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These look delicious and not just for the kids but also my work lunch box would benefit from these. Will try them this week. Yummy.
Mini Mushroom-&-Sausage Quiches
From EatingWell: April/May 2005
These crustless mini quiches are like portable omelets. Turkey sausage and sauteed mushrooms keep them light and savory. Small and satisfying, they're also a good finger food for your next cocktail party.
87 Reviews for Mini Mushroom-&-Sausage Quiches
I'm so excited to have found this recipe! I don't eat cereal and I get tired of cooking an egg each morning. These are great to grab and go. I made the first batch with spinach and cheddar instead of mushrooms and swiss, then got really creative with another (less healthy) batch. I added frozen hash browns to a few, added hot sauce to a few others, and played around with different kinds of shredded cheeses. Also, because I'm lactose intolerant (and because there were comments about them turning out watery), I omitted the milk entirely. They still turned out fluffy and beautiful. I can't wait to make more. I'm going to try turkey chorizo and salsa, ham and cheddar, and perhaps turkey pepperoni and mozerlla with a touch of tomato sauce.
Our family loves these especially my 8 year old daughter who now helps prepare our family breakfast. We used SILICONE muffin tins from the start and haven't had any problems with getting the quiche's out.
When we cooked the sausage, we added the mushrooms and onion right to the pan to cook so an additional oil didn't have to be added to the calorie count.
Very easily made and a light breakfast!
I made these by the recipe and I believe the recipe needs to be modified. They are eggy and mushy. I used pork sausage and more cheese than called for and they are still eggy. I do not see how you could need 5 eggs and 3 egg whites for 12 mini muffins. That does not make sense. I threw away eggs. Please someone look at these measurements and adjust them accordingly. I cooked them extra and could not ever get them to brown except a little on top.
I made these according to the recipe as a finger food for a party. My husband and I tried the first batch. They stuck in the muffin pans some and tasted watery and too eggy. Made them again with whole eggs, no milk and a full cup of swiss cheese. Still stuck but tasted much better. If they'd come out of the pans like muffins they'd be much prettier. Taste better heated.


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work experience and exposure for games journalists
Hi all,
My name's Tim and I have a problem - I want to be a games journalist (just like everyone else ).
I've been an avid writer ever since high school, but rather foolishly I decided to take a scholarship in IT instead of pursue my dream career. I went through the motions of study, got decent grades and landed a respectable job. While working during the day, I studied for a graduate diploma in journalism and wrote articles at night.
I've recently moved to London from Sydney for a few months to take a break from the daily grind of my job, and hope to get some kind of work experience here.
I've already got a blog up (in my sig) and I've got some reviews and articles there. I was fortunate enough to have a title sent to me for review once, which was very cool.
At the moment I'm looking at contacting some magazine publishing houses for some pointers on entering the industry. I'm also planning to look at some other forums etc. where I can interact with like-minded people. I'll endeavour to add info to this thread as I find it.
If anyone else has any experiences or advice to share, I'd love to read it, as would others I'm sure.
Good luck guys and gals
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I'm a print journalism student studying in England (Gloucestershire to be precise) and am also looking for work experience in the field of game journalism! It is something I really want to get into.
I might be able to offer some advice on this as I have just sent off CV's to some magazines asking for work experience, and so I will update you with my results in a week or so!
The blog thing is a good idea, as even if no one reads it regularly, it is a good place for you to demonstrate your skills as a writer, the passion for your subject, and that you can stay committed to keeping something updated. I will take the end of this paragraph to shamelessly whore my blog. There we go!
It would definitely interest me (and possibly others) if you could tell us the secret of getting advance games to review? My blog doesn't really do reviewing as I can't get advance copies of games (or afford to keep buying them!).
Anyway, nice to see life back in this forum
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I'd assume that securing advanced copies of games can come in the following ways:
1) Being a games journo ;
2) Knowing a games journo or someone in the industry who can, er, "procure" copies for you, although I'm sure there will be some NDA issues as a result;
3) Working in a retail store and getting to them first (again, NDA);
4) Being approached by a marketing group or team for a game release (as per below).
There's not much of a secret to it, per se - like so many other stories, this opportunity just happened to fall in my lap. A marketing rep happened to stumble across my blog somehow, and he contacted me asking if I would like to do a write-up on the title that he was promoting.
I guess the advice I can offer to others is pretty straightforward: if you haven't already got some kind online exposure, do so now, and make sure people know it exists. There are several ways to do this - sharing blogroll links, adding it to blog catalogues, linking your blog in forum sigs, putting it in your IM name etc.
On top of all that if you update your blog fairly regularly and add the odd review or thought-provoking opinion piece, then someone's bound to take notice...as long as you keep up to date with what's happening and who's who in the industry, it'll at least serve as proof to your future employer that you're passionate about a career in this field.
Personally, I do purchase games that I'm especially keen on and subsequently review them, so that may be an issue for those that are strapped for cash (I see it as an investment in my future, my mum is yet to agree). The prices of games are indeed somewhat prohibitive...
[SIZE="1"]Just my 2c. [/SIZE]
Anyway, best of luck with your applications and definitely let us all know how you go! Personally, I'd be interested in how you applied for said positions and how the rest of the process goes...
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Just to drop an update in here about my quest for work experience! It has been one massive **** up so far!
The post office obviously did not target students in 2006 when they decided to make posting big (but still light weight envelopes) cost more. As a result of this, I was waiting for three weeks for responses that never got to organisations.
Having learnt of my mistake, I very quickly re-sent letters and CV's to the magazines that I had applied for, ensuring they had the right postage on them. Waiting one week for a response, I finally received some from one of my placements. It was a very polite, but probably stock worded 'no'.
I am still waiting for another response from one other magazine, and I am about to send off wave two. Wish me luck!
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Who will be our next USCCB president?
A Chicago paper reported over the weekend that VOTF has written a letter to all U.S. bishops asking them to prevent Cardinal Francis George from becoming USCCB president. Cardinal George is now vice-president of USCCB, and thus poised to assume the presidency. The Daily Southtown reported that the letter to the bishops said, "We respectfully request that you ask Cardinal George to step aside so that a bishop with a track record of protecting children may be elected." VOTF has not, as of this writing, posted the full text of its letter to the bishops on its Web site. Neither has the Archdiocese of Chicago, though the paper did note that an archdiocesan spokesperson said that there were errors in VOTF's letter to the bishops. This is not the first time VOTF has criticized Cardinal George and called for him to step down, at least temporarily, from a governing position in the USCCB. VOTF issued statements in February and March, 2006, over what it saw as Cardinal George's failure to promptly remove Fr. Daniel McCormack from a Chicago school. Grant Gallicho covered that story on our blog in March. McCormack plead guilty to molesting boys at the school where he taught this summer. Linkable, complete information about this latest VOTF-Cardinal George showdown seems sketchy. Is it possible to say something more than "talk is cheap" against the way Cardinal George dealt with reports about McCormack (Cardinal George later apologized for the way he handled the situation)? Is it possible to do more than accuse VOTF of using abuse as a handy straw man to oust conservative bishops (VOTF calls its position "centrist")? I'm sure it is possible. Perhaps those more in the know can enlighten us.
A Chicago paper reported over the weekend that VOTF has written a letter to all U.S. bishops asking them to prevent Cardinal Francis George from becoming USCCB president.
Cardinal George is now vice-president of USCCB, and thus poised to assume the presidency.
The Daily Southtown reported that the letter to the bishops said, "We respectfully request that you ask Cardinal George to step aside so that a bishop with a track record of protecting children may be elected."
VOTF has not, as of this writing, posted the full text of its letter to the bishops on its Web site. Neither has the Archdiocese of Chicago, though the paper did note that an archdiocesan spokesperson said that there were errors in VOTF's letter to the bishops.
This is not the first time VOTF has criticized Cardinal George and called for him to step down, at least temporarily, from a governing position in the USCCB. VOTF issued statements in February and March, 2006, over what it saw as Cardinal George's failure to promptly remove Fr. Daniel McCormack from a Chicago school. Grant Gallicho covered that story on our blog in March.
McCormack plead guilty to molesting boys at the school where he taught this summer.
Linkable, complete information about this latest VOTF-Cardinal George showdown seems sketchy.
Is it possible to say something more than "talk is cheap" against the way Cardinal George dealt with reports about McCormack (Cardinal George later apologized for the way he handled the situation)?
Is it possible to do more than accuse VOTF of using abuse as a handy straw man to oust conservative bishops (VOTF calls its position "centrist")?
I'm sure it is possible. Perhaps those more in the know can enlighten us.
