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As wing tips and clerical collars replace sandals and golf shirts, parishes react to a new style of priest.
When the alarm clock rings, Father James Moore, 33, pops out of bed. He brews coffee, makes his bed, and launches into prayer.
Down the hall, Father Bart Hutcherson, 48, likes to set two alarms half an hour apart to ease into the morning. He doesn't bother making his bed.
Their days, their desks, and their general approaches to priesthood differ widely. Yet they are both Dominican priests serving the same parish, St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center in Tucson, Arizona.
When they are standing side by side on Sunday, the contrast is clear. Father Bart wears a simple white habit, a green chasuble, and sandals. Father James wears the same habit and chasuble, along with an alb, an amice, and black shoes. He looks fancier, yet he is the associate to Father Bart, who considers his junior's dress "overkill."
The amice "is truly a pre-Vatican II vestment, not required in any circumstances," he says. "Here in the desert, it makes little sense to put on an extra layer of clothes."
So it is no surprise, with clothing differences that translate into liturgical ones, that parishioners wondered what would ensue when Father James—fresh out of seminary—was assigned to assist their more casual pastor.
"Father James led such a sheltered life, growing up in a traditional Catholic family in the country, so he shows up at the Newman Center and he's all set and ready to fight the good fight," says parishioner Cliff Bowman, 45, a pilot instructor and father of four. "I was a little concerned how they were going to work out."
The two priests had the same questions. Father Bart had just attended Father James' ordination, "a very high-church liturgy at a big Gothic church"—a far cry from the informal Newman Center where, alas, the avid organist would have no organ. "That was my first impression: How is he going to survive here without an organ? And is he going to push us to try to get an organ?" Father Bart recalls. "I knew his liturgical style is much more high church than mine, so I worried, how is that going to affect our ministry here? Is that going to be something that's a sadness for him? Or is it going to be something where he comes in and tries to change the dynamic here?"
Father James had no plans for a takeover, but he did bring a penchant for Gregorian chant, a knowledge of Latin, and a "curiosity as to how it would play out."
How is it playing out two years later? "Pretty well," Bowman says, which is remarkable when you line the two men up and break down their differences. The short list is the stuff they have in common: the Dominican formation, the Newman mission, the commitment to priesthood and service.
The list of differences is virtually everything else, beginning with where they preach, how they preach, and what they preach on. Father James uses a prepared text and stands at the lectern; Father Bart leaves the lectern and the script. Father James addresses morality, church teaching, and church history, while Father Bart applies scripture to everyday challenges and temptations.
Even the way they position their hands at Mass reflects broader discrepancies: Father Bart folds one hand over the other, palms facing his chest, while Father James presses his hands together, fingers pointing up.
Changing of the guard
As a younger generation of priests joins and replaces an older generation, parishes across the country are feeling the change. City by city, diocese by diocese, it is a changing of guards that is neither swift nor soundless and comes with no choreography to guide the steps.
Many young priests arrive with an unabated zeal for the church, a solid grasp of liturgical rubrics, and a preference, if not insistence, for traditions of the past. They call themselves "JPII priests" because their formative years were shaped by Pope John Paul II's pontificate. They are unafraid to preach on touchier moral teachings and eager to share rituals they consider timeless—ones their gray-haired peers often interpret as a step backward from the hard-won changes of the Second Vatican Council.
For these older priests, zeal for the church has softened into an abiding love, tinged by an awareness of its shortcomings. They've seen many messy relationships, and they've mastered the fine art of meeting people where they are and gently drawing them in.
At best, the change can puzzle parishioners, surprised at how different the same vocation can look. It can result in awkward moments—a parishioner sitting between a pastor and an associate pastor engaged in a tense debate at a council meeting, or seeing the older priest roll his eyes and reference "the young buck."
At worst, it can induce an exodus of parishioners. When the old priest and the new priest are diametrically opposed, Catholics say it can feel as if the axis of a familiar home church is tilting, the ground moving beneath their feet.
It's "jarring," says Mary Deeley, the pastoral associate at the Sheil Catholic Center in Evanston, Illinois. "Whenever you have a change in leadership, there are going to be people who say, 'I just can't do this. I'm out because he's out.' "
On a personal level, that can result in a crisis of faith—someone who stops going to Mass or someone who never comes back.
That major decision can be prompted by minor liturgical changes, which parishioners quickly pick up on and often read into, says Karon Latham, who has worked as a pastoral associate and now serves as director of faith formation for a cluster of three parishes in rural Central Michigan. "The liturgy is the heart of who we are and what holds us together as Catholics," she says. "Any time there is an abrupt change in the way [liturgy] is done, it can really interfere with the way people are encountering God."
Identity crisis
Latham speaks from experience. She was dismayed that fellow parishioners who had been strong in their faith stopped showing up on Sundays during a difficult transition to a new pastor, which coincided with the mandated implementation of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
To try to ease their struggles, Latham met with parishioners at church, at coffee shops, and in homes. "You could see how they were grieving the loss of something that had been so meaningful to them," she says. "And for parishioners who happened to be experiencing personal loss—whether it was illness or struggling with relationships—it was almost too much for them to come to a liturgy that was unfamiliar."
In the face of these changes, priests experience plenty of pain, too. At question, ultimately, is their very identity: Are they defined by baptism or by ordination?
