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Monday, February 4, 2013
As a public health issue, coronary heart disease is second to none. For one, it is the leading killer of both men and women in the U.S. This year, it is projected that close to 1 million Americans will suffer heart attacks. Of these, about two-thirds are first-time heart attack patients, while about one-third of them have already had at least one.
Coronary disease is expensive to treat because of its pervasiveness – which impacts us all indirectly. Heart disease alone accounts for about 10 percent of annual healthcare expenditures in the U.S., at almost $110 billion.
But heart disease is largely preventable. The major risk factors for coronary disease are hypertension (high blood pressure), elevated cholesterol, cigarette smoking, diabetes (elevated blood sugar), and family history of coronary disease. About half of all Americans have at least one risk factor. The only one that you can't control is your family history. The rest are up to you and your doctor.
Recognize your risk
A family history and some simple blood tests will help you and your doctor evaluate your risk. Simply put, the more chances of having heart disease factors you have, the higher your risk.
If your blood pressure is elevated, if your cholesterol is high and if your fasting blood sugar and/or Hemoglobin A1C are elevated, you can do a lot to correct these without medications just by changing your diet and lifestyle.
Know your numbers
Optimal blood pressure is lower than 130/80. Total cholesterol should be under 200. HDL (good cholesterol) should be greater than 40 in men and 50 in women. LDL (bad cholesterol) should be under 100 in both.
Your fasting blood sugar should be under 100, and Hemoglobin A1C lower than 6.5 if you have never been diagnosed as having diabetes. Depending on your risk factors, some additional non-invasive testing may be necessary and will be recommended by your doctor.
Diet and exercise are critical
If you are overweight, you will need to decrease your total daily calories by reducing your carbohydrate (sugars and starches) and animal fats intake. Healthy substitutions are the key. Build a healthy eating plan around whole grains, fresh vegetables and fruits, fish and poultry. Use olive oil, avocados and nuts as healthy sources of fats in your diet. Eat organic whenever possible. Avoid processed foods.
Regular aerobic exercise can be as simple as walking 30 to 40 minutes per day. Weight training increases bone density and muscle mass. This helps decrease your percentage of body fat and makes you less vulnerable to osteoporosis and diabetes. It can even naturally raise testosterone levels.
Remember, the heart is like any other muscle. It remains strong with exercise.
If diet and exercise are not enough to make necessary changes in your risk factors, your doctor may prescribe some very effective drugs to improve blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. If you are a smoker, there are many modalities available that can finally help you quit.
Heart attacks are not an inevitable part of aging. Make healthy choices now to avoid becoming a statistic.
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CONCORD, N.C. – The World Karting Association's 2013 Membership Meeting will consist of two meetings in conjunction with two May WKA national events – the McLaughlin Motorsports Manufacturers Cup Nationals at New Castle (Ind.) Motorsports Park and the Grattan Road Racing Nationals at Grattan (Mich.) Raceway.
The Indiana meeting will be held Friday night, May 17, at Grace Banquet Hall in Greenfield, Indiana. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Address is 1555 E. Main St.; Greenfield, IN 46140.
The meeting in conjunction with Grattan will be held at the track after the last race is complete.


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Ask for Help
- I asked if there's a date library in Ruby as rich as Java's JODA
Suggestions included Chronic and RI_CAL though I'm hoping for something that can represent arbitrary periods (ranges?) of time JODA and handles interval calculation and other such date/time arithmetic.
- is(':visible') doesn't always work as expected in Jasmine
One project reported that using this to as part of a Jasmine spec to ensure that an element becomes visible doesn't appear to be reliable.
- Annotate and Git History failed for a team using Rubymine 2.0.2 and git 126.96.36.199 in combination with svn.
They solved the problem by downgrading to git 126.96.36.199:
I followed instructions here to create a local set of portfiles:
http://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories and grabbed the older portfile from here:
After I could do a port search git-core and have 220.127.116.11 show up, I was able to
sudo port deactivate git-core @1.7.2_0+doc+svnand
sudo port install git-core @126.96.36.199+doc+svn
- One person was experienced compile errors when installing
memprofon Ubuntu, fortunately somebody else had gotten this working before and offered to help him through thee.
- A team noticed that Bundler ran multiple (4) times on CI taking nearly 11mins overall and wanted to know to make Bundler run only once
It was suggested that the problem may be due to the way they'd setup their
preinitializer.rb and they should move the
bundle install into a Rake task.
if ENV['IS_CI_BOX']
puts "IS_CI_BOX is set, running
bundle install..."
system('bundle install') || raise("'bundle install' command failed. Install bundler with
gem install bundler.")
It was pointed out that they should make sure their
Gemfile.lock file is checked into version control, which it was. Additionally Bundler 1.0.0 RC1 will allow isolating gems to a local path using
bundle install path --disable-shared-gems
Interesting Things
- The Facebook Graph API doesn't appear to implement OAuth 2.0 properly/completely so it doesn't work with the OAuth2 gem
- One Pivot noticed that the version of ImageMagick installed on the default EngineYard solo image is out of date and had to upgrade this manually.


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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Winner of six Tony Awards and an Academy Award for Best Picture. Chicago comes to Flowertown with all its Jazz, Razzle Dazzle, and Merry Murderesses.
A classic of both stage and screen, Chicago brings all the music, mayhem, and mischief of the roaring twenties to Summerville. The story of murderesses Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, unfolds through jazzy musical numbers and "killer" choreography. Pulling talented performers from all over the Charleston area and accompanied by a live jazz orchestra this is a must see production.
