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Study explains the connection between Hawaii's dueling volcanoesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Outreach Coordinator, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
James Foster
Assistant Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
A new study, which appears in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, finds that a deep connection about 50 miles below Earth's surface can explain the enigmatic behavior of two of the world's most notable volcanoes, Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea. The research conducted by scientists at UH Manoa, Rice University, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Carnegie Institution of Washington offers the first plausible model that can explain both the opposing long-term eruptive patterns at Mauna Loa and Kilauea -- when one is active, the other is quiet, and vice versa -- as well as the episode in 2003-2007 when Global Positioning System (GPS) records showed that both inflated concurrently.
"We know both volcanoes are fed by the same hot spot, and over the past decade we've observed simultaneous inflation, which we interpret to be the consequence of increased pressure of the magma source that feeds them," said lead author Helge Gonnermann, Assistant Professor of Earth Science at Rice University. "We also know there are subtle chemical differences in the lava that each erupts, which means each has its own plumbing that draws magma from different locations of this deep source."
Added James Foster, co-author and Assistant Researcher at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), "When we fitted the deformation, which tells us how much a volcano inflates and deflates, and the lava eruption rate at Kilauea, we found that our model could simultaneously match the deformation signal recorded over on Mauna Loa. The model also required an increase in the magma supply rate to the deep system that matched very nicely with our interpretations and the increased magma supply suggested by the jump in CO2 emissions that occurred in late 2003."
The researchers constructed a simple computer model for the magma storage and transport systems for Kilauea and Mauna Loa that connected them via a deep partially molten layer that can be thought of as a deep magma reservoir. The transmission of pressure through the permeable rock in the asthenosphere is akin to the processes that cause water and oil to flow through permeable layers of rock in shallower regions of Earth's crust.
"In the GPS records, we first see inflation at Kilauea and then about a half a year later at Mauna Loa," Gonnermann said. "Our hypothesis is that the pressure is transmitted slowly through a partially molten and thereby porous region of the asthenosphere, which would account for the simultaneous inflation and the lag time in inflation. Because changes in pore pressure are transmitted between both volcanoes at a faster rate than the rate of magma flow within the porous region, this can also explain how both volcanoes are dynamically coupled, while being supplied by different parts the same source region."
Kilauea and Mauna Loa are among the planet's most studied and best-instrumented volcanoes and have been actively monitored by scientists at USGS's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) since 1912. Kilauea has erupted 48 times on HVO's watch, with a nearly continuous flank eruption since 1983. Mauna Loa has erupted 12 times in the same period, most recently in 1984.
"To continue this research, we submitted a proposal the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this summer to extend our study back in time to cover the last 50 years," Foster said. "We plan to refine the model to include further details of the magma transport within each volcano and also explore how some known pre-historic events and some hypothetical events at one volcano might impact the other. This work should help improve our understanding of volcanic activity of each volcano."
There has been disagreement among Earth scientists in the past about the potential links between adjacent volcanoes, and Gonnermann is hopeful the new model could be useful in studying other volcanoes like those in Iceland or the Galapagos Islands.
"At this point it is unclear whether Hawaii is unique or whether similar volcano coupling may exist at other locations," Gonnermann said. "Given time and ongoing advances in volcano monitoring, we can test if similar coupling between adjacent volcanoes exists elsewhere."
Study co-authors include Michael Poland of USGS HVO, Cecily Wolfe of UH Manoa and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Benjamin Brooks of UH Manoa, and Asta Miklius of USGS HVO.
This research was supported by the USGS and the NSF. The Kilauea and Mauna Loa GPS networks are supported by grants from the USGS, NSF and NASA, and operated in collaboration by the USGS, Stanford University and the Pacific GPS Facility at UH.
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Gonnermann, Foster, Poland, Wolfe, Brooks and Miklius (2012), Coupling at Mauna Loa and Kilauea by stress transfer in an asthenospheric melt layer, Nature Geoscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1612

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Did Microsoft Just Launch Skybox?
According to the site, My Phone syncs "contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information" from a Windows Mobile 6 phone to a Microsoft-hosted storage site. You can "view and manage phone information by using a web browser" and "save photos to your computer." The service is free, for now, and offers 200 MB of storage.
The service apparently installs a separate Microsoft My Phone application on your Windows Mobile phone, which syncs your data once per day, in the middle of the night. You can also sync manually.
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Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah (Ammemarie McEvoy), help their friend, Joseph (Jonas Marlowe), try to escape through the cornfields of Gatlin. Meanwhile, Burt Stanton (Peter Horton), a commitment-phobic young doctor, and Vicky Baxter (Linda Hamilton), his frustrated girlfriend, travel through the cornfield-lined roads of Nebraska on their way to Burt's new internship in Omaha. Their car hits Joseph, who appears out of nowhere, but upon examining him, Burt realizes the child's throat was slit before he ever wandered out from the corn. Attempting to locate help, Burt and Vicky turn to gas-station owner Diehl (R.G. Armstrong), who urges the couple to go anywhere but nearby Gatlin to report the murder. Several contradictory street signs later, they arrive in Gatlin anyway, and, befriending Sarah and Joseph, attempt to uncover the mystery behind Isaac's cult and its mysterious deity, known only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows. Stephen King cash-ins flooded the market between the successes of Brian DePalma's Carrie (1976) and Rob Reiner's Misery (1990), many of them, like Children of the Corn, based only loosely on the author's fiction. The original short story appeared in the collection Night Shift.


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Jeff Rush stepped through the slides of a David Beazley PyCon UK 2008 presentation titled "Generator Tricks for System Programmers".
It was fantastic; we went though the whole presentation and had a lively discussion to make sure everyone understood each slide. Personally, I gained a whole new perspective on the usefulness of generator functions and coroutines. It gave me a lot of ideas for the ETL stuff I sometimes work on.
Ralph Green also gave a walkthrough of the code he has written to produce secure barcoded raffle tickets for PyTexas prizes. He has put together a program which will allow us to use a barcode reader to quickly look up the name of each person associated with the unique ticket id, and display that on the screen for all to see.
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Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons today and said emphatically that the Conservative Party was not behind the Robocalls. Well, if not them, then who did?
If the Conservatives are so adamant that they have done nothing wrong, Harper should be the first on his feet to call a full judicial inquiry into allegations of electoral fraud. The Sergeant Schultz -- "I know nothing" -- routine just isn't good enough.
