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Gov. Jerry Brown promised voters if they passed Proposition 30 tax increases that the infusion of money would go to the state's ailing schools.
The budget he unveiled on Thursday includes at least $1.3 billion for something else — more money for state workers.
The added state worker benefits in his proposed budget would come in two forms. First, workers would stop taking one furlough day a month, costing taxpayers an estimated $818 million. Second, the budget includes $502 million for previously negotiated raises and health care benefit contribution hikes for state employees.
"It's clear that those new tax dollars are being diverted for other purposes," Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, told The Watchdog. "I think Californians will be very disappointed when they realize that all the Proposition 30 tax increase is not going to the classroom."
State finance officials said the criticism is unfair, that the expiring furloughs were never intended to continue beyond the year and employee groups never agreed to keep taking that reduction in pay.
"(Personal leave program) and furlough days were not intended to be ongoing in nature," said H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for Brown's Department of Finance.
Still, it's Proposition 30 that made it possible to end the furloughs. And it may ease future raises as well.
Brown's proposed $97.7 billion general fund budget assumes no state employee raises beyond those already required in union contracts. But contracts for all but two of the state's 21 bargaining units are set to expire by July 2, and the Legislature now has a supermajority of labor-friendly Democrats.
At a news conference, Brown said he didn't budget raises for fear that it could set an expectation for any specified amount.
"Collective bargaining means you got to meet in good faith, listen to the other side, and you go back and forth," he said. "We have to enter those negotiations with an open mind, though we have to live within our means. So, I don't want to put too many of my cards on the table."
Brown's budget plan estimates the state workforce at 348,046 positions. It adds about 6,300 jobs, mostly in higher education.
Most executive branch employees beginning five years ago were subject to furloughs or unpaid leave that ranged from one to three days a month. The time off for tens of thousands of state workers equaled a pay reduction of about 5 percent to 14 percent, according to the budget plan.
As a result of those reductions, the cost to taxpayers of state worker pay fell in 2009 after six years of uninterrupted growth. The broader trend has been growth in state worker wages, from $11.4 billion in 2001 to $15.4 billion in 2011, according to the State Controller's Office. That includes salary, overtime, leave payout, stipends and all other forms of pay.
As a percentage of the state's economic output, state worker wages have actually shrunk slightly, from 0.85 percent in 2001 to 0.79 percent in 2011, according to a review by the U-T. The increases made possible by Proposition 30 will put the wages closer to their 2001 footing.


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John Henry Cardinal Newman, CO (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an Anglican who was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He was later made a cardinal and, in 1991, was proclaimed "Venerable". In early life he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots. Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after becoming a Roman Catholic he wrote a number of influential books, including Via Media, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Apologia Pro Vita Sua and the Grammar of Assent. His body was buried in the small cemetery at Rednal near Birmingham, next to the Oratory country house. The grave was opened on 2nd October 2008 with the intention of moving any remains to a tomb inside Birmingham Oratory, during Newman's consideration for sainthood; however, no remains were found due to the coffin having been wooden and the burial having taken place in a damp site. Canonisation would make Cardinal Newman the first English person who has lived since the 17th century to become a saint.
His happy childhood came to an abrupt end in March 1816 when the financial collapse after the Napoleonic Wars forced his father's bank to close. While his father tried unsuccessfully to manage a brewery at Alton, Hampshire, Newman stayed on at school through the summer holidays because of the family crisis. The period from the beginning of August to December 21, 1816, when the next term ended, Newman always regarded as the turning point of his life. Alone at school and shocked by the family disaster, he fell ill in August. Later he came to see it as one of the three great providential illnesses of his life, for it was in the autumn of 1816 that he underwent a religious conversion under the influence of one of the schoolmasters, Rev Walter Mayers, who had himself shortly before been converted to a Calvinistic form of evangelicalism. Newman had had a conventional upbringing in an ordinary Church of England home, where the emphasis was on the Bible rather than dogmas or sacraments, and where any sort of evangelical "enthusiasm" would have been frowned upon.
The tone of his mind at this time became evangelical and Calvinist, and he held that the Pope was Antichrist. Matriculating at Trinity College, Oxford on December 4 1816, he went into residence there in June the following year, and in 1818 he gained a scholarship of £60, tenable for nine years. But for this he would have been unable to remain at the university, as in 1819 his father's bank suspended payment. In that year his name was entered at Lincoln's Inn. Anxiety to do well in the final schools produced the opposite result; he broke down in the examination, and so graduated with third-class honours in 1821. Desiring to remain in Oxford, he took private pupils and read for a fellowship at Oriel, then "the acknowledged centre of Oxford intellectualism." To his intense relief and delight he was elected on April 12 1822. Edward Bouverie Pusey was elected a fellow of the same society in 1823.
Newman later wrote that the influences leading him in a religiously liberal direction were abruptly checked by his suffering first, at the end of 1827, a kind of nervous collapse brought on by overwork and family financial troubles, and then, at the beginning of 1828, the sudden death of his beloved youngest sister, Mary. There was also a crucial theological factor: his fascination since 1816 with the Fathers of the Church, whose works he began to read systematically in the long vacation of 1828. This he regarded as his second formative providential illness.
At this date, though still nominally associated with the Evangelicals, Newman's views were gradually assuming a higher ecclesiastical tone and, while local secretary of the Church Missionary Society, he circulated an anonymous letter suggesting a method by which Churchmen might practically oust Nonconformists from all control of the society. This resulted in his being dismissed from the post, March 8 1830; and three months later he withdrew from the Bible Society, thus completing his severance from the Low Church party. In 1831–1832 he was Select Preacher before the University. In 1832, his difference with Hawkins as to the "substantially religious nature" of a college tutorship became acute and he resigned from that post.
