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LINCOLN — Lawsuits involving child sex abuse allegations against a former Catholic monsignor from Lincoln may be reinstated after being thrown out by a judge in 2007.
A new appellate court ruling involves legal complaints by individuals who claim that Norman Goodman sexually abused them from 1975 to 1979 while a priest at Holy Family Catholic Church in Lincoln.
In 2007, about 10 similar cases filed against various clergy — including the Goodman cases — were thrown out when Peoria County Circuit Judge Kevin Galley ruled the victims had waited too long to file charges.
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U.S. politics fascinates people all around the world.
I learned that early on, having caught the travel bug early thanks to Mami and Papi who splurged on education and vacations abroad (Big Bro, Lil' Sis, and I did not get cars at 16, nor weekly shopping sprees growing up. "Not a good inbestment," Mami would chide.
This fixation on our political process was confirmed when I worked as a correspondent for Al Jazeera English and traveled throughout Latin America. That gig allowed me to explain U.S. foreign policy to the satellite TV station's global audience numbering millions.
¿Qué cool, no?
All these (and other) paths have been combining lately, including this week when CNN en Español asked me to analyze the Iowa Caucus--the first major step toward the Republican 2012 Presidential nomination--for their morning show, Café CNN.
This was before Mitt Romney won by perhaps one of the most razor thin margins in history--8 votes. I can't even fit that many people in my teeny weeny DC row house for dinner!
Other nuggets:
- How important is the Iowa caucus given that voters there aren't representative of the broader country as detailed in the 2010 U.S. Census which shows a more diverse country, led by the Latino community which grew 43% since 2000, surging to 50.5 million? (Not really but very).
- How long can the GOP ignore, if not outright alienate Hispanic voters (2016 anybody)?
- Why do Republican voters not want to ask Mitt Romney to the Prom (it has nothing to do with his hair)?
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Multi-user editing of a roomscale VR scene
Vizor at the 55th New York Film Festival
We got invited to present an interactive VR piece at this year's New York Film Festival, more precisely at the Convergence sub-event, which is meant to showcase new forms of digital storytelling. The event was held at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts on the final weekend of September 2017.
Our project for the festival was called Virtual Jockeys (or Reality Jockeys), where we manipulate the VR environment in real-time, while the user is immersed in it. The idea was to show how the virtual space can be a dynamic canvas that we can improvise on, similarly to a DJ selecting music or a VJ selecting visuals. This is made possible by the multi-user editing feature that we already have in Patches. It's not a well documented feature, so it was a nice challenge for us to put it to use in a real live festival setting.
How the experience works
The idea was to use two computers (in this case laptops) for the experience, one for the VR viewing, and another for the real time editing using the multi-user editor in Patches. This works by making a duplicate of the project and then sending that URL to the other computer for it to be edited at the same time as it is viewed in VR.
The experience starts from a room with a few objects and a clickable light switch. The viewer can turn on the lights and get adjusted to the roomscale VR space by walking around a bit. The viewer is asked what colors they would like for the armchair, walls and shelves, and they will be changed in real time from another computer. These settings can be found inside the
ROOM patch in the project.
After the custom colors, we add a few more items to the scene by toggling on the visibility parameter in the material patch of the object. Because it was a Film Festival, these items are movie references and we asked if the viewers recognized them. Adding new items by drag and drop always caused severe frame rate drops and tracking issues, so the visibility toggle was the safest option to not cause the VR view to lag when adding items to the scene.
When the TV and Mask are visible and the viewer has interacted with them, the lights are turned off and the radio will be toggled on. The radio can be clicked on to start the music. The final object is the Red button, which opens the room wall and window for the second half of the experience.
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The second phase of the experience opens a large landscape of mountains and a space sky. The control panel on the rails has 3 clickable buttons, which the viewer can press. The yellow button hides the room and gives you a better view of the landscape. The red button tilts the landscape up slowly, and the blue button resets the tilting. After the buttons, the editor can start adding art visuals little by little.
The landscape has several different art visuals to be toggled on. The galaxy will be made visible first by increasing it's opacity, which makes it look like it fades in to the landscape. Next the mountains should be turned off and planet turned on so that the viewer can look down to see the planet Earth. Then add the giant exploding flowers and finally before the music ends add the flying manta rays. The viewer will have time to look around and enjoy the relaxing visuals.
The experience with all the objects visible can be found here: https://patches.vizor.io/nyff/nyff
The template with objects off can be found here: https://patches.vizor.io/nyff/nyff-template/edit
Well, how did it go?
Thanks for asking! It was a very positive experience for us. We did the demo for about 90 people during the course of 15 hours over 3 days. For the great majority of people there this was the first time they tried roomscale VR, and this particular piece was actually a good place to start. We had designed several things into the piece to make sure the viewer gets a good sense of presence, and happily it seemed to work.
The key moment in the piece is the transition from a closed indoor space to the open outdoor balcony - when this happened we managed to get a "wow" reaction from everyone. As the first part of the experience already gives you the feeling of presence in the room, when the second part is revealed the user had already suspended their disbelief and were happy just to relax and chill out to the 3D space visuals for a couple of minutes more.
After the experience ended, we published the piece individually for each visitor - this way they had a personal URL to the piece they could take home and share with their friends. We are happy to notice that these published URLs have been viewed quite a lot, meaning people did actually share and re-watch them.
We'd like to thank everyone who came to check out the piece, NYFF/Convergence for inviting us and a special shout out to our support team: Anna Rosa for coordinating the whole thing, Kschzt for the music, and Sketchfab users for some 3D objects we used (CC Attribution can be found in the piece). Full list of credits can be found here.


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As a non educator looking at K-12 education in general and at the quality of education research in particular, I cannot for the life of me see how anyone would put much stock in education research. Most of it is terrible. That is an objective fact. President Clinton's national reading panel said as much in testimony before Congress. Whatworksclearinhouse should be called Nothingworksclearinghouse. Very little education research submitted to the U.S Department of Education let alone the professional opinions expressed by education experts is based on repeatable scientific studies. It is very hard for most of us to distinguish between opinion and fact when looking at education research. We really do not know much about teaching and learning. And what we do know, gets drowned out by the din of "professional opinionâ€.


