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by Hugh Gilmore
I need to talk to you this week as though we're meeting for coffee, and I have to catch you up on a thousand and one things that have happened since we last had a heart-to-heart.
Coffee first: I own a few shares of Starbucks stock, so I went there every morning to write for nearly a year. Each morning I ordered the same thing from the same people. No one ever said hello, or reacted as though they'd seen me before. So, I stopped going. Now, most of the time I go to The Coffee Company up near Hideaway Records and people say hello. I'm supposing that's the difference between an international chain and a locally owned company.
But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I had my book launch for "Gorilla Tour," as I've come to call it, and that went very well. Kathy Bonanno, founder/director of Musehouse Literary Center, 7924 Germantown Ave., and her staff run a smooth operation. I had a full house for my reading and sold some books and had a number of interesting conversations with people as we all stood around cheese-and-crackering (and wining) later.
More than one person told me that I stand as a figure of inspiration. I think they meant, "If a dummy like you can get a book launch, then there's hope for the rest of us." Meaning: other writers who haven't finished their books, or haven't felt that magical moment where they feel they should take their manuscript out of the drawer and start trying to market it. A friend told me that I'm kind of living a Walter Mittyish existence where I live out other people's dreams.
Perhaps so, but it's not a risk-free existence. The day of the book launch someone shared with me an email sent by another person that said, in effect, "I wasted money on his first book, "Malcolm's Wine," which I found unreadable. Now I don't want to go to his reading and buy another unreadable book."
"Ha ha ha," I said, right after I pulled the needle from my arm and emerged from the men's room, "Everyone's entitled to his own opinion."
After the reading at Musehouse, it was time to capitalize on my investment. Time to carpe diem. Time to strike while the iron was hot. Catch the fly with your tongue while it's still on the windowsill, you know.
I joined Facebook to promote my book. I've written two Local columns describing the experience. I didn't want to beat the subject to death, so I didn't write that all-important third column that told what I realized when I finally opened my eyes and saw what was going on.
If I had, I would have said this: Facebook is like a big college dorm lounge where three or four different TVs are playing. Everyone is also surfing the net and has earphones on. They are all friends with one another (more or less) and they make occasional comments to one another about a TV show, their website, a text they just received, or their child's birthday party. They're all happy.
Into this casual pajama party I came plunging, sleeves rolled up, shouting, "Hi, I'm going door-to-door, just to make you this incredible offer!" That is, "Hey, my book is for sale." Every time I signed in.
That was rude. Friends don't let friends drive drunk on salesmanship. Facebook is much more subtle than that. When I first came on FB, I received a lot of "traffic" because a lot of old friends, many of them ex-students of mine, wanted to welcome me and say hello for old times' sake. A few bought my book and told friends to buy my book. After a while the traffic slowed down and the requests to be "friended" stopped.
The real purpose of Facebook is simply for a circle of people to connect. It keeps them in contact. It relieves boredom. It's funny. It eases loneliness. It's a wacky thing to do late at night. And so on. But it is not really the marketplace every marketing expert told me I had to "utilize." It is what it is. And I'm enjoying it.
What one can do about marketing is this: Establish links on Facebook to your author/artist/yodeler web page. A friend of mine, a local guy, offered for free to spruce up my blog page, which is essentially my "writing life" page. Among other things, it's where many of my old Local columns go to the rest home.
So now, my FB page and my log are linked. And guess what? For the time being at least, most of my "traffic" to the blog comes from Facebook. So the system does work, if you know how to use it. In fact, my paperback sales for this month jumped from 3 to 5. Overnight, one night. Walter Mitty, indeed.
Note: Hugh Gilmore blogs about books and reading at enemiesofreading.blogspot.com. His books are for sale on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle formats.


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The Educational Master Plan serves an iterative function which begins and ends the planning cycle for the college. It is used at the start of the planning process to guide the Unit Plans, Cluster Committee prioritization, and as an end to the planning process by encompassing evaluation/assessment data.
The College Annual Plan is a compilation of the Educational Master Plan, The College Strategic Plan, a summary of unit assessment, and a listing of the college priorities as established by the College Planning Council.
The Cluster and Unit plans represent the prioritization of the planning activities integrated with budget considerations within the clusters and units of the college.
Program Reviews (Policy and Procedure Manual, rev. 2/21/13)
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Student Learning Outcomes Assessment
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Technology Master Plan
To ensure the college maintains currency and sufficiency with technological requirements, the college completes a technology plan.
The Human Resource plan represents the college's prioritizations for staffing while remaining within the college's annual budget.
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Of the stories unique to the Gospel of Luke, perhaps none is as compelling and fascinating as that of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Lk 24:13-35). It is like a microcosm of the Church itself. It is filled with imagery that is pertinent not only to the Easter season, but to every day in the Church's life. In fact, scholars suggest that the narrative is largely catechetical and liturgical in nature, fitting well in the post-Easter context of mystagogy, deepening one's appreciation and understanding of the faith.
The story is well known and needs only to be summarized briefly here. Two disciples, discouraged after the crucifixion of Jesus, are leaving Jerusalem by the road leading to Emmaus, when a stranger draws near and inquires about what they were discussing. The stranger, of course, is Jesus, but "their eyes were prevented from recognizing him," an indication that God is acting behind the scenes for a greater purpose (the divine passive). They recount the incredible tale of the resurrection story they had received from the women who had gone to the tomb of Jesus and found it empty.
The stranger then remarks on their lack of comprehension and proceeds to interpret "all the Scriptures" for them, explaining the necessity of the Messiah's suffering. Then they invite the stranger to stay with them for the night and, while at table in a clearly Eucharistic setting, they recognize the stranger's true identity, and he vanishes from their sight.
Their final comment and action provide the key interpretive clue: "Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?" They return to Jerusalem with the incredible tale of how they had come to know Jesus "in the breaking of the bread."
Four Revealing Details
While, reflecting on this story over many years, I have come to realize that it contains an incredible number of details that pertain to the Church's ongoing life of faith. I only have space to focus on four of them here that seem particularly pertinent to this liturgical year and the Year of Faith we celebrate.
• Word and Sacrament
The most obvious meaning of the story centers around the understanding of the disciples that comes to them in two interrelated forms, the Scriptures and the Eucharist. Two features more essential to Catholic identity cannot be found. We are by definition, as a community of faith, gathered around Word and Sacrament, which Vatican Council II described as "the one table of the Word of God and the Body of Christ" (Dei Verbum, No. 21). Word and Sacrament are intimately bound together, for both reveal the God of revelation, reaching out to befriend humanity and draw us into communion with one another and with God.
