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Editorial: Sir Nicholas Winterton was once a great individualist but that was long before his unwise words on first class train travel
The by-election to find a replacement for the late Gwyneth Dunwoody will be held next month, it was announced today
Obituary: Veteran Labour MP who was a strident critic of misgovernment
Labour may struggle to hold Crewe and Nantwich in byelection that will follow death of Gwyneth Dunwoody
A look back at the career of veteran Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody, who has died at the age of 77
Labour MP who criticised misgovernment and mismanagement and became champion of public interest
A formidable and well-respected Commons figure who championed backbench rights
A parliamentary committee today demanded a major overhaul of Britain's parking fines, with the committee's chairwoman, Gwyneth Dunwoody, describing the system as "a mess".
The veteran Labour backbencher, Gwyneth Dunwoody, has won her fight to retain the chairmanship of the Commons transport select committee despite government efforts to remove her.
Those who even now oppose reform of the jury system, like Gwyneth Dunwoody MP (Rebels keep up fight on jury trials, May 20), argue that it is "an ancient right".
Donald Anderson, the Labour chairman of the foreign affairs select committee (a man Tony Blair attempted to have removed after the 2001 general election along with Gwyneth Dunwoody on transport) rises to support the prime minister.
Gwyneth Dunwoody, the Labour chairwoman of the transport and environment select committee, yesterday claimed the government was 'supernaturally frightened' of criticism and intent on mounting a coup to remove critical Labour voices from her committee.
Gwyneth Dunwoody is old Labour, of a brand that New Labour has never really understood. At 71, she carries the scars of a thousand battles on her face.
'I have no problem being called a battleaxe. They're very well made, very sharp and largely very efficient at what they do.'
Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody
November 22: Gwyneth Dunwoody, chairwoman of the transport select committee and a noted thorn in the side of the government, spoke exclusively to Guardian Unlimited Politics.
Her sacking from a government committee caused a backbench revolt last week. But why is Labour so scared of the outspoken Gwyneth Dunwoody, its longest-serving woman MP?
Those Labour rebels in full:
It is a bizarre sign of the times that Gwyneth Dunwoody, a former parliamentary representative of the British Fur Trade Association, has become a pin-up for Labour backbenchers.
Gwyneth Dunwoody, the Labour MP whose sacking as chair of the transport select committee has caused outrage at Westminster, today used a conference on the future of parliament to denounce the government for holding parliament in "contempt".
Labour MP Michael Martin looks set to succeed Betty Boothroyd as Speaker of the House of Commons after his main rival, Sir George Young, was rejected by 317 to 241 votes.
Your article on the transport select committee's report criticising the government's proposed public-private partnership for National Air Traffic Services (Air control sell-off 'worst option', February 18) states that Gwyneth Dunwoody and her colleagues on the committee were angry at the Civil Aviation Authority's intervention, on the grounds that the CAA is an economic and safety regulator, and it was not appropriate to give the impression that it backed the government's plan.
As international secretary to the Labour party for 13 years, Jenny Little, who has died suddenly aged 52, battled on behalf of imprisoned socialists and trade unionists from South America to Africa and beyond. Her work resulted in the release of several political prisoners. She volunteered to monitor various politically sensitive show trials in Africa, often at some personal risk, and built up a wide circle of friends among European socialists.


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Very first post on here! Thought I'd share some info for people out there that like to save money!! So basically if you need to replace your ignition cylinder but your key will not turn for any reason or your keys are gone for good. This would be your very last resort!
Either pay a locksmith or rip the sucker out orrrrr order a replacement key. Well I located the little tab that locks into place in the steering colum. I used the little hole where the paper clip goes if you had the key as a reference point. I measured how far the tab would be in the column on the replacement cylinder and took that to the car.
With panels off and column bare I realized that there were 3 fins on the column same side of cylinde that we want to try to access. With a drill and a small drillbit I was able to drill through the aluminum fins fairly easy and with a flat head and hammer remove remaining pieces.
With that out of the way I used my measurement off the new cylinder and reference point to figure where I want to start cutting because there was no way to fit a drill I ended up using a sawzall blade by hand cutting in a straight line. The key to this was to cut behind the tab so new cylinder would slide in an still lock into place
After sawing through I was able to slip in my flat head with the assistance of a small hammer. This took a little bit but then with the ews antenna off the cylinder and out of the way so it didn't get damaged I was able to slip a screwdriver between the cylinder and housing. Bam!!! It was out! If done correctly the replacement should slip right back in.
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Garage Clean out, XJ parts, toyota, motorcycle
I've got a bunch of extra random parts lying around and I'd like to offer them to everyone in the forums before I offer them to the dumpster gods.
97+ XJ parts:
I've got the stock non-adjustable front track bar w/frame end and bushing- make offer
I have 2 sets of stock lower control arms- free
1 set of stock upper control arms-free
2 stock pitman arms- $25 obo
2 factory red rear bumper end caps(both ends)- Free!
1 front pass. factory red plastic end cap- free
1 pair of 3" add-a-leafs-- $20
1 pair each of the 3 shortest leafs off a 99 XJ- Free!
1 factory red vent cowl with sprayer connection tubes, fits 98+ XJ's-$10 obo
Non-XJ parts:
1 adjustable elastic truck bed web with hooks-Free!
2 Coleman battery powered lanterns, very bright- $5 each
A 40,000 BTU LP gas heater with hose and 20lb. tank- $85
SRS brand 10 disk CD changer with control and all wires to hook up, works very well- $40
Some random Toyota 22RE engine parts, all in good shape. Tell me what you're looking for and I'll see if I have it and get pics for you.
I also have a Windshield, stock pipes, backrest, saddlebags w/brackets, 2 half helmets, and other riding gear for a 2002 Honda VTX 1800. Make offers
Also, a full-face helmet, windshield, jacket, other riding gear and saddlebags for a 2002 Suzuki SV650. Make offers
All parts listed are located in Lake Orion.
I am open to trades for tools, parts or equivalent amounts of Mountain Dew( Code Red of course!). I will post pics upon request. Pick up only please. Post here, PM me, or call me at 248-563-5158 anytime. Thanks!
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Jamesss, the end caps are the bright red, not the chili pepper color, sorry.
Prerunner, sale is pending on the winch, you are next in line. As for the 22re short block, I gave the block and heads away, but I'll see if the guy used them or not. I'll gladly cut you a killer deal. With the block, heads, and all my other parts, the motor is complete ready for a rebuild. All in pieces of course...
I will be coming from the eastside of MI to Evart, MI next weekend if anyone wants something delivered closer to home. I will stop and meet if it's relatively on my way back and forth.
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Trail-XJ, the full-face helmet is a yellow color scheme, the jacket is a Joe Rocket cordura w/zip out liner ( very comfortable), and the windshield is made by GIVI and is lightly tinted. Here's a zillion pics since I haven't figured out how to link pics yet...
