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21st Sunday in Ordinary TimeCycle CReadings: Isaiah 66: 1821;
Hebrews 12: 57, 1113; Luke 13: 2230Author: Fr. Richard Gill,
LCTHEME OF THE READINGSThe readings this Sunday present us with
the teaching that the salvation of God is extended to
all the nations of the earth and it is our
task to "proclaim his glory in distant lands", inviting all
to the Kingdom of God (First Reading). In the Letter
to the Hebrews we are reminded that we must persevere
in trials, even as God uses them to discipline us
because it is the loving discipline of a
father with his sons. Finally, we are warned in the
Gospel of Luke against presumption and the idea of easy
salvation. Salvation involves the hard work of collaborating with the
grace of God day after day, until the last day
of our lives. It cannot be taken for granted. It
is a task and a mission.DOCTRINAL MESSAGEThe Alleluia verse today
puts the readings in the proper context and provides the
fuller spiritual and doctrinal content we should look to get
across. "The Word of God became a man and lived
among us. He enabled those who accepted him to become
children of God" (John 1: 12, 14).
The most important fact of our relationship with God is
that he has sent his Son among us and he
has taken our nature to himself and sanctifying it. This
is God´s embrace of fallen humanity and the source of
our hope. We are not merely forgiven our sins and
pardoned for our wrongs, but we are brought into a
new condition: children of the Father, brothers and sisters of
Jesus Christ, heirs of the Kingdom. We have a new
dignity as sons of God, entirely the fruit of the
loving sacrifice and grace of Jesus Christ. The challenge
to every Christian, as a child of God, is to
now live that new condition worthily. We must live up
to the grace we have received, since last week´s Gospel
emphasized that "from those to whom much has been given,
much will be expected." There is a new style of
life that is expected of a child of God, a
more demanding morality and a more thorough living of charity.
The Gospel calls us to a radically different path than
we walked before, a call to continual growth in holiness.
The Christian cannot stagnate nor do enough "just to
get by." The question put to Jesus, "Lord, are they
few in number who are to be saved?" was an
attempt to elicit a sympathetic answer from Jesus that most
would be saved. Yet Jesus challenges his listeners not to
presume God´s mercy. The way of life Jesus calls us
to requires change, conversion, effort, renunciation, and apostolic zeal for
the salvation of others. Too many people simply assume they
will be saved without really working at it. There is
no evidence at all in the Gospel that such an
idea was shared by Jesus. The Christian life can
seem like a struggle, full of trials and a long,
hard slog to the end. Yet Jesus calls us
to persevere to the end just as he did, faithful
in all the big and small things, right up to
our last breath. This is the testimony he gives us
to do the will of the Father at all
times, up to death, even death on the Cross.
Yet we have the power and the grace to live
this life because of our condition as children of God.
We are not aliens or strangers anymore, nor does God
consider us hopeless sinners and rebels. We are his children
and he gives us all the grace we need to
choose the true and good thing at each moment and
to persevere to the end. We can count on his
grace and go forward through life serenely and confidently because
our Father loves us.PASTORAL APPLICATIONSIn our modern culture we have
lost the sense of sin because we have found so
many ways to explain it away. Pop psychology teaches everything
we do wrong is either someone else´s fault or the
result of conditioning or impulses we cannot control. But we
have to reassert the role of our free choice to
know, embrace, and live out what God has taught us.
On this we will be judged and our excuses will
be in vain on the day we face God. We
need to live each day with the security and confidence
of children of the Father, yet know that the Father
has great expectations. He gives us all we need to
succeed, but the salvation that he offers us is the
fruit of a long and sustained effort to cooperate with
his grace every day. Hence, the importance of our
moral choices they make us into a certain kind
of person, either good or bad. It is not enough
to say our intentions were basically good, that we didn´t
mean any harm. No, our actions must be consistent with
our new condition as children of God. It is important
that we examine our conduct and our intentions daily so
that the spirit of the world with its rationalizations and
calls for an "easy Christianity" or "Catholic lite" do not
obscure our conviction that salvation is a struggle. Until our
last breath, we need to fight to preserve the state
of grace and trust in God´s mercy.
Eventos de la comunidad
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Rescate y conservación de los bienes culturales destinados al culto.
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Moritz' goal is for students to come to an anthropological understanding of the complexity of environmental issues in contemporary Africa within the context of global climate change. To learn more about the class, read the syllabus for "Anthropology of Africa."
The Center for African Studies was motivated to develop a course that surrounded environmental issues in Africa for several reasons. "College students today are very aware of the importance of environmental protection, and therefore this course should have wide appeal," said David Kraybill, Director of the center. "Many OSU students also have a humanitarian interest in Africa. The environment is especially important in Africa because of widespread poverty, and the poorer people are, the more they are exposed to the environment and the more they depend on it for their wellbeing. This course focuses on how humans affect the environment and how the environment affects humans in Africa."
The Center for African Studies works to expand African studies curriculum across disciplines, increase interaction between Africanist faculty across campus, organize lectures and conferences, and conduct outreach activities with K-12 business, government and civic groups.
The Ohio State University has been selected to receive NAFSA's Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization which recognizes institutions for overall excellence in internat ...
Ohio State's Nicholas Breyfogle, an associate professor of history, is part of a collaborative research team studying Russia's environmental history and natural resources.

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$5,000 in Grants for November's 24 Hour City Project
The 24 Hour City Project is back. And, did we mention that we have $5,000 in grants to give away?!
