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FRIDAY HOMILY: Fr. Randy Sly on Love and the Greatest Law
By Fr. Randy Sly
8/23/2013 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online
The rendering of God's law issues from a heart of love. The purpose of the Ten Commandments was to help build up our love for the Father, not to simply spoil our fun here on earth. For some reason, human beings seem to gravitate to legalism, when we establish many forms of relationship. It keeps things from being messy, being sloppy.However, it also takes the love right out of it.
Love God and our Neighbor.
By Fr. Randy Sly
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
8/23/2013 (3 years ago)
Published in Year of Faith
Keywords: love, charity, greatest commandment, law, legalism, agape, Jesus, Fr. Randy Sly
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - When I was a teenager, growing up in Marshall, Michigan, one of my favorite places to go was Louie's Bakery. This was a good old-fashioned bakery and when you opened the door to enter, you were met with the most incredible aroma made up of all their baked goods. It's too bad there wasn't a product that tasted like all of those wonderful smells put together!
In today's gospel reading, the Pharisees were trying to test Jesus by challenging him to pick the greatest law in the Jewish faith. This would be tough as there were not just 10 to choose from, but 613 that they had assembled. Determining the greatest one was a debate that had gone on for centuries with no resolution. Like the aroma in the bakery, they wanted to discover the one great law.
Thinking this would be a good way to discredit Jesus and build their own credibility, since he had just silenced their rivals - the Sadducees - they wanted him to resolve this age-old question. And he did.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"
He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Jesus didn't begin with the issue of law but the issue of love. Obviously, his challengers had spent their time immersed in their scrolls, studying the written laws and trying to determine which they found to be the most universal.
Our Lord started with His Father and chose to emphasize what was in the heart of the one who gave the Law. There he found love. All of the commandments could be boiled down to one love message that had two parts, as we love God and our neighbor.
He didn't even have to give the Pharisees something new. The first part of his response comes from Deuteronomy 6:5, which is a part of the Hebrew "Shema," which the Jews recited daily and literally wore in small leather pouches called phylacteries. They knew this verse by heart!
The second part came right out of Leviticus 19:18. This is the section of this book of the law that deals with how we conduct ourselves with those around us.
What a surprise it must have been to hear those familiar words coming from Jesus. At the same time, we might wonder whether they really caught what he was trying to say.
The rendering of God's law issues from a heart of love. The purpose of the Ten Commandments was to help build up our love for the Father, not to simply spoil our fun here on earth.
For some reason, human beings seem to gravitate to legalism, when we establish forms of relationship. It keeps things from being messy. being sloppy. It also takes the love right out of it.
Recently, another priest and I were discussing Holy Days of Obligation. We were both bemoaning the fact that so many people complain that they "have to go to Mass" because the Church requires it. How sad, we both shared, that they don't see that days of obligation are for our good, not to hassle us. In the course of our conversation, he put forward another way of posturing this, "Why don't we talk about Holy Days of Opportunity. These days are wonderful opportunities to gather in Mass, receive grace from our Lord and grow in holiness."
It is so much easier to establish a law than to live in love because love can get messy. We can simply measure love or set measurable criteria. The love that our Lord is talking about here is a self-giving act of devotion. This is why he underscores the fact that whatever laws are written by God, they are written in the ink of love and the Bible uses a special word for this love - agape.
This is love in action
Often in the Church we use the word "charity" to differentiate agape, but unfortunately that word has been co-opted to describe non-profit organizations and sometimes brings forth images of simply giving money.
Agape is a selfless, sacrificial and unconditional love offered to others regardless of the response. This was the quality of love that Jesus possessed as he willingly endured scourging and the cross. This is the quality of love offered by his apostles in His service to others.
In his first encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est" (God is Love), Pope Emeritus Benedict talked about "agape" love as descending love, a love that finds its source in God and comes to us as persons and that it might be offered to others.
The Holy Father went on to show that the Eucharist is a time when this love is truly experienced. Communion draws me out of myself towards him, and thus also towards unity with all Christians. We become "one body", completely joined in a single existence. Love of God and love of neighbour are now truly united: God incarnate draws us all to himself. We can thus understand how agape also became a term for the Eucharist: there God's own agape comes to us bodily, in order to continue his work in us and through us.
This is the quality of love we find at work not only in our worship of Almighty God, but in His service to the least of those among us. Agape looks beyond conditions and circumstances to see clearly the person himself or herself. This is why St. Paul describes "agape" by saying, "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." (I Cor. 13:7,8)
This is also love that comes from an undivided heart
In declaring that the greatest law is the law of love (agape), our Lord also makes it clear that this is a love that must come forth from an undivided heart. We are to love God with our heart, soul and mind. In St. Mark's version of this encounter, Jesus adds, "strength."
The whole of our being must be involved with our love act. It must be authentic, issuing directly from the interior of our being, not simply a superficial act. It must also be active, coming forth in word and deed, not does intent.
If pressed to determine whether we love our neighbors as ourselves, we might say, "yes," while keeping it a secret from the many persons we encounter. Do we get annoyed at the clerk waiting on us in a retail store, or treat a waiter or waitress with contempt? How is our behavior behind the wheel during rush hour? There are many opportunities for agape.
Pope Emeritus Benedict wrote, "If you see charity, you see the Trinity", wrote Saint Augustine. The Spirit is also the energy which transforms the heart of the ecclesial community, so that it becomes a witness before the world to the love of the Father, who wishes to make humanity a single family in his Son.
As Jesus said to his followers, "By this will all men know that you are my disciples, that you have love for one another."
At the beginning of this message, we talked about aroma. Agape is an aroma, a fragrance we are able to bring to the world. St. Paul reminds us it is also a taste, a fruit. In Galatians, he lists it as one of the fruits of the Spirit. Thus agape is something that can be sampled by others.
Pope Benedict concludes his great encyclical by highlighting the saints, both during their earthly lives and after, as great examples of those who have been captivated by agape love. .the devotion of the faithful shows an infallible intuition of how such love is possible: it becomes so as a result of the most intimate union with God, through which the soul is totally pervaded by him-a condition which enables those who have drunk from the fountain of God's love to become in their turn a fountain from which "flow rivers of living water" (Jn 7:38). Mary, Virgin and Mother, shows us what love is and whence it draws its origin and its constantly renewed power. To her we entrust the Church and her mission in the service of love:
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
you have given the world its true light,
Jesus, your Son - the Son of God.
You abandoned yourself completely
to God's call
and thus became a wellspring
of the goodness which flows forth from him.
Show us Jesus. Lead us to him.
Teach us to know and love him,
so that we too can become
capable of true love
and be fountains of living water
in the midst of a thirsting world.
May we be followers of the greatest commandment, as revealed by our Lord, strengthened in our pursuit by the example and prayers of His (and our) Mother.
Father Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online and a priest with the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (http://usordinariate.org) established by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, through the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. He is currently the chaplain of the St. John Fisher Ordinariate Community, a priest in residence at Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church and Director of Pro-Life Activities for the Ordinariate. He is a popular speaker for parishes, apostolates and organizations.
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Rising hip hop star Azealia Banks has a lot going for her: an awesome single/music video, a just-announced slot at Coachella, and a facility with words that's already drawing comparisons to hip hop greats. However, she must be a little bit green at the internet, because as of yesterday she had yet to learn one of its key rules: do not pay attention to anything Kreayshawn says or does, ever.
The beef started when Kreayshawn RT'ed a link to Banks' "212″ video that had been posted by the twitter account of X-rated video site Pornhub. She's since deleted it, but here's the tweet she RT'ed:
Banks took this as a sign of disrespect, and the following exchange occurred:
I think Banks might be ascribing a little too much cunning to the hip hop version of Rebecca Black, here. I wouldn't be surprised if Kreay followed Pornhub for more, um, utilitarian purposes, and RT'ed the link when she saw it, simply because she liked the song. I'm also surprised Banks would get so incensed at being linked to by a porn site when she writes such brilliantly explicit lyrics. Then again, maybe Kreayshawn got jealous of Banks' budding success and decided to take a clumsy swipe at her, like, "ha ha, someone who runs a porn site likes your music, therefore by the transitive property, you must have ten dicks in your mouth at all times." What do you think?
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Hermanus and Whales
Trip Start
May 08, 2011
Trip End
Sep 26, 2011
From here, I went straight to Walker Bay to go and see the whales. As soon as I got there, there were whales very nearby and they were sticking their head and fins right out of the water today. They were also making noises which I had not heard yesterday. I sat at Gearing's Point for a couple of hours just watching the whales and enjoying the lovely coastline. This coast reminds me of the north east of England but it also has spectacular mountains right up to the sea which is just an addition to the magnificence of the panorama.
I fell asleep in the peace and tranquillity of the whales and the bay and woke up feeling very hot! I went for some late lunch before returning to Gearing's Point for a little while longer. We returned to the camp on the tut tut and I finished (at last) my sudoku book which felt like another milestone. I felt a little frustrated as I wanted to go for a walk but knew that my knee was simply not up to it. Patience! I had walking around in Cape Town in the back of my mind which served as an adequate deterrent.
Early evening, Caolan threw a champagne party which was a good chance to see a few goodbyes. It is better that way! I decided to stay at the camp and rest my leg as the rest of the group went for a meal. I relaxed and had an early night.


