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This year for our annual spring photo shoot we traveled to beautiful Southern California for a week of shooting new spring bikes and gear. By now you've started to see a lot of this new photography in our spring catalog, in emails, and on our webpage. But we wanted to share a little behind-the-scenes look at what it took to create these images, as shared by Chris, one of our merchandising assistants and erstwhile mountain bike model.
As fate would have it, after scheduling all of the models, the photographer, and booking tickets for ourselves, we flew all the way all across the country, from our home base in North Carolina, only to face the threat of rain. This prompted us to quickly reschedule some of our shoots so that on our first day in California we made our way to a cliff overlooking an amazing vista so that we could start getting some mountain bike shots right away.
Here's what that same action from the shot above looked like from the photographer's point of view:
There were four of us being photographed, plus a team of four people on the other side of the camera, including talented photographer Rod Walker.
One thing we had not counted on in this location was the wind. It was almost enough to take us off of our feet! Here are Cathy and myself trying to reload the van, with limited success.
Each shot takes a healthy dose of planning before the photographer snaps a single frame; here's Bill trying to show us (the riders) where he wanted us to ride. But you can clearly see why we choose this location, it's simply beautiful!
Here's TJ and I riding along the line that Bill had picked out for us.
On our way down from that peak, we passed multiple controlled burn locations where the local forestry service was working hard to prevent a big fire. While it looks perfectly safe in this photo, it still made for an exciting drive.
Not wanting to waste any time while we had some sunshine, we drove off of the mountain and straight to downtown San Diego for our urban shoot.
It was a whirlwind tour–we hardly had time to stop to eat before we were prepping new bikes and new models for the next shoot. We got set up just in time and were able to snag some great shots as the sun started to set downtown.
We were blessed with a great group of models, all of which knew how to handle a bicycle (and of course we had a great group of bicycles, all of which knew how to handle a model)!
Day one ended with a couple hundred great shots already in the bag, but with rain on the horizon . . .


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ADRIAN — Travis Bice and Heidi Hartline of Fairfield Township, along with Bice's toddler daughter, Lacy, walked Wednesday through Lenawee Project Connect in the Merchants Building at the Lenawee County Fair and Event Grounds.
Lacy was holding a soft teddy bear she had received at the event.
"We just came to see if there is anything we could use for us," said Bice, who is unemployed.
The annual event, sponsored by Lenawee County Continuum of Care, is designed to bring together
people in need of services with housing, food, medical care, employment, education and other service providers. The project was renamed Lenawee Project Connect this year from Project Homeless Connect to emphasize that it is not just for homeless people.
A free meal and free winter clothing items, personal hygiene items, health screenings, flu shots and haircuts also were available. A mobile food pantry was parked outside.
"It's going fabulous," said Khristine Henson-Jones, co-chair of the continuum of care and executive director of the Lenawee Emergency and Affordable Housing Corp.
Henson-Jones said more than 50 service providers were at the event. People from at least 150 households had already attended the four-hour event with more than two hours still to go, she said.
The Merchants Building offered more space than the project had in previous years, allowing the service providers to spread out and provide more privacy when talking to those seeking assistance, Henson-Jones said.
The project partnered this year with 1Matters, a Toledo organization that works with the unhoused, Henson-Jones said. Ken Leslie, who founded 1Matters, said the organization got a grant from ProMedica to expand and asked to partner with Lenawee Project Connect.
"We chose Lenawee because you guys really have your act together with Continuum of Care," Leslie said.
Among other things, 1Matters brought volunteers to help guide people through the event, he said.
Lana Cozzens, who lives near Blissfield, said she came looking for help finding a job.
"It's a lot of people and I think it's cool," she said of the event.
Henson-Jones said a one-day, point-in-time census of the homeless and near-homeless also was taking place Wednesday. Besides taking place at Lenawee Project Connect, the count was being taken at several social service agencies and by some schools, she said.
The count is required every two years by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for counties to be eligible to receive federal grants to help the homeless.
Lenawee Project Connect links people, providers
ADRIAN — Travis Bice and Heidi Hartline of Fairfield Township, along with Bice's toddler daughter, Lacy, walked Wednesday through Lenawee Project Connect in the Merchants Building at the Lenawee County Fair and Event Grounds.


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FRAMINGHAM - At Bedrock Comics, Lee Middlekauf picked through a box of back issues, looking for copies of "Fantastic Four" and "Captain Marvel" for his collection.
A middle school art teacher in New Hampshire, he�s been reading comics since the second grade and thinks their story lines are "becoming darker�� as "hyper-real art�� replaces text found in speech balloons.
"Comics mirror everything. Nowadays there�s more art and less words. It�s like the world today with Facebook and iPhones,�� said Middlekauf. "One thing has always been true of comics: As the world gets tougher, people want heroes.��
Farther back in the Rte. 9 store, George Viana checks out new issues of "X-Men" and "The Walking Dead," comics with characters he "can relate to.��
The 23-year-old Framingham resident always enjoyed earlier comics like "The Avengers" but now feels characters in the "The Walking Dead" have become "more relatable�� as they grapple with "the moral dilemmas of starting a new society�� in a post-apocalyptic world.
"They ask themselves: What will we hold as sacred? How will we treat our criminals?�� said Viana, an artist who recently earned a liberal arts degree from MassBay Community College. "Comics are darker now and explore lots of moral conflicts. I can relate to the characters because they make human mistakes when they�re trying to figure out moral dilemmas.��
Behind the counter, owner Jack LeFevra said he�s having "one of our best years ever�� with sales pumped by high-profile movies such as "Godzilla,�� "Guardians of the Galaxy,�� and "Captain America.��
In 1981, he was a 13-year-old kid when he walked into Jim Talbot�s downtown Framingham store, That�s Entertainment, looking for copies of "Teen Titans." He started working there and bought the store in 1997 that later moved to Rte. 9 where it offers hundreds of titles and tens of thousands of back issues.
For more than 30 years, LeFevra, of Holliston, has been one of the most visible purveyors of a comic book universe with characters as memorable to their readers as Shakespeare�s sage patriarchs and malevolent villains were to Elizabethan audiences.�
He will be organizing volunteers for the upcoming Boston Comic Con, running from Aug. 8 to 10 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston.
Co-founded by Talbot, who still works at Bedrock, and Nick Kanieff, of Framingham, Boston Comic Con has grown in eight years from about 900 visitors to an expected 35,000 next week.
A framed photo on the wall shows starlet Laurie Holden, who plays a survivor of a global zombie plague in "The Walking Dead," posing with LeFevra�s teenage son, Connor, at a recent Comic Con.
Over the years, LeFevra believes comics have become "edgier, darker, more complex,�� reflecting social anxieties during the War on Terror as the art grows more spectacular with "full page flashes�� of violent action without much text.
And he observed that comic book publishers have kept apace with the growing digital world as many titles can be purchased with art for e-book readers. He looked askance at this development.
