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Dallas Assault Lawyer
Sometimes domestic disagreements can get out of control, potentially leading to violence. An assault conviction can lead to jail time and long-term consequences for your criminal record. However, if you are accused of a domestic assault crime, you have the right to a vigorous legal defense on your behalf.
Because the stakes are so high, you deserve a lawyer who will take your side and fight to have your charge dismissed or your sentence reduced. The Dallas domestic assault attorneys at the Law Offices of Mark T. Lassiter tenaciously defend clients accused of domestic assault. To discuss your case, call us at 214-845-7007. We may be able to begin planning your legal defense today.
Types of Domestic Assault
The law has a very broad definition of assault, so many people are surprised when they find themselves facing an assault charge. This is especially true after domestic disputes that can become violent on both sides. Some kinds of domestic assault cases we defend include:
- Assault and Battery
- Rape and Sexual Assault
- Domestic Violence
- Manslaughter and Vehicular Manslaughter
- Intoxication Manslaughter
- Felony Weapons Charges
Whatever circumstances led to your domestic assault charge, a dedicated lawyer may be able to help you. An assault accusation is not the end of the road, and it does not always result in conviction or jail time. You may be able to overcome this hurdle and return to your normal life with the help of experienced legal counsel.
Contact Us
If you or someone you know is facing an assault charge, it can be imperative to talk to an attorney right away. To get in touch with a qualified Dallas domestic assault lawyer, contact the Law Offices of Mark T. Lassiter today. We may be able to review your case and put our years of experience to work for you. Call our offices at 214-845-7007 to learn more.


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2015 In Review: Books
I didn't read nearly enough in 2015; there just wasn't enough time. Lots of people think I sound crazy when I say that because they're happy if they've read 1 book a year, but for me, reading is a necessary fuel for writing and there wasn't enough of it to spawn even a single new word. Of the things I did find time to read, I actually read more comics/mangas/graphic novels than anything. My appreciation for the art and their ability to get a story across in less pages than books really grew for me in 2015. I suspect that will continue to be true in 2016 and I'm excited about it. Below is a list of the things I read, in the order I read them. The books are all clickable and will take you to my GoodReads reviews on them if you're interested in that sort of thing.
Books Read in 2015…
- Fight Club by Chuck Pahalniuk
- The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
- The 100 by Kass Morgan
- Day 21 (The 100, Book 2) by Kass Morgan
- Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
- Home Is Where My People Are by Sophie Jordan
- Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures by Jackson Pearce & Maggie Stiefvater
- The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
- The Chronicles of Nick: Instinct by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The Storybook of Legends (Ever After High, Book 1) by Shannon Hale
- The Unfairest of Them All (Ever After High, Book 2) by Shannon Hale
- Monster High, Book 1 by Lisi Harrison
- A Wonderlandiful World (Ever After High, Book 3) by Shannon Hale
- Once Upon a Time: A Story Collection (Ever After High, Book 3.5) by Shannon Hale
- Next Top Villain (Ever After High, School Story 1) by Suzanne Selfors
- Kiss & Spell (Ever After High, School Story 2) by Suzanne Selfors
- A Semi-Charming Kind of Life (Ever After High, School Story 3) by Suzanne Selfors
- Sage & the Journey to Wishworld (Star Darlings, Book 1) by Ahmet & Sharon Zappa
- Libby & the Class Election (Star Darlings, Book 2) by Ahmet & Sharon Zappa
- Asylum (Asylum, Book 1) by Madeleine Roux
- The Naughty List by Michael Fry
- Ex-mas by Kate Brian
Comics/Mangas/Graphic Novels Read in 2015….
- Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 1 – 5 by Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou
- Eerie Cuties: The Comic Strip Collection by Gisele Lagace & David Lumsdon
- Eerie Cuties, Vol. 1-3 by Gisele Lagace, David Lumsdon, & Maria Victoria Robado
- Garbage Pail Kids: Puketacular, #1
- Garbage Pail Kids: Love Stinks, #2
- Ms. Marvel – No Normal, Vol. 1 by Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona
- Ms. Marvel – Generation Why, Vol. 2 by Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona
- Ms. Marvel – Crush, Vol. 3 by WillowWilson
- In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang
- Super Tales of Emotion #1: Swamp of Sadness by J. Salvador
- Jem and the Holograms, #1-9 by Kelly Thompson
- Jem and the Holograms, Holiday Special by Kelly Thompson
- Jem and the Holograms, Outrageous Annual Kelly Thompson
- Morning Glories, Vol. 1-5 by Nick Spencer & Joe Eisma
- The Stonekeeper (Amulet #1) by Kazu Kibuishi
- New Archie, #1 by Mark Waid & Fiona Staples
While I plan to try my hardest to buy very little books in 2016 and actually work on all the books in my already existing TBR pile, I'm always open to suggestions for things I should be reading — especially in the comics department since that's primarily new to me and there's SO many to chose from. Feel free to leave some recs in the comments below!

