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GPs may be regularly making mistakes when prescribing medicines, according to a high-profile report published today by the General Medical Council. The report found that mistakes in areas such as dosage and timing were common, although it also found that "serious" errors were unusual.
The report has received a great deal of press interest, with The Daily Telegraph reporting that "millions" of prescriptions contain dangerous errors, while the Daily Mail reported that "GP drug blunders" are hitting hundreds of thousands of elderly patients. The study examined over 6,000 prescriptions issued at a range of GP surgeries in England. It looked at factors such as dosage, record keeping and giving patients appropriate check-ups to assess the impact of their medication. Researchers found prescription errors had been made for one in eight patients overall, and four in ten patients over 75 years of age. In all, 1 in 20 prescriptions written featured an error. Of the errors, 42% were judged to be minor, 54% moderate and 4% severe.
In response to the results, the report recommends better GP training on safe prescribing, closer working between GPs and pharmacists and more effective use of computer systems to flag potential mistakes and reduce prescription errors.
What did the report examine?
The report examined how common prescribing errors are in general practice, what types of errors are made, what causes them and what can be done to prevent them. It also looked at "monitoring errors", where patients prescribed a particular drug are not given appropriate checks to monitor its effects and side effects. For example, patients prescribed a drug to lower blood pressure might not be given regular blood pressure tests to ensure the problem is being adequately controlled.
Called The PRACtICe Study (PRevalence And Causes of prescrIbing errors in general practiCe), it was published by the General Medical Council (GMC), which is responsible for standards of medical practice in the UK. It was authored by researchers and doctors from a number of academic institutions.
What kind of errors did it look for?
The study looked at both prescribing errors and monitoring errors. Researchers defined a prescribing error as occurring when "as a result of a prescribing decision or prescription writing process … there is a significant reduction in the probability of treatment being timely or effective or an increase in the risk of harm". Monitoring errors occur when "a prescribed medicine is not monitored in the way which would be considered acceptable in general practice".
How was it performed?
The study took place in 15 GP surgeries from three areas of England, thought to be representative of all general practices. Researchers took a random 2% sample of patients from each practice, giving 1,777 patients in all, which were deemed to be representative of the population.
The medical records of these patients were investigated to identify potential prescribing or monitoring errors. Researchers looked at over 6,048 prescriptions that had been issued in the previous 12 months. The details of all potential errors were discussed by a panel including one GP, a clinical pharmacologist and three pharmacists, to decide whether they constituted an error. The panel also considered how the error should be classified. The severity of errors was judged on a validated 10-point scale, from 0 (no risk of harm) to 10 (death), by a separate panel of two GPs, two pharmacists and one clinical pharmacologist.
The data were then analysed using statistical software.
To investigate the possible causes of prescribing and monitoring errors, and to identify solutions, researchers consulted 34 GPs with prescribing responsibilities to discuss 70 of the errors they had identified, including the most serious ones. They also conducted six focus groups on possible causes, involving 46 members of primary healthcare teams, and undertook an analysis of potential causes (primary healthcare is care generally given at the first point of contact for patients, such as in GP surgeries or community pharmacies).
Researchers also looked at previous studies examining prescribing errors by GPs. They updated a systematic review on the subject and undertook a further systematic review on potential measures that might reduce the potential harms caused when prescribing medication.
What were the results?
The main findings of the recent study are outlined below:
- 1 in 20 prescription items was associated with a prescribing or monitoring error.
- 1 in 550 prescription items was associated with a severe error.
- One in eight of all patients had a prescription with an error.
- Four in ten patients aged 75 years or older had a prescription with an error.
- 30% of prescribing errors involved "incomplete information on the prescription".
- 18% of prescribing errors involved dose or strength errors.
- 11% of prescribing errors involved incorrect timing of doses.
- The most common type of monitoring error was "failure to request monitoring" (69%).
- 42% of errors were judged to be minor, 54% were considered moderate, and 4% severe.
Researchers also found a number of factors associated with increased risk of prescribing or monitoring errors, including:
- The number of medicines a patient was taking – there was a 16% increased risk of error for each additional medicine.
- The age of the patient – children and people aged 75 years and older were almost twice as likely to have an error as those aged 15-64 years old.
- The type of medicine prescribed – being prescribed medicines for cardiovascular disease, infections, cancer and immunotherapy, musculoskeletal disorders, eye and skin disorders all increased the risk of error.
What are the causes of prescription errors?
From their interviews with GPs and focus groups, researchers drew up a number of underlying causes of prescribing and monitoring errors. These included:
- Deficiencies in training GPs about safe prescribing.
- GPs working under considerable time pressure with frequent distractions and interruptions.
- Lack of robust systems for ensuring that patients receive necessary blood tests.
- Problems with the use of GP computer systems, including selecting the wrong drug or wrong dosage instructions from lists, and overriding important alerts highlighting potential interaction between different drugs.
Did the report find anything positive?
The researchers say that despite these concerns, they also found that:
- GPs take their prescribing seriously and use a range of strategies to avoid serious errors.
- General practices do have various systems in place to help reduce risks of error.
- Overall, GPs thought their computer systems helped to reduce the risks of error, even though they also thought there was scope for improvement.
What has the GMC recommended?
The GMC recommends several strategies to reduce the risk of errors. These include:
- Improving GP training and professional development in the area of safe prescribing.
- Improved procedures governing clinical practice in this area, such as conducting audits of whether prescriptions have been appropriate.
- Effective use of clinical computer systems in the area of safe prescribing, including better training of staff, alerts to highlight potential hazardous prescriptions and alerts to remind GPs of the need for blood test monitoring for certain drugs.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Millions of GP prescriptions contain dangerous errors: research
The Daily Telegraph, 2 May 2012
Study reveals scale of errors on doctors' prescriptions
The Guardian, 2 May 2012
GPs 'making too many errors prescribing drugs'
BBC News, 2 May 2012
1 in 6 patients at risk from GP blunders
Daily Express, 2 May 2012
GP drug blunders hit 40% of the elderly: Patients given unnecessary pills and wrong doses
Daily Mail, 2 May 2012
Further reading
Press Release:
GP prescribing – a good standard but improvement possible
General Medical Council, May 2 2012


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Spring hasn't sprung until the daffodils are in bloom on Pinckney Colony Road. With the coolish weather the Lowcountry has experienced lately, those brave blooms poking their heads above ground are sparse, yet there are some hardy posies at the U-Pick-Daffodils in the fields managed by Chuck and Diane Merrick.
