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Dear Santa Jobs, all we want for iPhone 5 and iPad 2 is...?
If Steve Jobs were Santa and you were sitting down to write out your Christmas wish list for iPhone 5, iPad 2, and iOS 5, what would you ask for? Last year we got multitasking but the lack of notifications made us think we're still more naughty than nice. What about 2011?
If you heard a clatter and snuck down to Apple, and lo and behold you caught Santa Jobs with a bag full of features, and you had the chance to ask him for anything for iPad 2 or iPhone 5, what would it be?
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Dear Santa Jobs, all we want for iPhone 5 and iPad 2 is...?
4" Screen....
Dual core processor for iPhone 5, better speach comands like on android. Better front facing camera and group FaceTime.
when we'll see that , when it'll be releast
Wireless printing on any printer, not just on some HP-printers. Built-in SSD to save things on the iPad.
Bigger iPhone screen. Messages app done like BiteSMS. ......Retina screen for new MacBook Pro. :-) Merry Xmas!
So ready for a 4.0" retina display. I don't want LTE until it's ready for prime time in terms of stability (3g/4g handoffs), battery life, and ubiquitous coverage.
In terms of software and OS, I think the biggest improvement to iOS is a more efficient notification system. It also wouldn't hurt if Apple allowed for basic information (missed calls, voicemail, calendar events) on the lock screen.
In the even bigger scope, iTunes cloud services would be nice just as long as we could still easily manage local content and have it transparent with items in the cloud.
iOS 5-
Better notification system, new "files" app that we are able to save files to from emails etc.
iPad- higher resolution screen, sd card to take advantage of "files" app for transfer of files
iPhone- 3.7-4 inch screen size, louder speakers all around.
These aren't the BIGGEST and craziest wishes but i think they are reasonable and would be absolutely amazing
Mutitouch based tabs I safari and on homescreen if you swipe with two fingers to the left, a place where you can see all your information quick will pop up like rss feeds or thing like plush. Maybe if it worked how plus news does.
Iphone 5: 1080p video cam and 1080p display. 128gigs of storage. Double battery life. Rectal thermometer. HDMI output. Additional memory card slot. Holographic projector. Rectal thermometer. Integrated Taser security feature. Fixed proximity sensor. No antenna issues. An last but not least, a rectal thermometer.
iphone :
4"+ retina display
microsd port
Wireless sync from itune
Landscape stereo speaker
native support for More media format (MKV and other)
ipad :
USB port for connecting extarnal storage AND/OR microsd port
Retina display
iTune :
Multi-computer sync
Sync over the internet
App store :
A "Not apple approved" section where app that go beyond approved api are availlable for free. People would be warned when downloading and using those apps. This would be a nice laboratory for the apple R&D
Better notification system. A large 4.3 inch iPhone along with a basic 3.5 inch iPhone 5
A heavy revision of the iOS software please! Since they aren't going to give us Jailbreak-esque abilities, how about just taking some of the best ideas in the jailbreak community and buying them out, and incorporating them into the software.
- BiteSMS functionality replacing the current messaging apps.
- A pared down version of Winterboard that allows people some theming of the icons and adding things like a fifth icon to the dock.
- SBSettings pull-down with Apple-approved toggles.
These are all things that people jailbreak just to have, and I think apple could easily incorporate them in their own, apple/lock-down way.
Outside of that, just some serious robust media stuff on the phone, so it can really replace the computer on the road. Over the Air syncing of iTunes, the ability for the iPod application to actually know what your damn podcasts subscriptions are, and be able to update without having to manually check each one! Even WiFi only this would be an extremely welcome feature. The ability to play what's on your computer directly to your iphone over your wifi network (like Airplay, but going from your itunes to your phone).
The feature I want from Santa Jobs more than anything is just the ability to have the passcode-lock disable when you're on your home network. What a joy that would be. I think that their "lock ringtone volume" addition in the latest OS was a very small but extremely smart idea that alleviates some massive annoyance for heavy-headphone users.
3D screen, radial menus, 3D pictures
Menu color customization
-Better notification system
-A quick reply for texting so you dont have to interrupt what you are doing to reply
-Thumb slide texting like the android.
Blu-ray please.
--- iPhone ---
- iPhone 4 is carried over for another year (white and black).
- No hardware changes except for CDMA.
- No Verizon iPhone; probably goes to Sprint.
- New iOS update that adds a lot of functionality to iPhone 4 devices; moderate improvements for 3GS. No improvements for 3G.
--- iPad ---
- iOS update (like iPhone 4)
- front-facing camera for facetime.
- no USB port
Quote me because this is what will happen. For the sake of entertainment, here is what WON'T happen and why:
- NO new iPhone hardware (Apple can't keep up with Google so why bother? The difference is in the OS, which Apple will iterate).
- NO Verizon iPhone. Verizon has too many restrictions and proprietary packaging. Apple won't allow it. Verizon won't bend to meet Apple's demands. Plus they burned Steve in the past. Therefore no Verizon iPhone.
- No USB on iPad. It brings the device too close to a netbook. Besides, Apple would rather sell it's proprietary doch accessory connectors.
iPhone 5:
Two size: 3" and 3,8
32 or 64 gigas
Processor A5 faster X2
NFC with new functionality to use it
30% more batteries
Better Camera (8 MP)
1080P videos
Better Flash
No Antenna issues
Build with Liquid Metal
Better Multitasking system (no home button)
Better Notification system
Better Voice control system.
Air print for all printers.
With that, it will be by far the best possible smartphone.
Today, there aren't any Android Phone with Display at Retina resolution, there aren't any android phone with a longer batterie, there aren't any Android Phone with the same level of build, there aren't any Android phone who can play at Infinity Blade or Real Racing 2, or Galaxy on fire 2...
So, iPhone5 will be the best possible smartphone...by far ;)
And please, no thumb slide texting (ala Android) and no "myspace" customization. This is an iPhone, not a piece of tunning...
The hardware will evolve and improve, if only to keep ahead of the opposition. However the software/firmware is important too and affects those of us on two year contracts with iPhone 4s who are not likely to upgrade before 2012.
The big deal for me which stops me from loving the iPad (and to a lesser extent the iPhone 4) more than I do is Apple's handling of text editing in iOS.
I have it from the developer of an app (Reunion for iPad) that it isn't possible to edit rich text on an iPad because there is no API allowing this. The result is that I can view records in Reunion on my iPad and iPhone but if the record has any rich text in it, editing it is a complete nightmare so essentially Reunion for iPad is, for me, a read only application instead of the handy, in the field front end for the more powerful desktop application I use at home. So I still either have to write notes on a piece of paper and transcribe them when I am home or take my MacBook Pro and perch it beside the film reader when looking at microfilmed documents.
The same sort of problem occurs when I take notes at a meeting. I have a notes template in Word with standard meeting headings for each item in the meeting, arranged as a list with item 1 part a subsection i and so on. Put that into the Pages app, change anything (eg put in some content) and it chews up the whole list structure and spits it out - it is completely unusable. The Documents to Go app works a bit better but still can't do the job properly. Result - I take the MacBook Pro to the meeting and leave the iPad at home. Then I write the draft minutes at the meeting on the laptop, edit them on the train home and email them to the committee using my iPhone as a tethered modem. Thank you, Three UK, for giving us tethering for no additional charge, unlike O2 from whom I migrated when I upgraded from an iPhone 3G.
For goodness sake, I have a 3G iPad with a perfectly usable onscreen keyboard and the option of an iPad keyboard dock, and I can't use it for a straightforward task like this?
If I go on a journey (typically three hours each way) where I don't want to bother with text entry, the iPad is the business and can keep me occupied and interested the whole way there and back, reading, surfing, emailing, listening to music and watching videos, all with a realistic battery life compared with the MacBook Pro, which needs a battery change half way.
So I don't really care what happens to the hardware until the software catches up with the real world.
Dear Steve Jobs I would like that Iphone 5 has>>>> 768 Ram, Real Multitasking,OS 5,8mp camera with 1080p HD recording,64 GB of storage,Facetime over 3g or 4g,1.5 ghz processor (Apple B5 Chip),New design without the stupids issues,another botton for multitasking, removable battery and Verizon Network.
