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A student-initiated program that has returned more than $1.5 million in state and federal tax refunds to Lancaster County's low-income residents is gearing up for its fifth year, and Franklin & Marshall College organizers said the 2014 tax-preparation season is shaping up to be another success.
Popular among students and taxpayers, F&M's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program operates through the College's Ware Institute for Civic Engagement in conjunction with the United Way of Lancaster County.
According to the Ware Institute and United Way officials, the number of returns F&M has prepared has grown in the last three years from 321 to 416. F&M's VITA site is one of 20 in the county and one of the three largest in terms of total clients served annually.
F&M VITA's previous site coordinator, Elana Machlis, a junior mathematics major, anticipates an interesting mix of student volunteers again for this coming tax cycle. Last year, 60 students volunteered from a range of majors across the College. "We have art majors doing it, humanities, science majors, everybody," she said. "The people who do it are very passionate about it."
Through the program, student volunteers annually set up tables and computers in the Booth Ferris room of Steinman College Center on F&M's campus, where low-income residents who make appointments through the nonprofit United Way will bring their state and federal tax withholding statements. Students use residents' withholding statements to prepare their income tax returns, and the students then file the returns electronically with the state and federal revenue departments on behalf of residents.
This is the third year Machlis has volunteered for the program, which she said was one of the reasons she chose F&M.
The upcoming VITA season starts in the final week of January 2014 and continues through April 15. The program is closed during spring break, March 8–16.
In four years, more than 200 students have taken part in the program, said Lisa Wolfe, the Ware Institute's associate director.
"This is a great experience for our students because it's right here on campus," she said. "They get to engage with the community and not leave campus."
Recruitment of student volunteers began in September. The application period ran through October 6. All volunteers will be trained in preparing tax returns. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service certifies every student who successfully completes the tax-return training.
Interested volunteers should visit the F&M Vita Training Site. Volunteers must attend two training sessions in November and complete on-line training during winter break.
"What's really neat about the VITA program is that it was the dream of one student," said Professor of Government Susan Dicklitch, associate dean of the College and the Ware Institute's director.
Mona Lotfipour '12, who this year started studying to become a doctor at Penn State College of Medicine, approached Dicklitch in 2010 with the idea for VITA. Once organized, 12 students signed up to volunteer.
Integrating Volunteerism Into the Classroom
After the first year, the student volunteers asked for a VITA-related College course so they could better understand the residents they were serving -- the low-income and increasingly immigrant population of Lancaster.
The Ware Institute responded, and for two years offered an interdisciplinary course on the fundamental reasons poverty existed in Lancaster. "Social In/Justice and the Vulnerable in Lancaster County" featured weekly guest speakers who talked about social justice from economic, philosophical, sociological and business perspectives.
A similar course, "VITA: The Socioeconomic Status of Working Americans in Lancaster and Beyond," will be taught in the spring semester by Economics Professor Sean Flaherty, Weiss College House Don. It will examine some existing government programs and public policy proposals designed to enhance the circumstances of and opportunities available to American workers, including the federal Earned Income Tax Credit that allows qualifying residents to reduce the amount of taxes they owe, a key element of the VITA program. All students must be trained to prepare tax returns as part of the community-based learning component of this course.
The United Way screens clients and books their appointments at the F&M tax preparation location. Student volunteers greet the clients when they arrive at the student center, and student translators are available as needed.
United Way also will provide its own, as yet un-named, site coordinator, trained in tax law and tax preparation, to oversee operations and partner with Gordon Heller, who will review all returns before they are sent to the IRS.
Steve O'Neill, United Way's VITA program coordinator, said his organization also plans to have community volunteers experienced in tax preparation working with F&M students.
"The volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds," O'Neill said. "A lot of retirees, a lot of working professionals and some other college students."
The number of clients at F&M's VITA site has increased each year since the VITA site opened, O'Neill said.
"We often see pretty large refunds coming back to our clients," he said. "Even more impactful than that is the money being saved. Each client that comes through our door is saving about $200 (in tax-preparation fees)."
Last year, F&M student tax preparers saved their taxpaying clients $83,000 in tax-prep fees and helped them realize $589,000 in refunds.
"We get people from all different financial backgrounds," Machlis said. Not everyone qualifies for a refund, though. "There have been tears and there has been happiness."


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As a fun way for my readers to get to know me since I am a new book blogger and quite unknown at the moment I came up with an idea. I am going to share the books I am embarrassed to love. This should give some insight into my personality.
As readers we all have those books that are loved in secret despite the criticism and hate those particular books receive from the general public. If asked what are we reading, they are not the books we want to mention. I think every reader most likely has lied at least once about what they are currently reading because they did not want to admit what was captivating them currently. I thought I would share five books I love but loathe to admit out of embarrassment. I will discuss the reasons behind the love and shame in my feelings toward them. Please enjoy.
The Twilight Saga
Written By Stephanie Meyer
This is at the top of my list as most embarrassing. I absolutely adore all four books in the saga and have actively read them more than once. Okay… okay… so I have read each book at least five times over the last several years. They are just so good! That is the plain stark truth. All the characters in the book are just so easy to relate to. They all have distinct personalities and qualities you would find out in the real world. Setting the supernatural aside for a minute, the people in the book are just how you would find them in real life. This is a feat many authors do not quite achieve. The love between Edward and Bella is endearing and becomes fascinating when the love triangle evolves to include Jacob. You feel for these people and want to the best for all three of them. The books are never dull, to say the least.
Vampire Academy Series
Written by Richelle Mead
This book has quite an interesting storyline for the world and vampires in the story. This book has a bit of everything. Readers will enjoy action, love, oppressive government, evil queens, best friends, and loyalty. It really is a great series. I admire and adore Rose. She is such so bad-ass. I think the reason I am embarrassed by loving these books is simply that it is a vampire series. I have frequently heard lots of negative sentiments when it comes to the "over-hyped" love and obsession for vampires; however, I just do not care. The books are amazing!
Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy
Written by E.L James
The reason I am embarrassed to love this series is quite self-explanatory and easy to guess. I have to admit though I enjoy a good romance! I have no shame in admitting so. The reason these books appeal to me especially is the growth you see in the characters themselves and as a couple. No relationship is perfect and we are all a bit messed up in the head in our own ways. The author truly reflected how real-life relationships can be. Now I have to say for the record this is not about a girl being abused or made into a slave in any way. It just isn't. That is a large misconception. Christian never abuses Ana or mistreats her. She would kick his ass if he did. She is no pushover. It really was a good series! If there had been any abuse I probably would say this. I do not enjoy reading about the mistreatment of women or men. I think everyone should treat each other with kindness and respect.
Anne Of Green Gables Series
Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery
This has to be one of my very favorites. I can listen to Anne of Green Gables for hours on audio or just read the e-book. I love Anne and the Cuthberts. I think this is an endearing coming of age story that really reflects the beauty of the small town and wonderful neighbors. I love the wholesomeness of each character and their moral values. The humor is sweet and honest. Lucy Maud Montgomery outdid herself when she created the world of Avonlea. I appreciated that it was not all butterflies and happy smiles. Real world tragedy is suffered like people do in real life. Death and lost friendships are displayed in their true form. I think the reason I am embarrassed to admit my love for these is that it really is a series for a young teen yet as an adult I can still reread them any day of the year.
Dexter Series
By Jeff Lindsay
I really got into the series through the Showtime show based off of the book. I found out it was a books series after the fact. Both are equally good but I do enjoy the insights from the books that the TV series could never portray. I am embarrassed to love this one because who wants to admit they fell in love with a serial killer. A straight madman who enjoys taking the lives of others; however, Jeff Lindsay just does that. If you know the show or read the books then you know just how lovable Dexter really is. He has a strict code and only kills others who have killed and escaped justice. The hard thing to stomach is the fact he doesn't do this from some moral standpoint. He just abides by his adopted father's very ethical guidelines so he won't get caught. Dexter is a straight psychopath with no emotions or connections to other people. I really enjoyed reading his twisted mind and as you see him start having feelings and try to live a normal life it is easy to become attached. You watch him struggle and hope he achieves getting the family and life he wants. That is all I can really say. It is definitely the unique twist on a crime novel I have ever read. They are really good and I do recommend them!
