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Winner-take-all machinations in Pennsylvania
FairVote for years has documented the broken nature of the current Electoral College system, including presidential candidates in general elections focusing solely on a dwindling number of winner-take-all swing states and partisans bending electoral rules to try to win those states. Now it's getting worse, with Republican leaders newly in charge of Pennsylvania backing a plan that likely would give a majority of that state's 2012 electoral votes to a candidate who lost the state's popular vote -- just as North Carolina Democrats nearly did in 2001.
This latest attack on fair play makes the case for the National Popular Vote plan all the stronger. FairVote's Fuzzy Math report explains problems with alternative reform proposals like the congressional district allocation system, and a growing number of analysts rightly urge states to complete the current drive to establish the National Popular Vote plan.
- FairVote's new Fuzzy Math report on problems with the congressional district plan and other proposals to divide electoral votes, either done state-by-state or nationally
- Philadelphia Inquirer on National Popular Vote rather than district plan
- FairVote criticized same proposal in 2001 commentary and in Politico last month

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NB: the new IPPA website that deals with general IPPA matters and conferences can be found at
The ippa.anu.edu.au site that you are in now handles membership matters, conference registration and payments, and the Granucci Fund for Indonesian and Timor Leste Archaeology. It also contains back issues of the IPPA Bulletin.
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
- promotes cooperation in the study of the prehistory of eastern Asia (east of 70º longitude) and the Pacific region
- maintains scholarly communication through regular congresses, communications, and the online Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology
- upholds ethical standards in prehistorical research
- manages the Granucci Fund for Indonesian and Timor Leste Archaeology
The antecedent of IPPA was originally founded in 1929. It was termed the Far Eastern Prehistory Association from 1953 to 1976, after which the name was changed to Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.


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Economists since Adam Smith have asserted that competition among schools is good for everyone but teachers — and probably good for teachers, too, since it broadens the market for their services.
And almost everybody has a favorite example of effective competitive policy in education.
Two of the most successful in the United States:
- The Morrill Act of 1862 (or, more properly, the Lands for Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts Act), which broke the power of the old universities of the East by creating well over 150 public land-grant colleges and universities in midwestern and western states and territories (the sixteen southern states had to wait until 1890 for their turn);
- The GI Bill of Rights (officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), which over 7 years distributed vouchers to some 8 million veterans, enabling them to attend whatever educational institution was willing to admit them.
But when it comes to the long-standing commitment of the industrial democracies to universal public education — to the finer points of primary and secondary education — it becomes very tricky to pin down what kind of choice works best. After all, college students are free to move. Children are raised in families, and families live in particular places.
Charter schools, voucher plans, church-run schools and private schools, the subtle competition among school districts and property values, mostly in the suburbs, that economists call Tiebout-choice (after the man who first analyzed it), and endless varieties of particular reforms within school organizations, everything from uniforms and standardized testing to decentralization, all have their enthusiasts.
How to judge among competing policies? One device is to look for big public policy experiments that may produce striking results — vouchers in Milwaukee, charter schools in Michigan and Arizona. Another is to look for natural experiments that history and nature may have set up.
That was economist Caroline Hoxby's big idea when, in 1994, as a young assistant professor at Harvard, just out of graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she settled on streams as an instrument for measuring the degree of competition among public school districts within metropolitan areas. Here were boundaries that were simply given by nature, not created by people pursuing their own advantage. Streams led to fragmented districts in some places and to relatively unified jurisdictions in others, providing an exogenous baseline against which to measure the rest.
That was before she learned that early American laws (and even the medieval philosopher Maimonides' Rule) held that students ought not to have to cross streams in order to receive instruction. She had simply noticed that school district boundaries frequently were streams.
The idea was that differences in the ease with which parents could historically choose among city districts — the voting-with-feet process of so-called Tiebout choice that is so pronounced among suburbs first in the railroad epoch, then in the automotive age — should have something to say about the debates of early the 1990s over school vouchers.
Did inequality increase as rich people crowded poor people out of the best schools? Did competition encourage higher productivity among all schools (as measured by the ratios of, say, budgets to test scores)? Did vigorous competition among public schools reduce the number of private schools, parochial schools in particular?
So Hoxby spent months laying a ruler on topographical maps, measuring streams, eliminating big rivers, seeking to distinguish between center cities and residential neighborhoods, creating a measure of school concentration across the nation that, when matched with expenditures and compared with measures of student achievement, would allow her to discriminate among competing claims for choice.
She concluded that, in general, things worked pretty much as advocates of voucher proposals had predicted. Sorting between rich and poor increased, but there was no evidence that disadvantaged groups fared more poorly as a result. Areas with more choice had fewer inputs — fewer teachers, larger classes — but better than average student performance, as measured by students' educational attainment, wages and test scores.
Six years later, Hoxby's investigation was finally published in the American Economic Review as "Does Competition among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?" It quickly became a famous paper, admired as much for its ingenuity in adopting topography as a baseline as for its technical sophistication, classified as being generally conservative in its orientation.
Outside economics, the applied economist's arguments about data and econometrics probably had very little direct effect. Inside the profession, however, she became an increasingly senior figure, with something interesting to say about nearly every significant issue in the economics of education, and a powerful advocate for school choice, especially the entrepreneurial start-ups known as charter schools. Granted tenure by Harvard, she was appointed director of the program of education economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and became a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
After her remarks before the faculty last spring upbraiding Harvard University president Lawrence Summers for incivility — a moment whose solemnity some participants compared to the occasion fifty years before when lawyer Joseph Welch challenged Sen. Joseph McCarthy during Senate hearings — Hoxby at 39 became an academic star of the first magnitude. She is weighing competing complicated offers from Harvard and Stanford to spend the rest of her career at one place or the other.
Last spring, however, Hoxby's original methodology on the streams paper was challenged by Princeton University economist Jesse Rothstein, 31, fresh out of the a University of California at Berkeley and just starting his career. He had discovered "several important errors" in Hoxby's data and code, Rothstein wrote
Moreover, he asserted, her entire exercise had turned out to depend on the way that "large streams" were defined. Replacing her streams with simpler measures that he described as being equivalent, he found the effect of competition among districts dropped to near zero. When he was done, he said, there was little evidence left in Hoxby's paper that competition among schools raised their productivity.
Most darkly, Rothstein wrote that "despite repeated requests over several years," Hoxby had not provided him with the data that she used to generate her published paper. Eventually, he asserted, she had provided him with a corrected data set. The new data generated different results, said Rothstein. In order to replicate the original analysis, he sought to recreate the original data set by hand. When he did, he obtained "somewhat weaker" results.