Inspired by the National Building Museum's Intelligent Cities initiative, the 24 Hour City Project encourages participants to explore the intersection of the built environment, data, the arts, and information technology. All projects must have a physical and digital component and will be placed on display at the Atlas Theater during the closing event for Digital Capital Week on 11/11/11. To give a sense of these projects, see the winning projects from our June event here.
Apply for funding here.
The goals for the 24 Hour City Project are to:
● Leverage technology and data to reveal hidden relationships between our physical and digital worlds, and impact the way we interact with our environments and each other;
● Focus on citizen-generated services to redefine the relationship between citizens and government;
● Accelerate the transfer of ideas between entrepreneurs and urban change agents;
● Generate useful data so that we can make more informed public policy decisions; and
● Enhance our ability to communicate with one another to create vibrant and livable cities.
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On Friday, March 7th, Carlson GI
Clinic, Salix Pharmaceuticals, Braintree Laboratories, and Surgical Associates
of Wisconsin Rapids are throwing a Bottoms Up Bash at Hotel Mead to raise money
for the Bottoms Up Fund. This fund will
help pay for colon cancer screenings for local people who can't afford one. For just 20 dollars in advance or 30 at the
door you get free beer and soda, a pasta bar, prime rib, smoked salmon,
appetizers and desserts. Plus a concert
by The Wise Guys. You can win prizes and
play games all night long.
You can buy advanced tickets to the Bottoms Up Bash right now at Carlson GI Clinic in the Lobby of Riverview Hospital in Wisconsin Rapids.
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Video Search Engine Truveo Expands To More Countries
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As part of its continuing international rollout, AOL-owned video search engine Truveo has launched in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, and Turkey. The site has experienced dramatic growth since its relaunch in August as a consumer destination. According to the press release, 70 percent of Truveo traffic now comes from outside the US market.
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My 1995 Subaru Legacy L AWD w/ 5spd manual transmission is making a rumbling noise when idling and while drive with the transmission engaged. This started a few weeks ago and has gradually gotten louder, and now squeaks while driving. Also, the speedometer jumps when I slow to a stop, but is steady and seems accurate while driving.
The clutch was replaced November 2008 with about 190k and presently has 209k. The mechanic that replaced the clutch and looked at it yesterday and said that there is a main bearing in the transmission that has worn out and is causing the noise. He stated that the clutch is fine and did not mention the throw-out bearing when I asked him about it. He also said this is causing the speedometer to jump.
The mechanic replaced the gear oil and added additive as a temporary fix but said the transmission need to be replaced. My question is, does this sound likely or could it be something else?


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For anyone who's grown up in metro Atlanta during these last four boom-boom decades, the monthly report from the Atlanta Regional Commission is simply astounding:
[The] ARC estimated that the 10-county Atlanta region added 31,500 new residents between April 1, 2009, and April 1, 2010. This growth is dramatically slower than historical levels, as the national recession and the housing slowdown continue to take their toll.
Since the recession began more than two years ago, the 10-county region has added approximately 56,000 people, which is the slowest growth period in the region since the 1950s.
The Atlanta region's slowdown is directly attributable to the national economy. During weak economic periods, people don't move as much for several reasons. Job opportunities are slim, meaning people don't move to take new jobs. And, with the housing market in such disarray, it is hard to sell a house, which tends to keep people stationary….
Overall, however, this decade has been characterized by fast growth. The Atlanta region has averaged more than 72,000 new residents each year.
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August 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
…and states like Michigan, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, etc. continue to lose thousands of residents. These states would die for any positive trend in new residents.
August 26th, 2010
4:54 pm
California is the worst MiltonMan. I am glad personally. It is about time these yankees stay put! lol!
August 26th, 2010
4:55 pm
I wonder how we compare with Charlotte, which has made it their mission to Eat Our Lunch.
August 26th, 2010
4:56 pm
good. we don't need any more people here. traffic, water and pollution are bad enough as is.
August 26th, 2010
5:00 pm
We still seem to have an inordinate number of yankees here. Maybe they could improve New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Ohio?
August 26th, 2010
5:12 pm
Crime, traffic, high unemployment, incompetent government, water problems, the hottest summer in 30 years… why the heck would anyone WANT to come here?
August 26th, 2010
5:22 pm
Everyone knows it's the liberal democrats' fault. They are to blame for all of Georgia's problems.
August 26th, 2010
6:18 pm
No one wants to come here because we are the laughing stock of the country!
August 26th, 2010
6:33 pm
Thank God! Migration to Atlanta is what boomed our economy which is now BUST. Charlotte (banking of the South) and Raleigh (IT of the South) are worse of than we are in many respects. I swear the Real Housewives of NJ have taken over my neighborhood in the pasdt several years. If I hear one more time how there are no good deli's or pizza joints down in ATL, I am going to scratch their eyes out and pelt them with fried okra and collard greens.
August 26th, 2010
6:39 pm
No one wants to come here anymore because the agenda the republicans have put forth is incomplete. People will be flocking here once Republicans finish the job.
1. We have the microchip implant ban, but it does not go far enough. We need a strong bill that rids us of the Georgia Power Smart Meters that are secretly sending all our internet habits off to Washington. These Smart Meters are also transmitting our phone calls to Nancy Pelosi. Obamacare knows if you look up analwarts. These new meters must be banned.
2. Who would want to move here if you can't bring a gun to church? Legislative action is needed now to bring this much needed security into our sanctuaries of worship.
