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Times public editor on sex-abuse coverage
I was wondering when the public editor at The New York Times, Clark Hoyt, would deal with the avalanche of criticism over the paper's stories that examined Pope Benedict XVI's handling of clergy sexual abuse cases. Now, he has. He concludes:
Like it or not, there are circumstances that have justifiably driven this story for years, including a well-documented pattern of denial and cover-up in an institution with billions of followers. Painful though it may be, the paper has an obligation to follow the story where it leads, even to the popes door.
Hoyt focuses on the article that attracted the most controversy, a March 25 story on the case of the Rev. Lawrence Murphy, the Milwaukee priest who admittedly molested dozens of deaf boys and possibly as many as 200. I largely agree with Hoyt's response to those who assailed The Times (although, as I posted earlier, I do think there were some journalistic problems with the March 25 story). The column lacks Hoyt's usual nuance, though. While The Times has been effective in examining then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's role in a number of individual cases, it has not done well at putting those cases into the context of his overall handling of the issue. Ratzinger did begin to respond to the sexual-abuse issue at a certain point, so the early cases go only so far in following the story "to the pope's door." This is something Hoyt might have picked up on.One other point: Hoyt refers erroneously to the "archbishop of Brooklyn." The head of the Brooklyn diocese, Nicholas DiMarzio, is a bishop. During the chrism Mass, he had called on priests to "besiege The New York Times. Send a message loud and clear that the Pope, our Church, and bishops and our priests will no longer be the personal punching bag of The New York Times. It was a poor choice of words.
About the Author
Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009) and An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians (NYU Press, 2015).
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So the story wasn't about B16 at all?Here is yet another cardinal lashing out at the press: http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2010/04/church-treated-unfairly-by-...
From the Hoyt article: "Like it or not, there are circumstances that have justifiably driven this story for years, including a well-documented pattern of denial and cover-up in an institution with billions of followers.According to Wikipedia there are somewhat less than 1.5 Roman Catholics worldwide.
I generally find Hoyt a fair-minded arbiter of the war between the Times and its readers (or at least those who complain about particular stories). I think he falls a short on this one for all of the reason this blog has discussed over many posts.
Hoyt says, "...it would be irresponsible to ignore the continuing revelations," and then refers to the NYT's publishing a front-pager on the Munich/Hullerman case the following day as evidence that they aren't just dogging the pope. But the Munich story was already making headlines, if not in the NYT, when they ran that Murphy story, no? At the time I assumed the NYT ran the Murphy story when it did to take advantage of the momentum from the Munich case -- otherwise, why dig it up? What prompted Goodstein's "reporting inquiries," since it plainly wasn't curiosity about how this old-news case was handled at the local level?Hoyt's arguing that the NYT is just "following the story," and not actively seeking to dig up dirt on the pope. What seems to be missing from this is an explanation of why the Murphy case was news -- that it would have been irresponsible not to report -- if the point was not to implicate the pope. Because he's also insistent that it doesn't implicate the pope in any concrete way. He writes, "The Times article did not establish what role, if any, Ratzinger played, saying only that communications about the case were addressed to him and that his deputy intervened. Thats a long way from saying Ratzinger did." Fine, but it was Ratzinger's name on those documents that made the story imperative for them to run with at that moment, right?
A huge factor in the Times story is the definitive clarification that the problem is not an American problem but really a worldwide problem. Rome has gotten away with this for years without contest until this time. It is really hard to fault the times when Rome continues to minimize the matter moving penance to the faithful and still covering up the hierarchy except when the press undresses them. So the "well-documented pattern of denial and cover-up" is the thrust of Hoyt;s remark and decidedly incontestable. Further, I contend that we devolve into provincial thinking when we protest this coverage. Our energies should be centered on reforming the structure of the church where the problem lies.
No, Mollie, none of the Murphy documents had anything with Ratzinger's signature. The only Ratzinger signature regarded the Kielse case in CA.
The Ignatius Press website is derisive of a piece The New Yorker that suggests that Abp Rowan Williams is a more distinguished theologian than the Pope. The following paragraph is notable:"As many as a thousand conservative Anglo-Catholic priests are now said to be weighing Benedicts offer, which the Vatican called an apostolic constitution. No one, of course, can predict how many of them will accept it, but the magnitude of the pedophilia scandals that have shaken the Roman Catholic world since the invitation was issued will almost certainly deter some of their parishioners. In November, Williams had mentioned to me a number of Anglicans he knew who thought that in the long run, it would be nice to have some sort of primacy, but not the way things areand thats not about the present Pope. Today, with Benedict in eerie denial of his role in covering up those scandals, the Pope has become a very large part of the way things are. Two weeks ago, Williams spoke publicly for the first time about a colossal trauma for Roman Catholics, in particular about the distress of Irish priests whose church was suddenly losing all credibility. It was a pointed but sympathetic comment and not, as much of the press saw it, a long-simmering response to the Popes attempted incursions onto the Archbishops turf. But it was a reminder of what defecting Anglicans would be getting into. "Eerie denial of his role in covering up those scandals" jumps the gun, in several ways.http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_kramer?curre...
As Bill Mazzella pointed out, it is hard to object to the news coverage when Church leaders minimize and cover up this scandal. How else are we to learn about what's happening and address it? And haven't these recent articles encouraged some positive changes? The various bishops resigning, the Vatican moving to begin to address this institutionally? Would that have happened without the press? Is the objection that some of this might be "old news"? I've been wondering lately how we as Catholics are supposed to tell this story to the next generation of Catholics. Assuming the problem gets fixed, are we then supposed to pretend it never happened? That doesn't seem right. My own children are too young to know anything about this scandal. What exactly am I supposed to tell them about all of this someday? If we don't tell our own story, it will be left to the newspapers and others to tell it for us.
Hoyt's position would make sense if this was a story about "a well-documented pattern of denial and cover-up," but it wasn't. It wasn't even news, let alone page one news.
As you sow, so shall you reapThere would not be much of a story to follow were it not for the cover up. The press knows that Bishops lie, why would they presume that the Bishop of Rome is any different?
Whether you mean it or not, going after the NYT looks like another way of minimizing if not denying the incidence of abuse. It's true that in some measure the "abuse story" has been with us for more than a decade, but it's also true that the Church has largely prevented the awful details of individual cases from overtaking the coverage. This case presented a rather thorough report, you might say, of how exactly an abuser embedded himself within the Church and how the Church in its various manifestations responded or failed to respond. It named names and gave details. If it isn't news to you, I am sure it was to an awful lot of other people. It certainly was to me.
The Roman Catholic Church and the New York Times are two institutions of enormous international influence, and rightly so. What a pity they don't understand each other better. What a pity they don't understand themselves better, most especially the Church.
A problem of some posts here is the continuing identification of the (c)hurch, as a colleague calls it, with the hierachy.See the letters to the Editor on the Kristof op-ed.Barbara is right on target and Bill M."s point is germane.I think Hoyt's perspective is genuine, if one is no timbedded in the view of, whether intende dor not, protecting a Roman(ita) centered Church.
Is it possible that the Roman-centered Church is and has been making some big mistakes and the New York Times coverage has also been mistaken? The rules of logic would suggest that's a possibility.
No, Mollie, none of the Murphy documents had anything with Ratzingers signature.That's true, but I didn't say "signature" -- I said his name, as the one to whom the documents were formally addressed, is presumably the factor that motivated the NYT to report on that particular case on that particular day.
