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PLANO, TX – Four Life Time Fitness members had their Rolex watches stolen from inside the locker room at Life Time Fitness centers in Plano and Allen, TX, bringing the number of reported thefts at Dallas-area Life Time centers to nine over the past two months.
The recent thefts occurred on Sept. 17. In August, five other Life Time members in Plano and Colleyville, TX, reported their Rolex watches were stolen in Life Time locker rooms.
Shawn Watkins was one of the victims in August. Watkins says the Life Time general manager in Plano told him and a fellow victim that the thefts did involve a Life Time employee.
"You randomly choose a locker, none of those are assigned," Watkins says. "Somebody had to identify myself as wearing a Rolex watch, follow me into the locker room and figure out what locker I was using that day. Mine was unlocked and relocked."
Jason Thunstrom, director of corporate communications at Life Time Fitness, says the company has been notified of the reported locker thefts and that it has implemented additional measures to its security and surveillance practices. That includes the posting of signage to alert members of the reported thefts and the placement of additional employees to monitor locker room areas.
"Above all, we sincerely regret that the actions of unlawful individuals have impacted members through the theft of personal items," Thunstrom says. "We will continue to exhaust measures to prevent a recurrence of such activity."


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January 09, 2014
The greed is unimaginable. The hubris is pornographic. And the smug, arrogant mask on the main character's face will make you clench your fists and grit your teeth with rage.
No, I'm not talking about the latest Scorcese-DiCaprio collaboration but the latest PBS Frontline documentary, "To Catch a Trader," which follows the U.S. government's insider trading investigation of self-proclaimed Hedge Fund King Steven A. Cohen and his eponymous billion-dollar hedge fund empire.
The special, which originally aired this past Tuesday night, is currently available free of charge to the viewing public. And so, instead of spending your hard-earned fifteen bucks on the bombastic, too-long, empty, and tiresome "The Wolf on Wall Street," head over to PBS.org and spend fifty-eight minutes to see where some of your tax dollars have been going since the early aughts. Which is when the Feds started tracking Mr. Cohen and his too-good-to-be-true investment returns.
"To Catch a Trader" has everything you would expect in a document of the American Dream gone wrong. It has horror. It has eerie instrumental music. It has thrilling chase sequences (no car chases, though). And it has a web of ungodly greed encompassing scores of cold-blooded criminals whose evil pales in comparison to that of the central evildoing character.
In addition, the documentary gives Wall Street neophytes a good background about the history of hedge funds (they were started in the 1940s but didn't begin to flourish until the 1990s), a good primer on how and where hedge funds get their research (in part from relationships with brokers at large investment banks and at so-called expert network firms), and a good idea about what the culture is like at giant Wall Street hedge funds—or, at least, about what the culture is like at giant hedge funds such as SAC Capital and Galleon Group, both of which made the bulk of their money by trading on material nonpublic information. Which, as everyone who's taken a Securities 101 class knows, is against the law.
Everyone, that is, aside from SAC Founder Steve Cohen.
Without a doubt, the most chilling sequences in "To Catch a Trader" are those showing Cohen in a 2011 videotaped deposition during a civil suit against SAC. Cohen, one of the fifty wealthiest men in the U.S., is asked whether or not he's familiar with Rule 10b5-1, which prohibits trading on material nonpublic information. Cohen answers that he isn't very familiar with the rule, that he doesn't quite understand it, that he believes it's a vague law, meant to be interpreted, and that the agent who asked him the question would have to explain it to him.
In other words, Cohen plays dumber than a platinum-plated doorknob (incidentally, something about Cohen's face and his sinister stare during the deposition brings to mind a young Dick Cheney).
Later, Cohen is asked about SAC's compliance policy. Specifically, he's asked about the part of the policy that prohibits trading on material inside information. Again, Cohen answers that he's not familiar with it, that it doesn't ring a bell. Which makes for great greed-and-hubris cinema, but does nothing for the two or three people out there who still believe the government's investigation of SAC and Cohen was nothing but a witch hunt.
Aside from the depositions, "To Catch a Trader" doesn't provide much new information about Cohen and the Feds' investigation of SAC (both have been written about extensively). However, Frontline does a great job of connecting all the well-known inside-trading players who've been busted in the past few years. And this web of greed is nearly as chilling as Cohen's depositions.