There are deeply troubling questions that require answers. For example, who owns these firms? What are their ties to the Conservative Party? Do any senior members of the Conservative Party or their fundraising arms have any financial interests in these firms? What specific instructions were the firms given and who gave them? If they were freelancing on these calls and other dirty tricks, how will they be held accountable? Did these firms sub-contract to call centers in the United States, Singapore, India, and elsewhere? What role did third party actors play? Where did they get their financing? Who ultimately wrote the cheques, and what ties, if any, do they have with the Conservative Party?
If there's nothing to hide, let's open this up to public scrutiny so that we can restore confidence in our electoral system.
Robocalls scratch the surface of the ugly underbelly of dirty tricks. "Push-pull" polling -- a commonly used technique by Conservatives -- by telemarketing firms are just another example, as are the use of cellular phone scrambling technologies to disrupt the campaign organizations of political opponents.
There's also a structural problem that can use thoughtful investigation. Last May, my counsel and I filed two complaints with Elections Canada on serious matters pertaining to Conservative dirty tricks in my riding. We have yet to receive even a formal acknowledgement of the complaints and we have heard nothing from them in almost a year.
I am not alone. Many of my colleagues in the Liberal Party and NDP have filed complaints have yet to hear back from Elections Canada. That is because they are incredibly understaffed and under-resourced to do much more than supervise the mechanics of holding elections. This is not a criticism of the people of Elections Canada. They are outstanding public servants who are doing a good job with the limited tools and resources available to them. Fixing this should be on the top of parliament's agenda.
It is a testament to the sorry state of our politics that we even have to even discuss beefing up the enforcement capacity of Elections Canada. But we do.
Our political system is now populated by legions of people who make their living from it. It is an industry. There is a professional class of political operators that consider this a game, and nothing more. You canfind them working in staff jobs with the prime minister, ministers, MP's, and political parties. They are consultants in government relations, public relations, advertising, marketing, law, polling, market research, telemarketing, and accounting firms. Some of them hang their hats in industry associations.
These people form a gladiator class who have done nothing in their lives except be in the world of politics, campaigning, and political organization. And it truly is a world apart. Stephen Harper himself was born and raised in that world. Before he became an MP himself, Mr. Harper was a staffer for an MP, was a paid employee of the Reform Party, and was President of a three-person office at the tax-payer subsidized National Citizens Coalition. Not unlike the current generation of gladiators, this is the only world he has ever really known.
There is a certain indefinable insidiousness to that culture. The concept of right and wrong are blurred because these political professionals consider it a "game." The basic notions of morality and the national interest do not enter into the equation. The stock and trade is simply to kill the enemy. It is all about getting the other guy. And doing that is just fine so long as you don't get caught. Partisans salivate. The game is advancing their party's interest, not substantive issues, or even predicated on a well-considered guiding philosophy. The guiding mantra is "my party, right or wrong." What's right for the country takes a back seat.
Liberals and New Democrats are responsible for more than their fair share of questionable tactics over the years. To suggest otherwise is itself a lie. Canadians aren't stupid and this whole matter should not be about partisan posturing and gamesmanship. The system is sick and the people in it work with a far different moral and ethical compass than the rest of us. Take them out of that poisonous culture and they are the nicest people you'll ever want to meet. Put normal people in it and they magically are sucked into a vortex where subterfuge and character assassination is just another day at the office.
I'm a Liberal, and one does not have to look too far back in Canadian history to know that we are far from pure as the driven snow. Neither are New Democrats. But this is a critical inflection point in the life of our democracy.
For its part, I want my party and its leaders to set a different, higher standard. That's why I want Liberals to acknowledge openly that we are part of the problem, and we must be part of the solution. Unless we do, what credibility can we possibly have with Canadians? This isn't a game. This is our country and the health of our democracy. Citizens must have confidence in it, and at the moment, we sure don't.
Our political culture cannot and will not be changed overnight. It shall take time. In the meantime, there must be measures to safeguard what is most fundamental in any democracy -- the sanctity of our votes.
Theoretically, at least, Elections Canada is supposed to referee the electoral process to ensure its fairness. While the good people of that agency try their best, they are hopelessly under-resourced to do that job. The Elections Canada Act was designed for another time. Parliamentarians should agree to reform the legislation to give it some real teeth and the resources and capacity to protect the integrity of the electoral system for the future.
The use oftechnology that didn't even exist a few years ago has created whole new avenues for political professionals to circumvent well-established norms of fairness and decency. For those predisposed to cheat -- and there are plenty out there -- room to undermine the integrity of the electoral system is never been broader.
Separate from a judicial inquiry, the Canada Elections Act must be modernized to protect us from fraudsters and those that play fast and loose with the spirit and intent of election laws and procedures. As pathetic as this might be, it has become painfully clear that we need to strengthen legislation to protect Canadians and our rights and freedoms from this "law and order" government.
We need a truly independent electoral authority that is provided with a substantially increased and multiyear appropriation from parliament. Perhaps the highly respected Jean-Pierre Kingsley could chair ablue ribbon task force tasked with providing the House of Commons recommendations on what a modernized Act could look like and what kind of budget Elections Canada would require. This should be at the top of the legislative agenda and a report should be tabled within a reasonable period of time.
The Commissioner of Elections should have strengthened statutory authority and powers of investigation and enforcement. A beefed-up Act would provide the Commissioner with forensic accountants and search warrant powers. Those powers are needed to get at the huge volume of "off balance sheet" activity that takes place in the shadows of all political parties.
And what if the Commissioner is not satisfied that the election has been conducted fairly? Or if evidence is found that systematic electoral fraud has been committed as to call the legitimacy of the government of the day into question? In such a case, our Head of State, the Governor General in his constitutional role, should have the authority to dissolve parliament and order new elections.
Having confidence in the sanctity of free and fair elections is fundamental to our democracy and a sacred trust that must not be tampered with.


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European Commission
Press release
Brussels, 13 July 2012
Road safety: Tougher vehicle testing rules to save lives
Vehicle checks are fundamental to road safety. More than 5 people die on Europe's roads every day in accidents linked to technical failure. So today the European Commission has adopted new rules to toughen up the testing regime and widen its scope.
Technical defects contribute heavily to accidents. They are responsible for 6% of all car accidents, translating into 2,000 fatalities and many more injuries yearly. 8 % of all motorcycle accidents are linked to technical defects.
The main problem is that there are simply too many vehicles with technical defects on the road. Recent studies from the UK and Germany indicate that up to 10% of cars at any point in time have a defect that would cause them to fail the tests. Moreover, many technical defects with serious implications for safety (such as ABS and Electronic Stability Control) are not even checked under current rules.
Existing EU rules setting minimum standards for vehicle checks date back to 1977, with only minor updates. Cars, driver behaviour and technology have developed a lot since then.
The new proposals
The new proposals aim to save more than 1,200 lives a year and to avoid more than 36,000 accidents linked to technical failure.