The other day I checked out an old movie I saw at the library - All the President's Men. It showed how the reporters of the Washington Post investigated the Watergate cover-up. I think we're so lucky we have a free press and that it's motivated, for whatever resaon, to ferret out the truth.
I like that word, "ferret"; it gets at some of the issues here.
It is also true, I think, that stories develop over time. This was certainly the case in Boston. For generations, public officials and Church officials turned a blind eye to abuse by priests. They were even hubristic enough to keep thorough records of their practice in shifting abusers from place to place. Were it not for the Boston Globe, I don't think the story would have come to light at all. But the story started with only a handful of cases, and the full story of the cover-up--at least as full as it's known so far--emerged over time. So, yes, newspapers sometimes do "jump the gun," though they try to avoid doing so for reasons of professional responsibility and, I assume, legal liability. (And in Boston, the Church's response was aggressive attacks on the motives of the reporters. Plus ca change...) As to a cover-up that reaches "to the Pope's door," well, that's true of Maciel, isn't it? In short, while the NYT coverage hasn't been perfect, I think it is the press to whom we need to look for any real accounting of the extent of the crisis, not the magisterium. Myself, I want the press to exercise Watergate-level caution, but the integrity of the Church, at present, seems to hinge on aggressive and thorough reporting. This could change if the bishops really wanted to address the roots of this problem. No sign of that yet, except perhaps with the resignations of the Irish bishops.
Gluttons for rhetoric!! Read the responses to the public editor on the Times's comment page (123 at my last count): http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/opinion...
I too like being compared to a ferret; ferrets eat rats! What strikes me about the Hoyt column and the back and forth in all these threads is that they seem to miss the larger point: namely, that the Vatican has portrayed Ratzinger/Benedict as a crusader against sex abuse by clergy. The stories that the Times and others have reported show that is clearly not the case, at least not before 2001 at best, more accurately 2003-04. So the stories are about getting a complete picture of the record of the head of an institution with a long-running problem and a longstanding resistance to any disclosure and change except under extreme duress. That's pretty basic truth-telling journalism. What's the problem with that?
No, the Vatican portrays Benedict as a crusader since 2001 and as out of the loop before 2001.
A Spanish Catholic magazine I ran across yesterday had the headline "Vatican inflexible against pederasty."
Margaret, the coverage would be even more accurate if the Church provided more of the underlying factual detail. It does not. Hence, the need for the press, and the defense of its own imperfections, often lie in the same place -- the unwillingness of the target to be exposed.
Joseph O'Leary, I don't see any place that the Vatican has spoken of the pope's failures before 2001. More importantly, he hasn't spoken of them.The other problem, of course, is that he has not held bishops to account even since becoming pope, except under external pressure in the case of a couple of Irish bishops (so far).
Hmm. How might I stop this thread in its tracks? The NY Times, like it or not, is resourced to provide the best journalism any north american newspaper can provide. And it consistently delivers. I think Father James Martin has the correct take. On NPR: 'Primarily, it's an issue of the culture of the church, the clerical culture that had privileged the concerns of priests over the need to care, the pastoral need to care for the most vulnerable.' If I am right, the rest of this constitutes nonsense. Case closed.
" This case presented a rather thorough report, you might say, of how exactly an abuser embedded himself within the Church and how the Church in its various manifestations responded or failed to respond. It named names and gave details."Barbara --A very important point about a perp and his relationship to a higher up who not only defended the oerp but promoted him. I'll say it: there have been rumors for years of active homosexuals among the curial bishops. Are the rumors true? If they are and if one considers the possibility of blackmail. that might cast an even uglier shadow across the whole sordid mess. Sadly, given the behavior of the curia over the last several decades, it seems to me this line of enquiry *should* be pursued by the press. Of course, the rumors may be false. But in that case, one would think the curia would have sense enough to meet the sub voce accusations head on. One does not expect much sense from the curia, however.
Mr. Gibson - agree with your observations completely. Along the lines of "All the President's Men", I saw "The Most Dangerous Man: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" last nite. Since my masters in history thesis was on the US misgovernment in Vietnam from 1945-1963 and I heard Ellsberg speak at SLU in 1973, it was great to relive those experiences.Like the former movie, would suggest that US government decisions in Vietnam are analogous to what we are seeing in Rome and sexual abuse. The US supported the Viet Minh during WWII against the Japanese; supported the UN; and the goals of WWII in terms of self-determination for all peoples. Yet, starting with Truman, five successive presidents lied about US involvement in Vietnam costing an est. 2 mil Vietnamese lives and 58,000 Americans. But, during this period, McNamara as Sec. of Defense became convinced that the war was wrong and commissioned the Rand Corp. to do the Pentagon Papers - 7,000 pages of how the US government hid, lied, covered up and made a succession of wrong decisions based on typical patterns of behavior - domino theory, political expediency, etc. In the process, Ellsberg realized that "Principle" and "Conscience" had to come before career and all the little decisions we make to compromise our goals, face reality, etc.Point being - we have no Ellsberg in Rome - Ratzinger may be the closest thing but he seems to have adopted another persona since the student unrests in the late 1960's. If he does become another "McNamara"; wonder where the records are? And given studies such as the Irish government reports, doubt that there is any one study that details the levels and cases across all the world's dioceses. What does come home is the pattern over 25 years of mounting crisis country by country and literally no to minimal response from Rome and in fact delays, push back, canon law manuveurs, etc. to protect the "institution" - not unlike US policies towards Vietnam. At one point in the movie, you realize that the Vietnam decisions had nothing to do with the Vietnamese - quote: "This war is 10% about Vietnam; 20% about US soldiers, and 70% about US politicians."T. Doyle might be the closest thing we have to Ellsberg but only for the US Church. John Allen and company (O'Leary) can try to show that Ratzinger changed in 2001 but the documentation doesn't seem to support that - and there is very little documentation. He may have started to change when made Pope but even his current actions indicate an inability to confront/change the "prevailing culture" - he is part of that culture. I am also reminded of Weakland's autobiography - beyond his own sexual relationship, the last three chapters of his book are sad.....he appears to be bewildered by how to address the issue of sexual abuse; he complains that you can not stop them from complaining; he shows his frustration with Rome, but ultimately his book ends with no resolution of the issue - the pain, suffering continue and seems perplexed and unable to address this crisis.
As far as transparency in concerned look at the fact that Rome now says that it will take another five years before the Vatican files on Pius XII can be opened to the public. This is a statement of an organization which lies a lot. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7... truth about Pius XII on the Jews and Nazis has a parallel to the discussion here. It is always the preservation of the hierarchy and empire that is paramount. The Jews, Romero and the abused children are secondary. The empire must be preserved.
I also liked The Pentagon Papers (James Spader as Ellsberg) - Ellsberg wrote an online review of it - My Thoughts on 'The Pentagon Papers' Movie
"Joseph OLeary, I dont see any place that the Vatican has spoken of the popes failures before 2001. More importantly, he hasnt spoken of them."I think it would have cleared the air if in his letter to the Irish Bishops he had added the phrase, "I, too, have made mistakes." But it should be noted that the Vatican does not admit any failures of the Pope before 2001 for the simple reason that Vatican critics have not proven any such failures. Those who spoke freely of "smoking guns" two weeks ago are now speaking of "indicators" -- the characteristic step back when a rash accusation fails to stick. Kung's rash declaration has been dismantled by many critics, and has not been seriously defended.The cases that were supposed to provide smoking guns were: Murphy (outrageously headlined by the BBC in a way meant to suggest that Benedict had turned a blind eye to the abuse of deaf boys while it was going on), Kiesle, the Regensburg choir, Castrillon Hoyos, Hunnermann -- have I forgotten any? Ratzinger has positive pre-2001 records on the Groer scandal, according to Groer's successor Schoenborn.Three resignations of Irish bishops have been accepted (Murray, Magee, Moriarty), two more are still pending. There was also Comiskey a few years ago. All of these are good and competent men the loss of whose services will impoverish the church.