Once a commercial floral enterprise 20 years ago, the Merricks took over the fields when the market and renting farmers departed 20 years ago. They have nurtured, replanted and replenished flowers that remained and have since turned it into a must-visit Spring expedition.
There are 20,000 varieties of daffodils and many of them love the Lowcountry. There are Ceylons - yellow petals with deep orange cups. Ice Follies show white with light yellow cups while Brownings are white with orange cups. Sweetness lives up to its name because the tiny daffodil variety has a wonderful aroma, perfectly matching its adorable looks. Fortune is all yellow.
Among the tiniest are Solidor with its multiple yellow blooms and Early Cheer, a white cluster with a rich aroma.

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Mark Palmer, a forceful and influential diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Hungary during the collapse of communism, and who was a chief author of President Ronald Reagan's 1982 speech declaring that Marxism was headed toward "the ash heap of history," died Jan. 28 at his home in Washington. He was 71.
He had melanoma, his wife, Sushma Palmer, said.
From his first visit to the Soviet Union when he was 19, Mr. Palmer recognized that the Russian people were different from the Soviet government.
"I profoundly believed that Russians were like Americans," he recalled in an oral history interview with the State Department in the late 1990s. "I believed that sooner or later they would have a decent political system."
Building on that belief of shared humanity, Mr. Palmer spent 26 years in the Foreign Service and became the State Department's top Kremlinologist, or expert on Soviet affairs, in the 1980s.
Throughout his career, Mr. Palmer was known for his advocacy of democratic principles of government. His notions were considered a bit quixotic in the 1970s, when U.S. foreign policy was geared more toward containment of the Soviet threat and monitoring human-rights abuses. But his ideals were vindicated over time, as democracy movements spread from one country to the next.
Mr. Palmer was named U.S. ambassador to Hungary in 1986 by Reagan and carried his campaign for democracy to the streets of Budapest, sometimes marching with forces opposing the communist regime.
"This is the greatest opportunity the West has had to influence this region since the division of Europe after World War II," he told Time magazine in 1989. "We simply must jump in, not only to advance our own values and economic system but to do all we can to assure that these dramatic changes come with maximum stability."
Mr. Palmer's support of the Hungarian opposition movement lent credibility to its cause, but his close ties with dissidents sometimes led to reprimands from his State Department bosses.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Palmer was the sole speechwriter for Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger from 1973 to 1975. He was also a primary author of Reagan's 1982 speech to the British Parliament in which the president outlined a goal of spreading democracy throughout the old Soviet bloc.
"It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens," Reagan said in one of his most celebrated speeches. "What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term — the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history."
Mr. Palmer also organized the 1985 Geneva summit between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which was considered a diplomatic breakthrough that led to a thawing of relations between the two superpowers.
"His passion was clearly freedom, and he was passionate about seeing the remaining walls of dictatorship fall," Andras Simonyi, Hungarian ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2007, said in an interview. "It's not too much to say that the democracies of central Europe owe a lot of debt to Mark Palmer."
Robie Marcus Hooker Palmer was born July 14, 1941, in Ann Arbor, Mich. As the son of a naval officer, he moved many times during his youth and graduated from a private high school in Vermont.
Mr. Palmer majored in Russian studies at Yale University and took courses in the Soviet Union. He was a Freedom Rider in the South during the civil rights movement and organized demonstrations in Baltimore, Atlanta and Alabama.
After graduating from Yale in 1963, he worked as a newspaper and TV journalist in New York before joining the Foreign Service in 1964. In addition to overseas assignments in New Delhi, Moscow and the former Yugoslavia, Mr. Palmer wrote speeches for three presidents and six secretaries of state and was the author of widely used State Department handbooks for diplomats and military officers.
He received three presidential awards, but Mr. Palmer left the Foreign Service under pressure in 1990 after he was recruited to lead a new Western-financed business venture in Eastern Europe. The move was interpreted as a conflict of interest by several members of Congress and by some of his State Department supervisors.
Mr. Palmer said he followed State Department procedures, but he ended up spending $60,000 in legal fees to defend his name.
"I waited for about a year to see whether the department would ever have the decency to apologize to me for what I'd been put through," Mr. Palmer said in the 1998 oral history. "Nothing. Never a word."
After leaving the Foreign Service, Mr. Palmer was based in Berlin as president of the Central European Development Corp. He spearheaded business enterprises throughout the old Soviet empire and established the first independent TV stations in six Eastern European countries. He also owned a company involved in building housing in Anacostia and other reviving areas of the Washington region.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Sushma Mahyera Palmer of Washington, and a sister.
Mr. Palmer held leadership positions with groups dedicated to promoting the principles of democracy, including Freedom House.
He also wrote the 2003 book "Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025," which was praised in a Wall Street Journal review as "one of the best but least noticed books among all the tomes addressing the quest for peace in the post-Sept. 11 era."
Then-Rep. Thomas Paul Lantos (D-Calif.), a sponsor of the Advance Democracy Act of 2007, designed to promote international democratic movements, said the book was a key theoretical framework of the congressional bill.
To the end, Mr. Palmer believed that the United States had a responsibility to foster grass-roots freedom and democracy movements wherever they arose.
"If people were allowed to voice their views," he told the Christian Science Monitor in 2003, "the dictators would not stay, and in that sense they are very fragile. The last 30 years of history shows that they go fairly easily when people start to get organized."


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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - For a financial institution whose ATMs offer Latin as a language option, whose offices are below the pope's windows and where tellers work under the gaze of crucifixes, one might assume the Vatican bank would have a dispensation from earthly travails.
