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I hate this subject. I have hated it since 1988, when, in the springtime of my own faith, I learned that a priest in my hometown parish had abused altar boys there. I have hated it since 2002, when the abuse question exploded in the U.S. church and it became clear that the self-assessment and reforms of the 1980s and '90s had been dismally inadequate. And I hate it now, watching the same story unfold in my present homeland of the Netherlands.
What I find so painful is how it confronts me with the suffering and failure of people I love. For me, the Catholic Church is one great family in space and time, and this is family life gone badly wrong. The children who have been abused are my sisters and my brothers. But so too are the abusers, and those who covered for them, and those who looked the other way. Beyond this, I feel a great sadness, knowing how this scandal keeps people from finding God and experiencing his love for them. The church has this ultimate gift to offer the human race, the good news of Jesus Christ. But who will want our gift when our abuse is what they see? So when Commonweal asked if I wanted to report on the findings of the recent Deetman inquiry into sexual abuse in the church in the Netherlands, I can't say I jumped at the chance. The last thing I wanted to do was spend the Christmas holiday immersing myself in this sordid history. But I came around. I owe it to the victims, and to the church. So here goes.
In March 2010, in response to increasing numbers of questions and complaints about sexual abuse within the church, the Dutch Bishops Conference and Dutch Religious Conference (KNR), commissioned an independent inquiry into the scope and nature of abuse in the Dutch Catholic Church since 1945. Wim Deetman, a Protestant, a former Minister of Education, and a former mayor of the Hague, was appointed to lead the inquiry. He was joined in the commission by a former judge, a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychology, a professor of the philosophy of science, and a professor of church history. Only the church historian is Catholic. Deetman was promised full independence and unhindered access to the archives of the Dutch dioceses and religious congregations and orders. When the commission released its report on December 16, 2011, Deetman complimented the bishops and religious superiors for keeping the promise of transparency and cooperation.
The report, comprising more than 1,200 pages, draws on several research methods (interviews with victims, family members, perpetrators, victims groups and church leaders; literature studies; a national survey; archive research; and more) and relates the findings to the country's socio-historical context. As such the Deetman report (Sexueel misbruik van minderjarigen in de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk) offers valuable insight into the complexity of abuse as a phenomenon within the Church. Currently only a summary is available in English (at www.onderzoekrk.nl), but I presume the entire report will be translated soon.
The abuse in context
The period between 1945 and 2010 was a time of great change for the Catholic Church around the world, but even more so in the Netherlands. From the latter part of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s, the Catholic Church had stood as one of the pillars on which Dutch society was built, alongside the Protestant, socialist, and liberal pillars. Each of those four groups had its own network of businesses, unions, newspapers, schools, political parties, health-care, and recreational institutions. Members of each group tended to associate mostly with their own kind. More than that, they were dependent on one another for employment, political clout, and other kinds of social support. The four pillars, standing side by side in reasonable harmony, held the roof up, so to speak, over Dutch society.
In the 1950s and '60s, however, that structure began to break down. Members of the various social groups associated more freely with one another, a process accelerated by secularization within the church. Both Catholics and Protestants viewed "the world" more positively and showed themselves less willing to accept the teachings and authority of church leaders. Most, though not all, Dutch Catholics, welcomed Vatican II. The Dutch bishops, acting in unified fashion, took quick action to implement the reforms and organized a national Pastoral Council (1968-1970) to discuss possible courses of action. At the Dutch Pastoral Council, even the question of clerical celibacy was put on the table. Rome looked warily on the developments in Holland and eventually reined them in by appointing conservative bishops, starting with Ad Simonis (appointed to Rotterdam in 1970) and Johannes Gijsen (appointed to Roermond in '72).
As in the United States and the rest of Western Europe, church practice has declined significantly in Holland since the 1960s. But the rate of decline in the States pales before the decimation that the Dutch church has experienced. At the start of the '60s, practicing Catholics made up well over a third of the country; the Netherlands was exporting more missionaries than any other country. According to figures from the Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, even as late as 1975, 38 percent of the population still identified itself as Catholic, and half of them attended church regularly. The most recent statistics show 28 percent of the population identifying itself as Catholic (in 2007), and less than 20 percent of Catholics attending church regularly.
It comes as no surprise, then, that in light of this steep decline in practice, most reports of abuse made to the Deetman Commission concern incidents that took place between 1945 and 1975, when it was far more common to attend a Catholic (boarding) school and be active in parish life. During that period, Catholics were also more dependent on the social network the church provided—especially when it came to employment. Catholic boarding schools are now a thing of the past, and thriving parishes, in which one finds all age groups amply represented, are a rarity. The painfully ironic "upside" to the decline in church practice has been that the overall number of abuse cases has also declined.
The findings
The Deetman report highlights two main conclusions: First, tens of thousands minors were sexually abused by representatives of the Catholic Church (priests, religious, and laypeople) in the Netherlands between 1945 and 2010; and, second, bishops and other church authorities knew about the problem and "in many cases…failed to take adequate action and paid too little attention to victims."
Among the other notable findings are the following:
* The commission received 1,795 reports of sexual abuse occurring between 1945 and 2010. (Sexual abuse, as defined in the Deetman inquiry, includes minor to severe forms of sexual contact imposed against one's will.) Based on those reports and other information, the commission drew up a list of approximately 800 "perpetrators" (people working for dioceses, orders, and congregations who have been accused of abuse). Of those eight hundred people, more than one hundred are still alive (if not employed). The commission has reported the names of the perpetrators to the bishops and superiors who have charge of them.
* Sexual abuse is a problem not confined to the church, but is widespread in Dutch society (population 16.8 million). One out of ten Dutch adults over the age of forty reports having been sexually abused before the age of eighteen by an adult who was not a family member. That figure derives from a national survey of 34,000 persons conducted, at the request of the Deetman commission, by the research institute TNS NIPO. That survey shows that 12.4 percent of Dutch Catholics reported having been sexually abused as a minor, while 8.4 percent of non-Catholics reported having been abused. (The Deetman report stresses that the survey says nothing about the identity of the perpetrators—in other words, they could have been family members, not priests.)
* People who had spent a significant portion of their youth in an institutional setting offering round-the-clock care (boarding schools, orphanages, seminaries) reported sexual abuse at a rate twice that of the national average (20 percent vs. 10 percent, respectively). In this, there was no significant difference between the rate of occurrence at Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic institutions. The commission estimates that ten thousand to twenty thousand minors were sexually abused at the Catholic institutions between 1945 and 2010.
Much in the report will sound familiar to those who have followed the abuse story in the United States, Ireland, Austria, and Germany. There are similarities in the patterns of how the abuse occurred, how victims experienced and dealt with the abuse, and how church leaders responded to the situation.
How the abuse occurred
Early media reports on the abuse in the Dutch church focused mainly on the cases that had occurred in educational and care institutions. The Deetman commission, by turning its attention to dioceses and parishes as well, provides a more complete picture. That is important because Catholic boarding schools, where many cases occurred, have disappeared. Parishes, however, have not.
A combustible mix of three factors made Catholic educational and care institutions dangerous for the children they served. The first was the vulnerability of the children themselves, removed from their parents' oversight. Children with additional psycho-social problems (those who came from broken homes, for example, or those with a prior history of abuse) were especially vulnerable. The second factor was the lack of psycho-sexual maturity on the part of certain persons assigned to care for them (teachers, religious, priests). Among the priests and religious working in the institutions were some who had promised celibacy without having come to terms with their own sexuality or sexual identity. Those people showed themselves incapable of channeling their sexual feelings in healthy ways. Having many people like that in the same setting created environments of dysfunction, wherein harmful behaviors were tolerated, reinforced, and passed on, by way of example. The third factor was a leadership culture within the institutions that was excessively concerned with saving face. In many cases, leaders did intervene to stop abuse, but across the board they sought internal solutions that would not bring negative publicity. Religious superiors did not go to the police, and rarely notified the bishop when abuse had occurred. Instead, they usually reprimanded abusers and reassigned them to settings that were thought to be low-risk.
Sexual abuse within Dutch parishes typically occurred in rectories, sacristies, parishioner homes, or parish schools. A recurring pattern shows the abusive priest or religious ingratiating himself with the victim and his or her family. The abuser commonly takes charge of youth activities in the parish. "Playful" approaches lead to physical contact and eventually to unwanted contact in unsupervised settings. The Deetman report found that in some cases alcohol abuse or financial problems have been significant in the abuser's personal history, and that many abusers have themselves been abused.
The victims' experience
Deetman makes clear that sexually abusive encounters have induced great suffering in the victims. Many have felt ashamed of their victimization and have kept the abuse a secret for decades. Some were, in the course of or aftermath of their abuse, threatened with reprisals for themselves or their family should they tell. Victims who looked to others for help (parents, the abuser's supervisor) were often met with disbelief or even outrage. In many cases they were blamed for lying, or for complicity in the transgressions. A great frustration that many victims feel is the lack of acknowledgement and heartfelt remorse shown by abusers and Church officials who had charge of them. One can imagine the disgust one abused person felt when he received, years after the fact, a lukewarm letter of apology containing two hundred euros from the person who abused him. It is not surprising that the faith of many victims has been destroyed when confronted with such heartlessness and hypocrisy.
The role of bishops
If anyone had the authority to take decisive action in response to cases of abuse, it was the local ordinary. Unfortunately, by their own account, bishops were often unaware of abuse occurring within their own diocese. Abuse is of course something that abusers do their best to cover up. And it's harder to detect when others cover for them, as was the case with religious superiors who did not report abuse to bishops. Another way bishops were uninformed was through their own choice of a hands-off style of leadership. The Deetman report cites the example of Cardinal Simonis of Utrecht (now retired), who delegated many day-to-day responsibilities to his vicar general. Simonis was an outside appointment to the archdiocese; he lacked his own network of contacts there, and in many ways he remained an outsider during his year as ordinary. He recently drew fire for his ill-considered remark—delivered in German on national TV—explaining the bishops' not having taken more action against abuse: "Wir haben es nicht gewußt"—"We didn't know."
Such breakdowns could have horrible consequences. The report recounts in detail the case of one "Fr. R", ordained by Simonis against the advice of the selection committee. After Simonis left to become archbishop of Utrecht, the priest was arrested twice for sexual abuse. (In the first case the charges were dropped, at the urging of the diocese. In the second, Fr. R was found guilty and received a sentence of three months' probation.) Simonis' successor, Bishop Bär (who resigned in 1993 under a cloud of suspicion), sent the priest to the Archiocese of Utrecht, without informing him of the second arrest. While working in the archdiocese, the priest abused seven or eight more boys over five years before finagling another transfer—this time to the Military Archdiocese of the Netherlands. Deetman reports that, all told, the priest abused twenty-three boys.
At the conclusion of its report, the Deetman commission makes the following recommendations (among others) to the Dutch Bishops Conference:
1. Take uniform action to redress the suffering caused by sexual abuse by offering recognition, help, (financial) compensation, and after-care.
2. Critically review and improve the policies for admitting, training, and counseling priests and religious.
3. Engage in dialogue with victims of abuse.
Though not formulated as a recommendation, the report also communicates the commissions' disapproval of past failures to report abuse to the police. Fortunately, the bishops are now fully supported by the Vatican when they do so (see the 2010 directives from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith). Recent examples of the Dutch bishops taking such a step have been seen in the dioceses of Rotterdam, Roermond, and Utrecht.
When they received the report, the Dutch bishops expressed sorrow and shame for the suffering of victims at the hands of representatives of the church, and stated their intention to take corrective action. The public response to the report has been mixed and, frankly, more muted than I had expected. Many have expressed outrage, particularly at the estimated number of victims. Deputy Prime Minister Maxime Verhagen went so far as to suggest that all the bishops step down as a sign of remorse and accountability, but few inside or outside the church have echoed that view, probably because most of the known cases of abuse occurred before the current bishops' tenures. One thing that has caught people off guard is the report's summary observation that sexual abuse of minors has not been limited to the church, and that one hundred thousand children are abused (physical, psychologically, sexually) and neglected every year in the Netherlands. Deetman raises the question: What kind of society are we living in that allows such horrors? One of the tragedies of the moment, among so many, is that the church has compromised its own ability to provide the teaching and example that could be helpful in this situation. Even so, the report calls on the bishops (beyond putting their own house in order) "to urge the government to adopt an integrated and effective strategy to tackle sexual abuse of and the use of violence against minors."
The Dutch bishops' formal response to the Deetman report is due on May 15, 2012.
Photo: Aerial view of Utrecht, Shutterstock
About the Author
Timothy P. Schilling studied English at Princeton and theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and earned a doctorate in practical theology at the Katholieke Theologische Universiteit te Utrecht. Since 2003 he has served on the staff of the Center for Parish Spirituality, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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"Unfortunately, by their own account, bishops were often unaware of abuse occurring within their own diocese."
Mr. Schilling, as you have stated, "by their own account" they relate that they were unaware of abuse occurring within their own diocese. Certainly, bishops would relate such ignorance "by their own account".
It is highly unlikely that information, details, allegations or correspondence relating to suspected clergy abuse was not, in the minimum, brought to their attention over these many years. Now, what they did, how they responded, if at all, to such speculation, information, rumors, evidence, etc. could in fact lead them to remain ignorant "by their own account."
Sir, as a learned man and scholar, I hope that you do not take what your bishops say "at face value." Even if you did so, please remember that the bishops and/or cardinals hold the ultimate and final responsibility to keep their flock safe from those they supervise in the ministry of the Catholic Church.
Thank you for this careful overview. I am sure it was a difficult piece to write. I continue to wonder why the Church has accepted evolution and many other scientific and medical advances and yet continues to rely on what seem like medieval notions of sexuality. Compounding the awful suffering of unknown numbers of victims is that of the falsely accused. They are not as many, but they too are deeply hurt. In my opinion, the misuse of power and pride are at the root of it all. In my extensive recent reading on the subject of the hemorraghing of Catholics away from the Church--at least here in the U.S.--is said to be less as a result of these scandals and more because of the lukewarm culture of parishes. Ex-Catholics have gone in droves to protestant charismatic congragations because they feel more welcomed and valued there.
"...one hundred thousand children are abused (physical, psychologically, sexually every year in the Netherlands."
Indeed, tragic! But it is global, too. Abuse is everywhere on the planet. Look at India, for example. According to Renuka Chowdhury, Indian Women and Child Development Minister, half of children of India are sexually abused. Millions, not hundreds of thousands! The ministry's study (reported the NY TIMES) covered 13 of India's 28 states and questioned 12,447 children in the 5-12 age group and 2,324 young adults to come up with this data. It is especially bad for children under the age of 14 who work as domistic servants or in hotels, restaurants or small tea-shops. But sexual abuse is just as bad in our own country as abroad. According to the BOSTON GLOBE (2/18/11), approximately 17% of American men have "faced unwanted or abusive sexual experiences before age 18." That is over 25 million American men! Ought we be surprised that Micky Rourke was abused by his step-father and brothers, Gerg Lemonde by a family friend, Golden Taylor by a cousin and coach, Micky Mantle by his step-sister, etc.? Hopefully, the Dutch church and all churches (both Protestant and Catholic) will make sure that their new policies will become vehicles for bringing greater light to abuse everywhere. We hope and pray for that.
"Ex-Catholics have gone in droves to protestant charismatic congregations because they feel more welcomed...."
Trish Johnson,
True, but likewise a number of Protestants have been received into Catholic congregations, too. A lot of cross-pollination going on (although Catholics tend to keep former Protestants-turned Catholic in the statistical shadows; they don't like to talk about such new-comers). CHRISTIANITY TODAY, however, is quite open about this cross-pollination. Drawing on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life it noted (April, 2008 issue) that 8% of American Catholics are former Protestants (while 10% of American Protestants are former Catholics). 8% of American Catholics (of 75 million Catholics) is a lot of Catholic converts, more than the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches combined. Anyway, while "protestant charismatic congregations" make ex-Catholics "feel welcomed" Catholic congregations make ex-Protestants feel uplifted through their liturgies, community values, sense of mystery. Possibly that's why the Catholic Church follows only Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Mormonism in holding on to its members and attacting new ones.
Excellent article, which is refreshingly able to face this difficult issue head on, something we victims were forced to do at a very young age, abandoned without support, and subject to a vicious campaign of re-abuse and lies.
And what a difference between the Dutch attempts to expose the full truth through honest, effective research and the John Jay construct of excuses and distractions based on a severely compromised data set, designed to support a campaign of misinformation.
As one at the very heart of this sordid issue, and with first hand experience of the almost universal callous cruelty, uttter lack of compassion, and obsession with self preservation and secrecy of the catholic hierarchy, it almost beggars belief that there exists anywhere in the world a group of catholic bishops willing to let the truth see the light of day.
Perhaps there is a slim hope that the catholic church is actually capable of going against the habit of millenia and doing the right thing to reverse its habitual abuse and neglect of children for the very first time.
Though of course full and and honest information is only the first step. The next step is one the church hierarchy has tremendous difficulty with - action.
Though the inability of commenters such as Trish Johnston to offer more than a begrudging reference to victims before dismissing us to concentrate on truly important internal bickering does tend to undermine that glimmer of hope.
Voceless Victim:
I regret that you regarded me as making "begrudging" references to victims and "dismissing" you. I fail to see how you concluded that motivation. I have been closer to this pedophilia scandal than you could possibly know, although not directly a victim myself. It is too painful for me, even one step removed, to express all the details as well as the pain I feel about it. I was also a friend of one falsely accused of molestation, although eventually fully exonerated. Again, I am convinced that all the suffering, both accounted for and still hidden, goes back to misuse of power exercised in an arrogant and prideful way. And I agee with you totally that the heirarchy should move on to action, although there are still some who prefer hand-wringing and sitting on the fence to avoid the tough decisions that full accountabilty requires.
Yes the numbers do tell a certain story. I myself have helped quite a few to enter the Church through RCIA so I am aware of converts and, in fact, I am one myself although from back in the age of dinosaurs. I referenced the hemmorhage away from the Church not to dismiss the suffering of Voiceless Victim and the many thousands like him/her, nor to state falsely that the drain flows only one way. The point I meant to make is that the research I have read says that the Church is losing people but not primarily because of the scandals, horrific as they are. And yes, the converts are coming in for all the reasons you express. I hope and pray for a huge increase in moral courage on the part of the heirarchy as a whole. I also pray that all of us in the Church share not only the riches of the tradition and the sacraments, but that we also work to create more welcoming and compassionate communities. I have tried to put my money where my mouth is by working for and writing about discipleship and swtewardship for the last 25 years.
Trish Johnston,
Thank you. My point was that all the Christian churches in the US are hemorrhaging, losing members, with all Protestant churches losing members at much higher rates than the Catholic Church. Mark Gray, director of Catholic polls for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, and Joseph Harris, an independent research analyst, did an excellent job of pointing this out in an article in AMERICA (JULY 21-28, 2008), entitled: A PHANTOM CRISIS: ARE CATHOLICS LEAVING THE CHURCH IN DROVES? NOT REALLY. They pointed out, for example, that even charismatic Pentecostal churches have a redention rate of only 47% (compared with the Catholic rate of 68% [according to Pew] and 70% [according to their polls]). That is almost as low as the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches (40% and 45%, respectively).
In regard to creating "more welcoming and compassionate communities," so often it depends upon the local church, the local parish and pastor. It's tragic that some places are more welcoming than others; but all the more have we need of lay people who will change the dynamics of local communities. They truely make up the bulk of the the church, the assembly, the people of God. They can change the dynamics of a parish.
"...they are not leaving primarily because of the scandals" because sexual abuse scandals are equally in all the churches, both Protestant and Catholic, as well in every institution of American society, especially the family. The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches (Church mutual Insurance Co., GuideOne Insurance Co., and Brotherhood Mutual Insurance, Co.) say they typically receive upwards of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexally abused by clergy and staff. Over a 57 year period that is 14,820 cases of abuse, higher than abuse in the Catholic Church over that same period. (The Catholic Church has revealed that there have been 13,000 credible accusations against Catholic clerics, staff since 1957.) The three insurance companies also don't include most historically black denominations or other independent churches. A few yrs ago, for example, the Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal to create a central database of staff and clergy who have been convicted or or indicted for molesting minors.
So we have to give the laity credit. It's not the scandals that is causing people to leave, but poor liturgies and unwelcoming parish communities (as you note).
Right now I am following a report on the degree to which states (30 of them) are compensating victims of eugenics programs. More than 60,000 American citizens (between 1929-74) were forcibly sterilized under such programs, which programs became associated with Nazi Germany's attempts to achieve racial purity. Just how many hundreds of millions of dollars each state will give victims (and how many lawyers will be involved) remains to be seen.


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The days of B'raishis are referred to commonly by Hazal as Sheishes Yimei B'raishis. However it does say "Vayichal Elokim BaYom HaShvi'i which means the Almighty finished on the 7th day. Rashi is bothered by the fact that the verse said right after Yom Hashishi that "The heavens and Earth and all their hosts were completed". Did Hashem finish on the 7th or the 6th? He answers that Shabbos brought the concept of Minuha, rest to the world. Without the concept of rest the world was not yet complete. The concept of rest means to stop creating. So by stopping, Hashem completed creation. Avin Ezrah (yes, that is how it is pronounced! see http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-should-we-pronounce-ibn-as-in-ibn.html) says that Hashem resting means He set the laws of nature as constant. It is all there in your Mikraos Gedolos Humash.
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5 Ridiculous Origins of Famous Urban Legends
We don't expect our craziest urban legends to exist for good reasons, but we do at least expect their origins to be mysterious. If you can just point to the guy who made up the crazy story in the first place, what are we doing here? It turns out that's a good question for everyone who has ever found themselves debating the authenticity of legends like ...
The Legend:
When farm animals die out in the open, they have a tendency to come out at the end of a week looking like they've been the victim of some pretty disturbing animal torture. As we've explained before, an FBI investigation revealed this to be the work of pretty common farm conditions and some pretty bored farmers: The sun causes bloated corpses to burst along straight lines that look surgical in their precision. Maggots drink the blood that doesn't drain out of the burst skins, making them look like they've been drained.
"Sure, we're disgusting now. But one day we'll blossom into flies, and then the world will appreciate our beauty!"
Rather than letting such boring truths go unexaggerated, Northern farmers invented an animal torturer that had to be investigated by the FBI, while farmers down Mexico way invented El Chupacabra -- a small, possibly extraterrestrial critter believed to attack goats and cows, drinking their blood and leaving the empty husks behind.
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While it sounds like the sort of thing that comes down to us from the days of witch burnings, it turns out the legend of the Chupacabra isn't that old: The first sighting occurred in 1995. It's become so prevalent since then that every single unidentified animal that turns up is usually plastered on the news as a potential Chupacabra for a couple of days.
"We don't know what this is, and after you watch our special report, neither will you."
The Ridiculous Origin:
There's another important thing that happened in 1995, just weeks before Madelyne Tolentino's original Chupacabra sighting: The theatrical release of the soft-core porn/sci-fi flick Species.
The movie is about an alien creature, Sil, who attempts to get pregnant by boning every dude she sees while in the guise of a human. During the last third of the film, we finally see her in her true form, courtesy of H.R. Giger.
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File this in your porn drive under "Cleanse Hands With Holy Water After."
The creature Tolentino saw in her yard had bulbous eyes and spikes up and down its back, walked on two legs and leaped everywhere it went. She even had an artist draw what she saw.
The result of one alien fucking an entire zoo.
It was similar enough that an editor from Skeptical Inquirer, Benjamin Radford, decided to track Tolentino down and find out if she'd seen the movie. While the body shape isn't exactly a spitting image, Radford picked out over a dozen morphological similarities between Sil and El Chupacabra. Added bonus: The opening scenes of the movie are set in Puerto Rico.
Ha! Classic Puerto Rico.
When he finally interviewed Tolentino, she totally copped to seeing Species shortly before her initial sighting, even noting the similarities between the two creatures herself and saying it would be a "very good idea" to watch it. So this national phenomenon that has been reported on by literally every local news station in America is based on the testimony of a woman who can't tell the difference between B-movies and reality. We suppose the truth will come out soon enough, as Tolentino claims to have hired a detective who specializes in animal crimes and is able to talk through his butt.
#4. El Dorado, the City of Gold, Was a Distraction Tactic
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El Dorado, the famous ancient Mesoamerican city of gold and immeasurable riches, is the ultimate hidden treasure. Discovering it would fulfill mankind's long held dreams of getting diamond-pissingly rich with minimal effort.
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"Hi, can you direct me to the solid gold pyramids, please?"
With easy money on their minds, countless conquerors and fortune seekers launched painstaking, often deadly expeditions searching for the fabled city. Of course, nobody ever came close to finding it, which, oddly, didn't stop the city from popping up in modern pop culture. There was The Road to El Dorado, the first animated film from DreamWorks to be a critical and commercial failure. Despite the clear message that nobody cared about the legend anymore, DreamWorks revived the Indiana Jones franchise only to have Indy hunting for Crystal Skulls in Akator, the Mayan name for El Dorado.
For some reason, ambitious world beaters of every era just couldn't figure out what everybody else intuitively understood: Cities made of gold, and people who search for them, are both pretty goddamn silly.
"That wealth will buy me a gentleman's death from mercury poisoning,
rather than a pauper's death from syphilis."
The Ridiculous Origin:
It turns out El Dorado was a real thing, just not at all what the Spaniards thought. The whole legend was based on a Muisca tribal ceremony where they covered a new chieftain in gold dust. The Spaniards heard them talking about a golden person and made the natural assumption that he must be from a golden city, the same way that filthy French people come from filthy French cities.
Since the conquistadors' attitude toward all gold was decidedly Scrooge McDuckian, they were intrigued by the legend they had willed into existence. And when the natives realized that the white guys had willfully misunderstood their way into a magical city made of gold, they didn't exactly go out of their way to correct them.
"There's a whole city of diamond blow-job robots deep inside that uncharted jungle. You can't miss it."
After all, what would you do if you were invaded by an army that:
1) was obsessed with gold for some reason,
2) oppressed the living hell out of your people and
3) believed you were stupid and incapable of complex thought?
The correct answer was to tell them that there's a big ass city completely made of gold and precious gems juuuust over those mountains that are really, really far away from you and your people, then watch the dust from their boots settle as they rush off on their exhausting, dangerous journey. Since the Spaniards couldn't conceive of the natives outsmarting them, they never looked back.
"Hey, do me a solid before we go. Are those little colored toads poisonous, or delicious?"
And so, the whole golden city myth that cost entire armies their lives and has been fascinating Westerners for centuries was actually the oldest trick in the book. The natives pump-faked a tennis ball into the woods, and the Europeans have been chasing it for the past 200 years.
#3. "Paul Is Dead" Was Caused by a School Newspaper
The Legend:
In a bizarre twist on the Elvis phenomenon, during the late '60s, Paul McCartney's biggest fans all were convinced that he was dead. The legend was that, after storming out of a heated studio session in November 1966, Paul crashed his car and had the top of his head chopped off.
Paul is the one with the ridiculous hair.
Depending on their level of insanity, the fans believed that the greedy record executive had replaced Paul with an actor, a doppelganger or a lizard man. Cowed into keeping the whole thing a secret, the rest of the Beatles (and the doppelganger himself, apparently) spent the next four years sending hints to the public like kidnapped children trying to send a message to people at a gas station, if those children were the four most famous people on earth.
How else could you explain the fact that Paul was the only Beatle not wearing shoes on the Abbey Road album cover?
Dead people hate shoes. This makes perfect sense!
Or the raised hand that appears over his head on the Sgt. Pepper's album cover?
Hand over head. "Head" rhymes with "dead." Do we have to spell it out for you?
Of course, not all the "clues" were such absurd stretches. For the next few years, the Beatles did seem to single Paul out in strange ways. The picture on the inside of the Sgt. Pepper's album under the lyrics was definitely weirder than the one of the front:
And the lyrics themselves were creepily ambiguous at times (especially when played backward) and sometimes even seemed to be acknowledging at least the rumor that the top of Paul's head had been chopped off in a car crash, like when Ringo sang, "You were in a car crash/And you lost your hair."
Since the conspiracy theorists usually start each dissertation on the subject with the line that "Nobody knows where or when the rumor began," the bizarre specificity of the rumors seemed to be the hardest thing to explain away. It's not like everyone just decided to make up the same bizarre lie at the exact same time, right?
It was all clearly the work of the Ringolluminati.
The Ridiculous Origin:
We actually have a pretty good idea of exactly where and when the rumor started. Like pretty much everything that was cool in the '60s, the rumor started in London:
The seventh of January was very icy, with dangerous conditions on the M1 motorway linking London with the midlands, and towards the end of the day, a rumor swept London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on the M1. But of course, there was absolutely no truth in it at all, as the Beatles' press officer found out when he telephoned Paul's St. Johns Wood home, and was answered by Paul himself ...
That's from the magazine of the official Beatles Fan Club from February 1967. The rumor got so big in London that year that McCartney alluded to it at a press conference. That same year, the New York Times reported on a London party where the rumor was joked about by the Beatles. The hip people of New York read that and started joking about it, too. And that's where it would have ended if everyone were as hip as Londoners and New Yorkers.
Above: Hip.
However, two years later, Tim Harper, a school newspaper editor at Drake University in Iowa, needed something to write about. Scrambling for ideas, he remembered a confusing, in-no-way-stoned theory he had "heard from someone" regarding how "Paul is, like, totally another guy." Employing the kind of journalistic integrity college newspapers are known for, he published the shit out of the story, and college papers around the Midwest began picking it up, too. After a bunch of tabloid-quality radio and TV outlets picked up the story and ran with it, the mainstream media began reporting on the craze (though never that it was actually true). Things got so out of hand that McCartney was forced to do an intimate interview for Life magazine in 1969 to prove that he was still very much alive. In 1973, he flaunted it in the soundtrack of the mediocre Bond movie Live and Let Die.
Very funny, Paul.
While Paul's refusal to die has been confirmed, the debate over whether the "Paul is dead" messages were actually hidden in the Beatles' music rages on. The thing that both sides of the argument seem to ignore is that Paul and the rest of the Beatles were acutely aware of the death rumors from 1967 to 1969, the years when they recorded all the albums the messages were supposedly hidden in. It's entirely possible that the band made accidental allusions to the car crash rumor along the way because it was something that they encountered on a regular basis.
There's nothing better than taunting conspiracy nuts while tripping your balls off.
It's important to point out that this doesn't make the theory any less profoundly stupid. Singing about being dead and actually being dead are two completely different things, as fans of metal can attest.


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As part of the Apocrypha, it's part of the Bible for Catholics, not Protestants.
Try this lecture: http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/725302/Dr._Shnayer_Leiman/Inspiration_and_Canonicity:_The_Formation_of_the_Biblical_Text
The simple answer is that Judaism regards the Age of Prophecy as having ended about 2400 years ago, with Israel as a vassal state of Persia -- long before the Chanukah story. Anything after this point was no longer "Divinely inspired" (ruach hakodesh) like the earlier books, and therefore not Bible. (Though still possibly worthwhile, meaningful, valid, and/or wise.)
Professor Leiman suggests that the Tanach ends about 2400 years ago; the Christian New Testament suddenly picks up several centuries later. Hey, what about the time in between?! The Apocrypha conveniently fills in that gap. Further reason why the rabbis wanted that demarcation.
He also adds that a book could be written out if its ideas were contrary to Judaic belief or practice. (The book of Susana involves a.) Judaic courts administering the death penalty while under Babylonian rule b.) the punishment for "eidim zom'min" when the two witnesses conflict with one another.)
Maccabees' problem is most likely timing (and thus Divine inspiration, or lack thereof) and not content, to the best of my knowledge. There is some discussion about the war's precise Halachic status (milchemet mitzva vs milchemet reshut; yachid vs rabim), based on how it's described in Macabees.
While the focus of the Talmudic recounting of Chanukah is different from that of the Book of Maccabees, but that doesn't mean that the two conflict. Just a matter of what elements are emphasized.


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She was born October 14, 1949 in Moline to Robert and Dorothy Brier Brown. She attended the local schools. She married Michael Nelson and Michael Lilly. She then married Harvey Smith Aug. 8, 1993 in Keithsburg.
Deeter owned and operated "Deeters" in New Boston for nine years until retiring in 2011. She was a member of the Community Club.
She is survived by her husband: Harvey; three sons: Shane (Lenise Phillips) Nelson; Clint (Brenda) Nelson, all of New Boston; Brian "Half Pint" (Janie) Nelson of Matherville; four stepsons: Charles Smith; Tyler Smith, both of Aledo; Jason and Randy Smith, both of New Boston; 11 grandchildren; seven step grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two sisters: Bobbie Gasaway of Muscatine, Iowa; Sue Daniels of Joliet; several half sisters; half brothers, nieces and nephews.
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I've only found a recursive algorithm of the extended Euclidean algorithm. I'd like to know how to use it by hand. Any idea?
Perhaps the easiest way to do it by hand is in analogy to Gaussian elimination or triangularization, except that, since the coefficient ring is not a field, one has to use the division / Euclidean algorithm to iteratively descrease the coefficients till zero. In order to compute both $\rm\,gcd(a,b)\,$ and its Bezout linear representation $\rm\,j\,a+k\,b,\,$ we keep track of such linear representations for each remainder in the Euclidean algorithm, starting with the trivial representation of the gcd arguments, e.g. $\rm\: a = 1\cdot a + 0\cdot b.\:$ In matrix terms, this is achieved by augmenting (appending) an identity matrix that accumulates the effect of the elementary row operations. Below is an example that computes the Bezout representation for $\rm\:gcd(80,62) = 2,\ $ i.e. $\ 7\cdot 80\: -\: 9\cdot 62\ =\ 2\:.\:$ See this answer for a proof and for conceptual motivation of the ideas behind the algorithm.
$$ \left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 7 & -9\\ -31 & 40\end{array}\right ] \left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 80 & 1 & 0\\ 62 & 0 & 1\end{array}\right ] \ =\ \left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 2\ & \ \ \ 7\ & -9\\ 0\ & -31\ & 40\end{array}\right ] \qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad $$
This is more a comment on the method explained by Bill Dubuque then a proper answer in itself, but I think there is a remark so obvious that I don't understand that it is hardly ever made in texts discussing the extended Euclidean algorithm. This is the observation that you can save yourself half of the work by computing only one of the Bezout coefficients. In other words, instead of recording for every new remainder $r_i$ a pair of coefficients $k_i,l_i$ so that $r_i=k_ia+l_ib$, you need to record only $k_i$ such that $r_i\equiv k_ia\pmod b$. Once you will have found $d=\gcd(a,b)$ and $k$ such that $d\equiv ka\pmod b$, you can then simply put $l=(d-ka)/b$ to get the other Bezout coefficient. This simplification is possible because the relation that gives the next pair of intermediate coefficients is perfectly independent for the two coefficients: say you have $$ \begin{aligned} r_i&=k_ia+l_ib\\ r_{i+1}&=k_{i+1}a+l_{i+1}b\end{aligned} $$ and Euclidean division gives $r_i=qr_{i+1}+r_{i+2}$, then in order to get $$ r_{i+2}=k_{i+2}a+l_{i+2}b $$ one can take $k_{i+2}=k_i-qk_{i+1}$ and $l_{i+2}=l_i-ql_{i+1}$, where the equation for $k_{i+2}$ does not need $l_i$ or $l_{i+1}$, so you can just forget about the $l$'s. In matrix form, the passage is from $$ \begin{pmatrix} r_i&k_i&l_i\\ r_{i+1}&k_{i+1}&l_{i+1}\end{pmatrix} \quad\text{to}\quad \begin{pmatrix} r_{i+2}&k_{i+2}&l_{i+2}\\ r_{i+1}&k_{i+1}&l_{i+1}\end{pmatrix} $$ by subtracting the second row $q$ times from the first, and it is clear that the last two columns are independent, and one might as well just keep the $r$'s and the $k$'s, passing from $$ \begin{pmatrix} r_i&k_i\\ r_{i+1}&k_{i+1}\end{pmatrix} \quad\text{to}\quad \begin{pmatrix} r_{i+2}&k_{i+2}\\ r_{i+1}&k_{i+1}\end{pmatrix} $$ instead.
A very minor drawback is that the relation $r_i=k_ia+l_ib$ that should hold for every row is maybe a wee bit easier to check by inspection than $r_i\equiv k_ia\pmod b$, so that computational errors could slip in a bit more easily. But really, I think that with some practice this method is just as safe and faster than computing both coefficients. Certainly when programming this on a computer there is no reason at all to keep track of both coefficients.
A final bonus it that in many cases where you apply the extended Euclidean algorithm you are only interested in one of the Bezout coefficients in the first place, which saves you the final step of computing the other one. One example is computing inverse modulo a prime number $p$: if you take $b=p$, and $a$ is not divisible by it, then you know beforehand that you will find $d=1$, and the coefficient $k$ such that $d\equiv ka\pmod p$ is just the inverse of $a$ modulo $p$ that you were after.
You may like to check this and this.
Also, there is a well known table method which is very easy and fast for the manual solution.
The way to do this is due to Blankinship "A New Version of the Euclidean Algorithm", AMM 70:7 (Sep 1963), 742-745. Say we want $a x + b y = \gcd(a, b)$, for simplicity with positive $a$, $b$ with $a > b$. Set up auxiliary vectors $(x_1, x_2, x_3)$, $(y_1, y_2, y_3)$ and $(t_1, t_2, t_3)$ and keep them such that we always have $x_1 a + x_2 b = x_3$, $y_1 a + y_2 b = y_3$, $t_1 a + t_2 b = t_3$ throughout. The algorithm itself is:
At the end, $x_1 a + x_2 b = x3 = \gcd(a, b)$. It is seen that $x_3$, $y_3$ do as the classic Euclidean algorithm, and easily checked that the invariant mentioned is kept all the time.
One can do away with $x_2$, $y_2$, $t_2$ and recover $x_2$ at the end as $(x_3 - x_1 a) / b$.


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In the 2nd round, Packers take Fresno State WR Davante Adams
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Man, he looked big in his highlight film...goes up and gets the ball.
Lots of catches...in TTWT (esp. for 2nd rd WRs)!Hide replies
Have to fill the spot for JJ. Thompson tried to low-ball him again and he said P O! Back to the Golden Bay and real seafood....
They all look good in the highlight videos. Fortunately TT and staff look at more than the highlights.
Sometimes I think flat line speed is over rated. If he can make the difficult catches while in tight coverage that is a plus particularly in the red zone with less room to operate.
Remember the conference he is playing in and the people he is going against. Plus you look at the offense he played in. As a couple of scouts said; nothing stands out about this guy. Not big, not fast, doesn't have great hands. Does everything well, but played against very weak competition."
Exactly NC Cheese. James Jones also played against "weak" competition. Nelson and Cobb also came from weak football schools. You can take the best football player in the world and find a scout who will tout off negatives. These comments are always skewed ... either a scout wants to convince media said player sucks to help their team get them in a favorable slot or they want to convince the media said player is the greatest thing since the discovery of the wheel so some either team believes is and reaches to select this player ahead of where he should be selected. There is NO INCENTIVE for these scouts to be honest in their comments to the media. Plenty of incentive for them to mislead.
Greg Jennings...didn't play in a big conference.
There are poor scout comments on EVERY player in the draft, including Clowney.
Well, Adams is not going to chase down Kaepernick but maybe TT thinks that the offense can just control the ball longer and keep Kaepernick off the field. Thought that they could go for receiver in Rd 3 or 4. You got to figure that TT is going to take a TE in round 4. Got to get a few more players for the defense (ILB/OLB, NT)Hide replies
He might've taken the Niklas as a replacement for Finley but got scooped up one pick before Adams.
I'd have taken Borland in a heartbeat. Pure winner.
When you sober up, you'll realize the pack has lost Jennings, Driver and Jones the past two seasons....scrub free agents are not going to burn up the nfl. Thompson is no wolf...Score points and get the ball downfield. What if Nelson or Cobb go down and lose significant time as they have in the past. No Finley either. This isn't Keg night at the Kollege Klub. This is the big leagues with big money going down in Vegas right now--parlay.
Nice pick by SF....Hyde is like another Lacy.
Draftmetric.com had Adams as the 18th best player in the draft.Hide replies
Interestingly, it almost seems like TT looks at that site, or at least sees things the same way as that guy does. They had Jeron McMillian in the top 100 two years ago, as well as Perry, Worthy, and Hayward. To their credit, they had Hayward as the best of the bunch!
