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Time to throw in the towel? UPDATE
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels January 23, 2014 - 1:43pm
East Side Catholic, widely covered on dotCommonweal, made it big today: Front Page treatment by the NYTimes (print edition, January 23, 2013). Top people at the school have bailed. There is concern about future enrollment and current donors (though the story gives no data). The schools contradictory statements and decisions have it in a tangle. The students are in charge. Story here.
Time to close the school down?
Just for fun: the story is by Michael Paulson, once at the Boston Globe where he shut down Cardinal Law.
UPDATE: Given the direction of the discourse here and other relevant posts, perhaps I should have headlined this post: THE TOWEL WILL BE THROWN IN suggesting that the school is unlikely to survive the controversy, having nothing to do with the bishop or the church's teachings, as such, but with the conclusions, economic and political, of the parents of all the students (protestors and non-protestors as well as next year's applicants).
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Ms. O'Brien Steinfels, feel free to address me by my first name.
This article answers some of your questions.
Mr. Zmuda's marriage appears to have become public about 2 weeks before the firing.
Regarding an order to fire -- this article also offers insight:
Eastside Catholic president Sister Mary Tracy said she discussed Zmuda's case in person with Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain within the last two weeks and they had what she described as a collaborative conversation.
Sartain didn't give her an explicit order to fire Zmuda, Tracy said. Rather, "We were directed to comply with the teachings of the church."
I take that statement on its face. I submit it reveals a failure to act in a more thoughtful, pastoral fashion in this admittedly difficult situation. The Archbishop could have told her to focus on the totality of Catholic teaching, including the Catechism which teaches us that gay people MUST "be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity". He could have helped her come up with a different resolution that balanced the less authoritative teachings on this reality civil society calls same-sex marriage.
It is increasingly my belief that Sr. Tracy is someone, if she were permitted to excercise her wisdom, her understanding of the the core of Catholic teaching and her pastoral sensibilities, would have found way to not fire Zmuda. The Archdiocese and Sartain boxed her in.
Since resigning it is reported that Sr. Tracy sent this email:
I look forward to the day when no individual loses their job because they're married to a person of the same sex.
there was something in his contract that he violated.
That's a legal issue. My guess is that the school probably has a legal right to fire him if they want to do that.
But is it the right decision? I'd like to hear the reasoning of the person who made the decision.
Clearly, the Church teaches that sexual activity between persons of the same sex is sinful.
But, absent some other teaching that I've overlooked, that doesn't get you to:
"Church teaching forbids us to have a person in a same-sex marriage as a teacher."
Sartain didn't give her an explicit order to fire Zmuda, Tracy said. Rather, "We were directed to comply with the teachings of the church."
And those teachings are?
Did she understand that she had the option not to fire him?
Mr. Hayes-
I imagine people who think there is a conflict with "teachings of the church" to allow Zmuda to stay look to documents like this:
No doubt that broad swaths of the US Church in its "teaching" role has opted to go whole-hog into the fighting gay civil marriage business.
The question is -- have these teachings become so central that other teachings about acceptance, love and non-discrimination are trumped?
The Church could have taken a different pastoral course here and been far more neutral about same-gender marriage -- the same way it is largely neutral about laws regulating mixed gender civil marriage. The Church rarely weighs in (certainly not with the same resources) on liberalized divorce laws, etc. In specific cases such as Mr. Zmuda's, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" could easily work. Just like a Catholic employer does not and should not asked mixed gender couples if they are using contraception -- a Catholic employer should make no assumptions (certainly ask no questions) about 2 men taking advantage of civil laws which afford them certain legal rights and responsibilities. For all we know, getting married was just a way for two people who care for one another to share resources, pass on property, get health insurance, etc. For all we know, a civillly married gay couple may be following the advice of groups like Courage and living celibate lives. I wonder what the Church would do if someone like Zmuda were to declare - "But for these recent teachings on gay marriage, my same gender spouse and I are committed to Church teachings on sexual practice."
Ms. Steifels - Two things....the comments above about pastoral vs. rigid legalism is exactly why I quoted Francis on annulments and my own opinion that Sartain did not approach this pastorally.
Second, would suggest that the sister's resignation tells lots (yes, you are correct...no public statement that links this directly to Sartain and yes, a good reporter, etc., etc.)
In terms of your last question.....one reported story is that Zmuda was in a group of teachers who were discussing another teacher's plans to marry and the best route to order flowers, etc. Zmuda recommended a business that he and his partner had used....this story then made its way through the staff to the priincipal, etc. (myth or fact - who knows?)
Finally - concede that his employment can be terminated via the interpretation used. Does that make it wise? As I have posted previously, it is a narrow interpretation; it is hypocritical given that other situations even at Eastside also violate that interpretation and yet no action has been taken; it too often is a *don't tell, don't ask* approach (how moral is that?).
Okey, dokey, JACK @1:45 PM! You may call me Peggy.
Thanks for the links, parts of which remind me of the high octane emotional bubble adolescents live in.
Was Sister Tracy thrown under the bus? Maybe she did what her conscience dictated and resigned.
The news story you cite from December 19, 2013 ends with a quote from my favorite relief pitcher. He pretty much sums up the situation from a "this is how Catholic history works" perspective:
"Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest, author and former editor of America, a weekly Catholic magazine, said Catholic institutions tend to ignore an employee's sexual orientation and activities as long as those activities are not widely known. But entering into a same-sex marriage, he said, crosses the line. "Catholic institutions have been following 'Don't ask, don't tell' long before the U.S. miliary was," he said. In the 1950s and 1960s, he said, it wasn't unheard-of for people employed by the church to be fired if they divorced and then remarried. "We are seeing greater acceptance (of gay marriage) in American society — among young people and among a majority of Catholics," Reese said. "The church isn't going to be celebrating gay marriage, but eventually people aren't going to be fired for this kind of thing."
Jim Pauwels @ 1/24, 11:45 post captures what could be the way the situation will evolve:
"There are three components to this form of acceptance:
- The church recognizes that same sex marriage is a cultural reality
- The church holds that same sex marriage's cultural reality exists outside of the church - it is not part of the church. It is something from which the church, because of its religious beliefs, distances itself
- Even though same sex marriage is not of the church, the church acknowledges the prudence of existing amicably alongside the institution of same sex marriage. It treats people who are in same sex marriages with respect and love."
In between, for another project I have been reading (in addition to Robert Gates, Duty) Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present by Timothy Walch. Talk about making sausages! It is a miracle that there ever was/is a Catholic school system. Are we seeing its final days? That's what's been running through my fevered brain the last couple of days.
sorry for the repeated comments [MOS: repaired] - agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Marth and he also provided the link to the same reporter story that I was remembering.
