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Training Course: Community Policing Defined
Mode of Delivery: Web-based (Online)
Training Provider: Virginia Center for Policing Innovation
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, Criminal-Justice Professionals, Community-policing Stakeholders
Course Description: Community Policing Defined is a web-based training course designed to provide participants with a basic awareness and understanding of the fundamental principles and best practices of community policing. Based on the Department of Justice, COPS Office publication of the same name, Community Policing Defined not only describes the practice of community policing but also examines how it can be effectively applied. Comprised of four interactive modules, the course explores partnerships, problem solving and organizational transformation as they relate to specific issues and challenges facing today's law enforcement professionals and the communities they serve. As such it is a valuable and appropriate training opportunity for a wide variety of law enforcement and public safety professionals ranging from new hires to experienced personnel. Utilizing a blended learning approach, Community Policing Defined prompts users to actively navigate through the course's comprehensive content which includes on-screen text, graphics and narration. This design feature allows adult learners the flexibility to determine their own pace and sequence for completing the course. Although Community Policing Defined requires a minimum of 4 hours of uninterrupted run-time, participants should expect to spend between 8 and 12 hours to complete the course.
For additional information on this course: www.vcpionline.org
Training Course: New Perspectives on Community Policing
Mode of Delivery: Web-based (Online)
Training Provider: Virginia Center for Policing Innovation
Target Audience Law Enforcement, Criminal-Justice Professionals, Community-policing Stakeholders
Course Description: New Perspectives on Community Policing is a web-based training course that examines how change, emerging issues, and threats are necessitating a reinvigorated commitment to the key components of community policing: community partnerships, organizational transformation, and problem solving. Building and expanding on these principles, New Perspectives on Community Policing explores the dramatic shifts in society, technology, criminal trends, economics and the very definition of "community" relative to law enforcement. In doing so, the course introduces participants to a new perspective on community policing and its continued relevance for current and future public safety. Utilizing a blended-learning approach, New Perspectives on Community Policing offers users the opportunity to examine problem-solving tools, discover examples of successful police and community partnerships, and directly link to numerous community-policing resources. Flexible, interactive, and relevant, the course offers participants an outstanding opportunity to gain new insights on community policing and its role in today's complex world. It is ideal for all law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, as well as any community-policing stakeholders. New Perspectives on Community Policing has been developed as a modular web-based training that allows participants to start, stop, and resume the training based on their schedules and the demands of the day. Although New Perspectives on Community Policing requires a minimum of 4 hours of uninterrupted run-time, participants should expect to spend between 8 and 12 hours to complete the course. New Perspectives on Community Policing is the product of a joint partnership between the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation (VCPI), the Western Community Policing Institute (WCPI), and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
For additional information on this course: www.vcpionline.org
Training Course: Tactical Community Policing for America's Homeland Security Initiatives
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Virginia Center for Policing Innovation
Target Audience: Law Enforcement Instructors
Course Description: Tactical Community Policing for Homeland Security Initiatives (TCPHS) Train-the-Trainer course focuses on strengthening the capacity of law enforcement agencies to implement an all-crimes approach, based on community policing principles. The fundamental premise for the course is that terrorism and community policing are both philosophical approaches aimed at influencing civilian populations. Whereas terrorism seeks to inspire fear and coerce civilian populations into submission, community policing aims to preserve order, diminish fear, and build resilience. The contrasting qualities of the philosophies render community policing an ideal means to thwart terrorism. The TCPHS delivers specific training and practical guidance designed to encourage law enforcement practitioners to proactively implement community policing as a homeland security strategy. The course focuses on the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, initiatives for building community resilience, grassroots intelligence gathering, and enforcement strategies that are likely to be effective means of interdicting terrorism. TCPHS) will include a comprehensive, blended-learning, national Instructor Development Program (IDP) that will provide law enforcement trainers with the knowledge, complete presentation materials, and supplemental resources needed to prepare local officers to effectively engage in homeland security activities, utilizing proven strategies, policies and operational procedures in a thriving community policing environment. The vision of the TCPHS program is to improve the capacity of law enforcement officers nationwide to fully and effectively integrate community policing into local, regional, and national homeland security duties, maximizing resources, building lasting partnerships, and enhancing public safety across the law enforcement agencies to partner with relevant stakeholders on homeland security initiatives and to integrate homeland security roles with community policing responsibilities.
For additional information on this course: www.vcpionline.org
Training Course: COPS Critical Incident Technical Assistance Initiative
Technical Assistance Provider: CNA
Target Audience: Law Enforcement Agencies
Program Description: Law enforcement agencies are required to respond and provide support during a range of incidents, including those that might involve criminal activity, civil disturbances, and terrorism or high-profile issues. Each circumstance requires a specific response plan, resource pool, and collaboration of partners. In many cases, the immediacy of the incident precludes the responding law enforcement agency from conducting a comprehensive assessment of best practices to inform its response activities. This can cause mistakes, accidents, community hostility, media criticism, injuries, property damage, and cost overruns. In addition, the range of potential incidents includes many that likely would overwhelm law enforcement agencies, particularly small to mid-sized agencies. In those cases, identifying and seamlessly engaging response partners can be a challenge while in the midst of a response. Often some agencies do not have the training and experience necessary to effectively execute a coordinated incident response. CNA will provide real-time training and technical assistance that incorporates community oriented policing principles in critical response operations.
For additional information on the COPS Critical TA initiative please contact the COPS Office Response Center at 800.421.6770


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The 8 Most Horrifying Body Modifications
#4. Subdermal Implants
Sometimes piercings just can't cut the mustard in terms of mangling your outward appearance, as it's obvious to any onlooker that you merely have a chunk of metal or plastic lodged in your perineum. However, through the miracle of subdermal implants your run of the mill piece of flea market jewelry can now be mistaken for an unusually-shaped tumor.
In a nutshell, a subdermal implant is exactly what the name suggests: an implant beneath the skin. Usually made from Teflon or silicone, a glorified spatula is used to hollow out a pocket in your flesh and the implant is then crammed in there. You can choose any stylish shape you've ever wanted to bulge unnaturally from your skin, such as a horseshoe, a pair of brass knuckles or a bust of Egon from the Ghostbusters.
"This is a really fun job."-Cracked Photoshop Department.
You're going to want to wrap the part of your body for a couple of weeks, as any sudden movements might leave you with an awesome Teflon star rattling around in your ball pouch. And you better hope that whoever implanted that pentagram shaped tumor in your forehead was using clean instruments. Otherwise, your body may reject the implant and try to vomit it up through the skin.
Ever experience what it's like for your body to force out a splinter, reducing you to child-like weeping if something bumps the pus-filled sore around it? Now imagine it trying to do the same thing to a chunk of Teflon coated titanium half the size of your hand.
#3. Extraocular Implant
If you're like most of us, you hate nothing more than to look in the mirror day in and day out and see not a damn thing lodged in your eyeball. Your eye is a lazy sack of shit with some of the best real estate on your entire face. If you don't have nice boobs, your eyes may be the thing most people focus on when they speak to you. And what do they have going for them? Glasses? Spider webs of red veins from your last Lysol bender? Pathetic.
Well, thanks to the miracle of modern insanity, you can have shit attached right to your eyeball. Like, right to it. Finally people can look at you in a confused manner as they try to figure out how you got some piece of a shitty charm bracelet stuck in your eye until you break down and explain it to them.
The procedure was first done in the Netherlands and isn't really available elsewhere, though several states are trying to ensure it never gets a chance to become legal. Obviously our elected officials are deathly afraid of the proletariat getting access to tacky eye jewelry and starting a sparkly, fantastic revolution.
#2. Magnetic Implants
Here's a dilemma most of you toil with daily: You want to stick random shit to your skin, but hate all of that glue and tape residue. And what can be worse than coming home at night and trying to rip all of the ornaments off your chest without yanking out all of the hair under them?
Luckily, industrious and semi-artsy body modification enthusiasts have invented a solution. Take the above technique of ramming foreign objects under the skin, and put a magnet there instead! Now you can pick up any random piece of decorative crap--as long as it's metal--and have it attach to you with ease.
An added and slightly creepy bonus to the use of magnetic implants is the ability to sense magnetic fields. Those who have had the implants inserted have demonstrated an uncanny knack for locating power transformers and following magnetic currents in cookware. Basically this means if you have a lot of very strong magnetic implants you can become the most useless superhero ever.
