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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is gearing up for a bruising showdown over the global priest sex abuse scandal, forced for the first time to defend itself at length and in public against allegations it enabled the rape of thousands of children by protecting pedophile priests and its own reputation at the expense of victims.
The Holy See on Thursday will be grilled by a UN committee in Geneva on its implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Among other things, the treaty calls for signatories to take all appropriate measures to protect children from harm and to put children's interests above all else.
The Holy See ratified the convention in 1990 and submitted a first implementation report in 1994. But it didn't provide progress reports for nearly a decade, and only submitted one in 2012 after coming under criticism following the 2010 explosion of child sex abuse cases in Europe and beyond.
Victims groups and human rights organizations teamed up to press the UN committee to challenge the Holy See on its abuse record, providing written testimony from victims and evidence outlining the global scale of the problem. Their reports cite case studies in Mexico and Britain, grand jury investigations in the U.S., and government fact-finding inquiries from Canada to Ireland to Australia that detail how the Vatican's policies, its culture of secrecy and fear of scandal contributed to the problem.
Their submissions reference Vatican documents that show its officials knew about a notorious Mexican molester decades before taking action. They cite correspondence from a Vatican cardinal praising a French bishop's decision to protect his abusive priest, and another Vatican directive to Irish bishops to strike any mandatory reporting of abusers to police from their policies. The submissions even quote the former Vatican No. 2 as saying bishops shouldn't be expected to turn their priests in.
"For too many years, survivors were the only ones speaking out about this and bearing the brunt of a lot of criticism," said Pam Spees, an attorney at the Center for constitutional Rights, which provided a key report to the committee. "And so this is a very important moment for many, many people who are here in Geneva and around the world who will be watching as the Holy See is called for the first time ever to actually answer questions."
Indeed, to date the Holy See has never had to defend its record at length or in court since it has successfully argued that it is immune from lawsuits as a sovereign state and that, regardless, bishops were responsible for pedophile priests, not the pope or his policies. While the Holy See has had to answer some questions about abuse at the separate UN Human Rights Council, this is the first UN hearing dedicated to the issue and the Vatican was compelled to submit to it as a signatory to the convention. Officials have privately said they are hoping at best to do damage control at Thursday's session.
The UN committee, which is composed of independent experts, not other UN member states, will issue its final observations and recommendations Feb. 5. The recommendations are not binding and the committee has no ability to sanction the Vatican for any shortcomings. Rather, the process is aimed at encouraging -- and occasionally shaming -- treaty signatories into abiding by their international commitments.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Wednesday that the Holy See ratified the treaty because of its longstanding commitment to caring for children, in the fields of education, health care, refugee services and other outreach to families in need. He said that while abuses had occurred at the hands of churchmen, it was important to distinguish between where the Holy See bore responsibility and where local authorities must intervene.
"The Holy See is not an organization in which all the priests or Catholics of the world are employees. It's a big religious community," he told The Associated Press. "Every member of this community has responsibilities as citizens of the country where he or she lives and with the authorities of that country."
The Vatican will be represented by its most authoritative official on the issue, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, for a decade the Holy See's chief sex crimes prosecutor. He is credited with having overhauled the Vatican's procedures to better prosecute pedophiles in-house and make it easier to defrock them when guilty. But despite that progress, the Vatican to date has refused to instruct its bishops to report suspected cases of abuse to police, saying they need only do so when required by local laws.
"When abusers are in jail, they don't harm kids," said Miguel Hurtado, a member of the main U.S.-based victims' advocacy group SNAP, who said he was abused by a priest in the Catholic youth group he attended as a youngster in Catalonia, Spain. "And they failed to do that."
Hurtado and Spees spoke to UN correspondents in Geneva before Thursday's session, during which the Vatican will be asked about its overall policies, what it has done to protect children and specific cases including the mistreatment of seminarians in the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order, which is currently being run by the Vatican itself.
The committee had also asked the Holy See to provide detailed information on all cases of abuse that were brought to its attention -- a number the Vatican has acknowledged tops 4,000.
But in its written response to the committee submitted last month, the Vatican declined to provide such information and ducked many of the committee's questions. It says it is really only responsible for implementing the UN treaty where it exercises territorial control: the 44 hectares of the Vatican City State in downtown Rome, where 31 children currently live.
Rights groups disputed that interpretation, saying the UN committee itself had recognized that that the convention isn't limited to a state's borders and that the committee in the past had urged states to implement it beyond its territorial frontiers.
While arguing that its jurisdiction is limited to the Vatican City State, the Holy See at the same time sought to highlight the ways in which it has promoted programs to protect children and keep pedophiles out of the priesthood in the broader Catholic Church. Bishops' conferences are now required to have guidelines to fight abuse. Last month, Pope Francis said he would establish a commission to study best practices and the Vatican last summer updated its local laws to criminalize abuse of children.


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Helping others can reduce cravings for alcohol and drugs among teens undergoing substance abuse treatment, a new study suggests.
Such cravings are major causes of relapse after treatment, the Case Western Reserve University researchers noted.
The study included 93 male and 102 female juvenile offenders, aged 14 to 18, referred by courts for substance abuse treatment at a large facility in Ohio. Most of the teens were marijuana-dependent (92 percent) and many were alcohol-dependent (60 percent).