In the Emmaus story, Jesus' explanation of the Scriptures has a prophetic emphasis because he begins with Moses and all the prophets and then proceeds to interpret all the Scriptures for the two disillusioned disciples. But it is in the Eucharistic action that follows, when Jesus repeats the gestures of the Last Supper (blessed, broke, gave the bread), that their full recognition of the stranger arrives. Just when the bread is broken and "their eyes were opened," Jesus vanishes. Note again the passive voice. God's grace ultimately allows their recognition of the risen Jesus in the Eucharistic meal.
• On the Road Again
A second feature of the story is also compelling as an image for the Church. The story begins and ends with a journey "on the road," we might say. At first, the two disciples, one of whom is named (an otherwise unknown Cleopas), are leaving Jerusalem. But after their recognition of the risen Jesus in Word and Sacrament, they head back to share their experience with the other disciples in the Holy City. Their conversation takes place enroute. Their experience of the risen Jesus takes place on a journey, at first filled with disappointment and perhaps fear, but then concludes with another journey, filled this time with a desire to share their good fortune. They become witnesses to Jesus Christ, the suffering Messiah, while on the road.
A distinctive feature of Vatican II, as is well known, was its use of the metaphor of the "pilgrim Church" (Lumen Gentium, No. 7). What is so startling about it is that it runs counter to a traditional understanding of Church as institution, practically an immovable, unchangeable body. Being a pilgrim community, in perpetual motion and always on journey toward our destiny in the kingdom of God, is a summons to recognize our limitations on this earth. At the same time, the image recalls that the risen Lord comes to us on the road. Indeed, he accompanies us, even when we do not recognize him until that miraculous moment of realization when the Scriptures and the Bread are both broken open.
• Disciples Together
A third striking element of the Emmaus story is the disciples themselves. A few scholars have speculated that the two on the road, Cleopas and his companion, may have been a married couple! This is not impossible, for the New Testament does mention married couples as disciples. One thinks immediately of Paul's companions in Corinth, Prisca and Aquila (Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19), who hailed from the church in Rome. It is also likely that Andronicus and Junia, who are called "prominent among the apostles," were a married couple (Rom 16:7). But the Lucan text does not actually give us details to affirm that perhaps the two on the road to Emmaus were themselves a married couple. That remains pure speculation.
More important is that they are together and that they are commiserating in their disappointment about the fate of Jesus. Moreover, their reaction and bewilderment has been shaped by the testimony of other disciples, the faithful women who had taken the news of the empty tomb to Peter and the others (Lk 24:10-11,22). This is a network of discipleship. One is not called alone into the community of faith but with others. In addition, the disciples share the story of Jesus of Nazareth together, they rejoice in the good times and commiserate in the bad, and ultimately they take refuge in the community of Word and Sacrament that preserves the faith of the apostles.
• The Role of Women
Another aspect of this information is the inclusion of women. One of the most sensitive modern issues in the Church today revolves around the role of women. The New Testament, of course, comes from an entirely different cultural context than our own. We must be careful not to read into the biblical text too much. Yet I think the presence of women in this story is not insignificant, given that Luke, of all the Gospels, shows greater interest in including women in the stories about Jesus (Mary, Anna, Elizabeth, the faithful women of Jerusalem, etc.).
Three points stand out. First, the fact that the women were the first to perceive the empty tomb, to receive the angelic message of the resurrection and recognize its significance is telling. Moreover, their fidelity to Jesus in his final agonies, when all the other disciples had fled, speaks volumes about the faithfulness, endurance and courage of these women (Lk 23:55; 24:1-11; etc.). Secondly, the fact that their testimony after the resurrection was either not believed, because it seemed like "nonsense" (24:11), or was terribly puzzling (24:22), is indicative of the boundary-crossing that some early Christians represented in the context of their times. Normally, the testimony of women was not admissible as real evidence in Jewish society, yet early Christianity was founded on the basis of their testimony. (Keep in mind that most scholars think Mary Magdalene, in fact, was the first recipient of the news of the resurrection [Jn 20:11-18], and ancient tradition calls her apostola apostalorum — the apostle to the apostles.)
Microcosm of the Church
If these four features of the Emmaus story do not give us the whole picture, I believe they show us some essential aspects of the story that can rightly defend it as a kind of microcosm of the Church. In the midst of the three-year anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (2012-2015) and the current Year of Faith (2012-2013), we might take some time to reflect on the profound dimensions of this rather simple but profound story from the Gospel of Luke. It is filled with many Lucan themes, but at the very least we can say it shows us a community of disciples — women and men — on the road, ready to receive Word and Sacrament and always open to the surprising revelation that God sets forth through His Son Jesus Christ. TP
Father Witherup, S.S. is Superior General of the Society of Saint Sulpice and frequent contributor to The Priest magazine. He recently published Gold Tested in Fire: A New Pentecost for the Catholic Priesthood (Liturgical Press, 2012), and a set of CD's, Treasure in Earthen Vessels: The Spirituality of Paul the Apostle (Now You Know Media, 2013).
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Corporate LIves: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form is the latest offering from the Wenner-Gren Symposium Series, and the third volume in the series. It has been mailed out alongside the regular Current Anthropology April issue. It is also now available online as an open access volume on the Current Anthropology Website (Click here to access the volume). This new venture permits the product of the Wenner-Gren Symposia to be accessed free of change and available for scholars and the public worldwide. The increased availability of the Symposium series online allows the Foundation to continue to fulfill its mission of promoting anthropology worldwide and fostering an international community of scholars.
The latest volume, Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form is guest edited by Damani J. Partridge (University of Michigan), Marina Welker (Cornell), and Rebecca Hardin (University of Michigan) is the result of a Symposia sponsored by the WEnner-Gren Foundation and the School of American Research (SAR) and held at SAR, Santa Ne, New Mexico, August 21-27, 2008. More information about this Wenner-Gren symposia can be found here.
The next volume in the Symposium Series will be The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas guest edited by T. Douglas Price and Ofer Bar-Yosef
Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form
Guest Edited by Damani J. Partridge (University of Michigan), Marina Welker (Cornell), and Rebecca Hardin (University of Michigan)
Current Anthropology, Volume 52, Supplement 3, April 2011
This special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes daily life. The Introduction traces anthropologists' engagements with corporations over time and presents transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployments of the corporate form. The articles in the volume explore the influence of corporations in unexpected sectors from conservation to "poverty alleviation" to cancer survival. Furthermore, they analyze corporate norms and practices in relation to broader governance trends, from fair trade dynamics to shareholder activism and from corporate social responsibility initiatives to the spread of accountability measures and the influence of corporate sovereignty. The volume brings together the voices of anthropologists, social activists, NGO managers, corporate executives, financial planners, and entrepreneurs. It is the product of a five-day Wenner-Gren Symposium held in August 2008 at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) campus in Santa Fe, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the School for American Research.