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New Jersey Chemical Facility Safety and Security Listening SessionIn the wake of the horrific chemical spill in West Virginia, chemical facility safety should be at the top of American's minds right now. This week, you'll have the opportunity to make a difference in improving chemical facility safety and security during a public listening session this Wednesday, February 5, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey. Hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Labor (DoL), this is a very important opportunity to have your voice heard! They are interested in hearing from community members near chemical facilities, as well as the workers, regulators, and chemical producers who works at these facilities. Members of environmental and community groups, labor organizations representing affected workers, and more are also welcomed. If you live in the New York tri-state area, please consider attending this very important listening session! Registration is free, but seated space is limited, so please sign up soon:
Executive Order 13650 Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security
February 5, 2014Public Listening Session Schedule and Registration Information Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Registration 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session 1 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Session 2 Location: New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, 17th Floor Conference Room,One Newark Center, Newark, NJ In-Person Registration Teleconference Registrationchemical plant, chemical spill, chemicals, health, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia Chemical Spill


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What we do
To communicate, exchange ideas and share information on a global basis, our services can be classified in three strands: Networking, Consultation and Training.
IFCO brings together people involved in foster care so that they can exchange information and good practice in family-based care. This is achieved by :
- conferences and training seminars
- The development of regional networks. At present we have an active network in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe
- web-based forums and emailing
- resources of expertise worldwide
IFCO has established a worldwide network. You can share your ideas and your comments with other people from all over the world through our discussion list. To register, please go to topic a registration page and follow the steps!
You can also just send a blank email from the email account you wish to use to: firstname.lastname@example.com and then confirm by responding to the return message.
IFCO has also established regional networks to spread information and news among their members. Three networks in Asia, East Europe and South America are already active. The African network is presently being developed. For more information concerning the presence of IFCO in these regions click on each of them in the map below.
Thanks to its expertise in international standards, practices and legislation in foster care, IFCO provides valuable input into the following areas:
- Advice to governmental and non-governmental organisations on how to develop or improve family-based substitute care.
- Advise to Foster Care Associations on how to set up an association, how to improve services and how to develop advocacy for foster carers' and children's rights.
IFCO advises Youth in care associations on how to set up an association and how they can become advocates in their specific countries.
View our projects page to learn more about our recent projects.
IFCO provides an introduction to international foster care based on its internationally recognized guidelines.
- We trains the trainers in different aspects of foster care
- We connect people to training providers
- We provide training on request about any aspect of foster care


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The Hunger Project Canada - Leadership
April Burrows, Don Kason, Penelope Long, Lillian Adamakis, Awit Marcelino
The Hunger Project Canada is governed by a committed Board of Directors who are all passionate about The Hunger Project's mission to see the end of chronic persistent hunger. They are also lucky to have a dedicated two person staff.
April Burrows
Country Director
April is the visionary behind Flow Office Wisdom, a social enterprise, Certified B Corporation based in Guelph, Ontario. April specializes in creating and working for change. She looks for the potential in people, and is most satisfied when she can empower others to tap into their personal passion and energy.
April's greatest strengths are in strategic thinking and team-building. She has experience as a mediator, facilitator, general manager and entrepreneur. Her wide breadth of experience in her professional and personal life lend many skills that will benefit The Hunger Project Canada and she is excited to use them for this purpose.
What draws April to work with The Hunger Project Canada is the organization's focus on empowerment and their women centric strategies and philosophies. A true believer in the idea that raising women up will help to change the world for the better, April is thrilled to be on board with an organization that sees that as a key part in ending world hunger.
"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context." Margaret J. Wheatley
Donald Kason
Secretary / Treasurer
Donald is a progressive executive with over 30 years' experience in the real estate industry. He is currently the President of the Canlight where he brings broad-minded insight, critical to integrating contemporary development thinking with new sustainable ways of living in the 21st century.