Brian T mobile coverage sucks
I'm actually in the market for a new cell phone next year with my contract running out in the Summer. And the iPad is very tempting, and maybe even a new desktop. So here goes:
iPhone 5: dual-core Cortex-A9 at 1GHz, 512 MB RAM, PowerVR SGX554 MP GPU, HSPA+, 64 GB storage, Light Peak interface (it can be the same dock interface, but with LightPeak signaling), 3.8" Retina Display, autofocus zoom and image stabilization camera, capacitive screen with pressure sensitivity, 720p AirPlay, louder speaker, 12 hours of battery life.
iPad 2: 1 lb weight, 128 GB storage, same iPhone 5 CPU+GPU, pentaband HSPA and CDMA wireless, 2048x1536 9.7" screen, 12 hours of battery life.
Oh and a pony.
Man, setting ourselves up for an expectations failure.
Software side of the coin for iPhone:
-turn off or adjust battery warning dialog
-more customization of ringtones/audio
-ability to check multiple apps to download at once instead of one at a time or Update All
-updating an app doesn't take you out of the app store and to the screen it resides on (if either of the above two were implemented I'd be satisfied)
-Facetime over 3G or LTE (probably more of a carrier issue)
-Allow more customization overall (doubtful)
Hardware side of the coin for iPhone 5:
-even better cameras on front and back
-more internal storage
-faster processor/more RAM (always gotta ask for that!)
-removable battery that doesn't compromise the design. It's ridiculous that you must send your phone back for ~$80 to get a replacement, or pry it open yourself.
-Verizon/CDMA phone
IMO, it's a great phone right now, but these updates and modifications would make it the perfect phone. I'm testing out a BB Torch right now, and it's a joke compared to my 3rd generation iPod touch.
Wifi sync faster so my ipad and 3gs can keep up wity IOS 4 i mean the ipad was basically like ,y 3gs very fast very snappy 'settings'options there ipod there messages ther not having to wait 10 seconds before the built-in apps actually work 128gb both android lock option w/o jailbreak themes mor powerful multitasking the ipad to have more near mac specs then just speed speed UI. Something for the ipad more
Ike publisher (pages/numbers update or new app) notification history i know that maked no sense which is why is shall never happen but i want this
So, I didn't feel like reading through the comments, but here is what I want to see:
Apple, please set the bar once again. You once had it so high other manufacturers and networks were sweating. While reinventing the smartphone may not seems as obtainable as it once was. Wow me please. I don't want a 1ghz processor, I want more. I don't want 64GB, I want more. I don't want 8 megapixels, I want more. Screen size isn't as much of an issue as long as everything looks amazing. Sure, a 4.3" screen may be fun to look at but quality not quantity is what I want my screen to have. Convience is key, but with privacy and personalization. Millions upon millions of iPhones out there. Let me make it mine. Total customization. Text tones, icons, alert tones, all without the need to jailbreak. My list can go on and on.
To Steve: we want it to just work. we want more. we want individuality. set the bar, set it high and we will once again be happy for another year. ooooh, and start working with the carriers. I'd rather pay full price for a phone and less month to month. It's getting a little expensive to carry the iPhone in my pocket. much longer and the inconvenience of carrying multiple devices will out weight the convenience of one really expensive monthly bill.
iPad: I will leave that to the other comments.
Happy Christmas!
I want a.....wait I already have a nexus s.
iOS 5:
Better notifications. This is the top of my list.
Social network integration into contacts. I'm jealous of my WebOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 friends for this.
Widgets on the homescreen or somewhere convenient.
Wireless syncing
Updated Weather app.
A YouTube app that doesn't suck. I currently use YouTube's GREAT mobile site.
An Apple BBM-type service would be nice...
A UI/GUI overhaul. I'm tired of the current look; it's great, but it is time for a change.
iPad 2:
faster processor
Retina Display
Better look to the hardware
Slightly smaller for easier portability
I must be the only one that thinks the notifications are perfect and much better than android and web OS, for one notifications are ment to be intrusive the idea is stop what you are doing and do what pops-up, ok I understand sonepeople (selfish nerds)
Android norificans suck because of the fallowing reasons one the bar at the top does bot give any information it only says new email not good for anything second when we use are phones are hands are on the lower half of the phone and to check for the notification you need to constantly go to the top to do so that is a fail in ui design
Web OS also sucks because 3.5 inches is small even smaller is palms phones
What happens when you get a notification it shrinks your small screen and makes it smaller who really wants that. I would love love to get a smaller screen when I am playing a game or browsing the web. And the bigger fail of web OS is what is the natural action of someone do when they get the notification on the bottom the screen? The answer is , flix it away ask yor self what us the point of that if you flix it away with out even reading it?
My solutions one kill two birds with one stone widgets that display that information use then if you want or fast app swtcher widget swip left and what do you see your notafactions.
Possible solution that would not works
Lifestreem from the notion ( apple first attempt at touch)
Lockinfo will never happen
Why apple made the louckscreen so that you could never go into the phone without unlocking it
Also it looks away to much like windows mobile and Symbian s60 mobile OS that even the operators have killed, why the hill would Apple bring them back from the died.
If I do not get widgets and better notifications (so the tech geeks and nerds can stop complaining) then I would be really pissed off.
BoOoO!!! I love my iPhone 4 and loving my iPad I got today. If Apple keeps coming out with new devices every year then there going to lose a lot of people because it's to hard trying to keep up with them. They need to have longer life spans! Buying a new device every year is getting old fast. Merry Christmas everyone and I hope you enjoy your Holiday weekend.
IPS screen perhaps in multiple size offerings, I'll take a 4.3" a la Evo or even a 4.5" with Gorilla Glass, dual camera flashes and a better antennae design. Better notifications system with an LED and customizations throughout including widgets and larger folder capacities plus real multi-tasking. For the spec slore in me dual core CPU's with a high end GPU, perhaps Samsung's forthcoming Orion which should allow for full 1080p recording and playback; 1.5-2 GB RAM; 128GB+ ROM and maybe even expandable through microsdhc; better rear and front facing cameras without the WiFi limit for FFC; HDMI out; Adobe Flash option for the browser; larger battery; louder speakers and a partridge in a pear tree.
- For iOS 5, all I want is a notification system worthy of iOS. It currently is the worst part of the OS and needs to improve dramatically. I don't want "Android style"; I want something much better. Come on, Apple. Reinvent.
- Minor, but still, I'd like to be able to subscribe to podcasts on an iOS device
- For iPad, I want the mute switch to return to being an orientation lock. That's much more functional for the iPad.
- Overall, I want the iPad to move more in the direction of being a stand-alone computer. Now, it seems more like a peripheral. That would involve;
a. I want the ability to download items from Safari directly to the device.
b. I want the SDK to include more robust tools for apps to talk to each other.
c. I want a better file management system, allowing apps to view and share documents.
d. Safari needs to utilize extensions. So much of computer functionality today happens in the browser. Mobile Safari needs to allow some kind of 3rd-party extension integration.
Santa Jobs, you get me these things, and I will be very happy. Even one or two of these would be nice.
For the next Ipad 2 or 3 & iphone 5, i want : Double the resolution of current iPad with Retina Display. 5 or 8MP Double front facing camera with 3D capabilities & with 1080p HD recording, A15 MP equivalent processor with multicore (at least 2 GHz speed), 1 GB RAM, 128 GB storage, Advanced PowerVR SGX5xx, HD SD card slot, Light Peak port, Slimmer & lighter weight (around 1 lb), extra side button for multitasking function, better & powerful iOS 5 with advanced text and graphic handling capabilities, mage stabilization camera, capacitive screen with pressure sensitivity, 720p AirPlay, louder speaker, 24 hours of battery life, built-in 3.5G or LTE (4G), built-in RFID processor & etc. For iOS 5, i want better files or folders manager, better UI, very sophisticated wordprocessor / spreadsheet / presentation softwares from Apple (at least equivalent to the desktop version. And we know Apple can do it better than what we think...
- Adobe Flash
- Real Multi-tasking
- Usability enhancements
-- Nofitications
-- Not having to go into Settings app to update an apps settings [a consistant way across all apps to update settings]
Bigger screen on iPhone 5!
As I don't have anything to comment on the iPad (I don't own one) I will make this strictly an iPhone 5 post.
It should have the option to turn on unobtrusive notifications (I think someone said that), it should have a powerful camera, bigger screen without becoming to chunky, faster chip and an option to put it on silent (no vibration), and finally, REAL multi-tasking. I'd be more than surprised if Apple did all of that though.
IPhone 5:
- Better notifications system. Doesn't have to be like Android but make it better than it is now.
- Customizable sounds and alerts like text tones and e-mail tones etc...
