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Russia's Kronotsky area, known as the nation's Ring of Fire, is a natural wonderland that has been off limits for many years, with only scientists and researchers as the land's sole visitors. The area has now been made more accessible since 2011, but only to a select number of travelers.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Located on Russia's 1,200 kilometer-long Kamchatka peninsula, the nature reserve is closer to California than to Moscow. Larger than Yellowstone, with more than 10,000 square kilometers of protected wilderness, Kronotsky has permitted only the most constrained of non-scholarly visits. The area is only visited after taking a helicopter flight. Groups of tourists parade on boardwalks in small areas for under three hours.
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Tilt Angle Balancing Act-Polar Focus Designs Two Tiered Cluster For Chicago Auditorium
Advanced Audio and Lighting of Peoria, Illinois was awarded the job of installing a new sound reinforcement system in Torrey-Gray Auditorium at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. The system would need to handle spoken word, live music and recorded music. After MBI was presented with several ways to go, the choice was made to use four speakers from the Synergy Horn line manufactured by Danley Soundlabs. All four would be rigged in a center cluster, with one pair over the other.
The models chosen were two SH25, and two SH50 loudspeakers, all in white. The SH50âs, at 142 pounds each, and the SH25âs, at 176 pounds each, made for a fairly heavy cluster at a total speaker weight of 636 pounds. The crew at Advanced Audio and Lighting had worked many times before with Polar Focus Audio Rigging, and called on that company to provide the design and hardware for hanging this cluster.
Danley Soundlabs makes hardware kits for attaching their speakers to each other, and thatâs what Advanced used to join the SH series speakers together in side by side pairs. The tight packed arrays of two took care of the side to side, or pan, angling, and meant that only the tilt angle had to be addressed through the Polar Focus rigging design.
The engineers at Polar Focus needed to devise a way to tilt the two pairs of speakers independently of each other while all hanging from the same two rigging points in the ceiling. The SH50âs have a familiar trapezoid shape, but the shape of the SH25âs is a less common extra deep double trapezoid. A particular challenge was to support the lower row of SH50âs that was mostly blocked from above by the SH25 extra deep enclosures. The SH25âs, on the upper level of the cluster, needed to tilt at an angle of -3 degrees. The SH50âs, beneath the SH25âs, needed to tilt at an angle of â40 degrees.
To achieve this configuration, Polar Focus needed to know the center of gravity, or COG, of the speakers. The core of any Polar Focus rigging design is balance. Instead of forcing the speakers into the desired angles with lots of cables pulling and holding them in a certain position, Polar Focus uses the COG, the shape of the speaker, and the available rigging points on it to calculate a design which works with, not against, the way a speaker would naturally âwantâ? to hang. The end result is somewhat like a mobile, with suspended objects positioned in balanced relation to each other.
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Tolima Gold Inc announces execution of amended agreement for divesting interest in certain Colombian Gold Properties to Wolverine Minerals Corp
Tolima Gold Inc:Says that it has further restructured the terms of its divestiture of certain mining concessions and other assets in Colombia to Wolverine Minerals Corp.As announced in December 2013, Tolima had previously entered into a share purchase agreement dated Dec. 4, 2013 through its subsidiaries Remedios Gold Holdings S.A., Remedios Gold S.A.S., Herbo Assets S.A. and Tolima Gold (Barbados) Corp. (collectively, the Sellers).Whereby Wolverine had agreed to acquire up to an 80 pct. interest in Remedios Gold from Herbo. In connection with the Original Agreement, Wolverine made a loan of $700,000 to Herbo, which was secured against 51 pct. of the shares of Remedios Gold.Says the sellers subsequently entered into a restated share purchase agreement dated April 29, 2014 with Wolverine, whereby Wolverine agreed to acquire up to a 90 pct. interest in Remedios Gold from Herbo.Tolima announces that the sellers have signed a further restated share purchase agreement dated effective July 9, 2014 with Wolverine, whereby Wolverine has agreed to acquire a 100% interest in Remedios Gold from Herbo in exchange for total consideration of $700,000.Says under the revised Transaction terms, Wolverine is no longer required to incur the $2 million in work commitments, or to pay the Sellers the 2.5 pct. net smelter return royalty on production from the Properties, that were required under the terms of the Prior Agreements. Full Article
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Tolima Gold Inc:Says Wolverine Minerals Corp. has entered into a share purchase agreement dated Dec. 4 with Tolima's subsidiaries, Remedios Gold Holdings S.A., Tolima Gold (Barbados) Corp. and Herbo Assets S.A., pursuant to which Wolverine has agreed to acquire up to an 80% interest in Remedios Gold from Herbo.Says in connection with the execution of the agreement, Wolverine paid Herbo $700,000 as an initial deposit.Says pursuant to the terms of theaAgreement, Wolverine will have up to 60 days to complete its due diligence with respect to the transaction.Says within five business days of giving notice to Herbo that it wishes to proceed with the Transaction, it will pay to Herbo, in addition to the Advance.Says $500,000 on the date that is six months after the Due Diligence Satisfaction Date; and $500,000 on the date that is 12 months after the Due Diligence Satisfaction Date for a total purchase price of $1,700,000.Says upon payment of the entire Cash Consideration, Wolverine will acquire 30% of the issued and outstanding shares of Remedios Gold. Wolverine will acquire an additional 50% interest in Remedios Holdings, for a total interest of 80%.Says as additional consideration, Herbo will be entitled to a 2.5% net smelter return royalty on all production from the Remedios Property. Full Article


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The silent era produced one of Hollywood's most prolific and successful writers in Frances Marion. From 1917 up into the 1930s, she penned over 100 scripts, becoming the highest paid screenwriter at the time. Her friendship with Mary Pickford happened to have led to a number of those opportunities, as she wrote for the legendary star in a handful of films. With that in mind, the upcoming Pickford biopic The First wouldn't be complete without the early scribe, and it now seems as if the project has found its Marion.
