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When asked about my heritage, I should say Mexican.
Aside from my glowing Irish skin and my strawberry-blond hair, I could pull it off. (Don't mind the column mug, I dye this mop, much to my mother's chagrin.)
However, my siblings and I will put nearly everything in a tortilla. My older brother uses spaghetti, my younger brother makes kale burritos, my younger sister stuffs 'em with fancy homemade saffron rice and such (her husband's an Aspen chef, who was just on the Cooking Channel, yeah!) and my youngest sister makes guacamole burritos with guacamole on the side, covered in guacamole. I've put nearly every edible thing in a tortilla, including minestrone soup. That was a drunken, messy mistake.
We grew up with a mom who made burritos often. She would plop a vast array of stuffing on a lazy Susan (food turntable, laymen) in the middle of our dining table. My husband grills every night and often makes fresh fire-roasted salsa for me because he knows that whatever he's grilling, I'll put in a tortilla.
Maybe hailing from Southern California has something to do with it — but I think it's that burritos are bee's knees wrapped in a cat's meow.
Burritos will be aplenty in Denver's City Park (17th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard), on Saturday for Chipotle's Cultivate Festival from 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. (chipotle.com/cultivate/Denver.aspx).
Guess what goes better with burritos? (Besides burritos.) A free Cold War Kids show. HOLY SHIT.
My non-Mexican head is going to explode. (Went to see Cold War Kids at the Fox in Boulder two Halloween weekends ago after getting hitched to Husband at Denver's municipal building. Aw. Get a room.)
Since the burrito chain is based in Denver, the festival is making the Mile High City one of three stops. This food and music fest will include cooking demonstrations by celebrity TV chefs — including Amanda Freitag from "Chopped," Scott Parker, of Denver's Table 6, Richard Blais from "Top Chef All-Stars," two head chefs from Chipotle and notably, Boulder's Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, executive chef and co-owner of Pearl Street's Frasca.
Aside from on-site food demos, there will be local food artisans, farmers, sustainable ingredient talks (including one with Longmont's Oskar Blues Hops and Heifers farm), food sampling and a brewer's hall.
Music lineup: California's Cold War Kids, Portland's Blitzen Trapper, Washington soul crooner Allen Stone, Philly's Good Old War, Denver's own Air Dubai and Chipotle's in-house soundtrack music-maker, Chris Golub.
It's free. It's Mexican food. It's burritos. It's sustainable.
It's burritos! Move your ass.
Color run
Since you fit lovelies like to go running and such (CDC just released a report having Colorado as the lowest obesity rate, so we're better than everyone else), now you can get sweaty, huffy and puffy while a rainbow punches you in the face.
Sort of.
Saturday morning at 9, the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Rd., Littleton, is hosting the Color Me Rad 5K, where runners get showered with a different color of powder at each kilometer. (colormerad.com)
Littleton is a bit further south, but the scenery is gorgeous and like I said — you Boulderites enjoy them runs. (I'll be running to the bar.)
The first heat starts at 9 a.m. and continues every 30 minutes until 11:30 a.m.
Don't worry your little sustainable skinny asses, the colors are non-toxic and non-rash inducing, made from colored cornstarch. There's a $50 entry fee.


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Dove of Peace: Pablo Picasso, Lithograph (1949)
There is so much to be grateful for! Best wishes to all for a Wonderful, Happy and Healthy New Year! God bless us everyone!
Imagine flipping through the television channels and you turned on Glee's Extraordinary Merry Christmas, expecting a group of rambunctious teenagers covering a number of holiday pop songs, but instead you get a black-and-white homage to Judy Garland's 1963 Christmas Special, complete with laugh tracks, a Luke Skywalker lookalike (including a lightsaber) and an Irish holiday elf!
Well, this Glee Christmas program was every bit as strange as it sounds, but maybe in today's times it takes a show like this to spread holiday cheer and inspire the gift of giving.
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The Night Before Christmas was originally a 1968 Animated Christmas Television Special, with background music provided by the Norman Luboff Choir. It was shown regularly for about 10 years as a holiday special, but has since disappeared from television. The classic holiday animated short film tells the heartwarming true story of how Clement C. Moore came to write the Christmas poem beloved by generations of children, and includes a joyous retelling of the charming A Visit from St. Nicholas.
In the film, Clement Moore goes on a short trip just before Christmas to give a series of lectures at a university, and he promises to get his daughter Charity a storybook about Santa Claus for Christmas while he is away. Charity develops pneumonia while he's gone, and the doctor says she might not survive. When Clement arrives back home, he's distraught to see his beloved daughter near death. Making things even worse, he hadn't found any books about Santa Claus when he went shopping, and even through her fever she's asking for one. Feeling that he had broken his promise, he decides to write a story of his own and read it to her; it is the story which became A Visit from St. Nicholas.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1974 animated short film, originally a television Christmas special based on Clement Moore's famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. For some unexplained reason, all the letters sent to Santa Claus are being returned to the children of Junctionville. It seems that some disenchanted resident of the small town has angered Santa, calling Christmas nothing but "a fraudulent myth!" The skeptical resident turns out to be little mouse Albert, who has to be brought to his senses. The way in which Albert is persuaded to change his tune paves the way for Santa's jolly return to Junctionville and the joyous finale of this charming animated fable.
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The Snowman is a magical, classic animated short film directed by Dianne Jackson, based on the best-selling children's story by Raymond Briggs. The film premiered on the United Kingdom's BBC Channel 4 on Christmas Eve 1982, and has aired every year since then. The Snowman won the 1983 BAFTA TV Award for Best Chilcren's Program and was nominated for a 1983 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The Snowman tells the wordless story of a young boy whose snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve and takes him on a series of adventures, only to melt into nothingness by dawn of the next day. It is a beloved holiday tradition; for many children of the 1970s and 1980s it was the first program they ever saw that addressed the issues of death and loss.
A sequel to the silent Christmas classic The Snowman, titled The Snowman and the Snowdog, is scheduled to air this Monday on BBC's Channel 4, more than 30 years after the original film's premiere.
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The Bell Ringer is a humorously delightful animated short film created by Royale, a motion design and production studio in Los Angeles. The film was launched as part of Royale's interactive holiday site, raising funds for The American Red Cross Disaster Relief in support of those affected by Superstorm Sandy. At the heart of the 25-day fundraising effort is the animated short about Edith, a sweet old lady who sets up shop on a busy street corner to raise money for charity.
Edith, the altruistic bell ringer, embarks on her holiday mission in a faraway land on a wintry city sidewalk. After many fruitless attempts at ringing in the spirit of giving, Edith becomes so frustrated that she angrily hurls her bell at the next uncaring passerby, which causes a coin to curiously bounce her way. Ignored yet again, she throws her bell at another passerby, this time yielding even more coins. Soon, Edith's red canister is brimming with wads of paper money and a pile of coins, even a shiny engagement ring. The film's ending reveals a knockout surprise for a noble cause.
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Some people feel that The Pogues' Fairytale of New York is the best Christmas song ever, and not just one of the best, but a gorgeous song no matter why or how you observe Christmas. Fairytale of New York isn't exactly the epitome of restraint, with Shane MacGowan and the sadly departed Kirsty MacColl singing all over each other, slurring words and tossing all kinds of insults at each other.
The song starts out tenderly, with MacGowan recounting Christmas Eve spent in a Bowery drunk tank, but also his recent gambling win and dreams for the future. MacColl lets us know, as the tempo picks up, that they met on a Christmas Eve, and after some light banter they really get into it, blaming each other for anything they can get their hands on, MacColl ending with "Happy Christmas your arse / I pray God it's our last."
But then they sing the chorus again, and a string section that actually sounds like it belongs in a Christmas song begins to take over. And it all feels, in spite of itself, grand and sweeping and even a little touching. They squabble a little more, the same as every Christmas, but they're losing steam; finally MacColl accuses MacGowan of stealing her dreams when they met. This is a terribly poetic way to depict the deadening of expectations in terrible lives. But MacGowan's voice turns gentle, even though it's still rough, and he responds: "I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own, Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you."
