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Faith in French Canada
A weekend winter pilgrimage to Montreal. Jan. 29 issue feature.
Stepping out of the Notre Dame Basilica of Montreal on a late afternoon in early January, the light and color was just right: Ornate lampposts cast a warm glow on the snowy ground as white angels cast a blue light at the entrance of the church, welcoming visitors.
Father Daniel Hennessey had invited members of the Sacred Heart House, a Catholic men's household that I live in, to go to Quebec for a pilgrimage.
It didn't take me long to agree to go. Having not returned home for the holidays, a break from Beantown would be a welcome turn, and the cost was really low — an easy choice.
Our pilgrim band was a group of five: three of us guys, Father Michael Harrington and Father Hennessey, who graciously took on the driving duties in his new vehicle. The two priests work in vocations for the Archdiocese of Boston.
On Friday evening we battled rush-hour traffic to reach the Catholic center at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where the director there, Father Jon Schnobrich, hosted us for our quick stay.
Rising early on Saturday morning, we crossed the northern border for an epic day.
A Saint's Devotion
A pilgrim's trip to Montreal certainly should include a visit to Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal (Saint-Joseph.org), which the Register has chronicled on this page (such as in "St. André's Magnificent Monument to St. Joseph").
Today's massive shrine — the biggest in the world to the earthly father of Jesus — started with a devotion to Joseph by St. André Bessette, a religious brother of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.
The saint known as "God's doorkeeper" was an orphan by age 12 and often frail in health. The oratory is a testament to God's blessings on the lowly and the underdog — to those who humbly serve him. The undereducated saint, who appealed to a bishop to stay with the novitiate, eventually attracted much attention to his comforting presence. Healings were attributed to his advice of going to St. Joseph, and crutches of the healed are many at the shrine. When he died in 1937 at the age of 91, a million people paid their respects.
A better part of a day can be spent at the oratory. Visitors can go to confession and Mass, visit his tomb, and even see his heart preserved in a reliquary. I particularly liked the series of devotional stations to St. Joseph in a candle-lit hallway around St. André's tomb. The husband of Mary is an amazing role model for us men.
Don't miss the exhibition of André's life and an original chapel of the saintly brother.
We stayed overnight in the Jean XXIII Pavilion, a comfortable abode that can host about 30 people.
Our Lady's Churches
We also visited two other massive churches that day, but not before we enjoyed a leisurely lunch at Pasta Piacere on the same street as the Basilica of Notre Dame (NotreDameBasilica.ca/en).
There is a $5 admission to the basilica (not for visitors going to Mass or the Blessed Sacrament chapel), but when you see the exquisite interior and realize that the funds go to the church's conservation and restoration, it is really a small price to pay.
This fee also grants visitors a 20-minute guided tour, which we especially enjoyed. Helen, the presenter, gave an engaging, poignant and sometimes humorous overview of the church.
Major construction was completed in 1829; bell towers, the remarkable interior elements, a world-class organ and stained-glass windows were added in the subsequent century. Striking to me were the altarpiece sculptures that point toward Christ's Eucharistic sacrifice, including Melchizedek, Abraham and Moses. I especially liked the rendering of Mary's coronation by Jesus. Blue light illumines the altarpiece from behind.
To really take in the history, beauty and lights of the venerable basilica, be sure to attend an evening show called And Then There Was Light. This is a large-scale, multimedia narrative presentation the likes of which I have never seen in a Catholic church.
Retractable screens and canvas eventually give way to a church lit up at night.
That afternoon we also made a short visit to the Cathedral-Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World. The third-largest church in Quebec is based on St. Peter's Basilica in Rome — and even has a scale model of Bernini's baldachin over the altar.
Saints and other figures instrumental in the history of the Canadian Church are well represented in the paintings and stained glass of these two churches.
Blessed Trip
Our tour guide, Helen, assisted us with a cell-phone conversation that allowed our two priests to concelebrate a Sunday morning Mass at a country parish: On Sunday morning we attended Mass at the parish of St. Matthew in Beloeil, where Blessed Marie Rose Durocher worked between 1831-1843. Father Hennessey is a distant relative of the saint and had looked forward to seeing the interior of the parish, which was another beautiful example of reverent interior design. After an extended Lord's Day brunch at Café Du Vieux and a walk along the quaint main street, we headed back to our native country.
Throughout our car travels, we prayed as a group — morning and evening prayer, the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. We included intentions for priestly vocations to the Archdiocese of Boston and for the people we met. We also bonded as friends and as brothers in Christ.
After crossing the border back into the U.S., we listened to an NFL playoff game on the radio, a dramatic overtime victory for the Denver Broncos that ended shortly before we arrived back at Father Hennessey's rectory.
In this age of high-definition television, we enjoyed listening to the announcer, who vividly described the action on the gridiron.
A certain quarterback (see story on page 2) gave thanks to Christ after the game, and we also gave glory to God for a blessed trip.
Justin Bell writes from Boston.


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iKanji touch in Review – a stroke of å'Œ
Learning Kanji (Chinese characters) is the biggest hurdle to pass in attaining Japanese proficiency. In fact, it may be the most important key to unlocking fluency. But Kanji is hard to learn especially if you don't use it in daily life. ThinkMac Software, author of iKana touch, have really laid the hammer down, pounding a great educational rhythm into iKanji touch for students of all levels of Japanese. Feel free to discuss iKanji touch in our forums.
Just like its analogue, iKana touch, iKanji touch is a fluent creation; it is easy to use, elegant, and helpful. Firstly, it is comprehensive, covering all frequently-used Japanese Kanji (more than 2 000 with more than 16 000 example compounds), and broken into a plethora of study categories. It features several study methods and makes excellent use of the touch screen. Speaking of touch, if you add traditional Chinese to your input menu under Settings, you can draw kanji which the search engine will find – excellent helpful tool for when out and about!
An important point which iKanji touches is primary school kanji study patterns which are added to the standard JPLT study patterns. While non-Japanese struggle through arbitrary levels decided upon by the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Japanese students learn in a completely different manner. Studying both patterns helps to cross-reference study. In fact, studying primary school kanji helps students build vocabularies helpful for every day use. iKanji touch is packed with example words and multiple ways to study specific kanji.
As you progress through study levels, you can opt to add kanji to practice sets, and kanji which you don't remember will be added into a revision set which can later be edited. The practice system, which allows a number of study methods is excellent. Study methods alow you to study kanji: overviews, meanings, readings, compounds, and stroke order. Each system is straightforward, testing from a number of choices and meandering within practice sets to make sure that study is effective within selected groups.
Again, the only problem with iKanji touch is inherited from the same omission which struck iKana touch: lack of blind tracing. Users can trace kanji's strokes for practice on order, but without a blank-slate study system, memorisation isn't as effective as it could be.
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Since the second-string to my bow is a comics writer, I obviously scanned the Eisners list to see if any of my mates, peers or people who I bought drinks for once had been short-listed for anglophone comics most prestigious awards. So I'd seen Ivan Brandon's 24/7 anthology, Jonathan Hickman's Nightly News and Jason Aaron's Scalped got nods. Hell, even my eye-rolling at Casanova not getting nominated again was leavened by Fraction getting a little appreciation for his Spider-fellow pictorial narrative and his Immortal Iron Fist with Mr Brubaker. But I didn't realise, until commenter Briosafreak mailed me, that Obsidian's Chris "Will forever have Planescape Torment in this gap" Avellone is included in a nomination. Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures is in the best Kids comic category, to which Avellone contributed stories in issues 7 and 10. So a hearty congratulations to him.
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Southbank Centre's Gamelan Programme offers something to suit everybody: from family, school and group workshops to regular classes and performances. No previous musical experience is necessary to play the gamelan and enjoy its wonderful sounds.
Southbank Centre is home to a beautiful Javanese percussion orchestra known as gamelan, and throughout the year there are many chances for you to hear and to have a go at playing it.
