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I know a fair few medics and as a quasi-trained medic myself I was reflecting on this question. Fairly recently the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK said that it would not provide hip replacements to those that were obese under the NHS (they would have to pay for it themselves) and it got me thinking. Should a health service use it's time and resources dealing with 'self inflicted' conditions? I also am aware that all medics take an oath, but we are going to pretend that the oath doesn't apply here purely for the debate.
The debate is really thus:
- Smokers inflict harm on themselves by smoking, in full knowledge that it will cause them massive harm in later life yet they still keep going
- Public knowledge of this is great and there are even government sponsored schemes in many countries to get people off cigarettes
- Smokers tie up beds and other scarce resources in hospitals that could be used by others, especially in government hospitals
- If a smoker were to come in to A&E (Accident and Emergency, for Americans that is ER) for a smoking related condition then they are still eligible for emergency treatment even if there are other 'genuinely' injured patients there
- Most if not all smokers will end up in hospital over a smoking related illness at some point, often a government hospital which again ties up resources from 'genuinely' injured people
I must say that I lose a lot of respect for someone once I find they smoke and a I'm quite up front in telling them how stupid I think they are (I often point out that jumping off a bridge is cheaper if they really want to commit suicide). In my opinion there is absolutely no reason why someone should smoke and it's a sign of weakness. That said I am also very quick to offer my support if they want to quit. Thus in this debate I am heavily biased towards not treating smokers for conditions they have 'inflicted' upon themselves.
That is really the crux of it for me. Why should an over stressed, massively over worked government paid surgeon have to spend his or her time operating on someone who is only really on his or her operating table becuase of stupidity? Especially if said smoker is likely to go out and smoke again. Let me add however I have great friends who do smoke and I'd probably be devastated if they were to die.
I'm really for the overall banning of cigarettes and smoking. My argument is that there is no reason for them to be here. If they were invented yesterday do you think that they would be allowed on the market?! For me the issue of 'right to chose' doesn't come into this. If someone has a right to chose to smoke, shouldn't the health service have a 'right to chose' not to treat them for their self inflicted injury?
The other argument often called against me is that smokers put a lot of tax revenue into the treasury. This, for me, is really the only reason smoking still exists and governments don't have the guts to ban it; a strong tobacco lobby and cash in the coffers. But really, how much do they put in? And then how much is taken out again to have to pay for their treatments?
We're sliding away from the topic at hand here, we are not talking about banning smoking. We are talking about treating self inflicted conditions and here is where it get's a bit messy. Becuase there are other self inflicted conditions.
For example, if a drunk driver crashes his car because he is drunk should he be treated? After all, his drunkenness caused the accident. What about a woman that threw herself off a bridge? Again, she did it to herself.
I think it is fair to say that in both of these cases most would say they should be treated. But why? Is it any different to the smoker? They caused their situations didn't they? Again, it's messy but I do think there is a difference. Because in both cases they are really 'one time' instances, not brought on by years of self abuse.
This is especially true of the woman who jumped off a bridge as it is highly likely that she did it for a reason such as depression. And depression, by and large, isn't a self inflicted condition or one that you pick up on purpose. This I feel is the difference when compared to smoking. She made a mistake in all probability, shouldn't she be given another chance? I feel that she should.
But what about a smoker? Shouldn't they get another chance? Actually, I feel they have already don't you? It tends to take years before smoking will end with you in a hospital, so a smoker had years of chances to alleviate their condition.
In the end however, I feel that most doctors will, quite rightly, feel strongly against not saving a life if they can. Even me, with my loathing of smoking, would probably feel the same in the situation. But it's a tough topic and one that in a world where health budgets are being slashed will surely come up. We'll be back on this topic with certainty.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Ethics: Would you save the life of a smoker?
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Bill would delay joint replacement bundled payments until 2018
A bill introduced in the House last week aims to push implementation of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement payment model from April 1, 2016 to January 1, 2018.
The Healthy Inpatient Procedures (HIP) Act, introduced by Reps. Tom Price (R-GA) and David Scott (D-GA) last Wednesday, would push back the CJR implementation nearly two years from its currently scheduled April 1 start date. The bill, H.R. 4848, has been referred to both the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees.
The implementation of the CJR brings "tremendous risk and complexity" for both patients and providers, and could cause a drop in quality of care, Price said in a joint press release.
"At the very least, a delay in implementation is warranted to give all involved time to better assess, review, and weigh the impact and consequences of this proposal and more adequately prepare so patients are protected," Price said.
The delay would also benefit post-acute care facilities, in addition to the hospitals on the hook for the bundled payments, by giving them additional time to implement the changes required by the CJR without impacting patient care, Scott said.
Some experts estimate that the CJR model could cause 25% of 1- and 2- star skilled nursing facilities to close over the next five years, as hospitals seek partnerships with high-quality post-acute care facilities.
The HIP Act has already won praise from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which said providers could "face startup and integration problems" without the delay, "making it more difficult to achieve improvements in patient quality of care as well as in costs."
"It is important that all stakeholders have adequate time to prepare for this kind of substantial change to our health care delivery system in order to avoid any disruption to normal patient access and care patterns," AAOS said.

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The BIG Three.....NOT Ford, GM and Chrysler. Not the three well-known auto companies.
NOR am I referring to The Holy Trinity.
So, ta-da, it must be the third anniversary of my blog.
Big whoop.
Actually, it IS a pretty important milestone. One can call oneself a "blogger" but you must post entries to be a true blogger.
The name (short for Web Logger) has come into public awareness these days and I feel almost like a pioneer.
I use a tracking program that tells me this is my 228th message posted and more than 18,934 viewings have been made by people in all 50 states, DC and two US territories as well as 95 other countries.
Since I started the end of March in 2006, the anniversary is usually close to Easter so I bring back a sign I captured a few years before I started blogging.
It is in the "spirit" of this time of year.
And, you might also remember this seasonal gem from the past.
For some reason, this cartoon always causes me to smile.
Hope it gave you a happy moment too.
Thanks for following along.
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I don't know what more I can say about Axiom Verge that probably hasn't already been discussed ad nauseam across the various social media sites, gaming websites, YouTube, personal blogs, etc. Hell it made a cameo appearance in my 12 Games of Christmas as Game number one. You can watch it here:
It was a day back in early 2015 that I remember first hearing someone talk about this great new game they had played on the PS4 called Axiom Verge. I didn't really think much of it until I started hearing more and more people mention it on Twitter. It was at that point that I decided to look a little deeper at this thing called Axiom Verge. It was reported that the whole game was developed by only one person.
What I ended up finding quickly set my heart a flutter. I spent a good chunk over the next few weeks watching various videos on YouTube of people playing this amazing indie title. That's right reader, you read that correctly, my 2015 Game of the Year (GOTY) is an independently developed game that is NOT produced by a major game publisher. Three cheers for the little guy!
It was at that point I knew that Axiom Verge was one of those special games. A game that would be talked about for a long time. Unfortunately I do not own a PS4 system, so I was unable to play this title myself. Then I discovered that is was scheduled for release on May 14th 2015 on Steam for the PC. I nearly shat myself with excitement, to the point that I even set up an alert on my calendar to remind when this game became available. Then I moved on with life…
My gaming life can best be described as somewhat chaotic. Meaning I jump from game to game with relative speed, so after setting that reminder I all but forgot about Axiom Verge. I was able to distract myself by doing what I do best, playing video games.
Then I awoke that fateful May morning. I had an alert on my phone….blinking at me….trying to tell me something, important.
Imagine my face when I unlocked my screen and read my alert, only to discover that it was the reminder that Axiom Verge was now available on Steam. It probably looked something like this:
In an excitement that is only rivaled by an 8 year old on Christmas morning, I rushed out to my laptop and logged in to Steam as quickly as possible. Then I remembered…I had recently had the good fortune of getting a Steam gift card for my birthday in April. I had loaded it on to Steam at the time, and was planning on using it for a future purchase, possibly even for this very game. In hindsight that was a brilliant move, because when I went to checkout, I noticed the option to pay using my Steam balance. My life has not been the same since.
Finally. It was my turn. My chance to finally experience first-hand, what I had only seen online. My time to play Axiom Verge. Oh wait, I have to install it first…
Okay, now I was ready. I was ready to lose myself in the strange environments found within the strange high-tech world that the game is set in.
