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Former Brazil volleyball player elected IOC member
Lausanne, Switzerland, September 11, 2013 – The final day of the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina kicked off with the election of nine new IOC members including Bernard Rajzman, a former volleyball player from Brazil.
Rajzman is currently president of Brazil's National Commission of Athletes and a state congressman in his country. His election as an individual member and that of the eight other candidates brings the IOC's membership up to 112. The IOC's membership now comprises individuals, active athletes as well as representatives of International Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs).
Bernard Rajzman entered Brazil men's national volleyball team at 17, playing in three Olympic Games winning a silver medal in Los Angeles in 1984. Over his career, he also won seven South American Championships, one gold medal at the 1983 Pan-American Games, silver in the 1982 FIVB Men's World Championship and bronze in the 1981 Volleyball World Cup. He was entered into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005.
In addition to international team play, Rajzman also played for clubs in in his home country and was the first Brazilian to play professionally in an Italian club. Rajzman's Italian club, Panini Modena, captured the Italian Cup in 1978 and the Cup Winner's Cup in 1979. Back home, he helped lead Atlantica Boa Vista to the Brazilian Super League Championship in 1981 and a second place finish the following year. In 2000 Rajzman received the "Best Volleyball Player of the Twentieth Century" award from the International Volleyball Federation.
'Volley Bernard' as he is known in Brazil, has also served as National Secretary of Sport, a member of the Brazilian National Olympic Committee, as President of the National Sports Commission and President of the Commission for the Rio 2000 Olympic Games. Rajzman also served as President of the Organizing Committee for the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games, part of the Tribute to Peace held in Rio de Janeiro in September 2005 and Sub-Secretary of State for the 2007 Pan-American games.
The election of new IOC members followed the recommendations of the IOC Nominations Commission. While voting took place before presidential election, all nine members were sworn in after Thomas Bach was elected the ninth president of the IOC on Tuesday.
The nine new members did not take part in any of the voting at the session, including the election of the new IOC President.
IOC members elected at 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires
- Octavian Morariu of Romania, candidature
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Dog owners who buy toys for their best friend.
We are looking for a logo that incorporates a paw with our company name:
Company Name: Rock Paw
Slogan: Play, Bark, Run
We envision a (paw print) above or on the side of our name (Rock Paw) and the slogan (play, bark, run) below the company name. We are entirely open to any of your creative ideas but please keep in mind we want this to be easy to read and see a paw print in the logo.
If you think you have a better idea please provide us with your concept. Who knows we may like your idea better than ours!
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Thanks and bring on your skills we are excited to see your design!
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Suffolk lawmakers question merger plan
Merging the offices of Suffolk's elected comptroller and treasurer would save $1 million a year by eliminating seven jobs, county officials said Friday as lawmakers continued to express skepticism about the plan.
The administration of County Executive Steve Bellone disclosed the number of prospective job losses in a fiscal analysis of its proposal to combine the offices into one Fiscal Management and Audit department.
Comptroller Joseph Sawicki and Treasurer Angie Carpenter are Republicans; Bellone, a Democrat, said his proposal is aimed solely at saving money and is not political.
County legislators -- who must approve putting a referendum on the November ballot for the merger -- said they had significant questions about savings estimates and how the merged office would function.
Majority Leader DuWayne Gregory (D-Amityville) expressed concern that the proposal calls for Bellone to appoint an interim head of the new department who would serve throughout 2014. An elected leader would begin a four-year term on Jan. 1, 2015.
"The person who is elected to that position should be looking to set up the office, not necessarily the county executive," Gregory said Friday.
Minority Leader John M. Kennedy Jr. (R-Nesconset) said he was skeptical of the administration's savings figures and questioned whether past departmental consolidations had reduced high-paid administrative staff.
"With this administration, my posture and my stance has become like Harry Truman's: 'I'm from Missouri, show me,' " Kennedy said.
But Deputy County Executive Jon Schneider expressed the hope that legislators would approve a referendum, saying it would be "irresponsible" to block it.
According to the administration analysis, Suffolk will save $750,000 in salaries and $325,000 in benefits in 2014 by eliminating one of the two elected department heads, who each make $175,000 a year; two of their four combined deputies, who earn between $83,000 and $143,000, and four others.
Sawicki, who audits county funds, has 63 employees and a $5.6 million budget.
Carpenter, whose duties include collecting delinquent property taxes, has 42 workers and a $4.3 million budget.
Suffolk is alone among New York's 62 counties in having an elected comptroller and treasurer. Most others, including Nassau, elect only a comptroller.
Suffolk is facing a projected budget deficit of $250 million through 2014. A Wall Street bond rating agency recently downgraded the county's credit, saying officials had failed to "implement meaningful spending reductions."
The administration plans to introduce its bill at Tuesday's legislature meeting, and a vote is expected July 30.
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Kid President Kicks Off Official Easter Egg Roll
(WASHINGTON) -- The real president enlisted the help of "Kid President" Thursday as he kicked off the 2013 lottery for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
Making his Kid President debut, President Obama sent a special message to his "mini-me."
"Kid President, looks like you got my message," Obama said.
"Yes, Mr. President, I got your message," Kid President responded over a tin can phone.
The 9-year-old Kid President is a "self-appointed voice for an entire generation," telling it like it is and calling all kids to "keep on giving the world a reason to dance."
His platform? "I'm not in a party – I am a party."
Robby Novak has become an Internet sensation. His video "Pep-talk from Kid President to You" has over 10 million hits on YouTube.
As for his RSVP to the Easter Egg Roll, he told the president, "This is historic....Kids dancing. Eggs rolling. I'm in!"
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The holidays are all about spending time with the ones you love. This year, make some fun memories with your family and friends by getting a little creative and crafty together. Here are some easy DIY holiday decorations that kids and adults of all ages can put together.
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1. Glitter Wreath. Something so elegant doesn't have to cost a fortune. This easy DIY wreath will definitely add a little sparkle to your door.
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Book "Ceibal in the society of the 21st century" was published.