Note that in intervening to get Groer punished, Ratzinger seems to have stepped out of his own role in a quite unorthodox way. This does suggest that his anger about "filth" goes back a long way. Also, though I am highly critical of the document banning gay seminarians, it should be noted that it was one of the first acts of the pontificate, pushed through I am told by Benedict himself (not by Cardinal Grocholewski); it was a drastic and very unpopular step intended to abort one dimension of the abuse scandals; and the roots of that action on Benedict's part must go back a long way. There is a painful irony here: those who acclaim Benedict as a purger of the church are often enthusiasts for that anti-gay-seminarian document, but they do not mention it for fear of spoiling their case. Those who denounce Ratzinger as a do-nothing are often also fierce opponents of his documents on homosexuality but they do not mention it for fear of spoiling their present polemical case. So, amazingly, the document has not been mentioned at all in the present controversy!
The original article by Laurie Goodstein begins by breathlessly informing us that "Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy was an American priest accused of molesting as many as 200 deaf boys over 25 years. Several lawsuits have been filed against the church for failure to act in the matter. According to church files top Vatican officials - including the future Pope Benedict XVI - did not defrock Father Murphy even though they were warned repeatedly by several American bishops." Chronology is not clarified, and then only for the benefit of the careful reader, until the 6th and last paragraph. Students of journalism are told to get the essence of their story out in the first paragraph, which is what most readers will read. The article left most readers with the impression that Benedict XVI had knowingly and deliberately failed to prevent a priest from molesting 200 boys (a speculative figure by the way), whereas a correct account would be that he may have been behind Cardinal Bertone's refusal to have a canonical trial of the priest when he was dying 22 years later. But that would not make such a hot story.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/lawrence_c_...
To the consternation of my liberal friends I have now posted a defense of Benedict against the New York Times: http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/04/the-scapegoating-of-b... I see that Bilgrimage is plugging the line that any call for understanding of pedophiles or ephebophiles, such as that of Timothy Radcliffe OP, is equal to condoning sexual abuse of minors: http://bilgrimage.blogspot.com/2010/04/pedophilia-ephebophilia-and-pries...
"But it should be noted that the Vatican does not admit any failures of the Pope before 2001 for the simple reason that Vatican critics have not proven any such failures."What you gratuitously assert I can gratuitously deny. But facts back up Vatican failures before 2001. The only distinction is that we did not know the details about the abuses in Europe when the Vatican declared the crisis an American problem. The Vatican has stonewalled confronting the abuse crisis for a long time and there is an abundance of evidence about it. Rome and Ratzinger bear responsibility for repressing information about pedophilia in the American church. The Ratzinger CDF which ruled with an iron hand did nothing about this growing scandal which Greeley, Doyle, Berry and others clamored about.http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/1986_05_04_Friendly_RomanCatho...
It turns out that the Vatican (or people in the Vatican) first heard of Murphy's crimes in 1995, not 1996 as previously reported. http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_statements/2010_statements/042210_vatica... says: "The Pope's lawyer [Lena] blames Wisconsin bishops for hiding Fr. Murphy's crimes too long. But when the Vatican knew of the devastation, it stayed silent and did little. So it doesn't matter whether the Vatican kept secret a day after or a decade after the rapes happened. What matters is that the Vatican, in fact, knew of child sex crimes and did little or nothing to protect the vulnerable or heal the wounded."A decade after? Actually 21 years after. The crimes were already on public record when the Vatican first heard of them in 1996. "Protect the vulnerable and heal the wounded" here means punishing the priest 22-24 years later.
But it should be noted that the Vatican does not admit any failures of the Pope before 2001 for the simple reason that Vatican critics have not proven any such failures.I agree. The Vatican is reactive, not proactive. It hides its failures and will not admit to anything until the press exposes it in plain view. That's why it is fair for us to connect the dots. I find the Hullermann case in Munich most compelling to show that Pope Benedict, in the past, acted no differently from the typical bishop in cover-up and secrecy.But these discussions are becoming repetitive. For the present, commenters (I included) seem to have exhausted their potential for original thoughts on this crisis.
The Vatican has stated that prior to 2001, Cardinal Ratzinger's office would not have been in charge of cases dealing with pedophilia.According to this article in The New York Times, "two police departments and the district attorney", were aware of the accusations but failed to address them. I wonder how often such accusations failed to be addressed when reported to the authorities?http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/27wisconsin.htmlJust F.Y.I. http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otn.cfn?id=629
A few footnotes:-the distinction between abuse of children and teens rises up again here.Sex abuse is a crime committed by misuse of power to people of all ages ( Isee SNAP is trying to gather stats on abuse of adults.)-It's said the Pope is going to offer a broad (world wide?) apology -for his own failures? What wil the apology mean?Will it change our perception of the "possibilities" in media reporting?-It's also reported the Pope may not go to England after all. What does that mean as the discussion/ reportage moves on?Finally, I tip my hat to David Gibson "the ferret."While there are surely some emotional overlays in the discussion of what has happened and how it's reported, I think David continues to do an outstanding job both in his posts here and over at Politics Daily.
There is something to David Gibson's observations about the press and the Vatican. I would add this, though: just as a talk-radio host can choose which guests he allows on the air, and can always get in a last word after the caller has hung up, so a public editor can choose to which critics he responds. Hoyt, istm, rounded up a handful of relatively ineffective responses to the original article, and proceeded to point out their weaknesses. Okay as far as it goes. But in my opinion, the response that really took the wind out of the NY Times' sails on this story, and made credible George Weigel's judgment that the story is now "thoroughly discredited", was Michael Sean Winters' blog post at America on 3/26. After reading Winters' incisive analysis, it's impossible, istm, not to see the original story as a failed attempt to smear the pope. That is not to say that we didn't learn useful and distressing things from the story and its follow-up. But the lasting impression is that the NY Times attempted to tar the pope, and muffed it.
Jim,Weigel said
in a story claiming that, as cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [CDF], Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI, had prevented sanctions against Father Lawrence Murphy
But the story didn't say that. The Times story begins
Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused BoysBy LAURIE GOODSTEINTop Vatican officials including the future Pope Benedict XVI did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal. . . .
The Times never says what the pope did or didn't do. It only says he received the letters. The Times also does not allege that anything was at stake other than appearances. It does not claim that if Murphy had been defrocked, it would have prevented children from being molested. On the other hand, Michael Sean Winters says
The case from Milwaukee was sent to Ratzinger because the charge of violating the confessional is reserved to the Holy See. By 1996, however, the priest in question was dying and Ratzinger recommended that the authorities not take any steps; nature had already taken its course and ended the possibility of a future threat and Sister Death was about the claiming the perpetrator for herself.
Winters actually does attribute to Ratzinger something ("Ratzinger recommended . . .") that the Times does not.Those who are upset about the Times coverage seem to be concerned that only one incident was reported, and that the Times does not say, "However, look at everything Cardinal Ratzinger and now Pope Benedict XVI has done since this story." The "problem" with Clark Hoyt's assessment of the coverage by the New York Times is that Hoyt is looking at it as a journalist, and others -- understandably or not -- are looking at it as Catholics who don't like seeing anything the pope does portrayed in a less than glowing light. It is Weigel and Winters whose pieces have been discredited, not the Times coverage. Every pertinent document was made available on the Times. You didn't even have to read the story.