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An alternative to all the filing for Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVA), bankruptcy is the only way out for all the individuals that are reeling under the mountains of debt. This IVA is actually the legal deal that is between the entire creditors and the individuals (the debtor) that are supervised by one of the Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and thus this will help to reach the comprise position with all the regard for avoiding the bankruptcy.
This all is established and is totally governed by all the Part VIII of the act and that so called act is Insolvency Act 1986. This IVA is totally the repayment proposal that has been made via all the Insolvency Practitioner to all the creditors that has been taken off from the debtor. This act of the parliament especially made by the UK Parliament and the Insolvency Act of 1986 is generally governed and the cases related to the Individual Voluntary Arrangements and personal and company bankruptcy. It also acts as the platform for all the issues that is related to the personal insolvency and corporate in the so called place of UK. For knowing much about the bankruptcy you should always contact IVA plan and thus this will help you to know much about the Individual Voluntary Arrangements and the bankruptcy.
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To get this IVA proposal approved and also to get the meeting arrangements with all the panel of the creditors, you should better contact the website http://IVAPLan.co.uk for getting more information. A voting is generally done in which a minimum number of the voters must be given the consent only on the IVA agreement to be get approved. But if anyone of the voters turns out to be personal or to be professional associates of such debtor, then the second round of the voting ensue and half percentage of those non-associated creditor is approved.
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Mr. Speaker, I admire greatly the work the member does in this House, particularly in the area of agriculture.
I know that the hon. member shared my concerns, and many Canadians' concerns, when the government snubbed its nose at existing law that required that it consult with farmers on the Wheat Board, and when the government snubbed its nose at the order of the court that it ought to obey the law.
The hon. member heard the member for Fort McMurray—Athabasca basically saying, and encouraging, that we should now spend millions of dollars for Revenue Canada to investigate the very organizations that are going to help small communities, first nations and Métis settlements to intervene in the review of major projects that might impact them.
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May 22, 2011
saturday - kansas day 1
on alex: h&m dress, urban outfitters sandals, vintage ferragamo purse. on me: h&m dress, grandma's clutch
alex and i finally got to kansas for my sisters graduation after the worst day of traveling we've ever experienced. we almost missed our flight on friday morning, but then luckily found out it was delayed, and then delayed again, and again. so we decided to sleep at the gate. when we woke up over two hours later, everything was gone and it turned out our flight was cancelled because the plane was broken. we got put on another flight way later that night and got taxi vouchers to go back into the city for the day. so we went home and slept and got subway and pinkberry, before heading back to the airport.
tomorrow is the graduation ceremony & party, then we're driving to wisconsin on monday. then comes our road trip! :)
10 comments:
- nicole said...
Your dress is so cute!
Oh and I'm quite jealous of the weather you guys seem to be having.
- May 22, 2011 at 2:02 AM
- s said...
Very nice pics...
Great outfits ;)))
Cannes by GARANCE DORE
- May 22, 2011 at 3:03 AM
- Tina G. said...
your dress is lovely, and you clutch too! Love the photos!
- May 22, 2011 at 3:20 AM
- La Belle Fabuleux said...
Wow you had an exhausting day! Beautiful pictures!! Love your dresses=)
- May 22, 2011 at 3:37 AM
- Lisa said...
daaamn your pictures are so amazing, hope your future job ll be photograph because you got a real talent, you know. (sorry If my english is bad, Im french :)
bisous! x
- May 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM
the pics are beautiful!
- May 22, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Becky said...
I'm glad you finally got to your destination after a long frustrating day!
Beautiful photos :) Your dress is super cute.
- May 22, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- aga said...
Wonderful photos :)
- May 23, 2011 at 7:36 AM
- ANNA ELIZA said...
pretty outfits, pretty girls, pretty photos and nice location!:) love it!
- May 24, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- Sooz* said...
I love your blog, really
- June 4, 2011 at 5:52 PM


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Mark Beukers needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 179 designs submitted by 56 freelance designers.
Roster Forge
Roster Forge is new entity being developed that aims to take guild / clan website hosting and step it up a notch. From taking full advantage of API's provided by said games to helping their leaders to create something that doesn't look like it was created in Dreamweaver's design view (oh snap!).
The target audience will be mostly gamers from hardcore working downwards.
Currently effort is being focused on MMO's such as World of Warcraft but in the long term we are looking at putting more effort into other genres such as shooters and other multilayer games.
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The design must suit a dark theme to coincide with more popular color schemes of gaming sites , Although bonus points are given if it can intergrate with additional color schemes using an alternate version of the design.
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This is part 1 of a very long interview I did for The Suplex Monthly UK fanzine, that Dan at ChikaraFans was nice enough to post. Here is the direct link:
http://stucked.net/dan/chikarafans/boye ... onthly.php - and of course if you go to the "Interviews" section of the site you can find it there too.
UK fans can read part 2 NOW by purchasing the current issue of The Suplex Monthly at http://www.thesuplex.com for 2.50 quid- but fear not US fans, Part 2 will be available on ChikaraFans first week of November.
Anyway, I just realized I forgot to send Dan the COMPLETE answer to the final question of Part 1, so here it is as a little teaser for y'all to help drive up traffic for ChikaraFans.
What led you to assume the "Canadian Dynamite" persona??
Pierre-Carl Oulette looked at me in October '05 and said to me "You look like Dynamite Kid. You have his look!" Back then, I only knew Dynamite Kid by name, and never really saw his work. I knew that Chris Benoit inspired himself from Dynamite Kid. Then, January '06, MVP from the RWE told me "You look like the Dynamite Kid but your wrestling is just like Chris Benoit!" Then, 2.0, Shane Matthews and Jagged, were telling me to BE, not to ACT, like Chris Benoit. I wasn't too sure cause I didn't want to be a copy cat, but they said "You are not a copy cat because you move, you look, and you wrestle just like him!" At Chikara in May, I was the substitute wrestler for Shane Matthews, who had torn his ACL . They cut an insane promo about me being Chris Benoit and the people in Barnesville, PA, laughed so much. You can see that promo on YouTube.com. Then Mike Rotch wanted to call me "Dynamite" Max Boyer for the ISW, and I asked him if he would mind if I was changing my name everywhere to "Dynamite" and he said "YES! Do it!" After that, everyone was calling me "Dynamite" and/or "Chris Benoit".