Sartain like many current US cultural warrior bishops place rigidly imposed law over pastoral common sense and the good of a catholic community. Their *certitude* about same sex marriage reminds many of us about the same *certitude* exhibited for centuries about other non-negoitable issues e.g. slavery, democractic governance, end of the papal states, birth control, etc.
It is a version of our long tradtion of hierarchs acting like the Pharisees.
You wish you had leaders like the Pharisees.
On another note - would ask Sartrain to read John Noonan's book "A Church that can and can not change" - excellent summary by your husband published at NYT on May 22, 2005.
"In ''A Church That Can and Cannot Change,'' Noonan drives home the point that some Catholic moral doctrines have changed radically. History, he concludes, does not support the comforting notion that the church simply elaborates on or expands previous teachings without contradicting them."
OTOH - Mr. Steinfels does appear to ask the same questions you are asking:
"Such denial, still widespread, means that examining change in official teaching -- or what became known in the 19th century as ''development of doctrine'' -- poses two challenges: first, to establish that alterations -- some more than minor -- have unquestionably occurred; and second, to show how they can be reconciled with the church's claim to preach the same essential message Jesus and his disciples did 2,000 years ago, presumably deriving criteria that can help distinguish legitimate evolution in the future from deviations or betrayals."
"Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty reversed a long-held position that ''error has no rights,'' despite the fact that only a few years previously a theologian like John Courtney Murray, the Jesuit whose defense of American separation of church and state laid the groundwork for the decree, had been silenced. This kind of dramatic rehabilitation gives heart, rightly or wrongly, to critics of other teachings, like those on women's ordination or sexual morality."
Yet, he goes on to say:
"But do they offer insights that might aid Catholics in distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate developments in doctrine? In a negative sense, yes. Noonan believes in an unchanging element in Catholic teaching, a core continuity from Jesus to today. But from his cases he can deduce no rules of thumb to determine what falls within this continuity. His cases contravene the organic image of a gradual unfolding of latent truth. Nor does he find that categories like ''unnatural'' or ''intrinsic evil,'' meant to sort out the immutable from the mutable, make solid sense of past changes."
"He insists that genuine development arises from experience deepened by empathy. ''That your love abound more and more in knowledge and in insight of every kind so that you test what is vital,'' St. Paul wrote, and Noonan repeatedly refers to this linking of love, knowledge and insight. He closes with St. Augustine's rule of faith: a true understanding of divine revelation is one that will ''build up that double love of God and of neighbor.''
As Murray said well - *development of doctrine is the underlying truth of Vatican II"....if only the current episcopate understood that...guess we continue to wait and see when Vatican II will be truly tried and lived.
Bill deHaas @ 2:54: Yes, Pharisees, and not very bright ones at that (as Abe points out). But not sure the archbishop now in dotCWL's dock is among the worst. It's hard to compare.
Why did I want to know what Archbishop Sartain really said, if he said anything. In the good old days, wouldn't he have shown up at Eastside Catholic, fired Mr. Z, fired Sister Tracy, removed the lay board, and spent two hours lecturing everyone else?
Can't do that any more. Wouldn't do that any more. So he follows in the line of authority required by an independent school in the Catholic tradition, discusses Mr. Z with Sister Tracy, who does what she feels obliged to do as head of school in Catholic tradition, and who then resigns. I can't say I feel sorry for the archbishop, but I can imagine he is himself caught up in a system that is half way between authoritarian and contractual, i.e., sorta democratic, sorta liberal, and sorta Catholic.
Why don't we all read John Noonan's book and check back.
Thank you Mr. Rosenzeig! Your comment deserves its own posting.
How I long for a leader in my Church today with the wisdom of a Pharisee such as Gamaliel.
"Their swimming lessons?"
I thought the "S" in MOS stood for Steinfels, but I see that it is Snarky.
The lesson I mentioned above and I'll repeat here: "Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Micromanaged "religion" is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."
The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be.
Jim McCrea: Now we are blessed with little unthinking liberals!
BTW, that was not a snarky remark, but a social-psychological observation playing off Jim Pauwels comment about the photos of Mr. Z's girl supporters. Why not have a crush on your swimming teacher who happens to be gay. You can flirt all you want without fear of harrassment. Perhaps too vulgar an observation for you, but is it mistaken?
1) Do others concur with Mr. Pauwels' claim that the protests are dominated by girls?
2) I think it is misogynistic and condescending to "psychologize" these students' actions on the basis of some conjectured crush. If I were them, I would be even less inclined to listen to adults poo-pooing their actions.
Ms. Steinfels - think I know what and where you are going with your psychology but really - you sound like the recent Governor Huckaboo *libido and government sugar* comments.
Given what I exerienced and saw in Joliet (Sartain), your conjecture about *his caught in the middle* rings hollow. That is what pastoral leadership is about; not taking orders.
And to think in the 1970s - Hunthausen (must be rolling over in his grave)
MOS: for liberals (or anyone) to think in a manner with which you do not agree is not the same as unthinking.
Bill: Archbishop Hunthausen is retired, not dead.
I am going back to reading Robert Gates, but before I go:
Abe Rosenzweig: Re: "Conjectured Crushes, see Evolutionary Psychology and Psycholog Today.
On unthinkingness:
Jim McCrea "The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be."
Jim McCrea: "to think in a manner with which you do not agree is not the same as unthinking."
So which is it?
And to reassure you: I may agree with some of those unthinking little liberal high school students. I am just waiting to hear a real analysis from them. Can you head north and interview a few?
At ninety-two, Archbishop Hunthausen lives in retirement in Helena, his diocese of ordination and where he served as bishop from 1962 to 1975 before his appointment as archbishop of Seattle. He attended all four sessions of the Council and is the only survivor among the bishops of US dioceses, ordinaries and auxiliaries, who were present at Vatican II.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels wrote:
Jim McCrea: Now we are blessed with little unthinking liberals!
BTW, that was not a snarky remark, but a social-psychological observation playing off Jim Pauwels comment about the photos of Mr. Z's girl supporters. Why not have a crush on your swimming teacher who happens to be gay. You can flirt all you want without fear of harrassment. Perhaps too vulgar an observation for you, but is it mistaken?
