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College Football Playoff Rankings prediction: USC moves to No. 4; Georgia, Michigan, TCU all but lock up bids
Jerry Palm takes a crack at how the penultimate CFP Rankings of the 2022 season will look when unveiled Tuesday night
By Jerry Palm
Nov 29, 2022 at 1:17 pm ET • 6 min read
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The regular-season portion of the 2022 college football season has reached its conclusion with Rivalry Week creating a lot more clarity that we were expecting. That was due in large part to upset losses by LSU and Clemson, which eliminated each of them from consideration for the College Football Playoff.
That does not mean that the CFP Selection Committee will have an easy job, though. There will still be difficult and important decisions to be made that could still impact the playoff and certainly the New Year's Six matchups.
Before we get to the rankings themselves, here's a refresher listing some of key points the committee members consider when deciding a team's ranking beyond their on-field record:
Conference championships (when decided)
Results vs. common opponents
Results vs. ranked opponents
Thankfully, the committee's definition of "ranked opponents" is different than what you're used to seeing. The rankings they use are the prior week's CFP Rankings. They do not consider where teams are ranked when the games were played either in the CFP, AP Top 25, etc. Using game-time rankings is the most worthless way to determine "ranked opponents;" in fact, the committee specifically forbids the use of any poll that has a preseason starting point.
Notice that "game control" is not listed in the criteria. It never has been considered despite the term (or similar concepts) coming out of the mouth of the committee chairman at times the last few full seasons. (The CFP does not have a way to measure "game control" -- I've seen the data the committee uses -- but let's not kid ourselves: They do talk about it.)
With all that in mind, here is how the CFP Rankings will look this week. Remember: This is not necessarily how I would vote if I were on the committee. I am merely predicting what they will do Tuesday night.
Note: This projection is based only on results to this point. It does not reflect the final forecast for the playoff. The complete bowl playoff and bowl projections through the end of the season can be found here.
College Football Playoff Rankings prediction
The Bulldogs properly dispatched Georgia Tech and will look to repeat as SEC champions against LSU. That game has a little less buzz than it might have due to the Tigers' loss to Texas A&M. Last week: 1
Michigan stuck it to Ohio State for the second year in a row, this time in Columbus. The Wolverines are now the boss of the Big Ten until someone knocks them off that pedestal. It seems unlikely that Purdue will be able to accomplish that, but they aren't called Spoilermakers for nothing. Last week: 3
The Horned Frogs did something no other team has done this season: obliterate Iowa State's defense. The Cyclones were giving up only 19 points per game before TCU hung 62 on them. The previous high against ISU was Baylor's 31. Kansas State will take another shot at the Horned Frogs, but even a loss likely will not keep TCU out of the CFP. Last week: 4
The Trojans picked up their second straight rivalry win, knocking off Notre Dame, 38-27. USC will look to exact revenge on Utah, the only team to beat the Trojans this season, in the Pac-12 Championship Game. USC is looking to become the first Pac-12 team to play in the CFP since Washington in 2016. Last week: 6
The Buckeyes will probably miss out on the playoff again this season after getting trounced by Michigan at home. They could still back in to the top four, but it is no longer in their hands. Last week: 2
Alabama pounded Auburn 49-27 in the Iron Bowl, and its postseason fate is now in the committee's hands. The Crimson Tide need to be ranked ahead of Ohio State this week to have any hope at all. Last week: 7
Senior QB Joe Milton III led a run-heavy Volunteers offense to a 56-0 rout of Vanderbilt. Tennessee should be ranked high enough to land somewhere in the New Year's Six, even if LSU upsets Georgia. Last week: 10
The Nittany Lions finished the regular season with a 35-16 win over Michigan State. PSU did not beat Ohio State or Michigan but was perfect against everyone else. Unfortunately, unless Purdue crawls onto the bottom of these rankings, none of those wins will have come against ranked opposition. Still, a New Year's Six game is possible. It could even be the Rose Bowl if USC gets beat by Utah. Last week: 11
The Tigers lost to a Texas A&M team that had been left for dead a long time ago, and it cost them any chance at the CFP. A loss to Georgia could mean not playing in the New Year's Six at all, but a win puts LSU in the Sugar Bowl. Last week: 5
Clemson blew a late lead against rival South Carolina and cost itself any chance of playing in the playoff. A win in the ACC Championship Game against North Carolina will put the Tigers in the Orange Bowl. Last week: 8
The Wildcats beat Kansas to secure a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game against TCU. Kansas State looks like it will go to the Sugar Bowl, win or lose. Last week: 12
Washington's regular season is over after a win over Washington State in the Apple Cup. The Huskies could be in position to play in the Rose Bowl should USC win the Pac-12 and qualify for the playoff. Last week: 13
The Ducks blew a big lead at Oregon State and blew a shot at the Pac-21 championship along with it. A season with a lot of promise started and ended with a thud. Last week: 9
Utah throttled Colorado as it should have, and now the Utes are looking for a return trip to the Rose Bowl in the Pac-12 Championship Game against USC. The Utes needed Oregon to lose and both Washington and UCLA to win to take the Pac-12 tiebreaker. Last week: 14
The Seminoles beat Florida 45-38, which is the highest-scoring game in the history of that rivalry. They finished three games behind Clemson in the division standings but will be ranked higher than the Tigers' opponent in the ACC Championship Game. Last week: 16
It was not easy, but the Bruins took care of Cal to end a pretty good regular season at 9-3. Last week: 18
The Beavers have their first nine-win season since 2012 after their 38-34 come-from-behind victory over Oregon. Coach Jonathan Smith has something building in Corvallis. Last week: 21
The good news is that the Green Wave earned the right to host the AAC Championship Game with a 27-24 win at Cincinnati. The bad news is that their opponent, UCF, already beat Tulane on the road once this season, so home field may not be as big an advantage as you might think. Last week: 19
The Fighting Irish could not overcome the offensive power of USC, finishing their season 8-4. They recovered nicely from a poor start. Notre Dame will play in one of the ACC bowl games. Last week: 15
The Longhorns beat Baylor 38-27 but did not get the help they needed to get to the Big 12 title game. The Alamo Bowl likely awaits. Last week: 23
The Knights blew a 28-point lead to South Florida but scored with 20 seconds left to beat the Bulls. The ACC title game at Tulane is next. Of greater concern is the status of QB John Rhys Plumlee, who left the game at halftime with an injury suffered in the second quarter. Mikey Keene is a proven backup, though. Last week: 22
The Tar Heels picked up their second straight loss and third home loss of the season in overtime to NC State. Things are trending very badly for UNC as they prepare to play for the ACC title against Clemson. Last week: 17
Miss. State
The Bulldogs won the Egg Bowl on the road, so that is a nice way to end a pretty good regular season. Last week: NR
South Carolina ended the playoff hopes for its opponents in back-to-back weeks. The Gamecocks won 31-30 at Clemson, giving the Tigers their second loss of the season. That came just one week after they did the same to Tennessee. Last week: NR
