responsible for the sumptuous restoration of Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. — nytimes.com
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For those who are interested in seeing Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (reviewed here on Archinect), they'll have their chance on December 27th when PBS airs the documentary as part of its American Masters Series. The film, which charts both Eero's professional and personal... View full entry
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It's lucky for architecture that Eero Saarinen, who was known in the CIA as "Architectural Designer (Chief, Special Exhibits Division)" wasn't so successful at his work for the agency that he couldn't be replaced, although one wonders how much of that top secret work rubbed off on his later... View full entry
The letters are written to Aline Bernstein Louchheim, who became Saarinen's second wife in 1954. The Archives of American Art have an impressive collection of photos and letters from Eero and Aline, which you can view here. View full entry
Nicholas Korody penned a double review; of 'The Geological Imagination' and 'The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform'. He finds "The two books also help illuminate some of the difficulties in perceiving climate change, while offering some potentials for movement" and goes on to reference... View full entry
JetBlue and MCR will build hotel rooms from the ground up next to the terminal and refurbish the interior of the building to become the property's main entrance. [...]
It is to have 505 rooms, 40,000 square feet of meeting space, up to eight eateries and an observation deck. The old terminal will serve as the lobby, with the rest of the hotel set back from it in a new building. — crainsnewyork.com
Jet Blue's hotel will be JFK's first, finally utilizing Saarinen's masterpiece after 14 years (and counting) of vacancy.For more news at JFK:Fancy $48M animal terminal to open in JFK Airport next yearJetBlue tapped as prospective developer for JFK TWA terminalHotelier, Andre Balazs, to convert... View full entry
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[JetBlue Airways] reportedly wants to get into the hotel business by partnering with New York-based hotel developer MCR Development to turn the landmarked terminal into a 500-room hotel. The deal isn't final—the parties are in 'advanced negotiations'—so things could still fall apart...The Port Authority previously chose hotelier Andre Balazs as the developer, but Balazs backed out after realizing how long the project would take. He told the [WSJ] his company had 'more interesting opportunities.' — ny.curbed.com
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More than decade after Abbott's imaginative drawing, Eero Saarinen submitted a design for a gleaming metal curve to a competition, and the saga of the Arch began. Campbell, a history professor and the co-director of the Wendell Ford Public Policy Research Center at the University of Kentucky, joins Scott Simon to talk about the controversy around the design, the African-American residents who were displaced to build the Arch and whether the monument really symbolizes the opening of the West. — npr.org
The Miller House and Garden Collection includes correspondence, drawings and blueprints, textile samples, and photographs that document design, construction, and maintenance of the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana. — Indianapolis Museum of Art
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The new Claire Tow Theater, perched on top of Eero Saarinen's Vivian Beaumont Theater, has been in operation for a few weeks now, and it's a nimble addition to Lincoln Center with architectural benefits out of proportion to its size. — nytimes.com
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Southmoreland grad uses area locations in new movie
It was only natural that when Jeremy Phillips developed his first feature film, some portions would be shot in locations in Ruffsdale and Mt. Pleasant.
That's because the Southmoreland High School graduate grew up in Ruffsdale and the area is one with which he is familiar.
"It's a wonderful movie written for the area," Phillips said during a recent break in shooting from the picture he is directing.
The movie is called "1/1" and it's the story of an 18-year-old girl dealing with the suicide of her father.
Lindsey Shaw, who plays the role of Paige McCullers on "Pretty Little Liars," headlines the cast as the daughter. Judd Nelson, who's starred in such movies as "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," will portray the father, and Dendrie Taylor, who plays Luann Delaney in "Sons of Anarchy" and had a role in the movie "The Fighter," will play the mother.
The movie is being developed by the independent film company Narrator Entertainment of Los Angeles.
One location Phillips definitely wanted in the movie was Schaefer's Corner Market.
"I just grew up going there," Phillips said. "I wanted to have one of the main characters going there to buy a pack of cigarettes. I haven't been there in so long. It's completely renovated, but I'm still shooting there. It was really important to me."
Kristen Ranker, owner of Schaefer's Corner Market, said those involved with the movies thought her place was just right for a scene in their movie.
"They were driving around the area and were looking for places to shoot some of the film," Ranker said. "(The producer) said, 'When we walked into your store, it was perfect, it was like right out of the screenplay.'"
Ranker, who will have owned the store for three years in February, admitted in the days leading up to the shooting that she was excited about the filming taking place at her store.
"I'm just excited my store is going to be in it," she said. "It just puts me on the map."
The scene was filmed at Schaefer's Dec. 14. Ranker got to meet Nelson and make breakfast pizza for the crew.
"It was great, it was kind of fun," Ranker said. "Judd Nelson was at my counter buying cigarettes. They were really nice people. It was wonderful. I would do it again anytime. (Nelson) was very, very quiet. He signed a shirt and thanked me for letting us shoot in the store."
Cassidy Lunnen, the movie's producer, said initial plans called for all of the filming to be done in California, even though the movie's setting is western Pennsylvania.
"We ended up having an epiphany," she said. "We should have it where (Phillips) wrote it for....We just kind of cruised around town and found these amazing locations in Ruffsdale and Mt. Pleasant. People in these towns have been amazing to us. I'm definitely coming back."
Lunnen said filming went quite well at Schaefer's. "It was fantastic," she said. "(Ranker is) wonderful."
Among other area locations used in filming have included the End Zone and Smillie's Family Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant and Phillips' mother's home in Ruffsdale.
Parts of the End Zone's facility struck a chord with Lunnen.
"I just love the architecture inside," she said. "It's very (1970s). They kind of left it as it is. It's very cinematic."
Several western Pennsylvania residents have been cast as extras in the film.
"We definitely have a mix of Pittsburgh and Greensburg people," Phillips said.
Lunnen described the movie as "drama-based."
"She loses her father to suicide and what ends up happening creates a tension between her and her mother," Lunnen explained. "She becomes separated from her and has this moment in her lifetime where it's her coming of age and she's growing from a teen to an adult, realizing all of the things her mother protected her from. She's able to mend all the broken things that happened from the suicide."
