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Nienstedt's apologia tour.
Two days before the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced that it had received an allegation of sexual misconduct against Archbishop John Nienstedt, he visited a parish to apologize for the way he responded to accusations of sexual abuse by priests.
When I arrived here seven years ago, one of the first things I was told was that this whole issue of clerical sex abuse had been taken care of and I didn't have to worry about it. Unfortunately I believed that. And so my biggest apology today...is to say I overlooked this. I should have investigated it a lot more than I did. [When the story broke] at the end of September, I was as surprised as anyone else.
Really? Because in 2009 Nienstedt's former top canon lawer, Jennifer Haselberger, warned him not to promote a priest with a history of sexual misconduct. Nienstedt made him a pastor (the priest was already administrator of the parish, thanks to the previous archbishop's bad judgment). The priest went on to abuse children in the parish. Haselberger provided Nienstedt with a golden opportunity to "investigate it more." Why wasn't he more alarmed? Where was his sense of urgency? Calmed by the assurance that in the Twin Cities "this whole issue of clerical sex abuse had been taken care of"?
And just last year Haselberger informed Nienstedt about another time bomb--this one was sitting in the chancery basement: a report indicating that "borderline illegal" pornographic images had been found on a priest's computer. Nienstedt did not report it to the police (in Minnesota, priests are mandated reporters). Haselberger did, just before she resigned.
Nienstedt was so troubled by the case that he considered contacting Rome for advice. In a detailed unsent letter to the Vatican, he acknowledged that this priest had possessed "borderline illegal" photographs of young people. He explained that he and the archdiocese could be subject to criminal prosecution for possessing such images (some were kept in the priest's long-buried personnel file). Nienstedt even expressed his "hesitation to assign [the priest] to any form of parochial ministry, given my doubts regarding his fitness for ministry and the potential harm and scandal that could ensue." That letter is dated May 29, 2012. But the archbishop wants Twin Cities Catholics to believe he was surprised when all this made headlines last September? Does he think they don't read the news?
But even if some buy the line that Nienstedt asked about that whole sexual-abuse-crisis thing upon arriving in St. Paul in 2007 and was told everything was hunky-dory, do they find it comforting? Pope Benedict XVI appointed him coadjutor just a few months before the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to its historic $660 million abuse settlment. And the year before Nienstedt moved to St. Paul, news broke that his brother bishop up the road in Chicago refused the advice of his abuse review board and allowed an accused priest to remain in ministry--a man who is now doing time for molesting children (for George this apparently raises deep theological questions).
That was the context of Nienstedt's query. The Catholic Church in the United States had not gotten over the scandal. Neither had most bishops. But he was satisfied when he was told that he need not worry about the local implications of the greatest crisis ever to befall the Catholic Church in the United States. All taken care of. Rest easy, Minnesota.
In that statement to the media last week, Nienstedt said that he is committed to restoring the confidence of his people, "who have lost confidence in us." As evidence of that effort, he mentioned his creation of an independent task force in order "to get the facts." He continued:
What went wrong? We have policies and practices in place. Obviously they weren't followed uniformly. I want to know what the facts are. I think you want to know what the facts are. And our people want to know what the facts are.
It's good that Archbishop Nienstedt has appointed an "independent" body to find these facts, because he hasn't shown much interest in sharing them with the public. (Indeed, when the archdiocese finally released the names of its "credibly accused" priests--after months of filibustering--it was missing three names.)
When Nienstedt finally consented to respond to Minnesota Public Radio's queries about the cases I mentioned above, he wasn't exactly forthcoming. When it came to the priest whose computer contained thousands of troubling photos, Nienstedt claimed the analysis of the hard drive "did not find evidence of possession of child pornography." He didn't mention that the same report warned that the images were "borderline illegal," or that he had composed a worried letter to the Vatican quoting that report.
Then Nienstedt claimed that police examined "the same material from the hard drive that was analyzed in 2004 and came to the same conclusion"--no child porn. In fact, a diocesan lawyer refused to give the police the report on the hard drive, agreeing to turn over just a few discs that supposedly contained the contents of the hard drive. "Whether these discs given to me were the actual discs or copies of those discs after first asking for them, I do not know," the investigating officer wrote in his report.
If the archbishop was committed to getting the facts out, he might have let MPR interview him in person. But they had to submit their questions in writing. No follow-ups allowed. His appearance before the media last week was also carefully controlled. Note the very beginning of the video. "Again, no questions," announces what looks to be Jim Accurso, the archbishop's PR manager.
And you can understand why. The facts of Nienstedt's role in these two cases have been known for months. Rather than come clean about his decision-making process, instead of telling the people whose trust he says he wants to restore why he decided to promote a troubled priest to pastor, a man who eventually molested the children of a parish employee, or why he didn't call the police after he was informed that a forensic examination of a priest's computer turned up "borderline illegal" photos, he changed the subject. He attempted to attach himself to the surprise local Catholics felt when they read September's disturbing news accounts. He fired a vicar general.
But he has not provided a straightforward account of his role in these scandals. Apparently he's leaving that to the "independent" task force. Who knows when they will complete their work, or how comprehensive it will be? But if the archbishop believes he can outrun the facts of the crisis he helped to create, he's in for a genuine surprise. Facts are funny that way. They almost always catch up.
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Business as usual I guess. One hopes that our new Pope will make sexual predation in the Church one of the issues at the top of his list. Otherwise, the damage will go on and on, and on. This issue ought to be framed as an all out war against sexual predators, not as an annoying side issue. If the Church cannot or will not protect children, then what the HELL good is it? Disclaimer: This is not a troll.
"Borderline illegal"??? Oh, dear Lord.
Not to worry, Bob, only someone living in an alternate universe would consider it "trolling" to say that the Church MUST clean the sexual predators out of its house. Unfortunately, ever since the first predator-priest stories broke in the 1980s, it's been clear that an alternate universe is exactly where the princes of the Church live.
Those of us who have been in the Diocese of Dallas since 1995 have lived through this situation already - only the bishop wasn't Nienstedt - it was Charles Grahmann who even was caught lying at the criminal trial of Rev. Rudy Kos.
Oh yeah, the bishop also promised to resign after the trial's end (per several significant lay catholics in the diocese - unfortunately, there were no notes or recordings of that meeting). Grahmann managed to stay on until past age 75 (Rome can't let a bishop lose face and Grahmann was a personal friend of Benedict's) and he even forced out the assigned coadjutor bishop.
Nothing will happen here either except an archdiocese that will be in chaos for years. Sad
From a practical point of view, the biggest challenge in the Church is not predators, it's the hierarchical culture of the official Church which enables the predation and then lies about both the predation and enabling.
I'm afraid that even Pope Francis doesn't see that problem very clearly yet. If he lives another five or ten years, his papacy will rise or fall on the issue. Sadly, I suspect that only he can change the culture. The curia is just too thoroughly corrupt to admit the issue.
Sometimes when reading about the church and sex abuse, I'm reminded of The X-Files, in which the concept of plausible deniability was raised to an art form.
"Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate." - Scully to Mulder. She should have known better - after all, she was a Catholic.
I think culture is key to understanding the institutional church. The church is highly centralized with local church leaders taking their cues from the top. My favorite authority on organizational culture, Edgar Schein, defines culture as a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems. As someone (Schein?) observed, culture endures because it works. Perhaps what makes church culture so difficult to change is its doctrinal underpinnings, e.g., Mt 16:18, bishops as "successors to the Apostles", the "validity" of Catholic sacraments, clergy as "priests" mediating between God and human beings. I suspect any pope would find culture a difficult nut to crack. After all, popes are themselves products of said culture.
Thanks for this post, Grant. It is hard to understand John Nienstedt's take on reality. Is he deliberately trying to pull the wool over people's eyes? Is he in deep denial? As a Catholic in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, I am sometimes afraid that he may not be conscious of the consequences of his actions. He comes off as sincere when he is excusing himself on the occasion you have noted. I have heard people feel sorry for him because he is a man in way over his head in the role of Archbishop. Where is the moral compass? We have asked that he resign, but where can he go? He may be trapped in that role till he is 75. One of the reforms should be procedures for men to step down, get therapy, get a job for which they are competent--and all without shame.
He is thinking about what he looks like to other people rather than about what has happened---and he is addressing the "perception" dimension rather than the realm of causative events. It's an utterly delusional approach. I have long compared the enabling bishops to fifteen year olds who burned the house down and want sympathy for their situation.
In the Philly Daily News --
"Sister to Pope: Tackle the Scandal."
Apologia means self-defense (over against an accusations or sukophantia); are you suggesting that the bishop is not apologizing but defending himself?
Mainly the latter. (And I know what the word means.)
Thanks for writing and also for letting us know. How to make that message heard by the pope?
Thanks for writing and also for letting us know, Sister Maureen Paul. How to make that message heard by the pope?
