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From all of us at Spoken to all of you, Happy Thanksgiving! This day, not unlike engagement and marriage, reflects life's tensions: feast and fast, anticipation and its fulfillment, hunger and contentment--restlessness ends not in marriage, but in eternity. Know of our prayers for you in this sacred time and in this start of the holiday season!
Lord, we come before you in thanks. We are gifted and entrusted with freedom, with truth, with your bounty. You, who have poured yourself over us, bled and given everything all for love of us--to win us back and bring us home--we praise you.
We trust in your generosity, whatever that looks like in this moment. We ask only to receive. Fill us, Lord. All that is of you is gift, even when it doesn't look anything like we might have imagined. Strengthen us in trust; let us receive you fully, that we may experience every act of the Father's will as a mercy.
You are a God of abundance. And yet, we hunger. Let us embrace these aches through waiting, through restlessness, through uncertainty. You are permanence, Lord. Rest. Certainty. May we see this longing as it is, unveiled: our desire for communion, for eternity with you. May all our wanderings draw us deeper into your love.
In this season of home, of family, of breaking bread, let us live with our first home in mind, our identity as your children. Humbly we beg for the grace to sanctify each other, to return each other to you, Father. Sustain us in your body and your precious blood, that we may live with joyful anticipation of your heavenly banquet, the feast of your love.
The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord:
'Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever!'
For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 33:11


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Yes, I am a partisan Democrat and very proud of that. When my dad came to this country he saw which side was good and talk me the same.
Republicans win because they cheat. Democrats lose because they're good at it.
I have watched a litany of amazing people who ran for president and did not win because Republicans cheat
Let's start with Nixon, Hubert Humphrey was the vice president under Lyndon Baines Johnson and would have been a wonderful president of the United States but Nixon had to cheat it's called Watergate.
George McGovern who ran in 1972 and who received my first vote in a presidential election. He ran against Nixon cheats.
After the Fall From Grace that Nixon suffered Gerald Ford immediately pardon him when he became president. A move I'm sure that Mike Pence would emulate in a second if he got to be president. Jimmy Carter 1 in 1976 when the United States needed a change from all of this cheating.
But never fear Ronald Reagan came to the scene and went and negotiated behind Jimmy Carter's back to release the Iranian hostages. he made Jimmy Carter look weak and one of the best presidents we ever had lost in his re-election bid. You all know Jimmy Carter has one of the most amazing ex-presidents who even had his current age is building homes for the needy.
Al Gore won the election against George W Bush, but the Republicans cheat and because of the mess that the State of Florida is we got the wrong man to be president and we got to Wars that we still are in because of that. Think about what an Al Gore presidency would have done for our planet, instead of making videos he would have been able to actually make policy that would have reversed climate change in time for all of what's happening right now not to have happened.
In 2004 John Kerry a military hero was Swift boated by the cheating Republicans and made to look like a deserter. This is coming from a president who had never done anything except to avoid military service. George W Bush came from a family of military service but he had nothing to do with it.
They try to cheat against President Obama but he was good and he had moderately honorable opponents.
Which takes us to present day and the cheater in Chief who currently occupies the White House. He colluded with Russians, wikileak, and anyone else he could get to cheat himself into the White House.
so it's not surprising that tomorrow when the Mueller report comes out they would have already cheated. They are going to try to eclipse the Mueller Report with news coverage of their own but the American people are smarter than that and I think they're going to see through it.
Always remember Republicans win because they cheat.
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Attorney General William Barr should be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life because he can look at history books and see. Attorney General Mitchell went to jail for what he did for Nixon during Watergate. May William Barr suffer the same fate.


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Chapter 5: High School Daze(1989-1994)
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High School Daze
Four years I love to look back at
Many people look back on their high school careers in one of two basic ways, heaven or hell. I, however, look back on them like a patch of road I often travel between Agua Dulce and Kingsville, Texas. The road seems long, sometimes empty and full of potholes, but it also saves time, runs through peaceful fields and has a quality about it that makes me look back and say "I'm glad I went through here." I attended the Premont High School from 1989 to 1994, the year I graduated. It was there that I was introduced to the world of speech and debate and where I further developed many of my musical skills.
My high school years were spent on the road, traveling to Speech tournaments, band contests, and Mariachi Contests. This was a life that made me both well traveled and well informed of locations. I had been to places with my family, namely Dallas and Houston. My high school travels took me to all the places in-between. I knew I could never get lost in South Texas because, if I was lost, it wouldnt be long before I made my way to some place I knew.
High school in Premont is a small two-story brown brick building connected by cement walkways. Built in 1971, I always suspected that our school might have been built as a sample of a new design by some construction company. It had what it needed to be a high school, but on the smallest possible scale. Compared to the mammoth schools we visited, our school looked microscopic. Nevertheless, before I was in high school it seemed so big. I once went with my Grandfather, Catarino Saenz, to clean the school when I was in 6th or 7th grade. My grandfather was a janitor at the high school from 1986 to 1998. I remember exploring all the places that I would not see again for three years. I also remember it looking much bigger.
My first day of High school is, alas, lost to my memories. I remember only being dropped off and waiting in what is called the Milling Area for people I knew. The first person I remember seeing was my friend, Jimmy Salazar. Jimmy, as when we were in junior high, rode the La Gloria buss and sometimes arrived either very early or very late. The last person I saw before the bell rang was my friend Albert Rios. After that, I remember nothing about that fist day of my freshman year.
Although I don't remember my first day of high school with any degree of worth, I do remember when procedures and general events that marked those days. My freshman year, our school population was large enough to divide the lunch period into two groups. I was in "first lunch," which I remember having after Mr. David Garza's Art I class. That year's art class is very vivid in my mind. The projects we worked on survive to this day somewhere in my storage closet.
Mr. Garza began his class with a lesson on how to perceive art and how to take ordinary objects and portray them in a medium. It's a shame to me that people don't take these art classes seriously. Older people who claim that they "can't draw" or that they are "un-artistic" are probably the people who "mess around" and don't pay attention in art class. Even people who already know how to draw should listen to the lectures and stories of famous painters. Maybe then these good "drawers" could go one to be true "artists" instead of gas station attendants.
I remember the class was made up of some of Premont's future people of popularity. Anna Guerra was in that class, later she would go on to be Mrs. Alfaro, a teacher. Jason Underbrink, Cody Paul and Hunter Hornsby were also in that class. I will always remember the art antics of my friend Felix Chong. Felix would forever try to be Mr. Garza's foil. Felix would always take the art projects to "the next level." Our first project was to draw several parrots in a jungle, Mr. Garza said for us to take our time. He meant a week; Felix dragged it out to three weeks. Mr. Garza got his revenge in the form grades.