In 1987, Southbank Centre was privileged to receive a beautiful Javanese percussion orchestra called gamelan. This was a remarkable gift from the Government of the Republic of Indonesia to the people of Great Britain as a gesture of friendship. As in the case of many important gamelan ensembles, the gamelan was named 'Kyai Lebdha Jiwa' or 'The Venerable Spirit of Perfection'.
Founded by Alec Roth, Southbank Centre Gamelan Programme has since reached out to thousands of people and provided many opportunities to learn about and play these amazing instruments. The gamelan programme is facilitated by a core group of expert tutors, many of whom have lived and studied in Indonesia and have a wide knowledge of Indonesian Arts and culture as well as a prolific background in Western music. There are now over one hundred gamelans in the UK and a thriving gamelan community in which our tutors play a vital role.
Southbank Gamelan Players, Ensemble in Residence at Southbank Centre, have an international reputation for the performance of traditional Indonesian music as well as new music for gamelan and exciting collaborations with musicians and dancers across a variety of art forms.
Gamelan is both a rewarding musical and social activity. Playing the gamelan can inspire self-confidence, improve coordination and listening skills, encourage team-building and be a great opportunity to try something new or develop your playing skills in a relaxed and friendly environment.
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The term gamelan refers to the ensemble of percussion instruments on which traditional gamelan music of Java and Bali is played. A complete Javanese court-style gamelan comprises two sets of instruments, one for each tuning system: sléndro (a five-tone scale) and pélog (a seven-tone scale). Within each of these tunings are three pathet, a Javanese concept referring to both mode and mood. No two gamelans are tuned exactly alike; each ensemble is unique and may often be given a name.
The layout of the gamelan reflects the role of the different instruments in the music. In the middle of the gamelan, the balungan (or 'skeleton' melody) is played on the bronze metallophones (saron family and slenthem).
The balungan is punctuated by the larger gongs (gong ageng and kempul) and the horizontally-mounted gongs (kenong, kethuk and kempyang) at the back of the gamelan.
At the front of the gamelan a selection of more complex instruments embellish the melody - the two bonang (double rows of gong chimes mounted on a frame), gendèr (multi-octave metallophone), rebab (fiddle), gambang (xylophone), siter (plucked zither) and suling (bamboo flute). A complete ensemble also includes a gérong (male chorus) and pesindhèn (solo female vocalist). The whole gamelan is co-ordinated by the drummer in the centre of the ensemble, playing a selection of kendhang (double-headed drums).
Traditionally, gamelan music is used in Java for a number of different artistic and cultural purposes. The gamelan can often be found at religious ceremonies, palace rituals and many occasions including weddings, funerals, coming of age ceremonies, village cleansing rituals, celebrations to mark the birth of a new child or important events and birthdays.
The gamelan is often used to accompany dance or shadow-puppet plays and other theatrical forms. Gamelan is also played during klenengans - occasions where communities and local musicians get together to perform for enjoyment or to mark a particular social event.
In addition to ancient traditional gamelan music, popular genres co-exist (Campursari, Keroncong and Dangdut) which are vocal oriented and can sometimes incorporate Western instruments - keyboards, trumpets and drums - with Western tuning.
Southbank Gamelan Players, Ensemble in Residence at Southbank Centre, was founded in 1987. Collaborating with dancers, puppeteers and composers from Indonesia, Europe and the USA, the group has established an international reputation for its performances of traditional Javanese repertoire and its championing of new music for gamelan
The group has commissioned and collaborated with a wide range of musicians including Björk (MTV Unplugged), Alec Roth and Salvatore Sciarrino (ISCM World Music Days).
Notable performances have included the BBC Proms (1998) with artists from STSI Surakarta, an all-night wayang kulit with Ki Purbo Asmoro (2007); collaborations with contemporary choreographers and dancers including Mark Morris Dance Group (Edinburgh Festival), Wayne McGregor and Kenneth Tharp; new British gamelan music at the International Gamelan Festival in Malaysia (2009); and an Arts Council England tour (2010) of Southbank Centre commission Rubber Time, a collaboration between Indonesian composer Rahayu Supanggah, SbGP and electronica duo Plaid.
They premiered SENDRATARI, a Javanese dance-drama featuring shadow-puppetry and multi-media choreographed by Matheus Wasi Bantolo and featuring artists from ISI Surakarta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in July 2013.
Organise a team-building away day with a difference and play the gamelan at Southbank Centre. Work together and get creative in this workshop, which is designed to improve co-ordination and develop how your team communicates with each other.
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Additional rooms and catering can be booked separately as part of your team-building experience
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Quality matcha powder should be a bright, almost lemongrassy in color. When mixed with hot water for a traditional matcha tea, depending on how thick you like the consistency, the color should range from that lemongrass green to a deep emerald green without any brown undertones. When I prepared U-Matcha Natural with hot water, the brown undertones really came through and gave me more of a swamp green. Not appealing. In color alone this matcha falls short of what you should be getting for the price. At $17 for 1.5oz you're paying for ceremony grade matcha and receiving merely cooking grade. It has a strong, bitter taste; more of an earthy taste than fresh or vegetal, with not even a hint of sweetness. REALLY DISAPPOINTED. Don't waste your money; if youre buying matcha to make lattes and experiment with in the kitchen then buy a cheaper matcha. If youre a traditional matcha tea enthusiast then buy a different brand.
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Singer-songwriter Alex Cuba hails from Artemisa, Cuba (1 hour west of Havana) and resides in Smithers, B.C. (14 hours north of Vancouver). Musically, he lives everywhere in between. His trademark sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and rock chords subtly subvert commonly held notions of what Cuban music is. Alex is on the vanguard, crafting a cross-cultural sound that mirrors his geographical journey. Not tied to tradition, this Cuban-Canadian prefers his vintage Gibson over el sencerro (cowbell) anytime.
From his earliest years in Artemisa, he was immersed in music. Alex's first stage appearance on national TV was at the tender age of four, playing claves (a percussion instrument) in a group directed by his music instructor father. Alex went on to study guitar, tres, percussion and bass, practicing eight hours a day during his teens.
After a stint with his twin brother Adonis to record Morumba Cubana, as The Puentes Brothers, Alex departed from Cuban music norms to follow his own path. His debut CD with the Alex Cuba Band, "Humo De Tabaco", earned him a Juno award for World Music Album in 2006, with the single "Lo Mismo Que Yo", featuring Ron Sexsmith charting in the Top 20 at BBC Radio 2. For "Humo", Alex took UK producer Martin Terefe to Cuba to record the album's funk infused horns and percussion, a sound that got under Terefe's skin. By extension, that "Alex*Cuba sound" is now evident on Terefe's productions for Craig David, Ron Sexsmith and Jason Mraz.
After a musical and spiritual evolution, Cuba returned to the studio, this time with co-producer Joby Baker of Victoria, to record "Agua Del Pozo" which was released in Canada in February 2007 under his own Caracol Records imprint. Acclaimed for its blend of tempo, instrumentation and songwriting, the album is a clear evolution from the debut, punctuated by the introduction of Alex's electric guitar, a vintage Gibson. "Agua" earned Alex his second Juno Award for Best World Music album 2008.
2008 was a huge year for Alex Cuba, delivering a rousing showcase at SXSW, garnering strong media coverage and selling-out tours in the U.S. In addition to the Juno an "indie" Award was added for Favourite World Music Artist at Canadian Music Week 2008. In June, Caracol Records re-released "Agua del Pozo" in Canada through EMI Music with brand new artwork. With his explosive live presence he performed in the UK, Japan, Spain, the US and Canada, including fall showcases at the prestigious WOMEX conference in Seville, Spain and the Canadian Trade Mission in Tokyo, Japan before dashing back to North America for the Transmission Conference and his second consecutive sell-out at New York's Joe's Pub.