Older priests tend to say the former, emphasizing what they share with parishioners and offering their first name. "Theologically, my primary identity should be that of a baptized disciple who is called to live out his discipleship as an ordained minister of the church," says Father Donald Cozzens, 70, a professor at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
Forgetting that primary identity can lead to a dangerous attitude, he adds. "I heard of a woman who came into the sacristy after the Mass and tried to make a point to the priest about his homily. 'Well, Father, after all, we're all disciples,' she said. And he responded, 'I am not a disciple. I'm a priest. The laity are disciples.' "
On the other hand, younger priests say, just as parents should not be too chummy with their children, neither should priests try to be on the same level as their parishioners.
"All Catholics are priests, prophets, and kings," says Father Randal Kasel, 37, who serves at St. Charles in Bayport, Minnesota . "The priest in a particular way is meant to be a priest at a parish, and he has all those roles. That's why there needs to be a sense of closeness but also just a little bit of distance. It's hard for priests to do, because I want people to like me. But I can't be true to myself and reject my role. What happens when you're too close to people who you also have to govern? What happens when you have to say something a little difficult or you need to correct someone?"
As a priest settles into a new parish, he is left to watch the departure of some parishioners and the eventual arrival of new ones, a process that can take several years to shake out. The trial period a congregation gives a new pastor can be awfully brief—and is often marred by secondhand accounts and closed minds.
Molly Martin, a member of St. Benedict in Duluth, Minnesota, once let rumors about a forthcoming pastor cause her anxiety, only to discover many lacked merit. So when her church experienced another leadership change three years ago, "I was not so worried," she says. "I had learned to wait and form my own impression."
The number of parishioners who leave because of a priest change is usually cancelled out by the number who come, says Anne Merritt, the secretary at St. Benedict. She credits their new pastor for implementing change slowly, with clear and thorough communication.
Before he began presiding with his back to the parishioners, a position older Catholics will remember from their early years, he explained for months the reason for the practice and issued five bulletin inserts, Merritt says. Advent 2009 was the introductory period, and once ordinary time began this year and the pastor had heard enough complaints, he decided to revert to the most common custom, facing parishioners, for the 8 a.m. Mass, one of three weekend services at St. Benedict.
"I thought that was being fair," Merritt says.
Growing pains
Liturgical changes often reflect the way a priest views his relationship with the parish. Cozzens' understanding of that relationship comes from French Dominican Father Yves Congar, whom he paraphrases: "There are two ways of looking at ministry in the church: One is that Christ chose ministers who form a people; the other is Christ forms a people from whom come ministers."
When you believe the latter is true, as Cozzens does, you understand a priest can be influenced by his parishioners just as surely as he may try to influence them. It can take years of pastoral service to really appreciate this, though. "Parish priests often are humbled at the faith and courage of their parishioners. The more insecure a priest is," he adds, "the less likely he is to be shaped by his parishioners."
Being willing to be shaped by parishioners does not mean abandoning church teaching, Cozzens says. "I hope I am faithful and pastoral—neither severe nor lax in my care of souls, preaching, and teaching."
Kasel looks at his relationship with his parish through a different lens. "I love being a priest," he says. "But it's not easy. It's a lot about being willing to suffer with people and for people. The priesthood is an intense life of grace with Jesus, to lead others to him and to face the same things he did—the opposition as well as the blessings, the miracles and the great disappointments. At my parish I'm trying to do what the church wants, and I'm doing it as generously, charitably, and patiently as I can."
That can result in policies that ruffle feathers, such as Kasel's emphasis on boy altar servers—without rejecting the girls who had been on board. "If they wanted to stay on, I've told them they could," he says. A few have.
Kasel explains: "Only men can be priests, and the church sees serving at the altar as the first step toward being a priest. Is it really fair to the girl to have her at the altar if she can't become a priest?"
But it can be hard to swallow if your daughter wants to be an altar server, as was the case for Bridgann Overmann, 68, of Marion, Iowa, when her daughter was young and their priest did not allow her to serve.
"I was not happy about it at all," recalls Overmann, who didn't want any obstacles to her daughter's engagement in the church.
Overmann also resists the use of Latin in Mass. "I don't think that's moving forward," she says. "Latin is a beautiful language, but we don't understand it."
Kasel suspects a few families left St. Charles because of his emphasis on male altar servers. His unflinching objection to contraception, a point he's raised at the pulpit, hasn't won him many popularity points either. He thinks it's difficult for parishioners who are used to hearing thoughtful but palatable proverbs to adjust to sermons on the pill and natural law.
"I wasn't picking a fight," Kasel says, "but I was saying, 'This is what the church teaches,' and I was doing it in a gentle way, a loving but forthright way. There's not a lot of wiggle room to it."
Though about 20 families have left St. Charles, he says even more have joined. He's not dwelling on the past, but he hasn't forgotten the push-back he experienced from some parishioners.
It was an eye-opening experience for the priest of five years. "What happens in parish life is you get a few people excited, they can do a lot of rabble-rousing," Kasel says. "When people get upset, they try to ferment it."
On the other hand Overmann believes parishioners are entitled to speak up if a new pastor implements change they find upsetting. "They owe that to the priest," she says. "You need to tell him in a gentle way. They need to grow. We need to grow as a church. We need to be stretched, we need to try new things."