This multi-talented cast is comprised of Flowertown veterans and new faces. Chicago marks Artistic Director JC Conway's debut as a director on the Flowertown stage. Jason Olson returns as assistant director and set builder. Featuring Lindsey Marie, Kelly McDavid, Brenden Kelly, & John Black as Roxy, Velma, Billy, and Amos; The 30-plus cast, crew, and band members have worked hard under the musical direction of Victoria Malone and choreography of Emma Scott.
With favorites like "All That Jazz", "Cell Block Tango", "Razzle Dazzle", and beautiful Fosse inspired choreography, Chicago is sure to impress and amaze every theater goer.
Chicago runs May 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and June 1, 7, and 8 at 8:00 pm as well as May 25 and 26 and June 1 and 2 at 2:00 pm at the historic James F. Dean Theater. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased in person or over the phone Wednesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 6 pm by calling 843-875-9251, or visiting www.flowertownplayers.org.
Shows are almost sold out: Get your tickets today.
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TRIED & TESTED | Yummie Tummie leggings
AT THE launch for Vital Juice Chicago a couple of weeks ago, we guests were given pretty great swag bags. Now, no offence, America, but you do pretty sub-standard swag compared to the UK.
OFTEN times they're simply stuffed with marketing materials and sachets of samples smaller than those on offer at beauty counters. Yes, I understand that we're not entitled to amazing goody bags but you think I'm going to write up something that's actually worth less to me than the effort to carry it home? Nope.
I'VE walked away with bags bursting at the seams in the UK, to go home and promptly trial what's inside, followed by a write up. I think brands are missing a trick in the US, with their lackluster goody bags.
However, Vital Juice clearly gets the game, and so did the brands (mostly) in their goody bags. Because I'm using the things I received and writing about them in various outlets. The Jurlique Citrus Silk Finishing Powder, the Blurb.com gift certificate, the Lara Bars, Karyn's lip balm and dark chocolate, Yum Nuts, Lemon Detox tea, Baggu bag (I love you, Baggu).... and a Yummie Tummie gift certificate for $100.
I promptly went online and purchased a pair of Yummie Tummie shaping leggings when I got home and now have to shout from the rooftops about them.
You see, they are a-ma-zing. Truly.


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International Women's Day is being supported by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) by highlighting its thought leadership about diversity issues.
The United Nations-organised day is on 8 March 2014, and is held in the celebration of the changing attitudes to women's equality and emancipation.
Helen Brand OBE, chief executive of ACCA, said: 'We wholeheartedly support International Women's Day as it aligns with our core values, particularly those of diversity and opportunity.
'It is also in keeping with the history of ACCA - in 1909, we were the first accountancy body to give access to women to its membership. We also had the first female president for an accountancy body.
'In 2014 ACCA's female membership stands at 45%, while its female students account for 51%.Our extensive work into diversity issues shows that a real commitment to diversity widens the talent pool. The more silo-ed things become, the harder it is to get fresh thinking on matters that affect the finance world. Innovation is key to changing things for the better. The profession has a massive part to play in inspiring change.'
ACCA has produced a number of reports on the broad issue of diversity, and specifically about female representation on boards. These reports have explored how a financial qualification or background influences the career paths of women in a dynamic business landscape. The reports include:
- Women in finance: a springboard to corporate board positions? is an ACCA and Economic and Social Research Council-commissioned research project by the Cranfield School of Management. It explored whether have a financial background or qualification affects the likelihood that senior women will obtain a FTSE 100 board directorship. Much has been written before about the barriers to women's progression to the highest echelons of the corporate world. This study uniquely focused on the facilitative aspects of financial knowledge and expertise.
- In Building a better business through finance diversity, the report looks at insights from leading experts on why diversity in the finance function is important. Strategic issues driving the need for greater diversity is considered, and provides a much broader definition for diversity in the workplace. The report also considers how leading functions can start to build greater diversity across the finance function, and offers a 5-step guide to making diversity work for business.
- Paving the way to opportunities: women in leadership across the Commonwealth is about six solutions to encourage more women into senior business positions. The report examines what opportunities exist for women across the Commonwealth, how they are able to navigate to positions of power, and how this can be further supported by governments and businesses alike.
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For more information, please contact:
Alana Sinnen, ACCA Newsroom
+44 (0)20 7059 5807
Notes to Editors
- ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.
- We support our 162,000 members and 428,000 students in 173 countries, helping them to develop successful careers in accounting and business, with the skills required by employers. We work through a network of over 89 offices and centres and more than 8,500 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide high standards of employee learning and development. Through our public interest remit, we promote appropriate regulation of accounting and conduct relevant research to ensure accountancy continues to grow in reputation and influence.
- Founded in 1904, ACCA has consistently held unique core values: opportunity, diversity, innovation, integrity and accountability. We believe that accountants bring value to economies in all stages of development and seek to develop capacity in the profession and encourage the adoption of global standards. Our values are aligned to the needs of employers in all sectors and we ensure that through our qualifications, we prepare accountants for business. We seek to open up the profession to people of all backgrounds and remove artificial barriers, innovating our qualifications and delivery to meet the diverse needs of trainee professionals and their employers.


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Ora case puts eight speakers around your iPad
If you're dissatisfied with the audio quality of your iPad's speakers like so many others, you'll be happy to hear about Ora, a new accessory hitting Kickstarter today. Ora is an iPad case for audiophiles, complete with its own 10-hour power supply, data pass-through, and a reversible cover that doubles as a stand, much like Apple's Smart Covers. Eight speaksers built into the frame provide front-facing, finely-tuned audio output from the device while still sticking close to the original design aesthetic. The iPad is installed thanks to some quarter-friendly screws on the back, which should keep it nice and secure. On the downside, the Ora is built with 30-pin iPads in mind, so only second- and third-gen models.
