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Khaya Mthethwa is the first black winner of South African Idol. After seven seasons of the show, there has never been a black winner. Raised by pastors, Mthethwa was always surrounded by strangers and church. His family started their practice in their living room and often took in people who needed a place to stay. Although his parents were encouraging, they did not approve of his entry to South African Idol, but had a change of heart once he made it through the competition.
Nicknamed P.K. for "Pastor's Kid," 25-year-old Mthethwa is a self-taught percussionist, keyboards player, guitarist, music composer and church music director. In this week's competition, over 3 million voters made his dream a reality. Many say that the reason South African Idol had never had a black winner was because the show aired on a subscription channel. That meant viewers must pay-to-vote, only leaving voting options for the white middle-class.
This year, it was believed that many black voters purchased additional phone sim cards to vote for Mthethwa.
Mthethwa beat out finalist Melissa Allison for the win. Fans led her stage entrance with a "boo" during the finals. Speculation arose as to whether or not the contest was rigged to ensure its first black winner, but Mthethwa responded with this statement: "I joined the competition because I love music. Secondly, it saddens me that every time there is an achievement, it comes down to black and white or is political in some way."


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Jigsaw no longer has a physical space.
Jigsaw Renaissance is located in the INSCAPE building Rm. 112, at 815 Seattle Blvd S. (also known as Airport Way S) in Seattle (47.59508 N, 122.327185 W). This is in the International District between 5th and 6th Ave S, 1 block south of Uwajimaya shopping center, just north of the infamous PFI restaurant supply outlet, and across the street from the Shell station.
Jigsaw is currently open whenever a keyed member is present, typically between 12 and 6 PM on weekdays, Tuesday & Wednesday evenings and whenever an event is scheduled. Check the calendar to see if an event is scheduled. [[1]]
You can check our current open status via JigTwitch, our twittering switch.
If you want to have guaranteed use of the space, see our membership page for information about how you can get your own key.
When you arrive at the building, goto the center door. To the left is an entry box. Dial 112 or scroll through the names to find Jigsaw. Press the CALL button and a phone will ring in the space. If someone is in the space they will open the door just to the right of the call box. It does not make a traditional buzz so just pull on the handle.
Public transit
From Downtown Seattle
- Jigsaw Renaissance is most directly served by King County Metro bus tunnel, International District station.
- Exit the station and go south on 5th Ave for 3 blocks.
- This station currently serves routes 41, 71, 72, 73, 74E, 76, 77, 101, 102, 106, 150, 212, 216, 217, 218, 225, 229, 255, 256, 301, 316, & ST 550.
- You can find more information at King County Metro Trip Planner.
From the University District (University of Washington)
Metro Route 71, 72, 73
- These buses run regularly day and night from near the UW campus to the downtown transit tunnel.
- Get off at the International District Station.
- Exit to 5th Ave, walk 3.5 blocks south to Seattle Blvd S.
- The INSCAPE building is on Seattle Blvd S across from the Shell station.
If you are eligible for the Health Sciences Express, you may also consider taking this service from UW Medical Center to Harborview, then walking 0.8 miles to Jigsaw.
From the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
- Walk east to the Link Light Rail station on South 182nd St. (Follow signs from baggage claim, through the parking garage to the left as you exit the airport terminal).
- Board Link Light Rail and ride to the International District Tunnel Station.
- Exit to 5th Ave, walk 3.5 blocks south to Seattle Blvd
- The INSCAPE building is on Seattle Blvd across from the Shell station.
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See above from Downtown or University District
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For neighborhoods served by Link Light Rail, follow directions above for SEATAC Airport.
See above from Downtown or University District
You are welcome and encouraged to bring your bike into Jigsaw, so long as you store it out of the way.
From I-5 North (driving North on I-5)
- Follow I-5 North to Seattle
- Take Exit 164A for Dearborn Street, James/Madison
- Follow signs, stay on the Dearborn St branch
- At the light, turn left onto Dearborn.
- Turn left onto Maynard Ave S after three blocks (at the light, w/yellow blinker)
- At the first light turn right onto Seattle Blvd S.
- The INSCAPE building is immediately on the left. (Resembles an old highschool.)
From I-5 South (driving South on I-5)
- Follow I-5 South to Seattle
- Take Exit 164 for Airport Way - Dearborn St
- Keep right, follow signs for Dearborn
- Exit to Dearborn, turn right at the light onto Dearborn
- Turn left onto Maynard Ave S after three blocks
- Take the first right onto S. Charles St, then immediately right at Seattle Blvd S.
- The INSCAPE building is immediately on the left. (Resembles an old highschool.)
Parking Hints
Drop off passengers in front of INSCAPE. Note that spaces behind our building are paid private spots only. Spots are available from Sam (the proprietor of the building) for $75/month. Your best bet is the Uwajimaya paid parking lot, entrance on 6th Ave S. If shopping in Uwajimaya, purchase $10 for 1 hour free parking (must have your ticket stamped by their cashiers.)
Look for metered street parking on 6th Ave and on South Charles. There is free 2-hour parking along 6th ave.
Parking meter machines accept coins and cards, but not bills. The City is fairly aggressive in ticketing when your meter expires. Street parking is free on Sundays, holidays, and between the hours of 6pm and 8am. Many areas are restricted overnight parking (between 6pm and 8am) to zone permits only.
There are several pay-to-park lots and a parking garage in the area that have varying availability and pricing structures. The one at South Charles and Maynard...
In the Jigsaw space, the best connection is from the wireless router 'Jigsaw2'. The password is posted on the donation box. More info
The lower lot is now available for daily parking at $4 a day or $2 for evening parking after 6pm. Just drop payment or request it be billed on your next statement. If you have visitors that want to park in the lower lot, that is fine just have them pay or we can bill you.
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18 Reasons Merges With Three Squares to Form New Food-Centric Non-Profit
They will combine the educational aspects of 18 Reasons with the thrust toward low-income communities of Three Squares.
They will combine the educational aspects of 18 Reasons with the thrust toward low-income communities of Three Squares.
It all starts now.
The 25-year-old Financial District institution has been sold.
And there will be a new cocktail program!
He's a world-champion noodle-puller.
Baker will be joining the cart operation at The Mill, which is still under construction but operating out of temporary digs at 736 Divis.
Ravi Kapur will be the chef in residence on July 15 and 22.
... And we found a picture of her already.
It'll be published by Phaidon Press next year.
We don't totally get the name, but...
He'll be crafting seasonal menus for the national chain.
'Top Chef' alum Preeti Mistry returns with a weekly dinner pop-up at La Victoria.
Early bird tickets are now on sale.
Late-breaking news this afternoon from the Elizabeth Falkner camp: It sounds like, at least for now, the celebrity pastry chef is throwing in the towel on the S.F. restaurant scene and closing both Citizen Cake as well as Orson. Orson...
The new, tablecloth-free incarnation of the Dining Room at the Ritz has set their date.
Jake's is still set to take over 2223 in the Castro as of January.
He and his developer-partner will be taking over the Crescent Hotel on Stockton Street.
If nothing else, we will miss Paul's flirtations with handsome young servers.
Pamela Mazzola, executive chef at Boulevard for twenty years and in the kitchen at Prospect since it opened, will take over.


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Just out of curiosity, is it possible to partition $\mathbb{R}$ into two dense sets of equal cardinality?
