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Sorry Vinny, but its clear to see who started it here. Yet again on this forum I am the victim of slatings (the exact reason I stopped coming on here many months ago) so time does not change anything. I've had enough of it on here. I've given this forum more than enough chances and its always the same. I ask a question about a problem I have and end up getting myself and now my car slagged off in open forum. Well if thats how its gonna be then I'm sorry thats not a forum I'm interested in being around. Good luck and goodbye.
Huge sticker...????? See the sig lovely boy. What sticker???? And the tints are to prevent the thieving scum from seeing See what I mean Jonny, always on my case. TheSilverFox, please dont reply to my threads any longer. As for accusing you of PM'ing me to admin I have zero idea what you are on about. If this was indeed my brother then thats between you two not me.
Thanks pal, I'm used to this contributor doing this sort of thing. He does exactly the same sort of thing to me on Focusowners. The skill is rising above it. Being time served and a useful contributor doesnt matter to some people. Had I solved my own problem then it wouldnt be a problem. Its not a big issue but as stated in my original post its very annoying, especially when I'm trying to log in at work in my half hour dinner and I have to log in two or three times and it would be nice if I could AT LEAST get a response from Steve. If your car took 3 times to start EVERY time you got into it would you accept that it starts on the third try or want the problem sorting so it starts first time every time? Thats what we have here. Personally I dont think its anything to do with cookies or it wouldnt happen on all the PCs I use. Also, the chances are if I'm having this problem, others are too or maybe cant login at all. Who knows.
This has been going on for over 2 months now and started with a nice post asking why. I received sarcastic answers guiding me to PM admin as I would get a faster response. This I did when changes had been made and Steve instructed me to PM if it didnt solve it, which it didnt. I did this WELL before Christmas and to date have had zero response. I feel my thoughts and feelings about how this is being handled are reasonable and well founded thanks.
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SierraYankee99 replied to marshy2312's topic in Ford Focus ClubCould be the idle control valve but its more common if the speedo is dropping for it to be the Vehicle Speed Sensor.
Ford Focus Zetec Mk1
SierraYankee99 replied to DAM13N's topic in Ford Focus ClubNo they are a complete tw@t to change. Once you have the door card off the handle simply pulls from the door. Simple you'd think. It is, right to the point where you have to get the control cable out of the old handle. Be especially careful prising it out with a screwdriver cos you break that plastic too much holding it in and you're paying for a new cable too. Once its out the old one its as easy as just pushing it back into the new one. When I did mine I believe it took me about 4 hours. If you have manual winders on your back doors they can be a sod to get off too. I found holding the winder out with a screwdriver and inserting a set of long nosed pliers in the gap and pulling the clip out holding them on was easiest.
Still no reply either by PM or on here. This is absolutely diabolical management of a forum in the highest degree!
To anyone considering venturing out in the snow...
SierraYankee99 replied to FMC's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubI didnt mis quote you I said drive slowly using the highest gear possible for the speed keeping the revs low to avoid the wheels spinning. Then I went on to say braking slowly and early using the gears to slow you rather than just the brakes which I believe backs up what you were saying. Low gears are NEVER your friend on ice. The higher the gear the lower the torque and chances of wheel spin. My mistake came in quoting your post in mine and for that I apologise that this shoddy forum software doesnt do the same as most others when you click the reply button.
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SierraYankee99 replied to chris26's topic in Ford Focus ClubOld Ford diesels used this spec oil (well my old mondogger did) but as stated the newer TDDi and TDCi ONLY use 5W30 semi or fully synthetic. It wont have come down to selling you a dearer spec oil as 5W30 isnt that cheap for good quality Semi-synth. You'll be looking at about £35 for 5 litres.
Focus 1.6ltr poor mpg
SierraYankee99 replied to mcouchard's topic in Ford Focus ClubTurning off the engine will have an adverse effect. Huge amounts of fuel are used to start and engine compared to nigh on nothing to keep it ticking over. Make sure your windscreen blowers arent on full demist if you have air con fitted as it will use air con to clear the windscreen quicker even though the little light isnt lit on the air con button. For a car with a 30mpg average text book, I dont think 28mpg average is poor at all this time of year. Engines love cold air. More cold air means more fuel used. Summer makes cars more economical. Mine pulls like a train this time of year and the mpg falls from 45mpg running around to about 42mpg. But in summer its back to normal.
To anyone considering venturing out in the snow...
SierraYankee99 replied to FMC's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubNot true, you should always drive slowly use the highest gear possible for the speed keeping revs low. This reduces torque through the front wheels reducing the chances that they will spin in the ice. Setting off in second gear and changing up between 1500-2000rpm (in a diesel) should keep you safely on the black stuff without sliding. Also when slowing brake early and gently changing down through the gears so the engine helps slow you down not just the brakes and tyres.
The problem happens when I log in manually. When it relies on a cookie a la keep me logged in it works fine. I cant do that on a shared computer at work though. As for waiting for admin its like waiting for a bucket of horse !Removed! from Shergar for my roses. It aint happening.
Again, nope. I use firefox
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SierraYankee99 replied to hubballi's topic in Ford Focus ClubThere shouldnt be no. If you're lucky and the keyfobs not totally flat already you might get away without reprogramming it. I change the battery in mine religiously every 12 months. Would cause me some right hassle if mine when and I was out. My front doors are delocked and it would be a pain in the a$$ climbing over the sub-box in the boot to get inside.
Same as you, to the last time I logged in.

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I wouldn't mind getting Kane too, but not sure I'd give up too much for him. His career best is 30 goals, which is nothing to sneeze at, but doesn't really blow me away either. Last year he had 17 goals in a shortened season, so about 30 goals I guess in 80 game schedule. This season he's struggling a bit, only 6 goals this far. Heck, Kassassian has like 5 goals already, playing less games than Kane and playing limited 3rd lines minutes with zero PP time. Kass is on pace for like 20 goals! I know he has some breakdowns at times (ie - bouncing off his check the other game and allowing the guy to walk in), but I think he deserves some time in the top 6 role. Magic Mike has really dried up in like the past 10 games and maybe should be taken off the 2nd line. In the beginning of the season, he came into camp in such great shape that he had great jump to his game and was making the smart play all the time, now it seems like the other NHLers are catching up to him in the fitness dept and I hate to say it, but he's starting to show why he has been a career journeyman/fringe NHLer (bouncing around NHL teams and AHL teams). I think the Sedin-Kes line should be broken up right now, it might work well against weak teams like Columbus, but if we play some good teams like Hawks, Kings, Sharks, it's too easy for other teams to shut us down. I'd like to see Zack get some times with the Sedins, if not then maybe a Higgins-Kes-Kassassian line again.RoyalDude wrote:I'd sacrifice Hansen and or Kassian/Tanev and a 2014 1st for Kane.
