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On abortion, Hobby Lobby looking wobbly.
Grant Gallicho April 1, 2014 - 3:01pm
The owners of Hobby Lobby want you to know they take their moral commitments seriously. The Green family's stores don't sell shot glasses. They're closed on Sundays. They don't even allow their trucks to "back-haul" beer shipments. As supporter Ben Domenech pointed out, all those practices "could make them money, but they just bear the costs." The Greens are so serious about their Christian beliefs that they've made a federal case out of their objection to paying insurance premiums that would allow their employees to choose to receive contraceptive products that the Greens deem no different from abortion. "I doubt this is the type of company to spend one dime on this contraception mandate," Domenech wrote. "They will just drop coverage, and pay employees the difference...rather than compromise their beliefs." Except now it looks like they've been doing just that--for quite some time.
At Mother Jones, Molly Redden reports that Hobby Lobby's employee retirement plan "held more than $73 million in mutual funds with investments in companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices, and drugs commonly used in abortions." And Hobby Lobby makes significant matching contributions to the 401(k)--nearly $4 million in 2012, according to the company's 2013 disclosure to the Department of Labor. In other words, Hobby Lobby invests millions in companies that manufacture the very products they want to be exempt from covering in their employee health plans--products they believe cause abortions. As Redden notes, other holdings in Hobby Lobby's mutual funds include companies that make drugs used to induce abortion, drugs administered during abortion procedures, and insurers that cover surgical abortions.
This raises an obvious question: If the Greens are so committed to the belief that they cannot in good conscience pay health-insurance premiums that might result in employees using products that could prevent the implantation of fertilized eggs, then why are they OK with spending millions annually on companies that manufacture drugs that will certainly cause abortions? In other words, as Nick Baumann put it, "either remote cooperation with abortifacients is a red line for you or it's not."
Now, the Greens aren't Catholic, but their argument is essentially that they should not be made to cooperate in any way with the provision of contraceptive services they consider definitely or potentially abortifacient. That is, they cannot abide what Catholics would call remote material cooperation with evil (in this case, abortion). Of course, it's arguable that to the extent that they've been paying insurance companies that cover elective abortions--like the ones in which they invest on behalf of their employees--they are already remotely cooperating with what they consider evil. Because most insurers do cover elective abortion for some customers. But apparently that doesn't trouble them. What disturbs the family's conscience is paying for coverage that might end up preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg.
The problem for Hobby Lobby's argument is that investing in companies that manufacture drugs and devices that enable contraception and abortion is different from paying for insurance that enables an employee to choose whether to use services the Greens object to. Hobby Lobby selects the funds it invests in. As Redden points out, if the Greens wanted to, they could have chosen funds that screen out so-called sin stocks (they tend to perform as well as other funds). But they didn't. (Hobby Lobby's legal counsel, the Becket Fund, did not reply to requests for comment.)
Hobby Lobby's employee health insurance used to include the contraception services the Greens don't want to cover anymore. Obamacare did the Greens a favor by waking them up to the realities of the health-insurance market, so before filing suit they canceled coverage of the services they consider morally objectionable. But they seem have not been so scrupulous with their investments--and investments are a different animal. The cooperation is more direct.
Basically Hobby Lobby is saying to these fund managers: Here's our money. Make more of it for us doing what you do. From a moral-theological perspective, that brings Hobby Lobby significantly closer to the "evil" in question than would any premium payments that could allow employees to use contraceptive services. First, in the United States, benefits are considered part of an employee's compensation. Second, employees might not avail themselves of such services. Third, if the Greens decided to stop offering health coverage, employees would most likely end up buying plans that included contraception on the health-care exchanges. (Obamacare does not require any employers to cover drugs designed to induce abortion.)
What might last week's oral arguments have sounded like had this been reported earlier? Hard to say. But who would want to defend a plaintiff claiming that any role facilitating the use of potentially abortifacient drugs is inimical to its religious beliefs but who can't be bothered to figure out whether the millions it invests annually directly supports the production of drugs that always cause abortions? And if a justice or two starts wondering how sincerely Hobby Lobby holds the beliefs it says ought to exempt them from the law, who could blame them?
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Quelle surprise!
I'm shocked that Hobby Lobby owners, despite being devout Christians, are capable of such hypocrisy.
Go figure!
I still think that Scalia and his posse of Catholic boys on SCOTUS will twist themselves into intellectual pretzels in deciding for Hobby Lobby.
The Green family met with Pope Francis yesterday:
Pope Francis met Monday with members of the Green family, the Oklahoma billionaires whose company, Hobby Lobby, took their challenge to Obama's contraception mandate to the Supreme Court last week....
The Greens are in Rome for the launch of one of their traveling exhibits, "Verbum Domini II" (Latin for "The Word of the Lord").
The purpose of the meeting was to thank the pope for the loan of items to the exhibit from the Vatican museum and library," said Jennifer Sheran of DeMoss, the Atlanta public relations firm that represents the Greens. "The pope did ask how the (Hobby Lobby) case was progressing."
Eighteen members of the Green family met with the pope, Sheran said, as well as 10 members from the American Bible Society. The meeting lasted 30 minutes.
"The pope did ask how the (Hobby Lobby) case was progressing."
The implication here by the PR person is that Pope Francis is vitally interested in the outcome of their case against the contraception mandate currently being decided in our Supreme Court.
This spin needs to be investigated.
If true, my guess is that a member of the Green family brought it up and the Pope responded with a noncommittal comment.
Although I hope Hobby Lobby does not prevail, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here. I suspect they just never thought of checking what they were investing in.
That said,Hobby Lobby has an easy out that they are refusing to take. They can stop providing insurance, pay a $2000 per employee per year tax (which is comparable to the cost of insurance if you consider that many employees will have families) and the employees get insurance on the exchanges. The tax compensates the government for the subsidies most employees will receive. This is a completely legal and practical way to handle the employer mandate. Problem solved.
If Hobby Lobby prevails, enforcing any federal law against corporations will be impossible for practical purposes. A corporation could claim Christian Science beliefs and offer a health insurance plan that that only funds hiring a Christian Science practitioner. A company could claim religious exemptions to environmental laws or minimum wage laws or industrial safety laws. And remember, in Dukes v. Walmart, the Supreme Court virtually banned class action suits against employers. We would be right back in the year 1890 when corporations could do whatever they pleased.
Hypocrisy seems to follow religious absolutists. As far as their case goes I don't see how they have any legal case at all. They have no right to make ethical judgments for their employees. Period. I don't see any basis for SCOTUS to rule in their favor. But these are sad days for the Supreme Court.
Pace Paul Baumann, we're talking about degrees of remoteness here. We're also talking about who is the moral agent who gets to determine degrees of remoteness.
Which is more remote: to pay premiums to an insurance company that pays for an employee's contraception; or to set up a separate corporation under a separate set of directors that puts together a portfolio of retirement fund offerings that employees can choose to pay into and for which the company will match a certain percentage of those pay-ins, each component of the portfolio also under independent direction and investing in hundreds or thousands of different investment securities for periods of time that may range from several years to several milliseconds, a handful of which represent small fractions of ownership in companies whose portfolio of several to several dozen to several hundred different products and product lines may pose moral issues and the fluctuations in whose stock prices may or may not reflect any profit or loss of those morally problematic products?
Who can say?
Saying "neither is problematic" may be reasonable. Saying "both are problematic" may be reasonable. Saying "the first is problematic but the second isn't" may be reasonable.
I would say that those who hold a stake in the calculus get to decide.
Before reading here I saw the Mother Jones article and the first thought that popped into my mind was that "Hypocrisy has become a hobby" with these folks.
Their "lobby" is looking more disgusting by the moment.
A corporation could claim Christian Science beliefs and offer a health insurance plan that that only funds hiring a Christian Science practitioner.
