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Father Klein
Fr. Leonard R. Klein has been a priest of the Diocese of Wilmington since April 1, 2006.
He has served in the Family Life Bureau and as a hospital chaplain. For five years he was a part-time associate pastor at Immaculate Heart of Mary in North Wilmington. Since February, 2011, he has been administrator of St. Mary's/St. Patrick's in downtown Wilmington, and since June, 2012, also of the Cathedral of St. Peter. He is also Director of Pro-Life Activities for the Dioceses. He is chaplain of the St. Thomas More Society, the guild of Catholic attorneys, and a member of the Board of St. Francis Hospital.
Fr. Klein served for thirty years as a Lutheran pastor in New York City and York, Pennsylvania, before entering the Catholic Church in July, 2003. He is a graduate of Yale College and Divinity School and has studied at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Union Seminary in New York City, and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. He has written articles for a wide range of publications and during the mid-nineties was editor of Lutheran Forum, at the time the largest independent publication in American Lutheranism.
He is married to Christa Ressmeyer, and they are the parents of three children, Maria, Nicholas, and Renate. They have five grandchildren, and one on the way.
The rescript from Rome granting Bishop Michael Saltarelli permission to ordain him was granted ten days into the papacy of Benedict XVI. The request from Bishop Saltarelli had been approved for recommendation to the pope at the last meeting of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith presided over by the then Cardinal Ratzinger.
Rev. John C. McVoy
Assisting Priest
Biography: Fr. John C. McVoy III was ordained to the Priesthood on May 8, 2010 in the "Year of the Priest" by Bishop Francis Malooly D.D
Fr. McVoy is an Environmental /Analytical Chemist and was a Senior Project Manager for more than 25 years. After moving to Wilmington from Tallahassee, FL as part of a corporate move, he worked for URS Corp., contracted by DuPont Engineering in 1998. He began Permanent Diaconate Formation in the Diocese of Wilmington in 2001 and was ordained to the diaconate in September 2004. He and his family quickly became a part of the Sacred Heart Oratory community, in Wilmington, which he still considers his spiritual home.
Fr. McVoy started his priestly formation in a most unusual way. Fr. McVoy is a widower and was married to Bethlhem Kebede, his college sweetheart, for 24 years who died in January 2004. They have three children, Aklecia, 29, Salem 27, and Yohannes (Johnny) 26. Fr. McVoy, also known as Fr. Mac, credits the workings of the Holy Spirit in his entire life that prompted his discernment and his "yes" to the diaconate and then on to priesthood. Fr. Mac also knows that if not for his wife, Bethlhem, he would not be a priest today. In his meeting with Bishop Saltarelli, he said to Fr. McVoy prior to entering the seminary, "the Lord makes a crooked road straight", then he said, "Who am I to say no to you or to your vocation".
Fr. McVoy was born in Paducah, Kentucky. A fifth generation Roman Catholic, he began his sacramental journey at Rosary Chapel. He has a degree in Chemistry from Howard University in Washington DC, with graduate studies in Environmental Toxicology from Florida A&M University, Classical Music from Florida State University in Voice. He entered the seminary in 2006 at Blessed John XXIII National Seminary, in Weston, MA, and earned a M.Div. in the spring of 2010. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Business in Church Management from Villanova University.
Deacon Robert Levesque
*UPDATE* Deacon Bob died April 14, 2018.
I was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on April 26, 1943.


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Sunday, December 16, 2012
2012 Christmas Neighbor Gifts.
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oh girl, I can hardly wait for the recipe!!!!ReplyDelete
How fun, love the tags!!!! can't wait to hear how your parties went this weekend!
Did you actually can the hot fudge? Or do you just put it in the jars and refrigerate it?ReplyDeleteReplies
No canning...don't even know how to do that....yikes! :) Just put them in the jars and refrigerated! easy peasy! xoxoDelete
Marci, they don't sell the round Oh Fudge Tags anymore. Would you happen to have it? Also, how many cans were you able to fill out of one batch of hot fudge? Thanks Marci for all of your wonderful ideas.ReplyDeleteReplies
Darn - I don't have any more tags left! So sorry. Maybe try googling "A Christmas Story" image and creating your own? I honestly can't remember exactly HOW many jars I got but if I had to guess - I'd say about 3 1/2 out of each batch. I believe I quadrupled the recipe.Delete
I second what Robert Lewis asked. So excited to do this. Just wasn't sure how much it makes and how to get the tags. Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey Amanda - see above response! :) Let me know if you have any other questions! xoxoDelete

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Twitter. The place I spend most of my time. Mostly because of procrastination and the rest because of the fascination of what's happening in the world and last week a lot of things happened in the world. We had Shriver's (insensitive drivel) speech, I got to meet authors including Justine Larbalestier, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, twitter saw Yassmin's & Yen- Rong Wong's blog posts, RT'd it, a troll had some words about Indigenous people (in relation to the speech), I responded in the early hours of the morning, then insensitive garbage was directed at me by the troll, they tried to waste my time but left them with a boy bye and lastly, an author was attacked and her book (which is still being edited) was rated by hundreds of trolls, after trolls attacked her on twitter spewing up hate and all that goes with it. Out of all that has happened this week and the last, I'd like to focus on the last incident (as I write about Shriver later on this month).
See guys, I am happy to help authors out who are in need of help, I woke up and saw that a wonderful author, Laura, was being attacked by trolls. So, what do I do? I scroll through her mentions and report as many hateful disgusting accounts as possible, to help. But as I was doing so, as I was helping her out, I realised, that Laura was getting a lot of help. A lot of people and 'big time' authors, some with verified accounts mind you, were coming in, helping, reporting, boosting and all I could think about was "but where were you when Angela was getting trolls?". Some may ask, "What do you mean, 'What about Angela'" and some may even ask "Who is Angela?". I can answer with this. She's a WoC. She is also an author. She was also attacked by trolls but by the masses.
WoC are always targeted on twitter when they speak up, so these trolls were harsh and just down right racist. I saw her attacks because I was there. I saw what we did as a community, I saw how we got that hashtag trending and then I saw most of you go silent when she was being attacked by trolls. Seeing her being attacked was heart breaking. Seeing the difference of the response in the YA book community on twitter was, without a doubt, even more heartbreaking and disappointing.
I saw the difference and many of you have too. I saw the huge amount of support and the preferences we as a community have. I saw how Angela had to give up verification and have her life threatened by multiple white supremacists and racists. I saw more WoC backing her up and more friends doing the same, boosting out "Please report *Angela's* trolls". But I didn't see much of the YA community, the 'big time' authors and the booktubers who've stepped in to help with Laura, say ANYTHING when the trolls were threatening Angela. I saw the YA community just brush her aside, and only really, truly care and come together when Laura was attacked. As I write this, I'm definitely not saying 'Don't help Laura now, make it even' or 'Laura doesn't deserve our help', she certainly does need our help, all I'm saying is 'DO BLOODY BETTER!'. I saw who stepped in. I saw the people who had a voice with Laura's incident but nothing with Angela's and I'm telling you, your silence isn't helping. We had a WoC be viciously attacked whilst the majority of the YA community thought it'd be better to twiddle their thumbs and pretend it wasn't happening.
Like, yeah, it's TOTALLY acceptable if you weren't online and didn't see Angela's trolls, but as a WHOLE COMMUNITY, we failed.
To those who say this, speaking up does not equal to drama. Saying "I miss the old YA twitter community" let's me know that you wished that these WoC stayed quiet. Stayed oppressed. What I say to that is, HELL NAH. I ain't down for that. I'm sick and tired of staying quiet and I bet every other PoC feels the same, especially the WoC who are always attacked.
