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Founded on 8 January 1857 at the Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana by Pope Blessed Pius IX. Name changed to the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend on 28 May 1960. Suffragen of the archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana. Notable bishops include
- Archbishop John Francis Noll
- Bishop Andrew Gregory Grutka
- Bishop Daniel Robert Jenky
- Bishop Herman Joseph Alerding
- Bishop John George Bennett
- Bishop John Henry Luers
- Bishop John Michael D'Arcy
- Bishop John Richard Sheets
- Bishop Joseph Gregory Dwenger
- Bishop Joseph Rademacher
- Bishop Joseph Robert Crowley
- Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley
- Bishop William Edward McManus
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To Bribery's human: I'm very sorry for your loss of Bribery. He was so handsome. I'm sure he had four years of wonderful love. The video was very nice.
I hope Bribery being POTD is a special day for you to honor his memory.
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To Bribery's human: I'm very sorry for your loss of Bribery. He was so handsome. I'm sure he had four years of wonderful love. The video was very nice.
I hope Bribery being POTD is a special day for you to honor his memory.
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Thank you very much. It means a whole lot to me that he got to be pet of the day and everyone else gets to see his story and know who he was.
It seems everywhere I go I am sharing about him. i learned a lot through Bribery and one of those things is to never give up. Whatever anyone might be facing in life you should never give up, keep on fighting until the very end, and know that there is always someone out there who loves you.
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My deepest sympathies to you on the passing on your beloved boy, Bribery. I've watched his very touching slideshow twice, and both times my eyes filled with tears. What a very special, unbreakable bond of love and trust you shared, how blessed you were to have had a friend as special as he.
He truly was a beauty, not only in looks but in heart, and oh, what a big heart he had. I can only imagine the strength and determination he had to muster to survive such unspeakable abuse. And knowing that he, a former racing thoroughbred, was headed for the slaughterhouse is beyond heartbreaking. But through it all, including his illness, he never lost his will to survive, nor his gentle and trusting ways, his ability to savor and enjoy even the smallest of life's pleasures.
Thankfully your boy was able to hold on until he could find his way to you, his forever human, that forever person who would love and respect him every day of his life. . I only wish the vets could have diagnosed him sooner so that you and he would have had more time together. But each and every day he shared with you, his trusted friend and soul mate, was a gift...for you both. He left this earth knowing how loved he was, unconditionally, and he will hold that love in his heart until that happy day when you and he are together again. We can't thank you enough for giving such a precious, deserving soul a chance at happiness, the carefree life he always deserved, and I too hope that seeing him being honored here today brings you some comfort. You and Bribery are both heroes in my book.
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What a wonderful tribute to beautiful Bribery. He was a beautiful soul & I'm so glad he spent his short time
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Bribery what a beautiful, brave and special boy you were!!!
I am so sorry you had to go to the Rainbow bridge so soon. It is wonderful that you knew the love and kindess of a family who loved you to the moon and back though. I know you took that love with you. I know you will all be together again, one fine day.
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No matter what anyone does, someone some where will be offended some how!!!!
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Take a few minutes to watch Bill O'Reilly interview Cardinal Timothy Dolan about the bishops's continuing battle again the Obama administration. Cardinal Dolan seems to suggest that secularists in the Obama administration are using the issue of birth control, which is used by most Catholics, to further their secular agenda. O'Reilly goes one step further, claiming that there is a concerted effort driven by politicians and the secular media to drive religious people away from the public square. Cardinal Dolan doesn't quite take that bait, but does nod approvingly at O'Reilly.
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
What do you think? Do you see evidence of a war being waged by secularists against religious people? Does that imply that all religious people are against contraception and the HHS mandate (they're not, by any means), and those that favor it are not as authentically religious? Are the bishops being caricatured?
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I continue to find him controntational and unpersuasive in his argumentation and playing the "religious liberty"and "secularism" cards loosely. He does seem to show his savvy and humor where he points out that if he were to tell people to vote foroone candidate they would choose the other. What does that really say about his sense of the bishops influence apart from the obvious political meddling that implies?
I think he continues to cast himself and the bishops as the Don Quixotes fighting the windmills of "secularism" rather than allowing that faithful Catholics can disagree both on the substance of the teaching about contraception and on the issue of this impingment on "religious liberty."
His quick affirmation - quickly withdrawn and rephrased - about the "role of the Church in politicss" reframed to the "voice of the American Catholic people" in politics was fast, but I think his first reaction was the most telling.
I would like to hear the question, "Cardinal, why do you think it is that after 40 years, the vast majority of Cathoiics, by any count, still do not accept the formal teaching on the evil of artificial contraception? Whose failure is it? Or do you think it possible that it is it sign that the Spirit is moving the body of believers in another direction?"
Can you imagine the outcry by the Catholic League or the Carinal if someone from the administration accused him or the Church of trying to alienate voters from support? Theree would be an ooutcry - "NO.. WE'RE DEFENDING OUR PRINCIPLES!!!"
I more and moe think this energy is about the recent decisons - same-sex marriage, immigratin and adoption policies, and to deflect atten tion from the ongooing issues in Kansas City and Philadelphia. And I'll admit that that's a judgment!
The Cardinal attributes all virtue to himself and others in the hierarchy and disparages the motives and integrity of those who disagree. This is classic counter-offensive when attacked. I feel sad and discouragfed about any real dialogue on this.
Bill O Reilly would be a better defender of the Catholic faith as he does not feel the need to mince his words and "win" over his audience as much.
The problem is that Dolan is the leading catholic in America and is not in touch with the culture of today.He is not thoughtful in his approach and people can sense he is out of his depth.
He is now responsibe for drawing up the blueprint for the Irish seminaries and so the Church there may eventually revert to the triumphalist clerical cesspit it was in the glory days .
Before going to the matresses with Obama he should have checked his stats on the Pew survey.
A secondary question would concern what someone would include in universal health insurance if he were designing universal health insurance for this country. Cardinal Dolan remains silent on why contraception shouldn't be part of a universal health insurance pool (Catholics would not be required to use it), where it would be covered along with other things. Some of the other things might be morally objectionable to some, like treatment for smokers. Some of them might be shunned by some potential beneficiaries, like end-of-life feeding tubes, which many Catholics will be required to have even if the bishops and states like mine succeed in keeping dying Catholics from being able to have access to the Vatican's latest don'ts for end-of-life decisions.
Cardinal Dolan is almost skywriting that he believes the answer to the first question is, Yes. I think it is, No.
I didn't see people make a such big huff over that appearance.
How could anyone miss the breakthroughst statement encouraging Catholics as individuals to fully paticipate in the politcs and public affairs of the nation?. ?? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????T?h?a?t? ?b?y? ?i?t?s?e?l?f? ?i?s? ?a? ?m?o?b?i?l?i?z?a?t?i?o?n? ?o?f? ?e?f?f?o?r?t? ?t?o? ?p?r?e?s?e?v?e? ?t?h?e? ?c?h?u?r?c?h?