That sums up the title of the movie pretty well.
"It's very representative of her and her mother," Lunnen explained. "One divided by one is still one."
Lunnen said Narrator Entertainment hopes to have the movie completed by June and then taken to the various film festivals.
But before then, Phillips has enjoyed the chance to return to his old stomping grounds to film portions of "1/1."
"It's been great," he said.
Paul Paterra is a staff editor for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-887-6101 or email@example.com.


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Nine Dusseldorf court officials, who have been participating in a trial of 10 former Nazis charged with killing 700,000 Jews at the Treblinka concentration camp, left today for New York, Montreal and Caracas to hear witnesses who, for various reasons, could not come to Germany to testify in the trial.
At the same time, at Frankfurt, where 22 former Auschwitz-Treblinka camp personnel have been on trial for 17 months, the prosecution today started its final summations. Chief Prosecutor Fritz Vogel demanded the maximum sentence–life imprisonment–for three of the defendants, Hans Starke, Klaus Dylweski and Pery Broad. He said that Starke helped send 1,000,000 Jews to the gas ovens and the two others methodically killed Jews.


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On a day not fit for people to do much outside, hundreds of new St. Croix Valley residents made themselves comfortable in their new home.
Two Minnesota Department of Natural Resources crews spent Wednesday afternoon stocking brown trout in two sections of Brown's Creek near McKusick Lake and the Oak Glen Golf Course.
DNR Fisheries Specialist Jim Levitt said the agency releases brown trout in Brown's Creek every spring to boost the creek's fish population.
"It's because of fishing pressure. They get caught out," he said.
Another reason the DNR stocks brown trout in the creek is because the hatchery fish struggle to reproduce.
Levitt and DNR staffer Tim Ohmann stocked the creek at a site across McKusick Road from the golf course. The fish were between 1.5 and 2 years old and weighed an average of a half-pound, Levitt said.
The fish stocked in Brown's Creek Wednesday will live in a creek rehabilitated by the Brown's Creek Watershed District to promote trout survival. Trout prefer cool bodies of water.
"Brown trout are a little more tolerable of warmer water than rainbow trout," he said.
Another natural impact on Brown's Creek trout is the beaver, according to Levitt. Beaver dams on the creek slows the flow and warms up the creek's water.
But Levitt said the brown trout stocked in the stream Wednesday are large enough to be caught by anglers when fishing season opens May 11.


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I have no idea how anyone could think that it was a good idea to end America's primary east-west interstate freeway at Market and Octavia, but that's what we have with the two-lane Central Freeway off-ramp these days.
Anyway right at the end of the off-ramp, the shoulder turns into a right-turn-only lane. And that's right where this California Highway Patrol officer was standing the other day, with her prowler blocking your path.
"The current standard issue firearm for CHP officers is the Smith & Wesson Model 4006 TSW in .40 S&W. Each CHP patrol car is equipped with a Remington 870 Police 12‑gauge shotgun and a Colt AR‑15A2 in .223. Additionally, some officers are authorized to carry a taser."
If she has a Taser, she would be carrying it like this.
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Due to the perpetually congested traffic conditions there's no place for you to hide after seeing the black and white Crown Vic.
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Construction to restore the former elementary school and music building at Steele Indian School Park, on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Indian School Road, is set to begin immediately. The City of Phoenix (COP), which owns the building, is funding the project and has a signed Letter of Understanding with the partners, Native… Read More →
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McMillan struck a timely knock off only 84 balls, scoring eight boundaries in the process at Hagley Oval.
Northern have been one of the competitions' best batting sides this season but were contained by their host, recording 201 for nine off their 50 overs.
Hamish Marshall top-scored with 58, but wickets fell around him and the Knights fell from 90 for three to their eventual total.
Openers Daniel Vettori and Bradley-John Watling began strongly, putting on 65 for the first wicket before Watling fell for 26.
Vettori made 42 before becoming the first of three wickets for Chris Cairns. Chris Harris and Nixon McLean also claimed two each.
Canterbury recovered from the early loss of Michael Papps for nine and McMillan shared significant partnerships with Peter Fulton (32) and Shanan Stewart (44 not out) to lead his side home.


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Mrs. Joyce Roaden Chandler, 60, of 34 Andrew Jackson Street, Commerce, GA, died Sunday. Mrs. Chandler was a native of Kentucky. She was retired from the State of Georgia Department of Family and Children Services, a member of the First Baptist Church of Commerce, and a volunteer for the American Red Cross. Mrs. Chandler was preceded in death by her daughter, Stacie Amelia Chandler.
Funeral Services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. from the First Baptist Church of Commerce with Jerry Payne and Dr. Kent Cranford officiating.
Survivors include her mother and father: Jesse and Eula Roaden of Greenville, SC. Husband: Billy Chandler of Commerce, GA. Daughter and Son-in-law: Lynn Chandler Crocker and Jeff Crocker of Gainesville, GA. Granddaughters: Kennedy Amelia Crocker and Katherine Chandler Crocker of Gainesville, GA. Brothers and Sisters-in-law: Kenneth and Judy Roaden of Frisco, TX; Glenn and Kay Roaden of Greenville, SC; David and Sandra Roaden of Simpsonville, SC; and Roy and Diane Roaden of Aiken, SC. Five nieces and one nephew also survive.
The family will receive friends from 5-9 p.m. Monday evening. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Department of Family and Children Services Medicine Fund, 456 Athens Street, Jefferson, GA 30549; or the First Baptist Church of Commerce Relay for Life Fund, 1345 South Elm Street, Commerce, GA 30529.