What the church needs if a Vatican version of Watergate's "deep throat."Unfortunately, considering the nature of the crimes and abuses under endictment, said title raises images that may not be suitable for small children, women and sensitive men. And horses in the streets.
David: "The Times never says what the pope did or didnt do." It does, actually: that first sentence from the article, which you quoted, says the pope "did not defrock" Murphy.The problem with Clark Hoyts assessment of the coverage by the New York Times is that Hoyt is looking at it as a journalist, and others understandably or not are looking at it as Catholics who dont like seeing anything the pope does portrayed in a less than glowing light. I don't think that's right, at least not in my case. I'm interested in Hoyt's analysis precisely because he's examining the story as journalism, independent of the positive or negative impact it has on the Church or how angry it makes Catholics. I don't want to see the bishops or any other Church spokespeople attacking the media; I want to see them examining the failures of Church. But being hard on the NYT is Clark Hoyt's job. And I'm disappointed in what he came up with because, as media criticism, I think it's pretty weak.
It does, actually: that first sentence from the article, which you quoted, says the pope did not defrock Murphy.Mollie,Well, I did not defrock Murphy, either! Nobody defrocked him. What I meant was that the Times coverage does not say Ratzinger made any decisions, gave any orders, or intervened personally in any way, as Hoyt points out when he says, "The Times article did not establish what role, if any, Ratzinger played, saying only that communications about the case were addressed to him and that his deputy intervened." It seems only fair to me, since Ratzinger was the man in charge, who received the correspondence, to say he did not defrock Murphy. It's not an accusation. It's just a fact. The CDF did not defrock Murphy. But being hard on the NYT is Clark Hoyts job.No, I think his job is to be as frank and candid in his assessments as possible. He is the public editor, he's not the prosecutor. He is there to give an independent judgment, not to make a case against the Times when he believes they have done the right thing. I don't really want to rehash the whole thing, but I don't see how the story was unfair. And some key points that were disputed have been clarified, so we do know that Weakland was overruled by Bertone and told to stop the trial. A lot of the CDF's defenders said it didn't tell Weakland what to do, it only made observations, and Weakland stopped the trial. But we now know Brudage's initial comments on the whole matter were incorrect.
"The Times never says what the pope did or didnt do. It only says he received the letters."David - then why mention him before even coming to the predicate of the very first sentence of the story?
David then why mention him before even coming to the predicate of the very first sentence of the story?Jim,Because he (a) received the correspondence, (b) was the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handled the case, and (c) he is currently the pope. As I have said before, if somebody writes to Obama at the White House asking for something to be taken care of, and Rahm Emanuel handles the matter in a way that is open to criticism, do you think it's unfair to explain who Obama is and that Rahm Emanuel works directly for him?
I asserted that Ratzinger's critics have not proven their case against Ratzinger. Bill Mazzella answers:"What you gratuitously assert I can gratuitously deny."This is a double fallacy, in that it presupposes -- without proof -- that my assertion is gratuitous, and that is then gratuitously denies it instead of pointing to the facts that would refute it.True, Bill goes on to cease being gratuitous by pointing to facts:" But facts back up Vatican failures before 2001."Of course. But they also show Ratzinger fighting other people in the Vatican on the Groer and Maciel cases, though he was not then in charge of such matters; The Tablet pointed that out in an interesting editorial recently."Rome and Ratzinger bear responsibility for repressing information about pedophilia in the American church. The Ratzinger CDF which ruled with an iron hand did nothing about this growing scandal which Greeley, Doyle, Berry and others clamored about."Again, this presupposes, quite incorrectly, that the CDF was in charge of sex abuse issues. It wasn't, until 2001. Is it not possible that Ratzinger was so annoyed with the poor handling of those issues in the Vatican that he asked John Paul II to put him in charge of them in 2001?So Bill, what you are doing here -- unless you offer proof -- may be a form of scapegoating. Ratzinger looks like the juiciest target for blame, but he may be precisely the wrong target.Meanwhile, I note that Bill DeHaas has not withdrawn his apparently libelous claims about Cardinal Brady.
I think I am probably not alone in having finally gotten tired of defending the Church or the Pope in this matter when, presumably, if he really wanted to prove the NYT wrong he has the means to do so -- release additional records or materials related to the disposition of cases. We have no idea whether Bill is scapegoating because the target has no inclination and no real incentive to set the record straight when legions jump to his defense giving him the full benefit of the doubt without knowing what the rest of the story might be. I really marvel at how people can play the same game over and over, until the next revelation comes out and God knows what that will be. This is how abusive relationships work, until the wildly pathologic just seems like another normal day.
Barbara - you are correct. The pattern for 25 years has been first one document; then another, etc.O'Leary - you can defend and spin your theories all you want; none of us really knows but eventually enough documentation will be released to confirm the age old pattern. You run the same risk as G. Weigel, First Things, EWTN, etc. who held Maciel and others up as the next saint. Even John Paul the Great - my guess is that history will not treat him well given the crisis of sexual abuse; the litmus test for naming orthodox bishops not leaders; etc.I think I will line up with the pattern being negative not positive. If he had nothing to hide, we would know about it. It will just take time and sadly outside agents rather than the church itself will have to expose the truth.
But we do know about positive steps Ratzinger took -- do they not figure at all on your balance-sheet?"If he had nothing to hide, we would know about it" -- that way lies paranoia!
No one denies that the church has failed miserably, including above all the Vatican (even if not everyone agrees on how the failure is to be remedied and even if not everyone agrees on the premises to the rage against abuse of minors and the automatic draconian measures prescribed -- instant defrocking and mandatory reporting etc.). But it is childish to be obsessed with pinning convictions of wrongdoing on Ratzinger personally, especially given that sources as respectable as The Tablet think that he figures as an abrasive agent of reform within the Vatican on this particular point (though again I would not agree with all his actions, such as the ban on gay seminarians that he pushed through.)
You can argue that as head of the institution that has failed, Ratzinger should resign. But did you call on John Paul II to resign? Why not? Because he was not a fashionable scapegoat. Pretty much everyone agrees that the Church's record in handling cases of abuse is better under Ratzinger -- he scores 3 to JP2's -1, someone estimated. Calling on him to resign actually goes against the alleged purpose of defending children (since an African or Latin American pope is not guaranteed to be better at that). In any case, Ratzinger is 83 so we need to be thinking calmly and rationally about the future of the church, not fomenting a painful situation with polemics that have no bearing on anyone's welfare.
More press malfeasance, apparently: Benedict is supposed to have said, "the faithful must place absolute trust in their clergy." Can anyone find the original? I found a report that suggests that what he actually said was that we need priests in whom the faithful can have absolute trust:"Benedict, in remarks to the public in St. Peter's Square Sunday, told priests they must "fight for the defense of the flock," defend their charges from "evil" and ensure that faithful can place "absolute trust" in their pastors."Bill Mazzella says the Benedict can easily defend himself if he wants to, yet rejects any defense as craven apologetics.