Yes, and a corporation owned by fundamentalists could refuse to hire Catholics who they know are the "spawn of Satan."
Be careful of what you wish for because it can come back to bit you in your religious freedom aspidistra.
On the earlier post about this, one commenter dismissed this by stating that a 401K plan is not Hobby Lobby - it is a separate entity.
And my response - and how is this different from purchasing a medical plan from an insurance company - the insurance company is a separate enitity. Really does become ridiculous.
JP - so, what is your point? In fact, Grant clearly shows that setting up the investment firm is a more direct form of cooperation than purchasing an insurance plan (you appear to disagree?)
Again, from a purely analytical and objective angle, one really does have to seriously question the point of the Greens and the Beckett Fund.
Might want to repost some of Cathleen Kaveny's earlier posts about birth control and catholic *cults*?
The answer is obvious. Hobby Lobby is profiting from those investments. For conservatives, profit trumps "life."
I expect that someone is now investigating the Little Sisters of the Poor for telltale signs of hypocrisy. Apparently many are eager to cast the first stone and are not reluctant to issue an immediate harsh judgment, all in the name of minimizing the scope of religious freedom. Beyond amazing!
...so before filing suit they canceled coverage of the services they consider morally objectionable.
It sounds as if someone (the Becket Fund?) may have been searching for a client here and found Hobby Lobby in much the way the Thomas More Law Center found the Dover, PA, school board a few years ago. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, and maybe even a good thing to have activist law firms sharpening the consciences of the insufficiently scrupulous. Another benefit of the ACA, this one unplanned, is prodding lax Christians to reexamine their remote cooperation with evil.
Still, it's an endless task, because almost anything in this world can be turned to evil by us perverse humans. And is it not, in fact, the bad use we make of things, rather than the things themselves, that is evil? What harm, for example, has an innocent shot glass ever willed? So if the owners of Hobby Lobby want to be safe from all possible contamination, they must stop enabling potential wickedness by paying wages. And as this case shows, they must deal with the most urgent threat by dismissing women employees first. Sad, very sad, but it's the godly thing to do.
Hobby Lobby also sells items made in China, the forced-abortion capital of the world.
Anybody here ever tried to research ways to invest pension funds? There are rules and regs, fed and sometimes state. Employees may have a range of choices. Companies have fiduciary responsbilities to their employees. In the case of 401(k), employees own the pensions, not the company. Amazing that the employees have a pension at all in this day and age. 401(ks) usually involve contributions from the employees and the company. Catching out Hobby Lobby on this doesn't mean their hypocrites. It may just mean they are subject to pension laws, employee choices, and the investment fund that chooses where the money goes. Not so simple.
With all due respect, Ms. Steinfels, the folks at Forbes are rather flabbergasted that Hobby Lobby's inconsistency and claim that every corporation with a 401K has ample opportunity to review and individually select funds that cohere with their goals:
"You may be thinking that it must have been beyond Hobby Lobby's reasonable abilities to know what companies were being invested in by the mutual funds purchased for the Hobby Lobby 401(k) plans—but I am afraid you would be wrong.
No only does Hobby Lobby have an obligation to know what their sponsored 401(k) is investing in for the benefit of their employees, it turns out that there are ample opportunities for the retirement fund to invest in mutual funds that are specifically screened to avoid any religiously offensive products."
I would give Hobby Lobby the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the list of investments here
(see the last page). There are no individual companies listed. All their holdings are in 24 mutual funds with names like "The American Funds Group American Balanced Fund" (that fund represents about $17 million out of $100 million in pension fund money).
There is no indication of which individual company stocks each of those mutual funds holds.
Of course, that information is available and Hobby Lobby could have told someone to check out each of the 24 mutual funds to be sure that none of them invested in companies that produced morally suspect products. I suspect that they just didn't think of it.
Since mutual funds go into and out of investments frequently, the only way Hobby Lobby could avoid this problem over a long period of time would be to invest only in mutual funds that were committed to not investing in companies that did things of which Hobby Lobby didn't approve.
"I suspect that they just didn't think of it." - No excuse.
Also suggest: Holly Lobby fire the Becket Frund for negligence. :-)
Hmmm!! Anyone here ever tried to find a totally sin-free investment fund. There are the no tobacco-no liquor ones. There are the no-war materials ones. Then there are funds that don't invest in Catepillar and Boeing, etc. What about funds that buy up water systems, or whole forests, etc. Good luck!!!
I forgot: the ones that don't use animals in their research.
Catholic support for Hobby Lobby is well nigh universal if the Amici Curiae Briefs filed with the Supreme Court were a true gauge of that support; namely: 67 Catholic Theologians, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Medical Association, Thomas More Law Center, and John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought.
SCOTUSblog lists the all the briefs filed with the Supreme Court for the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cases. My list of the Catholic support was based on this list.
I don't doubt the sincerity of the institutional views, but Humanae Vitae is not a First Amendment dogma. I believe John Courtney Murray has said it best:
From the standpoint both of history and of contemporary social reality the only tenable position is that the first two articles of the First Amendment are not articles of faith but articles of peace. Like the rest of the Constitution these provisions are the work of lawyers, not of theologians or even of political theorists. They are not true dogma but only good law. That is praise enough. This, I take it, is the Catholic view. But in thus qualifying it I am not marking it out as just another "sectarian" view. It is in the only view that a citizen with both historical sense and common sense can take.
John Courtney Murray, S.J., We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition, p. 56 (1960).
Hey, Ms. Steinfels - well, name an insurance company that doesn't offer medical plans that may cover elective abortions?
And, BTW, while we are being socially consicious, let's look at Hobby Lobby from a comprehensive *pro-life* stance:
- do they sell products manufactured in China or Asia in which both the employees of those manufacturing worksites are barely paid living wages? may have serious safety/health concerns?
- do they do business that avoids damage to the environment (e.g. trucks, stores, etc.)
Any way, you get the drift....it really does become ridiculous just because they have an issue with four contraceptives which may or may not be remote material cooperation. Can one define *cultic behaviors*
Right: Beams in everyones eyes!
O tempora, O mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit.
(Well, this IS a Catholic blogsite and Latin seems so very appropriate with dealing with such deep-seated hypocrisy on the part of the Greens)
The issue here is not how difficult it is to find sin-free investment plans. The issue is that a company has tried to make a case to the Supreme Court over an issue of conscience and they have not explored the content of their investments.
This is a big deal, deleting Joe Biden's expletive.
The government opens its argument in its brief with this: "The Greens' sincerely held religious opposition to certain forms of contraception is not subject to question in these proceedings, and their personal beliefs merit the full measure of the protection that the Constitution and laws provide." What is Mr. Gallicho's purpose, then, in questioning what the Government does not? It means nothing whatever as to the resolution of the issue. Neither he nor Mother Jones is in a position to question the Greens' sincerity or the government's view of it. As someone recently said, "Who am I to judge?" And if the Greens be thought by others inconsistent in their judgments or ill informed, of what interest or importance is that?
Patrick Molloy: "Apparently many are eager to cast the first stone and are not reluctant to issue an immediate harsh judgment, all in the name of minimizing the scope of religious freedom. Beyond amazing!"
Mr. Molloy, believe it or not, liberals are not out to minimize the scope of religious freedom. We want to balance the freedom of employees with the freedom of (much more powerful) employers. There is already an out for any employer with moral objections to any part of the health care law. They can let their employees get insurance through the exhanges and pay the $2000 tax. When you consider that many employees have dependents, the $2000 is comparable to the cost of providing insurance- it's not a punitive tax.