I will admit that at the time of this writing, I have yet to complete the game in full. I can hear some of you reaching for that mouse, but before you discredit me and click the exit/back button on your browser, hear me out.
While I have yet to complete the game, I can tell you that the hours I have had a chance to sink in to this game have all been worth it. The gameplay is fantastic, and I find myself actually getting really excited to explore new areas. Having grown up playing the games that inspired this title (Super Metroid, Castlevania, etc.) I can usually spot features or areas within the game that I know may come in to play later on. The ledges/platforms that are just a little bit outside of your initial jumping capabilities. Areas that have doors, barriers, or even walls with cracks or strange artifacts on/near them. I just know that I will eventually pick up an upgrade of some kind that will unlock an ability or allow me to transverse to new areas to explore. It's a classic formula that works well, and one that has been executed very well in Axiom Verge.
As I sit here reflecting on this game, deciding on what to write next, I find myself trying to pick out flaws just so that this doesn't sound like too big of a gush-fest. And in all honesty, I have found it almost impossible to find anything I don't like about the game itself. The graphics are superb, the music is an absolute masterpiece. Seriously if the soundtrack alone doesn't win some major awards I will be offended.
If I must nit-pick and find a flaw with Axiom Verge it would be the weapons selection process. The game is played by plugging in an Xbox controller in to an open USB port on your computer. No need to map or configure anything. The controls, for the most part are good, and are not much different than you would find in any other game of similarity. The left analog stick is used to control Trace's movement, left, right, crouch, aim up, etc. You can also use the D-Pad if you so choose, and I sometimes find myself switching back and forth between the two. The right analog stick is used to cycle between your various projectile weapons.
At first it's not too bad, as you only have a small handful to start out. Cycling through them is quite simple, and it's easy to change on the fly to a gun that meets your current needs or situation. As the game advances, and you pick up additional guns, it becomes a little more difficult to remember what gun does what exactly, so you may need to cycle through them in a tense moment before you find the one you are looking for. I know it's better than the alternative of cycling through weapons one at a time at the push of a single set of buttons, but it can still be time consuming in a game that sometimes requires you to make a quick weapons change.
The other problem is not really a game design flaw, but rather a flaw of my ability to hold a smallish controller in my rather large hands. It should come as no surprise that a dude housed in a 6' 5" frame would have large hands. For you metric readers that equates to 1.95 meters (or is it meteres?). Playing games on a standard sized controller can be challenging at times, and the problem I have had with Axiom Verge is that my ginormous thumb will sometimes accidentally click the R3 (right analog stick) button in the heat of battle, and switch back to a default gun. Yeah, to go from killing enemies in a single shot, to something weaker or less effective can kill a good run pretty quickly.
Other than those two minor flaws with the control mechanics, the game plays really smoothly. The only other complaint I may consider throwing out there is that the world designs tend to become somewhat similar in texture and appearance after a while. It is easy to lose your sense of direction, and after on more than one occasion I found myself lost, and thinking that I had already explored this area. It was kind of like Deja-vu. The in-game map is certainly a very handy tool for when it becomes necessary to do a little bit of backtracking in this lovingly dubbed "Metroidvania" game.
If I haven't convinced you to play this game yet, let me continue on by talking about the bosses. The few I have encountered up to this point are skillfully designed, and even border on a slightly more whimsical side. Some of them reminding me more of the robot bosses found in the MegaMan games.
They are challenging, and will require you to study their movements and attack patterns in order to conquer them. So far they have been very fun and rewarding. I expect them to ratchet up the level of difficulty on these bastards as the game progresses, and I may find myself hating some of them with the passion of a million suns. I guess I will find out.
At this point I really don't want to run the risk of spoiling it too much for those that haven't played the game yet, and I don't want to research much further so as to not spoil it for myself. I will however, leave you with these final words:


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Echoes of Erin in Australia
By Tomas O Maoldomhnaigh
Having been requested by the Ardchomhairle of Comhaltas to embark on a return visit to Australia for the purpose of finalising venues, dates, etc for the first CCE tour in 1997, I set out from Shannon via London and Bangkok to Sydney. After a 3 hour wait in Sydney I got a connecting flight to North Queensland to the coastal city of Cairns. I had ample time to read on the 22 hour flight and I came across a very learned article in Treoir No 1 of 1996 by S Ahmed de Ridder in which he compliments CCE as an organisation and observes 'Irish traditional music has shown the universality of its soul by readily transcending national boundaries, and this uniqueness is something the Irish people and their vibrant musical culture can be very proud of indeed. In a world in which the most vulgar aspects of commerce have now settled on every tree, Irish traditional music has, thanks to its timeless nature, managed to find a home in the hearts of culturally diverse people. It is truly a triumph of spirit over matter'. With these thoughts in my mind I was, indeed, looking forward to meeting with the writer and his wonderful family.
I was fortunate when I had cleared customs etc to meet with both Sased and a Limerick man Mick O'Mara who made me feel welcome. Having sorted out the business end of things, booking a theatre etc, we repaired to the Irish Bar where a music session is organised by Mick and friends on each Saturday afternoon.
It had been arranged that my first night would be spent in the 'bush'. This was nothing new to me having spent a number of years in the 'bush' in Africa in the early 1970's. But first I was informed that bed would have to wait a little longer. Though somewhat jetlagged I did my best to appreciate the three hours drive from Cairns to Atherton Tablelands - a truly beautiful unspoiled natural countryside, where the de Ridder family Sased and Carina and their three wonderful children live.
What, one may ask, has this go to do with traditional Irish music and Comhaltas? While on my previous visit to Australia with Bill Cunningham, I had the opportunity to speak with Carina de Ridder by phone from Melbourne with a view to setting up a branch of CCE in North Queensland. This all came about through contact with Michael Cleary of Sydney. One of the most interesting aspects of the story is the universality of the Irish Culture because as it transpired neither Sased nor Carina have any Irish connections at all - the seed was sown twenty years ago, when Carina from Belgium was on a trip to Dingle! Having eventually emigrated to Australia she married Sased of Dutch Indonesian origin and today their children Jem (12), Karim (11), Khalide (8) carry on the Irish tradition of music making.
I was to spend only one night with this family, but it was a memorable experience to hear them playing the most haunting music in the northern style on fiddles, flute and tin-whistles. The main influences on their music came from tapes of Johnny Doherty and John Loughran. They show an extraordinary appetite and ability in relation to Irish traditional music and this without any structures such as classes, workshops etc. Probably to their advantage is the fact that they live in isolation, correspondence school and unaffected by modern commercialism, peer pressure, etc.
My time spent with this family was much too short. However, the hospitality afforded to me coupled with good music, chat and friendship will stay in my memory for many years. I look forward to meeting all the family in 1997 when they come to Ireland.
It is difficult for us in Ireland to appreciate the vastness of Australia. My next stop was 500 miles south-west of Cairns at Mount Isa, a mining town where the largest Irish Worker's Club of Australia is managed by Ben Gillick of Meath. I had the pleasure to meet a young Irish dancing teacher Theresa McNamara from Newmarket-on-Fergus who teaches dancing in the Club, as well as Larry Flynn from Cashel and Oliver Sweeney from County Tyrone.
Still in Queensland after a trip by plane of about 1,000 miles from Mount Isa, I arrived in the large city of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean. It was a pleasure to meet once again Therese Lavelle (Dublin) Entertainments Manager of Queensland Irish Association and her husband Gabriel from Galway. It is interesting to note that the first Irish born president of the Irish Club (QIA) in 100 years is Patrick Brennan from Carrick-on-Shannon. While in Brisbane, I was invited by the QIA to attend a lunch organised by the Irish Business Association whose current President is Philip Moynihan of Cork. Philip introduced me to Viki Scott an Irish Dance Teacher and Niall Nugent of Dublin. Some of the Irish traditional music fraternity I met in Brisbane included Mick Tunney (Mayo), and Sue Fish members of the band Shebeen, who play every Wednesday in QIA. The other members of the band are Adrian Jeffries (Antrim) uilleann piper (maker and performer) and Rose Broe - keyboards.