So yeah, I'd hang on to Zack right now. We gave up a good player to get him, so I'd give Zack every opportunity to develop his potential. He will still makes some mistakes at times, but he's showing signs of slowly coming around as well. I'd still be patient with him and keep him around for at least a couple more years. Look how long it took the sedins to get their game around? Like 4+ seasons? It'd be nice if Zack can develop faster, but we're in no rush with him as we have our stars and vets to lean on for now (ie - Sedins, Kes, Burr, Higgy, Hansen, etc).
I'd consider moving our other prospects for Kane and some of our younger NHLers (ie - Hansen, Tanev), but would like to keep BoHo if we can. However, if we can flip BoHo for Kane, then bascially we traded Schneids for Kane and if we think about it that way, it's a pretty good return for Schneids.


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The 'Facebook Phone' May Already Be Here
Starting today, smartphone users with the Facebook Messenger app can make voice calls to other Facebook users that have the messenger app. Matthew Lynley reports on digits. Photo: Facebook, Inc.
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Written by:Jeremy Baumhower
I am not a jealous man. I have been blessed to possess both an excessive amount of self-confidence and an unjustified shortage of insecurities. That even looked bad when I typed it. For the most part, these personality flaws prevent me the feeling and dealing with the crazy emotion of jealousy.
My one exception, my visual kryptonite, my Achilles, the one sight my eyes find that fill my heart with the feeling of jealousy and envy…. is when I see a young couple pushing their baby in a stroller.
Not what you thought it would be, was it?
There is something about watching two younger people push a stroller at the mall or a red shopping cart at a Target, loaded with their new offspring, that creates this sadness in my heart. It doesn't make me cry, nor wear a frown, it simply reminds me of a time that was filled with pure happiness and hope.
These people who are pushing babies probably have no idea why a grown man with four kids would be envious. Their faces normally look tired from the lack of sleep or the constant chasing of the baby's first steps. Their shirts tend to feature at least one stain from a recent spit up or it's impromptu use as a Kleenex. The hair and or makeup standards for being seen in public have greatly diminished. A new list of priorities naturally occur and vanity seems to lose it importance.
These are not the same people they once were, or BC (Before Child). The miracle of life has changed them. The one common denominator I have found in all of these lesser-experienced parents pushing a stroller is they act as a team. They have taken smaller trips, figured out what has and what hasn't worked. The trip to the mall is a big deal, going to grandmas was the minor leagues. They have done the work and have their parental routine down. They know who puts the child in the baby seat, what items they need to carry in a diaper bag, how the stroller folds up or gets big. They know what to do in case of dirty diaper or if the baby's pacifier hits the ground. You are not a parent until you use your mouth as an emergency wash station for a dirtied binky.
Mommy and Daddy warriors who are on their first, possibly second tour of crazy or the insanity of parenthood, use the stroller as their family's personal tank; A vehicle designed to carry and protect their most beloved items, a baby, and the things that keep a baby from crying. They normally push the four-wheel-mall-equipped vessel with the zest of two people not afraid of conquering the world. If they can pack up Junior and walk him around the Franklin Park mall, what can't they do?
It's that very hubris that makes me jealous. The mentality of three against the world. I am envious because these young souls are filled with dreams of what lies ahead and who their child could become. If the pregnancy was planned or not, there is always a small window of time filled with hope.
The love one feels with a younger or newborn child can often mask issues needing to be addressed to achieve these new visions of a great life together.
As someone who squandered these moments and the very dreams that accompany them, I wanted to offer you some tips for success as you and your stroller tackle the world together.
- You are a team, act like one: Take turns changing diapers and getting up for midnight feedings; even if one parent is working and the other is not, it's a small gesture that demonstrates that you are in this battle of raising a child together.
- Date nights and trustworthy babysitters are essential: As your relationship drastically changed with the addition of this baby, so has the dynamics of you as a couple. You must find time to remind yourselves of how and why that baby happened. I know money can be tight, but the best date nights are free.
- Never allow words of love to drown your heart: Express anything from an unexpected "I love you", a thank you to a compliment. Every parent of a young child is tired but that's not an excuse. These randoms thoughts can make an exhausted soul breathe new life. The art of silence becomes habitual and is a leading killer of marriages. If you hold onto your words today, a tomorrow may never happen.
When my son was born, a co-worker and close friend of mine visited us in the hospital. He walked in, handed my now ex-wife a card and gift, shook my hand and whispered the words " life is no longer about you" into my ear. He smirked, nodded and walked out of the room, leaving me with the beautiful mental grenade of wisdom he just unexpectantly dropped. I had no idea of how true his words were and still are, until it was too late.
I am sorry it took a divorce and a 50% reduction in time I get to spend with my children, to finally understand their meaning.
Time is the most valuable thing in our lives, there is no machine that grants "do-overs". Make every minute with your new family count and you'll have an endless supply of smiles, laughter and happiness; I promise.
For those of you who are currently pushing a stroller together… I am jealous. The future and world can be yours if you tackle it together. Now don't f–k it up.


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A first-quarter Moon will decorate the sky on the night of September 22, providing a beautiful target for a campaign known as International Observe the Moon Night. Many museums, astronomy clubs, and other groups are offering special programs.
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The first night of autumn seems like a great time for a little skywatching. And in fact, an international group of astronomy enthusiasts has set up a network of events to help others do just that. And they have a specific target in mind: the Moon.
The project is called International Observe the Moon Night. It's designed to help others become more aware of the night sky by focusing on its most prominent resident. Observatories, schools, planetariums, and others are hosting Moon-watching events all across the country and the world.
And there's plenty to look at. The Moon is at first quarter today, so sunlight illuminates half of the lunar hemisphere that faces our way. And the Sun angle is pretty low, so mountains and craters produce long shadows, helping them stand out when you look at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope. And the Moon stands above a prominent summer constellation — teapot-shaped Sagittarius.
Of course, you don't need any help at all to appreciate the beauty of the Moon or the rest of the night sky — just a safe, comfortable skywatching spot and a clear view of the heavens — not just tonight, but every night of the year.
And as we mentioned earlier, today is the start of autumn in the northern hemisphere. The Sun crosses the equator from north to south, bringing the promise of shorter days and longer, cooler nights ahead — good conditions for enjoying the beauty of the night sky.
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Ashenkar needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
WeFeast.com is the next big web superstar! WeFeast.com is a combination of some major web trends including social networking, event planning, and collective buying. WeFeast.com is your online destination for "What are we doing tonight?"
Our target audience is everyone! However, we are mainly targeting young professionals, college students, and web savvy consumers.
We are looking for a hot t-shirt design that is buzz worthy, that people want to wear, and that people look at and are intrigued or entertained!
We are a fun company and have some fun slogans such as the ones below:
"go with your gut"
"go downtown and eat out"
"Feast on this!"
"Feast Me!"