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LinkedIn's (NYSE:LNKD) latest impressive earnings report has more and more investors jumping on the stock, raising it as much as 10 percent on Friday morning trading — demonstrating that although the company's own sales forecast is not as strong as expected, investors seem to have even more confidence in the company than its own analysts do.
Helping perpetuate a share surge that LinkedIn has enjoyed for two years since its initial public offering in 2011, the company released its second-quarter earnings report Thursday with a revenue that rose 59 percent to $363.7 million and exceeded analysts' expectations, reflecting a pattern that the networking service has now stayed true to for nine quarters. Its net income also rose 33 percent to $3.73 million, or 3 cents a share, and its membership jumped to 238 million, more than double the number of users that LinkedIn reported in 2011.
But despite these impressive gains, LinkedIn surprised investors with a weaker-than-expected sales forecast. The professional networking service offered a revenue prediction for the current period of $367 million to $377 million, while more optimistic analysts forecast around $383.3 million. That didn't keep shares from rising though, suggesting that investors may have even more confidence in the service than its analysts do. Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities even noted, "People pretty much ignore their guidance, as they consistently crush it."


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WASHINGTON – U.S. investigators looking into the May 17 Connecticut commuter-rail crash haven't yet found a clear cause.
The fact a broken rail became the most immediate suspect speaks to years of deferred maintenance that have left trouble spots throughout a Washington-Boston network that carries more than 700,000 people a day and dates to the 1800s.
"We are eating our assets alive," Joseph Boardman, CEO of Amtrak, said in an interview May 21 after testifying at a congressional hearing.
Tracks maintained by the intercity passenger railroad and states along the most densely populated part of the U.S. carry half of U.S. rail traffic. Amtrak now accounts for 76 percent of the air and rail trips between New York and Washington, up from 37 percent in 2000, according to the Northeast Corridor Commission, a body Congress created in 2008 to assess the system's most critical infrastructure needs.
Between New York and Boston, the share has increased from 20 percent to 54 percent.
"One cracked rail is making it extremely inconvenient for thousands and thousands of commuters," said Robert Puentes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program in Washington. "That has a drag on the overall metropolitan region. This is an infrastructure that needs to be brought up to a state of good repair."
Ownership hodgepodge
Unlike with highways, which count almost all Americans as a constituency, and aviation, which is backed by the airline industry and a powerful trade group, Amtrak – the biggest player along the 457-mile Northeast Corridor – has stood almost alone as it asks Congress for money to cover operating shortfalls and maintain its tracks.
Formed by Congress in the early 1970s to take over unprofitable passenger operations from freight railroads, Amtrak owns the track between Washington and New Rochelle, New York, and from New Haven, Connecticut, to the Massachusetts border. Metro North Railroad and the state of Massachusetts own the other sections.
The corridor hosts commuter lines in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts as well as slower freight trains that add to the wear and tear on rails.
1889 bridge
Hundreds of bridges and tunnels are more than 100 years old, according to the corridor commission. Five bridges in Connecticut built between 1889 and 1907 need to be replaced, with costs exceeding $1.6 billion, the commission said.
Portions of the electrical system date to the 1930s, including Connecticut substations that rely on oil-filled circuit breakers.
As service demands in and around New York increase, Amtrak has less opportunity to spend time doing maintenance in the area, Boardman said. The railroad can only take the six tunnels under New York out of service for a total of 55 hours each week to maintain them, he said.
Because Amtrak and commuter rail lines share tracks, delays on one can cascade through the system, Connecticut state transportation commissioner James Redeker testified at an April Senate hearing. All major segments of the system are at or close to capacity, making service increasingly susceptible to disruptions, he said.
In last week's wreck, a section of the eastbound track "fractured at a rail joint" and is "of interest" to NTSB investigators, the board said in Twitter postings May 18.
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Five seniors close out home careers
Gonzaga's Senior Night celebration is a little different this season. The Zags have a non-conference opponent, South Carolina Upstate, coming in Tuesday. The visitors fill what would have been an eight-day break between Gonzaga's WCC finale at San Diego and the semifinal contest in the WCC Tournament.
The Zags' five seniors reflect on their careers below in an unedited version on an article that will run in Monday's S-R.
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Jeremy Pargo's mom visited
"I can tell you I won't cry," said Pargo, looking forward to Tuesday's regular-season finale against South Carolina Upstate. "The biggest emotional part for me is my mother seeing her first game in
Tuesday will mark the last home appearance for five Gonzaga seniors. Head coach Mark Few typically starts his seniors on Senior Night. That means Pargo is expected to be joined by Micah Downs and Josh Heytvelt, as well as first-time starters Andrew Sorenson and Ira Brown.
The five followed unique paths to get to Gonzaga and their journeys didn't end after they arrived. All five have graduated or are on pace to graduate, Few said. He uses phrases like "great leader, great teammate, maturity and incredible people" when describing the seniors.
Here's a brief look at their respective careers:
Pargo has been a fixture in the starting lineup for three seasons. He made himself eligible for the NBA Draft last summer before opting to return for his senior season. Pargo is third on the school's all-time assists list, but he dishes much of the credit to his mom. The family lived in close quarters in a
"To be honest, we lived in a basement for a long time and grandma was upstairs," said Pargo, whose older brother, Jannero, played in the NBA and is currently playing overseas. "She's a very strong woman. One of the things my mom believes in is doing things the right way. She's the kind that if she saw someone drop a million dollars, she'd pick it up and give it back to them. When I was a kid, I never understood that. When you're a kid, you want to keep the money.
"She's a hell of a woman and I love her with all my heart. She's strong – coming from my grandma she had no choice but to be strong."
Pargo's mettle has been tested this season. The Cousy Award finalist started out playing the best basketball of his career, but his performance slipped at midseason after he committed a couple of costly turnovers in Gonzaga's loss to Connecticut.
"When you play in a high-profile program like this and you're kind of the lightning rod, you're probably going to get more criticism than strokes," Few said. "He's certainly had that. He had a tough part where he was questioning his confidence and himself, but he's worked his way through it and played well down the stretch."
Heytvelt, too, is thriving as his Zags' career winds down. His first three years were anything but smooth. He's dealt with foot and ankle injuries. He was suspended after his highly-publicized arrest on drug possession charges in Feb., 2007.
Reinstated to the team prior to last season, he averaged 10.3 points and 4.9 rebounds, despite playing much of the season on an ailing foot that didn't heal properly from pre-season surgery. Finally healthy this year, he's averaging a team-high 15.3 points and 6.8 rebounds.
"I'd say I've made a 180-degree (change)," Heytvelt said. "I try to speak my mind a lot more than I used to. I'm more outgoing.
"It's opened up a lot of opportunities that I might not have had if I was the way I used to be. It gave me a lot more room to gain respect, and it's really helped in the long run with the team and coaches."
Heytvelt was recently named to the WCC All-Academic team after earning a 3.5 grade-point average as a graduate student in organizational leadership.