#1. Genital Beading
If you ever took the time to read up on witch trials from back in the day, you may have read that a lot of witches were accused of fornicating with Satan himself in exchange for their dark and mysterious powers. And while that may sound awesome to the modern crop of Goth kids, you have to assume the devil sucks at foreplay and doesn't fix breakfast for you when he's done. And if you really thought hard about it, you may stop to wonder just what the devil's wang looks like. Probably evil. Probably like someone who's had genital beading done.
If you want your own devil penis, you have to be willing to let someone use a large gauge needle or a scalpel to poke holes in the shaft of your dong. Of course the ladies can do it too, only along the labia instead.
Small balls of titanium, silicone or some such are then inserted into the incision and the incision is closed up. Each bead requires two cuts for the needle to get in and back out again, and a rod is used to jam the bead in place. And, to reiterate, it's being jammed somewhere under the skin of your junk.
Like this, only as a penis.
The end result of this process is, of course, pure abject horror in the form of what could easily be mistaken for the penis of a living abacus.
For scientific explanations of why people do shit like this, check out 5 Douchebag Behaviors Explained by Science. Or for examples of weird shit people do to prevent unplanned body modification in the pelvic region, check out History's 10 Most Terrifying Contraceptives. Or, visit the Cracked.com Top Picks to see what we're looking at instead of working.

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Business Rates Deferral Scheme 2012/13
Deferred payment of 2012/13 rates liabilities
The Government has decided to put in place a business rates deferral scheme which will give you the option of spreading the Retail Price Index increase in your 2012-13 bill over three years, to help businesses manage their cash flow during the downturn. You will be able to defer payment of 3.2% of your 2012-13 bill – which is equivalent to 60% of the Retail Price Index increase – until 2013-14 and 2014-15. You will then pay back the total amount deferred over the next two years.
How to Apply
Please read the FAQSs below and if you wish to opt into the scheme, an application form is available at the foot of this page for you to download and print off. The form simply asks for your name, the address of the property and its reference number (which can be found on your business rate bill). Just complete those details, sign and return it to the address at the bottom of the form. You do not need to pay anyone to do this for you.
You can apply at any time until 31 March 2013 provided you have some of your bill left to pay. We would encourage you to apply early so that you see the reduction in your monthly instalments sooner, however, you will be able to defer 3.2% of the whole year's bill regardless of when you apply. Provided that you return the application by 9 June, you will see the reduction in your July instalment. If you apply later than that date, you will see the reduction reflected in your next instalment or the one after that.
Need further information? - Contact the business rates section for any further information on 0121 303 5510 / 0121 303 5509 or 0121 303 5511, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com
FAQs (Further details are available at www.businesslink.gov.uk)
What's the deadline for applying? – You can apply at any time until 31 March 2013, as long as you have some of your bill left to pay, but we would encourage you to apply early.
How much of my bill can I put off paying? – You are able to put off 3.2% of the whole year's 2012/2013 business rates bill.
What if I have paid some or all of my bill? – You are able to put off paying 3.2% of the whole 2012/2013 bill, as long as you have that amount left to pay
How will my payments be reduced? – The amount you are putting off paying will be spread over your remaining payments for the whole year. For example, if you can put off £100.00 and you have four payments left to make, each of those payments will be reduced by £25.00.
Will I pay interest on the amount I put off paying? – No
How soon will I see the benefit of making lower payments? – Provided that you return the application by 9 June 2012, you will see the reduction in your July instalment. If you apply later than that date, you will see the reduction reflected in your next instalment or the one after that. The amount you can put off paying will not change in both situations.
When will I have to pay back the amount I put off? – You will pay back half the amount in 2013/14 and half in 2014/15, as well as paying your full bill for those years. Your rates bills in the next two years will include details of the amounts you have put off paying and need to pay, and your payments will be adjusted in line with this.
What if I have more than one property? – If you have more than one property in the same council area, you only need to fill in one application form. You will need to give the council the address of all the properties you want to claim for. If you have properties in more than one council area, you will need to apply to each council separately.
What if I stop occupying the property? – You will need to pay the amounts you have a duty to pay by law, including the amount you have put off paying. Your local authority will send you a revised bill, letting you know how much you should pay.
What if I am already in arrears? – You do not automatically have the right to put off making any payments if you have already lost the right to pay your bill by instalments. You may still apply to put off making a payment, but it will be up to your local authority to decide whether or not to approve this. You may also want to talk to your local authority to discuss what other help is available.
Will I be able to defer on the Business Rate Supplement element of my bill? – Yes. The deferment will also apply automatically to the BRS element of your bill (if applicable) on a pro rata basis. The only BRS in place for 2012-13 is the one levied by the Mayor of London to fund Crossrail which applies in London only at a rate of 2p on properties with a rateable value above £55,000. However, the 2p for the Crossrail BRS does not increase by inflation annually – so this element of your bill will in fact be the same as in 2011-12 if your rateable value is unchanged.
What if I don't keep up with my payments? – If you are struggling to keep up with your payments, you should talk to your local authority to discuss what other help is available.
Is there any other help for businesses? – Further details of the full range of support and information available to businesses are available at www.businesslink.gov.uk.
Is there any other help with rates bills for small businesses? – If you run a small business, further help may be available to pay your bills with Small Business Rate Relief. The level of Small Business Rate Relief has also been doubled for the whole of 2012-13. If you are occupying only one property with a rateable value of below £6,000 you may not need to pay any rates at all for 2012/13. Those occupying only one property with a rateable value of below £12,000 can benefit from a discount on your bill. The Government has also made it easier for eligible ratepayers with rateable values below £18,000 (£25,500 in London) to have their bills calculated using the small business multiplier. To apply for a discount, you need to contact your local authority
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Someone in relation with a girl, she is pregnant. He leaves to work building a dam in Iraq.
Much later waiting for his flight to New York City.
In Iraq (or some undeveloped country), a man tells him that the girl married to someone owner of tobacco plantation in this country. He would not go on the flight, going to find that guy.
When he finds the place, he finds that guy hanged from the ceiling.
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Oil sands mine inching closer to reality in Uintah Basin
SALT LAKE CITY — Environmental foes of what is poised to be the nation's first oil sands mining operation in the Uintah Basin are already challenging a state-issued regulatory permit related to their fears over potential groundwater contamination.
That matter is pending before the Utah Supreme Court, waiting for legal arguments to be filed on all sides.
An interim decision issued earlier this month by a separate state agency for a large mining operations permit may be challenged as well, but attorney Rob Duboc said staff at Western Resource Advocates are waiting to see the rationale behind the final order before making a decision.
"We know we disagree with the opinion," Duboc said Thursday. "But we have to wait to see what basis for appeal we may have in the findings issued by the board."
Duboc said it may be early to mid-February before the environmental advocacy organization makes a decision on challenging the mining permit for U.S. Oil Sands' operation straddling the border of Uintah and Grand counties.
"It is going to take a little bit of time to determine the fundamental basis for appeal," he said.
The state Division of Oil, Gas and Mining issued its interim decision Jan. 10 on the permit, which involves an initial 213-acre site in which U.S Oil Sands officials believe 2,000 barrels of oil per day will be produced.
Cameron Todd, chief executive officer of the Calgary-based company, said the PR Spring project occupies 5,900 acres of Utah school trust lands property where 200 exploratory wells show that 190 million barrels of oil can be successfully mined.
Project foes have fought the regulatory permits at every turn, but Todd said those permits have been able to weather the scrutiny because of the thoroughness of the process.
"This is not an unexpected result," he said, "but we have done our homework. This project has been scrutinized at every angle, and we have been working with regulators for the last eight years. We've had every question asked, and we've answered them."
Moab-based Living Rivers has argued that state water quality regulators violated their statutory duty when they they granted a permit to U.S. Oil Sands on the basis that the operation would have minimal impacts to groundwater in the region — because so little exists.
John Weisheit, the group's conservation director, said the state acted arbitrarily in both regulatory instances, especially as it relates to the potential harm to groundwater resources.
"So what other choice do we have but to fight it?" Weisheit said.
In their decision, Utah water quality regulators pointed to the lack of impoundments or process-water ponds on site, the recovery and recycling of water used in extraction process of bitumen, and the fact that processed tailings will not be "free draining."
In addition, hydrological tests showed the general absence of groundwater to a depth of between 1,500 feet and 2,000 feet. An administrative law judge who backed the issuance of the permit said the most compelling evidence demonstrating the absence of groundwater was based on 180 holes drilled in and around the proposed mine site of up to 305 feet in depth — more than twice the depth at which bitumen will be mined.