In some way, all of the following people are connected (which leads me to wonder if, on Wall Street, Liar's Poker has been replaced with Six Degrees of Insider Trading): Steve Cohen (who hasn't been criminally charged for wrongdoing but whose firm settled a civil insider trading suit for $2 billion), several former SAC traders (many of whom have been found guilty of insider trading and are or will be serving hard time), Galleon Founder Raj Rajaratnam (who is currently serving an eleven-year sentence for insider trading), Rajat Gupta (the former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member who was recently convicted of passing along inside information), hundreds of expert network employees (who seem to be nothing but patsies with MBAs), not to mention the several bulge-bracket investment banks that receive exorbitant commissions for executing (inside) trades on behalf of hedge fund managers. (Incidentally, a number of the aforementioned parties also have a connection to the Wharton School of Business, which, full disclosure, yours truly attended as an undergrad many moons ago).
And if all that doesn't sound like must-watch Internet television, and you'd rather enjoy a laugh than another dark and depressing film about Wall Street and its evildoers, then let me direct you to 23:07 in "To Catch a Trader." There, in case you missed it a few years back during the most high-profile insider trading trial in history, you'll be treated to the infamous high-pitched chuckle of Raj Rajaratnam. After Raj asks a fellow criminal, via wiretapped conversation, "How's the market treating you today?" and his partner in crime replies, "Like a baby treats a diaper," Rajaratnam performs his great schoolgirl giggle. It's the sole moment in the documentary that will put a smile on your face.
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Yesterday, CBC radio's morning show, the current, featured Lessons From The Identity Trail co-author, Ian Kerr, who discussed the book and a number of contemporary challenges that privacy faces in light of emerging technologies with guest host, Nancy Wilson. Below is the the text of Nancy Wilson's introduction and a link to the podcast of the full length interview in segment #3 of the show.
To some people the Internet is the world's biggest commons ... a
global public square. For others, it's a realm of shadowy, anonymous
figures hiding behind online aliases. But anonymity is becoming less
and less a feature of life online. We aired a clip with one perspective
on that trend, posted last May on the website, Mobuzz.tv.
Taking responsibility for your actions on line may be just one way you
relinquish privacy. Every day, millions of Canadians hop on the
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With this explosion of information technology - there are those who warn that our anonymity and our right to privacy is in jeopardy. That's the premise of a new book called On The Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society.
Academics, governments and private corporations around the world
contributed to the book, which examines how technology is changing the
nature of our private lives, and what it means to be "anonymous."
Dr. Ian Kerr is the lead author of the book. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. He was in Ottawa.
The book can be downloaded from the internet for free.
Last week, members from ID Trail gathered for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Privacy Lecture Series to launch their new book Lessons From the Identity Trail. The event, which enjoyed an over-capacity turn out, resulted in extensive media coverage across Canada, including an opinion editorial by Ian Kerr and Valerie Steeves in the Ottawa Citizen and broader coverage by the National Post, CBC, CTV, the Edmonton Journal, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Sun and the Ottawa Citizen.
Well deserved shout-outs are owed to Amanda Leslie, Anne-Marie Hayden and Jill Pyle for organizing an impressive event !
Special thanks to the very talented Mark Blevis for providing a podcast of the event, which can be downloaded here.
On Wednesday April 8, 2009 members of the ID Trail project will re-assemble to launch their new book, Lessons from the Identity Trail.
The launch will take place as part of the Office of the Privacy Commisioner of Canada 's Lecture Series at noon in the Albert Salon at the Marriott Hotel, 100 Kent Street (here is a map). At this session, Ian Kerr and Valerie Steeves will offer readings from the book, published by Oxford University Press.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP
The ID Trail is proud to announce that the book will also available online by way of a creative commons licence.
The online version will be released in three parts on April 8, April 28, and May 6.
Ian Kerr holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law, and Technology
at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law with cross-appointments to
the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Philosophy, and the School
of Information Studies. He was the principal investigator of On the Identity Trail,
the recently completed, collaborative research project which studied
the impact of technology on privacy, identity, and anonymity. Valerie
Steeves is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa's
Department of Criminology and Faculty of Law. Her main area of research
is human rights and technology issues.
On the Identity Trail's Jason Millar will be presenting a paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which runs from June 26-28. The paper is titled "Blind Visionaries: A Case For Broadening Engineers' Ethical Duties".
On the Identity Trail's Ian Kerr has been invited to speak at the Visions National Health Law Conference in Banff, Alberta on Friday, November 9. The two day national health law conference will focus on the future of health care, presenting an exceptionally unique opportunity to bring together predictions from a wide range of perspectives during an unprecedented time of change for the Canadian health care system.