"He's arguably the MVP of the conference down the stretch," Few said. "Just to have the courage and character to come back from something like that and deal with everything thrown at him on the road, it's a great story. It's probably one of the best things that has happened to me as a coach."
Downs, a McDonald's All-American, began his collegiate career at
"What he was really looking for was a family atmosphere and a group of guys and a staff he could get close to," Few said. "And he's found that."
"He came in probably as the most hyped kid," said
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience to play Division I basketball and have a successful career," he said. "I'm thankful for the opportunities I've had here."
Brown and Sorenson have become fan favorites. The buzz in the Kennel picks up when Brown checks into games. Brown, a former minor-league pitcher who returned to basketball at age 22 at
"The crowd gives me energy and I try to give them something back in return," said Brown, now 26.
Sorenson is a former Kennel Club member turned walk-on who was rewarded with a scholarship earlier this season. He didn't play a second as a freshman and then logged 61 minutes over the next two years. He's played in 14 games this season, making 7 of 12 3-pointers.
"Whether I start or not, I'm just excited for the night," Sorenson said. "It's going to be one of those things I'm never going to forget."
Asked to describe the changes he's seen in his classmates,
"And Ira, it's only his second year, but he's a good leader on this team, being as old as he is, 46 or something."
Brown, listening in from the adjacent cubicle in the locker room, smiled: "Don't quote him on that."
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A pub in the city of Hollywood near Los Angeles has displayed full size posters of Sikh Gurus in their bar area, outraging the community members and forcing the owners to issue an apology.
Pikey Bar agreed to take down the pictures of Sikh Guru after community members lodged a protest with the pub owners.
"We have lodged a protest," Satnam Singh Chahal, executive director of the North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) told PTI.
"This is outrageous," he said, adding that he urged the management of the Pikey Bar to immediately remove these posters.
"Manager of the Bar has assured us that these pictures of Sikh Gurus will be removed immediately. They have apologised for this act," Chahal said.
Many from the community expressed their outrage on Twitter too.
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The New Hardiness Map
A useful — but not foolproof — guideline for selecting plants
Explore an interactive version of this map at planthardiness.ars.usda.gov
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On its web site, the USDA offers click-and-zoom maps and single-state maps, so you can really zoom in on your zone. If you don't know your zone, you can find it by zip code. Explore at planthardiness.ars.usda.gov
Will that pretty perennial or berry bush grow in my backyard? There's a new way to help find the answer. On the USDA's 2012 version of the U.S. Hardiness Zone Map, colorful stripes delineate the zones in 5-degree Fahrenheit increments, from zone 1a (-60 to -55F, found only in Alaska) to zone 13b (65 to 70F, found only in Puerto Rico) and everything in between.
Things are Heating Up
Although you won't find palm trees growing in Maine any time soon, many gardeners are finding themselves in a half-zone warmer region on the new map — 8b instead of 8a, or 6a instead of 5b, for example. (A relative few will find themselves in a cooler zone.) The creators of the map say the warming trend is due to more sophisticated measuring equipment, a longer period from which the averages were drawn, and additional weather monitoring stations. Nobody is mentioning climate change, so I won't, either.
Even though I'm still in zone 4b, with an average minimum temperature of -20 to -25F, I've experienced winters where it's dropped into the minus 30s. That's a good reminder that this map represents the average coldest temperature, not the record coldest.
Limitations of the Hardiness Map
Most gardeners are familiar with the hardiness zones. They're found everywhere, from seed packets and nursery tags to reference books and websites, and slowly they'll all be switching over to the new map. Hardiness ratings are handy guidelines that can help you select perennials plants, trees and shrubs. If you live in zone 5, you can be relatively confident that a plant rated hardy in zones 1 through 5 will tolerate your winter temperatures.
Gardeners may be tempted to rush out and buy plants for their newly designated zone. However, despite the hullabaloo about the new map, it does have limitations, because many factors besides cold hardiness affect a plant's ability to thrive.
The Mysterious Case of the Himalayan Blue Poppy
The Himalayan blue poppy (Meconopsis baileyi, previously M. betonicifolia)
As a new gardener flipping through plant catalogs, I immediately fell in love with Himalayan blue poppy, (Meconopsis baileyi, previously M. betonicifolia). With flowers the color of the prettiest summer sky, I was smitten. However, with a hardiness rating of USDA Zones 7 to 8, there's no way the plant would survive here in northern Vermont. So imagine my surprise when I took a trip even further north, to Jardins de Métis (aka Reford Gardens) in Quebec, and saw thousands of blooming blue poppies. Surely I wasn't in a zone 7 microclimate this far north.
This story illustrates the limitations of the hardiness zone map. Why does the Himalayan blue poppy flourish in chilly Quebec, a hundred miles north of the northern tip of Maine? Because the conditions at near-sea-level Reford Gardens mimic those of the plant's native habitat in the 10,000' mountains of Tibet: cool, moist summers and reliable winter snow cover that insulates roots and moderates the soil temperatures.
Overall Climate Matters
In the U.S., zones 7 and 8 include places as diverse as Raleigh, North Carolina; San Antonio, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Seattle, Washington. Of the four cities, only gardeners in Seattle, with their cool, moist summers, have a prayer of growing Himalayan blue poppy, which would succumb in the other cities' blistering summer heat.
Many factors besides minimum winter temperature affect a plant's ability to survive. In places with hot summers, heat tolerance is as much or more of a consideration when choosing plants. That's why the American Horticultural Society developed the Heat Zone Map.
Other factors include the duration of cold temperatures, alternating freezes and thaws, seasonal rainfall patterns, sunlight intensity and humidity. Soils play an important role, too, including the type, pH, organic matter and moisture levels.
What's a Gardener To Do?
Although the new hardiness zone map is a useful tool, don't rely on it too much when selecting plants for your landscape. Consider each potential plant's native habitat. A perennial that is adapted to sunny desert conditions will have a tough time in a cloudy, wet climate, even if it's the right hardiness zone.
If you're new to gardening, ask a gardening neighbor, consult with local garden centers and scan plant lists at public gardens. Occasionally, you might be surprised to find plants rated a zone or two warmer thriving in a sheltered spot or covered with protective mulch every winter by a diligent gardener. If you're willing to take extra steps to protect marginally hardy plants, by all means give them a try. But be realistic and focus on plants that are likely to thrive without extreme measures.
Region-specific online resources and magazines abound. Choosing plants that are adapted to your region goes a long way in creating a beautiful and low-maintenance landscape. Go ahead and take chances with a few less-than-ideal plants you fall in love with, but know the risks.
Blue Poppies in Vermont?
Some day I'll try growing Himalayan blue poppies here in Vermont. We usually get plenty of snow over the course of a winter, and our summers are relatively cool. But most years we get at least one midwinter thaw that melts the snow down to bare ground, followed by a deep freeze that would likely kill the plants' roots. The fact that I've never seen this beautiful plant growing near here, nor have I heard of any neighboring gardeners' success stories, tells me that even if it survives a year or two, the Himalayan blue poppy is unlikely to thrive. For now, I'll settle for enjoying the photos from my trip to Quebec.