Outstanding again, Grant. The comparison of Nienstedt's self-delusions/ rationalizations/ willful blindness/ conscious ignorance/ flagrant indifference/ whatever/ .... to the facts in hand at the time is striking for the dishonest spin so typical of bishops.
I believe Grant's analysis may be applied to about any bishop involved in abuse cases and the modus operandi would be essentially the same. I am reminded of the justice department official who told me the same patterns of deception and denial prevailed from diocese to diocese across the nation; the similarities were constant.
Tom Doyle, Richard Sipe and the Catholic Whistleblowers (mostly clergy and religious) have been on the case for decades, and still complicit bishops escape meaningful consequences for their conduct. This is more than tiresome.
Does Francis have some strategy or is it the same old, same old ad nauseam?
SNAP think the solution consists essentially in mandatory reporting and sending bishops to jail. They gloated over the 50 year sentence handed down to a sick priest who photographed little girls lewdly. They are a sort of revolutionary tribunal. It would be interesting to say how they would act in practice if they were appointed bishops themselves. There was one case where they were unable to follow their own black and white prescription of handing over all documents irrespective of considerations of confidentiality etc. SNAP have failed to persuade Catholics of the wisdom of their tactics.
Nice image - acting as a *revolutionary tribunal* - guessing you are thinking the French 1789 revolution; the directory, the committee on public safety. Only it isn't 1789 anymore except that the Vatican behaves just like the monarchy of Louis XVI and thus you see the results.
JOL- you continue your monologue.....50 yr.sentence; sick priest (unfortunately, both society & church don't know or refuse to help abuser priests (Finn did nothing constructive to help this guy) and, yes, some of this sentence was an attempt to get back at Finn.
Again, how about his victims - 50 years; no, a lifetime. You, like too many bishops, never address the victims?
SNAP case in St Louis - your facts about the case are inaccurate.
A 50 year sentence motivated by "an attempt to get back at Finn" -- is this what American Justice has come to?
His victims are serving a life sentence? Not exaggerating just a leetle in the name of higher revolutionary justice? I know at least one woman who was molested by a relative in a manner more forthright than in the 50-years sentence -- by no means does she claim to be under a life-sentence. That is just a formula for hystericizing children. It is from the SNAP playbook. Any child who has been exposed to a voyeur or flasher is a victim for life, a Survivor, according to SNAP -- nay, any adolescent, and even any adult! Wake up and smell the madness!
"borderline illegal" repeated with holy horror by Angela above is a tricky entrapment term -- it means behavior that is not obviously illegal, but woe betide you if you attempt it, because some lawyer maybe able to get you.
This is also a dream category for censors. As a university teacher of literature I am increasingly aware that there is a whole array of literary classics that one simply cannot teach, because students -- who are the customers -- may feel uncomfortable. The "borderline illegal" reasoning also means that one could actually be prosecuted for teaching a literary classic that could be interpreted as encouraging illegal sexual activity or interest. American Puritans could easily unleash a new wave of book banning and book burning. All of the following authors have stories or poems about under-age sex that could be borderline illegal: Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Henry James, Gide, Mann, Joyce, Nabokov, Tournier, Auden, Tanizaki, Kawabata. I suppose the US has already banned borderline illegal popular films such as Channel 4's "Clapham Junction" or the Japanese series of 5 films called Tagawa Kun (or some such name) or Francois Ozon's recent films.
You may say that this would be a cultural loss, but surely that is worth it, since any child exposed to such material would be given a life-sentence of trauma!
And of course to protect our sensitive young people from literature disturbing to their political correctness and American nombrilism we cannot teach the Greek classics at all.
Correction, the Japanese series is called "Takumi kun"; it is ony the tip of a huge iceberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_Love_(film) http://kiminophrase.tumblr.com/post/39425714831/a-list-of-japanese-bl-movies-dramas
Of course Americans, in the "land of the free and the home of the brave" are not free to watch this stuff -- they might be jailed for years for watching borderline illegal child pornography...
You can learn lots of Japanese from the subtitles, and you can also learn about the mental fodder of Japanese girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NfqyNES-v0
I went to the movie "Another Country" in Tokyo when it came out and was surprised to find myself the only male in the packed theater! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFng62J2cE Oops, Julian Mitchell and Alan Bennett must be added to the list of borderline illegals.
For "Clapham Junction" see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction_(film) It takes a potshot at SNAP-type hysteria.
My thought exactly, Abe. Fr. O'Leary: I will no longer play host to your offensive minimizing of sexual abuse. I schooled you on this case the last time you proffered your ignorant musings about it. When a mandated reporter becomes aware of someone who may possess child pornography, he is required by law to report it. That's what "borderline illegal" means: maybe illegal. Whether such images are actually illegal is a matter for the courts to decide. I have explained this to you already. You are apparently ineducable on this issue. Or your ignorance is willful. Tough to say.
JOL - although you will discount Tom Doyle: http://www.awrsipe.com/Doyle/2012/SNAP,%20The%20Bishops%20and%20Ecclesiology%203-14-12[1].pdf
To your oft repeated literary list, here are some quotes from this article about victims and about abusers (those you see as victims being pillored by the US legal system):
"The stated goals of the church are holy, dedicated to truth and service. Claims that clerical culture rewards untruth appears counter intuitive. Operationally the culture's shared values and practices function to preserve itself regardless of the means used to retain control and image. The clergy sexual abuse crisis has underscored the American bishops' maneuvers, fair or foul, to avoid scandal, maintain secrecy, and preserve financial assets. Those are the conclusions of Grand Jury Reports (Suffolk Co, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Philadelphia, Kansas City, etc.) and A Report on the Crisis of the Catholic Church in the United States issued by the bishops' independent review board and chaired by Keating/Burke. (February 27, 2004)"
In terms of clerical abusers (that you naively see as *victims*):
"Clerical culture is psycopathogenic. That means that the elements that constitute the operation of the celibate culture favor, select, produce, and promote men who tend to be what were formerly termed sociopaths. Nothing has exposed this core of the culture more clearly than the abuse of minors and the involvement of the most exalted members of the hierarchy who cover up for crimes"
'The dichotomy between the Church's stated goals and values and its operational methods and practices produces and encourages clerical hypocrisy. Sociopaths (psychopaths) are not men who fail to know right from wrong; they are men who know what is right, but don't care (Cima, Tonnaer & Hauser, 2010).[20] The advertised altruistic agenda of clerical life makes it an exquisite cover for sociopaths and men vulnerable to narcissism. Work with clerical abusers reveals a profusion of "altruism in the service of narcissism." Every clinician who has treated large numbers of priest abusers gives witness to the conclusion that narcissism is a significant personality component of priest predators.
More broadly, clerical culture produces in many men an acquired situational narcissism, characterized by a sense of entitlement, superiority, lack of empathy, impaired moral judgment and self-centeredness. Identification with and incorporation into a powerful and godly institution can confer a sense of grandiosity and moral justification for one's personal behavior. These qualities favor a man's promotion within the clerical system.'
JOL - as a cleric, you might want to meditate on these insights. (especially your on-going and continual meme about those poor, clerical, misguided, *sick*, clerical abusers who everyone is either taking advantage of or are blaming)
Finally, you might want to review and learn from this literary critic:
"Literary critic, Lionel Trilling (1965) talks about the power of forces that change culture. Somewhere in the mind "there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason, that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge culture and resist and revise it." There is hope."
So, Grant, would you madatorily report someone who downloaded "Clapham Junction" or the Japaneses "boys love" movies onto his or her computer, and if not, why not? Bill de Haas, your rant merely shows your inability to answer any of my questions!
I see no need to refute the over-heated article by Sipe, who cannot even spell "Cloyne" in "Cloyne Report" and who is far indeed from seeing how tendentious that report was, since it has no relationship to the point I was making.
I had a wager that Bill would use the word "artsy fartsy" but he confined hiimself to "oft-repeated literary list" (not noticing the two quite new cinematic items, which he no doubt did not even bother to watch). Literature has a lot to do with life, and you close off this avenue of insight at your peril. Richard Sipe, in his more considered books, makes good use of literary sources. Censorship is already at work in Bill's dismissive gesture, not to mention Grant's habitual scolding and "schooling".
I take heart that Fr O'Leary can only state his opinion, and that he has no power over the situation of clergy abuse or cover-up. It has happened all around him, and for decades, and he doesn't get it. The very worst of conservativism in action. He made up his mind long ago, and discernment--let alone facts--aren't even in the picture. Sad.
I am not so worried about the pope. The Congregation of Bishops will simply have to come along. A lot of good pastors are walking with survivors and parents. They will eventually join others making a difference. It's inevitable.
I would like readers to note the gravity of Mr McFaul's claim that anyone who downloads "Clapham Junction", a respected product of British television, should be mandatorily reported to the police. There are thousands of people like him itching to report imaginary "offenders". Where does it stop? Why not report to the cops anyone who has a copy of Gide or Joyce?
