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drove down to austin thursday after work to do a bit of wedding planning. dear friend's sister recommended the chili relleno at manuel's and so we shared one that night. I really liked it. it was smoky, and the shredded pork, raisins and almonds made it really good. we shared a mashed potato pancake filled with corn served with tomatillo sauce which i would also order again. the relleno came with a plate of watermelon, pineapple and banana sliced really thin and came with a lime. i squirted the lime over it all and was reminded again how good that is. i really must remember to keep limes in the frig for fruit. it really makes it taste good.
June 19, 2010
had a great day in austin on friday. met with the on the day of wedding planner. i am soooooo happy with this choice. i have nights of absolutely no sleep, trying to figure out how to get all the stuff done on the morning before the wedding and still have time to… you know…shower and dress. afterwards, we went to the rental company to reserve tables (a gazillion of them according to michelle), flatware, china, etc. it is amazing how $2 for that and $7 for this add up!!! we had lunch at frank which is pretty cool place. daughter michelle and i shared a frank and poutine. canada has something there. melty cheese curds and brown gravy on fries is really good.
we shopped for a little while then stopped at jo's for an iced coffee and there was a not bad for their age band. we guessed that they were either 8th or 9th grade. it was a lot of fun and very serendipitous. then, i saw the famous leslie for the first time, ever. i didn't take a front photograph of him because michelle says that he will come over if you do and i don't know what i would do.
all in all? a pretty good time. soooooo….for the wedding? venue - check. catering - check. rentals - check. dj - check. wedding dress - check. band - check. maid of honor - check. best man - check. officiant - check.
yay! the list of things done is getting longer and therefore the list of things to do…shorter.
went to la condesa. daughter michelle's friend's mom treated us to a light supper. the margaritas were really good…i over indulged. i also tried an appetizer with huitlacoche which the waiter called corn truffle and wikipedia calls corn smut. hmmmmmm…which sounds yummier? it was tasty and interesting. will i eat again? probably not. since i had already eaten all white food that day, i had a really good and refreshing watermelon salad. THAT was really good.
here is my version of ray milland's lost weekend: a couple of newly bought books, a large chocolate bar with raisins and nuts and a large latte. all sitting on the hotel bed to indulge and forget about everything else….oh….wait the original die hard just came on tv….books have to wait.
June 13, 2010
best part of summer? the summer fruit and vegetables. I know that you can get cucumbers and blueberries practically all year around, but they always taste better in the summer. I love to mix the sweet with not sweet: watermelon w/onion & feta, strawberries w/arugula and my new combination: blueberries w/cucumber green onions & mint AND just a splash of vinegar and salt. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…yummy!
I had so much fun in Dallas yesterday. We started out seeing Mid August Lunch. It was so good. Then tapas at Jaleos. And lastly and bestly, we went to see and hear Ira Glass. He is so good and the time went by so quickly. I really didn't want it to end. It was perfect.
I tried out my Enid Collins box purse yesterday, too. Did women carry less back then? I always loved her box purses when I was growing up and made one myself when I was in junior high. Anyway, do you notice that my wallet was the same size as the purse. I had to cull WAY down the normal amount of stuff I carry AND I had to arrange the items each time I got my wallet out so it would close. Next time I use it, I will have to down size my wallet, too.
I still love the purse and am looking out for the basket purses with the wooden lids. I am sure Kate Spade has one, but I will look for an EC, first…way less expensive.
June 11, 2010
i don't have any photos…got distracted by the circle of 6 different flavors of pie. they were just sitting there looking perfect and perfectly delicious. i couldn't wait to taste them. cathleen did a beautiful job and each pie was so good! i wanted to eat all of them - not just taste them. daughter michelle and i tasted 6: berry pie, sweet potato pie, apple cranberry pie, chocolate meringue, buttermilk pie and mixed nut pie. we had to narrow it down to 4 - so hard!!!
can't wait to have them at the wedding!!!
(which did we choose? you will just have to wait & see)
yesterday, i was working on our vacation plans and THIS is the new thing that zoe wants to do. really? it can't be comfortable, right?
June 05, 2010
enough posting for today…back to reality…
and yes, i am doing 3 (three!) loads of whites! i guess it's summer time.
people are always stereotyping new yorkers and new jersians as not very nice people. i made the comment that next time i am there, i am going to take photos of all the nice people who helped us out. from the girl in the coffee shop telling me that the vegan muffin is so good for me, to the girl in marlow & sons giving us written instructions to a street with nice shops and a where to reach the subway back to new york, to the guy waiting outside of a shop who used the internet on his phone to help us find an address! seriously…i really am going to do that!
and here's to sister Laura, showing a such a fun time there.
brooklyn. it would have been so much more fun if it hadn't been raining so hard. we started out with coffee (natch) and i had a vegan muffin which i was told is so very healthy for me (i am sure it offset the sundae from the night before. oh…and the chocolate croissant from another breakfast;). sister Laura is figuring out where we are going to go and what was the easiest way to get there…on my iPad!!! yep! i got an iPad for my birthday from my family. i love it!!! like my brain, i am probably using only 10% of its capabilities. that reminds me, remember that movie "Defending Your Life" with Meryl Streep and what's his face? i am going to have to rent that again. so funny.
anyways…brooklyn…we were trying to find a place that sister Laura wanted to go to for lunch. there was an article in the NY times about it and we thought it was the place we went to…possibly. it wasn't, but it had the best soup and sandwiches. it was called marlow and sons. i had a muffuletta and sister Laura had a sandwich and great fresh soup. i wanna' say it was romaine lettuce? but now i can't remember…boy! today is NOT a good day to post. i can't remember anything today. i do remember the delicious peanut butter cookie and chocolate cookie i bought to go. the chocolate chip cookie had coarse fleur de sel sprinkled on it. so good. i'm thinking i need to do that. i am going to have to buy some sel. it would really be good on toast with nutella, right? i have already discovered that sourdough toast is fantastic with nutella.
we walked for awhile afterwards and got lost. it's hard to see in the rain. it was also cold that day and we bought some socks at Banana Republic to keep our feet warm. i saw a skinny little thing wearing a parka the day before and made fun of her a leetle bit, so either she knew something i didn't or it was karma striking down on me.
we ended up in a private cartier cadillac cab. can you believe it? so much fun!
here is where sister Laura took me for a belated birthday dinner. i forgot the name…maybe it is in the dark photo? yep…there it is…something BGB? anyway, the food was extra delicious and the dessert was great! especially with the candle and the happy birthday. so very special. thank you, Laura. i think we should always get together for our birthdays, don't you?
last photos of the plaza. i really really like how pretty it was. the stairs and the seating area are above the lobby. this was part of the champagne room. very very cool. we didn't partake.
speaking of cool. look how great sister Laura looks. she doesn't like to have her photo taken. i don't know why.
we had dinner in the oak room at the plaza and breakfast the next morning in the palm court at the plaza. it was hard to get a good photo of the oak room because it was all dark and cozy with table lights. really good food and i think that sister Laura and i were there for 3 hours! it was so much fun to relax and talk and talk and talk…
breakfast was simple but really good with a pastry basket and coffee. the room was so very pretty. can you believe that the glass ceiling was once sealed off and a plain ceiling with chandeliers covered it up!!!! yes it was expensive to restore, but why would one do that?!!!
p s do you see Eloise?
new york & staying at the plaza. aaaaaaaaah…the plaza. what a nice, nice treat. i felt extra special. and yes, this was just our room! sister Laura and i had such a fabulous time. it can't get any better than this (thank you so much, Rolf).
finally some photos of the trip to new jersey/new york to visit sister Laura and family. first day - watching Ita ride. she had a very green horse and manipulated him very well. she is so gorgeous!!! i always thought that this is what Penelope Cruz looked like as a young girl, but i have changed my mind. Ita is way more beautiful than Penelope Cruz.