See guys, the saddest part of this whole thing is that, Angela wasn't and hasn't been the only WoC who's been attacked. What's gets me more upset is that I only ever hear about other incidents days or weeks after they happen because the news gets around slowly but by then the damage has already been done. Can you see why this community has to be better. Why we need to up our game. We're only supportive and effective as a whole when it suits us, when it's easy and when the person isn't a PoC and especially a WoC. I'd like for us to grow together. I want us all to help and especially if the victim is a WoC because they get targeted all the damn time. The reason why I'm writing about this is because this needs to be boosted. This needs to be read. This needs to be known; The online YA Community need to step up and support our authors/readers/bloggers when they're being attacked, especially those who are WoC. We cannot just support those in need when it's just easy.


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Published Date: May 31, 2014
Cisco announces end-of-life and end-of-support for versions 9.0 and 9.1 of Cisco® Jabber for Windows http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/jabber-windows/index.html.
Table 1. Affected Versions
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Release Version
Cisco Jabber for Windows
Client Software Versions 9.0 and 9.1
Support for Affected Product
The table below indicates the timeline for ending sale and support of Jabber for Windows 9.0 and 9.1.
Table 2. End-of-Life Milestones
End-of-life and end-of- support announcement
The date of this notice that announces the end-of-life and end-of-support for Jabber for Windows versions 9.0 and 9.1.
May 31, 2014
End-of-sale date
Jabber for Windows, versions 9.0 and 9.1software downloads will no longer be available to order after this date.
Nov 29, 2014
Last Day of Support
Last day support will be offered for Jabber for Windows 9.0 and 9.1.
Nov 29, 2015
Migration Path
Customers currently using Cisco Jabber for Windows 9.0 or 9.1 are encouraged to update to the latest Cisco Jabber for Windows version. Product information is available at: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/jabber-windows/index.html.
With Cisco Jabber for Windows, you can quickly and easily find people, and see if and how they are available. Collaborate using instant messaging (IM), voice, high-definition video, voice messaging, desktop sharing, and conferencing. See a user's availability and click to initiate communications; chat, voice or video calls, or multiparty conferences.
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● Cisco Jabber for Windows release notes
● Cisco Jabber for Windows data sheet
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When DVD made its debut in 1996, the already marginalized laser disc format took a precipitous dive.
One of the last discs out from MGM through its Image Entertainment deal was this double bill of
interesting American-International pictures from the first half of the 1960s. It's easy to find
public domain graymarket DVDs of The Last Man on Earth but fans of the
fantastic will love the new enhanced 2:35 transfers on these discs. Ironically, they've come out
just in time for the end of MGM as we know it; as I write these words the entire studio has become
the property of Sony Pictures.
Actually, this review is going to be somewhat of a tease for DVD fans as the disc was recalled before
too many copies had been distributed, either through Canadian sales or Best Buy stores in the U.S.
Some online message board customers reported finding misfiled copies on Best Buy store shelves,
rushing with them to the checkout counter - and watching as they were confiscated after coming up
'withdrawn' in the store's computers. What a time for an inventory system to start working properly!
With MGM marketing plans unclear - a half year's worth of DVD scheduling will doubtlessly undergo
some changes by Sony - we don't know when this disc will appear again. Some sources have reported
September as a new release date. (Note: This disc is now available in Region One, as of October 2005.)
One of the key Cold War atom-scare films, Panic in Year Zero! goes the logical next
step beyond On the Beach's simple acknowledgement that the world could be annihilated by a
nuclear war: It attempts to depict actual conditions that might come to pass if the bombs fell.
After a decade of public service films depicting order and optimism after a nuclear exchange,
Panic In Year Zero! tries for a hysterical tone, and would do a lot better if its script and acting
were a bit smoother - the film is just too cheap-looking to last as any kind of classic. Just the same, the
grabber premise is just as gripping now as it was in 1962, when the undertaker living on my street was
building a fallout shelter in his back yard. The Baldwins' station wagon and trailer seem to crisscross the
same two lane roads north of Los Angeles, and the same five or six cars have to suffice to represent a flow
of panicky Angelenos heading for the hills. In one supremely unconvincing setup, the station wagon is
stopped at a rural intersection because of the unbroken flow of traffic zooming by - represented by
mismatched grainy shots taken of an L.A. freeway!
But even if the visuals sag, actor-director Ray Milland keeps the dramatic tension high. Jean
Hagen (Lina Lamont in
Singin' in the Rain) is fine as the
mother slow on accepting the idea that old rules no longer apply and survival is now the name of the game.
Frankie Avalon is unconvincing as a teenager but handles fairly well the business of literally riding
shotgun for his pistol-toting father. As the original Variety review pointed out, sister Mary Mitchel
and pretty refugee Joan Freeman (of Tower of London and Roustabout) share a first for a
mainstream American release - both are raped.
Survivalism as a major industry really didn't start until a little later, with magazines dedicated to helping
one store food and ammo for the impending (desired?) apocalypse. Panic In Year Zero! must have seemed
like a primer to millions of wide-eyed young males wondering what they'd do in a landscape of universal
hostility. There's not too much moral distance from guarding one's own bomb shelter with a shotgun, to the marauding
scavenger-rapists of movies like No Blade of Grass. 2
Harry Baldwin takes advantage of one gas station owner unaware of the crisis. At his next gas stop, a
greedy proprietor tries to enforce his new price - $3 a gallon, up from 34 cents! 3
Harry buys out a greedy grocer (O.Z. Whitehead - good casting) and then is forced to rob decent hardware
retailer Ed Johnson, who figures later in the story as another unfortunate refugee. Honest man Milland holds
a gun on Johnson, a shocking act to see an 'average American father' doing in a 1963 movie. Even more ironic is
the fact that Johnson is played by Richard Garland, the reformed sniper spared by Quaker Gary Cooper in
Friendly Persuasion.
As with most lowbudget AIP filmmaking, Panic In Year Zero! develops its premise only so far and then
wraps things up in a less than satisfactory manner. Most exposition about the atom war is delivered through
the Conelrad radio station (the voice is said to be that of Hugh Marlowe). With all the human scum supposedly
prowling the roads, we're only given a few hints of the kinds of trouble could occur. A township puts up a
roadblock against all outsiders, a credible development with precedent of towns overrun by motorcycle 'clubs'
in the early '50s - the Brando film The Wild One was based on such an incident. But the limitless
possibilities of lawlessness are distilled way down into three punks who murder and rape on a small scale. The
leader is played by perennial Juvenile Delinquent Richard Bakalyan. The Baldwins encounter the hoodlums twice,
and it is inferred that the Baldwins (especially his ravaged daughter) would have been better off had they
executed them on the spot. Jean Hagen ends up counseling not one but two rape victims when they pick up Joan
Freeman's Marilyn Hayes ... who becomes a romantic possibility for young Rick, of course.
The picture ends with at least some hope in the form of harsh martial law. The overall attitude, if Willis
Bouchey's doctor is meant to be a authors' spokesman, is that America needs martial law now. Bouchey
fills the Baldwins in on what's been going on while they were hidden in the hills. It seems that drug addicts
have been running wild! I guess that's the worst thing the writers can think of. I'm sure the atom war was
started by those darn junkies, right?
Panic In Year Zero! scrupulously avoids any scenes requiring more than minimalist production values
yet still delivers on its promise, allowing audience imagination to expand upon the narrow scope of what's
actually on the screen. It sure seemed shocking in 1962, and easily trumped other more pacifistic efforts.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire was
for budding flower people; Panic In Year Zero! might as well have been made as a sales booster
for the gun industry.
MGM's copy of Panic In Year Zero! is a flawless enhanced transfer from prime elements. Half the
enjoyment will be seeing this title in its proper 'scope aspect ratio - I have an old pan-scanned
Orion VHS and it looks simply terrible. The sound track properly replicates Les Baxter's overstated,
blaring soundtrack. The one extra is a trailer with exaggerated text titles in a
font that might be called 'Hysteria.'
