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Accidental Glory, Acts of Virtue, Adam, Altar, Angelic Choirs, Angelic Music, Bethlehem, Children Of Men, Circumcision, Copious Tears, Divine Fire, Divine Infant, Divine Interference, Eternal Father, First Fruits, flint knife, Great Prophet Of The Lord, Hard-heartedness, Holy Obedience, Human Nature, Incarnate Word, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Medicines, Mortals, Most Prudent Mother, Onlybegotten, pain and healing, Queen and Lady of the Angels, Redeemer, Reverence and Worship, Sacrifice, Saint Joseph, Saints In Heaven, Savior, suffering, swaddling-clothes, Sweet Harmony, Synagogue, Tears Of Joy, Tears Of The Mother, Tender Love, Virgin Mother, Wax Candles
The following is from Chapter XIV of Venerable Mother Mary of Agreda's "The Mystical City Of God" as explained to her by the Blessed Virgin Mother for the new enlightenment of the world, for rejoicing of the Catholic Church, and for the encouragement of men.
The Divine Infant Is Circumcised And Receives The Name JESUS
530. Like other towns of Israel, the city of Bethlehem had its own synagogue, where the people came together to pray (wherefore it was also called the 'house of prayer'), and to hear the law of Moses. This was read and explained by a priest from the pulpit in a loud voice, in order that the people might understand its precepts. But in these synagogues no sacrifices were offered; this was reserved for the temple of Jerusalem, except when the Lord commanded otherwise. It was not left to the choice of the people, in order to avoid the danger of idolatry, as is mentioned in Deuteronomy (12,6).
But the priest, who was the teacher or minister of the law in those places, was usually also charged with administering the circumcision; not that this was a binding law, for not only priests but any one could perform the circumcision; but because the pious mothers firmly believed that the infants would run less danger in being circumcised by the hands of a priest.
Our great Queen, not on account of any apprehension of danger, but because of the dignity of the Child, also wished a priest administer this rite to Him; and therefore She sent her most fortunate spouse to Bethlehem to call the priest of that town.
531. The priest came to the gates or cave of the Nativity, where the Incarnate Word, resting in the arms of His Virgin Mother, awaited him.
With the priest came also other officials, who were to render such assistance as was customary at the performance of the rite.
The rudeness of the dwelling at first astonished and somewhat disconcerted the priest. But the most prudent Queen spoke to him and welcomed him with such modesty and grace that his constraints soon changed into devotion and into admiration at the composure and noblest majesty of the Mother; and without knowing the cause he was moved to reverence and esteem for such an unusual personage.
When the priest looked upon the face of Mary and of the Child in her arms he was filled with great devotion and tenderness, wondering at the contrast exhibited amid such poverty and in a place so lowly and despised. And,
when he proceeded to touch the Divine flesh of the Infant, he was renovated by a secret influence which sanctified and perfected him; it gave him a new existence in grace, and raised him up to a state of holiness very pleasing to the most high Lord.
532. In order to show as much exterior reverence for the sacred rite of circumcision as was possible in that place, Saint Joseph lighted two wax candles.
The priest requested the Virgin Mother to consign the Child to the arms of the two assistants and withdraw for a little while in order not to be obliged to witness the sacrifice.
This command caused some hesitation in the great Lady; for her humility and spirit of obedience inclined Her to obey the priest, while on the other hand She was withheld by the love and reverence for her Onlybegotten.
In order not to fail against either of these virtues, She humbly requested to be allowed to remain, saying that She desired to be present at the performance of this rite, since She held it in great esteem, and that She would have courage to hold Her Son in Her arms, as She wished not to leave Him alone on such an occasion. All that She would ask would be that the circumcision be performed with as much tenderness as possible on account of the delicacy of the Child.
The priest promised to fulfill Her request, and permitted the Child to be held in the arms of His Mother for fulfilling the mystery.
Thus She became the sacred altar on which the truths typified in the ancient sacrifice became a reality (Hebrews 9, 6); and She herself offered up this new morning's sacrifice on Her own arms in order that it might be acceptable to the eternal Father in all particulars.
533. The divine Mother then unwound the swaddling clothes in which Her most holy Son was wrapped and drew from Her bosom a towel or linen cloth, which She had previously placed there for the purpose of warming it; for the weather was very cold on that day.
While holding the Child in Her hands She so placed this towel that the relics and the blood of the Circumcision would fall upon it.
The priest thereupon proceeded to his duty and circumcised the Child, the true God and man.
At the same time the Son of God, with immeasurable love, offered up to the eternal Father three sacrifices of so great value that each one would have been sufficient for the Redemption of a thousand worlds.
The first was that He, being innocent and the Son of the true God, assumed the condition of a sinner (Epistle of St. Paul To The Philippians. 2,7) by subjecting Himself to a rite instituted as a remedy for original sin, and to a law not binding on Him (Second Epistle of St. Paul To The Corinthians. 5,21).
The second was His willingness to suffer the pains of circumcision, which He felt as a true and perfect man.
The third was the most ardent love with which He began to shed His blood for the human race, giving thanks to the eternal Father for having given Him a human nature capable of suffering for His exaltation and glory.
534. This prayerful sacrifice of JESUS our Savior the Father accepted, and, according to our way of speaking, He began to declare Himself satisfied and paid for the indebtedness of humanity.
The Incarnate Word offered these first fruits of His blood as pledges that He would give it all in order to consummate the Redemption and extinguish the debt of the sons of Adam.
All these interior acts and movements of the Onlybegotten His most holy Mother perceived, and in Her heavenly wisdom She penetrated the mystery of this sacrament, acting as His Mother and in concert with Her Son and Lord in all that He was doing and suffering.
True to His human nature, the divine Infant shed tears as other children. Although the pains caused by the wounding were most severe, as well on account of the delicacy of His body as on account of the coarseness of the knife, which was made of flint, yet His tears were caused not so much by the sensible pain as by the supernatural sorrow caused by His knowledge of the hard-heartedness of mortals.
For this was more rude and unyielding than the flint, resisting His sweetest love and the divine fire He had come to enkindle in the world and in the hearts of the faithful (Luke 12,49).
Also the tender and affectionate Mother wept, like the guileless sheep, which raises its voice in unison with the innocent lamb.
In reciprocal love and compassion the Child clung to His Mother, while She sweetly caressed Him at Her virginal breast and caught the sacred relics and the falling blood in the towel.
These She entrusted to Saint Joseph, in order to tend to the divine Infant and wrap Him once more in the swaddling-clothes.
The priest was somewhat surprised at the tears of the Mother; yet, not understanding the mystery, he conjectured that the beauty of the Child might well cause such deep and loving sorrow in Her who had given Him birth.
535. In all these proceedings the Queen of Heaven was so prudent, circumspect and magnanimous, that She caused admiration in the angelic choirs and highest delight to Her Creator.
She gave forth the effulgence of the divine wisdom, which filled Her, performing each of Her actions as perfectly as if She had that alone to perform.
She was unyielding in Her desire of holding the Child in Her arms during the Circumcision, most careful in preserving the relics, most compassionate in Her affliction and tears, feeling Herself His pains, most loving in caresses, most diligent in procuring His comfort, fervent in imitating Him in His works, always careful to treat Him with the highest reverence, without ever failing or intermitting Her acts of virtue, and without ever letting the perfection of one disturb that of the other.
Wonderful spectacle exhibited by a Maiden of fifteen years, and affording even the angels a sort of new lesson and cause of admiration!
In the meanwhile the priest asked the parents what name they wished to give to the Child in Circumcision; the great Lady, always attentive to honor Her spouse, asked Saint Joseph to mention the name.
Saint Joseph turned toward Her in like reverence and gave Her to understand that He thought it proper this sweet name should first flow from Her mouth.
Therefore, by divine interference, both Mary and Joseph said at the same time: "JESUS is His name."
The priest answered: "The parents are unanimously agreed, and great is the name which they give to the Child"; and thereupon he inscribed it in the tablet or register of names of the rest of the children. While writing it the priest felt great interior movements, so that he shed copious tears; and wondering at what he felt yet not being able to account for, he said: "I am convinced that this Child is to be a great Prophet of the Lord. Have great care in raising Him, and tell me in what I can relieve your needs."
Most holy Mary and Joseph answered the priest with humble gratitude and dismissed him after offering him the gift of some candles and other articles.
536. Being again left alone with the Child, most holy Mary and Joseph celebrated anew the mystery of the Circumcision, commenting on the holy name of JESUS amid sweet canticles and tears of joy, the fuller knowledge of which (as also of other mysteries which I have mentioned) is reserved as an additional accidental glory to the Saints in Heaven.
The most prudent Mother applied to the wound caused by the knife such medicines as were won't to be used on such occasions for other children, and during the time while the pain and the healing lasted She would not for a moment part with Him, holding Him in Her arms day and night.
The tender love of the Heavenly Mother is beyond all comprehension or understanding of man; for Her natural love was greater than any other mother was capable of, and Her supernatural love exceeded that of all the angels and saints together.
Her reverence and worship cannot be compared with that of any other created being.
These were the delights of the incarnate Word (Proverbs 8,31), which He desired and longed for among the children of men; and this was the recompense, which His loving heart drew from the exceeding sanctity of the Virgin Mother for the sorrows occasioned Him by their behavior.
Although He pleased Himself in Her alone above all the mortals and in Her found full satisfaction of His love, yet the humble Queen sought to alleviate His bodily pains by all the means within Her power. Therefore, She besought the holy angels to assist Her and produce sweet harmony for their incarnate God, and Her suffering Child.
The ministers of the Most High obeyed their Queen and Lady and in audible voices they rehearsed the canticles which She Herself had composed with Her spouse in praise of the new and sweet name of JESUS.
537. With this music, so sweet that in comparison to all human music seemed but irksome discord, the Heavenly Lady entertained Her most holy Son; and sweeter yet was the harmony of Her heroic virtues, which in Her soul formed 'choirs as of serried armies,' as the Lord and Spouse Himself says in the Canticles.
Hard are human hearts, and more than slow and dull in recognizing and thankfully acknowledging such venerable sacraments, instituted for their eternal salvation by the immense love of the Creator and Redeemer.
O sweetest Good of my soul and of my life!
What wicked return do we make for the exquisite artifices of Thy eternal love!
O measureless charity, which is not extinguished by the overwhelming waters of our gross and faithless ingratitude!
Truly the essential Bounty and Holiness could not go to a greater length of condescension for love of us, nor exercise more exquisite love than to assume the form of a sinner (Epistle of St. Paul To The Philippians. 2,7), drawing upon His own innocence the punishment of the sin, which otherwise could never approach Him.
If men despise such an example and forget such a benefit, how can they be said to retain the use of their reason?
How can they presume upon and glory in their wisdom, prudence or judgment?
It would be prudence, ungrateful man, if thou wouldst affect thyself and weep over thy notorious dullness and darkness of mind in not being moved by such great works of thy God; since not even the Divine Love can melt the iciness of thy heart.