They were interviewed within the first 10 days of starting the 12-step treatment program and two months later when they were discharged from the program.
Helping others in the program improved four of seven substance abuse treatment outcomes. Two types of craving symptoms and narcissistic entitlement were reduced, while psychosocial functioning improved.
The study also found that teens who had spent more time in religious pursuits -- such as prayer, worship and meditation -- during their lifetime were more likely to help others during the treatment program.
The study appears in the November issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
"Our findings indicate that service participation in 12-step programs can reduce the craving symptoms experienced by adolescents in treatment for alcohol and or drug addiction," study leader Maria Pagano, an associate professor of psychiatry, said in a university news release.
"Similarly, we found that substance-dependent adolescents with greater religious backgrounds participate more during treatment in 12-step programs of recovery, which leads to better health outcomes," she added.
"Because most religions encourage altruistic behaviors, youths entering treatment with greater religious backgrounds may have an easier time engaging in service in 12-step programs of recovery," Pagano suggested. "In turn, youth entering treatment with low or no religious background may require greater 12-step facilitation or a different approach to derive equal benefit from treatment."
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Rereading Persuasion and The Bed-Reading System
Their favorite novel is Jane Austen's Persuasion, the story of Anne Elliot, a 27-year-old heroine who regrets having broken off her engagement at 19. Then she meets her former fiance again by chance.
I am very fond of it, though on this reading I found it almost too abbreviated.
Rereading Persuasion on a recent trip was challenging. Like Anne Elliot, I was organized: I took two copies, a small reading copy for my purse and and The Annotated Persuasion, edited by David M. Shapard, for reading in my room.
But I stayed in an uncomfortable room in an almost empty house. How I wished for furniture and lamps! I had the choice of reading in bed or cross-legged on the floor in the living room.
Sitting scrunched against the wall under the only lamp in the house, I could not get comfortable. Then I tried the bed. The mattress, bought in about 1960, is so lumpy and soft that it almost doubles up and the springs hit your lower back. OW.
Back to the living room floor? Really uncomfortable.
I finally created a bed-reading system.
1. Drag lamp from living room to bedroom.
2. Remove the boxes and stuff off the top of the bookcase so I can move the bookcase very slightly and plug in the lamp.
3. Roll two blankets behind pillows for back support.
4. Put pillow under legs.
When I eventually perfected my bed-reading system, Persuasion was a pleasure, though it is sketchier and more minimalist than, say, Emma and Pride and Prejudice. It is also the shortest of Jane's novels. Austen was writing it in 1816 when she became ill, and, though she finished it before she died, perhaps she did not have time to revise it.
Anne Elliot is one of my favorite heroines. She is quiet and sensible, a little like Fanny Price of Mansfield Park. She is good-natured, has a sense of humor, and is the most dependable character in the book, with the exception of her former fiance, Captain Wentworth, and his friends. Anne is the one you want at your sickbed, or to organize a challenging social situation. On the other hand, the UPPER upper class--Anne's family, her father, Sir Walter Elliot, her sister, Elizabeth, younger sister, Mary, and Lady Russell, her late mother's best friends--are proud, sometimes silly, and often show bad judgment. Lady Russell had opposed Anne's engagement because Captain Wentworth, at that time, had not advanced to the gentlemanly rank of captain.
Sir Walter and Elizabeth go to Bath to save money (they are in debt), and Anne stays behind for a few months with Mary and Lady Russell. Captain Wentworth's sister and husband have rented Kellynch-Hall, the Elliot's house.
Keep your eye on Elizabeth's cunning companion, Mrs. Clay, and Anne's warm-hearted but arch friend, Mrs. Smith. Remember Harriet Smith in Emma? Could Harriet have grown up to be an amalgam of the two?
When Anne meets Captain Wentworth again, it is not an instant romance, but romance develops (I will not tell you between whom, or how it all turns out).
But, as you can imagine, the ending is happy.
I'm home after the short trip, and thank God we have plenty of "reading systems," lamps and furniture, here.
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- Ellen said...
The idolatry of Austen and the strong quality of the romance and landscapes in this book make people overlook its manifest problems. I used to say it was my favorite and maybe it was, but nowadays I can't overlook its flaws or problems. The Musgrove pere and mere are too good; Admiral and Mrs Croft were (I think from the cancelled chapters) to have been revealed as knowing about Anne's engagement and thus more ambiguous figures. Lady Russell is unfinished; she is at moments a savagely angry figure. There are awkward jumps.
My calendar suggests there was to e yet another of these humiliating Tuesdays -- the night Charles bought the tickets for. My guess is Wentworth would have been snubbed cruelly by Lady Russell, enough to nearly break up the relationship again. Mr Elliot had more secrets: Mrs Clay and her boots and the trip to the post office had something to reveawl. But Anne would have come nearer to people thinking she would take him.
So much as so much is rich (as in NA in its present revised form), the novel doesn't quite stand up.
I've no reading system. Jim won't hear of my reading in bed with a light while he's there and he goes to bed early. So I sit in front in my rocker or on the screened porch in a comfortable chair.
- Frisbee said...
Yes, I noticed the difference in Persuasion because I had just read P&P and Emma.
