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Charles T. King, 82 of Lincoln died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 of complication from diabetes in Lincoln. He was born on Aug. 1, 1930 at home in Dunbar to Oren G. and Lena Mae (Wilson) King. He was a retired custodian from the Nebraska State Capitol building.
Family includes daughter and son-in-law Sharon and Mike Robertson of Des Moines, Iowa; sons Richard, Kenneth and Michael King, all of Lincoln; son and daughter-in-law Charles V. and Donna King of Hamburg, Iowa; daughter and son-in-law Karen and Mike Churchhill of Nebraska City; brother and sister-in-law Raymond and Fran King of Nebraska City; sister Gladys Lehn of Nebraska City; 16 grandkids; 25 great grandkids; and 15 great great grandchildren.
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China is starting to be more and more remarked on the superpowers' podium, but this surely didn't happened overnight, so what would be that decade that was very auspicious for China, and why?
At least two major events in the past 25 years led to the rise of China as a superpower.
The first was the collapse of the Soviet Union (then the number two power) in 1991. This created a power vacuum with the United States as a clear number one, but room for other possible number twos (Japan, Germany or China).
the second event was China's joining the World Trade Organization in 2002, and thereafter exerting her influence (with the largest number of people in the world) on world trade. Once China abandoned her former isolation, her rise was only a matter of time. The current decade is when she hit "critical mass."


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1932 Ford Highboy Sedan - Back Then AgainWritten by on December 1, 2009 Contributors: Josh Mishler A Tribute To Eastwood & Barakat's Ahead-Of-Its-Time Deuce
It's hard to imagine that there has been a '32 Ford highboy sedan built in the last 27 years that doesn't take some trace of influence, directly or indirectly, from the famous Eastwood & Barakat sedan from 1982. Eastwood built the chassis and Barakat built the engine. Together, they finished the car in not much time and for not much money, using stuff from their garages, plus lots of talent and taste.
Maybe you're old enough to remember when that red primered Tudor showed up on the cover of Hot Rod magazine's November '82 issue (the first primered rod to make it). The car was so remarkable in its time that HR Editor Leonard Emanuelson dedicated his entire editorial column to Pete "P-wood" "Eastwood and Rick "Bearcat" Barakat's ground-breaking sedan, which he described using the words "rawness" and "savagery," calling it "more animal than car," stating that it represents "what hot rodding was all about in the beginning," and admitting that it inspired his own plans for a hot rod project. Gray Baskerville continued the laudation in his feature story inside the magazine, calling it the "12-week wonder" and "the world's fastest rusto rod."
If you're not old enough to remember all that, you can probably still appreciate the coolness of the car, but might be scratching your head as to why it caused such a big commotion. The answer is that in 1982, building a low-buck, primered, traditional hot rod using parts out of the garage (which is what Eastwood & Barakat did), wasn't what a lot of rodders were doing. Earlier that same year, Jamie Musselman's '33 roadster won the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award, making Boyd Coddington a household name, which helped establish the smooth, high-tech, contemporary style that would be prominent for the next dozen or more years. That's why a homebuilt, flat-finished, 11-second budget bomber had people staring in slack-jawed astonishment. The fact that the sedan vanished not long after it appeared only added to it's legendary status. It's equally hard to imagine that Eastwood & Barakat could have possibly predicted that the car they put together cheap and quick would one day be called one of the "75 Most Significant '32 Fords Of All Time" and the inspiration for so many other hot rods, including the one you're looking at right now.
Bill Paul is friends with Jason and Jerry Slover at Pete and Jakes Hot Rod Parts in Peculiar, Missouri, and first saw photos of the original E&B sedan-smoking its enormous rear tires-on the cover of the P&J catalog.
"It screamed hot rod," Bill remembers. And it compelled him to build a tribute. Nota replica-a tribute. Bill wasn't trying to do what Eastwood & Barakat already did, but to do what Eastwood & Barakat might do if they were building the same sedan today, using easily available and affordable parts and technology.
The project started in 2004 with an original steel body. Instead of keeping the buggy spring rear suspension, which would mimic the suspension on the E&B sedan, Bill called the Slovers and ordered a P&J 3100-series '32 Ford chassis package, including fully boxed 'rails with a tubular X-member, a 4-inch drop I beam, hairpins, performance ladder bars, and Viper rear coilovers.
Like the E&B car, Bill's sedan runs a Chevy small-block mill, but unlike the 355 Rick Barakat built in '82, Bill stepped up to a 434ci Dart Little M block with SB2 aluminum heads. Matt Driskell at Driskell Enterprises did the machining and assembly on the engine, dyno'd at 711 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque.
Ron Kesler got to work on the exterior steel, slicing 2 inches off the top (less than the 3-inch chop on the E&B car). A Rootlieb steel hood and Brookville grille with a Vintique insert were part of the rebuild. Jeff Wilson's primer job and the bright orange paint on the chassis evoke the look of the old sedan that the new one is meant to honor. Bob Bond's lettering, modeled after the original Eastwood & Barakat graphics, completes the homage.
Pete and Rick had their sedan done in 12 weeks. Bill tried to have this one finished by 2007, in time to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Deuce and the 25th anniversary of the Hot Rod article. Unfortunately, a long string of life circumstances that Bill compares to "a country song," stretched the build time from three years to five. With help from Pete and Jakes, family members, and friends, he was able to get it done for the Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals in Indianapolis this past July.
In 1982, Baskerville shot the Hot Rod magazine photos of the just-finished Eastwood & Barakat sedan at Orange County International Raceway where, in addition to doing the smoky burnout that would get Bill Paul's attention years later, the car made a few passes down the dragstrip, with a quickest e.t. of 11.59 at 117 mph.
At Indy, Bill was eager to run his just-finished tribute car down the 'strip during the Goodguys Street Rod Shootout. When the fuel pump fuse blew in the staging lanes, he thought he'd missed his chance, but race director Larry Westerfeld arranged to let Bill make an exhibition run against a twin-engine dragster later in the event.
"After some scrambling, we got it running and came back to make a pass. The car had less than two miles on it at this point," Bill said, "so this was a just going to be a short-shift shakedown pass. It hooked and carried the left front tire an inch off the ground. The old sedan was just rocking it and beat that dragster with the two 496s. The e.t. was 6.81 at 104 in the eighth-mile, pulling a bad light. I shut it off at the eighth mark and coasted through the quarter-mile lights at 11.71. Not bad for a first pass. And I know it can go 9.90s in the quarter." The incredible thing, Bill told us, is that this is an off-the-shelf Pete and Jakes chassis. "The point is, you can put these parts together and go out and run 9.90 with it. That is what a hot rod is supposed to be able to do."
We mentioned that the original Eastwood & Barakat sedan disappeared shortly after making its big splash in Hot Rod-its whereabouts unknown for a long time. It eventually came out that the car had been totalled and sold for parts. We've since found out that the chassis ended up underneath a Deuce roadster owned by Joey DiMarco. The body was purchased by Dale Hammon, who used it to build an elegant black highboy. At the '07 Grand National Roadster Show, Hammon's hot rod was included in the exhibit honoring the "75 Most Significant '32 Fords Of All Time," displayed with a photo from its brief period as the Eastwood & Barakat sedan. The spirit of the long-gone original lives on in Bill Paul's tribute, still screaming hot rod.
