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Section 1311 of the Affordable Care Act (PDF) ("Obamacare") provides, in part, as follows:
Each State shall, not later than January 1, 2014, establish an American Health Benefit Exchange (referred to in this title as an ''Exchange'') for the State [. . . .]
Read literally and in isolation, this provision requires states to establish "exchanges." There is no escape clause provided in Section 1311. However, such a provision would violate the rule established in Printz v. United States, in which Justice Scalia, writing for the court, stated that "the forced participation of the States' executive in the actual administration of a federal program" violates the Constitution's federalism provisions.
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ESPN Washington Football Team Reporter John Keim writes about the Redskins trademark dispute:
Stay out, government: I agree with this take from The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins. If the Redskins are going to change their name, let it come from societal pressure and not from congressional action. She made it clear that she's in favor of a name change, but also wrote: "You don't really want government agencies to become the arbiter of acceptable words and images. You really don't. The main reason you don't is because, like it or not, what's offensive is subjective." Totally agree. This isn't as much about them needing to take care of other issues as it is about that slippery slope. I'm not a fan of slippery slopes. [Emphasis supplied.]
This is in the best uninformed Tea Party tradition (though Kleim clearly is not a Tea Partier, he supports a name change) - a sort of "Keep The Government's Hands Off My Medicare." Did the government go out of its way to get involved in the controversy? Of course not. I'll explain on the flip.
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A federal class action lawsuit has been filed in San Francisco against the NFL by former players. Shorter version: The NFL sacrificed player health for its own profit by excessively administering pain medications and not warning players of the dangers.
Rather than allowing players the opportunity to rest and heal, the NFL has illegally and unethically substituted pain medications for proper health care to keep the NFL's tsunami of dollars flowing.
The Complaint is available here.
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The Colorado Supreme Court issued a new rule for lawyers today. Lawyers will be allowed to represent marijuana businesses, so long as the lawyers don't help clients break state law. Via the Denver Post:
The new rule gives lawyers the go-ahead to work with marijuana businesses — even though those businesses are breaking federal law — so long as the lawyers don't help businesses also break state law.
The new rule is here. Some background on why it was needed is here. [More...]
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Chris Christie's decision to block health insurance exchanges in New Jersey brings forward the percolating question regarding an IRS ruling (PDF) that the ACA tax credits will be available on federally run exchanges.
Oklahoma is seeking to challenge the IRS ruling. While the challenge seems extremely weak to me on the merits, that's never stopped the Roberts 5 before.
However, the standing issue seems even more clear cut - what is Oklahoma's injury here? Howe would they have standing? Indeed, no one seems injured at all. A discussion of the standing issue on the flip.
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Like bizarro Thurgood Marshall, the right wing has engaged in a litigation strategy to compel the placement of right wing zealots on university faculties. Case in point - the matter of Teresa Wagner and the University of Iowa Law School:
A federal jury believed the University of Iowa's law school illegally denied a promotion to a conservative Republican because of her politics, former jurors told The Des Moines Register. However, jurors said they felt conflicted about holding a former dean personally responsible for the bias. They wanted to hold the school itself accountable, but federal law does not recognize political discrimination by institutions. "I will say that everyone in that jury room believed that she had been discriminated against," said Davenport resident Carol Tracy, the jury forewoman. Meanwhile, attorneys for Teresa Wagner on Tuesday filed a motion for a new trial in the case that scholars agree could have national implications in what some argue is the liberally slanted world of academia.
It's an interesting argument, but anyone familiar with conservative views regarding employment discrimination claims, can't but feel a bit of schadenfreude about the fact that right wing jurisprudence is what blocks relief for Wagner here. It is not some amorphous rule that institutions can not be guilty of discrimination. That is just shoddy reporting. It is instead that "states rights" do not permit suits to be brought against public institutions deemed to be covered by "states rights."
Also ironic is that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in Rutan, opined that discrimination in employment decisions by government on the basis of political viewpoint was permissible under the Constitition. More on this interesting subject later.
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The order from the federal district court in Texas (PDF). Discuss.
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A group of 8 translators/interpreters in San Diego have sued the Drug Enforcement Administration for administering polygraphs in violation of federal law. The interpreters' employer, Metropolitan, aka Metlang has also been sued.
The DEA contracted with Metlang to provide linguists/translators for its criminal cases. The suing translators worked for Metlang on DEA's wiretaps and criminal cases. They were all fired after either refusing the test or after DEA reported their polygraphs results as "failed,"or "inconclusive" to Metlang.
Under the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, 29 USC §§2001, a private employer is prohibited from requesting, requiring or demanding a polygraph test from an employee.
