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From the email inbox of Bishop Bruskewitz - UPDATED
The good news is, the discussion of religious freedom at the bishops' conference has not focused solely on Catholics or Christians. The bad news is that this is how Muslims came up:
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz: I haven't had a chance to read the Obamacare Protection Act, but somebody told me that there's a total exemption for Muslims in the back of that act, that all Muslims are exempt because insurance, for Muslims, is a type of gambling, which is contrary to the Koran, and therefore Muslims are not obliged in any way to observe the insurance mandate which derives from the act. I'm not sure if that's true or not; I just want to know if any of you know anything about it.
He was addressing his question to Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore and to John H. Garvey, the president of Catholic University, both of whom had just finished their presentations to the assembly. (I'll link to the video at the end of this post.)The bishop from Nebraska is misinformed: there is no exemption for Muslims buried "in the back" of the Affordable Care Act. The claim has been circulated in some chain emails, and yes, Snopes.com has debunked it (FactCheck.org, too). It plays to a number of popular themes in anti-Obama right-wing discourse, which you will recognize if you have been on the receiving end of such emails (or, as Michael Sean Winters says, if you watch a lot of Fox News): there is, first of all, the strange conviction that Muslims are getting off easy in America because everyone is bending over backward to avoid offending them. Related to that is the suspicion that President Obama is himself a Muslim, or perhaps just a bit more sympathetic to Muslims than befits an American leader. Then there is the objection (this one fairly mainstream) that the bill is so long and complicated that "no one" knows what it says. And these accusations are often accompanied by dark warnings about "creeping sharia" and the Muslim plot to take over our nation.In other words, there's a lot of ugly baggage that goes along with what was, I trust, an innocent query on Bruskewitz's part.
He seemed to earnestly believe that what he described was a possibility, and I suppose it's good that he knew enough to say "I'm not sure if that's true." But to believe that it is true requires one to believe that the Obama Administration has succeeded in slipping something this controversial past everyone, save for a few brave freedom fighters sending out chain emails. Anyone who has spent any time thinking about the implications of the Affordable Care Act, as at least some of the bishops have, ought to be able to say confidently that this is not so.
Gregory Metzger, who recently wrote an article for Commonweal lamenting the lack of attention to anti-Muslim prejudice in the bishops' statement "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty," blogged about the distressing exchange. As he points out, it's not just Bruskewitz's ignorance that's troubling; there's also the response, or rather non-response, from the rest of the room. Lori makes a nervous joke (because gosh, that bill is long, amirite?), Garvey does likewise, and then Cardinal Timothy Dolan calls on Cardinal Francis George, who moves on to something else. Bruskewitz's wild speculation hangs there, uncorrected. [Update: At the beginning of the next session, Bishop Richard E. Pates took a moment before his own presentation to note that Muslims are not, in fact, exempt. Thank you to John Page for pointing this out in the comments. I've included Pates's remarks at the bottom of the post.] I know bishops don't like telling other bishops they're wrong in public. But in this case, given what's at stake -- that is, the need for the bishops to be seen as credible and informed voices on the subject of religious liberty and the related provisions of the Affordable Care Act -- couldn't someone have gone out on that limb? Bishop Lori is supposed to be the point man on this issue for the bishops' conference. He can't bring himself to say, "You know, I'm pretty sure that's not right"? Metzger:
Bishop Lori--you really don't know if the document you have spent the better part of the last 18 months criticizing does or does not allow for an entire religious group to exempt itself from its reach? Then why should we trust your judgments about the President's actions on religious freedom?
Perhaps the trouble is that the issue is complicated. No, there's no secret Muslim exemption hidden at the end of the ACA. But the act does leave room for the possibility of exemptions on religious grounds, as noted in the Snopes.com writeup. There is no reason to believe Muslims will apply or qualify for such an exemption, but there may be groups who will, and the government will consider those applications, weighing competing freedoms and benefits and historical precedent as it so often does in such cases.The bishops' resistance to the contraception mandate in the ACA has generally failed to acknowledge the complicated history of religious freedom and government policy, as many of the contributors to our forum pointed out. Here, for example, is Cardinal Dolan's proposed solution, from a recent column in Catholic New York:
All Washington has to do is say, "Any entity that finds these mandates morally objectionable is not coerced to do them," and leave it there. Don't get into the red tape in trying to mandate for us how our good works should be defined.
How simple! How constitutional! How American!
While I agree with the cardinal about the troubling aspects of this particular mandate and its limited exemption for religious institutions, I wonder if he's thought about the implications of writing the language he suggests into law. It seems to me "getting into red tape" is basically the definition of legislation -- the protest the bishops ought to be making is not against the very fact of legal distinctions where religious objections to a law are concerned. The distinctions have to be made, and the aim is to make them well.
A straightforward answer to Bruskewitz's question might force the bishops into an uncomfortable position. After all, based on their reasoning about the HHS contraception mandate, if Muslims did object on moral and religious grounds to buying health insurance, shouldn't they be allowed to refuse? Wouldn't that make this an unjust law, and therefore no law at all, where they are concerned?
You can watch the whole exchange on the USCCB website: go here and click on the video titled "2012 Spring General Assembly Afternoon Session Part 1." Then skip ahead to 1:31, close to the end of the nearly two-hour session, for the exchange with Bruskewitz.
P.S. While you're watching, stay tuned to hear Cardinal George offer a caution about invoking St. Thomas More, who was called on by Garvey at the end of his speech: "Thomas More taught us that we need religious liberty. More important, he taught us that loving God is worth dying for," Garvey said. George pointed out that More also sent people to their deaths in his defense of the truth, making him a complicated patron for the cause of religious liberty today. Good for George.
Update: Go to the same page and click on the video titled "2012 Spring General Assembly Afternoon Session Part 2" to hear Bishop Pates correct Bishop Bruskewitz's misinformation, right at the beginning. Here is what he says:
Bishop Richard E. Pates: Our very capable staff here at the conference very quickly researched the question that Bishop Bruskewitz raised with regard to the Muslims, and they've asked me to say that they are not exempt. And so, if you have further questions, they would invite you to consult with the staff here, but that they already have had some questions through the media, et cetera, about the exact status of the exemption, but it's not the case, as I understand it.
Good for Bishop Pates and the conference staff.
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Mollie ..you are much too kind to hierarchal overreach. "Obamacare Protection Act, "Maybe changing names of laws is part of his idea about religious liberty. and the fellow bishops giving him a pass is like asking again for a Taco Bell exemption. . PHEW
We have switched places on this one, Mollie--I think I am more upset with Bruskewitz than you and can not help but make conclusions about his motivations in bringing up this question. But like you said, my main concern is with Lori/Garvey's "nonresponse". I am not an expert in "bishopspeak", but it seems like when "the world is watching" the good bishop should make a point of clarifying the issue at hand and showing that you have some credibility on the question of "religious freedom for all", not make a little joke and claim ignorance. Of course, he may well be ignorant about this rumor and the motivations behind those who have been advancing it for going on two years. But if Lori is ignorant about that, it really speaks to why I have no more trust in the Bishops' campaign and its claim to represent all Americans. When your leading spokespeople can't even articulate a competent response to a question like Bruskewitz's (whatever his motivations may have been) the bishops lose whatever credibility they still had on this issue. First, they are silent on anti-Shariah laws, now they are silent on the very law that they have been claiming expertise on for months.