Donald's passion is finding ways "to making people's lives work better" through outstanding customer service and being remarkably thoughtful. His strengths include strategy, financial structuring, urban planning & design, motivating leadership, conflict resolution and micro & macro socioeconomic issues. Whether managing communities, developing properties or investing in real estate opportunities, Donald believes in building value for his clients, investors and tenants, and for the greater community wherein he operates.
Donald has been involved in various capacities with The Hunger Project since 1993. "I am empowered by the incredible leverage THP's programs have in changing the outcome of so many people's lives by providing them with the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature. I am inspired by THP's focus towards the root cause of hunger, rather than famine relief aid"
Donald has a BA in Economics, an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies, is a Chartered Professional Accountant and currently enrolled in a Masters of Urban Planning at Harvard University.
Penelope Long
Penelope has had a diverse working background in her 66 years, from working on farms in the summers as a teenager, to 25 years working in management for a large corporation on the west coast of Canada. Of all her various responsibilities, Event Manager was her true passion. In addition, she participated with various organizations on a volunteer basis.
She has been an investor in The Hunger Project for over 15 years. What has kept her committed to this particular organization is its' unquestionable commitment to empowering/supporting people to create their own ideas and initiatives for their community's sustainability and growth. For her, The Hunger Project comes from a trust in people's ability. For them to identify what is inherently missing in their particular culture or community , what's needed to correct that, and being in action to have it happen.
"There are times when it's appropriate to help/rescue people, like throwing them a rope if they've fallen off a cliff. However, this approach is too often used when dealing with people and their circumstances. It does not bring about long term solutions."
Lillian Adamakis
Lillian Adamakis has specialized in Toronto residential sales since 1979. Her success is largely due to the impeccable client service she provides. The result of her dedication to her clients has been a strong referral network of satisfied past customers who have made Lillian their real estate consultant for life.
Lillian enjoys spending time with her great nieces and nephews, of which she has six. Her family and two kittens are very important to her. She also enjoys travelling the world and has been a variety of countries. She also enjoys practicing yoga.
Lillian became a financial family member and investor to the Hunger Project in 1983. After having met Malgorzata, the Country Director of the Hunger Project Canada, at a communications workshop, she was invited to New York to learn more about The Hunger Project Global. Lillian was amazed by the South East Asian women's life stories and saw the difference that The Hunger Project made in people's lives. Since then, she has invested significantly both financially and with her time to the Hunger Project, knowing that her money and time is making a difference. Lillian continues to be devoted as a director on the board and committed as an investor.
Awit Marcelino
Awit is a Master of Divinity student at Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto and the pastor of Sugarbush Christian Church, an open and affirming congregation in Guelph, Ontario.
In addition to being a board member for the Hunger Project Canada, Awit is a board member for the Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada, and she is the Canadian representative on the International Committee for the Fellowship of the Least Coin - a global prayer movement for peace and reconciliation that supports projects that empower and advocate for women's rights and access to health, education, training, and employment opportunities.
She is passionate about women's leadership, youth empowerment, and interfaith dialogue.
In her own life, She has been inspired and mentored by women in leadership. So she believes in The Hunger Project's mission of engaging and supporting women as leaders and change agents in their community.
As well, her mother and grandmother grew up in poverty so there wasn't always food at home. Awit wants to do what she can to end hunger in her local community and in communities all over the world.
Flow Office Wisdom
Administrative Support
Flow Office Wisdom is a social enterprise and registered B Corporation specializing in virtual administration and business management. 10% of their gross income is allotted to paying their team members to serve organizations such as The Hunger Project Canada.
Flow currently assists us with web and social media management, presentations, event planning, and fundraising. To learn more, check out their website.
Consulting Support
Canlight is an innovative real estate investment/management company that strives to make people's lives work better by providing outstanding customer service and being thoughtful. It provides comprehensive services to Condominium, Residential Rental, Non-Profit, Institutional and Commercial Investment clients. The Canlight team has deep industry knowledge, exceptional critical thinking skills and is ready to help manage communities and investments.
Canlight has partnered with The Hunger Project Canada because of its vision of empowering people to end their own hunger. Canlight provides office space, office supplies, legal support, fundraising support, and consulting services gratis to THP Canada. To learn more, check out their website.


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All you need is love!
Love is in the air. Use these heartfelt sayings from writers like Nicholas Sparks and Oscar Wilde to help you express what's in your heart to your significant other, be it your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife for Valentine's Day.
"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
"Your flaws are perfect for the heart that's meant to love you."
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm. Real love is about weathering the terms of life together."