3. Abortion Billboard Act must be enacted now. Any woman that wants an abortion should be forced to rent a billboard with a picture of the fetus prominently displayed on a major highway or freeway before being allowed to go through with the procedure.
4. We need to schedule anti gay votes for the next 10 years. Anti gay propaganda should not be limited to the Republican governor primary season every four years. This is a family values state.
5. Lets get rid of the Mexicans. And Muslims too. We'll show our tolerance by letting the Catholics stay. (However, caution must be used with the Episcopalians.)
If we stay on track we will be welcoming thousands of new residents yearly. God Bless.
August 26th, 2010
6:59 pm
DannyX = DannyClueless. No one has moved here the past 8 years because of Sonny? Stick your head back in the sand & quit posting.
August 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
I work in the metro area…but would not move there if gas cost $15.00 a gallon. NO WAY NO HOW…watched the news lately? Maybe everyone wised up. If it is not Meth it's a stray bullet. Why would ANYONE want to live in Metro Atlanta? I am thinking when the economy picks up the pop there might SHRINK. Oh yea…Clark Atlanta Tech AKA GT SUX…and always will.
August 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
MiltonMan = Not relevant and unable to detect satire. Stop posting. Thanks.
August 26th, 2010
7:06 pm
I work downtown and live no more than 5 min away. I wouldn't have it any other way, but to each his or her own.
August 26th, 2010
7:40 pm
Disadvantaged insider: according to the Charlotte Chamber, that area added 50K residents from 08 to 09, BUT bear in mind, the entire Charlotte MSA only has 1.7 million people compared to Atlanta MSA with 5.6 million, so it's a big big difference between the two. If you've ever been there–no comparison.
August 26th, 2010
8:17 pm
Us vs Us knows not the definition of satire.
That the 5 things Danny Boy listed are top of mind–and that he believes that other people share his fixation with these things–is perplexing.
But I'll bet the "God Bless" part constituted satire. Why would a lib not want to use a literary device to bash Christianity. It makes them appear sophisticated.
August 26th, 2010
8:27 pm
@ Rob Vinson-You sound like a high school girl who nobody wants to hang with. "we are the laughing stock of the country"..WAAAAAHHH. Why do you think so? I would love to hear what you think. seriously. I am aware of our changes to local government that are happening, some bad, some good. But I look forward to positive things that are being done to Atlanta, and I will be try to be an active part in going in the right direction.
August 26th, 2010
8:37 pm
Jim, not trying to bait (just genuinely curious), but any idea if these estimates include illegals?
August 26th, 2010
8:52 pm
Hey DannyX. I thought your post was great. I'm still chuckling.
August 26th, 2010
8:59 pm
DannyX, you hit the nail on the head!!!
August 26th, 2010
9:24 pm
Max, I'm a 4th generation Atlanta resident. I feel that as of late, we are a laughing stock of the nation because of what this city and state has turned into. We have "brother Sonny," who perpetually looks like he just finished a bucket of fried chicken with that greasy cheshire cat grin….who has been inept for the past 8 years. The traffic sucks, the air quality sucks, the water situation is a mess and the schools consistently are ranked near the bottom compared to the other states. The city of Atlanta with the corruption in City Hall, the APS and the airport don't do anything to help our image either. This is home for me and I don't plan on leaving, but we have real work to do to improve the quality of life here as well as the image that the rest of the country has of us.
August 26th, 2010
9:39 pm
Thank you Rob. I agree with most of what you are saying. Atlanta does have alot of work to be done to better the quality of life for residents who who reside here. I hope that people will go out and vote for changes come November. I guess that I don't care what other states think of us. I don't hear that we are the laughing stock at all with my colleagues at our offices in California, Washington D.C and New York. Yes, a positive image would be nice to portray, no Norman Rockwell painting, but a nice postcard. Most states are dealing with similar issues, so other states should we worrying about their own local problems. The media portrays a way different story than what really is going on. Have a good night.
August 26th, 2010
10:06 pm
When my wife retires in four years; we will get the hell out of here.I have lived in Atlanta all of my life. It has taken a large step backwards in the last 20 years.Quality of life,traffic,government,cost of living,crime all over the place and people who have become rude like northerner's or maybe they are northerner's.Hell,I guess we are out numbered.
August 26th, 2010
10:31 pm
RGB does not know the definition of satire. My guess is you Googled it like Gretchen Carlson and still got it wrong. Thanks for the laugh.
August 26th, 2010
10:38 pm
Beautiful Words from James Howard Kunstler:
"Behind the incoherent cargo of conflicting complaints that makes up Tea Party doctrine — like "keeping the government's hands off our medicare!" — stands the more basic dissolution of the Sunbelt's miracle economy, along with the pain and bewilderment of the southern peckerwood political nexus that rose out of the dust after World War Two to build the suburban nirvana of universal air-conditioning, happy motoring, Jesus tub-thumping, over-eating, and Friday night football that defined Sunbelt culture. They sense now that history is about to thrust them back into the okra patch, with the hookworms and the chiggers, as the economy whirls down the drain, and the car dealerships close up, and the idle production homebuilders succumb to methedrine addiction, and the price of Reba McEntire tickets exceeds their dwindling resources, and they are none too happy about any of that.