At UnFnSanctioned '06, I got a new pair of tights made for the occasion and I told Brian The Guppie to call me "Dynamite" Max Boyer. After that show, Steen told me to change my name. He liked the "Dynamite" thing but he said that they are a lot of wrestlers worldwide who are using this one. Then I was thinking about "The Canadian Crippler". I took off the "Crippler" and replace it by "Dynamite.


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And finally as one player so succinctly expressed it: "Just out of interest, given this specification what should the following block display? BEGIN DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (plch_num_instr ('steeeeeeven', 'ee')); END;"
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Hello Cowboy fans…
Normally I only write one story a week for Lonestar, but this week I felt the urgency to write two stories. My second story, Cowboys'-Bengals'…and a guy named OchoCinco will post on Thursday.
Let me start off by saying I was very unhappy about the Cowboy loss on Sunday afternoon as I am sure all Cowboy fans were. The team seemed much unprepared, at times very non-responsive, and seemed for the most part as having that "why do I have to work on Sunday attitude". I was especially disappointed in the selection of plays that were called on offense. MB3 getting only 8 touches and Felix never got into the backfield. It seemed the coaches went completely away from their normal offensive game plan that up until Sunday has been almost flawless.
I thought Tony was running for his life all day and the defense at times looked non-existent. I know it is a rival game and seems like over the last few years the Cowboys' have had their fair share of difficulty beating the Redskins' when clearly they were the better team. This game on Sunday was no exception to that rule.
Now did this writer think our beloved boys would "run the table" and reach that 19-0 perfect season? Let me answer that one loud and clear before all the Cowboy fans send out a lynch mob, hunt me down, and we all head for the biggest oak true we can find.
No, that thought, to be honest, never crossed my mind. As I commented in a previous post last week it is extremely difficult in this day and time of professional football to go undefeated. With the age of the salary cap that causes such parity between the NFL teams, and not to mention I knew going into this game on Sunday, it would be a difficult test. Even though this is not one of the better Redskins' team, they are still pros, and a pro team can beat another pro team on any given Sunday.
Of course anytime the Cowboy's and Redskins' meet, no matter what the season records, it is always a four quarter fight to the end. I just sensed watching the game, that Cowboys' had no sense of urgency. They seemed they would go and score when they wanted to and other times they seemed to just be somewhere else.
Secondly, I wanted to make a statement regarding T.O… I was extremely disappointed at his after the game comments which began airing on all the media outlets almost immediately after he said it. T.O. made the statement that "when I touch the ball, the chains move and when I don't touch the ball, the offense goes stagnate". Well Terrell, here's news flash for you. I do not know what stadium you were at on Sunday, but I certainly think you had your fair share of touching the ball! T.O. had 17 balls thrown to him and he caught 7, not to mention he had two end-around plays making a total of 9 touches for the game. Now in defense of Terrell, there were some balls thrown to him that if he had been ten feet tall he could not have caught. Then there were others that I could have caught that he missed, especially the one in the corner of the end zone that went right through his hands.
What aggravates me is the fact this is the same kind of talk that filtered through the locker rooms of T.O.'s former teams, San Francisco and Philadelphia which eventually cumulated with T.O. leaving both squads and burning all the bridges behind him. When T.O. came to Dallas, I was one of his most staunch supporters and it was me that always said "T.O. is finally happy, leave him alone and he will be a shining star". In reality this has been the case and he has been a role model player for the team.
Now we all know that T.O. is going to be T.O. to a certain extent. You will never take the man out of the kid or the kid out of the man. I just think it was wrong for his post game comments especially when it seems at times the offense was all about Terrell, and it seemed to me that the play calling was all about Terrell. For him to make those type of comments when it was just not true was signs of the old Terrell Owens. Now I know Terrell thinks the team is all about him and that is fine to take that leadership role. Just remember there is no" I in the word team" and a real leader of a team is not going to come out make those types of statements.
In addition, T.O. has seemed to take the leadership role with "Pacman" in keeping him on the straight and narrow. Remember you lead by example and in my humble opinion; you set a bad example on Sunday night.
So T.O. if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything. Let your game on the field do you're talking for you!!


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Monday, November 30, 2009
* Homemade Christmas: Family Advent Calendar
So many lovely ideas floating around the web right now for advent calendars.
My dear bloggy friend, Teach Mama
has a wonderful post about her family's advent calendar this year!
In the past we've used chocolate open a door-each-day-style calendars.
Last year we opened the Playmobil winter forest animals advent set
(now part of our ever-expanding Fairy village!)
One year, the Frog Princess made an adorable Santa Advent,
we glued a cotton ball to his beard each day to count down to Christmas.
This year, we're trying envelopes.
I have a huge box of small key envelopes
leftover from an altered books workshop I attended last spring.
this one at Nice Package,
and these gorgeous Origami paper envelopes at Kiddley,
they also have a wonderful list of activities we borrowed part of our list from!
We strung it across the doorway
between our family room and kitchen table.
I brainstormed a list with the kids and hubby,
printed it out and slipped our ideas into the envelopes.
Each day, we'll do a new activity to celebrate the season!
Here's our list: Harris Family Advent 2009
1. Candlelit bath!
2. Make Paper Snowflakes and Decorate the Windows
3. Make a CD of Christmas Music for the playroom.
4. Rootbeer Floats!
5. Bake something yummy with Mama
6. Make Christmas Cards for Friends/Family
7. Have hot chocolate with marshmallows.
8. Make a pipe cleaner candy cane or wreath.
9. Make a Paper Chain.
10. Use puppets to tell a Bedtime Story.
11. Have an indoor picnic.
12. Family Game Night (Wii, board games, puzzles?)
13. Make and Decorate a Gingerbread House.
14. Dance and Sing to Christmas Music.
15. Set up the Mouse Nativity.
16. Make a Christmas Craft.
17. Make a Christmas Ornament.
18. Dress Fancy for Dinner tonight.
19. Fashion Show with Clothes made out of gift wrap!
(Recycled from opening presents with grandparents)
20. Make and Hang Edible Gifts/ornaments for the Birds and Squirrels.
21. Surprise a neighbor with an act of kindness.
22. At Home Pedicures!
23. Watch a Christmas movie with popcorn.
24. Pick your Favorite Christmas book for mom (or dad) to read aloud.
25. Open Presents!
We always drive around our neighborhood
to look at lights and displays,
this year we'll be surprising the girls with an impromptu,
in Pajamas holiday lights tour.
We're taking our cues this year from Shells in My Pocket
blog and her Minivan Express! (so. cool.)
The girls won't know what night it will be until...
