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Enjoy running, music, food (famous Vietnamese "Banh Mi" and "Pho" Noodle soup) and fun. This is a runner centered race for runners by runners. A last chance race for 2017. Finish Strong!.
Bear Creek Pioneers Park/Jogging trail by the tennis court.
7:30 AM - Half-Marathon, 50K7:35 AM - Marathon, 50M, 100K, 100M
Half Marathon - 75; Marathon - 75; 50K - 50; 50 Miler - 50; 100K - 30; 100 Miler - 30
2.01 Mile Loop - Flat paved jogging trail loop around Bear Creek Park (by the tennis court). There is grass along the jogging path if you wish to run on it. Run counter-clockwise. Think NASCAR100 Mile - 50 laps - Time Limit: 31 Hour (Extended Time Limit Allowed - Email RD)100K - 31 laps - Time Limit: 31 hour 50 Mile - 25 laps - Time Limit: 24 hour50K - 16 laps - 1st lap is a short lap which consists 1/2 mile out & 1/2 mile back; Followed by 15 regular laps of the 2.01 mile loop - Time Limit: 12 hourMarathon - 13 laps (1st lap is an extended lap around the parking lot; Followed by 12 regular laps of the 2.01 mile loop) - Time Limit: 12 HourHalf Marathon - 7 laps - 1st lap is a short lap which consist of 1/2 mile out & 1/2 mile back; Followed by 6 regular laps of the 2.01 mile loop- Time Limit: 12 Hour
At Start /Finish Area Bear Creek Park between 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM on Race Day, Saturday, December 16, 2017.
Timing will be provided by Run Houston Timing, www.onlineraceresults.com Chips - Double Shoe tags will be available for pickup starting at 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM on race morning near the starting area. Please wear chip on each shoe and not on top each other otherwise they will not work as backup.There will be a TV monitor by the timing mat to display the number of laps each time each runner complete a loop.IMPORTANT NOTE: Any dispute must be resolved with the timer at race site. There will be NO adjustments and corrections after the race is complete.Thank you for your cooperation.
Half Marathon & Marathon – Parking by the Tennis Court. Ultra Distances – Parking near the start or along the jogging trail.
100M - Custom designed belt buckle100K - Custom designed belt buckle50M/50K - Custom designed medalMarathon & Half Marathon - Custom designed medal
Custom designed High Tech Long Sleeve.Registered by October 31, 2017 to guarantee T-shirts size. After October 31, T-shirt size are not guaranteed.
At each 2.01 Mile Loop (Start/Finish).Menu with over 50 items including: salt, pepper, ketchup, mustards, mayonnaise, relish, pickles, and soy sauce, tabasco sauce. Drinks: Water, Gatorade, Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Ginger ale, Mountain Dew, Cold Tea, Hot Tea, Starbucks Coffee, Orange Juice.Snacks: Variety of chips, crackers, candies, trail mixes.Pastries: Bagels with cream cheese, muffins, cookies, cakes, pies.Fruits: Bananas, Apples, Oranges, Grapes. Food: Famous Vietnamese "Banh Mi ", PB&J sandwiches, ham/turkey/cheese sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, quesadillas, hot soups, oatmeal. Hot pizzas (cheese, meats, and vegetarian) and Famous Vietnamese "Pho" Noodle Soup will be served at dusk for Ultra distance runners.
There will be a drop bag location area adjacent to the Aid Station. Ultra distances - You may park your car along the jogging trail for easy access to your car for personal aid.
There are two restrooms around the 2.01 mile loop. One is near the start/finish and one is approximately half way around the trail.
1. Course will be open to the public during park hours. You should expect to see walkers. joggers, baby-strollers, etc. Please share the trail with them. Please do not run/walk more than 2 abreast. Yield to fast runners passing.2. Parking Lot Crossings - The race does not cross any streets; however, there are few intersections at various parking lots. Signs will be posted to make park users aware that a "Race is in progress". PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN CROSSING PARKING LOT ENTRIES.3. The main gate entrance is located at the intersection of N Elridge Parkway and War Memorial Drive (by the Tennis Court). Park hours are from 7:00 AM- 10:00 PM. If you need to enter or exit the park outside these hours, the main entrance gate will be open on the hour by Park Security. Please plan accordingly.4. Park will be patrolled by Park Security from 10:00 PM on Saturday, 12/16 until 6:00 AM on Sunday, 12/17.5. Glass beverage containers are prohibited. Absolutely no littering. There are plenty of trash cans around the park for your waste.6. Participants may drop to a shorter distance than the original distance he or she signed up for PRIOR to start time (NO REFUNDS). Same thing with move up to longer distance, participant may do so PRIOR to start time and pays difference.7. Pacers - 100M, 100K, 50M - are allowed after 50 miles or after dark, whichever come first. You may have as many pacers as you wish but only one pacer at a time. Pacers must be over 18 years of age or have the signed permission from a parent or guardian.8. 100M, 100K, 50M - While the race course is lit at night; however, there is some spot maybe dark; headlamps or handheld flashlight are recommended. .
Texas Ninjas Racing LLC reserves the right to cancel the event due to severe weather, flooding, park closure, or in any other event or situation that could affect the safety of runners, volunteers, and race staff. If the event is cancelled, an attempt will be made to reschedule, but there will be NO REFUNDS. Thank you for your understanding.