And don't even get me started on Garvey's response--OK, I'm started. His little joke about not being a lawyer anymore and claiming ignorance of the ACA's wording is just sad to see. How do people expect to be trusted as voices for the Catholic community when on the most essential aspect of the law in terms of the bishops' campaign--namely, how religious communities are going be treated under it--they embarrassingly giggle and claim ignorance. That is the real joke. What they both should have done is taken a page out of the baseball player Bryce Harper who responded a couple days ago to a dumb question with the response: "That's a clown question, bro." It may not be "Bishopspeak" but that response sure would have been better than what Lori/Garvey they gave us. But in this case it was a clown question about an entire segment of people who the bishops claim to be speaking for, not a question about drinking beer in Canada like the question to Harper. When I was received into communion in the Catholic Church 12 years ago, it was in part due to the social teachings of the Church. To see leading spokespeople for our Social Doctrines do so with such blatant incompetence at such a key moment is a real disappointment.
Maybe some of the catechists and theologians could help/correct me on this, but isn't this an example of a failure in the formation of conscience?Catholics who disagree with a particular Church teaching, or with the way it's applied, are regularly reminded/instructed about the burden that is upon them to form their consciences properly---by prayer, works of mercy, study of Scripture and of the Church's teachings, etc.And here we have bishops, who not only have decades of experience with these practices and disciplines, but who also have diocesan staff, as well as easy access to the resources and expertise at Catholic universities, the USCCB, the Vatican, etc., for help with gathering the information necessary to form their consciences and make prudential judgments about any number of public issues---including this issue which has been at the top of their collective agenda for the past two years.(I try to keep things like this in mind during the Prayers of the Faithful at Sunday Mass when praying for our bishops.)
I would not be at all surprised to hear that the majority of the U. S. bishops find the bishop of Lincoln Nebraska to be an embarrassment, since he was the only bishop who did not sign the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People at the June 2002 meeting. As someone who has never seen the President at CU before, I would say that he isn't very good at thinking on his feet.
It's hard to listen to. A bishop yesterday said something about how the laity "perceives" something. He seemed so timid. He emphasized "perceives" and "perception" a few times as if to make sure Dolan and the others understood that he didn't share the perception.As to Lori? On the Baltimore Archdiocese's page, it says: "The U.S. Bishops have called for a Fortnight for Freedom, June 21-July 4, celebrating religious liberty."Celebrating? I thought they were mourning the loss of it. Or battling to regain it. Or something.http://www.archbalt.org/
I agree that there should have been some direct response to Bishop Bruskewitz from Archbishop Lori or President Garvey of CUA. They were the presenters to a plenary meeting of the US bishops on the topic of domestic threats to religious freedom.However, Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Policy, did, before beginning his own presentation (at the rostrum) on frequently violent religious persecution in various parts of the world, go out of his way to make clear that there are no exemptions for Muslims in the ACA. Even though this was not part of his brief. Good for him.Bishop Pates was on the staff of the then Apostolic Delegation during the years of the often dishonored Archbishop Jean Jadot ("the Jadot bishops"). Bishop Pates remained close to Archbishop Jadot till the archbishop's death at ninety-nine a year or so ago.
That is good to hear about Bishop Pates. I will go and listen to that on tape. I had missed that. Thanks for the heads up, @John Page. I will also note that on my blog. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen, and happen soon.
Hmm. Maybe another indication that Cardinal George is not too happy with this "freedom" enterprise.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/bishop-bruskewitz-reflects-on-his-w... article yesterday on Bruskewitz who is past retirement age and has submitted his resignation. Will the pope accept it? Is there anyone who can fill his buskins?(The Current Issue of the Register, top right on the page, has a big article about the Girl Scouts. Safe for Catholic Girls?)
It is hard for me to understand why the bishops allowed this broadcast. The bishops do not emerge from this broadcast looking or sounding very impressive.
Bruskewitz continues to damn himself and prove his vincible ignorance. And this man is supposed to be recognized as a TEACHER in the church?The man is a total embarrassment. Could he possibly be suffering from dementia?Who can fill his buskins? Any retrograde from any other backwater diocese would be an improvement.
Helen: I thought Bruskewitz was joined by Vasa, then of Oregon and now foisted on the poor people of Santa Rosa, CA, in refusing to sign the Charter. I know that both of them, along with all/most of the Eastern Rite Eparchs (?) refused to allow investigations in their dioceses/eparchies."Submitted by Who Repealed Vatican II? (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2011. .... It is my understanding that both Vasa and Bruskewitz do not allow the audit because they do not allow the "bad touch" training to young kids, claiming that is the parent(s)' job. On the face of that, one might cut them a little slack, but last month, a lawsuit against the Baker Diocese was filed by a family of 2 twin girls molested by a 12 yr old boy while unsupervised during an activity sponsored by a lay organization in a rental hall of a Bend Church. Although the Diocese obviously was not directly responsible for the molestation, the girls would have been better served if they knew what was happening was a bad touch and immediately reported it to an adult." http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/dallas-charter-life-support
Also ----"Bennett is right to point out that, while zero tolerance is a blunt instrument, it was adopted because the bishops lost credibility on this issue. He cites Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, who has never complied with the Charter, and continues to refuse audits of abuse allegations in his diocese. Bennett calls that arrogant and outrageous. Also outrageous is the failure of bishops to fraternally correct Bruskewitz in a public venue. At the USCCB meeting, Bruskewitz submitted twenty-eight amendments to the revision of the Charter. None was accepted. (Bishop Blase Cupich, chair of the Committee for Child and Youth Protection, explained that his committee would accept only those amendments that strengthened the Charter.) Bruskewitz said: It is fundamentally dishonest to tell the faithful and the general public that the USCCB has any authority whatsoever to bind diocesesto obey the charter. The more commitments, the more grounds for lawsuits. Emcee Arroyo thinks that makes some sense."http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=14074
John Page: Thank you, that is very good to know. I will update the post and link to Pates's presentation if possible.
Yes, by all means focus on a throw-away comment from a caricature, all to ignore the fine presentation by Pres. Garvey.
Thomas F. is right. The LA Times reported on some opinions that they need better PR. The best thing they could do for their public image immediately appears to be to forget the transparency and hold private meetings. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-catholic-bishops-2... It's to Cdl. George's credit that he brought them up to date on Thomas More -- not a great icon for religious liberty, as many outside the USCCB have laughingly noted since it was announced. (See Wikipedia)
Thomas Farrell"It is hard for me to understand why the bishops allowed this broadcast." Hopefully had they not it would have been leaked.
"Its to Cdl. Georges credit that he brought them up to date on Thomas More"I was surprised but pleased. Hats off to Cardinal George.
John Page:"Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Policy, did, before beginning his own presentation (at the rostrum) on frequently violent religious persecution in various parts of the world, go out of his way to make clear that there are no exemptions for Muslims in the ACA."I thought I heard that comment, but could not find the archive on USCCB website to validate it. Thanks.
Curious, no mention of the recent would-be hero, Bp. Stephen Blaine's intervention after Card. George, talking about the incursion of government into religious activities, and Planned Parenthood's activities.
Jeff Landry:"no mention of the recent would-be hero, Bp. Stephen Blaine"Why do you think that he is a hero?
The Law of Large Meetings: In any sufficiently large meeting, an ignoramus or two will eventually be found standing at the microphone.
Jeff Landry: Did you mean Bp. Stephen Blaire?If so he back-tracked on his original statements at the Bishops' meeting.He called the federal contraceptive mandate an "unbelievable and egregious" intrusion on the right of the church and its institutions to follow their consciences. He led the motion at the bishops' meeting (which passed unanimously) to reaffirm a document calling for Catholics to unite behind the religious freedom campaign.Doesn't sound very heroic to me.