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imp. & p. p. - of Full
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ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 15, 2014
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Orlando Resort comes alive this spring with its Mardi Gras 2014 celebration, featuring 20 nights of electrifying concerts from the biggest names in music, coupled with the essence of the legendary Bayou bash.
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On select nights Feb. 8 through May 31, guests will experience a "N'awlins"-inspired, family-friendly version of Mardi Gras at Universal Studios Florida. The celebration combines unmatched theme park entertainment with delectable Cajun cuisine, authentic New Orleans bands, an awe-inspiring parade and live concerts by some of today's hottest artists.
This year's powerhouse musical lineup features a diverse array of talent, from R&B superstar Robin Thicke, whose hit single "Blurred Lines" topped the Billboard chart for a near-record 12 weeks, to UK pop sensation The Wanted, who has sold nearly 10 million albums worldwide, to Latin idol Prince Royce, who reached number one on the U.S. Hot Latin Songs chart with "Corazon Sin Cara." Also performing is rock band Daughtry, Grammy award-winning Hip Hop artist Nelly, and the classic rock group Foreigner, one of the best-selling bands of all time. For the complete line-up, see below.
Guests can also catch colorful beads by the handful during this year's parade, which will feature 12 vibrant floats, including three new additions celebrating Jules Verne's novel, "Around the World in Eighty Days." All of the exquisitely detailed Mardi Gras floats are engineered by Blaine Kern Artists, the same company that has been hand-crafting floats for the iconic New Orleans celebration since 1947. Plus, guests can visit Universal Studios Florida's very own French Quarter Courtyard to enjoy authentic Cajun cuisine and see performances by bands pulled straight from Bourbon Street.
The excitement of Universal Orlando's Mardi Gras celebration is included with admission to Universal Studios Florida, where partygoers can also join Optimus Prime in the fight to save Earth on TRANSFORMERS: The Ride - 3D or visit Springfield, home to The Simpsons, to take an intergalactic spin on Kang & Kodos' Twirl 'n' Hurl. With an upgraded park-to-park ticket, guests will have the opportunity to visit Universal Orlando's second theme park, Islands of Adventure, and enjoy award-winning attractions like: The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk Coaster and more.
In addition to two theme parks, Universal Orlando Resort is home to three on-site hotels: Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel and Loews Royal Pacific Resort, and a fourth on-site hotel, Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort, opening March 31, 2014. And its entertainment complex, Universal CityWalk, offers some of the hottest, most recognizable entertainment experiences in the world.
For more information and a full concert listing, visit www.universalorlando.com/mardigras.
About Universal Orlando Resort
Vacation like you mean it at Universal Orlando Resort - where every heart-pounding, jaw-dropping, goose-bumping second counts. With two incredible theme parks, Universal Studios Florida and Universal's Islands of Adventure, three magnificently themed on-site hotels and a nighttime entertainment complex, Universal Orlando is the only place where you can turn spending time with your family into spending time as a family. Together, you can soar above Hogwarts with Harry Potter, swing above the streets with Spider-Man, become a Minion in the hilarious and heartwarming Despicable Me Minion Mayhem ride, and join Optimus Prime in the fight to save mankind on the new mega-attraction, TRANSFORMERS: The Ride - 3D.
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Headliners (performing in the Music Plaza) |
New Orleans Bands (performing in the French Quarter) |
February 8 |
Daughtry |
Remedy Krewe |
February 15 |
Barenaked Ladies |
Soul Project |
February 16 |
Thomas Rhett |
Soul Project |
February 22 |
Robin Thicke |
Rockin Jake |
March 1 |
Collective Soul |
Big Al and The Heavyweights |
March 8 |
Prince Royce |
Daddy Mac Blues Band |
March 14 |
Cody Simpson |
Mississippi Rail Company |
March 15 |
Foreigner |
Mississippi Rail Company |
March 21 |
The Big Easy Playboys |
March 22 |
Gavin DeGraw |
The Big Easy Playboys |
March 28 |
Dirty Bourbon River Show |
March 29 |
Dirty Bourbon River Show |
April 5 |
Skillet |
John Lisi and Delt Funk |
April 12 |
Lynyrd Skynyrd |
Beth McKee & The Sliders |
April 19 |
Kool & the Gang |
Gravy |
May 3 |
Nelly |
Chris O'Leary |
May 10 |
The Wanted |
T Bird & The Breaks |
May 17 |
Grady Champion |
May 24 |
Cha Wa |
May 31 |
Naughty Professor |
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It has been awhile since I have posted anything on this blog, but not because I have not been working on my genealogy! I just devoted about 2 weeks to going through all of the hints on ancestry.com, so that now I can keep up with them as they arrive! I learned and found many new discoveries about family members as I went through all of the hints, and the best part, was finding some family pictures that are posted on other people's trees! I posted numerous pictures on my tree over the past summer.
I have also been in contact with new to me researchers and that is always a blessing!
I have decided on what my genealogical project for Christmas will be this year, but am not sharing here until after the holidays! In the past, I have done a couple of different stories of family, one from my Dad's side (the Adamson family) and another from my Mom's side (the Seg/Seeber family). Last year I did a recipe card that had a picture of my great-grandmother with her original recipe for Swedish bread that I sent out to family members. It was really fun to do.
I would love to hear about ideas that others have done for projects. I don't know if my family appreciates the projects as much as I do, but it is fun!


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I cover the business of sports for Forbes.
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Charlotte Bobcats
Wins Produced: 19.4 Value: $33.1 million Salary: $9.1 million
The veteran forward averaged 18.2 points and 10 rebounds last year while logging 41 minutes per game. He was also efficient, shooting more than 50% from two-point range and 37% from three-point range.