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|Highland, Illinois
|1932 {{{Ford}}} highboy sedan
|Frame / Manufacturer
|'32 Ford / Pete and Jakes (Peculiar, MO)
|Chassis plumbing
|Rearend / Ratio
|Ford 9-inch, Currie (Anaheim, CA) 31-spline axle / 4.86:1 with spool
|Rear suspension
|Pete and Jakes drag race ladder bars, springs, {{{Viper}}} coilover shocks
|Rear brakes
|Wilwood disc
|Front suspension
|Pete and Jakes Super Bell Alum-I-Beam dropped axle, spindles, hairpins,
aluminum shocks, Posies springs (Hummelstown, PA)
|Front brakes
|Superbell disc
|Master cylinder
|{{{Ford Mustang}}}, Wilwood (Camarillo, CA) proportioning valve
|Steering box
|Boregson-Mullins (Torrington, CT) cross-steer box
|Front wheel make, size
|JD Wheels (Delaware, OH) 15x5, 2 1/2" backspacing
|Rear wheel make, size
|JD Wheels 15x10, 4" backspacing
|Front tire make, size
|Michelin, 135SR15
|Rear tire make, size
|Mickey Thompson, 14.5x31x15 and Hoosiers Racing Tire, 29x11.5x15
|Gas tank
|20 gallon, Tanks (Clearwater, MN)
|Dart Little {{{M}}} Chevy block, bored and stroked, balanced, blueprinted
|434 ci
|Machining / Assembly
|Driskell Enterprises (Wellsville, KS)
|Callies Performance Products
|Callies Performance Products
|JE Pistons 11.0:1
|COMP Cams (Memphis, TN) solid roller, 0.650/270
|Water pump
|Meziere electric pump
|Cooling fan
|Walker Radiator brass (Memphis, TN)
|GM SB2.2 aluminum cylinder heads
|Valves / Springs
|titanium 2.18/1.65
|Jesel shaft mounted
|Valve covers
|Manifold / Induction
|Edelbrock 2962, ported / Holley Dominator 1050
|Ignition / Wires
|MSD 7AL-2 / Moroso
|owner built
|Exhaust / Mufflers
|2 1/2" custom oval tube/custom
|Other engine facts
|owner built air cleaner, reverse water flow to cool heads first, dyno'd
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|TH350 by Coan Engineering (Kokomo, IN)
|Coan Engineering
|Meziere billet flywheel
|JW Ultra bell, TCI pan, black powdercoated
|3 1/2" aluminum by Mark Williams
|Body style / Material
|'32 Ford Tudor sedan / steel
|Body manufacturer
|Body mods
|2" chop, boxed cowl vent, bodywork by Ron Kesler (Kansas City, MO)
|Rootlieb steel (Turlock, CA)
|Brookville steel with crankhole from Vintique
|Paint type / Color
|PPG primer, custom color
|Jeff Wilson (Pleasant Hill, MO)
|lettering by Bob Bond
|Headlights / Taillights
|stock / Vintique
|Outside mirror
|Door handles
|Other body items
|flip-up windshield, roll-up windows, cowl vent boxed
|Insert / Gauges
|Pete and Jakes / Pete and Jakes and Auto Meter tach and oil pressure
|Stereo / Speakers
|"not in a real hot rod"
|Floyd Garrett (Independence, MO)
|Steering wheel
|Pete and Jakes
|Steering column
|Owner built hanging assembly
|Wise Guys (Elkhart, IN)
|Vintage Fabrications (Independence, MO)
|Material / Color
|Ultraleather / black
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Barakat's small-block was a low-buck hot rod piece, maybe with a crack or two. Not likely with the 711-horse 434 Dart Little M pulling Bill's sedan. The air cleaner is owner built. Water flow was reversed, using an electric water pump under the passenger side motor mount to cool the heads first; it never runs hot, even when idling for extended periods."I tried to keep the interior simple since E&B had basically none," Bill said. This was put together to get it to Indy, but it has since gone back to Bob Schumacher at Vintage Fabrications for an upholstery upgrade on the Wise Guys buckets, plus headliner, floormats, and other modifications.The Pete and Jakes and Superbell sedan wears the minimal gloss finish that the E&B sedan, but not many others, wore in the early '80s.Not gone and not forgotten, it was exciting to see the current incarnation of the original Eastwood & Barakat sedan at the GNRS in 2007. We're glad Bill built his following the "once-was" '80s look of this Deuce-the car that may have inspired the whole traditional hot rod revival.The whole point of the chassis build was to keep it (reasonably) low-buck and (relatively) bolt-on. P&Js' components are off the shelf, but can pull the driver side front tire off the pavement.The cowl vent is functional, but not like you think. Bill boxed the vent behind the dash inside the cockpit, rerouting air into the engine compartment, for a ram air system to feed cold air to the carburetor.The film Gray Baskerville shot of the E&B sedan in 1982 is still in the Hot Rod files. Josh Mishler's '09 photos of Bill Paul's tribute car seem to be inspired by that photo session 27 years ago. Compare the photo on page 36 to Gray's choice of burnout pics.


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5 Priests Who Turned Badass When Things Got Critical
The downside of being a man of God in a military setting is that there really is a cap on how much ass-kicking you can do. Sure, a priest can give last rights and counsel the troubled while the battle rages in the background, but it's not the sort of thing they make video games about.
But maybe they should, damn it. Especially when history is full of stories like ...
#5. Andrew White Goes Face to Face With Warring Factions of Iraq
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Growing up, Andrew White wanted to be nothing but an Anglican priest. He not only was ordained, but also left England and studied in Jewish and Muslim universities throughout the 1980s to learn about other religions. After that, he became a pacifist, promoting reconciliation between religions and vowing never to get into a war. That is, until 2005, when he became a chaplain and was sent into Iraq.
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Which, judging by this reaction, he accepted with minimal brow furrowing.
Setting up shop, White saw no better area to be than the Red Zone, aka the dangerous areas of Baghdad. The only chaplain crazy enough to live there, White quickly gained the title of "Vicar of Baghdad." At first, many of the local crazies tried to scare him off by kidnapping him, torturing him, hijacking his car, bombing his church, and holding him at gunpoint, threatening to murder him. But while this succeeded in getting other clergy to leave the area, White stayed on.
Winning a begrudging respect, White was now in a unique position. Seen as one of the only people whom representatives on both sides of the conflict could count on to not screw them over, White took a lead role in negotiating the release of hostages (one of whom was his own deputy) and helped barter a negotiated peace between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in his area of Baghdad. Where the British and American governments had failed over a matter of years, White succeeded in only a matter of weeks.
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We're assuming he just showed up and flexed until they started crying and gave in.
Even with his extended duties and the occasional assassination attempt, White still managed to give Sunday services every week. Today, White is still in Baghdad, now flanked by security guards after some of his staff was killed. Despite missing his fingertips due to one torture session, White has only left Baghdad once since 2005 and chooses to remain there, as life in London would be, in his own words, "boring." Compared to his life, he's undoubtedly right.
#4. Pere Marie-Benoit Flips Off the Nazis
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During the early 1940s, France suddenly came down with an epidemic at the time known as "the Nazis." While many just went along with it, a priest in Marseille named Pere Marie-Benoit was having none of it. A leader in Jewish studies, Marie-Benoit did not like how the local German and Italian invaders were treating the city's Jewish population. So instead of just letting things slide by, Marie-Benoit decided to run a Jew-smuggling operation that could have gotten him killed or imprisoned many times over.
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Honestly, from the looks of him, he could have just scared Hitler into knocking that shit off.
At first he started in small ways, hiding a Jew here, giving a Jew supplies there. But soon, as more and more desperate people came to his door, Marie-Benoit had to quickly escalate things. By 1941, he was running one of the largest counterfeiting operations of the war. Working from inside a cramped (supposedly neutral) monastery, Marie-Benoit oversaw the making of fake passports, baptism certificates, money, and visas. This way, every person who entered the monastery could come out, in the eyes of the Germans and Italians, a) Catholic and b) having the proper paperwork to leave the country.