The prejudice against Muslims is similar to the prejudice against blacks in the church prior to MLK. The prejudice at that time was just as much clergy driven as laity drives as it is now. Mollie mentioned it when she wrote above: "And these accusations are often accompanied by dark warnings about creeping sharia and the Muslim plot to take over our nation." This is not just Fox News but a tremendous amount of Catholics. So the accusation that the Bishops are not concerned about the rights of Muslims is not just a presumption. On another list I admonished a blogger that his hatred of Muslims was not good and that Jesus commands us to love. He responded by writing that it is hard to love. True but telling. So it easy to hate. The Muslims stand right up there with the Samaritans when it comes to hatred by Catholics and other Christians. Thankfully the staff at the conference corrected false notions by a bishop who should know better. Sadly too many Catholics share his view.
Timidity and ignorance are just not an excuse for irresponsible leadership.
The telling thing about the helpful clarification by Bishop Pates is how quickly the "conference staff" was able to arrive at the truth and yet the two leading spokesmen for the bishops on religious freedom had no idea. That says all we need to know about the competence of those who are leading the USCCB heading into the Fortnight. My guess is that Bishop Pates and others with their heads screwed on right will be urging their fellow bishops to "declare victory" on this situation and end this "campaign" ASAP. The credibility of the conference has taken a real hit and the Fortnight will only be worse unless the bishops realize how shallow the leadership actually is on the basic facts and issues surrounding the broader issues of religious freedom in America. Let Notre Dame and some good lawyers move ahead with their suit and lets get the bishops back to working on things that they are competent to work on and leave the "campaigning" to the laity of whatever perspective. What this incident indicates with great clarity is that the competence of the bishops does not reach to orchestrating a public relations campaign of this magnitude (and shouldn't).
Bruskewitz excommunicated the Rainbow Girls, a girl scout like group affiliated with masons, when his episcopal reign in ? Nebraka?
Regarding the term "Obamacare" - I've read that the Obama White House and the Obama campaign are now using the term. That doesn't prevent it from being muttered in a derogatory tone of voice, but, for political purposes, anyway, it seems to have morphed into a relatively neutral descriptor. That is why I've used it once or twice in recent comments. If the sense of this group is that I shouldn't, I'll stop.
Later after the good bishop of Lincoln asked his question Bishop Jaime Soto got up and asked the bishops not use the term "Obamacare" because it was a term that reflected an ideological bias. His intervention and that of Cardinal George was the high point of the afternoon.
I think "Obamacare" is a good name for it. It reminds Americans that Obama and the "Democrat" Party CARE for them, as opposed to the Republicans who don't care for anyone other than their masters. When the SCOTUS strikes down Obamacare here's what it will mean for one family:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/14/health-care-reform-repeal-obama...
The RCC (Republican Catholic Church) will mark Independence Day by TOLLING church bells. By putting a damper on the Fourth of July, they will demonstrate . . . something.At a demonstration in St. Louis, a priest did his part:http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/u-s-bishops-on-offen... that:Holding signs saying, "Stop President Obama's HHS Mandate," and "Religious Freedom Gone Today. What Freedom Next?" protesters heard the Rev. Anthony Gerber, 31, an associate pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Imperial quote from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Gerber made fun of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and asked what the Obama administration "might mandate next.""Where will the hubris stop?" Gerber said. "Will they mandate that women take contraception? Will they mandate that men be sterilized? Will they mandate that families only have one child, like they do in Communist China? And like in China, will this government mandate the church be quiet about it?"
The fact is Obamacare, or the ACA for those who prefer acronyms, will not hold up under scrutiny. Legally, it will probably go down via the Supreme Court decisions, and as a practical matter, it is too cumbersome and complex.Hopefully, what will prevail is a federal health care plan, a single-payer system whereby the federal government provides a basic, minimal policy to everyone living here (yes even to the indocumentados), and people can then supplement the national policy by purchasing their own rider policies.Simple and straightforward, a national single-payer plan will settle all the griping, and then we all get get back to living our lives.
And Gerelyn; I have one of the Stop President Obamas HHS Mandate signs big red letters; pastic sign suitable to put in the front yard. It is still in the trunk of our car from last Fridays rally in Sacramento. We listened to various speakers, walked around waving the signs, it was a nice day and it was fun.
God help us.Forget Bruskewitz - one of the episcopal loonies we endure from the hierachical pickings sent us from Rome.There was a clear expression that the Bshops needed bette rPR, perhaps a new spokesman.I said to myself, who?Bill Donahue? (Then we're really up the well known tributary.)John Allen? He'd fit the bill - got an exclusive with Cardinal Levada on LWCR -which shows how up the chain they realize the image is just getting worse.But they'll have continued problems with the perception they're in bed with the GOP and the whiter than white (to borrow on Colbert last night) reach of that party.Bruskewitz is just a small example of that.
Gerylyn:For me the most powerful indicator that this entire, expensive Fortnight for Freedom hype is a disgrace and most probably politically motivated:1) the powerful presentation given at the USCCB meeting by Bishop Shlemon Warduni in which he described the persecution of the Church in Iraq and (Did they all miss this?) put the blame on the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.2) an interview that I heard last night on BBC, broadcasted on our local PBS station here in the Philadelphia area. An Italian Jesuit priest and a Syrian nun described the Syrian governments persecution of Christians. The Priest is being forced to leave by the government.Our bishops should be ashamed of themselves, when so much real persecution is occurring throughout the world. Isnt this supposed to be a Catholic (universal) Church?
Hi, Helen:Articles this morning about the bishops' "lively session". Here's one:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-catholic-bishopsbre85d1... that: In a lively session at their national conference in Atlanta, several bishops expressed dismay that they are slow to get their talking points across and are perceived as too confrontational.The recent Vatican crackdown on the largest organization of U.S. nuns turned into a public relations "debacle" for the bishops, said Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston.He complained that the Vatican's decision to put bishops in charge of rooting out "radical feminist" elements within the nuns' group was linked in the secular media to unrelated events, such as the bishops' investigation of the Girl Scouts, with negative consequences for the church's image.
Lori, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, said on Wednesday "We've seen some reaction to our work that is sometimes hostile, sometimes unfair and inaccurate and sometimes derisive". He offered some explanations, including that "It [derogatory comments] shows how far we have fallen and how far we have to climb before we can rest assured religious freedom stands on firm footing". He apparently doesn't recognize that inability to respond professionally from the podium to an inevitable oddball meeting input of some kind from confrere Bruskewitz contributes to that fall. http://ncronline.org/news/politics/archbishop-fortnight-about-religious-... Bp. Bruskewitz in his letter on HHS for all Masses Jan 29 called for preparing like martyrs of old for suffering, which might include heavy fines and imprisonment. Martyrdom was in the air. The St. Louis archdiocesan director of marketing and mission awareness wrote in the archdiocesan newspaper in Feb of "Ever-increasing attacks on Church calling us to martyrdom". She attributed to Cdl. George an assertion about his successor dying in the streets and that man's successor martyred in the public square. Where does the USCCB stand today on martyrdom? Is Bruskewitz its only proponent? (Add Nigeria to Helen's list at 11:12am.)http://dioceseoflincoln.org/Documents/PDFs/BishopLetter_Jan29_2012.pdf http://stlouisreview.com/article/2012-02-16/ever-increasing
Jim P--While I agree it's probably not good form for a bishop to use the term derogatively (in public), I will be upset if you stop using the term, as would the president, I think.