He was at home again in Oxford on the July 9 and on the 14th Keble preached at St Mary's an assize sermon on "National Apostasy," which Newman afterwards regarded as the inauguration of the Oxford Movement. In the words of Richard William Church, it was "Keble who inspired, Froude who gave the impetus and Newman who took up the work"; but the first organization of it was due to H. J. Rose, editor of the British Magazine, who has been styled "the Cambridge originator of the Oxford Movement." It was in his rectory house at Hadleigh, Suffolk, that a meeting of High Church clergymen was held, 25th to 26th of July (Newman was not present), at which it was resolved to fight for "the apostolical succession and the integrity of the Prayer-Book."
A few weeks later Newman started, apparently on his own initiative, the Tracts for the Times, from which the movement was subsequently named "Tractarian." Its aim was to secure for the Church of England a definite basis of doctrine and discipline, in case either of disestablishment or of a determination of High Churchmen to quit the establishment, an eventuality that was thought not impossible in view of the state's recent high-handed dealings with the sister established Church of Ireland. The teaching of the tracts was supplemented by Newman's Sunday afternoon sermons at St Mary's, the influence of which, especially over the junior members of the university, was increasingly marked during a period of eight years. In 1835 Pusey joined the movement, which, so far as concerned ritual observances, was later called "Puseyite"; and in 1836 its supporters secured further coherence by their united opposition to the appointment of Hampden as regius professor of divinity. His Bampton Lectures (in the preparation of which Blanco White had assisted him) were suspected of heresy, and this suspicion was accentuated by a pamphlet put forth by Newman, Elucidations of Dr Hampden's Theological Statements.
At this date Newman became editor of the British Critic, and he also gave courses of lectures in a side-chapel of St Mary's in defence of the via media ("middle way") of Anglicanism between Roman Catholicism and popular Protestantism.
His influence in Oxford was supreme about the year 1839 when, however, his study of the monophysite heresy first raised in his mind a doubt as to whether the Anglican position was really tenable on those principles of ecclesiastical authority which he had accepted. This doubt returned when he read, in Wiseman's article in the Dublin Review on "The Anglican Claim," the words of Augustine of Hippo against the Donatists, "securus judicat orbis terrarum" ("the verdict of the world is conclusive"), words which suggested a simpler authoritative rule than that of the teaching of antiquity. He said of his reaction,
He continued his work, however, as a High Anglican controversialist until he had published, in 1841, Tract 90, the last of the series, in which he put forth, as a kind of proof charge, to test the tenability of all Catholic doctrine within the Church of England, a detailed examination of the Thirty-Nine Articles, suggesting that their negations were not directed against the authorized creed of Roman Catholics, but only against popular errors and exaggerations.
This theory, though not altogether new, aroused much indignation in Oxford, and Archibald Campbell Tait (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), with three other senior tutors, denounced it as "suggesting and opening a way by which men might violate their solemn engagements to the university." The alarm was shared by the heads of houses and by others in authority; and, at the request of the Bishop of Oxford, the publication of the Tracts came to an end.
In 1842 he withdrew to Littlemore, and lived under monastic conditions with a small band of followers, their life being one of great physical austerity as well as anxiety and suspense. There, he assigned the task to his disciples of writing of the lives of the English saints, while his time was largely devoted to the completion of an Essay on the development of Christian doctrine, by which principle he sought to reconcile himself to the more complex creed and the practical system of the Roman Catholic Church. In February 1843, he published, as an advertisement in the Oxford Conservative Journal, an anonymous but otherwise formal retractation of all the hard things he had said against Rome; in September, after the secession of one of the inmates of the house, he preached his last Anglican sermon at Littlemore and resigned the living of St Mary's.
An interval of two years elapsed before he was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church (October 9 1845) by Blessed Dominic Barberi, an Italian Passionist, at the College in Littlemore. In February 1846 he left Oxford for Oscott, where Bishop Wiseman, then vicar-apostolic of the Midland district, resided; and in October he proceeded to Rome, where he was ordained priest by Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni and given the degree of D.D. by Pope Pius IX. At the close of 1847 Newman returned to England as an Oratorian, and resided first at Maryvale (near Oscott); then at St Wilfrid's College, Cheadle; then at St Ann's, Alcester Street, Birmingham; and finally at Edgbaston, where spacious premises were built for the community, and where (except for four years in Ireland) he lived a secluded life for nearly forty years. The Oratory School was associated with this establishment and flourished as a well-known boy's boarding school, long renowned for its outstanding academic achievements, leading to its dubbing as 'The Catholic Eton'. Before the house at Edgbaston was occupied Newman had established the London Oratory, with Father Frederick William Faber as its superior, and there (in King William Street, Strand) he delivered a course of lectures on "The Present Position of Catholics in England," in the fifth of which he protested against the anti-Catholic utterances of Giacinto Achilli, an ex-Dominican friar, whom he accused in detail of numerous acts of immorality.
Popular Protestant feeling ran very high at the time, partly in consequence of the recent re-establishment of a Catholic diocesan hierarchy by Pope Pius IX, and criminal proceedings against Newman for libel resulted in an acknowledged gross miscarriage of justice. He was found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of £100, while his expenses as defendant amounted to about £14,000, a sum that was at once raised by public subscription, a surplus being spent on the purchase of a small property in Rednal, picturesquely situated on the Lickey Hills, with a chapel and cemetery, where Newman lay buried until October 2008 when the grave was opened with the intention of transferring his remains to the Oratory in Birmingham (no bodily remains were found due to complete deterioration). In 1854, at the request of the Irish bishops, Newman went to Dublin as rector of the newly-established Catholic University of Ireland, now University College Dublin. It was during this time that he founded the Literary and Historical Society. However, practical organisation was not among his gifts, and so after four years he retired, the best outcome of his stay there being a volume of lectures entitled The Idea of a University, containing some of his most effective writing:
...the high protecting power of all knowledge and science, of fact and principle, of inquiry and discovery of experiment and speculation...
In 1858 he projected a branch house of the Oratory at Oxford; but this was opposed by Cardinal Manning and others as likely to induce Catholics to send their sons to that university, and the scheme was abandoned. When Catholics did begin to attend Oxford from the 1860s onwards, a Catholic club was formed, and in 1888 it was renamed the Oxford University Newman Society in recognition of Newman's efforts on behalf of Catholicism in that university city. The Oxford Oratory was eventually founded over 100 years later in 1993.