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John Kerry in his aloofness boycotted the Fox netwoek during his 2004 campaign which only prevented him from reaching a very significant audience.
The Obama campaign will however not be so foolish. Dolan on Fox is big trouble for Obama. The comments miss the politcal obvious dynamic going on: Dolan message of disapproval of Obam's policy is reaching a large Catholic vote by being on O'Reilly.
How dull can Catholics be about politcs?
Why am I mentioning Jesus while speaking about Cardinal Dolan's political scheming?I don't know!
Really no idea.But Tom is right, Fox news is where it is at.I find it fair and balanced.
Also and this is worth bearing in mind to those who would speak ill of my favourite channel, Rupert Murdoch is a knight of St Gregory.
Oh Gawd, I am having a crisis of faith now that I realize Cardinal Dolan is smarter than Jesus....
When Obama comes to realize this he is gonna get real nervous.
Survey after survey has indicated that only about 5% of Americans are atheists. Even that may be an overestimate since some of these admit to praying and going to church. Often people seem to chose to identify themselves as atheists or agnostics simply to indicate they are against organized religion. As one German sociologist said "Both I and my Russian colleague are atheists, but he is an Orthodox atheist and I am a Lutheran atheist." The problem about atheism is that it tends to be against something rather than for something. Atheists have a very difficult problem of passing their atheism on to their children! Atheists are overwhelming on the politic left and of course are visible in academia, Hollywood and the media. I suggest secularism for the Dolan and O'Reilly is merely a way to smear Liberal Democrats by suggesting that are all like a small minority.
What about the people who respond None to the question of ''What is your religion?'' Again the evidence is very clear that almost all these people believe in God and are spiritual. They simply are turned off by organized religion. Often they are simply looking for another religion. The evidence indicates that the large increase of these in the past two decades has been due to the young and liberal Democrats becoming increasing alienated by the fact conservative religion and those who attend church regularly are becoming allied with the Republican party. In other words Dolan and O'Reilly are turning the young against organized religion and toward the Democratic Party. The young know that secularism is a code word for dislike of people with liberal social and political attitudes.
Secularism can also mean worldly, i.e. concern for money, status and power. I suggest that pursuit of these by our religious leaders is at the heart of why young people think that organized religion is hypocritical.
Obam is working hard to raise enough money to reach his billion dollar campaign fund goal which so far has been well below track. On the other hand Dolan does on one interview with O'Reilly and he becomes his own superpac. Dolan's is publically disapproval of the Obama administration no accomodation health care policy which politically exploites the Church. It is only fair that this politcal exploitation be brough to the attention of the widest audience of Catholics as possible so they can decide what they want to do about Obama's policy which blatantly disregards the Religious LIberty of the Church.
smart enough to avoid the media. Dolan is making the serious mistake in believing that his jovial personality can override the absurdity of his positions. It is so clear that he is partisan that he is bringing more shame on the bishops. Saying that he would probably "help the opponent" if he told Catholics to vote against Obama, is a serious act of partisanship by a bishop. No less the head of the American bishops. Attempting to make this whole issue an effort by the secular world to hurt religion is pure fantasy. Dolan and the bishops just can't seem to avoid getting deeper and deeper in trouble.
http://www.religionnews.com/culture/social-issues/are-bishops-ignoring-their-own-moral-theology. If the prohibition of artificial contraception is as important as the RC bishops give the impression of thinking that it is, perhaps the time has come for dissenters to seek a spiritual home elsewhere. But large scale explicit departures over an issue so peripheral to the Decalogue and the Good News would undermine the RC bishops' pretentious to represent close to a quarter of the U.S. population.
Here is the first review written in 2006 to give you a feel for the book:
''This book, written by a 68-year-old Rhode Island politician who has been a lifelong Democrat, should be a wake-up call to the leadership of the national Democratic Party. Unfortunately for the party, those leaders who most need to read the book are the people least likely to do so. Their minds are closed.
The book explains, in a brief and easy-to-read manner, what should be obvious - but apparently isn't - to leaders of the party. The Democratic Party is losing the support of church-going traditional Catholics, just as it earlier lost the support of church-going traditional Protestants. Why? Because it has taken money, lots of it (it's needed for TV advertising), from what the author calls ''affluent secularists,'' i.e., well-to-do cultural liberals who are strongly hostile to traditional Christianity and its moral code, especially its code of sexual morality. As everyone knows, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
This political alliance with America's anti-Christian forces might be a smart idea if the US were an anti-Christian nation. But since it isn't that kind of nation, it is an alliance that has produced a string of electoral defeats for the Democrats. Oh, we Dems may get lucky and win control, or at least partial control, of Congress in November of 2006, but this will do little to alter the party's long-term downhill slide.
Strongly recommended.''
It is a pity that the majority of comments on this thread appear outside the sense of the faithful on this issue. I think the continuous and uncritical Bishop Bashing in many comments above, and the mostly ad hominem attacks on Cardinal Dolan evince a much deeper antipathy to the Church.
In any case, listening to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court earlier this week, it appears the mandate will go down in history as a failed grasp for power by this secular regime.
Carlos's reference to youtube presentation of Father Barron on the HHS Mandate makes excellent points expalining secularism in America as a politcal force.
NARAL is an example of militant secularism. NARAL will attack any candidate that is not for abortion on demand. NARAL attacked Scott Brown in his special Senate race in January 2010 for tryig ot include a conscience exemption for health care workers while he was in the Massachusetts legislature. (The all Democratic Massachusetts legilature most of whom are Catholics is strictly pro abortion and dose not tolerate anything else.) Major parts of the northeast with extensive help from nominal Catholic support not only abortion but abortion on demand as a statndard. They expect the Church to conform to their secular politcal demand for open ended abortion rights.
The moral ethic in the northeast even among Catholics is the government is the final arbitrae of morality. What the governemnt says is the highest moral authority which the Church is expected to conform to. Little sentiment for freedom of religion can be found.
When most people say "secularism" they are not talking about atheism or indifferentism. A secularist is somebody who believes that arguments in favor of public policy should be based on objective, empirical evidence which can be publicly measured and evaluated. "Let's lower taxes because lowering taxes stimulates the economy," is a secular argument. "Let's lower taxes because Zeus told me in a dream that he'll send a plague if we don't" is not.
People like Dolan call this "removing religion from the public square," but that is demagogic nonsense. If your god tells you that rotation of crops is good for agricultural productivity, then you can and should argue in favor of rotation of crops on grounds of agricultural productivity. But when David Koresh's god commands him to marry every twelve-year-old girl in town, that should have no influence on child molestation laws.
