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Ever try to slip a camera under a girl's dress? Just think of how much simpler amateur upskirting would be if you could just twist a knob to raise her skirt. Someone just needs to hurry and perfect this tech.
Designed by Jae Kim, this mechanical skirt consists of several triangular pieces which are bunched up when a knob on a mechanical controller is turned. As soon as someone figures out how to modify these to raise a bit higher, you'll still have to be a bit sneaky, but the skirt will do most of the work when you want a naughty peek. [Design Boom]


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Wolverine: the musical
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The Seeds Project
Mike Leake's started a new Kickstarter project for a family devotional geared toward younger kids. Back it if you can!
Toward a Theology of Dessert
Bethany Jenkins:
Our relationship with dessert is sweet but complicated. When God created the world, he said, "Behold, I have given you . . . every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food" (Gen. 1:29). The Scriptures then affirm the goodness of fruit-bearing trees, saying they are "pleasant to the sight and good for food" (Gen. 2:9). Thus, God made fruit—the main dessert of their time—to be lovely and delicious.
Yet this same dessert—when placed in a particular context—was used by God a means to test our ancestors' allegiance and affections.
7 Things a Good Dad Says
Tim Challies:
I think I may be leaving one phase of fatherhood behind even while I enter into another. My youngest child is just about to turn eight, which means that we are not only past the baby and toddler stages, but even nearing the end of the little kid phase. Meanwhile my oldest child has turned fourteen and is just months away from high school. All this change has caused me to think about fatherhood and the new challenges coming my way. I have found myself thinking back to the many models of fatherhood I have seen and admired through the years. What made these fathers admirable? What set them apart? What was it that they said to their children? From these models I have drawn seven things a good father says.


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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Good Morning From Paris
4 comments:
- Heather said...
So enjoying all the updates.Cannot believe amidst it all, you find the time to keep us in the loop.Thinking of you,praying for you and sending you good vibes for each of your moments there.Pablo is waiting patiently to come to you in your dreams.I am sure he is waiting for that very moment when you need him most.Love to you all.
- July 25, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Amanda said...
Volcano...such potent descriptions. I lament not knowing him in person, but applaud your celebration and pursuit of Pablo.
- July 25, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- Stephanie said...
Have a safe and wonderful trip. May you return to happy peaceful hearts.
- July 26, 2009 at 4:57 AM
As Matt and I used to say - Tres Frais! I know that probably doesn't mean much in French. Don't know where the accents go and if Frais is spelled that way, but for a couple of kids in college who thought they were pretty cool at the time, it was our way of saying - Very cool!!
- July 26, 2009 at 8:38 PM


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Sunday, April 06, 2008
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! 1st MTT Win!!!
I have to give credit to PXF training site. I was running horribly as i said in my last post, so i decided not to play anymore yesterday. Instead i watched a few MTT vids by Sheets and i used alot of that today.
Was really sweet. I wasn't even nervous at the final table at all... perhaps it helped that i had a dominant chip stack... lol.
Had a few railbirds that were cheering me on. That was nice. thanks alot guys... leave a comment.
I will post again later. Going to take a shower and get something to eat.
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- E z e k i e l said...
Congrats on your MTT win! I know the feeling is quite exhilarating, it is something you'll never forget. Congrats again!
What site was it on? Forgive my ignorance what is $5 FO? I imagine that was a nice score around $1.8k or so? Nice indeed!
First of all, 'grats on taking down your first major MTT. Outlasting 1833 players is no small feat.
You played very solid poker throughout the entirety of the tournament. What really impressed me, though, is how you played the big stack towards the final stages of the tournament.
If you can consistently play at that level, another large MTT FT in near future is a very realistic goal.
p.s. I see that you are a student of the game. If you haven't already read them, I highly recommend Dan Harrington's HoH books.
- Game101 said...
it was a $5 buy in MTT freeze out tournament with 1834 players. first placed payed 1.5k. I will probably remember this win for a long time. thanks for reading & posting, i've added your blog, looking forward to reading more from you.
thanks for the kind words and for the railage. consistancy is something i'm trying hard to achieve... hopefully it pays and i make a few more final tables in the near future.
I checked you out on officialpokerrankings.com and i see we're basically playing the same stakes. I'm gonna be posting alot of hands on here in the future, it'd be great to get your opinion on a few. Or if you have a hand that you want my opinion on i'd be happy to review it.
ps. if you have a blog i'd be happy to link you up.


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Last year, the district court judge overseeing the Google Book Search case certified the plaintiff-authors as a class in the action the Authors Guild filed against Google in 2005. Google opposed the motion for class certification, and sought review of the issue with the Second Circuit. On appeal, the court vacated the class certification, holding that such certification was premature, given Google's anticipated fair use arguments. The per curiam opinion provided that:
we believe that the resolution of Google's fair use defense in the first instance will necessarily inform and perhaps moot our analysis of many class certification issues, including those regarding the commonality of plaintiffs' injuries, the typicality of their claims, and the predominance of common questions of law or fact
Given that fair use is a fact-specific analysis, this decision seems sensible. And the decision gives Google a powerful new lever in settlement talks — litigation of the copyright claims on the merits just got a lot more expensive for the Authors Guild plaintiffs.
Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google Inc., — F.3d —, 2013 WL 3286232 (2nd Cir. July 1, 2013)


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In a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting "Enterprise Cloud: Lessons Learned From Early Adopters" a key conclusion made is "A complete, application-centric, business-aware cloud solution is needed." Let's say that your C-level executive stops by your office and asks you to lead a project to develop a business-aware cloud solution. To be successful it is important to understand what you are building. In the following blog I will attempt to define a business-aware cloud solution.
Defining a Business-Aware Cloud Solution
Your project objective is to develop a business-aware cloud solution. As you are a competent project manager one of the first areas you want to define is the project scope. As your humble project assistant, I have searched the internet for you and have leverage greater minds from the University of Edinburgh:
"What different employers mean when they talk about business awareness varies, however their views broadly fall into two areas: (1) understanding an occupation, and (2) understanding the business environment."
