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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Smith College tallied six straight goals to start its NEWMAC women's lacrosse game with MIT, but the Engineers battled back to defeat the Pioneers, 17-11, on Saturday afternoon. Freshman Kira Schott (New Canaan, Conn.) registered a game-high six goals to go along with seven groundballs and a caused turnover as MIT improved to 3-5 on the year and 1-1 in conference play. Sophomore Jessica Lillquist (East Lyme, Conn.) paced Smith (1-7, 0-1 NEWMAC) with three goals and an assist while contributing three draw controls and a caused turnover.
Sophomore Jenny Estes (Falmouth, Mass.) opened the scoring for the Pioneers with the first of her three free-position goals after 33 seconds expired. Junior Petru Bester (Deep River, Conn.) tacked on an unassisted goal while Lillquist earned an assist on a strike by freshman Rachel Silveria (Dunstable, Mass.) and then converted a free-position shot to give Smith a 6-0 lead midway through the half.
The Engineers responded with their own six-goal run that knotted the game with 4:59 on the clock. Senior Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) found freshman Nadia Wallace (Rochester, N.Y.) for the first marker and then set up Schott for the next goal. Schott continued the scoring spree after connecting on a feed from senior Laura Wacker (Brooklyn, N.Y.) who then buried a pair of free-position shots. Senior Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) followed by registering the equalizer courtesy of a pass from sophomore Emma Kane (Garden City, N.Y.). Both sides made several charges at net down the stretch but it was the Pioneers who broke through on a solo effort from Bester with 30 seconds to go before the intermission.
Schott evened the score at seven after four minutes expired in the second half but goals from freshman Christina Vara (Hudson, Mass.) and junior Kate Dietrick (Petaluma, Calif.) gave Smith a 9-7 cushion at the 23:20 mark. The Engineers countered with four goals in span of 2:14 to take a lead they would not relinquish. Moments after winning the ensuing draw, MIT was awarded a free-position shot which saw junior Erica Du (Excelsior, Minn.) find Kane for the weak-side goal. The Schott-Wright connection returned, producing the tying goal as Wright followed with a free-position marker. Schott completed the spurt with her fifth goal of the day to give the Engineers an 11-9 lead.
The Pioneers quickly cut their deficit in half courtesy of an unassisted effort by Lillquist with 19:10 remaining. The game became a defensive battle during the next eight minutes as both sides were unable to convert its scoring attempts. MIT ended the stalemate when McShane collected a groundball following a failed Smith clearing attempt and found Kane for what proved to be the game-winning goal. The strike sparked a string of five unanswered goals that put the Engineers up, 17-10, with 23 seconds left to play. On the final draw of the game, Lillquist emerged with ball and went directly to net to cap the scoring with two ticks remaining.
Wright racked up three goals, three assists, four groundballs, four draw controls, and one caused turnover for the Cardinal and Gray. McShane recorded one goal, one assist, eight groundballs, and three draw controls as Wallace totaled eight draw controls. Wacker finished with three goals, one assist, and three groundballs while Kane posted three goals, one assist, and six groundballs. In net, sophomore Candice Kaplan (Arlington, Va.) generated four saves.
In addition to her hat-trick, Estes tacked on two draw controls for the Pioneers. Silveria tallied one goal, one assist, four groundballs, and two caused turnovers while Detrick produced five draw controls. Sophomore Angela Schondek (Raynham, Mass.) collected three groundballs as junior Savannah Lawson (Oak Bluffs, Mass.) amassed 14 saves and four groundballs.
Both squads face non-conference opponents on the road for their next games that are scheduled for Tuesday, April 2. MIT will visit Framingham State University while Smith will travel to New England College.


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Hymns & Ballads is an album of the Amidons' favorites (shape note hymns, gospel from both black and white singing traditions, American and English ballads, and poems set to music by Mary Alice) in a variety of settings:
Peter and Mary Alice's distinctively strong duo harmonies; the Amidon quartet that now includes Sam's tenor that is a cross between Dock Boggs and Mike Waterson and Stefan's profoundly deep bass; the Amidon/Armstrong Septet where the Amidon four are joined by the extraordinary singing family of Jennifer Armstrong and her two daughters Suzannah and Georgia Rose; and one Sydney Carter gem where Peter and Mary Alice are joined by Margaret Dale and Tony Barrand.
"It is wonderful, inspiring, moving, something I will doubtless listen to over and over again."
"I think it's your best so far."
- Lord Build Me a Cabin
A. O. Parris
- Great Trees
Wendell Berry/Mary Alice Amidon
- Chilly Winds
- Foggy Dew
- Banks of Pontchartrain
- You Can't Hurry God
Dorothy Love Coates
- Time Has Made a Change
Harkins Freye
- Lady Diamond
- One Morning in May
- I Come Like a Beggar
Sydney Carter
- I'll die No More For Bread
Revivalist Hymnbook
- Amazing Grace
John Newton
- By the Waters of Babylon
B. dove & T. McNaughton
- I Still Have Joy
- Song of the Angels
William Knapp
- White
Edmund Dumas
- Your Long Journey
Rosa Lee & doc Watson
- Will You Miss Me
- If You're Ever Going to Love Me
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- Parting Glass
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The Intermountain Conference is on the verge of growing again.
Two years after welcoming Hood River Valley into its fold and less than four years since it had only six members, the IMC is preparing for the possible addition of a ninth school in time for the 2004-05 school year.
The executive board of the Oregon School Activities Association on Monday is expected to act on a recent merger of the two public high schools in The Dalles — The Dalles and Wahtonka — to determine where that combined school will compete athletically.
A decision made in late October by the newly formed North Wasco County School Board cleared the way for The Dalles and Wahtonka high schools to be merged into a single school starting in September 2004.
The merged high school will have an estimated student body of 950, exceeding the minimum 901 students needed for placement as a Class 4A school. The logical league assignment for the school would be the IMC, whose membership includes Hood River Valley, Hermiston and Pendleton along the Interstate 84 corridor.
Other IMC members are Central Oregon high schools Crook County, Redmond, Bend, Mountain View and Summit.
"We're excited about it for all the same reasons we were excited about getting Hood River in the league," said Bend High athletic director Greg Hammond.
"With all of the other leagues around the state growing, it is important we continue to grow. It means less non-league type of scheduling and all the hassles that go with it."
However, athletic directors Jerry Christensen of The Dalles and Terry Way of Wahtonka said that the North Wasco County School Board will ask the OSAA to keep the combined school at the 3A classification for two years before moving it to the 4A ranks.
