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French Famous People themed language exercises
Topic specific French practice exercises
Some French speakers are famous just in their country, others are globally recognised. Meet and greet French celebrities, sports stars, artists, architects and more while practising and improving your language skills with these exercises.
Actress Anne Dorval
listening exercise
Claire tells us about her favourite actress, French-Canadian Anne Dorval.
The famous singer introduces herself.
Élodie tells us about Lyon-born, famous stand-up Florence Foresti.
Hello! I'm Mario!
The famous plumber introduces himself.
I, Louis XIV
The French king Louis XIV tells us about himself.
The famous French actress tells us about herself.
Didier Drogba, my favourite football [US:soccer] player
A father discusses his football [US:soccer] idol Didier Drogba with his daughter.
La première astronome
Edmée Chandon, first French female astronomist, tells us about herself.
Here's a quick biography of Marie-Antoinette, "last" queen of France (pre-French Revolution).
Mime Marceau
Xavier is a big fan of the world famous Strasbourg-born mime.
Napoleon, a Corsican emperor
Did you know that French emperor Napoleon was from Corsica?
Saïd Taghmaoui
Learn about this famous French-Moroccan-American actor.
A French author is introducing herself: will you guess who she is?
Guess who this important figure of the French Resistance is.
Who is this writer ?
Guess who this French writer is!
The most famous French footballer [US:soccer player] introduces himself.
Lettre à France - Michel Polnareff
Reading exercise
Enjoy French singer Michel Polnareff's cult love "letter" to France, and sing along while practising your French listening comprehension.
L'œuvre d'Émile Zola
Learn more about famous French writer Emile Zola.
My idol Roger Federer
Philippe tells us why he admires the famous Swiss tennisman so much.
Queen Elizabeth II's death
Here's a French news announcement about the death of the long-reigning British Queen.
Irène introduces this larger-than-life French magistrate and politician.
C'est qui Coluche ?
Learn about French icon Coluche in this cute animated video.
Comme d'habitude - Claude François
Discover the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude", the original French version of Sinatra's "My Way", while practising your French listening comprehension.
Édith Piaf - portrait français
Édith Piaf was a French cabaret singer and international star. Read and listen to our bilingual article, then listen to a few of her classic songs.
France Gall, la groupie du pianiste
France Gall passed away in January 2018. Learn about this French singer with a unique voice in our bilingual article.
Les Fêtes Johanniques de Reims
Learn about Reims's historical celebration commemorating Charles VII's coronation, while practising your French listening and reading comprehension.
Lupin - Interview d'Omar Sy (Séries françaises)
Listen to the awesome French actor Omar Sy tell us how TV show "Lupin" came to be, while practising your French reading and listening comprehension.
Ready for two minutes of women's history? Listen to French kids talking about renowned scientist Marie Curie in this cute video.
Omar Sy - Interview Cinéma
French actor Omar Sy is known for a number of international hits, including Les Intouchables, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Jurassic World. In this interview, he talks (quickly!) about some of his favorite movies.
Qui sont-ils ? Les Frères Bogdanoff
Learn about France's most famous twins, while practising your French listening comprehension.
"Arab blues"
Discover this French-speaking comedy and its French-Tunisian director Manele Labidi.
Jules Verne and Nantes
Learn about famous French author Jules Verne and his hometown Nantes.
Laure Manaudou
Learn about the exceptional career of one of the best French swimmers of all time.
Louis XIV and the artists
Learn about Louis XIV's passion for the arts, which didn't come without an ambition to control his own image.
Marie-Claire tells us about her favourite French artist.
The Paul Bocuse Institute in Lyon
Marie's son dreams of studying at this world-renowned French cooking school.
The Ritz hotel in Paris
Learn about one of the most iconic hotels in Paris.
Learn about France's most famous astronaut.
Basique - OrelSan
Practise your French rapping skills with OrelSan's "Basique".
Bruxelles je t'aime - Angèle
Celebrate the Belgian capital with Angèle's upbeat love song to Brussels, while practising your French listening comprehension.
Charles Aznavour s'éteint à 94 ans
Famed French-Armenian singer passed away in October 2018. Watch this video highlighting aspects of his talented career, then scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader.
Claude Monet's "Water Lilies"
Learn about the story behind the unique way Claude Monet's Water Lilies are displayed, while practising your listening and reading comprehension.
Décès de l'ancien président Jacques Chirac, l'animal politique
Former French president and mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac passed away on 26 September 2019. Learn about the legacy of this political animal in this video from France24.
Héritage de Johnny Hallyday
Despite being French, Johnny Hallyday wrote his will in the United States, which allowed him to disinherit his children. Find out how they're challenging the will and whether they have a case in this video.
Jean de La Fontaine (Portraits français)
Learn about French poet Jean de La Fontaine, while practising your French reading and listening skills.
Johnny Hallyday : 1943-2017
Watch this hommage to Johnny Hallyday, a French rock and roll legend who died in December 2017.
Joséphine Baker au Panthéon
Learn about the decision to welcome Josephine Baker into the French Panthéon, while practising your French listening and reading comprehension.
L'Appel du 18 Juin 1940
The Appeal of 18 June is considered the origin of the French Resistance during World War II. Learn how it came about in this French video with transcript and translation.
La Bohème - Charles Aznavour
Travel to the old Montmartre with this classic song by Charles Aznavour, "La Bohème", while practising your French listening comprehension.
Réalisatrices françaises
In honour of International Women's Day on 8th March, we're celebrating and highlighting the top 5 female film directors in the world of Francophone cinema.
Sans toi - Pomme
Sing along with French singer Pomme's pop folk song "Sans toi", while practising your French listening and reading comprehension.
"Les Fleurs du Mal"
Learn about French poet Baudelaire's conception of beauty and poetry.
"Mon rêve familier" de Paul Verlaine
Here's one of Paul Verlaine's most famous poems, where he reminisces about dreaming about a perfect woman.
Claude Nougaro and Toulouse
Learn about the Toulouse-born singer and his deep connection to the Pink City.
A short biography of this extraordinary woman who became a fashion icon.
The French comedian is still much loved in France, 30 years after his death.
Édith Piaf
Here's a short biography of one of France's most beloved singers.
French director Ladj Ly and "Les Misérables".
French director Ladj Ly on his film "Les Misérables".
Jean-Marc Vallée
Nathan and Florence discuss the late Quebecois director Jean-Marc Vallée.
Fatima tells us about one the greatest Francophone writers.
Proust's madeleine
Learn the origin of this popular French expression.
Rimbaud's poem "Voyelles"
Learn about one of Rimbaud's most famous poems.
The feminist revolutionary Olympe de Gouges
Bastien tells us about this extraordinary humanist writer from 18th century France.
Chez Victor Hugo à Guernesey
Discover Victor Hugo's amazing mansion Hauteville House on the island of Guernsey, while practising your French reading and listening comprehension.
Henri Matisse au Centre Pompidou
Enjoy a fascinating retrospective on French painter Henri Matisse at the Pompidou Center in Paris, while practising your French listening comprehension.
Jeanne d'Arc (Portraits français)
Learn about Joan of Arc - Jeanne d'Arc - while practising your listening and reading comprehension.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - Une rétrospective en images
Former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing died of Covid-19 on 2 December, 2020, at the age of 94. Take a look back at his life and career in this video from Le Monde.
Victor Hugo (Portraits français)
Learn more about famous author Victor Hugo, while practising your listening and reading comprehension.
La Vie En Rose - Édith Piaf (Le Présent + Vocabulaire)
Subject mastery Kwiz
Practise your French conjugations in Le Présent Indicatif and some French A1 vocabulary with this Fill-in-the-Blanks kwiz exercise
Peindre comme Cézanne (Vocabulaire)
Practise your Painting vocabulary in French with this Fill-in-the-Blanks kwiz!
Au Musée du quai Branly (Vocabulaire)
Practise your Museum vocabulary in French with this Fill-in-the-Blanks kwiz!
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Lee Strobel – Former atheist and fake newsman?
Lee Strobel's website describes him as follows: "Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel is the former award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune." These are the twin pillars of Strobel's marketing: he was an atheist and a journalist. This background supposedly equips Strobel to ask "the questions a tough-minded skeptic would ask." Strobel supposedly "probes with bulldog-like tenacity the evidence for the truth of biblical Christianity."[1]
Was Strobel an atheist?
Strobel claims that he considered himself an atheist, but that he held only superficial beliefs about religion. He explains,
I had read just enough philosophy and history to find support for my skepticism — a fact here, a scientific theory there, a pithy quote, a clever argument. Sure, I could see some gaps and inconsistencies, but I had a strong motivation to ignore them: a self-serving and immoral lifestyle that I would be compelled to abandon if I were ever to change my views and become a follower of Jesus."[2]
This description sounds suspiciously similar to an evangelical caricature of atheism, as if I would suddenly understand how Noah fit all those dinosaurs on the Ark if I would only give up my hookers and cocaine. To those of us who are actually atheists, Strobel does not sound like he ever understood our point of view.
Real reporters interview both sides of an issue
Critics have accused Strobel of sham journalism. Beginning with The Case for Christ, Strobel follows the same pattern of faux interviews in a series of "Case for" books. Like most apologetic books, Strobel's books are one-sided assessments. He interviews evangelical scholars who spout the standard apologetic arguments, but he never interviews critics.
In The Case for the Real Jesus, Strobel wonders why "so many critics rely on flimsy evidence and feeble arguments."[3] He muses, "It's not always easy to discern people's motives." But, Mr. Strobel, think about this real hard: what would a reporter do if he wanted to understand the motives of critical scholars? Interview them? Perish the thought. Strobel chats with a few conservative Christians and calls it an objective investigation.
Strobel does not interview like a reporter.
Just as Strobel does not sound like he was ever an atheist, he does not ask questions like a reporter. Strobel's books are more like infomercials than journalism. Strobel is the shill, asking easy questions so the pitchman/apologist can hawk the product.
Consider Strobel's first interview in The Case for Christ.[4] He asked Craig L. Blomberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Blomberg about gospel authorship. Most Christians simply assume that St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John wrote the Gospels now attributed to them. However, the earliest manuscripts did not identify any author, and later scribes or editors added titles like "The Gospel according to Matthew."[5]
Blomberg acknowledged that the four Gospels were originally anonymous, but claimed that "the uniform testimony of the early church" was that Matthew, Mark and Luke wrote the synoptic Gospels. A reporter would follow up with questions on the five Ws – who, what, when, where, why. And what was Strobel's probing question? He asked, "How uniform was the belief that they were the authors?" That is a question from a shill, not a reporter. Of course, Blomberg answered that the testimony was uniformly uniform.
A real reporter verifies information
Blomberg also claimed someone named John wrote the document we now call the Gospel of John, but, Blomberg said, there is a question about which John.
Blomberg: "You see, the testimony of a Christian writer named Papias, dated about AD 125, refers to John the apostle and John the elder, and it's not clear from the context whether he's talking about one person from two perspectives or two different people. But granted that exception, the rest of the early testimony is unanimous that it was John the apostle— the son of Zebedee— who wrote the gospel."
Strobel: "And," I said in an effort to pin him down further, "you're convinced that he did?"
Of course, Blomberg said he was quite convinced. However, Strobel ignored a blatant ambiguity in Blomberg's statement about Papias – Blomberg merely implies that Papias said something about John writing a gospel. Papias did no such thing, and Strobel would know that if he checked Papias, Blomberg's primary source.
Papias' books have all been lost, but Eusebius (The Church History, Book 3, Chapter 39) quotes Papias' discussion of John. Papias discusses John, and Eusebius infers that Papias refers to two different Johns – John the Apostle and John the Elder (a.k.a. John the Presbyter). However, neither Papias nor Eusebius so much as hinted at the possibility that anyone named John ever wrote a Gospel. A real reporter would verify the facts, but Strobel is a shill who verifies nothing.
And yet, Strobel was a real reporter
I would say that Strobel is a fake newsman, but he isn't. The Len H. Small Memorial Award for Community Service Journalism that Strobel earned while working for the Chicago Tribune may not be a Pulitzer Prize, but Strobel actually is, as he claims, an "award-winning journalist." He knows that a real journalist interviews both sides of a controversy, asks probing questions and verifies information.
Strobel knows how to investigate a story, but he chooses not to do so. He chooses to be a shill. Strobel sincerely believes in his product, but his marketing is less than honest.
Which brings me back to whether Strobel was an atheist.
Strobel claims he converted from atheism to Christianity based on the "overwhelming avalanche of evidence in the case for Christ."[6] However, I find it difficult to believe he converted because of evidence, which, on close examination, is more like a house of cards than an overwhelming avalanche.
The Case for Christ supposedly depicts Strobel's journey as he interviewed a series of biblical scholars and the mounting evidence eventually convinced him to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Strobel claims that he was still a cynical atheist when he questioned Blomberg, the first scholar he interviewed. However, Strobel was already playing a shill during this first interview.
In sum, I cannot say when and why Strobel became an evangelical Christian, but his story in the case for The Case for Christ does not hold water. Just as Strobel chooses to play the shill, he chooses to obfuscate the real story of his conversion.
[1] http://www.amchristiancounseling.com/spiritual-questions/
[2] Lee; Strobel, Case for Christ Movie Edition: Solving the Biggest Mystery of All Time (Kindle Locations 487-488) Zondervan, Kindle Edition. He said something similar in this interview with the Friendly Atheist. Http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/01/02/lee-strobel-answers-your-questions-part-1/
[3] Lee Strobel, The Case For The Real Jesus 267 (Zondervan 2007).
[4] Lee Strobel, Case for Christ Movie Edition: Solving the Biggest Mystery of All Time (Kindle Locations 612-613) Zondervan, Kindle Edition.
[5] Bart Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted 105-06 (HarperOne 2009).
[6] Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ 265 (Zondervan 1998).
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Indian mining giant Adani's 21.7 billion dollar coal mine project in Australia faced a fresh legal challenge after a green group asked the Supreme Court in Queensland to review the environmental approval to the controversy-hit venture. Conservation group Coast and Country said that it has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Queensland for a judicial review.
Queensland's Department of Environment and Heritage Protection granted the environmental permit for the coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin in February this year.
"As it relates to Carmichael, the approvals given are the most strict and rigorous of their kind ever given for a single development. Adani has for some time warned of the threat to major, job-creating projects proceeding in Queensland being endless appeals to thorough, detailed and considered science-based approvals," Adani's spokesperson said.
"When the Queensland Government announced their strict, science-based approval had been given to the mine at Carmichael, the company noted that it's timelines assumed additional, politically-motivated challenges seeking to delay the project and deny the benefits of jobs, taxes and royalties of our state from proceeding as planned," he said. Adani's plan to build one of the world's biggest coal mines in Australia has been hampered time and again. A federal court in August last year had revoked the original approval due to environmental concerns. In October last year, the project got a new lease of life after the Australian government gave its re-approval.