What is Business-Awareness?
I would like to elaborate upon on this definition with the following model.
There are three key areas that enable business awareness. The business process area includes the business functions, related-activities, and the individual tasks that must be performed in order to generate the desired business results. The business role(s) area includes the concatenation (grouping) of business activities into responsibilities that can be competently accomplished. Finally, business awareness also requires an understanding how an industry operates and how it is influenced by local, national and global economics.
Now, your experience as a project manager tells you that a well-defined project scope statement not only explains the end result but also elaborates on what is considered out of scope. With this best practice in mind let us clearly articulate on some areas that may misalign the focus on business.
Please allow me to elaborate. A business function is a necessary structure resulting in a concatenation of activities/tasks that aligns with the skills/experiences of the organization to best support business processes. The ERP software industry started as discrete, functional applications that continue to evolve into enterprise-wide, business process solutions. In general, software applications focus more on business functions requiring the implementation of multiple applications to support an entire business process. As a veteran project manager, you understand that an application focus may result in gold-plating or poor support of functional hand-offs (integration). You also appreciate that technology is only one component of a business solution.
We are halfway to having a better understanding of our project objective. Now, let's focus on what some may consider the mystical realm of the cloud.
What is a Cloud Solution?
Forgive my "tongue-in-cheek" response above but it is hard to define a clear picture given the varied information available in the marketplace. Once again, I refer to brighter minds (NIST) to provide a definition.
"Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
I would like to focus on what's not in this definition that may be perceived expectations of moving business software to the cloud
The immediate, short-term savings will be reduction in capital expenditures required for IT infrastructure requirements. As correctly pointed out in the book "Cloud Computing – Assessing the Risks", there is a general misnomer that there is a risk reduction with the cloud. There is a transference of risk from the IT organization to the Cloud Provider. Technology results (reliability, response, availability, scalability) may lead to business benefits – but it is not a guarantee.
Now that we have a little better understanding of project objective, let's briefly review the role that the key enablers will play in the implementation of a business-aware cloud solution.
Enablers for a Business-Aware Cloud Solution
As a competent project manager, you know that the project must address all three components of a solution in order to be successful in meeting all expectations. For the sake of brevity we will only focus on a key expectation for each component.
- People: People innovate. People accept. People resist. People ultimately drive project success.
- Process: Innovation is a process and not just a brainstorming event. IT needs to move up the business value chain with a rapid, iterative delivery method. Governance is not an acceptable substitute for properly educating users on the effective use of cloud technology.
- Technology: A reasonable expectation is to select a cloud vendor that provides a reliable, secure, scalable IT infrastructure solution on par (or better) than existing services. For business software like ERP to be business-aware, the software must have access to business model, roles, and rule metadata that is maintained by business users.
Summary – Are We There Yet?
Do all the technical components exist in the marketplace today to build a business-aware cloud solution? Technically speaking, the answer is yes if you want to seamlessly integrate multiple technical components with multiple UI experiences, data sources, and training requirements. Will it be a practical and viable solution? I suspect that there is room for improvement. If you wait for a complete solution then it may be too late for your business users. But you are not just a project manager, you are a project leader! You know that this effort is a project program with iterative projects that incrementally build upon the individual project results. Start planning, start delivering!
P.S. I am conducting a webinar: Best Practices for Selecting the Right ERP Cloud Provider on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Overview – Next stop: The Cloud! Everyone is talking about it but there is a fog of disjointed information out there regarding moving to the Cloud. In this webinar we will demystify the cloud and discuss one of the key activities customers should carefully consider in moving to the cloud – selecting the right cloud provider. We will also discuss some of the key factors to consider as part of your cloud deployment strategy. Register at http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=7604459&Act=251&pcode=WWPN12035291MPP257 .


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Given that the study of Artificial Intelligence is over 60 years old, and that of embodied AI (i.e. intelligent robotics) not much younger, the fact that roboticists can't properly answer the question "how intelligent are intelligent robots" is, to say the least, embarrassing. It is I believe a problem that needs some serious attention.
Let's look at the question again. There is an implied abbreviation here: what my interlocutor means is: how intelligent are intelligent robots when compared with animals and humans? What's more we all assume a kind of 'scale' of intelligence - with humans (decidedly) at the top and, furthermore, a sense that a crocodile is smarter than a lobster, and a cat smarter than a crocodile. Where, then, would we place a robot vacuum cleaner, for instance, on this scale of animal intelligence?
Ok. To answer the question we clearly need to find a single measure, or test, for intelligence that is general enough it can be applied to robots, animals or humans. It needs to have a single scale broad enough to accommodate human intelligence and simple animals. This metric - let's call it GIQ for General (non-species-specific) Intelligence Quotient - would need to be extensible downwards - to accommodate single celled organisms (or plants for that matter) and of course robots because they're not very smart. Thinking ahead it should also be extensible upwards for super-human AI (which we keep being told is only a few decades away). Does such a measure exist already? No, I don't think it does, but I did come across this news posting on physorg.com a few days ago with the promising opening line How do you use a scientific method to measure the intelligence of a human being, an animal, a machine or an extra-terrestrial? It refers to a paper titled Measuring Universal Intelligence: Towards an Anytime Intelligence Test. I haven't been able to read the paper (it is behind a paywall) but - even from the abstract - it's pretty clear the problem isn't solved. In any event I'm doubtful because the news writeup talks of "interactive exercises in settings with a difficulty level estimated by calculating the so-called Kolmogorov complexity", which suggests a test that the agent being tested has to engage in. Well that's not going to work if you're testing the intelligence of a spider is it?