"It will take a couple of years for that (the merged school) to jell," said Christensen. "They are going to petition to leave us 3A for two years."
Based on average daily enrollment figures for the 2002-03 school year provided to the OSAA by the Oregon Department of Education, The Dalles High School had 671 students and Wahtonka High School 278 students.
The merged school would be one of the smallest among Class 4A members, but it would be similar in size to Prineville's Crook County High, which had an enrollment of 950 last school year.
Hammond said IMC officials have been preparing for the possible inclusion of the school in The Dalles.
"We're proceeding as if The Dalles will be joining the league," said Hammond. "They (The Dalles officials) expect to be in the league despite their request to stay 3A for two more years. If not, then we have to go back to the drawing board."
The IMC sport that would be most affected by the addition of a high school from The Dalles is soccer. Under the current system, IMC schools play one another twice during the regular season for 14 games, the maximum allowed by the OSAA.
The likely soccer format should the school from The Dalles join the IMC would pit league schools against one another just once during the season for a total of eight league games, meaning schools would be looking for up to six non-league contests to fill out their schedules.
Hammond said because it might be difficult to find six non-league games, some IMC schools may play each other in non-conference contests to fill out their 14 allowed games.
The merger of the two The Dalles schools would have an effect not only on the IMC, but also on two other leagues with which Central Oregon schools are affiliated — presuming the OSAA places the merged school in the IMC.
The Dalles is currently a member of the Class 3A Tri-Valley League, a district that includes Madras. Losing The Dalles would mean that Madras would lose its nearest geographic league rival.
Wahtonka currently plays in the eight-school Class 2A Columbia Basin Conference. That league includes Culver, which also would lose one of its nearest rivals.
Another possible change to the membership of the IMC could take place as soon as next school year too, though that change is less likely.
The OSAA on Monday will also hear a request from Hood River Valley to leave the IMC and return to the Mount Hood Conference. Hood River Valley was a member of the Mount Hood Conference before it was moved by the OSAA into the IMC starting with the 2002-03 school year.
HRV athletic director Mitch Sanders said he doesn't expect the OSAA executive board to accept his school's request — at least not now.
"It's more of letting folks know that this is an issue in our community that won't go away," said Sanders. "Historically, our school has been in a conference in that area. Our community wants to be in the Mount Hood Conference."
Sanders said increased costs related to transportation and overnight stays and an increase in missed class time for students are at the heart of the reason why Hood River Valley wants out of the IMC and back into the Mount Hood Conference.
He said his school district spent an additional $40,000 on transportation last year during its first year in the IMC. Nearly $18,000 was spent on motels for overnight stays related to league events.
"I think a move would be a good one for the folks of Hood River," said Sanders. "For 30 years we've been used to competing with Portland-area schools that are only an hour or so away. When you go to competing against schools that are three hours away, it really hurts the community support for the school."
Kurt Holland is the Assistant Sports Editor at the Bend Bulletin. Ben Reynolds of The Hermiston Herald contributed to this story.
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The smallest of the Nespresso range, the Pixie is compact enough to squeeze into even a tiny kitchen and provides a good-quality single or double espresso from a capsule in as little as 25 seconds. It doesn't, however, have the capacity to froth milk - so if you're a cappuccino guzzler, you might want to upgrade to a bigger model, or buy a stand-alone milk frother.
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Coffee connoisseurs swear by bean-to-coffee makers - machines which grind coffee beans on the spot for an intenser, richer coffee. Such appliances can cost an eye-watering amount of money, but De Longhi's Magnifica range is one of the better-value high street options. This model lets you adjust everything from the strength of the coffee to the temperature and also lets you use ready-ground coffee - ideal for those caffeine emergencies.
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There are few coffee machines as good-looking as this vintage-style number from Francis Francis. Another capsule chomper, it's best at espressos but does have a steam wand so you can froth milk for cappuccinos and lattes. Available in red, white or black.
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This cheap-and-cheerful gadget has a cult following among those in the know. Simple place a spoon of whatever coffee you like in the tube, add hot water, then press down with the plunger. Within 30 seconds, you'll have a smooth cup of coffee (though admittedly without a coffee-shop style crema). Cleaning up is easy, and they even come with 350 disposable microfilters, so are low-cost to run.
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This sleek black machine makes over 35 varieties of drink, from lattes and macchiatos to hot chocolates and tea. Other than the quality of the coffee, its stand-out feature is that it's very low-maintenance - the product has an automatic cleaning and descaling program, while the 1.5L water tank means you don't have to fill it too often. You're limited to the maker's capsules (or "T-discs", as Bosch like to call them), but there is a good range available, including some made by the coffee chain Costa.
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Digital technology is disrupting traditional work patterns across Southeast Asia, a region characterized by high technology adoption. Recent research by Accenture outlines the changes sweeping this region, and identifies four steps that Southeast Asian companies can take now to maximize benefits and minimize disruption.
Accenture undertook several in-depth conversations with C-level executives, employee focus groups and conducted a regional survey of over 400 businesses operating in Southeast Asia to help HR and IT leaders understand the fundamental changes sweeping through their workforces, with a specific focus on the rapidly rising influence of the youngest cohort of workers, Generation Y.


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About Me
- Russell Blackford
- Australian philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and professional writer. Based in Newcastle, NSW. Author of FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND THE SECULAR STATE (2012), HUMANITY ENHANCED (2014), and THE MYSTERY OF MORAL AUTHORITY (2016).
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Blackburn on Armstrong
Blackburn is a plenary speaker at the AAP conference this week - I look forward to seeing him in action.
11 comments:
- Brian said...
The money quote from Blackburn:
Armstrong firmly recommends silence, having written at least 15 books on the topic.
Ironic genius!
- 07 July, 2009 05:45
- J. J. Ramsey said...
I think I can see why Julian Baggini called her part of the "fluffy brigade."
- 07 July, 2009 08:03
I heard Karen Armstrong on Radio 4's "Start the Week" yesterday, making the same point: religion is properly about practice, not belief.
I couldn't help wondering why I would be motivated to engage in a practice unless I had a belief that it would achieve something desirable.
- 07 July, 2009 20:23
- phonytician said...
Isn't the point she is making that religious practice, i.e. they way people conduct their daily lives gives them something desirable, i.e. happiness, emotional stability in the face of adversity etc.
I guess there is actually an potential interesting conundrum. What if it could be scientifically proven that people of some religious faith are leading better lives and are more happy and better adjusted than non-religious people (I am really not saying that is the case!), but would that make it our rational duty to become believers?