Ora's Kickstarter campaign is offering a bunch of different models to backers, starting at $99 as an early bird special, going all the way up to the exclusive premium $199 model. The question is, is audio a big enough deal for you to warrant the added bulk, or would you need to be able to tap the Ora's power supply as back-up for the iPad for it to be worthwhile? What's your preferred solution for iPad audio while on the move? Who's backing?
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Ora case puts eight speakers around your iPad
Its cool but damn, it's huge.
The audio on the iPad is my really only complaint. Sometimes I'll hold my hand on the edge so I can hear Netflix better. I'd like to see Apple really innovate the design & figure out how to point the audio forward instead of backwards (which seems to counter productive to me).


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There will be Christmas lights in Hoffer Park after all.
Middletown Borough and the the union that represents the borough's non-uniform employees have settled a grievance that borough officials said had forced them to suspend the decoration of Hoffer Park, an annual holiday tradition.
The settlement, announced on Thursday, Nov. 21, allows for volunteers to decorate the park and Middletown's square, the borough said.
The borough now is seeking volunteers to help decorate the park. Volunteers may gather in the Borough Hall parking lot at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23 and Sunday, Nov. 24.
Hundreds of people visit the park to see the Christmas display each year, and Santa Claus holds court amid the lights and bulbs.
Councilor Barbara Arnold announced earlier this year that the borough would not decorate the park because of a grievance filed by the union, Teamsters Local 776, that sought compensation for work that volunteers did last year. The borough solicitor advised against using volunteers to decorate the park until the matter was resolved.
According to the settlement agreement, Teamsters Local 776 recognizes the borough's right to use volunteers so long as volunteer work does not result in layoffs of borough employees, the borough said.
"We appreciate the union leadership's efforts to resolve this matter in time for Christmas,'' said Tim Konek, borough manager, who is a member of the borough's contract negotiating team. "In the end, we were able to find common ground and put aside our differences for the good of Middletown.''
Trees already have been ordered for the Hoffer Park display, said Chris Courogen, borough secretary and director of communications.
News that the tradition would be suspended had resulted in a citizens' committee, under the auspices of the Middletown Area Historical Society, to erect a decorated tree at South Union and Ann streets, on property owned by the Society.


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Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013 & 2014 was a losing season's, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Denver, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas
4-New York Giants!!! & NE
Let's make it 5 in 2015 so we can be on a LINE all by ourselves again!!!
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god they are looking for anything to motivate them
Apologize to Melo 5
well after all the **** the niners talked before that game im glad the giants were loud in celebrating the nfc championship w. freaking vernon davis was handing out invitations to his 49ers nfc championship celebration party all week leading up to that game. i hate the niners want this W
2014 season
23 rushes for 255yards 3td
39 pancake blocks
50 tackles 3 sacks (3 td saving tackles including final tackle as time expired to clinch win, hit of the game 9/14 & 10/26 )
9-0-1 record///// invited to play in tiny mite bowl and beat the team we tied in regular season
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- Preprint (14) (remove)
- heavy ion collisions (14) (remove)
- A Stopped delta-matter source in heavy ion collisions at 10-GeV/N? (1994)
- We predict the formation of highly dense baryon-rich resonance matter in Au+Au collisions at AGS energies. The final pion yields show observable signs for resonance matter. The Delta1232 resonance is predicted to be the dominant source for pions of small transverse momenta. Rescattering e ects consecutive excitation and deexcitation of Delta's lead to a long apparent life- time (> 10 fm/c) and rather large volumina (several 100 fm3) of the Delta-matter state. Heavier baryon resonances prove to be crucial for reaction dynamics and particle production at AGS.
- Azimuthal correlations of pions in relativistic heavy ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucl. (1995)
- Triple differential cross sections of pions in heavy ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucl. are studied with the IQMD model. After discussing general properties of resonance and pion production we focus on azimuthal correlations: At projectile- and target-rapidities we observe an anticorrelation in the in-plane transverse momentum between pions and protons. At c.m.-rapidity, however, we find that high pt pions are being preferentially emitted perpendicular to the event-plane. We investigate the causes of those correlations and their sensitivity on the density and momentum dependence of the real and imaginary part of the nucleon and pion optical potential.
- On the impossibility of temperature extraction from heavy ion induced particle spectra (1995)
- Spectra of various particle species have been calculated with the Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) model for very central collisions of Au+Au. They are compatible with the idea of a fully stopped thermal source which exhibits a transversal expansion besides the thermal distribution of an ideal gas. How- ever, the microscopic analyses of the local flow velocities and temperatures indicate much lower temperatures at densities associated with the freeze-out. The results express the overall impossibility of a model-independent determi- nation of nuclear temperatures from heavy ion spectral data, also at other energies (e.g. CERN) or for other species (i.e. pions, kaons, hyperons)
- Antibaryons in massive heavy ion reactions : importance of potentials (1995)
- In the framework of RQMD we investigate antiproton observables in massive heavy ion collisions at AGS energies and compare to preliminary results of the E878 collaboration. We focus here on the considerable influence of the real part of an antinucleon nucleus optical potential on the ¯p momentum spectra. Pacs-numbers: 14.20 Dh, 25.70.-z
- Phasespace Correlations of Antideuterons in Heavy Ion Collisions (1995)
- In the framework of the relativistic quantum molecular dynamics approach (RQMD) we investigate antideuteron (d) observables in Au+Au collisions at 10.7 AGeV. The impact parameter dependence of the formation ratios d/p2 and d/p2 is calculated. In central collisions, the antideuteron formation ratio is predicted to be two orders of magnitude lower than the deuteron formation ratio. The d yield in central Au+Au collisions is one order of magnitude lower than in Si+Al collisions. In semicentral collisions di erent configuration space distributions of p s and d s lead to a large squeeze out e ect for antideuterons, which is not predicted for the p s.