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Jewish People: Marx on the Jewish Question
Andre Shapiro's latest offering reflects on Karl Marx's opinions on the Jewish Question and highlights the relevance and value of Marx's views today.
Almost four decades ago Prof. Shlomo Avineri published an article on Marx's attitude to the Jewish question. The article opened with the following sentence: "That Karl Marx was an inveterate antisemite is today considered a commonplace which is hardly ever questioned" (S. Avineri, Journal of the History of Ideas, 1964: 445-450). This sentence has appeared as an epigraph to many articles on Marx's anti-Semitic attitude published since then, whose authors tended to miss or ignore its deliberately careful formulation and Avineri's fine analysis outlined in the article. This is not a one-off incident. There is a trend amongst Jewish thinkers to rummage around in the rich sources of Marx's expressions against people of Jewish origin with whom he circulated, and to hold this record up as the background against which Marx's attitude towards the Jewish question is interpreted. Speaking loosely, there is a sense in which these findings about Marx's life are relevant and important (as they would be important about any intellectual), for one can hardly expect a clear-cut distinction between a person's professional and personal life. Such an idea gains strength especially when the life and opinions of such a rebellious person as Marx are considered. In this sense, the details of a person's private life do enrich the inquiry. But, if it becomes the only research tool for the interpretation of the person's writings, it loses its value. It gives too much free space to the interpreter's speculations and, depending on his intentions and talents, he may prove equally well whatever he wants. In the case of Marx, those who adopted this approach, seem to have taken revenge on a traitor and a lost cause, and have failed to penetrate the depth of Marx's arguments and his intellectual contribution to the problem in question. In point of fact, just as Marx was once widely read, today he is widely discredited. His works are difficult, overburdened with details and clumsy. It is far from trivial to say that they were once in fashion, for his is not apparently the kind of work which we could treat as fashionable. And if in the non-distant past some read Marx out of obligation and others out of curiosity, today, after the collapse of the "The Empire of Evil" that was seen as the working instantiation of Marx's ideal, for most people the best place for Marx's books is in the library. To put a familiar common opinion into the mouth of an anonymous critic: "Marx's theory is wrong, for the attempts to realize it in practice, however misconceived they had been, resulted in all those and even much harder mischief than the doctrine in question was originally intended to eradicate on the way to human happiness." The author of this article will not take a stand on Marx's anti-Semitism. Neither will he discuss whether the common attitude towards him is right or justified. This work rather purports (1) to draw the reader's attention to the article "On the Jewish Question" and to explain its main theses; (2) to point out some interesting connections between Marx's argumentation regarding Jewish Emancipation and a cluster of popular opinions regarding the desirable nature of Israeli society today.
Marx's article "On the Jewish Question" was written in 1843, at a time when the political struggle for the acquisition of civic rights by Jews in their respective countries was already well-advanced. The Jewish Question was no longer merely a question of economics, namely, whether Jews should be granted civic rights in exchange for their contribution to the commonwealth of a country. Neither was it a marginal or circumstantial issue of theoretical nature as it appears in John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration. Starting in Europe with the French Revolution, the attainment of civic rights became the target of a protracted struggle and a turning point in Jewish history. After more than a century of heated discussions on Jews and their condition, a host of different notions was displaced by the famous term "Jewish Emancipation", thus closing the long history of refinement and conceptual formation of the issue. Thus, in Marx's time "Jewish Emancipation" was already well-established currency in the discourse on the condition of Jews in Europe. It is in this context Marx's opinions about the Jewish Question are perplexing. Isaiah Berlin addresses Marx's account in the following vein:
"It is a dull and shallow composition, but it shows Marx in a typical mood: he was determined that the sarcasms and insults, to which some of the notable Jews of his generation, were all their lives a target, so far as he could effect it, never be used to plague him. Consequently he decided to kill the Jewish problem once and for all so far as he was concerned, declaring it to be an unreal subject, invented as a screen for other more pressing questions: a problem which offered no special difficulty, but arose from the general social chaos which demanded to be put in order (Karl Marx, p. 82)"
I agree with this verdict, and in what follows I will articulate and explain in what sense Marx killed the Jewish problem. Marx's article was originally intended to counter the claims made by Bruno Bauer - another prominent German thinker of Jewish origin. Bauer stated that Jews could never be emancipated, because of what he called "Jewish narrowness", in other words, their commitment to the Jewish faith, which is incompatible with the universal aspect of human emancipation. By that he meant that Jews could never be granted the rights of citizens, since they are incapable of playing any political game except their own. Neither can they possibly be granted the rights of man, for to gain them Jews must, just like other sections of society, play the same game to achieve the same goal, i.e., human emancipation. Bauer thought that the acquisition of the rights of citizens and the rights of man are interdependent (to gain the latter it is first necessary to gain rights as an equal player), and he claimed that this was the main factor that made Jewish emancipation impossible. Emancipation requires that Jews, as well any other possible target population, admit (1) their universality, i.e., that they have the same human nature as other nations, and (2) the irrelevance of their religion to their aspirations for political emancipation. Bauer thought that neither of these requirements could be satisfied in the case of the Jews, because they contradict the core beliefs imposed by Jewish religious teachings and everyday Jewish life conducted in accordance with them. Jews would never abandon the tenet of being the chosen people and drop their messianic expectations. Nor would they abandon Judaism as a system of law, and this was precisely the reason, Bauer thought, for the impossibility of liberating the Jews. "No one in Germany is politically emancipated. We are not free ourselves. How shall we liberate you? You Jews are egoists when you claim a special emancipation for yourselves as Jews." Since Jews would never find a common denominator with non-Jews given the teachings of their history and the meanings of the core concepts held by them, they could never be emancipated. They would never accept Bauer's position that in the struggle for general freedom the wholesale elimination of religion from the political sphere and the removal of religious practices from the public sphere to that of private rights are required. In Marx's response two separate arguments are discerned. Namely, there is a counter-argument against Bauer's view and against those who spoke about the Jews' corrupted nature, which prevented them from being equal and fair players in the political contract. Regarding Bauer, Marx's dictum is this:
"It is by no means sufficient to ask: Who should emancipate and who should be emancipated? Criticism has to be concerned with a third question. It must ask: What kind of emancipation is involved and what are the underlying conditions? Criticism of political emancipation itself is primarily the final critique of the Jewish question and its true resolution into the 'universal question of the age'." (pp. 220-221)
"Bauer asks the Jews: Have you the right to demand political emancipation from your standpoint? We ask on the contrary: Has the standpoint of political emancipation the right to demand from the Jews the abolishment of Judaism and from man the abolishment of religion?" (p. 221)
There are two separate counter-arguments advanced by Marx against Bauer's position. The first claims that the existence of religion is not incompatible with the full development of the state, and that the criteria for the acquisition of civic rights in a truly political state should not include any demands regarding one's religion. Marx takes the case of North America to buttress this point, and claims that the order of things in the political realm is far from necessary and fixed, as Bauer assumes. As Marx puts it, in those states of America where the Jewish question ceases to be treated theologically the state is foreign to all faiths and the question of political rights is no longer treated as a privilege granted to a minority group either by the good will of a monarch or by a decision of a majority defined by its commitment to a religion. The second counter-argument deals with the general issue of human emancipation: it explains "what it is like to be humanly emancipated" and shows how human emancipation is connected to political emancipation. Starting from the bottom line of Marx's resolution of the Jewish question, his immediate message to the Jews is this:
"We thus do not say with Bauer to the Jews: You cannot be politically emancipated without emancipating yourselves from Judaism. Rather we tell them: Because you can be emancipated politically without completely and fully renouncing Judaism, political emancipation by itself is not human emancipation. If you Jews want to be politically emancipated without emancipating yourselves humanly, the incompleteness and contradiction lies not only in you but in the essence and category of political emancipation" (p. 232)
Soon, we will explain what these two types of emancipation are, and what sort of contradiction that precludes the political emancipation of the Jews Marx was talking about. According to Marx's argument, because Bauer's demand has been proved to be logically untenable, political emancipation as the receiving of political rights does not require the renunciation of one's religious creed. This right can be exercised equally well with the others, for they make sense and can be realized only within a society. However, the matter of the freedom of creed does not stand alone in Marx's thinking. The emptiness of his seemingly favorable approach becomes evident when Marx claims that the political elevation of man above religion shares all the defects and advantages of any political elevation: the commitment to religion should be eliminated as a relevant factor for entering into the political realm and making claims for rights, just as private property had been discarded as a factor according to which persons could enter the political realm (ibid., p. 224). The consequences of this comparison should not be overlooked. To compare the right to private property to the right of the freedom of creed, one must be either extremely ignorant or bold in the same degree. In what sense is the right to the freedom of creed similar to the former? The first right is of an essentially social nature and in many senses one's creed seems to be truly decisive in respect to one's self-identification and belonging to an encompassing group. For example, being a Jew, whatever quarrels this question might trigger, remains a question of cultural origin, and whatever differentiation one may discover within the Jewish people there is still a wide common denominator which distinguishes it from other peoples and gathers them into one group. What could be more dissimilar to it than the right to private property, which is only contingent and does not seem to importantly define one's cultural identity? Right now we are close to the answer to the question we set out to explore. Marx treated both rights equally, claiming that they are both politically irrelevant to human emancipation. And so he killed the Jewish question by neutralizing the very content of the right of the freedom of creed and ignoring its importance in shaping the different identities of different groups in civil society. Any final doubts about the accuracy of this diagnosis fade away when the issue of human emancipation is considered. The rights of man, according to Marx, are those interests which stem from the very human condition, which, at the most fundamental level, is the same for everyone. The rights of man are only the rights of a member of civil society, that is, of egoistic man separated from other men and from the community. On the most fundamental level man is as a monad withdrawn to himself, who has the right to equality, liberty, security and property, while the goal of all political association is the preservation of these rights, which are natural and imprescriptible. These sketchy considerations are sufficient for understanding what Isaiah Berlin meant in saying that Marx decided to kill the Jewish question. What he meant was that Marx neutralized the Jewish question by making it a universal question: not the questions of Jews per se, but rather the question of general human and political conditions. Everything which had somehow to do with the question of Jewish identity was of no interest for Marx, or at least, not in the spectrum of factors to be taken into account.
Let me now explain in what sense Marx's account of the Jewish question is relevant today. I shall start from the suggestive and obvious - the historical point of view. Given that Marx's ideas lie at the heart of the left-wing movement as such and socialism in general, one may assume that they might somehow find an expression in their ideology, rhetoric and actions. Many aspects in the history of the founding and running of the state of Israel point in this direction. Two examples: firstly, the very idea of kibbutz – liberation through collective work, abolishment of private property, and an attempt to overcome the natural alienation of man within a collective framework. Second, the very conception of the melting pot as integration and the forming of a collective identity, which proved to be unsuccessful in Israel in respect to Sefardi Jews (for its being in essence insensitive to different cultural identities), but the effects of which are still very tangible. However, I will not discuss these heavy issues here. I merely refer to them as the most natural and straightforward loci of the implementation of Marx's ideas in the recent past. What I do want to point out is the connection between the familiar views about the desirable character of Israel as a normal, democratic, liberal, Western, constitutional state and Marx's discussion of the Jewish question. To recall, what lies at the heart of his solution is the equalization and universalization of all men at the expense of ignoring their different identifications with different groups, and their different identities thus acquired. The cost of this proposal should not be underestimated, for speaking in Marx's parlance, the shape of one's identity is largely independent of one's will, and is therefore natural and imprescriptible. I claim that this is the same problem that lies at the heart of contemporary left-wing movements that hold on to the dream referred to above. This dream can only come true if the state "will be foreign to all faiths" and will treat everyone according to the unique criteria of social justice, which, again should not take the matter of faith and cultural identity into account. It is in this sense that Israel will become the state of all its citizens, with a unique constitution, and the removal of what has always been treated as the dictate of religion from the public sphere to the sphere of private right. I am not going to extend the modest goal I have set myself to achieve here. Namely, I will not discuss whether the view just mentioned is totally wrong, for the spectrum of issues and problems to be dealt with extends the limits of this composition. I suggest that the reader to reflect upon it. If I have succeeded in pointing out the relevance and value of Marx's views today, and showing that the claim about his anti-Semitism has far reaching consequences, I shall be satisfied.


