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Girl's Day 2012 in Potsdam
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On the 26th of April 2012, 27 pupils aged 12 to 15 came to Oracle's office in Potsdam in order to obtain interesting insights about Oracle´s business practices. An interactive four-hour program was specifically organized for all participants.
At first, all pupils got to know Oracle as an enterprise with it's different
departments and it's particular "business language". What is hardware and
software? Why do companies need a database? Questions as such were tailored and
simply illustrated by 13 colleagues from the areas of Sales, Sales Consulting, Support
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The Greensburg Recreation 3rd/4th Grade Warriors completed their season as League Champions, finishing 6-0-1. The Warriors had wins over Minneola, Bucklin, Kinsley, Ashland (Forfiet) Medicine Lodge, and South Barber.
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No, Marcial Maciel was not like Mary Magdalene, at all - UPDATED
Don't miss Jason Berry's lengthy update on the Legion of Christ's ventures in the Holy Land, in the National Catholic Reporter this week. How has the order coped with diminishment and disgrace following the belated exposure and censure of its founder, serial sexual abuser and all-around con artist Marcial Maciel? Oh, you know, they're working on it.
"Marcial Maciel's initials are also MM, just like Mary Magdalene. She had a problematic past before her deliverance, so there's a parallel. Our world has double standards when it comes to morals. Some people have a formal, public display and then the real life they live behind the scenes.
"But when we accuse someone else and we are quick to stone him, we must remember that we all have problems and defects. With modern communications so out of control, it is easy to kill someone's reputation without even investigating about the truth. We should be quieter and less condemning."
Berry quotes the above from a booklet promoting the Legion's new project, the $100 million Magdala Center at the Sea of Galilee. (Learn more at this website -- but be warned, there's a startling autoplaying introductory video.) The author is Fr. Juan María Solana. [UPDATE: Solana has apologized and the booklet has been withdrawn: see below.]
When the allegations against Maciel were first surfacing in the media, I remember hearing that rank-and-file Legionaries themselves were shielded from the worst of it. That, at least, was the excuse offered for why some priests didn't leave the order sooner. Given the amount of control Maciel and his fellow leaders exerted over the lives of their recruits, it seems plausible. But Maciel is dead; his corruption and crimes are definitively exposed; the order is supposedly reforming itself under Rome's supervision. So what's the excuse now for someone in a leadership position with the LCs to be referring to Maciel as having had any kind of "deliverance" (when, in fact, he and the order denied the allegations against him to the end of his life, even after Benedict removed him from ministry and ordered him to a life of repentance), or using his story as an example of how "We should be quieter and less condemning"?
I understand how awkward it must be for anyone who remains with the Legion of Christ to talk about their founder, given that the order itself has always been directly based in the spiritual leadership of Maciel. But if you can't talk about him honestly, non-defensively, with a sense of shame and sorrow and not self-pity, then maybe just don't talk about him at all.
It is hard to believe that any person would apply that last paragraph of Solana's to Maciel, given how he escaped censure for so very long, and how in fact it was his accusers, and those who broadcast their stories, whose reputations were attacked. Andrew Sullivan compiled a helpful reminder of just how widespread defense of Maciel was among high-profile Catholics, and how vituperative their attacks on people like Jason Berry could be. I have tried to find an original source for some of those comments, but as near as I can tell they were mostly gathered from a collection of supportive letters posted on a site run by the Legion -- legionaryfacts.org -- which is now inactive. But Richard John Neuhaus's lengthy defense of the Legion and Maciel in First Things, from March 2002, is worth reading in full, and still online here -- scroll down to "Feathers of Scandal," and keep on reading through several more subheds. He goes back and forth between attacking the journalists who'd reported on Maciel's past and praising the holiness of Maciel's person and project, always, of course, maintaining the tone of one who's above all this sordid business but must reluctantly stoop to explain it. There's even a swipe at the Jesuits along the way. It's really vintage stuff.
Berry's article details the Legion of Christ's diminished presence in the United States and elsewhere, including the sale of a number of properties (at least one "at a fire-sale price") and the closings of schools and seminaries. Fundraising goes on, however, for this Holy Land project. I can't imagine who, at this point, would have the LCs at the top of their philanthropic giving list. But raising money is one thing the founder was indisputably good at.
I also have to wonder why, if the Legion is naming its new complex after St. Mary Magdalene, their notion of who she was and what she stands for seems so constrained and frankly out-of-date (at least based on the excerpts Berry cites from the booklet Magdala: God Really Loves Women). All we actually know about her story before she began following Jesus is that she was named by Luke among "some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven spirits had gone out" (Lk 8:2). Her traditional association with the woman taken in adultery and/or the woman who washed Jesus's feet with her hair is, basically, an error in scriptural interpretation that, helped along by a misogynistic tendency to associate women with sexual sin (and not much else), became the standard take for too many years. But that approach has been discredited for a long time, and she is now lauded as "Apostle to the Apostles," one of Jesus's most faithful followers, the first witness to the resurrection. Not a bad figure to hang a ministry on. (And that ministry may be more appropriate than Solana's reference to "women who have suffered tremendously because of moral problems" makes it sound. When I looked at the project site for more information, I found only this description: "The location of Magdala and the person of Mary Magdalene in the Gospel inspire us to have a center which highlights the role of women as seen in the gospel and in religions as well.") But a very bad figure to compare to Marcial Maciel. Even if, as Fr. Solana begins by observing, "Marcial Maciel's initials are also MM, just like Mary Magdalene." The sad thing is, he would have sounded much less foolish if he'd just stopped there.
UPDATE 8/28: I have just received a statement via email from the Legion of Christ's communications director, Jim Fair, apologizing for the comparison of Maciel and Mary Magdalene in the Magdala booklet. I will paste it here:
Dear friends in Christ,
The past five years have been a time of challenge and change for the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi. We have faced the disappointment of horrible scandal – and embraced the hope of renewal.
We have undergone an intense self-examination and revision of our constitutions and statutes. We are firmly set on a path of reform that I believe will make us better servants of Christ and His Church.
Unfortunately, this week we experienced what must feel like a detour from our path forward. It is not.
I want to assure you that we are, indeed, determined to stay on course. And I want to share this response from Fr Juan Solana, director of the Magdala Center:
"I personally and profoundly apologize for my reflections in the booklet, Magdala: God Really Loves Women, published this summer by the Magdala Center in Jerusalem, which is managed by the Legion of Christ. The passages in question suggest a comparison between Mary Magdalene and Legion Founder Marcial Maciel, which clearly is inappropriate and poorly chosen. I was trying to make a point about compassion and forgiveness in light of the Legion's history, but realize now that my words were awkward and suggest a reverence for our founder that we clearly reject. Again, I'm sorry for any hurt this has caused. And we are no longer distributing the booklet. – Fr Juan Solana LC"
I have known Fr Juan for many years and appreciate his response. Please keep him in your prayers and continue to pray for the success of the Magdala Project, which draws support from Christians of all denominations, Jews and Bible scholars from around the world.
Yours in Christ,
Fr John Connor LC
About the Author
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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A 100 million dollar facility for a disgraced order. Is God served here or Mammon? Sickening stuff. Like jihadist Islam. Get people who are seeking absolute orders and use them. This is truly nausea stuff.
She had a problematic past before her deliverance
As you say, not so! Duke NT professor Mark Goodacre has an interesting past podcast about her and how we have to "unlearn" the fiction of her as a repentant prostitute ... "Mary Magdalene: the first woman apostle" ... http://podacre.blogspot.com/2009/09/nt-pod-13-mary-magdalene-first-woman...
Another reason to suppress this group completely. Once a cult; always a cult.
This is a sick joke, right? Nobody would actually say or do this, would they?
Marcial Maciel's initials are also MM, just like Mary Magdalene.
My initials are JP. Hey, maybe I'm a pope!
Nothing makes me more angry than the power the LC wielded to work great injustice;
Did Neuhaus--or Weigel--or Glendon ever APOLOGIZE to those actual victims whose names they dragged through the mud, whose character they assaulted?
It is all the cult of appearances--RJN liked them because they looked good, acted conspicuously orthodox, and had money. A thin veneer over a lot of rot.
It really bothers me how many people associated with the LC dusted themselves off and reinvented themselves--with no accountability or checking.