June 01, 2010
mmmmmm……i made myself a summer sandwich: heirloom tomatoes, a leetle bit of butter, sunflower sprouts (they are really really good) and salt from Salzburg. yummy. my niece just came back from spending a year in school at the University of Salzburg. thank you so very much, Ileana for the salz from Salzburg!


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The Territory of the Philistines
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Map of the Ancient Philistines Territory
The five cities of the Philistines:
Ashdod (coastal)
Gaza (coastal)
Ashkelon (coastal)
Gath (inland)
Ekron (inland)
1 Samuel 6:17 - "And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one"
Philistines in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(immigrants), The origin of the Philistines is nowhere expressly stated in the Bible; but as the prophets describe them as "the Philistines-from Caphtor," Am 9:7 and "the remnant of the maritime district of Caphtor" Jer 47:4 it is prima facie probable that they were the Caphtorim which came out of Caphtor" who expelled the Avim from their territory and occupied it; in their place, De 2:23 and that these again were the Caphtorim mentioned in the Mosaic genealogical table among the descendants of Mizraim. Ge 10:14 It has been generally assumed that Caphtor represents Crete, and that the Philistines migrated from that island, either directly or through Egypt, into Palestine. But the name Caphtor is more probably identified with the Egyptian Coptos. Full Article
Philistia in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. Pelesheth) (land of sojourners). The word thus translated (in) Ps 60:8; 87:4; 108:9 is in the original identical with that elsewhere rendered Palestine, which always means land of the Philistines. (Philistia was the plain on the southwest coast of Palestine. It was 40 miles long on the coast of the Mediterranean between Gerar and Joppa, and 10 miles wide at the northern end and 20 at the southern.--ED.) This plain has been in all ages remarkable for the extreme richness of its soil. It was also adapted to the growth of military power; for while the itself permitted. the use of war-chariots, which were the chief arm of offence, the occasional elevations which rise out of it offered secure sites for towns and strongholds. It was, moreover, a commercial country: from its position it must have been at all times the great thoroughfare between Phoenicia and Syria in the north and Egypt and Arabia in the south. Full Article
Philistia in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
fi-lis'-ti-a: The country is referred to under various designations in the Old Testament: namely, pelesheth (Philistia) (Ps 60:8 (Hebrew 10); 87:4), 'erets pelishtim, "land of the Philistines" (Gen 21:32,34), geloth hapelishtim; Septuagint ge ton Phulistieim, "the regions of the Philistines" (Josh 13:2). The Egyptian monuments have Puirsatha, Pulsath (Budge), Peleset (Breasted) and Purasati (HGHL), according to the different voweling of the radicals; the Assyrian form is Palastu or Pilistu, which corresponds very closely to the Egyptian and the Hebrew. The extent of the land is indicated in Josh 13:2 as being from the Shihor, or Brook of Egypt (Revised Version), to the border of Ekron, northward. The eastern border was along the Judean foothills on the line of Beth-shemesh (1 Sam 6:9) with the sea on the West. It was a very small country, from 25 to 30 miles in length and with an average width of about half the length, but it was fertile, being an extension of the plain of Sharon, except that along the coast high sand dunes encroached upon the cultivated tract. It contained many towns and villages, the most important being the five so often mentioned in Scripture: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. The population must have been large for the territory, which enabled them to contend successfully with the Israelites, notwithstanding the superiority of position in the hills to the advantage of the latter. Full Article
The Bible Mentions "Gaza" as a Chief City of the Philistines
Judges 1:18 - Also
Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon
with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
1 Chronicles 7:28 - And their possessions and habitations [were], Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
Joshua 15:47 - Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:
Genesis 10:19 - And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
1 Samuel 6:17 - And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
Amos 1:6 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom:
Judges 6:4 - And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Judges 16:21 - But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
The Bible Mentions "Philistia" on the Coast of Israel
1 Samuel 6:17 - "And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one"
Psalms 87:4 - I will
make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold
Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this [man] was born
Psalms 60:8 - Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Psalms 108:9 - Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
The Bible Mentions "Philistines" Many Times
1 Samuel 17:33 - And
Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth,
and he a man of war from his youth.
1 Samuel 17:37 - David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
1 Samuel 17:49 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Genesis 26:18 - And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Judges 10:6 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
1 Samuel 17:3 - And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and [there was] a valley between them.
Judges 16:28 - And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
1 Samuel 4:6 - And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
1 Samuel 14:4 - And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, [there was] a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
1 Samuel 28:15 - And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
2 Chronicles 28:18 - The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
1 Samuel 5:8 - They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about [thither].
1 Samuel 31:7 - And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
2 Chronicles 17:11 - Also [some] of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
1 Samuel 10:5 - After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
1 Samuel 27:1 - And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel 17:46 - This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
2 Samuel 3:18 - Now then do [it]: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
Obediah 1:19 - And [they of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and [they of] the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead.
1 Samuel 6:18 - And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
1 Samuel 28:4 - And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
1 Samuel 18:17 - And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
1 Samuel 18:27 - Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
1 Samuel 7:3 - And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then] put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Judges 15:5 - And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives.
1 Kings 15:27 - And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
1 Samuel 17:1 - Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which [belongeth] to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
1 Chronicles 14:10 - And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
Jeremiah 25:20 - And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Ezekiel 16:57 - Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
1 Chronicles 14:15 - And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, [that] then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 6:4 - Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague [was] on you all, and on your lords.
1 Samuel 14:19 - And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
Bible Maps - Biblical Maps and Historical Geography for Bible Study
Enlarged Map of the Roman Empire
Map of the Disbursement of the Races
Map of the World of the Old Testament
Map of the Land of Israel in Old Testament Times
Map of the Giants and Early Inhabitants of Ancient Israel
Map of the Journeys of Abraham
Map of the Ancient Fertile Crescent (2500 B.C.)
Map of Israel and her Neighbors (2000 B.C.)
Map of the Egyptian Empire (1450 B.C.)
Map of Old Testament Israel (900 B.C.)
Map of the Assyrian Empire (650 B.C.)
Map of the Babylonian Empire (550 B.C.)
Map of the Persian Empire (550 - 486 B.C.)
Map of Ancient Trade Routes From Mesopotamia
Map of Alexander the Great - Decisive Battles (336-323 B.C.)
Map of the Campaigns of Alexander the Great
Map of the Donations of Alexandria (34 B.C.)