In the digital space, Alex Cuba has had four iTunes Singles of the Week (Canada, U.S., Japan, Netherlands), has charted on various iTunes charts in Canada, the U.S. and Japan, has built an impressive online community and has had major content features on Myspace, Yahoo!, AOL and other portals. Alex recently collaborated with Nelly Furtado for her Spanish language debut album "Mi Plan" (My Plan) being released worldwide (Universal Latino) in September. The creative chemistry between Alex, Nelly and James Bryan was magical and resulted in multiple co-writes including the first single - "Manos Al Aire" (Hands in the Air) and the title track where he appears as an invited guest on vocals.
In between tour dates, Alex has been recording his third album at Baker Studios in Victoria, B.C. The self-titled project is slated for an October Canadian release and a Spring 2010 U.S. release. Featuring surprising new grooves, new electric guitar inflections and varying tempos and structures, the album is an important step in Alex Cuba's ongoing musical revolution. He recently released a pre-mix of "Caballo" (Horse), a sizzling Cuban-funk-rocker, to fans as a small taste of what's to come.
With a heart as big as his retro 'fro, Cuba takes it all in stride and focuses on what he does best: crafting songs that cut through linguistic and cultural barriers like a machete through sugarcane.


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Elektra in Tehran
Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
An ominous title. Opening the new book by the author of the phenomenally successful and greatly loved Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), one wonders if it will contain further revelations about the revolution in Iran that she survived, and even triumphed over, by her passion—and her ability to convey that passion—for the classics of Western literature. Actually, it is a memoir of her life growing up in a well-to-do family in Iran, but one soon discovers that it, too, is an act of rebellion against a tyranny.
Unlike her first book, which displays a constant curiosity about and awareness of the world around her, in her memoir the world shrinks to
those fragile intersections—the places where the moments in an individual's private life and personality resonate with and reflect a larger, more universal story.
Here the silence referred to in the title is not that which a tyrannical state imposes on its citizens, or of the witnesses who choose not to speak, or of the victims who fear to speak—rather, it is about
the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives.
Yet the imposition of such a tyranny—and the rebellion against it—can be the most powerfully influential element in a life. In Nafisi's case it is the tyranny of a mother—and so her memoir joins a long procession of books and films by daughters about their mothers and the battles they fought to assert their own womanly identities and tell their own womanly narratives. This procession is such a long one that one feels one surely should have a female counterpart to place beside Oedipus—until one remembers that, according to Freud, "oedipal" is an adjective that can be employed for a child of either sex who desires to exclude the parent of the same sex and usurp that position.
The combat between her mother and Nafisi is established early, in infancy, the mother claiming that the child has refused to nurse and then declined to eat, the child claiming that her mother locked up her toys and would not allow her to play. By the time Nafisi was four years old she had had a major battle with her mother about where in her room her bed was to be placed—by the window or not—and lost. How often the child must have gone to bed in tears. But straightaway another relationship was set up—with the good fairy, her father, smiling, charming, affable, who would place a china dish filled with chocolates by her bed and tell her bedtime stories taken from the Persian classics. So she learned that she
could always take refuge in my make-believe world, one in which I could not only move…
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ATV evolution: Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV)
The very successful Jules Verne ATV mission has highlighted many new technologies and capabilities that can be used and adapted in the future for developing new spacecraft, making use of additional European know-how, such as atmospheric reentry technologies. Such development could be of great strategic importance for Europe's role in human spaceflight endeavours in low-Earth orbit and for future exploration missions, leading to an autonomous launch and return capabilities to and from orbit.
Autonomous access
The ATV currently has a capability to re-supply the ISS with up to 6.6 tonnes of propellants and cargo, and is the largest orbiting space vehicle beside the US Space Shuttle. With the Space Shuttle retirement planned in 2010, the ISS partners will lose a major capability to return heavy equipment to Earth for replacement or upgrade. Following on from previous studies, the next logical step will be the capability to return payloads and goods from the ISS and any future orbital infrastructure.
Cargo re-entry capsule
In this scenario the pressurised front cargo section of the ATV (the Integrated Cargo Carrier) would be replaced by a cargo re-entry capsule equipped with a heat shield and able to bring back hundreds of kg of cargo and valuable experiments. Such a project could use the heritage of the Atmospheric Re-entry Demonstrator, which flew successfully in 1998, as well as the work carried out in the period 1998-2002 on the Crew Return Vehicle for the ISS and associated technologies.
This system will use an updated service module, propulsion system, and similar rendezvous and docking technology as the present ATV. The development of a new cargo transportation and reentry capsule would complete the new vehicle. This spacecraft could be operational by 2015 and as such could provide a valuable service to the International Space Station in payload upload and download. The spacecraft would use the Ariane 5 ES launch vehicle for such missions with a modified fairing.
Future developments: Crew Transportation
Once the capability of bringing back cargo from space has been demonstrated, such a spacecraft could undertake the next logical step: a European crew transportation system, which would require more complex modifications and additional technologies.
The service module would require further upgrades including an improved propulsion system and the addition of the subsystems supporting the crew presence and operations. The upper part of the Advanced Reentry Vehicle would be transformed into a human rated re-entry capsule. The new transportation system could be launched on a suitably modified version of Ariane 5.
This second-step vehicle would require additional developments in flight safety, especially for a guided crew escape system during launch and life support subsystems. This crew escape system would consist of solid rocket motors able to pull the crew capsule away from the launcher in the event of an emergency. It would have the capability to accommodate four astronauts and could be operational by 2020.
For both the manned and unmanned versions of the Advance Reentry Vehicle, the most likely scenario is that the return module would ditch in water, probably in the Atlantic Ocean off the European coast.
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The CW's highly anticipated new drama series Arrow tells the story of billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who has returned home to Starling City after being missing and presumed dead for five years, following a violent shipwreck. His devoted mother Moira (Susanna Thompson), much-beloved sister Thea (Willa Holland) and best friend Tommy (Colin Donnell) welcome him home, while his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), is not so happy. Now, along with reconnecting to those closest to him, Oliver has secretly created the persona of the vigilante Arrow, to right wrongs and restore the city to its former glory.
During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, show star Stephen Amell talked about how he won the role, the challenge of taking on such an iconic character, what it's been like to already get such positive feedback from fans, how quickly the chemistry happened with the cast, how the Queen family dynamic will evolve, how quickly fans will get to see some of the other DC characters making appearances, and the level of physical training he has to do for the show. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Collider: How intimidating was it to take on a role like this, or was that challenge part of the attraction for you?
STEPHEN AMELL: The challenge was part of the attraction for me, as an actor. As far as the role being intimidating, that's stuff that people who can look at the big picture of the series can think about, and that the people who can look at how people are going to consume it can think about. I can't think past the day because I'm in almost every scene. They are kicking my ass, right now. I don't have the luxury of any long-term thinking, at all. I felt pressure to get the pilot picked up, and then I felt pressure to make Episode 2 awesome because I thought the pilot was awesome.
What was it like to take the show to Comic-Con and already get feedback from fans?
AMELL: I did this Hollywood Reporter thing where Jennifer Carpenter from Dexter was like, "You'll go to Comic-Con and it doesn't matter how long you've been in the business or how many seasons you've done, it will give you whatever fuel you need for long days and arduous outdoor shoots. You'll know that that response is waiting for you, at the end of it."
How did you come to this show? Were you just making the rounds for pilot season, or did you specifically pursue this role?
AMELL: I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff. I shot Hung for HBO, which took me out of pilot season for 2011. I was there one day, and then I got cast in Hung. I auditioned for Once Upon A Time and was going to test for it, but then I was on Hung. So, when Hung got canceled, I did Private Practice. I was having a really great year. It was the best year of my career, by far. So, when Hung got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and Arrow was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition. My friends were laughing at me because the unofficial start of pilot season is February 1st, and February 1st is the day I got cast. They were joking and were like, "So, how was your pilot season? Was it good? It took you until noon to get cast, you jerk!" It was funny.