"There�s no way a comic is going to be as good on an iPad,�� said LeFevra picking up a back issue of "Conan.�� "You can pick it up and smell the pages.��
For Professor Joshua Cohen, comics "have moved into the mainstream where they�re breaking down the barriers between pop art and high art.��
An associate professor of liberal arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, he has chaired panel discussions on comics and graphic novels, which he considers "a fair barometer � but not the only barometer � of the mood of our times.��
Rather than replace written works by Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, he believes comics and graphic novels are "a compact form of literacy that reflects the trends of our time and the speed with which we now process information.��
Though some worry comics undermine reading, Cohen said images are "an old form of literacy�� and said, "People have been telling stories with pictures from prehistoric cave paintings to Egyptian hieroglyphics to Mayan glyphs.��
"An image conveys something to the human system of understanding,�� he said, citing the medieval Bayeux Tapestry that depicts the Norman conquest of England. "Images do things words don�t and vice versa.��
At Rubber Chicken Comics in Bellingham, owner Jay Pillarella believes the general ambiance of comic books has oscillated "back and forth�� from "grim and gritty�� anti-heroes like Todd McFarlane�s Spawn in the 1990s to�clearer conflicts between good and evil in the 21st century after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
While a few publishers, such as DC Comics, still follow a self-regulating "code�� that bans graphic violence and sexuality, a growing number of independents "have been pushing the envelope�� in ways that attract some fans but trouble critics who worry about the impact on young readers.
Pillarella, who stocks an estimated 100,000 issues, believes the proliferation of titles by strong writers with strong art now provides "something for everyone.��
"People are more aware of comics today. We have something for every demographic,�� he said. "Comics got me reading regular novels. It�s still a fun hobby.��
Jake Johnston, who with two partners opened The Hall of Comics in Southborough last April, believes the growing number of new titles "reflect the modern sensibility and lifestyle changes.��
He stocks "Ms. Marvel,�� a new comic about a teenage Muslim girl with shape-shifting powers, "Optic Nerve�� by Adrian Tomine with stories about Asian-Americans and "Alex + Ada," about a human�s relationship with a female android that addresses "how we interact with technology.��
"Comics have survived for a long time because they�re not written in a bubble. They live and breathe our lives,�� said Johnston. "People like myself who love comics see these stories as part of a magical world. When we finish one comic, we don�t want it to end."
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FRAMINGHAM - At Bedrock Comics, Lee Middlekauf picked through a box of back issues, looking for copies of "Fantastic Four" and "Captain Marvel" for his collection.


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Nestle has recalled certain sizes of its Nesquik chocolate powder drink mix because of possible salmonella contamination.
Chocolate giant Nestle USA is recalling some lots of its Nesquik chocolate powder drink mix because it might be contaminated with salmonella.
Containers of the popular children's drink mix produced in early October have been voluntarily recalled after one of the company's suppliers, Omya Inc., on Tuesday recalled large batches of calcium carbonate, a food additive, because of possible salmonella contamination.
Recalled Nesquik includes the 10.9-ounce, 21.8-ounce and 40.7-ounce canisters, which were distributed nationally. No other varieties of Nesquik powder or any sizes or flavors of Nesquik ready-to-drink products are affected by the recall.
To check the affected UPC codes, click here. Nestle USA is headquartered in Glendale, Calif.
Shoppers who bought the recalled Nesquik chocolate drink mix powder should not consume it, but should return the product to the place of purchase for a refund. People with questions should call Nestle Consumer Services at (800) 628-7679.
Omya Inc. recalled three lots of 50-pound, 2000-pound and 2,500-pound bags of food-grade limestone, also called calcium carbonate, produced at its Superior, Ariz., plant.
Calcium carbonate is used in a wide range of consumer products, including toothpaste, chewing gum, candies, frostings – and drink mixes.
No reports of illness or adverse events have been associated with the Omya or Nestle recalls, the manufacturers said.
Symptoms of salmonella include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever, which can develop within eight hours to 72 hours of eating or drinking contaminated food. The illness can last for a week, but some people -- including children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems -- can become seriously ill, even requiring hospitalization.
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A World Bank report offers rare good news on global poverty. According to World Bank estimates released on Feb. 29, in every region of the developing world the percentage of extreme poverty, people living on less than $1.25 a day, and the total number of global poor declined between 2005 and 2008. World Bank researchers add that despite the recent global economic crisis and associated spikes in commodity and food costs since 2008, recent analysis reveals that global poverty overall kept falling through 2010.
In fact, preliminary estimates for 2010 indicate that the $1.25-a-day poverty rate had fallen to under half of its 1990 value by 2010. This would mean that the first U.N. Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty from its 1990 level has been achieved before the 2015 deadline. An estimated 1.29 billion people in 2008 lived below $1.25 a day, equivalent to 22 percent of the population of the developing world. By contrast, 1.94 billion people were living in extreme poverty in 1981.
So are the improving poverty figures cause for universal celebration? Not so fast, say some global development analysts. Paul Miller, a foreign aid advisor for Catholic Relief Services, said the numbers overall offered good news, but the problem of poverty "hasn't improved enough that the commitments made for the developing world should let up.
"Some of these 'victories,'" he said, "are quite tentative." And Miller is skeptical that the World Bank's post-2008 numbers can be trusted. He said the recent cost spikes in basic commodities like rice, wheat, corn and sugar have been devastating to the world's poorest people. He suspects a more accurate depiction of global poverty since the Great Recession awaits a more comprehensive analysis.
Still, Miller believes it is important to note progress on poverty when that is possible. Citing the positive outcomes of antimalaria campaigns and their impact on poverty reduction, he said, "There is increasing evidence that some of these targeted interventions do make a difference." Miller argues that global donors need to be confident that their antipoverty disbursements are not "going down a rat hole."
"If you made none of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and certainly a lot of them won't be met, that would lead a lot of people to question our approaches" to fighting poverty—particularly, he worries, the efficacy of foreign aid.
Aldo Caliari, director of the Rethinking Bretton Woods project for the Center of Concern in Washington, is worried that cheerleading reports on poverty reduction merely provide cover for first world donors to "declare victory and go home." That outcome is especially tempting as industrialized powers this year confront the kind of debt crisis better known to the developing world.
Gross poverty measures mask isolated crises, Caliari said, and vast income and wealth disparities. He adds that donor nations may focus on the report's overall positives without questioning if the world could have done more to reduce poverty. Caliari points out that during the time frame of the study, global wealth increased dramatically, but a proportional impact on poverty was not realized. That suggests, he said, that "the policies we are implementing are not necessarily the best ones because we could have done a lot better."


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YORK, PA - The York College men's basketball team did what they have done all season. They battled a deep and talented Wesley College Wolverine squad only to fall just short at the end as the Wolverines escaped York with a 69-61 Capital Athletic Conference win on Saturday in York.
The Wolverines improve to 19-5 overall and 9-2 in the CAC while the Green and White falls to 7-16 overall and 2-8 in the league. York has now dropped five straight overall and six straight league contests.
The Wolverines came out of the game looking to put the Spartans away early. Wesley seized an early 14-5 lead as they had it going from distance with back-to-back threes from Eric Selby and Wayne Lennon. The Spartans got a three pointer from senior guard Julian Watson (Odenton, Md./Arundel) that stemmed the tide, allowing York to regain their footing. The Spartans drew to within two on a Jeremy Skoloda (Leola, Pa./Conestoga Valley) three at the 12:08 mark but the Wolverines answered with a 14-6 run that pushed their lead to a half-high 10 points with 7:39 remaining in the half.
