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What follows is an exchange I had recently with a young Catholic Canadian man.
Hi Dr. Wagner
My Name is Jack, I am a catholic teenager who is wondering if the act of masturbation is still considered to be a sin. Also is it really considered to be gravely disordered and always morally wrong? I am 18 years old and I am somewhat late going through changes physically. I do believe that it is a natural way to find out about ones body and how it can be used. I have heard that it is not a sin but a natural and healthy thing to do. I have also heard that it is a sin. I have heard mixed reviews I have heard that a vast majority of both boys and girls do it. I can understand if one does it while thinking about other people then it is a sin but if one is doing it to get rid of old stuff then does it count as a sin. I have done it recently and I am going through puberty. There are no thoughts, images or fantasies involved. I do think that it is better then having a nocturnal emission and having to clean your underpants and to hide it so no one think that I wet the bed. I also believe that it is better to masturbate rather than waking up to find a sticky mess in my underpants, which has happened to me, and it was not fun. I don't want to have to go to bed worrying about a mess in the morning. I have also heard that it can help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Is it normal to feel confused about it after doing it? I am planning to talk to my parents and a priest to see what they think of it. If my parents say that it is natural and a normal thing to do does that mean it is all right to do. The only tricky thing is that I am not entirely sure how to approach the subject with them. I have mentioned it to my mother and she doesn't seem to be bothered by it. She said that it is better to do that than to be out having intercourse with girls. I haven t done it in 3 weeks and I feel conflicted over it I see both views on the issue and I am not sure. I don't want to feel guilty for doing something that has been labeled natural and normal. I love and believe in god and want to know what the views are on it. I do not have any addiction whatsoever I have very good control over myself nor do I need counseling or therapy. I am just a curious teenager wondering if masturbating is a sin or not.
I live in Ontario where the ministry of education has released a updated sexual education curriculum where it mentions that masturbation is natural and normal. There is a part of me that really wants to do it as I feel it takes the edge off. I have heard that some catholic organizations are backing it. This leaves me confused if it is still considered to be a sin. I also believe that it is a crucial part of understanding how ones body works and learning about oneself. I do find it a little hard to understand that we can somewhat accept the sexual orientation of people but people still consider touching ones genitals to be a sin.
Thank you
God Bless
Dear Jack,
Thanks for your question. Might I add, you are exceptionally articulate for a teenager.
If ya ask me, Jack, and you are actually asking me, you've pretty much answered all of your own questions. And that tells me you are on the right track.
You ask about Catholic sexual ethics. Before you wrote, did you know that I was a Catholic priest for 20 years? And, not to boast, I am the only Catholic priest in the world with a doctorate in human sexuality. This later part explains why I no longer practice as a public minister. It's a real long story and I'd be happy to tell you all about it sometime, but for now know that I didn't go quietly. I wrote my doctoral thesis, Gay Catholic Priests; A Study of Cognitive and Affective Dissonance, back in 1981. And once word got out about this groundbreaking research, the writing was on the wall, so to speak, for my public ministry. I fought for my priesthood and ministry for 13 year, but it all pretty much came crashing in on itself in 1994. If you've got nothing better to do, you can read about it HERE.
Enough about me, let's get back to you and your questions. Although, I wanted to mention that when I was in seminary, way back when god was young, in the late 1960's and early 70's, enlightened spiritual directors were already beginning to advise us seminarians that masturbation wasn't sinful or disordered. Of course, even now you'll find orthodox hard-liners who insist that self-pleasuring is a moral sin, but they think all sexual expression is sinful. Here's a tip: you're never gonna find consensus on any sexual matter.
Like you, I found it difficult to believe all that mortal sin stuff that the hardliners promote. I mean, if mass murder and genocide are mortal sins, how could a little wank be their equal. It just don't make no sense, right?
However, I can't agree with you that masturbation might be sinful if there are fantasies involved. Remember, using your mind is an essential part of learning about your sexuality. That being said, most teenage boys are randy at the drop of a hat, so maybe you don't need to be all that specific with your sexual mental imagery.
I also caution you to be careful when tossing around words like normal and natural. What's normal and natural to some may be abnormal and twisted to others. But you're right; few people, professional as well as lay people, these days would consider self-loving anything but normal and natural.
For you edification I suggest you use the search function or CATEGORY pull-down menu in the sidebar of my site and search for pertinent topics, like masturbation, wet dreams, sexual response cycle, etc. You'll find a wealth of information about all these topics in both written and podcast form.
I too reported, back in 2011, on the startling new data that came out of Australia about masturbation. Australian researchers questioned over 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer and 1,250 men who had not, about their sexual habits. They found those who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to develop prostate cancer. The protective effect of poppin' one's nut was greatest while the men were in their 20s. And get this; men who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life.
I also contend that masturbation is the most basic building block to all of our sexual expression. When you know how your body works; when you are familiar with your sexual response cycle and are confident about talking to others about it; you'll be better situated to be a good sexual partner to another.
In the end, I encourage you to continue to think for yourself when it comes to things sexual. I can see that you are already doing that, so keep it up. Continue to ask questions and consider the input you get from others, myself included; but then make up your own mind. When you own your sexuality and your sexual response, you'll be a grown-up. Notice I didn't say you'd be an adult. That's because there are lots of adults out there who don't own their sexuality and sexual response and despite being grown up, they're not grownups.
Good luck, pup
Hi Richard,
Thank you for responding. You have cleared come of the confusion. I guess I got confused because when I would masturbate I would feel like I let my self down.
Thank you again
God Bless
One thing you should know is there is generally a sort of "let down" phase after orgasm. (See information about the refractory phase of the sexual response cycle HERE.) Your body can't stay in that heightened state of arousal so there's often a "deflated" feeling.
There's even a name for if. It's called post-coital tristesse. And you should know that it's a physiological phenomenon rather than an emotional one.
Feelings of elation and wellbeing that accompany arousal and orgasm can sometimes morph into a sense of shame during this "deflated" phase. People with lot of scruples about sex are particularly vulnerable to this.
Thank you for clearing that up and for the reassurance that it is natural and normal and not considered to be a sin.
— Jack


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Skip to comments.Steny Hoyer: We Don't Have a "Spending" Problem; We Have a "Paying for" Problem
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RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, right here on this program, we had a sound bite for you. It was Nancy Pelosi saying, "We don't have a spending problem." She said we have a budget deficit problem. I intended to make a point about this yesterday. As we do almost every day on this program, I had a call or I brought the subject up myself about my optimism, about how, at some point all of this is gonna bottom out and we're gonna rebound. And I've been honest with you about that optimism. I don't know what or when, you know, I'm trying to be honest. I'm not wishful thinking. It's not just hope. It's a genuine positive confidence that I have in the overall population of this country.
I assure you here that I am not engaged in wishful thinking. I'm not blindly optimistic. It's a genuine sincere feeling, and one of the reasons -- and I meant to mention this yesterday -- one of the reasons is, this just can't go on. This kind of dishonesty and falsity will implode on itself. I remember what Ronaldus Magnus said once about the Soviet Union and communism in general. He said it will fall on its own. Now, we're gonna nudge it. We're gonna give it a shove, but it will collapse on its own because of its moral depravity. It can't survive. And communism hasn't thrived.
Have you noticed, Obama's gotten pretty much everything he's wanted in four years. Where's the happiness? Where all the Julias of the world, that TV commercial. Where are the happy Obama voters? Where are the happy people of this country? There isn't any massive amount of happiness. Everybody's on edge. So you got Pelosi. I mean, Democrats make statements like this constantly, but this one, it's close to taking the cake. "No, we don't have a spending problem. We have a budget deficit problem."
Unemployment benefits, she said, are the single best thing you can do for economic growth and job creation. She said this. "For every dollar of unemployment benefits, we get $1.73 in economic output." And then she also said, I forget the exact statistic, but she also said for every dollar in unemployment benefits we create jobs. She said the best job creation that we can do in this country is unemployment benefits. She really said this stuff. So this morning on CNBC, Squawk Box, they had a fill-in hostette, name was Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, and she asked Steny Hoyer -- this is the number two Democrat in the House -- she asked Steny Hoyer, "Does the country have a spending problem?"
CNBC Anchor Tears Into Dem Leader Who Claims U.S. Has A 'Paying-For Problem,' Not A Spending Problem
HOYER: Does the country have a spending problem?
CARUSO-CABRERA: Yeah.
HOYER: The country has a paying-for problem. We haven't paid for what we bought. We haven't paid for our tax cuts. We haven't paid for the --
CARUSO-CABRERA: So how is that different from a spending problem?
HOYER: Well, we spent a lot of money when George Bush was president of the United States.
RUSH: We have a paying-for problem. We don't have a spending problem. We don't have a spending problem. Yesterday we have a budget deficit problem. Today Steny Hoyer, number two Democrat, "No, no, no, we don't have a spending problem; we have a paying-for problem." Now, folks, this is intellectually depraved. This is intellectually incompetent, in addition to being irrelevant and dishonest. Well, of course it's insulting, but these people, the foundation for everything they're doing is built on balsa wood. And at some point it's gonna collapse. This kind of stuff has no legitimacy. This is a totally illegitimate comment. So is everything Pelosi's saying about this. Most of what Obama says is illegitimate, in addition to dishonest and in addition to insulting.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer joined the host of CNBC, grilled by the anchorette Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. "We have a paying-for problem." Now, the infobabe was incredulous. She said, "I've heard Democrat after Democrat today tell me how much the president reached out to me during that last speech and how he's gonna do it again tonight. I sat in meetings with the president, sitting with Republican leadership in the Senate and the House trying to get a compromise, Hoyer counted. We didn't get there, but the president spent a lot of time trying, and so any fair analysis would indicate that he was prepared to go to places, particularly on entitlements, that would upset his base."
So, do we have a spending problem? No, we've got a paying-for problem. We haven't paid for what we bought. She said, "Are we promising too much?" He said, "Yeah, and if we don't pay, we shouldn't buy." Well, how is that different from a spending problem? Well, it's not a spending problem because our spending is legitimate. Our problem is we haven't paid for it. Well, why haven't we paid for it? Well, we don't have the money. Well, then we've got a spending problem. I can't believe I'm even trying to explain this. I can't believe that I'm even trying to makes sense of this for people.
I can't believe that I am 15, ten minutes into the open of this show, and this is what I'm having to explain to people. We don't have a spending problem. We have a paying-for problem. We don't have a spending problem. We've got a budget deficit problem. Now, I'm just telling you, this is also moral depravity, folks. In addition to everything, lying, misrepresenting, it's insulting, it is intellectually depraved. It's corrupt, is what it is. This is banana republic kind of stuff. This is, "I'm gonna answer whatever I have to that's gonna take the blame away from me, and what are you gonna do about it?"
RUSH: Steny Hoyer: "We don't have a 'spending' problem; we have a 'paying for' problem." The town drunk: "I didn't too much to drink last night. The bartender served me too much." The first half hour of this program is devoted to utter absurdity. This is the stuff we used to say as jokes. Do you realize one of the techniques of this program from the early days was to illustrate absurdity by being absurd? It's gotten to point now that they've taken over the gig. I don't have to illustrate absurdity. They are. They're doing just fine.
RUSH: Larry in Ithaca, Michigan. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network as we head back to the phones. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, good afternoon, Rush. I got a comment about Steny Hoyer saying we have a paying problem.
RUSH: A paying-for-it problem, right.
CALLER: Right. Yeah. I don't know where Mr. Hoyer's been the last four years, but I can tell you this: We have over eight million people unemployed and dropped out of the workforce here in this country. That's a lot of lost revenue. There's no need to raise taxes. We need to create private sector jobs. That will take care of Mr. Hoyer's paying problem.
RUSH: Well, that's what Obama's gonna do tonight. He's gonna say that he probably already created four million of those. He fixed the debt. He's gonna hail his job creation tonight. He's gonna talk about and focus on jobs, and now create even more.
CALLER: Yeah, but most of his jobs were in the public sector.
RUSH: Yeah, and there haven't been eight million or four million, whatever, created anyway. Some of them are replacements but in terms of a net-net, there aren't eight million, four million, two million net new jobs, as you correctly said. The labor force participation rate since January 2009 is down 8.5 million. That's how many jobs have been lost -- and I don't just mean people who've lost their jobs. There are that many jobs that no longer exist to be filled. It's not just people who lost jobs that the jobs are open.
The jobs are gone, and with 8.5 million fewer jobs, you're right: There's much less tax revenue being collected. But if we got all those jobs back, if we replaced all those jobs, we still wouldn't have the money to pay for the spending that Obama has engaged in. There's no amount of tax revenue increase that could be reasonably expected to occur that would get anywhere near paying for this spending. Nowhere near it, folks. Don't fall for anybody saying so.
RUSH: Reginald in Atlanta, I'm glad you called. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hey, black-man dittos to you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I just wanted to say a few things. As a black man, I'm totally disappointed in blacks who continue to support President Obama and the Democrat Party. And it's not that I'm even mad at them. For one, a lot of them are my family members. But I truly feel sad that so many blacks have been just taken advantage of by the Democratic Party, and it's not even just Obama, it's just the party general. Rush, I'm out here working three career fields, doing what I can to sustain myself and spend wisely, but going by Steny Hoyer, I guess I can go out and charge for an iPad then worry about paying for it later.
RUSH: That's right. (laughing.)
CALLER: It's just totally ridiculous. And then I look at the long black unemployment lines, so sad. And it's like, on Election Day, we got out of the unemployment line to vote for the Democrats, then got right back in the unemployment line the very next day. And I'm just surprised that Democrats didn't even try to pass a law to allow people to vote while in the unemployment line
RUSH: Well, join the club. Join the club. I mean, I can only imagine what it's like for you. The rest of us think we're going crazy. It's gotta be even worse for you, thinking the way you do. But we hear you. I'm glad you called, Reginald, thanks very much and all the best.
RUSH: Black and female unemployment higher than when Obama took office. That's a little note to Reginald who just called us from Georgia.
If they could, these people would seize every dollar in the entire economy and use them to buy votes until they feel like retiring, or until they die.
As long as the country doesn't blow up until one second after they're somewhere else, it's all good.
That's right, you cheap bastards aren't PAYING ENOUGH!
Thats right, you cheap bastards arent PAYING ENOUGH!...And even if we were, not one damn red cent would be put toward the deficit or debt, it would be applied to another expansion of government to buy votes.
The proof that we have a spending problem is our interest on the debt payment.
It is 359 billion this year, roughly 14% of our national income from all sources.
Steny Hoyer lives in Pelosi's backside.
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Ron Guth: The 1915-S Panama-Pacific Half Dollar was authorized by an Act of Congress on June 16, 1915 as a fund-raiser for the International Exhibition held in San Francisco, California celebrating the opening of the Panama-Pacific Canal. The Act authorized a mintage of 200,000 pieces, but only 60,030 were struck. In addition to the regular silver pieces just mentioned, a small number of examples in gold, silver, and copper were struck at the Philadelphia Mint before the "S" mintmark was added to the dies. No record of any Proof strikings exist, but Breen repeats the rumor of the existence of two Satin Finish Proofs, both with mintmarks.
The Panama-Pacific Half Dollars were sold individually for $1.00 (see the image of the original sales envelope below), or as part of complete sets (containing a Pan-Pac Half Dollar, a Pan-Pac $1.00, a Pan-Pac $2.50, a Pan-Pac $50 Round, and a Pan-Pac $50 Octagonal), or as part of complete double-sets (containing two each of the Pan-Pac Half Dollar, the Pan-Pac $1.00, the Pan-Pac $2.50, the Pan-Pac $50 Round, and the Pan-Pac $50 Octagonal).
Of the original mintage of 60,030 pieces, 30 were set aside for assay purposes and 32,866 unsold coins were destroyed, leaving a net mintage of 27,134.
Many Uncirculated examples exist, with the most common grade being MS-64. Gem examples are readily available.
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David Hall: After the Columbian Exposistion half dollars of 1892 and 1893, the Isabella quarter in 1893 and the Lafayette dollar in 1900, the next silver commemorative to be struck was the 1915-S Panama-Pacific half dollar. The Pan-Pac half was struck in San Francisco in conjunction with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition which was held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the 1914 opening of the Panama Canal and also the "rebirth" of the city after the devastating earthquake of 1906. A gold dollar, gold $2.5 and two types of $50 gold "slugs were also struck.
The original issue price for the half dollar was $1 or "6 pieces for $5." The halves were also sold in sets with the gold coins, with set options being three, four, five, or ten coins. The complete five piece set in a copper frame was sold for $200. The original distribution of the silver half dollars amounted to 27,134 coins.
Today, the Pan-Pac silver half dollar is considered one of the most important issues in the silver commemorative series. It is also one of the scarcer issues in Gem condition. The grades of the survivors are well distributed. Though there are a number of lightly circulated pieces known, most survivors are mint state. This is quite logical as they were sold at a premium to face value at the time of issue. The most frequently encountered grade is MS64, then MS63, followed by MS65. There are a number of Superb Gem MS66 survivors and some MS67 pieces.
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Acrobatic Bylsma has kept Penguins thriving
Just how has Dan Bylsma steered the Pittsburgh Penguins through a Class 5 rapid of a season without flipping the raft?
"I think the biggest thing is how positive he is and energetic," Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik told NHL.com. "You get to the rink in the morning and he's got music blasting, he's doing cartwheels in (the locker room). That's not an exaggeration, either."
Locker-room gymnastics might not come from the first chapter of the Coaching 101 textbook, but Bylsma has made it work, and despite a hellacious amount of injuries, suspensions and myriad other distractions, the Penguins never have slipped in the standings and their coach never has wavered in his commitment to playing a certain way. It's why he's one of the first names mentioned when people discuss the candidates for this season's Jack Adams Award, given to the NHL's best coach.
"Guys come in, guys come out, and that's the beauty of real good coach," Penguins GM Ray Shero told NHL.com. "You play a certain style no matter who's in the lineup. Guys have asked if you've changed your style without (Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin), but we haven't. We're still playing the same way -- good penalty kill, good goaltending. It's nice to see."
The Penguins have dressed 39 different players this season, with 37 getting on the ice, third-most in the League, but all anyone can talk about are the big two. Crosby hasn't played since Jan. 5 due to a concussion and is questionable to return at all this season, and Malkin's season ended Feb. 4 due to torn knee ligaments.
But since Crosby went out, the Pens have gone 19-11-5, which includes an 11-8-4 mark without Malkin. They've stayed right on the heels of the Atlantic Division- and Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia Flyers, by going 8-2-2 in March, including a 2-1 shootout win in Philadelphia on Thursday that saw the Pens hold the Flyers to a season-low 20 shots. They clinched a playoff berth the next day, and will have a chance to pull even with Philadelphia in points when the teams meet Tuesday in Pittsburgh.
"I know a lot of people wrote when those guys got hurt you're going to have to change your system, you're going to have to play a trap and play defensively and win games 1-0, but that never came up in any of the meetings," Orpik said. "You're aware when those two guys aren't playing. Obviously you'd like to have them, but that never changed, systematically. The meetings that we have without those guys and the games without those guys, it never changed one bit. I think that was something that surprised a lot of people."
Not only have the Pens survived the losses of Crosby and Malkin, but they've also played without key forwards Jordan Staal, Chris Kunitz, Mike Comrie and Mark Letestu, as well as top defensemen Paul Martin, Zbynek Michalek and Orpik. In fact, only two players have dressed for all 76 games -- All-Star defenseman Kris Letang and forward Maxime Talbot.
And then there was the invasion of HBO cameras for the four-week "24/7" series leading up to the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic, plus long-term suspensions handed to Eric Godard and Matt Cooke for on-ice issues.
It all added up to a season that easily could have gone off the rails. But Bylsma never allowed it to happen.
"He's really good at keeping the distractions out of the room and just focusing on the things we can focus on," Orpik said. "He doesn't let you get frustrated with the injuries or maybe what the media or other people are saying about us. He keeps everyone in here focused on what's going on in here and the things we can control."
That's something that started right when Bylsma took over. When Shero hired him to replace Michel Therrien on Feb. 15, 2009, the Penguins were in disarray, sitting 10th in the Eastern Conference one season after making the Stanley Cup Final.
Bylsma, who was just 55 games into his first season as coach of the Penguins' AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, arrived in Long Island the night before his first NHL game. As Shero remembers, it wasn't the most auspicious of beginnings, and not because the Penguins lost to the Islanders in that first game.
"It was a 2 p.m. game on a Monday, he came up the night before after the (AHL) game," said Shero. "No skate, just a meeting with the players about 10 o'clock (in the morning). He spoke for about 4-5 minutes about how we're going to play. Guys are like, 'Is this the guy that was in camp with us?'"
What's remembered from that point is Bylsma and the Penguins' magical run to the franchise's third Stanley Cup. And while hiring Bylsma now looks like a genius decision, Shero admits he was as surprised as the rest of the public at the job Bylsma did.
"I didn't have a lot options," Shero said. "We were in the middle of the year (when he fired Therrien). ... When you make a decision like that on Feb. 15 to let go of your coach, timing is everything and the timing fell for Dan Bylsma."
Shero said the day after the Islanders game he talked to Bylsma about a contract for the rest of the season, and assured him that regardless of how the rest of the season went, the young coach had a guaranteed job with the team.
"I said, Dan, I don't know how this is going to go, but you've got your job back in Wilkes-Barre, don't worry," Shero said. "I hired you to do a job in Wilkes-Barre. Let's hope for the best and see what happens. The goal is to make the playoffs and see what happens."
The Pens went an astounding 18-3-4 under Bylsma and finished fourth in the conference. They beat the Flyers in six games in the first round, survived a memorable seven-game battle with the Washington Capitals and then swept the Carolina Hurricanes in the conference finals. They finished their run with a seven-game defeat of the Detroit Red Wings to win the Cup.
"After we won the Cup," said Shero, "he said, 'Can I tear up that contract now?'"
Last season the Penguins went 47-28-7, again finishing fourth in the conference, and advancing to the second round of the playoffs. And on Jan. 5, Crosby's last game to date, the Penguins were 26-12-3 and led the Eastern Conference.
Despite his success, some have questioned Bylsma's ability as a coach. Come on -- how hard can it be when you can send Crosby and Malkin over the boards every other shift, right?
"Back in the 70s, people used to say Scotty Bowman had the easiest job in the world when he coached the (Montreal) Canadiens," Shero said. "My father (legendary Flyers coach Fred Shero) said he's the best coach because it's hard to coach those players, with the expectations for ice time. It's not as easy to coach the star or superstar players."
But dealing with players -- whether they're superstars or AHL call-ups -- is Bylsma's strength.
"To be successful you have to get across to different personalities and different people," Shero said. "You need to be good with people, and he is."
This leads us back to the cartwheels.
"There's days you see that, and sometimes you're like, what the hell is he doing," Orpik said. "But it's something everyone feeds off in a positive way. There's a lot of days, with the grind and the travel and the schedule, and some days you're peeling yourself out of bed and coming to the rink half-awake. He definitely wakes you up and gets you going."
"I've seen him do a lot of different things," Staal told NHL.com. "He's a very energetic guy, he likes to get the guys going. That's just how he is. It's nice to see it because he's the head coach, but he's not shy to shake it up a bit and fire the guys up."
Staal said the energy put out by the coach is absorbed by the players.
"I think so," he said. "It's part of making it fun to go to the rink and hang out and work hard at the same time and do the right things, but have some fun with it. That definitely starts with the coaches all the way down to the players."
Shero also knows how good a coach he has, and got an inkling when he originally offered Bylsma the Penguins job.
"I remember the afternoon I called him, I talked to him for about five minutes and told him what was going on," Shero said. "I said I want you to talk to your wife and call me back. I said Dan, you don't have to do it. I'm going to offer it to you. You're a young coach, it's not a great situation now -- give it some thought and call me back. He called me back later and he said this opportunity might not come again. He said I'm going to do it and I'm going to do a good job for you.
"He got me out of a tough situation, obviously. It's been a nice story."
The story will go on a bit longer -- on March 9, Shero handed Bylsma a three-year contract extension that should keep him with the team through the 2013-14 season.
Keeping Bylsma the public face of the team is something Shero finds vital. A joint NHLPA/CBC poll of 318 players earlier this season saw Bylsma voted the coach most players would like to play for.
"Word gets around, what your coach is like. It's part of who you are (as a franchise)," Shero said. "Dan does a great job representing this organization and this team. We're lucky to have him as our coach. This year you can see it. People can finally see and recognize what a good coach he is, and how he gets it out of his players."
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LinkedIn Passwords Leaked... Congress Immediately Wants To 'Do Something!'
from the grandstanding... dept
Linkedin took its time, but did admit that there was a breach, and reset those passwords. However, Congress is never one to miss an opportunity to grandstand. Rep. Mary Bono Mack was quick to jump up and announce that something must be done!
"How many times is this going to happen before Congress finally wakes up and takes action?" said Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs, who heads a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that has looked at online-privacy issues, in a statement. "This latest incident once again brings into sharp focus the need to pass data protection legislation."Similarly, Senator Pat Leahy jumped in with a similar statement:
"Reports of another major data breach should give pause to American consumers who, now more than ever, share sensitive personal information in their online transactions and networking," Leahy said in a statement provided to The Hill. "Congress should make comprehensive data privacy and cybercrime legislation a top priority."First of all, it does appear that LinkedIn wasn't using particularly smart security techniques (no salting? really?). But would a law really change things? And Leahy's claim that we need "cybercrime" legislation, again doesn't seem likely to help "fix" anything. If anything, the "cybersecurity" legislation that's out there might make such data even more vulnerable, by making companies more encouraged to share information.
Yes, these kinds of data breaches are bad. And we should be concerned when we find out that a company as big as LinkedIn still uses such weak security practices. But does that really mean we need a law?


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937 N. Damen Ave. 773-772-0889
Rating: 2.5 (out of four) Take it or leave it
The backstory: When I'm dining out, I try to enter each restaurant with an open mind. But when it came to Briciola, a new BYOB Italian trattoria in Ukrainian Village, it was a challenge to tune out all that I'd heard. Just a look at the restaurant's early Yelp reviews—from gushing five-stars to scathing one-stars—made me wonder if everyone had even eaten at the same restaurant. On one hand, Briciola does have big shoes to fill; it replaces dearly beloved breakfast and lunch spot Jam, which relocated to airier digs in Logan Square. On the other hand, veteran chef Mario Maggi, who opened the original location of Bice, should be up to the challenge. I stopped in on a recent Saturday night to see whether Briciola had moved past early hiccups, or whether it was stuck in a permanent rut.
The pros: The menu does a solid job of representing classic Italian cuisine, with enough modern twists to assure me that I wasn't stuck in an episode of "The Sopranos." Octopus carpaccio ($10) is shaved paper-thin and tossed with bright hearts of palm and basil oil, a perfect summer starter. Caesar salad ($8) comes with a tangy house-made dressing atop a wedge of grilled romaine lettuce, but it's the fried capers that are addictively munchable. Not all the pastas are made in-house, but the gnocchi ($15) are, and they arrive piping hot, airy and tossed with just the right amount of pesto, goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes.
The cons: Our servers were gracious but clearly nervous, which translated to a few slips, such as forgetting an ice bucket for our wine and delivering some courses too quickly. Dessert arrived only minutes after my friend and I ordered it, and we could have used much more time to digest before digging in to the syrupy, way-too-firm panna cotta ($6). Chef Maggi personally visits most tables, which is a nice touch, but can't totally redeem the scampering servers.
Bottom line: Briciola's kitchen put out consistent, satisfying Italian favorites, even on a busy weekend night. If that confidence rubs off on the wait staff, I'd enthusiastically join the restaurant's fan club and tell haters to give this comfortable trattoria another shot. –Kate Bernot
Reviews are unannounced and meals are paid for by RedEye. firstname.lastname@example.com | @kbernot


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27 July 2011|
Owner: Kelsey Cockburn
Location: Phillipsburg, NJ
Vehicle: 2002 VW Jetta GLS with GLI Front End Conversion
Car Club Affiliation: All Generation Cruisers
What Events have you competed in?
Just local shows
What will be your next performance modification/upgrade?
"All Show", "All Go" or Both, Why?
All Show, Low n Slow
Any Shout Outs?


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Thursday, August 18, 2016
Dental Anesthesia
Beta Blockers in Heart Disease
Is using Citanest safe when I am already taking a beta blocker?
Citanest, a brand name for prilocaine, is fine with beta blockers. In fact, all local anesthetics are fine with local beta blockers. There is some concern with lidocaine metabolism being slowed, but as long as very high doses are not used, which is very uncommon for routine dentistry on adults, this is not a concern.
There is a concern with some beta blockers and drugs that are added to some local anesthetics to increase duration and effectiveness.
These drugs are epinephrine and levonordefrin. When used in combination with non-selective beta blockers, a special group including propranolol, timolol, nadalol, pindolol, sotolol and others, there can be an interaction causing high heart rate and low blood pressure.
This is unlikely to occur with the small doses used in routine dental care but the dentist can monitor for this and take precautions.
This interaction is not likely to occur with cardioselective beta blockers, such as metoprolol and atenolol, or with combined alpha and beta blockers such as carvedilol.
Good luck!
Steven I Ganzberg, SB, DMD, MS
Formerly, Clinical Professor of Dentistry
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Don Kirshner, a rock promoter and music publisher who helped garner hits for the make-believe groups The Monkees and The Archies and boosted the careers of Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and the Police, has died. He was 76.
Promoter Jack Wishna, a close friend and business associate, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kirshner, whom Time magazine once dubbed "The Man with the Golden Ear," was in a hospital in Boca Raton being treated for an infection when he died on Monday.
"Donny Kirshner would take a kid off the street ... and turn him into Neil Diamond, Carole King, James Taylor, on and on," Wishna said. "I haven't spoken to anyone in the music business that Donny hasn't either discovered, promoted, or touched in some way.
"I've never seen anybody like this in my life," he said.
The Bronx-born Kirshner started off in the business as a songwriter, penning "My First Love" for Bobby Darin. But he had more success in tapping songwriting talents like Diamond, King and Neil Sedaka.
Kirshner's songwriters were tapped in the 1960s to create music for a group manufactured for TV - The Monkees. They became a huge sensation in both the TV and the rock world and had hits including "I'm a Believer," which Diamond wrote.
"I'm saddened to learn of the loss of Don Kirshner. He was the king of Tin Pan Alley - there never was a better song plugger," Diamond said in a statement to the AP. "ll always be grateful to him for pairing 'I'm A Believer' and other songs of mine with the Monkees. The music business never had a better supporter."
Kirshner also was behind the music that made magic for The Archies, based off the comic strip characters, including the classic "Sugar Sugar."
"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert," which premiered in 1972 and ran a decade, gave national exposure to musicians including Joel and the Police. Kirshner also helped launch the careers of Prince, The Eagles, Lionel Richie and Ozzy Osborne. The show also boosted careers of comics including Billy Crystal, Arsenio Hall and David Letterman.
"Don Kirshner gave new, young musicians the opportunity to showcase their performances for a huge audience during the 'golden age' of the popular music business," Joel said in a statement. "At the time, his 'hands-off' approach to how rock and roll music was presented made television a viable medium for many now-iconic recording artists."
Paul Shaffer, Letterman's musical director, used to give a deadpan performance during his imitation of Kirshner on Saturday Night Live. Shaffer and Kirshner worked together on the short-lived sitcom, A Year at the Top, according to Shaffer's manager.
Pop singer Tony Orlando, whom Kirshner hired for $50 a week to record demos, said his mentor was like the Thomas Edison of music.
"Every dream I ever had as a kid, he was my genie," Orlando told AP.
Orlando said Kirshner was responsible for so many careers, "it would make your head spin."
"This was not just a song guy, this was a man who created the cornerstones of American pop music as we know it today," Orlando said. "Without Donny Kirshner, the music we know of today would not be the same. He was a game-changer, and I tell you that me and my family feel this tremendous loss for this man."
Wishna said Kirshner was a mentor who knew the art of discovering talent and cared about the artists he worked with.
"He was a father to these people even though some of them were three or four years younger than him," Wishna said.
Wishna said Kirshner, who was honored by the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2007, was a pioneer who developed a system for singer-songwriters to share in the profits of selling music.
Howard Kramer, curatorial director at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said Kirshner will be most remembered for "nurturing and developing an early, unprecedented amount of artists, mostly songwriters, and also a television pioneer for bringing live rock 'n' roll to television."
Kirshner also ran three labels, Dimension Records, Colgems Records and Kirshner Records.
Before he died, Kirshner was chief creative officer of Rockrena, a company launching this year to find and promote talent online.
Associated Press writer Suzette Laboy in Miami and Music Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody in New York contributed to this report.


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HUNTINGTON BEACH A circle the size of a football field made up of surfers stretched across the ocean near the Huntington Beach Pier.
In what many say is the biggest memorial tribute ever held for a surfer in Huntington Beach, friends, family and the surf community gathered on Sunday to pay respects to Surfline founder Sean Collins, regarded as one of the most influential surfers of our time.
Many surfers noted it was fitting that as plans for Collins' memorial materialized, the biggest swell in more than a year showed up – so large the event had to be postponed a day.
"It was strange timing," said his son, A.J. "After everything, there was an explosion in the sea. Waves began to hit all coasts."
About 2,000 people gathered under sunny skies on Sunday to partake in or watch the memorial paddle out, a Hawaiian tradition that allows surfers to pay tribute to one of their own who has died.
Collins revolutionized the way surfers sought waves, creating a surf forecasting website that allowed surfers to "Know Before You Go," the Surfline slogan goes. The Seal Beach surfer died of a heart attack at age 59 on Dec. 26.
A ceremony prior to the paddle out was held on the sand where friends and loved ones spoke to the crowd. "I wish he could see the love of community in this world he created, and how many lives he blessed with his science," A.J. said.
Speeches were given by big-wave riders Taylor Knox and Brad Gerlach, with stories about searching for massive waves around the world. A prayer was given by pastor and friend Sumo Sato. Among them were surfing royalty like surfwear creators Bob Hurley and Quiksilver's Bob McKnight, along with several world champions.
Knox choked back tears as he talked about Collins, whom he knew when he/Collins??? was just an up-and-coming surfer in the '80s.
"He's going to be really missed," said World Tour surfer Knox. "He's like a tree, and there's all this fruit falling from the tree. He's an absolute legend. I'm just happy to know the guy… I know he's here today."
Pai talked about the spiritual connection Collins had with the weather and wind patterns.
"Smell that," he recalled Collins asking him over breakfast one time in Mexico.
"Bacon and Eggs?" Pai replied?
The weather has shifted, Collins said, literally sniffing the air. He pulled up his Ipad to show a real-time video of a tropical storm brewing – and caught the next flight out to avoid getting pounded.
"He had this magic, this gift," Pai said. "Who can smell a change in the weather? He had this magical gift, to be able to smell out waves, smell out storms."
While hundreds of spectators lined the pier, about 500 surfers took to the water – some clutching flowers – and formed a large circle on the south side of the pier. They held hands, splashed water to the sky.
"His influence on the millions of surfers and non-surfers will impact us for years and decades to come," said Huntington Surf and Sport owner and friend Aaron Pai. "He changed the way we searched for waves, and sought out swells around the world. This man influenced an entire generation."


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Outstanding Lecturer Award 2008-2009
February 16, 2009
TO: Campus Community
FROM: President Jon Whitmore
I am pleased to announce that the Outstanding Lecturer Selection Committee and I have chosen Mr. William D. DeVincenzi, Department of Accounting and Finance in the College of Business, as the recipient of the San José State University Outstanding Lecturer Award for 2008-2009. The Outstanding Lecturer Award recognizes a lecturer for excellence in teaching effectiveness and service to the San José State University campus community.
William DeVincenzi, "Mr. D.," as his students like to call him, began a second career at San José State University in 1994 following a successful career in the corporate finance field, including 10 years at the vice presidential and/or chief financial officer level. Perhaps his greatest strength in facilitating outstanding student learning and equipping students to succeed in the business world comes from the experience and expertise gained in his nearly 30-year career in the disciplines of accounting and finance. Nothing compares to learning from someone with that hands-on experience and knowledge. Students know this and when they enroll in his classes, they quickly realize that they have found a gifted and multi-talented lecturer in Mr. DeVincenzi. He continues to maintain his CPA license and teaches both accounting and finance courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Mr. DeVincenzi uses his corporate experience and his well-established industry contacts to enhance his classroom teaching, department curriculum, and co-curricular activities. His SOTE ratings are consistently very good to excellent, even for lower-division business classes. When his department chair was seeking a way to professionalize SJSU's finance degree in a way that would distinguish our graduates from those of other universities, Mr. DeVincenzi led the effort by facilitating and expanding the Corporate Financial Management (CFM) major, combining both accounting and finance core courses. He knew that this was precisely what corporations look for in a potential employee. He also created the "Honors Practicum," which became the capstone course for this major. The Honors Practicum selects the best students in the department and places them in corporations to apply what they have learned in the classroom to real business problems and to demonstrate their capabilities. The program became so successful that it was adopted by all of the departments within the College of Business in 2005, with Mr. DeVincenzi as its director. The success of this program attracted the attention of SJSU alumnus Gary J. Sbona, a 1966 graduate of the College of Business who currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Regent Pacific Management Corporation, a global firm specializing in restructuring, recovery and renewal of underperforming companies. Mr. DeVincenzi was instrumental in Mr. Sbona's decision to contribute $5.2 million to SJSU over ten years, with most of the gift earmarked for the Honors Practicum Program. Furthermore and under the leadership of Mr. DeVincenzi, the success of this program has caused many corporations, such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, Applied Materials, National Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems, Adobe Systems, Agilent Technologies and many more, to look to SJSU's College of Business first when hiring new employees.
William DeVincenzi's commitment to students also is reflected in the Financial Management Association (FMA) students' club success story. When he was appointed the association's faculty advisor, there were only 12 members and half of them had not paid their dues. Through his advice, coaching, commitment and support, the students have created what is now the best FMA club in the country. Going literally from last to first, they now enjoy a membership of 150-200 -- the largest in the nation. The group's National Honor Society, whose members have a 3.25 GPA and above, is also one of the largest in the nation. FMA has achieved Superior Chapter designation four years in a row, has three to four student officers recognized each year as FMA Fellows; and he has been named outstanding faculty advisor by FMA International for the past four years.
William DeVincenzi has further demonstrated his invaluable commitment and support of his students by participating in the Faculty Mentor Program, where he has mentored an average of four students per semester, plus two President's scholars and all of his FMA officers and honor students. In addition to numerous awards within the College of Business, he was named Outstanding Faculty Advisor in 2007-08 by San José State University. He volunteers as a faculty marshal at graduation ceremonies every year and attends awards ceremonies recognizing the best students. He has also served for the past seven years as director of the Mandatory Accounting and Finance Student Orientation Program, a two-and-one-half-hour session providing students with all the information, advice and opportunities they need to be successful at SJSU. He has mentored teams in the Annual Price Waterhouse Coopers University competition for college students, an intensive two-week problem-solving and presentation exercise where his teams have won first place in 2006, second in 2007, and first again in 2008. In addition, Mr. DeVincenzi has taken over the role of faculty liaison with the Financial Executives International (FEI) Scholarship Committee. In 2008, four of his students received scholarships worth $4,000 each -- this was out of a total of 10 such scholarships awarded by FEI, spread among six universities in the Bay Area, including UC Berkeley and Santa Clara.
Mr. DeVincenzi was named a Salzburg Fellow in 2007 and attended the Salzburg Global Seminar where he learned how to internationalize courses and how to internationalize a university as a whole. He has brought this perspective into his classroom through lectures, bringing in guest lecturers and taking his classes to special lectures provided by the Lucas Graduate School of Business. In the summer of 2007, he took 24 honor students to China for two weeks to experience how business is done in, with and through China. The group visited many corporations, universities and financial institutions as well as cultural and historical sites, giving students a "hands on" perspective of China's cultural and business environment. In summer of 2008, he took 20 students on a similar trip to Central Europe, visiting Hungary, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. His students have called these abroad trips their best learning experience while at SJSU. A trip is currently being planned to take 20 honor students to South America in the summer of 2009, visiting Chile and Argentina.
Please join me in congratulating William DeVincenzi, "Mr. D.," for his selection as the recipient of the 2008-2009 Outstanding Lecturer Award. The award will be presented to him at the 10th Annual Faculty Service Recognition and Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, April 14, 11:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., in the Student Union Barrett Ballroom.


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Maryland basketball player Dez Wells is filing suit against Xavier, claiming he was wrongfully dismissed by the school after being accused of sexual assault by a student during his freshman year in 2012.
Wells was never criminally charged — a prosecutor said there was no basis for action — but was expelled by the university.
Now Wells, who transferred to Maryland before last season and immediately became a starter, is legally challenging the procedure that Xavier used to dismiss him.
"In July 2012, Wells was falsely accused of sexual assault," according to a copy of the suit. The suit names the university and Father Michael J. Graham, Xavier's president, as defendants.
"The Xavier University Conduct Board, charged with adjudicating the allegations against Wells, failed to follow Xavier's policies for disciplinary proceedings, conducted a fundamentally unfair hearing and defamed Wells by publicly proclaliming him guilty of rape, materially as a result of Father Graham's irresponsible and reckless rush to judgment," the suit said.
Xavier responded with an emailed statement from Graham on Tuesday night defending its procedures.
"We have read the complaint and the allegations of wrongdoing are unfounded and cannot be supported. The process used by the Xavier University Conduct Board applies to all of our students and is the standard used in American universities," Graham said in his response. "After members of the Conduct Board reached their decision, the matter was considered and upheld in an appeal. The sanction for the offense was expulsion. The University has never revealed the specific charge against Dez Wells other than to say he was found responsible for a violation of the Student Code of Conduct. The university will vigorously defend the process and the decision."
The suit, which is being filed in the Southern District of Ohio, was first reported by Yahoo! Sports.
Wells' case was unusual in that not only were no charges filed by a grand jury, but the prosecutor took the unusual step of seeming to publicly advocate for the player.
Hamilton County (Ohio) Prosecuting Attorney Joseph T. Deters told the Baltimore Sun last year that "I think Maryland's getting a good kid, I really do."
Deters, a former Ohio state treasurer who has been a prosecutor for more than 30 years, said at the time that Wells was involved in a game of "truth or dare" involving three females and three males while he was enrolled at Xavier. The game led to the allegation against him by one of the females, and Xavier expelled him following a review by a committee of faculty, students and administrators.
Deters said the accuser's "dare" had been to lift her shirt up, and that she complied. At some point, he said, Wells and the accuser began having sex.
The two "knew each other (and) they were in a sexual situation totally consensual until the very last seconds, and that's where their stories diverged," Deters said at the time. "I'm not known as soft on crime by any stretch of the imagination. But I am also very sensitive of people being accused of things where it doesn't even reach anything close to a standard of proof that we would even think of accepting."
At the time, Deters expressed concern about the process Xavier used to investigate Wells. "If you're going to go down this path, the degree of proof shouldn't be in the hands of untrained people," he told The Sun. He declined later interviews.
The suit says Xavier declined to consider exculpatory evidence against Wells. It says Xavier caused the player to suffer "severe emotional distress" and it seeks compensatory damages for the player.


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The unification of Big Corporations and Big Government, with the help of the Banking/Finance/Federal Reserve sector, it is specifically referring to the current socio-economic-political situation in the United States. The entity controls all of key aspects of society, from politicians, judges, Big Industry, all the mainstream media channels, Energy, Banking/Finances, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Military/Intelligence and police. This entity will fight off any attempt at competition or loss of control of the masses.
Corpovernment revolving door example: Big Corp executives leave the company and are hired in top positions in the federal and state government by their buddies already onboard. They then write laws that benefit their former company and/or industry, and then leave the gov and are hired back with big payouts in their former job/industry.
Ex: Monsanto, Halliburton
Ex: Monsanto, Halliburton
by dracul June 25, 2013
buy the domain for your recipe site


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NPD – Q3 digital sales in US up 22% to $1.4 billion
NPD Group Q3 2012 Games Market Dynamics report has been released for the US, and the data shows a 22% increase in digital sales.
According to the report, digital brought in $1.4 billion in sales at retail for the period of July – September 2012.
NPD notes the $1.4 billion spent on digital content brought consumer spend to $2.87 billion for Q3 in all sectors tracked.
"When including overall consumer content spending across both digital and physical formats in Q3 2012, there was a positive story for the industry," said NPD analyst Liam Callahan.
"Despite declines in physical format spending of 16% from Q3 2011, strong growth in digital format spending, up 22 percent, helped offset this decline and led to 1% decline in content spending from the same quarter last year.
"Mobile App spending, digital full game downloads, and downloadable add-on content were the areas within digital format spending that helped drive this increase."
New physical console and PC title spend came in at $1.07 billion in the US and another $399 million was spent on used and rental titles.
Thanks, GI International.


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How Santiago's journey to school was cut in half
"The Journeys to School exhibition changed my life," says 14-year-old Santiago Muñoz, from New York (United States). "Before, I was always stressed out. Now I have more freedom."
It used to take Santiago two hours and 30 minutes to get to class. Today it takes him less than half that time, all because of the UNESCO/ SIPA Press/Transdev photo exhibition, Journeys to School which opened at the United Nations on 4 March. The exhibition shows the difficulties children around the world face to get to school, including Santiago's five-hour daily commute.
The local media took an interest in Santiago. They observed that children who went to school on rickshaws, donkeys, sleds or canoes (or on foot) took less time to arrive in class. Two weeks later, he had a new home.
"The housing authorities read about Santiago's tremendous effort to get an education. ", explains Julio, Santiago's father. "They helped us find a transfer."
In mid-March, Santiago and his family moved to a new public-housing complex in Brooklyn, closer to his school - the prestigious Bronx High School of Science. Today, it only takes him an hour and 10 minutes to get to class, whereas he used to get up at 5 a.m. to start the arduous journey to school by public transport from his former home in Far Rockaway, Queens.
The seven-person Muñoz household qualified for a housing transfer because Hurricane Sandy had disrupted local public transport in early 2013. "After Sandy, what had once seemed like a long trip suddenly felt endless. We all had to add an extra hour to our trips but Santiago had the furthest of all to travel," explains Julio, adding that despite these obstacles, all three children continued to maintain high averages.
"We can smile again"
Julio was very relieved, not only because of the shorter commutes but because they had left behind a dangerous neighbourhood.
"We lived in constant insecurity. We would throw ourselves to the floor whenever shots were fired by the gangs that surrounded our neighbourhood," he remembers. "I was on my computer in the living room and my grandma was in the kitchen when a stray bullet hit our kitchen window and shattered the glass. Thankfully, nobody was hurt."
Santiago lives with his father Julio, sister Natalia, brother Anthony, aunt Gloria, grandmother Blanca and cousin Jonathan. What is life like for the Muñoz family these days?
"I can spend more time in the shower!" laughs Santiago. "Six of us used to get up at 5 a.m. and get 10 minutes each in the bathroom". Now everyone gets up at different times so mornings are easier. "I also feel safer in the street," he adds.
"We can share more moments as a family, sleep better, and not feel so vulnerable. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project, we can smile again," says Julio. "I hope UNESCO will continue to do projects like this, that recognize the efforts of children all over the world, with all kinds of problems, and hopefully help them. I am glad Santiago serves as an example to other children."
The Journeys to School exhibition opens in UNESCO Headquarters, Paris on 3 April and will be inaugurated by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova on 10 April.
Interviews by Jean O'Sullivan
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Fri 8/3 7p: Tune in to Salsa Sabrosa and enjoy live from "Salsa Under the Stars" in Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater: Ivon Ulibarri and Café Mocha concert. One of Albuquerque's hottest Salsa bands, brewing an exciting blend of Son, Cha-Cha, Merengue, Cumbia, and other Latin styles from the Caribbean and beyond. Ivon Ulibarri has been a pioneer of Salsa music in New Mexico, an award-winning vocalist and song writer. A big effort of KUNM Production and the Colectivo RAÍCES for you!
Ivon Ulibarri y Café mocha LIVE!
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The Consequences for Democratic Self-Government
Many government services, especially in terms of police protection and the administration of justice, must to a large extent be monopolistic; there is little room for competing police forces or competing systems of justice within a jurisdiction. The government is sovereign, establishing rules that all citizens or residents must adhere to, a role that is rarely even approached by for-profit entities. The government employer is expected to directly advance the interests of the public, an expectation that simply does not apply to any individual for-profit company. Two of the most important functions that any local government is expected to provide, police and fire, are quasi-military in nature, requiring high degrees of physical bravery and strict adherence to chains of command if they are to be executed properly. At the same time, any disruption of these and other government services could have catastrophic consequences for a community.
The process of collective bargaining established by PERA changes the functioning of representative government profoundly. Nearly every aspect of policymaking can be affected, even dictated, by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, but the process of setting a governmental budget is the most straightforward example.
With or without collective bargaining, governments do not operate within a vacuum; they must offer competitive wage and benefit packages if they are to recruit and retain qualified workers. But whether or not one supports collective bargaining, there is no denying that it changes the budget process. In the absence of collective bargaining, elected officials are free to consult with their own financial advisors, develop a wage and benefits package, and present this package to their employees. Government employees are not powerless — they retain the option of looking for work in the private sector or with other government employers — but at least elected officials would be free to follow their own spending priorities and implement a budget without interference.
Collective bargaining changes the process considerably. Modifications to wages and benefits must be negotiated with a union representative before they are implemented. As a contract expires, elected officials cannot presume that they can continue with existing arrangements. Even if the vast majority of the workers are content with their wage and benefits packages, the contract must be renegotiated, and union officials can be expected to present new demands whose impact on the budget must be evaluated. Local governments are not required to meet these demands, but an impasse in negotiations presents its own risks, including unfair labor practice allegations that must be evaluated by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. Before reaching impasse, local officials must be prepared to demonstrate that they bargained in good faith, which goes beyond ordinary factual honesty. Under both the NLRA model and PERA, "[C]ourts look to the overall conduct of a party to determine if it has actively engaged in the bargaining process with an open mind and a sincere desire to reach an agreement."[3] This can be a difficult judgment for a court to make when a party takes a strong stance on a contractual issue, and the understandable desire to avoid legal difficulties can create an incentive for officials to accept compromises that might otherwise be contrary to sound public policy. Elected officials cannot be certain how a tough negotiating stance will be interpreted. In the case of police officers and firefighters, a failure to reach an agreement will result in the establishment of an arbitration panel, which will then decide terms of employment.
Regardless of one's opinions on the merits of collective bargaining, it is clear that it complicates the process of managing municipal finances. Unless local officials are prepared for a bargaining impasse, unions have an effective veto power over large swaths of a local government or school board's budget, especially where employee compensation is concerned. The sweep of the "union veto" is broad: Based on U.S. census figures for 2005-2006, we estimate that wages and benefits for local government employees in Michigan were equal to 45.6 percent of operations spending, meaning that close to half of a typical local government's budget went to compensation for employees.[4] This is, if anything, a modest estimate of the impact that personnel costs have on government. The Commonwealth Foundation has estimated that salaries and benefits make up 70 percent of the cost of running a school district in Pennsylvania, while the Heartland Institute estimates that more than 80 percent of the city of Chicago's budget is related to personnel costs.[5]
Even more troubling, however, is the impact of work rules. The work of government employees is the work of government itself, and contractual clauses that affect the duties of government employees cannot help but influence the way in which laws are enforced and public policies are implemented. The federal and state constitutions are both predicated on principles of democratic self-government, meaning that all aspects of government are under the effective control of the people, who make policy either directly through referenda or indirectly through elected officials.
Collective bargaining can and often does take important aspects of government policy out of the hands of local elected officials and instead makes those policies the subject of negotiations between the elected representatives of the people and union officials who are not accountable to the citizenry, further broadening the union veto.
To illustrate the problem, consider the following provisions of the current collective bargaining agreement between the Detroit Public Schools and the Detroit Federation of Teachers:
- Since at least
2002, the contract has specified that all textbooks meet "guidelines
established by the District and outlined in the 1968 Textbook Report,
Publication 1-112, or its successor, prepared by School-Community Relations."
This requirement binds the school board to its existing curriculum policy. If
the board should decide to pursue a new approach in terms of curriculum,
perhaps to adopt innovative teaching methods or to revise content to reflect
new scholarship, it may find itself blocked by a union grievance that forces
the board to continue using standards it established in 1968.
The contract also has very specific requirements for American and World History courses that could be used to block revisions of the history curriculum. These provisions give the union considerable influence in deciding what students are taught, a subject that properly belongs to the discretion of the elected officials representing the people of Detroit.
- The contract commits the District to "aggressively" seek funds for integration and desegregation. Given Detroit's history, it is understandable that these would be important issues for the school board, but the board should be free to determine its own priorities in terms of lobbying for state or federal funds.
- The contract states that schedules for adult education facilities will be made through a "District-Union Committee" made up of an equal number of union and district representatives and subject to approval by both union and district officials, making the union the equal of the district in terms of setting the schedule.
- The contract sets strict class-size limits and further stipulates that class sizes at the beginning of a semester will be substantially below those limits, so that "population shifts" will not result in classes that exceed the student limits. The contract also sets up a "Class Size Review Board," made up of equal numbers of union and district representatives, with authority to resolve class-size complaints. Not only does the contract set class sizes, it has the district share power with the union in terms of how class-size requirements are met.
- The contract limits the number of students assigned to special education classes. State recommendations cannot be exceeded without the union's permission; there is no indication that the bargainers who drew up the contract considered the possibility that the district might at some point have an unusually high number of students in need of these services. If a student is in need of special education services, the district should be free to arrange for him or her to receive them without consulting the union.
- The contract sets the lengths of school days and class periods in high schools.
- The contract
establishes specific penalties and procedures for various forms of student
misconduct, and creates a "Uniform Code Review Committee" made up of equal
numbers of union and district representatives. Student discipline is a vital
aspect of educational policy; fairness to students and their parents is best
served when student infractions are investigated and penalties set by the body
that is accountable to the people of Detroit. While school boards should be
encouraged to consult with teachers on the setting of disciplinary standards,
final authority over student discipline ought to lie with the elected school
board. Under the contract, discipline has become another area of shared
authority between the board and the Detroit Federation of Teachers.
The contract also sets many parameters for report cards, determining how often grades will be passed out and what time periods the grades will reflect. The contract specifies that primary school students will receive "non-graded" report cards. It also sets forth the procedure for handling student appeals of grades, with the final determination made by "Grade Review Panels" made up of union and district representatives. Certainly, teachers should have a great deal of input in evaluating student work, and in general, the grades they hand out should stand. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a system where they would not.
But as is the case with curriculum and student discipline, fairness to students and parents dictates that final authority in this area should be left with the elected representatives of the people of Detroit. The process for evaluating student work ultimately ought to be left to the determination of the school board.
- Finally, the grievance procedure calls for final resolution of all grievances by the American Arbitration Association. Because the contract touches on many areas of education policy and does not attempt to distinguish between matters of public policy and core matters of labor relations — wages, hours, benefits and working conditions — the grievance process could result in educational policy being resolved by the AAA, rather than the elected Board of Education.[*]
By contrast, the typical charter school board, operating without a union contract, has much greater flexibility and control over academics, discipline and general operations, consulting with teachers but retaining authority and accountability to parents. (Michigan charter schools are subject to PERA, but the vast majority remain nonunion by the teachers' choice.) To be fair, it should be noted that the DPS contract is a rather egregious example generated by an especially dysfunctional school district. Still, the Detroit Public Schools contract illustrates that collective bargaining under PERA opens the door to infringements on the authority of elected officials, and shows how one union has taken advantage of PERA to assert control over matters of public policy. The Detroit Public Schools are not alone in allowing this to happen, though; a survey published by the Mackinac Center of public school collective bargaining agreements showed that the overwhelming majority of school districts had agreed to class-size limits as part of collective bargaining.[6]
Nor is this tendency of collective bargaining to encroach on policy matters an entirely new development. In 1987, the Citizens Research Council of Michigan observed that PERA had led to court decisions allowing unions to encroach on local government prerogatives:
"... PERA is the predominant state statute governing public employee relations in Michigan. When a conflict has arisen between another state statute, charter provision, or local ordinance, and a provision of a contract negotiated under PERA, in virtually every instance the contract provision has been held to prevail.
One result of the dominance of PERA, as Attorney General opinions have noted, is that 'public employers and their affected employees [have] the right to, in effect, negotiate a statute out of existence as to the contracting parties through collective bargaining.' [Citation omitted.] This raises serious concerns because the provisions 'bargained out of existence' by the parties may contain safeguards which were enacted at the state or local level to limit the scope and size of government."[7]
Among the statutes that have been effectively trumped by collective bargaining under PERA are:
- The County Civil Service Act, which prior to the enactment of PERA established local civil service commissions. These commissions set wages and work classifications for local government employees and were intended to ensure that hiring and promotions would be determined by skill, rather than partisan pressures.[8]
- The Municipal Employees Retirement System established under state law.[9]
- Local government charters. The state constitution gives counties, cities and villages the authority to draft and amend their own charters, subject to the limits of the state constitution and general state laws. Under this principle of home rule, citizens would be free to shape their own local governments and restrict their actions as they see fit. PERA, however, has been interpreted so that collective bargaining agreements trump the provisions of local ordinances and charters.[10] In this regard PERA arguably has subverted the state constitution.[†]
As a consequence of PERA's undermining of home rule, local ordinances establishing disciplinary standards, residency requirements and staffing standards have been rendered ineffective. Courts have also applied PERA's standards to public school employees, effectively trumping the provisions of education statutes.[11]
In a democratic government, the power to annul legislation must be reserved for the people, their elected officials or, in cases where either exceeds their authority, the courts. When legislative authority is exercised by private entities, such as government employee unions, the inevitable result is to undermine democratic self-government. This situation is dangerous enough when the union focuses on traditional collective bargaining issues, such as wages, benefits, hours and basic working conditions. But government employee unions are developing a distinct public policy agenda that ranges well beyond ordinary workplace issues, and PERA has given them their own unique and powerful tools with which to advance that agenda, to the detriment of the residents of Michigan.
In theory, the duty to bargain is limited to wages, hours and other terms or conditions of employment, but that "other" category remains broad and poorly defined. In practice, any political issue that can be expressed in terms of employee compensation, job duties or work standards and included in a collective bargaining agreement is vulnerable to manipulation by government union negotiators. Since the work of government employees consists of enforcing laws and implementing the decisions of government officials, the range in which union officials can use PERA to usurp authority that the state and federal constitutions leave to the people and their elected officials is disturbingly broad.
[*] These provisions are found in the master agreement between the Detroit Federation of Teachers and the Detroit City School District that took effect July 1, 2002 and originally expired June 30, 2005. Unlike most government union contracts, which are superseded by new contracts, this collective bargaining agreement was amended and extended in 2005 and 2006, and it remains in effect at this time.
[†] Michigan municipal law is a complicated area beyond the scope of this study, but the obligation to bargain undeniably places restrictions on local governments, and it does so in a manner not addressed by the Michigan Constitution. The Legislature has considerable authority to shape local government operations, including the provisions of local government charters, but it is not clear that it should be able to delegate that authority to private bodies, such as unions, or that it intended to do so when PERA was enacted. It is the opinion of this author that such a delegation has in fact happened, and that at a minimum this issue is ripe for reconsideration by the state courts.


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Demi Moore -- Oscars 2010 Red Carpet
Demi Moore hits the red carpet at the 2010 Oscars held at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday (March 7) in Hollywood.
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For all that you have heard about millennials but were not really sure if it was true — they want to work when they want to work … their idea of work-life balance is heavily tilted toward life … they have no sense of loyalty or paying their dues — understand that this one simple fact appears to be 100 percent accurate:
By next year, millennials will represent the majority of the global workforce. And by 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts they will become the majority of the workforce in the United States, too.
That's right — the millennial generation isn't just coming. It's already here.
Ignore them — or worse, try to change them — at your own peril. For they are not the enemy; they are the key to your success.
They are just different.
They certainly don't think like baby boomers — or even Generation X (if you know someone who can define this group, let us know). But as the baby boomers did, their ideas and attitudes will drive the nature of business for the next few decades.
In this special report, NJBIZ examines their impact on the workforce while analyzing the various stereotypes that have come to define them. We even took our own unscientific survey to get an inside look at their mindset.
1. MILLENNIALS' MOMENT: THE FUTURE IS NOW (Millennials aren't just in the workplace — they are getting ready to take over. Are you ready? Many of your competitors are)
2. MILLENNIALS' MOMENT: What makes a millennial?
3. MILLENNIALS' MOMENT: What millennials want
4. TAKE THE NJBIZ POLL: Does your workplace follow the supposed stereotypical millennial vision of a balanced work-life structure with ample opportunity for personal and professional growth?
1. Manufacturing a new workplace: BASF taking steps to ensure company appeals to wants of next generation of employees
2. When the money man looks like a kid: Formisano has found ways to use his youth to win over older clients
3. The modern commute doesn't have to include a car
4. Job jumping is way of life: New workers, eager to make impact, quick to seek new opportunities
5. Bringing a 'real-time perspective' to Trenton: Rodriguez-Gregg, at 32, gives younger generation voice in General Assembly
This special report was brought to you by … our millennials
NJBIZ has welcomed millennials into our newsroom in a big way, as six of our editorial staffers fall into the group.
We thought you'd like to get to know a little about them — and what they want out of work. (Listed from left to right)
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Top work want: To have stability and structure — and a lot of people who make it fun to be there.
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We've used "the Hut", "Pizza" and "Chambermaid". It appears that Josh Beckett has his own nickname.
This loop was uploaded to SoSH by Captain Laddie. Beckett is yelling at Chamberlain from the dugout after the second of Joba's two pitches sails over Youkilis's head.
Beckett's start against the MFY at Fenway should be interesting.
September 1, 2007
New Nickname for Joba?
by allan at 12:32 AM
8 comments:
- tim said...
Hey, F'ing C-word! ?
That's what i get out of that. Am I correct in my presumption?
Anyway back to Team America uncensored on comedy central :P
dirka-dirka muhammad jihad!
- September 1, 2007 at 1:39 AM
- redsock said...
I believe it is:
"Get out of here you ..."
- September 1, 2007 at 1:44 AM
- redsock said...
"JtC" ?
- September 1, 2007 at 1:45 AM
- Jere said...
"Hey, F'ing C-word! ?"
Tim, check out that day's game thread. (search the c word. although it could be one of two c words, I guess)
- September 1, 2007 at 1:53 AM
- Beth said...
it is "get outta here you fing c." this is def. one of the best uses of animated .gif ever. :)
look at the way he savors the c-word--truly professional cussing right there.
- September 1, 2007 at 7:21 AM
- L-girl said...
C-word? Joy Nation becoming so delicate all of a sudden?
- September 1, 2007 at 8:03 AM
- redsock said...
- September 1, 2007 at 10:40 AM
- thatdietcokegirl said...
i love beckett.
- September 1, 2007 at 1:24 PM
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NHMS Notebook: Tough to put together a win streak at NHMS
July 10. 2013 8:19PM
LOUDON — Jimmie Johnson won both NASCAR Sprint Cup races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2003.Kurt Busch did the double in 2004.
Those are the only two times any driver has won consecutive races at NHMS, either in the same season or spanning years.
Both Busch and Johnson have won a New Hampshire Cup race since then.
But it was Busch's win in the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 on June 29, 2008 that started the current streak of 10 different winners in the last 10 races at New Hampshire, the longest active Cup streak going at any track.
New Hampshire winners, in order, since that last Busch victory have been Greg Biffle, Joey Logano, Mark Martin, Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Kasey Kahne and Denny Hamlin.
Biffle, Stewart and Logano were among the drivers who came here and tested a couple of weeks ago.
"We race twice here, it's a flat racetrack with newer type pavement and we feel like we can learn a little bit here for other racetracks, or trends that we can try to get to work at other racetracks," Biffle said when asked why his Fenway Roush team chose to take one of its limited tests at NHMS.
He'll see if he can pick off another win here, too.
Biffle had slipped in the point standings to No. 13 after a string of rough finishes — he was 36th , 36th, 13th and 31st — but is now back up to eighth.
Logano's up-and-down season continued with a 40th-place finish at Daytona last week. Logano had jumped four spots the previous week to No. 10 after the race at Kentucky and dropped back five to No. 15 after Daytona.
Still, he is only 18 points behind Kurt Busch in ninth place and 16 behind Tony Stewart in 10th. He also is only one in front of Newman.
Newman has become a regular in the Whelen Modified Tour race at NHMS and is entered in Saturday's Town Fair Tire 100 again. ... Andy Seuss of Hampstead, who has been racing out of Salisbury, N.C., is also in the Modified race. Seuss is fourth in points on the Whelen Southern Modified tour. He finished third in the last Southern tour race at Caraway Speedway in Sophia, N.C. on Friday. ... Ryan Preece has won the last three Whelen Modified Tour races this season and with another victory would become only the third driver to win four straight in the series, joining Richie Evans and Mike Stefanik. Preece is doing double duty this weekend and making his Nationwide Series debut.


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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Dylan Thompson is slated to start Saturday in what is easily the most important game of the season thus far for the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Steve Spurrier said Tuesday that Connor Shaw will likely be back to 100% in "two to three weeks." Until then, Thompson is the starting quarterback.
Shaw was knocked out of the Tennessee game in the 4th quarter with what team officials are calling a sprained knee.
"He may be able to dress and be a backup, we don't know," said Spurrier on Shaw's chances of being on the sidelines against the Tigers. "Dylan is definitely going to start the game and it'll be his game to go with."
There was one encouraging sign today at practice. Shaw was not wearing the yellow jersey that injured players wear. He wore his normal jersey, but he didn't have on shoulder pads.
"Thompson's game" is a do-or-die game for the Gamecocks if there is any hope left to win the SEC East.
No. 5 Missouri sits at 7-0 coming off huge wins over Georgia and Florida. With a win against South Carolina, the Tigers will likely be division champions.
If the Gamecocks come out on top, there's still a chance for a USC trip to Atlanta for the Southeastern Conference Championship Game.
For that to happen, the Gamecocks will have to beat Missouri and win their remaining conference games against Mississippi State and Florida. In addition, Missouri will have to lose one game against one of its final four opponents: Tennessee, Kentucky, Ole Miss, or Texas A&M.
"It's a huge game for us," said Spurrier. "It's a game that's gonna decide whether or not we're in the division hunt or not. Simple as that."
"Hopefully we can regroup and go out to Missouri and play our best game of the year," said the Head Ball Coach, who is hoping to put his team's stunning loss against Tennessee behind him. "That one's history and to beat Missouri we've got to take care of the ball better and we've got to stop them."
Saturday will mark Thompson's first start of the season.
"I think Dylan is ready to go," said Spurrier. "He'll prepare as hard as he can this week. He will be ready to go and he'll give it his best shot, we know that. This is his time this year. It's coming up."
The junior's 'time of year' last year was the latter part of the season. Thompson led the 2012 team to a win over Clemson to close out the season. He also tossed the winning pass late in the Outback Bowl to lift the Gamecocks over Michigan.
Saturday's game in Columbia, Missouri kicks off at 7 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN 2.
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One of comedy's brightest new stars, his comedy mainly led by themes around his mixed-race heritage and identity, his experiences growing up in a Soweto township during apartheid, and his observations on American life. His 2016 Lost in Translation tour was his first national tour in the States, followed up with his hugely successful Netflix special, Afraid Of The Dark in early 2017.
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