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Jan Dynes Daymon is the new director of sales at the Greater Fort Myers Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. She comes from Santa Fe, New Mexico and before that Ninilchik, Alaska. For 26 years, she ran Hilton's International Start-up Division based in London. As an MBA and International Contract Lawyer; you would think she would be dull and stuffy; but instead she is a genuine 'character' and darn proud of it too.
After her retirement from Hilton at age 50, she set out to achieve all the dreams on her "bucket list" and did. She mushed an Iditarod, climbed Mt McKinley (or Denali as the natives call it), ran marathons and was the only non-native to ever take part in and photograph a Point Hope Whaling Expedition, while experiencing 60 degrees below zero in the process. Then, as a finale to her list, she bought a 41-foot sailboat and set out to single-handedly sail around the world. She fell in love with everywhere she went and was amazed at the kindness of strangers wherever she docked.
While aboard when she ran out of reading matter and was faced with nothing to read, she wrote her first book which was published on her first query letter. "Refraction by Jan Dynes" was awarded with "the best new suspense novelist' at the Los Angeles Book Festival in 2009. (www.jandynes.com)
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Last year Jan went to Haiti and the Dominican Republic and built a school and an orphanage in Dajabon right on the border, raising all the funds and accomplishing it with only a volunteer staff of locals from both countries. French, Spanish and Creole swirled together in a happy babble and, while she tried to learn it all, she relied on pantomime and lots of hugs and laughter. She lived in a little grass shack and slept on the ground on the construction site. Her neighbors, who had almost nothing themselves, shared their food with such generosity that she left part of her heart there.
Jan says that it was there she realized she must find a place that had a Beach to live "permanently." After lots of research and consideration with her husband Clint Daymon, a geologist and safety expert at the Los Alamos National Lab, they chose here and fell in love with our beautiful shoreline and the friendliness of Fort Myers Beach.
Now, Jan is an excited and wonderfully enthusiastic director of sales for the local chamber. She looks forward to helping all of its members flourish and this community to grow. She welcomes calls or questions from anyone she can help with anything.
Although her job is sales, Jan considers herself in more of a client services position. Having done 'business optimization and life coaching' prior to moving here, it is a good fit with this position too, as all her clients receive the benefit of her expertise if they want to grow their business' within the Fort Myers Beach area. Her optimism is infectious, so drop by and say, "Hello."
The World I See
By: Jan Dynes Daymon
Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce: Director of Sales
I was once asked to write a short piece about how anyone can find happiness in today's world. The one of war, starvation, 'dog eat dog' politics and 'man's inhumanity to man', etc. I couldn't write that article. I do not choose to live in that world.
I am a simple woman unafraid to have enormous, yet ordinary dreams, though well-educated; I am still a wide-eyed optimist. I am excited to be at the Chamber and I am excited about my new home's Commerce and the opportunity to grow it and them. I don't pay much attention to the world news and its myriad gruesome details, only in the broad strokes and thus I still find the world to be a wonderful place; and I wish to elaborate on the word wonderful, it means wonder filled. We need to see the miracles all around us, both God created and people perpetuated. We need to believe in one another and a plan much bigger then ourselves, one which has an order and a plan for prosperity. Fort Myers Beach is growing and rebounding brilliantly and I am excited to be a part of it. Though only here a month now, I have fallen passionately involved and in love with both the history and the enthusiasm that resonates from our shores and throughout our surrounding areas.
The economy here is healthy again, speak it and increase it. Few things are more important than believing. Our thoughts, deeds and desires need to be lovely. We need to hold out gifts of generosity, sweetness, genuine goodness of heart and a child-like innocence of mind and spirit. We need to remember old adages, of being good neighbors and loving others as ourselves. We need to drop the desire to be politically correct to the point that has us slinging mud at anyone who thinks differently. We are meant to judge not.yet we be judged; so let us all lift up our fellow business' and our community and then grow it to heights never even imagined and everyone can flourish. We should remember that the greatest of all things is always 'love'; for our community.
Refer other Chamber Members, and every time you refer another; someone will be doing the same for you; you'll see very soon that a spirit of cooperation and generosity can grow The Fort Myers Beach Area in huge leaps and bounds. It is the kind of love and generosity of spirit, which must be practiced for seven days a week, not only on Sundays and with which we should weave our hearts and efforts in order to create a tapestry which betters our world one kindness at a time, with every person that crosses our paths.
The most important things in life are not tangible; they are the big pictures of sunrises, sunsets, rainbows, sand between our toes, blue skies and fluffy white clouds, the flowers blooming with fragrance and promise. We must remember to recognize these incredible blessings all around us for we enjoy them all in great abundance. Just as gravity pulls down, so does hope and joy float. Let them carry your prosperity with them. Fort Myers Beach is living the Dream!!!


