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Statement of Rep. Christopher Shays
June 15, 2000
Last year the Air Force's F-22 air superiority fighter encountered unexpected turbulence when House appropriators questioned the ability of the program to stay within congressionally mandated caps on design and development costs. In December, we were assured those expenses were being rigorously monitored and successfully controlled.
But looming over the horizon even then were unacceptably high cost projections for the next, more expensive phase of the program: aircraft production. So we asked the General Accounting Office (GAO) to evaluate production cost control plans being relied upon to meet critical F-22 affordability goals.
The results of their review indicate the Department of Defense (DOD), the Air Force and F-22 contractors have made some progress, but have yet to tame the persistent cost growth that has long plagued the program. GAO finds some planned cost control strategies unlikely to yield any real savings.
According to DOD, $21 billion in cost reductions will be needed to keep F-22 production spending below the $37 billion ceiling. To achieve savings on that scale, hundreds of cost reduction plans have been formulated by F-22 airframe and engine manufacturers.
But assessments of the impact of those plans vary widely in both methodology and outcome. One estimate by the Office of the Secretary of Defense concludes the program could exceed congressional production cost caps by more than $8 billion. The Air Force estimate conforms neatly with the cost cap, assuming almost complete success in trimming expenses while pushing the risk of cost growth to the out-years.
While reaching very different conclusions, the two estimates appear to share common flaws. Both include speculative savings and potential cost shifts. Significant savings are assumed from multi-year procurements that may not be approved. Additional savings are seen flowing from manufacturing efficiencies once the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) begins production. But Air Force support for the JSF may be waning. Savings attributed to contractor-provided maintenance may only defer, not avoid, depot costs later in the program.
Real savings are critical to the success of the Air Force's premier tactical air modernization effort. If high-end estimates prove true, and the program is to remain within budget, the total F-22 purchase would have to be reduced by 85 planes, nearly one quarter of the planned production run of 339 aircraft. That would endanger the military utility and the fiscal viability of the F-22.
Our goal this morning is a clearer understanding how the Air Force can achieve, not just plan, the ambitious F-22 production cost reduction program.
We welcome our witnesses and look forward to their testimony.


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Im so confused... :apple: has said that over the US the price when its launched will be 199 USD for the 16Gb but over here there are rumours about that the Hong Kong Iphone will be around 8000HKD which equals too 1100 USD.... :confused: what will the cost be? AAAAAA! :mad:


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This phrase is often used to talk about art as well: "I don't like that painting; it doesn't really speak to me." This means that it creates no emotion in me when I look at it.
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Fiat voluntas tua sicut in caelo et in terra, Prima pars
The following is the first part of a gloss on an article I recently received from a friend. The second part will appear in a few days. I apologize for not having the full reference for it, but it appears to be an address by Francis Cardinal George given to the Library of Congress on June 16, 1999, titled "Catholic Christianity and the Millennium: Frontiers of the Mind in the 21st Century." In light of the missing reference, the citations below are paragraph numbers rather than page numbers. I apologize ahead of time for those who have read or plan to read the article. While I have tried to give the Cardinal credit where due, a reading of his paper will reveal my blatant plagiarism.
The Thomistic scholar Etienne Gilson describes in The Unity of the Philosophical Experience the inevitable demise of a philosophy that ignores the highest question of being, i.e. metaphysics. In "Catholic Christianity and the Millennium: Frontiers of the Mind in the 21st Century," Cardinal George argues for a specifically Christian metaphysics, or an "incarnation metaphysics." This metaphysics begins with the "provocative claim" that is at the heart of Christianity. "In Jesus Christ, God has become a creature, without ceasing to be God and without compromising the integrity of the creature he becomes" (George, 3). The radicality of this Christian claim is evidenced by the history of heresies, most of which denied either the divinity or humanity of Christ, or in some cases, both, by arguing for a quasi-divine and quasi-human nature in the incarnated Lord. At least two Ecumenical Councils (Chalcedon in 451 and Nicea in 325) upheld the hypostatic union, the fact that, "in Jesus, the divine and the human unite without competition or compromise" (George, 3).
Libertarian Social Justice: Trees Make A Forest
Yesterday, I was having a discussion with some of my fellow Catholics about the presidential election, and there arose a brief debate about the concept of libertarianism. It never ceases to amaze me when I see committed Catholics embracing libertarianism…but then, I remember, most of them probably were not catechized very well. Also, we should take into consideration that for years many of us have been rightly troubled by a far-reaching government engaged in what the Catholic faithful invariably see as injustice. I suppose I can understand why many Catholics might think that libertarianism is a legitimate way to put that unjust government in check. Though well-intentioned, they have fallen into a snare.
Stephen Metcalf writes at Slate today about what he calls 'The Liberty Scam'. His article is essentially a rebuke of libertarianism, at least as he believes it was defined by Robert Nozik. David Boaz at CATO Institute takes issue with him on that point.
It's interesting that Boaz makes a couple of arguments against Metcalf's article that I've grown accustomed to hearing from libertarians in response to criticisms of their ideology. In a nutshell, first, we who are opposed to libertarianism are apparently not allowed to claim that one of their heroes can be said to have defined it with any certainty. We find this in Boaz's seeming annoyance with those who believe they have "grappled with libertarian ideas" if they have read Nozik. Secondly, if we disagree with the libertarian ideas set forth, it automatically means that we are misunderstanding it, hence Boaz's headline 'Misunderstanding Nozik, Again'.
Unfortunately, again, the libertarian runs up against the wall of reality and finds himself stunned.
As for Metcalf's final complaint that advocates of a more expansive state have been "hectored into silence" by the vast libertarian power structure, well, I am, if not hectored, at least stunned into silence.
Libertarians frequently cannot see the forest because the trees get in their way. How dare we think that libertarians have a shared value system that results in any kind of society that has power! Hence we see a self-refuting principle in libertarianism. Human beings are "social animals", if you will. They will, invariably, join together with like-minded people to bring about political change that reflects their views of justice. All such associations are "societies", whether or not they are governmental or political. One need look no further than one of the infamous episodes of astro-turfing for Ron Paul in straw polls and the various Campaign for Liberty rallies to see a libertarian act of "social justice", per se. The very act of joining a campaign is an act of joining a power structure to bring about one's sense of "justice". Granted, libertarian "social justice" is nothing like the Left's "social justice", but that is neither here nor there.