In addition, we did a "toothpick sculpture;" this is where you draw a pattern on wax paper and trace it with took picks. This is done twice forming two exact duplicates, which will become sides. These two "sides" are then connected by toothpicks making the apparatus a three demensional "sculpture" of your design. Most people chose to do their name. I did "JOEELY" and Felix did "FELIX." The last step of the project is to cover your sculpture in paper mache. Felix finished his project by the end of the week, and was quite proud of it. We went home for the weekend and when we came back; rats that inhabit the school had eaten most of Felix's project.
Felix then employed me to help him rectify the situation. Knowing that the rats would try that again; we theorized that the use ingredients along with just flour and water would keep all rats away from the projects. We began mixing all manners of chemicals that were present in the Art room. These new ingredients included: "Ajax," "Windex," "Liquid Plumber and Crystal Drain-o," various toxic paints and soap from Mexico called "Don Maximo." The rats never again destroyed any of our projects.
My freshman year was also the year I met Corina Moreno, an English teacher. Her classes were prime examples of how an English class should be run. I can remember almost every selection we read. "Leiningen versus the Ants" and "The Lady or the Tiger." We also did "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. I remember we had to make newspapers depicting the events from the text. Albert Rios was in that class and his newspaper was to be called the "London Liar," he mistakenly titled it the "London Lair." That was not an "Honors English Class." The year before it had been determined that I did not posses the mental skills to survive in an "honors" class. I don't know what forces conspired to put be down by making me out to be an idiot, but I did know that, Mexican-American or not, I would not allow it to stop me from doing what I knew was best for me. Mrs. Moreno saw to it that I would be placed in Honors English Class from 10th grade on.
I received five gold medals at the U.I.L. District Speech and Literary Meet my senior year.
1993 & 1994 were critical musical years for me. First I played with the St. Teresa's Catholic Church Spanish Choir in 1993 and remained with them until late in 1994. I considered this to be the inspirational formative years that shaped my life as a musician. I love my Grandfather, and owe him all the musical success I have achieved. The Choir years insured that, as I took my first musical steps, I would always walk a strait line. I refined my abilities to play by ear literally in front of God. I would follow the choir's singers and began to arrange songs. We played at the 9:00 am Spanish Mass, from where I would then go to CCD classes. We also played several times for His Excellency the Most Reverend Bishop Rene H. Gracida, the then Bishop of Corpus Christi and for the Virgin Mary at 5:00 am on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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When I was younger I had always dreamed I would travel, a lot. I desperately wanted to study abroad. It was no uncommon to find me with leaflets of study programs in London, Paris, or Australia. But I was always too scared to go it alone. I still have yet to, and would content if I never had to, but I am always seeking out great opportunities to travel with others.
Every time I am away I come home feeling more excited about my business than when I left, and I had no doubt that a destination wedding in Jamaica (working with my pal Sara Wilde) would be any different. I have been working on a little secret project for some time now, and am so close to be able to announce it, that I knew that after this trip I would feel the same.
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably already know that it did not exactly turn out to be an inspiring experience like I had originally thought. We definitely had some fun, and made the most of it while we were being threatened by hurricane Matthew that was originally coming to hit us head on (luckily for us it veered off track). But sadly, it came to a screeching halt when the bride's beautiful sister, Jennifer passed away unexpectedly before the civil ceremony late Tuesday morning. It was such a sad time for us all, especially the family and close friends of Jennifer.
They decided to keep everyone together for the dinner that was planned for the evening, and turned the wedding reception into a memorial dinner to celebrate Jennifer's life, and be there to support the family. Which we were happy to attend. Sara and I were asked to grab some photographs of Jennifer from the previous wedding events to set up a memorial table. We found some great images that we were happy to share.
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There have been many times in the past when I've run into someone at work who could twist my words to suit his own purpose. If I'd challenged him in some way, he would launch a subtle verbal assault that built gradually to convince me he'd been the victim and I'd been the one who had caused the problem. The turnaround could be so skillful and bizarre that I'd often be at a loss, feeling confused and frustrated as to how to respond. He'd have a keen sense of where I was vulnerable – the shame of being me that came with depression. Incapable of accepting any responsibility, he would stay on the attack until my inner doubt about my own worth and judgment left me completely unsure of myself. I'd probably end this by agreeing that the situation was more complicated than I'd thought. Then I'd turn away feeling as twisted as his words, aware that everything I knew to be true had been reversed to put me on the defensive. In disgust, I'd berate myself for not having been able to dismantle his phony logic on the spot. How could I have been so readily disarmed? I'd wind up feeling bad while he'd walk off with another notch in his belt. I had been dealing with a master manipulator who could never be wrong. Instinctively, I knew this person would never change, and rather than repeat this crazy-making experience, I'd usually decide to stay clear of him as much as possible.
John Folk-Williams, Psychological Abuse and Depression
What is Emotional Abuse?
Emotional abuse (can also be called psychological abuse or mental abuse) is any behavior that is designed to control and subjugate another human being through the use of fear, humiliation, intimidation, guilt, coercion, manipulation etc. Emotional abuse is any kind of abuse that is emotional rather than physical in nature. It can include anything from verbal abuse and constant criticism to more subtle tactics, such as repeated disapproval or even the refusal to ever be pleased.
Emotional abuse is like brain washing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self-worth, trust in their own perceptions, and self-concept. Whether it is done by constant berating and belittling, by intimidation, or under the guise of "guidance," "teaching", or "advice," the results are similar. Eventually, the recipient of the abuse loses all sense of self and remnants of personal value. Emotional abuse cuts to the very core of a person, creating scars that may be far deeper and more lasting that physical ones. In fact there is research to this effect. With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism and accusations slowly eat away at the victim's self-esteem until she is incapable of judging the situation realistically. She has become so beaten down emotionally that she blames herself for the abuse. Her self-esteem is so low that she clings to the abuser.
Emotional abuse victims can become so convinced that they are worthless that they believe that no one else could want them. They stay in abusive situations because they believe they have nowhere else to go. Their ultimate fear is being all alone.
Types of Emotional Abuse
There are multiple types of Emotional Abuse, and some of them even are not easy to distinguish as abuse. The provided below classification will help you to understand better your situation and get ready to apply emotional guard to protect yourself from the abuser.
Abusive Expectations
· The other person places unreasonable demands on you and wants you to put everything else aside to tend to their needs.
· It could be a demand for constant attention, or a requirement that you spend all your free time with the person.
· But no matter how much you give, it's never enough.
· You are subjected to constant criticism, and you are constantly berated because you don't fulfill all this person's needs.
· Aggressive forms of abuse include name-calling, accusing, blaming, threatening, and ordering. Aggressing behaviors are generally direct and obvious. The one-up position the abuser assumes by attempting to judge or invalidate the recipient undermines the equality and autonomy that are essential to healthy adult relationships. This parent-child pattern of communication (which is common to all forms of verbal abuse) is most obvious when the abuser takes an aggressive stance.