Did you have to do a chemistry read with Katie Cassidy?
AMELL: No. I did not chemistry read with anybody that ended up in the cast. I had a chemistry read with a couple of prospective people for Colin Donnell's character Tommy, but that was it.
Did it just click pretty instantly then?
AMELL: Yeah. When I shot Private Practice, Amy Brenneman made a point of really befriending me before we started shooting. The first scene we had to shoot was this really intimate scene where two people have sparks fly, for the first time. I was really taken with how she connected with me, person to person, before we tried to connect, actor to actor. So, I made a real point to do that. It helps that everyone in the cast is a super human being. Colin and I hit it off, and that stuff pops on screen. And Katie and I hit it off, and Willa [Holland] and I hit it off. I think that you can see that, so it's important to me. If you have to put your hand on somebody's shoulder, if you've done it before, it makes it easier to do. Sometimes it's imperceptible, but I think it's what takes things from good to great, or from 2D to 3D.
With this being a different version of the character, especially after what people have just seen of him on Smallville, what can you say about who Oliver Queen is, when this show starts?
AMELL: What we're going to start to see, in the first season, is that Oliver's biggest threat is himself. He's coming back from the island with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has to have that, based on what he saw on the island. We're presenting a damaged individual. He's somebody who is, for lack of a better word, a ticking time bomb. We get to see him do super things, but we're also going to get to see him fall, every once in awhile, and see him fail. I hope that really human element will connect people to him.
How difficult is it for him to return as such a changed man?
AMELL: It weighs on him to have to present himself differently. It would be easy, if he could come back and say, at the first family dinner, "Hey guys, FYI, I have a list of people in the criminal underworld that I'm going to obliterate, and I'm not a skilled archer and this huge list of other things." That would be easier than presenting himself as the person that he was before, especially because the person that he was before was a jerk. He was an entitled jerk.
How will the relationship between Oliver and his mother (Susanna Thompson) and sister (Willa Holland) evolve?
AMELL: I think his mother is happy that he's back, but the Queen's didn't become billionaires without having a few skeletons in the closet. Whatever their kingdom has become, Oliver coming back is a threat to it. I think that it would be wrong to assume that his mother is evil, but it would be correct to assume that she has motivations that she's not explaining, as of yet. As for Thea, she idolized Oliver before he left, but he was a 22-year-old jerk. She has morphed into that person at 17, and he can't just come back and say, "Don't be like that," because it's the only thing that she's ever known. In the pilot, she says that she basically had to fend for herself, and she thinks that she's done a pretty good job. So, who am I, at this point, to come back and say, "You can't live like that."
Just how long is this list of people Oliver Queen will be going after?
AMELL: That's a good question. I don't know.
Will he be adding names, along the way, so that you don't finish the list before the series is over?
AMELL: Of course! We see that almost immediately. We see that in Episode 3. If you just had a finite list, you'd be like, "Oh, I've got one more guy on the list. Can't find him!" We're not married to any type of storytelling technique. He doesn't have to cross out a name on the list in Act 5 of every episode, but I would assume that it's a pretty long list.
Will viewers start to see some of the other comic book characters pretty quickly?
AMELL: Yeah. There's a clear lineage with Katie's character, Willa's character and Colin's character. We showed the Deathstroke mask. I would assume we will see Deathstroke, either on the island or otherwise. In Episode 2, we have China White. In Episode 3, we have Deadshot. The guys that are writing the show are huge comic book fans and they've just been waiting to pull from the DC universe, so we're going to do that, all the time.
Just how crazy is the physical training you have to do?
AMELL: The biggest thing is going to be up-keep. It's good, though. I get to steal time at the gym. I only need 40 minutes, though, and then I do stuff on set. I'm doing so much active stuff on set.
Is it fun to get to add the skill of shooting a bow and arrow to your resume?
AMELL: Yeah, 100%. I want to shoot the show for awhile, and then go into archery competitions and see how good I can get. The bow that I'm using is theoretically the bow that I made on the island. I've used some of the newer bows and they're awesome. You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
Arrow is on Wednesday nights on The CW.


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Discipline, Book of
The Book of Discipline (or Rules and Discipline), contain the body of rules and regulations governing the exercise of the authority of the church in the care and control of its members for the maintenance of purity of faith and life, the removal of offenses, and the general edification of the church, and including penalties for disobedience up to and including excommunication. All Catholic and Protestant denominations have such a body of rules and regulations, written or unwritten, and many of them specifically term the written form "the discipline" or "the book of discipline." For instance, the Presbyterian Church in the USA first adopted its present 30-page "book of discipline" in 1788. The Methodist Episcopal Church has a Book of Discipline of over three hundred pages.
Printed disciplines either of congregations or conferences were found in all North American Mennonite branches in the mid-20th century. All the district conferences of the Mennonite Church (MC) had a printed conference "discipline," which usually had its origin at the very beginning of the conference. The Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church published its Ordnung in 1848. The Evangelical Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania (later Mennonite Brethren in Christ) published its first Doctrine of Faith and Church Discipline in 1867 (tr. of Glaubenslehre und Kirchenzucht-Ordnung of 1866). In those groups that have congregational autonomy, the "disciplines" are usually congregational, sometimes stated in the form of constitutions or articles of faith; in others they are conference disciplines.
The content of the disciplines varies with the degrees of strictness in discipline. Usually a discipline specifies the various items of belief or conduct that are forbidden, states how disobedient members are to be dealt with, defines the duties of the church officials and the congregation with respect to discipline, and states the grounds for forfeiture and restoration of membership.
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Bender, Harold S. "Discipline, Book of." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 30 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Discipline,_Book_of&oldid=120168.
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Bender, Harold S. (1956). Discipline, Book of. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 30 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Discipline,_Book_of&oldid=120168.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 68-69. All rights reserved.
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2010 Outback V tower
Has anyone else experienced as much trouble as I have out of the factory tower on the Outback/Outback V? I purchased a new outback v in 2010 and remember on the drive home how much the tower flexed and moved from side to side. I believe it is due to the extremely small diameter tubing used, but the factory (rad-a-cage?) tower is no longer a viable option for me. I upgraded to a pair of wet sounds rev series speakers this year and the plastic housings have cracked three times. While I do believe that the speakers should be over-engineered for this type of scenario the tower should definitely be able to handle 1 set of speakers without shaking so uncontrollably. A friend's wakeboard actually flew out of the rack last weekend due to this shaking of the tower (yes it was secured in the rack, the speed was 22 mph and no I wasn't hitting big wakes). It is worth noting that the customer service experience with wet sounds has been phenomenal, but I now must find a permanent solution. I called Skiers choice hoping they would have an old tower from a supra/Moomba laying around (anything with larger diameter tubing) that they could replace my current tower with, but customer satisfaction doesn't seem to be very high up on their list of priorities right now. Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it. I dont feel that I should have to replace a factory tower on a "wakeboard boat" with an aftermarket tower just to make it safe and enjoyable.
wait, let me see if I have this right:
you bought the boat in 2010, noticed the tower flexing on the way home and you're bitching about it and customer satisfaction from the factory now, in 2013? I'm with ya if you'd called on the way home from the dealer's lot, but not so much at this point.
Sure, some folks have noticed the flexing of this tower, however I had an 08 OBV with the same tower and never had it shake to the degree you are describing. Are you certain all of the bolts are tight? Check the mounting ones from underneath the top deck as well as those on the tower.
There are beefier aftermarket towers out there or you could put the new Oz or Oz HD tower on the boat. You'll have some gelcoat repairs needed where the mounting points are today.