In 1859 Newman established, in connection with the Birmingham Oratory, a school for the education of the sons of gentlemen along lines similar to those of English public schools; this was a work in which he never ceased to take the greatest interest.
Newman had a special concern in the publisher Burns & Oates; the owner, James Burns, had published some of the Tractarians, and Burns had himself converted to Roman Catholicism in 1847. Newman published several books with the company, effectively saving it. There is even a story that Newman's novel Loss and Gain was written specifically to assist Burns.
Edward Lowth Badeley, who had been a close legal adviser to Newman since the Achilli trial, encouraged him to make a robust rebuttal. After some preliminary sparring between the two, Newman published a pamphlet, Mr Kingsley and Dr Newman: a Correspondence on the Question whether Dr Newman teaches that Truth is no Virtue, (published in 1864 and not reprinted until 1913). The pamphlet has been described as "unsurpassed in the English language for the vigour of its satire". However, the anger displayed was later, in a letter to Sir William Cope, admitted to have been largely feigned. Subsequently, again encouraged by Badeley, Newman published in bi-monthly parts his Apologia Pro Vita Sua, a religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the simple confidential tone of which "revolutionized the popular estimate of its author," establishing the strength and sincerity of the convictions which had led him into the Roman Catholic Church. Kingsley's accusation indeed, insofar as it concerned the Roman clergy generally, was not precisely dealt with; only a passing sentence, in an appendix on lying and equivocation, maintained that English Catholic priests are as truthful as English Catholic laymen; but of the author's own personal rectitude no room for doubt was left. Newman published a revision of the series of pamphlets in book form in 1865; in 1913 a combined critical edition, edited by Wilfrid Ward, was published.
However, Newman made no sign of disapproval when the doctrine was finally defined, although he was nevertheless an advocate of the "principle of minimising", that included very few papal declarations within the scope of infallibility Subsequently, in a letter nominally addressed to the Duke of Norfolk when Gladstone accused the Roman Church of having "equally repudiated modern thought and ancient history," Newman affirmed that he had always believed in the doctrine, and had only feared the deterrent effect of its definition on conversions on account of acknowledged historical difficulties. In this letter, and especially in the postscript to the second edition, Newman finally silenced all cavillers as to his not being at ease within the Catholic Church. In 1878 his old college, to his great delight, elected him an honorary fellow, and he revisited Oxford after an interval of thirty-two years. On the same date Pope Pius IX died. Pius IX had long mistrusted Newman, but Pope Leo XIII was encouraged by the Duke of Norfolk and other distinguished Roman Catholic laymen to make Newman a cardinal. The distinction was a marked one, because he was neither a bishop nor resident in Rome. The offer was made in February 1879, and the announcement was received with universal applause in the English-speaking world. Newman's elevation to cardinal took place on May 12, with the title of San Giorgio al Velabro. Newman took occasion while in Rome to insist on the lifelong consistency of his opposition to "liberalism in religion."
After an illness he returned to England, and thenceforward resided at the Oratory until his death, making occasional visits to London, and chiefly to his old friend, R. W. Church, Dean of St Paul's, who as proctor had vetoed the condemnation of Tract 90 in 1841. As a cardinal Newman published nothing beyond a preface to a work by A. W. Hutton on the Anglican Ministry (1879) and an article "On the Inspiration of Scripture" in The Nineteenth Century (February 1884).
From the latter half of 1886 Newman's health began to fail, and he celebrated Mass for the last time on Christmas day 1889. On August 11, 1890 he died of pneumonia at the Birmingham Oratory. Eight days later, Cardinal Newman's body was buried in the cemetery at Rednal Hill, Birmingham, at the country house of the Oratory.
In accordance with his expressed wishes, Newman was buried in the grave of his lifelong friend, Ambrose St. John. Previously, they had shared a house. The pall over the coffin bore his cardinal's motto Cor ad cor loquitur ("Heart speaks to heart"). Inseparable in death as in life, a joint memorial stone was erected for the two men; the inscription bore words Newman had chosen: Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem ("Out of shadows and phantasms into the truth").
On February 27, 1891, Cardinal Newman's estate was probated at £4,206 sterling.
If his teaching as to the Church was less widely followed, it was because of doubts as to the thoroughness of his knowledge of history and as to his freedom from bias as a critic. Some hundreds of clergymen, influenced by the movement of which for ten or twelve years he was the acknowledged leader, made their submission to the Holy See; but a larger number, who also came under its influence, did not accept that belief in the Church necessitated acceptance of the pope.
Newman held that, apart from an interior and unreasoned conviction, there is no cogent proof of the existence of God; and in Tract 85 he dealt with the difficulties of the Creed and of the canon of Scripture, with the apparent implication that they are insurmountable unless overridden by the authority of a Church guided by the Holy Spirit. In his own case these views did not lead to scepticism, because he had always possessed the necessary interior conviction; and in writing Tract 85 his only doubt would have been where the true Church is to be found. Newman's view on this matter may amount to this: that the person who does not have this interior conviction has no choice but to remain an agnostic, while the person who does have the conviction is bound, sooner or later, to embrace not only Christianity but the Catholic faith.
The university he founded, the Catholic University of Ireland evolved into University College Dublin, Ireland's largest university which has contributed significantly to the intellectual and social development of that country.
Newman Centers (or Centres) in his honour have been established throughout the world, in the mold of the Oxford University Newman Society, to provide pastoral services and ministries to Catholics at non-Catholic universities.