Room for both
Older and young priests could learn a great deal from each other, experts say. "There's room for both models," says pastoral associate Mary Deeley. "I've had experiences of priests who grow in their priesthood and begin to see the real value in both styles. The danger is in demonizing the other side."
Or even calling them "the other side," she adds.
Father Robin Ryan, 53, who teaches at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and directs the young-adult discernment program Catholics on Call , points to the origin of this issue. "I think one of the greatest challenges facing the U.S. church—and I don't want to be alarmist about this—is that many diocesan seminarians and many religious order seminarians are being formed in very different ways about priestly ministry and, to an extent, about theology," he says. "My fear is that that's going to make it harder down the line for priests from different backgrounds and orders to work together. I don't think we've really grappled with that."
He believes each generation has wisdom for the other.
"Older priests," he says, "sometimes could miss out on the fact that a priest is called to reflect holiness. And we're not just one of the guys."
As for the younger men, "It's very important that priests treat people who are adults like adults. Sometimes that emphasis on a priest as a person set apart and the spiritual father can lead to a kind of paternalistic approach to ministry that's just not going to work and is not helpful and forgets that we're all part of the Body of Christ."
As for Father Bart and Father James, the Dominicans serving side-by-side, sandal to shoe, they attribute their accord to open communication, deep-seated respect, and good-natured teasing.
Last Christmas, for instance, Father James asked Father Bart, who wore an Obama T-shirt on Election Day, for Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue.
They pray for each other. They edit each other's homilies. And occasionally they just bite their tongues. Their common ground may be narrow, but it is deep. Just take a peek at the profile picture on Father James' Facebook account: It is a picture of him with Father Bart, above the caption "brothers."
This article appeared in the May 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 5, pages 12-17).
Image: Tom Wright


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Finite Differences
C Sharp (C#) (Programming Language)
This course is an introduction to the finite element method as applicable to a range of problems in physics and engineering sciences. The treatment is mathematical, but only for the purpose of clarifying the formulation. The emphasis is on coding up the formulations in a modern, open-source environment that can be expanded to other applications, subsequently.
The course includes about 45 hours of lectures covering the material I normally teach in an
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methods, which in turn explains why they work so well. Much of the success of the Finite
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presented here. A background in PDEs and, more importantly, linear algebra, is assumed,
although the viewer will find that we develop all the relevant ideas that are needed.
The development itself focuses on the classical forms of partial differential equations (PDEs):
elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic. At each stage, however, we make numerous connections to
the physical phenomena represented by the PDEs. For clarity we begin with elliptic PDEs in
one dimension (linearized elasticity, steady state heat conduction and mass diffusion). We
then move on to three dimensional elliptic PDEs in scalar unknowns (heat conduction and
mass diffusion), before ending the treatment of elliptic PDEs with three dimensional problems
in vector unknowns (linearized elasticity). Parabolic PDEs in three dimensions come next
(unsteady heat conduction and mass diffusion), and the lectures end with hyperbolic PDEs in
three dimensions (linear elastodynamics). Interspersed among the lectures are responses to
questions that arose from a small group of graduate students and post-doctoral scholars who
followed the lectures live. At suitable points in the lectures, we interrupt the mathematical
development to lay out the code framework, which is entirely open source, and C++ based.
There are many books on finite element methods. This class does not have a required
textbook. However, we do recommend the following books for more detailed and broader
treatments than can be provided in any form of class:
The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis, T.J.R.
Hughes, Dover Publications, 2000.
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals, O.C. Zienkiewicz, R.L. Taylor and
J.Z. Zhu, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.
A First Course in Finite Elements, J. Fish and T. Belytschko, Wiley, 2007.
You can download the deal.ii library at dealii.org. The lectures include coding tutorials where
we list other resources that you can use if you are unable to install deal.ii on your own
computer. You will need cmake to run deal.ii. It is available at cmake.org.
You will need to know about matrices and vectors. Having seen partial differential equations will be very helpful. The code is in C++, but you don't need to know C++ at the outset. We will point you to resources that will teach you enough C++ for this class. However, you will need to have done some programming (Matlab, Fortran, C, Python, C++ should all do).


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About David Bluehorse, Navajo Code Talker
An American, Marine and Navajo hero who will be remembered forever by the mark he left on the world. The Navajo Code Talkers saved countless lives of fellow Americans, and were an integral part of victory for the Allied forces in World War II. The 381 members used their first language to transmit messages by radio and telephone to each other with the enemy listening to their every word, but understanding none. These were young men, some really just boys, eager to contribute. Some left this life in the effort, while others came home to lead the Navajo People, and some died too young as a result of their experience. This man left his name and little else to remember him by, but his name is all we need to know that he was a hero – American, Marine and Navajo.
Written by Danny F. Drollinger, SSG US Army and AZNG, Retired


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Running for the Republican nomination for president, Rick Perry has been prone to flubs that raise questions about his suitability for the office. (Hey, at least they draw attention away from the truly epic scale of his corruption, as chronicled by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone.) His worst may have occurred at the November 9th debate, when he expressed his wish to eliminate three federal agencies.