I'm no admirer of the US bishops, but it's unfair and recklessly misinformed to paint "a controlled manner" while in contact with the police and prosecutor's office as suspicious. According to the US Dept. of Justice, American prosecutor's have, as of 2011, a head-spinning 93% conviction rate, up 20 percentage points from just a few decades ago. Tread carefully or you'll be railroaded. Except in bizarro Florida, which has a 59% conviction rate. Almost a coin toss!
93% conviction? This sounds lkie Japan, where it is regarded as symptomatic of huge miscarriages of justice.
Interesting to see that Todd Flowerday corrected Joe McFaul's hysterical language on a previous thread on this topic; https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/what-happened-ncregisters-controversial-interview-fr-benedict-groeschel
Please everyone, this blog should not devolve into, should not be devoted to untangling Joseph O'Leary's twisted understandings of the realities of child sexual abuse and exploitation of children by Catholic priests and bishops. Grant Gallicho is right: this is a clinical case of willful ignorance.
John Nienstedt is prima facie evidence of the corrupt, and corrupting, state of the Catholic priesthood and hierarchy. Nienstedt is yet only the most recent example that the Catholic hierarchy and the clerical culture that undergrids it is dangerously alienated from and hopelessly irrelevant to lives of millions upon millions of Catholics and Christians around the world.
The only intelligent response from adult Catholics is to conclude that the Catholic priesthood must be completely and thoroughly reformed and renewed from parish to pope. The only cadre within the Catholic community that has the competency, capacity and the duty to enact these necessary reforms are the PEOPLE.
Face it, the hierarchy is NOT up to this task: If the last forty years have taught us anything it is that the Catholic hierarchy is a spent force.
Despite all his pastoral brilliance that has thrilled and amazed the world since his election, Papa Francesco has already telegraphed to the world the political limits to which he is able to go, especially with the role of women in priestly ministry. How could Francesco now turn his back so easily on the very reactionary hierarchy that elected him pope when the ordination of women is considered subversive by the hierarchs.
[Before all the clerical trolls out there are aroused from their wounded stupor: I stipulate that ordaining women will not in itself make children safe from the sexual predation of priests. But, it would go a long way to driving a stake through the heart of the political hegemony over the church and the clerical culture of the all-male feudal, narcissistic hierarchy - the real heart of darkness in this rolling Greek tragedy .]
I say the PEOPLE must take the lead in the reforms and renewal of the priesthood admitting that it is a huge mountain to climb. After centuries of being kept in the state of spiritual serfs will not be easy to overcome, maybe even impossible. Many extra-canonical and extra-traditional tools will have to be experimented with over a long period of time. It will take extraordinary revolutionary discipline on the part of the PEOPLE.
My sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, would consider this a "great faith moment." I only know that this is where we must begin. I am convinced that these are only the first steps in a long journey of a thousand miles - the long road from slavery to freedom.
When all is said and done, it boils down to this:
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Micromanaged "religion" is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
If anything is micromanaged religion, Roman Catholicism is it in spades.
Jim Jenkins, "prima facie" is a weasel word which tells the reader your accusations are hypothetical. Your sort of overheated rhetoric is precisely why it has now become impossible to believe that anyone accused of anything to do with sexual misconduct with minors can be sure of a fair trial or fair sentencing. Since my postings on this thread did not refer to priests and bishops at all, but to the wider issue of society's attitude to adolescent sexuality, I suggest that you have not read them, but are giving a knee-jerk reaction, which again is the sort of thing that undermines the slow deliberation of justice and equity.
Correction, my first posting on SNAP as a revolutionary tribunal did concern clerical sex abuse; but my main point was that SNAP is fueling dangerous fire that could engulf American society, something like the Prohibitionists of sainted memory or the League of Decency or the War on Drugs, except potentially much worse, leading to murder of suspected or convicted pedophiles for example.
It wasn't a League. It was a Legion. And regardless of Cardinal Spellman's fulminations, I don't recall anyone being murdered for going to see "Baby Doll." Of course, there may have been some suicides.
JOL - you allege that folks are using *overheated rhetoric*.....and then you post the above....SNAP fuelng dangerous fire engulfing society; prohibitionists;legion of decency/war on drugs...much worse
Really, - now who is using *overheated rhetoric*? How sad....but, am sure you will now double down.
John Prior, this is about the third time you have misread my postings. I said that the Legion of Decency did NOT cause murder so that in this sense the pedophile hysteria could be more dangerous in that it HAS caused murders. Prohibition did cause murders but not committed by the proprohibitionists.
Bill de Haas, that is overheated in your eyes because you sanctify SNAP and ignore completely the dangers of pedophile hysteria.
Forgive me, Joseph S. O Leary, for misreading your postings. I don't know, it may be some last, unexpunged trace of charitableness or decency in my mind that refuses to accept what I keep reading in them. I'll try to do better.
John Prior, you might spare yourself the sarcasm and try to attempt rational dialogue.
Not that there's much hope of that from Commonweal...
Joseph O Leary,
- "revolutionary tribunal"
- "in the name of higher revolutionary justice"
- "a formula for hystericizing children"
- "one could actually be prosecuted for teaching a literary classic..."
- "we cannot teach the Greek classics at all."
- "dangerous fire that could engulf American society"
- "pedophile hysteria"
That's a sampling from just two day of your posts on just one article. Please don't lecture me about rational dialogue while you're pumping out such hyperbolical hogwash. It's only effect (and merit) is that it reduces your credibility.
Thanks, John....here's the JOL disconnect (or is it clericalism run amok?). Today's Dallas Morning News has 7 stories of men getting jail terms for rape or sexual assault (rape may have not happened). Guessing that most of these guys probably have some type of mental illness or condition that has helped create the crimes. Yet, don't hear JOL ad vocating for these guys? Are clerics special - such that criminal law and penalties can not apply to them?
In depth studies of the prison population in the US indicates that roughly 40% of all inmates suffer from some type of mental condition - so, do we just let them go; give them *token* sentences; assign to prison mental health facilities (btw - we don't have near enough).
Yet, somehow JOL sees a *witchhunt* and *conspiracy* against all abusing clerics - really? Does the law suggest that because they are clerics they should be treated differently?
Yesterday, met with a friend (priest for almost 35 years). We have known each other since 1st year in high school. We discussed an infamous case in his religious order - provincial was told about an abuse incident; he directed the priest to drive to the next town; spend the nite in a hotel, and then gave him money to fly across the country to St. Luke's Institute. Ten years later, this provincial was serving the bishop of Gallup, NM (infamous for the number of abusers since the Regina Cleri treatment center was nearby) and helped write the diocesan abuse policy - he also consulted and voted on re-assigning and moving credibly acused clerics. This is long after 2002, Boston, LA, etc. and yet, he appears to have learned nothing. (sees himself as an expert in behaviors because he has a certification as a marriage and family counselor).
My priest friend was totally unable to see that this guy was at best misguided.....he could only put himself in the shoes of the guy as provincial in the early 1990s and said - well, he probably was afraid that this cleric's life was in danger....someone might have come after him......we talked for another 20 minutes on this topic and the victims were never mentioned or brought up? This friend is a near genius, excellent management skills, good pastoral insights; passion for the poor, etc. And yet, he is incapable of seeing this situation as criminal; breaking basic laws; no compuction for the victims (unless it is the abusing cleric); and makes excuses at every turn. JOL is merely an extreme of this experience. Can only conclude that clericalism is so deeply ingrained that there is no ability to feel for victims; to make excuses with the illusion of safety; to think that it is all past us; to ignore, deny, excuse and to treat their brother priests as being the victims, put upon unfairly; or mouthing the usual - the bishops had the power and were unaccountable (and did you ever say so? did you ever act on that insight?)
We also talked about some common priest friends who are convicted abusers now in this religious community - my friend trusts that they are on *safety plans* (lingo in the community for these guys and monitoring/supervision). Yet, one guy was recently moved to the retirement center - he is one of the younger members of the community....why? he doesn't know; the province only releases and says that he is on a safety plan; no explanation; no announcement that he was moved/reassigned? In another case (also at this same retirement house), there is an accused/alleged abusing cleric (rumor has it that family members have made the allegations and the lawsuit is in the millions). This cleric has been isolated for the last ten years - first, living at a sister's motherhouse with one other cleric; then, quickly moved to the community retirement house when that prior diocese got a new bishop. There have been and are no announcements; no explanations; my friend trusts that he is on a safety plan (yet, know that this alleged abuser has his own car; can drive and travel freely). And my friend would rather remain in his denial; ignorance; etc. then be responsible and accountable? Help me understand?
John Prior, hyperbolic only insofar as people here do not take their logic to its conclusion. One did -- he said he would see someone who downloaded the Channel 4 product "Clapham Junction" as doing something "borderline illegal" and so as needing to be reported mandatorily. Everyone else refrained from answering my questions. Since many literary classics could equally be seen as "borderline illegal" I do not see what logic restrains the zealots from reporting a prof who would teach, for example, The Immoralist. I suggest that most profs value their comfort too much to teach such a dicy text, which in itself is a triumph of censorship.