Ian's presentation is titled "The technologies of (trans)humanist medicine." The increasing ability to modify, augment, and enhance the human body beyond species-typical boundaries is among the most significant recent advances in science and technology. Emerging technologies not only offer new tools for restoring function to injured bodies, they also offer the ability to surpass species-typical function and performance. As enhancement technologies are perfected, they create new possibilities for treating those who are already said to be 'healthy', making them 'better than well'. As such, a broad adoption of enhancement technologies risks a dangerous shift in the values underlying the healthcare agenda. In an era where health goals are blurring the lines between therapy and enhancement and medical interventions are becoming more and more technology dependent, Ian examines the drivers of enhancement-based health through an investigation of emerging cybernetic and information technologies and their underlying values. In his presentation, Ian argues that the 'convergence' and 'innovation' rhetoric recently re-emerging in the health sector presupposes a dangerous philosophy that constitutes a further erosion of humanist ideals in medicine.
Click here for more information on the conference.
The iCommish
panel is airing Sunday, November 4 at 1:35 PM and again Monday,
November 5 at 3:30 AM. In response to the so-called 'privacy
divide', this panel of Information and Privacy Commissioners – David
Loukidelis (British Columbia), Frank Work (Alberta), and Ann Cavoukian
(Ontario) - shared the results of a group experiment in which they
spent a couple of months living a '2nd life' in a social network.
The panel was moderated by Ian Kerr.
The interceptedI panel is airing Monday, November 5 at 2:30 PM. This panel, moderated by Pippa Lawson,
considered the expansion of police powers in an internet age and what
it might mean for Canadians. Panelists were Michael Geist, Canada
Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa;
Ian Goldberg, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University
of Waterloo; Clayton Pecknold, Deputy Chief Constable, Central Saanich
Police Service, British Columbia; and Wesley Wark, Department of
History and Munk Centre for International Studies, University of
The videocast is available here.
The podcast is available here.
Their CNA Consultation submission can be downloaded here.
Their academic article can be downloaded here.
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To read the rest of this piece, visit: http://www.anonequity.org/weblog/archives/2007/10/intimate_invasions_how_far_wil.php
On the Identity Trail's David Matheson has been awarded the International Award for Excellence in the area of technology, knowledge and society, for his paper titled "Virtue and the Surveillance Society", by the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society.
David has been invited to present a plenary session at the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, to be held at Northeastern University, Boston from the 18-20 January 2008. He will be formally acknowledged as the recepient of the International Award for Excellence at the conference.
The paper argues that the surveillance society risks undermining the ability of its citizens to develop virtue for the same sorts of reasons that overprotective parenting can impair the character development of children. Accordingly, to the extent that we think virtue development among citizens is important, we have reason to resist the transformation of the networked society into the surveillance society.
Click here to read the paper.


text: WASDE: Average Corn Price Forecast Lowered April 10, 2013 06:07 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email COARSE GRAINS: U.S. feed grain ending stocks for 2012/13 are projected higher this month as an increase in ending year corn stocks more than offset reductions for sorghum, barley, and oats. Corn feed and residual disappearance is lowered 150 million bushels reflecting indicated disappearance for the first half (September-February) of the marketing year. The reduction in corn feed and residual use is partly offset by a combined 20-million-bushel increase in projected feed and residual use for the other feed grains based on the March 1 stocks. Adding to 2012/13 feed grain supplies this month are increases of 3 million bushels and 2 million bushels, respectively, in projected barley and sorghum imports. Domestic corn use for 2012/13 is projected 100 million bushels lower as a 50-million-bushel increase in corn used to produce ethanol partly offsets the lower projection for feed and residual disappearance. Larger-than-expected March 1 corn supplies, lower corn prices, and favorable margins for producing and blending ethanol limit the expected year-to-year decline in ethanol production during the second half of the marketing year (March-August). Corn exports for 2012/13 are projected 25 million bushels lower reflecting the continued sluggish pace of sales and shipments and additional competition from Brazil and Ukraine. Projected U.S. corn ending stocks for 2012/13 are raised 125 million bushels. The projected ranges for the season-average corn and sorghum farm prices are lowered 20 cents at their midpoints to $6.65 to $7.15 per bushel and $6.60 to $7.10 per bushel, respectively. The projected farm