Really? -- "little unthinking liberals". For someone searching for more evidence of Sartain's true role here and Sr. Tracy's true motivations this is remarkable for its sweeping generalization with no evidence to support it. Is it possible there are some students who simply got swept into the cool thing to do? -- no doubt. But it is also seems almost certain there are some really smart, thoughtful young men and women at Eastside who decided this was something that deserved a strong and well thought out response. I have the opportunity to spending some time with young men and women in Catholic schools in NYC and I know many who are dedicated, smart and well-instilled with tools of rational ethical analysis. They are mature and understand complexities of situations like this. Some of them could be categorized as liberal and some conservative. (BTW, I am certain there are students at Eastside involved in these protests who hold many other positions that would clearly be categorized as conservative. Don't assume just because they support this "liberal" protest, they endorse other "liberal" ideas.) I am sure students like the ones I know here in NYC exist at Eastside. It gives me great hope.
Harassment (sexual and otherwise) has little or nothing to do with orientation. What makes you think a gay male adult is incapable of harassing a female high school student? So yes -- I think you are very mistaken.
Conversely to assume young women at Eastside are involved in this movement because of a crush is as others have suggested, misogynist.
Finally -- do we really want to base any analysis of this situation on a superficial review of the faces seen in a few photos? Is there really any basis for this idea that more young women at Eastside are involved?
Finally -- do we really want to base any analysis of this situation on a superficial review of the faces seen in a few photos?
I don't.
Margaret - if Catholic education doesn't survive, I think it will primarily be because the basic business model doesn't work: religious sisters and brothers no longer staff the faculties at paltry wages (talk about slave labor!) and governments do very little to subsidize Catholic schools. In that unpromising economic landscape, Eastside seems like the kind of place that would survive, i.e. it seems to be in an upscale community (two seconds of Googling inform me that average household income is $100K+, and average home value is $500K+), in a relatively affluent part of the country. A lot of parents presumably can afford to pay full tuition and it's likely that there is a donor base of alumni and community members.
I doubt the now-resigned principal (or was she school president?) made the decision to fire Zmuda without the consultation and approval of the school board. Didn't the chairman also resign? Based on her post-resignation comment, I doubt her heart was in the firing. Maybe she resigned to remove what became an unresolvable conflict between her professional responsibilities and her personal views, as much as or more than whatever editorials are appearing in the Seattle newspaper.
Regarding Sartain: unless some more evidence is forthcoming, I don't suppose that his fingerprints are all over this firing, except to the extent that he pretty clearly signaled to the school board that if they fired Zmuda, he'd support that decision. Eastside is independent of the archdiocese. I'd be surprised if there isn't at least one diocesan priest on the school board; but if diocesan priests in Seattle are anything like the ones in Chicago, they aren't simple rubber-stamps or proxies for the bishop. Overall, I think the most straightforward way to understand the situation, and the way that is supported by the evidence we have, is that the school principal and school board made a controversial decision, basically on their own responsibility, and are now under fire for it.
"On unthinkingness:
Jim McCrea "The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be."
Jim McCrea: "to think in a manner with which you do not agree is not the same as unthinking."
So which is it?"
How does one of those statements contradict the other?
Abe Rosenzweig: Re: "Conjectured Crushes, see Evolutionary Psychology and Psycholog Today
The PT article seems to be on the level of Dr. Oz. The EP one made the rounds last year, and I read it then; it doesn't seem to have anything to it that is relevant to schoolgirl crushes on gay men. Neither article seems to support that reading of the situation. Plus, if you want to chalk this outcry up to some girls with a crush, you'd have to ignore the basic fact that teens are just more and more supportive of marriage equality.
In Hosanna-Tabor (which we considered in another thread) the Supreme Court decided that a church s has the right to appoint its ministers (or something like that), and (as I remember it) the decision viewed at least some teachers a ministers, and the Court decided that the church alone can decide whether or not a teacher is a minister.
It seems to me that these principles are perhaps the ones guiding the decision whether to terminate Mr. Z's employment. Implicit in the school's act seems to be the assumption that he is being a dissenting minister by teaching the students something contrary to Church belief and, therefore, he may not be a teacher in the school..
But does a civilly legal violation of a practice really *teach* the students something contrary to the Church's beliefs? I gather that Mr. Z. is not trying to persuade his students in class that the teaching of the Church is wrong. He is not a religion teacher or even a Humanities teacher in which the subject of gay marriage would likely become a topic. So I don't see how you can say he is a minister teaching the students a dissenting belief.
Perhaps the administration wants to hold that he is *showing* (by making the fact public) that he disputes the Church teaching, and I think that this is true -- he is doing that. But I do not think that that constitutes being a teacher who is dissenting minister of the Church. People say and show their dissent from Church teachings all the time (e.g., contraception, capital punishment), but those people aren't fired for speaking their non-authoritative mind. Why should Mr. Z be treated differently?
The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be.
Jim M.,
I was in Catholic high school in those long gone days, and I never heard that goal announced. (Well, I suppose anybody would be sly about something like that.) It's true that teachers weren't eager to field questions or hold debates on Catholic doctrine, especially if they had any aroma of dissent about them. And children, even teenagers, "knew their place." But it wasn't a time for questioning on much of anything in America. The Feminine Mystique was still several years in the future, and "Father Knows Best" and "love, honor, and obey" were the proffered models for womanly comportment. Jackie Robinson was playing for the Dodgers, and Rosa Parks had taken a seat, but the fire storm of the civil rights era was still a mere glimmer on the horizon, and "Colored" signs were still for sale in Southern hardware stores. Stonewall and Gay Pride and the great coming out in response to the AIDS epidemic were unimaginable still, and no one in the world was talking about, or probably even thinking about, same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws less than eleven years ago.
I am still amazed when I contemplate the breadth and speed of the changes I have lived through. With all our quarrelsomeness and turmoil and folly, I think we are a better people, more truly alive, more truly human than we were when I was young. And I give a fair share of the credit to those not so devious or benighted teachers in high school who helped mold me for this new world.
JM @1/25, 7:29 pm. "On unthinkingness:
Jim McCrea "The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be."
Jim McCrea: "to think in a manner with which you do not agree is not the same as unthinking."
So which is it?"
How does one of those statements contradict the other?
You call the Catholic schools of yore "unthinking" because you disagree with what presumably were their views on a variety of subjects, perhaps especially homosexuality (if the subject ever came up!).
I call the students of Eastside Catholic "unthinking liberals" and you say it's because I do not agree with their views.
We are both wrong, of course: you in your generalization about schools of yore (you should say some); I am wrong because of my generalization about students at Eastside (I should say some). Unfortunately, the one quote from a student in the newspaper went something like--I don't have to accept what the Catholic church teaches. That's not a reason or an argument; it's an assertion and a generalization.
Rita Ferrone wrote: If the students don't believe the school ought to follow Church teaching and the principal and staff doesn't either, the jig is up. They ought to found an independent Christian school, where the policies will reflect what their consciences demand.