(Hoxby says she didn't correct anything; that she used data that the National Center of Educational Statistics had corrected itself; and that she took extraordinary pains to obtain its release it from confidentiality requirements imposed by the NCES, to annotate its coding and make it available on a CD. "I released not only the data, but every bit of my raw data and code, which is more than anyone else had ever done in microeconomics.")
Rothstein sent in "A Comment on Hoxby" to the National Bureau of Economic Research last December, and at the same time to the American Economic Review. Its 69 pages of dense econometrics didn't appear on the NBER Website until March — long enough for Hoxby to have prepared a fiery 33-page reply ("I discuss every claim of any importance in the comments. I show that every claim is wrong"). The two working papers were released simultaneously in March. .
Then the argument was buttoned up. Instead of eliciting (or permitting) an immediate rejoinder from Rothstein, AER editor Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University, himself an expert in applied economics, decided to work out the differences between the two analyses behind the scenes, with a view to eventually publishing in his journal what could be substantiated in each note — and presumably leaving all the rest on the cutting room floor.
A period of laborious negotiation thus began, of passing drafts back and forth among various experts chosen by the editor to serve as anonymous referees, and between the parties themselves — completely obscuring the controversy for the time being.
Meanwhile, two news stories about the fracas have appeared, first in the Harvard Crimson last summer, then on page one of The Wall Street Journal last week (subscription required). "Making Waves," was the Journal's headline: "Novel Way to Assess School Competition Stirs Academic Row/To Do So, Harvard Economist Counts Streams in Cities: A Princetonian Takes Issue/ Charges and Countercharges." Jon Hilsenrath is the Journal's excellent economics reporter; his unassailable conclusion: "Despite a vast array of statistical tools, economists have had a very hard time coming up with clear answers."
Certainly the drama is very great. An eminent figure in economics poised on the brink of great influence, a youthful whistleblower just starting out on his career, each supported by a coterie of loyal seconds, separated by only a few years of age but miles apart in their political convictions. (Hoxby graduated from Harvard College in 1988, Rothstein in 1995. Rothstein worked for a year and a half at the organized-labor-friendly Economic Policy Institute in Washington before heading off to graduate school.)
And certainly the atmosphere is thundery enough. Though down from the fever peak of a few years back, charges of professorial misconduct still make news. Twice last week the Boston Globe front-paged a story about an MIT immunologist who had been fired for fabricating data.
But the controversy has less than nothing to tell about the mechanisms of school choice. There is much to learn, however, about the opposition between the culture of replication in economics and the tradition of original work.
(A second, even more famous paper was challenged last year by a Berkeley graduate student. Last spring MIT economist Daron Acemoglu won the John Bates Clark medal, awarded every two years to the American economist judged to have made the greatest contribution to the field before the age of 40. Central to the prize was his 2001 paper, "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation," joint with Simon Johnson and James Robinson, which argued that the presence or absence of property rights accounted for different paths of development.
(A few months earlier, Berkeley's David Albouy had published an account of his attempt to replicate Acemoglu's results. He concluded that a key data series in the original paper suffered from "inconsistencies, questionable judgments and errors." Acemoglu and his co-authors replied in an extensive note that that there was "no foundation" to any of the criticisms raised by Albouy. "At best they reflect a long list of mistakes on his part in coding and selecting data." And there the matter seemed to rest.)
Is Caroline Hoxby a model investigator or a secret artist of the thumb on the scale? Is Jesse Rothstein a forensic economist or a suicide bomber? Informed discussion will have to wait until the editors of the American Economic Review have done their work, probably some time early next year. Even then, a new round of competing claims will be required to bring the issue into focus, to decide who got the better of the argument. (An extensive summary and a pretty persuasive preliminary judgment by a knowledgeable if anonymous economist may be found at The Lowest Deep.)
It's a good thing, therefore, to remember that Adam Smith himself soon found he had plenty of competition in seeking truth — from political theorists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists and, in the 20th century, the myriad management scholars who work in schools of business, government and education, who are among the best-informed experts of all. And of course the most significant developments at every turn probably have come from practitioners themselves — in this case, educators, reformers and politicians.
A case in point: instead of seeking illumination in the argument about the degree to which the estimated variance-covariance matrix for the instrumental variables estimator is robust to arbitrary forms of intra-cluster correction and cluster-based heteroskedasticity, consider William Ouchi, who is intent on approaching the problem from the other end of the stick.
He thinks the right answer is to empower school principals to customize their schools.
Ouchi, a UCLA business professor, has a PhD from the University of Chicago, He has spent 35 years studying the design and structure of very large business organizations, and until recently, he was best-known for his 1981 best-seller Theory Z: How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge, which counseled confidence at a time when it was widely expected that Japan might soon surpass the United States in industrial leadership.
But for most of the last decade, Ouchi has devoted himself to the cause of school reform. To the extent his analysis is grounded in technical economics, it flows from the insight, formulated in 1975 by University of California at Berkeley economist Oliver Williamson as "the M-form hypothesis," that "with large size comes administrative bulk-up along with many negative consequences and that the chief antidote is to decentralize decision-making down to the operating sub-units."
In corporations, this means multidivisional management, with central offices providing services such as payroll and insurance in which economies of scale are pronounced, but otherwise leaving to its operating divisions most choices about how to proceed. In schools, according to Ouchi, it means pushing decision-making authority down to the level of individual schools while building up mechanisms to assure accountability. Since 1932, the number of students enrolled in public schools in the United States has doubled, from 24 million to 50 million, according to Ouchi. In the same period, the number of school districts has declined by a factor of ten — from around 127,000 to around 16,000.
"Few business organizations that live in a competitive world could survive that much growth without fundamentally altering their organizational form through decentralization. But school districts, not living in a competitive world, have not changed their form. They remain every bit as centralized as when they were one-fifteenth their present size."
Ouchi got involved when his friend venture capitalist Richard Riordan (later to become mayor of Los Angeles) formed an organization with the late Helen Bernstein, then president of the teachers' union of Los Angeles, and Robert Wyckoff, president of Arco Oil, to study the ills of California's giant school system (6 million students, 12.5 percent of the nation's total).
The problem, they concluded, was not that the students were immigrants or that teachers were bad or, least of all, that the schools didn't have enough money. It was that individual schools, serving unique groups of families, lacked the autonomy to come up with their own instructional approach. Principals were articulate bureaucrats instead of leaders.
Ouchi designed a study, raised a million dollars, hired a group of researchers and set out to visit 223 schools in the US and Canada, the three largest school districts in the US among them — New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The results are reported in Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need.