My 02 with the Rad-a-cage moves alot but I also have 6 speakers and 4 wakeboards in it at all times. The only thing that I have ever lost out of the rack was my wakeskate because there were no bindings to catch it in really rough water.-Mark
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had a 03 with the rad a cage, never noticed it sway. but is the 2010 not a 3 piece tower across the top. think I remember something about it being bolted together. could be this it the issueHey, Its Moomba time
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My 07 obv tower shook a bit but never lost any thing. I had tower speakers and a kneeboarding rack on it as well.
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My tower did shake quite a bit at one time as well. I found it to be loose where it mounts to the boat itself. Get in the boat and shake the tower from side to side I bet you will see the mounting feet move. I would tighten the bolts just a little maybe a turn to a turn and a half, if you go to much you could do damage. It's never not going to move but you can tone it down.Share The Water
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The Ohio secretary of state says improved online voter registration could avert future cases,
Seventeen noncitizens voted illegally in battleground Ohio in the 2012 presidential election year, and an additional 274 were registered but did not vote, the state's elections chief said Wednesday.
Secretary of State Jon Husted said he was able to identify non-U.S. citizens on Ohio's voter rolls for the first time through the matching of voter records and license and ID information kept by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
"None of my predecessors attempted to investigate or answer the noncitizen question because they couldn't," he said at a news conference. "Information about citizenship (kept by the bureau) and the elections system were not designed to work together."
Husted emphasized that none of the identified cases involved immigrants who were in the country illegally. In the most egregious case, a noncitizen who was in the country legally had been voting in Ohio — which is against the law — since 1993.
Results of the review will be turned over to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine for possible prosecution. Husted said he also will give those identified the chance to cancel their registrations.
He said the review confirmed earlier indications that voter fraud exists but is rare.
In the wake of the findings, Husted urged passage of a bill before fellow Republicans in the state Legislature that would allow online voter registration.
A message seeking comment was left with a spokesman for the Ohio Senate, where a bill introduced in August remains in committee.
Online voter registration would help avoid future instances of noncitizens voting, Husted said. He also has backed such a system as a way to improve voter access and save the state money.
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The Columbus Crew allowed the first goal three times during the four-game winning streak they carried into Wednesday's game against the New England Revolution.
In fact, they trailed the Revs 2-0 on Aug. 25 before rallying for a dramatic 4-3 victory in Columbus. So, facing another deficit after Dimitry Imbongo's 53rd-minute goal was not a sign for the Crew to panic.
Even as they struggled to mount the slightest hint of an attack while playing the sort of discombobulated match befitting their seventh game in 22 days, there was always hope that a comeback was just a kick away.
That vanished in the 74th minute, along with a six-game unbeaten streak, when center back Chad Marshall's own-goal sealed the Revolution's 2-0 victory.
The headed ball over goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum punctuated the Crew's (12-9-6, 42 points) worst performance since losing at Montreal on July 8.
"I don't know what it was to be honest with you," Gruenebaum told MLSsoccer.com in a phone interview. "I don't know what went wrong. We didn't play a very good game top to bottom."
Gruenebaum was forced into matching his career of seven saves for the third time this season and his weary teammates were outshot 20-7. The only two threats came in the 87th minute, but the Crew were denied by goalkeeper Matt Reis.
"It was one of those games nothing clicked for whatever reason," midfielder Eddie Gaven told the media after the game.
The insurance goal resulted from a flick by Revs' midfielder Chris Tierney that put Gruenebaum and Marshall into a collision course near the top left of the penalty area.
"I called for it a couple of times early," Gruenebaum said. "I was just trying to time it right so it would bounce in the box and I would be there; then I see Chad right on top of it. We were both focusing on the ball."
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Marshall knocked the ball past the reach of Gruenebaum and he was unable to corral it before crossing the goal line.
"Possibly I need to be more of a voice," Gruenebaum said. "He said he didn't hear me. It's on me ultimately. I have no problem taking the fall for that."
While he kept the match close coach Robert Warzycha knew he witnessed a performance that was not in keeping with a team that had lost only once in 10 games.
"Overall we did not play our best game," he told MLSsoccer.com by phone. "That's why we got down [a goal] and we're never able to get it back."


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At the fort, living conditions were relatively good; best of all, the men were allowed to mingle outside in the open air of the prison yard for one hour a day. They were permitted to write and receive (censored) letters once every two weeks. But in spite of improved quarters, one of their own, David Taylor, age 26, died soon after arrival. He had a severe cold, made worse by the journey from Niagara. At Fort Henry he was too weak to leave his bed. The doctor visited him daily, but did little else; and in a few days he died, three of his comrades at his bedside. He was buried in the prison yard on August 27th. Then their grief turned to joy on August 29th when their companions who were left at Niagara marched into Fort Henry in chains, but still alive.(5) Benjamin Wait's wife, Maria, had been successful in having their death sentence commuted to transportation.
The next two months of confinement at Fort Henry passed rather peacefully. This was not your usual gang of prisoners—there was no gambling, no swearing, no lewd conversation. The Patriots spent their hours in useful and uplifting activities, such as reading, writing, making wooden boxes(6) and other mementos for family and friends. Wait, Parker, McLeod, and a few others even met together "for the purpose of literary improvement and amusement for the long evenings." Taking turns writing, delivering, or listening to original lectures, "the time rolled cheerfully and unheeded on." Every Sabbath Randall Wixon delivered an interesting scriptural discourse. Of Wixon, Benjamin Wait wrote, "We had great reason to regard the presence of this very excellent man as contributing largely to our spiritual good and temporal quiet."(7) Every day the sheriff and deputy, accompanied by a group of military officers and guards, entered the prisoner living quarters for a thorough inspection. All objects in the room were moved, so that every square inch of floor and wall could be seen and sounded. The men were lined up in single file for a roll call. They were counted and their names carefully checked against the list. Officials had been stunned by the recent daring escape of Patriot prisoners, and they weren't about to let it happen again. (8)
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Sir George Arthur visited Fort Henry twice while Gammell and the others were imprisoned there. On his first visit, after reviewing the troops, he set up an office where he could interview each prisoner one by one. He promised Miller a free pardon if he would confess that he was sorry for what he had done and promise to take no further part in the rebellion, but Miller wrote that he declined the offer on those terms.(9) Gammell also refused to compromise his solemn oath to the Patriot cause:
Sir Geo. Arthur visited us occasionally while we were under sentence of death [or transportation], and when he told me I had been deluded by Mackenzie, I replied that it was not so - that we were in the right - that if ever there was a just cause it was ours and - that I had weighed the matter and was sincerely sorry we had failed. Sir George's behavior to us was polite, and affable. Of the justice of our cause, I have never since entertained nor expressed a different opinion…(10)
This confident, almost defiant, version of James' interview with Sir George was reported in retrospect when James returned to the United States in 1842. There is a stark contrast between that version and the humble, apologetic petition James actually wrote to Arthur while still at Fort Henry. Given the desperate situation James found himself in, it isn't hard to understand why he wrote this, and why he may have been ashamed that he did so:
I therefore beg to state that I have received a letter from James Reid _____Gore of Toronto – Mr. John Burgess Township of ____Toronto – Thomas McGill township of Etolescoke who will be security for my future good conduct in the event of Your Excellency's pardoning me upon those considerations.
I would further desire to state that when I left the country last spring it was for the purpose of procuring medical aid upon a complaint which had baffled the skill of several physicians to whom I had applied in Brantford. It was through the advice of my friend that I went to Buffalo to apply to the celebrated German Physician who resides there – It was there that I became acquainted with the wicked and designing men who induced me to embark in this enterprise the just punishment for which I am now suffering.
