Pillar Jewelry Stand is a timeless jewelry organizer designed by Sung Wook Park for Umbra. A walnut wood and black metal jewelry stand with a double bar and drawer at the base. The jewelry tree is primarily for necklaces with extra storage in the drawer for rings and bracelets.


Red Banana produced this behind-the-scenes film of Charley Boorman's Merrell photoshoot for PR agency Capitalize. We filmed Charley on his motorbike getting soaked with water to showcase Merrell's hard-wearing, waterproof clothing. We also recorded some great soundbites from Charley on why he is a fan of Merrell - profiling the quality and durability of their garments.


Baby Louis, two years old and suffering from Downs Syndrome, was completely uninterested in the church service. In fact, the only thing on his mind was getting his father's complete attention. The harder Louis Sr. tried to get his son to settle down, the more Baby Luis poked, pulled, laughed and scurried about his father's legs. Though obviously irritated and distracted, Luis could not keep from smiling. At long last, completely conquered by his son's attention, Luis grabbed ahold of his disabled child and held him to his chest. Baby Luis immediately stopped squirming and buried himself in his father's arms. In that moment, nothing could be done to make their lives more complete, nothing existed that could surpass the intimacy of Luis and his boy.
Baby Luis knew nothing about the mundane facts of Luis' life. He was unaware of his Dad's trials at work, he did not know Luis' favorite song or color, was oblivious of the medical bills that were stacking up, or even aware of the fact that his father was an illegal alien. I, on the other hand, knew all of these things about Luis.
As I watched them embrace, it occurred to me how little life I shared with Luis. No matter how much I learned about him, I could never know Him as deeply as the two year old he clutched to his chest. Baby Luis might never know the catalog of facts and figures that defined his Father to the world at large, but his knowledge of his Dad was deeper and truer than anyone else would ever know. It was filled with fierce, unending love and an intuitive recognition of the desires of his father's heart.
It seems as if our knowledge of God is made of the same stuff. We may not know much about the daily routine of our Father. Why does He seem to disappear at times, where does he go and what does He do with the vast universe that He created? We, however, crave His presence and attention, and he obsesses over us. He fills and comforts our lives, disregards our disabilities and carries us from the womb to old age. We may know little about Him and yet we know Him more deeply and truly than can ever be known by those who merely study Him.
Those who watch the LORD from afar, who are not birthed by him and do not awake in his arms every morning can not know the certainty of His presence and love. At best, they watch and wonder at what might transpire in the heavenly places of God's heart. Perhaps we have no more answers then they, concerning the baffling and fiery trials that fill human lives. One thing we do know. When we get Yahweh's attention and embrace him; hidden within his arms, there is a peace that passes understanding and an unimaginable joy that fills both our soul and the heart of God.


The history of glass making can be traced back to 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. Techniques in working with glass have varied throughout history and in different regions. This course will explore glass as a medium for fine art. We will learn about the making of glass and the techniques used to form it into art objects. We'll discuss the work of such famous glass artists as: Dale Chihuly, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Harvey Littleton, and John LaFarge .


