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"Oh-oh, yes I"m the great pretender; Pretending that I"m doing well; My need is such I pretend too much; I"m lonely but no one can tell. Yes, I"m the great pretender just laughing, and gay like a clown; I seem to be what I"m not, you see I"m wearing my heart like a crown. Oh-oh, yes I"m the great pretender; Adrift in a world of my own."?
So goes some of the words of the Platters" hit song The Great Pretender.?
Having a president who is little more than an actor is costing more than this country can afford. He excels on talk shows an as actor and meets the needs for entertainment of those who cannot distinguish realty from fantasy.?
Most economist say we are headed off an economical cliff if we pursue the policies we are following. The more dogmatic say we have already gone over it and it is too late with an indebtedness of over 220 trillion dollars yet unfunded. What will this lame duck do once empowered for four more years??
1. He will rule by executive order.?
2. He will change the makeup of the Supreme court with one or more liberals, which can then ignore the constitution altogether and make law instead of interpreting it. ?
3. He will increase taxes on everybody in every way.
?The words "I seem to be what I"m not," define him perfectly. Enough of his song and dance.
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Stutes revamping Academy of Fine Arts
PLAINVIEW - Dr. Ann Stutes has a few new job duties to attend to this year. Beginning Aug. 1, Dr. Stutes took over as Chairperson for the Division of Fine Arts at Wayland Baptist University.
Dr. Stutes' primary duty will be to oversee daily operations of the music and communications departments which includes theatre and art. As one of her first orders of business, Dr. Stutes wants to restore some stability to the Academy of Fine Arts. The AFA is a program designed to offer individualized instruction to students ages kindergarten through adult in various artistic avenues.
"I am going to be a hands-on administrator," said Stutes, who will personally take over as director of the Academy. "We have been an organization in flux the last several years. Since Jeannine Greene's retirement from faculty work at Wayland, the AFA has been struggling to find its identity. I think we have found it."
Open registration will be held from 3-8 p.m. on Aug. 10 and 12 in Harral Auditorium. Students can sign up for art, theatre, woodwinds, brass, guitar, voice, handbells and a new course offering "Celebrate Piano." Students will receive one 30-minute lesson per week for 12 weeks. The cost is $150 and can be paid in three installments of $50.
The Academy originally opened in 1981 under Greene's leadership as a community music school. At the time, it offered only piano lessons taught by Greene. Over time, it grew to include other Wayland faculty members and was changed to the Academy of Fine Arts when Wayland's music and art divisions combined to become the Division of Fine Arts.
Greene is working with Dr. Stutes and still teaches lessons through the Academy.
"It is her vision and spirit that guides us," Stutes said. "She is the one who started this program years ago."
Now the AFA offers training in several different areas using Wayland students as teachers. The WBU students work with faculty mentors to provide the best possible training for AFA students. Stutes will meet with the faculty mentors to discuss the skill level of each AFA student, pairing them with a Wayland student that can meet their needs. If the AFA student shows advanced skills, they will work directly with Wayland faculty members.
"It's not going to be a green voice teacher going out and teaching Broadway to some fifth graders," Stutes said. "Teachers and their mentors communicate on a regular basis on curriculum issues."
Another important change that Stutes is implementing in the program is the office hours policy in the Wheeler Building, located at Xenia and 8 th Street. Anne Weaver will serve as the student director of the program and will be in the office from 3-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Also, all classes will be taught during this time.
Stutes said that is one of the major changes in the program. In the past, teachers and parents set up their own lesson schedules at times when there may have been no one in the Wheeler Building.
"We are going to require that the Wayland teacher teach during those hours when the building is secure," Stutes said.
Lessons will begin the week of Labor Day.
Anyone with questions may contact Dr. Stutes directly at 806-291-1065, or email her at email@example.com .


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Capri Anderson claimed on Good Morning America that Charlie Sheen had put his hands around her throat and threw a lamp at her from across the room. "He definitely was growing more intense as the night grew and went on. It's hard to say being that it was my first time hanging out with him if it was normal of his everyday behavior or not," Anderson said. "He seemed like a very egotistical person." The police complaint accused Sheen of harassment in the second degree, an alleged violation that is less serious than a misdemeanor or a felony, police said. If Sheen is found guilty, the actor would face a maximum of 15 days in jail, though offenders often get discharged with an order of protection granted for the victim.
Capri Anderson told Nightline in another interview that Sheen had texted her a brief apology and offered her $20,000 to keep quiet about all the details. meanwhile Charlie Sheen's lawyer Yale Galanter responded to Anderson's allegations in a statement to ABC News saying "Ms. Capri never made any allegation of wrongful conduct on the part of Mr. Sheen the night of the incident. She has posted on her website that she was 'fine' after the incident but if you wanted to see more of her, enter the web site for money," Galanter said. "We will defend this lawsuit vigorously and will never pay her a dime. These allegations against Mr. Sheen are completely false, and are a blatant attempt to cash in on his celebrity."
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I'm Kevin Goins from Maple Hill, NC, and I love to read your magazine. I saw the Pit Board Four Bangers comment. I have helped my good friend on his LLM for 2 years and finally could not take it any more so I got my first car, an '88 Toyota GTS four-cylinder that I race in the Pure Stock division at my local track, Coastal Plains Raceway Park in Jacksonville, NC, (pictured) but I also travel about 3 hours to two more tracks.
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It's our pleasure, we take our position in the industry very seriously and sincerely appreciate the recognition. Congrats to your friend Shelli as well!
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I loved the story on the Outlaw Super Lates. I grew up watching my uncle, Doug Hanna, race them and always loved them. I remember watching thrilling races between him, Denny Nyari, and Larry Zent (to name a few) in the '80s and '90s. They were awesome and I think everyone should enjoy at least one Super Late show. I have some pictures of them that I would like to share so we can remember the history of them.
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I think you should check your facts before you publish a story. The Outlaw Super Lates run weekly at many tracks, including New Paris, Plymouth, Kalamazoo, Berlin,
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While there are tracks still running Outlaw Super Lates on a routine basis, our writer who penned the story says that there were a lot more of them doing so in the '80s.
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Thank you so much for the calculators you posted on www.circletrack.com. I have no idea what to do without Circle Track magazine. You guys help out the low-end racer so much every month! Each week, I look in the mailbox to see if the new mag is here yet to see what new things you guys have written.