I am deeply penitent for the crime I have been guilty of and hope your Excellency will pardon me upon the ________ of my never for the future meddling in any case with political affairs of the Country and becoming a good peaceable quiet & industrious Citizen – And as in duty bound I will ever pray –
Your Excellency's obdt. Humble Servant
/s/ James Gemmell
Fort Henry, Oct 18, 1838 (11)
In this letter we see evidence that Uncle James Reid was working behind the scenes, as a representative of James' grieving mother and family, to secure a pardon for his nephew. James' petitions were denied, or possibly just ignored, as were all the petitions on behalf of the Patriot prisoners.
For a virtual tour of Fort Henry, click on the link in footnote #3 below.
- Pybus, "Patriot Exiles," p. 189.
- Miller, p. 98. These men were all highly esteemed, except for Beemer.
- Fort Henry is located in the city of Kingston and situated on a hill overlooking Lake Ontario. See http://www.virtualkingston.ca/forthenry.htm
- Wait, p. 35-36. (See Lindsey, pp. 369-373, for John Montgomery's first-hand account of the escape.)
- Miller, p. 102-105.
- Canadian Chris Raible has collected some of these surviving boxes, called "Rebellion boxes." They were carved and engraved with a message and the name of the carver. He has recently written a book about them.
- Wait, p. 36, 113. Wixon "had but one leg, was a Baptist clergyman, and [his] only crime was, having acted as assistant editor of the "Correspondent and Advocate," during the absence of Mr. [William Lyon] McKenzie, the proprietor…some years prior to the insurrection."
- Wait, p. 36-37.
- Miller, p. 105.
- Gemmell, New York Plebian, transcription p. 11.
- Archive Office of Tasmania, document #114656.


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Berta Margarita Gomez to Edith S. Ballard, unit in Chamberlain Village condominiums, 508 Worthington Drive, $304,500.
James B. Spence III, Trustee, to John M. and Deborah B. Donnelly, 1520 Church Plains Drive, Church Hill subdivision, $440,000.
Earl H. Burton, Trustee, to Barry Meade Homes LLC, lot in Deerwood Village, $50,400.
Kevin M. and Donna W. Markey to Christopher K. and Caroline H. Davis, 2750 Willow Oaks Circle, Ivy Oaks, $311,500.
Southland Homes Inc. to David H. and Jennifer B. Cantwell, 2213 Montalcino Way, Fontana, $307,200.
Donald E. and Susan R. Delp to Philip B. and Jane M. Cook, 2500 Brandermill Place, Forest Lakes South, $280,000.
Bradley J. and Ute J. Huestis to Robert A. and Anne L. Borcherding, 1819 Steeplechase Run, Forest Lakes, $226,800.
William H. Suggs Jr. to Charles E. and Susie C. Payne, 2619 Commonwealth Drive, Berkeley, $108,500.
Eunice S. and James W. Davis Sr. to Larkin A. Woolfrey and Priscilla M. Bowman, parcel in Laurel Hills, gift.
Alan S. and Pamela J. Davis to Pamela J. Davis, 1898 Amberfield Drive, Forest Lakes, pursuant to separation agreement.
Claudius Crozet Park Inc. to County of Albemarle, 2.19 acres off State Route 1204, 5628 Park Road, $30,000.
Merrill Family Partnership to Jefferson Area Builders Inc., 2.524 acres on State Route 736, $28,000.
Craig F. and Anne E. Colberg to Laura M. Peterson, 329 Key West Drive, $310,000.
Suzanne T. Burch to Larry D. and Patricia R. Lindberg, parcel in Wynridge, $152,000.
Liberty Land Ltd. to Pradeep Rajagopalan, 2500 Summit Ridge Trail, Ashcroft, $724,950.
Joanne S. Anderson to John L. and Kimberly S. Baber, 1162 Quick Lane, Crozet, $130,000.
R.W. Mawyer Inc. to Jeffrey J. and Tiffany M. Osborn, 1520 Sunflower Fields Drive, Blue Hills, $520,000.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to Glenn A. and Patricia L. Gaesser, 328 Grayrock Drive, Grayrock, Crozet, $331,981.
Michael J. and Hanorah M. Piron to Sheets Group LLC, 1154 Rustling Oaks Drive, Rustling Oaks, $1,925,000.
Thurman K. Williams Jr. to Dwayne Kannie Williams, 5.0 acres at 3620 Ivywood Lane, gift.
Belvedere Station Land Trust to Robert Hauser Homes Inc., two lots at Rivercrest at Dunlora, $130,000.
Thomas J. and Dale Breslin to Alfred A. Forbes, 2.0 acres at 1600 Quail Run, $600,000.
Lynne D. Conboy to Weather Hill Homes Ltd., 4.25 acres on State Route 614, $150,000.
Merritt S. Truslow and Lillian V. Baber to Buck A. Clark, 3.57 acres at 6404 Plank Road, Afton, $40,000.
Benjamin and Richard S. Arkwrd to Thomas C. Williams, 162.20 acres on State Route 630, 3831 Green Creek Road, Esmont, $300,000.
Bryan K. Baker and Russell Reopell to Anthony J. and Marsha J. Wirtel, 5.5489 acres at 4910 Dickerson Road, $230,000.
Marie Westbrook Grant to Michael A. Simms and Jennifer D. Starling, 2566 Aspenwood Drive, Forest Lakes, $188,500.
Mary J. Coleman and Francis W. Scott Sr. et al. to Ray Watkins, 2.4532 acres in Scottsville Magisterial District, gift.
Kenneth L. Davis to Elizabeth T. and Robert E. Villwock Sr., 265 Pine Road, Stony Point, $75,000.
Gwendolyn B. Koch to Koch Children's Trust, unit in Solomon Court condominiums, deed of quitclaim.
Franklin D. Brown Jr. to Benjamin W. Mills, 945 Nether Springs Road, Wavertree Hall Farm, Afton, $208,000.
Ann B. Barger to Bishop Peter James Lee, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, parcel in Hollymead subdivision, $265,000.
Marianne R. Fuehr to Richard D. Rhoads, unit in Overlook condominiums, $60,000.
Gaffney Homes LLC to John B. Carew, 2.5 acres at 5801 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet, $425,000.
Ellis P. Walton to Roy L. Johnson, 59.130 acres, gift.
Forest Lakes Associates to R. D. Wade Builder Inc., three lots in Springridge, $367,044.
Crescent Development Group LLC to R.D. Wade Builder Inc., parcel in Still Meadow, $80,000.
Dominic D. Starsia to Louis Lasagna, Trustee, 2635 Meriwether Drive, $350,000.
Happy Valley LLC to Gaffney Homes LLC, lot in Walnut Hills, $120,000.
Deal of the Week
Michael J. and Hanorah M. Piron to Sheets Group LLC, 1154 Rustling Oaks Drive, Rustling Oaks, $1,925,000.


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Jeep Liberty Expert Review
Where the Jeep Patriot models itself after the Cherokee, the Liberty has modeled itself after the Wrangler with an even more rugged look to it. The ruggedness isn't just skin deep, the Liberty can go off-roading with the best, to a point. The big and heavy, yet underpowered engine and four-speed transmission do limit your wheeling fun, but not by too much.
Unfortunately the money spent on the exterior styling and off-road capabilities limited what was left for the interior. Although it's better than the Compass or Patriot because you get a few interior pieces covered in leather, the rest of the cabin is awash in the same cheap, hard plastic found in aforementioned vehicles.
That being said, the current Jeep Liberty is a huge improvement of the first generation model. It's wider and longer, which has improved its on road feel and driving manners. Its extra size translates to more room for the driver and passengers as well as giving you better interior materials. It's still a bit on the cheap side, but better than some of the other offerings from Jeep.
Bodystyles: SUVEngines: 3.7L V-6Transmissions: 4-speed automaticModels: Limited, Renegade, Sport
There is even less new with the Liberty than the Compass for 2010, there are a few additional standard equipment features, depending on the model you choose. You can get the new Renegade model that gives you more off-road features and capabilities.