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So I'm sure you are all over all the Alt Summit posts but I have one more to share. The music. The party playlist – any party really – was really important to me. We had the urban jungle theme and I wanted to make sure that the music added to the atmosphere. Don't laugh. But the sound I wanted for the party was based on the funeral scene in Zoolander. If you don't remember it, which is totally possible, it had a great beat, it was instrumental, it was overly cool and felt a little urban. But I'm pretty sure that Pandora would't have had a channel for that so I went through my own music to see what had a similar feel.
These songs are some of my favorites right now and both the Phantogram and the Lorde nailed the sound.
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I am making this post today to let you know that I will be closing down CityCraft in a few days time.
There have been so many things over the last few months that have made is almost impossible to keep the server running. First we had the EULA changes causing the server to make considerably less money each month, and as we have seen from the donation goal i added with the new shop we aren't even close to covering the costs of the server.
The next major hit was when the bukkit project was abandoned by its lead developers, this then evolved into the entire project being taken down. I have serious doubts that there will ever be a bukkit version released for 1.8. This mean all development has stopped for everything on the server. No plugin updates, no bug fixes and no new plugins. All this means we can't evolve from the current state that we have the servers, a state which anyone would say isn't right to get people back into playing on CC.
Finally the most recent bit of news is that microsoft is in talks to buy minecraft, now this could be a good thing but until that has gone through and new systems have been setup by the new owners i see it being very unsettled. There could be yet more major changes to come out before or after the sale.
I want you to know this isn't a decision i have come to lightly, CityCraft has been something i have dedicated almost 4 years of my life to but now i have other commitments and can't afford to run the server out of my own pocket each month.
I appologise to all of you that may be upset by this, i wish i was able to run this indefinitely but unfortunately things must come to an end.
This thread will act as an open Q&A for you guys so please if you have a question ask away and I'll get back to you with an answer.
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Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Moroccan Jewish immigrants. Her mother, Liliane, was born in Casablanca, and her father in Rabat, and Chriqui has relatives in Israel. Her family practiced Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition.
Chriqui has an older brother, Serge, and an older sister, Laurence. When she was almost two, her family moved to Toronto, Ontario. She grew up in Markham-Unionville, a suburb northeast of the city. Her mother, who once told her she would become an actress, died when Chriqui was very young.
As a child, she took acting classes, for which her older brother paid. Chriqui attended the drama program at Unionville High School. After high school, Chriqui decided to pursue a career in acting.
Chriqui began acting as a 10-year-old in a McDonald's commercial. She moved to Vancouver in the mid-1990s, guest-starring in series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Forever Knight, Once a Thief, and Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal. Her first Hollywood role was as a supporting character in Detroit Rock City (1999); she later appeared in movies such as 100 Girls, Wrong Turn, On the Line, and In the Mix, as well as playing star Adam Sandler's love interest in You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
Chriqui was nominated for a Best Actress DVD Exclusive Award for her performance in 100 Girls and was nominated, with Lance Bass, for a Choice Liplock Teen Choice Award in On the Line. Recently, she won the Standout Performance Trophy at the Young Hollywood Awards.
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This is an update on a recent post.
The United States Government has withheld its funding from UNESCO since last year. It is now time to take action to encourage the government to fund UNESCO again. Write your Senator and Congressman. Sign this petition.
The Problem
Two parts of U.S. law are of specific concern (US Code - Title 22: Foreign Relations and Intercourse / 22 USC 287 - Sec. 287e. Authorization of appropriations; payment of expenses) :
- Pub. L. 101-246, title IV, Sec. 414, Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 70: "(a) Prohibition. - No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states." (b) Transfer or Reprogramming. - Funds subject to the prohibition contained in subsection (a) which would be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof (but for that prohibition) are authorized to remain available until expended and may be reprogrammed or transferred to any other account of the Department of State or the Agency for International Development to carry out the general purposes for which such funds were authorized."
- Pub. L. 103-236, title IV, Sec. 410, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 454: "The United States shall not make any voluntary or assessed contribution - "(1) to any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood, or "(2) to the United Nations, if the United Nations grants full membership as a state in the United Nations to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood, during any period in which such membership is effective."
The Remedy
The law should be revised to permit the President to waive these provisions if he decides it is in the interests of the United States to do so.
Why the Law Should Be Changed
There are a number of reasons that the law should be changed:
- It no longer achieves its original purpose. These provisions were included in the Foreign Relations Authorizations to prevent Palestine from being admitted to membership in United Nations organizations. Last year, in full knowledge of the law, the UNESCO General Conference admitted Palestine. Last week, also in full knowledge of the law, the United Nations General Assembly recognized Palestine as a state by admitting is to Non-Member State Observer status. Palestine has announced that it will apply for membership in other UN organizations and experts predict that the applications will be approved.
- The provisions as they stand are outdated. They became law in 1990 and 1994. At the time the Soviet Union had broken up, and the United States was exceptionally powerful in world affairs. The world has changed. Other countries and coalitions are more influential in United Nations venues. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is two decades older and views about its possible solutions have changed. Most other nations have recognized Palestine as a state.
- The effects of the provisions may become profoundly contrary to U.S. national interests. If for example the United States were forced to withhold funding from the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the World Health Organization by these provisions, especially at times of national security crisis, the national interest could suffer significant damage -- far more than would occur due to admission of Palestine as one of hundreds of members of such an organization.