Apparently, though, he failed to write them down on the palm of his hand a la Sarah Palin and was only able to remember two. Fifteen minutes later, after referring to his notes, he informed those in attendance that the third federal agency he would target was the Department of Energy. In fact, he calls for its abolition on a regular basis.
Aside from strangling government in general, why is the DOE high on the list of agencies condemned by Republicans? First, it exists to advance energy technology and innovation, which includes wind and solar, of little use to a party dependent on the funding of legacy energy like oil and gas. Also, Republicans can't resist kicking the dead horse of Solyndra, described by the Washington Post as "the now-shuttered California company [which] had been a poster child of President Obama's initiative to invest in clean energies and received the administration's first energy loan of $535 million."
It's true, as IPS's Robert Alvarez informs us, that "since 1990, Energy has remained prominent on the GAO's list of high-risk federal agencies vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse." But Perry — or his people, to be more exact — seems to have overlooked a key function of the Department of Energy. E.J. Dionne explains at the Washington Post:
Would [Perry] scrap the department's 17 national labs, including such world-class facilities as Los Alamos, N.M., Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Yes, the National Nuclear Security Administration is one of the Department of Energy's divisions. Its stated mission is to "ensure the safety, security, and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile has been met through its Stockpile Stewardship Program." Alvarez reminds us that Perry is not the first man who sought to abolish the Department of Energy while president:
When President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, one of his first goals was to abolish Energy and eliminate the government's role in the energy sector. But he was unable to kill the department because neither he nor his supporters could figure out what to do with the country's sprawling nuclear weapons complex, a key part of Energy's mandate. Ever since, nuclear weapon stewardship has dominated the department's agenda.
Unfortunately my fantasy that shutting down the Department of Energy would deal a serious blow to the U.S. nuclear-weapons program is just that. More likely, the National Nuclear Security Administration would be privatized and wind up like Los Alamos and Lawerence Livermore Laboratory. At the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Hugh Gusterson explains (no link — behind a pay wall).
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The wiki is being retired!
Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!
GRUB2 is a modular, multiboot-capable bootloader for many operating systems that can be used as a payload for coreboot.
- A significant amount of work has been put into GRUB2 in our monotone repository, which also provides snapshots.
- The mainline version of GRUB2 has a wiki page on the coreboot port.
- There is currently no work going on in our GRUB2 repository, not even synchronization to the upstream repository. If you require the additional features of our branch below, go ahead. Otherwise, upstream might serve you better. Or not.
How to build GRUB2 as a payload
It's recommended to use a recent snapshot of the allpatches branch in the GRUB2 monotone repository (you can also just download http://coreboot.org/viewmtn/branch/head/tar/org.coreboot.grub2.allpatches - which resolves to the latest revision on that branch; the top level directory in the resulting tarball represents the revision ID, which is a SHA-1 value over revision data, and thus varies wildly).
$ wget http://coreboot.org/viewmtn/revision/tar/edae9d3e3d999c07b2d8a99f04f258586eb79297 -O grub2.tar $ tar xfv grub2.tar $ cd edae9d3e3d999c07b2d8a99f04f258586eb79297 $ sh autogen.sh $ ./configure --with-platform=coreboot --prefix=$PWD/installed $ chmod 755 mkinstalldirs $ make && make install $ $PWD/installed/bin/grub-mkimage -o core.img normal fat iso9660 pc ata memdisk lar ls cat cmp hello help serial terminal test configfile multiboot boot loopback
GRUB2 modules
GRUB2 is a modular system, you can include whichever modules you need into the image.
In addition to the full list of available modules in upstream GRUB2 the coreboot version of GRUB2 also adds a few more custom modules.
Suggested modules
We suggest that you use the following modules:
|serial, terminal, terminfo
|serial console support
|change to console automatically
|crypto (incl. signature checking)
|memdisk, lar or cpio
|filesystem in rom
During development, we used the following list of modules:
coreboot hello cat cmp fat iso9660 help lspci lsusb serial terminal lar terminfo memdisk atadisk ls configfile boot hexdump digest linux multiboot pc
Modules specific to coreboot
The following modules are specific to coreboot, or to the coreboot version of GRUB2:
|Module name
|ATA disk driver based on the OpenBIOS driver
|load serial console information from coreboot table
|archive format ("filesystem") driver for LAR files (such as coreboot v3 images)
|in the .usb branch, provides an uhci driver and usb storage support. highly experimental at this time
Building a diskimage
If you are using coreboot v2, the firmware image is not a LAR archive, as in coreboot v3. If you want to place files in the coreboot+grub2 image, you can still create a diskimage and include it in your payload.
- create a lar/cpio/tar file (cpio must be gnu cpio. files created by other cpios might not be compatible)
- add
-m lar/cpio-fileto your grub-mkimage command line
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Hints and Tricks
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To Do
- USB stack integration (in progress).
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Patrick Georgi has been working on GRUB2 for coreboot during the Google Summer of Code 2007. He made an original code submission on August 20th 2007. If you care, there is documentation on how to use it, but that work is based on a very old version of GRUB2.
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Mirroring problems with the federal health care website, people around the nation attempting to navigate the Spanish version have discovered their own set of difficulties.
The site, CuidadoDeSalud.gov, launched more than two months late.