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Sneak preview of "Exploring the genome's 'dark matter'"
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In the second 2013 installment of Midsummer Night's Science, our annual public lecture series, medical oncologist and Broad associate member Levi Garraway will explore how genomic technology is helping to reveal cancer's long-held secrets, and the many ways those findings, both the expected and unexpected, are changing the lives of patients.
In particular, Garraway will detail his recent pioneering work on the genes involved in melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer.
In this sneak peak video of Garraway's upcoming lecture, hear him describe how genomic technology is helping "move the needle" in cancer care.
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Lessons from the Year of Living Sick-ishly
| January 11, 2012
"Buck up. You are going to feel bad for a year."
This was my chemotherapy nurse a year ago, returning a call I made to my oncologist. I had left a message asking whether there was something he could do to help me. Should I feel this horrible following three action-packed months that included stomach cancer surgery and aggressive chemotherapy?
The answer, at least as far as my nurse was concerned, was "Yes.''
And she was right. It did take a year to regain my energy and feel well again.
The new year set me reflecting about what I've learned about being sick over the past 12 months that only the experience itself could teach me:
You know that old Supremes song, You Can't Hurry Love? I learned that you can't necessarily hurry healing either, even if you work hard at it. A week after that call to my oncologist ' still feeling rocky ' I joined a local gym's '$30 for 30 days' New Year's special to try to revive my cardiovascular fitness. For each of the next 30 days, I trudged down there, got on that Nordic Track machine and forced myself to flail about for 40 laborious minutes. On most days last year, I made myself walk at least a mile and practice yoga. I did my level best to choke down a tiny healthy snack almost every waking hour. Often, doing these simple tasks took all the energy and will I possessed. But I was committed, convinced that if I did them, I would get better faster.
And it still took a year before I felt normal again. How frustrating was that?
I have absorbed the very American notion that success results from hard work. By extension, health should be achievable if we comply with the admonitions of our employers, the media and health promotion advocates to exercise and eat right. I knew that my behavior didn't cause my cancer and wasn't going to cure it. But surely, I thought, I can speed up my recovery from the assault of chemotherapy and surgery if I really try. I had great expectations. So did those around me: 'Why is she still so frail?' 'Why isn't she better yet?'
I might still be feeling pokey if I hadn't worked so hard at recovering. But this experience slammed me up against the reality of physical illness and the limits of behavior in changing its course. It reminded me how a deep belief in our own efficacy makes it easy to slip into blaming ourselves (or the sick person) for not getting better. And it reminded me of how unruly, unpredictable and often uncontrollable the effects of disease and its treatment are on our bodies.
Another lesson: I expected that Health Information Technology (HIT) advances and opportunities to connect with other patients using social media would dramatically change my experience of treatment in contrast to my previous three experiences with cancer.
I was dazzled by the ease with which I was able to collect the information and evidence I needed to make good decisions about my treatment plan. And I am grateful for online access to friends and colleagues all over the world that allowed me to feel less isolated over this past year than I have during previous illnesses.
But once I started treatment, feeling ill extinguished my curiosity about my disease. It dampened all interest in second-guessing treatment decisions or seeking innovative approaches or learning about new technologies to aid my recovery. And only occasionally could I summon the energy to reach out even to close friends and family, much less to seek out people like me online for advice and support.
I see embedded in the enthusiasm about patient portals, decision aids and smart phones an attitude that being actively engaged with new technologies can somehow provide happy relief from the pain and discomfort of illness. Bright health information Websites, fun games designed to inspire adherence and smart medication reminder apps are presented as having the potential to turn the experience of illness into a series of problems that are easily solved through the acquisition of the technologies.
It's true that HIT can help with scheduling appointments, refilling prescriptions and coordinating the disposition of test results to different clinicians, for example. (My clinicians mostly don't use electronic health records with patient portals, so I had no respite from those tasks). And remote patient monitoring and assistive devices already make some caregiving chores easier. These are welcome contributions, especially as more responsibilities for care are shifted to patients and their families. But I return to the world of the healthy with the impression that the value of HIT is tactical, not transformative, at least for the sick person: the suffering remains.
My third insight from the past year is that most of the time I believed I was thinking clearly but in hindsight, I see that my judgment and thought processes were often clouded. Through my experience with serious illnesses, I've developed strategies for getting through the days. For example, regardless of how I feel, I always bathe, dress, eat breakfast and put my shoes on. The shoes were important: they serve as an optimistic signal to myself that I'm well enough to get up and go outside just like anyone else. Between the shoes and my exercise/diet routine, I could sometimes convince myself that I had returned to my former healthy state (conveniently forgetting my need to lie on the couch for hours).
But I had not recovered, and the clarity of my thinking was often ' although not consistently ' compromised. I scheduled events and travel that were unrealistic, given my stamina, and when I couldn't be dissuaded from following through, I'd spend days recuperating. Again and again I disappointed myself (and others) by setting ambitious goals for commitments I couldn't meet.
I know I am not unique in this. I watch friends and colleagues whose judgment is impaired by illness make similar, often higher-stakes errors. They make weird self-care choices, abruptly change treatment decisions, fire their physicians and refuse to seek advice about clearly serious conditions. We all believe that we are making rational choices when we do these things. But we aren't, and the impact on our health and recovery can be serious.
I wanted to write about these three insights while they are still vivid for me. Standing for the past couple months on the shifting border between illness and health, I've experienced how (fortunately) easy it is to forget how illness eats away at the balance of one's mind, body and spirit. As a mostly ill person glancing into the world of the healthy over the past year, I've marveled at the insensitivity and indifference to this imbalance by even those with the greatest love, or best intentions, training and experience.
The tools, technologies and services that constitute health care will never completely eliminate the suffering caused by illness, even if they are perfectly delivered. But that suffering might take a more modest toll if all of us patients, professionals, caregivers, family, friends and colleagues have clearer expectations about the arc of illness and how it affects and can be affected by each of us.
In the end, that curt directive by my chemotherapy nurse to "Buck up. You are going to feel bad for a year," was the most helpful advice I received.