If the Supreme Court finds in favor of HL, it will unravel a major source of funding tor the Affordable Care Act- the tax on employers who do not provide adequate insurance. An company that pays minimum wage employees and has never provided insurance could claim a religious exemption from providing any effective care. Many religious people believe mental illness is a moral flaw not an illness: you would undoubtedly have many employees denied mental health care. Should a parent have to watch their schizophrenic child disintegrate because of the employer's religious belief?
xuinkrbin: Can you tell me of any case where the Supreme Court held the line drawing was up to the adherent? I know of none. Those of us who remember the Vietnam war know that the line drawing for conscientious objection was NOT up to the adherent. The draft law recognized absolute pacifism but disallowed conscientious objection for people who believed in Thomistic "just war" moral theology. A friend of mine spent 2 years in federal prison because he believed that fighting in Vietnam violated his religious beliefs but admitted he would have fought in World War II. (It's also the case that polygamy is illegal nationwide, despite the fact that some dissident spinoffs from the Mormon faith require polygamy.)
AE@10:48: "There is already an out for any employer with moral objections to any part of the health care law. They can let their employees get insurance through the exhanges and pay the $2000 tax. When you consider that many employees have dependents, the $2000 is comparable to the cost of providing insurance- it's not a punitive tax.'
Why encourage giving employers an out on providing health insurance? And require the employee to pay the full freight?
Liberal crossing paths with libertarians!
I don't see why Grant has to be so snotty about Hobby Lobby . . . the obvious explanation is that with 24 funds invested in up to 100s of different companies that can change at any time, Hobby Lobby simply hadn't been aware of each and every one of the 1000s of different possibilities. But it's really quite silly to suggest that Hobby Lobby's religious beliefs are somehow insincere -- what, they undertook the expense of litigating a case to the Supreme Court just for a lark and they don't even believe in their own position? Come on.
William H. Dempsey: The reason it's anyone else's business is that if an employer providing insurance to its employees is free to object to a medical procedure on allegedly religious grounds, then no employees would ever know if they'll have insurance in a given situation. Would you like to check out of a hospital after receiving a blood transfusion and being handed a six-figure bill, only to be told that your Jehovah's Witness employer won't pay the bill for religious reasons?
It's significant that no corporation has filed an amicus brief in support of Hobby Lobby.
Marbgaret O'Btrien Steinfels: Years ago, when Nelson Mandela was still in prison and apartheid was law in South Africa, many investment funds divested themselves of stocks in companies which did business with South Africa. It can be done.
Bill - I have several points: (1) in both cases - the insurance case and the 401(k) case - we're talking about degrees of remoteness. (2) In my view, Hobby Lobby and its employees, not Mother Jones, Commonweal, the federal government nor, of all people on the planet, Joe Biden, should get to decide the permissible degrees of Hobby Lobby's and its employees' remote cooperation with evil.
What do you think the point is of Mother Jones publishing this piece? What is the point of Commonweal devoting two separate blog posts to call attention to the Mother Jones piece? I'm not sure what point there to that exercise except for the one that Patrick has already named.
And yes, as part of point (1) above, I do disagree with Grant. I don't think setting up a 401(k) (if indeed it is a 401(k) - is that known to be the case?) on behalf of employees, consisting of a number of mutual fund options for the employees to choose from, is a more direct or near form of cooperation with evil than signing a contract with an insurance company, actively working to enroll employees in the insurance company's products, and paying insurance premiums to the insurance company that also, by reason of that contract and activity, subsidizes the employees' consumption of contraception. Arguably, the 401(k) case is more remote - but, as I've said all along, I also think it's reasonable to determine that the contraception mandate is sufficiently remote.
We live in a world in which evil is abroad. No news there. And so we Christians do try to live in a bubble. That's why we have faith communities. (Can a corporation be a faith community?) But the walls of the bubble aren't, and can't be, impermeable. Part of the cost of living in a society that tolerates a certain amount of evil, is the necessity, as individuals, of learning to tolerate, and even interact with, a certain amount of evil.
Each of us is responsible for figuring out what compromises we need to make with the reality of evil. Some of us may work for employers whose every action may not always be morally admirable. I vote for politicians that support abortion. I vote for politicians that supported the Iraq War. Many of us, I expect, have family members that have done things we disapprove of or even that have wounded us in some way, but whom we don't shun or cut off. On the other hand, I also take stands about some things, some of which I've mentioned here in dotCom from time to time.
I suspect all of us take stands about some things, and let other things slide. One of the gifts of the church to us is a framework for deciding what to let slide and what to take a stand on. Hobby Lobby and its owners certainly are fair game for public criticism - they took on that risk when they decided to pursue the lawsuit.
The answer is obvious. Hobby Lobby is profiting from those investments
I don't think it's obvious that this is the case - but it's not obvious that it's not the case, either.
If it is a 401(k) retirement plan, then in my view, whatever profits are generated by the plan morally belong to the employees, not the company. I suspect that, legally, those profits "belong to" the plan itself, until the employees' holdings are dispersed. But I don't think that Hobby Lobby can tap into those funds.
On the other hand, I believe there are tax incentives for a company to establish and make matching contributions to a 401(k), so perhaps it's fair to say that Hobby Lobby is financially benefitting from the 401(k). (But on the third hand, it seems to me that establishing a retirement plan for employees is a virtuous thing, the sort of thing we should be encouraging employers, especially retail employers, to do. As public policy, I don't object to incentivizing employers to do this - I consider this to be good fiscal policy. That consideration doesn't really address the question, though, of what if any control the company should exercise in the choice of investments for the employees.)
If the retirement plan is a traditional corporate pension, then perhaps the moral calculus would be somewhat different. I believe the company may exercise more direct control over a traditional pension. Perhaps someone knowledgeable about these things could provide more details.
Btw, Margaret, I do go back far enough that I do have a pension waiting for my retirement - it was a perk during my first few years of employment, coming out of college. I don't think the payout from it upon my retirement, if it hasn't gone belly-up by then - it's rather underfunded - will buy me a cup of coffee every month. But it's still there. I expended quite a bit of effort recently trying to track it down.
We live in a country that launched an aggressive war on the basis of what probably a majority of its leading citizens knew or suspected were false pretenses. In our name and for our salvation from terrorism, unfortunates who were designated enemy combatants, although not all were, were tortured. I voted for Barack Obama to put a stop to all of that. He let the perps go unpunished and, despite some slick words, continued the conditions that allow torture. That makes it bipartisan, which means our country will continue doing that sort of thing until someone stronger makes us stop.
Knowing that, It's the almost height of hypocrisy for anybody still living here to go to the Supreme Court over remote cooperation with evil in anything. The height of hypocrisy is when the case goes to court for political purposes.
The problem for "religious liberty" here is "gotcha journalism." The Hobby Lobby Family may (or may not be) sincere, but in a culture with a grossly over-sized legal "community" should we be surprised that they would take their case to the Supreme Court? Getting caught out with pension funds that invest in the companies that manufacture the very drugs to which they object seems immaterial to their claims to the SC. I say that because it is likely that it is the employees who chose the investments from a range of offerings put together probably by an insurance agent or company. In an age of pensionless workers, it's notable that Hobby Lobby contributes anything ($3.8 million isn't that much). This looks like remote, remote cooperation.
The Supreme Court should rule against Hobby Lobby. Corporations, even family-owned ones, don't need more rights than they already have. Will the SC take a lesson from the disaster they created with Citizens United?
Will the SC take a lesson from the disaster they created with Citizens United?
Maybe not - I got an alert within the last hour that the SC has also struck down campaign limits. Don't know what it all means.
Here is the story that the alert I mentioned in my previous comment pointed to. Looks like there are some limits to the ruling.
Yesterday saw a welcome burst of candor on the part of Paul Krugman:"I've always thought of Obamacare as a sort of Rube Goldberg device. . . It relies on a mandate plus subsidies, rather than full funding via the tax system, in part to keep down the headline spending number. And so on."