. How many dioceses have taken in ex LC priests--no scrutiny, no reformation, no nothing.
I have never seen an article by anyone involved in RC or LC that involves deep soul-searching, saying "how was I duped," "how was I harmed by this spiritual formation," and "how have I harmed others"?"
Mainly they just shrugged their shoulders and moved on.
You can't have it both ways. You can't say spiritual formation matters. . . unitl it doen't becaue the people who formed you and the formation you received were severely twisted.
And I don't buy the "I ddin't know." Even before the accusations came out, it was apparent that there was something deeply wrong with that order.
John P - in that case, I want to be JPII.
John Prior
I always knew you were Papa in petto.
"It really bothers me how many people associated with the LC dusted themselves off and reinvented themselves--with no accountability or checking."
It takes a lot of humility to admit that youv'e been duped. I met recently a young man who had been in the LC sminary for 8 years. He said he left before the Maciel issue became known and because he discerned that he had a vocation to marriage. No remorse, anger or anything like that.
I have to take his comment on face value but I hope that he didn't see the quizzical look on my face.
(In addition, I guess that I find it hard to understand how someone would be so certain that he or she had a vocation to marriage without falling in love with someone. But, maybe it's just me.)
The statement by Solana, suggesting that Maciel's reputation has been unjustly defiled, is a huge red flag. Is the Holy See still supervising the order in some way? I note in Jason Berry's article that one of the people he interviewed stated that there is no outside control or supervision.
The initials thing is just inane.
Regarding Mary Magdalene, though: both Mark and Luke note that she had seven demons cast from her, which it seems to me can reasonably be construed as a "problematic past", without resorting to intimations of prostitution. Perhaps the Legion thinks of itself (or would like us to think of it) as having been exorcised of its past demons.
In addition, Daniel Harrington, SJ notes that MM seems to serve Mark's literary purpose: "Mary Magdalene is the principle of continuity insofar as she saw Jesus die (15:40), knew where he was buried (15:47) and went to the tomb on Easter (16:1)" [NJBC 41:107]. No doubt, the Legion would love to have continuity of its own, and may be identifying their new building project with MM for that purpose. But ...if that is the reason for naming their complex after her, then the initials thing isn't an inanity, it's another huge red flag: surely the only conceivably acceptable continuity for the Legion is a continuity from which Maciel is utterly expurgated.
Finally, the pre-reformed liturgy explicitly identified MM with the sinful woman who anoints Jesus' feet in Luke 7. The reformed liturgy has severed that connection, utilizing readings, antiphons and prayers that focus on the Resurrection. Does the Legion have an attachment to the old liturgy? I am not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if this thread of MM-as-penitent-woman continues to run through the spirituality of the Legion.
Marcial Maciel's initials are also MM, just like Mary Magdalene.
No, more like Marilyn Manson.
When looking at any person's life, we need to consider the sweep of their entire life. Mary Magdalen was the first witness to the resurrection, the first to proclaim the gospel (ironic that now women are literally barred from proclaiming the gospel at mass!). Jesus did not ask her to fondle the apostle's children, to divert funds away from the community and bring them to the apostle's mistress's children. That is what Maciel is known as because that is, in fact, who he was.
Second, some traditions hold that she spent her remaining years in the desert as a contemplative (once seen as the highest vocation and maybe it is). She did not go on a self promotional tour misrepresenting herself.
Furthermore, the Vatican requested that all his writings and picture be removed from all LC houses. This is blatant disregard certainly of the spirit of that directive. We have had enough of Nazi loving, holocaust denying SSPX bishops, this is all we don't need.
"... the Vatican requested that all his writings and picture be removed from all LC houses."
They didn't demand it?
The Maciel/Legionnaire of Christ debacle shows the tremendous results that money can buy. The Senate and House are held in disrepute by the vast majority of Americans. Their ratings are abysmally low. Yet the vast majority of incumbents get re-elected. Money is the reason. So here are the new leaders selling the lie again. They bought Cardinal Soldano who fought for them to the end. Now they are buying others. The architects who are arranging the building can care less about morals. The red carpet usually prevails over a good conscience.
If the order was really serious about changing directions and owning its true legacy, it should change its name to the Order of St. Mathias. That would be appropriate given that Mathias was the apostle who replaced Judas.
I guess we should just be grateful Maciel didn't die a decade earlier. If so, his canonization might have been put on the fast track by the powers-that-be a la Escriva. Can you imagine trying to explain St. Marcial the child molester?
If past performance is the best predictor of future performance, and if the same folks are still attracted to both the name "LC/RC" and its underlying philosophy and psychology, then Rome needs to disband this outfit once and for all. A doggy pile by any other name is still a doggy pile.
Thank you Helen. "Requested" certainly strikes me as high level pussyfooting around.
We were involved with this outfit for some years. We still know a lot of people who are. The rotteness at the core is not something that can be "reformed". There is nothing to REform to--the original form was founded on lies, deceit, fraud, drug addiction, and sexual predation of the worst kind, priest-on-child.
There have been whispers from the inside that eventually Maciel will be vindicated, and some who are now on the outside have noted an attempt at a slow white-wash. This comparison to Mary Magdalene (quite frankly, it makes me sick to my stomach and is a massive insult to her) is probably just an attempt to start floating some of the white wash more publicly to see what sticks.
The sad part is that a lot of Catholics will probably read it and won't even see it as a red flag. Blech.
A while ago there was a PBS Frontline documentary - "Secrets of the Vatican" - that had a part about Maciel ... an interview with a priest he corrupted and also an interview with his son. Very disturbing. There was a bit about abuse victims advocate Fr. Tom Doyle too. You can watch it here ... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secrets-of-the-vatican/
Mickey Mouse. Marilyn Manson.
I don't think you meant "an interview with a priest he corrupted" but rather "an interview with a priest he abused."
Yes, you're right.
MM (Maryknoll Misionaries) are the the initials of the Maryknoll priests and sisters who have a h*** of a lot more credibility than the Legionaries of Christ.
MM. Yup.
Won't the real Slim Shady please stand up?Stand back, he's cleaning out his closet...
Or maybe Michael Milken - hundreds of millions in ill-gotten gains...
How about Maia Morgenstern - known for fictional portrayal of a saint.
Weren't the Jesuits once suppressed by the Vatican for the better part of a century because of their involvement in political intrique?
Couldn't we expect that the LofC at least merits the Vatican equivalent of the death penalty for their twisted development into a personal cult around the deification of Marciel? And the seeming congenital defect of the LofC for misuse of money?
The problem here of course is that all that ill-gotten money over decades has bought-off all too many corrupt hierarchs, especially in the Vatican curia. Jason Berry indicates in his books [Vows of Silence; Render Unto Rome] that Marciel understood that he needed a sustained presence in Rome because he needed the protection for Vatican hierarchs for his criminal enterprise - which he bought essentially with bribes in the form of charitiable donations into the pockets of Vatican operatives.
I must say the appropriation by the LofC of the slander of Mary Magdalene as a whore is really rich. Of course, blaming it on the woman in our religious tradition goes all the way back to Genesis. Whenever the hierarchy boys' concupiscence for money, power and sex gets the best of them, they hide behind the canard of blaming the seductress.
Besides, if modern exegetes are to be believed, Mary Magdalene could well have been more the "Beloved Disciple" than John the Apostle. Mary Magdalene apparently vied with James, Peter and Paul for leadership of the nascent Jesus movement. It was Mary Magdalene that the birth of the beliefs in the resurrection mythology are first sourced in both the NT and the non-canonicals.
[Is the recent Vatican attempts to suppress the LCWR just a modern version of this disturbing part of our Christian history?]
The hierarchs of the early church understood very well that if they wanted to keep control of the Jesus movement they needed trash the reputation of Mary Magdalene. I guess somethings never change.
@ Helen
"I find it hard to understand how someone would be so certain that he or she had a vocation to marriage without falling in love with someone."
I can't decide if you're being facetious or not. Without having met The One, a person can certainly be aware that he or she has a healthy libido, and that the Church's only approved outlet for it is marriage.
We have an ex-LC priest in our rural Wisconsin parish. Can't say I recommend the experience. The number of refugees seeking sanity in neighboring parishes is growing. Our bishop (Morlino) has already wrecked one parish in the diocese; why stop at just one?