- Neural networks for impact parameter determination (1996)
- Abstract: An accurate impact parameter determination in a heavy ion collision is crucial for almost all further analysis. The capabilities of an artificial neural network are investigated to that respect. A novel input generation for the network is proposed, namely the transverse and longitudinal momentum distribution of all outgoing (or actually detectable) particles. The neural network approach yields an improvement in performance of a factor of two as compared to classical techniques. To achieve this improvement simple network architectures and a 5 × 5 input grid in (pt, pz) space are suffcient.
- Nucleus-nucleus collisions at highest energies (1996)
- The microscopic phasespace approach URQMD is used to investigate the stopping power and particle production in heavy systems at SPS and RHIC energies. We find no gap in the baryon rapidity distribution even at RHIC. For CERN energies URQMD shows a pile up of baryons and a supression of multi-nucleon clusters at midrapidity.
- Particle production by time-dependent meson fields in relativistic heavy ion-collisions (1996)
- According to the Walecka mean field theory of nuclear interaction the collective mutual deceleration of the colliding nuclei gives rise to the bremsstrahlung of real and virtual ! mesons. It is shown that decays of these mesons may give a noticeable contribution to the observed yields of the baryon antibaryon pairs, dileptons and pions. Excitation functions and rapidity distributions of particles produced by this mechanism are calculated under some simplifying assumptions about the space time variation of meson fields in nuclear collisions. The calculated multiplicities of coherently produced particles grow fast with the bombarding energy, reaching a saturation above the RHIC bombarding energy. In the case of central Au+Au collisions the bremsstrahlung mechanism becomes comparable with particle production in incoherent hadron hadron collisions above the AGS energies. The rapidity spectra of antibaryons and pions exhibit a characteristic two hump structure which is a consequence of incomplete projectile target stopping at the initial stage of the reaction. The predicted distribution of e+e pairs has a strong peak at invariant masses Me+e < 0.5 GeV.
- "Pressure equilibration" in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions (1997)
- We study the time scale for pressure equilibration in heavy ion collisions at AGS energies within the three-fluid hydrodynamical model and a microscopic cascade model (UrQMD). We find that kinetic equilibrium is reached in both models after a time of 5 fm/c (center-of-mass time). Thus, observables which are sensitive to the early stage of the reaction differ considerably from the expectations within the instant thermalization scenario (one-fluid hydrodynamical model).
- Relativistic transport theory of N, Delta and N* (1440) interacting through sigma, omega and pi mesons. (1997)
- A self-consistent relativistic integral-di erential equation of the Boltzmann- Uehling-Uhlenbeck-type for the N*(1440) resonance is developed based on an effective Lagrangian of baryons interacting through mesons. The closed time-path Green s function technique and semi-classical, quasi-particle and Born approxima- tions are employed in the derivation. The non-equilibrium RBUU-type equation for the N*(1440) is consistent with that of nucleon s and delta s which we derived before. Thus, we obtain a set of coupled equations for the N,Delta and N*(1440) distribution functions. All the N (1440)-relevant in-medium two-body scattering cross sections within the N,Delta and N*(1440) system are derived from the same effective Lagrangian in addition to the mean field and presented analytically, which can be directly used in the study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The theoreticalprediction of the free pp - pp* (1440) cross section is in good agreement with the experimental data. We calculate the in-medium N+N - N+N* , N* +N - N+N and N*+N - N* +N cross sections in cold nuclear matter up to twice the nuclear matter density. The influence of different choices of the N* N* coupling strengths, which can not be obtained through fitting certain experimental data, are discussed. The results show that the density dependence of predicted in-medium cross sections are sensitive to the N* N* coupling strengths used. An evident density dependence will appear when a large scalar coupling strength of g^(sigma) N*N* is assumed. PACS number(s): 24.10.Cn; 25.70.-z; 21.65.+f


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Posted: November 4th, 2012
Here's a quick look at who the Erie BayHawks picked in Friday's 2012 D-League Draft. The BayHawks drafted Danny Sumner in the eighth and final round. The BayHawks start training camp Nov. 10.
Eighth round — Danny Sumner (6-7, 225, F, William & Mary)
Date of birth: Dec. 6, 1987
Hometown: Fairfax, Va.
Background: Averaged 9.8 points in his four-year career at William & Mary that ended in 2009-10. After his senior season, he had workouts with the Atlanta Hawks. Has played overseas since college. Last season, he averaged 16.4 points playing in Germany and 14.5 points in Iceland.
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A year ago today
Joseph A. Komonchak February 11, 2014 - 10:29am
A year ago today, I came out into our living room where my brother had the morning news on. "The Pope has just resigned," he told me. I was as disbelieving as everyone else was, I suspect, on hearing the news. I guess we all had a right to be, given that it was the first time in six or seven hundred years.
It's worth taking note of the anniversary, particularly if we wish to celebrate the changes that Pope Francis has brought to the Church and those that one can hope are still to come. It was Pope Benedict and this self-denying act of his that made Pope Francis possible. How rare it is that a person, in any organization, with such power in his hands should lay it down voluntarily and with no strings attached, with no attempt made to choose or to determine his successor, with no effort, it seems, to influence that successor's policies and decisions.