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The Convivial Society
The Human-Built World Is Not Built For Humans
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The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 19
L. M. Sacasas
"I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a life style which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a life style which only allows us to make and unmake, produce and consume—a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment."
— Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. It's been a while since the last installment. I worked on an essay for some time, but ultimately it did not come together quite the way I had hoped. Instead, I'm going to take three ideas in that unwieldy draft and spin them out as a series of relatively brief reflections that I'll send out in the coming days. This is the first. Also, I'm including some reading recommendations with each of these. I hope you find them helpful.
A few days ago, a story was circulating about how the infrastructure bill, which was recently passed by the House of Representatives, included funding for research on beacons to be worn by cyclists and pedestrians to make them legible to autonomous vehicles. A story in Forbes noted that the bill "formalizes the acceptance of so-called 'vehicle to everything' (V2X) technology that, on the face of it, promises enhanced safety on the roads for pedestrians and cyclists."
Each time I've read something about how we will all have to wear sensors to survive the envisioned future transportation environment, a particular paragraph from Illich's Deschooling Society has come to mind: "Contemporary man," Illich wrote, "attempts to create the world in his image, to build a totally man-made environment, and then discovers that he can do so only on the condition of constantly remaking himself to fit it."
Illich wrote these words in the early 1970s, long before beacons to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe from autonomous vehicles would become a policy priority. But the pattern was already evident. In the same essay, Illich told the following anecdote:
I know a Mexican village through which not more than a dozen cars drive each day. A Mexican was playing dominoes on the new hard-surface road in front of his house — where he had probably played and sat since his youth. A car sped through and killed him. The tourist who reported the event to me was deeply upset, and yet he said: "The man had it coming to him."
The assumption in the tourist's statement is clear and brutal: it is the responsibility of humans to adapt to their technical milieu. For the sake of a development he likely neither needed or desired, this man's environment was transformed so as to render it hostile to him, but it is somehow his fault for failing to promptly adapt himself to the new reality. As Illich notes, there's not even an air of the tragic in the tourist's claim. One can imagine some not-too-distant future when a cyclist is struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle and an observer declares, "Well, she wasn't even wearing her beacon, so she had it coming to her."
As I thought about Illich's anecdote, my own parental anxiety to convey to my children the importance of minding the cars around them at all times appeared in a new light. When one remembers that it has not always been necessary to carefully train a child, with ritualistic precision, just so that they can walk about without fear of mortal injury, then the whole thing takes on a rather absurd and malicious character.
Once you see this dynamic in one set of circumstances, you start to see it again and again. In innumerable ways we bend ourselves to fit the pattern of a techno-economic order that exists for its own sake and not for ours. As another example, consider Illich's observations in 2000 about what is required of those who would pursue a successful career:
Modern citizens who want to pursue a successful career face a situation that is without clear boundaries or limits, and this prevents them from recognizing an alternative to their self-directed 'lifelong learning and decision-making.' Their comings and goings, their progress and well-being, their flourishing and ruination depend on their adaptation to diverse systems. In particular, they have to learn to function and compete in symbiosis with current economic conditions. A tolerant acceptance of these conditions is no longer enough. One has to learn to identify with them. In the mills of the new economy, where positioning is all, the grit is supposed to grind itself so fine that it becomes grease for the gears.
Or consider Shannon Mattern's observation that "our phones seem to be contrived for circadian contradiction." A reminder that our own technologically induced patterns of restlessness can be profoundly unhealthy. Our phones, after all, function as an interface between us and a vast network of communication and commerce: in practice, do they principally serve our interests or those of the network?
As the ways that we are schooled for life in a system that in significant ways runs counter to our own interests and well-being become more apparent, then Illich's more radical claims begin to sound plausible if not altogether sensible.
In Tools for Conviviality, for example, we encounter this stark summation of Illich's view of industrial society:
Increasing manipulation of man becomes necessary to overcome the resistance of his vital equilibrium to the dynamic of growing industries; it takes the form of educational, medical, and administrative therapies. Education turns out competitive consumers; medicine keeps them alive in the engineered environment they have come to require; bureaucracy reflects the necessity of exercising social control over people to do meaningless work. The parallel increase in the cost of the defense of new levels of privilege through military, police, and insurance measures reflects the fact that in a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Maybe this comes off as rather extreme. After all, Illich is arguing that the modern world, circa 1974 at least, is fundamentally hostile to human well-being and that some of its most vaunted institutions were basically coping and conditioning mechanisms.
Jacques Ellul, with passing reference to learning how to navigate street traffic, argues similarly:
"At the same time, one should not forget the fact that human beings are themselves already modified by the technical phenomenon […] Their whole education is oriented toward adaptation to the conditions of technique (learning how to cross streets at traffic lights) and their instruction is destined to prepare them for entrance into some technical employment. Human beings are psychologically modified by consumption, by technical work, by news, by television, by leisure activities (currently, the proliferation of computer games), etc., all of which are techniques. In other words, it must not be forgotten that it is this very humanity which has been pre-adapted to and modified by technique that is supposed to master and reorient technique. It is obvious that this will not be able to be done with any independence."
But this is why I read writers like Illich and Ellul, and why I encourage others to do the same: for the sake of a thoroughgoing critique that will make me think more deeply, and uncomfortably, about our situation and my own acquiescence and complicity. I find that my vision tends to be too narrowly focused on surface-level symptoms. And it is too easy to take refuge in the thought that a few tweaks here and a little regulation there will make all things well, or at least significantly better. Meanwhile, nothing quite changes. Then along comes someone like Illich or Ellul claiming that maybe the whole modern techno-social order, whatever its relative merits, is broken and malignant. That the roots of our problems run much deeper than we had assumed. That we are, in truth, doing it all wrong and should revisit some of our most fundamental assumptions. You may not, in the end, agree with their conclusions, but seriously considering their perspectives should at least help us to ask better, more fundamental questions about the human-built world, or, perhaps more importantly, about the beliefs, values, and interests that shape it.
What Illich and Ellul would have us consider is that the human-built world is not, in fact, built for humans. And, of course, this is to say nothing of what the human-built world has meant for the non-human world. What's more, it may be paradoxically the case that the human-built world will prove finally inhospitable to human beings precisely to the degree that it was built for humans without regard for humanity's continuity with the other animals and the world we inhabit together.
News and Resources
"Be THERE Now" by Livia Foldes:
"This dream [of telepresence] insists that technology will let (some of) us have it both ways: embodiment without proximity, knowledge without danger, pleasure without risk, and power without exposure. And it has been remarkably resilient, used to redefine everything from the nature of work, to the boundaries of warfare, to the contours of intimacy during a plague."
"The Body Is Not a Machine" by Nitin K. Ahuja:
"Conventional clinical readers might be rolling their eyes by now, assuming they've made it this far. Fair enough. Interpretive liberties are a risky proposition in healthcare, particularly at a political moment when scientific authority is already under heavy scrutiny. Of late, however, I've become increasingly compelled by the patients whose symptoms I can't ever quite explain. Their intuitions make sense to me lately, in spirit if not always in substance, despite often running counter to most of what I've learned since medical school. Broken bodies move inevitably through a broken world. More and more, I'm likewise troubled by what feels like deep pathology sitting just beyond the reach of my clinic."
Brad East offers a reading of Wendell Berry that contends with the criticisms leveled by George Scialabba:
"The industrial economy is thus the paradigm, for Berry, of technocracy understood as the generic application of Thinking Big from nowhere to anywhere and everywhere. Such "thinking" is nothing of the kind: it is the abdication of thought, which properly takes shape in particular interactions between actual persons and the concrete objects and environments that make their lives possible—"our only world," as he calls it. Technocracy is "machine thought." Some presume the solution to the problems of technocracy must be more of the same, only the good variety rather than the bad. Berry demurs: technocracy as such is the errant mode of thinking and acting for which we need an alternative. It cannot save itself. It is what got us into this mess."
Zachary Loeb supplies an excellent introduction to the work of Lewis Mumford. The title of Loeb's essay, "The Magnificent Bribe," is taken from this striking paragraph in Mumford's "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics":
