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Five seemingly ordinary people who have done extraordinary work for their communities and forests are being recognized as 'Forest Heroes' at a special 'Forests for People' ceremony taking place today in Istanbul. The awards are being presented as 197 member States meet at the 10th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF).
In addition to the Forests Heroes from Brazil, Rwanda, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States, winners of the International Forest Short Film Festival and the International Forest Photograph competition will also receive awards. The winning filmmakers are from Belgium, Peru, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States and the photographers hail from Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine.
Nearly 600 entries from 68 countries competed to win these prestigious awards. IUCN is part of the international jury, consisting of renowned practitioners and senior United Nations experts who have selected winners in each category. IUCN is also a partner in the UNFF.
Wu Hongbo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said "The winners of these awards are remarkable individuals who have been working to make a difference through community activities, film, or photography. Their stories serve as inspiration to us all. Any meaningful debate on forests is drawn from the lessons we learn from people-centred approaches and community, and national-level action. The fate of forests truly rests in the hands of people."
Jan McAlpine, Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, said this year's awardees represent a "truly amazing group of individuals who have devoted their lives to nurturing communities and forests". She added, "Through their eyes we see that there are creative pathways to realizing that we are an integral part of forests, and forests are a vital part of us all. Their stories are our shining inspiration and they our heroes."
"The astounding exploits of an exceptional few, in giving a voice to the forests we need and depend upon, can inspire all of us to go that extra mile in protecting and restoring our forested landscapes," says jury member Daniel Shaw, Communications Officer with IUCN's Forest Programme.
For the International Forest Short Film Festival, the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat partnered with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival to honour creative efforts of filmmakers who visually capture how forests inspire, shelter, nurture and contribute to our lives. This year's Film Festival is for short films of five minutes or less. The very first screening of the winning films will take place at the special awards event.
"More than any point in our history, media today connects us to each other in a fashion that is more personal, more immediate, and more powerful than ever before — almost instantly, around the entire planet," says Lisa Samford, Executive Director of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.
The winning photographs of the first International Forest Photograph Contest, initiated "to celebrate the power of visual imagery in capturing the extraordinary and unique connection between people and forests," were taken by Atakan Baykal of Turkey, Eka Fendiaspara of Indonesia, Riccardo Gangale of Italy, Olga Lavrushko of Ukraine, Prasetyo Nurramdhan of Indonesia, and Pablo Pro of Spain.
The Forest Heroes include Dr. Rose Mukankomeje, who has devoted her life to the protection and restoration of Rwandan forests and has pioneered a unique home grown solution — Umuganda —which ensures that the growth of forests in Rwanda supports livelihoods and benefits the rural poor.
Also receiving a Hero Award is 92 year-old Hayrettin Karaca of Turkey, a successful textile businessman, who became aware of the dangers of environmental degradation as he travelled about the country. He went on to found TEMA, one of Turkey's largest environmental non-governmental organizations.
Preecha Siri, a Hero from Thailand, has helped guide his community into a model ecosystem management village by successfully integrating wet terrace fields, rotational farming, beekeeping, native tea and bamboo farming along with forest conservation .
At the age of 17, Almir Narayamoga Surui was elected chief of his Paiter-Surui tribe in the Amazon, Brazil, and for more than 20 years he has fought to safeguard both his tribe and the Amazon rainforest. He is spearheading the creation of a "50-year plan" that encompasses large-scale conservation efforts, reforestation projects and developing economic alternatives for his tribe that do not negatively impact forests.
And Dr. Ariel Lugo, a scientist from Puerto Rico in the United States, has published over 470 scientific articles, and has worked to conserve forests and improve communities around the world. His most recent project helps to prevent violence and promote healthy childhood development by encouraging the participation of youth in planting seasonal organic products and native trees.
The winners of the Film Festival include Rowan Pybus of South Africa, Paul Rosolie of the United States, Elio Alonso Vasquez Miranda of Peru, Sébastien Pins of Belgium, and Dan Childs and Nick Werber of the United Kingdom.
The special awards event is being webcast live from the venue of the United Nations Forum on Forests, on Wednesday, 10 April, from 6:15-7:45 p.m., at the Lutfi Kirdar Conference Centre, Istanbul.
For more information, contact:
Dan Shepard, United Nations Department of Public Information, e-mail [email protected], tel.: +1 646 675 3286; or Ahmet Parla, [email protected], tel.: +90 533 500 1497


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"I think one big issue that I am finding is start to dissipate is the freneticism of the herd. There is a drive to get to the end. I knew all along that there was no end game to get to. Yet, I still fell prey to "end game" discussions and talk about Zhaitain and final armors and weapons. It felt like I had to get there too. I really don't… at least right away.This observation about fully enjoying the game is very true, I've found; especially when it comes to getting the 'story' of a zone (which some have complained is lacking in GW2 due to there not being quest hubs to deliver it via quest text to players). However, the story is still there -- you just have to choose to speak to the various named NPCs and Heart taskgivers that you find, and stop a moment to listen to the banter of the townsfolk you come across rather than sprinting past (or away once your contribution reward pops). The narrative of the various maps in GW2 is not forced upon you; instead it's similar to real life in that if you are always rushing to the next goal and not stopping to investigate the world around you, it will mean you will get less out of the journey as a whole.
The other problem with Guild Wars 2 content is that it is incredibly high speed. Without having to turn in quests there is much less time to digest experiences. I didn't realize how important this was for my 'fun' until I actually sat there watching the backside of the asura elementalist as he ran away. I wasn't following my own advice. I need to slow down; reflect for that one moment. 'I just did this, and it was great.' Moments like that are not another belly-bombing slider going down the hatch."
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Fake AV, Phishing Scams Gunning for Windows 8
Windows 8 launched to great fanfare only a week ago, but it is already under attack.
The scareware scammers have already jumped on the new operating system, pushing out a "Win 8 Security System" that warns victims about a series of non-existent threats on their shiny computers, according to a post on Trend Micro's Security Intelligence blog on Wednesday. The scareware informs users that the software needed to be registered in order to remove the infection, wrote Gelo Abendan, a member of Trend Micro's technical communications team.
"The malware displays a fake scanning result to intimidate users to purchase the fake antivirus program—just like your run-of-the-mill FAKEAV variant," Abendan wrote.
SecurityWatch has reported on fake antivirus and rogue software in the past. Users often encounter these malicious software programs when they visit compromised Web sites or click on malicious links to an attack page. Site visitors generally see a warning window informing them the machine is infected and they need to download a security program to fix the issues. Once downloaded, the user is then presented with a long list of (generally fictitious) problems and told the threats won't be removed until the user pays for the software.
Trend Micro also found a phishing campaign which promise users a free copy of Windows 8 provided they fill out a form. Users are asked for personally identifiable information (PII) like email address, password, and name, which can be "peddled in the underground market or used for other cybercriminal activities," Abendan wrote.