In his interview extra, author Richard Matheson explains that the screenplay adaptation of his frightening
book I Am Legend bounced around Hammer for a while before being abandoned in a censorship clampdown -
surely the one that followed the shocked reception to The Stranglers of Bombay and
Peeping Tom). Hammer handed it off
to onetime production partner Robert Lippert, who made it as an Italian co-production.
The Last Man on Earth was therefore not an AIP original; it was distributed in Europe by 20th Fox. It's
a handsome production which could have been a classic if it didn't try to make Italian locations stand in for
the San Francisco area. Vampire hunter Robert Morgan asks a soldier on an army truck (marked simply, 'USA') if
he's been to Market Street, when everything we see looks like urban-suburban Rome: signage, motorcycle cops,
etc. The montages of deserted streets littered with corpses look like a conscious attempt to imitate the eerie
ending of Michaelangelo Antonioni's
L'eclisse, an intuition that's
supported by a shot of the same futuristic 'mushroom house' featured in the earlier art film.
What we get is an atypically morbid account of one man's struggle for survival in a different kind of post-
apocalyptic environment - the one human living in a world of mindless zombie vampires.
Warners and Charlton Heston remade this story as The Omega Man, and through the 80s and 90s we heard of a
planned Arnold Schwarzenegger remake that hasn't yet happened (although California is starting to look a lot
like this picture). Everyone including the original author once agreed that the 1964 version of I Am Legend
was a dud, but now that it can be seen in its full aspect ratio, I think that unfair judgment will change.
The Last Man on Earth was even dismissed by Variety as "plodding" and "poor," when the words
"prophetic" and "atmospheric" now seem more appropriate.
The film is quite deliberate in building up the grim daily routine of the last man on Earth: Fill the
generator, check on the garlic, sharpen some new wooden stakes, dump corpses into the landfill - every day
the same old grind. Vincent Price is often criticized as bad casting in such a physical role, which overlooks
the fact that he's much more vulnerable than would be an action-man type like Heston or Der Governor. We expect
those guys to make all the right moves, whereas we understand when Price goofs on things like putting the car
away before the sun sets and the ghouls come out.
The nightly onslaught of slow-walking zombies that lay siege to Morgan's house is a chilling precursor
(and obvious inspiration) for George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. "Morgan ... Come OUT!" the
creatures wail, as they try to break down doors or pry open windows. Lucky for Morgan, none of the monsters has
the strength to lift a heavy object, or the intelligence to outwit the house's sole occupant.
Morgan's daily routine mostly makes us think he'd be better off in some kind of high-rise where he need only
block a heavy door or two to lock out the undead rabble - city folk call this 'exclusivity.' After it has
been established that Morgan is systematically staking the vampire-like creatures by day, we get an extended
showing how the disease took the world by surprise. A movie with less exploitative aims might have tried
to intersperse these flashbacks along the way, but the direct method used here spares us from an arty
approach. The flashback supplies the background of loss and dislocation that makes Morgan such a morose
character; Price handles it all quite well.
I doubt that Sidney Salkow did a heck of a lot beyond let loose ace cameraman Tonino Delli Colli and watch the
good footage roll in. Delli Colli's lighting is always good, and some interiors during the nighttime sieges
are excellent. The 'scope lensing keeps the cramped Morgan household from becoming boring. The only flaws
come in some exteriors, where traffic can be seen moving around the background of this supposedly dead world.
As with Panic In Year Zero!, The Last Man on Earth spins to a climax just as things are
starting to become interesting. Morgan makes contact with a member of a new tribe of plague victims who have
suppressed the zombie side-effects through the use of an intravenous serum - in this picture, the world is
saved by drug addicts! A little late in the game, Morgan realizes that he is immune for a reason
(a mysterious bat-bite in his past) and his own blood can cure the world. Unfortunately, he is number
one on the new tribe's hit list. His name is Legend mainly as a vampire killer, and the black-clad vigilantes
want him dead. After eighty minutes of interesting developments, the film winds up in a hurried chase to
a symbolic finale in a church. Morgan gave his life for us, you see ...
MGM's new The Last Man on Earth is on the flipper side of this double-bill disc. The transfer is
once again a thing of beauty; we can conclude that neither picture was subjected to much reprinting. The
audio job is one of those studio redub jobs that makes good dubbing sound false, simply because every
line is 100% on mike and there are no background presences. The Sawtell/Shefter score is okay but not
particularly memorable.
This title has no trailer but does have a short Richard Matheson interview that covers his participation
in the development of the film. Keep in mind that Matheson was always deeply negative about films made from
his books; in 1972 he spoke before a LA County Museum screening of The Incredible Shrinking Man to
say how terrible it was. He's since seen it and changed his mind. The Last Man on Earth is no
timeless classic, but it's definitely a unique little chiller with some progressive ideas, and it should
receive the recognition it deserves.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
1. For the amazingly funny
and intelligence-insulting 'public information' films of Cold War mollycoddling, see
The Atomic Cafe and the extras on
the discs of
Invasion U.S.A. and
Atomic War Bride/This is Only a Test.
2. The subgenre eventually turned into escapist mythmaking, with the Road
Warrior series.
3. Younger people may find this hard to believe, but through much of the 1960s
the price of a gallon of gas held steady, between thirty and forty cents. I once bought some cheap stuff for
25 cents per ... and my father knew exactly what I'd done when my Volkswagen sputtered its way back home. Of
course, if gas really neared $3 a gallon, we'd know that civilization as we know it would be coming to an end,
don't we?


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Imagine finding the perfect mate, someone gorgeous who bakes you cookies, jets you to Paris, grouts your tiles and treats you like royalty.
Now imagine that this same person periodically attacks your widescreen TV with a baseball bat, shaves an obscene word into your dog's fur and sets your hat on fire.
This is what it is like to play The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
Hourglass begins, as all Legend of Zelda games do, with the adventurous, green-clad Link setting off to save a kidnapped damsel. He has to sail from island to island searching for clues to the location of a ghost ship.
Hourglass is a brilliant action-adventure game filled with ingenious puzzles, entertaining characters and imaginative monsters. It is made for Nintendo's hand-held DS, and it is wonderful to see how creatively the game uses every feature of the system. On the touch screen, you can move Link and make him swing his sword. You can also draw notes on a map, sometimes using that map in ingenious ways. One puzzle involving an uncharted island is absolutely inspired.
The DS's dual screens are also used well, notably in a fight with an invisible monster whose position you have to gauge by looking through its eyes on the top screen. There are even some clever new ideas for the DS microphone, like stunning big-eared monsters by shouting at your DS.Continue reading the main story
For the first several hours, I thought Hourglass was a perfect game. But its Achilles' heel turns out to be its central gimmick, the Phantom Hourglass itself.
The Hourglass comes into play in a large temple containing a series of dungeons. The dungeons contain some deadly substance that is neutralized when sand runs through the hourglass; if the sand runs out, Link dies almost immediately. When this happens, you have to start again from the first dungeon, doing the same tasks in the same places in the same order, trying to do them fast enough to give yourself time to make it to the exit.
There are two schools of thought regarding forcing a player to pay for slowness or sloppiness by repeating early levels over and over to reach later ones. Some people consider it a great way to create suspense by making every decision feel crucial. Others say that since this style of gameplay was originally developed by arcade designers trying to get players to drop in quarter after quarter, it is an inappropriate choice for home games, creating an artificial, frustrating style of play that is more about gritty determination than fun.
I stand firmly in the latter camp, and games like Hourglass make my point for me. In contrast to Tetris and other games that randomize elements so that each replay is a new experience, Hourglass makes you do the same thing in the same way — you have to memorize the quickest route for each dungeon and do it without mistakes. When I finally got through a series of dungeons, I never felt a sense of accomplishment; just relief that the nightmare was over.