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Juro advice #1 -- most definitely -- that's where we were this morning on the Grand, in the good swing water and away from the bottom bouncing water. There's the float rodders section up by the dam and there's the section we fish that's a few hundred yards downstream and we often have it to ourselves.
As I discovered when I realized that I've been screwing up the spiral single all this time and in reality doing the upriver snake, I found that it was a good "obstructions" cast when casting in that 45 to 60 degree cone. I can't do the thing a bit down river and have it go 90 degrees, and stay out of the bankside weeds.
Ed, about the rods. The river was still high & dirty today so I continued working on the continuous load. Half the day was spent with the stiff Daiwa and half with the Loop Blue 8/9 that's a bit softer in the tip. Two things stuck out -- under 70', the Blue was definitely the easier of the two as that soft tip loaded up very nicely. The Daiwa takes a bit more finesse to get right. Over 70', no contest. The Blue was work but the Daiwa just sailed it out there. This sorts things out nicely as the Daiwa is more suitable for the wide Grand anyway, while the Blue will be nicer on the smaller waters. However, compared to the 7136 Greenie, I consider the Blue to be a much stiffer rod. That's the problem with these rod action terms, they mean different things to different people.
Funny, but I had no trouble with either rod, working very close to the bank while using the double. I just used a far forward anchor placement and away she goes. In the attached picture, I was standing on a submerged rock that was about 3' from the bank. It shows my rod with the line on the dangle just before starting the double (with the camera put away first, of course). I had no trouble popping out good casts from this position and I think I only whacked the bankside weeds once when I forgot myself and threw a normal D-Loop. I was using 26' of SSH attached to a 15' T-6 tip.
Oh ya, forgot -- the fly was one of my purple & pink BUFFs on a 2/0 heavy salmon iron.
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Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2.8 or later.
Age Rating: 4+
The initial release of Numbers for iPad worked well for creating original spreadsheets, and for working on Numbers-native spreadsheets from your Mac, but that it fell short due to its inability to output files in Excel format. Though Apple's app could read such files, it would convert them to Numbers format. That version of Numbers was also available strictly for the iPad, and not the iPhone or iPod touch.
Numbers 1.4 addresses the Excel issue, adds some other welcome features and can now be used on the iPhone (3GS and 4) and iPod touch (third and fourth generation) in addition to the iPad. In this review, I'll focus on what's new in Numbers, and discuss its use on the smaller iDevices.
The big news in this Numbers update is the small news, that you can now use Numbers on certain iPods and iPhones. While Numbers is a Universal app (one version for all iOS devices), there are a couple of features in Numbers on the iPad that you won't get to use in Numbers on the iPhone or iPod touch: full screen mode and landscape view.
On the iPad, you can enter a full screen mode to get an overview of your data, and run quick summaries of data sets with a simple flick of your finger. You can't do much more than that, though, so the lack of this feature on the smaller screened iPhone and iPod touch may not be a major problem for most users.
The lack of landscape mode is more troubling though as many worksheets are laid out in a landscape orientation, and viewing a super-wide landscape spreadsheet on an iPhone in portrait mode can entail a lot of finger swiping. I didn't realise just how often I used this mode in Numbers on the iPad until I flipped my iPhone around for the first time, expecting to see my worksheet flip, too. When it didn't, I thought I had the iPhone's orientation locked, but that wasn't the case. There simply isn't any support for landscape mode on the iPhone and iPod touch.
One other minor but potentially annoying 'feature' in Numbers on the iPhone and iPod touch is that you can only undo and redo changes by shaking your device, in the iPad app, there's a dedicated button in the toolbar that doesn't appear when you run the app on smaller iOS devices. When developing a spreadsheet, I use undo and redo a lot, and shaking the phone over and over again to accomplish that task gets old really quickly. I found myself longing for the iPad's dedicated button after only a couple of undo shakes.
While Numbers works just fine on the iPhone 4, my biggest problem with it is that there's simply not enough screen real estate to work productively. It seemed every time I wanted to do something, I was either scrolling or zooming to make sure I had the right cell selected or to see the big picture. It's also very hard to get a sense for how your finished project will look when you're laying it out one tiny section at a time.
In short, while Numbers runs just great on an iPhone or iPod touch, I wouldn't want to use it for anything beyond simple spreadsheets or minor edits to larger projects. There's a reason that serious spreadsheet jockeys usually have monstrous monitors connected to their desktop machines, there's no such thing as too much screen space when creating large spreadsheet models.
This release of Numbers includes a number of new and/or improved features that make it easier to do what you need to do, and to share what you've done with others. The big news for me was that Numbers can now export in Excel format. Previously it could read but not write Excel files. This means you can now work on an Excel file on your iDevice, and output it back to that same format, so you can share it with those who use Office instead of Numbers.
You can now create folders in the spreadsheet browser mode. Folders work here exactly as they do in iOS in general, just drag and hover one icon over another, and you'll create a folder. For those with a lot of spreadsheets, this is a welcome addition. Also new since the last review is printing via AirPrint printers, though I was unable to test this feature.
Finally, if you're the type who never reads in-app help, you should break that habit and read Numbers' in-app help. It contains a lot of usability tips that will help you get the most out of the mobile spreadsheet app. For example, Help reveals how to restrict a drag operation to a straight line. Hold one finger from one hand on the screen while dragging the object with a finder on your other hand.
Not all is perfect in Numbersland, however. Numbers still can't import hide rows/columns or merge cells, which are two features that many spreadsheets use extensively. In particular, not being able to merge cells (and having merged cells break on import) will cause some layout headaches. You're also still limited to your iDevice's relatively meager font collection, and headers/footers and certain features on graphs also won't survive the transition from the desktop to your iDevice.
Working with files is still more painful than it should be: you're generally restricted to working with one file at a time (i.e. when copying to/from iTunes), and you can't open more than one spreadsheet at a time.
Later this year, Numbers (as well as Keynote and Pages) will support Apple's iCloud service. This should greatly ease the sometimes tricky document management issues related to working with one file on multiple devices. Instead of winding up with multiple copies of the same file on multiple devices, iCloud integration will allow you to have one copy of the file that's simply synced to all your devices. Create a spreadsheet on your Mac, close it, and you will then be able to pick up your phone and continue working, right where you left off.
While iCloud integration looks like a win, it's not clear yet what will happen with iWork.com, Apple's perpetually in beta iWork document sharing service. The features provided by iWork.com aren't necessarily replicated by iCloud, so I would expect that it will continue to exist, at least in some form.
The potential upside of iCloud support in Numbers is huge, but we'll have to wait until later this fall to see exactly how well it works, and what becomes of the iWork.com beta programme.
Macworld Australia's buying advice
Numbers is a solid spreadsheet program for the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch. Depending on the complexity of your spreadsheet needs, the iPhone/iPod touch support may be a key feature to you, or may just be something that's good to know if you ever have a critical need to edit a worksheet and you're not carrying your iPad. But the other features in Numbers make the program worth consideration for working with spreadsheets on the go.


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B-I-N-G-O in C-H-I-L-I
Join Chili Recreation for its second annual Family Bingo Night. This fun evening includes plenty of Bingo, prizes and snacks. Tickets are available at the Recreation Office and must be purchased in advance.
Who: Bingo loving families
When: Friday, March 4
Time: 6:00 pm until 7:30 pm
Where: Chili Senior Center (3235 Chili Avenue)
Cost: $2.00 per person
My daughter and I attended the first Bingo Night last year and it was an absolute blast. Kids and adults alike had a lot of fun and there was constant laughter at the tables. We can't wait to go to this year's event. Here's a picture of her with Squiggles, the toy snake she selected as a prize when she won a game.


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Channel Master - A Name You can Trust!!!
Channel Master 3101 3' ft RG-59 coaxial audio/video jumper cable with "F" connector. Low loss signal. TV, VCR, DVD, and other video hook-up.


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England's Event Show, now in its sixth year, drew a sizable crowd of entertainment industry types January 4-16. Formerly for outdoor events only, the show has been revamped to encompass indoor entertainment as well, and as a result attracted lighting, sound, and production companies to the exhibition floor. The show is largely for networking, and not for product launches. "We were busy right up to the last day, not the usual afternoon wind down at all," reports organizer Graham Brown. ...
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Do you want to make Ohio.com your homepage?
XIn case you missed my DVD column, which focuses on "Eyes on the Prize," it is here.
My story about the auditions for extras in "25 Hill," the locally produced movie about the soap box derby, is here.
For some time, it looked as if Steve and Allie had a real shot at winning "The Amazing Race." They weren't dominating, but they were steady, usually well placed in the standings, and avoided the bickering and drama which get you screen time but don't help you win. But they fell completely apart in last night's show, finished last and were eliminated. And, as if that wasn't enough, today starts the regular season for the Indians, where Steve is a coach; how much disappointment can 24 hours hold?
(I know, "Race" was taped some time ago. Still, America now shares his pain.)
On the other hand, I was both happy and impressed by the way the Cowboys rebounded from near-elimination to first place. As Phil noted during the telecast, no team before this has gone from worst to first in a week. The Cowboys remain formidable, and endearing, so it's good to have them still around.


