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This is the latest of our 30 team previews, which will run through March 19. Previous: Texas Rangers preview. Next: Seattle Mariners preview.
The Los Angeles Angels were the biggest story in baseball during the 2011-12 offseason, proud new owners of Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson and projected to contend for a World Series title.
Instead, after a poor start to the season, the Angels finished third in the AL West.
This winter, the Angels made yet another enormous splash, snatching free-agent slugger Josh Hamilton away from division-rival Texas Rangers and again becoming the favorites to win the AL pennant.
Despite a disappointing 2012 season, the Angels did enjoy one massive positive: Mike Trout.
With Trout atop a lineup that features Pujols, Hamilton and Mark Trumbo, among others, Los Angeles' offense should be staggeringly good. Trout had one of the great rookie seasons of all time—he became the first player ever to steal 45 bases, score 125 runs and hit 30 homers in a season.
Hamilton, of course, comes with a few uncertainties, including a history of nagging injuries and past issues with substance abuse. But he did hit 43 homers and drive in 128 runs last season.
Pujols, who signed a $240 million deal before last season, was batting .190 with one homer on May 8, but the superstar first baseman finished with a .285 average and 30 homers (both career lows but still impressive). He also had a team-high 105 RBIs.
The rest of the Angels' lineup is solid, and although there were concerns about Trumbo's second half drop-off (his average slipped from .348 on May 30 to .268, and he hit five homers in the final two months), he led the team with 32 homers and drove in 95 runs.
Los Angeles did lose a significant free agent when right fielder Torii Hunter, coming off one of the best years of his career at 37, signed with the Detroit Tigers.
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The Angels also addressed their bullpen during the offseason.
Ernesto Frieri had an outstanding 2012 season with 80 strikeouts and 23 saves, but he will move into a setup role because the team signed free-agent closer Ryan Madson. Madson missed 2012 with the Cincinnati Reds after Tommy John surgery, but he saved 32 games for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2011. Lefthanded reliever Sean Burnett was also added.
It's a good thing the bullpen looks solid because the rotation might need to lean on it often. The Angels lost Zack Greinke to free agency, declined Dan Haren's option and traded Ervin Santana. To replace them, LA acquired two midlevel starters, picking up Tommy Hanson in a trade with the Atlanta Braves and signing Joe Blanton. And then the team made another bold move. With Hamilton on board, they shipped DH Kendrys Morales to the Seattle Mariners for lefthanded starter Jason Vargas.
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Of course, Los Angeles still has two of the league's top starters in Wilson and righthander Jered Weaver.
The Angels also have two of the best sluggers in the game and one of the best managers—and the best all-around player in baseball.
What Los Angeles, which has missed the playoffs for three consecutive seasons, must do is avoid another slow start (8-15 last April) and any extended slumps (18-24 right after the All-Star break).
The playoffs aren't just possible, they're expected.
1. LF Mike Trout
2. SS Erick Aybar
3. 1B Albert Pujols
4. RF Josh Hamilton
5. DH Mark Trumbo
6. 2B Howie Kendrick
7. 3B Alberto Callaspo
8. C Chris Iannetta
9. CF Peter Bourjos
RHP Jered Weaver
LHP C.J. Wilson
RHP Tommy Hanson
LHP Jason Vargas
RHP Joe Blanton
* RHP Ryan Madson
* Expected to start the season on the disabled list
Mr. Dependable: Jered Weaver. The righthander leads a far less heralded rotation than the one that broke camp last season. There now seems to be Weaver and four questions, including Wilson. Weaver has finished in the top five in the AL Cy Young Award voting in each of the past three seasons, and he led all AL starters last season with 20 wins, a 1.018 WHIP and 7.0 hits per nine innings
X-factor: Mike Trout. Following up a historic rookie season with something better is a tall order, but Trout wasn't an ordinary rookie in 2012. In fact, he had a strong case for being the league's MVP. If he doesn't slump in his sophomore season, he will make the Angels' lineup the best in the majors. If he does slump, LA will be in trouble.
On deck: Mark Trumbo. When you hit 32 homers, have a 126 OPS-plus and drop jaws during the Home Run Derby, it's hard to consider the following season as a chance to break out. But that's the case for Trumbo. He has been overshadowed on a star-studded squad but if he shows last season's numbers are what the Angels can expect from him each season, he won't be an afterthought any longer.
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OFFENSE: The Angels have Trout, Pujols and Hamilton, each of whom was among the AL's top 15 home run hitters in 2012. Hunter was a significant departure, but then the Angels added Hamilton.
DEFENSE: Trout's spectacular play in the outfield helped Los Angeles tie Seattle atop the league in defensive efficiency. The Angels did make 26 more errors than the Mariners, though.
ROTATION: The Angels didn't keep Greinke, Haren or Santana, but they acquired Vargas, Hanson and Blanton. And Weaver and Wilson remain two of the best in the league.
BULLPEN: The relief corps had a lot to do with why the Angels fell behind in the AL West: Relievers blew 22 saves, tied for most in the AL. But Madson could help turn things around.
BENCH: If Vernon Wells has a bounce-back year, Los Angeles might have a decent, though very expensive, weapon on the bench. There are no real standouts here: Hank Conger is the backup catcher; speedy Andrew Romine takes over the backup infield spot.
A major league scout analyzes SP Jered Weaver:
"His strength is his ability to throw any pitch for a strike in any count, any situation. He doesn't rely on velocity as much as he did, but his secondary pitches are even better now. You have to find the balance of selective aggressiveness to get to him. His only weakness is the back issues he's had, but he's incredibly deceptive and pitches up in the zone well, better than anyone in the game. He's difficult for righthanded hitters. Great competitor, wants the ball."
The Angels' eight wins last April were their fewest in the opening month of a non-strike-shortened season since 1990. In Los Angeles' first 31 games, during which the team went 13-18 and fell 7 ½ games back in the AL West, Pujols hit one homer.
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What could go right: The Angels have some of the elite players in the game: Pujols, Trout, Hamilton and Weaver. If they perform as expected, they're title contenders.
What could go wrong: The rotation has a few question marks, and Madson is coming off elbow surgery. Plus, the Angels lost the clubhouse's top leader with Hunter's departure.
Bottom line: It's hard to imagine Los Angeles finishing third again with the superstar players it has. Barring disaster, this team looks like the beast the Angels had hoped to be in 2012. And they'll have Trout on the roster on opening day.
Susan Slusser covers baseball for the San Francisco Chronicle. This feature also appears in Sporting News' 2013 Baseball Yearbook.


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Staff Writer | September 04,2013BENNINGTON A local man was ordered held without bail after police said he admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
Patrick Bussacco, 25, of Bennington, pleaded innocent in Bennington criminal court on Monday to a felony charge of repeated aggravated sexual assault.
If convicted of the charge, Bussacco would face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and could be sentenced to up to life in prison.