- The provisions are unclear as written. What is the difference in meaning between "the same standing as member states" and "full membership as a state". Does granting of Permanent Observer Status to a state trigger the provision? (Palestine was just granted Non-Member State Permanent Observer status to the United Nations. Indeed, Palestine has long been granted a standing invitation to participate as observer in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and is maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters.)
- The interpretation of "the full attributes of statehood" is also subject to uncertainty. (Belarus was admitted to membership in UNESCO in 1954 although at that time it was a constituent republic of the USSR. The United States Government at the time is reported to have argued that if the constituent republics of the USSR were to be admitted as member states, then the states of the USA ought also to be admitted individually.) And perhaps most importantly
- The provisions may take the decision on participation in an organization out of the hands of the U.S. government. Not only is it possible for a coalition of foreign nations to elect Palestine to membership in another UN organization, but it might be possible for a single state to make that case that a current member state of an international organization has characteristics that trigger the provisions.
The waiver would of course not delete the power of the Congress to delete funding of any UN family organization from appropriations bills. It would provide the possibility of the U.S. government responding more rapidly to events within the UN system than could the Congress in revision of legislation.
Why the Law Should Be Changes Now
The Administration believes that UNESCO's programs promote U.S. values and interests, and that it is in the national interest to contribute to UNESCO. (So do I.) If the United States does not pay its assessed contributions to UNESCO before the General Conference in October 2013, then it will not be able to vote at that General Conference. Perhaps more important, the voice of the United States will be less influential in UNESCO forums. UNESCO is the main United Nations defending important American values such as Freedom of the Press, equality of educational opportunities for girls, and education that promotes peace and opposes racism. Unfortunately, not all other nations share these values and it is important that the U.S. has a strong voice at UNESCO to defend those values.
Perhaps more important, now that the provision has failed in one venue it will soon be tested in others and may also fail in them. The President should now have the power to act quickly in the national interest in such circumstances.
The Process to Change the Law
There will probably not be a specific vote of the Congress on the proposed amendment. Rather it will be included in a larger bill to appropriate funds, that will probably be approved before March, 2013. Apparently the administration informs the Congress before such bills are voted that even if approved in the Congress, the President will not sign them into law unless they include certain provisions. If the waiver authority is included in the list of required provisions, lacking strong opposition in the Congress, the waiver will probably be incorporated into the bill.
What to do now
I would suggest that you use your social media to tell your friends to support this amendment to the law.
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For the brine: In a large container, add the salt, sugar, coriander, red pepper flakes, fennel, celery, garlic, and enough water to cover the chops and stir to combine. Submerge the pork chops in the brine and let sit in the refrigerator until ready to cook, at least 30 minutes.
Bring the chops to room temperature before cooking. Remove the chops from the brine, discarding the brine.
For the chops: Preheat a cast iron pan.
Roll the fat edge of each pork chop in the fennel pollen. Place the pork chops gently in the heated pan.
Sear the chops on all sides and cook for about 9 minutes. Remove the chops from the pan and let rest in a warm place before serving. The doneness of the meat should be about medium to medium-well and be very juicy.
For the fennel-fontina sausage: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Season the pork shoulder with the garlic, salt, red pepper flakes, fennel seed, and coriander. Grind the pork twice through the large grind of a stand mixer fitted with a meat grinder attachment. Gently stir in the cheese. Add the cold water and mix lightly. Stuff the ground pork into a casing using the sausage horn attachment to the stand mixer and twist off into evenly sized links. Transfer to a parchment-lined sheet pan and roast in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
Preheat a saute pan and drizzle with olive oil. Remove the sausages from the oven and brown them in the pan.
For the Swiss chard: Coat a saute pan with olive oil. Toss in the garlic, red pepper flakes, bacon, and a couple drops olive oil. Bring the pan to medium heat. When the garlic is golden and very aromatic, remove it and discard.
When the bacon has become crispy, toss in the Swiss chard stems and fennel and saute for 5 minutes. Stir in the chicken stock, as needed, and season with salt. When the chicken stock has reduced, toss in the Swiss chard leaves and season with salt. Cook the leaves until they are just wilted, 3 to 4 minutes.
For the polenta cakes: In a saucepan, combine the milk, water, bay leaf, and cayenne. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat and season generously with salt. (Take the seasoning to the edge of too salty. To do this you must taste as you go. Polenta acts as a salt eraser, if you don't season abundantly here you will never recover from it.)
Once the liquid is at a boil and is seasoned appropriately, sprinkle in the polenta, whisking constantly. Once the polenta is combined, switch over to a wooden spoon and stir frequently until the polenta has become thick. Taste the polenta to see if it has cooked through. If it still feels mealy and grainy, add some more milk or water and cook it to a thick consistency. Repeat this process, as needed, until the polenta feels smooth on your tongue, about 30 minutes. Remove the bay leaf and stir in the chopped sage and mascarpone.
Line a 7 by 7-inch square pan with plastic wrap. Pour the polenta into the prepared pan. Cover the top with more plastic wrap smoothed onto the surface of the polenta. Chill in the refrigerator until needed. (All of this can totally be done ahead of time, like yesterday! Cool!)