Daddy will get them in their PJs
while I pop popcorn and make cocoa downstairs,
then we'll tell them to put on shoes and
go for a ride with our special holiday light viewing glasses--
they change the lights into shapes like stars, words, angels, etc!
(my MIL bought them at a holiday store years ago for us!)
Happy Countdown!
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Why does exit insert mode with <esc> not work? I must press <shift>-<esc> to exit insert mode.
I hope I didn't overlook anything in the manual.
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That is pretty weird, but Escape handling in Visual Studio is indeed pretty complex. Can you check whether <Esc> is assigned to anything in Tools|Options|Keyboard? Also, what version of Visual Studio are you using, what language are you editing, and are there any other 3rd party plugins installed?
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng and Lincoln Water System (LWS) officials remind residents that voluntary outside water conservation measures will continue until further notice. Current July precipitation is at .45 inches (not including today's rain) compared to the normal monthly average of 3.54 inches, according to High Plains Regional Climate Center at UNL.
Addresses ending in 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 are asked to limit outside water use to Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Those with addresses ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are asked to water on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Citizens are also asked to wash vehicles on the same schedule.
"We're getting some rain again today, but the forecast calls for hot and dry conditions, and our drought conditions continue," said Mayor Seng. "We continue to stress water conservation as a way to avoid mandatory restrictions if the situation changes."
LWS Engineer Jerry Obrist said current water flow levels in the Platte River continue to be slightly below normal. Water usage has averaged 66.5 million gallons a day in July. City water officials will continue to monitor outside usage and river flows.
LWS recommends the following conservation tips:
Information on water conservation is available on the Interlinc home page, The information includes:
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Bank Statement Art
3 comments:
i like the idea of framing all of them in different sized frames and filling a wall. i think it would look amazing. hi randy.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous. I forget who used cancelled checks in a New Yorker satire, many ages ago, to narrate a comedic fall of a wayward college boy; but I have saved, somewhere, checks of mine which could mime that jest without neglect of its stereotypical payees - restaurants, hotels, tailors, physicians. Your trove is completely enviable. This was a wonderful posting -- but I stray. Pee first. :)ReplyDelete
oh for a former lithographer, i cringe when i see the stones mounted on the wall. most art departments have chucked them all. i would covet just one stone. why not wallpaper the loo with those bank statements. they are beautifulReplyDelete


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Fast, Easy, 10 Minute Meals-Kid-Friendly Black Bean and Salsa Soup
By dadsplay at September 30, 2010 | 2:47 pm | Print
Are you looking for a fast meal to make tonight? This Black Bean and Salsa Soup is a favorite in my house!. My 2, 4, and 6 year olds all love this soup!
Make this dinner and it will fast become a Kid Favorite Dinner at your house! You can make this Soup in less than 10 minutes and it only requires 2 main ingredients!
Here's What You Need:
- 2 cans Black Beans (with liquid)
- 1 Cup Salsa (you can add more salsa flavor)
- 1/2 tsp Chili Powder
- 1/8 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 Garlic Clove (diced)-optional
- 1 tsp Olive Oil-optional
- Pinch of Cayenne Pepper-optional
- 1 Tbs Fresh Cilantro-diced-optional
Here's How:
For Basic Recipe: Pour both cans of Black Beans with the liquid into a saucepan. Add Salsa to Black Beans. Use a Hand held Blender to puree black beans and salsa so most of the beans are pureed (the soup will still have some chunks). If you do not have a hand blender, use a potatoe masher to mash the bean mixture. Add the 1/2 tsp of Chili Powder and the 1/8 tsp of Garlic Powder. Cook on Medium Heat for 5 minutes until it starts to bubble. Remove Black Bean Mixture/Soup from Heat and Serve Immediately and if your family likes Reduced Fat Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Reduced Fat Sour Cream and Chopped Green Onions add to the bowls of soup.
For Soup with a little more flavor- before adding the Black Beans to the Saucepan, add 1 tsp of Olive Oil and Heat over Medium Heat- added the diced Garlic to the pan and sautee for 1-2 minutes, then follow the steps above and add the the Cayenne Pepper and Diced Cilantro when you add the Chili Powder and Garlic Powder. You can Also add a little more Salsa for added flavor.
Serve this with a salad or a side of celery and carrot sticks to round off a quick and healthy meal.
Toppings: You can serve the soup with a sprinkle of fresh cilantro, a dollop of sour cream and even a little bit of corn.
Information about Black Beans-Black beans are such a healthy food that is also tasty and versatile. 1/2 cup serving of black beans provides 8g of Protein, 6g of Fiber and 105 of the Iron we need for a day. It is a great food to add to your family's diet.
Recipe provided by the top mom blog Mommie911. Recipe by Parenting Expert-Kristin Fitch. Posted with permission.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 15, 2008) - It will be a jammed pack day for the ETSU women's basketball team Saturday afternoon as they honor four spectacular seniors, create awareness for breast cancer and look to remain tied for first in the Atlantic Sun standings when the Lady Bucs host Lipscomb. Tip is set for 1:30 p.m. inside
The senior class of Nichelle Akers (
The road for the Lady Bucs' goal of winning the conference championship will not be easy after suffering a 71-66 setback to
ETSU's first task begins Saturday afternoon as they look to hand the Lady Bisons their sixth loss in the short-lived series. The Lady Bucs have controlled most of the action in the six games, except for a slight slip up last season inside Allen Arena (L, 52-57). In the six meetings, ETSU is averaging a 20-point win and forcing Lipscomb to cough the ball up 28.2 times per game.
Fans unable to attend the game can watch via the live video streaming accessed at ASun.TV or by clicking the link located above.
Below is more information regarding Saturday's match-up:
About Lipscomb
Since the start of Atlantic Sun Conference play the Lady Bisons have elevated the quality of their play. Leading the way is junior forward Jilian Partin and junior post Katie Rollins. Partin has been a double threat in both points and rebounds. She is in the top 15 in scoring in A-Sun games only and is second in rebounding in conference games. Rollins leads the way with 10.1 points per game in her 24 games played. The Lady Bisons have also had improved from junior post Kaleigh Gossman and freshman guard Jenna Bartsokas.
As a team, Lipscomb has played a difficult non-conference schedule as they made trips to
After being selected sixth in the coaches poll, head coach Frank Bennett still has his club in a battle for a third seed in the conference tournament that Lipscomb will be hosting next month. Despite standing at 4-7, the Lady Bisons are only two games back from the third seed with five contests remaining.