On June th 27th we launched the book "Ceibal in the society of the 21st century - References for parents and educators" (only in spanish, at the moment), of which I had the great pride of being compiler and coordinating the production.
As we say in the introduction:
CEIBAL Plan is a great bet of Uruguay for equity, democratization of knowledge and improving education. According to the schedule, in 2009 it will finish the delivery of portable personal computers to all primary schoolchildren and teachers in the country, while running a process of updating the education system to the reality of the times.
Children are receiving owned computers for use at school, and also in their homes, opening the possibility that its use gets shared within the family. In turn, through a huge technical effort that takes the country at the forefront in terms of connectivity, the CEIBAL Plan is carrying out internet access not only to schools but also households. This will offer to the entire community a new opportunity to learn basic computing, accessing information of interest, and engage in exchanges with other actors and agencies of society.
Within this framework, it becomes more important the effort that the country has been operating to provide services to citizens via the Internet, what is known as "electronic government". This book seeks to generate discussion about the new possibilities for the community and offer some elements for exploiting them.
The first chapter is an overview of the Plan, developed from the standpoint of the team that is responsible for defining its educational policies. This vision is complemented in Annex 2: "Educational Project".
Chapter 2 seeks to provide a historical perspective of the Plan, its origins, evolution and implications, mainly from the standpoint of social impact that is generating and that can be achieved in future.
The book was produced and printed with the support of UNESCO.
We tried to reach as much people as possible, offering different readings through photographies, illustrations, sockets, etc.
You can download it online here (pdf, in spanish).
You can access more material about the book in www.ceibal.edu.uy/gobiernoelectronico.
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Today, the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations Unit Northeast Strike Force executed a search warrant approved by District Attorney Janine Edwards at a residence in Newfoundland, Wayne County.
The warrant detailed a methamphetamine "cook" operation. The target was Lori Ann Graham of Newfoundland who had sold methamphetamine on two occasions to a confidential informant in controlled purchases run by the PSP Strike Force Unit.
Today, three individuals were found at the location in Newfoundland: Lori Ann Graham, Curtis James Buskirk of Wind Gap, Penn. and Christine Albulov of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Photography By Todd
I specialize in a natural style of portraits. My background is in nature and wildlife photography so I prefer to photograph my clients outside in a natural environment with natural light. I'm an avid outdoorsman and love the outdoors. I'm married and have 2 little girls that I love very much. I live in Georgia.
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I'm looking for a logo that is simple yet elegant. I would also like a logo that somehow conveys the idea of our natural style of photography. I'm looking for a logo that will work well on printed media (bus. cards, letterhead, packaging, brochures, etc.), products (shirts, hats, etc.) and electronic media (website). Logo needs to look good both small and large in size. I want the logo to be very unique. No cheap or cartoonish looking clip art and/or pictures of cameras to be used in this logo. Our tag line is "We Bring Life's Memories Into Focus", but this doesn't necessarily have to be included in the logo. I like earth tone/natural colors, no bright colors.
Nothing that looks feminine. I would like the graphics/symbols to be able to stand alone if necessary.
Format: The logo should be in a vector format, readable in either PhotoShop CS3 (.psd) or in Adobe Illustrator CS3(.ai). All work must be original, and we will need a statement of originality.
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Clementine isn't the first Clockwork Century novel I've reviewed. I've been a fan of Cherie Priest since Boneshaker in 2009, and Dreadnought from 2010. I was browsing Amazon's recommendations recently, and discovered that the Kindle edition of Clementine was under $3. It's also available for Kobo.
Clementine is a novella. It's shorter than your average novel, and has a relatively straightforward plot. There are two main characters, Croggon Hainey, an airship pirate, and Maria "Belle" Boyd, a former Confederate spy turned Pinkerton agent.
Both plots converge rapidly, as they focus on the safety and recovery of a stolen airship, the Free Crow from Boneshaker, renamed Clementine, and its cargo. While Clementine, unlike Boneshaker and Dreadnought, doesn't have any zombies, there are other fantastical elements at play, including a super weapon with the power to destroy a city and end the decades long civil war. While the technology at play is different from the nuclear bombs which devastated Japan to end World War II, the intent is clearly the same.
The novella is fast paced, with large portions of the book occurring in airships. We get a strong sense of style in Clementine. It's a fast paced world, with America in a long Civil War. In term of the Clockwork Century books, Clementine is not as isolated as Boneshaker, nor is it as integrated as Dreadnought. Clementine attempts to navigate in a mostly apolitical sphere. While Belle is a former Confederate spy, she works for the Pinkertons, under contract to the Union. It's a grey area, just as her sympathies remain Confederate grey. We don't really get to see much of the world in this book; we instead see snapshots of cities as the characters pass through. The world building depth is strongly hinted at, but not extensively explored in this novella.
As for Hainey? His motivation in the story is to reclaim the Free Crow, a symbol of his escape from slavery in the South. While his narrative isn't quite as intriguing as is Belle's, it complements her plot quite nicely. The two plots and viewpoint characters are well balanced. It's dynamic, and enhances the fast plot progression. This addresses the problems with Boneshaker's unbalanced viewpoint characters, while adding more complexity than the single protagonist in Dreadnought.
Perhaps the greatest weakness in the story is the shorter length. Clementine is half as long as either Boneshaker or Dreadnought. Cherie Priest's writing is fast paced, leading me to read her books quickly. Sadly, this means that the book is over far too soon. This is balanced by the price of the ebook. Clementine is good value. There are also other novels released in the Clockwork Century series, which means that the story isn't necessarily over yet.


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"And where are you from," asked the man who was sitting across from me, with his wife and two children.
We were sitting inside a gondola at Mont Tremblant Resort, riding to the top of the highest peak in the Laurentians.
I told him Montreal. I asked about him. He looked to be of Filipino origin.
"Victoria," he said.
"Victoria, B.C.?"
"No, Montreal."
"Victoria Ave. in Côte des Neiges?"