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Château Pape Clément
Grand cru classé Graves
Château Pape Clément is one of the oldest Grands Crus of Bordeaux. His vineyard - the first harvests took place in 1252 - was implemented in the XIIth century by Bertrand de Goth, younger of a noble family from Bordeaux region. Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Got became Pope in 1305 under the name of Clement V. This is where the Château inherited its name from and its wine became an icon.
Exploring the estate
Grand cru classé de Graves
Château Pape Clément
First sorting in the vineyard, manual harvest in crates. Manual destemming berry by berry and use of a sorting table. Transfer into 30-70 hl wooden vats by gravity flow. Low temperature pre-fermentation maceration. Manual punching down. 30-40 day maceration. The wine is run off into French oak barrels by gravity flow. Malolactic fermentation in oak barrels. Aging for 18 months in oak barrels.
Chateau Pape Clement in Pessac, near Bordeaux, is named after its most famous owner: Pope Clement V. Château Pape Clément is one of the Oldest Grands Crus de Bordeaux. It was in 1305, Bertrand de Goth, under the name of Clement V, entered in Avignon, a city he had chosen to install the papal court.Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Goth became Pope in 1305 under the name of Clement V. The estate took its name from this unique French Pope and its wine became an icon.
Bertrand de Goth, appointed Archbishop of Bordeaux in 1299, received on this occasion the vineyards of La Mothe, property in Pessac. He managed the estate and made it bigger. Appointed in 1305 by the conclave to succeed Benedict XI, he became Pope under the name of Clement V. Because of his new position, he had then to give away the estate to the Archbishop of Bordeaux and took the name "Pape Clement". From this day, the estate has been well managed, with continuity and quality for almost five centuries, its limited production being reserved mainly for the use of the archdiocese. By the French Revolution, the estat, went in the public domain, with successful owners. Jean-Baptiste Clerc, who acquired Château Pape Clément in 1858 expanded the vineyard to 37 ha, and thanks to his bright management, strengthened the quality of wines which then come right behind the ones of Haut-Brion. At the end of the XIXth century, Château Pape Clement wines are sole at the same price as the 2nd Grands Crus Classés of Médoc.
The vineyard of a Pope.
Château Pape Clément, located in Pessac, near Bordeaux, owes its name to its most famous owner—Pope Clement V. Born in Villandraut in 1264, Bertrand de Goth was appointed Bishop of Comminges in the Pyrenees on 28 March 1295, a position he held until 1299, when he was appointed Archbishop of Bordeaux by the Pope. With his appointment, he received Pessac vineyard as a gift, then known as the "de La Mothe" vineyard (a name referring to its elevated terrain). The archdiocese's archives provide a number of details about the Bertrand de Goth's deep involvement in his vineyards and his constant search for the most rational and efficient equipment for both the vineyard and cellars. His work was continued by the Church whose efforts turned Pope Clement's concern into a model estate.
5 June 1305, cardinals met in conclave in Perugia and elected Bertrand de Goth as successor to Pope Benedict XI, who died in 1304 after 11 months of reign. The new Pope adopted the name Clement V and chose Lyon for his coronation.
In 1309, Clement V entered Avignon, the city he had chosen for his papal court, thus breaking with Rome, a hotbed of power struggles.
From 1305 to 1309, the Pope continued managing his vineyard with all the care that made it so special. 12 December 1309, his papal duties prevented him performing this task and he decided to donate the estate to the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Arnaud de Canteloup. To Clement V, entrusting his vineyard to the Church of Bordeaux meant bequeathing it to eternity, while allowing Pape Clément's vines to thrive over the centuries to come.
During the long period that Château Pape Clement was administered by the Archbishop, modernism and technical progress made it a pioneering estate, one of the special features of which was its early harvest. We now know that the vineyard was one of the first in France where vine stock was planted in rows to facilitate tilling. This was tantamount to a horticultural revolution as plants had previously been scattered around plots.
The Revolution and the challenges of nature
In the late18th century, the archdiocese of Bordeaux was dispossessed of its assets and the vine bequeathed to it 500 years previously fell into the public domain.
Owners succeeded one another and, in turn, were forced to fight against the various scourges afflicting French vineyards at the end of the 19th century—powdery mildew, downy mildew and phylloxera.
Among them was Jean-Baptiste Clerc, a wine trader from Bordeaux, who acquired the property in 1858, and turned it into a model vineyard. It was he who confirmed the renown and finesse of Pope Clement's wines, and was rewarded with the gold medal from the Gironde Agricultural Society and the Great Medal from the Ministry of Agriculture at the World Fair of 1878, two highly coveted distinctions.
It was also Clerc who built the chateau which was redesigned by the heirs of the subsequent owner, Monsieur Cinto, another Bordeaux merchant, producing the building we know today.
8 June 1937, a violent hailstorm destroyed almost the whole of Château Pape Clément's vineyard and, in 1939, it was bought by Paul Montagne, an agronomic engineer, who, when the war finished, set about restoring it and reinstating it to the status it deserved.
Thanks to these efforts, Château Pape Clément regained its radiance and managed to resist the onset of urbanization and the development of housing in a village where, at the start of the century, there were only two thousand inhabitants and fifty winegrowers.
New impetus
In the 1980s, Bernard Magrez, an entrepreneur passionate about wine, took over the Château and built an unprecedented international reputation for the Grand Cru Classé.
Ever since, Bernard Magrez has deployed every means possible to ensure that Château Pape Clément's exceptional terroir continues to flourish through time and to express the finesse that has made its wines so famous.
2009 was an exceptional year, Château Pape Clément's crowning glory, the year when it was awarded the legendary 100/100 score from the world-famous wine critic Robert Parker, writing a new page in the history of exceptional wines.
Reconciling rich traditions and advanced techniques, the wines of Château Pape Clément are developed under the sign of the highest requirement. Through hard work, constant questioning, the alliance of tradition (especially with the use of bovine animal traction) and innovation (use of a drone to monitor the evolution of the vine) and outstanding terroir, the field produced in two colors exceptional wines.
Located in Pessac, a few kilometers from Bordeaux, the vineyard of 63 ha covers a mixture of gravelly-sandy soils and clay-limestone soils on limestone subsoil rich in iron. The planting red (30ha) consists of Cabernet Sauvignon (60%) and Merlot (40%). White (2.5 ha) and Semillon Sauvignon white (45% each) supplemented with Muscadelle (10%). The average age of the vines is 40 years in red and white 18. The planting density is high, ranging from 7700 to 9000 vines / ha contributing with weed clay parts, a favorable competition to quality ripening.
Regular pruning work, stripping and thinning to the sound and measured cluster growth. The defense vines follows the principles of sustainable agriculture.
Separation of berries from their stalks is done entirely by hand. At this unique technique succeeds separate vinification: the small volume tanks layout allows vinified separately fruits from different plots of the domain. Grapes can thus fully express their diversity. These are distinctions that provide the basis for assembly work with each vintage. The accuracy of wine-winemaking techniques applied to Château Pape Clément rewarded the area of accreditation and Terra Vitis HVE3.
Located in Pessac, near Bordeaux, Château Pape Clément is divided into three major plots with distinct characteristics and several smaller plots scattered around the village.
The geological base
The Tertiary Age bedrock (Oligocene Period) is composed of asteriated limestone forming the backbone of the Bordeaux terroir. On the lower left bank of the Garonne, it is covered by a fine, more recent layer of terrain from the Miocene Age (Tertiary Period). These are the faluns of the Bordeaux region, a soil-type characterized by pulverized shell debris. On this base lies the alluvial gravel layer, known as graves, a large mass of round blunt pebbles, coated with a finer mixture of primarily sand and clay.