The Series
ETSU have won five of the six games in the series, including a 77-55 thrashing last month inside Allen Arena. The Lady Bucs' lone loss came last season in
More About Monday's Loss at
The Lady Bucs saw their program-record eight-game conference win streak and season-long seven game winning streak come to an end with the 71-66 loss inside Alico Arena Monday night ... ETSU also had its streak of 101 games with a three-pointer snapped (0-for-9) and shot a dismal and season-low 42.9 percent (6-of-14) from the charity stripe ... that loss and JU's loss at Belmont puts ETSU, Jacksonville and FGCU in a tie for first at 9-2 in the league.
Thank You Seniors!!!
Today marks the second-to-last regular season home game for four spectacular seniors. Nichelle Akers, Michele DeVault, Jenny Norman and Kelly Turman have made a huge impact in the recent success of Lady Buccaneer basketball. DeVault is the all-time three-point shooter at ETSU (202 made treys), Akers' defensive pressure gives the opposing point guard fits (was also the 2006 A-Sun Defensive Player of the Year), Turman sparks the Lady Bucs off the bench with 6.9 points per game and always can be counted on to hit a clutch basket, and Norman's soft touch has lifted ETSU in its 11 conference games (averaging 10.6 points and hitting nearly 60 percent of her shots). In total, these seniors have combined to play in 418 games.
Think Pink Week
From Feb. 8-17, over 900 schools will participate in the WBCA's "Think Pink" Week, which is a global, unified effort for the WBCA's nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. Today marks ETSU's "Think Pink" day, which is why the Lady Buccaneers are sporting pink shoelaces and staff is wearing pink.
Winning Ways
Posting a 20-12 mark last season and going 18-10 the year prior, the Lady Bucs made it back-to-back winning campaigns for the first time since the end of the 2000 season. This year ETSU is looking for its third consecutive winning season for the first time since the end of the 1983-84 campaign. In order to accomplish the feat, the Lady Bucs will have to at least go 2-3 in their final five regular season games and win one game in the A-Sun Tournament.
A Look Ahead
ETSU closes out its 2007-08 home schedule when
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As he's entered middle age, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, who has been riding the spirituality circuit for more than 30 years, has started to think about life in halves: the first dedicated to establishing boundaries and a sense of self in one's own group, the second to opening oneself to a more universal vision of the world.
Rohr is quick to point out, though, that you've got to have the first before you pass into the second. "We need to begin 'conservative' with clear boundaries, identity, a sense of 'chosenness,' " he writes in his newsletter Radical Grace. "Then as we grow older, we should move toward more compassionate, tolerant, and forgiving worldviews."
Rohr's own first and second halves have been full and busy. In his first half he founded the charismatic New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati in 1971 and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986. Today, though still a popular speaker and author, Rohr spends more time alone, living in a hermitage behind his community.
Rohr became a Franciscan friar in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1970. He is a prolific writer and popular speaker on male spirituality, scripture, prayer, and other topics, and is the founding director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. His most recent book is Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation (Crossroad, 2004).
You've said that spirituality is different in the two halves of life. What do you mean by that? In a nutshell the task in the first half of life is the development of identity and boundaries. One must develop a necessary concern for the self: "Am I special? Am I chosen? Am I beloved?" Unfortunately it often takes the form of "Am I right?" leading to either/or thinking.
This accounts for much of our contemporary confusion, it seems to me. The first half of life is concerned with the container; the second with the contents. But most people become preoccupied with the container.
Can you give an example of a first-half-of-life person? Let's look at a typical military school cadet. Who would not admire him? His pants are creased; his hair is cut; he's clean; he's polite; he's on time; he loves God and country. If I need to hire an employee, give me a West Point cadet. He'll do what he's told. Great stuff, but don't for a second call it the gospel.
But, unfortunately, I think we have. For many of us, that's what it means to be a Christian, and that not only misses the point, it openly obstructs it. Remember what Jesus said: "Your virtue must surpass the virtue of the scribes and Pharisees." It's a virtue of sorts but not yet what he is talking about.
A mere concern for order, purity, identity, self-esteem, and self-image is necessary to get you started. You have to have an ego to let go of your ego. You have to have a self to die to yourself, but the creation of a positive self-image is not the issue of the gospel. Quite the contrary. That's probably why Jesus did not start teaching until he was 30 and seems to have almost exclusively taught adults.
Once you teach something like "love your enemies," you're not talking about tit-for-tat morality anymore. That kind of thinking is not understandable to people still involved in the tasks of the first stage of life. In fact, it appears dangerous and heretical to them.
How does someone move from the first half of life to the second? The two stages are not primarily chronological, although they can be affected by chronology.
Normally there has to be a precipitating event that leads to transformation. I call it the "stumbling stone," using a biblical term. Your two-plus-two world has to fail you, has to fall apart. Business as usual doesn't work. Usually that involves something very personal: suffering or failure or humiliation.
The fair-haired boy or girl who just dances from success to success will easily stay in the first half of life forever. I think that's what Jesus means by saying that it's harder for a rich man to enter the reign of God than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. It's a strong statement.
Thomas Merton wrote about new monks coming in and said he thought that since the Second World War American parents had tried to keep their children from any negative experiences. He recommended that monasteries not accept anyone who had not gone through a spiritual crisis. He argues that they weren't ready for religious life. In fact, he thought the monastery's job might be to facilitate a spiritual crisis for many of the monks.
If you are lucky, God will lead you to a situation you cannot control, you cannot fix, or you cannot even understand. At that point true spirituality begins. Up to that point is all just preparation.
Does suffering always lead to the second half of life? Not always. Sometimes it just leads you to circle the wagons of your own little group. It depends on whether you deal with your suffering in secular space or sacred space.
The secular response to suffering is to fix it, control it, understand it, look for someone to blame. You learn nothing. Unless suffering pulls you into sacred space, it doesn't transform you. It makes you bitter.
In sacred space, if you can somehow see God in it, suffering can lead you to the universal experience of human suffering, even identification with the suffering of God. At that point, you're moving into the second half of life. The questions are now more mystical than merely moral.
Are you in danger of idealizing suffering? Yes. But I'm not saying go out and search for it. Suffering is inevitable, and if you can be convinced that it is a teachable moment and not something to run from, you're doing yourself a great favor.
There are really only two paths to transformation: prayer and suffering. But because few of us just walk into a wonderful journey of surrendered prayer, you can really say there is only one path, which is suffering.
That's why Jesus talks about the Way of the Cross so much. Until your nice, coherent interpretation of reality has been beaten up a bit, why would you let go of it? Some form of suffering is the only thing strong enough to destabilize the ego, in my opinion.