"The bargain we are being asked to ratify takes the form of a magnificent bribe. Under the democratic-authoritarian social contract, each member of the community may claim every material advantage, every intellectual and emotional stimulus he may desire, in quantities hardly available hitherto even for a restricted minority: food, housing, swift transportation, instantaneous communication, medical care, entertainment, education. But on one condition: that one must not merely ask for nothing that the system does not provide, but likewise agree to take everything offered, duly processed and fabricated, homogenized and equalized, in the precise quantities that the system, rather than the person, requires. Once one opts for the system no further choice remains. In a word, if one surrenders one's life at source, authoritarian technics will give back as much of it as can be mechanically graded, quantitatively multiplied, collectively manipulated and magnified."
In a conversation with Clive Thompson, philosopher Evan Selinger shows us "How To Recognize When Tech Is Leading Us Down a 'Slippery Slope'":
Clive: But you think sometimes there really are technological slippery slopes — tech that pushes us in a bad direction really strongly. How can you tell when we're facing a real slippery slope technology? What makes that technology have such power?
Evan: You need to talk about affordances and incentives. What affordances does the technology have? And what incentives does it offer people?
From 2015, Lee Vinsel offered his "95 Theses on Innovation." Not sure if they were ever nailed to a door somewhere in Silicon Valley:
1. Innovation is the central ideology of our age. Its core assumption is that technological change is the key to both economic growth and quality of life.
49. The root of our problem is that we treat innovation as a basic value, like courage, love, charity, and diligence. In reality, innovation is simply the process by which new things enter wide circulation in the world. Innovation has nothing to say about whether these new things are beneficial or harmful.
95. The fall of innovation-speak will be a chance to reorient our society around values that actually matter. Will we seize this opportunity? Or will we allow corporate executives and other elites to seduce us with another wave of shiny, sparkling nonsense? The most radical thought is that there are principles beyond usefulness, beyond utility.
Re-framings
— In a recent post, Marianne Bellotti raised a series of questions: "However, when it comes to the issue of making AI safe we're left with the question: Who is the operator in the first place? Is the operator the machine learning engineer who builds and trains the model? How much experience does that person have? What baseline knowledge must all AI engineers prove mastery over? What are the relevant degrees or credentials?"
These in turn brought to mind an essay by Paul Goodman written in 1969, "Can Technology Be Humane" (paywalled, I'm afraid). In it, Goodman claimed that "Whether or not it draws on new scientific research technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science." Goodman, in the paragraph that Bellotti's questions brought to mind, also argued the following:
"[…] technology must have its proper place on the faculty as a learned profession important in modern society, along with medicine, law, the humanities, and natural philosophy, learning from them and having something to teach them. As a moral philosopher, a technician should be able to criticize the programs given him to implement. As a professional in a community of learned professionals, a technologist must have a different kind of training and develop a different character than we see at present among technicians and engineers. He should know something of the social sciences, law, the fine arts, and medicine, as well as relevant natural sciences."
"Prudence is foresight, caution, utility. Thus it is up to the technologists, not to regulatory agencies of the government, to provide for safety and to think about remote effects. This is what Ralph Nader is saying and Rachel Carson used to ask. An important aspect of caution is flexibility, to avoid the pyramiding catastrophe that occurs when something goes wrong in interlocking technologies, as in urban power failures. Naturally, to take responsibility for such things often requires standing up to the front office and urban politicians, and technologists must organize themselves in order to have power to do it."
I recently contributed an essay to the latest issue of The Side View, "Surviving the Show: The New Asceticism of Ivan Illich." I also did an enjoyable interview with Uri Bram of The Browser. On Uri's suggestion we talked about instant messenger over instant messenger. You can read the exchange here.
As always, I trust this finds you all well and healthy.
Nov 12, 2021Liked by L. M. Sacasas
Martin, these short essays are very enlightening, even if they just contain numbered paragraphs. Do not wreck yourself in trying to make it all coherent. The world is a mess right now and I really enjoy your additions. :-)
Here are a few thoughts that came to me, expanding on your essay:
Would it be exaggerated to state, that for probably the few last millennia humans have shaped themselves and their societies to fit into the systems they co-created to ensure their survival.
That is different from "made for human nature". I am not even sure whether the idea of "human nature" is not a modern fiction. See below.
Systems here means cybernetic systems that encompass all the physical exchange of matter and energy (what we now call economics and ecology but without the distinction between the human and "nature").
Co-cration means that humans were probably never fully aware nor fully in control of all the complexity of these systems. As in Yuval Harari asking whether grain domesticised humans in the agricultural revolution.
In all stages of human evolution some form of fiction represents the core patterns of the system (as in a map that represents the landscape). We call this religion or ideology and it can be understood as the mediator between the necessities for the system to continue working and the behavior of the humans who are part of it.
So both create a dual-layered hyper-system of matter and form. *[That is very much inspired by Gregory Bateson]
Modernity stands out, because (a) fictions like the separation of man from "nature" or "the autonomous subject" hide very important parts of the system from the map.
The human-built sustem of meaning even makes massive ideological efforts to hide certain parts of itself which are absolutely necessary for its own continuation.
And (b) if you really look at the whole system, you see that it has a lot of patterns which clearly work against the survival of humans.
So, the fictional system of meaning (the religion we currently call "capitalism") makes humans behave in a way and shape their physical and social world in a way, that endangers their own survival.
It needed such extravagant individuals like Ivan Illich to observe these patterns 50 years ago, but now they are pretty obvious even to a teenage girl (I'm talking of my daughter, not of Greta Thunberg).
The question is: How do you get out of such a vicious circle?
Paul Cooley
I was camped with an old friend, a couple of weeks ago, on Tilted Mesa, along the Nankoweap Trail in the Grand Canyon. We could see the Milky Way from horizon to horizon. In the evening, Venus, Junpiter, and Saturn were blazing in the sky, and in the morning, Mercury was a tiny rose colored ball just above the line of the fast-rising sun. Sitting there, it struck me how strongly I felt I belonged to the Earth, rather than the other way around - not that I ever subscribed to the other way around particularly. To be honest, I felt a little like the Little Prince, on his little round ball of a planet.
I think it's amazing, and odd, and tangentially pertinent to your essay, that I would only feel such a strong sense of belonging, and almost of human beingness, in a place so relatively devoid of technology - to many people, I imagine, it would be like being in the midst of nothingness.
I certainly don't feel that sense of belonging and humanity sitting here at my desk at work, even considering the work I do is relatively good, in an objective sort of way. And I certainly don't feel that way bicycling in traffic.
My wife and I have tried to live as close to our values as possible, but the structure of society does make it difficult. We lived without a car for most of our children's childhood, for example, but there's always some compromise to be made, and occasionally, I find myself feeling angry that most people do not see it as a compromise, or see the actions we take as silly or extreme. (Our recent housesitter was unimpressed by our homemade, Joseph Jenkins' style composting toilet.) When our refrigerator wore out a decade ago, we had long discussions about whether to replace it or not. For a while, we considered trying to use a Zeer pot for keeping things cool, but, in the end, we relented to the technological environment and bought another refrigerator.
I'm often unhappy and conflicted about my compromises, but I do weigh and measure and consider decisions about what technology I use. I often get the feeling the majority of people don't even weigh whether they should have a car, or a refrigerator, or a cell phone. I do my best to "be the change I want to see in the world," and I fall far short of doing so, (and somehow, I get the feeling that even Illich was not traveling by metabolic power alone to all his engagements), but it can be difficult when it feels you are swimming against the tide and still being swept out to sea.
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MM`s Iberian origin makes it easy to do gymnastics in the arena and it is the basis for a long term use as a healthy, contented horse. Gymnastic exercises are part of animal protection; horses are not born as carriers by nature. Simple exercises such as riding transitions and lateral movements (shoulder-in) support easy riding and contribute to increased release and a clear beat of the Marcha.
Das Motto "Verlange wenig, wiederhole oft, lobe viel!" wurde zu einem ihrer Grundsätze bei der Arbeit mit Pferden. Die Rasse Mangalarga Marchadores mit ihren unterschiedlichen Gangvarianten, ihrer Sensibilität und Intelligenz kombiniert mit klassischer Dressur wurde zu ihrer Passion. Viel Unterricht, viele Kurse bei namhaften Trainern und konsequente Weiterbildung brachten sie in die Lage, heute ihr Wissen an Reiter und Pferd bei der Ausbildung weitergeben zu können.
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Dance de Philip Glass est un ensemble de pièces musicales pour instruments et voix composées en 1978 pour accompagner l'œuvre chorégraphique Dance de Lucinda Childs. Écrites dans le style de la musique minimaliste les œuvres furent créées en même temps que la chorégraphie le  à Amsterdam aux Pays-Bas.