Thank you so much again-especially Bob,
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Over 13 games and six starts, Bush recorded 45 tackles, six pass breakups, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery in his third season.
He played well when pressed into action for Roman Harper and Malcolm Jenkins and later impressed with a series of hard hits in the playoffs.
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Hollywood's most successful director turns on a dime and delivers his most restrained, interior film. A celebrated playwright shines an illuminating light on no more than a sliver of a great man's life. A brilliant actor surpasses even himself and makes us see a celebrated figure in ways we hadn't anticipated. This is the power and the surprise of "Lincoln."
Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Tony Kushner and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States, "Lincoln" unfolds during the final four months of the chief executive's life as he focuses his energies on a dramatic struggle that has not previously loomed large in political mythology: his determination to get the House of Representatives to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.
This narrow focus has paradoxically enabled us to see Lincoln whole in a way a more broad-ranging film might have been unable to match. It has also made for a movie whose pleasures are subtle ones, that knows how to reveal the considerable drama inherent in the overarching battle of big ideas over the amendment as well as the small-bore skirmishes of political strategy and the nitty-gritty scramble for congressional votes.
These things all begin, as thoughtful films invariably do, with an excellent script. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for "Angels in America," Kushner has always been adept at illuminating the interplay of the personal and the political. His literate screenplay, based on parts of Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Lincoln," is smart, dramatic and confident of the value of what it has to say.
Kushner has worked with Spielberg before (he co-wrote the Oscar-nominated "Munich" script) and his writing seems to bring out a level of restraint in their productions. There is nothing bravura or overly emotional about Spielberg's direction here, but the impeccable filmmaking is no less impressive for being quiet and to the point. The director delivers selfless, pulled-back satisfactions: he's there in service of the script and the acting, to enhance the spoken word rather than burnish his reputation.
The key speaker, obviously, is Day-Lewis. No one needs to be told at this late date what a consummate actor he is, but even those used to the way he disappears into roles will be startled by the marvelously relaxed way he morphs into this character and simply becomes Lincoln. While his heroic qualities are visible when they're needed, Day-Lewis' Lincoln is a deeply human individual, stooped and weary after four years of civil war but endowed with a palpable largeness of spirit and a genuine sense of humor.
At ease in his own skin, Lincoln wears a shawl around the White House like he was born with it and is so prone to telling tales at every opportunity that his fed-up Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Bruce McGill) snaps in exasperation, "No, you're not going to tell a story. I can't bear to hear one."
Though Day-Lewis' work inevitably towers over "Lincoln," one of the remarkable things about this production is not only how consistently good the acting is across some 145 speaking roles but how much the actors have been cast both for ability and resemblance to their historical counterparts, from major players such as Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn) and firebrand Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) down to minor characters like amendment opponent Fernando Wood (Lee Pace) and Lincoln's secretary John Nicolay (Jeremy Strong).
Working with his usual team of equals — cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, production designer Rick Carter, editor Michael Kahn, costume designer Joanna Johnston and composer John Williams — Spielberg has paid particular attention to creating a realistic world for his characters to inhabit, seeping us in the period and seeing to it that the color scheme and the muted lighting enhance the film's naturalistic palette.
Care was taken with the physical details as well, especially the interior of the White House, where Lincoln's office was re-created with complete accuracy, and where the president interacts with his family, trying to placate his ever-emotional wife Mary (a convincing Sally Field), distraught after the death of their young son Willie, as well as oldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who is desperate to enlist in the Union Army against his parents' wishes.
The political core of "Lincoln" begins with the president's determination, much to the displeasure of close advisor Seward, to get the House to pass the 13th Amendment. Fearful that the previously enacted Emancipation Proclamation might not stand up to legal challenges, Lincoln gets surprisingly steely as he insists that this simply must be done if slavery is to be permanently eradicated. The problem is getting the votes.
To help make this happen, Seward brings in a trio of arm-twisters, the 1860s versions of today's lobbyists, who are charged by a president not shy about saying he is "clothed in immense power" to use any means necessary to round up the needed congressional votes. This trio, amusingly played by John Hawkes, James Spader and Tim Blake Nelson, are as close to comic relief as "Lincoln" gets.
Because the stakes are so high, and because he turns out to be a master strategist, the president himself inevitably gets personally involved in playing politics. He deals with key leaders like Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), a conservative Republican who is eager for peace talks with the South, and of course Jones' Stevens, an irascible, vitriolic abolitionist ("the meanest man in Congress" according to Roy Blount Jr.) who is just getting warmed up when he calls an opponent a "fatuous nincompoop."
One of the surprises and the pleasures of "Lincoln" is its portrait of the president as a man gifted at reconciling irreconcilable points of view, someone who wouldn't hesitate to play both ends against the middle and even stretch the truth in the service of the greater good.
Kushner has said that he wrote "Lincoln" because, upset at today's endemic lack of faith in governance, he wanted to tell a story that "shows that you can achieve miraculous, beautiful things through the democratic system." It's a lesson that couldn't be more timely, or more thoroughly dramatic.
MPAA rating: PG-13 for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language
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(HONG KONG) Dragonair is delighted to present its latest seasonal inflight menus, featuring crab roe dishes and hot pot rice, which will further enhance the inflight dining experience for its passengers. At the same time, the airline is proud to present three new and unique signature cocktails.
The new seasonal menus feature ingredients renowned for their taste as well as their high nutritional value. The crab roe delicacies are now being served exclusively to First Class passengers on flights from Hong Kong to Beijing and Shanghai until 15 December. Healthy ingredients such as soya bean milk and red dates are used to create the dishes. Red dates are viewed as a "superfood" in Chinese cuisine, being rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin C, protein and various essential minerals. Exciting dishes on the crab roe menu include Braised Seafood with Crab Roe Sauce on Steamed Soya Bean Milk and Egg White, and Pan-fried Berkshire Pattie with Red Dates and Shimeji Mushroom in Hairy Crab Cream.
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Rose Infinity is a unique blend of rum, apple and grapefruit juice with a sparkling touch of rose infusion; Passion Tour is a thirst-quenching combination of gin, passion fruit, apple juice and sparkling water with refreshing lemongrass; and Summer Breeze is a bubbly mix of rum, piña colada syrup, passion fruit and orange juice with a touch of fresh lemon.
The three new cocktails are being served alongside Dragon Sunrise, Dragonair's current signature cocktail, on a rotational basis in First and Business Class.