"If someone cares about you, you won't ever have to wonder how they feel, they'll constantly remind you."
"Love never gives up."
"Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
"Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning."
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
"One words frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything."
"I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"I just want you to know that you're very special…and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has."
"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
"We are most alive when we're in love."


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The beer below is brewed at Boon, but it's not a lambic (that's Frank in the background, incidentally):
It's a dark beer that's something akin to a dubbel, with a little borrowing from Edinburgh. The name goes back as far as Boon's mash tun--at least. You'll note that the name "Duivel" bears more than a passing resemblance to another gothic-scripted beer (Duvel). Indeed, they have the same infernal inspiration.
In the case of the older one, it goes back to the era when pilgrims visited Halle (near Lembeek) and its stunning cathedral which dates to the 13-15th century (it took a long time to complete). My memory of the exact details of the story fray here, but somehow this type of beer was brewed and named "the devil's beer"--I think because its heartiness and lusciousness distracted the faithful from the spirit and led them to cater to their flesh.
Boon recreated the beer from historical documents just to be brewed locally. Of course, the larger Moortgat, located on the other side of Brussels, took note. But nothing doing--when Boon referred to the historical record, Moortgat (whose own devil, Duvel, is spelled according to a local dialect) relented.
So now if you go to Halle, you have to specify either dark or light Du[i]vel or say Duvel Moortgat. Without a qualifier, you'll get the local product.


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Why are financial industry paychecks so big?
The answer is simple, and it is the one Willie Sutton is supposed to have offered when asked why he robbed banks: "Because that's where the money is."
Those who want to do something about bringing that pay down ought to focus on why there has been so much money in the financial sector in recent years. It should be no surprise that people in that business wanted to be paid a lot; the surprise should be that there was so much money to go around.
For whatever reason, the money was there in recent years as never before.
The government estimates total financial industry profits each year, and it is easy to compare them to the size of the economy. In the six decades from 1929 through 1988, those profits averaged 1.2 percent of gross domestic product — and never went above 1.7 percent.
Then they shot up in the 1990s and went up further in the current decade, peaking at 3.3 percent in 2005. Even now, the figure is higher than it ever was before 1990.
Why were those profits so high? And did society get its money's worth out of them? If those surging profits reflected the financial industry's success in helping the real economy, we might be jealous but not contemptuous. You don't hear a lot of carping about how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs became so wealthy.Continue reading the main story
There is no doubt that the allocation of credit — a primary function of the financial industry — is a crucial function, particularly in an economy undergoing change. If the finance business has done a great job of that, of directing money to where the new opportunities are, then there is no reason to begrudge them their wealth.
Unfortunately, there is little evidence that the financial industry's success has done much for the rest of us. Capital was not well allocated during the recent bubbles, to say the least. The fact we had bubbles testifies to that.
Moreover, Robert Barbera, the chief economist of ITG, points out that in the middle of this decade there was a surge in borrowing by the rest of us — households and nonfinancial businesses — that was much larger than the simultaneous growth in the economy.
The last time that happened, he points out, was in the late 1980s, just before the previous banking crisis. Perhaps he has found an indicator that a systemic risk regulator could use in a coming cycle.
But saying the success of the financial sector has not been a godsend to society does nothing to explain why it occurred.
Let me suggest a few contributors to that success:
HIGHER CHARGES It is not just all those fees you have noticed on your credit cards and checking accounts. Much more important is the growth of the hedge fund industry.
The people who managed money for institutions a generation ago charged fees that seem tiny by today's standards. Now hedge funds normally charge a management fee of 1 percent of total assets, plus 20 percent of profits. Those fees swell financial industry profits. To generate investment returns high enough to justify those fees, hedge funds use a lot of leverage. That borrowed money creates financial industry revenue.
CONCENTRATION "In 1990, the 10 largest financial institutions had 10 percent of financial assets in the United States," says Henry Kaufman, an economist and author of a new book, "The Road to Financial Reformation." "Last year, the figure went over 60 percent." He points out that bid-asked spreads are rising in some markets, which will raise profits for the market makers, and that fees for underwriting securities are also rising.
DERIVATIVES AND COMPLEXITIES Richard Bookstaber, a former hedge fund manager and risk manager whose 2007 book "A Demon of Our Own Design" warned of the crisis that soon erupted, suggested in his blog last week that banks profited from "constructing informational asymmetries between themselves and their clients. This gets into those pages of small print that you see in various investment and loan contracts. What we might call gotcha clauses and what the banks call revenue enhancers. And it also gets into the use of complex derivatives and other innovative products that are hard for the clients to understand, much less price."