It's a tough old life, and Fairytale of New York practically oozes with the gritty spirit of urban decay, poverty, alcoholism and general dysfunction. But as the sounds of those strings float off and out of sight, it doesn't seem to matter. Not to them and not to us, because it's the day to sigh and give in to our better inclinations and hold each other and admit there's still something there. Christmas is the arbitrary day of the year that purely through willpower and tradition we've turned into the day where we all try just a little bit harder at being better than we thought we could be.
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Darth Vader must have been taking a break when a man brazenly smashed in the windows of Los Angeles Police cars along Hollywood Boulevard's "Walk of Fame."
Tuesday afternoon, a man yelled "I love Jesus Christ" and proceeded to take a metal rod to the windows of four LAPD squad cars, Los Angeles' KTLA-TV reports. On the last car, he grabbed a laptop and began using it at a nearby kiosk.
A man dressed in a Darth Vader costume saw the carnage and sheepishly walked away with his lightsaber.
Soon after, a group of officers took down the suspect. Superman, or a guy dressed as Superman, arrived at the scene too late.
"I saw the whole thing," the Superman impersonator said. "It's not my job to jump in the middle."
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Why Tesla Model S has so many battery cells?
Why Tesla Model S has so many battery cells?
1) Benefit is much lower price and higher energy density. These are very common 18650 batteries common to all kinds of mobile devices so Tesla has benefit of mass production for those and very large manufacturer to back them up. Also those batteries stacked together nice and tidy creates natural honeycomb structure which is very durable.
If one cell fails it gets separated from the rest, so no problem there.
2) Where did you find that info about cathode? I tried fast search but found nothing that specific. They are recyclable, but for what extend that is realized this far I'm not sure. Tesla is recycling them.
@Timo - Motor Trend mentions the cells are Nickel-cobalt-aluminum (NCA):
One thing I noticed about using the small, cylindrical 18650 format cells is that there is a lot more surface area and a better shape for even cooling.
1) There is a reason the Nissan Leaf goes such a short distance on a single charge.
2) If we are going to worry about the toxicity of a battery pack then we had better pull every cell phone, laptop, florescent light bulb, gasoline product and any other product that has toxic materials. Heck I saw one weird report that if you ground up an LED light bulb and ingested it the materials would be toxic.
The dose makes the poison. Excess Vitamin A killed Mawson's colleagues in Antarctica (1912). Inadequate Vitamin a blinds millions every year.
Batteries of all kinds are the most recycled products. This is really a non-issue even though the detractors always bring it up.
In addition, Tesla has designed the battery so that it can be reused in other applications (Solar City) once it no longer has enough capacity to be used as an automotive battery. So first it will have an eight to fifteen year life in a car and then it will have an undetermined amount of life as a stationary battery, and then it can be recycled almost 100%. How many other products get anywhere this amount of use for a single manufacturing-->usage cycle?
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1) There is a reason the Nissan Leaf goes such a short distance on a single charge."
It's called a 24K battery
A big benefit of these batteries is likely multiple suppliers. Fisker had to shut down Karma due to not being able to get batteries from their supplier.
I think a an obvious advantage in addition to all of those listed is research. How many sources are doing research to improve batteries for mobile devices like cellphones, laptops, ipads/pods etc? How many are doing research on batteries for cars? Where can we anticipate the most improvement? I think the answer is obvious.
@jackhub, while I agree that this is how it is now, the situation will not be that very long.
20000 * 8000 batteries is 160,000,000 batteries. One laptop contains maybe four of those so that's 40 million laptops. Considering that Model S share from sold cars is tiny compared to world wide sales, and their GenIII will sell a lot more you are closing laptop sales pretty quickly. Car batteries will soon become dominant use of rechargeable batteries.
Even now if you combine Model S future 20000 + Leaf 42700 (2012) + Volt 24000+ (2012) you are already in quite high numbers when it comes in battery kWh:s.
(BTW kinda funny to notice that Model S has half Leaf numbers even that it costs a lot more. If Tesla manages to make GenIII affordable car even close as sexy as Model S it will rule the world).
True, but there is an intense market pressure from the entire mobile computing industry for progress in battery performance for all mobile devices. It is both the size and performance of the battery that is of interest to that market and they are willing to pay a premium for develoopment. It is an industry that is on the front burner of both economic growth and imaginitive development. Automobiles-with the exception of Tesla ;>) are in a humdrum industry for most people.
I don't see a similar interest in the battery used by the Leaf. Other electric car manufacturers have chosen to go with few, large batteries. That form factor will not benefit the mobile device market.
I believe Tesla will ride the pressure for research on mobile device batteries in both reduced size and improved performance. Reductions in size means less weight and higher performance per unit of weight. The numbers you suggest for automobile use of batteries will only drive down the costs for the mobile market and Tesla, but not nearly as much for the Leaf and autos using the larger form factor. Simply put, that's not where the money is for R&D.
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You say that these aren't must-win games for San Diego State – that the Mountain West Tournament is merely the corsage-and-boutonnière exchange before the Big Dance. You're wrong.
You think that, for the Aztecs, a Sin City-loss would be a forgivable sin – that because they're a lock for the NCAA Tourney, they can put up an "L" and not come out losers. You're sorely mistaken.
If you are an SDSU fan, a defeat in Las Vegas should spark fear. Loathing, too. Because if this team doesn't find itself now, consider it lost forever.
Momentum, you see, is paramount when it comes to the NCAA Tournament. Teams that limp in aren't just going to… hang on, we've got a reader from Pennsylvania who insists on chiming in. Yes, sir?
Yeah, I'm a proud Villanova alum who watched my Wildcats win the whole dang thing in 1985 as an eighth seed. You know how they fared just before the Dance? They lost five of nine including the second game of the conference tournament. One year later, LSU marched to the Final Four as an 11-seed after dropping three of four. So you can't tell me that the Aztecs winning the Mountain West tourney is paramount – not when the results of the NCAA Tournament tend to be borderline paranormal.
Point taken. Sure, Villanova cut down the nets in '85. The Red Sox also came back from three games down to beat the Yankees in '04, and Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in 1990. The thing is, if you want to stake your case on the occasional acts of God, your argument is as soft as the clouds from which those acts came.
The beauty of sports is their unpredictability – a trait exponentially heightened during March Madness. But the reality of sports is that teams playing poorly are rarely able to flip that proverbial switch.
The 2002-03 Lakers had enough talent to beat the Eastern Conference All-Stars, but started off 13-20 while shrouded in inner turmoil. Everyone expected them to "turn it on" come playoff time, but they fell in second round.
The Aztecs (21-9, 9-7) may not have intrasquad drama befitting a screenplay, but their play this season has always felt off-script. They haven't been able to establish early leads. They haven't been able to win tight games. Their perimeter shooting has had a split personality. And their inside scoring is often non-existent.
These aren't components of the game that the national spotlight will magically brighten. These are elements that have to be repaired in Vegas, or the Aztecs will never see Week 2 of the NCAA Tourna…hold on. Another reader. This one's from the Midwest.
Um, yeah, I'm a Missouri fan, so I'm definitely going to keep my name anonymous. But I wanted to remind you that, last year, my Tigers won five straight games – including the Big 12 Tournament – before falling to 15th-seeded Norfolk State in the Dance. In other words, do you really expect me to buy this "momentum" thing?
Point taken. Again. But there's difference between a hot team going frigid and a lukewarm team expecting to catch fire. Any squad can have an off night, but you're not going to find a mediocre one winning four straight to reach the Final Four.
Over the past few years, SDSU's basketball standard has risen to Colorado altitudes, where first-round wins or Sweet 16s no longer satiate its fan base. And as Aztecs coach Steve Fisher said, when it comes to making a Tournament run, "you have to feel good about yourselves. And winning helps you feel good."
Considering SDSU has lost four of its past seven, it can't be feeling too euphoric. Not like that 1983 NC State team, the miraculous sixth-seeded national champion that won its final 10 contests – including the ACC Tournament.
Not like that 2011 UConn team, which was unranked in November, No. 21 in early March, and then won five straight Big East Tournament games en route to the national title. And certainly not like that third-seeded Florida squad from 2006, which also won five in a row before the Tourney, then beat its Final Four opponents by an average of 15.5 points.