The Graves : the power of the terroir
Château Pape Clément is located on the oldest of the alluvial terraces, known as the Pyrenees graves. Dating back to the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene Periods, it was spread over the substratum in torrential flows. The soil has several geographical origins: the mountainous Atlantic Pyrenees, the Pyrenean piedmont and the eastern Massif Central. Furthermore, three types of soil – tawny Chalosse sands, multicolored clays, and siliceous graves – can also be clearly distinguished. The originality of the Château Pape Clément lies in the presence of a thin top-layer of more recent Garonne graves, dating from the Günz Glacial Stage, deposited there one and a half million years ago.
Western sands
Toward the west of the estate, the graves were buried beneath a layer of eolian sand from the Landes region which spread in the late Quaternary Period, forty thousand years ago. This thick, 30-50cm layer provides the vines with a frugal yet balanced water supply.
Clay to the east
To the east, the proportion of clay increases. Clay retains water better, and diffuses it slowly. Hence, the vine matures in conditions of moderate water stress, without being exposed to sudden, extreme drought.
The leaner soil to the north
To the north, the gravel-sand terraces are particularly low in clay and organic material. On this lean and porous soil, the vines may suffer increased water stress. Full maturity is reached when a balance between the plant and grapes is maintained by special pruning.
Iron contribution
The high iron content in the subsoil and groundwater contributes to the soil's personality. According to experts, the iron content explains the spicy, smoky bouquet characteristic of Château Pape Clément wines.
The vineyard
Red varieties (55 hectares)
The red vines are divided into 60 % Cabernet sauvignon and 40% Merlot. Cabernet sauvignon is mainly planted on the gravel and sand-and-gravel areas. It brings the blend its tannic structure guaranteeing healthy aging in bottles. Merlot, meanwhile, is better adapted to clay soils, and produces round, rich and velvety wines, dominated by ripe fruit. Note that over 60% of the vines are over 25 years old, including a large proportion over 40 years old. The presence of old vines brings extra finesse and elegance.
White varieties (8 hectares)
45% Sauvignon blanc, 45% Semillon and 10% Muscadelle. With their very different characters, these three grape varieties bring the blend its finesse and rich complexity. The Sauvignon, especially, a lively variety with fresh, fruity, invigorating notes, brings the acidity and structure necessary for the good aromatic expression of all white wines. Semillon produces fat, suave wines, with notes of ripe fruit and honey, giving the blend its ability to age in bottles.Muscadelle, meanwhile, brings a special, intense touch, which contributes to the complexity of the palate.
Plantation: the competition principle
Vines are planted at high densities, between 7700 and 9000 plants per hectare. This highly competitive environment, as well as the choice of low-vigor rootstock, naturally weaken the plants and create the optimal conditions for ripening. Grass is planted in-between the most clay-rich sections, further increasing competition for water between the plants.
Pruning and thinning: recreating the natural order
Pruning is carried out in winter according to the "Guyot double" technique, without downward spurs, providing two canes, each with three buds. After the buds burst, only the three most exposed and best distributed branches are left on each cane after debudding. A build-up of vegetation is not allowed. As the ripening phase approaches, the foliage is thinned by hand to create an ideal micro-climate for the clusters, providing the right air flow and light. While the lower leaves are removed, the fruit themselves are not exposed to direct sunlight, as this may cause burnt and over-ripe aromas. Leaves are first thinned on the least exposed side of the plants in June. Then in August, leaves are removed from the other side. The clusters are thus gradually acclimatized to light and good air-flow naturally slows the development of undesirable fungi. Between two phases of leaf removal, the clusters too are thinned (known as the "green harvest") to remove the substandard clusters. The misplaced clusters, which are too high or too close together, are removed first. Then, as the grapes ripen and take on color, clusters that would be too late for harvest are also removed.
Customized harvests
Following much observation and analysis – of subsoil, soil, leaves, and grapes – throughout the year, each task is carried out at the optimal time according to the plot. Hence we naturally set separate harvest dates for each. The harvest team may vary between thirty to a hundred people depending on the day, according to the number of parcels deemed to have reached perfect maturity. During harvest, participants carry out an initial selection. For white wines, the important criterion is the golden color of the clusters. It is thus common for a plot to be harvested in two or even three successive sessions, with several days to a week between them. White grapes are only picked in the morning before outside temperatures get too high so as to preserve aromas and prevent oxidation. The grapes are hand-picked and placed in small crates to prevent compression and premature juice extraction.
Reconciling a wealth of tradition and cutting edge techniques, Château Pape Clément wines are made to meet the highest quality standards. Separate vinification. Small vats are used to enable the separate vinification of grapes from different plots on the estate. The grapes can thus express their full diversity. The distinction between the grapes becomes the basis for blending each vintage.
Meticulous manual destemming
The separation of the grapes from their stems is carried out entirely by hand. Here, rather than removing the stems from the fruit, we remove the fruit from the stems grape-by-grape. This operation is very labor-intensive but does enable us to obtain whole grapes only, without undesired extraction or early release of juice.
Gentle pressure
For the white wines the crates are emptied manually into a pneumatic press. The pressure is slowly increased, without breaking up the press-cake, so as to extract only the purest of the juice. The must is directly transferred to barrels by gravity, without pumping.
Fermentation: the contribution of oak
Château Pape Clément's red wines are vinified in oak casks. This favors uniform fermentation, unlike steel vats which are prone to temperature variations. Maintained between 29 and 30°C during fermentation, then between 27 and 29°C during maceration after fermentation, moderate temperatures allow for gentle extraction of tannins and color. Before the wine is drawn off, fermentation varies between 20 and 35 days depending on the evolution of taste in each vat.
Egg-white fining
Some batches may turn out to be too cloudy, so we clarify the wine using beaten egg whites as fining. This attracts and precipitates any suspended particles, which fall to form a sediment on the bottom of the vat.
The art of blending
Blending aims both at achieving the concentration and complexity worthy of the greatest wines, and to maintain, from vintage to vintage, the unique qualities of Château Pape Clément, characterized by smoked and spiced notes, fruity aromas and a rich and elegant body. Thus, the blender can slightly vary the proportions of the grape varieties to find the right balance that brings the most attractive harmony of palate, and the best potential for bottle-aging.
Aging suitability
For red vintages, wines are casked into new barrels by gravity, without pumping. During aging, malolactic fermentation takes place and lasts between 18 and 20 months. Barrels are selected from eight different cooperages so that the oak note is as delicate and discreet as possible. In order to prevent them from drying, white wines are kept in barrels for no more than 12 months, then the barrels are maintained at a low temperature for a month. This clarifies the wine naturally and avoids chemical or physical treatment during bottling.
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Road Trip: My Life Measured in Muffulettas from Central Grocery in New Orleans
"J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured out his life in coffee spoons—mine could be described as a timeline of muffulettas."
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The stretch of I-55 between New Orleans and Oxford, Mississippi, is rather barren when it comes to good eats, so before my dad and I started our five-hour trek to the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium, we knew we'd have to pack a good lunch. I'd been eying the soft shell crab po'boy at Stanley that morning, but my heart was set on another classic New Orleans sandwich. Say it with me now: The Central Grocery muffuletta. Luckily, it wasn't a Monday.
My dad and I have a very special relationship with this famed Central Grocery sandwich. Stepping between shelves of Zapp's Cajun potato chips [Ed. note: we're big fans of the Voodoo chips too] and tins of Amaretti biscotti was almost like a nostalgic stroll through my childhood neighborhood.
J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured out his life in coffee spoons—mine could be described as a timeline of muffulettas.
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The first muffuletta I remember was too fresh. It was winter break of my fourth grade year, and we were headed to Nana's in Florida for Christmas. We'd zipped through the French Quarter and were on our way back to the highway. I was seated snugly in the backseat next to the cooler. I could almost taste the perfect combination of olive salad and salty salami. I slid my hands quietly over the top of the cooler, doing my best to ease it open, but Dad's eyes shot to the rearview mirror at the first squeak.