Fresh off Silver Linings Playbook, Julia Stiles will, according to Deadline, play Marion to Lily Rabe's Pickford in the newly-titled film from Poverty Row. Based on the biography Eileen Whitfield's Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, The First covers important events in the actress's life, including her role in co-founding United Artists. Jennifer DeLia – who is producing the film alongside Julie Pacino – will also direct off a script from first-time screenwriter Josh Fagin.
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Recognition of same-sex unions in Guam
Guam, an overseas territory of the United States, recognizes no legal same-sex relationship, neither same-sex marriage nor civil union. The Guam Organic Act of 1950, the equivalent of a constitution, does not mention marriage. Guam's statutes do not specify gender but assume the parties to a marriage are a man and a woman.
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Guam's statutes do not specify the sex of the parties, but their prohibition on marriage "between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews" show they anticipate only different-sex marriages. The parties "must declare in the presence of the person solemnizing the marriage that they take each other as husband and wife." With respect to marriages from other jurisdictions, the statues say:[1]
All marriages contracted outside of the territory of Guam, which would be valid by the laws of the country in which the same were contracted, are valid in the territory of Guam.
Federal courts in Guam are subject to the precedents set in 2014 by the decisions of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Latta v. Otter and Sevcik v. Sandoval, which found Nevada's and Utah's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples unconstitutional.
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After Vermont enacted same-sex marriage legislation, the 27th Guam Youth Congress, an advisory body which submits legislation to committees of the Legislature of Guam, forwarded a bill to legalize civil unions to the legislature, with the bill being supported by Speaker Derick Baza Hills.
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On June 3, 2009, Vice-Speaker BJ Cruz introduced Bill No. 138, which would establish same-sex civil unions containing all the rights and benefits of civil marriage in Guam.[3] The bill was heavily condemned by the Catholic Church.[4] The bill did not get sufficient votes to make it to the session floor.[5]
Due to opposition to the bill within the religious community, Bill 212 was introduced by proponents of same-sex unions should the civil union bill fail to pass. The bill mirrors the bill passed in Hawaii that provided significantly limited rights. The bill is known as a "Designated Beneficiary Agreement," and unlike the civil union bill, would be open for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples.[6]
Public Opinion[edit]
In a 2009 poll conducted by Pacific Daily News, 26% of Guamanians supported same-sex marriage, 27% supported same-sex domestic partnerships or civil unions, and 29% of responders said that there should be no legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Guam.[7]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Chapter 3. The Contract of Marriage". Guam Code Annotated. Compiler of Laws, Supreme Court of Guam. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ a b Lee, Yvonne S. (10 April 2009). "Youth congress pass bill to legalize same sex civil unions". Pacific Daily News. Retrieved 2009-04-23.[dead link]
- ^ Same-sex civil unions proposed
- ^ "Archbishop Apuron Responds To Senator Cruz's Same Sex Civil Union Bill".
- ^ Aguon, Mindy (February 24, 2011). "Gay community hopeful for Guam civil unions". Kuam News. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ^ http://www.kuam.com/bm/news/new-proposed-legislation-for-civil-unions-criticiz.shtml?15515
- ^ www.guampdn.com/survey-26-percent-support-same-sex-marriage[dead link]
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Two types of immigrants came to America without paying their own passage—indentured servants and redemptioners. Indentured servants would sign a contract, called an indenture, before they sailed agreeing to serve for a period of years in exchange for passage to America. The term of service was typically between four to seven years. Redemptioners were a similar type of immigrant; however they made their agreement with the shipping merchant to be transported without paid passage. Upon landing in America, they were given a short period of time to find family or friends willing to pay all or part of their passage. If funds could not be secured, they then signed on as servants and their indentures could be sold in order to satisfy the debt.
The practice of buying and selling redemptioners and indentured servants can be found in Augusta County Chancery Cause James Kelzo, etc. vs. Samuel McChesney, 1796-008. James Kelzo (spelled frequently as Kelso) and James Wilson of Augusta County and Samuel McChesney of Culpeper County formed a partnership to purchase and sell indentured servants. Wilson and McChesney were to make the arrangements for selling the servants, and the partners agreed to divide the net profits equally among them.
With three men responsible for reporting accounts and divvying up profits, it wasn't long before accusations of withholding funds landed the business partnership … read more »
The Surry County Chancery Causes, 1785-1922 (bulk 1806-1917), contain valuable biographical, genealogical, and historical information and document a broad spectrum of citizens of Surry County—rich and poor, black and white, slave and free. Following are a few suits of interest found in the collection.
Chancery Cause 1830-037, Mary Pettway, etc. vs. Admr. of John Pettway Judkins, etc. is an estate settlement suit. John Pettway Judkins died without a will; therefore, the court had to determine who all was related to Judkins in order to ensure they received their fair share of his estate, including slaves. The suit contains a list of Judkins' relatives showing how they were related to him.
Chancery Cause 1869-002, Enna (or Rosenna) Rowena Messersmith by etc. vs. Joseph M. Messersmith is a divorce suit that had its origins in the Civil War. Joseph served in a local Surry County unit attached to the 13th Virginia Regiment. He and Enna were married on 23 September 1862 in Surry County while Joseph was on a short furlough. Emma rarely saw her husband over the next two years. Enna informed the court that she last saw her husband in January 1864 in Petersburg. She learned from someone who served with Joseph that in the spring of 1864 Joseph went AWOL and was believed to have fled to western Virginia. Enna told … read more »
The romantic landscape may seem ambiguous in 2013, but courtship in 19th-century Virginia was no different. Think those text messages are hard to decipher? Try reading an 1850s love letter full of rigid social etiquette. Dating and its inherent potential for rejection have always been hard. A letter found amongst chancery papers from Middlesex County attests to the fact that romantic rejection can happen to anyone, regardless of the time period.