"It is typical for cybercriminals to piggyback on the highly-anticipated release of any latest technology to take their malware, spam, malicious app to new heights," Abendan said. Cyber-criminals watch the news reports and hone in on topics users are interested in and craft their attacks accordingly.
Users need to think first before clicking on links for unbelievable deals and offers, such as those that promise software and the latest gadgets for free. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Zero Day?
Have researchers uncovered a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 8? French research company VUPEN hinted at a sandbox bypass for Internet Explorer 10 that can take over Windows 8 machines.
"We welcome #Windows8 with various 0Ds combined to pwn all new Win8/IE10 exploit mitigations," Chaouki Bekrar, CEO and head of research for VUPEN, posted on Twitter.
Microsoft introduced Adress Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Protection (DEP) in Windows Vista in order to curb memory-based attacks and prevent applications from executing in certain parts of memory. Return-oriented programming (ROP) helps attackers bypass these security defenses, which was the reason Microsoft focused on anti-ROP tools for last year's Blue Hat prize. Windows 8 has several layers of hardware-focused security, such as Secure Boot and the Early Launch Antimalware driver to protect files that are loaded during the bootup sequence. Internet Explorer 10 has improved sandboxing, and Windows 8 apps run inside the AppContainer sandbox.
Being able to get around these exploit mitigation technologies is no mean feat, but it's hard to assess VUPEN's claims as the company depends on keeping the details of the exploit secret. The company sells exploits it develops to its customers (government agencies) and generally does not share vulnerability details with vendors. Disclosing the vulnerability would result in an eventual patch, which would affect the company's ability to sell the exploit in the first place.
VUPEN's Bekrar told Andy Greenberg over at Forbes the exploit would be included in the company's Threat Protection Program, the defense side of the business, so that customers will know how to protect their environments against potential attacks. "The in-depth technical details of the flaws will be shared with our customers and they can use them to protect their critical infrastructures against potential attacks or for national security purposes," Bekrar told Forbes.
However, it's safe to say the new security measures built in to Windows 8 will keep most attackers at bay for the moment. Security experts have praised the operating system's new security features, with ESET's distinguised researcher Aryeh Goretsky calling Windows 8 "the most secure version of Microsoft Windows to date."


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collegeblender necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
Formerly TheCollegeBlogNetwork.com , CollegeBlender.com is an exclusive online community for college students and alumni, allowing them to find out what's happening at their school and other schools around the world.
We organize blogs, tweets, questions, gossip and more by college campus and allow .EDU email-registered users to vote, comment, and share their own content on the site.
*** NOTE: If you are/recently were in college [have a valid .EDU email] and your design is chosen, as part of the prize we will also include a free PR-run for you/your site on CollegeBlender.com when we launch!
College students and alumni - A majority of our current early adopters are internet savvy, so we want to avoid a logo that screams web 2.0 and would prefer something that is more akin to a lifestyle brand.
- A metaphorical image that represents the blending of ideas/concepts (but please no obvious references to a blender [i.e. blades or an actual blender])
- Include both text of the "CollegeBlender" name as well as a unique accompanying graphic image. We would like the option of being able to use text only, accompanying image only, or a combination of both on the site and in marcomm materials.
- Creating a logo graphic around the letters "CB" in addition to the words is also an avenue we would like to explore.
- The logo graphic must scale well as it will be used both in web/print content as well as very small (16x16 or 32x32) as a "share" icon
- Should mesh well with current site content/direction. For reference graphics and screenshots please download the zip file at:
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CollegeBlender Color Guide:
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to tree-like, generally ± loosely hairy, becoming ± subglabrous; roots generally fibrous, branched
Stems generally 1few per rosette
Leaves alternate; lower generally petioled; middle generally weakly clasping; uppermost generally bract-like
Inflorescence often ± flat-topped; heads radiate or discoid, 1many; involucre cylindric to hemispheric; main phyllaries in 1 equal series (often subtended by few, much-reduced outer phyllaries)
Ray flowers 013; ligules generally yellow to orange
Disk flowers generally < 40; corolla generally ± yellow; style tips truncate to obtuse, generally hair-tufted
Fruit cylindric; ribs shallow, often stiff-hairy; pappus of thin, minutely barbed deciduous bristles ± = fruit body
Species in genus: ± 1500 species: worldwide; some cultivated, some of unusual form
Recent taxonomic note: *For revised taxonomy of Senecio, see Barkley 1999 Sida 18(3):661672.
Etymology: (Latin: old man, from white pappus)
Reference: [Barkley 1978 North America Flora II 10:50139]
Among largest genera of flowering plants.
Subshrub 28 dm, arched upward from taprooted crown
Leaves 510 cm, linear, entire, ± toothed, or 24-lobed
Inflorescence: heads radiate, 1020+; main phyllaries ± 8, sometimes 13, 69 mm, tips green
Ray flowers 5(8); ligules 10+ mm, ± yellow
Disk flowers < 40
Fruit soft-hairy
Chromosomes: 2n=40
Ecology: Dry, open rocky places
Elevation: 18003200 m.
Bioregional distribution: High Sierra Nevada (eastern slope), San Bernardino Mountains, East of Sierra Nevada, n Desert Mountains
Distribution outside California: to South Dakota, New Mexico, nw Mexico
Flowering time: JulAug
May hybridize with S. fremontii var. occidentalis in n SNE (Sweetwater Mtns).


text: WarhammerAlliance.com (run for the last five years as one of the leading fansites for the MMORPG Warhammer Online) is being sued by Games Workshop for the use of the 'Warhammer' name, 'cybersquatting' and 'unfair competition.' This lawsuit is yet another in Games Workshop's disturbing pattern of suing their fans and hobbyists, this time going after a legitimate fansite for their MMORPG franchise. The full complaint (PDF) has been posted online


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Beetle infestation in Colorado
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Mountain pine beetle infestation continued to slow markedly in 2013, while the spruce beetle outbreak is still expanding, according to numbers from Colorado's annual aerial health survey released Thursday by state and federal forestry officials.
The U. S. Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service joint announcement stated that the mountain pine beetle epidemic showed the lowest acreage of active infestation in 15 years.
Statewide, mountain pine beetles were active on 97,000 acres in 2013, bringing the overall infestation to 3.4 million acres in Colorado since the onset of the outbreak in 1996.
However, the spruce beetle infestation was affecting 398,000 acres across the state, representing an expansion of 216,000 acres in 2013 — up from 183,000 acres added in 2012.
The report held good news for Boulder County's forests, however, in that mountain pine beetle infestation showed a marked drop from 2012, while no spruce beetles were detected at all by the aerial survey.
"We didn't map any spruce beetle activity in Boulder County.," said Ben Pfohl, an assistant district forester for the Boulder District of the Colorado State Forest Service, based outside Lyons.