In other words, the Obama administration arguments that the conditions of the RFRA (compelling governmental interest, least restrictive means, and substantial burden) have been met and are sufficient to impose a mandate on employers effect a smokescreen so that the CBO rules could be gamed and the numbers would be judged politically acceptable. A decent history of the ACA would no doubt expose even more acts of, shall we say, lack of candor. Anyone who paid attention in the last few years is welcome to cite more examples.
In a better world there would be a hypocrisy of the year award to go along with the lie of the year award. I don't think the Hobby Lobby company would come close to winning the former. The latter, as everyone knows, has already been awarded.
I suppose, on the other hand, if their aim was to discredit HL in the court of public opinion the Mother Jones tactics (even though legally irrelevant) might deserve a Machiavellian of the year award.
Very interesting comment, Mr. Molloy. Obamacare is unnecessarily Rube Goldbergian because it relies 80 percent on the implicit faith and competence of the private sectory (which shows its Republican roots) and only 20 percent on people who care about making it work more than they do about making it profitable. That has been its problem from the start. Unfortunately it has been very difficult to have that argument because of all the smokescreens thrown up by people who oppose, in principle, doing anything for the uninsured. Similarly, Common Core is worse than NCLB on roller skates, but it's impossible to get a hearing for that while the Bush-era initiative by governors of both parties is being pinned to the comparatively innocent coattails of the current president. (I say "comparatively" because, as always, eager to receive affection from the other side of the aisle, the president embraced what is, essentially, the love child of the William and Melinda Gates and the Bradley Foundations.)
With that as background, it should not be surprising if someone who wasn't paying attention to the qualities of birth control pills as an investment when Obama was not president should suddenly get all tense and sweaty about them as a clause in an insurance contract when Obama is president. For the record, I have had contraceptive coverage in my employer (now former employer) policy for more than 25 years and never knew it. If I felt about Obama the way you do, Mr. Molloy, I would be tempted to make something of it now that I know. But for reasons given earlier today, I am not tempted.
@ Patrick Malloy: Of course the ACA is a Rube Goldberg device!
It's a Republican idea - the poor dears, they're not that bright. I'm convinced that much of the rightwing opposition to the law is sourced in that Obama in a brilliant piece of political open-field running adopted Romneycare, but just adapted it for nationwide use.
[It was a real piece of art how Obama guess right about how the Republican nominating process would turn out in the end, and politically castrated Romney even before the presidential race got underway. Just brilliant! If it sounds like I'm crowing, you're right! 7.1 million, baby!]
If you remember, most Democrats favored a "single payer" system like they have in Canada: Medicare for All! Most of us wanted at least a "public option."
But NOOOOOOOOOO: That would have been too much socialized medicine for our right-wing crazies - never mind it would have been a better health insurance delivery system; never mind that we wouldn't have had to invent all these new "exchanges" and infrastructures because the only thing we would have had to do is expand Medicare overtime to be inclusive of every American. The bureaucracy is already in place - and the last I check most of my elderly patients just love their Medicare insurance.
Maybe in the not too distant future, California may adopt a single payer system on its own and show the rest of the country how it is done. California has a huge population - we have the numbers to make the economy of scale work. All the huffin & puffin in the world by the ACA will not bring down healthcare costs sufficiently to tame the beast.
The ACA's lenient regulation of insurance companies will not be enough. Eventually, either America will have to heavily regulate healthcare insurance like we do with public utilities; Or, we will go the way of single payer. It is all in the economic laws that operate health care delivery systems.
Think of the ACA as a transitional period before we have real singel-payer health care insurance!
Hobby Lobby's argument is that the contraception mandate burdens its religious liberty because it cannot, as a matter of religious belief, allow itself to participate even remotely in the procurement of drugs and devices it believes cause abortions. A reporter discovered that the whole time the Greens have been advancing this claim their company's employee retirement plan has been investing money in companies that produce abortion drugs. That's not gotcha journalism. It's just journalism.
Hobby Lobby's case turns on financial cooperation. If the Greens refuse to pay for coverage that includes contraception services they say could cause abortions, why are they OK with investing in companies that make drugs designed to cause abortions? That's a fair question. It may not have legal ramifications for Hobby Lobby, but that doesn't mean people who aren't on the Supreme Court can't ask how seriously the Greens take their view of cooperation with evil.
Now, Peggy notes that Hobby Lobby's employees probably "chose the investments from a range of offerings put together probably by an insurance agent or company." True enough. But Hobby Lobby is the customer of its investment firm. If it wanted to, it could ask for a menu that excluded abortion-drug manufacturers. But it didn't do that. In fact, it looks like Hobby Lobby's employees can't even invest in a "socially-responsible" fund. Strange oversight for a family that wants its moral purity protected by the court.
Permalink Angela Stockton: You mist the point. Of couise it's important how the Supreme Court decides the issue. But nothing Mr. Gallicho or Mother Jones say about the Greens has anything to do with that. The government has conceded the sincerity of their beliefs, and that's that. One can only speculate about the purpose of these attacks on the Greens.
There's a difference between an attack and a critique. It would be good if perpetually aggrieved conservatives figured that out.
The question isn't whether Commonweal or anyone else "can" question the sincerity of someone else's sincerity in their religious professions, in this case the Greens', but rather why should they? Here it is irrelevant to the litigation. The government has made it so. And the Greens aren't running for public nor are they TV evangelists. What else might there be? One possible inference is that the purpose is simply to take a personal whack at people who are advancing a cause with which their critics disagree. I suppose there must be others. At least I hope so.
This isn't a support group, William, it's an opinion magazine. Where journalists have been known to ask questions about public figures and events.
Mr. Dempsey, The Supreme Court, having ruled in Citizens United that corporations are people (for more than purposes of incorporation), reaffirmed today its solemn holding that money is speech. If the Greens' sincerity is irrelevant to their litigation, anyone's litigation can be irrelevant to common sense. We do need more than the solicitor general's brief or the coming 5-4 decision on the Greens to help us make up our minds about this case.
And, while it is hard to see how anyone can question the sincerity of anyone's religious beliefs, if someone says he worships the sun but sleeps all day one can question his common sense.
Not to worry, Hobby Lobby – the pope is on your side. According to an article on the Catholic News Service website (http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1401343.htm)
"Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., based in Oklahoma City, along with about 15 family members met the pope in a private audience at the Vatican March 31.
When asked whether the pope gave the Green family any words of encouragement, Green, who is a Baptist, said the pope 'mentioned the issue is important to Catholics.'
"The firm we engaged to defend us has a lot of Catholic connections and he was familiar with that,' Green said of the pope, adding that the pope also 'asked when the ruling was going to come down,' Green said."
Here is another way to approach this case:
Key points:
- catholic social justice thought starts with the dignity of each person (not a position on birth control medications)
"In the face of poverty, responding to the immediate need is necessary, as is structural change (employment, education, affordable housing, etc). This is why the USCCB emphasizes charity and justice as the "two feet of love in action." One of the key elements of her post is the recognition that we are all deeply embedded in personal, familial, social, and cultural realities. Social programs and family life both need to be strengthened to empower those for whom "life is a hill." We need a broader and deeper understanding of what constitutes family – so that the inter-generational reality of strong families is captured within our vision of "the answer." Thus, as she notes, strengthening families headed by single mothers and single fathers can only be done by listening and engaging them." (this is what the ACA attempts to do vs. the Green's individualistic moralistic belief)
- in the face of much of the argumentation that someone has to draw a line in the sand morally:
"We seem to have hit a point where we are on a merry-go-round, unable to break free from a familiar pattern. Personally, I find it particularly difficult to keep blogging about the same issues – because actual data doesn't seem to make a difference in the public debate. And yet, I want to make a strong case that the loud and constant debunking of claims about poverty and poor persons is absolutely necessary for the common good. Personal responsibility, as self-determination, agency, and empowered participation is absolutely crucial. Personal responsibility as an ideological weapon is an attack on the human dignity of persons in and near poverty. Part of why I find treating it as an ideological battle cry incredibly dangerous is in doing so one misses the assumption of one's own moral superiority, which is latent within the use of this language.