So let's set aside the problem of comparing the intelligence of robots with animals (or ET) for a moment. Are there existing non-species specific intelligence measures? This interesting essay by Jonathan Ball: The question of animal intelligence outlines several existing measures based on neural physiology. In summary they include:
- Encephalization Quotient (EQ): which measures whether the brain of a given species is bigger or smaller than would be expected, compared with that of other animals its size (winner: Humans)
- Cortical Folding: a measure based on the degree of cortical folding (winner: Dolphins)
- Connectivity: a measure based on comparing the average number of connections per neuron (winner: Humans)
So, even if none of them are entirely satisfactory it's clear that there has been a great deal of work on measures of animal intelligence. What about the field of robotics - are there intelligence metrics for comparing one robot with another (say a vacuum cleaning robot with a toy robot dog)? As far as I'm aware the answer is a resounding no. (Of course the same is not true in the field of AI where passing the Turing Test has become the iconic - if controversial - holy grail.)
But all of this presupposes, firstly, that we can agree on what we mean by 'intelligence' - which we do not. And secondly, that intelligence is a single thing that any one animal, or robot, can have more or less of* - which is also very doubtful.
*An observation made by an anonymous reviewer of one of my papers, for which I am very grateful.


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After welcoming triplets in Private Practice's final episodes, KaDee Strickland is ready to reprise her motherhood role. Only this time it will be in real life — she's pregnant!
The actress and her husband, Breakout Kings' Jason Behr, 39, are expecting their first child, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
Strickland, 37, and the former Roswell star will welcome their baby on the way in the fall.
After meeting in Japan on the set of their 2004 movie Grudge, the couple tied the knot in Ojai, Calif. in November 2006.
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Is that bells I hear?
We're ringing in the new year with Wolfhome's 2018 Annual Wolfhome Awards!
As always we'd like to welcome the entire Wolfhome community to pitch in for the event! :)
Anyone and everyone please send in as many nominations as you want to me, Eventful! You may nominate ANYONE - Yourself, Administrators, Event Committee, The Relations Team or your fellow peers for the following categories!
As a reminder, please remember to PM Eventful with your nominations, you can send in multiple nominations! Don't post them here!
As for the categories... DRUM ROLL!
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best dressed
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best nickname
biggest advocate
chat addicts
class clown
cutest couples
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From the News Writing website: This series teaches the writing, reporting, editing, and communicating of information in the public interest. More than 100 journalists working in print, radio, and television reveal the secrets of their trade. Coverage of policy issues sheds light on journalism history, law, and ethics. A natural choice for students pursuing journalism or communications, News Writing is also an excellent resource for improving general writing skills, producing a school or university paper, continuing education for working journalists, or teacher professional development.


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Seals design and materials
ICOS is a ball bearing, equipped with an integrated and compact oil seal. It brings benefits as one close unit, better seal function and friendly maintenance. ICOS reduces the total bearing sealing application cost as compared to the traditional bearing sealing arrangement.
The seals used in wheel bearings have those principal tasks:
- Retaining lubricant
- Excluding contaminants
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Since many of the bearings, especially the wheel bearings used in race cars are bespoke, the seals are also customised to the fit the bearing dimensions. SKF seal design allows to increase overall compactness.
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It is also possible to use low friction material for the lip contacting area. This can be done by coating the specific area or by using different seal material mix.
Wheel bearings with integrated seals only have a single seal on one side of the bearing.
Hub Bearing Unit design can be developed with low friction seal design, such as on HiPer bearings
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WSJ obscured GOP vote suppression efforts
A front-page article in the October 27 edition of The Wall Street Journal, titled "Block the Vote: As a Final Gambit, Parties Are Trying to Damp Turnout," staff reporter John Harwood wrote about the issue of "voter suppression," creating a false equivalency between Democratic and Republican efforts to reduce votes for their opponent.
Claiming that both Republicans and Democrats were engaged in "voter suppression," Harwood made invalid comparisons between Republican efforts to reduce turnout by challenging voter registrations at the polls and Democrats' simply doing what politicians and their supporters do -- campaign -- in this case, by, in Harwood's words, "attempt[ing] to sow doubts about Mr. Bush's character and fealty to social conservatives."
Harwood characterized Republican voter suppression efforts as follows: "Democrats say they see suppression efforts in Republicans' well-advertised plans to vigorously check the registrations of those who show up to vote. In their eyes, such efforts are designed to convince voters that trying to cast a ballot will be too much of a hassle." He then characterized Democratic voter suppression efforts this way: "Republicans see suppression efforts in Democrats' attempts to sow doubts about Mr. Bush's character and his fealty to social conservatives." Harwood's description minimizes and mischaracterizes voter suppression efforts by Republicans and trivializes the gravity of Republicans' efforts by equating them with standard campaign rhetorical strategy -- something he admits later in the article is practiced by both sides.
Voter suppression efforts aimed at Democratic and newly registered voters are not simply about, as Harwood characterized it, making voting a "hassle." Examples (which are listed on the Vote Watch 2004 website) include:
- Allegations persist that employees of an Republican National Committee-funded group that has been misrepresenting itself as part of the nonpartisan America Votes organization have ripped up registration forms filled out by Democrats and tricked students into switching their registration to Republican in phony petition-gathering schemes [Salon.com, 10/21/04].
- Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell invoked an outdated rule requiring registrations to be submitted on thick 80-pound card stock, after numerous registrations had been sent in on, among other things, newsprint from a form printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. This was later withdrawn [Columbus Dispatch, 9/29/04].
- Ohio Republicans issued last-minute challenges to the legitimacy of more than 35,000 registered voters, based on registered letters to the voters that were sent back by the post office as undeliverable. About 4,700 of these were withdrawn after it was discovered that the mail was returned because of a claimed database processing error which led to the incorrect pairing of names and addresses. Many more of these challenges were withdrawn or rejected after it was demonstrated that some of the challengers did not have the "personal knowledge" required to make the challenge [Washington Post, 10/26/04; Akron Beacon Journal, 10/28/04].
- A letter falsely claiming to be from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorrectly informs voters that they "must have a credit check, provide two forms of photo identification, a Social Security card, a voter registration card and a handwriting sample" [Los Angeles Times, 10/29/04].
- In rural Georgia, the eligibility to vote of 98 Hispanic residents was challenged due to questions of their citizenship arising solely from their surnames [Associated Press, 10/29/04].
- The West Virginia GOP wrongly informed people that they were not registered to vote on November 2 [WHAG-TV (NBC25), 10/8/04].