Most of our marketing methods are sexy, edgy, entertaining. We were thinking maybe a hot girl stuffing her face with a huge burger or something like that (thinking about that Paris Hilton picture of her and the burger on the car).
We need the design to really stand out on white/black t-shirts.
Our colors are: #bcc842, 00a2b4, and the woodgrain image attached is used everywhere as well.
The design can take advantage of both sides of the t-shirt. We're cool with illustrations, photos, whatever. Design must include our logo (attached).
Ask whatever questions you need to, I'll make sure to provide the answer as best as I can!
Feast On!


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The local music scene in Tupelo, Mississippi, has received a new addition to its network of talented artists with a young family band excelling in the genre of blues. Homemade Jamz Blue Band, consisting of Ryan (guitar/vocals), Kyle (bass) and Taya (drums), captivates listeners with irresistibly catchy and modern compilations of folk music. From their quirky collection of instruments,assembled with auto mufflers, to their unforgettably soulful aura, the Homemade Jamz Blue Band is one group not to overlook.
Having released their debut album Pay Me No Mind on Northern Blues in 2008, the trio successfully became one of the most talked about groups in the blues scene. Inspired by renowned acts like B.B. King, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Homemade Jamz Blue Band impressed scores of music critics at the 2007 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, where the group placed second among 100 other bands. With a new album, Mississippi Hill Country set for release on May 15, 2013, the winners of "Band or Combo of the Year" at Ju's Blues Music Award will delight music lovers in Philadelphia with a special Free At Noon performance on Thursday, May 16, 2013 during the NonCOMMvention!
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Born in a Small Town Within the Mississippi Delta "Super Chikan" James Johnson
Channels the Rich and Diverse Music of the Region
Known by his stage name Super Chikan, singer-songwriter James Johnson, came from a humble family background. Fascinated by his family's love for music, Johnson started to develop his artistic talent by building and playing the diddly bow - a rather popular one string instrument also recognized as the "jitterbug." As the years progressed, Johnson continued to experiment with numerous other instruments such as the guitar and bass, pushing him to publically share his music at venues across the Mississippi Delta. In 1997, Johnson released his debut album, Blues Come Home to Roost on Rooster Blues, which garnered critical-acclaim for its uniquely composed medleys and exhilarating yet edgy Delta Blues style.
Throughout his career, Johnson has been consistently applauded for his efforts in promoting blues music around the world. Having performed worldwide, he has also earned prestigious awards for his talent such as the 'Blues Music Award' for Traditional Blues Album of the Year in 2010 to even receiving multiple critics award from the reputable blues magazine, 'Living Blues.' Known for his frequent performances at Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero blues club, Johnson will grace blues lovers in Philadelphia with an exceptionally special performance at XPN's Free At Noon concert, part of the Mississippi Blues Project. Expected to provide listeners will a haunting yet electrifying performance blues, this Free At Noon is one event not to miss.


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As most of you know, we are way out in the Chicago burbs, but me and the hubs are really into getting the kids to the city as much as possible. I grew up about 3 hours south of Chicago and didn't visit it very often back then. We live close enough that there is no excuse to not have them see all that our great city has to offer. And they love it!
So, when Adler Planetarium contacted me about an opportunity to visit them one weekend, I jumped at the chance! My husband had visited the planetarium years ago in school, but this was a first visit for me and the kiddos.
We were all so excited to get away for a night after finishing our first full week of school. Upon checking into the beautiful Swissotel, the kids ran to the window to check out the spectacular view of Lake Michigan and Navy Pier.
Even though we go downtown pretty often, we rarely stay overnight. This was a treat for all of us and the novelty of it wasn't lost on the boys.
After eating a lovely complimentary snack in our room, we headed out for dinner. The walk to Lou Malnati's worked up quite an appetite in all of us.
We're usually thin crust pizza people, so digging into the giant deep dish slices at Lou's was a yummy break from the norm. The look on the boys' faces when the giant deep dish arrived was priceless!
The next morning we got up and enjoyed some fun time at Swissotel's pool.
That's a mosaic tile behind Lanham, btw. The pool is on the 42nd floor and has almost 360 degree views of the city. Just gorgeous! I loved the work out area too. Unfortunately I forgot my workout gear and I think I could have used a little burn after all that pizza the night before. Oh well. Relax Sabrina. RELAX!
Next stop, Adler Planetarium.
I've said this before, but I love Chicago! The museum campus in itself is gorgeous. The magnificent old buildings and classic architecture set right up next to the lake. Beautiful!
Adler Planetarium has both interactive exhibits and shows to enjoy . We first picked out our show times and headed into the exhibits. Most of the shows are 20 minutes each, so you can stagger them throughout the day and visit the planetariums many exhibits in between.
And there is SO many things to see.
We checked out the "Our Solar System" exhibit first.
I loved how all the planets were hanging up this huge atrium overlooking the lake.
We ate lunch at Adler's Café Galileo's. I was really impressed by the variety of their menu. Not your typical burgers and fries. There were wraps, salads and of course great options for kids. After lunch, we went to see our first show, "Welcome to the Unviverse".
The show really made me feel very VERY tiny and the vastness of our universe is kind of mind boggling. Lanham loved how it made feel like we were flying through space!
We explored some more and went to our second show, "Deep Space Adventure, The Searcher". The show takes you through deep space with another intelligent being as your guide.
I think the kids enjoyed the Planet Explorers area of Adler the most.
It seemed to go on forever! A very interactive learning/play zone for kids of all ages.
There is a rocket ship where the boys could pretend to be astronauts and that totally got into working on their "mission". Big BIG fans! We had to pull them away to make it to our last show, "3D Sun".
There were so many things to check out at that we couldn't possibly see it all in one day, so we will definitely be going back!
To end the day, we took a boat tour ride, courtesy of Shoreline Sightseeing, from the museum campus to Navy Pier.
The boat tour gave me a chance to take some great shots of the city skyline.
It was a pretty hot day in Chicago, so the boat ride on Lake Michigan was a nice place to cool off.
This trip was truly a fun packed quick getaway for the family and we loved every minute! A huge thanks to Adler Planetarium for making this weekend a really special treat. You can get more info on the planetarium at their website or check out their Facebook page. We also want to thank the Swissotel, Lou Malnati's and Shoreline Sightseeing for their generous contributions to our family night away. We enjoyed it all so much!
Check out addition pictures of our fabulous weekend!
Disclosure: I received this visit in exchange for my review. All opinions are 100% my own and no other monetary compensation was received.


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Sheraton on the Falls may also collect non-personally identifiable information about you, such as your use of our web sites, communication preferences, travel habits, aggregated data relative to your stays, and responses to promotional offers and surveys.
Please note, to better safeguard your information, please do not include any credit card information in your electronic communication unless it is specifically required by us as part of the reservation or transaction fulfillment process on our branded reservation web sites, or our customer contact centers.