NOTE the last line - *assumption of one's own moral superiority* (whatever the assumed report about the Vatican meeting was, am sure that Francis sees this as a much more complex issue - he lived and worked in the slums of Buenos Aries - he is not starry eyed)
Not one other person in the world has to share Hobby Lobby's belief, as long as they hold it sincerely. They do not have to justify their belief that they should not do this (provide insurance covering contraception).
Even if they were Catholics, it wouldn't matter how many Catholic moral theologians the government could produce to say that this is allowable remote cooperation. Legally, the Greens are the only people who have a right to decide that.
It should be possible to disagree with them without accusing them of being insincere or hypocritical.
The fact that the Greens sincerely believe they shouldn't do this doesn't mean that they win the argument. It just gets them in the door for the court to decide if the government's interest in making contraceptives available without cost justifies requiring the Green's to do what they believe they shouldn't do.
Just as the courts have required Mennonites to pay taxes that help to support wars and Amish employers to pay Social Security taxes for their employees. Having a sincere religious belief doesn't automatically exempt you from a government program.
Judge Richard Posner recently gave Notre Dame a hard time because it "advertised" the employee health plan--including contraception coverage available through a third party--on its website while seeking relief from self-ceritfying for the accommodation. Posner wondered whether that might undermine the university's claims about its religious beliefs. Inconsistency is one of the factors that could undermine a claim to sincerely held religious belief. Of course courts are loath to pass judgment on the sincerity of stated religious beliefs. But merely claiming sincerely held religious beliefs in court doesn't mean judges won't ask you about them.


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People will see an elevated risk of a tornado Thursday as a cold front sweeps through the Lowcountry and spawns showers and thunderstorms, according to updated predictions from the National Weather Service.
The Storm Prediction Center, a Weather Service facility in Oklahoma that predicts the potential for severe weather, released a map Thursday that showed a 10 percent chance of a tornado for the northern coastal areas of South Carolina.
Charleston was in the southern portion of the area of heightened risk. The rest of the Lowcountry, the Midlands and part of the Upstate will see a 2 percent to 5 percent chance of a twister.
Offshore, waterspouts also are possible.
Some areas also could get nearly 3 inches in the system.
Forecasters expected the weather to deteriorate in the Charleston area after 11 a.m. Thursday. Showers are likely, and storms are possible.
Theyll bring between 1 and 2 inches of rain.
Meteorologists at the Weather Service station in North Charleston said the chance of rainfall will be 100 percent Thursday night. The threat will linger until 2 a.m. Friday.
Another half inch to three quarters of an inch will be possible overnight.
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Thursday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 11 a.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 81. Breezy, with a south wind 14 to 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Thursday night: Showers and thunderstorms before 2 a.m., then scattered showers. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 58. South wind 11 to 18 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 80. West wind 13 to 16 mph.
Friday night: Clear, with a low around 51. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 79. North wind around 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
Saturday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
Sunday night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79.
Monday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
Tuesday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83.
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Comments On Mar 26, 2015:This tire is a good tire, very good wear, have put about 2,500 miles of mostly trails and fire roads on it with still about 75% tread left. good on pavement and fire roads, decent off road but is not that great in mud.
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Comments On Feb 23, 2015:tires have a little road -walk after about 60mph. Only put about 50 miles so far but hope they will brake in better. Tires look good, have plenty of traction off road as well as on the highway.
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Comments On Nov 25, 2014:I run these on pavement quite a bit on my xr600. They hook up pretty well and last a surprising amount of miles for a knobby. And they are cheap.
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Comments On Nov 21, 2014:It is suppose to be a 50/50. I ride daily to work 75% pavement and 25% dirt. I have had better luck with wear on a off road tire. this tire was terrible in the sand and rock. It wore quick lasted about 6 weeks.
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Comments On Nov 05, 2014:I took my time reviewing the tyres. I was trying to get used to the very different characteristics to all other tyres.
The rear tyre is confidence inspiring, both in the dry and wet. It never skipped a beat, and is wearing slowly - all good!
The front... is an entirely different story. The knobbles are soft, which does mean at slow speeds it is a bit squirelly and vague to steer. Having said that, squirelly or not IT STICKS.
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Bur the rate of wear, price and the stickiness more make up for it.
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Robert M. knew something was wrong when his 1-year-old cat, Kitty, began vomiting and stopped eating. But what he didn't know was that Kitty had somehow swallowed a penny.
Earlier this month, Robert drove Kitty from his home in Bellmore, Long Island to the ASPCA Animal Hospital in Manhattan. X-rays revealed what looked like a shiny penny lodged in Kitty's small intestine, having already passed through her stomach.
"It was the worst day ever," says Robert. "She is such a wonderful cat and she was just so sick."
Dr. Anna Whitehead, who performed surgery on Kitty the same day, has retrieved coins from dogs in the past, but says it's rare for cats to swallow loose change.
She also says Kitty was lucky her condition was not worse, because of the penny's composition.
Pennies dated before 1982 are made of 95 percent copper, and those dated 1983 or later are made of 97.5 percent zinc and coated in a thin plate of copper. The cent's composition was changed in 1982 because the value of the copper in one cent pieces rose above one cent.
"Stomach acid corrodes pennies made of zinc and can cause hemolysis, or a rupturing of red blood cells that leads to life-threatening anemia," says Dr. Whitehead.
In Kitty's case, the penny had turned black from corrosion, making the 1986 mint date barely legible.
"It's hard to say what happened or how long it had been in there," says Dr. Whitehead.
As for the penny, it won't turn up again. Robert is keeping it as a reminder of Kitty's ordeal and has taken it out of circulation.
At the ASPCA Animal Hospital, our veterinarians frequently treat animals that are in need of blood and plasma transfusions. A wide range of animal medical conditions necessitate transfusion procedures, such as kittens who are anemic due to flea infestation, or as part of treatment for dogs who have ingested rat poison.
Just like humans, cats and dogs have unique blood types. The ASPCA relies on blood and plasma donations from pet blood banks across the country to treat animals in need, including the Blue Ridge Veterinary Blood Bank of Purcellville, Virginia, located in the DC metro-area.
As many families embark on vacations this summer, Blue Ridge and other pet blood banks are experiencing a shortage of donations. Blood donations are crucial to the ASPCA as we provide veterinary care for animals in need each and every day. If you're in the Washington, D.C.- area, please consider bringing your dog to Blue Ridge to donate blood.
Blue Ridge operates a volunteer-sourced blood bank. Donor pups receive a preliminary health screening before resting on soft cushions and munching on peanut butter and cheese treats while they donate blood. While it's true that a dog cannot technically "volunteer" to donate blood, dogs whose pet parents bring them to Blue Ridge are not muzzled, sedated or forced to donate.
Veterinary blood banks are prevalent nationwide, so pet parents outside of the Washington, D.C.-area are likely to find opportunities to donate. Units of blood can be broken down by component, including red blood cells and plasma, so just one unit can save multiple animals' lives. For more information about your local veterinary blood bank, please talk to your veterinarian.
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In January, our ASPCA Animal Hospital veterinary technicians provided tips for helping your four-legged companions avoid common pet health problems. Now that kitten season is in full swing, we've asked our vet techs to share their expert advice on what to do if you or someone you know encounters abandoned kittens while out and about this summer.