One woman who had no use for ambiguity when it came to rejecting a would-be suitor was L. B. Powers. On 26 September 1849, she responded to Henry Sears' letter requesting the "privilege of waiting on" her. She was to the point, not bothering to spare feelings, and offered up her reasons for refusing his courtship:
"I have no objection of your waiting on me but as you are in a hurry for a wife I think it is best for you to dispense with your conversation as I think there is no earthly chance of my agreeing with your proposal for it is something I never intend to give my consent to marry a man without I love them therefore I think it is best for us both to dispense with our writings and conversation as I cannot love you.
I do not think that my age will suit yours not
Once a neglected subject, the role that African American slaves played in Southern colleges has become the focus of new research. Virginia being no exception, our oldest and most established institutions of higher learning such as the University of Virginia, William and Mary, and Hampden-Sydney College all relied on slaves for providing the colleges with necessary services. Often, the slaveholders in neighboring areas allowed their own slaves to be hired out to the colleges as servants. The slave's master was then paid a salary, typically at a yearly rate, for the services that his slave provided to the college. These African Americans worked to construct buildings, provide general upkeep and maintenance of the college grounds, and act as servants to faculty, students, and staff.
Found in the Library of Virginia's Local Records Collections is a City of Lynchburg judgment, A. D. Dickinson vs. Hampden-Sydney College, which sheds light on this often under-studied type of Southern slavery. In this case, A. D. Dickinson sued Hampden-Sydney College for not paying him the proper amount of money for the services that his slave, David Ross, provided the college. Charles Martin, the college curator, and A. D. Dickinson agreed that Hampden-Sydney would pay Dickinson a yearly sum of $150 for Ross's work. The tasks that Ross was expected to fulfill were specified in the deposition given by Martin … read more »
Cornbread and cabbage turned lethal for one Petersburg woman, but it was another woman's need for some chicken feed that exposed the death as something more nefarious than a simple case of food poisoning. Parmelia Williamson became "deathly sick" after consuming what proved to be her last meal on 9 June 1909. Junius Williamson, Parmelia's husband, first used the word "poison" to describe his wife's condition because he did "not think she washed the ham as it oughter [sic] have been." Even Parmelia said "her stomach felt like it did when she was poisoned in the country."
Attended by her husband and neighbor Delia Brooks, Parmelia was examined by a Dr. W. C. Powell who pronounced it a case of "Cholera Morbus," but Parmelia insisted, "I have no Cholera Morbus, I am poisoned." He gave her a hypodermic injection, put hot water bottles to her feet, and left. As she continued vomiting, her condition worsened, and she threw her arms up and said, "Delia, save me, do not let me die…save me for the sake of my poor little infant baby." Another doctor, James E. Smith, was called and pronounced that Mrs. Williamson would not live two hours and that she had been poisoned by arsenic or "Paris Green," a compound used as an insecticide for produce in the 1900s. After she … read more »
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that digital images for the Middlesex County Chancery Causes, 1754-1912, are now available online through the Chancery Records Index on the LVA's Virginia Memory site. Because they rely so heavily on the testimony of witness, chancery causes contain a wealth of historical and genealogical information and are especially useful when researching local, state, social, or legal history. They often contain correspondence, property lists (including slaves), lists of heirs, and vital statistics that are especially helpful in documenting the African American experience, family history, and Southern business and labor history. Following are a few suits of interest found in the collection.
The Middlesex County chancery causes contain many suits illustrating the experiences of African Americans in the tidewater region. In Simon Laughlin vs. Jacob Valentine, 1773-005, Laughlin sues for the recovery of funds he spent on boat and horse hire while traveling to a prison in Snow Hill, Maryland, looking for a runaway slave. In 1858, Elizabeth Thornton initiated two suits in attempt to get rid of unwanted slaves. In Elizabeth Thornton vs. Margaret Thornton, 1858-012, Thornton claimed that Jane had a "very bad disposition" and had become "almost worthless." Jane supposedly was a "very bad girl, a notorious rouge," and "very idle." After successfully selling Jane, Thornton then sought to get rid … read more »
When creating a who's who list of the early days of film, the list is dominated by men – Cecil B. De Mille, D. W. Griffith, Louis B. Mayer. But there was an obscured hero of cinema's early years making film alongside those males – Alice Guy-Blachè. In 1896, Guy-Blachè became the first female director, screenwriter, and producer. Regardless of gender, Guy-Blachè left a legacy of innovation in film. Her 1896 release, The Cabbage Fairy, was one of the first narrative films ever made. Guy-Blachè experimented with hand-tint colorization and even directed with one of the first sound machines decades before The Jazz Singer was released in 1927. Among her 22 feature-length films was The Lure—a film that made an impact on the city of Winchester by sparking a censorship debate, a conflict that found its way to the local courts in the fall of 1914.
The Lure, adapted from a play by George Scarborough, follows the lives of two young women lured into prostitution and enslaved in a house of ill repute. One young woman is enticed away from a fashionable dancing school by a dashing stranger. The other young woman, working in a department store to support an invalid mother, is lured by the promise of "easy night work." The two ladies are shown being mistreated and suffering forced … read more »
Isaac D. Simkins, born on 13 January 1775, left Northampton County at age 21 to go to sea. Like many people leaving home on a sea voyage, he wrote his will before departing in June 1796. He asked that his body be decently buried and lent his mother, Anne Simkins, £300 from his estate for her natural life. After her death, the remaining part of his estate would go to his brother, John Simkins, and his heirs. The will, recorded on 10 July 1797, became a point of contention in the Northampton County Chancery Cause Walter C. Gardiner & wife, etc. vs. John Simkins, 1813-008.