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In most cases, the information you provide is added to a local or global database. In the course of processing your information, it may be necessary to transfer your PII to Starwood's affiliates, properties within the Starwood system and/or third party service providers located in the United States and throughout the world for the purposes outlined within this Privacy Statement. Unless otherwise precluded or governed by legal requirements and/or process, Starwood subsidiaries, affiliates and property owners that may receive your information are required to abide by substantially similar privacy requirements relating to your PII. As a general practice, Sheraton on the Falls, Falls Avenue Resort, and Starwood do not sell, rent, or give physical possession of your PII to unaffiliated third parties outside of Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood system. Situations in which Falls Avenue Resort or Starwood may disclose your information to others include:
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If information is shared as mentioned above, we seek to limit the scope of information that is furnished to the amount necessary for the performance of the specific function. Unless otherwise precluded by legal process, we require third parties to protect your PII and abide by applicable privacy laws and regulations.
As part of our commitment to keep you informed, we may mail, e-mail, telephone, or contact you by other means to notify you of new Falls Avenue Resort products and services, or upcoming Falls Avenue Resort special offers, events, enhancements, or other relevant information that may be of interest to you. You may also receive mailings or other communications from carefully selected third parties. We offer you the option to decline any or all of these Falls Avenue Resort communications by following the directions included in our e-mails or other communications, or by contacting Falls Avenue Resort directly.
We would like to keep all of our guests and visitors informed and equally able to take advantage of the benefits offered by Falls Avenue Resort, Starwood and its strategic marketing partners. However, if you reside outside of the United States, certain data privacy regulations may require us to obtain your permission before we send you information that you have not requested from us.
In some cases your permission will be implied from the nature of the service requested or transaction undertaken. For example, Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood may collect and use PII that you volunteer, or behavioral data or information collected in the aggregate. In addition, your permission will be deemed given for communications from us that are necessary to fulfill transactions and services that you request.
In certain circumstances, we will seek your express permission when we collect information that is regarded under certain data privacy regulations to be sensitive in nature (e.g., information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, or health conditions).
You may object to Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood disclosing your PII with third parties except when: (i) service providers have been retained to perform services on behalf of Falls Avenue Resort or Starwood; (ii) disclosure is required by law; (iii) disclosure concerns national, legal or public interest grounds; (iv) disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of the guest; (v) information has been collected from publicly accessible sources; (vi) disclosure concerns the retrospective processing of the information for historical, statistical or enhancement of guest experiences; or (vii) disclosure is authorized by a supervisory authority (such as a Privacy Commissioner, Data Protection Authority, or other similar authority).
The nature of our business and our operations require us to transfer your information, including PII, to other group companies, properties, centers of operations, data centers, or service providers that may be located in countries outside of your own. We may transfer the PII we collect about you to countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. Although the data protection and other laws of these various countries may not be as comprehensive as those in your own country, Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood will take appropriate steps to ensure that your PII is protected and handled as described in this Privacy Statement.
Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood recognizes the importance of information security, and is constantly reviewing and enhancing our technical, physical, and logical security rules and procedures. All Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood owned web sites and servers have security measures in place to help protect your PII against accidental, loss, misuse, unlawful or unauthorized access, disclosure, or alteration while under our control. Although "guaranteed security" does not exist either on or off the Internet, we safeguard your information using appropriate administrative, procedural and technical safeguards, including password controls, and "firewalls".
Falls Avenue Resort, Starwood and its third party marketing partners may use cookies, invisible pixels, and web beacons to obtain information about you while visiting our web sites. A cookie is a very small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood cookies assign your computer with a unique identifier, which in turn, becomes your identification card whenever you return to a Starwood web site.
Cookies are designed to save you time because they help us to provide you with a customized experience without you having to remind us of your preferences each time you return to our web pages. Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood cookies are not designed to damage your files, nor can they read information from other files on your computer hard drive.
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- they help us deliver communications that are relevant and responsive to your interests and location.
Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood cookies are limited to our web sites only, and are not designed to follow you when traveling on the Internet after leaving Falls Avenue Resort or Starwood owned web sites. We track the usage of our web sites in order to better meet your needs and to help make it easier for you to find information in the future. Please note that in addition to Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood cookies, various third parties may also place cookies on your computer's hard drive. Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood are not responsible for the presence or absence of third party cookies, or for the technological capabilities or practices employed by third parties in connection with third party cookies.
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Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood also uses invisible pixels, sometimes called web beacons, to count how many people visit certain web pages. Information collected from invisible pixels is used and reported in the aggregate and does not contain PII. Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood may use this information to improve marketing programs and content.
We also work with vendors and marketing partners to help deliver advertisements and personalized content that we believe will be of interest to you. These vendors and other partners include advertisers, advertising agencies, advertising networks, audience segment providers, data exchanges, analytics providers, and other similar providers. These partners and vendors use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your online activity (e.g., the sites and pages you have visited at Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood sites and other third party sites) in order to help Starwood (and in some cases, third party advertisers) deliver personalized content and advertising to you while you are on Falls Avenue Resort, Starwood or other sites.
For example, if you go to a Falls Avenue Resort or Starwood site to look at one of our properties or to book a hotel room, you may later see an advertisement from us when you visit another web site. We may also engage one of these vendors to deliver our advertisements to consumers whose online behaviors on sites other than Falls Avenue Resort and Starwood sites indicate that they may be interested in travel. In other instances, we engage in special arrangements with certain advertisers with which we think our web site visitors would have an interest. We allow these advertisers to deliver co-branded messages (e.g., Falls Avenue Resort and the advertiser) directly to consumers who have visited our web pages. These types of cobranded advertisements may appear on Falls Avenue Resort sites, Starwood sites or on third party sites. In general, you can opt out of our vendors' use of cookies to tailor personalized content or advertising to you by visiting http://optout.networkadvertising.org and https://www.aboutads.info/.
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Weekly Education News Wrap-Up: Jan. 9thJanuary 9th, 2012 by admin
The career of the future doesn't include a 20-year plan. It's more like four.
Fast Company
The magazine profiles a handful of millennials and analyzes how career plans have changed since the '50s, '60s and'70s. With the average tenure at a job at only 4.4 years, the "company man" is long gone, replaced by flexible U.S. workers who jump jobs and fields and keep tacking on new skills.
Should I cash out my 401(k) to pay off my student loans?
CNN Money
Walecia Konrad fields an anonymous question from someone who is looking at student loan repayments of $628 a month and is wondering about cashing in their retirement funds from a previous job to wipe out the debt all at once. Konrad covers the dangers behind this plan and offers alternative solutions.
10 schools with least 2010 graduate debt
U.S. News & World Report
Taking the 1,009 institutions who submitted undergraduate student debt data, U.S. News made a list of the 10 schools who averaged the lowest debt upon graduation. Alice Lloyd College, which covers tuition for all full-time students who hail from the central Appalachian counties, tops the list, followed by Princeton University and College of the Ozarks, both of which also offer unique financial aid initiatives.