A generation ago, I didn't see very many visible minorities in the Laurentians. And even today, I still don't, but Tremblant is an exception. I don't think I have ever seen as broad a mix of ethnicities or heard as broad a mix of languages in the Laurentians as I witnessed a couple of weekends ago at Tremblant.
A lot of work has been done by the Intrawest resort chain to turn the ski resort into a lively destination during the summer and fall. Judging by all the Ontario licence plates I saw in the parking lot and hearing as I did so many visible minorities speaking good or halting French, I can only conclude that Tremblant draws well from the multicultural neighbourhoods of Montreal and Ottawa.
Of course, these days, people are coming to see the leaves, or the "fall colours" - those brilliant reds and oranges and yellows for which Quebec is famous. The leaf colours will be at their peak through the next few weeks.
Most major ski hills in Quebec operate chairlifts in the fall for visitors who want to see the colourful fall panorama from a height.
But a case can be made that Tremblant is the best option, at least for those who don't mind the slightly longer drive from Montreal. First of all, at 875 metres high, Tremblant is the tallest mountain in the Laurentians, three times higher than Montreal's Mount Royal. The cute, enclosed little gondolas are also a draw, and so is the fact that the area around the bottom of the gondola run is a lot like a little amusement park, with plenty of things for children.
At the bottom of the gondola run sits the colourful faux-European Alps village, which was built by the Intrawest resort chain after it purchased the Mont Tremblant Resort Inc. in 1991. This "pedestrian village" is sometimes confused with the much older town of Mont Tremblant, located a few kilometres away.
The gondola station is situated in the north end of the pedestrian village. This is also the location of most of the fun for kids. Here, I saw toddlers climbing a sort of jungle-gym maze called Spider Web. Older pre-teens accounted for most of the children waiting in line for a safe bungy-cord ride called Eurobungy. Mainly teenagers were scrambling up and down a rock-climbing wall. And adults and children alike were clearly enjoying themselves on the Luge, a sort of go-kart ride down a shallow winding slope on the hill.
The "fall colours" season officially opened last weekend, when the cost of taking the gondola up Mont Tremblant rose 20 per cent above summer rates, to $19.10 per adult, with lower prices for seniors and children. The fall season ends Oct. 20.
Taking the gondola up is like "zooming out" an image on Google Maps. The higher you rise, the farther you can see. Soon you can see the entire pedestrian village and most of Lac Supèrieur, the biggest lake in the region.
From the summit, all I could see in all directions were other Laurentian hills. I couldn't see the St. Lawrence Valley to the south.
On the summit, there are two hiking trails - the nine-kilometre Les Sommets, which includes the summits of adjacent hills, and the
1.1-kilometre Le Manitou - a restaurant and plenty of Adirondack chairs. And every day at noon and 2:30 p.m., through Oct. 12, a Birds of Prey live show will feature eagles, hawks and other birds. The show, which takes place off to the side of the summit, has an admission charge.
Although people can walk down the mountain (or up, for that matter), most just take the gondola down. After all, the ticket you buy at the bottom is for a round trip.
The pedestrian village is built on a slope above the main parking lots. There are good restaurants, most with large outdoor decks, and specialty boutiques. During the fall, bands will play on small stages throughout the village. Here and there, you might see clowns, entertainers on stilts, jugglers or other unusual characters.
My favourite was the "gag" policeman whom I noticed walking his beat.
He was a big heavy guy in thick-rimmed glasses with a thick black moustache drawn on with a colour marker. He was packing a pink fly swatter in his holster.
I saw him approach a group of Spanish-speaking tourists who were taking photographs in front of an ornamental water fountain.
Monsieur Cop went up to them and he barked at them in English with a heavy French-Canadian accent.
"Eh, you 'af to 'av da permit to photographee da water," he said.
The tourists looked bewildered - until they noticed the moustache and fly swatter.
"When you get back 'ome," the policeman said, pointing at their camera, "just erase it - das it, das all."
If you go:
To get to the Mont Tremblant Resort from Montreal, take Highway 15 and Route 117 north past St. Jovite. Then take the Montée Ryan exit and follow signs for the ski hill.
The Mont Tremblant gondola will operate daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Oct. 18. Prices (taxes not included) for the round-trip ride to the summit are $19.10 per adult, $17.60 for seniors, $15.45 for children age 6 to 17, and $2.20 for those age 5 and younger. There is also a family price of $62.50, for two adults and two children age 6 to 17.
There are additional charges for the activities at the base of the gondola (Luge, Eurobungy, Spider Web, among others) and the Birds of Prey live show on the summit. The Luge, for instance, costs $12 per person, or $34 for a family of four. Package deals also are offered on purchases of three or more activities.
For more information, call 866-356-2233 or go to tremblant.ca.


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Taking place in mid-1960s London, and featuring a young, dapper fashion photographer as its lead character, Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" should by all rights appear utterly dated by now. Instead, with its unblinking view of a society obsessed with pretty pictures but little else, the film has turned out to be profoundly relevant. Far from being a time capsule, as some critics assert, unlike other films that share its "Swinging London" setting (such as "A Hard Day's Night" or "Darling"), Mr. Antonioni's movie, which won the top prize at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, has much to say to an age in which nearly everyone carries a mobile device outfitted with a camera. Little of it is encouraging.
In telling the story of lensman Thomas (played by David Hemmings ), Mr. Antonioni and co-writers Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond make clear that an excessive concern with the look of things does not necessarily translate into a concern with anything else. When Thomas is not subjecting his models to endless sessions in which he tersely orders them around ("Head up, head up!" or "Hunch more!"), he is playing unfunny pranks on them, such as asking that they close their eyes for a shot while he slips out the back door. Thomas cares only about the final product, not what others must put up with so he can arrive at it, though from what we see of his handiwork it is nothing special. But don't tell that to him. "They're fabulous!" he exclaims when an assistant presents him with a contact sheet. Mr. Hemmings, whose film career was defined by this role, conveys an unswerving, entirely unearned self-confidence.