In an otherwise mundane estate dispute, the cause of Isaac Simkins' death was a fascinating side-note. In a deposition, Isaac's brother, Arthur Simkins, revealed that Isaac had been "impressed by a British Man of War" and died shortly afterwards.
The war between Great Britain and France began in 1793 and continued until 1815. The British Navy used a brutal form of punishment called "flogging" on their sailors, prompting many British sailors to escape to American vessels. Some joined the United States Merchant Marines and others joined the United States Navy. The British Navy used the excuse of looking for their deserted sailors as a right to board American merchant vessels to look for the deserters and contraband. The British Navy would … read more »
Has this ever happened to you? You sit down to watch TV but cannot find the remote control, you need to go somewhere but cannot find the keys, you need to make a call but cannot find your phone. You proceed to dig under couch cushions, examine the pockets of recently worn clothes, or use a different phone to call your cell phone. After a diligent and exasperating search, you find what you lost but it in a place where you least expected. A couple living in Rockbridge County in the 1880's experienced a similar scenario. In their case, they needed the court's assistance to find the missing item. Their search can be read in Rockbridge County Chancery Cause 1887-038, Petition of William F. Pierson and wife.
Charles J. Brawley departed this life on 10 June 1886 and was buried in a cemetery in Collierstown, Virginia. After the funeral, it came time to divide up Brawley's vast estate among his beneficiaries. But there was a problem—no one knew where Brawley's last will and testament was. Acquaintances and family members of Brawley had little doubt that he had written one. They had conversations with Brawley prior to his death that led them to believe he had written his will. One gentleman said that Brawley had named his son-in-law, William F. Pierson, the executor of … read more »
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the addition of Scott County and Washington County to the cohabitation register digitization project. This project, via the Virginia Memory website, aims to index, digitize, transcribe, and provide access to all known Virginia cohabitation registers and the related registers of children whose parents had ceased to cohabit. The Scott and Washington registers are cohabitation registers only. To date, their registers of children have not come to light.
Cohabitation registers are among the most important genealogical resources for African-Americans attempting to connect their family lines back through the oftentimes murky past to their enslaved ancestors. The registers date from 1866 and provide a snapshot in time for the individuals recorded therein and a wealth of information that may otherwise be impossible, or at least very difficult, to uncover. Cohabitation registers were the legal vehicles by which former slaves legitimized both their marriages and their children. The information about an individual person contained in a cohabitation register is literally priceless as it is often the first time that a former slave appeared officially in the public record and because of the extensive kinds of information that the register recorded.
The registers, transcriptions, and searchable index are available online along with the other registers from Virginia localities in the Cohabitation Register Digital Collection in Virginia Memory. To find it … read more »


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31st March 2014
US: Texas school accused of discrimination for turning away three-year-old with lesbian parents 1
4:00 PM — A lesbian couple in Texas have said their three-year-old son was turned away from a Montessori private school because of the director's religious beliefs.
Study: Gay Poles heading to UK to 'flee discrimination' in Poland
1:44 PM — A study by a student at the University of Westminster found that gay Polish people are often fleeing discrimination in Poland when they head to the UK.
27th March 2014
Survey: Two thirds of teachers 'not ready' to teach same-sex marriage 17
7:05 PM — Two-thirds of teachers say they are not adequately prepared to begin teaching about same-sex marriage, despite weddings starting this weekend.
26th March 2014
Update: Christian charity World Vision will NOT hire staff in same-sex marriages 42
9:50 PM — Christian charity World Vision is reversing its decision to allow married gay staff, just two days after announcing the change.
23rd March 2014
Gay man barred from Dorset country pub for 'flirting' with barman 86
11:18 AM — A man in Dorset has claimed to have been branded a "predatory gay man" after he was banned from his local pub for complimenting a male bartender.
Canterbury gay bar owner 'threatened' with anti-gay arson attacks and city council licence withdrawals 40
10:51 AM — The owner of a gay bar in Canterbury has recently claimed to have been target of an onslaught of anti-gay threats and visitors, including one vicar who offered to "cleanse" his customers of their homosexuality, and another man who threatened to burn down the building.
18th March 2014
Hong Kong: Christian school bans gay teachers 6
11:02 AM — A Christian school in Hong Kong has imposed a ban on gay teachers under a controversial "morality contract".
17th March 2014
Scottish Catholic adoption agency given green light to continue discriminating against gays 6
1:55 PM — The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator will not appeal a court ruling quashing its decision to revoke charitable status from an anti-gay Catholic adoption agency.
16th March 2014
CJ de Mooi: I spent three years homeless after growing up in a 'violent, racist, homophobic household' 6
12:10 PM — CJ de Mooi, ex-star of BBC2's Eggheads, has revealed how he spent three years living homeless after he grew up in a "violent, racist, homophobic household."
Ugandan gay rights activist says her own mother threatened to hand her into police over anti-gay laws 5
11:35 AM — Clare Byarugaba, a Ugandan human rights officer, has spoken up on her experiences as a lesbian since the passage of recent anti-gay legislation, including an account of where her own mother threatened to turn her into the police.
13th March 2014
Boston Mayor won't give up on fight against gay veteran ban for St Patrick's Day parade 1
3:29 PM — The Mayor of Boston has vowed to continue to not give up in a fight to allow gay veterans to march in this weekend's St Patrick's Day parade, but reiterated a promise to boycott, if they are not.