Hystericizing of children is a genuine problem, ask any psychiatrist.
Bill de Haas, you could take lessons from Sinn Fein in whataboutery. I do not advocate for any victims of possible injustice except clerical ones, you allege -- utterly, utterly falsely! As I said several times, NO ONE accused of anythng connected with minors can be sure of a fair trial. Indeed, I took notice of the plight of pedophiles back in the 1970s, when I became a gay lib advocate, and that was long before I had any awareness of the existence of clerical cases.
By the way "a witch hunt against all abusing clerics" is not what I see. There are indeed clerical abusers who should be brought to justice, but the witch hunt mentality is an obstacle to justice. It is one of the reasons that bishops are so loth to report clergy to the cops. Parnell's words, "Do not throw me to the wolves", echo in their mind.
I am "an extreme of this experience" you allege -- which is just the sort of inaccurate smear that you and so many here indulge in. In doing so you create a climate that is utterly prejudicial to justice. It is this blustering self-righteous sloppiness that has made American Justice useless to deal with sexual abuse of minors.
Grant says I am not an expert on America -- no doubt -- who is? -- but America exports its expertise about the rest of the world to all of us. The US is felt and perceived as a generator of brutality, violence, prejudice, and a sneering sense of superiority worldwide.
J. O'Leary,
I hesitate to offer advice to someone who is clearly well-content with his arguments. But if your purpose is to persuade others rather than merely to drown them in the heavy rain of your postings, you might want to cut back a little on sweeping generalizations and wave-of-the-hand appeals to expert opinion. You say in support of one assertion, "ask any psychiatrist," as if you have polled them and found them, for the first time ever, in universal agreement.
And there is this:
It is this blustering self-righteous sloppiness that has made American Justice useless to deal with sexual abuse of minors.
And what was that sloppiness? Saying that you are extreme in your views on sexual abuse of minors. Yes, that accurate and unremarkable opinion has made American justice useless, and there is no fair and legitimate way of dealing with the matter, so we must presumably ignore it. Nicely argued.
As for your extraordinary statement that "we cannot teach the Greek classics at all," I hope it will comfort you to learn that the Iliad and Philoctetes and, yes, even the Symposium are still unsuppressed. They and the other endangered literary classics can still be freely taught at universities, if there is sufficient interest. University students are generally adults, whom the law allows to look after themselves.
NO ONE accused of anythng connected with minors can be sure of a fair trial.
Granted, but only because no one accused of anything at all can be sure of a fair trial. The innocent are sometimes incarcerated, and the guilty go free. Yet I strongly suspect that those accused of crimes against minors have more resources in money and expertise available to them than do defendants in ordinary street and drug crimes. And if they are clergy, way more resources.
Most people think that preying on children is despicable, and those that do it elicit very little sympathy. But a "witch hunt"? Hardly. With intimidated children and look-the-other-way adults and statutes of limitation, sexual predators have had it easier than many other offenders. Unless you believe that they are all innocent, you might occasionally express some concern for their victims, if only to keep readers of your comments from turning away in horror.
John Power, I do not "express some concern for their victims" as some sort of rhetorical ploy, as you advise. I take it for granted that all decent people are horrified at the sexual abuse of children.
My point, which you partly concede, is that the potent witch hunt rhetoric put forward so irresponsibly by so many has made this are one in which the system of justice has become radically untrustworthy. There are other areas as well, for instance when the defendant is black, but this does not take away from my point.
The Symposium and the Iliad are still taught, to be sure, but some students might be "uncomfortable" with the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus or with the louche moments in the Symposium. As to the Phaedrus and the Charmides, could you explain why someone who denounced them as "borderline illegal" would be wrong, by your logic?
Greek poetry is largely about "lovers of pretty boys" -- in short, it is "borderline illegal" and no professor who dares to teach it can consider himself or herself immune from possible persecution. See http://www.laits.utexas.edu/ancienthomosexuality/readindex.php?view=9
It is pretty hard to take American psychiatrists seriously when they rewrite their opinions in response to pressure from right wing organizations: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/family/item/16925-psychiatric-group-backtracks-on-pedophilia-classification
John Prior, you say "university students are generlally adults, whom the law allows to look after themselves" -- but in the case of "borderline illegal" matter, the law does not consider the age of the person to whom it is shown. One McFaul, here, said that "Clapham Junction", viewed late at night on Channel 4, by adults, should be treated as borderline illegal and as a topic for mandatory reporting of the said adults. Imagine a US professor showing it to his or her class -- it would only take one student to have him or her investigated by the police. The same is true of someone who teaches Andre Gide's L'immoraliste, for example. Can you clarify why you think it would be alright to teach Theognis and Gide?
I wonder will John Prior answer my question, or just indulge in more ad hominem name calling such as "extremist"! There is nothing extreme about my views on any of this, nor are they written in stone. I am quite open to rational argument.
So the answer, J. O'Leary, is more rain. I thought it would be.
Achilles and Patroclus? I was going to ask which book of the Iliad has the lurid homoerotic scenes that might make some students "uncomfortable," but then I saw this perfect piece of fatuity:
Greek poetry is largely about "lovers of pretty boys" -- in short, it is "borderline illegal" and no professor who dares to teach it can consider himself or herself immune from possible persecution.
And that is enough for me. Bye.
Fatuity? No, fact -- you did not read the link and you did not answer my question. Would you ban Greek lyric because of its pervasive pederastic content, and if not why not?
The Iliad? In antiquity the pederastic relationship between Achilles and Patroclus was intensively discussed; no professor could avoid dealing with it, because the naughty students would have found the details on Wikipedia. One scene concerns Achilles, Patroclus and a woman sleeping together, and the issue of whether Achilles was in the middle comes up. Patroclus was the eroumenos, Achilles a minor.
Achilles was 15 when he began fighting in the Trojan war. The literature on their relationship is pretty spicy. http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/randomstuff/achilles2.html
It seems to me you are logically bound to consider it borderline illegal and to denounce to the cops any professor who purveys such filth to pure American youth!
Or do you consider the Greek lyrics I quoted harmless and innocent?
And what about Gide? Surely you do not think his book is harmless?
This post was about, among other things, a priest possessing possibly illegal pornographic images. Of real people. Not literary figures.
At last an answer from Grant: borderline illegal concerns only real images of real people not literary images of fictional people.
But this distinction does not work at all.
First, it does not cover the film industry in which the actors seem to be minors; I refer again to "Clapham Junction" which has a scene of a 14 year old buggering a man and later a scene of full frontal nudity of the boy. I refer again to Tagami-kun, which has many scenes of boys in bed (one of a boy being molested by his brother).
Second, novels such as The Immoralist did concern real people, the very young North African boys that Gide abused; the same boys recur in Gide's diaries.
Third, pornography is not usually defined as concerning only real images of real people. Maybe US law has some such restriction of the meaning of pornography; on this I would like some clarification.
Fourth, apart from formal censorship there is a much wider informal censorship which is definitely affecting what can be taught even at university level. This has always been the case to some extent, but the current anxiety about children means that a vast tract of literature touching thereon has become unteachable, at the very moment when that literature has so much to teach us.
List away, Fr. O'Leary: You remain off
topic. Engage the post or get lost.
Oops, Takumi-kun, not Tagami-kun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iah_v_dEtyE
I don't myself believe that any of the material quoted is pornographic. But I do not see what it to prevent a zealot from seeing it as borderline illegal, or what is to prevent owners or teachers of such material being molested by the zealots. In my childhood we had terrific censorship and possibly this also created the silence and shame that have come to light in the examination of magdalene laundries and child abuse. Be careful, Grant, of subscribing to zealotry.


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This Week's Liturgy
February 22nd, 2012 (see other dates)
Ash Wednesday
Discussion Questions for Reading 1God's trumpet blast is not the only wake-up call we receive on Ash Wednesday. What do you think the ashes on our foreheads awaken us to? When you see your friends and other parishioners wearing the Sign of the Cross in ashes, what are you reminded of? What are some of the ways we can show that we are ready to return to God with our whole heart?
Reading 1 Joel 2:12-18
Reading 1 ReflectionThe early morning sound of a trumpet or bugle playing reveille at Scout camp calls us to wake up and start a new day. In this first reading for Ash Wednesday, the trumpet calls God's people to wake up and return to God with all their hearts. They have once again been unfaithful. But God invites them as a faith community to repent, fast, and pray for mercy.
God's trumpet calls us to return to him with our whole heart on this first day of the season of Lent. Because we too have sinned, it is time for us to seek forgiveness, do penance, and pray for a fresh start as followers of Jesus.
Discussion Questions for Reading 2Ash Wednesday is often a day of good intentions for many Catholics. We decide to give up sweets, be more patient with family members, or celebrate Reconciliation. What are some other decisions you might make about Lenten practices? Why is it often hard to be faithful to these decisions throughout Lent? How will you show you believe that "Now is the time to be reconciled"?
Reading 2 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2
Reading 2 ReflectionSometimes when we get too busy or distracted, we have bad timing. We send a birthday card two weeks late or miss an opportunity to try out for the basketball team. In this reading, we see how important it is to have good timing. God announces, "Now is the day of salvation!" The exclamation point means, "Don't miss out on it!" Lent is the time for us to be reconciled with God and with others. Then others will recognize us as ambassadors or representatives of Christ.
Discussion Questions for GospelLook back over this reading and choose one sentence that wakes you up to how Jesus wants us to pray, fast, or give alms. Why should we not boast about our good deeds? What are some of the ways you enjoy praying in private? How might you respond to someone who complained, "I'm fasting today and you have no idea how hungry I am! I'm starving! Most people couldn't do it, I'm sure"?
Gospel Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
Gospel ReflectionIf you have ever done a good deed in secret so that you would not be rewarded for it or thanked, you will understand Jesus' message in today's gospel reading. He warns us not to do any religious acts out of a desire to be noticed or to be repaid. People who fast or pray or give to the poor to make themselves look good are acting like hypocrites. They should not expect a reward from God. He sees the good that we do in secret or without notice. And he will repay us with lasting rewards.
Proclaiming Faith Activities for Primary Grades
Way of the CrossReproduce the cross for each child. Explain that the Liturgical Season of Lent is a time when we focus on Jesus' life and sacrifice. Tell the children that each day of Lent, they must give up something special or do something extra. Each day after doing this, encourage the children to color in one section of the cross. After forty days, the cross will be complete.
Class Prayer BookLent is a time when we are called to spend more time in prayer. Make a class prayer book. Ask them to think of people they want to pray for during Lent. Then give each child an 8 ½ x 11 piece of plain white paper and have them write the names of or draw pictures of people they want to pray for. Collect the pages and make a prayer book by punching holes and placing them in a binder. Throughout the season of Lent, offer prayers as a class for these people.
Proclaiming Faith Activities
Sketching Divided HeartsGod's message to us on Ash Wednesday is "Return to me with your whole heart." We can only do that if we recognize some of the ways in which our hearts are divided as Lent begins.
You might choose to do the following as a group, using markers and mural paper. Or you can do individual sketches on drawing paper.
Sketch a large heart with several lines dividing it into various parts. Label the parts with some of the persons, things, and activities that occupy your heart right now.
Decide which of these parts, if any, will not help you to return to God with your whole heart during Lent. Fill that part in with purple and write one way you will give more of your heart to God in the coming season.
Praying in PrivateJesus often went off by himself to pray, especially when he needed guidance, rest, or renewal. Young people often experience those same needs. To you, Jesus says, "Go to your room, close your door, and pray to your Father in private."
In the space below, write a prayer to your Father expressing your needs. Make a simple plan about how you will pray in private during Lent.
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As you travel close to the speed of light, it is to my understanding you gain mass. Does this also apply when the brain sends electrical signals to the muscles? Do the signals (that are traveling at the speed of light) cause the body to weigh more?
The signals travelling from your brain along your nerves travel at much much less than the speed of light. The maximum speed is about 100 m/sec.
In any case what travels down the nerve is a change in the sodium and potassium ion concentration not some mass, so there isn't anything to gain relativistic mass.
John Rennie's answer is correct.
Even if the signals would travel through or nerves at relativistic velocity, transmitted by some particles, this would not increase our mass, because to give those particles the energy to reach that speed, we have to consume it from somewhere else (perhaps to burn some calories). So the mass they gain by moving near the speed of light is in fact given to them by your body, and there is no increase of mass.
Let's discuss instead of a human with signals traveling through nerves, about a robot, which has optical fiber wires in which information travels at the speed of light. To create photons to be transmitted through the fibers, the robot consumes some energy. This energy is (partially) preserved in the photon. So if the photon increase the robot's mass due to its own movement mass, it is the mass which was "burned" to emit the photon. So its mass doesn't increases because of the photons traveling through its optical fibers wires. I can say that it loses mass, because these processes release heat (energy) in the universe. But this variation is too small anyway.


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Primer on Krav Maga: The Combative System of the Israeli Defense Forces
Primer on Krav Maga: The Combative System of the Israeli Defense Forces
By Brett
I cant remember how I first heard about Krav Maga, but I do remember being immediately intrigued. All martial arts have an appeal to most men and their fighting spirit, but Krav Magas draw owes less to the mystique of many of the traditional disciplines and more to a distinct aura of bad-assitude. Its a simple and effective street fighting self-defense system thats more martial than art. A well-trained practitioner of Krav Maga is basically a walking human weapon.
Wanting to learn more about Krav Maga, I first looked for a reputable gym that taught the system in my area, but I unfortunately came up short. So I got a set of Mastering Krav Maga DVDs for Christmas last year to familiarize myself with some of its basic principles. Wanting to know still more, I then called up David Kahn, the badass dude who made the videos and the Chief Instructor of the U.S. Israeli Krav Maga Association, to get his insights firsthand.
What I discovered is that Krav Maga is a brutally effective tactical mixed martial art/combative and self-defense system that lives up to its reputation. If you too have ever wondered what Krav Maga is all about, heres your primer.
The History of Krav Maga
Imi Lichtenfeld, founder of Krav Maga.
To fully appreciate Krav Maga, David says, you need to know its history.
The origins of Krav Maga can be traced to pre-World War II Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia) and a young Jewish athlete named Imi Lichtenfeld. Imi was a nationally and internationally renowned boxer, wrestler, and gymnast. Beginning in the mid-1930s, fascist and anti-Semitic groups rose to power in Czechoslovakia and began inflicting violence on Jewish communities. Feeling duty-bound to protect his neighbors, Lichtenfeld organized a group of young men to patrol his community and defend against would-be attackers. He quickly learned, however, that his training in sport martial arts was no match for the anti-Semitic thugs he encountered. Fighting for points in a match and fighting for your life in a street fight require a different mindset and different techniques. To effectively defend himself and his community, Imi began synthesizing his martial art knowledge and started placing an emphasis on attacks that quickly disabled and neutralized a threat.
By 1940, Imi found himself living under a Nazi-allied puppet regime and decided to head for Palestine to join the Zionist Movement and fight for a Jewish state of Israel. When he moved to Palestine in 1942, he joined the Haganah, a pre-Israel Jewish paramilitary organization with a mission to protect Jewish settlers from locals who did not welcome the new arrivals. Israeli military leaders quickly noticed Imis fighting skills and his ability to teach those skills to others. They put him in charge of training the militarys elite fighting forces, including the Palmach (elite strike force), the Palyam (marine commandos), and the Haganah.
After Israel gained statehood in 1948, these separate fighting forces were merged into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and Lichtenfeld was named the Chief Instructor of Physical Fitness at the IDF School of Combat Fitness. It was in this role that he developed what today is known as Krav Maga. Lichtenfeld needed a combative system he could teach new military recruits in just three weeks one that was simple, efficient, and effective, and could be applied in a number of lethal situations. To create such a system, Lichtenfeld combined the most effective techniques of boxing, aikido, judo, wrestling, and jujitsu into a single, fluid, fighting military discipline that emphasized continuous motion, simultaneous defense and attack, and attacks to an assailants soft tissue and pressure points. He called his self-defense system Krav Maga, meaning contact combat in Hebrew. It quickly became the official combative of the IDF and continues to be today.
After retiring from the IDF, Lichtenfeld began teaching Krav Maga to Israeli citizens.
Imi taught Krav Maga for nearly 20 years in the IDF. After retiring from military service in 1964, he began devoting his time and energy to modifying and teaching the self-defense system to civilians. Imi opened two Krav Maga studios in Israel where he taught thousands of students and instructors, all while continuing to add and improve upon the fighting discipline he had developed in the military. In 1974, Imi founded the Krav Maga Association, a non-profit dedicated to promoting and teaching Krav Maga in Israel and throughout the world.
Krav Maga is still the official combative system of the Israeli Defense Forces.
A few of Imis early disciples brought Krav Maga to the United States, and it quickly became a preferred close-combat system in many U.S. military and police forces. Several commercial Krav Maga organizations have formed over the years to teach and promote Krav Maga in the U.S., each with a counterpart in Israel. Each of these organizations claim to be the true heir and guardian of Imi Lichtenfelds original Israeli Krav Maga, and go out of their way to show their connection to Kravs founder.
The Principles of Krav Maga
As mentioned above, Krav Maga is a tactical mixed-martial art/combative and self-defense system that combines boxing, judo, jujitsu, and aikido. In recent years, other martial arts have been incorporated into Krav Maga such as muay Thai and Wing Chun.
Neutralize the threat. The primary goal in Krav Maga is to neutralize your threat as quickly as possible. This overarching goal governs all the other principles of Krav Maga. Because your aim is to dominate and incapacitate your attacker as soon as possible, pretty much anything goes in Krav Maga. You cant worry about fighting etiquette when your life is on the line. You do whatever you have to do to preserve your life.
Keep it simple. There arent katas or patterns in Krav Maga. Just strikes, holds, and blocks. Krav Maga was designed so that it could be put to use as soon as possible.
Simultaneous defense and attack. Many martial arts treat defensive and offensive moves as separate and discrete actions, e.g., first you block (defensive), then you kick when you find an opening (offensive). The downside of this approach is that its reactive and you typically just end up in a cycle of never-ending defensive movements. In Krav Maga, the fighter looks to combine an offensive movement with every defensive movement he wants to disrupt the attack and simultaneously counterattack. For example, if an attacker goes for your throat, youd not only try to deflect his attack, but also simultaneously counterattack by going for his eyes, groin, or throat. The goal is to neutralize your threat as quickly as possible. (Sidenote: Wing Chun also has a similar simultaneous defensive/offensive principle.)
Retzev, or continuous motion. Related to the principles of simultaneous defense and attack is retzev, a Hebrew word for continuous motion. David Kahn describes retzev as a seamless explosion of violence, in which the goal is to neutralize your attacker with a continuous series of aggressive defensive and offensive movements. As your attacker reacts to your counterattacks, youll respond with more punches, kicks, and headbutts until the attacker is no longer a threat. Retzev requires a fighter to work from instinct and not rely on a pre-set routine. A well-trained practitioner of Krav Maga will know how to react to any type of threat without hesitation.
Use of weapons of opportunity. You can easily incorporate firearms and knives into Krav Maga. Besides these traditional weapons, Krav Maga also teaches practitioners to improvise and use any object at their disposal as a weapon. Keys, pens, belts, and chairs can all be incorporated into Krav Maga techniques in order to neutralize your opponent as quickly as possible.
Weapon defense. Besides teaching students how to use weapons, Krav Maga also shows how to defend yourself from an armed attack.
Focus on vulnerable soft tissue and pressure points. A well-known principle of Krav Maga is its emphasis on attacking vulnerable soft tissue and pressure points. Many counterattacks involve eye gouging, groin attacks, and strikes to the throat. Some criticize Krav Maga for this, arguing that its not manly to punch a guy in the nuts. I brought this criticism up with David during our conversation and this was his response: Krav Magas goal is to neutralize a dangerous attacker as quickly as possible. Plain and simple. Sometimes a strike to the groin is the best option to neutralize an attack. When youre violently attacked in the street, the person attacking you isnt following some sportsmans code of chivalry he wants to hurt, maim, or possibly kill you so why should you give him the courtesy of not punching below the belt? You cant worry about fighting etiquette or whats manly when your life is at stake.
Subduing techniques. In addition to striking attacks, Krav Maga also utilizes subduing techniques in order to de-escalate a violent confrontation. Joint locks and various grabs are used to exert control over your attacker and put you in a position to end the threat.
Krav Maga in Action
How to Get Started in Krav Maga
Join a Krav Maga gym. The best way to get started with Krav Maga is to join a Krav Maga gym. Krav Maga, like any martial art, is best learned in a group and under the guidance of a well-trained instructor, says David. Because Krav Maga is designed to prepare you for real-life attacks, you need to have people who can help simulate those situations for you in a gym. Its hard to practice how to defend and counterattack a headlock if no one is there to put you in a headlock.
David did have one caveat about joining a Krav Maga gym. Because of Kravs growing popularity in the United States, there are a lot martial arts studios saying they teach Krav Maga in order to get new students, even though the instructors sometimes have little or no formal training in the system. Do your research and make sure the instructors are legit, David says. If the instructor has trained in Israel, thats a good sign.
As mentioned above, there are several competing Krav Maga organizations that claim to be teaching the true Krav Maga of Imi Lichtenfeld. Its a touchy subject among Krav Maga followers and there have been lawsuits between the groups. David is the Chief Instructor of the U.S. Israeli Krav Maga Association (IKMA), a non-profit formed in 1978 by Imi Lichtenfeld to govern and promote the teaching of Krav Maga. There are gyms across the country that associate with U.S. IKMA. David teaches at the gym in New Jersey. If youre in the area, stop by and check it out. David is a super nice guy and youll learn a lot.
Buy videos and books. If you cant find a reputable Krav Maga gym in your area, there are plenty of instructional books and DVDs on the subject. Watching a DVD is definitely no substitute for actually training in a gym, and you shouldnt try out moves youve learned solely by video in a street fight, but the DVDs will give a basic overview of Krav Maga and its techniques. I highly recommend Davids set of DVDs, Mastering Krav Maga. Theyre very well-done and David does a great job explaining and demonstrating the methods and movements.
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J.M. Vargas wrote:Actually I approve of that thread title; you're on the right path, young padawan!
J.M. Vargas wrote:I'm still here. Just too busy to post (have like 12 movies ready to write about when I do get the chance though).
Yeah, I think we'd be better off going back to the old Jury Room style of just doing a big 'Watching' thread and adding to that, only starting a new one when the previous one got too big/large to follow (which I'm guessing won't be a problem anymore ). You can have the honors if you want, Mach6. I got nothin'.
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I've basically always used these words synonymously. Can someone elaborate on whether there is a difference?
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Typically the word "righteous" or "just" are simply alternative translations of the same word, "dikaios" (δικαιος and cognate verbs and such). There is simply no difference.
I'll go ahead and add an analogous example that people also often confuse, and that is the difference between "faith" and "belief". In Greek they are translations of the same root. In English, you don't say "I faith (verb) in something" but you would say "I believe (verb) in something". But you would say as Jude does and call something "the faith (noun) once and for all delivered". You could add a helper verb to make faith work verbally like "I have faith in God". But all that is just English usage. In Greek the verbs/nouns/adjectives are all built off the same root, "pist-" (πιστ-) and mean the same thing.


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Stuff = Time. The more stuff you have in your home, the more cleaning, dusting, and organizing you need to do. If your house is bursting at the seams, it might be time for yard sale or big donation to the Good Will or Salvation Army. Some organizations, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, offer free donation pick-up services in some areas.
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Clinical Research Nurses
Dedicated Advocates for Patients on Clinical Trials
"A patient advocate, that's primarily how I describe myself," asserts Simeone, who's one of a special coterie of research nurses at Norris Cotton Cancer Center who manage the care of patients on clinical trials.
"The research nurse is really the person who is the advocate for patients as they go through their research experience," explains Cheryl Carlson, RN, BSN, who oversees many of the research nurses and is a research nurse for patients on neuro-oncology trials.
A clinical trial is one of the final steps in cancer research that can result in medical advances for patients, such as a new drug, or a new approach to surgery or radiation therapy. "The only way to increase cure rates is though new therapies," says Marc Pipas, MD, medical director of the Office of Clinical Research. "The clinical trials process is the only way to achieve this goal."
Making the Decision
The backbone of clinical trials is the patients who volunteer. The job of a research nurse is to make sure trials run smoothly and are conducted in the best interests of these patients. David Dugan hadn't smoked in 22 years when he was diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer in 2007. He was interested in clinical trials from the beginning, and his medical oncologist, Konstantin Dragnev, MD, suggested two. "We were looking at all the possibilities," explains Dugan.
As a research nurse for patients with lung cancer, Sara Simeone worked with Dugan from the beginning. "Everyone here has been terrific," he says, "but Sara's the person I see the most."
Simeone made sure Dugan and his wife, Margaret, understood what was involved with the trial–the types of drugs, the schedule of treatments, the possible side effects–before he agreed to participate. "Patients hear new information, new words, and they're reeling," says Simeone. "I feel it's really important to give the patient a lot of space to make the decision to join a clinical trial."
After explaining carefully in plain terms the purpose, benefits, and risks of a trial–what's called "informed consent"–Simeone encourages patients to go home and think about it. She wants them to fully understand what they're taking on. Although she has never had a patient withdraw from a trial, she's always clear that's an option.
It Takes A Village
Dugan chose a clinical trial in which two standard drugs were combined with a new one to boost effectiveness, what Simeone calls "making what's already good better." It's one of the most common types of clinical trials. Once patients are on a trial, the research nurse becomes the point person working on their behalf. Research nurses coordinate communication between a myriad of medical personnel-nurses, oncologists, pharmacists, primary care physicians, researchers, data entry specialists, and social workers. Simeone checks in with Dugan every time he has chemotherapy and is his go-to person when he has a problem related to treatment. When he felt lousy after chemotherapy, she arranged for him to receive fluids at a hospital close to his home near New London. "Sarah's been terrific," says Dugan.
"It takes a village to do a clinical trial," says Sarah Drury, RN, who manages hematology as well as patients with head and neck cancer on trials. As a research nurse, Drury coordinates the sometimes complicated research protocols that define patient care plans. A protocol may involve a complex combination of drugs or a special schedule of treatments. Patients may experience symptoms that are severe or be on a treatment that is their last, best hope. In a single day Drury may act as a treatment coordinator, patient advocate, budget analyst, sympathetic listener, and gofer. She even walks down to the special pharmacy where the research drugs are dispensed and hand carries them to her patients.