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Indy 500 Veterans Will Compete At IMS During Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational
An impressive list of 26 former Indianapolis 500 drivers that includes 1992 and 1994 winner Al Unser Jr., 1996 winner Buddy Lazier, Scott Goodyear, Dick Simon, Willy T. Ribbs, Lyn St. James and many more will compete during the inaugural Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, June 6-8, on the recently reconfigured road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Qualifying and racing on the IMS road course and exhibition runs on the famed 2.5-mile oval will be virtually non-stop each day from 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. In addition, when not on the track, all cars will be on display in the IMS infield providing fans up close access to the racecars and their owners.
Twelve different race groups will compete ranging from early 1900s cars all the way up through to relatively modern prototype cars and everything in between. In addition, there will be three oval race groups that will focus on pre-war, roadsters and the wings and slicks era.
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) will host this landmark three-day event featuring more than 700 racecars that will be the largest competitive motorsports event ever held in the United States. This event marks the first time that a vintage racing series has ever competed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
In addition to competition on the road course, the IMS oval will host high-speed exhibition runs on Saturday, June 7 by a wide variety of cars including several of the crowd-favorite 1950's-vintage Indianapolis 500 roadsters. One of the featured events that day will take place when three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser leads the Brickyard Invitational high-speed oval experience, which is open to all cars entered in races for the weekend.
Serving as the grand marshal of the event will be 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner and racing icon Parnelli Jones, who will drive the pace car for the Charity Indy Legends Pro-Am race at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 8 featuring drivers who competed in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Jones's pace car will be the Mustang Boss 302 he drove years ago when competing on the Trans-Am racing circuit.
The Charity Indy Legends Pro-Am race will be held on the IMS 2.43-mile road course featuring Indianapolis 500 veterans paired with amateur drivers with each taking a 20-minute stint, with five minutes allotted for a driver change. The cars used in the Pro-Am race will be 1963 to 1972 vintage Chevrolet Corvettes, Camaros and Ford Mustangs.
In addition to Unser Jr., Lazier, Goodyear, Simon, Ribbs and St. James, former Indianapolis 500 drivers competing in the Charity Indy Legends Pro-Am include Mark Dismore, Johnny Parsons Jr., Alex Lloyd, Pete Halsmer, Robby Unser, Rocky Moran, Davey Hamilton, Eliseo Salazar, Jaques Lazier, Robby McGehee, Spike Gehlhausen, Billy Roe, Eldon Rasmussen, Scott Harrington, Rick Treadway, John Martin, Tom Bagley, Bob Lazier, P.J. Chesson and Jack Miller.
The Pro-Am drivers will also participate in a Fan Walk through the starting grid prior to the opening ceremonies allowing fans to see the cars up close, take photos and chat with the drivers.
Cars entered in the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational will be eligible for awards honoring giants of the sport: mechanic and car builder A.J. Watson and three-time Formula One World Champion Sir Jack Brabham. Watson and Brabham both passed away last month.
One of the most unique aspects of the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational is that for the first time ever overnight camping will be available inside the IMS oval for fans looking to enjoy the entire weekend of racing. For information on camping at IMS during the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, visit: http://secure.brickyard.com/Tickets/VintageRacing.aspx.
Additional information on the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, a complete schedule for the weekend and an entry list for the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational can be found on the SVRA website, http://www.svra.com.
Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational Tickets: A three-day general admission pass including Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8 costs $40. Single day general admission tickets are $15 on Friday, June 6, $20 on Saturday, June 7 and $25 on Sunday, June 8. Children 12 and under are admitted free each day when accompanied by an adult.
Tent camping passes in Turn 3 of the IMS infield are available beginning Thursday afternoon, June 5 for $30, with RV camping available in the Northwest gravel lot for $60.
Fans can order Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational tickets at www.ims.com/tickets , by calling 800-822-INDY or 317-492-6700 between 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (ET) Monday through Friday or by visiting the IMS Ticket Office at the IMS Administration Building at the corner of Georgetown Road and 16th Street between 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (ET) Monday through Friday.
Tickets for groups of 20 or more also are available. Contact the IMS Group Sales Department at (866) 221-8775 for more information.
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MACOMB TOWNSHIP — The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has become a national phenomenon, raising millions of dollars for a disease that most people were only vaguely aware of before. But for Macomb Township resident Brad Peri, it's a disease that hits very close to home.
Peri's mother, Jean, was diagnosed with ALS in May 2013. The diagnosis has been tough on Peri and his family, but recently they've felt a greater level of support than ever before as the Ice Bucket Challenge has taken off all over the country.
"All my friends and family have taken the Ice Bucket Challenge and made donations to the ALS Association," said Peri, 30. "Just the awareness that this has raised alone has been unbelievable. A lot of people didn't even know what ALS was until the Ice Bucket Challenge came along — I was the same way until my mom was diagnosed. But now it seems like everyone is familiar with ALS."
ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease — affects more than 30,000 people across the U.S. today. In Michigan alone, more than 1,200 people are currently battling the neurodegenerative disease. ALS attacks the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control a person's ability to move, speak, swallow and breathe, while their mind stays fully aware. People with ALS eventually lose the ability to control their muscle movement, which typically leads to paralysis and death within two to five years. There is no cure for the disease.
Peri, who works as a personal injury attorney at the Goodman Acker Law Firm in Southfield, recently brought the Ice Bucket Challenge into his professional life. On Aug. 26, Peri and 26 of his colleagues took the challenge, dumping buckets of ice water over their heads in front of their office on 10 Mile Road. The firm then donated $500 to Peri's team for ALS of Michigan's upcoming Walk 'n' Roll for ALS and also nominated executives from the Michigan Education Association and the SEIU Michigan State Council to take the challenge.
"The partners all participated in the challenge, too, which was really nice of them," Peri said. "The firm has been very supportive of this cause. We had almost 100 percent participation for our event, and people were really generous with their donations."
Nationally, the ALS Association reported that it had received over $100 million in donations during the month from July 29 through Aug. 29 as a direct result of the Ice Bucket Challenge.
According to Joanne K. Berry, development director for ALS of Michigan — which is not affiliated with the ALS Association — as of Aug. 29, her organization had received donations totaling about $92,000 for the month. This is more than four times greater than the $22,000 that it raised in August 2013. She was hopeful that the final monthly total would reach an unprecedented $100,000.