The Wolfpack ended the season on a high with a 30-27 OT win over rival North Carolina. Last week: NR
CFP Rankings prediction: TCU, USC move to Nos. 3-4
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EU sets out position on Afghanistan government
By Nathan Morely
The EU and Britain have joined the United States in saying they will deal with the Taliban, but won't see them as Afghanistan's government.
Josep Borrell, the official in charge of EU foreign policy, said any engagement would be subject to strict conditions and would only be to support the Afghan people.
Borrell said Brussels would co-ordinate with the US, G7, G20 and other organisations, and that it would initiate a regional political platform of co-operation with the country's neighbours.
The move comes as the Taliban prepares to announce who will be in its government.
Separately, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the US pullout from Afghanistan was catastrophe and has caused a humanitarian disaster. The Russian ambassador to Kabul has said Moscow is in touch with potential members of the Taliban's new government.
Separately, the Afghan flag carrier, Ariana Airlines, will resume domestic flights from Kabul airport later. The airport has been closed to commercial traffic since the Taliban took over Kabul last month.
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Accept Reality: Iran and North Korea Will Not Be Denied Nuclear Weapons
By Ivan Eland
The Bush administration may live in a bubble of "unreality," regarding its foreign policy in Iraq, but neo-conservatives inhabit a parallel universe on Iran. Unbelievably, despite the fact that the U.S. quagmire in Iraq has greatly weakened the U.S. position vis-à-vis Iran, the neocons are pushing for military action against that theocratic regime. According to the New York Times, David Wurmser, one of Vice President Dick Cheney's principal advisors, told conservative groups of Cheney's assertion that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic effort to shut down Iran's nuclear program was faltering. Cheney further asserted that by the spring of 2008 President Bush might have to decide whether to use military force against that nation, according to the report.
Fortunately, however, the Times also reports that the friends and associates of Secretary Rice say she believes a military strike against Iran would be "disastrous" and is winning the internal administration debate so far. Even more encouraging is President Bush's decision in late 2002 and early 2003, when he decided not to give North Korea an ultimatum or threaten to attack that nation over its ejection of international nuclear inspectors and plans to create more weapons-grade plutonium that could be made into nuclear bombs. North Korea followed through on its plans, is now believed to have enough fuel for eight or more weapons, and exploded a nuclear device in the fall of 2006. Yet during the time of Bush's decision, North Korea already had enough fissile material to make some nuclear weapons, whereas Iran doesn't. That is, the reality of going to war with a nuclear nation is much more sobering than going to war with a nation that is still three to eight years away from generating the fissionable material needed to make an atomic weapon.
Even if the United States launched air strikes against Iran, they would probably only delay the inevitable. Such strikes would be unlikely to eliminate all of Iran's nuclear facilities, because the United States doesn't know where all of them are located; in addition, some have been deeply buried, and still others are in densely populated areas. Air strikes would likely rally the young Iranian population, thirsting for change, around the autocratic and theocratic fossils now running Iran's government—eliminating all hope that regime change would terminate the Iranian nuclear program. Indeed, such U.S. belligerence, or even saber rattling, is one of the prime factors motivating Iran to obtain the weapons.
If one doubts this effect, in late 2002 and early 2003, North Korea redoubled its nuclear efforts, a move that coincided with the North Koreans' conclusion about what was going to happen to a non-nuclear Iraq. As a result, North Korea's more recent agreement to readmit international weapons inspectors and stop its nuclear program, in exchange for aid and the unfreezing of its assets, should be taken with a grain of salt. North Korea cheated on the last such agreement it made with the Clinton administration. More important, the agreement did not require the North Koreans to give up the fissionable material already generated.
Therefore, unless the United States is ready to launch unlikely ground invasions in both of these nations, in order to neutralize all their nuclear facilities, fissionable material, or weapons, which would make the invasion and occupation of Iraq look like a day at the beach, Iran and North Korea will probably get or retain nuclear weapons, respectively.
This reality should not preclude the United States from trying to negotiate a "grand bargain" with these nations: to get them to give up their nuclear weapons in exchange for a full normalization of relations, to integrate them into the world economy by the lifting of economic sanctions, and to guarantee that the United States will not attack them. However, in the wake of the U.S. invasion of non-nuclear Iraq and the existence of regional rivals—some with nuclear weapons or weapons potential—it is unlikely that either Iran or North Korea will negotiate away their nuclear programs.
Thus, the United States probably will have to deter an Iranian or North Korean nuclear attack, or the giving or selling of these nuclear weapons to terrorists, by using the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world. Such deterrence was effectively carried out against bigger and more powerful states—Maoist China and the USSR—until they either moderated their behavior or disintegrated, respectively. In the case of Maoist China, the United States deterred a radical nation that indirectly threatened nuclear war with the West. If the United States deterred such large powers, it should certainly be able to deter the smaller and poorer Iran and North Korea. It is also a good bet that both unpopular, autocratic governments will collapse at some time in the future. In addition, the United States could offer these two nuclear powers limited assistance in safeguarding their nuclear weapons against theft and tips on keeping control of them in order to avoid an accidental or unauthorized launch.
Acceptance, deterrence, and limited technical assistance are smarter policies than counterproductive U.S. saber rattling and belligerence, which merely cause more countries to start or accelerate secret nuclear programs in order to obtain the ultimate weapon to keep the United States at bay.
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Trump delayed ICE raids for agents', officers' safety
Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
After President Donald Trump received much criticism for delaying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids scheduled Sunday, the federal agency revealed the real reason was because of leaks to the media, which exposed major operation details that put the safety of police and Border Patrol agents at great risk.
ICE Acting Director Mark Morgan said the plans slated Sunday morning were called off due to government leaks that subsequently led the media to reveal key specifics about numerous stings.
"The media got ahold of some operational specifics, and they reported it," Morgan told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro Saturday. "It's just egregious, and it puts the lives of the officers and agents at risk … It really jeopardized the safety of law enforcement officers ..."