Historique
Philip Glass et Lucinda Childs, amis et collaborateurs de longue date, avaient réalisé ensemble la musique et la chorégraphie de l'opéra-théâtre-danse Einstein on the Beach mis en scène par Bob Wilson en 1976. Childs, qui souhaitait une musique répétitive pour ce qui deviendra l'une de ses pièces les plus célèbres, demande à Glass de lui composer une partition d'une quarantaine de minutes pour rythmer les arabesques mathématiques et austères de Dance soutenues par un film de Sol LeWitt. Il décide d'ajouter, à deux pièces pour orgue seul qu'il avait déjà composées (Dance 2, alors intitulée Fourth Series Part II, et Dance 4), trois autres mouvements pour ensemble instrumental et voix.

La première mondiale de la pièce chorégraphique et donc musicale a eu lieu le  à Amsterdam aux Pays-Bas avant sa création américaine le  à la Brooklyn Academy of Music de New York aux États-Unis, cocommissionnaire de l'œuvre.

Structure
Dance est une œuvre structurée en cinq mouvements :
Dance 1 - 19 min 30 s
Dance 2 – 23 min
Dance 3 - 18 min 30 s
Dance 4 - 23 min 30 s
Dance 5 – 20 min

Son exécution est d'une durée variable dont l'intégralité dure environ 100 minutes. Elle est composée pour orgue farfisa, claviers, trois flûtes et piccolo (Dance 1) ou trois saxophones basse, alto, ténor (Dance 3 et 5) et voix. Dance 2 et 4 sont pour orgue solo.

Discographie sélective
Dance 1-5, par le Philip Glass Ensemble dirigé par Michael Riesman, chez Sony Records, 2003.

Notes et références

Œuvre de Philip Glass

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Ranam may refer to:

 Ranam (2006 film), a Telugu film
 Ranam (2018 film), a Malayalam film
 Ranam (2021 film), a Kannada film
 Ranam-guyok, a district of Chongjin, North Korea


Friday, I went to the IBEW Hall in Dorchester for the Labor Guild's annual Cushing-Gavin Awards Dinner. We are very proud of the work that has been done by the Labor Guild, which is one of the very important initiatives begun by Cardinal Cushing. Historically, the Church in the United States, since the time of Cardinal James Gibbons, has been very supportive of our labor unions and the right of workers to collective bargaining. In these days of apparent prosperity in our country, income inequality continues to grow. Part of this is because workers do not have a strong voice in their economic future. This is where unions can play such an important role.
Each year at the dinner, the Guild recognizes four individuals for service in labor-management relations: a member of the labor community, a member of the management community, a labor mediator and a labor attorney. This year, the honorees were Stephen Finnigan, Stephen Coyle, Attorney Sarah Kerr Garraty and Attorney Anne Sills.
That evening, I went to St. Mary's in Waltham for a meeting with the local members of FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. Also with us was Father Eric Cadin of our Vocations Office, who is overseeing our campus ministry.
The FOCUS missionaries are recent college graduates who, after a time of training, work with the Catholic campus ministry at a university to encourage the students to be involved in their programs and to develop a personal relationship with Christ. Currently in Boston, we have missionaries working at Harvard, MIT and Boston University, and hope they will be able to expand their presence here in the future.
The dinner was an opportunity for us to hear about their experiences ministering here in the archdiocese.
Being an archdiocese with nearly 70 colleges and universities and nearly 400,000 students, this is a very important ministry for us. We are very grateful for all that FOCUS does here in our archdiocese and throughout the country.
Sunday, I went to Quincy to celebrate Mass with Mother Olga and her community, the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth. Their presence is a great blessing for us and I am so pleased to see that they continue to have young women interested in joining their community.
Sunday was the Feast of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, and his is one of the charisms that has inspired the Daughters. So, I was happy to celebrate Mass with the Sisters on this special feast day.
That evening, I gathered with the members of the Boston Area Order of Malta for their annual Advent celebration at St. John's Seminary.
We began our gathering with a Mass celebrated in the seminary chapel.
During the Mass, they honored Jack MacKinnon with the Bishop Fitzpatrick Award, which I presented to him.
Following the Mass, we gathered for a dinner in the refectory. There, we heard a talk by Father Stephen Salocks, the interim rector of the seminary, on the history and mission of St. John's.
I also offered remarks, in which I reflected on the meaning of this season of Advent and the ways in which the Order of Malta puts into practice Christ's call for us to love and serve one another.
Damien DeVasto is concluding his time of service as the Boston Area Chair and he is being succeeded by Nancy and Craig Gibson. So, at the end of our gathering, we took some time to recognize him and a number of members of the Order offered words of thanks for his exemplary leadership and many accomplishments during his time as Area Chair.
On behalf of the Order, I presented Damien with a lovely crystal bowl as a sign of their appreciation.
Sunday morning, we had our Annual Catholic Appeal Appreciation Mass at the Pastoral Center. We hold this Mass each year as an opportunity to thank the people for their support of the Appeal.
We are grateful for all that they do in helping to advance the mission of the Church in Boston.
Sunday evening, I gathered for dinner with several members of the Neocatechumenal Way in Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in East Boston. They actually came to the Cathedral and prepared a nice dinner for me.
We had a lovely meal together, during which they shared their personal witness of the work of God's grace in their lives and their families' lives. It was a wonderful encounter.
Tuesday I met with Father Timothy Kesicki, who is the President of the Jesuit Conference of the U.S. and Canada along with Father Michael Boughton, the rector of St. Peter Faber Jesuit Community in Brighton and Father Tom Stegman, the Dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
It was good to hear about the many Jesuits in formation at the Faber Community and the Jesuit priests residing there while pursuing advanced studies at the B.C. School of Theology and Ministry. I thanked them for the presence of their young priests, who are helping out in so many of our parishes and ethnic ministries. I know their presence is so greatly appreciated by the priests and people of the archdiocese.
Father Kesicki has significant responsibilities as president of the U.S./Canada Jesuit Conference and shared with us reports of the good work that is being done by the Jesuits in many dioceses throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Wednesday, I met with Jim Towey, the president of Ave Maria University in Florida. I am on the board of the university and he wanted to update me on some of their activities and projects.
One of those projects is a special institute on Mother Teresa. As part of that, they take students to Calcutta and many different places in the world so they can work with Mother Teresa's sisters. I understand it has been a wonderful experience for them.
That afternoon, we had one of our regular meetings of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference. The meetings bring together the ordinaries of the four dioceses of Massachusetts and members of their staffs to discuss issues of common concern.
It was a very good meeting in which we discussed ways to help people understand what the response to the crisis in the Church has been in the four dioceses of Massachusetts since 2002. We will certainly be speaking more about that in the future.
And finally, that day I also met Eustace Mita, who is the president of the Papal Foundation, of which I am now the chairman.
He came to meet with me about the Foundation but also to discuss the work of his men's conference Man Up Philly. He has been very successful in creating this conference and helping to initiate it in different parts of the country and offered to help us if we wanted to start another men's conference here the Archdiocese of Boston.