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using Canon.Eos.Framework.Helper;
using Canon.Eos.Framework.Internal;

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{
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    {
        internal EosException(long eosErrorCode)
        {
            this.EosErrorCode = (EosErrorCode)eosErrorCode;
        }

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            : base(message)
        {
            this.EosErrorCode = (EosErrorCode)eosErrorCode;
        }

        internal EosException(long eosErrorCode, string message, Exception innerException)
            : base(message, innerException)
        {
            this.EosErrorCode = (EosErrorCode)eosErrorCode;
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Jos Verstappen critical of current F1: "We didn't do any of that"
27-11-2020 11:26 | Updated: 27-11-2020 14:30
by GPblog.com
Max Verstappen knows that Formula 1 has changed a lot compared to about twenty years ago, when his father Jos Verstappen was active. The Red Bull Racing driver regrets that during a Grand Prix weekend he can only give it all during qualifying. In his view, everything in the race is too much about tyre management and saving fuel.
"It doesn't matter if you go 300 or 360. If you don't have the sound of the engine...," said Verstappen in an interview with CarNext. Jos joins his son on this: "It's also the emotion it brings."
Hulkenberg: "Would be great if I could get a chance in the autumn of my career"
Nowadays there is a lot of criticism of Formula 1. It is said to be too much about tyre management and saving fuel, which prevents drivers from going full speed on Sundays. According to the Verstappen's it has to do with different things.
Max would like it to be different
"Yeah, I mean in the race you want to do a one stop. Because the problem is that you can't really pass with these kind of cars on the most of the tracks. What you do is just to back out of it, the guy behind you will get stuck and you just make sure that you have the tyre life to go to the end after your stop. At some tracks we have to lift for fuel, because the fuel tank is not big enough to go flat out all the time," Max Verstappen explained.
Sainz acknowledges the progress Ferrari have made this season
Vettel is supported by experienced colleagues: "Don't want this to happen again"
The 23-year-old driver cited last month's Grand Prix at the Nurburgring as an example. "I would of course prefer to go flat out, like we had in Germany. There was like twelve low fuels. We had new tyres, then you are pushing and you see also the lap times were coming down and we were only two and a half seconds from what we did in qualifying."
Jos Verstappen makes comparison
Jos Verstappen knows that the current pinnacle of motorsport cannot be compared to the years in which he drove at the highest level. "We had to push all the time. That was good and that's how the racing should be. You have to push and go to the limit. Now is all the things about tyre management and fuel saving, we didn't do any of that," added the 48-year-old Dutchman.
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Q: How can I get client DNS IP using Go I want Get Client Cache DNS IP using Go
Look at the code I tried below
import (
    "fmt"
    "net"
)

func main() {
    // Usually DNS Server using 53 port number
    // This case, TCP protocol is not considered
    port := ":53"
    protocol := "udp"

    var buf [2048]byte

    //Build the address
    udpAddr, err := net.ResolveUDPAddr(protocol, port)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Wrong Address")
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("Listened " + protocol + " from " + udpAddr.String())