But the Hourglass nightmare is never truly over, because after the player returns to its terrific nontimed levels for a while, the game once again sends Link back to the temple for another clue.
The dungeons would actually be perfectly fun without the timed gimmick. They're all fun to go through once, but none of them are fun enough to go through 20 times.
Hourglass is so good for the most part that I still enjoyed the game, but the time I spent racing through dungeons removed all thoughts of its being perfect.
Still, most gamers probably won't complain much about Hourglass's timed dungeons, because it's just one of those things that games do. That's what makes the skateboarding game Skate so remarkable: its designers bravely broke with gaming traditions to try something radically different.
When you say "skateboarding game," most people will instantly think of the Tony Hawk series, which has been the unbeatable leader in extreme sports videogames for the last eight years. Not only have the Tony Hawk games been hugely successful, they have also been used as a blueprint for anyone making a similar game. When you play Aggressive Inline, Wakeboarding Unleashed and many other games, much of the control layout has been lifted straight from Tony Hawk.
But Skate's development team, EA Black Box, did something unheard-of: they sat down and thought, how would we design a skateboarding game if Tony Hawk had never existed?
The result is the most intuitive control layout ever created for an extreme sports game. Rather than pushing down a button and letting go to jump, you simply pull back and then snap forward the analog stick. The direction and angle of the snap affects the nature of the jump. If you want to ride a thin railing, you don't jump on the railing and press a button for "grinding"; jump on a railing at the right angle with enough momentum and you will glide.
Tony Hawk-style games are fun, but they often depend on complex, arbitrary button combinations to pull off tricks. Skate's controls are very basic — flip a stick, press a trigger for the right or left hand. Using those simple controls in tandem with the game's dead-on physics lets you pull off flashy moves.
Skate involves wandering around finding people who challenge you to perform some maneuver involving grinding or jumping or showing off for a magazine photographer. Even when I couldn't pull off a trick, I always felt that it could be done. For the first time in my life, I feel I really understand how skateboarders do what they do, although I'm sure I still couldn't ride a real skateboard more than three feet.
While Skate has some small flaws (it would have been a good idea to make your skater translucent whenever he blocks something important on screen), it is rare to find a game that comes so close to doing everything right.
In life such perfection is hard to find, which is why we sometimes have to accept some imperfections. Those of you walking dogs with obscene words shaved into their fur know what I'm talking about.Continue reading the main story


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Family medicine residents recently spent two days writing, debating and ultimately passing judgment on a wide variety of resolutions that reflect the problems and issues residents face every day as they care for their patients.
Joshua Henry, M.D., testifies during a reference committee hearing that residents could use some help in fielding "curve balls" that parents throw out during discussions about childhood vaccinations.
The residents' work was part of the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students held here on July 26-28. Resolutions adopted at the National Conference are pushed into the AAFP policymaking pipeline for review, referral, and, if appropriate, further action by Academy leaders and the AAFP Congress of Delegates.
Patient Communication
The ability of residents to effectively communicate with patients and families was front-and-center in two measures voted on by delegates to the National Congress of Family Medicine Residents. Joshua Henry, M.D., of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., co-authored a resolution asking the Academy to promote the use of an existing vaccine safety communication curriculum in family medicine residency programs.
"What's beneficial is that this curriculum addresses the 'curve balls' that parents throw at you during discussions about vaccines," said Henry during a reference committee hearing. He added that the curriculum -- if used properly -- could help residents enhance their communication skills and perhaps defuse the passion with which some parents attack the topic of vaccinations. Use of the right words and tone sends a signal to parents that you're happy to have this discussion with them and pleased that they're interested in the health of their child, said Henry.
Danielle Carter, M.D., of Jacksonville, Fla., also a resolution co-author, pointed out that residents often get little or no training about how to discuss the benefits of vaccine administration with sometimes-anxious parents.
- Family medicine residents gathered in Kansas City, Mo., recently as part of the 2012 AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students to discuss issues they'd like the AAFP to address.
- The delegates wrote, debated and adopted resolutions on topics such as use of vaccine safety curriculum, timing of end-of-life care discussions and pharmacists prescribing.
- Several resolutions on the appointment of additional residents and students to leadership roles inside the AAFP and beyond also were discussed.
The reference committee pointed out that the new curriculum was developed jointly by the California AFP and the American Academy of Pediatrics and is available(vaccinecommunicationresource.wikispaces.com) free of charge. Ultimately, resident delegates voted to adopt a substitute resolution that calls on the AAFP to make family medicine residency programs aware of the existing curriculum.
Resident delegates also adopted an amended substitute resolution dealing with end-of-life care that asks the AAFP to encourage family physicians to initiate discussions about advanced directives and end-of-life planning with patients during times of good health and as part of routine outpatient health maintenance.
Chaney Stewman, M.D., of Philadelphia, co-authored the original resolution and defended it during a reference committee hearing and again during the resident congress. "Yes, these conversations take place in the hospital, but arguably, the more important setting is in the practice setting when the patient is in a time of good health," said Stewman, adding that having these discussions in that setting would "result in enriched medical care for patients."
Although the substitute resolution offered by the reference committee focused only on promoting the incorporation of advance directive discussions, delegates voted to add back in a resolved clause from the original resolution that addressed advanced directive discussions and end-of-life planning during times of health.
Pharmacists Prescribing
Lively discussion ensued in conjunction with another resolution that asked the AAFP to continue to actively oppose an FDA proposal for a new "safe drug" classification that would give pharmacists limited independent prescribing rights.
Ruth Pitts, M.D., tells attendees at a reference committee hearing that an FDA proposal giving pharmacists limited independent prescribing authority would complicate patient care and confuse patients.
"I think this (proposal) is a game-changer," said Jessica Bowers, M.D., of Norfolk, Va., during reference committee testimony. She commended her pharmacist colleagues as an "amazing resource" but expressed concern for patients' well-being. "What about patient follow-up care for a urinary tract infection? Is your pharmacist going to get a urine culture?" asked Bowers.
Jacqueline Sequoia, M.D., M.P.H., of North Augusta, S.C., argued that pharmacists "don't look at the whole picture" when it comes to patients' health. She stated her concerns about continuity-of-care issues, as well as her understanding that there is no such thing as a "safe" drug.
Joseph Castro, D.O., of Pueblo, Colo., rose and said simply, "It's already hard enough to coordinate treatments. This would be a logistical nightmare."
Ultimately, the resolution was reaffirmed as lining up with existing Academy policy because the AAFP already is actively engaged in opposing the FDA proposal.
Residents Ready for More Leadership Roles
Several resolutions put forth by residents illustrated a desire to participate more fully in the AAFP and other organizations that make policy decisions.
For example, residents from West Virginia, California and Pennsylvania joined forces to introduce a resolution that asked the AAFP to investigate resident and student involvement with the FamMedPAC Board of Directors; that resolution was adopted.
Residents also asked for resident and student representation on the Center for International Health Initiatives (CIHI) advisory board. The resident delegates ultimately adopted a substitute resolution that directs the AAFP to request that the CIHI explore opportunities for such resident and student involvement.
In addition, delegates adopted a substitute resolution asking the AAFP Government Relations Division to create a one-month rotating student and resident health policy internship. The resolution states that interns should, among other things, learn about specific issues in health policy, develop legislative knowledge and grassroots advocacy skills, and understand how the government and its affiliated agencies affect the practice of medicine.
On the other hand, delegates followed the reference committee's recommendation to not adopt a resolution asking for one additional resident and one additional student member on the AAFP's Commission on Education. In its recommendation to not adopt the resolution, the reference committee noted its concern about the fiscal implications of adding members to the commission.