Remove the polenta from the pan and cut into desired shapes. Coat a nonstick saute pan with olive oil and bring to medium-high heat. Once the pan is hot and starting to smoke just a little, add the polenta shapes. Cook the polenta on both sides and finish by sprinkling with a little bit of grated Parmigiano.
For plating: Place 1 polenta cake on each plate and top with Swiss chard and bacon. Lean 1 chop on each polenta cake. Slice the sausages on the bias and plate 2 slices on each plate. Finish with a drizzle of olive oil.


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The Fair Housing Coalition
This is a non-profit organization aiming at waking up the building owners (mainly apartment owners in LA) and creating an effective, strong political organization that will reverse the tide of anti-landlord laws in LA. The organization is made up of a band of diverse owners, poor, rich, middle-class who are fed up with the way the city of LA has been treating them with Rent Control and want to fight back.
The audience is anyone who cares for and supports property rights. Specifically we are fighting for the rights of apartment building owners in LA. This includes anyone who owns a duplex (2-unit) and up. Property Rights are the backbone of any stable democracy. So the target audience can include renters as well as property owners who see the importance of safeguarding property ownership. This is a very diverse group, all races, all nationalities, religions, and ages.
An effective strong logo that depicts the safeguarding of property rights and its importance for a healthy and safe society. Be creative and think outside the box as well, the logo shouldn't be too complicated but not traditional obvious design.
The logo should incorporate some type of housing or building. The main color is blue but other tones can be used as well (grey, black, etc). Also incorporate symbols in the back of the One Dollar Bill like the American eagle safeguarding of liberties as well as the traditional symbol of equality and fairness, and the eye representing awareness. Please include the words "The Fair Housing Coalition" as well. The website is called: thefairhousingcoalition.com
This must be something that will get the attention of people and eventually go national!
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Hallowe'en: Good or Evil?
In elementary school I had a friend who wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween because her mom was a freaky evangelical who though it was an affront to Jesus. My parents weren't believers, and in our house the holiday was very much celebrated (in fact, my Dad still gives my sister and I Halloween greeting cards every year; they usually include a pun), so understanding why one would deny their child the joys of costumes and candy troubled my tiny brain.
So, Halloween: good or evil? When you were a kid what was your impression of October 31st?


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August 09, 2011
Finger Friendly Nachos
5 comments:
- Maggie said...
Thank you so much for making our linking party rawk this week...
You are featured this week at
Thank you,
- August 9, 2011 at 11:53 PM
- LrSchwtz said...
What a fun idea! I'm sure the kids love looking forward to this meal each week! Everyone loves nachos. Please stop by www.laughloveandcraft.com and link up to my Share the Wealth Wednesday Link Party! I'm your newest follower!
- August 10, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- Dana from Our Life's Legacy said...
Yummers! Can't go wrong with nachos!
- August 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM
THANK YOU so much for sharing your recipe with me at Cast Party Wednesday. I'd like to invite you back this week.
I hope to see you again!
- August 16, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- BreAna {Sugar and Spice and All Things Iced} said...
What a fun tradition to have a finger food night! My kids always eat with their fingers. Maybe I'll have to start this tradition and I can join in on the fun!
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Posting about venturing (and creating) PyDev. LINKS: PyDev.org Blog RSS Twitter RSS
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Pydev release 1.2.6
One source of complaints was that some had updated pydev and not pydev extensions, and this was not working well... so, I've taken a look and the problem is that when I specified the pydev extensions plugin, I asked for a 'greateOrEqual' match on the version, when a 'perfect' match is what's needed (otherwise, you could get a bunch of error with accesses to invalid methods, attributes, etc)
So, this is fixed for the next release... but until there, those that use both have to remind to update both.
Now, planning for the other release...
One of the nicest things added in the extensions is probably the rename refactoring (which is out, but still in beta), so, I'll probably try to improve the rename refactoring to include matches on strings and comments, and an option to match 'imprecise matches', so that the user can review other potential matches that the pydev analysis ended up discarding.
On the pydev side, I really wanted to go more for the package explorer... it has one issue that I think is critical (commented on: a previous post), and the way to go is probably recreating all the resource-based actions myself... as this can be tricky, I'm not sure it'll be available for the next release...
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- demetrios said...
This plug-in is fantastic. It would be nice however if there were a version for IntelliJ too, since it has much more and powerful refactorings and smarter code support than Eclipse. Even more, for open souce development IntelliJ is free.
Also, many users wouldn't mind at all if the plug-in would be commercial (e.g. as your pydev extension).
At the moment there's a only a very primitive Python support in the form of a plug-in in IntelliJ:PythonID
so a plug-in like pydev should be a real success.
Thank you,
Since updating to 1.2.6 (pydev only, no pydev extensions), the PYTHONPATH seems to not be set according to the project settings before pylint runs.
The source folders are set up in my project to include all of the modules that end up in the python path at runtime. This used to work fine, and pylint could find all of the modules in these additional folders.
Now, since updating to 1.2.6 (on two different machines), pylint reports errors that it can't find modules that are in directories specified in the source folders and external source folders for the project.
Am I right that pydev should set the PYTHONPATH according to the project settings before running pylint? Or am I just confused.
- Fabio Zadrozny said...
Yes, you're right about pylint, that's a bug... I've just fixed it in the cvs (hope to release it this week).