There are a few tables in Ouchi's book, and no equations. Instead there are plenty of point-making anecdotes. One concerns the morning when Ouchi called the headquarters of the Archdiocese of New York in preparation for his visit. How many central office staff did it have for its 120,000 students? He called well ahead on the assumption that it would take days to assemble the data.
"Do you really need to know that?" asked the woman who answered the phone. Ouchi assured her that it was an important part of his study. "Well, just a moment, I'll go count them," she replied, returning a few moments later to announce the results of her census. There were 22 workers, including secretaries and clerks.
In contrast, New York City had 3,000 headquarters staff for its 1.2 million public school students — plus another 22,500 workers reporting to them distributed around the city — 25,500 central office workers instead of the 220 if strict proportionality to the parochial schools' organization were to be observed. "They work under the orders of someone in the central office, and they do what the central office wants done," says Ouchi, "not what the principal wants done."
In the face of such beguiling arguments, it is tempting to dismiss econometrics altogether. But you have only to remember the story of, say, MIT's Theodore Postol and the Patriot missiles that were fired during the 1990 Gulf War, to realize how important statistical measurement can be in the face of what otherwise seems incontrovertible evidence. Applied microeconomics affords an indispensable foundation for policy debates. But we must go on feeling the elephant with all the instruments of our extended senses at our command.


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The fallout—or is it fall-up?—from Sandy Weill's $88 million penthouse sale at 15 Central Park West continues to reverberate through the upper echelons of Manhattan real estate. Gary Barnett decided to up the price of his penthouse at One57 into the nine-figure realm, and now an almost-as-rich-as-Weill's penthouse has come on the market on the south side of the park. Read More


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Tour of Sorrento, Herculaneum Ruins and Wine Tasting Lunch on the Volcano
Let's visit Sorrento, known to be the land of the lemons and limoncello liquor which is the most famous italian liquor. Come to join in a nice walking tour of Ercolano Ruins to explore this ancient Roman town destroyed during the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Relax in a nice sea view wineyard-family restaurant on the hills of the Volcano to taste our "vulcanic wine and food" during a local organic food lunch.


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With university fees consistently on the rise, finding an affordable study programme can be challenging. However, many countries across the world offer free tuition to both their respective national students and international students. The most commonly known country with free tuition for both national and international students is Germany. To study in Germany there are no undergraduate tuition fees at most public universities; just a small student fee of around €150 – €250 (~US$180 – 300) for admission costs is charged. One exception to studying for free in Germany is in the state of Baden-Würtemberg, where tuition fees for non-EU/EEA students are €1,500 (~US$1,800) per semester.
Regardless of nationality, students are also able to study for free in France. The admission fees are comparable to Germany, totaling €184 (~US $220) each year at the undergraduate level. Please note that additional charges can bring this price up, particularly for more specialised programmes such as medicine and engineering.
Additionally, regardless of their national status students can study for free, or at low cost in the Nordic countries. The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden all offer opportunities to study for free or at a low cost:
In Norway, studying at university is available free of charge to all students, regardless of study level or nationality. Like studying in Germany, you will only need to pay a small student fee per semester – in this case around NOK 300-600 (~US $37-74).
In Iceland, there are no tuition fees charged at the country's four public universities, with only a registration fee of around €400 a year (~US $425).
Denmark, Sweden and most recently Finland limit their free higher education perks to students from within the EU/EEA and Switzerland. Students from outside these regions must pay tuition fees for bachelor's and master's programmes. However, PhD programmes in these countries are fully funded, offering PhD candidates the chance to gain their degree without paying fees, and even earn a salary. Non-EU/EEA students can also still study in Finland for free if they study in either Finnish or Swedish.
International fees at bachelor and master levels in Denmark, Finland and Sweden vary. In Denmark, university fees range from DKK 45,000 to DKK 120,000 (~US $7,200-19,300) annually, while in Sweden they total some SEK 80.000 and SEK 140,000 (~US $9,750-17,060) for most courses. Since autumn 2017, Finland introduced tuition fees currently totaling to at least €1,500 (~US $1,800) per year, although in reality most students will actually pay some €4,000 - 20,000 (~US $4,900-24,500) per year.
If you're more prone to warmer climates, then you might want to look at tuition free countries like Greece. In Greek public universities, EU/EEA students are usually not charged tuition fees, with the exception of a few Master programmes. All other international students will have to pay tuition fees that range from € 1,500 to 9,000 a year (~US $1,650-10,000) which also includes textbooks for the chosen courses.


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This online exhibition is a lesson in the changing societal responses to death. In the 19th century it was socially acceptable and indeed expected that death-bed photographs would be taken as memento mori.
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Comfort and Safety by Emmanuel Brown
The only true safety or comfort zones exist in living a life that is true to who we really are. Even when we feel safe with a friendship, relationship, or set of circumstances, someone else's truth or something unexpected might trigger feelings that can erase all traces of the safety and comfort that we once felt. Safety and comfort are feelings or states of mind, and we have control over our feelings of safety and…Read More


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Annex:art is pleased to offer its annual Spätsommer Artist Residency program which take place in the late summer months from September 15 - October 31. This residency program is being offered in cooperation with Kleindorf-art located in beautiful Havelland County , about 50 miles from Berlin, Germany. The residency program is open to creative individuals working in any genre, including visual art, music and literature.
Dates: September 15 - October 31 (annually)
Goals: To provide artists with a creative environment and studio space to create a body of work or complete a project which may not be possible in their home studio; to enable each resident artist to exchange ideas and creative energy with other international artists and visitors to Kleindorf-art. (more)
Criteria: The program seeks applications from artists who have a specific purpose or project to be completed during the residency and whose participation in an international program will benefit his/her current career goals and funding opportunities. The details of the project or specific purpose should be outlined in the artist's application submission. This program will provide time and space for at least two weeks of residency (and up to two months of residency). Other residency programs are available in San Fidel, New Mexico, Ardèche, France and Jonesport, Maine. (more)
Eligibility: International artists must be 21 years old to participate and eligible to travel to and stay in Germany for the period of his/her residency. Priority is given to artists from outside of Germany.
Venue: Kleindorf-art is located in an off-the-beaten-path village approximately 50 minutes NW of Berlin . Our rural guesthouse / artist retreat offers artists the chance to kick back and reconnect with all things natural. The protected layout of the inner courtyard of this 19th century farm, situated directly on the Havel River, gives an intimate contact with art and nature as they harmonize with one another. The surrounding countryside with long tree-lined roads and half-timbered houses sometimes appears to be left behind from the 21st century.