"The Ice Bucket Challenge has been a miracle," Berry said. "It has provided a huge boost in funding for us, and the timing has just been incredible. This whole thing really could not have come at a better time for us with the walk coming up in a few weeks."
For the 14th annual Walk 'n' Roll, Peri has assembled a team of 10-12 friends and family members under the moniker Jean's Shoe Brigade, named in honor of his mother's love of footwear. There will be five events held throughout the state in the month of September. Peri and his team will be taking part in the walk at Stony Creek Metropark on Sunday, Sept. 28.
ALS of Michigan provides free services, education and support to people with ALS living in Michigan, as well as their families and caregivers, and helps fund research to discover the cause of the disease, develop new treatments and find a cure.
Berry anticipated that there would be about 160 teams signed up for this year's Walk 'n' Roll between the five locations in Shelby Township, Lansing, Milford, Brownstown Township and Midland. All team members are encouraged to set a fundraising goal of $200 per person. Between donations and sponsorships, the event typically brings in about $300,000 annually for ALS of Michigan.
"The walk is absolutely critical for us because it provides about half of our revenue every year," Berry explained. "It's a really fun, uplifting event for everyone who participates, and all the money we raise will stay right here in Michigan."
Peri hopes that the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge will give the Walk 'n' Roll a boost in participation this year. He knows that every dollar raised for ALS of Michigan will allow people like his mom to live full and satisfying lives while they continue to battle the disease.
"It's been amazing to see the level of support that the Ice Bucket Challenge has received," Peri said. "It was really touching to see so many people get involved and not just brush it aside. Now we have to work to keep this cause in the spotlight, not just with the Ice Bucket Challenge, but by raising awareness through other events like the walk. Every little bit helps, and I just want to do my part."
For more information on ALS of Michigan's 14th annual Walk 'n' Roll for ALS, visit www.alsofmichigan.org or call (800) 882-5764.
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How @JoakimNoah Helped The Bulls Beat The Nets: 2013 NBA Playoffs Game 2
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Rose is the best player, but Noah is the heart of the team. Nate wouldve been the energy and driving force, but shit happens.
Hell yeah
Noah is getting even better.
He is amazing
Looks like Noah watches your videos. He is so hardworking on boxing out now.
Noah a straight up hustla
Watching Joakim Noah play makes me really appreciate "effort". I mean, it's such a widely used, general term. To see what it can actually translate into (great defense and helpful offense) is great.
4:30 is pure passion. I love Noah.
Noah just straight up play hard.
Do a breakdown of Nate Robinson's affect
vinny got kicked out of chicago for being a mediocre coach, how is he great? the real coach of the clippers is called chris paul, clippers are a .500 team without him.
I love Poppovich. Look at how he turned Kawai Leonard into a beast.
Karl won't win. Spoelstra has a better chance than him. I can tell you that for sure and I'm pretty sure Coach Nick can back me up on that. Vinny is great though.
Noah is my favorite player
Spoelstra isn't gonig to coach of the year, he has Lebron, Wade, and Bosh, and it's like Phil Jackson and the bulls in the 90's. He had only 1 coach of the year and that was cause they broke 70+ wins. I see Goerge Karl of the Nuggets winning, or Vinny Delnegro
So many YoungBloods in one video.
of course contact is legal but the bulls over do it as part of their gameplans.., it doesnt get called so they will continue to do this… and id have no problem with this as contact is good but if another team does what they do there is a whistle because it looks out of the ordinary but the bulls do it so often it goes without notice by the officials
The bulls purposely begin to open towards the rim early (before contact with the defender) causing the player to run into their hip sending them off balance away from the play … an illegal screen which is never called against the bulls for some strange reason … this is what won them game 3 (majority of the illegal screens coming from Noah leading to a ton of field goals
what do you think of mark jackson?
Coach Nick, your 400 video is coming up congrats!
Also, do you think Noah got robbed for Defensive Player of the Year?
What the freak are you talking about? Do you even know what a screen and roll is? The whole purpose is to lose your man so I don't understand how they roll too early.
He can't go to Brooklyn since they resigned Brook Lopez. :/
Joakim is the heart of our team!!!!!
Dang, if only he didnt miss so many games he would of been DPOY no doubt
If it weren't for the injuries, Noah should have been the Defensive POY over Marc Gasol! He was robbed IMHO
I bet Noah is so happy that someone realizes his hidden efforts:)
I often play center but its surprising that how few people notices our hustle…


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Christmas with the English Chamber Choir
The acclaimed English Chamber Choir presents a seasonal feast of your favourite Christmas Carols for choir, organ and audience including Once in Royal David's City, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Come all ye Faithfull, , The First Nowell, O Little Town of Bethlehem, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Jingle Bells, White Christmas and many more.
English Chamber Choir
Guy Protheroe Conductor
The English Chamber Choir is one of the best known and busiest groups of its size based in London. It prides itself on the breadth of its repertoire and the diversity of its engagements. Based in the City, local appearances have included performances of music by John Tavener in St Paul's Cathedral and Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in Alium at the Mansion House. It has sung in all the main halls in the Southbank Centre, at the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, St John's Smith Square, and Cadogan Hall. It currently appears several times a year with the Belmont Ensemble at St Martin-in-the-Fields and presents its own recital programmes in several other London venues.
Further afield recent concerts have included the Barber Institute in Birmingham, Norwich and Rochester Cathedrals, and Hertford College Oxford, while in Europe the Choir has made several visits to Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece and Switzerland.
While the Choir's live performances are predominantly classical, its recording credits cover an equally diverse selection of more commercial productions. It has featured on iconic film soundtracks such as Ridley Scott's 1492, Conquest of Paradise with Vangelis, television titles include Steven Speilberg's Band of Brothers, and numerous albums including the Era series with French composer Eric Levi which have sold many millions of copies in Europe and South America.