"We didn't see any from the air," said Pfohl, who participated in the aerial survey. "That doesn't mean they aren't here. It just means it isn't on the landscape-scale."
Addressing the remaining mountain pine beetle infestation in Boulder County, Maribeth Pecotte, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service Boulder and Clear Creek Ranger districts, wrote in an email, "The infestation in Boulder County is occurring in smaller pockets that are growing more isolated from one another compared to 2012 results.
"That may predict a good outlook for the future — the more isolated the pockets of beetles, the less success they are likely to have in attacking and overcoming trees' natural defenses," she wrote.
The Rio Grande and San Juan national forests in southern Colorado and sections of the Roosevelt National Forest from far northern Colorado down south of Cameron Pass showed greater spruce beetle activity in the data released Thursday.
Why forested land in Boulder County is seemingly being spared the spruce beetle impact, Pfohl said, is more than the proverbial $64,000 question.
"I think the question is more expensive than that, and I don't have that answer," Pfohl said, admitting that an explanation for the dramatic mountain pine beetle depletion is similarly elusive.
"We still have the host trees and host structures and the size of the forest that supported that epidemic. Those are still there. The beetles just aren't acting the same."
But Brian Howell, aerial survey program manager for the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, said that the Boulder County area has largely been spared major "wind-throw" events, which topple trees, leaving an inviting vulnerable host environment for the spruce beetles in which to build up a population sufficient to then attack healthier spruce stands.
"You just haven't had all those events occur, but I would expect the spruce beetles to keep moving south (from the northern Colorado high country), and there are certainly some mature spruce stands in Boulder County," Howell said.
Chris Strebig, spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Regional office, said the latest survey reaffirms the need for active management of state and federal forest land, cautioning that, "Beetles of any type aren't going to respect the boundaries of ownership."
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Featured hemispHEREs Production
Stick up! (Braquage)
Expect thrills, spills and nail-biting suspense in this comic crime caper as these high-class cat burglar wannabes lurch from one near calamity to the next!
Our visiting artist program hemispHEREs brings innovative national and international hybrid artists to HERE for special presentations a few times a year. Ideally, each visiting artist shows a work at HERE for one to two weeks that dovetails conceptually, aesthetically, or thematically either with the simultaneously playing or developing work of our Resident Artists.
Often projects are co-presented with our Dream Music Puppetry and/or startHERE Programs. Visiting Artists participate in a HARP artist meeting, and reciprocal open rehearsals and workshops sharing practice are conducted. We also hold special panels and symposia during their time at HERE, deepening their engagement with our whole artist community.
Through hemispHEREs we look to create an exchange of ideas and energies that will strengthen artist relations, deepen dialogue on a national and global scale, and expand the impact of HERE's artists' work in our own community. In September 2010 we will present the French puppeteer company Akselere's beautiful modern-day Sleeping Beauty, and in December 2010 we will present a charming Philadelphia-based music and dance collaboration, As the Eyes of the Seahorse, between organic band The Mural & the Mint and choreographer Nichole Canuso. Other upcoming programming will be announced soon.
How to apply
Hemispheres is a curated program and applications are not accepted
Past hemispHEREs shows
Stick up! (Braquage)
Expect thrills, spills and nail-biting suspense in this comic crime caper as these high-class cat burglar wannabes lurch from one near calamity to the next!
Twenty-four spectators are led to a secret location to witness a peculiar interrogation. PHOBOPHILIA unfolds through a complex meshing of sound, action, ritual and video projection. Part of the Under the Radar Festival.
As The Eyes of The Seahorse
Philadelphia band The Mural and the Mint teams with Nichole Canuso Dance Company for a live indie-rock concert fused with immersive choreography.
LA Party
A charming soup-çon from the celebrated Phil Soltanoff whose collaborations with France's CIE 111 have produced playful meldings of theatre, visual art, dance and new cirque.


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Now arriving on the Mattapan trolley line: real-time countdown clocks
Passengers who rely on the aging Mattapan High Speed Line for their daily commute will no longer need to stand idly along the tracks and wonder with extreme patience whether their ride is on its way.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced Monday that all of the trolleys, which date back to the 1940s, have been outfitted with on-board tracking technology, allowing riders to pinpoint their precise location using smartphone apps.
And by later this month, the MBTA plans to turn on digital countdown clocks at seven of the Mattapan line's eight stops, displaying vehicle arrival times. Three of the signs are already up and running.
skyqrose wrote:I wrote a thing about replacing the MHSL with a Red Line extension. It borrows a lot of ideas from this discussion, but fleshes everything out a bit more and gets all the ideas in one place.
I'd love to get responses from all of you, especially regarding cost estimates.
CRail wrote:The locals do not want consolidated stops nor heavy rail headways.
typesix wrote:Plus a real snowplow to replace the Type 3 would be nice.
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ChairpersonDepartment of Health, Physical Education and Movement ScienceAssociate Professor
B.A., Adelphi UniversityM.A. Adelphi UniversityM.Ed. Columbia University, Teachers CollegeEd.D Columbia University, Teachers College
Nana Koch, Ed.D, is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Health, Physical Education and Movement Science. Her areas of specialization include curriculum design, physical education methods, dance and dance/movement therapy. She is dedicated to teaching pre-service teachers in the department how to use movement as a tool that enhances the learning process and promotes physical literacy, skill proficiency and practices that lead to fitness and health. She is also the department edTPA coordinator, teaching seminars that prepare students for the new certification exams.
In addition to her responsibilities at LIU Post, Dr. Koch consults with school districts and gives keynotes at conferences aimed at decreasing obesity and increasing physical activity and healthy nutritional practices in the schools
For six years Dr. Koch was a consultant to the Rockland County Health Department and the Rockland Teachers' Center Institute. With a grant funded by Steps to a HealthierNY, she worked with these organizations to create Learning in Motion, a professional development program for K-12 teachers focused on teaching them how to integrate physical activity into lessons in academic subject areas in the Common Core. Here she also served as the lead teacher, promoting the research findings indicating that fit students do better academically.
Dr. Koch is a Certified Movement Analyst, Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in New York State. She utilizes her expertise in these areas to teach the dance therapy module in the newly created Creative Arts Therapy course taught in the Art Therapy Program at Post.
In the international arena, Dr. Koch has given seminars and workshops at the Pan American School in San Jose, Costa Rica that have provided its K-12 teachers with ways to include physical activity into their lessons to keep their students fit and focused. In Pune, India, she worked with those who sought to increase their personal awareness of self through movement experiences. Last summer and this coming, she was invited to teach courses on dance/movement therapy and group process in Beijing, China to groups of dancers, teachers, social workers and human resource specialists.
Koch, N., & Melson, B., (1998). "Dance/movement therapy". In J.D. Nospitz (Ed.), Handbook of child and adolescent psychiatry. New York: Wiley
Koch, N. (2006) "The 3Rs in Motion: Health, the body and learning" has been accepted and is being featured in the Practice Notes section of an upcoming edition of the Journal of Health Education and Behavior.