The Liberty's sheetmetal is more on par with what Jeep owners like and want in a Jeep -- rugged looks. For an even more aggressive stance, you can opt for the Liberty Renegade which comes with off-road tires and a skid plate standard.
The base Liberty has a fairly cheap and plastic-looking interior, but the Limited does wrap a few pieces in leather. Storage capacity is slightly better than the Compass, but not by much.
All Liberty models get the 3.7-liter V-6 putting out 210 horsepower and 235 pound-feet of torque mated to a four-speed automatic transmission, your only transmission option. But you do have a choice of either rear-drive or two different four-wheel drive systems -- part time Command Trac or full-time Selec Trac. And with the proper equipment package, the Liberty can tow up to 5,000 pounds.
The Liberty features four-wheel ABS, curtain first and second row overhead airbags, airbag occupancy sensor, traction and stability control, electronic roll mitigation, active front head restraints.
Limited 4x2: 16 mpg city/22 mpg highwayLimited 4x4: 15 mpg city/21 mpg highwayRenegade 4x4: 15 mpg city/21 mpg highwaySport 4x2: 16 mpg city/22 mpg highwaySport 4x4: 15 mpg city/21 mpg highway
- Capable off-road
- Rugged looks
- Decent tow capacity
- Weak V-6
- Four-speed transmission
- Poor fuel economy
More capable than the Compass
- Jeep Wrangler
- Nissan Xterra
- Toyota FJ Cruiser


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Caution rules … spending on discretionary items is down.Consumers are cutting back on debt and increasing their use of debit cards as they become more cautious about spending and borrowing, a survey has found.
Expectations for household debt were at 18 per cent for the March quarter, a fall from 22 and 26 per cent for the last two quarters, the Dun & Bradstreet's Consumer Credit Expectations Survey, released today, found.
The national Newspoll survey of about 1200 people this month is reflected in recent economic data, which has seen Australians adopt a "balance sheet repair" mentality of paying off debt, increasing savings and paring down on discretionary spending.
"Overall, we've witnessed a sizeable shift in the spending behaviour of the Australian consumer. There is a greater degree of consideration being applied to each spending decision and a greater focus on spending within our means," Dun & Bradstreet's chief executive Gareth Jones said in a statement.
"This attitude towards spending, especially on discretionary items, can have a negative knock-on effect for Australian businesses. … The upside to this ongoing mood of consumer conservatism is that we may see an improvement in the levels of personal debt and delinquency, which should help those households experiencing financial stress."
The survey found that the number of people with debit cards were at their highest point in more than three years, at 77 per cent, while slightly less than half were concerned about their financial situation, down from 59 per cent in the September quarter.
Fifty-five per cent of those surveyed said they did not expected to have difficulty meeting their financial demands in the next three months, up from 48 per cent in the September quarter.
Economist Stephen Koukoulas, who advises Dun & Bradstreet, said consumers' moves to pay down their debt would make them more secure in the medium term if there was a slowdown in the Australian economy.
"If there is no slowdown in the next year or two the current financial circumstances of consumers suggests they will be well placed to underpin ongoing strong growth in consumption and other spending," Mr Koukoulas said.
Commonwealth Bank credit card data for the holiday period, which was released in mid-January, found that consumer spending rose only modestly from the year before.
The average credit card balance had fallen by a record 2.3 per cent over the year to November, according to Reserve Bank data released around the same time.
At the same time, economists said the national household savings rate was near 10 per cent, the highest in three decades.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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59 comments:
- Diana Mieczan said...
So true..all of us have it and sometimes it gets hard to carry it around:)I love How I Met Your Mother...Its really cool show:) Hm...Thank you for that lovely post:) Kisses sweetie and enjoy your Monday
- July 26, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Abby said...
Or we cling to our baggage so much that we refuse to allow someone else to help us carry it. This post is so so beautiful and true.
- July 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- Valerie said...
This post gave me the chills. It's so true, that baggage becomes lighter when you have someone to help you carry it! I love How I Met Your Mother, but I can't remember that episode.
- July 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Unknown said...
I love that show (and I love Rules of Engagement, too!). Yep, we all have it, that's why we have friends we can trust to help us carry it and lighten our load! Gorgeous pictures!
- July 26, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- Marcie said...
Baggage is definitely part of living life, isn't it? I feel like if you don't have it (or are in denial), you must not be living life.
Great post!
xo Marcie
- July 26, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Unknown said...
Mine is so big, but so big...but I carry them all with a smile on my face and with a big hand of my love and my friends!!!
LOVE this post! Bad and good stories come inside my bags. My stories.
Huge hug!!! Bela.
- July 26, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- k said...
these were perfect words :)
- July 26, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- ~*~ saskia ~*~ said...
Okay, now I want to travel travel travel!!!
I adore suitcases, they can be used for so so many different kind of things...
Hope your week will be a happy one! xx
- July 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- ~*~ saskia ~*~ said...
Okay, now I want to travel travel travel!!!
I adore suitcases, they can be used for so so many different kind of things...
Hope your week will be a happy one! xx
- July 26, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Christina Elaine said...
Couldn't agree more.....
Lovely post....
- July 26, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- THE ALTERNATIVE WIFE said...
I got chills too! This is a beautiful, powerful post. And so very true.
Have a wonderful Monday, sweetie xoxo
- July 26, 2010 at 12:35 PM
I haven't seen it so I don't know... but it's true, we all have it and we could all do without it!
- July 26, 2010 at 12:35 PM
- Annie said...
So true! such a great post.. Definitely ideal to put that baggage down or until we can put it down, to have someone who helps us carry the load like you said. And it's SUCH a blessing to find a significant other (or friend or family member) who helps us along in that way.. it can make all the difference!
- July 26, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- Emily said...
This post was lovely. I loved how you incorporated the pictures and the theory. All the things you said were true and so real to me. Great Great post!!
- July 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- SabinePsynopsis said...
Perhaps this is why I keep moving - always trying to leave some baggage behind... If our internal baggage just was as beautiful as your pictures. xoxo
- July 26, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- this free bird said...
I love this...especially the last part. And you selected wonderful photos to go along with the post.
Not everyone has LV - in fact very few of us - and if we think we have zero...well that's just not possible now, is it?
This was perfect for Monday!
- July 26, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Prippy Handbook said...
Sigh... baggage is heavy! I definitely think once you have someone who's right to share it with, the load just gets so much lighter!
Loved that episode. Soemtimes that show is so dead-on it is crazy!
- July 26, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- starcakeastrology.blogspot.com said...
great post! very true!
- July 26, 2010 at 1:34 PM
- PhotoPuddle said...
Love all of these images.
- July 26, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- heather said...
Love this post! It's so true. If we could just learn to drop it, like a ball. In truth, we're so attached to it, lifelong practice of presence to detach ourselves a little, isn't it?
Reminders like this are really so perfect....
- July 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- I'maNolaGirl said...
This post was pure perfection. Just so incredibly thoughtful!
- July 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Bren said...
I love this post! Powerful message told with fantastic images. Kind of makes me a little sad too, being single. No one to help with the load. But then again, no one to add to the load either. ;)
Bren @ Chasing Beauty
- July 26, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- Gloria said...
These are amazing baggage photos! Everyone one of them is so very pretty! My favorite is the first photo...so sweet!
What comes to my mind when I view this is: Our church did a little skit about baggage once. They brought a suitcase full of rocks. It showed us how we give some of those rocks to God, but then we keep going back to pick up those rocks again to put back in our bags. When all along God would like us to unload all of that "baggage" (rocks) over to Him to take the weight off our shoulders, if we would just allow Him to do that! :)
- July 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Beautifully said and such a creative post, great food for thought! xo
- July 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Shannon @ What's Up Whimsy said...
Oh my goodness. Along with some of your other readers, I have chills. What a beautiful and true post. Thank you.