It is different to doubt, to question Church teaching. I see no questions here, though, only certitude that the Church's teaching is wrong, that it is unjust to uphold it, and that it must be resisted wherever it occurs. It's a situation of seige and demand for an unconditional surrender. The principal resigned in the face of it.
That makes an assumption that the school doesn't want to follow Church teaching.
I have been trying (without much success) to address a much more limited issue, which runs like this,
- Even if you accept and support the Church's teaching that sexual activity beween people of the same sex is sinful,
- Even if you accept the 2003 CDF "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS" as teaching that you may not support the legalization of same sex marriages,are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda? Or is that a prudential decision for you [the school aithorities] to make?
So far, I think it is a prudential decision. In that case, you can argue that the school made the wrong decision without denying either of the two teachings I listed above.
Does anyone know of a Church teaching that says that a person in a same-sex marriage cannot teach in a Catholic school? The CDF document doesn't say that.
If it is a prudential decision, I think it's a great teaching opportunity for the school to explain its reasoning in arriving at that decision.
Sorry, a paragraph break got lost.
- Even if you accept the 2003 CDF "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS" as teaching that you may not support the legalization of same sex marriages,are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda? Or is that a prudential decision for you [the school aithorities] to make?
should have looked like this
- Even if you accept the 2003 CDF "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS" as teaching that you may not support the legalization of same sex marriages,
are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda? Or is that a prudential decision for you [the school authorities] to make?
I never went to a traditional Catholic high school: I went to 3 years of minor seminary in the late 1950s. No one can accuse THAT system of fostering critical thinking skills, at least not the one in the upper midwest that I attended! My last year was spent in a public high school which was marginally better at teaching one HOW and WHY to think.
Maybe some of the more traditional Catholic high schools were better at that, but I need to see proof of that. Again, I'm basing my experiences on the 1950s, the hey days of trimphal Catholicism in the US.
Grade school? Nope. Memorize and parrot back the catechism EXACTLY as written. Ditto for most other classes. The nuns I had were good but were also victims of the academic philosophy and milieu of those times.
Thank God I found the Jesuits in college!
Correction, Jim M. You don't find Jesuits. Jesuits find you. :-)
'It's true that teachers weren't eager to field questions or hold debates on Catholic doctrine, especially if they had any aroma of dissent about them."
John Prior ==
I don't doubt that this was true of boys schools, but I wonder if it was equally true in girls high schools. I remember, for instance, arguing in class in favor of the theory of evolution. Finally, dear old Sr. Vincent replied, "Well, maybe your grandfather was an ape, but mine wasn't". End of discussion :-) But she never held my argumentativeness against me -- she even invited me to be a nun! (No chance.) And I wasn't the only one who argued.
I suspect that the nuns' relative openness to argumentation in my day was strengthened in more recent decades -- and this is the reason why so many nuns are in trouble with the Vatican today and so few priests are. It also might be one reason why the Vatican is pathologically afraid of women -- they know our tendency to speak out.
It looks like maybe a priest "from the other end of the Earth" (one who even loved to tango!) will be the one who forces the Vatican elders to take a look at the reality of women.
When I was in the second grade and a know-it-all boy raised his hand and asked, Sister, Sister, what about Darwin? Sister Mary Bride replied, Tommy, God can create the world anyway he(she) wants! Okay, not the she, but she would have said "she" twenty years later.
Everybody should have gone to Catholic school in Chicago.
Ms. S. --
I strongly suspect that American Catholicism to the west of the lower Appalachian Mountains isn't exactly the same thing as American Catholicism on the East Coast.
Ann O.,
Judging from Sr. Vincent's reply to you, I'd say she was arguing that you and she were two different species, so it's really a question of taxonomy.
By the late 50s, there were still some holdouts, at least among elderly clergy, but I think the Church had largely, if warily, accepted evolution of the human body, though not the soul. You are probably right that even then nuns were not as troubled by interesting questions as some priests may still be. The secret, I think, is to frame the desired answer as a hypothetical: "I'm certainly not saying, Your Excellency, that the earth revolves around the sun. But see how that wholly fictitious model simplifies calculations."
Thus in the Eastside case, "Certainly, it would have been a grave matter if these two men had somehow contrived to marry each other. But it is the constant and unchangeable teaching of the Church that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Therefore, by definition, the two gentlemen could not have entered into it. As for their living together, it is well to assume that they are engaged in a program of collaborative scholarship. Let us implore Mr. Z. to return to his duties at Eastside in all honor, and we shall let the holy mist of forgetfulness settle over this unhappy time."
A little good will and centuries of careful phrasing will solve almost any problem. We are all part of that tradition.
John @ 3:30 am, you really have a flair for this sort of thing! Did you say Jesuits trained you? Wow, I wonder if even they could have come up with a response so cool. :)
"Correction, Jim M. You don't find Jesuits. Jesuits find you. :-)"
That's truer than you realize. My father had 2 first cousins (I guess I should say that I had 2 second cousins) who were Jebbies and they greased the necessary skids for me to sail into a Jesuit university in the upper Midwest in spite of the fact that my less-than-desirable high school education lacked a few of the necessary underpinnings to ensure admission.
It was upon matriculation, and only then, that I realized how poorly I had been educated in high school/minor seminary, and how much of a struggle life was going to be until I graduated. Critical thinking? I hadn't a clue what that meant, but I could parrot back in good automoton fashion what I had been told. The SJs painfully disabused me THAT practice in short order.
Yes, Rita, I owe a good deal to the Jesuits, though I fall well short of their hopes for those they teach. Yet I think they might say in all modesty that smoothing over difficulties with finely tailored words and arguments is not a practice that started with them, however much they have improved it.
Jim M.,
I was walking home from school with an eighth-grade classmate, and we were talking about high schools we might apply to. He mentioned a Jesuit high school that he had been told was very good. I had never heard of it, no adult had provided any counsel at that point, and Jesuits were only a rumor to me. Solely on the word of a twelve-year-old, I applied to it and was admitted.
Mysterious ways.
John Prior - I *love* stories like that. Particularly only a day after the story of the first disciples being called was proclaimed at Sunday mass.
If there's a prize for comparing small things with great, Jim P., you've won it. :-) But maybe they are all cut from the same cloth.
are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda?
JH: I think the critical fact is that people also teach by how they behave. You know, Do as I say, not as I do - doesnt really work.
John P - they absolutely are. Simple words, spoken at the right time, have the power to change our lives.
The scene has now shifted to Massachusetts. No students demonstrating, so far:
BOSTON (AP) — A Roman Catholic school rescinded a job offer after finding out its prospective hire was married to another man, the applicant alleged in a complaint filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination on Thursday.