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Bishoy Edward doesn't have the kind of background that one typically finds among executives filling the top ranks in construction companies. As Dhabi Contracting's chief operating officer (COO) has no qualms admitting, he – unlike most of his peers in the industry – does not hold a bachelor's degree in an engineering-related discipline.
"My background is in pharmacy; I'm a pharmacist," says Edward, telling Construction Week that he didn't really get a chance to practice his first chosen profession, having spent only "a couple of months" in the pharmaceutical sector before making the switch to construction.
"My main aim at the time was to establish a chain of pharmacies under my name," he recalls. "That was my target, but then I made a major change in my career. I joined Dhabi Contracting as an operating officer and was promoted to the COO position after a couple of years."
The change in career, he explains, was partly brought about by a sense of obligation he felt towards the business and the industry. His father, Samy Edward, is the chief executive officer of Dhabi Contracting, and has been with the 35-year-old firm for 25 years.
While he might have felt "obliged" at first to make the shift, Edward notes that the move eventually proved to be a win-win for both him and the company, going by the success that he has achieved with Dhabi and the growth that it has seen, with him as its COO.
Founded in 1983, Dhabi Contracting started with only about 100 employees, which grew to about 2,000-3,000 in 2008. "Today, we have approximately 8,000 employees," he says.
Edward notes that the rise in the number of employees reflects more than the growth in the contractor's market size. The company currently has $1.6bn-worth (AED6bn) of active projects in the UAE and counts the emergency response centre of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and the Umm Al Emarat Park in Abu Dhabi among its completed projects. The larger workforce also reflects the increase in the number of Dhabi subsidiaries, from "just two or three" when Edward first joined, to more than 25.
Dhabi's under-construction projects include an $820m (AED3bn), 663-villa development in Ruwais, which the contractor is building for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and the $540m (AED2bn) Al Khail Avenue Mall, a retail and entertainment property that Nakheel is developing in Dubai.
Meanwhile, the contractor's subsidiary companies include Al Dhabi Al Motaqadima Safety Consultants, a fire safety engineering and management firm licensed by the UAE Ministry of Interior, and Al Dhabi Security Services. In addition to growing its number of subsidiaries, the company has expanded into property development.
"We have this vision for 2020, similar to Abu Dhabi's Vision 2020, and as part of that we have decided to develop our own projects," he says. "We have purchased plots of land in Al Raha and Saadiyat for commercial and residential projects.
"We are also trying to implement a seven-star hotel in Ruwais. We have the land, and the design, which is by Aecom, has been approved. The project is now being reviewed by the [Abu Dhabi] Urban Planning Council."
Outside the UAE, Dhabi owns a 32-storey hotel in the capital of Georgia. According to Edward, Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi is the tallest building in the city and hosts an office of the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC).
"[Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi] is an accomplishment that Dhabi Contracting is pleased to have, [and one] that makes us stand out from the other players in the market," he says.
Anyone thinking that Edward's success in the industry might have come easily to him would have to think again. Every achievement to his name, he has earned – and not without effort, he emphasises, adding that while he might not have the requisite engineering degree, he has spent years furthering his studies.
As well as having an Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA), he has a Diploma in Project Management and a Master of Science in Engineering Management, both from Middlesex University London.


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A palavra no vídeo foi "exquisite" e aqui no site tem outra! Sabe o que significa "edible"? Clica aqui que eu explico!
I have an exquisite taste of men, I do not belittle anyone. However, I don't talk to anyone who has a bogus profile on facebook.
Cintia, quando você não comenta nada na frase é porque ela está certa?
The dinner you made was exquisite, totally different from that inedible cake you made days before !
Cintia Eu não sei aonde mandar mas tá aí:
The Brazilian minister ended his first mandate with a bogus demeanor. He promised anticipate the process of LGBT rights, but on the debate he kept himself aloof of the candid discussion "Should gay couples to be recognized as a family unit?". He told to the exquisite 'Candidness magazine' about what happened: "My opinion changed … I do not want to belittle gay couples, but I am forced to defy you to reflect on what God thinks of it ". But the majority of the ministers present in the debate, voted in favor of the LGBT community. Even the Leaders of the Anglican Church in Brazil disagree with the minister: "The Ministers should represent the population, not the religion, his opinion was totally conceited that god doesn't approve their relationship (Gay marriage), but love is love does not matter what kind is it…"
Eu sei que é mais de 100 palavras mas não deu pra ficar menor..
perfect, congrats !!!
So let's go: Because He has an exquisite taste his demeanor like to be conceited and the peoples starting aloof the the interests and belittling his work.


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December marks the end of Peace of Heart Choir's fall rehearsal and Community Concert season, culminating in the Winter Fundraising Concert on Sunday, December 18. The concert's theme is "Season of Love" and will feature more than a dozen songs celebrating winter holidays and sentiments of love and peace. As an all-volunteer choir, the week before the big show requires all members to participate in preparations beyond their regular musical rehearsals.
Spreading the Word
Early in the season, members create, print, and distribute flyers, but much of the later outreach happens online. TheFacebook page admins have been sharing music video teasers of songs in this season's repertoire: California Dreamin by The Mamas & The Papas; Seasons of Love from the Broadway musical Rent; and The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting....) sung by Nat King Cole.
"I've invited every one of my Facebook friends," shared Robert Hornsby, a POHC Baritone and Communications Coordinator. "Even if they can't make it, it's good to hear from them." It is also good to hear from friends and alumni of POHC. Shakti, a former POHC Alto, posted "Turn it out y'all! xoxo" on the Facebook page and Jane, a former POHC Soprano and Steering Committee Chair posted, "[Seasons of Love] brings me back! Break a leg! xx."
Behind the scenes, POHC members make use of their many non-singing talents. Writers and editors finalize and print the program. Marv, a POHC Bass and Assistant Treasurer, facilitates last-minute ticket sales. Wilfred, a POHC Tenor and composer of a new song, Peace of Heart Choir, debuting on Sunday, directs a rehearsal of members who will be introducing songs during the performance. Board members gather supplies for the intermission bake sale. Every member must do their part at home, from selecting a performance uniform to putting their music in performance order. And POHC Steering Committee Chair and Bass Larry Hurst reminds members of one last detail in a pre-concert email: "Have a good nights sleep Saturday!!!"
Community Concerts
One goal of Sunday's concert is to raise the money necessary to further the POHC's mission of promoting peace, healing and community through music. The free Community Concerts are where POHC really shines, so what better way to spend a pre-concert afternoon than doing what they do best? POHC members will head to Manhattan's Lower East Side to perform for and visit with residents and staff at Barrier Free Living, an accessible residence and community center.
The Music
POHC Musical Facilitator Robert René Galván has been tirelessly rehearsing with the group every Thursday, at additional sectional rehearsals during weeknights, and at a long Sunday rehearsal in November. POHC Soprano Patricia Young, currently a non-singing member, visited the long November rehearsal and was "really impressed" by what she heard. "It was really more than just the sound that was impressive. It was a feeling. The Choir performed Seasons of Love for me and I was blown away. Honestly, that's not a favorite song of mine--I've never seen Rent so I really only know the song from played-out commercials--but the expression of emotion was so sincere, so real, it invigorated the song with new life."
After months of rehearsals, POHC members have their own favorite songs from the season's repertoire. "My favorite songs this season are Wongolo and Amani," shared Nancy Gross, POHC Soprano. "I love the fact that Wongolo is such a complex piece with its change of time signatures and the exquisite harmony." Another fan of the Haitian folk song Wongolo is POHC Baritone Barry Weiss. "When I hear perfect harmony, balanced moving tones, and a sense of really communicating the words of the song...I get a rush of exhilaration that makes me bask in our collected momentary triumph...Wongolo is the song that does it most for me this season."
Support POHC in celebrating a "Season of Love" tomorrow and find a new favorite song that will do it for you this season.