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Snow Alert Issued For Sioux Falls
Snow Alert for the City of Sioux Falls
The City of Sioux Falls Street Department has announced a Snow Alert. Plowing of Emergency Snow Routes began earlier today and will continue until routes are clear.
All vehicles parked on Emergency Snow Routes are subject to immediate ticketing and towing.
Zone 3: Plowing in Zone 3 will begin this morning, Friday, February 22, 2013, after Emergency Routes have been cleared. All streets in Zone 3 will be plowed. All vehicles parked in Zone 3 are subject to ticketing and towing during snow plowing operations until the streets have been plowed.
Zone 2: On Friday, February 22, 2013, plowing of east/west streets will begin at 8 p.m. On Saturday, February 23, 2013, plowing of north/south streets will begin at 8 a.m. All vehicles parked on streets in Zone 2 during snow plowing operations are subject to ticketing and towing.
Zone 1: Plowing in Zone 1 will begin at 1 a.m., Sunday, February 24, 2013. Motorists are reminded that vehicles parked in Zone 1 will be subject to ticketing and towing between the hours of 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.
During a Snow Alert, parking is prohibited in the Downtown area between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. General snow removal information is available by calling the Snow Alert Hotline at 367-8259, on the City's website at www.siouxfalls.org, and on cable channel CityLink.
If you are unsure what Snow Zone you are in, or where the zone boundaries are located, please download and consult the City's Snow Removal & Snow Alert Guide or use our online interactive map which allows you to pinpoint your location/zone by address.
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Property owners are reminded that their sidewalks must be kept clean from snow and ice within 48 hours after the termination of any snowfall or ice accumulation. Sidewalks at intersections or crosswalks shall also be cleared to the street—City Ordinance, Section 38-76.
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Manchester United and Liverpool are keen on signing Fulham and England under-17 forward Patrick Roberts, according to Goal.com.
The 16-year-old striker is one of the most highly-rated players in his age group, and Manchester United scouts were impressed with his performance when Fulham under-18s visited the Manchester club earlier this month.
Both Liverpool and United are thought to be willing to pay up to £1m in compensation for Roberts, who scored the only goal of the game as his under-18s side lost to United 3-1.
The report claims the Anfield club have been long-term admirers of the England under-17s forward and were believed to be the front-runners, but United have stepped up their pursuit in the last month.
The young striker only turned 16 in February, but he's already established himself as a regular in the Fulham under-18s side.
The west London club rate him highly, and the report claims they're desperate to keep hold of him and have no desire to sell - despite interest from Liverpool and United.
Fulham are unable to tie down Roberts to a long-term professional contract because he's yet to turn 17, but an agreement between player and club over a future deal grants Fulham a certain amount of security.
The transfer of young players not subject to contracts can involve lengthy tribunals which set compensation payments between buyers and sellers.
And in this case, United and Liverpool are both thought to be prepared to offer a deal worth up to £1m including add-ons for the England youth team player.
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The San Diego company that is developing the 1.6-acre property said the sign would be donated to the nearby Pratt Institute of Fine Arts. But that has some neighborhood residents worried that Pratt will auction it off to wealthy collectors. They strongly suspect that "Wonder Bread", or "Wonder" or "Bread" — or just "W" or "B," for that matter — would be a hot commodity for the growing set of neon industrial art aficionados....Interesting. But what made me want to blog about this NYT article when I saw it in the paper version was a quote that doesn't appear on-line. Between the second and third paragraphs of what I've quoted, there's this quote from Bradburd:
Bill Bradburd, an artist who moved here from San Francisco, said the Wonder Bread sign was really a symbol of a "bait and switch" on the part of city officials. Mr. Bradburd, who lives near the bakery and is a co-chairman of the Jackson Place Community Council, said development was moving at such a fast pace that city officials who had promised to protect the character of Seattle's neighborhoods were instead seizing on the dollars flowing in.
Mr. Bradburd and others on the council want the sign displayed publicly near the site of the bakery. He is at odds with some, though, by proposing the sign be split up, putting "Read" over a local library and perhaps "Wonder" over a new elementary school.
But is the tension over these 11 red letters, each six feet tall, really about the sign?
"These battles over saving something old are proxy battles," said David Brewster, the founder of Town Hall, Seattle's cultural center, who is writing a history of the city since the 1962 World's Fair here. "They are really battles against traffic, although of course gentrification weighs in."
"I think it's part of the rightward movement, at least perceived rightward movement in the country," he said, "where a developer in sheep's clothing turns into a corporate pig."Why take that out? It's the spiffiest quote in an article about the politics of old signage.
These signs must have been considered quite ugly for a long part of their existence. And look at the Wonder Bread sign:
It actually is ugly, especially if you take into account all that metal junk holding it up. It's funny that it's Wonder Bread that symbolizes the rich goodness of the past, when Wonder Bread has traditionally symbolized the sterile blandness of the present.
"Seeing the cookies and bread on the assembly belts, it was a show," said Adrienne Bailey, who grew up near the factory and is now secretary to the Central Area Neighborhood District Council. "It was a smell blocks before you got there. Oh, I have beautiful childhood memories of Twinkies and pies, and a beautiful big red neon sign, all lit up."That reads like a satire, written in the 1960s, about what nostalgia would be like in the future.
Americans used to have memories of mom's homemade pies and now there's the love of the old factory that cranked out processed foods. And, strangely, those who favor the historic preservation of the site paint their opponents as corporate pigs.
IN THE COMMENTS: More ideas for how to break up the Wonder Bread sign to make other signs for other places.


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So, this is a bit of a hobby project for me.
What I intend to do is display a "report"-form.
On this form you have an option to change one of the displayed images.
There are four different to choose from.
In the next step you are supposed to be able to click the image on numerous places to put markers ("X") on the image.
Not just one, but several.
Then you are supposed to be able to upload up to ten photographs and finally, when you click "Done", it should save the form, including the markes on the first image, and all the photos into a pdf file wich in turn should be stored locally on the harddrive in a predefined folder based on some of the factors from the form.
Now, so far I've only managed to complete the layout of the form (as seen on http://arken.dbinitiative.se) an I ask for help to complete the whole thing since I do not know where to start. Bear in mind, I have no education in this wich is why I appreciate clear comments in any and all code that you guys might provide me with.
If you feel up to the task, give me a comment and then we can continue discussion via e-mail.
Thank you for any help!


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Town code enforcement officers will now have the proper tools to do their jobs.
The Fort Myers Beach Town Council unanimously approved an ordinance adoption of the International Property Maintenance Code to create a more definitive set of rules to allow Town officials to bring properties on Estero Island into compliance.
Prior to the Council's vote approval on Tuesday, Jan. 22, the Town's Land Development Code lacked current property maintenance provisions necessary for proper enforcement. The International Property Maintenance Code, published by International Code Council, will now be the governing law with respect to all structures and premises on the Beach.
The new ordinance repeals Chapter 6 of the Town's "maintenance code."
"The property maintenance code we had in our land development code was kind of subjective and arbitrary to as what a property in state of disrepair meant," said Town Community Development Director Walter Fluegel. "The International Property Maintenance Code has an international set of standards that adds definition to property maintenance code issues. It now eliminates the ambiguity and makes it much more definitive, so that there is no longer a question of whether or not there is a property code violation.
"This just adds a lot more clarity to what a code violation is."
Property maintenance code standards will still be subject to the special magistrate process.
"There will not be any changes on how we handle violations," said Fluegel. "Generally in code enforcement, we go out and work with the property owners, first and foremost, to inform and educate."
That procedure involves a conversation with the violator on how to bring the violation up to code.
"We want to work with them and give them a reasonable time frame to bring the infraction into compliance," said Fluegel. "We'll give them a notice, say a week or 30 days, then go back out and follow up with them. If we do not see it coming into compliance, the next step is a violation. Once another violation is issued, we can give them more time or issue them a notice of hearing that we are taking it to magistrate if it is not fixed within a set amount of time."
The magistrate then presents finding by either giving the violator more time to correct the violation or by levying a fine instantly.
Fluegel believes the International Property Maintenance Code works to the property owner's advantage due to the elimination of subjectivity.
"It's no longer our subject of standards. It is definitely more definitive," he said.
A lot of other Florida communities and beyond have adopted the International Property Maintenance Code.
"These codes are nationally recognized and are an accepted standard set of code enforcement codes," Town Manager Terry Stewart said before the ordinance was approved. "Staff has done an extensive amount of work, and changes were made to make it more user friendly for both the Town of Fort Myers Beach and our businesses and residents."
On Nov. 13, the Town's Local Planning Agency held a public hearing to review the proposed land development regulations, land development codes and amendments to provide Council recommendations in the best interest of health, safety and welfare for all involved. They involved proper light, ventilation, occupancy limitations and plumbing facilities as well as standard requirements for fire safety and fixture, mechanical and electrical components.
Town officials held a workshop on the item several weeks ago, and the ordinance was introduced to Council members at their Jan. 7 meeting.
"We believe the codes and changes are all to the benefit of Fort Myers Beach to make it easier for the residents and business people and the Town to understand," said LPA member Al Durrett.
According to Town records, repairs, additions or alterations to a structure or changes of occupancy will be done in accordance with procedures and provisions of the Florida Building Code. The provisions of the code will not be mandatory for existing buildings or structures formally or designated as historic buildings by either Federal, state or town government, provided such structures are judged by building officials to be safe.