The polygraphs lasted four or five hours, and one woman was questioned about bestiality: [More...]
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12 agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, AG Eric Holder and others for discrimination.
[Their lawyer says] agents hired in the U.S. who come to Puerto Rico receive a bonus for working in a so-called high-intensity drug trafficking area, which Puerto Rican agents already on the island don't get. She says they also get more dangerous assignments because they have local experience that the U.S. agents lack.
Reading through the Complaint, available on PACER: the lawsuit claims National Origin Discrimination in federal employment practices; Disparate Treatment; and Equal Protection violations. It alleges the Justice Department has violated the Federal Workforce Flexibility Act of 2004. The agents, who are from Puerto Rico, claim they are not receiving the same benefits as "non-local hires" and receive 25% less pay.
The agents also claim they are being used as "cannon fodder" for the DEA, forced out of administrative positions and back onto the dangerous streets. [More...]
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Via the Denver Post: An interesting case in federal court in Colorado: The feds seize a computer pursuant to a search warrant. But when they try to access the data, it's encrypted. Can the court force the computer owner who is now a criminal defendant, to unlock the data?
Ramona Fricosu and her ex-husband Scott Whatcott are indicted for bank fraud arising from an alleged mortgage scam in Colorado Springs. The feds say the incriminating evidence is on the seized computer.
The Government is asking the Court, under the authority of the All Writs Act, to force Ms. Fricosu to unlock the data. [More...]
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Stratfor has sent out this updated message on the hacking of its subscriber data base, which included customer credit card information.
At least one person's data I saw on Pastebin had the full credit card number and 3 digit "CVV" code (I'm not linking to it.) If Stratfor didn't encrypt the card data and left the full credit card numbers and pins on its servers, I wonder whether it failed to be in full compliance with PCI Data Security Standards. See page 14: [More...]
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Michigan attorney Scott Millard, 29, was held in contempt of court and jailed Dec. 1 for instructing his client to "take the 5th" and refuse to answer a judge's question at his arraignment and bond hearing. The judge had asked the client when was the last time he had taken drugs. Millard was released four hours later when a higher court granted a stay.
The transcript is here.
If Judge Post is found to be in violation of the law - which many attorneys and former judges who spoke with 24 Hour News 8 believe he is - he could face anything from censure to removal from the bench.
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Question presented - Is a professional sports league a single entity under Section 1 of the Sherman Act?
For more on the single entity question, see American Needle v. NFL. See also this post.
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The Justice Department filed a complaint on Wednesday to block AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, a deal that would create the largest carrier in the country and reshape the industry.
The complaint, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, said that T-Mobile "places important competitive pressure on its three larger rivals, particularly in terms of pricing, a critically important aspect of competition." The complaint also highlighted T-Mobile's high speed network and its innovations in technology.
Here is the complaint. Here is Department of Justice Statement:
In order to ensure that competition remains and that everyone – including consumers, businesses and the government – continues to receive high quality, competitively priced mobile wireless products and services, the Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile.
The Department filed its lawsuit because we believe the combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would result in tens of millions of consumers all across the United States facing higher prices, fewer choices and lower quality products for their mobile wireless services.
More detailed analysis on the flip.
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The United States Trustee for California has filed a Motion For Leave To Appeal the ruling by the US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California which declared DOMA unconstitutional. The filing, in the case In re Balas and Morales (11-bk-17831-TD Doc 53), states that:
Although Attorney General and the President have concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same sex couples is subject to heightened scrutiny and is unconstitutional under that standard, the President has instructed that Executive Departments and agencies continue to comply with Section 3 unless and until it is repealed by Congress or there is a definitive ruling by the Judicial Branch that Section 3 is unconstitutional.
A strange submission. the Justice Department believes that DOMA is unconstitutional, but is appealing a ruling that DOMA is unconstitutional. The filing indicates that the opportunity to brief this issue was provided to the Congress, which declined to participate, and there is no indication that Congress wants to participate in an appeal. So who exactly is seeking reversal here?
While it is true that Justice has a duty, to a point, to defend duly enacted laws, there are limits to this duty. And indeed, the United States Trustee in this case does not seem to have much inclination to provide a meritorious defense in this appeal. Not a decision I fully understand (indeed, it defies my prediction of no appeal in this case.)
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What a professional employer organization can do for your business, Pt. 6: the PEO concept
By EricSnethkamp
Expert PEO
In part one of this six part series of articles we discussed the basics of what a professional employer organization or PEO is and its main benefits. Part two discussed payroll and tax administration. Part three discussed human resources services. Part four discussed safety and risk management services. And in part five we covered the benefits management services a good PEO offers. This, the final installment of the series is a summary of the PEO concept.