Shayne: I know that you are referring to Morlino's debacle in Platteville. I'm originally from Cuba City. Are you willing to divulge the location of your parish?
St Clement, Lancaster.
St Rose is such a nice parish. We have been attending either Sts Thomas or Andrew in the twin cities of Potosi/Tennyson, or else at the Sinsinawa Mound, which is exceptional in so many ways.
St. Mary's in Plateville has the sacrament of Reconciliation seven days a week. St Clement's has it six days a week. It seems that they're doing something right.
Frank Gibbons,
Amazing! You can't admit it either it seems. Unfortunately the sacrament has often been an occasion for abuse. Would you send your son or daughter to them?
Resurrection mythology?! The first proclamation was he is risen! But the mistake of identifying Mary magdalen as the prostitite can be attributed to pope Gregory the great not the early church.
Back to the LC, I don't see much of this story around the other Catholic media and it should be!
I really don't see how the schedule of Reconciliation can serve as any measure of a parish's health, spiritual or otherwise. It's a ridiculous statement.
Shayne LaBudda - by the measuring stick of common pastoral practice in my diocese (Chicago), offering daily reconciliation would be well out of the ordinary. Daily reconciliation might be indicative of something. I don't think it was a ridiculous statement. If penitents are actually showing up every day, it might actually be a sign of spiritual health. Having 5 or 6 people show up during a weekly one-hour slot, as happens in some parishes around here, is a worrisome sign, probably a sign of the opposite of spiritual health.
Some statements made around here really are ridiculous. I've made a few, or more, over the years. Just a friendly suggestion to disagree with reasonable comments in ways that don't shut down dialogue. It's advice I should take more often, too.
Admit what? And who are "them"?
It may be indicative of something- but why are you so sure it is spiritual health? It could be scrupulosity or a desire to impress an in group. The lesson of the LC is don't judge by externals. There were lots of spiritual maggots eating away at souls that looked very pious from the outside.
Hi, Cathleen, I'm not sure whether your comment was addressed to me, but just speaking for myself, I'm not so sure that offering daily reconciliation is indicative of spiritual health. Nor am I so sure it isn't. I thought Shayne LaBudda's characterization of another comment as "ridiculous" was over the top. That's all.
And I agree with you re: the LC, externals and maggots. Maciel, in additon to being personally abusive, surely was a hornswoggler of epic proportions. That at least some LC leadership apparently is eager to resuscitate his reputation, strains credulity well past the breaking point. That is why, in a previous comment, I questioned whether the Holy See was still responsible for overseeing the order. Just so you know where I stand on the overall issue.
...strains credulity well past the breaking point.
But that's a good thing, isn't it? Credulity should be strained and broken.
Unfortunately the sacrament has often been an occasion for abuse. Would you send your son or daughter to them?
Yes, In a heartbeat!
@ George D: Mythology in the sense that a group seeks to explain nature, history and customs out of their own shared experiences of their shared reality.
Surely, with any honest reading of the NT accounts of the resurrection one has to acknowledge that there are competing narratives of the resurrection experience of the primitive Jesus community that are not synchronous, not all that internally or externally consistent, each one revealing more about the religious and political agenda of the writer/editor.
Obviously, these renditions of the resurrection were retold verbally for decades, changing from detail to detail for each narrator and audience alike, emphasizing a bias or deeply held belief, before they got to the written format that we experience them in the 21st century.
Gregory, Doctor of the Church, didn't just make-up his notions about Mary Magdalene out of thin air. He read the same scriptures as you and I have. When you include the non-canonical writings, it should be obvious from any close reading that there were attempts by different factions to marginalize and diminish the role and place of Mary Magdalene [and women in general] from the very beginning of the Jesus movement in Jerusalem after the emergence of the resurrection narratives.
More to my original point: Who is it that states "the first proclamation was he is risen!"? I believe the tradition gives that honor to Mary Magdalene.
On your final point about this story and Catholic media, I couldn't agree more. My guess is that is just cuts too close to the bone.
@ Bruce: I'd have to say that the "occasion for abuse" certainly tempered any encouragement I gave to my children about the practice of the scarament.
Wouldn't even take a heartbeat for me to try to protect my children from that horror!
Re: the risk of abuse in the sacrament of reconciliation: A practice that's pretty common around here is to have communal reconciliation during Advent and Lent. Confession and absolution take place individually, both in the traditional 'confessionals' and also at other stations that are set up around the church, consisting simply of chairs, kneelers and screens to protect identity if that is wished. (The priests from a few different nearby parishes come for these, so there are usually 9-10 different stations in all). These screened stations are in various corners and nooks of the worship space, so they afford the opportunity for private conversations with priests but also are entirely visible to the large crowd who comes to these services. It's a safe way to get one's children to the sacrament at least a couple of times a year.
NCR reports that the Legionaires have apologized for the book. An American leader in the order called Solana to protest
Bob Mickens has a meaningful take on Maciel and why the LC is stilll around:
"Why didn't he (Benedict) just banish him(Maciel) Why? Because the Legionaries of Christ is a large and very wealthy order and puts lots of money in the Vatican's coffers...
What should have happened was the order should have been disbanded; the members of that order should have been given psychological, spiritual help to discern whether or not they wanted to continue to be priests and find places that could accommodate them, either in dioceses to become diocesan priests or other religious orders. Why this has not been done — the only way I can explain it is it's too wealthy, it has too much money, it runs a lot of schools, and they're just afraid to shut this thing down."
I believe Jason Berry reiterated the thought that if the Legion were a small order, it would have been disbanded ages ago.
Follow the money...especially in Rome.
Ms. O'Reilly,
I've been following the abuse scandal for some 30+ years since Berry's revelations in Lafayette,Louisiana. I took your advice and read Neuhayus' defese of Maciel in First Things. I wonder if Neuhaus ever retracted his diatribe against Berry and Renner and admitted that his moral certainty had failed him. I wonder also how Neuhaus felt when BXVI removed Maciel and sent him off to a monastery where he died.
Papa Francesco should just disband them and be done with them. But then that entails property and money. Would that he were not pressed by some in the Curia who still defend the Legion.
I wonder if Neuhaus ever retracted his diatribe against Berry and Renner and admitted that his moral certainty had failed him. I wonder also how Neuhaus felt when BXVI removed Maciel and sent him off to a monastery where he died.
greg Carnevale - as a matter of fact, somehow the conversation in another current thread on dotCom (the one on the Wesolowski extradition) drifted to this very question. The closest Neuhaus ever came, that I'm aware of, to making the admission you're wondering about was in the August/September 2006 print edition of First Things, in Neuhaus's "On the Square" column for that edition. It's available here; I am not sure if it is behind a subscriber wall. If you're able to access it, scroll about 1/3 of the way down (his columns were quite long and this is just one of several topics he touched on that month) and read what is under the headings "Person, Charism and the Legionaries of Christ", and "What We Know".
Notice Mollie's update with the letter from a Legionnaire leader. All well and good until he asks for prayesfor the Magdala project. Not. Did the nuns ever come near this amoun of money for all the work they do? Money stil seems to be their mantra.
Carolyn Disco: I tried that link and got this:
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The requested URL /wgbh/pages/frontline/religion/secrets-of-the-vatican/robert-mickens-from-benedict-to-francis/Â / was not found on this server.
This works on my computer:
What appeared above cuts off part of the URL; still, it should work. I don't know if the same abbreviation will be repeated.
If nothing woeks, try going first to pbs.org and then enter the full URL.
BTW, Mickens also notes: "there are still houses that reportedly have been slow to take down these photos of Maciel. …"
Others still go to Maciel's tomb in Mexico to celebrate him. I guess it's all those decades of a private vow never to say anything bad about Maciel, and to report those who did. Who succumbs to that kind of raw self-serving dictatorship?
Re: the update apologizing for the comparison between Maciel and Magdala, Legion statements always seem to have a manufactured quality; just too smooth, but also a sticky brand of false spirituality. Inauthentic comes to mind, despite the ever so humble perfect word choice.
Pardon me, but I cannot abide any more statements from hierarchs and clergy made in the passive voice: "I'm sorry for any hurt this has caused..."
There is a new book out about an apology as more defense or apologia than admission of culpability. I read a great review and must search out the title.
Carolyn Disco
You have to lob off the end of the link to get it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/religion/secrets-of-the-vatican/...