    //Create the connection
    udpConn, err := net.ListenUDP(protocol, udpAddr)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }

    // Listening 53 Port Like DNS Server
    for {

        // If get request,
        _, err := udpConn.Read(buf[0:])
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Println("Error Reading")
            return
        } else {
            // Print Remote Address,
            // I Guess this is the Client Cache DNS IP, but this is print <nil>
            fmt.Println(udpConn.RemoteAddr())
        }
    }
}

How do I get the Client Cache DNS IP in this case? Pleas Help me
I Want to Build Client DNS IP Collector, seem whoami
I also refer to this as https://github.com/miekg/exdns/blob/master/reflect/reflect.go
but this is not answer for me
I want simple server

A: UDP is stateless. There is no single client address for a connection. Each packet can be sent from a different address, so RemoteAddr is only useful on the client, but not the server.
Use one of *UDPConn.ReadFrom, *UDPConn.ReadFromUDP, or *UDPConn.ReadMsgUDP instead of Read. All of them return the client address for the read packet.

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Walgreen Co. ("Walgreens"), the nation's largest retail pharmacy, has agreed to pay $60 million to settle allegations that it knowingly overcharged government healthcare plans such as Medicaid for prescription drugs based on an announcement today by Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP.
With this unprecedented settlement, Walgreens resolved allegations that the company defrauded the U.S. government, Michigan and 38 other States by submitting false and inflated prices for prescription drugs to increase its government reimbursements.
The groundbreaking settlement is the largest of its kind against a retail pharmacy under the qui tamwhistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA).
Today's settlement was due to the efforts of whistleblower Marc D. Baker and his legal counsel Andrew M. Beato and Jed Wulfekotte of Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP. Under federal and state laws, the amount charged by a pharmacy for a prescription drug cannot exceed the drug's usual and customary price. Baker alleged that Walgreens made false claims for payment of prescription drugs by submitting inflated usual and customary prices to government healthcare plans, including Medicaid, that fraudulently increased its reimbursements.
Baker's lawsuit, which was filed in 2012, disclosed that Walgreens offered discounted prices on prescription drugs to the general public through the Walgreens Prescription Savings Club called PSC, including government healthcare program beneficiaries, while charging significantly higher prices for the same drugs when paid by government programs.
Importantly, a successful case entitles the whistleblower to a percentage of the amount recovered. Baker will receive 21 percent of the amount recovered by the government.
This $60 million Walgreens settlement resolves a multi-prong investigation by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and numerous State Attorneys General Offices into Walgreens' pharmacy and drug pricing practices. It is a capstone to numerous claims against Walgreens stemming from the six-year investigation started by Baker's lawsuit. This includes a partial settlement on January 19, 2018, in which Walgreens paid $50 million to the government related to unlawful kickbacks intended to induce government beneficiaries to fill prescriptions at Walgreens' pharmacies.
The FCA's qui tam provisions incentivize whistleblowers to report fraud on a government program with the protection of a court-ordered seal, confidentiality, and without company retaliation. More than $40 billion in government fraud has been recovered in FCA qui tam matters during the past 30 years.
The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York detailing the violations by Walgreens. The case is United States ex rel. Marc D. Baker v. Walgreen Co., 12 Civ. 0300 (JPO) (S.D.N.Y.).
Special recognition is owed to Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner's Chief Investigator Rory Kelly for his substantial contribution to this investigation.
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An ex-rugby league player who learned to walk again after breaking his neck in two places has given a motivational talk to pupils at his old school.
Jimmy Gittins, who battled back from a horror tackle, told Outwood Grange Academy pupils about his triumph over adversity.
Mr Gittins, 42, refused to accept the doctor's diagnosis that he might never walk again after being seriously injured while playing for Sharlston Rovers in 2002. He went on to walk partner Lucy down the aisle and they are now proud parents. He also accompanied the late Steve Prescott on many of his endurance challenges for charity.
Mr Gittins, who is an ambassador for rugby league charity State of Mind, said he hoped his audience would use his story as "a tool" to cope with stress.
He said: "These pupils have a lot of pressures in exams, social media and stuff like that. "I think speaking to them will hopefully give them the inspiration they need. Being told I'd not walk again just gave me strength in the face of adversity and I hope to pass that message on.


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First I found the following script (see code snippet), ran it on the local system without errors and tried re-installing Net Framework 2.0. Altogether I am having trouble with .Net Framework! I proceeded to try out all of these ideas with no success. :( At this point, I had .net 2.0 removed completely with no trace of it anywhere. I'm getting this annoying error over and over again when trying to install Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 "Error 25007.Error occured while initializing fusion.
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Up to meal 25! I know I haven't met my goal of 30 days but I'm pretty close. Only 5 more meals.
I focused on soups last week. For lunches, I like to have either soup or salad with my meal because it has staying power. Nothing is worse than feeling hungry an hour after eating. Let's take a look.
I've made lentil soup a bunch of times but not one recipe has stuck. I've been trying to pinpoint why that happens because it's usually the reason I don't make something more often. I sometimes make lentil soup in the slow cooker but then it gets too mushy. Unlike other dried beans, lentils cook quickly so are ideal for the stove-top.
I started by building off this lentil dish I make quite a bit for lunches. I also looked at what others put in their lentil soup and came up with the combo below. Big A, who just started getting into soups, said it was good (only two bites but I'll take it). And my husband liked it too. It's wonderful with shredded Parmesan on top.
In a large pot over medium/high heat cook onions in oil until just softened. Add carrots, celery and thyme and continue to cook until veggies softened, about 5 minutes. Add garlic the last minute of cooking.
Add in lentils, vinegar, tomato paste, bay leaf, water and broth and mix until combined. Bring to a boil and then turn down heat letting it simmer for 20-30 minutes.
When lentils are cooked to desired consistency, add salt and remove the bay leaf. Top with shredded Parmesan cheese (if desired).
I recently posted this recipe and really liked it. But I know from experience that it's not until you make something twice that you know it's a keeper. I've had many times I love something the first time only to make it again totally disappointed. This also happens with tasters at the store. Tasted good there but at home not so much.
I don't really consider this a main meal because it doesn't contain a key protein source and isn't as filling as a bean/meat soup. But I love butternut squash and figure I can serve it with grilled cheese or even as a side. I sauteed about 1/2 cup of chopped onion in olive oil for about 5 minutes. Then I added 3 cups of chopped butternut squash (store-bought baggie) and about 1/2 cup chopped carrots, 2 cups of broth, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 tsp nutmeg. I brought it to a boil and then let it simmer until the squash and carrots were soft, about 20 minutes. I blended it all together until it reached a pureed consistency.
This had a great flavor and I think it's good but I might be the only one. I gave the kids a straw to try it with, and Big A gave it a sideways thumbs up. Little D didn't go for it and the hubs kind of shrugged his shoulders.
I've tried pork tenderloin in the slow cooker but it always ends up too tough. I think part of it is because my slow cooker cooks high. I was looking for recipes and spotted this one from Ellie Krieger. Rubs are so easy to use and make ahead of time for quick prep. This was tender and flavorful. Big A said it tasted like chicken. I said, well, pork is the other white meat (couldn't resist). I will make this again for sure.
I've been working on sides too. I love roasting broccoli and cauliflower but sometimes it turns out and others times it's not as good. I wanted to pinpoint a specific recipe for me. So I tried a couple variations and this one is best.
First I use, the 12 ounce bags from Trader Joe's and place in a big plastic bag with 2 tablespoons olive oil and 2 minced garlic cloves. I lay the broccoli on a baking sheet and sprinkle it with salt and pepper and roast at 425F for 20 minutes or until it's a bit browned. Then I put it in a bowl and mix with about a tsp more of olive oil, 2 Tbsp. Parmesan cheese and more salt if needed.
For me, this is better than dessert.
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I looooooooove roasted broccoli! Thanks for the good ideas.