There is the helmet and windshield. That windshield is awesome! I bought it just to take my cross country 2000 mile round trip to PA/New York City and back. It worked great. I still have the bags too if anyone is interested.
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|February 13th, 2007, 02:26 AM
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Dan, I do still have the upper control arms. Where are you located, and do you want them? I will be going from Lake Orion to Chelsea to probably buy a car on Saturday, so I could drop them off or meet you somewhere. I'll also be going to the Fenton area on Sunday night on I-75. If you'll be anywhere near either of those places I can bring them. Otherwise I can ship them. Let me know thanks!
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I live in Bloomfield, but right now im stuck in Lansing until i get control arms. Are you going to be anywhere closer to Lansing the next couple of days? PM me your phone number and maybe we can meet somewhere or ill just borrow a car and come get them. Thanks.
PS. The control arms should fit a 95 Cherokee right? I think they are the same up to 98.
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How to Make Healthy Snacks
Whether it's for adults or kids, there's always an important need to eat healthy snacks. Since the risks for obesity would be high for these two age groups, the necessity for a healthier snack alternative for both old and young naturally follows, http://www.ehow.com/how_5573909_eat-healthy-bed-time-snacks.html. Well, creating healthy snacks must not be a big problem. Below are some tips to make a healthy snack.
Rather than gorging on those beef burgers which have high cholesterol as well as going up further with cheese and bacon, why don't you be creative with your meat choices and have chicken. Well, it's less fatty as well as more nutritious compared to beef. Also, there are tofu burgers which you could use as a substitute for both chicken and meat if you truly want to decrease your intake of bad cholesterol.
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Outrage Over Religious Ad During Broncos-Pats Game
A Colorado-based Christian ministry is bracing for criticism after they aired a religious-themed commercial during Saturday night's Broncos-Patriots game on CBS.
Focus on the Family's 30-second ad featured boys and girls reciting John 3:16. It aired during the second quarter of the football game.
John 3:16 declares: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."
According to the Denver Post, CBS faced outrage for accepting the ad because it contained a religious theme.
The Colorado House Majority Project, an organization dedicated to securing a Democratic majority in the state House of Representatives, published a tweet calling the ad "kidsploitation."
David Barron, who writes a blog for the Houston Chronicle, said he received a call from a friend who said the ad "was one of the most offensive things I've seen."
"When I asked why, he said, 'Time and place. I don't want to see a Cialis ad on the 700 Club, either,'" Barron recounted in his blog.
Focus on the Family's 2010 Super Bowl ad was also the focus of criticism because the spot featured a pro-life message delivered by quarterback Tim Tebow.
Focus President and CEO Jim Daly told the Post that they expect people to be upset over the ad.
"We will hear about shoving religion down people's throats," Schneeberger said. "But if it's OK to shove Doritos down people's throats, and cars and everything else, we have the right to advertise, too."
But he said the central message of the ministry is to share the Gospel of Christ with people.
"There's been a lot of buzz lately about what John 3:16 says, and we wanted to help people understand it without having to run to their computer to look it up," Daly said in a press release. "For Christians, the verse is the essence of the Good News of Jesus Christ, and when you have good news you want to share it with as many people as possible. We hope this helps everyone understand some numbers are more important than the ones on the scoreboard."
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WOODLAND PARK, Colo - Dale Carley is the very unhappy owner of an apartment complex that has more than fifty thousand dollars of damage to it. The day after Veterans Day in the early morning hours, five to six inches of water from an underground city water main flooded his property. He tells me it was a wall of water that was rushing through the bottom floors, "There was no way I could stop it because it was a city water main. It was a six inch wide main that cracked and it could have been cracked for years." Dale tells me that the pipe that burst doesn't even directly provide water to his property.
He says he called his insurance company, "My insurance told me to go fly a kite." Dale then talked with the Water District. A representative of their insurance company told him and his wife that the city is offering five thousand dollars to help compensate him for the damages and claiming governmental immunity. Essentially it means that the city or its employees may not be able to be held liable for the damage. There is more than 50 thousand dollars worth of damage that has been done to Dale's property by an underground city pipe that he never knew existed under his property.
David Buttery is the City Manager of Woodland Park. He called me to talk about the situation with Dale Carley. Here is his official response, "When we found out about the issue we responded quickly and fixed it and stayed to help clean the property. Although governmental immunity applies, as a compassionate city government we wanted to help the Carleys recover and we wanted to provide them with five thousand and five thousand for each of the two residents who were there just because we are a compassionate city government. The amount was suggested prior to us knowing the full amount of damages. We will continue to have discussions with our insurance carrier and if we can we will have discussions with the Carley's insurance carrier. "
Dale Carley also told me the city gave him more than nine hundred dollars to help reimburse him for the cost of the renters having to stay at a nearby hotel. That hotel bill is more than a couple of thousand dollars and growing.


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Grilled Polenta with Mushrooms and Toasted Pumpkin Seeds
This polenta makes a great side dish for grilled meat, but it can also stand alone as a first course. Chef Pablo Massey likes to serve roasted heads of garlic alongside.
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- Servings: 8
- 6 cups chicken stock or canned low-sodium broth
- 1 1/4 cups polenta (6 ounces)
- 1/4 cup crumbled Roquefort cheese (1 1/2 ounces)
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped parsley
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 shallots, sliced
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1/2 pound small white mushrooms, stems trimmed
- 1/2 pound fresh morels or cremini mushrooms, halved if large
- 1/2 pound chanterelle mushrooms, stems trimmed, halved if large
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon sage leaves
- 1/2 cup dry red wine
- 1/2 cup chicken stock or canned low-sodium broth
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
How to make this recipe
Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a medium saucepan, bring the chicken stock to a boil. Gradually whisk in the polenta until smooth. Cook over moderately low heat, stirring often with a wooden spoon, until the polenta pulls away from the side of the pan, about 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and beat in the Roquefort, butter and parsley. Season with salt and pepper. Pour the polenta into the prepared baking dish and smooth the top. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 2 hours or overnight.
In a small skillet, toast the pumpkin seeds over moderate heat until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Transfer the seeds to a plate to cool completely.
Melt the butter in a large enameled cast-iron casserole. Add the shallots and garlic and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened but not browned, about 3 minutes. Add all of the mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Cook over moderately high heat until the mushroom liquid has evaporated and the mushrooms are lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Add the sage and wine and cook until the liquid has reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Add the stock and simmer for 2 minutes, then add the cream and simmer until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes longer. Season with salt and pepper and stir in the parsley. Remove from the heat and keep warm.
Preheat the oven to 350°. Cut the polenta crosswise into 8 strips. Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a large nonstick skillet. Add 4 of the polenta strips and cook over moderate heat until browned on the bottom, about 3 minutes. Using a long spatula, carefully turn the polenta and brown on the other side. Transfer the polenta to a baking sheet and keep warm in the oven while you heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil and brown the remaining strips. Set a polenta strip on each plate and spoon the mushrooms over the top. Sprinkle with the pumpkin seeds and serve.