- André said...
I'm trying to use pydev on a project referring numpy, pyopengl and a lot of other libraries. My project runs fine and everything, however pydev reports errors that some of the types cannot be resolved. For instance pydev cannot resolve float32. Can this be because whichever library defines float32 (my guess is PyOpenGL) gets it from a dll file? Is there a way to make pydev find this information so I can get rid of the warnings?
Thanks for pydev and help in advance!
- Fabio Zadrozny said...
The opengl stuff works for me...
Is the module OpenGl set for you in the forced builtins?
Can you give some example code that has the problems (also, check your error log)...
Another thing... I think we should continue this in the sourceforge forum: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293649 as it could help more people there...


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DES MOINES, IA -- Nearly five years after a Des Moines lesbian couple's YMCA family membership was revoked and a city human rights commission ruled that the membership policy could be illegal, the issue is back in the news. The couple recently picked up support from a Des Moines city councilwoman who said the controversy could jeopardize a $102,000 YMCA grant scheduled to be awarded next month, according to the Des Moines Register.
The couple, Sandi and M Patton-Imani, were joined in civil union in Vermont in 2000, and say principle, not money, is the issue. A family membership would save them $13 annually. They're ready to take the Y to court over the matter, they told the paper.
Iowa state law defines a marriage as a civil contract between a man and a woman. The Greater Des Moines YMCA follows the state's definition when it grants family memberships.
Y leaders created a new membership plan that accommodated the couple—and other non-traditional families—after the Patton-Imanis filed their complaint five years ago. However, Y officials say no law was broken.
"We weren't found guilty" Vernon Delpesce, president of the Greater Des Moines YMCA, told the paper. "We wanted to work with the individuals, which we have. It doesn't need to go any further."
Jackie Feddersen Matt, marketing director of the Greater Des Moines YMCA, told the paper that the Patton-Imanis and their 3-year-old twin boys can join through the "member plus" program that allows members to add others to their membership plans. The program was not created specifically to address the issue of gay and lesbian couples, Matt told the paper.
At the time the original complaint was filed, unmarried couples had to join at the single adult rate, which was $13 more. The member plus program would cost the Patton-Imanis $70 a month, the same as a family plan.
The City Council is scheduled to vote July 9 whether to support a $102,216 federal grant for the YMCA's housing program, according to the paper. Des Moines councilwoman Christine Hensley says she will vote "no" unless the group allows gays and lesbians to join as families.


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Opinion: Halbig Ruling: A Legal Tutorial for Obama
Editorial Board Member Joe Rago explains why the D.C. Court of Appeals invalidated taxpayers subsidies for federally-run ObamaCare exchanges. Photo credit: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... I ... the ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the appeals court looks ... old Obamacare ... as written this is controversial ... but the editorial board member Joe rego joining me now to explain a joke all the headlines say that the federal appeals court has struck down a big part of Obamacare is that wrong ... that is wrong with the actually did was they interpreted the statutory topics the plain language of the lot with what ... the Affordable Care Act said was the ... subsidies will only be dispensed through exchanges established by state and what they want expecting ... the thought the opposition would melt away but instead ... thirty six states didn't set up their own exchanges they wrote ... a rule regulation ... that said will dispense it ... could be subsidies to the federal exchanges Wellstone how the Obama administration is calculate your jacket that is why a lot too quickly ... or did they just figure that out you know every state would buy into a setting up their own exchange with the the original goal here was an incentive the federal government can comment here the state's tell them what to do it can only ... makes strong suggestions to the idea that the subsidies ... might not be available in certain states was sort of ... the carrier to drag them along outlook ... the the the you remember that the passage of this lot this sort of crazed in reckless said it was drafted and passed ... so long it ... took the DC Circuit said was you wrote this while your stop with the consequences if the need to change it you need to go to Congress it's not an executive grant ... of authority to do whenever you feel the senior ... on it to to achieve your political and economical now look we're talking about the house BK is I know so this morning show there was another case ... that was decided in the opposite direction so what are the next steps to officially ... break with the fourth circuit sort of very tepidly upto the subsidies ... and so what would normally would happen if if this weren't such a political ... flashpoint is the ministrations sale of the the and there's a circuit split ... let's go to the Supreme Court and have them or is all that I think what's probably going to happen ... is that that's the DC Circuit farm on Bob Crewe why a way that the Obama administration ... moved to do that or if you remember earlier this year they had the DC Circuit so it now has a liberal majority so they think ... it's sort of super appeal thinking they can get this this overturned in a race the split ... among the circuit now there's a lot in hand waiting on the left saying gosh if this how big ruling stands in the Supreme Court eventually up holds that what's gonna happen to those millions of people deprived of their health care when you make of that argument you know if they uphold the view that you have to remember this is the federal government giving them an illegal subsidy that they were never entitled to in the first place so ... that there will be a lot of time and dislocation if this is ultimately up help ... but you might also see the state's ... sort of go of our right will establish our own exchange below will work as it was a regionally intended to extend ... editorial board member Joe rego the things frantic so much for joining us


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ARCADIA >> Though he never completed college, Bill Davila rose from floor sweeper to president of the Vons supermarket chain.