- Widgets. Perhaps when you double click the home button for the fast app switcher your widgets can be in the blank space that is currently unused?
- 4" retina display
- 64gb of storage and a micro sd card slot. A lot of these games take up a lot of space. My 32 gigs just doesn't cut it anymore. Not sure even 64gb will be sufficient. Micro sd would solve the space issue.
- Better maps andweather applications. These are due for an update.
- Verizon
- 8mp camera that captures 1080p
- The cloud. Streaming all my music and video from the cloud would give me lots of room for my apps.
- Airplay from any app
- API to allow free texting apps to give us in app texting throughout the OS. sorry I'm not paying 20 bucks for texting when I can get it free.
- Gaming controller accessory. I hate in game controls that make you use a control stick and buttons on the screen. Give us a case that has a built in battery like the mophie juice pack but with controls on the side and I'll be a happy iOS gamer. Gaming is big on iOS and I want physical controls.
- Better voice controls that work throughout the OS
- More customization. I don't care about changing the look of app icons but what about the color of the menu, keyboard and other things?
- A different wallpaper for every screen. Wouldn't be cool swiping through your apps seeing a different wallpaper for every screen? Would be really awesome if you had a panorama. Either that or the ability to randomize wallpaper so that everytime you unlock your screen a different wallpaper shows up based on a preselected set of wallpapers.
- Louder speaker
- Better everything :p
In iOS 5 I want a android like notification bar that you pull down and lock screen notification list and custom ringtones on the phone like from your iPod music with trim like with video edit . iPad 2 I want a front facing camera, Retaia display and a faster processor. iPhone 5 I want more carriers for U.S.
Thanks love the show :)
For iPhone 5, bigger storage up to 64 GB, no antennagate and (hopefully) rounded edges for better handling.
For iPad 2, a higher display resolution and a FaceTime camera seem to be sure. Refinements on battery life and weight as well as the design are possible.
For iOS 5, they have to add a new notification system. The 'inventor' of webOS's went back to Apple as Senior User Interface Designer (http://d.pr/wgI8) - so why not. Wireless iTunes sync and system integration of social networks would be nice as well.
For iPhone 5:
Larger screen: This is something that makes me hesitant about the iPhone now-a-days. 3.5" is a good size, but 3.7" or 4" is much better.
A better camera: As a hugely consumer device, the iPhone should have a better camera, in my opinion. The one on the iPhone 4 is not bad, however.
A plastic or redesigned back: I absolutely loathe the new glass back. I despise it so much that this one feature makes me glad that I didn't buy an iPhone 4.
True multitasking: Almost everyone recognizes the fact that the iPhone does faux multitasking. It is not actually multitasking, and I want real multitasking. Fast app switching is a good addition, but it is just a cover-up for what it really should be and seems more like a smoke and mirrors act for something that should have been 2 years ago.
Better folder use: I really dislike how the folders are used. I don't like that the folders stay up after I open the app. That's my main disagreement. It's not vital because I can simply choose not to use the folders.
Better notifications: I don't like the notifications at all either. I would also like to be able to respond to text messages from whatever app I'm in. There are plenty of ways to improve this (refer to webOS).
Better e-mail: Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but every time I send an e-mail from my iPod Touch it is sent from the same or main e-mail address. I'm not sure why this is happening or how to change it, but it's really frustrating. There have been many times where I've started a conversation with a teacher from my MacBook and then I respond to them from a different e-mail address.
Customization: This is what I want the most. I want widgets, themes, text tones, e-mail tones, and other such customizable options. This is an area where Apple is REALLY (emphasis on the "really" :) ) lacking. These things alone would make iOS5 absolutely incredible. Widgets are very useful, and I have them on my MacBook so I think I should be able to have them on my iPhone/iPod. I would like to be able to change the size of the app icons and be able to put my widgets on the home screens.
iPad 2:
I don't really care at all. It will never be as useful as or replace my iPod Touch & MacBook combo. I honestly think it's a waste of money and development time all the way through.
Hardware: I wan't a iPhone with better GPU so there will be more powerfull game engine arrive at app store, dualcore @1GHz Procie to match the Graphic, and longer battery life.
Retina display and the screen size are good enough. No need for extra size so it keeps fit in my pocket.
Software: I want notifications bar and a fast push notification. Not a pull to refresh things.
And I wish the iPhone will not going be more expensive with all the wishes here. Lol.
- 8mp camera (LED flash + xenon) with hardware image stabilization
- 64 GB option
- 4G / HSPA support
- Dual-core at 1.2Ghz
- 640 or 768MB RAM
- 3.7' screen (retains form factor)
- Super OLED retina display
- latest bluetooth
- USB 3 compatibility
- biometric security
- intuitive charging
- RFID (oooh eWallet, Mastercard Paypass)
- loud speaker or two, for stereo sound
- physical switch button like the mute one to turn on/off wifi
- mini-HDMI out
- dual mini-SIM slots
- FM tuner (streaming isn't a solution, data roaming prices kill that)
- built-in IR/RF transmitter
- lock screen widgets / notifications (includes weather, calendar, time, calendar events)
- ability to close all open apps at once
- open full functionality in bluetooth (contact, ringtone, picture sharing)
- fluid app icons (weather icon displays temperature based on GEO location)
- update stock apps (weather a'la HTC)
- text/mms message custom ringtone option (it's here, but it sucks)
- enhance voice control (app launch, hands free texting)
- ability to create ring tones from owned MP3s (native app?)
- increase download limit to 50mb
- profile rings (loud, quiet, meeting, calendar events)
- facetime over 3G/4G
- Apple GPS solution because it obviously limits what TomTom / Navigon can do
- hand writing input (bring by a capacitive stylus maybe?)
- ability for 3rd party game enclosures with physical buttons
iPhone 5 Wishlist
Better notifications or a devoted pull down like android
Easier access to network settings - Something like sbsettings
Lock screen Calendar/today screen similar to crackberries
BIGGER SCREEN - Steve Jobs said that there is not a market for big screen phones but this is huge as the iOS platform is taking over the gaming world. We need something like the EVO or the DroidX ASAP. This would make game playing AMAZING. only thing that would suck is that developers would have to make games in both screen dimensions which is why I feel that they held off on changing screen size. I also feel that they held off on changing the screen size because the phone would not fit in any third party hardware like stereo docks etc...OH WELL... BRING ON THE 4.3 IN SCREEN.
Make your own text alerts.
Wireless sync to iTunes
Apple App that makes your iphone a Magic Track Pad
For the iPad I would like to see most of thing things up top but I would really like apple do something similar to the technology of the Kinect for Xbox 360. The camera should be able to detect and read gestures from a far. That would be CRAZY!!
iphone 5
.... go wireless crazy
1- QIK wirless charge
2- wifi sync
3- improved bluetooth headphone options (bluetooth 3 + more protocols support )
since we r wirless ,, (NO OPENINGS )
and since we have no openings ,, ( WATER RESISTANT )
also ,, gorrilla front , and the new metal they made on the back (UNBREAKABLE )
but also ,, GOOD ICHAT APP (think about it only thing nice about blackberry is bbm ) and the bad notification leads to noo good chat app on ios
cameras ,, duuuh
all what i wanted before but we should keep the oppening ,, ipad is more productive ,, so wee need the cables (sadly )
1) Storage! 128GB iphone and 512GB iPad (ideally also SD slot)
2) stream iTunes shared libraries from Mac/PC (ideally, set up any iOS device as done for previous generation AppleTV)
3) OS X file management: finder for iOS (to move files between devices/Mac wireless)
4) facetime on iPad (front-camera)
5) access from iPhoto to manage photos (drag photos from iPhoto library to device without the need to create albums then sync those from iTunes) AND iPhoto sharing on device that can be seen from iPhoto running on Mac/PC.
1) All devices: "Disallow in-app purchases" device setting, so it would be safe to let someone else use the device for a little bit without worrying they will drain your bank account when playing a game.
2) iPod Touch: Internal GPS so it is more useful in the car.
3) iPod Touch: Higher resolution camera for reasonable quality pictures, and macro lens for reading UPC codes when shopping.
4) iPhone/iPod Touch: Ability to run iPad applications with on-the-fly resolution downgrade from 1024x768 to 960x640.
5) All devices: Ability to use the Maps app off-line, or caching of a much larger geographic area.
6) All devices: Ability in the Maps app after I have gotten driving directions, to drag part of the route from one road to another in case I wanted to go a different way or pass thorough a different area.