In an affidavit, Detective Anthony Silvestro, of the Bennington Police Department, said he began his investigation Aug. 26 after hearing from a mother who lives in Pownal.
During an interview at the police station, the mother said she had found hundreds of messages from Bussacco on her 15-year-old daughters phone. She said there were also nude photographs of Bussacco which had been sent to the teenager, the woman said.
Silvestro said he tracked down Bussaccos address and sports utility vehicle. On Aug. 28, Silvestro applied for and was granted warrants to search the mothers home and Bussaccos home and SUV.
According to the affidavit, the warrant was executed at the mothers home Aug. 30 by Silvestro, an investigator from the Vermont Department for Children and Families and Vermont State Police Trooper Robert Zink. Afterward, the investigators spoke with the 15-year-old girl.
The girl admitted she had a sexual relationship with Bussacco which started over the summer, according to the affidavit. She said the sexual activities had taken place at her fathers home in North Bennington.
The girl said she knew Bussacco because he was dating one of her relatives.
Silvestro said the girl admitted to sending Bussacco numerous inappropriate pictures of herself and marking every day they had sexual contact on her cellphone calendar. Police seized the phone and Silvestro said a forensic examination of the phone would be conducted.
Police officers from the Bennington Police Department executed the warrant at Bussaccos home at the same time as police were searching the mothers home. Among the items collected was Bussaccos cellphone.
Silvestro said when he returned to the police station Aug. 30, Bussacco and others were waiting for him.
Bussacco agreed to speak with Silvestro. In the affidavit, Silvestro said Bussacco admitted to the sexual relationship and called it a mistake and a fling, a summer thing.
Silvestro said Bussacco confirmed what the girl had told police about their relationship and said it took place when he was staying in North Bennington with the girl and her father and before he and his girlfriend moved to their current home in Bennington.
During Bussaccos arraignment, Susan McManus, who represented Bussacco, asked Judge Nancy Corsones to release him and allow him to stay in his home. McManus said Bussaccos girlfriend, because she is related to the girl Bussacco is accused of sexually assaulting, had agreed to move out of the apartment so there would be no contact between Bussacco and the girl.
Bennington County Chief Deputy States Attorney Christina Rainville said Bussacco was a risk to the community because he was dating a woman but using that woman to gain access to a child.
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WWE Raw
The bygone era of "rasslin'," where the lines were clearly drawn between good guys and bad guys, has been replaced by today's version of "sports entertainment," with all the glitz and glamour of a major Broadway production. And local wrestling fans will get a chance to witness the spectacle up close and personal when World Wrestling Entertainment, the industry's gold standard, brings its Monday Night Raw event to the area for the first time in five years. Catch superstar favorites including WWE Champion John Cena, Celtic Warrior Sheamus, Ryback, The Viper Randy Orton, World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler, The Shield, the Divas and more. Note that the lineup is subject to change.
When: 7:30 p.m. Monday
Where: North Charleston Coliseum, 5001 Coliseum Drive
Price: $15-$95
For more info: www.northcharlestoncoliseumpac.com or www.wwe.com
Charleston Carifest
Did you know June is Caribbean American Heritage Month? To help celebrate, the South Carolina Caribbean Culture & Heritage Inc. group will highlight the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago during its eighth annual Charleston Carifest Caribbean Carnival. The multiday event features a symposium Thursday featuring a Q & A with the Trinidad ambassador to the U.S. and the Trinidad consulate general; a semi-formal Masquerade Fete on Friday; a Caribbean Carnival and Street Parade on Saturday followed by a White After Party.
When: Through Saturday
Where: Various locations throughout the Charleston area
Price: Ticket price varies depending on event
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As the state's first multiport billfishing tournament, the Carolina Billfish Classic promises to take billfishing to a whole new level. The event allows locals and out-of-state anglers to compete; meatfish weigh-ins and events will be held at Toler's Cove and Georgetown Landing Marinas, but blue marlin weigh-ins will be held at Toler's Cove, tournament headquarters. In addition to fishing, there will be on-shore entertainment, including musical performances by Chris Crosby, Soul Fish Duo and The Charleston Groove Factory. But the big on-shore event is Saturday's fifth annual auction and raffle event benefitting the South Carolina Memorial Reef.
When: Through Saturday
Where: Various locations
Price: Prices vary
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Juneteenth Festival
For the 16th year, the Lowcountry Juneteenth Association will hold its annual festival honoring the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the U.S., national Juneteenth celebrations often focus on education and self-improvement, and this one is no different. With legal and medical professionals on hand as well as additional educational information, you'll likely learn something. There also will be music, fashion, art, storytellers, dance, poetry, African drummers, face painting and jump castles.
When: 3 p.m. Saturday
Where: Jenkins Orphanage, 3923 Azalea Drive, North Charleston
Price: Free
For more info: 552-9086 or 729-2393
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Middleton Place's weekly wine strolls, which have been taking place since late March, will be taking a break from the heat of July and August, so jump on the last one or you'll have to wait until Sept. 4 when they resume. Started four years ago as a way for visitors to experience the gardens in a different light and different atmosphere, the event features specially selected wines from around the world that are chosen by Middleton Place Restaurant's sommelier.
When: 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Middleton Place, 4300 Ashley River Road
Price: $20, members of the Middleton Place Foundation receive $5 off
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The Charleston Library Society and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Remix young professionals group are throwing an old-world casino experience event. Featuring food, drinks, games and music from Remix, enjoy a night of fun at the tables.
When: 8 p.m. tonight
Where: Charleston Library Society, 164 King St.
Price: $50 for Charleston Library Society members, $65 for nonmembers
For more info: www.charlestonlibrarysociety.org or 723-9912
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Campbell: Life-changing reform in North Carolina
Last November North Carolina voted for change. We are certainly getting it.
At the current pace and expectations state government will undergo the biggest changes most of us have seen. In charge of both the executive and legislative branches of government for the first time since Reconstruction, Republicans feel the wind at their backs and believe themselves up to the task of reforming a government that has largely operated on a status-quo basis for years.
The reform agenda is lengthy and highly ambitious. Senate Bill 10 radically changes the makeup and membership of the most important boards and commissions in our state and could significantly alter future regulations and rules. It offers the opportunity to appoint new members, but in some cases changes who can make those appointments, forcing the governor to share appointive authority with legislators. That same reform fervor would force agencies of government to conduct regular reviews to determine need, necessity, impact of changes to rules and regulations.
The need for tax reform is evident. This might be the year we see significant changes to tax codes that were basically put in place in the 1930s. Just as evident has been the need to reform our state's Medicaid program and our leadership obviously isn't timid in making bold decisions. We've known for years our public infrastructure system isn't adequate for today's needs, much less for the future, and we expect a strategic plan this year or next to begin repairs and upgrades to those unaddressed needs.