Oh, this apology really makes me feel better, NOT!
Journalist Michael Kinsley has it just about right:
"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say."
Really, I don't think we can ever expect these men who have lived their whole lives denying the truth of their own existence as an oppressive personality cult to emerge from their conditioning as long as they are allowed to maintain the integrity of their group. This Juan Solana is totally clueless - sadly, the same could be said for the hierarchs in the Vatican.
Their being allowed to continue as a religious foundation with the tacit approval of the Vatican is similar to allowing the Branch Dividians or Jim Jones Peoples Temple to live on.
It's time for the Vatican to suppress this group once and for all, for their own good and the general welfare of the church.
Alan: Thanks! This one works.
But I don't understand how you did it. You wrote, "You have to lob off the end of the link to get it." What does "lob off the end of the link" mean?
The origina link had sthis at the end /Â / after francis/
That should have been "original" and "had this".
Thanks, Alan.
Thank you, Jim Pauwels. I did go to the link. Interesting read. Neuhaus really danced around the issue of his having taken a stance of "moral certitude." As long as it's not canonically adjudicated, I guess it never happened. I wonder if, when he wrote this, he was aware of Maciel's wife, mistress and children and that he even abused his own son. Neuhaus sure gives him a free pass even alluding to Pope Alexander VI, "Popes, too, make mistakes." I feel free to express my disgust with this whole episode, since Cardinal Ratzinger had to feel the same way as head of the CDF, but was prevented from acting on this issue by the powers at that time and that would have been Sodano, Secretary of State at the top of the list. He was Maciel's greatest defender as long as the bribes- $50,000 and up- were paid to allow Maciel and his wealthy supporters into the Pauline Chapel for a private liturgy with JP II. I often think that had Ratzinger not been elected, Maciel might never have been exposed. Benedict had the courage to publicly judge (and it wasn't canonical !!!!! It was Pontifical!!!) banish Maciel to a monastery "for penitence and prayer," where, it is said, that he even refused the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Neuhaus doesn't think that was too bad since we are all called to "penitence and prayer."
greg - right. To be honest, I haven't followed the whole Maciel saga nearly as closely as many other posters and commenters here on dotCom, so the timelines regarding which sordid and horrific details became known when are pretty fuzzy to me. If those details re: wife/mistress/children were generally known at that time in 2006, then it's a pretty safe bet that Neuhaus knew about them; he was famous for reading everything. The whole piece reads as an elaborate explanation to LC/RC members and their supporters for the volte-face (if it even amounts to that).
It seems that he continued to defend Maciel and LC right up to the point that the Vatican announced its disposition of Maciel's case - the piece that Mollie highlights in her post was published only 5 months or so before the one I referred to. Then, faced with the dilemma of siding with Benedict or continuing to support his friends, he chose the former. Better late than never.
Did Mary Ann Glendon ever apologize for her staunch support of the Legion and Maciel---and her implication that his victims were liars and enemies of the Church? I don't think so.
Of course, we now know that her daughter was getting up to sexual hi-jinks with Fr. Thomas Williams in that general time frame and bore his child (if I am not mistaken, this was also during the 10 years that Fr. Williams was living in the same house as Maciel.)
So Mrs. Glendon certainly must have known that there was a stench about the Legion--if your daughter has been impregnated by a priest living with and closely associated with a supposed saint, it stands to reason that a mother should question just what is happening in that house, especially when 9 men have accused the supposed saint of sexual abuse---but I have never heard her retract any of it, even now, all these years later.
Her daughter married Fr. Williams last December a decade or more after bearing his child.
It all stinks to high heaven.
Hi, may I just say something? It seems to me that Fr. Maciel and Mary Ann Glendon deserve whatever opprobrium is heaped upon them in these posts and comments, Fr. Maciel for everything he did and failed to do, and Glendon for defending him when that clearly wasn't/isn't tenable.
But I don't think she deserves criticism for her adult daughter having a relationship with Williams. Attempts to tar Glendon for that, it seems to me, are out of bounds. Presumably, whatever happened in that relationship was consensual and between adults, and happened without Glendon's involvement or permission. If Williams was a towering hypocrite, then go after him, too, I guess. But I don't see that any of it reflects upon Glendon one way or the other. And that Williams left the priesthood and married the mother of his child seems like an honorable thing to do.
It is not that uncommon that priests leaving the priesthood to in order to marry. The usual attitude around here toward those circumstances is empathy and support. Perhaps Williams forfeited a claim to that defaul expectation, but I just don't think the schadenfreude is very becoming. Just my view.
Jim P, --
Leaving the order and marrying his mistress TEN YEARS AFTER she bore him a child and ONLY once the glare of publicity forced him out into the open... is AN HONORABLE THING TO DO? And he's a supposedly a moral theologian? Come on. Is it an honorable thing to do to put down something you've stolen once the police arrive? No, it is not. It's called surrendering when you've been caught. Honorable, forsooth.
He was living the charism of the founder, on a smaller scale. The self-deception and puffed up ego at work in putting off the resolution of this affair is mind-boggling. Had he not been caught out, he'd probably still be pretending and living a double life.
The point of bringing Mary Ann Glendon's daughter's affairs into this is that she is obviously, necessarily biased by her family circumstances. It's a study in human psychology to ask why a woman defends the religious order of her grandson's father under such circumstances, but surely you see that bias enters into it one way or the other?
Do Jim Fair and the LC realize yet that there's no evidence Mary Magdalene ever did anything to be forgiven FOR?
Glad to see that the back story on Mary Ann Glendon and her sellout to the Legion of Christ is getting out there.
@ Angela Stockton: Sadly, Mary Magdalene is probably Christianity's seminal example of trashing the messenger, blaming it on the woman. The original sin of Catholic patriarchy, if you will.
Whatever her relationship really was with Jesus [after all these centuries the record has been throughly scrubbed], without Mary Magdalene the belief of the Resurrection would never have emerged from the primitive Jesus movement in Jerusalem.
Without the Resurrection, there would be no Christianity, no Catholic Church.
Hi, Rita, I didn't know the specifics of WIlliams and Glendon's daughter - all I really knew was what was reported here in comments. Thanks (I think - it's a sordid story) for the further details.
Is she obviously, necessarily biased by her family's circumstances in defending the order? I don't know that it's either obvious or necessary. I'm trying to put myself in her shoes and imagining how I'd feel if a public-figure, prominent priest did that to one of my daughters. As you say, it's a study of human psychology, but my psychology wouldn't point me in that direction.
But my larger point is that the business about Glendon's daughter, as presented by two commenters who aired that dirty laundry here - it was presented as a way to smear Glendon by exulting in the travails of her family. And that's pretty low. I think we should take Glendon's words as meaning what she said, without searching out psychological movites to mitigate those statements. Nor should we resort to playing the "plus, her daughter is a tramp" card.
Jim P., @ 12:14,
Thanks for your reply. The implication that Mary Ann Glendon's daughter is a tramp hadn't even occurred to me, frankly, although I can't say what other commenters were thinking.
I do, however, stand by my statement that these events necessarily create a bias. This sort of an episode creates a seismic shock to any family, and I can't believe that a conservative Catholic family feels that shock any less than anyone else would. So no, I would not take her evaluation of the LC as any way objective or disinterested, knowing this was in the family background for ten years and more.
Let me put it this way: She has got a major elephant in the living room to protect, deny, hide, worry about, or whatever. If it happened in your family, and you pretended it didn't influence your judgment about the LC, I'd suggest you go to therapy.
Hi, Rita - sure, things that happen in my family influence what I say and do. I just have a hard time imagining that I'd want to defend this spectacular fraudster and his order after what happened to my daughter. I'd think I'd be leading the charge to have Maciel removed and the order abolished.
Btw, this Rod Dreher post notes that Glendon's daughter, Elizabeth Zev, was professionally affiliated with ZENIT, which was owned by the Legion (and which Williams apparently ran). Dreher's take on Glendon, Zev, Williams and the Legion scandals seems to me to strike the right notes.
I had asked in a previous comment whether the Vatican was still overseeing the Legion of Christ. This news story reports that earlier this year the order emerged from 'receivership' and held an assembly to elect new leaders. Whether Francis has approved the new leadership, I don't know.