Katherine Jacobson, M.D., of Cantonsville, Md., one of four co-authors of the resolution, spoke in favor of it during a reference committee hearing. She noted that although several residents and students who are elected at the National Conference already serve on the commission, there are other students and residents who might be interested in serving but who are wary of the intricacies of an election and, in particular, of delivering a candidate speech.
In the recommendation to not adopt the resolution, the reference committee noted that the Commission on Education currently includes seven voting student and resident members.
Other Actions
Residents did adopt a number of other resolutions and substitute resolutions that dealt with a variety of issues. For example, delegates asked the AAFP to
- create social media guidelines for members;
- develop policy supporting parity in the number of months of graduate medication education required for international medical graduates and U.S. medical graduates to obtain a full and unrestricted state medical license;
- encourage Academy members to help develop and implement community health needs assessments conducted by nonprofit hospitals and health care systems;
- endorse support for universal access to contraceptives;
- support reasonable accommodation for medical students and residents who are breastfeeding;
- support civil marriage for same-gender couples; and
- encourage AAFP constituent chapters to appoint a task force to collect and maintain an online directory of community resources that address issues of wellness and healing.
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How to Choose a Desktop Theme in Windows Vista
In the world of Windows, a desktop theme is a way to control many different aspects of your Windows environment. When you choose a desktop theme in Windows Vista, you can affect the desktop background, the colors of window title bars, shortcut icons, and cursors all in one quick adjustment.
Themes save sets of elements that include menu appearance, background colors or patterns, screen savers, and even mouse cursors and sounds. If you modify any of these individually — for example, by changing the screen saver to another one — that change overrides the setting in the theme you last applied.
Right-click the desktop and choose Personalize.
The Personalization window opens.
Click the Theme link and select a theme from the Theme drop-down list.The Theme Settings dialog box.
Your options include the following:
Windows Vista offers up a beautiful lake and mountains against a blue sky. The color scheme that this theme uses for various onscreen elements, such as window title bars, relies heavily on grays, blues, and reds.
Windows Vista doesn't come with a lot of themes for you to use, but if you buy and install Microsoft Plus! which provides you with lots of extra graphic goodies, the new themes are stored here by default.
Windows Classic sports a plain blue background with silvery-blue and gray colors for screen elements.
My Current Theme uses whatever settings you have and saves them with that name.
Browse takes you to the Program Files folder of Windows, where you can look for any files with the .theme extension. If you find one you like, select it and click the Open button.
You can save custom themes. Simply apply a theme, make any changes to it you like using the various Appearance and Personalization settings options, and then in the Theme Settings dialog box, click Save As. In the resulting dialog box, give your new theme a name and click Save. It will now appear on the Theme list.
Click OK to apply the selected theme.


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Father's Day was Sunday and Andy & Uncle Nick chatted about the holiday and everything that goes with it: cheesy gifts, grill outs, the US Open, etc.
Items Covered Include:
• Is Father's Day a real holiday or a Hallmark holiday?
• Andy's first Father's Day
• What Nick & his dad do to celebrate (fishing and gambling)
• How does Andy celebrate the day with his dad gone?
• Which dad gifts are good?
• Which Father's Day Gifts are terrible according to the Huffington Post
• What would be the ideal Father's Day?
• Don't gloat about how much sleep you get to your breast-feeding wife.
• TLC used to be The Learning Channel
Be a Man. Be a Father. Go #DadMode.
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Free Bike Cages Offer Safe Parking for Commuters
Secure Bike Parking Encourages Multi-Modal Commutes
We TreeHuggers love bicycles – but even our obsession may be beaten by the team at StreetFilms who practically live, breathe and eat bicycles and other forms of sustainable transportation. Only yesterday we looked at their coverage of LA's many bike co-ops, and today we bring you another exploration of best practice – this time from the Greater Boston area. More on this, as well as other examples of innovative bike parking around the world, below the fold. Alewife Station, Cambridge, is home to innovative new free bike parking facilities that boast protection from the rain, smart card access, and 24 hour surveillance – encouraging commuters to combine biking with mass transit to ease congestion. And to top all that it is just yards away from Boston's Minuteman bike trail.
There's no doubt that secure bike parking can make a huge difference to would-be cyclists worried about security or convenience. From Riverside, CA's lockable Bike Lid facilities, through to the space-age looking Cycle Pod being tested in the UK, there doesn't seem to be any shortage of designers looking to reinvent the way we store our wheels. The prize for sheer technological overkill still has to go to the Japanese with their automated, underground bike storage units (follow the link for a mind-boggling video). Now if the massive US infrastructure overhaul that's planned in the name of economic stimulus could just include upgrades to bike facilities...
More on Liveable Streets from our Friends at StreetFilms
Bike Co-ops Thrive in LA
Boulder, Colorado Achieves Platinum Bike Status
Wikis Take Manhattan
StreetFilm's Visits Boulder's Contraflow Bike-Lane
Free Bikes for Governors Island
StreetFilms Covers Best of Bike to Work Day
Raised Cross-walks
Traffic-calming Chicanes
Bike Advocate Keeps Memory of Her Husband Alive
Clarence the Cycling Sasquatch
Bogota Shows How to Reinvent Cities
Bogota Revisited
StreetFilms Looks at Bus Rapid Transit in LA
Melbourne: A Pedestrian's Paradise
Istanbul Learns from Bogota
Clarence: The Purple Traffic-Calming Wizard
Physically Separated Bike Lanes
NYC's First Documented Bike Move?
StreetFilms Grades New Yorkers' Bike Locking Abilities
Lady Liberty Dumps the Car and Marries Mass Transit
StreetFilms Animation Explores Diverters as Traffic Calming Measure


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Michael Jace, a veteran actor who appeared in the FX cop drama "The Shield" and NBC's "Southland" has been detained by police in Los Angeles after allegedly shooting and killing his wife.
"Jace called police himself to report his wife had been shot, and he had pulled the trigger," reports TMZ.
According to TMZ's law enforcement sources, Jace called 911 around 8:30 PM and told police: "I shot my wife."
April Jace, 40, was found shot to death multiple times when police arrived, Los Angeles Police Detective Lyman Doster confirmed to CNN.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that "Jace's two kids witnessed him allegedly shooting and killing their mom. The kids — both under 10 — were extremely upset and taken to the police station. We're told cops are angry it took Children's Services four hours to get to the station and take the kids to the home of a family member where they could be comforted."
Investigators detained Jace, 51, at the couple's home as of 1:00 AM Tuesday and booked the actor on a homicide charge early Tuesday, according to LAPD.
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting is underway.
After a 22-year acting career, Jace is best know for playing Detective Julien Lowe on "The Shield" for 89 episodes.


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USCG: Ferry Crashes into Jetty in Hyannis Harbor
At least five people were injured when a high-speed ferry hit a jetty while entering Hyannis Harbor, Massachusetts, in the evening hours of June 16, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) informed.
The Massachusetts Steamship Authority ferry Iyanough, which operates on the route Nantucket-Hyannis, struck the jetty and grounded on the rocks.
The USCG teamed up with local responders late Friday and early Saturday (local time) to rescue 55 people stranded aboard the ferry.
A USCG helicopter crew medevacked five injured passengers and airlifted ten uninjured people who were unable to navigate the jetty's rocks to get aboard the response boats.
Response boat crews rescued the remaining passengers and ferry crew members.
"Rough seas and strong winds overnight challenged responders, but with the help of our local partners, our boat and air crews were able to get all passengers to safety," Lt. Cmdr. Matt Baker, the Chief of Incident Management at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, said.
As disclosed, six people, including the ferry's captain, engineer, and Coast Guard marine inspectors have remained aboard Iyanough.
A tugboat and a commercial towboat company have also been on scene.