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Baylor Lady Bears Head Coach Nicki Collen (middle) poses for a photo with Director of Athletics Mack Rhoades (left) and President Linda Livingstone (right) during her introductory press conference May 5. Collen is the fifth head coach in program history.
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WACO, Texas — From a driveway in Wisconsin to the WNBA and now to the banks of the Brazos, Nicki Collen's journey to Waco has been filled with twists and turns. She sat down with 25 Sports reporter Jack Allen to give Baylor fans a glimpse into her life and legacy.
Tune in to 25 Sports at 6:30 every day this week for a closer look at the new Head Coach of the Lady Bears, covering everything from her coaching style to her family mentality.


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Rich history to be recognized
Lucy Depp Park gets historical marker
By Dustin Ensinger - [email protected]
Joe Louis, a former world heavyweight champion boxer, was one of several famous African-Americans to spend time at Lucy Depp Park, which at one point was something of a summer resort with a rich history. Louis was friends with Cecilia Chancellor, who owned a house in the historic community.
It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves seeking refuge in Canada, then it was transformed into a rural neighborhood populated by African-Americans and, soon after, it became a resort of sorts for Columbus' African-American community.
Now the Lucy Depp Park Community, located in Concord Township just north of Shawnee Hills, will be recognized for its historical importance by Ohio History Connection, formerly the Ohio Historical Society.
The now diversified neighborhood will unveil its own Ohio Historical Marker on Labor Day.
"We've been working on this historical marker for quite a few years. We always say it's sacred land because it's been passed down from generation to generation," said Theresa Hopkins-Dearing, president of the community's civic association.
The story of Lucy Depp Park Community begins with Abram Depp, a freed Virginia slave who moved to Ohio to ply his trade as a blacksmith. He made his home on nearly 400 acres of Concord Township land he purchased, making it into the county's first farm owned by an African-American.
He and his family turned the land into a small community, one that was used to help usher escaped slaves to freedom. The escaped slaves hid in limestone caves along the river before continuing north under the cover of darkness.
Legend has it that, despite the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed runaway slaves in free states to be returned to their owners, none that traveled through the Depp's Underground Railroad stop were ever returned to bondage.
In the 1920s, Depp's daughter, Lucy, for whom the community is named, sold a portion of the property to nephew Robert Goode, who had his sights set on establishing an African-American neighborhood on the land.
Goode, in 1928, established Lucy Depp Park as a 102-acre subdivision with 720 lots, some of which sold for as little as $50.
It was not long before the peace and tranquility the area offered turned Lucy Depp Park into something of a summer resort for African-Americans from Columbus and elsewhere, once hosting world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and, from time to time, musicians traveling through the area.
"This area was established as kind of like a retreat," said Hopkins-Dearing, who is married to a direct descendant of Abram Depp.
"They began to market a lot through black congregations in Columbus," said Gwyn Stetler, who lives in the Goode house, which at one time faced possible demolition.
The historical marker, located at the intersection of Harriott Road and Frabell Drive, will be unveiled at 6 p.m. Monday. Prior to the ceremony, a picnic will be held at 4 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own picnic basket meal and one item that can be shared with others. Musical performances will occur throughout the day.
The community, which is now about 50 percent white, has gathered for an annual Labor Day picnic since the 1970s. This year's version takes on added meaning with the dedication of the historical marker, which was years in the making.
"For us, this is about honoring sacred tradition, but it's also as much about contemporary community building," said Stetler.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2015/09/web1_Joe-Louis.jpgJoe Louis, a former world heavyweight champion boxer, was one of several famous African-Americans to spend time at Lucy Depp Park, which at one point was something of a summer resort with a rich history. Louis was friends with Cecilia Chancellor, who owned a house in the historic community.
By Dustin Ensinger
Dustin Ensinger can be reached at 740-413-0902 or on Twitter @EnsingerDG.
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Naturalistic Art
Non-traditional art, about which a few words must be said here, embraces the classical art of antiquity and the Renaissance, and continues up to the nineteenth century which, reacting against academicism, gives rise to impressionism and analogous styles; this reaction rapidly decomposes into all sorts of perversities, either "abstract" or "surrealistic": in any case, it is of "subrealism" that one ought to speak here. It goes without saying that worthwhile works are to be found incidentally both in impressionism and in classicism—in which we include romanticism, since its technical principles are the same—, for the cosmic qualities cannot but manifest themselves in this realm, and a given individual aptitude cannot but lend itself to this manifestation;1 but these exceptions, in which the positive elements succeed in neutralizing the erroneous or insufficient principles, are far from being able to compensate for the serious drawbacks of extra-traditional art, and we would gladly do without all its productions if it were possible to disencumber the world from the heavy mortgage of Western culturism, with its vices of impiety, dispersion, and poisonousness. The least that one can say is that it is not this kind of grandeur that brings us closer to Heaven.
This culturism is practically synonymous with civilizationism, and thus with implicit racism; according to this prejudice, Western humanity proves its superiority by the "Greek miracle" and all its consequences, and thus by the anthropolatry—it is not for nothing that one speaks of humanism—and cosmolatry which characterize or rather constitute the classicist mentality.
As we have mentioned on other occasions, what must be blamed in artistic naturalism is not its exact observation of nature, but the fact that this observation is not compensated and disciplined by an equivalent awareness of that which transcends nature, and so of the essences of things, as happens for example in Egyptian art; in all sacred arts it is the style which indicates a mode of inwardness and corrects such outwardness, contingency, and accidentality as the imitation of nature may involve; we would even say that an awareness of essences to a certain extent compromises or retards, if not a sufficient observation of outward things, at least their exact expression in graphic terms, although—and one must insist on this—there is no incompatibility in principle between exact draughtsmanship and contemplativity, the latter conferring on the former the imprint of inwardness and essentiality.
In conformity with the Platonic principle that like attracts like, Plotinus states that "it is always easy to attract the Universal Soul … by constructing an object capable of undergoing its influence and receiving its participation. The faithful representation of a thing is always capable of undergoing the influence of its model; it is like a mirror which is capable of grasping the thing's appearance."
This passage states the crucial principle of almost magical relationship between the conforming recipient and the predestined content or between the adequate symbol and the sacramental presence of the prototype. The ideas of Plotinus must be understood in the light of those of the "divine Plato": the latter approved the fixed types of the sacred sculpture of Egypt, but he rejected the works of the Greek artists who imitated nature in its outward and insignificant accidentality, while following their individual imagination.
This principle does not prevent a heavenly influence manifesting itself incidentally or accidentally even in an image which is extremely imperfect—works of perversion and subversion being excluded—through pure mercy and by virtue of the "exception that proves the rule."
A perfect equilibrium between a noble naturalness and an interiorizing and essentializing is a precarious, but always possible phenomenon. It goes without saying that essentiality or the "idea" takes precedence over observation and the imitation of nature. To each thing its rights, according to its place.
Stylization permits a maximum of naturalism where it is able to impose on it a maximum of essentiality; in other words, a summit of creative exteriorization calls for a summit of interiorizing power and consequently demands a mastery of the means whereby this power may be realized. In the majority of cases art stops half-way and there is nothing wrong in this, since concretely there is no reason why it should go further; traditional art perfectly fulfills its role; art is not everything, and its productions do not have to be absolute. But this is independent of the principle that sacred art must satisfy every sincere believer; it fails in its mission if its crudeness, or on the contrary its superficial virtuosity, leaves unsatisfied or even troubles believers of good will, namely those whom humility preserves from all intolerance and worldly acrimony.
We have already remarked that there is a relative but not irremediable incompatibility—an incompatibility of fact and not of principle—between the spiritual content or the radiance of a work of art and an implacable and virtuosic naturalism: it is as if the science of the mechanism of things killed their spirit, or at least ran the grave risk of killing it. On the one hand we have a treatment that is naïve, but charged with graces and diffusing an atmosphere of security, happiness, and holy childhood; while on the other hand—in classical antiquity and from the Cinquecento onwards—we have on the contrary a treatment that is scientifically executed but the content is human and not heavenly—or rather it is "humanistic"—and the work suggests, not a childhood still close to Heaven, but an adulthood fallen into disgrace and expelled from Paradise [see ills. 91 and 92].
Naturalism in art violates tradition because it is unaware that style is a providential discipline proceeding from a genius at once spiritual and ethnic and developing according to the laws of organic growth in an atmosphere of contemplative piety that has nothing individualistic or Promethean about it. It violates the nature of things because, in painting, it treats the plane surface as if it were three-dimensional space, and the immobility of the surface as if it could contain movement; and in sculpture, naturalism treats inert matter as if it were living flesh, and then as if it were engaged in motion, and it sometimes treats one material as if it were another, without regard for the soul of each substance, and so on.2 To paint is to re-create a vision by adapting it to the plane surface and, if there is movement, by reducing it to its essential type; to sculpture is to re-create a vision by adapting it to inanimate matter, or to a particular kind of matter, and likewise reducing it, if there is movement, to a particular phase that is as it were static. At the same time it consists in re-creating the object rather than copying it, or in copying it while re-creating it in accordance with an inner vision at once traditional and personal, or in accordance with the life that we project into it by virtue of our knowledge, or again, in accordance with the life that it projects into us by virtue of its ontological and Divine content.