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Boys' basketball dropped Hunt, 65-60, Wednesday night.
WILSON�The Vikings remained undefeated in a tug-of-war, holding on for a 65-60 victory over a Hunt team expected to contend for the Big East 3A Conference championship.
Kinston (5-0) fell behind 7-0, came back to lead by as many as nine but found themselves on the short end of a 57-55 score with 3:38 remaining Wednesday night.
Then entered Andrew Lopez and Brandon Ingram.
Lopez drilled a long trey from the left corner, and � after a Kinston steal � guard Darnell Dunn found Ingram alone on the other end for a monster dunk that completely altered the momentum of the contest.
Hunt never led again or drew any closer.
�That�s the first time we�ve been behind that late in a game this season,� Kinston coach Perry Tyndall said. �I thought we responded with energy and a sense of urgency. Now we just need to learn to play with that type of intensity for 32 minutes instead of just three or four.�
After spotting the Warriors (3-2) the game�s first seven points, Kinston rallied to take a 14-10 lead at the end of the first period.
The game was basically a nip-and-tuck affair the rest of the way, although Kinston did expand the lead to 45-36 halfway through the third quarter.
�We played very well in spurts, but the consistency just wasn�t there,� Tyndall said. �We�ve also got to do a better job of putting teams away. Once we got the lead, we were much too careless with the basketball.�
Playing in front of UNC coach Roy Williams and a handful of assistants from other ACC basketball programs, Ingram delivered with 27 points and nine rebounds.
Lopez added 15 points and five assists.
Kinston remains on the road when they visit Winterville South Central tonight.
Girls� game:
Kinston was no match for Wilson Hunt�s size inside.
The Warriors were no match for Kinston�s quickness and pressure defense.
Advantage quickness and pressure.
The Vikings turned up the tempo and neutralized Hunt�s superior height with some key second-half adjustments, battling back to defeat the Warriors 46-37 in a non-conference contest Wednesday night.
Kinston looked to be in serious trouble after falling behind 22-16 at the half of a game they once led 9-0.
�Their length definitely caused some issues, especially in the first half,� Kinston coach Hubert Quinerly said. �We did a few things differently after the break, but mainly we just did a better job of attacking the basket and executing our offense.�
Kinston�s defensive intensity also increased. After forcing Hunt into seven first half turnovers, the Vikings� full-court press created eight Warriors miscues in the third period alone.
Kinston (3-1) also made it a point to go right at Hunt�s huge front line of 6-foot-3 Kiana Ballard, 6-foot Brionna Pate, and 6-foot Alexus Williams.
Both Ballard and Williams were whistled for their third foul before the third stanza was even halfway through.
By the time Anshonee Addison put Kinston back on top 25-24 with a free throw at the 3:38 mark, and Shika Mason buried a long trey to increase the margin to four 17 seconds later; Ballard and Williams had both been on the bench for almost two minutes.
�We finally started to dictate things both offensively and defensively,� Quinerly said. �Our defense allowed us to get into transition, and our transition game kept them for sitting back in their zone.�
Hunt (3-2) stuck around in the final frame but could never get closer than four points.
Kinston led 41-37 when Brittany Drumgoole put the game away with a steal and layup with just 39 seconds to go.
Kinston�s last three points all came from the free throw line.
�I told the girls that although we didn�t play our best, we still beat a very good team on the road, and that�s something they should be proud of,� Quinerly said. �Hunt�s going to win a lot of games this year in an excellent basketball conference.�
Kinston�s 6-foot-1 center Lydia Rivers banged and pounded her way to 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Vikings.
Drumgoole scored just four points but added nine rebounds and eight assists.
Mason tallied 10 points and helped loosen up the Warriors zone with a pair of clutch 3-pointers.
Kinston 14 20 20 11�65
Hunt 10 20 20 10�60
Kinston scoring: Brandon Ingram 27, Andrew Lopez 15, Mykel Hart 9, Darnell Dunn 8, Darius Dunn 2, Travon Jones 2, Qwarri Ham 2, Tiquan Canady.
Hunt scoring: Justin Jefferson 17, Keenan Tabron 16, Quan Kent 10, Gilliam 7, Shipman 7, Dickens 3.
Kinston 13 3 16 14�46
Hunt 11 11 6 9�37
Kinston scoring: Lydia Rivers 11, Shika Mason 10, Harper 9, Addison 5, Faison 5, Drumgoole 4, Davis 2.
Hunt scoring: Briuanna Anderson 18, Pate 7, Williams 5, Batts 5, Ballard 2, Harris, Frazier, Jones.


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I haven't attended regular Sunday Masses for a long time now. Well, the last time I attended one was on Valentine's Day, but before and after that was a big attendance vacuum. I have 62 reasons why.
My friend Arnaldo has been scolding me for weeks for this rather impious stance that I have toward the modern Catholic Church. But I still go to churches, if only to mutter a short prayer of gratitude, praise, and support. I frequent the mysterious Santo Sepulcro church every Friday, not really to attend Friday masses but as a devotee and to practice my Catholicism.
But other than that, I abhor the Novus Ordo Missae — "the new Ordinary of the Mass" which we –Catholics and non–Catholics alike– are all familiar today.
The nearest church to our place (the San Pedro Apóstol Parish Church which shelters the arcane Cross of Tunasán) is just walking distance away from our apartment. I used to attend masses there when we were new in San Pedro. But remembering the traitorous history of how the Tridentine Mass was cunningly replaced by the Novus Ordo Missae, I stopped attending mass altogether, feeling that I'm doing history and the Christian faith a great disservice.
After having read and understood by heart the contents of the controversial book Till The End of Time With the Mass of All Time by the late Atty. Teodoro R. Domínguez, I started to harbor misgivings toward the kind of Catholic Mass which is celebrated today. It is nothing more than a conspiracy between top Protestant ministers, liberal theologians, and even Freemasons. The arguments and facts presented by Atty. Domínguez, an expert in Canon Law and Apologetics, are difficult, if not impossible, to refute. I was totally disillusioned, especially because during the time that I first read the book, I had just reconverted to Catholicism (I was an atheist-agnostic for a couple of years).
Last year, me and my family were about to stroll in Alabang Town Center when I noticed something "strange" going on inside the nearby St. Jerome Emiliani and Santa Susanna Parish Church. I noticed that the priest was facing the altar. We stopped by the church's entrance, just to make sure if my suspicion was correct. And yes, they were celebrating the Latin Mass, all right! Perhaps only God could describe the elation that I felt during that time.