The USCG said it will work with the Steam Ship Authority to assess Iyanough's damage and ensure safe navigation in the area.
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On June 2002 an agreement was finalized between Molecular
Specialties, Inc. and Intermagnetics General Corporation (IGC)
to transfer the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) assets
of IGC-Medical Advances to Molecular Specialties. The EPR
assets were originally acquired by IGC in March 1997 as part
of the purchase off all of the business assets of Medical
Advances, Inc. (MAI). This Milwaukee based company was founded
in 1985 as a technology transfer from the Medical College
of Wisconsin to develop, manufacture and market RF coils for
the MRI industry. The EPR products were included in the original
technology transfer, but were never central to the MRI market.
These products fulfill a niche market among members of the
EPR research community. The role of Molecular Specialties
is to continue to serve this community.
As the result of discussions on collaboration in September
2002, Stelar, s.r.l. and Molecular Specialties, Inc. entered
into an agreement in which Molecular Specialties servers as
the North American marketing entity for Stelar's Spinmaster
FFC 2000 1T fast field cycling NMR relaxometer and companion
instrument SMARtracer Bench-Top FFC NMR Relaxometer. Stelar
has taken orders and installed 25 FFC NMR instruments in Europe
and one each in India, Saudi Arabia and Japan. There are five
instruments installed in North America. The principals of
Stelar and Molecular Specialties have known each other and
worked together in other areas of NMR for the past 19 years.
In July 2008 Molecular Specialties was issued a patent titled
"System for Concurrent MRI Imaging and Magnetic Field
Homogeneity Measurement". This element of intellectual
property will give Molecular Specialties a potential position
to licence the technology to medical device companies serving
the MRI and fMRI markets.
Business Plan/Strategy
There is a proposed concept in university-based technology
transfer to create companies that can commercialize "orphan"
or narrow market products. A company of this nature in its
initial strategy will create a commercial platform for products
and technologies that because of limited market size would
not be attractive to larger enterprises, but will fill a void
in market demand. Furthermore, the concept of this sort of
company is not driven by investors demanding a "cash
out" plan. A very successful business can be formed around
an annual revenue stream of $2 million to $5 million. The
concept is to create a business model that generates jobs
in the high technology sector and products that can support
the mission of scientific and medical researchers worldwide.
For the universities that are the origin of the technology,
royalties based on licensing the technology could be expected.
Without the "small company model", esoteric and
narrow market technologies may languish in the files of university
technology transfer offices.
Molecular Specialties is a model of a company that can transfer
university-based technology into "orphan" or narrow
scientific and clinical markets. The foundation market to
be addressed by Molecular Specialties will be electron paramagnetic
resonance (EPR) scientific community. This area of science
explores molecular structures using principles of biophysics
and microwaves as the measurement tool. At the Medical College
of Wisconsin located in the Department of Biophysics (formerly
Biophysics Research Institute) is the National Biomedical
ESR Center. This Federal Government funded laboratory has
an international reputation, and is one of the largest ESR/EPR
research centers in the world. The principal of Molecular
Specialties has had a 25-year working relationship with the
forerunner Biophysics Research Institute. The licensing of
intellectual property has been pursued by the Company from
the Medical College of Wisconsin to market microwave probes
and accessories developed in the Department of Biophysics.
These products have been put into practice in EPR research
laboratories. Additional EPR products are being developed
and patented by the Medical College of Wisconsin in collaboration
with the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Molecular
Specialties may be used as a conduit to take these new products
to market.
Besides the EPR product offering, Molecular Specialties is
interested in working with the technology transfer offices
of universities to identify additional possible business opportunities
synergistic with the Company's marketing strengths and business
All production of Molecular Specialties products is being
out sourced from suppliers who have expertise in engineering,
fabrication and the manufacture of products to be offered.
Molecular Specialties, Inc.
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Percept create packaging design for Pork Kurls, a new product by Gold Medal Snacks.
Case Study
The Challenge
Established in 1982, Gold Medal Snacks is an Australian owned FMCG manufacturer based in Sydney's West.
With a long standing working relationship with design agency Percept in Sydney, they again requested help in launching their latest products to the market, Pork Kurls and Pork Krackles. The task was a totally new packaging design for this new product range.
The Solution
The packaging design needed to be strong on shelf, and distinctly different from competitors' packaging with a good shelf shout for FMCG retail sale.
The new packaging design uses a dark background with a coloured swoosh and flavour call-out. The product photography shows the consumer what the product looks like and it is used as a visual feature on the front and runs through to the back of pack.
When introducing these new products to the shelves, Percept were briefed to create packaging design that takes the Gold Medal Snacks brand to a new level, enticing a new audience.
The chosen packaging design gives a feeling of Pork Kurls and Pork Krackles being casual snacks. This is enhanced with a personal touch of handwritten typography, which is a unique point of difference to its competitors in the category.
Gold Medal Snacks are excited with their new packaging design and they're sure it will help them successfully introduce more delicious products for pork crackling lovers to enjoy.


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What a time to be alive! Even when I first started eating protein products, they all were pretty similar and lacked flavor. Now days we have bars, cookies, gels, and now cake bites! Yes, you read that right. Protein filled, little disc shaped cake bites.
Now before you get to excited check out my reivews below before running over to Amazon, GNC, or BB.com to snag 10 boxes.
Optimum Nutrition Cake Bites, Variety Pack
@optimumnutritionbday cake bite review .
240cal / 7f / 25c / 20p for 3 bites –
63g total weight so same volume as a protein bar for comparison. White coated vanilla discs with spranks scattered all over. Nice vanilla/bday aroma to these little guys. Soft texture when you bite into it with just a bit of crunch from the sprinkles. Overall consistency was a bit dense for cake, but still good. Get a good bit of sweetness from the frosting that carries it for the whole chew. Definitely a solid little treat by ON here. Much better than their bars that's for sure. Having it in a little cake bite was a nice of pace as well.
Overall 8.5/10
Optimum Nutrition Protein Cake Bites, Whipped Protein Snack Bar, Flavor: Birthday Cake, 12 Count
@optimumnutrition red velvet cake bites –
230 cal / 7f / 22c / 20 –
First off you get a very artificial vanilla aroma and no 'red velvet' smell. Vanilla coating with a red velvet filling. Very very chewy soft texture with the cakes which was nice and not a bit of grainy leftovers. Taste wise all you get here is a vanilla base and unfortunately not a bit of red velvet at all. Usually I think of cream cheese to pair and not a feel of that either. It also left a weird aftertaste as well. If this provided more flavor this would be solid. .
Overall – 5/10
Macros and texture were nice but the flavor just lacked big time here and didn't really have anything that stood out.
ON Protein Cake Bites – Whipped Protein Snack Bar – Red Velvet – Box of 12
@optimumnutritionchocolate dipped cherry cake bites review –
240 cal / 7f / 25 c / 20 p –
First off, decent macros with these bites as they weigh in the same as a regular protein bar so there's that. Visually unappealing before you cut them open, then it has a nice red color filling. I get a faint cherry aroma and that's it. Soft chewy texture(but not a 'cake' feel. I don't get a ton of cherry until the very end then a get s big splash of artificial cherry. Chocolate is just barely there. Overall I feel like this bar just gave me way to much artificial flavor during and post chewing and I didn't enjoy that at all.
Unfortunately overall the cake bites like is a let down. The Bday cake are the only one worth eating. I would of thought that such a big company like @optimumnutrition would be able to compete in the bar market but they've struck out with both new endeavors.