· Aggressive abuse can also take a more indirect form and may even be disguised and "helping." Criticizing, advising, offering solutions, analyzing, proving, and questioning another person may be a sincere attempt to help. In some instances however, these behaviors may be an attempt to belittle, control, or demean rather than help. The underlying judgmental "I know best" tone the abuser takes in these situations is inappropriate and creates unequal footing in peer relationships. This and other types of emotional abuse can lead to what is known as learned helplessness.
Constant Chaos
· The other person may deliberately start arguments and be in constant conflict with others.
· The person may be "addicted to drama" since it creates excitement.
· Denying a person's emotional needs, especially when they feel that need the most, and done with the intent of hurting, punishing or humiliating.
· The other person may deny that certain events occurred or that certain things were said. If one confronts the abuser about an incident of name calling, the abuser may insist, "I never said that," "I don't know what you're talking about," etc. You know differently.
· The other person may deny your perceptions, memory and very sanity.
· Withholding is another form of denying. Withholding includes refusing to listen, refusing to communicate, and emotionally withdrawing as punishment. This is sometimes called the "silent treatment."
· When the abuser disallows and overrules any viewpoints, perceptions or feelings which differ from their own.
· Denying can be particularly damaging. In addition to lowering self-esteem and creating conflict, the invalidation of reality, feelings, and experiences can eventually lead you to question and mistrust your own perceptions and emotional experience.
· Denying and other forms of emotional abuse can cause you to lose confidence in your most valuable survival tool: your own mind.
· Someone wants to control your every action. They have to have their own way, and will resort to threats to get it.
· When you allow someone else to dominate you, you can lose respect for yourself.
Emotional Blackmail
· The other person plays on your fear, guilt, compassion, values, or other "hot buttons" to get what they want.
· This could include threats to end the relationship, totally reject or abandon you, giving you the "cold shoulder," or using other fear tactics to control you.
· The abuser seeks to distort or undermine the recipient's perceptions of their world. Invalidating occurs when the abuser refuses or fails to acknowledge reality. For example, if the recipient tells the person they felt hurt by something the abuser did or said, the abuser might say "You are too sensitive. That shouldn't hurt you."
· Minimizing is a less extreme form of denial. When minimizing, the abuser may not deny that a particular event occurred, but they question the recipient's emotional experience or reaction to an event. Statements such as "You're too sensitive," "You're exaggerating," or "You're blowing this out of proportion" all suggest that the recipient's emotions and perceptions are faulty and not be trusted.
· Trivializing, which occurs when the abuser suggests that what you have done or communicated is inconsequential or unimportant, is a more subtle form of minimizing.
Unpredictable Responses
· Drastic mood changes or sudden emotional outbursts. Whenever someone in your life reacts very differently at different times to the same behavior from you, tells you one thing one day and the opposite the next, or likes something you do one day and hates it the next, you are being abused with unpredictable responses.
· This behavior is damaging because it puts you always on edge. You're always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and you can never know what's expected of you. You must remain hypervigilant, waiting for the other person's next outburst or change of mood.
· An alcoholic or drug abuser is likely to act this way. Living with someone like this is tremendously demanding and anxiety provoking, causing the abused person to feel constantly frightened, unsettled and off balance.
Verbal Assaults
· Berating, belittling, criticizing, name calling, screaming, threatening
· Excessive blaming, and using sarcasm and humiliation.
· Blowing your flaws out of proportion and making fun of you in front of others. Over time, this type of abuse erodes your sense of self confidence and self-worth.
Emotional Abuse in Family Relationship
There is fairly difficult way out of a marriage or life partnership with an emotional abuser. Look at a standard situation, you read in classic literature and you see around you among your friends and acquaintances. A woman meets a charming, even dazzling partner, falls in love, enjoys a blissful time and feels emotionally complete through this intimate bond. But then everything starts to go bad. Minor insults delivered with a laugh, sarcastic comments about everything she says – just enough edge to make her wonder what he means and whether or not she's meeting his needs.
Things build from there to such acts as withholding intimacy because of something she's done, blaming her for causing a series of problems, complaining about unreasonable behavior to their children, her family and friends. She's not sure what's happening and doubts herself, becoming more dependent on her partner. By then she's so confused that she loses the ability to act independently or to think clearly in his presence. In trying to resist, she gets angry and appears unreasonable to the people she looks to for help. The angrier she gets, the easier it is for her partner to point out coolly how impossibly demanding and irrational she's become. He complains to everyone that he's constantly victimized by her outbursts. The woman finds herself completely trapped.
Short-term effects of an emotionally abusive husband or wife often have to do with the surprise of being in the situation or the questioning of just how the situation arose. Some emotional abusers don't begin their abuse until well into a relationship. Husbands or wives may find themselves shocked to see the new, emotionally abusive behavior. The behavior and thoughts of the victim then change in response to the emotional abuse.
Short-term effects of emotional abuse include:
· Surprise and confusion
· Questioning of one's own memory, "did that really happen?"
· Anxiety or fear; hypervigilence
· Shame or guilt
· Aggression (as a defense to the abuse)
· Becoming overly passive or compliant
· Frequent crying
· Avoidance of eye contact
· Feeling powerless and defeated as nothing you do ever seems to be right (learned helplessness)
· Feeling like you're "walking on eggshells"
· Feeling manipulated, used and controlled
· Feeling undesirable
A partner may also find themselves trying to do anything possible to bring the relationship back to the way it was before the abuse.
In long-term emotionally abusive situations, the victim has such low self-esteem that they often feel they cannot leave their abuser and that they are not worthy of a non-abusive relationship. Adult emotional abuse leads to the victim believing the terrible things that the abuser says about him/her. Emotional abuse victims often think they're "going crazy."
Effects of long-term emotional abuse by significant others, boyfriends or girlfriends include:
· Depression
· Withdrawal
· Low self-esteem and self-worth
· Emotional instability
· Sleep disturbances
· Physical pain without cause
· Suicidal ideation, thoughts or attempts
· Extreme dependence on the abuser
· Underachievement
· Inability to trust
· Feeling trapped and alone
· Substance abuse
Stockholm Syndrome is also common in long-term abuse situations. In Stockholm Syndrome, the victim is so terrified of the abuser that the victim overly identifies and becomes bonded with the abuser in an attempt to stop the abuse. The victim will even defend their abuser and their emotionally abusive actions.
How Emotional Abuse Leads to Depression
It is said that depression is only anger turned inward. Emotionally abused people often given up on emotions, since emotions have proven to be so damaging. They have been beaten down by the emotions of others and struck through the heart by their own emotions in response. No safety, just anger, fear, shame, and guilt. Perhaps, they think, if I punish myself there will be no need to be punished by others. Or, I'm only getting what I really deserve.