12th March 2014
European Parliament adopts new data protection laws for LGBT people 7
3:13 PM — The European Parliament today adopted new data protection laws which will protect private information relating to sexual orientation and gender identity.
US: Kansas bill would ban anti-LGBT discrimination
1:54 PM — Less than one month after a bill to legalise anti-gay discrimination was passed in the Kansas House, a politician has drafted a bill to ban such discrimination.
11th March 2014
US: Arizona Governor's office worked on gay discrimination legislation before she vetoed it
7:29 PM — Despite condemning and vetoing a bill which would have given Arizona business owners the right to discriminate against gay couples, the state's Governor actually had her office work on the legislation.
10th March 2014
US: Gay vice principal 'fired for getting married' sues Catholic school 7
10:00 PM — A gay former vice principal at a Catholic school is suing his former employer, after they fired him for getting married.
Lib Dem Baroness Barker: 'New Look's revised discount policy shows that equality is good for business'
7:07 PM — Lib Dem peer Baroness Barker, has commended retail giant New Look for its decision to change a discount policy which 'indirectly' excluded the partners of gay and lesbian staff.
Tory Vice Chair: New Look's HR department 'should be shot' for gay partners discount fiasco 4
5:45 PM — The Vice Chairman of the Conservative party Michael Fabricant has criticised retailer New Look for a policy, now changed, which excluded the partners of gay staff members.
Tory MP Mike Freer: New Look's gay discount issue shows we still need to be vigilant about equality
4:24 PM — Conservative MP Mike Freer has welcomed the decision by retailer New Look to change its discount policy to include the partners of gay staff, but says that it highlights that discrimination still needs to be challenged.
9th March 2014
US: Arkansas judge apologises for bigoted online comments including comparing gay sex to bestiality 20
1:34 PM — An Arkansas judge has issued an apology after posting a series of anonymous sexist, racist, and homophobic comments online, including saying that gay sex is just a "small step" away from sex with a dog.
Lib Dem peer Baroness Barker condemns New Look discount policy as 'old fashioned discrimination' 6
12:32 PM — Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Liz Barker is the latest politician to criticise retail giant New Look for its discount policy which is possibly in breach of the Equality Act 2010 by "indirectly discriminating" against gay couples.


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The Center for American Progress (CAP) has boldly rebutted the arguments of our own Kishore Jayabalan, director of Istituto Acton, concerning the Vatican's note on a "central world bank." It has done so by showing him to be lacking in "respect for the inherent dignity of human life." … Yes, we are talking about that Center for American Progress.
In a feature on their website that purports to tie last month's Vatican note to the Occupy Wall Street movement, CAP offers this smarmy response to the analysis Jayabalan gave.
Some conservative Catholic commentators are not as supportive, however….
Kishore Jayabalan of the conservative Catholic Acton Institute said that the note's appeal to an international authority contradicts the church's teaching that problems are best solved starting at local levels of authority, also known as the doctrine of subsidiarity.
What these conservatives are missing is that the note draws heavily from the tradition of Catholic social teachings on justice and respect for the inherent dignity of human life. This is where the Occupy movement finds an ally.
CAP has one-upped us doctrinally: where Jayabalan is concerned with minor theological nuances like the doctrine of subsidiarity, their minds are fixed on higher principles like respect for human dignity, the most immediate threat to which is the great and terrible free market.
"At heart, it is a moral enterprise," say CAP's Jake Paysour about Occupy Wall Street. Yes, except at the hearts of its camps, where women dare not go because their human dignity is respected only as much as strong men find it convenient.
CAP's record on human dignity speaks for itself. Its position on the lives of unborn children, for example, could not be any more out of line with Catholic teaching on "justice and respect for the inherent dignity of human life." It is shocking that CAP even uses those words: the suggestion that they give one hoot about Church teaching on human dignity is nonsense.
I will resist the temptation of a GetReligion-style dismantling of the feature, since it would sail right over their heads at CAP, but I must point out that the Church's principles of social justice were not "set forth 80 years ago" in Quadrogesimo Anno, as the author claims, but rather 40 years before in Rerum Novarum (hence the second encyclical's name — not that we should expect anyone there to have any Latin). I don't mean to make an ad hominem argument, but if you can't get that right, what are you doing trying to explain the relative weights of principles first explicated in Rerum Novarum?
In the future: If you're going to use the words of an Acton Institute expert, it is expected that you will avoid the shameless contortion of facts and logic that CAP indulged in today.
In the National Catholic Register, Kathryn Jean Lopez looks at the current debate on Social Security and asks: "So, is it a Ponzi scheme? Is it time to blow it up? Are these questions freaking people out — and missing the point?" Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg is extensively quoted in the article. Here he is explaining how the principle of subsidiarity plays into the debate.
"Integral human development requires us to make free choices and to be assisted in doing so to the extent that we are enabled to do so. That means, for instance, that a Social Security system that sought to provide everyone with everything is highly problematic because it destroys and undermines our ability to make free choices. It reduces us to a state of dependency. That is not integral human development."
Therein enters subsidiarity, which has become an unnecessarily and unhelpfully loaded term in debates about Catholic social teaching and prudential political decisions.
"The way that CST reconciles everyone's need to make free choices consistent with their vocation, ability and needs and everyone's need for some form of assistance is through the principle of subsidiarity," Gregg explains. "Subsidiarity comes from the Latin subsidium, which means to assist. … [It] thus combines axioms of noninterference and assistance. It follows that when a case of assistance and coordination through law or the government proves necessary, the assisting community should accord as much respect as possible to the rightful autonomy of the assisted person or community. The primary significance of this principle thus lies … in the fact that this autonomy is essential if people are to flourish as persons."
Read "Stewarding Social Security to a Secure Future" on NCR.