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Andrew Sullivan is on vacation so the Dishterns are doing the writing. It's been way less wankerific, witness today's post:
One can call it courage or arrested development. But he is, in some ways, a pellucidly bright plant bred in the conservative movement's hydroponic greenhouse. Barely exposed to natural light, these young fertile saplings are fed with a constant drip of Koch money, sprayed with anti-liberal pesticides and brought eventually into the political marketplace with joyful children, a lovely wife and a set of abs Aaron Schock would die for (and probably has). He has no life or experience outside the greenhouse – which is why he glows with its certainties. Most important, he has that quintessential characteristic of the modern conservative – total denial of the recent past. Ryan was instrumental and supportive of the most fiscally reckless administration in modern times. He gave us a massive new unfunded entitlement, two off-budget wars and was key to ensuring that the Bowles-Simpson plan was dead-on-arrival. This alleged fire-fighter – whose credentials are perceived as impeccable in Washington – just quit being an arsonist.
Shorter version: he's a self-serving tool who helped create the mess, pretends it didn't happen and proposes we do the same thing again.
On the Republican side, we now have a debt-reduction plan that actually cuts tax rates for the very rich along with everyone else, vastly increases defense spending, and "balances" the entire thing on gutting care for the old, the poor and the sick (the Medicaid proposal is truly Darwinian) and ending loopholes (which Ryan refuses to specify). I'm all for ending loopholes but even then, we wouldn't get a balanced budget for three decades because of all the defense spending and tax cutting.
This isn't conservatism. It's rightist theology. In a fiscal emergency, the Republicans are proposing not clear remedies but ideological fantasies that were already disproven in 1990. They have learned nothing. And the immense damage they inflicted on this country's fiscal health in the last decade would be nothing compared to what would come under a Ryan-Romney administration.
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ReMix: Super Street Fighter IV "Time to Oil Up"
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- Game: Super Street Fighter IV (Capcom, 2010, XB360)
- ReMixer(s): Jillian Aversa, zircon
- Composer(s): Hideyuki Fukasawa
- Song(s): "Theme of Hakan"
- Posted: 2010-04-27, evaluated by djpretzel
- Terms (BETA): collab mediterranean singing synth trance vocals-female
It doesn't get much fresher than this! SSF4 dropped today in the US and by now probably Japan as well, and hits our European friends later this week, and we've ALREADY got a ReMix of it, courtesy zircon! Yeah, we're dropping out of chronological mixpost cycle, but for special events like this it seems worth it. As you may be aware, SSF4 reintroduces some older characters from Street Fighter lore (I'm particularly psyched about Adon) while also adding some completely new ones. Hakan specializes in Turkish Oil Wrestling, a martial art that takes everything that's good and true and pure about women's bikini Jell-O wrestling and makes it disturbing, hairy, and male. But it's all in good fun - you can tell Capcom had a blast with this game, and I certainly plan to as well.
Having ventured into harder electronica with his TF2 mix, Mr. Aversa now sets his sights on "psy-trance" - for the record, I find the seemingly infinite number of electronica subgenres fairly goofy, and it's hard for me to take them seriously as meaningfully discrete categories, but what I *do* know is that this mix is damn catchy, and sounds good, which is MY favorite genre. This mix is hyper - even MEGA - addictive. Plus, it's zircon, so given the circumstances I don't feel compelled to go on at length about the ins and outs of the arrangement & production. Let's just see what Andy sez:
"I've been an avid fan of Street Fighter since my involvement with HD Remix, so you can imagine my delight at the announcement of Super Street Fighter IV. Among the new characters, one just really stood out for me - Hakan! When I first saw his reveal trailer, I was hooked. Everything about him is hilarious and awesome, from his special moves, to his backstory, voice acting, physical appearance, and, of course, his music.
I got the inspiration for this remix after hearing the OST version of his theme on YouTube. I listened to it a few times over the course of a few days, during which I was coincidentally listening to a lot of Infected Mushroom, perhaps the most famous psytrance group. Inspiration struck at breakfast one morning when I imagined how Hakan's theme would sound with a psytrance beat.
So, I got to work on the mix and finished it in about three days. I can honestly say working on this was the most fun I've ever had making music. I interspersed my long mix sessions with watching SSFIV videos to keep myself in the zone, and one night was so excited about both my track and the game itself that I could barely sleep, waking up at 6am to continue working.
As for the musical content of "Time to Oil Up", it's completely over-the-top psytrance. I used a huge ensemble of Middle Eastern and European stringed and wind instruments, world percussion, and custom synth sounds I made from scratch just for this track. I also had a lot of visual imagery in mind while working on it; for example, I imagined the massive drum breakdown at 2:25 to be Hakan or his fans actually playing his giant wooden barrel of oil. The icing on the cake though is the vocal part, provided by Jill (pixietricks.) I wrote it out on a synth, pitch bends and all, and was blown away that she completely nailed the Arabic style I had in mind.
Anyway, I hope this remix puts a smile on your face. I had an absolute blast making it, and can't think of a better way to pay tribute to an amazing game, series and soundtrack, fit for the king of Turkish oil wrestling himself!"
I find it biologically impossible not to toetap, headbob (aka "djp") or in some fashion move to this mix; it's infectious as all get-out and you can tell Andy did indeed have fun making it. The blend of ethnic instrumentation, Jill's voice (which is PERFECT), and the pumping, hypnotic synth beat is pretty easy to love. The vocal pitch bend into the stratosphere at 0'51" is badass, the filter flare at 2'40" is monstrous, and the Hakan quote adds nice context & energy as a break. I have a feeling we're all gonna be playing SSF4 - and this ReMix - for a long time to come. Epic stuff from zircon!