Rena: If you find young kittens in a relatively safe area, such as in the grass or on a sidewalk, it's best to leave them alone. Mom is probably moving her babies or out looking for food. If the kittens are still there after two or three hours, it's probably time to intervene—but be sure not to scare mom off by hovering during that two-to-three hour window! You'll want to take the kittens to a vet as soon as possible. If you find the kittens at a time when local vets are closed, please be prepared to feed the kittens every two hours.
Erica: Yes, kittens need feeding every two hours, day and night. Don't attempt to use a baby bottle made for humans, and don't feed the kittens human formula or milk. Instead, go to the pet store and get pet nursers and kitten milk replacer (KMR). The nipple of the nurser won't have a hole, so you'll need to carefully cut an "X" into the tip. Then turn the bottle over to test whether formula flows. You can warm the bottle of KMR by submerging it in warm water, but do not microwave the bottle.
Temetrias: When you feed a kitten, position the kitten with his feet down, in a standing position, with his head tilted upward. Gently place the nipple in the kitten's mouth. It may take a few tries for the kitten to latch on and begin to suckle. Sometimes giving the kitten just a drop by squeezing the bottle slightly will help the kitten to begin feeding, and they will usually let you know when they have had enough. After feeding, dip a soft washcloth or a piece of gauze in warm water and gently massage the kitten's anal and urinary regions. This stimulates excretion, which kittens can't do on their own until their second or third week.
Geniene: Always keep the kittens warm and never feed a cold kitten. A kitten with a low body temperature will have a difficult time digesting formula. If the kittens are dirty, don't attempt to bathe them. They can easily choke and drown, and don't regulate their body temperature well at such a young age. Gently wipe the kittens with a damp towel instead.
Manny: Be sure to keep the kittens away from cats or other pets at home. Remember, kittens are not normally weaned until they are four to six weeks old. If you are considering keeping a kitten, it's important to talk to your veterinarian about his ongoing care needs.
For more information on keeping kittens and pets happy and healthy this summer, visit our Pet Care section.
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Update: Great news!! King has been adopted! Stay tuned to aspca.org/blog to learn more about King's new forever home.
Last month, animal advocates were outraged when a video of a Brooklyn man brutally kicking a cat emerged online. Authorities were immediately notified, and on May 6, one day after the video was posted, the NYPD brought the cat to the ASPCA Animal Hospital for emergency veterinary care. His name is King.
After receiving medical treatment and a full behavioral evaluation, we are thrilled to announce that King is now recovered and looking for a forever home! During his stay with the ASPCA, King has proven to be an affectionate and playful cat. ASPCA shelter staff recommends that King's adopter have plenty of previous cat experience, and he would do best in a single-cat household with respectful kids over age 12.
If you are a qualified adopter and would like to learn more about making this lovely cat the King of your castle, please call (212) 876-7700, ext. 4044.
While we realize that there may be many loving homes willing to welcome him, there is only one King. However, June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month, and we want to remind all interested adopters that there are plenty of loving cats and kittens waiting to meet their matches in shelters across the country! The best way people can help cats like King is to visit the ASPCA Adoption Center—or any local shelter—and meet homeless animals equally deserving of loving families.
The NYPD arrested the man suspected of kicking King on May 5. King's case reinforces the importance of reporting animal cruelty in a timely manner, and we are so proud of animal advocates for stepping up to help this sweet cat.
To learn which agencies are responsible for investigating and enforcing anti-cruelty laws in your area, visit our Fight Cruelty section.
When a Good Samaritan brought Stacy, a stray cat found near a construction site in Queens, to the ASPCA Animal Hospital, she was in dire need of medical attention.
Her condition was alarming: Stacy had a six-inch wire protruding from her left eye. She was very timid, but allowed ASPCA veterinarians to approach her.
"We could see that the wire was not actually penetrating the eyeball, but was lodged in the space next to her eye in the socket," says ASPCA veterinarian Dr. Anna Whitehead. "The eye was functional so we decided to attempt to remove the wire."
After sedating Stacy and taking X-rays, Dr. Whitehead determined there was a hook on the end of the wire that anchored it to Stacy's eye socket. Luckily, our veterinarians were able to dislodge the wire, and Stacy's vision remained intact.
Over the past two months, Stacy has recovered under our care. ASPCA behaviorists and volunteers have worked extensively with this resilient kitty to help her feel more relaxed and comfortable. We're relieved that Stacy arrived at the ASPCA just in time, and that she received the medical treatment she so desperately needed.
Stay tuned to our Blog for part two of this cat's happy ending.
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Drivers in Moretown, Waitsfield and Warren are now seeing flashing radar speed signs as they enter the villages and approach the elementary schools.
The flashing radar speed limit signs let drivers know their speeds and are intended to slow people down as they approach school zones. The signs are part of the Safe Routes to School program which is providing funding for sidewalks and other traffic and safety improvements for our schools and our towns.
Let's be clear here. We all want children have safe routes to school and we all want all drivers to respect our villages and respect our school zones and obey speed limit signs in our village and on all our roads.
But these flashing blinking signs actually create a distraction in an area where drivers need to be paying attention to other drivers, school buses, kids on bikes and kids on foot.
We are all familiar with these signs as they are often temporary and are moved around towns and villages to make people aware of their speeds. But they also make people check their speedometer against the sign and look back and forth several times. The signs are ugly and garish and take drivers' eyes away from the road in front of them.
These signs create visual pollution at the entrance to our village in Waitsfield and Warren and in the center of the village in Moretown. Is this how we want to enter our villages? With a flashing yellow light? Welcome to our quaint Vermont village where we are all proud that we have no traffic lights, except for these flashing yellow radar signs.
Can't we come up with more thoughtful and creative traffic calming measures? Aren't we that smart? Do we really need to have our gorgeous Vermont villages replicate urban and suburban sprawl?
For safety sakes could the signs in Waitsfield at least be moved further north of the school so that drivers are not looking at the flashing lights and their speedometer when they should be watching out for kids, buses and other drivers?
The signs, by the way, are programmable by each town and can be programmed to operate only at specific times or on specific days and/or when drivers are exceeding the speed limit.


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New York, NY, - January 20, 2015 - Joomla, one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS), announced today the launch of its new service: Joomla.com. Users can now create and build freely hosted Joomla websites. The project is run in partnership with SiteGround web hosting company, who has built the server infrastructure that will accommodate the free Joomla sites.
By providing an option to have a free hosted website for unlimited time, Joomla aims to become even more popular and to substantially increase its user base. The target users of the new service are people, who are currently choosing free hosted options with other website building solutions. The new service not only removes the hosting cost of setting up a Joomla website, but also makes it easier to get started. Launching a Joomla.com website takes just a few clicks.
The President of Open Source Matters Inc. Sarah Watz says: "I'm very excited because the new service at joomla.com makes Joomla! CMS a more accessible option than ever."
Joomla.com service provides all the basic standard publishing features of Joomla! CMS but has a limited expandability. It includes a nice set of pre-selected templates and several very useful pre-installed extensions like Google analytics, Google maps integration, Disqus powered comments and social media sharing options. The service may not be the proper solution for users who would like to create an advanced website with their custom code and their own choice of templates and extensions from the very beginning. However, websites started at Joomla.com can easily be developed later into full-fledged self-hosted Joomla projects without any limitations on extendibility.
According to Sarah Watz, the President of Open Source Matters Inc., the main reasons to use joomla.com instead of a self-hosted Joomla CMS are:
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- Free site name at the joomla.com subdomain (ex: mywebsite.joomla.com).
- Comes pre-installed with additional extensions, templates, and all available languages.
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- Can be moved at anytime to any hosting service.
- Joomla is one of the most popular open source CMS platforms used by millions of people around the world for almost 10 years and Joomla.com users can take full advantage of the already collected knowledge and the existing big and helpful community.