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Height: 6 feet. Hair: Black. Religion: Definitely not Jewish, so please don't ask.
OK, so now you have 2,000 "Catholics" wandering around outside a monastery. What could Marie-Benoit do? Well, since their paperwork said they were Catholic, why not see if other Catholic nations wanted them? Contacting authorities in Spain and Italy, Marie-Benoit not only managed to get them to accept these sudden Catholic refugees, but also convinced the pope to help him with spying in 1942 -- an act of war at the time. While this was the pope's first real law-breaking act of the war, for Marie-Benoit, this was death sentence number 3,000 or so by now.
During this entire time, Marie-Benoit was also being chased around by the Gestapo and was nearly killed on a few occasions for the crime of "suspicion of aiding others." What can we say, Nazis were not nice people. However, a holdup in Spain on the documents of 2,600 Jews was soon an issue. Using a last-ditch effort that could have gotten him killed on the spot, Marie-Benoit managed to persuade the Spanish Consul in Rome that all of these people were Spanish. Despite it not saying so anywhere on their IDs, Spain fell for it.
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We think it went something like this.
Marie-Benoit managed to not lose a single Jew and rode out the rest of the war knowing that he could pretty much screw up everything for the rest of his life and know he still had a free ride into heaven when the time arrived. And just to secure it, before his death in 1990, Israel gave him the honored title of Righteous Among the Nations.
#3. Charles Liteky Goes into Rescue Mode
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In 1967, Catholic chaplain Charles Liteky was serving in the Vietnam War, keeping up his troops' spiritual side. A pacifist from New York, Liteky couldn't wait to get out of Vietnam. On December 6, Liteky and his troops were out patrolling in the Bien Hoa Province when they were suddenly attacked by North Vietnamese soldiers. Severely outgunned 3-1, Liteky decided it was time to show them what priests could do.
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Together with Private Cuddles, they were unstoppable.
Seeing troops in front of him fall, Liteky's first instinct was to take out his pistol and rush forward -- despite a Vietnamese machine gun going full blast in front of him. He would then dive on top of an injured soldier, shield him with his body, and drag him to safety when fighting lulled. Shot twice, Liteky did this over and over again until each wounded soldier was out of there (including two men right in front of the machine gun).
The good news was that evacuation helicopters were on the way. The bad news was that the soldier whose job it was to direct the choppers from the ground was killed. Liteky, seriously injured and having no experience in directing helicopters ever, managed to get the rescue chopper to land. He proceeded to do this all night with each chopper before another company came in and relieved the wounded and battle-hardened priest.
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"I'm here to claim my presidency."
As Liteky had saved 20 soldiers, he was given the Medal of Honor and was guaranteed to never pay for a drink again. However, he later remembered he was a pacifist, and in 1986 he became the only person ever to give back his Medal of Honor -- one that he richly deserved for being a priest who suddenly clicked into "Rescue" mode and didn't snap out of it for a day or so.


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In Slate, Paul Baumann on the fascination with Francis
If you read only one piece on the one-year anniversary of Francis's papacy, make it "The Public Pope," by Commonweal editor Paul Baumann, which is featured today at Slate.
An excerpt:
Whatever people think Pope Francis is offering, he is no magician; he can't alter the course of secular history or bridge the church's deepening ideological divisions simply by asserting what in truth are the papacy's rather anemic powers. In this light, the inordinate attention paid to the papacy, while perhaps good for business, is not good for the church. Why not? Because it encourages the illusion that what ails the church can be cured by one man, especially by a new man. In truth no pope possesses that kind of power, thank God. The very first pope, let us recall, was a man of legendary weakness, denying his Lord three times before the cock crowed. And the most recent pope, Benedict XVI—a man of towering intellect and inspiring, if fusty, piety—retired from the ring, overmastered by palace intrigue within the Vatican. John Paul II, to be sure, was a media superstar and arguably played a historic role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet even he could not effectively confront the most critical challenge facing his church, the clergy sexual-abuse scandals.
The truth is that the more the world flatters the Catholic Church by fixating on the papacy—and the more the internal Catholic conversation is monopolized by speculation about the intentions of one man—the less likely it is that the church will succeed in moving beyond the confusions and conflicts that have preoccupied it since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The church desperately needs to reclaim its cultural and spiritual equilibrium; it must find a density and richness of worship and mission and a renewed public presence, which far transcend mere loyalty to the pope. Lacking such equilibrium and self-possession, the church cannot find its true voice. But to find this voice, Catholics will have to turn not to Rome but toward one another, which is where both the problems and the solutions lie.
Read it all here, then come back here to discuss.
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As a longtime student of papal history as well as one who has lived through seven papacies, I welcome this much-needed caution. Over-emphasis on the role of the pope throws the whole system out of balance. I think Newman would agree.
At issue from an organization point of view is the interpretation of the Second Vatican Council. Baumann quotes the Lutheran observer, Lindbeck:
George Lindbeck, an official Protestant observer at Vatican II, described the resulting dilemma as one in which "radical and fundamental ambiguities in the most authoritative" statements promulgated by the council—including those on papal infallibility, relations with other Christians, and the challenge of reconciling Catholic tradition with the Bible—enabled those on different sides of every neuralgic issue to find ample textual support for their interpretations. "When the supreme law of the land directly authorizes rival, perhaps contradictory, positions and provides no way of settling the disputes," Lindbeck concluded with genuine regret, "conflict becomes inevitable and, unless changes are made in the supreme law, irresolvable."
Benedict tried to tackle this head on with his "hermeneutic of continuity" but this is just simply not satsifactory as the Council, surely, modified and changed certain teachings. The other obvious change was to the mass. Here again, Benedict tried to resolve things by the new translation and his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum which has had mostly a divisiive impact, did not reconcile the SSPX and reignite the liturgical wars (the only thing just as controversial as sex in Catholic life).
But don't discount the value of symbolic and stylistic changes. Francis' washing of the feet of women prisoners, his "who am I to judge", his famous retort that the carnival is over when handlers wanted to dress him in anachronistic papal garb all will have their effect. They resonate and are just as important as any formal document as they directly impact practice. They constitute part of the "lex orandi" and will have an impact on the credendi.
While Baumann makes many good points in his article his timing could not have been worse. While caution is always neceessary, there has to be joy on earth and in heaven when the gospel is preached so well. Bauman's words intended to rain on the present parade (who is playing big daddy here) injects pessimism and forgets some elementary truths of the gospel . Namely, that one must "shine light before others and give glory to God." We also know that "if there is "no vision the people perish."
Far more helpful is the three part article by Drew Christensen which shows how effective leaders can change the church. http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/francis-reader-souls-part-ii
Ironically, Francis makes the point that Bauman is concerned about. That we are all sinners and have to learn from each other. This is why he is restoring collegiality and asking for input from every parish. He also warns people to '"get over him" which the WP phrased so well.
The excitement is not because he is a liberal. It is because he exemplifys the gospel so well.
While we are aware of the pitfalls of the human condition we need to project and aspire to the greatness that we can become. Rather than to the narrowness we have seen and may possibly return. When the bishop of Rome can provide this witness how great is that. Sinner that he is.
Paul tries to pick it up at the end by positing inspiration from the same sex couple and/or the Laiin traditionalists. Too late. We already gave up by that time.
It's a wonderful article.
I think we will find out, in this papacy, how "anemic" the pope's powers are. Formally, the pope's powers are not anemic, but thankfully, Francis does not rule by fiat but by sign and example. And picking up on one of George's points: being a symbol of unity and universality is not nothing. Catholicism is particularly attuned to the power of symbol and sign, and recognizes that it can be positively sacramental. I believe Francis is the light of the world and the salt of the earth.