Living Rivers also objected to the mining permit because it only requires visual inspections of the mine site, not any subsurface analysis to determine any extent of contamination from d-limonene, a solvent the company will use to complete the separation process of bitumen, a thick tar-like substance, from marble-sized chunks of ore.
Mining regulators said there is no legal requirement under Utah law for subsurface monitoring, and 99 percent of the d-limonene, derived from citrus oil, will be recycled.
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[FM11 Journeyman Career]
As you may have read, my Mountain Rangers career is finished, mainly down to the fact that playing in those divisions are pretty boring, as are the long gaps between games, and the inability to finish a match with 11 men despite playing with tackling set to 'cautious'. I wanted to return to what I like doing the most. I like variety, I'm not a one-club man. On CM2010 I was, but there weren't any exciting lower league challenges in that game. FM2011 is the perfect game for journeymen. My previous journeyman career was somewhat of a flop, I worked my way up from the Swedish 2nd tier into a job with Southampton in the Championship, however I had a little nagging feeling in the back of my mind - I'd started with an automatic reputation. This was playing on my mind, I felt as if all of my achievements weren't quite as impressive. So this time, I'm starting as a former Sunday League footballer, from England, under my real name. I'll start unemployed, and look for a job.
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CU-Boulder accepted an invitation on June 11, 2010, to join the Pacific-10 Conference as its 11th member, the first new member since 1978; a week later Utah was added and the league will become the Pacific-12 in the coming year. In addition to shared academic excellence, CU-Boulder and the other Pac-10 member institutions hold impressive athletic résumés. Pac-10 teams have combined to win 390 NCAA titles, by far the most of any other conference in the country, and the Buffaloes will add to that 23 NCAA titles, including 17 in skiing, one in football, and five in men's and women's cross-country.
Colorado has a long-standing tradition of playing Pac-10 teams in many sports, especially football. The Buffaloes have played 73 games against Pac- 10 members, the second-most against any league CU has ever been a part of. The first Pac-10 school Colorado met in a sporting event was a 1904 football game against Stanford in Denver.
With more than 35,000 alumni residing in the current Pac-12 footprint, more than three times the number living within the Big 12 regions, the Buffalo faithful should feel right at home in the Pac-12.


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Citroen Hypnos concept made its world premiere at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. Hypnos is a hybrid concept car with a 60+mpg fuel economy and 200 HP. I think the interior looks a bit off with all those colored seats and the front has this angry grin thats just ready to eat ya!! Continue reading for more info.


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So I've arrived in Shkodër, Albania. If there are other tourists here they're all hiding. I don't have a guidebook and wikitravel doesn't tell me.
Can I drink the water from the tap like in nearby Montenegro, or should I buy bottled water?
So I've arrived in Shkodër, Albania. If there are other tourists here they're all hiding. I don't have a guidebook and wikitravel doesn't tell me.
Can I drink the water from the tap like in nearby Montenegro, or should I buy bottled water?
According to the UK FCO website travel advice for Albania:
Yes tap water is safe in Shkodër, I was born there, grew up drinking that water. I live in New York and I can tell you that the water there has a diff taste regardless if it's tap or from a bottle, but make sure to keep very cold in the fridge so you won't notice the difference. Have fun while you're there. About the tourists, they're all gone by the end of August.
I mostly drank bottled water in Albania this summer but if I don't remember horribly wrong, I did have tap water too while in Saranda (in the very south), and had no problems. (I probably asked the very helpful owner and other guests at Backpackers SR who said it's ok.)
That said, Shkodër is at the opposite end of the country, and I guess the water quality can depend on the exact locality and even the building (the house I stayed in was pretty new / in good shape).
I'd ask locals in each town, and you'll probably meet some foreigners too, eventually, who you can consult. If in doubt, better to err on the safe side, of course.
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(She's a medical student from Kosovo who's been to Albania many times.)
I think it's understandable why guidebooks and officials should "play it safe" by advising you to stick to bottled water, even if in reality the risks were not that big these days. Albania remains somewhat "exotic" and not so well-known destination, for a European country. Disclaimer: in every case, do it at your own responsibility. :-)
I just spent a week in Albania and did drink the tab water everywhere (actually I've only been to Tirana, Berat, Saranda and Korca). In Tirane the people at the hostel did drink the water themselves but didn't recommend it to me, just to be on the safe side.
I wouldn't risk it. There are some authoritative resources that advice to use bottled water:
This answer is specific for Tiranë but will surely be enlightening for Albania generally.
In Tiranë, the capital, the owner of my hostel tells me the tapwater is good for drinking four times per day lasting two hours each time!
I don't yet know by which standard the water quality is better at these times, or if there are similar regimes in place in other parts of the country.


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StarStuff Podcast Halos of mysterious dark matter could hide countless stars. Also; new data shows it's snowing on Mars, and Europe's new mission to study what will happen when the Earth's magnetic poles flip.
What's Nobel about stem cell research?
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Great Moments in Science Two scientists were recently awarded Nobel Prizes for their research on adult stem cells. Dr Karl explains how they created renewable cells that could change our lives.
Earth-sized planet next door
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
StarStuff Podcast Scientists have discovered an Earth-sized planet circling Alpha Centauri B. Also; planet found in a system with four suns, and more liquid water in the early solar system than previously thought.


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So I made homemade cottage cheese yesterday that had me cook the milk until it was just about to boil. I had it on the stove for at least half an hour because I didn't want it to start boiling the one time I looked away. This got me wondering if anyone has any 'tricks' to bring milk to a boil quick(er) and safely?
I put the pan with the milk inside a larger pan containing some water. This makes it much harder for the milk to boil; but it doesn't need to boil in order to turn for cottage cheese. It takes much longer to turn this way (1-2 hours), but during that time I can pretty much leave it alone and just check back every 5-10 minutes to see if it's started to turn yet and give it a quick stir to break up the skin.
If your purpose is just to boil milk quicker and safely. Then I'd suggest using a pot with a larger surface. This will mean your milk is shallower and thus boils quicker. It's as safe as what you're doing currently, but since it boils faster you'll need to watch it much closer.
Keep in mind that with this method, since the milk will have a greater surface area exposed to the air, then it will evaporate much more rapidly. This may require you to adjust the amount of milk you are boiling slightly.
If you're going to be adding additional ingredients to the milk for a perhaps more complex recipe in the same pot, then this may not be a useful approach. e.g. if you were to need to boil something in the milk for X number of minutes this would fail, because you would likely boil away too much of your milk in the time the item needed to cook


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Hello Readers.
Two weeks in on the new job; I'd be fibbing if I were to say it's been a breeze.
One main reason, my old reporting desk in the newsroom is not quite occupied, but hopefully that shouldn't be for long.
And, Photographer Byron Hetzler and Reporter Reid Tulley spent the work week out of the office learning about all the new changes coming to the Sky-Hi News and its sister newspapers; this week, I too will be gone most of the week for technology trainings.
We've managed to produce newspapers while being extremely short-staffed and in a state of flux.
Needless to say, reader submissions have been especially appreciated in a time of transition here at the Sky-Hi and across Colorado Mountain News Media.
Why all the trainings? The entire way we produce the newspaper is changing.
Readers will notice some differences, but most of the changes are taking place internally. We are getting a new computer software system - in the business is called a content-management system. It represents a dramatic update and investment in how we put together the print newspaper, as well as move stories, photos and other items to our website.
So I thank you for staying with us as we adjust to new ways of doing things.
The changes are good, and in the end, we hope they benefit you, our readers.
With new technology coming our way, production should be streamlined to such a degree it will create more time for staff members to go out and do what we do best, and that is gather information and cover the news and events of this great county.
It's not in the form of daisies on your doorknob, but consider it a May Day gift to you - included in all of these exciting updates is a new website for the Sky-Hi News, set to debut on May 1.
The existing website is six years old, ancient in technological terms.
Because we know you like your morning digest of news free of chaos and clutter, the new website is cleaner and easier to navigate.
The redesign should be an easy read no matter the platform - computer, tablet or mobile.
The new site features an enhanced "Marketplace" section that is pleasing to scan for want ads, items for sale, real estate listings and auto ads.
A full weather forecast from the National Weather Service will be at your fingertips on the site.
The home page grants users a carousel of the top news photos and stories to capture interest, and versatile "tiles" highlight feature content.
You can also announce your family's moments in life - such as births, weddings, engagements, anniversaries or graduations - you seek to share with the community.
And with this new website we will return to providing an online "comments" feature, which will be facilitated through Facebook.