I want the ipad to have a unibody design i love the current look and feel but if tje back could have more grip and they could make it unibody ie; remove the black puss between the bezel and back as it is incredibly unerving i keep thinking im going to mess it up im going to push the screen through the rest of the ipad and it just like it is very vunerable and it just doesnt feel nice on it like at all unibody + speed, game center sync more RAM more text-editing publisher like things on ipad WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY more printers for airprint
iPhone 5:
I'd like the front facing camera to be higher quality/resolution and I wouldn't mind a flash for it.
I'd like an SD slot (or at least make the camera kit work).
More memory at a better price; $100 more for an extra 16GB is way too much.
I want a hardware button for the camera!!!
iPad 2:
Front and back cameras. Higher resolution screen. I'll buy with those features.
A little lighter too. GPS standard. What the heck, make it a phone too.
iPad 2b:
I'd like a smaller version.
OS updates:
I want to see my PUSH history.
A most used preferences menu. (The old iPods let you design the main menu). I need easier access to BlueTooth, brightness and a few other things.
Folders in folders.
An "if found please return to" icon on the lock screen; people can't return it if they don't know it's yours.
Shortcuts for paste-ing that I can define; like my name, e-mail, phone, and other things I type over and over.
Shortcuts for the calendar: I've got a dozen different people/things that I do all the time, I want a there to be a default appointment name / location, alarms (if it's across town I need an hour alarm, if across the hall I need a 5 minute alarm).
iPhone 5: Bigger GB's (64+), USB 3.0, removable storage, steal SBsettings from Jailbreak, put something on the spotlight page for god's sake, make all apps that don't actually multitask just close and not go into the app switcher. Search in page for safari, Home page in safari, full screen safari, a useful lock screen (again steal from lockinfo), put the battery percentage number in the batter icon (on the status bar), add swipe gestures for the ipod app, allow all calendar apps to display the date on their icon, ALLOW MORE APPS PER FOLDER & FOLDERS IN FOLDERS (IT WORKS FOR FOLDER ENHANCER (Jailbreak)).
1) Have an expose like multitasking screen to replace the bar.
2) move the widgets from the multitasking bar to a new home page (like spotlight)
3) An FM Radio
4) Folders in Folders
5) Notifications by swiping down on the status bar and itll come down. You'll also be able to reply to a text/email in the notification screen and you exit it by swiping up.
6) Ability to set a home page in Safari
7) Tabs in Safari
8) Lock Screen Notifications.
9) Documents on home screen. Click on document and it acts like folders with a choice of apps to open it with.
10)Backup in-App purchases on iTunes account as well as saved games. (on Cloud)
11) iOS 5 messenger ( like blackberry messenger)
12) Sync to more than one online calender
13) Themes in Clock and Notes with more fonts than just 3 in notes.
14) Weather icon to show live temperature and icon for current weather in your area. Icon (snow icon for snow etc)
15) Add Black/White, Sepia to iPhone Camera.
16) Basic Photo Editor in Photo app.
The main thing I'd like to see is widgets on the home screen. At a glance I'd like to see.
1) Current Weather(weatherbug widget like on Android)
2) Sports Scores(Sports Tap like on Android)
3) Calendar Widget(like calendar pad on Android)
4) Nicer Clock widget
5) Flash(yes many websites work w/out flash but many still need it)
Notice a trend. Never had an iPhone but do have an iPod Touch and an iPad. I also own an Android OS(2.2) the one thing that I think that I miss is the most is the updates of the widgets. The iPad in particular would be great for this. RSS feeds, weather, etc. Maybe widgets exist already but I haven't seen them.
Please create a button in the app switcher to Close All Apps, so it's not necessary to manually close each one.
Deliver on white iPhone (finally), better design & reception so that the device becomes a reliable phone, and more GBs. And generally, do what you say you're going to do - the first time - so I can respect your integrity as a company again.
Hey Santa Steve,
How about some universal drivers to allow me to print to the LaserJet I have on my home network? PCL and PS have been out for a while. You may have noticed people use them a lot on your bigger boxes, you know, the one's called Mac?
Definitely need a biger screen on the iPhone, but I suspect that's coming already for iPhone 5, along with the software button overlay.
I still want a MicroSD slot, but I'd settle for 64GB. Also, how about finally letting go of the dock slot and bringing out the soon-to-be mandated Euro-spec microUSB connector?
The iPad needs cameras (duh). MicroSD, MicroUSB, ditto. A form factor more like the iPhone in design (lose the soap dish back).
How about a stylus? That would come in handy.
Lastly, it definitely needs more storage. 16GB or 64GB is ridiculous. We should have at least 256GB.
For a first-gen try, the iPad is pretty good, be we all know you can and will do better!
iPhone 5 : mainly 64GB. It's the main reason why I did NOT upgrade. Hopefully continuing improvents on battery life and signal strength. Larger external speakers and include a secondary mic which is located away from the external speaker that becomes active during speaker mode and a primary one at the bottom somewhere. More RAM. We got everything we need like camera , new design blah blah.
Would it be too much to ask for the same FM radio you get on a iPod nano?
- Dual Core Orion based processor... don't call it the A5 if you buy it directly from Samsung.
- Options in form - an iPhone with a slide out keyboard that has good clicky keys. Also a 4.3 inch option.
- Better notifications - this is a MUST. Maybe use a combination of the WebOS and Android notification system.
- Evolve app switching... make a fast switcher more like the Dock on Mac OS X.
- Sideloading options - have an option to easily sideload apps without having to jailbreak.
- LTE - which make it obvious that Verizon should be the lead carrier. LTE probably won't be ready on the AT&T sinking ship anytime soon. Dual core makes the battery life feasible for LTE.
iPad... all those apply there too. I'd hold off on an iPad release until you could get Dual Core and LTE on it.
God..Where do I start?
*Air Sync
NO More tethered iTunes sync. Also, make iTunes syncing optional. It's 2010. Why do I have to sync something with a cable?????
I want anroid style notifications that do not interrupt what I'm doing. That pop-up panel is annoying and VERY Windows 95. Get. Rid. Of. It. Please.
Just to compete with android, no other reason.
*Bigger screen.
I'm over this screen size. Make two models, one with current screensize, and one 4.3 inches.
*Game Sync for Game Center
Seems like such an obvious additon.
*MobileMe Backup
Please allow for over the air back up to Mobile Me over wifi. That would be awesome. I want it to back up everything, similar to Time Machine in Mac OS X.
*Dual Core
Again, an obvious addition.
I want to be able to set ringtones or sounds for any type of alert. IM, Text, Email, you name it, I want to set and control what sound it makes.
- Option to erase 1 call at a time from Recent Calls List
- Shopping Cart option (at least for the App Store. Ordering an app and have to go back in to get something else is a total PITA!)
- Ability to create albums in the Photos app without having to plug into a computer!
- The option to view the HomeScreen in either portrait or landscape mode!
- Ability to delete native apps that we don't use (Stocks, etc)
And my personal Top 2:
- Better Push, espeically for Email! (ex CrackBerry user!)
- Notifications!!! (Better system in general, possibly keep the pop-up window, but if it's dismissed, put a mini icon in the status bar...)
No more FaceTime. Integrate it with iChat.
On the second-gen iPad, add cameras to the front and back and let us use Kinect style motion gestures with it.
On iOS5, get rid of push notifications and rework the system. Also add a new app guideline saying that you can't make popup boxes asking to rate the game. Those are annoying as f***.
AirPlay to fully stream developer apps screens to Apple TV2 not just video and audio. Will make a giant leap for gaming and sales presentations, and just imagine the iPhone or iPad with it's gyroscope as a game controller for your Apple TV. It would be plane silly if they don't.
All of the above ideas are great and I'd like to see them integrated into new products, but here are a few different ones I'd like to see:
Ability to turn off all radios (wifi, cellular, bluetooth, etc.) EXCEPT GPS for off-road, no-coverage area navigation (like most national parks)
Firewire interface
BACK TO MY MAC support for remote file retrieval, remote control
Also, let's think about dual rear-facing cameras for 3D pics.


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Loads of healing vibes!!! That is great news about the new chemo. They just keep on getting better at this!
This is great news! What an awesome holiday gift!
Continued prayers and healing vibes being sent.
Prayers and crossed fingers that the insurance company covers this. (((( Todash and Atomicinchworm))))
So good news, treatment is being covered by the insurance; she starts it as soon as they get it in. :) Only one pharmacy in the country stocks it, so they have to order it in.