Suddenly, my mind flashbacked to 2003, the most difficult year of my young, married life. I was bicycling all the way to that church from our home in BF Parañaque just to attend Mass (I was then attending Mass everyday, not just on Sundays, since I had just reconverted to the Faith — I was very hungry for holiness). I chanced upon Rev. Fr. Grato Germanetto, CRS outside the church. He's the parish priest of St. Jerome Emiliani and Santa Susanna Church. I gathered myself up for a conversation, to check if this Italian priest knows something about the Latin Mass, because I was then ignorant about it but was all eager to learn more and support it. Sadly, what he told me disappointed me: he said that the Novus Ordo Missae and the Tridentine/Latin Mass were both the same, and that he didn't sound appreciative of French Archbishop Marcel-François Lefebvre (1905-1991), one of the bastions of Traditionalist Catholicism and founder of the Society of St. Pius X. He just gave it a shrug of the shoulder, as if the fruits of Vatican II, i.e., the new Mass should really happen, and that Archbishop Lefebvre's non-acceptance of it was a big mistake.
We parted ways after that brief conversation, with more questions left unanswered in my mind.
That is why I was surprised that, a few years later, his parish church suddenly decided to bring back the Latin Mass. Was that short conversation of ours inspired the good reverend to think twice? LOL! That's too pretentious of me already. But anyway…
The Latin Mass was being celebrated there in that Alabang church every Sunday at 9:30 AM. But recently, they stopped. Up to now, I don't have any idea why. Even the website dedicated to it didn't offer any explanation. So after that short-lived ecstasy, I was again disillusioned.
But Arnaldo reproved me by saying that the Holy Catholic Church didn't disappear just because the Mass was changed into something else. The deduction he brought forth is that I don't stop being a son just because I disagree with my parents. My argument is that a son should still love his parents but not support their illegal drug business. This is a deep theological debate which I will not dare discuss further especially since I am no theologian, nor am I worthy to even defend my case; I'm not a holy man.
Nevertheless, I see his point. If many Catholics will follow my direction, then the Holy Mother Church will lose more members. Or perhaps these Catholics will join dissenting Traditional Catholic groups such as the Society of St. Pius X or, worse, Protestant cults. That will only betray Pope Benedict XVI's efforts of reuniting with Traditionalists all over the world (and hopefully it will also include the Iglesia Filipina Independiente).
Right now, me and my wife are doing something in our spare time to "free ourselves from time constraints" once and for all. And once things fall into place smoothly, then I will have all the time in the world for my advocacies. And one of them is to bring back the Latin Mass, at the very least in the community where we will move in to (we'll be moving to nearby Calambâ very soon).
But until then, what? What of the Holy Mass?
We'll see this Sunday…


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NBC's "Season Saves the World" jumped 55% among viewers in the key 18-49 age group from last's week's episode, which had a "Saturday Night Live" Halloween special as its lead-in. The show drew a rating of 1.7 in the young-adults demo and 5.58 million viewers.
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ABC's "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" continues to lack the ratings pixie dust, dropping 18% from its last original to a low 0.9. Meanwhile, "Grey's Anatomy" rose slightly to a 2.7, and Kerry Washington's beltway drama "Scandal," which has been hugely successful this season, fell a bit to a 2.7.
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Guy 1: yo i qot dem sneaky foams on deck my niqqa , u tryna buy these shits off me ?
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#32 wrote:robersonSHOULDstart wrote:#32 wrote:robersonSHOULDstart wrote:i love how you bring defense into the mix, considering the warriors are in the bottom five in the league in points given up. you are a truly brilliant man to throw that in there. please, try me again when you know what your talking about
That's purely because Nelson's style makes for more possessions. Look at the Phoenix Suns.
Golden State is currently 1st, in team blocks per game (6.23) and 5th in team steals per game (8.16). Do your research before trying to make someone else look bad.robersonSHOULDstart wrote:thank you, someone sees my point. all im saying is if don gives him minutes, he has the ability to put up 20 any given night.
wow, u really dont know what your talking about. SO they get steals and blocks, we still give up practically the most points in the nba
And, yet, our differential in points is still higher than our opponents... weeeeeird.
"So we block a lotta shots and get a lot of steals... it doesn't mean we play good defense!"
Amazing logic.
bro, the warriors are no good at defense, give it up


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- Texas Gov. Rick Perry describes Obama's move as an example of "federal overreach"
- The law requires people to show a photo ID at the polling place
- The Justice Department says there is little evidence of "in-person voter impersonation"
- The department blocked a similar voter ID law in South Carolina in December
A controversial new Texas law requiring voters to present personal identification before going to the polls has been blocked by the Obama administration.
In a letter Monday to state officials, the Justice Department said the legislation could have a discriminatory effect on Hispanics and other minorities.
Texas is among eight states to require official photo identification in an effort to stop what officials say is voter fraud. Opponents of the laws say they disenfranchise poor, minority and disabled voters.
The department concluded there is little evidence of voter fraud in Texas warranting the legislative changes.
"We note that the state's submission did not include evidence of significant in-person voter impersonation not already addressed by the state's existing laws," said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general.
The landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 gives the federal government the power to oversee any changes in voting procedures in states and jurisdictions with a history of voter discrimination.
Texas' new voting boundaries for congressional and legislative seats are also being challenged separately in federal court.
The Justice Department, relying on statistics provided by the state, said Hispanics in particular would be negatively affected by the Texas law.
"Under the data provided in January, Hispanics make up only 21.8% of all registered voters, but fully 38.2% of the registered voters who lack these forms of identification. Thus, we conclude that the total number of registered voters who lack a driver's license or personal identification card issued by (the state Department of Public Safety) could range from 603,892 to 795,955," Perez said in the letter, addressed to the director of elections for the Texas secretary of state.
"Even using the data most favorable to the state, Hispanics disproportionately lack either a driver's license or a personal identification card ... and that disparity is statistically significant," Perez said.
A similar voter ID law in South Carolina was blocked by the Obama administration in December.
Texas and South Carolina now have the option of asking a federal court in Washington to review the laws, and allow them to be enforced this election year.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a statement soon after the Justice Department's decision was announced, slamming it as "yet another example of the Obama administration's continuing and pervasive federal overreach."