Nope, not like that.
But assuming the Aztecs do rediscover their swagger, do they have the talent to make a run? With the right matchups in the right circumstances – absolutely.
However, that run has to start now. In Vegas.
Because if SDSU is relying on flipping the switch, sorry – it's just gonna be lights out.


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Annual Book Convention Welcomes Show Business Legend on Opening Night
Norwalk, CT, March 30, 2010: Barbra Streisand, the legendary actress, singer, and director, will appear at this year's BookExpo America (BEA) at the Opening Night Keynote Reception on Tuesday, May 25th. She will be interviewed before thousands of booksellers and book industry professionals about My Passion for Design, to be published by Viking on November 16, 2010. It will be Ms. Streisand's first appearance on behalf of the book.
"We are honored to welcome Barbra Streisand to our stage," notes Steven Rosato, Event Director for BookExpo America. "One of the truly exceptional things about having a distinguished guest like Ms. Streisand headline our event for us is that it calls attention to the strength, vitality, and excitement that is so much part of the book industry. We are deeply grateful to Ms. Streisand for committing her time and energy to what is certain to be a stellar moment at BEA."
In her first book, My Passion for Design, Barbra Streisand reveals another aspect of her talent: the taste and style that have inspired her extraordinary homes and collections. "My Passion for Design" will focus on the architecture and construction of her newest homes, the dream refuge that she has longed for since the days when she shared a small Brooklyn apartment with her mother, brother, and grandparents.
BookExpo America will take place May 25th – May 27th at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. It is a business convention, open only to members of the book trade. The Opening Night Keynote Reception will be in the Special Events Hall and all registered attendees will be admitted.
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Washer, dryer mistakes we make
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Industry experts say washing machines tend to break down the most because they take the most beatings and contain many moving parts. Angie's List asked highly rated appliance repair companies about how we can take better care of our washer and dryers.
Washing machine mistakes:
- Overloading a washing machine with too many clothes can cause it to prematurely wear out. Heavy or off-balance loads can damage a washing machine.
- Not having the water level at the proper setting for the amount of clothes being washed is hard on a washer's motorized components. Your clothes also won't get cleaned well if there's not enough water.
- Using the wrong amount (or type) of laundry detergent. Homeowners tend to use too much detergent. Use the recommended amount. Experts say if you have a front loader you should use high efficiency (HE) laundry detergent. Using non-HE detergent can cause suds to leave a residue inside your machine.
- Not checking your hoses for cracks/corrosion and replacing as necessary. Rubber hoses can rot and burst. Replace rubber hoses with steel ones.
- Not cleaning the drum/dispensers/gaskets regularly. Tackling this chore monthly will help reduce buildup. After cleaning, leave the door open to dry the inside of the washer. There are products on the market designed for cleaning your machine.
- Forgetting to empty out those pockets before you run a load. Items left behind can damage the machine's pump.
Clothes dryer mistakes:
- Ignoring the lint screen after every load. Cleaning it will help reduce lint buildup in the vent. Ignoring a slow-dyer could be a recipe for disaster.
- If you use dryer sheets you should rinse the filter to prevent residue buildup.
- If your dryer takes longer than an hour to dry a standard-sized load, a vent cleaning could rectify the issue. Most dryer vent cleanings cost less than $100 and can make your dryer run as good as new.
When in doubt, refer to your washer and dryer owner's manual on the best ways to maintain your appliances.
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Verizon Wireless Expands Its Network In Wallingford, Connecticut
WALLINGFORD, CT — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in New Haven County, Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's most reliable wireless network, has expanded its network with a new cell site. The new site increases coverage and capacity along Route 68.
This network expansion is part of the company's aggressive multi-billion dollar network investment each year (more than $1 billion every 90 days) to stay ahead of the growing demand for Verizon Wireless voice and data services. The company invested more than $5.5 billion in its wireless network last year as part of its commitment to offer customers the most reliable service available in the nation, including wireless data services such as Picture Messaging, TXT Messaging, and the company's exclusive V CAST service. V CAST brings TV and other multimedia services to wireless phones over Verizon Wireless' high-speed BroadbandAccess wireless network. BroadbandAccess offers customers the nation's largest high-speed wireless broadband network, operating at average speeds between 400 kbps - 700 kbps.
Strong demand for Verizon Wireless services continued during the second quarter of 2005 as the company added an industry record 1.9 million net new customers, and maintained its position as the nation's wireless leader in customer loyalty, setting an industry record for customer retention and lowest turnover rate, as reported by the largest wireless providers.
The company's 'most reliable network' claim is based on network studies performed by real-life test men and test women throughout the country who inspired the "can you hear me now" national advertising campaign. These engineers conduct more than 300,000 call attempts monthly on Verizon Wireless' and other national carriers' networks while traveling over 100,000 miles a month in specially equipped, company-owned test vehicles.
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PATERSON, New Jersey — A New Jersey school district suspended a first-grade teacher after parents complained that she had posted derogatory comments about her students on her Facebook page.
The Record newspaper reports that the teacher wrote about feeling like "a warden" and referred to her 6-year-old and 7-year-old students as future criminals.
The teacher, whose name was not disclosed, was removed from the classroom this week after several parents who saw the posts came to Paterson School 21 and asked that their children be removed from her class.
Superintendent Donnie Evans confirmed the suspension on Friday and said the district was investigating. He declined further comment because it was a personnel matter.
Board of Education President Theodore Best told the newspaper that the teacher was suspended "because the incident created serious problems at the school that impeded the functioning of the building."
He added: "You can't simply fire someone for what they have on a Facebook page, but if that spills over and affects the classroom, then you can take action."
The flap comes just weeks after a high school English teacher from outside Philadelphia was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners."
And Chicago Public Schools officials are investigating a teacher who apparently posted a photo on her Facebook page of a student who wore Jolly Rancher candies in her hair. The 7-year-old girl's mother complained to school officials after she saw negative comments written about her daughter's picture on the page.
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These lazy afternoons are made of bones and tiny pieces of your nose and the image of your outie belly button laced with sugar and a length of string lassoed around a tooth or it could be the moon. Depends whether we're on talking terms or not. Gonna have a beer and shave my pubes and then place them in an envelope and send them to you sealed with a kiss plus a photograph of me as a kid back when my hair was more ginger and I was a hyperactive dick, as opposed to now when I'm just old and strange. I've got sunburn and I'm all out of rolling tobacco and my teeth hurt and there hasn't been a terrorist attack in months and I'm worried that when I next take the train I'll be caught up in one and end up as some body outlined by chalk available to view on the internet in just a click so I'm walking through this field and it's so hot and I see flesh and birth and wombs and honey and the sea and the sea it calls to me and even though I don't know what to say I'm sure there's a response in me just waiting to get out so on Monday Wednesday and Friday I do these squats and pretend I'm fucking a supermodel I wanna be just like Bundy wanna be wrapped up in infamy but boredom will no doubt get the better of me and the sweet taste of whiskey is enough to render anyone dumb, especially me. Might grow my hair and blow my brains out but not before I do the dusting and drink a cup of tea while doing my best to fall off the edge because sometimes falling off the edge is just so sweet so maybe come round and fall with me. Should put this in a letter but I'm too tired. I used to be such a romantic, or at least I think I did. Now I'm just bored with everything but there are times when a little light comes through. Not often it must be said, but now and again it happens, and life feels better for it, specially when I write about your smile and how it flares in my mind like an explosion in the sky, like that of a falling satellite, or an angel kicked out of heaven for its love of mirrors and André Previn.
S.K. Nicholas is the creator of Myredabyss.com, as well as author of two novels A Journal for Damned Lovers Vol 1 & 2. Both of these books are availableon Amazon. Additionally, Nicholas is a member of the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective.