Overall – 3/10
ON Protein Cake Bites – Whipped Protein Snack Bar – Chocolate Dipped Cherry – Box of 12
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On my recent drive from Indianapolis to Baltimore, Jennifer and I sang some of my songs. (Just the words. I don't play guitar or ukulele and try to drive at the same time. I fear that would end badly.) We do this often. One of the songs I started singing was this, something I wrote for a friend's installation as a pastor in Virginia and based on a passage in Deuteronomy:
Basically, it's a fairly faithful rendering of this:
15 "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." (Deuteronomy 30:15-20 ESV)
And as I worried about whether our van would overheat as it crossed the hills of West Virginia and western Maryland, I found myself thinking about what it means that God has set before us "life and death and good and evil" (my rendering; the actual passage bundles the good and the bad together). And what it meant that Israel would perish if it failed to adhere follow the path of life.
After all, God commands Israel, through Moses, to "choose life." Not just for ourselves, but for our children and their children (and their children) as well.
This passage is part of the blessings and curses that God proclaims to Israel regarding the following — or lack thereof — of the teaching God has just given to Israel through Moses. It's echoed by Paul when he writes in Romans:
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 ESV)
And this verse is, at least in my experience, frequently used by fundamentalists to try and persuade. (I remember this from a lot of Chick tracts.) "If you are a sinner, you will surely die," it says. The implication is, I think, that you will suffer for your sins, or perhaps even be struck down. God has no tolerance for sin. (That's it part of a lengthy discourse on sin and reconciliation that begins with Paul speaking of Christ's death, and our baptism into his death, frequently is ignored.)
I thought about these verses, about the promise from God that Israel would perish if it failed to adhere to the covenant.
Because Israel failed. It's interesting, the Deuteronomy passage included blessings and curses. And both came true. Israel was blessed. Israel was cursed. The has been blessed. The church has been cursed.
Israel's story is the story of failure. Of defeat. Of conquest and of exile. That fact — that Israel failed, and doing so, tells us what the church's life as the people of God has will look like. In Leviticus 18, for example, after God gives Israel the long list of sex acts Israelites are not allowed to do:
24 "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. (Leviticus 18:24-28 ESV)
This bit about the land vomiting Israel out if it fails to adhere to these rules is repeated in Leviticus 20:22. And given the history, of Israel's conquest, of the disappearance of the norther kingdom (Israel/Ephraim), and the conquest and exile of the southern kingdom (Judah, Benjamin, and Levi), it would be easy to describe what happened as exactly that — the land vomiting Israel out.
We tend to look at the law and consider the matter of consequence and punishment. The wages of sin are death, as if somehow we can avoid death.
But we all die. Jesus died. So, when God tells Israel that failure to adhere to the convenient means Israel will perish, he's merely describing what is to come. When Paul speaks of sin and death, he speaks of something we all experience. As the Qur'an says,
Every soul shall taste death. And only on the Day of Resurrection shall you be paid your wages in full And whoever is removed away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception. (3:185, modified Khan & al-Hilali)
And so, threatening me with death for sinning is merely stating the obvious. I'm going to die anyway.
No, God has another answer to sin. To Israel's failure — to our failure. And that's resurrection.
It's already there in Deuteronomy.
1 "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, 2 and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you." (Deuteronomy 30:1-3 ESV)
It's already there in Ezekiel 37, where God asks if the dry bones, the dead things, can live. (Ezekiel 37 seems like an answer to Jeremiah 7 & 8, in which God promises nothing but suffering and death for Israel. "Do not pray for this people," God tells Jeremiah, "for I will not hear you.") And then brings them to life.
This is why Jesus died. Because we die. Because our deaths are meaningless without his death. Because he rose and in him we rise. Long before writes of the wages of sin, he confidently tells the church in Rome:
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:5-11 ESV)
Dead to sin. Alive to God in Christ Jesus. There can be no real resurrection without death. And yet, in our baptisms, we are made part of the death of Christ. We taste his death, so that even before we die, we may taste something of his resurrection. And know it's real. And live like it's real.


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So this huge loss has taught me a lot of lessons about grief and how people respond to it (or how they should respond to it). I'm writing this from the perspective of someone who recently lost a close loved one suddenly to illness, but this can also apply to people who have recently experienced other traumatic losses and life changes as well.
Have realistic expectations.
The people most affected by the loss are going to be stressed and grieving even if you don't personally see it outwardly. It may go on for a very long time, depending on the cause and extent of the grief. A few of the many potential symptoms of stress and grief are:
* Loss of appetite
* Sleep disruption
* Fatigue even after a full night's sleep
* Mood swings that may be extreme at times
* Symptoms similar to depression
* Feeling overwhelmed by large groups of people or specific social situations
* Sensory overload, such as bright lights and loud noises causing distress
* Memory triggers that can result in waves of emotion at the drop of a hat
* Denial or avoidance of reality
* Shutting down emotions to protect themselves (this may come in waves)
* Virtually any emotion you can think of accelerated far above normal levels for that person
* Memory and focus problems that may affect work, school, conversations, social situations, and so on.
* Wanting to be alone (or the exact opposite)
* Orgasms may be difficult or impossible for some people
* Interest in sex may diminish, increase, or change drastically
* Risky or harmful behavior may occur
You may be able to recognize some of these symptoms outwardly, but others often hide very well. You may never see the full effects of their grief; they may look like they're back to normal. Don't make the mistake of assuming that someone who just suffered a traumatic loss is now fine just because they start doing many of the things they used to do. For many people their old routines and favorite activities feel safe even whether they're actually enjoying them or not. Or those moments of enjoyment may be merely spacers between periods of depression and emotional chaos.
Other things to remember:
They're probably very behind on responding to all the various types of messages they've received and they likely have many unusual demands on their attention, time, and energy. Don't take it personally if it takes them a while to reply to your message or if they miss it in the chaos.
There are always some people who have no respect for their loss and the trauma it involves. They might be pushy, demanding, belittle or invalidate their suffering, blame the person for not handling things their way or in their time frame, or use the situation to push their opinions or religion onto the grieving person. And there are always people who are trying to tell them how they should grieve and who may even chide them for it. This causes even more stress.
There are often unexpected costs involved after someone's death so they might be having financial difficulties. They might also be doing just fine so giving them money may not be necessary or desired. It's often best to ask them what they actually need.
Their grief and stress symptoms may be causing difficulties at school, work, in social situations, etc.
Don't tell people how to grieve.
We're all different. Some of us need space, others need people there to comfort them. Some won't show many signs of grief outwardly and it can be easy to erroneously assume that they're back to their normal selves. Or maybe they haven't been able to process the loss yet. It can take time for it to really sink in. Others may cry at the drop of a hat anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Others might not be able to eat or sleep, whether they cry outwardly or not. Some rely on prayer and religion for comfort, others don't. There's no right or wrong way to grieve. Offer advice and help if they're open to it, but don't imply that your way is the only way to effectively manage grief. It isn't.
The Five Stages of Grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) are great information tools, but as the original author later clarified, it's not a series of linear steps for people to try to follow. They're simply common experiences that might occur for us at any time or in any order, or even several at once. While acceptance is the goal for many, acceptance doesn't necessarily mean that we're ok with the loss. It might mean that we've simply accepted that it happened and we have to live with it now. Pushing people through these stages because you think they ought to be in a different one is not helpful.
Let people grieve.
It's normal. And it's actually very important to go through the grieving process. It may sound weird to some, but experiencing all these awful things is better than holding it in or pretending it doesn't exist. It'll just cause more problems in the long run.
If their more extreme symptoms of grief and stress continue for long periods of time and start to cause health problems or other damaging results such as potential job loss, or if you have concerns about suicidal thoughts or self harm, then it's ok to get worried and to step in. But until then, let them grieve and don't make them feel like they're abnormal for it.
Accept people are they are.
This is not the time to try to change people. Accept them as they are, not as you'd like them to be.