Of course this Sunbelt political culture has tentacles and outposts all over the USA, wherever a few generations of laboring folk enjoyed debt-fueled parabolic rises in living standards during the cheap oil decades, and now find themselves in foreclosure hell, indentured to the very WalMarts that they welcomed with open arms (and allowed to destroy their local businesses) — and, of course, it's yet another paradox that these are the same folk who will still defend the big box masters to their deaths. The America they stand for is a weird contradictory mish-mash of Confederate nostalgia, hyper-individualism that really owes allegiance to nothing, racial enmity, religious paranoia, and potemkin patriotism — especially involving anything in the constitution that allows them to wriggle out of obligations to the public interest at the same time that they get to push other groups of people around
August 26th, 2010
10:41 pm
As explained earlier, the cotton curtain is coming down on Dixie. Back to goat-roping and sister-poking.Dixie is circling the drain and lots of fecal matter in the vortex.
August 26th, 2010
10:43 pm
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August 26th, 2010
10:52 pm
we have lost our way,
what? From what I remember Yankees like me put Atlanta on the map by sending jobs to the cheap south. You southerners were not doing a good job running your economies and needed the educated and experienced people of the north and pacific coast to bring this state into the 21st century.
Your welcome.
August 27th, 2010
3:44 am
August 27th, 2010
5:55 am
The South has always offered quality of life in a number of ways that cannot be measured in dollars. When GA population increases went ballistic, too many people were only interested in making money off the increase to the detriment of quality of life issues. Now that growth has slowed, maybe we should all slow down, take a hard look at the monster we have created and try to make amends.
August 27th, 2010
6:00 am
These comments are hilarious. I do not agree with MiltonMan but enjoy his posts. It seems to me Georgia has lost the image of the most progressive state in the south to NC. Georgians need to think of out motto ("wisdom, justice and moderation") when voting in November. Early voting actually begins in mid September. I will not even say who I support although you can probably guess. Turn out and vote in record numbers!
August 27th, 2010
7:00 am
Well, that means at least one positive has come from this recession.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" – Ed Abbey
August 27th, 2010
7:25 am
What do you call a Yankee when you see him or her? Boss.
August 27th, 2010
7:50 am
@ The truth—-You know what Boss means spelled backwards–DoubleSOB!!! Have a great day you carpetbagger.
August 27th, 2010
7:52 am
Folks, have y'all not been listening to the news or reading that fine publication known as the AJC? The reason people have stopped coming to our area is because our school systems suck. Why would you move to Atlanta Proper if you had school age children? or DeKalb County or Clayton County? I don't have any school age children and frankly, I'm thinking of moving out because as the school systems go, so goes the area in general. Look at the local news on TV and what do you see? Our new governor (Purdue' not gonna do it) needs to clean all this up or we're headed the way of Detroit……we're pretty close now. We're the State Of Adventure, but I'm not sure that's the kind of adventure we're looking for.
August 27th, 2010
8:13 am
I live in the city of Atlanta, and when I watch the news it makes me afraid to go to the suburbs. Just a matter of perspective I guess. Most folks think their neighborhood is pretty good, but other places are scary. Just as three fourths of Americans think the school their kids go to is an "A or B", but we only 1/3 say the same thing about schools nationally.
August 27th, 2010
8:15 am
I am from Detroit. The only thing that Atlanta and Detroit have in common is a majority black population. The decay and devastation in Detroit has to be seen to be believed. It has been a 60 year process.
August 27th, 2010
8:20 am
There are two reasons that people are not moving here. It is not the republicans, or the rednecks, or the bible thumpers, or the traffic, or the crime. First, have you looked at the unemployment rate? People move where there are jobs. Second, many people have to sell a house in order to move, and that is very difficult to do right now.
August 27th, 2010
8:25 am
Hey Truth Speaker,
If you're so educated, why did you sign your post "your welcome?" It should be "you're welcome" as in "you are welcome." Now I may have been educated here in Georgia, but I do know simple grammar.
August 27th, 2010
8:40 am
Jess "you're" a sad redneck. Using the redneck school of reasoning where you don't examine an opposing point of view but just dismiss it entirely on the basis of something irrelevant. I guess it saves the trouble of thinking, tell me – are you an urban planner too?
Why don't people understand how strange it is that the major 'want' of living in the metro area is only to be close to your workplace?
August 27th, 2010
9:06 am
I plan on leaving here one day. Someone once said to me, "Atlanta is far too south to not be on the ocean", and that made a lot of sense.
But in the end, I'm goin out West where they'll appreciate me.
P.S. Thank you Mr. Carter!
August 27th, 2010
9:21 am
So who wants to live in Atlanta? Terrible traffic, high taxes, crime. I guess if you're from up north, it's heaven. Not me, when I retired I moved out of the rat race to South Georgia. At least there's still a snese of community here. Help save America, vote conservative.
August 27th, 2010
9:28 am
@Ssej – "Why don't people understand how strange it is that the major 'want' of living in the metro area is only to be close to your workplace?"
For me that is a huge consideration, though certainly not the only reason. The 5 min commute allows me to spend at least 21-22 extra days with my family based on a one hour probable commute each way. I nearly get an extra month of my life NOT sitting in traffic. If I worked OTP I would likely move there for the same reason. I also enjoy the diversity of people, viewpoints, lifestyles, backgrounds etc. There are people from all over the world in Atlanta, it's like on big international terminal. Having grown up in the burbs I know they can be a bit different in these respects and I like the change. I also really like the fact that I can travel a short distance from my home which is in a neighborhood that looks like Anytown, USA and be in the middle of a bustling urban city that, despite what naysayers will tell you, is still expanding, changing, developing, and improving. There is a level of excitement here which I really enjoy. All my opinions and observations of course.