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LAND/ART Art-Nature-Community
Land/Art is "a collaborative exploration of land-based art in New Mexico"
THIS is an amazing event, launching this month and running throughout the fall. If you anywhere near these venues, take it all in. Events kick off with the June 27 & 28 symposium
See the website for all related exhibitions, tours of commissioned pieces, participants and more.
From the site:
LAND/ART Symposium Weekend
June 27 – 28, 2009
The LAND/ART Symposium Weekend will take place around the opening of
Experimental Geography at the Albuquerque Museum, and include a series
of artist talks, discussions, excursions and tours.
For details Download press release
Sponsoring organizations/venues include:
RELATED BOOKS to be produced by Radius Books in Santa Fe:
LAND/ART New Mexico
Culminating book
Due out December 2009
The culminating LAND/ART book, titled "LAND/ART New Mexico", will feature documentation of projects and exhibitions as well as an introduction by Bill Gilbert and Kathleen Shields and essays by Lucy Lippard, William L. Fox, Nancy Marie Mithlo and MaLin Wilson-Powell. The book will be published by Radius Books in partnership with 516 ARTS, the Albuquerque Museum and the University of New Mexico Art Museum. It will be available at bookstores and participating venues starting December 2009.
Bill Gilbert, Lannan Chair in Land Arts of the American West in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico, provides an introduction to Land Art, addressing the history of the genre and the ways in which it has expanded since the term was coined in the mid-1970s. The introduction is co-authored by Kathleen Shields, an independent arts writer and curator.
MaLin Wilson-Powell, a curator, art critic and educator, provides an overview of the projects and exhibitions in LAND/ART, placing them in the context of art history and the history of the genre.
William L. Fox, director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, writes on "Art of the Anthropocene." He explores ways in which the history of land in art has evolved in tandem with how science has sought to provide a picture of the world. Among other themes, he discusses how nascent environmental sciences in the early to mid-twentieth century informed artists from Grant Wood to Georgia O'Keeffe, and how an environmental ethics of "leave no trace" may be seen to parallel contemporary art practices of performance and installation.
Nancy Marie Mithlo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explores artistic production as a means of overcoming social irresponsibility, looking at how certain identities are privileged, and discussing what Native actors/image makers do with these monopolized images as they relate to the concerns of the environment.
Lucy Lippard, internationally known writer, activist and curator, writes on the question "What does land art mean in contemporary culture?" with a special focus on New Mexico.
Grasslands / Separating Species
Exhibition catalog
Due out September 2009
The catalog for Grasslands / Separating Species will be published by Radius Books in conjunction with the exhibition at 516 ARTS (October 3 – December 12, 2009). It will not simply document the two-part exhibition, rather, it will be a unique art book featuring the work of photographers: Michael P. Berman, Krista Elrick, Dana Fritz, David J. Taylor and Jo Whaley. Essays will be featured by William deBuys, a renowned writer and conservationist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work for the Nature Conservancy and for the Conservation Fund in North Carolina, Arizona and New Mexico has led to the permanent protection of public and private lands totaling over 150,000 acres. A recipient of a 2008-09 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant in the Creative Arts for Nonfiction, deBuys will be writing about Michael P. Berman's explorations of the Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands on both sides of the US/Mexico border. A resident of southern New Mexico, Berman has spent nearly thirty years photographing the arid border regions of the American Southwest. Like deBuys, he also received a 2008-09 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant in the Creative Arts for Photography. Mary Anne Redding, curator of Grasslands / Separating Species, will also contribute an essay for the catalog that will focus on the artists in Separating Species. Redding is the Curator of Photography at the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. She recently curated Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe on view at the Palace of the Governors through October 25, 2009 and edited a companion book published by the MNM Press, February 2009. Redding's essay will explore what happens when "there is no one left to cry for the rain."
For more information on Radius Books visit www.radiusbooks.org
image: Krista Elrick, Snow Geese Panorama I, photograph
smudge studio: Limit Case postcards
Artist edition of 30 cards
Available now
Support LAND/ART and receive smudge studio's artist edition of 30 postcards depicting "Limit Case" landscapes and land uses encountered on their recent journey in the Southwest. To view the postcards and order your set of 30 for a tax deductible donation of $20, please visit www.smudgestudio.org/postcards
For more information about smudge studio visit www.smudgestudio.org
Land Arts of the America West
by Chris Taylor and Bill Gilbert, University of Texas Press
Available now. $60.
"Land Arts of the American West" documents the development of the program started by Bill Gilbert at the University of New Mexico in 2000.
The book is structured around discussions between Co-Directors Bill Gilbert and Chris Taylor and writer Bill Fox probing the philosophical and logistical underpinnings of the program and includes interviews with guest artists Matt Coolidge, Mary Lewis Garcia, Hector Gallegos and Graciela Martinez, essays by guest scholars Jerry Brody, Bill Fox, Lucy Lippard and Ann Reynolds, site descriptions by Amanda Douberly and selections of student work and journal entries.


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Clayton named HCAC Player of the Week
By Ben Risinger, Sports Information Director
September 20, 2004
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Freshman running back Terence Clayton (Napoleon, Ohio/Napoleon) has been named the football special teams player of the week for the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Clayton helped put the Beavers first points on the board on Saturday when he scored off a 96-yard kickoff return. It was his first career touchdown that came late in the first quarter. Clayton posted two kickoff returns for 115 yards on the day. The two returns were Clayton's first of the 2004 season.
Bluffton University (2-1) will be back on the road this Saturday as they travel to Adrian College. Game time is scheduled for 1 p.m.


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The Imams' Council of the Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC) has condemned the killing of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, urging everyone to take a stand against extremism.
Mr. Foley was a journalist who covered the atrocities occurring in Iraq.
"On behalf of the Muslim communities whom the Imams represent, we offer our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of the late James Wright Foley who was kidnapped in 2012 by the violent extremist group ISIS," a statement from the councils said.
— Staff writer Aftab Borka


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Liam Brady: Give Mick McCarthy Republic of Ireland job for second time
Liam Brady is the latest to suggest that Mick McCarthy should be handed a second chance to manage Republic of Ireland.
Last Updated: 20/10/13 11:10am
Ireland recently sacked Giovanni Trapattoni following their unsuccessful World Cup qualifying campaign which left them fourth in Group C, six points behind runners-up Sweden and 14 adrift of Germany.
McCarthy, currently in charge of Ipswich, led Ireland to the 2002 World Cup finals where he infamously fell out with skipper Roy Keane.
Although Keane flew home before the tournament started, the squad still qualified for the latter stages thanks largely to a draw with Germany and they were eventually knocked out by Spain following a penalty shoot-out.
Earlier this week Ireland captain Robbie Keane called for McCarthy to be considered as Trapattoni's replacement and former star Brady told RTE Radio: "For me, it would be Mick.
"I don't know what his contractual situation is at Ipswich but what I do know is that he's demonstrated before that he's capable of doing the job.
"He has broad shoulders, he had to put up with an awful lot of messing when people turned against him.
"Most of the media turned against him, public opinion turned against him because of how popular Roy Keane was. But the man got on with it.
"He's demonstrated since then he's a very, very capable manager. I don't know if it's possible to get him but he would be number one on my list."
Other leading contenders include Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane, but Brady thinks the new boss will inherit a current crop of players that is not as good as in previous eras.
He added: "Robbie Keane himself, Richard Dunne are coming to the end of their careers. These are guys who were big, big players for the Irish team.
"The lads replacing them are not as good. That's the reality of the situation. I think Robbie is talking about a man with broad shoulders. That's what we need.
"We all expected that Martin O'Neill would be the next manager but it hasn't happened.
"He probably doesn't fancy the job for the reasons I've already stated. The expectation of the situation is too exaggerated."