My trip continued south along the coast to the town of Newcastle - a holiday paradise North of Sydney, where I enjoyed the company of Dermot Tansey of Roscommon and his wife Josephine from County Limerick, and Fr Thomas Kennedy of Mull inahone, County Tipperary, who has been in Australia for over 40 years.
On to Sydney, regarded as the most beautiful city in Australia, where I was welcomed by Michael Cleary of Ennistymon County Clare and his wife Mina from County Mayo. Michael and his family have long been the foremost supporters and promoters of Irish culture and of CCE in Sydney and Australia. This city of 4.5 million has many traditional musicians, singers and dancers scattered throughout this sprawling metropolis. Sydney is no stranger to visiting Irish traditional musicians, who over the years have stayed periodically in the city teaching and performing.
Among those were Maura O'Keeffe, Jackie Daly, David Sheridan, Josie Marsh, Mary Shannon, John Carty, Eilis O'Connor and currently Michelle Powderly.
Many young Australians now show great interest in learning Irish traditional music and dancing and often meet for sessions in such venues as the Gaelic Club and Thurles Castle and in 'Irish' pubs dotted throughout the city. Many young Irish also meet in the Mercantile in the under the management of Dubliner Terry O'Neill. There I met, among many, Leo Stewart of Derry a great supporter of traditional music in the city, and also Philip Gannon of Castlerea, County Roscommon and Seamus Finneran also of Roscommon.
Many Irish people in Sydney also promote Irish cultural activities through Radio, TV and newsmedia such as Padraig Seoighe from Mayo who has a weekly programme 'Eire san Astráil' on Radio 2EA; Vince Murray and Martin Coleman on Radio 2RDJ 'Ireland Calling', Nancy and Neill O'Donnell 'The Irish Heritage ProgrammE on 2SER FM, and also Billy Cantwell and Annette Blackwell of 'The Irish Echo', and Seamus Maher of 'The Irish Australian'. Sydney has many Irish Dancing Schools catering for this interest, no doubt inundated with new applicants due to the success of 'Riverdance and 'Lord of the Dance. The Irish Céilí Dancing scene in Sydney is currently organised by Margaret Winnett and her troupe of Céilí Dancers.
Melbourne, Australia's second city has been home to the Irish for generations and no doubt has probably the largest collection of Irish traditional musicians born either in Ireland or Australia. The local Comhaltas branch is quite active with weekly sessions under the leadership of Paddy O'Neill of Cavan and of course classes organised prior to the session. Always lending a hand to the music you will find people like Paddy and John Fitzgerald from Bodyke, County Clare; Kathleen Harte, Teresa Cronin, Ray and Joan Munday, Peter Rayner, Moray Logan, Gréagan O'Leary, Derek Browne and Pam Connell. Paddy O'Neill and his family must be credited with providing opportunities for learning, performing and for promoting the Irish Music Tradition in this region over many years and no doubt over the coming years as well. As in Sydney, Irish music sessions are regularly found in many 'Irish' pubs in Melbourne. One very proud person in the Melbourne Irish Scene is Conor Hayes of Dublin who is the current World Irish Dancing Champion. Conor emigrated as a very young child and is a member of the Cathy Casgriff School of Irish Dancing.
Paddy O'Neill and I took the opportunity to travel to Tasmania, to make contact with the Irish traditional music scene there, notably in Hobart and in Launceston. How delighted we were to find a gathering of musicians in full flight on the very day of arrival - Saturday afternoon in the New Sydney Hotel. Among those musicians we met were Malcolm Brooks (melodian), Peter Grubb, Secretary of the Irish Association of Tasmania, Malcolm Fielding (Banjo), Bernard Chenery (Flute) and George Callaghan (Harp/Artist) from Belfast.
Tasmania the earliest settlement for Irish enforced exiles, and no doubt holding no fond memories for these early settlers; today is a beautiful part of the continent - very much akin to Ireland in both scenic beauty and relaxed life style. We experienced this as we drove North to the city of Launceston. Again we were fortunate to find a traditional session on Sunday afternoon in 'Irish Murphys' Pub. Here we met Beth Sowter (fiddle), Frank Murphy (Banjo), Anthony Carr (Kells - singer), and Brian Mooney (guitar / singer) from VIC. Tasmania a little off the beaten track does not experience many visiting Irish performers and would no doubt provide a great failte to Irish traditional musicians especially.
Canberra, Australia's capital, is a city largely peopled by Government employees, and probably does not have as large an Irish influence as the other major cities. As Irish culture transcends all boundaries, this city in time, will experience the same level of Irish cultural activity as others. It has a beautiful Irish Club where I was fortunate to meet with Pat Harris, President of the Irish Association and other staff members, as well as Barney and Angela Devlin of Belfast, Stan and Julia Cronin (Roscommon). Stan is President of Cáirde na hEireann. The Irish Ambassador Richard O'Brien and his staff are always very supportive of the Irish Scene here.
A native of Carrick-on-Suir, Maurice Cummins a dynamic person of great organisational skill, introduced us to many musicians mostly Australians born in Adelaide. I enjoyed listening and chatting to a range of musicians in the Celtic Club and in the Governer Hindmarsh Hotel. There is a great opportunity here for a branch of Comhaltas once more in Adelaide. Maurice has wonderful contacts and is one of the chief organisers of a major Celtic music festival in Kapunda, a distance of about 50 miles from Adelaide with Bill O'Brien of Kapunda. I also met Tomas Mac Aodha Bhuidhe of Birr and Tom Devlin of Belfast. I had the opportunity of doing an interview with Bob Boyd and Stephen O'Connor, both from Dublin, who present a radio programme 'Radio Eireann' on 5EB - an ethnic station. Among the Irish musicians I met were Pat Organ (box), County Clare and John Mullarka (Bodhrán) of SIigo who is an uncle of fiddler Kevin Burke. Many of the musicians in Adelaide owe a debt of gratitude to Tim Whelan (RIP) of Upperchurch, County Tipperary who for many years taught music classes in this city.
My final step was in Perth and I was provided with first class hospitality in the home of Sean and Margaret Doherty. Sean a native of Charlestown, County Mayo and his wife Margaret have been the driving force behind the Irish cultural scene in Perth since the late 60's. All of their spare time is spent in the promotion, teaching and organising events especially in the Irish Club in Subiaco. Seán has assisted many young Australians not alone to appreciate Irish traditional music but has produced some fine performers among them Ormond Og Waters on concertina. At their weekly session on Monday night you would be enchanted with the fine traditional singing of Tommy Kearns from Ballymote, Co. Sligo. The present secretary, Rúnaf of the Branch, is Elaine Hourigan of Pallasgreen, County Limerick, a young emigrant and this reminds me that other young Irish emigrants would always be welcome to join Comhaltas in Australia. The future of Irish traditional music, song and dance in the Perth area is in the excellent hands of the personnel of this Branch.
Wherever I went in this vast continent one constant request was 'can you send us an Irish music teacher?'. This no doubt, is the basis of the further continuance of traditional music on the continent, and has been recognised by those promoting our rich culture there. So, perhaps any reader who can fill this void, might contact An Cultúrlann and you will be guaranteed a céad míle failte DOWN UNDER.


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President Obama did not exceed his powers as president Wednesday when he made a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
There are many actions Obama has taken during his presidency that stir grave concern about presidential overreach and how Obama might use his executive powers if he is reelected. Wednesday's appointment was not one of them.
The Senate claims it is in session. But the Senate is not in session. It is pretending to be in session merely for the purpose of thwarting a Constitutionally-prescribed power of the president.
Based on the long accepted definition of the "Recess Appointments Clause" of the Constitution, the president has the right to make appointments without the "consent" of the Senate if the vacancy exists when the Senate is in recess.
The Senate has been "convening" every three days to for about 15 seconds to technically keep itself out of recess. A recess, according to the currently accepted legal definition, must last at least three days.
This cuteness was actually begun by the Democrats as a way to prevent George W. Bush from making recess appointments. The problem is, the maneuver is so easy to accomplish that it could EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATE RECESSES ALTOGETHER, thereby eviscerating a right outlined in the Constitution for the president make recess appointements.
Obama, by appointing Cordray, was correct to challenge the Constitutionality of the Senate's actions. The Senate is engaged in a highly questionable tactic, and Obama is by no means exceeding his power by challenging it.
In case you are wondering whether somehow the Senate might actually be in session, here is one of those "sessions."