Instead of putting blame on Trump for postponing the operation, he commended him for putting government personnel's safety above meeting a deadline or saving face.
"The men and women at ICE are true American heroes," Morgan added. "The president recognized that. He postponed it to protect them."
Krikorian
"[President Trump] wants to be able to show that he's done everything he possibly can to work with the Democrats and they still won't work with him. [Calling off the raids serves] almost a political purpose to try to send the message to voters that he's doing everything in his power – and [that] the real obstacle is [Senator Chuck] Schumer and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi."
"It seems pretty clear at this point that [Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan] leaked details of these operations – [and] not just general kind of things the president said on his tweet that there's going to be an effort coming up. It seems that McAleenan actually leaked specific locations where they were going to do this and when – and that made it basically impossible to do. It compromised the ability of ICE to do this operation."
Mark Krikorian, executive director
Center for Immigration Studies
(in an interview with OneNewsNow)
Setting things straight
Prior to Morgan's clarification, America was led to believe that Republicans giving into pressure from Democrats – and their so-called "compassionate" stance on immigration enforcement – was the major reason behind the delay.
"President Donald Trump announced Saturday afternoon the ICE operation would be delayed two weeks, citing requests from Democrats," TheBlaze reported. "It has since been reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called him personally to request the government not move forward with the raids."
Illegal aliens from coast to coast were to be apprehended by ICE agents and taken into custody for deportation after the president declared last week that immigrants living in America illegally would be sent back.
"The operation was originally slated to begin in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday – targeting thousands of illegal immigrants across 10 U.S. cities," TheBlaze's Chris Enloe informed.
Mole uncovered?
The acting secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security – who has made many of his pro-immigration/anti-deportation opinions public over recent months – is being exposed as the culprit behind the leaks.
"This week's big leak about a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was orchestrated by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan in an effort to sabotage the raids before they were scheduled to take place – according to three current and two former senior administration officials," the Washington Examiner announced."In a move he said was to placate Democrats, President Trump announced on Saturday that the nationwide immigration enforcement operation planned to start Sunday – aimed at migrant families who illegally remain in the country despite being denied asylum – was called off to give lawmakers two weeks to work on a plan to fix legal 'loopholes' he said have enticed migrants to come to the U.S."
Each of the five officials attested that McAleenan's resolution to go rogue and put a monkey wrench in the operation was the determining factor in the White House's postponement of ICE's sweep of illegals in 10 cities – including Miami, Houston and Los Angeles … which was first revealed on Friday by the left-leaning Washington Post.
"The sources said only a small number of people in the White House, ICE and DHS were even aware of the plan's details – including which cities, the date and time, and who would be targeted," the Washington Examiner's Anna Giaritelli explained."Two officials said the acting secretary – who was promoted internally in April – had fought for months during closed-door discussions with White House officials, the former acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello and the new acting ICE Director Mark Morgan against the plan, which they noted was similar to one the Obama administration carried out in 2015."
It was further revealed that McAleenan has voiced his opposition to ICE raids for some time.
"I know he has not approved of this operation for months," an individual privy to the private discussions divulged via phone Saturday night, according to the Examiner. "The president wouldn't leak that. ICE wouldn't leak that. There's only a few people involved in these discussions … The only one who could have shared the details of those operations were Kevin."
This was corroborated by another official who was questioned about McAleenan being the leak's source.
"That's our belief," a second official agreed. "The secretary was not supportive from day one."
A motive behind the leak was also suggested.
"The first official said McAleenan may have leaked it so that he could 'be the martyr' in the face of anticipated blowback in the future," Giaritelli recounted.
Another official confirmed DHS's acting secretary allegiance to the left – concerning immigration issues.
"[McAleenan] cares more about what liberals and 'Never Trumpers' in Congress and the media think of him th[an] achieving the express mission of his department," a third official claimed in a text message Saturday night, according to the Examiner. "[T]his will leave an un-erasable mark on his tenure."
The officials expressed little doubt that McAleenan was the mole.
"Leaking the information would only have 'benefitted one person' who had knowledge of the plan, according to the first person, who added there was 'no doubt in my mind' McAleenan either told the Post himself or had a close comrade at DHS take care of it," Giaritelli retold.
The aforementioned official concluded McAleenan was guilty.
"His hands were dirty," the official assured, according to the Examiner.
More evidence abounds
McAleenan's culpability is further corroborated by what appears to be more than circumstantial evidence in the days preceding the leak.
"McAleenan traveled with the author of the Post report, Nick Miroff, on a government plane down to the border on Wednesday," Giaritelli noted. "DHS did not respond to a request for comment."
The timing of the postponement was a clear indication that McAleenan was successful in stymying the Trump administration's plan for ICE sweeps spanning the nation.
"Following the Post report Friday, ICE advised the White House not to go forward with the raids – in part because those who were the targets might have fled the locations Enforcement and Removal Operations officers had expected to find them," Giaritelli added.
Sources contended that giving a heads-up to cities slated for raids was the major deterrent to going forward.
"Leaking the locations and details to stop the operation from happening not only harmed operational integrity, but it put the safety and well-being of his own officers in jeopardy," the third official wrote, according to the D.C. daily.
It was argued that exposing such information is a blatant violation of departmental protocol and unnecessarily puts agents' and officers' lives at risk.
"That's law enforcement sensitive information – you just don't reveal that," the second official told the Examiner. "It gets people hyped up. It gets the NGOs activated, and then anyone wearing a jacket with the ICE name on it is really chastised. Cities are coming out saying, 'Here's how you can protect yourself against it.'"
He added that the "worst" thing about the leak – especially if DHS's leader was behind it – is the fact that it put the lives of officers and agents in extreme danger.
"It really jeopardized the safety of law enforcement officers – that's the part that's really detrimental," the second official impressed.
Plan for peace in Middle East: jobs and public projects
A pro-Israel activist says the Trump administration deserves praise for its effort to broker peace in the Middle East but warns only new leaders will help.