price ranges for barley and oats are narrowed 5 cents on each end to $6.30 to $6.50 per bushel and $3.75 to $3.85 per bushel, respectively. Global coarse grain supplies for 2012/13 are projected higher with a 1.1-million-ton increase in world coarse grain production. Higher world corn production is partly offset by reductions in China sorghum and Algeria barley output. Corn production is raised 1.5 million tons for Brazil as continued favorable growing season weather boosts prospects for production to a record 74.0 million tons. EU-27 corn production is raised 1.4 million tons with upward revisions to production in Spain, Hungary, and Poland. Corn production is also increased 0.2 million tons for Russia on the final government estimate. Partly offsetting these increases are reductions in corn output for South Africa, Vietnam, and Serbia. South Africa production is lowered 0.5 million tons as more heat and dryness in March further trim yield prospects in the western and west central parts of the growing belt. Global coarse grain trade for 2012/13 is raised slightly as a small reduction in world corn exports are more than offset by increases for EU-27 barley and India sorghum. Corn exports are lowered 0.6 million tons for the United States and 0.5 million tons for South Africa, but exports are raised 0.5 million tons each for Brazil and Ukraine. Global corn feed and residual use is down 5.3 million tons with much of the decline reflecting the reduction in the United States. Feed and residual use is also lowered for China, Egypt, Mexico, and Serbia. A 1.5-million-ton increase in EU-27 corn feed and residual use is partly offsetting. Global corn stocks are raised 7.8 million tons with 3.2-million-ton increases for both the United States and China, and a 0.9-million-ton increase for Brazil. ………………………… Coverage, Analysis of the April 10 USDA Reports See all of the data, coverage and analysis of the WASDE and Crop Production reports. Back to news


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One On One With Kate Hudson: Shop Her Summer Must-Haves
On any given summer weekend, you can find actress and mother of two Kate Hudson with her family and friends enjoying some her favorite destinations, like New York, Aspen, London, and Greece. So of course, with a travel schedule that fabulous, we had to know what she'll be wearing this season! At a preview of Hudson's latest must-haves for Ann Taylor, we chatted with the blonde beauty about everything from the clothing items that make her the happiest to what she's giving her own mother (that's Goldie Hawn!) this Mother's Day.
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"It's always nice to have a lot of stuff, but simplifying and getting things I can wear 500 different ways makes me the happiest, which is what people would say is the hippie in me. It's all about multitasking. I want to bring the one thing I can wear multiple times, multiple different ways."
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What can we find in your suitcase?
"When I go on summer vacations, there are more accessories in my bag than actual clothes. I pack my bathing suits, I pack the staples, and I just bring a lot of jewelry and scarves. I think in the summer, it's about less clothes and more jewelry."
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful:The anime known as "voltron the defender of the Universe"Omg, I never thought i'll see the day i'll see this on crunchy. if you watch it in USA it was called "Voltron" and it involved the five lions, red, blue,yellow, green and off course the Princes's pink lion. Together they created the giant robot called "go lion " the origin anime in Japan. I love this anime, I'm glad i got to see it here on crunchy.. nothing beats the original in the original ...Read more
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:Still awesome 30 years laterMore commonly known as Voltron in the States where I originally watched it in the mid to late 80s. Obviously the animation and art is dated, it is amazing to see how far anime has become from this to now. However, the story is quite good with some wonderful villains that you will just love to hate. The violence, cursing, and dark story makes this so much better than Voltron. One issue I do ...Read more
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:OLD SCHOOL GREATNESSWatched Voltron growing up as a little kid, then my cousin showed me Go Lion a few years later.Both fantastic, really brings back memories.Like every Saturday that it was on my tv channel, I watched it.Then I got a go lion VHS, blew my mind all the stuff that didnt happen in Voltron. If you like Voltron this is not the same thing but you will love it
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful:Voltron is NOT the original, GO LION is!Hacked up, sanitized, and story changed for USA audiences, Voltron has its place, but its place is not that of an original.Read more
Go Lion is on the money for a really good story. Other than some minor issues (basically with the narrator) it stands the test of time.
Yes the artwork may not seem the greatest, but in the 80s it was good artwork.
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Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.2.0 released
Dear Spring Community,
we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.2.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.2.0.