I was thinking something like this: Let $S$ be the basis of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. Then $S$ is of equal cardinality as $\mathbb{R}$. Let $A$ be an uncountable subset of $S$ such that $S\setminus A$ is also uncountable. Such a set exists, for example if $f$ is a bijection from $S$ to $\mathbb{R}$, put $a$ in $A$ if and only if $f(a)>0$. Now let $T$ be the subset of $\mathbb{R}$ such that $t\in T$ if and only if $tq\in A$ for some rational number $q$. Then $T$ and $\mathbb{R}\setminus T$ gives the desired partition.
But, as far as I know, the existence of a basis of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ depends on the Axiom of Choice. Is it possible to prove the above statement without assuming the Axiom of Choice?


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Prateeti Ballal is completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests are in translation, writers from South Asia and its diasporas, Romanticism in a comparative context, and music and literature. She has published in these areas and was recently awarded a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship.


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I have used a yellow legal pad for years for note taking, thoughts, ideas, recollections of phone conversations and client notes. Why I did not buy a Circa notebook sooner is lost on...Read complete review
I have used a yellow legal pad for years for note taking, thoughts, ideas, recollections of phone conversations and client notes. Why I did not buy a Circa notebook sooner is lost on me. The problem with legal note pads is that only one side of the page actually gets used and pages tear easily as I use it everyday. The Circa notebook is great, the paper quality is fantastic and I can use both sides even with a fountain pen. The paper has a great feel to it as well. I now use this exclusively. I like the paper with the annotation margin which I find helpful in my business. This is much nicer to pull out of the Briefolio when I am with a client, rather than the yellow legal pads. If you like quality paper and quality notebooks this one works great.
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I wrote a review of this product about three weeks ago and it never showed up, so I am rewriting it with a little less 'enthusiasm' in case it was moderated out.Read complete review
I wrote a review of this product about three weeks ago and it never showed up, so I am rewriting it with a little less 'enthusiasm' in case it was moderated out.The notebook is completely unacceptable and frustrating. I have not even been able to use it because the front cover warped while sitting in my car while I was at a lunch meeting the FIRST day! (see picture I have attached) The day was not hot, but this was from sunlight hitting it directly.I have not used a single page yet. (I love the paper quality)The cover really is unnecessarily thin and prone to scratches and warping. The style is great but poorly executed.I am going to return it but am VERY resentful to have to pay for shipping again.
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The system is flawless. It really is ingenious: easy pull out, easy add in. Don't know why i did not do this before - it's so practical. Now I am so much better organized.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Sami
from Minnesota
This is a great notebook to stay organized and on top of all tasks in life!! Would recommend to anyone looking for a quality notebook to stand organized.
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Like the concept, but covers too brittle
By Sasha
from Houston, TX
I love the thinner profile of the Dimensions notebook, but unfortunately the cover is thin and brittle. On first use removing the cover, the punched holes cracked/broke off and I was careful. Also, the cover is much slicker than the clear covers which makes it very easy to bring in/out of a briefcase, but also means it slides around on the table when using. For some folks this might be just the thing if you're looking for a sleek profile. Unfortunately, that person isn't me, and I'll stick to LevTex or Leather. Still, the paper, discs (LOVE aluminum), and dividers are wonderful and I am using them in my other Circa notebooks.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Merchant response: Customers like you are the foundation of our success, and we want you to know how much we appreciate your review of our Circa Dimensions Notebook. Your concerns have been escalated to our quality assurance team for review. Extending great customer service is very important to us, and we offer a 100% guarantee. We would like to make this situation right for you by sending you a replacement. Please contact our customer service center at 1-800-545-0242 to discuss a resolution.Levenger Customer Service, MW
Too thin
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from Grand Rapids, mi
I recently purchased this product and although it looks very cool I'm bummed that it has already cracked in 2 places by the discs. It's thin and not very durable. I will have to try a more heavy duty cover. Overall love your products.
Merchant response: We value feedback from all of our customers as part of our commitment to providing quality customer service. We apologize our Circa Dimensions Notebook did not meet your expectations. Your concerns regarding the quality of this product will be communicated to our product development team for review. We stand by our 100% guarantee and will be happy to offer a replacement or refund for your notebook. If you would like to return this item for an exchange or refund back to your original payment method, please contact our customer service center at 1-800-544-0880 to arrange your return. We would be happy to provide you with a pre-paid FedEx label for your convenience.
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Stylish Notebook
By PapernPenLover
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I love the look of the CIRCA products. Although the cover is softer than other Levenger products, I love the look. The aluminum discs are expensive but once you get a set, it is almost impossible to go back to the plastic discs. I wish that smaller sizes in different colours would also be available.I wish I was aware of these products a long time ago. It would have saved me a ton of recycled products!
A bit pricey for a low end Circa system
By TGrueny
I've owned three Circa systems and this is about the same quality as the "start up" one. The price point is a bit high when you consider it's plastic, paper and alluminum. If the cover was a bit more rigid, it might have been worth it.Having said that, I love the design and the desciption is honest that it is a wafer thin flexible cover.If you're looking for something sturdier, you'll have to pay more.As another customer stated, the cover does showfingerprints and that is the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars.
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Great bargain!
By StephG14
from Austin, TX
I don't understand the negative comments about this notebook. I have purchased several of these and it is exactly as described on the Levenger website. The cover is very thin (as described) and the pattern looks as it does on the site. It is thin, yet opaque, which I desired. It is a tremendous bargain for the price and it comes with aluminum discs! If you are looking for an alternative to this notebook with a sturdier cover, try the Circa Silver Foldover Notebook. I love both.
By dwhitman
I have always liked the CIRCA system "aesthetically," but couldn't bring myself to justify using it instead of throw-away pads of papers. However, I was appointed Dean of a College and found myself overwhelmed with meetings, names, projects, initiatives, collaboratives, grants, and so on. Each day I would meet with a dozen people who would talk about a half dozen other people, projects, problem, and I needed a way to keep up and keep ahead of things. I began with a letter sized CIRCA notebook and am never without it. I make Cornell notes in the main section and reminders and things I need to do in the margin. I duplicated the Cornell pages in Word and almost each evening transcribe my CIRCA notes into the Word Cornell notes. This permits me to search the continuous word document for anything. As I do this I respond to the marginal notes. If a marginal note says "email John Doe regarding XY" I do it as I'm transcribing the notes. Sometimes I don't have the CIRCA notebook so I've also added a CIRCA JOTLET with 3 X 5 cards which is always in my pocket. It can be slipped into the larger notebook, or given to someone in the midst of a meeting if something needs to be taken care of.
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By Grid
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My husband and I just returned from a four-week trip to the UK. We made all the arrangements ourselves, and had a big stack of confirmation and ticket print-outs to take along. I purchased this notebook, took out the ruled paper, punched our print-outs and inserted them, using the dividers for transportation, tickets, etc. The notebook is light and thin enough to fit in a backpack. We never fumbled for documents when we needed them. One less travel stress factor!
Pretty mediocre, better products exist
By CaEngineer
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This is my 3rd attempt to review this notebook. The first two seemed to have "vanished" from the site. First, I love the Circa notebook concept and have purchased several of the notebooks, disc sets and other products. That said, the Dimensions notebook is not up to the standards I've come to expect from Levenger. The cover is no better than one of the cheap poly covers from the office supply store with the competing system. In fact, I'd submit that it was worse in that it shows fingerprints. The included paper stock, while high quality, wastes space on a "perpetual calendar" that is pretty much useless. The aluminum discs are nice, but the 1" should have been included instead of the 3/4".