Make Ahead
The polenta and topping can be prepared through Step 3 and refrigerated for up to 1 day.
Suggested Pairing
The crunchy, nutty flavors of the earthy polenta melt in with the sweet velvety tannins of a Malbec.


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Thu 03.31.2016
Art, Culture, Urban Design & Capital: Shaping Cities for the Future
When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM THURSDAY, MARCH 31
Where: At The Center
What are authentic, achievable strategies for cities? It is predicted that by the end of this century, 75% of the world's population will be living in cities. Art, culture, urban design, and capital have a tremendous collective impact on the making of liveable cities.
This panel discussion will focus on how these diverse perspectives come together to define success for projects of different scales. Some of the questions that will be addressed are:
- What has changed about how people think about culture, art, and public space in cities?
- What does it mean to plan for culture and what are the tools?
- How can urban design play a more definitive role in cultural urban projects?
- What are the responsibilities of public and private leadership?
- How does time affect the success of communities and institutions?
Please join the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee for an evening of wide-ranging discussion. We encourage you to bring questions to the event— we will engage the audience in this discussion.
Kate Collignon, Partner, HR+A Advisors
Sherry Dobbin, Creative Director, Times Square Alliance
Randy Morton, Principal, HKS Urban Design Studio
Steven Wolff, Principal, AMS Planning & Research
Moderator: Ann Marie Baranowski, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Associate, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Organized by: AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee
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"We've Had Enough Of Exhortations To Be Silent! Cry Out With A Hundred Thousand Tongues. I See That The World Is Rotten Because Of Silence." ~ St. Catherine of Siena
'We should guard against jealousy, and even the slightest sentiment thereof. This vice is absolutely opposed to a pure and sincere zeal for the glory of God, and is a certain proof of secret and subtle pride.' St. Vincent de Paul
'Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: "My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more."'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.' St. Ignatius of Loyola
'Your prayer ought to be continual. The place wherein we ought to pray is the spirit of God.'
St. Paul of the Cross
'A seed will not grow without earth and water; and a man will not develop without voluntary suffering and divine help.' St. Mark the Ascetic
'It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.'
St. Ignatius of Loyola
'Sin is a blazing fire. The less fuel you give it, the faster it dies down; the more you feed it, the more it burns.' St. Mark the Ascetic
'I recommend to you not to lose sight of the Passion and death of Jesus, our life.'
St. Paul of the Cross
'Peace is deliverance from the passions, and is not found except through the action of the Holy Spirit.' St. Mark the Ascetic
'As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Prayer, pious reading, the frequentation of the sacraments, and, especially, the shunning of idleness, are the guardians of holy purity.' St. Paul of the Cross
'For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.' Ecclesiastes 8:11
'O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!' St. Peter Julian Eymard
'To be without pity for other men's falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.'
St. Philip Neri
'Let us go to the foot of the Cross, and there complain---if we have the courage.' St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
'If we want to do something but cannot, then before God, who knows our hearts, it is as if we have done it. This is true whether the intended action is good or bad.' St. Mark the Ascetic
'Deeper spiritual knowledge helps the hard-hearted man: for unless he has fear, he refuses to accept the labor of repentance.' St. Mark the Ascetic
'You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.' St. Teresa of Jesus
'We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybody's prayers.' St. Philip Neri
'When we have handled something fragrant, our hands perfume whatever they touch, let our prayers pass through the Blessed Virgin's hands, and she will give them fragrance.'
St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars
'Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.' St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!' St. Philip Neri
'The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.'
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'If any one asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.' St. Ignatius of Loyola
'The beginning of evil is heedlessness.' St. Poemen
'What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.' St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.' St. Philip Neri
'He who seeks praise is involved in passion; he who laments afflictions is attached to sensual pleasure.' St. Mark the Ascetic
'O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!'
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'Idleness is hell's fishhook for catching souls.' St. Ignatius of Loyola
'Until you have eradicated evil, do not obey your heart; for it will seek more of what it already contains within itself.' St. Mark the Ascetic
"Prayer is the lifting of our hearts and minds to God. For no matter what we're saying, we're asking, "Do you love me?"
And no matter how He answers, He's saying, "Yes, I do."
Re: Saint Quotes
'Do not leave unobliterated any fault, however small, for it may lead you on to greater sins.'
St. Mark the Ascetic
'The love of God is a jealous love. One atom of irregular affection for creatures suffices to ruin everything.' St. Paul of the Cross
'To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.' St. Philip Neri
'You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.' St. Augustine
'Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.' St. Robert Southwell
'He who conceals a grave sin in confession, is completely in the devil's hands.' St. Philip Neri
'I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.' St. Louis Marie de Montfort
'If, during life, we have been kind to the suffering souls in purgatory, God will see that help be not denied us after death.' St. Paul of the Cross
'Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it.'
St. Augustine
'Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.'
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.' St. Philip Neri
'Accept afflictions with patience. Silently endure cold and heat, wind and rain, fatigue and all the other discomforts that God may deign to send you.' St. John Bosco
"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow." ~ St. Augustine
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you" ~ The Eternal Father Jeremiah 1:5
"The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying." ~ Paul C. Roud, novelist
"Remember when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received ~ only what you have given: A heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage." ~ St.Francis of Assisi
"Prayer is the lifting of our hearts and minds to God. For no matter what we're saying, we're asking, "Do you love me?" And no matter how He answers, He's saying, "Yes, I do." ~ Mother Angelica "Answers, Not Promises" pgs. 95, 96
"A nation which kills it's own young has no future." ~ Pope John Paul II
'In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.' St. Padre Pio
'He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.' St. Bernard of Clairvaux
'Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.' St. John Bosco
'I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.' St. Albert the Great
'The time has come: you must wake up now.' Romans 13:11
"Have you forgotten what you are." St.Severimus Boethius
"Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they." -St. Augustine.
"Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves." -Mother Angelica.
'What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true love. Those who love thus, love themselves too much to love God with all their heart.' St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a Saint.' St. Ignatius of Loyola
'I am the Lord, I change not.' Malachi 3:6
'Read good and useful books, and abstain from reading those that only gratify curiosity.'
St. Vincent de Paul
'Charity requires us always to have compassion on human infirmity.' St. Catherine of Siena
'Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.'
St. Thomas Aquinas
'No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.' St. Teresa of Jesus
'Et regni eius non erit finis-"His kingdom will have no end." Doesn't it fill you with joy to work for a kingdom like that? ' St. Josemaria Escriva
'Being all members of the same body, with the same head, who is Christ, it is proper that we should have in common the same joys and sorrows.' Ven. Louis de Granada
'We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.'
St. Teresa of Jesus
"Poor child! How imperfect you are! How much you need others to keep a constant guard over thee. Oh, how much patience I must have with thee." St. Gemma Galganni's Guardian Angel
'All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly.'