Columbia offers 'Occupy 101'
New York Post
Dr. Hannah Appel, an activist in Occupy Wall Street and professor at Columbia University, will be teaching a new type of anthropology class this semester. Called "Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, social Movement," students will get full course credit for fieldwork in the OWS movement. Appel claims that, despite her connection to OWS, she will be able to be an objective teacher.
John Backus: Ending the college crush
Washington Post
Venture capitalist and chairman of Northern Virginia Technology Council John Backus presents his bold ideas on how to break down the growing student loan crisis. He challenges people to consider requiring students to take more STEM classes, making colleges share in student loan defaults and more.


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Jim Belanger '81
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- All New England and Greater Boston League selection in junior and senior year
- Inducted into Brandeis Hall of Fame, April 5, 2003


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Growers battling a devastating citrus disease may soon benefit from a one-two punch from Florida researchers. Two Agricultural Research Service scientists at the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce are using two very different strategies to help citrus growers and processors deal with Huanglongbing (HLB), a disease that poses a major threat to the survival of the citrus industry and is costing it millions of dollars each year.
Elizabeth Baldwin, research leader of the Citrus and Subtropical Products Research Unit, is leading a team developing technology that orange juice processors can use to determine whether their product has the right taste. David Hall, research leader of the Subtropical Insects Research Unit, has found a way to better exploit a fungus that naturally controls HLB.
HLB, or citrus greening, was first detected in Florida in 2005 and is now established in all citrus-growing counties in the state. The disease was confirmed soon afterwards in backyard citrus trees in Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Citrus greening was recently confirmed in a commercial grove in Texas and in a single residential tree in California in 2012. A 2012 study by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences estimates that HLB has cost the state's citrus industry $3.6 billion since 2006. The disease also occurs in tropical and subtropical Asia, India, Africa, and South America.
The presumed cause of HLB is the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, and it is carried from plant to plant by the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri), a tiny, winged insect that feeds on all citrus relatives. When a tree is infected, the bacterium moves into its phloem tissues, blocking the passage of nutrients through the vascular system until it makes the plant unproductive. Infected trees usually decline in productivity and die within 5 to 10 years of infection. Fruit on infected trees often falls to the ground before harvest, and those that remain on trees may become misshapen, sometimes only partially ripening in color. Juice from symptomatic fruit usually has an acidic, bitter taste.
The best strategy to control HLB is to remove infected trees (the source of the bacterium for the psyllid) and control the psyllid vector.But many Florida growers are reluctant to pull trees if they are still productive. To help citrus growers and juice processors, Baldwin and her team are investigating the effects of HLB on the taste of orange juice produced from diseased trees. Their goal is to maintain the high-quality product that consumers want and expect while scientists search for a permanent solution to the threat posed by HLB.
As the disease continues to spread, the quality of juice from diseased trees is becoming more of a concern to growers, particularly in Florida, where 90 percent of the oranges raised are used primarily for juice. In general, if fruit from a diseased tree is asymptomatic and looks normal, the juice will taste normal, but if it is symptomatic (smaller, greener, and lopsided), the juice flavor may be affected, depending on the number of symptomatic fruit in a batch of juice.
"There is no specific point where fruit becomes so symptomatic that it affects the taste. It's more of a spectrum or range, so the juice processors need an objective way of analyzing fruit for taste so they can make an informed decision about what they're buying," Baldwin says.
Baldwin and her team are working on two fronts: They are investigating the effects of the disease on the taste and quality of juice and developing new technology that will help processors objectively determine the taste qualities in their juice.
Studying Disease Effects on Taste
The researchers evaluated both asymptomatic and symptomatic fruit produced over two growing seasons for several fruit and juice characteristics, including color, size, aroma volatiles, limonoids, acids, and sugar levels. They compared Midsweet, Hamlin, and Valencia oranges, the three principal varieties harvested for processing, and used gas and liquid chromatography to analyze compounds in fruit that went into the juice.
They found that juice from symptomatic fruits was more often higher in limonin and nomilin, compounds that can give orange juice a bitter taste, but that the compounds were generally detected at amounts below threshold levels in taste panels. Results were published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2010.
In another study, the researchers investigated how HLB infection affects juice quality with respect to cultivar, maturity, and processing method. They compared the same three varieties of infected and disease-free fruit. The results showed tremendous variability, depending on the harvest date and variety of orange. In general, the researchers found more of a problem with off-flavored juice from diseased Hamlin oranges than with diseased Valencia and Midsweet varieties, and off-flavors were more prevalent earlier in the harvest season. But they concluded that use of some symptomatic fruit would not adversely affect the flavor of commercially processed juice as long as the fruit was from several varieties, locations, and seasons and the mixture contained juice from healthy fruit.
Results were published in the Journal of Food Science in 2010.
Baldwin has been awarded a 2012 cooperative research and development agreement with Southern Gardens Citrus (a subsidiary of the U.S. Sugar Corporation), which grows oranges and processes them into juice,to develop an instrument that processors can use to measure flavor compounds and detect off-flavors in juice. The technology could be designed so that juice is tested in bulk or on an assembly line at the processing plant. From the way the disease is progressing in Florida, Baldwin estimates that the technology will be needed within the next few years to ensure a consistent, delicious, and high-quality product.
Tapping the Effects of a Beneficial Fungus
Many citrus growers apply chemicals to control plant pests (insects and mites) and plant pathogens. Hall has found that some of these inhibit proliferation of a beneficial fungus, Hirsutella citriformis, which has the ability to naturally control the Asian citrus psyllid.
Soon after HLB was discovered in Florida in 2005, H. citriformis was seen as having a kind of double-barreled impact. It killed Asian citrus psyllids, and the dead psyllids remained on the citrus leaves for extended periods, spreading the fungus to other psyllids.
But field observations in Florida's citrus groves turned up a puzzling pattern, says Hall. "We were seeing fewer cadavers one year than in the next year, and we asked ourselves what could be causing that. Were there environmental factors, such as the humidity levels, affecting these fungal populations? Or were the sprays and chemical treatments applied to citrus groves reducing the numbers?"
Hall and his colleagues methodically counted psyllid cadavers and live adults on mature leaves of 30 trees, randomly selected each week, for 118 weeks from January 2006 to April 2008 in an orange grove near Vero Beach. Hall's partners included Drion Boucias from the University of Florida and Jason Meyer from Purdue University. As is routine in many commercial operations, the grove was periodically sprayed with petroleum oil and copper hydroxide to control greasy spot, a fungal disease that defoliates citrus. The researchers tagged some leaves where they found psyllid cadavers so they could assess how long they remained on leaves. They also measured rainfall, air temperatures, and relative humidity to see if weather patterns played a role in cadaver and psyllid numbers.