Map of Paul's First Missionary Journey (48 A.D.)
Map of Paul's Second Missionary Journey (51 A.D.)
Map of Paul's Third Missionary Journey (54 A.D.)
Map of Paul's Voyage to Rome (61 A.D.)
Map of the New Testament World
Map of the Physical Features of Ancient Israel
Map of Ancient Israel's Bodies of Water
Map of Ancient Israel's Natural Divisions
1949 Map of Israel with Boundaries
Map of the Profile of the Jordan
Interactive Map of Ancient Israel
Map of Israel in New Testament Times
Map of the Coastal Plain of Israel (Northern)
Map of the Coastal Plain of Israel (Southern)
Map of the Decapolis and its Cities
Map of Galilee and Northern Israel
Map of Judea and Southern Israel
Map of Samaria and Central Israel
Map of Jerusalem in New Testament Times
Map of the 7 Churches of Revelation (Asia Minor)
Boundaries and Provinces of the Roman Empire In the Time of Jesus
Map of Paul's Missionary Journeys
New Map of Old Testament Israel
Map of the Ancient Territory of Israel
Map of the Philistine Valley of Sorek
Map of Canaan - Twelve Tribe Portions
Map of The Amalekites Territory
Map of The Ammonites Territory
Map of the Wanderings of the Patriarchs
Map of the Nations Defeated by King David
Map of the Route of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
Map of the Kingdom of David and Solomon
Map of Canaan During Joshua's Time
Map of the Period of the Judges and Places
Map of Phoenicia in Biblical Times
Map of the Territory of the Philistines
Satellite Map of the Near East
Map of Judah and Israel During the Period of the Kings
Interactive Maps
Interactive Map of Ancient Israel
Map of Paul's First Missionary Journey
Map of Paul's Second Missionary Journey
Map of The Last Passover of Jesus
Map of the 7 nations of Canaan
Map of the Babylonian Captivity
Geography Resources:
Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History by Brisco. 304 Pages, 2014
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The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith
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32 - 27.10.2012
Today, Saturday, October 27 2012, at 9:05 a.m, in the presence of the Holy Father, with the chant of the Hour of Terce, the Twenty-second General Congregation began for the presentation and voting on the Final list of Propositions.
President delegate on duty H. Em. Card. Francisco ROBLES ORTEGA, Archbishop of Guadalajara (MEXICO).
The President Delegate, His Em. Card. Laurent MONSENGWO PASINYA, Archbishop of Kinshasa (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) addressed a Salutation to the Holy Father. The text is published in this Bulletin.
Then, the Holy Father spoke. A summary of this intervention is published in this Bulletin. The integral text in italian can be found in the Plurilingual and Italian version of this Bulletin.
Some Auditors also intervened.
At the conclusion of the work, the Secretary General communicated that today's was the last Congregation of this Synodal Assembly. Therefore the Twenty-third General Congregation foreseen for this afternoon will not take place.
At this General Congregation, which ended at 12:40 am with the prayer of \pard plain Te lodiamo, Trinitŕ 252 Fathers were present.
The General Relator His Em. Card. Donald William WUERL, Archbishop of Washington (USA) and the Special Secretary His Exc. Msgr. Pierre-Marie CARRÉ, Archbishop of Montpellier (FRANCE) finished reading the Final List of Propositions in Latin, which began during the General Congregation yesterday afternoon.
The non official version in English of the Final List of Propositions is published in Bulletin no. 33.
Most Holy Father,
At the end of the beautiful stay that the XIII Assembly of the Synod of Bishops allowed us to spend in Rome, I was asked to thank you on behalf of the participants to this Synodal Assembly. And I do this very willingly.
Before doing this, with Your Holiness and the entire Assembly, let us give thanks to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the source of evangelization, for having given us the necessary strength to productively progress in the Synodal work, because from the start, the theme of New Evangelization was enough to put us off. Tomorrow's Eucharist will be the opportunity to give the fruits of our reflections and our exchanges to the Lord. Thus it will be the apex of the Synod, inasmuch as the departure point for the work of New Evangelization and for the Year of the Faith.
Now, we would like to turn to you, Most Holy Father, to tell you how thankful we are in several ways. First of all, for having allowed us to join in your concern for evangelization in our world, which God loves so much, a world that believes it can do without this Love of God. You also decided to associate the examination of New Evangelization with that of faith in Jesus Christ, "the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be for ever" (Heb 13:8).
We are also thankful, Most Holy Father, for having taken the time to come and participate at the General Congregations, and especially in the free interventions, by listening to all and sharing our concerns. You, thus, "held [us] firm by the faith" (Col 2:7). This Petrine presence in the midst of the other successors of the Apostles gave a family feeling to our assemblies. This was truly the Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum habitare fratres in unum (How good, how delightful it is to live as brothers all together!) (Psa 133:1).
What to say about the precious indications you gave us in your homilies, your initial meditation, your instructions during the public audiences and the Angelus. This is how, little by little, some key words began to appear and would be used as orientations and indications for the path of New Evangelization: evangelization starts with Trinitarian love, faith - confession - profession - charity- witness and martyrdom - suffering - persecution - conversions and holiness of all, especially the agents of evangelization - family, the first school of evangelization - parish, liturgy, movements, schools, monasteries, seminaries - culture - sacraments, especially penance and reconciliation - the desertification and the desire of God - sacraments of initiation - the New Evangelization is the concern of all - the migrants - continuous formation - the discernment of the signs of our times - the demon as an obstacle to evangelization. Briefly, the New Evangelization is to announce Jesus Christ to the man of our times, through dialogue, recalling that "the Church does not begin with our 'making', but with the 'making' and 'speaking' of God" (Benedict XVI) and that the "aggiornamento" (update) wished for by Vatican Council II is the challenge of New Evangelization for today. This is what we wished to say to you in thanks and to tell you of our firm commitment for the Year of the Faith and the New Evangelization.
Most Holy Father please bless us.
[00373-02.03] [NNNNN] [Original text: French]
The thanks, but also the announcement. After the reading of the Final List of Propositions for the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the Holy Father Benedict XVI communicated his wish to transfer the competence for seminaries from the Congregation for Catholic Education to the Congregation for the Clergy and the competence for catechesis from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization.
He explained that all of this occurred in the synodal context and after a time of reflection and of prayer. For this, the Holy Father announced that the new pastoral competencies of the Dicasteries will be defined with a Motu Proprio Apostolic Letter.
At this time, the Holy Father wished to congratulate himself with the new Cardinals, after the announcement during last Wednesday's General Audience. The small Consistorium in November, he added, was called for with the intention of completing the one in February, in the context of New Evangelization and showing the universality of the Church, expression of the Pentecost.
The Holy Father added that this universality was seen clearly during this last Synodal Assembly. Despite the difficulties and the contrary winds, he explained, the Church is dominated by the wind of the Spirit; faith grows and is alive, this is demonstrated by the experiences in so many parts of the world, such as for example Cambodia and Norway. The last Synodal Assembly, he continued, shows the right path and offers new enthusiasm.