But new judicial woes and internal upheavals at the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), have raised new hurdles for the Vatican, just as it entered the final stretch of years of efforts to join the international club of financial righteousness.
On May 24, in the type of corporate drama rarely seen in the Vatican, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, 67, the Italian president of the IOR, stormed out of the bank's executive offices.
He had spoken for 70 minutes non-stop in the boardroom to defend his management but left in a huff when it became clear that the other four board members were intent on approving a no-confidence motion against him.
Gotti Tedeschi, a conservative Catholic who heads the Italian retail unit of Spain's Banco Santander, went to his car in the Sixtus V Courtyard and left the Vatican via the nearby Saint Ann's Gate, receiving a customary crisp salute by a Swiss Guard oblivious to the drama that had just unfolded.
"During the deliberations, at 4:00 p.m., you abandoned the premises of the Institute without notice and without waiting to receive notice as to the results of the no-confidence vote," says a memorandum of the meeting seen by Reuters.
A day after the astonishing arrest of the pope's butler in an affair of purloined documents, and 30 years after a Vatican-linked financier known as "God's Banker" was found hanged from a bridge in London, the last thing the Holy See needed was more headlines about its bank, housed in the 15th-century Tower of Nicholas V, which Pope Benedict can see from his bedroom window.
For the past two years the Vatican, a 108-acre sovereign city-state surrounded by Rome, has been pulling out all the stops to make the "white list" of states that comply with international standards against tax fraud and money laundering.
Recently, the T-word - transparency - had become a mantra in the Vatican, which hoped a decision by European financial institutions would soon allow it to put its bank's often murky past behind it for good.
But since May 24, the T-word has been wielded as a weapon by both Gotti Tedeschi and those who showed him the door.
"I have paid the price for transparency," Gotti Tedeschi told Reuters just a few minutes after the no-confidence vote.
Board members who voted him out said the opposite was true.
"Categorically, this action by the board had nothing to do with his promotion of transparency," said Carl Anderson, one of the five external financial experts who make up the board.
"In fact, he was becoming an obstacle to greater transparency by his inability to work with senior management," Anderson, the American head of the worldwide Catholic charity group, Knights of Columbus, told Reuters.
Another person familiar with the matter said: "It was not a question of 'let's plot the demise of this man', as Italian newspapers might lead one to believe. There were many pleas from many people saying, 'Come on, you have to start acting like a president'."
The confidential memorandum listed nine reasons for the move against Gotti Tedeschi. It accused him of failure to carry out basic duties, failing to attend board meetings, "progressively erratic personal behavior" and "exhibiting lack of prudence and accuracy in comments regarding the institute".
But the memo gave a clue to something perhaps more worrying: "Failure to provide any formal explanation for the dissemination of documents last known to be in the president's possession."
The careful wording appeared to be used so as not to accuse Gotti Tedeschi of personally leaking documents but suggesting they may have reached the media through an intermediary.
Gotti Tedeschi's abrupt departure came one day after Pope Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested in the most clamorous chapter so far of the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal, in which sensitive documents have appeared in the media since January, including some related to the IOR's transparency bid.
That bid began late in 2010, when the Vatican, the world's smallest state, with around 500 residents, drafted new financial transparency laws and set up internal regulations to make sure its bank and all other departments adhered to international standards on money laundering and terrorism financing.
The move was an attempt to make the "white list" of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a body that lists states according to their compliance with those standards.
The Vatican established an internal Financial Information Authority (FIA) along the lines of other countries and promised to liaise with the FATF and law enforcement agencies.
But leaked documents appeared to show a conflict among top Vatican officials over just how transparent the bank should be about its dealings before the new laws came into force in 2011.
In one letter, Cardinal Attilio Nicora, head of the new FIA, complained to Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone that a change in the FIA's charter had weakened its oversight powers and could be seen as a step backwards by European authorities.
Both are members of the commission of five cardinals that oversee the bank and its board.
In another setback for the bank, JP Morgan closed the IOR's account in Milan in March this year because it felt the bank had failed to provide sufficient information on money transfers.
A person in the Vatican close to the situation called JP Morgan's action "unjustified and taken after pressure from Italian regulators".
In the two weeks after Gotti Tedeschi left, the bank saga, combined with the arrest of the pope's butler, had already taken on the contours of a suspense-filled Machiavellian intrigue inside mediaeval walls. But more surprises were to come.
Gotti Tedeschi, said by his friends to be nervous and shaken, had left Rome to seek solace in his home in the centre of the tranquil city of Piacenza in the northern Italian plains.
At 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5, he was leaving his apartment in a centuries-old building with an internal cloister to drive to his office in Milan.
Four members of Italy's financial police stopped him with a search warrant signed by Naples magistrates investigating a kickback scandal involving defense technology group Finmeccanica.
Gotti Tedeschi is a close friend of Finmeccanica CEO and Chairman Giuseppe Orsi, who is under investigation in the probe, and magistrates believed the former Vatican banker may have held documents relevant to the Finmeccanica probe.
While looking for evidence in that case, police found a dossier compiled by Gotti Tedeschi concerning his nearly three years at the helm of the Vatican bank, according to judicial sources.
His lawyer, Fabio Palazzo, said police had confiscated notes that his client believed would be useful to counter the accusations made by the board of the Vatican bank when it voted its no-confidence motion.
Rome magistrates flew up to Milan to question him about a separate money-laundering investigation that began in 2010 when they froze 23 million euros ($33 million) the IOR held in an Italian bank.
The Vatican said at the time that its bank did nothing wrong and was merely transferring its own funds between its own accounts in Italy and Germany. The money was released in June 2011, but the investigation is continuing.
No one doubts that since its founding on February 11, 1887, by Pope Leo XIII and its restructuring by Pope Pius XII in 1942, the bank has sometimes strayed from the narrow, virtuous path of ethical banking.
"The IOR has been accused of everything from helping rich Italians avoid taxes to laundering money for the Mafia and for people who wanted to pay bribes to Italian politicians," Father Tom Reese wrote in his landmark 1996 book "Inside the Vatican".