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'The Floating Sacrament'
In the March 23 issue of Commonweal, three writers approach the subject of confession from three very different angles. Thomas L. Kuhman, a clinical psychologist, asks whether the sacrament, as currently practiced, does not often serve as an instrument of evasion or self-deception:
The way the sacrament of reconciliation is often practiced may be reinforcing bad habits rather than curbing them. It may be encouraging people to treat confession as a device for the easy relief of guilt feelings, rather than as an occasion for true reconciliation with God. When penances are mechanical and easy, going to confession can easily become what psychologists call a neutralization techniquethat is, a way to defuse the negative emotions one experiences as a result of ones actions. [...]This iatrogenic aspect of confessional psychology can be reduced without threat to Catholic sacramental theology by putting more emphasis on the relationship between penance on the one hand and both a purpose of amendment and the making of amends on the other. A confessional practice that took both justice and psychology more seriously would be more concerned with redressing the real effects of sin, the habits it forms, and the suffering it causes its victims. How few confessors insist that we apologize to those our sins have hurt if we havent already, and try to make amends insofar as thats possible. Too often, reconciliation becomes something between the sinner, God, and the churchs appointed intermediary. The persons sinned against are left out of the picture. I think of my own sins and the people they have hurt: the people I bullied as a child, for example. Why did no confessor ever instruct me to make amends to my victims? Nothing that happens at confession seems designed to reduce the likelihood that one will hurt the same person againor a different person the same way.
John F. Desmond, a professor of English literature, reminds us how difficult it has always been to be truthful about oneself. No matter how lucid we may think we are, no matter how self-aware, our own motivations remain obscure to us -- until they are revealed by Someone who knows us better than we know ourselves. Augustine and Dostoevsky knew this. So, in our own time, did Walker Percy.
Percy, a Catholic convert, recognized the same difficulties of honest confession and confessional writing that interested Dostoevsky a century earlier. Using the language of semiotics in his satiric parable Lost in the Cosmos, Percy stressed the problem of isolated self-consciousness: From the moment the signifying self turned inward and became conscious of itself, trouble began as the sparks flew up. The exile from Eden is, semiotically, the banishment of the self-conscious self from its world of signs. Percy believed it is impossible for one to know and say the truth about oneself by means of self-reflection alone. He arrived at the same impasse of secular confession that Dostoevsky had run into. And so Percy came to affirm Kierkegaards belief that the self can only become itself transparently under God.
Finally, Fr. Kevin Tortorelli, OFM, who hears confessions throughout the week at St. Francis of Assisi Church in midtown Manhattan, is struck by how much the sacrament has changed in the last few decades. "In the days after Vatican II," he writes, "confession slipped its old juridical moorings, with its distinctive laws, regulations, judgment, and penance." It became what Fr. Tortorelli calls a "floating sacrament": "At the moment it is searching for new moorings." Meanwhile, the sacrament remains "full of grace" -- for both penitents and confessors:
The sacrament is not really about you and your sins, much less me and my power to forgive them. It is about the Lord and his love. That is why he has the last word. I remember a young man who would kneel during the absolution and begin to speak in tongues. It was a kind of chattering (I dont know how else to describe it), and it roughly coincided with the prayer of absolution: we both spoke at the same time. At the end, there was a brief silence. The air felt charged. He would smile and stand and go his way. I mention this as an example of what the confessor receives from penitents. It is the constant and repeated witness of a holy people who come to this floating sacrament and who, in their great kindness, allow me a share in their love of Jesus the Lord. Witnessing their faith, I ask the Lord to keep me out of his way.
You can read all three articles here.
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Matthew Boudway is an associate editor of Commonweal.
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Thanks for the heads up, Matthew. I really like it when the magazine offers several different perspectives on a topic.
Marvelous! I haven't time to read all three articles in full at the moment, but as excerpted here - this is REALLY exciting.
Matthew this is an enormously important subject and I will have much to say about. However, I wonder why you or your associate contributors did not pick up the seemingly story of the day of the constitutionality of the health care law which has its biggest opponent in a Georgetown law professor. Notwithstanding the apparent opposition of some sitting judges today. The big news to me is that apparently most reputable legal scholars think that the health law is clearly constitutional and the decision will be 8-1 in its favor. The second big story you guys have missed was the victory by church lawyers to get access to the records of Snap which may be unconstitutional. Or am I misguided in this?
While I agree with Bill that much is happening that we're not talking about (e.g. on the mandate and a Masachusetts ruling at America blog, or Melinda Henneberger's piece(s) pn sexual assault at Notre Dame -generating lpts of buzz at NCR), this topic is a biggie today with many not using private confession much if at all.Coupled with decline in numbers of sacraments of orders and matrimony,I think we're seeing a change that will need a response that will trsonate broadly in the Christian community.
"A confessional practice that took both justice and psychology more seriously would be more concerned with redressing the real effects of sin, the habits it forms, and the suffering it causes its victims. How few confessors insist that we apologize to those our sins have hurt if we havent already, and try to make amends insofar as thats possible. Too often, reconciliation becomes something between the sinner, God, and the churchs appointed intermediary. The persons sinned against are left out of the picture. I think of my own sins and the people they have hurt: the people I bullied as a child, for example. Why did no confessor ever instruct me to make amends to my victims? Nothing that happens at confession seems designed to reduce the likelihood that one will hurt the same person againor a different person the same way." KuhlmanBernard Haring wrote over forty years ago that confessors should tell the confessors to make amends to the person/s they injured by doing some act of kindness to them. Haring also said marvelous things about sexuality in marriage, mainly that the sexual love also extended into the way the spouses treated each other during the day in so many acts of tenderness. Haring also knew that masturbation, especially in youth, was mostly an act of frustration and isolation. He advised encouraging youth to get more involved in activities, developing interests etc. Many confessors used Haring at the time with marvelous results as parents came to inform of the positive influence certain confessors had on children. The fact that Kuhlman never heard of this is perhaps a victory for EWTN, Opus Dei and other remnants of the Crusades and Inqusition. Profoundly disturbing is the info that Kuhlman relates of hearing priest's confession. "In March 2010, a regent of the Vatican court that handles issues related to the sacrament of penance told the Catholic News Service that a priest who confesses sexual abuse in the sacrament of penance should generally not be encouraged by the confessor to disclose his acts publicly or (even) to his superiors. The bishop was also quoted as saying that when a priest confesses such acts, the confession can only have absolution as a consequence and one cannot provoke mistrust in the penitent.In other words allow him to keep abusing children. I wonder if the penitent told the confessor that he was going to kill him whether the confessor would call the police. At any rate the word (if quoted correctly) is "encourage" which makes it even worse. Especially since others will be further harmed by the pedophile's action.
The articles are interesting, but given that so few people go to confession anymore, I'd like to see a compelling argument for why people should go, instead of simply talking to God directly about their worries (or going to a shrink if they need advice with interpersonal relationships).
With so much evil being done by religious leaders today a strong argument seems to be made for confession. Vatican II attempted to place confession or reconciliation in the Eucharistic ceremony where forgivenss of sins is couple with confession in front of the entire congregation leads to reconciliation. This practice can be useful if the congregation realizes its sinfulness in front of each other and promises to love and build up one another. This can be very effective but is lost because the diocese is more focused on money, finances and currently in misplaced politics. If the bishop placed more emphasis on this and actually came around to participate confession can be quite powerful and beautiful. This is the trouble when confession turned into magic and instead of playing a pro active role priests sit and wait for people to come to them as if it is the people's fault and not theirs. We have to de-emphasize the useless shame of Augustine over the pears and stress the overwhelming mercy of God.Although auricular confession is not necessary one can see the powerful healing effect when it is done well. There is no psychiatrist/psychologist in the world that can do that. We have to continually remind each other of the powerful effects of forgiveness in the Eucharist where we forgive each other as fellow sinners befpre God and renew our vows to love each other as Christ loves us.