Matthew Barrett, 43, of Boston, said he landed his dream job when Fontbonne Academy in Milton hired him as food services director last July. He went through three interviews and gave notice at his other job the same day as the offer.
But the offer was rescinded two days later when the head of school realized Barrett had listed his spouse as his emergency contact.
''She said the Catholic religion doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, and that was her excuse. She said, 'We cannot hire you,''' Barrett told The Boston Globe.
the school mission statement says:
Fontbonne Academy, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston, is a Catholic, college preparatory high school for young women. Fontbonne Academy fosters Gospel values and educational excellence. This inclusive community embraces diversity in many forms. Through the values of respect, responsibility, reconciliation and reverence, Fontbonne Academy promotes growth in spirituality, scholarship, and leadership of young women in the changing world.
they say that graduates have a 100% acceptance rate into four-year colleges.
Well, they are just being prudent. I'm pretty sure that Catholic school students normally turn first to the food services director for spiritual counsel. Besides, he might serve the girls a lesbian omelet.
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A massive critique on camelotunchained.com
I'll try to keep this short and let the pictures do the talking. This critique is brutal and unforgiving, but I promise to leave positive suggestions later on tonight.
Your website is very important. (VERY) Before someone will pledge you can bet they will come to your website looking for information.
Most important (and bare minimum of expectations) information to provide:
1) What the game is about.
2) Features of the game, why be interested in this one over all the rest.
3) Media, screenshots, concept art, teasers, interviews.
Let us take a journey of an interested person that visits your website.
I scan the page looking for something interesting. Finding nothing of interest, I more than likely press the back button, but lets pretend I click the "Features" tab.
Clicking on the features tab brings me to page that isn't about features, but might as well have been named "Stuff".
The things most interesting on the page are the media ones, videos and concept art.
I click on videos and watch the animated/slideshow teaser. That is literally the extent of the media to be found on the website.
Underwhelmed and unimpressed, I go back looking for more. The only other potentially interesting thing being the "Foundation Principles".
This is actually a more digestible view than the actual foundation principles page. Assuming there are a finite amount of principles, they need not be displayed in a news feed fashion.
Assuming I am a fanboy, I might actually click on these and read them despite the headline. But because I'm roleplaying a normal human being right now, I will look at the picture and headline and that will decide if I read the article. Actually I don't know if these are articles or features yet. I'm still hopeful that they are features. Realizing that the images have nothing to do with the captions, I scan the captions, attractive images first, to see if theres anything that sounds interesting.
Because most of the headlines read like the beginnings of a rant or hashing out the beginnings of an idea (which is what they are), as a normal human being I more than likely close the tab at this point. But if I'm just the stubbornest web user in the world, determined to find information about some fucking game thats trying to raise $2 million, I click one of the FP's and read it.
Ok so the FP's is the last chance you get on your website to get the attention of the user and get them excited about the project. Most people don't click the news tab, thats why the latest news is usually put on THE FRONT PAGE of websites.
So I'm met with a wall of text. Again as a normal user, I click the back button at a wall of text. I just wanted some bullet points on a feature. If that interests me, I'll read your goddamn wall of text. Ok so lets pretend that the user has literally nothing else to do so they read the wall.
Ok. Great. Mark Jacobs doesn't like gold sellers. Granted not all of the FP's are this uninteresting, you mixed the good ones in with stuff that nobody cares about. God forbid they read that first, if they do, they are gone and not looking back. Though it is highly unlikely they even made it to the FP's in the first place.
I'd have some super quick and awesome ways to help you fix this website and kickstarter if you actually had some content to provide written down somewhere, but you don't. Its sprinkled across the FP's and hours of interviews.
I shit you not MJ/CSE, your kickstarter would have already hit $2 million if you were prepared. Yes I is mad bro, frustrated with how unprepared you are.
Even if you have an ace up your sleeve to present at $1 million, with the state of your public website as such a shoddy clusterfuck and lack of information about the game I am surprised we made it to $1 million in retrospect.
Should have been a $3 million to $5 million KS.
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Brutal. But I have to agree. We can get others to your site, but you have to do the selling.
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"If men were created equal, then what happened to game developers?"
As a Web Designer/Developer for almost 5 years now and degree's to support, I approve of this messege. Its almost like they used one of those sites that puts a website together for you in 10 minutes. Doesn't really shine a good light on a project your trying to get the public to fund for. Cmon Mark! <--------as ESPN announcers say.....
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i agree 100%.....I mean they are asking for millions, and gave us nothing to view of their work.
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Originally posted by mackdawg19
Literally takes about 3 seconds to figure out it is a wordpress site with a theme called smartstart that has been modified.
I personally have nothing against wordpress in general, I use it for some of my own clients who have very little knowledge about anything web related or very little time/money to spend so discounting a site on that basis alone is not really fair. My guess is they went that route to concentrate their clearly limited resources (related to this project at least) on things that make sense in the short term. While it doesn't have the pop that many imagine it should, one must remember what stage their process is actually at.
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It's good to press some tough love but isn't this sort of thing to be expected with a small company? Maybe once the kickstarter is funded, they will get it done professionally.
(though I do think your critique is very much needed for potential backers)
Wordpress is fine, there is nothing wrong with a canned solution, its what I recommend to friends because $money$.
And I know MJ and CSE aren't web developers or marketers its not their thing.
But you can't overlook not having any content. Theres no content, no concept art, boring teaser, the interviews aren't there.
If you ask someone else for money, be it interviewing for a job or funding a project, you need to sell your idea. The biggest problem is the idea is a chore to find on CU.com. And CU's idea is pretty vague and sparse if you even know the details. But the details are spread out through 13 essays and hours of interviews.
They can fix their website. Its not hard. Thats why we critique, so that change can be made based on the critique.
If there is any doubt to how important your website is when you're trying to sell an idea, let there be no doubt.
If mistakes are made, better to voice it now, when there is plenty of time to fix the problem, than wait to the end of the KS and have a whiney retrospect.
Lets point out the problems now, I think there is plenty of time left. Yeah it could have been a $3 - $5 million KS if things were prepared correctly, but theres still time to patch things up for a $2 million KS.
Have to agree with most of the OP. The whole bottom of the first page, with the whirling scrolling banners, should be information people search through once they've decided they want to learn more.
Take that out, give a succint description of the game, what you want it to be, and why it should be Kickstarted.
Put all the rest of that stuff under the Feature tab, but maybe rename it DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES.
The home, or landing page, should entice people to learn more and excite them enough to keep clicking.
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Such a shame none of you people that are telling this company what to do actually work for that company. I mean with all your ideas everything is bound to work out, right?