Two NFL sites had him as the 8th best WR and the 12th best WR. Neither had him in the top 60 players.
Abbrederis is light years better than this guy Ted drafted. Just Ted trying to outsmart everyone again. It's not even close. This guy padded his stats in a terrible conference against terrible players while playing in a gimmick offense. Head scratcherHide replies
Thompson just can't seem to evaluate wide receiver talent. how many second and third round misses are we going to tolerate? derp
Gruber, you are a complete idiot and prove it with every statement regarding the Pack. TT has an outstanding track record of drafting wide recievers. Don't go away mad, just go away!
You guys couldn't be more wrong
Sloths, that was classic!
Gruber is a complete idiot tool D-bag on the brewer sites also. How do you go about getting someone removed?
Well, at least a badger went off the board now. Not Borland OR Abbrederis, but at least one went. Gruber's head must be exploding right now!
You ignore them?
Gruber ... you are exactly right. That James Jones guys was pretty terrible for us also. Came from the same kind of school with inferior stats and combine numbers than Adams. Cobb came from an inferior football school (KY) as well. Never mind Nelson coming from an insignificant Kansas school. Jennings also from a small D1 MI school. Criticize TT all you want, but he knows how to draft WR's. Rodgers will love Adams. He is a ball hawk. Not great at getting separation, but Rodgers will develop trust with him and put it in the right window and Adams will get it, much like Jones. P.S., Jones will suck in Oakland because he needs a QB like Rodgers to excel. Much like Jennings in MN.
How do you not take Chris Borland? Booooo!Hide replies
Because he's short, has short arms, runs a 4.8 etc. Great college player who will get lost in the NFL.
I was just going to that TT has said before that "it's a big mans game." I think he feels he's been burned taking undersized guys in the past, and they still feel like the miners manhandled them two years ago, so they want physical, big players.
Ted just ignores Wisconsin guys. It's shameful
Yeah Grubert, you do seem to be a bit of a UW homer. Nothing wrong with liking your team, but when it comes to drafting for the NFL, I think I'll stick with Ted. Didn't you say Borland should have been taken at #21 too? I guess 32 GM's are all wrong. Maybe he can prove he is the next Joe Montana!
Borland will make a dozen pro bowls. The guy is a warrior and football player.
Maybe on Madden he will make a dozen pro bowls if you disable injuries, but I sense another shoulder surgery coming on in real life. I do hope that is not the case, cause I really like Borland. Reminds me of Bob Sanders (I think that was his name), and outstanding hard hitting, high motor safety for Indy that had recurring injuries. I actually hoped GB would have drafted him (he was out of Iowa I think), but he just couldn't stay healthy.
Not my ideal pick for WR. Guy is 6'1-6'2" with 4.6 speed. Good hands. But Moncrief, Robinson and M Bryant were all available. With size. Speed. Hope TT can find a TE too.Hide replies
Mayock had him higher than all the guys you mentioned.
Two yrs of solid production, hand catcher, good after the catch.
What's not to like?
Mayock is a clown.
BigRay, I think he only does that part time on weekends and for birthday parties.
On the other hand Charlie it's obviously your full-time gig.
BigRay, a bit sensitive are we? I didn't even give you the red thumb, you gotta admit I'm at least pretty good at it, HA HA he he. Cheers dude.
Charlie, Ray Ray doesn't really understand smart and successful people. Ray Ray is " special."
scott, LMFAO! Ray Ray took the short bus.
Coach Charlie, Ray Ray is just a tool. One of those guys who is perhaps a funny dude. Ray constantly makes fun and takes jabs at Coach MM. When you poke fun at Ray Ray , the little girl can not take it.
CJ is the only TE left, he may be off the board by the time GB is up again.
Not sure Lynch is worth drafting.
Heck, I'd like to see another WR!
Ha, CJ is off the board already!
This guy is a stud. He's a much more fluid and athletic James Jones. He's an excellent option to work the middle of the field and do the dirty work....also a premier red zone option. In any other year, he goes in the first round, easily. I absolutely love this pick. Not only does he have #1 ability, but he's a nice complement to the skill set that they already have at WR. Great pick.Hide replies
Agree, GB...I'm happy w the first two picks, man.
Man, Nix dropped like a rock in this draft.
I third that GBJay. This guy is a true possession receiver who will thrive with a QB ARod throwing to him. Once ARod develops trust with a WR, he'll find the right window to throw it in and a guy like Adams, a real ball hawk, will go get it much like James Jones. He's not a good WR for most QB's because they'll see him as "covered," but he's going to be a solid #2/3 for us in 2 or 3 years with ARod.
I like the pick because the Packers had occasional problems in the red zone last year, and this cat can go up and get it. So he's not a track star, he's a football player. Good vertical leap for a man his size, outstanding yards after the catch, and very productive.Hide replies
Short for the position and slow. Played in an extremely weak conference. Not a guy who will be a stud in the red zone against pros.
Mayock and Rang have him right around where he was picked.
james Jones clone
Borland is tough guy, but short. Packers needed help in RED Zone and let's hope this guy can catch bullet passes from AR.
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In teaching your two-year-old how to behave politely, concentrate on the "magic words." This teaching will feed into your child's already strong urge to learn and master new words.
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The equations in special relativity for time dilation show that if you go faster than the speed of light, time begins to move backwards from your reference frame. This means that the clock would tick backwards, and that from your reference frame, you would travel to the star in no time if you were moving at exactly the speed of light, or, you would end up at the star before you started moving towards it, due to time dilation. However, from the reference frame of an observer at rest, you would end up at the star after you began. Since Lorentz transformations don't allow for this, you cannot actually travel at the speed of light or faster.


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Clinical Professor Jack Feinstein and Urban Legal Clinic (ULC) students successfully challenged a public housing authority's attempt to terminate a Section 8 low-income housing voucher to a client based on vague allegations of "crime by family members." In so doing, the ULC overturned a hearing officer's decision after an unusually flawed hearing process.
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