Here it is important to point out that one of the major errors of modern art is its confusion of art materials: people no longer know how to distinguish the cosmic significance of stone, iron, or wood, just as they do not know the objective qualities of forms and colors. Stone has this in common with iron that it is cold and implacable, whereas wood is warm, live, and kindly; but, while the cold of stone is neutral and indifferent like that of eternity, iron is hostile, aggressive, and ill-natured, and this enables us to understand the significance of the invasion of the world by iron.3 The heavy and sinister nature of iron requires that in its use in handicrafts it should be treated lightly and with fantasy such as one sees for instance in old church screens which resemble lacework [see ill. 93]. The nature in iron ought to be neutralized by transparence in its treatment, for this does no violence to the nature of this metal but on the contrary confers legitimacy on its quality of hardness by thus turning it into account.
The reproach of "naturalism" cannot properly be leveled merely at a capacity to observe nature; it concerns rather the prejudice which would reduce art simply and solely to the imitation of nature. A more or less exact observation of nature may quite well coincide with art which is traditional, symbolical, and sacred, as is proved by the art of the Egypt of the Pharaohs or that of the Far East; it is then the result, not of a passionate and empty naturalism, but of an objectivity which is fundamentally intellectual. The spiritualized realism of Chinese landscape painters has nothing in common with worldly aestheticism.
As for simple lack of physical observation, which as such is independent of any symbolical intention, we would add that, where it is conditioned by the requirements of a particular collective soul, it is an integral part of a style and so of a language which is in itself intelligent and noble; this is something quite different from the technical clumsiness of some isolated artist. Complete naturalism, which reproduces the chance variations and accidental aspect of appearances, is truly an abuse of intelligence such as might be called "luciferian":4 it could not, therefore, characterize traditional art.
The whole of the so-called "Greek miracle" amounts to a substitution of reason alone for intelligence as such; apart from the rationalism which inaugurated it, artistic naturalism would have been inconceivable. Extreme naturalism results from the cult of "form," of form envisaged as something finite and not as "symbol"; reason indeed regulates the science of the finite, of limits, and of order, so that it is only logical that an art which is directed by reason should share with reason itself a flatness refractory to all mystery. The art of classical antiquity is often compared to the brightness of full daylight; it is forgotten that it also has the "outward" quality of daylight, which lacks any aspect of the secret and the infinite.
In the Middle Ages a religious man could pray in surroundings where everything testified to a homogeneous spirit and to an intelligence supernaturally inspired; he could also pray before a blank wall. He had a choice between the ever truthful language of precious forms and the silence of rough stones. Happily for him he had no other choice.
There is something in our intelligence which wants to live in repose, something in which the conscious and the unconscious meet in a kind of passive activity, and it is to this element that the lofty and easy language of art addresses itself. The language is lofty because of the spiritual symbolism of its forms and the nobility of its style; it is easy because of the aesthetic mode of assimilation. When this function of our spirit, this intuition which stands between the natural and the supernatural and produces incalculable vibrations, is systematically violated and led into error, the consequences will be extremely serious, if not for the individual, at all events for the civilization concerned.
Would a child want its mother to change countenance every day? Would a man want to rearrange his home every day? A sanctuary is like the outstretched arms of a mother and like the intimacy of a home, and the soul and the intelligence must be able to rest in it.
Nothing is more monotonous than the illusions of originality found in men who have been inculcated from childhood with an exaggerated respect for "creative genius."
We must never lose sight of the fact that as soon as art ceases to be a pure and simple ideography—which is perfectly within its rights, for how should the decorative element of art be banned when it is everywhere in nature?—it has a mission from which nothing can make it deviate. This mission is to transmit spiritual values, whether these are saving truths or cosmic qualities, including human virtues.
Nothing can be better fitted to influence the deeper dispositions of the soul than sacred art. Profane art, on the contrary, even if it be of some psychological value in the case of souls of inferior intelligence, soon exhausts its means, by the very fact of their superficiality and vulgarity, after which it can only provoke reactions of contempt; these are only too common, and may be considered as a rebound of the contempt in which sacred art was held by profane art.
But let us return to the errors of naturalism. Art, as soon as it is no longer determined, illuminated, and guided by spirituality, lies at the mercy of the individual and purely psychic resources of the artist, and these resources must soon run out, if only because of the very platitude of the naturalistic principle that merely calls for a superficial copying of nature. Reaching the extreme limit of its own platitude, naturalism inevitably engendered the monstrosities of surrealism. The latter is but the decomposing body of an art and in any case should rather be called "infrarealism."
The agreement of a picture with nature is legitimate only insofar as it does not abolish the separation between the work of art and its outward model; without such separation the former loses its sufficient reason, for its purpose is not merely to repeat what already exists; the exactness of its proportions must neither do violence to the material—the plane surface in the case of painting and the inert material in the case of sculpture—nor compromise the spiritual expression;5 if the correctness of the proportions is in accord with the material data of the particular art while also satisfying the spiritual intention of the work, it will add an expression of intelligence and so also of truth to the symbolism of the work. Authentic and normative art always tends to combine intelligent observation of nature with noble and profound stylizations in order, first, to assimilate the work to the model created by God in nature and, secondly, to separate it from physical contingency by giving it an imprint of pure spirit, of synthesis, of what is essential. It can definitely be said that naturalism is legitimate insofar as physical exactness is allied to a vision of the Platonic Idea, the qualitative archetype; hence, in such works, the predominance of the static, of symmetry, of the essential.6
As regards beauty in naturalistic art, it does not reside in the work as such, but solely in the object that it copies, whereas in symbolic and traditional art it is the work in itself that is beautiful, whether it be abstract or whether it borrow beauty in a greater or lesser degree from a natural model. It would be difficult to find a better illustration of this distinction than that afforded by a comparison between so-called classical Greek art and Egyptian art: the beauty of the latter does not, in fact, lie simply and solely in the object represented, but resides simultaneously and a fortiori in the work as such, that is to say, in the inward reality that the work makes manifest. The fact that naturalistic art has sometimes succeeded in expressing nobility of feeling or vigorous intelligence is not in question and may be explained by cosmological reasons that could not but exist [see ill. 102].
What is normal is that a human being should seek his center of inspiration beyond himself, beyond his sterility as a poor sinner: this will force him into making ceaseless corrections and a continuous adjustment in the face of an external norm, in short, into changes which will compensate for his ignorance and lack of universality. A normal artist touches up his work, not because he is dishonest, but because he takes account of his own imperfection; a good man corrects himself wherever he can.
The work of an artist is not a training in spontaneity—talent is not something that is acquired—but a humble and instructed search, either assiduous or joyously carefree, for perfection of form and expression according to sacred prototypes which are both heavenly and collective in their inspiration. Such inspiration in no wise excludes the inspiration of the individual but gives it its range of action and at the same time guarantees its spiritual value. The artist effaces and forgets himself; all the better if genius gives him wings. But before all else his work retraces that of the soul which transforms itself in conformity with a divine Model.
1 Apart from his sonnets the human greatness of Michelangelo appears chiefly in his sculpture, in works like the Moses and the Pietà, and that apart from any question of principles or style. In his painting and architecture this greatness is as if crushed by the errors of the period; it gets lost in heaviness and pathos or in the cold gigantism that also characterizes the statues and which is a dominant mark of the Renaissance. With the impressionists the academic spirit fell into discredit; one would gladly believe that this was due to a slightly deeper understanding, but such is not the case, for an unforeseeable change of fashion was enough to call everything once again into question; moreover the academical spirit has already been revived within surrealism, though always in the climate of the oppressive ugliness characteristic of that school.
2 In a stylized painting, an icon, for example, or a Vishnuite miniature, the absence of three-dimensional vision and of movement does not trouble us, for the painting presents itself as such and not as a substitute for the objective world; it is not merely this or that, it is above all a painting. In naturalistic art, on the contrary, the objective accuracy of the drawing and the subtlety of the shading intensify the absence of space and movement: the figures are as though congealed in an atmosphereless void. In statuary, where inert matter and immobility create an analogous impression, the contrast between model and copy becomes intolerable and confers something spectral upon the work. Naturalism partakes of the nature of delusion and magic, but the reaction against it, since it comes from below, gives rise to much worse and strictly perverted aberrations, with the exception of a few works, or categories of works, which however do not form a school.
3 The accumulation in Christian churches and places of pilgrimage of gross and harsh ironwork cannot but impede the radiation of spiritual forces. It always gives the impression that heaven is imprisoned.
4 This abuse of intelligence is extremely characteristic of modern civilization. Many things are taken to be superior—as indeed they are if considered in artificial isolation—which are in fact merely hypertrophic; artistic naturalism is just that, at any rate when taken as an end in itself and when it consequently expresses nothing more than the limitations of form and of the accidental.
5 The ostentatiously human perfection of classical or academic art has in reality nothing universally convincing about it: this was noticed long ago, but only in order to fall into the contrary excess, namely, the cult of ugliness and of the inhuman, despite a few intermediary oases, certain impressionists, for example. The classicism of a Canova or an Ingres no longer convinces anyone, but that is no reason for acknowledging only Melanesian fetishes.
6 In this connection Egyptian art is particularly instructive; other examples of this coincidence of "natural" and "essential" can be found in Far-Eastern art and also in the admirable bronze and pottery heads found among the Yorubas of Ife in West Africa which are among the most perfect works of art to be found anywhere [see ills. 97, 98, and 99].