"The DOJ has no valid reason for rejecting this important law, which requires nothing more extensive than the type of photo identification necessary to receive a library card or board an airplane," he said.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has defended the law, saying it imposes "minor inconveniences on exercising the right to vote."
Voters in the state would be required to present one of seven types of government-issued photo identification, including a driver's license, a passport or a concealed handgun permit. Those lacking the ID would be given a provisional ballot, but the voter would have to present an approved document to the registrar's office within six days after the election.
Those lacking an acceptable identification would be given a free voter identification card.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been used by federal authorities for decades to oversee election changes in 16 states or selected areas, including parts of New York City.
Texas and other jurisdictions have chafed at the requirements, saying there has been no recent government effort to discriminate. They argue they should not continue to have the burden of showing that any voting changes would not burden or interfere with someone's ability to vote.
Opponents of the voter ID law in Texas have said minority voter turnout could be suppressed 3% to 5% at a time when the Hispanic population there is growing rapidly. There have also been complaints the new law has not been sufficiently publicized.
"Texas' voter ID law would prevent countless Latinos, African-Americans, elderly citizens and others from casting their ballot," said Katie O'Connor, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. "We're pleased the Department of Justice has recognized the harms this discriminatory law would have on people's fundamental right to vote."
The Justice Department said Hispanic registered voters in Texas are 46.5% to 120% more likely than a non-Hispanic registered voter to lack the required identification.
The nation's second largest state has a population of 25.1 million, an increase of 4.3 million in the past decade. That explosive growth ensures Texas will gain four congressional seats, requiring new voting boundaries that are still being litigated in court. The Supreme Court in January ordered a special federal court in Texas to reconsider its rejection of the maps approved by the state's Republican majority.


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Shelley Foreshore Shelley
A lovely playground at the edge of the Canning River - softfall on the ground, modern playequipment, toilets, some tables and bbqs. Shade comes from big trees. A great place for riding bikes or scootering along the path around the river. Take Beatrice Ave off Leach Hwy and keep going until you hit the playground!
Manning Park - Spearwood
A new large playground with a castle theme. A combination of sand and softfall on the ground and not fenced.
The park is a lovely place for a picnic.
Bibra Lake Reserve - Progress Drive Bibra Lake
A boat theme steel frame playground, with lots of tall slides. Lots of open space around and picnic and bbq facilities.
Piney Lakes - Murdoch Drive Murdoch
This playground is a bit different, it is a 'sensory playground' with interesting equipment and activities for the kids. There is no shade over the play area, and no fences between the play area and the lake. There is lots of grass to picnic on.
John Graham Reserve / Woodman Point Regional Park - Coogee
This great picnic and play area is by the beach in Coogee / Spearwood. It is a big open area with a central playground, lots of picnic gazebos and barbeques. The playground has shade sails. There is lots of open space for riding bikes and scooters or kicking a ball.
Tom Bateman Park - Nicholson Road Canning Vale
A good playground and picnic area near the baseball stadium.
Garvey Park - Fauntleroy Ave Redcliffe
A large park on the water's edge with picnic tables, toilets and a great playground with interesting equipment.
Fantasy Park - Rand Ave, Waikiki
Good BBQ facilities and toilets.
City Park, Westralia Gardens, Rockingham (not far from Hungry Jacks)
BBQ facilities and toilets
Mills Park Brixton St Beckenham
A great park for little kids - there are toilets on the other site of the car park from the playground. The park has heaps of shade and tables and chairs for picnics.
Pioneer Park Gosnells
Off Federation Parade - not many details!
Rockingham City Park
The park has lots of different play areas for all ages. There are toilets, but no cafe. There is a lake and exercise equipment spread around the lake. McDonald's is nearby if you need coffee on the way!.


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Learn how to identify problems in screenmaking that most often lead to reduced screen tension and how to anticipate and minimize tension loss.
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Gradual screen-tension loss is inevitable, even when you control your screenmaking and press-setup workflows carefully. A variety of factors contribute to screen-tension loss, and several can occur simultaneously, making the culprit hard to pinpoint.
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Low screen tension is a leading contributor to poor image quality. Improper flooding, poor snap-off, smears, and loss of detail are some of the problems associated with low tension. In addition, inconsistency in screen tension in a multicolor job can lead to misregistered colors, moiré, mesh marks, and image defects.
You can trace screen-tension loss to two primary sources and several secondary causes. Every screen consists of only two principal physical elements: the mesh fabric and the frame. In every case, tension loss stems from one or both of these sources. External factors that lead to weakening or failure of either of the two elements are considered causes.
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A properly designed and constructed wood frame will yield an entirely satisfactory print, but wood frames are more likely to cause tension loss than their metal counterparts. Here are some reasons why.
Reclaiming The way wood frames are processed for future use is one of the primary causes of screen-tension loss. Wood absorbs the water and cleaning chemicals used in reclaiming. As a result, the frame is less able to withstand the stress imposed by a tightly tensioned screen.
Beam deflection This condition refers to the tendency of the frame's longer sides to bend inward. Beam deflection is worsened by the wood frame's inability to hold its proper shape under stress. Beam deflection occurs to some degree in all frame types, including rigid and retensionable metal frames, but the fact that wood frames absorb moisture makes them most susceptible to the problem. If the wood bends while it's wet, the frame won't likely return to its original shape—even after the mesh fabric is removed.
Heat Screens are often dried in heated cabinets or in rooms that are equipped with dehumidifiers, which also create heat. The wood frame's tendency to bend inward becomes even more pronounced when the frame is hot. Combining moisture and heat further compounds the problem.