He was highly sensitive, self-conscious and impetuous. He had many of the gifts that go to make a first-rate journalist, for, "with all his love for and his profound study of antiquity, there was something about him that was conspicuously modern." Nevertheless, he had little knowledge of the scientific and critical writing composed between 1850–1890. There are a few passages in his writings in which he appears to sympathise with a broader theology, admitting that there was "something true and divinely revealed in every religion" Arians of the Fourth Century, 1.3 He held that "freedom from symbols and articles is abstractedly the highest state of Christian communion," but was "the peculiar privilege of the primitive Church." (Ibid, 1.2
Even in 1877 he allowed that "in a religion that embraces large and separate classes of adherents there always is of necessity to a certain extent an exoteric and an esoteric doctrine." (Prophetical Office, preface to third edition) These admissions, together with his thoughts on doctrinal development and assertion of the supremacy of conscience, led some critics to hold that, in spite of all his protestations, Newman was at heart a liberal. Newman explained to his own satisfaction the teachings of Catholicism, even holding the pope to be infallible in when declaring someone to be a saint; and while expressing his preference for English as compared with Italian devotional forms, he was one of the first to introduce Italian devotions into England. The motto that he adopted for use as a cardinal Cor ad cor loquitur (Heart speaks to heart), and that which he directed to be engraved on his memorial tablet at Edgbaston Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem (Out of shadows and phantasm into truth) disclose as much as can be disclosed of a life which, both to contemporaries and to later students, was seen as devout and inquiring, affectionate and yet self-restrained.
The idea that the Oxford Movement contained a significant stream of homoeroticism was popularised by Geoffrey Faber in Oxford Apostles (1933), in which he portrayed Newman as a sublimated homosexual with feminine characteristics. Certainly the Oxford Movement attracted a number of fervent young men and produced some intense friendships, although in the self-contained male world of Oxford University this was hardly surprising.
Newman did not shun friendships with women, but there is no evidence that he was ever drawn to any form of sexual union. From the age of 15 he was convinced that it was the will of God that he should lead a single life. In Oxford he taught that celibacy was a high state of life, to which most people are unable to aspire. His deepest emotional relationships were with younger men who were his disciples. The most significant of these were Richard Hurrell Froude, who died in 1836, and Ambrose St John who lived with Newman from 1843. St John preceded Newman into the Roman Catholic Church and became a member of the Birmingham Oratory, where he lived until his death in 1875.
Newman was profoundly affected by the loss of these friends, and wrote after the death of Ambrose St John in 1875: "I have ever thought no bereavement was equal to that of a husband's or a wife's, but I feel it difficult to believe that any can be greater, or any one's sorrow greater, than mine."
At his own request, Newman was buried in the same grave as Ambrose St John. He had stated on three occasions his desire to be buried with his friend, including shortly before his death in 1890: "I wish, with all my heart, to be buried in Fr Ambrose St John's grave - and I give this as my last, my imperative will", he wrote, later adding: "This I confirm and insist on."
The installation of a new security fence around the area due to vandalism led to a planning permission dispute with the local Birmingham City Council as it is in a designated green belt area; the area is one of outstanding natural beauty, being a large country park.
The issue of planning permission, however, was resolved at a meeting on July 22 2008 between Father Paul Chavasse, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, and Councillor Peter Douglas Osborn, Chairman of the Planning Committee. The Fathers of the Oratory were required to make the necessary alterations to the new security fence in order to comply with Birmingham City's planning regulations, and gave an undertaking that this would take place within an agreed time scale; the Public Appeal was not to take place and the City agreed not pursue any legal action against the Birmingham Oratory.
The planned exhumation and move of Cardinal Newman's remains were finally been agreed by the UK Ministry of Justice as a special case, as UK law prohibits the removal of a body from a graveyard to a church tomb. The Ministry of Justice granted a licence on August 11th 2008, the 118th anniversary of Newman's death in 1890, to permit undertakers to move his remains from a cemetery in Rednal, Worcestershire, to a special resting place of honour at Birmingham Oratory.
The proposed movement of Newman's body angered some gay-rights campaigners, who saw it as an attempt to deliberately separate him from Ambrose St John, with whom he was buried in accordance with his personal wishes. The UK gay-rights activist Peter Tatchell entered the debate in an article in The Times on August 19, 2008, accusing the Vatican of "moral vandalism" , and renewed his criticisms on the Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4, 24 August 2008.
In response the Vatican commissioned Father Ian Ker, a theologian at Oxford University, to refute the allegations in an article for the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Newman's grave at Rednal was opened on 2nd October 2008. It had been hoped that his body had been buried in a lead coffin and would be well preserved. However, the exhumation revealed that Newman had been buried in a wooden coffin and his body had completely decomposed; there were no human remains. The only artefacts retrieved, including an inscription plate, were wooden, brass and cloth. These artefacts, along with locks of hair, which had been sent to Sullivan before his inexplicable cure (and had always been in the possession of the Birmingham Oratory), will be placed in a glass sided casket for a Vigil of Reception planned for 31 October and 1 November. It is now planned that the relics will be solemnly placed in the Chapel of St Charles Borromeo, a friend of St Philip Neri, situated to the right of the Sanctuary. They will rest in the Chapel while the process of Beatification continues in Rome. The Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory have decided that the specially made green Italian marble sarcophagus will not be placed between the columns opposite the Holy Souls' Altar in the Oratory Church, Birmingham as originally planned.
Added to the natural rivalry of a St. Jerome and a Saint Augustine, there was the lack of sympathy between a theologian and a practical pastor, between a scholar and a man of affairs. Newman's nature was, as seen above, somewhat feminine, while Henry Edward Cardinal Manning was an outdoorsman. One was a lifelong celibate who lived in the all male worlds of Oxford and a Catholic religious order, the other a widower of a much beloved wife. One was a university don, the other a champion of the working man.
It is impossible to place such labels as liberal and conservative on Newman and Manning. The very act of becoming Catholic in mid nineteenth century England caused them to be seen as arch-reactionaries in contemporary circles. But within the Catholic context, Newman is seen as theologically the more liberal because of his reservations about the declaration of papal infallibility. Manning favored the formal declaration of the doctrine. However, it is Manning who has the more modern approach to social questions. Indeed, he may be seen as the great pioneer of modern Catholic teaching on social justice. He had a major role in shaping the famous encyclical of Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum. This makes him appear rather more 'left' than Newman.