Also, I saw my parents over the holiday, and my mom looks night and day better. In probably a week she'll start using a cane to get around the house instead of a walker, which is only a good thing.
I want to thank everyone for your vibes and thoughts. :)
My mom is doing well, and now walks with a cane. The chemo pill made her a little queasy the first couple of days, but now she has no problems taking it.
I'm going to go ahead and expand the topic of this thread:
Ladies, please have your yearly gynecological exam done. It's really not that bad, and it doesn't take but an hour out of your year.
A really good friend of mine was diagnosed with stage 1 cervical cancer today. She is 30. Despite a family history, she hadn't been to the gynecologist in several years. It is fortunate that she is only in stage 1. She is having her first consult tomorrow to go over her options.
Please, please, please go to the doctor. Early detection is vital in the treatment and curing of cancer. Seriously, just go.
If you have to have cancer, this is the one to have. It sucked really badly but it's fairly easy to take care of. Of course, the side effects caused my thyroid to go nuts, which has been a nightmare of epic proportions!
Must say I made my yearily appointments, thanks Gals ,I had been putting them off.
Another update. My mom's cancer marker count has gone down from 399 to 325 after just one month of treatment. She is handling the medication very well, with little to no noticeable side effects.
She is still having issues with one of her feet being droopy, as it is only a couple months off of almost being completely paralyzed, that isn't too bad. She will get a foot brace just to help prevent her from tripping over the foot she can't feel that well.
My friend is still in the testing stage, but it looks like the cancer is just in one area and will be easily removed with surgery. Which is awesome. What's not so awesome is her 50$ co pays and missing a ton of work. They are really feeling the budget strain. :(
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Grant Gallicho July 2, 2013 - 7:44pm
Yesterday Milwaukee Catholics were treated to a six-thousand-page document dump revealing more information about the way their bishops handled the sexual-abuse crisis over the past few decades. Much of the news is distressingly familiar. You know the dirge: Abusers were routinely moved from parish to parish, or school to school, without telling local administrators why they were being reassigned. Even when bishops practically begged the Vatican to speedily laicize abusive priests, Rome took its time. (The case of John O'Brien seems particularly egregious. He'd been convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager and had petitioned John Paul II to be returned to the lay state. Then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan had to nag the Vatican to grant the petition twice in 2003. O'Brien wasn't laicized until 2009.) But the document cache released by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee does hold some surprises.
In early 2011, Cardinal Dolan, now archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, warned readers of his blog that they might come across some "preposterous charges" concerning his tenure as archbishop of Milwaukee. Victims' attorney Jeff Anderson had been telling anyone within earshot that when Dolan was archbishop of Milwaukee he moved as much as $130 million off the archdiocese's books in an effort to shield it from victims seeking damages. Not so, said Dolan. He was simply returning money--$70 million of it--to parishes who had it on deposit with the archdiocese. What about the other $60 million? According to Dolan, he was just taking money that had been designated for the care of archdiocesan cemeteries and making sure it was "secure." The annual operating budget of the archdiocese is about $25 million.
But a letter included in the files released yesterday seems to complicate that claim. In June 2007, then-Archbishop Dolan wrote to the Vatican requesting permission to transfer nearly $57 million to a newly created trust for cemeteries owned by the archdiocese. "By transferring these assets to this trust," Dolan wrote, "I foresee an improved protection of these funds from any legal claim and liability."
The letter was written just eleven months after word came that ten lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Wisconsin would be moving ahead in California, which had enacted legislation making it easier for victims to sue--something many feared would happen in Wisconsin and elswehere. Soon after, the archdiocese announced plans to sell its headquarters. (Dolan had already sold diocesan property totaling $4 million in order to establish a relief fund for victims.) But the housing bubble burst, and Dolan couldn't move the chancery building.
Weeks after Dolan petitioned the Vatican for permission to create the cemeteries trust, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided to allow victims of sexual abuse by priests to sue for fraud if they could show that a diocese had transferred clergy with histories of abuse while deceptively claiming they posed no threat. That opened a window that had been held shut by a 1995 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling barring victims from suing dioceses for negligence. It's not impossible to understand why, in that climate, just as the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was preparing to announce its record $660 million settlement with victims, a bishop would be extremely concerned about his diocese's financial exposure.
Still, on Monday Cardinal Dolan put out a statement again denying that he'd transferred the $57 million in order to "shield it from bankruptcy proceedings." He does not take up the reason he gave Rome for moving the money. Instead the cardinal repeats his assertion that creating the cemetery trust was "required by state law and mandated by the archdiocesan finance council." It's not clear what law Dolan is referring to (nor does he remind readers that episcopal authority is not restricted by diocesan finance councils). "Most states have regulatory oversight of cemeteries to make sure they maintain sufficient reserves for upkeep," Jason Berry reported last year, "but dioceses, as religious organizations, are spared such regulation in Wisconsin." But even if there is a law that would compel a religious organization to conform to financial norms set by the state (and it seems that, at least when it comes to religious cemeteries, there is not), would it force the archbishop to fund that trust with so much cash--more than twice the archdiocese's annual operating budget? The cardinal's most recent statement does not help clarify these glaring inconsistencies.
Money may salve the wounds caused by sexual abuse, but by itself it cannot heal them. And no one should pretend that some dioceses' ministries could not be curtailed by large financial settlements. But as the editors of Commonweal wrote after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles announced its $660 million settlement with victims, "The havoc wreaked by abuser priests and the bishops who enabled them is first and foremost a matter of unimaginable private anguish for the victims.... A bishop's fiduciary responsibility for his diocese does not override the demands of justice for victims."
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"A bishop's fiduciary responsibility for his diocese does not override the demands of justice for victims."
It does not seem to me that fiduciary responsibility is at all limited to the management of finances. In fact, I should have thought that the good faith and responsibility of a Bishop was due primarily to the welfare of his flock, sensu lato. "Suffer the little children…," and so on. Preserving the Earthy wealth at the expense of suffering by the faithful under his charge? One hardly knows where to begin.
If ordinary people hide assests in bankruptcy, it's a federal crime ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy#Fraud
The federal statute of limitations for hiding assests in bankruptcy is five years, so Dolan's problem is more moral than legal. His star is falling now. He will not have the national stage when he steps down as President of the USCCB. His stock in Rome has plummeted since Pope Francis has elevated Cdl, O'Malley as the "go to" American Cardinal. Dolan will still try to grandstand in NY, but he has no real infuence in the Vatican. He is fated to do confirmations and schmooze with NY politicians, except of course Andrew Cuomo.
[Dolan] was simply returning money--$70 million of it--to parishes who had it on deposit with the archdiocese.
That parish money presumably is money donated by parishioners to their local parishes. I don't doubt the archdiocese traditionally has required parishes to deposit their funds in an archdiocesan bank or something similar. That it also serves as a tantalizing and convenient pot of cash in the eyes of a tort lawyer doesn't change its moral standing. My view is that, morally, that money belongs to the individual faith communities that deposited it in good faith. Those parishioners did not donate that money in order to enrich Jeffrey Anderson. Nor are they responsible, in any way whatsoever, for whatever abuse took place.
If that money is returned to the faith communities to whom, morally, it belongs, it's true that it would no longer be available to victims. But undoubtedly, the archdiocese would still be able to come up with millions of dollars for victims - and Anderson. That should be enough to satisfy the demands of justice.
And the fact is, no amount of money, even $130 million, can undo the abuse that the victims suffered.
Jim Pauwels, typically the damages in a lawsuit are intended not only to compensate the victims, but to levy a sufficiently burdensome penalty on the offender to make it compelling for the offender to stay on the straight and narrow in the future.
I hate to be a cynic, but I really question whether bad PR on its own would have been sufficient to get the Church to change its ways....
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Jim H - understood. My view is that (a) the local parish faith communities are not the offenders, and should not be penalized; and (b) if parish money is excluded from awards, then the archdiocesan funds that are vulnerable to legal awards - which, I am speculating, could still be a substantial amount - are marginally (although still dissatisfactorily) more likely to punish the actual miscreants, which is to say, the archdiocesan officials who enabled the abuse.