The long-time Arcadia resident died last week from complications from Alzheimer's, his daughter Lisa Franklin said.
"He was a larger than life character, he really was," Franklin said. "He treated the employees and those around him as family. Many of the people at Vons felt as close to him as they did with their own family."
Davila started at Vons at 17 as a sweeper in the produce department and met his wife, Dorothy, when she came to visit a friend. The couple married in 1952 and moved to Walnut Creek after Davila was drafted during the Korean War. Born in Los Angeles, the Air Force drill sergeant never desired to stray from Southern California and returned to Vons as a produce manager after the war, Franklin said.
Services will take place at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Rita's Catholic Church, 318 N. Baldwin Ave. in Sierra Madre.
Davila became the president and chief operating officer of Vons in 1984, serving as the face of the company in both its Spanish and English advertisements. He opened the bilingual Tianguis markets in the late 1980s to cater to the county's changing demographics. The first store opened in Montebello.
"The nucleus of our industry is such that it will continue to be one that is very competitive (and) very aggressive," Davila said in 1988.
He retired briefly from Vons in the early 1990s, but returned as president emeritus and spokesman for six more years in 1992.
"It didn't work out, so they brought my father back," Franklin said.
Davila served as a director on the boards of Hormel, Home Depot, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Wells Fargo. He helped raise funds as a foundation board member for Arcadia Methodist Hospital and supported City of Hope as a founding member of the Southern California Food Industries Circle.
Though the draft ended Davila's college career early, he considered education to be the foundation for success, Franklin said. He encouraged all of his children — and their children — to attend college.
Davila started the William S. Davila scholarship fund for food industry employees and the children of employees after his retirement from Vons. Half of the awards go to Hispanic students.
"I see of great importance to the future of America that its youth be fundamentally prepared to preserve the values we hold so dearly in this wonderful country we live in," Davila wrote on the scholarship's website. "I encourage you to pursue your dreams and to work hard to make them a reality."
Davila is survived by his wife Dorothy; his daughters Diane Jones, Debora McGuire and Lisa Franklin; and sons David and Bill Davila.


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A Day in the Life: Senate Intern
What is it like in the life of a Senate Intern? GLAMOROUS! Personal badges, marble buildings, and sometimes my boss even brings doughnuts. You even get your own landline phone! How many of your friends can say they have one of those?
In all seriousness, this internship has been a lot of fun. I have had the opportunity to meet people from many different walks of life, experienced a new and unique challenge every day and been able to work with some of the most influential people across the state. The Georgia Legislative Internship prides itself on being a top-notch experience for university students from around the state, and they have delivered.
I was placed in the Senate Press Office (SPO), a non-partisan office that handles media relations and communications needs for all 56 state senators. I work every day writing press releases, media advisories, columns, speeches and weekly updates. I have handled media requests from CBS Atlanta, Fox News, CNN, The Huffington Post and others; using Twitter is even part of my job.
A Typical Day
A typical day in the press office is very busy. We come into work at about 8 a.m. and begin putting together the daily clippings, which are news stories from around the web that have a focus on Georgia. These stories range from business and education to health services and national stories.
After this is sent out to all Senate staff and senators we usually get a jump on some of the work for the day. This could mean drafting press releases for bills that are being discussed on the floor that day, or writing speeches and scripts for the senators.
On most days we go into the Senate chamber at 10 a.m. (9 a.m. on Fridays). We record the chaplain of the day as he leads the devotional, take down notes on senators speaking in the well, resolutions honoring guests and vote counts. We even tweet bill summaries, vote counts and senators discussing bills.
After chamber I often go back to the office or grab some lunch. In the afternoon, work usually consists of a mix of writing and covering committee meetings. The committee meetings are where bills are discussed and worked on before they receive a vote on the Senate floor. Senators are able to hear bills and ask questions of the authors and hear testimony from the general public. This is where some of the nuts and the bolts of the legislation are hammered out.
We also work on a weekly summary of everything that happened in the Senate during the week. This includes short blurbs about the bills passed, resolutions adopted and a short statement from President Pro Tem David Shafer. It is easily the biggest piece of writing that the aides and I work on, and it goes out every week to senators and senate staff.
A Learning Experience
Work has not been easy every day; actually, it has been quite challenging. I write something brand new each day and often am doing things I have never tried before. I had never written a speech for anyone besides myself before this internship, or a press release outside of class, or a column. But now I can and do all of these things.
It has really been an incredible and life changing experience. I would love to do it year after year. As soon as I found out what day the internship was ending I got really bummed out. I very much look forward to next year where I will have the opportunity to apply to the Senate Aide program after graduation.
About the Author
Gregory Bieger is a Senate Press Office Intern and a student at Kennesaw State University. He has written for KSU's student run newspaper, The Sentinel, as well as the Juvenile Justice Project and expects to graduate December of this year with a B.A. in Communication: Journalism and Citizen Media.
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Time Savings With a Twist
Proving the age-old adage that good things come in small packages, the Space Saver EMT Set Screw and Compression Connector from Cooper Crouse-Hinds garnered the most votes from EC&M readers to secure the Platinum Award in the magazine's 2005 Product of the Year competition.