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Although there was not a lot of publicity or fanfare surrounding the change, there is reason for area businesses (as well as future business owners) to celebrate, as recently passed legislation makes it more attractive than ever to organize a limited liability company (LLC) in Ohio. Since the advent of LLCs nearly 30 years ago, in most situations, LLCs have become the entity of choice in the formation of business enterprises. Prior to the enactment of LLC legislation, the only business entities available for new business ventures were corporations and partnerships (general or limited). Partnerships offer more flexibility from an administrative and tax perspective; however the general partners are personally liable for the debts and obligations of the business. Corporations, on the other hand, are more rigid, especially from a tax perspective; however, shareholders are insulated from entity liabilities. LLCs offer the business owner with both the flexibility of partnerships and the limited liability of corporations. Of equal concern is the exposure of the business entity to the claims of judgment creditors of its shareholders, partners or owners. A judgment creditor of a shareholder has the power to attach the stock of the shareholder, giving that judgment creditor voting rights over the corporation. If the judgment debtor controlled the corporation, then the judgment creditor could potentially seize voting control of the corporation, control the Board of Directors, and thereby control, and possibly liquidate, the corporation. With respect to partnerships and LLCs, in order to preserve the integrity of the entity and prevent a judgment creditor from becoming a partner of the partnership, legislatures adopted a limited form of relief for the creditor. A charging order entitles the judgment creditor to the economic benefits available to the judgment debtor. Any distributions allocable to a judgment debtor would thereafter be paid to the judgment creditor until the debt is satisfied. Over the years, some states have permitted erosion of the charging order as an exclusive remedy. Courts in these jurisdictions have allowed judgment creditors to pursue certain equitable remedies, such as foreclosure and certain trust theories, which in essence allowed them to pierce the entity structure and enforce judgments against the underlying partnership/LLC assets. Individual states have adopted legislation that specifically allows foreclosure of interests in LLCs. Ohio legislation provided for the charging order as a remedy, but did not allow for foreclosure. As a consequence, the issue as to whether or not a charging order was the sole remedy available to judgment creditors in Ohio was at issue. Other states, such as Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, Florida, New Jersey, Texas and Virginia adopted legislation which limited remedies available to judgment creditors. The most popular form was adopted by Delaware which explicitly limited creditor enforcement to the charging order. As a consequence, if creditor protection was a concern, the conservative approach was to establish or organize the entity under Delaware law. Earlier this year, the Ohio legislature passed new legislation amending the LLC law, putting Ohio charging order legislation on par with Delaware. The charging order is now the sole and exclusive remedy available to judgment creditors in Ohio obtaining judgments against members of limited liability companies. The legislation specifically prevents judgment creditors from exercising any legal or equitable remedies which would entitle them to access the property of the LLC. Additionally, the legislation authorizes the remaining members of the LLC to succeed to the interest of the judgment creditor by paying the full amount of the judgment. As a consequence, Ohio has now become one of the preferred venues in which to organize LLCs.
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New Dutch publications are now available from the directive NEN-EN-IEC 60079 'Explosieve atmosferen' part 0, 10-1, 10-2 and 14. With these translations all standards in this range are up to date again.
The most important alteration is the integration of explosive gas atmospheres (NEN-EN-IEC 60079) and explosive dust atmospheres (NEN-EN-IEC 61241).
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The EN 954-1 can be used until December 31, 2011
It is decided that the EN 954-1 can be used until 31-12-2011. This means an end to a period of uncertainty for machine builders and engineers.
It is inevitable for this moment to come closer. On December 31, 2011, each machine builder will have to switch to the Performance Level (PL) or Safety Inegrity Level (SIL).
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It's March in America, and if you are any kind of average citizen in this plugged-in, un-buckled, vegged-out nation, you've been soothing your winter malaise with a tsunami of television watching. You might even be seeking a little insight into the human experience, tuning into HBO and Showtime for their critically lauded helpings of suspense, hard-to-watch sex, and pathos. But there is a show, neither subtle nor intellectually sophisticated nor on cable, which contains greater nuggets of insight into the most written-about, lusted-after, projected-upon creature of American popular life—the modern woman—than premium-channel dramas ever offer. ABC's The Bachelor, behind all the beefcake and buoyant breasts, unsparingly depicts the central struggles of women's lives—and no, that doesn't mean fighting for a guy. While the quest for true love might be the raison d'être of the show, it's the prickly bramble of societal expectations, bilious intra-sex competition, and internal crescendos of self-doubt hiding beneath the Spanx and sundresses of the 26 female contestants that make for must-see TV.
Countless thinkers and gurus from Friedan to Oprah to Sandberg have attempted to dethorn the thicket of women's interior lives, with some help from the editors of Glamour along the way, but it is The Bachelor's great genius that for years it has simply played documentarian to it all. Producers have welcomed a primetime audience to view the rawest cuts of Girl World, whose laws govern the interactions of Upper West Side feminists and Bad Girls Club participants alike. What fuels the manic maquillage-application and irrigates the honeyed throats on The Bachelor is a cocktail that has been sipped by centuries of women. It's distilled from both the oldest and newest of problems with hints of jealousy, bitters of quivering fragility, all sitting atop base notes of full-bodied frustration, making women drunk on an anger they can't quite name.
Much like the discovery of the powers of Penicillin, The Bachelor stumbled accidentally upon its potency as an incubator of this dynamic. In the beginning, I suspect viewers watched because they thought that a happy couple might emerge from the dark tunnel of manufactured reality TV romance. This dream is all but dead now—only two marriages have actually materialized. When the season's finale aired Monday night and Sean, the latest hunky white guy chosen for America to fantasize about on bubble bath-and-wine nights-in, made his "final decision," a fair number of viewers were surely taking bets on how long the engagement would last while wishing that the whole crazy gang of girls was still around to stir up trouble. There's only so long you can watch a guy deliberate over Neil Lane rings and pensively work on his lats.
My own Bachelor-watching started three years ago when I lived alone overseas, and found myself saddled with a magpie attraction to anything American-made. I was a purely ironic viewer at first, delighting in the stomach-churning feeling I got seeing the women deploy cringe-worthy tactics to catch the attention of the hunk. (The Bachelor rewards emotional promiscuity and fans will know that a declaration of love following a second or third date is nothing out of the ordinary.) For a while you are animated by the unreality of it all, by watching the silly sister wives go on dates that serve as blunt-force metaphors for falling in love—bungee-jumping off buildings and scaling cliffs are favorites of the show's producers. You get to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude, too, because while you may not be the thinnest or the prettiest, at least you've got the good sense not to spill your lovesick guts on national television.
But what makes The Bachelor truly compelling is what happens when the cameras capture the women during their daily cohabitation in a prefab McMansion of broken dreams. Away from the object of their collective affection, lounging in yoga pants and fueled by white wine, the silicone sylphs eviscerate each other. Most of this season's drama centered around Tierra, whose Cruella DeVille eyebrows and emphatically décolletage-driven style give her the aura of a villain from an early '90s teen soap where all the "kids" have been nursing pretty serious booze and pills habits for years. During the course of one argument, the 24-year-old calls a 32-year-old fellow contestant a "cougar" and proclaims that she'd never be caught dead on a nationally televised dating show at that age. During another row she declares, "No one will take my sparkle away. I'm not letting that happen." She fakes medical emergencies as a way to get attention from Sean. Her sparkle, Tierra explains, is why other women are jealous of her.