Fee: The cost of a self-funded residency with space galore costs €350 per week and includes a private room and shared bath with use of the kitchen and other common area facilities. Food and beverages are extra. Monthly rates available upon request.


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Music Haven
Kindly click the above image to view a PDF and to print a mail-in dedication form
Plan to Improve the Comfort and Security of the Popular Summer Venue
((SCHENECTADY, NY) Built in 1999 with widespread public and private sector support, the Agnes Macdonald Music Haven Stage has hosted hundreds of concerts and community gatherings and oft been named "Best Outdoor Concert Venue." Now, a 2015 State Municipal Facilities Program Grant through the NYS Assembly and continued support from the City of Schenectady have provided the impetus for a plan to improve the comfort and security of the venue.
"I am thrilled to make discretionary capital funding available to Music Haven and all of Central Park in Schenectady. This park is one of the gems of the Capital Region. We are hoping to announce additional funding for Central Park in the near future. My thanks to Mona Golub and her entire family for all they do to support civic life in Schenectady. They are one of the reasons it is so enjoyable to be part of all the progress going on in the City," said Assembly Member Phil Steck, who helped to secure the grant.
The plan includes the installation of 400 permanent, stadium-quality front of house seats atop a new, evenly paved surface; a terraced hill offering improved seating to those who prefer lawn chairs and blankets; a security gate across the face of the stage; and a permanent hutch to cover the audio booth.
"We designed the 'House and Hill' campaign to supplement the grant and help ensure completion of the improvements," said Mona Golub, longtime volunteer producing artistic director of the Music Haven Concert Series, who chaired the task force to build the stage back in 1998-1999. "We're offering park enthusiasts, community supporters and Music Haven patrons the opportunity to help sustain the venue that lights up the heart of the park by dedicating a seat, brick or block in honor or memory of someone or something special."
The differing dedication opportunities and costs are:
$125 A Brick in the Eastern "Wall of Support"
$250 A brass plaque on the back of a Permanent Seat in the House
$1,000 A Brick on the Façade of the Stage
$5,000 A Block on the Façade of the Stage
$10,000 A Double Block on the Façade of the Stage
N.B. Dedication of the new permanent seating crowns and refreshes a re-launch of the original campaign to dedicate bricks in the Wall of Support and bricks and blocks on the façade of the stage. Approximately 300 bricks in the Wall of Support and several dozen bricks and blocks on the façade of the stage present personalization opportunities.
A rendering of the improvements, designed by Mary Moore Wallinger, RLA, ASLA, Principal of LAndArt Studio, and printed information detailing how to personalize a seat, brick or block, will be available at all remaining Sunday evening Music Haven concerts through August 14, through the series' website (www.musichavenstage.org) and at Mayor Gary McCarthy's office in Schenectady's City Hall, 105 Jay St.
"Music Haven is more than bricks and mortar, it is a focal point of culture and the arts in our community. Its rich history as a central venue for the arts is only overshadowed by the dedication of its many supporters and volunteers who continue to bring quality programming and significant community events to our Central Park," said Mayor Gary McCarthy. "I ask the many members of the public who are enriched by the site's contributions to our community to join us in enhancing Music Haven so it can continue to grow and introduce new generations to arts and culture from around the world."
The names of all who dedicate seats, bricks or blocks between now and the end of the Music Haven Concert Series season (August 14), will be displayed on a placard next to the rendering at all of the remaining concerts. After the new seating is installed, and the brass plaques on each seat have been affixed, a public dedication celebration will be held (in early summer 2017).


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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 - Hardcover
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 - Hardcover
When Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States in 1957, he had already been a staff photographer for nearly a decade, the first African American to hold this position. Parks embarked on a six-week journey that took him and a reporter to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Unlike much of his prior work, the images made were in color. The resulting eight-page photo-essay "The Atmosphere of Crime" was noteworthy not only for its bold aesthetic sophistication, but also for how it challenged stereotypes about criminality then pervasive in the mainstream media. They provided a richly hued, cinematic portrayal of a largely hidden world: that of violence, police work and incarceration, seen with empathy and candor.
Parks rejected clichés of delinquency, drug use and corruption, opting for a more nuanced view that reflected the social and economic factors tied to criminal behavior and afforded a rare window into the working lives of those charged with preventing and prosecuting it. Transcending the romanticism of the gangster film, the suspense of the crime caper and the racially biased depictions of criminality then prevalent in American popular culture, Parks coaxed his camera to record reality so vividly and compellingly that it would allow Life's readers to see the complexity of these chronically oversimplified situations. The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 includes an expansive selection of never-before-published photographs from Parks' original reportage.
Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself and becoming a photographer. He evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). Parks died in 2006.
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Dinosaurs invade Steampunk inspired streets of England in the new Habanero slots game, London Hunter!
Once again, I'm blown away by the creative imagination and graphic superiority of Habanero Systems. The online slots development group loves to infuse entertaining and lucrative features into wacky themes, and that's exactly what they've done in this week's release of the London Hunter Slot.
Dinosaurs are running a muck in London, England, and only the bravest online slots fans can save us. Habanero sends players back in time to the Victorian days, with a little steampunk innovation in the mix. Add in a few bonus features and random progressive jackpots, and this machine is primed for spinning!
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Gallifrey Square One
Gallifrey Square One
Lalla Ward (President Romana), Louise Jameson
"It's too late… time is coming for us!"
In a climate of unease and mistrust, the great time-travelling powers of the universe are holding an historic temporal summit. The meeting will take place on a planetoid impervious to outside attack or internal subversion in any way.
But While President Romana walks a knife-sharp political tightrope into dangerous territory, Leela and K9 find themselves attending the summit in unexpected roles. They are hunting for evidence of Free Time activity, but find instead terrors of a different kind — time and time again…
What impossibility stalks the planetoid? Who is manipulating time? Can Leela and Romana discover the truth — or will they find themselves sent back to square one for all eternity?
- Square One was the second story of the first series of Big Finish's Gallifrey audio series. It was written by Stephen Cole.
- The timecode on the holo-prints was made with a beryllium chip. (The TV Movie)
- The events of The Apocalypse Element are mentioned.
- The Nekkistani are described as a slug-like race.
- Flinkstab murdered a dancing girl on Coralee, the human colony visited in Storm Harvest.
- When Romana confronts Hossak, she asks how many times Hossak has reversed time, to which Hossak replies "three times", a reference to The Horns of Nimon
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Vesicles that trap amyloid appear to also contribute to Alzheimer's
Vesicles, fluid-filled sacs that brain cells make to trap amyloid, a hallmark of Alzheimer's, appear to also contribute to the disease, scientists report. Reducing the production of these vesicles, called exosomes, could help reduce the amount of amyloid and lipid that accumulates, slow disease progression and help protect cognition, scientists at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University report in The Journal of Neuroscience.