- 08 July, 2009 03:22
What is a "better life", Phonytician? What if it could be scientifically proven that people addicted to a particular drug are more happy and better adjusted than other people. Would it then be our rational duty to take it? What if it could be scientifically proven that people who deliberately torture animals are more happy and better adjusted than other people. Would it then be our rational duty to become sadists?
- 09 July, 2009 11:30
- phonytician said...
exactly, that is my point! Some values might be more important than scientific proof.
Now ask yourself where did you get the values from? Clearly if there would be scientific proof that the world would be a better place when everybody would be an animal torturing saditistic maniac, we still wouldn't want such a world, even though in that case science and rationality would tell us we should. Why not? Because the world isn't just a set of facts, it simply is a fluffier place, which all those rationalist hardline talk always has a tendency of looking a bit foolish. Fluffy brigade maybe isn't so bad ;-)
- 09 July, 2009 18:03
Scientific proof isn't a value, though, Phonytician. I was misled by your combination of people "leading better lives and are more happy and better adjusted" which made it sound as if being moe happy and better adjusted were components of living a better life. There is a difference- a very big difference- between a better life for individuals and the world being abetter place. I think religion offers the first, on terms very similar to the two analogies I used, drug addiction and sadism, but it doesn't offer the second, in fact it makes it worse for anyone else in the short-term and damages everyone, believers included, in the long run.
Religious belief isn't fluffy, either and believers aren't members of the fluffy brigade. It purports to offer an absolutely true set of facts and the instructions on how to behave that follow from those facts. It is more certain than science, which rests on doubt, and the conclusions religions reach are much more certain and they apply them much more ruthlessly than applies those of science.
- 09 July, 2009 21:39
- phonytician said...
Not quite sure, whether I understand your disctinction beween better lives for individuals and a better world, and why religion could only help with the former.
So would you think there is a purely scientific way to find out what a better world is? Would such a world be good or bad independent of the quality of life of the individuals living in it? Why would you say it is not possible that religion could contribute to making the world a better place?
Religious belief isn't necessarily fluffy, obviously there are people who like to sell their beliefs as facts. I don't think religion has anything to offer in terms of facts or could even contribute to any factual questions, but isn't the problem with people like K. Armstrong that she kind of refuses to claim that and retreats to some fluffy position, saying religion can offer no facts but that doesn't matter because it has other good things to offer?
- 10 July, 2009 02:11
- Russell Blackford said...
Actually, I wonder what morality is for if it isn't for something like people living better lives (in some sense that, to avoid circularity, isn't already moralised) or to make the world a better (again in some sense that isn't already moralised). One obvious problem is that these things may sometimes be in opposition to each other, but at many other times they might require the same behaviour.
If it turned out that the way to achieve these things is for everyone to take lots of mind-bending drugs, I don't know why we'd not take the drugs. Likewise if torturing animals had that effect. Of course, torturing animals hurts them (to a huge degree) ... so straightaway it looks as if the practice makes the world worse, at least by most standards of better and worse.
If engaging in religious ritual aids your own flourishing/helps you live a better life by some plausible external standard, then do it by all means, as long as it doesn't harm others and so make the world a worse place. But if you can't justify the epistemic content of your religion, or if you've refined your religion to the point where it has no epistemic content, then don't expect to be deferred to by others when you start telling them how to live.
Really, I'd have no problem with religionists who simply engage in non-harmful rituals, make no truth-claims, and don't interfere in the behaviour of others. If some religion is really like that, it becomes more like an art form than like what religion has been historically. I have no great objection to that sort of religion, if it exists. But if Armstrong thinks that religion has typically been like this she is barking up the wrong tree - does she really make that claim?
- 10 July, 2009 10:37
- phonytician said...
"that sort of religion, if it exists."
Why so cautious? I know for a fact that it exists (some friends who are marvelously tolerant with me as an atheist). Maybe I have been just insanely lucky, but actually nearly all religious people I met seem to fall into that category (I guess it does help to grow up and live in secular western Europe).
Irrespective of the horrors that undoubtedly are committed in the name of religion, isn't the overwhelming evidence still that most religious people seem to live normal lives without much engagement into religious hate crimes or persecution of unbelievers, etc. Shouldn't we as scientist pay a little bit of respect to the laws of statistic and not judge a group of people by its fringe elements even if they are causing all the headlines?
- 11 July, 2009 07:03
Phonytician said
"some friends who are marvelously tolerant with me as an atheist"
LOL - how wonderful some theists are! They actually deign to *tolerate* you! :-)
Seriously, I half recognise your description amongst my theist friends in secular western Europe, but there is an undeniably patronising element to *my* friends' attitude to my morals, which seems to betray what they *really* think of them. I cannot be *sure* of this, of course, without reading their minds, but I'm often left wondering what they are getting out of their belief if it's *not* a superior way of living. A sense of community and eternal life, perhaps, which ends up making them rather selfish?
And I think my friends don't *privilege* their belief (and seek to dictate behaviour based on it) because they know darn well that it doesn't stand up to sceptical scrutiny. Doesn't stop the leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches in Britain (and elsewhere) seeking to influence public policy on a range of matters, though.
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sorry if this doesnt fit here but need help with it and really dont know is it hardware or software problem.
have asus a7n8x_x mobo
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xp pro
ati radeon 9200se video card with latest catalist driver(28/06/2005)
yesterday i stuff something with my pc so i reinstalled xp again on c disk.
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installed drivers and all is good.
I come across a problem with counter strike game and as some members are cs fanatics maybe yiou will be able to help.
instalment of game goes smooth.
cs condition zero
instalment of steam goes smooth
when i log in with my user name and try to play it onliine my game doesnt respond.i can not get to the window with servers .
when i play it from disk i have no problems at all.so its not driver its not direct x its not firewall because i unistalled it.i even unistalled service pack 2 and still no luck.
when i start steam and try to get to the game it little icon in notification area goes small.
steam gets updated without problem.
i have tryied everything
tried to start nearly all services
look into bios name it i tried so i am stuck now
(considering remormating both disk and start from zero.
any sugestion direction i dont know where to look any more
i unistalled and reinstalled game few times no success
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My cats have been on a raw diet (nature's variety medallions) for around a month now, and aside from getting really bored with how un-stinky it is, (solved at least for now with a seasoning of freeze dried tripe) it's been great. Im convinced that it's partially responsible for buying my terminal cancer cat some extra time on this here plane.
However, I would like to introduce some whole raw food, if possible, and my cats both are crazy about pinkies.