That was the full session.
Now, here's where my opinion gets a little tricky. This is the the Recess Appointments Clause:
The President shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session.
To me, and to some legal scholars, this clearly refers to vacancies that open up while the Senate is in recess. The intent, in my view, was to make sure the government could continue to govern while the Senate was out town for nine months, like it would be during the 1700s. The intent was not to let the president make an appointment when Congress leaves for a couple of weeks in August or to go roast its hams for Christmas.
But the precedent that prevails was established by a ruling by the attorney general in 1823 which defined "happen" as "happen to exist" rather than the more natural meaning of the word, "happen to occur." Since then, it has been held – incorrectly, I think – that any vacancy that exists while Congress is in recess can be filled unilaterally by the president. Therefore Obama and other president have routinely made recess appointments to fill vacancies that exist while Congress is in recess, but which might have opened up while Congress was in session.
Precedent is something given great weight in Constitutional matters, and I don't feel I can opine easily on whether nearly 200 years of legal custom should be overturned.
But I can say with conviction, as even the former chief of Bush's Office of Legal Counsel and another Bush OLC official have said, that Obama under the widely accepted interpretation of the law is correct, and the Senate is not.
H/T to The Volokh Conspiracy, the conservative legal blog where I found some of the information for this piece.


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Unfortunately, I wasn't that smart. I mounted my "root" btrfs volume on /backup, and willy-nilly copied files into the top level of /backup. Only later did I realize I wanted to use snapshots to allow granularity in changes made to /backup, so I created a directory /backup/snapshots/before_modification with the commands:
% mkdir /backup/snapshotsI then made changes to the files inside of /backup, and messed something up, and then wanted to revert my changes. Okay, no problem; the btrfs system admin guide says that all I need to do is to mount the snapshot in question:
% su
# btrfs subvolume snapshot /backup /backup/snapshots/before_modification
# btrfs subvolume list /backupWell, great! That worked fine; my ugly changes don't appear in /backup any more. But my btrfs filesystem is undoubtedly saving changes that I don't want to keep; these changes are associated with the 'root' subvolume (id=0). Surely, I can now delete these changes, right? (For the truly curious, you can measure the space used by a snapshot after you enable quota management). Can't I simply:
ID 666 Gen 5902 top level 5 path snapshots/before_modification
# umount /backup
# mount -o defaults,subvol=666 /dev/sdc1 /backup
# btrfs subvolume delete 0 /backupNOPE! Documentation says that the only argument to 'delete' is a path, and doesn't involve a subvolume ID. Uhhh... now I'm stuck. At this point, my puny brain imploded, and I had to visit #btrfs on freenode, where user darkling helped me out.
The solution? To release all of the space held by the root subvolume:
# mount -o defaults,subvol=0 /dev/sdc1 /media/btrfs/backupFrom there, I selectively deleted all subdirectories inside of /media/btrfs/backup -- and carefully excluded the /media/btrfs/backup/snapshots directory.
# cd /media/btrfs/backup
# rm -rf dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4 ...
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Persian Satellite TV, new challenge for IRI
Omid Habibinia
Media Researcher
IAMCR, IFJ, SJV (Switzerland)
Less than one decade ago, the first Persian Sat TV was received in Iran; but nowadays more than 35 Sat TVs are broadcasting different programs for Iran in abroad, mainly from US and still there will be more.
The appearing Persian Sat TVs channels brought up some socio/cultural changes in the urban areas. As the number of the these channels viewers lifted up to more than 50 percent, the gap between them and the Islamic values got wider and at the same time affected some aspects of daily life in Iran such as media habits, getting news and social discourse.
This study will take a look at the presentations of these channels in Iran and will review the process and the way they approach, facing a dynamic society in Iran; it will try to describe why this market/society needs more channels and alternative media.
In Addition, we will take a look to some polls, which have been done by the researcher during last 2 years; these show how young audience, who are the potential viewers of Sat TVs dealing with alternative media and what they expect from them.
Some part of the questionnaires was spread in last summer among 1400 students in Tehran and some universities around the country regarding to expected BBC Persian TV channel. It shows most of them prefer alternative media to reach the news and information for dealing their socio/politics and cultural needs.
A society which has now nearly the most Sat TV channels in the world broadcasted in abroad.


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Friday, January 16, 2009
I'm gonna be a Bombshell Girl!
12 comments:
- Anne Power said...
Congratulations! Wow that's perfect for your style!
- January 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Kathi said...
Woo-hoo! Congrats! I'm so excited about working with you, Gabby, and of course, Shannon!
- January 16, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Joy said...
Melyssa, I am sooooooooo excited for you, you will love working with Gabby, she's one of my fellow ho's, and I"m going to visit her in a couple of weeks in LA!!!!!!!!!!
your work is fantastic, and I can't wait to see all your amazing creations!
- January 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- Gabby said...
WOOOO...we are Bombshell Chicas! LOL! Look forward to working with you and Kathi and of course Shannon...spreading the word for these awesome stamps and not to mention...awesome stamp company for the awesome Shannon! WOW...that's like a lot of awesomeness! LOL! Congrats girlie!
- January 17, 2009 at 1:59 AM
- Shannon said...
Your art and experience speaks for itself Melyssa! So throw on your bullet proof vest girl, cause we're taking this paper planet by storm!
He, He! But seriously... THANK YOU for being on my team, I'm SO excited to work with you!
- January 17, 2009 at 4:00 AM
- Jennifer Scull said...
Congratulations! how exciting for you! :)
- January 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Alicia a.k.a. Crafty Al said...
congratulations!! I can't wait to see your creations.
- January 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- Lynn Stevens said...
Congrats on being a new Bombshell. how exciting !!!
- January 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Congrats! You really deserve it! I will go have a look at the goodies.
- January 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- Katy said...
Congrats! That sounds like so much fun.
- January 18, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- Gina said...
Congratulations! How fun is that? Can't wait to see even more of your awesome creations.
- January 19, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Congrat's on the new DT!! :) Can't wait to see your creations!
- January 21, 2009 at 12:57 AM


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I get really tickled when I find a special miniature. I know I'm easily amused but there are some miniatures that just appeal to my sense of humor. This little book by Blue Kitty Miniatures is one of them. When I saw him, I knew he had to come live with me. Isn't he adorable? I named him Phil O'Dendron.
There was quite the mini disturbance when Phil arrived today. I won't go into details, but you can read about it here. I think I have all the scorch marks off the wall and the dragons are sedated.
My hubby usually takes everything in stride but when I told him about the disturbance, he asked if I'd been mixing up my meds again.
Okay, so maybe I got a little too involved with my minis today, but damn, it was fun.
I've discovered that minis bring out that side of me. For example, a few weeks ago I was cleaning the living room and needed to move C'est Si Bon off the glass table where she resides. I moved the dolls off the patio first and laid them on the floor under the table so they'd be safe. I cleaned the table to a sparkling shine and replaced the house, totally spacing out that I hadn't put the dolls back. A little while later I was walking thru the living room with my hands full and noticed the dolls laying on the floor. Now I often talk outloud to myself when I make a mental note so I don't forget things. The talking to myself doesn't bother me. However what I said was a bit disconcerting. What did I say?
"You need to pick up your dolls"
I don't think that's something a middle aged woman should be saying to herself.


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Katie Holmes Did NOT Reach Out To Tom Cruise Following Mom's Death, Despite Report
Katie Holmes did NOT reach out to Tom Cruise following the death of his mom Mary Lee South, despite a fabricated webloid report. Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk this claim. We're told it's "100 percent false."
A so-called "source" tells HollywoodLife that Holmes "offered her condolences" to Cruise after his 80-year-old mother passed away last week, despite the ex-spouses having had no contact with each other for a long time. The often discredited site goes on to purport to have "the details on what she's doing to comfort him." HollywoodLies, as it's known, further contends that even though Holmes and Cruise "went through a very bitter split back in 2012, she knew Mary well and is letting her ex know how devastated she is that he's lost his beloved mom."
Gossip Cop, however, checked in with a rep for Holmes, who exclusively assures us that the webloid's story is "100 percent false." HollywoodLife seemingly is just shamelessly using the death of Cruise's mother to create a fake news story, but there's simply no truth to the repeatedly discredited outlet's account.