August 27th, 2010
9:31 am
Mike, for what it's worth there are many areas that have an amazing sense of community in metro Atlanta, my area included. We have parent networks, public safety networks, groups who team up to improve parks and other public spaces,very strong neighborhood associations, loads of civic involvement, festivals, events, and more spontaneous porch parties than you can stumble to and from in one night. I've seen people come together for each other more times than I can remember and it's another reason I remain.
August 27th, 2010
9:37 am
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August 27th, 2010
9:38 am
Goober and Milton Man – Excellent Post!!!
Bill – Unemployment is only the byproduct of a lack of progressive thinking for job creation in getting companies to relocate to Atlanta or Georgia. It needs to be a paradigm shift from simply belieing that being Pro-Business goes beyond giving tax cuts to corporations. When politicians stop trying to simply win elections and start developing policies that drive infastructure improvements, effectively reduce crime and improve education will we then see a quality of life improvement and a net decrease in unemployment.
August 27th, 2010
9:55 am
I thought DannyX's post was hilarious! @ Boodle, I have been there, lots of times, and I've talked to the people and the leaders there. You are correct that there is no comparison; in terms of livability, Charlotte is well beyond us. We are becoming the Detroit of the South. Eeeww.
August 27th, 2010
9:55 am
Yep. I've had 2 friends and one neighbor move to other cities in the last 30 days. One went to Charleston, the other Jacksonville, the last one Chicago.
Everyone's evacuating out of Atlanta – no jobs. This city may be sunk…. Detroit v 2.0 unless the city and state quickly get their act together.
August 27th, 2010
9:58 am
Billy in Savannah – funny too, I think Savannah is more cosmopolitan than Atlanta these days. More interesting things going on in a city 1/20 the size of Atlanta. Better place, better lifestyle, better efforts on the business front.
Mind boggling. This state and city need to get their act together.
August 27th, 2010
10:13 am
So what's the problem? We've been on pro-growth-at-any-price steroids for waaaaaaay too long. And, just look at all the "positives" all that growth done brought us: highways clogged with cars, no way to walk to where we need to go, sprawled development, no regional transit, dirty air, diminishing greenspace, filthy water, and government run by GOP yahoos who just want to line their pockets by keeping the growth machine well-oiled with their PAC-funded politicians. Gawlee, I jest don't see a problem with slowin it all down. Maybe ending it entirely.


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The Culinary Arts Club of Madison Ridgeland Academy held a bake sale to benefit Stewpot's Community Kitchen. Club members presented the proceeds to Michelle Bingham of Stewpot. Shown are (from left, back) Tori Harrigill,...
Students representing The Veritas School in the 2013 Madison County Youth Leadership Class were presented medals for their participation during the Veritas academic class awards ceremony. Shown are (from left) Academic Dean...
Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Dubard Lipscomb announce the engagement of their daughter, Dabney Anne Lipscomb, to William Carlton Wilkerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Craig Wilkerson of Dallas.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late...
Kristen Joyce Jernigan and Logan Hunter Power were united in marriage at 6 p.m. October 27, 2012 at North Oxford Baptist Church in Oxford. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. Fish Robinson. Nuptial music was provided by Tom Wilson and...
Dr. and Mrs. David Steven Braden of Brookhaven announce the engagement of their daughter, Kathryn Clair Braden, to David Hobson Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven David Robertson of Church Hill.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter...
Mr. and Mrs. Nathanael Milton Haas of Dallas announce the engagement of their daughter, Eden Yvonne Haas, to Justin Patrick Harkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Michael Harkins of Jackson.
The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Highland...
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Eugene Rhodes of Memphis announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine Grace Rhodes, to John Brantley Davidson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Stacy Davidson.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Eva Williams...
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Thomas Waterman announce the engagement of their daughter, Natalie Marie Waterman, to Justin Davis Wade, son of Dr. and Mrs. David John Dzielak and Mr. and Mrs. Luther William Wade II.
Miss Waterman is the...
Mr. and Mrs. Andre Mark Wrentmore and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond John Lepone of Memphis annouce the engagement of their daughter, Brittni Francesca Wrentmore, to Henry Paris II, son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Henry Paris II of...
Haley Crisler Westbrook and Christopher Cameron Yearout were united in holy matrimony in a candlelight service of worship on the evening of January 26 at First Baptist Church of Jackson.
Miss Westbrook is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs....
Megan Sara Peterson and Matthew Miles McCluer were united in marriage October 13 in the sanctuary of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Orleans.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Joseph Peterson of New...
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WITH A NEW Madison County Board of Supervisors in place and federal funding all but dried up, it looks like widening a portion of Highway 463 is no longer a matter of politics but of money....
An affluent Chinese national with high blood pressure could help boost the local economy.
Northsiders are leading the effort to make Jackson the next hot spot for medical tourism.
Dr. Zilin Wang, a native of China who now...
By ANTHONY WARREN
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Quentin Whitwell's plan to turn Parham Bridges Park into a world-class tennis center continues to gain momentum.
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Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, the authors of the book, The Millionaire Next Door, spent years studying self-made millionaires to discover the personal traits that had led them to wealth.
"Planning and wealth accumulation are significant correlates even among investors of modest means."
And what that statement means is that if you have a plan to save and then execute that plan, the odds are you will reach your financial goals—if you plan to save, you will.