Space Saver EMT connectors are used to join EMT conduit to a box or enclosure. Designed with the male threads on the locknut, the Space Saver takes up virtually no room inside the box. Angled teeth on the locknut bite into the box, which prevents loosening from vibration, and the smooth, rounded inside surface eliminates the need for a bushing or insulated throat. As simple as this product appears, readers were impressed by how innovative it is. Who would have thought that you could offer so much improvement on a fitting that has been around for more than a hundred years?
As is often the case, the idea for this product originated out of discussions with the guys who install these products on a daily basis — electricians. "One of the big things that's been discussed in the field lately is the use of labor-saving products," says Jack King, commercial marketing manager of Cooper Crouse-Hinds. "When you try to put a switch in a handy box with a traditional EMT fitting you always have to clip the device screw to get it to fit. We realized this was a pain and waste of time for the electrician. So we set out to design a better product."
The connectors are UL and cUL Listed and come in trade sizes of ½-inch, ¾-inch, and 1-inch in set-screw and compression styles. The set-screw connector features a tri-head set-screw that may be installed using a slotted Phillips- or Robertson-head screwdriver. The compression connector features a split compression ring, which ensures both solid attachment to the conduit and good ground continuity. The hex surfaces on the compression nut allow for quick wrenching.
Although the Space Saver was designed for use in a steel surface-mounted box, a few innovative electricians have already found a few other uses for it. "One contractor used the space saving connector to make a transition from threaded conduit to EMT," King says. His use was more of a material savings approach than a labor savings approach.
But the custom applications don't stop there. "A Connecticut-based contractor took the chase nipple type nut off, threaded in a traditional squeeze connector and used it as a combination coupling going from EMT to FMC," King says.
Just as the Space Saver has taken on a life of its own, so has the Product of the Year competition. Now in its fifth year, the competition was established to honor excellence in new product development for the electrical industry. The prestigious Platinum Award showcases the most innovative product of the past year and recognizes inventive products that help electrical professionals do their jobs more efficiently and effectively.
This year's contest pulled in another record-breaking number of entries — 136 in all. Product submissions represented every major product category offered to the electrical construction and maintenance markets. In fact, this year's group of category winners represented some of the most innovative products in the contest's history. The diverse selection of products ultimately led to the closest competition to date, with just a few votes separating the top three vote getters. The first and second runners-up are listed above.
But in the end, it was a little space saving product that took home the biggest prize.
Industrial Clamp Meter with Tight Sight Display. The first runner-up in this year's competition was the 700 series of 600A and 1,000A industrial clamp meters with the TightSight display from Ideal Industries. These unique meters feature a second display at the bottom of the unit that allows users to view readings in dark, bright, or tight locations. The clamp meters have audible and visual high-voltage indication over 30VAC/DC on all functions, and they're CAT IV-600V and CAT III-1,000V rated. They also feature a one-touch backlight button for green display illumination, tapered jaws with a hook tip for wire separation in tight locations, and a data hold button and offset thumb wheel for one-handed operation.
Romex SIMpull Type NM-B Cable. The second runner-up in this year's competition was Southwire Co.'s tear-resistant, reduced-friction nonmetallic Type NM-B cable. The cable features a non-greasy, reduced-friction jacket that cuts down on the force required to pull the cable through wooden joists and rafters, and around corners. The new jacket is easier to strip than previous versions and offers reduced burn-through when it's pulled across previously installed cables. It meets all the requirements of UL 719 Nonmetallic-Sheathed Cables standard.
EC&M would like to congratulate Steven Thomas, owner of All Over Electric in Hagerstown, Md., who won $100 for voting in the EC&M 2005 Product of the Year competition. The editorial team randomly selected Thomas' name from the list of voters who participated in this year's event.


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Nursing department earns highest-ever exam pass rate
May 2012 graduates of the Liberty University Department of Nursing earned a 97 percent pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination to become Registered Nurses, Liberty's highest to date.
The department has been striving to see its scores improve every year, and implemented a semester-long NCLEX review course that students take their final semester. Liberty had 94 test takers in the May graduating class.
"This really shows our curriculum is where it needs to be, our review course is working — students are getting what they need to become professional nurses once they leave," said Dr. Deanna Britt, chair of the nursing department.
She said the high scores also reflect the faculty's dedication to seeing students succeed.
At many other institutions, there are generally fewer test takers — ensuring the pass rate remains at a high percentage — because students are slowly "weeded out" each semester of the program, Britt explained.
Liberty is different in that it takes extra measures to ensure students aren't dropped after they enter the program.
"Once they begin the nursing program as sophomores, we do everything we can to help them succeed," Britt said. "So to have high NCLEX pass rates at 97 percent and have very high retention rates, it is something to be proud of. It really speaks to the quality of our faculty, that they are willing to work with our students, and support them, and create a learning environment that fosters this kind of achievement."
Liberty's nursing program also made recent headlines when the U.S. News & World Report ranked the online graduate nursing program in the top 10 for admissions selectivity, 25th for student engagement and accreditation, and 63rd in student services and technology.
Liberty's Department of Nursing offers bachelor's and master's level nursing degrees, including an R.N. to B.S.N. and M.S.N. in nursing through Liberty University Online, offering quality education with a Christian worldview with the convenience of an online education. The residential nursing program also offers two critical care certificate programs designed to give students interested in critical care or maternal/child critical care a head start in their career.