Joomla.com server infrastructure is built and will be supported by SiteGround web hosting company. The hosting partner of the project was chosen by Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM) among several candidates through a public RFP. Joomla.com users, who at any point decide to go self-hosted, will be free to move their website to any hosting company of their choice. However, if they choose to use a paid shared hosting plan by SiteGround for such a move, a substantial part of their hosting fees will be contributed directly back to the Joomla project.
"We are very proud to be a partner with Joomla in this project. It has been a great way for us to contribute back to the community with what we are best at: our web hosting expertise!" says Lilyana Yakimova, Marketing Manager of SiteGround.com.
About Joomla!
Joomla is one of the world's most popular software packages used to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets and mobile applications. With more than 3 percent of the Web running on Joomla and a CMS market share of more than 9 percent, the free open source software powers the web presence of hundreds of thousands of small businesses, governments, non-profits and large organizations worldwide like Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald's and Sony. The award-winning CMS is led by an international community of contributors helping the most inexperienced user to seasoned web developer make their digital visions a reality. Joomla's power and extensibility has resulted in its software being downloaded more than 60 million times.
About Open Source Matters, Inc.
Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM) is the not for profit organization, created to provide organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project.
About SiteGround
SiteGround is a leading web hosting company with a special focus on Joomla CMS. It has developed multiple security, speed and management optimizations for its customers who use Joomla. SiteGround has also been actively involved with the Joomla community by sponsoring, attending and/or lecturing at more than 40 Joomla events during the last three years. SiteGround is currently the official hosting partner of Joomla! for its demo service and its new free hosting service.
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The December issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
Feature Stories
Joomla! Selling the Solution, NOT the CMS!
A Fond Farewell to Joomla! 2.5
Let the World Hear Your Voice!
What do Italy and Mexico Have in Common?
Joomlers on the New Joomla! Volunteers Portal
Interview with Michael Babker
How to Install an SMTP Server in Joomla!
Why Migrate? And Then…How?
One Joomler's World Conference 2014 Experience
Happy As a Joomler, On a Beautiful Trip...
Upcoming Joomla! Events - December 2014
Latin Power in Joomla! World Conference 2014
CMS-Garden 2014 - It's growing!
Joomla Day Brasília: Rocking the Capital of Brazil!
Project News
Leadership Highlights December 2014
Taking over the Joomla! Bug Squad Lead
Adding Fields to com_content The Smart Way
International Stories
Un chaleureux adieu à Joomla! 2.5
Pourquoi migrer ? Et... comment ?
Un frenchie au Mexique
Comment renforcer le mot de passe d'administrateur de votre site...
Heureux qui, comme un Joomler, fait un beau voyage...
Comment Penguin 3.0 affecte vos sites Joomla!
Portuguese (Brazil)
Joomla Day Brasília: Rocking the Capital of Brazil!
Joomla Day Brasília movimenta a universidade
Зачем мигрировать? А затем ... как?
Как укрепить пароль супер администратора Вашего веб-сайта...
Применение основанного на ролях ACL...
Докaзательство основанного на ролях ACL...
Инвестирование в HTTPS важно для чистоты Вашего веб-сайта
Checklist antes de entregar tu sitio
Nuevo Virtuemart para Joomla! 3
Joomla! y Multisitios
Fuerza Latina durante la JWC14
Creando una plantilla frontend desde cero
Uso de imágenes para mantener el formato blog en Joomla! 3
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According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:
A 32-year-old Aiken woman was detained for shoplifting on Wednesday after putting two pairs of jeans in her baby's diaper bag and handing the bag to her 7-year-old daughter. While trying to exit the store in Aiken Mall, the woman saw a security guard and tried to remove the pants from the bag.
A 17-year-old high school student was detained for disorderly conduct on Thursday after creating a disturbance in the hallway of the school after confronting an assistant principal and school resource officer about why his car was searched.
A 44-year-old Florence man was detained for DUI on Friday after he was pulled over on Silver Bluff Road for swerving in his lane. The man was taken into custody after failing multiple field sobriety tests.
Two unknown men took five pairs of jeans from a store without paying in Aiken Mall on Thursday.
A trailer, two mini bikes, a pressure washer and lawn maintenance equipment were reported stolen from a store on Whiskey Road on Wednesday.
An unknown woman took a pair of shoes from a store without paying on Richland Avenue on Wednesday.
According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office:
A 64-year-old Bath man was detained for DUI on Thursday after being pulled over on Augusta Road for driving erratically. The man smelled strongly of alcohol and was taken into custody after failing multiple field sobriety tests. He measured a blood-alcohol content of .16 percent.
An Aiken woman reported a laptop and medication missing from her home on Fulmer Road on Thursday.
Deputies responded to an open door at a home on Briar Patch Lane in Warrenville on Thursday. They found no damage or signs of entry and secured the door.
Burglaries were reported on Hampton Avenue in Aiken on Wednesday and Robinson Street in Warrenville on Thursday.
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On Sunday, February 10, Adrienne Maloof and her ZING brand of vodka teamed up with R&B's Chris Brown to host a post-Grammys party at the Supperclub in LA.
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Renovating the temple of the Holy Spirit
I figured its about time that I got this journal going, with the goals I've set for myself I need to make sure that I keep myself driven, and knowing that other people will be viewing my routine will prevent me from slacking off. A little background on myself I've been on the independent circuit of professional wrestling about as long as I have been checking out this site 7-8 years. About 4 years back I completely tore my labrum during my tryout for the WWE farm system. I had a surgery to fix the problem, my shoulder never seemed to heal. Then I was in a car accident that injured my hip and lower back, went through physical therapy, but had to stop because of my second shoulder surgery. To make a long story short I was a mess, and turned to alcohol. Alcohol nearly killed me one night about a year and a half ago, that was when I made the best decision I had ever made and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Since then the Lord has blessed me by allowing me the ability to workout once again, and wrestle. I like to supplement all my workouts with faith, God spots me throughout every rep. The way I look at it God formed Adam from dust, thus he's going to be responsible for all the results I experience in the gym. Now as I continue to wrestle, I'm also being driven towards bodybuilding as well, which pro wrestling and bodybuilding go hand and hand. In June there's going to be an event in my town that I'm considering entering, if not this one definitely one down the road.
Here's the starting point for the year:
Jan 1:
Weight: 183.10
BF%: I have a digital caliper right now, and I don't think it's giving accurate readings, if I had to guess I'm between 8-10%
Neck: 16"
Arms: 15"
Forearms: 13.5"
Chest: 49"
Waist: 34"
Thighs: 23"
Calves: 15.5"
Let the fun begin...
I'll be following along, glad to see you ditched alcohol for Jesus!
James 1:16-17 ESV
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights
With God's help...Mens sana in corpore sano
Barbell Curls: 90lbs (6), 80lbs (8), 70lbs (10), 60lbs (12)
Preacher Curls: 100lbs (6), 90lbs (8), 80lbs (10), 70lbs (12)
Incline Dumbbell Curls: 35lbs (8), 30lbs (8), 25lbs (10), 20lbs (12)
High-Cable Curls: 50lbs (8), 45lbs (10), 40lbs (12)
Skull Crushers: 85lbs (6), 80lbs (8), 75lbs (10), 70lbs (12)
Weighted behind-the-back dip: 90lbs (6), 80lbs (8), 70lbs (10), 65lbs (12)
Close-grip Bench: 145lbs (6), 140lbs (8), 135lbs (10), 130lbs (12)
Tricep Pushdowns (used the one with the back rest to ensure good form): 100lbs (8), 90lbs (10), 80lbs (12)
Hanging Leg Raises: 3X10 BW
Exercise-Ball Crunch w/ medicine ball throw: 3X10 w/ 12lb ball
Reverse Woodchoppers: 3X10 30lbs DB
During my core training I would normally include a lower back, but today my back was still cooked from this weekend. I tell you my arms were dead, and they were holding on for dear life during the leg raises.