In May 2009 the Choir appeared at Hampton Court Palace singing The Six Wives of Henry VIII with Rick Wakeman, and a few weeks later accompanied Rick in his piano and orchestra programme P'n'O at Cadogan Hall.
Guy Protheroe is among Britain's most versatile musicians, demonstrating his extensive knowledge of music from all periods in his roles as conductor, artistic director and writer. In January 2000 he conducted the first fully-staged production of Xenakis Oresteia, the first professional production to take place in the new Linbury Studio Theatre of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In December 2002 he conducted a production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in Tunis, with a cast and orchestra drawn from around the Mediterranean. He was for many years a guest conductor of the Xenakis Ensemble based in the Netherlands, and he has also worked with a wide variety of orchestras, choruses and ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, BBC Singers, Greek National Opera Chorus, Kuhn Choir of Prague, Royal Choral Society and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is equally at home in the sphere of commercial music; he collaborated with the French composer Eric Levi on music for Jean-Marie Poiré's film Les Visiteurs and the albums Era (with over 5 million sales to date), Era II and Era: The Mass.


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ibraheim718 wrote:JBreezeNY wrote:
So mods..........
Did you buzz them.. that ish is despicable.
lol, not sure what made him post that kind of stuff. That poster has been here since 2003, and now he does something like that.
I wonder if he did anything like that in the past.
It's late, so the mods might be late dealing with that poster and deleting those images.


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I have a Samsung dishwasher model DMT800RHB and am getting 9E error water low. Someone on a forum suggested cleaning the float. It is supposed to be on the left side of the unit but I don't know how to get at it. I'm not even sure this is the solution but I'm trying to avoid a service call. Can you help?
If it is something else, let me know.
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Hi Rick
It is a large plastic area with hoses hooked up. What Samsung says to do is remove all wire connections and reconnect. If you are still getting the error then that part must be replaced. Please do this check and let me know the outcome
3 hose connections are visible. Are the wires behind? Do I remove hoses and just pull it straight out?
Not a stuck float?
Dont remove the case assy, there should be what looks to be 3 set of wires going to the assy on top
case assy... the large plastic case?
no wires on top of plastic case. wires connections on bottom are behind the case.
I am going to send you the information I have on this unit. I believe the float is in this case assy they are talking about. The only other float is in the tub that indicates high water.
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Disconnected the electric connections and hoses. Reconnected. Now I'm getting LE error. Do you think that is from water that escaped from the hoses. I think that I connected them well. Do you know where that sensor is?
That is located on the very bottom of the unit, if you tilt the unit back you will see the panel, then remove 2 screws
Discovered that I had a leaky hose on the float unit. Finally got rid of the 9E error and all is well. I don't know for certain that removing the plastic float unit wires and reconnecting was the fix or not.
Late in the afternoon I discovered that we didn't have any hot water; that may have been the cause of the error but the 9E error had appeared the previous day.
At any rate, I appreciate your help and was able to resolve the issue without an expensive service call. Thank you very much.
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What do proto-punk, French fusion, fervent feminism and bread-baking have in common? They're just some of the traits that characterise our 2004 shortlist of the most influential figures in Melbourne food and wine.
Of course, there are far more than 12. Just like any punter deciding where to go on a Friday night, we were spoilt for choice. All the great things happening in Melbourne's pub scene will just have to wait until next time. John and Frank van Handel (the brothers behind the Stokehouse and the multi-faceted Prince) deserve a whole page of their own. Donleavy Fitzpatrick started the whole thing rolling with the old Smith Street Bar and Bistro, and the perennial Dogs Bar, changing the way we eat and drink forever.
The architects at Six Degrees blessed us with Meyers Place and started a fashion for groovy, poky little bars that just won't quit. Guy Grossi deserves a medal as much as a mention for resurrecting Florentino's; and then there's the bevy of youngsters (both silver-service and lo-fi) already making their mark.
But you have to draw the line somewhere.
Despite their diversity, the people we chose were distinguished by their singular vision, their passion and, in most cases, their eccentricity. (One thing Melbourne's dining scene doesn't lack is personality.)
And they do have something else in common. Forget the pot-banging, knife-throwing, and egos. Spend time with some of the legends of Melbourne hospitality and the one thing you're struck by is how damned nice they are. Well, most of them...THE LATTE ELITE
Katy Turbitt, Georgia King, Trent Nash (pictured right), WallTwo80
Melbourne hospitality is distinguished by, well, hospitality. Cheerful, intelligent front-of-house staff who don't just bring your coffee promptly, they make you feel at home. From the legendary Erez Gordon (formerly of Jacques Reymond, now at The Botanical) to the happy kids pulling lattes at your local, we could have chosen any number of barristas, sommeliers, managers or maitres 'd.
In the end, we chose the folk from WallTwo80, the hole-in-the-wall cafe that launched Balaclava's revival, because they seemed to epitomise what we love about Melbourne's waiters. They're funky but not pretentious. They may not be planning to spend the rest of their lives behind the Wega, but while they're there they're going to make the best damned longmach they can. They love people, they love working hard, and they love seeing you having a good time. Georgia King's a yoga teacher, Katy Turbitt's studying music and theatre, and Trent Nash is a former chippie who's recreated himself as a barrista (and a good one).
What they have in common is an enormous fondness for their boss, his caff, and the people who come there. "A great day for me is when we get lots of kids and dogs in," Turbitt says. "A lot of our customers are young and funky, and that's great," says King. "But I really like to see the old people too, the families.
There's also a really lovely relationship among the staff. And that makes coming to work every day a pleasure."
So no, she doesn't see herself growing old assembling toasted pide. But while she's here, she's enjoying herself, and it shows.
"It's honest work," King says. "There's something very honest about food, and I like that.
Jolly, bullish, balding, enormously likeable, all Christopoulos's ventures, post- Syracuse, have been established with former staff. Someone offers him a space. He likes it and thinks, "This would suit so-and-so." He has a chat with whichever manager, maitre'd or barrista springs to mind, and they're off.