"Katie, you have to give it time," he said. I knew perfectly well that the best muffuletta needed time to let the olive oil soak into the bread and drip down between the layers of salami and pistachio-studded mortadella. But as was quite characteristic of that time in my childhood, I was anxious.
Anxious to wear makeup, anxious to watch grown-up movies, anxious to eat my muffuletta. So I jumped the gun. Ignoring my dad's warnings, I sunk my teeth into the soft Italian bread. Olive oil gushed between my teeth and down my chin, and napkins were nowhere in sight. Sitting alone in the backseat, admiring the still-wrapped sandwich of my patient father while the olive oil of my own ran down my arms, I learned to wait.
I'll never forget the muffuletta I ate the day I became a woman. Traffic was horrible as we rolled into the Crescent City, so my dad handed me some cash and told me to grab some sandwiches while he circled the Quarter. I darted across the street and pushed my way through the crowds, completely unaware of any strange looks I might have received. As I stood in line at Central Grocery, casually admiring jars of roasted red peppers and jams, my younger sister crashed through the door, wide-eyed and out of breath.
"Katie!" she said in a harsh whisper, "Turn around!" Confused and suddenly extremely self-conscious, I turned my back to the wall. Without having to be told, I instinctively drew my hands to my backside, confirming what I was afraid she'd noticed as I'd made my way down the street. It wasn't my mom who was the first to share in my transition from girl to woman, nor a caring aunt or best friend. I'd begun adulthood side by side with the shoppers of Central Grocery.
And then there was college—I have the muffuletta to thank for a snarky-yet-endearing college essay that, while very possibly stained with olive oil, got me admitted to every school I applied to. I bought that muffuletta with my own hard-earned $9.25. "I hope my college career will be just like this muffuletta," I wrote, "richly flavored, spicy, multi-layered and memorable."
I can't say that my undergrad years at the University of Texas turned out quite that romantic, but the sandwich we scored for the drive to Oxford sure was. Every time we meet, it seems I've grown and changed and it's stayed exactly the same.
Dad in the driver's seat, Gator Tators in my lap, muffuletta in the cooler, we'd made our last stop. And to think, the real eating hadn't even begun. It was off to Oxford.
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SUNY Canton Names John Gray as 2013 Distinguished Citizen
SUNY Canton honored a longtime supporter of the College and community volunteer with the 2013 Distinguished Citizen Award.
John J. Gray Jr., CPA, founder and managing partner of Gray & Gray Certified Public Accountants in Canton, was recognized for his decades of public service and dedication to the area's economic development.
"John Gray has worked tirelessly in the community to make Canton and the North Country a better place to live and work," said SUNY Canton Interim President Carli C. Schiffner. "It is fitting that SUNY Canton is recognizing his many achievements and contributions with this award."
Gray has helped develop long-range economic development goals for the village through his work on the Canton Economic Development Steering Committee. He also lends his financial expertise to the Canton Chamber of Commerce where he has served as treasurer since 2004.
"John has vast financial knowledge, which, over the years, he has shared generously with several volunteer organizations throughout the North Country." said retired SUNY Canton Vice President for Administration Charles F. Goolden.
Gray has sponsored numerous exhibits with the Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY), a not-for-profit folk arts organization in Canton, and he was instrumental in transforming an abandoned building in downtown Canton into professional office space and luxury condominiums.
In addition to his position as treasurer for the St. Lawrence Childcare Council, he serves on the Town of Colton Planning Board and was a member of the SUNY Canton Business Advisory Board. Gray is also actively involved in his church, where he donates his time to assist with events and acts as a consultant on financial matters.
"I feel honored and fortunate to know John Gray," said the Rev. Raymond J. Moreau. "He is a person who has, and continues to be, involved with his church and community and has brought hope, spread joy and enlivened people — myself included."
Gray received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Clarkson University. He and his wife, Christine, have four children and live in Colton.
Since 1976, the SUNY Canton College Council has given the Distinguished Citizen Award in recognition of exceptional and distinguished service to SUNY Canton, to the community, to the state or to the nation.
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- Date: 09/14/2019 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Location: Fire Station 24 - Lower Level
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Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60192
- Introduction: Heartsaver AED is a certified CPR class which incorporates AED training. Attendees will learn to perform CPR on adults, children and infants.
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Barley replaces arborio in this "risotto."
- Yield
- Makes 4 main-course servings
- Total Time
- 40 minutes
- 6 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup pearl barley
- 1 ounce dried porcini mushrooms, broken in half if very large
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 large (10- to 12-ounce) onion, chopped
- 1 large Bosc pear, halved, cored, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 cups diced cooked dark turkey meat
- 1/3 cup dry Marsala
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
- Bring 6 cups broth, barley, and mushrooms to boil in large saucepan. Cover; cook over medium-low heat until barley is just tender, stirring occasionally and adding more broth by 1/4 cupfuls if barley becomes dry, about 35 minutes.
- Meanwhile, melt butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion; sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper. sauté until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Add pear and sauté until just tender, about 5 minutes. Add turkey.
- Add barley mixture and Marsala to turkey mixture. Simmer until creamy, adding more broth if dry. Mix in most of parsley. Season with pepper. Mound in bowl. Sprinkle with remaining parsley.


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
Al Qaeda has chosen Egyptian Al Qaeda member Saif al-Adel as interim leader while it decides on a more permanent successor to Osama bin Laden, according to independent but unconfirmed reports. While Mr. Adel has long been a senior member of Al Qaeda, his appointment comes as a surprise to many. It may signal a rift in the organization, which many expected would now be led by Mr. bin Laden's longtime No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
CNN's Peter Bergen attributed his information to former Libyan militant Noman Benotman, who once had ties with Al Qaeda but is now an analyst with British think tank Quilliam Foundation. The Pakistani paper The News based its report on sources it said were in attendance at a recent Al Qaeda meeting when members voted on bin Laden's successor.
Mr. Zawahiri and Adel were both part of the Egyptian militant group Islamic Jihad, which was responsible for the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Adel, like Zawahiri, is on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, with rewards of up to $5 million and $25 million, respectively, being offered for information leading to their capture. Adel is wanted for involvement in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, and is also believed to have been involved in Somalia and Afghanistan – where he fought the Soviets in the 1980s as well as US-led NATO troops beginning in 2001.
He reportedly fled to Iran early in the war, however, and only recently resurfaced with the publication of five letters that "directly [challenge] the claims to the al-Qa'ida legacy made by the more familiar faces of the post-9/11 al-Qa'ida organization – Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Yahya al-Libi in particular," reported Jihadica.com, the online clearinghouse of militant literature, in February.
According to Mr. Benotman, Adel was chosen as an interim leader because members have been clamoring for a formal successor to bin Laden but Al Qaeda is not ready to choose a permanent leader. Several leaders currently in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region made the decision, rather than the full shura council, because Al Qaeda was unable to convene the complete council.
The News reports that a man named Mohammed Mustafa Yamni is likely to be named Al Qaeda's chief once the full council can be convened. Zawahiri will remain in charge of Al Qaeda's military arm and will take over monitoring Al Qaeda's international contacts, Adel's previous responsibility, the paper said.
If it's true that Adel has been chosen over Zawahiri, it would be a major demotion for the more senior Egyptian militant and could signal a "major split within militant ranks," the Guardian reports. The leaders of Al Qaeda affiliates in Iraq and Yemen have already thrown their support behind Zawahiri and may not accept Adel as a leader, even an interim one.
"[Zawahiri] is the right person to take over. All wings of al-Qaida would approve of him and all Jihadist movements trust him greatly," Rashad Mohammed Saeed Ismail, a Yemeni cleric linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was quoted as saying.
The Christian Science Monitor reported last week that Mr. Zawahiri has been a divisive figure in Al Qaeda who lacks the "charisma" to lead the organization.