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As only a recent fan of the San Francisco Giants, I know of the 2002 World Series defeat, Barry Bonds' race to reach and beat Hank Aaron's homerun record, and the young and magnificent arm of the 22 year-old pitcher Tim Lincecum. I know the names of the great Giants like Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and Juan Marichal; but the period from the 1958 move of the New York Giants to San Francisco up to the end of the 1990s is a time I know little about. Thankfully 2008 is the fiftieth anniversary of the San Francisco Giants, and to commemorate it a beautiful book has been published, written by Brian Murphy (a host for the KNBR sports radio station), celebrating the fifty years of San Francisco baseball history with the Giants.
The cover of San Francisco Giants: 50 Years captures the book perfectly with a split picture: on the top is Seals stadium, formerly a place for minor league baseball; it was where the new San Francisco Giants played their first games; at the bottom is the breathtaking AT&T Park, where the Giants currently reside. A foreword from longtime fan Danny Glover takes the reader back to moments in Glover's history as a little boy watching the greats play as Giants. Brian Murphy then sweeps you back to the first days of the New York Giants gracing the streets of the city by the bay as the new San Francisco Giants. Murphy uses a descriptive style that congers images in one's mind of the history of this baseball team, not overloading the book with stats and numbers, but providing facts and details where necessary, informing the reader of the many great strides the Giants have made, as well as the crucial times they came within reaching distance of the World Series ring: in 1962 against the New York Yankees, in 1989 against the Oakland Athletics, and in 2002 against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Brian Murphy takes the readers through the many high points of the San Francisco Giants history, as well as the many low points. There is the miraculous story of the pitcher Dave Dravecky, a star for the team until a tumor was found in his pitching arm, who after surgery and recovery returned to pitch one of his best games ever. In the following game, he snapped his humerus bone, and eventually had to have his arm amputated. The story of the great Bobby Bonds, as his son hung around the clubhouse and watched his father and godfather, Willie Mays. The career of Barry Bonds who came to the Giants in 1993 and spent the next fourteen years smashing records and creating news goals for future players to reach. And hints at possible future greats for the San Francisco Giants like Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum, who pitched in the 2008 All Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The book ends with a superb finish: an afterword from the great Willie Mays, as he recounts some of his memories as a Giant.
San Francisco Giants: 50 Years is a treasure for any sort of fan of the Giants bursting with photos, booklets featuring team photos and opening day lineups for all fifty years, along with an audio CD recounting fifty years of play-by-play highlights. It is a book that will never spend long on the shelf, as readers will keep picking it up again and again, whether to look up a detail of history, check on a team member or stat, or simply to look at some of the greatest players the world of baseball has ever known.
If you liked this review and are interested in purchasing this book, click here.
Originally written on July 26th 2008 ©Alex C. Telander.


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Wow — last night Robot Chicken aired its third Star Wars special, and it was almost better than the first. It was truly spectacular, especially when Boba Fett called Luke Skywalker Jodi Foster. Here our our three favorite moments.
Death Star Escalator
This scene was just brilliant, I can't stop thinking about it. Does ANYONE know where it's from? It reminded me of the part in Signs where the family is eating pizza and staring at M. Night (who hit their mother with his pick up) but there's got to be another movie scene out there that's closer to this. If you know please, tell me!
And finally a little drunk Fett...
The episode should be up on itunes by now, if you want to watch it in its entirety.


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For a second consecutive week, Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher will be looking across to the other sideline and see a familiar face when his 22nd-ranked Aggies (4-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) visit South Carolina Saturday.
Kickoff at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia is 3:30 p.m. on the SEC Network.
Fisher and the Gamecocks' Will Muschamp have links that go back several years. Most notably, both were coordinators at LSU, Fisher on offense, Muschamp on defense, under Nick Saban at LSU for the Tigers' 2003 national championship team.
"Will was one of the brightest guys I've ever been around," Fisher said. "We won a national championship together as coordinators, and we're friends.
"People know we used to own a house, a beach house, together. It was a lot of things. He's always been a great friend, a great guy."
Muschamp also was a graduate assistant at Auburn when Fisher was on the staff there.
"He's a great friend," Muschamp said of Fisher. "We worked together back at Auburn in the '90s, then obviously we were together at LSU. He's a really good football coach, and he's got a good football team."
Muschamp's Gamecocks (3-2, 2-2 SEC) are coming off an emotional, 37-35 victory over Missouri in their last outing. Fisher's Aggies went to overtime for a 20-14 win over a Kentucky team that is coached by Mark Stoops, who was Fisher's offensive coordinator at Florida State before taking the Wildcats job.
"You know all those guys and you hate playing all your friends," Fisher said. "You really do."
Fisher called the win over Kentucky "another step for us in the right direction." The Aggies more than dominated the then-13th-ranked Wildcats, holding what was then the SEC's leading rushing team to just 70 yards on the ground and 178 in total offense.
But they failed to make the plays earlier that could have made for a more comfortable evening, failing to convert a fourth-and-1 at Kentucky's 27-yard line in the second quarter and missing a field goal and turning the ball over twice in the second half.
With 390 yards, the Aggies more than doubled Kentucky's output. For the season, they have averaged over 490 yards a game rushing and passing and have the league's leading rusher in running back Trayveon Williams. Williams has averaged 120 yards a game and 6.0 per carry with seven rushing touchdowns.
"The big thing is on offense the consistency to finish drives," Fisher said. "The way we're moving the ball, we've got to finish drives and put points on the board."
That will be the key against the Gamecocks, he emphasized.
"We're going to have to start fast and finish fast in this one," Fisher said. "We'll have to make our adjustments, too.
"Anytime you're on the road it gives you confidence to get out of the blocks to play well like we did in the Arkansas game. Got a jump and got out front. But this game we're going to have to get out in front and maintain.
"They can score points."
The Gamecocks' offense will present just a bit of a mystery, however. Junior Jake Bentley is expected to be back as the starter at quarterback after missing last week with a knee injury, but it isn't certain.
Senior Mike Scarnecchia, who led the comeback win over Missouri, could start again.
"I've told both Jake and Mike that they need to be ready to go play," Muschamp said. "We've got two guys we can win with, and that's good to have."
Scarnechia had seen little time before last week, when he passed for 249 yards. Bentley has started since his freshman year and is an accurate passer with a 64 percent completion rate this season.
"I'm making the decision that I think helps us win," Muschamp said. "At the end of the day, that's what we are going to do, but we have two guys I have confidence that we can win with. I feel comfortable with both guys."


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WASC special visit team commends University of Hawai'i on its efforts to improve relationships and governance structure over the past five years
WASC Accrediting Commission endorses team's findings and recommendationsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Honolulu — University of Hawai'i President David McClain was notified via letter this month that the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities endorsed the report of its special visit team at its June 20-22, 2007 meeting, and commended the University of Hawai'i for its engagement in the review process and the progress made in clarifying and strengthening its governance structure.
Over the past five years, the WASC Commission has worked with UH in a special effort to evaluate and guide the development of a major reorganization. The process was initiated by the university in 2002 to better assure that the governance structure of the UH System supports the institutional integrity necessary for UH to fulfill its role as the provider of public higher education in the state.
In preparation for the visit, the University prepared a report that responded to the five issues previously cited by WASC: stability of leadership, monitoring of the system office organization, financial/budgeting accountability; relations with the Governor and the Legislature, and the impact of increased tuition. The special visit team was also charged to assess whether continuing progress was being made in Board of Regents/President relations, strategic planning, and the state of Native Hawaiian affairs.
According to the commission letter, the March 2007 special visit team "found progress continuing on all issues, and the general state of each of these issues seems to be much improved from 2002."
"This effort to assess our operations, examine roles and relationships, and review current and future strategic initiatives has been extremely beneficial," said Vice President Linda Johnsrud. "The WASC team brings an external perspective that enables us to take a fresh look at the issues and make changes that improve our accountability and effectiveness."
The Commission specifically acknowledged the Board of Regents for the progress made since the last review in 2002, particularly in improving board functioning, governance effectiveness, and the clear direction provided to the University. Chair of the Regents, Kitty Lagareta commented, "Since coming onto the Board of Regents in 2003, it has been a great privilege to serve with regents who have only one agenda and that is ensuring that the University of Hawaiʻi is the best that it can be for the people of Hawaiʻi. The regents have done a lot of heavy lifting over the past four years on some very tough issues including the University's leadership, a significant tuition increase, improving infrastructure and facilities through public-private partnerships, and ensuring that our university system is meeting the higher education needs of all of our students and our state. It has been a great pleasure working with President McClain and other leaders in the university system, and we are very gratified that the commission has so strongly acknowledged the progress we have made together."