St. Ignatius of Loyola
'Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.' St. Teresa of Jesus
'The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.' St. Bernard of Clairvaux
'The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
"Prayer is the lifting of our hearts and minds to God. For no matter what we're saying, we're asking, "Do you love me?"
And no matter how He answers, He's saying, "Yes, I do."
Re: Saint Quotes
'In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course.' St. Boniface
"How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for God's glory, while in fact one is seeking one's own glory?" Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska
"The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much." Saint John Chrysostom
"The devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience." Saint Francis de Sales
"At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity." St. John of the Cross
"It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world." St. Aloysius Gonzaga
"If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects." St. Philip Neri
"Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God." St. Vincent Ferrer
'Christ said, "I am the Truth"; he did not say "I am the custom." ' St. Toribio
"Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender." St. Therese of Lisieux
"Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect." Pope St. Clement I
"To love God is something greater than to know Him." St. Thomas Aquinas
"Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home." St. Rose of Viterbo
"It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8 )" St. Albert the Great
"Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?"
St. Gerard Majella
"We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone." St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
"Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him." St. Dominic Savio
"When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings." St. Paul of the Cross
"My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings." St. Isaac Jogues
"The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history." Pope John Paul II
"You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy - the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud."
St. Vincent de Paul
"To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection." St. Francis de Sales
"Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven." St. Ephraem
"You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions." St. John Vianney
"It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man's progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken." St. Francis Xavier
"Love God, serve God: everything is in that." St. Clare of Assisi
"Mary was raised to the dignity of Mother of God rather for sinners than for the just, since Jesus Christ declares that he came to call not the just, but sinners." St. Anselm
"The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings." Blessed Alan de la Roche
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God." St. Sebastian
"God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God." Blessed Robert Southwell
"Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit." St. Lucy
"When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence." St. Anthony of Claret
"The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion." St. Thomas Aquinas
"Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me." St. Clare of Assisi
"He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor." St. Bede the Venerable
"We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials." St. Teresa of Avila
"Prayer is the lifting of our hearts and minds to God. For no matter what we're saying, we're asking, "Do you love me?"
And no matter how He answers, He's saying, "Yes, I do."
Re: Saint Quotes
'Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.' St. Philip Neri
'Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere.' St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'No one has a right to mercy who can not himself show mercy.' Ven. Louis de Granada
'Have recourse trustfully to God's loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him.' St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'Pain and Love are almost synonymous words.' St. Lydwine of Schiedam
'Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.' St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.' St. Benedict
'Our perfection consists in uniting our will so intimately with God's will, that we will only desire what He wills. He who conforms most perfectly to the will of God will be the most perfect Christian.'
St. Vincent de Paul
'God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.' St. Ignatius of Loyola
'Oh, what joy will it give to the blessed in heaven, and what pleasure to your guardian angel, to see you engaged in mental prayer! Never omit this holy exercise.' St. Paul of the Cross
'Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.' St. Louis Marie de Montfort
"You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
"No person has ever been honored for what he received. Honor is our reward when we give."
"Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever."
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
"No one has ever become poor by giving."
'God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.' - St. Ignatius of Loyola
'To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.' - St. Philip Neri
'It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.' - St. Philip Neri
'Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.' - St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'When you have not the means of helping your neighbor, recommend him fervently to God, Whose sovereign dominion holds all creatures in His hand. Counsels gently given heal every wound, but given with asperity only serve to aggravate it tenfold.' - St. Paul of the Cross
'He who does not make his will agree with God is tripped up by his own schemes and falls into the hands of his enemies.' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'The best preparation for the divine banquet is to keep ourselves well purified, and to watch over our tongue, which is the first member that touches the sacred Host.' - St. Paul of the Cross
'Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.' - St. Robert Southwell
'Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.' - St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
'Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.' - St. Jerome
'Prayer is the best weapon we possess, the key that opens the heart of God.' - St. Padre Pio
"Prayer is the lifting of our hearts and minds to God. For no matter what we're saying, we're asking, "Do you love me?"
And no matter how He answers, He's saying, "Yes, I do."
Re: Saint Quotes
'Sometimes I felt very lonely, depressed and ill. I'd often repeat to myself a line of poetry which brought peace and strength back into my soul; it runs, "Time's but a ship that bears thee, not thy home." That image appeals to me and helps me to bear this life of exile.' - St. Therese of Lisieux
'Just as suffering and dishonor usually give birth to virtues, so pleasure and self-esteem usually give birth to vices.' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.' - St. Philip Neri
'Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.' - St. Padre Pio
'Every vice leads in the end to forbidden pleasure; and every virtue to spiritual blessing. Each arouses what is akin to it.' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'Wealth, unless it be devoted to good works, will become to its possessor only a source of endless torment in hell.' - St. Paul of the Cross
'To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.' - St. Ignatius of Loyola
'If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, "surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain" (Ps. 39:6. LXX).' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.' -
St. Bernadette Soubirous
'Happy the soul that is detached from self-satisfaction, from her own will, from her own sentiments!' - St. Paul of the Cross
'He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.' - St. Benedict Joseph Labre
'For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.' - St. Teresa of Jesus
'He will take good care to provide what is necessary for our sanctification, provided we are careful to accept everything according to His designs.' - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'He who neglects action and depends on theoretical knowledge holds a staff of reed instead of a double-edged sword; and when he confronts his enemies in time of war, "it will go into his hand, and pierce it" (2 Kgs. 18:21), injecting its natural poison.' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'When you want to resolve a complex problem, seek God's will in the matter, and you will find a constructive solution.' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'A man wanted to do evil, but first prayed as usual; and finding himself prevented by God, he was then extremely thankful.' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all.' - St. Peter Canisius
'If the salvation of one soul is of such importance that we should endanger our temporal life in order to procure it, how could we abandon so great a number through fear of incurring some expense?' - St. Vincent de Paul
'Admire the goodness of the Creator, who causes the one to suffer in order to free the other.' -
St. Lydwine of Schiedam
'He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.' - St. Philip Neri
'If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.' - St. Poemen
'The person advancing in the spiritual life studies three things: the commandments, doctrine, and faith in the Holy Trinity.' - St. Thalassios the Libyan
'God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: "Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?"' - St. John Chrysostom
'One or two loving words may cause the soul to become enraptured, languishing, fainting of love and sorrow.' - St. Paul of the Cross
'Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.' - St. Ephrem of Syria
'One man received a thought and accepted it without examination. Another received a thought and tested its truth. Which of them acted with greater reverence?' - St. Mark the Ascetic
'It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.' - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
'Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.' - St. Bernadette Soubirous
"Prayer is the lifting of our hearts and minds to God. For no matter what we're saying, we're asking, "Do you love me?"
And no matter how He answers, He's saying, "Yes, I do."
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NJ Election Spending Highest Ever
Independent special interest spending in Tuesday's election in New Jersey is more than twice its previous all-time high.