EVADING TAXES AND RULES Many of the financial innovations of recent years were not designed to increase operating profits for customers. Instead, they sought to avoid taxes, or make accounting statements look prettier, or get around regulations seeking financial safety. At their worst, they boiled down to an offer to charge a customer a dime for letting him evade 20 cents in taxes. Such transfers do nothing for the larger society.
EXCESSIVE RISK-TAKING The banks took more and more risks in recent years. Some they pushed out to others via derivatives that often were badly priced. But others were kept. When things went well, the profits rolled in. When they went badly, we got to bail them out.
(The profit numbers the government uses, by the way, are a version of operating profits. They don't count big write-offs, which would seem quite unreasonable if it did not turn out that bankers did not need to count them either. Bailed out, they could return to collecting big paychecks.)
If those are the reasons for the profits, then perhaps regulatory attention should focus on the causes, not the effect. Rather than have a pay czar try to determine fair compensation for bailed-out banks while others can do as they please, Congress could look at changing the environment that produced this mess.
One way to do that is to encourage more competition. The impulse last year to have bigger banks take over failing big banks now looks exactly wrong, even before remembering that the regulators thought Citigroup and Bank of America were good acquirers with solid balance sheets.
The new regulatory system also needs to force banks to hold a lot more capital, and it needs to keep them from using tricks to take the same risks while appearing to need less capital. If the regulators can do that, it would reduce bank profits by tying up capital. One Wall Street executive I know suggests that would, in turn, bring down compensation by stimulating shareholders to demand more of the profits for themselves.
Mr. Kaufman argues that to prevent further socialization of the financial system, there simply have to be fewer banks that are too big to fail. He thinks such institutions should face more stringent regulation, and be barred from certain activities. If they want to do those things, they can find ways to split up or shrink.
Customers can also be empowered. Forcing most derivatives onto exchanges would increase the number of people who would be in a position to trade them, and probably bring better pricing for customers. One reason there are so many custom derivatives is that banks have persuaded customers they are cheaper, which is absurd. They can argue that because the banks do not force companies to put up cash when the value of a position declines. That should change. The banks could still lend the needed margin, or course, but by separating the credit and pricing functions customers would know more, and possibly get better deals.
Some such ideas were in the Obama proposals, but they are being watered down by intense bank lobbying. Some legislators who loudly denounce bank pay seem unwilling to do anything about the actual causes.
If policy makers want to bring down bank pay, they should do something to make the industry more competitive, and to assure that no one expects the taxpayer to again pay all the costs if the industry blows up again.Continue reading the main story


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AND, the absolute mostest bestest thing in the world - she eats! Generally when daycare calls it means she's sick and we have to pick her up. Not so this week. Twice we got wonderful news that she had eaten most (half of a ham and cheese wrap) or all (spanish rice and ground beef) of her lunch and they were uncertain about starting her mid-day feed. We decided to give her half of her feed immediately after such a full lunch and then we finish it up in the evening so that she still gets a full 3 cans a day.
Her favorite foods include: pudding, goldfish crackers, breakfast sausage links, and hummus (by the spoonful). She has eaten other things as well, but these are the ones she really scarfed down. Here's some photographic evidence:
Chocolate pudding is good. Need we say more?
Forget nutrition, Charlotte even got her first taste of a McDonalds cheeseburger this weekend.
A can of formula equates to 250 calories, so our goal each day was for Charlotte to take in at least 250 calories. We thought she had done this, so were surprised and disappointed when she weighed in at 23 lbs 10 oz yesterday (down from 24 lbs 1 oz the week prior). Then, we decided it must be water weight because she's not getting the fluid from her formula. We added extra water to her feeds today and tonight she weighed in at 24 lbs 2 oz! I'll take it.
We plan to e-mail her pediatrician tonight and find out how much water we should be giving her now that she's getting 3 cans per day. The Human Nutrition class I took for a liberal education requirement did not prepare me for this situation! :)
We're hopeful that this is one giant leap toward a tube free Charlotte. By her third birthday perhaps?
In other exciting news, Patrick and I got to go on a date Saturday night. Grandpa and Grandma Russell baby sat Charlotte and she loved it. She got to stay up late, show how high she can jump, read her new book (Tickler Monster), and in general be adored. We also loved the opportunity to try a new-to-us restaurant in Uptown (and feel cool that we were going out to eat in Uptown).