When confronted with amyloid, astrocytes, plentiful brain cells that support neurons, start making exosomes, to capture and neutralize it, said Dr. Erhard Bieberich, neuroscientist in the MCG Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine and the study's corresponding author.
"If you swarm astrocytes with amyloid, you trigger an aggressive response," he said. Happy astrocytes, on the other hand, don't make exosomes.
Not unlike a landfill, the real problems begin when the biological sacs get piled too high. In such volume and close proximity to neurons, exosomes begin to interfere with communication and nutrition, neurons stop functioning well and eventually begin to die, a scenario that fits with disease progression, Bieberich said.
MCG scientists followed the process in an animal model with several genetic mutations found in types of Alzheimer's that tend to run in families and make brain plaques early in life. One mouse group also was genetically programmed to make a nonfunctional form of the enzyme neutral sphingomyelinase-2. Amyloid also activates this enzyme, which converts another lipid, called sphingomyelin, into ceramide, a component of the brain cell membrane known to be significantly elevated in Alzheimer's. In fact, with disease, the brain has two to three times more of the lipid known for its skin-softening ability.
The MCG scientists found exosomes made by astrocytes accelerated the formation of beta amyloid and blocked its clearance in their animal model of Alzheimer's. Male mice, which were also sphingomyelinase-deficient, developed fewer plaques and exosomes, produced less ceramide and performed better in cognitive testing.
For reasons that are unclear, female mice did not reap similar benefits, said Bieberich, noting that Alzheimer's tends to be more aggressive in women. His earlier work has shown that female mice have higher levels of antibodies in response to the elevated ceramide levels that further contribute to the disease.
His new work is the first evidence that mice whose brain cells don't make as many exosomes are somewhat protected from the excessive plaque accumulation that is the hallmark of Alzheimer's. It is also an indicator that drugs that inhibit exosome secretion may be an effective Alzheimer's therapy, Bieberich said. Current strategies to prevent plaque formation, have been unsuccessful, the researchers write.
"We show clearly that sphingomyelinase is causative here in making ceramide, making exosomes and in making plaques," Bieberich said. He and his teams already are testing different drugs given to patients for reasons other than Alzheimer's that may also inhibit sphingomyelinase and ultimately ceramide and exosome production.
Inside the brain, ceramide is an important component of the cell membrane, but too much starts collecting in the exosomes, combining with the amyloid to form a disruptive and eventually deadly aggregate. In fact, MCG scientists could see the ceramide and amyloid clustered together in the brains of mice without sphingomyelinase suppression, further implicating a close association.
In a scenario that seems to go full circle, Bieberich has mounting evidence that in Alzheimer's, there is a shorter, "bad" form of ceramide coating the antennae of astrocytes. Normally, antennae help astrocytes focus on taking care of neurons. But the shorter version that he believes contributes to disease has astrocytes giving up their caretaker role, spending their energy on themselves and starting to divide.
Bieberich and his team already are looking for other exosome triggers such as inflammation-producing immune cells called cytokines as well as physical trauma. Ceramide levels have been proposed as an early Alzheimer's biomarker as has evidence of amyloid-positive exosomes in the blood.
Source: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Articles on the same topic
- Antibody reduces harmful brain amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's patientsThu, 1 Sep 2016, 8:43:45 UTC
Other sources
- Drug appears to clear protein plaques in Alzheimer's patients' brainsfrom UPIThu, 1 Sep 2016, 19:01:28 UTC
- Alzheimer's drug study gives 'tantalising' resultsfrom BBC News: Science & NatureThu, 1 Sep 2016, 8:41:21 UTC
- Antibody reduces harmful brain amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's patientsfrom Science DailyWed, 31 Aug 2016, 19:31:29 UTC
- New Drug Clears Abnormal Brain Proteins Tied to Alzheimer'sfrom Live ScienceWed, 31 Aug 2016, 19:11:13 UTC
- Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise in Small Trialfrom Scientific AmericanWed, 31 Aug 2016, 19:01:13 UTC


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Thinking about making the move to Baghdad by the Bay, the greatest city in the world? The first thing you should know: SF is expensive. Second thing you should know: It's small. These two factors will play major roles in your decision and life here, should you choose to accept it.
If you're coming from a small town, San Francisco will feel larger than life, and overwhelming. On the other hand, if you're coming from a large metropolis such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, or even Philadelphia, SF will seem small. With a conservative amount of space—the city measures 46.87 square miles—you might be surprised to find that, for a city considered the capital of technology, it's somewhat provincial.
San Francisco is filled with extremes and contradictions, ranging from the microclimates to the economy. Multimillion dollar homes sit next to tents. Residents want to do everything to solve the city's housing crisis except build more housing. Denizens and politicos recognize the dearth of housing has crippled its population and that something needs to be done, but in the same breath axe affordable-housing plans. It's easy to see why San Francisco is so strange and misunderstood.
The best way to try to get to know San Francisco is to live here. Before making up your mind about whether or not you want to give it a go, below are 21 things to know about living in SF.
1. Picking a neighborhood you like is important. Before signing a lease, try crashing on a friend's couch for a week or two. The city is full of microclimates, which help characterize neighborhoods. For example, it could be foggy and 49 degrees at noon in the Inner Sunset, but 65 degrees and sunny in SoMa. This is not unusual, but can shock those not used to jarring changes in weather within short distances.
Staying in your zone, and being able to walk to grocery stores and cafes, can improve your quality of life. So choose where you live carefully—but also keep in mind that you might be priced out of your dream neighborhood. The further west (Outer Sunset) or south (Visitacion Valley) you go, the more affordable. Keep an open mind about where you will live.
2. Don't get bogged down in the cachet of certain neighborhoods. Find a neighborhood that works for you, even if that means living well outside of the Mission's high priced vintage clothing shops and craft coffee bars.
3. Take the time to learn about the history of your new neighborhood and city. The AIDS epidemic wiped out almost an entire generation in the Castro less than 20 years ago. The Mission is home to the city's Latino population. Redlining redevelopment in the 1950s forced most black families out of the Fillmore.
While it's tempting to look out for your own economic interest once you sign your lease, get to know the background of your neighborhood. San Francisco's history is more than just bridges, apps, and sourdough bread; it's played host to social and racial justice issues that have had an effect the world over.
4. If possible, live in SF without a car. Not everybody can exists without a car. However, if you decide to move here and can get around with relative ease on foot, ditch your automobile. There are a slew of transit options available, both public (Muni, BART, ferry) and private (e-scooters, ride-hailing).