But to that, I would add three more:
1. Your plan to build wealth must be documented;
2. You must, on a regular basis, measure your progress towards meeting the goals of that plan, and;
3. Accountability, that is, you need to report your progress to someone else. Obviously, this other party must know of your plan and goals and, ideally, this other person would be knowledgeable in the field of personal financial management; in other words, you need a personal money coach.
And, in this regard, I am not talking about a financial adviser who is always trying to sell you something…like a stock broker or someone who peddles life insurance products. What I mean is a fee-only financial adviser and in some communities there are services that will provide this assistance for little or no charge.
In fact, a friend, who you know to be financially savvy, might also be able provide this discerning eye. The goal in this regard is to inject some level of outside accountability into the process.
It is, of course, possible to go it alone…but based on research, being held accountable to some extent will help motivate you to achieve your goals and stay on track. And, because building wealth is something you do over time not over night, it's a long haul and it helps to have someone you can count on who can count!
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"Physical therapists are very clever," Bastian says. "We can teach kids to change their grip on the pen, give fatter or weighted pencils -- or maybe motor practice can be effective. Many of the parents we have interacted with are happy to know this is a purely motor problem, because it is a bit more straightforward to work on such things than to work on behavioral issues."
Some kids may do better typing on a computer keyboard than writing with pencil and paper.
Bastian warns that poor handwriting can't be used to diagnose autism. There are lots of reasons why a child doesn't write well; but an autism diagnosis is based on an entirely different set of criteria.
"Parents of children with autism may want to talk to the administration about whether their child qualifies for physical or occupational therapy, or ask their doctor if they can have some occupational therapy prescribed," Bastian says. "These kids really should be looked at. Because if you are trying to listen to your teacher and trying to understand her and also having to work as hard as you can on your writing, it can be very bad for self-esteem and academic success."
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Technology, after all, was primarily about supply chain visibility. With the advent of lean, customer needs drove the discussion – they absolutely, positively needed to know where their shipment was "right now."
Sustainability, meanwhile, was primarily about "green" credibility; the adoption of best practices that reduced the company's environmental footprint while also, admittedly, giving it a slight marketing edge.
Every supply chain seeks to develop the capability to track shipments from creation through sale. And on the sustainability side, those that were able have invested in shiny new fleets of fuel-efficient vehicles (or contracted carriers who had made that commitment). At the very least, companies initiated new processes to reduce the amount of resources that went into each delivery.
But in the wake of the keenly felt supply chain lane disruptions caused by the tsunami in Japan, floods in Thailand and volcanic eruptions in Iceland over the past two years, a noticeable change has taken place.
Now, when talk turns to sustainability, the theme on everybody's mind is business continuity and über-efficient, technologically enhanced transportation practices.
It's not that "green" has gone out the window; it's just that in the current economic climate, the tone has shifted from being a distinct driver of goals and policies to sustainability being seen more as a byproduct of other decisions.
"I think the thing that everybody has begun to realize is that, in many ways, technology has the ability to blend corporate sustainability goals with what's good for a company's economic viability," says Les A. Hamashima, chief operating officer for Transite Technology Inc., a transportation management systems software company based in North Carolina. "Essentially, we've reached the point where both of those things go hand in hand."
All good transportation management software fulfills a basic function – enabling the company using it to bring in raw materials and ship out finished goods in the most effective way possible. And for many customers of Hamashima and others who commented for this article, "effective" means low cost.
"If you can reduce the cost of your goods sold, you're just a more competitive company," Hamashima explains.
But it turns out that's also the sweet spot for what we used to think of as green sustainability. With a solid 70 percent of all goods moved in the United States still being moved by truck, every decision that leads to a more precisely balanced load and a shorter distance between points A and B reduces fossil fuel consumption, carbon emissions in the air, and wear and tear on other resources.
First, Visibility
Historically, the development of transportation management systems was a direct outgrowth of companies becoming more diligent about their supply chain administration.
Yet up until the onset of the global financial crisis, industry surveys show that less than half of US companies had a strategic transportation management process in place.
"Within that corporate initiative, they looked at technology as a means to do a couple of things – to boost the efficiency of processes, and to provide them with a better overall view of corporate data," Hamashima says.
Ironically, supply chains, the physical manifestation of a shipper's global footprint, were left largely untouched when many of these firms considered where they could innovate and how they would cut costs.
But knocked for a loop by the crisis and successive natural and man-made disasters, shippers decided it was high time to sharpen their transportation processes.
"Now, there's a huge uptick in interest in this area – it's a pretty hot space right now. The reason is they've already done as much as they can conceivably do in every other area. They've squeezed the manufacturing process hard... they've squeezed other areas hard... and now they are looking for areas that have been left untapped," according to Hamashima.
What shippers are looking for specifically from technology is a way to lower the overall cost of goods sold while growing, or at least preserving, their bottom line. That means reducing the cost of raw material and inbound product, and then, in partnership with their transportation service provider, designing a delivery strategy that will get their goods before the buying public at a rate that's cheaper than that being paid by their competitors.
The result is that RFPs are growing increasingly complicated; a natural outgrowth of shippers realizing that transportation management is not just a functional part of their business, but a strategic part as well.
"The term you hear more than any other these days is 'resiliency,'" says Scott Byrnes, vice president of marketing for Amber Road, provider of global trade management solutions for McDonalds, Honeywell, Abercrombie & Fitch, Kraft Foods, Cisco Systems and others.