Noted NYU law professor and free-market advocate Richard Epstein has written a provocative piece titled "How is Warren Buffett like the Pope? They are both dead wrong on economics." Here's the money quote:
The great advantage of competition in markets is that it exhausts all gains from trade, which thus allows individuals to attain higher levels of welfare. These win/win propositions may not reach the perfect endpoint, but they will avoid the woes that are now consuming once prosperous economies. Understanding the win/win concept would have taken the Pope away from his false condemnation of markets. It might have led him to examine more closely Spain's profligate policies, where high guaranteed public benefits and extensive workplace regulation have led to an unholy mix of soaring public debt and an unemployment rate of 20 percent. It is a tragic irony that papal economics mimic those of the Church's socialist opponents. The Pope's powerful but misdirected words will only complicate the task of meaningful fiscal and regulatory reform in Spain and the rest of Europe. False claims for social justice come at a very high price.
I blogged about Pope Benedict's comments last week, and while I don't disagree with Epstein's main point, I wonder if he actually means to deny the importance of ethics in economics. The Pope wasn't saying that there should be no fiscal or regulatory reform, but that such reform must consider future, and not merely present, well-being, which is actually the impetus for policies such as liberalizing labor markets. And unlike Warren Buffett, the Pope wasn't calling for higher taxes on the rich.
In short, the Pope was making a larger ethical argument that can certainly include the much-needed reforms Epstein cites. Since the Pope isn't an economist and doesn't pretend to be one, we should listen to his moral teachings and try to incorporate them with sound economics, rather than disparage them as economically damaging. It is true that while Catholic social teaching stresses the importance and necessity of profits, far too many Catholic and other religious leaders neglect how profits are actually made and distributed – which Epstein briefly and usefully describes – and in this sense, it is far too easy for moralists to pit profits versus people. It would make more sense to try to relate how profit maximization can and often does contribute to the common good, but it can't do so without ethical men and women who won't lie, cheat and steal.
I'd like to think that both the Pope and Richard Epstein are right.
It looks like Congress will vote later today or this evening to raise the debt ceiling and avert a possible default by the United States Treasury. How the debt ceiling compromise will fair when measured against Acton's Principles for Budget Reform it is too early to know, but one thing is certain: if the deal contains a single budget cut for even the most ineffective of social programs, we'll hear screams of protest from Jim Wallis and his Circle of Protection.
Already parts of Washington are "livid over the extent of the deal's domestic spending cuts, as well as the absence of any immediate tax hikes on wealthier Americans." Coalitions that have a confused idea of the common good won't like a debt deal that threatens to reflect economic realities and truths about the human person—and this plan doesn't even have the support of many important conservatives.
As Jim Wallis explained the progressive Christian's view of the debt negotiations:
Our country is in the midst of a clash between two competing moral visions, between those who believe in the common good, and those who believe individual good is the only good. A war has been declared on the poor…
Wallis reveals here a fundamental misunderstanding of the common good, and thus of politics. To Circle of Protection and its allies, the common good is achieved by higher taxation of the wealthy and redistribution of wealth: as everyone gets his check on the first of the month, justice is served. What redistributionists don't understand is that simply running all the money through a common mill doesn't mean you're serving the common good. A large administrative state is not a sign of flourishing communal society.
An idea of the common good must be grounded in a correct vision of human nature, and the class warfare lens through which Wallis views the world distorts by materialism his perception. What is called the common good is in fact the common advantage, and belief in the common advantage is indeed belief that "individual good is the only good."
Government for the sake of the common good requires a free citizenry, because without the freedom to make choices of moral consequence, a people cannot do good. Thus, taking the means of private charity and redistributing it for the sake of material equality is not practicing government for the common good.
Both the religious right and left have weighed in during the heated federal budget battle as Congressman Paul Ryan's proposed budget has seen its fair share of support and criticism from many religious leaders.
In a recent article appearing in Our Sunday Visitor Congressman Ryan explains how he used Catholic social doctrine to help draft his proposed budget opening up with his views on it should be utilized by politicians:
Catholic social doctrine is indispensable for officeholders, but there's a right way and a wrong way to understand it. The wrong way is to treat it like a party platform or a utopian plan to solve all of society's problems. Social teaching is not the monopoly of one political party, nor is it a moral command that confuses the preferential option for the poor with a preferential option for bigger government.
Policymakers apply timeless principles to policies that are necessarily limited by changing circumstances. The judgments of equally well-intentioned citizens may differ. Usually, there isn't just one morally valid policy. Instead, there are better and worse ones calling for respectful dialogue and thoughtful judgment. The moral principles are dogmatic; the political responses are prudential.
Throughout the article Congressman Ryan defends his proposed budget by articulating how the poor and vulnerable will benefit, how it preserves human dignity, that it creates budgetary discipline (which according to the Congressman is a moral imperative), and abides by the principle of subsidiarity.
Furthermore, Congressman Ryan argues the U.S. government cannot keep the principles promoted by Catholic social doctrine if the country defaults stating: "Preferences for the poor, solidarity, subsidiarity, the common good and human dignity are disregarded when governments default and bankrupt economies stop producing. Economic well-being is a foundation stone of an enduring 'civilization of love.'"
Here at the Acton Institute we also understand the importance of passing a federal budget that is morally sound. We wrote our Principles for Budget Reform where readers can find articles, videos, and blog posts in support of four vital principles.
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Click here to read the Acton Institute's Principles for Budget Reform.
The budget proposed by House Republicans has lead to a heated debate; one key facet being whether funding should be cut for programs that benefit the poor and vulnerable. Critics claim the House Republicans' proposed budget violates Catholic social teaching (click here to read the critics' open letter to Speaker Boehner). Rev. Robert A. Sirico's first response to Boehner's critics appeared in NRO. In this week's commentary Rev. Sirico expands upon his first response and articulates how Catholics can disagree on how to assist the poor and vulnerable. The article originally appeared in Crisis Magazine.