About the term "Obamacare". It certainly reflects Democratic values. George Lakoff, the fascinating linguist who is also a Democratic theorist, has a recent article about the Wisconsin recall, in which he points out that the Republicans are experts at manipulating the populace by their not very subtle use of Republican words and constant repetition of their message. He doesn't use the phrase "code language", but I think that's what it basically is. Lakoff contrasts the fundamental, differing values of progressives and conservatives and shows how the Republicans use language over and over which appeals to those basic values. He thinks the Democrats have failed to emphasize their basic values in language that reinforces their basic values. (I think "Obamacare" is an exception -- it emphasized "caring".) In other words Democrats pay little attention to their political vocabulary. He thinks one big reason the Democrats lost in Wisconsin is because they didn't "talkDemocratic" sufficiently. Says he, "What progressives need to do is clear. To people who have mixed values - partly progressive, partly conservative - talk progressive values in progressive language, thus strengthening progressive moral views in their brains. Never move to the right thinking youll get more cooperation that way."Start telling deep truths out loud all day every day: Democracy is about citizens caring about each other. The Public is necessary for The Private. Pensions are delayed earnings for work already done; eliminating them is theft. Unions protect workers from corporate exploitation - low salaries, no job security, managerial threats, and inhumane working conditions. Public schools are essential to opportunity, and not just financially: they provide the opportunity to make the most of students skills and interests. They are also essential to democracy, since democracy requires an educated citizenry at large, as well as trained professionals in every community. Without education of the public, there can be no freedom."http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/11880-focus-the-wisconsin... plugs his forthcoming"The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic". http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147670001X?ie=UTF8&tag=commondreams-20&...
I always thought it was a strategic mistake- or at least a little bit of Russian roulette- for opponents to early on label the ACA "Obamacare". Who knows if health care reform will stick, but if it does, it could be as big an expansion of the safety net as Social Security has turned out to be. And thanks to his critics, it is now indelibly labelled with Pres. Obama's signature.
Ann Olivier: In short, Democrats today are inept at meaningful political talk, as they have been in recent decades.
It always strikes me funny to see all of the bishops, dressed identically and with apparently same gold chains across the chest holding sometimes different pectoral crosses, with the enforced uniformity of such gatherings. That is when I realize how much they can't stand the individualism of American religous orders that no longer have habits or even veils! There is not the uniformity! And the uniformily also structures the dialogue and interactions, I believe. Just once I'd like to see them in smoking jackets (without smoking!) or how about in shorts and golf shirts...Just a whimsical image!
The Church of Whimsey -Better than the church of self-selected, self-appointed, self-protecting, unelected mysoginistic, "celibate" male leadership that exists today.
I have tried to clarify and expand on some of my points with this new post.http://debatingobama.blogspot.com/2012/06/bishop-lori-and-coming-fortnig...
And Greg was good enough in MSW's blogspot @ NCR to - once again! - prove the kool aid nonsense that the Good Bishop Fabian seems to have ingested with his daily pablum is jujst that, nonsense:http://www.factcheck.org/2010/05/dhimmitude-and-the-muslim-exemption/Int... seems not to be a qualification for ordination to the episcopacy. We all hope B takes a deserved retirement sooner rather than later.
I just saw the replay of the press conference after the Wednesday afternoon session of the USCCB meeting. Bishop Lori was asked how the Fortnight, etc. was being funded. He mentioned the K of C (not surprised), Knights of Malta, and National Catholic Register (affiliated with EWTN (also not surprising).He did not mention that each diocese is contributing 3% more to their assessment to USCCB to support of the Ad Hoc Committeee for Religious Liberty. They overwhelmingly agreed to that at their fall meeting.
Thomas F. ==Yes, there is little Democratic talk (though "trickle down economics" still has meaning). I think that one of the problems is that there has not be any fine articulation of Democratic principle since Pres. Kennedy, and certainly there have been no theorists who have captured the public's attention since FRD's administration, when Msgr. John A. Ryan was one of the ones who articulated a social philosophy of the common good. The Republicans had the great master of Republican talk, Pres. Reagan. Yes, he over-simplified, but it worked for generations -- "the city on the hill", the Soviets as the "evil empire", and "the government is the problem" still echo.I think we need some new Democratic theorists who can articulate not only a philosophy of the common good (which even Christian conservatives can hardly gainsay) but who can also articulate in simple enough terms why "the government is the problem" philosophy won't work.
Greg --Fine post on your blog.
Ann Olivier: I thought that President Lyndon Johnson articulated his civil rights' goals and the goals of the Great Society reasonably well.Unfortunately, he also tragically escalated the war in Vietnam.
Thomas F. --I think Johnson articulated them well enough in Congress, but I think it was his legislative savvy that got the bills passed, not his appeals to the people. But I really should read the new Caro book to say. I think the Democrats need both a solid academic thinker who can appeal to both to the history of the founding of this country and to the way capitalism has evolved in since the Industrial Revolution. The two (e.g., George Washington, farmer, and George Soros, billionaire investor.) I mean someone analogous to Russell Kirk who, after WW II, articulated a contemporary sort of conservatism that was grounded on his moral principles, and who related those principles to American history and experience. Not that the liberals don't have their own important moral principles, but each side emphasizes a different set of principles. (See Lakoff on this -- excellent.) I also think that the American liberal establishment (the guys who run the Democratic party) has not represented the middle-ground liberals. They have moved too far away from "the common man". And they certainly haven't articulated any sort of coherent political philosophy, Of course, that sort of thinker doesn't come along very often. Somebody with Zizek's brains and maybe his passion, but not crazy.
P. S. -- I should add that this is the sort of fundamental thinking that the bishops should be encouraging among Catholic academics. But I fear that Catholic academics are generally too liberal for their taste. But they too need a really fine theorist or two or three to help guide them through the political thickets.
P. P. S. To you conservatives -- Yes, Jesus was a liberal :-)
@ Ann Olivier: Yeaaaayyyy!I remember being taught about the sin of "rash judgment." Yet here's a bishop passing on a rumor without doing the most basic fact-checking. I hope he doesn't watch the fair-and-balanced network too.
Ann Olivier: You've figured out what's needed politically in the United States at the present time, but you've not figured out how to do it.By the way, I'm not convinced that the historical Jesus was a liberal.I know, I know, John Dominic Crossan thinks that the historical Jesus was concerned about social justice, as certain ancient Hebrew prophets such as Amos were.But I think Crossan is wrong about this this.The historical Jesus announced that the reign of God (also known as the kingdom of God) has come.Yes, the reign of God has come. People today can also experience the reign of God, as the historical Jesus did.The spiritual thinker who in effect describes the reign of God today is the late Anthony de Mello, S.J. (1931-1987), of India in his new posthumously published book REDISCOVERING LIFE: AWAKEN TO REALITY (ImageCatholicBooks, 2012).I say "in effect" because he does not happen to explicitly advert to the reign of God or the kingdom of God.
Angela --You're right. Eash judgment,it's not a popular sin these days, not in the sense that we are very aware of doing it. But when I think of blogs and the insults people hurl at each other, it looks like rash judgment is the most popular sin on the net. In particular, the word "hypocrite" is heard much too often to be justified. Maybe we should regularly add "rash judgment" to our examination of conscience.