It takes a great deal of energy to deal with emotional abuse and stay buoyant. Each emotional assault takes its toll on that store of energy. Some people simply run out of strength to climb the mound of abuse heaped upon them. When that happens, they slip into the pit of depression. Unable to escape from anger, fear, shame, and guilt, they attempt to shut down all of their emotions. With no visible way out, they curl into themselves, isolating themselves from others and imploding their world.
What should you do if you are being emotionally abused?
- Call 911 if you are threatened with harm or violence.
- Accept the truth - Admit you are being abused and recognize the damage it has done.
- Get professional individual counseling with licensed therapist, who will help you to deal with abusive relationship.
- Learn how to set boundaries in relationships.
- Learn to trust your instincts and feelings.
- Seek support from friends and family.
- Join local support groups.
- Educate yourself about emotional abuse.
- Know that you are not to blame for your partner's abusive behavior.
- Recognize that you have the right to make your own decisions, in your own time.
- Recognize that emotional abuse should be taken seriously.
- Know that emotional abuse can escalate to physical violence.
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Located just 10 miles outside of Pullman, Kamiak Butte has been a recognized National Natural Landmark for almost five decades.
Tim Myers, director of Whitman County Parks Department, said part of Kamiak's beauty is that it offers a great look at the nature of the Palouse and that, for this reason, many people hike the butte on a regular basis.
"Depending on the time of the year, there are a lot of flowers and birds," he said.
Myers said that on a daily basis the parking lot holds anywhere between two and 20 cars.
"Some are there for a picnic or kids using the playground, but a majority are there to hike," he said.
Kamiak also includes seven campsites. Currently, Meyers said no open campfires are allowed, as the dry weather presents a greater fire risk. However, visitors can still use a gas grill or charcoal to cook.
In June, the park opened a new trail that branches off the well-traveled Pine Ridge Trail. The new path, named the West End Primitive Trail, was nothing more than a deer trail whenDoug Flansburg came across it 25 years ago. Flansburg maintained it until the board walked the trail and decided to include it in the park.
Myers said that the people he has talked to enjoy the trail as an addition because for people who hike Kamiak regularly it offers diversity to their routine.
Dogs are not allowed on the West End Primitive Trail in order to protect wildlife and offer hikers a different experience, he said.
Susan Stokes has lived in Pullman for six years and said that she hikes Kamiak three or four times a year.
"I was looking for the woods," Stokes said.
Her favorite part is the view of the peak, "where the woods end and the fields begin," she said.


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Robert P. Robichaux Jr., M.D., MPH
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Dr. Robichaux is a native of Birmingham, Alabama and completed his internship, residency and fellowship training in Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He received a Master's degree in Public Health and then his Medical Degree also at The University of Alabama in Birmingham. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Springhill College in Mobile.
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George Mark Mills, Sr., 60, of Penellville, passed
away on Thursday Aug. 22, 2013 at the V.A. Med
ical Center, Syracuse. Born to in Fulton, NY on
April 26, 1953. He was a 1971 graduate of J. C.
Birdlebough High School, Phoenix, NY, where he
was an athlete lettering in Football and Track &
Field. George served 20 years in the U.S. Navy,
later working for Carrier Corp., Syracuse. He was
a member of the American Legion Post 418, and
the V.F.W. Post 5540 both in Phoenix; Fleet
Reserves in Groton, CT.
He was predeceased by his son, George M. Mills,
Jr. on 10/24/1998; his mother, Anna (Carey) Mills on
2/2/2011, and his father, George I. Mills 5/21/1988;
two brothers, William in 1990, and Daniel in 2001.
Surviving are his loving wife of 39 years, Catherine
(Milligan) Mills; his son and daughter-in-law,
William and Stacey Mills of Ira; his grandson, Austin
Mills; four siblings Marguerite Sotherden, Patrick Mills,
and Violet Goodnow all of Pennellville, and Bonnie
Shelton of El Paso, TX; several nieces, nephews, and
Calling hours are on Monday Aug. 26, from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. with a funeral service at
7 p.m. with Deacon Frank Forish officiating all in the
Allanson-Glanville-Tappan Funeral Home, 431 Main St.,
Phoenix, NY 13135. Burial with military and post
honors, with the Rev. Philip Brockmyer officiating will be
on Friday Aug. 30, at 10 a.m. in Pennellville Cemetery,
Co. Rt. 54, Pennellville.
Contributions: V.A. Medical Center, 800 Irving Ave.,
Syracuse, NY 13210.


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It's a very sad day. Joe Paterno was not only a great football coach but a maker of men and great contributor to Penn State. History will remember this man not for a perceived inaction in the response to the actions of another man, but for a great legacy at Penn State. Joe and his wife were consistent donors to Penn State including $13.5 million towards the expansion of the Patee Library (the expansion was named Paterno Library). As a graduate of Penn State, my education was made better by this man. He will be missed.
This is also a glowing reminder to give lots of support to anyone you know with cancer — even treatable forms. Joe Paterno died not from a treatable form of lung cancer, but an utterly broken heart.


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I haven't been sleeping well of late. Saturday night into Sunday morning, I was awake probably every hour. A couple times I checked my email (I'm not sure why—I didn't really expect any important emails in the middle of the night), and I had breaking news alerts from Fox News and CNN. When I opened them, I learned that some monster had gone into an Orlando nightclub and opened fire. The death toll has turned out to be staggering: 50 (including the gunman) are dead. The gunman—whose name I shall not mention—was a Muslim who intentionally targeted homosexuals in an Orlando gay bar.
Watching some coverage on Fox News last night (why I bothered watching Fox I'm not sure), Bill O'Reilly blasted Tom Brokaw for saying earlier in the day that he didn't believe it mattered if the issue was organized terrorism or a lone madman. O'Reilly may have blasted his colleague, but Mr. Brokaw was exactly right—regardless of whether this man was part of an organized terrorist cell or a lone madman, the issue is a heart issue. No amount of law—federal, state, or local—can totally eradicate the threat of psychopaths like the one who murdered in cold blood early yesterday morning. Only a change of heart can turn men from haters to lovers; only the Gospel of the Lord Jesus can change hearts from darkness to light.
Because I have recently written about the sinfulness of homosexual acts on this blog, I was accused of being part of the problem yesterday. I foster hate, I was told. I condone bigotry, they said. I believe homosexuals should burn in hell, according to my detractors.
I wrote a couple articles lately which sought to put those matters to rest (The Church and Homosexuality & "But, Don't Christians Hate Homosexuals?"), but, in light of yesterday morning's atrocity, it seems prudent to me to write a few lines about a Christian and such unspeakable acts of hate.
Here are just a few things to remember:
No true disciple of Jesus will ever turn to violence.