For others who have experienced a traumatic loss or have seen people they know go through it, are there things you'd add to this? And for those who have little or no experience with this, do you have questions about how to support people dealing with grief? Since everyone grieves so differently, it can sometimes be hard to know what to say or what to do. I've been on the other end too so I know that feeling.


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Joint Announcement of the Firm Intention to Make a Mandatory Offer Nutritional Holdings Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number 2004/002282/06) Share code: NUT ISIN Number: ZAE000156485 ("NUT" or "the Company") Baphalane Ba Mantserre Investment Holdings Proprietary Limited (Registration number 2013/068211/07) ("BMIH" or the "the Subscriber'') JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRM INTENTION TO MAKE A MANDATORY OFFER TO NUT SHAREHOLDERS BY BMIH 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. NUT shareholders are referred to the various announcements released on SENS as well as the rights offer circular wherein they were advised that BMIH had underwritten a NUT rights offer for R10 million at a price of R0.001 per share ("the Rights Offer"). 1.2. NUT shareholders are hereby advised that BMIH has by virtue of it underwriting the Rights Offer, subscribed for 9 195 482 060 ordinary shares in NUT resulting in BMIH owning 66.91% of NUT shares at a price of R0.001 per share. Therefore, in terms of section 123 of the Companies Act, 2008 as amended ("the Act"), BMIH is required to make a mandatory offer to all remaining shareholders of NUT ("Mandatory Offer"). 1.3. Accordingly, the terms of the Mandatory Offer that will be made to the shareholders of NUT are set out in this joint firm intention announcement ("Joint Announcement"). 1.4. As at the date of this Joint Announcement, BMIH holds 9 195 482 060 ordinary shares in NUT or 66.91% of the issued share capital of NUT. 1.5. The Mandatory Offer is an affected transaction as defined in section 117 of the Act. Therefore, the Mandatory Offer will be regulated by the Act, the Companies Regulations, 2011 ("Companies Regulations") and the Takeover Regulation Panel ("TRP"). 2. RATIONALE FOR THE MANDATORY OFFER The rationale for the Mandatory Offer is for BMIH to provide all NUT shareholders, who no longer wish to remain as shareholders in the Company, with an offer to acquire their NUT shares in order to take up a greater shareholding in NUT going forward. 3. TERMS OF THE MANDATORY OFFER 3.1. In terms of the Mandatory Offer, BMIH shall offer to acquire all NUT ordinary shares held by NUT shareholders in exchange for the Mandatory Offer consideration of 0.1 (zero point one) cents per share ("Mandatory Offer Consideration"). NUT shareholders may elect to accept the Mandatory Offer in whole or in part. 3.2. The Mandatory Offer Consideration of R0.001 (zero point one) cents per share surrendered in terms of the Mandatory Offer shall be payable in cash. 3.3. The Mandatory Offer consideration is the same consideration paid by BMIH when it acquired its interest in NUT. 4. Cash Confirmation The TRP has been given appropriate written confirmations as contemplated in Regulation 111(4) of the Companies Act Regulations, from Fasken attorneys, situated at Inanda Greens, 54 Wierda Road West, Sandton, 2196 that BMIH has sufficient cash resources and/or facilities available to meet its cash commitments to NUT Shareholders in relation to the Mandatory Offer. 5. Amendment or Variation of the Mandatory Offer No amendment or variation of the Mandatory Offer shall be valid unless it is agreed to by BMIH in writing and approved by the TRP, provided that BMIH shall not agree to any amendment or variation that has the effect of reducing the Mandatory Offer Consideration. 6. No Set-Off of Mandatory Offer Consideration Settlement of the Mandatory Offer Consideration pursuant to the Mandatory Offer will be implemented in full in accordance with the terms of the Mandatory Offer without regard to any lien, right of set-off, counterclaim, deduction, withholding or other analogous right to which the BMIH may otherwise be, or claim to be, entitled against any NUT Shareholder. 7. Mandatory Offer not made where unlawful The Mandatory Offer does not constitute an offer to purchase or the solicitation of an offer to sell any NUT shares in any jurisdiction in which such Mandatory Offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the laws of such jurisdiction. 8. Governing Law The Mandatory Offer will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Africa and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the South African courts. 9. UNCONDITIONAL MANDATORY OFFER The Mandatory Offer will not be subject to any conditions precedent. 10. ARRANGEMENTS, AGREEMENTS AND UNDERTAKINGS 10.1. The following beneficial shareholders of NUT indirectly or directly holding: - RS Etchells, 61 000 000 shares; - Miss C Smit,125 784 415 shares; - Imuniti Holdings Employee Share Incentive Trust, 90 000 000 shares; - Etchells Family Trust, 47 428 088 shares; - JA Etchells, 49 793 491 shares; - Pop-Up Trading 39 Pty Limited, 111 845 015 shares; - AR Pinfold, 339 238 579 shares; - Kenosi Holdings Pty Limited, 310 000 000 shares; and - Philisani Pty Limited, 1 000 000 000 Shares, comprising of a total of 2 135 089 588 of the ordinary shares in NUT or 15.54% of the issued share capital of NUT have signed irrevocable undertakings not to accept the Mandatory Offer. 10.2. 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What are District Grants?
District Grants may be used for local community or international projects. They are intended for smaller projects and do not require an international partner, but still require active Rotarian involvement.
Who can apply?
Any qualified Rotary Club in District 5100 in good standing with District 5100 and Rotary International. Good standing means RI and District dues are current and there are no delinquent reports on previous grants. A club may apply for grants ranging from $250 to $2,000 of District Grant Funds in a Rotary Year, depending on the availability of funds.
2018-19 District Grant Information:
District grant applications are done through the District Database: DACdb.
2019-20 Grant HANDBOOK Final
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Directions on Applying for a District Grant and Filing a Final Report 2017-18
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What are the requirements of a District Grant?
- District Grant projects must promote Rotary Awareness;
- District Grant projects require active Rotarian involvement;
- District Grant Funds must benefit at least six individuals, except in the case of scholarships; provide a service to persons in need and/or be for a humanitarian purpose (i.e. to improve the health, safety, or well-being of the citizens of a community);
- District Grant projects must adhere to the fund management and stewardship guidelines as set out in the Club Memorandum of Understanding (MOU);
- District Grant projects must be short term in nature and completed within 12 months of approval;
- District Grant projects may be carried out in any country including non-Rotary countries, with the exception of Iran, North Korea and any countries added by TRF;
- All projects must be publicly identified as a Rotary Project;
- District Grant projects must not directly benefit a Rotarian, an employee of a club, district or other Rotary entity or of Rotary International, or a spouse, lineal descendant, a spouse of a lineal descendant, or an ancestor of any living Rotarian or Rotary employee;
- District Grant Funds should not be used for existing projects, or used to reimburse applicants for projects already initiated or completed, or fund the operational expenses of another organization;
- District Grant Funds must not be used to fund the on-going projects of a Rotary club or district. (This does not preclude the replication of successful projects that will benefit additional communities or extended to new groups of people);
Timeline to Apply for a District Grant
Christine Huot, 2019-20 District Grants Chair between July 1 and August 15, 2019. Available District Grant amounts are between $250 and $2,000.
Clubs will be notified as their application(s) are approved, and work on any project can commence thereafter. Funds for grant projects will be disbursed by D5100 after the District 5100 Block Grant has been received from The Rotary Foundation.
If an approved application is withdrawn, the District Grant funds earmarked for the project will go back in the Block Grant pool, and further applications will be accepted on a first come, first served basis until all the District Block Grant funds have been used in the Rotary year.
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Final Report for a District Grant
The project must be completed and the final report submitted within 12 months of approval or within 30 days of completion of the project. No further grant applications will be accepted until the delinquent final report is submitted. If a club fails to submit a final report in a timely manner, it may be required to reimburse District 5100 the allocated District Grant funds.