Manning changed history. Without his new championing of social justice, many of the working people of Europe and America might have been lost to the Catholic Church. His credibility and popularity helped make the Catholic Church in England respectable and influential, after years of persecution. But Newman also changed history; by challenging the theological foundations of the Church of England, he caused many Anglicans to question their membership in that body. Quite a number became Roman Catholic.
In October 2005, Fr Paul Chavasse, provost of the Birmingham Oratory, who is the postulator responsible for the cause, announced that a miraculous cure had occurred. Jack Sullivan, a deacon from Marshfield, Massachusetts in the United States, is attributing his recovery from a spinal cord disorder to Cardinal Newman. The alleged miracle occurred in the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Boston, whose responsibility it is to determine its validity. In August 2006 the Archbishop of Boston, Sean O'Malley announced he was passing details to the Vatican.
On April 24 2008 the Press Secretary to the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory reported that the Consulta Medica at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints had met that day and voted unanimously that Sullivan's recovery defies any scientific or medical explanation. The cause now awaits the vote of the Theological Consultors on the alleged miracle before it can be sent to the members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, whose role it is to advise Pope Benedict XVI, who could then declare Newman beatified.
A second miracle would need to be confirmed before Newman could be canonized as a saint. The Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints is expected to consider the case of a 17 year old New Hampshire resident, who fully recovered from severe head injuries suffered in a car accident after invoking Cardinal Newman.
Several sources have suggested that Pope Benedict XVI has taken a personal interest in Newman's cause. Fr Chavasse expanded on his remarks at the Michaelmas 2006 dinner of the Oxford University Newman Society (held in November), suggesting that Pope Benedict XVI has shown a personal interest in Newman's cause.
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The 2010 ASP World Champion in 2011, Carissa Moore blew the lid off the Women's tour that year and has been a force to be reckoned with since then. In 2012 'Riss had to deal with a back-in-form Stephanie Gilmore and placed 3rd in the year-end ratings. That said, the Honolulu native has been training hard on the North Shore with her Nike pit crew and will look to avenge her 3rd place finish. Far from a one trick pony, Carissa Moore also has an amazing voice—she sang for us one night and it was amazing! On the downside (at least for the single guys out there), the lovely Hawaiian now has a steady boyfriend and is off the market. Yep, all the good ones are taken!
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|One century ago in 1907, a young German immigrant named Fred Leupold set up a one man shop at 5th and Oak Streets in Portland, Oregon, repairing optics for surveying equipment. Leupold & Stevens is still family owned, though their focus has turned from surveying to helping people all across the globe survey their environments with the innovative, high-performance sports optics and accessories.
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Inspired by some researches of two MDPs in the NXT military sector and pushed by the "Throw it" challenge on NXTasy.org, I've gone in some works for a Blue Ball Gun.
These efforts finally resulted in a NXT robot called "Dicke Bertha" - feel free to have a look.
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So I have had a lets say discussion with a a careers advisory. I was lets say informed that that I was making the job harder for them because I was spreading wrong information, I wanted to see how you view it...
My personal view is that the media has pushed out an agenda, (I am in the UK but I presume that this applies to other 1st world country's as well) that they are reclassifying student loans,finance,fees etc etc as "Investment" rather than a debt to make people feel better. They are pushing the wrong message out to people. Take all these loans and worry about it later mentality, If you cant afford to pay it back don't worry we will write it off anyway. No pressure. I think this is personally wrong. I don't care what you say, Until you pay it back its a Debt! You owe money to someone else plain and simple. Further education especially University is a Business and big business at that.
I DON'T buy into the BullS*** that you have to go to university and get a 4 year degree to be successful... therefore you DON'T have to take out loans. And that's the problem. A lot of people do or did buy into the BS, myself included. They really do drill that in your head when your high school. Not everyone is a good critical thinker. It has to be re-taught to some people due to immense brainwashing.
I think this is brilliant (I say this in the most sarcastic way possible), This guy says stop calling it a Debt. Then later in the article and I quote directly....
it's proportionate to earnings. If you haven't cleared what you owe within 30 years, the debt is wiped.
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Thanksgiving Feast™ Barbie® Doll
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BONIFAY — Holmes County School Board Chairman Jason Motley strongly suggested at the regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 18 that in light of the recent school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the schools district's principals should be reviewed on emergency procedures.
"We should readdress emergency procedures," said Motley. "I understand that there's evil in this world and if people want to do evil things they will, but we should at least try to make efforts to slow them down."
Superintendent Eddie Dixon reminded the board that they recently held a practice drill not too long ago with all of the school staff and surrounding emergency and law enforcement agencies.
"It was held at Holmes County High School and we found there are a total of 72 sets of doors that lead to the outside," said Dixon. "When the school was built, it just wasn't built with that sort of thing in mind."
Dixon said they were thinking about doing something similar again, only on a smaller scale and at a different school.
"We can't put a price on our students' safety," said board member Rusty Williams. "Our thoughts are that this isn't the first time something like this has happened and we pray and hope that it'll be the last time, but at this time we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worst."
Christopher Lauen, with the Holmes County Health Department's Tobacco Prevention, was present to present the school board with more Tobacco Free zone signs for the schools.
Lauen said there was two per school provided, however more can be provided to those schools that request them.
The board also approved of the 2012-13 Performance-Based Exit Option Model.
"This will ensure that students who enroll in the Performance-Based Exit Option Model are those who will not graduate with their class because of credit deficiency or low GPA and are otherwise capable of completing graduation requirements," said Dixon. "This gives the students the ability to make up credits based on performance. This should help the graduation rate go up."
School board member Shirley Owens said she had enjoyed all the holiday festivities provided throughout the school district.
"I've been around enjoying many programs and dramas by various schools," said Owens. "They've all done such a wonderful job."
The school board approved of personnel recommendations with a vote of 4 to 1, with Debbie Kolmetz voting "no."