- Dozens of complaints by residents in heavily Democratic areas of Florida about people illegally posing as election officials and offering to hand deliver their absentee ballots to election authorities [St. Petersburg Times, 10/22/04].
- Official-looking leaflets were distributed in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, informing people that Democrats should vote on November 3 [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 10/28/04].
- A flier was distributed in African-American neighborhoods in Milwaukee which falsely warned potential voters of such things as "If you've already voted in any election this year you can't vote in the presidential election" and claiming that "If you violate any of these laws you can get ten years in prison and your children will get taken away from you." [Daily Kos, 10/28/04]
- A flier sent out by the Dave Magnum for Congress campaign and College Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told students to "vote at the polling place of your choice," despite the fact that students are only allowed to vote at a single designated polling place. Those responsible claimed it was a mistake. [Capital Times, 10/30/04]
- Voters in Ohio received callers falsely claiming that their polling place had changed. This is of particular importance, given the fact that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has decreed that provisional ballots, which the federal Help America Vote Act mandates, and allow people to cast a vote even if there is a question about their registration, the validity of which can be adjudicated after election day. [Columbus Dispatch, 10/22/04]
Many more examples can be found at Vote2004.eRiposte.Com.


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Hundreds attended the World Peace Festival held today at Moku Ola, or Coconut Island in Hilo.
Hawai'i County presented the festival in partnership with the Hilo Downtown Improvement Association (HDIA) with sponsorship support from the International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP) assisted by Sokka Gakkai International.
The festival was a free family event that offered a global line-up of Hawai'i Island talent including traditional Hawaiian Slack key stylings from Na Hoku Hanohano and GRAMMY Award winner Sonny Lim, exciting percussion from Hui Okinawa's Kobudo Taiko Troupe, fun Kachi Kachi music performed by El Leo-The Jarican Express, riveting Tahitian dance and music of Merahi o Tapiti, a Chuukese warriors dance performance by members of Micronesians United-Big Island, and the dynamic UH-Hilo Samoan Club-Tupulaga o Samoa Mo A Taeao. Soka Gakkai International youth and women's division participants offered a range of cultural dances.
The festival included a Jumping Castle and Water Slide for the keiki, information booths, displays, artists and crafts, people selling their works plus a variety of food booths.
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As I'm sure you're aware, Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London flat this past Saturday, July 23. She was gifted with a towering voice, a sharp wit, and an artist's impulse to not do what anyone else wanted her to. In this era of pre-packaged pop songstresses, hers was a raw talent; her music deftly mixed jazz, R&B, and 60's pop. She released her debut album Frank in 2003, and her Stateside breakthrough came with her second and final album, 2006's Back to Black (both released in the U.S. in 2007). Back to Black was everywhere four years ago. Not being the sort to listen to pop radio, I remember the very first time I heard Winehouse: I was at a Borders (which is also gone now, or soon to be), browsing the music section, and I decided to throw on the headphones and take a listen to this Brit singer I'd been hearing about. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I heard. Winehouse looked thin and serious on the cover, but the voice that emanated from those headphones was big, soulful. I was sold instantly.
So were many millions of others. Back to Black garnered five Grammy Awards and carried the instant classic "Rehab." Winehouse ushered in a new wave of British soul divas including the likes of Duffy and Adele, the latter of whom has been experiencing similar levels of ubiquity this year. In the five years following Back to Black, though, Winehouse didn't record another album. She wasn't just a bold, terrific singer, she was also a troubled young woman struggling with alcoholism and drug addiction. The tabloids squealed and squawked about her personal life with mean-spirited glee, as they are wont to do. No matter her talent or the quality of her music, it seemed to many that since she was a junkie, she deserved to be jeered and laughed at and put on display. She didn't help herself by putting up odd YouTube videos and stumbling through barely-there performances.


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It's been a long time, but apparently Apple approved the launch of Google Maps for the iOS today.
The free app from the search titan is already the most downloaded app in the App store, a mere seven hours after it launched, according to the Next Web. So far, the app has been given good scores in both the UK and the US of 4.5 out of 5 and rushed ahead of Apple's "12 Days of Christmas" app.
Apple Maps, Apple's in-house map software, has been almost universally derided for mislabeling monuments and giving wrong directions -- most recently to people stranded in the Australian outback. Whether people are using Google Maps as a replacement or to complement the iOS offering is unknown, but we hope for everyone's safety they use Google Maps.
The interesting part is that so many iOS enthusiasts are enjoying the app from the makers of Android, although David Pogue a New York Times tech columnist and recognized Apple fanboy had to say, "Google admits that it's even better than Google Maps for Android phones, which has accommodated its evolving feature set mainly by piling on menus."
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Celibacy is nonsense...
If on the other hand a priest is a sign of absolute commitment to God, of communion, of prayer, of otherness, then celibacy is of supreme importance.
The ancient discipline of priestly celibacy, is not easy. Not having a sexual relationship is reasonably easy, most people in my congregation are in that situation, often for most of their lives, either because they are single, widowed, divorced or because of their sexual orientation. Those who choose celibacy voluntarily accept loneliness and a sense of being unfulfilled by anything here on earth. Doing that all one's life confronts ome with a deep craving, a desire to both possess and to be possessed, so often that can be sublimated, golf, hypochondria, cats and dogs, or plain eccentricity but real celibacy is about living with an open wound, totally unsatisfied by anything here on earth. It should be prophetic, about the Creator not creatures.
Like a hair shirt celibacy is constant reminder and an expression of the bald fact that God alone can satisfy our deepest longings. Celibacy is about the Kingdom of God, about prayer, about the spiritual life, about communion with God but it only works with faith.
I think the debate about celibacy which Cardinal Schönborn among others recently called for is actually a debate about the very nature of the priesthood and therefore about the nature of the Church, by extension it could be seen as a debate about the nature of Grace itself. This debate has brewing for sometime, I think, ever since Pius XII gave permission for married German Lutheran converts to ordained to the priesthood.