Most secularists are not atheists or "nones." I am a relatively devout Catholic, but I am a secularist. Nothing good has ever come of basing public policy on supernatural phenomena, IMHO.
That said , there are a miniscule amount of catholics who follow the teaching of the Church.
This situation would never happen in Italy.The Church would lose all of it's tax money which comes from the "otto per mille" scheme.
So basically the Vatican has to play very nice with Italians or face a monastic lifestyle.
Jehovahs Witnesses should ask for an exemption for Blood transfusions as they will be paying for free transfusions for Catholics etc when it goes against their beliefs.Those lovely people over at "Culture of Death" INC could claim that palliative care is an infringement on their worldview.Muslims could whine about having to pay for alcohol related illnesses which is material co-operation in what for them is a great evil.Jewish people could complain about having to pay at all.....:) .
There is a thing called the "Common Good" and the Greater Good.
Surely there is a Jesuit somewhere who can explain this to them.
I am of course fully in support of finding ways to get everybody the healthcare they need, but the mandate that this administration put into ObamaCare was a bridge too far. While they claimed it was a way to have everybody share the costs, it is in fact a coercive method to make everyone pay for whatever they decide is healthcare. While limited government folks were already aware of the dangers in the legislation, many Catholics, including many well-meaning clergy, have only seen the negative effects recently. You can get a good idea of the depth of the religious liberty controvery at http://www.catholicliberty.com/ where you will see that many non-Catholics and even secularists have raised objections to the law. From a purely political point of view, it appears the Obama administration miscalculated badly, announcing a mandate forcing Catholic institutions to pay for services that were against their moral teachings, just a couple of months before the Supreme Court justices, that is 2/3rds Catholic (6 of 9), heard oral arguments. Even the supposedly liberal justice, Sonia Sotomayor (appointed by President Obama) raised major concerns on the mandate.
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It is indeed sad to see that America has gone so far from its Jesuit roots. As far as I know, they are the only order to profess a fourth vow of obedience to the Pope. But I live in hope that the good remnant of the Jesuit order will renew the whole community. ad majorem Dei gloriam.
Actually Vince much of the momentum and following that secularism has today comes from the more than a century and half of Marxist communism doctrine and practice which was secular with a vengence and totalitarian where only the state retatining all moral and political power. All Religions were a threat to the state and were not tolerated and were violently suppressed.. Marxist states were completely hostile to religion and taugh that religion and belief in God is a primitive superstition unworthy of existance in a Marxist state or ideology. You could not be a member of the communsist party if you even belonged to a religion. Marxist goal was total worldwide elimination of religion. As Marx very cynically said "Religion is the opiate of the people"
Today many people still believe that religion is a bad thing and only the state is good. Much of the pro-governemnt, anti-religious secularism we see today is dervided from the long politcal, intellectual and cultural dominace of Marxist around the world during the 20th century. Marxist secularism lives on even though the marxist political and economic system collapsed. And yes this is a vile ideology but old habits and practices of billions of people die hard. The state as a dominant moral agent or force in society, is still the unquestioned assumption and very popular concept in all unversities who after the horrors of 20th century marxist communism attacks on religion and individual freedoms ought to know better but don't.
-Obama's Notre-Dame 2009 speech.
"-What do you read, my lord?
-Words, words, words."
You have too much faith in the Mandate. The Mandate is coercion to buy insurance, not the coercion to take care of people. In the case you linked to, it appears the poor woman complained of a sprained ankle and had no other signs. She later died of a blood clot. If she had been able to go to a doctor in a regular clinic, he/she might not have done anything different. Also, it is ironic that you raised this case, since the mandate the president is pushing right now is for free contraception, and it is well established that the contraceptive pill increases the incidence of blood clots of the type the poor women suffered. I don't know all the facts of the situation, but I do think the poor women should have been treated more charitably by the ER staff.
You may be a proponent of nationalized healthcare, which goes on in the UK. Everyone is covered by the government. The religious conscience issue does not apply there. But, even in this situation there are horror stories of how poor people are treated. Here is one but I have seen many: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000824/NHS-indignity-Peter-Thompsons-body-ignored-hours-corridor-Edale-House-unit.html.
I refuse to worship at the Altar of Dolan. He's a political player, and not a good one. Hand-picking friendly interviewers in the "No-Spin Zone"?! Gimme a break.
In response to your comment:
"In any case, listening to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court earlier this week, it appears the mandate will go down in history as a failed grasp for power by this secular regime."
You call a failed grasp for power - the attempt to reform the health care by providing among other things insurance to those who have been denied it for preexisting conditions and insurance for young adults?
I am dumbfounded. My jaw has dropped lower than my double chin.
@ A A, Young people are not contemptuous of you because you stand for un-PC positions, but because all the arrogant contempt you showed them turned out to be arrant hypocrisy; because they discovered (mainly through the offices of the criminal justice system) that all the while priests were denouncing lay people for onanism, pre-marital relations and cohabitation, they themselves were committing acts a hundred times filthier. The answer is not for the Church to try to make it harder for young people to afford contraception, but to clean up their own act.


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The Avengers – Movie Review (2012)
"Guys, I'm bringing the party to you!" and hell ya that was a damn good party. When Marvel's first avenger made its debut as a Hulk in 2003 it was not received very well. Since year 2000 digital advancement has given realistic touch to those age old comic book series, nourished them to the life like characters on screen and polished them with style and substance. Some worked very well while others went flat.
With the booting of Spiderman and X-men series world actually got interested in things that were only limited to so called "geeks". Since then bringing the famous comic book character to life has become the main focus for majority of Hollywood producers. Avengers was one of the very few super-hero or sci-fi movies that was actually entertaining without trying too hard.
Iron Man: Robert Downey, Jr.'s genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist image as an Tony Stark in 2007 brought some genuine humour and style to the super-hero movies and stayed steady in Avengers too. He finally got some match and task which he always wanted.
Hulk: Every time new actors plays the role in different movie. Edward Norton was very effective in The Incredible Hulk but Mark Ruffalo also did a great job in portraying Bruce Banner/Hulk. There are two stealer scenes in the which are bound to get belly aching laugh among the audience in the middle of the war. Finally he was recognized as super hero than moster.
Thor: Chris Hemsworth debuted Thor last year and we agreed. He did his part well and maintained his style even when fighting with Iron Man.
Captain America: Chris Evans looks Captain America since the debut as first Avenger. He kept Captain America alive for years and fought with honour till the end.
Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff: Sexy as she is, Scarlett Johansson adds the hotness to the film. Unlike other movies this pretty girl can hit dialogues as hard she kicks your ass.
Hawks eye: Though he got a slow and dark start to the movie at the end he did his job with ace.