Not Whether to Help the Poor, But How
By Rev. Sirico
The debate over the application of the core teachings of the Christian faith began when Jesus was presented with a Roman coin containing Caesar's image. In that moment, the Lord drew both a limitation to the legitimate power of the state and a distinction between it and the supreme authority of Almighty God. What would unfold over the years following was a highly balanced and well thought-out hierarchy of values rooted in a core understanding of the dignity of the human person. Yet it was not so abstract a set of principles as to be incapable of providing guidance for concrete policy recommendations that nonetheless do not collapse dogmatic and unchangeable doctrine into the dynamic stuff of politics and policies.
Along this circuitous route to a more balanced set of principles, there have been dead ends and extremes from which the Church has pulled her faithful: the medieval Spiritualist Franciscan (i fraticelli) who wanted to ban private property as intrinsically evil, or, more recently, the Liberation Theologians who attempted to "collapse the eschaton" of the Kingdom of God into socialist revolution.
Yet the incarnation of Christ does not let the Christian off the hook when it comes to our beliefs about human dignity and the practical protection of the vulnerable. Understanding how to translate the social implications of the gospel into workable and concrete solutions is at times as frustrating and ambiguous as understanding the homoousian clause of the Creed.
Let us take the recent occasions of public discourse by Catholics on these matters occasioned by an open letter issued by a group of Catholic professors, which argues that the budget proposed by House Republicans violates Catholic social teaching, and in which they come close to calling the Speaker of the House a heretic.
There is evidence in this letter, and in some of the commentary surrounding it, of a failure to grasp the necessary distinctions in Catholic moral theology (of which, as the popes have noted, the social teaching is a branch). I pointed out in my original critique of the open letter that the Catholic professors' statement neglected the important distinction between "non-negotiable dogmas and doctrines" and the "prudential and debatable give and take when it comes to applying the principles of Catholic social teaching." Then I cited the Compendium of the Social Doctrine: "The Church's Magisterium does not wish to exercise political power or eliminate the freedom of opinion of Catholics regarding contingent questions" (571). The use of the phrase "contingent questions" in the Compendium is quite deliberate. It means that it is simply inaccurate to say that Catholics who debate how to address poverty dissent from the Church's teaching in the same way as someone who does not support the Church's insistence on legal protection for the unborn.
Some Catholic commentators reject this point, offering in defense a quotation from Caritas in Veritate: "Clarity is not served by certain abstract subdivisions of the Church's social doctrine, which apply categories to Papal social teaching that are extraneous to it…. There is a single teaching, consistent and at the same time ever new."
Benedict's point here is that the Church's teaching in the moral realm is one consistent body of thought. It is not a hodgepodge of policy concerns, among which Catholics may pick and choose along the lines of the fashionable Cafeteria Catholicism. The Church's solicitude for the poor, the marginalized, the unborn, and the elderly is all of a piece. In that sense, the critique is correct: A Catholic cannot subordinate "justice issues" to "life issues"; he must embrace the Church's teaching as a whole, because life issues are justice issues.
Yet the distinction holds. This is not because "justice issues" are less important than "life issues," but because they are fundamentally different — a difference rooted in two millennia of Catholic moral reflection. Abortion involves the direct and intentional destruction of an innocent human life. It is never permissible intentionally to choose evil. Laws that permit abortion are inherently unjust, and Catholics are obligated to work toward legal prohibition of abortion.
When it comes to doing good, however, which is what addressing poverty entails, the Church does not stipulate exactly how such good is to be done. Helping the poor requires a different sort of moral analysis — not because I (or the Church's teaching) am "dualist," as some critics suggest, nor because assisting the poor is "less important" than protecting the unborn, but because the two issues possess different characteristics and therefore require different sorts of moral analysis.
This distinction holds, for example, outside the realm of the Church's social teaching and can be seen in her teaching on the moral manner in which life is conceived. A superficial criticism of the Church's stance against artificial contraception says, "Why is it wrong to avoid conception by the use of chemicals or condoms, but not immoral when using natural family planning methods?" The error in this argument is the same one made by the critics to whom I am responding: In the former case, an evil means is being chosen (the action to chemically prevent conception, for example), rather than refraining from doing good at a given time (actions leading to conception). It is not a sin to refrain from choosing from all the many goods available; it is always a sin to intentionally choose to do evil.
It is possible to argue that cutting welfare programs is consistent with Catholic social teaching, because we may choose from the various options available to us to do good by evaluating them in the hierarchy of goods. It will not do to fling citations of social encyclicals at each other on this point. Certainly there are passages that could be found to support increased government activity in the economy and provision of social services — when necessary to serve the common good. But there are also passages that suggest decreased government activity and withdrawal from social services (i.e., critiques of bureaucracy and calls for more vigorous private charity). Whether a particular situation — in this case, the budget battle in the United States in the year 2011 — calls for one or the other is manifestly a prudential question about which Catholics may disagree.
At the root of the incredulity and exasperation of some Catholics who mix fair arguments with vitriol is an incapacity to recognize that we really believe that many government programs aggravate rather than ameliorate poverty and other social ills. Rather than debating the prudence of the policies at hand, detractors resort to ad hominem attacks and pronounce anathemas selectively. Yet there is by this time a vast literature on the damage wrought by the war on poverty and its failure to achieve its goals. Such critics can continue to believe that shoveling government money into welfare programs discharges Catholic social teaching's obligation to assist the poor if they wish, but their inability to see other views as reasonable, at least, is distressingly myopic.