In thanking all the participants and the members of the Presidency, the Holy Father finally reminded of each one's constant commitment: to proclaim Christ and the Gospel. He concluded by saying, the Propositions, a gift offered to his attention, will also be useful for this, which will be transformed into a document that comes from life and that will generate life.
[00374-02.02] [NNNNN] [Original text: Italian]
The voting on the Final List of Propositions took place during this General Congregation.
The following Auditors intervened:
- Bro. Emili TURÚ ROFES, F.M.S., General Superior of the Marist Brothers of the Schools (Little Brothers of Mary) (SPAIN)
- Dr. Peter MURPHY, Executive Director of the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis at the Catholic Bishops Conference of the United States of America (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
- Rev. Ari Luis DO VALE RIBEIRO, Professor at the Seminary of the Diocese of Santo Amaro, Diocesan Coordinator of Catechesis (BRAZIL)
The summaries of the interventions are published below:
- Bro. Emili TURÚ ROFES, F.M.S., General Superior of the Marist Brothers of the Schools (Little Brothers of Mary) (SPAIN)
The Church enjoys the privilege of having approximately 56 million children and youth in its educational structures. Might this not be a wonderful occasion for sharing the gifts of the Christian community with children and young people, as well as for welcoming the many gifts that they can bring to the Church?
It seems, therefore, to be just the right moment to emphasize the importance of Catholic educational institutions and to encourage them so that they might become even more centers of the "New Evangelization". The Catholic school is right in the "heart of the Church": "it participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out" (The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millenium, 11).
In many countries, Catholic educational institutions are, in fact, "courtyards of the Gentiles", a space in which faith, culture and life may give rise to a dialogue. Many families that are far from the faith and the Church entrust the education of their children to Catholic schools, which for many children and young people represents what is probably the only occasion in which they have any contact with the Church.
However, so that our educational institutions may be real centers of new evangelization and authentic "courtyards of the Gentiles", it is essential to make the right people available for this effort. It is therefore important to invite teachers to take responsibility for this role inasmuch as they are baptized in the Church, through their vocation to education, and further, to encourage dioceses, religious families and all those who carry out this responsibility in the schools, to facilitate this exercise of co-responsibility, providing the necessary formation and accompaniment.
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- Dr. Peter MURPHY, Executive Director of the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis at the Catholic Bishops Conference of the United States of America (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
Holy Father, Synod Fathers, Experts and fellow Auditors, I am honored and humbled to be with you on this blessed occasion of the XIII Ordinary Synod of Bishops. I will be addressing the role of the laity and parish life as seen in the Instrumentum Laboris no. 118 (81 and 107).
In my work at a national level for the United States episcopal conference, and in my previous work at the diocesan and parish level, I have found a desperate need for the laity to experience a genuine, personal encounter with Christ. Following a personal and powerful encounter with the Word of God, people often wish to deepen their faith, return to the Sacraments and feel a desire to share their experience with others.
A parish that is supportive fosters the seed of faith by teaching a person how to deepen their faith through prayer, the Sacraments and community life. Many of the laity are unaware that the Church exists to evangelize and that through their baptism, they share in this call. In the parish, particularly through the Sunday Eucharist, the laity's faith can mature and they can be formed as evangelizers.
The New Evangelization requires a Pentecost experience for the laity and families that will provide the courage and boldness needed to evangelize. Parishes must become centers of the New Evangelization that equip parishioners and families to know, articulate and share the faith. Catholic schools, religious education, youth and young adult ministry programs in the parish must continue to offer a systematic, comprehensive and authentic catechetical formation as well as offering concrete invitations for them to become Evangelizers. Enthusiastic evangelizing parishes will send forth the laity into the vineyard to transform the temporal order.
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- Rev. Ari Luis DO VALE RIBEIRO, Professor at the Seminary of the Diocese of Santo Amaro, Diocesan Coordinator of Catechesis (BRAZIL)
Blessed Pope John Paul II said that the future of evangelization largely depends on the family - the domestic Church (cf. Familiaris Consortio [FC], 56- 65), and that the Church is the "large family formed of Christian families" (FC, 69).
I come from the city of Sao Paolo (Brazil), where I am the parish priest and the coordinator of the diocesan catechesis. In Sao Paolo one can see, among other things, cultural and religious plurality, just as in other large cities of the West. This plurality, we know well, reflects today's individualistic culture. In Sao Paolo, in some families, some of the members are Catholic but not practicing ones, and in other families there are members who belong to other religions. The catechistic reflection of the Brazilian Church has been greatly developed in the last few years. Today, in all of Brazil, one can see the effort made for the parochial Catechesis is not occasional, but permanent, according to an itinerary of catechumenal inspiration. At the same time, the expectations of individuals to participate in catechesis only for the preparation of the sacraments ineis maintained.
The Church states that the vocation of the family must be "domestic Church", for evangelizing its members, especially referring to from the parents to the children and also to evangelize other families. Therefore, the Church understands that the family has an evangelizing potential, however often this potential is not being used. When a child or a young person goes to his parish for catechesis, the parochial community has the opportunity to evangelize not only the child or the young person, but the entire family, so that the Christian family may be "evangelized and evangelizer". This way the members of the family participating in the parochial catechesis have the opportunity of evangelizing the other members of their family.
I suggest that this Assembly, in one of its final propositions, insist on the evangelization of the whole family, especially through parochial catechesis, in other words, the evangelization of all of its members through the person that attends parochial catechesis. Thus, catechesis, especially parochial catechesis, will be included not only as the evangelizer of the individual persons, but also as the evangelizer of families, of the cells of the tissue of our parishes, of the tissue of our societies, and this through the catechistic work of our parishes.
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The following Auditors delivered their interventions in writing only:
- Mrs. Marylee J. MEEHAN, former President of the International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medical-Social Assistants - CICIAMS (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
- Rev. Sister Nzenzili Lucie MBOMA, F.M.M., Executive Director of the Service of Documentation and Studies on the Mission S.E.D.O.S. (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
Below are the summaries of the interventions not presented in the Hall, but delivered in writing by the Auditors:
- Mrs. Marylee J. MEEHAN, former President of the International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medical-Social Assistants - CICIAMS (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
The International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico-Social Assistants, CICIAMS has been active since 1933. It is critical to our organization that we have the support and direction of the Mother Church to help us in keeping our Catholic nurses members free to promote the New Evangelization for the Transmission of Faith in our work place.
Nurses have direct contact to human beings who are in a vulnerable state when they are sick. These wonderful human beings trust nurses to care for them as total human beings including attending to their spiritual needs. As Catholics in the health care work place, we are being marginalized and denied the right to address spiritual needs.
Catholic nurses who defend life from conception to natural death are becoming a minority in the work place. The sacredness of human life needs to be defended by those who are committed to their Catholic faith, religion and the teaching of the Magisterium.
Daily our spiritual life as Catholic nurses needs evangelizing and the need to evangelize to all who come into our sacred space of our work place where we care for the sick.
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- Rev. Sister lain Nzenzili Lucie MBOMA, F.M.M., Executive Director of the Service of Documentation and Studies on the Mission S.E.D.O.S. (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
What is SEDOS? The name stands for Service of Documentation and Study, and it is a forum open to Institutes of Consecrated Life, which commit themselves to deepening their understanding of global mission.