It is my firm belief that the most direct route to business success is the ability to coordinate and tap the knowledge of a "master mind group."
An intimate look at high ranking politicians or the heads of Fortune 500 companies reveals that their success comes from their ability to effectively use an expert group of advisers. You won't find these leaders hiring the bottom bidders or the most affordable staff they can find. They know the value of surrounding themselves with the best minds possible. This is the value a good PEO offers businesses.
Not only does the business benefit from partnering with an expert HR staff, it many times receives this benefit at a savings over their previous costs. After all, your time should be spent doing what you do well; running your business. Let the PEO make employing easy and make your business more profitable. The PEO partnership can truly be a win-win for your business.
As a final note it is advisable that you ask your PEO how they fare in comparison to other PEOs when it comes to competitive pricing.
Some PEOs may break their quote into several categories in an effort to show pricing that looks better than their competition. When comparing PEO companies it is best to have them quote you one cumulative average number as a percentage of payroll so that you may easily compare a real world number from PEO to PEO. Have the numbers explained to you and ask about additional charges that may be added for services that are not included in the number quoted to you.
You will find some PEOs have myriad additional fees that may be charged on top of the number quoted to you. Simplicity is usually best and a PEO that gives you a simple to understand quote with a limited number of figures and a limited number of extras will usually make you much happier in the long run. This is provided that they have experience, history and a good number of employees under management.
If you have any questions, I will be happy answer them and give you the information that will help you make an informed decision.


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After Kim Kardashian joined Kanye West as he gave a speech to a lecture hall full of students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design before Kanye's concert in Boston on Sunday night, the reality star has decided that getting an education is something she would like to do.
"Going to Harvard with Kanye really opened up her eyes," a pal tells NAUGHTY BUT NICE ROB. "She would love to enroll at the school and get a great education. It is something that Kanye supports. The couple will not be moving to Boston but Kim is looking into taking classes at home, like Tyra Banks did. If that does not work out then she plans to look into a school in L.A. Kim has got the education bug!"
Virgil Abloh posted a picture of Kanye surrounded by attentive students with the caption, "Just gave a talk at Harvard GSD with Kanye. Super surreal. #DONDA design lecture series #yeezustour (sic)."
Kim took to Instagram to share her pride in West. "My baby speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design," she gushed.
For those of you wondering, yes, Banks did attend classes on the Harvard Business campus, but they were part of an Owner/President Management extension program and not part of the school's top-ranked Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.).
Banks enrolled in three, three-week units over a period of three years, costing her $33,000 per unit.
Upon completion of the program, Tyra was presented with a "Certificate of Completion" according to O.P.M.'s Porfolio Director, Jacqueline Baugher. Clients can call themselves "alumni of O.P.M."
There's something about the way Banks refers to her time at Harvard that's more than a little disingenuous.
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Wanted: Maid service. Must be willing to do above-average job of cleaning home office … for free.
I really need to clean this place up, and I'm kinda hoping that exposing to the Internet what a pig pen I'm wallowing in will help motivate me to kick it into cleaning mode.


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The Environmental Law Society (ELS)
The Environmental Law Society (ELS) provides a forum to address key environmental law issues on the local, state and federal levels, as well as functioning as a group available to participate in local environmental cleanups and fund raisers. ELS provides its members with opportunities to travel to national environmental law conferences and to make contact with state and local environmental employers through pro bono and internship opportunities.
2014-15 Executive Board
President Kelly Baker
Vice-President Sarah Fodge
Secretary Simone Savino
Treasurer Jason Harrison
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There's also some good news for gamers as BlizzCon 2011 is announced, and we get an early glimpse and a handful of details about Battlefield 3. Meanwhile, the latest LEGO browser title and this iPhone RTS seem oddly familiar...
Mass Effect 2 wins big at the Interactive Achievement Awards, but the fans are divided over Clint Mansell writing the score for the sequel. Gamers around the world are also unhappy following Activision Blizzard's Q4 2010 earnings call this week, which saw the apparent demise of three franchises.
Finally, if someone sends you a confusing string of digits, you'd better check what it is before claiming they've sunk your battleship.
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Derby pubs, nail bars, car washes and takeaways are fronts for 19 crime gangs
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NINETEEN organised crime groups are operating in Derby and are behind child exploitation, drug dealing, money laundering and modern-day slavery, a shocking new report reveals.
Businesses such as nail bars, car washes, pubs and takeaways are "legitimate business fronts" for money launderers, according to the Derby City Council report.