It is one of Mr. Antonioni's best touches to link Thomas with a new breed of puerile, conceited Londoner. "Blow-Up" opens with what looks to be a non sequitur, as a throng of mimes drive merrily around London before fanning out (like clowns exiting a clown car) to make trouble for the sedate, respectable citizens they encounter, including a pair of nuns and a member of the Queen's Guard. Some in the audience may wonder what the harm is in the mimes' high jinks; after all, they don't hurt anyone. Yet in the mimes' proprietary air, their feeling that they are free to sow commotion on the sidewalks and streets without reproach, they reflect Thomas's narcissism, a point not lost on critic Stuart Klawans. "The mimes are rioting their way through London," Mr. Klawans commented in a 2004 article in the New York Times, "and Antonioni immediately contrasts these happy young people with the broken-down old men coming out of a flophouse."
Later, when Thomas visits a park to take some pictures, Mr. Antonioni seems to be scoring more easy points against his hero. Who can fail to notice how ridiculous Thomas appears as he contorts his body in order to get just the right angle? The long shot chosen by cinematographer Carlo Di Palma makes Thomas look comic—more Buster Keaton than Francesco Scavullo —as he races after a flock of birds with his camera. The odds are slim that his afternoon expedition has yielded any prize-winning photographs, but then he happens to see something of real interest: a couple behaving as oddly as he is, alternately embracing and pulling away from each other. Following an impulse, Thomas begins taking snapshots of them. But the woman ( Vanessa Redgrave ) sees him and, strangely indignant, starts haranguing him about how he must give her what he shot. "You can't photograph people like that," she insists. "This is a public space. Everyone has a right to be left in peace." In a way, she is operating under the same flawed logic as the mimes: that the park, while ostensibly belonging to everyone, including nosy photographers, is hers to do with what she pleases.
The Redgrave character's high-handedness becomes even more pernicious after Thomas discovers why she is so concerned about having been photographed. When Thomas develops the photographs, his interest is awakened by a hazy figure in the background of one shot. He soon abandons his primitive magnifying glass and starts printing cropped enlargements of the photograph in question. The image grows larger as Thomas's mania to get to the bottom of the grainy blur intensifies, a mania documented by Mr. Antonioni with notable patience. In one famous shot, the camera glacially oscillates between two "blowups" Thomas has pinned to his wall, his head bobbing back and forth as he compares them; we notice the sweat forming on Mr. Hemmings's forehead and upper lip.
After Thomas becomes certain that he sees a man with a gun, however, his initial reaction is all too predictable. "Something fantastic's happened," he tells his agent. "Somebody was trying to kill somebody else, and I stopped them!" Eventually, when he identifies a second man lying wounded on the ground in another section of the photograph, thus confirming that his camera was indeed eyewitness to a murder, Thomas drops such cavalier talk, having suddenly developed a moral sense. Yet Thomas's attempts to interest others in his grim discovery are quixotic. We feel his disappointment when his girlfriend reacts with nonchalance, and he seems genuinely put off by the lethargic beatniks he encounters at a rock concert late in the film. Fortunately for us, the film soon returns to Herbie Hancock's much more agreeable jazz score.
The film closes with Thomas revisiting the park at daybreak, whereupon he discovers that the body of the man in the photograph is gone. All that remains are the quietly fluttering leaves—critic David Thomson has written that "as long as I live I won't forget the breeze in the trees in that park"—and, in a final irony, the mimes from earlier in the film. In a 1967 interview, Mr. Antonioni, perhaps playing the contrarian, declined to characterize this conclusion as pessimistic, insisting that "at the end the photographer has understood a lot of things, including how to play with an imaginary ball—which is quite an achievement." Despite the director's demurral, as we watch the thoroughly untroubled mimes attempt a game of tennis without the benefit of racket or ball, we may be reminded of the lines from Psalm 115, which encapsulate the dispiriting wisdom of "Blow-Up": "They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not."
—Mr. Tonguette is writing a book on Peter Bogdanovich for the University Press of Kentucky. His criticism has appeared in the Weekly Standard, Sight & Sound, and Film Comment.
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LITTLE FALLS -- Canastota's field hockey team has just three seniors and all played a big role in the team's run to the Class C playoffs. Once there, Shea Foster, Melissa Krak and goalie Audrey Soper did yeoman's work to help the Raiders beat perennial power Little Falls 1-0 in a shootout.
"They're my rocks," Raiders coach Marcia Laidlaw said after the dramatic win. "They've worked so hard."
Both teams did Tuesday in on and off rain at Veterans Field, and there were plenty of scoring chances. But Soper and LF goalie Christie Torres made saves or directed shots wide each time, or their defense blocked shots or passes into the circle. But once the teams finished two overtime periods still scoreless, the game went to a 5v5 shootout and Canastota (7-6-2) went first. Josie Sgarlata did not disappoint. The forward pushed a hard shot by Torres and the lead held when LF missed its first shot. Krak gave Canastota a 2-0 edge as she fired the ball in off Torres' right foot. Soper made a save on Teddi Fallis' shot to all but clinch the win for the Raiders.
The Mounties held on to the end, though, as Foster missed and Shelby Reardon quickly scored for LF to end the third round with Canastota up 2-1. Kelly Mason shot wide for the Raiders in the next round but Sara Reardon's shot went off the crossbar then down and just short of the goal for LF.
Emily Barrett tried to ice the win with Canastota's last shot but Torres made a great save to give her team one last chance. Sierra McCarthy shot over the goal, though, and Canastota head earned a berth in Saturday's semifinal against defending state champ Cazenovia at Rome Free Academy on Saturday.
"It was a great game," Laidlaw said. "The girls worked hard."
Sgarlata started the game well for Canastota with a shot in the first minute. Torres made one of her 14 saves to set the tone then play went back and forth until halftime. LF had an edge in possession at this point but eight corners in the second half helped Canastota seize the momentum. Foster and Mason had the best chances to score in the second half but one was off the mark and the other was stopped by Torres.
Sgarlata was stopped on a breakaway early in the first OT and Foster, Allyson Malbouf and Krak kept the pressure on. But Torres made half her saves in the extra sessions to give her team a chance at victory in the shootout.