Vice President Siim Kallas responsible for Transport said, "If you're driving a car which is not fit to be on the road, you're a danger to yourself and to everyone else in your car – your family, your friends, your business colleagues. What's more, you're a danger to all the other road users around you. It's not complicated; we don't want these potentially lethal cars on our roads."
Key elements of the new proposals include
In all cases, the proposals set common EU wide minimum standards for vehicle checks, with Member States free to go further if appropriate.
Existing EU rules on vehicle checks date from 1977, they set minimum standards for vehicle checks and have only been marginally updated since. There are three main pieces of legislation:
For more info
For the most recent data on road fatalities (2011) by Member States see IP/12/326.
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NO ONE can really argue with the Fiat 500. It's a fabulous-looking little car; arguably the cheekiest little ankle-biter out there and people love it for that.
I'm absolutely sure that anyone who says they hate the Fiat 500 is in denial and wakes up every night in cold sweats thinking about driving one around all the most fashionable shopping districts in Italy.
In short, everyone can find a Fiat 500 to love. This one is the relative new kid on the block, called the Street. It's based on the basic Pop spec 500, but with a nicely-chosen set of extras that give it a much funkier look. Check out the alloy wheels and the seats for starters.
Of course you get the daily essentials like an MP3 player input socket, Bluetooth and air conditioning as well as the hopefully not daily but equally essential array of seven airbags. You get a sports styling kit, which includes black 16-inch wheels with red detailing, dark-tinted glass around the rear end and a few tasty little touches on the inside too.
You can specify a great stereo complete with a subwoofer for extra bass, bi-xenon headlights and even satin-finish door mirrors. They're switched to a satin silver finish if you go for the TwinAir engine but either way they look superb. The bottom line is that with a few semi-carefully-chosen options this 500 looks as fine as a fine Italian dress dipped in the finest molten gold and then draped over Pippa Middleton's backside.
There are three worthy engine choices under the perky little bonnet. The 1.2 petrol is cheapest, but if budgets will stretch to it the star performer is the 875cc TwinAir Turbo, which has buckets of charm and more zip than a Malaysian clothes factory. It's also capable of astonishing fuel economy using its selectable 'Eco' mode – but only if you've got an iron will and can stay away from the accelerator pedal. The fun-loving 500 is the TwinAir's natural home.
Then there's the 1.3-litre MultiJet diesel, which although a really good engine doesn't suit the car so well and costs £1,000 more than the TwinAir; £2,400 more than the simple 1.2. It's just unlikely that Fiat 500 owners will do enough mileage to make the diesel worth a punt.
The Street is less customisable than your average 500, distilled as it is out of a more-or-less pre-set alchemy. The good news is that it's almost impossible to ruin it by adding anything daft, which is good for residual values – and self-respect. It's not one to add sets of 'eyelashes' to, in case you were thinking it.
Plump for the TwinAir engine and you'll reap the benefits of a very light front end which means it turns quickly and keenly, chomping away at the road like the Cookie Monster at a pile of Maryland's best. Or, if you never watched Sesame Street, you can just drive it around town really easily thanks to its short wheelbase and steering that can be made super-light with the 'City' button Fiat installs on almost all of its small cars.
Parking is a doddle but those prone to, ahem, mishaps, can specify rear parking sensors for a very reasonable fee. One of the joys of 500 ownership is just how easily it slots into spaces once you get where you're going. The turning circle could be a little better for such a small car, but you can easily forgive it for that once you hop out and look back at it.
One of the things you don't get a lot of in the 500 is boot space, but then you probably worked that out for yourself. In fairness a determined owner can squeeze far more in than you'd believe possible, but it takes smallish, soft bags and the sort of can-do attitude that got Britain through two World Wars. Pip-pip!
The 500 is one of those cars we journalists hate giving back, because they're just really cool. As I hinted earlier, there's a 500 for everyone because they come in so many flavours, but despite the Street being on the expensive side for a city car it's got to be one of the best, if only for the way it makes you feel. There are better value, more practical rivals out there, but if you marry a potato you'll always covet the strawberries and cream.
Model: Fiat 500 0.9 TwinAir Street, £12,760 on the road.
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He's at again – and we're glad. A lot of smart people are dedicating their lives to fighting the corrosive effect of Wall Street on our economy and our democracy, but the best spokesman for that cause comes from Wall Street itself.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is still the poster child for today's morally degraded, self-entitled banker mentality. I don't know why he keeps talking, but he's the gift that keeps on giving.
At every major junction in the post-crisis debate about banking, Dimon has stepped in with a perfectly tactless remark that illustrates both the vacuity and the moral corruption of his industry. This week was no exception.
Dimon's own bank is the perfect case study in the lamentable state of Wall Street's ethics nowadays. Bankers have been able to break the law and walk away by agreeing to settlements in which their shareholders, not they, pay the penalty for their misdeeds.
A Google search of the words "JPMorgan Chase settles" yields nearly two million hits. Narrow it down to recent events and you get items like these:
"JPMorgan a party to mortgage servicing settlement …" (that's the deal to settle massive mortgage fraud; by the way, where are the prosecutions?);
"JPMorgan settles AFTRA pension suit for $150 million" (which appears to involve more incompetence than fraud);
"JPMorgan Chase< /a>has agreed to pay $153.6 million to settle federal civil accusations that it misled investors in a complex mortgage securities transaction in 2007″;
JPMorgan to pay $20m to settle case on Lehman funds handling" (for misappropriating funds); and
"JPMorgan Chase Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleging Fraud in Veteran Loans for $45 Million."
That last one is a particularly odious lawsuit "alleging that it cheated military veterans and taxpayers out of millions of dollars by hiding illegal fees in veterans' home mortgage refinancing transactions and then seeking to collect on void government loan guarantees."
Running JPM's Priors
That's a lot of activity since we last reviewed JPMorgan's criminal record at the end of 2010. JPM's history back then included a settlement in which it had to forego three quarters of a billion dollars in fines and anticipated fees after the bribery of public officials in (now bankrupt) Jefferson County, Alabama. It also included a $25 million fine for selling unregistered securities in Florida, multiple whistleblower complaints, and allegations of currency manipulation.
As for the mortgage fraud charges that Dimon's bank just bought its way out from, accounts at the time told of a sleazy operation where untrained and inexperienced youngsters were hired to mass-produce paperwork that evicted people fraudulently from their homes:
"At JPMorgan Chase & Company, they were derided as 'Burger King kids' — walk-in hires who were so inexperienced they barely knew what a mortgage was … revelations that mortgage servicers failed to accurately document the seizure and sale of tens of thousands of homes have caused a public uproar …"
JPMorgan's rap sheet is long and ugly, which leaves observers with a judgement they'll have to make for themselves about Dimon: Is he ethically challenged, or is he just an incompetent executive who can't get his own house in order?