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The president of the USCCB ought to be, among other things, above suspicion, or so one might think. Rather like the proverbial requirement for Caesar's wife. Does anyone meet that requirement? I do not claim to know.What I am fairly sure of is that attempts to block Cardinal George's succession will not come to anything.. What is interesting about all this is what it says about the state of Episcopacy in the U.S.
I know that we're trying to avoid the same old dichotomies.May I propose a new one? (Sorry if this has been hashed out ad nauseum before.)The kids who call themselves "orthodox Catholics" and whom John Allen calls Evangelical Catholics think that "pastoral" is a very funny word: a code word for relativistic, antinomial, synchretic. They roll their eyes, as kids do.Meanwhile, "doctrine" continues to be labeled an irrelevant category by some. (Further eye rolling.)What little I know of Cardinal George suggests that he does take doctrine seriously. Which means he can't be pastoral, right? In addition to whatever else may be of signicance, I think that is one (false, in my view) dichotomy that could possibly be at work here, and is poised to come into play in a lot of issues for the foreseeable future.
Btw, I'm not suggesting that there is a deliberate smokescreen, but that there may be this unaddressed subtext.
These guys have gone too far. Cardinal George is one of the leading lights of the US church. It simply is not possible to tag him with conventional political labels. This is a man who has called America a Calvinist society, and you know who he is talking about here. And besides, how can we not love someone who can say the following?:"One could say, as I have, that the Democratic Party has lost its soul. . . One could also argue that the Republican Party never had a soul"
One wonders whether VOTF isn't shooting itself in the foot with this call for George to step aside. It's not as if the USCCB takes this group seriously. On the contrary, a protest by VOTF may only enhance George's cachet among many of his colleagues.
Is Cardinal George a "conservative bishop?" I tend to think of people like Chaput or Mayer or Law (one of whom I respect) when that term is used.I will say that he has been a big disappointment to me -- he was supposed to be the intellectual light of the modern American church (and, yes, there are "conservative" intellectuals that are worth listening to and sometimes downright inspiring), but his pronouncements on modern American society, the church in the world, and the history of the last four centuries have been quaintly third rate, and he's gone and topped it off by mishandling another pederast when that horse had left the barn.Was he in over his head, or is the position just too stressful? It's certainly possible to think of "liberal" bishops of the recent past who have let the side down once they got into the big spotlight.
Gene, I used as many weasel words in my post as possible because I do NOT pretend to know all the nuances of what's happening, nor do I want to pigeonhole Cardinal George as conservative, pastoral, or doctrinal. (Kathy has an interesting linguistic observation there about subtexts, though I'm not sure how it relates specifically to this wrangle. As a convert, I am woefully stupid sometimes about the "code" that cradle Catholics absorb from a young age.)Plus, I'm not a member of VOTF, nor, from my vantage in Cow Country, do I have my finger on the pulse of what happens in Cook County Church politics. (For which I say a prayer of thanks every morning when I eat my raisn bran.)So I'm trying to raise the issue in a way that will evoke considered responses on both sides, and I intend to mostly sit back listen, this post notwithstanding.I will say that I find it odd that VOTF has been criticizing Cardinal George for some time, and is serious enough in its criticism to try to persuade bishops not to let him take on the presidency of the USCCB. Yet VOTF has not posted the full text of its letter (or made any reference to it that I can find).So if any VOTF members out therehave the text of the letter or can enlighten us about its efforts--or give us a link to the official version--that'd be great.I will try to alert VOTF and the Archdiocese of Chicago later today about our discussion in hopes they will weigh in.
So much to say about this case. First, I recommend reading the audits commissioned and released by Cardinal George. Unfortunately, they have become extraordinarily difficult to find on the Archdiocese of Chicago's Web site. After some hunting, I found one of them (all these links are to PDF files):http://www.archchicago.org/c_s_abuse/report_032006/defenbaugh_full_repor... couldn't find the other audit on the archdiocese's Web site. Fortunately it's being hosted on a local TV news affiliate's site:http://nbc5.com/download/2006/0320/8145567.pdfFinally, I came across something labeled "Confidential Memo" in Google's search results. It appears to be an document summarizing the review board's recommendations and responses to the McCormack fandango. See what you think:http://www.archchicago.org/c_s_abuse/pdf/AdHocReportwMemo.pdfAnd if you'd rather read a good summary of the audits, the Chicago Tribune's initial story is archived here:http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/03_04/2006_03_21_Brachear_... read that article (at least) before commenting further on the situation here. I'm perplexed by VOTF's reasoning (I assume this is the local affiliate). The Southtown story doesn't clarify much: is the group asking George to resign his position as VP of the USCCB, or simply recommending that the body of bishops not elect him as president? His performance in the McCormack case was frankly miserable. So were those of the religious and other laypeople who touched the case. It remains, for me, one of the most troubling stories in this whole mess. Kathy, among the many lessons of the abuse scandal is that the categories "liberal" and "conservative" are not predictive of how well a bishop handles abuser priests.
Both the outgoing president of the Conference and the Cardinal have hardly been without critism in handling the sex abuse matter - a matter that still weighs rather heavily, despite claims that it's "history."The VOTF group requested sometime back that the Conference look again at the matter of celibacy - I'm not sure that request was even graced with a reply.The problem as i see it, no matter who leads the Conference, is the issue of how much voice leadership is giving to the laity and to what extent it will deal with pastoral concerns rather than curial subservience,A current on-line letter exchange among some VOTF members deals with are there trustworthy clergy they can turn to with problems. Some are very negative, others mixed.My view is that their are a small number of Bishops who are truly pastoral, so it may not matter who lwads the Conference.
Grant,I'm not really talking about liberal and conservative, but about a perception on the part of some that doctrine is dispensable. May I recommend Fr. Komonchak's excellent 2003 Common Ground lecture for anyone interested in this particular digression.http://www.nplc.org/commonground/lecture/komonchak2003.htm(End of digression.)
Kathy, I think it interesting that you mentioned the interpretations of the words 'pastoral' and 'doctrine.'In the FWIMBW Dept., I once rather liked the word 'pastoral' because it suggested to me a caring concern for those led.Then I saw a comment some while back from our fellow blogger Jimmy Mac who observed that most Catholics today likely do not want to be considered dumb sheep --- and for valid and understandable reasons. And Bingo! There went my liking for the word 'pastoral.'Anyway, I'm surprised that young Catholics today would, as you've noted, equate this 'pastoral' word with "relativistic" (never mind your other words: I'm a former govt. bureaucrat, and we never had occasion to use words such as 'antinomial' and 'synchretic' :)On the other hand, I'm not bothered by the word 'doctrine' but only by how this word is construed by some of my brethren. As in: everything out of Rome is "doctrinal" and must be obeyed/subscribed to/considered as infallible and "irreformable" ("orthodox" types love this word :) I suspect it's this warped understanding of "doctrine" that gives a lot of us progressives, moderates, and liberals heartburn.Bob, I was struck by your comment, inter alia, about "how much voice leadership is giving to the laity..." It immediately raised the question in my mind, "Why should we expect or even want episcopal leadership to "give" us voice?!?!?" You may agree or disagree here, but I think it's well past time for the laity to assert themselves and give voice to the bishops. And if the bishops don't listen, then it's time to act.
Kathy,What does this have to do with doctrine?
Grant:Maybe nothing. Or maybe George's double doctorate looks unattractive to some who cannot reconcile pastoral leadership with theological expertise.A minor point. I'd love to drop it for the present.
Nice try by Kathy to change the subject. But as she wrote to me on this blog, she will take up her transparency at another time. Votf's point is simple it seems to me. He messed up miserably, as Grant wrote on McCormick. A leader like that should not be the head of all the bishops. Where is the mystery?
The Trib story link Grant provided (summarizing the audit report) is quite good. Everyone please read it.http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2006/03_04/2006_03_21_Brachear_... nothing else, it outlines how a diocese (and perhaps many dioceses) fail to properly monitor, treat or remove sex offenders.This is not a pastoral, doctrinal or celibacy issue; it's an administrative issue.At the very least, the audit should encourage the laity to investiage our own dioceses methods for dealing with sex offenders and complaints about abuse. And, as Grant noted, a lot of info seems to have slipped through various diocesan officials, both religious and lay.Possibly, if it can be shown that Cardinal George was personally negligent by failing to properly handle not just one sex offender but in failing to implement appropriate procedures and safeguards, that threaten many in the diocese, then VOTF has a point.Whether we all agree with VOTF's aims or believe its claims to be a centrist organization are beside the point.