"Some dioceses have, in effect, raided priests' pension funds to cover [abuse] settlements and other losses .... Under Cardinal Bernard Law, the archdiocese of Boston contributed nothing to its clergy retirement fund between 1986 and 2002, despite receiving an estimated $70m-90m in Easter and Christmas offerings that many parishioners believed would benefit retired priests."
sexual-abuse crisis over the past few decades
So if Dolan is the bad guy in all this, was he the bishop there for the past few decades? Was he the one moving abusers around?
If it wasn't him, who was the bishop who did that? What's his name and why isn't he the focus here?
To me it's unsettling that both Bernard Law and Timothy Dolan were spoken of as possibly the first popes to be chosen from the United States. Would the Holy Spirit really have inspired the conclave to elect men whose concern for PR and Church finances outweigh compassion for the abuse victims?
Would the Holy Spirit really have inspired....
Angela, I'm sure what you read and hear in news reports only accidentally and occasionally intersects with the work of the Holy Spirit. And God forgives even if we dont.
Blaming the Vatican is as lame as all the other excuses the bishops make. What are the names of the Vatican bureacrats who failed to respond to the bishops who "practically begged" them "to speedily laicize abusive priests?" The bishops knew their names. They addressed their letters to them. Why not publish their names in the diocesan paper? When a priest is removed from a parish and given a new assignment, explain to the people the reason. "I would like to see this man reduced to the lay state, but the Vatican hasn't responded to my request, so I'm taking him under my wing and assigning him to live here with me in the mansion, working as my gardener/chaplain/chauffeur/chef.
The Philly Archdiocese today released a kind of shocking financial report, reflecting huge losses. Among other things, it spent 6.7 million on legal fees around the criminal trial of a priest. The report also revealed bad financiai practices (in the past) and again reminded us that they have underfunded priests pensions.
Philadelphia is going through another round of parish closings, too, and is auctioning off a lot of Church property. They just closed my parents' parish, which I feel really bad about.
But mostly I think of all of the working people I've known, who gave generously to their Church, even though they didn't have much money themselves When I think about how the Phildelphia Archdiocese has squandered the widows' mites, I could just cry.
Jim Pauwels' comment of 11:40 is exactly right.
When I think about how the Phildelphia Archdiocese has squandered the widows' mites, I could just cry.
Nowadays it would be simply irresponsible to give money without asking for accountability. Yet, where I live, people do that. I tell them: "Look! There are no safeguards!" but they shrug. I show the absence of minimal controls and explain that I will withhold donations until things change, but they call me harsh, justify the lack of care of finances by the priests' lack of training or busy schedule, and keep giving money as if they were deaf and dumb.
My view is that, morally, that money belongs to the individual faith communities that deposited it in good faith. Those parishioners did not donate that money in order to enrich Jeffrey Anderson. Nor are they responsible, in any way whatsoever, for whatever abuse took place.
That's not how I see things. We are all tainted by the crimes of a few. Are we in communion or not? Is the Church a community or not? Are we a family of adopted brothers and sisters or not? Are we one? If the answer is yes, then we are responsible for one another, and their failures are our failures too. We have to be willing to carry their faults too: we're all in the same boat.
Claire, thank you.
We do have a shared responssiblity to abuse surviors. But we also have a responsibility to our children, our sick, our elderly, the poor... the list goes on and on. They, too, have as much a claim on our resources as abuse survivors. (And those abuse survivors also have a responsiblity to the poor, needy, etc as well).
There needs to be a fair way to distribute financial resources to the many who need it. I personally do not see justice done when dicoesan social service programs are being shut down and at the same time miliions are given out in settlements to lawsuits.
It might be interesting to learn how much money Jeff Anderson and the other attorneys have made on these huge lawsuits. Just saying
Rembert Weakland. That's his name. The progressive Rembert Weakland. He's the one responsible for the mess in Milwaukee. And not one mention of his name here.
Why the cover-up of Weakland's involvement here?
Irene, I agree about the need for fairness. I was reacting to Jim Pauweis's claim that there was no link "in any way whatsoever" between faith communities and priests who have been shown to commit sexual abuse. I am against "solving" the problem of sexual abuse by declaring loudly that we have nothing to do with the culprits and getting rid of them as fast as possible by forced laicization.
Bender, Abp Weakland is retired and has no official responsibilities any more, and has already been discredited for the way in which he dealt with sexual abuse. In contrast with that, Cdl Dolan has just been elevated to cardinal and, for God's sake, is president of the USCCB! His decisions deserve full scrutiny.
And to add to Claire's point, Cardinal Dolan's response to the new informtion has been his typical one: to attack the accusers. At least that's what he's been doing on his blog. He has no humility.
We are all tainted by the crimes of a few. Are we in communion or not? Is the Church a community or not? Are we a family of adopted brothers and sisters or not? Are we one? If the answer is yes, then we are responsible for one another, and their failures are our failures too.
Claire - To pursue this approach to its logical conclusion: if perpetrators' failures are our failures, then in effect we are parties to their crimes, and it would also be right and just for victims to sue us personally, and confiscate our checking accounts, our retirement savings, our houses, our cars, and so on. If you disagree, then you need to explain why it would be illogical and wrong for victims to be able to do this.
Or, again: all of us are in communion with Jesus - in fact, arguably, this is the most accurate way to think of how it is that we are in communion with one another. According to your logic, inasmuch as a perpetrator is in communion with Jesus, then Jesus is responsible for the perpetrator's crime (because we are responsible for one another, and a perpetrator's failure is Jesus' failure, too). Are you prepared to argue that clerical sexual abuse is a failure on the part of Jesus?
Or again: there are over one billion Catholics in the world. Are all of us responsible for all of the misdeeds of our fellow Catholics? There have to be millions of Catholics who are charged with crimes at any given point in time. Are you willing to serve jail time, in the spirit of "their failures are our failures", because one of your fellow Catholics robbed a bank?
I am against "solving" the problem of sexual abuse by declaring loudly that we have nothing to do with the culprits and getting rid of them as fast as possible by forced laicization.
If you don't want to get rid of predators in your midst, then what would you do with them? For decades, the church tried not getting rid of them, and the result is the scandal that never goes away. Not long ago, we discussed the Newark Archdiocese's mishandling of Fr. Fugee - a case study of what happens when a diocese doesn't get rid of a sexual abuser.
For the sake of clarity, I want to note that I've never claimed that laicizing offending clergy will solve, or "solve", the problem of sexual abuse. I don't know how to solve that problem completely. But I do think it's monumentally foolish for a diocese to keep abusers around. A wife whose husband abuses her and the children is urged, begged, to divorce him, take custody of the children, file a restraining order against him, and have criminal charges filed against him. In my view, the parallel between that situation and the situation of a diocese with an abusive member of the clergy is pretty apt.
Guess one can separate funds in a total diocesean budget and, in one's mind, think that the cemetery fund is separate from the diocesan budget that might be held in bankruptcy hearings - but, couldn't you take each element of a diocesan budget and set up as a separate, dedicated fund; thus, almost no diocesan money when you are finished. Seems like an accounting trick since cemetery fund deposits for churchs were not required in the state.
What saddens me are two points:
- per agreed upon history, Dolan spent a year as auxiliary in STL reading thru the abuse/clerical files - he lost weight, couldn't sleep, described it as his personal Lenten journey, etc. Yet, once a bishop, this experience does not seem to have led to many pastoral or good outcomes.
- he started out in Milwaukee with the above experience and even began by working with SNAP. But, he quickly pulled back from this and eventually saw SNAP as the enemy. Despite his talk, vicitms continued to be last in consideration; he continued to seek laicization rather than the good of the whole community;he did very little in terms of victims outreach.
Finally, whoever said that Weakland caused this didn't read all of the files posted. Only 18 of the named abusers came after 1965 in terms of ordination - the problems had been around for decades before Weakland.
Bender --
So Archbishop Weakland was a progressive -- so what? Ideology is irrelevant when it comes to the scandal. Look at Cardinals Law, Bevilaqua, Rigali and Mahony -- do you think they handled their scandal problems abominably *because* they were conservatives? Nonsense.
And people wonder why the balance of the non-Catholic world just smirks about the concept of "credibility" with respect to (at least) the institutional US Catholic Church.
I don't even try to answer questions or dispute even outrageous accusations. This week's outrageousness may most likely be next week's new revelations.
Am I totally disgusted ... and almost out the door permanently? Yep.
An article in Forbes ... http://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson/2013/07/03/bankrupt-milwaukee-ar... ... says the statute of limitations may not have run on this apparently fraudulent act.
Jim Pauweis, no, I don't want to take it to an extreme. I'm not one to be willing to undergo crucifixion because of someone else's sin. But taking a measured share of the consequences, yes.