I don't mean that a Christian cannot act under the auspices of the government to carry out God's vengeance in the form of death (e.g., Romans 13:4), but no true disciple of Jesus will ever take matters into his own hands and carry out violence. Someone will readily point to the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch trials, and other brutalities carried out in the name of Jesus, but those who carried out those unspeakable acts of violence did not act in the name of Jesus. Simply because one says he carries out an act in the name of God does not mean that God approves.
Jesus taught peace and harmony and love. Any deviation therefrom is not an act in the spirit of Jesus.
Jesus wants us to love those in sin.
"And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh" (Jude 22-23). In other words, love the sinner and hate the sin. Modern Christians must remember the words of Jude, our Lord's physical brother.
Jesus' cross is the answer to sin.
Sin cannot be answered with violence; sin is answered in the cross of Jesus. Notice what Paul wrote where he even mentioned homosexuality: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). The men in Corinth who practiced homosexuality were not changed by violence, but by the gospel of Jesus.
We deserve death for our sins.
Each one of us deserves to die because of our sins. "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). If you ever hear someone say that so-and-so deserves to die because of what he has done, don't forget that you do, too!
Jesus died for our sins.
"Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3). Yes, you and I deserve death for our sins, but Jesus took our place upon that rugged cross and died in our stead.
God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
I don't care how the wicked die—in some horrible act of violence or in war or in the gas chamber—God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. "As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?" (Ezekiel 33:11). I was deeply disturbed by the elation so many of my fellow believers showed at the death of Osama bin Laden. Did the government have the right to put him to death? Absolutely. Did he deserve to die for his actions? You betcha (but, you do, too, remember?). But, the God of heaven showed no jubilation at his death. Why should we?
Yesterday morning, I had the privilege of leading the opening prayer at worship. I specifically prayed for God's blessings on the families affected by the monstrous act in Orlando. Won't you join me in praying that prayer today?
God bless!


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Timberlake's Billboard Music Awards Speech Said It All
Justin Timberlake may have just reinvented the awards speech wheel. Here's what he told his competitors and his fans after winning Top Artist at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards.
"I love you guys. It's not a competition, but if it was, I won! And guess what, I'm OK with that! ... I wanna thank everybody on Earth. Everybody on Earth except Donald Sterling."
Yes, instead of thanking his competitors, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Imagine Dragons and Miley Cyrus, he just gave a "ha ha." And he pointedly played off of how everybody always thanks everybody in acceptance speeches.
The Los Angeles Times points out throw in an ending that points at one of the biggest stories out there right now, and you've got what might just be the most perfect acceptance speech ever.
And since he did it from his tour, there were even dancers.
As The Hollywood Reporter notes, the Sterling reference makes sense for "sports-fanatic" Timberlake.
On Twitter, fans agreed it was the realest speech ever...


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Total Number of Delegates: 23 Pledged: 15 Unpledged: 8
How to Recognize a Vermont Delegate: Vermont has a reputation as a haven for hippies and trust-funders, but loaded wannabes are only fooling themselves if they think they can be a Green Mountaineer simply by relocating and becoming a hobby farm-uh. True Vermonters are more rare than a warm welcome in a Northeast Kingdom ski town. But don't call these independent individuals unfriendly: They're just too busy fighting off McMansions and Wal-Marts to befriend idiot transplants in search of a fictitious Utopia. Life in Vermont has always been about hard work (well, at least from 5 a.m. until breakfast). Vermonters are the Americans to call when cows need to be milked, equal rights defended, wars won and mountains moved. They are the selfless servants who keep their noses to the grindstone in order to accomplish the miracles that others take credit for. They'd rather make a better world than muck around in other people's bullshit, damn ya! Of course, that kind of attitude means they don't spend a lot of time glad-handing, and will stick out at the Democratic Convention like social sore thumbs. Mostly, they'll keep to themselves until provoked, and then they'll talk too loudly and laugh at the wrong parts of a conversation. While their arms flail, their eyes will dart wildly in search of the exits. Remember the "Dean Scream"? Aiyah, 'nuff said! Vermonters will be the delegates who are all dolled up in their dress dungarees, handmade sweaters and rubberized loafers. Males will wear plaid wool hats with the earflaps down and have a tendency to slowly drift toward the dooryard. Females will settle comfortably into any situation, then take out their knitting and get to work on the pieces they need to sell (in craft co-ops from Bennington to Burlington) to pay for the winter's heating oil.
Famous Vermonters: 21st United States president Chester A. Arthur; 30th United States president Calvin Coolidge; original apostles of the Mormon Church Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball; Seventh-Day Adventist Church founder Rachel Oakes Preston; Panama Canal engineer Lindon Wallace Bates; Spanish-American War hero Admiral George Dewey; tractor-happy John Deere; dental laughing-gas pioneer Gardner Quincy Colton; rodeo jeans inventor Harry David Lee; Alcoholics Anonymous founders Bob Smith and Bill W.; land-mine-banning Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams; master painter William Morris Hunt; pioneer snowflake photographer Wilson Bentley; "American Elf" cartoonist James Kolchaka; indie-art sensation Miranda July; entertainer Rudy Vallee; Weather Channel beefcake Jim Cantore; singer-songwriter JoJo (full name: Joanna Noelle Blagden Levesque); skiers Andrea Mead-Lawrence, Suzy "Chapstick" Chaffee and the Cochran family; snowboarder Ross Powers.
Famous Vermont Democrats: 77th governor Madeleine M. Kunin; 79th governor and current Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean; senior United States senator Patrick Leahy; United States representative Peter Welch; state House Speaker Gaye Symington; Senate Majority Leader John F. Campbell; Assistant Majority Leader Claire Ayer.
Famous Vermonters With Denver Connections: Colorado silver king Horace W. Tabor; gangland bunko-artist organizer Lou "The Fixer" Blonger; eighth lieutenant governor David H. Nichols; bon vivant and city builder Barbara Mcfarlane; renaissance man Gregory Ego; University of Denver skiing coach David Stewart.
State Nickname: The Green Mountain State (official); Gateway to Montreal, Little Canada, Brrrmont, Vermonster Island (unofficial) Population: 623,908 Racial Distribution: 97% white, 1% black, 1% Asian, 1% Hispanic Per Capita Personal Income: $30,740 Unemployment: 5.6%
Most Vermonter Denver Neighborhood: Country Club
Most Vermonter Bar: Decatur Cafe 800 Decatur Street
In honor of the first state to offer civil-union status to same-sex couples, Vermonters will be warmly welcomed by this bar full of like-minded Denver women with interests in hardware stores, wood chopping, pickups and pocket knives.
Most Vermonter Restaurant: Watercourse Foods 837 East 17th Avenue
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Perfect comfort vegetarian cuisine for the vehement Vermonter accustomed to eating at the Brattleboro Food Co-op: A Denver restaurant that "believes it is minimizing its environmental footprint by only serving water upon request."