Of course, the site has published numerous bogus reports about the actress, so this latest fabrication comes as no surprise. Gossip Cop previously busted the webloid for claiming Holmes was wearing an engagement ring given to her by Jamie Foxx. This latest story is equally untrue.


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Bakerella and ran with the idea. Oh my goodness, these have to be by far one of my favorites so far! I love them and they turned out exactly how I pictured! I hope Jamie and the rest of the girls love them too!!!
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Unfortunately the plot is completely predictable. Yes, what you suspect is going to happen in the first, oh let's say ten minutes of the movie, is what happens. Big brother (Toby Maguire) is deployed leaving a little brother who just got out of jail and has no life (Jake Gyllenhall), a wife (Natalie Portman) and two little girls. His chopper goes down, they have his funeral, they all think he is dead but he is not. Little brother starts hanging out with his "dead" brother's wife and kids and starts to fall in love with them. He is rescued and comes back home. He is severely traumatized and makes everyone around him miserable. Conflict ensues. That's the movie in a nutshell. Not terribly original but it's brilliant.
I cried, I laughed, I sighed, I was in complete suspense, I cried some more. It is very emotional and I thought very well done. No one is made out to be "the bad guy" not the looser little brother, not the scarred war-hero big brother, not the hard to get along with father, not the wife torn between two brothers. Everything about the relationships was just right for me. The chemistry between Jake Gyllenhall and Natalie Portman was perfect. The subtlety of their relationship as it grew was captivating.
I was a bit dissapointed with Tobey Maguire's performance. He seemed too quiet, wide-eyed and silent throughout most of the movie, so it felt flat and disconnected. Also it was surprising to see such young actors playing parents of such old children. However the kids were brilliant and added so much to the movie. Their constant presence in the film made it feel more firmly rooted in reality.
All in all "Bothers" is a brilliant, touching movie and one of the few that I would want to watch again.


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- Because Flash Thompson is my friend! And if you think you're going to get away with him, you're-- --you're-- --absolutely right, apparently.
- -- Spider-Man
Appearing in "Running out of Time"Edit
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker/"Ben Reilly") (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Betty Brant
- Flash Thompson (Main story and flashback)
- Kelly Kulick (First appearance)
- Miss Arrow (Ero) (Identity revealed) (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed Spider-Totem (Appears in shadow only)
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (Mentioned)
- Chameleon 2211 (Mentioned)
Other Characters:
- Aunt May (Cameo)
- Mary Jane Watson-Parker (Cameo)
- Walter
- Parker Bohn Ⅲ (Mentioned)
- Norm
- Manhattan
- Church
- Hospital
- 327 Ninth Avenue, apt. 4
- Bowling Alley
- Stark Tower (Only in flashback)
- Queens
- Midtown High School (Only in flashback)
- The Black Costume (Not the Symbiote)
- Image projector
- Kelly's truck
Synopsis for "Running out of Time"Edit
Spider-Man meets with Betty and they finally figure out who Miss Arrow is, she just happens to be the pirate Spiders that ate his dead flesh during the other storyline.
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Saturday, September 04, 2010
what "active participation" is not...
Ok. I feel better now having gotten that off my chest.
40 comments:
- nazareth priest said...
No, it ain't.
Thank you.
For several years, we (the inmates here) called the cantoress at the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC,
"Miss Piggy"; she's no longer doing her thing there (I've learned since that she was the wife of the music director...ooops!).
this post reminded me of her.
She's probably a really great person; someone you'd like to have drink with...
but that cantoress stuff....ish!
- Saturday, September 04, 2010 11:53:00 PM
- Adoro said...
Crescat ~ Then, well, heck, what am I supposed to do at Mass tomorrow when they "gather" us with "Gather Us In"? I want to sing it better and more loudly than the group at the choir altar!
Geez! If I can't show off, what's the point of going to Mass?
Thanks for wrecking my Sunday. *hrmph*!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:24:00 AM
- Adoro said...
Oh, and I suppose that next you're going to tell me I can't dress like the Diva you have pictured there.
And WHERE did you even GET that picture of my Sunday-best?? I thought it was one-of-a kind?
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:25:00 AM
- gretchen said...
At least everything's covered up. She's wearing a hat and everything!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:33:00 AM
- nazareth priest said...
Adoro: We'd LUUUVE to see your "outfit":<)!
You could wear at our Missa Cantata...!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 1:11:00 AM
- Adoro said...
Totally OT, you've been tagged:
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 1:23:00 AM
- Adoro said...
Father ~ Well, my head would be covered!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 1:37:00 AM
- JoannaB said...
Sounds like a question for:http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/ (though I'm told she's not a real nun - lol)
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 5:31:00 AM
- JoannaB said...
This last comment should have been on the wine one! lol - maybe I had better keep off the juice myself! ha ha only joking - I'm teetotal almost. :)
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 5:34:00 AM
You are killing me. Now I won't be able to stop giggling at 9:30 mass this morning.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 8:20:00 AM
- Karen said...
I'm guessing the cantor from last week's Mass at my parish must have been visiting yours. It takes so much to resist the urge to slap those show-offish people.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 10:23:00 AM
On the other side of the coin - I've known cantors who sing so slowly & somberly as to make me think I'm hearing a funeral dirge.
About that outfit, the DW says that will be the uniform for the next bombshell secretary I hire.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 10:58:00 AM
- Charles Culbreth said...
Nazareth Priest,
I've learned, and re-learned that cyberland proves an extremely small world. Your private joke about the former cantor (who was not the Music Director's wife, BTW, but a resident composer's spouse; Leo being single to my knowledge,) should have remained so. Granted, the actual DM during that era likely ought to have reined her audible presence in, and her vocal excesses proved an obstacle to the very task she was called to perform (congregational singing), but I see no benefit, and in fact do see calumny, in the nickname you publicly unveiled and in further detriment, aligned with the stereotypical, tho' funny, photo Kat used. Not good.
I also never could approve of this ex-"cantoress'" explicit presence and overwhelming vibrato. But that shouldn't be vilified by such unkind "tales outta school" here or elsewhere.
Perhaps we could just congratulate Dr. Latona on how he has revamped the Basilica program?
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 4:18:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
I stand corrected (I get corrected, a LOT here);
Thank you for your most charitable comments...
I know, I know...
repentance; repentance; repentance.
And you're correct; it was NOT the music director's wife...what was I thinking??
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 5:56:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
Charles: You're not by chance, English, are you?
Your comment sounded very "British"...:<)!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:05:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
Kat: Was I outta line here?
Charles is making me feel guilty (it doesn't take much, unfortunately)...did I cross some boundary...after all, "Miss Piggy" is a celebrity, yeah?
Why is THAT an insult???
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:15:00 PM
- Lydia McGrew said...
Because Miss Piggy is ugly, fat, and pursues Kermit the Frog, who is dominated by her.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:46:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
Lydia: But Miss Piggy is so PC, no?
I'm not being nasty, here.
She's the "ultimate"...really!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:50:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
Oh, man...
open my stupid frickin' mouth one too many times and I get this...
I'm gonna shuttup now:<)!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:53:00 PM
- Charles Culbreth said...
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- Sunday, September 05, 2010 7:08:00 PM
- Charles Culbreth said...
I've been trying to post a supportive comment for a half hour, but Kat's BlogDog Pitbull wouldn't let me through. First of all, don't feel guilty at all, I was passing on a favor many have passed to me about the public pitfalls of cybersnipe. I'm not British, though I'd love to have my birth cert from its northern, feisty cousin Scotland. I'm a native Californian, the shame! Hence, the anamoly of Leo and I doing our BA's at the same U same time.
The truly lamentable fact is that what you "endured" over those years was S.O.P. even in such a rarified places as the basilica. And much worse continues to be suffered in more parishes than not to this day. But the lady in question was a product that represents the pastoral failings of generations of clerics and liturgists- they thought they were on the right track, Thomas Day be damned.
Unfortunately, the climate and atmosphere in blogdom about the lit/music wars is so white hot and toxic, IMO, that if a reasonable opinion dares raise its head, both poles turn and shout it down and resume bickering ferociously.
We need and will get a new generation of Peter Latonas. Take a look over at NLM today for a post by Arlene OZ.