At the same time, the research nurse is constantly making sure the patient maintains a good quality of life. Drury encourages her patients to call whenever they have a concern, however small or inconsequential it might seem at first. "I tell them to call me no matter what, even if it sounds silly," she says.
Simeone enthusiastically agrees. "I'd rather a patient call me and let me be the one to decide if something is a big deal, rather than worrying. I want to know every little thing," she says. Simeone was a triage nurse before "jumping at the opportunity" to apply her skills to research. She manages the care for 50 patients with lung and esophageal cancer, half of whom are on active clinical trials. The other half have completed trials but she continues to follow up with them regularly.
A Team of Experts
The Cancer Center offers close to 150 clinical trials that range from chemotherapy regimes and drug combinations to the effects of lack of sleep on patients with cancer. Drury and Simeone are experts on the trials in their specific medical areas, as are Robin Davis, RN, for prostate and gastrointestinal trials; Teresa Didehbana, RN, for melanoma and geritourinary trials; Brian Highhouse, RN, for Phase I trials; and Susan Hewes, RN, for radiation therapy trials. Jeanne Popielarz, RN, who has 30 years of experience with research trials, manages follow-up care for clinical trials patients at Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire. The expanded Manchester location allows clinical trial patients in the southern part of the state to receive care closer to home.
"I'm very privileged to be given the opportunity to enter these patients' lives at this time," says Simeone, who expresses a common sentiment among the research nurses. "The transformation you can see is remarkable. The strength that they have, I really admire."
April 10, 2008
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Pediatrics – Baby Steps / NICU Follow up Clinic
Clinical Assessment and Ongoing Clinical Care
Evaluations and recommendations for appropriate developmental services (i.e. Early Intervention), nutritional recommendations and medical management are provided. For babies who are struggling with diet and/or adequate weight gain, our dietitian makes home visits to observe a child during a feed, provide feeding plans and offer additional recommendations. Our clinic can also schedule a feeding assessment for babies with particular feeding difficulties. Our family outreach advocates also provide home visits to assess any needs that the family may have in obtaining access to appropriate resources and supports. Parents and referring pediatric providers are provided with comprehensive reports documenting the visit.
After the initial evaluation, ongoing follow-up is scheduled as needed, based on the needs of the child and family.
Educational Outreach
NICU Family Support Lunches: The Pediatric Baby Steps Team provides Family Support Lunches for families of babies while they are hospitalized in the NICU. The goal of these lunches are to provide families with an opportunity to meet each other, ask questions in an informal setting and focus on aspects of their baby's care upon discharge (i.e. Early Intervention and Visiting Nurses Association). Lunches are hosted approximately once every 1-2 months.


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11 Everyday Ways to Learn Math While Having Fun
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Neighborhood Walk
Take a walk around your neighborhood or local park, and look for different shapes and patterns in nature.
For example, how far apart are the telephones from each other in your neighborhood? Are they all the same distance, or do they vary? Is there a pattern? This lesson can also be done with trees, fire hydrants, or even flowers in a garden. Ask your child to point out all the patterns he sees, and point out the ones you see, as well.
Additionally, take note of all the shapes that can be found in nature. Ask your child to find a living thing that is a square, rectangle, or circle. With so much to see and find, he'll never know you're working on his geometry skills!
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I would like to implement the same flash feature command that ESRI uses when accessing the context menu on a table row.
I have used the following successfully to flash a selected feature:
IActiveView activeView = ArcMap.Document.ActiveView;
IFeatureIdentifyObj featIdentify = new FeatureIdentifyObject();
featIdentify.Feature = feature;
IIdentifyObj identify = featIdentify as IIdentifyObj;
This code works, but does not have the 'crosshairs' additional effect that the ESRI flash command does.
I was looking possibly executing a command with ICommand.Execute, but could not find an ID for the Flash Command from the table context menu.
Anyone have success with implementing the same Flash Command that ESRI uses within custom code? Does anyone know where to find the ID used for the Flash Command?


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In trying to set reasonable limits on a PC's usage of the polymorph chain of spells. Is it plausible to require that the PC have some form of interaction with the target creature? Or can a PC polymorph into a creature that the PC has only heard about? Or read about in a book? Or seen just a painting of? From a solid role-playing standpoint, it seems reasonable to require that a) the creature exists in the multi-verse that the DM is running, and B) the PC has some knowledge of the creature. What is the minimum "knowledge" that the PC must have in order to polymorph into such creature?
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Should PCs be limited to choosing forms into which to polymorph (or wild shape, etc.) that the PCs have previously encountered?
In my opinion, you should at least have encountered the creature before to polymorph into it. You might even have to examine a body. Reading about it in a book or rolling Knowledge should only let you recognize it.
Polymorph Effects Are Dangerous
It is a very good idea to limit them. At the extreme, changing into a Sarrukh from Serpent Kingdoms while using Assume Supernatural Ability (Savage Species) or shapechange is the opening gambit for becoming Pun-pun, a character with +Yes to everything and every ability ever published (and arguably abilities not published, as well).
So you definitely want to limit them somehow.
This Rule is Not Enough
If you implement this rule, you will now have to second-guess every monster you ever use. You'll probably never use a Sarrukh, but you might use, say, a Dire Tortoise (Sandstorm). A smart Wizard or Druid will see that, and from then on get to act in every Surprise Round ever – even if there wouldn't otherwise be a Surprise Round. You can, of course, nerf the Dire Tortoise, but a lot of players will cry foul if you do that after you used it.
Two Real Solutions
Trust Your Players
This is the simple one. You don't even need to add your houserule if you just trust your players. I'd really strongly suggest that, if you cannot trust your players, your group has bigger problems than Polymorph. Make it clear to all players that Polymorphing is something very dangerously powerful, and you will not appreciate it if players use it to break the game. That should be enough for most players to keep things reasonable.
Thematically, you may want certain limits, but you don't have to say it's specifically having encountered the animal. It seems thematically appropriate for a Wizard to be able to take the forms of animals he's studied in intimate detail. And it's also fair for a Druid to include encounters with a variety of animals in his backstory, and you could argue that Nature/the spirits of animals themselves are lending him their forms, even creatures he's never met. It depends on how magic works in your setting.
Ban Open-Ended Polymorph Effects Altogether
Replace the Druid's Wild Shape with Shapeshifting from Player's Handbook II. Ban alter self, polymorph, polymorph any object, and shapechange. Use the spells from the [Polymorph] subschool introduced in Player's Handbook II – unlike e.g. polymorph, those spells each have a single form you can take.
Alternatively, you might consider a spell that is like wild shape I that lets you turn into a creature from the summon nature's ally I list, or a polymorph III that lets you get creatures from summon monster III. Those lists are rather limited and should prevent the greatest abuses. In fact, they may be too weak – consider having wild shape I use the summon nature's ally II list, and polymorph I might even use summon monster III – the Celestial and Fiendish templates really do very little for a player character, since the main draw is the Intelligence bonus. I have not actually looked at the lists, though. Ideally, really, you'd create all-new lists that are tailored to each level.
Yes, it is plausible to restrict polymorph to creatures that the players have encountered. This is one of the commonly discussed polymorph house-rule.
I think the minimum knowledge would be determined by a knowledge skill check for that monster. If the monster does not exist in your multi-verse this check would be impossible to complete. Basic knowledge of a monster starts at 10+HD, but I would extend this to be 10+HD+X, where X is creature dependent (maybe based on the number of special abilities the creature has).
I've taken to a risk v reward method for Polymorph. I make only one simple alteration. If you nat-1 on a Polymorph, you accidentally summon whatever you were trying to alter yourself or others into.
Nice and tidy, it deters anyone from doing anything too terrible or dangerous and is rare enough that occasional massive risk can result in great fortune. It retains the power of the spell, while preventing it from being abused.
A potential addition that I considered but didn't include was increasing the failure rate for monsters that the player hasn't encountered before or hasn't passed a knowledge test to know about. That could work, but the risk of accidentally making the battle unwinnable seems to be enough for my players.
Once I used a table based on the teleport tagert table, it was something like it:
With fails/wrong monster I would jut choose some monster or animal visually resembling the monster but very weak, or totally opposed thing, "So, let me see, you turned into a... Giraffe..."...
A weak version could be the same monster, but without power, or attributes modifies reduced, like instead of +8 in Str, you get +2, etc..
You could fine tune the checks using the CR of the target and the caster level of the character
I recommend handling polymorph spells the following way: The player casts polymorph, wildshape, etc and tells the table what he's turning into. If anyone at the table then exclaims any of the following phrases: 'What?!', 'The hell book is that from?', '', 'That's (ridiculous/retarded/stupid/a travesty)', 'Quit being a douche', or 'Nuh-uh', then the casting fails and he gets to try again next round.
The best solution for all player problems isn't codifying a rule base to eliminate abuse, it's making it immediately clear that Player X's shenanigans are making the other people at the table have less fun.