The website design is based on reader feedback and research on how people use news-oriented websites. Overall, it will be a more efficient and more enjoyable reading experience.
But, as with any change, the new website will take some getting used to.
And as with any new website, we know it won't be perfect on day one. If you encounter bugs, mistakes and unexpected blips, please bear with us and let us know so we may correct it.
News tips and submissions can be emailed directly to firstname.lastname@example.com and online via the new website - on May 1 - at www.skyhidailynews.com.
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Bob Chitester: How to Communicate Freedom
Free to Choose is an oddity among free-market educational institutions: An organization that makes fun, easy to understand videos about economic and social ideas. The whole point, says founder and president Bob Chitester, is that people who love liberty will never convince their neighbors to love it, too, if they sit down with research papers and flowcharts. People are captured by stories. So Free to Choose tells peoples' stories. Chitester explains the communication secrets that have made Free to Choose and their education website Izzit.org a leader in free-market education.


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June 3, 2012
Project management
I'm thinking about write an scentific paper about project management, especificaly about Linux.
Who manage that and how.. How manage people away from each other?
I`m a Linux user for many years, I really want write about that.
My question is: Do you know where can i get information about that specific aspect?
I'm studying "TI project management", it's why I need write a paper, will be very good if I could study about Linux.
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Do you think that using a battery grip as a backup battery is a good idea? I just bought a used 50d and I need another source of power. Battery grips and normal batteries are similar in price (within $10). I like the possibility of using AA batteries, and the extra shutter release is also a definite plus. Are there any drawbacks to using a battery grip for this purpose?
I never take my battery grip off my 5D mark iii. The extra battery life that it gives is wonderful. That said, I use it with the official batteries and I have a total of 4 regular batteries for it.
I do still have a loaded and ready to go AA tray in-case of emergency, but AA's don't really work well as a battery option because they still provide less power than the normal batteries do and the drive speed of the camera can be significantly reduced while using them.
That said, I still highly recommend the battery grip. The vertical shooting handle and controls is very nice to have and with Canon batteries in the grip, I can generally shoot for a typical day without having to change batteries, and if I do need to change batteries, it's a quick swap.
Battery grips takes up a huge space like 1.5x bigger camera and adds on weight just the same. If you carry it for a few hours in your hand your arms may hurt.
If you're shooting in the streets battery grips are scary just as big zooms are. People will be more shy in front of your camera. So in street photography smaller is better.
The only benefit of a grip is it increases your frames per second. I cant see any reason to justify a battery grip. Spare batteries are more useful. Also AA batteries must be rechargable or it'll turn out to be expensive anyway.
Battery grips are heavy and take space. I have a nikon D80 with the original battery and a battery grip, and I end up using the original battery much more often.
AA batteries will hardly replace regular battery. Either you spend lot of money in buying often high capacity so they last longer then cheaper AA or you get rechargeable that will not last so long and need to be charged often.
I recently bought battery grip so I do not have to worry about charging when going on long trip. Yes, it does make camera bigger and heavier (couldn't fir it in one of the bags I used previously), but with strap like Blackrapid Sport it is not so noticeable like with strap around your neck. I'm not yet 100% sold on battery grip, but I do find it more convenient for hiking and wildlife photography where at the end of the day battery change can cost me that "magical" shot I was waiting for
none, if you like the larger grip. If not just buy some spare batteries.
Me, I like the grip for the better ergonomics, the extra battery and option of AA's is a bonus (but I've needed to resort to AA though !) but they are not for everyone.
I use a generic PICO brand battery grip in my 70D which I got for 1/3 the price of original Canon product. I am happy with the grip aspect, it surely adds convenience while holding during wildlife shoots. I also love the part that I can use multiple Canon batteries in the grip. However I was largely disappointing that AA batteries drain out just too quickly (and I'm talking about the premium heavy duty AA ones) and the biggest drawback is that my frame per second drops to 2fps from 8fps when using AA.


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Rick Hetherington, Oracle's vice president of hardware development, manages a team of architects and performance analysts who design Oracle's M- and T-series processors. In this interview, Hetherington describes the technical details of the new SPARC T5 processor and expands on the process that is used to design these innovative chips.
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Q: What were the design objectives of the SPARC T5 processor?
A: The strategy for the SPARC T5 was to improve on SPARC T4 in every possible dimension. And the team has done this in a bit over one year's time. We wanted to increase processor performance both in terms of single thread as well as throughput. And then increase memory bandwidth, I/O bandwidth, and finally socket scalability.
Q: So what's new in the SPARC T5?
A: You may recall that we designed a brand new core for the SPARC T4 processor called the S3, which was built in 40 nanometer technology. We brought that same S3 core into the SPARC T5 and doubled the number of cores to 16 so that throughput went up by more than a factor of two. And because we were in a new generation of silicon at 28 nanometers, we had the opportunity to increase the clock from 3GHz to 3.6GHz. SPARC T5 integrates PCI express on die much like the SPARC T4 did, but we are now deploying PCI Express Rev 3, which means that we doubled the I/O bandwidth. DDR3 on-die memory controllers are similar to what we have on SPARC T4 but there are now 4 controllers so that will double memory bandwidth.
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Q: This is mainly a performance increase story then?
A: It is, and we are delivering what our customers have requested. We've also increased our ability to scale the SPARC T5 to eight sockets. So with 16 cores, SPARC T5 has the capability of gluelessly interconnecting eight sockets for a total of 128 cores. Each core can support up to eight independent threads or strands. From an operating system point of view, there are a total of 1024 CPUs. That means that customers now can enjoy over 100 physical SPARC cores, over 1000 threads or CPUs, and many terabytes of physical memory in a modestly-sized rackable system, which translates into significant savings on power consumption and real estate consumed.
With this large number of cores, memory bandwidth is very important. SPARC T5 was designed to support extreme memory bandwidth: it has nearly 80 gigabytes of usable memory bandwidth. With nearly linear scaling across 8 sockets, SPARC T5 aggregate memory exceeds half a terabyte per second of memory bandwidth. This was measured with a benchmark called Stream. And that's great news for our customers, because this accelerates the performance of virtualized applications that require enormous amounts of memory.
Q: Does the SPARC T5 also support both single-threaded and multi-threaded applications?
A: Absolutely. What we pioneered on SPARC T4 was this notion of a core that had heterogeneous behavior that could supply really good single-thread performance. Thread assignment can be both a manual operation or more automatic when Solaris is left to do that job, so as customers or the Solaris scheduler assign more of the virtual threads on a core, the S3 cores will dynamically and efficiently transform into a throughput core. The S3 core on SPARC T5 will have exactly the same properties only better with its increased clock rate.
Q: Was there anything in the design process that surprised you, or did things go the way you expected?
A: No, I think things went pretty much as planned. SPARC T5 is our first 28-nanometer product. So we were prepared for some surprises in the technology realm. I focus on architecture and not so much on silicon technology, but from my perspective, development went very smoothly. Some of the potential surprises had to do with the fact that die sizes are getting larger, T5 being the largest die we have ever designed. This would have an impact on yield in the early stages but again we had plenty of good silicon for initial post-silicon check out.
And one of the reasons Oracle's microelectronics has been successful here is that we've learned to refactor our chips, which lets us improve the processor design without taking undue risk. What we try to eliminate is what I would call 'discovery' in post-silicon. You want to be very predictable about what it is you're building because we ask the company to invest a great deal of money in these programs.
My team is responsible for performance modeling and the team does this with great skill and accuracy. These very detailed models not only forecast performance, they assist and guide architects and designers throughout the development process. The resulting silicon matches very well with our forecasts with no surprises.
Q: And how do you know which workloads you want to model on?
A: We have a variety of workloads based on industry standard benchmarks, which we've been able to gather instruction traces on. This is a very complex task and very few processor teams can match our capability in this regard. The nice thing about using benchmarks is they provide comparability across T4 to T5, M5 and M6 as well as our competitors. The database team recently supplied us with a set of micro-benchmarks that represent critical sections of future database releases.
One of the main traces that we have is for Oracle Database 11g. It uses a 256 wide trace to simulate our performance models running TPC-C, which is an OLTP workload. It's generally considered the most well understood OLTP workload available. We use that to forecast performance and also to understand and analyze the behavior of these designs. It takes a tremendous amount of work to develop and acquire the trace, to verify the trace, and then apply that trace to performance models.
Q: What do you mean when you say trace?
A: These are instructions that are gathered from executing an application; a long list of billions and billions of SPARC instructions. We run Oracle applications on an existing SPARC system and gather instructions as they are executed. And then once we have the trace itself, we verify that it is legitimate.