My belief is that Francis has now raised the bar for church leadership. Going forward, Catholics will be much less docile when given a bishop or pastor who tries to rule as an absolute monarch.
When kids are confirmed, they take that special name. In our diocese, they are supposed to include in their letter to the bishop a reference to why thay took it - favorite saint, aunt or uncle, historical figure- and how that identioty influencces them. We have all presumed from only a few statments and perhasp our own vison of Francis, I think, on what Pope Francis means in having taken his name. Perhhaps some kind of apostolic letter or extended meditation on that would yield a more complete idea of how he sees himself and this papacy and his rolein "rebuilding my church."
"In any event, the church's unity and renewed vitality will be—must be—a gift that the faithful bring to the pope, and not the other way around." Paul Bauman
Many Protestants welcomed the Second Vatican Council. Mainly because they liked the unity that the pope symbolized. Peter can perform a great service as long as he remembers that he has to wash the feet of the disciples. I guess the faithful will give Peter that gift when they insist that he mirrors the gospel.
I can't help thinking articles like this are meant to deflect disappointment about Francis not yet making any concrete changes in he church. It's not that I think popes *should* be very powerful - I dn't - but it seems to me that they have been. What about canon 331 ... http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P16.HTM ... what about John XXIII calling the council, Paul VI deciding against almost the guys at V2 and the ponitifical commission that contraception was bad, JPII deciding women could not ever be priests against the advice of the biblical commission, B16 changing the catechism to deem homosexuals diordered? I think Francis could make serious changes, but he does not want to.
Bauman's piece is a disappointment. It's fundamentally a political analysis. What I find most striking about Pope Francis' first year is his effort to move us, the Chruch, from a monarchical model of service and organization to one that emphasizes how much we need each other to follow the Gospel as Jesus would have us. The pope offers us not a program or set of policies. What he offers instead is a call to join one another in a community of mutual respect, respect for both our weaknesses and for the gifts we have received.
Sooner or later, there will have to be policies, etc. But if the policies are adopted in hope and in recognition that none of them is perfect, then we can live and work with one another in a more constructive way than we have kn own in the past.
In short, I see Pope Francis as someone who sees that every policy or program has whateverletitamicy it has from its relationship to one fundamenta principle, namely to facilitate our loving one another as Jesus has love us.
Iknow that this sounds like pious claptrap. Nonetheless, for better or worse, it's what I think. The big move is away from norms construed as ultimates to the recognition that whatever binding cnaracter they have comes form the principle of unconditional love that Jesus enunciated.
I know that this sounds like pious claptrap.
Not to me it doesn't. Good and accurate points, along with Bill's above.
It's the belief that the important thing is loving one another as Jesus loves us that drives many of us who wish Francis would make more concrete changes. I think it's hard for those who grew up in the church and have been Catholics all their lives to see the policies of the church from an outsider's point of view ... the treatment of women, gays, the divorced, and abuse victims strikes most people outside the church as pretty horrible, and this is probably why as popular as Francis is, he hasn't brought more people into the Catholic church.
... it's hard for those who grew up in the church and have been Catholics all their lives to see the policies of the church from an outsider's point of view ... the treatment of women, gays, the divorced, and abuse victims strikes most people outside the church as pretty horrible
Crystal, I agree - it's hard for cradle Catholics to step aside and see how the church looks from the outside. I am a cradle Catholic, married for more than 40 years to a Protestant. Because of our "mixed" marriage (what a term for a marriage of two christians - one of the things that strikes those who are not Catholic as an insulting description) I quickly began to pick up the perspective of those who are not Catholic, at least of those who come from mainline Protestanism. It is not an attractive picture for many.
I think it's hard for those who grew up in the church and have been Catholics all their lives to see the policies of the church from an outsider's point of view ... the treatment of women, gays, the divorced, and abuse victims strikes most people outside the church as pretty horrible
Crystal - it's an interesting point. Let's all agree that the church can do better in its treatment of all the groups you've listed, and many, many other groups and individuals besides. If the church really is supposed to be a field hospital for these groups and the rest of us, then we should be striving, and praying, to do better. And we hope that Francis can provide some leadership that will help us to do better.
At the same time, we can also say, quite truthfully, that to categorize the treatment of members of these groups and other groups, uniformly, across the board, as "pretty horrible", is to not tell the full truth. To some extent - and it may be a very large extent - the church really has been a field hospital for these groups. This is surely so where the rubber meets the road: at the grassroots level, in parishes, in social service agencies, in prayer groups, in families, and so on. I can make that claim because I've seen what happens in the church, from the inside.
We need to recognize that the characterization you've made - that laundry list of horribles - is a characterization that comes from outside the church. And it is not a characterization that is made from a stance of neutrality, nor one that comes from a position of moral superiority. It is a partisan characterization, one that the church's enemies have made their own, with a view to tearing down the church. There are powerful forces in society that do not wish the church well; they wish it ill. They don't particularly wish for the church to improve in the areas you've named, and to flourish; what they really wish is that the church itself be reduced and marginalized. If the church were completely demolished, they would think it is for the good.
One doesn't have to look far to find people who hate and loathe the church. I'm sure nearly all of us know people who feel this way and don't particularly hide it. Anyone who goes to college and hangs out with people who went to college, probably know such people. It's sort of intellectually respectable to hate the church. What perhaps is new in recent years is that these haters of the church feel a renewed permission to be vocal about their hatred. The taboo against belittling religion, especially the Catholic Church, seems to be crumbling.
I believe that we who are within the church have an obligation, not only to call the church to responsibility, repentance and reform in the areas where this is necessary, but also to not be fellow-travelers and useful idiots for those who are enemies of the church.
Francis, God bless him, isn't satisfied with this status quo. He seems to believe that the church is not outmoded nor obsolete, is not a relic of the middle ages, is not primarily a construct to oppress the victims' group du jour. He seems to believe that the church has Good News to proclaim, and that the world, perhaps especially those who revile the church, needs to hear it. I want to be part of that project. A necessary part of that project is leading the church itself to responsibility, repentance and reform. Francis, we hope and pray, will continue to do this. But that is very far from the point of the exercise. The point of the exercise is to invite those outside, into the church, so they can be treated at this hospital for sinners.
As a follow-on to my previous comment: here is W Bradford Wilcox with some advice on how the church can address the needs of one of the groups Crystal mentioned, the divorced. Wise, thought-provoking stuff that refuses to accommodate itself to the simplistic and superficial dichotomies ("permit divorce" / "don't permit divorce"; "allow to receive communion" / "don't allow to receive communion") that are foisted upon the church from the outside.
Agree with Mr Dauenhuaer's assessment. And would add:
- the stress on empowering (especially via canon law) episcopal conferences (which is what VII called for and both JPII and Benedict feared and resisted) (note - in a truly Jesuitical way, this would do the most in terms of reorienting any type of papal expectations and cult of personality and, one would hope, stop future popes from recentralizing power/control)
- the stress on *real* synods (the upcoming family life synod will be an example - already he has promoted openness and various viewpoints on remarriage, divorce, reception of communion, and annulments) (note -again, VII called for real synods and both JPII and Benedict emasculated them to control the discussion and the final results)
- shifting the curia to a *service model* rather than the centralized highest point of control (we will have to wait and see on this one but the decisions to decentralize are there)
- inclusion of women in the curia, etc. (again, he is laying the groundwork and one would hope that these initiatives could not be reversed by future popes)
- remaking the curia such that *dicastery of state* is not the power behind the papacy - rather, it serves the function of the typical foreign policy departments e.g. ambassadors; refashioning the power of the CDF - its role is not final judge and jury but as a service function to espiscopal conferences (this hinges on law changes and then the actual initial decisions to reinforce the legal changes)
- refocusing on the VII goals - ecumensism, church of the poor; going on mission to the periphery (rather than cultural wars; doctrinal over-emphasis; etc.); using VII and scriptural images for the church - bishop of Rome (vs. Supreme Pontiff); hospital for the sick (vs. idealized notion of those who are sinless, clean, meets certain ideologies); actually applying the VII concept of the people of God and priesthood as a ministry (not a higher or separate ontological state of being) - thus, preaching against airport bishops, careerism; clericalism; self-referential stances.