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Can the Church be Born Again? by The Rev. Dr. Donald L. Hamer, Rector
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford, Connecticut
Year A – Pentecost Sunday
June 4, 2017
Can the Church Be Born Again?
Acts 2:1-21; 1 Cor. 12:3b-13; John 7:37-39
Happy Birthday, Church! Today is the Day of Pentecost – or Whitsunday as it has traditionally been known in the Anglican Communion. The word Pentecost is from the Greek word meaning "50" and today bears that name because Pentecost always falls 50 days after Easter.
Many of you may not be aware that our Jewish brothers and sisters also celebrate a Pentecost Feast – in fact, the events we heard about in the Book of Acts this morning took place while the disciples were celebrating that very feast. The Jewish holiday is called Shavuot, also known as the Feast of Weeks, and it marks the wheat harvest in the Land of Israel (Exodus 34:22); and it also commemorates the anniversary of the day YHWH gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai. So Pentecost marks beginnings in both the Hebrew and Christian traditions: It celebrates the giving of the Law to the Israelites, and it celebrates the giving of the Holy Spirit in our Christian tradition.
So why do you think the giving of the Holy Spirit is considered the birthday of the church? Why isn't it, say, Christmas, when Jesus was born? Or why isn't it on Easter, when Jesus rose from the dead? I want to propose what may seem like an unusual answer: Those aren't considered the birthdays of the church because Jesus wasn't born, and he certainly didn't die, to start a church. Jesus devoted his life to starting a movement – a revolutionary movement – that was meant to give a glimpse of heaven on earth even during our lifetimes. And ever since the time of Constantine in the 4th century, when the Roman Emperor became a Christian and that movement was adopted by the very culture it was meant to challenge, we – Jesus' followers – have lost sight of that countercultural movement and instead persisted in establishing a church.
The word "church" can have a number of meanings: It can refer to a building; it can refer to a community of people who claim that building as the epicenter or home base of their participation in the Jesus Movement; it can relate to a particular subset of Jesus purported followers, e.g., The Episcopal Church, The United Church of Christ, the Roman Catholic Church; or more broadly it can refer to the Church Universal – the collection of all of the institutions in the world that claim to follow Jesus.
But this morning I want to consider that second sense of church – the community of people who claim a building or a particular location as a base of their participation in the Jesus Movement. We often refer to a community like this as a congregation or a parish. And on this Pentecost morning, I would like to share with you a vision – an alternative future for what has become known as "the church." It is a vision of the Church as the Body of Christ, a vision that will help us let go of many of the trappings of "church" of which we have become enamored but have little to do with the movement that Jesus actually led. This vision is rooted in a definition "parish" or "congregation" that a widening circle of folks– both clergy and lay – have been considering over these past several months. And here it is:
A parish is a community of theological imagination, fed by Word and Sacrament, empowering disciples and apostles in furthering God's mission. (repeat) Let's take a few moments to unpack those words.
A parish is a community of theological imagination. We may be frightened or intimidated by the word "theological" in front of the word "imagination." We shouldn't be. Professor Anna Williams warned us in seminary never to demean our congregations by assuming they can't "do" theology. When you hear that fancy word "theology" always remember how St. Anselm defined it: Faith seeking understanding. Theology is nothing other than what we do when we pray – Embracing our faith in God's merciful love and working to understand it more deeply, more fully. So a community of theological imagination is simply a community of Jesus' followers that is trying to understand our relationship to God in Jesus Christ more deeply.
One of my favorite verses in our Book of Common Prayer (Eph. 3:20, 21) is one of the benedictions from Evening Prayer: It begins, Glory to God, whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.
The prophet Joel captured the spirit of this in the passage quoted in Acts this morning: In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my spirit; and they shall prophesy.
What does that look like? Take a look at the book of Acts this morning: A rush of a violent wind filled the house where they were sitting. This is a sign of the Spirit – the Hebrew word is ruach, or breath. Remember the story in Ezekiel about the valley of the dry bones? They were dried up and lifeless until the human breathed breath into them, and then they came to life!
What else do we see in Acts? Tongues of fire resting on each of them. That is such a powerful image for me. This is going to sound crazy, but you know at Christmas time when you have the little Santas and Mrs. Clauses and snowmen that are candles. When I see them lit, you know the first thing I think of? You got it – Pentecost. Frosty the Snowman slain in the Spirit!