My experience as a child and a parent suggests to me that there can be considerable delay in a parent determining the truth of a childs behavior. For one, most children dont freely offer the complete truth of their failings, and even when confronted with the truth, often deny it, creating a quandry over who to believe. And I dont think those behaviors improve as children grow into adults. Something to think about.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- The disciplines of physics and geological sciences have traditionally not held high appeal among women, who seldom pursue careers in those areas. That may change thanks to a National Science Foundation grant awarded to a State University of New York at Geneseo faculty team who will examine ways of encouraging more female middle and high-school students to consider physics and geology.
Geneseo is collaborating with the Geneseo Central School District and four other surrounding districts for the "The Power of Physical Science (POPS)" project, with an award of $295,890 funded through the NSF Math and Science Partnership-Start Program. Also participating are the Dansville, Mount Morris, Pavilion and York school districts.
"Women are underrepresented in these disciplines and many pull away from the physical sciences before they reach college," said Kurt Fletcher, professor and chair of Geneseo's physics and astronomy department, who is leading the team. "Encouraging young women in middle- and high-school to study physics and geology is the first step."
Also on the study team are Dori Farthing and Amy Sheldon, both assistant professors of geological sciences, Katie Rommel-Esham, associate professor of education, and Randy French, a middle-school science teacher in the Geneseo Central School District.
"There is a disconnect between our middle- and high-school science curriculum and what geologists and physicists actually do," said French. "I think students often don't see relevance and we need to change that."
The POPS program will focus on developing a hands-on enrichment curriculum for small groups of students at each of the partner schools. The curriculum will focus on the interrelated and interdisciplinary issues of energy, climate change and new approaches to meeting the nation's energy needs while safeguarding the environment.
"Our idea is to impact these students through their teachers," said Rommel-Esham, who focuses on math and science methods in the Shear School of Education. "We plan to bring in teachers for workshops with the hope that they infuse excitement in their classrooms about these fields of study."
Geneseo senior physics major Sarah Muller says the prospect of being a woman physicist in a field still largely dominated by men is occasionally daunting but says support from family and from middle- and high-school teachers made a big difference.
"I find myself driven to prove to myself and to other young women that a scientific career is perfectly realistic despite gender, as long as the interest and dedication are there," says Muller.
The team's research will contribute to the literature on gender and science to enhance the physical science disciplines. They will monitor the impact of the project using surveys to ascertain interest in the fields before and after students are exposed to the enrichment curriculum.
See more on the project at Power of Physical Science .
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Tree ID & Leaf Collection Class for 4th-8th Graders
Tuesday November 27, 2012 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Anderson Education Center Classroom
Fall colors are vibrant and exciting. Celebrate fall and bring those colors indoors. We will take a nature walk through the Garden and students will get a great opportunity to learn how to identify the trees they may have in their own backyard using the book: Tree Finder: A Manual for Identification of Trees by their Leaves by May Theilgaard Watts. After the walk we will make a fantastic fall leaf mobile. Cost of the class includes a copy of the Tree Finder book for each student.
Age: 4th-8th Graders
Taught by Soozi Pline & Misty Hertzig
All materials provided.
Class size is limited.
Members $8, Non-members $10


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Welcome to the first ever Miss TDP competition! Before continuing to the audition theme, we ask that all members read the following rules and procedures if they are considering competing. This competition may take several months based on the amount of entrants, so we ask that only serious competitors apply to compete.
THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION THREAD NOR THE PLACE TO SUBMIT DOLLMAKER ENTRIES! Before you post here, I suggest you stop. All non-entry posts will be deleted. If you have questions, direct them to Silver_Wolf_Kitty. If you want to discuss the contest, the official Miss TDP clique(found here) is suggested.
1. Character. When entering Miss TDP, you need to enter with one character and stay with it the entire time. This means that your dolls hair, eye, and skin colour must remain the same throughout, unless otherwise stated in the round theme.
2. Base. You must use the same base set throughout, so pick one with a variety of poses. This base should also be medium in size for handdrawn dollers (comparable in size to the "Moe" bases here: DHF : Doll on the Hill Factory). Dollmaker users should use the shuni style base.
3. Theft. No stealing the work of another. This applies to both handdrawn and dollmaker participants, so do not submit a doll that someone else made or, for handdrawn dollers, mix and match pieces of completed dolls that are not your own. All work should be original and failure to comply will result in disqualification.
4. Props. Props and backgrounds are encouraged, but should not be massive. We will ask too large of entries to reduce their size, so be reasonable.
5. Transparency. We ask that all dolls have transparent background and is a GIF file. If you dont know how to do this, see the following thread: How to Make Backgrounds Transparent
6. Forbidden. Sexually explicit, nudity(artistic nudity must be okayed first by Silver_Wolf_Kitty), or overly bloody dolls are forbidden. Entering one could result in disqualification.
7. Theme. Every doll should relate to the theme. While we encourage creativity, failure to keep with the theme can get you eliminated automatically that round.
8. Judges. No one is allowed to use friendship or promises to sway a judges decision. Threats, bribery, and attempts to interfere or discover the judges decisions in anyway will result in disqualification. Arguing with the judges can result in an automatic elimination.
9. Competing. You can only submit one entry for each cometition, so choose wisely. The rules are being changed to allow crossover, but we ask that handdrawn dollers stick to the dollmakers if they are inclined to compete in that arena.
10. Animation. Animation is forbidden in the competition. We understand that many users like glitter, blinking, etc, but it takes away from the creativity and creates an unequal playing field for those who cant animate.
These procedures will take effect after the audition round(which clearly cannot have a bottom two), but the format will basically be the same. In the audition round, the judges will select several entrants and award them a guaranteed spot, then the members will vote to decide the remaining spots.
1. Participants enter a doll every two weeks in the set thread. They may enter it sooner, however further edits are not allowed after the doll is entered. No matter what, the two weeks are a guaranteed time slot(unless all entries are received before it).
2. Any participants who fail to meet this deadline will be eliminated. Deadlines are not being extended for anyone, so do not ask. Special extensions may be asked in the event of a long trip or medical/family emergency, but you must contact Silver_Wolf_Kitty immediately if this occurs.
3. After two weeks, the judges will then provide critique on each entry and select a bottom two for the round.
4. Several days are given for voting on who should stay. Voting will be a public affair, but you shouldnt worry about hurting feelings. All you have to do is post in the voting thread with the name of the participant who you think should stay in the competition. You may provide an explanation, but that is up to you.
5. Votes are counted and the bottom participant is eliminated, then the next round begins.
The theme for the audition round is Dresses. This means any type of dress is allowed, which may be formal, casual, historical, etc. You name it, you can do it. Props, accessories, and backgrounds are encouraged, but not necessary.
Note: This theme is simplified and most future themes will be more complex. Examples could be fairytales, historical figures, goddesses, etc.
When your doll is ready, we ask participants to post their handdrawn doll in this thread. No critiques are being added for the audition round. Auditions close the evening of May 31st!
1. Do saris count as dresses?
A: For the purpose of the competition, cultural formal wear/"dresses" are allowed. We understand that not every culture has the Western concept of a dress and won't limit it in that fashion, but we expect something similar to a dress. For example, saris and kimonos are acceptable, but something with a form of pants would not be.
2. Do I have to use the same exact hair style? Can it have the same colour, but in a different style?
A: The same style is not necessary, only the same colour.
Character: Mandy
Bases will be from: here1 / here2 (The reason there are two links is because they are two different sets of POSES for the same base - Baby Gurl by nicolabear. The first one is front faces poses, and the second is back facing. Hope that's clear, and a-ok. ^_^).
Character: Saguna "Alvin"
Bases will be from CCG (21) Fantasies, specifically her Medley bases. I'm also using the same base set from Zipple's deviantart account because on her site, some of the poses are missing. Her hair is pretty long, past her butt, which is why I had it looped over her arm in this doll as it wouldn't have been visible otherwise.
Reference image: http://img.alibaba.com/photo/1161950...Sari_Choli.jpg
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
Character: Lola
Base: DHF : Doll on the Hill Factory
Hope its ok.
Character: Tiffany
Bases will be from *DEAC loves you. the Saya base.
Sorry, I would have entered earlier, but my computer crashed and I had to re-do the entire doll. >_<
baby, you got me. ♥
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Angel Academy of Art
deviation in storage by KristinaGehrmann
Such a beautiful gallery!! I especially love the Tudor Queens.