Here is a report on the unsavory Castrillon Hoyos -- Benedict's prejudice against Liberation Theology and his liturgical medievalism links him closely with Castrillon. http://www.golias.fr/spip.php?article3965
Bloggatores, si non vultis vos adsociare turbo calumnatorum, prudenter vigilate! Exemplum dabo:"The memo was sent out in March following a brainstorm session by four junior Foreign Office staff who make up the Papal Visit Team. The official memos suggests the Pope opening an abortion ward; spending the night in a council flat in Bradford; doing forward rolls with children to promote healthy living and performing a duet with the Queen (changing the British national anthem from God save the Queen to God save the world). The ideas doesnt stop here. The clever gentlemen suggests the Pope should launch a new brand of condoms called Benedict, the memo also proposed that the Pope should announce sacking of dodgy bishops, sponsor a network of AIDS clinics, bless a gay marriage and conduct a training course for bishops on child abuse allegations."
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Collegium Baliolense insignae Universitatis Oxoniensis erubescit hodie: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7... promoveamus talem vulgaritatem et ignorantiam, sed quaeramus judicium sobrium et maturum.
If he had nothing to hide, we would know about it that way lies paranoia!No, that way lies rational expectations based on years and years of revelations. Cynical, maybe, paranoid, I think not. Eventually credibility runs out and people stop giving you the benefit of the doubt. Does the Pope deserve credit for actually taking abuse seriously? Of course. But the old pattern of trying to avoid transparency or bullying the press for daring to cross the Church still seems to take over at crucial moments.
Concedo quod Papa debet aperte loqui de erroribus suis. Vide http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36791500/ns/world_news-the_new_york_timesRat... impedivit promotionem Krenn, conoscens indolem pederasticam eius, sed non potuit persuadere Johannem Paulum II ut removisset Groer, alterum pederastem, ab episcopatu.
The NY Times has a new article today, examining the future Holy Father's role in the Cardinal Groer case. Perhaps it merits a separate post?http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/europe/27vienna.html?th&emc=th
Fr. O'Leary: ten consecutive posts is at least eight too many. Please do us all the courtesy of composing your thoughts and then hitting "submit." Otherwise we'll have to start pruning (beginning with anything not in English).
Or how about this Op-ed by Larry Lessig in today's NYT:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/opinion/27lessig.html?ref=opinionMost of you know that I am not a fan of extending statutes of limitation, but I do take one very important lesson from this editorial about the Church's response to abuse, and that is, if the Church had acted sooner with the view of protecting and helping abuse victims, it would not find itself in the position of relying on civil statutes of limitations to completely avoid responsibility, and the cost of assuming some responsibility would likely have been far lower. The Church now finds itself in the position of having to rely on some of the most hard-nosed and uncharitable doctrines of the secular justice system, which does sometimes deem it the best outcome that someone have no redress for uncontested wrongs.
Barbara beat me to it - the oposition to SOL reform remains very strong in several States I've mentioned before and I think Prof. Lessig's argument underscores my difference with Jim as to what justice means here.I also note the number of continuing episcopal resignations in Europe .Would that the American hierarchs would have been as manly as these to step forward and step aside post 2002 (and I don't mean a Law like resignation to a more comfy powerful position.)My question is this:did the failures in the US to step aside (as well as the promotion of a number of enablers) hapen under Roman direction and is the battle gainst SOL reform, so united and strong, orchestrated from there as well?Some may continue to defend the Roman center as "gettimg it." My view is that anny such "getting" is partial.
I found this on a web site urging reform of laws on child abuse to extend the statute of limitations.
Why Must We Reform the SOLs? Child sexual abuse is a larger national problem than we, as a society, anticipated. Research has shown that as many as one in four women and one in five men suffered abuse as a child and that almost 90% of abuse never gets reported.Those that do come forward find themselves barred by the legal technicality of a statute of limitation. Considering how long victims often take to find the courage to speak out, the statute of limitations are woefully short and act as an arbitrary barrier to justice.
In New York, advocates of SOL reform seek a change in the law so that the statute-of-limitations clock doesn't start ticking until the alleged victim is 23, effectively allowing legal action until age 28. It also opens a "window" for one year during which there is no statute of limitations for any cases, no matter how old.It strikes me that if the statistics are correct (1 in 4 girls and 1 in 5 boys suffering abuse as children), we have a strange situation in which between 20% and 25% of Americans have grounds for a lawsuit until they reach the age of 28. If the problem really is of this magnitude (and I am wondering if it is) it seems to me there are a lot more important things to do than extend the statue of limitations. The obvious (and most difficult) one is to lower the abuse rate. The next would be to create a climate in which those who were abused were much more likely to come forward when it occurred than to keep it to themselves to the age of 28 (or never disclose it at all). I do think SOL reform is largely aimed at the Church and is unfair. Particularly bizarre is the idea of the "window," since if it is necessary for the sake of justice to let people bring cases that are decades old for a period of one year, how can it be fair to reimpose the old, allegedly unfair restrictions after that one-year-period is over?
I think SOL legislation is aimed mainly (as per the cited how many percentage wise are shut out from seeking redress) at rectifying inequity towards this vcohort of victims (who have difficulty coming forward in the time frames originally set!Many on the isde of SOL legislation argue its about victims and child protection. How it is aimed mainly at the Church needs some kind of factual base. That perception, I think, is grounded in the reca;citrance of the Church in oposing such laws -which seems to provide an inferencd they have much to both hide and (self)protect.
Mollie, 10 communicationes successivae non constituunt excessum grave, quia scribebam in 9 horis nocturnis (in America, diuturnis in oriente).
Sorry, no. You posted five comments in 32 minutes. Everyone else manages to put 30 minutes' worth of thoughts into one comment. You need to do the same, regardless of who might be awake to interrupt you.
Question: will PO'Leary only post in Latin from now on and if so why? And why should we bother with that???
I think it's because on some other thread I wrote: This blog sees the participation of a number of academics in the humanities. They feel comfortable quoting Latin without translation and they sometimes have arguments about topics way above my head. They have fun trading arcane historical anecdotes to each field its own style of entertainment! Its not designed for the general public, although everyone is welcome to join if they wish to. We are lucky that they let us listen to their sometimes learned discussions.(Sorry for quoting myself)


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In geospace, how do I find coordinates of the vertices of an equilateral triangle whose vertices have integral coordinates? How do I tell Mathematica to do that?
You can always find equilateral triangles that have any two points as vertices. For instance, the function
uses the definition that the length of the line from point1 to point2 must equal both the length of the line from point1 to point3 and the length of the line from point2 to point3, where
gives two answers (as should be expected)
We can verify that it's an equilateral triangle using:
Of course, this does not address the issue of integer-valued vertices. You can see that there are none by looking at the answer that
Taking the first of these
Now, by assumption,
Another indirect way to sense the insolvability is
One can see these solutions are not able to define triangle in 2D.
A mindless brute-force solution in $d \gt 2$ dimensions can be obtained with
(0.01 seconds execution time.)
Of course this can be hugely simplified with a little analysis (e.g., one of the vertices can be translated to the origin, $d$ can be restricted to $3$ with the remaining components padded out to a full $d$ dimensions with zeros, and any orthogonal or affine transformation with integral coefficients can be applied to the result to yield a large set of solutions).


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I want to use the t-test on samples grabbed from performing a procedure in three slightly different ways. These are very correlated. I have gotten several samples of results from all 3 of these. I've generated their means, standard deviations, confidence intervals, etc.
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Our new 'Fifteen Minutes' features series gives City players just a quarter of an hour to reveal what they would do if time was of the essence!
Under the spotlight this time it's the man in the centre of the park, our midfield maestro James Milner.
If you could hold a conversation on the phone with anybody for 15 minutes, who would it be?
"I love my golf, so I'd have to say Tiger Woods."