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By Mike Woitalla
The NorCal Premier League, with nearly 200 Northern California clubs, covers an area that's larger than England and has one of the world's most ethnically and economically diverse populations. NorCal clubs range from those with million dollar budgets to ones that depend solely on volunteer staff.
NorCal President Benjamin Ziemer has launched a Club Outreach Project to aid clubs -- most of which serve Latino youth -- that struggle to meet the demands of the modern American youth soccer structure.
Ziemer assigned Nick Lusson, the Technical Director of the Dublin United Soccer League and assistant coach of Cal State East Bay's men's and women's teams, to head the project.
SOCCER AMERICA: What are the main challenges faced by the clubs targeted by the Club Outreach Project?
NICK LUSSON: Most of these are low-income communities. Most are Hispanic clubs. They don't have a big volunteer base. They don't have a lot of finances. They don't have the level of relationship with their cities for field access.
Most all of them are volunteer-run, with volunteer coaches -- volunteers across the board.
Those organizations are put in the same mix, the same league with clubs that have a full-time director and assistant director, staff coaches, full-time paid administrators -- tons of money and tons of volunteer support, and their cities love them. There's this have and have-not dynamic.
It creates a lot of tension and that's the challenge of a lot of these clubs. They're put in the same league with these other clubs and held to the same standards, but lacking the resources and ability to really be able to match them.
SA: So NorCal was concerned it would lose clubs from low-income areas?
NICK LUSSON: Yes, that's what caused Benjamin Ziemer to get this prioritized as a project.
We don't want to lose these clubs from our environment. I think they're critical to the experience in the quality of play. We have to have this diversity.
Hayward Youth Soccer Club is a perfect example. It's one of the clubs we're working with. Hayward had two boys who made the national team pool. They've got some teams that are phenomenal.
We sat down with them. I said look, "If I put my teams on the field against your teams, your teams are going to smash us, everyday of the week." They have some incredible players. But the club struggles with their paperwork and administrative stuff. There are these constant issues of fields, and referees and parent conduct. All these issues.
SA: What's the strategy of the Outreach Program?
NICK LUSSON: First of all, I think it's important to point out that the clubs that are being helped out in this program are being run by some incredibly passionate and dedicated people.
You have a few volunteers trying to do all the 1,001 jobs that the bigger, more established clubs have an army of paid administrators and professional DOC's doing for them.
I've really been impressed by the intentions and dedication of these people to give so much to the game, and even more so as they then get criticized pretty heavily for the tasks that fall through -- like not having adequate fields, missing paperwork, or not responding to e-mails on time. Part of our purpose in the project is to provide some resources and guidance to these individuals to help them be more successful and sustainable in their roles.
SA: How is the project progressing?
NICK LUSSON: I've got two people working with me who both have experience as DOCs doing all the legwork: Andrew Ziemer and Omar Cervantes.
A lot of it right now is us meeting with them and really understanding their challenges first. There's a natural thing that you'll assume what other people's problems are before you actually listen to them. It's become a reminder of that. We're hearing first-hand from the clubs what they already have in place and what they don't have.
A lot of them spend each day just treading water to keep things running today and not really planning for improvements going forward.
We want to help create plans for the club that can be passed on to the next person so it's not all dependent on this one guy or these two people. A lot of them work that way, so if one guy leaves tomorrow, that whole club falls apart, because there's no plan of succession. Nothing's written down.
SA: How can you help the clubs with the administrative challenges?
NICK LUSSON: We're putting together a drop-box of club resources. We're pulling examples from a lot of clubs. Sample agendas. Sample curriculums. Bi-laws. Budgets. Presenting them with tools. You can take these and apply them, tweak them to your club's needs. So they don't have to reinvent the wheel on that stuff.
We want to help them to develop tools. The general sense is the "give a man a fish and he'll eat for one day, teach him how to fish and he'll …" We're not coming in to fix your problems. We want to help you get to a place where you can fix your own.
Some of the ways we want to help are with things like how to file for non-profit status, board structure and volunteer outreach, web site management.
SA: Fields must be a big issue in lower-income areas ...
NICK LUSSON: One thing I'm investigating is the U.S. Soccer Foundation's field grants. It'd be tough for anyone of these clubs to independently pursue this. But can we, as a state association, bring in a grant writer to work with all these organizations? If we got one person working for all these clubs I think it could work pretty well.
SA: How much of an issue is the divide between the richer, mainly white, clubs and the lower-income, mainly Latino clubs?
NICK LUSSON: There are some cultural issues as well. They became a whole big piece in a lot of these conversations.
You basically have suburban upper middle-class clubs complaining about the conditions and the experiences playing at the inner city or low-income community clubs. And we're getting stories from the other side of just outright racist conduct, behavior and attitude. It does cut both ways.
SA: I have heard referees claim that sideline behavior of adults is worse from low-income community clubs. I've also heard club coaches from low-income areas lament the fact that teams from richer areas don't want to play on their fields -- the only fields they have and on which their own children play on daily …
NICK LUSSON: There are cultural and socio-economic dynamics going on here. That's been an intriguing conversation going on with these clubs that was an unintended facet of this undertaking. Both sides -- the middle- and upper-class suburban clubs and the low-income community clubs -- have some valid points here.
It's clear to me from just this short amount of time spent with both sides that all parties need to do a better job to bridge this gap.


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There are baby wipe warmers and airtight diaper pails, baby food makers, activity gyms, white noise machines, and changing tables. But, back then, I used warm wash cloths, took the stinky diaper out to the garbage can in the garage, pureed steamed veggies in the blender, played with my baby boys on a blanket on the floor, turned on the fan at naptime, and changed diapers on the couch and bed.
There are, aside from the absolute bare essentials, a few things that I made sure I had when Timmy came along, just as I did when Ethan and Zach arrived almost nine years before — a bassinet (and later a pack'n'play), and a good sturdy stroller.
The bassinet sat in our living room and was a comfy place for the twins to sleep, right where we were. And, I had a big, bulky double stroller that I fought to fit in my trunk every.single.time we went anywhere. What I needed to do to fold that booger up… Oy! What I would have given for a Contours Options LT Tandem Stroller back when my twins were babies!
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For more than a century, the Royal Stables have been located at Väpnargatan 1 in the centre of Stockholm.
The main duty of the Royal Stables is planning and providing transport for the Royal Family, both by car and horse-drawn carriages.
Horses and carriages are used for cermonial and official occations such as incoming state visits, State Opening of Parliament, formal audiences at which the King receives new ambassadors, and municipal visits.
The Royal Stables trace their roots back to the time of King Gustav Vasa, making them a significant part of our cultural heritage in terms of classic art of riding and driving.
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CFO Journal -- Coinstar Inc. , an automated retail company based in Bellevue, Wa., promoted Chief Financial Officer J. Scott Di Valerio to chief executive. He succeeds Paul D. Davis, who plans to resign at the end of March.
Scott Di Valerio earned his bachelor's degree from the USD School of Business Administration in 1985 and serves on the school's Board of Advisors. He also received the Author E. Hughes Award from the business school last spring. (Full Story)