A Catholic may not disregard the Church's teaching to assist the poor and vulnerable; to do so would be to neglect the words and example of Christ Himself. It would be, in effect, to deny the Faith. But on the question of how best to fulfill that obligation, Catholics will indeed disagree, and the Church does not teach that it must be otherwise. The same kind of latitude is not permitted when it comes to legal protection of the unborn. I do not believe that this is "my view" of the matter; it is the mind of the Church, to which I hope my own mind is conformed.
In Crisis Magazine, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg has a new article that looks at how Catholics reflect on a wide range of financial questions ranging from the federal government's fiscal woes to consumer debt to a fragile banking system.
Today one looks in vain for Catholic thinkers studying our debt and deficit problems from standpoints equally well-informed by economics and sound Catholic moral reflection. We don't, for instance, hear many Catholic voices speaking publically about the moral virtues essential for the management of finances such as prudent risk-taking, thrift, promise-keeping, and assuming responsibility for our debts — private or public.
Instead, one finds broad admonitions such as "put the interests of the poor first" in an age of budget-cutting. The desire to watch out for the poor's well being in an environment of fiscal restraint is laudable. But that's not a reason to remain silent about the often morally-questionable choices and policies that helped create our personal and public debt dilemmas in the first place.
One Catholic who has proved willing to engage these issues is none other than Pope Benedict XVI. In his 2010 interview book Light of the World, Benedict pointed to a deeper moral disorder associated with the running-up of high levels of private and public debt. The willingness on the part of many people and governments to do so means, Benedict wrote, "we are living at the expense of future generations."
In other words, someone has to pay for all this debt. And clearly many Western Europeans and Americans seem quite happy for their children to pick up the bill. That's a rather flagrant violation of intergenerational solidarity.
Read "Debt, Finance, and Catholics" on the Crisis Magazine website.
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It appears then that these Catholic academicians who have written to Speaker Boehner do not understand the distinctions the Church herself makes between fundamental, non-negotiable dogmas and doctrines, and the prudential and debatable give and take when it comes to applying the principles of Catholic social teaching. Here Speaker Boehner need only consult the text of the Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching, which the authors of the letter say they have delivered to him, wherein he will read: "The Church's Magisterium does not wish to exercise political power or eliminate the freedom of opinion of Catholics regarding contingent questions." (no. 571)
The specifics of the 2012 Budget proposed by the Speaker and his colleagues are, the letter's authors contend, the result of either ignorance or "dissent." I think they are neither; they simply reflect a different, and in many people's estimation, more accurate and economically-informed way, of proposing how we achieve worthy goals. Indeed, it could be said that what these Catholic academicians are proposing is not a "preferential option for the poor," but rather a preferential option for the State. They make the unfortunately common error of assuming that concern for the economically weak and marginalized must somehow translate into (yet another) government program.
That assumption is wrong, and flies in the face of another principle of Catholic social teaching — the principle of subsidarity. With good reason, this is something the Catholic Left — or whatever remains of it these days — rarely mentions or grapples with, because they know that it would raise many questions about the prudence of any number of welfare programs they support.
Indeed, what strikes me about this letter to Speaker Boehner is how reactionary it is.
Read "Boehner's Catholic Critics Rush to Protect Welfare State" on NRO.
That's the subject of my most recent article at CrisisMagazine.com.
The new Crisis web site is a reinvigoration of the old Crisis magazine. Editor Brian Saint-Paul summarizes the history in his inaugural editorial. His statement of the vision of the new Crisis includes this:
In the name of Catholic Social Thought, many in the Church continue to promote ideas of political economy that would hurt the very people they intend to help, and often do so with the suggestion that their policies are required of the faithful. With the economy as it is, and Americans looking for the cause, this effort has only increased — as has its effectiveness.
And that's why we've returned. In the days and months ahead, we will lay out a cumulative case that the principles of Catholic Social Teaching are best achieved through democratic capitalism, and that the rapid growth of the state is their greatest obstacle.
Confirmation of the importance of this initiative comes by way of this report on Catholic professors arguing that cuts to welfare programs contradict Catholic social teaching.
I look forward to being an occasional contributor to the Crisis site and I hope you'll join me there (when you're not spending time at the PowerBlog…)


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Overall revenue dropped 13 percent, the Internet giant said.
Yahoo's 2011 Q4 display revenue was down 4 percent year-over-year, totaling $612 million. During a call with investors, new CEO Scott Thompson said juicing that all-important business is his top priority.
"A lot of my time and attention has gone into understanding exactly what that business is, exactly what's been affecting that business, and meeting with customers to understand why they don't give us more of their spend," he said. It's been less than three weeks since Thompson took the helm at the Sunnyvale, CA-based firm.
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After pointing to Yahoo's ad targeting enhancements during 2011, CFO Tim Morse said, "In the larger context, despite those foundational improvements, revenue isn't growing. In fact, we've lost share in display advertising. Given the investments we've made over the last couple of years, we expected better."
Yahoo's 2011 Q4 search revenue was $465 million, down 27 percent compared to the same quarter for the previous year. The company attributed the decline to the search agreement it signed with Microsoft during 2011. It says the search revenue total reflects $48 million in search operating cost reimbursements from Microsoft.
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Actually that statement is only partially correct. Most places the federal government subsidizes the state based off of the number of kids in school. That is why we have attendance laws and uber lame attedance awards.
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Public schooling is at odds with whole groups of people–and they aren't the ones the MSM want you to believe. If those people would remove their children from the scissors of government shapers, then we could get real change.
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Good thing the school did teach him, because apparently the parents have no idea what they are doing. We home school out kids, but emergency situation preparedness should come up often just in normal family life! Like last night while shooting fireworks off. *palm face*
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