"This mind-boggling total of nearly $38 million, unprecedented in state history, is more than twice the previous record $14.9 million spent independently on elections in 2009, " said Jeff Brindle, executive director of the New Jersey Election Law and Enforcement Commission.
The state's largest teachers' union has spent the most. The second biggest spender is the Committee for Our Children's Future, which aWNYC investigation found has ties to Governor Christie. The Republican Governor's Association is the fifth largest spender.
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Standing before 650 friends, family members and arts power-brokers at a lavish 1988 Toronto dinner in her honour, Susan Douglas Rubes understatedly attributed her success to "luck and people." Luck, she said, had been a recurring theme in her life. When she founded Toronto's acclaimed Young People's Theatre in 1966, "it was a lucky time to start a theatre," she told the crowd. "And you need luck in life."
An objective view would place little stock in the role of serendipity in her life.
Rubes (pronounced Roo-bish) was a barely five-foot-tall human dynamo once dubbed the Pied Piper of children's theatre in Canada. With her "joyously unrestrained passion" for family fare, as one writer put it, Rubes almost single-handedly and certainly single-mindedly transformed the world of Canadian theatre for young audiences. She took a former Toronto Transit Commission horse stable and built it into a $3.3-million institution – the first professional theatre in North America dedicated to performance for young people.
She was the wife of singer and actor Jan Rubes but never lived in his shadow. Journalists couldn't lay off describing her as "cheerful," "a whirlwind," "petite" and "pert." Another oft-used adjective was "relentless."
Rubes, who died in Toronto on Jan. 23 at the age of 87, put the Young People's Theatre (YPT) on the map through sheer force of will. She pleaded, bullied, cajoled, yelled and even cried for funds. ("Certainly I've been known to cry," she said, unrepentant. "There are good things to being a woman and I've decided that I will trade on them.") To serve on the theatre's board was to give blood, went one quip. A friend once mused that if Rubes was ever seated next to a Ford executive at a dinner party, the first thing she would do is ask him for a bus.
"When she was building YPT, whether she was fundraising or dealing with the city or working with designers, she just wouldn't take no for an answer," said her son Jonathan. "She wouldn't leave until she got her way, one way or another."
Together, Rubes and the YPT hired, mentored and shaped dozens of Canadian performers, directors and playwrights, and showed kids and teens there was more to entertainment than movies and TV. Her challenge, as a 1975 article stated, was to convince Toronto audiences that children's theatre was respectable. "They all thought that kids' theatre was what you did if you were unable to do anything else," Rubes said. "They were timid."
Which actors are not, by nature. As a performer herself, she hobnobbed with the cream of Hollywood during its golden age, and perhaps gained her greatest fame as Kathy on the soap opera Guiding Light, a role that generated fan mail well into her 80s.
She rarely spoke of her early life, even to her sons, who suspect it may have been a source of some pain. Born Zuzka Zenta Bursteinova in Vienna in 1925, she was raised in central Czechoslovakia, the only child of affluent Jewish parents. Her grandfather owned a nearby rural estate, where Zuzka learned to ride horses sidesaddle. The family would take frequent trips to the culture-rich city of Brno and back to Vienna, where her other grandfather managed the famous Burgtheater.
"Zuzka spent many hours watching rehearsals and plays, kindling her lifelong love for theatre," noted a 1988 profile in The Globe and Mail's Toronto Magazine.
The fairy-tale life ended with Adolf Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Zuzka's father, Alfred, joined a Czech army unit fighting with the Allies and later made it to London. She and her mother, Charlotte, with one suitcase apiece and little money, fled to Paris and, in 1940, to New York on the last trip the liner Ile de France made before the fall of France. "Sometime later," the magazine article bluntly noted, "all four of Zuzka's Jewish grandparents, who refused to leave their crumbling world, were gassed." It was an abrupt end to an idyllic childhood.
Susi Bernstein, as she was now known, spoke no English but was determined to learn it by seeing several movies a week. She graduated from George Washington High School, and depending on which bit of lore one believes, took the name "Douglas" either from the family for whom she babysat or picked it randomly from the telephone book. Susi's mother obtained a divorce, remarried and moved to Pennsylvania, leaving her daughter, now 18, alone in the big city.
Having studied ballet in Prague, she yearned to be a dancer but choreographer George Balanchine said she was too short. Noting her flair for the dramatic, he suggested acting instead. While working as a clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue part-time, she trudged to 109 auditions (she counted) before landing a small role on the School of the Air radio show. In a matter of months, she was working on 27 different radio soaps, plays and series alongside the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Laughton and Rex Harrison. Radio would remain her first love.
Her big break came in 1946 when she appeared in the Broadway revival of He Who Gets Slapped. Rubes played the circus dancer and daredevil bareback rider Consuela, a role that won her the first Donaldson Award for best debut on Broadway and kudos from The New York Times, which called her performance "graceful and light."
She was living in a tiny apartment on East 53rd Street when one day a young fellow actor with smouldering looks knocked on her door. "I need sheets," announced Marlon Brando. She gave him the linens along with a stern request to keep the bongo playing down. They went on a single date.
A few months later, Rubes graced the cover of Life Magazine as one of Broadway's rising stars. But Hollywood beckoned, and her movie debut was 1947's The Private Affairs of Bel Ami with George Sanders. After that came Boundaries with Mel Ferrer, in which she played a black teenager, and the sci-fi flick Five, in which the director ordered her to run with a real six-week-old baby. "Could I meet the mother that's stupid enough to allow an actress to run with a month-and-a-half old baby?" Rubes wondered. The request was denied.
She met lanky fellow Czech refugee Jan Rubes while filming Forbidden Journey in Montreal. They did 27 takes of a single kiss, and fell in love. The couple wed in 1950 and settled in New York, where Susan worked on such live TV shows as Studio One and Kraft Theater.
For a decade, she played the role of Kathy Roberts in Guiding Light, first on radio, and starting in 1952 on live television. But Rubes kept having children – three in four years. Producers hid the first two pregnancies with strategically positioned furniture and by seating her in a wheelchair. But when she was expecting her third, they killed off her character, resulting in thousands of letters and calls deluging the network. "Kathy got hit by a bus," her son recalled with a chuckle.
In 1959, the clan decamped to Toronto, where Jan had earlier worked for the Canadian Opera Company. Alone in a new city with three young children, Susan cried for the first two years but was determined to get back into gear once her kids began school.
That's when she saw the paucity of arts programs for them. Also impelling her, as she told actor R.H. Thomson in a series of video interviews done for the Theatre Museum of Canada, were the "abominable" performances for children she had seen at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. So she started the Museum Children's Theatre in her suburban Toronto kitchen. Backed by some local businessmen, her first production, Alice in Wonderland, opened at the Royal Ontario Museum in January, 1963. Her first show for YPT was The Looking Glass Revue in 1966 at the Colonnade Theatre, aimed at kids age three to seven.