You have a beautiful gallery. Your paintings are amazing!
I admire your rendering-style
I have no words to express the beauty of your paintings, are wonderful compliments!
your gallery is fantastic!
beautiful artwork! I hope to be as great as you, one day! *_*
your art is amazing
I love your tutorials, do you think you could do one showing your process?
Fantastic stuff!
A wonderful Gallery with a lot of masterpeieces! I think i will add you to my watchlist!
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The 5 Most Half-Assed Attempts to Take Over a Country
We've learned a lot about revolutions over the last year, haven't we? Mostly that Twitter RTs aren't necessarily guarantees of political success and that scarves are really hot right now. Oh, and that revolutions are hard. Really hard.
Especially when you've put zero point zero effort into your coup plans. As we've pointed out before, for every inspiring revolution by the oppressed, there are several low-rent slapdick operations where the insurgents trip getting off the boat.
#5. No One Can Find the Palace
The real-life Game of Thrones involves less sexy intrigue and behind the scenes machinations and more random dumbasses getting lost on their way to the palace. For instance, in 1995, the king of Qatar found out he had been deposed as king ... while he was away on vacation in Switzerland. Damn it! He knew he should have hired some kid to babysit the throne for him.
A year later he decided that, by God, he was going to take that shit back.
"How many heads do you think could fit up here?"
The ex-king, Khalifa bin Hamad al Thani, came up with a plan, and we're using the word "plan" very loosely here. Like if you accidentally started a grease fire and then said, "Sounds like a plan!" In that instance, you literally don't know what the word "plan" means. That's kind of what happened when the former emir thought he'd retake the throne.
First order of business? Build an army to storm the castle. This he did by hiring a team of French mercenaries and a group of 600 Bedouin militia members. The only problem? They couldn't find the castle. No one even knew the neighborhood. Even the Griswolds had the sense to bring a map.
"Oh, I see. Now, which side is the entrance where the guards don't check for guns?"
So, the Bedouins stormed the capital city, only to end up driving around in circles. Witnesses claimed they were screaming into their cellphones "Where's the palace?" the whole time.
At least the Bedouins made it to the capital before eventually getting arrested. The French mercenaries didn't even get that far because they lost their boats. Just ... lost them. They walked out of their five-star hotel on their way to the coup and their boats for the ride were gone. Then they presumably went back to their rooms to watch Friends reruns and have a swim.
"Goddammit, Chad! Remember your military training!"
#4. Taking Over Ghana With Eight Guys
Say you wanted to take over Ghana. It's not a huge country, but it's not just a bunch of shacks, either -- about 24 million people live there today. So if you wanted to overthrow its government, how big of an army would you need? More than eight guys, right?
Don't tell that to the low level Ghanaian pencil pusher who, in the 1980s, had a hankering for the presidency. Godfrey Osei had already been a part of one failed coup, but he had the combination of insanity and access to cash that made it hard to talk him out of stupid ideas. So, Osei worked with a Texas commodities broker to get $200,000 worth of weapons and paid an army of American mercenaries to help him. And yes, as we mentioned, this "army" was eight men. Also he lied to them and told them it was a CIA operation.
These men were to take their giant pile of weapons, sail to the Ivory Coast, meet up with 80 totally-real-and-not-made-up waiting supporters, storm the beaches in the capital city, assault a prison, attack the presidential palace and then launch a direct assault on a military base filled with Libyan soldiers allied with the government. And then they'd all live like kings! Of Ghana!
Via Bigfoto.com
"And now we bask in the riches of an endless supply of goats."
Osei had so much confidence in this plan that when it came time to set sail, he said, "You guys go ahead, I'll wait here in South America and come over later." This was when Osei's mercenaries realized that there was a good chance that he wasn't right in the brain. It didn't help that the guy had started wearing Nazi insignia and walking with a stick.
Very shortly after that, the team abandoned the whole thing and docked in Brazil instead. This was bad news for them, as they were still hauling a huge illegal stockpile of weapons and thus immediately got arrested as gun smugglers. Really, they had only themselves to blame. Oh, and as a side note, the Americans later escaped their Brazilian prison when one of their wives sent them hacksaw blades concealed in dry milk.
They tried it in a sandwich first, but a guard ate it and died. Also, his wife was 6.
#3. If We Take the Radio Station, We'll Own the Country!
Have you ever had a boss so ill-suited for leadership that you almost felt sorry for him? Kenyan Hezekiah Ochuka was one of those kinds of guys -- inept to the point where you begin wondering if his whole deal was performance art.
Let's start with his military background. Ochuka was a senior private in the Kenyan Air Force -- the second lowest rank there is. And that was after six years of service. In the Kenyan Air Force.
Can you imagine the kind of person who would picture himself as president of a country despite having only held authority over his own wiener and the cafeteria up to that point? Yes, you can, because you know at least one guy like that. We all do. Anyway, when several conspirators approached Hezekiah about a possible coup, he not only said he was in, but insisted they put him in charge. "Sure," the higher ranking, more experienced military leaders said before rolling their eyes and making the universal "loco" sign to one another. Hezekiah didn't notice.
"Oh, for the love of Christ, OK, you can be the 'leader guy.' But you're not getting a gun."
The scheme was pretty typical, as far as terrible coup schemes go: The group would hijack a radio station, announce they were in charge and just see what developed from there. Oh, and they'd kidnap some air force jet pilots and make them bomb the president's house. You know, just in case.
The first part was easy. After all, no one arms their radio DJs with automatic weapons anymore, not even in Kenya. So at midnight on August 1, 1982, the group easily overtook the Voice of Kenya radio station and whoever was running the late night request line. (We like to think her name was Linda and she enjoyed the butter-smooth easy-listening stylings of Genesis.) So then it was time to get down to the business of overtaking the government, which you'd think they would have accomplished before they announced they were in charge on the radio, but again, these weren't the brightest crayons in the rebel school box. And this was also where the story got fun. Hezekiah ordered his henchmen to abduct pilots from their homes at the air force base and force them to bomb the president's house. Just to be safe and make sure they did the deed, the henchmen would tag along in the jets.
Presumably, all this would be accompanied by snippets from Austin Powers and fart sounds.
On the ground, the pilots were all, "Yeah, sure, whatever you say, boss." In the air, it was another story. The three pilots communicated with silent signals and left their rebel passengers in the dark as they showed off their best vomit-inducing skills. And rather than bombing the president's house, they dumped an unarmed missile on a forest. Not only did the rebels not know that the trained pilots didn't bomb jack shit, but they were greeted by the Kenyan army as they staggered their puke-stained selves out of the jets.
Needless to say, Hezekiah ruled Kenya for six hours before taking off to Tanzania.
Where he blossomed into a beautiful, majestic giraffe.


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Citizens role, risk must be reined in more
Shielded from voters in an legislative session without a looming election, the Florida Senate is quickly moving on a bill that is aimed at further shoring up the finances and potential liability of Citizens Property, the state-run insurer of last resort that has grown into the largest policy underwriter in the state. While the bill currently in the Senate would raise a legislatively imposed annual rate increase cap from 10 to 13, opponents of the measure have been focusing on much higher rates increases for new customers, in some cases ranging from 60 to 137 percent higher than current new policy holders.
As we've stated before, Citizens has amassed an untenable liability exposure of more than $405 billion. Its 1.2 million commercial and residential customers have been paying below market rates that limit private insurer competition and shift the responsibility for buying property insurance from individuals and businesses to everyone else in the state collectively, regardless of their relative exposure to the threat of devastating hurricanes.
Citizens and the taxpayers who would be on the hook for hurricane taxes like the ones impose after hurricanes Andrew, Charley and Wilma have been fortunate to avoid any hurricane over the past seven years. That lull, which won't last, has enabled the insurer to amass reserves and spread risk through the purchase of private reinsurance "catastrophe bonds." Those factors lower the risk of Citizens having to impose hurricane surtaxes on policy holders. Additionally, Citizens' recent so-called "depopulation" strategy has resulted in the insurer shedding 277,000 last year, reducing the potential exposure to claims by $3 billion, according to the non-profit company. Citizens plans to drop 30,000 coastal wind-only policies this year.
The Senate bill also would limit the value of homes eligible for coverage from $2 million to $600,000. Currently, such luxury homes would be eligible for a Citizens' policy only if the owner was unable to secure a private-sector policy within 15 percent of the cost of a Citizens' policy.