Nice Little Office You Got Here, Representative. Hate to See Somethin' Happen To It
Dimon's latest foot-stamping tirade comes at the perfect time, as usual. American Banker reports that bankers have formed a SuperPAC which one lobbyist describes as a "big stick" in order to bully politicians into serving them more effectively.
"Congress isn't afraid of bankers," said another. "They don't think we'll do anything to kick them out of office." In case somebody missed the point, the lobbyist then added: "We want to change that perception."
Actually, progressive members of Congress are very aware of the bank lobby's power. Progressive Representatives have told me privately that they're very aware of the cautionary tale of Rep. Peter DeFazio, a courageous reformer in a "safe" district who suddenly found himself in a bitter election struggle in 2010 against an unknown an inexperienced opponent – one with a huge campaign war chest funded by anonymous "Eastern" donors.
DeFazio survived – barely – after being forced to divert attention and resources to his bank-funded opponent. Many other progressives in Congress lack the voter familiarity and demographics that allowed DeFazio to hang on against such a well-funded onslaught, and they know it.
That's one reason why so many Democrats don't take more forceful stands against Wall Street – that, and the chance to get some banker contributions, has helped bank executives rewrite laws, write loopholes – and stay out of jail despite over whelming evidence of lawbreaking. But it's not enough. The new SuperPAC is meant to consolidate the bankers' stranglehold over our politics and our lives.
While My Banker Gently Weeps
Enter Jamie Dimon, right on cue. Dimon just complained that regulators "made the recovery worse than it otherwise would have been" – which is not only wrong, but avoids addressing the issue of the recovery's cause, which was banks like Dimon's. Dimon added that the government forced banks to de-leverage ""at precisely the wrong time" – which is precisely wrong. The government's real error was in not breaking up too-big-to-fail banks like Dimon's.
"Complexity and confusion should have been alleviated, not compounded," complains Dimon. I have a friend who works for JPM – name withheld for his own protection – who complained about the "mountains of paperwork" they've been forced to fill out. "I have a better solution," I told him. "We can just break you guys up. You wouldn't need to fill out the papers if your bank's failure didn't pose a threat to the entire financial system." He thought for a second and then said, "You're right."
On a parenthetical note: I just helped my mother take some money out of her modest Chase long-term savings account. If you want to talk about "complexity and confusion," Chase's own internal procedures are a good place to start.
Where are those "economies of scale" Mr. Dimon keeps promising we'll get from allowing banks like his to become so enormous?
Hit Me With Your Banking Stick … Hit Me, Hit Me …
Meanwhile, the new SuperPAC is filled with the language of bullies: "Big stick." "Make them afraid." "Surgical." ""Defeat our enemies." "Hammer these guys." Bullying has always gone hand in hand with a sense of victimhood, and today's bankers are no exception.
Their new PAC is called, without any apparent sense of irony, "Friends of Traditional Banking."
But what they represent isn't traditional banking at all. It's the new breed of Superpredator Bank created by deregulation, and it's exactly what must be stopped.
With Friends Like This
The ABA article says "SuperPACs are considered pretty cutting-edge, which is not a place a lot of bankers feel comfortable."
But we know that's not true. Bankers, and their compliant political friends in both parties, felt comfortable deregulating in the nineties in order to promote what was then called "financial innovation" – credit-default swaps, mortgage-backed securities, and the like. They still complain that regulation will stifle "innovation."
And all the major banks were happy to collaborate in MERS, the electronic mortgage casino that circumvented local laws and taxes while enabling the housing bubble and the explosion of banker mortgage fraud.
No, banks like the "cutting edge" just fine – as long as someone else does the bleeding. That's why bankers like Jamie Dimon and SuperPACs like "Friends of Traditional Banking" must be stopped – by friends of traditional democracy.


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Horwath shot back at Premier Kathleen Wynne while standing in front of a memorial statue of Layton, who led the federal party to a massive surge in support and official Opposition status in the last national election.
Wynne used Layton's name over the weekend to slam Horwath for refusing to rule out propping up a Tory-led minority government. Horwath, whose party has been a consistent third in the polls during this provincial campaign, said the Liberals want voters to forget that Layton would have stood against their scandal-ridden government.
"Ms. Wynne likes to talk a lot about great NDP leaders, but I can tell you the same people like Jack Layton that she talks about fought Liberal corruption all his life," Horwath said Monday.
"Jack fought the same battle that I'm fighting today and that's why I'm standing in front of this memorial to remember, to remind people exactly what Liberals are like."
Wynne launched a direct appeal on Sunday to New Democrat voters, telling them that a vote for Horwath is a vote for Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak because only the Liberals have a chance at beating him on Thursday, when Ontario voters go to the polls.
"That is how far the NDP has fallen — it's not the party that it was," Wynne said. "It's not the party of Jack Layton. It's not the party of Ed Broadbent. It's not the party of Stephen Lewis."
A group of 34 current and former New Democrats, some well-known within the party, wrote an open letter earlier in the campaign, wondering if Horwath had "given up" on progressive voters by not supporting a left-wing-friendly Liberal budget and saying they are considering not voting NDP.
Broadbent was quick to fire back at Wynne.
"Partisan debate is one thing, but by invoking my name in weekend speeches and articles to attack Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP, Kathleen Wynne has gone beyond the pale," he said Monday in a brief statement.
"Let no one doubt: I fully support Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP."
Horwath honed her response as the day went on, at various campaign stops in southern Ontario.
"It's really, really clear that Kathleen Wynne doesn't know Ed Broadbent and she doesn't know Jack," she said in Wallaceburg.
It's not uncommon for federal parties to help their provincial cousins in election campaigns — federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has campaigned with Wynne and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has appeared on the campaign trail for Hudak.
Federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has only appeared with Horwath at a private campaign event, which the NDP says is a result of scheduling conflicts.
Horwath said Wynne is using Layton's name to distract voters.
"They want you to forget about their corruption. They want to forget about the billions of dollars of your money that they wasted," Horwath said. "Kathleen Wynne likes to talk a lot about great NDP leaders, but she cannot even stand in their shadows."
Though Horwath said she could not support Hudak's plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs, nor would she support "corrupt" Liberals, she didn't explicitly rule out a coalition or propping up either party if it wins a minority government.
"I'm running to be the premier of this province," she said in Toronto when asked if she would be part of a coalition government. "I'm going to respect the people's decision on Thursday, but I can tell you for sure I will not support 100,000 families being kicked to the curb and I will not support corrupt Liberals."