The IOR's most infamous entanglement with scandal involved the collapse 30 years ago of the Banco Ambrosiano, with its lurid allegations about money-laundering, freemasons, mafiosi and the mysterious death of Ambrosiano chairman Roberto Calvi.
The IOR held a small stake in the Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private bank, and investigators alleged that it was partly responsible for the Ambrosiano's fraudulent bankruptcy.
The IOR denied any role in the collapse but paid $250 million to creditors in what it called a "goodwill gesture".
Several investigations have failed to determine whether Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge near London's financial district, killed himself or was murdered.
The events earned Calvi the epithet "God's Banker" and despite the passing of three decades, the long shadow of the affair still hangs like an albatross around the bank's neck.
Some ask why the Vatican needs a bank at all. For money, under an agreement with the European Union, it simply uses the euro used in Italy.
The bank's official purpose, according to the Vatican yearbook, is to "safeguard and administer" money and real estate entrusted to it by "persons or organizations whose purpose is works of religion or charity".
Religious orders of priests and nuns, dioceses around the world, Catholic charity groups and Vatican employees can have accounts there.
Supporters of the Vatican bank say the pope needs an independent financial institution to run the 1.2 billion member Church and keep it free from politically motivated attempts to curtail its work by controlling its money flow.
The bank's independence was fundamental, for example, in the movement of funds to keep churches in the Soviet bloc alive during the Cold War.
Not a few people in the Vatican believe IOR is a target of politically or financially motivated attacks by special interests who would have a lot to gain, financially or ideologically, if the IOR ceased to exist.
"I can think of a number of Italian banks who would love to manage the Vatican bank's billions of dollars in assets," said one person familiar with the situation.
Those people also see what they call "disproportionate scrutiny" on the part of the Bank of Italy, Italy's central bank, which requires Italian commercial banks to show what is known as "enhanced due diligence" in their dealings with IOR.
Retail clients - be they Vatican cardinals or cleaners, priests or postal workers - enter the bank through the base of the Tower of Nicholas V. Glass enclosed metal detectors give way to a few steps leading up to the main banking hall, whose teller slots are arranged in a semicircle.
But the serious business is done in the "back" offices on the tower's upper floors, where managers sit in modern offices. That is where board members, cardinals and lawyers are working to put the bank's image problems behind it.
The next hurdle the bank faces is that of MONEYVAL, short for the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism.
MONEYVAL, which was established by the Council of Europe in 1997, is a monitoring mechanism that aims to ensure that its 47 member states across the continent have in place effective systems to fight money laundering and terrorism financing and comply with international standards.
Following a Vatican request, a MONEYVAL team visited last November and again in March and is now drafting a report which is due to go before the MONEYVAL plenary in July.
The report will rate the Vatican's compliance with international standards according to four levels - compliant, largely compliant, partly compliant and non compliant - and will include an action plan with recommendations.
Other organizations, such as the FATF, use the MONEYVAL assessment to place states on black, grey or white lists.
"There is a commitment that we are going to be on the white list," said Anderson, the board member who signed the board's no-confidence memorandum against Gotti Tedeschi.
"We are going to continue doing everything necessary to reach that standard. There is no question the board and management are fully committed to that," he told Reuters.
As the pope looks down from his apartment in the Apostolic Palace onto the IOR offices in the Tower of Nicholas V below, he can only give such a commitment his blessing.
Additional reporting by Paolo Biondi, Laura Viggiano and Giselda Vagnoni; Writing by Philip Pullella; Editing by Alastair Macdonald


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Three Havard teams kick off their 2011-12 athletic seasons today. (Photo courtesy Harvard Athletic Communciations)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's soccer, women's volleyball and field hockey begin their 2011-12 athletic seasons today, as all-three squads will compete in road contests.
The women's soccer team heads to Brooklyn, N.Y. to take on the Long Island University Blackbirds. The last time these two teams met was last year, when the Blackbirds visited New Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium. Sophomore Peyton Johnson and senior Melanie Baskind scored both of Harvard's goals as the game ended in a 2-2 draw.
The women's volleyball squad is in Atlanta, to compete in the Georgia State Invitational. The host Panthers welcome College of Charleston and Jacksonville State along with the Crimson for a two-day tournament. Harvard will kick off the tournament at 1 p.m. against Charleston. Georgia State will then take to the floor against JSU beginning at 3 p.m. Harvard is slated for two more matches on Saturday facing Gerogia State at 1 p.m. and JSU at 5 p.m.
The Crimson field hockey team heads to Holy Cross. The Crimson has held a decided edge against the Crusaders winning the last four matches between the two squads. Last season, the Crimson scored six goals on their way to a 6-1 victory to open the 2010-11 campaign.
Women's soccer 2011-12 season Preview
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
It would be easy to start assessing blame and pointing fingers at this point by questioning why Canada left its best starter on the shelf for the entire tournament, or wondering what was going through Matt Stairs' head as he left six runners on base by flailing at pitches out of the zone. But none of that is going to help put Canada back in this year's event, so why bother?
(But is there a chance that this two-and-out result might help quiet the cult of the Ernie Whitt? Because that shit should pretty much end right about now.)
Maybe at this point, we can just tip our newly purchased Team Canada caps towards Chris Denorfia and Chris Cooper and Jason Grilli and the entire Italian team, who played a hell of a game when it counted. In a knockout tournament like this one, these things are going to happen.
And as we're sitting here feeling like a pile of beaver turd, somewhere in Arizona, Ryan Dempster is regaling someone with his Harry Carey impression. Prick.
12 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
Yes. Fuck blaming Whitt. Let's blame Dempster. Rat bastard.
- March 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Matt Stairs left six men on base.
And what was with the sympathy substitution of Stubby Clapp into the game? Is Stubby really the answer?
- March 10, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Ian H. said...
Yeah, not sure why they "pity pinchhit" Clapp. Campbell/Cossentino said it might be Clapp's last chance to represent Canada.
I really wanted Matt Stairs to save the day, but alas he went hitless.
- March 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Ian H. said...