"I agree with all the recommendations but one," said Kolmetz. "We had a far more capable application for the District Technology Support Specialist we could've chosen."
They approved to hire Mickey Hudson as principal for Holmes County High School, Julie McVay as 10-month custodian at Bethlehem High School, Steven Thomas II as District Technology Support Specialist and Casey Harrington as cashier/aide III for Bonifay Elementary School; amend Allison Justice from Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant to District Speech and Language Pathologist effective Jan. 2, 2013; hire Zack Neitsch as tutor in the WINGS Program for 2012-2013 year; Family Medical Leave of Absence for Jody Gillis, lunchroom worker at Ponce de Leon High School beginning Dec. 3, 2012 and ending Jan. 2, 2013 and Donna Gavin, Bonifay Bus Driver, beginning Jan. 3, 2013 and ending June 5, 2013; open a Duty Superintendent Position at the District Office and open a Temporary District Administrative Position for the remainder of the 2012-2013 school year.
The board also approved of overnight/out of state trip for Poplar Springs' Senior Beta Club to attend the State Convention in Orlando on Jan. 27 through Jan. 29.
The board approved of the 2012-13 School Improvement Plans during their regularly scheduled meeting held on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
These improvement plans includes documentation from each school in Holmes County on a scale of 40 to 60 pages each, assessing the strengths and weaknesses for each grade down to the instructor and student evaluations and includes proposed courses of action to improve the quality of education for both teachers and students.
The board approved of overnight/out-of-state trips for Ponce de Leon Elementary School's Kindergarten Class to attend the "Christmas Past" Program on Dec. 10 at Landmark Park in Dothan, Ala., to "learn about how Christmas was celebrated long ago and how children lived long ago;" Holmes County High School's eleventh and twelfth grade classes to view Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on Dec. 18 in Montgomery, Ala.; and Ponce de Leon High School's Sr. Beta Club to attend the Academic Competitions on Jan. 26 through Jan. 29 in Orlando.
Kolmetz asked what the policy on field trips was and Superintendent Eddie Dixon replied that field trips are "based on academic purposes only."
The school board also approved of Medical Leave of Absence for Kim Kirkland, Custodian at Bonifay Middle School, beginning Nov. 16, and ending Feb. 28; Maternity Leave of Absence for Jamie Hewett, Aide at PDLE, beginning Dec. 3 and ending Jan. 15; and to amend the ending date of the Medical Leave of Absence on Kathy Cullifer, Lunchroom Worker at PDLE, to begin Oct. 1 and ending Jan. 31.
The next regularly scheduled school district meeting will be held 9 a.m. on Jan. 1 at the Holmes County District School Board.


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Hawk Mountain closes inn and restaurantBy Christian Avard
Staff Writer | December 29,2012PLYMOUTH A Plymouth vacation destination is closing its inn and restaurant due to difficult financial circumstances.
The Hawk Mountain Inn and Mountain Resort announced that its 50-room inn and award-winnng restaurant, The River Tavern, will no longer be serving guests as of Jan. 3. Jim Nielsen, Hawk Mountain executive vice president, confirmed the closures.
The Hawk Mountain Inn and Resort offered fine dining, rooms and suites, villas and seasonal rentals, a spa and fitness center and real estate.
Nielsen said the effects of a sluggish economy, Tropical Storm Irene and a poor 2011-12 winter compromised business. Inn reservations were lower than expected going into the 2012-13 winter season and owners and management took a month to make the decision.
Guests who made inn reservations in February have either rebooked in our (mountain condos) or refunded. The economy hasnt been as strong. It was a difficult decision to make, Nielsen said.
Villas and seasonal rentals will remain open as will the pool and spa, ice skating and cross-country skiing. The Hawk Mountain Inn and Resort will now focus on summer weddings and fall foliage tours.
Local residents were surprised by Hawk Mountain Inn and Restaurants abrupt closing. Chase Morsey of Plymouth lives near Hawk Mountain, uses the spa on occasion, and had several meals at the restaurant.
He hopes ownership will reconsider their decision for the benefit of the town.
Everything Plymouth had has gone away. Bear Creek ski area and our local general store and gas station are all gone. Now Hawk Mountain seems to be going. It was a great destination, Morsey said.
Ursula DePaul of Plymouth knew people who worked at the restaurant and was concerned about their job statuses. She said she hopes their jobs will be spared and ownership can find a way to reopen again.
I dont know how its going to affect everyone. It brought in money. Its a shame, DePaul said.
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Students Weigh in on Marketing Science to Girls
6 comments:
- 222Doc said...
I am impressed, just having read the response from the children the teacher posted. Wow, it makes me think that perhaps Mindstorms should be mandatory class in all schools. With out doubt it shows more merit than much of what is being spent on other studies. The letters were articulate, concise.
The teacher and the parents should be pleased with such skill.
- Apr 17, 2007, 8:07:00 AM
I really enjoyed reading the kids' comments. I have found, with my own children and in trying to encourage girls to join my FLL team, that many (most?) girls these days perceive Lego as a "boy's" toy and so they are automatically turned off of Mindstorms. Even the girls who are admittedly interested in science, are not that interested in Mindstorms because they look at it and see "bionicle" in their mind.
I tend to think that Lego has done this (limiting their market) to themselves with the prominence of the Bionicles and Star Wars and other model kits. I adored my Lego when I was growing up, but it was just plain building Lego that all kids played with.
To encourage girls to partipate in my robotics club, I have to overcome their preconceptions about Lego, not their preconceptions about science.
- Apr 17, 2007, 10:07:00 PM
- Fay Rhodes said...
You make an excellent point, Doreen. Do you have any ideas about how LEGO might help you overcome those preconceptions?
- Apr 18, 2007, 1:14:00 AM
Why just use LEGO to encourage girls to get into science, but why not use LEGO to encourage girls into something more general like the combined fields of art and science? There is too much division among art and science, and why can't they be combined? It is interesting that there is no word for this combination (I may be wrong, but the closest word is design). Usually art and science are kept separate. I am an engineer, and seeing this is disappointing. DaVinci was both an artist and scientist together. That combination is better than them being individualized, as they compliment each other.