SEDOS came into being ín 1964 during the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council. The nine founders were all Superiors General who made a significant contribution to the Decree Ad Gentes, which was greatly influenced by their deliberations with members of the Roman Curia. In 1968 nine societies decided to create a permanent secretariat. Fr Schutte, Superior General of the Divine Word Missionaries, generously made available the spacious offices in the grounds of the SVD College in Rome. These offices still house the SEDOS Secretariat today.
SEDOS encourages research on Global Mission and disseminates information through its bulletin and website, public conferences, working groups and its Annual Seminar.
The aim of SEDOS' activities is to enable its Membership to be prophetic and dialogical in participating in God's Mission. In recent years we planned the
- SEDOS is a source of strength to the Church, religious congregations. It gives us a good education and enlightenment on how to live our lives with our poor and marginalized. SEDOS also helps us to learn how to accompany suffering people in order to bring about Justice and Peace.
- I see SEDOS as a platform where many of us can come and share, listen and learn. SEDOS is a venue for sharing reflections, updating on the latest developments in Missiology, Theology. It helps religious Institutes to clarify their vision and evaluate their ministries to serve better. A great opportunity for conversion of mind and heart provided by the insightful Speakers, as well as by the small group sharing, plus Open Forum. SEDOS opens our vision to new areas; gives direction for mission and fosters relationships.
For the 50th Anniversary of SEDOS in 2014 we are planning to produce The second Index Book of all the Articles published by SEDOS since 1989 up to 2012 and a Mission Handbook to answer to the request from the Residential Seminar of 2012. The aim is to equip new Evangelizers with some concrete guidelines with regard to their formation for Mission.
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The letterpress seemed an unlikely focus for a journey since this form of printing succumbed to new technology over 60 years ago, according to David Wolske, Creative Director and Instructor at the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. He explained that in the 1950s, offset lithography replaced the letterpress, which had dominated printing for 500 years. Since then, digital equipment supplanted offset lithography. With the letterpress rendered obsolete, the need for meticulous placement of individual letters and rolling ink was diminished.
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Yesterday I was interviewed multiple times on the radio, once in LA, to discuss the Kim Kardashian divorce. The interviewers felt Kim owed her fans a better explanation for the ending of her marriage.
Here are 10 reasons I could find that have been proposed. They are all speculation since the couple is not being clear about what really happened.
As a licensed marriage and family therapist, the reasons given for this divorce make no sense so far. And none of the reasons are beyond repair if the couple really want to work things out.
Here are my thoughts on the speculation:
1) Kim is a hopeless romantic. In her original statement Kim said she married for love. A 31-year-old woman is not an inexperienced 20-year-old. She was divorced before this marriage and should know that it takes more than love to sustain a life long commitment. I've counseled women who fall in love with men in prison and tell them not to marry these guys. Feelings aren't enough to make a marriage work. If this is how she makes decisions, she needs therapy.
2) Kim didn't feel right about it. These are her words. The message is that you follow your heart and get out if it doesn't feel right. How about, if you don't feel right about it, don't get married in the first place. If you do, go to counseling and try to work it out. Give it more than 72 days.
3) Kim wants a family and children. This is something that all couples should discuss before they marry, If they don't, it is an on-going conversation until there is agreement.
4) The couple can't agree where to live. Again, this a topic for premarital conversations. Living arrangements can be navigated with their money. Like many famous couples, they can have several residences and make this work.
5) Kim did this for the money. I can only hope this is not the case because it really undercuts the sanctity of marriage. She vehemently denies this is the case.
6) Kim did this for fame and publicity. Kris couldn't handle her fame. Kris is younger, less famous and doesn't have her money. Women with money and power tend to divorce more than those who are dependent on their spouse for survival. But this was known on the front end of the marriage. The rush to the alter may have preempted working through these issues. Kim's life is all about fame but again, I would hope that she wouldn't go this far just to get her name in a tabloid. She admits getting caught up in all the wedding planning, but did no one talk to her about the magnitude of the decision to marry? If not, this would be sad. Usually friends and family can talk sense into you if you are willing to listen.
7) Kim is self centered but wants a relationship. If this is true, then go to counseling and work on your issues so that you can be a better partner. People go to therapy all the time to work on intimacy problems. Divorce does not solve this.
8) The couple has nothing in common. Step one of building a sound marital foundation is developing a friendship. That is why you need time to get to know one another.
9) Kris doesn't fit with the Kardashian family. Tabloid reports love this explanation and have him arguing over money, flirting with girls, smoking pot and being rude to a cameraman. In my book, I Married You, Not Your Family, I remind people that marriage is a union of two people, but brings together two families. You marry someone and you get the family as a package deal. So families are important, especially when you live with them, depend on them and work with them in reality TV land.
10) The couple didn't really know each other. This is probably the best speculation. With cameras constantly on them, the surreal world of Hollywood, I am guessing the dating, engagement and marriage took on a life of its own and the reality of what she did hit after the hoopla was over.
Whatever the reason(s), I hope the two of them will get out of the public eye for awhile, work with a couple therapist and seriously process what happened.
Do you feel Kim and Kris owe their fans more of an explanation?
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Thomas Hardye School was fortunate for the second year running, in that the weather chose to behave on the morning of our Remembrance Ceremony. This annual event remembers all the ex students from Dorchester Schools who lost their lives in World War One and Two.
The whole school turns out at the top of Queens Avenue to hear readings and the names of the fallen. Our CCF present themselves in front of the school gates and wreaths are laid.
This years readings were by Niall Summers, Sarah Trott, Bea Green, Ruby Crook-English and Christian Hardy. The last post was played beautifully by Tom Bidwell. The Wreath layers were Alice Thursby, Alice Padgett, Freddie Marsden, Stefan Oakes and Jake Perkins along with guests and members of the Governing body.
It is always awe inspiring that over 2000 students and staff stand in complete silence for two minutes when the proverbial pin dropping could no doubt be heard! It shows the enormous respect the whole school have for the meaning of this ceremony that each year this silence is observed to perfection.
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Will you be in Bali this May? Stay tuned for the splendid celebration of culinary delights. The 3rd annual Ubud Food Festival 2017 is coming again on May 12th-14th to pamper your taste buds. This year's theme is "Every Flavor Is a Story" and it is especially designed to create the most spectacular celebration since its inaugural event two years ago. Culinary superstars from Indonesia will share the feast's stages with world renowned cooks and food entrepreneurs during the three days venue held at Taman Kuliner Ubud
"The Ubud Food Festival will showcase numerous culinary sessions to assemble visitors in a friendly feast flavored with knowledge sharing around the food and beverage art. Farah Quinn, Chef Marinka, Bara Pattiradjawane, Sisca Suwitomo and Bondan Winarno are a few culinary celebrities scheduled to participate in the event," said Janet DeNeefe as Founder and Director of the Ubud Food Festival 2017. Around one hundred speakers coming from all parts of the globe are also on the guest list to engage in a discussion forum headlined as Think-Talk-Taste.