Can someone please explain the very basic and fundamental Catholic concept of the why of the Sacrament of Confession? Or the why of the Sacraments in general?
BenderFrom the Catechism1131 The sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions.I think of them as a physical way for our material being to relate to the immaterial God. And I think confession permits us to name our sins and receive absolution in the hope that we will focus on the future rather than dwell on righting past wrongs, which, of course, is impossible.
More on other topics: America has two more blog posts - one on the Trenton exercise on wh ypewople leave and one on the Jesuit Post response to santorum's complaint about young leaving the church due to colege.A common thread is that answer men who don't allow questions (or change) drive people away.So repeating CCC and saying we can't set things right - boy that really solves the problem of confession, or other sacramental use decline.I weonder how much we are encapsulated in our Church;s tradition to not see the "disintegration" going on and perhaps overreach in trying to reclaim a time that has gone.
Perhaps Bob, the problem is a society which believes: 'I'm a good person and dont sin; you belong in jail for your crime.'
In the Mass we frequently ask for forgiveness: in the Penitential Rite, the Gloria, the Lords Prayer, the Lamb of God. At the very heart of the Eucharist, Jesus is quoted as saying at the Last Supper: Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins (Mt 20:28).Eminent theologians have argued these words from Matthews Gospel were included in the Eucharistic Prayer by the early Church to remind us that when we celebrate the Eucharist with sincerity, our sins are forgiven.For Matthew, the forgiveness of sins was a primary purpose of the Eucharist. (Eugene LaVerdiere SSS, The Eucharist in the New Testament and the Early Church, The Liturgical Press, 1996, p.66)The doctrine of the remission of sins conferred by the Eucharist has had a long and varied history of use and neglect in the Church. Granted that the forgiveness of sins is not the chief object of the Eucharist Christ made the forgiveness of sins an essential dimension of it. (John Quinn, SJ, Worship, Vol. 42, No.5 1968).The Council of Trent (1545-1563) made the following statement, which sounds very foreign to todays Catholic ears: The holy Council teaches that this [Mass] is truly propitiatory and has this effect that if, contrite and penitent, with sincere heart and upright faith, with fear and reverence, we draw nigh to God, we obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid (Heb 4:16). For, appeased by this sacrifice, the Lord grants the grace and gift of penitence and pardons even the gravest crimes and sins. (Cited in W. Bausch, A New Look at the Sacraments, Twenty-Third Publications 1977, p.157.)Catholicism has a rich history of Eucharistic theology that supports a different approach to the necessity of confessing to a priest for ones sins to be forgiven.
Bender, Applying the quote from the catechism the first article is questioning whether the proper dispositions are promoted since the sacrament bears little fruit.The second article's focus is on "the divine life dispensed" to us, and how that can free us from our personal blindness.The third reiterates the message of grace and testifies to how present it is in the celebration of Reconciliation.Collectively I suppose we could say in Reconciliation God is present for us, to convert us from lives that can hurt us. And similarly for the other sacraments.
I must say Kevin Tortorelli's article seriously impressed me. I felt blessed to read it. Years ago there may have been two or more priests at this church hearing confession. But it is still impressive to see how many still go. When confession/reconciliation is done right no psychiatrist/psychologist can match it as I noted above. This conversation should take place in the Eucharistic gathering where we all stand sinful before God in gratitude for our redemption and loving God with all our hearts and each other as ourselves. That mutual forgiveness should take place at the Mass in which the people of God celebrate their freedom and joy as the children of God. Tortorelli rightly notes that the reconciliation is mutual and that we are vehicles of mercy rather than condemnation. His words are worth repeating again: "In the future, even more perhaps than in the past, humility will be the confessors most important virtue. He will not wish to control the conversation, preferring instead to welcome the penitent and listen with his heart. He will listen to the Spirit of God already speaking in the confession of sin. It is humbling to hear members of the church confess their unworthiness to the Lord, confident of his forgiveness. As for the confessors authority to bind and loose, it must always be distinguished from the priests fundamental identity as a fellow sinner in need of Gods grace.This sacrament is full of that grace. The people whose confessions I hear teach me again and again that the Lord is greater than our hearts. The sacrament is not really about you and your sins, much less me and my power to forgive them. It is about the Lord and his love."It is about the Lord and his mercy and that mercy is always best expressed in the redemptive banquet of the Eucharist where people should be known for their love for each other.
Bender --There are many kinds of graces, but I think of the main grace of the sacraments as a sort of spiritual energy given to us by receiving the sacrament that we can use to do what needs doing. It is an empowerment that is not part of our natural self that makes our natural self capable of doing what we otherwise couldn't or wouldn't do. Often this is a matter of giving us the power to love when we don't want to love.
Let me echo Bill Mazzella's comments about Fr. Tortorelli's article. For a short time about twenty years ago, Fr. Tortorelli was stationed at the University of Georgia Catholic Center. At that time I was on the Georgia faculty. What a pleasure it was to have his kind, erudite presence there. I don't recall having gone to confession to him, but what his article says shows why he is such a good priest.Kuhlman's piece, on the other hand, sounded like he listens too often to Judge Judy.


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SAN ANTONIO (March 28, 2013) – San Antonio Rampage General Manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has signed forward Wade Megan to an amateur tryout contact.
Megan, 22, completed his senior year at Boston University where he scored 29 points (16 goals, 13 assists) in 38 games while serving as the captain of the club. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound forward led the Terriers in goals during his junior year (20) and also finished the year with 29 points. The native of Canton, N.Y., tallied 83 points in 151 career games at Boston University. Megan was selected by the Florida Panthers in the fifth-round (138th overall) in 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
The Rampage will face the Grand Rapids Griffins tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m. on an All-You-Can-Eat Game before heading to Charlotte for a pair of games on Friday and Saturday at 6 p.m. Tickets for all remaining Rampage home games start at $10 and can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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Is your data security keeping up with data growth?Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
The data center industry will continue to grow this year and in 2013 as more companies, including insurers, acquire buildings specifically to store data associated with emails, risk analysis, payroll, human resources, customer information, internal accounting and more, according
to a recent study.
via The Growth Trend in Data Storage – Information Management Online Article.
Storage is clearly an area of growth. As more companies needs to digitize their business operations and regulatory obligations require the electronically stored information to be archived. In general, need for more storage does not diminish.
As more data becomes centralized, you have to wonder what does the storage vendor do to help protect the data. An average consumer has more 16GB on their smart devices, 7GB from Gmail account, and 5 GB from Dropbox. Most important of all, that almost 30 GB of mobile data at the consumer level.
What does 30GB worth of mobile data mean for your company? Would that be an entire record of customer data? Or perhaps an entire collection of the IP properties from your next generation of research?
Assuming a company with employee size of 5,000 that could be equivalent of 150 TB worth of mobile data floating in and out of enterprise perimeter each day.
How much of this data is essential for the business operation. When businesses go out to buy their next generation of storage platform, are they also upgrading their existing security infrastructure to protect the need of business operation?


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Barbara Landry
Founded own business
MERIDEN— Barbara (Therreault) Landry, daughter of the late Ruth and Theodore Therreault, passed on to her eternal rest Wednesday, March 6, 2013.