For 11 years after its founding, the YPT bounced from one venue to another (it was one of the very first companies to stage plays in schools). In the mid-1970s, Rubes found an unused brick building on Toronto's Front Street, a former TTC stable turned streetcar repair shop. The place was a dump, with water flooding the floor and a rotting foundation. The city agreed to its use as a theatre, charging annual rent of $40,000, and the place needed $2-million in work. She got it all, squeezing $500,000 from the federal government and $1.1-million from the province, even persuading architect Eb Zeidler to design the place.
Already by 1975, her success in children's theatre was recognized with her induction into the Order of Canada.
The theatre's maiden production in its new home was on Dec. 22, 1977, an adaptation of the Prague theatre Laterna Magika's The Lost Fairy Tale. After that, Rubes seemed determined to show that she took young audiences seriously, with such offerings as John Hirsch's Twelfth Night, The Miracle Worker and The Diary of Anne Frank, starring her old friends Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.
"We all loved working with her," said Eli's daughter Roberta Wallach, who played the title role. Rubes "had boundless energy … sparkling eyes and a radiant smile. She and Jan had the kind of love that I see in my parents' marriage as well."
YPT was more than just a stage. It grew into a centre, with a year-round drama school for youth added in 1969, teachers' resources and a community outreach program. Today, said artistic director Allen MacInnis, the theatre stages eight productions a year before 60,000 children and adults. It is still guided by Rubes's motto: "Only the best is good enough for children."
Some of Canada's best-known actors appeared on YPT stages, including Kate Reid, Eric Peterson, Brent Carver, Gordon Pinsent and Martin Short. Albert Schultz, founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company, played Daniel Richler in a 1984 YPT production of Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. "It was there that I first met Susan and experienced, as a very young actor, her generosity and warmth," he recalled. "[She] was a pioneer and those of us lucky enough to make our living in the Toronto theatre community owe all we have to a handful of brave souls such as she."
Rubes's influence extended to critics. In time, noted Patricia Keeney, a York University expert on children's theatre and literature, theatre for young audiences became a legitimate category for the prestigious Chalmers new play award each year, juried by Toronto's Drama Bench (later the Canadian Critics Association).
Weary of fundraising, Rubes became head of CBC radio drama in 1980, a natural fit given her love of the medium. "I haven't totally adapted yet to the first large corporation I've ever worked for," she confided to The Globe midway through her tenure. "Why, it's all about power. That's new to me."
Still, she boosted drama programming, hired a casting director and script editor, and set up a training program that drew hundreds of applications from writers across the country. But she quit six years later because, as she told Thomson, "they wouldn't give me any more air time and they wouldn't give me any more money." She served as president of the Family Channel when it debuted on Canadian pay TV in 1987, until 1989.
Largely driven by the success of the YPT, today there are some 80 theatre companies in Canada targeting young people.
Rubes's final request was to have no memorial service following her death.
She was predeceased by her son Christopher in 1996. Jan Rubes died in 2009. She leaves her sons Jonathan and Anthony, three grandchildren and two half-brothers.
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I actually just cosplayed Tomoe (long hair version from the past) a week ago. Someone recognized me and asked for a photo which was unexpected. I didn't think anyone would know who I was. After looking at pages of his clothing, I decided to use an under kosode in plain white, another kosode with a pattern, both tucked into a pair of black hakama. Over that I wore a knee length kosode that I draped over my shoulders. I also had a pair of waraji that I wore with tabi. I forgot until the last minute about the claws so I had to do with out.
The biggest problem I had was with the wig. The ears I made for it (clip-in) were fine, but the wig itself was a pain to wear, it tangled so easily. I used a butt length wig from arda, and the hour and a half I spent in that cosplay was too long. It also killed my peripheral vision because I was too afraid to cut in his bangs into the wig so I left it long.
Hopefully that helps Ani_BEE. His past outfit was hard to figure out, since no picture actually showed the whole thing really well. His tail I ended up not using, becuase it looked really...weird under the kosode, and he doesn't seem to have it half the time anyway. Sorry for such a long post
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|"In sooth!"
William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers of all time.
And he liked fart jokes!
The website Shakesyear has taken a look at a number of these. For instance, in Shakespeare's play King Lear, the king gives a speech as his daughter is thrown out into a storm:
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!"
Of course, you could argue that the idea is that the wind is blowing like in the illustration. But still!
One of Shakespeare's most famous fart references is from The Comedy of Errors, when a character named Dromio says:
A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
In other words, it's better to have someone break their word to you than fart.
(To read more, click "Read more"!)
CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments? [Instruments you blow into to make music.]
FIRST MUSICIAN: Ay marry are they, sir.
CLOWN: O, thereby hangs a tail.
FIRST MUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tail, sir?
CLOWN: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know.
The tail the clown speaks of is a butt. The clown means that the butt is a wind instrument, and the fart is the music it plays!
In Two Gentlemen from Verona, a young man named Proteus likes a girl named Silvia. So Proteus gives her a dog named Crab as a gift. One problem: Crab farts!
As a servant named Launce explains:
LAUNCE. …I was sent to deliver [the dog] as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master . . . [the dog goes] under the Duke's table; he had not been there, bless the mark, a pissing while but all the chamber smelt him. [Translation: The dog farts.] 'Out with the dog' says one; 'What cur is that?' says another; 'Whip him out' says the third; 'Hang him up' says the Duke. I, having been acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs. 'Friend,' quoth I 'you mean to whip the dog.' 'Ay, marry do I' quoth he. 'You do him the more wrong,' quoth I; "twas I did the thing you wot of.' [Translation: "I farted."] He makes me no more ado, but whips me out of the chamber.
So what happens here is that the dog farts. It stinks. And the dog is going to be whipped for farting, but the servant, Launce, takes credit for the fart instead. So Launce gets whipped!
Finally, in the play Henry IV, Part 1, two rebel leaders speak, namely Owen Glendower and Harry Hotspur. Here, Glendower is claiming to be a mighty wizard whose birth was a big deal.
GLENDOWER: I say the earth did shake when I was born . . . .
The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.
HOTSPUR: O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire
And not in fear of your nativity.
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions. Oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb, which for enlargement striving
Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth
Our grandma earth, having this distemperature,
In passion shook.
Translation: As the website Shakesyear puts it, "The earth farted when you were born."


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Baxter County Deputies to Be Out in Force This Thanksgiving Holiday for Seat Belt Scofflaws
'Buckle Up America Ever Trip, Every Time.
The Baxter County Sheriff's Office are warning citizens to make sure they buckle their seat belts over the 13 days Thanksgiving Day holiday period or run the risk of getting a ticket.
Whether you're going across town or across the state this Thanksgiving, make sure you and everyone riding with you are wearing their seat belts. The Sheriff's Office wants everyone to enjoy the Holiday, but rest assured law enforcement will be out in force as part of this year's Click It or Ticket campaign, making sure your road trip is as safe as it can be.