At a campaign stop in Chatham she was asked again if she was ruling out a coalition.
"What I am doing is saying I am going to give the people of this province the respect of making their choice on June 12, and I really firmly believe that they should have the room to do that," she said. "On June 12 I trust that the people will make the right decision and we will have a government in this province that makes sense for the people."
Horwath did prop up the Liberals for years, and on Monday defended that support.
"I respected the decision that people made in their last election campaign that we had here in Ontario," she said in Toronto. "People voted for a minority parliament and I worked very, very hard to make that parliament deliver results for them and I'm proud of that work."
She ultimately decided to pull the plug, triggering the election, due to scandals such as the cancellation of two gas plants, which is estimated to have cost taxpayers up to $1.1 billion.


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Reward increased: Father believes attacker was local
The father of Morgan Dana Harrington believes that the person responsible for abducting her outside the October 17 Metallica concert is someone from the Charlottesville area.
"If I had to bet my guess," says Dan Harrington, "this is someone local."
He expressed his theory Saturday morning in a living room interview, sandwiched between visits from the top television network morning news programs and a visit from two members of the Virginia State Police. While investigators continue to express a desire for tips, photos, and video from concert-goers, Metallica has reportedly added $50,000 to bring the reward up to $150,000.
In a quiet house where a yellow ribbon adorns a front yard tree and a pair of candles burn on the kitchen counter, Dr. Harrington also confirms that he's been told that his daughter's purse and phone were found in the RV lot, a small gated parking area alongside Copeley/Alderman Road, the CSX/Buckingham Branch train tracks, and the UVA athletic fields.
Dr. Harrington bases his perpetrator theory on the idea that a local attacker would have the confidence and familiarity with the landscape. He says that his daughter, who was born at UVA medical center in 1989 when he was on the psychiatric faculty, is no stranger to Charlottesville concerts, having also attended shows at the Charlottesville Pavilion.
State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller says that troopers and agents spent last night, October 24, handing out fliers and interacting with passing motorists and pedestrians in the John Paul Jones Arena, in the hopes of encountering someone who habitually passes that way and might have seen something.
–last updated 11:13am Sunday (with Geller info)
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They need to get on her myspace page and see if the girl had talked to someone about meeting them there. Why haven't they checked her myspace account..
That doesn't necessarily mean he's local -- sounds like he just tossed the stuff out of the window as he was driving her away. May have pulled into a side street to avoid people seeing him do that. Probably was afraid of being tracked by her cell phone or something similar that he may have missed seeing in her purse. Could have been a local though, in that he knew the concert was going on, and to look for victims in the parking lot. It gets me that criminals are so professional these days, almost like they're following the same field manual on how to get away with it.
I'm kind of down on cops in northern Virginia, even though the perp in this case may not have been from there -- almost 2 years ago, I was drugged and sexually assaulted in my own home, and the cops up there didn't even want to do a rape kit. And from the remarks of the receptionist at the hospital AND the cop who showed up at the ER, they habitually DON'T do rape kits. I assume they save rape kits for the worst cases that they can easily win, but whatever their logic is in this, he didn't share it with me. The worst part is, I'm pretty sure I know who did it to me, and the perp is still out there, free to continue raping women. That's what sloppy police work does to a community -- and all the communities surrounding it. I'll be so disgusted if it turns out he's from Northern Virginia and still out on the streets.
ernied, I'm not an idiot, and the court will support me. :-)-
WILL THEY also support you? Bad choice of words!
The Perp. Had to have "struck out" once or twice perhaps even more, before running into Morgan!.......Please ANYONE who attended the concert, who noticed ANYTHING , ANYONE even the slightest bit creepy...you might not think it was important at the time ....might have been as simple as someone you thought odd, being alone, looking out of place.... asking for a light.....where you were from....ask to borrow your cell phone....these creeps are NOT perfect.....they do slip up! The tip line is (434) 352-3467. Call and report ANYTHING...Let the police sift through and find the consistancies......tall guy, short older guy...Mustang...Yellow ford truck...whatever! And every chance you get....ask the Good Lord to be with Morgan and bring her home safely!
Col. Forbin... if Charlottesville is full of such wonderful people then why are volunteers having a hard time getting them to put up flyers? Most local businesses have said 'no'. That tells me either they aren't concerned and aren't good people OR they just want to forget about this and go back to earning the almight dollar. WTH??
Well, all I'm saying,Charlottesville is unique. A death penalty is never allowed here. People should at least know such.
I'm glad to see Metallica has offered up money in the search. I know its not much money to them, but they also didn't have to do that. I'm not a fan of their music either - but good for them
This city will not execute. That is a fact.
The collective good will and prayers for her well-being and freedom may now be put to the test. May we all focus on seeing her made free and happy.
Good plan... let's just forget that whole "trial" charade and replace courthouses with fire pits.
Best wishes for Miss Harrington.
LazinessHurts, I hope you are able to find peace and justice for your horrible experience. I'm so sorry.
I would hope local police have checked atm camera footage from the BB&T bank thats located across the RR bridge from the lot where her belongings were found? Its camera faces toward the street which one would have to take if heading south from the RV lot. And maybe the Suntrust on the northwest corner of that same intersection or the Wachovia on the southwest side? Maybe there's something there and certainly worth a look. Since there's a light at that corner and any car heading through it might get stuck sitting there, its not quite a needle-in-a-haystack scenario. And interview tow truck drivers too. They're always around at events like this one to tow cars illegally parked. Not saying one did anything, but maybe they saw something?
Generally, once you find yourself outside a concert area, no one tells you that you can't be readmitted. The doors are just locked and you can't get back in. If this girl wasn't a stranger to concerts, like her dad said, then she would know this. I've been to hundreds of concerts and I don't know one single instance where you can re-enter once you have left, unless you are dealing with a small club type atmosphere. We are talking THOUSANDS of people attending these things, and there simply isn't enough manpower available to monitor everyone who leaves and who wants to get back in. You can't tell if they have real tickets, you can't tell if they have a legit hand-stamp, and you can't station people at every single point of entry. So the doors are just locked. Anyone who has ever been to an arena show would know that.
How do you end up outside when you are trying to find a bathroom? They are in the building. I don't necessarily think that someone would lure her outside, but it would almost have to be a choice to go out there. Was she sick or feeling ill and needed fresh air? To me, that seems like the most logical explanation of how she ended up out there, and then couldn't get back in.