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OAKLAND — A multi-vehicle wreck involving a box truck along Interstate 880 southbound in East Oakland shut down three lanes for more than an hour and had traffic backed up for miles Thursday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Officers were dispatched at 8:42 a.m. to I-880 south just south of 98th Avenue for a report of a wreck involving three or more vehicles, said Officer Kevin Bartlett.
At least one person suffered minor injuries in the crash which caused officers to close three lanes of traffic to clean the mess up.
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Lionsgate released an official statement following the tragic death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead in his New York City apartment Sunday afternoon. Hoffman had been filming scenes as Plutarch Heavensbee in Francis Lawrence's back-to-back Hunger Games sequels, Mockingjay, so he was in close contact with the studio.
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In terms of Hoffman's role in the final two Hunger Games films, here's what we know. Hoffman had finished working on Mockingjay, Part 1, and had seven days of filming left on Part 2. His loss is not expected to affect the previously announced release date for the Hunger Games films, which remain November 21, 2014 for Part 1 and November 20, 2015 for Part 2.
So it doesn't seem like Hoffman's role will have to be recast in the franchise, Not that the future of a movie franchise matters at all in the wake of Hoffman's loss. But he was excellent in Catching Fire, and we knew that he had a lot to do in the next films. It sounds like we'll be able to see what he brings to Suzanne Collins' conclusion.
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They were once a quartet. Then they were a trio. From time to time they've been a duo. But when Tokyo Tramps return to the Jasper Hill Café on Nov. 25 for an evening of blues-rock originals and covers, they'll stick with the trio format: married founding members Satoru Nakagawa (guitar and vocals) and Yukiko Fujii (bass and vocals) along with drummer Jungho Kang.
Nakagawa and Fujii, both natives of Japan, met while they were students at Berklee College of Music, but the roads that brought them there were very different.
Nakagawa, who got his first guitar when he was 14, had already been listening to American and British pop music.
"It was played on the radio in Japan," he said from the home he shares with Fujii in Boston's Fenway neighborhood. "But it wasn't mainstream. This was in the 1980s, which was MTV time, and there was a TV show featuring music that I watched every Saturday called 'The Best in U.S.A.' Then I started listening to older music, which led me to the blues, which is where rock 'n' roll came from."
Nakagawa developed an interest in those rock roots, and though he had a plan to move to New York City to play music, he first took a detour to the American South, the birthplace of the blues.
"I was living in New Orleans and going to college there, but I wasn't studying music," he said. "I left school, but still needed student status to stay here. Then I heard about Berklee in Boston, and that they were teaching contemporary American music and songwriting. I applied and was accepted in 1996."
Fujii had been studying piano in Tokyo since the second grade, but began playing bass in the 10th grade when she and some friends formed an all-girl band.
"Two of those friends only wanted to play guitar," she explained. "I had the choice between bass and drums and it turned out that I loved the bass. Later on, I was working in Japan as an editor, and at one point I came to New York on a brief break from my job. I loved the music and the clubs and the bars, and I realized this was the place I needed to live. But I took a business internship program, and through that I got an opportunity to be in Nashville for three months, and then in Boston for six months. I decided to enroll at Berklee, and I ended up staying here."
Nakagawa was singing and playing guitar in a blues-rock band at Berklee, and Fujii was singing in a band doing '80s rock covers there. But they shared the same drummer, who Nakagawa now refers to as "sort of a Cupid kind of guy."
"This was around 1998," said Nakagawa. "My bass player decided to go back to Japan, I was already dating Yukiko, and I asked her if she knew a good bass player."
"I said that I could do it," cut in Fujii.
"I didn't know at the time that she could play bass," said Nakagawa. "So, that's how it started and I failed to get rid of her (laughs)."
Lifting half of their band's name from the "tramps like us" lyric in Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run," Tokyo Tramps started making the rounds of Boston clubs, performing their mix of Nakagawa originals and covers of blues tunes ranging from Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin' " to Otis Rush's "Homework" at O'Brien's Pub, the Midway Café, the Kirkland Café, and the Abbey Lounge.
"We always wanted to be an original band rather than doing covers," said Nakagawa, who considers his own song "Come on Baby, Dry Your Tears" to be among his best. "But we have always also played obscure covers. These days, we're playing more blues, but I don't yet consider myself an authentic blues player.
"At Jasper Hill, we'll do a mix," he continued. "It'll be sort of a best of Tokyo Tramps, with a little more of our blues side featured. We also have an album coming out next year which is definitely more rock, like a sort of Hendrix style. I use a lot of fuzz guitar and it's kind of loud. We'll probably play one or two of those songs."
Tokyo Tramps play at Jasper Hill Café in Holliston on Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. No admission charge. Info: 774-233-0853.
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Folk-pop singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III plays at City Winery in Boston. His daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche opens. (8 p.m.)
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Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (yup, Loudon's son) does two nights at City Winery in Boston. Melissa Ferrick opens. (also Nov. 29, both at 8 p.m.)
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The Guy Mendilow Ensemble performs the musical adventure "The Forgotten Kingdom" at two locations over two nights. This evening at Wellesley College and Nov. 30 at Club Passim in Cambridge. (both at 7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 30:
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady lead Hot Tuna in a night of bluesy-folkie tunes at the Wilbur in Boston. (8 p.m.)
Dec. 1:
The Rebirth Brass Band presents two shows of heavy funk at The Sinclair in Cambridge. (6:30 & 10 p.m.)
Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky returns to Club Passim in Cambridge. Lisa Bastoni opens. (8 p.m.)
Veteran Martha's Vineyard-based rockers Entrain come to Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham. (8 p.m.)
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In his Confessions, Saint Augustine reflects upon his life in the light of scripture and the presence of God. He begins with his infancy, pondering the many sins of his life before his conversion, and he confesses not only his sins but even more the greatness of God. This work presents a wonderful contrast between the Holy God who created all things and whom heaven and earth cannot contain, and a commonly sinful man who has joyfully received God's loving salvation and mercy.