A Web page with Spanish instructions linked users to an English form.
And the translations were so clunky and full of grammatical mistakes that critics say they must have been computer-generated — the name of the site itself can literally be read "for the caution of health."
"When you get into the details of the plans, it's not all written in Spanish. It's written in Spanglish, so we end up having to translate it for them," said Adrian Madriz, a health care navigator who helps with enrollment in Miami.
The issues with the site underscore the halting efforts across the nation to get Spanish-speakers enrolled under the federal health care law. Critics say that as a result of various problems, including those related to the website, many people whom the law was designed to help have been left out of the first wave of coverage.
Federal officials say they have been working to make the site better and plan further improvements soon. Also, administrators say they welcome feedback and try to fix typos or other errors quickly.
"We launched consumer-friendly Spanish online enrollment tools on CuidadoDeSalud.gov in December which represents one more way for Latinos to enroll in Marketplace plans," said Health and Human Services Department spokesman Richard Olague in an email to The Associated Press. "Since the soft-launch, we continue to work closely with key stakeholders to get feedback in order to improve the experience for those consumers that use the website."
Still, efforts to enroll Spanish-speakers have fallen short in several states with large Hispanic populations, and critics say the translated version of HealthCare.gov could have helped boost those numbers.
In California, officials have acknowledged the need for improvements, saying fewer than 5,500 people signed up for health care in Spanish in October and November, the most recent period for which records are available. About 4.3 million California residents speak only Spanish, according to census data. It's not clear how many of these residents are without health insurance, but observers say few groups are more vulnerable.
"Spanish speakers are typically the ones who need to sign up for health insurance," said Veronica Plaza, a professor who teaches medical Spanish at the University of New Mexico. "They are the ones who could use the support."
In New Mexico, the state with the nation's highest percentage of Latino residents and where more than 20 percent of the state's population goes without health insurance, fewer than 1,000 people total signed up for coverage in October and November.
In Florida, federal health officials have not said how many of the state's nearly 18,000 enrollees for October and November were Latino, but that group accounts for about one-third of the roughly 3.5 million uninsured people in the state. About 1.2 million people in the state speak only Spanish.
Across the U.S., about 12 percent of the 317 million people in the country speak only Spanish, but federal officials have said less than 4 percent of calls to a national hotline were Spanish-only as of last month.
Many blame at least some of the enrollment problems on the trouble-plagued site.
"In my opinion, the website doesn't work," said Grettl Diaz, a 37-year-old Miami gas station cashier who is originally from Cuba.
Diaz said she tried to sign up at home using CuidadoDeSalud.gov. After she couldn't get the website to accept a scanned document, she called the government's Spanish hotline seeking help. However, she was repeatedly told to call back because the site was down. She got through days later and waited over an hour for an operator before she was ultimately disconnected.
"I'm very frustrated," she said through a translator this month. "I've spent at least one week on the phone, and I couldn't get it done."
Diaz, who speaks very little English, finally went to a counselor for help and is now waiting for an email from health officials saying she can proceed with her application.
Diaz hasn't had insurance since moving to Florida two years ago. She will likely qualify for a tax subsidy to help pay her monthly premiums and has said she wants insurance mostly for peace of mind.
"Now, I am healthy," she said. "But I don't know what will happen tomorrow."
Such stories have frustrated Latino advocates, especially since the problems with the site come after an unprecedented collaboration between competing Spanish-language media outlets and Latino businesses, urging members of their communities to sign up for health care on Oct. 1. But advocates say despite promises from federal officials, the Spanish-language site was not up until Dec. 6.
"In many states, groups were cooperating and ready to go," said Patricia Perez, a partner of the VPE Public Relations, a Pasadena, Calif.-based firm that focuses on U.S. Latinos. "It was a missed opportunity."
Univision Communications Inc., which runs the largest Spanish-language media network, has been airing daily public service announcements about the health care overhaul. It hosted and aired a live town hall meeting out of Los Angeles last month to discuss the law, and another such event has been planned for February.
The network frequently airs segments about the Affordable Care Act on its weekend health shows, and it produced a documentary exploring obstacles Latinos face signing up for health insurance, network spokesman Jose Zamora said.
The film, featuring a 19-year-old Mexican-American whose father suffered three heart attacks with no insurance aired Dec. 1 — five days before CuidadoDeSalud.gov went live.
Since the site has been active, users have reported disappointment and frustration in both the functionality and language.
For example, links comparing insurance plans took users to the English version of the options. That glitch was fixed last week after The Associated Press contacted Health and Human Services to ask about the problem.
As for the language, Plaza, the New Mexico professor, said a recent examination by her research students concluded that the translations were done "by a computer-generated process" and came across as awkward.
"There are problems with the verbs and word order that make sentences hard to understand," said Plaza, who helped develop an audio version to help residents in New Mexico sign up.
"Sometimes," she added, "it's just the terms they use."
The website translates "premium" into "prima," but that Spanish word is more commonly used to mean a female cousin, Plaza said. A more accurate translation, she said, would be "cuotas," "couta mensual" or "costo annual."
According to Health and Human Services, the website was translated with the same methods and team used to translate content into Spanish for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
But health care workers in Miami also have reported technical problems that don't exist on the English version of HealthCare.gov.