She was born in Waterbury Nov. 9, 1945, where she grew up and attended Sacred Heart High School and Post University, graduating with a degree in business management. She worked as an administrative assistant at Risdon for many years before starting her own business, Busy Barb's Same Day Delivery Service.
She enjoyed traveling, playing golf and visiting antique shops. She loved taking long rides with her companion Marty in his convertible. She was an avid reader and a sports fan, always rooting for the UConn Huskies women's basketball team.
She was also a wonderful cook and baker who took great pleasure in gathering friends and family to share in one of her grand holiday meals. Barbara was a kind and loving woman who gave generously to her family and friends.
In 2001 she courageously donated one of her kidneys to her best friend Anna, in order to give Anna a second chance at life.
Barbara will be greatly missed by her son Howard B. Beaulieu and his wife Dorreen L. (Verdosci) Beaulieu of Thomaston; her granddaughter Jacqueline M. Beaulieu and fiancé Ryan of Torrington, and great-grandsons Austin and Tyler.
She will also be sadly missed by her loving companion of many years, Marty Varano and his sons Brian and wife Karen, Robert and fiancée Heather; as well as her former husband John Landry and his sons Marc Landry, wife Sheila and children Melissa, Lauren, Dakota and Logan, John Jr., wife Joanne and son Ryan, daughter Jackie and husband Matthew and their children and Barbara's cousins Judy Gabriele, Yvonne and Eric Emmons and their children.
She will also be missed by her best friend Anna Texiera and husband Manny and their children, Marty's sister, Connie Varano and partner Caroline and all of the many friends and extended family who had known and loved her.
It is with great sadness that we all bid a fond farewell to an elegant lady who touched our lives with her generous heart. We love you Barbara.
Friends may call at The Ahern Funeral Home, 111 Main St., Route 4, Unionville on Tuesday (March 12) from 4 to 7 p.m. The funeral liturgy will be celebrated Wednesday (March 13) at 10 a.m. in St. Anthony of Padua Church, 49 South St., Litchfield, followed by burial in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Litchfield.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Cook Willow Activities and Traveling Fund, Attn: Leanne Ward, 81 Hillside Ave., Plymouth, CT 06782.
To send online condolences to the family, please visit www.ahernfuneralhome.com.
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Any recommendations for a Kindle cover/case?
I finally purchased a Kindle tonight and am looking for a kindle case/cover. I purchased the latest generation 6" model.
I took a quick look at Amazon and came up with a bunch of them. I'm sure many people here already have Kindle's, so do you have one you really like?
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Yep. I had another (one of the evil ones that were recalled), and then went with this one:
Marware Eco-Flip Kindle Flip Case (Fits 6" Display, Latest Generation Kindle), Black
I love this case. It's perfect for me, and very reasonable. It functions as a stand when I am doing something with my hands, and is otherwise lightweight while I'm reading.
Congratulations on your new Kindle. :-} They're addictive.
yeah i like a kindle case
I love the Amazon one with the light built in. It works off the battery of the Kindle so you don't have to worry about separate charging for it. It is a little expensive, but it is very durable and easy to use.
I got it as a gift or I probably wouldn't have paid that much for it, but now that I have it I think it is probably worth it!!
My boyfriend and I got ours last Xmas and were debating on what covers to get. My mum had sent me a leather flip case with a band to keep it shut and it was awful! It made the kindle constantly reboot (I guess) and I'd lose my place over and over. For the kind of money they wanted, they could have it back. We settled on a Marware SportGrip Fitted Silicon case and we really like it. It doesn't cover the screen, but the silicon gives the kindle a little bounce if it falls, it's easy to hold on to, and it's fairly cheap. You could even buy one of those case decals if you wanted some design. Almost a year later, no rips or deep scratches anywhere on the case and my kindle still looks brand new, so it's definitely worth a try
If you don't require a lighted case then I would recommend saving yourself some money and just getting a cheap case off of ebay. I spent only about $15 on a Kindle case that does the job it's supposed to, which is carry and protect the Kindle.
M-Edge has a lot of different styles, and they're cheaper than the "official" leather cases. I have one with a clear plastic cover, good for using outdoors. There is some glare from the clear plastic, but I'd rather have water resistance and glare than Kindle destruction and no glare :) M-Edge cases also have a slot for their optional book lights, which I like - still on the fence as to whether I want a book light.
I like my Trendydigital cover - the front cover opens like a book and you fold it around back to read it. It closes with a magnet. It has lasted several years & it holds the Kindle securely. I bought it on ebay cheaper than listed on the company's website.
I don't really need a lighted case.
I still can't believe the price of some of these cases on Amazon. $60 for a case? I was expecting around $20 lol.
@hackman2007: You don't want a lighted case. They will kill your battery life. The one I'd pointed out was about $25 when I got it (although it was actually a gift from Amazon for the troubles with the first case). It flips over and protects the screen when I'm not using it. Most of those $60 cases are meant for people who have too much money and too little brains, far as I can tell. Oops. Need coffee.
[Edit] @fyrnnagra had the same case (the rebooting kind) that I did, originally. Hopefully those are no longer offered. They have little hooks on the side, just like the one that lights up, and the plastic coating wears off the hooks. It's more complicated than that, but three weeks of an electrical engineering class will point out as to why that's a bad idea. Be careful of eBay; I'm sure there are plenty of those defective cases still around, not to mention the knock-offs.
Ever got a kindle for my ipad before,while did not feel good on it.Having an ozaki icoat case now,beauty and good functions. Get it on a small price.


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Please tell me how to like integrate an .SRT file into an .MKV file, please.
That way I'll have better .MKVs with properly embedded subtitles and can then get rid of the .SRTs as they would no longer be needed.
Please help.
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Crayon Shin Chan wrote:BTW it seems you already have 3 subtitles inside the MKV.
Crayon Shin Chan wrote:Nuthin of the sort, guv'nor.
Crayon Shin Chan wrote:I think they're rather self explanatory.
The track name should hold a description of what the subs translate, e.g. "Signs/CC", or "Dialogue", or if you put nothing, they'll just appear as (language) subs.
And they'll appear by default since the default track flag is set.
In format specific options you can choose things like the encoding of the srt (it is after all just a text file), and delay/advance.
I don't know why you would want to set that in the MKV instead of using something like Aegisub to delay/advance the subs, though.
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"One in five adolescents is diagnosable with a health disorder, less than one in ten are getting the services of those one in five," said psychologist Dr. Bill Pfohl
Those are numbers psychologist Dr. Pfohl shared to highlight what he says is a problem.
While many have questioned gun control laws after the horrific event in Connecticut last week, Pfohl believes we should be looking at more ways to help troubled young people, before they resort to drastic measures.
However, officials and he are both aware, school budgets are tight.
"The school budgets as everyone knows have been cut, well part of those are school psychologists, school counseling services which are the mental health network within the schools," said Pfohl.
"Our state has been hit with a real heavy recession issue and budget issues. So I, like every other state agency would like to see our funds restored back to where they were before the recession hit," said Jon Akers, Director for Kentucky Center for School Safety.
Though, the budget is bleak, the state school safety program does make an effort to fund behavioral health and counseling.
"We will work with the behavioral health folks, and find out what services need to be provided for a child during the school day, and sometimes those involve some kind of intervention service where we bring in a person from outside to work with them," said Akers.
Even after the recent shooting, Pfohl doubts anyone will take action.
"After Columbine, there was a promise for 100-thousand new psychologists and new counselors in the united states as a bill in congress, it's still there today. It has never been acted on, it has never moved into discussion," said Pfohl.
However, many agree there needs to be changes, so events like last Friday don't happen again.