When the governor proposed and the legislature quickly passed a bill to establish a new vocational track diploma we saw the opening salvo of what promise to be major reforms in education. Without the likelihood of a gubernatorial veto, expect reforms that demand more fiscal responsibility and outcome accountability.
Nowhere will those demands be more evident than in our public universities. Upcoming House and Senate elections to the UNC Board of Governors will put Republicans solidly in control and you will hear echoes in demands for accountability, fiscal responsibility and outcomes. And expect greater cooperation and communications between public and higher education divisions to remove, or at least minimize, the existing silos.
It isn't an overstatement to say that every man, woman and child will be affected by these changes, but that shouldn't deter us from the task. Government is nothing more than a social contract and every generation faces new and different challenges and opportunities, so we should periodically review and revise that contract. We haven't had a top-to-bottom examination and revision to what and how state government operates in more than 40 years. We are long overdue.
A word of caution to our government leaders is appropriate. Do not yield to the siren song of power, believing yours a mandate to do as you please. North Carolinians voiced their desire for change, but they expect positive change, fair change, change that will improve life for all, not just a select few. There is as much danger in hasty and poorly conceived change as there is in being too timid to change. We are impressed with your willingness to act but urge you to take the time to carefully consider the impact those changes will have on our state.
Tom Campbell is former assistant North Carolina state treasurer and is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly discussion of NC issues airing Sundays at 6:30 a.m.on WRAL-TV and at 8:30 a.m. on WRAZ-TV FOX50. Contact him at www.ncspin.com.


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The 2012 phone hardware season is definitely in full swing. The GS3 is too big for my tastes, but it's got good hardware. It has a better CPU/GPU/RAM combo than the One X, but the One X has a better display. Choose your highest priority feature.
I'm not in the market for a phone this. The Cortex A15 hardware in 2013 will be dazzling. ;)
iPhone 4S vs. Galaxy S III
Apple's iPhone 4S has been on the market for 6 months already and the Samsung Galaxy S III doesn't even hit store shelves until the end of May. Yet the iPhone 4S remains the best selling handset in the world and the Galaxy S III claims to be the best handset on the planet, period, so let's put them head-to-head, Mobile Nations style.
(Technically Phil is using a Verizon iPhone 4 in the video, but lack of a SIM-card tray aside, it's physically identical to an iPhone 4S, and that's the phone we'll be talking about here in the text).
It's immediately obvious just how much bigger the Samsung Galaxy S III is, with a whopping 4.8-inch, SAMOLED PenTile screen. The Galaxy S III is so big, it looks like you could hollow it out and use it as an iPhone case. For people who don't have a tablet, this is as close as you can get without become a... Galaxy Note. On the downside, some (yours truly included), far prefer the color and pixel perfection of a non-PenTile iPhone- or HTC One X-style LCD LED display.
Unfortunately, Samsung still seems to be clinging to their Hasbro-style plastic casings, which are frankly terrible compared to the glass and stainless steel feeling of the iPhone, not to mention the unearthly good plastics Nokia and HTC have been using these days.
The software side is a bit of a mixed bag for the Galaxy S III as well, with the latest version of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich all loaded up, but hidden beneath Samsung's TouchWiz. While intended to give a more consumer-friendly (i.e. Apple-like) look and feel, it also gives a slightly out-dated, Gingerbread-esque vibe to overall experience. Pro users will no doubt prefer stock (and will no doubt flash to that, or something close to it, at their earliest opportunity). The rest includes some interesting, innovative features like talk to wake, accelerometer switch from texting to talking, as well as versions of Siri and iTunes Match once again cloned directly from Apple's 2011 keynote.
The iPhone 4S is still running iOS 5.1, which is either familiar and comfortable, or stale and boring depending on your take.
The bottom line, however, remains the same -- Samsung makes fantastic, futuristic, totally uninspiring devices. They can spin out specs so impressive they literally make your nose bleed, but they don't really know how to innovate. Every atom and pixel just sort of reminds you of something you've seen before from Apple or Nokia or someone else. They're mechanics more than artists. Of course, that matters more to gadget divas than to mainstream consumers. That's why Samsung sells tens of millions of these big boys, and why -- like Apple -- they're actually profitable.
Still, this time around I think HTC stole a step on Samsung. The One X just looks and feels like a better next generation Android phone. (I've argued the Nexus One was far better for it's time than either the Nexus S or Galaxy Nexus as well -- Nexus one was the future of Android, Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus were both summations of Android as it was.)
Speaking of which, neither the Galaxy S III nor the One X are Nexus devices, however, so if/when Google announces Android Jellybean, it might well be a race to see who gets it first... or last... or never.)
Either way, we're going to have to wait until June to see iOS 6, and likely October to see the iPhone 5,1. Right now the new Androids are hitting the market against the old iPhone, which is a good bit of counter-programming. The more interesting war will be fought this fall, and Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 might just make it a 4 way race this time.
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iPhone 4S vs. Galaxy S III
The 2012 phone hardware season is definitely in full swing. The GS3 is too big for my tastes, but it's got good hardware. It has a better CPU/GPU/RAM combo than the One X, but the One X has a better display. Choose your highest priority feature.
watching movies on amoled is a much better experience and this phone is a beast just read anantechs reviewshttp://www.anandtech.com/show/5811/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-preview
The problem with ambled displays is that they usually have too much color gamut, meaning that it may look great at first and look vibrant, but after a while it really looks bad, simply because nothing in nature looks that way. AMOLED Displays have excessive colors to look so gaudy (usually). If you like your TV set to "Vibrant" and you turn the color to the max, and you still like it, then you may like the AMOLED displays.
This website gives very good information about mobile displays:http://www.displaymate.com/mobile.html
(from: http://www.displaymate.com/iPadShootOut1.htm#Conclusion)
(referring to the new iPad): "The colors are beautiful and accurate due to very good factory calibration – they are also "more vibrant" but not excessively so or gaudy like some existing OLED displays."
"OLED Displays: Once their cost significantly decreases and their power efficiency and production volumes significantly increase we'll start to see lots of Tablets with OLED displays. Until then, IPS LCDs can't be beat."
I'm actually looking forward to a quad-core Cortex A15 later this year (not 2013). That'll be dazzling. A good OS is needed to take advantage of it, UNIX or Linux could do it. This would also be on 28nm or 32nm process. (We've already seen 32nm ARM chips).
I certainly hope developers finally start learning how to program for multi-cores (not just multi-thread, it's always that one thread that maxes the CPU out and we have to wait). This would then truly allow for everything to be quick. (Without better programming, with the exception of games, it seems that dual-core is all that's needed today, one thread for the App, and another for background OS, etc. and 2nd, or other, lower priority App threads)
I used to have a 4.3 inch screen on the HTC Evo. It was just too big. I hope Apple doesn't go any bigger than 4 inches if they increase the size at all. I'm actually very happy with the iPhone. Obviously millions and millions of users are too!
The GSIII and One X are made of the exact same material. Only difference is the Samsung is glossy. Phil actuall y mentions this in his video showing the two side by side.