Once we have the verified trace, another team of engineers will apply that trace to a model of the processor in development. This modeling is how we eliminate surprises when we first examine actual silicon.
Q: What do you consider innovative in the SPARC T5?
A: There are a number of areas that we would consider innovative on T5. I would point out the move from a snoopy-based coherence protocol to a directory-based protocol. This has reduced unnecessary coherence chatter and reduced memory latency. The result is our ability to scale in a near linear fashion from one to eight sockets.
T5 has a number of unique power management features, as well. This would include Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling, which allows customers to set a power limit, and then a combination of firmware and hardware will adjust to execute within those set policies.
Q: What kinds of applications will benefit the most from the SPARC T5?
A: I would say anything within the Oracle software stack. Database transaction processing as well as analytics will do quite well. Java middleware performs extremely well. T5 is a well-balanced, general-purpose processor that scales from the simplest task to the most complex and demanding workloads. So it is safe to say that the entire Oracle application stack will run well on T5.
Q: What about the security features in the T5?
A: The team takes security very seriously. Each core on T5 has an encryption engine that will accelerate all of the most common bulk encryption ciphers like AES and DES. SPARC T5 also supports asymmetric key exchange with RSA and ECC and authentication or hash functions like SHA and MD5. We also have hardware random number generation.
With negligible overhead, customers can build an entire 3-tiered data center and never have to communicate between servers in clear text. It will all be encrypted as we go from the edge of the data center to, let's say, the backend of the database. What we are trying to do here is provide security for customers that have avoided using full encryption within their data centers because of performance issues. With SPARC T4 and now T5, there is no real reason not to run a data center that is secure from end to end.
Q: I'd like to know if there was any kind of optimization with Solaris 11.
A: Solaris is specifically designed to take advantage of the features in SPARC T5 like extremely high core and thread counts and on-chip security. SPARC T5 will run Solaris 10 Update 11 as well as Solaris 11. We encourage our customers to stay current with the latest Solaris release.
Q: And the Solaris binary compatibility still applies?
A: Yes, I think that's one of the important things to point out. Customers can be assured that whatever they are running on any previous SPARC system, which includes T1 through T4, will run just fine on T5, only better.
Q. What's the most important thing you want customers to know about the SPARC T5 processor?
A: We want customers to be assured that Oracle continues to invest heavily in SPARC processors and systems. They should also know that the team is delivering exciting new products in a predictable way as we outlined in our public roadmaps. We value our SPARC customers and appreciate the trust they have in our products and we will return that trust with a continuous stream of competitive and innovative products.


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Meet the press.
ROME -- At his first meeting with the media, Pope Francis continued to impress, charming the five-thousand-plus journalists in attendance with gestures of humility, his sense of humor, and suggestive comments about the direction he wants to lead the church.
He was introduced by Archbishop Claudio Celli, who heads the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Celli spoke in Italian and English, praising the press for the "positive role" it played "once again" in reporting the church to the world. He also highlighted the "freedom and autonomy of those who work in the media," thanking them for "their human and intellectual passion." The "diversity of media professionals," he continued, "adds to our understanding of the richness of reality." Francis listened intently from his chair, about twenty feet from Celli. And when the archbishop finished speaking, Francis stood and walked over to Celli to thank him for the remarks. (Popes don't really do that.)
Francis spoke in Italian and from a text, though he ad libbed throughout the address -- noting at the outset that "you have been busy." Of course the press ate it up. But he also reflected on the difficulty of covering an event like the election of a pope. "The nature of the church is spiritual, not political.... Christ is the center, not the successor of Peter."
Going off script, he explained how "the bishop of Rome came to call himself Francis." As it became clear that he was about to be elected pope, his friend Cardinal Claudio Hummes comforted him:
"He hugged me. He kissed me. He said don't forget about the poor," Francis said. "And that word went in here," he said, pointing at his head. "And that's how in my heart came the name Francis of Assisi...for me is a man of poverty, a man of peace, a man who loved and protected creation. Right now our relations with Creation are not going very well." Francis of Assisi "gives us this spirit of peace, the poor man who wanted a poor church," the pope explained. "How I would love a church that is poor and for the poor."
Some cardinals had joked that he should have taken other names.
Ah, you should have called yourself Adrian, no, because Adrian VI was a reformer and we need reform! And another said to me, No, no you should have called yourself Clement. But why Clement? Clement XV -- so you would have taken revenge on Clement XIV, who suppressed the Society of Jesus!
But Francis also had a serious message for the world's media. He spoke of "the trinity of communication: truth, goodness and beauty." "We are not called to communicate ourselves. The church exists to communicate truth, goodness and beauty."
He concluded in rather stunning fashion. Instead of offering his apostolic blessing aloud, he gave it in silence, acknowledging (in Spanish) that "not everyone present is a member of the Catholic faith, and others do not believe." He continued, "I respect the conscience of all of you, knowing that each one of you is a child of God. May God bless you."
As he walked off stage, uproarious applause filled the room.
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I'm with Jean: beautiful, hopeful, surprising, etc., but I don't want to get carried away until some actual decisions happen.
The shoes of the Pope:http://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/163792383.jpgIts encouraging to see someone who presents himself as a real person rather than as a character playing a role.
A proper piece of journalism here.Nice job!
I'm surprised the press hasn't investigated this lead: the name Francis may have been taken as a tribute to Francis I, Francois Premier, autocratic King of France (1494 - 1547). He strengthened the monarchy and made overtures to Muslims. Look for more of the same.
From Marco Politi, vaticanist of La Repubblica, analysis that I dearly hope is not just wishful thinking:
Pope Francis described Pope Benedicts resignation as a courageous and humble gesture. Benedict has demythologized the figure of the Supreme Pontiff, has taken away its sacralization, humanizing it and making it more humble. He has thus stressed its character as service and not as idolatrous power incarnate in a quasi-supernatural person. In the breach opened by Ratzinger, Pope Bergoglio is proceeding on this path, convinced that to enter into communication with contemporary humanity requires a resolute return to the essence of the Gospel. From his first moment Francis has presented himself as Bishop of Rome, consistently referring to the cardinals, most of them archbishops of dioceses throughout the world, as brothers. It is the representation of a bishop-pope and not of an emperor-pope who with his red mantle and his purple shoes appeared for more than a millennium as an absolute monarch. The triple crown of the triregno symbolized that the pope was above any earthly authority. Thus gradually Francis is dismantling the power-papacy of Gregory VII, the absolutism of the Council of Trent, the claimed infallibility of Pius IX. The emphasis in his first speech to the crowd in St. Peters Square that the Church of Rome presides in love over all the Churchesa formula from the first centuries of Christianitypresents the Holy See not as the center of bureaucratic power but as an instrument of unity: a concept fit both for realizing the principle of collegiality within the Catholic Church and for favoring dialogue with the other Christian Churches. For this remodeling of the papacy in the direction of collegiality and thus of a government of the Catholic Church effected by the pontiff in close collaboration with the episcopates, the American wind that blew over the Conclave played a role. If German and French theologians put their mark on the Second Vatican Council, the role of the American cardinals was central in making room in 2013 for a more modern conclave and pre-conclave. It was because of their energy and communication-skillsalthough not exclusivelythat the preliminary meetings of the cardinals were marked by great concreteness in the analysis of situations and of the evils of todays Church. Its because of them that in the conclave tactical games were set aside and the victorious candidate was quickly identified. They became a point of reference for the many episcopates that are seeking to participate in the strategic decisions of the papacy. Next Tuesday, with the inaugural Mass, begins, then, a strongly innovative phase for the pontificate as an institution and for the Catholic Church as a whole. The next months will tell whether Francis will also succeed in creating a team to support him in this strategy.
Thank you, Grant. Another display of simplicity and humanity. The end of the papal court continues. And courtiers.---The Vatican issued a communication today that states that Pope Francis has provisionally (donec aliter provideatur) confirmed all present curial heads of departments in their various offices (prefects, presidents, and secretaries [the number two slots]). BUT, he wishes to have time for prayer and reflection before making any final decisions. This is significant.
" this remodeling of the papacy in the direction of collegiality and thus of a government of the Catholic Church effected by the pontiff in close collaboration with the episcopates "Vatican II promised that and so did Paul VI and it did not happen. Will it happen now? Or will we get a cosmetically adjusted centralism?
"BUT, he wishes to have time for prayer and reflection before making any final decisions. This is significant."How is that different from the usual procedure?
Lovely article, Grant. It must have been thrilling to be there.So many good signs already, including the silent blessing.
Joseph O'Leary:It is different in that the official "Comunicato" makes this explicit. It could have ended with the bald announcement of the provisional re-appointments. I stand then by my decision to highlight "but."
@Patrick Malloy. What a disappointing comment.
Loved: "Christ is not the successor of Peter"! Thanks Grant.
The Forward has a short account of Francis's only book: A dialogue with a rabbi in Spanish.http://forward.com/articles/173039/pope-francis-i-speaks-on-holocaust-is...
Well, he knows how to work a room with poise and dignity. No snarky remarks about press coverage, I assume from Grant's report. Acknowledging that those of all faiths are children of God was lovely. Is the Pope of Everybody back?But this is the "honeymoon," no? Pope Francis can certain use these early days to set a tenor for his papacy. What he is able to accomplish and how has yet to be determined. But as a disaffected Catholic, I feel inspired to look into my own heart and ask what I have done lately to focus on the poor and marginalized.
I don't think that's his only book, Margaret. CNS says he has written "books on spirituality and meditation."But it's this one that is flying off Amazon's shelves:#1 in Books > Libros en espaol > Religin y espiritualidad > Estudios Religiosos#1 in Books > Libros en espaol > Religin y espiritualidad > Judasmo#1 in Books > Libros en espaol > Religin y espiritualidad > Cristianismo > Teologahttp://www.amazon.com/Sobre-tierra-Spanish-Edition-ebook/dp/B007KD7D4Q/r...
Thanks for this piece, Grant. Very interesting to see how the press corps reacted.
Le Monde reports on the press conference:Francis will have lunch with Benedict next Saturday at Castelgondolfo. He will take some time for "thought, prayer and dialog" before naming new people to curial posts or reappointing those who previously served.He would like a "a poor Church for poor people"http://religion.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/03/16/le-pape-qui-embrasse-veut-une...
Donec aliter provideatur:"Vatican City, 16 March 2013 (VIS) Holy Father Francis has expressed the desire that the Heads and members of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia, as well as their Secretaries, and also the President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, continue "donec aliter provideatur", that is, provisionally, in their respective positions. The Holy Father wishes to reserve time for reflection, prayer, and dialogue before any final appointment or confirmation is made."http://www.news.va/en/news/holy-father-provisionally-confirms-heads-and-...
You should set up camp in Rome, Grant.
Thank you, John Hayes, for the English version of the Vatican's communication. I wrote too quickly, and left out the important word "dialogue."
Francis I of France also was a great patron of the arts. His love of beauty had a great influence on French culture, and Pope Francis also sees the importance of beauty in every human life. Wouldn't it be great if his appreciation of beauty lead to a new aesthetic -- one that values simplicity but without the sterility of the minimalism we find today.
Reporters were enamored by JFK and also gave him a round of applause after his first news conference. The difference is that Bergoglio did not act any different than he has been for the last few decades. Most people have a sense of justice. I think that is why so many are drawn to Francis. Rome has usually devoured a reformer like Francis. The difference today is that communication is instantaneous so it will be hard to act in secret. Francis has certainly electrified most everyone. These months will be exciting.
Thank you Grant, and thank you Fr. Komonchak for the Politi article. Speriamo, as they say in Rome. Perhaps we can drop the term "ecclesial communitie," and get back to calling the institutions of our fellow Christians "churches."I also read somewhere that Archbp. Bergoglio never got around to instituting the new liturgical translations in the archdiocese of Buenos Aires. I don't know whether the Spanish translations were as ghastly as some of the English, but if he could get away with that in his pre-papal condition, why could not we in the US? Francis strikes me as the sort of man who woudl call a "cup" a "cup," and would not feel the need to promote it (or demote it, if you will) to "chalice."There's been one miracle already, and that is that after a few initial blunders with the name Bergoglio, American broadcasters seem finally to have been learning how that "gli" works in Italian.
Sandro Magister has some wonderful quotes from the new pope:http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350469?eng=y
Anthony Andreass,Apologies - I thought my comment was so obviously made tongue in cheek that it needed no emoticon. I was wrong. Next time I'll use this:: - Jhttp://pc.net/emoticons/smiley/tongue_in_cheekFor the record, I don't believe Pope Francis is in any way a covert devotee of Francis I of France.
I wish I could find this story somewhere oher than the Daily Mail. If it's true, its strange that no one else has reported it:"So when the appearance of a disgraced cardinal threatened to cast a shadow over his first engagement, Francis I made sure it couldnt happen again - by banning him from his own church.Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Archbishop of Boston in 2002, after being accused of actively covering up for a litany of paedophile priests.'Despite the scandal which exploded to engulf the entire church, he was given an honorary position at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome.Though now retired, the cardinal still enjoys a grace and favour apartment in the cathedral complex.So hearing that the new Pope was offering prayers at the very same church, it seems he couldnt resist a discreet peak.But when Pope Francis recognised him, he immediately ordered that Law be removed, according to Italian media reports. He went on to command: He is not to come to this church any more.One of the new Popes first acts will be to arrange new cloistered accommodation for the disgraced cardinal, the Italian daily, Il Fatto Quotidiano, reported.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293785/Pope-bus-Francis-shows-h...
Fr. Rosica says it didn't happen:"The Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, however, reported that Francis had told Law to stop appearing in public at the basilica, where he retired as Archpriest in November 2011. The report also said that the new pope, as his first act of purification, is preparing to dispatch the 81-year-old Law to a cloistered monastery.Basilian Fr. Thomas Rosica, whos acting as an assistant Vatican spokesperson during the papal transition, told NCR today that those reports are "completely and totally false"http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/report-pope-exile-law-totally-false...
Can someone interpret this photo in the NY Times of March 16, 2013?http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/03/16/world/0316VATICAN02.html----It shows a new placard affixed to a wall in Buenos Aires, a photo of the Pope, titled Francis I, Argentino y Peronista.Is that an approbation or an accusation? What meaning is behind it?----Juan Peron died in 1974, four years after Jorge Bergoglio was ordained. I presume some Peronistas survive, but I don't know whether they currently are considered left or right or whatever.
It did not happen.
The story was "reported" widely by people who should have known better. It was never believable.
" How I would love a church that is poor and for the poor.my Franciscan parish allows the homeless to sleep in the pews from 6am to 12 noon when the Mass starts on weekdays. . [and there have been critics.] Now the nearby Jesuit parich wants to meet with the director of the Gubbio Project to see what's involved. Volunteers clean pews and floors daily www.thegubbioproject.org/video.a short video of what the new Church will look like!!
Thanks, Joseph, 3:09:Quoting de Lubac! And the reference to the Japanese Christians.
Somehow, Monty Python and the Cup just doesn't seem to be worth the effort.
Naive dope that I am, I was really hopeful when I saw in the news that Francis had dismissed Law. Now I'll go back to being my usual cynical self :(
"I respect the conscience of all of you..."Telling.Promising?(the "trads" must be cringing)
Guardian gives an English language review of Francis's book "Sobre el Cielo y la Terra":""The idea that celibacy produces paedophiles can be forgotten," he says. "If a priest is a paedophile, he is so before he becomes a priest. But when this happens you must never look away. You cannot be in a position of power and use it to destroy the life of another person."Bergoglio says he has never had to deal with such a case, but when a bishop asked what he should do, he told him the priest should be sacked and tried, that putting the church's reputation first was a mistake."I think that is the solution that was once proposed in the United States; of switching them to other parishes," he says. "That is stupid, because the priest continues to carry the problem in his backpack." The only answer to the problem, he adds, is zero tolerance.The church, he says, has been through worse times. "There have been corrupt periods. There were very difficult periods, but the religion revived itself."He also recognises that the church must move with the times and be in constant transformation. "If, throughout history, the church has changed so much, I do not see why we should not adapt it to the culture of the [our] time," he says.But he sticks to Catholic dogma on key issues, writing off gay marriage as "an anthropological reverse".Abortion is a scientific problem that is separate "from any religious concept"."Preventing the development of a being that already has the genetic code of a human being is not ethical," he says.Some of his harshest words are for ultra-conservatives who put obedience of church rules above everything else. "There are sectors within the religions that are so prescriptive that they forget the human side," he says.That may explain why, according to a leaked cardinal's diary from the 2005 papal conclave, he allegedly once criticised anti-condom zealots as wanting to "stick the whole world inside a condom".Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/15/pope-francis-book-radical-pr...