Metcalf paraphrases Nozik, the libertarian who apparently either doesn't speak for libertarianism or is misunderstood?:
To the entire left, Nozick, in effect, said: Your social justice comes at an unacceptable cost, namely, to my personal liberty…
This is, to be sure, the libertarians' basic argument. Ironically, the libertarian movement's social justice is similarly problematic in that it so frequently promotes license over liberty. As Mortimer Adler has written:
Herein lies the distinction between liberty and license. Liberty is freedom exercised under the restraints of justice so that its exercise results in injury to no one. In contrast license is freedom exempt from the restraints of justice and. therefore, injurious to others in infringing their freedom as well as violating other rights. When no distinction is made between liberty and license, the freedom of the strong an destroy the freedom of the weak.
Most Catholics still understand on some level that abortion and same-sex "marriage" are opposed to true justice. As such, they are opposed to authentic liberty. Just as we know that the word "choice" is misused in the abortion debate to preserve a license to kill, we should also understand that the word "liberty" is used by libertarians to preserve license on any number of issues, including abortion and the re-definition of marriage.
If you take nothing else away from this article, know this. There is a libertarian movement. It exists. It has arisen as its own society, a social group being made up of individuals who share a common definition of "justice". Their common view of "justice" is the act of joining together in a society to oppose those who would seek to bring about "social justice" which they view as a monster because the Left's version of "social justice" is, in fact, a monster. In other words, the libertarians have engaged themselves in an exercise in hypocrisy.
What's a Catholic to do? Well, we can begin by helping people to understand what authentic social justice is. (Sorry, libertarian Catholics, but that's the way it is.) Certainly, all Americans are able to make a decision to either be complacent (that is, to be the "sleeping giant") or to actively work through the political process to bring about a society that reflects our view of justice. Catholics are not free to be complacent. We each have a duty to be politically involved….to enter into associations with others to work for authentic social justice. It is my hope and prayer that we can do so as One Body. The more we talk about these issues in peace with each other, the better.
Hat-tip, Memeorandum.
George Orwell the Obama Administration is On the Phone
Hattip to Christopher Johnson at the Midwest Conservative Journal. I would note at the outset that this is not one of The Onion parodies I like to play from time to time on this blog. With the Obama administration however, the nation each day resembles more a Onion parody. The United States Department of Agriculture, yes, you read that correctly, is pressing for mandatory gay rights training:
U.S. Department of Agriculture activists want to impose their intense brand of homosexual sensitivity training governmentwide, including a discussion that compares "heterosexism" – believing marriage can be between only one man and one woman – to racism.
If accepted by the Obama administration, that move could mean more sessions for military service members already undergoing gay-sensitivity indoctrination. Critics fear additional gay-oriented training would add an unnecessary burden for combat troops and encourage some to leave.
USDA officials have asked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which oversees all federal employee policies, to impose its gay-awareness programs on all federal departments, according to an internal newsletter. The training includes a discussion of "heterosexism" and compares it to racism. It says people who view marriage as being between only one man and one woman are guilty of "heterosexism."
The push for the training is coming from Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack, former governor of Iowa. The Democrat has launched a departmentwide "cultural transformation" that includes a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Special Emphasis Program.
The USDA's senior training coordinator, Bill Scaggs, has developed a sensitivity program far more extensive than the Pentagon's training for the anticipated lifting of the ban on open ho[JUMP]mosexuals in the ranks. His training program, which OPM calls "groundbreaking [and a] model for other agencies," delves more into gay issues and terminology. It also justifies pro-homosexual political positions.
Maureen Dowd Does Theology
One of the House Catholics at the New York Times, Maureen Dowd, recently wrote a column in which she attacked the stand of Archbishop Timothy Dolan against gay marriage. In the column she made the mistake of mentioning Canon Lawyer Ed Peters, who writes an incisive blog In The Light of the Law that I visit religiously. Ed Peters responded to Dowd:
Fine, you ask, what does any of this have to do with me? I might have thought, nothing, except that Dowd decided to link my recent criticisms of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's reception of Communion at a Mass celebrated by Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard (despite Cuomo's open cohabitation with a woman not his wife), with Abp. Dolan's criticism of efforts in the New York legislature to legalize "gay marriage", the 'link' being that Cuomo is a strong proponent of "gay marriage" and would sign such a bill if it reaches his desk.
Okay, yes, I think that Cuomo's signature on such a bill would add to his Communion-eligibility problems under Canon 915, but Abp. Dolan is not making that argument: he is arguing natural law on marriage and common sense, not sacramental discipline. (I know, I know, one would have to have read and understood Dolan's arguments to see that point, but even if Dowd didn't or doesn't, some of her readers would have and do). So why does Dowd not discuss Dolan's arguments on marriage in her article about Dolan on marriage, and later, if she wishes, tackle my arguments on holy Communion in an article about me and holy Communion (assuming I was worth her time in the first place)? Why smush these two strains together?
Because Dowd apparently thinks she has discovered some "ah-ha" contradiction in the Church's logic. She writes: "Therein lies the casuistry. On one hand, as Peters told The Times about Cuomo and Lee, 'men and women are not supposed to live together without benefit of matrimony.' But then the church denies the benefit of marriage to same-sex couples living together."
That's not right. That doesn't even rise to level of being wrong. Instead, that's what comes from someone who is not even pretending to be interested in what the other side actually holds. Continue reading
SOLT Statement Regarding Fr. John Corapi
Official Statement of SOLT (Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity) regarding Fr. John Corapi:
As the Regional Priest Servant of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), I issue the following statement on behalf of the Society.
On 16 March 2011, the Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, and the SOLT received a complaint against Fr. John Corapi, SOLT. As is normal procedure and due to the gravity of the accusation alleging conduct not in concert with the priestly state or his promises as a member of a society of apostolic life of diocesan right, Fr. Corapi was suspended from active ministry (put on administrative leave) until such a time that the complaint could be fully investigated and due process given to Fr. Corapi. In the midst of the investigation, the SOLT received a letter from Fr. Corapi, dated June 3, 2011, indicating that, because of the physical, emotional and spiritual distress he has endured over the past few years, he could no longer continue to function as a priest or a member of the SOLT. Although the investigation was in progress, the SOLT had not arrived at any conclusion as to the credibility of the allegations under investigation.
At the onset, the Bishop of Corpus Christi advised the SOLT to not only proceed with the policies outlined in their own constitutions, but also with the proper canonical procedures to determine the credibility of the allegations against Fr. Corapi. We reiterate that Fr. Corapi had not been determined guilty of any canonical or civil crimes. If the allegations had been found to be credible, the proper canonical due process would have been offered to Fr. Corapi, including his right to defense, to know his accuser and the complaint lodged, and a fair canonical trial with the right of recourse to the Holy See. On June 17, 2011, Fr. John Corapi issued a public statement indicating that he has chosen to cease functioning as a priest and a member of the SOLT.