This year's Click it or Ticket campaign will run throughout the 13 day holiday period, starting at November 14, 2011 and running through November 27, 2011. Although nationally seat belt use, at 85 percent, is at an all-time record, statistics show that far too many people are still not buckling up, and far too many are paying the ultimate price.
According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 23,000 passenger vehicle occupants died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2009 across the nation, and almost half (11,512) were not wearing seat belts. Nationally, during the Thanksgiving holiday period in 2009, the latest year for which data are available, 303 passenger vehicle occupants died in vehicle crashes, including 115 during daylight hours and 187 during night time.
Nationally, night time is the worst for seat-belt use, according to NHTSA's statistics. Of the 187 passenger vehicle occupant fatalities occurring at night during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2009, 54 percent died with their seat belts unfastened (based on known restraint use); while 49 percent of the fatalities during daylight hours were not wearing seat belts.
Fastening a seat belt takes only a second or two, and costs you nothing. Not wearing a seat belt, especially during this Thanksgiving period, will definitely cost you a ticket at the very least, and maybe even your life.
Seat belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes, according to NHTSA. Research has shown that when lap and shoulder belts are used properly, the risk of fatal injury to front seat passenger car occupants is reduced by 45 percent, and the risk of moderate to serious injury is reduced by 50 percent.
For more information about the Click it or Ticket campaign for highway safety during Thanksgiving, please visit www.TrafficSafetyMarketing.gov.
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Many foodservice companies are searching for innovative ideas but the easiest one to implement may be creating a greener operation.
Overall foodservice business activity still seems to be lagging, many companies report. But one aspect of the industry that has continued to gain momentum is the movement among operators to implement more-sustainable practices. From energy and water management to sourcing more products locally, the foodservice industry steadily has worked toward becoming more environmentally friendly.
During the past year, 18 percent of fine-dining restaurants said they plan to devote more of their resources toward going green, notes Chris Moyer, manager for the National Restaurant Association's Conserve Web site. Family-focused restaurants announcing similar plans to devote more of their resources to developing and implementing sustainable practices increased to 43 percent in 2009, up from just 23 percent in 2008. And, 27 percent of quick-service restaurants said they've devoted more resources to sustainable business practices in 2009, up from 21 percent in 2008. This "going green" business, thus, has reached not just a few but all segments of the foodservice industry.
So what has prompted this increased awareness among business leaders that greener is better? "At its core, green is about doing more with less," says Andrew Winston, author of "Green Recovery" (Harvard Business Press, 2009). "We are in a commodity world, and 'green' allows you to emerge from the pack. It is a tiebreaker, and it can even be a deal-breaker."
Another product of the challenging business environment is that consumers have expanded their definition of value, on which they continue to place an increased emphasis. "Quality is now being defined as a product that is sustainable and lasts longer," Winston adds.
As a result, many foodservice companies–operators, dealers, manufacturers and more – are looking within their businesses for innovative ideas. Solutions may be simpler than they realize. "When people talk about innovation, they are usually talking about developing products they can sell more of," Winston says. "Innovation can be about doing more with less and being greener."
Still, the prospect of becoming more environmentally friendly often prompts no small amount of anxiety. So where can foodservice operators, along with some assistance from their supply-chain partners, begin this process? It might make sense to start with one of operators' biggest ongoing expenses: energy.
Indeed, the amount of energy that kitchens consume per square foot is higher than most any other commercial operation. So any steps a foodservice operator can take to lower this expense will boost their bottom line.
The EPA's Energy Star program has tremendous cache among consumers, and it is making greater headway in the foodservice arena. Energy Star-rated equipment includes some of the most central pieces of equipment in a kitchen: convection ovens, fryers, griddles, steamers, hot-holding cabinets, dishwashers, ice machines, walk-in refrigerators and freezers and solid-door reach-ins. Last year, Energy Star expanded its refrigeration certification to include glass-door reach-in coolers and freezers.
"We're getting more excited about all this because for years, we've talked about wanting to work toward developing an energy-efficient kitchen, but we didn't have enough Energy Star-rated pieces to fill it out," says David Zabrowski, director of engineering at the Foodservice Technology Center in San Ramon, Calif. The FSTC works closely with Energy Star. "Now, we're closer to having the complete cook line in a kitchen covered."
Still, other key pieces of cooking equipment, such as ranges and broilers, are a ways away from earning Energy Star status, Zabrowski says. "The design for them really hasn't changed much in the last few years, and for the most part, there's an emphasis first on cost."
For foodservice operators looking for energy-saving options, induction ranges may be a good alternative, Zabrowski says. Induction cooking relies on powerful, high-frequency electromagnetism that concentrates heat on foods themselves in a pot rather than heating an entire cooking surface in order to then cook the pan's contents.. The result is faster cook times and less energy use. Induction technology in the last couple of years has grown in popularity in particular among high-volume institutions such as colleges and universities, heath-care facilities and hotels looking for bigger, more-efficient cooking surfaces.
In addition, foodservice manufacturers continue to explore other energy-saving features they can add to their product lines. For example, Zabrowski says, some manufacturers are testing pilot-less technology for gas burners. These units use an electrical spark-ignite system similar to that found in most residential units. Other foodservice-equipment manufacturers have worked to improve the design of their existing burners to allow for greater heat recovery, and one manufacturer, is experimenting with using burner lids to trap more heat, as happens with a barbecue grill.
Looking at conveyor ovens, one manufacturer plans to introduce a model that powers down when not in use. Zabrowski, who has seen the tests for this oven, says even restaurant chains that frequently use conveyor ovens to toast sandwiches can benefit by using this model because of its better heat recovery and ability to power up and get pretty hot pretty quickly.
Water costs have increased dramatically in the last couple of years. According to research from the NUS Consulting Group, the cost of water rose from $1.80 per cubic foot to $2 in 2008, and sewage costs have shown greater increases. In San Diego and San Francisco those rates are much higher, in the $8 to $9 range per cubic foot. So conserving water not only benefits the environment but it also helps a foodservice operator function more efficiently.
"I like to call water a three-headed monster," Moyer continues. "You pay for the water you consume but also for the treatment of the water. The third head comes from the need to heat the water. With water rates increasing throughout the country this impact will become a lot clearer."
Warewashers are one example of where energy and water savings can go hand-in-hand. Some updated models now use heat-recovery systems in which the unit converts condensation inside the cavity into usable water so that the unit doesn't have to draw exclusively from the building's hot-water supply. In essence, these machines need only to use cold-water hookups, saving a tremendous amount of energy that would otherwise be required by hot-water hookups and boiler tanks. Some units with scrapping technology on them also use recirculating rather than fresh water to scrape plates clean for added energy and water savings.
"We're pretty excited about this technology from an energy-saving standpoint because it's basically rethinking hot water and space," Zabrowski says. What's even more exciting to Zabrowksi is that the manufacturers using this heat-recovery technology are close to being able to incorporate it in small, door-type dish machines, not just flight-type ones, which will allow smaller restaurants to capitalize on the potential energy and water cost savings.