There are also several solid bike-share systems serving many neighborhoods (and dockless bikes), as well as a robust cyclist community. Keep in mind that parking can be a nightmare especially in popular neighborhoods such as Hayes Valley and the Castro. Smash-and-grab crimes are at an all-time high. You've been warned.
Here's a guide detailing how to get around SF without owning a car.
5. Traffic is terrible. Muni and BART are perpetually congested and city streets are saturated with cars. In addition to the influx of residents and workers, ride-hailing apps have turned the pavement into cash opportunities. Be careful while crossing the streets.
6. The weather here is great, if you like it chilly and foggy. While that fiery goblin in the sky seems to appear more and more as global warming takes hold, San Francisco is famous for its fog and overcast sky. The key to conquering the chill and changing weather patterns is layering. Know a) how to layer and b) how to transition sartorially from day to night, or morning to noon, or 1:38 p.m. to 2:16 p.m.
7. And there's no real summer in the traditional sense. If you're coming from a place with four seasons, San Francisco summers will be a shock to your system. The foggiest time of the year is when the rest of the country is at its peak summer weather. The biggest adjustment will be those gloomy days in June, July and August, where you'll need to break out your down jacket to take a walk on Crissy Field or Ocean Beach. As a local, you'll quickly learn to separate yourself from the tourists who didn't get the memo—bring layers. Although San Francisco does get a good dose of warm weather during September and October, when the fog lifts and the entire city seems to bask in the sunshine at any of the city's 220 parks.
8. The median rent for a one-bedroom is around $3,700. The cost of renting in San Francisco is beyond the pale. These stratospheric prices are caused, in part, by a housing shortage that has created competition among renters. The good news is that apartment supply is up. The bad news—so are rent prices.
9. The median asking price of a San Francisco home is $1.38 million. This is more than double what it was less than it was five years ago, and there are no signs of the housing market cooling down. Two reasons prices have been kept so high: Land-use restrictions and NIMBYism. In addition to height restrictions galore, the city's nascent YIMBY set—those who would like to see taller and denser residential growth at all income levels—face off against long-term residents who would prefer a more idyllic, albeit more head-in-fog, kind of San Francisco.
However, this doesn't mean homeownership isn't possible for everyone. Folks who have saved up enough money (nine-plus years worth of salary, to be exact), possess plump trust funds, or are securely rooted in c-level tech jobs have been known to buy. Note: Most houses in San Francisco sell over asking and all cash.
10. There is not a lot of housing stock. Period.
11. SF's economy is strong, but not for everyone. The unemployment rate has fallen below 1.8 percent as of October 2019, personal income is skyrocketing, and the Bay Area's GDP is up there with some of the best in the country. But San Francisco ranks third in income inequality in the United States, with an average $492,000 income gap between the city's rich and middle class. So extreme is San Francisco's income gap that our city's first responders (firefighters, police officers, EMT), teachers, service industry workers, and even doctors are pulling up and moving out to Sacramento, Seattle, Washington, and Texas.
12. Living here is expensive—more expensive than New York City. Unless you're moving from New York City, the sticker shock of San Francisco will take you by surprise. And it's not just the cost of housing. That cup of coffee poured by the tatted-up barista could cost you $16. Restaurants that don't cater to neighborhood residents are common. San Francisco's culinary scene is so diverse and exciting, you'll be tempted to feast everywhere. But with some of the country's highest rent and the increasing costs for restaurateurs to provide a better living wage for their staff, this broccoli velouté or uni toast does not come cheap.
In 2017, a survey of urban living expenses figured out that the income an individual needs to live comfortably in SF is $110,357, with 50 percent going to necessities and 30 percent toward discretionary spending, and 20 percent for savings. What's more, a 2018 report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development says that a San Francisco family of four netting$117,400 a year qualifies as "low income."
13. Not everyone works in/talks about tech. Being in such close proximity to Silicon Valley, one would think that San Francisco is all about the latest startups, but if you look beyond the shiny new tech skyscrapers illuminating the skyline, there's much more than that. For a small city, there's a diverse art scene, including renowned theater companies such as A.C.T; jazz in the Fillmore; drag at Oasis; and a whole spectrum of visual art such as SFMOMA and Minnesota Street Project. If you want to escape the tech world, plenty of cultural and professional opportunities await back in the IRL world.
14. There are homeless people. En route to work or for a night on the town, you'll see homeless encampments along city sidewalks. Human beings live inside those tents. The problem is one of the city's pervasive and most deliberated. Like you, people without permanent shelter are human beings and deserve respect. It bears repeating.
15. Political beliefs are really strong. Be prepared to get vilified for your views. Moderate viewpoints are few and far between.
16. You'll be spoiled with outdoor space. From the wide-open fields of Golden Gate Park to the cliffs of Lands End, the city has plenty of opportunities to get some fresh air. There's no need to get a fancy gym membership, since there are much more scenic places to sweat. Whenever you feel rundown by city life, going outdoors will be the perfect cure for all. Outdoor spaces also means plenty of noteworthy events, from Outside Lands to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, where you can mingle with your fellow San Franciscans, and forget about how you're spending more than half your paycheck on rent.
17. You'll get in shape walking up the city's many hills/stairs. If you have been meaning to hit the StairMaster, you're in luck—San Francisco was built on hills, and you'll feel it when you are walking around town. The upside is that the best views are at places such as the Lyon Street Steps, 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, and Twin Peaks. In this city, the stronger the burn, the better the view. (After all, we have the coolest staircases in the country.) And forget high heels or fancy dress shoes, sneakers will be your best friends on these city streets. The longer you live here, the better you'll know which major inclines to avoid.
18. It's not an easy place to raise children. San Francisco may be a fine place to live as an adult, but it's not always an ideal city to have children. San Francisco Unified School District's complicated lottery system often sends students to schools that are not even in their neighborhood. Private schools are pricey and competitive. Understandably, there is a mass migration to the suburbs of Marin or the East Bay for better public schools and more family-friendly environments in which to raise children. If you're thinking of having children, but cannot afford to move to the stroller mecca known as Noe Valley and put your child through private school, there are always options just a bridge away—rumor has it there's better parking too.
19. You'll experience exhilarating highs and defeating lows. You'll ride the F-Market down to the Ferry Building. You'll get your car broken into in Hayes Valley. You'll hike the Filbert Street Steps. You'll eat Top Ramen because you spent your entire paycheck on rent. You'll tear through the Wiggle on your fixie. You'll cringe at the economic disparity on display at Civic Center. You will fall in and out of love with SF on the same day. It's an easy city to loathe, but an even easier place to love.