The commission also endorsed UH's efforts, as part of its strategic planning, to set enrollment goals for each campus and its participation in a national initiative to significantly increase retention and degree-completion rates. The visiting team recommended continued attention be given to maintaining and refining such processes.
The commission plans to follow up on the progress in these areas in future visits.
A copy of the report the university prepared for the commission, a letter from WASC President and Executive Director Ralph A. Wolff to UH President David McClain, as well as a copy of the March 2007 Special Visit team report, can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/app/aa/.
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A Declaration of Intent
The Campaign promotes Enlightened Agriculture — aka "Real Farming": "Farming that is expressly designed to feed people without wrecking the rest of the world".
If this was truly the world's intent, then we could feed everyone who is ever liable to be born to the highest standards both of nutrition and gastronomy; and we, humanity, could be looking forward to the next million years.
But we won't get anywhere near all this if we rely on present-day governance – big governments, corporates, and banks, supported by their paid intellectuals and experts. We – humanity — have to take our own affairs into our own hands. So the Campaign aims for nothing less than
"A people's takeover of the world's food supply".
To achieve this, we need to re-think the world's agriculture from first principles – husbandry, technology, science, economics, governance, morality. This is the role of The College. We aim to attract the world's most accomplished thinkers – but even more important is the genius of the people. Agriculture and the world's cuisines were devised over tens of thousands of years by people at large. The College must be a people's forum.
If enough people get involved, we can surely build the critical mass that could rescue us all, and the world at large, even at this late hour.
Colin and Ruth Tudge, January 8 2011
The Campaign for Real Farming sprung up in 2009 as a scion of LandShare, in turn established with the generous support of the Hollybush Trust. Co-founders of the Campaign, and co-editors of this website, are Colin Tudge and Ruth Tudge (aka Ruth West).
The Editors
Colin Tudge is a townie by origin – South London – but fell in love with agriculture on a visit to a farm in Lancashire on his 10th birthday (in 1953). He went on to read zoology at Cambridge – and then began to write for a living, mainly for Farmers Weekly and New Scientist, and then for BBC Radio 3. In these roles he has been able to look at farming and agricultural research in dozens of countries in all the habitable continents. In the 1980s, he wrote scientific reports for the old Agricultural and Food Research Council, and so visited virtually all the original AFRC research stations. He attended the first World Food Conference in Rome in 1974 and there realized that the world's food problems were not caused by lack of resources or the foolishness of farmers but by misguided policy and inappropriate technologies. In his first book, The Famine Business (1977) he argued that the food industry, then dominated by processors who were hooked on "tvps" (textured vegetable proteins), was making things worse. Now that the industry (and governments) are hooked on gmos, he has a great sense of déjà vu. Colin's personal website is www.colintudge.com.
Ruth Tudge (West) has followed a varied career from community worker in London's east end in the early '70s to coordinator of a farmers' market in the last few years. In between she has worked as a researcher and campaigner in the areas of health, the environment and human rights with spells as consultant for the WHO, UNEP and the Commonwealth Secretariat; run a research foundation exploring subjects that don't fit the current scientific paradigm — which at the time included climate change, as well as dowsing and healing; and got involved in setting up a social enterprise with a group of indigenous women in the Peruvian Andes.
Suzanne Wynn (Food Editor) teaches seasonal cookery using ingredients local to her home in Somerset. As the former Chair of SlowFood UK's Ark of Taste commission, she championed artisan producers whose traditional foods are threatened by modern production and distribution methods. During this time she noted that artisan producers, unlike their counterparts in modern farming, were often joined in the business by their offspring. Despite the difficulties they faced, she found them generally more optimistic than their counterparts, and certainly more filled with pride in the work they were doing.


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This morning I read a comic book titled 'How to be a Man'. A 17 years old girl has a love interest who is 7 years younger than her. Eventually they dated each other.
The author said: "If I write a story with common theme, it will be too easy for the readers to guess where the story goes." He also said, "... I don't want you to become such person that read a book because everybody is reading that book, or watch a movie because everyone else has watched it..."
Okay, but the boy is an elementary school student, do you really need to write such a story?
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Here is the column I wrote about Penn State's spring practice that ran in Friday's paper.
PennState's spring practice went as well as could be expected.
The Nittany Lions, who end the spring with Saturday's Blue-White game, saw several players answer question marks, were able to let some talented newcomers get in quality work thanks to the presence of known quantities and were able to experiment with a couple players at new positions.
No, a starting quarterback won't be named and Bill O'Brien already said he wouldn't do that going into spring practice. The arrival of Christian Hackenberg, the nation's top quarterback, in June is a big reason why, but both Steven Bench and junior college transfer Tyler Ferguson did well for themselves over the past month.
Another big plus is nobody went down with a major injury (offensive tackle Garry Gilliam missed most of the spring with a calf strain) while others (tight end Kyle Carter, linebacker Ben Kline and safety Stephen Obeng-Agyapong) were held out while they recovered from offseason surgeries. True freshman tight end Adam Breneman saw some work, but precautions were taken as he returns to the field following a knee injury that wiped out his senior year of high school.
Penn State had several holes to fill along the offensive line with the departures of center Matt Stankiewitch and tackle Mike Farrell. Seniors Adam Gress, who saw time at tackle last year, and Ty Howle, who played guard last season but came to PSU as a center, both had good springs and seemed to lock down starting jobs.
Gilliam would have challenged Gress, but the converted tight end went down early in the spring and to Gress' credit he took advantage of the opportunity. Howle never had much competition — sophomore Angelo Mangiro battled a hamstring all spring and redshirt freshman Wendy Laurent is still a year away from being ready — but Howle has taken command of the huddle and gotten himself stronger.
The Nittany Lions' depth at linebacker is a bit scary and missing Kline didn't help, but Mike Hull and Glenn Carson make those concerns a little less worrisome. Having redshirt freshmen Nyeem Wartman and Gary Wooten, who both have the talent to succeed, around for their first springs was big, but expect to hear incoming freshman Brandon Bell's name this fall.
Walk-ons Jesse Della Valle and Ryan Keiser both saw extended time in the secondary, but former wide receivers Malik Golden and Trevor Williams both made the transition to defense and could stick. Spring practice is the time to experiment and with plenty of depth at wideout getting Golden and Williams snaps in the secondary was smart. Sophomore corner Jordan Lucas has also had a good spring while battling sophomore DaQuan Davis for the starting job opposite junior Adrian Amos.
While junior running back Zack Zwinak has the starting job locked down, his presence allowed the Nittany Lions to get a closer look at redshirt freshman Akeel Lynch. While he's not quite as big as Zwinak, Lynch still packs a punch and has the speed to get around the edge. He'll be a player to watch Saturday and this fall.
Even without Carter this spring, depth isn't a concern at tight end. One name to watch is Brent Wilkerson, a redshirt freshman who gives Penn State another talented target to work the middle of the field.
A couple other names to watch Saturday will be senior Eric Shrive and junior Alex Kenney. Shrive, a five-star offensive tackle from Scranton, sounds like the first man up at guard and tackle, while Kenney, a State College native, is still looking to translate all of his speed and ability to the field.


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Envisioning community
The way this cradle Catholic looks at the world, she sees community all around her.
Guest blog by Joan Krebs
My first response to the question of how I keep the faith as a woman in the church and the one to which I keep returning is a paraphrase of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Let me count the ways." On further reflection I find it boils down to a very few.
First, being catholic is in my blood; I have a catholic identity; it's part of me; it's a calling. I look at life with catholic eyes—not Roman Catholic but pilgrim church eyes; not Roman Catholic but people of God eyes; not Roman Catholic but catholic with a small "c." In this sense I'm incapable of not-being catholic.
