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Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Something for the weekend. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. I have featured this song before in one of my Saturday posts, but the superb video above that melds the song with information about the sinking of SS Edmund Fitzgerald compelled me to post it again. Besides we can never have too much Gordon Lightfoot, one of the few musical brightspots in that vast musical wasteland of the last century known as the Seventies.
Gingrich and the Fourth Estate
No one is better than Gingrich in pointing out the wretched double standard of the Mainstream Media:
I want to make two quick points, John. The first is there is a legitimate question about the power of the government to impose on religion activities which any religion opposes. That's legitimate. But I just want to point out, you did not once in the 2008 campaign, not once did anybody in the elite media ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide. Continue reading
Vice-Presidents of the United States
Ah, the occupants of an office which is only of importance upon the death of someone! Many of the men who have occupied the office have left some pungent quotes about it. Here are a few:
John Adams, first Vice-President: "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth Vice-President: "I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president."
Thomas Marshall, twenty-eighth Vice-President: "Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again".
Charles Dawes, thirtieth Vice-President: "This is a hell of a job. I can only do two things: one is to sit up here and listen to you birds talk….The other is to look at newspapers every morning to see how the president's health is."
John Nance Garner, thirty-second Vice-President: "The vice-presidency is not worth a warm bucket of spit." (Cactus Jack probably used another term instead of "spit", but this is a family blog.) Continue reading
Some In Mainstream Media In Full Anti-Catholic Meltdown Mode
Some in the mainstream media are so angry about the existence of faithful Catholics that they can't help themselves in becoming unhinged. I will reference the main points, but suffice to say that I could write a book on the subject. These latest quotes have caused me to scramble to get information to my editor so as to include at least some of this in my upcoming book; The Tide Continues To Turn Toward Catholicism, a follow up to my first book. For starters it seems some in mainstream media are so ignorant of religion that even though 90% of Americans belong to some form of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, which all believe that evil is manifested through a figure known as Satan, the media still finds it in their power to mock anyone who thinks evil exists. Some in the media seemed to take glee in pouncing on Catholic and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. He was called a kook, a nut, deranged, a mullah and an ayatollah, not by nameless posters on leftwing blogs but named writers in serious newspapers.
Leading the charge was that maven of militant secularism and angry people everywhere Maureen Dowd. Here are some of the spoiled nuggets from her dung heap. She calls Santorum a "mullah" who wants to take, "women back to the caves." She goes on to deride anyone who actually believes in the teachings of the Catholicism that she once practiced.
Never one to miss a chance at apostasy and heresy; Chris Matthews entered the fray with both of his tingling legs. Matthews claimed the reason the Catholic Church is growing is because homophobic converts are coming into the Church. It would appear that Mr. Matthews is off his meds. Has anyone ever informed mister leg tingler that groups like Courage; the Apostolate run by those who are same sex attracted, is a rapidly growing organization with men and women from all walks of life? They feel the comfort and assurance of living in God's chaste plan for their lives. The New York Times of all papers did a favorable story on Eve Tushnet, a popular Catholic writer who has ties to the group. She is a successful woman and an Ivy League grad. Are these militant secularists going to claim that she is homophobic?
David Gergen and Donna Brazile (who is Catholic) didn't take any pot shots at Catholics per see but did point out that liberal feminist organizations didn't seem smitten with any of the GOP candidates, because they kept talking about religious liberty instead of the rights of birth control? David Gergen even said it with a straight face, which should really frost Rush Limbaugh who has dubbed the Washington establishmentarian; David Rodham Gergen. As much as they refer to the New York Times, they somehow missed Ross Douthat's op-ed piece on the growth of Natural Family Planning and the number of women who help teach this non birth control view of family planning across the country and world.
The coup de grace of hate came from David Waldman who writes for a number of publications. This little nugget would make the Know Nothing Party of the 1840s smile. I would rather not give him the pleasure of repeating such delusional hatred; if you want to read his screed click here. UPDATE In a Lisa Miller Washington Post article just out; Ms. Miller not only mocks Catholics but calls bishops "zealots" three times in her article.
If the Catholic Church is so irrelevant why would the likes of Dowd, Matthews and Waldman froth at the mouth at her beliefs? The simple answer is the Catholic Church is growing while their favorite liberal religious bodies are not only dying on the vine, but shriveling in a complete statistical freefall. Catholics and Evangelicals continue to increase in numbers which drive these mouthpieces of militant secularism nuts. Continue reading
Religious Kook Talks About Evil Existing in the World
Yet another social conservative yahoo railing about evil, abortion, and sin. A guy like this couldn't even sniff the presidency.
Ht: Right Scoop for the video, and Rush Limbaugh for reminding us about it today.