Such a combination will help students with artistic interests to become more interested in science, and vice versa. Hence, if a girl likes art, she would also be exposed to the science, and may like it. I do not think LEGO can be used singled out, but in conjunction with other materials as paper, pipe cleaners, etc. Cricket sets
do just this, and I think that the LEGO used in this context is not considered to be for boys only. A lot of the Cricket creations
use art and science. Teachers using LEGO and robotics in the classroom should take a similar approach, if they would like more girls to be interested and involved.
Look at the Wellesley College "Robotics Design Studio" course's 2007 gallery of projects; it seems that all of these creations were made by female students. This course applies science and art together using LEGO and other materials.
- Apr 18, 2007, 7:48:00 PM
I just asked my wife, and she says that the LEGO Co. showing advertisements with girls AND boys building with LEGO together could help over come preconceptions of LEGO being only a "boy's toy".
- Apr 18, 2007, 7:53:00 PM
- Fay Rhodes said...
Kirk, I agree wholeheartedly with you---and your wife. There's so many great things you can do with the NXT that isn't pure science. (I live near Wellesley and intend to go see their final presentation sometime.) It would just be nice if LEGO gave some thought to presenting it more inclusively.
One thing LEGO should NOT do is they should not create a "girly" version of anything. To be fair, right now, Mindstorms Education pages do have girls pictured, but it took some digging for me to find those. The retail advertising and the current Brickmaster Magazine are laden with testosterone. In the magazine, the themes are all dark...sinister. Frankly, I wouldn't buy that for my three sons, so their marketing is counter-productive with this parent---and with any other parent who objects to the violent and sinister nature of so many games and television programs these days.
Interesting that you should mention DaVinci,as sometime soon Apress will be releasing a book by Matthias Paul Scholtz full of NXT models based on DaVinci's work. I'm sure Matthias would love to tell you more about it!
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to a group of lung diseases that block airflow and make breathing difficult.
Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the two most common conditions that make up COPD. Chronic bronchitis is an inflammation of the lining of your bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from your lungs. Emphysema occurs when the air sacs (alveoli) at the end of the smallest air passages (bronchioles) in the lungs are gradually destroyed.
Damage to your lungs from COPD can't be reversed, but treatment can help control symptoms and minimize further damage.
Symptoms of COPD often don't appear until significant lung damage has occurred, and they usually worsen over time. For chronic bronchitis, the main symptom is a cough that you have at least three months a year for two consecutive years. Other signs and symptoms of COPD include:
People with COPD are also likely to experience episodes called exacerbations, during which their symptoms become worse and persist for days or longer.
The main cause of COPD is tobacco smoking. However, in the developing world, COPD often occurs in women exposed to fumes from burning fuel for cooking and heating in poorly ventilated homes. Only about 20 percent of chronic smokers develop COPD. Some smokers develop less common lung conditions. They may be misdiagnosed as having COPD until a more thorough evaluation is performed.
Air travels down your windpipe (trachea) and into your lungs through two large tubes (bronchi). Inside your lungs, these tubes divide many times — like the branches of a tree — into many smaller tubes (bronchioles) that end in clusters of tiny air sacs (alveoli). The air sacs have very thin walls full of tiny blood vessels (capillaries). The oxygen in the air you inhale passes into these blood vessels and enters your bloodstream. At the same time, carbon dioxide — a gas that is a waste product of metabolism — is exhaled.
Your lungs rely on the natural elasticity of the bronchial tubes and air sacs to force air out of your body. COPD causes them to lose their elasticity and partially collapse, which leaves some air trapped in your lungs when you exhale.
In the vast majority of cases, the lung damage that leads to COPD is caused by long-term cigarette smoking. But there are likely other factors at play in the development of COPD, such as a genetic susceptibility to the disease, because only about 20 percent of smokers develop COPD.
Other irritants can cause COPD, including cigar smoke, secondhand smoke, pipe smoke, air pollution and workplace exposure to dust, smoke or fumes.
In about 1 percent of people with COPD, the disease results from a genetic disorder that causes low levels of a protein called alpha-1-antitrypsin. Alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAt) is made in the liver and secreted into the bloodstream to help protect the lungs. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency can affect the liver as well as the lungs. Damage to the liver can occur in infants and children, not just adults with long smoking histories. For adults with COPD related to AAt deficiency, treatment options are the same as those for people with more common types of COPD. Some people can be treated by replacing the missing AAt protein, which may prevent further damage to the lungs.
Risk factors for COPD include:
Complications of COPD include:
If your primary care doctor suspects that you have COPD, you'll likely be referred to a pulmonologist, a doctor who specializes in lung disorders.
Before your appointment, you might want to write a list of answers to the following questions:
You might want to have a friend or family member accompany you to your appointment. Often, two sets of ears are better than one when you're learning about a complicated medical problem such as COPD. Take notes if this helps.
Your doctor may ask some of the following questions:
COPD is commonly misdiagnosed — former smokers are often told they have COPD when in reality they have another less common lung condition. Likewise, many persons who truly do have COPD aren't diagnosed until the disease is far advanced and interventions are less effective.
If you have symptoms of COPD and a history of exposure to lung irritants — especially cigarette smoke — your doctor may recommend these tests:
A diagnosis of COPD is not the end of the world. For all stages of disease, effective therapy is available which can control symptoms, reduce your risk of complications and exacerbations, and improve your ability to lead an active life.
The most essential step in any treatment plan for COPD is to stop all smoking. It's the only way to keep COPD from getting worse — which can eventually reduce your ability to breathe. But quitting smoking isn't easy. And this task may seem particularly daunting if you've tried to quit and have been unsuccessful. Talk to your doctor about nicotine replacement products and medications that might help, as well as how to handle relapses. It's also a good idea to avoid secondhand smoke exposure whenever possible.