... Mr. Zawahiri, a surgeon and the scion of an upper-class Egyptian family, strikes many as haughty and droning with little of the ability Mr. bin Laden had to inspire. Irascible, he is given to fueling obscure ideological conflicts within jihadi ranks; Al Qaeda itself reportedly split into two factions before bin Laden's death, with Zawahiri in charge of the spinoff, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Three decades ago, a member of Zawahiri's Islamic Jihad group recognized his lack of leadership, reportedly telling him, "No matter what group you belong to, you cannot be its leader."
According to Reuters, Adel is also suspected of setting up Al Qaeda training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan in the 1990s. US officials believe Adel fled to Iran after 9/11 and was put in Iranian custody, but was freed a year ago and moved to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.
A report by the prominent German magazine Der Spiegel a year ago said Adel had been under house arrest for nine years in Iran, and called his release "possibly the biggest break" Al Qaeda had had in a decade.
Spiegel, which is known for its investigative reporting, quoted Australian scholar Leah Farrall, who was writing her doctoral dissertation on Al Qaeda's command structures, as saying: "Not only would Saif al-Adel's return to the field greatly bolster al-Qaida's operational capability, and bring a rigour to its external operations, but his longstanding connections to groups whose relations with al-Qaida have been subject to tension could herald a new era in operational cooperation for attacks against the West."
CNN reports that Adel's Egyptian roots could be problematic for some members because some in Al Qaeda insist that the group's leader must come from the Arabian Peninsula, where Islam's two holiest sites are located. Bin Laden was from Saudi Arabia. Benotman speculated that Adel's appointment might be a way for Al Qaeda leadership to test the waters and see if the group's full membership would accept the leadership of the previously expected successor, Zawahiri, who is also Egyptian.


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Tereos Syral - Starch, starch derivatives, alcohol and proteins
Tereos Syral is a leading producer of starch, starch sweeteners, polyols, fibres, alcohol and proteins in Europe. The company is also extending its activities to South America.
Tereos Syral transforms wheat, corn and cassava into a wide range of value added products in compliance with the current and future requirements of the food and drink industries. Tereos Syral is the starch activity of the international group Tereos.
Our products range:
- Native and modified starches
- Liquid sweeteners: liquid maltodextrins, glucose syrups, dextrose syrups, fructose syrups and blends with sucrose
- Dry sweeteners: maltodextrins, dried glucose syrups, dextrose monohydrate and anhydrous
- Polyols: sorbitol and maltitol, syrup and powder Maltilite
- Fibres: fructo-oligosaccharides syrup and powder Actilight
- Vegetable wheat proteins: vital wheat gluten, soluble wheat proteins Meripro
- Alcohol
Tereos Syral & innovation
Innovation gets the best out of vegetable raw materials for the benefit of our customers. Tereos Syral runs an ongoing innovation programme to ensure superior efficiency in its industrial processes and top-line product quality to help drive customer development.
The company's application facilities in Marckolsheim (France) and Zaragoza (Spain) hot state-of-the-art pilot and analytical equipment, specifically designed to work with our customers. Customer-dedicated technical-support engineers provide a tailor-made, on-time service at our customers' plants. They support food and beverage manufacturers in optimising sweetening formulations and in the creation of new products.


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Hi Sister,
Is there a patron saint of ice cream? (Or people who love ice cream, or people who make ice cream, or cooks and bakers in general?) Thank you
Funny you should ask. Just the other day I had a hot fudge sundae for dinner. I figured that since we are celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus I could splurge a little and the thing had so many calories, that should be all she wrote, eating wise.
And yesterday I had a milk shake in the afternoon. One of those delicious fountain kinds, with real ice cream, not that gloop that causes your eyes to pop out of your head when you try to suck it through a straw like at McDonald's. I can't believe anyone likes those! Why not just buy a big cup of wet grout?
It looks like you and I may be in the same patron saint boat when it comes to a love of ice cream, although it is a rare treat for me, since I value my heart and my ability to climb stairs.
But there isn't actually a patron saint of ice cream per se. Once again, we'll have to extrapolate. I do think you'll be pleased with the result.
Off the bat, we have a couple of great saints as patron saints of cooks: St. Martha and St. Lawrence. You'll see that St. Lawrence also had a hilarious sense of humor, if you love high irony.
Next, we have the patron saint of bakers and sweets, who has a scrumptious thigh expanding cake named for him, the French St. Honore, also known as Honorius. He has a couple of baker stories to back that up.
First, when he was named a bishop and the word got back to his hometown, the woman who had been his nursemaid said, "I don't believe it! In fact, I won't believe it until this peel I'm using in my recipe here takes root and grows a whole tree." Of course, that happened. It turned out to be a raspberry tree, in fact. Talk about high irony.
Then, in the 13th century a baker put up some money to build a chapel in St. Honore's name and it became a very rich chapel. In the 15th century, the french bakers launched their guild in that chapel.
Then we'll add in the diary products to the sugar with St. Brigid of Ireland, who is the patron saint of all things lactose, including the intolerant because of a couple of milk related miraculous. One was when a beggar asked her for a drink of water and the water she poured for him turned to milk. Hope he wasn't lactose intolerant, or it wouldn't have been such a hot miracle for him. He must not have been. Miracles are never bad things and the milk would have provided the poor man more nutrition.
And finally, we'll have to keep our sweet cream nice and cold and throw in St. Nicholas, better known as Santa Claus. He never lived anywhere near the North Pole until the 19th century, but since that's his last known address, we'll go with him for cold confections. He likes children, too, and as we all know, children (and old ladies) love their candy.


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brazil nut(redirected from Bertholletia excelsa)
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Brazil nut,common name for the Lecythidaceae, a family of tropical trees. It includes the anchovy pear (Grias cauliflora), a West Indian species with edible fruit used for pickles, and several lumber trees of South America, e.g., the cannon-ball tree (Couroupita guianensis), some species of Barringtonia, and the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa). The latter is found chiefly in Brazil along the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, but extensive groves have also been planted in N Bolivia. The edible Brazil nuts grow clumped together in large, round, woody and extremely hard seed pods the size of a large grapefruit. The meat of the seed (the "nut") is very rich in oil. The Brazil nut family is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Lecythidales.
Brazil nut[brə′zil 'nət]
Bertholletia excelsa. A large broad-leafed evergreen tree of the order Lecythedales; an edible seed is produced by the tree fruit.
brazil nut
1. a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
2. the nut of this tree, having an edible oily kernel and a woody shell


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I received this email today, but I won't be able to participate. Any takers? Please resond on the groundspeak forum link below. Thanks
Hello there folks. I'm helping to put a national multicache together and the last place we need is Winnipeg.Could you have a look at this forum and let me know if you are interested?http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=135847I also sent a note to Lizardo but have not heard back from him.
I just got all excited at the idea of a Canada Multi-cache! Just as long as someone from Manitoba offers up, it's all good. I defer to Lizardo - he even lives in Winnipeg after all :)


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Danica Patrick going pink for breast cancer awareness
NASCAR fans won't be seeing Danica Patrick's familiar green GoDaddy car on the track this month.
Instead, Patrick will be driving a pink No. 10 Chevrolet in each of the four October races to help raise breast cancer awareness.
Patrick, wearing a pink shirt and pink sneakers, unveiled her new GoDaddy car in Times Square on Tuesday.
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Chevrolet also has created a pink pace car for select races in October and will donate $200 to the American Cancer Society for every lap the pace car leads under caution at last month's race at Atlanta and upcoming races at Talladega and Martinsville.
GoDaddy-sponsored IndyCar driver James Hinchliffe also will drive a pink car this weekend for the IndyCar doubleheader in Houston.
GoDaddy also is teaming with the Public Interest Registry to donate $50,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Patrick's first "pink race" will be Sunday's Hollywood Casino 400 Sunday at Kansas Speedway.
"GoDaddy has been such a strong partner in the fight against breast cancer ... the fact GoDaddy wanted to 'go pink' for the whole month of October really says a lot about our commitment to this cause," Patrick said.


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"Avatar" director James Cameron once posited the notion that movie ticket prices should be reflective of how much each individual movie cost to produce. Movies that cost a lot – like his – would cost more to attend. And "Paranormal Activity" would cost five cents.