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No. 7 Cincinnati bests No. 22 Connecticut 63-58
Even Oscar Robertson wanted to see more of the Sean Kilpatrick show.
The Hall of Famer sat courtside and watched the senior guard score 26 points and get a team-high 12 rebounds on Thursday night, rallying No. 7 Cincinnati to a 63-58 victory over No. 22 Connecticut.
The Bearcats (22-2, 11-0 American Athletic) got their 15th straight win with Kilpatrick finishing it off at the free throw line in the closing seconds. During a late timeout, Robertson raised his hand in a shooting motion toward Kilpatrick, who knew what he meant.
Kilpatrick's response? A "take-it-easy" motion.
"He kept giving me the signal to shoot," Kilpatrick said. "I told him to relax."
The Bearcats trailed for most of the game, their first with a No. 7 ranking that is their highest in 10 years. A crowd of 12,432 - their biggest of the season - watched them win.
Cincinnati has won 18 straight at home, including all 16 this season. The Bearcats are off to their best start in 12 years.
"That's what we've been hoping for," forward Titus Rubles said. "It's good to see the city excited for Cincinnati basketball again. We definitely enjoyed the crowd today. It was a big factor in helping us with our energy."
Justin Jackson had six of his 15 points and blocked a shot during a 13-4 run that rallied Cincinnati midway through the second half. Jermaine Sanders' two free throws with 18.5 seconds left gave Cincinnati a 61-58 lead.
UConn's Niels Giffey missed a 3-point attempt, and Kilpatrick got the rebound, was fouled and made both free throws.
"The mark of great players is that they rise to the occasion," Bearcats coach Mick Cronin said. "He has the ability to rise to the occasion."
Shabazz Napier scored 16 points for the Huskies (17-5, 5-4) who were playing their highest-ranked opponent this season. They are 2-2 against Top 25 teams, with wins over Florida and Memphis and losses to Louisville and Cincinnati.
Two hours before tip-off, Cincinnati introduced Mike Bohn as its next athletic director. His top priority: Get the Bearcats into a better conference. Cincinnati and Connecticut tried to move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, but were rebuffed. Instead, Louisville will move from the American Athletic into the ACC next season.
The game matched two of the AAC's top guards. Kilpatrick leads the league at 19.4 points per game, while Napier averages 17.9 points and 6.0 rebounds. Shabazz got the better of it early. Kilpatrick, who played all 40 minutes, rallied the Bearcats at the end.
"Justin Jackson and Kilpatrick took over the game," UConn coach Kevin Ollie said. "It was a heck of a performance by (Kilpatrick). We couldn't get him out of the game. They just took it to us in the second half."
Napier went only 2 of 12 beyond the arc and missed a 3-point attempt that could have put the Huskies ahead with 30 seconds to go.
Connecticut led for all but 40 seconds in the first half with its guards darting through Cincinnati's defense for layups and assists.
Ryan Boatright scored six consecutive points as UConn pulled ahead 21-15. He fell hard on his left shoulder while going for the ball and left the game grimacing. He returned a few minutes later and scored only three points the rest of the game.
Napier made a driving bank shot high off the backboard, then drove under the basket and passed outside to Giffey for a wide-open 3-pointer that built UConn's lead to 26-18. Another 3 by Giffey gave the Huskies a 10-point lead.
The Huskies made four of their first six shots in the second half to hold the lead. Omar Calhoun's baseline jumper put the Huskies ahead 42-34.
Jackson then led the Bearcats on the 13-4 run. He emphatically blocked a shot to set up a fast break that culminated in Kilpatrick's dunk. Jackson picked up a loose ball on the Bearcats' next possession and dunked, then followed with a driving bank shot for a 47-46 lead with 7:34 left.
Kilpatrick hit another 3 that started a six-point spurt and gave Cincinnati its biggest lead, 53-49. The Bearcats stayed ahead the rest of the way.


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- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 medium fennel bulb, trimmed and sliced crosswise
- 1/2 garlic clove, minced
- 2 large fresh sage leaves, roughly chopped
- 2 large sweet potatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds), peeled and cubed
- 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan
- 1. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion, fennel, and garlic and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables soften and begin to caramelize, about 10 minutes. Stir in the sage and cook 1 minute more.
- 2. Add the sweet potatoes to the pot and stir. Pour in the broth and bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook, covered, until the potatoes are fork-tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Season with the salt and pepper.
- 3. Transfer half of the soup to a blender and puree until smooth. Return to the pot and stir to combine.
- 4. Ladle the soup into bowls and drizzle with more olive oil. Sprinkle with the Parmesan and serve.


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Delightful, Pfizer to close their large R&D facility in Sandwich in the UK, with the loss of 2400 jobs. Given how there's not exactly thousands of jobs going for scientists at the moment, that's gonna be pretty rough for UK science.
Pfizer seem to be getting out of the research game, cutting funding all over the place. It'll be interesting to see where they stand in ten years time when a lot of their on-patent drugs go off-patent….


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Dance. This year's youth/dance project is based on GöteborgsOperans Danskompanis theme Mind & Spirit.
Watch a film clip from rehearsals for pix.Els
We live in a digitalized world. Here, we cry and laugh. Love and hate. But what effect does this symbiosis between technology and human have on us? Do we develop a new way of living? A new pattern of moving?
Choreographers Andrea Palombi and Sara Lourenco have created pix.Els for dancers from GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and eight young dancers. The creation challenges us to dare and see the conflict between human and technology. Andrea Palombi and Sara Lourenco have worked with related projects previously, around Europe. pix.Els is a part of Youth/ Dance.
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#1 Crist engaged07-03-2008, 11:04 PM
I suck at bringing stories over. Sorry. I have the link though. This is interesting. Makes me wonder about the VP spot.
http://www.local6.com/politics/16785393/detail.htmlLoyalty Binds Me- Motto of Richard III
DU was very suspicious!
Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-03-08 08:52 PM
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Hmmm.. Someone's moving up in the Republican VP Sweepstakes Game!
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16. Congratulations to the beard and groom!
gatorGuest07-03-2008, 11:09 PM
I wonder if the "woman's" name is really Lola.
I met her in a club down in old soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola
C-o-l-a cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said lola
L-o-l-a lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Well Im not the worlds most physical guy
But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Well Im not dumb but I cant understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Well we drank champagne and danced all night
Under electric candlelight
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
And said dear boy wont you come home with me
Well Im not the worlds most passionate guy
But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
I pushed her away
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
Then I looked at her and she at me
Well thats the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Well I left home just a week before
And Id never ever kissed a woman before
But lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy Im gonna make you a man
Well Im not the worlds most masculine man
But I know what I am and Im glad Im a man
And so is lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
There was speculation that he was gay during his run for governor. There was also speculation about illegitimate kids. Seems the opposition couldn't make up their mind.:p I do find the timing of this engagement a bit odd though.Loyalty Binds Me- Motto of Richard III
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The best thing about fall isn't pumpkin spice, but rather the goldmine of new TV shows that'll keep us warm on the weekends. Skip the hayride and cut straight to the DVR because this fall season looks hotter than ever. Between big reboots like Charmed, heartbreaking (and heartwarming) dramas alá A Million Little Things and hilarious comedies like Rel consider your iCal officially booked.
In fact, September, October and November are looking so busy that TV Guide wants to lend you a hand. We've culled all info you need about the best new shows debuting as part of the 2018-2019 season in one easy place. In the gallery below you'll find descriptions for each new show heading your way so can pick and choose accordingly. And if you need a reminder as we get closer to the premiere dates, add these shows to your TV Guide Watchlist for automatic updates on the buzziest shows of the season. So check everything out below, select your new favorites, and then settle in for a bombastic fall.