Cardinal Newman on Lent
Is it not, I say, quite a common case for men and for women to neglect religion in their best days? They have been baptized, they have been taught their duty, they have been taught to pray, they know their Creed, their conscience has been enlightened, they have opportunity to come to Church. This is their birthright, the privileges of their birth of water and of the Spirit; but they sell it, as Esau did. They are tempted by Satan with some bribe of this world, and they give up their birthright in exchange for what is sure to perish, and to make them perish with it. Esau was tempted by the mess of pottage which he saw in Jacob's hands. Satan arrested the eyes of his lust, and he gazed on the pottage, as Eve gazed on the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve sold their birthright for the fruit of a tree—that was their bargain. Esau sold his for a mess of lentils—that was his. And men now-a-days often sell theirs, not indeed for any thing so simple as fruit or herbs, but for some evil gain or other, which at the time they think worth purchasing at any price; perhaps for the enjoyment of some particular sin, or more commonly for the indulgence of general carelessness and spiritual sloth, because they do not like a strict life, and have no heart for God's service. And thus they are profane persons, for they despise the great gift of God. Continue reading
Alternate Georges
On the birthday of the Father of Our Country it is proper to take a moment and reflect that in all likelihood the United States of America would not exist today but for the leadership shown by George Washington during the Revolution. The poets Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet explored long ago some of the many different paths the life of Washington might have taken which would have altered our history so profoundly. We call Washington the Father of Our Country not to honor him, but as a simple statement of fact. Continue reading
Sin is Poison
even when you didn't do it.
A few minutes ago, I was dancing around with my two year old Princess, and the baby Duchess got herself into a corner again– she can't turn or go in reverse, yet. Princess, of course, wanted me to dance with her, so I said: "Princess, I can only handle one baby at a time!"
As soon as the words left my mouth, I thought of "selective reduction," and the kids that won't ever have a chance to play with mine. I've never done anything like that, but it still poisoned my mood. A silly, small example, but it's interesting how having words to hold a concept can help you identify it, even when it's tiny.
It is Time to Get Rid of Most Campaign Finance Laws
One of the big items today is news that the Romney campaign is bleeding cash. Considering his all out assault first on Newt Gingrich, and now Rick Santorum, this comes as no surprise. Yet while Romney spends more in a day than Santorum spent through most of the campaign thus far (only a slight exaggeration, I think), Santorum continues continues to poll ahead of Romney nationally and is neck-and-neck in Romney's home state. Of course Romney still has plenty in reserve thanks largely to his Super PAC. Even Newt Gingrich's fledgling campaign is still alive thanks to the generosity of one supporter funding a pro-Newt Super PAC.
These Super PACs have come under fire. They are the indirect result of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, a law which itself amended the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), a law meant to restrict the amount of money that individuals could donate to individual candidates. FECA created a two-tiered structure that basically divided federal contributions into two categories: hard money and soft money. Professional sports fans probably recognize the terms as related to soft and hard caps, and it's really the same concept. Under FECA individuals could only contribute $1,000 to a candidate per election cycle. Yet there were no restrictions placed on "soft money," meaning contributions to party committees. This was the original end-run around campaign finance law. Under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), or McCain-Feingold, individual contribution maxes to candidates were raised, but soft money contributions were phased out. This, in turn, gave rise to other organizations, mainly 527s, which were able to raise unlimited amounts of money to air issue advocacy ads against candidates. These various organizations are not technically affiliated with any candidate, and it is a violation of campaign finance law for candidates to collaborate in any way with these groups.
So is it time for another set of reforms? Indeed it is. And the reform is simple: repeal all these ridiculous (and arguably unconstitutional) provisions, and allow individuals to contribute whatever amount of money they want directly to candidates.
The Effrontery of Rick Santorum
Rich Lowery has a post at National Review Online which explains why Rick Santorum drives the Mainstream Media crazy:
Santorum is a standing affront to the sensibilities and assumptions of the media and political elite. That elite is constantly writing the obituary for social conservatism, which is supposed to wither away and leave a polite, undisturbed consensus in favor of social liberalism. Santorum not only defends beliefs that are looked down upon as dated and unrealistic; he does it with a passionate sincerity that opens him to mockery and attack.
If Santorum had the social views of a Barbara Boxer, he would be hailed in all the glossy magazines as a political virtuoso. He has fought a front-runner with all the advantages to a jump ball in Michigan. His aides can't provide advance texts of his speeches because he always extemporizes and speaks from a few notes. He is indefatigable, willing to lose on behalf of what he believes and committed to trying to convince others of his positions.
In the wake of his surprise showing in the Iowa caucuses, news coverage focused on Santorum arguing about gay marriage with college kids at his New Hampshire events. It was taken as a sign of his monomania. Yet he genuinely — if naïvely — wanted to convince them. If the cauldron of a presidential campaign is not the best place for Socratic exchanges on hot-button issues, Santorum was trying to do more than repeat sound bites back at youthful questioners.