The results showed that the cadavers continued to spread the beneficial fungus on citrus leaves for an average of 68 days and that sometimes there were more cadavers than live adults on leaves. They also found that cadavers were most abundant in the fall and winter months and that cadaver numbers were higher in 2006, a year when no copper hydroxide was sprayed.
The researchers then conducted laboratory experiments to evaluate the effects on H. citriformis of six chemical compounds commonly sprayed to control greasy spot and other citrus diseases in Florida citrus groves. In collaboration with insect pathologists at the University of Florida, the team successfully cultured the fungus on media in petri dishes. Five-week-old cultures were sprayed with the compounds. Three of them—copper hydroxide, petroleum oil, and elemental sulfur—reduced the fungus's ability to infect the Asian citrus psyllid. The other three—copper sulfate pentahydrate, aluminum tris, and alpha-keto/humic acid—did not slow it down.
The study, published in March 2012 in BioControl, is the first investigation into the field dynamics of a fungal pathogen that attacks the Asian citrus psyllid, Hall says. It opens the door to more widespread use of H. citriformis in HLB management programs.
"Knowing that H. citriformis is naturally occurring and that it confers this benefit may encourage growers to capitalize on it by using alternatives to some of their current treatments," Hall says.
Because the researchers detailed how they cultured H. citriformis in the paper published in BioControl, others can expand on the work by developing strategies that use the fungus to control the psyllid in commercial citrus operations. For example, citrus could be sprayed with a water solution containing fungal spores to supplement existing populations. The fungus may be of particular interest to organic producers, who need alternatives to traditional insecticides, and to growers in developing countries less likely to spend money on traditional sprays.
"Now that we know how to culture this beneficial fungus, it becomes a potential weapon that could be more widely deployed in our war with this nasty citrus pest," Hall says.—By Dennis O'Brien, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
This research is part of Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products (#306) and Crop Protection and Quarantine (#304), two ARS national programs described at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.
To reach scientists mentioned in this article, contact Dennis O'Brien, USDA-ARS Information Staff, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-5129; (301) 504-1624.
"Helping Citrus Growers Deal With a Nasty Invader" was published in the January 2013 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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Frozen entrees are available for homebound seniors who are unable to prepare their own meals. This program is available through Senior Services of King County. Application is necessary. Meals are ordered for two weeks at a time and are delivered by volunteers every other week. Call our Program Coordinator at 425-556-2388 for an application and information packet.
Our foot care provider, Michael Methe is a nurse and has been trained by a podiatrist. Foot care is provided on Mondays. Call the RSC at 425-556-2314 for more information.
Each participant receives a foot assessment, trimming and debridement of toenails and calluses, and treatment for minor foot ailments. Instructions are also provided to help the participant have more comfortable, healthy feet. Referrals for further foot care will be given as needed.
A newly sterilized set of tools is used for each participant, and proper infection control methods will be followed. This service does not include soaking.
Prior registration and appointment required. The fee is $30 paid at the time of registration; date information is in Encore!.
The Evergreen Care Network, a service of Evergreen Hospital, helps area residents and their families when special needs arise as a result of aging, chronic illness, or disability. Service coordinators provide information on community social and health services such as housing, home health care, financial assistance and support groups. Call the Evergreen Care Network at 425-899-3200.
Each quarter, the RSC hosts health-oriented lectures provided by both Overlake Hospital and EvergreenHealth*. Generally held on Wednesday mornings, these lectures cover a wide variety of health concerns. Information on the currently scheduled lectures is found in Encore!. While these lectures are free, prior registration is required. Low prior registration may result in cancellation of the presentation.
Due to popular demand, additional Wellness presentations from a variety of sources are now offered on Tuesdays after lunch.
*To register for classes sponsored by EvergreenHealth call 425-899-3000 and press 1 (one) at the prompt.
Retired healthcare professionals are here to help you take your blood pressure on most Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
Additional volunteers with experience in taking blood pressure are needed as substitutes to help cover when the regular volunteers need to miss a session. Please contact the Front Desk if you are interested.
Volunteer attorneys provide free confidential advice on legal matters. ELAP clinics are held in the Wellness Rooms and are available on the first and third Fridays of each month. Call ELAP at 425-747-7274 for eligibility and an appointment.
A volunteer trained by the State Insurance Commissioner's office is available to answer questions about supplemental health insurance, Medicare, and insurance billing. Appointments for this free service are available on selected Mondays. Call 425-556-2314 to schedule an appointment.
The Senior Rights Assistance program's trained volunteers provide free, unbiased, accurate information regarding legal and consumer rights. Their broad range of knowledge spans issues related to Consumer Protection, Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy, Homeowner, Landlord-Tenant, Kinship Care, Estate Planning, Guardianships, and Powers-of-Attorney. They have a dynamic group of highly trained volunteers who are committed to serving the community. Finding the answers to complex questions can be difficult, and SRA strives to inform and support clients while guiding them toward resolving their issues. Please call 425-556-2314 to schedule an appointment with an SRA volunteer.
Selected financial groups provide workshops on a variety of financial issues. The workshops are generally held on Tuesday mornings. Check Encore! for the current schedule of workshops. While these workshops are free, prior registration is required. The workshops offered are designed to be useful and informative. The RSC does not endorse any product or program. It is each individual's responsibility to make informed decisions regarding these issues.
The Metro ACCESS program is a transportation alternative that many of our participants utilize. Metro offers advance reservation, door-to-door, van services for people with limited incomes, age 65 and over; or for those who have a disability, regardless of income, who are unable to use regular bus service. Application packets can be picked up at the RSC or call Metro at 206-553-3060 for a packet.
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NEW YORK -- Boston pitcher Brandon Workman appealed a six-game suspension imposed by Major League Baseball on Tuesday for throwing near the head of Tampa Bay star Evan Longoria last week.
Workman can play until the appeal process is complete, and was expected to make his scheduled start Wednesday night against the Cleveland Indians.
The penalty, which also included a fine, was announced by MLB Senior Vice President Joe Garagiola Jr. Workman's high-and-tight pitch came after the teams had been warned about further trouble.
"That was ascertained in the video. Thus, I think that's appropriate," Rays manager Joe Maddon said before Tuesday night's game at Miami.
Red Sox first baseman Mike Carp was hit on the arm Friday by a fourth-inning pitch from Tampa Bay ace David Price, who also plunked slugger David Ortiz on the hip in the first inning -- triggering umpires to issue warnings to both teams.
The fact Workman was disciplined and Price wasn't did not sit well with the Red Sox and Ortiz in particular, who again criticized the Rays ace prior to Tuesday's game against the Indians.
"I don't think what they're doing is fair," Ortiz said. "I think the rules should be for everybody. We didn't start this up. I didn't hit nobody. Workman didn't hit anybody in the first inning. He did."
Ortiz was critical of Price following that game and didn't back down from those comments Tuesday when news of Workman's suspension reached Boston's clubhouse.