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
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If you get a bad piece of meat at a restaurant, would you go to the chef and say, "This is rancid, but I'm not gonna tell you that, cuz I don't work here?"
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Once again peopel confusing how investments and projects work.
This is not a website for a developing game. This is a website for a game seeking funding for development. They're not going to waste money and resources creating videos and screenshots and art assets for a game that may not get developed.
All the information you need to make your decision is contained within the foundational principles. If you're too lazy, ignorant, or stupid to read it, thats not their problem, and as you can see from kickstarter, they're clearly not having issues with funding.
So guess what that makes you.
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Originally posted by Hrimnir
...point is they SHOULD of had thier own website or design for the game by now.......I mean I can come up with some great concepts and ideas and say if i get funded ill hire some great designers and artist......see the point yet?
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Originally posted by Hrimnir
You are correct......to a degree...
45 minutes spent laying out he site properly using existing content could mean a world of difference!
also home page should scream what the game is about and what everyone is missing without it being published
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Originally posted by Hrimnir
Yup. That Massively review is so irrelevant to me rigth now.
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Originally posted by Hrimnir
I'm a backer, so, not sure what that makes me except...a backer.
The point was for people who know nothing at all about the game. The website should invite them in and be easy to use. You don't need much more than what they have, they just need to organize it a little.
Also, the funding is good so far, but it looks to be all hard core people making high pledges. The number of backers is low for as much money as they've pledged, which leaves a huge hole on the bottom tiers. If a bunch of people change their minds and lower their pledges, it could pull the rug right out from this thing. It would be much better to get the number of backers up and have lower pledges. That's why you need people who just learned of the game to pledge. They'll throw in 25 bucks or so if it's something they are quickly turned on by.
Thanks for the ad hominem attack, though.
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Appreciate the free publicity!
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Originally posted by Hrimnir
and this high handed atitude is where the real issue is.
the problem here is the difficulty for average people to get iinformation wwho arnt already intrested in the game, because until you become intrested in it you wont do research on it, so unless someone gets you intrested you wont ever become that.
saying that thats its not thier problem is just wrong because it is, by not putting on clear concise information for non fan boys to understand you are cutting off huge amount off possable intrest and more backers.
ANY person looking to get someone to invest in thier project would have out togther a good portfolio before presenting it, why should the gameing community as a whole not get the same respect.
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I agree. You can take the content and present it better then it is in little time. I was thinking that if the FPs had bullet points or better summaries they would be much easier to read and might attract more attention.
Originally posted by Hrimnir
This is exactly the kind of fan service that will see this game unfunded. You're your own worst enemy and you don't even see it.
1) Creating a compelling presentation is step one. It isn't wasting money. A basic about and features page should have come before foundation principles because its more important. There is already concept art, its just a bunch of dragons and characters of the team.
2) It isn't enough information because there are plenty of people waiting for more information.
3) Oh yes it is CSE's problem, it is precisely their problem if people aren't reading the FP's. Did that sound cool in your head when you were thinking it? Cause you couldn't have made a more incorrect statement.
4) 1 million in a week might seem like this is a guaranteed success but the interested parties already blew their load, and pledges aren't coming in fast enough now. But their is plenty of time to recover, so I don't see why people like you are so resistant to any and all suggestions. Hope over strategy?


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There wasn't a whole lot new in this chunk of the Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs, which Yukari Kane mostly focuses on Apple CEO Tim Cook and his characteristics that are often the opposite of Steve Jobs. Cook is a character but not the same character that brought Apple to its current success.
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As tough as Cook was reputed to be, he was also generous. He gave away the frequent-flier miles that he racked up as Christmas gifts, and he volunteered at a soup kitchen during the Thanksgiving holidays. He had also participated in an annual two-day cycling event across Georgia to raise money for multiple sclerosis; Cook had been a supporter since being misdiagnosed with the disease years before. "The doctor said, 'Mr. Cook, you've either had a stroke, or you have MS,' " Cook told the Auburn alumni magazine. He didn't have either. His symptoms had been produced from "lugging a lot of incredibly heavy luggage around."
An earlier piece in the New Yorker online edition painted a dreary picture of Apple post Steve Jobs and the video above does delve into that viewpoint a bit.
Apple's latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 7, looks pretty but is full of bugs and flaws. As for innovation, the last time Apple created something that was truly great was the original iPad, when Jobs was still alive. Although the company's C.E.O., Tim Cook, insists otherwise, Apple seems more eager to talk about the past than about the future.
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[Has Apple lost its touch? Are they still King of the Hill?]
KANE: I think the answer is obvious to me. The answer has got to be yes. This is a company who had revolved around Steve Jobs for so long, I mean that was something that Jobs himself went out of his way to make sure of. And the people there are conditioned to operate, to play off of his strengths and weaknesses. And so now you've got this completely opposite guy in Tim Cook, who is I think brilliant in many ways, but in different ways. But so they're going through some growing pains in that.
Meanwhile, Publishers Weekly has the following review of the book:
Jan 27, 2014 – The globe-bestriding computer-maker loses its soul in this lively business history. Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Kane follows Apple after the 2011 death of founder Steve Jobs as the company's knack for conjuring breakthrough i-gadgets lapsed into a series of ho-hum upgrades, misfires like the befuddled artificial intelligence app Siri, and interminable patent lawsuits, while market share, profits, and stock price eroded. Kane makes the story a study in CEO leadership styles, contrasting Jobs's visionary bluster with his successor Tim Cook's icy bean-counting and the histrionics of Samsung's "wise emperor" Lee Kun-hee, whose quality crusade involved burning an entire factory's inventory in front of its weeping employees. Kane unearths plenty of colorful material here, including lawyerly jousting, hilariously lame new-product unveilings, and conference-room psychodramas between bullying execs and groveling underlings. The author's great-man theory of Jobs's "unfiltered" leadership as the indispensable motor of Apple's innovation doesn't explain much; her unusually rich dissection of Apple's ugly dealings with its FoxConn manufacturing partner suggests that Cook's merciless wringing of profits out of exploited Chinese labor is as much the soul of Apple as Jobs's oft-hyped intuition for design. Still, this well-paced, vividly detailed narrative reveals the machine surrounding the Jobsian ghost at Apple and brings the company's high-flying mythology down to earth.© Publishers Weekly
We're getting an advanced copy this week which we don't expect to be as pessimistic and the publicity-generating excerpts above. Interesting bits will be posted here.
Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs is available March 18th from Harper Collins ($12.74 Amazon/$14.99 iBookstore)
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Comparing Tim to Steve is yet another false premise cooked up by self-appointed expert who prognosticate about Apple.