Highlights from this release include:
- Eclipse Juno SR2 updates (including Mylyn, EGit, m2e, m2e-wtp)
- added support for high-res displays on Mac OSX
- updated bundled tc Server to 2.8.2
- major performance improvements for working with Spring projects
- major improvements to the Live Spring Beans Graph
- added support for Spring Integration 2.2
- updated to include Groovy 2.0.7 and Grails 2.2.1 (Groovy 2.1 is available from the dashboard)
We continue to ship distributions both on top of Eclipse 3.8 and Eclipse 4.2. While the 4.2 stream of Eclipse has improved a lot in the Eclipse Juno SR2 release, we still recommend using the 3.8-based version for optimal performance and stability.
To download the distributions, please go visit:
- Spring Tool Suite: http://www.springsource.org/sts
- Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: http://grails.org/products/ggts
Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.2.0 New & Noteworthy.
Updates from STS/GGTS 3.0.0 and 3.1.0 are available through the automatic "Check for Updates". Users of STS 2.9.x (or older) should start with a fresh installation of STS/GGTS 3.2.0.
The next version 3.3.0 is scheduled to arrive in July 2013, shortly after the Eclipse Kepler (4.3) release. Also watch out for milestone builds of 3.3.0 if you want to stay up-to-date with the latest developments.


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This came up because my 93 year old father, who lives with us, and is still an Episcopalian, went to the Divine Liturgy with us this morning, and asked our priest what would happen if he were to start regularly coming with us; but were to die before even becoming a catechumen. The answer to that was what I expected, which is that only an Orthodox christian can have an Orthodox burial. That prompted my wife to ask about what would happen if someone were to die while a catechumen. The answer to that one did surprise me. A catechumen can't be given an Orthodox burial either!!
What do you consider a catechmate? Some one that is going thru the classes, or someone that is about to be baptized. Our family was enrolled into the catechumate at the begining of Lent and then baptized on Lazarus Saturday. Some one just going to classes would be considered an "inquirer" wouldn't they?
My catechumenate was very informal and lasted but a few months (2-3?). I really wish it had been much longer.
I felt that it was important to ignore the American tendency to want instant gratification, and to wait for God's timing, and to accept our priest's opinion about when it was God's timing.
I guess I just realized that I'm further outside the Church that I thought I was; and it was a bit of a shock. I'm not exactly afraid of dying, but I am afraid of dying outside the Church.
I believe so. I often confused "inquirer" with "catechumen" when I was a naïve inquirer myself. Now I understand that the Church reserves the term "catechumen" only for those who have been properly catechized and have made their commitment to being received into the Church known by being enrolled formally into the catechumenate. Such persons the Church will bury in an Orthodox manner, while she will not grant an Orthodox burial to mere inquirers.
Catechumens are understood to be Christians upon beginning their catechumenate, and should they die before baptism, they are traditionally given an Orthodox funeral. In order to become a Catechumen however, you must go beyond the phase of just inquiring about the faith. In order to be a true catechumen you must go through the service of the Catechumen. ......................I do have to note that while the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Russan Orthodox Church, and the Orthodox Church in America practice this, to my experience the Greek Orthodox Church does not seprate the two services and performs them all at once meaning that the Church that you are now attending would not see your father as a Catechumen unless he dropped dead between the Catechumen service and the Service of Baptism being held on the same day. It is important to note that if your father was an inquirer in the Greek Orthodox Church , the priest would most likely perform and emergency baptism for your father.Thomas
As a member of the GOA, I am 100% sure that Catechumens, who have explicitly accepted Orthodoxy, are given both an Orthodox funeral and burial. Send your bishop an e-mail if you're concerned that your priest may not fulfill this obligation, though.
Orthodox Christians of past centuries knew their faith inside and out and they fought and died for it or were imprisoned.
Gabriel; do you mean a short "inquirer" phase?The typical length of being an inquirer at my parish is 1-2 years. The typical length of being a catechumate is about 4-6 weeks.
My priest didn't even want to wait 2 months to baptize me. He wanted to baptize me immediately upon my request-with NO instruction. I was terrified and begged to have more time. Thus it came about that I hadn't even heard of the term "theosis" when I was received into the Church.
My wife and I have been through the service of the Catechumen. I don't know about other Greek Orthodox Parishes, but in ours the making of a catechumen is definitely separate from baptism/chrismation.
No offence, brother, but this very sentence demonstrates the need for a more thorough catechumenate. The Catechumenate being separate from baptism/chrismation is not a matter of ethnic jurisdictions but of Orthodox teaching.