With "Avatar," Cameron has gone a long way to realizing that idea. The movie is only a week or two away from becoming the top-grossing movie of all time both here in America and globally, topping the director's own "Titanic". And one of the reasons why "Avatar" is making so much money, and making it in record time, is because seeing "Avatar" costs more than seeing your average film.
If you want to see "Avatar" as it was meant to be seen, you need to see it in 3D and on an IMAX screen. In some areas, that means paying as much as $16.50 for a single adult ticket. And maybe you have one of those theaters in your town that charges an extra premium on top of that to serve you booze and filter out children, an idea I always support. That could make your ticket price go even higher.
No one ever paid $16.50 to see "Titanic," that's for sure. In fact, adjusted for inflation, according to Box Office Mojo, "Avatar" is only the 26th highest grossing film of all time. In terms of the pure number of tickets sold (and those totals are elusive), "Avatar" is certainly not the most widely seen movie of all time. Not yet, at least.
But here's why it deserves to be crowned #1 anyway. These supposed corrected box office totals don't account for the fact that people were willing to pay more to see "Avatar." That needs to count for something, because "Avatar" has taken advantage of film technology the way no other movie ever has, and people are falling over themselves to pay a premium for it.
We live in a world where the price of most entertainment has fallen down to nothing. Music and movies are continually pirated online, and eBooks are poised to turn every book you buy into a $10 or less exchange. The fact that "Avatar" is going against the grain, by getting more people to pay more money for something they usually get at a lower price, is a huge tribute to what Cameron has done. And that's why, when "Avatar" becomes the #1 movie of all time a few days from now, it will have more than earned that crown.


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UPS expects to deliver 29 million packages Tuesday
UPS calls this week "peak week," and Tuesday is considered a record-setting day for the company.
Driver Bob Katravas keeps a steady pace, moving from location to location, sidewalk to walkway, with packages in hand.
The holiday season brings plenty of activity.
VIDEO: Tuesday is UPS' busiest day
"We double the work load, but we have helpers. I'm about to pick mine up around noon," Katravas said.
He's already taking on a busy day.
UPS said it expected to deliver 29 million packages around the world Tuesday -- a single-day record for the company -- with 300 packages delivered every second.
The facility in Elm Grove handles customers all over southeast Wisconsin.
"Normally we process about 53,000 packages, but today we're going to be up about 37 percent above that," said Andy DeLeon of UPS.
An increase in e-commerce is one of the reasons for the higher volume.
"Online shopping has definitely had an impact in our overall shipping," DeLeon said.
With extra deliveries, this time of year, Katravas takes the busy season in stride.
He's done it before.
"It's kind of a routine. It keeps us in shape. Luckily, we can, it helps out. We can eat whatever we want. We stay in shape. It's good," Katravas said.
The company hired 55,000 seasonal workers. Locally, DeLeon said they brought in an additional 1,000 employees for the season.


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I get the fact that it's an easy concept. The lab my teacher wanted us to construct is a random phone number generator.
The area code has to be 218, 312, or 731, it can't be anything else. He told us that we can use Math.random() for this method, but I cannot think of a way how the computer can generate those numbers unless there's an if statement. Any help? I'll post my code if needed. I just don't know the concept I am supposed to use.


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Mamnuts and PyTalker are dead, long live TZMud!
I had several choices, really. I could choose to undertake the huge task of fixing Mamnuts (actually throwing away most of the underlying NUTS-inherited code), but it was simply too much work. Or I could take PyTalker by the horns and just make its idea work - which had an estimated amount of man-hours quite inferior to the first option. But... what about maintaining and expanding it afterwords? One of the issues with PyTalker would be that, as soon as a working version was released, I would have to work on implementing each feature Mamnuts had, to be able to have a convincing argument against the usage of Mamnuts, leaving to the side the only unarguable preference: the common "but I prefer C to Python!" (and, really, there's lots of people saying that in the talkers world, imagine that!). I hoped to find a good team to do the job with me, but others would find even less time than me to dedicate to the job. It wouldn't work. Sigh. Well, I would have to do it by myself... with the use of nice Python frameworks. And, while looking at those and who contributed to what, I just saw that there was a third, quite more interesting option: get back to the origins - now without configurability limitations - and assume once and for all that a talker is a kind of MUD with certain particularities. And so, the best way to deal with my issue was, really, find out the best configurable, well-maintained, clean, active, secure, with a nice community MUD codebase, and try to just add the configurable options needed to turn a MUD codebase into a "MUD/Talker codebase", or, in fact, a MUD with a configuration option that would let you set it up to behave like your typical talker, with just something like
allow_utf8 = TrueNow, guess what... that's exactly what you need to do to turn the MUD codebase "TZMud" into a talker. That's right: TZMud is a server to host a multi-user domain (MUD) in the tradition of LPMud, but implemented in the Python programming language, and, since it's 0.9 version, with a configurable option to turn it into a NUTS-like talker.
speechmode_default = True
talkmode = True
This is also, obviously, the time to say goodbye to PyTalker and Mamnuts. Don't be sad: you'll be probably able to find me lurking on the TZMud project. And, most importantly, if you're planning on running a talker (or running one already), switch to TZMud. It lacks lot's of features, that's for sure, but that is easily fixed: just open a ticket asking for what you're missing. Feel free to contribute with code, if you can, the project maintainers are quite open and happy to review/accept your code.
This is the last blog post on Mamnuts' website.


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Background: Family: Wife, Carole; three children; six grandchildren. Profession: Retired social studies teacher, Minneapolis Public Schools.
Experience: Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives since 1973. Author and supporter of education funding, tax reform, protecting privacy, affordable health care, environmental protection, labor relations, and consumer protection.
Recognition: Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Minnesota State University Mankato Public Service Award, Metropolitan State University. Distinguished Service Award, U of M Extension Service. Carroll Award, MN Vocational Association. Legislator of the Year Award, MN State University Student Association. COPE Legislative Leadership Award, MN Federation of Teachers. Legislator of the Year Award, MN Technical College Administrators Association. Legislative Achievement Award, MN Association of Financial Aid Administrators. Outstanding Performance Award, MN Community College Student Association. Representative of the Year Award, MN State University Student Association.
EDUCATION Rep. Carlson, the DFL Lead and a member of the Ways and Means Committee, has been a strong supporter of education at all levels. He believes that quality education is not only a right in our society, but also the most important responsibility we have to the next generation. He will continue to work to ensure that every Minnesotan has access to high quality, comprehensive educational opportunities and that educators and parents have the tools they need to impact learning more effectively.
HEALTH CARE AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS Rep. Carlson has initiated and supported legislation that has improved health care services for the people of Minnesota. He has supported improvements including: the care of residents of nursing homes, school immunization programs, basic health care coverage for pregnant women and their infants, and programs aimed at reducing the cost of family health care. Carlson is a strong supporter of Minnesota's landmark legislation that makes quality, affordable health care accessible to all Minnesotans. He will continue to work to reduce the costs of health care and prescription drugs without sacrificing the quality of care.
BUDGET AND TAX ISSUES Rep. Carlson believes that the Legislature must continually re-examine state spending priorities to make sure that we are getting the most for our tax dollars. The Legislature must remain committed to a sound and fair tax system that adequately funds essential services and does not over burden our citizens. He has been a strong supporter of the Homestead Credit and improved property tax refund programs for homeowners and renters.
JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Rep. Carlson is committed to job creation and economic growth. He believes the economic security of our people is essential to the well being of our state. He has supported legislation to strengthen our economy and to provide good jobs and better job security for our citizens. Rep. Carlson believes the key to economic security is to maintain our commitment to education, which provides a highly trained workforce, and to invest in research in those areas which foster an environment attractive to new industries and employment growth. To support the Minnesota economy, the legislature must put a top priority on the transportation needs of our growing region.