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Augmented Telehealth
Category Link: Augmenting Healthcare
Telehealth refers to the delivery of all health-related services and/or health information via telecommunication. Telehealth encompasses prevention of conditions or infirmities, promotion of medical ability and breakthroughs, as well as well as curative issues - telemedicine. Telehealth expands to all areas of healthcare that involve health provision when a specialist may not be physically present - including robotic carers, networked client monitoring, or patient information services.
The problem with implementing telehealth is that it cannot be deployed alone. In order to use remote delivered health care effectively, the entire health care system needs augmenting with other aspects of the same technologies, and methodologies changed slightly to be more time efficient and much more digital.
DICOM is an American standard, and stands for Digital Imaging and COmmunication in Medicine. PACS is a British standard, and stands for Picture Archiving and Communications Standard. Both serve the same fundamental task. They allow medical data from any source - CAT, MRI, Ultrasound, Digital X-ray, ECG, et cetera, to be stored in digital format rather than taking up physical space in the hospital.
The simple act of digitising patient data safely, streamlines the allowance of more advanced techniques later on. Even just the ability to free up storage space in hospitals, from hundreds of thousands of archived X-rays, is a massive achievement for many institutions.
DICOM/PACS are compatible standards, used by different countries. Converters exist to transfer information between them, and, as more countries 'go digital' many more such standards are expected to emerge. DICOM/PACS have been widely adopted by hospitals and are making inroads in smaller applications like dentists' and doctors' offices. This means it is already in place, or soon will be in place in almost every medical market.
The effect both standards and others like them have, is that doctors and other health professionals can access all patient scans, and compare/contrast with previous scans at the touch of a button. Telemedicine is less than completely useful if the doctors or paramedics have to wait hours for archival staff to find previous scan charts and fax them over. With digital versions in standard formats, there is no waiting, no scans lost or misplaced, sitting in a GP's office where the hospital cannot find them. The complete medical history is available there and then, to augment the telehealth experience.
2. Patient Tagging
It seems pointless to have a system which allows easy access to guaranteed records for a patient outside the hospital with telehealth, and not use it inside the hospital as well. One solution to that would be to tag patients as they enter, so they can be dealt with in the exact same way as outside the hospital, just with the increased efficiency of hospital care staff.
Rhe benefits are obvious: Such would radically improve patient safety, and reduce misdiagnosis, and identity confusion in increasingly understaffed and overworked hospitals.
Heartlands Hospital, in Birmingham in the UK, has been the first to implement such a system, off the drawing board.
Each patient wears a tiny computer system, sewn into his or her wristband. Not solely an RFID chip, the system includes RFID capability, together with a strip of flexible, non-volatile flash memory with quite impressive data storage. The waterproof, immersion proof, shockproof, flexible wrist straps are capable of holding a digital photo of the patient, taken on arrival, along with a complete care history since they entered - diagnosis, treatment, medication they are currently on and dosage, any problems they have had, special requirements, all of it. In addition to this, the ID number and patient name stored on the strap, correlates to all the digital information stored on them by the PACS system the hospital uses.
The tags mean any member of staff caring for that patient can read the tag details using a PDA to check they are treating the right person. They can also see what checks the patient has had, or if they are ready for surgery, to ensure they get the right drugs, tests and operations via the checklist on the PDA.
An additional advantage is, since the patient's id code is right there on their wrist, if a blood sample is taken, or a biopsy during surgery, or any other extraction of fluid, the operator's terminal can read the tag information during the procedure, and automatically print out clear and precise labelling using the same code, for quick and easy identification throughout the hospital, or even in another.
Conversely, as the system is aware of the requirements of the patient from their tag, it can flag up an alert warning if a mistake is made, such as an attempted blood transfusion using the wrong blood type, or an attempt to prescribe a drug the patient has a known severe allergic reaction to.
3. Training on Digital Data
The side effect of using digital medicate for both telehealth and in-hospital care, is that the health system attains a steadily growing supply of detailed medical scans. The ability to match all scans of the same patient quickly and easily means that they can be readily combined into a very detailed virtual reality model of the patient.
There is no better way for a surgeon to train, than to train on an actual patient - or a copy of one that is as absolutely and completely real as is possible.
Machines like the Dextroscope, the Perspecta, and the Heliodisplay exist for just this purpose. All are holographic imagers. Some, like Dextroscope, are designed primarily for medicare, with the express purpose of enabling surgeons to view and interact with parts of the patient's body prior to any physical operation.
Rather than just a display screen, the technology now exists, in all holographic imagers, to recognise hand and body movements of a surgeon, and project a holographic image into the space directly in front of them in full 3D space.
This image - produced directly from medical scan data based on DICOM or PACS - not only sits in physical space, but will respond to hand movements and surgical tools, bending, and flexing or not as the actual tissues would do.
Thus, all the data the health service has on a patient, can be used to train a surgeon or, in the case of interesting cases, whole classes of up and coming surgeons, using real data, from real operations, in real-time. Time and time again, this has proven more effective than mere practising on cadavers, or even a highly experienced surgeon, going in cold to a delicate case, and not totally sure what they might find.
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Taylor Swift's Two Glam Beauty Looks In One Night: Vote On Your Fave
The singer sported two totally different yet equally stunning hair and makeup styles for the '40 Principales Awards' 2012 at Palacio de los Deportes on January 24, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. Which look was your favorite? Vote below!
Taylor Swift, 23, is quite the red carpet beauty force to be reckoned with lately! With awards season in high gear, Taylor been spotted at event after event on a bevy of red carpets everywhere. For her latest appearance the star switched up her style, first going with long mermaid waves and vivid blue eyeliner and then switched to a shiny ponytail and bold red lips.
Taylor Swift's Hair & Makeup
With her porcelain skin and wholesome looks, Taylor is a natural to be the face of CoverGirl. "Some of the choices they've made are people that I really love and respect for all these different reasons–they are all kinds of beautiful. I think it's really cool to be part of a family that thinks that individuality is beautiful."
The star told DailyMakeover.com she's been a big fan of CoverGirl products since the early days of her career. "My favorite is LashBlast mascara. I went to four magazine shoots in a row and all the makeup artists were using it, so I've been using it ever since," she says.
Taylor's must-have: liquid liner and the way she discovered it is pretty crazy: "I was on a plane to Japan about two years ago and I had no makeup with me, so I went into the bathroom and I used a Sharpie to line my eyes. From that point on I started using liquid liner because I realized it was obviously pretty easy for me to do! I definitely don't recommend drawing on your eyes with a Sharpie though," she says.
Taylor credits her mom with introducing her to makeup. "My mom was always really sweet and would put a tiny bit of makeup on me because I was always begging for makeup. That made me feel like I got to be big like her and dress-up," says Taylor. "She was always really sweet when I wanted to try makeup in middle school and I was horrible about it. She's always been really cool about, let's call it 'artistic expression.'"
HollywoodLifers, which of Taylor's beauty looks is your fave? vote below!