Re: VOTF, Cardinal George & the USCCB. We certainly agree that this is a very long shot. However, it seems to us > that this is so because far too many of our bishops have little regard for the > USCCB and dont think it makes much difference who is president. After all, for at least 20 years the Vatican has stripped such episcopal conferences of any real teeth.> > We differ. We believe the Conference has done some excellent staff work. It > put together the Charter, has tried to provide serious financial guidelines > and has offered other substantial support to dioceses. The problem is that > individual bishops are free to, and often do, ignore the USCCB.> > Nevertheless, there is a perception among the general public, whether Catholic > or not, that the Conference speaks for the Church in this country. For that > reason, it seems to us a tragic mistake to follow what is not a compulsory > tradition and elect to its presidency one with such a flawed record of > addressing the greatest scandal in the history of the American Church. This > step would lend substantial and justified credence to recent assertions from > within the Church that the sex abuse crisis has not yet been taken seriously > enough by the hierarchy.> > This is why we are willing to jeopardize what infinitesimal influence we have > with the bishops. The Cardinal could easily and understandably step aside for > reasons of his already precarious state of health. VOTF doesnt need, and > wouldnt get, the credit.> > Anne & Ed WilsonEd is a member of the VOTF National Representative Council.
George is head of the diocese. His charges clearly did not follow the guidlelines of the USCCB in the care and neglect of children. How is he not responsible? Why should he head an organization whose guidlines he clearly ignored. What am I missing?
Anne & Ed:Thanks for that explanation. I think I see what VOTF is trying to achieve here, and what is at stake, as far as public perception is concerned. Having not followed the McCormack case very closely until now (thanks, Grant), I can see, also, why George would be seen as a poor choice to head the Conference.But hey, Cardinal Law is now archpriest of St. Mary Major. "La bella figura" in full swing. I wonder if that same principle isn't at work at the USCCB. Is there anyone familiar enough with the Conference's inner workings who would care to comment?Your quest still seems quixotic, but that does not rob it of its nobility or rightness. Soldier on!
As much as we can criticize the USCCB, it still functions (albeit barely) as a buffer between the Vatican and our local churches.If my impression from perusing "orthodox" blogsites is any indication, these theocons would just as soon see the USCCB disappear so that Rome could exercise even greater control over the American Catholic Church.To anyone of a more moderate or progressive bent dissatisfied with the USCCB and contemplating its demise, I can only say, "Be careful what you ask for; it may just come true!"
Certainly Cardinal George's and the Chicago Archdiocese's record is not squeaky clean, and the McCormack case is egregious.Still, it's worth recalling that Cardinal George was instrumental in getting the Dallas Charter in place. The Charter is not perfect, but on the whole it has been a good and workable instrument for calling our bishops to responsibility. Of course, that good work by George doesn't erase the pain caused by abusers like McCormack (can anything?), but it may help to dispell any impression that George doesn't care about his people or the victims, or that he's more interested in high ecclesiastical office than in the welfare of his flock. For that matter - if being tarred by the abuse scandal disqualifies a bishop from national conference leadership, are there ANY ordinaries that would pass muster? Someone has to lead.Cardinal George is not perfect. Yet he seems to have the respect of Rome, his brother bishops, the bulk of the clergy and people of his diocese, and a good chunk of the media and the Catholic public commentariat. His track record in Chicago and with the USCCB, the McCormack case aside, is that he is an able and effective leader. His would be the highest national profile the Conference has had in the presidency in a number of years, and that may help the nation hear the voice of the conference, a voice that still speaks prophetically but to less effect than was the case 10 or 20 years ago.In the spirit of full disclosure: I'm one of his clergy (I'm a deacon in Chicago), so in that sense perhaps I can't be considered disinterested. And I guess I'm not: I like him, and believe it would be a good thing for the church in the US if he were to become president of the Conference.
Jim,I don't know many Catholics in Chicago--lay or ordained--who are terribly fond of the cardinal. Not all harbor animosity (many just don't know much about him), although I have to tell you that to a one all are outraged by his egregious failures in the McCormack case. Keep in mind that when the news initially broke, George told reporters that he couldn't remove McCormack immediately because canon law tied his hands. That is false. Also keep in mind that George's initial response to the Charter, including and especially so-called zero tolerance was not favorable. He came around. But one has to wonder how seriously he took the issue of sexual abuse after seeing how badly he botched McCormack. Nobody's perfect. But who's asking for perfection? It isn't expecting too much for a bishop to follow his own rules and the advice of his self-appointed abuse review board three years after Dallas, is it?
Hi, Grant, it might be fair to say that he's more respected than loved. He had a tough act to follow in Cardinal Bernardin, who really was beloved in Chicago. George got off to a rocky start, especially with some of the clergy, but by and large that has settled down. Priests with whom I've talked tell me that most of them have come around to respecting George. That may not equate to fondness, but how many of us truly are fond of our bosses?The McCormack case is just ugly. Many people failed the victims and the community, at many levels, in the archdiocese, the police department and the state's attorney's office. It proved, tragically, that an evil and persistent abuser could game the systems, both ecclesiastical and civil. Still, it may be instructive to compare the handling of the McCormack case to some of the notorious pre-Dallas Charter instances. Cardinal Law wrote the book on how a prelate used to handle abusers like McCormack: transfer the abuser, stonewall the press and the faithful, offer zero cooperation with civil authorites, and treat the victims as legal opponents rather than as human persons in need of healing and therapy. Note that none of this happened in the McCormack case. In fact, Cardinal George has stated repeatedly the he takes full responsibility for the failures of his administration, has cooperated with civil authorities to put McCormack in prison, has reached out to victims and the affected parishes and school, and has strengthened the processes that failed in the McCormack case. None of this justifies the horrible mistakes made in handling McCormack, but it does suggest that these cases are no longer treated as "business as usual". Taken in as an isolated instance, I understand how the McCormack case could lead one to conclude that George really doesn't take sexual abuse seriously. But speaking as one who lives in Chicago, who went through formation during the height (depth?) of the national scandal, and who serves the church in its aftermath, my experience has been that, despite McCormack, under George's leadership the archdiocese's implementation of the Dallas Charter has been vigorous and comprehensive. The National Review Board has found that Chicago is in compliance. In my view, McCormack is an anomaly, not a trend. At any rate, I believe that VOTF is making a serious mistake in taking the extraordinary step of actively campaigning against George's succession. If VOTF is sincere about being an effective advocate on behalf of the Church and sexual abuse victims, it should recognize that Cardinal George, despite the McCormack case, is not the enemy. In fact, he could be a tremendous ally. I fear that the inevitable outcome of VOTF's campaign will be that it will have succeeded only in marginalizing itself even more than it already has.
Just heard that a VOTF rep is meeting with the president of the Natl. Federation of Priests Council.This raised the following questions for me:-was there any response from USCCB to request about the Cardinal?-has there been any reponse to VOTF from USCCB about request for a celibacy study?-Has USCCB as a body ever dealt directly with VOTF (formally?)If the answer to the above is no, what does that say about leadership and relatiions with the laity -especially if you think (as many do) that VOTF is mainstream?
Jim, You are circumnavigating Grant's words. Nothing you wrote disproves: " It isn't expecting too much for a bishop to follow his own rules and the advice of his self-appointed abuse review board three years after Dallas, is it?" How clear can it get?Your remarks about VOTF is equally off the mark. VOTF is a responsible, Christian, ethical organization which is working hard to make the Church what it ought to be.
But Jim, the whole point is that George failed to protect the children McCormack abused *after* Dallas. It was not a small gaffe or a sin of omission. He violated the Charter, ignored the advice of his own review board to pull the guy (a man who had been accused of illicit behavior when he was *in seminary*), then tried to explain himself by making the false claim that he couldn't remove McCormack because of canon law. George and his spokespeople were in fact quite defensive when the initial reports about McCormack came out. So, yes, *now* George admits his considerable failures--does he have a choice?--but he didn't initially. And as late as McCormack's sentencing, George's spokeswoman publicly minimized the pedophile's crimes by noting that, hey, he didn't technically rape anyone, after all. (At least not with his penis.) I don't see how anyone can say that the Archdiocese of Chicago has "vigorously and comprehensively" implemented the Charter when three years after its adoption it was so brazenly violated. Why should Chicago Catholics trust that the policies have been fixed or are being followed when the people on whose watch McCormack was allowed to abuse kids are still in their positions or have been promoted? How should they respond when Cardinal George won't tell them what has happened to the officials involved with the case (except for the whistle-blowing principal who was canned)? I can tell you how the Catholic Chicagoans I know have responded: with deep and abiding anger.I don't place blame solely on Cardinal George, and I'm not sure what to make of VOTF's stance here. (I would certainly never compare him to Cardinal Law.) In fact, what disturbs me most about the McCormack-case audits George commissioned and released (to his credit) is how nearly every single person who touched the case--lay and ordained alike--failed to act properly, and in some cases legally. Three years after Dallas, how a lay parent, or a teacher, or a religious could fail so miserably --in Chicago of all places, hardly a stronghold for the clericalist mindset...it really haunts me.Perhaps second most disturbing is how pathetically the policy to deal with accused priests was enforced or created: McCormack was not only allowed to choose whether he should seek counseling after he was deemed credibly accused by the archdiocese; he could choose the therapist (I believe he chose one who had no expertise in sexual abuse, if I'm not mistaken). Oh, and the priest who was assigned to monitor him? He was never told why. In fact, when he called to ask the vicar if it was all right for him to leave McCormack unwatched for two weeks over the Christmas season, he was told, sure--but let us know if you'll be gone longer. Want to guess what happened during those two weeks?It's also not the first time George has shown bad judgment regarding sexual abusers. Remember the one who was found to be living in the cardinal's mansion in 2003? He didn't mention this to the NRB when they met with him just before the local papers broke the story. So, you can see why I'm not entirely convinced that the cardinal has provided exemplary leadership on this issue.