Although his critics will never credit him for it, Santorum's social conservatism brings with it an unstinting devotion to human dignity, a touchstone for the former senator. The latest position for which he's taking incoming is his opposition to a government mandate for insurance coverage of prenatal testing often used to identify handicapped babies who are subsequently aborted. For his detractors, his respect for the disabled is trumped by his unforgivable opposition to abortion. Continue reading
The Unmanly Bitterness of the Manosphere
[cross posted from the DarwinCatholic blog]
Sin has the tendency to inspire sin. The abused becomes the abuser, the person who believes himself oppressed begins to take on all the least likeable characteristics of his oppressor.
This has always been struck me with particular force when I've stumbled across the writings of the "manosphere", a region of the internets in which men wail about how in the post-feminist age women are all money hungry cheaters with inflated senses of entitlement. The solution to this is, allegedly, to use to the rules of "game" to dominate women by proving the practitioners to be "alpha males". A highly technical process with all rigor of a pseudoscience behind it (perhaps some enterprising gamester can introduce the taking women's head measurements into the process) practitioners council each other on how to deliver "negs" (negative compliments) which will cut women down to size by informing them of their SMV (sexual market value). Then once the women feels like she needs to pursue since she isn't being pursued, she melts when given "kino escalation" (he touches her).
You get the idea. I always get the sense of a couple rather mangy looking lions hanging around outside the pride talking about how they're really more alpha than the lion who actually has all the mates and cubs. For all the acronyms and specialized terminology, you can tell that these boys' manes are more than half weave.
As with most wrongheaded worldviews, there are some insights buried in there. The Sex-in-the-City feminist manifesto "from now on, we're going to have sex like men" (which in feminist speak apparently means without thought or commitment) is most certainly something which has managed to make a lot of women (and men) unhappy — potentially for life. Once having correctly diagnosed this as seriously messed up, however, the manosphere solution appears to be that men should retaliate by turning into a bunch of whiny Carrie Bradshaws themselves. A group of guys supposedly outraged by the fact that many modern women demand special treatment and aren't interested in marriage spend their time whining about how mean girls are and generally advocating an approach to dealing with women that seems guaranteed to make them singularly unattractive marriage material.
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Rate that President! : Part II
The second part of my rating of US Presidents. The first part may be viewed here.
24. John F. Kennedy-From a moral standpoint perhaps the worst man ever to sit in the White House, the recent revelations of his teenage White House intern mistress during that time period helping to cement that status. Kennedy was a strong advocate of the space race and set the country the goal of landing a man on the moon which the nation met in 1969. He presided over a prosperous economy, helped along with a reduction in marginal rates which he pushed through. In foreign policy he presided over the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and our widening involvement in South Vietnam, lending support to the coup that toppled Diem. He will always be best known for the Cuban Missile Crisis which he successfully navigated, but it was a very close shave for the world. On civil rights, he gave much lip service to it, but it would be his successor who would push through the key civil rights legislation. The second most over-rated president in our nation's history.
25. James Garfield-A Union Civil War general with a superb combat record, Garfield was also a canny politician with seven terms under his belt in the House. During the brief four months he held the office before his assassination, he staked out positions in favor of civil service reform, the hot domestic issue of the day, and reform of the post office. He refinanced a substantial portion of the national debt at a lower interest rate, saving the nation millions in interest payments. An ardent advocate of civil rights for blacks, he sponsored a bill to provide for universal federal education to combat the fact that in many Southern states no provision was made to educate blacks. It failed in Congress after Garfield's death. He appointed many blacks to federal office, and began to reverse President Rutherford's policy of conciliation white Southerners at the expense of blacks. Garfield began the policy of modernizing the Navy carried forward by President Arthur.
26. John Tyler-Known as "His Accidency" by his critics after he took over when President Harrison died just after thirty days in office, Harrison set the mold for Vice-Presidents who assumed the office. It was by no means clear that he would be called President and that he would have the full powers of the President or be considered to be simply conducting a caretaker "regency" until the next election for President. Harrison had none of that. He insisted on being called President and was quite clear in his own mind that he had all of the powers of an elected President. Aside from this setting of precedent, the most signficant event in his presidency was the annexation of Texas at the very end of his term. Tyler was a former Democrat and he acted like a Democrat as president, vetoing almost the entire Whig agenda, including vetoing a proposed national bank twice. The Whigs in the House, for the first time in the nation's history, began impeachment proceedings. Tyler probably would have been impeached if the Whigs had not lost their majority in the 1842 election in the House. Tyler died in 1862, shortly after his election as a representative to the Confederate Congress. Stunningly, he still has two living grandsons.