"These systems change the whole design of the kitchen because you can be doing other things with your hot-water hookups rather than using them for the dishmachine," he says.
Combi-ovens' water-saving capabilities continue to improve: As the controls work to reduce energy consumption, they also conserve water since the units use both. This energy-water coupling reflects what has been happening on a larger scale as well.
Aside from redesigning equipment to use less water, Moyer says, the majority of water-saving techniques stem from simple operational changes such as using a regular broom rather than a hose to clean sidewalksor planting natural vegetation for landscaping. "Once I even cut a hose in the kitchen that the workers were using to rinse off dishes so that it could only fit in a bucket and be used for that," Moyer says. One would think that by now it would be standard practice to presoak or install water-saving devices such as low-flow, prerinse spray valves and aerators for faucets, but that's not always the case, he adds.
Another simple operational change is to refrain from automatically serving water to guests, and instead asking if they would like water. "This sounds simple, but it costs nothing and it's often an overlooked solution to save water," Moyers says. "Think about it, every glass uses water, sometimes ice, and more water and energy when it's washed. According to our research, we found that if one in four guests said, 'No, thank you,' to water it could save the operator 25 million gallons per year.
One critical area that foodservice operators and designers can easily overlook is ventilation. "The most radical ideas in ventilation are not new at all, but they're still not mainstream in our industry," Zabrowski says. He's referring to demand-control ventilation, which powers down during idle periods. Variable-speed fans also help control the power of ventilation systems by not merely operating at full speed at all times.
"For mild climates, ventilation costs around $1 per cfm[?] per year, and it's around $2/cfm per year for 'difficult' climates in the Midwest and Northeast," Zabrowski says. "That means the most-efficient hood can cost a hotel, for example, anywhere between $1,000 and $50,000."
This is the case in which spending more money upfront rather than relying on old or existing hoods, can save a foodservice operator tremendous amounts of money in the long haul. And making simple adaptations such as attaching side barriers to the hoods to streamline the air that is drawn upward can also help reduce energy costs associated with ventilation.
Some operators have cooking stations that use ventless hoods, which suck up grease-laden air, filter it internally, and then release the air back into building. However, according to Zabrowski, this type of technology tends to work better in operations with pre-existing, strong HVAC systems – for example, a food court in a university or a large hospital. Strict municipal codes can also pose a problem with ventless hood use. Smaller foodservice operators, among them coffee shops and convenience stores, have sought to use cooking equipment such as panini grills or small portable cooktops that doesn't require any hood.
Ellyn Elson, founder of focusGreen, a green business consultancy, points to poor insulation as a silent cost-driver when it comes to ventilation-related energy use. "You'd be surprised at how many restaurants I visit that have cold air coming through their doors and windows and even in gaps around their electrical sockets and water hookups," she says. "By just putting towels along window crevices or using double-doors in the colder months, and if possible, upgrading inefficient doors and windows, these restaurants could save so much money."
Thanks to the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Retail pilot program, members of the foodservice industry now have a framework to operate within when trying to create greener operations. The program's Commercial Kitchen Appliance Prescriptive Measures and Baseline is essentially a checklist that outlines the ways LEED project managers can earn points toward certification based on the equipment they specify.
"What's changed is that for commercial interiors projects, which typically apply to restaurants in strip malls or kitchens that are part of larger buildings like in hotels, now having Energy Star-rated equipment is a requirement, not an option," says Suzanne Painter-Supplee, a LEED AP and director of Champion Industries' consulting services. "Now, you have to meet the 50-percent energy-saving baseline. But you can also earn more points for exceeding those levels than in the past."
LEED projects now can earn as many as 4 credits, or points, toward energy-efficiency versus a previous 2 for reaching at least 70 percent efficiency. And those that exceed 90 percent not only earn all 4 credits but also they can earn an extra credit in the Innovation and Design section, Painter-Supplee says. Projects with 97 percent energy-efficiency earn even more.
"The default for LEED rating systems is that building energy, considered regulated energy, counts for 75 percent of total credits in that section, and 25 percent is for process energy," Painter-Supplee says. "Kitchens fall into the process category, so in the past they didn't account for much in the grand scheme of things. Now, with LEED for Retail, process energy counts for 40 to 60 percent of the total credits in the energy and water sections."
In addition, LEED projects with major foodservice components can earn more credits in the Innovation and Design category than they have in the past. For example, Harvard University earned innovation credits through its waste-reducing pulping and composting program. "The is the category where the foodservice industry can really step up," Painter-Supplee says. It makes sense, then, for architects to work more with foodservice consultants and professionals to meet the overall requirements of a project. And the more that happens, the more sustainable—and cost-effective—foodservice businesses across markets can become.
Alternative Energy
Sources of alternative energy, also referred to as renewable energy, include wind, sun and even gases from within the earth. Investing in alternative energy helps prevent the depletion of precious natural resources and reduces the environmental strain associated with natural-resource cultivation. From a business perspective, it also helps save energy costs, and operators across different segments are taking notice.
Some restaurant chains, like Chipotle, have placed smaller wind turbines on store roofs to generate energy. And Burgerville, working with its electric company, allocates a portion of its monthly bill to fund alternative energy sourcing. Of course, exactly what an operator can do depends largely on municipal codes and regulations.
"Solar consultants can perform energy audits to help operators determine the cost-effectiveness of solar energy," Elson says. The Cache Creek Casino Resort in Brooks, Calif., she points out, uses solar panels affixed to a nearby mountain to supply the casino with almost all of its power.
Geothermal energy – power extracted from natural heat stored in the earth – is gaining steam in the foodservice community. Elson points out that Thomas Keller's The French Laundry in Yountville, Calif., uses a unique geothermal heating system through a ground source heat pump (GSHP) to heat and cool the entire restaurant more sustainably.
Last year's recession hit the restaurant community hard, with many new and longtime operations closing. Now, as the U.S. economy and the foodservice industry have made a slight upturn, many new restaurants are moving into spaces vacated by their peers. The result is a tremendous savings on materials and design elements.
While many new construction projects look to reuse old materials, restaurants that are closing can also make back some of their money by selling their materials. For example, steel, an abundant metal in kitchens, pays big dollars, according to the Steel Recycling Institute.
Time for Green
The level of "greenness" varies from restaurant to restaurant and that's OK, consultants say. "There are so many no-cost things restaurants can do to help the environment and save dramatically on their costs," Elson says. Rather than getting overwhelmed with the process, taking "baby steps" is the best practice, she says. Start with these no-cost steps, and then look into hiring consultants for help in initiating larger sustainability efforts such as composting or investing in alternative energy.
"Even if you can't do everything, it's important to do what's right for your customers, your employees and the environment," Elson concludes. "Going green has to be a win-win for everyone."