This vision was born and bred in me. I'm the daughter of a "mixed marriage." Mom was Catholic, and Dad was Baptist. Not allowed to threaten the sacredness of the sanctuary or of the sacrament, the priest was forced to witness their marriage in the rectory. They kept their promise to raise children as Catholics. Both were intimate with deep poverty. Practicality often trumped "shoulds" and honesty trumped appearances.
Marks of their keeping-of-faith left deep impressions on me, tightly weaving the context out of which my faith persists: loyalty, solidarity, friendship, openness to what-is, hope, making-do while resisting, and "waiting in patience," as Simone Weil meant it in Gravity and Grace--like an insect with its antennae out, actively waiting.
Second, an African mantra illustrates keeping the faith for me: "I am because we are." "I" depend on "we" as "we" depends on "I." The "we" is needy and so is the "I." Luckily (or not), I've absorbed what scripture meant by vine/branches and head/body and "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me." Again, in this sense I'm incapable of not-being catholic. "Lord to whom [where] shall I go? You have the words of eternal life."
A third way is kin to the second. I rejoice in being a catholic woman of faith because worldwide there is an immense and growing number of others just like me. We're seeking, finding, and supporting one another through forums like this, in base communities, in social networks, and in spiritual networks of all kinds.
We've begun to find our voices and are not afraid to use them with courage, knowing we'll be supported and one voice will grow exponentially. We've begun to proclaim that support and to rely on it. Together we're discerning the Spirit in many signs of the times and together we're opening ourselves to Her. How can I not keep the faith when others depend on me and I depend on them for these things?
There's a sibling to the two above: One sign of our times is the number of men who've come to realize that a woman's baptism and anointing with oil is absolutely equal with that of a man. In growing numbers they are standing with and for women in courage and solidarity. In growing numbers they resist the culture of superiority in which they were raised to embrace their sisters in equality.
I revel being among the communion of saints in an immense "cloud of witnesses" (Hebrews 12:1).
Guest blogger Joan Krebs is a reader living in Glenview, Illinois and an associate of the Congregaton of St. Joseph. She facilitates discussions on the spirituality of solidarity at The Well Spirituality Center in La Grange Park, Illinois.
As a supplement of the January 2011 special issue on women, U.S. Catholic is asking guest bloggers, "How do you keep the faith as a woman in the church?" To submit your answer (about 500 words), e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Guest blog posts express the views of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.


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JWST-228 Middle East Politics and Society
This course examines the ways in which politics and society in the Middle East are shaped by historical and contemporary structures, processes and practices. The geographic and temporal focus of the course includes the Arab world, Iran, Turkey and Israel during the past century and a half, from the reforms of the late Ottoman Empire, through the years of European colonialism, to the emergence of post colonial states and their contemporary development. Same as POLI-228. 4 SH.


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Citizens for Quality Care (CQC) president Theresa Chang returned Saturday from New York City where she was a recipient of a national business award.
Chang attended the annual banquet of the Asian American Business Development Center as a winner of the "Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business" award. The event honors entrepreneurship of Asian Americans from across the country.
The objective of the award program is to "promote and strengthen the voice and role of Asian Americans and to highlight their achievement and contributions."
Recipients are said to represent a microcosm of the best of Asian American business owners and professionals, coming from a pool of diverse and multi-talented individuals engaged in a wide range of business interests.


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The Volt fix and the new GM
There is one question I hear about General Motors on a regular basis.
Is the new company really new?
Insiders and analysts alike tell me mid-level management has not dramatically changed its arrogant ways. I hear plant workers say they still battle the same demons they fought prior to the bankruptcy; intransigent managers who know best what to do, how and when. It's likewise for many plant managers who sometimes still get frustrated with union employees.
Yet, I also hear about how the new executive team at the Ren-Cen fighting like crazy to genuinely infuse the place with a modern business notion of not good, but world class customer service and attention to detail involving everything.
The only way to tell whether GM truly has changed is when inevitable and unexpected trouble arises. Today is just such a day. It announced a fix to the Chevy Volt battery system. You may wonder did the battery need a fix. The answer is no. But the leadership at the new company decided a fix was the only right answer.
Here's some history. Last May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crashed tested a Volt. It did a side crash that poked a miniscule hole in the battery casing and some battery cooling fluid leaked. No one knew at the time and technicians simply deposited the car in a distant parking lot and left it unattended.
Three weeks later, some of the crystallized coolant ended up arcing with a computer circuit board when some more fluid leaked starting a fire in the electronics. This certainly startled NHTSA left to wonder if the new automotive technology had a hidden danger. Later last fall, NHTSA tried to recreate the accident again. This time, taking a wrecked Volt and putting it on what amounts to a giant automotive spit. It slowly spun the car upside down, waited for coolant to leak again and sure enough another circuit board sparked into flame. It turns out the battery was never damaged in all of this and they appear completely safe today. NHTSA is still investigating all of this and hasn't decided whether a fix is needed. GM isn't waiting.
Saying he was throwing out the recall playbook, GM North American chief Mark Reuss said he intended to make certain any Volt owner with any question about their car is made happy and whole!
He already offered to buy back any Volt a customer wasn't comfortable keeping after the fires came to light. But today, he and Product development executive Mary Barra took to a conference call to announce a safety program they did not need to but felt compelled to undertake.
Volt owners will get letters to bring their cars into dealerships starting in February.
Each car will have its batter casing strengthened and battery cooling fluid wells will get a new sensor to make certain they are neither too high nor too low. The process will take roughly a day. Each owner will get a free replacement car. GM already started building the parts for this fix, and will have them ready when the Pole town plant in Hamtramck restarts for the year next week. This is not a recall; this is a so-called safety action. It's also the right action. It's the king of boutique service luxury owners with nameplates like Lexus and Infiniti, BMW and Mercedes have come to expect.
Yes, GM knows its beloved, if undersold halo car is its image going forward. It can not afford to mess this up. Today's action ahead of any NHTSA action shows this is decidedly NOT the old GM. Yes some things have changed. It's a good public relations move but more than anything it's a good way to show everyone, not just customers, this is they way to do business in the 21st century.
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Do parishes need to get their priorities in order?
In sacramental matters, parishes should welcome people with open arms instead of the third degree.
By Claretian Father Rosendo Urrabazo, the provincial superior of the USA Province of the Claretian Missionaries.
One day a woman came to our church office just wanting me to bless her 3-year-old son. Boy, did he put up a fight. The only offices he knew were medical offices, and he thought I was going to give him a shot. Unfortunately, that little boy is not the only Catholic intimidated to visit a church office.
I strongly believe that we must show more flexibility in dealing with people who are coming to the church, especially when they're coming after a long absence or for the first time and when they are coming with a desire for the sacraments. We who work in the church need to do much more to welcome people in a spirit of hospitality and need to worry much less about who is "worthy" to receive the sacraments.
Would Jesus today stick to strict office hours? Would he refuse to baptize babies if their parents couldn't go to the required classes? What would he require of people before breaking bread with them?
Our new Pope Francis has been asking us to spend more time among the people and less time putting up obstacles for them. Six months before his election as pope, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio used unusually blunt language when he criticized priests refusing to baptize children born to single mothers. He called priests who deny the sacraments to people because of their life circumstances the "hypocrites of today" and "followers of the Pharisees," and he chastised them for "driving people away from salvation."
Unfortunately, I have heard too many stories of people who were "driven away from salvation" because of how they were treated by a priest, a sister, a lay catechist, or a church secretary.
My brother has of the Catholic grammar school, and his primary memory of those years is the harsh discipline of the religious sisters who taught him there. Another brother was not allowed to cross the stage at his high school graduation because my dad was in arrears with some tuition payments. Neither one frequents the church anymore, unless it is for a wedding or a funeral.
As the story of the little boy's fear of the church office shows, we have to be sensitive to the previous experiences of people. When someone comes to the church office, we have no idea what their day has been like, what they have had to do to get to the church, or what their past experience with the church has been.
The person who receives them—be it a receptionist or the pastor—must be aware not only of the rules of the church but also how to give each person a welcoming smile and listening ear. It has been my experience that that first conversation sets the tone for the pastoral experience. A gruff person can give the impression that you are a bother and that their job is to protect the priest from you. Unfortunately, sometimes that actually is the role they have been assigned.