What if Apple did not have Tim Cook for the last 15 years? Without Tim, would Apple have ramped up the volume of iOS products nearly flawlessly? I doubt it. And without that volume would iOS remain the pre-eminent SmartPhone/Tablet ecosystem?
No one can answer such a hypothetical.
In the 6 years since the 2007 iPhone launch, Apple (not just Steve and Tim) built a $125B iOS business. It's not realistic to ask for anything like this again. Tim wisely is NOT trying crazy ideas to make a name for himself. Years from now, people will fully comprehend his contributions.
I've noticed since Tim's taking over, across Apple's App store and iTunes store, only top content can be seen. No longer can a user browse the most recent and see new content added by date, title etc. This means that other content can only be found via manual search. I'm not sure if anyone at Apple noticed this or why they changed it since iOS7, but if they're making money from each sale, I think the obvious thing to do is to allow all content to be viewed without having to do manual searches.
As an artist and a buyer of music, apps and games for my kids' iPads including myself. Our devices have become some what boring since the inability to browse the stores for content that may seem interesting to us. Obviously, each of us seeks different things based upon our likes and what Apple has done is forcing us to only see what they want us to see, the truth is, I don't open the Appstore unless I'm searching for an app for my Mac that is needed (this is where the search function comes handy) and ignore what Apple places on their top 200. Other content must be searched and this can only be done if the names are known, or possibly tags.
I am hoping, the developers at Apple restores the functionality to browse the Stores the way we used to. What sense is there to add content to the App store, or even seek to purchase content if one cannot browse categories by date, name etc? I already know what is at the top, but this doesnt mean I care to purchase the content at the top. Some of the best apps, games and music are hidden in Apple's stores and they're missing out on sales, and at the same time, the owners are not getting results, which in turn will cause many of us to remove our content.
Once upon a time I used to redeem about $75 USD in iTunes gift cards every month.
Apple needs to think again.
These negative articles are just click-bait. Either that or these authors just don't get it, but that is no unusual – many journalists and analysts just don't get Apple, never have, and never will.


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The role of the GCB German Convention Bureau e.V. is to secure and further develop Germany's position as a leading and sustainable location for meetings and events. The organisation is perfectly placed to help anyone organising an event in Germany: the GCB represents German event organisers and markets Germany nationally and internationally as a location for meetings, incentives, congresses and events.
General Information
The GCB offers event planners a network of expert service suppliers across the whole of Germany as well as providing them with independent advice for the choice of an event location. Approximately 200 members represent over 450 enterprises. This includes top hotels, conference centres, regional marketing organisations, event agencies as well as service suppliers operating in the German meetings and conferences sector. The strategic partners are Germany´s national railway company (Deutsche Bahn AG), the German airline Lufthansa AG and the German National Tourism Board (GNTB).
With educational trips and site visits, the GCB gives national and international event planners the opportunity to look at services in the German meetings and conferences sector. This includes customer events in important source markets as well as a presence at IMEX in Frankfurt and other important trade fairs.
Our services
The GCB reports on the latest news of the German meetings industry using social media channels such as twitter and facebook. The GCB website features a newsroom with the latest press releases and the GCB blog. The monthly newsletter with a selection of the most interesting press releases can be ordered.
Newspaper "Meetings made in Germany"
Both modern and compact, the "Meetings made in Germany" magazine is published three times a year and presents new developments at the GCB and in the German meetings and conference sector.
The GCB also reports on new developments in the German meetings sector via online channels such as their news blog, various Twitter channels, Facebook and a monthly e- newsletter.
Register here and keep up-to-date: www.gcb.de/en/newsroom
Annual report
The GCB annual report gives an overview of the GCB's activities and an outline of future activities.
Fairs and conferences
IMEX – incorporating Meetings made in Germany, the worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events 19-21 May 2015 in Frankfurt
IMEX is the world's leading trade fair for the conference, meeting, events and incentive sector. The GCB is a strategic partner of IMEX. It organises and co-ordinates the German-language seminar programme and the Germany stand with over 200 exhibitors. Further information is available at: www.imex-frankfurt.com/
Berlin Wall Tour – the once divided city
It is the most important symbol of the Cold War and the division of Berlin and Germany. Embark on a journey back in time and learn more about the history of the Berlin Wall. You are leaving the American sector!
Lufthansa Flight Training Center
Take a seat in the simulated cockpit of a giant commercial airliner and learn how to take off, fly and land a behemoth of the skies. Also see how it feels to deal with emergencies such as a fire on board, the loss of cabin pressure or a splashdown. A great experience!
Germany as a country for conventions – number one in Europe
In a European country comparison, Germany tops the list: for the tenth year in a row Germany ranks number one in Europe and second worldwide as a destination for meetings and conventions.
Good reasons for holding events in Germany
There are a number of reasons behind Germany's leading position on the international stage for meetings and conventions. In addition to the outstanding price/performance ratio and an exemplary infrastructure, Germany has comprehensive know-how in many areas of science and the economy as well as a position at the forefront in terms of sustainability.
Germany's infrastructure: virtually unequalled in the world!
The Global Competitiveness Report for 2012-2013 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) highlights Germany's outstanding position in terms of infrastructure: in a worldwide comparison Germany takes third place in the 'infrastructure quality' category. The report highlighted in particular the first-class infrastructure in all areas of transport. Approximately 40 airports, 12,850 kilometres of motorway and a rail network amounting to nearly 33,500 kilometres guarantee a simple and swift journey to Germany as well as seamless mobility within the country – which means substantial time-saving.
Green Meetings
Sustainability is a key issue in the meetings and events industry. The GCB works to reduce the use of resources and CO2 emissions in its activities and is environmentally driven, both within the organisation as well as in the German events sector. The GCB functions as a catalyst for the establishment of sustainable meetings as a standard practice. Nearly 40% of German meetings and events industry suppliers have already implemented a sustainability management system in their organisations.
Anyone interested in organising a carbon-neutral event can also calculate the carbon footprint for their event on the GCB website: www.gcb.de/de/green-neu/co2-rechner
Right and fair
In order to respond to the growing interest in sustainability and responsible argumentation in the event sector, the GCB German Convention Bureau e. V. and the European Association of Event Centers (EVVC) suggested the development of a joint sustainability codex based on the results of the Green Meetings and Events Conference 2011. The aim of this agreement is to create a unifying "green umbrella" for the event sector.