27. Herbert Hoover-Hoover rose from poverty to become a self-made millionaire as a mining engineer. He was a noted philanthropist, organizing relief efforts in Europe throughout World War I, saving tens of millions of lives. His administration was dominated by the Great Depression. To combat the Depression Hoover initiated policies that set the precedent for Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Like the New Deal, Hoover's policies were largely unsuccessful in combating the Depression. Out of office, Hoover became an outspoken critic of the New Deal which he regarded as socialism by another name. Hoover lived on until 1964, staying active in various causes, and being called upon by all his successors as president for advice and to conduct special missions for them. The only exception was Roosevelt, who shared with Hoover a cordial enmity.
28. Gerald Ford-Our only president never to be elected either president or vice president, Ford was left to pick up the pieces after Nixon resigned in disgrace. Pardoning Nixon was probably the right thing to do to avoid the nation having to go through several more years of the Watergate melodrama, and Ford took immense grief for doing so. In foreign affairs his hands were tied by a Democrat leftist dominated Congress that came to power in the election of 1974, and 1975 witnessed the fall of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to the Communists, and set the stage for Soviet adventurism in Africa and Afghanistan. Domestically, the country went through a short but sharp recession in 1974 largely caused by the Arab oil embargo. Inflation was still a great problem, but the economy had vastly improved by 1976 and Ford probably would have beaten Carter but for Ford making a verbal mistep in one of their debates, claiming that Poland was not under Soviet domination, and stubbornly refusing to correct himself for several days. He died in 2006 at 93, making him the longest lived president, beating Reagan for that distinction by 45 days.
29. Millard Fillmore-Fillmore took over as the last Whig president following the death of Zachary Taylor. He helped push through the Compromise of 1850 which delayed the Civil War for decade, and after you have mentioned that you have largely accounted for any historical importance of the Fillmore administration, other than the opening of Japan by Commodore Perry which occurred under President Pierce but which Fillmore initiated. In retirement Fillmore turned down an honorary degree from Oxford, saying that he was unworthy of it, and noting that it was written in Latin and that a man should never accept a degree that he was unable to read. Continue reading
There Is No Right to Privacy in the Constitution
In other words, Santorum is right and his hardcore libertarian opponents are wrong.
Rick Santorum has stated that he believes that there is no right to privacy in the Constitution. Therefore, Supreme Court decisions such as Griswold v. Connecticut (striking down Connecticut's anti-contraception statutes) and Lawrence v. Texas (striking down Texas's anti-homosexual sodomy laws) were wrong.
Mitt Romney artfully dodged this question at a recent debate, so Santorum's coming under fire for stating what should be taken as a given among so-called conservative constitutionalists. As indicated in prior posts, Santorum does not suggest that he would personally favor such laws; in fact he has expressly stated that he would not vote for laws that banned contraception or sodomy.
Santorum's main fault, evidently, is that he is expressing an originalist understanding of the constitution. Both of the decisions referenced above were gross miscarriages of constitutional justice. No matter what you think of the laws in questions, Supreme Court Justices are supposed to decide cases based on the constitution, not their personal policy preferences. In both cases, the majority opinion was based on policy, though justified with a thin veneer of constitutional justification.
In the case of Griswold, Justice William O. Douglas wrote the famous majority opinion in which he stated that though there is no right to privacy expressly stated in the constitution, it is found in "penumbras" and "emanations" found in other constitutional rights. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence, relying heavily on the concept of substantive due process, a legal concept that has enabled the Court to completely trample on states' rights. In other words, the Court struck down state laws that ran afoul of no direct constitutional prohibition. The writers of these majority decisions had to contort the plain meaning of the document in order to justify a decision they had already reached without reference to the constitutional text.
Both of these cases sparked notable dissenting opinions. Potter Stewart in Griswold and Clarence Thomas in Lawrence said much the same thing: the law under consideration is uncommonly silly, and if i were a legislator in this particular state I would vote against such a law. But my job as a jurist is to determine whether the law is constitutional or not, and neither Stewart or Thomas considered the law in either case to run afoul of the constitution. The sentiment expressed by both Stewart and Thomas should inform any intellectually honest jurist.
Justice Arthur Goldberg offered a concurring opinion in Griswold that some conservatives have found to be more compelling, citing the Ninth Amendment as justification for striking down the Connecticut statute. The problem with this rationale is that the ninth amendment ought to be read in conjunction with the tenth. The Bill of Rights in general were meant to be restrictions placed upon the federal government. The ninth and tenth amendments exists because the framers of the Bill of Rights fretted that the Bill of Rights would be read to imply that only the rights contained therein were protected. in fact many of the opponents of the Bill of Rights opposed creating such a list precisely because they believed that a specific enumeration of rights would imply that rights not listed were not protected. So the ninth amendment assures us that the first eight amendments are not an exhaustive list of protections. But again, this has to be read in light of the purpose of restricting the power of the federal government. It is not a broad grant of individual rights, but an assurance that the federal government could not augment its reach beyond certain delineated fields. If anything, the ninth amendment should be used as a cudgel against the Court and the federal government in general in their attempts to restrict states rights.
Therefore I find it odd that those who claim to be averse to a centralized, big brother government are content with said government being able to strike down state laws for no other than the laws in question are of questionable value. It suggests to me that those who cry "Nanny Statist!" with regards to Rick Santorum ought to look in the mirror.
Goerge Weigel: The Betrayal of Religious Freedom by Liberal Catholics
George Weigel has a post on National Review Online regarding the betrayal by some liberal Catholics of religious freedom in regard to the HHS Mandate:
Thus "liberal Catholics" who refuse to grasp the threats to religious freedom posed by the Obama administration on so many fronts — the HHS mandate, the EEOC's recently rejected attempt to strip the "ministerial exemption" from employment law, the State Department's dumbing-down of religious freedom to a mere "freedom of worship" — are betraying the best of their own heritage. And some are doing it in a particularly nasty way, trying to recruit the memory of John Courtney Murray as an ally in their attempts to cover for the Obama administration's turning its de facto secularist bias into de jure policy, regulations, and mandates. More than 50 years ago, Murray warned of the dangers deracinated secularism posed to the American democratic experiment: a warning that seems quite prescient in the light of the Leviathan-like politics of this administration, aided and abetted by baptized secularists who insist that they are "liberal Catholics." I daresay Murray, who did not suffer fools gladly, would not be amused by those who now try to use his work to shore up their own hollow arguments on behalf of the establishment of secularism.
The HHS-mandate battle is bringing to the surface of our public life many problems that were long hidden: the real and present danger to civil society of certain forms of Enlightenment thinking; the determination of the promoters of the sexual revolution to use state coercion to impose their agenda on society; the failure of the Catholic Church to educate the faithful in its own social doctrine; the reluctance of the U.S. bishops' conference to forcefully apply that social doctrine — especially its principle of subsidiarity — during the Obamacare debate. To that list can now be added one more sad reality, long suspected but now unmistakably clear: the utter incoherence of 21st-century liberal Catholicism, revealed by its failure to defend its own intellectual patrimony: the truth of religious freedom as the first of human rights. That liberal Catholics have done so in order to play court chaplain to overweening and harshly secularist state power compounds that tragedy, with deep historical irony. Continue reading
Father Barron Explains What the Obama Administration Means by "Freedom of Worship"
Ashley Samelson McGuire of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty noted the use of the term "Freedom of Worship" rather than the usual "Freedom of Religion" by Obama back in 2010 in several speeches:
Freedom of worship" first appeared in a high profile speech in Obama's remarks at the memorial for the victims of the Fort Hood shooting last November, a few months after his Cairo speech. Speaking to the crowd gathered to commemorate the victims, President Obama said, "We're a nation that guarantees the freedom to worship as one chooses." Given the religious tension that marked the tragic incident, it was not an insignificant event at which to unveil a new way of referring to our First Freedom.
Shortly after his remarks at Ft. Hood, President Obama left for his trip to Asia, where he repeatedly referred to "freedom of worship," and not once to "freedom of religion."
Not long after his return, "freedom of worship" appeared in two prominent speeches delivered by Secretary Clinton. In her address to Georgetown University outlining the Obama Administration's human rights agenda she used "freedom of worship" three times, "freedom of religion," not once. About a month later, in an address to Senators on internet freedom at the Newseum, the phrase popped up in her lingo once again.
To anyone who closely follows prominent discussion of religious freedom in the diplomatic and political arena, this linguistic shift is troubling.
The reason is simple. Any person of faith knows that religious exercise is about a lot more than freedom of worship. It's about the right to dress according to one's religious dictates, to preach openly, to evangelize, to engage in the public square. Everyone knows that religious Jews keep kosher, religious Quakers don't go to war, and religious Muslim women wear headscarves—yet "freedom of worship" would protect none of these acts of faith.
Those who would limit religious practice to the cathedral and the home are the very same people who would strip the public square of any religious presence. They are working to tear down roadside memorial crosses built to commemorate fallen state troopers in Utah, to strip "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and they recently stopped a protester from entering an art gallery because she wore a pro-life pin.
The effort to squash religion into the private sphere is on the rise around the world. And it's not just confined to totalitarian regimes like Saudi Arabia. In France, students at public schools cannot wear headscarves, yarmulkes, or large crucifixes. The European Court of Human Rights has banned crucifixes from the walls of Italian schools. In Indonesia, the Constitutional Court is reviewing a law that criminalizes speech considered "blasphemous" to other faiths. Efforts to trim religion into something that fits neatly in one's pocket is the work of dictators, not democratic leaders. So why then have our leaders taken a rhetorical scalpel to the concept of religious freedom? Continue reading


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8:58am Monday 3rd December 2012 in National Entertainment News © Press Association 2014
Harry Styles and Taylor Swift fuelled rumours of a romance by stepping out together in New York.
The One Direction singer and the US pop superstar - who were first linked after they were spotted looking friendly on US X Factor - were seen strolling through the Big Apple together at the weekend, reported Us Weekly.
Harry and Taylor then visited the Central Park Zoo with Harry's stylist Lou Teasdale, her fiance Tom and their baby Lux. Pictures show the couple sitting next to each other and talking, with Love Story singer Taylor holding the baby.
A source told E! News: "Harry and Taylor were walking next to each other. They seemed happy to be together, talking and smiling. Taylor seemed to be in a great mood. Lou and Tom were walking next to them and pushing their baby Lux in a stroller."
Since the pair were seen on X Factor, there have been reports that they are an item and that Taylor wants to buy a home in the UK to be closer to Harry. The 22-year-old, who recently split from Robert F Kennedy Jr and who has previously dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal and singer Joe Jonas, was said to be looking at properties in London.
It has also been reported that Harry wants to introduce Taylor to his parents at the band's upcoming Christmas party in New York.


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In the evenings, when she closes her eyes, Eleanor Torrey West pulls on her riding boots and descends the back stairs of her pink stucco mansion on Ossabaw, an all but deserted barrier island twenty miles south of Savannah that only the luckiest people in the world get to see. Sandy, as she's called, is more than lucky—she inherited the heart-shaped mass of thick forest and wistful marshland from her richer-than-Croesus parents. As she sees it, that makes her blessed by the gods.
In her remembered twilight, Maria, Sandy's brown and white pinto, is still waiting. So is her estate manager, Roger Parker, a rugged fellow in his signature black Stetson. The riders leave behind guests—some of the nation's most prominent artists, musicians, and writers—as well as a staff of eighteen.
It is dark out, but the sky is popping with stars. Sandy and Roger know Ossabaw's 26,000 acres blindfolded. They take off down the main road, Spanish moss dangling from the twisty live oaks that line their way. They pass the oyster-shell-and-lime slave cabins built when plantations of rice and indigo and cotton dissected the land. Three miles away at Middle Place, a plantation turned artists' colony that grows its own food and draws its water from an artesian well, aspiring painters and poets sleep in tree houses built from lumber they've harvested themselves. Their craftsmanship can't match that of the one-room wood hideaway that Roger constructed between an oak and a magnolia, a place where Sandy, a social recluse of sorts, reads and writes and thinks.
Tonight, Sandy and Roger hunt down poachers looking to make bacon from the feral hogs. They cross paths with alligators, rattlesnakes, and armadillos. Blue herons, bald eagles, and white wood storks with black-tipped wings that resemble fancy dinner gloves soar overhead. The riders take special delight in the snowlike egret rookery before salt air from the Atlantic smacks their faces. Stretched before them is a seemingly endless coastline of white sand and dunes, untouched by man. Loggerhead sea turtles have dibs here.
At the end of the journey, Sandy's soft blue eyes open. She looks around her room—at the stacks of books piled up around her bed, at her dog sleeping nearby. The poets and painters who attended her artists' colonies and filled the evenings with talk and laughter are all gone. The pinto died long ago. Sandy herself is now ninety-eight.
As for the island, Sandy no longer owns it. She sold it—no, gifted it, really—to the state of Georgia three decades ago after exhausting her fortune on the Ralph Ellisons, Aaron Coplands, Annie Dillards, and hundreds of other artists whose words or brushes or notes her island inspired. But Sandy has no regrets. The way she sees it, no one has lived a richer life. Although she could have gotten millions more for her island from Jackie Kennedy Onassis or Hilton Head developer Charles Fraser or others who came calling over the years, she did exact a steep price from the people of Georgia. She gets to stay in the pink house as long as she wants. But the real coup: Ossabaw must remain off-limits to developers, and the masses, for the most part, remain stranded on the mainland. Even after she dies, Ossabaw will continue on as one of the last unspoiled places in Georgia and on the planet. "I fought. And I won," she says. "Unbelievable. An old crock like me."


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Our incredible gifted wedding went off with flying colors! Our bride and groom were married in style, their guests enjoyed offerings that surprised and delighted them, and everywhere you looked that day, there was an outpouring of generosity, talent and love. I can't wait to show you the wedding in all its glory, it truly was magical. But even greater than our sense of accomplishment is our gratitude to the generous vendors that came on board to a never-been-done, out-of-the-box, gifted wedding, and took a big chance on lovegiveswell. Alice G. Patterson Photography gifted her talents to give us something truly special prior to the wedding day. At our final details vendor meeting we set up a portrait session for each of the vendors to get a fun portrait of who they are and what they do. Holly and the A-List Artistry team gifted their makeup skills and gave us all a fresh look! Not everyone who gifted could make it, so they are listed below as well. Here's tribute to these wedding pros who loved big and gave well. Simply put: I am so grateful.
[ A-List Artistry Team ] & [ 83 & Company ]
[ Pamela Beth Weddings ] & [ Erica of Smock Letterpress & Bella Figura ]
[ Fleur de Lis Florist ] & [ Hair Habitat ]
[ Leo Timoshuk Photography ] & [ Hanna Richardson Trio ]
[Chef Steve Landon of Vernak Farms] & [ CNY Cookie Delights ]
[ Mary Schalk Design ] & [The Sweet Praxis]
[ Cullen Studio ] & [ The Landmark Theatre ]
[ Platinum DJ's ] & [ Liz of Avalon Document Services ]
[ Tyler Brown Studio ] & [Lovewell Celebration Design]
In addition, our non-pictured lovegiveswell vendors:
Mirror, Mirror Inc.
Giovanni's Mens Formal Wear
Whistlestop Florist
Witty Wicks Candles
Taylor Rental of Auburn
Northeast Decorating
Petunia Rose Vintage China
Candlelight Music
317 @ Montgomery Street
Gentile's Restaurant
La Dolce Vita Bakeshop
Sugar & Type
Visa Versa Entertainment
Chris Fowler of Syracuse First
Heaping thank you's, gratitude, endless hugs and big smooches to all those who gifted their time, talents, resources and love. I am so impressed with this community and its capacity to love well. Thank you Alice for gifting us images to showcase our small business community, and Alist for feeling fancy and fresh! ….And they all lived happily ever after!


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Congratulations to Dr. Charlie Mitchell, assistant professor in the School of Theatre + Dance, on the recent publication of his open source textbook, Theatrical Worlds, published online by University Press of Florida. This is a ground-breaking text for the teaching of introductory theatre courses that has been years in development. Congratulations also to Stacey Galloway, assistant professor, for her chapter on costume design.
Twentieth Century actors Amanda Schlachter, left, as Lily Garland, and Tom Foley, as Oscar Jaffe.
Twentieth Century, a classic 1930s screwball comedy that explores the theme and effects of stardom during the Golden Age of Hollywood, will be presented by the UF School of Theatre + Dance during a limited one-week engagement July 17-20, 2014. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. July 17-19 and at 2 p.m. July 19 and July 20.
Back row, left to right: Ralf Remshardt and Tony Mata; front row, the films' honorees from left to right: Max Ferrá, René Buch and Miriam Colón; all photos by Tucker Hollingsworth
Approximately 100 guests including celebrated figures of the Broadway and Off-Broadway community attended a special film screening of Theatre of Rice and Beans at New York's Tribeca Cinemas May 12, 2014.The film, directed by School of Theatre + Dance professors Tony Mata and Ralf Remshardt, was first screened at UF in January and is a tribute to the history of Latino theatre and to René Buch, Miriam Colón and Max Ferrá, the founders of New York City's three most influential Latino playhouses.
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark actors Emily Lewis, left, as Gloria Mitchell and Oluchi Nwokocha as Vera Stark.
The UF School of Theatre + Dance's production of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, a recent comedy by Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage that chronicles seventy years in the life of Vera Stark, a determined African-American maid and would-be Hollywood actress, is on stage in Black Box Theatre located in the Nadine M. McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion July 9-12, 2014. We recently sat down with the play's director, UF Assistant Professor Tim Altmeyer, for an inside look at the production. Here, Altmeyer talks about what attracted him to direct this play and how Vera Stark is the perfect example of someone in pursuit of the American dream.
Swamp Dance Fest 2014, directed by choreographer/filmmaker Tiffany Rhynard, is a transformative four-week dance intensive taking place July 7-August 3, 2014 at UF's School of Theatre + Dance in G-6 Studio in the Nadine M. McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. Intended for pre-professional and professional dancers ages 16 and above, Swamp Dance Fest combines a rigorous schedule of classes, rehearsals, performances, artists' talks and special projects, composition classes, and dance for camera classes, culminating in a performance of works created during the festival, performed by students and guests.
Professor Stan Kaye, far left, and Director and Associate Professor Martin Gold, far right, with students Diane Ariza, Kyle Sheppard and Jamison Deighan.
Since 2002, School of Theatre + Dance (SoTD) Professor Stan Kaye and School of Architecture Director and Associate Professor Martin Gold have teamed up to teach Architectural Lighting Design. The spring 2014 course included architecture students from the Gainesville and CityLab-Orlando programs as well as students from the SoTD.
Austin Butler and Lyndon Smith in Death of the Author. Photo by Michael Lamont
SoTD alumna Lyndon Smith has had her share of successful roles as of late. Currently, she is playing the role of Sarah, the ex-girlfriend of student Bradley, played by Austin Butler, in Death of the Author, a comedic play about academia on stage at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles through June 29, 2014. Death of the Author is written by Steven Drukm, directed by Bart DeLorenzo and also features Orson Bean and David Clayton Rogers.
Host Hugh Jackman, center, onstage during the 2014 Tony Awards. Photo credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images
John Pinckard, a University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance alumnus, was among those honored with the Best Musical win at the 68th annual Tony Awards Sunday night.
Pinckard, as one of the producers of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, joined the cast on stage at New York's Radio City Music Hall to celebrate theater's highest recognition.
The show, which received the most Tony Award nominations this year, won three additional honors for Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Director of a Musical and Best Book of a Musical.
Congratulations to SoTD alumnus Hugh Hysell (MFA Theatre '97) who was recently hired by Groupon to lead their National Broadway and Live Arts sector, which offers deals in live entertainment around the country. Hysell has produced Tony Award-winning Broadway and Off-Broadway shows including Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Peter and the Starcatcher. To read more about Hysell's new position, click here.
The best of the best on Broadway will be recognized at the Tony Awards this Sunday, June 8, 2014. Congratulations to SoTD alumnus John Pinckard (Theatre Performance '98), who serves as a producer in the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which received 10 Tony nominations, including in the Best Musical category.
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, a recent comedy by Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage, chronicles seventy years in the life of Vera Stark, a determined African-American maid and would-be Hollywood actress. Vera and her friends overcome scarce film opportunities and stereotypically demeaning roles by using clever means to get noticed and earn their break in the movie industry. Beginning with her role in a 1930s Southern epic, Vera Stark's film portrayals and persona pave the way for future generations of black actresses and leave film critics arguing for decades about her motives and legacy. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is more than another tale of the rise and fall of a film actress; it is an original account of the civil rights movement as seen through Hollywood's lens. The comedy is being presented in Gainesville, Florida, at the University of Florida June 12-15 and July 9-12 in the Black Box Theatre of the Nadine M. McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion.
SoTD alumnus George Salazar (BFA Theatre Performance '08) is set to perform in the ensemble in Here Lies Love, a musical produced and scored by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim and directed by Alex Timbers opening May 21, 2014 at The Public Theater in New York.
Attendees at the Dance for PD® free movement class held at UF in June 2012.
UF's Center for Arts in Medicine and the School of Theatre and Dance in partnership with the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group will present Dance for PD®, a three-day training and professional development workshop for dancers, dance teachers, students, therapists and allied health professionals May 30-June 1, 2014 in the Nadine M. McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion at UF in Gainesville, Florida.
A free movement class for persons with Parkinson's disease and their families, friends and care partners will be held Saturday, May 31 from 2-3:15 p.m. in the Nadine M. McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. The class will be led by David Leventhal, founding teacher and program director for the Dance for PD® program, with live musical accompaniment and will be followed by a community discussion. Parking is free, and all are welcome to attend. Advanced registration is not required to attend.
Congratulations to Dr. Joan Frosch, SoTD professor and director of the Center for World Arts, on being named a 2014-2015 Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor. Frosch was one of four distinguished UF faculty members to receive this appointment.
From left to right: Assistant Professor Tim Altmeyer, Tracy Floyd, Stephanie Anarumo and John Reger, president of the Friends of Theatre + Dance.
School of Theatre + Dance students, faculty members, staff, alumni, friends and donors gathered in Constans Theatre on April 23, 2014 for the Spring 2014 Convocation Ceremony. The event, which fell on the last day of the semester, served as a celebration of student talent and as a means to honor those whom scholarships are named in honor of.


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I have been toying around with OOP, and figured it would be a good exercise to create a class that animated the bg of an object.
during this process ran in to a curious behaviour:
Class C , creates/clones an enlement... setting it to a user defined dimension , assigns it a a bg sprite.. the foolowing code, also part of the class serves to animate this bg.
C.prototype.anim = function( ){
if (this.seqCt < this.seqL-1 ){this.seqCt++}
else{this.seqCt = 0;}
this.el.style.backgroundPositionX=(this.seqX+(this.seqCt * this.seqXp))+'px';
this.el.style.backgroundPositionY=(this.seqY+ (this.seqCt * this.seqYp))+'px';
C.prototype.runSeq = function(self){
self.a = setInterval( function(){self.anim()},self.int) ;
This woks perfectly... but I came around this solution after much trial an error, and am no tparticularly pleased that the code must be called like this:
I mean why must I pass the object to itself? isn't that what 'this' is for?
In my original code differed ONLY thus:
so I could do : obj.runSeq( );Code:
C.prototype.runSeq = function(){
self.a = setInterval( function(){self.anim()},self.int) ;
the problem was if I had multiple instances , then only the last instance was actually running the runSeq method. This was really weird since,all other properties, were unique to each instance and did not affect each other.
Please pardon that my knowledge of OOP is mostly from PHP, but why would have needed to pass the instance itself to a function that part of the class definition? Shouldn't 'this' represent the instance in this context and not the 'class'?