It's this dynamic that makes the penultimate episode of each season, "The Women Tell All," so engrossing. The Bachelor can be something of a diminishing-returns experience if colorful characters don't make it far enough—though this season AshLee, who can neither spell her name properly nor stop dropping the fact that she has abandonment issues, brought a certain unnerving intensity of purpose into the final three—so the episode is a chance to rehash old fights. Selma, this season's saucy Iraqi (diversity!), told Tierra that she needed to learn to "hide your crazy," and there were countless knowing glances exchanged between the almost-exclusively female members of the studio audience.
The rote explanation for this kind of behavior, commonplace on The Bachelor, is what we've read about in feminist diatribes for years—women feel threatened by other women because the barriers to entry into a lot of fields—both professional and dating—are much steeper, the former thanks to good old sexism and the latter to the statistical fact that there are simply more of us in the world. We become zero-sum thinkers. In the workplace, we perceive female coworkers not as allies, but as threats; at bars and on reality TV shows, we call other women whores as a preemptive strike of sorts. And if you think this is a problem that the power class is exempt from, I'd direct you to accounts of in-fighting in the early days of Ms. And, more recently, Jodi Kantor's snide reporting on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, which included rumors of a "feminist row" between the Lean In author and Anne Marie Slaughter, of "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" fame.
The solution to this problem is simple—be nicer to your sisters—and while I'm all in favor of that, I also can't help thinking that the feelings of America's women are being trivialized by that imperative just a bit. Yes, of course, we really should stop that kind of talk. But women aren't inherently pettier than men, which is what the whole, "Oh, just stop and be nicer, girls" thing seems to imply at times. What we are, I think, is a whole lot angrier.
Because it's not a theatrical kind of anger most of us suffer from—there aren't that many table-flippers, though I can sympathize with the impulse—it's easy to mislabel this emotion we experience as simple stress or anxiety, or to condescendingly conflate our fury with PMS. But it isn't a quavering tapioca pudding of sadness I'm talking about, it's a steak-and-potato rage, the kind that builds up quietly and then drives with gale-force fury. It's the kind that comes from pure frustration—the frustration that makes you want to cry in the bathroom at work or in a dressing room or while you're lying in the dark next to some so-so schmuck. Being a woman, especially a young woman on her own, as many of The Bachelor contestants are, is a hell of a lot of worry. Do they think I'm a pushover at work? What if I never make enough money? Am I going to die alone? What if I'm pregnant? What if I'm sterile? Is my inability to look good in skinny jeans having an adverse effect on my dating life? How often do I have to get that waxed? And there's the umpteenth condescending guy at a party who plainly thinks you're just a bit dense because you're wearing flawlessly-applied liquid liner (which, by the way, requires a lot of hand-eye coordination, so good for you). If those things don't just snowball after a while into an emotion you can't call anger, well, then slap my ass and call me Susan, because I don't know what anger is.
Perhaps the best and most heartbreaking exhibition of this particular kind of female anger on this season's Bachelor came from Sarah, a sweet blonde who, because of a birth defect, only has one arm. She is, of course, intimidatingly beautiful, but also incredibly relatable, not because her disability makes her less threatening but because she is the one woman in the house who is frank about her insecurities without being sob story-esque. When Sean sends her home, she gives a speech, hiccup-filled and poignant, that a lot of us can relate to: "I wanted to stop him before he started because I knew what he was going to say but I wanted to hear his explanation because it's always the same. … I just don't want to be told forever how great I am and what I deserve." Yes, some of this was just plain old hurt feelings about being rejected, but there's a whole lot more buried beneath those sobs—Sarah is cool and confident and has a great job in a fun city, but it's also pretty apparent that she feels like she hasn't really gotten things right. Her being sent home was just the impetus for a whole lot of tangled feelings about being a woman to come tumbling out. This isn't how she imagined things would be. This isn't what life was supposed to look like.
At the end of the day, what adds to the anger building inside of us is the sneaking suspicion that the girl sitting next to you has got the whole tilt-a-whirl of modern womanhood figured out, and that, like Sarah, you're never going to get it right. That's a defeating feeling, whether you're vying for a meathead on national television or smiling fiercely at a dinner party celebrating your roommate's latest promotion.
The women on The Bachelor aren't competing for a man so much as they're competing for a life—for their vision of how things are supposed to unfold. That's why The Bachelor, a vacuum of heteronormativity and assuredness about marriage and family, makes such perfect sense, and why it has a certain Isle of the Lotus-Eaters effect. Your own vision of how things are supposed to work out might center around career or financial stability or baking croissants in a sunny California kitchen all day like Meryl Streep in It's Complicated rather than marrying a former Kansas State linebacker. But the impulse is the same. These 26 women, every season, want more than anything to impose some order and structure on their lives. They know the swirling sense of chaos; they know the feeling that nothing will ever go your way and that you will never be truly happy unless you will it to be so with every fiber of your being and shove aside every obstacle to have it. It's not a pretty way to be—never said that—but there in the hi-def of primetime, you can't tear your eyes away from the humanity of it all.