A high school teacher once told us, "There's nothing deader than a dead pope," and I can remember how our Scripture professor Fr. Myles Bourke's being annoyed that many people thought it necessary, in order to welcome John XXIII, to denigrate Pius XII, author of Divino afflante Spiritu, the liberating encyclical on the study of the Bible. Perhaps we need to remember St. Paul's celebration of charisms in the Church and to apply it also to the papacy: There are varieties of gifts in the Church, and among popes. No pope receives all of them, and we can be grateful for the gifts any pope receives, whether a Benedict or a Francis. Grateful for the latter, we must be grateful for the former.
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I am sorry -- I don't see why it was a self- denying act. by his own accounts, he couldn't physically do the job any more. It was brave. It was ruthlessly honest. But I don't see self-denying.
I don't think everyone has a will to power in the sense that no one would willingly give up the papacy.
Cathleen - don't you think, though, that during the time of the conclave that selected him, he did have the will to power, else he would have let it be known that he had no interest in the office?
Taking him at his word, he wasn't able (or desirous) of all it takes to be a Pope. Whether that was physical, mental, emotinal, and/or spiritual, he discerned (and it would be intersting who wth) that it was his time to step down... and that somehow the Spirit would provide for the Church... wise and faith-ful and perhaps increasingly self-evident to him and his intimates.
I only wish others bishops and clerics could retire at more or less the expected agein our societyof 65-70 when they are spent of the duties of office. For many - the majority?- "75" in this era is a bit far to stay sharp and open and capable of office in this era even as they are capable of much good and contriution on many levels.
it is not age-ism to encourage greater flexibility with retirement as the Pope demonstrated at his much more advanced age.
I think he could have seen taking the job as a self-denying act. Letting it go could have been a welcome blessing.
One day he was pope. Then he voluntarily resigned and was no longer pope. How is this not self-denying?
It presupposes that he wanted to be pope.
One day Richard Nixon was president. The next day he resigned and was no longer president. How is this not self-denying?
One slightly pedantic but important note: so much of the coverage today is marking Benedict's resignation. He actually didn't resign until Feb. 28; he just announced his intention to resign on Feb. 11. That's important in that it allowed for a certain process to start, something of a transition, a shock absorber.
Then again, did he really resign? Or did he abdicate? Has that ever been decided?!
One day Richard Nixon was president. The next day he resigned and was no longer president. How is this not self-denying?
Because, if he hadn't resigned, they would have impeached him.
Agree - but it appears that it is all subjective.....from Nixon's personal perspective, he could say it was self-denial - in one sense, yes; in another sense, no. As you say, one difference between Benedict and the Nixon example is that Nixon would have been impeached. And, yet, the very word - self-denial- can not be easily judged, applied, etc. Even with the threat of impeachment, one could say that Nixon exhibited self-denial - he put the good of the country over personal ambition.
Same with Benedict - it depends a lot upon your perspective, etc.
Prof. Kaveny posits that he may or may not have wanted to be pope - and that changes whether you would describe his action has self-denial or something other. But, this is subjective and how will we ever know? And would suggest that in most human actions/decisions, there are complex motivations and reasons - so, some self-denial; some based upon objective analysis; some based upon intuition; advice, etc.
"Did he resign or did he abdicate?"
I think he retired.
In the dictionary one day we'll read one line about each pope.
"Pope John Paul I (1978-1978): Died 33 days after becoming pope.
Pope John Paul ii (1978-2005): Prayed for peace with people from other religions.
Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013): Resigned from office."
I read somewhere that last year he was sick, but ended up recovering. I wonder if he ever regrets having resigned.
Resigned or abdicated? Better than deposed.
Abdicate connotes for me a monarch leaving his/her throne usually under pressure.
It seems to me that he resigned because he was resigned to the fact that he had no power and/or physical stamina to deal with the issues that were in the Vatican and world-wide Church.
"Even with the threat of impeachment, one could say that Nixon exhibited self-denial - he put the good of the country over personal ambition."
One could say that, but it wouldn't be accurate. Nixon was facing almost certain impeachment, but held out until it was absolutely certain that he didnt have the votes. And if he had been removed, he would have lost his federal benefits and would have most likely been indicted criminally. While it was politically possible for Ford to pardon him after resignation, that almost certainly wouldn't have happened if he had held out til the bitter end.
I defy anyone to point to any instance in Nixon's long public life in which he ever put "the good of the country" over satisfying his personal whims and vendettas, much less over his spectacular "personal ambition." While one may analyze Benedict's decision to step down in a number of ways, there is no legitimate comparison to Nixon's criminal, narcissistic hubris.
David - agree but you are speaking as ah historian - just trying to indicate that the term is very subjective. But, yes, the Nixon analogy limps
Even with the threat of impeachment, one could say that Nixon exhibited self-denial - he put the good of the country over personal ambition.
Right, one could say that, but nobody sane would believe it. Nixon was saving face. In any case, Benedict was not trying to outrun humiliation. On the contrary: whether or not what he did should be counted as an act of self-denial, it was certainly an act of humility.
Compare what Benedict did versus John Paul II's hanging on and on and on.
Call it self-denying or whatever you want. It was/is the right and proper thing to do, in all times and in all places. Would that his predecessor had had the wisdom to retire/resign/abdicate/drift away gracefully.
Term limits, either by numbers or terms or by age, exist for very good reasons.
"Grateful for the latter, we must be grateful for the former."