Sandro Magister puts forward, sketchily, the historical context of celibacy, which if you are unfamiliar with the arguments is well worth reading.
25 comments:
- Dominic Mary said...
Although I wholly accept the point you make, Father, it does seem to me that the matter has to be considered very carefully, if only because of the increasingly large number of married priests that the Church now has.
There is scope for secular priests and religious priests; might there not at least possibly be scope for celibate priests and married ones ?
- 30/5/10 2:17 pm
- Edward P. Walton said...
It has been said, the Vatican will never speak to a situation that is intractable. Once the Vatican starts talking about what they will never do, it has already happened.
- 30/5/10 2:33 pm
- Lucy said...
This is an amazing post that I found profoundly moving. How blessed we are to have priests who are prepared to be living signs to us. Thank you Father for your own sacrifical living. May God bless you in abundance.
- 30/5/10 2:34 pm
- Michael Petek said...
The wisdom involved in setting celibacy as a higher calling than marriage (though one to whom only a minority is called) is that it sets people free to not marry.
Only under that condition is the individual interiorly free to choose marriage.
- 30/5/10 3:35 pm
- Hippolytus said...
Dominic Mary - I think 'NO' to your question. The arguments put forward today against celibacy for Latin Rite priests are little different to those addressed by Pope Paul V1 in his encyclical on priestly celibacy........to me there seems to be a consistent thread in recent 20th century papacies and to today in defending this 'jewel' in the midst of the many arguments used against it. One should also look at the texts attesting to the apostolic tradition of priestly celibacy - some recent church historians have dispensed with some earlier scholars views of this being only a later tradition.
"Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes." - Pope Paul Vl
- 30/5/10 3:48 pm
You make good points, Father, including that celibacy is much more common than is realised - and that this debate is essentially about the nature of the ordained priesthood.
The concept of the Ordained Priesthood suffered from many post-Vatican 11 reforms, ie, lay readers, bidders, psalmists and, of course, EMHCs, all downplaying the role of the priest.
I often wonder what goes through the minds of our priests as they sit there twiddling their thumbs while all this goes on!
Having observed married "clergy" at work in other churches over the years, I find that they often make very good managers of religious activities - but they are not shepherds of their flocks.
Pope Benedict is right in emphasising the vital necessity of fully committed clergy.
- 30/5/10 3:51 pm
- gemoftheocean said...
Hey! You ahould be getting some extra traffic today, someone linked your blog article to Free Republic, which is a website the Americans of the conservative persuasion frequent, a fair number of home are practising Catholics. [There's even a "Catholic ping" list for people interested in stories/items that would be of particular interest to Catholics.]
- 30/5/10 4:56 pm
- Independent said...
St Paul preferred celibacy but tells us that "it is better to marry than to burn". On the one hand was the ideal up to which those who are able could live, and on the other the grim practicality of human nature. The former was to be admired, the latter accepted.
- 30/5/10 5:06 pm
- Sarah said...
Thanks for these wonderful words...I have translated it and set it on my blog, I would really love to spread it! Especially in Germany we have these discussions right now, mostly of people that blame the church for everything. Thank you very much.
- 30/5/10 6:38 pm
I think marriage is equally a sign of total dedication, especially in our secular environment where divorce and extra marital affairs are so common. Allowing so many married Anglican clergyman to join the priesthood has changed the nature of things, and no one views their vocation in any lesser light. In fact in Salford diocese there is even a married priest who is an episcopal vicar. I remember when it was revolutionary for a priest to raise the idea in the 1960's and then the start of MOMM (movement of ordination of married men). Then in the 1990's bishops began to question whether it should be reviewed. Now even a Cardinal has suggested that the case for allowing married priests should be looked at. I do hope that Pope Benedict will give serious consideration to the idea.
- 30/5/10 7:41 pm
- Volpius Leonius said...
The priesthood itself is nonsense if you just see priests in terms of function.
The founding principle of priesthood is sanctity, and as a married man I have no problem admitting that the chastity practised by a celibate is superior in sanctity to that of marriage, and the chastity of a virgin even more so. I am in awe of the celibate and the sacrifices he makes in the most noble of pursuits for our God.
We must see the priest as a spiritual athlete making huge personal sacrifices in the pursuit of sanctity for both him and the souls under his care.
A priesthood that separates itself from its founding principle of sanctity will not have long left to exist in this world.
They would be replaced by a more efficient and economically means of production.
- 30/5/10 9:15 pm
- Chris said...
An interesting article on the Chiesa website, especially the comments regarding the Church in the East. Thank you, Father
Mr Petek: you mention that celibacy is "a higher calling than marriage". I'm not sufficiently well-read in theology to know if this is official Church teaching or simply an opinion. If it is indeed official teaching, would you tell me the Church document where I can read this? Many thanks in advance.
Jacobi: Eastern Rite Catholics have real clergy (not "clergy"); they are no less so than those in the Latin Church. I have 2(married) priest relatives and contrary to what you wrote they are very good shepherds. I'm sure you didn't mean to insult Eastern clergy, but how else can your comments be read? Please don't forget that Latin Rite priests are not the only ones in the Catholic Church.
- 30/5/10 10:15 pm
- StBlog said...
My dear Father, thank you, your post points out what so many fail to comprehend -- celibacy, marriage, the consecrated life, the priesthood when chosen by reason of a discerned vocation are in the truest sense the joining of heaven to earth and the surest foundation of the true church on earth! God bless you and your ministry.
- 30/5/10 11:06 pm
- RJ said...
I believe it is Church teaching that celibacy is a higher state:
Council of Trent:
"If anyone says that it is not better and holier to remain in virginity or celibacy than to be joined in marriage ... let him be anathema" (DS 1810). I believe Trent was speaking of celibacy chosen for the sake of the kingdom/love of God.
Pius XII later confirmed that this "was solemnly defined as a dogma of faith by the Holy Council of Trent, and explained in the same way by all the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church" (Encyclical Sacra virginitas, n. 32).
The Second Vatican Council endorsed this doctrine, saying that in recognising the dignity of marriage, students for the priesthood "should recognise the greater excellence of virginity consecrated to Christ" (Decree on the Training of Priests, n. 10).