text: Shields praises politics and politicians at Commencement News Home 05.12.13 By: Buff Lindau National political analyst, TV commentator Mark Shields captures with a riveting speech, the 500+ graduates and 4,000 others at the 106th Saint Michael's College Commencement today. In a humorous, but serious, and spot-on commencement address, political commentator Mark Shields gave 2013 graduates of Saint Michael's College advice for life, and a powerful endorsement of the value of politics. The 470 students earning bachelor's degrees and the 43 earning master's degrees, and the 4,000 people in the assembly, were riveted to Shields talk at the liberal arts and sciences Catholic college in the Burlington area of Vermont. His advice to graduates: "Call your mother…not text, not e-mail—call her. She wants to hear how you sound." And he advised, if you become parents, "spend more time than you judge to be reasonable with your children. Please know that no one in recorded history, on his or her death bed has ever said, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time at the office.'" And he advised graduates to pay off their student loans so that those who follow them will find the money there to go to college too. Shields told the graduates not to worry about what others think of them, "because believe me, other people are not thinking about you…. they are worrying about what you think of them." His most serious message was "I believe in the value of politics… politics is the peaceable resolution of conflict between legitimate competing interest… I don't know how else we can resolve our public differences and live together." Co-valedictorians Callie Umbra and Alexandra Foote process at the end of Commencement with President John J. Neuhauser. He praised politicians because "political candidates boldly risk public rejection of the kind that most of us will go to almost any lengths to avoid." He spelled out the courage of a number of politicians—both Democrats and Republicans. And listed some major successes of politics: "I value the politics that wrote the GI Bill, the politics which passed the Marshall Plan to rebuild a war-devastated Europe—politics that wrote the Clean Air act which has taken 99% of the lead out of the air and that saved the Great Lakes through the Clear Water Act—the kind of politics that took want and fear out of old age through Social Security." He said "politics at its best can help to make ours a world where the powerful can be made more just and where the weak can become more secure." Mr. Shields was awarded an honorary degree at the ceremonies, and some 470 students were awarded bachelor's degrees and 43 were present to receive master's degrees. Saint Michael's College conferred honorary doctor of humane letters degrees on four individuals including Mark Shields and Alice Boutin, the first "first lady" of Saint Michael's College, wife of the late Saint Michael's President Bernard Boutin; Patrick Robins, a 1961 graduate of Saint Michael's, Burlington community leader and founder of Symquest Group, and Father Daniel Riley, ofm, a a founding member of Mt. Irenaeus, Franciscan Mountain Retreat. Mark Shields A graduate of Notre Dame University who served as an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps, Mr. Shields has a storied career in the American political scene. He began writing a column for the Washington Post in 1979, which is now syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Since 1988, he has been a political analyst and commentator for "The PBS NewsHour" where he matches wits with David Brooks of the New York Times in the storied Brooks-Shields dialogue. For 17 years he was moderator and panelist on CNN's Capital Gang, and he is now a regular panelist on "Inside Washington" the weekly public affairs show on ABC and PBS. Mr. Shields is described as providing insights that are "first-hand and up-to-the minute, drawn from four decades of knowing, covering and savoring the country and its politics." Honorary degree recipients: Alice Boutin, Saint Michael's first 'first lady.' Mrs. Boutin, the wife of Bernard Boutin, the first lay president of Saint Michael's College, who served from 1969 to 1974, was a beloved first lady who welcomed faculty into her home with gracious dinners, and served the college with great affection. Five of her children graduated from Saint Michael's. She is said to often feel as though she is a Saint Michael's graduate herself. Father Daniel Riley, ofm, is a founding member of Mt. Irenaeus, Franciscan Mountain Retreat, where he and his brothers live an open and contemplative life in the foothills of the Allegany mountains. There, they have created a haven for men and women seeking peace in the strength of community and with the benefits of reflection in solitude. Previously, he was a campus minister at St. Bonaventure University and Director of Vocation Ministry for Holy Name Province, Order of Friars Minor. A man of deep faith and commitment to Catholic higher education, Father Dan is a renowned spiritual guide for young people. He has partnered with the Edmundite priests of Saint Michael's to organize retreats for young people and priests on campus and at Enders Island. Patrick Robins, chairman of the board of Symquest Group, and long-time civic leader in Burlington where he resides. He was also president of McAuliffe's, the predecessor to Symquest. Mr. Robins graduated from Saint Michael's in 1961 with a degree in English and earned an MBA from Dartmouth in 1964. He served on the Saint Michael's Board of Trustees, 1992-95 and 1998-99. President of the Downtown Burlington Development Association, Mr. Robins led the development of the Church Street Marketplace and chaired the Marketplace Commission. He has been a champion of Burlington City Arts and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, as part of his ongoing, life-time campaigns to enrich the business and cultural life of the Burlington, Vermont. He serves on a number of other boards as well.


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With less than a month remaining before the big day, the Bride and Groom have chosen!
They carefully evaluated each and every cupcake and they have selected their three favorites.
I will be making eight dozen of each cupcake variety to serve at their wedding on New Year's Eve. This will be the most I have ever attempted to bake at one time. I'm nervous, but also excited about it. Will my hands get sore from piping frosting? Will I get sick from licking so much cupcake dough off the mixers? I'll be sure to let everyone know as the saga progresses.
Despite our differences of opinion along the way, I am very happy with their selections.
They decided to go with a cupcake drink theme.
They selected:
Soda Fountain Cupcakes
The Groom loved these at first whiff. They want them exactly as I made them.
The Bride's family demanded these make an appearance.
This one was by request of the Bride. It was a combination of the gingerbread cupcakes that she loved and her desire to have coffee in a cupcake. I plan to make these without the simple syrup and possibly with only latte frosting as opposed to a gingerbread and latte swirl. However, that is still open for discussion.


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Faithful Reason Project
Seminaries have played an important but unheralded role in preserving a philosophy with the humility and courage to seek wisdom. Our project nourishes this tradition. Three factors have emerged to make this a particularly favorable time for such a project:
- The vision of the priesthood in Pastores Dabo Vobis
- The philosophical guidance of Fides et Ratio
- The expectations of the new Program of Priestly Studies.
The fifth edition of the PPF makes a considerable advance in its rationale for and specification of philosophy program content. This advance along with the papal documents has created a potent opportunity to make major improvements in this aspect of priestly formation.
We believe that even though specific courses in philosophy are required by the PPF, the content of those courses will continue to vary considerably according to the interests/experience/abilities of the faculty member, with the result that there is not enough assurance that seminarians are really getting what they need. The Faithful Reason Project will help by providing a broad consensus of what needs to be covered in each of the courses (with due allowance for flexibility on the part of the teachers).
An additional benefit of this project is that it will consciously foster a greater sense of community and cooperation among seminary philosophy faculty.


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The California Independent System Operator (California ISO) treated the design of its new headquarters in Folsom, CA as an opportunity to demonstrate strong energy leadership. The corporation – which manages the power grid of 30 million people – wanted to achieve 25% less energy usage than outlined in California's Title 24 standard, and targeted LEED certification as a benchmark.
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The revitalization of San Francisco International Airport's Terminal 2 (SFO T2) included a redesign that set out to redefine the passenger experience and provide airport travelers with a distinctly "San Francisco" flavor. Very influential in this redesign were the goals of reducing the terminal's environmental footprint and achieving LEED Gold Certification – both of which were achieved through the inclusion of various sustainable products and practices.
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