For more information visit: www.gcb.de/en/greenmeetings/sustainable-gcb
GCB Uses Key Industries to Market Germany as an Events Destination
As a point of contact for events planners, the GCB German Convention Bureau e.V., is aware that a decision on the location for a meeting does not depend only on criteria such as accessibility, capacities, equipment and service, but also increasingly on whether the location is surrounded by relevant establishments – companies, associations, universities and research institutions. The advantages of such a network are obvious: it creates organisational synergies, gives participants at conventions valuable contacts and facilitates relevant programmes such as guided factory tours or visits to laboratories.
There are six areas of expertise in particular in which Germany's locations set the trend across the world and provide ideal contexts for meetings:
Event planners can find suitable locations for meetings and conventions: www.gcb.de/en/key-industries/key-industries-in-germany
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FCC to investigate Verizon's $2 convenience fee
After yesterday's news that Verizon would be charging a $2 fee for paying bills online and over the phone, the FCC has chimed in.
"On behalf of American consumers, we're concerned about Verizon's actions and are looking into the matter," the statement said.
A lot of subscribers have spoken out against Verizon's decision to institute this new convenience fee. It'll be interesting to see what the FCC ultimately decides to do, and what if any effect that has on other networks like Sprint which don't "surcharge" but do offer "discounts" for their preferred payment options. (Ve
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FCC to investigate Verizon's $2 convenience fee
My ass for the american consumers.
There probably customers themselves, there not going to want to pay the extra fee so thats why there looking into it.
On behalf of American consumers: no thanks Johhny, we aren't interested in your ass.
I'm sure FCC's (and not customer complaints) had something to do with VZW's decision to back-track on the fee.
21st Century insurance charges 3.25 for online or over the phone payments, AT&T charges 5 bucks to pay over the phone (if you waste a representative's time; the automated system is free). I haven't heard of any govt "concern" about either of these businesses.
I can see AT&T's point - they have to pay the rep for needless transactions, but 21st Century has no such excuse.


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Jason M. Weisenthal was working in the children's shoe business in New Jersey when he moved his family to Maryland five years ago. With the move, he was looking for a new business venture.
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It wasn't until the company increased its content that things turned around. In addition to custom images of children playing baseball or a company logo, the company now offers more than 20 million images from suppliers including National Geographic, Getty Images, Corbis and Fotolia.
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"It's a unique business model. We hold no inventory, so we don't print anything until the order comes in," he said. "If you want a dog to be 24 inches tall, that is exactly how we will print it."
The materials are all made in the U.S. and are recyclable, and the inks are eco-friendly, he said. The decals are lightweight and affordable, apply easily and remove easily. In addition to walls, they stick to other surfaces, including cars, mirrors and bricks.
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Apple accidentally launching, revoking international iTunes TV, iTunes Match services
Last week an iTunes TV show menu suddenly started showing up on international Apple TVs, didn't work, and subsequently disappeared. This week iTunes Match suddenly started showing up for international iTunes users, didn't work, and Apple subsequently offered refunds to those who'd tried to purchase it.
So, we'd suggest waiting until a) Apple makes an official announcement about iTunes Match in your country, or b) significant reports come in of it actually working, before c) you give them any money for it.
Whether or not Apple is planning to officially launch iTunes TV shows and iTunes Match in more regions and someone accidentally lent on the big red "launch" lever at iCloud central a tad early -- twice -- or there's some stranger problem going on is uncertain.
International licensing agreements are complex. Cloud services are complex. But false starts and pull backs seem decidedly un-Apple-like.
Here's hoping iTunes gets their international launches back in order, and officially out the door, asap. If you saw either the here-today-gone-tomorrow TV show menu on Apple TV, or tried and failed to buy iTunes Match outside the US and Brazil, let us know in the comments below.
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Apple accidentally launching, revoking international iTunes TV, iTunes Match services
Subscribed in UK and got receipt from iTunes store, Match appeared briefly in my iTunes sidebar but only led to Genius. Error message advised to log out and log in again - this removed reference to Match. I'm now trying to get the money back via Express Lane help.
Nearly the same experience here in UK. I logged a service request with Apple and had email back apologising and informing me of refund. iTunes Match now shows 'Renew" on my iTunes Account page.
seriously - this all happened when Steve died. Remember how their website went down (apple's) due to excess traffic after a product launch? how come this was avoided while steve was alive?
did his staff honestly only do whatever he said and not ever think on their own with successful results (therefore one possible explanation of the problems since his death)? And if so, can't they just start pretending they hear his voice commanding them in their heads and go on about making some successful product launches rather than all of these unimportant but decidedly un-apple-esque glitches?
just my 2 cents worth.
What a mess. I can understand someone messing up and publishing a link for a few minutes, but several DAYS? And nobody there noticed?
If it was not Apple, this post would be full terms like "pathetic", "disorganized" etc. Once again they get a free pass and we get a list of suggestions like it was our fault to assume that a link on Apple's page was supposed to be official enough.
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Begin your journey to Columbus, Ohio, by first choosing the perfect hotel to suit your taste and budget. Whether traveling to Columbus for business or pleasure, the hotels in Columbus will surround you with incredible entertainment, shopping, galleries, museums and fabulous dining.
Each neighborhood in Columbus has its own distinct character. Downtown is a center of urban activity, host to the Convention Center, the Arena District and the ever-popular Short North District that stretches all the way to the south end of the University. These areas offer an amazing variety of lodging options, from contemporary to quaint, professional to family friendly, upscale to budget.
If you prefer something a bit more intimate, a boutique hotel in Columbus' German Village is your ultimate destination. Explore the amazing architecture as you stroll through the streets that are lined with shops, galleries, and cafes. You'll feel as if you have been transported across the ocean and through time.
Planning a visit to OSU? Check out The Blackwell, the only on-campus hotel and conference center at Ohio State University. It is known for its quality service. If The Blackwell doesn't fit your needs, there are many other choices conveniently located nearby.
Columbus is a diverse city filled with many incredible and affordable hotels. Make your selection and let your adventure begin.
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A star-studded all-female line-up of comedians is taking to the stage on 24 September at the Bloomsbury Theatre in support of Stonewall. Girls' Night Out will feature comics including Shappi Khorsandi and Zoe Lyons, and will help raise funds for the charity's Education for All campaign, which helps teachers, schools and local authorities tackle and prevent homophobic bullying.
Also leading the laughter are Kerry Godliman, Francesca Martinez, Leisa Rea, Suzi Ruffell and Maureen Younger – with more acts to be announced. Jen Brister is MC for the evening, which is supported by g3 magazine.
Stonewall Director of Fundraising Catherine Bosworth said: 'We're hugely excited to introduce the Stonewall Comedy Gala with Girls' Night Out. There's a fantastic range of talent all performing for Stonewall, promising a hilarious evening which will help us create a better future for gay young people.'
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