ENVIRONMENT Rep. Carlson is keenly aware of the increasing need to preserve and wisely manage the state's natural resources. He was chief author of the Metropolitan Open Space Act, legislation that aids local communities in the drafting of ordinances for the protection of our open space and water resources. He believes the Legislature must continue its efforts to assure a healthy environment for the people of Minnesota. Since Minnesota does not have any appreciable energy supplies within its borders, Rep. Carlson supported legislation that requires better planning for future energy needs and makes a significant commitment to develop renewable energy sources.
PUBLIC SAFETY Rep. Carlson supported Minnesota's landmark anti-crime legislation that set a new standard of tougher penalties and increased prevention in the state. While Minnesota has lower crime rates that two-thirds of the nation, he believes there is no acceptable rate for crime. He will continue to support efforts to assure the safety and security of the citizens of our community.


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February 25
A Tradition of Principled Resistance
By Marsh Chapel
It is the season of Lent, and again, come this first Sunday in Lent; we meet Jesus in the wilderness. There He resists. In the time honored tradition of a three part story, we are given a lesson about making and keeping human life—human. Here, as in our other gospels, the Lord faces and masters the various temptations which we also know. They include a kind of will to power, and a sort of pride, and a type of avarice. We come to church with some experience temptation and resistance and temptation. As the song writer says, 'good experience comes from seasoned judgment–which comes from bad experience'.
In many communities, including our own, the sun rises this morning, this Lenten morning, on experience of loss and hurt. This morning there are homes and families who have suddenly known unexpected loss. This morning there are friends and groups of friends who have been faced with mortal danger. At one breakfast table, a wife now sits alone, for the first time on a Sunday in 60 years. At another breakfast table, a family gathers for the first time, in a long time, and missing a member. It would help us to remember just how short our words do fall in trying to describe the depth of these moments. Our words arrive only at the shoreline, at the margin of things. Beyond this we practice prayer, a kind of sitting silent before God.
Our immediate community here along the Charles River today mourns unexpected losses in a recent, tragic fire. Along with the scripture and the music, amid the hymns and prayers of our worship, there walks also among us today, by the mind's farther roads, a recognition of loss. There is some shock to loss. There is a kind of fear that comes with loss. There is, often later, an honest anger. There is some numbness. There is a real, and good, desire to do something helpful. There are questions, numerous and important. And there is the one haunting question, too, why?
We do not know why these things happen. We hurt, and grieve. In the bones. At the deeper levels, we just do not know, and for a community committed to knowing, and knowing more, and more, this means wandering in a serious wilderness. Give us an equation to solve. Show us a biography that needs writing. Provide us with an experiment. Happily we would organize a committee, or develop a proposal, or phone a list of donors. But loss, unexpected and unfair, is tragic. The tragic sense of life takes us out into wilderness, where we learn to resist.
Faith is resistance. Faith is the power to withstand what we cannot understand.
We are in worship this morning to attest to something. Faith is the power to withstand what we cannot understand. Worship is the practice of faith by which we learn to withstand what we cannot understand. God is the presence, force, truth, and love Who alone deserves worship, and worship is the practice of the faith by which we learn to withstand what we cannot understand. Worship prepares us to resist. So we see Jesus again in the wilderness. To resist all that makes human life inhuman. So here you are, come lent, come Sunday, come this Sunday.
This week you may, suddenly, find that a choice is required of you, through no fault, intention, planning or device of your own. Further, the choice you want to make perhaps could involve refusal and resistance: refusal of a request from an archetypal authority, resistance to a popular mood, resistance to an ingrained habit, refusal of the pleas of a friend. Russell Lowell predicts that at least once to every person and group comes such a moment to decide.
With all your heart you may want to refuse, to refuse. An invitation, a suggestion, a promotion, a direction, an order. Your heart may say: This is not me, not right, not good. Resistance always costs. Resistance means sacrifice. Resistance hurts. The slings and arrow of fortune's discontent draw blood. Resistance, refusal. Does such principled denial have a place in Christian living? Dare ask: Does God evoke and use refusal? Does Christ, God's everlasting Yes–in whom Paul says there is no longer Yea and Nay, but only Yes–Does Christ desire resistance and refusal?
For Daniel, refusal to give up his family name, his religion, his faith landed him, with the others, in trouble. You enjoy the story, I know. Daniel resists the order to blaspheme, and accepts punishment, even death. Bound in the heart of fire, the prophet of God is protected, strangely, by God who answers prayer.
For Naboth, refusal came more dear. Old King Ahab had every vineyard he wanted but one. He asked for the land. Naboth refused. He asked again, this time presumably in a more kingly voice. Naboth refused. Ahab asked again, with a hint of threat on his tongue. Naboth refused. And Ahab went whimpering to bed. Not so, Jezebel, who simply took Naboth aside, and cut off his head. Refusal can either cost you a king's friendship, or your head, or both.
John of Patmos did something to put himself out on the rocky prison isle, a first century Papillon, as he wrote his Revelation, our last Bible book. Refusing to worship Caesar? Names jeeringly attached to Rome–beast, satan, whore? Resistance to the more established synagogue?
What if I were to shout to you this morning that this church had received a magnificent bequest, a precious gift left us by an ancestor? Further, were I to announce that this one gift was worth more than all our buildings and all our current endowment and all our church program put together? Would you not dance, sing, soar?
You inherit a tradition of principled refusal, a pearl of great price, a treasure hidden in a field, a precious gift. A tradition of principled refusal.
Several summers ago an older woman was robbed at gunpoint in her own home. The newspaper, perhaps accurately, has quoted her in full as regards her view of this crime: "We are raising a generation of hooligans."
Pummeled still, even in old age, even in closeted retirement, the violent spirit of the age pounds at her, lacing her with blows left and right. Yet she resists! You may recognize her, now.
This was Rosa Parks. A younger Mrs. Parks found herself, seated midway back in a Montgomery bus, on December 1, 1955, pummeled again by the hand of aggression, the Strong Man of this world. For some reason, she refused to move. Bus stopped. Police came. Crowd gathered. Anger, shouting. The Montgomery bus boycott began. A tradition of principled resistance–this is your native land, your mother tongue, your home territory.
The prophets of old knew this. They spoke about God's unbending holiness. They spoke about God's own refusal to set a divine seal on any present moment, any present setup, any present arrangement of power. They spoke about human suffering, about how God sees, hears, knows, remembers, and intervenes for the suffering. They spoke about God's justice, critical of every established power. They refused. Here it is: "Prophetic speech is an act of relentless hope that refuses to despair, that refuses to believe that the world is closed off in patterns of exploitation and oppression." (Brueggeman).
My son had only one request for a gift one year. He showed me a catalogue that pictured a little grill, for cooking meat, " A lean, mean fat reducing machine, guaranteed to reduce each average hamburger by 3 oz of fat–$59.95" Then I noticed the sponsor of this culinary instrument—George Foreman. And I inflicted a story on my son, as parents do.
In 1974, one of the greatest boxing matches of the century pitted Mohammed Ali against the world champion, George Forman. Kinshasha, Zaire. November 2. Ali predicted: "The most spectacular wonder human eyes have ever witnessed." 60,000 cheering fans, shouting, "Ali Bu Mal Ye", which antiseptically translated means, "Go get him".
Scenes: Forman charging, rounds 1-6. Forman 25, young, strong, powerful. Recently defeated both Frazier and Norton. Ali: 32, guile fitness and will. After 5 rounds, Forman arm weary and bewildered. 3rd Round, Ali leans to crowd: "He don't hurt me much". 5th round, Forman tantalized by the stationary target, angry, frustrated. Angelo Dundee had loosened the ropes! Ali, later: "The bull is stronger but the matador is smarter". Then, 8th round: "Ali is leaning back against the ropes, inviting the champion's hardest blows suddenly in the next instant he springs forward and brought Forman down. Down the strong man went, the first time ever he had been knocked out.