Many scholars consider Saint Augustine to be among the greatest and most influential fathers of the early church. And as you read his Confessions, you will find the confident humility that is common among those whom Jesus calls "great in the kingdom of heaven." Augustine writes as a common man, and so his words span time and tradition. May his Confessions guide you to the One whom he confesses.
Some excerpts from an introduction to the Confessions, by Albert C. Outler:
The Confessions are not Augustine's autobiography. They are, instead, a deliberate effort, in the permissive atmosphere of God's felt presence, to recall those crucial episodes and events in which he can now see and celebrate the mysterious actions of God's prevenient and provident grace. Thus he follows the windings of his memory as it re-presents the upheavals of his youth and the stages of his disorderly quest for wisdom. He omits very much indeed. Yet he builds his successive climaxes so skillfully that the denouement in Book VIII is a vivid and believable convergence of influences, reconstructed and "placed" with consummate dramatic skill.
One does not read far in the Confessions before he recognizes that the term "confess" has a double range of meaning. On the one hand, it obviously refers to the free acknowledgment, before God, of the truth one knows about oneself--and this obviously meant, for Augustine, the "confession of sins." But, at the same time, and more importantly, confiteri means to acknowledge, to God, the truth one knows about God. To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.
The sensitive reader soon recognizes that Augustine will not willingly be inspected from a distance or by a neutral observer. In all his writings there is a strong concern and moving power to involve his reader in his own process of inquiry and perplexity. There is a manifest eagerness to have him share in his own flashes of insight and his sudden glimpses of God's glory. Augustine's style is deeply personal; it is therefore idiomatic, and often colloquial. Even in his knottiest arguments, or in the labyrinthine mazes of his allegorizing (e.g., Confessions, Bk. XIII, or Enchiridion, XVIII), he seeks to maintain contact with his reader in genuine respect and openness. He is never content to seek and find the truth in solitude. He must enlist his fellows in seeing and applying the truth as given. [omit this section? He is never the blind fideist; even in the face of mystery, there is a constant reliance on the limited but real powers of human reason, and a constant striving for clarity and intelligibility. In this sense, he was a consistent follower of his own principle of "Christian Socratism," developed in the De Magistro and the De catechezandis rudibus.]
Even the best of Augustine's writing bears the marks of his own time and there is much in these old books that is of little interest to any but the specialist. There are many stones of stumbling in them for the modern secularist--and even for the modern Christian! Despite all this, it is impossible to read him with any attention at all without recognizing how his genius and his piety burst through the limitations of his times and his language--and even his English translations! He grips our hearts and minds and enlists us in the great enterprise to which his whole life was devoted: the search for and the celebration of God's grace and glory by which his faithful children are sustained and guided in their pilgrimage toward the true Light of us all.
From Augustine's Retractations:
My Confessions, in thirteen books, praise the righteous and good God as they speak either of my evil or good, and they are meant to excite men's minds and affections toward him. At least as far as I am concerned, this is what they did for me when they were being written and they still do this when read. What some people think of them is their own affair [ipse viderint]; but I do know that they have given pleasure to many of my brethren and still do so. The first through the tenth books were written about myself; the other three about Holy Scripture, from what is written there, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, even as far as the reference to the Sabbath rest.
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Thanks to all of the buzz that has been going around thanks to the run up to the Academy Awards, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is set to return to 2D theaters nationwide tomorrow. While this is certainly great news, as Gravity is a film that deserves to be appreciated in any format, the truth is that 2D in a normal theater is not the best way to watch the movie. In the case of this particular sci-fi opera you want to see it on the biggest screen imaginable and with as many dimensions as you can get your hands on. Thankfully Warner Bros. and IMAX are bringing that experience back.
The studio and the theater company joined together today to issue a press release announcing that starting January 31st Gravity will be heading back into domestic IMAX theaters. The news comes in celebration of the film's 10 Academy Award nominations - including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress - of which Greg Foster, CEO of IMAX Entertainment and Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp, could not be more proud. Said the executive in a statement,
"Congratulations to Alfonso, David Heyman and Warner Bros. on today's Academy Award nominations. We're delighted with the overwhelming success of Gravity and the continued demand we're seeing from moviegoers, both domestically and around the world, to bring it back in IMAX. Word of mouth has been tremendous, with fans and critics demanding that Gravity must be experienced in the most immersive way possible. The film's ample awards consideration has further cemented its place in cinema history, and we're thrilled to be able to offer it again."
Re-releases like this are always great because they can give people a chance to see titles that they may have missed during the first theatrical run, but Gravity is a special case. Even if you saw Gravity back when it was out in October, you should make a point of trying to see it again. After all, the material demands the screen size, and in the future IMAX screenings will be much less available. Take the opportunity when it presents itself.
Gravity was a favorite amongst us here at Cinema Blend, landing on three of our four Top 10 lists, and we couldn't be more excited for all the recognition its received by the industry. Relive some of the big screen magic with a couple trailers below:


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OpenAdmin Tool for IDS, the PHP-based administration console for IDS, is now available for downloadfrom the Open Source download site.
Updated 2/14/08 with new recommended PHP and XAMPP versions which are good for Cheetah and Cheetah 2.
Note: This article is based upon the "Installing IDSAdmin in a Windows XAMPP environment" article by Guy Bowerman and Inge Halilovic. The Windows version of this article is available on the IBM IDS Experts Blog.
Installation of OpenAdmin can appear complex - this article provides anexample of one way of installing OpenAdmin. This example uses an XAMPP package on Linux. XAMPP is a bundle of open-source utilities (such as Apache, PHP and PEAR) thatare used by OpenAdmin. Installing XAMPP simplifies the OpenAdmin install,but many other installation and configuration options are possible.