If you could spend 15 minutes with anybody, dead or alive, who would you pick?
"Tiger Woods again, just so I could pick up a few tips."
If you could spend 15 minutes anywhere in the world where would you pick?
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What is the worst 15 minutes of your career so far?
"Getting relegated with Leeds United in 2004."
What do you do 15 minutes before a match?
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What do you generally do during the 15 minutes of half-time?
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What do you do during the 15 minutes after the game has finished?
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If you had to watch 15 minutes of any film over and over again, which film would it be?
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If you could wipe 15 minutes off any game in history, what would you choose?
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If you could wipe 15 minutes off history, which would you choose?
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Andy Warhol was said that everybody is famous for 15 minutes. What has been your most famous 15 minutes so far?
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If you only had 15 minutes before the world ended, what would you do?
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The drama unfolded just before 5 a.m. Friday as uniformed Bellevue SWAT team officers were serving a search warrant at a home near 43rd Avenue South and South Hudson Street as part of an investigation into a spree of armed robberies in Bellevue.
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Denouncing 6 Big Republican Lies!
EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS VIDEO! It explains, in plain language, why the lies being told by the right-wingnuts need to be rejected by all of us. The GOP strategists continue to lie to their "limited information voters" who need nothing more than a half-truth, cliche or metaphor, sounding patriotic, to make a decision. These voters fail to ask questions or perform the research to uncover the truth that will show the simple-minded drivel being expressed by people like Perry, Bachmann, Paul and yes, even the most "normal-sounding" of all the wingnuts, Romney! They are leading this country down the path of a theocratic oligarchy! As Reich says in this video: We cannot become so cynical that we give up, throw in the towel and allow the wingnuts to win. It will put us all back into the 18th century, where royalty, the church and the rich held power over the poor. By giving up, we give our children and grandchildren a future of submission and scraping to survive, while the rich control the world!


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In this joint paper that I should be working on, we make significant use of a certain generalization of a triangulated disk. Many of our important examples are triangulated disks, but we are also interested in certain simplicial complexes that are singular disks, or even more generally singular disks tiled by polygons. It is easy to describe the disks of interest to us as simplicial complexes which are contractible, compact subsets of the plane. The embedding in the plane only matters at all up to isotopy, and it also does not matter all that much; the most important condition is that the complex is contractible and at most two triangles meet at every edge. For instance, you can have two triangulated disks that meet at a vertex, trees, "barbells", etc.
One could more generally look at those topological spaces in the plane that are an intersection of nested, closed disks, or maybe those that are locally connected. For instance, the Mandelbrot set is one. We do not need them for what we are doing if they are not simplicial complexes, but this is an interesting class of topological spaces that should have a good name.
The following names have been proposed:
- Van Kampen diagram - standard but ugly; very close to what we use although our edges are not labeled by group elements.
- Contractible plane continuum - descriptive but clumsy.
- Diskoid - a good name, by analogy with a dendroid which is the 1-dimensional case, but it doesn't seem to be standard.
- Cactus - also a good name, by analogy with trees in graph theory, but it seems non-standard.
- Singular disk - livable but not specific enough.
The reason that I want a short name is that the object X itself is used to make a moduli space or an algebraic variety. The moduli space is easy to describe: Assign fixed lengths to the edges of X and look at its rigid embeddings into a metric space. So we wouldn't want to say "contractible plane continuum variety". Also, for no particular reason I've been thinking of the triangulation as an extra decoration and instead name the underlying topological space.
I can certainly think of livable names, but the general idea appears in several places in mathematics and I would prefer a good name. Could someone with a good sense of the literature argue for a particular term, not necessarily one of the ones listed above? Or any useful opinion would be welcome.


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FOLLANSBEE - Candidates for Follansbee mayor and police chief and two council seats will get a trial run in the city's primary election on Tuesday.
The two candidates in each of the four races will advance to the city's general election, which will be held June 11. Wellsburg and Bethany also will hold their general elections on that date.
Bethany doesn't normally hold a primary election, while Wellsburg Council moved to cancel its primary this year because no more than two candidates had filed for any office.
Follansbee Council has made plans to poll voters on whether to eliminate future primary elections during its general election.
Polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The following candidates will appear on the ballot:
Mayor: Challenger Ben Arthurs of 814 Gilbert Ave. and incumbent David Velegol Jr. of 400 Heathermoor Drive.
Police chief: Challenger Paul Arthurs of 814 Gilbert Ave. and incumbent John Schwertfeger of 1083 Jefferson St.
1st Ward Council seat: Tom McMillan of 427 Main St. and Vito "Skip" Cutrone of 514 Rose St. Incumbent Jim Miller chose not to seek re-election.
2nd Ward Council seat: Helen "Honey" Hedmond of 1050 Virginia Ave. and Dave Secrist of 726 Allegheny St. Incumbent Tom DiBattista chose not to seek re-election.
Those holding the city's council at large and 3rd, 4th and 5th Ward seats and the offices of city clerk and city attorney are unchallenged.
Follansbee's polling places are as follows: 1st Ward, Follansbee Library; 2nd Ward, Follansbee City Building; 3rd and 5th Wards: Follansbee Community House, with areas designated for each ward; and 4th Ward, Roksandich residence, 1299 Walker Road.
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Dean of Gordon Ford College of Business, Robert Jefferson, says: "He was such a spirit of adventure, also looking ahead, optimistic about the future, and he was just a joy to be around in many different ways."
Gordon Ford was 91 years old when he died and was still very active.
WKU Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Tom Hiles, says: "We were taken aback because I just saw him a month ago he played 18 holes of golf with Lee Robinson, one of his good friends, and then Gary Ransdell and I had dinner with him."
Hiles remembers when they named the College of Business after Ford.
Hiles says: "It was right before homecoming and I got a handwritten note from him, he didn't do email, he did a handwritten note laying out his $10.6 million gift. Needless to say that was one of the best homecoming presentations I've ever seen."
At the time the gift was the third largest ever made to a Kentucky college.
Jefferson says: "Well, Gordon Ford was very entrepreneurial. He valued education greatly. He wanted to make a difference in the future of students as they get an education and he believed that education is one of the things that enable the world to move forward."
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Gordon B. Ford graduated from the Bowling Green College of Commerce in 1934, a time of uncertainty and depression. However, the young accountant used his skills, training and determination to become a founding partner in the Louisville accounting firm of Yeager, Ford &Warren.
That firm merged with Coopers & Lybrand, which later merged with Price Waterhouse to become PricewaterhouseCoopers--one of the largest firms in the country. Ford retired as a partner and lived in Louisville and Village of Golf, FL.
Ford was a native of Greenville, Ky., and came to be, the forerunner of Westerns business college, through the hard work and determination of his mother, Mattie Newman Ford. He said she worked his way through college as a school teacher, underscoring the importance the Ford family placed on education and the long history the family has had with Western. Mrs. Ford received a teaching certificate from Western in 1909.
In December 1998, Ford honored both his mother and Western when he announced a $10.6 million gift commitment to the University, the largest single gift in the schools history. The gift created the Gordon Ford Deans Fund for Excellence and the Mattie Newman Ford Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies. In a show of appreciation, Western renamed the college the Gordon Ford College of Business. Ford also gave 10 or more scholarships a year for worthy students at Western since 1992 and was an active member of the WKU Board of Advisors and a director of the WKU Foundation. In 1999, he was inducted into Westerns Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Ford was active in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and had served as the groups vice president and director.