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Uhm, hi there, just did wanted to share this map I made.
Right click and click "Save Target As" or simply follow the link and once on th page, right-click "Descarga" and click "Save Target As"
It's for Sandbox 2.8 and Single Player mode.
Greetings from Venezuela
My First Map Release
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The last time we talked about Loki and Tom Hiddleston, I said that Thor 2 is "almost a movie more about Loki than Thor", and now with an interview that director Alan Taylor gave to MTV at the D23 Expo that can be changed to "Thor 2 is definitely more about Loki than Thor". Speaking to MTV's Josh Horowitz, Taylor said that they're shooting additional scenes with Hiddles/Loki, both adding new material and tweaking what they've already got. Cue the fanboy and girl panic because hearing "reshoots" and "additional material", especially just a couple months before the movie has to be turned in for distribution is always a bad sign.
Except when it isn't. As with everything else about Marvel and its boss, Kevin Feige, the process for how they make their movies should not work and yet, time after time, it does—and they're only getting better at it. Feige already confirmed that Loki will survive Thor 2, which is a substantial change from the original filmed ending. That being the case, yeah, they have to tweak some stuff. Taylor's comment about working on how some relationships play out undoubtedly refers to Loki and Anthony Hopkins' Odin—if Loki is going to live, they've got to adjust how that relationship concludes in the movie.
They've changed their mind about a significant plot detail and instead of trying to work around it with existing footage they're shooting new scenes to better fit the new vision for the story. That doesn't sound like "panic" and "problems" to me, it sounds like quality control. And it isn't a total overhaul of the ending, like when World War Z took a Mulligan on their original climax. It's just updating the B plot. The movie can end in same way but for one detail.
The impulse to assume the movie is a mess is understandable, because for everyone else it usually is, but Marvel embraces the weird and bizarre and they run right at the challenges of superhero films. They're also not afraid to look at their final product and go, "Eh, could be better". Iron Man 3 underwent a similar late-stage tweaking process and that resulted in a great movie. I'm not worried about Loki or Thor 2 at all—and it's worth noting that while Taylor is not afraid to express his disappointment that he lost the fight over the score, he seems totally cool and pretty blasé about the reshoots—I'm just curious to see how Loki's revamped storyline plays out. I admit I liked it when he died. Hopefully I'll like it when he lives just as much.


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Friday, 06 September 2013 10:27 AM
The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to leave Lebanon due to security concerns as the Obama administration and Congress debate military strikes on neighboring Syria.
In a new travel warning for Lebanon, the department said it had instructed nonessential staffers to leave Beirut and urged private American citizens to depart Lebanon.
The step had been under consideration since last week when President Barack Obama said he was contemplating military action against the Syrian government for its alleged chemical weapons attack last month that the administration said killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus.
"The potential in Lebanon for a spontaneous upsurge in violence remains," the department said.
"Lebanese government authorities are not able to guarantee protection for citizens or visitors to the country should violence erupt suddenly. Access to borders, airports, roads, and seaports can be interrupted with little or no warning," the statement said. "Public demonstrations occur frequently with little warning and have the potential to become violent. Family, neighborhood, or sectarian disputes often escalate quickly and can lead to gunfire or other violence with little or no warning.
"The ability of U.S. government personnel to reach travelers or provide emergency services may be severely limited," the department cautioned.
Deputy spokesperson Marie Harf said, "We will continue to assess the situation and to adjust our security posture accordingly.":
The U.S. closed 19 embassies and consulates across Africa and the Middle East last month for more than a week after a terrorist threat. Hezbollah, an Assad ally that has sent fighters into Syria, is based in Lebanon.
The department also said that Hezbollah "maintains a strong presence in parts of the southern suburbs of Beirut, portions of the Bekaa Valley and areas in South Lebanon."
"The situation remains tense, and sporadic violence involving Hezbollah or other extremist or criminal organizations remains a possibility in many areas of the country," it said.
"The U.S. Embassy advises U.S. citizens that clashes between Lebanese authorities and criminal elements have also recently occurred in other areas of the Bekaa and border regions," the statement said.
In a separate advisory for Turkey, the department advocated a policy of voluntary withdrawal of people, saying that its diplomatic outpost in Adana "has been authorized to draw down its non-emergency staff and family members because of threats against U.S. government facilities and personnel." The department said it was recommending that U.S. citizens "defer non-essential travel" to southeastern Turkey.
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Hot Springs & Spas
Take to the waters of Virginia's relaxing hot springs and spas. The American Indians first discovered the healing benefits of the natural springs that bubble to the surface in pools in the Warm Springs Valley of Virginia. Later, when the European colonists migrated to the area, the springs became places for retreat and rejuvenation - such as today!
Warm Springs Valley
Three major springs in the Warm Springs Valley of the Allegheny Mountains in Bath and Allegheny Counties can be found in western Virginia along U.S. Route 220 - Warm Springs, Hot Springs and Healing Springs.
The Spa at The Omni Homestead in Hot Springs is a state-of-the-art facility with an Aqua Thermal Suite and a year-round, adults-only natural hot spring spa garden. Signature services include the 1766 Mineral Bath and Mineral Springs Mud Wrap.
Popular Spas in Mountain & Countryside Settings
Although the natural springs of yesteryear were once popular resort areas, most have been forgotten. Some enterprising resorts have re-created the spirit of the natural springs in their luxurious spas offering signature packages, massages and body treatments:
Wintergarden Spa at Wintergreen Resort is located in Nelson County overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. Soak in heated hot tubs from the highest point in the resort. Various therapies are offered as well as specialized youth spas and a gentleman's spa.
The Spa at Goodstone Inn in Middleburg fits perfectly into its bucolic surroundings. An elegantly renovated farmstead barn sets the stage for a perfect balance of relaxation, massage, and facial treatments.
Primland Spa sits atop a mountain in Patrick County just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, and is part of Primland Resort. This spa weaves the wisdom of American Indian healing with the finest European spa rituals.
The Spa at Boar's Head is in beautiful Charlottesville. Thomas Jefferson was a "spa lifestyle" advocate believing in natural and preventative healing through plants and herbs. To pay homage to the founder of the University of Virginia, the spa combines some of the same plants used by Jefferson with the latest in technology for a complete spa experience tailored to your needs.
Lansdowne Resort's Spa Minerale is at the gateway of Virginia Wine Country in a Loudoun spa resort where your relaxation and renewal of mind, body and soul is our inspiration. Treat yourself to a day or a weekend to immerse in the Virginia good life with vinotherapy spa treatments, classic and innovative therapies and salon treatments. Bring that special someone to our day spa in Northern VA for a romantic retreat in our Couples' Suite or wind down after a day on the golf course and pair it with a glass of Loudoun County vino.
Salamander Spa opened in 2013 as part of the Salamander Resort in Middleburg. This luxury destination spa includes a couples' suite, a secluded spa courtyard, poolside cabanas, 14 treatment rooms, a full service salon, and much more.
The Martha Hotel & Spa in Abingdon features a beautiful saltwater pool. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Highlands, this popular inn offers The Royal Treatment for less than $200.
Popular Spas in City Settings
The Day Spa at The Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner in McLean is located in the heart of Virginia's most popular shopping district near Washington, D.C. The Spa provides a fabulous respite from the day's activities and offering the various therapies, including Le Renovateur Body Polish.
The Spa of Colonial Williamsburg is in the heart of Williamsburg is tucked in a garden setting between the Williamsburg Inn, the Williamsburg Lodge and adjacent to the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club. Wellness, like history, is a continuum. The Spa of Colonial Williamsburg's menu of services is anchored by exclusive spa experiences inspired by relaxation and healing practices from each of the last five centuries.
Popular Spas Overlooking Waterways
The Cavalier is truly a destination within Virginia Beach in it's own right. Their upscale amenities include a bourbon distillery, three unique restaurants, beautiful saltwater pools, meticulous grounds, a Beach Club overlooking the ocean and the Seahill Spa - a 6.200 square-foot escape featuring nine treatment rooms, soaking tubs, and a spa retail boutique.
The Tides Inn Spa at The Tides Inn in Irvington is located at the edge of Carter's Creek, just off the beautiful Chesapeake Bay. The Spa's signature body treatment is the Lilacs of Lancaster Body Polish. Other popular treatments include the Aurveda Treatments based on three mind/body principles — doshas — that are said to create lifestyles and habits.
Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg is located along the James River. The Spa's signature Hops Massage is a 50-minute experience not to be missed. Also, learn the Art of Massage with your partner in just two hours in your own private treatment room.
Great Wolf Lodge's Elements Aveda Spa/Salon in Williamsburg features a Feng Shui-balanced atmosphere with environmentally friendly products. While your family is playing in the Lodge's gigantic indoor waterpark, you can escape for an hour or two to your own retreat, featuring soft music, aromatherapy and trickling water. Try their signature Caribbean Therapy Body Treatment.
The Founder's Inn Spa and Conference Center in Virginia Beach features their Flowering Almond Spa, which brings relaxation techniques from the Orient . . . "where balance and bliss bloom." Try their caviar facial and/or body wrap — rich with antioxidants and potein.
Try the views of Smith Mountain Lake from Mariner's Landing Resort and Conference Center in Bedford. An unwinding massage, detox or Lake Mud Wrap might just be the key to your relaxation.


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Anthony Adams continues his endearing quest to catch on with a pro football team. Or, at the very least to gain notoriety as a total goofball who makes fun videos. It looks like now he may try his hand at basketball "since there's an opening in Orlando." Or, maybe he'll make it in his first first love, boxing. Whatever his goals, he does seem to be enjoying himself.
If I owned a a pro team, I'd sign you, Spice. You feel me?
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Astros sign lefty Sipp for bullpen duty
HOUSTON -- The Astros bolstered their bullpen Friday by agreeing to terms with veteran left-hander Tony Sipp. To make room for him on the roster, right-hander Paul Clemens was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City, and right-hander Jesse Crain was transferred to the 60-day disabled list.
Sipp had appeared in 11 games this season at Triple-A El Paso of the San Diego organization, going 1-1 with a 4.30 ERA in 14 2/3 innings. He asked for his release from the Padres after it became clear a big league opportunity wasn't on the horizon.
Sipp's agent, Hunter Bledsoe, said he could earn up to $700,000 with incentives.
The 30-year-old comes to the Astros with a career 3.84 ERA in 304 appearances with the Indians (2009-12) and the D-backs last season. He's held lefties to a .224 average in his career and righties to a .209 mark.
"It's definitely kind of a better chance coming to a club searching for some kind of stability and me just, not trying to make a name for myself, but to almost prove to yourself that you still have the same success that you had the last few years," Sipp said. "I had a down year last year, and to get an opportunity to go out there and prove yourself, prove to everyone else that this is where you belong, that's what every player wants. I want to make a home, and there's no better place than Houston."
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said Sipp was added to fortify the bullpen, as well as giving manager Bo Porter another left-handed option to join Raul Valdes. Luhnow said the Astros had good reports from Sipp during Spring Training and saw improved control this year, and they like he had success against right-handers and left-handers.
"It gives Bo a lot more flexibility to have two left-handed options in the bullpen," Luhnow said. "I think Valdes has done a nice job, but Bo had to think carefully about when to use that bullet each game, and now he has two options."
Sipp will provide help to an Astros bullpen that ranks last in the Majors in ERA at 5.86 and is tied for the most blown saves with six. Kevin Chapman began the year as the lefty specialist, but was optioned to Triple-A after giving up five runs and five hits in 3 2/3 innings.
Sipp joins fellow veterans Chad Qualls and Matt Albers in the bullpen, though Albers is on the disabled list.
"Just like anything, you want to sit back and get acquainted with the guys before I start giving my input," Sipp said on whether he'll serve a leadership role to the young pitchers.
Clemens, 26, has made four appearances for the Astros this season, posting a 4.73 ERA. He pitched on Wednesday against Washington, tossing 3 1/3 innings, while allowing one run.
Crain, 32, has been on the disabled list the entire season while recovering from offseason surgery on his right biceps. He currently is rehabbing at the Astros Spring Training complex in Florida, throwing off flat ground, after being diagnosed with bursitis last week.


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Judge's Ruling a Boost for Mo. Prison Nuptials
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri statute requiring both parties to sign a marriage license in the presence of a county recorder of deeds has been deemed unconstitutional when the prospective bride or groom is incarcerated.
U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. in Kansas City, Mo., issued the ruling Thursday in a lawsuit brought by five women engaged to Missouri inmates.
Because betrothed inmates can't make it to the recorder's office, marriage license applications involving inmates typically are brought into a prison. The lawsuit claimed that Cole County's recorder had been allowed inside prisons for 17 years, but was denied entry in August and unable to bring marriage licenses to several prisoners. The reason: He declined to list his Social Security number on a form.
The weddings scheduled for Sept. 24 were called off.


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Please be advised of the following USA weather delays:
State of Emergency for Connecticut, New Jersey and New York
The United States Postal Service have issued an alert informing all that the Governors of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York have each declared a State of Emergency due to storms that have shut down highways and transportation routes throughout the United States. Delays to mailing services are expected.
The State of Massachusetts is also set to have severe weather and therefore it is expected to follow suit.
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America's least successful matchmaking show has spawned another walk down the aisle! Although these two smarties have never tried to meet the love of their life under the glare of reality TV cameras. Oh, no – they found each other BEHIND the reality TV cameras. Two Bachelorette producers tied the knot this weekend with Chris Harrison officiating the ceremony. Awwww…
Cassie Lambert and Pete Scalettar said "I Do!" in Malibu under the guidance of Chris (who probably made sure they gave each other the final rose) and it was a full-on reunion as the guest list was filled with former show contestants.
"It might be a new job for me," Chris joked with People Magazine. "They asked me in Prague this season when we were there if I would do it for them. … I love them to death and I've seen then grow as a couple and I love them as a couple and as individuals."


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My update to the support group this evening as read by Scott.
Hello everyone,
It is always so good to see everyone. This group and everyone associated with it are in my prayers.
Well, slowly but surly, I continue to make appointments and take test and meet yet more nice individuals in the health care industry. Last week I took something called a mid-evil rack of....oh wait a second; they told me that was a tilt-table test. If you have not had the pleasure of one of these, let me add the following words to your vocabulary..... RUN Away!
I jest. It is nowhere near the worst thing I have had to endure. However, it was not fun. Strapped to a table, hooked up the WA zoo, OK, my chest, taken up to 60 degrees and have a rather charming technician try not to snicker at the funny face I was probably making. Here, let's give him some Nitro and really have a fun time. Trust me, passing out is never fun. Not to me anyway. While safer than normal as I was strapped into place on a table, everyone seems to forget that my neck mussels are severely lacking in ability to support my head when awake, much less when I am not conscious. That is my fault I suppose as I forgot as well and did not ask for a head restraint. After coming back to reality, took me almost an hour to recoup enough to drive home and hit bed for the remainder of the day. Note, side effect of taking Nitro is a server headache.
I see the doctor this Friday..... do any of you know if it is normal for the condemned soul ahhhh hummm patient, to pass out during a tilt table test?; because I sure did and from the reaction of the inquisitor, ahhh health care technician; I was out for some time.
I have had now most every known test to medical science, not really but I have a pretty awesome resume. Most of my new doctors are always asking me if my medical history is real. I must admit that I get a kick out of breaking in new younger doctors much as was my experience at the Mayo Clinic, but when I have seasoned Doctors in near states of jaw dropping amazement, I confess my little smirk and my Love for all of you for getting me one step closer to the end of all this.
Maybe I am being dishonest, but I really hope there is yet something wrong with my heart and they can tell me to take this pill and you will be better, than not having an answer and in the back of my mind knowing it is probably that damn cancer yet again.
I am tired. I am hurting most of the time. I can't do a lot of the things most people take for granted. But I come to this table every month, and I am blessed by the courage and strength and the sheer desire to live that each of you bring. I am so blessed by each of you and I really wish one meeting I could share with all of you that I was OK and not having my fingers crossed behind my back.
Hopefully, it is nothing. But hay, at least I will have yet another medical related bill to pay. I guess the alternative is a burial plot.
I love you all and I pray that God will bless each of you.