What specific experiences can cause this to happen? Loss of a job can be a big one, especially if you're very invested in your work. Death, of course, is the biggest of all, especially the death of someone close or an unjust death. A major humiliation is another way. I know a lot of priests who have come to God through being accused-rightly or wrongly-of sexual abuse. The public persona isn't there anymore, so who am I now?
Moral failure is a common biblical pattern that leads to the second half of life, as we see very clearly in both Peter and Paul. Somewhere along the way my own moral failures have the power to get me to finally fall into the mercy of a loving God. If I lied to that person or I used that woman, I have to ask myself, "What kind of person am I that I did that?"
I think this is what Paul meant when he said that the law was given to us to induce failure (Rom. 7:7-13). We try to make the law an end in itself. But it is only the necessary starting place, an impossible goal of perfect love to force us to rely upon God.
I'm not encouraging sin, but I recognize that it's going to happen anyway, so you better learn from it and listen to it a bit, instead of thinking, as religious people love to do, "I'm above that."
What characterizes the second half of life? The second half of life is love, joy, peace, and the Holy Spirit. You've experienced the death of the need to be right, to think well of yourself, to think you're superior to and more moral than other people. It's a tremendous peace. You don't have anything to prove anymore. You don't have to live up to or to live down to your reputation, you just are who you are. You have met the enemy and the only enemy is you, not any other group, religion, nation, or race.
People in the second half of life are not rebels. If you're a rebel, you're still trapped in the first half. That's not wisdom yet. At the wisdom stage, you don't need to rebel or hate or oppose.
I do think only a small percentage of people get there. Some get there in the last two or three years of life. But why not start this enjoyment and freedom when you're in your 40s, 50s, and 60s?
Can you actually help people move from one stage to another? Not easily. And we cannot do it to ourselves either. We can only trust the Holy Spirit to lead us there. This is why Jesus taught what he would have called the sign of Jonah: going into the belly of the beast, into darkness. From that place God will spit you up on the right shore.
Once you learn to trust the redemptive pattern, the dying and rising of everything, you don't need to be on top all the time. Once you realize the Paschal Mystery as the redemptive process, I think you naturally pass out of the first half of life.
Jesus modeled it all for us in a dramatic way, so once and for all we could see the pattern and believe it. Unfortunately we just keep thanking him for doing it instead of recognizing that he said, "Follow me."
So Jesus was trying to move people into the second half of life? It seems that Jesus saw much of his work as getting people to see the insufficiency of mere ritual practice and tribal belonging. The majority of Jesus' teachings and healings make a hero of the non-Jew, the nonobservant person. He discredits any affiliation as a substitute for real transformation.
We still cling to that: I'm a Catholic. I'm an American. When we haven't really been transformed, we try to ride on the coattails of our group. That becomes our self-image and our identity.
I think Jesus is trying to precipitate the fall, the disappointment, by pulling away all idealistic badges and loyalty systems so we have to find our identity in God, not in groups.
Jesus also made discipleship an invitation, not a requirement. It's an invitation to a transformed life, which allows you to live in the reign of God now.
You've said that we did a good job of helping Catholic children in the 1950s in the first half of life. What happened after that?
There is much criticism about the form of religious education we used in the 1970s and 1980s, and for good reason. If you reject a good container, you eventually reject the contents, too.
Because the older generation had the first half of life shoved down our throats, we reacted against it. So then we didn't teach children how to say the Hail Mary and what the feast days are, all of which solidify your sense of specialness inside this Catholic universe.
But we were so aware of how many people had fallen in love with the container and never got to the contents. "Church-ianity" is a very common substitute for Christianity, and I think it's on the rise again. It always seems to happen in insecure times.
Still, every generation has to walk the whole journey for itself.
So you absolutely need the first half of life, right? What if you don't get it?Yes, you absolutely need it. If you don't get it when you're young, it's a big problem. You end up needing rigid rules and superiority systems in your 30s and 40s, which is precisely why fundamentalist religion is growing.
I was a jail chaplain in Albuquerque for 14 years, and these young men who wasted their youth on drugs, sex, and rock and roll were invariably very black and white in their thinking.
The young liberals of the 1960s who jumped directly to the supposed second half of life, thinking they didn't need the first, are almost always a disaster.
So how should parents who didn't get good first-half-of-life Catholic education pass the faith along to their kids?We need to give children the experience that there's something good and rich about being Catholic. Once you know that, you don't need to know that your faith is better than all the others. It's only the self-centered ego that is preoccupied with the question, "Are we right?" The soul doesn't need to know the answer to that. The soul just asks: "Is this real? Is this good? Is this true?"
Kids need to see something that their parents are "juiced" about, are energized about. You can't fake it. Kids need energy, and they like positive energy.
An example: My niece and her husband each take time out for an hour of eucharistic adoration at their parish in Kansas every week. I'm convinced that this single act is what has made their four kids say, "Boy, there is something good and deep and worthy about Catholicism." Just that one single action.
Can first- and second-half people find common ground? For me, a litmus test for whether people are in the second half of life is whether they can be compassionate and patient with people in the first half of life. That's proof that you're there.
But first-half people will either be enchanted, attracted, and lured by people in the second half-which is the pattern in a healthy culture-or they will put up huge roadblocks against them, which is what's happening in our country, both in the church and in the culture. To the person addicted to the container for its own sake, people who are into the contents will often look dangerous, heretical, sinful, and unorthodox-just as Jesus did.
Who are some people who are or have been in the second half of life? Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador is a good example. He was clearly a first-half person when he became archbishop, but the suffering of the Salvadoran people was transformative for him. He incurred the judgment of many of his fellow bishops and was very much alone by the end of his life.
I think Cardinal Joseph Bernardin moved into the second half right on schedule. In Cincinnati he was the fair-haired boy who had gone from promotion to promotion, but his heart was humble and open. I saw that personally. I think clearly by his later years in Chicago, he was a second-half-of-life person. But it wasn't the false accusation of sexual misconduct or even his illness-it was happening before that because he was teachable and honest.
I am convinced that Jesus' famous line that "the truth will set you free" was not referring to some kind of dogmatic truth, but would probably be better translated as "honesty will set you free." Absolute honesty will lead you to the second half of life.
I meet a rather large percentage of religious women who are clearly in the second half of life. They seem to walk a tightrope between loyalty to the church, the tradition, the poor, issues of justice, and their own inner experience. They hold together a very big picture.
Many people seem to gravitate toward Eastern religious practices these days. Does that have anything to do with movement from one half of life to the other? I think there is a fascination, especially in the last 50 years, with Eastern religions because they are more open to both/and thinking. Their ability to describe the contemplative mind in today's language is more developed than ours. Our Western consciousness is just moving there.