WBKO also spoke with State Senate Education Chair Mike Wilson of Bowling Green.
He says he's evaluating how things are done in Kentucky, to see if the state legislature can make our schools any safer.


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7 Horrifying Historical Origins of Famous Corporate Logos
#3. HTC Droid Eris
Via Letsgomobile.org
The Symbol Is Used For:
A line of smartphones.
A line that was evidently extremely proud of its clock feature.
But the Symbol Actually Means:
The goddess of frustration.
Cellphones seem to be named by the same people who name cars. They either get totally made-up words (Razr) or vaguely sci-fi sounding ones (Galaxy) or, in this case, names that sound like video game characters (Eris).
"Introducing the Verizon Sonic. Because video games are things."
The Droid Eris was the first smartphone that Verizon Wireless carried, and like a lot of modern smartphones, it boasted a lot of cool sounding features like "sense" and "multi-touch," none of which matter more than the all-important "having some goddamn service" feature which, unfortunately, it didn't have.
And that's why the name is so unintentionally fitting -- Eris was actually the Greek goddess of discord, frustration, rivalry and strife. She's known for fucking up weddings and starting the Trojan War by throwing an apple inscribed with the words "To the fairest" onto a table full of Greek gods and saying "You guys can probably sort that out."
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We hear Lowell McAdam has hooked feet.
So she's basically the Greek symbol for massive inconvenience, which makes sense when you're fumbling with your too-fat fingers over a smudgy touch screen that cracks if you so much as cast a shadow on it. Though originally the phone was called the HTC Hero, Verizon changed the name when they agreed to provide support for it. It seems almost like someone was trying to warn us.
#2. The Symbol of Medicine, Caduceus
The Symbol Is Used For:
Medical institutions the world over.
"Well, four breast exams in one day seems a little excessive, but you're the doctor."
But the Symbol Actually Means:
Deceit and profit.
You're probably at least passingly aware of the universal symbol of doctors and medicine, but when you saw it on the back of an ambulance, you likely didn't know what the hell two snakes and a pair of wings had to do with either:
But you were pretty sure that if you rolled at least a 12, you'd resist its poison.
The answer is not a lot. However, the symbol, which is called a caduceus, does have strong connotations involving deceit, trickery and corporate greed. It's actually the staff of Mercury, Roman god of liars and thieves. To be fair, it would seem to be more fittingly the symbol of medical insurance companies rather than doctors.
The use of the caduceus as a symbol of medicine came into vogue in the 1850s, most likely due to a hilarious misunderstanding -- another image, the rod of Asclepius, is actually the ancient symbol for the god of medicine and healing, but it only has one snake and no wings. So, yeah, be glad you're not still living in an era when medical treatment involved getting smacked with a snake rod.
Via Medgadget.com
And don't dwell too hard on this article during your next root canal.
When they were looking for an appropriate logo for doctors and medics, they simply got the two symbols confused. It turns out sticks with snakes wrapped around them are more common in mythology than anyone realized.
#1. Cerberus Capital Management
The Symbol Is Used For:
One of the USA's largest private equity firms.
They've been known to buy a small company or two.
But the Symbol Actually Means:
A vicious dog that corners you and devours you alive.
A capital management firm works by finding companies that should be doing really well but aren't and then injecting them with some cash so that they can really shoot for the stars. At their best, they're like the gigantic corporate version of Mr. Miyagi, teaching you some "car-wax techniques" and "badass fight moves" (financial stability and investment smarts, respectively) so you can hold your own against the "local bully" (tumultuous economic climate). At their worst, they're like a gigantic three-headed dog that traps you on one side of a river and threatens to eat you alive if you ever try to escape.
Via Wikipedia
And then it pees on the carpet and swats your nose with a newspaper.
Cerberus Capital chose its name because the founder wanted to invoke the image of guarding his clients' funds. But the mythological dog is definitely best known for eating people alive and trapping them in a place they don't want to be (Hades) -- exactly the opposite of what a burgeoning company wants their new partner to do, unless that's somehow their business model.
We'd make a joke about Cerberus being an evil shadowy cabal, but founder Steve Feinberg already beat us to the punch with this comment:
"We try to hide ... If anyone at Cerberus has his picture in the paper and a picture of his apartment, we will do more than fire that person. We will kill him. The jail sentence will be worth it."
Via Wikipedia
He then drank the blood of an orphan and molested Hitler's corpse back to life before disappearing in a ball of flame.
Yeah. We'll just leave that up there all by itself.
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Sympathetic landlord. The apartment is beautifully furnished with a covered balcony on the 2nd floor. There are great many books in all categories. 15 min walk to the old town or 5 minutes by bus. We liked it very well, any time
Sympatische Vermieter. Die Wohnung ist sehr schön mit einem überdachten Balkon im 2. Stock. Dort gibt es super viele Bücher in allen Kategorien. 15 Min zu Fuß in die Altstadt oder 5 Min mit dem Bus. Es hat uns sehr gut gefallen, jederzeit wieder
So a sympathetic landlord, who has been decorated with a lot of history and love the apartment or rented to third. It was all for the best satisfaction for us. Thank you, we felt very comfortable.
So eine sympathische Vermieterin, die mit viel Geschichte und Liebe die Wohnung eingerichtet hat bzw. an fremde weitervermietet. Es war alles zur besten Zufriedenheit für uns. Vielen Dank wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt.
If you want a romantic stay in Salzburg, you are in this apartment in exactly the right place. Decorated with lots of love and memories of an interesting life, it gives a feeling of security. The warm welcome by the owner and the ideal location very close to the old round off the overall picture wonderful.
Wenn Sie einen romantischen Aufenthalt in Salzburg wünschen, sind Sie in dieser Wohnung genau am richtigen Ort. Mit ganz viel Liebe und Erinnerungen an ein interessantes Leben eingerichtet, vermittelt sie ein Gefühl von Geborgenheit. Die freundliche Aufnahme durch die Vermieter und die optimale Lage ganz nahe der Altstadt runden das Gesamtbild wunderbar ab.
Great place with very nice hostess, great public transport from there you can get everywhere. Everything was nice and clean, great base to explore austria!
An accommodation beneath contempt . Dirty , leaky shower stall , broken lamps and contacts that did not work . Wifi only worked if you sat out in the yard . We had ants in the kitchen and bathroom.
Fee for cleaning, towels and sheets.
To pay for cleaning when the apartment was so dirty known very irritant . Smaller service oriented staff made it known not worthwhile to go and complain. Would never recommend this accommodation !
Very nice, pieceful and relaxing house.
We really enjoyed the large rooms and terasses outdoor. It is great to have realy furniture inside and outside.
The house is big and especially with a great view but:
- There're no curtains or shutters on the windows
- The sheets are minimal (and not optional)
- The house was quite dirty despite the payment for the cleaning
- The manager of the property accused me to stole one (1) pillowcase the day after we left. The pillowcase has been obviously found after a while, it was left behind during the collecting.
I've enjoyed my stay in Stintino for the sea, the nature, the landscape, but, for a short stay of 4 days, too many thing that didn't work out with the house.
Nice place and great pool. BUT too expensive! Bad kitchenequipments. Expensive sheets and towels. Not value with the money!
My boyfriend and I stayed here for 6 nights and it was absolutely wonderful! Exactly what you see in pictures, except there isn't actually a balcony. Just a glass door with railings right behind it. The area was by far our favourite in Barcelona. Truly unique and enjoyable to just walk around at any time of the day. The stairs are a frightening first impression, 57 in a small spiral staircase, but still definitely worth the mission. But yes, pack light!