York scored nine of the next 11 points of the game to pull to within three as Skoloda hit a second three at the 4:29 mark. Lennon answered with another triple as the Wolverines maintained the lead. The Spartans cut their deficit to one at the half but the Green and White could have had the lead had they been able to be better at the free throw line. York went just 4-for-8 from the stripe over the final two minutes of the half as they went to the locker room down 36-35.
The Spartans tied the game just 19 seconds into the second half as Watson split a pair of free throws. However Wesley went on an 11-1 run to forge a 47-37 lead as the Wolverines again looked poised to make the game lopsided.
The Green and White kept the Wolverines from running away with the contest as they cut their deficit to four on a Watson lay up at the 14:31 mark. The Wolverines maintained their lead between four and eight points over the next eight minutes before Skoloda cut the lead to three on his third three-pointer of the day with 6:24 left.
The Spartans would then go ice cold from the field as they scored just six points after Skoloda's triple while Wesley made enough plays to hold off the Green and White.
Eric Selby led the Wolverines with a team-high 20 points, as he was 8-for-12 from the field and 4-for-7 from three. Senior Paul Reynolds registered a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds while the forward also dished out six assists in 39 minutes of work. Lennon was the third Wolverine in double figures with 13 points on 3-of-5 shooting from three and a 4-for-4 performance from the stripe.
Senior Todd Maciejewski (Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion) paced the Spartans with 20 points on a blistering 7-for-8 performance from the field. He also went 6-for-10 from the free throw line. Maciejewski pulled in seven rebounds, had three assists, and three blocked shots for York. Watson added 17 points in his 38 minutes of play. Watson was 5-for-9 from the floor with a three while he also went 6-for-10 from the line. Skoloda was the third Spartan in double figures with 12 points while he also had four rebounds. Junior Brandon Enck (Quarryville, Pa./Solanco) pulled in nine rebounds while he also had four points and two steals.
The Spartans finished the game shooting 42.2% after converting 50% of their attempts in the first half. York went 4-for-18 from three while the Wolverines made 10-of-27 from distance. Wesley finished the game shooting 45.1% from floor.
York held a slight 34-32 edge in rebounding. Wesley forced 14 turnovers and they made them hurt, converting those miscues into 21 points.
The Spartans return to action on Wednesday in their final regular season road trip of the year when they travel to the University of Mary Washington to face the Eagles. Tip time in Fredericksburg, Virginia is slated for 8:00 pm.
Julian Watson photo courtesy of Zach Clabaugh (www.sharpedgefoto.com)


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I think reading this book is fun. I like reading about super heroes. This book reminds me of a book about the X-Men. The X-Men book has super heroes with super powers too. Mr. Fantastic is my favorite character because he stretched his arms and saved people.
I recommend this book because the Fantastic Four worked together as a team. I think boys my age would enjoy reading this book too. The most interesting part is the story because it is not real, but like a fantasy.


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Thursday, February 6th, Good Shepherd Medical Center held its "Ready. Set. Baby!" program for prospective families at the Good Shepherd Institute for Healthy Living. The well-attended event was free to the public and provided education on mother and baby services and benefits offered by Good Shepherd Women's and Children's Services.
"Ready. Set. Baby!" also featured products and services by more than a dozen local businesses. Attendees enjoyed a style show featuring maternity wear, adorable children's clothes and accessories provided by Kohl's. A baby stroller demonstration was also conducted by Toy "R" Us. In addition, many expectant moms pre-registered for delivery at Good Shepherd Medical Center.
"Ready. Set. Baby! was a great opportunity for us to share our products with expectant moms," said Randi Dippold, manager for Bluejean Baby of Longview. "It also provided a great chance for expectant parents to learn about maternity services offered by Good Shepherd."
To learn about future "Ready. Set. Baby!" events or Women's and Children's Services offered at Good Shepherd, please call the Healthy Hotline at (903) 315-4747 or toll free at (888) 784-4747.


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Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, thrives along the banks of Gomti river. The city, Awadh and Uttar Pradesh fell to the British during imperialistic era . Today, Lucknow is dotted with remnants of its rich cultural past.
Lucknow is also known for its elaborate cuisine and Chikankaari or exquisite shadow-work embroidery on fine muslin cloth.
Lucknow is a historically important city and for many centuries was at the heart of North Indian culture. In particular, the city was famous for its Adab and Tehzeeb (manners and hospitality), intricate embroidery, beautiful gardens and dance forms such as Kathak. It was also one of the sites of the 1857 Indian Mutiny (or First War of Indian Independence). The Hindi spoken in Lucknow is considered the most beautiful and gentle in the country. Currently the city has a population of around 2.5 million.
Lucknow is the heart of the art, cuisine, dance, culture and music of Northern India. It was the cradle of the Hindu-Muslim-Sikh symbioses that made India great. it brought in the best of various cultures and accepted Western institutions like La Martiniere in her womb. It was made famous by the soft-spoken, and sweet tongued, Awadh-Lucknowai culture that was based on civilized behaviour toward fellow human beings. Lucknow is the home of Urdu, Hindustani and Hindi languages. The city became known as a centre for Urdu poetry and courtly presence and diction, being the birthplace and city of residence for many poets. The Mushaira, an event of poetry recitation forms the heart of Lucknow's nightlife where Mushairas go on into the wee hours of the night. Lucknow's only rival in Northern India was Delhi, though Lucknowies were always embroiled in a healthy rivalry with Delhi, home of the famous poet Ghalib and others. Lucknow is also famous for its sweetmeat, the sweet shops in the old city dates to 1850s. Awadhi and mughlai food is the delight of the visitors to Lucknow.
Another thing that may surprise visitors are the ubiquitous posters, billboards and signs boasting of great progress and bearing the picture of Mayawati. She is the current chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state and is quite controversial. Labeled by some as the "Dalit Queen," she has come under fire for misuse of public funds and abuse of power. She has spent millions upon millions of rupees on massive public works projects such as the Ambedkar Memorial (see below) which opposition leaders see as a waste. No matter who you speak to in Lucknow, everyone will have an opinion about her! It's a great conversation starter.
Get in
By plane
There are daily flights from Delhi, Bombay, Kolkata and Patna. Amausi Airport, Lucknow is directly connected with Delhi, Patna, Kolkata, Bombay and Varanasi by direct flights.
By train
Lucknow is on the Delhi-Gorakhpur railway route. Connections can be made from Agra and Allahabad. A major railway junction, Lucknow is conveniently connected to many cities. Some of the important trains are : 12003/12004 Shatabadi Ex. : 15063/15064; Nainital Ex; : 19165/19166; Sabarmati Exp : 12553/12554; Vaishali Exp : 15609/15610; Awadh-Assam Exp : 12875/12876; Neelanchal Exp : 14283/14284; Ganga-Yamuna Exp : 12229/12230 Lucknow Mail : 12419/12420; Gomti Exp : 14257/14258; Kashi-Vishwanath Exp : 14011/14012; Nauchandi Exp : 11015/11016; Bombay-Gorakhpur Exp : 12511/12512; Cochin-Gorakhpur Exp.