Hi, Grant, no excuses. I really can't defend what happened in the McCormack case. It's very bad.Regarding the overall picture in the archdiocese - they are, I believe, more or less hitting their goals for training of staff and volunteers, they have released the names of accused priests, there are quite a few instances where credible accusations have rsulted in the accused being pulled from active ministry, and so on. It isn't all dismal. For the most part, it has come off as it should. As I say, McCormack is an anomaly. But no excuses about McCormack.
Btw, it appears that the VOTF letter can be found on this landing page:http://tomorrowstrust.ca/?p=831
Jim,Welcome to the Commonweal circle.The post you referenced above at Tomorrow's Trust originally came to me from Bill Mazzella via the [email protected] discussion group on September 1, 2007.I turned it into an education story but Bill may wish to comment on how he found it.John Borst, editor, Tomorrow's Trust: A Review of Catholic Education, long time reader of Commonweal and occasional poster to this blog.
Thank you, John. It does seem to be a circle, doesn't it? :-)
Jim,I certainly didn't mean to imply that I thought the archdiocese is in shambles--far from it. The Chicago church remains one of the most vibrant in the country. Nor did I mean to suggest that Cardinal George's work as archbishop should be judged solely on his failures in the McCormack case. Indeed, I wrote an article for NCR that included information about his important intervention to save my alma mater, Notre Dame High School for Boys in Niles. Without his early commitment, I don't know if the school would be open today.


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Oh, what we can learn from a teenaged girl.
I admit to being a little disappointed when I awoke Friday morning and learned Malala Yousafzai was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Not that the group searching out chemical weapons isn't worthy, but Malala's story is nothing short of amazing.
Don't worry about Malala, though. A Twitter account representing her sent a message congratulating the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on its "wonderful work for humanity." Not only that, in an interview with CNN before the prize was announced, Malala said, at the age of 16, a win might be a bit premature.
Who knows what the future has in store for Malala. For today, we would all do well to remember the message she has brought forward. All she wanted to do was attend school and get an education. I understand and respect cultural differences that hold the male's role as dominant, but I cannot fathom holding that belief so strongly that you would seek to kill a little girl as an example of may happen to those who defy the norms.
Malala was shot in the head a year ago by a militant as she rode home from school. Two of her classmates were wounded in the attack as well. Against all odds, she not only survived - her voice is stronger than ever. She is marking the one-year anniversary by publishing her memoir. The Pakistani Taliban is marking it by threatening any bookstore that sells it and renewing their threats on Malala's life.
The Taliban worries about a little girl.
For her part, Malala does not worry about them. She has said several times that she does not hate them, that she does not seek revenge. In a speech to the United Nations, she said that if she had a gun in her hand and her attacker in front of her, she would not shoot. To strike back, she says, would make her the same as a Talib. Books and pens, she says, are our most powerful weapons.
It would be understandable if, after all she has endured, Malala simply wanted to be left alone. Instead, she continues to step out and speak up. She told the United Nations, "I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."
Malala understands that she is not a symbol that can inspire change, for herself, for her friends, for her nation and for the world.
"They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed," she said. " (O)ut of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born."
Indeed, what we all can learn from a teenaged girl.


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Trojans Split Softball Doubleheader with Lincoln MemorialMarch 26, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Junior Charlotte Sieber and sophomore Molly Child combined for eight hits, including two home runs, and eight RBI as the Anderson softball team split a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader with Lincoln Memorial, winning 15-6 in the opener and falling 6-2 in the nightcap, Wednesday afternoon at Smethers Field.
With the split, Anderson moved to 24-8 overall and 4-4 in the league, while wrapping up its brief four-game homestand with three victories. Lincoln Memorial (19-10, 5-3 SAC) has won six of its last nine outings.
Game #1
Anderson 15, Lincoln Memorial 6 (5 innings)
Child blasted a pair of home runs, her eighth and ninth of the season, and finished the opener by going a perfect 3-for-3. In addition to the homers, the hard-hitting center fielder added a first-inning walk and a fifth-inning single, while scoring four times and driving in five runs. Molly's sister, Abby, was 2-for-3, with a pair of singles and Sieber was 2-for-4 at the plate, scoring once and recorded a season-best three RBI. Freshman Courtney Czentnar ripped a two-run homer in the second inning and added an RBI-single. Junior Jessica Neidigh added a pair of singles and crossed the plate twice, while driving in a run. Catcher Laura Jansky was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
Freshman Lauren Rudesheim improved to 11-4 on the season, after surrendering six runs (one earned) in four innings of work. The right-hander struck out four and walked a pair of Lady Railsplitters. Junior Katelynn Howser tossed the final inning and allowed two hits, while walking one.
The Trojans won their third straight game after jumping out to a quick one-run lead in the bottom of the first inning. Molly Child drew a one-out walk and crossed the plate on Czentnar's single back up the middle.
Anderson plated five runs, while sending eight batters to the plate in the second frame. Molly Child and Czentnar highlighted the scoring, as each ripped a two-run homer, boosting the Trojans' advantage to 6-0.
LMU countered with an unearned run in the top of the third, with Anderson answering with four runs in the bottom of the inning. Molly Child's three-run shot headlined the scoring.
The Lady Railsplitters closed the gap to 10-6 by plating five runs on the strength of junior Laura Taricano's two-run home run in the top of the fourth, but the Trojans added five runs in the bottom of the fifth to end the contest. With AU holding a 12-6 edge, Sieber lofted a two-out fly to right field that dropped in for a hit, scoring Jansky, Rebecca Martin and Bri Cason.
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Lincoln Memorial 6, Anderson 2
Sieber was 2-for-3 in the nightcap, with a pair of singles and scored once. Jansky added a solo home run in the fourth inning, her fifth of the season.
Howser took the loss, falling to 8-3 on the season. She recorded her third complete game of the season, striking out four Lady Railsplitters and issuing five free passes. Howser surrendered six runs (two earned) on eight hits.
LMU capitalized on three Trojan miscues in the top of the first inning to plate five runs, with four of the scores unearned. Neither team managed to push a run across in either the second or third innings, with Jansky's home run trimming the deficit to 5-1 after four innings.
Senior first baseman Danielle Swygert ripped a two-out single the opposite way to bring home Sieber with AU's only remaining score of the nightcap. The Lady Railsplitters added an insurance run in the sixth to push out to a four-run advantage, and while the Trojans threatened in the bottom of the seventh, AU was unable to get any closer.
Anderson will get back in action for a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader at Wingate on Saturday. First-pitch versus the Bulldogs is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the WU Softball Complex


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What: Cohasset Working Dog Foundation introduces Service Dog Parker to the community. There will also be Service Dog and Police K-9 demonstrations.
When: Sunday, Ju...
What: Cohasset Working Dog Foundation introduces Service Dog Parker to the community. There will also be Service Dog and Police K-9 demonstrations.
When: Sunday, June 15, 5:15 p.m.
Where: Cohasset Common in the most shaded area between St. Stephen's and Meetinghouse Pond.
Why: It's an opportunity to learn more about the role of Cohasset's working dogs, how they help people and how they should be treated in the community.
It's taken a year to ready a young Goldendoodle to provide invaluable assistance to a little girl in Cohasset.
Over the past 12 months, service dog (SD) "Parker" has undergone extensive training with multiple trainers in order to learn his duties. This week, he comes to Cohasset to fully take on the job he was born to do.
SD Parker is the first product of the Cohasset Working Dog Foundation's (CWDF) service dog grant program.
"This is the fulfillment of our pledge to the community," says CWDF founder Trish Morse. The organization now supports four working dogs in Cohasset - SD "Parker", Cohasset's Police K9 "Erik" and two therapy dogs, "Sophie" and "Lyle". "It's been a wonderful experience bringing these programs to the community," Morse said. CWDF plans to seek applicants for its next service dog grant later this summer.