"I just love people," he says. "I'm standing on great shoulders. That's how I do it. That and the good old Greek work ethic." With a couple of exceptions (Pelican, in which he only as a small interest, and Journal) all his businesses have a recognisable feel-a kind of cosy, clubby, slightly tatty, old-Europe vibe. That would be (a) because that's what Christopoulos, 40, really digs, and (b) because he does most of the fitout himself, drawing on the piles of junk he has stored in the shed at home. "I'm a chronic scavenger," he says. "I have a shed full of stuff that might come in useful some day - it drives my wife nuts. I could fit out another caff tomorrow with the junk I've got at home."
His one lasting regret, and his one real miscalculation, was falling out with his partners at Syracuse, the handsome city wine bar that started the whole ball rolling. "I left a lot of blood and sweat in that place - I love that place," he says. "And I still think it's the most beautiful dining room in Melbourne."
Christopoulos is taking next year off as time-out with his wife and two kids. But another new venture is never out of the question. There's all that junk to get rid of, for a start.
The one thing he's never going to do, though, is open a restaurant. "I hate restaurants!" he says. "They're all right during lunch and dinner. But between times?" He shudders. Too quiet. "I like the hum. I love the buzz you get in a caff, all day. I hate that down time. If you run a restaurant there's all this down time. What do you do?"
Well, Con, normal people have a little rest.
After a stint front-of-house at some of our more memorable eateries, including Mietta's and Lynch's, di Stasio (in partnership with Piero Gesualdi) burst onto the scene with Rosati: 500 seats in a converted Flinders Lane warehouse. From there he opened Cafe di Stasio, a little Italian place serving rustic food with a sophisticated vibe. St Kilda's well-heeled bohemians couldn't get enough of it, and 16 years later it's still going strong.
And despite his reputation as "difficult", he can't be that bad - he's had just two chefs in those 16 years. Restaurant manager Mallory Wall has been equally long-serving. Indeed, many of Melbourne's food and wine folk count him as a friend. He practises yoga and meditation, has an extensive collection of Australian art, and if he's never mastered the art of the long-term relationship, he has at least enjoyed a 14-year commitment to his cat. In short, di Stasio, as well as being a superlative restaurateur, is amass of contradictions. He shrugs, lifts his hands helplessly: "I'm a mystery to myself."
The Italian-born 49-year-old was raised in Melbourne's inner north. After a misspent adolescence hanging out on the banks of Merri Creek, wagging school to listen to Slade at a mate's house and otherwise assimilating, Ippoliti dabbled in youth work and then fashion (he managed a couple of the Saba stores) before scoring a job at the Hampton Hotel bottleshop. "It was fascinating," he says. "A great opportunity to have a look at the world. Until then, I'd never realised how much pensioners drank!"
The pub was owned by a pair of brothers who also owned Inflation and the Grainstore Tavern. Before long, Ippoliti was firmly entrenched in Melbourne's nightlife, setting up his own club, Subterranean, with his brother, before the two eventually took over Inflation. From there he ran a couple of bistros, launched Revolver in the mid-1990s, and last year opened Cookie.
In a town where new bars breed like fruit flies, Cookie distinguished itself by creating an immediate sensation. It's still unbearably crowded on a Friday night and it was Cheap Eats Bar of the Year this year (the food is also excellent).
Although Ippoliti rarely goes out, and is old enough to have his two adult children working on and off in the business (he has another daughter still at school), this guy just seems to have the knack. "I haven't been out on Saturday night since before I was 20!" he says. "But I work in a very social industry. I have an understanding about how people move around town and why they move, even though I don't do it myself."
And now he owns two of Melbourne's finest: Cherry, buried in a laneway basement, and the Ding Dong Lounge, sister to the eponymous New York rock'n'roll venue and rapidly gaining a reputation as one of Melbourne's best.
Walsh has the knack of knowing what's cool - he brought Japanese girl group the 5,6,7,8's out here long before Tarantino made them famous.
He still loves rock'n'roll (no doof-doof in his bars, thank you very much). He still loves a beer. (He has a theory that rock'n'roll folk drink more beer, doof-doof types take pills and drink water. Ergo, rock'n'roll bars make better financial sense.) And, like Cheers, his ideal bar is a place where people get together, get to know each other, sink a few lagers.
"Most of the electronic bars in Melbourne are boring as bat shit and no one gets laid there," he says. "Why not have a bar where people can get drunk and get laid?"
From these noble sentiments Ding Dong was born. And it seems plenty of people agree with him. Ding Dong is a big space - it holds around 400, but by 10pm most nights, it's jumping. And not just with sentimental over-35s longing for a Modern Lovers fix. A new generation is discovering the pleasure of electric guitars and drum kits. And possibly the concomitant pleasures of drinking beer and getting laid.
Despite also attracting the glitterati of Melbourne's live music scene - if you can call dirty hair, black T-shirts and tatty jeans "glitterati" - it's not exactly a glamorous life.
But Walsh loves it all the same. "I have people over to my place every night and I entertain them," he says. "You just look after people and the bar looks after itself. I work for myself and I get free drinks!" What more could any man ask?
Instead she headed to Melbourne and landed a job at the Victorian Arts Centre. Claringbold soon moved on to even more fruitful pastures. Cooking with Greg Malouf at O'Connells she developed a passion for the flavours of Morocco and the Middle East. A stint as head chef at Isis, then owned by Damian Trytell and Julian Lee, decided her future.
In 1998, she, Trytell and Lee opened Mecca at Southbank. Last year, the three launched not one but two restaurants at Docklands: Mecca Bah and Livebait. And now they're about to open another Mecca Bah, in Brisbane.
"She looks so vanilla, she looks so harm less," says another Melbourne restaurateur.
"But she is a dead-set dynamo."
Just for fun, the inexhaustible Claringbold, now 39, also popped over to Augusta, Georgia, in March where she cooked for some high-flying golf aficionados. "It was great. No budget. Like extreme cooking sports!" she says. "Blew away the cobwebs (like there was actually time for any to settle).