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The Calder Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization founded in 1987 by Alexander S. C. Rower and the Calder family, is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and interpreting the art and archives of Alexander Calder. The purposes of the Foundation include the furtherance of public knowledge and appreciation for the visual arts; the conduct of research in art history and related subjects, and the provision of the results of that research to the general public; and the provision of facilities and programs to assist the education and development of visual artists. The Foundation's projects include collaborating on exhibitions and publications, organizing and maintaining the Calder archives, examining works attributed to Calder, and cataloguing the artist's works. Over the past several years, the Foundation's programming has expanded to include its own exhibitions, lectures, performances, and events on Calder as well as on contemporary artists who the Foundation supports through the biannual Calder Prize and the Atelier Calder residency program in Saché, France.
Members of the Board of Trustees
Chairman and President
Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder's grandson
Sandra Calder Davidson, Calder's daughter
John Perna, certified public accountant and senior partner of L. H. Frishkoff & Company
Vice Presidents
Andréa Davidson, Calder's granddaughter
Shawn Davidson, Calder's grandson
Peter Lipman, research geologist and past president of the San Jose Museum of Art
Holton Rower, Calder's grandson
Sofia Robledo Rower, Calder's great-granddaughter
Gryphon Rower-Upjohn, Calder's great-grandson
Michael Sternberg, lawyer, entrepreneur, and former tennis pro
Seán Sweeney, linguist, farmer, trustee and executor of the Estate of James Johnson Sweeney, and trustee of the Estate of James Joyce
Stanley Cohen, Calder's neighbor, friend, and personal attorney
David R. Collens, director of Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, and co-curator of the 2001–2003 exhibition Grand Intuitions: Calder's Monumental Sculpture
Joost Elffers, publisher and packager of high-concept, interactive, nonlinear manuscripts, including Giftwraps by Artists, Tangrams, The 48 Laws of Power, Play with Your Food, and Sustainism Is the New Modernism; and consultant to various organizations, such as Myksenaar, a Dutch design firm that specializes in "way-finding" and flow for airports, museums, and other locations
Carmen Giménez, curator of the 2003 retrospective exhibition Calder: Gravity and Grace at the Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid
Arne Glimcher, founder of The Pace Gallery in New York City
Daniel Lelong, founder of Galerie Lelong in Paris
Abigail Mack, sculpture conservator with a professional focus on Calder, author of The Artist's Materials: Alexander Calder, Large-Scale and Monumental Sculpture (forthcoming), and conservator for the Outdoor Painted Sculpture Project at The Getty Conservation Institute
Alfred Pacquement, previous director of Musée national d'art moderne / Centre Pompidou, Paris, and president of Atelier Calder, Saché
Arnauld Pierre, professor at Sorbonne University (Paris) and author of nine books and articles on Calder, including Calder: La sculpture en mouvement (1996)
Marla Prather, senior consultant for modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and co-curator of the 1998 centennial retrospective exhibition Alexander Calder: 1898–1976 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Mark Rosenthal, adjunct curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, curator of the 2005 exhibition The Surreal Calder, and co-curator of Calder Jewelry in 2008
Ann Y. Smith, art historian with expertise in Connecticut's history, former director (1976–1998) and curator (1998–2004) of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, and author of numerous books and articles, including Hidden in Plain Sight: the Whittemore Collection and the French Impressionists (2009)
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, vice provost for the arts at the University of Virginia, former senior curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and curator of the 2004 exhibition Calder–Miró in conjunction with the Beyeler Foundation
In Memoriam
Louisa James Calder was Alexander Calder's wife of 45 years, and mother of his two children, Sandra and Mary. The pair met on a New York-bound steamship from Europe in 1929 and married two years later.
Mary Calder Rower, the second daughter of Alexander and Louisa Calder, was a dedicated and effective supporter of her father's legacy. She was a founding trustee of the Calder Foundation and was integral to the creation of the Atelier Calder residency program in Saché.
Giovanni Carandente authored twelve books and articles on Calder and curated the 1983 exhibition Calder: The Retrospective at Palazzo a Vela in Turin, Italy.
Pontus Hulten spent a lifetime in the European museum art world and was a champion of Calder's work. He was the founding director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where he was instrumental in organizing the acquisition and installation of Calder's important outdoor motorized sculpture, The Four Elements.
Jean Lipman was the curator of the seminal 1976 retrospective Calder's Universe at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Through gifts and purchase funds, Jean and her husband Howard made possible the core of the Whitney's impressive Calder collection, including Cirque Calder, acquired in 1983.
Richard D. Marshall, formerly of the Whitney Museum of American Art, was curator of the 1987 exhibition Alexander Calder: Sculptures of the Nineteen Thirties and the 2001 exhibition Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, which travelled to seven cities in Japan.
Thomas M. Messer was the director emeritus of the Guggenheim Foundation, former director of the Guggenheim Museum, and curator of the 1964 exhibition Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition.
Howard Rower, son-in-law of Alexander Calder, was an intimate of Calder's until the Artist's death in 1976, and was the founding chairman of the Calder Foundation.
The Calder Foundation has been charged with a collection of Calder works that is unsurpassed in both scope and depth. This collection is comprised of pieces from all periods of Calder's life. It includes mobiles, stabiles, standing mobiles, wire sculptures, and monumental outdoor works, as well as oil paintings, works on paper, toys, pieces of jewelry, and domestic objects. At any given time, a large number of these works are on public view, either in traveling exhibitions or on long-term loan to institutions (see On View Now).
The Calder Foundation has amassed and organized an exhaustive archive on Alexander Calder and his work. The archive contains more than 26,000 historic photographs, dozens of films, and thousands of books, magazines, and press clippings, in addition to over 130,000 documents. Among these documents are collections of correspondence covering all aspects of Calder's life and career; inventory records from Calder's American and European dealers; catalogues and exhibition materials; bank statements; passports, visas, and travel documents; and extensive documentation of the creation of Calder's monumental sculpture.
The Foundation has registered in its archive more than 22,000 works made by Calder. From monumental sculptures, mobiles, stabiles, paintings, and drawings, to lesser known works such as jewelry, furniture, and domestic objects, the Foundation documents the image, title, date, size, media, provenance, and publication and exhibition history for each work. Updates to these records continue daily with research and correspondence between more than 4,000 museums, collectors, dealers, auction houses, and scholars worldwide.
Owners of works attributed to Calder are encouraged to register their works in the archive and to update the Foundation with any changes to their collections.
The archive is a resource for curators and scholars but it is not open to the general public. Much of the information on Calder's work and life documented in the archive may be found under these headings on our website. Researchers may explore our extensive bibliography and exhibition history, archival photographs, selected historical texts, and a chronology spanning the artist's career.
The Calder Prize is awarded biannually to honor a living artist who has completed exemplary and innovative early work and who has demonstrated the potential to make a major contribution to the field. Created by the Calder Foundation in collaboration with the Scone Foundation in 2005, the Calder Prize grew out of the success of the Atelier Calder residency program located at Calder's former studio in Saché, France. The Prize consists of $50,000, the opportunity for a three-month residency at the Atelier Calder, and the facilitation of a gift of the recipient's defining works to a major public collection. Past recipients are Jill Magid, 2017; Haroon Mirza, 2015; Darren Bader, 2013; Rachel Harrison, 2011; Tomas Saraceno, 2009; Zilvinas Kempinas, 2007; and Tara Donovan, 2005.
Saché, France
The Calder Estate and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques established the Association pour l'animation de l'Atelier Calder in 1989 as an artist-in-residence program.
For three-month periods, international artists are invited to live in Calder's house, work in Calder's studio, and enjoy technical and financial support to help them realize undertakings that might otherwise prove daunting.
Visit the Atelier Calder website.
Building on Calder's collaborations with filmmakers such as Herbert Matter and Hans Richter during his own lifetime, the Calder Foundation has inaugurated an ongoing series of commissioned films that seek to capture the real-time experience so essential to understanding the artist's work. The resulting films and videos, each in response to a Calder work, expand on the artist's legacy through the distinctive potential of moving images to explore duration, motion, and materiality.
The series is curated by Victoria Brooks and four artists have participated thus far: Ephraim Asili, Rosa Barba, Lucy Raven, and Agnès Varda. A still from Varda's film is pictured here.
Calder For Peter (2017). Produced and commissioned by the Calder Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Victoria Brooks. 16mm HD transfer, color, sound; 11:18 min. Directed by Ephraim Asili.
Enigmatic Whisper (2017). Produced and commissioned by the Calder Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Victoria Brooks. Color, sound; 7:59 min. Directed by Rosa Barba; original music by Jan St. Werner, John Colpitts, and Andrew Barker.
Shape Notes (2017). Produced and commissioned by the Calder Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Victoria Brooks. Color, sound; 3:22 min. Directed by Lucy Raven; performance by Talujon Percussion Quartet.
When Sandy Dreams (2017). Produced and commissioned by the Calder Foundation, New York, in collaboration with Victoria Brooks. Color, sound; 1:53 min. Directed by Agnès Varda.