I've done some rudimentary figuring, and came up with an estimate on how many pinkies I would need to feed a cat per day, but I wanted to bounce it off people here who keep their cats on an exclusively pink diet.
Both cats are indoor, of average to low activity, one is 8 lbs and the other is 13
After working on getting their meal portion size correct, my smaller cat gets around 3 medallions of nature's variety a day (3oz) and my larger one gets 4. I decided to use this as a round figure to start. The pinkies Im interested in are the large-sized pinkies which are around 3 grams. 1 oz is around 28 grams. (lets just round to thirty) = so 10 pinkies = 1oz, taking into consideration that this is a rough estimate.
So that would mean that my smaller cat would get around 30 pinkies per day and my other one 40.
However, I also dont know if the diet suggestion for raw medallions is comparable to a diet of whole mice, so I wanted to check with people here to see if my numbers check out, or if they feed their cats a different amount of pinkies.
Chances are, I won't be moving them exclusively to pinks, cause Im not bill gates, but I at least wanted to get some figures for *if* it were an exclusive diet, because then I can figure in the needed amount as a partial supplement for the raw ground meat. It's much easier on my brain to work backwards this way.
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During the past 25 years however, true fresco has arrived in this country, emigrating from Italy in the work of an American artist by the name of Ben Long, and his associate, Chuck Kapsner. (Better late than never.) It first came ashore in the unlikely venue of Beaver Creek in the western hills of North Carolina. Ben Long is not an immigrant. The grandson/student of a portrait painter turned Presbyterian minister turned portrait painter in retirement, Long was classically trained, attending the Art Students' League in New York before serving a term as a Marine Corps artist in Vietnam. There he became interested in the art of true fresco. After the war, he spent seven years as an apprentice to the leading fresco painter in Italy, Pietro Annigoni, where he worked with the master on several projects as well as completing others on his own. It was there he met his associate, Chuck Kapsner, and collaborated with him on additional commissions it what he terms an "art loving country".
In returning home and working as a portrait painter in oils, Long found he couldn't even "give away" a fresco. It took him two long years to arrange his first "commission" and even then he donated his time an effort in return for the cost of materials used. It was a 3'x6' hanging plaster panel entitled Mary Great With Child for the tiny Beaver Creek Episcopal congregation. The artist created it as a hanging panel so that if the congregation didn't like it, the work could be removed. Fortunately, they liked it a lot. It was highly acclaimed throughout the region. Long painted a companion piece of St. John the Baptist and shortly thereafter, a large-scale crucifixion for a nearby church. In 1974, his work in fresco both in this country and Italy led to numerous awards as well as a number of larger scale religious and secular commissions over the next 25 years, ranging from Catholic churches to banks and police stations. Unlike other art mediums which were essentially "exported" to this country as European artists arrived on these shores, true fresco, in the talent of Ben Long, had to be "imported".
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They say the best place to keep an appointment with the devil is at a crossroads. We are again drawing near another political crossroads on health care. If we cannot move past our own diabolical short-sightedness and partisan tendencies this time, we will miss a historic opportunity to put our health care system on a path toward sustainability, fairness and common decency. It could be decades before the chance comes around again.
We cannot afford to wait to reform our system. It is costing us too much as individuals and as a society. The current system regularly turns medical misfortune into personal tragedy and economic ruin; it also weighs down U.S. industry, hindering American manufacturing in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. It also drains fiscal resources at the local, state and federal levels that could be better invested in preventive care, better education for our children or shoring up our crumbling infrastructure.
As people of faith we can be guided by a long tradition of Catholic social teaching that unambiguously supports public initiatives to ensure access to health care when markets alone fail to achieve universal coverage. Those who express exaggerated fears of a government takeover and bureaucratic centralization tend to portray government as somehow a threat to the people and their freedom, but Catholic social teaching consistently reminds us that public authority is the ordinary mechanism by which people undertake collective action. The principle of subsidiarity provides a check against needless centralization, but it must not be misinterpreted as an excuse to forgo truly necessary national initiatives.
Catholic social teaching offers a distinctively organic view of society that calls all parties to be open to sacrifice for the good of the whole. That common good springs from true cooperation, not merely the competitive interaction of self-interests. Reforming health care should not be reduced to a partisan issue, with the eyes of negotiators distracted by the goal of scoring political advantage. We will achieve the aims of reform—extending coverage to the uninsured, rationalizing procedures and policies and lowering costs—only if all parties check their egos and partisan interests at the door and work together.
The greatest temptation now is to despair of true reform any time soon. After all, powerful special interests have a stake in the status quo, and the major political parties clearly desire different outcomes. But the light shed by Catholic social teaching reveals the possibility for progress, a progress that can be assured only if we recognize that health care is not just another commodity to be distributed according to people's ability to pay. Many resources within Catholic social thought—including its requirement of a preferential option for the poor—challenge us to re-imagine health care as a basic human need, no less a religious obligation than providing food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless and clothing for the naked.
The church has for more than a century stood for the civic components of our God-given human dignity, a dignity that our current system too often diminishes. We cannot now allow a handful of discordant voices to confuse what has been the church's longstanding position: that in a just society, access to effective health care is a human right, not a negotiable social privilege.
That does not mean that the church should compromise at all on its clear resistance to any deployment of federal resources for abortion services. It does not mean that any watering down of conscience clauses for Catholic health care workers should be tolerated. These are breaking points for Catholic support on health care reform, and the Obama administration appears well aware of this. Thanks no doubt to the vigorous interventions of the advisers from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, it was no accident that assurances on these two principles appeared in the president's speech before Congress on Sept. 9. The president is keenly aware that he must win over Catholics if he is to win over Congress in November.
The time has come to put aside our childish ways on health care. Other industrialized nations resolved the challenge of universal and equitable care decades ago. It is unacceptable that in a society as wealthy as the United States, which may ultimately spend as much as $3 trillion on a war of choice in Iraq, millions are without access to reliable health services; that as many as 18,000 die each year because of poor access; and that an unknowable number die because they were denied care by the for-profit entities to which they had entrusted their lives.
In his speech the president threw down the gauntlet to the fear-mongers and the Congressional hired hands of the status quo. It is time to stop dithering and get behind the president's proposal.