Best Day Trip: Leadville
Most "state pride" across America is manufactured by the marketing departments of professional sports franchises. In Vermont, it comes from the personal ability to survive in the state's unique natural environment. Green Mountain pride gets in the blood and makes it hard for natives to move away. Thankfully, some do, because they transfer their glory onto their new home. Colorado has benefited greatly from each of its Vermont transplants, ever since Horace Tabor entered the upper reaches of the Arkansas River Valley in 1860. The Leadville district is one of the most highly mineralized areas in the world and has produced gold, silver, zinc, manganese, molybdenum and lead. Here in "Cloud City," the Northeast Kingdom stonecutter's life reached the lofty heights of Colorado legend. From grubstaker to owner of the Matchless Mine, Tabor took his fortune and embarked on a bizarre public career that began as a builder of elegant office buildings, hotels and opera houses in Leadville and Denver and ended with a scandalous wedding to divorcée "Baby Doe" McCourt at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a patronage job at the Denver post office. Tabor's fall was as meteoric as his rise. His last words to his wife were "Hang on to the Matchless" -- where she lived penniless and insane for another 36 years. In March 1935, her frozen body was found in a cabin near the mine; she had run out of wood for her stove. The full story has more twists than an opera and has inspired the writing of two. Tabor's final act still plays out daily in Leadville. To reach the town from Denver, drive 66 miles west on I-70, then take exit 195 and drive 24 miles south on Colorado Highway 91. Cloud City lies just below timberline, at almost two miles above sea level. Ore dumps from famous mines tumble down the disemboweled mountains that ring the town. Among the Victorian homes, Tabor's Grand Opera House, hotel, home and the Matchless Mine stand as the proudest symbols of Colorado's history — which could only have been written by a man from Vermont. -- Kenny Be


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HOUSTON– The State Bar of Texas has honored Haynes and Boone LLP partner Lynne Liberato with the Gene Cavin Award, awarded to those who strive for excellence in continuing legal education.
Ms. Liberato, an appellate attorney in Haynes and Boone's Houston office, has delivered 89 presentations and served as course director for six programs since the Texas Bar began keeping records on such activities in 1998. According to the State Bar, she has consistently been evaluated at the highest possible rating for her presentations by her peers attending the programs.
Ms. Liberato received the award at June's annual bar meeting in Austin.
The Gene Cavin Award annually honors attorneys deeply involved in the continuing legal education of lawyers around the state. The award is named for Austin attorney Gene Cavin, recognized by the Texas Bar as the "father of the modern CLE." Cavin, who established the premier CLE organization while serving with the Texas Bar in the late 1960s and early 1970s, passed away in 1989.
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Kent State Examines Benefits of Group Activity Programs
It's common knowledge that an active lifestyle is a good idea, but is there proof?
Researchers at Kent State University (KSU) of Ohio started digging into the same question, formulating their findings into a study titled, "The Physiological and Psychological Effects of a Faculty / Staff Exercise Program in a University Setting." Their challenge began with the statistic that only 32 percent of adults regularly participate in physical activity.
Can a successful wellness program help change this?
In their hypothesis, KSU researchers stated that a group activity program for its faculty and staff would:
- Increase activity and reduce health risk factors
- Increase participants' perceived quality of life
In designing their action plan, researchers leaned on data from the scientific community:
- Sedentary lifestyle is responsible for 1/3 of deaths by cardiovascular disease, dermatomyositis and cancer**
- A similar physical activity study to KSU's reported a reduction in medical costs of $1,022.96 per participant***
- Participation in a workplace physical activity program increased average steps per day and decreased body mass index (BMI)+
- Physical activity programs are shown to have a positive influence on depression, anxiety, stress response, mood state, self-esteem and premenstrual syndrome++
Putting the activity program into action, KSU's researchers signed up 54 faculty and staff members committed to engaging in exercise three days a week for 12 weeks, using the Movband device to track their progress.
Following the 12 weeks of research and physical activity, participants were tested against baseline numbers they registered prior to starting the study including: fitness assessments, body composition, aerobic capacity, psychological data, cholesterol levels and more.
In every variable, participants in the program either improved or stayed the same after introducing regular physical activity into their daily lives – giving researchers enough data to conclude that not only did the 12-week program help improve important psychological and physiological variables, but it also helped reduce health risk factors and, in the long-term, would "prove to be cost-effective by reducing health care costs."
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* Information, unless otherwise noted as coming from another study, is via "The Physiological and Psychological Effects of a Faculty/Staff Exercise Program in a University Setting," a research study by: E. Glickman, M. Rebold, M. Kobak, D. Corbett, K. Peroutky, J. Gunstad and C. Fennell.
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Commentary: A pollster's view of Obama's health care reform missteps
In mid-August only seven months into his administration, the once invincible Barack Obama finds himself on the defensive — sliding rapidly in the polls and facing waning support for health care reform.
This was not supposed to be.
Prevailing wisdom held that the stars were finally aligned for meaningful health care reform at the national level: a majority of Americans supported reform, President Obama had the credibility to push an aggressive agenda, and the mistakes of the Clinton health care debacle were clearly learned and assimilated.
The Obama Administration had gone to great lengths to avoid what it viewed as the fatal flaws of the Clinton reform efforts. They kicked off the reform process by engaging all the key stakeholders in the health care debate: insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, and professional medical associations. After outlining the broad parameters of a solution, they then booted the specifics over to Congress. This time it would be a bottom-up rather than a top-down process. With the political obstacles addressed, and public sentiment firmly behind the Administration, the path to comprehensive health care reform was open, or so they thought.
Recent polling numbers, however, tell an uncannily-similar tale to the Clinton experience of 1993-1994.
Before the Clinton health care debate, strong majorities of Americans favored health care reform, roughly the same percent as supported reform in early 2009. But just as in 1994, support for reform is now fading (in some polls it is now less than 50%) in the face of an intense, emotionally-charged debate.
What might explain these similarities?
In our view, Obama's problems stem from his misreading of Clinton's failed reform efforts in '94. Our contention is that the flaw of the Clinton plan was not solely political in nature but a fundamental misreading of public opinion. That is, the central challenge of health care reform has never been exclusively about the political process — smart political horse trading. Instead, the central question has always been about how to effectively communicate the specific, tangible benefits of reform to the American public.
Indeed, health care reform — whether now or in 1994 — should never have been framed in abstract terms — "public option, the right thing to do," or "universal coverage." Instead, it should have been sold from the beginning by explaining its constituent parts, perhaps in piecemeal, showing clear benefits to people, and staying away from vague concepts that could be easily re-framed.
In pollster speak, health care reform proponents have incorrectly identified the "ballot question" — it is not general support for health care reform, but support for specific items that bring tangible benefits to people.