"I'm ready for Brisbane now."
But is Brisbane ready for her?
This is a man who thinks peeling peas is normal. He's famous for his sophisticated fusion of French, Asian and indigenous food and flavours. Yet anyone who saw the Secret Recipes series couldn't help but share his delight in the home cooking he uncovered in other people's kitchens. Folk who worked for him 10 years ago still call him "chef". He's been painted for the Archibald Prize, honoured as a fair-dinkum legend by the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. And, at a time of life when most chefs' thoughts turn to consulting or retirement, Reymond is still in the kitchen every night, berating and com mending his charges in turn, fiddling with everything, making sure every plate that leaves that artists' studio is perfect.
He admits that being utterly obsessed with his restaurants comes at a cost - he usually sees his family one day a week, he didn't see his first child until she was two months old. But the Burgundy-born bon vivant has not only managed to keep the family together (unusual in the Western world, let alone the restaurant business), his wife and two of his four now-adult children work with him. Either they are all saints, or there's something about the irrepressible French man that commands both loyalty, and affection. Maybe it's a little of both.
But their styles couldn't be more different. Mathis started his career with a modest pasta joint in Niddrie. But before long he had launched Joe's Garage in Fitzroy. It was an instant hit. (And still going strong, although Mathis, now 43, is no longer a part of it.) His next venture was at the embryonic Southbank - Blue Train is still a destination for anyone wanting a reliable place to meet in that intimidating labyrinth. Then came Automatic. And then he started getting really big ideas.
A belated but passionate convert to vegetarianism, he took up the lease on one of Melbourne's most desirable sites - St Kilda Sea Baths - and opened a vegie-only canteen. Then he put his hand up for what has to be one of the world's biggest pubs - Transport - on the corner site at Federation Square. Just for good measure, he also opened the 200-seat restaurant, Chocolate Buddha, at the same location.
Gutsy is hardly the word. But it's not the risk to his bank account or his reputation that's keeping him awake at night. It's the fact that if he's going to run a joint of that size, he really has to deal in dead animals. "I've had to come to terms with it but Chocolate Buddha and Transport will be the last restaurants I own that serve meat," he has vowed.
Ten years ago today, she and Andrew O'Hara opened the doors of Phillippa's in High Street, Armadale and introduced mainstream Melbourne to a different kind of bread - crusty, chewy, oddly shaped, aromatic and strangely delicious. If there was a relationship with any commercial white sliced, it was a distant one.
And how we embraced it. The New Zealand-born couple (though Grogan was raised in Melbourne's bayside) had both been working at legendary London bakery and caf, Clarke's. Grogan returned to Melbourne in the early 1990s, at the tail end of the recession, and was disgusted and depressed at how low we'd sunk. "Shopkeepers would put things in paper bags for you and the bottom would fall straight out of them. It was awful." She decided the world needed some niceness, and inspired and intrigued by the baking at Clarke's, thought it might be a good idea to open something similar back home. In the meantime, O'Hara, who had returned to New Zealand, decided to stop off in Australia on his way back to London, via South-East Asia. Grogan offered him the job of baker at her new venture. Short-term, naturally.
A decade later they're married with two children, have a massive wholesale business as well as the shop (they bake about 4000 loaves every night of the week), expanded to produce everything from jam and relish to marshmallows dusted with Belgian cocoa and established a thriving export market. These days, Grogan, now 40, has fans from Dublin to Dubai.
"People do behave a bit strangely when they find out who I am," she says. "They get sort of worshipful. It's just bread, after all!"
This is how Hana Assafiri does hospitality. It's kind of relentless. It can be a bit confronting. In the most caring way, Assafiri alternately bullies and cajoles her customers into ordering exactly what they're going to most enjoy from the seasonal, vegetarian menu. She will pull up a chair and have a chat at the same time, quiz you about your family, tell you about her day. And she will undoubtedly talk you into a little cardamom coffee or mint tea on the side while she's at it.
It's an attitude the springs directly from her upbringing. Raised in Morocco until the age of 12, in an environment defined by "generosity, compassion, hospitality", Assafiri, 39, is deeply imbued with traditional Arab notions of welcome. "Hospitality is central to how we relate," she says, "so we have a tendency to insist. And that is perceived here as having boundary problems!"
It was also an all-female environment in Morocco. The sexes live segregated lives and that fostered her other passion, feminism. Assafiri spent most of her adult life working in community advocacy, championing the rights of disadvantaged women. Now the Soup Bar employs an ever-changing roster of disenfranchised Arab immigrant women.
"This is their first employment opportunity," she says. "From here they become employable, they can move on. It empowers them."
Contrary to popular myth, she has never expelled troublesome customers. On the contrary, the really annoying ones are more likely to get a free meal (she bestows one at random every evening). "Surely there's been a bad experience but I can't recall one," she says. "More and more forme, it's consolidated my belief in human decency."
She knows the way she does business is wildly different to her hospitality colleagues. And Western attitudes do continue to confound her ("The West has trouble accepting generosity," she says.) But that's OK.
"This place isn't about what other people want," Assafiri says. "It's an expression of who we are."
The roquefort he's referring to is the 80-kilogram shipment ceremoniously buried at Brooklyn tip after an 18-month, $80,000 battle with FSANZ (Food Safety Australia and New Zealand). Studd wanted to import the raw-milk cheese from France. FSANZ said he couldn't because of concerns that cheese made from unpasteurised milk might poison people. Plenty of other citizens might think this is crazy, given that the rest of the Western world eats raw-milk cheeses without noticeable ill-effect. But few of us would be prepared to sink our life savings into defending the principle.'
So it is with Studd. When not fighting the good fight, he runs the Calendar Cheese Company, supplying pasteurised-milk cheese to restaurants. He also heads up Fromagent, a cheese-import company, and has recently completed a series for the Lifestyle Channel about cheese. "It's a very deep-seated passion," he says of his life-long love affair with fromage. "There's a wonderful connection between the place and the product. There's always something new to learn about it. I just live cheese!"