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The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604), the early Church having used the expression the "breaking of bread" (fractio panis) or "liturgy" (Acts 13:2, leitourgountes); the Greek Church has employed the latter name for almost sixteen centuries.
There were current in the early days of Christianity other terms;
"The Lord's Supper" (coena dominica),
the "Sacrifice" (prosphora, oblatio),
"the gathering together" (synaxis, congregatio),
"the Mysteries", and
(since Augustine), "the Sacrament of the Altar".
With the name "Love Feast" (agape) the idea of the sacrifice of the Mass was not necessarily connected. Etymologically, the word missa is neither (as Baronius states) from a Hebrew, nor from the Greek mysis, but is simply derived from missio, just as oblata is derived from oblatio, collecta from collectio, and ulta from ultio. The reference was however not to a Divine "mission", but simply to a "dismissal" (dimissio) as was also customary in the Greek rite (cf. "Canon. Apost.", VIII, xv: apolyesthe en eirene), and as is still echoed in the phrase Ite missa est. This solemn form of leave-taking was not introduced by the Church as something new, but was adopted from the ordinary language of the day, as is shown by Bishop Avitus of Vienne as late as A.D. 500 (Ep. 1 in P.L., LIX, 199):
In churches and in the emperor's or the prefect's courts, Missa est is said when the people are released from attendance.
In the sense of "dismissal", or rather "close of prayer", missa is used in the celebrated "Peregrinatio Silvae" at least seventy times (Corpus scriptor. eccles. latinor., XXXVIII, 366 sq.) and Rule of St. Benedict places after Hours, Vespers, Compline, the regular formula: Et missae fiant (prayers are ended). Popular speech gradually applied the ritual of dismissal, as it was expressed in both the Mass of the Catechumens and the Mass of the Faithful, by synecdoche to the entire Eucharistic Sacrifice, the whole being named after the part. The first certain trace of such an application is found in Ambrose (Ep. xx, 4, in P.L. XVI, 995). We will use the word in this sense in our consideration of the Mass in its existence, essence, and causality.
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Cooley Center Fall Lecture
"The Cultural Context of the Birth of Jesus: Luke 1-2 and Matthew 2"
September 18, 2012
Pastors, Sunday School teachers, teachers in Christian schools and any interested believers, join us October 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a lecture by Dr. Jim Martin focusing on the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke. Dr. Martin is knowledgeable of the lands of the Bible, and has led tours and photographed the region for years.
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North island calm
This resort's spot on the north end of the island means calm water and gentle waves lapping over the white-sand beach; downtown is 4 km (less than 3 mi) away; 18-hole golf is 1 km (a half-mile) away.
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All food and drinks are included in the Oasis Palm All Inclusive's room rate, plus kids get all-day access to the supervised Kids' Club, which features its own pool, play area, and rock-climbing wall.
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Resort Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included.
Food and beverages
- All meals, snacks, and local beverages included
- Meals and beverages at companion properties
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports, land activities, and use of recreational facilities and equipment are included.
Water activities
- Kayaking
- Surfing/boogie boarding
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Volleyball
- Golf green fees
- Bartending
- Cooking
- Language
Kids' club
- Supervised activities for children between 4 and 12 years old
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Access to offsite clubs
- Onsite live performances
- Theme parties
Not included
- Use of golf equipment
- Motorized water sports
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Scuba-diving lessons
- Snorkeling excursions
- Premium food items
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Airport transfers
- Childcare
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Wireless Internet access
- Offsite tours
- Transportation to offsite activities
Resort Amenities
Set along nearly 200 meters (650 feet) of powdery white sand in Cancún's Hotel Zone, this resort is located in an area of shops and restaurants. More shopping can be found two km (1.25 mi) at Plaza Caracol Shopping Center and in the downtown area, 4 km (2.5 mi) away.
Because the sea is shallow at this end of the island, just more than a meter (3 feet) deep and calm, the beach area is extremely kid-friendly. Adults can keep an eye out from chaise lounges. However, all guests are advised to stay within the area marked by buoys directly in front of the hotel, to avoid boats and personal watercraft leaving from the marina next door.
Low white walls topped with glazed ceramic pots of pink and purple bougainvillea separate the beach from the serpentine pool, which winds through the grounds. One section of the pool is the scene for daily activities such as pool volleyball competitions and water aerobics.
Other activities include beach walks, stretching sessions, and Spanish lessons. Evening entertainment includes two weekly shows (Mexican and Caribbean) set on the beach, around the pool, or in the lobby, depending on the weather. The hotel also features dining and drinking at 11 restaurants and 7 bars.
The on site health spa offers massage, body treatments, facials, waxing, braiding, hair and nail care (surcharges for all spa and beauty products, treatments, and services).
The hotel also offers beauty services, a business center, babysitting or childcare, terrace, a hair salon, a gift shop, and dry cleaning/laundry services for an additional charge, and concierge services.
- Babysitting or childcare
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Number of bars/lounges - 7
- Children's club
- Full-service spa
- 24-hour front desk
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
- Meeting rooms 3
- Free self parking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Sauna
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (free)
- Children's pool
- Spa services on site
- Terrace
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Hair salon
- Number of restaurants - 11
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Total number of rooms - 270
- Number of floors - 8
- Tennis on site
- Multilingual staff
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Supervised childcare/activities (free)
- Children's club (free)
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 10 per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 10 per day )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Room service (24 hours)
Where to Eat
The majority of meals and beverages, plus all gratuities, at the following restaurants, snack spots, and bars are included in the room rate for this resort (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information). The dress code is casual but hotel policy bans bare feet and the wearing of swimsuits or wet clothes at all eating venues except snack bars.
Ibiza - Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets with international specialties and made-to-order show cooking. Located under a high palapa roof, with views of the Caribbean Sea, and seating both indoors and on a terrace.
Dos Lunas - Serving Italian and Mediterranean specialties for breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets. Indoor and terrace seating.
Sarape - Located off the lower lobby bar, Sarape serves Mexican cuisine for à la carte dinner only (reservations required).
Cocoa - Terrace restaurant between the pool and the sea, with à la carte lunch and dinner seafood and sushi specialties.
Sushi Beach Bar - Beachside restaurant open for sushi lunch.
Akeru - Open for dinner. Asian flavors with a Caribbean touch, in a setting highlighted by bamboo and red and black accents.
Snack Island Mujeres - Poolside snacks and drinks. Open from midday until late afternoon, and then again from midnight until 4 AM (hours subject to change).
The hotel also has eight bars, Sports Bar with drinks from mid-morning, and Cocoa Bar with views of the sea.
Nearby Things to Do
The majority of recreational activities and facilities described below are included in the room rate for this resort (scroll up to the All-Inclusive details section for more information).
The main recreational attractions at this resort are its stretch of fine white sand, dotted with thatched roof shades (palapas) for reading and relaxation, and its calm, shallow water. A depth of about a meter (about four feet) makes sea swimming kid-friendly within the area marked by buoys. Guests can enjoy complimentary nonmotorized water sports such as windsurfing and kayaking, as well as complimentary green fees at the nine-hole golf course at Grand Oasis Cancún (surcharges for golf equipment rentals). Kids have access to a wide variety of amenities, including their own pool with waterslide and rock-climbing wall; outdoor play set with swings; amphitheater; and activity rooms with Ping-Pong tables, toys, and video games.
An 18-hole golf course, Cancún Golf Club at Pok-Ta-Pok, is about 1.5 km (one mi) from the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Playground on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Golfing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Volleyball on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Kayaking nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
Resort Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 25 years old. Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
Optional extras
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 10 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 10 per day (rates may vary)
- An in-room safe is available for an additional fee
Resort Name
- All Inclusive Oasis
- Oasis Palm
- Oasis Palm All Inclusive
- Oasis Palm All Inclusive Cancun
- Oasis Palm Cancun
- Palm Oasis
- Oasis Palm Beach Cancun
- Oasis Palm Beach Hotel Cancun
- Oasis Palm Beach Resort Cancun
- Oasis Palm Hotel Cancun
We should mention
Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Honeymoon program
All honeymooners staying at Oasis Palm, Oasis Viva Beach, Grand Oasis Cancun, Oasis Cancún, Grand Oasis Playa, and Grand Oasis Riviera Maya will receive a complimentary upgrade to suite accommodations (where available) or best possible accommodation (based on advance request and subject to availability); a bottle of champagne in their room; and one free night on their first anniversary's return trip (minimum five-night stay) to the same hotel.
The anniversary trip also includes a room category upgrade and bottle of champagne.
Reservations for the anniversary trip must be made via the same tour operator and for the original plan purchased. Anniversary trip requires minimum five-night stay.
At time of booking, when indicating traveler and room preferences, guests must enter "Honeymooners" in the Special Requests box to receive this promotion.
Oasis Runaway Program
Guests staying at these Oasis hotels in the Cancún area: Oasis Palm, Oasis Cancún, and Oasis Viva Beach, can enjoy facilities at the other two resorts for the day, including access to all food and beverage outlets, at no additional cost.
All guests must inform the Guest Services Desk (Oasis Plus Desk) at their hotel of the date and time they plan to visit a sister hotel.
Free Wedding Package
Wedding parties who book a minimum of 35 total room nights, based on double occupancy, will receive a complimentary wedding package (USD 899 value) including the following:
- Wedding Coordinator services
- VIP check-in for couple with welcome drink
- Bottle of sparkling wine and deluxe amenities in couple's room on their wedding day
- Internet access card for 24 hours for bride and groom
- Special Oasis wedding location for ceremony (based on availability of hotel and weather)
- Set up location services with white covers and ribbons for chairs
- Oasis Tropical bouquet for the bride and boutonniere for the groom
- Wedding cake with special decoration
- Sparkling wine for toast after the ceremony (3 bottle limit)
- 20% discount at Oasis Spa on select services for bride and groom (not including wedding packages or promotions at selected resorts)
- Late check out on request until 6 PM for the bride and groom (based on availability)
- 1 complimentary night stay on 1st wedding anniversary with minimum 5-nights stay (based on availability and request)
- Dinner reservation in specialty restaurant (10 guests limit)
Free Concerts at Oasis Arena and Beach Club
Book a stay for travel May 22 - July 26, 2015 and receive complimentary access to scheduled music concerts from recognized Jazz performers to famous DJs at Oasis Arena and Oasis Beach Club.
Access is complimentary for registered guests only. There is limited availability; guests can reserve seats with the hotel concierge upon arrival. Restrictions may apply.


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Supporting Engagement and Retention in Care Using the PCMH Model
Supporting Engagement and Retention in Care Using the PCMH Model
December 16, 2013
HIV/AIDS Medical Homes Resource Center (HIV-MHRC)
Establishing the infrastructure and services to support long-term retention and engagement in medical care is a key component of the PCMH model.This webinar reviews best practices and lessons learned from the University of California San Diego Health System and HIV ACCESS as they share their continued efforts to engage and retain patients in care. Additional topics include ideas for promoting provider commitment to team-based care and the team's roles in care coordination and panel management.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize how key concepts of the PCMH model support sustainable improvement in the HIV Treatment and Care Cascade.
- Employ effective strategies for population and panel management to retain patients after empanelment.
- Recognize specific challenges/solutions in engagement and retention from the UCSD and HIV ACCESS (CHC) perspective.
- Discuss the role of team-based care in supporting clients' access to wraparound services.
- Identify engagement and patient retention deliverables specific to PMCH recognition.