Beyond the flames, we see people speaking in languages that they have never studied or spoken, and other people hearing their own native languages from people who don't speak them. And what are they hearing? They are hearing about God's deeds of power
Ask yourselves, when was the last time we really dreamed about our congregations? When was the last time you looked around and wondered what God's power, working in us, could do that was infinitely more than we would ever ask or even imagine? In this alternative vision of what a church congregation should be, in the words of Joel, we would dream dreams about what God's power, working in us, could do.
Fed by Word and Sacrament. By now, all of us have heard about the reorganization of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and many of us have participated in helping to create that. One of the criticisms of these early efforts – and I have been very vocal in this regard – has been that the emphasis on what God is up to "out there" has not given proper attention to the importance of feeding and preparing Jesus' followers for that work. In this visionary understanding of what a congregation is, we acknowledge the importance of being fed spiritually and intellectually not only to strengthen us in our faith but to better prepare us for the work to which Jesus calls us.
Empowering Disciples and Apostles. As I intimated in that last sentence, it is good for us to be fed regularly by Word and Sacrament. But for far too long, we have been lulled into the belief that our Christian involvement and commitment can be fulfilled by coming to church. And don't get me wrong, that is super important and a great start. But it's only a start. As that wise sage Garrison Keillor wisely observed, sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Jesus called ordinary people to be his disciples – to stay with him and learn by his teachings and example what it meant to be one of his followers. Then he commissioned them to be apostles – folks who went out from the home base and, by their words and their manner of life, proclaimed to the world what it meant to be a follower of Jesus. In order to reclaim the power of the movement that Jesus started, it is important not only for each of us to claim our status as theologians, but for us to realize that as member of the Body of Christ, each of us has a role to play as a disciple and an apostle in the Jesus Movement.
We don't all have the SAME role -- as Paul writes in 1st Corinthians this morning, not everyone has the same gifts. Each of us has our own unique set of gifts, and all of them given by God and coming from that one Spirit that we celebrate today. But as Paul writes elsewhere, it takes us coming together, sharing our individual gifts, pooling our gifts for ministry in a synergistic way that brings us together in the one Body to which we are called. Remember Ephesians – Glory to God whose power working in us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.
Furthering God's Mission. We need to remember that individual congregations have no mission of their own, no matter how grand their buildings or how important they may think they are. There is only one mission, and that is God's mission, and we understand that mission to be the one proclaimed by Jesus the Christ in his life and in his teachings. Like individuals who have individual charisms but must work together to become the body of Christ, so congregations have unique charisms based upon the individuals that comprise them. But no one congregation can be all things to all people. It is up to each congregation to discern what unique gifts it has to serve God's mission in the communities it reaches.
On that first Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended on those early followers and opened their eyes to the possibilities that God set before them, leading to a movement that changed the course of history. On this Pentecost Sunday 2017, I pray that the Holy Spirit will visit us anew, giving us a renewed sense of the mission that Jesus proclaimed, reflecting on our congregations as communities of theological imagination, fed by Word and Sacrament, empowering disciples and apostles in furthering God's mission..
Glory to God, whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Glory to God from generation to generation in the church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. AMEN.


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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Evansville head coach Marty Simmons was blunt: He needed his team to grow before their Arch Madness grudge match versus Indiana State.
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After three points decided two regular season matchups, Evansville (16-16, 6-12) chopped down the Sycamores (11-20, 5-13), 83-72. A game-high 27 points by senior Jaylon Brown advanced the Purple Aces to a quarterfinal matchup with top-seeded Illinois State.
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New Zealand topped the international visitor arrivals list for the month of September 2014 with 113,200 kiwis visiting our shores. There were 61,800 visitors from China during the month of September 2014, bringing the total for the nine months to September to 641,000 – an increase of 14.3 per cent relative to the same period of the previous year; while visitor arrivals from the United Kingdom rose 6 per cent for the year ended September 2014.
Leisure arrivals (holiday and VFR) continued to drive international arrivals growth, with an increase of 11.1 per cent over the 12 month period.
View full details of visitor arrivals to Australia for the year ending September 2014.


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The Witch of Darkmoore Forest
Welcome to The Witch of Darkmoore Forest; a collaborative project between myself and Claudia Willison. Our game is now at a solid beta stage, so please enjoy.
The game!
The survey (because we LOVE to fill out surveys! Right? Oh come on, it'll be fun!)