If you don't want to get rid of predators in your midst, then what would you do with them?
Personally, I would advocate transparency: telling people, maybe in the parish bulletin, that Fr. X has arrived in their midst because he's been found guilty of sex abuse. They're adult, they should be able to figure out how to handle it. (If I were there as a parent, I would simply tell my kids about it and tell them matter-of-factedly that they must not be alone with him. No big deal.)
Oh. I see my earlier wording may have given the impression you had claimed the problem would be solved by laicization. But you never claimed that and I hadn't intended to suggest you did. Thanks for the clarification.
His stock in Rome has plummeted since Pope Francis has elevated Cdl, O'Malley as the "go to" American Cardinal. Dolan will still try to grandstand in NY, but he has no real infuence in the Vatican. He is fated to do confirmations and schmooze with NY politicians, except of course Andrew Cuomo. "s
Now Dolan is out in Rome and here. A sad commentary on a JP II bishop who got it from both sides.
Personally, I would advocate transparency: telling people, maybe in the parish bulletin, that Fr. X has arrived in their midst because he's been found guilty of sex abuse. They're adult, they should be able to figure out how to handle it.
Claire, first of all - I apologize. My comments to you yesterday, the first in particular, were too strong. I'm sorry for crossing the line of civility.
If the Dallas charter functions as it is supposed to in a particular diocese (it seems the review board failed in the Fugee / Newark case), then a reasonable expectation is that, if Fr. X has been found guilty of sex abuse, the review board should also have found that the accusation against X is credible, and the bishop should have removed him from ministry. Thus, Fr. X "arriving in their midst" wouldn't be via a normal clergy assignment.
I don't think the Dallas charter mandates laicization proceedings; what to do with clergy who have been removed from ministry becomes the bishop's problem, and my own view is that bishops have no good options except laicization. There is ample evidence that clergy removed from ministry can't be trusted to exercise good judgment without supervision, and that the church is really bad at supervising these guys. There are no diocesan jails or monasteries in which to stow abusers away. And as long as the clergy remains affiliated with the diocese, the diocese is liable for his misbehavior.
Last night's CNN "Beauty and the Priest' doc about a Church cover- up of a priest's rapei and murderiof a young beauty will keep the sneering and smirking Jim McCrea points out going on and on. .And the minimizing, deflecting and blaming tort lawyers on this and other blogs is a sad example of total denial. My Church officials covered-up crimes for years ..... ..say it and then own it??
A. Andreassi: the bishops knew who the molesters were, and so did the molesters themselves; it was only the rank and file Catholics who were kept in the dark. Only BECAUSE of lawyers who were brave enough to sue the Church did the faithful learn of the extent and even the existence of sexual predation by priests. The lawyers who represent victims are doing a public service, and they deserve what they've earned.
No problem Jim P. You never cross the line where I am concerned, that is, you're more polite than me, so I'll never complain about your style (note: I say style, I don't say content!). In fact I appreciate your ability to take some heat and still stay civil.
So, now Dolan has posted on his blog a statement entitled - *Groundless Rumors*
Beyond his summation of the millions belonging to Milwaukee parishes, he attempts to explain the cemetery fund.
Contrary to what is stated here and repeated from Anderson, Dolan matter-of-factly says that the cemetery fund was legal, followed the advice of his financial advisors, and necessary according to state law.
Yet, this contradicts other *facts*:
- the diocese was not required to follow the state law?
- the setting up of funds, etc. started a few years before he wrote to Rome for permission to move the money? (is this consistent and constant with his advisors)
- even if his advisors did make this recommendation, it is his decision. Does he follow every recommendation from his adviosrs?
- finally, he fails to respond to Anderson's point that Milwaukee's legal advisors are the ones who actually persuaded Dolan to amend his statements to be more victim centered and conciliatory?
So, who is telling the truth?
As Cardinal Tomothy Dolan, once again denies transferring millions of dollars into a cemetery trust fund to hide these assets from victims of clergy abuse, this piece clearly lifts the fog he again tries to perpetuate, his official response is a smoke screen meant to confuse the faithful, but his explanation clearly doesn't wash. Needing to put so much money (more than twice the annual 25 million dollar budget of the Milwaukee Archdiocese) to ensure the preservation of a few cemeteries is more than overkill. It was burying the assets...no pun intended.
A. Andreassi --"It might be interesting to learn how much money Jeff Anderson and the other attorneys have made on these huge lawsuits. Just saying"
Fr. Andreassi -- it would be "interesting" to know how much Mr. Anderson has made. I am sure his firm has made quite a lot of money since he started working on these cases in 1983. Not sure, however, how it is ultimately relevant or all that important.
Anderson took up this issue long before it looked like there was a likely chance of huge settlements or court awards.
But for the work of Anderson and others, would the Church have even begun to compensate victims, remove predators and made safeguarding children its highest priority? Seeing how the Church dealt with known predators for decades prior to the lawsuits, I have my doubts that anything would have changed. Because of this I am grateful that Anderson and others doggedly forced the issue and the Church in the US has begun to face this issue. Without Anderson (and others) would we have the Dallas Charter?
In my eyes, the sad truth is that our Church leadership failed miserably at protecting children. The contingency awards paid to Anderson and others are simply part of the price we have to pay to make up for this outrageous sin.
One more point on this topic -- when you have to turn to Bill Donohue as your defender, things are not going well.
more interesting is how much have church attorneys and paid lobbyists have been paid by the church. You can figure out how much victims attorney's have been paid, roughly 1 third of settlements. The Bishops certainly don't want you to know how much their very highly paid lawyers and lobbyists are paid by YOUR DONATIONS.
More importantly, if clergy weren't molesting children while bishops pretended to know nothing while playing musical parishes, putting countless children back in harms way, then we wouldn't be talking about litagation or lawyers would we.
Where is that cemetery money supposed to have come from in the first place? Sunday second collections? Philantropists who wanted to be sure that the grass was well cut on mom and pops' graves? Gimme a break.
Ann - I know nothing about cemetery operating budgets or investment requirements or how much money should be set aside for their needs. I assume, though, that a cemetery system needs to have at least some money for long-range planning; the Milwaukee Archdiocese presumably has hundreds of thousands of people, all of whom will die some day and need to be buried. Whether $60 million is the right amount or an excessive amount (or, conceivably, an insufficient amount) is something that I suppose Anderson would have to argue out in court with archdiocesan lawyers.
If those funds are legitimately for cemetery needs, though, then why would victims and their lawyers have a superior moral claim to the entirety of those funds over and above the people of the archdiocese? Recall that burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy. It's something we must do.
Anderson's legal theory seems to be: $1 million dollars for a victim (and him) is just; $10 million dollars for a victim (and him) is more just; $100 million dollars for a victim (and him) is even more just. But why would that be so? Will $100 million roll back the incidents and damage of sexual abuse more than $10 million? Or $1 million? I don't see how that can possibly be the case.
Will a loss of $100 million punish the miscreants to a greater extent than a loss of $1 million? If it impoverishes parishes and/or the cemetery system, it will punish the people of the archdiocese. But the people of the archdiocese are not the perpetrators; individual abusive clergy and, possibly, individual archdiocesan officials who were negligent or were enablers, are the perpetrators. And those perpetrators are not punished, at all, whether the amount paid by the people of the archdiocese is $1 milion or $10 million or $100 million.
I expect, by the way, that Anderson does the same amount of work whether his client is awarded $1 million or $10 million or $100 million.
I don't think it's unseemly or immoral for any bishop to (legally) shield money that, morally, belongs to the people of a diocese, from the grasp of contingency-fee enterpreneurial attorneys. Mark Silk writes as though it's an obvious case of chicanery - so obvious that he doesn't bother to explain why it's wrong. Not only is it not obvious - I don't see that it's wrong at all. If that cemetery money or parish money isn't really completely for cemeteries or parishes, then make that case. If the case can't be made, then it seems to me that, morally, it should be off-limits for Anderson's shark attacks.
This 'Forbes' writer thinks the transfer may be ruled fraudulent.
Unfortunately it is very clear that our church leadership ONLY responds when it is faced with a financial impact. This is NOT about contingency lawyers earning their fees. Jim, I haven't seen you write one word about all the lawyers and lobbyists each diocese hires to fight victims, to oppose any changes to statute of limitations. I'm pretty sure they earn far more than the victims lawyers. In fact look at the staggering millions spent on defending Monsignor Lynn of Philadelphia, more than 6 million for that 1 case. Then there is the much greater sum spent to defend Bishop Finn of Kansas City who pled guilty to child endangerment.