"I'm not going to get hit again," Ortiz said. "Not by him. He did it on purpose. He punked me and that's very disrespectful. I'm a grown man. I've been around the league for a long time and I know how to take care of business on my own."
Said Maddon: "Papi and I have had a pretty good relationship in the past. Sometimes commentary oversteps and overreaches."
"I'd like to believe if he had more of an opportunity to think about it, he would respond differently. For us, it's a dead issue. I want us to move it along and just play baseball," he said.
Red Sox manager John Farrell, who was ejected from Friday's game, took a diplomatic approach.
"All you can do is put forth your best efforts to state a case that we were directly involved with, and what's done is done," he said. "There's an appeal that's going to take place. I know we presented our case in response to the discussions and what was being talked about with MLB."
After being hit Carp glared out at the mound, shouting and pointing at Price, but was restrained by Rays catcher Jose Molina as players from both teams charged out of the dugouts and bullpens. There was some pushing and shoving, but no punches were thrown.
Workman threw a high pitch in the sixth behind Longoria, who was visibly upset. Longoria and Boston catcher A.J. Pierzynski had a conversation at home plate, and a handful of players from both dugouts ventured a few steps onto the field, but no trouble ensued. Workman was ejected.
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Saturday, June 3, 2017
Teresa Forcades (theologian and nun): "A theology that moves beyond any stereotype of women is necessary"
El Diario Vasco
May 23, 2017
The Catalan nun and theologian Teresa Forcades (1966) offered a lecture yesterday on "Spirituality and gender" in Portalea, in a convocation organized by a group of women from the Eibar church arena who have been meeting fortnightly in San Andres parish for more than 11 years. Forcades, a native of Barcelona, has a degree in Medicine. She moved to the United States to study Internal Medicine at the State University of New York. Back in Spain, she entered the Benedictine monastery of Montserrat. Her Theology degree wasn't validated by the Spanish Catholic schools because she got it from a Protestant school. Even so, Forcades published the book La teología feminista en la historia ["Feminist Theology in History"] in 2007, in which she places it in the framework of critical theologies or liberation theology, doing a historical review of women who throughout history have experienced the contrast between theological discourse and their experience of God. In 2013, she created, together with Arcadi Olivares, a populist platform to promote the self-determination of Catalonia. In 2015, Forcades left the Benedictine convent to run in the Catalan autonomy elections, though she hasn't stopped being a nun.
Don't you think that reading the Sacred Scriptures leaves women in second place? Don't you think that a very stereotypical and to some extent chauvinist image of women emerges from that reading?
It depends on how the Sacred Scriptures are read and interpreted. If the statement "women should remain silent in church" is taken out of its historical context, it's simply sexist. If you take the context into account, then that statement preserved in the Bible, in addition to being sexist, testifies that in the first centuries there were women who did talk in the Church and an image appears of the first communities that contributes to questioning the history of humanity as it has been told to us, and I'm not just referring to the religious environment. In Saint Paul's letter to the Romans, for example, appears the name of Junia, a woman apostle, whom Saint Paul regards with reverence. In the Middle Ages, the name Junia (female) was changed to Junias (male).
What work have you been doing in favor of the promotion of spirituality from a gender perspective?
In 2007, I published La teología feminista en la historia, where I've gathered the testimony of women theologians like Cristina de Pizán, Isabel de Villena, Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Teresa de Jesús, María Jesús de Ágreda, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Marie de Gournay, Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, Margaret Fell, Mary Astell, who range from the 14th to the 17th century. In 2015, I published Por amor a la justicia: Dorothy Day y Simone Weil ["For love of justice: Dorothy Day and Simone Weil"], a work focused on the lives and work of these two great 20th century women committed to workers' struggles who, after declaring themselves atheists and first living as such in their youth, experienced the presence of Jesus in their lives in a way that was surprising to them. My latest book, which will appear in October is Los retos del Papa Francisco ["The Challenges of Pope Francis"]. In it I address, among other things, the question of women in the Church. Apart from the books, I give courses and various talks about spirituality and theology done by women and especially about the need to formulate a theology that is able to move beyond any stereotypes.
Has it been costly for you to maintain such revolutionary positions in the field of spirituality and gender?
Up to now it hasn't been very costly. I have the support of my community and also my bishop who, even though he thinks differently, isn't an authoritarian man. In spite of that, during the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the fundamentalist Catholic groups were strong and there was a lot of criticism of me on the Internet that now, with Pope Francis, has disappeared. My critical stance towards the interests of the big pharmaceutical companies and towards certain political interests in Catalonia has been more costly.
Have you gotten pressure to not work in the political arena?
From the Church no, none. What my community asked me to do was that while I was active in politics, I would ask for a period of exclaustration to avoid media pressure on the monastery and that's how we've done it.
What were the reasons that led you to study Protestant theology?
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is a Catholic feminist theologian known worldwide for her Biblical interpretation work. I translated one of her books and she encouraged me to ask for a scholarship to Harvard, which is where she is a professor. At Harvard, even though its origins are Methodist, they don't just teach Protestant theology, but there are Catholic and Orthodox professors and Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist ones too. What drew me to Harvard wasn't Protestant theology, but the quality of the teaching there. Then, when I was already a nun and after finishing my doctorate on the Trinity, I moved to Berlin to do the post-doctorate and they invited me to give classes in the School of Theology of Humboldt University, which is Protestant but has a chair devoted to Catholic theology. However, I didn't work in that chair but in the gender studies one.
How do you draw the youth audience to religious faith in these times?
My experience with young people is especially in Germany (Berlin), which is where I've given classes in the university. I've observed that among them the tendency that was in effect a few years ago to separate spirituality (personal experience of faith) from religion (institutionalized experience) is diminishing. Young people of today are more sensitive to the limits of individualism and more open to community experiences. The best way to put them in touch with religious faith is still proposing experiences of silence, of encounter with oneself, and contact with credible testimonies to which they can formulate their questions and concerns.
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On holy masculinity and religious pedophilia
Redes Cristianas
May 18, 2017
The young teacher "Daniel" wrote a letter to Pope Francis informing him of the sexual abuses that he and other underage people had suffered since childhood from some priests and laypeople of the Archdiocese of Granada. Francis called him twice to apologize, show his support, and commit himself to investigate the case and to tell him he would make it known to the Archbishop of Granada who, to tell the truth, didn't show the same diligence as the Pope since he delayed in responding to the calls of the sexually assaulted young man. "The truth is the truth, and it shouldn't be hidden, whatever the cost," Francis said.
The Pope's solidarity with people who have been sexually abused by church people contrasts on the one hand with the silence and cover-up by a sector of the Catholic hierarchy that is obstructing the investigation of justice and seems to be on the side of the pedophiles and, on the other hand, with the absolving rulings of judges who doubt the testimony of the people who have been the object of pedophilia and who have even blamed them. There would appear to be a complicity between a sector of the judiciary, the church hierarchy, and pedophiles. Maybe judges in Spain still feel reverential respect for people belonging to the clergy at its different levels -- priests, bishops,...Let's leave it as a "maybe".