Recent Ipsos polling data makes our point well (see below). The abstract concept of the "public option," for instance, finds only a slight majority of support (52%). Specific items, in contrast, find stronger majority support (62% to 91%). See some examples of this below.
Overall Support for Public Option:
It is necessary to create a public health insurance plan to make sure that all Americans have access to quality healthcare 52%
Access to quality healthcare for all Americans can be achieved without having to create a public health insurance plan 44%
(Volunteered: Don't know/Not sure) 4%
One of the points being debated is whether or not the government should create a public health insurance plan as an alternative to private insurance plans. Which of the following is closest to your opinion?
Support for Healthcare Reform Specifics: Total support Total oppose
Offering tax breaks or incentives to small businesses so they can provide health insurance to their employees and their families 91% 8%
Allowing the government to negotiate for discounts on drugs 71% 25%
Requiring that all employers offer health insurance to their employees and their families 70% 28%
Requiring that all Americans are enrolled in a health insurance plan – whether through their employer or through a public insurance plan 69% 26%
Limiting the amount of damage payments that patients can be awarded in malpractice law suits against healthcare providers 62% 31%
Please tell me how much would you support or oppose the following measures in order to allow all Americans to have access to quality healthcare? Do you…?
Source: McClatchy-Ipsos Poll
Why do specifics work better than abstract packaging? In our view, there are a number of reasons.
First, abstract concepts like "health care reform" or "universal coverage" can mean different things to different people, and hence, can be easily re-framed by opponents. In our experience, all-encompassing omnibus reform bills of great complexity usually fall flat on their face as the most vulnerable measure comes to define the general initiative.
In this case, the weakest link in the Obama plan is the "public option" provision. This element finds only weaker support in public opinion and makes an easy "anti-big government" target for opponents of reform. While Obama and his administration already seem to be downplaying this item, the damage might have already been done.
Second, abstract packaging of any government initiative in the U.S. can be easily re-framed in the pejorative as a "big government" solution. International polls show consistently that Americans are a small government, low-tax people when compared to other countries. Anti-big government rhetoric, in other words, is very sticky in the U.S.: "big government takeover," "bureaucrats rationing Granny's healthcare," "limiting choice," and "death panels" — all raise the specter of the "big government" bogey man.
Third, the evidence from polling on reforms in other countries shows that citizens typically prefer gradual rather than rapid reform — human beings are conservative by nature. This is especially the case for essential services such as education, social security, and health care. A vague, cumbersome health care pitch only reinforces the notion of "radical change." Being specific suggests "gradualism" to people — something easily digestible and ultimately doable.
Lastly, in our experience, most new administrations — whether they are in the U.S. or in other countries — make the fundamental mistake of confusing the requirements of successful electoral campaigning with that of effectively pushing a specific policy agenda. The first is about selling hope (or fear), while the second is about selling multiple benefits, often to disparate constituency groups. Successful electoral campaigns are general in nature, whereas successful policy solutions address the specific — one is selling heaven, the other is about good horse trading.
So what can be done?
To proponents of health care reform, we say: sell the specific benefits of the package and show how they will impact people's day-to-day lives in practical ways — the "what's in it for me" pitch. The Administration's communication strategy needs to focus on those specific, tangible benefits of reform that resonate with the electorate. Obama's failure to engage the general public with this level of the detail is largely responsible for the Administration's loss of momentum.
We see, though, some signs of a new tact in both Obama's outreach as well as proponent advertising. To date, however, many proponents are still casting the reform in moralistic language. This strategy alone, in our opinion, will fail as "Big Government" versus "Doing the Right Thing" is an unfair fight given the American experience. In contrast, "Little Johnny should not be denied health care just because he has a preexisting condition" versus "Big government" is a winner. Once again, be specific and make it real.
Finally, as mentioned, a general omnibus solution will always be defined by its weakest link — so drop "the public option" and be specific with the rest. Obama seems to be doing this now. For the sake of proponents, hopefully the inclusion of the "public option" has not permanently defined the entire initiative as "big government." Nothing is wrong with gradualism. Better something, than nothing.
To opponents, the key to your success is keeping the debate at the abstract "Big Government Is Bad" level. But beware the devil is the details.
Clifford Young and Mark Burles are pollsters with Ipsos Public Affairs
Ipsos Public Affairs conducts national and international public opinionpolling on behalf of The McClatchy Company, the third-largest newspapercompany in the United States, a leading newspaper and internet publisherdedicated to the values of quality journalism, free expression andcommunity service.
Building on a 151-year legacy of independence, McClatchy's newspapersand Web sites are steadfast defenders of First Amendment values andadvocates for the communities they serve.
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The Portuguese Saudade: a culinary journey
The Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies presented on 10 May an unprecedented culinary journey as part of its 25th anniversary. Students of the MA in Innovation in Culinary Arts, along with a multidisciplinary team prepared an odyssey of flavors with roots in the traditional Portuguese cuisine. This journey, named the Portuguese Saudade, reflects an experience that involved several areas of knowledge with the same goal: to provide guests a unique journey where the Portuguese cuisine would be reinterpreted, a crossroads of knowledge and flavors, maintaining its identity.
Through the flavors that delighted the palate, as a poem delights the ear, a thoughtful and challenging harmony, the Portuguese Saudade intended to be an odyssey of flavors, textures, colors and aromas. The journey was presented to a group of 12 guests, recognized for their professional merit, the respect they have for the Portuguese cuisine. Thus, they represent key areas to experience: from the academia to the hospitality and industry, through the gastronomic criticism, design and the Arts.
Innovation was focused on traditional flavors' reinterpretations that feed the memory of the Portuguese people and in ten different times a past with unique flavors was invoked in a challenge that had created expectations and wanted to surprise with the food and techniques used. The sustainability of the project was never forgotten, as well as the importance of pulses as food celebrated by the UN in 2016, which intended to raise awareness.
The designing of the menu, the narrative, the musical composition and the space in a harmonious moment was meant to prize Portuguese roots and products, starting this journey ashore with melon or serrano ham. Moving to high sea, with pork and clams came the reference to the Discovery period and with more or less known flavors the transition from sea to land was made with green beans and cuttlefish tempura and vegetables of the sea. A reference to how the Portuguese immersed in other cultures and flavors around the world, the guests returned to the high seas accompanied by cod, the Portuguese longtime faithful friend. After a long journey, with the discovery of new worlds, flavors, colors and textures, guests were taken to the woods in a hunting adventure with a piece of game, vegetables and edible earth. To end the meal, the Portuguese traditional wisdom of mothers and grandmothers and the secrets of convents got together, through an invitation to visit the Mountains (Serra da Estrela) in the north with curd icecream and the Algarve, in the south, with orange honey, followed by a revival of centuries-old recipes, such as rice pudding or Abade de Priscos pudding. It concluded with the presentation of petit fours that forecasted other innovative creations – the annual projects of students of MIAC were presented in original ceramics designed by students of the Product Design of the School of Architecture, as the other described moments.