Many people come to the church office to arrange reception for one of the sacraments, most often baptism or marriage. While working in a Guatemala mission, a newly ordained priest from the United States insisted that couples and godparents come for five pre-baptismal sessions. But these people lived in a village that was two days' walking distance away. A more experienced brother in the community talked to the young priest about doing the catechesis in some other way.
Sometimes the demands of a particular parish are clearly out of line. I know a priest who would not baptize a baby if the parents were not married in the church. Sure, that would be nice, but that is not a requirement for baptism.
So much depends on how people are approached. The baptism of a child, especially the first child for a couple who have not been close to the church, could be the beginning of a religious life within that family. Rather than focusing on requirements why not focus on invitations to further growth in the faith.
If couples are confronted right away with regulations, they will perceive the church as legalistic and overly concerned about compliance with rules. I remember telling one couple who were just living together and wanted to baptize their little boy that I would work with them to make it possible for them to receive communion with their newborn when he makes his first communion. With this in mind, they agreed to go on an Engaged Encounter weekend.
I have had couples come to me who wanted to get married but who were rejected by other parishes for such spurious reasons as not being registered in that particular parish, or because they needed some special dispensation or even an annulment in order to proceed.
One couple told me that their priest "didn't do annulments as a matter of principle." I don't know how many Catholics have left the church and gone to other churches because of our laws about divorced and remarried Catholics. We need to find ways to be much more pastoral and understanding of people's lives and the difficult decisions that they must make at times.
We should not make a difficult situation worse by heaping upon couples a lengthy annulment process. Don't get me wrong, I believe in the importance of order and adhering to the norms of our church, but I think that local pastors should be given more leeway to make decisions based on the facts and circumstances of the people in front of them.
A priest has the authority to witness the sacrament of marriage, should he not also have the authority to declare it null and void? Wouldn't more people be willing to come forward and talk about their marriage relationship with a local pastor or trained married deacon rather than a diocesan tribunal?
Pope Francis has called the church to be "a facilitator of faith and not an inspector of faith." We should take a close look at all our rules and ask if they really serve to "facilitate" faith.
I take the pope's call to mean that we should help people grow in their faith from whatever starting point they happen to be. No one is born fully formed in the faith; there is need for progress and development for all of us.
I remember how, after completing my doctoral studies as a young priest, I was sent to a downtown parish. I was still unpacking my bags when I got called down to the church office. A young couple had come in with a little girl, who was carrying a young chicken. Apparently, that day the parish had celebrated the annual blessing of the animals and the family had arrived long after the ceremony. The little girl was very sad that she could not get a blessing for her pet. So what could I do? I blessed the chicken—and I blessed the entire family. I thought, if only my professors could see me now, after all those years of graduate studies, blessing a chicken!
Since then I have blessed hundreds of cars, houses, businesses, and animals of all kinds. I have realized that part of our prophetic ministry is to bless those whom society marginalizes or holds to be of little worth. Now when I greet people, I ask myself what I can do to bless them and their work and their family and their dreams.
Jesus said to give freely what has been given freely to us. Can't we cut back on the rules and behavior that exclude people and do what we can to bless and include people, especially those who suffer from exclusion in our society?
I have learned that the church teaches best by being and doing for others. Only then does the Word make sense. And only then do the rules help to facilitate the faith of her people.


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DENVER -- Relief is on the way for the Colorado Rockies.
Left-handed reliever Boone Logan is expected to be activated from the disabled list as early as Sunday.
Logan worked one shutout inning for Triple-A Colorado Springs at New Orleans on Thursday, and he was scheduled to work again Friday. He is eligible to come off the DL on Saturday, but indications are the Rockies will wait a day in light of Logan working back-to-back days.
Logan's spring was slowed by his recovery from offseason surgery to remove bone chips from his left elbow. He was signed to a three-year, $16.5 million free-agent contract in the offseason to add left-handed depth to Colorado's bullpen.
Injuries led the Rockies to open the season with Rex Brothers as their only left-handed reliever. Franklin Morales is currently in the rotation, while lefty starters Jhoulys Chacin and Tyler Chatwood are both on the DL.
"When you only have one lefty [in the bullpen], you have to be careful where you use him," manager Walt Weiss said. "We had no lefty available [Thursday in Miami]."
Rox relievers were tested in the four-game season-opening series against the Marlins. Rockies starters combined to work only 20 2/3 innings, and Brett Anderson, who started Game 2 on Tuesday, was the only starting pitcher to work six innings.


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Guildford, Surrey, U.K., 17 May 2010 – BOC's state-of-the-art cylinder filling and distribution centre in Glasgow provided Scottish Cabinet Secretary John Swinney MSP with a concrete example of the benefits to Scotland of an integrated transport network. Mr Swinney visited the site at Cambuslang, relocated from across the city, as part of the M74 extension project.
The Cabinet Secretary, whose brief in the Scottish Government includes budgetary affairs, business and transport, was seeing for himself the progress being made on this key road network project as well as finding out how business would benefit. The EUR 520 million construction project is being managed by Transport Scotland, the executive agency responsible for the country's major road networks.
BOC, a member of The Linde Group, provides industrial gases and services to over 18,000 customers across Scotland in virtually every market sector, from energy and shipbuilding to healthcare and food. Being able to respond to customer orders quickly and efficiently is vital to the company's success in the Scottish market.
Nathan Palmer, BOC's Sales Director, who accompanied the Cabinet Secretary on his visit, noted: "The M74 scheme has provided us with the opportunity to create a site appropriate for our business now and in the future. By locating the facility next to the new motorway link, we also have fast, modern links to our customers in Scotland as well as to the rest of Great Britain."
When the company's previous base in Glasgow, at Polmadie, was purchased to make way for the motorway link, BOC took the opportunity to create a new hub for its Scottish operations at Cambuslang, to the south of the city. The new facility, officially opened in 2007, incorporates best practice from around the world in gas-filling, vehicle movements and safety.
As he toured the site, John Swinney commented: "The Scottish Government is investing significant sums in road and rail here in the west of Scotland and across the rest of the country, which is supporting economic growth and helping accelerate recovery. And businesses like BOC have clearly seen the benefits to their operations in being located next to the new road scheme, helping them get their products to customers quicker, in turn enhancing their competitiveness and creating further expansion and job creation opportunities for them."
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Picture caption 1. Scottish Cabinet Secretary John Swinney discussing gas filling with Cylinder Operative Stevie Armstrong at BOC's Glasgow facility.
Picture caption 2. Scottish Cabinet Secretary John Swinney MSP (left) with BOC Sales Director Nathan Palmer at BOC's Glasgow site.
BOC is a member of The Linde Group. An industrial, medical and special gases provider, the company supplies compressed and bulk gases, chemicals and equipment. For more than a century the company's gases and expertise have contributed to advances in many areas of everyday life, and industries including steelmaking, refining, chemical processing, environmental protection, wastewater treatment, welding and cutting, food processing and distribution, glass production, electronics and health care. For more information visit: www.BOConline.co.uk
The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2009 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 11.2 billion. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development. For more information, see The Linde Group online at www.linde.com
Transport Scotland is the national transport agency responsible for trunk roads, rail and national concessionary travel. It is an Executive agency directly accountable to Scottish Ministers and came into effect on 1 January 2006. For further information visit www.transportscotland.gov.uk
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Yom sheni, 12 Nisan 5769.
Blessed are you, Hashem, our God, King of the universe, for nothing is lacking in His universe, and He created in it good creatures and good trees, to cause mankind pleasure with them.
In the English translation of the Modim of the Rabbis that is said during the repetition of the Shemoneh Esrei, we say "[We thank you] for inspiring us to thank You." I have always loved that passage. Many times throughout our day, the prayerbook inspires us to show G-d appreciation for the many gifts He gives us that we might otherwise take for granted.
One of those prayers is said only once each year, upon seeing fruit trees in bloom.