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Dalton Paula  (born 1982) is a Brazilian artist.

His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Art Institute of Chicago, and the São Paulo Museum of Art. Paula's work draws on Afro-Brazilian traditions, and features portraits of contemporary subjects dressed in a historical style. Andrea K. Scott, writing for The New Yorker, likened the style to retratos pintados, hand-painted photographs from rural Brazil.

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1982 births
20th-century Brazilian male artists
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Rogerian: This is where the counselor tries to reflect back what the person is saying with empathy an positive regard.
Cognitive Behavioral: This type of therapy takes the persons thoughts and behaviors and tries to change the what the person is is telling himself in order to change his behaviors.
Solution Focused: This type of therapy takes a look at what the "end results" would look like and begins the process of finding the shortest, and best way to get there. Goals are discussed and written down, and the individual is responsible for following through on their assignments.
Spiritual or Christian Counseling: Here the individual expresses a need to work on their spirituality. We discuss what it is that they would like to see different and the way in which they see God working out those things in their life. Prayer may be used in and out of sessions as well as Bible reading and meditation. It may be helpful for the person to identify the things in their life that may be keeping them from developing a closer walk with God or sense of spiritual completeness or peace.
Couples/Marital Therapy: This is a process of determining how each is perceiving the problem and finding the best way of helping each partner achieve their goals in the relationship. Typically the couple works on their communication skills in order to clarify their words and bring an understanding to their behaviors. Many times it is helpful to have a mediator to interpret and clarify things for each person in order to assist the communication process. If the relationship is too conflicted it may be necessary to work on some individual issues with each person before the couple is brought back to work on their relationship together in therapy.


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Ex-Badgers star Hayes having fun during latest NBA audition
Rob Johnson FOX Sports Wisconsin Jul 12, 2019 at 1:16p ET
LAS VEGAS — After a recent NBA summer league game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers, when all the players started to head to their locker rooms as per usual, there was one rogue Clipper that hung around the tunnel to chat with fans, grabbing their sharpies to sign whatever they wanted, and soaking up the entire atmosphere with a smile.
That player was former Wisconsin Badgers forward Nigel Hayes.
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"You got to have fun with it," Hayes said. "You have to engage the fans, they spent their money and time to come watch you play, support you and to cheer, and you kind of want to return that favor. That favor just being spending time with them signing autographs and saying hi. It's a give and take, they give us their money for us to be able to play this game and their time to come watch, and in return we give them effort on the court."
Effort has never been Hayes' problem. He finished the matchup against the Lakers with 13 points, four rebounds, two steals and two assists. Including in his scoring was a vicious baseline one-handed dunk. It was so forceful that the momentum threw him to the floor, and that kind of effort and enthusiasm is exactly what Hayes wants to show during this summer league.
"That right there is an example of me being aggressive," Hayes said. "This is an athletic game, very athletic players and I'm showing I have that ability to beat a man off the dribble and finish. Above the rim is a very good thing for me to show.
"The ability to score on offense I think is what teams want to see. They know my defense is consistent and will always be there, they know the passing is there. The main objective of the full game of basketball is put it in the rim, so, if I do that and do better each game more consistently things will be perfect. It's not even more consistently, its being more aggressive and trying to make things happen."
This isn't Hayes' first stop in the NBA. He had short stints with the Knicks, Kings, Lakers and Raptors organizations, playing in nine combined regular-season games during the 2017-18 season. But last season he left the U.S. to play basketball for Galatasaray, a Turkish team, where he averaged 13.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game while shooting 39.5% from 3-point range. While in Turkey, Hayes didn't just use his time there to only flourish at basketball, he also has used it as a chance to broaden his cultural skills.
"I didn't do much really there, I did some sightseeing here and there, but it was really just focusing on the game of basketball and getting back and focusing on the NBA, which is the place where not only I want to go but I know I'm able to play and I know I can play and be a good component and good asset for a team," Hayes said. "Being in Turkey kind of helped me out to focus on language learning. I was able to learn … Turkish (and) Italian and I started German. I'm just trying to be well-cultured and learn as much about the world as I can."
Now in his second summer league go-round, Hayes is determined to use this opportunity to make an NBA roster. When he isn't playing Hayes returns to the states to train in the familiar Midwest with a familiar ex-Badger and current NBA player.
"When I'm training, I'm in Chicago usually with Frank (Kaminsky), and me and Frank work out together. It's always good to catch up with teammates," said Hayes.
Of course, it'd be even better to catch up with both on the court during an NBA regular-season game. For that, Hayes will keep working. And having fun doing it.
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Private equity tycoon seeks public-private model for new Florida transit system
Joann Muller, author of Axios What's Next
The privately owned Brightline train at the new MiamiCentral terminal. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
As taxpayer-funded public transit systems look for a way out of their coronavirus death spiral, a private equity tycoon is betting on a public-private financing model as a way to fund big transportation projects in the future.
What's happening: Fortress Investment Group's Wes Edens is putting $100 million of his own money into a $9 billion plan to build new light rail systems in Florida and on the West Coast, Forbes writes.
His Florida-based Brightline, funded in 2017 with $600 million in private equity and tax-exempt bonds, is the only private passenger train in the U.S., operating a 67-mile rail service between Miami and West Palm Beach.
His vision is to expand the line all the way to Orlando and to run a similar electric passenger train between Las Vegas and a Los Angeles suburb.
Funding comes from tax-exempt private-activity bonds issued by state and federal governments, a less expensive option than typical corporate bonds.
By 2026, he expects his trains to carry nearly 20 million passengers, generating annual revenue of $1.6 billion and operating profit of almost $1 billion a year, according to Forbes.
Yes, but: Trains aren't exactly a moneymaker. Amtrak has consumed $52 billion of public funds and never made money in its half-century of operation, Forbes points out.
And, Edens has had his own financial challenges, as Forbes notes. But he clawed his way back from near-disaster during the Great Recession, selling Fortress to SoftBank in 2017 and pocketing $1.4 billion (pretax) for himself and his partners.
"At this point in my life, I'm more of a builder," Edens tells Forbes. "Upgrading our nation's infrastructure and building high-speed trains can be this generation's Hoover Dam and Tennessee Valley Authority."
My thought bubble: Many public transportation systems were already financially distressed before the coronavirus. Until riders feel it's safe to return, revenues will continue to suffer. We're likely to see more of these public-private partnerships as the transportation sector recovers.