We had already designed West Country Candy a logo and next we were asked to design a brochure. This company represents confectionery companies across the West Country and needed a way to make each of the brands stand out.
We introduced to the brand a watercolour stripe and also gave each company a colour so they would stand out. We used the water colour stripe as a background to the tables and broke up the product information with lifestyle shots.


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The history of St. Thomas Aquinas parish begins around 1942. By then, the Catholic student population at Iowa State College, spurred by interest in the naval training program, had grown to a number that no longer could be reasonably accommodated at Ames' lone Catholic parish, St. Cecilia, which was located at that time just west of downtown.
Rev. John Brickley and later Rev. Joseph Kleiner received permission to hold weekend liturgies in the Memorial Union Great Hall at Iowa State and keep an office on campus for the pastoral care of students. During these years, Archbishop Henry Rohlman corresponded with Rev. Nicholas Steffen, pastor at St. Cecilia's, about purchasing property near the campus.
In 1945, St. Cecilia parishioner and real estate professional John Judge negotiated for the purchase of Porter Lodge on Lincoln Way between Ash and Lynn avenues for $13,800. With two interior walls removed, the building became a chapel in which daily Mass was celebrated and private instructions and counseling were available to students.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Catholic Student Center was incorporated on April 8, 1947. Rev. Jame s Supple, following two years as an Army Air Corps chaplain and a short appointment in La Porte City, was appointed as the first pastor. The parish consisted of 75 families and 1,154 students who worshipped in what would become known as "The Old House."
The St. Thomas Aquinas campus: Five building phases
Ground was broken for the Newman Student Center and Chapel on Sept. 14, 1948. The chapel, located in the basement and seating 300, was dedicated on Dec. 11, 1949, by Archbishop Rohlman. The rest of the building, which included offices, lounge and the priests' living quarters, was dedicated May 4, 1950, by Archbishop Leo Binz.
1953 brought two changes to the face of St. Thomas: "The Old House" was torn down and construction began on the basement of the new church -- which actually served as a second (but larger) basement church for a decade. This basement church seated 400 and was dedicated on May 24, 1954. The space previously occupied by the student center chapel became a lounge, kitchen and social facilities.
With resident families numbering 175 and Catholic student enrollment exceeding 1,300, erection of the church -- above the "basement church" -- began in July 1962. The 900-seat facility, built at a cost of $450,000, was dedicated on Feb. 2, 1964, by Archbishop James Byrne. James Thompson & Sons, Ames (precursor to Story Construction) was the contractor on all three projects. A remodel of the sanctuary a decade later moved the altar from the center of the space to the east wall.
By 1994, the parish included 800 families (including 250 graduate student families), and Iowa State enrolled an estimated 6,000 Catholic students. The need for more space, particularly for campus ministry and religious education programming, was evident. That year, the parish purchased from Phillip O'Berry a boarding house at the corner of Ash Avenue and Lincoln Way, clearing the way for a major expansion of the St. Thomas Aquinas building. Six years later, on April 29, 2000, Archbishop Jerome Hanus visited Ames to dedicate renovated (28,400 square feet) and new (18,100 square feet) worship and office space. New construction added religious education classrooms, staff offices, an apartment for the peer ministers and a spacious gathering and sacramental area to the east side of the worship space. It also made nearly all areas of the building accessible. Story Construction was the general contractor on this $5.2 million project, for which a capital campaign had begun in 1994. The debt was paid off in 2008.
The next expansion in the parish was about making more room not for worshipers but their vehicles. Growing concern about the size (42 parking spaces) and safety (steep gradients, propensity for double parking) in the lot south of the church caught the attention of an anonymous donor, who provided a $3.2 million gift for a two-level parking deck. In October 2011, the parish's nine-apartment Cardinal House on Ash Avenue was demolished to create space for the deck, and by Thanksgiving week 2012, parishioners were using the new structure. RDG Planning and Design was the architect and Harold Pike Construction was the contractor on the $3.3 million project. There is space for 75 vehicles on the lower level, accessible from Lynn Avenue, and 96 vehicles on the upper level, accessible from Ash Avenue. The parish community dedicated its parking structure on May 4, 2013.
A few milestones of the St. Thomas Aquinas community
Lay Council
St. Thomas Aquinas' parish council was formed in 1966 to coordinate student and resident parishioner participation with the work of the staff in the responsibilities of the parish. St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the first parishes in the Archdiocese of Dubuque to form a parish council. A Vatican II directive urged Catholics to assume a more personal responsibility for the effective functioning of their parishes.
Student peer ministers
The 1976-77 academic year marked the first year of the peer ministry program, which began under peer minister Tom Cordaro. In the early years, peer ministers visited Catholic students at Iowa State in their residence halls, personally inviting them to a Thursday Night Liturgy (also initiated at this time) or, on a smaller basis, to a weekly meal the peer ministers served in a lounge of the building. In the mid-1990s, peer ministers' assignments became more focused, and each peer minister had a team of student volunteers that helped him or her. With the 2000 expansion of the St. Thomas Aquinas facility, free housing on site became an added perk for peer ministers.
Local social justice
The parish's Love your Neighbor program assists local people in need, typically by providing funds for rent and utility bills. It is funded by a percentage of the weekend liturgy collections (currently 4 percent), donations from individuals and, occasionally, grants from other sources.
The fund was established, circa 1980, with a gift from parishioner Esther Burns, who wanted specifically to help Vietnamese refugee families who were resettling in Ames. The Parish Family Life Commission petitioned the Parish Council to tithe, initially 2.5 percent, from the offertory collection to add to the fund. For the first few years, a staff member interviewed potential recipients when a need for financial help arose. In 1987, parishioners Mary Terpstra and Mary Concannon helped move the program in a new direction with trained volunteer interviewers and scheduled interview times. In recent years, $70,000 from the fund is awarded annually to assist families and individuals in the Ames area.
Catholic Studies at Iowa State
The Monsignor James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies at Iowa State University was established in 1997 to provide funding for a faculty member in the department of philosophy and religious studies who teaches courses in Catholicism. It also supports a lecture series at the university. A theology chair in Catholic studies had been a dream of founding pastor Fr. Supple for nearly 30 years. The $1 million endowment for the chair was created through gifts from the Supple Endowment Fund at St. Thomas Aquinas, ISU alumni and Ames residents. Jaime Vidal was the first holder of the chair (1997-1999). The Supple Endowment provided $100,000 for a visiting Catholic scholar program at the university (1994-1997) prior to the successful creation of the endowed chair.
Columbarium in the Prayer Garden
The idea of a columbarium on the parish property -- a final resting place for the cremated remains of parishioners -- was driven and researched by a small committee of parishioners at a time when cremation was gaining support as an internment option. Beginning in 2014, the group held informational meetings after Masses, assessed interest among parishioners and answered many questions put forward by the pastoral council regarding cost, weight, location, diocesan approval, construction, use policies and management responsibility. By summer 2015, it had the answers and approvals it needed. Eickhof Columbaria of Crookston, Minn., was selected as the contractor and the prayer garden south of the worship space as the outdoor location. When the parish dedicated the columbarium on July 31, 2016, 70 of its 120 niches had been sold, which more than covered the $67,000 project.
Clergy who have served St. Thomas Aquinas Parish
Rev. Kyle Digmann, 2018 to present
Rev. Jon Seda, 2009 to 2018
Rev. Everett Hemann, 1993 to 2009
Rev. Daniel Knepper, 1987 to 1993
Rev. Patrick Geary, 1980 to 1987
Rev. James Supple, 1947 to 1980 (pastor emeritus 1987 to 2003)
Rev. Aaron Junge, 2017 to 2018
Rev. Charles Ahenkorah, 2015 to 2017
Rev. Richmond Dzekoe, 2012 to 2015
Rev. Jim Dubert, 2011 to 2013
Rev. Jack McClure, C.PP.S., 2010 to 2011
Rev. Dennis Miller, 2005 to 2010
Rev. Scott Boone, 2003 to 2005
Rev. Jim Hayes, 1998 to 2003
Rev. Michael Tauke, 1987 to 1990
Rev. Dick Ament, 1984 to 1987
Rev. John Tilp, 1980 to 1987
Rev. James Duster, 1978 to 1980
Rev. Ernest Engler, 1976 to 1984
Rev. Richard Schaeffer, 1972 to 1975
Rev. David Manders, 1970 to 1976
Rev. Clarence Willging, 1969 (July-August)
Rev. Daniel Tarrant, 1969 to 1978
Rev. John Paar, 1968 to 1969
Rev. Melvin Hemann, 1965 to 1972
Rev. John Kissling, 1965 to 1968
Rev. Joseph Heineman, 1960 to 1965
Rev. Roger Sullivan, 1957 to 1965
Rev. David Voels, 1955 to 1960
Rev. John Gregory, 1948 to 1955
Rev. J. Duane Raftis, 1948 (February-July)
Rev. Joseph Kleiner, 1947 to 1948
* From 1973 to 1987, St. Thomas Aquinas used a "team ministry" style of pastoral leadership; thus, there is some overlap among appointments
Dennis DePietre, September 1986 to September 1988
Steve Van Kerckvoorde, September 1994 to March 1999
Paul Brown, October 2007 to October 2009
Frank Montabon, July 2019 to present