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They say there's rules to fashion. They say you can't do certain things. There is a professional way to dress when you're a professional.
Hm. there is also a giant empty field where i grow my fucks. Guess i forgot to water them this year. If you want to wear slouchy overalls and drop one shoulder... you know what to do.
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I'm sorry to return to a subject that I've already dealt with and that might appear a little parochial. It does raise an important issue beyond the personality involved or his politics, however. With this post, I want to place a marker of that importance with a few additional observations, and then leave the matter.
It would be fair to say that Neil Clark is a writer known more for the distinctiveness of his standpoint than of his prose. He is an occasional contributor to quite a wide spread of publications (wider than I have written for, at least), usually to insist that Slobodan Milosevic is a wronged party - a 'prisoner of conscience', in fact. It is, on the face of it, remarkable to find a convinced, as opposed to deliberately perverse, advocate of the proposition that Milosevic is on trial at the Hague for what he believes rather than what he has done. I know, at second hand, a little of the dilemmas of editors of the opinion pages in seeking to generate readers' interest, and can understand why Mr Clark's contributions would appeal in some circumstances.
Mr Clark has on several occasions advanced his opinions on foreign policy, and the Balkans in particular, by asserting a wartime link between the late Bosnian President Alia Izetbegovic (who would then have been in his teens) and the SS. I have cited three instances of that claim: in The Guardian, The New Statesman and, most recent, The Daily Telegraph (the last, as it happens, in a review of my book).
As I explained yesterday, a historian of the Balkans, Marko Attila Hoare, was unable to locate the source for that claim in primary material or the scholarly literature. I have found Clark's source, however, in a different place altogether: the output of an obscure US organisation, called the International Strategic Studies Association, that in 2003 accused the UN principal deputy high representative in Bosnia Herzegovina of "forc[ing] Bosnian Serb elected officials to sign a fraudulent document accepting the official version of events in Srebrenica".
I submitted that Clark had claimed "the Institute of Strategic Studies Organisation" as his source – in which case, as the International Institute for Strategic Studies is an authoritative organisation in security policy, his readers or listeners would have been impressed. The IISS, however, has not made such a claim, or at least not to my knowledge or Clark's. I suspect Clark was just unfamiliar with the territory, with the gulf between an organisation such as the IISS and the ones whose publications he follows, and with the significance of his confusion.
My friends at Harry's Place and others have since asked Clark directly whether my identification of his claimed and actual sources is correct. As I understand it, he prefers not to answer. That is his prerogative, but I know the answer, and Clark knows that I know. Nothing is more important in recent historical disputes over the Bosnian war than doing justice and honour to its victims. But the provenance of Clark's assertions as published in leading British newspapers, and what he has claimed about that provenance, are not trivial matters.


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How does the science behind Venus Freeze work?
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Skin tightening, wrinkle reduction and cellulite reduction occur because the multi-polar radio frequency causes a thermal response in the tissue which activates the body`s natural healing response. That healing response causes new collagen to form, new elastin fibers and the production of fibroblasts to increase. The existing collagen in the skin contracts (this causes the skin to look and feel firmer) and the elastin fibers unravel (which makes the skin more elastic).
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Is everyone a good candidate for Venus Freeze?
Yes, unless there is a contraindication which your technician has advised you otherwise. Realistic expectations and a desire to look better are all you need.
What makes Venus Freeze different from other treatments?
Venus Freeze is the only treatment that offers superior clinical results without any pain or discomfort whatsoever, and with literally no downtime. That means that you can go back to work right after your treatment looking as beautiful as you feel.
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Hey guys! This weekend I was in Stockholm taking a fast course in project management.It was super fun, Im thinking about organizing an event so this course is going to come in handy. These couple of days have been pretty busy so thats why I've been away from the blog... Im going try my best to keep everything in order so I can do everything on my to-do list including blogging.
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I can say, without hesitation, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics rocked my socks.
I drank for two weeks straight. I stayed up late for two weeks straight. I waited in lines for two weeks straight. And I got swept up in the Olympic movement in a big way.
It has been almost a full week since the Games ended and Vancouver may never feel the same to me again. For two weeks, this city was electric. The energy was palpable and everyone was kind and good-spirited. Now, back to normal. Ugh, I hate normal.
Some general impressions:
- The Integrated Security Unit was amazing. I am generally not a big fan of cops, because they are big and intimidating, and I'm often drunk in public, but these guys were amazing. Not once were they menacing or intrusive, from what I saw. All I saw was them acting as crowd control - with my best interests in mind.
- Holy bridge & tunnel. I feel so elitist, but Granville Street was easily the least amusing place to be in the world - each day was like a normal Friday night. It was full of stereotypicals from the nethers. I'm not going to be derogatory, so I will stop there.
- I want to become an Olympic gypsy. I want to go to Sochi and work there for four years. I am in love with this feeling of community and enthusiasm. It is intoxicating, and I am generally the most cynical person around. I received several comments on how my demeanor was so out of character. It kinda was.
- I was surprised with how enthralled I got with the sports. Going in, I really didn't care about the 'sport' of it all, I was all about the parties, but after a couple of days, I was watching them quite a bit. The thing that amazes me are the storylines these athletes play out - I can't even read Joannie Rochette's name without welling up. Fuck - it's happening again.
- I became an emotional mess. From Joannie to ever news montage with sappy music to every damn player profile. Ugh, I was constantly tearing up. Stupid emotions getting the best of me.
I will go into greater detail, I promise, but I wanted to leave you with this:
Me and an actual gold medal around my neck. Not with plastic around it, or a show medal, but one that was handed to an Olympic champion.
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Ermine Coat - Parking Lots
Ermine Coat's Alex Griffin is a depressed, sea-sick Kirby. He doesn't so much copy and synthesise his influences into a cohesive whole like James Murphy became famous for doing. Rather, being a talented writer and critic as well as musician, he absorbs the culture that he immerses himself in, regardless of its origin or meaning, before regurgitating it out in a spew of angry, confused, vertigo-inducing bile. On one track Spandau Ballet's 'True' is interpolated as a confused and rambling almost break-up song, marked by dissonant guitar and synth lines (which I believe may be the microkorg patches credited to the local Krautrocker Mitchell Freeway, but I could be wrong) and double-tracked vocals.
The music that results recreates not just Griffin's direct influences, but also peripheral cultural events and signifiers, as an illness: Listening to Ermine Coat's second LP, the recently released Parking Lots, may be to feel a mental illness that results in a physical illness that causes one's stomach and intestines to contort in uncomfortable shapes.
Not that this is a criticism, it feels like an intention. Griffin's first album, LP from 2011, was a strong but often rote callback to the distorted fuzz-pop of early Pavement and Guided By Voices. Parking Lots is a more complete and well-conceived whole, a product that completely represents the contradictions, divergent tastes and psychological make-up of its creator. That Perth is privy to a songwriter of this amount of volatility and idiosyncracy should be celebrated, something often only observed in the outsider pop scenes of places like Portland, Berlin or London.
There's still marked room for improvement, particularly with electronic instrumentation and sampling, fields that Griffin hasn't yet reached mastery in, but these efforts are at least interesting. 'Eternal McDonalds' is the best of these. The sample of that father of two who somehow got celebrated for calling a few young girls sluts (and possibly taking fire at this society-celebrated sexism), has been metamorphosed into a mess of electronic noise-vomit. The whole thing was made on an 8-track; Parking Lots comes across as a reflection on absorbing and understanding the mass of inane information people sieve through in the Tumblr age from the perspective of someone who hasn't quite gotten over his love for the technology and knowledge of his youth.
Parking Lots is an important album, at least as far as Perth music is concerned, precisely because it inspires thought bubbles in those listening to it (or at least in me idk bout you). Although thankfully it's not just a gathering place for critical discussion and self-reflection. There are a string of great pop tracks anchoring the top of the experimental album (strangely, not unlike Kanye's Yeezus), notably 'Hillary Clinton', in which the coda "there's no pretty white girls wearing lace on the riverbank" will circle over and over in your mind, and 'Masking Tape', which is supported with a super-8 video by local musician and film technician Adem K (of Turnstyle and Community Chest fame) that you can watch below.
It's gotta be said, if this is an experiment then it was a successful one, and not by accident either. If you have any interest in local music or outsider pop, this record, if not essential, will at least expand your understanding of either/or.
Be sure to check out Ermine Coat's bandcamp here, where you can purchase the tunes.
8.0 out of 10 Ermine Fur Coats