20. Not all of San Francisco looks like opening scene from Full House. The picturesque view of Alamo Park and the Painted Ladies may have secured a dreamy picture of San Francisco in the '90s, but this is hardly the reality for locals that live in the city. From the grit and economic disparity of the Tenderloin to the fog-shrouded homes of the Sunset and Richmond, the city does not always exude picture-perfect charm.
21. It takes about two or three years to really find your niche. If you can make it through the rough first couple of years, buy a Giants cap and switch your Clipper Card to monthly autopay—you're a lifer now.


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Fiona Hawley
With over 16 years experience in the local real estate industry, Fiona is born and bred locally and is extremely passionate about real estate in the Swan Hill district. As the first female agency Principal in Swan Hill, she continually sets the bar high and prides herself on excellent service standards to vendors and purchasers. Opening Ray White Swan Hill with business partner Cameron Smits in October 2016, together they have changed the face of real estate in Swan Hill setting a new standard of excellence with the use of advanced technology and communication, plus superior marketing strategies. Fiona is continually advancing and refining her skills with training and mentoring from the best in the industry and as Sales Manager is now taking on her own mentoring role with the addition of a junior member to their growing sales team.
Community engagement and participation is also important to Fiona as she supports and is a member of many local non-profit organisations. "it's important to give back to the community that supports us". With almost two decades in the industry, Fiona enjoys many ongoing relationships with repeat customers and is now seeing the "next generation" of first home buyers come into the market, which is very exciting.
Swan Hill is a fantastic place to live and I'm very proud to live, work and have raised a family here.


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Thoroughbred breeder Ernie Paragallo gets up to 2 years in jail on 33 animal cruelty chargesBy AP
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
NY thoroughbred breeder gets jail time for cruelty
CATSKILL, N.Y. — Thoroughbred breeder and former Wall Street executive Ernie Paragallo, who has earned more than $20 million in purses in 20 years of racing, was led away in handcuffs Tuesday after being sentenced to up to 2 years in jail and a $33,000 fine for mistreating dozens of horses on his Hudson Valley farm.
The 52-year-old Long Island resident was charged after state police and animal welfare investigators raided his farm in Coxsackie in April 2009 and seized 177 starving, parasite-infested horses. Paragallo was convicted in March of 33 misdemeanor animal cruelty counts.
Greene County Court Judge George Pulver Jr. said he was imposing the maximum sentence because Paragallo had insisted the horses received proper care, because he had shown no remorse, and as a deterrent to future mistreatment by other horse owners.
Defense attorney Michael Howard said he planned to ask the judge to release Paragallo on bail pending the outcome of an appeal of the conviction. Before sentencing, Howard asked the judge for leniency, considering Paragallo's lack of a criminal record and his history of donations to thoroughbred charities.
Paragallo, wearing a black jacket, red golf shirt and sneakers, spoke briefly in court. "For the last 20 years, horses have been my life," he said. "I've taken care of all my horses."
Paragallo said when the farm manager at Center Brook, 20 miles south of Albany, told him the horses were in poor shape, he thought he took sufficient action to correct the problems.
"I take responsibility, I'm sorry for everything that happened," Paragallo said.
Pulver was unmoved.
"Your sense of integrity, your code of conduct, your perception of right and wrong, was perhaps formed by your days on either mean streets or Wall Street," Pulver said of Paragallo, a former Goldman Sachs Group and Deutsche Bank AG executive. "Money, the bottom line, and opulence in your mind trumps morality, honesty and civility."
Paragallo, former owner of 1996 Kentucky Derby favorite and fifth-place finisher Unbridled's Song, has had horses run in more than 4,500 races.
"I'm elated," said Colleen Segarra of Equine Rescue Resource, who drove two emaciated horses from Paragallo's Center Brook Farm to a state police barracks in April 2009, leading to the raid. "This is the first sentence for actual jail time directly connected to an equine cruelty case in New York."
District Attorney Terry Wilhelm asked the judge to order Paragallo to pay $35,985 in restitution to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society for caring for the thoroughbreds from the time they were seized until they were adopted by other farms. He also asked for $10,802 for hospitalization of one of the thoroughbreds Segarra brought to police.
Pulver said the precise amount of restitution will be set in August.
The state Racing and Wagering Board has suspended Paragallo from racing at New York tracks.
The racing board has initiated administrative action that would prevent Paragallo from returning to racing and potentially impose civil fines related to the 33 counts of animal cruelty, said John Sabini, the board's chairman.
The board also has directed Paragallo to show cause why he should not be fined for knowingly racing horses whose owners weren't properly licensed and for concealing his own role as an owner of numerous horses that raced in New York, Sabini said.
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There was consternation in the media due to the coldness demonstrated by Francis when he received the Argentine president, Mauricio Macri, on Saturday, February 27. Normally, cordiality is the norm for a diplomatic encounter, although there may be differences between the parties involved; this is basic protocol…
However, the truth is that in his peculiar manner, Francis allowed the encounter to wrap up without proffering a single smile to the president, in sharp contrast with the amiability, affability and overflowing kindness with which he had received Cristina Kirchner — a declared Peronist, and therefore an accomplice of the Bergoglian social ideology — when she held the position of President, without mentioning other chiefs of State such as Evo Morales, José Mujica or Raúl Castro.
Some have affirmed that the reason behind this attitude would be to demonstrate rejection for the attitudes shown by Macri in relation to the abortion issue in previous epochs. But has Francis by chance converted into a pro-life paladin? Not likely. Recently, when eulogizing the Italian abortionist Emma Bonino, Francis affirmed that, "we have to look at people, at what they do", qualifying her "among the greatest names of Italy today" (Interview with Corriere della Sera) [1]
Meanwhile, a recent news item from Argentina affirms that Francis sent a rosary to an indigenous syndical leader Milagro Sala, detained "on charges of fraud, extortion and illicit association" (The Guardian, February 10, 2016). With this gesture, Francis apparently wishes to join forces with the diverse movements who see her detention as "the criminalization of social protest", such as the Argentinian abortionist group "Católicas por el derecho a decidir [Catholic women for the right to decide]", who took up the defense of the corrupt Milagro Sala (Message, January 26, 2016).
Sala does not declare herself to be Catholic as Christ taught, but rather "in my own way", she wrote on Facebook, from prison. She added that she "believes in the traditions of our grandparents. We always performed ceremonies…we invite the chamanes [witch doctors] …in the Temple of Kasasaya, in Tiwanaku, which we constructed in the neighborhood." Sala doesn't stop there: "When visiting Pope Francis for the first time, I told him that I was sick of the Church…for all the evil that the Church has done…ever since the conquest…constructing temples over our sacred temples, as in Cuzco" (Facebook – Reflections from prison, February 14, 2016).