Yeah, not sure why they "pity pinchhit" Clapp. Campbell/Cossentino said it might be Clapp's last chance to represent Canada.
I really wanted Matt Stairs to save the day, but alas he went hitless.
- March 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Darren Priest said...
"Is Stubby really the answer?"
That's what she said! Haw!
- March 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- dave said...
Great. Put Richmond on the mound against Italy and have Perkins go against Venezuela. Sure, maybe they'll squeak by Italy but then they're going to get HAMMERED when they face a lineup of actual major leaguers.
- March 10, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Okay, but how's about this: Put Richmond (or whoever your best pitcher is) against the U.S., and then play it out from there. If Richmond holds them to a couple of runs, maybe Canada squeaks one out in the first game of the tourney and gives itself some slack to send out Johnson against Venezuela.
Worry about today, and let tomorrow take care of tomorrow.
- March 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM
- Torgen said...
If (big if) we beat USA with Richmond, we face Venezuela with Johnson, and if/when we lose we face the USA with Perkins. If Richmond loses, we need to win out with Johnson and Perkins. The problem in this tournament wasn't that we didn't use Richmond, it's that we needed a starter other than Richmond to pitch well, and neither did.
- March 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Joanna said...
I agree Tao
- March 10, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
If you are accepting that you're going to lose to the Americans, then put Perkins in against them to toss BP, then Richmond against Italy to keep you in the tournament and Johnson against Venezuela.
Whatever. It Canada had even just ONE (1!!!!) major-league calibre pitcher who could have pitched for three innings, it could have made the difference, and we wouldn't have to sit here sick with hatred at Ryan Dempster.
Fucking fuck!
- March 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Torgen said...
I think if you put Perkins in against USA then you still put Johnson in against Italy. In a 3 on 3 team match it's a legitimate strategy to concede the top match to put your 1 and 2 against their 2 and 3 in that order. If their 3 beats your 2 then you were screwed anyways, because their 2 was probably going to beat your 2, but in any event you don't put your 2 against their 1 and your 3 against their 3.
- March 10, 2009 at 6:45 PM
- Joe Anonymous said...
I completely thought that Perkins should have been in against the US. Concede the game you might not win, and make sure you win the one you need to win. Then we have Richmond for the all important game against Venezuala. We KNEW we didn't have pitching going into the tournement, and wasted our number two on the less important game. Sure, if we beat the States, things are great, but that was unlikely from the beginning. We let a good, but lucky game in '06 coach this tournement, and that was stupid.
- March 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM


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Would it be appropriate to end a rhetorical question with a period, to show that it is not intended as a question that one should ponder or attempt to answer? For instance:
Why do I eat so much(?)(.)(!)
I don't want anyone to answer it, but it's still phrased as a question.


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Hope For The Future pt. 10: The List #'s 39 -42/
39. Producers are being recognized for doing more than just sourcing or providing the financing and administrative structure to a production. A good producer makes a better film and not just by making it run smoothly. Sundance – who has been recognizing producers' contributions for years -- just held its first Creative Producing Initiative. There still remains a lack of clarity in the public's mind as to what a producer does, but when leading organizations like Sundance take the effort not only to clarify that producing is a creative act, but also help producers to build their creative skills, change will come. This clarity and the restoration of the integrity of the producer credit won't just restore producers own recognition of self-worth, but will lead to stronger films.
40. Senior film organizations, like the IFP, Film Independent, and IFTVA/AFM are working together, along with advocacy organizations like Public Knowledge to try to maintain key policies crucial to indie's survival like Net Neutrality and Media Consolidation. If everyone with common interests learned to work together…. Wow.
41. There appears to be real growth beyond navel gazing in terms of subject matter among the new filmmakers. Filmmakers aren't just interested in whether the boy gets the girl or the boy gets the boy. We seem to be moving beyond strict interpersonal relations in terms of content and looking at a much bigger picture. Chris Smith's THE POOL, Sean Baker's PRINCE OF BROADWAY and TAKEOUT, Lance Hammer's BALAST, and Lee Isaac Chung's MUNYURANGABO to name a few, point to a much more exciting universe of content to come.
42. New technology makes it all a whole lot better. Whether it is new digital cameras or formats, digital projection, or editing systems, it just keeps getting better, faster, lighter, cheaper. Reduced footprints, sharper images, and quicker turnaround: who amongs us does not believe all these things lead to better films?


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner refused on Sunday to say whether a comprehensive immigration overhaul should include a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, declaring that the House debate is "not about me."
Boehner, appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," dodged repeated attempts to get him to spell out his personal views on a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants now in the United States, a major point of contention between the House and the Democratic-led Senate.
"It's not about me, it's not about what I want," said Boehner, an Ohio Republican. "This about allowing the House to work its will."
The Senate has passed a sweeping, bipartisan immigration bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, which Republican opponents have called an "amnesty" that would reward lawbreakers and attract more illegal immigrants.
Boehner said taking a personal stand on the issue would make it harder for him to find consensus on immigration in the House.
"If I come out and say, 'I'm for this and I'm for that,' all I'm doing is making my job harder," Boehner said. "My job in this process is to facilitate a discussion and to facilitate a process."
Boehner said the sweeping Senate bill would not pass the House and reiterated that the House would tackle the issue in smaller "chunks" that would include stricter provisions on border protection.
"We want to deal with this in chunks, chunks that the members can deal with and grapple with, and frankly chunks that the American people can get their arms around," he said.
With polls showing public approval of Congress at near record lows, Boehner was asked how he felt to have presided over the least productive and one of the least popular Congresses.
"We should not be judged by how many new laws we create. We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal," Boehner said.
Republicans have made repeal of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul one of the party's top priorities.
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Slowing Down
5 comments:
- Rodak said...
Every time you get on a roll, you run out of gas. You need to work on your stamina, Civis. (This is blogging, not jogging!)
- April 19, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Amy Giglio said...
You know, it's funny. I noticed the other day that this blog has, like, 7 contributors and that the last 13 posts were yours. where are the other people so that civis doesn't get burned out?
- April 19, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I guess I have trouble with pacing myself. It just sucks up a lot of time and mental energy and distracts me from things I ought to be doing.
Guess they burned out long ago!
- April 20, 2008 at 8:00 AM
- KnightWriter said...
I have a lot that I would like to say, but just often don't have the time to say it. That isn't burned out--it is being spread too thin.
- April 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM
- Steph said...
I totally understand the need for light blogging. Everyone runs out of gas sooner or later. Look forward to seeing you when you get back!
- April 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM


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The disk slice where the JumpStart program places the file system, for example, c0t0d0s0 or c0d0s0.
The variable that contains the value for the system's root disk, which is determined by the JumpStart program as described in How the System's Root Disk Is Determined. The sn suffix indicates a specific slice on the disk.
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The specified slice is not used or recognized by the JumpStart program. You can use this option to specify that you want a file system to be ignored on a disk during installation. The JumpStart program creates a new file system on the same disk with the same name. You can use ignore only when partitioning existing is specified.
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Brick Wall Solutions – The Aase Gunderson Story
Regular readers of this blog will have noted that yesterday (21 Dec 2009) there was a Brick Wall blog by Rosemary Kopittke, another Unlock The Past (UTP) team member. A decision was made to include Brick Wall stories from other speakers so you will be seeing a wider range of solutions in 2010. Don't forget to let us know any comments or your own stories and solutions.
Thanks to everyone who commented on my first Brick Wall Solutions blog on 28 Nov 2009 and shared their own stories and experience. The second on 10 Dec 2009 attracted no comments and it is interesting, but I think I have become a 'comments addict'. Maybe I was spoilt with five on the first one and zero is more the reality for blogs.
For my third Brick Wall I am selecting yet another one of my direct ancestors who served time in gaol, although briefly in this case. I also want to pick up on what Bobby said in his comment on my Helen Carnegie story:
Rule No.1 – there is no such thing as a brick wall. Some things just take longer to resolve than others.
To me this is similar to the glass is half full or half empty depending on your perspective. But it is apt for Aase's story because I could have solved it years earlier than I did – I had the answer in my file, only I didn't realise what it actually meant.
I have partially told her story in my website blog SHHE Genie Rambles so apologies if you already know some of this.
My 40 year old Norwegian gg grandmother Aase (Osie) Gunderson decided one day in 1885 to hit her landlord over the head several times with a piece of hardwood without provocation and for reasons unknown. She was arrested and eventually released as the trial did not proceed. When researching this many years ago I found four references in the Brisbane Courier which were more informative than the court records. She still spoke Norwegian with some English but would not converse with the court appointed interpreter so the official record is not all that helpful from her perspective.
The four newspaper references helped me fill in more of the details although it is still not clear why she did it. By her account, he had been breaking her windows (but she rented a room from him so it would have been his windows he was breaking). By his account he thought it might have to do with his reporting her for cruelty to three puppies. His wife had also recently complained about my gg grandmother's obscene language but that case was dismissed. There is no mention of Aase's husband and two sons other than her husband posting bail and a surety.
After her release from gaol, I lost track of her. In the days before BDM indexes, I paid for a search for her death but it was unsuccessful. Her husband Anders remarried in 1890 so that meant she died between 1885 and 1890 or she disappeared/ran off (perhaps through shame or embarrassment at having been in gaol). If the latter, Anders would have committed bigamy and I just didn't think that he would.
When Queensland BDM indexes were eventually released I did my own search but could not find a relevant entry or one that matched the details I knew. As it was before women got the vote I couldn't search electoral rolls and post office directories only mentioned her husband Anders.
The years went by and then the Brisbane City Council released online burial information for the major cemeteries in Brisbane so I again searched. I already knew that Anders did not have a headstone as the Queensland Family History Society and the Genealogical Society of Queensland had transcribed headstones in Brisbane cemeteries. I noticed the other day that World Vital Records Australasia has the Brisbane cemetery headstones in their collection now.
I also knew from Anders' death certificate in 1897 that he was buried in the South Brisbane (Dutton Park) cemetery. By the time of his death he was using the name Andrew rather than Anders.
The Brisbane City Council's Grave Location Search is easy to use so I put in Gunderson as it is a relatively uncommon name. Only 18 entries came up from a range of cemeteries in the Brisbane area. No Aase but Anders was there as I expected and under the name Andrew. He was buried with four other people and I had to stop and think about who they might be.
Mary Gunderson –died in 1890, age unknown – no idea
Dorothy M Gunderson –died in 1898, age unknown – no idea
Hans M Gunderson –died 1927, he was Anders son and my g grandfather
William Henry Pollard –died 1890, age unknown. I knew that Anders' second wife was Ann Pollard so I guessed some relation of hers.
With three people to investigate, I went back to the Queensland BDM indexes (now online) to see who their parents were and whether that would help me identify them.
Dorothy May Gunderson
A search for Gunderson between 1890 and 1898 revealed only one entry – Dorothy May and she was the daughter of Andrew Gunderson and Ann Pollard but she wasn't on his death certificate. Why didn't I know about her? Relooking at my certificates and other information it became obvious that Dorothy had been born after his accidental death in 1897.
William Henry Pollard
William was the illegitimate child of an Annie Pollard and he was born in Queensland in 1890 and died aged 3 months in 1890. The fact that he is buried in the same grave as Ann Pollard's husband and son indicates that Annie and Ann was one and the same person.
Anders and Ann were married in July 1890. As William is buried in the Gunderson family grave, then he was probably alive when they married. When he died he was buried with Mary Gunderson.
Mary Gunderson
Mary did not show up in the online BDM index under Gunderson so I then tried spelling it Gundersen and there she was. Her parents were given as Halvard Dotter and Mary Lars. She had died in 1890 the same year that Anders had remarried – could she be my Aase?
Aase's parents were Halvor Tovsen and Margith Larsdatter. I had found the Mary Gundersen entry on the microfiche but because the year was the same (could he have remarried that quickly) and because the parents names were not that close (although in hindsight!!) and that it was a Mary not an Aase or Osie, I did not purchase the death certificate all those years ago.
There was no choice – I had to get the death certificate of Mary Gundersen because she had to be related somehow to be in the same grave. Yes it was my gg grandmother and yes I should have spent the money years ago but I didn't want to waste money on a wrong certificate. In the intervening years prices went up and up so I was probably worse off delaying.
I should also have bought William Henry Pollard's birth and death certificates because they would have helped to fill in the timeline between Aase dying and Anders meeting and marrying Ann. Now it would cost me $68 to get them and I am still hesitant to spend that money. Perhaps if I wait long enough the pre 1900 BDMs will become free (I can hear everyone laughing!).
Brick Wall Tips
- Check alternative spellings of given names and surnames especially with European ancestors
- Also be aware of Anglicisation of European given names and surnames
- Check all available sources and recheck as new resources become available
- Buy certificates early in your research (they were only $5 when I started and I still regret not buying more then but $5 was a lot of money then so it is all relative I suspect)
- Obtaining other certificates helps to fill out the details and often provide clues that can't be found anywhere else
- Take a chance – sometimes it just might pay off.
And to give Bobby the last word – there is no such thing as a brick wall. Some things just take longer to resolve than others.
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Hockey in July? Why not? Let's go around the NHL schedule. …
• If the Sabres' marketing department was fretting over the thought of trying to move tickets of early-season games against Western Conference opponents, they're living easier these days. The schedule announced Friday gave the Sabres some unexpected help.
If nothing had changed here since the start of last season, Monday night games in October against Minnesota and Dallas would have been absolute death for single-game sales. Not anymore.
The Oct. 28 visit by the Lindy Ruff-led Stars might be the second-most interesting date of the season, behind only the March 9 trip into town by Patrick Kane and the Chicago Blackhawks. And I would imagine the Oct. 14 visit by Jason Pominville and the Wild will be another big house that would have otherwise never happened.
The Sabres also have an October 17 visit by Vancouver, a sure-fire sale among Canadian fans, and an Oct. 19 game against Colorado that should bring plenty of curiosity with the Buffalo debut of No. 1 overall draft pick Nathan MacKinnon.
By the way, Kane's visit will be Chicago's first here since Oct. 11, 2010 – the longest absence by any opponent.
• The Sabres' NCAA Tournament-forced roadie in March is a brutal one, with five games in 10 days stretching from Calgary to Edmonton to Vancouver – then coming all the way back to Montreal and moving to Nashville before returning home. Ouch.
• The Sabres also got a tough draw within the Atlantic Division, as their two five-game series are against Toronto (two at home) and Boston (three at home). Could have used a five-gamer against at least one of the Florida teams.
• The NHL's Olympic deal is forcing the Sabres to play 15 games in 30 days in October to make up for the time lost in February. It also delayed the release of the schedule, and the league blew a golden chance for major dominance of a summer news cycle by failing to get it out on one of Major League Baseball's two dark days last week. Very poor.
• Here's your official reminder: Stop talking about the Sabres sneaking into eighth place or finishing 12th in the East. That's out with a divisional playoff format. Where you once wanted the Sabres to be eighth in the East, you should be concerned they don't go and finish eighth (aka dead last) in the Atlantic.
• It's sort of funky-cool to have a "Metropolitan" Division with the three New York teams, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington. Carolina and Columbus just have to live with it.
• Holy slow start, Batman, the Rangers' schedule is goofy. Because of the final stages of the renovation project in Madison Square Garden, the Blueshirts open the season with nine straight road games from Oct. 3-26, meandering through Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Jose, Anaheim, St. Louis, Washington, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Detroit. And this comes after finishing the preseason with four Western games capped by a matchup against the Kings in Las Vegas.
The Rangers finally get rewarded with a nine-game homestand from Dec. 7-23.
• Ruff and Pominville should get huge cheers here. I imagine Vinny Lecavalier will when he returns to Tampa with the Flyers and Jarome Iginla will when he goes to Calgary with the Bruins. Don't expect much love, however, for Daniel Alfredsson in Ottawa when he makes his first visit with the Red Wings on Dec. 1. That was quite a last-minute turncoat move Alfie pulled.
• OK, one non-hockey thought: Thanks to all, from Bisons officials and staff to the fans, who made Friday night's Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony at Coca-Cola Field a memorable one for my family and me. A career highlight for sure.
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At precisely 7 a.m., the lights burst on at Blessed Sacrament, the bells chime and the Rev. Arnaud Devillers, flanked by the servers, comes out and heads immediately to the back altar near the tabernacle. Kneeling, with his back toward the congregation, he begins: "In nomine Patris, et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen." Largely hidden from Roman Catholics since the late 1960s as a result of Vatican II — a period of sweeping reforms in the Catholic church — the Latin Mass is slowly creeping back onto the scene.
Early on a Saturday morning under the watchful gaze of archangels and the Gospel writers in a darkened church, a voice intones Hail Marys and Our Fathers with measured responses from a smattering across the church.
Worshipers cross themselves with holy water and gather missals while some women pluck mantillas — lace head scarves — from a box sitting on a radiator. Altar servers, dressed in black cassocks and white surplices, ready the altar, pausing to genuflect ramrod-straight each time they pass in front of the tabernacle.
At precisely 7 a.m., the lights burst on at Blessed Sacrament, the bells chime and the Rev. Arnaud Devillers, flanked by the servers, comes out and heads immediately to the back altar near the tabernacle. Kneeling, with his back toward the congregation, he begins: "In nomine Patris, et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen."
When Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic decree in July 2007 calling for wider implementation of the Traditional Latin Mass — also known as the Tridentine Mass or the Extraordinary Rite — he noted that it isn't "a museum piece, but a living expression of Catholic worship."
Largely hidden from Roman Catholics since the late 1960s as a result of Vatican II — a period of sweeping reforms in the Catholic church — the Latin Mass has slowly crept back onto the scene.
Not your everyday Mass
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Springfield has been the setting for weekly Latin Mass since Jan. 31; the Church of St. Rose of Lima Chapel in Quincy, where Devillers is chaplain, has offered Latin Masses since November.
Latin Masses in Springfield and Quincy have attracted moderately sized but fervent followings, ranging from those who preferred the pre-Vatican II rituals to those simply curious about the Mass. A 7 a.m. Saturday Mass recently drew about 50 people, where attendance has leveled off.
Like Eastern Catholic and Eastern Orthodox rites, the priest mostly has his back to the congregation during the Latin Mass. Masses are punctuated with long silences and — unlike the Masses in English familiar to most area Catholics — an absence of congregational participation. Springfield's Latin Mass has no music, while a full choir performs at Quincy's weekly Mass.
Rosanne Wiatroliak, 48, of Springfield says she went to the Latin Mass at Blessed Sacrament "to see what I remembered (from my childhood.)
"I don't remember being as separated from the Eucharistic celebration (as I did before)," she says. "I felt like a spectator this time around. It was harder to follow. I've gotten closer to understanding (the Latin) and following along. You really have to stay on your toes unless you're fluent in it."
"It's a lot more contemplative," says Jim Dodge, like Wiatroliak a Blessed Sacrament parishioner who lives in Springfield. The 41-year-old took some Latin in high school, but says he leans on a Latin-English missal to follow along.
An eye on the past
Under Pope Benedict's personal decree, Summorum Pontificum, groups requesting the Latin Mass may approach a pastor who knows how to say one directly, bypassing the bishop.
While the rite has the enthusiastic support of Springfield Bishop George Lucas, it has created some controversy nationally, with some experts citing Pope Benedict's aversion to modernism. There is speculation that it may pave the way for other conservative advances.
Devillers is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society founded with the endorsement of then-Pope John Paul II with the purpose of celebrating Mass "according to the traditional Roman Rite."
Before that, Devillers was allied with excommunicated French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in the Society of St. Pius X. Lefebvre founded the society that opposes some of the modernizing reforms of Vatican II. But Devillers left that society in 1989, citing Lefebvre's increasingly extremist views.
Lefebrve, who ordained Devillers, broke with the Vatican in 1988 when he illicitly consecrated four bishops, including Bishop Richard Williamson. Williamson has said the numbers of Jewish casualties in World War II were inflated. (Earlier this year, the Vatican lifted the excommunications on all four bishops, though they are not in full communion with Rome.)
There is also the matter of practicality.
Few Springfield priests feel comfortable with the rite's arcane rituals, or rubrics, with few having been trained in them.
The demand of other pastoral services, including Spanish-speaking Masses, may prevent already overworked priests from widely implementing the Latin Mass.
Bishop Lucas has periodically granted permission for Latin Masses. But they have been celebrated infrequently over the past decade in the Springfield diocese, which stretches from the Mississippi River towns of Quincy and Alton east to the Indiana border.
Devillers says Pope Benedict's motivation in part was to reach out to conservative elements, such as the late Archbishop Lefebvre's group, which still does not have normalized relations with Rome.
The misperception is that there is only "one rite," or Mass in the local language, when there are in fact 22 "main rites," Devillers says. More importantly, he adds, Vatican II never abolished the Latin Rite.
"What Pope Benedict is saying is if people are still interested in the Extraordinary Form, why not keep it?" Devillers says.
Liturgy expert Dennis Martin of Loyola University Chicago says the familiar Ordinary Rite, or Novus Ordo, was crafted by a liturgical commission after Vatican II. The idea, Martin says, was "a limited call for (liturgical) reform," and Vatican II made no mention about totally eliminating the Latin Mass and replacing it with the locally spoken language.
A rare skill
Wearing his preferred long black cassock, Devillers says he has a two-pronged mission during his one-year trial run at Quincy: build the community at St. Rose of Lima Chapel and serve as a resource for priests from around the diocese who also might be interested in learning the Extraordinary Rite.
Devillers says a handful of priests — mostly younger ones — have approached him for instruction.
"The main difficulty is not the rubrics, it's the Latin," says Devillers, the former superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
But adding Latin Masses — against the backdrop of overextended priests and other initiatives — is "always a concern," Lucas admits, adding that it has to be judged "in terms of personnel and time."
Even the Rev. David Hoefler, parochial administrator at Blessed Sacrament, says time hasn't allowed him to follow through on Latin Mass instructions.
Blessed Sacrament did not add any Masses to accommodate the Latin Mass. The parish was already offering the Saturday morning service in English, so Devillers says Mass at a time when Catholics already were gathering to worship. Hoefler says for now the parish can't add any more Masses, in Latin or English.
Diocesan personnel and others deny that the Latin Mass is dividing congregations or that groups are using their muscle to advance further causes.
"I hope that's not the case (here)," says Rosanne Wiatroliak. "I don't know and I can't judge. It would be sad if someone used it that way."
Devillers further denies that a sort of "ghetto Catholicism" is being built at St. Rose of Lima, which offers a wider range of Latin Masses and pre-Vatican II church. He points out that many people who come to the refurbished chapel — it is a former diocesan church but doesn't have standing as a parish — belong to other parishes around Quincy, a largely Catholic town 115 miles west of Springfield.
"It's the same faith, the same sacraments and the same sacrifice of the Mass," Devillers says.
Jim Dodge says he doesn't see any problem with the two forms of the Masses co-existing.
"To me, it's the genius of the Catholic Church," Dodge says. "It's a 'both and.' It's like the church's view of celibacy and marriage. Both are positive goods."
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1570 — A new missal harmonizes prayers and rites at the Council of Trent
1962-65 — Second Vatican Council
1962 — Pope John XXIII promulgates a version of the Latin Mass
1969 — Pope Paul VI promulgates the Ordinary Rite, the English Mass, taking effect the next year.
1984 — The letter Quattuor Abhinc Annos empowers bishops to allow Latin Masses when requested.
2007 — Summorum Pontificum, or personal decree, issued by Pope Benedict XVI. Requests for the Latin Mass by "stable groups" should be honored locally.


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