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You may listen to Mother Takacs's sermon here.
There are a few things that the rector enjoys teasing me about. He teases me that my cassock is too short, which he sees as some sort of low-church shortcoming of my education at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary of Virginia. He teases me because when the temperature dips below 65 degrees I start showing up to work in sweaters. Most recently, he teases me because a few months ago I converted to a standing desk in my office. Some of you have seen this – I have my computer monitor and keyboard up on a shelf so that I can stand while I work at my computer. This is actually a pretty hip trend in office ergonomics – the human body, experts tell us, is not designed to sit in a desk chair all day long week after week. Standing up, even if standing still, is better for you.
I enjoy my standing desk. It's been much better for my back, for sure, and it helps me to feel a little more engaged, more active, even if what I'm doing are mostly mental exercises. The rector thinks that I am insane. But what he doesn't know is that if I had my druthers, I would replace the anti-fatigue mat that I stand on with a small, low-speed treadmill. Because those same experts that tell us that standing is better than sitting also tell us that walking is better than standing, not only better for your body but better for your brain. Walking, even very, very slowly, increases blood flow, feeds your brain with delicious oxygen, thereby stimulating creative thinking, aiding your ability to make connections and reach conclusions, and helping with problem solving. If you're stuck, experts tell us, go for a walk. It doesn't just clear your head; it actually fills it up.
Jesus must have known this. He was always walking and doing something else at the same time – walking and talking, walking and teaching, walking and telling stories or posing questions or making prophecies. As they were going along the way, we read again and again in scripture, Jesus said, or Jesus asked them, or Jesus began to teach them. Sure we have the Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain, but there are also dozens of little sermons on the road.
Today's Gospel is a prime example of this. These two followers of Jesus leave Jerusalem on Easter morning and decide to go for a walk. They head off to Emmaus with no apparent purpose in mind except to get moving and to get out of Dodge. And while they are walking and talking, the resurrected Christ comes up beside them and begins to walk along with them. Now, as we know, this resurrected Christ is not exactly like the Jesus they followed before. He seems to have the ability to transcend the laws of natural physics; he shows up out of nowhere and disappears again just as quickly. And there is something about him that makes it difficult for people to know him when they see him, something about his body that makes it difficult to recognize – perhaps, most obviously, that it is miraculously, surprisingly, not dead.
So if Jesus could show up anywhere at any time, he could have chosen to show up once these two travelers had gotten to where they were going. He could have taken the afternoon off, spent some more time with the Marys, put his feet up and enjoyed the sunny Sunday, and then popped up in Emmaus later. He could have knocked on the door, said, Hail, Cleopas, and…other guy, I am a poor wayfaring stranger, who suspects that you might be about to eat dinner. He could have talked to them about the events in Jerusalem, offered his refresher course on Moses and the prophets, all while they were setting an extra place at the table and still had plenty of time to take, bless, break, and hand over the bread. He still could have accomplished his purpose – to reveal himself to these two disciples in the act of breaking bread and send them scurrying along their way back to Jerusalem.
But Jesus doesn't do this. Instead, he chooses to go out for a walk. He shows up along the road and uses the walk to teach, to ask questions, to begin the process of helping these two followers to see the truth of that wild Easter morning. For Jesus knows the power of walking. He knows the power of getting out there and moving. He knows that these disciples will do better with all of this if they're walking, that they'll make stronger connections, see the truth more clearly, love him more dearly. He knows that their hearts and minds will be more open, more alive, more energized if they're walking. When they stop and stand still, looking sad, as they tell him of their lost best hope, Jesus gets them moving again, asking them questions, offering them new possibilities. He knows the power of walking, a power so great that it doesn't apparently even matter where you're going. The disciples are headed to Emmaus, and Jesus walks right along with them, even though he knows that they are going to end up running right back in the opposite direction and that all of this is essentially a fourteen mile round trip out of the way. But that's okay. Because they're walking, and the walking makes all the difference.
The disciples knew the Lord Jesus in the breaking of the bread. We know this to be true – the moment when Jesus reenacts the Last Supper for these two disciples is the moment when their eyes are opened, when they see that he is the Lord, the risen one, Jesus new and in the flesh. And we know that we, too, pray for our eyes to be opened to see Jesus in this way. It is the prayer that we pray in the sacristy before Mass every day – "Be present, be present, O Jesus, our great high priest, as you were present with the disciples, and be known to us in the breaking of the bread." It is a good prayer, a reminder of the importance of kneeling here at this altar and knowing that Christ is present here and that what is put into your hands and into your mouths is, as one of my teachers used to say, the miraculous condensation of that presence, made real, touchable and tasteable for you and for me. This morning and again this afternoon at Benediction we are powerfully reminded of the gift that is this bread broken for us, a holy food, worthy of not only our gratitude but also our humble adoration.
But we know we cannot stay on our knees forever. At some point we must rise up and walk, especially during those times when you and I can get a little stuck. We get stuck in our faith, in our discipleship. We get a kind of followers block. So what is the best thing to do? Go for a walk. And I don't just mean go for a walk to church, although that's always a good idea. I mean just get out and go for a walk.
You can walk with a particular destination in mind – walk to the store to buy ingredients so you can make soup for the soup bowl, walk to choir practice so that you can offer your voice in praise, walk to see a holy person or a holy place, walk to the St. James School to mentor a student or to a neighbor's house to check in on them after their surgery. You can walk with a particular motivation in mind – walk to raise money to support breast cancer research or to raise awareness about hunger or domestic violence or sex trafficking. You can walk in protest, like those who demand action about the horrible kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria, or the assurance of a reasonable wage for all employees in this country, or the fair treatment and respect for all of those who are incarcerated.
Or you can just walk, without aim or direction but with mindfulness and intent. You can walk the streets of Philadelphia without your iPod-induced soundscape* and talk with Jesus about what you see there. What can I do for those who suffer from addictions? How can I help those who experience homelessness? How can I pray for those who rush by me looking stressed and overworked and anxious? How can I care for Creation here in this place? How can I share my joy, my smile, my eyes, my story? How can I tell those I see all around me that my heart is burning within me, that Christ is risen?
It doesn't really matter where we're going when we do this kind of walking, and we may end up somewhere we completely did not expect. We may even end up backtracking and ending up in the place where we started, perhaps, in T.S. Eliot's words, "to know the place for the first time."** So come and know Christ revealed here in this broken bread, but then rise up and walk. Go find your faith with your feet. And don't be surprised to see Jesus, who is himself the way, fall in beside you along the road, happy, as ever to share in your walk.
Preached by Mother Erika Takacs
4 May 2014
Saint Mark's Church, Philadelphia
*This suggestion taken from an article on the BBC website about the UK's National Month of Walking.
**From Eliot's "Little Gidding."