But pastors and bishops had better get their heads out of their ostrich holes soon, or the PIPs will continue to vote with their dollars as well as their feet.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 7:35:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
Charles, thank you and bless you!!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 9:06:00 PM
- s-p said...
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who cyber-gaffes. Thank you for making me feel better about myself. Now I know who to go to confession with for a light penance. :)
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 9:12:00 PM
- The Crescat said...
yeah... calling some one miss piggy is an insult. NP, don't be so hard on yourself. If I had a dollar for everyone I p.o'd w. blog I'd be a very wealthy woman... it's an every day practice in humility.
You just have to remember... any one who is anyone reads this blog.
I have more followers than Terry... that diva.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 10:00:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
Kat: A big, wet sloppy kiss (chaste, of course) to you!!
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:13:00 PM
- Terry Nelson said...
LOL! Diva!
Anyway - Angela looks hot in this photo.
- Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:32:00 PM
- Charles Culbreth said...
Kat, for the record, I wasn't at all P.O.'d about NP's characterization. And I do "catty" in my own time quite well. But I've launched my foot into my pie hole so many times on the interlink, including a couple of times that got to my, uh, employer, that I didn't want NP to be unmindful that dere's lotsa schmucks trolling out dere.
You still rule.
- Monday, September 06, 2010 12:28:00 AM
- Mrs. Rudd said...
Charles - there is nothing shameful in being a Californian. We are an entirely different species, that's all. Even in exile.
Kat, I had no idea you had come north to the smallest state for the weekend. Seriously, you must have been in one of the pews near me, because the diva sat directly behind me. A good voice (thankfully), and maybe she just likes to belt out or maybe she's trying to make up for the more - decorous - singing from the rest of us, I don't know. Distracting, but I have to get over that.
- Monday, September 06, 2010 10:35:00 AM
- Ann said...
I sing it loud and proud from the pews--especially on the rare occasion we're not singing Haugen. Not trying to show off at all--just trying to energize the whispery, almost ashamed efforts of my fellow parishoners. Come on, people, you can do better than that! I also always sing the national anthem at sporting events--something that has become a soloist showcase when it should be an opportunity for everyone to demonstrate their patriotism.
- Monday, September 06, 2010 12:41:00 PM
- John from Pomeroy on the Palouse said...
Our parish has a "choir" that sits in the sanctuary (all the better to see them, don't you know). two ladies in the 80s, one in her 70s, 2 in the 60s, and a 17-year old girl. One of the ladies in her 60s had training in college and you can hear her sing. Believe me you can hear her. The young girl is going through voice training at college and you can usually hear her. But she's sort of shy so you can't always hear her. The other ladies are there for full participation thingie I'm sure... you can see them, their lips are moving, but you can't hear them. And I sit in about the 4th row of pews.
We don't have cantors (except for the young girl who does every so often). But the "lectors"! We're a small congregation of maybe 100-120 people on Sunday. Everyone reads along in their missalette with the Responsorial Psalm. (I've seen from the lector stand and I've seen from the choir/organ loft (which is empty because the choir and klavinova is in the sanctuary) they read, they don't look at the lector and listen. But some of the lectors insist on flinging their arms about when the people's turn to repeat the psalm comes about. Because that's what they do in the big churches.
- Monday, September 06, 2010 12:55:00 PM
- 3puddytats said...
When I did music occasionally by myself --when the choir took a break--usually during summer--for our 11:30 Mass (yep guitar, but I don't play piano so sue me), I'd really try to choose songs and Liturgy responses that the congregation knew...and encouraged them to sing so that the Baptist church down the street could hear us :) I don't like being a soloist :)
Believe it or not--the best sung songs were ones that I choose for the Sunday before Memorial Day--America the Beautiful for the Offertory, and Onward Christian Soldiers for the Closing Processional..the congregation raised the roof!! Good to hear especially if you a lone chick standing up in front of everyone with a mike and a guitar.. :)
- Monday, September 06, 2010 4:42:00 PM
- The Digital Hairshirt said...
Oh God, you've heard our one cantor . . .
- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:32:00 AM
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- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:25:00 AM
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- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:26:00 AM
- Janny said...
As a cantor with a music degree, years of voice training, and pretty darn good musicianship, I never cease to be amazed at some of the cantoring I hear out there. But I beg to differ about the operatic "diva" being the worst offender. To me, the most egregious offense is the "cantor as lounge singer" persona.
This most often happens when the pianist is also leading the singing, but it can even happen with a cantor standing and looking otherwise normal in front of the congregation. The music starts, and all of a sudden our song leader becomes Vixie Vamp, batting her eyelashes, leaning into the microphone, and proceeding to declaim the psalm or hymn in what could best be called a combination of a Broadway "belt" and a torch singer's "whiskey" voice.
People who hear this first say, "wow, that's loud." Then they generally stand open-mouthed, but there's no singing coming out of their mouths...for various reasons. I will sing along with this person, if for no other reason than to keep the pew around me somewhere close to in tune (because one thing Vixie does with alarming regularity is "blues-flat" her pitches, thereby leaving the congregation not only drowned out but dragged down as well).
OTOH, when visiting a church out of my normal stomping grounds, if I hear good music coming out of anyone on the premises, I make it a practice to go up to them after Mass, tell them they "done good" and that their efforts are appreciated. Sometimes a cantor wonders if it's worth it all when week after week, we hold forth and do our best to encourage active participation, only to have a whisper of sound coming back at us, if that. If one is in the choir loft attempting to encourage the flock below, it's even LESS likely that they'll join in, even when they're clearly supposed to, as in the responsorial psalms.
I've often thought it'd be a great idea to do what some Protestants do and have a separate "hymn sing" service once in awhile. Not a Mass, but just a service where we sing for an hour or two. And we take requests. :-) I can hear the laughter now--"Catholics don't sing IN Mass, and now you want them to come to church ANOTHER time just TO sing?" OTOH, O ye of little faith--how do you think the Prods GET their people to sing so well?
It's worth a thought...
- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:29:00 PM
- nazareth priest said...
JB: They used to call what you describe "devotions"...OL of Perpetual Help; our Mother of Sorrows; St. Jude; St. Joseph; you name it...
now Mass has to be "everything for everybody" because devotions are either not provided or people won't attend them.
There's a place for "emotional" expression; the devotions USED to be a place where folks could express themselves;
maybe a return to one devotion per week in a parish might help alleviate some of the "stress" placed upon Holy Mass; which is the public prayer of the Church and not intended to be a place for individual manifestations of personal devotion.
Devotions can have an honored place:
in Portugal, I remember the loud and off-key screaming of the peasant women during the procession of the Virgin of Fatima...that was OKAY. They love our Lady and don't have a problem expressing it;
but at Mass?
- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:02:00 PM
- Adoro said...
Charles Culbreth ~ If I may so offer, it seems to me that your own post actually gave a great deal more information than that of Nazareth Priest.
I, and most of the people who comment here probably had no idea who he was talking about. However, the information you provided actually enabled the calumny that would not have happened had you not been so specific in your commentary.
You, too, may want to take the advice you offered, albeit in charity, but perhaps lacking in a bit of prudence.
I'm not picking on you...I'm usually the FIRST to stick my damn foot in my mouth and gnaw it in full view of anyone who cares to look!
- Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:31:00 PM
- Janny said...
They used to call what you describe "devotions"...OL of Perpetual Help; our Mother of Sorrows; St. Jude; St. Joseph; you name it...
With all due respect, actually...no. What I describe is as different from the devotions you've talked about as chalk from cheese. When I was 10 years old I was playing organ for Our Lady of Sorrows novenas and the like, and I remember many devotions taking place in many churches in the "good old days." There's no connection between those "devotions" and an all-church sing!
You can still, after all, practice as many private devotions as you like. But as far as getting active participation at Mass from the folks in the pews--and effectively, by that means, eliminating a lot of the problem of "soloists" "performing" when trying to lead singing...small devotional services would do absolutely nothing. Getting people involved in real church music by having them singing it--and in some cases, learning it--in a non-Mass, and hence non-pressured, situation, IMHO, couldn't hurt. And it might even help.
- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:55:00 AM
- Charles Culbreth said...
Good point- taken, Adoro. Thank you.
- Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:20:00 PM
- Brian Michael Page said...