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New Orleans Music Minute
Mike Birbiglia takes to the Civic
00:00 April 18, 2014
By: Julie Mitchell
In the middle of a 100-city tour with his new show, "Thank God for Jokes," comedian-cum-storyteller Mike Birbiglia is somewhat of a comedy anomaly. Birbiglia has shown audiences his life through many filters: stand-up, Broadway, film and print, but the constant throughout is his unique marriage of humor and heart. His previous specials, Sleepwalk With Me and My Girlfriend's Boyfriend each center around an incredibly personal and often embarrassing truth in the comedian's life. We sat down with him over email to ask him a few questions.
Where Y'At: This tour is about 'how jokes can get you in trouble in life.' Who is your favorite person you've ever offended?
Mike Birbiglia: Wow. That is a very complicated, complex question. Many years ago I was asked to perform at the MVP awards for major league baseball. This is on My Secret Public Journal Live album. I was seated next to Roger Clemens and I grew up in Massachusetts and I was a huge Red Sox fan. I'd watch like 70 games a season on TV. And I was sitting next to him and I made the joke, "When I grew up I remember going to a baseball card show and I paid 8 dollars for Roger Clemens' autograph and now I'm sitting right next to him and he tried to charge me 13." And he did not laugh at all. He had that face like when he was on trial, if you saw that on CSPAN. That was a moment where I offended one of my idols. I knew at that moment that my career as a professional baseball pitcher was out the window.
WY: '…Serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs…but they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset." (From your interview with TimeOut) Are there things in your life that are just embarrassing and aren't funny at all? Is something that's embarrassing always funny? If not, what seems to be the key to the combination of the two?
MB: Is there something that's too embarrassing to be funny? Sure. Everything is on a case-by-case basis. A lot of the stories on My Girlfriend's Boyfriend are actually stories that I couldn't say out loud, never mind on stage, I couldn't even say them to my friends for like 10 or 15 years after they happened. Because I was so embarrassed. Like the story about how I had my first girlfriend in high school but she told me not to tell anyone that she was my girlfriend—I couldn't utter that to someone because it was so shameful and so embarrassing. And then when I was like 28 years old I started telling that story to friends at bars and stuff like that and people would laugh really hard and I was like, oh, I should tell that on stage. Same thing with the Scrambler story, where I throw up on the Scrambler ride. I remember I told that story once at a comedy club off-stage to this other comedian named Steve Byrne. He and I were bouncing stories and jokes back and forth and I told him that story about the Scrambler and I was really embarrassed about it but he was laughing so hard. He was like, you have to tell that on stage. And I told it on stage like 5 years later, because I was still so ashamed. I think with comedy you have to throw your pride out the window and say, this isn't about me, this is about the audience. This is about the audience having a great time and if it means that I look a lot less cool, then that's what comedy is. I'm professionally uncool.
WY: In the Splitsider interview you stated, "My life is very normal, and I'm able to make comedy about what people's lives are like." You often talk about the relatability of your material and how much audiences connect with it, and by extension, you. Are you ever worried about achieving a certain level of success and losing that?
MB: I worry about a lot of things but not that. Basically everything else you could imagine worrying about. The apocalypse, the stock market crashing, climate change, framed posters falling off the wall for no reason, my cat being dangerously skinny, that Poland Spring will forget to pick up the empty six gallon jugs outside my home, standard slip and falls, a flood of the entire earth, a deadly meteor shower, everything that Neil Degrasse Tyson talks about on that show COSMOS, that my cable won't work and the phone number it's prompting me to call is just a busy signal—those are the things I worry about. I do not worry about my lifestyle being unrelatable.
WY: What's your biggest onstage regret?
MB: Over the years I've had situations where, in a few rare instances, I've been mean to an audience member. Because I've had a really hard day or I just flew in to Texas or Canada or wherever it is and someone is heckling me or something like that and I've just felt backed into a corner and I've said some mean stuff to people. On a few occasions. I've probably done thousands of shows in my career and I've probably been mean just a handful of times. And I'd love for that not to be the case but also we're all human.
WY: What do your parents think about all this?
MB: My parents still seem a little baffled by the whole thing. I feel like they're still waiting for me to go into advertising and then they'll say, I told you so. Or they're waiting for me to become a middle school English teacher or something like that. They just clearly want me to do something that their friends have heard of as a job. That being said, I wouldn't have any of the things that I'm fortunate to have in my life without my parents, so it's a Catch-22 with parents.
WY: Many of the stories you tell are about being humiliated or being overlooked or being rejected, but you're telling them at a taping for your comedy special/in a film you made/in your own book. There's a level of implied success that mollifies the blow of the story. How does this change the story?
MB: There's an interesting example of that in the movie Sleepwalk With Me. We tried to tell the story with the monologues embedded in the scenes in sort of a Ferris Bueller kinda way. So the scene would be going on and I'd look to the camera and explain the situation. We found in the edit that the stories themselves were so sad—it was about a breakup, it's about a sleep disorder—that we weren't getting the laughs that the one person show got originally. Literally the exact same jokes that used to get laughs were not getting laughs in the film. So what we did was we went back and re-shot the same monologues from the future. Pause and think about that for a second because I know that's a lot to take in. we shot them from the future, or the present. In the car. You'd have to have seen this movie to know what the hell I'm talking about. You can watch it on Netflix but I'm basically talking to the camera while driving a car. I look at the camera and say, so I'm gonna tell you this story, a few years ago blah, blah, blah. And it was because it had already happened and the viewer is watching me and they can see like, oh he's driving a car, he's talking to us, he seems like he's in a good mood, he's alive. The audience knows that they can laugh. And then all of a sudden the movie started to get these crazy huge laughs in the test screenings. It's an interesting example of what you're saying. They say comedy is tragedy plus time and I think you really do need the time. It's not that people need to know you're successful; it's just that they need to know you're alive.
WY: You have an impressive/exhausting touring schedule. Do you have any tour rituals?
MB: Artists always have a rider, which lists what they want backstage. Sometimes people get...I don't know...sandwiches, pizza, condoms. Mine is a razor, a toothbrush, and floss. So I try to shave and do some dental care before every show. And sometimes I try to take a nap. I try to at least close my eyes for a bit before I go on stage. Because I want the shows to feel like they're just happening and that the whole show is just a stream of consciousness as opposed to like, ta-da! Here's my show, here are my jokes, here's my act! I want it to feel like the opposite of a David Copperfield show. I want the show to feel literally fresh. Aquafresh. (Please keep this Aquafresh bit in, I am contractually obligated to mention them in every interview.)
WY: Is there anything you wish I had asked?
I'm glad you asked. It's my first time in New Orleans, I've never been there. It's my longest vacation on the tour. I'm spending four days there. I usually spend one day or at most 2 days. I recently went to Charlottesville, which was awesome, I went to Charleston which was awesome. But those I went to for 2 days and this one I'm going to for 4 days. So tell people to tweet at me pizzerias, restaurants, anywhere that people think is just a must-go place. Because I have a rental car and 25 to 50 dollars of disposable income.
Tweet at him at @birbigs all the New Orleans must-eats/sees/dos and check out his show at The Civic this Friday!
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A 25-year-old man was fatally shot in his driveway near Loop 101 and Seventh Avenue, Phoenix police said.
A 25-year-old man was fatally shot in his driveway Thursday afternoon, Phoenix police said.
The shooting occurred in the area of 1000 W. Oraibi St. in Phoenix, which is southwest of Loop 101 and Seventh Avenue, police said.
Police responded to a call about a shooting at around 2:20 p.m. and found the victim wounded in his driveway.
The man, identified by police Friday as Kyle Begley, was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead.
According to investigators, the victim was having a conversation with another man on his driveway. That man got into a vehicle, shot the victim and sped away.
Initially, police had said the victim had been shot from a passing vehicle.
Police describe the vehicle as an older silver sedan, possibly a Honda.