"As a society seeks to bring about any good such as health care, there are many organic and intermediate groups which cooperate together to reach the desired goal. There is a danger in being persuaded to think that the national government is the sole instrument of the common good," (emphasis added) "Many different communities within society share this responsibility," Bishop Aquila explained, naming communities such as the state, towns, fraternal organizations, businesses, cooperatives, parishes and the family as contributors to the social fabric. Bishop Aquila invokes a bedrock principle of Catholic social teaching: subsidiarity. Too many Catholics think social justice, concern for the poor, and the social teachings of the Church equal centralized government or that because a certain piece of legislation is trumpeted as being for the poor and marginalized it will accomplish that result. There are books already written about how programs like the Great Society actually hurt the poor, families, and the common good without solving the alleged problem.
One alternative solution re needed health insurance reform is to allow people to buy health insurance that go beyond state boundaries thus increasing competition and lowering the cost.
by fixing the various "pieces' of health care which were the major obstacles to reform. Several of our Senators, from both sides of the isle, have suggested
a similar approach here in U.S.. However ,our "My way or the Highway" President
has refused to listen to them. And now, anyone who criticizes him for his arrogance
in refusing to listen, are accused of racism and,as you say "dithering' over the
The importance and the urgency of health care reform is given strength in a Harvard study, Health Insurance and Mortality in U. S. Adults in the American Journal of Public Health Vol 99, No. 12. Their findings are shocking and embarrassing in this nation of plenty.
Lead researcher, Andrew P. Wilper MD, MPH said, "The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors and baseline health. We doctors have many new ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes and heart disease - but only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications."
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, study co-author, professor of medicine at Harvard and a primary care physician in Cambridge, Mass., noted: "Historically, every other developed nation has achieved universal health care through some form of nonprofit national health insurance. Our failure to do so means that all Americans pay higher health care costs, and 45,000 pay with their lives."
Dr. David Himmelstein, study co-author said that "The Institute of Medicine, using older studies, estimated that one American dies every 30 minutes from lack of health insurance. Even this grim figure is an underestimate - now one dies every 12 minutes."
Former Oregon governor and physician John Kitzhaber M.D. was pretty direct in calling basic health care a right when he said, "Who of us would tell an employed but uninsured fellow citizen that they must… die on the ambulance ramp for lack of insurance coverage."
Acknowledging that basic health care is a right, then operationalizing and ensuring that right becomes a problem of finance.
We can and must control and eliminate the inefficiencies, waste and fraud that stand in the way of universal health care.
The time to weigh in with your Member of Congress is now.
joseph kiernan, MD
I'm astonished at Mary Rehbein's comment (#4). President Obama has gone out of his way to be conciliatory and to obtain a health care bill that reflects a broad consensus. That that consensus has not emerged is certainly not his fault. Nor have any accusations of racism on the part of his opponents come from the White House.
The absence of consensus or any move toward it reflects Republican stonewalling. Where is their health care reform proposal? For that matter, where was it when they had control of both the White House and the Congress?
Should the Democrats resort to reconciliation to get a bill through the Senate? The need is so urgent that I think the answer has to be, if necessary, yes. Republicans are not in a good position to object to this. They passed a massive tax cut nearly all of whose benefits went to the very well off and that has resulted in crippling deficits via reconciliation.
I'm sorry if this sounds unduly partisan. I grew up in a family that had been Republican from the 1860s onward. Nearly all of us have peeled off in recent decades, including my 92-year-old mother. What we see now is not our parents' Republican party. Too bad. One needs two parties capable of governing. We don't have that at this point.
Asking oneself, or others to help those in need is charitable. Forcing another person to pay for a third party is not charity
neither the administration nor democratic supporters of the various bills will sign onto restrictions of abortion coverage. this is well known; for readers of America (who are very intelligent) to write that the bills will not cover abortion is disingeuous.
the government has a very poor record of running programs, either the recent 'cash for clunkers' or the older social security, or for that matter, medicare-both essentially ponzi schemes. so it can run health care?
why is anyone trying to change the medical system that 85% of us are happy; why not just help those in need?
yes, as catholics we have an obligation to help those in need; this is not the way to do it!
Joseph p Kiernan, MD
Can you tell me where the evidence is that "All the current proposals cover abortion."?
The 2009 Pulitzer Prise Winner, PolitiFact.com labels that claim "False"
It would be a shame if you have been mislead into opposing the needed health care for the poor.
Catholic social teaching stresses individual responsibility. It is morally wrong to advocate government schemes without addressing the oft-disfunctional behaviors of our unhealthy citizens and making associated recommendations. For example, drug use (particularly in the light of Mexican violence) must be roundly condemned by the bishops, even in San Francisco. Another example: gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins, despite the fact that it is seldom mentioned on church grounds any more.
Catholic social teaching opposes theft. The legal profession must be prevented from preying on any system proposed by Catholics. We all know this means tort reform first.
Catholic social teaching recognizes the murderous central tendencies of true socialism, as we have experienced time and time again in recent history. For this reason, any federal insurance schemes must respect the individual and be voluntary.
Catholic social teaching defines charity as the individual's personal sacrifice for the good of another. It rejects the philosophy of taking from an impersonal "other" to give to another in the name of charity. "Let's not tax you, let's not tax me, let's tax that guy behind the tree."
Finally, we must recognize that Catholic social teaching failed historically to timely recognize democratic capitalism as the single most significant development in the world's effort to combat poverty. Christians fail today in many ways to recognize the dramatic progress that democratic capitalism has made possible. Christians and non-Christians alike commonly fail to distinguish between actual poverty, which consists of inadequate food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, and wished-for benefits, which can consist of anything imaginable that the individual envies among the possessions of another. Sadly, these failures jeopardize capitalism itself, failure of which would return us all to the condition of our ancestors.
As the editors rightly suggest, Catholics might not agree with all of President Obama's politics, but we can recognize that he isn't politically stupid - he needs Catholics, abortion is (and should be) a deal breaker, that's why it's off the table.
The only question arises with the "public option" and whether those covered by it would also have abortions covered. If I understand it correctly the somewhat shady answer to that seems to be that these costs would be covered by consumer premiums instead of government subsidies. Either way, it seems like the public option has lost a lot of political steam and is not going forward.
But lets be clear... other than that very far off possibility, all bills are as the current phrase goes: "abortion neutral"
Your premise assumes that this new system of socialized medicine in America will be more compassionate than the current system. That premise may simply be inaccurate. If the government solution of guaranteed universal medical care is installed, then the government will have to control its costs. A shift to a public plan will reduce the number of people in the medical field, while adding millions of new clients. This will lead to healthcare rationing. Someone in the government will have to determine how "ration" the health care dollars spent. Most likely a new Federal Coordinating Council will be established to determine which treatments are deemed most effective and thus eligible to be paid for by government. These decisions would be based on statistical averages that cannot take into account specific facts of individual patients. That is not compassionate healthcare.
Under the present system, if you are suffering from abdominal pain due to gallstones, for example, who should decide whether medication or surgery would be more effective for you? The doctor who has felt your abdomen, listened to your heartbeat, and knows your drug allergies? Or the bureaucrat who got his job by telling the right joke to the right person at the right Washington cocktail party?
If the government controls the medical purse strings, it will inevitably dictate who receives what health care and when. He who pays the piper calls the tune. A Canadian woman who feels a lump in her breast might wait months until the government approves her surgery and chemotherapy. In contrast, an American woman can receive the necessary treatment in days. In socialized medical systems, health care is never truly a right, but just another privilege dispensed at the discretion of bureaucrats.
Instead of universal health care, we need free-market reforms that repeal prior government controls, lower costs and allow patients to exercise that right.
Patients should be allowed to purchase insurance across state lines and use Health Savings Accounts for routine expenses. Insurers should be allowed to sell inexpensive, catastrophic-only policies to cover rare but expensive events. States should repeal laws that force insurers to offer (and patients to purchase) unwanted mandatory benefits such as in vitro fertilization coverage. Such reforms could reduce insurance costs over 50% - making insurance available to millions who cannot currently afford it, while respecting individual rights.
Good Catholics can agree that we have an obligation to provide quality healthcare at affordable prices to all. We just don't have to agree with you that the government option is the best way to accomplish this goal. I personally believe the best government program to reduce healthcare costs would be to provide a free education to anyone wishing to become a doctor. Built on the model of the Army, these college and graduate students would receive a free education and then be required to give back 6 years of duty in health clinics established to help the poor. This is a win/win scenario, American gets more doctors reducing the cost of healthcare naturally, and the poor get medical care. Socialize medicine merely means less medicine … less quality … less compassion for everyone.
I also point out that this week our Archbishop in Washington repeated this position and I suspect that other bishops have as well.
There are three significant problems that President Obama and liberal Democrats are not addressing.
First, reform should be just that - reform. So far the proposals are anything but reform. Secondly, reform should not bankrupt this country. A country without the ability to pay its bills means that no one can be covered.
Finally, and most important for your consideration, is that healthcare decisions should not be decided upon a person's ability to produce - his or her value to society. And this is exactly the foundational principle of President Obama's "reform." Rahm Emanuel's brother Ezekiel, a physician, a well-published scientist, and a top-level advisor has clearly stated that decisions should be founded upon two considerations: the individual's ability to produce and that concerns of society should have equal consideration along with the benefit to the individual.
My dear friends, this is not "reform". It is completely the opposite of the teachings of the Catholic Church. What happened to the dignity of the human being? How a publication such as yours can entertain the idea of promoting such "reform" is simply beyond my comprehension. I am dismayed. I am utterly speechless that you sincerely believe that this "reform" is "now-or-never".
By the way editors, interesting metaphor about the crossroads. I guess the racism charges didn't stick so trying the diabolical tactic will? How about relying on an old Ignation tradition to present why health care should pass - the veracity of your ideas!
I do not understand why if we do not take this opportunity to change now, we will not have another chance for decades. This health care crisis has been manufactured by the media and this administration precisely at the time when it was at the zenith of its political popularity. They did not want to waste such an opportunity to influence, and that is why this issue became front and center. Unfortunately for the White House, their eagerness to fix a plethora of things simultaneously reduced their chances for success. As more Americans see the inability of the federal government to manage the things it currently is supposed to manage ("Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's"), and then attempt to take on additional responsibilities (auto companies, Wall Street, etc.) which it is not equipped to handle, all the while pushing us deeper into debt, naturally the public should be hesitant to accept this new "entitlement." The president referenced the billions of fraud and waste already in the system-why doesn't he eliminate that first and prove the government's ability to successfully tackle a problem?
Why is the war always mentioned.... Money spent trying to help others have basic rights...
What about the money spent on space....bring that to earth......
Of the 46mm "uninsured" approximately a quarter could afford to purchase insurance, but elect not to do so (most likely as they are young and in good health), another quarter are eligible for some form of government assistance but lack the knowledge or tenacity to seek out the programs, a bit under a quarter are illegal aliens who receive health care in emergency rooms or "doc-in-a-box" (on Route 46, or Route 17 in NJ), and perhaps just over a quarter are truely uninsured. I would also remind our writers that of this last cohort, some 10's of thousands are retired nuns whose archbishops, in their infinite wisdom, declined to allow the women to enroll in Social Security, and are thus ineligible for Medicare.
With all due respect to Dr. Donohue, he is inartfully playing with statistics. The "death rate" for US citizens, 0.83% in 2007, is lower than those countries with socialized medicine (Uk 1.01%, France 0.92%, Germany 1.07%) and these percentages are consistent over time. What is remarkable is that the numbers are so low, yet we have far from a homogenuous society.
Running the "death without doc" argument at 1 per 12 minutes means that 98.6% of the dying have seen a doctor. Adjust Dr. Donohue's statistic for accidents and suicides and the number change again to the better.
To fix the system - allow purchase of insurance across state lines, enhance medical savings accounts, allow for deductibility or tax credit for the first $1,200 of medical expense, enhance the portability of health insurance and fix the tort bar. All these suggestions will ameliorate the problems discussed in the editorial, none will break the system or deprive the economic framework from continuing to foster innovation. Under the plans currently contemplated by congress, the system of innovation will be irreparably broken.
The counsel of Bishop Samuel Aquila, the Bishop of Fargo, ND should be heeded: "As a society seeks to bring about any good such as health care, there are many organic and intermediate groups which cooperate together to reach the desired goal. There is a danger in being persuaded to think that the national government is the sole instrument of the common good.(emphasis added) Rather, according to the classic principle of subsidiarity in Catholic social thought, many different communities within society share this responsibility. These various strands of community life within society build up a strong and cohesive social fabric that is the hallmark of a true communion of persons. States, towns, fraternal organizations, businesses, cooperatives, parishes and especially the family have not only legitimate freedom to provide the goods they are rightly capable of supplying, but often times do so with far greater efficiency, less bureaucracy and, most importantly, with personalized care and love. "
Make no mistake-this health care Trojan horse is the fastest route to a state that completes the obliteration of subsidarity, freedom of conscience and the right to direct one's own future. Everything the Faith has taught for centuries regarding personal rights and responsibilities, subsidarity and civil authority will be ground to dust beneath the collective's need for "financial savings" and so-called "common sense solutions to the problems of aging, disability and other high-cost health situations."
Were we a 100% faithful Catholic society a case could be made. Given the onslaught of the culture of death at all levels of society-especially government-the current health care plans are the culture of death's express route to control.
Remember, the road to hell is paved with good intentions ill thought out.
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Known as hospital "frequent fliers," heart failure patients typically cost Medicare $24,000 in inpatient expenses annually. To patients like Adenis, it's money well spent.
But a 2006 Dartmouth study contended that almost a third of the money spent on the chronically ill was wasted on "rescue medicine" for people with advanced diseases who could not be cured.
Shah questions that logic.
"Letting people die early is actually more cost effective," said Shah, who heads the cardiology unit at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. "But that's a perverted way of looking at things."
"We know that a woman's right to make a decision about how many children she wants and when - without government interference - is one of the most fundamental freedoms we have in this country."
"we should never be willing to consign a teenage girl to a lifetime of struggle because of a lack of access to birth control or a lifetime of illness because she doesn't understand how to protect herself."
"We need more leadership at the federal level. That's why I'm an original co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act. To guarantee equity in contraceptive coverage, Provide comprehensive sex education in our schools and offer rape victims factually accurate information about emergency contraception."
"Well, the first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."
"in my mind reproductive care is essential care, basic care so it is at the center, the heart of the plan I propose."
These are the princples he was elected upon, and we're to think that he won't include them on medical reform?
Thank you very much.
When is Congress getting down to work!?Actually, did not our president state that public funds would not be used for abortions from the plan he proposed? SO WHY ARE CONSERVATIVES SO RILED UP?
Let's not forget to pray for our president!
I insist on my God-given right to eat grease. And wash it down with Coke. Don't lecture me about exercise—it's boring, and if I go out I might miss Dancing With the Stars. And all that baloney about vitamins and Omega 3's is a lot of hype. When my child cries, or I see a drug on TV, I expect to get into the doctor's office at the latest by 10:00 AM the next morning—unless the emergency room is closer. I have a God-given right to medical care, whether I can pay for it or not, and don't get in my way or I will call my uncle. He's a lawyer, and he can make you pay big time if you deny me my rights. When the new legislation passes, you'll see me often in the waiting room—like I said, I know my rights, even though I don't have my green card yet. I will soon enough, and so will my extended family when they arrive from Eastern Europe. Actually, I love America, and they will, too! By the way, would you like a donut?
You have a responsibility to contribute something toward your medical care. However, that amount should be sensitive to your income. If it's not sensitive to your income, then why not thow up your hands in despair and behave the way you describe? After all, every time you think you are finally a bit ahead financially, you find yourself forking over $$$$$ for office visits and meds that you could have had a lot more fun spending on grease and high fructose corn syrup.
How about if 1% of your pay goes into a medical account and every time you get sick, you go to the doctor and he gets paid out of that account without your having to fill out any papers, pay any co-pay, and worry that your claim will be denied and you'll have to pay the $$$$$? Wouldn't that make you feel better just by itself, not to mention that now when you put a few bucks aside by eating cheaper, healthier homemade meals, you get to keep the money you saved?
Secondly, since when is lifespan the best or only measure of the quality of our healthcare system. I, personally, have employed the services of Opthalmologists, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Allergists, General Practicioners, Dermatologists, Dentists, an Orthodontist, Neruologists, General Surgeons, and ER Doctors, while my wife has also been seen by OB/GYN doctors (in addition to the above), and my kids have also been seen by Pediatricians (in addition to the above.) None of these have been life threatening; however, they have all had positive influences on our quality of life.
The forty-seven million Americans without health insurance has been debunked by multiple sources. Between 10 and 30 million of those are illegal aliens (who still receive healthcare.) Another 10 million plus have incomes which allow them to purchase medical insurance; but, they have made a choice to buy a better car or live in a bigger house instead of purchasing insurance (their right.) There is also a large number in that group who are between jobs and are temporarily without medical insurance. Most sources believe that there are 10-15 million people who are truly in need of medical insurance who cannot get it, due to pre-existing conditions, etc. This is an issue which must be addressed; however, not in the manner proposed by the Democrats. By the Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's numbers, the Public Option proposed by the Democrats will result in an additional 80 million people losing their health insurance and being forced into the Government Option. Additionally, to cover the 10-15 million in need of coverage, a Trillion Dollars will be added to the national debt.
That doesn't even address the lies in the President's address. On at least two occasions, ammendments were proposed to exclude abortion funding and funding for illegal aliens. Both were dismissed out of hand. There many ways that can reduce the cost of healthcare, and all have been ignored. Tort reform is the biggest; however, the Democrats are beholden to the slip and fall lawyers, so that will never happen. Allowing people to buy insurance across state lines whould help, but that might cut into liberal states which require insurers to cover things like sex change operations. All that is left that can save enough money is what they have embraced, rationing. They will deny our grandmothers hip replacements so that they cannot run away from the Death Panels. No, they are not called that, in fact, in Great Britain these panels are actually called "NICE," (Typical socialist euphemism.)
Make no mistake, there is no such thing as Government compitetion. The Government will make the rules, and has unlimited funding. They will crush any competion until we are all on the Government Option. We have already seen examples of what that will mean: The Post Office, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. Some have pointed to the VA as an example of a success. I volunteered as a Paramedic for 10 years and will never forget the time I brought someone to the local VA hospital and saw EEG electrodes attached to the OUTSIDE of a sleeveless t-shirt! I have also heard a Veteran say that there is an old joke, that the place old Veterans go to die is the waiting room of a VA hospital.
The American People have spoken. They want medical insurance reform, but not the proposed plan. Fix what is broken, but do not mess with what works.
Ron Plante
Saying that health care proposals won't cover abortion because abortion is not mentioned in a bill is just plain dishonest. I haven't been 'mislead' by anyone.
Two things: 1. If supporters of health care proposals say that abortion will not be covered let them prove it by putting into the bill a specific disclaimer that it won't be covered. They won't, so it will be covered.
2. Look where the abortion lobby stands on the proposed bills.
Sorry, I don't care if someone has a pulitzer prize, a nobel prize or a Stalin prize; this is just plain common sense! Abortion will be covered under these bills.
Catholics should not support a bill that covers abortion.
cornerstone of public health policy, please see White House link that
reinstituted abortion as an instrument of proper foreign affairs funding.
It should not go without saying that this health bill is a huge transfer of
wealth from young to old. This is on top of the mountain of debt that
already exists for the next generation. It is not appropriate to laden
the young with more unpaid bills. Disgraceful.
Under your logic, (i.e., "It's morally wrong to advocate Government schemes without addressing ... behaviors...etc") the Fire department would only respond to house fires where the owners had paid their real estate taxes and had otherwise made what you judge to be reasonable repairs and upkeep to the house. "Morally wrong?" So, a poor overweigh person suffering from diabetes is not helped because it is "morally wrong" to help him? I thought Herbert Spencer was roundly discredited in the modern world.
And, now we have "tort reform" as the latest road block to universal health care. Are you kidding again? And, assuming that no one could recover damages for medical negligence what do you suppose that would save the system?-forget that it might be unjust to force a person to live with a serious permanent injury without compensation. Forget that-what would it save? Recently the Washington Post cited a Harvard/AMA study that said 3% savings. But, check it out: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/09/medical_mapractice_costs.html. The article also pointed out that the current system treats malpractice "too lightly." That is, many victims of malpractice are treated unjustly now.
The moral imperatives to universal health care are, to an honest observer, clear. Your love-song to Capitalism strikes a tinny chord.


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Wears Like New Store needs a new website to match existing logo.
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Wears Like New Store is a consignment shop that sells second hand clothing. Their focus is clothes for the entire family. The site needs to match their existing logo. Their logo can be found here: http://www.wearslikenewstore.com/im…ARSLIKENEW 3.psd
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I began this year with a set of Writing plans for 2011. I was actually quite successful in completing the plans as presented:
1. Yes, I published my second novel, "The Homplace Revisited," in June. Both books continue to sell, both in print and in Kindle editions. I am blessed, and happy. I also successfully taught my on-line course in the Spring. It appears that was my last time doing that. It was good, it is now gone.
2. I have continued to be an active Examiner.com writer - between my two topics I publish five articles each and every week.
3. I have made good progress on the non-fiction family history book on Sergeant Major William Kinnick. This work will continue into 2012. It would be nice to finish it in the coming year.
4. The Smith book is still on the back burner, but I've been doing more research on my Dad's family in the 1st half of the 20th Century. In the last six months, I have also made contact with three Sorensen/Neilsen cousins in Denmark, on my Mom's side of the family. This allowed me to complete my "round of 16" great-great grandparents. This work continues, as well.
5. The five blogs continue. I'm doing more Daily Theme writing on the Ancestor Stories blog. While I put the book blog on hiatus for a couple of months, it is now active again. During the last half of the year, I picked up on my Mom's 75 Years Ago diary entries that I had transcribed, on line, in 2005, and started following and commenting on them on the Ancestor Stories blog. In 2012, I will continue the weekly Tuesday comments, but will also be transcribing the 1937 daily entries on The KINNICK Project blog - she was Eileen KINNICK.
6. During the last six months of the year I continued to research and write about the place, times, and characters of "The Homeplace" series of fiction, including developing their family history back to 1833 when the homeplace was first settled. The earliest chapter, I adapted as a short story, "The Trek to the Homeplace," which was recently published in the Annual Anthology of the Ozarks Writers League: Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume VII. I will continue to research, develop and write "Homeplace" stories; but make no promises on specifics or timing… they will come when they come. ;-)
7. Much of my writing, of course, is informed by my reading. I read on-line, on my Kindle, and books in print form - yes, I still read books in print form, a lot! A theme that ran through my recent readings has been both the upcoming and past presidential years. During the year, I read (on the Kindle) the Jimmie Carter White House Diaries, then the (old) print book, The 'Unfinished Presidency' about Carter after the White House years. I am now finishing Ronald Reagan's White House Presidential diaries (single book form) on the Kindle… continuing the saga; two very different perspectives on history. It has been most interesting to 'relive those years.' I've read very little on the post WWII era ('because I lived them') - but, these recent readings now remind me how much I really missed. Guess that sets up some future reading, yes?! ;-)
Reading and Writing Plans for 2012 will be published on January 2.
Families are Forever! ;-)


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Feast of the Annunciation
On Sunday, March 25, 2012, His All-Holiness presided over the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos at the Annunciation Church of Theotokos in Vafeochorion.
Among those in attendance were the former Prime Minister of Greece, the Hon. George Papandreou, and his wife Ada, Metropolitan Savas of Pittsburgh, Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos and the General Consul of Greece in Istanbul, the Hon. Nikolaos Matthioudakis.
George Papandreou was in Istanbul for a meeting of the Socialist International on Friday, discussing democratization efforts in Arab Spring states and the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria. He also met with the Ecumenical Patriarch.
After the service, Bartholomew offered lunch in honor of Papandreou and his wife.
Source: Ecumenical Patriarchate, Greek Reporter Europe


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Davis Waldorf School celebrated its first day of school with the Rose Ceremony. It symbolizes the beliefs of the Waldorf way: honoring the beauty of the spiritual nature of the child. With reverence and grace, each grades teacher proudly expressed the voyage of their students through the curriculum and through the developmental stage of that particular grade.
As the sixth grade teacher for Davis Waldorf, I spoke of the new sense of reasoning awakening in the 12 year old child, which opens their hearts to the transformation of people and places in their curriculum. More importantly, the course of the year will see a transformation in the children themselves.
offering a hand-made gift for my colleague, Coleen Borrego
The opening day celebration centers around the Rose Ceremony. Ms. Ute Luebeck, our dear first grade teacher, shared heart-felt words with the parents. Truly, the first grade child will begin on a path of wonder and adventure, but they need not fear. With gentleness, our eighth grade children, young adults, offer the rose to the little ones as a token of friendship, peace, calm, and beauty. Then the parents had formed an arc of sunflowers that lead the way for Ms. Luebeck and the children to enter into the first grade classroom.
It is a magical way for the little ones to begin the school year.
my son Wilson gets a hug, a crown, a key, and an 8th grade buddy
Angela Kost, our strings teacher, provides music for the ceremony
a beautiful and welcoming display
a new gate for the lower grades garden
warm, calm, nurturing kindergarten spaces
This first day was key, it sets the tone for the year. Jennifer knitted me a tie to wear for Opening Day, which I was glad for. In so many ways, it was an important day. It was the first day of school for my three kids at Davis Waldorf, it was my first day to greet the community, it was my first day to be in the classroom with the sixth graders.
And as I write this blog at the end of this first week, I will say that I am truly grateful for them. They have shown me this week that they have the courage, honor, faith, and heart to take this journey with me. And as I reflect on the first day of school with the children, I feel that a connection was made, and the natural bond formed felt as if I had been standing in front of the classroom with them much longer.


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