Doctors use several kinds of medications to treat the symptoms and complications of COPD. You may take some medications on a regular basis and others as needed:
Bronchodilators. These medications — which usually come in an inhaler — relax the muscles around your airways. This can help relieve coughing and shortness of breath and make breathing easier. Depending on the severity of your disease, you may need a short-acting bronchodilator before activities, a long-acting bronchodilator that you use every day, or both.
Short-acting bronchodilators include albuterol (ProAir HFA, Ventolin HFA, others), levalbuterol (Xopenex), and ipratropium (Atrovent). The long-acting bronchodilators include tiotropium (Spiriva), salmeterol (Serevent), formoterol (Foradil, Perforomist), arformoterol (Brovana), indacaterol (Arcapta) and aclidinium (Tudorza).
Doctors often use these additional therapies for people with moderate or severe COPD:
Even with ongoing treatment, you may experience times when symptoms become worse for days or weeks. This is called an acute exacerbation, and it may lead to lung failure if you don't receive prompt treatment. Exacerbations may be caused by a respiratory infection, air pollution, or other triggers of inflammation. Whatever the cause, it's important to seek prompt medical help if you notice a sustained increase in coughing, a change in your mucus or if you have a harder time breathing.
When exacerbations occur, you may need additional medications (such as antibiotics or steroids), supplemental oxygen or treatment in the hospital. Once symptoms improve, you'll want to take measures to prevent future exacerbations, such as taking inhaled steroids or long-acting bronchodilators, getting your annual flu vaccine and avoiding air pollution whenever possible.
Surgery is an option for some people with some forms of severe emphysema who aren't helped sufficiently by medications alone:
If you have COPD, you can take steps to feel better and slow the damage to your lungs:
Living with COPD can be a challenge — especially as it becomes harder to catch your breath. You may have to give up some activities you previously enjoyed. Your family and friends may have difficulty adjusting to some of the changes.
It can help to share your fears and feelings with your family, friends and doctor. You may also want to consider joining a support group for people with COPD. And you may benefit from counseling or medication if you feel depressed or overwhelmed.
Unlike some diseases, COPD has a clear cause and a clear path of prevention. The vast majority of cases are directly related to cigarette smoking, and the best way to prevent COPD is to never smoke — or to stop smoking.
If you're a longtime smoker, these simple statements may not seem so simple, especially if you've tried quitting — once, twice or many times before. But, keep trying. It's critical to find a tobacco cessation program that can help you quit for good. It's your best chance for preventing damage to your lungs.
Occupational exposure to chemical fumes and dust is another risk factor for COPD. If you work with this type of lung irritant, talk to your supervisor about the best ways to protect yourself, such as using respiratory protective equipment.
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A closer look at the Vuhl 05
Mexico's barebone 400bhp per tonne sports car looks promising
Posted: 10 Jul 2013
Top Gear hasn't exactly had an easy relationship with Mexico recently, but that could be about to change. Because the Vuhl 05 (pronounced 'vool' and...er, 'oh five') is a brand new road car being built in Central America by the Echeverria brothers, and on paper it looks promising.
Designed to take on cars like the Ariel Atom and BAC Mono, it's a lightweight special, with a bare-bones design, minimalist seats, no windscreen and even a racing-style kill switch.
As ever with this sort of car, performance shouldn't be a problem. There's a mid-mounted 2.0-litre Ford Ecoboost engine, with 285bhp and 310lb ft. Because of the featherweight aluminium monocoque chassis, the power to weight ratio is an impressive 400bhp per tonne. So the Vuhl will do 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds and a top speed of 152mph. Not quite Ariel Atom territory, but not far off.
To be fair, Vuhl isn't chasing the last tenth. The Mexicans are as concerned with character as they are with out-and-out pace. One of the brothers behind the project, Iker Echeverria, told us that "we looked at an Audi engine, but it was too heavy and it didn't sound good. That's why we wanted the Ford, because it sounds like the old Cosworths from the 1970s."
Seems he's aiming for the same thing when it comes to handling. "We want it to be like an Elise. Everyone should be able to go fast and enjoy it" - meaning this is a car designed for mortals as well as racers. Vuhl won't divulge where all the handling has been fine-tuned, but it's in the UK so that bodes well.
The attention to detail is impressive. Things like the HD camera mounted into the bulkhead between the seats - all you've got to do is press the record button on the dash, and you've got a perfect video of when you spin on your out lap. Simply plug in a USB stick afterwards to download the embarrassment.
Or the notch on the key that will both undo and hold onto the fuel filler cap, so you don't need to touch the dirty bits when you fill up. There's even a specific slot in the dash for the keyless fob, foiling any potential fumbling-under-seat moments after the first braking zone.
Vuhl hopes to have the first customer cars into the UK for spring 2014. We're the crucial market for it, but the brothers Echeverria are also talking to representatives in the USA about getting it over there. For the UK, prices will start at about £70,000. Seems a bit steep for a toy, but then it is shipping from Mexico.
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Grazing incidence is used in X-ray spectroscopy and atom optics, where significant reflection can be achieved only at small values of the grazing angle. Ridged mirrors are designed for reflection of atoms coming at small grazing angle. This angle is usually measured in milliradians.
In aviation, angle of incidence is the angle between the wing's chord and the longitudinal axis of an aircraft (a fixed value). The figure to the right shows a side view of part of an aeroplane. The wing (dotted blue line) makes an angle a with the longitudinal axis (roll axis) of the aircraft (solid blue line). The wings are typically mounted at a small positive angle of incidence, to allow the fuselage to be "flat" to the airflow in normal cruising flight. Angles of incidence of about 6° are common on most general aviation designs.
Another term for angle of incidence in this context is rigging angle. It should not be confused with the angle of attack, which is the angle the wing chord presents to the airflow in flight. Note that some ambiguity in this terminology exists, as some engineering texts that focus solely on the study of airfoils and their medium may use either term when referring to angle of attack. The use of the term "angle of incidence" to refer to the angle of attack occurs chiefly in British usage.


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