Usually when I'm at the pew and someone compliments my voice, I tell them, "just doing my duty as a congregant, but thank you."
- Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:59:00 AM


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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Hello 2014!
It is a new year and the first month is almost over. Time is flying by. We have been enjoying our new year and are looking forward to what 2014 brings. Made lots of resolution...some of which I have already failed at. (oops) but there are some that i am still going strong with so that is a plus!
started his 4th semester of law school. We have made it 1/2 way. Only 3 more semesters to go. Do you think we can survive? Some days I want to throw in the towel and be done with all this schooling. I am ready for the next phase of our lives and Stephen having a job again and having a normal life is very appealing.
I am enjoying just being a mom to two of my favorite girls. They keep me on my toes and keep me so busy. They make me smile and laugh everyday. I am really grateful to be at home with them even though Stephen is in law school right now. I am having fun with my etsy shop and have learned so much. I am still an online assistant for a BYU-Idaho course which has been great. I am loving being in the Primary presidency and have learned SO much!
is almost 3! Holy cow... I can't believe I will have a 3 year old. This girl is SO darling and I love listening to her sing and tell me funny stories. We have really learned how to work with her strong willed personality. She loves to be independent and giving her a little extra time to put her shoes and coat on by herself can make the biggest difference. She is always so proud when she can do things on her own. She is also very sweet and sensitive. She is always concerned when others are sad or hurting. She is so social and loves to do play dates and go anywhere outside of the home.
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is my busy bee right now. She is climbing and getting into EVERYTHING. She has figured out how to move chairs to get to what she wants. She makes lots of big messes and is usually attached to my hip between 4 and 6 pm. Which is just lovely because I am usually making dinner around that time which can make cooking a little difficult. ;) She says a couple words such as: hot, up, mama, dada, and all done. She has cute blonde curls and 6 teeth!
This is miss Savannah before church on Sunday. She loves church!
We went to see Stephen at school a couple weeks ago. The girls love holding hands now and i think it is the cutest thing ever!
Chopped off three inches.
While Lorie and I were chatting King and Savannah found their way to the brownies. They pulled up the food storage buckets and everything!
Snowy day = lots of snuggles!
I love that Stephen always makes an effort to do things that he knows are important to me. I love having a nicely made bed. I came home from my workout to a clean room and a made bed and it made my day... its the little things!
One of our resolutions has been to make more time to go on dates. It has been so nice to get a babysitter and just enjoy a night out every couple weeks. I am always up for more time with this guy... and a night of not having to cook is deff a bonus! :)
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
My Sweet Grandma Williams
My sweet Grandma Williams passed away the day after Christmas. This Christmas was a special one as I was able to spend time with her, hold her hand, and shed tears of gratitude for the wonderful memories and for her sweet testimony and example she has been over the years. It is comforting to know that she is no longer suffering and is with my grandpa in heaven. How grateful I am to know that I will see her again. It was a special Christmas and helped us to remember what is really important in life.
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The challenge is The Beauty of Spring or Autumn. March in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of September in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological spring is March. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is March. So this month we are asking you to create a project based on either Spring or Autumn.
Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation here! If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB20. You have until March 31st to enter.
As we unveil our challenge for next month, we'll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog.
I confess - living in the Southern hemisphere didn't teach my brain to follow things 'the other way around'. At least not yet - even if it's been a couple of years. I'm still getting all mixed up with the seasons and their equivalent months, it's all justso fundamentally wrong, that I can't process and remember it... hence my European side won, and I'm giving you a pure Springy card!
This lovely scene is from the Spring Has Sprung set, and the sentiment from Zinnias.
Supplies: cardstock: PTI (Fine Linen), white; paper: Pink Paislee; stamps: Flourishes (Spring Has Sprung, Zinnias); ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black), Versa Color (Cinnamon); Copics; Nestabilities Labels 10/Shapeabilities Twisted Metal Tags & Accents; MFT Dog Tag Die-Namics; sewing machine; grosgrain polka dot & checked ribbon; buttons; lace trim
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Hello my favorite people!!
How are all of you? It was another great week here in
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Sounds like you are all doing awesome!! Glad you were able to go out to Busterback! Please tell President Boren, the Forsgrens, and especially the Oveson family hello for me.
We did a lot of work out it the fields this week and found some really solid investigators. One's name is Jose and he went to church this Sunday and that was pretty spectacular. He has a lot of questions about the Second Coming and we promised him that if he went to church his questions would be answered. Funny how the next day the lesson in Gospel Fundamentals was on the Second Coming. Little miracles like that happen daily here. I was teasing my companion because He was giving a talk in Sacrament so I told him he may have to address the Second Coming. Also we have a family with a single mom. She quit her Job so she could come to church on Sundays. We fasted with her to find a new one and she has had couple interviews. She will be blessed if it is God's will. I think it is. She has two kids - your age Brennen and Alex. They kind of remind me of you. They have already been baptized. We have a date scheduled with their Mom the 22nd of Oct. We have like 12 baptismal dates set up right now - but probably only like 2 of those will come through. People don't much care for going to church here. You have to come to Church three times before you get baptized. Elder Perez is such a stud. He is a good sport to put up with my lack of Spanish. The Elder is a scripture wizard. I would be very lost without him. We did some awesome cleaning today and our little house is looking good. Not quite Grandma Crouch, Clegg, and Mom's status of cleaning but close.
Crazy to think that you started fall and we started spring huh! It rained a lot this week but now it is starting to get pretty nice.
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twice this week. One for our weekly district meeting the other for a baptismal interview. It is a very touristy place and HUGE! I am glad I am in good ole Miramar.We walked Centro a little today and it was fun . They have some neat little shops. I will have some cool little things for you all when I get back. Mar Del Plata
Mom - I will try and answer some of your questions form last week. We do have church debit cards, but my personal card works also. I won't ever use it except to get money for souvenirs and personal things. We get 700 pesos a month. The exchange rate is like 1 to 4. . I will get my iPod back when I leave the mission. You will have to let me know when Brennen gets his letter. I have no idea how long that will take to get to
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Dad- Thanks so much for you email. I skimmed it and I am excited to read it tonight. It sounds like you all did not go the BYU game. But is also sounds like that was a good thing with construction and having to be in
the next day. Ouch Cougs on last weeks game! Boise testimony will be put to test on that one! Ha ha. I love it...Tell all the faithful employees up there I love them. Oh I thought of a book for maybe next year for the employees. It is called the "Travelers Gift" by Andy Andrews. Great book and entertaining. Google it. I love you Pops. I think about you all the time and your days back in Rogers . Spain
I am so excited for conference this weekend! I don't think I will be able to watch Saturday or Priesthood session. But Sunday for sure. Please keep me updated on what I miss! Dad - I as thinking about our good memories at Priesthood session. I told Elder Perez about them. Good times!! My first one back we will go together again. I will be thinking of you all during conference. Hopefully they will have it in English here.
Mom - Tell the Pearson's and Steel Congrats! Tell Andy Lott that I love him and will be with him is spirit. Can't believe ten years and no boys to go to Priesthood with him. I love you so much Mom. I love prayer so much and it is such a comfort for me. I pray for you so much!! I feel yours also. I have a lot of growing to do! I hope that you get feeling a lot better. I love you so much Mom.
Mikesell How are you? Thank you so much for your email. What a busy week and life you are having!! Great job at Bob Firman!.Challis meet will be great - I am excited for you all… and jealous! XC team at Redfish huh? Fun times. I loved what you said about trusting in the Lord. Just do your best and trust Him with the rest! (thank you Tony Horton) I just skimmed your letter but I will read it tonight. Thank you for sacrificing you precious time to write. You are too kind. I am doing great. I love you Mikesell! You are such an Angel. God bless you!!
Brennen the Stud - Hey man thanks for your email. I hope you get feeling better. You will get super strong with Body D. It sounds like you are growing a lot. Keep at it. Going back to the MTC for Spanish sounds really nice. Who is your teacher? I will read your email and maybe you said that already. I love you man. Keep at it. I bought your birthday present today. You just will have to wait a little longer my friend. Good thing you are patient!!
Alex... Dude that picture of Jimmer and Lindsay is nuts!! Sounds like you are rocking the XC... keep at it stud!! My shirts are loosing there whiteness too. Ha-ha I love you man. Thanks for the email and the sports update. Keep them coming. God Bless bro.