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¿Podrían explicarme esto?
¿Como puedo hacer para mandar mi enlace con position: relative al final del contenedor y que a su vez la alineación no afecte a la lista? es decir aunque el contenedor flex sea justify-content: flex-end; la lista igual se estire sin generar saltos de linea a causa de su contenido?
Esto ocurre por el display: flex que tiene la clase row pero si la quito, todo marcha bien. pero no se como alinear mi enlace junto con la lista posicionada de forma absoluta al final del contenedor.

A: Te pasa eso porque la propiedad display : absolute se posiciona en relacion al primer padre que tenga la propiedad display distinta de initial o static. Si no hubiera ningun elemento con dichas clases, se posicionará respecto del html.
En este caso, el padre va a ser tu elemento a, (ya que tiene la propiedad display : relative), que tiene ese ancho que te provoca la duda.
Lo solucionas agregando width: 100% a este elemento a.

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Q: DLL built and linked fine but still getting lnk2019 for struct and function defined in dll (C language) I have created a dll where I have declared some functions that accept struct as parameters along with source where I have these functions defined.
The library compiles without any issues but when I link it with my sample client program I get linker error 2019 for the functions and struct declared and defined in my library. Any advice would be much appreciated.
For declaring the structure so that it is available in the source file as well as the linking test app, I did as explained in the below link (one of the very few threads on the internet that answers how one should include struct in a DLL)
Making a structure visible in both library and application - C
I have got the struct declared in a header file and included the header file in my library header file that has the declarations for my functions. I have a sample file with the same name which has both the structure header and the library header file included.
Unfortunately for me, I am still getting lnk2019 for the functions and the struct I have declared in my library.
My Library header:
#include "STRUCTURE.h"
#include "debug.h"
#ifdef LINKEDLISTDLL_EXPORTS
#define LINKEDLISTDLL_API __declspec(dllexport)
#else
#define LINKEDLISTDLL_API __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

LINKEDLISTDLL_API pEntry initialize(pEntry);
LINKEDLISTDLL_API pEntry InsertatHead(pEntry, pEntry);
LINKEDLISTDLL_API pEntry InsertatTail(pEntry, pEntry);
LINKEDLISTDLL_API pEntry RemoveatHead(pEntry);
LINKEDLISTDLL_API pEntry RemoveatTail(pEntry);

STRUCTURE.h:
#ifndef STRUCTURE_H
#define STRUCTURE_H

typedef struct List_Entry
{
    struct List_Entry* FLink;
    struct List_Entry* BLink;
}Entry, * pEntry;

#endif

pch.h:
#ifndef PCH_H
#define PCH_H

// add headers that you want to pre-compile here
#include "framework.h"
#include "STRUCTURE.h"
#include "debug.h"
#include "LINKEDLISTDLL.h"

#endif //PCH_H

Any advice on what I might be doing wrong here? My sample code has all these headers included and the lib file linked. The lib file builds without any issues. Any help will be much appreciated. Please let me know if any more details are required. Thanks in advance.


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Only 74 pages left on your journey to becoming a rock star!
Since the early days of popular music, there have been marketing strategies that have been used by amateurs and professionals alike, and some of those are still being widely used today.
We will call those the traditional marketing or promotion strategies, as those are strategies that originate from the pre-internet days, which means that they have existed for quite a long time.
Those traditional promotion strategies still work well to some degree, although they're no longer as important as they used to be.


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Q: Xcode 13+ Missing "Products" folder when creating a framework In Xcode 13+ When I create a framework, there is no "Products" folder as it used to be there prior to that version same like the below image

Even when I build the project, I still cannot find the ".framework" file anywhere.
All tutorials on google follow the same flow of creating the framework project, building then extracting the .framework binary from the Products folder, but that doesn't seem to be available in Xcode 13+
Any one have a clue?

A: The Products folder has been removed from the file navigator by Apple. You can  access framework using below alternative way.
Click On : Product -> Show Build Folder in Finder
Source: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/691136

A: In some reason, Products folder is missing in the project tree if no framework is linked against the app.

Note: worked with Xcode 13.2.1
Simple way

Just add any framework to any of your targets. The folders "Products" and "Frameworks" will appear.

Next just delete this framework from project
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The reason is a bit different Xcode project file content.
I've compared a bit projects with and without "Product" folder reference.
In my case, the folder appears "as should" when I recovered another folder called "Frameworks". Yes, that sounds very weirds but it worked!
I need to perform 2 modifications of the project file.
First: in the end of PBXGroup section add group 'Frameworks'
        BDA596AF271F808000093C27 /* Frameworks */ = {
            isa = PBXGroup;
            children = (
            );
            name = Frameworks;
            sourceTree = "<group>";
        };
/* End PBXGroup section */

Second: in the very beginning of PBXGroup section refer 'Frameworks' group
/* Begin PBXGroup section */
        A463827B279AF34300EBE05C = {
            isa = PBXGroup;
            children = (
                A4638286279AF34300EBE05C /* SomeApp */,
                A4638285279AF34300EBE05C /* Products */,
                BDA596AF271F808000093C27 /* Frameworks */,
            );
            sourceTree = "<group>";
        };

These simple and strange changes do the trick! "Products" folder comes back


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Firefox OS-based Chromecast Competitor Coming Soon
by Ostatic Staff - Jul. 23, 2014
Google Joins Samsung, Other Tech Titans, in Open Healthcare Race
Chrome Brings Text into Focus After Lagging Other Browsers
The details were unclear back in late June, but it looked like Mozilla may have been playing some role in delivering a competitor to Google's popular Chromecast dongle, with Mozilla's based on the Firefox OS platform. The rumors abated shortly after they arose, but some people missed the fact that Mozilla confirmed the news in a recent blog post, noting the following: "Mozilla is working with Panasonic to develop next generation SmartTVs running Firefox OS, and Abitcool will launch an HDMI streaming device later this year that allows the user to fling content from compatible mobile or Web apps to an HDTV."
If you thought Mozilla's strategy with Firefox OS is restricted to phones, think again.
According to GigaOM:
"Abitcool, the company that's making the stick in partnership with Mozilla, said on its website that its first product is "still under wraps." However, we were able to get our hands on one of the sticks last month, and demonstrate that it doens't just work like Google's Chromecast, but actually even works with some Chromecast apps."
The Abitcool website does confirm that it is working on its first Firefox OS product, and it's kind of funny that Mozilla is confirming what the product is.
In any case, it will be interesting to see Mozilla--already used to tussling with Google in the browser market--competing with Google's Chromecast. If you haven't used these devices, they actually are quite useful, and the more you use your phone for interacting with content and information, the more useful they are.
You can watch a GigaOM video of the Mozilla/Abitcool dongle here.
We'll probably hear official news of this dongle shortly. Here's the photo that has been heavily tweeted:


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2000 Italian Open – 2nd Round Interview
M. Seles defeats Maleeva 7-5,6-1
Q. What happened, you went down 5-2? Was there any particular problem?
MONICA SELES: No, really nothing. I mean nothing with the court. It was just really I missed so many balls by a little and then I got a little bit rattled, and it went by very fast. Also, I just came from the States three days ago, so still I'm a little bit slow to start. But thank goodness I started to really raise my level of game quite a lot.
Q. What were you thinking at 2-5? How did you pick yourself up?
MONICA SELES: It was just hard because I was down two breaks, and I didn't think — Maggie was serving unbelievable. I couldn't hit a second serve return in the court. I thought at this point I would try to play it a touch bit softer and knock it for as many free points. That game at 5-2, when she had some chances to win, the set was really short, and I just felt I raised my level of game a little bit. That's what pulled me through to win that first set.
Q. Monica, what do you think about your physical state and your psychology in this?
MONICA SELES: I think your question is what's my state of psychology like physically? Both, it's good. I mean, I've played about six weeks in a row in the States so I was very happy to have two weeks at home, and I think I'm coming fresh here. Obviously, the red claycourt season is one of my favorite times of the year, so I'm very happy to come in. I'm really not tired physically or emotionally and I'm just looking forward to the next couple of, really, weeks in Europe.
Q. You started the season very well. Do you have goals for this season?
MONICA SELES: Really my main goal is just to stay healthy. I think not playing six months was really tough, being out for the first time in my career that long. And just really stay healthy and just keep working hard pretty much.
Q. Is this tournament a tournament you really want to win or just a preparation for Roland Garros?
MONICA SELES: I think it's both. I mean any tournament I enter I really want to win. It's obvious. It's a very difficult feel. As always, I just try to look at one match at a time. This tournament holds a special place in my heart really because ten years ago was the first time I beat one of my idols, Martina, and truly this match I feel changed my career and I went on to win the French. Then a few years later I lost to Gabby here in the Finals and I still went on to win. So I just really like to play here. I haven't played here in quite a few years. So I just am really happy to come back this year.Sorry. That was long.
Q. Monica, how are the conditions here now, ball speed, court speed and the rest, compared to what it was like five or six years ago? Is it close to the French now?
MONICA SELES: I think the courts are totally different from the French. That's my personal feeling. I mean, these claycourts are very — one of the fastest claycourts, especially with how much — they had zero rain here. They're playing very fast. And there's not much clay on the court, so you can slide a lot less. I think that a tournament that's similar to this is Madrid, and I think the French is more, I would say, like Strasbourg or Berlin, more clay on the court. But at the French, too, I feel Stadium and Court 1 is totally different. This court I think feels more like Court 1, faster.
Q. I've been watching you play for a long time. Maybe I missed a few matches, but I can't recall you ever threatening to throw your racket before?
MONICA SELES: I know. That's still from the jet lag. I am still not quite sure where I am. Especially, I mean, my sleeping has been so weird the last three days, so… Trying not to get mad at myself. I almost threw my racket.
Q. Nothing to do with more desire, maybe more than usual?
MONICA SELES: I don't know. (Laughing.) I just really — I think when you get less sleep and you're still really mixed up, I don't know, maybe I get more frustrated. I think my coach felt that a little bit the last few days. But, you know, maybe that's not bad. I used to play much better when I got mad. So… (Laughing.)
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The metallic circus came to NYC earlier this week…
Avatar announce new LP; release new song + tour dates
Avatar live at PlayStation Theater earlier this month… Swedish metallers Avatar will release their seventh studio opus dubbed Avatar Country on January 12th via eOne Music/Century Media Records. The effort
Bury Your Dead Opening For Static-X
Static-X are performing at Irving Plaza in July, opening the show will be Worcester, Massachusetts metalcore band Bury Your Dead. Static-X and Bury Your Dead are both due to perform
Be on the look out this summer for the Pedal To The Metal Tour 2009, which is expected to feature the likes of Mudvayne, Black Label Society, Static-X, Suicide Silence,


I've been buzzing all summer off iced coffee. Now Blue Bottle is not only open in Venice, but Beverly Blvd (too close to home) and I can't seem to get enough of the iced vanilla lattes at Alfred's Coffee on Melrose. Now Coffee Bean, just a 2 minute walk from my home, offers Angelenos and tourists a taste of chilled happiness – Build your Own Ice Blended Drink with cookie pieces, chocolate covered espresso beans, and more. Really, it's like having dessert!
Now my favorite Italian specialty which seems to be popping up on more and more LA dessert menus, is offered at Coffee Bean til the end of August. The Affogato Pour over! Instead of ice-cream, have an espresso shot poured over any Ice Blended Drink!


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Il balato (conosciuto anche come baltoe, balatu, balatu sebua, ballatu, foda, gari telegu, klewang buchok berkait, roso sebua o telagoe) è una spada tradizionale indonesiana, originaria dell'isola di Nias, a nord-ovest di Sumatra, tipica del popolo dei Nias.

Descrizione
Il balato è prodotto in una grande varietà di lame, manici e foderi. Una caratteristica comune è l'allargarsi della lama verso la punta. La lama ha un solo filo e può essere dritta o leggermente ricurva. I manici generalmente hanno la forma di teste di animali o creature mitologiche come il lasara, e possono essere stilizzati o particolarmente dettagliati, e sono fatti di legno sebbene esistano versioni in ottone. I manici in legno hanno comunque una ghiera in ottone in prossimità della lama. Il fodero è in legno avvolto in strisce di rattan o in lamine di ottone. Spesso al fodero viene attaccato un cestino sferico in rattan che ha lo scopo di contenere vari amuleti. Solitamente i balato delle regioni meridionali hanno cestini più decorati di quelli delle regioni settentrionali.

Uso cerimoniale
Nel sud dell'isola di Nias le popolazioni locali praticano una danza di guerra detta faluaya o fataele: essi, vestiti con colori sgargianti, adoperano per questa danza scudi (baluse) e armi, tra cui i balato. I Nias facevano uso di questa spada anche per le decapitazioni, poiché in passato erano cacciatori di teste e ritenevano che i decapitati sarebbero diventati loro servitori nell'aldilà. Oggi, tuttavia, quest'usanza è andata perduta, poiché i Nias sono per la maggior parte cristiani protestanti.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Balato Sword - Yale Art Gallery