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One of a kind post office
St. Patrick, Mo.
Jason Jenkins
This year, St. Patrick, Mo., celebrates the 150th anniversary of its post office. This asset makes the hamlet unique, as it is the only St. Patrick in the world with a post office, which is featured on this month's cover.
Thousands of cards and letters are sent to the northeast Missouri town each year to be hand-stamped with a pictorial cancellation commemorating St. Patrick's Day. The post office, which is served by Lewis County Rural Electric Cooperative, has offered the special cancellation since 1979.
However, the tradition of sending keepsakes from St. Patrick extends back to 1936, when the Rev. Francis O'Duignan began a successful fundraising campaign to construct the Shrine of St. Patrick. He designed a green shamrock cachet, stamped it on 500 letters explaining his plan and mailed them on March 17, thus starting the postmark tradition.
The Shrine was dedicated in 1957 and is fashioned after St. Patrick's Memorial Church of Four Masters in Donegal, Ireland. Its Celtic design features 37 stained glass windows, including that of St. Patrick.
Fewer than 15 people live in St. Patrick today, but the community will swell with visitors on March 17. The day includes tours, storytellers, music and the annual Leprechaun Giveaway. Breakfast, lunch and dinner also are served.
Most cards and letters are postmarked on March 17, but the special cancellation can be used any day from March 1 to 30. Stamped, self-addressed envelopes requesting the pictorial cancellation may be mailed to Postmaster, St. Patrick, MO 63466. There is no charge; call 660-754-6511 for more details.
For $1, the Shrine sells a specially designed envelope that includes the pictorial cancellation, O'Duignan's catchet and first-class postage. Send orders to Shrine of St. Patrick, P.O. Box 34, St. Patrick, MO 63466 or contact publicity chairman Ellen Krueger at 660-754-6028 for more information.


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Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
Authorities released this photo of a woman reportedly riding a manatee.
A woman who police said was seen touching and riding a manatee in Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas, Fla., over the weekend turned herself in to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Tampa Bay Times reported.
Ana Gloria Garcia Gutierrez, 52, told police Tuesday that she wasn't aware what she did was against the law, the report said.
Witnesses gave authorities her description and photos of her riding the sea cow, which is a second-degree misdemeanor. She was seen riding the manatee at 1 p.m. Sunday in the water north of Gulf Pier, authorities said.
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Gutierrez was not arrested or charged, but the charges were referred to the state attorney's office, according to the Times.
The Florida Manatee Sanctuary Acts states that: "It is unlawful for any person at any time, by any means, or in any manner intentionally or negligently to annoy, molest, harass, or disturb or attempt to molest, harass, or disturb any manatee."
Authorities say the penalty for the woman could be up to 60 days in jail and a possible fine of $500.
Authorities don't believe any manatees were injured.
"It's a wild animal. It's not something to be ridden," Susan Butler, a manatee expert with the U.S. Geological Survey in Gainesville, told the Times. "I can't say that as a biologist I would ever, ever condone that, or say that (the manatee) wanted them to do that."
This article includes reporting by Lisa Orkin Emmanuel, NBCMiami.com, and NBC News staff.
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Pioneer Oil Producers Society: Luncheon. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., H.E.S.S. Club, 5430 Westheimer. Speaker: Kurt Abraham, executive editor, World Oil Magazine. Topic: World Oil's Annual Outlook. Information: www.pioneeroilproducers.com. Reservations: 281-679-6547.
Start Your Own Medical Billing Service: Class hosted by Leisure Learning Unlimited. 10 a.m.-noon, 2990 Richmond, sixth floor. Cost: $45. Information: www.llu.com or 713-529-4414.
Potential Changes to Immigration Laws and Implications for the Business Community: Seminar hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership and FosterQuan. 11:30 am.-1 p.m., GHP Board Room, Two Allen Center, seventh floor. Cost: $35. Information: Victoria Rivera at email@example.com or 713-844-3632.
Starting a Nonprofit Organization: Hosted by the Executive Service Corps of Houston and Leisure Learning Unlimited. 9:30-11:30 a.m., 2990 Richmond, sixth floor. Cost: $40. Information: www.llu.com or 713-529-4414. Scholarship information: 713-780-2208.
QuickBooks Forum: Hosted by Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor. 4-6 p.m., Cinco Ranch Branch of Fort Bend County Library, 2620 Commercial Center Blvd. Topics: Basics of invoicing; customized invoices. Cost: Free. Information: Wendy Kelley, 281-395-4488, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
After Hours Network: Meeting. 6-8 p.m., Little Napoli Italian Cuisine, 6445 Westheimer. Speaker: Jim Conway, security expert. Topic: Staying safe in an unsafe world. Cost: $15. Information: www.afterhoursnetwork.com.
Women's Energy Network: Houston Downtown Chapter luncheon. 11:30 a.m., Downtown Club at Plaza, One Shell Plaza, 910 Louisiana. Speaker: Joan Eischen, director advisory services, KPMG. Topics: Make your network work for you, work/life balance, sense of purpose and personal development. Cost: $30-$65. Information: www.womensenergynetwork.org.
Building Your Reputation as a Leader: Seminar hosted by APICS Houston Chapter. 1-5 p.m., H.E.S.S. Club, 5430 Westheimer. Speaker: Julie Kowalski, executive coach. Cost: $170. Information: www.apics-houston.org.
Houston Production Managers Association: Luncheon meeting. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Maggiano's Little Italy, 2019 Post Oak Blvd. Speaker: Amber Davis, owner of Tagged Social Media. Topic: How to incorporate social media with a printing and mailing campaign. Cost: Free to members, $35 to non-members. Reservations: www.hpma.com.
Maximize the Power of Your Image: Class hosted by Leisure Learning Unlimited. 6:30-8:30 p.m., 2990 Richmond, sixth floor. Cost: $46. Information: www.llu.com or 713-529-4414.
Houston Area Association of Personnel Consultants: Meeting. 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-4:30 p.m., Royal Oaks Country Club, 2910 Royal Oaks Club Drive. Speaker: Greg Doersching with The Griffin Group. Topic: The giving tree and excellence comes by design, not accident. Cost: $69-$89 each program. Registration: email@example.com or www.haapc.org.
Opportunities in North Dakota and the Bakken: Houston Summit. 7:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Sheraton Houston Brookhollow Hotel, 3000 North Loop West. Cost: $189-$289. Information: www.bakkenevent.com
Midtown Business Network: Meeting. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Sheraton Suites Galleria, 2400 West Loop South. Speaker: Nick Nicholson, film critic. Topic: Academy Awards and upcoming hot movies. Cost: $30. Information: www.midtownbusinessnetwork.com.
Public Official of the Year Award Luncheon: Hosted by the University of Houston Master of Public Administration Program. 11:30 a.m., University of Houston, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library. Keynote speaker: Jeff Moseley, Texas transportation commissioner and former president of the Greater Houston Partnership. Cost: Free. Reservations: email@example.com.
La Idea en Accion: Free business advising and networking event hosted by USAID, the U.S. Department of State, Accion Texas and Univision. Noon-3 p.m., Houston Community College Central Campus, 1300 Holman, Learning Hub Science Building. Hispanic entrepreneurs with business ties to Latin America are invited to learn about the La Idea business plan competition. Registration: http://laideahouston.eventbright.com.
Key Legal Issues of Starting a Business - Intellectual Property: Class hosted by Leisure Learning Unlimited. 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 2990 Richmond, sixth floor. Cost: $30. Information: www.llu.com or 713-529-4414.
Houston Area Apple Users Group: Meeting. 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Bellaire Civic Center, 7008 S. Rice Ave. Speaker: Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus. Information: www.haaug.org or 832-305-5999.
GMAT Review: Hosted by the University of Houston-Clear Lake Center for Advanced Management Programs. Feb. 23, March 2, 9, and 16, 8 a.m.-noon, Bayou Building, UH-Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Blvd. Cost: $349. Registration: www.uhcl.edu/camp. Phone: 281-283-3133 or 281-283-3121. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Autunite is a very beautiful, many might say the most beautiful, uranium-bearing mineral. Autunite contains many amazing isotopes, including a few transuranic elements! I received a sample of the beautiful and deadly mineral from a friend at the cost of an analysis using my gamma spectrometer.
I have finally completed a calibration analysis of my spectrometer, to include a 17 KeV to 2MeV window with a +/- 3KeV tolerance. These are favorable conditions for analysis of uranium and uranium daughters.
Today, I tested my new Autunite sample in my gamma spectrometer to see what I might find within it's calcium-encrusted innards. The primary natural uranium products are there, as expect: Lead 214 and Bismuth 214 being heavy gamma emitters, lead the way with large spikes at 351.92 KeV, 295 KeV, and 609.31KeV, 1764.49 KeV, respectively. I detected a tiny bit of Radium 226, Uranium 235, and Uranium 238.