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September 1, 2016
I stumbled on this project completely by accident. At first, the idea of participating was out of the question. As a pre-op and pre-HRT transwoman, the thought of being photographed without clothes or makeup did not seem an option. In perusing some of the other models' photos, however, I noticed both great power and a beautiful serenity in them. The fact that the subjects were naked seemed not to matter at all in light of this power and serenity. I began to see that Anastasia had the ability to capture her subjects' identities and to allow them to be expressed in a way that clothing, makeup, and prosthetic breasts cannot convey.
When I met Anastasia, I was immediately at ease. We had never met before, but it seemed as if we were old friends. We talked at length as we drank tea and ate an amazing plantain and egg dish that is now a regular part of my diet. After such an in depth discussion, there was nothing embarrassing or awkward about removing my clothes. It seemed not only logical but necessary, and I was completely at ease. Our conversation continued uninterrupted as she began photographing. Some of the photos were taken while I was playing the piano, though the piano itself cannot be seen. Anastasia and I agreed that these were the ones in which my femininity was most apparent.
By the end of the session, I felt as if 20 or 30 photos had been taken and was shocked to learn that there well over 100. Viewing them brought tears to my eyes. I am someone who never leaves the house without concealer and foundation, and I'm self-conscious if I'm without eye makeup. Yet there I was with no clothes, no makeup, no breasts, and a completely shaved body. I was me at my core. And I was beautiful.Read More


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Join us Sunday, April 27, for MILONGA VIVISUR! In the iconic Convention Hall in Asbury Park! 2-5pm, join us!
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Join us Saturday, April 12, 2014, at Milonga Viviana! Featuring the fantabulous Cyrena Drusine y Alejandro Zacco! Pre-milonga lesson kicks off at 8pm!
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April 2014 Milongas at Tango Pantera!
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The study of the main components of our Galaxy (Disks, Halo, Bulge, Clusters) is of the uttermost importance to understand the formation and evolution of external galaxies. It is only in our Galaxy that the properties of the different components can be studied in great detail.
Observations of the chemical and kinematical properties of samples of stars belonging to halo and thick disk, the discovery of extremely metal poor stars, the detailed study of Globular clusters, allow to define the properties of the oldest galactic populations and the different merging and accretion processes that affected our Galaxy during its evolution. This include the derivation of accurate age and metallicity for stars and globular clusters and the study of the role of stellar internal mixing from anomalous chemical compositions. The discovery of multiple populations in Globular Clusters represents a key ingredient fot the definition of their formation and evolution.
The Galactic Bulge has been studied by dedicated observational projects, aiming to derive the age distribution and metallicity of its stars. Other research activities are dedicated to the global morphology of the Milky Way from stellar counts and on the study of the extinctions on different lines of sight, to constrain the dust properties in our galaxy.
Population synthesis method allows to define the large scale properties of the Galactic stellar populations, from color-magnitude diagrams and from kinematic data. The stars distribution on the CMD carries the signature of the Star Formation History; their position and kinematics trace the dynamical evolution. This information is combined in a simulator, used as a tool to recover the structure and evolution of the Milky Way.
Simulations of stellar counts in any position of the sky can be obtained interactively with the tTRILEGALool at OAPd. The simulator, which includes a wide variety of photometric systems, can be used both to interpret existing data sets, and to design future surveys. In fact, it is being applied to the data from the SDSS-III Survey, in which the OAPd is involved.
A more sophisticated version of the Padova Galaxy Model including the kinematics of the disks and the halo is also developed.
The ESA cornerstone mission Gaia (launch 2013) will allow an unprecedented view of the formation and evolution of our Galaxy, giving the phase space distribution and metallicity for a billion stars. Padova has a important management responsibilities on the DPAC, the international consortium of over 400 scientists that will process the Gaia data. Padova contribution is mainly focused on the problem of deriving the stellar astrophysical parameters that will be part of the final Gaia catalog.
Gaia has limited spectroscopic capabilities, allowing the derivation of chemical abundances and radial velocities only for bright start ( G< 11 e G< 16 respectively). To complement Gaia measures, a 300-author team proposed the Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey to ESO and was granted of 300 nights. The survey will derive metallicity and radial velocities up to G=19, for field stars and for open clusters, using FLAMES (GIRAFFE and UVES) on the VLT, to obstain an homogeneous study of all Galactic stellar populations. Padova Observatory is one of the leading Institutes in this project (with Firenze and Bologna).
The OAPd is involved in the RAVE survey, that secured spectra of bright high galactic latitude stars in the same wavelength region studied with GAIA. The main objective of the survey is to derive radial velocities and chemical abundances. Researchers at the Observatory are responsible for the data extraction and calibration, and for the validation of the derived atmospheric parameters via the acquisition and analysis of NTT and AAT data.
A sample of Red Clump Stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue is the target of the ARCS spectroscopic survey, conducted at the Asiago telescope. Coupling the astrometric, kinematic and photometric information will provide important clues for studies of the galactic structure and dynamics. This, and other researches benefit from the development of a library of synthetic stellar spectra covering the wavelength range from 2500 to 10500 A and with various values of the spectral resolution. This library constitutes the reference data base for the automated analysis of spectral surveys.


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Meandering - Summer Rest/
"Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest; yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest." Psalm 55:6-8
Summer vacations and getaways can be just the answer for those who are worn out, exhausted from work, overwhelmed and burnt-out, simply wanting to 'fly away and be at rest', as the Psalmist expressed. So many head out, taking advantage of our all-too short season of warmer weather, in search of rest and repose on a sunny beach, lake-view cottage, lush golf course, secluded cabin in the woods, a thrilling theme park, or an unhurried window-shopping stroll along a harbour promenade, and the like.
Recreational diversions and efforts to empty ourselves of anxiety and stress are good. We need to be careful, however, of what we then fill up with in order to feel recharged and invigorated when our vacation is over. Too many times we arrive back from holiday feeling more exhausted then when we started. I think that is because we are deceived into looking to activities and material things to provide for us what ultimately only God can give us when it comes to true rest and peace.
In other words, you can no more take a holiday from your spiritual life in Christ, than your physical heart can take a holiday from beating. No doubt your old nature will cry out in protest, claiming that spiritual disciplines such as corporate worship, personal bible time and prayer, are hard work and that you deserve a break from them too. To do so, however, would be counter-productive if what you're looking for is real rest.
I do hope and pray that you are able to take a break from the monotony of the daily grind, strenuous shift work, business deadlines, and the never-ending to-do-lists. At the same time, as you empty yourself of all the stress, be sure to draw even closer to Jesus. Commune with him in the cool of the early morning, while laughing hysterically in praise to God for good fun as you are pulled behind the powerboat, and sitting around enjoying the glow of a campfire with family and friends at the end of the day.
"The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied." Proverbs 19:23
"My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Exodus 33:14
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
Thanks for meandering along with me,
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About CRCA Racing
Century Road Club Association is the leading race promoter in New York City hosting nearly two dozen races throughout the course of the year across a variety of disciplines including criteriums, road races and circuit races.
All inquires regarding the CRCA Club Series should be directed to the Vice President of Racing while Open Racing questions should go to the Director of Open Racing.
Jump to Central Park Protocol for Cycling and Training
Racing with CRCA
The Club's race events run from March until September and span two categories of races:
- CRCA Club Race Series - the CRCA Club Race Series is available for all CRCA racing, season pass, and donor members. Season pass membership is available for $100 at early discount prices and includes registration for all 12 races. The CRCA Club Series features several season long competitions including the prestigious Jim Boyd Cup and the CRCA Team Cup. You must be a racing member of CRCA to participate in this series and the associated competitions.
- CRCA Open Races - CRCA Open Races include some of the most well attended races in the tri-state area and are open to all cyclists who register in advance via Bikereg. There is no day of registration for any CRCA open races. Open race formats range from circuit races in Central Park to a number of criteriums to Bear Mountain Classic's road race format.
- Development Events - CRCA also hosts a number of Development focused races and clinics that are open to non-CRCA Members. The Women's Development Series features numerous races in Central Park as well as fields at CRCA Open Races. The Club also hosts two New Racer Clinics for Women in Central Park and one for Men.
Race Results, Standings And Other Resources
Results and Standings for CRCA Club Races and CRCA Competitions are published under Results & Standings in the Membership section of the website. Results for CRCA Open Races are published directly to USA Cycling. For the Women's Development Series please visit the Series Page at the left for the latest standings.
Central Park Protocol for Cycling and Training
Racing in Central Park is a privilege granted through our long-term partnership and collaboration with NYC Parks and the Central Park Conservancy.
Please be sure you are familiar with the below at all times, when riding/racing in Central Park:
- Cyclists are subject to all laws, rules and regulations governing Central Park at all times and shall act accordingly when using the Park.
- Training rides should be limited to times when the Park is least crowded (i.e., weekdays before 8am and after 8pm/6pm in winter).
- Group training rides should be kept small (12 people max as of 2017) and take into account proximate Park user traffic.
- Cyclists shall employ caution and common sense when approaching crosswalks and signal lights.
- Cyclists shall always yield to pedestrians, regardless of whether they are in a crosswalk. The safety of pedestrians is paramount at all times.
- Cyclists shall ride predictably at a speed appropriate to the circumstances - safe for the density of Park user traffic.
- Cyclists should be extra vigilant throughout the south section of the Park, from West 72nd Street around to the bottom of Cat's Paw Hill north of the Boathouse, in order to maintain safety through this narrow and congested area.
- In general, slower cyclists should stay left and faster cyclists should pass on the right when safe to do so. No cyclist may ride in the runner's lane at any time. When passing any park users, allow several feet of clearance.
- Cyclists shall employ front and rear lights before dawn and after dusk. #10 - Cyclists shall carry valid identification.
- Cyclists should be alert, courteous and aware that the park is full of tourists and locals who do not know the rules. Understanding that all cyclists are subject to rules and regulations affecting Central Park at all times, the following groups agree to educate their constituents to abide this Protocol.