Also, odd to think that she would tell her friends she would wait for them or find a ride. Finding a ride at a big concert like that has got to be scary. Would she be calling someone who knew her to come and get her? I can't imagine just picking someone at random from a parking lot to give you a ride home. Wouldn't you just sit yourself somewhere that seems safe and wait for your friends? Even if its a drag to wait for 3 hours outside, it seems much preferable than trying to find a ride with some stranger at a concert. Perhaps she called someone to come and get her...
To add to what Belle said, Morgan was supposedly going back to Harrisonburg. What 20-year-old woman is going to assume she can depend on the kindness of a complete stranger to get her safely to a destination 45 minutes away, and what kind of friends would let her? Perhaps JPJ's policy needs to be revisited, but I'm not buying the story that this all unfolded because of JPJ's policy. Too many things don't add up.
I don't see anywhere that she actually even tried to re-enter the arena. I don't recall her friends saying she tried to get back in. No public accounts of pleading by her with arena officials.
It appears she willingly left the arena and told her friends not to expect her to ride back with them. It suggests that she knew, or thought she knew, what she was going to be doing next, and with whom--though she may not have communicated that to her friends.
I believe she got outside willingly and on her own--who she met there or went out with holds the key to the rest of the story.
@Be patient: Have you ever lived anywhere but Charlottesville? It actually is a great town, full of good people. There's bad in people everywhere, (consider your ignorance, for example.) But I digress, because this isn't about you and your politics, this is about figuring out what happened to Morgan.
They ought to check her cell phone records.
Anyone think the photo of the fam looks photoshopped?
Nope. It only appears so because there is no background. And there's no background because it was taken right at the edge of the sea somewhere. Look to the left of the guy's blue shirt, you can see the ocean.
I am not sure I agree with the person being local, but I certainly do think we should heighten the possibility. I know of a few kooks who were recently doing some naughty peeping Tom stuff After all, epole come from all over to go to these concerts, and I am sorry to say that the parking lots for concerts are all of all sorts of people peddling things. I don't like to attack Metallica, but the groupies attracted to that are not going to be the same as for say, Lorretta Lynn in what they get up to for recreation.
I agree with shempdaddy about this girl having a 'plan'. Scotts Stadium is not exactly a maze when it comes to finding bathrooms, and you aren't in danger of ending up outside. But even if you do, somehow manage that, a wise young lady would say, " hey, I am going to walk to such and such restuarant, and eat something waiting for you guys. Give me a call when you get out, and I'll tell you where." Then you take the bus. You don't go down to the parking lot, and hang out.
She met someone she either knew, or who lured her, and she consciously made the choice to essentially take off from her friends.
All you right wing capital punishment, buzz off. Get off the name calling. Handing out the death penalty is more expensive than locking someone up for life. Maybe if you guys weren't so busy screaming ' socialism' and Marxism' some unmedicated kook wouldn't be stalking young women at concerts.
You guys all have this belief that if you just dump everyone on the streets and pretend they aren't there you are all somehow protected. I hope you all get the swine flu so badly you spend weeks in the hospital and lose your homes.
This is ridiculous. I cannot believe ya'll are blaming the arena for these events. You cannot exit your seats in JPJ WITHOUT seeing a bathroom, so there's no way she ended up outside accidentally while looking for one. Furthermore, if I know the event staff, they told her as she left that she could not re-enter, not to mention that every single ticket had this policy clearly written on it. Do not blame the arena staff or its policy (which is almost universal at concert venues) but focus on the task at hand: finding Morgan and her attacker.
I'm still in shock that this happened in Charlottesville, as I myself have attended probably a hundred basketball games, a few concerts, and every baseball game for the past 5 years (and park in the so-called "RV Lot.") During these events, there are police on every corner to deal with traffic, tow trucks, UVA buses... unbelievable. All of this leads me to consider that in fact Morgan did know her attacker, or at least was lured out of JPJ by him.
Sending all my thoughts and prayers to her and her family. I hope we can all be so lucky as to never experience this with our own families.
I am following this because I have 4 children and this is a parent's worst nightmare. Just a thought....I went to the VA State Police site and searched the violent sex offenders....there are quite a few in the general C'ville area. I assume the cops have interviewed them....the other thing I thought of is the steam tunnels....I wonder if they have looked there. OH how I hope she is found alive.
Virginia, along with Texas and Florida is always in the top three in number and speed of capital punishment. Now as far as certain judges giving the death sentence less often here than in other locales, I think each case is individual. Frankly, the death penalty seems less horrible than life without parole to me.
What jurisdiction do you think imposes a sentence, Ernied? Maybe you're the one who should do some homework. When's the last time a Charlottesville jury or judge imposed the death penalty?
Carolina girl,
What local businesses have said no, and did they give a reason? I would certainly be interested to know, especially with the holiday shopping season coming up.
How do you know businesses aren't allowing fliers? That sounds like a crock to me...
Stop blaming Charlottesville, stop blaming the people of Charlottesville, stop blaming the Venue, stop blaming the band or their crew....
No one knows what happened. Until we do - pointing fingers isn't going to solve a thing.
As far as the death penalty and liberals - are you serious?? There is a girl missing and you're pointing fingers and politics?? We don't even know what happened. Maybe instead of sitting on your butt pointing fingers - you should go out there and be proactive in the search for this girl
The sad part, IF he is a Charlottesville resident, and IF they catch him, the most he'll ever get is life in prison. My lord, someone recently murdered a little kid in cold blood and recieved LIP. Yep, this is the place to be for any criminal wanting to avoid the death penalty. The Charlottesville "justice" officials will provide the lawyers who are more than willing to set the stage.
I know LIP is no picnic. As Charlottesville pushes away any death penalty, the nasty killers gain way too much of a break.
This is so tragic. Hope she can come home alive.
I am praying and thinking of you everyday,Morgan. Let her return to her family.
I pray that Morgan be returned to her very loving family, unharmed and peacefully.
Who was the person(s)that actually denied her re-entry? Morgan certainly would have explained to them that she had no keys, no ride and no one close to come get her. Was their response "Not my problem." or "It's policy." (I love that one, my personal favorite, "It's policy." - People get positively stupid with the "It's policy." garbage.) So they just turned away a 20 year old young woman into the night with no way to leave without any concern under the "It's policy" routine. What a bunch of "ginguses". The Arena ought to have its license stripped. They obviously don't have enough brain cells to be in charge of public or private events. The Arena also out to be required to forfeit all proceeds to help find Morgan. Morgan is mising because NO ONE gave a rip! The Arena people that said -"It's Policy." (If there was a policy that said jump over a cliff -they would do it.) Her friends - "Okay, see ya later." - so what if your going to miss the show and have nowhere to go and are stuck in the parking lot - no biggie. The Grandmother - who WATCHES an assault on a young woman - and DOES NOTHING! (What she is sitting in a parking lot by herself at night, waiting and she doesn't have a cell phone?!!!). This is pitiful! This is why there are predators - because they can get away with it! - NO ONE CARES! Had one person along the chain of events of that evening given a rip, Morgan would not be missing - she would be at home with her family.