We don't say this about every Catholic who dies. Therefore it is clericalism to do so for a pope. Everyone is judged according to his works. If we are to look at what we see. then in many ways he was a flawed pope as well as curial official. He avoide the turmoil of growth and change for the security of empire and repression. It was not his health that was in danger. It was the health of the Catholic world that was going down hill.
What Benedict did was risky. There is no guarantee that a man of Francis' qualities would be Benedict's successor. I don't say this to criticize Benedict's decision. But it took guts and trust.
I'd think it would be very difficult to untangle the threads when asking oneself, "Would I be doing this for my own good or the good of the church? Do I hesitate in doing this because of what I want or because of what the church needs?"
Michael Sean Winters has a generous reflection at "Distinctly Catholic:"
I am of the opinion that what Pope Benedict did was a graceful and full of grace thing, which might become more common as time goes on. He had seen the end of the John Paul II papacy which seemed to go on and on and become more and more reactionay, and had the grace to avoid a repeat. I truly believe that he understood that an increasingly declining pope in this era would do more damage than good and he did what his heart and his head told him was the right thing. As to whether it was self-denying, I can't say. But I think it was right.
People are complex. We often have more than one motive for a decision, and some can be good while some are bad.
Graham Greene, an expert on the human heart, believed that the "greatest saints have been men with more than a normal capacity for evil."
I think it's possible he stepped down for reasons other than self denial .... he had a boatload of sex abuse scandals on his watch and he may have seen some hot water in his future.
Last summer there were reports that Benedict had told a visitor that he retired because he had a "mystical experience" over an extended period of time that convinced him that God wanted him to resign.
The reports also noted that when Benedict saw how Francis was leading the Church, Benedict knew that he had made the right decision. If nothing else, as Mathhew Boudway said, the resignation "was certainly an act of humility."
This may be a reflection of where I am in life, but I've reached the stage where I've seen a number of my contemporaries 'deal with' parents whose health declines and declines and declines, and then plateaus over a very long period of time without ever quite dying. These elderly parents are not capable of caring for themselves independently, much less running a worldwide church. It is no disrespect to note that they are quite a burden on their children, or the subset of children (often enough, one child) who does the bulk of the care. The expenses involved in elder care are also extremely stressful.
Except for the stress of the expenses part, John Paul's decline more or less matches this pattern. I don't know if this experience is the "new normal" for the last quarter of our lives. I'm sure that advances in healthcare make it possible. I don't know if these considerations played a part in Benedict's decision-making - I'm not sure what his health is. I do think this needs to be one of the elements to be considered, though.
It might be best to assume that Pope Benedict actually did resign because he thought he didn't have the physical or mental strength needed to do the job as it should be done. He certainly had a chance to observe at close hand what happened to John Paul II when he was no longer in a position to make decisions. Better to leave the problem to heaven. Not a bad idea. And quite the decent thing to do.
I would, sadly, agree with those who have challenged the connection between (1) God give popes different gifts (something I would of course agree with) and (2) we should be grateful for any pope we are given. I don't know that we MUST be grateful for Benedict if we are grateful for Francis. It's possible I think to be grateful for the God-given gifts of anyone who is given this office, without necessarily -- in sum, and on balance -- being grateful for that individual's ministry as a whole.
Of course I can't disagree with Myles Bourke in resenting those who would disparage Pius XII on the grounds of him not being John XXIII. But I can't think of what would be the equivalent in Benedict's pontificate of what Pius XII did in laying the foundation for reform movements that would bear fruit later on.
In the area of liturgy it seems to me that Benedict has sown confusion through Summorum pontificum and deepened divisions through encouraging the reform of the reform, imposed dubious translation principles for liturgical texts, undercut the proper role of episcopal conferences in liturgical regulation, and through cultivating the Society of St. Pius X, has caused scandal and more confusion without healing or unity resulting. The announcement of the Anglican ordinariate without even informing our dialogue partners in the Anglican communion in advance, the ecumenical winter deepened by Liturgiam authenticam and Dominus Iesus -- none of this is a happy legacy either. The way in which the episcopate has been stacked with appointees who are culture warriors, rather than caring pastors lies at his door too, directly or indirectly, as I think during John Paul II's waning years, Cardinal Ratzinger had great influence in shaping the image of a church under constant threat from the secular world. I could go on about curial appointments too, but it's not necessary. You get the picture.
I would be interested in what the theologians and historians here regard as Benedict's positive legacy that we should hope will endure and produce more fruit as history moves on. There's a loose sort of "he's a theologian pope" nod that everybody makes to Benedict, but what is really at stake here? What is the distinctive content of Benedict's contribution? What did he say/do theologically that really made a difference, that forms the backbone of a positive legacy for the Church? That's a real question I have.
Or is it perhaps as Claire says, the most significant thing he did was resign the papacy!
You wrote: "I would, sadly, agree with those who have challenged the connection between (1) God give popes different gifts (something I would of course agree with) and (2) we should be grateful for any pope we are given."
May I say that I also would challenge such a connection, but hasten to add that I made no such connection. This is what I wrote: "No pope receives all of them, and we can be grateful for the gifts any pope receives, whether a Benedict or a Francis." There are more than a few popes for whom I myself am not at all grateful. In the modern era, Pius IX would top my list.
You also wrote: "Or is it perhaps as Claire says, the most significant thing he did was resign the papacy!" I said something like this the day Pope Benedict announced his intention to resign. That he resigned the papacy will rightly be prominent in the first paragraph, even the first sentence, of his obituary.