Man that GSIII makes the iPhone look so inadequate.
Here,here. I agree. I am new to this site less than 30 days owner of an iPhone 4s and I got to say the video on the iPhone IMO blew my Photon 4G out of the water. Got spoiled having a bigger screen which I liked. Started my smartphone journey with original Pre. Will see how I like iPhone. So far so good.
That's because the iPhone 4S is NOT a 4G pgone. The signal may say 4G but it is HSPA+ or 3G not LTE.
phone rather lol.
Only it is 4G , it's just not LTE. people need to learn the difference.
The iPhone 4S is only HSPA+ on the AT&T network in the US, and other GSM networks around the world. The iPhone 4S can also do CDMA (the exact same phone, it's a World Phone, capable of all cellphone technology, except for LTE). On Verizon and Sprint, the iPhone 4S will never be 4G, because CDMA 3G is so slow. But the GSM HSPA+ on the iPhone 4S can reach 14.4 Mbps down and 5.8 Mbps Up. That's fast enough to fit the newer meaning of 4G.
However, I like to think of 4G still being the LTE Advanced, that is, a minimum of 100 Mbps Down and 50 Mbps Up from anywhere to anywhere on the planet. It won't be until LTE Advanced and 5G that we'll really have a continuous and reliable fast network everywhere.
Every generation has been about 10 years apart, 1G (Analog) in 1982, 2G in 1992, 3G around 1998, 4G around 2009, and 5G possibly around 2020. 5G won't likely be much faster, just much more uniform and reliable in any condition, still all packet switch and super low latency. (Perhaps less than 3ms? To the server that is, a message from exactly one side to the other side of the planet and back will still take a minimum of 135ms. Light, radio, etcetera is measurably slow in certain instances.)
@rene the one X, Lumua and s3 are all made out of polycarbonate, the only difference is samsungs is shiny.. So it seems to me you are just contracting yourself and my guess is you have not even tried the s3 so don't know how you can start a comparison with out using the device... Lol that's like me saying I don't like sushi without ever eaten one.
I've had the iPhone since the first gen. And I must say the Samsung phones look very nice and there os looks sweet to. The iPhone needs an os make over as well as the hardware. I really hope apple brings it software wise and hardware wise with the next gen iPhone. Competition isn't the same as 2007. The 4s was somewhat of a disappointment maybe not for new iPhone users but if youve been down with the iPhone since day 1 you can't deny these Samsung phone are closing in!
Because, you know, plastic VS glass/metal really matters when most people are going to keep it hidden away in a case. >.>
I'm not big on plastic either, but I really am digging the hardware design. I like that they kept the menu button, if only because developers haven't made it so that their apps have an "action" buttion, which is basically an on-screen menu button.
From YOU, maybe. She shows me all the time.
You see, this is just asinine. I've seen skinny teenage girls (keyword there : skinny) carry large devices like the 4.5" GS2 WITH a case on it and are still able to squeeze it into their pockets. You're either wearing ken-doll shorts, skintight leather pants, or haven't actually used a larger device as your daily driver so you're bitching about the unknown.
haha because apple was the first to have voice actions? Uum no it has been on android for years. Not to mention I would take a plastic phone that doesn't shatter the first time you drop it over an all glass phone. Hopefully the iphone whatever they will call it gets rid of the fragile glass frame.
That's odd...the first time I dropped my Nexus S 4G I got a nice crack on the front glass. The GSIII is not all plastic, the front side is glass. Mute point.
Apple is rarely first to do anything major, it's just first to make many things work well. Work, as in easy, intuitive, usable.
Siri uses AI, Artificial Intelligence gets better and better with time. Siri is still in Beta, normally Apple would never release a product in beta, however, there really isn't any other efficient way to learn millions of voices give billions of commands over time.
Once Siri is released for prime time, (version 1), I hope it'll blow my mind with everything it can do and understand. It's just a baby for now.
I don't know about S-Voice. If it's not AI, then it'll never get better except with software upgrades, and those can't ever be as good as AI. It is impressive that a lot of the S-Voice recognition appears to be done within the phone and not at a remote server! (This is good when there is no connection, but can never beat a server, and without a connection, even if S-voice can understand you, many commands won't work without the internet anyway).
If S-Voice is AI, then I'll be watching for it's improvements!
yeah yeah yeah.... its easy to make a big screen when you only have to put ALL your technology into ONE device!!! wheres the tablet,mp3,laptop(x2),desktop,airplay device,etc... etc...Why do you guys get so excited when you know the newest version of your iphone killer will be replaced before you can tear the box open!!!??? good luck. I'll stay away from imitators.
What does any of that have to do with the chosen screen size? Samsung...one device? Wow.
I still think 4" will be the sweet spot in phones. 4.8" is just too big. A little more and you have the Nook, or Kindle 6". It has come to the point where the competition has gone crazy in size, and these devices have become multi media devices, that just happen to have a phone ability. The phone is no longer the main focus.
Every an tell who like everything apple evenif it's crap or not... And you can tell who would like the biggest bang for their buck... If apple bring out a new 4s name it iPhone 5 and slap ios6 those same apple fans wil be raving how amazing it is...
Anyway for those wh likes hardware, amazing hardware the S3 is it
I own both an iphone (work) and an S2 (personal). Man, you can't imagine how much more I enjoy my s2! Sure, iphone is nicer. Even nicer than s3, but you cannot compare them, it would be much of a disadvantage for iphone..iphone is so boring! Bottom line, Galaxy S 3 will be my next personal phone.
So the iPhone is nicer, but its "boring"? Speak more plainly, because you say one thing and then just contradict it.
And comparing a mostly locked down work phone to a personal phone that you can do whatever you damn well please with ... you're right, there is no comparison. Enjoy the S3.
lol im a fan of small screens for me the 3.5" is the limit for a phone,but this one??? 4.8" this is ridiculous lol now i will take my 42"TV with me.
we know bigger screen is better but when u say a phone has a limit and it is 3.5" otherwise have to put another name.To me apple is as Mercedes do everything for a reason not everything bigger is better.Everything samsung will do is predictable the next will be 5.6" screen processor 2.5 sixcore and who is the end? proc.4 22core and e screen 10" lol and nothing new.But Apple always brings something new and i like this...
of course, apple brings something new every time, in 2007 launched the iphone, a full touch screen mobile. let me think.. oooo i had a full touch htc back in 2006.
In 2008 apple add 3G on their iphone... oooh let me think again, my nokia 6630 had 3G back in 2004.. skip the 3GS. in 2010 iphone 4 with front facing camera, i owned the nokia n73 in 2006 with front facing camera. Retina display? do you remember SE X1 with 311ppi in 2008? Because all the other companies not advertise or propagate their products like apple do, doesn't mean that apple did it first.