Nini Hadwen, a health care navigator, said she also prefers to use the English website even when she's enrolling Spanish-language applicants. CuidadoDeSalud.gov "doesn't navigate as smoothly from page to page," she said. "It takes longer."
Also, navigators say Spanish-language applicants must provide income and immigration documentation. Frequently, applicants are required to scan and fax supplemental documents, which can also be challenging, as Diaz's case shows.
However, Jane Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health in Washington, D.C., defends the site, saying Friday that delays were merely "part of the process" and that she was confident federal officials would get it running better soon.
"Insurance is way complicated. It's not like paying for a cellphone," she said. "Technology is only part of the answer."
Overall, Delgado said Spanish-speaking Latinos will benefit from the federal overhaul in the long-term because the population is less likely to be insured compared with other groups.
Still, Gabriel Sanchez, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico, said the problems hurt the credibility of federal officials and reinforce the belief held by some that authorities are indifferent to the plight of Latinos.
Sanchez said, "They will look at this, and think, 'Man, they really don't care about us.'"
Kennedy and Associated Press writer Laura Wides-Munoz contributed to this report from Miami.


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OMG! Looks Divine, can't stop starring at the beauty of nature, well photographed. Thankyou for pleasing my eyes with these amazing photographs.ReplyDelete
OMG looks sooooooooooo good and wish I there in a small house... Amazing pictures..ReplyDelete
Gorgeous photos!ReplyDelete
I hope you have gathered one of these beautiful stones in the river !ReplyDelete
I have a little stonegarden on most of my windowsills :-)
LAMIACUCINA: I have brought back one little stone... Unfortunately, I don't have much space to collect all the nice stones I find :-(.ReplyDelete
Des photos et des douceurs, je te retrouve comme je t'ai quittée avec un look superbe en plus et en musique ! mille bisesReplyDelete
Wonderful scenery. Just gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Amazing pictures and fantastic landscapes!!ReplyDelete
J'ai le souffle coupé..Tu as vraiment du talent ma belle Rosa..ReplyDelete
Bonne fin de soirée xx
This is my kind of outdoors! Love the nature like your awesome pictures!ReplyDelete
All the best,
Amazing clicks ♥ReplyDelete
Stunning scenery Rosa!ReplyDelete
Lovely views of the mountains!ReplyDelete
Not too long ago I found myself having a very profound discussion with my friend who was slowly losing the sense of her smell. Of course...I could not imagine this feeling...a foodie without my sense of smell?ReplyDelete
Then she asked me..."if you were given a terrible choice between picking from losing your sense of sight or smell...which could you live without"?
I honestly did not want to even think about it...but she pushed for a response.
I chose not to lose my sight.
Rosa...the beauty is certainly in the details for which I could never live without.
Thank you for sharing your interpretation of the world.
Rosa all your photos are beautiful, Your passion shines through!ReplyDelete
Beautiful scenery...very peaceful placeReplyDelete
i love the tractor :) wish i could be back in switzerland!ReplyDelete
Very beautiful!ReplyDelete
Don't apologise for the way you are Rosa; I think it's great you want to take in every detail and capture all the beauty around you. I'M also annoying companion for walks as I take many photos so maybe we should get together for a trip! Your shots are so amazing.ReplyDelete
Tu me fais rire, je pense que nous pourrions nous balader ensemble. Avec moi, les promenades s'étirent en longueur. J'ai toujours un fleur, un oiseau, un caillou à prendre en photo. J'aime beaucoup, la façon dont tu t'appropries ces paysages.ReplyDelete
Wow! A treat for sore eyes Rosa. Beautiful clicks.ReplyDelete
The Photos are incredible I was in Zurich last summer and it makes me miss Switzerland!ReplyDelete
All humanity should be plugged in, to the "interface" that is Nature..as much as possible This is where balance of the mind, balance of the body and emotions is achieved. We are all spiritual beings having an Earth experience..it is here where the "Ego" of the everyday world is pushed aside.
Stunning & lovely pictures, dear Rosa!ReplyDelete
georgous scenery!!
You are so talented Rosa. Your photos always seem to capture the essence of the scene.ReplyDelete
NATURAL SELECTION: Thanks! You are right regarding Nature. I cannot live without it... Therefore I love in the countryside. Cheers.ReplyDelete
More wonderful scenes to see. This is terrific. Thanks for sharing them with us.ReplyDelete
Oh, I love Switzerland and would really like to return for a long visit. It is a gorgeous country as your photos prove. Beautiful photos and there is definitely an aura with them!ReplyDelete
It is always a good thing to have passion! I love your images! xoxoxReplyDelete
You always take such gorgeous pictures!ReplyDelete
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This is my first time to your spot. Love your fabulous trip photos. Spellbound by the beauty of nature and of Swiss countryside.
Gorgeous Pavlova in the previous post. Totally following you.
I dream ... beautiful! Absolutely beautiful Rosa.ReplyDelete
You must never want to leave! :PReplyDelete
Magnifique région et magnifiques photos.ReplyDelete
You are a really talented photographer Rosa.ReplyDelete
Love the one of the tractor!