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Oh boy, the 2015 Shelby/SVT/GT350 rumors are on the front burner once again. According to sources, an S550 Shelby GT500 replacement with more horsepower than the 2015 Dodge Challenger "Hellcat" might be revealed sometime soon.
UPDATE on 9/15/2014 – A Twin Turbo 5.2L GT500 Is Coming
UPDATE w/ Pics on 9/19/2014 – Possible 2015/2016 GT500 Spied in Camo
The seemingly timeless King-of-the-hill battle for horsepower supremacy in the American muscle car market is heating up once again. After Dodge revealed it's 2015 Hellcat Challenger would be the most powerful V-8 muscle car ever, CNN and HK say Ford's 2015 halo Mustang will be revealed shortly and could potentially top the Hellcat. Here's the exact quote, from CNN:
" A Ford spokesman wouldn't comment on its competitors car, but a new Shelby GT500 with, potentially, more power is expected to be revealed some time soon. " – CNN Money
This could be big news for more reasons than just bragging rights for Ford and simply Because Race car. We've heard a few quiet rumors and watch a video centering around a 5.2L N/A "Voodoo" engine that could be a potential replacement for the 2014 Shelby GT500's Trinity motor. However, we've also heard what sounds like the Trinity engine testing (most recently here) under the S550's hood and if Ford is still in the top horsepower running, they'll likely need to be beefing up the existing 5.8L from the 2014 GT500.
To add more controversy to the hefty pile of speculation that already surrounds this car, there's also the possibility that we won't be seeing a return of anything comparable to the 2014 model year (MY) GT500 until MY 2016, and that's salt on the wounds for a lot of Mustang die-hards that have been salivating for a chance to see and even own a Shelby/SVT version of the S550. Seeing as Ford hasn't even told us the power figures for the 2015 Mustang GT, V6 or EcoBoost[UPDATE: Ford has released official power ratings for the 2015 Mustang] but is taking pre-order on a car with a expected delivery dates penciled in for fall, 2014 at the earliest, I wouldn't expect any concrete information our of Dearborn on a GT500 replacement until we at least get all of the base model figures.
One thing is certain–with the Hellcat's unveiling, we're all eagerly awaiting Ford to tell us something about the SVT / GT350 variant that is to take the 2013-32014 GT500's place.


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Every management position should be structured to enable a new employee to improve your profits by at least five times their compensation in their first 12 months on the job. This is termed The Contribution Factor. If this isn't practical, the position needs to be revised.
Stated another way, every week a management position remains vacant your profits from the position decrease by at least 20% of the compensation you expect to pay.
This equation should dictate your decision on how long you can afford to have a management position vacant. That decision, in turn, can guide you in deciding on which resources to use to fill the management position and how much to invest.


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Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,
says Yahweh of Hosts. Zechariah 4:6
Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of Glory may come in! Who is this King of Glory?
Yahweh of Hosts: He is the King of Glory. Psalm 24:9-10
Name the Ethiopian eunuch who spoke to King Zedekiah and obtained the release of Jeremiah from the miry dungeon. How did Yahweh reward him?.
Name the man who prophesied that the yoke of Babylon over Judah would be broken. What happened to him?
In Jeremiah's Temple Gate Sermon (Jer. 7), he tells the people, 'Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel (verse 12).' Read what led up to this challenge (verses 1-8) and what follows it (verses 13-15). Can you explain the reason why Shiloh is mentioned?
What was Jeremiah's prediction concerning the fate of the false prophet Pashur?
Identify who said each of the following quotations.
'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'
'Terror on every side.'
'As surely as the LORD lives, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who are seeking your life.'
'Take him and look after him; don't harm him but do for him whatever he asks.'
'Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?'
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ASAIP Editors' blog, October 2013
Greetings! This month's blog looks at meetings in astrostatistics & astroinformatics, both recently past and future meetings. We have reports by Eric Ford on the SAMSI workshop on the Kepler studies of exoplanets, and by Joe Hilbe on the astrostatistics sessions at the recent World Statistics Congress. And we have a followup to the last blog's discussion of image deconvolution.
Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data, June 10-28 2013, SAMSI, Research Triangle NC USA
For those unfamiliar, SAMSI is NSF's Statistics and Applied Mathematics Science Institute associated with three universities: Duke, UNC and NCSU. It is an empty building that periodically fills with cross-disciplinary experts to address forefront problems in many fields: economics, homeland security, genomics, environment … and astrophysics. Workshops last weeks or even months with resident researchers.
NASA's Kepler Mission was designed to search for small planets, including those in the Habitable Zone of sun-like stars. The search was conducted with a specially designed telescope situated aboard a space craft on a heliocentric orbit. From 2009-2013, the telescope observed over 190,000 stars nearly continuously, reporting their brightness once every 1 or 30 minutes with extraordinarily high-precision. This photometry is revolutionizing several areas of astronomy, including exoplanets when they pass in front of the star, astroseismology using rapid pulsations of stars, and other types of variable stars. It is also raising several new statistical challenges which were addressed at the SAMSI Kepler Program. Statisticians learnt about astronomy and the fine points of the Kepler data, while astronomers learnt about advanced statistical techniques. Then members from both groups started immediate collaborations to put statistics to good use in the search for small, rocky and potentially habitable planets.
Two small working groups focused on planet characterization and long-period planets and two larger groups. Two larger working groups are working on characterizing exoplanet populations with Bayesian hierarchical models, developing and testing various algorithms for detrending of light curves to improve planet detection. Some of the methodology is already quite sophisticated, while other aspects are just emerging.
Astrostatistics at the 59th World Statistics Congress, 25-30 August 2013, Hong Kong CN
The ISI is the International Statistical Institute, the oldest and biggest worldwide statistics association. It plays the same role in statistics as the IAU in astronomy. The ISI has a biannual convention called The World Statistics Congress (WSC), which was held this year in Hong Kong; the 2015 WSC will be in Rio de Janerio.
Astrostatistics was awarded an invited papers and a special topics session at the past WSC. The title of the invited papers session, organized by Bodhisattvai Sen of Columbia University was, "Statistical challenges in astronomy". The session was chaired by Daniel Mortlock (Imperial College, London), and given on 28 August. Invited papers were delivered by Jogesh Babu (Pennsylvania State University) on Big Data in astronomy, Thomas C.M. Lee (University of California, Davis) on semi-parametric estimation of nonstationarity in high energy time series, Debashis Mondal (University of Chicago) on wavelet analysis of irregularly sampled time series, and Joseph Hilbe (Arizona State University) on the impact of astrostatistics on statistics.
The Special Topics session was organized by Hilbe and chaired by Xiaodan Fan (Chinese University of Hong Kong). The session, presented on 27 August, was titled, "Source and feature detection in astronomy". Papers were delivered by Roberto Trotta (Imperial College, London) on Dark Matter signals in Fermi gamma-ray data, Daniel Mortlock on Bayesian hypothesis test without a previous alternative model, and Byron Bell (DePaul University) on classification of quasars. Trotta also presented a paper prepared by Farhan Feroz and Michael Hobson (University of Cambridge), who unavoidably could not be present, on Bayesian object detection in noisy data.