How can u compare the galaxy to the 4s when they already made the GS2 and the galaxy s2 note. And it's still not gonna sell anything cuz android sucks. That's why the iPhone is the highest selling phone of all times. Wait 3 months 'til the iPhone 5 comes out then compare phones.
Wow. The iPhone looks like a nano. Apple will have to come out with a larger screen or they are toast. I'll bet the fanboys who now love their small screens will then rave about the bigger one. Samsung is right on about the sheep.
This review takes the award for the most bias against the competition. How pathetic.
Why do we have to call the new iPhone iPhone 5,1? We all are aware of the iPhone 5/6 Naming bs. It's the 6th iPhone or iPhone 6 or the new iPhone. 5,1 just makes you way more nerdy than all this already is.
Is it just me or is EVERY android phone being compared to the iPhone? Every android phone is being touted an iPhone killer. I admire Samsung's Galaxy series, but we just have to come to terms with the fact that, presently, iPhones are setting the benchmarks in the cellphone market. Everyone steals, everyone copies, Apple is no less guilty. What matters is who ends up coming with an iconic product. And Apple got there first. Not being a fanboy. I still appreciate Android.
I disagree with a lot here but this is poignant:
"They're mechanics more than artists."
Apple run on his own race.
When others running on the Hardware Race (NEWEST HARDWARE, NEWEST CAMERA and many more..) Apple still enjoy with current line up. Apple always born a new way to enjoy Mobile Smartphone. Let's see what will Apple bring in the Next iPhone.
And the happy for Old iPhone Customer iPhone 3GS still able to enjoy latest iOS (iOS 5.1.1)
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I have an iphone 3gs that is running on firmware 4.3.5 and i have jailbroken it using redsnow and then i went and downloaded ultrasn0w and everything but all it does is search for service. any ideas on how to fix this?
Wow, long video but I finally got through it all. Of course, I've forgotten everything already:) I'll have to try this live at some point but it's good to know that I have this step by step I can follow along the way. Thanks again. I may mess around with it this weekend. We'll see
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Try to go at least a couple of times a year. You've added some great educational vignettes which help people to understand what it was like the Old West (Saloons in the Old West, History of Stagecoaches, The Chuckwagon, etc.).This is a smart move by the folks at Old Tucson. Folks will walk away not only with knowledge of the films shot there, but with a better appreciation for Western American history.Keep up the great work!!
That is most likely the very best article that ever cross my reference. I don't see why anyone ought to disagree. It might be too easy #for them# to comprehend...anyway nice work i'm coming again here for Extra Great Stuff!!
I am a Stephen Leader with Mount Pleasant Christian Church in Greenwood, IN. Great piece on Stephen Ministry! Would it be possible to have this on DVD so we could use it in our training/promoting without having to go thru the internet?


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(December 13, 2012) -- Mary Hardin-Baylor linebacker Javicz Jones was selected to the Associated Press Little All-America second team announced Thursday.
The Little All-America team honors players from Division II, III and NAIA.
Jones led the Cru with 135 total tackles this season and he also set a new school record with eight interceptions. Jones added 12.0 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks, six pass break-ups, three forced fumbles and two blocked kicks. He scored four touchdowns and a safety on the year, returning two interceptions and two blocked field goals for scores. Jones is a two-time D3football.com South Region Defensive Player of the Year and also took American Southwest Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors each of the past two seasons.
Shippensburg quarterback Zach Zulli and Bloomsburg running back Franklyn Quiteh are notables to make the first team.
Zulli tied a Division II record with 54 touchdowns passes, set a record for TDs responsible for with 56 and threw for 4,747 yards.
Quiteh, who was a Little All-American in 2010 as a freshman, went over 2,000 yards rushing for the second time in his career.
He leads Division II in rushing at 176.8 yards per game and has scored 24 touchdowns.
Michael Hill of St. Joseph, Mo., another Hill Trophy finalist, and the second-leading rusher in D-II behind Quiteh, was selected to the first-team.
Hill averages 154.9 yards rushing.
Mount St. Joseph running back James Clay, who leads Division III with 212 yards per game, also was a first-team selection.
Quarterback - Zach Zulli, junior, 6-foot-2, 188 pounds, Shippensburg
Running backs - Franklyn Quiteh, junior, 5-10, 203, Bloomsburg; Michael Hill, senior, 5-11, 205, Missouri Western State; James Clay, senior, 5-10, 190, Mount St. Joseph.
Linemen - Garth Heikkinen, senior, 6-4, 315, Minnesota-Duluth; Manase Foketi, senior, 6-5, 320, West Texas A&M; Mark Jackson, senior, 6-5, 322, Glenville State; Ryan Schraeder, senior, 6-6, 305, Valdosta State; Curtis James, senior, 6-3, 304, St. Thomas, Minn.
Receivers - Jeff Janis, junior, 6-3, 215, Saginaw Valley; Isaiah Voegeli, senior, 6-0, 185, Merrimack.
All-purpose player - John Brown, junior, 5-11, 171, Pittsburg State.
Kicker - Sergio Castillo, junior, 5-11, 175, West Texas A&M.
Linemen - Brandon Williams, senior, 6-3, 325, Missouri Southern; Ethan Westbrooks, junior, 6-4, 275, West Texas A&M; B.J. Stevens, junior, 6-2, 245, California, Pa.; D.J. Chappell, senior, 6-1, 285, Huntingdon.
Linebackers - Corey Johnson, senior, 5-10, 240, Catawba; Leron Furr, junior, 6-3, 220, Fort Valley State; Ronnell Williams, sophomore, 6-1, 230, West Chester.
Defensive backs - Rontez Miles, senior, 6-1, 210, California, Pa.; Nick Driskill, senior, 5-10, 205, Mount Union; Jack Moro, junior, 5-11, 190, St. Cloud State; Trelan Taylor, senior, 5-10, 195, Chadron State.
Punter - Taylor Accardi, senior, 6-2, 205, Colorado Mines.
Quarterback - Kameron Smith, senior, Winston-Salem.
Running backs - Rayon Simmons, senior, Winona State; Scottie Williams, senior, Elmhurst; Derrick Washington, senior, Tuskegee.
Linemen - Will Ferrell, junior, Hampden-Sydney; Ryan Jensen, senior, Colorado State-Pueblo; Brian Clarke, junior, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Kevin Day, senior, Carson-Newman; Markus Lawrence, senior, Winston-Salem.
Receivers - Brandon Boyle, junior, Castleton State; Chris Bowden, senior, Wingate.
All-purpose player - John Borsellino, senior, Benedictine.
Kicker - Allen Cain, senior, Texas Lutheran.
Linemen - Zach Moore, junior, Concordia-St. Paul, Minn.; Jake Metz, junior, Shippensburg; David Bass, senior, Missouri Western; Clay Eaton, senior, Oberlin.
Linebackers - Javicz Jones, senior, Mary Hardin-Baylor; Corey Jones, senior, Lane; Kevin Lindholm, Chadron State.
Defensive backs - Nate DeJong, senior, Northwest Missouri; Zach Autenrieb, senior, Thomas More; Abdul Kenneh, senior, New Mexico Highlands; Markell Rice, senior, American International.
Punter - Randy Weich, senior, Wayne State, Neb.
Quarterback - Kevin Burke, sophomore, Mount Union.
Running backs - Terrance Cobbs, junior, Cumberland, Ky.; Harvie Tuck, senior, Indiana, Pa.; Brandon Baker, junior, Carson-Newman.
Linemen - Macon Allan, senior, Missouri Western; Tom Knowlton, senior, Concordia-Moorhead; Dan Matha, senior, Indiana, Pa.; Ken Van Heule, senior, Midwestern State; Edmund Kugbila, senior, Valdosta State.
Receivers - Jasper Collins, senior, Mount Union; Ma'Quone Edmonds, senior, Indianapolis.
All-purpose player - Tyron Laughinghouse, senior, Saint Augustine.
Kicker - Sam Bockshus, junior, Minnesota-Mankato.
Linemen - Dexter Davis, senior, Friends; Ridge Wilson, senior, West Alabama; Brad Davis, senior, Elizabeth City State; Tim Taylor, senior, Thiel.
Linebackers - Nate Dreiling, junior, Pittsburg State; Mike Hendrick, senior, Knox; Darius Wilson, senior, Central State.
Defensive backs - Phil Terio, sophomore, Salve Regina; C.J. Roberts, sophomore, Colorado State-Pueblo; Brandon Dixon, junior Northwest Missouri; Johnny Franco, senior, Indiana, Pa.
Punter - Christian Hallingstad, senior, Wisconsin-La Crosse.


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Revisiting Laurie Brink's LCWR talk with Michael Sean Winters
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly April 18, 2013 - 3:37pm
Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter suggests that "the announcement Monday that Pope Francis had reaffirmed the doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious forces those on the left to reconsider their expectations." Winters thinks those who are dismayed should give the Vatican the benefit of the doubt: "Maybe there really are doctrinal difficulties at the LCWR. I gotta tell you, they lost me with that choice of a keynote speaker who wants to 'move beyond Jesus.'"
That line led to a flurry of "fraternal correction" from readers, according to Winters, who wrote a follow-up post today (though he forgot to include a link to the post that started the trouble). Winters now says he regrets his "inadequate characterization of Sr. Laurie Brinks keynote address at an LCWR conference" but, after reading the talk itself, has concluded that "it is even worse than my mischaracterization suggested."
I read Brink's talk (.pdf) last year, when the CDF's citation of it first surfaced, and I posted about it here at dotCommonweal. My judgment was that the CDF seemed to be badly mischaracterizing Brink's address, perhaps because they were misreading the purpose and character of the talk in general. I'd say Winters is making a similar error now.
I can't do much better in response to Winters's take on Brink's talk than to point to my own take all over again. And while I don't think her point of view, or her manner of expressing it, is beyond criticism, I do think that criticism ought to consider whom she was addressing and to what purpose. To be frank, I still feel somewhat uncomfortable picking over Brink's talk, given its original venue and purpose: to stimulate discussion among LCWR member congregations about the difficult choices facing them in an uncertain future. That Brink did not unequivocally denounce any life choice that would lead one away from Christ might be troubling to myself or Winters or the CDF, but this was not a catechetical lecture or a public statement of general belief or an address to pilgrims at World Youth Day. She wasn't addressing myself or Winters or Catholics in general, and she likely did not see the need to qualify her intentionally provocative remarks just in case someone looking for evidence of heterodoxy decided to examine them later. As I wrote last year, "Remember that she was not talking to elementary school students, but to fellow members of religious congregations, whom she was inviting to frankly consider what sort of choices and commitments lay before them as communities."I think how you read this talk says a lot about how you think about Catholic nuns. Brink was speaking to an audience of peers -- adult women who, let us remember, had all at some point gone through a serious process of spiritual discernment that led them to take vows dedicating their lives entirely to Christ and his church. That's what we mean, or what we should mean, when we refer in general to Catholic sisters, and when we think about their place in the church or the propriety of their speech we should remember that they are grownups and individuals with agency and complexity and not either obedient or errant children. Did Sr. Brink need to spell out explicitly for her audience that a renewed commitment to Christ and his church is the only orthodox path to holiness? I imagine she assumed her fellow LCWR members were aware of that basic premise of Catholicism.
One of the more pernicious trends in the intra-Catholic culture wars is the tendency to pit the "good" kinds of sisters against the "bad." This tendency cuts both ways, and either way it depends on a willingness to view nuns as symbols to be used to score points rather than as fellow adult disciples of Christ. Winters accuses Brink of making "condescending remarks about more traditional religious communities," but what he quotes reads to me as an entirely benign characterization of how such communities view themselves. "Are these more traditional women mere dupes of a pre-modern worldview?" Winters asks. He might have found his answer in the very section of Brink's talk to which he's responding: "They are not simply returning to a life before Vatican II, though outwardly it may appear to be so. They are retrieving structures, symbols and rituals that may have been discarded during renewal, because they feel that these will enable them to live their charism more faithfully in the 21st century." I see no condescension whatsoever in Brink's words and no reason to read them as other than sincere. In my experience, women religious of all kinds tend to be scrupulously respectful of other sisters, probably because they see them as they are: fellow women who have made the radical decision to devote their lives to being disciples of Christ in community. Sisters are on the whole much less invested than we laypeople are in scoring one order of nuns against another; they worry about fulfilling their own charisms, not disparaging others.
I'll tell you where I do see condescension: in the frequent commentary of not a small number of Catholics, almost always male, who see themselves as somehow qualified or even obliged to criticize, approve of, or sneer at the ministries, prayer lives, and of course the wardrobes of Catholic nuns in terms that (it seems to me) they would never apply to men. There are wise and foolish nuns; there are congregations I might like to spend time with and congregations I'd be more inclined to avoid. But what makes anyone think they can judge the depth of a woman's prayer life, her attitude toward the hierarchy, or her sincerity in following the will of Christ based on what she wears or how many people have joined her order lately? What makes any of us so comfortable in second-guessing the discernment of women religious when it comes to the governance of their orders and the vision and charism of their founders? Or, what makes some of us so uncomfortable with the spectacle of grown women having some autonomy to decide how they will live out their vows of service to the body of Christ? Catholics who have been inspired and challenged by the example of individual sisters, in education, ministry, or prayer, are rightly turned off by smug objectification of nuns even when it takes the form of praise. After all, it isn't just nasty remarks about radical women in pantsuits that carry this tinge of misogyny; it comes through in syrupy approval of the "good" kind of sisters, too. As if they're children to be patted on the head for the pleasing shape that their faithfulness takes.