So, the thread starts with the father wanting to blame a resident of Charlottesville for this terrible crime. Then, it naturally devolves into right-wingers wanting to blame "liberals" for the state of crime and punishment in America. It's a shame that, even in a case like this where everyone wants only the best possible outcome, the urge to blame and point fingers is so strong.
Charlottesville is a good town full of good people. Let's try to point out the good things where possible. For instance, the state, local, and University police departments for working so hard to find Morgan. All of us want a good outcome here if there is one to be had.
Also, thank you to the guys in Metallica for putting more reward money out there.
I don't speak for all victims of sexual predators, but as far as the punishment goes -- I don't need to see the death penalty to be satisfied. To me, once they reveal themselves as predators, it's most important to remove them from the streets whether they die or are locked up for a really long time. That way I'd feel safer, and at least while they're in prison they can't victimize other people. A long sentence (all the way up to life for the worst offenders) is important for a sense of justice, but I don't think that a death penalty discussion adds anything to the discussion here, as much as we'd all like to see these kind of people permanently removed from society.
damon, I agree 100%. And hope our prayers work.
Northern Virginia cops are idiots and I recently experienced their idiocy. Rather than doing real investigative police work they stereotype, profile, and end up targeting the wrong people because of their lack of inductive thinking. Case in point - I checked into a hotel recently and was accused of being a Craigs List hooker. They had no proof, only that the male I was with was older and I changed to go to lunch with him the next day and came back within an hour. They thought we went and had ourselves a quickie. Funny thing is, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that if what they said was true, we would have gone to my room, not to lunch.
I pray that Morgan's family has investigators that are ten times more intelligent than the ones I encountered. Maybe they'll just finger a black man since they're so into stereotyping. Sad bunch of cops.
I think Morgan had this all planned out, I really believe this. I think maybe she met someone online maybe and this was a date she set it all up and why would an attacker toss her purse and cell in the parking lot why not wait and toss it in the wood somewhere far out of this area. it all seems planned and set up to me from her mother picking out her outfit as to tell authorities what she was wearing and ill be she had changed her clothes another this is i dont bekieve she ever went to the concert at all and her friends were just used as an alibi and all had a pre arraged story to tell
t this is why u dont see them giving interviews they are getting their stories all mixed up. We all know that once u exit a concert u cant get back in and all the bathrooms are inside
and there are areas to get better cell phone reception it just makes no sense to me i think they need to check her and not the computer at her house her father controlls that one he has her passwords maybe they need check her frineds computers i think this lady was hiding alot from her strange parents
I still think the key rests in why she left the arena. I do not believe for a second that she accidentally found herself outside a few minutes before the band she had been waiting to see for months went on the stage. She either went out to meet someone she knew, or was lured outside.
As I said in another thread--one way to lure someone outside is with a backstage pass and a promise that she could get back in--there are numerous ways to get these at some shows--a meet and greet/social area function in the backstage area, friends of friends, promoters, opening acts etc.. I am sure the police are checking to see who may have had access. I am not trying to implicate anyone on the crews--those guys are generally professionals who are too busy to deal--but you never know about associates of associates--worth checking in to.
I tend to agree with her father that it is likely that if someone took her, that person is local because most everyone who came to see Metallica was inside JPJ watching the concert. That means the odds are higher that anyone outside was not there for the concert and was probably local. Of course, we will not know for sure until this is (hopefully) solved,
Life in Prison? Give me a break. Start burning these perps at the stake and watch how crime takes a nose dive. But then the lawyers and judges will take cuts in salary's. Say a prayer for this girl. And you liberals need to wake up!!
When you have a commonwealth attorney who does not believe in the death penalty, he/she is not going to seek a death penalty.
Morgan, I am checking on new about you everyday. This breaks my heart, whoever has Morgan, please bring her home!!
sad, very sad. a local perp may not add up with the story from the grandmom in the parking lot,but who knows what the final story will be. sad to hear he thinks its an abduction, which would not provide a lot of hope for her return. I was hoping this was runaway or boyfriend situation.
LazinessHurts, in reference to your mention of sloppy police work in Northern Virginia...
.... you sure hit that nail on the head!
They're worse than the Keystone Kops.
As a fan of both music and sports, I appreciate the fact that the person sitting next to my children and me isn't going into the parking lot at intermission or l/2 time and coming back sky high on drugs or booze. When I buy my ticket, I have the right to expect to enjoy myself without some obnoxious drunk ruining the event. Having not been at this concert or seen tickets, I have no idea whether it was announced that there is a policy of no re-entry, but I know that has been the practice for past events. If Morgan has come to harm, the person at fault is the perpetrator, not the person who might have denied her re-entry, not her friends if they are being completely honest with the authorities and most certainly not Morgan.
Great Arena Policy. Pay $70 to see a show. Leave without realizing that you can't reenter. And you're stuck. Great self-serving policy on the part of the arena. I wonder. What if it had been a Miley Cyrus concert and a 15-year-old had left alone. Would they have left her out there unescorted?
Never be too quick to name a potential suspect. Look at the Chanda Levy case in DC. Everyone, even the parents pointed fingers at the married Senator she was secretly dating. Turns out the killer was a illegal imigrant mad at the world for losing his job. He had assaulted two other women in the weeks leading up to Levy's and the DC police failed to follow the recent assults in the area.
I pray for this young lady's safe return. I know what it feels like to try and find the car in a big concert parking lot. I can't imagine how she was wandering around, what made her leave out alone in the first place, why she did not wait at will-call or a door for her friends. Maybe she had to use the bathroom and was looking for a remote spot. Let's all pray for a happy ending!
Charlottesville hung a mayor (maybe ex-mayor) a few decades ago.
Charlottesville is not a good town with good people, its an armpit full of liberals,welfare receipients, and everyone else thats wants a hand out or feels they are entitled to one. Do I think someone from the welfare capital of the world did it? I dont know (it is possible) since there was people at the concert from MD to NJ. Its unknown and tragic this girl is missing but blaming anyone at this point is premature. She may not have been taken against her free will and may be rebelling for some unknown reason. I would hate think worse case scenario until more information is disseminated. Hopefully she is found safe and will enlighten us when she found
If there was someone outside in the parking lots, why were they there? To break into cars maybe? Is that a common occurrence? I wouldn't expect they'd be laying in wait for the first person to wander out there alone. If they were there breaking into cars, are there ny leads in that area? Good luck resolving this quickly and my sincere best wishes to all.
plop - you're an idiot. last time i checked, the state of virginia run the justice system, not the city of charlottesville. The death penalty is legal in Virginia. maybe do some homework before you add such useless dribble to this situation.