- addressing the long standing scandal of Vatican finances
That being said, do agree with Mr. Baumann's point about the personality cult threats - this goes along with decentralization......if we don't keep Francis in context, we will be disappointed.
There are two areas that I would separate from this overview - he appears to have a lot of catching up to do on the issue of sexual abuse (let's see what develops in his second year and in his proposed committee) and on the role of women (his call for a female theology reveals that he is not very aware of what has been done; the skills of folks already on hand, etc.)
Anne, me too, in that I wasn't a Catholic or a Christian until I was an adult, and my best friend, my sister, still isn't, so I'm aware of how those outside the church percieve us.
Jim, I think I see what you're saying. It isn't just the difference between secularism and Catholicism, though. It's the difference between Catholicism and almost all other Christian denomonations, incluind in some cases the Orrthodox too. One can be Christian and accept divorce, accept gays, allow women priests, and not have a giant sex abuse problem .... so we in the Catholic church don't have the excuse that these problems are a by-product of being Christians opposed to the evils of secularism: the problems are about Catholicism.
Hey, it's not just me :) A poll mentioned in the news today at The Tablet ...
Crystal - you're right: the church does need to repent and reform. The church needs to take responsibility for what it has done and what it has failed to do, and act so that it doesn't do those things anymore. Francis may be able to help us do that.
The church can "accept divorce" - in fact, it does accept divorce. But it's not able to change its fundamental teachings on marriage. The most it can do is tweak whatever pastoral practices are based on that teaching. Beyond that, and arguably much more importantly, the church also believes that the world, including people who respond to pollsters, would benefit tremendously by learning and taking to heart what the church teaches about marriage. As a bit of a thought experiment on how that might play out, check out this article on the church, annulments and justice in marriage. If this author's point of view seems strange and offputting to us, that may be because we've imbibed the wider culture's view of marriage. The wider culture needs to be evangelized about marriage.
Re: the church's inability to change its fundamental teachings on marriage:
"During the 1966 Papal Birth Control Commission, at which Chicago Catholics and co-directors of the Christian Family Movement Patty Crowley & her husband Pat were members, a heated discussion about how the church could save face if it were to allow couples to decide how to limit offspring, Marcelino Zalba, a Spanish Jesuit member of the commission, asked, 'What then with the millions we have sent to hell' if the rules are relaxed? Patty immediately responded in what became perhaps her most memorable quote. 'Fr. Zalba," she said, "do you really believe God has carried out all your orders?' "
This church has change many of what it considered it's "fundamental teachings" at the time: slavery, usury, extra ecclesia nulla salus, etc.
Great link to an obituary for Pat Crowley. Truly a woman of outstanding ability and goodness. She paved the way for many. She deserves a place of honor and distinction in Catholic history.
Not to me either.Piety is a dirty word [among the catholic inteligensia?] but authentic [there's that word again.iI can't get away from it] piety is not claptrap but the heart of our faith.What you expressed is at the heart of our faith.[imo]
About the annulment article ... I understan the desire to preserve relationships that are in trouble, but I think the basic problem with the chruch's attitude toward divorce/annulments is that it believes it has both the right and the power to control the divorcing people's feelings and behavior. It's debatable whether it has the right, but practically speaking it doesn't have the power.
I know what it's like to be "unjustly" divorced ;) My ex had an affair and left me for another person. I wanted to stay married and even went to a lawyer to see if there was anything I could do to keep us married - he said no, that there is no legal way to force people who don't h want to do so to stay in a marriage, much less force them to love each other. The civil state has come to this realization but the church still hasn't. I don't believe the refusal to grant an annulmet will force many Catholics to stay married when they don't have the will to do so. Perhaps this is why only 15% of US Catholics getting divorced even apply for an annulment.
I know what it's like to be "unjustly" divorced
Hi, Crystal - I know this must be awkward to talk about in a public forum. Most importantly, I just want to let you know how sorry I am to learn that you've been through that. It must have been hellish.
Based on what you described, I don't think you are "unjustly divorced". I don't think the author would, either. He wrote:
There are legitimate cases for annulment by petitioners who have suffered gravely because of a spouse who did not understand marriage or act properly. These petitioners should be given pastoral care along with the legal proceedings because of their emotional "wounds" which may have been occurring for years.
That would be my wish for you, too: pastoral care to help you heal - and a successful annulment petition if you desire to go forward with that process.
Regarding controlling feelings and behavior: the church recognizes that's not possible. (Or it should; write to me off-line if you've experienced the church trying to do that). The church would want to intervene in a troubled marriage before it reaches the point of no return, but not to try to control feelings and behavior, but rather to try to save the marriage, if it can be saved. That intervention might have taken the form of a Retrouvaille weekend, or maybe some form of counseling. As you've described your situation, I'd think that intervention would have been to try to get your now-ex to recognize his unacceptable behavior and persuade him to change his ways.
At any rate - I'm sorry for what you've been through.
I agree with Paul Baumann's point that the pope alone is not going to solve our problems. I am not sure his solution hits the nail on the head, however.
The suggestion of church unity through prayer and worship echoes Orthodox and Anglican approaches to ecclesiology. But we Catholics do have a somewhat different tradition. Maintaining not only a liturgical tradition but a doctrinal unity through the means of a formal teaching authority is, for all its challenges, one of the keys to Catholicism's identity and self-understanding. Historically, as Paul well knows, this has never been an easy row to hoe. But it also has a rather strong theological foundation.
The Pope has a critical role to play in setting the tone and guiding the process by which people in the worldwide Catholic Church seek and find greater unity. We've seen examples of divisive popes, popes whose personal charisms aided in the quest for unity, and popes whose structural and systemic decision-making created (or undermined) the potential for unity. Everything doesn't depend on them. But we are at a time in history when a lot does depend on them, especially via the selection of bishops.
This doesn't mean reverting to a nineteenth century ultramontane vision of the papacy. The question today is, rather, how does the papal office function best in a situation of "liquid modernity"?
Yes, the Church needs the participation of the laity in decision-making, and it looks like Pope Franci will indeed further that cause. However, while things will probably improve, there will always be the possibility -- no, make that the a tualkty-- that some lay people in the Church structurr will be as ambitious, incompetent, dishonest, whatever as some of the clerics are,
My point: Paradise is not upon us, even if things do improve.
Crystal- I also appreciate your candor and admire your courage and will pray for whatever grace you need at tis time...
But I don't hink that your experience or that of many that I've known from when I did marriage counseling and served as an advocate in the tribunal, would support Jim P.'s contention that the Church has a real commitment to married couples to assist them and I don't know enough about the Retrouvaille experience to have an opinion on its approach or effectiveness.
But what I do know is that the basis for the vast majority of annulments is a false one that there was never a "valid marraige." That is really pish-posh. At the time of marriage- for the mature, the maturing, or the immature - most have the intention to marry this person, want to make it "work," and are at same time so often limited in their visions as are most in not knowing how they as a couple or an individual will react to life events. This is not to excuse affairs or abandonment, but it is a phony process to reconstruct this whole life together by a canon lawyer or judge at this point and say "invalid marriage." It is a commitment that somehow ended. It failed through the faults of either, both, neither, but it is over-- not that it never was valid. That would be a tautology.