More recently, Pope John Paul II insisted on the same thing, asserting that consecrated virginity is certainly superior to marriage (L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, 19 April 1982, pp. 7ff.)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, while upholding clearly the dignity of marriage, points out that esteem for marriage and for consecrated virginity reinforce each other, and quotes St John Chrysostom: "Whoever denigrates marriage also diminishes the glory of virginity. Whoever praises it makes virginity more admirable and resplendent. What appears good only in comparison with evil would not be truly good. The most excellent good is something even better than what is admitted to be good" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 1620).
To sacrifice something good for a worthy end is to do something even better.
- 31/5/10 11:41 am
- Dominic Mary said...
with respect, I think you miss my point.
I am not denying that priestly celibacy is a 'brilliant jewel'; nor that it is the ideal of priesthood.
However, if the Church is prepared to accept married men as priests when they come from other communions, then it seems to me irrational to refuse to accept the possibility of doing so from amongst their own.
After all, if married converts can be ordained, then there is obviously nothing inherently impossible about a married man being a priest : and if it's not impossible, then why can we not accept that it may be just as possible for cradle Catholics as for converts ?
Look, for example, at the Church in France. They have a grave shortage of priests, and a huge percentage of those they have is over 70. Might allowing married priests at least make it easier for French Catholics to have access to the Sacraments ?
I'm not saying it's ideal; merely that it might be a pragmatic solution to a problem 'de nos jours'.
- 31/5/10 11:54 am
- RJ said...
Further to your point about a functional view of the priesthood, Father: that was the overwhelming emphasis I was given in my theology course (reading matter was totally in this vein - the idea that ordination actually brought about a real change in the person didn't seem to get a look in). This seems to go hand in hand with the proliferation of 'ministries' within the Church, of which the priestly function would then be just one. Priesthood would then be a kind of job, in which case why not ordain priests temporarily? (It has been suggested) If it's just a job, well it can be done just as well by someone else - perhaps a designated member of the congregation to say 'Mass' or by a woman (no offence against women: it's just that this wouldn't be in continuity with the apostolic tradition)
- 31/5/10 4:38 pm
- me said...
Strong libido. It's a reality for many, ofcourse. I mean, a strong one. As a younger person, I presume I had the normal tendencies, in that area. I don't know, I presume I will find out on Judgment Day. Alcohol has always been my escape gate, even as a teenager.
And if others fight the flesh the way I fight the booze, I say, Lord have Mercy.
There, but for the grace of God, go I.
Not that I have led a sainted life in that area, by the way.
The Rosary, literally, and instantly released me, of any disagreements with Church teaching, regarding this area. It simply works, in my experience.
- 31/5/10 7:40 pm
- Volpius Leonius said...
"Might allowing married priests at least make it easier for French Catholics to have access to the Sacraments ?"
WE have been trying to make it easier for 40 years, people do not value things that are easy.
There aren't going to be any practising French Catholics other than those attached to the SSPX in France soon anyway and the SSPX are not short of seminarians. They aren't going to need more priests married or otherwise.
Catholics don't want a brother as a priest who is no better than them, they want a father as a priest who devotes his life entirely to the pursuit of sanctity and holiness.
Your arguments based on converts who have became priests while still been allowed to remain married is not an argument for allowing more married priests it is an argument against allowing married ministers who convert to become priests as doing so undermines the priesthood and priestly celibacy, things which are for more importance to the common good of the Chruch than individual converts desire to be priests.
A married priest is no better than an adulterer and a bigamist and their existence is a scandal.
- 1/6/10 12:40 am
- berenike said...
Chris: St Paul and Jesus.
- 1/6/10 8:15 am
- Volpius Leonius said...
The priest is more than a mere mere producer of sacraments, much more, or at least should be, must be, ifhis mission is to be a success.
"You in England cannot understand how completely engrained it is into our people that a priest is a man who sacrifices himself for the sake of his parishioners. He has no children of his own, in order that all the children in the parish may be his children. His people know that his small wants are supplied, and that he can devote all his time and thought to them. They know that it is quite otherwise with the married pastors of the Protestants. The pastor's income may be enough for himself, but it is not enough for his wife and children also. In order to maintain them he must take other work, literary or scholastic, only a portion of his time can be given to his people; and they know that when the interests of his family and those of his flock collide, his family must come first and his flock second. In short, he has a profession or trade, a Gewerbe, rather than a vocation; he has to earn a livelihood. In almost all Catholic congregations, a priest who married would be ruined; all his influence would be gone. The people are not at all ready for so fundamental a change, and the circumstances of the clergy do not admit of it. It is a fatal resolution. (A. Plummer in "The Expositor", December, 1890, p. 470.)
This still stands today and will always be the case, once you allow married priests we will soon have a heredity priesthood and people becoming priests not because they are called to this vocation by God but because they see it as a good job to allow them to live well and feed their family.
If you look up the history of heredity priesthoods among the Jews and the pagans such as the ancient Egyptians not to mention those scandalous priests who secretly had children you will find that the priests and their families became corrupted by worldliness and used their position to advance their blood relatives even to the detriment of the common good.
- 1/6/10 11:08 am
- Our Lady of Good Success-pray for us. said...
First of all, I suppose, it was, God made me, therefore I am, then, not so long ago it was 'I think therefore I am'. Nowadays, due to media doctrine and the secularisation of the 'self' the contemporary locus for assuaging ontological anxiety is located somewhat further south. There is a reason, I presume, that Orthodox bishops must commit to celibacy, so how rich for the Catholic Church that each priest has that level of understanding and devotion.
- 1/6/10 3:54 pm
- Forward Boldly said...
Beautifully put, Father.
- 4/6/10 5:06 am
What this thread proves, is that most people, even, sadly, orthodox catholics, are fools (you, Volpius, are either an ignorant one or an evil one at that).
99% of the reasons for celibacy are fantasy - there's only one valid reason, and that is because Christ has bestowed a vocation to celibacy rather than marriage.