With national successful sponsors, recognized by combining tradition and innovation, the creation of feelings, memories and ideas led the guests to travel back in time; time recreated in a harmony of space between the culinary arts, literature, music, visual arts and design. Guests felt nurtured by a narrative of flavors and shapes, inspired by a various dialogues at one table, where seduction games were created through a specially imaginative storyteller…"


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Hosting platform
ABES offers an optional hosting service for digital theses as a supplementary feature with the STAR application.
This service can be used instead of setting up a local dissemination server or sending theses to a national platform like TEL (Thèses-En-Ligne, Online Theses) or as a complementary means of distribution that works alongside these dissemination circuits.
How does it work?
This is a storage platform which provides access to full text versions of digital theses if the authors and other rights holders have approved their internet dissemination. There is not a specific consultation interface; instead documents can be consulted via the theses.fr portal, the Sudoc catalogue and local library catalogues.
The access URLs are constructed in the following format:
http://www.theses.fr/Numéro National de Thèse/abes
Example: http://www.theses.fr/2008TOUR3301/abes
When a thesis entry is validated, the access URL is automatically added to the corresponding metadata. This URL is sent to both Sudoc and the OAI-PMH repository (if internet dissemination has been authorised: DISCOVER/Représentation=true)
How to ...
- request the removal of a thesis: users can request that ABES take a thesis off the platform but the URL access address in the Sudoc record also needs to be deleted by the institution which made the request.
- refuse to allow a thesis to be disseminated: in this case the thesis will not be made available on the ABES platform and will not be assigned a URL. In this case, the awarding institution will be responsible for providing access to its theses by intranet, consultation on a PC, CD-ROM and so forth.
- disseminate a thesis split up into several parts or with annexes or in available in several different formats: the URL leads to an HTML page which gives access to all the documents. Example : http://www.theses.fr/2009ECAP0009/abes
If you require any further information please contact the ABESstp help desk.


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For quality of life, U.S. often dead last
The title of this "rave" is the title of an op/ed piece by Edward Renner that appeared in the St. Pete Times on 30 November 2011. Again, I agree with much of what is in this piece. Most Americans do not travel throughout the world and would not know the facts that he gives. Most Americans live in a "bubble" in which they think that everything is the best and everything is exceptional (see my last rave) in the US. Nothing is farther from the truth. To show you this, Renner begins with the following "true" and "false" quiz. Why not take it yourself?
Answer "true" or "false" for each of the following:
The United States is among the top half of the other rich, developed, market democracies of the world — such as France, Germany, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Denmark, etc.
1. With the lowest incidence of mental illness.
2. With the lowest incidence of drug use.
3. With the lowest infant mortality rate.
4. With the lowest rates of obesity.
5. With the lowest rates of teenage pregnancies.
6. With the lowest rates of homicide.
7. With the lowest rates of people in prison.
8. With the highest level of social mobility (the opportunity for children to do better economically than their parents).
9. With the highest rate of national income spent on foreign aid.
10. With the highest UNICEF Index on the well-being of children.
11. With the highest level of life expectancy.
12. With the highest levels of math and literacy scores of 15-year-olds.
Lets see how you did on the quiz. Renner states the following: "Not only is the correct answer to each of the questions "false," but on the first eight questions the United States is dead last. On the combined index of the number of social and health problems, the United States is last. The common factor accounting for the quality of life in these countries is the disparity of wealth and income within the nation."
Renner points out that "of all the nations, the United States has by far the largest degree of income inequality between the rich and the poor (the Gini coefficient)," and this is the heart of the poor quality of life for the bulk of Americans. He then concludes that "countries with higher levels of health and happiness, and fewer social problems, have:
1. A steeper progressive tax system.
2. A higher maximum marginal tax rate.
3. Government-sponsored universal health care.
4. A government-sponsored social safety net.
5. Government regulation that balances the competing forces of corporate power with the general welfare.
6. A willingness to limit standing military capacity, and the use of armed force only as an intervention of last, rather than first, resort."
Knowing this, is it possible that our dysfunctional government will address the problems to bring the US people up to the standards of the people who live in the countries with higher health and happiness and fewer social problems? The answer is emphatically, "NO!" Americans would like to think of what they were a half century ago and not do anything to create a smaller gap between the rich and poor. They would rather come into your home and tell you: who you should marry, what you can smoke or not smoke, if you can terminate a pregnancy caused by incest, that the earth is 6 thousand years old, and the evolution of living things is a myth.


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Panama Papers: Pakistan SC sets up JIT to probe Nawaz Sharif
The high-level six-member team will investigate corruption charges levelled against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his sons and is bound to complete the probe in 60 days.world Updated: May 05, 2017 21:02 IST
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday set up a high-level six-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe corruption charges levelled against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his sons in the Panama Papers case.
A three-member panel of judges reviewed the names submitted by various departments that had been ordered to do so by the apex court's April 20 verdict in the case.
The JIT is bound to complete the probe in 60 days unless it is granted additional time.
The court appointed the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) additional director Wajid Zia as the head of the JIT.
Other members in the JIT were Brigadier Kamran Khurshid from Military Intelligence, Amer Aziz from the State Bank of Pakistan, Bilal Rasool, an executive director at the Securities Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Irfan Naeem Mangi, a director at the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), and Brigadier Muhammad Nauman Saeed from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The Secretariat of the JIT will be housed in the building of the Federal Judicial Academy here and the court also ordered the federal government to provide all necessary funds for the JIT to carry out the investigation, including an initial amount of Rs 20 million.
"The JIT would also be at liberty to utilise the expertise available in their departments and any other department of the federal or provincial governments as and when required by it," according to the court order.
The JIT is empowered to engage and associate with local and foreign experts to facilitate the investigation and for the collection of evidence.
"All the Executive Authorities throughout Pakistan shall act in aid of the JIT," the court said in its orders.
"If and when any person fails or refuses to associate with or appear before the JIT or refuses to cooperate or provide oral or documentary information required by it, the same be immediately brought to the notice of the court for taking appropriate action," the order stated.
The JIT will submit fortnightly progress reports to the court.
After issuing the order to set up the JIT, the court adjourned the proceedings in the case and the next hearing will be held on May 22.
Sharif, 67, was granted a temporary breather last month from the Supreme Court which said there was "insufficient evidence" to remove him from office but ordered the setting up of a JIT to probe the graft allegations against his family.
The high-profile graft case is about alleged money laundering by Sharif in the 1990s when he twice served as the prime minister to purchase assets in London.
Information about the assets surfaced when the Panama Papers leak last year showed that they were managed through offshore companies owned by Sharif's children.
Sharif has denied any wrongdoing since the scandal first surfaced.
First Published: May 05, 2017 20:55 IST


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