Anyhow, he told me additionally that he had received absolutely NO instruction from that priest in Russia who had baptized him.
The Litany of the CatechumensDeacon: Catechumens, pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: Let us the faithful pray for the Catechumens, that the Lord will have mercy on them. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: That He will teach them the Word of Truth. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: That He will reveal to them the gospel of righteousness. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: That He will unite them to His Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: Help them, save them, have mercy on them, and keep them, O God, by Thy grace. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: Catechumens, bow your heads to the Lord. Choir: To Thee, O Lord. Priest: That with us they may glorify Thy all-honourable and majestic Name, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Choir: Amen. The Litany of the FaithfulDeacon: All Catechumens depart. Catechumens depart. All Catechumens depart. Let no Catechumen remain, but only the faithful. Again and again, in peace let us pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: Help us, save us, have mercy on us and keep us, O God, by Thy grace. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: Wisdom! Priest: For to Thee belongs all glory, honour and adoration, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Choir: Amen. Deacon: Again and again, in peace let us pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy. When the Priest serves without a Deacon, the following four petitions are omitted: Deacon: For the peace from above, and for the salvation of our souls, let us pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: For peace in the whole world, for the welfare of the Holy Churches of God, and for the union of all men, let us pray to the Lord.Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: For this holy Temple, and for those who enter it with faith, reverence, and the fear of God, let us pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy. Deacon: That He may deliver us from all tribulation, anger, danger and want, let us pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy.
Not necessarily, Gabriel (at least from my experience). My priest had never heard of these two services being conducted separately, but I had, and I requested he perform the service of the catechumenate for me and he told me it's only done directly before the Baptismal service. I told him I was quite certain it was and so he contacted the Bishop and the Bishop told him it was permissable to do so, and so then he went ahead and made me a catechumen. Whew. However, he hadn't planned to do so originally.
I wonder if the practice of the catechumenate has become more of an American thing-at least in churches which are mostly made up of American converts? It stands to reason that priests of such parishes would be more aware of the need for instruction than say, those in a more ethnic parish or in an Orthodox country. I think when you live in an Orthodox country, most people just assume folks are going to pick up the Religion by osmosis, if nothing else. I don't think it's actually a deliberate thing-just that they're used to Orthodoxy being the official religion?
SolEX01; could it be the same reason they don't do the decade of sitting outside the church anymore either.
^ I never heard of the decade of sitting outside the church. Can you clarify? Thanks.
This actually sounds like more of a practice for reconciliation and return to the Church for those excommunicated for serious sins.
Rarely was someone "disfellowshiped." Which is what the modern day view of excommunication is now.
I will have to find the notes in my car (My Tahoe is a blackhole of toys, clothes and books). But once I find them I will give you the specifics.
This is a very troubling topic (that of a short catechumenate.) I have a feeling (very little concrete evidence) that people are being baptized/chrismated without a long enough catechumenate. There are a lot of questions being asked on this very forum, by Orthodox Christians, about topics that should have been addressed and memorized during their catechumenate (I guilty of this very thing.)
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Fasting Across Religions
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|The Baha'i fast takes place during Ala, the 19th month of the Baha'í year, from March 2-20.
|Abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset.
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|In general, meat, dairy products, and eggs are prohibited. Fish is prohibited on some fast days and allowed on others.
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|Fasting is commonly practiced on New Moon days and during festivals such as Shivaratri, Saraswati Puja, and Durga Puja (also known as Navaratri). Women in North India also fast on the day of Karva Chauth.
|Depends on the individual. Fasting may involve 24 hours of complete abstinence from any food or drink, but is more often an elimination of solid foods, with an occasional drink of milk or water.
|A way to enhance concentration during meditation or worship; purification for the system; sometimes considered a sacrifice.
|Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the best-known fast day. The Jewish calendar has six other fast days as well, including Tisha B'Av, the day on which the destruction of the Jewish Temple took place.
|On Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av, eating and drinking are forbidden for a 25-hour period, from sundown to sundown. On the other fast days, eating and drinking are forbidden only from sunrise to sundown.
|Atonement for sins and/or special requests to God.
|The first Sunday of each month is a fast day. Individuals, families, or wards may hold other fasts at will.
|Abstaining from food and drink for two consecutive meals and donating food or money to the needy. After the fast, church members participate in a "fast and testimony meeting."
|Closeness to God; concentration on God and religion. Individual or family fasts might be held to petition for a specific cause, such as healing for one who is sick or help with making a difficult decision.
|Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is a mandatory fasting period that commemorates the period when the Qur'an was first revealed to Prophet Muhammad. Various Muslim customs recommend days and periods of fasting in addition to Ramadan.
|Abstain from food, drink, smoking, profane language, and sexual intercourse from before the break of dawn until sunset for the entire month.
|Some Muslims fast every Monday (some say Thursday) because Prophet Muhammad was said to do this, and some fast during the month of Sha'baan, which precedes Ramadan, and especially during the three days leading up to Ramadan.
|No organized fast days, but some pagans choose to fast in preparation for Ostara (Spring Equinox).
|At the discretion of the individual--some totally abstain from food, others reduce how much they eat.
|Intended to purify a person energetically; often used to raise vibrational levels as preparation for magical work. Ostara fasting is used to cleanse oneself from heavier winter foods.
|Protestant (Evangelical)
|At the discretion of individuals, churches, organizations, or communities.
|Though some people abstain from food or drink entirely, others drink only water or juice, eat only certain foods, skip certain meals, or abstain from temptations, edible or not.
|Evangelical fasts have become increasingly popular in recent years, with people fasting for spiritual nourishment, solidarity with impoverished people, a counterbalance to modern consumer culture, or to petition God for special needs.
|Protestant (Mainline)
|Not a major part of the tradition, but fasts can be held at the discretion of communities, churches, other groups, and individuals.
|Discretion of those fasting.
|For spiritual improvement or to advance a political or social-justice agenda. One example: the ELCA's "Campaign of Prayer, Fasting, and Vigils."
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Nathalie Hernandez Delivers Taylor Swift's 'White Horse' to Team Christina on 'The Voice'
It's going to be hard for future contestants to top Nathalie Hernandez's performance on tonight's episode of 'The Voice.' She blew the judges away with her soulful and charming delivery of Taylor Swift's 'White Horse.' And here's the best part: she's only fifteen years old.
Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton were quick to hit their buzzers and turn their chairs around to watch her shine. Adam Levine turned around not long after. Not only were they impressed by her stunning vocals, but they also appreciated the young singer's natural ability to connect with the audience.
"You have a unique ability to make people believe what you're singing up there, and I'm impressed by that," Shelton praised. Levine said, "You have a lot of people don't have, which is that ability to connect." And Aguilera was eager to add in her own heartfelt two cents: "The emotion that I got from your face … I felt like we had a connection … You seem like a storyteller, and I'd love to have you on my team."
"This moment is so big for me – you all are just incredible…" Hernandez began, when it came time to choose her coach. "But I think I'm gonna go with Christina."
Writing her first song at the ripe age of eleven, Hernandez has always had a strong passion for music. While her talent has been recognized locally, she's ready to share her gift with the rest of the world as well. She missed her brother's graduation and her own high school prom in order to audition for 'The Voice,' but she doesn't regret a single thing that has brought her to this point.
"For a teenager, those are pretty big sacrifices – but I'm willing to give it up for this," she said. We are too!


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I recall making my father an ashtray for Father's Day when I was in second grade.
I recall making my father an ashtray for Father's Day when I was in second grade.
He didn't even smoke, but that was what our art project was and that's what Dad got. He called it a "change dish."
Then there was the year that we made our dads large cardboard ties. My dad wore a tie to church. That was the extent of his tie wearing. But nevertheless he proudly displayed it.
As the years wore on, handmade cards turned into store-bought ones. My dad, the original hoarder, albeit a controlled hoarder, kept all of those sappy Hallmark cards.
There was a three-year period that I purchased him the same card. I guess I really enjoyed the sentiment. He never mentioned it. Come to think of it, he probably didn't even realize it.
There are things that I always tell my dad. That I love him. That I want him around for a really long time. That I hope he has given up night driving because that last ride after sunset was so scary.
But there are lots that I don't say to him. Like every time I hear "What a Wonderful World," I remember him searching the dance floor for me for a dance on my wedding day.
I remember how pained he looked watching me in wretched labor with Olivia. I recall his face at the emergency room after a drunken driver smashed into me and my friends, and the look of utter relief that I was speaking back to him will forever remain etched in my mind.
I remember running to the stop sign waving as his car drove out of sight each time he drove to work. I remember charging at him when he returned and being tossed into the air and spun around.
Ah, the smell of my dad. His five o'clock shadow and the smell of smoke on him from the firehouse. He was home. That wonderful feeling of the final person arriving home. It was so safe and made me feel so loved.