"What we're seeing as a result of what were some fairly major supply chain disruptions are more senior executives asking, 'Is my supply chain resilient?' And, 'Can I survive a catastrophe that's half a world away?' Followed with, 'How badly will it affect me?' and 'How will I respond?'" Byrnes says. "That didn't used to be as big an issue as it is now."
While the modern global economy has been with us for decades, supply chains have become so ubiquitous, so interdependent and so lean, that one shattered link can create chaos for the unprepared.
For those tasked with crafting a solution to the possible and the unprecedented, "it all comes down to giving your client control of their global supply chain," Byrnes says.
"That's what people are looking for... they want to understand where their orders are with respect to their raw materials and manufactured goods coming in, with respect to fulfillment, and they want to be able to match these things up, supply versus demand, so that if the lightning bolt hits anywhere along their supply chain, they can quickly assess how bad the impact is going to be in the intermediate term and what their options are," he continues.
"It's all about, 'How quickly can I re-route production to different facilities?' 'How quickly can I secure alternative transportation routes?' 'Alternative air routes?' 'Alternative ocean routes?' 'Rail?' And you can't do any of that if you don't have full visibility and control of your global supply chain," he says.
Byrnes says cloud-based software solutions are a powerful tool, gathering data from clients' global trading partners, suppliers, carriers and the like, and feeding it into a portal through which they can see a clear, real-time picture of their supply chain.
"You can even check the status of work-in-progress at your manufacturer," he says.
But Byrnes says data collection, no matter how thorough, is only part of the equation. In a world where the unexpected and unpredictable can wreak havoc, clients need to be able to interpret that data as quickly as it fills their computer screens.
"That's where our trade professionals come in," Byrnes says. "You need to have a partner you can turn to and say, 'I need to source from a different location. What are the risks of sourcing from this country or that country?' 'What are their regulatory regimes like?' And most importantly: 'How quickly can I move once a decision is made?'"
Byrnes says in addition to its large multinational clients, Amber Road is increasingly working with small to medium-sized firms who are trying to grow their top-line revenues by penetrating foreign markets and trying to reduce their cost of goods sold by sourcing from low-cost countries.
"The difference, from the solution perspective, is one of scale and capabilities," he says. " A $20 billion multinational will use the broadest range of capabilities and functions possible. A smaller companydoesn't need that.
Sustainability: The Driving Force?
If something of the overt emphasis on green that was so prevalent just a few years ago has diminished, That side of sustainability is not entirely on the back burner when it comes to integrating tech into the transportation setting, says John Tucker, vice president of marketing for Datatrac Corp.
"Yes, people are concerned about being as lean and efficient as they can be, but I think there's still a big emphasis on the environmental side," Tucker says. "We work with expedited delivery companies, and they're acutely aware of their green profile because the final mile tends to be very visible – people seeing them on the road, stopped at traffic lights – and in that setting, if you're not green, people notice."
"I think a lot of that also plays into business side [of their operations]," he says. "I mean, if you follow the logic, if they don't clean up their own act, somebody else will step in for them and make it harder to do business, [namely] government regulators."
When Datatrac started – in the days before the proliferation of accounting software – it primarily offered soup-to-nuts back-office services.
"Initially, and remember, I'm talking about a time before the widespread use of computers and cell phones and tablets, a lot of guys didn't necessarily see the value of technology, but those that ultimately went on and grew and prospered were the ones who saw that it created a lot of efficiencies, made their internal operations saner and quieter, and even opened up a host of new opportunities," Tucker says.
As an example of the latter, Tucker pointed to a client who stores an extremely expensive wound care package for a pharmaceutical distribution company.
"This is a kit that costs in the vicinity of $50,000 and hospitals simply don't want to have something like this on their shelf or on their books," he says. "It's technology that makes this a workable situation. What you have is a situation where when a patient is discharged the hospital will send the order to a distribution company, which alerts the courier warehousing it to bring it to you at the hospital door. It's a situation where promptness and responsiveness is key."
If the example suggests Datatrac has moved a long way from its own beginnings, Tucker confirms it has, moving from being the purveyor of a comprehensive operating system to one that is deeply involved in web technology.
"The mobile aspect has really become the focus. It's the tip of the spear; it's where the work is really done," he says.
"In any kind of delivery businesses, it has to be done by trucks and drivers and people moving things around. That's where the work is happening and we need to be where the work is happening."
At its heart, Datatrac's platform relies on drivers to collect data on their deliveries, which are then passed up to their dispatcher and on up to the carrier's chain of command and all the way through to the shipper.
"The cumulative effect of all this being that the shipper has a much broader view of the entire supply chain or distribution channel," Tucker explains.
"In today's lean supply chain world, shippers need to know that things got off the ship, that somebody picked their box up at the port, took it to the warehouse, broke it down, cross-docked it, put it on the delivery trucks and that it got to the store when it needed to be there," he continues.
"In essence, they need to know substantially everything, in real time, so that they can identify shortages in a timely fashion and successfully make corrections," he says.
Tucker describes the business environment as being one in which clients want "exception-based management."
"To do that, you need to collect good data in the field, because that's the only way to achieve a broad range of efficiencies, he adds.
So what of "sustainability" the way we used to think of it?
There is little to no distinction between employing technology for business continuity purposes and employing it as part of an overall "green" strategy.
"It goes right to the heart of environmental sustainability," Tucker says. "If you're not tracking each movement and have people running around out there and making three or four extra stops because things didn't get delivered or delivered correctly, that's wildly inefficient – you're consuming business resources, and you're becoming a hazard to the environment because you've logged, perhaps, three times more miles than you needed to in order for one shipment to be delivered."