All we have is reasoned speculation about the reasons Benedict XVI resigned. The most important thing is that he did so and I don't believe the reason was merely his lack of physical strength or will to govern the RCC. Clearly, he did not bring together the profound divisions that have plagued the Church in his papacy, nor the one that carried over from JP II. In many ways, the papacy of both JP II and Benedict XVI reflected an exaggerated focus on obedience to what Pope Francis called small-minded rules.
Clearly, many Catholics who have been disenfrancized by the Church especially the young who have become spiritual but not religious want a more welcoming Church, one that listens, learns and teaches. They don't want a distant heirarchy and a repeat of the same narrative. They want a better understandable answer to many of today's social and sexual ethical issues. This does not mean that a pope should cow to any form personal and social relativism or the latest poll. It does mean that a better convincing message is needed.
While Pope Francis's focus is on loving and serving the poor, it will be anyone's guess if any teaching will be responsibly reformed in his papacy, or if Mass attendance and reception increases.
I believed Benedict XVI knew that a different pope might be the best thing for the Church and after much reflection, he decided to resign. I believe that he is at peace with his decison and most Catholics are grateful for his unselfish, loving and courageous act.
Indeed. https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/first-thoughts-stunning-news
Opening sentence of that post one year ago:
"It could very well be that Pope Benedict's greatest contribution to Catholic ecclesiology will be that he resigned the papal office."
Well said, Michael...
What continues to amaze me is that this man who has such a profound sense of history and the role of the papacy, had the faith to effectively say, "Let the Spirit guide us... I don't need to be 'the one.'" So, I ultimately place his abdication/resignation as a tremendous act of faith... and would that many bishops would do likewise before mandatory retirement age!
Joe, I quite agree about Pius IX.
As for what will go down in history, I thought Claire got that idea from you!
Rita: also from my father, actually.
Really like what Michael Barberi said. Here is another opinion that sheds some more light on the timeline of the decision and reasons that may have impacted it:
Key section:
"The former Secretary of State said that the Pope's decision to resign was prompted "at least in part" by the report given to him by a commission of three cardinals investigating the "Vatileaks" scandal. The commission made its report to the Pontiff in July 2012. Cardinal Bertone said that he did not think the actual content of the commission's report was critically important, however— thereby downplaying rumors that the secret contained some shocking information that prompted the Pontiff to resign.
Cardinal Bertone also acknowledged that Pope Benedict had been hurt by the Vatileaks scandal and the turmoil within the Vatican that the leaked documents disclosed. "I regret not being able to curb the scandal," Cardinal Bertone said."
This being said, it doesn't take away from both Fr. K and Rita's comment that *resigning* may be his lasting legacy to the church.
positive legacy: pope Benedict sent Fr Maciel into forced retirement. He sent a letter to the Catholics of Ireland in which he wrote the following paragraph addressed to his brother bishops:
Only decisive action carried out with complete honesty and transparency will restore the respect and good will of the Irish people towards the Church to which we have consecrated our lives.
He has not done enough to deal with the sex abuse scandal, but he did more than his predecessor and, unfortunately, possibly more than his successor will. I think that he is the one through whom the church institution accepted the idea that a priest who has committed sex abuse must be sanctioned. Now it seems straightforward (and we want to go beyond that, of course), but I have the impression that, among the people in power inside the church, he was the one who made that happen.
Bravo to Michael Barberi with whom I agree until his last paragraph. Then I am more sympathtic to Bill deHaas. We do not know the reasons why Benedict resigned, but I suspect that he was pressured to do so in the wake of the scadals that plagued his papacy. This is a man who sought nothing more than to be Pope, so much so that he orchestrated his own election. Evident in the fact that the first clear choice of the cardinal electors, Jorge Bergolio, stepped aside to let him have the office. This is the Benedict, who three days prior to his election, sent the Latin homily he would deliver to the cardinals electors on April 20th, one day after his election, to Fr. Reggie Foster, the top Latinist at the Gregorian, to check the Latin. This is the Benedict who assured his election, and who later in an interview had to admit that the Holy Spirit does not select the actual individual who is elected Pope but somehow guides the process of election. At least he had the integrity to admit that much. Such a person does not resign the papacy of his own will. He was at the height of his papal power, effecting all the detrimental changes so well catalogued in Rita Ferrone's post @6:25 pm to bring about the Church he had wanted for so many years after Vatican II. Why would he give it up so willingly? It just does not compute. We can only hope that historians will someday tell us what really happened to bring about the announcement of February 11, 2013 that the Pope was going to resign.
Actually I think Benedict did a really poor job with the abuse problem and there were those who believed he was involved in cover-ups like the Lawrence Murphy case. Alex Gibney ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gibney ... made a documentary film about that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_Maxima_Culpa:_Silence_in_the_House_of_God). Here's what the NYT wrote of it ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/movies/mea-maxima-culpa-alex-gibney-do...
John Allen weighs in on some of the items being discussed here. An interesting take, including the lack of a "funeral effect" in electing Francis as the successor.
In this CNS story, Archbishop Georg Ganswein reveals that Benedict had forewarned him that he would resign. He also states that Francis and Benedict talk frequently on the phone. HT Greg Kandra at the Deacon's Bench.
Crystal, you're right, I had forgotten about the case of Fr Lawrence Murphy.
I thought that Deus Caritas Est and Spe Salvi were beautiful reflections that could only have been written by a holy man who was close to the Lord.
Jim P.,
The John Allen piece does not tell us anything that we do not already not know. It is a fluff piece that he had to publish on the anniversary of the announcement of Benedict's resignation.
Surely Georg Gänswein is not an objective observer of the resignation of Benedict. He has a vested interest in protecting Benedict, so I would not take what he says at face value. One has to wonder why he wants to establish a distance between the time Benedict intimated resignation in 2012 an exactly when he decided to resign in 2013. Sounds to much like an attemopt to control the narrative.