Could Francis possibly have forgotten that this woman is not a Catholic, but rather a defender of human sacrifices performed in the "sacred temples", which were subsequently overtaken by the Catholic churches? Why did he send her a rosary as a gift? By any chance does he wish to relive the Inca and Aztec carnages, in honor of Viracocha, Pacha Mama, Huitzilopochtli or Quetzalcoatl?
The organization founded by Sala, called "Tupac Amaru", organizes, among other activities, the "Woman's van". Besides offering reproductive "counseling", it also installs abortive devices free of charge among the underprivileged population. (see: tupacamaru.org.ar).
There is more: Sala's organization defends "Sexual diversity". Consequently, it organized a "National Encounter of Lesbian, Gay, Transvestites, Transsexual, Transgender, Bisexual, Intersex and Queer" in the neighborhood, promoting parades, simply impossible for a Catholic priest to describe. Along with this show of impudence, Sala declared: "we are very happy", with the 20 vehicles carrying people demonstrating their immorality, adding that "there is nothing and no one that can make us bow our heads" (note by tupacamaru.org.ar).
Francis sent a rosary to this woman…how moving! Yet he despised Macri…a rejection that has nothing to do with the abortionist position of this politician. We do not wish to defend the many aspects worthy of rejection that this president has, but why such double standards on Francis' part?
When Francis received the aforementioned president of Uruguay, Mujica, who had legalized abortion, Lombardi affirmed that after an audience of 45 minutes, Francis was "very happy to have met a wise man" (Fondazione Mediterraneo, June 1, 2013).
So according to Francis, a "wise man" is one who legalizes abortion, approves homosexual unions and opens the path for the legalization of drugs? And a "wise woman" is one who freely offers abortive devices to poor woman, as well as promoting all kinds of behavior contrary to Catholic morality? How different is this "wise woman" from the one praised by the Holy Spirit in Sacred Scripture: "her value is far beyond pearls" because she "brings…good, and not evil, all the days of her life… She is clothed with strength and dignity." She is a woman who "fears the Lord" (Prov 31). On the contrary, Sala does not fear the Lord, but rather the chamanes; she does not produce good, but rather promotes "gender diversity" and abortive practices.
Is this woman, along with the Italian abortionist Bonino, the "strong women" who Francis so admires? And the abortionist president Mujica is considered "a wise man", while Macri is despised because his political and economic positions are contrary to socialism…Argentinian commentators say that it is due to the Francis' Peronist sympathies; populist Peronism combated by the current leader.
A naive observer might affirm: "It's because Macri wasn't accompanied by his legitimate spouse…but rather with the third…like the Samaritan…" This is ridiculous, for it has been commented that contrary to Vatican protocol — which until last week demanded that concubines not be received publicly — Francis had no difficulty in receiving the Argentinian First Lady as though she was the true wife of the president…and she, curiously, was not ashamed to offer him some smiles. Moreover, let us not forget that recently in Mexico, Francis greeted four family representatives during the so-called "Meeting with Families": two 'real' families, one of which had demonstrated 50 years of marital fidelity, and subsequently a single mother who voluntarily declared to "fornicate during adolescence, ending up pregnant on various occasions during my life" (Catholic World Report, February 16, 2016). Could we call this a 'Christian family'? Not even a natural "family"! We have no idea how many men she "fornicated" with, without attempting to establish a marriage in order to found a true family with any one of them. After this, Francis embraced a concubine couple who had persevered in sin for the past 16 years, without any preoccupation for the situation of the three children born of the first legitimate marriage of the woman; this "couple" unabashedly declared that "It's marvelous to have a marriage and family in which God is in the center" (Catholic News Service, February 15, 2016)
But Francis is not preoccupied about any of this; neither the cynicism of the concubines who claim that "God is in the center", nor the fact that Sala prefers the chamanes to the Virgin Mary.
Francis was not preoccupied by the approval of the law in Italy permitting homosexual unions, affirming on his flight back from Mexico: "I don't remember very well the 2003 document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But a Catholic in Parliament must vote according to his or her well-formed conscience' (In-flight press conference, February 17, 2016). In reality, this document — which he claims to not remember very well — signed by the former Prefect of the Congregation, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, affirms that it is worrying to observe "those countries that have granted or intend to grant – legal recognition to homosexual unions, which may include the possibility of adopting children" (July 31, 2003).
Ratzinger further declared:
"When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic law-maker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral" (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons, Joseph Card. Ratzinger, Prefect, June 31, 2003).
But Francis was so unpreoccupied with this topic, that he did not even remember the document. (see note 2)[2]
What is the Bergoglian morality? "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are", goes the well known saying (see note 3 ).[3]
And it isn't the case to state that Jesus himself associated with tax collectors and prostitutes, for he did so with the intention of helping them to change their lives: "Do not sin any more" (Jn 8:11); "your sins are forgiven." (Lk 7:48) because "she has not ceased kissing my feet (Lk 7:45); and to the tax collector He said, "Follow me. And he got up and followed him" completely abandoning his past life (Mt 9:9). When Jesus Christ criticized the Pharisees for their incredulity affirming that "the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you", it wasn't because they were tax collectors and sinners, but rather because they had repented of their sins with the preaching of John the Baptist. Thus, Jesus alerted the Pharisees: "Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him" (Mt 21:32). Until this point we have not heard of any such conversion from Bergoglian preaching…and he opened wide the doors of mercy!
Everything indicates that the main problem is that President Macri, according to Francis' concept, is a "great sinner" because his economic politics are not regulated by the socio-communist dictates that are in vogue in certain countries of South America to Bergoglio's evident delight, but what is worse — and this for Bergoglio is "the abomination of desolation" — he is nothing more or less that a neo-liberal! And that is a sin that cannot be forgiven. And that is why Francis publically despises him …while at the same time he unites together with abortionists and the like without demanding that they repent.
From Rome for The Denzinger-Bergoglio
[1]: For Francis, the Church runs the risk of "losing the freshness and the perfume of the Gospel" if we continue to insist about subjects like abortion and homosexuality (see here).
[2] The conclusion of this document is very clear:
- The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behavior, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself.
The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience of March 28, 2003, approved the present Considerations, adopted in the Ordinary Session of this Congregation, and ordered their publication.
Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, June 3, 2003, Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyrs.
Joseph Card. Ratzinger
Angelo Amato, S.D.B.
Titular Archbishop of Sila
[3] With this in mind we cite two important studies of The Denzinger-Bergoglio: