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WEIRTON - Joe Krivak, who steered the Madonna Blue Dons to two Ohio Valley Athletic Conference football titles and one state Catholic school basketball championship during the 1960s before moving into the collegiate coaching ranks, is being remembered as a "taskmaster who brought out the best in everybody," in the classroom as well as on the playing field.
Krivak, 77, died Christmas Day at his home in Bowie, Md., after a long battle with leukemia.
"He had been suffering with a blood disorder for several years, but it didn't impact him physically until the summer of 2011," said Weirton native Paul Paolisso, who played for Krivak at Madonna and Syracuse. "He was in such great shape, physically and mentally, that he fought through it for the last 18 months."
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FORMER MADONNA COACH DIES — In this Aug. 14, 1990, file photo, Maryland coach Joe Krivak yells out instructions during college football practice in College Park, Md. Krivak, a former coach at Weirton Madonna and Maryland's football coach from 1987-91, died Dec. 25. He was 77. -- Associated Press
A native of Central City, Pa., Krivak graduated from Syracuse in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in history science and in 1961 with his master's degree in education. He was a three-year letter winner on the gridiron for Syracuse, blocking for future National Football League Hall-of-Famer Jim Brown and playing in the 1957 Cotton Bowl. He also lettered in baseball for the Orange.
Krivak spent eight years at Madonna - earning football titles in 1962 and 1967, and the basketball title in the 1964-65 season - before leaving in 1969 to take an assistant coaching position under former Syracuse football coach Ben Schwartzwalder. He also was an assistant at the University of Maryland and at Navy, and in 1987 succeeded Bobby Ross as Maryland's head coach.
It was during his time in Weirton that he met his wife, Jeanne.
An innovative play caller, Krivak was perhaps best known for engineering a 1984 comeback that saw Maryland, down 31-0 at the half, post 42 second-half points to beat Miami, 42-40, on the road.
The Terps scored 40-plus points five times and posted an 8-3 record during that 1984 season, including big wins against arch-rival West Virginia University and Penn State University.
He also was known for his ability to groom quarterbacks, coaching six future NFL signal callers - Boomer Esiason, Frank Reich, Stan Gelbaugh, Neil O'Donnell, Scott Zolak and Scott Milanovich. Esiason, O'Donnell, Reich and Gelbaugh all played in Super Bowls.
He coached in 14 bowl games and ran the offense for seven Atlantic Coast Conference championship teams.
"He was a good teacher all around, he taught you about sports and about life," former player Al Boniti said. "When you were in his classroom you knew you were going to learn, he was just a very knowledgeable man and he had control of his classes. He wanted you to act in a certain way; he demanded respect and he earned it."
Boniti, a Weirton resident, said Krivak would "take teams that were supposed to be average" and make them better.
"He was just one of those guys you respected," Boniti said. "You knew what to expect when you went in his classroom and you knew what to expect when you went onto the field. When report cards came out, he'd stand by the door to the lockerroom and he'd check them. (If he didn't like what he saw) he'd send you into a classroom to be tutored, and he wouldn't let you back on the field. That's how much he put academics over athletics."
Paolisso remembers him as "a strong man of faith, an upright guy" who loved what he did.
"It's like his son said in the eulogy, when he was at Maryland a sportswriter once wrote that with Joe Krivak, 'what you see is what you get.' That's the way he handled himself. He was a straight-shooter, a direct man," Paolisso said.
Paolisso credits Krivak with getting scholarships to Syracuse for him as well as Madonna standouts Bill Zanieski and Chuck Boniti, Al's older brother. Krivak joined the Syracuse staff in 1969, Paolisso's senior year.
"We didn't throw the ball a lot in those days," said Paolisso, who quarterbacked the team. "He took over a group of receivers who'd been pretty much neglected ... and made them better blockers. He took what he had to work with and made it better. He took guys who hadn't been given much attention and made them better players."
Paolisso described Krivak as a devoted family man who put God, family and teaching before athletics.
"He had a very simple way of doing things," he said. "He'd set out on a path and expect you to follow it. That's the way he got things done."
And he said anybody who had him "knew he didn't mince words."
"He was a disciplinarian," Paolisso added. "I don't know that Joe Krivak ever sent anyone to the principal's office, he handled discipline his own way, but it was all done for the right reasons. He gave you his attention, and he expected as much back from you."
Weirton's Tom McDonald said Krivak "was somebody I always tried to emulate."
"You couldn't go wrong," he said. "He was such a faith-filled man."
McDonald said Krivak was an excellent teacher and coach.
"He was driven," he said, "just a special person. When you were around him, you knew you had to respect him. He labored at Madonna, working for a meager salary, and started his family in Weirton."
His coaching record at Maryland wasn't what he'd hoped, "but he touched many lives there, and not all because of athletics," McDonald said.
"I've read comments from people he'd recruited, they ... described him as a second father, said he taught them how to live life," McDonald added.
Bill Barrett, who joined the Madonna teaching staff in 1962, remembers Krivak guiding the Blue Dons "from a losing season the year before to winning the OVAC."
"He was a great teacher in the classroom, too," said Barrett. "That's probably the No. 1 thing. He was probably about 6-foot3, and when he came down the hallway everyone kind of parted. He didn't phone it in, he was a hard worker in the classroom as well as on the field."
Barrett said Krivak had a fun-loving side, too.
"When he won that first championship he kind of lit up, telling stories," he said. "The kids didn't get to see that, but in the faculty lounge he'd crack jokes. He had a good sense of humor. He was a humble guy and he'd always spread the credit around. He was ramrod straight, on the football field and in the classroom.
"Religion was a big part of his life," Barrett added. "He lived his life that way and was a good example for people around him. (Growing up) there are certain ones you remember having an impact on your life - Joe was one of them."


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The Catholic right's false nostalgia.
Just posted:Eugene McCarraher's piece on new books by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bill Donohue, and Carl Anderson. In begins:
On April 14, 2012, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Illinois, speaking from a pulpit surrounded by flowers, a cross, and the American flag, issued a Call to Catholic Men of Faith to defend their faith and country. To the congregation he recounted how the enemies of Christ have certainly tried their best to destroy the church over the centuries: Roman oppression, barbarian invasions, wave after wave of jihads, the modern, homicidal tyrannies of Nazism and communism. Catholics today who believed the church was secure in the United States were mistaken; indeed, Jenky roared, a legion of malevolence had gathered against the faithful, armed with the hatred of Hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry. This army of Satan was led by none other than President Barack Obama, demonically imposing the radical, proabortion, and extreme secularist agenda exemplified in the Health and Human Services mandate requiring insurance-subsidized contraception for employees of religious institutions.Its worth noting that Bishop Jenky left the church that day unmolestedno police or National Guardsmen burst in to cart him off to Guantnamo. No churches have been invaded, locked, or razed; no priest has been forced to bless same-sex unions, nor have Catholic hospitals been compelled to perform abortions, or even to dispense a single condom. The only inconvenience Jenky has sufferedprotected by a First Amendment that has yet to be suspended by executive orderis ridicule.And not enough of it. Far from pointing out the absurdity of comparing Obama to Attila, Hitler, and Stalin, other prominent Catholics have piled on. Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has warned of Obamas impending despotism. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has equated our Constitutions guarantee of freedom of worship with that of the former Soviet Union. Others have compared the mandate to the persecution of priests in Mexico in the 1920s under left-wing general Plutarco Calles. The Evangelical author Eric Metaxaswhose fine biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer indicates that he ought to know betterinvoked the rise of the Nazis. Speaking at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, both encapsulated and stirred up the prevailing hysteria in asserting that never in the life of anyone present here has the religious liberty of the American people been threatened as it is today.Why are shepherds of the American flock and their allies saying such preposterous things? It sometimes appears that the ancien rgime of the American Church is fighting its impending senescence. Having lost much of their moral authority in the sexual-abuse scandal, the bishops have staked what remains on fighting perceived threats to religious liberty. Caught in a great historical transition in which church authority has eroded on every front, many conservative prelates and lay Catholics exhibit an array of morbid symptoms: lurid fantasies of sexual pandemonium; paranoid delusions of cultural conspiracy and government persecution; and ugly outbursts of rage at a world they no longer understand, control, or can persuade. Ashamed of the ecclesial present, the bishops seem transfixed by venerable memories of power and eminence.While utterly forgettable on their own merits, four recently published books by prominent Catholics make for a pathology of reactionary Catholic modernism. Blending myths of the 1950s with fables of that Greatest of Centuries, the thirteenth, they reveal the panic of conservative Catholics, terrified by the waning of the American Age and the twilight of an authoritarian church, retreating to the kitschy redoubt of a suburban medievalism.
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"Why are shepherds of the American flock and their allies saying such preposterous things?"Because they have enough "sheople" (rightwing/"traditionalist"/indifferent/ignorant) to listen to their rants and ravings. Throw enough mud against the wall, and some of it will stick.Legacy of JPII.
Makes you sort of nostalgic for the Red Menace, Moral Re-armament, "Operation Abolition" and the John Birch Society, doesn't it?
While I don't always agree with everything Eugene McCarraher has to say (I was foursquare, however, with his demolition of Hitchens' "God Is Not Great"), I confess to the guilty pleasure of reading his all-too-infrequent contributions to Commonweal. ;)
What's with "Supreme Knight"? Sounds like a video game. Or six-year-olds with bath towels playing Caped Crusader.
When the bishops foam at the mouth, they should try not to drool on their pectoral crosses.
Why are shepherds of the American flock and their allies saying such preposterous things?Becasue they do fear, with some justification, that they will be carted off to jail. For the first time, a secular institution has found bishops acted as crimonals in their handling of clerical sex abuse. The bishops presumed that they were above the law. To their surprise, they are not.
Let us grant that the Holy Spirit is trying his almighty best to preserve Church leaders from error when they teach matters of faith and morals. His counsel is ever gracious and subtle, we are told, never coercive. Yet they are frail and mortal men, subject like other men to temptations of vanity, ambition, and overzealousness, as well as simple ignorance. Could they ever reject his promptings and go their own way, as other men have done before them?I hope they would not, but when I read some of the things that some of them say, I wonder who it is they are really listening to.
Below I have linked to an inspirational election homily by Fr. Sammie Maletta.Fr. Maletta delivers a powerful and thought-provoking homily on the moral truths that we as Catholics are called to defend as citizens in in a free society.He argues that Catholic teaching is neither Democrat or Republican -- but, that does not mean we are free to vote as we wish. There is a hierarchy of moral truth that must inform our vote.Fr. Maletta's homily is a stirring call-to-action in the face of a world increasingly dominated by secularization and a world in which our religious freedom is increasingly threatened.THIS INSPIRATIONAL HOMILY IS WORTH YOUR TIME -- IT IS THAT GOOD!http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2012/10/inspirational-election-homil...
I believe many progressive Catholics would be surprised at the extent to which President Obama has advanced a pro-abortion agenda through a long list of bill signings, speeches, appointments, and other actions since his election in November, 2008.His many pro-abortion actions are documented at the link below. The list is shockingly long and extensive.The link:http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/07/obamaabortionrecord/
McCarraher has it right == the current bishops are paranoid. Fear is at the basis of all paranoia, And Joe McFaul has it right -- their new fear is of going to jail after the recent trials. Congratulations to the Commonweal editors for having the courage to publish this article. No doubt it will be quoted for years as a (sadly) accurate picture of the big players in the current American Church.
JH: That "shockingly long" list just happens to include every single staff appointment Obama ever made, from Rahm Emanuel to Hillary Clinton, who happen to be pro-choice, whether that has or had anything to do with the appointee's job or not (in most cases, it did not). Policy changes cited, incuding striking the Mexico City policy (which his SCOTUS appointee Ms. Sotomayor just happened to uphold), simply return US rules to what they had been prior to George W. Bush changing them to reflect his pro-life views. Other actions cited don't even relate to abortion, such as his removing funding for abstinance-only sex ed programs. I mention these, though, because I think these federal policies -- and the mindset that made this list -- reflect what's been going through the minds of our bishops: Namely, nostalgia for the way things were under George W. Bush and how, compared to him, Obama can only be perceived as the Interloper who ruined the good thing the bishops feel they had going under Bush, the Faith-Based Consulter-in-Chief who maintained such a close relationship with them and Evangelical leaders around the country.
Even Cardinal Dolan quoted in agreement the words of Dorothy Day that the" Church is a whore but she is my mother." But the Cardinal agrees in the sense that he does not want people to leave. I understand that. But why does he not put the emphasis on the bishops acting better?
The only inconvenience Jenky has sufferedprotected by a First Amendment that has yet to be suspended by executive orderis ridicule.And not enough of it.
Lovely. Spirit of charity and all that. Those evil conservatives.Commonweal, you really ought to try to do better than this.
Ah, that's how charity works! It keeps men who are saying foolish and offensive things from having to hear criticism. No wonder it is so honored among them.
John Prior ==I fear that what you say is exactly true. The moral theologians need to look at the role of criticism in a Christian life and revise the current understanding of it :-(
McG finds fault with Dolans view of freedom. Because such a view is based on Aristotle and Aquinas, McG fears potential tyranny and, even worse, medieval tyranny, and worst of all, suburban tyranny. McGs solution: Begin with a hyper-Augustinian denunciation of the People, apparently hopelessly corrupted by modern day capitalism (except when they differ from the Bishops). Apparently after such a preparation the terrain will be suitable for a new spiritual awakening led by far-seeing, prophetic intellectuals whose good faith is vouchsafed by their level of vitriol, preferably with a flair a la Mencken. Who could object to such a vision of a non-tyrannical primitive village, free of the present-day institutional church - free except for supervised readings of properly selected papal documents on war, certified to be uncontaminated by dreaded medieval nostalgia?
The Right may have a false nostalgia, but I think it is fueled by another facet of Right wing thinking; sentimentality. Nostalgia implies a desire to return to some period that really happened. The "nostalgia" of the Right is selective and not really reflective of how things really were.The Right is infused with sentimental images and a belief that proper feelings (of patriotism, etc.) come from the gut. People are scrutinized as to whether they have the right attitude. Lack of sentimentality about the flag, the veterans, policemen, fireman, dogs, lapel pins, mom, apple pie etc. are seen as signs of incipient treachery. Liberals want people to work more from "the head" and to be more "rational". But the Right works from the heart. That Right wing memes may seem "irrational" is actually proof that they come from the heart and are therefore more authentic than liberal appeals to reason.The Left seems to want the bishops to become more rational. The Left might be more willing to accept an Aristotelian/Thomistic view of freedom if the bishops made a stronger reasoned case for it. (After all, Aristotle and Thomas felt they were making reasoned cases.) But most bishops, coming from the Right, simply don't understand why people on the Left don't "get it".
Ann: You wrote that "the current bishops are paranoid." All of them? Including the current archbishop of New Orleans? What's happened to your regular appeal for precision in language and in claim?
The answer is of course that the bishops are not "saying preposterous things" at all.If someone is winding up to taking a swing at you, the only way to avoid being hurt is to see it coming, and either actively block the move or simply duck out of the way.
Here we have the government promoting abortion and insisting that Catholics pay for bc pills and other contraceptives. Leftists manage to flip even the most basic matters. Awhile back I head Hillary Clinton explain that she favors putting criminals in jail for life instead of the death penalty because the criminal would suffer more with life in prison; because (in her view) a life term is more cruel that the death penalty. What? Reasonable people favor consigning murderers to life in prison over the death penalty, because of the ideal of mercy toward the criminal, to give him time to repent of his sin, to leave the matter to God rather than man.Leftists honestly think that the ends justifies the means, and they seem to never tire of this faulty notion of expediency; they have never forgotten what old Lenin said; If you want to make an omelet, you need to break some eggs.What the American Left really wants these days of course, is to force Catholics to pay for abortions (and for euthanasia for that matter); to put the Catholic Church in its place; to push Catholics out of the public square and keep priests and nuns confined to church buildings. Setting all the sneering and jeering of the chattering class aside, the matter before us Americans is straightforward enough; we must choose either a culture of life, or a culture of death.
Why are shepherds of the American flock and their allies saying such preposterous things?Becasue they do fear, with some justification, that they will be carted off to jail. For the first time, a secular institution has found bishops acted as crimonals in their handling of clerical sex abuse. The bishops presumed that they were above the law. To their surprise, they are not.________________Thomas Becket was murdered for upholding the principle that the Church, not the king, had the right to discipline priests accused of committing crimes.Bishops have modeled themselves after Becket ever since. But very few absolute monarchs still exist, and particularly in the United States, there's a Constitution which guarantees certain rights to those accused of crimes. Of course not every guilty person is convicted, and not every innocent one is convicted, but the U.S. criminal justice system is still fairer to the accused than, say, trial by ordeal.Perhaps because the Church prides itself on changing very slowly, if at all, the U.S. bishops have failed to realize that the world has moved on from the 12th century. For that matter, they have failed to realize that most Americans are not Catholic and if they've even heard of Becket, they don't care about his sacrifice. They expect all Americans, including Catholic clergy and laity, to obey civil laws and not operate a shadow justice system which, left to operate in secret, punished very few pedophile priests and totally ignored their victims.
Make that "not every innocent person is ACQUITTED."
I know the Church the bishops yearn for because I grew up in it. Back then, faith shaped the map of the world: the natural, the supernatural, the angels, the saints, sin, grace, heaven, and hell. Faith was defined and legitimized by religious authorities, and we simply accepted it. My children grew up in a world whose map is shaped and legitimized by reason and evidence.That changed everything, including the traditional, authority-based way of doing faith. That kind of authority simply no longer works. Now, authority must be based in large part on trust, which requires a much greater exercise of reason based on evidence. That's the heart of the polarization. Conservatives typically want to save the faith by protecting authority; progressives want to save the faith by remaking an authority that no longer functions.
McCarraher's explanation of Aquinas' view of freedom is not complete. Yes, for Thomas freedom was the freedom to do what is right when confronted with a choice between good and evil. But freedom is also the freedom to choose between goods, and both are necessary to flourish. Actually, Aristotle and the other Greeks didn't say a lot about freedom and the will. The were too impressed with all the necessity they found in nature. Very weak on that subject.
JAK --What has happened to my respect for accuracy is my anger at the majority of American bishops who elect such paranoids as Archbishop Dolan and Cardinal George as their leader. Also one never hears the minority including Apb. Aymond criticizing them for it, though, as I noted a long time ago, Apb. Aymond came close to naming the Cardinals Rigali and Bevilaqua of Philadelphia as disgraceful leaders. He was the only one out of way over 200 American bishops who spoke publicly on the matter! I'll grant you, it must be hard for the minority to put up with the fundamentalists who lead the American Church and those who support them (yes, that's what they are -- fundamentalists who think you can be a Christian without change). These Catholic fundamentalists and the seculars of the American culture together are killing the American Church. The influence of both of them is horrendous, except in the matter of helping the poor, and the bishops are still good about that, although they are not as articulate about it as the American bishops used to be. And even there, the young people pay them no mind because the bishops own behavior has led them trust the bishops about as far as you can throw a hog. And, yes, i"m talking about ALL the American bishops in the last sentence. Not one of them has ever condemned publicly, for instance, the promotion of possibly the worst bishop of all, Cardinal law. That that awful man remains as "Chief Justice" of the Curia remains a symbol of the corruption of the hierarchy. It would be a farce if it weren't a tragedy.Bishop bashing? You bet. Open your eyes to all the facts.
Ken and the bishops say "insisting that Catholics pay for bc pills and other contraceptives'Yeah just like we Catholics and Omaba insist that Insurance co. pay for the drunken drivers damages to life and limb.. tough world Ken. .
Ann Olivier: Are you familiar with the book BUSH ON THE COUCH: INSIDE THE MIND OF THE PRESIDENT (rev. ed. 2007) by Justin A. Frank, M.D., a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst?Dr. Frank argues, convincingly in my estimate, that now former President George W. Bush is a megalomaniac.In my estimate, the U.S. Catholic bishops who are anti-abortion zealots are megalomaniacs. (For the sake of Fr. Komonchak, I will spell out here that perhaps not all the U.S. Catholic bishops are anti-abortion zealots.)
Thomas F. --I"m always leery of armchair psychiatry, even when it's a psychiatrist doing it. Dr. Frank might be right, but I never felt that Dubya had delusions of grandeur. Some might think he does and that they were planted in him by his "patrician' background. True, he came from public servants, but I recently saw a picture of his childhood home in Odessa, TX and was amazed to see that it was just an ordinaary little shingled house with concrete front steps and porch. (It's at David Frum's blog somewhere.) Not at all what one would expect.Actually, I don't dislike the man as a human being, in spite of his failures. I think he was a charmer who could be manipulated by the Texas big money people, and went on to even greater manipulation by more big money folks. (Compare him with Romney, the iceberg.) Yes, he was competing with his father, but isn't nearly as bright. Americans have a weakness for charmers. We even elect them President for no good reason and then refuse to see their faults, except Dubya's deficiencies were just too big to ignore.
Ann (and others): I'm glad that some distinctions are being made among the U.S. bishops. That's all I've been hoping for. I would add, re Aquinas on freedom, that he regularly cited Aristotle's dictum, (sometimes causa sui): a free person exists for his own sake, for his own purposes, at his own direction, and Aquinas said that this self-responsibility represented the height of human dignity. He even invoked the adage when explaining that a person is not truly free who avoids evil and does the good only because God forbids the first and commands the second.
Ann Olivier: I would urge you to read Dr. Frank's book before you set forth any further comments/criticisms about it. I know, I know, you were a philosophy major, and philosophy majors often like to opinionate about books they've not read.In all honesty, I found certain parts of Dr. Frank's book quite moving to read, most notably the parts about the death of GWB's sister and the inept way GWB's mother and father handled GWB's reaction to her death. In addition, I was impressed by Dr. Frank's case about GWB's attention-deficity/hyperactivity disorder.Frankly, it strikes me as downright hypocritical on your part for you to say now that you are "always leery of armchair psychiatry" after you yourself were engaging in armchair psychiatry about the U.S. Catholic bishops being "paranoid."I did not explicitly advert to your use of the term "paranoid." But I was responding to your use of this term by suggesting that a more suitable term to characterize the U.S. Catholic bishops who are anti-abortion zealots would be to characterize them as megalomaniacs, as Dr. Frank uses and explains this term.By the way, I think your anger at the U.S. Catholic bishops is justified anger. But I think you've put them in a psychiatric category that does not fit them well.
The American bishops are absolutely right to speak out against the unprecedented actions of the Obama Administration. All the bishops are seeking is autonomy for Catholic institutions to run their own affairs according to Catholic principles, an autonomy all recent presidents before Obama would have readily granted.
"I will spell out here that perhaps not all the U.S. Catholic bishops are anti-abortion zealots."But those who remain silent and allow the many to tar the reputation of the few are guilty of the sin of omission.To revisit something said by a regular contributor here:"The Catholic bishops see themselves as holding privileged positions as the supposed successors of the apostles. As we know, Paul saw himself as an apostle and saw apostles as out-ranking everybody else. So as supposed successors of the apostles, the Catholic bishops see themselves as out-ranking everybody else. For this reason, they see their jobs as requiring them to INDOCTRINATE everybody else to think as the bishops themselves think, just as Paul himself tried to indoctrinate everybody else.Moreover, the Catholic bishops think that the Catholic tradition of so-called natural law moral theory is the way that they and everybody else should think about sexual morality. As you say, the Catholic bishops see themselves as indoctrinating, or at least as trying to indoctrinate, everybody else to think as they do about sexual morality.Now, as they see themselves as supposed successors of the apostles, they out-rank everybody else, so they want no debate from everybody else regarding what they (the bishops) say about sexual morality.The Catholic bishops do not see themselves as trying to persuade but as trying to indoctrinate, as you say.So we might ask, How is indoctrination different from persuasion?Persuasion might involve asking questions and perhaps raising objections and perhaps debating.But indoctrination begins with straightforward memory work. See, for example, the Catholic catechism, which presupposes that the bishops responsible for putting the catechism know the right questions that everybody else needs to know and that the bishops also know the right answers that everybody else needs to know. Indoctrination begins with memory work.Now, is it possible for paragons of Catholic indoctrination (i.e., properly indoctrinated Catholics) such as the Catholic bishops ever to become de-indoctrinated about, say, the churchs teachings regarding sexual morality?NCR reports that one Catholic bishop recently called for a review of the churchs teachings regarding sexual morality. NCR has published an editorial supporting the bishops call for such a review.Now, we might also wonder if the Catholic bishops could stop trying to indoctrinate everybody else to think the way they think and start trying to persuade people instead. Or would it endanger their self-concept as the supposed successors of the apostles for them to stop trying to indoctrinate everybody else and start trying to persuade people instead?For the Catholic bishops, debate among equals is acceptable for Catholic bishops to engage in with other Catholic bishops. So if in principle the Catholic bishops can allow other Catholic bishops to engage in debate with them, then perhaps they could use this admittedly limited experience of debate among bishops as a model that they could follow in engaging in debate with non-bishops, or at least in attempting to engage in debate with non-bishops."Thomas Farrell 03/30/2012 http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=18235&cpage=2#comment-130876
Maybe the majority of bishops signing on with the GOP are just demographically ignorant.Polls show that Latinos are 75% to 25% for Obama. Latinos are mostly Catholic and the minority who are evangelical would skew greatly to the GOP . So lets say Catholic Latinos may be 80-90% on the Dem side, mostly due to the GOP opposing any immigration reform [except self deportation] Early 20th century hierarchy walked with the immigrant working classes and my non-Church going, blue collar father greatly appreciated their stance and passed it on. How smart are the bishop when they side against the huge majority of their own people?.They can talk about 'new evangelization' till hell freezes over and a few gigs for Mariachi bands at a few receptions won't make up for their GOP stance.
Compelling diagnosis. I believe Michael Crosby points to the remedy:http://www.amazon.com/Repair-My-House-Becoming-22Kindom-22/product-revie...
Mr. Gleason: Have the majority of bishops signed on with the GOP? What's the evidence for this claim?I continue to disagree that for a bishop not publicly to disagree with what another bishop says means that the former is guilty of a sin of omission. If this were so, how many of us would, every day, on this blog, be guilty of sins of omission! I can hear it now: "You contribute regularly to dot-Commonweal, but you didn't say anything about so-and-so's heretical comment or that other so-and-so's racist comment. By not saying anything, you've committed a sin of omission, and you're complicit in what so-and-so said!" Does that work?
Mr. Farrell --You asked me about Dr. Frank's book. Sorry you didn't like my answer. P. S. I was an English major.
JAK --The issue of the bishops not speaking out against Cardinal Law's promotion and his continuing in his eminent position for 27 (!) years is hardly in a class with a blogger on Commonweal not calling down a fellow blogger for an opinion that is probably an honest one, even if a mistaken one. The issue of promoting someone who covered up prodigious amounts of child abuse is simply not on a par with one of us being mistaken about a Church teaching or being rather mean to someone else. Surely you must see that Law's failure was humongously larger than any of our petty faults here. Further, when someone here regularly is awful, sooner or later someone calls him/her down for it, and we don't wait 27 years to do it.If one were to form an opinion of the bishops about this matter one would have to think that either they don't know what happened (ridiculous), don't care (some probably care), or they're lack the courage to go against the omerta of the old boys club (most likely, I think). In any event, they too have failed the children by allowing one of the worst enablers to be promoted within their ranks without objecting to it publicly. Among other things, their silence sends a cruel message to the the children -- that they aren't important enough to warrant public complaint.
Ann: I have no interest in defending Card. Law's being put in charge of St. Mary Major's Basilica, which, however, I wouldn't regard as a "promotion" from being Archbishop of Boston, from which post he resigned in disgrace. (For what it's worth, I urged that resignation before it happened.) Your three possibilities don't exhaust the options available to bishops who in any case, I suspect, would not regard him as having been "promoted within their ranks." Looking back at your earlier post, I see you refer to Card. Law as "'Chief Justice' of the Curia," so perhaps it is this mistake that leads you to think he was promoted.
JAK --Yes, I was thinking of Burke, is it, who headed the Vatican Court. However, according to Wikipedia (and I have read this stuff elsewhere), "Law is also a member of the Congregations for the Oriental Churches, the Clergy, Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Evangelisation of Peoples, Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Catholic Education, Bishops as well as the Pontifical Council for the Family. He held membership in all these congregations and of the council before resigning from the governance of the Archdiocese of Boston, and at that time was also a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture.[9]"That such a man should be retained in *any* of those positions much less *all* of them, especially the Congregation for the Clergy, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Institute for Bishops, is simply incredible for the simple reason he had shown monumental incompetence in dealing with all such people. The Pope was wrong, wrong, wrong to approve Law's retaining those posts. In any other organization he would have been bounced out on his ear if not recommended to the police.It is one thing to recognize repentance and forgive someone. It is another to appoint an incompetent to a high position when he has proven his terrible, terrible judgment -- especially when that appointment injures children who have already suffered grievously.
Ann, how do you know that a bishop has not complained about Cdl Law's position to the apostolic nuncio or to the pope during their ad limina visit? How do you know that they're not working behind the scenes? What would they achieve by speaking up in public?
Claire --I don't know what the bishops are saying privately. After 27 years it doesn't really matter. But with reference to Cardinal Law, not one of them has shown public support for the abused children that they should have if they really did put the children first. The abused need to hear their leaders say "Do not honor such awful prelates. They have done incalcuable wrong to the little ones." If the bishops put the children first, they would join the rest of the world, dammit, in condemning the continuation in office -- powerful offices -- of such bishops as Cardinal Law, not to mention the behavior of Cardinals Bevilaqua and Rigali. Those bishops' behavior was contemptible by any standards, yet not one American bishop has ever said so publicly. That's a disgrace, and it is costing the Church the young. You want to know why your kids don't go to church? Talk to them about Cardinal Law et al. Ask what they think of his behavior and how his brother bishops have protected him.
JAK.. " Whats the evidence for this claim?'I say some bishops made too nice with the GOP and ALL the rest of the 300+ remained silent. neutral, quiet ... That's how I call it. They made SS marriage and insurance paid-for BC the cause celebre of Catholic FREEDOM. Well I just watched both the concession and the V speech. The losers also include those bishops who put their feet into the middle of these pesky issues are they lost. Politics has consequences and they will have to learn that lesson. I glad the noisy ones will go more humbly to the meeting next month and maybe they can get HHS to renew the offer of BC being paid for by insurance companies. Lets make it as remote as possible.. that's the ticket... . Also with SS marriage winning in more states bishops ought to re-state that what happens in the basement of City Hall is not the biggest problem on their agenda. "we didn't much care how many times heteros got married in the City Hall basement for the last 80 years so we will repeat that stance with SS. easy does it..
Ann, I think that for my children the sexual abuse crisis is much less relevant than the rejection of gays, the unequal status of men and women, the indiscriminate condemnation of all things sexual, the atmosphere of negativity, and the lack of vision. The public voice of the church in the U.S. media does not lift people up but puts them down. My children do not think of sexual abuse as anything special and to them it's only one more indicator of the dysfunction. They do not remember who Cdl Law is. I mentioned him to them once, but they were not indignant: they expect nothing good to come from the church, and so it fits their worldview that he would be given responsibilities in Rome. But I have to admit that any non-negative interpretation I might try to give to the silence of US bishops regarding Cdl Law is proved wrong by the scandal of the new roman missal. Still, I'm dead tired of complaining about bishops. It's not leading anywhere. It's sterile. All the time we spend criticizing our bishops is that much time not spent church-building.
Ann -- All Roman Catholic bishops are beholden and subordinate to the same single Church authority that Law is. One who chose to speak out on Law would impugn the publicly demonstrated standards of two popes and likely forfeit his own chances of enjoying similar papal benevolence, should a need arise. A scathing summary of Law's malfeasance appeared in the official Boston Archdiocesan paper The Pilot when the Mass. Attorney General reported after a Grand Jury investigation. AG Reilly said No one is more disappointed than I and my staff that we cannot bring criminal charges against top management. Weak child-abuse laws at the time limited him. Voluminous documentation supported his findings and conclusions. http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=1212 Law was granted refuge in Rome on being driven out of Boston. The pope retained him as prince, papal advisor, papal elector, and senior cleric, subject only to the pope's judgment. The pope bestowed on him the basilica position of honor. Among his most ironic assignments is to the Congregation evaluating bishop candidates for the pope, although the Grand Jury in Boston had named 5 bishops who worked under Law as similarly deserving of criminal charges. Every day that Law appears with the signs and symbols of his still-lofty position, he is a reminder of the standards of two popes who, alone, grant and remove such Church honor. In light of civil events continuing in the US related to episcopal child sexual abuse coverup, the prospect of sanctuary as established by the Law precedent may look too valuable to some bishops to be tampered with by imprudent comment.
Claire --To me Law is the great symbol of the hierarchy's corruption, but there are dozens and dozens of other bishops who enabled the sexual abusers and/or covered-up the crimes. Think Bishop Finn, who has actually been convicted of a cover-up but remains in office and whom the other bishops have not seen fit to criticize publicly. Oh, they talk in great generalities about sin and love. But not one has said publicly, "Finn, resign!"This is all part, I venture to guess, of what has given your children such a low opinion of the bishops generally. And the bishops deserve that low opinion. I would be interested to know their explicit thoughts and how they would feel about the Church if the hierarchy were truly reformed.I know that the specifics of the liturgy are terribly important to many people. But to many of us the little specifics such as cup v. chalice and "and with thy spirit" are not matters of great import. Perhaps more sensitive translations would help kids appreciate Mass better, but I doubt it. They really don't seem to understand what it's about in the first place or they simply don't believe anymore. So I don't think the liturgy is all that important for them.
Jack Berry said: "In light of civil events continuing in the US related to episcopal child sexual abuse coverup, the prospect of sanctuary as established by the Law precedent may look too valuable to some bishops to be tampered with by imprudent comment."Yikes. Such is the power of autocracy. And it is about the power of governance, which is the nickel that has not yet dropped among the faithful. Reform of governance is not some airie-fairie theoretical nicety but a practical question that must be faced to keep the Church from doing further harm and to enable it to speak to the 85% of millennials currently lost to it, like Claire's children. And mine. For Catholics raised in a Church run as an absolute monarchy, it requires a far-reaching act of imagination to envision a different future. But it is possible and necessary.
Jack B. ---What gets me about so many bishops is their astonishing capacity for unconscious (?) denial. One of the Boston auxiliary bishops who was lucky not to be indicted was appointed archbishop of my diocese. On the surface he appeared to be a benign man. If you looked at his internet site you would never know that he was a participant in one of the worst scandals in the Church ever. It just gives a litany of where he went to school, when and where ordained etc., and a smiling face. But he was not a benign man in spite of his smiling face. And still his brothers remained silent.

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If it is, do I have to have had some sort of technical problem or can I get a refund just because I didn't like it?
Is it possible?
If it is, do I have to have had some sort of technical problem or can I get a refund just because I didn't like it?
This policy has just changed.
Now it's possible to ask for a refund within 14 days of purchase, provided you have played it for less than two hours.
Edit: Note that Steam's policy has changed on this, please see other answers.
Not generally, per their agreement: "ALL STEAM FEES ARE PAYABLE IN ADVANCE AND ARE NOT REFUNDABLE IN WHOLE OR IN PART."
However, it is possible in special circumstances to cancel an order. I managed to undo a preorder of a game that went on sale the day after I preordered it. I contacted customer support, and since I didn't actually get the game yet (it wasn't out), they allowed me to cancel my preorder and reorder with the sale price. I don't recall whether my credit card had been charged for the initial order, however.
Doesn't look like it. From the Steam wiki:
Steam is described as a "Service" in thier licence agreement etc. They hope this will allow them to avoid most online consumer laws in many countries that categorically state that you are allowed a refund in the case that a game does not work.
If you have a technical problem with a game, you can try to get a refund, but I have never tried it.
Steam may refund an entire order if you file a ticket on their tech support site. Note, however, they may require you to have a good reason.
The one time I wanted to cancel an order (when I purchased all 3 Borderlands expansions and then found out two of them include SecuROM), I opted not to cancel mine, because tech support informed me they would have to refund the entire order, and I had purchased some one day sale items on the same order.


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Le CorsaireKirov vs. ABT
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Posted 21 July 2005 - 11:22 AM
It has never been used in any production I have seen. Does the Maly production use it? I think it was danced by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and she would have remembered the choreography.
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Posted 23 July 2005 - 03:36 PM
ABTs version and the Kirovs differ so much. The only thing that the two productions really have in common are the traditional pas and that have come down from Petipa (the pas d'esclave, the grand pas, the mazurka of pirates, the classical trio of the odalisques, and the scene Jardin Anime).
All of the incidental music in ABTs version is completely differrent from the Kirovs. Since it is the Kirovs version that this staging stems from, it makes me wonder where ABT got the music from, I mean, its completely different! Aslo, much of the music that is in both stagings is re-orchestrated in the ABT production. Compare if you like, the music for the pas de trois of the odalisques or the pas d'esclave.
The next thing that I find absolutly ridiculous about the ABT staging is the "pirates of the carribean" way that the pirates are portyed in thier staging. The ballet "Le Corsaire" calls for very different kinds of pirates - exotic Corsaires from the mid-east, not the kind that spawned captain hook or black beard. And lets not forget that awful skull and crossbones flag on the boat in the ABT version.
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Maybe Doug or Mel knows something?
Posted 25 July 2005 - 06:11 AM
It got to Russia in the late 19th century and my guess is that by at least the 1920s, they'd started to work their wicked ways
Posted 25 July 2005 - 06:26 AM
the russian encyc. of russian ballet notes a 1956 film of some, presumably russian, produciton of the ballet, but gives no particulars.
the most recent bolshoi staging, from which ABT's comes, was first done in 1992, by k.sergeyev - thus it has a st.pete/leningrad lineage - i suspect k.s. was in some way wanting to have his 'say' likely b/c it differed in some way(s) from the gusev-based version then being done at the kirov. (a '94 prod. seems to be a slight revamping of this bolshoi theater prod. by grigorovich - for nearly the same cast as the one that led in '92, i.e. Gracheva as Medora; A. Vetrov as Conrad.)
david vaughan did a substantive review of THE PIRATE/Le Corsaire for THE DANCING TIMES on the occasion of a-m holmes staging of sergeyev's production for boston ballet. he gives a longish rundown of composers whose hands once were involved in the ballet's score over the years.
here's the NYPL's cat. info for the article:
Vaughan, David
Le corsaire in Boston.
Dancing times. London. June 1997, p. 831, 833. ill.
Review of Boston Ballet's Le corsaire.
Posted 25 July 2005 - 08:08 AM
And a review by Mary Cargill from an old issue of Dance View:
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Posted 19 January 2009 - 07:15 PM
Was Le Corsaire thought of as silly at its premiere or was it considered a serious drama?
My impression is the original audiences for these more far fetched ballet plots lapped them up. They probably didn't take them seriously, *exactly*, but they did enjoy them and all their twists and turns. It's ironic that one of the common negative reviews of Sleeping Beauty when it premiered was its story was too simplistic--after being used to getting these exciting, plot driven melodramas for years suddenly they were meant to watch a children's fairy tale? Of course now audiences find many of those melodramas hard to swallow or take seriously (though I like that lately people seem far more willing to accept them) and a plot like Sleeping Beauty seems a natural for a ballet.
Do you think we'll ever get a DVD of the Bolshoi's production? It sounds like it's the most faithful to the various Petipa versions and the closest to a "reconstruction" we'll get (using the notations for choreography and the costume designs of the 1899 production I think). Also would be amazing to see considering that wikipedia says it's the most expensive mounting of a bellet so far. I do love the Kirov DVD but haven't seen ABT's--while I'd never confuse the music of it for Tchaikovsky or Glazunov it is interesting that the piece holds together as well as it does considering all the sources of music, etc. (and since the ABT DVD is out of print and Amazon lists it for $150 dollars I don't think I'll see it anytime soon...)
Ellen, wikipedia gives a good listing of all the myriad of places and composers the music for Le Corsair comes from--Even though it was common practice back then for ballets to incorporate whatever piece of music they wanted to, I still can't think of another example of a ballet that uses such a large mix of music sources and composers. (Wikipedia's article http://en.wikipedia....iki/Le_Corsaire is also interesting for the drama around K Sergeyev's production for the Kirov in the 70s which was quickly pulled and then for the Bolshoi in the 90s where it was again quickly pulled)
Posted 19 January 2009 - 07:32 PM
KORSAR as the russians call their ballet entered bolshoi rep. in 1858.
the russian encyc. of russian ballet notes a 1956 film of some, presumably russian, produciton of the ballet, but gives no particulars.
the most recent bolshoi staging, from which ABT's comes, was first done in 1992, by k.sergeyev - thus it has a st.pete/leningrad lineage - i suspect k.s. was in some way wanting to have his 'say' likely b/c it differed in some way(s) from the gusev-based version then being done at the kirov. (a '94 prod. seems to be a slight revamping of this bolshoi theater prod. by grigorovich - for nearly the same cast as the one that led in '92, i.e. Gracheva as Medora; A. Vetrov as Conrad.)
I know this was posted years ago--before the current Bolshoi blockbuster production, but Wikipedia has a different take on Sergeyev's version. After it was pulled with only 9 performances at the Kirov in the 70s and they went back to their prior version (which they still perform) apparantly:
" In 1992 Yuri Grigorovich, director of the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, invited Sergeyev to mount his 1973 revival of Le Corsaire for the company. This productionwhich included a heavily re-edited and re-orchestrated score by the Bolshoi Theatre's conductor Alexander Sotnikovpremiered on 11 March, 1992 to great success, but after only seven performances Grigorovich decided to pull the production from the repertory. After witnessing the success of Sergeyev's production, Grigorovich decided to stage his own version, which premiered on 16 February, 1994. Grigorovich's production was then taken out of the repertory after the director left the company in 1995."
If I were Sergeyev I'd be mildly pissed off to say the least... But I think him and Grigorovich had a strange competitive relationship.
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The only microphone I have is the one built-in to my iPhone earbuds. I want to try some line-in stuff, so I plugged the headphones into the microphone port. I then went to System Preferences/Sound/Input and selected Line In. It doesn't appear that this is working as a microphone. Should it?
In short, the microphone won't work as a microphone the way you're trying it, but the earbuds will.
Longer answer...
In order to use the microphone from your iPhone headphones, they must be plugged into the headphones socket. You can see in the images below that the MacBook Pro "Sound" preference pane recognises that they have a microphone and switches the "Built-in Microphone" to the headphones one when they're in the headphones socket.
If you plug the iPhone headphones into the Mic/Line-in socket, it seems to be only set up for a standard stereo 3.5mm jack, and so will use the earbuds (both of them) as microphones — a stereo microphone effectively (though they're not great at picking up sound or well matched to the hardware as microphones, so will require lots of amplification).
Sound preference pane without the headphones plugged in the headphones socket:
Sound preference pane with the headphones plugged in the headphones socket:
Plugging the iPhone headphones into the Mic/Line-in socket shows no change (i.e. looks like the top image) and having tested it, only the earbuds seem to produce any response in the computer (i.e. they're connected but the microphone isn't).
This depends - do you have separate jacks for headphones & microphone or just one jack? If you have two jacks you'll have to get a splitter for it to work properly.
On late 2008 MacBooks and on, iPhone earbuds will function as headphones and a mic if plugged into the headphone port.
You can use the microphone on the iPhone earphones (as well as the volume and music forward/next on newer machines). But I think the reason its not working for you is by selecting Line In. What if you keep it as microphone?
Apple supports using an "iPhone" headset on Macs that display External Microphone in the Built-in Audio section of System Profiler (Also called System Information on newer versions of the OS).
The operation is plug-n-play, the computer will automatically detect the microphone and earphones when you plug in the headset.


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7 Actors Typecast in Bizarrely Specific Roles
Typecasting is nothing new in Hollywood; it's not very surprising, seeing as some actors just look and act like the cliched roles they attract. This phenomenon explains why Meg Ryan has never taken a role as a transvestite vampire, and Meatloaf has never been the object of affection in a romantic comedy.
But amazingly, some people seem to perform uncannily similar roles over and over, like Groundhog Day, but with less appealing actors. Causality loop, strange coincidence or extreme lack of range? You make the call.
#7. Olga Kurylenko's Sexual Advances Are Constantly Spurned by Video Game Characters
Offending Roles:
Nika Boronina in 2007's Hitman
Natasha Sax in 2008's Max Payne
Inexplicable Similarity:
Nika and Natasha attempt to seduce the title character in a film adaptation of a popular, violent video game. Though he is interested in her tattoo, he brutally shoots her down (figuratively speaking).
Who would want to remove a sweet Turtleneck like this?
Erstwhile hit man Agent 47 is commanded to kill a sexy Russian named Nika, who he's told witnessed a recent assassination he committed. Upon meeting her, he figures out she couldn't have been present at the shooting, and decides to protect her. Nika tries her damnedest to seduce Agent 47 by showing off how good she looks in only panties, but he only seems interested in finding out about her tattoo. Finally, she decides to get aggressive and parades around him wearing almost nothing but a tiny red dress.
What does she get for her effort? A hypodermic needle to the neck!
Not the prick she was hoping for.
Max Payne:
Max Payne meets the sexy Russian Natasha at a party while investigating his family's murder. Natasha tries to put some moves on Max wearing a tiny red dress. He's interested in learning more about her tattoo, so he invites her back to his apartment. Natasha decides to turn up the seduction by showing off how good she looks in only panties. And what does she get for her effort? A rude expulsion from Marky Mark and the Angry Teeth!
At least he's not fighting killer plants.
She got off a lot easier, right? Wrong! Immediately after being kicked out, Natasha is killed by what appear to be the bats from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Batman's been breeding with the Cylon Raiders.
Logical Conclusion:
The men in Olga Kurylenko movies are insane and/or blind. Or gay. Or all three.
#6. Cameron Bright Has Magic Blood
Offending Roles:
Leech in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand
Six in 2006's (the same damn year!) Ultraviolet
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Both Leech and Six cause massive fighting because a cure for super powers could be engineered from their blood.
X-Men: The Last Stand:
A cure has been found for the ever-growing mutant problem. In a highly secure government lab, the source of the cure is revealed to be Leech: a young mutant boy wearing a white outfit.
One of the less popular X-Men Halloween costumes.
Liking their mutant powers just the way they are, Magneto and his followers try to destroy the boy and his dirty, dirty anti-mutant blood, but the X-Men step in to stop them, whisking Leech away from the danger of a high security government facility and into the safety of a massive war zone between magical mutants with fatal super powers.
In an incredibly hard to watch, understand or even look at, future, a new fatal virus, hemoglophagia, is turning people into superpowered vampire-like creatures called hemophages. Infected Violet (Milla Jovavich), wearing at least 10 percent more clothes this go-around, infiltrates a highly secure government lab to destroy a weapon designed to wipe out the hemophages, only to find out the weapon is actually a young boy, Six, who is immediately given a white outfit.
Cancel the casting call! This kid from the X-Men set should work just fine.
Violet finds out Six is actually a clone of the evil Vice Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus who is infected with antigens that target hemophages. In a move completely different from the exact plot of X-Men 3, Milla believes a cure can be made from Six's blood, and decides to grab him and drag him out of harm's way via a violent and dangerous escape.
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In addition to looking like the kind of kid whose blood might have special properties worth fighting over, Bright, apparently, also has that undeniable Xeroxed look about him. In 2004's Godsend, he plays Adam, an eight-year-old boy who dies in an accident and is then cloned by Robert De Niro. He loses the white outfit this time, but retains the otherworldly blank stare.
Logical Conclusion:
Let's hope lil' Mr. Bright doesn't have a rare and desperately needed blood type, because you can bet he'll never voluntarily give blood the rest of his life for fear of major CG carnage.
#5. Alan Arkin's Albuquerque Grandpa Character Tells It Like It Is
Offending Roles:
Edwin Hoover in 2006's Little Miss Sunshine
Joe Lorkowski in 2008's Sunshine Cleaning
Inexplicable Similarity:
They live with one of their children in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and, with the rest of their family, are trying to improve their unhappy lives with a plan that involves a shitty old van. Eventually they have heart-to-hearts to their young grandchild, telling them to never be afraid to be themselves, no matter what other people may tell them, in films that aren't nearly as cheerful as you might expect from a movie with "Sunshine" in the title.
Little Miss Sunshine:
When Edwin Hoover's granddaughter, Olive, qualifies for the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in California, the whole family piles in a VW Microbus to get there in time. Olive's dysfunctional family begins to take its toll on her, but Grandpa is there to give her self-confidence and false hope.
Then he dies of a heroin overdose.
Feeling sunny yet?
Sunshine Cleaning:
Joe Lorkowski's daughter, Rose, is barely making ends meet with her housecleaning job, but after hearing that big bucks could be made, she decides to buy an old van and open "Sunshine Cleaning," her own unlicensed crime scene cleaning company, because that's what people in real life just do. Meanwhile, Joe's grandson is having trouble in school and needs a self-confidence boost from Grandpa.
More of the same...
Logical Conclusion:
If you live in New Mexico and have a wise grandpa, get ready for some quirky wisdom, and possibly a funeral.
#4. Edward Norton Has a Violent Alter Ego He Can't Control
Offending Roles:
The Narrator (AKA: Jack), in 1999's Fight Club
Bruce Banner, in 2008's The Incredible Hulk
Inexplicable Similarity:
[SPOILER ALERT FOR THE THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN FIGHT CLUB] They have split personalities that cause destruction on a massive scale, neither of whom are played by Norton.
Fight Club:
Jack's habits of living alone, travelling constantly and not sleeping are beginning to make his life miserable. The IKEA furniture didn't help much, either. As a coping mechanism, his mind creates a split personality, Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt), a muscular badass who enjoys creating chaos.
The break room at The Gap headquarters.
Jack winds up in strained relationship with a pale brunette, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter from every Tim Burton movie ever). She ends up in harm's way when Tyler's followers come after Jack for trying to stop Tyler's destruction. In the end, Jack figures out how to take control of Tyler with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Plan B if the Unisom doesn't kick in.
The Incredible Hulk:
After exposure to Gamma radiation, Bruce Banner is forced to keep traveling constantly because of his rampaging split personality, the Hulk.
The Hulk learns the iPad doesn't support Flash.
The Hulk is a green, ridiculously muscled badass who can't help but create chaos when Bruce gets angry. All of this seriously strains Bruce's relationship with his pale brunette girlfriend, Betty Ross, who ends up in harm's way when the army comes after him to try to stop the Hulk's destruction. Eventually, in the end, he figures out how to take control of the Hulk with meditation.
This probably would have solved Fight Club, too.
Bonus Coincidence:
Edward Norton also played Aaron Stampler in 1996's Primal Fear, who had a fake split personality who killed an archbishop. Also, he had additional personas in Death to Smoochy, as Smoochy, and The Score, as a mentally challenged janitor.
Logical Conclusion:
If Edward Norton is in your house and your favorite vase gets broken, don't expect him to fess up to it anytime soon.


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'Flush at own risk' campaign launched
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STEUBENVILLE — The city wastewater department has launched a "flush at your own risk" public campaign to warn residents and businesses to avoid flushing disposable wipes down their toilet....
This is an issue everywhere in this country...there's just no stopping it no matter how hard you preach! Send the homeowner the bill and then it will stop!!
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Those weren't the writer's words, they were Mr. Murphy;s words. Although, I do agree there could be a much better slogan than pee, poop, puke, and toilet paper only. This would be much better: "Remember, the 3 P's and TP will keep you sewer clean!".
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Wow, ya think the writer could have use other terms besides, pee, poop, vomit or toilet paper....Urine and feces comes to mind...........lol
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Saved for the Super Bowl: Jim Harbaugh's Acting Career
49ers Coach's Cameo on Teen Sitcom Gets New Life; Screech's 'More Popular Cousin'
NEW ORLEANS—In shepherding the San Francisco 49ers to their first Super Bowl since they won their fifth NFL championship in 1995, coach Jim Harbaugh has returned the franchise to its once-customary heights of greatness. But he's also managed to pull off a feat that isn't quite so transcendent: He's revived the memory of his brief acting career.
Fresh from leading the Indianapolis Colts to the AFC title game as their starting quarterback, Harbaugh in 1996 made a cameo on "Saved by the Bell: The New Class," a Saturday morning sitcom geared to teenagers. As the 49ers piled up victories this season, winning the NFC Western Division and advancing to Super Bowl XLVII against the Baltimore Ravens—coached by Harbaugh's brother John—online clips of Harbaugh's five minutes of screen time on the show went viral, igniting fascination with a quirky pop-culture moment that had long been forgotten.
"People have been tweeting me. 'How was Jim Harbaugh? What was he like?'" said actor Dennis Haskins, who played the bumbling high school principal Mr. Belding on the show. "I thought he was really good."
It's common, of course, for professional athletes to test their thespian chops on television programs. Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath played himself on "The Brady Bunch" and "ALF" and even pursued a career in Hollywood. Mets and Cardinals first baseman Keith Hernandez befriended Jerry Seinfeld in a famous two-part episode of "Seinfeld" and later nabbed a role as a ballplayer in "Law & Order."
But Harbaugh's cameo stands out because he's since attained a higher level of fame—he actually had a losing record as a starting quarterback over his 14-year career—and because so many of the men he now coaches are familiar with the "Saved by the Bell" franchise from their childhoods.
"We all grew up watching it," 49ers quarterback Scott Tolzien said.
A gentle comedy that aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993, the original "Saved by the Bell" series was set at fictitious Bayside High School and chronicled the misadventures of six friends, including the aggressively dorky Screech, played by Dustin Diamond. One of its later iterations, "The New Class" ran from 1993 to 2000 and had a similar premise: Screech had become an administrative assistant at Bayside, and he and Mr. Belding were counseling a new clique of teens.
In the episode "Little Hero," a young football player has cost his team a victory by doing a showboating touchdown dance before crossing the goal line. So Screech invites his "more popular cousin"—Harbaugh—to the school to impart some wisdom to the students about sportsmanship and humility.
"Being famous does not make you a hero," Harbaugh says in the episode's final scene as he puts his right hand over his heart. "Being a hero isn't about what you do out there on the field. It's about who you are in here. It's about helping your friends, your school and your community."
Carl Kurlander, who wrote the script, said that he had a generic football player in mind as he outlined the episode. But after Harbaugh accepted the invitation to come on the show, Kurlander was pleased to find that the inspirational speech he'd written for the character "seemed to really be who Jim was, and perhaps all that was good practice for him being a head coach and inspiring teams."
In fact, according to Don Barnhart, the episode's director, Harbaugh set himself apart in an impressive way from most non-actor guest stars: He didn't use any cue cards to deliver his lines. "He practiced at home, I guess," Barnhart said, "between throwing footballs."
Kurlander still keeps a copy of the script, autographed by Harbaugh, at his home in Pittsburgh. After watching the episode again recently, Haskins called actress Lindsey McKeon, who played the character Katie Peterson. The irony was that McKeon didn't remember working with Harbaugh at all—even though her boyfriend grew up in Indianapolis and is a rabid Colts fan. "Dennis said, 'You know, you're all over Twitter and the Internet with this Jim Harbaugh thing,'" McKeon said. "I was like, 'Oh, my God, that's the brothers in the Super Bowl!' I had no idea."
For his part, Harbaugh said he's taken a good bit of ribbing from his family members, his friends and his players over his fleeting foray into show business. "They made quite a bit of sport of me," he said. "I was going to deliver a positive message to the youth, and for that, I have been thoroughly humiliated." Tolzien first saw the clip after Brian Jennings, the 49ers' long-snapper, showed it to him in November, and soon enough, Tolzien said, "it started moving its way around the locker room."
Among Harbaugh's players, the reviews of his acting ability were lukewarm at best. "I'm glad he's good at coaching," Jennings said. "I don't think Hollywood was in his future." But Jennings did admit that he—or any other pro athlete in Harbaugh's position—probably would have accepted the challenge of performing alongside such small-screen heavyweights as Haskins, McKeon and Diamond. "It's fun to hold your belly and slap your knee at him," he said, "but if I had a chance to appear on 'Glee,' I'd take it. My hypocrisy only goes so far."


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BROCKTON - Police have placed a mobile observation tower at the top of Legion Parkway in the center of the city.
The tower, which is on loan to the department from the MBTA Transit Police, was installed Thursday and is meant to "give some visibility" to the Legion Parkway area, Brockton Police Lt. Kenneth LeGrice said.
The tower has cameras mounted on each side and will be intermittently manned by a Brockton Police officer.
"We're tying it out to see what the benefits are," LeGrice said. "This is going to allow us to monitor what's going on on Legion Parkway."
The presence of the tower is expected to be a crime deterrent in an area that at times can be a hotbed for criminal activity.
LeGrice said there is no current plan for how long the tower will remain up for.
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Jamiegottagun commented on "Thailand's Distorted View Of Transgender People": Thai's probably aren't as accepting as they've been made out to be: check.
Few things in this world are as they have been made out to be.
However, you endanger your own credibility when you make such sweeping statements as you did in your introduction of this story, but provide only the opinion of one movie director, quoted in one story.
And to trash an entire philosophy, Buddhism, based on the actions of a few, is hardly fair, or can be taken as serious news reporting.
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Other than not having to buy special biking shoes, is there any clear advantage to using pedal straps over clipless (aka clip-in or step-in) pedals?
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The biggest benefit I see is convenience. You can just hop onto a bike with whatever you're wearing at the time and go. Not a big deal if you're planning a 15 mile ride, but a real big deal if you're riding around the neighborhood, hopping off to run into a few stores, etc...
It's also possible to pedal on the flip side of the pedal and get moving without the cumbersome and slow start up that is required to get into clipless or straps. In an emergency you can even stomp on the straps and move the bike out of the way. It's rare, but occasionally you find yourself standing there and just want to get out of the way, in any direction.
I've now switched almost entirely to riding clipless though. Between that and riding fixed gear, it makes the bike feel so connected to me.
To compare: Straps are easier to get into. Clipless are easier to get out of (really!). I've never pulled out of my clipless pedals, I have broken a strap (no big deal if you're not in a sprint).
At this point if I'm riding any distance at all, I change shoes. If I'm just going to the store to pick up groceries, I don't even have straps, just old school pedals. The middle ground for straps just evaporated for me.
Easier for beginners?
Slightly less of a panic when you come to a stop at a light, pause, look down and realise you forgot to unclip - as you slowly fall over.
When the straps are done up properly, you are less likely to pull your foot out accidentally. This is why clips & straps are recommended for track racing .


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UPDATE: Fri 17 Dec 2010 / 5:15p.m. (Older blogs from Dec 14-16 are beneath this update)
The overall signal in the model output continues to show at least a "partial" block re-forming as we approach Christmas Day. This would bring dry and chilly air southward as discussed in previous posts below.
So it's still looking as though a dry, cool and mostly sunny Dec 25th is the best bet.
I'm spending Saturday with my Mom so I'll post another update Sunday...Have a great weekend!
- Steve
Friday's GFS model output (above map) shows a high pressure area positioned north of a low-pressure area, which is a typical blocking pattern. The "block" is only partial in the sense that the low is not directly south of the high. Nevertheless, such a flow favors steering dry and cold air our way. It's still a week out...so stay tuned!
UPDATE: Thu 16 Dec 2010 / 5:45p.m.
EXPLANATION: Computer "models" are nothing more than complex pieces of software which crunch a program and provide a numerical guess of what the weather might do. As one ventures further out in time, errors which are generally small for a two or three day forecast might become huge by 8 or 9 days. That's why confidence in them generally improves the closer you get to the day in question.
Sometimes a pattern will be very stable and we can nail a frontal passage or mid-level trough 5 or 6 days out, but this is less than half of the time. A changing pattern like we're in makes such a forecast much more difficult.
MAP DISCUSSION: Now to Christmas 2010: Trends continue to suggest a blocking pattern re-developing, which would steer cold air into our area between the 25th and 27th. This does not mean they are right, but they are somewhat consistent with the past three days' worth of output.
The Arctic Oscillation (scroll down in this blog for more on the AO) is a key factor in whether we have a cold or mild Christmas; the newest output (and latest weather analysis) shows the block breaking down over the next four days, and rebuilding by Christmas Day. A cold front would then follow with northerly flow on the western side of the trough in the Dec 25th-27th time frame.
As for timing, a shot of colder air could arrive by Christmas Day, but more likely the 26th or 27th. Given this, I'm expecting Christmas Day temperatures chilly in the morning (30s) and in the 50s or possibly 60s by afternoon.
The trough in the east/ridge in the west steering flow does not favor any precipitation due to sinking air aloft. So, a white Christmas still looks "very unfavorable" here.
The model resolution increases once we get below 192 hours out, so I should be able to become a little more confident by my Sunday post (no post Saturday).
Stay tuned -- Steve
Map above continues blocking trend with low pressure to the east Christmas Day. The block is a little weaker than in Wednesday's run, but it's still too far out in time to claim this as a new trend.
UPDATE: Wed 15 Dec 2010 / 5:35p.m.
Note: I will not make a habit of looking this far ahead as the errors are too large; this is rare occasion for the sake of your interest and Christmas planning. I will leave older posts below so that you may track how a forecast this far out changes with time.
The overall trends have not changed; see original post below.
The models continue to advertise a blocking pattern to our east with chilly, but dry, northerly flow through Texoma. Here's the latest map (above).
====================Post from Tue 14 Dec==================
This blog begins as a VERY optimistic attempt to provide an idea of what our Texoma Christmas weather might be like. Please understand it's quite general and really won't be worth much until Monday or so. No, I'm not crazy; I figured, why not have some fun? There's some science in here too...
So...let's talk weather.
It's useful to look at the larger-scale pattern when forecasting beyond a week ahead.
There's been a persistent blocking pattern over the North Atlantic, which means a low pressure south of a high pressure, with neither moving much. This is why the eastern 1/3 rd of the nation has been in the deep freeze for some time: the high is keeping upstream low-pressure systems nearly stationary. The counterclockwise flow around the low has been pulling very cold air into the eastern half of the nation. We have been on the western fringe of this and have been spared the brunt of the cold.
Orlando, Florida reached 28 degrees Tuesday morning and Miami hit 36. This kind of cold in the Sunshine State" is usually the result of such a pattern, known as a negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, or "AO".
Texoma weather tends to be cold and windy but rather dry during a negative phase of the AO, like we saw at the end of November and again last weekend. The AO has temporarily weakened but is predicted by long-range models to re-develop Christmas weekend. This creates a "traffic jam" in the flow upstream, which makes the jet stream buckle, and it may push more arctic air southward.
Surface and upper level pressure patterns guide cold air further south during the negative AO episode (right side of above graphic).
Long-range indications bring the AO back into a blocking (negative) phase around Christmas time…which would favor another chilly Canadian visit between Dec 25-27. So my first ultra-risky stab at the Christmas 2010 forecast for Texoma is for a fairly strong front to pass Christmas weekend, most likely without precipitation.
We had a White Christmas last year. Given this year's pattern, I'd put the odds of one for 2010 in the "unfavorable" (but not impossible) range.
Of course, I've been wrong before…such is the nature of trying to forecast this far out. Like I said, I figure I'd have a little fun; or perhaps I am crazy!
This blog will be updated each evening through the 23rd.
The daily discussion will take care of Christmas Eve.
Here's Hoping You Have A Wonderful Christmas!
Steve LaNore
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At 57, Mary Black is at a stage in her career when she can choose when to tour and record. Her "Stories From the Steeples" (Blix Street) is her first new studio album in six years, and she travels to the U.S. from her native Ireland every two years or so to perform. To her U.S. audience, her arrival is a visit from a good friend who's earned loyalty: Though it was election night and parts of the tri-state area were still dark in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Ms. Black drew a near-capacity crowd to City Winery here. It was opening night of a U.S. tour that runs through Nov. 20.
"I'm getting on and I'm not gigging as much," she said prior to the performance. "In a way it suits me. I love it, but I love my time off too." Regarding the period between new discs, she said: "I didn't want to force an album. I wanted it to happen organically. If it takes six years, so be it."
Through her blend of Irish folk music and pop, Ms. Black became, and remains, one of her country's greatest musical exports. Her solo career, a commercial and artistic success, is now approaching its 30th year, and her voice—both warm and bracing with an touch of vibrato—is still a compelling instrument. Here, while showcasing the new album, she revisited tunes from her past, including those gathered on "Twenty-Five Years—Twenty-Five Songs," released in 2008.
Daughter to musical parents, Ms. Black began performing as a child with her four siblings as the Black Family. After a stint in the folk group General Humbert, she released a solo album and then joined De Danann, a group dedicated to traditional Irish music. On her own since 1985, she's a four-time winner of the Irish Recorded Music Association's Best Female Singer award; the association named her 1993 release "Holy Ground" that year's Best Irish Album. In 1992, she was featured on "A Woman's Heart," a collection of songs by Irish female singers that is Ireland's best-selling album.
While moving from traditional folk to a broader pop sound, Ms. Black's music remained unmistakably Irish. "I love my roots. I love being recognized as Irish," she said. "Because I started in the folk era, it was about passing the songs down, the tradition. But if you listen to traditional Irish music, there's a similarity to Middle Eastern music, even African music. It's difficult even to categorize what I do. I've always had a broad interest in music, and I always wanted to incorporate that into what I do."
Though Ms. Black has covered Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson, she tends to feature Irish songwriters when she can, as she does on "Stories From the Steeples." The album opener, "Marguerite and the Gambler," was composed by Ricky Lynch, who lives in Cork. Dublin's Finbar Furey contributed the charming "Walking With My Love." But the album also happens to include four songs by Australian writers, and it concludes with a music-hall reading of "Fifi the Flea," first recorded by the Hollies, a British pop group, in the 1960s.
"In a way, I'm like a little magpie collecting things," she said. "I thought I had about four or five songs for the album. But then I was asking the fellas: 'Do you remember that song?' Or: 'What about so and so?' There are so many talented writers out there."
Her son Danny O'Reilly, whose rock band the Coronas is a headliner in Ireland, wrote the album's most affecting songs. Of "Faith in Fate," a gorgeous ballad that first appeared on a Coronas album, she said: "I asked him: 'How would you feel if I sang it?' You know, it's so uncool to have your mother sing your song." Mr. O'Reilly had his doubts. "He said: 'Oh, if you could do it, that'd be all right.' Well, that was a red flag to a bull, let me tell you." (Ms. Black repeated the story from the City Winery stage before performing the song.)
Backed by a five-piece band and her daughter, Roísín, on vocals, Ms. Black engaged the audience with a pro's easy charm. Her reading of the Irish writer Noel Brazil's "Columbus," with its lush major-seventh chords, and the ballad "Bright Blue Rose," the title track of her 1991 album, were highlights of a well-paced set by a mature artist still in her prime.
"I'm in the autumn of my career," she said with a warm smile. "Every now and then I'll say, 'This is my last album.' But I have to sing. I have nothing to prove and there's a lovely freedom in that."
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BRUCEVILLE-EDDY (November 20, 2012)—Authorities Tuesday identified the man who died in a 13-vehicle chain reaction crash Monday on Interstate 35 near Bruceville-Eddy as Stephen Fu, 24, of Dallas.
Fu was stopped in traffic on the northbound interstate when an 18-wheeler crested a hill and ran over his Acura, crushing the car.
A firefighter was able to crawl under the trailer and determined that Fu was dead in the wreckage.
Ultimately a total of nine passenger vehicles and four 18-wheelers were involved in the chain reaction crash, which happened at around 12:30 p.m. Monday under the Old Blevins Road overpass.
Seventeen other people were injured.
One was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center and the others drove themselves to Scott & White Hospital in Temple, authorities said.
The accident shut down the northbound lanes of the highway until Monday evening.
Motorists who were stuck on the highway between mile marker 314 and 315 were backed up to 314 so they could exit and divert around the accident.
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Investigators will review the factors that led to the crash including the slight hill and blind spot and will check the brakes on the 18-wheeler that crushed Fu's car.


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