Link to my co-conspirator… uh, I mean co-collaborator
Game Notes:
The game is completely free; there are no ads or in app purchases. Ahem, well no "real" ads anyway. Some technical notes below. Many of the decisions we had to make with this project to "fix" or not fix certain things were driven by time. It would have taken many more months to address all of the issues below, and doing so would have been nice, but would not have changed the content of the game. Also, honestly, the game evolved over time, as have both of our abilities. If we had to do it all over, there are some thing we would have structured differently. Finally, I would like to thank the various users of the GameMaker community (forum) who have helped me with questions and stumbling blocks that I have had along the way. The forum has unfortunately been off line for a while (which, honestly has slowed our progress of late… Yoyo please put it back on line… pretty please!)
The game is windowed at a fixed resolution of 1280×768. This was the largest size that we felt would still fit users with smaller displays. If your display is smaller than this, please let us know what happens when you play – we have no way of testing this on our own!) Although basic screen resizing would have been possible to incorporate, our testing indicated that the art didn't look very nice at when enlarged to higher resolutions. In addition, some elements of the GUI do not lend themselves to resizing with considerable rework.
The game does have sound, so crank up the volume! (…but not too loud. Your neighbor asked me to say this.) The in game volume settings work for most of the sound effects, but there are a few that do not – this is due to a difference in the system used to play 3-D sound (which doesn't use emitters). There is probably a work around for this, but unfortunately there was no one to ask, and I was not able come up with a work around. GameMaker Community, where are you when I need you 🙂 So if anyone wants to let me know how to combine the functionality of the audio_play_sound_at() with audio_play_sound_on(), please let me know!
To exit the game, just close the window (e.g. click the "X" at the upper right). An in game exit button would have been nice, and the code is simple enough, but the manual contains the ominous warning that the code "will report an error on the Windows 8". With no forum available for further explanation if this is serious or not, the click the X method works seemed a better choice for now.
You may save the game in the witch's hut. The save/load function was introduced late in the game development, so loading the game from the opening screen and from the hut both work, but do not produce 100% consistent results. However this should not affect game play. Making them 100% consistent would have required a lot of time, and would not have added anything to the content of game.
The game doesn't have a particularly robust combat system. It was supposed to be more of a "solve the puzzle" game, with enough action to keep things interesting, so we honestly didn't invest too much time in the combat system. I suppose we are lovers not fighters. So bottom line: If you are killed by one of the snails in the game, you should be really embarrassed. Seriously.


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UNL professor charts blogs rise
The way people receive their news has changed. Gone are the days where people needed to tune in to the evening news to receive their current event and in are the 24 hour websites that can be accessed by our cell phones.
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With this new fast moving and interactive web at the tip of everyone's fingers came the rise of bloggers.
"About 10 or 12 years ago bloggers really hit the scene," assistant professor of communication studies Damien Pfister said.
Pfister is looking back to the roots of blogging, specifically blogging in the political realm, in his book which released on Nov. 17 called, "Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere." The book examines three cases he believes were the catalysts in launching bloggers into the light.
"My intervention is to try to suggest that a level of inexpertise, emotion, and communication are actually good things that play an important role in democratic life," Pfister said.
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Two blogs doing it right
[dropcap]Pfister gave two exampled of great blogs. One of them is Josh Marshal's talkingpointsmemo.com and the other is realclimate.org. Pfister said these are two examples of the power blogs can have and a great basis on how you can run a successful blog.
Blogging has become commonplace now. It has been injected into many different areas of journalist field, even, as Pfister points out, among the more old school crowd.
"Blogs are looking more like conventional journalistic outfits and the conventional journalistic outfits, the New York Times, the Washington Post, they all have blogs," Pfister said. "Even the journalists who were initially fairly reluctant to have blogs often have their own personal or hosted where they share works in progress."
Both conventional journalism and blogging now compete and work together in the same space. Pfister believes while both may operate differently, and under a different set of rules it is important that both exist.
"I think they work better together," Pfister said. "Blogs can function as press critics, and watching the watchdogs and big journalist outfits have budgets to do things like a lot of foreign reporting.
"For a really long time the struggle for news was getting your story out there," Pfister said. "It was a real struggle. It's not a struggle now. Virtually anyone can set up a blog."


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Hi. I finished my field trip report from last year and its turned out ok. My wife took hours and hours of video as well as my thousnads of photos.
Im just starting to edit the video and would love to have a map in it at time showing where we are at the start and progressive as the trip continues.
Has anyone done this and any idea on what maps to ue and how to go about it.
Any help would be appreciated. Im hoping to finish the videos before heading back for Take 2 next year.