Thomas F. --No, I certainly don't have the foggiest notion of what this country needs most. I suspect it mainly needs a revised economic system, one which somehow has people paying their fair share of taxes and providing for the truly needy. But I don't think that taxes are the whole economic problem. Our capitalist system needs overhaul. It permits and even encourages greed to an extent that it's destroying the nation from within. I notice that the very young are starting to say "Chuck capitalism!!!" But they don't remember Communism and how much worse that was. So what's our alternative? This is the question that the bishops should be seeking an answer for. But I fear that their hierarchical culture is so set in concrete that it can't even think about new ideas. Jesus wasn't a conformist. Why are the bishops?
Ann said: "Jesus wasnt a conformist. Why are the bishops?"This very bright Jesuit put it so very well:"Those called to serve the people of God as bishops have to remember that they walk on feet of clay and rely on the power of prayer and sacraments to protect them from the dangers of earthly ambition and corrosive pride. Regrettably, some bishops fail to understand the shepherding nature of their episcopal role; they attempt to rule rather than lead the flock that has been entrusted to their care. That simply doesnt work, and it is regrettable that the bishop is often the last to notice. "William J. Bryon, SJ, The church can learn a lot from 'servant leadership', NCR, Aug 21, 2010, http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/church-can-learn-lot-servant-le...
If the Obama campaign says we should call it Obamacare, I fail to see how it is derogatory or partisan to do so. All sides now seem to agree on this label.http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/a-democratic-embrance-for-...


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John W. Thompson recently sat down with Microsoft's Channel 9 to share insights on his experience as a member of Microsoft's board of directors, as part of our Director Video Series.
During the course of the conversation, Mr. Thompson speaks about his more than 40 years of experience working in the technology industry, his responsibilities as Microsoft's lead independent director, and Microsoft's devices and services strategy. He also gives an insider's view of the company's board meetings.
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Great interview, it is interesting to see how some of these strands come together and that technology cannot out perform the personal, face-to-face touch.
Interesting interview with good articulation by Mr. Thompson. I am a long term investor with my stock ownership going back over many years. Regardless of the "billions" that he references as being returned to stock holders I suspect that as a percent of the whole it is not very large. I think that the company has been behind the curve of changes in the industry and that the independent Board members have been to complacent and not insistent enough in change.
I am trying to watch Mr. Thompson on an i7, Windows 7, IE10 machine and my viewing window opens in smaller size that does not allow me to view the whole picture at once or make full screen or even open to a full window size. If I want to see the whole picture I have to use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to move it around and see less than half the screen, The Company I Own, Microsoft, is never going to make it if they can't even put the default display up to normal view a director! I have no problem viewing any other video on the web EVER except this, what is going on here?
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May 6, 2009 -- The nation's first full face transplant gave Connie Culp what dozens of painful plastic surgeries could not -- the ability to re-enter life.
Culp, a 46-year-old mother of two from Ohio, didn't die four years ago when her husband pulled the trigger of a shotgun aimed at her face. But she lost every semblance of a normal existence.
The middle of her face was gone. She lost one eye, her nose and sinuses, her cheekbone, her upper jaw, and the bone, muscles, and skin that hold a face together. Her facial nerves were torn away.
Culp couldn't breathe without a tube in her neck. She could not drink from a cup, smell, or taste. Despite the best efforts of reconstructive plastic surgeons, a tight and extremely painful shell of scar tissue grew over the wound.
Perhaps even more painful to Culp, people saw her as a monster.
"We tried to assimilate her into society, but she had a difficult time," Cleveland Clinic plastic surgeon Risal Djohan, MD, tells WebMD. "Kids ran away from her and people stared at her."
"Our patient was called names and was humiliated," Cleveland Clinic transplant team leader Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, said at a news conference. "You need a face to face the world."
Culp now has that face, thanks to an anonymous donor and to Siemionow's 17-member surgical team. The donor, a woman of about the same age and complexion as Culp, died of a head injury that left her face and neck intact.
In an astonishing 23-hour operation, the team was able to remove the donor's face -- nearly the entire face except for the upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip, and chin -- and connect it to Culp's blood vessels and nerves. Although they'd practiced over and over again on cadavers, the team didn't know for sure that the operation would be a success.
That changed when Culp's blood began to flow into the transplant, and the pale white skin became a rosy pink.
"It was a joyful moment to see the lighting up of the face," Djohan said. "It was like the lighting up of a Christmas tree."


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Donald Richard Shampine Jr., 46, of Cheboygan, passed away Tuesday, March 26 at 1:45 a.m. in the comfort of his home, under the care of Hospice of the Straits, surrounded by his family and friends.
Don was taken to Nordman's Funeral Home to be cremated. Since Don was a member of the Eagles F.O.E 1282, there will be a benefit held there at a later date.
He was also a member of the Sault Saint Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Don was a commercial fisherman and loved working on the boats and fixing gill nets.
Don is survived by his daughters, Rachel Shampine and Lakon St. Amour of St. Ignace, Mich.; one son, Johnathan Shampine of Cheboygan; one grandson, Blake Akers of St. Ignace, Mich.; his mother, Jaunita and (Tommy) Peace of Hazelhurst, Georgia; one sister, Betty Shampine of Cheboygan and (brother) John Pelon; along with many nephews, cousins and friends.
Don is preceded in death by his father, Donald (John) Richard Shampine Sr., along with several aunts and uncles, and his beloved dog, Riley.
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April 3 Conference to Celebrate 40 Years of Clinical Education and Honor Arthur Kinoy & Frank Askin
March 11, 2009 –On Friday, April 3, Rutgers School of Law–Newark will celebrate its 40-year-old clinical program and honor two key figures in the notable success and national influence of the Rutgers–Newark legal clinics. In September 2008 National Jurist magazine ranked the program 13th in the country for "Best in Practical Training."
"The Legacy of Arthur Kinoy and the Inspirational and Collaborative Dimensions of Clinical Legal Education: Honoring 40 Years of Clinics at Rutgers–Newark" will examine the goals of clinical education as advocated by Rutgers law professor and legendary civil rights advocate Arthur Kinoy. The luncheon will posthumously honor Kinoy for his vision and leadership and for inspiring many students to careers in public interest law. The luncheon will also honor Professor Frank Askin '66, the most senior member of the current faculty, for creating and implementing clinics during his 40-years at Rutgers. The conference will conclude with a discussion of the role of clinical programs in promoting collaborations with law firm pro bono departments, public interest organizations, and other partners. Speakers, many of whom are graduates of the law school, are leaders of the private and public bar and of clinical legal education.
|"The Legacy of Arthur Kinoy and the Inspirational and Collaborative Dimensions of Clinical Legal Education: Celebrating 40 Years of Clinical Legal Education at Rutgers–Newark
|Keynote: Barry Scheck, Innocence Project, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (10 – 10:30 am)
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Professor Jane Aiken, Georgetown University Law Center
Flor Bermudez '00, Lambda Legal Defense Fund
Donita Judge '03, Advancement Project Power and Democracy Team
Professor Carlin Meyer '74, New York Law School
Professor Michael Pinard, University of Maryland School of Law
Alexander Saingchin '06, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Erika Wood '99, Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law
Professor Ellen Yaroshefsky '75, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Clinical Professor Jonathan Askin '90, Brooklyn Law School
Hon. Ronald K. Chen '83, NJ Public Advocate
Wade Henderson '73, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Donna Lieberman '73, New York Civil Liberties Union
Vincent Warren '93, Center for Constitutional Rights
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Professor Randy Hertz, New York University School of Law
Mary Beth Hogan '90, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Marc R. Kadish '68, Mayer, Brown and Platt LLP
Marcia Levy, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Lawrence S. Lustberg, Gibbons P.C.