CWDF found assistance through the process from Georgia-based 1Boy4Change, a non-profit founded by 16 year-old Chris Carswell, which assists in providing service dogs to children and veterans. Carswell founded the organization after he and his family experienced the challenging process of getting a service dog to help him with seizures and other medical conditions. Carswell's service dog, SD "Bronx" will also be coming to Cohasset with the team. SD Bronx was The American Humane Associations "Hero Dog" in the service dog category in 2013. Carswell and his mother, Janet, trained SD "Parker" as a young puppy.
Next, Parker traveled to Tennessee where he received his finishing training from James Quarterman at Island Grove Kennels. Quarterman has helped train and graduate 19 service dog teams for 1Boy4Change. Carswell has placed 46 service dogs with children and 14 service dogs with veterans nationwide and in Canada.
The Carswells and Quarterman are driving to Cohasset this weekend to bring SD Parker to his new family.
"He'll go through a weeklong training with the family," Morse said. "Before the training team leaves Cohasset next weekend, Parker will have developed a strong bond with his girl."
To welcome SD Parker to town, and to learn about how we should respond when we meet service dogs in our community, the CWDF is hosting an event this Sunday, June 15 at 5:15 p.m. on the Common.
"It will be the public's opportunity to meet this awesome dog before he begins his work," Morse said.
The event is a chance for the community to learn more about service dogs, including their duties, training and proper etiquette around them. SD Parker will demonstrate some of his training as well.
Joining SD "Parker" at the event will be SD "Bronx", K-9 "Erik", and therapy dogs Sophie and Lyle. The training team and SD Bronx will also do a demonstration at Deer Hill School on Monday morning, (June 16).
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I write to offer and willingly lend my support to state Rep. Shaunna O'Connell. In my opinion, O'Connell is a representative who remains steadfast and very capable of providing responsible and quality leadership.
O'Connell doesn't shy away or run from the difficult or controversial challenges. No, it's a fact; O'Connell stands in support of her constituents. My two nephews were severely hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing last April 2013 and O'Connell is the only one who called for public disclosure of the welfare benefits the terrorists were receiving.
In Massachusetts, where men make up the larger percentage of elected officials, we are truly blessed that O'Connell unhesitatingly approaches her duties proudly, prudently and thoughtfully. She realizes and accepts that sometimes, important positions and strong convictions place her on a lonely pedestal.
Further, O'Connell firmly maintains her integrity and continues to serve the commonwealth with unquestionable commitment, unwavering devotion and moral character.
O'Connell rightly recognizes that political affairs is more than just supporting and perhaps writing various laws. She is tasked with balancing sensitive issues, yet always strives to practice fiscal accountability, professionalism and deliver the voice of reason. I believe O'Connell is doing an exemplary job and expect the majority of her stakeholders feel the same. I wish O'Connell further success.
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A perfumery stocked with evocative memory aids
THERE ARE FEW things as powerful as scent to arouse a vivid memory. For Stefanie Hanssen, it was her grandmother's unique rose perfume that inspired her to open Frau Tonis Parfum, a chic perfume boutique around the corner from Checkpoint Charlie. She carries a blend patterned after that unforgettable heady fragrance, as well as several scents that were inspired by Berlin itself. The one called #10 is loaded with the sweetness of the blooming linden trees that line Unter den Linden, one of the city's grandest streets. Even more popular is #37, a replica of the vintage violet-heavy scent worn by Berlin legend Marlene Dietrich. And if none of the three dozen options on offer suit a buyer's tastes, custom blends are available. 15 ml perfume, $35; custom fragrances start at $96. Zimmerstrasse 13, 10969 Berlin, +49 30-2021-5310, frau-tonis-parfum.com
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Kicking off the year 2013 with a big hype, the 90's alternative superstar band Weezer is set to stage their first ever performance in Indonesia on 8th January 2013, at the D Field Senayan, Bung Karno Sports Complex, Jakarta.
Not only will the concert in Jakarta be their first stop over, kicking off the band's world tour, Indonesia has also been chosen as the only country in Asia where they will play before Australia and America. Thus, this is not only a concert for Weezer fans in Indonesia, but also for the rest of Asia.
Presented by the collaborative work of four promoters ASIA LIVE, BLACKROCK ENTERTAINMENT, MARYGOPS STUDIOS and STAR D PROTAINMENT, the concert will fulfill 18 years of longing of the band's die-hard fans in the region. For this special performance, the audience will definitely be indulged with the band's legendary hits from their first to their latest albums such as 'Buddy Holly', 'Island in the Sun', 'Perfect Situation', 'Trouble Maker', 'Undone', 'Beverly Hills', and many others.
Weezer is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1992. The band consists of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, guitar), Patrick Wilson (drums, guitar, backing vocals), Brian Bell (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Scott Shriner (bass, backing vocals, keyboards). The band's line-up has changed four times since its formation in 1992, and they have released nine full-length albums, six EPs, and a DVD.
Tickets are already on sale since September, ranging from IDR 550,000 to IDR 1,200,000 and can be purchased online via Rajakarcis.com , www.Jakartaconcerts.com , @Blackbox_ind, and @blackidclothing.
More Information available at: blackrockindonesia.com , marygops.com , weezer.com
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How to design a responsive list view using sencha Touch?
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Responsive List view
I am asking about how the list view fits when the screen size changes?
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Do you mean that we need to design seperate UI for android and iphone?
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You can specify size constraints, and a few position via JavaScript to the layout managers, but the reality is that it's not "true responsive" as one might think of it as it pertains to CSS media queries controlling how things are positioned and sized on screen.
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WEIRTON - After working together for years, Bunny Lemal and Jerri Shaffer have teamed up to open a salon of their own, Awe-Sum Hair, at the Village at Colliers Way.
The two have been friends for years, and even operated a shop in Bethany until Lemal, a Weirton resident, had to move away in 2000 to care for an ailing family member.
"We've been friends for over 22 years," she said. "And we've always worked together really, really well."
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SALON OPEN — Awe-Sum Hair owners Bunny Lemal, from left, and Jerri Shaffer with stylists Mathia Porco, Cindy Myers and Kayla Wright celebrate the opening of their new salon at the Village at Colliers Way. — Linda Harris
Shaffer, a Wellsburg resident, said their goal is to give customers what they want, be it a special haircut, coloring or perm. They don't work by appointments, so they serve their walk-in clients on a first-come, first-served basis.
"It's all about convenience for our customers," she said. "We still do chemicals and everything, as long as customers come in two hours before we close for the day. We're pretty much full-service, except for nails."
Shaffer said they like the idea of being their own boss again, and being able to do what their customers want done without worrying about corporate policies that didn't always make sense to workers and stifled individuality.
"You can have teal hair and work here," she joked.
Lemal said they were drawn to the plaza. "It's brand new, and this area is going to be booming," she said.
It's also easily accessible from U.S. Route 22 as well.
"The location is perfect, it's right off the exit," she said. "The landlord has worked with us from Day 1 on anything and everything we could possibly need."
She said they have six stations now, "and we'd like to grow." Several staff members from the salon where they'd worked previously have joined them at Awe-Sum Hair.
"There's an office behind us, someday we'd like to be able to knock the wall down and have that space, too."
Working with Lemal and Shaffer are Mathia Porco, Cindy Myers, Kayla Wright and Vicki Mainenti.
The salon is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. They're closed Sundays.
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At the end of the film Gravity, we see some land formations up close. There's a particularly distinctive swirly island/sandbar that I'm referring to. Shortly afterwards, Stone lands, and I'm curious if the land formation was distinct, so that landing spot could be identified. Where did she land?
It was filmed in Lake Powell, near the border of Utah and Arizona. This blog mentioned the IMDB page listing the film locations used for the movie and gave some analysis on where the scene might have taken place.
Although we know where the movie was shot, there's no indication whether the scene was supposed to be there, story-wise.
However, there were radio transmissions that were interfering with the Houston communication, and they sounded Midwestern to me (although I might not be the best judge since I'm not from the US). The actual location still probably jives with the movie.
Here's an excerpt of an interview with the movie's director, Alfonso Cuarón:
If you remember when her capsule sinks to the bottom of the lake (about 10 meters) a frog swims up the bottom. Frogs normally don't frequent those depths except in Lake Titicaca in Peru where they are adapted to live at those depths. I guessing Lake Titicaca. I'd love for someone to confirm the landing spot.
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nice shot and quiet similar to the tribes of south Ethiopia
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If not for the flip flops and what looks like a denim garment on the ground, this scene could have come straight out of biblical times and exemplifies why NatGeo is an outstanding world ambassador.