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DreamWorks and Working Title Films are teaming for a new adaptation of Daphne DuMaurier's classic psychological noir thriller "Rebecca" reports Showblitz.
The book was previously adapted in 1940 as the first American film by then rising young director Alfred Hitchcock – it went on to score a Best Picture and Best Cinematography Oscar win along with nine other nominations. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson starred.
"Eastern Promises" scribe Steven Knight will go back to DuMaurier's original novel which follows an American woman who marries a 40-something widower Maximillian de Winter after a whirlwind romance and moves into his rambling mansion Manderley.
Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, was profoundly devoted to Max's first wife Rebecca and continuously psychologically undermines her 'replacement'. At the same time divers discover the remains of Rebecca's boat and the truth about her relationship with Max and her death begin to emerge.
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Today starts the Kansas Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative Summit. In the video above from yesterday's podcast (you can also download the episode below), I give a preview of the meeting. Last night, there was a really fun tweet up at a local restaurant. I got to meet people from across the medical spectrum incliuding health professionals, patients, tech people, etc. Again, thanks to the Kansas PCMHI folks for the invite to attend.
What I'll be looking forward to hearing today are stories about how Kansas is delivering high quality health care, and a cheaper price, wiith higher patient satisfaction. Another aspect that is exciting to me is the use of technology during this meeting - especially social media. Did you know that this meeting is totally paperless - even no name tags? Wow. That'll be a really interesting dynamic to see how that works out.
We'll be tweeting out during the meeting using the hashtag #pcmh. I'll also be posting to the Family Mediicne Rocks facebook page, as well as my Google Plus account. I'm also going to try to use the coveritlive technology to try to capture the #pcmh tweets below. This is really going to be fun today & tomorrow!


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Cell USA Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
The unlocking service we offer allows you to use any network suppliers SIM card in your SAMSUNG Galaxy S6 Edge. Such gadgets have lower ASPs and earn Samsung a lot much less cash per unit offered, even when the corporate's gross margin is similar across its product strains. Waterproofing was added with the Galaxy S5, which also provided USB three.zero. The S6 jettisoned the detachable battery , chucked the SD card slot, canceled the waterproofing, and went for USB 2.zero as an alternative of the sooner transfer standard. The Edge" that Samsung touted and that buyers apparently wished to purchase isn't really that helpful. The S6 Edge lacks this functionality and Samsung has struggled to outline a stand-out characteristic for the gadget's unique display screen.
While unlocking was previously at finest a tedious course of – and at worst, unattainable – the introduction of the CTIA's Shopper Code for Wi-fi Service , and some FCC robust-arming, means it ought to be a lot simpler to free your device from a selected community. When you're a Verizon customer with a Verizon-purchased system, you could be wondering what it's essential to do to take your tech to a competing carrier. Thankfully, and surprisingly, Verizon has the most relaxed unlocking policy of the big 4 carriers, as a result of the corporate would not actually lock the vast majority of its smartphones.
I'm undoubtedly proud of Samsung and can be buying on April tenth so as to add to my Galaxy Word 3, Note4, and GearS. In case you say samsung copied apple on the sd card slot, speaker position, design etc. And so on keep in mind there are planty of phones who did those things first why you only say samsung copied apple. It's essential to not use this firmware for some other Android Cell Phone other than the Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920T) or Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (SM-G925T) from T-Mobile USA. This is mirrored within the working profit figures for Samsung's mobile division.
After splitting with Qualcomm, reportedly over fears that the Snapdragon 810 chipset was overheating in some units, Samsung decided to use its own Exynos 7420 processor for the S6 Edge release in the west. Whether this was a very good factor for performance or not, I am pleased to report that the S6 Edge suffered no overheating issues all through my time with the device, even after working an intensive performance take a look at for 30 minutes. The graphical capabilities of the Galaxy S6 Edge are outstanding, it's solely disappointing that few apps and video games can make full use of such energy but. Samsung has optimized its own image processing expertise to ensure that photographs and videos taken in darkish environments to look higher than ever before.
Samsung has achieved away with these options on both the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, and despite a mass of complaints, the lack of expandable storage and swappable battery would not appears so vital to us. There are plenty of on-line storage options out there to customers now, and Samsung has included some excellent charging solutions to pacify followers (extra on this later).
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Podcast In A Half Shell Episode 20: It's Not A Musical
Nov 14th, 2017
Well, delightful listener types; this is it! The last(ish) episode of Podcast In A Half Shell! (For now!) For some reason I still can't quite fathom, we decided to check out the 1hr 33min ABSOLUTE TRAVESTY that is the Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour... I mean... I just... IT'S SO BAD. Join Duncan and I as we muse over the state of The Shredder, whether or not Kip The Entirely Irrelvant News Dude is dead, and how many childrean actually wanted to hear Splinter sing a ballad about skipping stones on a lake... All this, plus I'm sitting on a squeaky chair and Duncan won't shut up about Ball Fondlers! Enjoy!