Harrison - My Man!! I miss you so much. It sounds like you are very happy. Keep working at school! I love you so much buddy. Glad you can have some friends come and play this last week. Thanks for your prayers.
McCall - hey you Angel! How are you? Long days at school huh!? First grade is different than kindergarten for sure. That is a hard adjustment. Keep working hard. I love you so much Callie. Have fun in Jerome while you are there and then have a ton of fun while you are in Redfish also! I love you Call!
Mikesell - one funny story. This week a boy saw us coming and sprinted inside and shut the door. He was a chubby little kid and to see him move that fast was just hilarious. I was laughing so hard. It would have been better if he screamed MORMONES! ha-ha
I read a great scripture in DC 136 : 32 this week about how humility opens and eyes and ears. I really need that. Look it up.
I love you all!! Time is flying and we got to make it count!! Thank you so much for everything. Have a great conference. weekend. I know this is true. I know that God does love everyone! Thanks so much for your prayers.
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this is a discussion within the NFL Community Forum; Article on the issues with the players and NFL over tge abuse of power. Anyone know ehen the players need to negotiate a new cba. I can see a labour stoppage coming up Id pay good monry to watch James ...
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Article on the issues with the players and NFL over tge abuse of power.
Anyone know ehen the players need to negotiate a new cba. I can see a labour stoppage coming up
Id pay good monry to watch James Harrison get 5 minutes in a room with Goodell
Power-Hungry NFL All Wrong to Demand Players Talk About Recanted PED AccusationsJoe Robbins/Getty Images
Steelers linebacker James Harrison says he's following the players union's instructions in not submitting to an NFL interview about an Al Jazeera report that linked him to PEDs.
What you're about to read isn't science fiction. It's not an alternate universe, football's equivalent of The Man in the High Castle. It's something that could now actually happen...
It's early in the season and training camps are just beginning. In one city, a man decides he wants to wreck the life of a star player on a team he hates.
He contacts a local television station. The man tells the station that he provided the starting quarterback with a variety of performance-enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids.
The man has no proofno paper trail, no emails, no video. But his story is convincing. The local station goes to the quarterback for his side and the quarterback says it's not true. Never heard of the guy. Never used PEDs. The station decides to air the interview.
The story is picked up on blogs and trends on Twitter. The union issues a denial on behalf of the quarterback.
The man later alters his story and says he didn't mean what he said. But it's too late. The NFL has opened an investigation. It wants to talk to the quarterback. The union says no. You have no proof. The NFL insists. The player insists that the NFL go jump off a bridge.
So the NFL says, Talk or we'll suspend you. Doesn't matter that there's no proof or that the original accuser recanted. Talk or don't play.
You don't think this can happen? Well, it basically just did.
The NFL's desire to be all-powerful, to have inexorable and unreasonable domain over its players, has in fact left those players, every one of them, open to blackmail.
This tale gets complicated, and Sports Illustrated's Michael McCann detailed many of those intricacies. Yet while there are many pieces to this puzzle, part of this story remains startlingly clear. My belief, and the belief of many players, is that the NFL is abusing its power.
First, remember the backstory. In December, Al Jazeera reported that a worker at an anti-aging clinic in Indianapolis, while being secretly recorded, said Peyton Manning's wife, Ashley, received shipments of human growth hormone. Peyton was with the Indianapolis Colts at the time the alleged shipments happened. The report also mentioned other NFL players, including James Harrison, Mike Neal, Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers.
That worker, Charles Sly, later recanted his statements.
This is a good place to pause and reflect. There is no proof that the players did anything wrong other than Sly's statement/non-statement.
My guess: Sly was probably telling some version of the truth, but his wordhis recanted wordstill isn't proof.
In fact, the NFL's own investigation showed there was no credible evidence to the Manning aspect of the story.
The NFL will argue that just because there was no evidence that Manning was involved, the league still has a right to speak with Matthews, Peppers, Neal and Harrison. But understandably, they have declined to speak with the NFL. Who can blame them? Many of the recent investigations conducted by the NFL, going back to Bountygate, have been massively flawed. Any player would be a fool to speak to the NFL.
Scott Fujita once cooperated with the NFL in the Bountygate case, and look what that got him.
So what did the NFL do next? The league expanded its powers in an attempt to force the players to speak with them.
The NFL will say this isn't true. The league will maintain it has always had this right, but I don't believe that.
This is what the NFL did. It won the Deflategate case when it was appealed to a higher court. That court said the NFL's power to rule against Tom Brady was enforceable by the collective bargaining agreement. Particularly, under Article 46, which is the "Commissioner Discipline" clause, a conduct-detrimental catch-all that allows the commissioner to effectively discipline players for any reason he chooses.
Then the league did something that, to me and many others, was highly unusual, perhaps historic. It applied Article 46 to the drug policy. Again, the NFL will say this isn't true or historic, but it effectively is.
Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio laid out the exact problem:
The PED policy, as written, contemplates that the NFL will impose discipline if it has "credible evidence" of a violation, and that the player then will tell his side of the story if he files an appeal. Since the PED policy says nothing about requiring players to submit testimony or other evidence before a finding of a violation is made, the players arguably have no obligation at all to cooperate with the investigation. The NFL, emboldened by the ultimate outcome (pending appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court) of the Brady case, points to Article 46 as the basis for forcing the players to cooperate.
But the NFL doesn't have credible evidence. If it did, the evidence would have leaked by now. All it has is the recanted words of Sly. That's not credible.
The idea that players should voluntarily help the NFL punish them is absurd. It also enters an entirely new level of bullying.
The main problem is all of this is totally unnecessary. Nothing will be gleaned from these interviews. They are simply an intimidation tactic. It also, again, speaks to how this regime views its players. The league doesn't see them as partners; it sees players as pieces to be controlled. Just shut up and do what we say.
(I know what Patriot fans will say: Welcome to the party. The NFL abused its power in railroading our quarterback. First, this is different from what the NFL did to Tom Brady. The organization had been punished for Spygate prior to Deflategate, so the NFL and others had precedent for suspecting the Patriots. Second, not everything is about you, Pats fans.)
I cannot tell you how upset players are about the NFL's latest act. This is the angriest I have ever seen any of the players I speak to on a regular basis.
Many players hate Roger Goodellnot all, but manyand this will only worsen the divide between players and the commissioner.
"If I could punch him in the face right now," one starting player told me, "I would."
Goodell often gets too much blame for almost everything, from global warming to Putin. The criticism often becomes almost cartoonish.
In this case, however, the blame is well-earned. It's disgraceful what the NFL is doing. It really is.
The main source of anger from players is how they are constantly told that the PED policy isn't there solely for punishment, that its main function is to help players recover from possible addiction. The same way you cannot have a society full of addicts, you cannot have a league full of them. This is what the NFL repeatedly says to players.
The problem is, the NFL is now using the policy in a punitive way. The league has turned it into a blackmail device for creeps and criminals.
"...Somebody could come out and say James Harrison is a pedophile," Harrison told reporters, in response to a question about why he doesn't do the interview if he has nothing to hide. "They are going to suspend me, put me under investigation for being a pedophile just because somebody said it? I'm not going to answer questions for every little thing some Tom, Dick and Harry comes up with."
He said he is "definitely" prepared to sit out.
"I'll do what I have to do. They'll do what they have to do. We'll make that decision when that time comes. ...I just am doing what I'm advised to do [by the NFLPA]. It's the right thing to do."
It is, yes, and what the NFL is doing could not be more wrong.
"Two receivers to the left, Garcon to the right. Manning in the shotgun, puts Collie in motion. Looks in his direction...it's picked off! It's picked off! It's Tracy Porter again! He's runnin' free! He's gonna go all the way!
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I can't stand Roger Goodell. His righteous attitude is pathetic. But the owners and even the players to some extent are the ones to blame for his uncontested power. I mean seriously - who agreed to allow the "Commissioner Discipline" clause in the CBA? That was a HUGE oversight in the negotiations IMO!!
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This guy will be the slow death of the league. The owners gave him ultimate power, because he made them money, and he's running with it. Not only is he alienating the players with his Judge Dredd "I am the Law" like decisions, he's milking every dollar from fans who are growing tired of it.
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