"I'd like to say "green" initiatives are driven by and large by a kind of eco-consciousness, but that's not really it in the current business environment," he continues. "Drivers today are often paid by the stop, and companies on their effectiveness at distribution, so they want to design the most efficient route, encompassing the fewest miles with the least idle time – all good things for the environment – but really just a natural byproduct of the transportation service provider becoming a better business operation. And again, technology enables all these things."
Avoiding Disaster
But, of course, visibility is only one aspect of how technology is aiding supply chain continuity.
It wasn't all that long ago, that critical pieces of people's business operations resided in a box – the computer tower – sitting under the desks of their workers. In a really tech savvy business, a server holding critical business data might be in an off-site server.
Today, increasingly, that critical supply chain information is being centralized in the cloud.
"I think the event that really drove home the lesson of not keeping everything in house was Hurricane Katrina," Tucker says.
He goes on to tell the story of a client whose facility was destroyed by the 2005 hurricane, but that company had the good fortune – or foresight – to store its mission-critical data on servers in Datatrac's top tier hosting center in Atlanta.
"Because their data was here, all they had to do was get to a location with power, open up a box, set up a PC and get back to work," he says. "We've had similar situations with customers whose buildings were destroyed by fire. In those cases, as in the aftermath of the hurricane, all they needed to do was get on a web browser and they were back in business.
"The evolution of technology has helped us safeguard the sustainability of our client's businesses, and cloud-based computing is only making our abilities more flexible," Tucker continues. "Our movement to the cloud – and our taking the majority of our customers to it as well – has enabled them to feel that as soon as they can get in front of a screen, they can get back to work. With the advent of mobility, they don't even need to find their way to a desktop. They can resume business via their phone or tablet."
"What makes designing transportation management systems unique in the tech world is that the work of a dozen skilled engineers can be immediately shot down by a guy paid by the mile," Tucker says. "You might design what you think is the most elegant solution in the world, but if the design interfaces and user experience isn't right, it's not going to work... and that is a very sobering aspect of this business.
"The other thing you have to be mindful of is not crushing your client with the weight of technology... it's not enough to build a technological platform that can work for everybody... you need it to be able to work for anybody. More often than not what that means is, identify the common threads that everyone can benefit from and then build scalability into the rest of the system so large and small enterprises can use it from day one. And then any business will be able to continue to use it as they grow and their needs change." wt


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Sifteo, Inc. is a venture-backed startup based in San Francisco, California. Sifteo makes Sifteo cubes, a tactile interactive game system for hands-on fun and Intelligent Play, and a growing number of games exclusive to its platform. Sifteo is also a publisher of games for its platform, and runs regular game jams using its freely-available SDK for developers around the country.
Sifteo cubes is a next generation game system consisting of physical blocks with full-color graphics that sense each other and their motion. The system offers a new type of interface that allows computer interactions to be more direct and physical in nature: a hands-on computer the size and shape of a building block. Gesture-detection technology makes interactive play with Sifteo cubes natural and allows players to shake, flip, tilt, press, and neighbor Sifteo cubes to control the action.
Sifteo began as a collaboration between co-founders Dave Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi at the MIT Media Lab. They wanted to re-think human-computer interaction by designing new, physical interfaces. One afternoon they sat around a table in the lab's kitchen and imagined sorting through a pile of digital data as if it were a pile of LEGOs. The idea for Sifteo cubes was born.
Several generations of prototypes later, Dave was invited to share their early work by giving a presentation on the main stage at the TED conference in 2009 - and the talk went viral. This public enthusiasm galvanized the pair to found Sifteo Inc., and four months later Dave and Jeevan were at work in San Francisco building a company.
Sifteo games embody Intelligent Play, combining classic tactile play patterns and social aspects of activities like chess and building blocks with the richness of interactive game technology. The Sifteo game library includes challenging games for adults, fun learning puzzles for kids, and games families can play together.
Current Team (2)Update
Jeevan Kalanithi
CEO / Co-founder
Sep, 2009
David Merrill
President / Co-founder
Sep, 2009
Past Team (2)Update
Brent Fitzgerald
Director of Software
2009 - Jan, 2011
Mehrshad Mansouri
2011 - Jan, 2011
Funding Rounds (4) - $16.5MUpdate
$3M / Undisclosed
Jan, 2012Investors:
$500k / Grant
Sep 1, 2010Investors:
$12M / Series B
May 1, 2010Investors:
$1M / Series A
Jul 1, 2009Investors:
Board Members and Advisors (8)Update
Jason Mendelson
Board member
Puneet Agarwal
Board Member
Alan Henricks
Board Observer
Alex Gurevich
Jun, 2009
Simon Fleming Wood
Tami Bhaumik
Andrew Huang
Shane Kim
Investors (4)Update
True Ventures
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Foundation Capital
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National Science Foundation
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Foundry Group
Foundry Group is a venture capital firm focused on making investments in early-stage information...
Offices/Locations (1)Update
Sifteo Global HQ
2475 3rd St.
Suite 252
San Francisco, CA 94107
News (6)Update
Sifteo raises 12000000 in venture roundchubbybrain.com
3D Robotics buys connected toy company Sifteo07/30/14 -gigaom.com


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The Disposition to Sell Winners Too Early and Ride Losers Too Long: Theory and Evidence
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