Following is a letter by Cardinal Egan about the realignment process which was distributed in each of the archdiocese's parishes on the weekend of Jan. 20-21.
Shortly after being installed as Archbishop of New York in June of 2000, I set out to visit the parishes, schools, and charitable agencies that serve the People of God in our community of faith. Thanks to these visits, I became aware that a program of realignment for our parishes and schools needed to be undertaken.
Thus, early in 2003, I appointed Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell, a Vicar General of the Archdiocese, to initiate the realignment program. He immediately began a study of sacramental, demographic, and financial reports and conducted numerous meetings throughout the 19 "vicariates" or regions of the Archdiocese. In addition, Bishop McDonnell distributed a questionnaire through the vicariates so as to gain the input of thousands of parishioners.
When Bishop McDonnell was named to the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, I invited Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan, also a Vicar General, to continue the work of realignment. Aided by a devoted staff and experienced planning experts, Bishop Sullivan commenced extended visitations throughout the Archdiocese so as to become thoroughly informed concerning those parishes which should be considered for expansion, merger, or closure and those properties of the Archdiocese which would be suitable for new parishes and schools. In addition, he held lengthy meetings with the clergy to hear their opinions and benefit from their insights about needed changes. In those situations in which sensitive issues came to the fore, I personally visited the areas in question so as to be fully advised about all relevant circumstances.
Moreover, throughout this period of consultation, I chaired weekly meetings with the senior staff of the Archdiocese of New York to discuss preliminary proposals formulated by Bishop Sullivan, his staff, and his advisors. At every step, all proposals were reviewed with particular concern for the most effective pastoral care of the faithful.
When these preliminary consultations were completed, I felt that an additional and particularized consultation was needed with a representative group of the People of God of the Archdiocese. The group, selected on the basis of recommendations from area vicars and Archdiocesan staff persons, came from all areas of the Archdiocese, and brought with them different backgrounds. experiences, and talents. It became known as the Archdiocesan Realignment Advisory Panel (ARAP), and provided Bishop Sullivan and all of us with valuable insights and expertise, on the basis of which many of the preliminary proposals were amended. During this period of consultation, I authored columns about the realignment process for Catholic New York so as to keep the faithful apprised of all that we were doing.
While the schools of the Archdiocese were thoroughly studied within the context of the realignment program, decisions regarding them followed a timeline different from that of the parishes, primarily because of contractual guidelines with the teachers' unions. Thus, decisions concerning school realignment had to be made apart from the realignment process.
Realignment proposals were further amended as a result of the consultations with ARAP. When all was in order, they were announced by a press release and in Catholic New York. All of the parishes that were proposed for some form of realignment were asked to review the proposals and present their opinions to Bishop Sullivan and his staff. Twenty-four of them did so.
Consequently, meetings were arranged with Bishop Sullivan, which included the area vicar, the pastor of the parish in question, and representative parishioners. They took place over a period of several months in various locations throughout the Archdiocese, and entailed more than 100 hours of discussions. Bishop Sullivan reported that the various presentations of the parishes were extraordinarily helpful and reflected a great love for the Church on the part of devoted parishioners who were deeply grateful for the opportunity to share their insights. In addition to all of this, the Bishop and his staff received literally thousands of letters containing thoughtful advice about the realignment program.
All of this was reviewed by key staff persons and myself so that, in accordance with canon law, the refined proposals might be presented to and reviewed by the Priests' Council of the Archdiocese at an all-day meeting.
While some parishioners may be concerned or even upset by the realignment decisions, they have my assurance that all will be faithfully served in the parishes where they will be members, and warmly welcomed members at that. As a result of realignment, there will be closures, mergers, new parishes, and expanded facilities for established parishes; and all of this will be accomplished in such a way that all of the Lord's people will be cared for, both effectively and lovingly.
The parish and school realignment program has been a work in progress for the past several years. I am deeply grateful to all who have had a part in it, especially Bishop Sullivan and his staff, the members of the Archdiocesan Realignment Advisory Panel, the vicars and pastors of the parishes of the Archdiocese, and all of the clergy, religious, and faithful who have cooperated so ably and so willingly. I am confident that our realignment will do much good over the years to come, and especially as we prepare for the 200th Anniversary of our Archdiocese in April of 2008. While we are bringing the current realignment process to a conclusion, be assured that, in collaboration with the People of God of the Archdiocese of New York, we will continue to review the needs of all of our people so that our parishes, schools and charitable agencies might render the very best of service to our Archdiocesan community of faith.
May the Lord in His gracious Providence continue to bless our service to Him and His holy people.
A continuación está una carta escrita por el Cardenal Egan acerca del proceso de realineamiento que fue distribuido en cada una de las parroquias de la arquidiócesis en el fin de semana del 20 y 21 de Enero.
Poco después de haber sido instalado como Arzobispo de Nueva York, en junio del 2000, realicé visitas a parroquias, escuelas y agencies de caridades que sirven al Pueblo de Dios en nuestra comunidad de fe. Gracias a esas visitas, pude percatarme de la necesidad de llevar a cabo un programa de realineamiento para nuestras parroquias y escuelas.
Fue así como, a inicios del 2003, designé al Obispo Timothy A. McDonnell, Vicario General de la Arquidiócesis, para que iniciara el programa de realineamiento. El comenzó inmediatamente un proceso para tracer un estudio sobre aspectos sacramentales, demográficos y financieros, conduciendo numerosas reuniones a traves de los diecinueve vicariatos o regiones de la Arquidiócesis. Además, el Obispo McDonnell distribuyó un cuestionario en todos los vicariatos con el objeto de obtener las opiniones de miles de feligreses.
Cuando el Obispo McDonnell fue nombrado en la Diócesis de Springfield, en Massachusetts, invité al Obispo Dennis J. Sullivan, tambien Vicario General, para que continuara los trabajos del realineamiento. Asistido por un dedicado personal y expertos en planificación, el Obispo Sullivan inició una serie de extensas visitas por toda la Arquidiócesis de forma tal que pudiera informarse verazmente en todo lo concerniente a aquellas parroquias que deberían considerarse para expansión, fusión o clausura; así como aquellas propiedades de la Arquidiócesis apropiadas para edificar nuevas parroquias y escuelas. Además, él sostuvo largas reuniones con el clero para oír sus opiniones y beneficiarse así de sus opiniones sobre los cambios necesarios. En aquellas situaciones en que emergieron asuntos muy sensitivos, yo personalmente visité las áreas correspondientes de forma tal que pudiera quedar plenamente en conocimiento de todas las circunstancias relevantes.
Además, durante todo ese periodo de consulta, dirigí reuniones semanales con el personal superior de la Arquidiócesis de Nueva York para discutir propuestas preliminares formuladas por el Obispo Sullivan, su personal y sus consejeros. En cada etapa, todas las propuestas fueron revisadas con particular interés para el mayor y efectivo cuidado pastoral de nuestra feligresía.
Cuando esas consultas preliminares fueron completadas, entendí que se necesitaba una consulta adicional y particularizada con un grupo que representara la feligresía de la Arquidiócesis. El grupo, seleccionado basado en recomendaciones de vicarios y personal arquidiocesano, se constituyó con personas de todas las áreas de la Arquidiócesis, los cuales trajeron diferentes experiencias y talentos. Este grupo vino a ser conocido como Panel Arquidiocesano de Asesoría para el Realineamiento (ARAP, por sus siglas en ingles), el cual proporcionó al Obispo Sullivan y a todos nosotros valiosos aportes y pericias, por lo que varies de las propuestas preliminares fueron enmendadas. Durante ese periodo de consulta, escribí algunas columnas sobre el proceso de realineamiento en Catholic New York a fin de mantener a la feligresía informada de todo lo que estábamos haciendo.
Aunque las escuelas de la Arquidiócesis fueron estudiadas en el contexto del programa de realineamiento, las decisiones relativas a las mismas siguieron una secuencia diferente a las de las parroquias, fundamentalmente debido a las pautas contractuales con los sindicatos de maestros. Así pues, las decisiones concernientes al realineamiento de las escuelas tuvieron que ser hechas aparte de las parroquias.
Las propuestas de realineamiento fueron enmendadas como resultado de las consultas con ARAP. Cuando ya todo estaba en orden, las medidas fueron anunciadas en una nota de prensa y en Catholic New York. Se pidió a todas las parroquias propuestas para algún tipo de realineamiento que revisaran las mismas y que presentaran sus opiniones al Obispo Sullivan y a su personal. Veinticuatro de ellas lo hicieron.
Por consiguiente, fueron organizadas reuniones con el Obispo Sullivan, incluyen al Vicario del area, el pastor de la parroquia afectada y representantes de los feligreses. Las reuniones tuvieron luger durante un período de varios meses, en varios lugares a lo largo de la Arquidiócesis, lo cual consumió más de cien horas de discusiones. El Obispo Sullivan reportó que las representaciones de las parroquias fueron extraordinariamente útiles y que reflejaron el gran amor por la Iglesia de parte de los devotos feligreses, los cuales estaban profundamente agradecidos por la oportunidad de compartir sus opiniones. Adicionalmente, el Obispo y su personal recibieron literalmente miles de cartes conteniendo serios consejos acerca del programa de realineamiento.
Todo esto fue revisado por personas claves del personal, y también por mí para que, de acuerdo a la ley canónica, las perfeccionadas propuestas pudieron ser presentadas y revisadas por el Consejo de Sacerdotes de la Arquidiócesis en una reunión de todo un día.
Algunos feligreses pueden estar preocupados o quizá molestos por las decisiones relatives al realineamiento. A todos ellos les digo que pueden tener la seguridad que serán fielmente servidos en las parroquias donde se ubicarán, las cuales les darán una cálida bienvenida. Como resultado del realineamiento, habrá clausuras, fusiones, nuevas parroquias y facilidades aumentadas para parroquias establecidas; y todo esto será llevado a cabo de tal manera que todo el Pueblo de Dios será atendido, efectiva y amorosamente.
El programa de realineamiento de parroquias y escuelas ha sido un trabajo progresivo durante los últimos años. Estoy profundamente agradecido de todos aquellos que tomaron parte en el mismo, especialmente el Obispo Sullivan y su personal, los miembros del Panel Arquidiocesano de Asesoría para el Realineamiento, los vicarios y pastores de las parroquias de la Arquidiócesis, y todo el clero, religiosos y religiosas, y feligreses que han cooperado con entusiasmo. Estoy confiado de que el realineamiento hará mucho bien en los años por venir, y especialmente ahora que nos preparamos para la celebración del Bicentenario de nuestra Arquidiócesis, en abril de 2008. Mientras nos movemos hacia la conclusión del proceso de realineamiento, tengan la seguridad de que, en colaboración con el Pueblo de Dios de la Arquidiócesis de Nueva York, continuaremos revisando las necesidades de toda nuestra gente de forma tal que nuestras parroquias, escuelas y agencias de caridades puedan rendir mejores servicios a nuestra comunidad de fe arquidiocesana.
Que el Señor en Su Divina Providencia continúe bendiciendo nuestro servicio, a El y a su pueblo sagrado.