Florida has learned the hard way that a dysfunctional private insurance market hamstrung by a low-cost government subsidized competitor puts taxpayers and policy holders at risk for costly surcharges. Most Citizens policy holders aren't even aware that they are on the hook for premium surcharges up to 45 percent of the cost of their premiums in the event of a hurricane. Private insurers can only impose surcharges of 2 percent. Such surcharges do not include additional emergency surcharges Citizens could impose or existing fees that go to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (known as the Cat Fund) and the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, the state-run company that pay liabilities when a private insurer becomes insolvent.
The complex Senate plan may not be perfect. It amends or creates more than a dozen state statutes. Even Gov. Rick Scott, who pressured Citizens' board into pursuing depopulation and risk transfer policies, has been careful not to endorse the bill, as his own 2014 reelection campaign draws near. Scott's governorship has been defined by difficult, often unpopular decisions. On Citizens, he has been right. If voters think the state should run an insurance monopoly with subsidized, actuarially unsound premiums that squeeze out private competitors and carry the threat of devastating emergency surcharges, they'll have their chance to be heard. Measures contained in the Senate bill reduce Citizens' role and risk. That's a good thing.


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I've been watching the cartoon again recently, and I haven't seen anything that explains why her fire is blue. I understand she can bend lightning. Is the blue flames an extension of this?
As per the cross post from scifi exchange , The reason here flame being blue is attributed to the fact that the blue part of the flame widely believed to be the most hottest part of it, and that blue color was also to highlight the fact that Azula was a most skilled fire bender and in terms of raw power her power is second compared to that of Fire lord Ozai.
I personally think that she was the primary antagonist of the second season and to showcase her power and make her a formidable match to Aang they made her flames blue to highlight her proficiency and prowess are much higher than Zuko's who was quite weak in his encounters with Aang in the first season.
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Published on January 23rd, 2013 | by Jules Yap7
Simple But Effective Occasional Table
Materials: Lack Shelf, Vika Adils Legs
Description: A very simple hack. I didn't like the Malm occasional table (or the $130 price tag) so I built one for $34. I combined the 74″ Lack Shelf with 4 Vika Adils legs. I have the low headboard Malm, for the high headboard the Vika Kaj legs would be better.
Freestanding it's not the most stable but behind the headboard its solid as a rock, it is about 1/2″ lower than the headboard which provides a nice lip to keep items from falling on your head.
~ Matt Hannan, Wheat Ridge, CO
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does the color matches??
Verry nice ! Simple & smart good-done-work ! Congrat !
Phone chargers and the like I assume..
I'm confused. There are wires hanging out all over the place… what's that all about?
Perfectconcepts – I have a hack with a wider 'ledge' – based on using another Malm bed (bought second hand), and using the 'foot' part as the 'ledge'. Hope it gets posted sometime soon! It's on my blog too
I did the same thing, but just mounted the shelf to the wall. But I can see how this would be better for renters.
Its pretty good and nice. I would like to install if also had more width. This specified width of headboard in the image is not sufficient. Looking for a width hardboard. And tanks for giving the price over here.


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Currency Bookcase
by Turnstone from Steelcase
At A Glance:
Following the simple, clean lines of other coordinating Currency home office furniture, this bookshelf offers ample amounts of storage with adjustable shelves to fit just about any type of reading material.
What's To Like:
It's a bookshelf, sized to fit right up next to your desk at the same height as the desktop. Solid, heavy, and durable construction makes it first in line for the "office bookcase" category - with a weight limit per shelf of 100 lbs per shelf(!), it'll be able to hold whatever you can throw at it.
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The common knowledge in this regard seems to be that it was completely solved in the 1950s by a few Americans. About a decade ago, Olver contested that in one of his books. Recently, Palais wrote about it in the Notices but he only treats the old story from the 1950s and seems not to be aware of Olver's facts.
The OP says:
" ...Recently, Palais wrote about it in the Notices but he only treats the old story from the 1950s and seems not to be aware of Olver's facts."
Actually, I am aware of Olver's work and also Sören Illman's contribution.
Sören is an old friend and wrote to me somewhat miffed that I did not mention his work on the problem. What he proved was a very nice fact---that if a proper Lie group action is differentiable, then it can be made real analytic. As I pointed out in my article, there are very simple examples that Hilbert should have noticed (see my article---linked below---if you think I am being hard on Hilbert) that show that without properness this is false.
As for Olver, his contribution is also nice but a little off the beaten track. Here is a quick version. One facet of what Hilbert asked was whether a "local Lie group" (i.e., an open set in $R^n$ with a continuous group operation and inverse defined near the identity) could always be embedded in a global Lie group. Cartan anwered that in a way that suffices for all practical purposes; he showed that after cutting back the original neighborhood to a smaller one it could be embedded. However a number of people (including Malcev and Douady) showed that without cutting back the answer could be "no". Their examples were infinite dimensional however, and Olver in his paper "Non-Associative Local Lie Groups" provided a class of finite dimensional examples.
OK, so why didn't I mention the work of Illman, Olver and a host of others who worked on the Fifth Proble after the 1950s. If you look at my article, available for download here:
the answer is clear. My article was part of a larger memorial artcle for Andy Gleason (my PhD advisor) and it was titled "Gleason's Contribution to the Solution of the Hilbert Fifth Problem". There was plenty to talk about there, and a discussion of other contributions to the Fifth Problem that happened decades later would have been out of place.
By the way, in regard to what is called "Route B" in an answer above, the first section of my article is titled "What IS Hilbert's Fifth Problem" in which I try to explain aat least a little bit about how and why Hilbert's original statement of the Fifth Problem morphed over time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_fifth_problem is a decent survey. In general in the discussion of "status" of the Hilbert problems, there are at least two recognisable routes.
Route A is the more natural for contemporary mathematicians. Roughly speaking it equates with asking first for the version of Hilbert Problem N that has entered mathematical folklore (the tea-room version if you like, "Hilbert N asked if [add translation into contemporary jargon]"), and then giving the update on that $folklore$ version.
Route B involves reading what Hilbert actually wrote in German, comparing with accepted English translations, discussing ambiguities and parsing out the issues where Hilbert deliberately made open-ended remarks. In other words Route B treats the problem set as a historical document, and allows for a degree of quibbling and/or interpretative queries.
The reason these routes don't always give the same answer should be relatively obvious once they are formulated this way. But it is worth making the further point, given the tone of various MO discussions, that 1900 is quite close to the cusp at which "discursive mathematics" gives way to "formal axiomatic mathematics". Also (no one express shock, please) Hilbert did not have a definition of topological space, let alone Lie group. The issues here cannot be resolved by saying that without definitions he had no right to pose problems!
There are quite a number of the problems where the accepted Route A box-ticking answer has been queried. Some of these are worth further questions on MO.
Edit: I think problems 12, 15 and 21 are others among those problems where there is a worthwhile and clarifying debate about the status.
Recent work of Pardon appears to show (See http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2324) that that $\mathbb{Z}_p$ does not act faithfully on a connected 3-manifold. His work uses "tools from low dimensional topology, for example incompressible surfaces, minimal surfaces, and a property of the mapping class group"
As mentioned by BS and wikipedia, there are two different formulations of Hilbert's fifth problem. One was solved by Gleason, Montgomery, and Zippin. The second more general conjecture, which is also called the Hilbert-Smith conjecture, is still open. My knowledge of this is nil, but my rather hazy recollection is that the remaining step is to prove that a p-adic group (or something like that) cannot act continuously and nontrivially on a manifold.
I do not know for sure but I suspect that Montgomery and my father (C. T. Yang) worked on this for a long time without success. And indeed in the late 70's and early 80's, McAuley claimed to have a proof and distributed a manuscript. Actually, he distributed many manuscripts, because he would find gaps in his own proof and distribute corrected versions. As far as I know, McAuley's claim was never taken seriously.


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You can get these sets individually for the same price ($35 each) but this is a nifty gift set including both full series.
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"Band of Brothers" was an incredible piece of film making. It showed how the horrors of war created bonds of friendship that went far beyond camaraderie. "The Pacific" showed the horrors of war.