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Armi bianche orientali

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Professional soccer player and vegan Erika Tymrak explains
Michael Richardson May 11, 2018
Is it the end of the meat-muscle connection?
The list of high level athletes going vegan or vegetarian grows every year across almost every sport, including football, basketball, soccer, distance running, bodybuilding, Formula 1, and tennis.
The pros are ditching meat for a variety of reasons. Venus Williams, the second highest earning female tennis player of all time, did it to fight back against an autoimmune disorder, and now she's revamped her career at the age of 37, when she was previously on the brink of never playing tennis again.
"Not only does it help me on the court, but I feel like I'm doing the right thing for me," she said in an interview.
NBA superstar Kyrie Irving recently went vegan, and says he has found new energy from the change. Elite ultramarathoner Scott Jurek is another believer, as is Jermain Defoe, a top ten all-time goal scorer in English Premier League.
Hundreds more athletes have swung to heavily plant-based eating, while not eating strictly vegan or vegetarian. Despite decades as the standard, it seems the meat-muscle connection is starting to crumble at its foundation. While every athlete has to be concerned about protein intake, many are finding that meat doesn't have to be involved.
For Erika Tymrak, National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) player for the newly created Utah Royals, the vegan diet started out of compassion for animals. But the 26-year-old is now in the best physical shape of her life, and says the benefits of her diet are undeniable.
The 2013 NWSL rookie of the year and two-time NWSL champion says she'd been wanting to make the switch for years, but had held off, always hearing it wasn't a smart thing to do if you're like a high level athlete. But while playing in Australia for Melbourne City in 2016, she decided to go for it.
"A lot of Australians are vegan, at least in Melbourne," she says, "and it's really easy to eat out there and be vegan so I thought, you know I'm just going to try it."
She says that the change she felt was dramatic.
"I would say it took a few months, my body to adjust," she says. "But then after I adjusted, I felt better than I've ever felt. I feel like my whole life has been foggy. I would nap a lot, I would always be fatigued, and I just wasn't consistent with my energy. After I adjusted to a vegan diet, I can't describe to you how great I feel on it and how much energy I have. My recovery is so much better. My performance and my endurance and my fitness is the best it's ever been."
As a professional soccer player, Erika has the benefit of exact measurements to see where she's at physically. So while she knows she feels great, she has data to back up the effects of her diet change.
"We wear these GPS trackers that track our overall load and endurance and sprints," she says. "This year year has been my best year with my numbers from an endurance and fitness standpoint. I've also been able to keep gains and keep the perfect amount of muscle for myself, which is harder for me because I have a smaller frame. If I don't, you know, work out for a couple weeks, it's really easy for me to lose muscle, but now I find it really easy for myself to keep the muscle. And just physically I'm in the best shape of my life and I 100 percent contribute that to a vegan diet."
The transformation has made Erika into somewhat of an evangelist.
"There's a few vegan ice cream places here (Salt Lake City area), and have taken some of the girls on the team," she says. "People are always so surprised, like oh my god it's so good and it's vegan?"
The stereotype the vegan food tastes bad is just not true, Erika says.
"Vegan food is real food," she says. "It's wholesome."
Erika's Homemade Mac and Cheese
"Made completely from vegetables, potatoes and spices!"
I boil pasta, any noodle is fine, I will usually use an elbow or spiral noodle.
I boil potatoes and carrots until soft and then add them to a blender along with turmeric, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, almond milk and nutritional yeast. I will blend that until smooth and that creates a nice "cheesy" sauce.
I'll add that to warm pot and stir for a few minutes then add in the noodles! Just a healthier, more compassionate version of your typical mac and cheese!
For Erika, changing how she ate meant changing how she cooks. As a long-time lover of baking, she experimented and searched for the right ingredients to make delicious, earth and animal-friendly food.
"With baking, switching to vegan wasn't that different," she says, "I would use, instead of dairy milk, non-dairy milk, almond milk or cashew milk, and then I found a really good egg substitute. I'll always bake stuff and like my teammates will be like 'there is no way this is vegan.'"
Another myth, Erika says, is that vegan diets are highly restrictive. Her go-to meals are varied and sound delicious: sweet potatoes with almond butter and granola, homemade pizza, avocado toast, veggie pad thai, black bean burgers, buckwheat pancakes, acai bowls, and the list goes on. She says she eats a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and smoothies, and that she eats many small meals throughout the day.
Feeling better and better fitness are important to athletes and non-athletes alike, but there is also the planet to think about. Eating plant-based is good for animals obviously (as they aren't being eaten), and helps combat livestock practices that contribute heavily to greenhouse gas emissions. Professional athletes are in a unique position to change perceptions about diet, Erika realizes, which can have a huge impact on the world at large.
"I think athletes have a great platform to show people that you can not only survive on a vegan diet, but you can thrive," she says. "There are so many professional athletes around the world who choose not to eat animal products and are surpassing physical expectations. We are destroying the negative stigma attached with veganism and are showing the world that you can be fast, strong and healthy on a plant based diet."
If all the grain (corn, soybean meal and other grains) currently used to feed livestock in the United States were used instead to feed people, 800 million people could be fed.
Source: Scientific American
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Those Crazy Vegans
So many athletes are thriving on a plant-based diet as the world is realizing that animal fats and proteins aren't necessary for optimal performance. Plus these people are reducing or eliminating their support of animal abuse so they are leaders both athletically and ethically. Hopefully more people will follow in their footsteps 🙂
Great article! More and more elite athletes are going vegan and as a result, are reaching new peak performances. Plant-based foods not only improve athletic performance but also the health of athletes. Check out the new book Plant Victorious for vegan foods proven to enhance your performance.
FYI – the body doesn't need protein, fats and carbs which it has to break down before assimilating – the body actually needs amino acids, fatty acids and simple sugars which are abundant in fresh fruit.
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Jerico, top left, with Grade 1 Drama School students at YPT.
July 19, 2017 / YPT / Comments Off on Meet Jerico!
We are excited to be working with Jerico De Vera, a Grade 11 student from Brebeuf College School who is completing his co-op placement at YPT this summer. He will be assisting with the program delivery and administration of the Summer Drama Camp sessions, which focus on engaging participants through the active and collaborative process of creating theatre. YPT Community Volunteer Manager, Norah O'Donnell, sat down with Jerico and asked him a few questions.
Jerico De Vera, a Grade 11 student from Brebeuf College School, is completing his co-op placement at YPT this summer.
Tell us about yourself in a tweet.
I love to act and I participate in a lot that involves acting. I like to make puns because it's punny.
Why were you interested in completing your placement here at YPT?
I was interested in completing my placement here at YPT because I love the performing arts. Being a part of this field is truly an honour because I get to learn and get hands-on experience about performing and entertaining others through the incredible people at YPT. Also, working with children is truly amazing, because they have great imaginations and create interesting stories.
What are you most excited about this summer?
This summer I'm most excited about learning new games that will help me build my skills to follow my dream of being an actor. I am also looking forward to making new friends and amazing memories this summer.
Other than school work, what keeps you busy?
I can't live without art because "EARTH without ART is just EH" (according to someone). I also couldn't live without Wi-Fi, and, of course, food.


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Two Pints Outtakes - Outtakes
For the tenth anniversary, more of the sitcom's best moments that never made it onto TV.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Series 8 - You Decide
Gaz is torn between Janet and Donna. Louise tells Tim she is desperate for a boyfriend.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Series 9 - Cheese Toastie
Gaz struggles to get used to metrosexual Billy and Tim gives his sister Cassie a makeover.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Series 9 - Nil By Muff
Gaz struggles with his paralysis and Tim is shaken by the arrival of his sister Cassie.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Series 9 - Shagger
Tim uses a phone app to find a boyfriend. Cassie tries to impress Billy by acting the WAG.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps - Series 9 - The Gaz-Bot
Donna helps Gaz in his ambition to become a Paralympian. Billy goes on a date with Cassie.
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Gaz tries to help Billy get a trial for Runcorn Rovers, while Donna re-examines her life.