Rosie Mendez '95, New York City Council
Joan Vermeulen '75, Cyrus. R. Vance Center for International Justice
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I have felt so tired since finishing my treatment, what can I do to get some energy back?
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Fatigue is a very common side effect of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Typically, energy levels should start increasing slowly a few weeks after treatment. in the interim, get a good night's sleep, rest when you're tired, and don't over do it! Light exercise can help with fatigue, such as a short walk around the block.
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I have used my NNJ 5 with my Nikon 70-200 VRII lens with limited success. The head is just not stable enough to use telephoto lenses it seems. I attached the camera by the tripod collar, not to the camera body, but the lens doesn't stay completely level over time, the front slides down slightly. Also, the slightest wind just shakes the whole setup too much and ruins the shots. I am shooting mostly at night and often in moderate winds. Has anyone figured out a stable setup to use this head with a Nikon body and tele lens? I have seen that some people invert the top rail and shoot backwards...but how does that affect the nodal point? As an aside...I have never been able to find a proper nodal point for the 70-200 VRII lens except at 70mm. At 110-200mm it doesn;t seem to have any correct nodal point. Any help is appreciated!


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When I'm painting high-gloss oil-based on woodwork (architraves, skirtingboards, windows), I have been following the tin's advice and sanding between all coats. I don't resent sanding after the undercoat/primer because it helps provide a smooth finish, but the final sand often takes the paint off sharp edges, even when I am careful, which can leave them a bit dark after the final coat. Is this final sand necessary?
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I don't tend to do a final sand for the very reason you mention. However there have been times when the finish hasn't been to my liking so I have sanded - but in these cases I use the finest grade paper and sand very lightly to just take off the drips and/or dust flecks that have settled on the wood.
So if the penultimate coat is good you might be OK without sanding, but sanding does provide something for the final coat to bind to if the previous coat was applied some time ago, so ultimately it will provide a more durable finish. If you are painting the second coat as soon as the first coat is dry then you don't need to bother.
IMO it's not worth it. Sanding has two primary goals. First of all, it compensates for the surface defects. In case of woodwork it also removes the wood fibers that get raised from the surface when applying paint and are fixed still in the paint layer and thus make the surface less even. Since this is not the first layer of paint you have likely compensated for all the defects and you've surely sanded away all raised wood fibers, so you will likely not get any real benefits from sanding.
From my experience - I've coated wood table with two layers of oil-based lacquer. Sanding made huge difference for the first layer, but after I applied the second layer the surface was as even as before the second layer. Definitely I wouldn't sand the second layer if I wanted to apply the third one.
I think there are three good reasons to not sand between the last and previous coats of oil based paint as long as the earlier coat has not dried very hard over an extended delay.
I would just sand where the recent earlier finish is imperfect, i.e. dust, hair or other imperfections, then be sure to remove the dust with a microfibre cloth, better than a tack cloth which can leave a residue.


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Me and Open Badges – Different, but the same
Hi there, if you read this blog it's probably for one of three things,
1) my investigation of the life of Isham Randolph, the chief engineer of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal.
2) you know me and you want to see what I'm doing but you haven't discovered Twitter or Facebook yet.
3) Open Badges.
This is a quick update for everyone in that third group, the Open Badges crew. I have some news.
When I joined the Open Badges project nearly three years ago, I knew this was something that once I joined, I wouldn't leave. The idea of Open Badges hits me exactly where I live, at the corner of 'life long learning' and 'appreciating people for who they are'. I've been fortunate that my love of life long learning and self-teaching led me down a path where I get to do what I love as my career. Not everyone is that fortunate. I see Open Badges as a way to make my very lucky career path the norm instead of the exception. I believe in the project, I believe in the goals and I'm never going to not work toward bringing that kind of opportunity to everyone regardless of the university they attended or the degree hanging on their wall.
This summer has been very exciting for me. I joined the Badge Alliance, chaired the BA standard working group and helped organize the first BA Technology Council. At the same time, I was a mentor for Chicago's Tech Stars program and served as an advisor to a few startups in different stages of growth. The Badge Alliance work has been tremendously satisfying, the standard working group is about to release the first cycle report, and it's been great to see our accomplishments all written in one place. We've made a lot of progress in a short amount of time. That said, my role at the Alliance has been focused on standards growth, some evangelism and guiding a small prototyping project. As much as I loved my summer, the projects and work don't fit the path I was on. I've managed engineering teams for a while now, building products and big technology architectures. The process of guiding a standard is something I'm very interested in, but it doesn't feel like a full-time job now. I like getting my hands dirty (in Emacs), I want to write code and direct some serious engineer workflow.
Let's cut to the chase – after a bunch of discussions with Sunny Lee and Erin Knight, two of my favorite people in the whole world, I've decided to join Earshot, a Chicago big data / realtime geotargeted social media company, as their CTO. I'm not leaving the Badge Alliance. I'll continue to serve as the BA director of technology, but as a volunteer. Earshot is a fantastic company with a great team. They understand the Open Badges project and want me to continue to support the Badge Alliance. The Badge Alliance is a great team, they understand that I want to build as much as I want to guide. I'm so grateful to everyone involved for being supportive of me here, I can think of dozens of ways this wouldn't have worked out. Just a bit of life lesson – as much as you can, work with people who really care about you, it leads to situations like this, where everyone gets what they really need.
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A: It's sad to see a child so young who already has a negative attitude about school. He has many years of education ahead, and we need to keep him feeling good about school.
Talk first with your son's teacher, who may have some insight into his attitude about school. The teacher may also be able to help make school and homework completion more appealing to your son.
Focus on the good things about school. When your son comes home each day, ask him to tell you three good things that happened at school. Set up a system with stickers or check marks that can be earned for completion of homework with no fussing. When he has five (or whatever number will work) stickers, he can earn an extra bedtime story, a walk around the block with you, or something else he enjoys. When he is successful with this, increase the number of stickers needed. Eventually, the hope is that homework completion will become self-motivated and stickers will no longer be necessary.
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I am interested in taking a multivitamin as a supplement to my diet. Every multivitamin I look at contains 600% of this and 400% of that - I don't really want to see numbers that high. I don't even really want to see 100% - I would be most comfortable with seeing 20% across the board. I am not looking to get all of my micronutrients from this pill, just use is as a supplement to the food I am eating. Googling doesn't turn anything up. Does anyone know of such a product?
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As long as you are on a healthy diet you should not have to worry about your vitamins.
I am quoting from an answer from Skeptics.SE on the same topic:
From another answer to a related question from skeptics.SE:
If you are concerned that you might suffer from some kind of deficiency you should -in my opinion- adjust your diet before taking supplements. There is no good reason to avoid eating fruits and vegetables on a diet I would call healthy.
I think it is based on what your body can handle.
For example, if the bottle says it has 512% Vitamin B, your body will consume a percentage of that and the rest will be dumped out, when you attend the bathroom. That is because most vitamins are water soluble.
Read this article: Yahoo Answers - the answer is a bit straight to the line for how I talk.
My brother is a body builder, and he told me that he never takes vitamin pills, he injects them, as his body will take more that way, as it goes straight into his blood. He also said, if you take a pill, your body will absorb 60% of the pill.
So if you see something that says it contains 20% of this, then your body will probably only absorb about 60% of it.