Crystal- I also appreciate your candor and admire your courage and will pray for whatever grace you need at tis time...
But I don't hink that your experience or that of many that I've known from when I did marriage counseling and served as an advocate in the tribunal, would support Jim P.'s contention that the Church has a real commitment to married couples to assist them and I don't know enough about the Retrouvaille experience to have an opinion on its approach or effectiveness.
But what I do know is that the basis for the vast majority of annulments is a false one that there was never a "valid marraige." That is really pish-posh. At the time of marriage- for the mature, the maturing, or the immature - most have the intention to marry this person, want to make it "work," and are at same time so often limited in their visions as are most in not knowing how they as a couple or an individual will react to life events. This is not to excuse affairs or abandonment, but it is a phony process to reconstruct this whole life together by a canon lawyer or judge at this point and say "invalid marriage." It is a commitment that somehow ended. It failed through the faults of either, both, neither, but it is over-- not that it never was valid. That would be a tautology.
David P. --
Isn't the question in a marriage tribunal whether or not tbe marriage was an instance of a *sacramental* marriage? There is a difference, and I can see why annulments are sometimes (even often) appropriate when one or the other of the spouses did not realize just what •sacramental marriage• meant when they married.
I was struck by Baumann's line about the "infantilization of bishops." I once read an essay by Charles Taylor that used the phrase "infantilization of the laity" to describe the way that the institutional Church fails to take account of the views of laypeople when formulating its positions on moral questions, but I had never really thought about the fact that centralization has proceeded to such an extent that even bishops are shut out of the process.
Taylor's model gives the sense that "the hierarchy" is some monolithic entity that places itself above the laity, but this ignores the fact that the hierarchy is in fact a *hierarchy.* In other words, it's infantilization all the way up!


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By Tom Whitestone
The 49ers added their second recruiting class this past week. Twenty student-athletes officially joined Niner Nation -- including four transfers: Devon Johnson, Martay Mattox, James Williams, Jr. and Mark Hogan.
In December, the 49ers added three transfers: CJ Crawford, Mikel Hunter, Caleb Clayton-Molby. In the fall, additional transfers like Desmond Cooper, Daniel Blitch, Duke Mosby and Danny Book joined the team.
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The 49ers are likely to add more transfers between today and opening day.
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Those familiar with the program know the 49ers don't exactly look like a first-year program. Though they haven't played a game, they do boast an eye-catching stadium complete with a rave-reviewed weight room. They have a coaching staff with 100 years and 21 bowl games of coaching experience. And they already have a spot waiting for them in an FBS Conference.
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Some kids do it flirtatiously, while others do it to humiliate each other. The means and motives behind "sexting" vary in degree, but no matter the context, creating and distributing sexually explicit images or text can have severe consequences for youth, a South Dakota criminal justice expert said.
Sexting – a term coined to describe sexualized texting – most often occurs via cell phone camera and is common with "younger adults who have the technology and are at an age where sex is commonplace to them," said Jesse Weins, assistant professor of criminal justice at Dakota Wesleyan University.
Weins has spent years researching and writing about the legal ramifications of sexting. He said the sexting conversation has shifted in recent years from prevalence to the associated risks and problems it incurs.
It's a blurry line, according to Weins, who said risks and consequences all depend on a child's age and the type of image or text distributed.
Weins said recent studies have found correlations between teenagers creating and forwarding sexual material of themselves or their peers and their likelihood of engaging in early or risky sexual behavior or other cyber victimizations – such as recording sexual assaults.
"A lot of people think of teen sexting as an isolated incident. They don't realize that it is also generally tied to online pornography consumption," Weins said. "We're hitting probably the first generation ever, especially among young males, whose primary means of really seeing and understanding sexuality comes from online pornography."
Weins added that increased sexting has also fueled the rise of adult predators, who often use their social media and online presence to take advantage of minors.
"Certainly kids who are actively engaged in posting sexual material of themselves and others are going to end up with bigger risks in those areas too," he said.
Legal consequences for minors or juveniles involved in sexting are decided on a case-by-case basis. Weins said there are four or five civil and criminal laws that can be applied to each case, ranging from invasion of privacy to child pornography charges.
"With these new fields of pioneering technology, we just don't really have any kind of a nationwide consistency on how to deal with them at this point," Weins said. "I don't think we will for some time. The level of change and the way technology has changed has just made it really hard to get to that point."
Weins said it's important that parents maintain oversight of property such as cell phones.
"Parents just plain need to be aware of their kids' cell phone usage," Weins said.
Jesse Weins is an assistant professor of criminal justice at DWU and dean of the College of Leadership and Public Service. Weins was one of the first in the nation to address teen sexting from a legal perspective. To read more, click here.


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The 10 Greatest Fictional Sports Ever Invented
The line between nerd and sports fan is almost invisible when you get down to it: Is there really that much of a difference between a cosplayer wearing a bathrobe and waving a glow-stick at comic-con, and a fat high school burnout wearing a $200 Walter Payton throwback jersey while referring to the Bears in the first person plural? Whedon groupies and Jim Rome's clone army share the same doomed wish. But at least the jocks pine to matter in sports that actually exist. For the rest of us, we can always dream of sports like...
#10. Dom-Jot (Star Trek)
How the Game is Played:
You hit a ball with the tip of a stick, rolling it along the top of a felt covered table littered with obstructions, impeding the ball's progress and providing targets for the player to hit. The game is essentially a combination of pool and pinball. According to the Memory Alpha wiki, "rolling the terik into straight nines is considered an extremely skilled move." Nobody who has ever actually worked on an episode of Star Trek knows what the fuck that means.
Lasting Impact:
Almost none. It's the "coolest" sport in Star Trek by default, since the only other choice is best represented by this picture:
Will's got his eyes on the prize, as usual.
Awesomeosity Factor:
1.3 out of 10 - It is a silly, silly game. Memory Alpha states games can go for as long as seven or eight hours, and even if you win fair and square, there's still a pretty good chance the loser will be a massive, vagina-mouthed creature that queefs broken sentences like a nightmarish combination of The Hulk and Yoda. He will stab your heart as a reward for winning. I wouldn't try this unless your badass XP is at Picard levels.
#9. Pyramid (Battlestar Galactica)
How the Game is Played:
I think you're supposed to throw a ball into a board with a hole in it, and you can't move more than three steps with the ball before you have to throw it at a wall or a person. It's played on a triangle shaped court, hence the name. I think. Nobody really knows. None of the rules were spelled out because everyone was too busy drinking and crying and fucking hot robots. It seems to exist mostly so Starbuck can rub her sweaty body all over potential conquests in the greatest example of foreplay by way of sports since the beach sprint from Rocky III.
"I really, really want to play Pyramid."
Lasting Impact:
Well, if you shout "Go Panthers!" at a Comic-Con, maybe, like, four people will shout "C-Bucs Rule!" back in your general direction. Also, Michael Trucco's arms:
Awesomeosity Factor:
2.3 out of 10 - Unless you're Sam Anders, you're really not getting anything out of this game.
#8. Baseketball
How the Game is Played:
Take the framework of baseball, but instead of actually hitting a ball with a stick, all movement is decided by whether or not you can hit a free throw or sink a jumper. Disgustingly profane smack talk is not only allowed, but encouraged as a form of strategy in order to prevent the shooter from making his shot.
Lasting Impact:
Well, This guy expanded upon the official rules and went so far as to create an honest-to-god Baseketball league. It's like if the Star Wars Kid got caught taping himself dancing with a broomstick and decided to turn it into a touring roadshow. And because of the movie, we know what Trey Parker looks like when he does the Cartman voice. It's sort of like seeing Carroll Spinney wearing only the lower half of the Big Bird costume.