He was also active in the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants, where he had served as president and received the groups Distinguished Service Award. He was the author of several articles, including one for the Journal of Accountancy titled Long Range Plan for Development and Growth of a CPA Firm and co-author of History of the Professional Practice of Accounting in Kentucky.
He was a director of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce and Louisville Central Area, Inc.; a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; a trustee of Bellarmine College; director of several corporations, including the Gordon Ford Foundation; and a member of the American Seniors Golf Association and the Southern Seniors Golf Association.
He was a member of Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville and First Presbyterian Church in Delray Beach, FL.
He was married to Glenda Ford and had three children: Dr. Gordon B. Ford Jr. and Gayle Ford Whittenberg, both of Louisville, and Gregory N. Ford of Melbourne, Fla.


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Your child becomes aware of letter shapes.
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In March of 2011, David Parker filed his 2010 income-tax return with a check for what he owed the Internal Revenue Service.
Three months later, weeks after the check was cashed, the Seattle resident discovered during a mortgage refinancing that someone else had collected more than $3,600 through a fraudulent return that carried his name, Social Security number and an address in Irving, Texas, with his same street name.
"It's a shock when this happens to you," says Mr. Parker.
It took dozens of hours on numerous calls to multiple IRS caseworkers over 20 months and help from the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, the IRS watchdog, before his case was settled. The IRS flagged his account to prevent further abuse.
But when he filed his 2011 tax return last Feb. 17, it was rejected because one had already been filed with his Social Security number.
The IRS has long been the bane of American taxpayers, but the misery index has shot up since the advent of electronic filing and a congressional mandate to get refunds out within 21 days of receipt.
That puts speed ahead of detail and accuracy at the IRS, spiking tax-related identity thefts from 48,000 in 2008 to 650,000 in 2012, according to the Taxpayer Advocate.
Why the hike? E-filing is effortless. It only requires a legitimate name, a Social Security number and information from the W-2, not the actual form.
"It's so easy to type up a phony one," says Jay Starkman, a certified public accountant in Atlanta. "There are no fingerprints, no software ID, no tax forms to sign, no trail."
The IRS doesn't require refunds to be deposited to accounts in the names of filers, so criminals have them sent to their own accounts and, increasingly, to prepaid debit cards that have nothing tied to them.
Some 80% of the more than 130 million individual tax forms filed annually are e-filed, which has popped out refunds in as little as seven days. Computers armed with sophisticated algorithms and filters are doing most of the work, but they do still pass human eyes.
That's troubling to Mr. Parker. The two-page fake return stated that Mr. Parker, chief executive of the Washington Institute of Sports Medicine, which he owns as well as two other businesses and investment properties, made only $32,000 in 2009, a level that qualifies for an additional refund of $400 from the Earned Income Tax Credit. His real filings over two decades have reported incomes far higher and were at least an inch thick and very complicated.
"I asked them if the rejected one looks like the ones I've sent for the last 25 years," says Mr. Parker, who noted that he has been married for 45 years and the fraudulent return said he was single.
"The IRS would only say that people get divorced, they move, we don't know that wasn't you and that your circumstances didn't change," Mr. Parker says. "That's a valid point, but shouldn't they have checked it out more?"
The IRS, burned by rampant criticism, calls identity and refund theft a "top priority." It has instituted stronger screening filters and doubled caseworkers to 3,000 to work on identity-theft-related issues. Another 35,000 employees are trained to identify theft indicators and help victims.
Still, accountants and ID-fraud experts warn that tax-fraud theft will get a lot worse before the IRS gets control of it.
"The only way to stop it is to slow down the refund process," Mr. Starkman says.
Here are tips on how to avoid tax fraud:
Stalk your mail carrier. If you haven't received your W-2 or other tax documents, find out why. This is prime time for mail theft.
Don't fall for phishing emails. The IRS will never contact you through email or ask you online for your Social Security number to verify your identity.
Don't carry your Social Security card around and never give the number out to any business that asks for it.
File early. "It's not going to stop any breaches, but it reduces your risk," says Raul Vargas, fraud operations manager for Identity Theft 911, an identity-management solutions firm.
If you have a "reasonable" expectation of victimization because your information was breached or you already have been victimized, ask the IRS for an identity protection personal identification number, or IP PIN. That's attached to your Social Security number, blocking your return until someone has manually looked at it for three years.
If you haven't done it already, when you e-file this year, get a PIN for filings or use your adjusted gross income from 2011 as a PIN. If you forget or lose it, the IRS will give it to you over the phone, but plan on it taking as much as an hour of waiting.
Corrections & Amplifications
Raul Vargas is fraud operations manager for Identity Theft 911. The company name was incorrect in an earlier version.
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—Jennifer Waters is a columnist for MarketWatch.com. You can follow her on Twitter @JenWatersMKW.


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After watching Ric O'Barry in The Cove, it's hard not to want to free any dolphin you come across in captivity. O'Barry has been at the forefront of dolphin rescue since the '70's, after watching Kathy, one of the five dolphins who played Flipper, commit suicide in his arms. O'Barry is now working to free the largest member of the dolphin family: the orca. Along with a former SeaWorld trainer, two other marine mammal experts, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), O'Barry is listed as a "near friend" of Tilikum and Katina from SeaWorld Orlando; and Corky, Kasatka, and Ulises from SeaWorld San Diego. The five orcas are named as plaintiffs in PETA's lawsuit against SeaWorld. Tilikum is the orca that grabbed and killed his trainer in 2010.
PETA is asserting that the whales are, in effect, involuntary servants: held in captivity, ripped from their families in the wild, subject to sperm collection and artificial insemination, and forced to perform; all for SeaWorld's profit. PETA is arguing that this is illegal… under the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1864. PETA claims this is the first suit of its kind: seeking to apply constitutional rights to animals. Continue reading


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KILLEEN (September 24, 2012)—The fire that heavily damaged Gateway Middle School Sunday in Killeen was set on purpose and fire investigators are trying to find a man who was seen climbing a fence behind the building at the time of the blaze, police said Monday.
The fire was reported just before 4 p.m. Saturday at the alternative school in the 1300 block of Gowen Drive.
The building was engulfed in flames when the first crews arrived.
The roof on the east side of the building collapsed and a portion of Zephyr Drive was shut down for several hours as crews battled the fire..
The fire destroyed the school's offices and other buildings sustained fire, smoke and water damage.
No one was hurt.
The man for whom fire investigators are looking is Hispanic, in his late 20s or early 30s, stands about 6-feet tall, weighs more than 200 pounds and was last seen wearing a yellow shirt and dark pants.
Fire investigators are asking anyone with information to call Killeen Crime Stoppers at (254) 526-TIPS.
Tips may also be submitted online.
Gateway Middle School and High School students were in class on Monday morning.
The middle school students were relocated to the old KISD Career Center/Pathways Complex at 3004 Atkinson Ave.


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I became a baal tshuva quite some time ago through the "yeshivish" derech, but for the last number of years have been becoming less and less religious, and losing enthusiasm and interest in Judaism. In an effort to "fix" this situation, I started exploring both Breslov and Chabad, which I hadn't been exposed to before and I find the "novelty" of both is stirring my interest. However, I'm a bit torn because they are different from each other and I can't really follow both, plus they each come with a different group of people I would hang out with. Also, I find myself hiding the fact that I'm interested in both when I am with each group. What should I do?
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I appreciate your dilemma. If the novelty of the approach is what is stirring you today, when it does become familiar and regular to you, no matter what approach it is, it will become boring and uninspiring. There are certain universal principles for growth that you will find in any legitimate approach that can keep the words of Torah "as fresh as the day we entered into the covenant with Hashem at Har Sinai".