Koch, N. (2006). "The 3Rs in Motion" Conference Proceedings of theJoint Conference of the American Dance Therapy Association and the National Dance Education Organization
Koch, N. (2006). "How to be healthy and fit for a lifetime." Community View article, appearing in the January 19, 2006 Rockland edition of The Journal News, a Gannett newspaper publication.
Koch, N (2004). "An Interview with Claire Schmais and Elissa White". American Journal of Dance Therapy. 26 (2) 91-117.
Sakiyama, Y., & Koch, N. (2003). "An issue of touching in dance therapy in Japan." American Journal of Dance Therapy.25 (2) 79-95.
Koch, N., (1984) . "Content analysis of leadership variables in dance therapy". American Journal of Dance Therapy. 7, 58-75.
Koch, N. (1984). "Interview with Liljan Espenak". American Journal of Dance Therapy. 4(2), 4-20.
Koch, N. (1974). "Movement Exploration on a City Block". In Publication of New York State Education Department.
Koch, N. (1990). "Mildred: The first 90 years". The Gerontologist, 30(50), 716-717.
Koch, N. (1987). "No maps on my taps". The Gerontologist, 27(2), 248
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Topic: Prank Calls
WARNING: may contain inappropriate material for kiddies. but that doesn't really stop them from looking anyway.
the title says it all. don't lie, everyone's had their fare share. here are the questions:
1. Do you do them?
2. Do you like them?
3. Do you get them?
1. yes
2. yes
3. yes/no
also, list some good ones you've done/gotten.
one time, i was at school late, so i used the school payphone with a quarter i had and pranked my friend's house, trying to order a pizza off of his mom. i asked him a few days later (saying that i got a prank call the other day) and he said "yeah some *** called my house trying to order a pizza."
oh, i once pranked this kid i don't like, and some female person picked up. not sure if it was his mom or his sister, but i asked whoever it was if they sold themselves to feed their kids that live under the gutter or not. my mom heard some of it and said "who the hell are you talking to?"
few years ago, some guy calls our house claiming he's "Don Juan". so, he tries to explain that we owe him "$14.95 for eggwoll, and that you have dishonored my family".
course, i'm sure a couple of you BFFCers have done the classics: running refrigerator, kicked dog, etc.


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Deals of the Day: Can U.S. Bank Shares Keep Partying?
Deals of the Day compiles this morning's biggest news about mergers and acquisitions, banking, bankruptcy and more. Catch us on Twitter, @WSJDealJournal.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Carlyle, Others to Buy Duff & Phelps: Investment-banking and valuation-advisory firm Duff & Phelps Corp. said it agreed to be acquired for about $665.5 million by a group that includes private-equity firm Carlyle Group LP. [WSJ]
Iberdrola to sell French wind parks: Spanish utility Iberdrola said on Monday it had signed a deal to sell its onshore assets in France for an initial payment of 350 million euros ($463 million) plus an additional payment of 50 million euros subject to conditions. [WSJ]
Financial Institutions
BofA Settlement Hits Snags: A big legal settlement usually marks the end of the bulk of the work for the Justice Department. But a year after a $335 million deal with Bank of America to compensate minority borrowers for discrimination, much remains to be done. [WSJ]
Can U.S. Bank Shares Keep Partying? Stocks of big U.S. banks have surged in 2012 after falling to depressed levels during the financial crisis. Optimists say the shares remain cheap, but others think falling interest margins and regulatory burdens will end the rally. [WSJ]
Bankruptcy & Restructuring
Tribune Emerges from Chapter 11: Media company Tribune Co. is emerging from bankruptcy-court protection with a new $1.1 billion loan and a new board. [WSJ]
Pension Funds Seek Insider Curbs: A group of pension funds that oversee more than $3 trillion in assets asked U.S, securities regulators to revamp rules on how corporate executives can trade their company stock. [WSJ]


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Editor's Summary
Information professionals are challenged to deliver simple yet expansive results for the end user, who is typically unaware of increasingly complex systems behind the scenes. Visitors to libraries, museums and archives expect free and unlimited access to resources, but know little of the museum as an information source and the information professional as a service provider, compiling, organizing and delivering the resources of cultural heritage organizations. Changing mindsets are necessitating a change in the ways these organizations interact with visitors, prompting the need for more active engagement with resource users and even collaboration in developing resources. While technological change is fairly easy, sociological change is harder. Information professionals must challenge long traditions and deeply held philosophies to meet public expectations for expanded access to museum resources. But they must also advocate for their own contributions, using socio-technical skills to leverage their work through new platforms and channels to gain broader community recognition, respect and value.
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Unintended Consequences: Unlimited Access, Invisible Work and the Future of the Information Profession in Cultural Heritage Organizations
by Paul F. Marty
In early 2009 a team from Google took to the streets of New York to promote their new web browser, Chrome. Standing in Times Square, they asked more than 50 people, What is a browser? and recorded the results (www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ). Fewer than one in 10 people interviewed that day knew what a browser was, nor did they understand the difference between a browser and a search engine. This lack of understanding does not necessarily hinder information access. Average people on the street may not know what a browser is or how it works, but they know the basics of using one to access the web.
Library and information studies (LIS) students spend a great deal of time studying the fine details of things that many people may not know exist but that many people depend upon every day to make their lives better. It may not be necessary to know who Eugene Garfield is to search the Internet, but it is, if one wants to make those search algorithms better. When LIS students explore the concepts, theories and models of how people look for information, they are not just preparing for academic and professional careers; they are preparing to lead what is essentially a double life. To move knowledge forward, information professionals need to be able to understand the nuances of what is happening behind the scenes, while making the front end as seamless as possible for an audience that does not know what a browser is.
Information professionals working in libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organizations frequently find themselves providing information to people who want to use their resources, but who have little interest in knowing where those resources come from and no desire to learn anything about the steps necessary to make those resources available. While this situation is not new, it has been exacerbated by recent trends and technologies. Todays information professionals interact with their colleagues through increasingly sophisticated practices and technologies designed to improve information organization and access behind the scenes, while on the front lines, they strive to meet the needs of a public that is not only increasingly unaware of how their needs are being met, but that is also expecting almost unlimited access to information.
Unlimited Access
Visitors to todays libraries, archives and museums have access to seemingly unlimited information resources, online or in person. Cultural heritage organizations have opened up their collections to the world in a way that is not only without historical parallel, but is also, for the most part, offered in a way that users perceive to be free. Yet as information professionals strive to keep up with their users constantly changing needs and expectations, they face challenges that threaten not only libraries, archives and museums, but all who are interested in promoting the digital humanities. Paradoxically, the harder information professionals work to provide simple, direct and almost unlimited access to information, the harder it becomes for the public to understand the information professionals value to society.
Despite decades of scholarship on the challenges of disintermediation (see, for example, Downie, [1]), it remains difficult to explain that providing direct access to information not only does not make information professionals unnecessary, it makes them more important while making their jobs more difficult. How does one explain the role of the information professional to people who argue that libraries are unnecessary because of the Internet when they do not understand what librarians do behind the scenes to make information organized, accessible and findable? How does one explain the role of the information professional to people who argue that universities are unnecessary because of Wikipedia when they do not understand that the purpose of education involves more than the teaching of facts? How does one explain the role of the information professional to people who demand comprehensive access to information resources spanning all types of collecting agencies when they have no idea that libraries, archives and museums are fundamentally different institutions with different missions requiring different approaches to information organization and access behind the scenes?
It is important for cultural heritage information professionals to address these questions because the questions have developed and evolved alongside a critical change in mindset that is shaping the way cultural heritage organizations interact with their visitors in the information age. Just as LIS professionals have shifted their focus away from the user in the life of the library to the library in the life of the user, cultural heritage information professionals have engaged in a similar shift from the visitor in the life of the museum to the museum in the life of the visitor. Anytime, anywhere access to information particularly digital information brings with it a philosophical shift in interaction, where assessing the role of the library in a community means doing more than counting circulation records, and assessing the role of the museum in a community means doing more than counting the number of visitors who walk through the door.
Over the past few decades, this idea of the digital museum in the life of the user has spread through museums and other cultural heritage organizations [2]. Museum researchers and practitioners are increasingly exploring how museum visitors perceive the integration of the museums information resources into the sociocultural fabric of their everyday lives. Cultural heritage information professionals understand that it is not what their visitors do in the institution that matters, but the role these institutions play in their visitors lives outside the museum. It is no longer sufficient to provide access to limited resources inside the museum; todays visitors expect unlimited access to information resources, where they want it, when they want it.
From a technological perspective, meeting this demand becomes easier every year relatively, conceptually and technically speaking. Advances in technological capabilities continue to make it easier, faster and cheaper to provide access to information across multiple platforms and environments. As the barrier to implementing a particular technology gets lower and the reward for getting over that barrier gets higher, museums and other cultural heritage institutions are increasingly able to provide more visitors with direct access to resources through web browsers, reach more visitors on the go through their smart phones and engage with more visitors using augmented reality and mobile computing.
From a sociological perspective it is relatively more difficult to quantify the effects these changes are having on museum visitors and museum professionals. While starting a Facebook page is easy, maintaining it can be time-consuming, determining its impact on museum visitors can be challenging and figuring out best practices for using social media to reach audiences and improve lives can be extremely difficult. New technologies are not only changing peoples lives; they are transforming the museums ability to provide access to resources in innovative, almost unimaginable ways. These changes are having profound effects on cultural heritage organizations and the information professionals who work there.
Invisible Work
Researchers and practitioners have been discussing the changing role of the cultural heritage information professional for decades [3]. It is increasingly clear that the driving factor behind these changes is not technology, but rather an evolving philosophical mindset about the responsibilities of cultural heritage information professionals in terms of information access and provision. Todays museum professionals are working toward a world in which people engage with museums, their content and their collections in a virtuous circle where visitors are encouraged to form lifelong relationships with museums, visiting in person when they can and visiting online when they cannot [4].
Developing technologies that encourage museums to reach out to engage their visitors, as their visitors reach out to engage them, is not easy. We want our institutions to become transparent, where the interface goes away and we engage directly with what is increasingly viewed as our art, our history, our culture and our collections. Efforts to achieve this level of engagement tend to be distributed and frequently rely on the use of social media. Recent advancements in social media platforms and technologies have been groundbreaking and include such activities as social tagging, personal digital collections and the involvement of users in the co-construction of digital knowledge. In an attempt to unlock the museum [5], numerous institutions are involving their visitors in distributed annotation and collection building tasks, from transcribing historic restaurant menus at the New York Public Library (http://menus.nypl.org/) to helping Oxford University decipher the Oxyrhynchus papyri (http://ancientlives.org/).
Encouraging this type of engagement on the part of information professionals and users can be challenging, not only for technical reasons, but also because of the philosophical issues involved. For years, the museum perspective was, If you want to look at our collections, you need to follow our rules. Changing philosophies from one of controlled access to one of open access is difficult and can require astonishing conceptual leaps at the individual level. Implementing these changes at an institutional level can be even more time-consuming, and even policy changes that seem relatively straightforward can take years to implement.
For example, recent announcements from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum and Yale University to make high-resolution images of art from their collections available for anyone to use, for any purpose, copyright-free [6] illustrate the latest accomplishments in the ongoing efforts to improve access to images of works of art in the public domain. Despite these impressive achievements, it is astonishing how many barriers still exist that prevent the public from accessing museum images, more than a decade after the landmark Bridgeman v. Corel ruling (1999) [7] made it clear that images of works of art in the public domain are not copyrightable. Despite years of scholarship exploring the legal, fiscal and moral responsibilities of museums with respect to public domain art [8, 9], there remain many collections held hostage from the public, not by technology problems, but by the challenges of grasping the social changes involved with acts of this magnitude.
Another example can be found in the Flickr Commons project, which was designed to increase awareness of and access to publicly held images with no known copyright restrictions (www.flickr.com/commons/). Since 2008, dozens of museums and other cultural heritage organizations worldwide have contributed thousands of images from their collections to Flickr, and there is no question that these images have reached an extremely wide audience. According to the Smithsonian Institution, images uploaded to the Commons received as many views in three months on Flickr as they had during the previous five years on the Smithsonians website [10]. On the other hand, despite some initial hopes that increased views on Flickr would result in increased traffic back to the museums website, the Smithsonian found that this reference was not the case; while Flickr users were delighted to have access to images, they had little interest in learning more about the institutions making the images available.
There is a trade-off here that can be difficult to accept. Not everyone is willing to justify this trade-off by arguing that at least by our putting our images on Flickr, millions more have seen our images than if we had left them on our institutional website. Not everyone is willing to say they are happier knowing more people are using their resources on social networking sites such as Flickr, when the work they put into making those resources available remains largely invisible and the average user of those resources remains largely unaware of the institution that contributed them. There are consequences involved in accepting such a trade-off, for museums and cultural heritage organizations in particular, as well as the digital humanities writ large. And the choices that cultural heritage information professionals make in handling these consequences will drive the future of the information profession in cultural heritage organizations.
Unintended Consequences
Consider, for example, a hypothetical museum director exploring social media options for his museum. Looking on YouTube, he is surprised to find hundreds of amateur videos posted about his museum. Short video clips, typically shot with cellphone cameras, depict visitor after visitor essentially saying to their friends online, Look at me! Im at this museum! Our hypothetical museum director, faced with this new knowledge about the realities of social media, might respond in one of two ways. He could say, This is terrible! How dare these people post video clips of our museum without our permission! How can we shut this down? Or, he could say, This is terrific! These people must really love our museum! How can we encourage this?
Advocates for the role of social media in museums clearly hope that this hypothetical director chooses the second option. If museum professionals want to give their data new life, so the argument goes, they need to set their data free and see what comes back. The idea that opening up the museum means opening up possibilities is an admirable sentiment, but there is also a danger here the danger of opening up access while your work to create high quality, well-organized resources remains relatively invisible and your efforts largely uncredited. This invisibility is a problem in particular for information professionals working in libraries, archives and museums, in part because the information profession is at its core a service industry. Combining the rising expectations of museum visitors with the service philosophy that drives the information profession can result in serious unintended consequences.
Information professionals especially LIS students and faculty tend to be idealistic: they are happy if someone is simply using the resources they have created, and often the last things they think about are money, credit and other economic realities. As museums continue to dive deeper into the social media pool, the knowledge and satisfaction that their resources are being used may not be enough to keep them going. By no means does this dilemma mean that museums should stop making their resources available in multiple formats to multiple audiences. But as long as people believe their unlimited access to your information resources just magically appeared no thanks to your invisible work there is always the danger someone will ask, Why are you important? What were your contributions? And Who are you anyway?
This problem is one that information professionals need to solve as they build the 21st century cultural heritage organization. One possible solution lies in recognizing that invisible work is not just invisible inside the museum. Just as our users do not know what we are doing to prepare information resources inside the museum, we do not know how they are using our resources in their everyday lives outside the museum. The more information resources we make available free of restrictions, the more likely our users will return with ideas we could neither have imagined nor predicted. It is highly possible that by leveraging the users work outside the museum, we can find ways to make our work inside the museum more visible.
Elsewhere I have argued that museum information professionals need skills that go beyond technology skills, that museums need individuals who can play an active role in guiding the future of information work in museums, including advocating, establishing and administering information policies [11]. But that argument is not enough. Cultural heritage information professionals need to do more than be advocates for their work inside their institutions; they need to be advocates for it outside as well. Cultural heritage organizations need information professionals with the socio-technical skills to consider the implications and unintended consequences of new information technologies and access to information resources.
Museums, libraries and archives in the 21st century face a stark paradox: the easier they make it for their users to access their cultural heritage information resources, the harder they make it for those same users to understand how much work is actually involved in making those resources available. The challenge facing cultural heritage information professionals today is to make their contributions clear, to be their own advocates for their own contributions to the betterment of humanity, while simultaneously making more resources available to an audience that wants increasingly unlimited access to everything with as few barriers as possible and all of it for free.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Downie, J.S. (1999). Jumping off the disintermediation bandwagon: Reharmonizing LIS education for the realities of the 21st century. Retrieved December 16, 2011, from http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~jdownie/alise99/
[2] Marty, P.F. (2008). Museum websites and museum visitors: Digital museum resources and their use. Museum Management and Curatorship, 23(1), 81-99.
[3] Marty, P.F. (2007). The changing nature of information work in museums. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 97-107.
[4] Barry, A. (2006). Creating a virtuous circle between a museums on-line and physical spaces. In J. Trant & D. Bearman (Eds.). Museums and the Web 2006. Toronto, ON: Archives & Museum Informatics. Retrieved December 16, 2011, from www.archimuse. com/ mw2006/papers/barry/barry.html
[5] Jörgensen, C. (2004). Unlocking the museum: A manifesto. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55, 462-464.
[6] Green, T. (2001). The copyright revolution at US art museums [blog post]. Modern Art Notes. Retrieved December 16, 2011, http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/09/the-copyright-revolution-at-us-art-museums/
[7] Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. (1999). Wikipedia. Retrieved December 16, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp
[8] Hamma, K. (2005). Public domain art in an age of easier mechanical reproducibility. D-Lib Magazine, 11(11). Retrieved December 16, 2011, from www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/hamma/11hamma.html
[9] Bray, P. (2009). Open licensing and the future for collections. In J. Trant & D. Bearman (Eds.). Museums and the Web 2009. Toronto, ON: Archives & Museum Informatics. www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html
[10] Kalfatovic, M.R., Kapsalis, E., Spiess, K.P., Van Camp, A., & Edson, M. (2009). Smithsonian Team Flickr: A library, archives, and museums collaboration in web 2.0 space. Archival Science, 8(4), 267277.
[11] Marty, P.F. (2004). The evolving roles of information professionals in museums. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 30(5), 20-23.
Paul F. Marty is an associate professor at Florida State University, where his research focuses on the evolution of sociotechnical systems and collaborative work practices; digital convergence and the evolving roles of information professionals; and involving users in the co-construction of distributed, digital knowledge. He can be reached at marty<at>fsu.edu or through his website, http://marty.cci.fsu.edu.
Articles in this Issue
Preservation: The Final Frontier
How to Identify Ducks in Flight: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Biodiversity Research and Conservation
Museum Informatics: Something New, Something More: Introduction
CollectionSpace: A Story of Open-Source Software Development and User-Centered Design
Unintended Consequences: Unlimited Access, Invisible Work and the Future of the Information Profession in Cultural Heritage Organizations
A Haystack Full of Needles: Scholarly Access Challenges in Museum Video Archives
Advanced Imaging Tools for Museum and Library Conservation and Research
OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate
The Future of Museum Scholarly Catalogues
Teens, Virtual Environments and Information Literacy
Computer Refurbishing: Environmentally Reducing the Digital Divide
IA Column: What Happens When Context Thwarts an Information Architect's Vision?


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Friday, July 29, 2011
A Liturgical Rant: Wearing Underwear Over Outerwear
I'm old enough to remember very well the days prior to the Second Vatican Council. I began serving Mass in 1957 when I was seven years old, and often served two or three Masses a day. I then spent high school and college in the seminary during and after the Council; liturgically, that's a lot of experience! I first served as a liturgical Master of Ceremonies when I was 15. OK, that's some background.
For centuries, the accepted practice for all clerics in the major orders was to wear the amice, alb, cincture, and maniple. Over these foundational vestments, the subdeacon added the outer vestement of the subdeacon, the tunicle. Over those same foundational vestments, the deacon added the stole (tied diagonally and held in place by the cincture) and then the outer vestment of the deacon, the dalmatic. Over those same foundational vestments, the priest added the stole (worn crossed over his chest and held in place by the cincture) and then the outer vestment of the priest, the chasuble. Notice the pattern? THE OUTER VESTMENT, by definition, was worn OVER EVERYTHING ELSE!
Catholic clergy didn't adopt the Protestant practice of a "preaching stole" worn over other vestments.
So -- what happened? Why do priests and now some deacons choose to wear these so-called "overlay" stoles? How did this liturgical novelty catch on, DESPITE liturgical guidance (read: law) otherwise?
Let's get the legal stuff out of the way. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (the GIRM) has always stated that the dalmatic or chasuble is worn OVER the stole and other foundational vestments. Period. So why do some choose to wear their liturgical "underwear" over their liturgical "outerwear"?
I think there are a couple of things at play here.
First -- and this is a good thing -- we have seen a wonderful emphasis on the primary role of the bishop, presbyter and deacon for preaching the Good News. I get that, and support it. This led some priests, immediately after the Council, to adopt the common practice of other Christian churches to wear the stole, associated by many of those Churches with the function of preaching, OVER their chasubles. Vestment makers picked up on this and began to design "overlay" stoles. Still, it's worth noting that the liturgical law of the Church has NOT changed on this regard: it still tells us to wear the stole UNDER the chasuble/dalmatic. What's next, wearing the cincture over the chasuble/dalmatic? How about throwing on an amice over everything? That would be an interesting look, too!
Second -- for deacons, many of us are still getting used to the dalmatic. After the Council, most parishes got rid of their old "Mass sets": fiddleback chasubles, dalmatics/stoles, and tunicles. New liturgical vestment styles were developed, except that in the late 1960s and early 1970s these often didn't include vestments for the deacon, since the permanent diaconate was still in its infancy. This led to expedient of wearing an alb along with a "priest" stole tied or pinned diagonally. There were very few dalmatics. This led to the liturgical innovation of a deacon of the Mass wearing only an alb and a stole: this was NEVER the practice prior to the Council. So, deacons often associated the stole as the primary sign of their Order of Deacon. HOWEVER, the actual sign of the deacon is the DALMATIC: that is the vestment unique to the diaconate (and the episcopate). So, when overlay stoles were developed by the vestment makers, they gradually extended that mistake to the deacon's vestments as well, and some deacons have embraced it because they can wear "their" identifying vestment (mistakenly assumed to be the stole) in plain view over the dalmatic.
During this time of ongoing liturgical renewal, it seems a good time to get back to the basics: Wear the stole UNDER the dalmatic!
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Very nice. Thanks and let's hope this proper use of the dalmatic catches on.ReplyDelete
Another liturgical error I have noticed is the deacon kneeling immediately after the Sanctus and then standing after the Mysterium Fidei. Aren't we supposed to kneel only from the Epiclesis through the elevation of the chalice out of respectful emphasis towards the Holy Spirit's transubstantion of the eucharistic elements?
typo: transubstantiationReplyDelete
what's a dalmatic look like?ReplyDelete
Hey Skipper...when is the junk-on-the-bunk and IG inspection again? :-DReplyDelete
Dear Fred,ReplyDelete
If you look at the picture I posted with this entry, look at the vestment on the left. The garment shown UNDER the diagonal deacon stole (ugh) is the dalmatic. It is a sleeved garment, in the same liturgical color as the priest's chasuble.
God bless,
Dear Diakonos,ReplyDelete
Yes, kneeling immediately after the Sanctus is too soon, you are correct.
On the other hand, it is not absolute that we kneel at all, of course. The GIRM says "as a rule," which conveys the sense that there are exceptions to that rule. Many of our bishops don't want us to kneel since we can't get down, and then back up, easily enough. What's even more important is that such difficulties go far beyond an inconvenience for the aging knees of many deacons: it can be very distracting from the liturgical action. Part of the reason for deacons to kneel at that part of the Mass is to assist in focusing on the liturgical action going on, and if we're falling all over the place, we distract from that. In that case, it's better to stay standing.
God bless,
I was ordained a few years before you but bow to your wisdom on most things diaconal. This idea of constantly wearing a Dalmatic is -- in my mind -- more rubrical than sensible.
Here's my approach:
--Dalmatics on "High Holy Days" -- such as Christmas (midnight and day); Easter (both Vigil and Day) and Pentecost.
--Dalmatics on any ceremony with your local ordinary -- whether at the cathedral or not -- whether "high-holyday" or not.
--Stole overlay on a better quality alb on the everyday Sunday "Deacon of the Gospel" assignment.
--I usually do not use a Dalmatic at a funeral unless I am presiding at a ceremony outside of Mass but in a church.
--I have never used a Dalmatic at a wedding nor a baptism nor a free-standing Communion Service.
Part of it was that my generation (I was ordained in 1978) was never issued any instructions about the importance of a Dalmatic; part of it was that the parishes I worked at could rarely afford deacons' stoles much less Dalmatics; part of it was that we did not have experts like you hounding us to get authentic.
Only the very best of blessings!
Deacon Norb from Ohio
Is this changing -- I think so but it will take time for those classes ordiained after 2000 -- the ones who have a more "gut-level" understanding of this issue -- to make their impact.
Bill, I have not seen this particular over\under or under\over practice here in Atlanta.ReplyDelete
While in another diocese I did observe a deacon serving as MC (in cassock and surplus) put on his stole during the distribution of communion and then take it off after the vessels were purified. I was curious about the practice but didn't see anything about it in the GIRM or Ceremonial of Bishops. Did I miss it in one of those, was he "freelancing" from a vestment perspective or what.
I did see in the CoB that generally even while serving as MC the deacon should vest in his dalmatic. The practice in our archdiocese is cassock and surplus but never adding the stole.
Just curious....
Steve -
Bill, I have not seen this particular over\under or under\over practice here in Atlanta.ReplyDelete
While in another diocese I did observe a deacon serving as MC (in cassock and surplus) put on his stole during the distribution of communion and then take it off after the vessels were purified. I was curious about the practice but didn't see anything about it in the GIRM or Ceremonial of Bishops. Did I miss it in one of those, was he "freelancing" from a vestment perspective or what.
I did see in the CoB that generally even while serving as MC the deacon should vest in his dalmatic. The practice in our archdiocese is cassock and surplus but never adding the stole.
Just curious....
Steve -
"Kids these days! Backward hats and walking oddly." More examples of distraction from pursuit of faith and spiritual growth, by the convenient but distracting issues of the architecture of religion. I don't dismiss the comfort or healing value of ritual at all levels of spiritual endeavor, nor the importance of social development of every religion. Although a tightrope is a weak analogy for the journey of spiritual and earthly life, personal balance is an important attractor.ReplyDelete
As far as I am concerned, the deacon and the presider are as one at the altar, each with his own role. The ministry of sacrifice together with the ministry of service while at the altar offers a more complete picture of Jesus Who offers Himself in charity.ReplyDelete
In that regard, matching vestments presents a unified picture that a his and his parts.
As a would be Deacon (about to start the second year of "formal" formation in the UK) I would welcome a comprehensive guide to liturgical dress. Not just for Deacons but for Priests and bishops as well. Any recommendations?ReplyDelete
As an acolyte in Northern Virginia 50 years ago, we received a special vestments missal, 'Habits Primer', which covered everything mass participants, from parishioner to Pope, were expected to wear all year. It was an thick old book, as big as an ordinary, large print missal, which all the boys in my cohort had to share. It was bright blue leather yapp binding and gilt encirclinga, but I am not confident of my memory of the title or other details. Obviously, vestments have changed over the years, but if you can find a copy, it might be a touch stone and possibly rationales for some deacon paraphernalia.
Enjoy the journey homeward.
I have now found this website. I would appreciate it if somebody who knows this stuff would give it a once over. It looks genuine to me but I have learnt the hard way not to believe everything I read on the web. This Blog excepted of course :-)ReplyDelete
It would help if I included the url!!!ReplyDelete
Deacon Steve,ReplyDelete
Oy. . .
In the "old" days, it was not uncommon to see a priest-MC (in cassock and surplice) put on a stole to help distribute communion. This practice was (supposedly) eliminated following the Council. People are supposed to exercise one function at Mass and then do it "solely but completely."
The liturgical MC, despite the impression given in many places, is properly a LAY ministry. I first served as an MC at age 15 as a high school seminarian home for Holy Week. Now, while many bishops persist in having clerics serve as MCs, many are now training lay persons to exercise that role.
Furthermore, the role of the MC grew in popularity when the liturgical role of the deacon was in decline.
1) Clerics ought to exercise the duties of their order (bishop, deacon, presbyter) at Mass, and not take on a role which rightly belongs to the laity;
2) IF a presbyter/deacon serves as MC, he should do so WITHOUT the liturgical vestments of his order, since he's not there exercising that order. The CoB, I hope, will be corrected in future editions; after all, we don't ask priest-MCs to wear stole and chasuble when THEY MC!
3) And, finally, a cleric-MC should NOT put on a stole to help distribute communion. If the ceremony is important enough to need an MC in the first place, then there must be sufficient ministers of communion lurking someplace!
God bless,
Reminds me of Sue Ellen Mischke, heiress to the Oh Henry candy bar fortune, on Seinfeld.ReplyDelete
My family moved when I was growing up, so I attended three Catholic grade schools, two Catholic high schools, and a Catholic college. I have belonged to, and been an active member, of nine parishes. I have never, as far as I know, been to a mass with an MC. What is the MC's role?
In formation (and my practice today), I was taught that the Dalmatic is a Eucharistic vestment and is to be worn by the deacon only during Mass; never to be worn when a deacon officiates at a wedding, a funeral vigil or a baptism outside of Mass.ReplyDelete
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I was once told the bishop wears a dalmatic under a chasible when installing deacons. Is the true?ReplyDelete


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The premise of the jump portion in a Vans Hi-Standard contest is this: don't spin over a 720 and style rules. While this leaves room for spinning a 720 on the y-axis and doing a double backflip, most contestants are happy to put their stamp on a 180 or a 540. And doing a double backflip over a 30-foot jump wouldn't be all that fun to do, watch, or clean up after. Let's leave that sort of trickery to the Aspen Xtreme.
So how does one win a contest based on style? That was up to judges Zac Marben and Sam Taxwood, who were handing out orange paper money to riders they thought were ripping, did a proper method, bashed into the tree and hit a strung up pair of Vans, or somehow made a frontside 180 look as cool on a snowboard as it does on a skateboard. At the end of the contest the riders went up and redeemed their orange Vans bucks for legitimate US Government recognized tender. A lot of people were walking away with $150 for landing a couple cool tricks in a free contest—thank you Vans for supporting snowboarding.
After the jump session, people ate free hot dogs and candy. After I had 4 hot dogs, I went to the bathroom. After I went to the bathroom, I grabbed another beer. At this time the rail jam was just kicking off. Now the rail jam section of a Vans Hi-Standard is pretty close to your standard rail jam. There's no limit to what you can do, but Judge Marben and Judge Taxwood would call out tricks they wanted to see and would give out $100 for the first rider to do it, "Somebody switch back lip that drop rail and Marben's got 100 bucks for you," Vans TM Kevin Casillo said over the microphone.
Contests like the Vans Hi-Standard are important for snowboarding. They're free to enter, recognize a broader spectrum of "winners" by handing out cash for rad tricks landed, and put the emphasis on having fun and boarding with style instead of fueling a huck and chuck, spin to win mentality that so many other professional snowboard institutions employ.
At the end of the day, they do hand out oversized checks to the top riders of the day. The big money went to:
Chandler Hunt ($250 for the 15 and under division)
Lynn Neil ($500 for the ladies)
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Meredith Lynn graduated from Oklahoma Christian University in 2011 with a public relations degree. She quickly became the PR director for Orange Leaf, one of the fastest-growing frozen yogurt companies in the world. Click here to read more about Meredith.
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Neil Arter - Vice President for Student Life, Oklahoma Christian University
Mike Baldwin - Sportswriter, The Oklahoman
Clinton Corley - Video Photographer/Editor, Oklahoma City Thunder
Erin Engelke - Vice President of Communications and Public Relations, Feed The Children
Risa Forrester - Vice President for Admissions and Marketing, Oklahoma Christian University
Ruston Grau - Emmy Award winner; Supervising Morning Producer at KFMB in San Diego
Meagan Harris - Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award winner; Executive Producer at WFAA in Dallas
Lisa Hayes - Directed a film about Oklahoma's open record law that received national attention and was shown to numerous state commissions
Jeremy Hazzard - National NBS award winner and owner of a website development firm
Mark Henson - Chief Imagination Officer, sparkspace
Blake Jackson - Vice President of Digital, Saxum
David Jones - Manager of Broadcast Operations and Technical Services, Oklahoma City Thunder
Steve Lackmeyer - Author and Columnist for the The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City
JC Lauks - Theater teacher, Tulsa Community College
Susan Nelson - Director of Communication Systems, McDonald's USA
Tamara Pratt - Deputy Director, Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Lana Reynolds - Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Seminole State College
Kyle Roberts - Emmy Award-winning Videographer/Editor, NewsOK
Bobby Ross - Managing Editor, The Christian Chronicle
Lucas Ross - Emmy Award-winning on-air personality for KFOR and KAUT in Oklahoma City
Sue Ott Rowlands - Dean of the College of Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech University
Mike Sanders - Oklahoma State Representative; Former Director of Interns at the White House
Tony Sellars - Director of Communications, Feed The Children
Steve Shoemaker - Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Ideal Homes
Brian Simmons - Ph.D., Lecturer in Communication Studies, University of Portland
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A story of heart and home - Alumni assist ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Alum moves from the Cowboys to God's calling
Boomtown - PR grads benefit from OKC connections
Engelke works to stamp out poverty
(Written while Erin worked at World Neighbors before her current executive role with Feed The Children)
Invisible Oriole: OC alumnus Ronnie Deck
Media Matters - Distinguished professor produces successful grads
OC alumni compete in SyFy reality series
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