Thank you Maria for your kind hospitality, suggestions and being readily available for anything we needed.
I definitely recommend :)
Very disappointed at the standard of the apartment and the arrival and departure procedure! This apartment was let through Wimdu by Interhome. I will never book anything let by Interhome again. Having made the booking and paid for it we were totally unaware until one week before departure that bed linen and towels were not included and an extra charge was levied (Euro 28 for sheets and 12 for towels). When I challenged Interhome on non disclosure of information they told me it was in the small print: having trawled though every last word I found it in tiny print under Cancellation Policy! Again I challenged Interhome about deliberately placing this important piece of information where nobody will think to look. It should be clearly displayed on the webpage under Amenities where a note can be posted in the relevant area for all to see.
Arrival procedure - what a nonsense. Having paid for the sheets you have to collect them in person from the office. We made it by the skin of our teeth before the office closed for the weekend. Because our flight was delayed we arrived in Chamonix later than expected and had the office been closed we would have had no sheets at all! They are bulky to carry and I have photos of my husband looking like Santa Clause with a big white sack over his shoulder. It's the height of nonsense to expect arrivals to lug luggage and carry this bulky bad around Chamonix. On departure we had to return the sheets to the office again in said bag!
End cleaning - the previous tenant had presumably paid therefore we expected a clean apartment. The hard surfaces were clean but the living room carpet was disgusting with stains and grime and dirty black marks (photographed). It needs either professionally deep cleaned or dumped. Personally I would replace it. My bed sheet had a dirty brown mark on it (photographed) and the "white" patio furniture was grey with grime. I don't think it had been cleaned in years. Before I would set as much as a mug on it I scrubbed it with the dish scrubber (which I then couldn't use on the dishes!). Again we have photographic evidence. The best feature of the apartment is the wonderful view of Mont Blanc from the balcony. I don't know who is employed to clean this apartment but they could do with a lesson or two. I will never use Interhome again and I recommend that you steer clear of it too. I've used Wimdu many times and always been satisfied but not on this occasion.
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Proof of God's Existence
More proof that God exists, and that she's not a Yankee fan. This game had it all -- even Biblical plagues! (See Exodus 8:12-15)
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.
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This is why auricular confession should still be necessary for such as Grant G because he certainly took impure pleasure in seeing the Yankees being bested by tropical bugs. Yet if he were not so troubled by being from the "second" city he would be more stable realizing that New York has never seen the likes of Jordan even though we have our own Clyde who was name after Barrow. What is your motive Eduardo? Call me for a suitable penance.Secondly, Eduardo you may be falling into the error (which has no rights) that God really roots for the home team and salivation is not to be found outside of Cleveland. Is that what is meant by licking your wounds?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SalivationSecondly A: It is quite precarious to say as Lincoln did that it is not whether God is on our side but whether we are on God's side. Nice try Abe while you pulled off that gem in Gettysburgh to coverup for the killings of tens of thousands. Now your successors cannot get empire out of their system. And the US has yet to apologize for Nagasaki and Hiroshima. O excuse me. That's blasphemy. Hey I just got an email tracing the redemption of Iraq from the Hebrew bible to the "salvation" brought by the US in Iraq. God gets blamed for everything.Thirdly, Eduardo there is the ethnic "thang" that you missed. The sport talk shows abound with advice that Cleveland had the distinct advantage with the bugs since they have the most Dominican (not the order) pitchers who have intense experience with such bugs. In fact the ones at the the October 5th evening game were minor compared to the "real' ones (much bigger( such players have experienced in the tropics. Finally, must I ask forgiveness for being a Yankee fan. It is almost like being baptized. I grew up in the Bronx, less than a mile from Yankee Stadium. There was a time when depression came with a Yankee loss but time and aging have taught me that it is just a game. I don't even have a Yankee hat or bumper sticker. I do have a bumper sticker from Voice of the Faithful, which is often seen by the monarchs of St. Joseph Seminary here in Yonkers as they drive by. So, be careful what you pray for Eduardo. The Red Sox fans have not been well since they won it all. They are desperately in need of a monumental collapse to regain their past glory. Any further confessions please call me at 1-800-go-Yankees.
I do own a NY Yankees hat. It has been transformed into rally cap mode for tomorrow's do-or-die game at Yankee Stadium. And, yes, a word or two of supplication will be uttered for the Bronx Bombers at tomorrow morning's Mass. ;)
Let me divert to a more serious proof of God's existence since Grant is clearly forbidden by his wife to go near a computer on the weekend as his lack of a rapid response demonstrates. I have always believed that the holocaust, the atom bomb over Japan, the crusades, the thirty year war, the inquisition, our civil war, all tribal wars, all wars, the torture of fellow humans, etc., proves that God exists. For a human person so gloriusly structured by our Creator, to inflict such cruelty on each other demands retribution and restoration. The human trafficking that goes on with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women demands rectification. Today the rape of women in the Congo continues with sub-human brutality. Beastly. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/africa/07congo.html?_r=1&hp&oref... is why, my friends, I insist that the Right to Life movement is a fraud because their decibel level hardly rises to protest this destruction of the downtrodden. But they are not the only group at fault. Very few Americans will acknowledge it but this is worse than 9/11 and worse than all the American soldiers dying in Iraq. Yet there is little uproar because these people have little constituency, advocacy, and no oil to generate interest. Yes there are United Nations forces who are stepping up efforts to protect people from these savages. Yet to a world that Paul VI vowed "Never Again" genocide and savagery continue. Yet the decibel level is for fetuses and showing how everybody else does not have the "fullness" of faith. Protecting orthodoxy is more important than protecting defenseless women. Sounds like a lot of "resounding gong" and "clashing symbol" to me.
Bill, this is a theological argument that I have not heard before. You are arguing for God from evil, rather than from good. In other words, since there are acts that cry out for vengeance, there must be an ultimate Avenger.I must confess, I find myself intrigued.
Only you, Bill, could turn a post about baseball into one about abortion. Perhaps it's the stress of the prospect of another season in which the Yankees don't make into the second week of October.
Grant, I see you are allowed out after 2pm on Sunday. But! Go Giants!!Kathy, looking at the naked bodies ushered into ovens, reading about the plagues in which one was alive in the morning but dead in the afternoon, looking at the survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshimo describe the terrible bombing (now running on HBO) watching the immigrants, our brothers, lined up for a mile eagerly looking for work contrasted with so many who are fighting for the first places at the banquet I know there must be rectification. Otherwise the world is too cruel and their is no help. I trust in the Lord that the hungry will be filled with good things and the rich will go away empty. Rather than vengeance I prefer justice like in "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied." Here is one of our brothers who gives us hope. http://www.johndear.org/pdfs/blessed.pdf
No kidding, Bill, this is the most innovative use of theodicy I've ever seen.Another important text would be the Magnificat: He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and raised the lowly to high places.
Jesus is the answer to theodicy. Here is God's most chosen undergoing the most shameful death, with most of his disciples abandoning him, an apparent disgrace who was despised by all the leaders of his society, especially the religious ones. Nobody can ask why after Jesus. It is clear that our sufferings will never equal his.No other religion has anyone or anything like Jesus. Certainly God speaks to all in her own multifaceted ways. But there is just no one like Jesus. A most curious truth is that most people when asked, christians or non-christian are asked about Jesus it is invariably positive while the leaders of Christianity are looked upon in a generally negative way.