The important contact for Lucknow Railways are: Railways Manual Enquiry 139, 2636132; resservation 0522-2635841; Badshahnagar 0522-2385182. 0522 is Lucknow's STD code.
By road
Lucknow is connected by road with all the major cities of the country. Some of the major road distances are: Agra 363 km, Allahabad 210 km, Ayodhya 135 km, Kolkata 985 km, Corbett National Park 400 km, Delhi 497 km, Dudhwa National Park 238 km, Kanpur 79 km, Khajuraho 320 km, Varanasi 280 km.
By bus
The Bus Stations are situated at Alambagh, and Kaisar Bagh.
The telephone number for Roadways Inter State Bus Terminal Alambagh is: 0522-2458096
Buses from Sunauli-Bhairawa on the India/Nepal border stop on their way to Varanasi.
From Lucknow to New Delhi: There is a luxury air-conditioned bus from Quaiser Bagh Bus station. Route for this bus is Lucknow - Sitapur - Bareilly - Muradabad - Gaziabad - Delhi [Anand Vihar ISBT]
Get around
Taxi and riksha drivers in Lucknow are of the more insistent type, although few of them will speak enough English to go to locations that are out of the way.
There are many car rental companies available.One should hire cars with local drivers as traffic is dangerous for anybody not used to local traffic conditions. Online car rental at Lucknow Clear Car Rental
Places of interest are spread out over a large distance, therefore will require the use of taxis or rickshaws. Cycle rickshaws contribute less polution to this historic city than their motorised cousins, and provide work to some who need it most.
Chikan dress — a cotton dress with hand-made embroidery, is a must-buy in Lucknow. These garments are both for men and women. The cost is any where between Rs 250-5000 depending on the chikan work (hand embroidery work on cloth is of various types, "Murri" is the traditional handwork and is therefore a little more expensive). In old Chowk and Aminabad it is a small scale industry so it is cheapest to buy from there. There are a lot of shops next to each other, and for the obvious reason of close competetion, you'll get the best bargain. In Hazratganj ("Ganj") the same piece will cost some 200 rupees more. Beware of the touts who will take you to shops near the Civil Hospital and Hussain Ganj where the prices are 500% higher!
Everyone in Lucknow knows about the famous tikkas and kebabs. They are Mughal delicacies. Lalbagh, many roadside hotels near Aminabad and old Chowk offer cheap and unique types of dishes. Also, try out the street next to Tulsi thatre in Hazratganj for some exotic non-vegetarian delicacies.
The Food Court at Sahara Ganj, near Hazrat Ganj is the recent hot favourite with a number of fast food joints. If coffee and tea is something you like, you will find a huge variety at Capuccino Blast at Mall Avenue. At Akbari Gate, during winters one can also enjoy Kashmiri Tea (a red coloured hot tea) with cream and Makhan Malai (a local variant of ice cream, saffron flavoured, made by hanging unsalted butter overnight in dew and then aerating it by beating it).
Finding alcohol is not a problem, but most bars are seedy and are to be avoided, except for those in five-star restaurants.
Please be wary of any hotels listed here that give details like 'close to x y and z' and 'air-conditioned rooms'. Most of these might be self-promotion attempts and not based on real tourist feedback.
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Other personal favourites from Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found: Unconventional Design from Cast-offs are the plastic planter hanging lights (two plastic planters bolted together to create a baroque lighting option) and the Le French Dresser, a cursive typographic dresser pull solution that is both unique and witty. Each project is described in easy to follow instructions with behind-the-scenes sketches and personal descriptions of the process by the couple, giving an inspiring template for those of us who love garage sales, flea markets and curbside finds. Forty-five DIY projects that look boutique ready await!
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In this witty book, they apply their ingenious approach to seating (a chair made from pool noodles), lighting (a lamp from discarded pastry bags), storage (an umbrella stand from industrial steel pipe), tables (a wall-mounted table from a rusty basketball hoop), and all manner of decorative objects (Astroturf pillows, a pickle-jar terrarium). These super-clever authors show you that with a little ingenuity and elbow grease, everything old becomes new again.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Deacons and Diakonia: Too Many Deacons?
I simply would like to make two points:
1) No one should ever be ordained to any order (bishop, deacon, presbyter) if there is no pastoral need for that ministry. The ordained ministries do not exist for the good of the ordained themselves, but for the common good and building up of the whole People of God (see, for example, Lumen gentium 18). We don't often think of this important dimension; it is far more common to speak of the vocation a particular person receives and then responds to. When approached in this way, a vocation can be (mistakenly) as a personal thing: "I have received a vocation from God to be [bishop, presbyter, deacon]." However, that is only half the story: an ecclesial vocation is, in fact, just that -- a vocation exercised with and for the Church. Lumen gentium 29 further states: "It pertains to the competent territorial bodies of bishops, of one kind or another, with the approval of the Supreme Pontiff, to decide whether and where it is opportune for such deacons to be established for the care of souls." Therefore, to review the pastoral needs of a diocese in terms of the ordained ministers needed is certainly appropriate.
2) However, here's the rub. The question becomes: How do we determine the needs of the diocesan Church? It is in response to this question that I think we sometimes jump to wrong conclusions. There is too often a tendency to filter this question through pastors and parishes: "What do our parishes need?" "How will the deacon fit into these needs?" But the church is not confined to parishes, nor is the church's service exercised solely through parishes. Certainly it is important to know about specific parochial needs; but we must ensure that someone is assessing the needs of the broader church and community, and this is precisely a principal diaconal venue of service.
The problem really only arises when deacons are understood primarily as PARISH ministers, not if they are understood as ministering in venues that transcend the parish.
Further the "funding" of the diaconate should never come solely from parish resources. Whoever "pays" for something feels like they "own" something. If the deacon is truly a diocesan minister, then the diocese needs to find extra-parochial sources for funding.
In conclusion, I would suggest that it is perfectly reasonable to assess the pastoral needs of the diocesan church for ordained ministry; however, in the assessment of those needs vis-a-vis the diaconate, it should be ensured the widest possible lens be used, and that more than parish-centered needs be worked into the equation.
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As always, Bill, a very insightful take on things. But the church is not confined to parishes, nor is the church's service exercised solely through parishes. It truly is about assessing broader, extra-parochial needs! When I look at the concept of ministry in healthy evangelical churches, the locus of ministry is outside of the congregation (i.e., what happens inside is meant to impact what happens outside). As Catholics I don't think we forget about this, it just makes us uncomfortable.ReplyDelete
I know prior to Archbishop Niederauer departure from our diocese, he spoke openly about wanting to have deacons engage in exactly this kind of ministry. Perhaps if we're attentive, the Spirit is telling us it is time to take this step, which I think would help solidify the identity of deacons.
Very practical, Bill. Well said - as always! When I consider this question, I always think of what Fr. Ed Salmon used to say:ReplyDelete
"How will we know when we have enough deacons?
When all the needs of the marginalized and vulnerable are met. When to gather the gifts of the church and take them to the world, and to gather the needs of the world and bring them to the church, has become a habit.
When deacons going back and forth, have worn down the boundary lines that we use to keep the church and the world separated.