Winters calls it "a damned shame" that the LCWR gave time to Brink's talk "because, as far as I can tell, the reason so many people love religious women, the reason our sisters touch the hearts of Catholics and non-Catholics so deeply is precisely because they have not moved beyond Christ but seek him out, day in and day out, among the poor, the afflicted, the aged, the ignorant, and the broken-hearted.... No amount of academic nonsense, spoken from someone wallowing in post-modern fads, should obstruct the Churchs hierarchy from recognizing the invaluable, Christ-centered work, that religious women do every day." Once again: Brink's talk was a challenge to member congregations to examine their approach to that invaluable work and to discuss how they can move forward in strength and integrity. Winters seems to think that the sisters' discussing such "academic" things is unseemly; they should keep doing that humble service work the rest of us like so much and, I guess, let someone else tell them how best to go about doing it. In which case, why have an LCWR at all?
But it can't be that Winters objects to the "leadership" part of the LCWR's mission, because -- after calling Brink's address "dreadful and alarming" (and just before calling it "faux-intellectual") -- he insists, "I believe with all my heart that women religious are just as much leaders of the Church as the bishops." This is not really a matter of belief: they're not. Not in the church in general, and not even in their own congregations. If the Vatican's investigation of the LCWR is at all valid, then it must be the case that Catholic sisters are not "leaders" on any kind of par with bishops. At best they are the kind of "leaders" whose internal discussions and deliberations must be policed by the church's actual leaders -- the bishops -- for their own good. They are leaders only until the real leaders remind them who's in charge. Even the sisters know that much.
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Mark: no one has proposed that vowed religious women are beyond reproach. Go troll elsewhere.
THAT'S trolling, Mollie? I actually put a lot of thought into that comment. And, in fact, I think it can be fairly inferred from more than one of the comments that vowed religious women are above reproach.
"... if for this reason such Christians were to abandon the entire Christian thought-world, then they would be moving beyond Jesus."Thomas --An orthodox description would be that they "had moved AWAY FROM Jesus". As Jim P. noted, you have to watch those prepositions.Have you ever noticed that dictionaries don't really define prepositions. They don't give proper definitions but do give loads of examples of their uses? (How would you define the meaning of "of"?) Very weird words. (Weird because they're relations? Again, that mysterious category of relations.)
"I think it can be fairly inferred from more than one of the comments that vowed religious women are above reproach."I think it can be inferred, but the adjective "fairly" isn't correct. Maybe "poutily," to coin a word.It is the practice of modern illogic when the argument is perceived as being lost to begin throwing silly comments out there about the people who seem to have the better argument. In this instance, it's almost as if people are finally reading the context of the talk and not seeing where the CDF is on this. Is that a fair inference?I've read a lot of commentary the past five days on the CDF/LCWR, and even the sisters' own statements. People seem to be conceding that not every woman religious is well behaved. But that has no impact on the greater issue: the independence of religious orders from the hierarchy.Bishops and clergy have other options, though probably unpopular or unpleasant ones. They could eject women religious from diocesan and parish ministry. They could conduct particular investigations of individuals, like Laurie Brink or other speakers they deem inadequate. Cardinal Wuerl pumped up Elizabeth Johnson's book sales in that way. So maybe that's undesirable.Women religious have problems like any other group of Catholics. There: I said it. I mean it. But most of their problems are their own. As for the ones that are not, I've found them to be more than willing to collaborate with people who are interested in serious discernment. This issue doesn't really seem to have the legs it once had. Cardinal Rode has been ejected. The new kids in town seem to be talking reconciliation. Seems unlikely that the Temple Police will be crowing about the result. I vote we let the whole darned affair die out and let's get on with the real work of the Gospel.
" .. not every woman religious is well behaved .."Nor is every member of the hierarchy, the lower clergy or the male religious orders.Nor is every member of the non-religious laity.In other words: they are we and we are they.
It is the practice of modern illogic when the argument is perceived as being lost to begin throwing silly comments out there about the people who seem to have the better argument.ToddI agree!I vote we... get on with the real work of the Gospel.I agree again.BTW, I only pout when no Philadelphia sports teams reach the post-season.
Ann, Brink clearly said "beyond" not "away from." You might be able to make a case that the CDF understands this "beyond" as "away from," but you should ask Ms Brink if that is what she means before you put prepositions in her mouth.The sense of "beyond Christ" should be clear to educated or spiritually experienced people. Endo's Silence gives an example of it, the struggle to stay faithful to Christ when the only way to do that is to renounce Him. Game of thrones has Jon Snow confront a similar struggle. It is heart and soul of novels by Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, etc. Pope JP2 spent his papacy encouraging people to "put out into the deep", another version of going "beyond Christ." That is why the report on the LCWR is so vexing; the complaints are about things that the Vatican has been teaching but they don't like the consequences. (the ordination of women is the clearest example; they demanded an end to discussion, and now complain about the sisters' silence)
"Brink clearly said beyond not away from. You might be able to make a case that the CDF understands this beyond as away from, but you should ask Ms Brink if that is what she means before you put prepositions in her mouth."Jim McK --Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. My point was that Brink was *not* being orthodox. Yes, one might say with no breach of orthodoxy that sometimes one must move not beyond *Christ* but, rather, beyond *our understanding of* Christ. Surely that happens often. Maybe that's what Brink meant, but from her choice of words you wouldn't know it. In other words, it's difficult to see how she can plead ambiguity.
Ann, Do you think that is a charitable reading of her comments? It seems condescending to me, saying she meant "her understanding of Christ" and not "Christ to whom we have devoted our lives." One reason I mentioned the literature is to avoid that condescension; the choice in Silence is not simply about understanding.
Jim McK ==It seems to me that the charitable way to read a text is to assume that the writer is saying what he/she thinks, and when a context indicates that the text is meant literally, then I think it is fair to read it literally. It follows that it isn't fair to blame a reader for not getting the right meaning. So it's unfair to fault the Curia for its interpretation of this particular text. It's up to Brink to qualify it and revise it if necessary. Of course, the CDF didn't know they had misinterpreted it before it bashed her publicly, and that was totally reprehensible. But her lack of clarity and their lack of due process are two different issues.
Jim McK - I don't know how to interpret the word "beyond" without including some notion of "away from".
"Beyond" is a preposition, and as such is tricky to nail down. Sometimes even when the speaker is sure herself what she thinks she means.Jesus is attributed with saying "No one can come to the Father except through me."I don't know what the Greek original is, or what the Lord's preposition in the original langauge might have been. But it seems to me that "through" could be put to the same scrutiny as "beyond," and the adversary would still be in the same position: trying to ferret out the meaning, lacking any sort of dialogue with the original speaker.If we're dredging up the charge of apostasy, then it would seem to require an explicit announcement on the part of the people accused. We don't have that.Worst case, this is a seriously disputed point. Does it seem prudent that one puts a national organization into receivership because the investigators themselves seem to have no clear idea of what's going on here? It is more plausible that they have a pre-determined result in mind, and they will collect information (I wouldn't call it evidence) to satisfy that result.The CDF's problem here is that as defenders of the faith, they lack the credibility to actually conduct a just investigation. Either way this matter plays out, some Catholics will have significant doubts. Is that any way to run an institution? I don't think so.