In my opinion this is what your question should be:
What is the secret ingredient that never lets my service of Hashem become stale, boring, and uninspiring?
Yours should be a journey of discovery, not simple menu selection. With time and investigation, you will find which of the two options you gravitate towards.
I would recommend spending some time with each group (not concurrently), learning the respective Chassidus of each, experiencing how the Chassidim interact among themselves and with others outside of their immediate circle, how they treat their families, the authenticity of their Jewish commitment, how secure they are in their beliefs etc. As a Chabadnik I'd love to say "sign up here", but you have to discover for yourself what resonates with you.
You mention that you find the Chassidic approach "novel" and you seem to hope this will reignite that spark of inspiration you're concerned you may be losing. From a Chabad perspective, we're not big into the "spark of inspiration". Yes, everyone needs a jump-start to get their Jewish juices flowing, but that's the infatuation stage each of us needs to mature beyond.
In his intro to Tanya, the first Chabad Rebbe posits that his philosophy is the "long-short" way. That means Chabad Chassidus is not keen on quick-fixes or snappy answers, but rather a slow and steady absorption of Jewish principles, until Hashem and His Torah become a tangible reality, rather than short-term inspiration fireworks.
So, give yourself a time-frame. In that time, spend the first half with one group of Chassidim and the second half with the other. Drop any preconceptions you have and just be open to experience and learn what each has to offer. At the end of the exercise, hopefully you'll be ready to make a decision.
While you're at it, say some extra Tehillim and ask Hashem to guide you on the right path. When you're sincere in your quest, He'll give you clarity.
Hatzlocha rabba!
First ascertain for yourself what exactly caused you to grow disillusioned with your previous path. You may have already rationalized this, but it might deserve another look. If there are underlying issues behind it, you'll solve nothing by moving along to another path.
Spend some time thinking about your life. Get in touch with your emotions and try to identify issues that may be causing you sadness or anger. Talking to a good therapist helps with this.
I'm not making any assumptions about you. All I'm saying is: don't make assumptions about yourself either. Sit down and review. It's hard work but it's critical. Good luck to you.
You're not alone. I read (need to find where) about a large number of young people (especially in Israel) whose ideology is known as "Chavakuk" -- a combination of Chabad, Breslov, and Rav Kook.
Many lost souls end up in Chevron and are very happy there.
identifying yourself with one group doesn't mean you have to abandon the other or change your customs, first of all don't change your family custom, also even someone who strongly identifies himself with one group doesn't mean he can't leran from other, I have sepharadi friends who doesn't identify themselves with habad but learn tania, I see sepharadim who go to shiurim breslev, and hasidim in the mosae shabat shiur of the rav ovadia, and in general people in israel respect each other and read hidushim no matter which sect brought it, it is common to see in the same bet hacneset the flyers for the parasha of the rav shemuel eliahu and/or habad and/or breslev and/or litaim etc
Thank you for sharing honestly your perception of one of the most important questions in our generation: "How can I determine who my Rabbi is?"
In 1989, when I posed this question to the Rosh Yeshiva of the Breslov Yeshiva in Meah Shaarim, Rav Michel Dorfman z"l (born in the Ukraine in 1913) he answered:
"I don't know who your Rabbi is, but I can tell you what I did when I had the same question: I asked one of the Breslov chassidim of the previous generation -- Rav Avraham Sternhartz ztz"l -- and he told me: 'There are four words of tefila we say in Maariv and in Kriyath Shema every night that will help a person find his derech [pathway] in serving Hashem. 'Vetachneynu b'aitza tova mil'fanecha' -- establish us before You with good counsel'."
Rav Dorfman explained [and demonstrated) that if you say those four words with careful attention and listen to the sound of your own voice when you say them, lifting your face upward, closing your eyes, and repeating them once or twice, even with a slight, quiet nigun, this will help you find your teacher/derech.
Based on the consistently practical, insightful, and compassionate answers he gave me, I decided to accept Rav Dorfman as my teacher and I taught Torah under his auspices for 18 years until his passing in 2006. I've been studying with his Talmud muvchak, Rav Nasan Maimon, ever since.
Wishing you light to your path!
You might find yourself in Tzefas (Safed). There are many Hasidic-Fusion types there as well.
Personally I would suggest looking into Rav Morgenshtern. As in this sample here, he blends Breslov and Chabad Chassidus with his own encylopedic knowledge of Kabbalah quite well. I don't see why either branch of Chassidus has to be exclusive of the other, as they are both expounding on the teachings of the Besht in their own way. Further it could be well argued that to truly learn either would take a lifetime, so how could you choose in the meantime? I wish you well on your journey.
You say you became a BT using the yeshivish derech which I take to mean 'nigla'. Now you are trying to experience chassidus which is a type of 'nistar'. In other words and I am sorry for putting it like this you found you couldnt walk so you decided to run. The rebbes of breslov and chabad were both very great people and new 'nigla' as well and wrote seforim on it. These seem to be the only two chassidus which keep to the orginal way of learning kabala. All the others have dropped kabala and keep to nigla, and are basically not really chasidim at all. So to answer your question whom should you choose between breslav or chabad or both. My answer not being a chosid would be neither. Otherwise I would go for which people's company you prefer and who is more likely to be mekarev you.


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I notice you didn't mention Python at all, but it is possible to output a raster as a numpy array (arcpy.RasterToNumPyArray). Then you can iterate over the rows and columns of the array to get your result.
Assuming this is the output you want:
Then all you have to do is:
Note that writing to files needs to write strings. array.item() returns an actual Python data type, hence casting it into a string here. If you are running this in ArcMap, there is no need to import arcpy (the very first line).
It is not possible to display each cell in the raster attribute table. The raster attribute table shows zones.
Convert the grid to a point shapefile using Raster To Point Conversion, then view/edit/export that file's table.


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Nazi-Germany ran a bombing raid over India, in WW2. Which city was bombed, and what effect did it have? i.e how many casualties, or was transport closed down.
Madras was bombarded by a German warship during World War I. That's the only instance I could find in either war of an Indian city coming under that kind of fire from German regular armed forces.
Germany had no aircraft carriers, and their only real long-range bomber in WWII, the Heinkel HE 177, appears to have only been used in the Eastern and Western fronts in Europe. I don't believe Germany ever held any territory that would have been within the HE-177's 5,000 KM operational range from India. (The Eastern Ukraine is a wee bit further than that from New Dehli).
Agree with TED that German warships did not attack any Indian city. But a thing of interest is that of Japanese warships: Kakinada and Vishakapatnam were two cities that were attacked by the Japanese in 1942. It was believed that Madras would be under attack soon, but it wasn't eventually.


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Hello to all, first post :-)
Soon I will be ordering a NN5 to use with a Canon 40D + Grip + EF-S 10-22. Since this grip has a tripod mount offset of about 5mm, I will be ordering the QR System as well.
However, I would like to keep using my Manfrotto 410 plates, since those are what I use with my 410 Geared Head. and keep one 410 plate attached to the grip. I also have a 394 Clamp (to use with the same 410 plates).
So my question is: How can I do it?
If it wasn't for the offset thing, I guess I could just attach the 394 Clamp to the NN camera plate (no need for the NN QR System).
How about mounting the 394 Clamp on a NN T-Adaptor (and then attach them on the upper arm)?
Hope someone can help me find the most stable and secure solution.
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