The SOLT is deeply saddened that Fr. Corapi is suffering distress. The SOLT is further saddened by Fr. Corapi's response to these allegations. The SOLT will do all within its power to assist Fr. Corapi if he desires to seek a dispensation from his rights and obligations as a priest and as a professed member of the SOLT. We request your prayers and the intercession of the Blessed Mother for the healing of Fr. Corapi and for any who have been negatively affected by Fr. Corapi's decision to end his ministry as a priest and a member of the SOLT.
Fr Gerrard Sheehan, SOLT
Regional Priest Servant
- Father Corapi's Bombshell/a> by Joan Frawley Desmond. (National Catholic Register 6/19/11). Full coverage, including news that
"the order's investigation faced complications created by a civil suit filed by Father Corapi against the former employee who had accused him of sexual misconduct.
"When she left the company, she signed a contract that she would not reveal anything that happened to her while she was at Santa Cruz Media. Father Corapi paid her for this. Father was suing her for a breach of contract."
- "The Black Sheepdog is Unleashed" — against his unnamed accuser and the bishops. John Corapi responds.6/20/11
- "God Love You, God Bless You, and Good Bye" – Initial message of John Corapi ("once called 'father,' now 'The Black Sheep Dog'")
A Father to Everyone
The conjunction of Trinity Sunday and Father's Day had me thinking yesterday about the fact that we are urged by Christ to call God our Father. Every so often you hear someone claim that we only call the first person of the trinity "God the Father" because it has been men doing the talking through most of Christian history. Had it been women in charge of things, so the claim goes, we might be talking about "God the Mother" instead.
It strikes me that the basic problem with this point of view, from a human perspective, is that it assumes that the relation of men to their fathers is more like the relationship between women and their mothers than it is like that between women and their fathers. This suggests that sex is the primary determining factor of the relationship we have with our parents — one sort of relationship with the parent of the same sex, a different sort of relationship with the parent of the opposite sex.
Like all mistakes, there is, I think, some element of truth to this. The parent of one's own sex serves as an example (even if in sad circumstances a negative one) of how the child will be a parent. Sons know that some day they may be fathers. Daughters know that some day they may be mothers. And yet, this sense cannot be the sense in which we see God as father. We will not grow up to be God like Him, we will not become creators of our own universes. We will not become all knowing, all powerful and eternal. So the sense in which we (or according to that theory, men) see God as a father is not the "I could be like him someday" sense.
At the more basic level, it seems to me that "father" and "mother" are archetypes which are different — and although sons and daughters may relate to their father differently, the ways in which both sons and daughters relate to and understand their father are more similar to each other than the way daughters relate to their mother is to the way sons relate to their father.
When Jesus told us to call God our Father, He didn't mean in the most literal and physical sense, one which would have come naturally to many pagans at that time. God the Father does not come down, like Zeus to some pretty girl, and father each one of us. And yet, we understand God as our Father because as human persons our understanding of "father" is an imperfect understanding of what our relationship with God the Father is.
As such, it seems to me that all of us, men and women, can equally relate to God as being our Father. If anything, the difference in this for men and women would not be that men see God as a father while women see Him as a mother, but rather that men relate to Him as sons while women relate to Him as daughters.
A One State Solution for Peace in the Middle East
No, no Klavan on the culture! Everyone knows that if the Jews would simply disappear the Arab world would become an oasis of peace and tolerance! At least that is what I have been told over the years by numerous combox adversaries and correspondents. Prior to becoming a blogger, I would comment on other Catholic blogs, and one of my favorits sites was Amy Welborn's Open Book. After commenting there one day I received a lengthy e-mail from a correspondent who I responded to in a fisk format. This correspondence occurred on April 17, 2007, and I thought that some of our readers might find it diverting: Continue reading
Saint Augustine on the Blessed Trinity
We have sufficiently spoken of the Father and of the Son, so far as was possible for us to see through this glass and in this enigma. We must now treat of the Holy Spirit, so far as by God's gift it is permitted to see Him. And the Holy Spirit, according to the Holy Scriptures, is neither of the Father alone, nor of the Son alone, but of both; and so intimates to us a mutual love, wherewith the Father and the Son reciprocally love one another. But the language of the Word of God, in order to exercise us, has caused those things to be sought into with the greater zeal, which do not lie on the surface, but are to be scrutinized in hidden depths, and to be drawn out from thence. The Scriptures, accordingly, have not said, The Holy Spirit is Love. If they had said so, they would have done away with no small part of this inquiry. But they have said, God is love; so that it is uncertain and remains to be inquired whether God the Father is love, or God the Son, or God the Holy Ghost, or the Trinity itself which is God. For we are not going to say that God is called Love because love itself is a substance worthy of the name of God, but because it is a gift of God, as it is said to God, You are my patience. For this is not said because our patience is God's substance, but in that He Himself gives it to us; as it is elsewhere read, Since from Him is my patience. For the usage of words itself in Scripture sufficiently refutes this interpretation; for You are my patience is of the same kind as You, Lord, art my hope, and The Lord my God is my mercy, and many like texts. And it is not said, O Lord my love, or, You are my love, or, God my love; but it is said thus, God is love, as it is said, God is a Spirit. And he who does not discern this, must ask understanding from the Lord, not an explanation from us; for we cannot say anything more clearly. Continue reading
Matt Talbot: Denying All to Gain All
Matt Talbot was a drunk. He came to this state partly as a result of nature and nurture, as his father was an alcoholic, as were most of Matt's brothers. Born into a poverty stricken home on May 2, 1856 in Dublin he became an unskilled laborer who blew most of his wages on feeding his addiction to drink. The worst thing he did to buy alcohol was to steal a fiddle from a street performer and sell it for booze. Penniless in 1884, he took the pledge not to drink and kept it for the remainder of his life.
However, turning away from alcohol was only a small part of his transformation. In order to truly change one's life it is never enough to turn away from something. We must also turn to something. Talbot turned to God. He began to attend daily Mass and and read books and pamphlets on the Faith. He repaid his debts and, after a fruitless search for the fiddler whose fiddle he stole, donated the money he wanted to pay the fiddler for his stolen fiddle to the Church for Masses to be said for the fiddler. Continue reading
Scotland the Brave
Something for the weekend. Scotland the Brave. The tune is only from the early 20th Century. The lyrics are frankly forgettable compared to the grandeur of the song so I will not repeat them here. Instead, time for a little Bobbie Burns:
Unilateral War Making by the Executive (Updated)
The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; – Article I, Section 8
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. – Article II, Section 2
It's not a good feeling agreeing with Dennis Kucinich. Finding myself on the same side of an issue as Kucinich makes me seriously reconsider my opinion. But as they say, even a bind, deaf, paralyzed, rabies-afflicted squirrel finds a nut every now and again.