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I'm a developer, not a designer or UI designer.
I'm developing a system and trying to use Metro UI concepts.
What is the best (or correct) way to provide a user notifications about errors using Metro UI concepts?
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I'm a developer, not a designer or UI designer.
What is the best (or correct) way to provide a user notifications about errors using Metro UI concepts?
Examples too are welcome.
Windows Phone has obviously limited screen real estate, the most commonly used pattern changes a bit from your standard web form. The thought with Windows Phone is that you really don't want to waste too much real estate on things like asterisks and inline validation messages. Therefore on Windows Phone, the general pattern is to use what Microsoft refers to as Raw Notifications (you can also see information on Tile Notifications, Toasts, etc and their contexts there). Basically this just means a pop-up displaying a contextual alert. If you find yourself needing lengthy forms, inline validation is still fine as far as I've seen.
Windows 8 does not have the same limitations on screen real estate and so can adhere to more "normal" standards of form validation like inline messages, etc. The same considerations for using inline warnings versus pop ups apply to the Windows 8 design. Another good resource for Windows 8 is the Guidelines for visual feedback.
Those two resources are the only guidelines I've seen directly from Microsoft regarding the subject matter at hand. I would say that in general for Metro, so long as you're being touch-conscious, you can pretty much apply any of the most common validation patterns from the web/desktop apps. Just be careful to be consistent.
If you want to see examples, I'd check some of Microsoft's default apps like Mail and see how they handle warnings/errors (I don't have a device in front of me at the moment, otherwise I'd check for you :) ).
(Source: Windows 8 UX Guidelines, RTM version, page 145)
Do online verification (eg, when the user leaves the input field), in case of error, highlight the borders of the field or change background to light pink, and display an explanation underneath or above.
A good read about metro-esque design is UXBooth's Metro article, the authors are suspiciously from Seattle...
Notification is a different thing, though.
Unfortunately, Metro is not developer-friendly in the sense that you either have to be a fully-educated UX designer to understand how to use it, or become one :( It's a really radical approach and it takes some education on modernist design to understand what happens.
The 300-page UX guide is the shortest thing you can read about it basically.


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Why You Wouldn't Expect Him To Be a Scientologist: The Reverend of Electric Soul, genre-hopping creator of esoteric and complex albums--doesn't Beck seem a bit too ironically hip to believe in something as goddamn ridiculous as Scientology without putting quote gestures around it and talking about it through a voice synthesizer first?
While he never came out about his beliefs until 2005, Beck is actually a second-generation Scientologist; there are a multitude of conspiracy theories online that both he and his record label tried to conceal his Scientologist leanings for most of his career. Clearly the label didn't want anybody to think that Beck, a 100-pound Fraggle who writes acoustic guitar raps about plastic eyeballs spray-painting vegetables, was weird or anything.
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How to make nice "micro" (with just a few entires) bibliography inside LaTeX file ?
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I know it's quite limiting (that's why I have problem...), but on the other hand, curious, how to add just a few entries "manually".
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Maybe it might be a good idea not to display the accept rate so early? Or following a key like this (just an example):
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Consider two identical heat pumps, for example, split-system air conditioners. There're two ways to make them work - in parallel or sequential. Parallel means that "hot" radiators of the machines are put outside the room, while the "cold" radiators are put inside the room. Sequential means that the cold radiator of the first machine is inside the room, while the hot radiator is put inside, say, a large isolated box, where it is cooled by the cold radiator of the second machine, and the hot radiator of the second machine is outside the room.
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My wife has a hard time turning the Revoshift grip on her Electra Townie 7D due to arthritis issues in her hands. Is there a way to help with this issue?
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I recommend getting a rear Shimano trigger shifter. This would mean getting both a trigger shifter and a grip because I think your current grip is designed for the Revoshift shifter.
The part I'd recommend for this use is the shimano acera 7-speed trigger shifter, which costs about $15, if you're in the US.
If you are mechanically inclined, it's pretty easy to do the work yourself, and it's a lot of fun when you get it working.
If you're not mechanically inclined, bring it to your LBS to install. This will save you the effort, and you eliminate the chance of irritating your wife for breaking her bike.
After a while all shifters get a bit harder to work due to the cables drying out of lubrication, getting dirt in them and the cable strands oxidising. Replace the cable - both inner and outer - and you may get silky smooth shifting again. This could do the trick.
As @thajigisup says, go to a shop and find the shifter that works best for her. 'Old fashioned' top-mount levers might not be in the shop but they are definitely a consideration.
More generally I am very disappointed by the exceptionally conservative bike trade that only allows mainstream sports-fad products of zero innovation level to get into showrooms. Shimano have created several groupsets with electric push button gears for the recreational market and even tried to get a fully automatic gear system accepted by those manufacturers that are stuck in tradition dictated by the UCI governing body for cycle sport. Fair play to Electra for creating some bikes with geometry that suits non-racers, however, they could do with focusing a bit more on functionality, to make bikes that do suit those who do have small hands with arthritis like my own mum.
Maybe get something that will work for now, e.g. new cable plus track-mitts might provide the easy-leverage. Research the cool electric components that Shimano do offer, beg your distributor to get them or source them from the Netherlands (one of the few markets for such parts). Then, maybe for Christmas or a birthday, deck your wife's bike out with ultimate luxury electric gearing. You will enjoy the project and be able to share your experience of putting it all together with others that don't suit the tired race only geometry offered by most of the trade.
Everyone on these forums is going to end up with arthritis or worse one day, pioneer the technology for the rest of us so we get better than a choice of zimmer frames in our old age.
I'd say get any cheap thumb shifter. Much easier to operate than grip+twist shifter.
Click down is very easy. Shift up requires a firm push with the thumb.
My daughter when learning to shift gears had a big problem. She's a tough cookie but more delicate hands than average and the twist shifts were just too stiff. You don't notice this with big strong adult hands. We replaced her twist shift with cheap thumb shift and it made a huge difference.
Also make sure gear cable is well oiled and moves smoothly and derailleurs cleaned and oiled for smooth operation.


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WEIRTON - New defensive coordinator Brad Kessel walked into this season with the Madonna Blue Dons with new everything.
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SIX MORE — Weirton Madonna's Elliott Nero tosses the ball to an official while being congratulated by teammate Will Bowser after scoring a touchdown in the first half of Saturday's 58-12 victory over Tug Valley in the West Virginia Class A playoffs at Jimmy Carey Stadium. Madonna will host St. Marys next week.
Madonna's defense has given up 20 points in 22 second-half quarters, that included six points with under a minute to go in Saturday's 58-12 blistering of visiting Tug Valley at Jimmy Carey Stadium in the first round of the West Virginia Class A playoffs.
It gives the Blue Dons a quarterfinal date with No. 5 St. Marys next week. The date and time will be agreed upon this morning in a meeting at the WVSSAC headquarters.
Madonna gave up 14 fourth-quarter points in a Week 2 loss at Wheeling Central.
Since then, the 28-member squad only allowed Saturday's touchdown in the second half. Clay-Battelle earned a safety in the fourth quarter of the regular season finale.
That means six points in 18 quarters of second-half football.
"People have gotten more comfortable in their positions and everyone has learned to read their keys better and better as the year has gone on," said senior Garrett Hypes, who was injured in the second quarter, but is expected to be in the staring lineup next week. "It took us a couple of weeks to get used to the new system, but after everything got rolling, everybody has been playing really well and that has got us to here.
"We have great pride in our second-half defense."