The bottom line is we do not know the real reason(s) why Benedict resgined and we can only hope that historians will uncover it (them) and let us know when they do.
I did not agree with every jot and tittle of Pope Benedict but I liked reading him and respect him as a wise man in the truest sense of the word. It is rare to find truly wise people, and he is, as far as I can tell, certainly one. For that reason I admire and respect him.
I have worked in environments with all manner of self important people. Here was a man who by all accounts was important and chose freely to resign giving two weeks notice!!
How rare it is that a person, in any organization, with such power in his hands should lay it down voluntarily and with no strings attached, with no attempt made to choose or to determine his successor, with no effort, it seems, to influence that successor's policies and decisions.
I've long thought that there are two Ratzingers, one a very gentle, even sentimental grandfatherly type of person, the other a rigid authoritarian who takes no prisoners. The grandfather wrote a great encyclical on Charity. The authoritarian was grossly unfair to some theologians. But he loved the Church, and so he resigned when he ran out of strength. ( As an 83 year old person I'm here to warn,, you that extreme weakness is exactly what can happen in very old age -- at times one has to stop walking because one simply doesn't have enough physical strength to put one foot in front of the other.)
But Ratzinger had the strength to stand up about Marcial to JP II (who had had the guts to stand up to the whole Communist empire). And after becoming pope Benedict banished the creep. No, he didn't address the cover-ups, but he did take the first big step and that is always the hardest. We'll see if Francis does any better.
Thank you, Rita. You have expressed what many feel. I don't know why Benedict resigned, but agree with those that say that it is the best thing that he ever did as pope. I am not objective - what I have seen as the legacy of his papacy, combined with his close collaboration with his predecdessor, is a legacy of serious damage to the church in the west. As Rita put it - In the area of liturgy ... Benedict has sown confusion ...and deepened divisions through ... the reform of the reform, ... through cultivating the Society of St. Pius X, has caused scandal and more confusion without healing or unity resulting. The...Anglican ordinariate .... none of this is a happy legacy ... the episcopate has been stacked with appointees who are culture warriors, rather than caring pastors.... I could go on about curial appointments too, ...
One might add the supression of thinking itself through silencings and even excommunications of theologians, priests and women religious throughout his career at the CDF and as pope. Even Cardinal Martini dared not speak his mind until he was literally on his deathbed.
Thanks to Crystal also for pointing out the reality of his failure to truly address the sexual abuse crisis - Benedict never held a single bishop accountable, yet he did not hesitate to remove Bishop Morris of Australia for his perceived sins (supporting the reexamination of mandatory celibacy, the denial of ordination to women, and continuing to have general absolution and communal reconciliation services). Bishops can still do what they want and snub their noses at the policies intended to protect the young - Bishop Finn and Cardinal George are both post-Dallas examples of this in the US, and there are others.
Benedict is probably a decent human being who meant no harm and who wished to do something good. But he was not suited for the job - he is an academic and that's where he should have stayed. He did a lot of harm (Rita and Crystal have referred to some of it). It was all about the head for him but what the church needs in these troubled times is heart. Francis is providing that - but will those in the trenches and in the chanceries get the message? How quickly can the damage be undone? Is it even possible?
I hesitated to comment because I am among those who do not believe he was a good pope - but apparently it's impolite to say so on this anniversary. The old lesson not to say anything at all unless one can say something nice still sticks. But, facing the truth is important too. This papacy did not further the "cause" of the church in the world, nor even in its own house.
I agree with nearly everything that has been said here, pro and con, about Pope Benedict, even when the comments seem to contradict each other. I'll even add that as an administrator he was about as inept as they come; he never had what Field Marshal Montgomery used to call "grip." OK?
BUT what I don't see getting enough attention are Benedict's efforts to restore Jesus of Nazareth to his Church after two decades of the rock star and his World Youth Day crews and groupies. A pope who wrote three volumes specifically devoted to Jesus -- regardless of what the professional theologians think about them -- is a pope who was trying to pull us back to who it's all about. He ought to get an attaboy for that.
MIchael Brendan Dougherty has a somewhat different view of the contrast between Benedict and Francis in this piece, headlined "Pope Francis, Insult Comic"
Ms Chapman:
You wrote: "I hesitated to comment because I am among those who do not believe he was a good pope - but apparently it's impolite to say so on this anniversary. The old lesson not to say anything at all unless one can say something nice still sticks."
I find this remark very puzzling, at least if it refers to this thread. People who don't think Benedict was a good pope are hardly under-represented here, and to none of them has it been suggested that it is impolite to say so.
The more I think about our Church as a global one, the more I think we need different kinds of Popes to hold the center together. The survey that just came out on the attitudes among Catholics in various Spanish-speaking countries really struck me as to how extremely conservative Catholics are in some countries. There are lots of reforms I would like to see take place in the Chruch, but I think if they happen too fast or too slow, people could peel off into different sects- we would have Reform Catholics, Conservative Catholics ,etc.
I like us all to stay together if we can, and I think having very different cycles of Popes supports that, even if I found the Church under the last couple of conservative papacies kind of painful and not the Chruch I grew up in, maybe it all works out for the best when taking the long view.
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.


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Seinfeld and Simpsons here
south park
My favorite TV show is prison break heroes and lost.
South Park is my favorite tv show , because of its fat and original jokes..
the sopranos , friends and simpsons
and also family guy
American Dad
south park.. The best!
The Walking Dead !! the best right now!