"I dont know what the Greek original is, or what the Lords preposition in the original langauge might have been. But it seems to me that through could be put to the same scrutiny as beyond, and the adversary would still be in the same position: trying to ferret out the meaning, lacking any sort of dialogue with the original speaker."There is an underground bunker deep beneath the Canadian Rockies that houses for posterity the dissertations and articles on the subject of prepositions in the New Testament.
Todd - yes, I agree, "through" is another interesting one to consider.To expand my comment to the larger group: If I may, I'd like to call attention to this 2003 article that appeared in America Magazine. It was authored by Sr. Patricia McCann, RSM. I think it will be of interest to this group for several reasons: it covers some of the same territory that the paragraphs of Sr. Brink's presentation which we're considering here also covers: what it would mean to move "beyond Christ". Sr. McCann's article, entitled, "Catholic Identity, New Age and Women Religious" considers one possible destination of persons or orders who move "beyond Christ" - that is, New Age spirituality. I think it's likely that this movement from Catholic spirituality and institutional alignment to a New Age spirituality with a more ambiguous institutional alignment is one of the fears of the CDF and other church authorities. The article is written with a good deal of sympathy toward the sisters, their history of mistreatment by church authorities, and the call for a new discernment that came from Vatican II.The URL is here: http://americamagazine.org/issue/440/article/catholic-identity-new-age-a... found this article to be a helpful touchpoint in interpreting the "beyond Christ" passage from Sr. Brink's presentation. As Mollie has called out a couple of times now, Sr. Brink did note that moving "beyond Christ" cannot but mean that an order's ties to the Catholic church would be attenuated, perhaps even severed. I think it's fair to interpret Sr. Brink's words as a warning to her listeners that there are serious implications to moving "beyond Christ".
Abe --You can mock the discussion of prepositions, but if they don't have a lot of meaning then why do we use so many? How much meaning is left when you take the prepositions out of a sentence? The main problem with them, I think, is that so many of them had (and still have) original meanings rooted in space and time, e.g., "in", but they are used for non-spatial and temporal relations, e.g. "he's in love", "the right to religious freedom is in the Constitution". Even more than with other parts of speech, relational words seem to be determined by contexts, which complicates our search for their meanings.To add to the complexity, prepositions aren't the only relational words. Consider, "There was nothing left". "Left" seems to express some sort of relation, but I'd be hard put to define what that relation is, and it seems to me that it expresses a lot more than just a relation --it's very verbal. Still, I think we do know fairly clearly what its basic meaning is in that sentence.
This reminds me of the infamous paragraph 21 from Liturgiam Authenticam:21. Especially in the translations intended for peoples recently brought to the Christian Faith, fidelity and exactness with respect to the original texts may themselves sometimes require that words already in current usage be employed in new ways, that new words or expressions be coined, that terms in the original text be transliterated or adapted to the pronunciation of the vernacular language, or that figures of speech be used which convey in an integral manner the content of the Latin expression even while being verbally or syntactically different from it. Such measures, especially those of greater moment, are to be submitted to the discussion of all the Bishops involved before being inserted into the definitive draft. In particular, caution should be exercised in introducing words drawn from non-Christian religions.That viewpoint has justified declaring that "for many" encompasses everyone, and that "venerable" does not evoke "old". (We know that the opinions "of all the Bishops involved" were ignored, so that sentence is moot.) That is, words mean whatever the Vatican decides. If the CDF declares that the meaning of "beyond Christ" is unacceptable, then that's how it is: as we see with the new missal, they're the ones who get to decide what our words mean.
It's a gentle, knowing mockery, Ann, based on my own experience of studying and teaching the issue. (FWIW, in Todd's example, the preposition is "dia," used to express agency. The issue is that understanding the syntax doesn't necessarily explain the ins-and-outs of how the agency works).In your example, "left" is the passive participle of "leave," but it is for all intents and purposes serving as an adjective modifying "nothing."
I suppose that it sounds as though I have a one-track mind. Every time I hear the Mass in English, it renews my anger, and for the next couple of weeks I see everything that happens in the church through that lens. End of side note.
All this fuss about MSW getting his rigidly-male-Christology/magisterium panties in a bunch over a woman religious expressing a novel, feminine-perspective insight in a re-imaging of the Christ for a post-modern Church that has been led to ruin and ridicule in the rest of the world by an aging all-male feudal oligarchy?!? You'd think that the hierarchs [including hierarch-wannabe MSW] would welcome a little breath of fresh air thinking? What happened to all that "aggriornamento" Francis is trying to rekindle???Really??? You people have too much time on your hands.As my sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, would say: "Consider the source."I long ago have withdrawn from any debate in Roman circles about which requisite genitalia are required in order to hold legitimate theological and pastoral opinions.Please people, this is the 21st century. It's time to move-on.
Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."Beyond Christ?? Sure seems like a contradiction to me.
Meh. Not to me.
Note Jesus did not say "except through belief in me as spelled out in the Catechism of the Church".
Thanks to both Jim Jenkins and Jim Hohman for saying what many others think.
I have a question for anybody who would like to answer it:If Jesus came to the blog and asked: "Who do you say I am?", what would you answer?
Ann, I believe Jesus is God incarnate, by whose grace we are redeemed. Bruce is using "no one comes to the Father except through me" to seemingly assert that belief in Jesus and doctrine as interpreted by the CDF is required.My problem with this interpretation is that it seems to suggest a one-way engagement: the Father is a stationary object, Jesus is a stationary gateway, and we only get there by ensuring our beliefs and actions are consistent with Catholic teachings, as interpreted by the CDF.Isn't God reaching out to all of us, gifting us with grace? We are not saving ourselves, God is. Am I inconsistent with Christian thought if I believe that non-Christians are and always have been receiving that same grace, and that Christ is gathering all to the Father? In other words, our salvation is through Christ.
Bruce is using no one comes to the Father except through me to seemingly assert that belief in Jesus and doctrine as interpreted by the CDF is required.Actually Jim, you mischaracterize my statement. Rather, Jesus statement directly contradicts 'moving beyond Christ' as somehow equivalent to 'following Christ'. Further, observations about non-Christians are completely irrelevant since the audience is Catholic nuns. I imagine Christ judges differently those who have heard his word and those who have not, even if both are following the exact same path. While I certainly agree that God is giving us all grace and offers all salvation, we remain free to accept or reject his offer. But to some of us he has given us more knowledge and help in the form of the Church, and I would expect that he would judge us differently than those without such earthly aids. Maybe I'm wrong in that assumption, but I would prefer not to bet my salvation by taking the other side of that assumption.
"Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father."Beyond Christ? So much for John 14:12.
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