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Ariel Kaminer
Recent and archived news articles by Ariel Kaminer of The New York Times.
Accusers and the Accused, Crossing Paths at Columbia University
Paul Nungesser was cleared of responsibility by Columbia University after being accused of rape by a fellow student, who turned her outrage into a performance piece. He is now speaking out.
December 22, 2014, Monday
Princeton Eating Club Ousts 2 Officers Over Emails Ridiculing Women
Tiger Inn, a social club known for its rowdy, hard-drinking atmosphere, is being investigated for one of the emails, which included an explicit photo.
December 2, 2014, Tuesday
N.Y.U. Faces Worker Protection Issues at Shanghai Campus
The university said that a company hired to monitor work conditions at its Shanghai campus did not comply; workers' conditions at the Abu Dhabi campus were criticized this spring.
December 2, 2014, Tuesday
New Factor in Campus Sexual Assault Cases: Counsel for the Accused
Lawyers have appropriated the tools often used to fight misconduct and turned them against the prosecution, confronting higher education's approach to the issue.
November 20, 2014, Thursday
Applications by the Dozen, as Anxious Seniors Hedge College Bets
The escalation in the number of schools on students' lists is driven by several factors, but perhaps the strongest is plain old fear.
November 16, 2014, Sunday
Princeton Mishandled Sexual Misconduct and Discrimination Cases, U.S. Inquiry Finds
The Office of Civil Rights found that the university, which is already enacting reforms, failed to respond quickly and fairly to students' complaints.
November 6, 2014, Thursday
Girl, 7, Barred From a Connecticut School Over Ebola Concerns Goes Back to Class
The family of Ikeoluwa Opayemi, 7, had sued the Milford school district after she was told to stay away from class for 21 days following a trip to Nigeria.
November 1, 2014, Saturday
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The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court unanimously voted on Tuesday to allow for a major expansion in the heart of Greenwich Village.
October 15, 2014, Wednesday
The Waiting Game
The Times's Ariel Kaminer on how far high school seniors (and their parents) will go to get themselves off a college waiting list and into the school of their dreams.
Uprising at N.Y.U.
The Times's Ariel Kaminer sits down with John Sexton, the president of New York University, who is facing a vote of no confidence from increasingly disenchanted faculty members.
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6 Unintentionally Hilarious Glitches Hidden in Video Games
#3. Sonic the Hedgehog '06: Sonic Don't Care
Sonic the Hedgehog is famous for one thing: His physics-defying speed. He's so fast he can run complete loop-de-loops! But in Sonic '06, known in gamer circles as The Day the Hog Stood Still, Sonic shows up to the game a bit hungover, so he's just going to gently walk the loops instead.
"Tequila ... never again."
You know what? Maybe he'll just stop entirely -- still inexplicably upside down -- and just hang out for a little bit. You know: eat a burrito, catch a short nap, and try to rally later.
This game was made seven years ago, and even back then Sonic looked like he was sick of this repetitive shit. He just gave up on life sometime after Shadow The Hedgehog tried to reboot his series in the ass, and now he just phones in grand adventures at breakneck speeds like a middle-aged fast food manager.
#2. Dead Space 2's Wardrobe Malfunction
Dead Space was a breath of fresh air for the survival horror genre. Or like an empty vacuum of death for the genre -- but in a good way? Whatever floats your terror boat, horror fans. Dead Space was Cthulhu meets Event Horizon, by way of Alien. It borrowed shamelessly from other, more successful franchises, but pulled it off so well that every bend in every corridor became a new test of your manhood. Should you open that door, or should you maybe jog back to the save point for the third time, just in case? Truly, terror lurked in every part of that infested spaceship.
Even in the costume machine.
Especially in the god damn costume machine. For there, inside the virtual wardrobe, lurked the greatest terror of them all. Step in to change your outfit and meet this eldritch abomination:
It was you. You were the monster all along.
You walk into the future-closet a full man and walk out a bloody torso and piece of a leg. Even stranger, once this glitch occurs, the player doesn't just flop to the ground as a pile of loose meat. You can continue the game like this, fighting, taking damage - all while your glowing helmet floats about your bloody meat-sack like your head is doomed to haunt your own corpse. And, of course, all the while firing great gouts of arterial spray from your phantom limbs.
Take enough damage from the suspiciously unfazed enemies, and you can even die in this state -- though you would likely welcome that sweet release after the robotic changing room dismembered you and cursed you to walk all of space in a state of screaming non-life.
"I don't care about the price, just give me whatever gun will most quickly put me out of my misery."
#1. Deus Ex: Human Revolution's Sucker Punch
Deus Ex: Human Revolution let you play the game pretty much however you wanted: As a guns-blazing warrior, a peaceful hacker, or even a silent thief. And like pretty much every other modern stealth game, Deus Ex's stealth-kill system functioned by having the player sneak up behind a bad guy, then press A to flip-spin-kick-disarm-throat-punch-dim-mak the son of a bitch's organs into a steaming meat-curry.
There were a few problems with the system: For one, the same animations played out whether you stealth-killed an enemy or a civilian. So while that elite tech-ninja countering a few of your kung fu blows makes the scenario more believable, it is a slightly different effect when the unsuspecting prostitute busts out master-level Krav Maga every time you go to choke her out.
It's basically a scene from a Matrix porn parody.
For two: Insta-killing would also sometimes work on characters it wasn't supposed to, if Jensen was positioned just so when you pressed the button. In fact, an instant takedown could even be pulled off ... on the final boss of the game. It's supposed to be a huge, drawn-out, dramatic fight -- this is the showdown the whole game is leading up to, after all. Are you man enough take him, Jensen? The world depends on you! Though the battle will be epic and death is waiting in the sidelines, the whole world fights with you this da-
BOOM! You got knocked the fuck out.
Oh. So ... that was it, then?
If you trigger an instant takedown as soon as he starts vaulting a wall towards you, a player can end the last boss fight with a single, anti-climactic punch. The counter-blow that ends the fight isn't even a really bitchin' uppercut or something either -- just a little fifth-grade caliber love tap. It looks like the boss is standing up to cry and run to the nurse's office when the ending cinematically starts and you knock his ass through some plate glass. If you end the final fight in this fashion, instead of a hard-fought victory capped by a badass finishing move, the effect is more that you're picking on a mentally disabled guy who just really likes climbing.
Dustin Koski is also the author of Six Dances to End the World, a novel about a ballerina who causes glitches in the universe. If you are ever in the mood to see some bad ass retro games, or check some of the better new games coming out drop by Sever's youtube channel.
For more video game botches, check out The 8 Creepiest Glitches Hidden in Popular Video Games and 6 Glitches That Accidentally Invented Modern Gaming.
If you're pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix, then check out 3 Personal Disneylands Being Planned By Total Lunatics.


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Don�t call it a losing streak, just a two-game slide.
Three games is a losing streak.
Durango defeated host Palisade 50-43 on Saturday on Day 2 of the Palisade Holiday Tournament, and for the first time in three years, the Demons� boys basketball team will enter its winter break with a winning record � 6-2.
�We�ve got a little confidence going into the break,� said DHS head coach Alan Batiste, who said the Demons played �much better, thank goodness� than they did in Friday�s double overtime loss to Cheyenne South.
�The key was our defense. We went to a 2-3 zone to force them to shoot the ball, to force them to beat us from the outside. We wanted to stop their front court, because their front court was pretty good� from what Batiste and the Demons saw in Palisade�s victory Friday over Montezuma-Cortez.
Nick Hamlin led the Demons with a double-double � 14 points and 11 rebounds.
Freshman call-up Lukas Baken scored 13 points and again impressed his head coach from the guard position.
�Offensively, we did great,� Batiste said. �The boys were cutting hard through the lanes, getting good penetration, and we moved the ball well.�
Durango is off for four weeks. DHS will return to the court with a Southwestern League doubleheader against Grand Junction Central and Fruita Monument on Jan. 18 and Jan. 19, respectively, in the Grand Valley.


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Plastic Cup Holder
Nice tight fit for can and water bottles. It is a single step model, but is deep enough to keep the container secure.
Recessed Type Cup Holder, White - Beckson Marine
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- Width of Flange: 3-1/2"
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Can't mount filesystems and computer won't shut down
Using Nautilus I can't get my internal or external volumes to mount and get "unable to mount " and "not authorized" after an update of Ubuntu 11.10 beta and also I cannot reboot normally instead I need to reboot using terminal as root. Notes that i can mount my volumes using terminal as root.
Rebooting and shutting down just send me back to unity-greeter lightdm login screen.


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Some preachers teach that Tithing does not only mean material things, but it also means giving 10% of your time as well. Some even say 10% of your everything, like your thoughts, your desires, your food, etc.
Is there any ambiguous1 reference from the Bible to support this? When did this teaching evolved? Is there any particular Christian sect who follow this?
It's a good teaching anyway.
1 I can't find any direct reference