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Their creation, Ellery Queen, lived with his father Richard Queen, a New York City homicide detective.
This mystery is designed to be an evening's entertainment and the focal point of your event. Give yourself two to three hours to stage it based upon how elaborate you want to get with the set and the theatrical aspects of the mystery.
From eight to 80 people can comfortably participate in the investigation.
The plot includes eight suspects AND a Treasury Agent (Marriott Mess) to lead the investigation. These individuals are the only ones with assigned roles. Everyone else becomes a sleuth who uses effective investigative techniques to figure out the intricacies of the crime. Since the guilty party doesn't know who did it, everyone can attempt to solve the case.
Murder Plays a
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You'll get everything you need, including:
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Roles for all suspects that include backgrounds and recollections of events that led up to the murder.
A series of written clues that are handed out to prepare the group for the murder mystery.
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Start the new year with a bang!


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What's on My Bedside Table: Sally Jewell
Turns out the former Secretary of the Interior is a total book nerd
Jewell at an event with members of the Northwest Youth Corps in 2013 at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. (Matt Christenson/BLM)
Photo: Matt Christenson/BLM
Sally Jewell was the Secretary of the Interior under President Barack Obama and the CEO of REI before that. In other words, she's been busy over the past couple years.
Now that things have slowed, Jewell, 61, is back in Seattle catching up on all the books she missed while overseeing 20 percent of our country's public land. "The reality is that my job over the last four years gave me little time to read anything beyond nightly briefings" Jewell said.
Here are the books currently on her bedside table plus a few other pre-bed accessories.
Short Essays
(Courtesy Penguin Press)
Upstream is a collection of essays by Mary Oliver, given to me by a friend and mentor. They are lovely, poetic shorts about our need for nature to fuel our souls and remind us of our place in this world. When I need a contemplative break, this does the trick.
(Courtesy National Geographic)
My guilty pleasure, even when I'm swamped with work, is to escape into a National Geographic story. The magazine does such a great job of exploring the mysteries of life, the animal world, and humankind, bringing science to everyone in a fun and accessible way. I aspire to read every month cover-to-cover and it's a good way to set my mind on a good path before falling asleep.
(Courtesy Picador)
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow was a gift from an Alaska Native leader. It's an engaging autobiography of Willie Hensley, a tribal leader from Kotzebue, Alaska, who I came to respect nearly 40 years ago when I was a young banker working with the native corporation in the region. His commitment to raising awareness of the real threat native communities in the Arctic face from climate change has had a lasting impact on Alaska and beyond. I look forward to immersing myself in his story.
Western Narrative
(Courtesy Penguin Books)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian is a classic book by Wallace Stegner about John Wesley Powell. It helps explain our settlement of the West and the ongoing challenges of water and public land rights that are so evident today. I find that understanding our journey is very helpful in relating to the different and often conflicting perspectives today on our public lands. Listening to each other and reflecting on our journey is essential to charting a sustainable path forward, especially in these divisive times.
(Courtesy Harper Perennial)
Doug Brinkley does a superb job of bringing history to life in his many books about our journey as a nation. With the many references to Teddy Roosevelt and his legacy today, I look forward to reading The Wilderness Warrior, a wonderful reflection on a president that we can thank for putting a priceless value on our nation's natural treasures.
(Courtesy Alaska Northwest Books)
Mardy Murie's classic Two in the Far North is a wonderful and gripping tale of Mardy in her early years in Alaska. The Muries were instrumental in the passage of The Wilderness Act over 50 years ago and in making the case for wilderness protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and many other places. As I get ready to accept the Murie Spirit of Conservation Award this summer, I am rereading this classic for inspiration and as a reminder of why our advocacy for wilderness is so important today.
(Courtesy Dell)
I Heard the Owl Call My Name is a story about life in a native village in British Columbia, not far from an area I have explored several times on my sailboat. While it is set in the mid-1900's, the poignant story of a family in a small village where traditional native culture clashes with Western culture is as true today as it was back then. It is both heartwarming and difficult, particularly as we learn of the exploitation of girls from native communities that happens to this day. My work with the indigenous people of our nation has given me a wonderful opportunity to experience their rich culture and recognize how we have much to learn from them, particularly with regard to respecting the natural world.
(Courtesy Magnavox)
My trustee Magnavox alarm clock radio, circa 1980's, is a fixture on my nightstand. It's tuned to NPR with two alarms. It wakes me more gently than my phone alarm and has worked through power outages with battery backup.
(Courtesy Choice One)
Always present is a jar of Mentholatum to soothe chapped lips and nose from outdoor activities, especially in the winter.
(Courtesy REI)
Adjacent to my bedside table is a yoga mat to help me stay flexible while looking out over the Puget Sound.
Filed To: Media / Books / Arctic National Wildlife Refuge / Wildlife Refuge / Wildlife / Nature