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Auto-seleção e aprendizado no comércio exterior das firmas industriais brasileiras
This article looks for to carry through an integrated analysis of the auto-selection hypotheses and learning by exporting hypothesis, offering elements for the quarrel on the recent promotion of exportations policies. We use here Brazilian manufacturing firms data from 2000 to 2006, from the Escritoire of Foreign Trade (SECEX), Annual Relation of Social Information (RAIS), and of the Annual Industrial Research (PIA). Beyond the descriptive analysis on the observable firm´s characteristics, this work has an econometrical analysis on the persistence, and the permanence firm´s determinants on the exporting activity. Its main results indicate that hysteresis in the exporting activity is stronger in micron and small companies, being such main categories responsible for the entrance flows and the exit in the external market. Aftermath, it exists a clear relation between entrance value, persistence and permanence in the exporting activity. However, as it was possible to observe this relation is not only based on by the auto-selection arguments, but also for the arguments related to the hypothesis of learning by exportations, as long as we obtain evidences of differentiated paths for of productivity premium before, and later, to the entrance in the external market.
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Fire chiefs plan visit to Plymouth court Friday to protest arson plea bargain
At least a dozen fire chiefs from Southeastern Massachusetts plan to appear in Plymouth Superior Court Friday to express their discontent with a judge's decision to offer short sentences to an alleged arsonist and his accomplice, according to one of the chiefs.
Timothy Grenno, Whitman's fire chief, said the plea bargain Judge Carol Ball offered the two men earlier this week is a "slap in the face" to the investigators who worked on the case.
"We are disgusted with this," said Grenno in a telephone interview this afternoon. "We're not going to change the judge's mind tomorrow and that's not what we're trying to do. We just want to take a stand."
Mark Sargent, who was charged in three arson cases, would serve up to three years in state prison under the plea bargain, which was announced in court Tuesday. He allegedly started fires at an unoccupied Scituate vacation home, a Marshfield marina, and a West Bridgewater building that was under construction. His stepson Jeanmarie Louis, who was charged in connection with the West Bridgewater fire, would serve up to 2 1/2 years in a house of correction.
Prosecutors had urged Ball to sentence Sargent to up to 12 years in prison and Louis to four to six years. Ball said the sentencing guidelines suggested that the shorter sentences were appropriate.
After the deal was announced, Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan said he was "outraged."
"Arson is not a victimless crime, and a series of arsons creates an understandable fear that robs people of feeling secure in their own homes, where they should feel safest," he said in a statement Tuesday. "Arson fires take a toll on our firefighters and are the type of fires that cause the most firefighter injuries. Arson fires tear at the very fabric of a community."
At least six firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling the fires in Plymouth, Bristol, Norfolk, and Barnstable counties.
Sargent, 46, and Louis, 24, of Middleborough were arrested after State Police assigned to the fire marshal's office investigated 30 suspicious fires at commercial or unoccupied structures in Southeastern Massachusetts.
Fourteen of those fires occurred in Plymouth County, where Sargent and Louis were charged, said Bridget Norton Middleton, spokeswoman for the Plymouth district attorney.
The remaining incidents are still under investigation, and charges may be forthcoming, said Jennifer Mieth, spokeswoman for the state fire marshal.
The arsons stopped after Sargent and Louis were arrested, said Mieth.
"The citizens of Plymouth and adjoining counties spent months in terror wondering if their town or their house or business or fishing boat would be the next target," said Grenno in a statement released Wednesday . "Every firefighter in the county wondered each night if their town would be targeted next."
Representatives from the Fire Chiefs Association of Plymouth County, plan to appear in the courtroom during Friday's sentencing hearing to show support, said Grenno, who serves as the group's president.
Grenno said he and his counterparts want to thank investigators who worked "hundreds and hundreds of hours" on the cases.
"They put it a lot of good hard work, some of the best work I've seen," said Grenno. "And now these men are being charged like they shoplifted. It's not right."


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To understand how a stationary photographer can capture a cheetah in midstride or the expression on its face as it dunks a basketball, it's helpful to first consider how any camera works. When a picture is taken, the camera's shutter opens and closes in front of the lens, letting in a precise amount of light for a set amount of time, depending on the exposure setting and the shutter speed. The lens lets in the light from anything that's in front of it, which is then recorded on film or digital sensor.

This is not so different from how the eye and the brain process images. As on a movie camera, moving bodies register on the eye as a series of still shots that decay and are "refreshed" at imperceptibly small intervals, about 1/30th to 1/50th of a second. This can be considered analogous to the eye's shutter speed. If the shutter speed of a camera is set around this range, it will capture motion in a way that looks natural to the human eye—that is, sharply if the image is a person ambling down the street, but perhaps more blurrily if it's a tiny UFO speeding through an alley. If the shutter speed is slower, it will produce a blurred image, and, if it is much faster, it has the chance to capture instants that the eye can't register clearly.

To catch fast-moving action, a shutter speed of at least 1/1000th of a second is usually required. The lighting, too, must be extraordinarily bright, since the quicker the shutter speed, the less light gets in; a photographer will widen the aperture to let in more light accordingly, and for long-distance shots, an electronic flash unit is required. There are a few other tricks in the action photographer's bag. If you're stuck with a slow shutter speed or dim lighting, you might have better luck aiming for the quick moment of stillness, or peak action, when, for instance, a figure skater stops being propelled upward and is about to sink back down. Another option is to set the camera itself in motion, smoothly panning in the direction of a bike racer, who will appear less blurry than the background.