As a former Clevelander who watched too many Indians games that ended badly I believe this is the work of the Devil, not God ... Satan will drag it out until the 7th game of the World Series, giving Clevelanders hope, making them start to believe, only to snatch it all away on a fielder's error or wild pitch or some other inexplicable cause (I remember too well the World series in the 90s that should have ended with Cleveland as the champions because they had the best closer in baseball and all they had to do was close out the 9th inning--until their expert relief pitcher absolutely fell apart, gave up several runs, and again crushed Cleveland's hopes into the dust ... what else but demonic intervention could explain that ?!)
Which Jesus, though, are most people offering an opinion about? Is it "Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild," or is it the Jesus of whom F. F. Bruce speaks in The Hard Sayings of Jesus: "It is all too easy to believe in a Jesus who is largely a construction of our own imagination --- an inoffensive person whom no one would really trouble to crucify. But the Jesus whom we meet in the Gospels, far from being an inoffensive person, gave offense right and left. Even his loyal followers found him, at times, thoroughly disconcerting."I don't know whether a string about the Yankees is the place to say this, but I think far too much emphasis is placed on the suffering of Jesus. I certainly hope MY suffering will never equal his, but there have been many, many people who have suffered more. And there are also people who have suffered horribly for little or no reason, or without understanding why.http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/22/iraq.boy/
By the way, for any baseball stats fanatics, the Indians' closer I referred to was Jose Mesa. Accordning to Wikipedia: Mesa's performance in 1995 was instrumental to the Indians' 100-44 regular-season record and their first World Series appearance since 1954. In 1997, Mesa's 2.40 ERA, 16 saves, and 4 wins helped the Indians to their second World Series appearance in three seasons. However his inability to hold a one run lead in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series was a black mark on his career, and Cleveland traded him mid-way through the following season.By the way, Mesa is now a closer for the Phillies ... who also just fell apart. How's that for your cosmic coincidences?
David, we really do not know whether anyone ever suffered more than Jesus. The subject of Jesus's suffering has been distorted often. You are right that people adapt Jesus to their own situation. My point was that most people are attracted to the goodness of Jesus as opposed to too many of his aristocratic and fundamentalist followers. Further Jesus was never the morbid type that many make of his sufferings. He was killed because of his beliefs. Too many of the early fourth century Christian leaders chose adaptation over crucifixion. The next seven councils were called by emperors as the leaders shamefully accepted convenience over the gospel.
Clearly Satan is hard at work: The Angels got swept away by the Red Sox (damned Marxist team!). Bill Mazzella must be right.
Bill, you went so quiet. What happened?
The four big-market teams - New York, LA, Chicago and Philly - were all eliminated in the first round. Who says there is no God?(Although, if he could just finagle a way for the White Sox to get back into it, that would be proof positive ...)
Grant, even in defeat we model the right behavior. That is, if Chicago fans are teachable. http://fairandfoul.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/torres-run/?8ty&emc=ty
Right. Tell that to the radio announcers who made excuses for the team courtesy of a swarm of gnats. The truth is Yankee fans don't really know defeat, so all they can do is shut up when it's visited on their team. It's how you behave in victory that annoys the rest of us.


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I've always seen the following in physics and math textbooks but never understood the process by which it was mathematically deducted:
$A \propto B$ $\space$ and $\space$ $A \propto C \space\space\space \rightarrow \space\space\space A \propto BC$
Could someone walk me through how this is done? This has been bothering me for a while now :P
Update: Here's something I found that explains how this works. (Page 387; "Proof" section). Still, this proof takes the two statements one after the other. The author uses $x \propto y$ when $z$ is constant, and then takes care of $x \propto z$ when $y$ is constant, where it left off from the first (going from $x$ to $x'$ and then $x_1$). Is this the only way it can be done?


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Bloomingdale Presbyterian Church: "What Are You Committed To?"
-- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "How Have We Despised You?"
-- Finley United Methodist Church, Steubenville: "Faith Under Fire" (part three in a series), morning service; "Persistent and Humble Prayer," evening service.
-- First Christian Church, Disciples, Steubenville: "True Light," Shawn Smith, speaker.
-- First Church of Christ, Scientist, Steubenville: "Life."
-- First United Methodist Church, Toronto: "My Way or the Highway."
-- First Westminster Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "In God's Hands."
Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "....Whether in Football or Daily Life."
-- St. Mark Lutheran Church, Steubenville: "How Salty Are You?"
-- St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "Final Demand Notice."
-- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Steubenville: "Lord, You Have Searched for Me," guest priest Rev. Ben Wright.
-- Starkdale Presbyterian Church, Steubenville: "The Mother of All Virtues."
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STEUBENVILLE - Bell Chapel United Methodist Church was the setting for the July 7 wedding that united Caitlin Bickar and Cain Noble in marriage. The Rev. Jeff Proya officiated at the 3:30 p.m. service.
Escorted to the altar by her father and given in marriage by her parents, Don and Debbie Bickar of Steubenville, the bride chose a fitted A-line gown featuring a V-neckline highlighted with flowers across the shoulder. The bride carried a bouquet of pink and white gerbera daisies, tied with a satin ribbon.
The groom is the son of Donna Noble of Wheeling and Fred Noble of Dillonvale.
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Merideth Bickar of Steubenville, sister of the bride, served as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Sarah Young of Charleston, S.C., cousin of the bride; Kalie Spring and Suzy LoPrete, both of Toronto; Kelsie DiPasquale of Irondale; Cari Brancker of Amsterdam; Dana Brancker of Cadiz; and Merideth Sanders of Richmond.
Dave Pietro of Rayland, Mark Petrozzi of Pittsburgh, Dave Hilliard of Lisbon and Robert Hepburn of Smithfield served as the best men. The groomsmen were Justin Hershman of Rievesville; George Laase of Martins Ferry; Nick Bickar of Steubenville, brother of the bride; Larry Boroski of Mount Pleasant; Rich Gatchel of Bellaire; K.B. Justus of Columbus; and Matt Garton of Jane Lew, W.Va.
Hannah Cozad of Racine, Wis., cousin of the bride, and Emma and Giada LoPrete, both of Toronto, served as flower girls.
Caleb Cozad of Racine, Wis., cousin of the bride, and Brady Fidak of Toronto were the ring bearers.
The reception was held at the Countryside. The newlyweds took a trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The bride is a 2005 graduate of Edison High School, a 2009 graduate of West Liberty University and a 2011 graduate of Walden University. She is employed as a teacher in the Harrison Hills City School District.
The groom is a 2000 graduate of Buckeye Local High School, a 2005 and 2009 graduate of Fairmont State University and is employed as a teacher in the Harrison Hills City School District.
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COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Intermediate Band
Major Concepts/Content: The advanced band course is designed to acquaint students with advanced instrumental music skills. The content includes, but is not limited to, the following: the interpretation and analyzation of musical scores; the application of musical nuances in playing from a score; independent performance of all major and minor scales; advanced rhythm patterns; performance as a soloist and in small and large group ensembles; a variety of music repertoire, including style, periods, forms, electronic music; intermediate to advanced level sight-reading exercises; and introduction to computer/synthesizer musical composition.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will be provided through the following processes: using daily sight-reading exercises during regular full-group rehearsals; practicing aural dictation and ear-training; improvising to a given chord progression; playing in tune; performing as soloist and in small and large group ensembles; playing a wide variety of concert and jazz repertoire; training in, and the development of, good practice habits; and training in the basics of electronic music.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to pass an examination on all major and minor scales and to perform successfully instrumental music, independently and in group ensemble, by observing all critical markings of interpretation from the score.
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