There is a story that before Cardinal Bergoglio left Buenos Aires his friends told him that he needed new shoes. He rarely buys anything for himself. And so they gave him the shoes as a gift.Also, the miter that he wore for the Mass with the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday is the one he brought with him, rather than one from the papal sacristy. You can find pictures of him wearing the same miter in several instances when he was celebrating Mass in Buenos Aires. Perhaps it's the only one he has.Even though he spoke (off-the-cuff) in Italian, just watching him explain why he chose the name Francis is very moving. I would recommend the video found on the La Repubblica site, though I'm not up to linking it. (The pope's Italian is good, but not pitch perfect. It gets corrected in the texts found on the Vatican site.)
John Page, I think this is the link:http://video.repubblica.it/dossier/il-nuovo-papa/papa-ho-scelto-francesc...
Patrick ==You don't have to be a "devotee" of someone to recognize a very special virtue in them. The poor need beauty as much as anyone else, probably even more. Depriving people of beauty is as bad as depriving them of bread. One of the terrible things about being poor is being constantly surrounded by ugliness and decay. Food and health are not enough for a decent human life, and I won't be surprised when Francis reminds us of this.
John Hayes: here is a Spanish source:http://www.periodistadigital.com/religion/vaticano/2013/03/15/francisco-... person who sent it to me later indicated that it is being reported (but I don't know where) that it is a made-up story in a type of supermarket tabloid.That doesn't mean that it is or isn't true, but that it needs reputable research. The story has evidently gone viral, however.That just proves how hopeful people are for substantive change. First moves on Francis' part will be so very indicative of what and how he thinks. I hope he doesn't blow it by being overly cautious.
Thanks for the link to Magister, JAK. Francis' statements about not being bound by one's preconceptions of what is right is very hopeful. Given his emphasis on empathizing with the poor including poor women hopefully he might get around to looking at contraception again.
Jim McCrea:The story has been denied by the Vatican press spokesmen, and Grant Gallicho, who is in Rome, has denied it twice above.---Yes, we have to see what decisions eventuate over time. The pope is a moderate conservative, as are pretty much all the cardinals. No surprise.But he has, I submit, already made several decisions.1. From his appearance on the balcony, he has continued to speak of himself as "bishop of Rome."2. An evident preference for the poor and being a pastor, and a resistance to being put on a pedestal.3. Simplicity in his liturgical style and in his style of dressing. By the rules of the game, he should have appeared on the balcony wearing the red shoulder cape trimmed in ermine that Benedict XVI brought back after several decades of disuse. He should also have worn a more elaborate cross on a gold chord. It is said by a number of sources that he simply refused.4. His decision today not to automatically re-appoint the Curial heads, as Benedict XVI did.Something is adding up here. Major changes, probably not. But more compassion in applying current teachings.Save one, a preference for governing WITH the bishops, particularly in respecting the role, much diminished in recent years, of bishops' conferences. The conferences and the periodic Synods of Bishops will be favored over the now lopsided power of the Roman Curia.I think he will have to act quickly so as not to allow opponents to out-manuever him.We'll see, but it will be good to pray for "Francis, our pope" at Mass tomorrow.
Here is the ritual for he installation of Francis on Tuesday. Interesting that it identifies him as "Bishop of Rome" http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/libretti/2013/20130319_inizi..."Mass for the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry of Francis, Bishop of Rome" The Mass is in Latin with the first reading in English, responsorial psalm in Italian, second reading in Spanish and the Gospel read in Greek. Eucharistic Prayer I is used
In one of the profiles of Bergoglio before the conclave, an anonymous cardinal was reported as saying that "Four years of him would be enough to change things" (or words to that effect). The Guardian's report from the neighborhood where Pope Francis grew up has this interesting section:
As a Jesuit an order founded by a general and organised on military lines Bergoglio demands discipline. When he was made vicar general of Flores in 1992, he insisted that church authorities reveal the properties they owned. The senior padre in charge of episcopal finances, Jose Luis Mollaghan, tried to block the initiative. Bergoglio did not forgive or forget. When he became archbishop, he shuffled Molaghan out of his post, along with another cleric who opposed him, Hector Aguer...."Slowly and strategically, he will introduce changes as he becomes more powerful and others become weaker. Until now, no pope has been able to do that," said Bresci, who predicts the transformation to be the biggest in half a century or more."He will be strict on finance. There will be zero tolerance of sexual abuse and homosexual liaisons by priests. This is his style. It comes from Flores."
Denial isn't always the same as the truth. We shall wait and see.
http://mundabor.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/when-solidarity-goes-wrong/The hatchets are already coming out from some who question the new pope's commitment to the preferential option for the poor. From what I've seen of Pope Francis so far, he seems up to handling the criticism that could shorten his honeymoon (no pun intended) period.
Looking good:"Earlier, Francis celebrated his first Sunday mass as pontiff in the Vatican's small and simple parish church, rather than in St Peter's Basilica.Before he entered the church, Pope Francis, 76, greeted well-wishers who had lined up outside a nearby Vatican gate shouting "Francesco" - his name in Italian....At the end of the Sunday Mass, he waited outside the church and greeted people as they left, like a parish priest, asking many of them to, "pray for me".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21820478
Refusing elaborate dress he is reported to have said: "The carnival is over."\He also refrained from a polyglot display at the Angelus, another break withthe "carnival".
I'd suggest for the time being treating our Pope more like a Barolo, let the man breathe.
Where was the press conference held in the picture above? The sculpture in the background is really striking.
Pope Francis: Their (meaning lay people) clericalization is a problem. The priests clericalize the laity and the laity beg us to be clericalized It really is sinful abetment. And to think that baptism alone could suffice.As the days go by, more to appreciate. I am truly excited; not about doctrinal issues (those will change someday anyway), but the authenticity/humility of the person and his welcoming tone. What a breath of fresh air. I savor the gratitude and joy for his election.Hoping for the best for abuse survivorsAnd this morning, more outstanding news about Pope Francis. Are not our hearts burning?
according to Wikipedia:The Paul VI Audience Hall is a building in Italy, mostly in Rome and partially in Vatican City, but the Italian part of the building is an extraterritorial area of the Holy See used by the Pope as an alternative to Saint Peter's Square for conducting his Wednesday morning General Audience.The building, with a seating capacity of 6,300, was designed in reinforced concrete by the Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi and completed in 1971.One of the more arresting features of the hall is the twenty-meter-wide brass and bronze sculpture La Resurrezione ("The Resurrection") by Pericle Fazzini.
The Aparacida conference document of the Latin American bishops, ardently quoted by Maradiaga and Bergoglio, is the blueprint for their concern for the poor. It needs to be analyzed and contrasted with the first Medellin conference. I suspect that in their zeal to keep liberation tehology at bay the bishops may have reduced the preferential option for the poor to mere patronizing rhetoric.
John Page: your points are almost making me hopeful, but I don't want to risk being disappointed. So you're positive, I'm negative: the world is upside down!
"As he walked off stage, uproarious applause filled the room."Please tell me he did a mic drop before walking off.
Carolyn Disco wrote "Pope Francis: Their (meaning lay people) clericalization is a problem. The priests clericalize the laity and the laity beg us to be clericalized It really is sinful abetment. And to think that baptism alone could suffice.Carolyn, do you have a link to that? I'm curious as to what he has in mind by "clericalization of the layity" my guess would be that its not the usual complaint you find on traditional blogs that installed lay readers, eucharistic ministers, etc are obscuring the unique role of ordained clergy - and that female altar servers inhibit the male role modeling that leads boys to the seminary.That doesn't sound like the Francis I've seen so far
John Page:I found it here: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350469?eng=y by Sander Magister.I agree about its interpretation; not the "traditionalist" blog version. I entered the sentence minus my parens and it came up in many contexts; 38 links.
From 2007: http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_16457_l3.htm"In short, it is the Holy Spirit who performs the mission. BERGOGLIO: The early theologians said: the soul is a kind of sailing boat, the Holy Spirit is the wind that blows in the sail, to send it on its way, the impulses and the force of the wind are the gifts of the Spirit. Without His drive, without His grace, we dont go ahead. The Holy Spirit lets us enter the mystery of God and saves us from the danger of a gnostic Church and from the danger of a self-referential Church, leading us to the mission. That means also overthrowing all your functionalist solutions, your consolidated plans and pastoral systems BERGOGLIO: I didnt say that pastoral systems are useless. On the contrary. In itself everything that leads by the paths of God is good. I have told my priests: Do everything you should, you know your duties as ministers, take your responsibilities and then leave the door open. Our sociologists of religion tell us that the influence of a parish has a radius of six hundred meters. In Buenos Aires there are about two thousand meters between one parish and the next. So I then told the priests: If you can, rent a garage and, if you find some willing layman, let him go there! Let him be with those people a bit, do a little catechesis and even give communion if they ask him. A parish priest said to me: But Father, if we do this the people then wont come to church. But why? I asked him: Do they come to mass now? No, he answered. And so! Coming out of oneself is also coming out from the fenced garden of ones own convictions, considered irremovable, if they risk becoming an obstacle, if they close the horizon that is also of God. This is valid also for lay people BERGOGLIO: Their clericalization is a problem. The priests clericalize the laity and the laity beg us to be clericalized It really is sinful abetment. And to think that baptism alone could suffice. Im thinking of those Christian communities in Japan that remained without priests for more than two hundred years. When the missionaries returned they found them all baptized, all validly married for the Church and all their dead had had a Catholic funeral. The faith had remained intact through the gifts of grace that had gladdened the life of a laity who had received only baptism and had also lived their apostolic mission in virtue of baptism alone. One must not be afraid of depending only on His tenderness "For you, then, what is the worst thing that can happen in the Church? BERGOGLIO: It is what De Lubac calls spiritual worldliness. It is the greatest danger for the Church, for us, who are in the Church. It is worse, says De Lubac, more disastrous than the infamous leprosy that disfigured the dearly beloved Bride at the time of the libertine popes. Spiritual worldliness is putting oneself at the center. It is what Jesus saw going on among the Pharisees: You who glorify yourselves. Who give glory to yourselves, the ones to the others.
Thanks, Carolyn. Here's Wikipedia's description of one group f Japanese Chrstians:" In 1865, some of the Japanese who lived in Urakami village near Nagasaki visited the new ura Church which had been built by the Paris Foreign Missions Society (Missions trangres de Paris) barely a month before. A female member of the group spoke to a French priest, Bernard Thadee Petitjean, and confessed that their families had kept the Kirishitan faith. Those Kirishitan wanted to see the statue of St. Mary with their own eyes, and to confirm that the priest was single and truly came from the pope in Rome. After this interview, many Kirishitan thronged toward Petitjean. He investigated their underground organizations and discovered that they had kept the rite of baptism and the liturgical years without European priests for nearly 250 years. Petitjeans report surprised the Christian world; Pope Pius IX called it a miracle."I brlieve I've read that in Latinn America, a priest may visit a remote village only two or three times a year - but the Catholic faith continues on because local pople are recognized as "baptizers" to bapitze babies as soon as they are born. francis may also have had that in mind in saying that "baptism alone oculd suffice"
By "clericalization" I think Francis meant giving the clergy more authority than it deserves and giving the laity less. The example of the stranded Japanese shows what the laity can do without the clergy if necessary. (I think there are many immature adults who want to be told what to do by authority figures, and their extreme need for security often leads them to accept very rigid authorities. Hence the many diffferent sorts of fundamentalism, Catholic and otherwise.)
From the Politi article quoted above by Fr. Komonchak:"For this remodeling of the papacy in the direction of collegiality and thus of a government of the Catholic Church effected by the pontiff in close collaboration with the episcopates, the American wind that blew over the Conclave played a role. If German and French theologians put their mark on the Second Vatican Council, the role of the American cardinals was central in making room in 2013 for a more modern conclave and pre-conclave. It was because of their energy and communication-skillsalthough not exclusivelythat the preliminary meetings of the cardinals were marked by great concreteness in the analysis of situations and of the evils of todays Church. Its because of them that in the conclave tactical games were set aside and the victorious candidate was quickly identified. They became a point of reference for the many episcopates that are seeking to participate in the strategic decisions of the papacy. "Has there been any reporting on how it is that the Americans were able to get themselves organized, and how they were able to make a difference? I'd like to read more about this "American wind".
" (The popes Italian is good, but not pitch perfect. It gets corrected in the texts found on the Vatican site.)"John Page - I have a couple of friends from Buenos Aires who have traveled enough to tell me that the language spoken there is so close to Italian that native Italians understand it pretty easily, but that it's just enough "off" to make Italians ask: where are you from? I wonder if that is part of what is happening when the Holy Father speaks in Italian.


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I'm over 30 and have just started cycling in real traffic, my first experience, as I have only ever ridden as a child in parks and such. I live in a university town in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Unfortunately, I have no clue about traffic signs as I neither drive nor hold a drivers license. Could someone recommend a place where I can learn about the traffic signs for cyclists, what they mean, the rules for cyclists, safe riding guidelines, etc? I have tried reading the legal rules, but my German is basic and those make my head hurt. Perhaps a site with photos of signs,simple language (either german or english)would be wonderful. I hope that all the cycling enthusiasts here can help me ride safely and correctly.
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You might consider contacting the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club). It is an association specifically for people who cycle as a means of transportation (rather than as a sport - though of course the two are not mutually exclusive).
They are part service organization, part environmental organization. They have local groups (Kreisverband / Ortsverband) in almost every city, which usually have regular meetings. Contact your local group (or just go to the local meeting); they will be very happy to give you hints, share local knowledge etc. (even if you are not a member yourself).
Many local groups even have explicit meetings for people new to the area, or new to cycling in general, where they try to pass on useful knowledge.
For a list of local groups: ADFC vor Ort
They also have a lot of general information on their website. See e.g. Sicher unterwegs.
Note: Most stuff is only available in German, but I hope basic German is enough to read it. Local groups will be German as well, but many people will speak some English.
Disclaimer: I am an ADFC member myself, and have been active for several years.
Google "german traffic signs" and you'll get a number of good references for road signs, including some nice charts. For instance: http://www.gettingaroundgermany.info/zeichen.shtml . Of course, these aren't bike-specific.
Perhaps you should get at least one lesson in person from an experienced rider: who can tell you what you want to know, and, correct anything you're doing wrong which you don't even know enough to ask about.
I don't think you should "cycling in real traffic" with no experience at all and based only on what you read: there's more to it, it's more complicated or takes more skill, than only understanding the traffic signs.
Here is a good place to start Road Traffic Rules And here might be helpful also Learning to Drive in Europe
Not sure how it is in Germany, but in the United States. Cars and Bikes must obey the same rules of the road and believe it or not share equal rights of the road. It would make sense that the same is true in Germany, considering how it would not be practical to make a separate set of road signs for just bicycles, etc. I would suggest you go to your local resources for information about learning how to drive an automobile and ask where bikes fit in.


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believing he is capable of reaching a deeper level, is graciously inviting him there.
I'm breaking my own admonition to enter this thread again and I apologize, but since it's so infrequent that people are on both sides of the fence (writing/being written about) I thought Carbro's quote deserved discussion.
In another discussion on dance writing Nanatchka said emphatically that an essay is a dialogue between the author and the reader and audience. She's absolutely right. It isn't a dialogue with the artist, and there's barely any point in that. Aloff is telling you what she sees in my work, both good and bad and what she would like to see. I happened to read it, so I can take her comments or leave them (and I appreciate that they're quite supportive), but I know what I want to make and I know what I thought of my work. The comments are meant for you, the reader. I think Aloff is wise enough to understand this as well.


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Please help! I am pretty "newb" to linux and have no idea what to do. I got the message "your system must reboot to complete updates" (or similar). After rebooting I am greeted with a giant login screen and my 2nd monitor isn't showing anymore.
After logging in, I can only see a part of my desktop -- one giant folder icon. I can right click on the desktop but gives me no option to change resolution or anything.
Any help would be wonderful.
PS: I am able to get a terminal window open. Luckily that ONE folder had a terminal shortcut I had put there. So if this can help troubleshoot, please advise.
EDIT 2: This got me back to Unity working and a nice resolution and both monitors:
apt-get purge nvidia-current
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot now
Unfortunately, now I guess I don't have any HW accel for my graphics card? :(


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I have tried installing several different distros onto my Vertex2 SSD. Whenever I try the disk does not show up as an installation option (it is not present in the drop down box). My most recent attempt to install Mint is also failing.
The device shows up fine at the live CD's terminal (at
/dev/sdb) and shows up fine in the distribution installed on my regular HDD:
A few months back I had Windowss Server 2008 installed on it, and booting fine.
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All Dressed Up - Patty and JoAnn
January 30, 2013
THESE TWO cousins, Patty Householder Morrison and JoAnn Householder Stanco, deceased, were playing dress up when this photo was taken. The year was somewhere in the late 40's or early 50's....
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