I'm not going into judging the sentences here, because it's not my job. I do want to make a theological reflection about pedophilia, which is my field. The root of such an abominable, violent and criminal practice is found, in my opinion, in the patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church and in hegemonic masculinity, even more, in holy masculinity. As the North American feminist philosopher Mary Daly states in her pioneering feminist theology book, Beyond God the Father (Boston, 1973, 19), "If God is male, then the male is God." God's masculinity converts the male into the sole representative of God on earth and into lord and master in all fields of human being and doing and especially within the church institution -- organizational, doctrinal, moral, religious-sacramental, sexual, etc. And not any male, but the cleric in his different degrees -- deacon, priest, bishop, archbishop, pope -- who is elevated to the category of holy person.
Holy masculinity legitimizes all the male's actions, however perverse they may be, as a representative and spokesman for God -- religious wars, patriarchal violence, religious, symbolic, and psychological violence, religious intolerance, authoritarianism, etc. With such behavior, God is converted into a violent being and, in the end, a murderer. Holy masculinity is turned into a necessary condition to exert power, all power, in the religious world. This power begins by the control of souls, continues with the manipulation of consciences, and even gets to the appropriation of bodies in a perverse game. It's about diabolical behavior programmed with premeditation and treachery, practiced on defenseless people who are intimidated, and exercised from a purported sacred authority over the victims, which is resorted to to commit the crimes with impunity.
Power over souls is one of the main roles of priests, if not the main one, as is reflected in the expressions "priest of souls," "shepherd of souls," etc. whose objective, they say, is to lead souls to heaven and assure their salvation, according to a dualistic conception of the human being that deems the soul the true and immortal identity of the human being, and that it must be protected from all contact with the body that contaminates it and makes it impure. This is a form of violence.
Power over souls leads to control of consciences. Only a clean, pure conscience, uncontaminated by what is material, guarantees salvation, it is argued. Therefore the mission of the priest, in the most classic conception of ordained ministry, is to form his parishioners in the right conscience that requires renouncing their own consciences and submitting to the moral dictates of the Church. Thus one arrives at the highest degree of alienation and manipulation of conscience. Violating personal conscience, twisting individual conscience, forcing someone to act against conscience is one of the most serious and subtle forms of violence exerted frequently by religious leaders and ideologues over believers who credulously follow their moral guidelines.
The end of this control game is power over bodies that leads to the crimes of pedophilia committed by clerics and people who move in church and clerical circles. Those who exert power over souls and over consciences think they also have the right to appropriate bodies and use and abuse them. This, undoubtedly, is the most diabolical consequence of hegemonic holy masculinity. The greater the power over souls and the more tyrannical the control of consciences, the greater the tendency to abuse the bodies of the most vulnerable people who fall under their influence -- credulous people, boys, girls, adolescents, young people, disabled people, etc.
Pedophile violence is the greatest scandal of the Catholic Church in the whole 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the one that has brought the most discredit on this 2000 year-old institution. Some of those who presented themselves as models of self-giving to others, gave themselves to crimes against unprotected people. Some of those who were thought experts in education, used their supposed educational excellence to abuse the boys and girls entrusted to them by their parents to receive a good formation. Some of those who presented themselves as guides of "innocent souls" to lead them along the good path of salvation, devoted themselves to defiling their bodies and nullifying their minds.
Did the Vatican not know about the widespread, programmed and perverse pedophilia problem and such humiliating practices for victims? I think it knew perfectly well, since reports and denunciations reached it that it systematically archived until it forgot about them. But it did not act according to the gravity of the crime. Quite the opposite. It imposed silence on the victims and informants to save the good name of the Church, threatening severe penalties that could lead to excommunication if they dared to speak. This way of proceeding created a climate of permissiveness, an atmosphere of obscurantism and an environment of complicity with the abusers, who were exempt from guilt while the blame was transferred to the victims, who were blocked from going to the courts before the image of authority given by the pedophiles.
The victims' loss of dignity didn't matter, or the often irreversible damage and sequelae, or the serious physical, psychic and mental wounds with which those affected had to live for life. It lacked compassion and sensitivity towards their suffering. There wasn't any act of contrition, or repentance, or intent to amend, or reparation for the damage caused, no act of rehabilitation occurred, justice wasn't done. Such an attitude was a new and more brutal aggression.
The permissiveness of the crime, the silence, lack of punishment, cover-up, complicity and refusal to collaborate with justice turned pedophilia not only into individual sexual aggression, but into a practice legitimized structurally and institutionally -- at least indirectly -- by the church hierarchy at all levels, in a chain of concealment that ranged from the highest ecclesiastical authority to the pedophile, passing through the intermediary links of religious power.
It also happens that most cases of pedophilia occurred in male-run institutions and training centers for men. This shows that patriarchy even resorts to sexual abuse in order to demonstrate its omnipotent power in society and in religions and, in the case we're dealing with, over the most vulnerable people. A power legitimated by religion, which makes men "vicars of God" and spokesmen for His will. It is the most perverse way to understand and practice masculinity, one which depersonalizes and reifies those who it has previously destroyed. Masculinity and violence, pedophilia and patriarchy are pairs that often walk together and cause more human destruction than a hurricane.
What to do in the face of the metastatic cancer of pedophilia spread throughout the ecclesial body? Zero tolerance, denounce it, collaborate with justice, bring the guilty parties to the civil courts, and, most importantly, that judges lose their reverential fear of holy persons and judge them according to their responsibility in the crimes, and the crime of pedophilia is undoubtedly of extreme gravity! We are not in a confessional state where people invested with sacred authority merit privileged treatment, but in a non-denominational state where justice is equal for all.
And within the Church? It is necessary to go to the roots of the pedophilia phenomenon, to the root causes of such diabolical behavior, found in dominating masculinity turned holy, in the equally sacred power of men consecrated to God, in the phallic-sacred power over bodies and the patriarchal system prevailing in the Catholic Church.
As long as hegemonic masculinity is elevated to the rank of holy and remains the basis of the exercise of power, as long as patriarchy is the ideology on which the ecclesiastical apparatus and the organizational form of it are based, this criminal behavior against defenseless people will recur. More sibylline methods will be sought, but things will not have changed.
Therefore it's necessary to change the current authoritarian mental, organizational, legislative, legal, penal and religious structure of the Church which is patriarchal, homophobic, and based on male hegemony, to one that is really egalitarian, inclusive, and one of parity. And change the image of God the Father and Master!
Juan José Tamayo is director of the Chair of Theology and Religious Studies, Carlos III University, Madrid.
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Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt on September 10, 1933) is a German fashion designer, and the host of Liberty City's K109 The Studio. Lagerfeld also contributed to the soundtrack of that station by including his favorite dance and electronia tracks.[1]
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