This idea about celibacy "being a sacrifice" is utter nonsense. For those who have the charism of celibacy, marriage would be in intolerable torture, or, to use Father's words, "an open wound."
People ought not to comment on things concerning which they are ignorant.
+ Wolsey
- 4/6/10 10:14 am
- Forward Boldly said...
"This idea about celibacy "being a sacrifice" is utter nonsense. For those who have the charism of celibacy, marriage would be in [sic] intolerable torture, or, to use Father's words, "an open wound."
People ought not to comment on things concerning which they are ignorant."
Wolsey--I'll second that last line. The rest, though, is just silly. As if having a charism for a particular vocation is mutually exclusive of sacrifice! I may have a "charism" (though I don't that's the appropriate word) for the married state, but that doesn't mean marriage isn't a great sacrifice to my ego, or to my desires, or to my needs at times. How is that not so with regard to the celibate life? Or are you saying that priests go through life never once struggling with loneliness?
People ought not to comment on things concerning which they are ignorant.
- 4/6/10 5:00 pm
- RJ said...
Anonymous: I think your view of vocation supposes that there is only one possible vocational choice for each person. There is an element of personal choice which God respects. A person might be capable of living either as a priest/religious or a married person, and choose marriage instead of priesthood. I'm not sure they would necessarily be condemned to a life of misery.
The fact that someone chooses to enter for a celibate life does not mean that they would find marriage a torture.
It seems fairly clear that the Church has consistently taught that a celibate life chosen for the sake of the kingdom is a 'higher state'. I'm not an expert on what that means but it could perhaps mean that there is a greater degree of Christian fulfilment possible in the celibate life - a controversial view in our present climate.
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I mentioned in an earlier post that our family had some stuff going on and combined with the end of the school year, I wasn't posting much lately. One of the "things" that has kept us so busy is the declining health of our beloved merle Great Dane, Ashley.
We rescued Ashley from a farm where she was being treated unkindly by both humans and bigger dogs. She was a birthday present for me, but she quickly endeared herself to each member of our family and became "theirs" as well.
Our dear companion crossed the Rainbow Bridge yesterday. As much as we knew it was time, it was still so very hard to let go. Ashley had been declining for quite some time, but she took it all in stride and still tried to be playful and engaged in our family activities.
Last night, we had a terrible storm. There was some solace to know that she no longer had to cower under furniture or try to curl up in our laps because she was terrified of storms. She doesn't have to fear the storms any more. The thought of her waiting by the Rainbow Bridge is comforting. In case you're not familiar, here's the story of "The Rainbow Bridge":
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
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Great Danes have shorter life spans than many other breeds, usually about 8 years. We were told that merle danes have a slightly shorter life span. When we got her, she and our youngest daughter, Bailey, were both about a year old. Lyndsay was 8, the perfect age for a canine companion.They all grew up together, and Ashley was like a third daughter. We were fortunate to love her for 11 years.
I was sent this beautiful prayer and it is so appropriate.
A Parting Prayer
Dear Lord, please open your gates
and call St. Francis
to come escort this beloved companion
across the Rainbow Bridge.
Assign her to a place of honor,
for she has been a faithful servant
and has always done her best to please me.
Bless the hands that send her to you,
for they are doing so in love and compassion,
freeing her from pain and suffering.
Grant me the strength not to dwell on my loss.
Help me remember the details of her life
with the love she has shown me.
And grant me the courage to honor her
by sharing those memories with others.
Let her remember me as well
and let her know that I will always love her.
And when it's my time to pass over into your paradise,
please allow her to accompany those
who will bring me home.
Thank you, Lord,
for the gift of her companionship
and for the time we've had together.
And thank you, Lord,
for granting me the strength
to give her to you now.
- © Brandy Duckworth, 1998
Our house seems so empty right now. We still have our new little dog, Max, and I'm sure, in years to come, we'll open our home and hearts to other pets. Ashley will forever live in our hearts and memories.


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Atheist Recreates 'Are You a Good Person' Test by Ray Comfort's Ministry
The "Good Person" test, a widely distributed evangelistic tract used by Ray Comfort's Living Waters Ministry, has recently come under criticism by atheists who find the message inaccurate and deceptive.
Joseph Hanson, creator of truth-saves.com, a website dedicated to exposing Christianity's claims, hopes to reveal the California ministry's "dishonest attempts to guilt [people] into following them" by taking a closer look at the tract.
The test in question, illustrated by Cedric Hohnstadt into a comic strip and animation, asks unbelievers several questions that seek to illuminate the meaning of "goodness" from God's perspective and not their own.
Observing a few of "Mr. Nice Guy's" actions in the light of the Ten Commandments, "The Good Test" attempts to show non-Christians that they could never be good enough to go to heaven and therefore in need of a Savior.
But Hanson believes the test is all wrong. Rebutting the arguments of the tract, the 32-year-old atheist, dissected each claim made in the comic strip and offered his own opinion of "goodness."
Looking at the first question in the tract, "Have you ever told a lie?" Hanson penned, "A person is not considered a 'liar' unless that person repeatedly lies."
"Telling a lie on occasion does not mean the person is actually a liar, just as a person who played baseball once as a child would not be considered a 'baseball player.'"
"Now robbing a bank only once is enough to label a person as a 'bank robber' but such descriptive titles are based on frequency AND degree," he added. "If a person stole a lot of money from a bank they would be a bank robber, if they stole just a dollar or maybe a pen they would not be charged as a bank robber."
He also criticized the question, which asked, "Have you ever looked at someone with lust?" referring to Jesus' radical words in Matthew 5:28: "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
"[That] does not, by any means, make you a bad person. It just makes you a person," Hanson explained.
"We are biologically designed to lust after others. If a person thinks lusting after someone is a bad thing then they should be taking it up with the designer, not the design. Humans and other animals have no control over such desires, they were built to have sexual tendencies."
Responding to Hanson's critiques, Ray Comfort, the founder of Living Waters, told The Christian Post, "As human beings, we tend to trivialize sin."