Yes this is very breathtaking and beautiful, just love it
life in African mountains, nice sight !
This breathtakingly picture is in Somaliland and today is our independence day 26 June 1960. We are not part of Somalia since 18 May 1991.
Stunning capture
a picture tells a 1000 stories and this reminded me of that one!
Thank you Caz Mc Morry. The bible and you have said it just right.A beautiful passage so fitting to the picture.j.e.s.......
Sad though:(
Does anyone know what camera was used please.
One of the best Picture of the Day....This will go on my desk top...Congratulations
I like this eye-pleasing photo.
beautiful shot. a masterpiece. good job
Gorgeous photograph. The contrast is simply beautiful.
Beautiful! The colors are greats! The win has a very important participation also!
Lovely girl. Adorable goats. Beautiful scenery. Well done.
Wow. Not a good way to start my praise of this pic but I'm not sure what else to say. Awesome is so, so used but hey, it is awesome. I love the color contrast, and how. The overall composition and clarity are superb. Thanks for sharing.
11 For thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd [k]cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered [l]sheep, so I will [m]care for My [n]sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day. 13 I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in[o]rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed My flock and I will [p]lead them to rest," declares the Lord God. 16 "I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; Ezekiel from The Bible (Chapter 34)
Such a beautiful clear photograph!
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I totally agree small farmers will be the wave of the future on how well we feed humanity! I grew some vegetables in my own little path but shared the bounty with others!
very good
Pretty nasty looking skies making a backdrop to the rocks, greenery, and the young girl and her goats.The splash of blue in her clothes,makes for a really good picture well put together. j.e.s........
The stormy sky with the wind blowing hard against her body, really sets the mood for a sweet little girl surviving a hard life. She is running in flip flops and she looks just as agile as the goats. The goats look very young too and are probably raised for meat as well as milk.
Stunning photo! Congratulations!
This picture belongs some where else!
Natural photo
I like it very much. Life in Sahel is really so difficult! But they try there to survive. Can´t we be surprised when more and more people will try to find their less hard life in Europe? What then?
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@Caz McMorry The primary religion is Islam and most are Sunni. There are less than 1,000 Christians in the country. Not very likely the girl in this picture is a Christian.
@Caz McMorry this is a photography website not a church. this is not appropriate
@Shabbir Ahmad I like this picture, it reminds me of TV sets from the 1960s where there were a few props in the near-ground and a bad painting in the background were meant to represent a real outdoor setting.
The closed in feeling of the foreground really brings the picture into focus.
Just where do you think this picture belongs?
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Now featured on the homepage: George Hunsinger evaluates the proposed attack on Syria by the criteria of just war--and finds it wanting.
How should U.S. citizens and their elected representatives decide this dreadful question? A defensible case for the attack on Syria would have to satisfy traditional "just war" standards. In its modern form the just-war tradition (jus ad bellum) involves at least four primary elements: just cause, legitimate authority, last resort, and reasonable chance of success. If these criteria remain unmet, the recourse to war is unjustified.
In my view, the proposed attack on Syria meets none of these standards. Let us review them in order.
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Has any war actually met all four criteria. Certainly George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did not. I wonder about the American Civil War. Was the preservation of the Union really a justification for the hundreds of thousands killed and wounded? What about the American Revolution? Does anyone in a position to fight a war really take just-war theory into account? It seems to me attempting to apply just-war theory to past or potential wars is purely an academic exercise. It is a lot like Catholic Social Teaching. It only gets trotted out to support views one already has.
What an absolute disaster the Iraq war was, and one of the worst aspects was Colin Powell largely successful attempt to persuade Americans of something that turned out not to be true. It was such a disservice to the country that now, when military intervention <i>might</i> be the right action to take, it is all but unthinkable because of the wholly unjustified Iraq invasion sold largely on the basis of bad intelligence and outright lies. Bush, Cheney, and Powell have a tremendous amount to answer for not merely for what they did, but for what the consequences of their unjustified warmaking and failures did to the American will to act in the current situation.
Does anyone in a position to fight a war really take just-war theory into account?
I'd think that President Obama is more likely to take it seriously than any other president in our lifetimes.
I agree that Bush, Powell et al poisoned the well for future presidents. But I think that President Obama comes at this situation from a very different point of view than President Bush. Bush presumably was searching for a rationale for going into Iraq. I don't think that is the case with President Obama and Syria; Obama was elected in part because of his promise to exit wars in the Middle East. I believe that the President is genuinely morally outraged about the use of poison gas, and so in his mind and heart, he believes that there is just cause.
As for legitimate authority - who is the legitimate authority in this case? Arguably, it is not the UN, as apparently there is no chance it will act; it has abdicated its authority; it possesses no authority in this matter that we may judge to be legitimate. Is any other entity morally justified in entering the vacuum left by a dysfunctional UN? For example, is NATO a legitimate authority in this instance? What about the US, with the implicit approval of a majority of G20 (which the President is claiming he has lined up at the G20 meeting this week)?
Regarding last resort: I think a reasonable case can be made that we have reached the point of last resort. It's not as though diplomatic efforts haven't been tried; they've been tried for years. A strongman not only threatened to use a weapon of mass destruction while diplomatic efforts were underway; he already has actually used it, and may do so again at any moment. When the horse has left the barn, it's reasonable to conclude that the last possible moment to close the barn door not only has arrived, but has already passed.
As for reasonable chance of success - I think this is discussed with an air of more certainty than is warranted. We don't actually know what will be done by the US, nor what the expected effect will be, nor what the probability of success is. The leaks in the press may be accurate, or they may be misdirection. Will we assassinate Assad and/or his leadership? Will we incapacitate his fighting capability in some way? Will we do something else? Most Americans haven't been briefed on these things, and those who have been briefed aren't telling.
I am making these points, not because I think action really is warranted, but just because I perceive that this is the President's line of thought. I don't suppose he consults the Catechism of the Catholic Church when he is weighing a military strike, but he is formed to some extent in Christian theology, and I think his intuition that action is required in this instance is genuine.
The Gulf War was surrounded by a lot of Just War Talk from Bush I.He certainly did a better job than any president since in trying to meet those condition--whatever you make of the outcome.
I read a long time ago that when Bush I saw that our troops were crushing the other side and doing it very quickly he called off the campaign, saying "This isn't war, this is slaughter". For me this supported his reputation as a decent man.
It seems to me that the only way to stop the massacres in the M. E. is to change the theology of the Islamists. Does anyone anywhere have any theological leverage with the Islamists? Are they truly motivated by theology in the first place?
If I understand correctly the suggestion has been made Bush did, not in mere talking points but in fact, sincerely try to meet the criteria of a just war in launching this nation into the Gulf War. I would very much like to hear the details supporting that argument.
As for the cure to the dilemma being we (or someone) needs "to change the theology of the Islamists" I suggest spending a bit of time reviewing the findings and conclusions amassed in a fairly sizeable Gallop poll done not long after 9/11 and well expressed by Dalia Mogahed, among others.
The poll findings are here
and an introduction to a resulting book "Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think" can be found here
The means, motives, tactics and results of fanaticism are the same no matter what label the loons in charge choose to give themselves.
As for Obama and this mess I am reasonably certain he hopes to God he does not lead this nation into another military conflict. I am completely certain the seemingly limitless number of media pundits (none of whom do I remember electing) inserting themselves into grand debates with no responsiblity ain't helping a bit. However it goes they'll get a headline or two.
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Thanks for the information about what the Muslims think.
My comment was only about the Islamists, a definte minority among the Muslims but influential way behond their numbers. It is my understanding that their preferred texts of the Koran are those which call for war against infidels.
I posted this link over under the whole article where, I guess, no one looks. The link is to David Kaye in Foreign Affairs:
The article addresses international law, not morality, but I don't know how one can discuss "legitimate authority" without discussing law. As I said over there, two wrongs don't make a right. The adage seems to have escaped the past two administrations, and some of the posts here seem content with Obama's utilitarian moral justification.