Very beautiful landscaping photos... I can feel how much passion you have in capturing the nature!!ReplyDelete
Sawadee from Bangkok,
Yes you do....have a natural sensitivity for beauty and it does show in your photographic creations! I always look forward to visiting your blog, it is awe inspiring. You and I would never sleep if we traveled around together, I too am glued to my camera & my surroundings. xoReplyDelete
Beautiful pics! I know what you mean about having enthusiasm for travel. I remember traveling with some college friends and could barely sleep from excitement. I love the idea of breathing in all the sights, smells, and tastes of the area. Thanks for sharing your journeys!ReplyDelete
What an incredible place. I'm not sure how anyone could be blase or neutral with scenes like this in front of them. AmazingReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful pictures gurl and ovely deliciousness too!!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous scenery Rosa.ReplyDelete


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da0, or as a full pathname. If omitted, fdisk tries to figure out the
default disk device name from the mounted root device.
When called with no arguments, it prints the sector 0 slice table. An
example follows:
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=769 heads=15 sectors/track=33 (495 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=769 heads=15 sectors/track=33 (495 blks/cyl)
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 495, size 380160 (185 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 164,(unknown)
start 378180, size 2475 (1 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 764/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 768/ sector 33/ head 14
The data for partition 3 is:
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 99,(ISC UNIX, other System V/386, GNU HURD or Mach)
start 380656, size 224234 (109 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 769/ sector 2/ head 0;
end: cyl 197/ sector 33/ head 14
The disk is divided into three slices that happen to fill the disk. The
second slice overlaps the end of the first. (Used for debugging purposes.)
sysid is used to label the slice. FreeBSD reserves the
magic number 165 decimal (A5 in hex).
start and size fields provide the start address and size of a
slice in sectors.
flag 80 specifies that this is the active slice.
cyl, sector and head fields are used to specify the beginning and end
addresses of the slice.
Note: these numbers are calculated using BIOS's understanding of the disk
geometry and saved in the bootblock.
The -i and -u flags are used to indicate that the slice data is to be
updated. Unless the -f option is also given, fdisk will enter a conversational
mode. In this mode, no changes will be written to disk unless
you explicitly tell fdisk to.
The fdisk utility will display each slice and ask whether you want to
edit it. If you say yes, fdisk will step through each field, show you
the old value, and ask you for a new one. When you are done with the
slice, fdisk will display it and ask you whether it is correct. It will
then proceed to the next entry.
Getting the cyl, sector, and head fields correct is tricky, so by
default, they will be calculated for you; you can specify them if you
choose to though.
After all the slices are processed, you are given the option to change
the ``active'' slice. Finally, when all the new data for sector 0 has
been accumulated, you are asked to confirm whether you really want to rewrite
The difference between the -u and -i flags is that the -u flag just edits
(updates) the fields as they appear on the disk, while the -i flag is
used to ``initialize'' sector 0; it will set up the last BIOS slice to
use the whole disk for FreeBSD and make it active.
The automatic calculation of starting cylinder etc. uses a set of figures
that represent what the BIOS thinks the geometry of the drive is. These
figures are taken from the in-core disklabel by default, but fdisk initially
gives you an opportunity to change them. This allows you to create
a bootblock that can work with drives that use geometry translation
under the BIOS.
If you hand craft your disk layout, please make sure that the FreeBSD
slice starts on a cylinder boundary. A number of decisions made later
may assume this. (This might not be necessary later.)
Editing an existing slice will most likely result in the loss of all data
in that slice.
You should run fdisk interactively once or twice to see how it works.
This is completely safe as long as you answer the last question in the
negative. There are subtleties that fdisk detects that are not fully
explained in this manual page.
When the -f option is given, a disk's slice table can be written using
values from a configfile. The syntax of this file is very simple; each
line is either a comment or a specification, as follows:
# comment ...
Lines beginning with a # are comments and are ignored.
g spec1 spec2 spec3
Set the BIOS geometry used in slice calculations. There must be
three values specified, with a letter preceding each number:
cnum Set the number of cylinders to num.
hnum Set the number of heads to num.
snum Set the number of sectors/track to num.
These specs can occur in any order, as the leading letter determines
which value is which; however, all three must be specified.
This line must occur before any lines that specify slice information.
It is an error if the following is not true:
1 <= number of cylinders
1 <= number of heads <= 256
1 <= number of sectors/track < 64
The number of cylinders should be less than or equal to 1024, but
this is not enforced, although a warning will be printed. Note
that bootable FreeBSD slices (the ``/'' file system) must lie
completely within the first 1024 cylinders; if this is not true,
booting may fail. Non-bootable slices do not have this restriction.
Example (all of these are equivalent), for a disk with 1019
cylinders, 39 heads, and 63 sectors:
g c1019 h39 s63
g h39 c1019 s63
g s63 h39 c1019
p slice type start length
Set the slice given by slice (1-4) to type type, starting at sector
start for length sectors.
Only those slices explicitly mentioned by these lines are modified;
any slice not referenced by a p line will not be modified.
However, if an invalid slice table is present, or the -i option
is specified, all existing slice entries will be cleared (marked
as unused), and these p lines will have to be used to explicitly
set slice information. If multiple slices need to be set, multiple
p lines must be specified; one for each slice.
These slice lines must occur after any geometry specification
lines, if one is present.
The type is 165 for FreeBSD slices. Specifying a slice type of
zero is the same as clearing the slice and marking it as unused;
however, dummy values (such as ``0'') must still be specified for
start and length.
Note: the start offset will be rounded upwards to a head boundary
if necessary, and the end offset will be rounded downwards to a
cylinder boundary if necessary.
Example: to clear slice 4 and mark it as unused:
p 4 0 0 0
Example: to set slice 1 to a FreeBSD slice, starting at sector 1
for 2503871 sectors (note: these numbers will be rounded upwards
and downwards to correspond to head and cylinder boundaries):
p 1 165 1 2503871
a slice
Make slice the active slice. Can occur anywhere in the config
file, but only one must be present.
Example: to make slice 1 the active slice:
a 1
/boot/mbr The default boot code.
boot0cfg(8), bsdlabel(8), newfs(8)
The default boot code will not necessarily handle all slice types correctly,
in particular those introduced since MS-DOS 6.x.
The entire utility should be made more user-friendly.
Most users new to FreeBSD do not understand the difference between
``slice'' and ``partition'', causing difficulty to adjust.
You cannot use this command to completely dedicate a disk to FreeBSD.
The bsdlabel(8) command must be used for this.
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Small Amethyst Necklace Gold, Crescent Moon Pendant, Purple Druzy Charm, Christmas Gifts For Her, R14-23
★ These necklaces are made with moon shaped amethyst gemstones and completed with an 18K Gold Plated Stainless Steel chain.
★ Please select the Chain Length and Type and we will make your necklace to order.
- Model is wearing a 16 inch necklace.
Chain: 18K Gold Plated Stainless Steel
Material: 24K Gold Plated Edges
Stones: Amethyst
Stone Size: Approximately 0.75in x 0.625in
- Gold Plated Chain is a cheaper alternative. We use a tarnish resistant stainless steel chain. However, any gold plated chain will tarnish eventually with wear.
More Druzy Necklaces:
Druzy Earrings:
We hope you enjoy your new necklace as we've certainly enjoyed making it! :-)
Love, Lily and Chloe
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☞ - Gold Plated Chain is a cheaper alternative. We use a tarnish resistant stainless steel chain. However, any gold plated chain will tarnish eventually with wear.
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1 oz 2016 American Eagle Gold Coin
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The American Gold Eagle Coin was authorized by the Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985 and was first released in 1986. It is offered in 1/10, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 troy ounce increments and each coin is guaranteed by the U.S. government to contain the stated weight in pure gold. The Eagle coin is 22 carat gold and is made from 91.67% gold and 8.33% copper to make it more durable. This combination is traditionally referred to as "crown gold" and was used by the British Crown for centuries to make coins last longer, while still containing the requisite amount of gold. The total weight of this coin is 1.0909 troy ounces and this allows the coin to still have 1 oz of gold, even though it is not 999 or 9999 pure gold.
The obverse of the coin features a full-length rendition of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Lady Liberty with flowing hair, an olive branch in her left hand and a torch in her right hand. The Capitol building is in the background. Lady Liberty is encircled by a rising sun and 50 stars. The words "LIBERTY" and "2016" are also on the face of the coin.
The reverse of the coin was designed by Miley Busiek and features a flying male eagle, also with an olive branch, and a female eagle and her hatchlings in her nest. The words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" are featured prominently and the phrases "E pluribus unum" and "In God We Trust" are on either side and the bottom contains the weight, purity and face value, in this case "1 oz Fine Gold - 50 Dollars".
This coin has become a staple in the bullion world and is practically synonymous with reliability, having become one of the most recognized gold bullion coins in the world.
|Brilliant Uncirculated
|United States
|U.S. Mint
|Miley Busiek (obverse), Rendition of Augustus Saint-Gaudens Lady Liberty (reverse)
|Rendition of Augustus Saint-Gaudens Lady Liberty, and the words "LIBERTY 2016"
|A male eagle carrying an olive branch flying above a nest containing a female eagle and hatchlings and the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1 oz. Fine Gold 50 Dollars" and the phrases "e pluribus unum" and "In God We Trust".
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WWN has confirmed a Radar Online report that sources say Justin Bieber is the father of a three-month-old baby boy. Star Magazine is also leading the reporting on this breaking story.
Mariah Yeater, 20, is demanding that the singer take a paternity test to "scientifically confirm" he is the father of her child.
Here she is:
The lawsuit was filed in late October and Yeater asks the court for Bieber "to provide adequate support for my baby."
In an affidavit signed under penalty of perjury Yeater says she was 19 years old when she had sex with the underage star backstage at one of his concerts in Los Angeles.
Bieber's reps have strenuously denied the accusations but a court hearing has been set for later this year.
Selena Gomez, who is reportedly pregnant with Bieber's baby has not made any comment. There are rumors that Selena and Bieber will be married soon. Here's Selena and Justin on a recent trip together:
Sources close to roadies that work on some of Bieber's concerts, say that Justin often invites girls backstage after his concerts to "have fun." Here he is with the thousands of young girls he regularly lets visit him backstage:
Since the announcement Bieber has added a few more security guards to guard his dressing room backstage at his concerts. "They have orders NOT to let any young women who look like they may get pregnant anywhere near Bieber."
And, of course, the rumors that Justin is gay are false, though they may be true.
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