When deacons leading the baptized in and out, have beaten a path between the altar and the gutter so that everyone will see the link between the Blood in our chalices and the blood in our streets and in Iraq.
When all people respond to the challenge to live, not in the love of power, but in the power of love.
May God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world and in our Church; so that we shall do what others claim cannot be done."
Just a thought . . .
All those committed to the formation of deacons are invited to assess what is happening in Worcester and elsewhere in a prayerful manner. Is God leading deacons to be formed in the New Evangelization and not simply in "helping Father around the Parish"? If so what does that mean for formation, its content, its candidates and spiritual focus?ReplyDelete
This also has ramifications for curriculum. Should we be emphasizing more pointed studies in the theology of the laity and their role as transformers of culture.As we follow the laity out the door do we all know enough about the "martyrdom" they are called to and how we might better assist them spiritually and catechetically to accomplish the new evangelization?
Thanks Bill
Jim Keating
Three powerful responses/reflections here. I plan to open my next formation class with the quotation that Deacon Frank Williams shared. Thanks so much for it!ReplyDelete
The problem is that some Catholic priests and bishops do not have a missionary-evangelical attitude, but a static, bureaucratic attitude. Consequently when deacons come along as the ones in the best position to be missionaries to the secular world--on their secular jobs, in their families and neighborhoods, in their kid's schools and activities--those clergy with a narrow, constricted view of ministry are sadly quick to be befuddled. Instead they should be saying "Wow! Now we can infiltrate every corner of society and spread the Catholic Faith in new and creative ways."ReplyDelete
That's a great quote from Fr. Ed. However, he was quoting someone else! I'll look it up, but he was actually citing an Anglican woman deacon (archdeacon, actually). When Ed first shared this quote, everyone went up to him and asked for permission to use it, and he provided the actual citation. I have it somewhere in my files and will provide it.ReplyDelete
God bless,
I did some further research and learned that Fr. Salmon borrowed the lines from an Anglican archdeacon--and a female one at that! He included them in a wonderful prayer for candidates that was printed in a publication for the deacons of the diocese of Lansing:ReplyDelete
I'm going to use it as the opening prayer in my class next Saturday. Thanks to Deacon Frank and Deacon Bill for the leads on it.
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Tu Cine originally opened as the Plaza Theater and was one of, if not the only, purpose-built 3-strip Cinerama theater erected in Utah. (The Villa theater was retrofited about 12 years after it opened.)
Construction on the Plaza began one month before 'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' opened at the Villa and three-strip Cinerama disappeared from the Salt Lake Valley.
The theater was split several years later and renamed the Valley Twin. It was split again later on into a five-plex and renamed the Cinemas 5.
It remained a discount movie house until Consolidated Theaters finally closed it when new 24 and 15-screen megaplexes were built nearby.
The Cinemas 5 was then used as a venue for live entertainment before being reopened as a movie theater on May 16, 2002 serving the latino community called Tu Cine.
Ticket prices for Tu Cine were below what other area "mainstream" theaters charged at $5 for adults and $3 for children. The theater re-opened with spanish-language versions of "Star-Wars: Episode Two", "Spider-Man", and "The Scorpion King".
The Tu Cine closed in the Fall of 2007.
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This theater is now closed after it last ran films with Spanish sub-titles. The theaters have also been completely stripped so it ever showing films again is not very likely.
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|2010-07-26, 02:26
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Not to mention how were we supposed to guess from arc 1-2 that Eva was the only survivor in the "real" rokkenjima?
One more thing making me believe the future is also all a lie. 07151129, I used to think it was revelant... however now I do not.
I feel like the future scenes are filed with red herrings to make us believe the events of Rokkenjima are all some sort of super conspiracy theory alike Higurashi.
Ange's fragmented memory from arc 6 doesn't help... it's like her memory of arc 4 is limited to ... the written scenes of arc 4. Meaning she was also just a piece.
In arc 1-2 we probably whinned too much about how the entire crimes would be solved once the storm was over so it was unfair to not tell us the future result. That or we believed we'd get many clues from the future. In the end, I think the real clues hidden in the future are to make a parallel between Ange-Maria and Battler-Beatrice. Basically Maria's diary was the real important thing. Odd in a way, using scenes in the future that are at best uncertain to show us important events that occured before Umineko.
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|2010-07-26, 04:25
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Don't forget that George was the one who suggested that they leave Maria when Rosa was hitting her, so Maria was alone when she received the first letter.
Also, I've stated this before:
Probably, Natsuhi was never meant to be a first twilight victim in Episode 1. Her door was vandalized the exact same way in Episode 2, when she didn't get the charm. I think that somebody (probably Kumasawa) painted it around 5-6 AM, without knowing about the murders.
|2010-07-26, 05:55
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey ! Bernkastel's letter was addressed to AuAu !
But...would it be too easy to say that the rules X,Y and Z are simply
X, Y and Z ?
I don't know for the rest, but I am sure that X is indeed related to red, because it was even said by Lambdadelta that X = A basis that doesn't need to be explained.
So far, I would said that the color text is the "embodiment" of these rules.
It's like the rules would be pyramids buried in sand, but the top of these pyramids can still be seen, and this "top of pyramid" is the color text.
The problem then, is that the order of apparition of the color text is :
Red Blue Gold, but the rules would be X, Y and Z.
But if we think a be, Beato "heart" in EP3 is even stronger, Rule Y is Beato Heart, the love with Battler that is also the source of her magic : Believing, believing is also trusting, and it leads to love.
"Without love, it cannot be seen."
Then Z has a bad affinity with Bern because it changes its form...
Blue truth is the truth of the human world, and humans can change depending on what happens I guess...Z is probably like a thick fog, an infinity of possibility is what the blue is.
Well, I haven't discovered much with this theory for now because I just made it but I will seek some information about it later. The sin and the endgame are surly related to the rules too.
*take a spoon to dig and reveal those pyramids of rules*
It would be hard with CHOPSTICKS.
|2010-07-26, 08:28
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The same is basically true of the "discord letter" that appears in the study. Somebody (whether Maria or George or Kumasawa or otherwise) had to already have that letter on hand before ever entering the study. Meaning they either intended everyone to go there to fabricate an excuse to send some people out (this all but necessitates someone in the ep1 study scene is a collaborator with the killer), or the letter was "insurance" in case anybody tried to hide in the study.
I've been suspicious of George since forever. Dude's a real dick.
|2010-07-26, 09:10
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Once the letter exists beforehand, it's very easy to "place" a letter without ever touching it and without even knowing you did - for example, if there's a tray or a book on the table covering it, moving it will reveal a letter, but you might not notice this happened until you take the next look at the table.
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This may not be as important, but in EP1, wasn't there a splotch of blood in the Dinner Room? This may be a clue or not, but it shows that there was definetly murder, however the culprit must have cleaned up the blood really well, as I doubt they dragged a bloodied corpse to the shed.
|2010-07-26, 09:35
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Here's the problem though:
We know the study is off limits. This may or may not be tied to Kinzo's body, but generally speaking nobody should have any interest in going in there nor should they be permitted unless they are Natsuhi, Genji, or Nanjo. If the letter was pre-placed, any of those three could have done it (assuming that Nanjo was hanging out in the study at the times he claimed to be, anyway). Shannon/Kanon may or may not also be possible.