- July 26, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- stylenuggets said...
What evocative images you choose for your post. Too true. Got to let some baggage go sometimes.
- July 26, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- April said...
This is such a sweet post.
- July 26, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- Simply Beautiful World said...
Such beautiful pictures...as always! Love the post too!
- July 26, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- Kimmy said...
I need a handkerchief!
I love how poignant and thought provoking your posts can be.
Bravo to you for facing your baggage-
you are a trooper and a true lady, cheers Poppies and Sunshine!
- July 26, 2010 at 9:03 PM
- Joyti said...
Everyone does have baggage and everyone continues to accumulate it over time...
Your post got me thinking: is baggage always a negative thing? Can baggage be positive - say lessons learned or being cautious about things/people?
As always, the photographs are GORGEOUS!
- July 26, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- Screen Door Prep said...
Best post I've read today. You are such an amazing blogger - you have such a great ability to tie the images you find to such meaningful dialogue!
I tagged you for an award today!
- July 26, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Traveling Distances said...
I love this post! It's so true and everyone can relate to it. I've never seen How I Met Your Mother but my brother and cousin rave about it.
- July 26, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- georgia ~ gi gi said...
Oh Poppies, this was so lovely! The images are so pretty and your message has me wondering about if there is a little romance going on, spill it sister (he he)!
I have a full luggage (baggage) set, anything you need, he he, good thing Jeremy is a big guy!
gi gi
- July 26, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- Rosie said...
Oh dearest,
This is just part of life, we all have baggage. Some suitcases are uglier than others, but when we have the right friends, they look past the things we are not proud of and they see the good, accepting us for who we are...and loving us unconditionally.
Another insightful and beautiful post...Well done...xoxox...Rosie
- July 26, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- Rosie said...
Oh my dear we all have baggage...some suitcases are most definitely uglier than others...But, when we have the right friends, they look past the "not so pretty" and accept us for who we are, loving us unconditionally. In time, what's contained in those bags, no longer seems quite so important.
Another insightful post by a very wise young lady...well done dearest...Now go forth and S*M*I*L*E
___________love rosie____________
- July 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM
- Rosie said...
oh my darling...wasn't sure if my comment went through so tried to recreate it...please delete one of them...and forgive me...xoxo...rosie
- July 26, 2010 at 9:47 PM
- Barbara von Enger said...
Unfamiliar with the show, but you are accurate on the baggage issues.
I agree with Shair, though. Stunning photographs;-)
- July 26, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- Kelly Frances Dunn said...
What a fab post. I can totally appreciate you style of writing and thought process :) You are lovely and so are the pictures. The story is one for everyone!
- July 26, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Yulia Rahmawati said...
OMG ur blog is so cuteeeeeeeeeeeee
- July 27, 2010 at 12:49 AM
- One Pair Two Pear said...
if only we could neatly pack our own 'baggage' away in such lovely suitcaes - krsta
- July 27, 2010 at 1:15 AM
- Flotsam Friends said...
I totally agree and I love the shots... My backage is definitely "stacking up"... Family?! Seriously... How can it be so hard (and it's not even pretty). Pruxxx
- July 27, 2010 at 3:08 AM
- Andrea said...
This is such a great post and so very true. The hardest part of having baggage is learning how to work through it and move forward. Im still working on that part! ;)
- July 27, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- Christina said...
such cute photos! I recently acquired an old briefcase...but i use to to store my shoes ! haha :)
- July 27, 2010 at 6:29 AM
- Tayebug said...
I loved this post and how you expressed it with both words and images.
- July 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM
- Tayebug said...
PS. I am a new follower, I hope you'll visit me and follow too.
- July 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM
- jenna ♥ a little blue said...
love this post ~ pictures and story are perfect :)
- July 27, 2010 at 7:17 AM
Oh, this is very true. We all have them. Some, just more than others.
I'm so glad to be back. Reading your blog is always great.
- July 27, 2010 at 7:48 AM
- iamchasingthirty said...
I LOVE this. Check out my wedding pics and you'll see something very similar to these HA!
- July 27, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Unknown said...
So true...and I think the way you illustrated this was just perfect!
- July 27, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- V. said...
I like your pics so much...
- July 27, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- bron @ baby space said...
Gorgeous sentiment and equally gorgeous and whimsical (whimsical - my fave!) pics. Have the baggage, embrace the baggage, let the baggage go. (But first take many, many pics.)
- July 27, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- its simple love said...
What a lovely and insightful post. I love it. Especially the ending where you said, "But, it all shouldn't matter when we find that special someone who is willing. . . pick up our baggage and help carry the load." Cute.
- July 27, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- SabinePsynopsis said...
Heeello, I'm back to say I've finally managed to Thank You for the 2 lovely awards you passed on to me. Thanks so much again! xoxo
- July 28, 2010 at 4:27 AM
- Gorgeous Glam said...
Hi doll, I'm back and I've missed you! Great post! xoxo
- July 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Nicomi Nix Turner said...
Very fun post! It makes me want to pack a bag and leave!
- July 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Dumbwit Tellher said...
I adore your blog & this was one fun but meaningful post. Thank you ~
- July 29, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Jennifer said...
I teared up. This is so true. What a powerful thought that when we find that someone special are baggage will lighten up! Beautiful.
- July 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- shopgirl said...
This is so beautiful! I love, love this post! You are definitely one wise chick!
Eloquently and beautiful said.
- August 3, 2010 at 10:28 AM
- Unknown said...
always making a good point I cannot argue with..great! :)
you've explained it very well with photos,I'm speechless
- August 8, 2010 at 12:08 AM


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sh*t to put on ur facebook
we all kno u sit at ur desk and pretend to do work, while ur really slaving over facebook, adding new features (because its trying desperately to pick up where myspace left off), crying over who left that "i think you're a biotch" comment in your honesty box, and reading other peoples wall 2 walls...hmmmmmmmmm..well heres some ish to put on ur fb site. i prefer heartfelt urban poetry, but this could do the trick:
for ur quotes:
"don't be jealous cuz' i've been chatting online with hot babes all day"-Kip Dynamite from "Napoleon Dynamite"
and there u have it. :)
while we're at it i just got a request on facebook to attend a "happy hour" where u give ish like beer and liquor to your friends virtually...wtF? facebook is out of control, i thought sending ur pussy through facebook was a bit much with the creation of "X-me"...more like "sex-me". Anyway, since jourdan has given me a beer, im sure il be virtually drunk within the hour. we can all ask ourselves what is this world coming to or we can simply add the feature, which i am gladly doing lol. maybe alchoholics annonymous should take facebooks hint, and use this as a sobering up device..
peace queen,
buy us a drink (preferably straight vodka lmao)
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I quit my gym.
In my mail yesterday, I got a promotional post card for one of those super inexpensive chain gyms and it occurred to me (not for the first time) that I am an idiot and I needed to quit my gym posthaste.
This is why I belonged to Planet Fitness for so long (and still would if there was a location within less than half an hour of where I live now). It was $10/month for access to one location, $20/month for access to all, with no contract for the $10/month membership. I didn't take any classes, I didn't use the locker room for more than a bathroom break and I didn't need any perks!
Nothing wrong with cutting out wasteful spending, and nothing wrong with NOT feeling bad about it. :)
I canceled my gym membership last summer for a similar reason. I went to classes all the time when I was in Charlotte so it made sense to have a membership there. But then when I moved back, I was busier and had a fuller life so had to squeeze workouts in versus planning life around classes I wanted to take... so I got rid of my membership. Luckily there is a gym in my condo building this is pretty great so I don't have a membership right now. I do miss having access to classes but besides that, I don't miss it - especially paying the membership fee (mine was also around $70!).
Good for you! This post immediately brought to mind the Friends episode where Chandler wants to quit the gym! I'm glad they didn't convince you to stay!