"We call lies 'white' in an effort to convince ourselves that they are not serious. However, lying in God's book is extremely serious. He killed a husband and wife (in the Book of Acts) because they told one lie."
"The Scriptures inform us that 'lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,' and God's judgment upon liars is the Lake of Fire. Sin is so serious to God, He gives it the death sentence (Romans 6:23)," Comfort shared.
Additionally, comparing baseball with lying was like comparing apples to Oreos, the lead pastor said.
"Baseball is a game, lying is a moral violation of the Ten Commandments. Even in criminal court, lying just once on the stand will get you in big trouble, and you will be called a 'liar.'"
As to the issue of lust, Comfort did agree with Hanson when he said, "If a person thinks lusting after someone is a bad thing then they should take it up with the designer, not the design."
"I agree. Take it up with the Designer," the Christian author wrote. "He is the One that said that if we lust, in His eyes we commit adultery (Matthew 5:27-28)."
But don't be so foolish as to blame God for your sins, Comfort added.
"It doesn't work in a court of law to say that God made you this way 'and that's why I stole a car or raped a woman.' Try that defense and the judge will throw the book at you. God created us, but He holds us morally accountable, as also does criminal law."
Furthermore, Hanson also accused Living Waters of changing their claim about eternal life.
In "The Good Test" by Living Waters, the last illustration stated, "You can't earn eternal life, it is God's gift to all who humble themselves and come to Jesus."
"So you can't earn God's gift but you can also earn God's gift through 'humbling' yourself to Jesus?" Hanson questioned. "Wow, Living Waters changed their claim in the same sentence. Impressive."
But Comfort reiterated, "A gift cannot be 'earned.' The person who wrote this rebuttal is a very confused individual – it would take a book to counter all the false claims he made. He has made very serious mistakes."
Even in his arguments, Hanson appeared confused about salvation and eternal life. He stated, "Scripturally speaking, you can't just desire to be worthy of going to Heaven, you have to do the deeds to earn it."
Scripture, however, clearly describes repeatedly that eternal life cannot be earned because it is a gift. Ephesians 2:8-9 reads: "For by grace you have been saved; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may boast."
"We are saved by grace alone through faith alone, without works," Comfort stressed.
Appearing to garner a negative response from his "Good" tests, The Christian Post asked the pastor if his ministry's test was making salvation seem works-based to nonbelievers.
"Not at all," Comfort responded. "The moral Law shows us God's standard, so that we can see our need of His forgiveness."
"Jesus and Paul used the same principle that we used in the tract (see Mark 10:17 and Romans: 20-24) –using the Ten Commandments to bring the knowledge of sin (see Romans 3:19, 20, Romans 7:7)."
While Comfort and many believers saw "The Good Test" as a great and simple evangelistic tool to explain the Gospel message, Hanson remained unconvinced of the meaning and the method.
For him, only one question seemed appropriate to ask, illustrating his own version of the tract on his site.
"Do you try doing what will cause the least amount of harm for others?"
"Yup!" answered "Mr. Nice Guy," the protagonist in Living Water's illustrations.
"Congrats, you are a good person!" reads the comic, essentially eliminating the need of God's gift, Jesus Christ, and replacing heaven with the here and now.
Hanson, in his post, appeared to echo the sentiments of several atheists, including English comedian Ricky Gervais.
Like Gervais, Hanson appeared to measure "goodness" in terms of how he wanted to be treated and how he treated others, not accounting for God's standard.
"I'm good to people because it's the way I want to be treated and I don't believe I'll be rewarded in heaven," Gervais, an outspoken atheist, had previously told Piers Morgan on CNN. "I will be rewarded now."
He added, "I'm not a Christian, but I live my life in a good way. And some people say, well, who says what good is?"
"Well, you know what?" Gervais posed, reiterating Hanson's illustration. "I do."


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – NASA could have prevented last summer's near-drowning of a spacewalking astronaut.
That's the conclusion of an investigation board created by NASA in the wake of last July's close call outside the International Space Station.
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano nearly drowned when his helmet filled with water on July 16. He barely made it back inside alive.
But according to the report, his helmet had also leaked one week earlier at the end of his first spacewalk. The report says the space station team misdiagnosed the first failure and should have delayed the second spacewalk until the problem was understood.
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Brian and Jenny McDonnell, from the Co Antrim village of Aghalee, have welcomed a second son into the world.
Charlie Alfred McDonnell weighed 8lbs 10oz when he was born in the Lagan Valley Hospital on May 30 at 8.15pm.
The baby boy, who was six days late, was given the middle name Alfred as a tribute to Jenny's grandfather Alfred McCutcheon and he has quickly become a new best friend for the McDonnell's other son James.
It was James's fourth birthday the day before Charlie was born, so in the years to come there will no doubt be a few joint-party celebrations at the McDonnell household. "We are absolutely over the Moon," Brian said.
"We are tired, as you would imagine. It's an adjustment having two instead of one.
"It's a big change for James. He is fascinated and says Charlie is his best friend."
Brian, a financial adviser, and Jenny, a garden business owner, said staff at the Lagan Valley Hospital were wonderful and they can't speak highly enough of them.
"We has such a good experience at Lagan Valley when James was born that we decided to go back again for Charlie's birth," Brian admitted.
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Sports Page Bar & Grille will close for good after 25 years on April 8 as real estate developer moves forward with a condominium project proposed on that site.
The bar and liquor store, which has become a staple on Main Street in Sarasota over the years, is looking to relocate downtown but does not have a site in mind yet, said owner Robert Richards.
"We figured we would be here for at least another year or so, but the developer has enough reservations for the condo he wants to build, so it's time to go," Richards said.
The property was sold to developer Tom Mannausa in 2011, along with the adjacent building which houses Living Walls, a 43-year-old locally-owned furniture store. Living Walls will also close in early to mid-April, said owner Allison Bishop. Mannausa plans to build an 18-story building with 360-degree views of the city and bayfront on the stretch of Main Street there called The Jewel.
Sports Page Bar & Grille has operated as the only bar with a liquor store attached to it in downtown Sarasota for nearly 25 years.
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