High-level Summary of Install steps
Detailed steps are provided below. This is the high-level sequence of stepsyou will follow:
- Install CSDK 3.00.UC1 (or later)
- Download and extract the XAMPP 1.6.4 runtime package and development package
- Download and extract PDO_INFORMIX 1.1.0
- Configure PDO_INFORMIX
- Update the php configuration file
- Download and extract the OpenAdmin package
- Start the Apache web server
- Install and configure OpenAdmin
If not already installed, install the Informix Client SDK and set INFORMIXDIR in your environment to be the location where CSDK is installed. (Note: CSDK 3.00.UC1 or later is recommended.)
To install Informix CSDK, extract the product files and run as root installclientsdk. Follow the instructions on screen to install CSDK.
Important: Even if you are installing on a Linux-x86_64 machine, you will need a Linux 32-bit version of Informix CSDK. This is because Linux XAMPP is a 32-bit build; so to build a compatible PDO_INFORMIX module, you will need the Linux 32-bit version of Informix CSDK.2. Download XAMPP and extract files.
- Download both the Linux XAMPP Runtime Package version 1.6.4 ( http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.6.4.tar.gz) and the Linux XAMPP Development Package version 1.6.4 ( http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-devel-1.6.4.tar.gz) to a temporary location
Important: You must download both the Linux runtime and development packages; the development package is necessary in order to be able to compile the PDO_INFORMIX driver.
- To install, all you need to do is untar both XAMPP packages in the /opt directory. (If you do not want to install directly in the /opt directory, you can create a symbolic link which links /opt/lampp to the directory you choose for installation.)
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.4.tar.gz –C /opttar xvfz xampp-linux-devel-1.6.4.tar.gz –C /opt
- Now XAMPP is installed in the /opt/lampp directory
3. Download and extract PDO_INFORMIX
- Download the PDO_INFORMIX driver version 1.1.0 (http://pecl.php.net/get/PDO_INFORMIX-1.1.0.tgz) to a temporary location.
- Untar the PDO_INFORMIX tar file into the /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions directory.
tar xvfz PDO_INFORMIX-1.1.0.tgz –C /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions
4. Configure PDO_INFORMIX
- Set INFORMIXDIR in your environment to the directory where Informix Client SDK is installed.
- Make sure your PATH is set so that the php and phpize executables are picked up from the /opt/lampp/bin directory. If you have another version of PHP installed and your PATH is not set correctly to pick up php from /opt/lampp/bin, you may get errors when executing make for PDO_INFORMIX due to version incompatibility.
- Important: If you are installing on a Linux-x86_64 machine, you also need to set CFLAGS in your environment to "-m32". This is because XAMPP for Linux is a 32-bit build and therefore you will need to compile PDO_INFORMIX into a 32-bit shared object file instead the default 64-bit version. This also means that the version of Informix CSDK must be the Linux 32-bit version.
- To configure the PDO_INFORMIX module, execute the following 5 commands:
cd /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/PDO_INFORMIX-1.1.0/opt/lampp/bin/phpize./configuremakemake install
Example output for these commands are shown below.
Sample output after the "/opt/lampp/bin/phpize" command:
Sample output after the "./configure" command:
Sample output after the "make" and "make install" commands:
- After executing "make install", verify that pdo_informix.so was copied into your extension directory /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
Note: For more information about building the PDO_INFORMIX module, go to the DeveloperWorks article on that topic.
5. Update the php configuration file (php.ini)
Navigate to the /opt/lampp/etc directory, and open the php.ini file in a text editor.
Edit php.ini to enable the Informix PDO driver:
- Locate the "Dynamic Extensions" section in the php.ini file and add the pdo_informix extension.
- Modify the memory_limit parameter to be at least 256M.
Memory_limit = 256M
6. Download and Extract the OpenAdmin tar file in the htdocs directory.
- Download the OpenAdmin tar file from the Open Source download site to a temporary location.
- Create a new directory under /opt/lampp/htdocs to contain the OpenAdmin Tool files (For example: /opt/lampp/htdocs/openadmin)
- Untar oatids.tar to this new directory.
- Within the OpenAdmin directory, grant write permissions to the conf and install directories and all of their contents.
cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/openadminchmod ugo+w install conf -R
7. Start the Apache web server.
- Verify INFORMIXDIR is set to the Informix CSDK directory.
- Start the web server by running /opt/lampp/lampp start as root.
You should see output similar to the following:
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.6.4...XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...XAMPP: Starting MySQL...XAMPP: Another FTP daemon is already running.XAMPP for Linux started.
Using a web browser, go to http://< machine_name >/openadmin/install where < machine_name > is the name of the machine where you have installed the products. Follow the installation instructions to install OpenAdmin Tool. After the first install screen a check will be made to ensure you have the correct PDO drivers:
Enter the base URL for your machine, language defaults, and optionallythe Google maps key for your machine URL:
8. Start using OpenAdmin
Once installation is complete you can go to the main page (http://< machine_name >/openadmin in this example), click Admin and start adding IDS 11.10 connections. Important: If you are using a version of CSDK prior to 3.00.UC1, there must be aSQLHOSTS entry on the web server machine for each connection you add .
Once a connection is defined you can return to the main screen and connect:
The connection administration allows you to create groups of connections, and assign a password for each group, making it easier to administer a large number of instances.
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@white_queen: hahaha! my bros went nuts over pokemon.. they still have the pokemon trading cards and play them from time to time.. i watched the anime sometimes but it was just a cartoon for me, not a fav or anything.. altho i could recite some of the rap
Originally posted by Rin no Rekka:
[color=red:edfd049e9a]Im one of them too. Back then i didn't know Pokemon is jap. Thought american made them. I was soo obsess with pokemon. I even play all the pokemon gameboys from red to diamond.[/color:edfd049e9a]
Yeah me too, I thought Americans made them because the songs were English... I collected the pokemon cards, now they're lying around...
Originally posted by Rin no Rekka:
[color=red:edfd049e9a]Im one of them too. Back then i didn't know Pokemon is jap. Thought american made them. I was soo obsess with pokemon. I even play all the pokemon gameboys from red to diamond.[/color:edfd049e9a]
Yea. Pokemon! Gotta Catch'em ALL!! xD My fav char in pokemon is gary (satoshi in jap? forgot). My pokemon cards are not lying around. They are simply somewhere. Probably thrown away.