Jan. 6
Squats: 205lbs (15), 225lbs (12), 245lbs (9), 255lbs (7), 265lbs (7), 240lbs (9)
Leg Press: 540lbs (7), 600lbs (7), 500lbs (9)
Hack Squat: 270lbs (9), 320lbs (9), 230lbs (11)
Romanian Deadlifts: 245lbs (7), 265lbs (7), 235lbs (9)
Lying Leg Curls: 160lbs (9), 170lbs (9), 150lbs (11)
Was experiences some leg pain last night similar to the growing pains I had in my teenage years. With some coffee and loud music I didn't thick twice about it. On a bad note when I got to hack squats I was so focus that I hit my knee on a plate when I was walking in between machines, this didn't feel good on the last set.
Jan. 7
Exercise-Ball Push-ups: 2X15
Incline Bench Press: 135lbs (12), 145lbs (7), 155lbs (7), 140lbs (9)
Dumbbell Bench: 70lbs (7), 75lbs (7), 65lbs (9)
Incline Dumbbell Flys: 30lbs (10), 35lbs (10), 25lbs (12)
Uneven Push-ups: 2X15
Widegrip Lat Pulldowns: 180lbs (6), 170lbs (10), 160lbs (12), 150lbs (15)
Barbell Rows: 135lbs (10), 145lbs (10), 150lbs (10)
Widegrip Cable Rows: 120lbs (8), 110lbs (10), 100lbs (12)
Pull-ups: BW 3XFailure (really concentrated on the negatives)
Good Mornings: 95lbs 3X10
Hanging Leg Raises: 3X10 BW
Exercise-Ball Crunch w/ medicine ball throw: 3X10 w/ 12lb ball
Reverse Woodchoppers: 3X10 30lbs DB
I was finally able to start doing barbell press lifts about two months ago, I hadn't been able to do them since before my first surgery about 4 years back. The movements feel clean and I'm gradually getting stronger, so I've been very optimistic. I found the exercise-ball push-ups to be harder than they looked, it's recruited a lot of stabilizing muscles. Also I tried to focus on the upper lats today, an area that I've always had a difficult time developing. Besides fighting a cold it was a good day.
Jan. 8
Push Presses: 95lbs (8), 100lbs (8), 105lbs (8), 115lbs (8), 125 (6)
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Dumbbell Front Raises 5X8: 20lbs, 20lbs, 15lbs, 15lbs, 15lbs
Cable Laterals 4X12: 20lbs, 25lbs, 25lbs, 30lbs
Dumbell Shrugs 5x10 w/ 30 sec holds: 70lbs, 75lbs, 80lbs, 85lbs, 90lbs
Neck Raises 3X30: 25lbs, 30lbs, 30lbs
Tricep Rope Pushdowns 3X50
Cable Curls 3X50
Like I mentioned yesterday I'm gradually getting stronger in all my presses, shoulder feels great. On the front raises it started to fatigue pretty quick so I was forced to drop weight to not compromise form. All in all delts and traps felt great afterwards. I had a little time left over, so I wanted to trick my body a little bit. On the pushdowns and curls I started at a heavier weights and busted out reps without compromising good form, and continued to drop weight to ensure this until I reached 50 reps. Couldn't move my arms afterwards, but the pump felt great.
Jan. 9
Been sick all week this morning I was struggling, but managed to power through
Squats: 10, 10, 30, 30
Leg Extensions: 10, 10, 30, 30
Leg Curls 10, 10, 30, 30
Donkey Calf Raises: 10, 10, 30, 30
Leg Press Calf Raises: 10, 10, 30, 30
All the sets above were done w/ 30 sec rests between sets
Behind the Back Wrist Curls: 100lbs (12), (10), 90lbs (12), (10), 80lbs (12), (10)
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Dumbbell Holds 30 seconds per weight: 80lbs/70lbs, "" "", 70lbs/60lbs, "" "", 60lbs/50lbs, "" ""
Reverse EZ Bar Wrist Curls: Triple Drop
This forearms workout is phenomenal, the President put it together, if you're having trouble w/ your forearms giving out in other lifts this is definitely the program to be on. On a side note I got to pump myself up to get some cardio done, I'll post the results later.
Jan. 9
Like I've mentioned I'm battling a chest cold so cardio has been a task. Tonight I did the stationary bike:
5 min warmup
30 mins between 60-70% MHR
5 min cooldown
Tomorrow and Sunday I'll be mixing it up a bit, praying that this cold passes.
Jan. 10
Still sick, but feeling so much better than the last couple days, probably largely because I slept in today. Gym was over crowded, but once I got over to the free weights it was a ghost town.
Widegrip Pull-ups: 3 X Failure
Dead Lifts: 250lbs (12), 275lbs (10), 315lbs (8)
Widegrip Lat Pulldowns: 150lbs (12), 170lbs (10), 180lbs (8)
T-Bar Rows: 2 Plates (12), 3 Plates (10), 3 Plates + 1/4 (8)
One-arm Dumbbell Row: 55lbs (12), 65lbs (10), 70lbs (8)
Hanging Leg Raises: 3X10 BW
Exercise-Ball Crunch w/ medicine ball throw: 3X10 w/ 12lb ball
Reverse Woodchoppers: 3X10 35lb DB
20 Min HIIT followed by 20 mins of Moderate Intensity
Feeling good, we're just getting started though, push myself harder everyday.
Jan. 11
Day off from lifting, but hit up the cardio once again.
5 min warmup
20 min HIIT on stationary bike
5 cooldown
Mentally preparing myself for leg day tomorrow, time to get better.
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The accident occured at approximately 11:45 a.m. today (Saturday) at the intersection of U.S. 30 and Armstrong Rd.
No injuries have been reported and the accident is under investigation. A hazardous materials team is on the scene to contain the fuel leak.
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LEE COUNTY SPELLING BEE: Randolph wins his third straight spelling title
For the third time in as many years, SanLee Middle School eighth grader Hunter Randolph will represent Lee County at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., this spring.
The snowfall didn't stop close to 30 Lee County School students from participating in the third annual Lee County Spelling Bee Saturday, with bragging rights as Lee County's top speller remaining with Randolph.
The returning champion successfully made it through seven rounds in McLeod Auditorium at Lee County High School, ultimately winning by correctly spelling the word "snivel."
"It's fun," Randolph said. "It got a lot easier and it's something I enjoy."
Randolph said he's looking forward to representing Lee County once again in Washington and hopes to make it to the semifinals. The national organization constantly has events for the spellers to participate in and Randolph said he's made several friends during his previous trips. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is held each year in May.
West Lee Middle School eighth-grader Katelyn Taylor placed second, followed by Deep River Elementary School fifth-grader Garrett Gordon who placed third.
Organized by Lee County Partners for the Advancement of Gifted Education (PAGE) and co-sponsored by Lee County Schools and The Herald, the Lee County District Spelling Bee featured students in grades 3-8 who first proved their spelling skills in classroom and school-level bees.
Spelling bees are an American tradition, said PAGE President Brad Marin, who serves as the spelling bee coordinator.
"Thank you so much to our friends, family and community members who encourage and inspire our students in their schools and classrooms so they can be here today," he said.
The program is starting to see more and more repeat spellers, he said, and the students showed strong sportsmanship during the competition.
Marin said he wishes Randolph and his family the best of luck during the upcoming competition and he was proud to have the strong speller representing Lee County.
"I hope you all agree the spelling bee provides a valuable experience," Marin said before the start of the bee. "And if you do, I encourage you to volunteer at our local schools or contribute to our spelling bee fund."