@i1patrick: Agreed. I found myself getting a little lost and confused over who was who in the Pacific - it was definitely not as centric on the Marines themselves or the relationships they developed but rather their (pretty horrific) experiences. Was still a great series. But where the Pacific is great, Band of Brothers is a masterpiece.
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What are the security and privacy concerns surrounding using a custom android ROM like that of cyanogen?
Well, it is open source so you can look at the code and build it yourself if for any reason you don't trust the binaries that are shared.
I believe the only data they collect is from crash logs, and maybe the number of installs (I can't find a source for this if anyone can help me out here).
Other than that, a lot of people use it as it is probably the most popular rom out there. If there were privacy issues, people would be all over it.
I would say the biggest issue with a lot of custom ROMs including Cyanogen's is that the OS and system apps are signed with test keys. These keys are publicly available, meaning that it is possible for someone to write an app that uses "signatureOrSystem" or "signature" level permissions. There are known cases of malware that targets these custom ROMs [1,2].
On a more positive note, if you run a rooted devices, you can do things like set up a host file to block ads, enable a firewall per application, selectively disable permissions, etc. Custom ROMs often ship with newer kernels, so a lot of security vulnerabilities that are kernel-based are dealt with faster than what Google can do.
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23 Mar 2012 8:01 AM #1
How to get the examples-src working locally?
I'm currently failing to get the examples working locally, would be really cool if i could have them working locally to help mock a few UI screens, as I'm just getting to grips with Gxt (3beta4). I started to take notes as I was trying to solve the problem, that way if anyone else wants to follow my footsteps and post what they learned here that would be great
I created a new project in eclipse, using a directory with the examples-src fold contents (from the download) placed inside a directory src.
The project had errors but after including jars for, GWT (latest), GXT3beta4, Javaee-api-6, jabsorb (for the json array/object imports), guice 1.5, app engine sdk, JRE6 I only have one eclipse error now in com.sencha.gxt.examples.resources.server.data.Folder.java;
TypedQuery<Folder> q = em.createQuery("select f from Folder f where f.parentFolder is null", Folder.class);
I wasn't sure how to run the examples so I tried to run it from each of the xml files, test, resources, explorer, but these complained about not having html files, so I created a html file for each of the xml files.
I then got this from running it;
00:00:00.016 [WARN] Module declares a servlet class 'com.sencha.gxt.examples.resources.server.ExampleServiceImpl' with a mapping to '/explorer/service', but the web.xml has no corresponding mapping; please add the following lines to your web.xml: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>com_sencha_gxt_examples_resources_server_ExampleServiceImpl</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/explorer/service</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
00:00:00.016 [WARN] Module declares a servlet class 'com.sencha.gxt.examples.resources.server.FileServiceImpl' with a mapping to '/explorer/fileservice', but the web.xml has no corresponding mapping; please add the following lines to your web.xml: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>com_sencha_gxt_examples_resources_server_FileServiceImpl</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/explorer/fileservice</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
And I get a blank page when I go to;
jetty gives me a warning;
00:00:00.000 [WARN] Adding classpath entry 'file:/C:/Code/Gxt/GxtExamples/src/' to the web app classpath for this session More info: file:/C:/eclispe/eclipse_Indigo_2011/plugins/com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle_2.4.0.v201202290255-rel-r37/gwt-2.4.0/doc/helpInfo/webAppClassPath.html
The most common reason to encounter this problem with a new project is using RPC, which tries to loadcom.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.RemoteService. The solution to is copy gwt-servlet.jar from the GWT install directory into your web app'swar/WEB-INF/lib/ directory.
so the gwt-servlet.jar is already in my web directory.
This is as far as I've got for now, would be good to get some insight on how to set up the examples, if anyone else managed to get them up and running ok.... any hints or tips?
I've taken a different more clunky approach to working with the example code,
I created a GWT project in eclipse, using the option to create the template boiler plating (you the one where you enter a user name and the server replies back) and then configured this to use GXT. 3 beta 4, and used all the aforementioned jars dependencies I mentioned earlier.
I figured if I then used the file import feature and import the examples-src , then I would be able to use import statement with them when coding in the boiler plate client package.
However straight importing while it got the files in ok, but using the import statement from outside the client package was failing for me.
I've (tried) to recreated the type of error I would get;
09:31:16.963 [ERROR] [gxte] Line 65: No source code is available for type com.sencha.gxt.examples.resources.client.images.ExampleImages; did you forget to inherit a required module?
(in reality it seems that it can't find some images in this example, but the error message format has been same for classes that aren't trying to access the image files in the ExampleImages which are missing - is this a bug that the images are missing?)
My guess is that this error is something to do with me needed to understand the GWT framework better. So a rather clunky laborious solution I found was just to cut n paste the code into new classes inside my client package (com.example.gxte.client). This is good enough for now, and I have learnt a lot about setting up GWT projects in the process, and so far I'm putting together a page of various examples in border layout for the purpose of looking at theme / style adaptation for different colour themes.
If anyone is having a similar experience or insights would love to hear about it here.
Was browsing through this forum for general reading and found some really useful information I didn't find in my initial search, thanks to Colin Alworth!
I will have to try this out at some point!
Last edited by Neilcoder; 28 Mar 2012 at 1:39 AM. Reason: update with progress
30 Jul 2012 12:19 AM #2
I finally compiled cleanly a GWT web application project in Java EE Eclipse but got the following
EntryPoint initialization exception
<p>Exception while loading module com.sencha.gxt.explorer.client.Explorer. See Development Mode for details.
com.google.gwt.core.ext.UnableToCompleteException: (see previous log entries) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.rebindAndCreate(ModuleSpace.java:512) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.ModuleSpace.onLoad(ModuleSpace.java:384) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.loadModule(OophmSessionHandler.java:200) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:526) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:364) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Console showed:
[DEBUG] [explorer] - Validating units:
[SPAM] [explorer] - Resolving javax.inject.Named
[SPAM] [explorer] - Found type 'javax.inject.Named'
[WARN] [explorer] - Ignoring unresolvable annotation type javax.inject.Qualifier
[SPAM] [explorer] - Resolving javax.inject.Singleton
[SPAM] [explorer] - Found type 'javax.inject.Singleton'
[WARN] [explorer] - Ignoring unresolvable annotation type javax.inject.Scope
[ERROR] [explorer] - Failed to create an instance of 'com.sencha.gxt.explorer.client.Explorer' via deferred binding
[ERROR] [explorer] - Unable to load module entry point class com.sencha.gxt.explorer.client.Explorer (see associated exception for details)
[ERROR] [explorer] - Failed to load module 'explorer' from user agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11' at 127.0.0.1:57369
Any help here would be great - Why is this not working??
30 Jul 2012 12:24 AM #3
Also the Jar files I added include:
30 Jul 2012 12:25 AM #4
It might help to comment out the entrypoint in the exlorer xml file, and/or you could be missing some of the jars that you need to run the example.
I've set it up a couple of times now and I've tried to keep track of my steps and put them in a guide here;
30 Jul 2012 12:28 AM #5
These are the jars that worked for me;
31 Jul 2012 6:34 AM #6
How to get the examples-src working locally?
Hello Neil Coder,
I am trying again from scratch to build a working war file of Explorer. Does it even work under Jetty server?
I know the war file Sencha provides works but how do I build it properly. It is not so easy. A simple zip file for eclipse would have gone a long way.
Anyway I got stuck on part 4B:
4b. Add GXT jar to launch configuration.
a. Choose Run / Open Run Dialog.
b. Select your appropriate launch configuration under 'Java Application'.
c. Select the 'Classpath' tab.
d. Add the gxt-3.X.X.jar to the classpath under 'User Entries'.
Screenshots would have been nice but
Here is what I get when I follow this under Java EE Eclipse. Maybe its different than basic eclipse?
Under the top level run menu which I have to assume they mean here as its a separate step:
Use Step Filters
Run History
Run As
Run Configurations..
Debug History
Debug As
Debug Configurations..
Skip All Breakpoints
Breakpoint Types
External Tools
Launch the Webservices Explorer
No where does it mention a Run Dialog box or Java Application - What do I really do here to add the jar files to the launch configuration? Run Configurations???
Please Advise!
31 Jul 2012 7:13 AM #7
I use; Run > Run configurations... to get there.
...and yep, I think I've noticed the labels in eclipse tend to change over time, depending on the version too.