It's less distressing to disagree with Charles Krauthammer. He's usually spot on, but he tends to go off the rails when it comes to foreign policy. Not always, mind you, but in Krauthammer you can see the legitimate difference between neoconservatism and traditional conservatism. Last night he had this to say about the War Powers Act and President Obama's
war hostilities kinetic military action in Libya:
KRAUTHAMMER: I understand why Congress wants to retain prerogatives, as does the president. I'm not surprised that Durbin would act this way. I am surprised that so many Republicans are jumping on the war powers resolution. They will regret it. If you have a Republican in office, you have isolationists Democrats trying to restrain his exercise of his powers under constitution and the Republicans aren't going to like it.
I would not truck in war powers resolution. I have also think the administration's defense of what it is doing is extremely week and misguided. Obama's answer essentially is well, the resolution is out there. But it's not relevant because it isn't really a war, which is absurd.
BAIER: We're not in hostilities.
KRAUTHAMMER: Right. What he should say I, like my other predecessor, I do not recognize the legality of this act and its authority over the presidency. That's where he should make his stand.
BAIER: When he was Senator Obama he spoke the opposite.
KRAUTHAMMER: And as a president he is implicitly supporting the resolution saying it doesn't apply here. It implies if it were a real war, as he pretends it's not. I have to comply. No president ought to do that.
I agree with him with regards to Obama's duplicity. I also share his skepticism about the War Powers Act. But he's wrong about the rest. Continue reading
The Beatitudes from the Gospel According to Luke, Tertia Pars
This is the third and final part of a three-part piece. The first part is found here, and the second part is found here.
4. Commentary on the Kingdom and Poverty
There are two goals for this final section. The first is to investigate what is meant by Christ's phrase, "the Kingdom of heaven," and the second is a reflection on why the here-and-now-ness of the kingdom has particular relevance for the blessing of poverty in Luke's Beatitudes.
As stated in the previous part, Christ's promise, "yours is the kingdom of heaven" immediately harkens back to His own proclamation, "The Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe in the Gospel" (Mark 1:14-15). We have already seen the interpretation given by Origen/Pope Benedict, but let me diverge for a moment and examine one other interpretation. During the later half of the 20th century, a particularly secular view (held mostly in Catholic theological circles) of the Kingdom of God gained considerable ground (Benedict, 53). This position is motivated by the desire to apply Christ's supposed message to the widest possible audience. It is a slow process of moving from any kind of specificity with regards to God's people to a meaningless generality. Beginning with the rejection of Judaism in general (for in Judaism the focus is on a specific people), Christ, it is claimed, came not for a chosen subset of people, but for the individual; he came to establish a Church that is inclusive of all people. This desire for an all-inclusiveness is seen as violated by the Church in her so-called "pre-Vatican II nature," a nature that was guilty of "ecclesiocentrism." Thus, to continue this search for all-inclusivity there was a move towards "Christocentrism" (and away from the Church herself) which strived for a less "divisive" message. However, the next two steps were quick to follow. Since Christ belongs exclusively to Christians, perhaps we should be concerned only with the general idea of God, hence a "theocentrism." The final step was a surrender of the very idea of God, since even God can be a cause of division among people and the various religions of the world. In the end, we are left only with man, and in this stripped down theology, the "Kingdom" is simply a name given for a world governed by "peace, justice, and the conservation of creation" (Benedict, 53). The task of religion, it is held, is to work in harmony to bring forth this kingdom on earth.
On one hand, this seems laudable; it finally allows all people to enjoy Christ's message in harmony, to appropriate it in their own belief systems and world views. On the other hand, there is not much left of the message itself; it has been stripped down to what amounts essentially to secular humanism.
To rescue Christ's message from such deprivation, we must first recognize that the Lord never preaches simply a "Kingdom" but instead preaches the "Kingdom of God" or the "Kingdom of Heaven." "When Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of God, he is quite simply proclaiming God, and proclaiming him to be the living God, who is able to act concretely in the world and in history, and is even now so acting…. The new and totally specific thing about his message is that he is telling us: God is acting now – this is the hour in which God is showing himself in history as its Lord, as the living God, in a way that goes beyond anything seen before. 'Kingdom of God' is therefore an inadequate translation. It would be better to speak of God's being-Lord, of his lordship" (Benedict, 55-56). This is consonant with the prior observation that the Hebrew word malkut and the Greek word baseleia are action words. It is also consonant with the use of the present tense in Luke 6:20.
To further our understanding of Christ as the Kingdom of God incarnate, let us examine Saint Thomas Aquinas' observation that man's final cause is identical with his efficient cause, i.e. from God we have come and to God we must return. Our fulfillment, our telos, is in nothing other than God himself. In order to be fully man, we must give our entire existence back to the very source of our existence. Man is unique in the world in that he alone can actively strive away from his proper telos. That is, man can, by the gift of free will, choose not to give himself back to God. To do so is to be in-human, to remain unfulfilled. Given that man's proper end is God himself, we can understand why Vatican II says, "Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, fully reveals man to himself and makes his supreme calling clear" (Gaudium et Spes 22). Finally, if what it means to be human is to give of ourselves to God and to possess God deep within our souls, and if the Kingdom that Christ promises is none other than His very self, we can conclude that the promise, "Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven" can be understood as, "Blessed are ye poor, for yours is Christ," or rather, "Blessed are ye poor, for you have already within you what it means to be fully human." When understood this way, if it is true that the poor already possess within their being their own fulfillment, then is is abundantly clear why they are "blessed." *
It remains now to try to come to grips with why poverty brings with it such blessing. What is it about poverty that is so authentically human? We must first make a critical distinction between poverty and destitution. All human beings are entitled to have their basic needs met. The fact that millions are living in our world in the state of destitution, where hunger and disease ravage entire cultures, is a great sin against humanity, and it cannot be ignored that Christ was relentless in his call for a preferential option for the destitute. Every time we withhold our cloak from the naked or our food from the hungry, we perform sin not only against the human person, but also against Jesus himself. Poverty, on the other hand, is not identical with destitution. The Latin word used in the Nova Vulgate is pauperes. It is true that this is best translated as "poverty," but what is perhaps more noticeable is that the Gospel does not use the word egenus or the word inops, both of which could be translated as destitute (though inops is more often rendered as "helpless"). Nor did the author use a form of the verb destituo (forsaken). Poverty (pauperes), as opposed to destitution, is the state of having only what one needs. It is this state of simplicity that Christ calls "blessed" and to which he attaches the promise of the kingdom of heaven.
As the Fathers of the Church unanimously observed, to advance in the life of virtue, poverty must come first. This is due to the ontological difference between God and the world. It is the unique Christian distinction that God is absolutely other to the world. God is not part of the world, nor is the world as a whole equivalent to God. Because of this distinction and because of our call to return to God, this world becomes God's gift to us to be used as a means for this return. Simply put: God is the end; things are means to this end. On one hand, when one is deprived of the basic needs of life, this physical state of destitution necessarily brings with the challenge of spiritual destitution (for the human person is a body-soul unity). This is precisely why we must work to eliminate destitution in the world, not primarily because of the physical sufferings, but first and foremost to allow God's people the freedom to worship Him in health of body, mind, and soul **. On the other hand, the possession of goods beyond that of basic necessity brings with it the risk of using goods as ends in themselves. It is interesting that, while Christ cured the sick, made the blind see, made the deaf hear, to my recollection, he never once made a poor man rich.
Christ, in this first beatitude, does not say, "To those who are impoverished, I say to you, do not think that this most unfortunate state is permanent, for the day will come when I will relieve you of this poverty and make you rich." Instead, he says, "Blessed are you poor." Poverty itself bring with it blessing, or rather sanctity. If the possession of goods beyond that of basic needs bring with it the risk of treating this excess as an end in itself, then it follows that the more we possess, the further we find ourselves from pursuing our proper end: God. The further we are from our proper end, the less human we find ourselves. We are now in the position to reason our main thesis.
In proclaiming, "Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven," Christ is making an ontological observation. Poverty brings with it the simplicity to give oneself to God, which is the final cause of all of humanity. In other words, poverty provides a more authentic human experience. In this, there is blessing.
Of course, all of this is more pressing given the large percentage of humanity that are living in the state of destitution, a state that potentially hinders their ability to know, love, and serve God. It becomes all the more crucial for us to divest ourselves of our excesses to satisfy the basic needs of others. However, we must be careful to avoid misrepresenting the Gospel as a kind of call for a distributive justice. Virtue is always performed in the heart of the individual. We cannot expect political agendas and government policies to force virtue upon the hearts of its citizens. To do so ignores the authentic freedom that is at the core of the dignity of the human person. The ends of such policies can only be atheistic ends, as history has demonstrated. This does not mean that charity and generosity cannot be cultivated among groups of people, but the Church has consistently and wisely taught the principle of subsidiarity, that things are best handled by the smallest competent authority.
In summary, I would be remiss if I did not clarify one last thing. The state of poverty is not purely material; material poverty alone does not bring salvation. Recall Basil's comment from the second part, "For many are poor in their possessions, yet most covetous in their disposition; these poverty does not save, but their affections condemn." On the other hand, neither is poverty is purely spiritual. There are those who want to reduce Christ's call to poverty to the mere detachment from goods. This too is a distortion of the Gospel message. Recall also from the first part the two critical Greek manuscripts (Papyrus 75 and Codex Vaticanus) deliberately avoid the phrase "poor in spirit" and instead opt for simply "poor."
Finally, there are many other aspects of the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount that could enrich this discussion, such as the connection the Beatitudes share with the presentation of the Ten Commandments. Many writers far more learned than myself (Pope Benedict, Servais Pinkares, and Thomas Dubay to name only but a few) have already done so; thus, I humbly leave the reader to take up the various texts on this topic for further spiritual reading.
* As a side note, the present possession of our eschatological fulfillment is at the heart of the Christian virtue of hope. See Pope Benedict's second encyclical letter Spe Salvi for a more lengthy discussion of this.
** In Pope Benedict's first encyclical letter, Deus Caritas Est, he warns against separating the preaching of the Gospel from humanitarian efforts to alleviate people from their sufferings. Primarily, we are called to preach Christ crucified.


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When are females younger than 17 considered girls? When they want an aspirin from the school nurse. In that case, the nurse needs permission from their parents. After all, legally they are juveniles - still children.
But when those same females want to buy a "morning-after" birth-control pill, they are considered "women" - adults who should have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies, free of any parental interference.
That is the Through-the-Looking-Glass world we now officially inhabit.
Yes, the definition of young teen (and even pre-teen) females has been bouncing between child and adult for some time, depending on the political issue, but now it has been given an extra sheen of legitimacy from a court.
Federal District Judge Edward R. Korman, of New York's Eastern District, recently overturned the 2011 decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to restrict access for girls younger than 17 to Plan B and other "morning-after" contraceptive pills by requiring that they have a prescription.
Korman declared Sebelius's decision to be, "arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable."
This was, of course, "a big victory for women," in the words of Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. But she wasn't the only one shaping the terms to fit the agenda. National Public Radio reported that the judge had ordered that morning-after birth control be sold without a prescription to "women of all ages."
Gee, based on that, why not just retire the term "girl"?
And they call it a victory for "science." The monstrous absurdity of it would be funny, were it not so tragic for young girls, their families, and society in general.


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Google's new application for Android, Field Trip, is looking to change the way that users interact with geolocation information on their phones.
Field Trip is "your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you," according to its overview on Google Play. Basically, its purpose is to constantly analyze your location on your phone, and to inform you of interesting or pertinent details relating to the location through an automatic pop-up notification — Android will even read the information aloud to you through a headset or Bluetooth.
Field Trip is just one of the most recent pieces in one of Google's latest ventures — augmented reality — a way to combine the user's physical world with online or other information through implementation of words or pictures overlaid on displays.
Mobile Commerce Press estimates that in 2013 alone, $300 million of mobile commerce revenue — that is, revenue from selling apps and features for smart phones and tablets — will come from augmented reality applications. The technology is rapidly on the rise, and proves to be one of the applications for smart phones with the greatest potential for growth and exploration.
Augmented reality has already seen a significant increase in investment in 2012, with retailers, advertisers, and the entertainment business interested in pursuing applications for their businesses in this venture.
Furthermore, technologies like Google Glass are creating even more possibilities for this "augmented reality" frontier. The instrument is like a pair of glasses, but without lenses, that users can wear on their faces and read information like the weather, directions, appointments, and much more, without looking at their phone or computer. Basically, there is a screen positioned above and to the right of the wearer's right eye, which processes, stores, and conveys the users information. Although Google Glass is at the very early prototype stages, it presents endless possibilities for the future of geolocation technology, as well as augmented reality.
There are many other augmented reality applications in development as well, such as CrowdOptic, a startup software which utilizes information gathered when a user points their phone at an event or place to create and deliver a stream of curated content related to the event. Users can then join a discussion with other people in the cluster, contributing comments, photos, or videos, or access relevant and exclusive content generated by eyewitness accounts of the event.
Although all these technologies are in development stages, augmented reality presents a very unique and useful application for news organizations and publications. It would allow news to find users, as opposed to vice versa, virtually injecting news stories onto people's very smart phones, tablets, or Google Glasses without the users having to search for the information or prompt their devices to do the same. Publications would be able to create geolocation based news feeds, telling users what is going on around them in seconds, and basically creating a newspaper laid out across a city in a web of maps.
By providing users with pertinent content automatically, news organizations may be able to once again capture the audience that they have been losing in significant numbers during recent years. The possibilities, as of now, are endless, and news organizations must start investigating novel ways to implement this technology into news dissemination if they wish to succeed in the new media ecosystem.


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Hampshire city tops South East's flytipping league
A new study has found that Southampton is the place worst affected by flytipping in the South East. The report from the GMB public services union says that a total of 70,745 incidents have been reported by 67 councils in the South East, with 8,708 incidents in Southampton alone.
Other areas in the top ten for the year 2010/11 were:
- Second - Milton Keynes 5,321 incidents
- Third - Medway 3,130 incidents,
- Fourth - Basingstoke & Deane 2,879 incidents,
- Fifth - Hastings 2,873,
- Sixth - Brighton and Hove 2,227,
- Seventh - Reading 2,179,
- Eighth - Swale 1,918,
- NInth - Test Valley 1,881,
- Tenth - Dartford 1,777.
"Not only is fly-tipping illegal but it is damaging to the environment and according to the Environment Agency it costs £100-150m per annum to clean up.
"Two thirds of fly tipping involves household rubbish and GMB believes it would make good economic sense to invest in more municipal waste and recycling centres to make it easier and cheaper for the public to dispose of waste properly...
– Paul Maloney , GMB Regional Secretary
"Some councils like Redbridge have redefined 'Fly-tipping' so that even 5 bin bags left on the street is classified as 'litter' and not fly-tipping. This would explain why some of the figures are well down on the previous stats.
"However local authorities also need to target fly-tipping to improve their policing of the problem – out of 820,000 incidents last year there were only 2,500 prosecutions throughout England and Wales."


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Morristown police have charged a Randolph man with knocking over a traffic signal and fleeing the scene–while driving without a license.
Carlos Eduardo Vargas-Membreno, 20, told investigators "he had been distracted while driving, struck the traffic signal and then left the area in the vehicle because he was scared," said Police Lt. Stuart Greer.
The accident occurred on Jan. 5, 2014, at the intersection of South Street and South Park Place. Officers Robert Edwards and Brian McDonnell conducted the investigation.
Carlos was charged with failure to report an accident, leaving the scene, careless driving and driving without a license.
The owner of the car also was issued a summons for allowing an unlicensed driver to operate her vehicle.
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Hey all,
Players have come and gone and we've all had our personal favorites. I'm going to start posting former Red Sox players and tell you what they're up to nowadays.
Any player suggestions? Comment below!
Name: Rich 'El Guapo' Garces
Tenure: 1996-2002
Position: RP
Claim To Sox Nation Fame: El Guapo was a household name within Red Sox Nation. His large presence was what made his nickname 'El Guapo' (meaning 'the handsome one') THAT much better. Mike Maddux (former Red Sox player) gave Garces the nickname because he felt as if he looked like the villain in Three Amigos. You could say Pedro, Nomar, and 'El Guapo' were the Big 3 of baseball in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Where Now: Handsome signed a minor league contract to pitch for the Nashua Pride in the Can-Am League in '07 after failing to make any major league teams. In 2008 the Nashua Pride were now the American Defenders of New Hampshire. Managed by former Red Sox first baseman Brian Daubach (Dough Boy!), El Guapo wore #51.
In 2009 El Guapo disappeared.
I literally went into the depths of researching him and could only find "USAToday.com reports the New Hampshire American Defenders of the Can-Am League exercised their 2009 option on RP Rich Garces."
I'm pretty positive he just left baseball for good. Hopefully to open up his own restaurant.


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Just the other day, Kaitlyn turned to me and said, "I wish I didn't have diabetes." Immediately my heart started to crumble into a thousand pieces. Up until then, I had rarely seen her express her sadness about type 1 diabetes. She's never really had a diabetes "freak-out" moment like so many other kids. Sure, she hasn't always loved all the pokes and pricks, but other than the first couple of months after her diagnosis, she's dealt with it just fine. In fact, it's been a source of self-esteem at times when she's learned to take on some of the responsibility of her care or when she's been able to prove how brave she is with everything she has to go through.
That being said, I guess it was a bit of a shock when she said the words that every parent of a child with diabetes dreads, but knows they'll one day hear: "I wish I didn't have diabetes." Even though I was crying on the inside, I knew what I had to do -- I absolutely had to stay positive. I told her, "Sometimes I wish you didn't have diabetes too, but it's going to be just fine." We started to list all the reasons why having diabetes isn't so bad. We talked it through for a little while, and I think we both came away from the conversation feeling a little better.
Later, I started to wonder about what might have happened to cause her sudden change of attitude. I realized that I had been putting a lot of pressure on her to do more and more of her diabetes maintenance. She's been checking her blood sugar herself (with my supervision) almost all of the time, and she's been doing some of the button-pushing on her pump too. Before, I'd been doing most of the work -- getting her kit, checking her blood sugar, dosing for meals, etc. -- but now that I know she's capable of doing more, I've been eager to hand over more of the work. When it's time for a check, I tell her to go find her kit and do the checking herself. I think she's starting to feel like it's a big hassle, and she's getting a bit burned out.
I think I've been a little bit too quick to pass on so much to her. I'm going to keep letting her do most of her testing and continue to learn more about dosing on the pump, but I'm going to do what I can to help lessen her burden, especially when she's giving cues that maintenance is getting to be a little too much. Maybe I'll find her kit and hand it to her, or if she seems like she might be low, I'll go ahead and do the testing. I have to ease her into this life of maintenance rather than throw it at her all at once. I know burnout is a natural part of having diabetes, and doctors and diabetes educators may have some tips and tricks we can try as well. Hopefully, we can set a course that will help Kaitlyn avoid an attitude of not wanting to do diabetes maintenance at all!
About the author: My name is Kim. My daughter Kaitlyn (the third of our five children) was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just a few years after my nephew James was diagnosed with the same disease. I'm excited to pair up with my sister-in-law, Jen, to share our story with you!
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"I think after a girl was raped the thought goes to her head, 'Was I really raped?'
A lot of rape victims keep it secret because they're so embarrassed."
- Victoria, a high school senior
Teen Attitudes Toward Dating and Sexual Abuse
DEBEE TLUMACKI/The Patriot Ledger
The news trucks descended, first in Braintree, then in Canton.
In a one-week period in early February, six high school students were charged with raping four 15-year-old classmates in separate, unrelated cases.
Residents in the communities reeled at the news, shocked that the suspects, five of whom are popular athletes, faced such serious charges.
But shock quickly turned to divisiveness. Lines were drawn between those who believed the girls, and those who blamed them.
Rumors spread, along with whispers about the girls reputations. Petitions circulated through Braintree and Canton high schools urging administrators to allow at least some of the boys back in class.
In the quiet suburbs south of Boston, it would be easy to write off these cases as isolated incidents. But in high schools across the South Shore, confusion and casual attitudes about sex are fueling risky behaviors most teenagers keep well hidden from adults.
In interviews and surveys, teenagers paint a picture of boys who force sex despite being told no, girls who are reluctant to call the crime rape, and a social climate that encourages victims to remain silent.
As a result, experts and teenagers agree, most cases of teen-on-teen rape go unreported.
Statistics tell a chilling story
I think theres a lot of kids who get away with it, doing something she didnt want to do, said Ryan, an 18-year-old senior and one of 10 high school students who participated last month in a Patriot Ledger teen focus group. The students names have been changed to protect their privacy.
Rape may seem like a problem of the adult world, far removed from high school hallways and playing fields. But teenage relationships are becoming increasingly more adult in nature at increasingly younger ages, experts say.
Students begin having sex freshmen year or before, sometimes at house parties where alcohol and a lack of adult supervision mix to create the opportunity, the teenagers said. The liaisons also take place after school, when parents are still at work and homes are empty.
In my school people did it in the teachers lounge.
I can beat that. On a bus on a field trip.
Everybody in our town knows about the drugs, alcohol. The thing I think they are oblivious to in the town is sex, said Jocelyn, a senior who plays soccer and basketball and will attend college in the fall.
The teens estimate that about half of their classmates are having sex, a figure that is backed up by state and national data.
In fact, a third of all freshmen - primarily 14 and 15 year olds - have had sex, according to the 1999 Massachusetts survey. By senior year, that number swells to nearly two-thirds.
Most often, the trysts involve boyfriends and girlfriends who have been dating for as long as a few years or as briefly as a few weeks, the teens said.
Its not just the trashy girls who are having sex, said Victoria, a two-sport athlete and member of the National Honor Society. A lot of people who are in the top 20 of their class, who are star athletes, who are in the National Honor Society - theyre not sleeping around, but theyre having sex.
Sex thought of as casual
For some, however, casual sex is on the agenda.
Victoria, an 18-year-old senior who plans to attend college in the fall, said she knows a small group of classmates who have had sex with more than 15 people.
Joe, a 16-year-old junior, said girls as young as 14 or 15 give oral sex in exchange for sexual touching.
And most students knew of at least one particularly racy rendezvous, the type that occurs once every few years and soon becomes legend.
In my school people did it in the teachers lounge, Victoria said. Countered Joe: I can beat that. On a bus on a field trip.
Mark, also 16, told of an incident under the bleachers at a sporting event. Added Alan, 18: On an elevator.
It is amid this mix of intrigue, inexperience and experimentation that danger sneaks into the equation.
Rape, by and large, is an acquaintance crime, and that holds true among teenagers.
Among girls 13 to 19 years old who reported a rape, attempted rape or sexual assault to state-funded crisis centers between 1999 and 2000, nearly 80 percent said the act was committed by an intimate partner or peer.
Schools and counselors often address the issues of dating violence and date rape together. The two arent always linked, but in some cases, rape can be the result of an abusive relationship, just as emotional, verbal and physical violence are.
The fact that the assailant is often someone a girl knows, likes, and may be dating muddles the issue in the victims mind. The girl may have had consensual sex with her rapist in the past, or she may have agreed to other acts but said no to intercourse.
Such factors can leave victims uncertain if the act committed is actually a crime, prompting them to remain silent.
I think after a girl was raped the thought goes to her head, Was I really raped? If its a relationship thing its, Did I say no? Did I mean it? I did say no, but maybe I was teasing. A lot of rape victims keep it secret because theyre so embarrassed, Victoria said.
Carol Chichetto, education director for The Clothesline Project, visits schools with an assemblage of T-shirts bearing the names of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
After students view the display, Chichetto asks them to write anonymous notes about their thoughts. Sometimes, the notes provide telling glimpses of how confused students are about the issue of rape and sexual assault.
I read from a girl that said Ive never been abused or assaulted, Chichetto said. She said she felt sorry for the girls on the clothesline. In the next sentence the girl said she has been forced to do something she didnt want.
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Many rape victims shy away from telling anyone about the crime for fear they will be ostracized by their peers, or because they think they will somehow be blamed, experts and teens said.
Too often, those fears prove true.
Skeptical classmates may question the veracity of the accusation, pointing to the victims sexual history - real or fabricated - as proof that she couldnt have been raped, or that she somehow deserved it. Questions about whether she was drinking, how she was dressed, and why she was alone with her assailant may also be raised.
Victim-blaming enables students to explain away horrible accusations against someone they may have been friends with for years, experts say. And it allows them to say, That couldnt have happened to me because I wouldnt do that, said Marianne Winters, who handles education for Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.
There are more women who suffer sexual assaults than there are woman who wear glasses, and yet we still wont talk about it.
Terri Maxfield, Womansplace Crisis Center
But for a victim, who is already struggling to deal with a traumatic experience, the effect can be devastating.
After a 14-year-old Plymouth girl was sexually assaulted during class in 1996, she and her family said she was driven from school by the taunts of classmates. The girl switched high schools in town, but the situation did not improve.
They would talk about me in loud voices behind my back as if I couldn't hear them, she said at the time. His friends would all talk about it loudly and say bad things about me. Even if they werent going to do anything to harm me it was scary to hear them talk.
And so, more often then not, silence prevails. Victims may tell a handful of friends with assurances that the secret remain well-guarded.
In the Ledger survey this spring, 70 percent of girls said they would tell a friend if a date or acquaintance forced them to have sex. Only 17 percent would tell a parent, and a mere 3 percent would report it to police.
It is that code of silence that keeps most adults oblivious to the problem, convinced that rape among teenagers is something that only happens occasionally, and in towns other than their own.
Education and conversation is the best way to tackle the problem, experts say, yet parents and other adults find that difficult to do when teens are involved.
Theres a lot of controversy about who should be talking about it, said Terri Maxfield, coordinator of education and training services for Womansplace Crisis Center, which serves the South Shore. There are more women who suffer sexual assaults than there are woman who wear glasses, and yet we still wont talk about it.
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Income risk aversion with quantity constraints
AbstractIn this paper, I consider a consumer with a concave utility function over n commodities and trace out the consequences of quantity constraints on product markets for the consumer's aversion towards income risk. I show that the effect can be decomposed in a cardinal and ordinal term, that both terms may add up to a non-linear effct on the coefficient of relative risk aversion, and that a severely rationed consumer may even become less risk averse then when unconstrained.
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I came across this cleaning out some old SI magazines that were in the back of my closet. My favorite part: "We have engaged in this arms race in athletics, and we've also engaged in this culture of separation," says the frenetic, 59-year-old [Gordon] Gee. "Anything we can do to coddle athletes, to segregate and to protect them from the university in general and from the activities of the institution, we've done." No butthurt here, just a laugh I got. And even in light of the OSU "no LOIC" business, still interesting food for thought. Happy weekend, y'all.


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This may be a shocking statement to many, but Total Nonstop Action (TNA) has been putting on a great pro wrestling show of late. Austin Aries and Bobby Roode have just finished off a fantastic feud, the group Aces & 8s has held viewers' intrigue for weeks now, and guys like Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, and even Jeff Hardy have been putting on some good matches.
Gone are the days of the pay-per-view (PPV) building to the next weeks Impact Wrestling and wacky finishes leaving the fans feeling cheated. Even the Claire Lynch/A.J. Styles angle where Lynch had claimed to be pregnant with Styles' child (and would later admit she date raped him) had entered into a "so bad, it's good" territory before being brought to an early end.
This has been a new TNA, a new Impact. I would argue that it's more fun than WWE has been lately. Maybe not a better overall show from top to bottom, but there's certainly a lot to enjoy if you let yourself.
The only problem is that the numbers haven't responded accordingly.
In a world where Raw is pulling in four to five million viewers for a three hour show and Smackdown is getting two to three million, it's hard to not be disappointed with Impact's ratings. For the past month it has been hovering in the 1.2-1.5 range which means on a bad night, TNA is getting half the audience WWE's secondary show receives.
That's never a good thing.
Adding onto the problem is that Hardcore Justice is estimated to have received 8,000 PPV buys, normal for a TNA "B-Show." A WWE show of similar status would be called a complete failure if it had not broken the 100K mark. TNA has just not been measuring up, and it's no surprise why. The WWE, in many people's mind, equals pro wrestling. And TNA has burned a lot of bridges with its mismanagement of talent and horrible storylines in years past.
Things are starting to change, though. The show is getting better. While the numbers are not there yet, they will come.
Now is not the time to panic.
"Hollywood" Hulk Hogan returned to Impact this past Thursday (Aug. 23), to the joy of those in the Impact Zone and to the chagrin of viewers everywhere else. Right now I'm resigned to the fact that he will be playing a major role in Aces & 8s, although that in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing. As I've stated previously, he's simply too big a name to leave off the show. There is certainly a way for this to play out and not be terrible. Hell, it can even be good.
But we cannot have another Immortal and Bound for Glory 2011.
Hogan (and to a lesser extent, Sting) cannot be allowed to upstage the young talent that is finally, finally breaking out after years of dumb politicking. Bobby Roode was an amazing heel champion. Austin Aries has been great as the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. The X-Division is finally starting to rebuild after being decimated. Homegrown guys such as A.J. Styles and James Storm are coming into their own.
Looking at the ratings and buyrates, though, and anyone can see it is not translating into new fans. Give TNA credit for not doing what they are known for and make a knee jerk decision. They've held steady for the live Impact summer run. The talent has been allowed to stand up on their own, and not live in the shadows of Hogan, Sting, and the old WCW.
My worst fear is that "Hollywood" has had enough. Hogan sees that the show has not been getting better numbers while he is not on it, so why not add a spark? He can personally undo every ounce of goodwill TNA as acquired over the past few months. He can turn away any new viewers who have recently started watching, or keep away anyone who is starting to give it a chance.
I'll say it again, folks. TNA has been good recently. Maybe even great. While Raw continues to anger its fans with numerous recaps and tired segments, Impact offers a legitimate alternative. Great wrestling, campy moments, committed storylines and intrigue in the main event. While the numbers haven't been rising, any marathon runner will tell you that you have to run your own race. You cannot burn yourself out chasing the leader. Short-term gains will only kill you in the end.
Slow and steady, TNA. You've been doing great so far. Please don't burn yourself out now.


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Lewis hit 3-of-5 from the perimeter and 5-of-6 at the free-throw line for the Red Foxes (1-9). Khallid Hart scored 16 points on 6-of-12 from the field. Adam Kemp and T.J. Curry each turned in 12 points.
Willis Hall earned a double-double for the Cougars (4-6) with 19 points and 11 rebounds, while Anthony Stitt added 14 points.
In the first half, Marist showcased a confident offensive performance, shooting 53.3 percent from the floor. Shooting 48 percent on several less attempts from the field, Charleston went into halftime trailing, 43-28.
Shooting only 33.3 percent from the field in the second half, the Cougars made up some ground at the line, where they shot 9-of-10, and kept the game close. The Red Foxes were a dreadful 5-of-16 from the stripe, but their 40.9 percent from the floor was enough to hold onto the lead.
The Foxes outscored the Cougars 17-11 on points off turnovers and knocked down eight shots from beyond the arc, twice as many as their opponent, on the way to their first win of the season.
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Updated 10:51am Friday 4th April 2014 in Sport By Andrew Penman
UP to 13 members of the Newport County AFC squad are playing for their future at the club, starting at Chesterfield tomorrow.
County have just seven games left in League Two and, with his side nine points above the relegation zone and ten points off the play-off positions, manager Justin Edinburgh is already planning for next season.
Mike Flynn and David Pipe were told in February that they will not be getting new deals, while Ian McLoughlin, Kevin Feely and Tom Naylor are all expected to return to their parent clubs in May.
And the likes of Lenny Pidgeley, Ryan Jackson, Harry Worley, Ismail Yakubu, Byron Anthony, Andy Sandell, Darcy Blake, Max Porter, Lee Minshull, Ryan Burge, Danny Crow, Chris Zebroski and Aaron Holloway are all out of contract this summer.
Some of those players have clauses in their current deals that would trigger a new contract and some are in talks about staying at Rodney Parade.
But as things stand only Jamie Stephens, Andrew Hughes, Robbie Willmott, Adam Chapman, Christian Jolley, Aaron O'Connor, Shaun Jeffers and Rene Howe are under contract for next season.
"We've got seven games left and I'm looking at them each individually," said Edinburgh.
"We want to get on a bit of a run and make sure we don't finish the season on a low. That's very important.
"A top ten or top 12 finish would be a fantastic achievement for our first season back in the Football League.
"And people will be trying to earn contracts for next season as well so there's a lot to look at.
"Players' contracts are up and they've got to work hard to earn a living as a Football League player.
"There are still players I am undecided on. As a manager I see things, off the field, training every day and there is a lot to take into consideration."
Edinburgh also revealed that he is already scouting potential new signings for the 2014/15 campaign.
"We've been busy this week where we've had a free week," said the Exiles boss.
"Myself and the coaching staff have taken in a lot of games and we're active.
"We've touched base with a few different agents about players we'd be very keen to bring to this football club next year.
"We won't name names yet but certainly the wheels are in motion and we want to improve the squad for next season."
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