Video Highlight: Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12

Video Highlight: Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12

FASHION WEEK

PARIS - Disco's making a comeback? Yes, according to the Alexandre Vauthier collection during Paris Couture Fashion Week. Nowfashion.com said a front row attendee called the collection "Charlie's Angel meets Studio 54," which is exactly how you would describe these powerful but sexy girls in their V-cut minidresses (V for Vauthier?) and gold jumpsuits. White, gold and beige, when not cut into a V down front, were dominated by lopping gold necklaces, wrapped collars, and gold or crystal beading. This collection is definitely for the nightlife partiers out there, but you could also see it on a red carpet or two. 

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Fr Peter Deschamps

Fr Peter Deschamps: The most important points of Orthodox theology that differentiates theology from the West and is necessary in the modern world.

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Interview with a French Orthodox Priest

An orthodox witness IN FRANCE

We are pleased to publish the interview gave us the Fr Peter Deschamps , who is vicar of the Orthodox Parish of the Holy Covert and St. George Besancon France, Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe that belongs to the Romanian Orthodox Church, and translators of books Ven. Metropolitan Ierotheou, Mr. French.

What do you think is the most important points of Orthodox theology that differentiates theology from the West and is necessary in the modern world?

In the Orthodox Church revealed the doctrines of the Trinity in the heart of the holy Fathers who was deified. Safeguarded by the Ecumenical Councils and also from the people, the guardian of the faith. In the West, from the time of the schism, they were the work of intellect and logic . So the sight of God, which simultaneously revealed and concealed inside the Uncreated Light , the West was replaced by the created action logic and intelligence . Cut off from any personal experience, the faith taught by the priests. TheGod-man synergy , in the image of Jesus Christ, founder of the Church, it disappears from the life of the Church. For example, in the West the priest does not work behind the screen, but in front of it, in front of believers and through the words of the priest honestly gifts "transformed." The Holy Spirit is not at all divinity . The Day the next day of Pentecost is unknown in the West.

The theology ON THE Virgin equally corrupted by doctrines known as the " immaculate conception "(1854) and"Ascension "(1950). This dogma of the Assumption of Mary, he has WITHOUT preceded the Assumption, was in fact the only thing delivered ex cathedra by Pope Pius the 11th, by the time the doctrine of infallibility of the Pope in 1870.Specifically, this removes Mary from our human nature, although born of ancestors who fought for many centuries to holiness, and our depriving the lines of "our race" an excellent model of exercise and obedience, and intimate relationships with God.

It should also be emphasized that ignorance of the uncreated energies remained voluntarily . While the East emphasized the view that the uncreated energies "attached" to humans in their fight for clearance to apply, to prayer and the holy sacraments in order not odigitai towards a kind of moral perfection and performance, but in the deification .

Unfortunately, sometimes the reaction, Western theology, when they have distorted the true repentance a moral guilt and even through a past Inquisition , stripping more and more sense of the ascetical struggle and repentance.This attitude was encouraged not only from the godless world, but also by " therapists ", some of whom, however, relieved many souls with frustration and depression.

Thus, the ascetic struggle and repentance were excluded from Protestant backgrounds. I think that especially young evangelicals, whom I know well and who are struggling to remain in a constant state of delight , as is "saved," and only thanks to the fact that they belong to their church. But forgiveness, forgiveness of God, the mysterious and the secret of the heart, the transformation of the passions and the struggle against the passionate performances, software (especially software that selfishness that one is better because it is Christian) not fertilize the life of the Church. And even the taste of the experience of grace was replaced by an external humanitarian behavior, another very commendable. The ascetic life of the heart, delivered the grace of the Holy Spirit, was replaced byan external ethics which has been consolidated under the weight of law.

Watercar! Chasing a Dream

On this episode of The Downshift, we follow Watercar through their journey to build the world's fastest amphibious vehicle. After nearly a decade of development, Watercar believe's their prototype is almost ready for production.

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RESULTS OVERAL VOLVO OCEAN RACE

Groupama crossed the finish line in the pitch black Galway night to settle the closest contest in the 39-year history and crown themselves Volvo Ocean Race champions 2011-12

While CAMPER were celebrating victory in the ninth and final leg, Groupama skipper Franck Cammas led his team home in second place to take an unassailable 24-point lead with just one in-port race to go.

Groupama crossed the finish line at 00:49:11 UTC, just seven minutes behind CAMPER. PUMA finished in third place at 00:55:01 UTC ahead of Team Telefónica, who finished at 00:59:33 UTC.

Team Sanya crossed the finish line in fifth place at 03:14:27 UTC ahead of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, crossing the line in sixth at 03:23:29 UTC.

"It's a very happy moment for us and for all the team,'' Cammas said to the roars of tens of thousands of fans who came out to welcome the team -- including Irishman Damian Foxall -- to the Glaway finish. "I didn't think we could win. This is my dream."

Cammas, the 39-year-old Frenchman, threw his arms up and pumped his fists in the air while fans gathered on the dock of Galway Bay.



Groupama are the first team to represent France in the Volvo Ocean Race since Eric Tabarly's La Poste in 1993-94 and they are only the second French winners after Lionel Péan on L'Espirit d'Equipe in 1985-8



The team gallantly fought back from a deficit that was as high as 28 points following the HaiTang Bay In-Port Race in Sanya, winning the next leg to Auckland and steadily improving their knowledge of their boat and cohesion as a team to surge to a commanding lead going into Leg 9.

With the sort of nerve that quickly became their trademark in the race, Groupama stayed serenely out of trouble on the 550-nautical mile race through wild conditions in the English Channel and around the iconic Fastnet Rock, to finish second across the line and seal their place among an elite band of winners in an event that began life as the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973.

CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand led the procession across the finish line much to the delight of surrounding flotilla of spectators, at 00:42:13 UTC -- their first leg win of the race.

CAMPER are almost certain to secure second place with 226 points, six points clear of third place PUMA, with just the final in-port race remaining.

Six points will be up for grabs for first place, five for second, four for third and so on when the final race of the epic 39,000 nautical mile ocean race starts on July 7.

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1		Groupama sailing team	25	250
2		CAMPER with Emirates Team NZ	30	226
3		PUMA Ocean Racing by BERG	20	220
4		Team Telefónica	15	209
5		Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing	5	129
6		Team Sanya	10	50

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