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Fashion | Last Call® by Neiman Marcus
Hispanic Lifestyle was invited to preview the opening of a new store located at the Desert Hills Premium Outlets, Last Call® by Neiman Marcus.
Last Call features a consolidation of marked-down merchandise from Neiman Marcus® and Bergdorf Goodman® stores, catalogs, and websites, with the balance purchased directly from market.
Merchandise includes: Women's designer,contemporary, and career apparel and sportswear, plus shoes, handbags, precious and designer jewelry, and accessories. — Men's clothing, furnishings, sportswear, shoes, and accessories. — Gifts and epicure.
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Opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1907 by Herbert Marcus, Sr., his sister, Carrie Marcus Neiman, and her husband Al Neiman, the first Neiman Marcus store was designed to fashionably clothe the entire community of Dallas. The initial advertising promised "wider varieties and more exclusive lines than any other store in the South." Neiman Marcus pledged fashion, quality, superior values, and unparalleled service.
For the next six decades, the Marcus family led the management of Neiman Marcus, maintaining Herbert Marcus, Sr.'s principles: "There is never a good sale for Neiman Marcus unless it's a good buy for the customer" and "We want to sell satisfaction, not just merchandise." Eventually, all of Herbert Marcus, Sr.'s sons joined the company: Stanley and Edward in 1926, Herbert, Jr., in 1932, and Lawrence in 1944. During World War II, Stanley Marcus served as the chief of the clothing section for the War Production Board, while his brothers joined the armed services.
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Stanley Marcus guided Neiman Marcus through the first expansions, developed nationally recognized advertising and sales promotion events, and pursued luxury merchandise across the world. Mr. Marcus, whose uncompromising commitment to quality and customer service won Neiman Marcus international renown, served as Chairman Emeritus of the company until his death at the age of 96 in January 2002.
In 1994, Burt Tansky took the helm as Chairman and CEO where he implemented a strategy for planned growth, introduced the trend-setting fashion guide the book, and launched NeimanMarcus.com. October 2010 ushered in a new era for Neiman Marcus as Karen Katz became President and CEO of The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. Prior to her role as President and CEO, Ms. Katz served as President and CEO of Neiman Marcus Direct—the company's catalog, e-commerce, and direct-marketing business—including the Neiman Marcus and Horchow® brands.
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Business incubators are a way to help both the non profit sector and entrepreneurs, develop a stronger business community here in Avon Park. I will not pretend to know all the ins and outs of this business arrangement as it was made aware to me in a brainstorm session with the SBDC with David Noel. However it is a serious thing to consider, both for the non profit and for profit business ventures.
In Highlands County the Local Economic Development Organization is the Highlands County Economic Commission. The Highlands County Economic Commission and the Small Business Development Center here in Highlands County has partnered together to create a one stop shopping situation. Anyway this is my understanding of the arrangement.
David Noel of the SBDC offered to visit the black community to assist in helping push forward "Operation Revive Black Businesses." An agenda initiated by Rev. Frank Paul Jones and the NCNCHINC. Black business owners, entrepreneurs with a dream to have their own business, property owners in the business district and concerned citizens are being called to this meeting to take place on Delaney Avenue. The actual, venue, date and time is now tentative at the moment, as the NCNCHINC is on David Noel's calendar for a another meeting. However the place of the meeting is not written in stone.
As it stands the next meeting will be at the office of David Noel, however he wants to visit the district ASAP to better understand the needs of the community, so the NCNCHINC is in the process of arranging for him to come to our side of town on this date to be announced in the near future.


An emergency puncture situation? Here's your guide to changing a tire.
It's time for a seasonal switch, i.e. from summer tires to winter tires, or vice versa.
They're damaged or showing tread wear. Check the tread wear indicator to find out if this is the case.
They're 10+ years old. Information provided on the sidewall details the age of a tire. After this length of time, it's a good idea to replace them – regardless of their condition. Vehicle manufacturers may recommend a different lifespan based on the specific vehicle application – adhere to this.
You got a puncture while driving.
If you need to replace your tires due to reasons #2 or #3, be sure to check your car's spare tire for damage or aging at the same time. Replace it with a new one if needs be.
No matter the reason for a tire change, how it's done is pretty straightforward. Armed with some basic tools and our step-by-step guide, vehicle owners can properly manage this essential task themselves.
1. Safety first: do these things before you begin.
Park your car on a flat surface – never change tires on a slope.
Apply the hand brake and put the vehicle in park (if automatic) or in gear (if manual).
Ensure no one is in the vehicle.
Use chocks, or heavy objects (wedges of wood, bricks, large rocks) either side of the wheel diagonally opposite the one being changed.
If you're out driving and you get a flat, stop in a safe place well off the road, and turn on your car's hazard lights.
2. Remove the hubcap or wheel cover if there is one.
3. Loosen – but don't remove – the lug nuts using a wheel wrench.
You only want to loosen them enough to make their removal easier once you've lifted the car off the ground. Lug nuts too tight? You can carefully apply pressure to the wrench – ensuring it's in a horizontal position – with your foot.
4. Raise the car up.
Place a jack under the car. If you're not sure where, your car's manual will let you know the right position to place the jack. Slowly and smoothly raise your car until the wheel to be changed is about six inches off the ground.
5. Remove your lug nuts.
Now that they have been loosened (step #3), you can remove them completely by hand. Make sure you put them in a safe place!
Pull it toward you with both hands. Roll it away to the side and out of the way.
Important: If you're in the process of switching out a complete set of tires and you're going to store them, label each one with a piece of chalk as you remove it. Think: LF (left front), RF (right front), and so on. Why? This way, you can keep track of where each one was mounted, and take this into account if you're considering tire rotation when you put them back on in future.
8. Tighten your lug nuts.
Only do this by hand at first. Nuts should always be tightened one after the other in a diagonally opposite sequence, i.e. tighten one first, then tighten the one diagonally opposite it – not directly next to it.
9. Lower the vehicle and further tighten the lug nuts with your wrench.
Again, as when you loosened the nuts, you can carefully apply extra pressure to the horizontally positioned wheel wrench with your foot as you tighten them. Normally, a torque wrench should be used with correct force, otherwise you might damage the bolts through elongation.
10. Refit the hubcap or wheel cover.
I've just changed my flat tire. Can't I just leave the spare tire on my car?
No. Temporary spares are usually a different tire size. They are lighter, smaller, and don't have the same speed or mileage capabilities as a permanent tire. This could affect your vehicle's stability when driving. However, the exception to this is if your spare is a full-sized match of the others on your vehicle.
11. Have you changed out a flat?
Put the punctured tire in your trunk and take it to a tire professional for repair or replacement with a full-sized, permanent tire.
Feeling unsure? Lacking the necessary equipment? Don't hesitate to seek help from a tire professional. They'll be able to change that punctured tire – or switch your seasonal tires over – with complete confidence. Tip: while they're at it, be sure to ask them to complete a full inspection of all your tires – including your spare.
Summer tires, winter tires, or all-season tires?
Choosing between summer, winter, and all-season tires.
Why you shouldn't drive on winter tires in summer.
Don't use summer tires in winter.