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Ideally, singing competitions like NBC's The Voice offer undiscovered contestants the chance to become almost famous. But in season 5, which began on Monday, we're seeing contestants who are already famous.
During last night's blind auditions, E.G. Daily — the voice of Rugrats' Tommy Pickles, a sometime movie actress (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), and a singer with a top 10 hit (1987's "Mind Over Matter") — competed for a second chance at a music career. And during Monday's premiere, host Carson Daly told Briana Cuoco, actress Kaley Cuoco's sister, that she will get to audition in an upcoming episode. (Briana has had small roles on The Big Bang Theory, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and The Newsroom.)
In past seasons, we've seen blind auditions from a slew of semi-famous faces, including Raquel Castro (the daughter in Jersey Girl), Tarralyn Ramsey (VH1's Born to Diva winner), Dia Frampton (of the band Meg & Dia), and American Idol alums Emily Valentine and Frenchie Davis.
Here are five other past Voice contestants who had previous brushes with fame:
1. Tony Lucca, season 2 second runner-up, was a Disney Mouseketeer along with Voice judge Christina Aguilera. Watch him harmonize with JC Chasez on The New Mickey Mouse Club here:
2. Jordan Pruitt, eliminated during the season 3 Battle Round, also had a Disney backstory. She released two albums, No Ordinary Girl (2007) and Permission to Fly (2008), and toured with High School Musical: The Concert.
3. Cassadee Pope, season 3 winner, was the lead singer of pop punk band Hey Monday and appeared in Degrassi Goes Hollywood. Catch a glimpse of her with Pete Wentz here, and watch a Hey Monday video below.
4. Jesse Campbell, season 2 quarterfinalist, was signed to Capitol Records and released his debut album, Never Let You Go, in 1995. Here's one of his singles, "When U Cry, I Cry":
5. The Morgan Twins, eliminated during the season 4 Battle Rounds, appeared on season 2 of American Idol singing Alicia Key's "Fallin'." Ten years later, the duo sang the same song for their Voice audition.
PopWatchers, do you think semi-famous singers should get another chance on The Voice? Let us know in the comments!
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What a way to start your morning! Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were spotted enjoying a breakfast date on Sunday, October 29.
In a photo making its rounds on the Internet the former couple, who dated from 2011 to 2014, can be seen enjoying breakfast at a café in Westlake Village, California.
The pair was completely alone, with not so much as an assistant joining their solo breakfast (according to the photo) date.
The couple's Sunday outing marks the first time the exes have hung out in public in years, but the second known meetup in recent weeks.
Most recently, Justin was photographed arriving to Selena's house last Sunday, where the two reportedly stayed until midnight.
Reports claimed Jelena's get-together at her house was not a secret, and Selena's boyfriend The Weeknd was fully aware of it. Not to mention, sources said the pair was not alone.
However, the new question is, did the "Starboy" singer know about Selena and Justin's solo breakfast date?
The couple has seemingly been at odds as a witness recently told OK! exclusively that both Selena and The Weeknd were in New York City at the same time last week, but stayed in separate locations!
Could the couple be spending some time apart because of Selena's rendezvous with Justin? Sound off in the comments!


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Raise your hand if you've stopped by at a nearby noodle joint. Don't be shy! Those noodle joints are known to make noodles so yummy, it makes you wonder if it is indeed Indomie Noodles you are eating.
Growing up, this was one of my favourite meals. Why? Because it's so quick to put together, in just under 15 minutes you can turn a pack of noodles into something quite exciting.
Here's my noodle recipe, it's spicy, flavoursome and delicious.
Serves 2
2 packets Indomie Noodles (but you can any other brand)
Half, red sweet pepper, chopped
Half, yellow sweet pepper, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
About a teaspoon of ginger, minced
Sichuan spices
1/4 teaspoon Chinese five spice
1/4 teaspoon rice vinegar
1/2 teaspoon light soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon smooth peanut butter
Green chillies to garnish
Put the noodles in boiling water for 3 minutes. Drain with a sieve and set aside. Keep the noodle water in the pan.
In a shallow pan, heat vegetable oil till very hot. You can use a piece of noodles to determine if it's ready.
When it reaches the right temperature, fry a little noodles. Do this carefully as the oil will be very hot.
Fry for a few seconds, it's ready once it floats up. Use a sieve or spoon to transfer to a plate. Set aside.
On a medium heat, drizzle olive oil and fry the peppers and onions for 3 – 5 minutes.
Mince garlic and ginger into a paste using a food processor. Add this to the peppers and fry for 2 minutes. Stirring to ensure it doesn't burn.
Add the noodles and stir fry for 3-5 minutes. Combine the peanut butter, rice vinegar and soy sauce. Pour into the noodles and cook for another 3 minutes.
Using your fingers or a mortar and pestle, crush the crispy fried noodles on top and serve with fresh green chillies.


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Comedian Russell Brand may have raised eyebrows in the past but on the 27th of October, you can join him and other philanthropists in raising money for Friendly House.
The charity, one of the first treatment centers for women recovering from substance abuse, honored Brand in 2011 with their Man of the Year Award following his action against substance abuse when he went into discussion with MPs previously that year.
In October, the charity will host its 23rd Annual Awards Luncheon with Russell Brand acting as Master of Ceremonies and 2 time Oscar nominee Viola Davis being awarded Woman of the Year. The open invitation includes a charity auction and lunch with other guests such as Somner Redstone and Dr Pat Allen.
For your chance to support the charity and mingle with the stars, check out FriendlyHouseLA.org.
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The second Airbus A350-1000 flight test aircraft—the first to be equipped with a full passenger cabin—was displayed Sept. 23 in a new carbon fiber-themed livery outside the manufacturer's paint shop in Toulouse, France.
Air Canada will start daily Montreal Trudeau (YUL)-Shanghai Pudong (PVG) Boeing 787-8 flights from Feb. 16, 2017.
FAA administrator Michael Huerta said FAA is moving quickly to adapt to the demands of new technology, acknowledging that the pace of change is difficult for some in the agency.
Philippine low-cost carrier (LCC) Cebu Pacific Air has taken delivery of the first ATR 72-600 High Capacity aircraft.
Russian aircraft manufacturer Irkut Corp. has applied to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, to begin MC-21 EASA certification.
Rockwell Collins has been selected by Boeing to provide touchscreen flight displays in the cockpits of 777X aircraft.
Chinese flag carrier Air China has signed a wide-reaching partnership agreement with Germany's Lufthansa Group to launch a joint venture (JV) on routes between Europe and China from the 2017 summer schedule. Photo: Air China Ltd. president Song Zhiyong and Lufthansa Group chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr
Portuguese carrier Azores Airlines will lease six new Airbus A321neos—including four A321LR long-range versions—from US lessor Air Lease Corp.
Lagos-based Firstnation Airways resumed flights Sept. 18 after its Airbus A319 fleet was grounded for more than three weeks for maintenance work.
UK leisure airline Jet2 has taken delivery of the first of 30 Boeing 737-800s it has on order.
Airbus Group has inaugurated a main campus in Toulouse-Blagnac for the company's newly established Leadership University.
Spirit Airlines has taken delivery of its first US-produced Airbus A321, making the Florida-based ultra low-cost carrier the third airline to receive an aircraft built at Airbus' Mobile, Alabama manufacturing facility.
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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 1/25/2005 21:45 (Entered as : 01/25/2005 21:45)
Reported: 1/28/2005 5:21:39 AM 05:21
Posted: 2/8/2005
Location: Wellington (New Zealand),
Shape: Light
Duration:20 minutes
|What i thought was a satellite over Porirua, Wellington, increased in speed and made zigzag and circular patterns.
First of all, i am a NZ Customs Officer and a Volunteer Firefighter and take no drugs and had not been drinking at all on the day of this event.
I had returned home from my fire station to find my Grandma, her boyfriend, my cousin, his wife, and my uncle watching a satellite fly across the night sky. There were minimal clouds and a full moon. The moon was on the horizon towards the North-East of the sky and the satellite was approximately five vertical fists-lengths above the moon.
The satellite was flying North to South at what appeared to be a normal speed compared to other satellites I had seen.
All of a sudden the satellite stopped and started flying upwards into the sky, all six of us were amazed and convinced ourselves that it was the international space-station and that it was just changing direction.
But then it stopped again, and then rapidly increased its speed, flying in zig-zag and circle patterns. It then appeared to dim and brighten every few seconds, i suspected that it was flying up and down, altering its altitude.
I managed to get two photographs taken with my digital camera, in night mode so the shutter was left open for a second or two. and also 8 seconds of video footage with the same camera. The object can be seen moving in a circular pattern in both the time lapse pics, and the video. However a skeptic could explain them as me moving the camera around while filming a bright star. I think not.
I went inside to call a friend and when i returned it had disappeared.