Members of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA) gathered at the World Statistics Congress. Items such as forming committees of interest group were discussed. Hilbe announced that a corporate grant of $10,000 was awarded to the IAA for 2014, and additional funding is being sought.
Some forthcoming meetings that might interest you ...
Hot-wiring the Transient Universe III (13-15 November 2013, Sante Fe NM USA) will explore massively parallel time domain astronomical surveys coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations.
Astroinformatics 2013: Knowledge from Data (9-13 December 2013, Sydney AU) will focus on advanced machine-learning and data-mining techniques for the new generation radio telescopes ASKAP and MeerKAT.
OBayes: Celebrating 250 Years of Bayes (15-17 December 2013, Durham NC USA) is a multi-faceted celebration of Bayes Theorem with an emphasis on objective Bayes techniques.
MCMski IV (6-9 January 2014, Chamonix FR) concentrates on Monte Carlo Markov Chain methodology including a session on astrophysical applications and a day on Bayesian nonparametrics.
2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (24-26 April, Philadelphia PA USA) is a large cross-disciplinary meeting.
Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology: IAU Symposium 306 (25-29 May 2014, Lisbon PT) is the first IAU Symposium on astrostatistics, sponsored by the IAU Working Group in Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics. Topics include the cosmic microwave background, weak lensing, large-scale structure, high-redshift supernovae, Lyman-alpha forest, and other large datasets.
A followup to the August blog ….
Following our discussion on Bayesian improvements to EM-type algorithms for image reconstruction (known in astronomy as the Lucy-Richardson algorithm), Mario Bertero of the University of Genoa shared with us some closely related papers by the Italian Research Group on Optimization Algorithms and Software for Inverse Problems. Here several constraints are made on the point spread function: non-negativity, normalization and a bound based on the Strehl ratio. The objective function is the Kullback-Leibler divergence and computation uses a scaled gradient projection method. See their papers here and here.


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Step 1 — Artifact analysis
- Give a physical description of the artifact. What does it appear to be made of?
- Describe its special qualities: shape, color, size, movable parts. What is printed on it?
- Uses of the artifact:
- What might it have been used for?
- Who might have used it?
- Where might it have been used?
- When might it have been used?
- What does the artifact tell us…
- about the technology of the time in which it was made and used?
- about the life and times of the people who made it and used it?
- How is the technology different today?
- Create a reed instrument that will make sound.
Step 2 — Read the description of the artifact and its context
The reed organ, or melodeon, is a musical instrument which shapes sound when a player pumps foot pedals, that causes a suction of air across a brass reed in a wooden chamber, creating a musical note played on a keyboard similar to that of a piano's. Beginning in the 1840s, the reed organ experienced rapid growth and popularity, becoming a symbol of middle class social status. But its heyday was squarely in the Gilded Age.
The Reed Organ was manufactured by The Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1872. This particular organ is a classic Victorian design. The wood is red oak and shows the earlier more compact statue. Later, reed organs wore "high tops," the bigger, the better. Impressively decorated organs correlated directly to the good virtue of the household. Thus, the more ornamented the instrument was, the more assured of heavenly and social acceptance.
Considering that the Victorians loved ornate decorations, this model is relatively plain, though it has delicate fretwork and beautiful detail. These music makers were very coveted in the Gilded Age which saw a huge growth in home ownership. These "parlor organs embodied three important Victorian ideals: mother, home and heaven. The ability to play an organ was the mark of the genteel Victorian lady, the keeper of family culture and manners. The organ player convened the family by leading them to sing popular hymns. The parlor organ extended the woman's influence within the home, strengthened family unity and reinforced their shared piety."
Step 3 — Consider the artifact in its historical context
The Estey Reed Organ in the context of the Gilded Age. Considering both the artifact and your knowledge of the time period, answer the following questions:
- What were the effects of industrialization on the leisure time of both rural and urban Americans? Consider both benefits and costs.
- What was the attitude toward technology at this time in the United States and in Vermont? Did Americans and Vermonters embrace or resist technological changes?
- Did the Estey organ have a more profound effect on Vermonters than other Americans?
- What was the economic impact of the Estey Organ Company, and the reed organ in particular, on Brattleboro? On Vermont?
- For Americans and Vermonters, did the changes of the Gilded Age affect their sense of identity?
- What role did advertising play in marketing during the Gilded Age?
Step 4: Final narrative
The Gilded Age was approximately from 1865 to 1915. During this time, also known as the Victorian Period, there were huge advances in all sorts of technologies, making America an industrial giant, most notably in the Northeast, along the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Coast.
Musical instruments previously had been made one at a time by individuals. As far as organs were concerned, there were only approximately 20 in New England. During the Gilded Age there was a change in the way these instruments were made. The Estey Organ company built a huge factory in Brattleboro, VT, and with the help and concepts of the industrial revolution mass produced these organs so they could be sold and enjoyed around the world.
Over a half a million reed, pipe, and later, electronic organs were produced by the Estey Organ company for buyers worldwide. Their popularity was shown in places such as the Waldorf Astoria, the Irving Theater, The Capitol Theater, The Salvation Army Auditorium, and Madison Square Garden. Such was the importance of Estey Organ Company that its eight large identical factory buildings, built in 1872 are on the National Registry for Historic Places. "Estey's influence on the growth and social fabric was monumental. Its hundreds of employees, many of whom built homes near the factory in the neighborhood still known as Esteyville, 'Became one big happy family' according to John MacArthur, a Marlboro College Physics Professor who helped the develop the companies line of electronic organs in the late 1950's."
Jacob Estey was ahead of his time in offering equal wages for women; his company primarily employed women assemblers that also raised their stature in the community, and was beneficial to the economy of Brattleboro. Estey exhibited innovative advertising practices as well, tying the purchase of a musical instrument to the moral fabric of the time, as shown in the ad below. This Vermont organ company became famous for promoting the goodness of music in family life. During the Gilded Age, homes, churches and schools felt compelled to own one of the very best icons of American quality, the Estey Reed Organ.
We often forget that culture was also deeply impacted by industrialization. Elegant and prestigious, the reed organ was a symbol of refinement, status, even religious beliefs and traditions.
Cashman, Sean Dennis, America in the Gilded Age. New York: NYU Press, 1993
Waring, Dennis Gardner, The Estey Reed Organ: Imagination, Music, and Material Culture in 19th Century America. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1993
Waring, Dennis Gardner, Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002
Lesson plan and commentary by
Cathy Frankfurter
Lamoille Union High School
Hyde Park, Vermont


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Here's how it all started. I fell in love with a jumper dress that Amy Karol, of Angry Chicken (see sidebar), made for one of her little ones. She had used a pattern from this book. Feeling overly confident, I too ordered the book. I received the book... looked at the book...put the pattern back in the book and neatly shelved the book.
After a couple of weeks went by, I noticed the book on the shelf and said to myself "what the hey, it's not rocket science... it may be close, but it's technically not." I went ahead and began the project and surprisingly it's not too bad. The directions may be in Japanese but the numbers are in English... yes, that was a joke. I know numbers are universal silly. Here's somewhat of a peek at the jumper. When it is completed I'll do a show and tell.......maybe.