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Wenger ready to commit to Gunners
Press Association Arsene Wenger is ready to commit his long-term future to Arsenal and has held preliminary contract talks with the club. "The link with PSG is there because I'm French and I know the owners. But if that was the case then I would be there already. I'm not at PSG because my heart is with Arsenal." Wenger's Arsenal are without a trophy since the 2005 FA Cup but Wenger believes that after several years which have seen them unable or unwilling to match the biggest players in the transfer market, they can now compete. Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and Liverpool's Luis Suarez have been mentioned as possible attacking targets along with Real Madrid's Argentina international Gonzalo Higuain. And Wenger said: "They are all realistic targets quality-wise, but not all of them are available to join us. We have better financial resources than the years before and it is resources we have created ourselves. "That is massively important to us. For years we were out of the race for the top-level transfers but we are coming back now because we are in a better financial situation and also because of Financial Fair Play. "I knew when I committed to my last contract and the contract before that the club were going through a very sensitive period, because we had less financial resources and the challenge was to stay at the top and in the Champions League during that period. "We are coming out of that period and I hope in the next two or three years the club will be competing for the Premier League." The landscape facing the Gunners in that battle has changed significantly with the appointment of new managers at all of last season's top three, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea. And Wenger said: "This is the biggest change in the top four in all the time I've been with Arsenal. Is the league more open than before? We don't know, nobody knows. "But we've got the most stability and we hope to take advantage of that. There was a big gap between us and Manchester United last season and our challenge is to bridge that gap. "But you go to Manchester City, they will want to win the league. You go to Manchester United, it's the same, to Liverpool, to Chelsea, everybody will want to win the league." The Frenchman's current deal expires next season and he was linked earlier this summer with Paris St Germain, who eventually appointed Laurent Blanc as Carlo Ancelotti's successor. But Wenger told several national newspapers: "I am committed to staying longer at this club. I've already had a chat with Ivan. It went very well, not a problem.


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A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of Wells's life and transformed it into a witty and deeply moving narrative about a fascinating yet flawed man.
Wells had sexual relations with innumerable women in his lifetime, but in 1944, as he finds himself dying, he returns to the memories of a select group of wives and mistresses, including the brilliant young student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West. As he reviews his professional, political, and romantic successes and failures, it is through his memories of these women that he comes to understand himself. Eloquent, sexy, and tender, the novel is an artfully composed portrait of Wells's astonishing life, with vivid glimpses of its turbulent historical background, by one of England's most respected and popular writers.
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The Jewish Ensemble Theatre is staging a contemporary drama, created by a gifted 38-year-old writer and performed by a truly talented cast, '4000 Miles' by Amy Herzog.
Herzog's play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2012 Obie Award for Best New American Play.
Herzog writes about her story, 'After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91-year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. '4000 Miles' looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world.'
Directed by Christopher Bremer, JET's managing director, '4000 Miles' stars Joseph Seibert as Leo and Henrietta Hermelin as Vera.
Each character struggles with loss and denial, and the audience witnesses how frustration and compassion are both sides of the same coin.
Bremer said, 'What struck me about this wonderful play is that we all know the cliche you come into this world and you go out alone, but the truth is that we all spend a great deal of time alone even though we are surrounded by other individuals.'
The fine actors do it with movement and distance.
Hermelin's Vera maneuvers her way around the apartment in an aging body. Her steps become all the more delicate, her need to hang on pronounced, and her everyday items misplaced.
Yet she remains a dogged force for her survival and leftist ideas.
Seibert's Leo says he will only be staying for one night, but the tension in his face and posture belie his capacity to decide anything. He can't sit still and he can't move on.
The acting is true and the dialogue is wonderful.
FYI: The Jewish Ensemble Theatre presents '4000 Miles' through Dec. 1 at the Aaron DeRoy Theatre on the campus of the Jewish Community Center, 6600 West Maple Road in West Bloomfield Township. Tickets are $41-$48, discounts for seniors and students. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays; 5 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays; 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays; plus 2 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 20 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27. Call 248-788-2900 or visit www.jettheatre.org.


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This was originally published at Provoketive Magazine's website as part of the January "Synchroblog" on the subject of "Hope."
Oh, January. The turning of a page, the start of a chapter, and the beginning of a journey into undiscovered country. A time of pledging to not repeat the same mistakes or failings that the preceding twelve months brought time and again. Looking at the world with fresh, clear eyes and the chance for a new start. A hope in the unseen.
The irony that "hope" is a four-letter word is not lost on me. And like other four-letter words, this one can cut with its sharpness.
For such a simple word, "hope" carries a world of power behind it. It instills something inside of us. We can use it to project a sensation into others. As a verb, it is full of action, but never unfocused intensity. "Hope" always directly correlates to someone or something. Is it any surprise that "Hope" is a relatively popular name to give baby girls? Like the individual who would bear the name, "hope" implies strength, inspiration, and a sense of wonder.
Perhaps the passage we are most familiar with in the Bible where "hope" occurs is found in the oft-quoted verse "Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love" (I Corinthians 13:13, NIV). It's interesting that "hope" falls between "faith" and "love," because there is something to be said about how important "hope" can and should be when linking these three idea together. …and yes: I know that "the greatest of these [three] is love," but hope is the bridge we must cross in order to transition between the three.
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The Acura "MD-X Concept" luxury performance SUV made its world debut today at the 2006 New York International Auto Show featuring bold, sleek exterior styling indicative of the next generation MDX production model.
"Every aspect of the MD-X Concept design conveys performance while still retaining SUV functionality," said John Mendel, senior vice president, auto operations. "The styling signifies a bold direction for the next generation MDX, both in appearance and substance."
The MD-X Concept is fashioned as a true driver's SUV, with its low, wide stance and aggressive design. Its sleek surface lines are modeled after a high-powered megayacht.
The MD-X Concept features a wider track and longer wheelbase that give the vehicle a sportier, performance look. The profile of the concept reveals a refined SUV with smooth, chiseled lines and an elegant form. A dominant character line runs from the front quarter panel to the rear, evoking the feeling of forward movement. The sharply raked D-pillar creates a stealth, aerodynamic appearance while still retaining the third row seating functionality and cargo carrying capability of the current generation MDX.
The Concept sits low to the ground despite the large 20-inch five-spoke custom alloy wheels, while the large wheel arches and flares add to the Concept's muscular appearance. The sleek cabin features flush mounted windshield glass, which improves aerodynamics while adding to the MD-X Concept's smooth and flowing design.
"The smooth lines and sleek shape of the MD-X Concept challenge the conventions of SUV design," said Ricky Hsu, chief designer for the MD-X Concept. "Our goal was to create the image of a sports sedan while maintaining generous interior volume and utility of a SUV."
The front hood is accented with pronounced character lines culminating in an aggressive five-sided grille, which gives the MD-X its bold presence. The commanding front grille features a dominant center bar running through a solid aluminum face. The narrow, Xenon High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights appear to grow out of the massive grille, giving the overall front-end a strong, distinct look.
"The front end of the MD-X Concept communicates power and prestige," explains Hsu. "We want drivers to do a double-take when the vehicle passes them on the road."
In the rear, the MD-X Concept has an integrated rear hatch, which sits flush against the bumper to create a smooth, clean appearance. LED taillights wrap around the cargo hatch adding to the vehicles wide and low appearance. A rear spoiler improves aerodynamics and the integrated dual exhaust pipes add to the SUV's sporty style.
The next generation MDX production model will be available this fall, bringing a whole new level of performance and sophistication to the Acura light truck lineup. Track-tuned at the famed Nurburging in Germany, the all-new MDX will feature outstanding performance and handling. Equipped with a powerful, class leading V6 engine and coupled with Acura's exclusive Super Handling All -Wheel Drive(TM) (SH-AWD(TM)), the next generation MDX will re-invent the luxury SUV segment just as it did when it first debuted.


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Well, I guess I am still a rebel in my older age as I was in my younger days. ROFLOL I've found the industry standard was set based on the amount of product sold, 300 ppi vs 200 ppi and if everyone makes them at 300, then the more will be sold at 300.
Gotta love this day in age, and I do... I'll make the kit at 300 ppi and will make full size papers. I like the size of the tiling, but then you do have those who don't have the programs to fill. hmmmm... thinking on that, i think I have one of those!
Ohh.. this is going to be fun and scary at the same time. The colors are just lovely.
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