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10 Ways to Cut Your Grocery Bill
A typical family of four can save about $1,500 a year.
Would you like to cut your grocery bill by 25 percent without ever having to clip a coupon?
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, roughly one-quarter of all food bought in this country goes to waste. That's about 1 pound of food per person, per day, that ends up in the trash.
According to USDA figures, the typical American family of four can save approximately $1,500 a year by being smarter about food storage and portion control.
Here are my top 10 tips for reducing food waste and saving big bucks in the process:
- Think before you shop. Plan your menus in advance, make a shopping list based on those menus and stick to that list. A joint study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin and the University of California showed that more than half of all purchases made during "quick trips" to the grocery store are unplanned, impulse purchases. Simply put, overbuying is the root of food waste.
- Organize your fridge and pantry. Knowing what you have on hand — particularly when items are perishable — is the key to avoiding waste. Organize your refrigerator, freezer and pantry so that older items are front and center. Having those items in plain view will remind you to use them up before it's too late.
- "Ladder" fresh produce. In general, when you shop less frequently, you tend to spend less. But that doesn't mean you need to forego fresh fruits and vegetables. Much like you ladder your investments in terms of the maturity dates, "ladder" fresh produce to use the things that spoil the fastest (e.g., leaf lettuce and bananas) first, and save those with a longer shelf life for later (e.g., head lettuce and apples).
- Batch and freeze. Freezing perishable items before they spoil is only common sense. But cooking meals in batches and freezing them in serving-size containers will prevent waste and save you even more. When it comes to minimizing what you spend on restaurant meals and fast food, the "fastest food" is waiting for you in your freezer.
- Eat more soup and smoothies. Making a pot of soup is a great way to use up small leftover portions of meat and vegetables. Fruit that's just ready to turn makes a delicious smoothie with some yogurt and milk in the blender.
- Use your freezer. Freezing generally offers the easiest way to keep food from spoiling. It's best to blanch most vegetables in boiling water before packing them in airtight containers and placing them in the freezer. While you can freeze many dairy items, doing so may affect taste and consistency. So reserve frozen dairy products for cooking.
- Get a food dehydrator. In addition to freezing and canning, try using an inexpensive (something that costs less than $100) food dehydrator to preserve food. By removing the water in foods, dehydrators preserve the nutrients and concentrate the flavors in a wide range of foods. The dried foods can last for months, and sometimes even years, in airtight containers. The food dehydrator works with most fruits, vegetables, meats, herbs, nuts, grains and even some dairy products.
- Know about food freshness and expiration labels. According to the USDA, "use-by" dates usually indicate "best quality" and are not safety dates. So, the site advises, "even if the date expires during home storage, a product should be safe, wholesome and of good quality if handled properly and kept at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below." Go to the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service website for more info about food storage and labeling.
- Follow the Layovers Pledge. At our house, we have "layovers," not "leftovers," because we've vowed to eat any remainders from each meal within 24 hours after the meal (unless we freeze the rest, of course). Dinner leftovers become lunch — or sometimes breakfast — the next day. We're fond of having "hors de-yester-jour" with a glass of wine in the evening as an enjoyable way of using up food that might otherwise go to waste.
- Be smart at restaurants. Last but not least, much of the food that gets thrown away in America is food left over from meals bought in restaurants. So keeping that in mind, try ordering smaller, less expensive appetizers instead of entrées, or split larger entrées. And remember, doggie bags are the new Gucci bags in this economy.
Jeff Yeager is the author of The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches. His Web site is www.UltimateCheapskate.com.
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Hotel Ocupancy Tax 2014 funding applications sought
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- Published on 22 September 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Franklin County Commissioners adopted an annual budgeting process for the Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax. All of the funding for the coming year, 2014, will be reviewed together.
This policy was adopted, in part, because applications for funding are anticipated to exceed the available tax revenues. The committee asks that applications for funding be submitted no later than Tuesday, October 1, 2013. See the September 19 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for more information.


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A story on WBFO-FM reports on the launch of UB's new Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water, or RENEW, institute, and interviews Alexander Cartwright, vice president for research and economic development, who said more than 100 faculty members from across UB will be involved in the institute, which will focus on environmental issues as well as sustainability, climate change, pollution law and the social and economic issues involved.
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North County Community Rallying Round Ailing Infant
|Little Carrick Wood is battling a rare form of leukemia; the community has rallied around his family with a number of fundraisers.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Community members are drumming up support for local baby born with a rare form of leukemia.
Carrick Wood was born on July 4 to Pat and Crista Wood and rushed to Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center's NICU, where he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after two blood transfusions and chemotherapy. Currently Carrick and his parents have relocated to the Children's Hospital in Boston.
Brandon Horn, a family friend who is spearheading some of the fundraising, said Carrick suffers from a form of leukemia that is very rarely found in newborns. He said although the blue spots on his body he was born with are mostly gone, things are still touch and go.
"The blueness in him is almost all gone; if you look him now you would think he is doing pretty well, but in fact he's not," Horn said. "Crista was telling me they were doing more blood transfusions, and he has good days and bad days."
Although Carrick's condition is unknown at this point, Horn said the community is doing everything it can to help.
Among many donations from local people and businesses, Horn on Friday said he has also heard from the Boston Red Sox.
"They actually called me yesterday; they are on board and are going to make a donation," he said. "I have a ton of local people in businesses donating too; there is definitely a lot of people backing him up."
Horn has scheduled a Bowling tournament Saturday, Aug. 16, at Greylock Bowl and Golf. Four person teams can join for $60.
"People are really coming out for Carrick; I have 150 people confirmed to come to the bowling tournament," Horn said. "There is going to be a Chinese auction, a silent auction, a bake sale, and a 50/50 raffle; I'd like to get everyone out to the bowling alley if I could."
In addition to the bowling tournament, there will be a spaghetti supper at the Bounti-Fare on Tuesday, Aug. 12, to support Carrick along with a number of other events posted to the Carrick's Journey group on Facebook. Family and friends have also started a fundraising page on YouCaring.com.
Horn said anyone looking to join the tournament or who is looking to make a donation can contact him at email@example.com, or by phone; 413-464-4799.
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Submission + - BBC flouts cookie law with ironic cookie (meejahor.com)
Andy Smith writes: "As of 26 May 2011 web sites in the UK must get a user's permission to set cookies. If you go to the BBC's commercial TV listings site Radio Times you'll see a message telling you about the new law. Go to the site again, though, and you don't see the message. How does the site know you've already seen it? By setting a cookie of course! It doesn't ask for permission."


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Demoted Christian's court win
A Christian who was demoted from his job at Trafford Housing Trust after making comments about gay marriage has won a breach of contract court case.
Live updates
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Demoted Christian wins gay marriage court battle
'Full and sincere' apology from Trafford Housing Trust
The chief executive of Trafford Housing Trust says the trust has made a 'full and sincere' apology to an employee who was demoted and given a final written warning after he expressed his opposition to gay marriage.
Full judgement in demoted Christian case
The Judicial Office twitter feed (@JudiciaryUK) has just Tweeted a link to the full judgement in the demoted Christian case. You can find it here: bit.ly/S221ar
Christian in gay marriage case 'fearful of more cases'
A Christian who won a breach of contract court case after he was demoted for expressing his opposition to gay marriage says he fears there will be more court cases if 'marriage is redefined'.
Demoted Christian wins gay marriage legal fight
A Christian Housing Manager who was demoted from his post at Trafford Housing Trust (THT) after saying gay weddings in churches would be "an equality too far" has won a court case.
Adrian Smith had his salary cut by 40% and given a final written warning after making the comment on Facebook.
He started breach of contract proceedings against THT, saying the trust acted unlawfully in demoting him.
His comments were not visible to the general public, and were posted outside work time, but the trust said he broke its code of conduct by expressing religious or political views which might upset co-workers.
Today High Court Judge Mr Justice Biggs ruled in his favour.
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Demoted Christian wins gay marriage court battle
A Christian who was demoted for posting his opposition to gay marriage on Facebook has won his breach of contract legal action.


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Resume Workshop
Hosted by: Westland Area Library
The event will start on: Sep 26, 2012 4:00 PM
And will end on: Sep 26, 2012 5:00 PM
Location: Westland Area Library
Address: 4740 W. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43228
Need help making a resume? This workshop can help! Using our Winway Resume software, we'll show you how to make a resume that will get you hired!
Westland Area Library
Wednesdays: September 5 at 3:00 p.m. September 26 at 3:00 p.m.,
Thursday: October 4 at 6:00 p.m..