Those cards were a waste...but yeah I was a lil' no-nothing-about-what-is-useful child back then...
Yeah I liked Gary too, better than Ash (dunno the Jap. names). My fav pokemon was Chikorita...ooh that was a long time ago when I was so overly obsessed...O.o
I think my first one was Tenshi Muyo.. but I really hate the series now. Then is was Rurouni Kenshin. But the very first ever.. was hamtaro
@grace_ahne: Oh god, I used to watch that too :p dunno why I liked that..maybe the cuteness?
yeah I know... I don't even remember what it was about..
I remember falling in love with Sailor moon as a little kid. My mom eventually and literally banned me from watching it when I tried "blasting" my little sister "with my love wand" and dubbing her an evil minion from the "Negaforce".
Yeah she was pretty mad about that.
I remember still sneaking down anyway and watching it, but got caught. xD
A little later I fell in love with "Cardcaptors" but never recognized it as "anime". I just knew and loved the show and it's likes as "The shows with pretty colours and big eyes".
In the library one afternoon when I was in the fifth grade I picked up an Utena manga, "Oh that looks a bit like those shows on TV..." and it's history from there. CLAMP was the first manga-ka/manga group I attached to, ever since I read "Wish".
They, much later, indirectly introduced me to shonen-ai...and...MOVING ON.
Anyways, that's how it came for mes su. <3
@Genesis: wtf, though I think I would do the same thing if I got a lil sis or bro xD because I vaguely remember that I was playing with some plastic wand or something like that, pretending to vanguish some evil minion aka nothing/air...
Hmm I do remember I did such thing to my older brother...I think ^^;;
Ah. I didn't get to do that. I remember finding a wand stick from sailormoon thingy. I wanted my mom to buy that since she says that I can only buy one thing but i accidentally broke an ultraman toy with a spring thingy and my mom ends up paying for it with the money that was suppose to buy the wand. I was really upset coz i thought i would've been getting magical powers if i didn't broke that ultraman toy.
Hah I also had such thoughts but can't think of an example right now
I read Sailormoon in primary school...hahaha I LOVED IT I went to crank those token machines, sometimes they dropped me pretty cards with the Sailors on them. I still have them =P
First anime would be Cardcaptor Sakura. All my Shonen-ai tendencies would be their fault xD yukito touya... ahh! zettai daijoubu!
The 1st anime that I fell for is Gyver.
It was really cool back then... it is violent and has blood all
over the place.
Hmm...1st anime would be Prince of Tennis (^^lll) that I fell in love with, Cause I just like the others.
1st manga would be...CLAMP works. Why I say CLAMP works? cause ist mangas were CCS and X/1999.
my love for shounen-ai started with Prince of Tennis>.<
My first and favorite manga is Instant Teen: Jusr Add Nuts. I can't really remember my first anime, but I think it was Sailor Moon.


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NASA is often criticized for wasting taxpayer dollars. The $2.5-billion rover that recently landed on Mars has brought this issue to center focus once again.
But the Space Program's research and advancements extend well beyond spaceflight into everyday life. Since the agency's creation in 1958, technologies originally developed for space missions have been adapted for commercial products and services on Earth.
To prove this point, every year since the mid-1970s, NASA has published a list of space technologies that have been integrated into everyday items. The tangible benefits span from life-saving medical devices to protective eyewear. To date, NASA has documented nearly 1,800 "spinoff" technologies. Here's a short list.
- Artificial limbs
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- Ear thermometer
- Firefighter gear
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- Long-distance communication
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- MRI and CAT scans
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The Example of Joseph F. Smith
29 March 2012
During a Church history symposium in March, Elder Ballard, who is a great-grandson of Joseph F. Smith, recounted the history of his great-grandfather. He noted that one of the many lessons President Smith's example teaches is the importance of the family.
- 29 March 2012
Today's Family: Choose Wholesome Recreation
28 March 2012
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles says our Father in Heaven designed mortal life as a stewardship of time and choices requiring "nearly constant exertion." Work enables and sustains life, brings a sense of self-worth, and consecrates a life to God's purposes. However, wholesome recreation is important to create balance with a hard day's work.
- 28 March 2012
Mormonism 101
22 March 2012
Every Latter-day Saint is called upon to explain—and sometimes to defend—the doctrines and principles of the restored gospel. Every Latter-day Saint is told to stand as a witness of the truth. A prophet and seer, Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, had those same opportunities when he was invited to present the basic beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to law students at Harvard University.
- 22 March 2012
Preparing for General Conference
21 March 2012
"If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you," Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said during his April 2011 general conference address.
- 21 March 2012
Relief Society Is Charity in Action
15 March 2012
"Relief Society has always been a strength to the Church," says Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. "It has always helped provide what was needed in each stage of the Church's development. Today its contribution becomes more poignant because of the difficult times in which we live. It's not a program per se. It is the gospel—the gospel in action in the lives of our remarkable women. In difficult times we realize it offers its members, and by extension the whole Church, just what we need to help us right now."
- 15 March 2012
Unto All the World: Priesthood Leadership Conferences
9 March 2012
What is a priesthood leadership conference? It's a meeting where stake presidents and bishops from multiple stakes meet with an apostle—or in the case of this meeting in Layton, Utah, two apostles—to receive counsel and discuss questions. Such meetings are being held all over the world.
- 9 March 2012
Counsel for Young Single Adults
8 March 2012
Elder Cook offered three guidelines based on the phrase "What e'er thou art, act well thy part," as related by President David O. McKay (1873–1970).
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Why Do We Have Trials?
8 March 2012
Why are the faithful subject to trials and tribulations? Prophets and apostles say that we are strengthened as we "wait upon the Lord."
- 8 March 2012
Rising from the Rubble
1 March 2012
"Look for the way that the Lord will consecrate your affliction for your gain," Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told Japanese Latter-day Saints during a recent visit to areas ravaged last year by earthquake and tsunami. He found that the Saints are rebuilding, rising from the rubble in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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