That shit just ain't right.
Awesomeosity Factor:
4.2 out of 10 - Really, aside from the part where having an encyclopedic knowledge of Your Mom jokes is beneficial, the game is pretty boring. Instead of using basketball rules, players are given giant sticks to hit each other with. But then the game gets rid of the sticks completely, leaving you with a version of regular ol' boring-ass baseball where nobody actually hits anything. Plus the movie kinda sucks.
#7. Podracing (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
How the Game is Played:
Tether a tiny cockpit, via two cables, to massive jet engines. Race through rocky terrain filled with giant obstacles at thousands of miles an hour. Avoid the obstacles, the booby-trapped engines of other racers, and the space rednecks busting shots at you for three laps, and you might win lots of money for the slave-owning gnat who wired your head to explode should you escape servitude.
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Lasting Impact:
People have been known to make reference to the sport after achieving something significant; scoring a touchdown, finishing a painting, getting a raise, accidentally destroying an orbital droid control platform--all are occasions to be celebrated with a victorious bellowing of "Now this is podracing!" If you wish to really put a period on it, awkwardly miss a high-five with your friend and begin doing "The Twist" with yourself.The video games based on the podrace are pretty cool, too.
Awesomeosity Factor:
5.9 out of 10 - 63 percent of the people who still own a Phantom Menace DVD begin the movie at this sequence, and then upon finishing it, skip to the three-way lightsaber fight, and then eject the DVD and hope nobody saw them. It's also a convincing argument for letting select few NASCAR fans into the stadium with loaded firearms--look at how much more fun it was for the crowd when the Tuskens started potshotting turdfaced aliens in the Canyon Dune Turns!
How the Game is Played:
Firstly, you must be accidentally digitized by The Dude's secret laser, located in the upstairs area of an arcade he managed between roadie duties for The Doobie Brothers and Metallica. Once inside the video game world, you will be fitted with a blacklight sensitive unitard for a more comfortable gaming experience.
There are five games in the PentathaTRON: Battle Tanks, where you drive a tank around a maze and shoot anything that moves; I/O Tower, where you attempt to enter the I/O tower by killing anything that moves; MCP Cone, where you smash the hell out of a giant Hot Dog on a Stick hat until it fits you; Discs, where you throw your glowing Frisbee at someone until you knock them into oblivion; and Light Cycles, where you ride a digital crotchrocket that violates all known emission standards by leaving a glowing wall as exhaust. You win by getting other riders to crash into said walls and de-rez.
Lasting Impact:
And also this:
Awesomeosity Factor:
6.7 out of 10 - So awesome that many people aged 25-35 seem to completely forget the movie containing these events is almost as fun as slipping into a coma. The awesome actively overwrites your memory so your brain remembers the movie as a five-minute long series of disconnected images constantly exploding against the back of your eyeballs in a shower of pixels. Hopefully the sequel will recreate the world of TRON the way we'd like to remember it, not how it actually was.


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Psychiatric CNV Hotspot Harbors Head Size Gene
25 May 2012. A single gene within a chromosomal region associated with autism, schizophrenia, and other brain disorders controls head size in zebrafish, according to a study published in Nature on 17 May. Led by Nicholas Katsanis at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, the study fingers KCTD13, a relatively unknown gene lying within the 16p11.2 region implicated in head size in humans: duplications and deletions of this region are associated with microcephaly and macrocephaly, respectively. Whether autism or schizophrenia are also linked to KCTD13 is unclear, but the findings offer up a new genetic controller of brain development, which is thought to go awry in both disorders.
The study uses zebrafish to efficiently identify the dosage-sensitive genes among the 29 genes contained in the 16p11.2 locus. This region has been associated with a variety of phenotypes by copy number variants (CNVs): deletions of the 16p11.2 locus are associated with autism, obesity, and macrocephaly, whereas duplications are associated with both autism and schizophrenia, anorexia, and microcephaly. The mirror phenotype of head size gave the researchers a chance to explore the effects of each gene in the region on the anatomy of the experimentally amenable zebrafish, with only KCTD13 falling out as a controller of head size (see SRF conference report). Along with a recent flurry of imaging genetics studies of brain size in humans (see SRF related news story), the findings on head size might prove to be a useful intermediate phenotype through which more complex disorders may be understood (Meyer-Lindenberg and Weinberger, 2006).
Sliding scale
First author Christelle Golzio and colleagues began by injecting human transcripts of the different 16p11.2 genes into zebrafish embryos. Zebrafish have versions of all but five of these genes, making most of these injections overexpression experiments. Four days after injections, overexpression of only one—KCTD13—affected head size, giving a significantly smaller head than controls. The researchers then knocked down expression of the zebrafish version of KCTD13, and found a corresponding increase in head size compared to controls. This kind of sliding scale was not seen for body length, which argues that KCTD13 was not simply delaying or accelerating body development.
KCTD13 encodes a protein that interacts with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), a protein that helps with DNA replication. This suggests that KCTD13 may be involved with neurogenesis, and consistent with this, the researchers found that KCTD13 was strongly expressed in the developing brain. When the researchers stained zebrafish embryos with markers for cell birth and death, they found that the microcephaly induced by KCTD13 overexpression was accompanied by decreased neural proliferation and increased cell death relative to controls, whereas the macrocephaly induced by KCTD13 downregulation came with only increases in proliferation. These shifts in proliferation and death were apparent even before the head size differences developed, which argues that an altered balance in cell birth and/or death drove the microcephaly and macrocephaly.
Moving into mammals
In mice, KCTD13 is expressed during development in cortex, striatum, hippocampus, and the olfactory tubercle. To test whether downregulation of KCTD13 in mice could recapitulate the increased head size found in zebrafish, the researchers designed short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) against the mouse version of KCTD13 and injected them into the ventricular space of developing brains in mouse embryos. Two days later, they found a twofold increase in newborn cells compared to controls, consistent with a similar relationship between KCTD13 expression and head size; an overexpression experiment was not reported.
As for humans, the researchers noted a report last year of a smaller than usual deletion within the 16p11.2 locus (118 kb versus the usual 600 kb) that included only five genes, including KCTD13; three members of the family carrying this deletion also had autism (Crepel et al., 2011). In the new study, Katsanis team screened this restricted region in 518 people with autism and 8328 controls. This turned up a KCTD13-specific deletion in an exon in one case of autism. The person also harbored another CNV nearby, however, obscuring a potential link between KCTD13 and autism.
The KCTD13 findings dont preclude a role for other genes in head size—indeed, the researchers reported that combinations of KCTD13 and other 16p11.2 gene transcripts (either MAPK3 or MVP) enhanced microcephaly in zebrafish. Still, the study illustrates how this approach can offer a fast track to function for the many, many genes implicated by CNVs in psychiatric disorders. People carrying these CNVs often come with physical anomalies, which can seem secondary to their psychiatric diagnoses. But these anatomical features might be key clues to understanding the fine grain of a CNV, and potentially, more complex disorders like schizophrenia.Michele Solis.
Golzio C, Willer J, Talkowski ME, Oh EC, Taniguchi Y, Jacquemont S, Reymond A, Sun M, Sawa A, Gusella JF, Kamiya A, Beckmann JS, Katsanis N. KCTD13 is a major driver of mirrored neuroanatomical phenotypes of the 16p11.2 copy number variant. Nature. 2012 May 16;485(7398):363-7. Abstract


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A friend of mine recently asked me if I knew any simple, conceptual argument (even one that is perhaps only heuristic) to show that if a triangulated manifold has a non-vanishing vector field, then Euler's formula (the alternating sum of the number of faces of given dimensions) vanishes. I didn't see how to get started, but it seems like a good MO question.
Consider a straight simplex $\Delta^n$ in $\mathbb R^n$ and take a generic constant vector field $v$ (transversal to the faces of $\Delta^n$). Choose all faces of $\Delta^n$ such that the field moves the center of the face inside the simplex. Then the alternating sum of the numbers of these simplices (signed by the parity of the dimension) is zero.
Now, if you have a fine enough triangulation of $M$ and a vector field transversal to all faces, we can apply the above reasoning to the whole manifold.
Edited. There was an explanation here with a mistake (spotted by Sergei) of why each simplex contributes zero, but the statement is correct. The new proof is a follows: $(-1)^{n-1}+(-1)^n=0$.
Proof. Let us say that $v$ is the sunlight. Then it enlightens a part of the simplex $\Delta^{n+1}$. Consider the shade from $\Delta^n$ on some plane below the simplex. The shade is an convex set. It is naturally decomposed into simplices, so the sum of simplices over this shade is $(-1)^{n-1}$ (because the simplices in the boundary of this convex set do not contribute). And we also get $(-1)^n$ for $\Delta^n$.
This is basically a watered down version of Poincare-Hopf theorem. Assuming that your compact manifold $M$ has a tringulation. At each of the simplex put a vector field $V$ which is zero at the centre of its subsimplices and flows out from the centre of the higher simplex to its boundary simplices. This vector field has finitely many zeroes and the index of $V$ is precisely $\chi(M)$. Now notice that the index of a vector field doesn't depend on the vector field. This is because it's topologically the intersection number of the image of $V$ in $TM$ and $M$ sitting as the zero section and $V$ is homotopic to $M$. In other words, given your non-vanishing vector field $V'$ one can linealy homotope this to $V$ whose index calculates $\chi(M)$.


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On 08/12/10 18:59, Tim Prince wrote:On 8/12/2010 3:27 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:Ick - talk about confusing! I suppose there must be -some- rational reason why someone would want to do this, but I can't imagine what it would be....Guessing at what is meant here, if you build MPI with a given version of Intel compilers, it ought to work when the application is built with a similar or more recent Intel compiler, or when the run-time LD_LIBRARY_PATH refers to a similar or newer library (within reason). There are similar constraints on glibc version. "Within reason" works over a more restricted range when C++ is involved. Note that the Intel linux compilers link to the gcc and glibc libraries as well as those which come with the compiler, and the MPI could be built with a combination of gcc and ifort to work with icc or gcc and ifort. gfortran and ifort libraries, however, are incompatible, except that libgomp calls can be supported by libiomp5.
I'm no expert on compiler vs lib confusion, but some of my own experience would say that this is a bad idea regardless of whether or not OMPI is involved. Compiler version interoperability is usually questionable, depending upon how far apart the rev levels are.
Only answer I can offer is that you would have to try it. It will undoubtedly be a case-by-case basis: some combinations might work, others might fail.
On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Michael E. Thomadakis wrote:
Hello OpenMPI,
we have deployed OpenMPI 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on our Intel Nehalem cluster using Intel compilers V 11.1.059 and 11.1.072 respectively, and one user has the following request:
Can we build OpenMPI version say O.1 against Intel compilers version say I.1 but then built an application with OpenMPI O.1 BUT then use a DIFFERENT Intel compiler version say I.2 to built and run this MPI application?
I suggested to him to 1) simply try to built and run the application with O.1 but use Intel compilers version I.X whatever this X is and see if it has any issues.
OR 2) If the above does not work, I would build OpenMPI O.1 against Intel version I.X so he can use THIS combination for his hypothetical application.
He insists that I build OpenMPI O.1 with some version of Intel compilers I.Y but then at run time he would like to use different Intel run time libs at will I.Z <> I.X.
Can you provide me with a suggestion for a sane solution to this ? :-)
Best regards
The "rational" use I can see is that an application programmer would likely wish to test a range of compilers without rebuilding MPI. Intel documentation says there is forward compatibility testing of libraries, at least to the extent that a build made with 10.1 would work with 11.1 libraries.
The most recent Intel library compatibility break was between MKL 9 and 10.
Dear Tim, I offered to provide myself the combination of OMPI+ Intel compilers so that application can use it in stable fashion. When I inquired about this application so I can look into this I was told that "there is NO application yet (!) that fails but just in case it fails ..." I was asked to hack into the OMPI building process to let OMPI use one run-time but then the MPI application using this OMPI ... use another!
Thanks for the information on this. We indeed use Intel Compiler set 11.1.XXX + OMPI 1.4.1 and 1.4.2._______________________________________________
The basic motive in this hypothetical situation is to build the MPI application ONCE and then swap run-time libs as newer compilers come out.... I am certain that even if one can get away with it with nearby run-time versions there is no guarantee of the stability at-infinitum. I end up having to spent more time for technically "awkward" requests than the reasonable ones. Reminds me when I was a teacher I had to spent more time with all the people trying to avoid doing the work than with the good students... hmmm :-)
take care,,,
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I have studied linear algebra and commutative algebra, there are two kinds of dimension there : the vector space's dimension and the Krull dimension.
Also, in physics, dimension is also a very intuitive concepts.
My question is : What is the nearest mathematical definition of dimension to the physical one ?
In the wikipedia page, they also list some mathematical types of dimension : Dimension


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Is it possible to visit Old Goa (for a day trip) from one of the beach resorts? How long would a taxi drive take and how much would it cost? Or is it better to spend a night or two in Panaji, and then move to the beach?
Yes. I recently stayed at Calangute beach and a taxi driver took me to Old Goa and Panjim for 1400 rupees. This price is from a government table and is used by all the taxi drivers. If Panjim was not involved the ride would have cost around 1000 rupees. If you negotiate you can get it cheaper than the table price.
I don't remember exactly how long the journey took, but it was certainly not more than 90 minutes.
Your question is old but this answer might be useful to other users.
----> Instead stay where you are living, take a bike on Rent it would cost you from Rs. 150 to Rs. 600.00 or 700.00 per day depending on bike.
If you take a bike on Rent, few precautions:


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The Sterling Black Bears found themselves severely overmatched against the Pratt High School softball team last Thursday in a doubleheader at Green Sports Complex. Pratt won both games by run-rule: 11-1 (six innings) in the opener and 17-0 (three innings) in the nightcap.
In the opener, Brittnee Hill gave up 1 earned run, issued 2 walks and fanned 12 in upping her season record to 3-1.
Hayden Pixler went 2-3 with a double, 2 runs and 2 stolen bases. Bailey Gillig was 1-1 and reached three more times on 2 BB and an HBP. She stole a base and scored two runs. Brittnee Hill helped herself by collecting a double and 3 RBIs. Destani Garten also had a nice game at the dish, 2-3 with a double, 2 runs, 2 SB and 2 RBIs. 11-1 PHS in the opener.
In the nightcap, Pratt pitcher Kinzie Spurgin twirled a no-hitter, facing only 10 Sterling batters. Meanwhile, the Greenbacks were piling on the runs at an alarming rate, scoring 6 in the first inning, 8 in the second and their 3 runs in the 3rd put them over the run-rule and the game mercifully ended, 17-0 Pratt.
"It was good to get to play, it had been almost two weeks," said PHS head coach Mike Forshee. "We were a little rusty early on, but things came around and the girls made the necessary adjustments."
"Our defense was very good all evening," Forshee continued. "We made zero errors in both games. Brittnee (Hill) had a good game in the circle and is getting closer to 100%. Kinzie (Spurgin) threw a good game, keeping the ball down and getting a lot of ground balls."
The PHS girls traveled Monday to Hillsboro to make up a contest lost earlier to the weather, and will play Nickerson Tuesday and Haven Friday in what will be a busy week for the Frogs.
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