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Teresa Hutcheson
Church Secretary
Clarion University and Wilson College
Millersville State College
Work Experience
Derry Presbyterian Church, 1998 -
Three Mile Island
Day Care Director and Preschool Teacher
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Favorite Book/Music/Movie
Book: The Bible; Max Lucado books, and fiction
Music: Classical, Jazz, Swing, Country and Gospel
Movies: Legally Blonde (1 and 2), Color Purple, Flashdance, Coming to America, Steel Magnolias
Favorite Scripture
Philippians 4
1 Corinthians 13
Psalm 34
What I like best about Derry Church
Working here and being able to help people.
Sharing God with others.
Talking to and getting to know members and friends of Derry Church.
Participating in the music program and worship, as well as other activities.
In my free time, I like to…
Spend time with my grandchildren and family, read, play piano and handbells, walk.
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Little is known about the joint mental health effects of air pollution and tobacco smoking in low- and middle-income countries.
To investigate the effects of exposure to ambient fine particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) and smoking and their combined (interactive) effects on depression.
Multilevel logistic regression analysis of baseline data of a prospective cohort study (n=41785). The 3-year average concentrations of PM2.5 were estimated using US National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite data, and depression was diagnosed using a standardised questionnaire. Three-level logistic regression models were applied to examine the associations with depression.
The odds ratio (OR) for depression was 1.09 (95% CI 1.01–1.17) per 10 μg/m3 increase in ambient PM2.5, and the association remained after adjusting for potential confounding factors (adjusted OR = 1.10, 95% CI 1.02–1.19). Tobacco smoking (smoking status, frequency, duration and amount) was also significantly associated with depression. There appeared to be a synergistic interaction between ambient PM2.5 and smoking on depression in the additive model, but the interaction was not statistically significant in the multiplicative model.
Our study suggests that exposure to ambient PM2.5 may increase the risk of depression, and smoking may enhance this effect.


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Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight. This is an important article on suicide in the June, 23, 2011 NY Times:
"Marsha M. Linehan, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people, has recently "come out" and described her long struggle with mental illness. This reminds one of Elyn Saks' story and the latter's book, The Center Cannot Hold."
The Times article goes on to say: "[A]n increasing number of [seemingly normal individuals] are risking exposure of their secret, saying that the time is right. The nation's mental health system is a shambles, they say, criminalizing many patients and warehousing some of the most severe in nursing and group homes where they receive care from workers with minimal qualifications."
Read the Times article and perhaps also Elyn Saks excellent book, in addition.
See video of Dr. Linehan from the Times article.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Suicide Prevention
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Main Hospital (Sacramento Campus)
The Department of Radiology provides patient care and resident training in the inpatient and outpatient facilities of the UC Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento, California. Within the hospital is one 16-detector CT unit, two 64-detector CT units, and one dual energy CT scanner. There is currently one 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and two 1.5 Tesla MRI systems. We currently have three recently renovated angiographic suites, four ultrasound examination rooms equipped with state-of-the-art ultrasound units and two additional ultrasound units for portable examinations.
There are two fluoroscopy rooms for gastrointestinal and uroradiology studies, and a well-equipped pediatric fluoroscopy suite. Four radiographic rooms provide in-patient plain films and two dedicated radiographic rooms support the emergency department. The Division of Nuclear Medicine has two whole body SPECT cameras, 3 SPECT/CT cameras, one single head camera and a PET/CT scanner focused on cardiac testing. The Division of Nuclear Medicine also has a thyroid probe for thyroid uptake.
The pleasant and modern surroundings of the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center are dedicated to outpatient imaging. The Ellison Building contains a fully equipped mammographic suite with three new mammographic units, two breast ultrasound units, and a dedicated digital stereotactic breast biopsy unit. Breast imaging services include screening exams, diagnostic workups and biopsy procedures under x-ray, ultrasound or MRI guidance. Six ultrasound rooms contain fully equipped high-resolution computerized sonography units with full color and pulse Doppler capability as well as 3D capability. A high-speed helical CT unit provides the capability for helical CT scanning, CT angiography, and three-dimensional CT. A 1.5 Tesla MRI unit is equipped with state-of-the-art echo-planar hardware and software identical to the in-patient 1.5 Tesla MRI units. The facility also features a brand new 1.5 Tesla wide bore MRI unit that allows for improved patient comfort and access as well as a dedicated 1.0 Tesla MRI extremity scanner. Comprehensive Non-Invasive vascular lab services are offered which include three duplex Ultrasound rooms and one peripheral arterial physiologic room. The facility also features a state of the art PET/CT scanner focusing on Oncology testing. General x-ray services include 6 diagnostic rooms and one fluoroscopic procedure room as well as a DEXA camera for bone density testing.
The Shriner's Children's Hospital, providing orthopedic, burn, and rehabilitation care free of charge for children, is located on the UC Davis Medical Center campus. The Department of Radiology provides all plain film interpretation and specialized radiologic support (CT, MR, Nuclear Med, US) for Shriner's Hospital patients.
The department also provides radiology support for an expanding UC Davis Medical Group, with 13 primary care sites currently in the Sacramento region.
- Auburn
Diagnostic X-Ray and Ultrasound
- Capitol
Diagnostic X-Ray
- Carmichael / Cirtus Heights
Diagnostic X-Ray and Ultrasound
- Davis
Diagnostic X-Ray
- Elk Grove
Diagnostic X-Ray and Ultrasound
- Folsom
Diagnostic X-Ray, Ultrasound and Mammography
- J Street
Diagnostic X-Ray
- Rancho Cordova
Diagnostic X-Ray
- Roseville
Diagnostic X-Ray
- C Street Spine Clinic
Diagnostic X-Ray
Placer Center for Health (Rocklin Campus)
UC Davis Health System offers expanded radiological services for Rocklin, Roseville, Lincoln and south Placer County. The UC Davis Medical Group, Rocklin, located in the new Placer Center for Health, features state-of-the-art equipment and a wide range of imaging procedures. Services are available to both UC Davis Health System patients and to the public at large.
Radiological services at the dignostic imaging center include:
Bone Density
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I can't wait to hear what tgriffith and jgoods think of today's heaping helping of auto news, but since they're both on vacation, I'm going to ask what you think. First, as you've probably heard, GM CEO Rick Wagoner stepped down yesterday, apparently having been asked to do so by the Obama administration's auto task force on Friday, and Fritz Henderson, former COO, will take over. And here are some highlights of a speech Obama delivered this morning:
- President Obama's auto task force rejected the restructuring plans GM and Chrysler submitted to get more bailout money.
- The government will cover GM's operating expenses for 60 days while the automaker drafts a much more aggressive restructuring plan, and Chrysler will get 30 days to fine-tune its plan to partner with Fiat.
- Obama noted that bankruptcy was still a possibility for both companies, but that the government very much wants them to stay in business and will now back both companies' warranties.
- Obama announced a tax incentive for new-car buyers and that he wants to implement a cash-for-clunkers program to encourage the owners of older cars to replace them with newer, more fuel efficient cars.
- Obama appointed a Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, who will provide support to and pursue opportunities for those who've been most impacted by the auto industry's difficulties.
Needless to say, all this news has generated a lot of reaction. Some think Obama went too far by forcing the exit of Wagoner, particularly since Wall Street has offered much less in the way of compromise and collaboration in return for its bailout money. Some think the government bailout of both industries may be the beginning of a march toward socialism. Many are simply alarmed by the amount of money Obama plans to spend saving GM and Chrysler. And some take a simpler, more practical view, pointing out that now may be the best – and perhaps the last – time to buy a new American-made car with a powerful V8 under the hood.
Do you think GM and Chrysler need to be saved? Do you think Obama and the steps he announced today can help save them?
-Steve Halloran


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