I am lucky.
My father has always been a tremendous force in my life. Supportive and loving, he was and is the first call I make when the news is so wonderful I am exploding or it is beyond painful.
He is everything I aspire to be.
I remember you teaching me to swim, dad. You held me and I was so scared. You kept telling me to trust you. You wouldn't let me go under the water. You would support me. Your words were so soothing. The water was so cold it took my breath away.
I wanted to giggle because it was so wonderful, but I wanted to cry because it seemed so deep and so scary.
But there you were. Right beneath the surface. Ever watchful. Making sure I was treading correctly and not getting in over my head.
Thank you for all of it.


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In an exclusive interview with Southeast Farm Press, U.S. Department of Agriculture deputy undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Floyd Gaibler says, "We would like to see a reliable price series evolve to the point down the road where a future's exchange would be interested in trading peanuts."
The gap in the price discovery information for peanuts has industry observers wondering how the weekly loan repayment rate for peanuts is set.
USDA is making progress on announcing a weekly loan repayment rate for peanuts that reflects the marketplace, but the price discovery mechanism remains "elusive," Gaibler says. "Our biggest challenge and our top priority is trying to improve the whole price discovery mechanism so we're in a position to announce repayment rates that reflect market prices," Gaibler says.
The 2002 farm bill changed the way peanuts are marketed, from a quota supply-control system with a price support set by USDA, to a market-oriented system with loan repayment rates and counter-cyclical payments, similar to programs for other commodities. The law changed the way the peanut program operated for more than 50 years. This change has been challenging for both the USDA and the peanut industry.
By and large peanuts were planted when President Bush signed a new farm bill into law in May of 2002, so the USDA and farmers alike hit the ground running, learning how to comply with the provisions of the new legislation.
"We had to implement the new program almost immediately," Gaibler says. "We were able to get the peanut quota buyout provisions in place and implement the marketing loan program and the counter-cyclical payment provisions. We got the job done on time and with a minimum of disruption.
"The USDA is still making improvements to the program," Gaibler says.
Last fall, Gaibler headed an interagency task forced charged by J.B. Penn, undersecretary, with finding a consistent price discovery mechanism and transparency in the pricing of peanuts each week.
USDA announces peanut loan repayment rates on Tuesday and become effective on Wednesday for runners, Virginias, Valencias and Spanish-type peanuts. Noting gaps in price information, USDA decided that the monthly National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) peanut price report "looked like the best place to start to try to get peanut prices by types and regions, so we could get a better handle on the loan repayment rates for each of those types of peanuts," Gaibler says.
In setting up the current system, USDA met with industry representatives and foreign buyers to discuss how other commodity market prices were reported. Since peanuts lack price transparency, USDA uses available peanut prices, including the Rotterdam price and the shelled farmer-stock prices. In setting the repayment rate, USDA checked peanut prices from a variety of domestic and international sources. The loan repayment rate for peanuts takes into account the Commodity Credit Corporation's responsibility to minimize loan forfeitures, government accumulation of peanut stocks, and storage costs, and allow peanuts produced in the U.S. to be marketed freely and competitively, both domestically and internationally.
Recently, the USDA worked with the American Peanut Council to convene a meeting with brokers, growers, shellers, and manufacturers to discuss challenges relating to the price discovery and transparency and solicit their cooperation on developing solutions.
"We offered the idea of trying to get pricing information through the existing NASS price series, but seeking it more frequently and more specifically by type and region," Gaibler says.
The industry seemed to think that while the NASS series is useful, the focus should be on shelled peanuts, and include international prices. "We still think that NASS is one of the right approaches," Gaibler says. "We are going to continue to have dialogue with industry leaders."
The deputy undersecretary says the USDA is also looking at using an independent third party to take a look at the industry and come back with recommendations on how to improve peanut price discovery.
"We're continuing to meet with the industry," Gaibler says. "At some point, we may bring the larger group back together and discuss options for fine tuning the program."
At a scheduled oversight committee hearing this month, Gaibler expects price discovery will be a hot topic, among other issues facing the peanut industry. Peanut industry representatives will be at that meeting, and have been working with USDA "trying to get the best information to reflect what's happening in the marketplace."
Despite the gaps in price discovery, Gaibler says the process of moving peanuts from a quota supply-control system to market-oriented system has been successful. More work needs to be done to perfect the system.
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