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Posted July 18, 2013 · Report post I have been timid about taking the fish oil I recently bought. I have read many reviews and studies stating that is is good for the skin, hair, nails, brain, heart etc. and people saying it helped decrease their oil production and breakouts. But then I have read a bunch of anecdotal stuff online, including on this site, about it causing breakouts in oily skin. Anyone have experience with supplementing fish oil? PM - Clean face with water and cotton rounds. Spot treat with Finacea. AM- Wash face with Aveeno Gentle Foaming Cleanser and apply Sanitas Oil Free moisturizer 30mg Absorbica for 8 months Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 23, 2013 · Report post I love using fish oil. I was getting too many omega-6 fats and knew it was important to have a healthy ratio of omega-3:omega-6. I don't enjoy fish so I decided to go the supplement route. I didn't specifically note how long it took me to start seeing the benefits in my skin, but remember that it was only a few weeks before I could look in the mirror and know without a doubt that my skin was improving. I actually noticed changes in my brain chemistry much sooner, after about a week. I have suffered from anxiety most of my life and the fish oil really mellowed me out. Some days I just feel so calm and emotionally balanced! Okay, not a huge thing for most people, but after a lifetime of never feeling that way, it is AMAZING! Don't get me wrong, it was a subtle change, most times I don't notice it. However, I always notice when I have not taken it. What it does for your skin is provide the proper building blocks for your sebum (oil on your skin). With the proper building blocks, your body can produce thin sebum that flows easily out of your pores coating the skin and hairs providing protection the way it is supposed to. When you don't get enough omega-3 fats your body must use different components that produce a stickier, thicker sebum that tends to clog pores and make your skin look more greasy and less glowing. The trick is getting enough omega-3 fats without cutting out all your omega-6 fats, so you achieve balance in your dietary fats. Too much fish oil can also make you bruise more easily. It thins your blood which is why it is often recommended for people with cardiovascular issues. Fish oil is my favorite supplement because it improves my skin AND it improves my mood! Motto: Love Life in spite of everything! We are all capable of more than we give ourselves credit for. We are all capable of more than what we are doing now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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If you prefer healthy muffins you can feel good about serving for breakfast, I hope you will give this recipe a try. They are officially called "Company Muffins" in the Simply in Season, where I first came across them last week.
If you are not familiar, Simply in Season is a World Community Cookbook, where the recipes are organized by season.In addition to wonderful simple wholesome recipes, the cookbook has ideas for buying and cooking wholesome, fresh locally produced food, a fruit and vegetable guide, as well as reflections and anecdotes on the meaning and place of food in our lives. I picked up my copy several years ago in a Ten Thousand Villages shop and have been enjoying it ever since.
As soon as I read the ingredient list and realized I had everything I needed to make this muffin recipe, I've been thinking about them.
Yesterday waking up with more energy than usual, I decided to bake them in mini muffin pans so they could be enjoyed both for breakfast and as a teatime snack!
These muffins are kind of like carrot cake muffins, apple muffins, whole wheat muffins and oatmeal muffins all combined into one. They turned out moist and tasty with just enough sweetness and plenty of spice from the generous amount of cinnamon.
We enjoyed them yesterday for breakfast and I reheated some this morning to share with colleagues from a from a business development workshop I am taking with my coach and friend, Life Coach Erin.
Since everyone who has tried them enjoyed them, I look forward to making them again.
Healthy Breakfast Muffins
Makes 18 muffins or 36 mini muffins
1/2 cup / 125 ml flour
1/2 cup / 125 ml whole wheat flour
1 cup / 250 ml oat bran or rolled oats
3/4 cup / 175 ml brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large tart apples (peeled, cored and shredded)
1 1/2 cups / 375 ml finely shredded carrots
1/2 cup / 250 ml chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup / 125 ml flaxseed meal
1/2 cup / 125 ml raisins or dried cranberries
2 eggs
1/2 cup / 125 ml milk (I used coconut milk)
1/4 cup / 60 ml oil (I used a blend of extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, and sesame oil)
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and grease your muffin pans.
In a large bowl, combine the flours, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt, stirring until well blended. Add the shredded apples, carrots, walnuts and raisins and stir until they are coated with the flour mixture and then make a well in the center of the mixture.
In a small bowl, stir together the eggs, milk and oil. Pour into the flour mixture and stir until everything is just moistened. Fill muffin pans about 3/4 full. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes for regular muffins and 12 to 15 minutes for mini muffins.
Remove from the oven and place on wire racks to cool slightly. After 5 minutes or so remove the muffins from the pans and allow to cool completely before storing or enjoy while warm.
Nutritional Estimates Per Serving (1 mini-muffin): 71 calories, 3.1 g fat, 9.8 g carbs, 1 g fiber, 1.6 g protein and 2 WW PointsPlus value.
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When TLC sent four foreign royals undercover in Atlanta in 2012 to woo women who didn't know about their titles, the resulting reality experiment, "Secret Princes," turned out to be an engaging guilty pleasure (if you believe in such things) that resembled a real-life version of the Julia Stiles early '00s classic teen movie "The Prince and Me."
Because such a fantastic concept should not be wasted, the network ordered another round of episodes, set to debut Friday (Oct. 25), featuring a new batch of noble men in a brand-new city: Austin, Texas. The four men looking for love in Season 2 include Prince Alexander of Russia, 34, a direct descendant of the House of Romanov who works as a photographer, Prince Lorenzo de Medici of Italy, 37, heir to the House of Medici, Lord James Rennell of Rodd, 34, a baron in the U.K. who works at an event planning company, and the Honourable Oliver Plunkett of Dunsany, 28, heir to the Barony of Dunsany Republic of Ireland and owner of a computer gaming company.
In Zap2it's exclusive clip of the Season 2 premiere, the princes discuss what they want their American aliases to be. Their inspiration? The most American things they can think of: Dean Martin, Uncle Sam, Luke Skywalker, and Clint Eastwood. Check out the clip below, then tune in for the premiere on Oct. 25.
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Start-ups and firm in-migration: evidence from the Swedish wholesale industry
We use a data set covering 13,471 Swedish limited liability firms in the Swedish wholesale industries during 2000–2004 to ascertain the determinants of new start-ups and of in-migration of firms. Access to a large harbor, international airport or large railroad classification yard in the municipality nearly triples the number of start-ups and increases the expected number of in-migrating firms with 53 %. The presence of a university, many educated workers and low local taxes are also associated with more start-ups and firm in-migration. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2013
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Louis Garneau Matrix LX Trek Series - Women's
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Hans Gissenger
The technique: Brining—soaking the bird in salt water—creates juicy turkey. Here, stout beer and barley malt syrup add a richness to the brine, which infuses the meat with flavor.
The payoff: Moist meat that tastes great. The malt glaze gives the bird a crisp, burnished skin.
Roasted turkey: Prep 45 minutes Total 20 hours (includes brining and roasting time)
Grilled turkey: Prep 45 minutes Total 21 hours (includes brining and grilling time)
- Yield
- Makes 8 to 10 servings
- Glaze:
- 2/3 cup barley malt syrup
- 1/4 cup malt vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 6 fresh sage sprigs
- 4 fresh thyme sprigs
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
- Brine, turkey, and aromatics:
- 4 quarts water
- 2 cups Diamond Crystal coarse kosher salt or 1 1/2 cups Morton coarse kosher salt
- 3 12-ounce bottles stout beer (such as Guinness)
- 1 1/2 cups barley malt syrup
- 1 14- to 16-pound turkey
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 2 peeled onions, quartered
- 2 celery stalks, cut into chunks
- 1 bunch fresh sage
- 1 bunch fresh thyme
- 1 unpeeled head of garlic, cut crosswise in half
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 cups (or more) water
- Mixed-Mushroom and Tarragon Gravy
- Special equipment: 2 turkey-size oven bags
- Turkey lacing pins
- Charcoal chimney (if grilling)
- 13 x 9 x 2-inch disposable aluminum baking pan (to catch drips; if grilling)
- Ingredient info: Barley malt syrup has a flavor similar to molasses. Look for it at natural foods stores or buy it from edenfoods.com.
- For glaze:
- Bring malt syrup, vinegar, herbs, and pepper to boil in small saucepan, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to low and simmer until glaze coats spoon, 4 to 5 minutes. Mix in butter. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; chill. Rewarm before using.
- For brine, turkey, and aromatics:
- Pour 4 quarts water into 16-quart nonreactive bowl or pot. Add salt; stir to dissolve. Mix in beer and malt syrup. Insert 1 oven bag into second bag; place in large bowl. Rinse turkey inside and out. Slide turkey, breast side down, into doubled bag. Pour brine into bag. Press out any air; seal bags. Chill turkey in brine (still in bowl) 16 to 18 hours.
- Remove turkey from brine. Pat very dry, inside and out, with paper towels. Sprinkle main cavity with 2 teaspoons pepper; fill with onions, celery, sage, thyme, and garlic. Close cavity with turkey lacing pins. Tuck wing tips under; brush all over with oil.
- To roast turkey:
- Set oven rack at lowest position; preheat to 350°F. Place turkey on rack in roasting pan; add 2 cups water.
- Roast turkey 2 hours. Brush with glaze; add water if pan is dry. Roast 30 minutes. Brush with glaze. Tent with foil if browning too quickly. Roast until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165°F, 30 to 45 minutes. Brush with more glaze. Transfer to platter; let rest 30 minutes (temperature will rise 5 to 10 degrees).
- To grill turkey:
- Prepare barbecue (medium heat). Remove top grill rack. If using charcoal, light briquettes in chimney. When briquettes are covered with white ash, push to opposite sides of bottom grill rack, leaving center empty. Place disposable aluminum pan in center of rack (you will need to light additional briquettes, checking every 30 minutes during grilling time). Replace top grill rack. If using 3-burner gas grill, light burners on left and right sides, leaving center burner off. If using 2-burner gas grill, light burner on 1 side; place disposable pan over unlit side.
- Place turkey, breast side up, on grill rack over disposable pan. Cover barbecue. Insert instant-read thermometer into hole in hood. Maintain temperature as close as possible to 350°F on charcoal grill by opening vents to increase temperature and closing vents to reduce temperature or adjusting temperature on gas grill with controls. Cook turkey 2 hours, tenting loosely with foil if browning too quickly. Brush turkey with glaze. Cover grill; cook 30 minutes longer. Brush again with glaze. Cook until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165°F, about 30 minutes longer. Transfer turkey to platter. Brush with glaze. Let rest 30 minutes (temperature will rise 5 to 10 degrees).
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Nutritional Info
- Calories1372
- Carbohydrates79 g(26%)
- Fat45 g(69%)
- Protein146 g(293%)
- Saturated Fat12 g(62%)
- Sodium7493 mg(312%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat10 g
- Fiber4 g(15%)
- Monounsaturated Fat16 g
- Cholesterol469 mg(156%)


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Real World Golf Cheats
Cheats for Real World Golf on PlayStation 2 are not yet available. This may be for several reasons...there are no cheats, we have not had a chance to put them up yet, or the game is not yet released. If you know that there are good Real World Golf cheats feel free to submit them.