Even though this special prayer was also available to me in Chutz l'Aretz, it feels even more special to say it in this very holy place. Please let me share some of the local Gush Etzion beauty with you.
We had a few guests drop by, as the weather started to warm up. A couple of them even posed for photos.
And, of course, some of the greatest beauty is the Jewish people and their love for the mitzvot… such as cleaning every inch of their homes for Pesach.
Thank you, Borei Olam, for this beautiful Land, and for all of the lovely, colorful flowers and the interesting creatures and the fine and holy people that fill it.
Thank you most of all for friends with whom to share Your wondrous creation.
Chag Pesach sameach v'kasher l'kulam!
Haveil Havalim #211 is posted at Ima's place. She calls it "The Preparing for Pesach Edition." There is some fun stuff in there to take your mind off of your scrubbing and cleaning… or to focus you more intently. Take a break. You deserve it!
Modim: acknowledgment, gratitude, admission
Shemoneh Esrei: prayer with "eighteen blessings (plus)" said three times daily
Chutz l'Aretz: everywhere outside of Israel
Mitzvot: commandments, elevated deeds
Pesach: Passover
Borei Olam: Creator of the world
Chag Pesach sameach v'kasher l'kulam!: Happy and kosher Passover to everyone!


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It is not a matter of essences or of reductions as such, but the pantomime and the morality tale, the melodrama and the anecdote, as ideological tricks and rhetoric, are condensations with a perverse intent. They reduce for sure, but it is their economy that makes all this worthwhile, on all sides. Codification saturates all areas, trinketization abounds – the message is telegraphed and as a cipher works all the more. I would like to think that the music promo is an ideal form of this, perhaps in an unguarded moment we could suggest this was a little like zen, or a haiku (Eisenstein glossed via Rancière 2001/2006:25), in that its illustrative material offers so much more than it has to explicitly portray. But there is also a critical component to assimilate. This is true of the scene of pantomime terror where Aki Nawaz is presented as the suicide rapper in The Guardian, just as much as it is the strategy of Aki's own intervention in 'Cookbook DIY' in so many ways. There are criticalities and complicities in the format. Consider 'Cookbook DIY' again: of all the masquerade figures in that clip, we need only note that the figure painting the graffito quotation from John F Kennedy is wearing orange overalls, thus referencing Guantanamo, to launch an entire argument. It is of course heavy-handed and didactic, but this is why it works. Quoting a US president as critique of the US Presidency. For the record, the graffiti reads 'If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable'. This slogan comes from an address by Kennedy at the White House on March 12 1962. Since a source for this quote must be offered, here is one that has a certain resonance, and perhaps also illustrates the point about condensation. Martin Luther King speaking at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 on the topic of the war in Vietnam, calls for an end to all bombing and recognition of the National Liberation Front and calling for acts of atonement 'for our sins and errors in Vietnam':
"In 1957 a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which now has justified the presence of U.S. military 'advisors' in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counter-revolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and why American napalm and green beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru. It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable'. Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken – the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment" (King 1967/2007 [my italics]).
As reported by the Information Clearing House, Time Magazine called King's speech 'demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,' and the Washington Post declared that King had 'diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people', but bringing this forward to contemporary times and the reference Aki makes by way of a simple orange jump suit is all we need for hypocrisy to be utterly skewered. There is no justification for the camps, the torture, the rendition and the interrogations. Condensation makes the 'defenders of freedom' [and profit] sweat.
And isn't that why the clergyman King should be quoted, because the critical irony gets us hot under the collar here, in what Rancière identifies as problematic in Eisenstein's pantomimes (2001/2006: 27) and also in Bertholt Brecht's identification of the cynical observer with the engaged critic, where the 'lessons of dialectical pedagogy' oscillate with the 'athleticism of the boxing ring or the mockery of the cabaret' (Ranciere 2001/2006:30). This is a difficulty with the 'political' haiku that infects the knowing critic with an irony that remains toothless without mobilization or party organization, and even Rancière's SOS call to the 'Battleship Potemkin' from the prow of 'The Titanic' does not save us. The contradiction pierces the heart of the founding fable of brave egalitarian and free America. Thus, the question:
"what century we live in [that we] derive so much pleasure – our Deleuzes in our pockets – from the love affair upon a sinking ship between a young woman in first class and a young man in third' (Rancière 2001/2006: 31).
Rancière, Jacques 2001/2006 Film Fables, Oxford: Berg.
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Thursday, November 15
Good morning TexMessagers! Have you heard what your senators are up to this week in DC?
After Texas Sen. John Cornyn ascended to the position of Senate Minority Whip, Kansas's Jerry Moran succeeded him as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Who did Moran select as one of his vice chairmen for the 2014 cycle?
None other than our own Ted Cruz.
The Houston Republican will work together with Ohio's Rob Portman as co-vice chairmen of the committee.
Cornyn released the following statement about Cruz's new position:
"A strong conservative and gifted campaigner, Ted has quickly proven himself to be among the next generation of leaders of the Republican party and I know our candidates will be in good hands under his leadership."
In a statement released by Cruz, the senator-elect said he was honored by his selection.
"Our country faces grave fiscal and economic challenges, and I'm very glad to have the opportunity to do everything I can to help retire Harry Reid as Majority Leader. It's critical that Constitutional conservatives have a strong voice within the NRSC so that together we may build upon lessons learned from this election cycle and elect strong candidates who are committed to pro-growth economics and restraining the job-killing growth of the federal government."
Headlines from TxPotomac's top articles:
★ Rick Perry might not want Texas to secede, but Ron Paul believes "secession is an American principle"
★ Analysis: Obama does his best to avoid Petraeus morass
★ Poll shows majority of Americans support immigration reform
★ Sen. John Cornyn voices Senate GOP's readiness to compromise
★Ted Cruz meets with fellow Republicans during freshman orientation
★ Diversity in action: Straight white men are a minority among House Democrats
★ Sen. John Cornyn elected to No. 2 post in Senate GOP leadership
★ Nancy Pelosi to stay as minority leader
★ George P. Bush — suddenly everywhere — gets a guest-host gig on TV show
★ Confused about the Petraeus scandal? Here is a flowchart from Gawker that explains all
Reader Comment of the Day
In response to our post Texas secession: Fact and fiction, "gstahl" wrote in the comments forum:
Now there is a petition to take away citizenship from everyone who signs and deport them.
Texas Watch
TxPotomac lets you know what stories to look out for.
★ Economic indicators: Bureau of Labor Statistics releases consumer price index, Employment and Training Administration releases unemployment insurance claims, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation releases primary mortgage market survey, Energy Information Administration releases its weekly statistics on petroleum stocks and output.
★ Economic Opportunity Subcommittee of House Veterans' Affairs Committee will hold a hearing titled "Review of Veterans Employment Challenges and Initiatives of the 112th Congress."
★ Relief efforts for Hurricane Sandy continue. Check out the American Red Cross or Salvation Army to see how you can help.
★ Nov. 15. The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a closed briefing on the incident in Benghazi and how to prevent future attacks.
★ Nov. 15. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (Chairman Harkin, D-Iowa) will hold a hearing titled "Pharmacy Compounding: Implications of the 2012 Meningitis Outbreak," focusing on the recent outbreak at 10 a.m.
★ Nov. 15. Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee (Chairman Meehan, R-Pa.) of House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing titled "WMD [weapons of mass destruction] Terrorism: Assessing the Continued Homeland Threat" at 10 a.m.
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ Nov. 16. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, D-Ohio, will hold a briefing on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles abroad.
★ Nov. 16. Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute will hold a discussion titled "2012 Election Results: What They Mean for the Future of Conservatism."
★ Nov. 16. Alliance for Health Reform will hold a discussion titled "Health Care on the Brink of the Fiscal Cliff."
★ Nov. 16. Oversight, Investigations and Management Subcommittee (Chairman McCaul, R-Texas) of House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing titled "A Line in the Sand: Assessing Dangerous Threats to Our Nation's Borders" at 9 a.m.
Today in Texas History
On this date in 1836, Manuel Lorenzo de Zavala, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, died in the newly independent nation he served as its first vice president. More>>>