Why place the discord letter in the study if you aren't anticipating anyone will go in there? And if you are anticipating it, how do you know when, why, and who will be going in there and find it? The letter seems primarily useful in driving suspicion (Maria's explanation of the magic circle in particular). Suspicion seems only valuable if you already know ahead of time people would go to the study to hide, and that the group would be large enough to separate.
I see the following scenarios as possible:
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|2010-07-26, 11:40
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That would then be "part of the script." If it's assumed nobody realized anyone was really dead (which means they believed the Eva/Hideyoshi murders and Kanon/Kinzo were both intentional, mind you), and the act exists to send the three out to be fake-murdered, then anybody involved can place it, because Natsuhi is freaking out on purpose.
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I gotta go back and check, but it's just a suspicion so far. It seems like people STILL go through with the Epitaph pattern even while the murderer is running loose.
So perhaps Natsuhi hasn't noticed it yet, even though Genji, Nanjo and Kumasawa have.... heh.
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A thought: Could Jessica be behind the fakery?
It makes a lot of sense if you think about it, and look at the people she talks to and the conversations she overhears:
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In arc 1 Jessica gave me the feeling of being a Watson.
She often brings up half stupid points so that Battler begins to counter them. Very often Battler's reasoning wouldn't have begun if she hadn't mentioned some half baked idea beforehand (for example when she suggested Eva was stabbed from outside through the crack).
Also if we assume this is all a "play" going on (at least at first), it's interesting to think that when the letter appears at the table, at first everyone begins to talk about it's authenticity without caring much about it's content. After a bit, Jessica sorta brings it back foward by saying to Maria "... and she asked you to read it to everyone at the dinner?" - felt like she guided the conversation.
Also weird that in arc 3 it's like both she and Battler are buycutting the game until the near endgame. Also aside from arc 4's "everyone are dead except Battler" and arc 5's "She's dead by midnight the second day (but likely everyone else is), I think she's the only char whose's death is normally never said in red.
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How about: There are four separate plans involved in the events of Rokkenjima. Each one requires a different aspect of Shkannon. Early on, those aspects have some sort of duel, and whichever one wins determines the story:
Episode 1, Kanon (Jessica)
Episode 2, Shannon (George)
Episode 3, Moetrice (Battler) or possibly none.
Episode 4, Elder Beatrice (Maria)
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Been thinking it out and ... I really dislike Shkanontrice theories. It suggest things that ... ugh...
Let's forget Beato and Battler and take it more personal.
You are a 12 years old immature guy who just discovered puberty. You say random pick up lines at a girl you meet about once per year. You also say said random pick up lines at about any girls you meet, including your own cousins. Then you don't see that girl for the next six years. When you do meet her again you learn the following things gradually.
She's pretending to be big breasted and docile to tame one of your cousins into loving her, in truth it's all an act.
She's pretending to be a cold hearted BOY who crushed another of your cousin in the past and still entertains a possible relation with her.
She's trying to make you believe she's a witch and your ideal women. Because she sees you again she's ready to sacrifice both relationship with her cousins to be with you.
She showed you tales she made where she fantasizes about killing all your family in insane cruel ways. In the same tales she makes fun of your cousin's loves for the fake personas she uses.
She never even once feels vaguely bad about tricking your cousins.
You somehow figure out all of this, and now you're trying to convince me that you're the one responsible, that it's not her fault, and you decide to marry her without apologizing or even explaining anything to your cousins.
You claim it's okay because you both love each other and love is the answer to everything.
To me... this is what the Skanontrice theorist are trying to make me swallow. I could believe in Skanontrice... but then Id have to really hate that person. I don't think Battler would forgive such a person either. They keep saying that we cannot see the answer without love. To me Skanontrice needs to heavily look down on various characters to work, it's not an answer with love. It's an answer that only makes Beatrice an unforgivable crazy girl playing with everyone's emotions and who feels self justified about anything as long as "someone hurt her". In other words Skanontrice is ... a melodramatic story that I won't get into.
I'm not saying it's impossible for it to be the truth, of course I'm not blind to all the hints that have been thrown around. However if it is the truth then I'd really honestly believe Umineko is a fantasy story.
Yeah... let's say when Kinzo's beato died he created two homonculus from her single soul, splitting her into Kanon and Shannon. Somehow as that soul is reawakened they get the ability to merge into a single being. I personally think that makes more sense then the mystery perspective of Shkanontrice.
So I ask the Skanontrice theorist out. How is that an answer with love? All I see is contempt for a maid is made to bear all the sins of the story. Convenient isn't it? Battler is afraid from the start to find that the culprit is part of his family, so it's fine that it's a crazy manipulative and emotionally greedy maid that does it?
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Isn't "love" that bit that makes you see people in a better light?
According to what Okonogi said, since Ange lacked love she thought Eva was a terrible and hateful person. However with love she could see Eva in a different light. The same love allowed Ange to see Kasumi (arguably a twisted and psychopath hag) as a pitiable person victim of her own circumstances.
The contempt you feel for shkanontrice without fully understanding her situation is what I'd call "lack of love", following Okonogi's and Ange's perspective.
It's not like I don't understand your pov, but my pov is different. Basically I turn it the other way around to say "because you judge shkanontrice as despicable you refuse to accept it", this can work as a metaphor of "without love it can't be seen".
But the other way around is not so straightforward, I mean it's "without love it can't be seen", not "with love you don't fall for traps". This "love" is meant to make us see something, but nowhere it was stated that "love" will prevent us from see something.
Anyway theories that claim that Shannon and Kanon are actually (physically) trying to kill each other how are they better? The things you listed are very trivial sins compared to murder.
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I know this idea has been tossed around:
Maybe Kanon and Shannon have had a duel before the game starts (akin to that of the Love Trials in EP6). The victor (lets say Shannon) feels sorry for the loser's love interest and dresses up as the other (in this case, Kanon).
And another character may be the culprit and it may have nothing to do with Shkanon at all. But that doesn't mean Shannon can't be Kanon on the gameboard.
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Location: In a badly written story.
Not like Shkanontrice isn't most of them if she exists...
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Review Group Week 228 - BULLET TO THE HEAD #1
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by Garofani Spruzzo » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:27 pm
[spoiler]I always liked him (long ago) better than Robin or Kid Flash. I guess he's gonna be 100% villain after this last issue. [/spoiler]
by Eli Katz » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:19 amFrench crime movies are some of the best in the genre. But they tend to move at a much slower pace than their American counterparts. My favorite French crime film, LE SAMOURAI, has a ten- to fifteen-minute opening sequence where the main character carries out a series of mundane tasks without saying a word. These opening scenes have no music, no dramatic camera angles, no sense of lurking danger. At one point, a car is stolen. But it is done in an unusually slow and methodical way, as if theft were no different than a tedious desk job. After these fifteen minutes of silent buildup, however, the movie quickly turns into a tense game of cat and mouse, where the police are often as clever and deceptive as the brilliant murderer they pursue.
BULLET TO THE HEAD #1 -- a newly translated version of DU PLOMB DANS LA TETE by acclaimed crime writer Matz -- follows this French tradition of the slow intro. Unfortunately, the pace is so slow in this book that it borders on complete pointlessness.