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Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in New York City. She is heaving five members in the family including herself. She started acting from her childhood time only. she was being guided to auditions by her mother at the small age of 8 years only and dressed her as a professional actress.
Scarlett Johansson is known for its work in various movies. She really worked fabulously in movies such as GHOST WORLD, AVENGERS, LOST IN TRANSLATION and many more. Scarlett Johansson is named as a Black widow (superwoman) in the movie Avengers, Iron Man. She is a music lover and launches her first music album with musician Pete Yorn in the year 2008.
Brie Larson was born on October 1, 1989, in the USA. She started her career in drama from an early age of 6 years and therefore she is the first youthful child in the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She started her career from the Disney movie" Right on track" in the year 2003.
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Halle Berry was born on August 14th, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio USA. She was raised up by her mother. She started her career as a model in shot lived American tv programme Living Dolls in 1991. Halle Berry admitted that she missed various opportunities due to the discrimination on the basis of Black color.
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Cate Blanchett was born on 14th may 1969 in Melbourne Australia. The starting point of cate's Career is from Australia itself. In the year 1993, she started her career in the TV and finally succeeded in grabbing various leading roles such as Heartland, Border Town and many more.
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Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, in South Africa. She started her career at the age of 16 as a MODEL. She worked in various Hollywood movies such as Mighty Joe Young (1998) and The Italian Job (2003), Hancock(2008) as a superwomen. As Charlize was from South Africa she learned English by watching American Television.
Charlize Theron was voted as 12th Sexiest female movie star Australian Empire Magazine. She was also ranked as 15th in Maxim magazine's Hot women from the list of 100. Charlize became the highest paid actress with $14 million in the year 2017. Her one of the greatest achievement is the Academy award in the year 2003.


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Donald Trump Jr. reaches deal with Senate Intelligence Committee for testimony in June
(CNN) - Donald Trump, Jr. and the Senate Intelligence Committee have reached a deal for the President's eldest son to appear before the committee behind closed doors in mid-June, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The agreement for Trump Jr.'s testimony comes after the committee issued a subpoena last month that sparked an intense blowback against Republican Chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina from Trump Jr.'s allies and many of Burr's Republican colleagues.
The interview will be limited to two-to-four hours and limited in scope to five-to-six topics, according to the sources. But questions about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the Trump Tower Moscow project will not be off limits, said two sources familiar with the matter.
Questions on Trump Tower Moscow and the Trump Tower meeting would be constrained to limited followups, a source close to Trump Jr. said, and if any of the same questions are asked from Trump Jr.'s initial 2017 interview, he will refer the committee to his prior testimony.
But a source close the committee said that Trump Jr. would be required to answer questions about discrepancies between his past testimony and what other witnesses have told both the Senate committee and special counsel Robert Mueller's team.
The two sides agreed it would be the last time Trump Jr. will be asked to come before the committee in relation to its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, the sources said.
Before the agreement was reached, the two sides were locked in a stand-off over the subpoena to Trump Jr. that nearly forced the North Carolina Republican to have to decide whether to hold the President's son in contempt. Trump Jr. faced a Monday deadline to respond to the committee's subpoena, but the committee agreed to extend the deadline an additional day as committee aides and Trump Jr.'s lawyers worked to negotiate an agreement, sources said.
Trump Jr.'s legal team had crafted a letter they were ready to send to the committee ahead of the subpoena deadline stating that the President's son was prepared to be held in contempt, according to one source. The bottom line, the source said, was that Trump Jr. was not coming and was not going to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights.
The letter, which was described to CNN, argued that Trump Jr. had given more than 20 hours of testimony, produced hundreds of thousands of documents in various investigations, and answered all the questions fully.
News of the subpoena last week prompted a major pressure campaign against Burr to drop the matter. The President weighed in after news of the subpoena became public, calling it "very unfair" and retweeting criticism of Burr over the weekend.
Trump Jr.'s Republican allies argued that the Mueller report had been issued and that was the final word, and there was no reason to drag Trump Jr. back. Some went so far as to accuse Burr of being a Democrat or engaging in what amounted to a "persecution" of the President's family. One source said that Trump Jr. feels like the pressure campaign waged by Senate Republicans and other allies helped convince Burr and the committee to find an agreement with Trump Jr.
But Burr was unmoved by calls from Senate Republicans — including some on his committee — to drop the matter. Burr has repeatedly declined to comment as the negotiations continued.
"I don't address anything in witness engagements, thanks," Burr said Tuesday, just minutes before news of the agreement was made public.
Trump Jr. is now slated to return to the committee for a second time, after initially testifying voluntarily in December 2017.
The first interview was conducted only with staff, but senators will be able to sit in on Trump Jr.'s second appearance, according to one source. They've done the same for other witnesses who have returned to the committee this year, including the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
The committee began seeking a second interview from Trump Jr. in December, Burr told his Senate colleagues last week. After Trump Jr. twice agreed and postponed his appearance, the committee issued a subpoena for his testimony in April.
The committee initially issued the subpoena for Trump Jr. to appear on May 1. Trump Jr. had a previously scheduled hunting trip in Alaska at the same time, according to sources familiar with the matter. After the committee would not agree to limits on the time or scope of his testimony ahead of the May 1 date, Trump Jr. chose to defy the subpoena and not appear, one source said.
Trump Jr. went on the hunting trip, the source said, but it was unconnected to his decision not to go before the committee, which was due to the disagreement over the scope of his testimony.
The committee officially noted Trump Jr.'s absence on the day he was supposed to appear to signal his noncompliance with the subpeona, said another source.
There have been questions raised about Trump Jr.'s 2017 testimony, when he appeared before the Senate Intelligence, House Intelligence and Senate Judiciary committees. The Senate Judiciary Committee released a transcript of the interview.
The release of the Mueller report has prompted questions about what Trump Jr told the Judiciary panel, including whom he spoke to about dirt on Hillary Clinton before the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and the breadth of discussions he had with the President's former personal attorney Michael Cohen about the Trump Tower Moscow project.
This story has been updated with additional developments Tuesday.


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Analyze the following situations and determine which is true about the relationship between technology and income level.
Determine which of the following represents a feminist perspective on the digital divide?
Which of the following is not a difference commonly associated with the digital divide?
Middle-class, college-educated African Americans are less likely as their white counterparts to have broadband Internet services at home.
Which of the following is not a factor related to the digital divide?
Determine which of the following represents a cultural perspective on the internet and the digital divide?
Which of the following represents a functionalist perspective on the internet and the digital divide?
All but which of the following is considered a measure of Socio-Economic Status (SES)?
Which of the following represents a conflict theory perspective on the internet and the digital divide?
Conflict theorists would argue that the digital divide might also be described as?
Analyze what an examination of Socio-Economic Status (SES) reveals in relation to the digital divide.
According to research conducted by the Pew Research Center, African Americans are more likely to use Twitter than whites.
How might social scientists measure the digital divide? Select all that apply.
Which of the following explains why closing the digital divide involves more than creating more access to the internet?
What is the primary reason that individuals with less power generally have less knowledge about technology?
The social stratification we see in the non-virtual world is unlikely to be reproduced in social-networking communities because they are insulated from broader social forces.
According to sociological research, which of the following best explains the persistence of the digital divide?
Which of the following best describes what Socio-economic status (SES) is?
The world's largest computer controlled dispatching facility is in Omaha, Nebraska.
According to sociological research, interpret which of the following best explains the persistence of the digital divide?
How might informational professionals help close the digital divide?
Which of the following best describes how the digital divide has impacted social roles?


We present a theoretical study on spin-dependent transport of electrons in any anti-parallel double δ -magnetic-barrier nanostructure, which can be experimentally realized by depositing a ferromagnetic stripe on the surface of a semiconductor heterostructure. A general fomula of tranmission probability for electrons tunneling through this kind of nanostructures, is obtained. It is shown that large spin-polarized current can be achieved in such a device. It also is shown that the degree of electron-spin polarization is strongly dependent upon magnetic-strength difference of two δ -barriers. These interesting properties may provide an alternative scheme to spin-polarize electrons into semiconductors, and this device may be used as a tunable spin-filter.
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Well, it's been a good year of highlighting some of the ministry's bright and shining hearts with our monthly Rays of Sonshne BLOG posts and today is our final highlighting post that features yet another very special volunteer: Helen McClaren.
Despite all her hard work and accomplishing so much for the ministry, Helen is a behind the scenes, low key kind of leader. She leads with actions and can definitely speak up about her passions of serving others, especially those with disabilities in Jesus' name. But, Helen, does all this with a gracious smile and serving with a "however needed" kind of attitude. What a great reminder for us all about what God can accomplish as we work diligently for Him with the heart of a servant. That is what impresses us most about Helen and why she is December's Ray of Sonshine.
Wow, what a busy month it has been with Thanksgiving and the pre-Christmas rush! However, even in the hurry of the season, I want to pause and reflect on the faithful behind the scenes service of two dear friends: Ed and Wendy Nordine.
These two folks have been involved with disability ministry since before we even arrived in Florida as Wendy volunteered for years as the Joni and Friends Wheels for the World Florida Collections Coordinator. This is actually how we met as Leanne and I both served on staff with Joni and Friends here in Florida from 2007 to 2010.
When Access-Life started in 2010, Ed and Wendy were some of the first to jump "on board". The did so almost literally joining the ministry's board of directors that same year. Since then they have been leaders on the West Palm Beach Expo team, traveled to help at the Jacksonville, Central Florida, North Texas and East Tennessee Expos and even rounding out their full participation by collecting mobility items for our annual Belize outreach.
What a God blessed 40th Expo we had on Saturday! Yes, the Central Florida event on November 11th was our 40th outreach since 2011 and as with each Expo is was amazing to see God work bringing heaven to earth and putting smiles on faces thru the joy of His presence!
All in all this was our smallest outreach of the year but as we have always said, we are there for whoever God brings in need of some respite, adaptive adventure and a special touch from Him. This was brought to my mind by several families who expressed such gracious thanks Saturday for hosting an event tailored just for them and their needs. The smiles I saw on so many faces including a youngster who had just gotten off of the giant canoe and was sopping wet as "Mr. Bill" had taken them under the fountain, reminded me that God was there working in so many ways that day.
Above is a photo collage and there are about 25 pictures on the CFL Expo page on our website (https://access-life.com/cfl) so feel free to checkout the fun photos and share as God leads!
This month's Rays of Sonshine is someone who has been with the ministry from it's start in 2010. In fact, she served as a volunteer for Joni and Friends when Leanne and I led the Florida office back in 2007. Her service with Access-Life has been diverse as well as longstanding, starting with the West Palm Beach team before she and her husband Steve relocated to the Villages where they now support the CFL outreach.
She is a Physical Therapist by trade but is known in the ministry world for her fabulous administrative skills. However, in actuality she is an awesome networker, too. In fact, she has successfully coordinated groups of folks from her church volunteering at the Expos in CFL as well putting together their own team for our annual Big Wheel Deal wheelchair basketball game in the area.
What we so love about Gaile is that she not only welcomes us at her facility but that she supports what we do 110%! There is obviously the business side of renting the pavilion and cabins, paying fees and getting permits but she goes beyond the basics to help us as an exhibitor, volunteer and networker. Currently, she is even contacting local churches and organizations close by the park trying to secure extra parking for the 2018 outreach. Wow, what a blessing!
Well, this months Rays of Sonshine post highlights two people who we've known for nearly 20 years. They are dear friends and long time advocates for people living with disabilities including serving on the Access-Life board of Directors for over 6 years from 2011 to 2017. They have served on 3 of our mission trips to Belize and helped lead the planning for the North Texas Expo since it's beginning in 2012. However, what makes John and Lisa so special is not all that they do (which is a whole lot LOL) but their heart for people.
The so love helping people living with disability in their times of need. They do it everyday, too as the own and run a durable medical equipment store in Hurst, TX. They see, meet and make friends with individuals and families members living with disabilities on a daily basis. In turn, reaching out to these folks through Access-Life has been a natural fit. Helping them know that God loves them, has a good plan for their lives and wants them to live abundantly fill with His joy is a natural extension of what John and Lisa already do through their store and work.
Isn't that a lesson we all need to learn and relearn every day? Letting God's light and love shine through us leading others to true life only found in Jesus. A Life that gives hope, peace and joy. A life that is about overcoming and living abundantly making a difference for God's kingdom and bringing heaven to earth each day. So let us each of us honor God with every word we say and every deed we do and please join us in celebrating this month's Rays of Sonshine: John and Lisa Deeds.
What an awesome day God gave us Saturday at the ETN Expo! God blessed us with 865 attendees this year including participation from 11 churches in Jefferson, Hamblen, Grainger and Knox County.
While the boat rides, bank fishing, archery kayaking and horses were once again popular mainstays, the addition of a rockwall this year was a new activity and big hit with folks. I was specifically encouraged by the dad of a boy with a disability who when thanking me for hosting the event told me they tried to get their son to rock climb several years ago with no success but on Saturday he climbed the rockwall to the top making for a memorable day.
All in all it was a great outreach from the free hot dogs and snow cones to the sand cross craft and tie-dye t-shirt decorating and I hope you enjoy the above photo collage as a reminder of God's goodness. Feel free to forward, post and share it, too!


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Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo reunite 18 years after 13 Going On 30
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Jennifer Garner, 49, and Mark Ruffalo, 54, played Jenna and Matty in 2004's 13 Going On 30. The pair reunited in a new Netflix series.
Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo reunite 18 years after 13 Going On 30 (
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Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo shared a sweet flashback from 13 Going On 30 as they reunited nearly two decades later.
The star couple reunited after co-starring in the hit comedy 18 years ago.
Jennifer, 49, shared a collage of herself and Mark, 54, hugging in the final scene of the 2004 film.
Below, she added a photo taken today, of the couple cuddling on an outdoor sofa.
She captioned the snap: "13 Going on 30 Reunion, aka #TheAdamProject, premieres Friday on @netflix".
Mark also shared a video of the couple enjoying a pack of Razzles, just like they did in the movie.
Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo have been friends since they starred in the romantic comedy almost a decade ago.
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Jennifer shared a collage of a then and now photo taken from the movie
"Can you believe it's been 18 years since 13 Going On 30? That's how old these Razzles are.
"A whole candy.." Jennifer said.
"And a piece of gum," Mark finished for her.
They cheered their sweets, and Mark continued: "It's like Jenna and Matty got together so they could be parents on Project Adam."
They featured Walker Scobell, who said: "You guys look so cozy, what's going on?"
One of the most beloved moments in the film is the scene where Jenna teaches her colleagues to dance to the Thriller
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Mark said, "We're just sitting here reminiscing about how we were both on 13 Going On 30."
"Have you seen that movie?" Jennifer asked as she continued to chew on Razzle.
"Didn't that movie come out like it was forever? Before I was born, I think," Walker asked.
"Can't believe it's been 18 years, feels like yesterday… Maybe the time travel in #TheAdamProject really happened,"
Fans flocked to the comments section to join the flashback.
"Jenna and Matty 4EVER," wrote one fan.
Another said: "I OBSERVED THAT THEY HAVE TO DO THIS"
Garner and Ruffalo joined Heart's Dev Griffin this week to chat about their new movie The Adam Project, which also stars Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobell.
In the movie, Jenna wishes she was 30 years old and it came true
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Jennifer told Heart Radio: "We have a history together and we're part of each other's history, and even though we haven't seen each other in a long time, it feels like there's been no time at all. passed and it was like 100 years passed.
"It's really great to get to know this version of Mark with all the information I have about him."
Mark added: "Yes, it's beautiful. It's like coming home."
In The Adam Project on Netflix, Jennifer and Mark play husband and wife Ellie and Louis Reed, Adam's parents, played by Ryan Reynolds.
Ryan is a time traveler to the year 2022 and meets his 12-year-old boy, Walker, to save the future.
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The future is orange, and it's also been leaked to the public. This image was leaked from KTM's dealer meeting, revealing the Austrian company's plans for new models for the North American market for the next three years.
Notable models listed from KTM's outline include the previously confirmed for India Duke 350, three Freeride models (including two electric ones) 1290cc versions of the Super Duke R and Adventure, as well as an expanded use of 350cc engines.
The Duke 350 is based on the entry-level Duke 125 currently available in Europe and other markets. The 125cc version (pictured below) and an upcoming 200cc version make sense in those markets, many of which have graduated licensing laws regulating the engine sizes of motorcycles for young riders.
The larger 350cc engine may be more appealing for the North American market, while also giving the Duke 350 a displacement advantage over the 250cc entry level models such as the Kawasaki Ninja 250R and the Honda CBR250R.
The KTM Freeride was first revealed in prototype form at the 2010 Tokyo Motor Show, and it appears KTM is planning on three variants on the Freeride platform for North America. KTM lists two electric off-road Freeride models, the Freeride E SX and Freeride E EXC, as well as the presumably gas-powered Freeride 350.
When it was unveiled in Tokyo, the Freeride concept maintained a traditional motocross style look, with a claimed power output of 30hp, 31.7 ft-lb. of torque and a weight of 198.4 pounds.
Apart from the Freeride and Duke platforms, the 350 engine will be offered in a new enduro model and what is listed as a Moto3 for 2014 (likely the faired motorcycle rendering on the right side of the leaked image). KTM has previously announced it is re-entering the Grand Prix World Championship in 2012 with in the Moto3 class. The Moto3 class is limited to 250cc engines however, a 350 version is curious as it does not fit into any current race class.
For those interested in larger displacement models, the leaked image lists two 1290 models, the Super Duke 1290 R and the Adventure 1290. KTM currently offers the 990 Super Duke R and 990 Adventure, both powered by 75-degree 999cc V-Twin engines. KTM also currently offers a 990 Supermoto R using the same engine but it does not appear a 1290 version of the Supermoto R is in KTM's North American plans at this time. The 1290 Super Duke R is expected in 2013 with the Adventure version coming in 2014.
KTM also lists an Adventure R 1090 for 2013.
[Source: Bay Area Riders Forum via HellForLeather]
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