Loki: Tom Hiddleston did a good as as bad person in Thor and he showed his white arse again in Avengers with a ludicrous plan of ruling earth.
Other notable characters were Nick Fury/Samuel L J, 'Agent' Phil and hot property from How I Met Your Mother Cobie Smulder a.k.a Robin as agent Maria Hill
Ok now its time for pulses and minuses.
- Easy flow of the story with no boring plot.
- Calling up the Avengers.
- Verbal and Physical interactions between the Avengers.
- Humour that Tony Stark always carry. But was surprised to see Hulk's hilarious punch to Thor and Hulk's reaction to Loki's self addressing as god.
- Natasha Romanoffs and Agent Maria's body tight suite and killer moves.
- Iron Man's trip to space was out of this world (literally)
- Finally great action sequence. Very well structured.
- Ship turning to ridiculous invisible Helicarrier.
- I think thats the only thing i did not like… but i will update if i recall any.
So yes Avengers has surely started the summer 2012 with blockbuster (after loosing hopes on Hunger Games). And I am eagerly waiting for some soon-to-be-epic movies like The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spiderman and Prometheus.
I rate: 8.5/10


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Bruce Springsteen Releases Video for 'Rocky Ground'
The second video from Bruce Springsteen's new album, 'Wrecking Ball' has been released. It's the emotional centerpiece of the album, 'Rocky Ground,' which is a bit of a sonic departure for Springsteen.
As opposed to the surging, angry sound of the first single, 'We Take Care of Our Own,' 'Rocky Ground' is mournful and reflective. It's built around a drum loop and a 1942 field recording by famed archivist Alan Lomax. Gospel singer Michelle Moore, who has been on tour with Springsteen performing 'Rocky Ground,' sings the title line and contributes a 16-bar rap in the middle. Horns and a percussive wah-wah pedal guitar are added for effect.
But there's also a sense of optimism in the lyrics, which use Biblical imagery, that we can overcome our current troubles through our senses of faith and community. Its themes are brought home by the video, which, apart from one shot, is in black-and-white. slow-motion depictions of Americana are set in the background while the song's lyrics are written out on a legal pad in various hands.
The video was directed by Thom Zimny, who has worked with Springsteen on a number of projects and also edited 'The Wire' television series.
Watch the Video for Bruce Springsteen's 'Rocky Ground'


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International Social Survey Program: Role of Government III, 1996 (ICPSR 34841)
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The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) is an ongoing program of cross-national collaboration. Formed in 1983, the group develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. This survey is the third in a series exploring the "role of government" topic. The first survey on this topic was conducted in 1985-1986 and the second in 1990. Participating countries in the 1996 survey include Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Citizens' opinions were elicited on the function of their national governments and on what governments should and should not be doing. Respondents were asked whether they approved of economic policies such as wage and price controls, job creation programs, including public work projects, support for ailing private industries, and the forced reduction in the industrial work week, as well as conservative measures, such as reductions in government spending and business regulations. Government spending was another topic, with respondents questioned as to their support for greater spending on the environment, health care, police and law enforcement, education, military and defense, culture and the arts, old age pensions, unemployment benefits, and housing for the poor. A number of questions dealt with respondents' attitudes regarding democracy, political power, and protest. Respondents were asked for their views on the rule of law when it is in conflict with private conscience, various forms of anti-government protest (public meetings, protest marches and demonstrations, nationwide strikes), whether the right to protest should be afforded to those who advocate the overthrow of the government by revolution, and the conflict between security needs and privacy rights. Other questions focused on the role of elections in democracies, including whether voters understand political issues, whether elections force governments to confront pressing political issues, whether certain institutions (unions, government, business and industry) have too much power in affecting election results, whether politicians really try to keep their election promises, whether civil servants can be trusted to work in the public's interest, and whether various industries (power companies, hospitals, banks) are better off being run by the private sector or by the government. Opinions were also elicited as to whether government had a legitimate role in the redistribution of wealth in the country, by tax policy or otherwise. Demographic variables include age, sex, education, marital status, personal and family income, employment status, household size and composition, occupation, religion and church attendance, social class, union membership, political party, voting history, and ethnicity.
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— In the past month, three reports have been released telling what could be done with Fort Monroe, what maynot be done with it and what's unlikely to be done.
It's unlikely that the entire fort will become a national park under current circumstances, according to the National Park Service. It could be a tourist destination and a village of homes, shops and offices, according to a reuse plan. And it's not open for unchecked new construction or redevelopment, according to an agreement expected to be signed by the Army and the future caretakers of the place, the Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority.
Anyone interested in how this will change Hampton and the region is watching closely as the 18-member authority plans a future for the 570-acre spit of land on the east end of Hampton, which includes a moated parade grounds and a hamlet of brick buildings.
It has been an Army post since 1819 and has a military history dating to 1608. Pentagon officials decided in 2005 to close Fort Monroe as part of a realignment process to save money and reorganize the military.
The authority is trying to find a way to raise enough money to keep all the historic buildings in good condition; maintain roads, lawns and infrastructure; and provide public services for those who will live, work or visit there. For example, services like police, fire, water and sewer for residents could be financed by property taxes paid by those who move in after the Army leaves in September 2011. Building maintenance might be the responsibility of those who lease the building. Those are just some of the suggestions in the reuse plan.
Meanwhile, the authority is obliged under the National Historic Preservation Act to preserve architectural details and the historic views and relevance of Fort Monroe, while allowing it to morph from barracks and an artillery training center into a waterfront resort community.
The level of preservation will be determined in an agreement signed by the authority, the Army, the state historic preservation officer, the commonwealth of Virginia and other agencies.
The reuse plan is a document full of ideas. It has ideas about how to preserve buildings while allowing them to be renovated or adapted for some other use, so Fort Monroe can bring in enough money to pay maintenance bills. The reuse plan also includes an elaborate mix of maps, numbers, analysis and suggestions.
For example, how much will it cost to provide police and fire services, or what will garbage collection fees be?
Most of the information is preliminary, educated guesswork by consultants. For example, the report says Fort Monroe will draw between 215,000 to 275,000 visitors annually.
The reuse plan also assumes that all the buildings will be negotiated into long-term leases of at least 50 years within a few years of the Army leaving and will be leased at 90 percent of the property's sale price.
One authority board member, Tommy Thompson, wondered out loud during the last meeting how the consultants could have arrived at such a conclusion.
Additionally, the annual cost of maintaining infrastructure on the base could be between $3.9million and $4.7million, according to the reuse plan.
In a very different document, with different variables, the National Park Service says it will cost $34million a year to operate Fort Monroe as a national park.
Hampton's public works director, John Veneziano, said the maintenance and operations costs didn't include "ongoing capital replacement," such as a new roof for a building, or a new boiler or furnace.
And many questions are still unanswered — such as that a garbage truck won't fit the inner entrances at the moat, so how will residents or businesses within the moat dispose of trash?
The cost estimates provided at this point are based on assumptions about how much service will be provided to the base, the number of people living and working there, the number of vehicles traveling on the roads and many more.
"If that land use changes, you have to do it over again," Veneziano said of cost estimates.
City Manager Jesse Wallace said the reuse plan's numbers were adequate for this early stage. But there's not enough data or certainty about the plan to accurately determine how much it will cost to provide public services to Fort Monroe, he said.
"There's simply no way to figure your staffing levels until you know what you're staffing for," he said. What's new this month is that the reuse plan is a guideline: "Now we have a formal process," Wallace said.
Maintenance estimates will become clearer in the next three years as the authority plans with more detail, authority Chairman L. Preston Bryant Jr. said.
Now is still too early to say how a specific building will be reused, but Bryant said the authority's charge in the next 18 months was to:
Ask the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to help find an anchor tenant for Fort Monroe, much like a shopping mall might have a Dillard's or Macy's.
Get experts involved to review real estate figures. This will likely include officials from the Virginia Department of General Services Division of Real Estate Services.
Work with the Army and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to make sure that environmental cleanup is coordinated with reuse plans, so cleanup doesn't slow down reuse efforts.
Continue to refine and redefine the reuse plan, so it has more specific and up-to-date estimates of cost, possible tourism, etc.
There's still more than three years until the Army leaves, so "on the numbers, we have the luxury of time," Bryant said.
Some plans and their costs suggested for Fort Monroe $34 million: National Park Service estimate of annual cost to make Fort Monroe a national park 516,622 square feet of space that can be converted to offices, though offices might not be the best use of this space 7,500 to 12,000 square feet of retail space that could be supported by 500 to 1,000 households and nearby offices. These would be "village-scale" merchant stores accessible by pedestrians. Spending $3.9 million to $4.7 million to operate and maintain roads and infrastructure. Doesn't include capital improvements — paying to build new roads or sidewalks or pipes, for example Sources: National Park Service May 2008 Reconnaissance Study, Fort Monroe Reuse Plan, Programmatic Agreement for the Closure and Disposal of Fort Monroe What's next? The Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority will finalize the reuse plan before sending it to the governor's office when the authority meets from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday in the Bay Breeze Community Center, 490 Fenwick Road at Fort Monroe.


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(This is my article that appeared in the July/August 2011 issue of the New Humanist magazine that appeared there with the title No Doubt.)
Charles Darwin believed that God was not required to explain nature and strongly opposed the later attempts by Alfred Wallace, the co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection, to argue that some form of divine intervention was necessary to explain human intelligence and consciousness.
From this, one might reasonably conclude that Darwin was an atheist. And yet he firmly rejected efforts by others to stick that label on him and insisted on calling himself an agnostic. Edward Aveling, a self-professed atheist, tried to convince Darwin that "the terms 'agnostic' and 'atheist' were practically equivalent". Darwin did not challenge Aveling's characterization that an "agnostic was but atheist writ respectable and atheist was but agnostic writ aggressive", but merely questioned why anyone would want to be aggressive.
Darwin's response highlights the fact that calling oneself an agnostic is much more socially acceptable than saying one is an atheist. As a respectable member of the Victorian establishment he likely did not want to disturb the comfortable social world in which he lived. Religious believers are far more comfortable with agnostics. Atheists appear to directly contradict their views; whereas agnostics seem to allow for the possibility that God might exist and thus confer some intellectual respectability on those with belief.
But what exactly is the difference? The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines an atheist as "One who denies or disbelieves the existence of a God." That part of the definition as one who "disbelieves" in God is unexceptional. Atheists say that there is no evidence for the existence of God and so it makes no sense to believe in one. It is the word "denies" that creates problems. If by "denies" we mean a willingness to publicly declare disbelief, then it too is acceptable. But if interpreted as implying that the atheist is certain that there is no God, then it is too strong. Since one cannot prove the non-existence of a god, or anything else, no thoughtful atheist would sign on to such a statement.
The OED definition of an agnostic – as "One who holds that the existence of anything beyond and behind material phenomena is unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable, and especially that a First Cause and an unseen world are subjects of which we know nothing" – hardly banishes the confusion either.
One problem is that this definition fails to distinguish between not knowing something and there being nothing to know. As Ricky Gervais said in response to a challenge as to what right a mere comedian had to make pronouncements on whether God exists; "Since there is nothing to know about God, a comedian knows as much about God as anyone else."
It is logically impossible to prove the non-existence of anything, however absurd (whether it be a god or unicorns), so the purely logical answer to whether anything exists, when the answer isn't "yes", is "I don't know". By this definition we are all agnostic about practically everything.
But there is a difference between saying one is agnostic because of the logical impossibility of proving a negative, and being an agnostic because the evidence is not (as yet, anyway) convincing either way. For example, the currently popular theory of elementary particles postulates the existence of a particle known as the Higgs boson that has as yet not been directly detected. The new Large Hadron Collider at CERN has the detection of this particle as one of its major goals. Until it is detected, it is perfectly reasonable to be agnostic on the question of its existence. If at some point it is detected, agnostics would shift out of the agnostic camp and into the camp of believers. But when would it become possible to say that it does not exist?
A state of permanent agnosticism in such situations seems unwarranted. After all, we are perfectly comfortable in saying that some things simply don't exist even if we cannot prove it logically. So in the absence of any evidence for existence, what distinguishes those things we can confidently assert don't exist (like unicorns) from those things (like God or an immaterial soul) whose nonexistence some are loth to proclaim?
Science can help here because in that world, when something becomes unnecessary as an explanatory concept, it is confidently asserted not to exist. For example, take the concept of the ether. This was believed to be a material substance that permeated all of space and was necessary in order to explain the propagation of electromagnetic waves. As more and more experiments failed to detect it, the properties of the ether had to be refined and modified to explain away the negative results. Even though the theory of the ether became quite convoluted, it was still thought to exist because it was necessary as an explanatory concept. When Einstein came along with his theory of relativity, he did not prove that there was no ether. What he did with his alternative theory was make the ether unnecessary as an explanatory concept. As a consequence, scientists now comfortably assert that the ether does not exist, just as they were comfortable thinking earlier that it did exist. We are no longer agnostic on the question of ether's existence.
So rather than "One who denies or disbelieves the existence of a God", a more accurate definition for atheist would be "One for whom God is unnecessary as an explanatory concept". This definition leaves little room for agnostics because they will have to answer the question as to whether they think that God is necessary as an explanatory concept for anything. If they say "no", they are in the same camp as atheists. If they say "yes", they are effectively religious and would be required to show where the necessity arises.
This proposed definition of atheist may not make agnosticism about God completely redundant, because determined people of a philosophical bent can always find ways to salvage any cherished proposition from being rejected. But it would go a long way towards clarifying what atheism represents.


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Foreclosure Forgiveness
For four years the housing crisis has been dragging down the U.S. economy, impoverishing homeowners, preventing a robust recovery and stifling job creation. The Obama administration has taken a number of actions to relieve the situation: reducing principal for some homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program, urging mortgage companies to do the same through multistate foreclosure settlements and assisting distressed homeowners with refinancing. Still, these efforts have failed to forestall the cascade of problems gushing from the home-loan debacle. Economists, and now the Treasury Department, have begun to think the unthinkable: forgiving substantial repayment by homeowners whose properties are "under water," that is, whose mortgages exceed their market value. Even Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner has come to hold this view.
But Edward J. DeMarco, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the office that supervises the country's largest mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has rejected the idea of principal reduction. Mr. DeMarco, analysts say, has taken his action to uphold the principle of debt repayment. In a country that can bail out its banks and permit mega-bonuses for bankers, it is unjust to hold the line on homeowners. Mr. Geithner has written Mr. DeMarco, asking him to reconsider. The secretary argued that reducing payments on principal would relieve "a significant number of troubled homeowners, help repair the nation's housing market and result in a net benefit to taxpayers." The F.H.F.A. should heed Treasury's request, and if it does not, the administration would be well-advised to find new leadership for the agency.
Marketing Health Insurance
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court challenge, foot-dragging by opponents and 33 votes in the House for repeal, President Obama's health care reform law is crawling toward the finish line of full implementation. Health exchanges, a sort of insurance supermarket to help people compare policies, are supposed to be up and running for consumers in every state by 2014. But as the November 2013 deadline for putting them in place draws near, only 13 states have applied to set up an exchange. Additional states probably will apply, but the federal government expects half of all the 50 states to abdicate their role in creating an exchange. So much for the federal "takeover" of health care. In some cases the failure is a blatant act of political rebellion, even sabotage, against the federal law; in other states noncompliance reflects budget woes, reduced staffing and other local setbacks.
The federal government must redouble its efforts and add to its own budget the cost of setting up so many state exchanges. It must also aggressively counter the political fallout sure to follow. For state detractors, even those who have abdicated their duty, can complain about whatever the federal government does or does not do. It is always easier to criticize than to lead, especially if local voters support tactical defiance. Resistance by states also helps those members of Congress who are already prone to starve the federal government of revenue and appropriations for health insurance.
Voters should look closely at the health care reform law. Basically it is a long-range plan to see that nearly all Americans are insured against the huge financial risk of illness and injury, whether chronic or sudden. The insurance exchanges, then, are vital to our nation's health.
Status of Christians
In this age of over-sharing, many Americans are still keeping their religious identities to themselves—at least online. According to a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute, 50 percent of Americans refrain from describing their religious beliefs in their Facebook profiles. Of the half that choose to identify their beliefs, 20 percent describe themselves as Christian, 9 percent call themselves Catholic, and 4 percent identify as atheist, agnostic or nothing. In addition, only 5 percent of Americans say they follow a religious leader on Twitter or Facebook. White evangelical Protestants are the most likely to have engaged with a religious group or leader online. Nearly 20 percent have posted a status update about being in church (for Catholics, the number is 2 percent), and 25 percent have listened to a sermon online (compared with 6 percent of Catholics).
So should churches just give up on reaching out through digital media? Not yet. Younger Americans are far more likely to engage with religious groups and leaders online. Four in 10 Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 say they use Facebook multiple times each day. The same percentage of younger Americans say that their church provides a Facebook page or a Web site where people can interact, and 26 percent say their church encourages them to use social media. Still, it is possible to become too plugged in. Sixteen percent of young Americans admit to sending or reading e-mails during a worship service. In the end, it is real-life actions, not online identities, that define a person's commitment to his or her faith. One hopes others will know we are Christians by our love—even if they cannot tell from our status updates.
I am aware that the media in the United States has given misinformation about Canadian Health Care, saying that you had to wait too long, and it was a flawed system, but I want to tell you that it is good and it is managable. I think that is what is meant by "Voters should look closely at the health care reform law." It would be a wonderful thing to put it in place in the United States of America.
I trained at a medical school across the border from Canada. My medical school now has international institutes of cardiology and cancer, due to an influx of money from Canadians who knew that they would not survive the wait for treatment of serious illnesses in Canada. I am sure that if you have a cold in Canada you will be serviced quickly and well. If you are older, have as serious illness and want immediate advanced treatment, it may well e another story. I assume this occurrence is what drove all those Canadians withh cancer, heart disease, etc.to come to my alma mater with their hard earned money to get timely treatment which they paid for out of pocket.
By the way, we medical providers have noticed a significant decrease in civility on the part of some patients since they are now "entitled" to all the care they want. Usually this care involves narcotics, and other mind altering dangerous drugs, or perhaps tests which they think they need and don't. I really am tired of being sworn at, having my female residents reduced to tears and having to see so many patients and work such long hours entering data into ill formulated electronic medical records which don't let me enter an accurate diagnosis.
Many health care providers are retiring early.
With all due respect, prinicpal reduction? Postponed or deferred, maybe, but if one takes on and promises to pay (promissory note) one should honor that promise, not look to the government to bail them out of a mortgage that probably should never have been made inthe first place.
The Affordable Healthcare Act is a travisty. Boards to determine and counsel one on dying? Abortion and contraceptives? Detrmining who lives and who dies? Where are we going? sounds like the movie Soylant Green.
"Federal debt nears $16 trillion, with no easy way to pay it down."
"The debt is now lurking just under the $16 trillion mark - a number huge enough to be almost incomprehensible to the layperson. One way to visualize its magnitude: If you were to spend a dollar every second, it would take you 32,000 years to spend $1 trillion, or a mere one-16th of the debt." From USA Today August 24, 2012.
There is such a thing as being "generous to a fault". If we continue to take this route to unlimited debt, we will not be around to help anyone.
I would find it enlightening to learn what province this is; can you provide a link to something documenting this claim?
The early federal rush to provide SOME solution to the foreclosure crisis foundered on the exhaustive standards that already reluctant servicers were required to satisfy. Generation Two of the solutions, mostly failed as well, asked note holders to take a haircut voluntarily, when they'd paid good money for their loans. Maybe their buying practices were shabby (though not all were), but remember, these loans were in mortgage investment packages that were rated for credit quality. In a thin margin business like mortgage lending, shortcuts equaled cost savings, so loan buyers relied on the ratings when buying. Thats why the ratings scandal that is part of all this has, IMHO, a much bigger level of responsibility than almost all of the other players in this American tragedy.
Bank bailouts, while a sympathetic sister response, are not quite the same as principal reduction. What WOULD be the same is federal buyout of the troubled loans. Whether principal reduction happened or not should be partly driven by the true fall in real estate values, something individual lenders and servicers have a harder time monitoring than a single, ad hoc federal agency. A more closely observed local market also could be aided by coordinated other state and federal action to make sure the hardest hit areas get the right level of attention. We need to admit that pockets of the "Sand States" are as much disaster areas as those hit by storm or fire. Borrower guilt also could be rated by such an ad hoc agency. Borrowers in trouble due to medical, job or family pressures could get one level of support, and those who simply refi'd multiple times to keep the party going, could get less favorable workout terms.
But for both the parties sitting on these loans, and the governments waiting, hoping for some good news, it's time to recognize the relief a one-time sweep up of these Borrowers and their loans would provide. And remember, many of these Borrowers CAN repay, just not now, not on these terms. If the market for these homes is depressed anyway, what sense does it make to force homeowners out, and have to maintain empty houses instead?


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Opinion: Why the Manning Verdict Was a Mistake
UC Berkeley law professor and AEI scholar John Yoo on the Army private's 35-year prison sentence for uploading thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Photo: Associated Press
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... turn on the case of private first class Bradley Manning ... was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for the crime of uploading thousands of secret documents to wiki leaks ... I spoke earlier today with Berkeley law professor and AEI scholar John you ... about that sense and ... have a listen ... welcome to the show John ... so you believe that Bradley Manning should of been convicted for aiding the enemy of much harsher charge ... could have resulted in the death penalty why ... Bradley Manning ... stole some of America's greatest secrets ... he took the man cave in to ... no new anti-American website ... weeky leaks are run by Chilean assigns ... and the information is done irreparable harm to our national security contain information ... including the names of ... foreign agents were helping us in foreign countries during a time of war ... sensitive diplomatic indications ... and even military tactical stress strategic information ... he's done much more harm that our national security that many spies chips ... Robert Hanson out to change or Jonathan Pollard been sentenced ... to life ... but the pick that one of the park in sentences ever for a week or this or thirty five years in prison ... why is that not enough of a deterrent ... I given what ... others like in the ever seen ... they ... are the promises are steam now with the many and with ... this new and used to think this is become wait ... is that our intelligence agencies are getting worse ... at Penney people ... ex ante before they do it ... from ... stealing our secrets ... and leaking so ... if you're going to deter people that you have to be stricter tougher after you catch them ... because if you can catch less of them and you have to punish them ... of much harsher is to turn ... down if our NSA intelligence agencies could do a better jobless ... of increasing security versus times ... and preventing people but Snowden or manager of stealing information first ... that would have to be so tough on sentences but when you look at Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden ... may seem that they're at their core it to be kind of Nini guy is that they ... they were looking to put people in danger they really did think they were doing the right thing ... should the courts take that into consideration as they seem to ... in this Bradley Manning case ... I'm not sure that's result of the case of Jonathan Pollard was a spy for Israel is ... alleged incident ... and aims to really get it for money and for a lavish lifestyle ... of the holiday can see what the hell ... is released all information from the Defense Department in its has received ... when help is we have ... I think from this perspective very noble motives ... or take the of rose over two were convicted and put to death for stealing atomic bomb plans they wanted to help ... the Soviet Union I don't ... change the motive should save them from doing something ... which is clearly illegal ... and which really harmed our national security ... I think your consideration would be more or if it was a garden variety crime ... this is a kind ... of crime that kind of packets are thousands and thousands of Americans ... do you think you deserve the death penalty ... I think you should of been eligible for the death penalty if you were ... that we know to have a lot more discussion of ... what many really was trying to do why he did it was that there are any extenuating or ... overcome mitigating circumstances and a lot when as we are story out today ... that many scant demand hormone therapy treatment was typical Chelsea Manning from now on ... as our own true that might be something the judge couldn't go find ... appropriate to take into account ... what do you think it got about thirty seconds left here John ... do you think that the rhetoric out of the White House has been strong enough ... to deter similar kinds of events and the president has been pretty harsh in his rhetoric it least ... about Edward Snowden ... I think he could be better and tougher I actually get the feeling that when present Obama goes out to defend the NSA Doesn't almost ... like he's embarrassed about it in as a Senator he is very critical ... of the government's surveillance programs I think he's doing all this half heartedly ... anybody really believe that he ought to be ... our orders just apartment to be tough for an extended got people like Edward Snowden running around the world ... showing even more American desolation weakness abroad by an ability to bring in an ... ever have to leave it that


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Since the year 2000, when we had over 6,000 responses to false alarm activations, the City of Palm Bay has been actively engaged in a program dedicated to the reduction of false alarms. While we have been very successful in our efforts to reduce false alarms, we realize that we must continue to work hard to educate the public about the negative effects that false alarms have on the police department's resources and manpower. There is no requirement that the Palm Bay Police Department respond to an alarm activation. However, as part of our mission of service to our community and as a courtesy to the alarm user, every effort will be made by the police department to respond to activations from registered alarm systems. At the same time, we expect the alarm user to recognize that an alarm system is their responsibility and their cooperation in operating their system in a manner as to prevent false alarms is of vital importance and required.
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Sunday, 10 February 2008
Pink Flowers and Chocolate Cheesecake
Who can resist a slice of decadent cheesecake? I certainly can not! I love cheesecake. It is the perfect dessert for entertaining guests or family and so easy to make. In celebration of the lovely spring-like weather we have had this weekend I thought what better choice of dessert than a cheesecake, so Chocolate Cheesecake it had to be. My son loves chocolate cheesecake and his been feeling unwell with a cold/sore throat for a few days, and what mother doesn't hate seeing her kid poorly, so I knew this would put a smile on his face :o). Lately with the cold weather, steamed puddings and crumbles with custard have graced our table after our Sunday meal but this cheesecake was a lovely change and a reminder of the eagerly awaited spring and summer.
5 comments:
- Pixie said...
mmmm chocolate cheesecake; i haven't had that in years! and how lovely to receive som flowers from your hubby :)
- 11 February 2008 at 10:29
- Rosie said...
Hi Maria, oh what a sweetie of hubby to buy you those wonderful pink flowers they are really lovely!!
I do hope your son is feeling much better now and with your beautiful cheesecake who wouldn't! :D
Rosie x
- 11 February 2008 at 10:32
- Maria said...
Hi Pixie, thanks for dropping by and as always for your kind commments.
Hi Rosie
Yeah I'm a lucky wifey and he loves surprising me with flowers every once in a while. My son is on the mend and the cheesecake must have done the trick, not much left of it now, hehehe. Thanks for dropping by.
- 11 February 2008 at 18:26
- Cooking and the City said...
Oh Maria how sweet of your hubby to buy you such lovely flowers. all good wishes to your son for a speedy recovery. delicious looking cheesecake! :-)
- 12 February 2008 at 16:17
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Oooh, yummy! Any chance you could send some over...?!
- 13 February 2008 at 10:42


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The focus of the library holdings is on public law, and in particular on domestic and foreign constitutional law. Beyond that, the library acquires books that cover a broad range of subjects, which enables the Court to consider the relevant facts of a case under non-juridical aspects as well.
Another part of the library, also since 1951, is the press archive "for collecting all material concerning the Court" (cf. § 18 of the Federal Constitutional Court's Rules of Procedure). A daily press digest is produced on the basis of 30 to 40 newspapers and magazines.
The Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg, a service provider for libraries, archives and museums in the Southwest German Library Network (Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund – SWB) maintains a union catalogue which lists all publications in the library. These titles may be found in the local electronic user catalogue. This applies to all books, and also to all essays that have been catalogued since August 1996. This means that presently approximately 640,000 titles (about 330,000 of which are essays) may be accessed via the catalogue of the Federal Constitutional Court's library, making it one of the largest juridical online catalogues in the German-speaking area.
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Special Education 445
EDSP 445: Adaptive Strategies in Mathematics
Prerequisites: EDSP 360 or EDSP 361, and 2.5 GPA
Credit Hours: (3)
Prospective educators are prepared with the background knowledge and skills necessary to promote literacy in mathematics for diverse learners. An emphasis is placed on research based techniques, strategies, and technologies to improve teacher instruction and student understanding of mathematical skills and concepts.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
Prospective educators are prepared with the background knowledge and skills necessary to promote literacy in mathematics for diverse learners. The course addresses the following topics related to improving teacher instruction and student understanding of mathematical skills and concepts:
· Math Foundations—Connect self-reflection of math beliefs with recognized theorists in context with the vision and content of mathematics in the 21st century.
· Lesson Design—Plan and implement research supported lesson design that follows national, state, local curricula standards and addresses culture, linguistic, individual, and gender differences.
· Problem Solving—Identify teaching strategies for solving word/story problems using the method of inquiry and real world applications.
· Assessment—Develop and use a variety of formative, summative, traditional, and alternative assessments to identify students' mathematical understanding that will guide instructional decisions.
· Student Learning/Teaching Strategies—Articulate how all students, including students with special needs learn mathematics using multiple strategies including listening to and understanding how students think about mathematics.
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
This course is conducted with emphasis on practical application of the subject matter through student participation and discussion, individual and collaborative group projects, presentations and demonstrations, technology applications, videos, readings, lecture, cooperative learning activities, written exams, and study guides.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Goals, objectives, and assignments in this class address NCATE Standard 1c Professional and Pedagogical Knowledge and Skills and 1g Dispositions. The course goals, objectives, and assignments also address CEC Content Standard 4 and 7.
The codes included below refer to the NCTM standards, CEC Knowledge and Skill Standards and the Virginia Department of Education teacher licensure competencies. Code for CEC Standards: CC = Common Core; GC = General Curriculum. Code for VADOE Standards: VGCA = Virginia's General Curriculum PART A; VGCB = Virginia's General Curriculum PART B; VHI=Hearing Impairments; VVI=Visual Impairments; VPS = Virginia's Professional Studies; VEC = Virginia Early Childhood. Other Codes: NAEYC=National Association for the Education of Young Children; NCTM=National Council for Teachers of Mathematics
Upon successful completion of this course the students will be able to:
1. Describe the basic math concepts and skills taught in Pre-K ‑ 8th grade (K-12th grade for graduate students in special education). (CC7K2, CC7K3, VGCA2b2, 4, VGCB2a, NAEYC 4, VEC2b)
2. Identify foundations of math education and goals for mathematics education in the twenty-first century. (CC7K1, NCTM 8-13)
3. Define a mathematical concept addressed in curricula standards and give several examples using concept-diagramming tools. (CC7K3, GC7S2, GC4S13)
4. Describe and contrast the developmental learning theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, and others. (CC7K1)
5. Explain Bruner's Three Levels of Concept Representation and Gagne's Systematic Application of Task Analysis. (CC7K1, CC7S5, VGCA2b6, VGCB2a1)
6. Describe the cognitive process of instruction (CPOI) and its relationship to other teaching models and create the visual representation of CPOI for several math competencies. (VGCA2b4-8, GC7S2, 3, NCTM 2-6, NAEYC4, VEC2, VPS2)
7. Conduct a task analysis in order to identify pre‑requisite skills for math competencies from the Standards of Learning (SOL). (CC7S5, VGCA2b6, VGCB2a1)
8. Identify teaching strategies for solving word/story problems using the method of inquiry and real world applications. (CC4S2, VGCA2b5, GC7S2, 3)
9. Identify students' math errors and suggest instructional approaches to modify their misconceptions. (CC7S13, 15, CC8S8, 9, GC4S12, VGCB2b, c)
10. Discuss the relationship between concept development in math and the use of manipulative aids. (CC7S8, GC4S13)
11. Develop and use a variety of formative, summative, and alternative assessments to identify student mathematical understanding and will guide instructional decisions. (CC8S5, VGCA2b4, 6, NAEYC3)
12. Identify research based instructional strategies for teaching basic math skills and articulate how all students, including students with disabilities learn mathematics using multiple strategies. (CC4S3, GC4S1-2, GC4S5, GC4K6, GC7S2, 3, VGCA2b4-8, VEC2b, VPS2)
13. Listen to and understand how students think about mathematics (GC7S2, CC4S3, NCTM 8, 14)
14. Model methods for increasing accuracy and proficiency in math calculations and applications. (GC4K6, GC7S2, CC4S3, NCTM 8, 14)
Assessment Measures
1. Formal tests and/or quizzes to assess mastery of course goals
2. Class participation in discussions, small group activities, and reflective writing
3. Professionally-written responses to readings submitted electronically (following APA style/format and adhering to standard written English conventions)
4. Real-life word problem where each participant, with one or two partners, will develop a real-life word problem to present to the entire class for their solution. Participants will demonstrate the solution of their word problem at all three levels of Bruner's concept development. (technology task)
5. Develop a detailed lesson plan on a math concept and competency using the Cognitive Process of Instruction, culminating in a professional lesson/presentation to facilitate class understanding of the topic. (technology task)
6. Develop materials describing your knowledge of various math facts properties and alternative math strategies in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and demonstrate a strategy. (technology task)
7. Applied technology assignment involving student identification of Web-based resources for teachers and examination of how these resources can benefit diverse learners.
Other Course Information
Graduate students enrolled in EDSP 545, Adaptive Strategies in Mathematics are expected to complete an additional project involving assessment of a student struggling in mathematics followed by a plan for instruction to address the needs of the student.
Review and Approval
Revised April, 2009