Most of this opening issue is dedicated to two hitmen, Louis and Jimmy, as they prepare to gun down a senator. We gather from their conversation that they have known each other for a long time. We also gather that they enjoy each other's company, because they talk nonstop about everything from European fashion to the pros and cons of therapy. In fact, they talk so much that they barely stop gabbing while they kill the fat old senator and his underage lover.
Their conversation is not meant to move the plot forward. Certainly, we don't learn who ordered the hit or why the senator was targeted. Instead, what it's meant to do is to show us how cavalier these killers are and to develop a deadly cool atmosphere. I'm not sure whether it's bad translating or just bad source material, but most of this conversation reads like a crappy parody of PULP FICTION. And when I say crappy, I mean "Oh my God I can't believe an editor allowed this to go to press" crappy. If a book is going to feature a fifteen-page conversation, it better have sharp dialogue and some witty observations. But there isn't one line in all these pages worth quoting. Most of what's said is just boring and silly and not very realistic. Who knows what hitmen tell each other when they hang out in real life, but I seriously doubt they talk about going to a shrink.
The second half of the book focuses on the detectives who investigate the senator's murder. And somehow, this part manages to be even worse than the first half of the book. Again, I'm not sure if it's bad translating or bad source material, but the last pages of BULLET read like a sleazy parody of LAW & ORDER. For example, as one cop examines the crime scene, he says, "If we find a fingerprint within a hundred yard radius, I swear I'll bang the girl's dead body at the morgue." Like the rest of the book, this line screams, "I'm trying so hard to be gritty, it's embarrassing."
I've read much praise for Matz as a writer. But based on this book, I don't understand where all this praise is coming from. Have these fans not read CRIMINAL, SCALPED, or STUMPTOWN? Because these crime comics are exceptional and in a league so far above BULLET IN THE HEAD that I feel bad mentioning them in the same paragraph as this derivative work.
The only good thing I have to say about BULLET is the art. Colin Wilson is not a flashy artist, but he's a strong storyteller. He draws the characters consistently and places them in panels with richly detailed backgrounds. He creates, in other words, real looking people in a real looking world. Too bad the story that he illustrates isn't worth his time or talent.
I started this review by mentioning how wonderful and smart French crime movies are. Do yourself a favor and, instead of spending four bucks on BULLET TO THE HEAD, use that money to rent a French noir film. I've mentioned LE SAMOURAI already. Other great ones are RIFIFI, LES DIABOLIQUES, TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI, and TELL NO ONE.
by fieldy snuts » Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:26 amGiven how Burned out people are getting on Deadpool with the absurd number of mini's, monthlies and one-shots I dont know if this will be a popular pick or a loathed one, but I'd go as far to say that the first issue of Wade Wilson's War is one of the best Deadpool issues I've read in years and the preview looks like it continues that.
So....my pick:
And the preview so you know what you'd be getting involved with:
Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War #2
by Punchy » Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:27 amUgh, not Deadpool.
by fieldy snuts » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:29 am
Now I dont feel as bad picking it for some reason
by Punchy » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:31 am
Your pick's bad and you should feel bad!
by fieldy snuts » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:37 am
Never! Ever! Again!
by Zero » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:11 amI've never read Deadpool headlining comic, and I don't think he's ever popped into anything else I've read so I'm not sick of him yet. Jason Pearson interiors sound good to me though.
by MrBlack » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:17 am
Roy Harper will be using those dogs to beat up more homeless people in the next installment of "The Rise of Arsenal."
by thefourthman » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:41 am
I really enjoyed the first issue of this book and it is really pretty.
by thefourthman » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:42 amwow... I was excited about this now, not so much.
by BlueStreak » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:48 am
I didn't mind it, but in hindsight it makes more sense that it's translated. I should take 2 points off as a French penalty, but I won't.
The dog murders, while reprehensible, should at least tie into the plot. It seems like they're the only lead the police has.
by thefourthman » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:53 am
see, but I have read a lot of French Comics at this point, and most are good and when they aren't at least they are a good idea and The Killer, by this same writer is brilliant.
by Starlord » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:07 amI'm not sure if I want to buy the trade now or not.
And another Deadpool? WOO HOO!!!! *
*Please note that was written with enough sarcasm to cover Whitney Houstons plump little body.
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My latest weekly Under the Fedora column is now available at the Conservative Commune, The Minority Report, Conservatively Speaking, and NACBU.
Two excerpts
On Hagel:
Hagel gives Obama the cover to do the things he really wants to do but didn't dare say it aloud.
I don't want to hear a single complaint from any Jewish person who voted for the president. 20 years ago there might have been an excuse for not knowing but in this internet age the only reason to be ignorant of what was coming was to choose to be so.
and on College Football & Catholics
I don't follow college football, but I really have to laugh when I saw my fellow Catholics going nuts over Notre Dame vs Alabama. A lot of folks were upset when they were crushed by the tide.
I wonder how many of these Catholics were outraged by Obama as the Commencement speaker or by big contributors to Emily's (Abortion) list on the board?
Where your treasure is that's where your heart will be.
Speaking of where your treasure and heart is, Stacy McCain's treasure and heart are currently in training at Ft. Meade. If you don't understand what that means he explains it:
While we were in the Ceremony Room where the swearing-in took place, I read a plaque on the wall. The plaque explained that the room was dedicated to the memory of Marine Corporal Jennifer M. Parcell, who had sworn in there two days after her 18th birthday in 2004.
In October 2006, Corporal Parcell was deployed to Iraq and assigned to the 1st Combat Logistics Group. She volunteered to search female Iraqi citizens at a checkpoint in Al Anbar Province, and was killed in an attack by a female suicide bomber on Feb. 7, 2007.
Corporal Parcell was 20 years old when she died — the same age as my son on the day he enlisted in the Army. Think about that.
Today we have an all volunteer army. Neither of my sons have chosen (so far) to serve. The reason why they have that choice is because one of Stacy McCain's sons have.
How do you repay a debt like that?


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|Old Swede's Church in Wilmington, Delaware
My cousins who met me live a few miles north in Pennsylvania. Time was spent there catching up on our lives, having a family open house (with lots of great food) and of course, visiting cemeteries. While I was in Virginia I spent several days at the City of Fairfax Regional Library where I found an excellent collection of books, maps and film.
The trip to Tennessee also included North Carolina and was non-stop each day in my quest to visit as many libraries, museums and cemeteries as we could fit into the day. I had not seen my Tennessee family since 1997. So, once again a lot of visiting to catch up on our lives. This also included seeing a Wyoming cousin who had flown to Tennessee the day before I arrived. We had not seen each other for over thirty years ... that's way too long to go without family connections. These are all first cousins and so our memories include being together as children.
|Mountain Laurel Inn - Damascus, Virginia
|Met a cousin on the NC mountain top!
We visited with the lady only to discover that she is a distant cousin. I quickly snatched my iPad out of my purse and began reciting our relationships. We share an ancestor who is buried in that overgrown cemetery. You never know where you'll find cousins!