It's also a big responsibility, especially for someone with little formal training, who thought wine might be a nice hobby. "I actually studied fine art at Monash," Rich, 40, says. "I liked the idea of running a gallery. I thought art would be the career, and wine would be for fun."
Even after he'd realised a career in wine was the more promising option, he still nearly didn't get this job. Instead, he acted as referee for other people who were applying for it. But a colleague urged him to give the job ad another look. He did, enlisting his brother's help to write his first resume.
At that stage, the Van Handels had just taken over the Prince, and it was a bombsite. Rich helped them build it up from one of Melbourne's scariest pubs to one of its most sophisticated.
He also collects wine, is a member of several wine-tasting groups, and writes about wine, judges wine, and oversees the purchase and movement of tens of thousands of bottles of wines as a matter of course.
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Do Your Pets Have A Hard Time With Breakups?
A friend of mine broke up with her live-in boyfriend last week, and while she's doing fine, her cat isn't.
Ever since my friend's boyfriend moved out of the apartment they shared, her cat has been acting up. The feline has been relieving himself on the ex's side of the bed every change it gets, and when she closed the bedroom door to prevent this from happening, the cat peed on the couch.
It's pretty normal for kids whose parents are splitting up to go through a period of rebellion, and of course there's often the question of who gets to keep dog, but I'd never heard of pets being upset when a relationship ended. Have your pets ever acted out after a breakup?


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ANGLERS have been warned to discard of their fishing equipment properly - after two young swans were found tangled on fishing hooks and lines on a Lake District lake.
Windermere Lake Wardens, who patrol the largest lake in England, have rescued two cygnets, just off Ferry Nab, Bowness, in the past fortnight.
The first swan was reported tangled on February 9 and the second just four days later when a large fishing hook became stuck in the cygnets' left foot and a branch had wrapped around the attached line.
In the lead up to spring and summer, the South Lake District Council-run service has warned fisherman to take more care when disposing of loose and potentially deadly equipment.
Warden Dennis Noden said: "We need to warn anglers that if you're discarding lines, hooks or lures please be aware there is wildlife out there that can easily get tangled up.
"Luckily we are based right on the lake so can usually get to incidents before it escalates into something more serious."


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Compare files in two directories
Sometimes I have two versions of a directory stored on my computer. When cleaning up, it is handy to be able to see which files are in common and which files differ. To do that, I wrote a small Python script that compares two directories. The script also shows duplicate files in each of the directories. MD5 checksums are used to determine if files are equal – no file name comparison is used. Also, the script goes recursively into subdirectories.
The usage is simple:
Usage: compare.py [-d] dir1 dir2 Compares files in two directories, based on their MD5 checksum. -d: Debug. Prints the MD5 checksum of every file to stderr.
Sample usage and output:
% python compare.py dir1 dir2 Duplicate files ============================================================ dir1/file 2.pdf dir1/file.pdf Common files ============================================================ dir1/image.png dir2/image.png dir1/test.pdf dir2/subdir/foobar.pdf Files only in dir1 ============================================================ dir1/hello.jpg Files only in dir2 ============================================================ dir2/something.jpg dir2/video.mov


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Some weeks ago I read this book with my kids (a six-year-old boy and an almost-eight-year-old girl) several times now, and they enjoyed both the story and the images. But the book became especially relevant recently when my son developed the habit of kicking and punching his sister. That's a phase a lot of kids go through, but it's especially worrisome because he's taking karate classes, and at some point he's going to be able to do some serious harm.
So last night, when my son was getting mad, we picked up the book again, and read through it. he wanted to read the book out loud himself, and he was able to do so … Read more »
Are you sitting comfortably? Have you silenced all the alarms on your computer and phone? Have you closed all other windows or switched your browser to full screen mode? Have you taken three full breaths, closed your eyes, and spent a few minutes quietly listening to the world around you? No? OK, go do that now…
I adore Ms. Underwood's books. So does my six-year-old daughter and, to a lesser extent, my four-year-old son. My wife's a big fan, too. Underwood writes a lot … Read more »
Of course I got a copy of the book, and it's been a bedtime fixture in our household ever since. Now comes a much-welcomed sequel, The Buddha's Apprentice at Bedtime.
As with the first volume, … Read more »
Title: No Ordinary Apple: A Story About Eating Mindfully
Author: Sara Marlowe, Philip Pascuzzo (illus.)
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Available from: Wisdom Publications, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.com.
No Ordinary Apple is a variation on the famous "raisin exercise" that's so popular in meditation classes. (If you're not familiar with the raisin exercise it's where we mindfully eat a single raisin, thoroughly exploring it with our senses.) But No Ordinary Apple is, of course, a children's book — and a very welcome addition to the growing body of meditation resources for children.
The fruit is question is an apple rather than a raisin and the mindful eater … Read more »
This lovely children's book has been test-driven by my five-year-old daughter, and found to be engaging and illuminating. In my amateur estimation it would be suitable for children considerably older — at least up to the age of eight or nine.
Now I Know (the full title is "Now I Know That Silly Hopes and Fears Will Just Make Wrinkles on My Face") is the first of a series, also called Now I Know, described as a "Collection of Retro Cool Wisdom for Kids." This series of children's books is written and illustrated by Sally Devorsine, who lives in Bhutan, where she teaches a western school curriculum to young monks.
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Title: Now I
Recently I walked into a bookstore and saw a spine bearing the title "Buddha at Bedtime." As the father of two young children who always want a good story at bedtime, I was delighted to know that this book existed. I was even more delighted — and surprised — when I pulled the book from the shelf and realized that I knew the author, Nagaraja.
So for full disclosure, I first met Nagaraja at the Glasgow Buddhist Center over 20 years ago, and although we've never been close friends, we were ordained together and I've sometimes asked him to review books for me. But our connection is weak enough that his book could be out … Read more »
And it's not all about stillness and quiet. One track, called "wilds", begins with a driving drumbeat and asks, … Read more »