You may think it just fine to deny people sexually abused as children by clergy, clergy that in many many cases were known to thier bishops as predators but it is simply immoral. Further more imporatnt than the money spent to cover these settlements is the fact that when and if a victim even gets to court (very few cases do), discovery of even more damning evidence is often produced. Now thats why church officials get real heartburn, the truth revealed will show their callous disregard for the children who were in their care. I recall the one tiome Christ was angry in the Bible, when he threw the money changers out of the temple. Our church is not a for-profit business, but it certainly acts like one. On second though, even for profit business understand risk and loss and take action to ensure it is not repeated...unlike our Church leaders.
Speaking of the resources of an diocese belonging to the people of the diocese sounds so democratic and egalitarian. The reality is quite different of course. We Catholics hand over our dough to a very non-egalitarian structure,with a local ordinary having absolute, nearly unfettered control. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous. This money was Archbishop Cousins's/Weakland's/Dolan's/Listecki's. Victims of their bad decisions have every right go after these resources because Catholics handed it over without demanding accountability. Perhaps we will start demanding accountability in the future and then maybe we'd have an argument that large awards and settlements to victims are unfair punishment of people in the pews.
Grant - thanks for that link to the Forbes article. So to summarize the picture that the plaintiffs are painting:
* Dolan transferred as much as $130 million out of archdiocesan accounts - breaking up a lot of it into individual parish accounts, and moving $57 million into a cemetery trust fund
* Draining the archdiocese of $130 million in cash is precisely what propelled the archdiocese into bankruptcy (which, according to the Forbes article, occurred in 2011)
* According to the bankruptcy laws, this would constitute a fraudulent transfer (bankruptcy laws apparently don't give two figs for my strenuous arguments of moral rectitude :-))
* The "smoking gun" in all this is the statement from Dolan to the Vatican, seeking permission to transfer money into the cemetery trust, that he is doing so to provide "protection of these funds from any legal claim and liability."
Is that about the size of it?
If that is right - sounds like the bankruptcy judge will be busy sorting it all out.
The note that doesn't ring true is Anderson's claim that the $130 million was to be used to pay off priests to make them go away. I know we've discussed that before, here at dotCom. Whatever the merits of paying priests to go away, I don't think it happened at such a scale that it required $130 million, did it?
Jim P you may have doubts that the transfers were to avoid law suits but the NYT editorial today says Dolan has been caught dead wrong........th transfers will be the basis of a law suit anyway..
Attorneys will say whatever they can to get their clients what they want. That is what lawyers do. If the Forbes piece is right, the judge won't have much trouble sorting this out.
Jim, I haven't seen you write one word about all the lawyers and lobbyists each diocese hires to fight victims, to oppose any changes to statute of limitations. I'm pretty sure they earn far more than the victims lawyers.
Mark, in fact, I've commented here a number of times here specifically about changes to statutes of limitations - doing so is unjust.
Regarding the amounts spent by dioceses on legal fees: if victims sue dioceses, dioceses have a right and an obligation to defend themselves. I have no way of knowing whether dioceses spend more, or plaintiffs' attorneys spend more, or if it's about the same, but whatever the figures, it's yet another compelling reason to minimize the pursuit of legal remedies.
There are many problems with victims suing dioceses. I don't disagree that some of it has been necessary for the reasons that you and others state. Yet there are also problems - and near the top of the list is the potential to create a new class of victims: the people of the diocese. We can add to that list: the people who rely on diocesan social programs.
As far as I know, Dolan did not oversee the abuse of any of these victims in Milwaukee. He came into Milwaukee in 2002. Whatever abuse happened before that time - according to NCR, eight decades' worth - to put it bluntly, was not his fault. Even so, he did not have the luxury of ignoring the big, steaming pile of issues his predecessors left him. So he went about cleaning it up. Perhaps he committed fraud in doing so; if so, he should be castigated for that (and should suffer whatever legal penalties come with it). If he did commit fraud, I assume the bankruptcy court or another court will let us know, sooner or later. But he has other obligations besides paying off victims and their attorneys. He had a moral duty to victims, and a moral duty to the people of the archdiocese, and many other moral duties besides, and he needed to balance all of those duties as best as he could. Perhaps he wasn't very competent at it; if he left parish funds vulnerable to cash grabs by Anderson and his ilk, then shame on Dolan and archdiocesan officials.


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CRESTVIEW — When Crestview High School's football team beat Niceville 17-12 on Friday, it set off a celebration more than 30 years in the making.
Prior to Friday's win over the Eagles, the Bulldogs had not beaten Niceville since 1982. That span of 31 years is literally a lifetime.
Crestview defensive backs Coach Tim Gillis was a sophomore on the 1982 team. His son, Matt, is a senior on this year's team.
"Obviously, because it's Niceville, everybody gets caught up in the 30 years," Tim Gillis said. "Like I've said many times, it's not like we have played 30 years in a row, but it has been a long time.
"It was exciting. It was exciting for the players and for the community, and hopefully we can keep it going."
Bulldog defensive coordinator Thomas Grant wasn't even born. But you might say he was at the game; his mother was pregnant with him when she attended that night in 1982. Grant went on to play for the Bulldogs, but he never faced the Eagles in a regular game.
The win for Grant was more important because of what it meant to the present and future of the Bulldogs.
"It shows the hard work our kids put in preparing for this game," he said. "It's just been a long time coming, and they did a good job of being in a dogfight because it was more than just the Niceville streak.
"Our backs were to the wall and we had to win if we wanted a chance to be in the playoffs."
This year's Crestview seniors wouldn't be born for another 13 or 14 years after that win in 1982.
To be a part of the team that ended the streak was especially satisfying to Khalil Foster
"It feels great," he said. "It was the best win I've ever had in any sport. It meant a lot to our team to end 31 years of suffering.
"It meant a lot for the whole community and our town and anybody and everybody in Crestview. Now I can tell my kids and my grandkids that I was on the team that ended the streak."
Matt Gillis said that after hearing stories of the streak all of his life, it was great to be a part of the team that upended Niceville. He said one of the best parts was sharing the moment with his dad.
Crestview head Coach Tim Hatten ranked the victory over Niceville with any he has experienced in his 26-year coaching career, including leading Pearl River Community College to the junior college national championship in 2004.
"I think this win for this program, for this town, these people and these athletes is as big as our national championship in 2004 for our community college," he said. "It's certainly special for these players, their moms and dads, the people that played at Crestview and the coaches here at Crestview the last 30 years."
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin's sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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Alvin Gentry admits he doesn't even know what he's going to get from his fifth-year power forward on a nightly basis.
"I put him in and we hope that he has a great night."
In other words, the Suns head coach is no different than anyone else who has watched his team this season.
Michael Beasley -- on the basketball court, can be hard to understand or explain.
He's an enigma.
How else does one describe what they see when the 24-year-old steps foot on an NBA floor?
Case in point, Monday's game against Oklahoma City:
In the first half, Beasley made a single free throw shooting 0-for-1 with three turnovers in seven minutes.
In the second half, Beasley scored 13 points (5-for-13 FG) and grabbed 11 rebounds in 18 minutes.
"Second half just started knocking down shots," Beasley said following only his second double-double of the season.
Gentry would prefer the latter over the former. He would prefer his most talented player "play within the game", staying engaged and making good decisions.
"When that happens," Gentry said, "we have a tendency to shoot the ball better and end up with better play overall."
Beasley did that in the second half Monday, and as a result, he played the entire fourth quarter.
"It definitely felt good to be out there but the loss trumps all," he said of what has recently been a rare occasion of playing meaningful minutes.
Beasley has been a less-than-frequent guest in the fourth quarter. In the 36 games he's played this season, 17 times he's failed to make it on the court in the final 12 minutes.
That may be changing, however.
Beasley has finished the last three games, including playing every minute of the final quarter in each of the past two, something he had not done in back-to-back games all season.
"I'm not worried about numbers or shots or anything else, just play hard as I possibly can and hope for the best," he said.
"One thing about me is I'm always going to be me whether I play or whether I don't play. I know what I can do offensively. I know what I can do defensively. My confidence will never change. I still believe I'm the best and nobody can make me think otherwise."
That said, the hope is everyone will see "the best" on a more consistent basis.
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