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Vine, Twitter's new micro-video sharing... thing, is temporarily down, buckled beneath the weight of desk recordings.
A Twitter spokesperson says the self-downing is temporary, but without the ability to post to Twitter or Facebook, there's no reason to use the app.
So this is something that needs to be fixed—particularly on day one.


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While many of us (me anyway) were focused on the FOCA debate during last month's Bishops' meeting in Baltimore, the significance of a vote to approve a revision to the Grail Psalter may have been lost to some (me again).
No doubt this is partly because I don't follow liturgy/translation issues, and therefore had no idea what the Grail Psalter was.
But the revision of the Grail Psalter is significant to Key readers for at least two reasons. If given the recognitio from Rome, it will change the words by which Catholics pray the psalms at Mass and other settings. And, the new translation is homegrown - Produced by Missouri's very own Abbot Gregory Polan of Conception Abbey with the assistance of other monks at the abbey. Conception Abbey is also the home of our diocesan seminary. Abbot Polan is pictured above with some of the younger men in formation at the Benedictine community.
Below, Jarrod Thome, communications director at Conception, explains the significance of the Psalter and how it came to be produced in Missouri:
The Revised Grail Psalter
By Jarrod Thome
Special to The Catholic Key
The life of a Benedictine monk hinges upon the motto ora et labora, which is Latin for "pray and work". Specifically, St. Benedict intended his followers to be deeply rooted in the psalms, drawing upon their richness in writing his holy Rule and expounding at length upon how they should be prayed. For nearly 1,500 years now, Benedictines have carried on the tradition of their founder, and the Order is well known for its dedication to the liturgy. It should come as no surprise, then, that when the U.S. Bishop's Committee on the Liturgy wanted a new translation of the psalms for use in the liturgy, they approached Conception Abbey's own Abbot Gregory Polan to undertake a revision of the 1963 Grail Psalter.
What are the Grail Psalms?
In the years leading up to Vatican II, when the liturgy was still in Latin but moving toward greater lay participation, the psalm responses of the Mass were permitted to be sung in the vernacular. A French Jesuit by the name of Joseph Gelineau prepared a French translation of the psalms which was very rhythmic and worked well with a particular set of psalm tones. In response to his work, a community of lay women formed a secular institute called The Grail (of England) and undertook an English translation of Fr. Gelineau's work. They employed scholars and musicians to work on the project and they began to release the fruits of their work in a series of books, each containing a few psalms, throughout the 1950s. The full version with all 150 psalms was released in 1963.
Just like the French Gelineau psalm tones, the 1963 Grail Psalter proved to be very well-suited for choral recitation, singing and chanting. It was soon incorporated into the Liturgy of the Hours. While the lectionary in the United States used the psalms of the New American Bible and the Revised Standard Version, the 1963 Grail Psalms were also permitted for use as the Responsorial Psalm at Mass. GIA Publications of Chicago featured these Responsorial Psalms in their Worship III Hymnal.
Why was a new translation needed?
The 1963 Grail Psalms made a wonderful transition from Latin into English because they were so easily understood, they had a clear poetic rhythm and they could be recited and sung with ease. All of these things were important objectives when the Ladies of the Grail set about their work. And while the 1963 Grail Psalter was very successful in this regard, there are places where the adherence to a set rhythm necessitated a paraphrase of the original Hebrew as opposed to a more authentic translation, taking into consideration the sometimes irregular rhythm of the Hebrew Psalms. Since Vatican II, however, we have seen a move to preserve sacred texts' fidelity to their original sources.
Secondly, since the 1950s when most of these psalms were composed, "Much has happened in the area of biblical scholarship to enable us to understand better both the structure of Hebrew poetry and some of the more problematic texts," Abbot Gregory said. He continued, "This scholarship will make a more accurate translation possible."
Additionally, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments' 2001 document Liturgiam Authenticam insists that a consistent translation be used in all the texts of the liturgy, which is currently not the case as far as the psalms are concerned. The Revised Grail Psalter will be the official translation used in the Lectionary, the Liturgy of the Hours, the texts for all books of the Sacraments, etc.
Why Conception?
Obviously, a project of this scope is quite the undertaking. But why were monks of Conception chosen to bring this work to fruition? As mentioned above, the mere fact that Conception Abbey is a Benedictine monastery is already a tally mark under the "pros" column. However, it is the combination of the scholarly pursuits of Abbot Gregory Polan that made the initial request from the U.S. Bishop's Committee on the Liturgy in June of 1998 the first and obvious choice.
Abbot Gregory would tell anyone (and he told the Bishop's Committee) that he is first and foremost an abbot. Next on the list, though, you'll find "Scripture Scholar" and "Musician". After working on a translation of a section of the book of Isaiah in the Revised New American Bible, the staff at the Bishops' Conference—knowing also his musical background—rightly assessed that his combination of abilities especially suited him to the task of revising the Grail Psalter which, like the 1963 Grail Psalter, needed to be suitable for choral recitation, singing and chanting. When Abbot Gregory agreed then, mentioning that he was first an abbot though, the bishops were happy to communicate that they just wanted it done right.
So, Abbot Gregory began the project, enlisting the help of other monks of Conception Abbey, and after four years an initial draft was completed. This draft was then brought before a November meeting of the Bishop's Committee on Divine Worship where it was approved to undergo the rigorous process to deem it an acceptable translation. And acceptable it was as the USCCB approved its widespread use in a 203-5 vote at their meeting of November 11, 2008. It is now awaiting approval from the Vatican.
What does this mean for the Church?
For the Faithful who attend any liturgy in English, the Revised Grail Psalter means consistency in what they'll hear across the board. For musicians and those who use the psalms for choral recitation or chanting, it means a translation which is well suited to these uses without sacrificing the integrity of the translation. All in all, the consistency and fidelity to the ancient texts of the psalms means that the Revised Grail Psalter will help promote a more effective, unified catechesis.
For Conception Abbey, the Revised Grail Psalter is another way that they, in their 135 years since their founding, have been able to respond to the needs of the Church.
Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus
The copyright for The Revised Grail Psalms is held jointly by Conception Abbey and The Grail (England). GIA Publications serves as the international literary agent for this new version of The Grail Psalms.
Copies of the Revised Grail Psalter will not be released until the recognitio is received from Rome. For more information you may contact:
Jarrod Thome
Director of Communications
Conception Abbey