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Restaurant tech start out-up Agot AI has shut a $10 million funding spherical that will aid the enterprise get the job done towards its mission of improving quick-food stuff buy accuracy.
The commence-up installs overhead cameras in cafe kitchens and takes advantage of laptop eyesight — equivalent to that made use of in autonomous motor vehicles — to scrutinize if personnel are getting ready orders properly. The technologies is intended to increase labor performance and reduce customer wait around occasions.
Agricultural investment agency Continental Grain, which a short while ago acquired poultry huge Sanderson Farms with Cargill, led the get started-up’s seed funding round. The Kitchen area Fund – which has investments in Sweetgreen, Cava and Gregorys Espresso – and Grit Ventures also participated.
Agot lifted just $50,000 throughout its former funding round in Might of 2020, according to Pitchbook.
“We are thrilled to aid the Agot team in bringing their pc eyesight remedy to current market, increasing labor effectiveness, improving off-premise operations, and supplying true-time analytics to complex QSR operators,” Continental Grain said in a assertion to CNBC.
Purchase accuracy can have a sturdy impression on consumers’ willingness to return to a restaurant and over-all knowledge. The American Client Gratification Index’s yearly buyer survey uncovered that rapidly-food restaurants’ orders were correct 84% of the time in 2021, down from the prior year’s score.
Agot co-founder and CEO Evan DeSantola reported the technology can place in excess of 85% of get problems and connect with notice to people troubles ahead of personnel serve the food to prospects.
“We see that throughout the [quick-service restaurant] business buy precision is getting to be an increasingly substantial trouble as a final result of the shift to travel-thru,” DeSantola stated. “What was when a smaller suffering place, when the accuracy premiums have not gotten substantially improved, is now a a great deal more substantial discomfort position.”
Push-via orders were increasing prior to the pandemic, but the health and fitness disaster led many people to change to that purchasing strategy due to the fact of shuttered dining rooms, convenience and safety concerns. In December, drive-thru transactions rose 22% when compared with a year back, in accordance to the NPD Group. SeeLevel HX’s annual generate-thru research discovered that common moments across 10 quickly-food stuff chains slowed down by nearly 50 percent a minute final yr.
DeSantola and his co-founder Alex Litzenberger, who serves as the firm’s main technological know-how officer, met even though personal computer science college students at Carnegie Mellon University. They commenced the company 2½ yrs back right after experiencing extended wait around situations and completely wrong orders them selves. The founders’ alma mater also participated in the seed round.
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Golkin also stated that Agot was the furthest ahead of other commence-ups who are exploring similar laptop eyesight alternatives within just cafe tech. In accordance to its founders, Agot has received multiple acquisition gives that it has refused.
DeSantola mentioned Agot’s normal purchaser has at the very least 2,000 restaurant locations. Nonetheless, he declined to share the names of recent restaurant clientele, citing strict nondisclosure agreements.
Agot ideas to use the income from the newest funding spherical to grow its products and engineering groups and to grow its achieve, the two for present customers and including new chains to its roster.

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For those who have had this procedure, (this is the one where they inject corticosteroid and saline and the idea is to stretch out the joint capsule and in some cases will also pop the capsule which is all the better), I am interested in hearing your experiences. My doctor does them and my therapist thinks it might be helpful for me. However, I'm reading very mixed reviews on degree of success. My questions for those who have had one: 1) Did it help your stiffness and ROM to a significant degree? 2) Did it help your overall pain? 3) In retrospect, would you do it again given your experience?
I have pain in general but not to the degree that others often describe. It does hurt at times and definitely more at night but I consider it manageable pain. It is the stiffness and loss of ROM that is very bothersome to me and the excrutiating pain when I inadvertently push it further than it wants to move.
I would really like to hear of experiences with this procedure.
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08 June 2016: Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith (5), Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) and Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving (2) are seen during the press conference following the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-90 victory over the Golden State Warriors, during Game Three of the 2016 NBA Finals at the Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Publisher: Hyacinth Girl Press (2016)
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Review by April Michelle Bratten
Wren Hanks, formerly published as Jennifer Hanks, is a writer who often blends a distorted realm with a conscious reality. This union is effortless for Hanks, who writes in the grotesque and horror genres, and also, in the case of Prophet Fever, uses poetry as a vehicle to discover and inhabit self. Consisting of only 16 pages of poetry, Prophet Fever impressively weaves a dark and layered story.
These poems can seem quite ominous. The speaker, Wren, is haunted by the presence of a wolf: “I felt her breath on my neck like a quilt / She whispered / You are Wren the charcoal star”. As the story progresses the reader becomes aware that the wolf’s presence is key in Wren’s journey for acceptance and belonging. Is the wolf, in fact, a mysterious haunting? Or is she a piece of Wren’s subconscious, calling for the claiming of identity? Wren seems to have not only grown accustomed to the wolf, but finds an intriguing comfort in her presence:
The nights I drip in bed
I feel her fur against my side.
Feel her flame drop off—
as she wraps herself around me
like a coat I suddenly need. (6)
Hanks uses many references to animals throughout Prophet Fever, particularly animals of the canine variety. These animals, symbols of nature, are portrayed as raw or wild beings. Although they might become wounded or smaller, they do not question their purpose: “They whine spit out their molars all over the carpet. Blood colors / their water bowls like dried roses. They are puppies again gnashing / their swollen gums.” These dogs fascinate Wren, who seems to admire their willingness to be, but fears their truth might lead to something more complicated or perhaps even disastrous. “I am not ready to see what your animals will become.”
Religion is also interestingly woven into the story, proposed as both an enticement to Wren and a means for them to question their place in the world. Hanks writes in section 5, “A boy once put an ice cube in his mouth and held it to my neck. / He called me Sacred Heart Wren when I dripped wax from a prayer / candle onto his stomach.” Here, religion is used with a contradictory power, coaxing the name “Wren” from a lover’s lips, a lean towards claiming the self. However, Hanks pushes this idea much further in section 10:
What will happen when I die? I want to ask
No really ask No really
Mary is there a place
for these bodies
in the afterlife really?
And more important
Will I die?
Will I die?
Will I die alone?
If Wren is to claim the self, will they belong in the natural world? Will they be accepted after?
Not only a chapbook about seeking identity, Prophet Fever also explores the personal risk involved with claiming the self, especially for queer people. Hanks confronts the subject matter of belonging in a beautiful and unique way, questioning and challenging the state of the natural world and how queer bodies fit inside of it. Prophet Fever is a dark book, yes, but it’s also a deeply important book, flush with possibility: “The dogs sit down at my feet, every motion a door creaking open in / the night.”
Wren Hanks is the author of Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press) and Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press). A 2016 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow, their recent work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2016, Gigantic Sequins, Bone Bouquet, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. Their third chapbook, gar child, is forthcoming from Tree Light Books in 2017. An Associate Editor for Sundress Publications, they live in Brooklyn and tweet @corsetofscales.

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Social upheaval dominated the 1960s and 1970s as newly mobilized communities fought for equality in the U.S. As domestic protests against the Vietnam War increased, civil rights organizations would win important political battles against institutional racism, while "Second Wave" American feminism would emerge from its infancy as a full-fledged movement. The Chicano movement gained similar momentum during this moment, but within it many women felt their unique identity - both intertwined with their brothers in struggle, but specifically distinct as Chicano women - was being ignored. A Chicana feminist movement galvanized in reaction to the complexities of Latina empowerment, often facing resistance from male Chicano leaders and organizers.
While many forms of gender inequality exposed by mainline American feminism were relevant to women of color, overall the race and class experiences of white and brown women did not correlate. White feminists enjoyed access to racial privileges and simply did not speak to the injustices experienced by women of color. Moreover, they often failed to define themselves in terms that positively or proactively involved men, while many Chicanas remained invested in the struggles of the men in their community despite the patriarchy of traditional Mexican-American culture. Rather than acceding to the common request that they wait their turn, Chicana feminists saw that the sexism within the Chicano Movement intersected with racism in the larger society, and made addressing both simultaneously as a central component to their ideology.
The Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional was formally established in 1973 to address political and economic issues affecting Latino women throughout the nation, including longstanding assaults such as forced sterilization. In Highland Park, female artists involved in male-dominated collectives eschewed idealized images of maids and over-sexualized iconography and began painting Latino women as they appeared in reality - applying makeup, holding a child, or in feminine forms with realistic proportions.
Being a Chicana Feminist
Empowering Latino Women
Conditions for Producing Chicana Art
Being a Single Mother

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Characterization of the seafloor in Australia's coastal zone using acoustic techniques
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Australia's coastal shelf contains a diversity of marine habitats that require regular assessment in a cost-effective way. As part of the Coastal Water Habitat Mapping (CWHM) project of the Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management (Coastal CRC), several shallow water regions along the western, southern and eastern Australian coasts have been surveyed using multi and single beam echo sounders. Acoustic observations were ground-truthed with stereo photography, video recordings and grab and core samplings. A 450-kHz Reson SeaBat 8125 multibeam echo sounder was employed to obtain high-resolution bathymetry and acoustic backscatter maps of the seafloor. A new approach to deriving backscatter imagery of the seafloor has been developed for high-frequency multibeam systems. Robustness of different backscatter characteristics with respect to recognition of different habitats and seafloor vegetation was examined. The results of acoustic recognition and localization of marine vegetation on the seafloor are in agreement with video observations.
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Tseng, Yao-Ting (2009)This study focuses on the potential of using a single beam echosounder as a tool for recognition and assessment of seafloor vegetation. Seafloor vegetation is plant benthos and occupies a large portion of the shallow ...
Parnum, Iain Michael (2007)The aim of this study was to develop and examine the use of backscatter data collected with multibeam sonar (MBS) systems for benthic habitat mapping. Backscatter data were collected from six sites around the Australian ...
Shallow water sound propagation over a layered calcarenite seafloor: an exercise in benchmarking various modelsKoessler, Matthew; Duncan, Alexander; Gavrilov, Alexander (2013)The sediment deficient western and southern Australian coastal seafloors consist of semi-compact layered calcarenite. Although there is a large body of work investigating and modelling the characteristics of underwater ...


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As the bee population declines, we can either listen to the buzz or feel the sting.
For years scientists have been puzzling over a vast die-off of bees in the United States and throughout Europe. After significant drops in recent years, alarms started sounding in 2012 when as much as 50 percent of the bee population in the United States perished. Finding the answer to the bee-pocalypse is important not only to save one of the wondrous sounds of nature—the soothing hum of the honeybee at work—but because bees represent an enormous industry in their own right.
Producing, processing, and retailing honey provides thousands of jobs across the United States and an avocation to thousands of hobbyists. Americans consume about 400 million pounds of honey each year, and the 2012 honey crop was worth more than $289 million. But our very busy bees also serve an even more important purpose in modern agriculture than providing a healthy and tasty sweetener.
While other insects do their share, bees are the world’s greatest plant pollinators. Approximately one third of the total human diet is derived directly or indirectly from insect-pollinated plants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 80 percent of insect crop pollination in the United States is accomplished by honeybees. But the bees aren’t busy just for the good of humanity; they pollinate the wild plants that other inhabitants of planet Earth depend upon for sustenance.
So bees are our magnanimous, uncompensated farmhands. Unfortunately, they are being rewarded for their insectarian benevolence with disease and death. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives over the past six years at an estimated monetary loss of $2 billion.
Scientists believe the devastating disorder originates with a parasitical infection among individual bees. When enough bees at a given site become infected, the entire colony can be lost. How bad is the situation? According to some agriculturalists, the United States is one bad winter away from the complete collapse of its bee-reliant growing system.
Various theories have been proposed to explain the bee’s abrupt vulnerability to these infections. Scientists at the University of Maryland and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have determined that a toxic brew of pesticides and fungicides settling on the pollen that bees collect is likely to blame. While it is good news to have finally fixed a point of origin for CCD, the implications of the new research are deeply troubling. There may be no one clear culprit, but rather a complex interaction of multiple chemical interventions farmers have come to rely on to protect their crops.
While Europeans have acted swiftly to limit certain classes of pesticides that are suspected of weakening bee colonies, in the United States there have been no emergency prohibitions to protect the bees. Like addicts who persist in the abuse of drugs which they know are doing them harm, U.S. growers—systemically “addicted” to the pesticides and herbicides which annually douse American farm fields, farmhands, and rural communities—will need to be significantly challenged to break old habits.
The dying of the bees may be the ultimate service that our nearly silent partners in agricultural production can offer us. Bees are our canaries in the farm field, their suffering a warning to us about our disruption of Earth’s natural processes. Saving bees could mean that U.S. farmers will have to make significant changes in a mode of food production that has in recent decades become “normal”; it could also mean saving ourselves. After all, the witches’ brew of pesticides and industrial chemicals that have proven so fatal to the bees is part of the atmospheric backdrop of our daily lives as well.
Could the many odd ailments afflicting humankind today, such as various endocrine system anomalies and failures, depressed fertility, and spiking autism rates, likewise be related to life in the chemical cloud? The bees are trying to tell us something. We may only have a handful of summers left to listen to them.
This article appeared in the February 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79, No. 2, page 47).

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miR-375 mediates the CRF signaling pathway to regulate catecholamine biosynthesis by targeting Sp1 in porcine adrenal gland
Corticotropin-releasing-factor (CRF) is a key regulator of catecholamines (CATs) biosynthesis in the adrenal gland. Furthermore, miR-375 has been confirmed to be localized in the mouse adrenal gland. However, the relationships between miR-375 and CRF in regulating CATs biosynthesis remain to be established. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between CRF and miR-375 in the regulation of CATs biosynthesis in the porcine adrenal gland. Eight adult female pigs (four controls; four injected intracerebroventricularly with 50 μg of CRF) were used for the in vivo experiments in this study. The results showed that miR-375 was exclusively localized in porcine adrenal medullary cells. Functional studies showed that miR-375 negatively regulated CATs synthesis in primary cells by affecting the expression of the CATs synthetases tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH), and phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT). CRF up-regulated the expression of CATs synthetase in primary adrenal medullary cells under basal conditions and upon endogenous miR-375 inhibition; the enhanced effects vanished when cellular miR-375 was overexpressed by transfecting miR-375-mic. CRF decreased the expression of miR-375 both in vivo and in vitro. Our in vitro results showed that CRF significantly decreased the expression of miR-375, perhaps by binding to CRFR1. miR-375 functions by directly binding to the 3′-UTR region of specificity protein 1 (Sp1), which is involved in regulating Th and Dbh expression. These data collectively indicate that miR-375 plays an important role in regulating CATs synthesis and mediates the CRF signaling pathway in porcine adrenal medullary cells.

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In '07 I started Nobo from Columbus/Palomas and finished sobo at both Crazy Cook and Antelope Wells, so I've seen all 3. I think they're all sort of lame in their own ways, but I generally prefer Columbus, and if you're doing AW/CC I'd say you might try and hit them both--they're not that far apart, there's water on the way, and when I was walking out on the road to CC, it felt like it would require a pretty hefty vehicle to drive it. Pro's for Columbus: It's an easier hitch (although there's a shuttle from Mexico that goes through AW all the way to Phoenix or something like that, I scored a ride on un-scheduled ride on that for $20 less than 10 minutes after finishing), and there's actually pretty scenery in Gila NF south of the main branch of the Gila River that's only on the Columbus route, whereas I don't recall much of anything pretty on the AW/CC route. Pro's for AW/CC: Silver City is a pretty cool town (but I got along fine just using the
Mimbres store/PO to resupply on the Columbus route) and AW is further south, if that's what you're looking for.
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BRENHAM, Texas — On the day before Thanksgiving 2008, Jean Ann Simmons came home after picking up her children at school to find an express mail package on her front porch in this small Texas town.
A unit of LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. — the company the Simmonses had entrusted with more than a quarter of a million dollars — informed the family in a one-page letter that it was going out of business. Nine months earlier, officials at LandAmerica had learned that the supposedly safe investments they'd made for clients such as the Simmonses had tanked.
The Simmonses' money, which came from selling a farm that had been in the family for decades, was gone. The farm was where Simmons' husband, Kirby, had taught his children to hunt and fish, and where he'd watched his teenage daughter Payton die in an accident while tending to her horse. To cope with the pain, they'd decided to sell the place.
"I was absolutely stunned and devastated," Jean Ann Simmons said of receiving the letter. "It was Thanksgiving the next day, and we couldn't get a hold of anybody. ... We called and called and called."
"I felt," she said, "like they took money from Payton."
The nation's financial markets have rebounded from the depths of March 2009. Some families are recovering, albeit slowly. Others, however, such as the Simmonses and other families that sent their money to LandAmerica, are unlikely ever to recover completely.
Their money evaporated with the collapse of LandAmerica, and then they watched as the federal government made matters worse by not intervening to help them.
These families didn't get the press attention that Bernard Madoff's multimillionaire victims did. With the exception of coverage in LandAmerica's hometown of Richmond, Va., the plight of these ordinary Americans was eclipsed by Madoff's billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the American International Group's massive bailout, Goldman Sachs' mammoth executive bonuses and every other swindle, outrage and boondoggle of the last two years.
Some 450 individuals and businesses that had entrusted a total of some $265 million to a group of related companies that operated under the LandAmerica name found their savings ensnared in the mess.
Imagine depositing your money in a savings account on a Friday afternoon, and then being told on Monday that it was gone. That's essentially what happened in the LandAmerica case. Or imagine that the money you gave the company was your life savings. That happened to many LandAmerica families.
They were innocent bystanders in February 2008 when the market for something called "auction rate securities" collapsed. LandAmerica, which held hundreds of millions of dollars in those investments, had assumed they were safe and, in turn, had told its clients that their money was safe.
Even after the market collapsed, LandAmerica continued to say that its services were safe. Beyond that, after warning the U.S. Treasury Department that "hundreds of innocent businesses and individuals will be needlessly harmed" if the company didn't get help, LandAmerica continued to collect customers' money.
Then, one day, it couldn't pay it back.
"On Nov. 21 — that date is burned into my memory — I closed on some property in Phoenix," said John Callahan, a commercial real estate developer based in Dallas.
It was a Friday. In that transaction and one other one, he'd wired more than $2.8 million to LandAmerica. "I went home. I was happy."
On Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, LandAmerica shut down, and on Wednesday, it declared bankruptcy. Callahan, like the other so-called "exchangers," was forced to get in line with every other creditor to the company. He eventually got about a quarter of his money back.
"I was one of the last two or three in," he said, "and I don't think there's a lot I can do about it."
McClatchy couldn't reach former executives of LandAmerica for comment. The company has ceased or sold all its operations. Rachel Strickland, a New York lawyer who handled the company's bankruptcy, said that people who lost their money were "understandably angry" but that the company took every step it could to avoid that outcome.
"People in bankruptcies unfortunately lose a lot of money that's important to their livelihood," she said. "It's terrible, and there's nothing anyone can say that makes it not terrible. ... There are so many individuals who were absolutely harmed. You have to make the best out of a bad situation."
THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY
The story of LandAmerica is about the illusion of safety.
It started with the auction rate securities, a kind of long-term investment product with interest rates that constantly reset. They'd long been marketed as extremely safe, and two of the banks selling them were Citigroup Inc. and SunTrust Banks Inc.
LandAmerica was a mortgage services company that offered title insurance and other real estate banking services. It boasted of its inclusion on Fortune magazine's 2007 list of "America's most admired companies" and touted its financial stability.
A promotional sheet dated March 2008, for example — the month after the company learned that its auction rate securities had collapsed — was titled "The Financial Stability of LandAmerica." It said that "clients can rest assured" that LandAmerica didn't do risky things such as invest in sub-prime mortgages. A top accounting firm "regularly reviews the soundness, sufficiency and performance of the various investments of LandAmerica," the company said.
That stability was vital to customers such as Simmons and Callahan, who were executing the simplest of transactions.
A person who sells a piece of property at a profit ordinarily would owe capital gains taxes. However, by setting up a "1031 exchange" — named for a section of the U.S. tax code — he or she can sidestep those taxes.
LandAmerica set up such 1031 exchanges: Sell your real estate — typically investment properties, not residences — wire the money to LandAmerica and, within 180 days, buy another property. Meet the deadlines and you avoid capital gains taxes.
For the customers, these weren't investments; they were a safe way to park cash temporarily. That's why the language in their contracts was so important: LandAmerica, the contracts said, "unconditionally guarantees the return and availability of the exchange funds."
That safety was an illusion, however.
The auction rate securities market began to show signs of stress as early as 2003, according to the Congressional Research Service. In 2005, major accounting firms said the securities should be classified as more risky forms of "investments" rather than "cash equivalents" on corporate financial reports. By 2007, "most sophisticated investors and corporate cash managers were well aware of issues concerning" the auction-rate market, the Congressional Research Service said.
In August and September 2007, more than 60 of the auctions that set the investments' interest rates failed.
LandAmerica, however, apparently didn't know that. When the company's vice president and treasurer, Ronald Ramos, was asked in a deposition in February 2009 whether he knew that auctions for the securities had failed, he said no.
"I had never been aware of that, no," he said.
In its regulatory filings in 2008, LandAmerica said, "beginning February 2008, the auctions for ARS failed," not mentioning the red flags evident throughout 2007.
LandAmerica's exchange division was a "high margin business with greater than 50 percent profit margins," an internal company document said. It made money by charging its customers flat fees for 1031 exchanges and by earning more in interest than it paid its customers on their money. That interest-rate spread was the main driver of the exchange division's profits.
Citigroup and SunTrust also egged on LandAmerica.
They knew that LandAmerica needed its deposits to be safe and reliable, the company said in a bankruptcy court filing, and the two banks "actively marketed the ARS as being highly liquid," or easily bought and sold.
LandAmerica's complaints were similar to other customers' and to those of the federal government, which came down hard on many banks that peddled auction rate securities as safe when they were not.
In a 2008 lawsuit against Citigroup, for example, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged that Citigroup had "misled tens of thousands of its customers" about its auction rate product by saying they were "safe, highly liquid investments comparable to money market instruments."
Citigroup settled its case with the SEC and repaid some of its smaller auction rate customers, but some larger companies such as LandAmerica weren't repaid; Citigroup had no comment on its actions.
THE MARKET COLLAPSES
When the market for auction rate securities collapsed in February 2008, the securities themselves were still there, but they were frozen and couldn't be bought or sold.
LandAmerica basically had a bank account it couldn't access, but it didn't warn its customers.
In a filing with the SEC, the company said it didn't think the market collapse would have a "material adverse effect on our financial position or results of operations."
It used money from new exchangers to help satisfy old customers, a practice that South Carolina lawyer Jim Gilreath said fit the definition of a Ponzi scheme. He's sued certain LandAmerica officials as well as SunTrust in federal court on behalf of some of the exchangers.
"Instead, like the game of musical chairs, the music stopped and the current 400-plus exchangers were left standing," the suit said.
By October 2008, the music was winding down.
On Oct. 1, a LandAmerica investment funds committee went over the situation. In the hourlong meeting, the committee members heard that there was "no prospect" of a loan from SunTrust and that a potential agreement with Citigroup was "less than desirable," according to the minutes of the meeting that were filed in bankruptcy court.
Five days later, a top LandAmerica official wrote a key insurance regulator that without a big influx of money, the "company may not be able to meet its obligations in the near future."
A day later, LandAmerica wrote SunTrust and Citigroup asking for help, telling Citigroup that it faced a crisis that could "irreparably harm the company's franchise."
"Please note that the contents of this letter are highly confidential, and the disclosure of the facts contained in this letter could result in substantial damage to LandAmerica if publicly disclosed," the letters said.
On Friday, Oct. 17, LandAmerica decided to stop taking new funds under its typical procedures, a move that could have spared some of the last customers from losing their money. But it also would have increased the company's cash crisis, and right after the decision a LandAmerica official wrote in an internal memo: "I suspect we have a week, two at most, before the exchange company runs out of cash."
The decision was overturned by Monday. Business would continue as usual, Treasurer Ramos said in his deposition.
By then, Matthew Luxenberg, a dermatologist, was preparing to sell his investment property in Santa Paula, Calif., northwest of Los Angeles. He signed his contract with LandAmerica on Nov. 14, sold his property and wired $1.4 million to LandAmerica's bank account; it was received on Friday, Nov. 21. The company had assured him that his money would be secure, and he set out to execute the second half of his exchange: buying a replacement property.
On Monday, Nov. 24 — before LandAmerica's bankruptcy — Luxenberg called to check on his money and grew concerned when he couldn't reach anybody. He finally spoke to someone who indicated what was going on, and he demanded his money back. After getting nowhere, he wrote Ramos an e-mail late that night. "It appears that your company, and you as treasurer, are engaged in a classic Ponzi scheme, taking new money in to pay out the 1031 exchanges on older transactions," he wrote.
"By that time, they'd already hired bankruptcy attorneys, and they still took my money," Luxenberg said. So far, he's recovered only about $335,000 of his $1.4 million from the bankruptcy court settlement.
'A ROLL OF THE DICE'
In its final weeks, LandAmerica tried to merge or sell itself, and at one point announced a merger that could have prevented the bankruptcy. But that deal fell through.
The bankruptcy court decision last year revolved around the legal definitions of trust and fiduciary. A bankruptcy judge found that the money sent to LandAmerica by people such as Callahan, Luxenberg or the Simmons family belonged not to them but to LandAmerica. Since that decision was made, most exchangers have received payouts of about 24 cents on the dollar. A small number who had a different kind of LandAmerica agreement received 70 cents.
LandAmerica's creditors are pursuing litigation to get Citigroup or SunTrust to compensate them for the auction rate securities, but it's unclear what, if anything, those efforts might yield.
"A lot of litigation is a roll of the dice for both parties," said Jerry McHale, a Florida-based certified public accountant who's the court-appointed liquidating trustee of the creditors' interests in the LandAmerica exchange services bankruptcy case. "Hopefully we can settle before we both spend umpteen million dollars in legal fees."
The Simmonses have received $70,000 of the $291,000 they had at LandAmerica.
The loss of the money can't begin to compare with the loss of their daughter, but memories of the real estate deal always bring back memories of Payton.
Payton had been one of the main reasons that the family moved from big-city Houston to the farm. She loved the land, the animals, the horses, her new school. The family planned to stay there forever.
In March 2007, however, a rope got caught around Payton's waist as she was tending to her horse, and the animal got spooked and took off. The family watched the horse drag Payton, her head hitting the hard ground. Kirby Simmons, a volunteer firefighter, administered CPR before Payton was flown to a Houston hospital. She died that night, at 13.
"We loved being on the farm, but we couldn't stay there," Jean Ann Simmons said. "It was just too hard."
Her husband set up the 1031 exchange, and was working to close on four replacement properties to buy with the cash from selling the farm. One of those sales went through, and LandAmerica paid out the money as expected.
Then came the Thanksgiving week notice.
Jean Ann Simmons had been staying home with the boys to help them cope with their sister's death; she was forced to go back to work as a teacher. At one time, Kirby Simmons ended up at a College Station hospital with chest pains. Tests showed his heart was fine.
"A lot of people have said, 'I can't believe you're not angrier over this,' " he said. "We're so upset over losing our daughter that an event like this that would crush people normally hasn't crushed me."
"We have a big hole in our hearts," his wife said. "We're trying to move on and honor her. But I just couldn't believe it. ... They just didn't care. We gave them cash, and they took it."
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A second attempt by a lawyer to secure bail for a taxi driver who bragged on television and radio that he has killed human beings for rituals has failed at an Accra Circuit Court.
Theophilus Donkor, counsel for Felix Ansah, 35, tried yesterday without success to get bail pending the trial.
The application came after the prosecution had told the court that they needed more time to follow up on some new leads.
The prosecution, led by Inspector Princess Tetteh Boafour, told the court presided over by Her Honour Rosemond Baah Torsu, that they have received fresh information that required them to travel across the country to do further investigation to establish the veracity of the chilling claims made by the accused person who claims to be a fetish priest as well.
His lawyer had pushed for bail for him, arguing that the prosecution had come to court “with a blank sheet for the court to fill it for them.”
He told the court that the case against his client is more of “a spiritual thing than it looks” hence he should be admitted to bail and described the invitation to remand the accused person into custody as being in bad taste.
In taking the decision, the court indicated that the time given to the prosecution at the last sitting to bring the suspect to court was so short.
She, therefore, refused the application for bail and remanded the accused person to reappear on September 28.
After the ruling, counsel for the accused person alleged that his client was not being fed while in custody.
The prosecutor however, told the court that she was only hearing the claim for the first time and assured the court to ensure that the concern of the accused person is addressed if the claims were true.
The brief facts of the case per court document indicated that sometime in September this year, the attention of the police was drawn to a statement made or published on the ‘Maakye’ show on Onua Television by the accused to the effect that he buried a pregnant woman alive at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region.
It said upon the receipt of the information, the police launched investigation into the matter which led to the arrest of the accused.
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It said it was also established during investigation that on September 2, 2021 on Onua TV’s morning show dubbed ‘Maakye’ with Captain Smart as host, the accused in a response to a question from the host stated that he (accused) had killed several persons in the past.
“Additionally, the accused person also stated that he buried a pregnant woman alive at Ashaiman to perform sacrifice for Alfred Agbesi, the former NDC MP for Ashaiman,” the document said.
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Despite this — and a particularly ugly dental prosthesis — Mr. West succeeds in conveying the intelligence behind the desperation, exposing an intellect wholly focused on premeditated extinction.As opposed to the random extinction that all others will suffer? Or does a certain NYT film reviewer think everyone else lives forever? The prosthesis? He had some ugly teeth. No Hollywood implant job for our boy. Big question: Will "Mr." West (to cop that NYT style) be wearing said ugly prosthesis onstage?
"The key issue is that the city needs to be open to the public," said Kathleen Rawson, executive director of the Bayside District Corp., the public-private partnership that manages the downtown business district and urged the council to consider the restriction.The city must be open. Mr. Mayor, tear down those walls!
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One recent lunchtime, little panhandling could be observed on and near the Third Street Promenade. One grubby fellow sat in a public chair, asking for nothing. Chairs and benches were occupied mostly by visitors from out of town.
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One recent lunchtime, little panhandling could be observed on and near the Third Street Promenade. One grubby fellow sat in a public chair, inexplicably holding a chain in one hand but asking for nothing. Chairs and benches were occupied mostly by visitors from out of town – New York, Toronto, Germany.
We mention this mostly because we've seen the guy w/ the chain, who's been identified to us as "Skippy," & uses his chains, as well as a collection of pipes, as percussion instruments accompanying unlicensed, uncertified street performers, who apparently will be shot if they strum two consecutive chords w/o gov't. papers in the outdoor temple of commodity fetishism that is the Third Street Promenade. Skippy is one grubby mofo, however, & he emphasizes it by a tendency not to sport a shirt.
We are curious as to the editing decision to delete the chain part. Just one of the many mysteries at the Incredible Shrinking Newspaper™©.


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Rema Returns With New Singles 'Holiday' and 'Reason You'
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Nigerian singer-songwriter Remahas officially entered the chat! Afropop's Wonder Boy kicked off 2023 by dropping not one, but two brand-new singles. The double-sided singles "Holiday" and "Reason You" come via Mavin records, and highlight the immense growth the singer continues to sustain as he dominates global music charts. Fans were even treated to a sprightly video to track 'Holiday'. The singer's dual drop comes as he prepares to join fellow Nigerian performers Burna Boy and Tems to take on the NBA's All-Star game halftime show, this Sunday. We stan a generous King!
The global hitmaker returns with his first solo releases since his massively successful debut album Rave & Roseswhich came out last year. The two new singles boast the singer's evolution, and apparent desire to master all corners of the Afrobeats and Afropop genres. Track "Holiday" offers an upbeat, exciting look at the journey the 22-year-old crooner has embarked on, since dropping his first EP in 2019. The singer sings a grateful tune for all of the support he has earned from music fans across the globe when he says, "My music is traveling, from India to Asia, to Berlin." The DK-directed video shows the star enjoying the fruits of his labor, with his closest companions always by his side.
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Sudan to meet US, UAE delegates for 'normalisation meeting'
The meeting will bring together Sudanese officials with their American and Emirati counterparts, including White House National Security Council's senior director for Gulf Affairs, Middle Eastern Affairs Directorate, Brig. Gen. Miguel Correa - one of the alleged architects of the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement, Axios reported.
The UAE delegation will be represented by Tahnoun bin Zayed, the national security adviser tasked with Israel talks.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and Minister of Justice Nasredeen Abdulbari will attend to represent Sudan, the report added.
The African country, which has only recently reestablished ties with the United States, is expected to request more than $3 billion in humanitarian assistance and direct budgetary aid in return for normalising ties with Israel.
Sudan will also request a three-year commitment from the US and the UAE to provide economic aid, in a bid to bounce back from an economy crisis exacerbated by Covid-19 and devastating floods, the report revealed.
The latest developments come as Sudan, which has launched sweeping social and political reforms, hopes Washington will soon take it off its blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism as it seeks to fully re-integrate into the international community.
Sudan has been under US sanctions for decades because of the presence of Islamists, including Osama bin Laden, who lived there for years in the 1990s before heading to Afghanistan.
Following the controversial announcement that solidified the UAE and Bahrain’s diplomatic relations with Israel, President Trump said similar US-brokered normalisation deals are close between the Jewish state and "five or six" more Arab countries, without mentioning names.
"We're very far down the road with about five countries, five additional countries," Trump said as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, ahead of the signing ceremony with the UAE and Bahrain for the US-brokered deal.
"We'll have at least five or six countries coming along very quickly, we're already talking to them," Trump said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met the leader of Sudan's transitional sovereign council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in Uganda in February and later announced that the two leaders had agreed to cooperate towards normalising ties.
Sudan's cabinet later denied that Burhan had made such a promise, which remains highly controversial in much of the Arab world.
More recently, Sudan's foreign ministry spokesman Haider Badawi said he was in favour of such an accord, but foreign minister Omar Gamaledinne then said the issue had "never been discussed by the Sudanese government" and promptly fired the spokesman.
Meanwhile, Sudan's premier Hamdok told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that his government had no mandate to normalise ties with Israel and that any such move would come after the transitional period, a spokesman said in August.
For the Middle East, the deals dubbed the Abraham Accords mark a distinct shift in a decades-old status quo where Arab countries have tried to maintain unity against Israel over its treatment of the stateless Palestinians.
Read also: Despite US pressure, Sudan's cost-benefit analysis puts normalising ties with Israel on hold, for now
The US-backed initiatives by the UAE and Bahrain have been condemned by the Palestinians as a "betrayal" of their struggle to end the Israeli occupation and establish their own state.
Trump has nonetheless voiced confidence the Palestinians would eventually sign on to the US-brokered peace agreements - which he hopes will boost his reelection chances in November.


Cloud computing startup Nimbula announced Monday morning that its long-awaited internal-cloud software, Nimbula Director, is available as a public beta release. Nimbula has received boatloads of attention since emerging from stealth mode in late June, primarily because of who’s behind it: Amazon EC2 (s amzn) pioneers Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, as well as board member Diane Greene, the founder and former CEO of VMware (s vmw). The reputation of its team, along with a strong demand for private clouds, has helped Nimbula raise $20.75 million in funding already, but now Nimbula’s product has to prove itself.
I spoke with VP of Marketing Reza Malekzadeh (himself a former marketing director at VMware), who says Nimbula aims to differentiate itself in four key areas: scale, automation, permissions and networking. Actually, the first two areas are rather connected to one another, as Nimbula looks to ease the problems related to scalability by plug-and-play addition of new nodes to the resource pool. Furthermore, Nimbula’s auto-healing capability draws upon lessons learned at Amazon about operating at large scale: Machines will fail, so the system needs to automatically detect those failures and fill in the void.
In terms of permissions, Malekzadeh talks about fine-grained policies to control which users, objects and applications can perform what tasks. This enables control beyond just multitenancy, going into what can be done within each distinct resource set. Nimbula is trying to solve traditional network scalability issues by incorporating scaling priorities at the application level.
Another interesting difference between Nimbula and most other internal-cloud products is that Nimbula installs on bare metal and lays down its own KVM hypervisor layer. Most cloud software, on the other hand, installs atop the existing virtualization layer. This approach would seem to eliminate any unnecessary overhead caused by a hypervisor not optimized to work with the cloud software. Malekzadeh says Nimbula wants to support VMware, but there are issues because VMware licensing policies prohibit Nimbula from packaging it as part of the product. The answer might be installing atop VMware – just like everybody else.
He says reaction from private beta customers has been positive thus far, in part because “they’ve had their fingers burned by other solutions.” Beta customers included about a dozen companies spanning the financial services, ISV, health care, service provider and systems integrator industries. Nimbula’s stance is that although it’s behind some other private cloud providers in terms of having a product on the market, it believes it’s ahead of the curve in terms of how its product actually works. When Nimbula Director hits general availability – planned for the first half of 2011 – it also will offer a fully functional free version limited only in terms of scale.
No longer, however, will Nimbula’s founders’ reputations and pedigrees be able to carry the company. As Malekzadeh acknowledges, there’s competition everywhere in this space, from startups to VMware and Microsoft (s msft). And, as Eucalyptus proved, product limitations will eventually be brought into the public light. We’ve been waiting for an internal-cloud provider to separate itself from the pack the way Amazon Web Services did in the public space, so now it’s time to see if Pinkham and van Biljon can strike gold twice.
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I used inspiration from Jay Gees Nook (picture below) and Paper Sundae's Green challenge , Stampavie and More's Easter challenge, Spring has sprung at Polly Craft.
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Remember that next Saturday is extra special - it is Waltzing Mouse Blog Party and that means another great chance to get awesome inspiration and win fabulous WMS stamps!!! You'll find all the info you need about it HERE.
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Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
- Timothy was to treat an older man like a father.
- Timothy was to treat older women like mothers.
- Timothy was to treat younger women like sisters.
- Timothy was to treat younger men like brothers.
- Timothy was to honor widows who had no one left.
We all do wrong. We all need correction. All includes you and all includes me. Paul here reminds us that when we need to correct someone we are not to be harsh. He recommends Timothy use gentleness and moderation correcting the errors of others. Correction is like a medicine. There is always some bitterness to it. By its nature it is disagreeable.
In chapter 1 Paul warned Timothy about false teachers. And here we see Paul telling Timothy to treat everyone with respect. This gives us some insight into how Paul must have preached. It adds some insight to 2 Corinthians 10:1. “I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!” It appears Paul’s letters were more pointed than Paul was in person. This was not because he was meek. Paul could be bold in person. The next verse indicates he can. He also demonstrated his capability in Galatians 2:11. There he confronted Peter face to face.
We should not confuse respect with meekness. They are different things. We are to show respect to everyone. To older men we are to respect as fathers. Older women we are to respect as mothers. The younger men and women we are to respect and treat as brothers and sisters.
As believers and adopted into the family of God we are all one family.
Paul distinguishes between older persons and younger. We are to treat the older with respect. We are to treat the younger as equals and with gentleness.
The phrase all purity relates to younger women. Men are not to use young women for sport. Paul tells Timothy not to give wicked men any opportunity to mishandle for these young women. They are not to use the young women for their own amusement.

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The Meadows Museum will treat visitors to a display of its copy of Picasso’s Vingt Poëmes (Twenty Poems), an artist’s book featuring 20 sonnets by famed Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote. Jointly acquired by the museum and the Bridwell Library in 1975, this edition is one of 15 deluxe copies comprised of the book itself and a proof set of all the plates printed on vélin du Marais paper. Nineteen full-page etched female heads complement the sonnets; with the remaining full-page image, Picasso pays homage to both Góngora and Velázquez by recreating the latter’s famous 1622 portrait of Góngora, concurrently on display in the Meadows exhibition Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits.
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With Minnesota and South Dakota confirming cases, fall migration underway, and the virus continuing to circulate in the wild bird population, Iowa poultry producers and those with backyard birds should take proactive steps to defend their flocks.
DES MOINES, Iowa (October 11, 2023) – The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is strongly encouraging poultry producers and those with backyard birds to be especially vigilant about the signs and symptoms of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and to practice the highest levels of biosecurity around their birds.
Recent cases of HPAI were confirmed in South Dakota and Minnesota this month and the destructive virus continues to actively circulate within the wild bird population. With fall migration underway, Iowa’s poultry producers and those with backyard flocks should remain on high alert.
“Unfortunately, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to be an active threat to our state’s turkey producers, egg layers, and backyard flocks. We encourage everyone to remain vigilant, review their biosecurity plans and ensure they are fully implemented,” said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig. “Prevention of disease is always our goal, but should we face new cases, our team at the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, working jointly with USDA and industry partners, is ready to swiftly respond.”
Commercial and backyard flock owners should prevent contact between their birds and wild birds. Sick birds or unusual deaths among birds should be immediately reported to state or federal officials. Biosecurity resources and best practices are available on the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship website. If producers suspect signs of HPAI in their flocks, they should contact their veterinarian immediately. Possible cases must also be reported to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship at (515) 281-5305.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the recent HPAI detections in birds do not present a public health concern. It remains safe to eat poultry products. As a reminder, consumers should always utilize the proper handling and cooking of eggs and poultry products, including cooking to an internal temperature of 165˚F.
HPAI is a highly contagious viral disease affecting bird populations. HPAI can travel in wild birds without those birds appearing sick, but is often fatal to domestic bird populations, including chickens and turkeys. The virus can spread through the droppings or the nasal discharge of an infected bird, both of which can contaminate dust and soil.
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• Stumbling and/or falling down
Iowa’s last reported case of HPAI was reported in a backyard flock in Chickasaw County on March 14, 2023. Since the first case was reported in Iowa on March 1, 2022, Iowa has had a total of 32 cases affecting over 15.92 million birds. Nationwide, since the start of the outbreak, there have been 845 cases in 47 states affecting 59.02 million birds. In total, this is the single largest foreign animal disease outbreak in United States history.
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When I began my Bible study last Monday, I introduced a quote from one of the great doctors and biblical scholars of the Church, St. Jerome. St. Jerome lived in the 4th and 5th Centuries, and is known for creating the Vulgate, a translation of the Scriptures into Latin. In his commentary on one of the prophets, he writes, “Ignorance of Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” We need to be well versed in the Scriptures if we are to take seriously the call of Jesus to preach the Gospel message to the whole world, as we need to understand that how that Gospel message lives in our lives.
We can see St. Jerome’s maxim in practice in the Gospel today. The two disciples were very familiar with the texts of Sacred Scripture. As Jews, they knew the stories of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were intimately familiar with the Exodus and Moses receiving the Law. They heard the words of the prophets proclaimed regularly during synagogue and temple services. They knew the texts of the Scriptures, but they didn’t understand how these sacred texts pointed towards Jesus, especially that he must suffer, die and rise again.
As they were walking, Jesus joined them, but they didn’t realize that it was him. Maybe they were deep in grief, maybe Jesus had the ability to mask awareness of himself, but either way they didn’t know they were speaking to Jesus resurrected from the dead. As Jesus broke down the Scriptures, making the connections between the Mosaic Law and the prophets that pointed to him, they began to become aware that Scripture had foretold Jesus’ death and resurrection. They still weren’t aware that Jesus was speaking to them until the breaking of the bread, a phrase commonly used to refer to the Eucharist. At that point, the Gospel tells us that their eyes were opened, and they realized who was speaking to them. In joy, they rushed back to Jerusalem to share with the Apostles and other disciples their incredible experience.
When we read the Bible, do we feel this desire to share what we’ve read? Probably not. For many of us, the Scriptures are hard to understand. There are concepts and phrases which are foreign to us, with good reason. The Scriptures were written in different times for different cultures. While we may not understand the literal texts that we read, there are still truths that are conveyed to us today. This truth may be hard to find, but there are tools and opportunities available to us that lead to understanding.
Probably the most obvious opportunity that we have is the one that we are using right now. Every time we attend Mass, whether weekly or daily, passages of the Scriptures are proclaimed. At every Mass, the Church asks that a homily be given on the Scriptures so that all present might understand the passages that were just proclaimed. This is usually done by the priest, but obviously deacons can fill this role as well. The homilist should dig deeper into the Scriptures so that he can show how they relate to people’s daily lives.
Another way in which we can find the truth within the Scriptures is through daily immersion into them. Daily reading and reflection on the Scriptures is not something that is reserved to those who are ordained or professed religious, but is highly encouraged for all Christians. All of us should be opening the Scriptures daily. This can be as simple as reading a verse or two before bed, but can also include reading commentaries and reflections on the daily Mass readings. There are many good resources online and in libraries and Catholic book stores to provide clarity and understanding, especially for those passages that may seem a bit murky or confusing.
For the third way to understand the Scriptures, I’m going to do a little self-promotion. A fantastic way to really dig into the Scriptures is through a Bible study, which I just happen to be leading on Mondays at 6:30 PM. Through a Bible study, whether in a class format as I’m running it, a group study using a guidebook, or even on an individual basis with a good study bible, the Scriptures are broken down so that the beauty and truth can shine through more clearly. Group studies are particularly beneficial, as difficult questions can be explored and bring clarity to hard to understand passages. Likewise, individual insights can help the entire group to really appreciate the Gospel message and Christ himself who speaks to us through the Scriptures.
Through these tools for understanding the Scriptures, may we draw closer to Our Lord Jesus Christ and be drawn to do His will. As we reflect on the Sacred Scriptures and join Our Lord at the breaking of the bread, the Eucharist, may be able to say with the disciples, “Were not our hearts burning within us as [. . .] he opened the Scriptures to us?”


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In #6 – Queer Sells White on White researches on the latest, most sophisticated strategies through which white subjects succeed in dissimulating their identity as winners of the globalized world and, hence, maintain their power position. The male duo reveals the secret recipe of their future success on the art-market: presenting a sophisticated montage of signifiers of the mainstream with signifiers of a possible minority-status. In the case of White on White: the strategic combination of whiteness and queerness.
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