The historic Christian church in this country has been on the ropes for a generation, 30 years of blows to the midsection. God's spirit is not in a mode of lightening triumph, for those who would still maintain a real connection between deep personal faith and active social involvement. But the eighth round is still coming…
Those who may need to resist and refuse today are part of the spiritual rope strategy, the wearying of the Strong Man, the resistance of evil, the binding of evil. It's not pleasant. Hurt, setbacks, delay, confusion. But there is an eighth round coming! There is an eighth round coming!
How hungry the church is today to perceive this truth. God is at work, in part, to encourage and give stamina to those on the ropes, using Ali's rope a dope strategy, binding the Strong Man.
A tradition of principled resistance.
I can imagine an objection or two.
Well taken, is your perhaps silent objection thus far: some refusal is Godly, but some is not. Too often those who resist or refuse are simply petulant, immature, arrogant, slothful, idiotic, selfish. Agreed…But we speak here not of forms of hypocrisy, so many they are. Rather, we speak of principled resistance, which shows its character by enduring body blows, by leaning against the rope and aching.
Or, maybe you doubt that refusal takes a part of small stage play. Perhaps only the civil disobedience of Ghandi or the peaceful resistance of Martin Luther King or the risky French Resistance of Albert Camus stand out, great historic refusals, great moments of common endurance. But you would be wrong, I suggest, to think so. Most resistance is hidden, unheralded, unknown, unrewarded. Most principled refusal is known only to the one sagging against the ropes, the one catching the body blows. Most real principled resistance is very ordinary.
Tithing is primarily a form of spiritual refusal, refusal to accept the world's understanding of success and refusal to accept the implication that all that we have is ours alone. Worship is primarily a form of spiritual refusal, refusal to accept the world's time clock, where all time is meant for work or play. Marriage and loyal friendship are primarily forms of spiritual refusal, refusal to accept the world's low estimate of intimacy, refusal to accept the unholy as good. Choosing carefully is primarily a form of spiritual resistance: "We live in a society that primarily starves our soul…we have to really resist the culture to care for the soul…but…if we choose with care our professions and ways we spend our time and our homes in which we live, if we take care of our families and don't see them as problems, and if we nurture our relationships and friendships and marriages then the
soul probably will not show its complaints so badly." (Moore)
You are a part of a tradition of principled resistance.
In 350, Philip of Macedon wanted to unite Greece, which he did except for Sparta. He did everything he could. Finally he sent them a note: If you do not submit at once I will invade your country. If I invade I will pillage and burn everything in sight. If I march into Laconia, I will level your great city to the ground. The Spartans sent back this one word reply; "if". (laconic).
You may not need this word today. You may want to remember it, though, especially if you are young. For one day, one day, you may want to use some of your spiritual bequest, your prophetic endowment. You may need to draw on the tradition of principled refusal.
Good news has it that along the ropes, and upon the cross, Jesus has bound up the Strong Evil, subverting by being subject to, and so empowered us to resist.
A year before he was executed by the Nazis, languishing in a small prison cell, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this hymn:
"By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered
and confidently waiting, come what may,
We know that God is with us night and morning
And never fails to greet us each new day."


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If you can't open your negotiation the right way, you'll have trouble closing it. Here are two opening moves you shouldn't forget:
1. Put on your game face. When you open, it's about attitude. He who appears to want the least gets the most. At the beginning, one of the biggest mistakes is to seem too eager or desperate. Instead, try to appear hesitant, indecisive or bored. This will lower your opponent's expectations and force him or her to consider concessions he or she was hoping to avoid. This reverse psychology will bring the other side closer to the deal you want.
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I have been blogging for five years now.
In September of 2008, when I was a high school senior who fancied myself enough of a writer that I thought I should do it publicly (still not sure if that was a good idea), I started my first blog. It was drama-laden and iffy at best in the adjectives department and still exists if you really want to go there. But don't think I'll be providing the URL.
In September of 2011, I began my second blog upon departing for a semester in Salzburg, Austria. I only posted about a dozen times on that one, since I was, you know, living my grandest Sound of Music daydreams.
In December of 2011, back from my travels, I decided that I didn't want to return to the high school Blogger blog, and anyway, I had a new goal in mind: I was resolved to blog once a day, every day for the entire new year. Thus Eight Days a Week was born on WordPress. When that year ended I stuck around for another year, blogging about whatever struck my fancy.
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Although it's not really goodbye, I want to take what feels like a solemn moment to thank all of you for reading, for following, for liking, for commenting. Thanks for not rolling your eyes when eye rolling was more than justified. At least, thanks for not rolling your eyes where I could see you. It has meant a great deal to have the support of fine folks such as yourselves.
I hope that you'll follow the link below to the new blog**, where an introduction is waiting:
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THERE is only one place in the world left for Lance Armstrong: inside a prison cell.
For the sake of the thousands of innocent athletes around the world, and the purity of sport, Armstrong must now be handed the severest possible penalty for his worldwide confession that he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout the peak of his career.
Armstrong may have chosen the way he wanted to confess - in a plush leather chair in his own lounge room and in front of old mate Oprah Winfrey - but that is where his choices should end. There is now no place to hide from authorities who should be on his doorstep handcuffing him as I write these words.
Armstrong is in a much worse position than that other cheat, Marion Jones, who spent several years denying drug use, perjuring herself and being sent off to prison. Her drug use was not her ultimate undoing. She never returned a positive sample.
Like Armstrong, it was the perpetual lying, and then the confession, that cost Jones her personal freedom. Unlike Jones, though, Armstrong conned an entire generation of fans who not only admired his sporting prowess but bought his entire Livestrong philosophy after he beat testicular cancer.
His cancer awareness network (whatever that means) has been almost cult-like in its refusal to believe Armstrong's detractors and doubters. Millions of dollars have been raised in Armstrong's name.
He has such a large personality that even after the smell of a confession this week, talkback radio was inundated with those who remain steadfast in their support of the man.
Undoubtedly, the Winfrey confession will merely bring more of those supporters out of the woodwork.
It always astonishes me how people like Armstrong manage to keep a corner full of sycophants, hangers-on and conspiracy theorists.
His arrogance and his tendency to sue anyone who dared to utter the word cheat around him ensured that the "baddies" in the media paid dearly if they dared to report the evidence. Those in his corner still believe he has been vilified without justification.
British journalists have spent years chasing Armstrong and their allegations cost their bosses millions in defamation payouts. The money should now be paid back, along with the sponsorship dollars, appearance fees, the prizemoney and the donations.
That he has admitted to being a bully, to steamrolling those around him who were pointing the finger prove the man is as close to the devil as a human being can be.
The big challenge for authorities now is prosecuting their man, cleaning up his sport and repairing its damaged reputation on the Olympic front. Confessing to a talk show queen might be as much as he believes he needs to do, but the world of cycling needs a hell of a lot more before justice is served.
Cheats in cycling are still out there. In a sport where not cheating is seen as a rarity, the only solution to the long-term doping that has dogged it is to make an example of the bloke who held the cycling torch for more than a decade. Only a jail term will put the cheats who are out there on notice.
Armstrong was to cycling what Ali was to boxing. He transformed his sport from a mainly European pastime into a worldwide juggernaut. Armstrong's drug taking made it all right for an entire generation of competitors to think it was OK too. Seeing him get away with it meant everybody jumped on.
The sport had a level playing field.
That its leading light was a cheat for the best part of his career must surely mean the current bosses of cycling will be out on their ears. He says they didn't know. That is just about as bad as knowing and not acting. Track and road cycling remain dotted with cheats. Rumours swirl around the sport at Olympics and Tour de France time about doping and the pride some cyclists take in beating the testers. The dopers are still out there winning medals and fat contracts.
The United States drug agency will be having a quiet celebration today. They finally have a sniff of an arrest after years of chasing Armstrong. It will not be until he is behind bars, though, that cycling can start to rebuild. There is something about seeing someone as big as Armstrong in jail that jolts those still out there into reality.
Armstrong's confession after all these years means, quite simply, the world's most arrogant athlete has finally been trapped. I look forward to seeing him handcuffed.
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