That is rather obvious.
In addition to Saturday's scoreboard stranglehold on Tug Valley, the Dons held Clay-Battelle to 97 yards, Toronto to 83 yards (40 on one play) and Catholic Central to 67 yards on the ground.
"Coach Kessel teaches us well," said junior Nick Ossman. "We're in better shape and we work really hard in practice. We want to leave a legacy, playing harder than the other team, especially in the second half.
"The loss to Wheeling Central showed us that we needed to work harder. I think that loss really helped us because for the rest of the year we hadn't given up any points in the second half. That motivated us.
"Today, we expected to play hard, just like every game, and go all or nothing, just like we say before we break the huddle."
The leader of the defense, junior linebacker Travis Brown, missed the season opener against Valley with an injury.
"It was terrible that game, I couldn't keep still on the sidelines," he said. "It showed me what I do in my position, what the linebackers do, or what the defensive schemes are all about against a team that is not ours in practice.
"It shows us how it works, what changes might need to be made or what to do or what not to do. It gives you more of an understanding of your position.
"Sitting out, being on the sidelines that game gave me more of an understanding of what coach wants out of the defense, or what he wants to put into it, or how he wants to call a defense against a certain front.
"Playing defense like we have, especially in the second half, boosts our morale. It boosts our confidence and ability to play harder. It lets us come into a game and believe we are going to stop the other team, no matter what."
That happened two weeks ago against Steubenville Catholic Central, when Madonna's defense shut down the Crusaders in the second half, earning a 21-20 victory.
"It was a huge half for us," Brown admitted. "They didn't get many yards, at all, and it gave our offense an opportunity to come back and win the game."
Junior Will Bowser scored a touchdown on both sides of the ball Saturday. He intercepted a pass and took it 65 yards to the house and was on the receiving end of a Ross Comis aerial that covered 37 yards.
His defensive touchdown made it 38-6 before half and ended any doubts of the outcome.
"I had to make a play on the ball and then run as fast as I could to the end zone," said Bowser, who knocked in the game-winner in June to give the Blue Dons baseball team a state title.
"We knew they had a really good receiver in No. 27 (Corey Dillon, 6-4, 210). We were trying to shut him down. We knew our line was going to stop their run."
Bowser also pointed to the second half performance against the Crusaders as a huge moralte boost.
"It helped us tremendously because now we have that mindset that no one is going to score on us," he said.
Bowser and Comis have been mainstays in the secondary since their freshman season.
"We know what we're doing," Comis said of the secondary pair. "Will and I caught on quick with coach Kessel's defense we are able to help our teammates out.
"Coverage schemes are different. Last year we ran man every play. This year we've been able to mix it up and that makes it difficult on a team, especially a passing team. It's always different when you bring in a new coordinator.
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Two days ago Lance Armstrong announced his retirement from professional cycling, again. Talking Treads didn't exist the first time Lance Armstrong retired from the sport of cycling. Good thing too, because if it had, you'd be reading the same post for a second time. My relationship with the idea of Lance Armstrong is complicated. During his reign as champion of the sport I only moderately cared about cycling. I worked at the Recreational Sports office on campus and, as a result, had a passing interest in all sorts of sports I'd previously had no interest in.
It shouldn't have surprised me that I would become more seriously interested in cycling. I had been a track and cross-country runner in high school and the parallels are pretty obvious. Without getting too far into my history as a cyclist, it was in this timeframe that I got out the Giant Boulder I purchased when I graduated from the 8th grade, and started riding a little single track. It would be a few years before I bought my first road bike (an unbranded steel frame from the late '70s with shifters on the down-tube with a top tube that measured 6 cm longer than the bike I ride today) but I always see that time working in a bike shop, talking about Le Tour and Lance Armstrong as the catalyst to my self-identification as a cyclist – a roadie to be specific.
So, my history as a cyclist feels linked to Lance. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Lance is credited for inspiring to the renaissance of road cycling in America – and, judging by the number of those ugly Radio Shack jerseys from last year I see out on the road, he still inspires people to start riding. The truth is that, at least for a time, I counted Lance as something between amazing athlete and hero. How couldn't I? A man, a jerk maybe, but a man who survives testicular cancer and comes back to the sport of cycling and dominates one of the most grueling and difficult events in sports. How couldn't we mortals be impressed.
It is impossible to talk about Lance without talking about doping – trust me, I've tried. The question of whether or not Lance doped might never be answered. Personally, I'm long past defending or accusing Armstrong. It's not that I don't care or need to rationalize away the likelihood that all my cycling heros have bent or broken the rules. It's more that the accusations and positive tests for athletes like Floyd Landis have left me unwilling and unable to say, one way or another, which cyclists are cheaters. Instead, I watch to tour the same way I watched Barry Bonds break the single season home run record – interested but disconnected.
It's not going to matter if Lance is a convicted or exonerated as cheater (or, more likely, neither) his story has already affected cycling. People like me started riding on the heels of his post-cancer domination. Some long time fans stop caring about the pro-tour as the evidence against Armstrong and other top cyclists grew.
There's a lot of talk about what the post-Armstrong era of professional cycling in America will look like. Will the new fans stay? Will they abandon the televised races? In my mind, none of that matters. The pro-peloton will survive. The question I think is most important, is will the cyclists that are out there because of Lance – the ones in their US Postal Service jerseys and on their Trek bikes – will they take up the mantle and pass their love of riding to a new batch of cyclists?
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Three southwest Kansas women staged a bank robbery in 2010 to cover up the embezzlement of more than $84,000 from their employer, federal prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Thursday, while a fourth woman joined two of the others in stealing nearly $25,000 more over the next two-and-a-half years.
Ulysses residents Amber Gutierrez, 32; Hattie Wiginton, 32; Ashley Cravens, 28; and Linda Wise, 59, received a summons to appear in court on several felony charges July 31.
Gutierrez, Wiginton and Cravens each are charged with two counts of embezzlement by a bank employee and one count of bank robbery. Wiginton also is charged with making a false statement to the FBI. Wise is charged with one count of embezzlement.
Gutierrez was head teller at Western State Bank in Ulysses and Wiginton and Cravens were clerks when the three embezzled $84,200 from the bank by creating false cash deposit slips and putting the money into their personal accounts.
Prosecutors said the scheme ran from sometime in 2008 to July 24, 2010, when the three staged a bank robbery to cover up their crimes. An FBI news release that day said two people entered the bank around 7:30 a.m. as it was opening for business, with one of them wielding a knife and both wearing a black mask.
Wiginton lied when she told FBI agents later that day she didn't know who robbed the bank, there were two robbers and one of them was a man with a Hispanic accent, prosecutors said.
From late 2010 until March 2013, Gutierrez, Cravens and Wise embezzled $24,450 more from the bank using falsified deposit slips, prosecutors said
Jim Cross, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, said none of the women were in custody and no lawyers had appeared in court on their behalf.
There was no answer at phone numbers listed for Gutierrez and Wise, a number for Wiginton was disconnected and there was no number listed for Cravens.
If convicted, the women face a maximum of 30 years in federal prison on each embezzlement count, 25 years and a $250,000 fine for robbery, and five years and a $250,000 fine for making a false statement to the FBI.
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Or: can it be proved that anti-matter definitely is nót matter going backwards in time?
There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently almost entirely matter [...] the apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics.
Couldn't the concept of reversal in time contribute to the explanation of this problem?
Measurements that reveal reversal in time must be rare and exceptional, just like anti-matter.