That we[the majority of Americans and others] now are where we were a hundred years ago -accepting of the use of chemical warfare-is truly appalling.The use of chemical weapons as Kerry and Obama have said has been considered unacceptable for one hundred years now because that is how far we advanced morally after they were used in WW1.That we are now so callous and hardened with hatred or indifference to the suffering of others [in this case muslims] that we wish to remove that red line is truly regressive.That we accept a false narrative that the Syrians are fighting the Assad regime because they're religious fanatics is part of a disinfoirmation campagn designed to let us see the bodies of 400 children gassed to death and rationalize turning a blind eye.[those evil religious fanatics are at it again.Who care!].I don't believe Obama misspoke when he "threw out that line" about red lines.I believe he was disturbed by the level of violence against the civilians that Assad was engaging in for 2 years now. He knew the people were indifferent [as the politicians and media expressed a let- em- all -kill- each- other ethos] and those few like Mc Cain who WERE concerned were increasingly, with every expressed concern for the level of slaughter taking place by the regime, marginalized as loony .Obama made the statement about red lines because he anticipated that perhaps if the red line were crossed he could bring the people on board as it would change their moral calculus of indifference at the slaughter of cilvilians. He was kind of already trying to prepare us for the possibility of some kind of intervention. Similar to his initial comments about his stance on gay marriage when he said he oppossed it but left the door open by saying that his views were still "evolving" on that issue. As soon as he said that-I recall telling myself he'll be back in a few years telling us how he had "evolved" and now accepted gay marriage. Obama does not misspeak.
Let's not deflect once again from the matters at hand. Obama is president. Him. He's the one. Not Bush, not the Republicans. Barack Obama. So let's put away that tired old tactic of dragging Bush into it every time that Obama is found wanting in making just and moral decisions. Deal with today, not ten years ago.
The issues are what to do about Syria now. If we accept that Assad is a murderous thug - he's been one for a while and we did nothing - what do we do about it now?
If we accept that he ordered the chemical attacks - and that is not definitively established since there were reports last year that rebel forces had captured military bases where chemical weapons are stored - does the manner of killing change anything?
If the offensive military action that is being advocated (it most certainly is not a defensive action since we've neither been attacked nor threatened) will not really change the overall dynamic, if it will cause more harm than good, is it a just, moral, and yes, legal thing to do? Is "punitive military action" ever the subject of "just war" or is it, by its backward-looking, tit-for-tat retalitatory nature inherently wrong?
If Russia or China or even Iran had done this, instead of some punk Middle East country, would there still be this huffing and puffing for war? Or would we not dare to try to bully countries that are big enough to hit back?
Is it really certain that we can commit acts of war against even tiny countries like Syria with impunity? Do we really think that we can war against them and then just walk away? Is there a possiblity that one of these days that when we attack and kill their people that they might take exception to it, that they will not simply take it, but will respond with "this means war" and counter-attack? If we go and destroy buildings and homes in Syria, if we go and kill a bunch of Syrians, and then they respond with killing Americans and destroying American facilities, can we rightly object?
If starting a war of aggression against a country that has not attacked or threatened us, even if they've killed and oppressed their own people, ends up making things worse, if it does not make Syria safe for democracy or safe for freedom and peaceful living, if it instead only makes it safe for killing more innocent people, safe for persecuting Christians (which is being done by the Syrian "opposition" and not by the Assad regime), is this a wise or good thing to do? If weaking one set of bad guys only ends up strengthening another set of bad guys, is this a just thing to do?
These are – or should be, but it does not appear that they are – questions for Obama and his team. And if Obama defies the will of the American people, overwhelmingly in opposition, if he defies the will of Congress, also overwhelmingly in opposition (even if some of them for partisan reasons might back him or for the morally reprehensible reason of thinking that "America" needs to keep its word even when its president foolishly tells others "do what I say or else"), if Obama defies the international community in its opposition, and launches a rain of death and destruction upon Syria, which will impact many innocent people, not only the wrongdoers, then what is to be done about it? If Obama says that he'll do whatever the hell he wants regardless of what the Congress and country and entire world ways, then what?
Here's an article in WaPo by Thistlewaite concerning what the U.S. can do other than take military action.
Mightbe @9/6/11:50 pm: Not an argument but a factual statement and perhaps in modern times a text book case of a war run on Just War criteria.
I was speaking from memory, but you can read all about it here. The Gulf War: Just or Unjust? http://www.grose.us/academic/gulfwar.html
There is a false dichotomy between doing nothing and doing something in that the doing something means bombing and doing nothing means walking away.
What needs to happen is (as I have been saying before) a coherent, clear, articulate, foreign policy that vigorously engages in these disputes. This means that the president's attention needs to be focussed on international matters, or at least the secretary of state, needs to be clear on what the US can and cannot offer by way of support for developing democracies and mediation. In this, there needs to be the co-operation of leaders on a range of ideas on how to manage popular uprisings (often due to economic anxieties). The so called Arab spring, for example, was something the US and world should have been more aware of. Within these uprisings were secular minded, reformists mixed with radical jihadists. That movement needed to have leadership and it appears that now the extreme factions gained the upper hand. But had we been smart, we could have been supporting, along with our partners, the more secularist moderates either financially or technologically.
In a highly globalized world it is impossible for any world leader not to have a sense of the shape of things internationally. They also can shape, internationally, systems and structures. But this requires a thoughtful and clear vision of what is in our interest.
So far interests have been defined only economically (e.g. stable oil prices, safe passage) and the one sided support of Israel has also hurt. This just cannot be denied.
Let's not deflect once again from the matters at hand. Obama is president. Him. He's the one. Not Bush, not the Republicans.
No matter how well or badly Obama has handled things since he was elected, and no matter how right or wrong his current approach to Syria is, it's just a fact that the way America and its allies view the possible use of force in Syria is strongly influenced by the fact that we invaded Iraq because the Bush administration claimed there were "weapons of mass distruction" there. That war lasted eight years. Our views are also strongly influenced by the fact that we spent eight years fighting the war in Iraq and we're still fighting in Afghanistan after twelve years. Obama owns all of the problems now, and nobody forced him to run for president. But it is absolute nonsense to pretend that the past didn't happen and Obama is not saddled with it.
Two of the main themes running through discussions of a possible strike on Syria are, first, we can't be sure the government knows the truth (is is telling the truth) about what happened with chemical weapons in Syria, because the government was wrong (or lying) about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war; and second, nobody wants to get into another war in the the Middle East. I don't see that striking Syria would amount to, or lead to, a war, but in any case, you can't be worried about another war unless you have already had one, and George Bush got us into two. Countless commentators and newspaper headlines describe the American people as war weary? And why are they (we) war weary? Because George Bush got us into war in 2001, and we are still at war in 2013.
This still haunts me: "We all have the strength to endure the misfortune of others. "(Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
If nothing happens militarily and, most likely diplomatically, and the slaughter goes on, for how long can the rest of us "have the strength to endure the misfortune of others?" Cluck-clucking after a couple of hours of devastating nightly news is a lousy ablution for one's conscience.
"It's not our war. It's none of our business. We need to be spending the money on our own needs here at home. etc." I've heard it all over and over and over.
Any yet ....
"Every person must decide whether to walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?" (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
OK, fine. Bush was a war mongering another Hitler.
Now let's deal with today. Let's deal with shooting missiles and dropping bombs and destroying buildings and killing people -- all of which are ACTS OF WAR. They don't "lead to war," they ARE war.
Ms. Steinfels - Bush and the just war arguments. Unfortunately, it is difficult to make just war arguments when your *evidence* is based upon lies, ideologoies, and corrupted intelligence. Bush wouldn't know a just war argument if he stumbled over it.
Bender - you ask some excellent questions that, per Jim P., I think are being considered and evaluated. Sorry, do not agree that it is a disputed question about who used these chemical weapons; although, do believe that this administration is going to have to be more transparent, more revealing along the lines of Clinton and Libya. Also, think that a final decision needs to wait on the UN investigative findings.
Agree, not naive enought to think that one event (two-three days long) will end it. This will entail agressive oversight and intelligence 24/7 to find and stop any added attempts at the use of chemical warfare. Syrian's capabilities in this area are not advanced - it requires a couple of days in open areas to prepare and launch chemical weapons. Unfortunately, until Russia ends its open-ended support of Syria, do not expect any progress on negotiations, ceasefire, etc.
Bill de Haas: not sure whether you caught that my reference was to the first President Bush and the Gulf War not the second Bush and the war in Iraq. If you understood that than we have a disagreement.


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- The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
- as interviewed on NPR's Here & Now, "A Conversation with Alan Alda", September 13, 2007.
- My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.
- in his memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned, Random House, 2005, ISBN 1400064090.
- … life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
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Dealing with Postpartum Depression: One Woman's Story
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Getting help
There Is Help for You Out There
I was very stubborn and thought my problems would work themselves out. But one day I became so frightened that I called a local mental health hotline. The woman who answered referred me to an expert in dealing with postpartum depression. After listening to my story, she took a very firm line with me and made it clear that this was not something that would just go away by itself. She was emphatic when she told me that if I didn't seek help the condition could worsen and I could become a danger to myself or to my children. She said some people need medical intervention before they can get back on their feet. When I became more frightened of not seeking help I found my way to an excellent psychiatrist.
Counseling Is Cool
Some manifestations of postpartum depression can appear more severe than others—some women's experiences are harder to identify because they may be unmasked by other underlying, chronic conditions such as bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression—a condition that complicated my own PPD experience). The important thing to remember is that once you do have a preliminary diagnosis of possible postpartum depression, you need to take action.
Work with Your Doctor
Many women share the attitude I had at the time—I was resistant to admitting the need for psychological help, and strongly resistant to using medication. My doctor took me through the logical steps of treatment. He told me to wean the baby to see whether my hormones would right themselves on their own. (Of course, you know they didn't. I wasn't so lucky.) Next, he suggested mood-stabilizing medication—only to come up against my then strongly held rejection of drugs of any kind. But he was patient with me, and after he completed my medical and family medical history and made his preliminary diagnosis he said, "Deborah, you deserve this medication. If you were diabetic you would take insulin. You need this medicine to return you to balance."
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Even if your condition is mild and not chronic, any pervasive mood change after childbirth should be taken seriously and a mental health professional, preferably a psychiatrist familiar with this highly misunderstood disorder, should be consulted.
I responded so well and so thoroughly to the medical intervention that I was spared what could have been years of poor mental health. Even more important, my children were spared the loss of a mother due to a chronic mental disorder, or worse.
After six years in remission I conducted a writer's workshop and recognized on the roster the name of the woman who had so firmly guided me through the mental health hot line. At the end of the workshop I told the story of my foray into manic depressive disorder and told her how much she was responsible for my stable and happy life. There wasn't a dry eye in the room.
The Many Flavors of PPD
Postpartum depression comes in many forms. If you are suffering from a full-blown, chronic case, you may require medical intervention. If so, it is important that you stick with your treatment. If you are fortunate enough to have the more common form of postpartum depression, your condition will right itself over time.
It is likely that if your condition is severe enough to require intervention, you will need some kind of drug therapy. And the available medications can bring about dramatic improvements quickly. But do not become cocky and go off your medication when you start to feel better. Follow your doctor's advice on dosages and duration of treatment. For some women, drug intervention is only a temporary necessity. But for people like me, who have a more serious underlying biochemical disorder, the treatment may need to be ongoing. If you go off your medication without a doctor's supervision you may have a relapse.
Diagnosing PPD
There is no blood test, at least as yet, to determine whether a person is manic-depressive, has postpartum depression, or a myriad of other mental health issues. The diagnosis is done through taking a history, through observation, and through a knowledgeable and calculated trial-and-error process with appropriate medication. This means, unfortunately, that what works once may not work again as effectively if you have a relapse.
The Causes of PPD
Not long ago, postpartum depression was largely unrecognized as a legitimate medical condition—it was called the "baby blues" and dismissed as just another of many typical female problems. So research into the condition was rarely done. It is known that PPD, like manic depression, may have a genetic origin, and that it can be (but is not necessarily) triggered by sustained stress in one's life. And we do have enough information now to be good consumers of mental health resources, which can bring relief.
Babying Yourself, Too
Sometimes the circumstances of your life around the time of childbirth can make you more prone to crossing the line into the realm of postpartum depression. It is biochemical in origin, but the impact of stress on our biochemistry has long been recognized. You can take steps to minimize your risk before PPD strikes by making your home environment as supportive and positive as possible. Make sure you can take care of your needs.
You need to learn how to take care of you. This may seem to go against your mothering instincts to care for your children first, but think about it. When you fly with small children in an airplane, the flight attendants tell you to put on your oxygen mask before you put one on your child, in the event of a midair disaster. Why? Because you have to be safe and healthy before you can truly help your child. It's not selfishness to see to your own needs—it's just good mothering.
Your children depend on you to be as healthy and strong as you can be so you can be there to guide them through their lives—not to sacrifice yourself. So do not be self-sacrificial. Be self-validating. Look at the circumstances of your life and do whatever you can to make your life good and conducive to your continued confidence and mental health.
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11 Jan 2013 11:51 PM #1
TextButton inside a ContentPanel has unwanted top margin in IE
I noticed that in IE 8, when I place a TextButton inside a Content Panel, it has unwanted top margin. It works fine in Chrome and FF though. I'm posted a standalone test case and screenshot below. I'm using GXT v3.0.1.
package com.hello.gxt.client; import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint; import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.IsWidget; import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.RootPanel; import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget; import com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.ContentPanel; import com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.button.TextButton; import com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.VerticalLayoutContainer; import com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.VerticalLayoutContainer.VerticalLayoutData; public class HelloGXT implements IsWidget, EntryPoint { private ContentPanel root; @Override public Widget asWidget() { if (root == null) { root = new ContentPanel(); root.setHeaderVisible(false); root.setPixelSize(200, 100); TextButton btn = new TextButton("Test Button"); VerticalLayoutContainer con = new VerticalLayoutContainer(); con.add(btn, new VerticalLayoutData(-1, -1)); root.setWidget(con); } return root; } @Override public void onModuleLoad() { RootPanel.get().add(asWidget()); } }
31 Jan 2013 4:06 AM #2
Top margin in IE
We have the same problem in IE 8. IE 9 works.
Used versions 3.0.3 and 3.0.4-Nightly-Build
31 Jan 2013 10:54 AM #3
Thanks for the report - I can reproduce this in IE8, and have filed it internally.
deepfriedbrain, from the extra padding around the ContentPanel, it appears you have either not added the reset.css to your html page (as described in setup.txt), or you have the GWT Clean theme added in your module file. The Clean theme adds padding in several areas where GXT expects there to be none, and can prevent certain things like the Viewport from behaving correctly. This does not effect the bug - it happens with or without it. That said, it makes this simplified bug harder to notice correctly.
Here's a simplified test that clearly shows that the TextButton is at fault, and that the ContentPanel (and VLC) is just a red herring:
public class Test implements EntryPoint { @Override public void onModuleLoad() { RootPanel.get().add(new TextButton("test")); } }
1 Feb 2013 12:38 AM #4
I use ToggleButton. Don´t know if it is important for your fix.
1 Feb 2013 8:12 AM #5
It probably won't make any difference - ToggleButton appears to only add different behavior to TextButton, not new rendering - but any additional context/details are always nice to have.
18 Feb 2013 6:46 AM #6
maybe it helps:
btn.getElement().getStyle().setDisplay(Display.BLOCK); is my workaround...
A button receives the display:inline-block css-property but i could not find this property in ButtonCell.css to overwrite it.


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If there is a positive mitzva of living in Eretz Yisrael, why did the scholars of Pumbedisa, Sura, Nahardai, Mechoza, etc. remain in Bavel. If it was to learn Torah from the giants, then we can focus the question on the roshei yeshivos themselves.
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There is also the halachic opinion of Rav Yehudah, quoted in several places in the Gemara (Berachos 24b, Shabbos 41a, Kesubos 110b-111a) that it is in fact forbidden to move from Bavel to Eretz Yisrael. He bases this on his understanding of Jer. 27:22 ("they shall be brought to Bavel, and there they shall remain until the day I am mindful of them"), plus some verses in Song of Songs (the famous "three oaths").
Conditions in Israel at the time were generally worse than they were in Bavel. The Romans empire (especially after it converted to Christianity) treated the Jews much worse than the Persian government did. In Bavel, the Jews were granted a certain amount of autonomy and freedom, which allowed them to study and keep the Torah without persecution.
I've heard that the first scholar to go to Bavel was Rav, sent by Ribbi Yehuda HanNasi. He opened up a yeshiva in Sura for the sake of the general population that resided there at the time, which was uneducated to a certain degree. He created his own talmidim. At little later, Shemuel broke off and started a yeshiva in Naharda'a (which I think may have been later relocated to Pumbedita). These yeshivot grew and produced more and more talmidei chachamim to the extent that the Torah-center of the world shifted to Bavel. At this point, students gathered from across the world to study in these great yeshivot.
So, in a sense, Torah in Bavel started as an outreach program for the Jewish population already living there, and eventually developed into a community too large to be abandoned.
By the way, Wikipedia has a ton about this stuff.
The answer is really very simple. They were exiled and not allowed to move to Israel. They were not just leaders of their Yeshivas, they were also members of the Babylonian government, known as the Exilarch.
However, the history of the Exilarch before the destruction of the second temple, is a bit more complicated and I'm not aware of any good reason given for why they kept the Exilarch position in Babylon when Ezra was returning the Jews to Israel.


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My passport is expiring this summer, however I'm planning to travel to Peru in March/April.
Do I need to renew my passport before to leave ? I heard that they admit you only with a passport expiring 6 months later your arrival.
The 6-month passport validity requirement is country-dependent, and I haven't been able to find that requirement on Peru's embassy and travel websites. Some airlines are also picky about the passport validity time frames.
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