Some people will hear that as "relativism." That's not what I'm saying at all, but people in the first half of life will hear it that way, and you can't do much about that. Much of what Jesus said would be called relativistic by honest readers of the gospel, but that is the way second-half-of-life people appear to you when you have not done your inner work.
If you know where you stand, precisely that knowing, going deep in one place, opens you up to a universal place. Every spiritual teacher knows that the point is to get to the universal, to get to the truth of the God who's everywhere, what Jesus called "the reign of God."
To do that you have to go deep in one place. You have to surrender to the God before you, the God image you fall in love with and allow to be your teacher and leader, and to whom you surrender. When that journey has happened, you'll be able to see the goodness and sweetness in all people.


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After coming into the fullness of Orthodoxy, I've read threads here about people's perceptions of us, how "weird" we must seem to some. What also has been mentioned is a curious lack of interest and even curiosity from friends and family, from those who are Christian, and those who are more secular. Why is that? Is it because we are so excited about our own "enlightening" that we are expecting too much from others? Is it from lack of knowledge about Orthodoxy and they assume we are "just catholics"? I'm beginning to think they are "blinded". It almost seems unnatural. Now THAT is weird!
Thinking of my own family/friends and how they reacted, it was mostly because they were happy, and are happy, with where they're at--either happy with their Church (Uncle, friends), happy sort of floating (Mother and Stepfather), happy being a non-church-goer (Grandmother, Sister and her family), or happy not being affiliated with any "organized religion" (Father, Brother). The only one of my family to show interest in Orthodoxy was my Father, who perhaps thought of Orthodoxy as a more exotic and cooler version of Catholicism, without all that pope and celibacy business. He also commented positively on Orthodox iconography, and especially that of Jesus, and how it seemed more "right" than the blonde-haired, blue-eyed style portrayals of Jesus. My Mother has had limited time experiencing Orthodoxy, attending two services (my Christmation and Wedding), and also having some other exposure outside a worship context (wake, prayers at my home with a priest). Some of what she experienced--kissing crosses and the hands of priests, ornate churches, ritualized worship, closed communion, etc.--may have led her to believe that Orthodoxy is not for her. I may be moving back closer to home soon, and if I do I will have a chance to invite more of my family to Church (once I get a car up and running!)
Sometimes also for people to express curiousity about what has been going on in anyone else's religious life, the other person realizes that this should cause them to re-evaluate their own life. This is something many people are loathe to do, so they adopt the comfortable path of least resistance: they don't ask or do anything.
But the Jesus Prayer is the "sinner's prayer
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In the Anglo world, they say, "Keep calm and carry on." In my world, we say, "Such a mishmash!"
In the Olympics Opening Ceremonies on Friday, producer Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire") took the world on a time trip that was confusing, disjointed and a little odd.
Imagine if you were the Queen watching a mashup of the Beatles on LSD, Wallace & Gromit, children's chorale music, and a tour of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, with Kenneth Brannaugh looking like a Leprechan. Pastoral to agrarian to industrial production numbers with casts of thousands. On real sod! Plus drums. We had to ask, how many hours can he devote to forging?


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DOVER, Del. – Wesley College's fifth-ranked football team put up 14 points before its offense even saw the field and rolled to a 56-6 victory over #16 Cortland State on Saturday afternoon in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament at Scott D. Miller Stadium. The Wolverines improve to 10-1 and will take on #2 Mary Hardin-Baylor in the National Quarterfinals on Saturday, December 1 in a 12 pm start.
The victory gave Wesley its seventh season with at least ten wins, all coming in the last eight years. In their two playoff victories this year, the Wolverines have outscored their opponents 129-20 and the 129 points is the most that the Navy & White has scored in a two-game span.
Turnovers certainly did not help the Red Dragons (9-2) as they threw five interceptions and also fumbled once. On just the third play of the game, Michael Brandenburg intercepted a Chris Rose pass and returned it 22 yards for a touchdown just 46 seconds into the game. It had nearly been a full year that Wesley had returned an interception for a touchdown, with the last coming in last year's second round win over Linfield when Leon Jones went 99 yards for a score.
Cortland tried to respond on their next possession but the result ended up the same for Wesley. Rose dropped back to pass on a third-and-seven play but Devin Hardy made the sack and stripped the ball. Sosthene Kapepula then recovered the fumble and ran it in from 28 yards in to give the Wolverines a 14-0 lead with 12:54 left in the first half.
Both teams traded three-and-outs but Cortland took advantage of good field position, and with 4:42 left in the opening quarter, made a 22-yard field goal to get on the board.
Steve Koudossou capped off Wesley's ensuing drive with a three-yard touchdown on an end-around to make it a three-score game less than a minute into the second quarter. His score ended an 11 play, 72 yard drive that took up over five minutes of clock with the key plays being three-straight gains of over ten yards by Matt Barile, Jeremiah Howe and Askia Jahad.
With the momentum firmly in their hands, the Wolverines then attempted an onside kick but the boot went out of bounds. Cortland took over at Wesley's 48 yard line and eventually kicked a 38-yard field goal to make the score 21-6.
After scoring 21 points in the first half, The Wolverines put up 21 points in the third quarter on touchdowns by Koudossou, Chris Cummings and Barile to put the game out of reach. Justin Sottilare then hit Matt Bundy in the fourth quarter for a score and Devar Robinson ran one in from 34 yards out to put Wesley on top by 50 points.
An opportunistic Wesley defense allowed the Red Dragons to gain just 194 yards on the day. With the five interceptions, the Wolverines now have 26 interceptions on the year which breaks an 11-year-old school-record. Sean Hopkins picked off a pair of passes, his second multi-interception game of the year, while balls also found the hands of Jordan Wescott and Payton Rose.
Wescott also led the defense with eight tackles, including two which went for loss. Jared Morris and Terence Gavin also made eight tackles while Hardy was credited with a pair of sacks.
With thirty mile-per-hour winds a factor, Sottilare finished just 8-of-17 passing, but finished with 192 yards and three touchdowns. Koudossou had just one reception, but it went for a 78-yard touchdown, Wesley's longest play from scrimmage this season. Bundy, Barile, Howe and Robert Wiggs all had two catches each.
Led by Jahad's 90 rushing yards on 16 carries, the ground game was also working for Wesley once again who finished with 174 yards on the ground.
For Cortland, Rose finished 14-of-26 for just 100 yards and four interceptions while Tyler Hughes also threw a pick. Mike Humphrey and Kordel McInnis combined for 13 of Cortland's 17 receptions, but they only went for 96 yards.
Justin Autera was the leading rusher for the Red Dragons with just 65 yards on 23 carries.