Next on our trip was the Ashe County Historical Society Museum in the old courthouse in Jefferson, North Carolina. From there we went to West Jefferson, North Carolina to Ashe County Public Library. There is a nice genealogical collection in the library. I whizzed around through books trying to use as much as I could in the amount of time we had for our visit.
Easily this trip could have been expanded into several months. As the sun would set in Tennessee and the peepers and whip-poor-wills began their chirping and singing, I wished for more daylight hours to locate cemeteries. I needed time to visit courthouses, libraries and relatives. With all of my genealogy on my iPad I was pleased with the portability of it, along with the use of the camera and video in the iPad. I kept notes on Evernote and Drop Box along with PDF Printer. The iPad was a great way to show my cousins their ancestry and old photos.
In a few days, You Go Genealogy Girl #2 and I will be together at the Nebraska State Genealogical Society conference in Grand Island. She will be back here in North Platte on May 16th and we plan on making a research jaunt together here in Nebraska. You got it .... the girls are on the "run."
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Reports of a sexual assault, possibly fueled by drugs or alcohol, has some students at Colorado Mesa University concerned about the lack of substance education available on campus.
CMU officials admit it is a big challenge to offer multiple learning opportunities about alcohol abuse to students throughout their college career, but one student says that shouldn't be the case.
"You take a brush up course in math you should take a brush up course in alcohol education," Ashley Burner, CMU Student.
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Officials said students can always talk to professors about any concerns they have and take advantage of mental health services if they make a decision they regret and want to talk about it. Some of the school's health and wellness classes also touch on substance abuse.
Ultimately, officials said the responsibility lands on the shoulders of the student.
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The B Bop - Hopsin
"Excuse me, are you Hopsin?"
"Yeah, why? Who wants to know?"
"My mommy doesn't like me listening to you, but could you
Like sing me one of those songs? Like, like one of the cool ones?"
"Man I got to go man I'm not tryin to sing..."
"Alright, alright alright..."
It's the B Bop, my B Bop song
Do the B Bop, ain't nothing wrong
Come on!
Shobedibinbang, shobedibinbang, bidung, oh baby!
Shobedibinbang, shobedibinbang, bidung, oh baby!
[Verse 1:]
Ayo it's time to bring the West back, pass me the exlax
So I can sh_t on all these n_ggas when I wreck tracks
Your flow ain't that ill, I think you should adjust that
Homie I don't mean to be rude to you, it's just that
You ain't the first n_gga I seen with an attitude
Up on the mic tryin' to explain what the gat'll do
Your skills won't get you that place up in Malibu
You better off tryin' to go slang with a bag of fruit
And leave it up to me, I got the bubblies
I'll do in an hour what would take your ass a couple days
My contacts make the ladies fall in love with me
He's the joker of rap is what these motherf_ckers say
I'm slightly psychotic and idiotic but modest whenever spotted
So logically I'm a profit, face it n_ggas you just s_ck
And as far as your game, it ain't never had legs to step up
[Verse 2:]
Man I'm tired of the ghetto, hope I make it out this place
Ill n_ggas running around like an ape up out the cage
And it ain't about the change, man these things are not the same
All these killers wanna leave my brain laying on the pave
And I ain't did nothing, all these little kids cussing
Learning from their big cousins how to go and get stuck in
A correctional facility, messing up their liberty
Acting a fool making unnecessary enemies
Yes it's very weird to me, I did not get caught in it
I was into rap, for some reason I love the art of it
I ain't never drank or smoked because I'm smarter than
That and I didn't want to grow up to be what my father is
Gotta make a living, got plans of moving out the hood, not stayin in it
I hate these cheap apartments, and these vague complaining attendants
Roaches in the kitchen but I ain't really trippin, I'll be rolling in a minute, singin
[Verse 3:]
On the mic I burn n_ggas and turn rappers to singers
I learn that on the day I confirmed I was the slayer
I serve packs of these haters my words actually rape 'em
And where's daddy to save him? My urge has to be fatal
Up in this music sh_t the sky's the limit for rising in it
Long as I'm consistent and keep on using my eyes as gimmicks
I'mma be the talk of the town, walking around
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Feasibility Study of a Once Daily Antiretroviral Regimen in Vietnam (ANRS 1210 VIETAR)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00158470
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 12, 2005
Last Update Posted : July 3, 2007
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection
|Drug: efavirenz Drug: didanosine Drug: lamivudine
|Phase 3
Despite a high number of infected subjects (estimated of 250,000 at the end of 2004) and a rapid spread of HIV infection in Vietnam, the use of anti-retroviral therapy remains limited. However, access to care and treatment will be expanded in Vietnam in the next few years with the support of national and international organisations. ANRS 1210 study is the first pilot program using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to evaluate the efficacy and the tolerance of an antiretroviral therapy delivered to adults in an external system of medical care, in Ho Chi Minh City. This feasibility study has also the objective to evaluate the cause of treatment failures and to assess social and behavioural conditions of patients at different stages during the treatment.
The present study is an open trial with direct individual benefit. The chosen treatment is a once-daily administration of 3TC, ddI and Efavirenz delivered to HIV infected adults with a CD4 count below 200/mm3. The duration of the study is eighteen months with a main evaluation at six months. One hundred patients will be selected in outpatient consultation of Binh Trieu hospital and Tropical Diseases Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City. The main criteria of evaluation will be the immunological response at 6 months, opportunistic infection events and the proportion of patients undergoing a regular monitoring at 6 months. Viral response will be also appreciated but, for technical question, will not be a main criteria of the study.
Patients are also administered a questionnaire by a trained independent interviewer about adherence to treatment, mental well-being, housing and nutrition, drug and sexual behaviour, social support and disclosure in order to study the associations between sociobehavioural dimensions, adherence and viral load at two successive follow-up visits.
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|100 participants
|Intervention Model:
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|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Feasibility Study of a Once Daily Antiretroviral Regimen for HIV-Infected Patients With CD4 Below 200/mm3, in Hô Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|Study Start Date :
|September 2003
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2007
- CD4 lymphocyte count after HAART [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Evaluation of treatment failures causes [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Assessment of patients social and behavioral conditions at different stages during the treatment [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Man or woman over 18 years old
- HIV infected
- Written informed consent signed
- CD4 count lower than 200/mm3
- No previous antiretroviral treatment
- Weight over 45 kilos and/or body mass index over 16
- Karnofsky Index over or equal to 70 percent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant woman or woman without effective contraception
- Opportunistic infection compromising the realisation of the treatment
- Tumoral pathology
- Progressive psychiatric affection
- Previous history of peripheral neuropathy or pancreatitis
- Hemoglobin above 90 g/l
- PMN neutrophil above 1.0G/l
- Platelets above 50G/l
- Liver enzymes over 5 times the normal values
- Lipase and/or amylase over 2 times the normal values
- Prothrombin rate above 50 percent
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00158470
|Binh Trieu Hospital
|Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|Tropical Diseases Hospital
|Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
|Study Chair:
|Jean Yves Follezou, Pr
|CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
|Principal Investigator:
|Huu Chi Nguyen, Dr
|Tropical Diseases Hospital - Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam
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|NCT00158470 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|September 12, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 3, 2007
|Last Verified:
|July 2007
Keywords provided by French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis:
HIV infection
injecting drug users
once daily regimen
Treatment Naive
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers