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The 8th Sacrament
Among Catholic high school alumni of a certain age with vivid, if not entirely reliable, memories of their athletic exploits, one sport is regarded with almost sacramental reverence: basketball.
Count me among those whose identities as Catholics and proud members of their urban parishes were formed by the grace of the city game. A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer (and available here) by columnist Frank Fitzpatrick reminded me of how deep the connection runs.
A life-long Philadelphian, Fitzpatrick is a product of the city's parochial school system and is still actively involved in all things Catholic (and athletic) in the area. He admits to pulling out his high school yearbook "at least three times a week" and is immodestly proud of his ability to "still recite the 1967 all-Catholic basketball team."
In another place and time, his musings could be chalked up to nostalgia. Not in Philadelphia, however, where, he notes, "Philadelphia's parochial-school graduates are as parochial as they come." A good number of his contemporaries, many of them successful college and pro basketball coaches, still live and work in the area. And they share a common bond:
Life's journey, for many of us aging Philadelphia Catholics, will always be more comprehensible and pleasant because of the basketball-flavored network of parishes, gyms, and Catholic League high schools we have in common.
Understanding this phenomenon begins with our childhood parish, the Rosetta Stone to our identities. When we ask, "Where you from?," it's the parish, and not a neighborhood or town, we want to know.
The parish tells us which nuns, priests, and coaches shaped you. It pinpoints the corners and playgrounds where you likely hung out, the athletic talent you played with or against, your friends, your rivals, your taste in sandwich shops.
The same can be said, I imagine, for most Catholic city kids who played varsity ball in high school or who were members of their parish CYO teams.
For those of us who moved away from our home towns and parishes ages ago, the past might not intrude on our daily lives the way it does for Fitzpatrick and his cronies. But the game's influence on our lives and Catholic identities is somehow ever present. Some of us, like Dan Barry, continue to play in cramped church gyms, "breathing in the stale, familiar air of the Catholic Youth Organization past." (His wonderfully evocative account of his "Sunday Obligation" can be found here.) Others, like former pro basketball player Earl Cureton, return each year to the schools that launched them.
And for the rest of, no matter the distances we've traveled—or the current state of our games—basketball remains a signal experience in our lives.
More on Relativism and Politics
As a moral theologian, I often think that claims about "relativism" infecting our society are overblown. Most people, most of the time, do not act as consistent relativists—at most, they view particular issues as relative, and even in these cases, their actual practice suggests implicit moral convictions. However, a recent New York Times piece about teaching a supposed "fact/opinion" distinction to second graders worried me. Domimic Preziosi also noted this piece, connecting it to the problems of artificial intelligence. But my worries are a bit more immediate and political.
The article makes some disputable particular points, but overall, the author rightly shows that a strong distinction between fact and opinion is not coherent. A supposed "fact/value" distinction was in ascendancy in some philosophical circles a century ago, but has been cogently criticized for at least fifty years. Innumerable examples can be adduced to suggest fluidity in both directions: one can have a difference of opinion about who is the best baseball player, but such opinion is itself constrained by facts—there may not be one right answer, but there are very many clearly mistaken answers. From the other direction, how one construes what "the facts" are (or at least what their significance is) is affected by what we value, the moral commitments we have. Again, from this side, we can't completely "make up" facts, but even contemporary neuroscience affirms that what we actually "see" is affected by our commitments.
Oftentimes, it is good practice to ignore comment boxes (except at dotCommonweal, of course), but my concern was amplified by the comments that followed. The Times curates the comments, and so its "picks" rise to the top—and, astonishingly, most of the picks represent quite sane and rational responders who strongly reject the author's claim, and who want very strongly to adhere to this distinction. As one commenter put it:
After reading many of the comments, it seems as though the great majority of the adults reading this blog don't believe in moral facts. And yet, many of them express this by vehemently claiming that McBrayer is WRONG to impose his view on others (implying that it is a moral fact that one shouldn't do this). Believing in moral facts allow us to call certain practices wrong. I believe slavery was and is wrong and that those who ever thought it was permissible had false beliefs—not just that we happened to change our feelings about it. One can believe in moral facts without being the moralistic monster many are claiming Professor McBrayer is (a judgment that seems to be based on the fact that someone apparently noticed he teaches philosophy of religion—an ad hominem if I've ever seen one). The extreme reactions here astound me.
Count me astonished, too. It is well-known that, with a depressing frequency, those on the far Right abandon reasoned discourse about what we should do; it is a supposed virtue that the political Left is more careful about these matters—say, on the economy or the environment. Yet here we have apparently well-educated Times readers displaying very fundamental irrationality. The great achievements of the Progressive Left in the last century—the New Deal, unionism, and civil rights—all sprang from quite firm moral convictions. And indeed, I still think many of these commentators in practice retain these convictions. What is alarming is that they reject a public discourse that could appeal to these moral commitments…at least as anything other than majoritarian preference.
What is going on? Another comment on the McBrayer piece might illustrate the problem:
Read moreElsewhere
In a piece titled "The Robots Are Coming," John Lanchester explains why technology may one day force us to choose between capitalism and democracy. The word "socialist" does not appear until the last sentence of the piece, but the drift of Lanchester's argument is clear. And compelling.
A great deal of modern economic discourse takes it as axiomatic that economic forces are the only ones that matter. This idea has bled into politics too, at least in the Western world: economic forces have been awarded the status of inexorable truths. The idea that a wave of economic change is so disruptive to the social order that a society might rebel against it – that has, it seems, disappeared from the realms of the possible. [...]
The scenario we're given—the one being made to feel inevitable—is of a hyper-capitalist dystopia. There's capital, doing better than ever; the robots, doing all the work; and the great mass of humanity, doing not much, but having fun playing with its gadgets. (Though if there's no work, there are going to be questions about who can afford to buy the gadgets.) There is a possible alternative, however, in which ownership and control of robots is disconnected from capital in its current form. The robots liberate most of humanity from work, and everybody benefits from the proceeds: we don't have to work in factories or go down mines or clean toilets or drive long-distance lorries, but we can choreograph and weave and garden and tell stories and invent things and set about creating a new universe of wants. This would be the world of unlimited wants described by economics, but with a distinction between the wants satisfied by humans and the work done by our machines. It seems to me that the only way that world would work is with alternative forms of ownership. The reason, the only reason, for thinking this better world is possible is that the dystopian future of capitalism-plus-robots may prove just too grim to be politically viable. This alternative future would be the kind of world dreamed of by William Morris, full of humans engaged in meaningful and sanely remunerated labour. Except with added robots. It says a lot about the current moment that as we stand facing a future which might resemble either a hyper-capitalist dystopia or a socialist paradise, the second option doesn't get a mention.
A letter from Athens by the American poet A. E. Stallings:
So far, the fledgling government has been struggling to do what it was elected to do—to issue a "great No" to austerity. Now we are in Lent, a season of repentance and second thoughts. But the rhetoric on the banners of Athens would suggest that, even faced with sombre repercussions, the sea of people still thinks it is the right No.
Brenda Wineapple on the extraordinary life of Sybille Bedford:
To this day, I [...] remember her bright blue eyes, her mumbly voice, the bottles of dark wine lined up on the small wooden table in her very small but amply book-lined apartment. I remember that our first talk lasted far into the night. I remember that she was then and continued to be forthright, funny, and scrupulously frank. I remember thinking and then later writing, and considering even now, how remarkable it was that one of the finest stylists of the twentieth century, bar none, with a prose of incomparable precision and grace, would candidly acknowledge her daily battle against discouragement, distraction, and doubt. But that was typical.
I also remember that on September 11, 2001, she was the only friend from afar who telephoned to check on my husband and me. Then again, her life and her work were all about accountability. "Our capacities for suffering are not usually so extensible as are the means of inflicting it," she once observed. "We bear, and may derive strength from having borne, comfort from being still there, comfort from any mercy: the faith of friends, the match struck by a stranger, discovery of reserves."
That is survival.
Indian bishop: remarried Catholics shouldn't be 'rudely refused' Communion.
"I have heard of so many Catholics being rudely refused Eucharistic Communion because they are divorced persons and have remarried," said Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona, India, during a February 25 conference of priests. "We need to be kind and compassionate in communicating the Church doctrine and dogma," he continued. "We should have polite dialogue with the faithful instead of rudely turning them away."
The seventy-five priests had gathered in central India for a meeting on "effective ministry to families in the light of the Synod." Bishop Dabre also criticized the "contraceptive mentality," especially the widespread availability of condoms. "Sexual morality has sharply and widely declined and has been trivialized. So many betrayals and crimes take place because of the easy accessibility of contraceptives," he said. Dabre serves as a member of the Indian bishops conference Office for Doctrine.
Read the rest at Vatican Radio.
Common Ground
From the editorial boards of America magazine, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, and Our Sunday Visitor:
Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Glossip v. Gross, a case out of Oklahoma that challenges the most widely used lethal injection protocol as being cruel and unusual punishment.
The court took up the case in January after a year of three high-profile, problematic executions in three states. The court will likely issue a ruling by June. Our hope is that it will hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States.
The rest is here.
Moral Relativism & Super-Intelligence
Can the bedroom of an eleven-year-old girl be objectively a "mess"? To a pair of exhausted, exasperated working parents the answer is obvious. But when the girl in question notes that "mess" is a value claim and thus is not a matter of fact but an opinion, the point must be grudgingly conceded -- though allowance may still be withheld.
Pride in the growing ability of your child to articulate the difference between fact and opinion is tempered by the realization that it's being turned against you, and that it will soon be deployed in disagreements inevitably more fraught than whether the dirty socks and Taylor Swift t-shirt need to be picked up right now. That my daughter has learned this skill in school on one level validates our decision to enroll her where we did, though on another it suggests continued vigilance is warranted: The Common Core curriculum, under fire from numerous quarters for a number of reasons, is now also getting the attention of moral philosophers who say it "embeds a misleading distinction between fact and opinion." From Justin P. McBrayer at The Stone blog of The New York Times:
[O]ur public schools teach students that all claims are either facts or opinions and that all value and moral claims fall into the latter camp. The punchline: there are no moral facts. And if there are no moral facts, then there are no moral truths.
The inconsistency in this curriculum is obvious. For example, at the outset of the school year, my [second-grade] son brought home a list of student rights and responsibilities. Had he already read the lesson on fact vs. opinion, he might have noted that the supposed rights of other students were based on no more than opinions. According to the school's curriculum, it certainly wasn't true that his classmates deserved to be treated a particular way — that would make it a fact. Similarly, it wasn't really true that he had any responsibilities — that would be to make a value claim a truth.
McBrayer says he'd realized many of his college students already don't believe in moral facts, and that conversations with other philosophy professors suggest "the overwhelming majority of college freshmen … view moral claims as mere opinions that are not true or are true only relative to a culture." The implications are obvious and relevant to the recent discussion here concerning curricula at Catholic universities. Concerns about moral relativism in academia are established, though, and it's too soon to know how anything specifically inculcated by Common Core will have an effect. College students were cheating, for example, long before Common Core; so were corporate executives; so were spouses. But it bears watching, of course, given that millions of students in more than forty states are being educated according to the standards -- which themselves might have arisen out of the academic environment McBrayer describes.
Plus, given the pace of technological development, it might one day be not just human beings that need moral compassing.
Read moreBankruptcy lawyer to Wisconsin legislators: Pass right to work
"For the benefit of personal bankruptcy attorneys all across Wisconsin, I urge you to pass this bill." -- James Murray
African bishop on polygamy, homosexuality & divorce (oh my).
In a wide-ranging, at points jaw-dropping interview with Aleteia, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana, signaled his openness to finding a way for remarried Catholics to be readmitted to Communion--and suggested the church might reinterpret Scripture to allow the "unbinding" of marriages. Palmer-Buckle, who is sixty-four years old, was selected by his brother bishops to represent Ghana at this October's Synod on the Family. Early in the interview, the archbishop makes it clear that he takes seriously Pope Francis's call for open discussion of the challenges facing Catholic families today.
There are people in polygamous relationships, who were involved in it before becoming Christians. Their family had to make a choice: to let go of one women or two women with all their children without hurting the children, without hurting the wives. So it is an issue.
How do I baptize children of polygamous marriages? What do I teach them? If I'm going to tell them, "Your daddy must let go of your mommy," will that not hurt the child emotionally, even spiritually for the rest of his or her life, to the point that he or she may even decide the Church is bad because it broke up my family?
I can tell you for sure that there are polygamous marriages where you will be amazed at the harmony between the husband and his different wives, among the different wives, and among their children. It's amazing. There are many, many other instances where there is so much hurt going on among the different women, among the different children, and these must be brought to the fore. How do we help all of those involved to look at Christ, and to what Christ invites them to?
On the question of gay people, despite the fact that "Africa has always frowned upon that," Palmer-Buckle refuses to "close my eyes to the fact that there are instances in Africa of homosexuals, people with homosexual tendencies, people with lesbian tendencies." Of course the church teaches that all men and women are created in the image and likeness of God, Palmer-Buckle says; that dignity must be protected. "And that is why we must help that individual listen to what God says about his or her state," he continues. "And I think that is the beauty of what the church teaches us."
This vexes the interviewer, Diane Montagna, who asks Palmer-Buckle whether last October's synod could have been clearer about what the church really teaches about homosexuality. Wasn't he worried that some had "hijacked" interim report--which suggested there might be "positive values" in "irregular" relationships--to claim the church was poised to approve of gay relationships. But the archbishop doesn't share her concern.
Read moreTed Hesburgh, S.J. UPDATED...
The headline in a piece in NCR Today: "University presidents reflect on the life of Jesuit Fr. Ted Hesburgh".
Irony? Freudian slip?
But now I see that he's been de-Jesuitized in the headline, and an apology issued.
What's new on the website
We've posted a few new items to the homepage.
- Robert Mickens's latest Letter from Rome, in which he writes on Cardinal George Pell's role as "not quite the czar" of Vatican finance, and on the CDF's reluctance to cooperate with Italian authorities on the status of a priest dismissed by Benedict in 2012 "for abusing dozens of children over a ten-year period" but re-instated by Pope Francis last summer; read the whole thing here.
- The editors on the importance of The Daily Show's Jon Stewart in how news is now being covered: "Stewart has for more than a decade functioned as a valuable corrective to much of what's wrong with mainstream news, especially political coverage that can't seem to identify the radical intransigence of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party for what it is. By intent or default, he established himself as a relentless fact-checker and watchdog, using research, video clips, and comedy to call out politicians and other public figures on their evasions, over-simplifications—and lies." Read the whole thing here.
- And, writing from Nigeria, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator discusses the continued strength of Boko Haram, whose "thin veneer of religious ideology" masks "a savage and opportunistic agenda of criminality and bigotry" that has brought death and destruction mainly to Muslims and Muslim areas; read the whole thing here.
- Also, don't forget: Joseph A. Komonchak continues his series of daily Lenten reflections on the writing of Augustine; see our special Lenten Reflections 2015 page here.
He is running for office--in Israel
PM Netanyahu has delivered his speech to the Joint Session of Congress at the invitation of Speaker Boehner. Netanyahu's grand entrance to the floor of the house a la the President's for the SOU should not confuse us. Netanyahu wants to remain Prime Minister of Israel, but if he can manage U.S. foreign policy, he would consider that a plus.
Here is his address to the Congress, via CSPAN (at about 15 minutes).
Commentary: William Galston at Brookings on recent polling. Robert Hunter at Lobelog on outcomes of successful negotiations. Bernard Avishai at the New Yorker on what Netanyahu really wants--war. George Friedman at Stratfo on the U.S. dilemma in shaping a ME balance of power with or without Israel (HT: Jim Pauwels). Here's a British take on the speech. Reporters from the Guardian have annotated the speech. And here's Jon Stewart!! (R-rated metaphors!)
Read moreAmerican climate exceptionalism
In most parts of the world, the idea of anthropogenic global warming is settled science. And why wouldn't it be? One study shows that 97 percent of climate researchers actively publishing in the field support the idea. Another finds that 97 percent of peer-reviewed literature in the field supports the consensus view.
This seems pretty overwhelming. And in most places, it is. Most people accept the evidence as incontrovertible. But not so in the US, where the media portrays a stark scientific divide and huge numbers of people disdainfully reject the notion of anthropogenic global warming. This is also true of Catholics, including the wealthy types whose money has the ability to open church doors.
But why?
Read moreAmerica's First Slavery Museum
With all due respect to the venerable American art museum in Manhattan, its reopening in May will only be the second most significant Whitney museum opening in the United States in recent months.
First place honors go to the Whitney Plantation, the first US museum "dedicated to telling the story of slavery", and powerfully profiled in this terrific New York Times Magazine article by novelist and journalist David Amsden.
Read the article for more on how New Orleans native John Cummings came to buy the 262-year old plantation, the quirk of industrial history that led to Cummings knowing "more about my plantation than anyone else around here — maybe more than any plantation in America outside of Monticello", the planned memorial to the 1811 German Coast Uprising (America's largest slave revolt), the critical role played by Senegalese historian Ibrahima Seck in creating the museum, and what happened when black and white branches of the Haydel family reunited at their old family homestead. I want to slip off to the side with some thoughts about what this means for white folks today.
Read moreMonday Morning Links: March 2
Obamacare's opponents will argue their case on March 4 in the Supreme Court, appealing to a subclause of the tax code. Over at the New York Review of Books they ask, Can They Crush Obamacare? (David Cole has his doubts.)
This evening, Kelly Renee Gissendaner, an inmate on Georgia's death row, is scheduled to die by lethal injection. Her story has garnered some attention because of Gissendaner's theological studies in prison, and her correspondence with theologian Jürgen Moltmann. For more on religious life in prison, see Derek Jeffreys' book reviews from our last issue.
Joseph Bottom argues for the modern novel's Protestant character in Books and Culture. "To write a Protestant novel is, instead, to do something a little unnecessary, a little verging on the redundant." he writes. Catholic novels, he thinks, are a little more tricky.
In The New Yorker, Eric Schlosser writes on "how a handful of pacifists and nuns exposed the vulnerability of America's nuclear-weapons sites." In reflecting on what what happened at Y-12, he discusses Dorothy Day, the Berrigan brothers, and manages to speak to some Plowshares activists in prison.
Half the battle against ISIS is media, according to The Atlantic. How does the U.S. tell a more compelling story to those who might be swayed ISIS's apocalyptic message?
Unlike their counterparts at the hard military end of the battle against ISIS, the American foot soldiers in the war of narratives are at a considerable disadvantage relative to their jihadist adversary.
Father William "Bix" Bichsel, R.I.P.
Last night Jesuit priest and peace activist Father William "Bix" Bichsel died in Tacoma, WA. I was introduced to Bix two weeks ago after mass at St. Leo's parish, where I have been attending services since moving to Tacoma in September, but I had already heard much about him. A Tacoma native, he was one of the founders of Guadalupe House, the Catholic Worker community located just down the street from St. Leo's, and among other things, he participated in a number of acts of civil resistance in the Pacific Northwest and around the world to protest nuclear weapons. In 2011, he served a three-month jail sentence for an action at the Kitsap-Bangor Naval Base near Seattle.
It just so happens that this event is mentioned in an article in the most recent issue of The New Yorker, which is mainly focused on how the actions of Plowshares peace activists, like Bix, have drawn attention to the troubling lack of security at United States nuclear weapons facilities. The article is worth its own blog post, but I'll just quote the bit that mentions Bix:
Although Sister Megan had been arrested between forty and fifty times, this was her first Plowshares action. And it was her idea. It had occurred to her a year and a half earlier, while she was sitting in a Tacoma courtroom, watching the trial of five activists who had broken into Kitsap Naval Base, the home port for more than half of America's Trident ballistic-missile submarines. During perhaps the worst nuclear-security lapse in the history of the U.S. Navy, Father William (Bix) Bichsel, Father Stephen Kelly, Sister Anne Montgomery, and two others had managed to sneak into the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific—a storage area containing hundreds of nuclear warheads for Trident missiles. Those warheads don't have locking mechanisms. If a terrorist group detonated one at Kitsap, it not only would destroy the base and the Trident submarines but could also deposit lethal radioactive fallout on Seattle, about thirty miles to the east. If the group set off conventional explosives close to the warheads, a toxic cloud of plutonium might blanket the city. The Plowshares activists easily cut through Kitsap's perimeter fence, hiked around the huge base for four hours, ignored all the warning signs, cut through two more fences, and got to within about forty feet of the bunkers where the nuclear warheads are stored. Father Bix was eighty-one at the time. Sister Anne was eighty-three. Having survived two open-heart surgeries, Father Bix brought along his nitroglycerine tablets and paused to take some during the long hike. About twenty marines with automatic weapons stopped the activists, put hoods on them to prevent them from seeing any more of the top-secret facility, and made them lie on the ground for three and a half hours, while the base was searched for other intruders. When someone later said to Bichsel, Please, Father, don't get into any more trouble, he laughed and replied, "We're all in trouble."
Hesburgh's Challenge
Father Hesburgh wrote a piece in America Magazine that seems even more relevant today than in 1962. In dialogue once again with Cardinal Newman, he wrote:
Someone asked me recently: "What is the great problem for the Catholic university in our modem pluralistic society?" I was obliged to answer that the modern Catholic university faces a dual problem. First, because everything in a pluralistic society tends to become homogenized, the Catholic university has the temptation to become like all other universities, with theology and philosophy attached to the academic body like a kind of vermiform appendix, a vestigial remnant, neither useful nor decorative, a relic of the past. If this happens, the Catholic university may indeed become a great university, but it will not be a Catholic university.
The second problem involves understanding that while our society is called religiously pluralistic, it is in fact, and more realistically, secularistic—with theology and philosophy relegated to a position of neglect or, worse, irrelevance. Against this strong tide, the Catholic university must demonstrate that all the human problems which it studies are at base philosophical and theological, since they relate ultimately to the nature and destiny of man. The Catholic university must strive mightily to understand the philosophical and theological dimensions of the modern problems that face man today, and once these dimensions are understood, it must show the relevance of the philosophical and theological approach if adequate solutions are to be found for these problems.
Booker Prize Guarantee?
Ambiguity in response to a novel rests with judgments that test values - literary, stylistic and ethical. I read Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize winning Narrow Road to the Deep North ready to turn away from the page at the shock of his recreation of a WWII Japanese work camp in Burma; but I could not deny the power of the writing. The novel might cover the same territory as the Bridge on the River Kwai, but Flanagan's account makes tactile the foul degradation and suffering. His characterization takes us into the minds of the Australian prisoners and their Japanese captors, in particular that of the officer Doctor Dorrigo Evans, the Aussie chief, and his counterpart, Captain Nakamura. On the one hand, the novel offers us the mentality of the Captain who can justify working men to death even as he demands they be beaten to insure their compliance; and on the other hand, the mentality of his opponent who encounters such treatment and yet does not collapse, rather finds the strength to accept cruelty, resist with caution, and remain generous. Such focus has little by way of sentimentality. The extremity of the situation is evoked in measured, unadorned prose. Flanagan gives us two men who reveal themselves in acts of self-justification. Each asks: am I a good man? Their answers lay out a moral spread that stretches from assurance to distrust. If a claim can be made for the novel's stature, it is in its willingness to entertain such moral contrasts. This is fiction that takes us into dark places.
Read moreJohn Jeremiah Sullivan: An Appreciation
This week, John Jeremiah Sullivan was among the winners of the Windham Campbell Prize alongside Geoff Dyer and Edmund de Waal in the nonfiction category — an honor that comes with $150,000. Sullivan is the Southern editor of the Paris Review, and an all around gem in contemporary literary non-fiction. If you're tempted to despair at the state of that particular genre, Sullivan's work is a counter-argument.
His long-form essays pop up everywhere from GQ, the New York Times Magazine, to the food journal Lucky Peach, and they're never boring or predictable. This owes a lot to his deep research and attention to detail which lets his subjects shine through in all their particular weirdness.
Take, for example, his profile on former star of the reality show The Real World, nicknamed "the Miz." Even only knowing that piece's premise, it is easy to see how Sullivan could have played his subject matter for laughs. "The Miz" is one of a host of reality television stars who make club appearances for a living after their show has aired, but Sullivan doesn't stand apart from the circus and point. The Miz comes across as someone you could have known once. Even more, Sullivan is willing to say more than the obvious about reality television — in all its staged feelings and produced hot-tub scenes — and its appeal, then go ahead and implicate everyone.
And I just get so exhausted with my countrypeople—you know the ones, the ones you run into who are all like, "Oh gosh, reality TV? I've never even seen it. Is it really that interesting?"...To me that's about as noble as being like, "Oh, Nagasaki? I've never even heard of that!" This is us, bros. This is our nation. A people of savage sentimentality, weeping and lifting weights.
Did I mention he's funny? He's really funny.
I particularly wanted to point out one of his more well-known essays, Upon This Rock, which also originally appeared in GQ. Sullivan goes to a Christian music festival — a curious event in itself — but about halfway into the piece's 11,000 words, we discover that Sullivan was once a creature of that vibrant evangelical subculture. So while the essay describes the bands, the Christian rock industry and its colorful fans, it's about confronting a faith that has died, but still haunts you. "I love Jesus Christ," he admits.
"...Why should He vex me? Why is His ghost not friendlier? Why can't I just be a good Enlightenment child and see in His life a sustaining example of what we can be, as a species?
Because once you've known Him as God, it's hard to find comfort in the man. The sheer sensation of life that comes with a total, all-pervading notion of being—the pulse of consequence one projects onto even the humblest things—the pull of that won't slacken.
Sullivan is both faithful to his old faith, and his current disbelief. This might be a strange description of an 11,000 magazine article, but it's full of restraint. Toward the end, he concludes of his new festival-going friends, "They were crazy, and they loved God—and I thought about the unimpeachable dignity of that love, which I never was capable of. Because knowing it isn't true doesn't mean you would be strong enough to believe if it were."
Theodore Hesburgh, R.I.P.
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, president of the University of Notre Dame from from 1952 to 1987, giant of the Catholic Church in the United States, died late last night at the age of ninety-seven. Read the Notre Dame announcement here (don't miss the biography and photos), the New York Times obituary here, the Chicago Tribune's, the Washington Post's, and the Observer's.
Fr. Hesburgh wrote precious little for Commonweal over the decades (although he was very much written about). Both of his Commonweal articles appeared in 1961. The first was an excerpt from a talk he gave on American Catholic higher education in the twentieth century. The second was developed (it seems) from that address: "What are we doing to mediate, philosophically and theologically, as only the Catholic higher learning can," Hesburgh asked, "between these various extremes that make up the divided fabric of our society?" It's a queston worth pondering today.
In an interview with the campus paper, Heburgh spoke movingly about his vision for the university he loved:
"I think Notre Dame has to be a tremendous force for good, but it has to do it as an educational institution," he said, his voice solemn. "We're not a political party, we're not a, you know, a bunch of gangsters with a lot of money trying to run things in a bad way. We're trying our best to create a great country by putting into the mainstream of that country people who are not just knowledgeable, but they're dedicated and they have high hopes for the future and they're willing to work hard to be the best. To create the best country on earth."
My friend Natalia Imperatori-Lee, who did her PhD at Notre Dame (and now teaches theology at Manhattan College) recalled her first enounter with Hesburgh, during her first year in South Bend. It was 2000:
Before I had any idea who he was, Fr. Hesburgh knocked on my carrel door and asked if I would help him say Mass in his office. I followed this old man back through the winding hallways of the library into his office, to a small room with an altar, where he had me do all the readings--including the gospel--and he recited the eucharistic prayers by heart. At the end, we hugged. He never mentioned his name.
Requiescat in pace.
Immutability UPDATES
There has been a lot of fiery rhetoic about Netanyahu's acceptance of an invitation to speak to the U.S. Congress without consultating the White House and Dept. of State. There have been hard questions: Is this the end of the special relationship? How will the U.S. vote the next time an Israeli-related resolution comes before the Security Council? Will U.S. subventions to Israel be cut back? Will the U.S. become even-handed in efforts to bring the Israelis and Palestinians to an agreement? Has the Republican Party become Israel's new best friend? What price will Israel pay if the Prime Minister undermines U.S. efforts to come to an agreement with Iran?
We can't actually know the answers to those questions right now. A lot of everybodies will show up for his speech on March 3, including many Democrats. Netanyahu will get a lot of face time on the news. His speech could derail the Iran nuclear talks now culminating in Geneva.
Would we be wrong in suspecting that whatever Netanyahu says and whatever happens in Geneva, business will continue as usual?
Susan Rice, head of the National Security Council, called Netanyahu's decision "destructive" of the U.S. Israeli relationship. But then, she went on to say to Charlie Rose, "The point is, we want the relationship between the United States and Israel to be unquestionably strong, immutable, regardless of political seasons in either country, regardless of which party may be in charge in either country. We've worked very hard to have that," she said, "and we will work very hard to maintain that."
UPDATE: Story in (2/26) NYTimes. UPDATE 2: David Brook's column (2/27) provides a mild preview of what Netanyahu is likely to declaim next week. "Converting the Ayatollahs" is an unfortunate headline on the column. A round-up of Israeli objections to Netanyahu's speech (including objections from AIPAC). UPDATE 3: Paul Pillar offers an analysis of Netanyahu's purposes in derailing negotiations with Iran--and it isn't bombs. Even Jeffrey Goldberg!
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was a virtuoso drummer who became a sensation in the '60s with his albums of traditional Nigerian drumming and chanting. If Olatunji debuted in today's environment, he would be subjected to much tougher scrutiny and evaluation regarding "authenticity" than he received in the '60s. His heralded albums, particularly
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A Person Goes Skiing in The Middle of The City
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A Robot Runs at Speeds of Up to 18 MPH
I just think this one is cool on a strictly technological level. If you can look past the fact that the robot, Cheetah, doesn't really look like its namesake, you're in for a nice preview of what will happen once Skynet becomes self-aware.
Tiny Goats, Wearing Sweaters and Jumping Around
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The contrast between Blair's bid to save Brooks and Miliband's call for her resignation is a reminder of how Labour has changed for the better since 2010.
The former PM allegedly advised Brooks to "publish a Hutton style report" and offered to act as an "unofficial adviser".
Both men recognise that politicians need to live, to experience the world, its hardships as well as its highs, before taking office.
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"The Passed Will Never Happen." This ambitious second book in MM's new narrative art and comics series sets out to create an artifact that references – but exists on an imagined tangential strand to – the known historical and projected timeline of global visual culture. 28 artists invoke images of the distant past recalled from a point in the distant future, alternate realities / alternative histories, mislaid technologies and knowledge, forgotten scientific visions, evolving visual cultures resurrecting, distorting and mutating period styles and a bewildering mix of contrasting chronological visual and sociological clues and signs in this 24 page A3 mega-book and 7 piece print set.
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Those hunting for a 2-year-old who wandered from a Wisconsin home were told the car was locked.
CENTURIA, WIS. – Through the long hours that thousands of searchers scoured fields and forests in blistering heat for a missing Wisconsin toddler, his body was in the trunk of a locked car that search teams passed by countless times.
On Thursday, Polk County officials were left trying to explain why the exhaustive search focused on acres of surrounding land and expressing regret that investigators hadn't forced open the car's trunk that held the body of 2-year-old Isaiah Theis.
The body was found about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, a little over 24 hours after the boy disappeared while playing with his 7-year-old brother at the family's home near Centuria, about 60 miles northeast of St. Paul.
The shocking discovery came when the car's owner came to claim his vehicle from Justin Theis, Isaiah's father, who works on cars near the family's home, the Sheriff's Office said.
Sheriff Peter Johnson said searchers had looked into the vehicle and in the area around it several times but hadn't checked its trunk. They had been told that the vehicle had been locked before the boy wandered off and that it was "extremely unlikely that he could have been in it, based on that information," Johnson said.
No word on cause of death
The search was instead focused away from the house.
Searchers had combed fields, forests, a pond and a swamp, because the boy's family said he often wandered into the woods or up and down the road, Chief Deputy Steve Moe told reporters at a news conference.
It was presumed that Isaiah had wandered off once again, and that theory dominated the search process, he said.
In hindsight, Moe said, he wished that they had broken into the car's trunk.
He said that deputies did not have access to the keys and that he wasn't certain whether they were on the property.
"Would we liked to have forced entry to the car? Yeah, from my personal perspective," Moe said.
He declined to speculate how Isaiah ended up in the trunk.
"I know that there's strong interest in what caused it and what things led to the boy getting in that car," he said. "It's just too early."
Johnson also said that "it would be inappropriate for anyone to speculate as to the cause and nature of [the] death until that examination has been done."
An autopsy is pending.
Anguish among searchers
Isaiah's mother told sheriff's deputies that her son was last seen about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday while playing with his brother.
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Huawei rotates CEO position
PUBLISHED: 24 Apr 2012 13:02:00 | UPDATED: 27 Apr 2012 11:30:15PUBLISHED: 24 Apr 2012 PRINT EDITION: 26 Apr 2012John McDuling
Executives on Huawei Australia's board of directors could be elevated to the global chief executive position as part of a new rotating leadership structure at the Chinese equipment maker.
Huawei Technologies founder and current CEO Ren Zhengfei, who briefly served as an engineer in the People's Liberation Army, announced fresh plans this week to rotate the CEO role every six months among a select group of executives.
The move came as Huawei's net profit dived 53 per cent in 2011 to 11.6 billion yuan ($1.78 billion), affected by a 23.7 billion yuan outlay on research and development and the rising value of the Chinese currency.
The CEO position will be rotated between Huawei's vice-chairmen, Guo Ping, Eric Xu Zhijun and Ken Hu Houkun. But with Australia among the best performing countries and an area of strategic priority, insiders say two Shenzen-based executives that sit on the Australian board, Chen Lifang and Li Jie, could move into contention for the CEO role in the future.
Ms Chen has served in a variety of communications and marketing roles at Huawei while Mr Li has been in charge of human resources and technical services. Both sit on Huawei's global board of directors.
Huawei's international revenues grew 14.9 per cent to 138.4 billion yuan in 2011, representing more than two-thirds of the group's total. The company did not split out the performance of its businesses by country but it is understood Australia was one of its fastest-growing regions. In coming weeks Huawei Australia is expected to confirm it generated a record $229 million in revenues during 2011, up 34 per cent on 2010 – triple the growth achieved at group level.
Last month, The Australian Financial Review revealed that Huawei had been blocked from tendering to the $36 billion national broadband network because of national security concerns. But the company has secured lucrative wins from mobile carriers. It is assisting Vodafone with its $1 billion upgrade of its mobile network, and Optus in developing a superfast 4G network in greater Newcastle.
The company did not directly address Australian security concerns in its annual report. But chairwoman Sun Yafang said the company was "working closely with governments, customers, and industry partners from different countries in addressing cyber-security challenges".
Mr Ren indicated that the rotational leadership system was set up to help the company deal with unprecedented changes in technology. "By adopting this system, we avoid a situation similar to the Chinese saying 'every emperor has a cabinet composed of his own favourites'," Mr Ren said in the annual report.
"Today, tides rise and surge; companies are springing up all over the place while others are quickly being swept away. Huawei hasn't found a way to adapt well to a rapidly changing society. Time will tell if the rotating CEO system is the right move or not."
Huawei Australia's board is chaired by retired rear admiral John Lord and includes former foreign minister Alexander Downer and former Victorian premier John Brumby.
The Australian Financial Review
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Donatella Does Brunch: Hangover Pizza, Anyone?
by Sara Levine in Holidays, Shows, December 13th, 2010
After slinging Neapolitan-style pies at lunch and dinner for the past couple of months, Donatella Arpaia's eponymously named New York pizzeria rolled out a brunch menu this past weekend.
2010 has been a big year for Donatella—she opened this very personal addition to her restaurant mini-empire, served on the judges' panel for The Next Iron Chef Season 3 and on several episodes of Iron Chef America, and published her first cookbook, Donatella Cooks. We'd be surprised if the lawyer-turned-restaurateur ever sits still long enough for a lazy brunch, but she clearly gets what it's all about. Her sunny pizzeria is perfectly suited for relaxing mid-day repasts and the menu is full of carby comfort.
Take the Hangover Pizza. Donatella's executive chef, Jarett Appell, came up with it when he was making himself some food after a night of, well, too much of the obvious. The blistered crust is topped with breakfast sausage, an egg, and thin, melting slices of cured lardo (pork fat). The whole thing is oozy, decadent, satisfying—a delicious interpretation of the classic breakfast plate. The boss told Jarett to run with it on the brunch menu.
Some brunchers always gravitate to sweet selections over bacon and eggs. For you, there's the "Do-Nutella" (get it?) French Toast, custardy brioche schmeared with a thick spread of Nutella and topped with crunchy toasted hazelnuts.
Most of us don't have an authentic wood-burning pizza oven imported from Italy at home in which to truly replicate the Hangover pie. Fortunately, the easy-to-make french toast is an appropriately over-the-top dish for any holiday brunch, and pastry chef Andrea Jarosh was happy to share her recipe. Who cares if it leans more towards dessert than breakfast? You can always have salad for dinner.
Pastry Chef Andrea Jarosh's Do-Nutella French Toast
Serves 6
Anglaise Custard:
1 quart half and half
5 eggs
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 vanilla bean, scraped
zest of 1 orange
zest of 1 lemon
1 t ground cinnamon
12 one-inch slices of brioche or challah
Optional toppings:
Whipped cream
Chopped, toasted hazelnuts
Whisk all ingredients together for Anglaise.
Soak bread slices in Anglaise until soaked through.
Spray your pan with cooking spray, or place a dab of butter and turn the flame to medium heat.
When a drop of Anglaise sizzles on the pan, place your slices in the pan and cook until golden brown. Flip and cook the other side the same way. If centers are still too runny, you can place the french toast in a preheated oven at 325 degrees F for a couple of minutes.
To Serve:
Drizzle Nutella over one slice of french toast and place another on top. Drizzle with maple syrup and top with whipped cream and chopped hazelnuts, if desired.
For many more holiday brunch ideas, check out FoodNetwork.com/Christmas and our Make-Ahead Brunch Menu.
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I made the Breakfast Pizza for my husband and it was a HUGE hit! Definitely a staple in our house,hungover or not!!!
What did you use for the lardo?
Sounds good except for the slices of lardo. Think I'll try it but replace the lardo with cheese. Maybe add some salsa and it's almost like huevos rancheros.
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i found Donatella Does Brunch: Hangover Pizza, Anyone? | The FN Dish – Food Network Blog Really wonderful visual appeal on this website , I'd rate it 10 10.
What am I missing? This doesn't look especially unique. It looks like most any breakfast pizza except for the lardo which I wouldn't add anyway. Maybe it's just the hype associated with Donatella's name. I wish the Food Network would drop Donatella from the judging panel. She's much too arrogant, insulting to her fellow panelists and off-putting.
Got that one right about Donatella. When you can buy your way into the restaurant business, I guess you can be as surly as you choose and still be called a Chef. Too bad half of the 'Chefs" on FN aren't really Chefs. They are cooks at best and need to get their skills tested in a real kitchen.
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George sure knows how to settle down in style! The actor presented his beautiful fiancé with a gigantic, emerald-cut engagement ring — and she was all smiles as she showed off her new sparkler! Find out all about the huge, ethically-mined diamond creation he helped design.
Although we were finally coming to terms with the fact that George Clooney, 52, was an eternal bachelor, he managed to totally shock everyone when she decided to settle down with stunning lawyer Amal Almuddin — and he made the engagement official with a ginormous sparkler!
Amal Alamuddin's Engagement Ring From George Clooney:
According to People magazine, George popped the question on bended knee in London, (where Amal resides) — and just five days later the couple stepped out and showed off Amal's brand new bling at a private dinner in Santa Barbara on April 27, where the newly engaged couple stepped out to celebrate Rande Gerber's 52nd birthday with Rande and his wife, Cindy Crawford — and the couple couldn't hide their happiness, (or Amal's engagement ring!).
As the couple engaged in PDA, Amal gave those in attendance a closeup of her ring, which is made up of a gigantic emerald-cut diamond. According to the magazine, George actually helped design the stunning sparkler and pick out the ethically-mined diamond ring, which also features two tapered baguettes. The creation, set in platinum, is classic and possesses a vintage vibe — and it surely makes a statement!
We consulted NYC jeweler Shari Fabrikant of Robert Fabrikant Inc., who said, "The stone appears to be app 7.50 cts. It is set in a handmade platinum mounting with tapered baguettes. The emerald cut looks like a D or E color and is probably a VS1 or better. If it is this quality, it would run at least $650,000."
According to Mark Keeney Vice President of Marketing at Ritani, Amal's vintage-inspired ring is just magnificent. "The celebrity trend for all things vintage is continuing with this magnificent emerald cut, canary diamond flanked by two tapered baguettes. This cut and color having become increasingly popular since the re-release of the Great Gatsby two years ago– and with a with a center stone that appears to be a 7+ carat stone – Alamuddin is likely to overshadow her fiancee's attention by the media, on and off the red carpet, for a while."
For a good view of Amal's ring, check it out here.
What do you think? Did George do a good job picking out an engagement ring for his lovely lady?
Katrina Mitzeliotis
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Robbie Bach, head of MS gizmo division, unveiled stuff with Verizon and Vodafone. The gruesome device is called Kin. As in Thick and Thin, and the Kinnells of Ruislip.
It uses the first generation of Nvidia's Tegra, as TechEye revealed last week.
Bach claimed Redmond talked to thousands of young people to find out what they wanted from their phone. This was Project Muse.
Bach showed a video with loads of youths talking about stuff like Facebook and stuff.
The kids like sharing gruesome stuff, you won't be surprised to hear. The kids love self expression, said Bach. They love sharing photographs of obese people making fools of themselves.
Microsoft says the kids want a multi-screen life. The kids have high demands from the technology.
Bach believes Microsoft has a phone strategy. Microsoft has created a "deeply social phone".
Microsoft's phone links together kindred spirits - geddit?!? - that personifies true kinship between everyone. It's called Kin. There's Kin I and there's Kin II. Derek Snyder demonstrated it. It's quite awful, it's like a Twitter on the move that, Snyder said, will remind you where you ate a sandwich in NYC and when.
Snyder said Microsoft is a card carrying member of the social generation and it's got all the data it needs, thank you very much.
It's all very unhealthy and somewhat unhappy. Social "is the fabric of this experience" and it ships with Zune, god help us. The Kin 2 shoots in HD and it's all about sharing.
Verizon refused to share the price of the Kin with you all, but said it would be out in May. Bach said Kin software is "couture software". A young woman told him there was a phone finally designed for her.
Yuk. Basically Kin is an ugly phone to boot, for self-obsessed narcissists.


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Document: 39Letter: [Athens, Georgia] to J[ospeh] H[enry] Lumpkin, Athens, Georgia, 1852 Oct. 1
author: Hoyt, N.
date: October 1, 1852
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summary: Letter dated October 1, 1852 from Pastor N. Hoyt to Joseph Henry Lumpkin thanking him for the perusal of a letter from Callie to her brother and sends his blessing to her and her husband, Porter King.
subjects:Letters King, Porter, 1824-1890--Marriage King, Callie, 1826-1905--Marriage Athens (Ga.)--Social life and customs--19th century Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867 Athens (Ga.) Clarke County (Ga.)
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Many thanks to you, my Dear Brother, for the perusal of Sweet Callie's Sweet letter to her brother. It breathes the Spirit of Jesus -- loving, [unclear text: kindly] affectionate, Zealous, humble, prayerful, & truly Evangelical. Callie understands the plan of Salvation -- the [unclear text: imputed] righteousness of Jesus. I think She has passed from death into life, & that she will hold on her way till she arrives at home -- in that blessed world where the wicked cease from troubling & where the weary are at rest. Dear child, I do love her most ardently, & have long loved her more than she ever knew, or suspected. God bless her & her noble husband!
I will try to write her ere [before] long. I hope you are better.
Ever yours most Sincerely.
[Signed] N. Hoyt
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Hon. J. H. Lumpkin,
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Deer Lake Beach – Clarkston, Michigan Public Beach – Review and Pics
Deer Lake Beach in Clarkston, Michigan is located on White Lake Road and operated by Independence Township Parks and Recreation. Deer Lake Beach offers two separate swimming areas that are both supervised by lifeguards during hours of operation.
Deer Lake Beach may not be the biggest beach in Oakland County but it is still a great place to take the kids on warm summer days. Parking is directly off of White Lake Road and the entrance to the beach area is very close to the lot.
Admission to Deer Lake offers a discount off of daily admission for residents or students of Clarkston Schools. Once you park, you pay at the Beach House/Life Guard Office close to the parking lot. You can purchase discounted punch passes or a season swim pass at the Independence Township Parks and Recreation office (see below for ITPR website and contact info).
Deer Lake Beach features 2 separate swimming areas. The area nearest to the parking area has a large wading area with the deepest part of the wading area going to about 2-3 feet deep. The swimming area on the far end of the beach also has a large, shallow wading area. In addition to the shallow area, the far end part of the beach has a deeper water section where the depths go to 6-10 feet. Both areas are patrolled by certified lifeguards atop the lifeguard stands. Independence Township Parks and Recreation also offers swimming lessons at Deer Lake Beach.
Deer Lake Beach has a sand volleyball court toward the far end beach. Deer Lake Beach doesn't have full restroom facilities or concession stands but there are port-o-potty units on-site and plenty of picnic tables so you can bring your own lunch.
I enjoyed talking to the staff at Deer Lake Beach. They really seem to enjoy working on the beautiful lake. A lifeguard told me that families with younger kids enjoy the near-side beach wading areas while families with older kids love the far-end beach with the deeper water.
See related articles below or our Oakland County tab for more Oakland County and Metro Detroit, Michigan park reviews and pics.
Deer Lake Beach Hours of Operation:
Full Season – Mid-June – Mid-August, 10am-8pm
End Season – Mid-August – Early September, Noon-5pm
Labor Day Weekend: 11am-7pm
Deer Lake Beach
350 White Lake Road
Clarkston, MI
(248) 625-1444 (ITPR aquatics hotline)
Independence Township Parks and Rec
(248) 625-8223


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Do You Watch Jon and Kate Plus 8? We Do – Which is Why I Donated Boca Beth Fun to the Jones Family !
My daughter Megan loves, loves, loves watching Jon & Kate Plus 8, and she has gotten me hooked on the new shows. (She will watch re-runs of this reality TV show time and time again – not me!)
So when I was approached by Tamiko Kelly to contribute some cool Boca Beth products for the quintuplets of a couple in Texas who already have a darling daughter, I said "Yes! ¡Sí!" because I have always marveled at how parents of many multiples (3 and beyond!!!!!) both afford it financially and get the job done with the daily routine.
What particularly compelled me to share our Boca Beth music and movement fun were two main things:
Mom and Dad (Casey and Ethan) are Christian families who appear to live life with the Lord by their sides.
Plus they live in Texas, and any child in Texas MUST be able to communicate some in Spanish (even if their mommy and daddy speak 'un poco' / 'a little'………..
Jones Family Plays with Their BOCA Puppets
Visit this family's journey as the Quints just arrived home last week on their blog: www.JonesLife.net
It is truly about sharing our fun and easy way of bringing Spanish and English together for babies and toddlers with this bilingual approach because many, many of the experts say it is just as easy for a little one to learn two words for one item as it is to learn just one word. Our bilingual method works great even into the preschool years and early elementary years because these children are STILL mastering their native language.
Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando! (and happy Quint-Fun at your home Jones Family!)
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