The extent of the problem has now prompted the council and its partners to tackle the issue as a priority.
Andy Thomas, head of service for partnerships and communities, wrote the report for the authority's cabinet.
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He said: "Derby has 19 profiled organised crime groups operating across a number of different crime areas and communities.
"The Normanton area remains a focal point for police and partners, drugs are well established in the community and there is an emergence of human trafficking.
"The vast number of businesses in Derby work legitimately and above the law but a small number of others have been recognised as being potential business fronts of these OCGs in terms of money laundering."
The report states that the groups are responsible for the control and management of drugs markets.
It says they are also behind the distribution of hard drugs across the city, with a small number being responsible for the majority of drug supply.
"Organised crime gangs are also involved in the local production and supply of cannabis and the associated laundering of money through 'legitimate' business fronts such as car washes, nail bars, pubs and takeaways.
"They are responsible for human trafficking, in the movement of vulnerable individuals from Eastern Europe to Derby, leading to what many now call 'modern day slavery'.
"This also includes sexual exploitation of children and young people.
"Many of the solutions to tackling the issue are solely down to policing but partner agencies working together are able to pool their know-how and offer specialist support to the police for it.
"To give a historical example, Al Capone was breaking all kinds of laws 100 years ago and was finally caught of tax evasion, which is why we are working together as partners on differing tactics to try and find ways of finding those who are committing these types of offences."
Mr Thomas said: "Organised crime gangs have a significant impact upon Derby's local economy, are engaged in fraud across a range of agencies but particularly the city council, impact upon confidence in specific inner city communities, are responsible for serious crime, human trafficking and control of drugs markets."
The council's deputy chief executive, Paul Robinson, said the report was drawn up after an assessment carried out by the council and its partners, including the police, which looked into how organised crime groups were affecting the city.
He said: "This is more of an issue now and we need to prioritise dealing with it."
The authority would now be looking to improve partnership working with the police, other agencies and the voluntary sector to crack down on organised crime groups.
Another change will see the authority's cabinet members getting more involved with the meetings that take place between agencies over organised crime in an effort to drive work forward.
He said the council's work would include "sharing intelligence" and using its trading standards and licensing powers to crack down on criminal activity being run from commercial premises.
One recent high-profile case of people trafficking happened earlier this year in Derby.
In February, two brothers admitted trafficking 12 vulnerable men from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, where they sent them out to work and pocketed their earnings.
Igor Marcin, 36, of Amber Street, and Marek Marcin, 40, of Cameron Road, from Slovakia, promised victims a better life and the chance to earn money to send home.
But when they arrived in Derby, their passports and identity documents were taken away and bank accounts were opened in some of their names.
They were given accommodation at the defendants' homes and were sent to work in places such as car washes and factories. They received a pittance of what they earned and the rest was taken by the defendants.
Igor was jailed for four years and four months and Marek for three years and four months.
Derbyshire police refused to comment on any specifics contained in the report, which will be discussed by councillors on April 30.
A spokesman for Derbyshire Police said: "This is not something we can talk about in public because the work that we do to tackle this kind of crime is discreet and in many cases undercover.
"Therefore it is not appropriate to discuss this publicly."
Yesterday the same report revealed that the notorious A1 gang "does not exist" in the form it once did but some of its former members are still involved in crime, according to the city's top cop.
Derbyshire Police Superintendent Gary Parkin was speaking after the report said that the Allenton-based crew – the city's "most notorious street gang" – had been "successfully disrupted".
But it says that a "number of key former A1 nominals now operate as and within organised criminal gangs in the supply of class A drugs".


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Storms To Our SouthJuly 13th, 2014 at 8:45 pm by Pamela Gardner under Weather
Indy continues to stay dry, and so does Kokomo, Muncie, pretty much anyone north of I-70. The storms are all in southern Indiana still. The individual cells are moving east, with the whole line sagging south and southeast. There is tons of lightning south of Bedford with that storm. Heavy rain and lightning are the main threats from these storms around Columbus, Bloomington, and Seymour. The storms loose their intensity and coverage after the sun sets.


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Novice Arthur Sealy, O.S.B.
In the library of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, there is a wood-model replica of the original cabin1 that our pioneer monks occupied when they formally took up residence on this site in southern Indiana in 1854. It shows a habited monk reading while sitting on the front porch of the new monastic dwelling. A closer look reveals that he is reading the words, "All this must be viewed with the eye of the future, AD 1854 III/21."2 In this sesquicentennial year, it seemed appropriate, as a novice setting out on a monastic journey, that in this paper I should explore my monastic heritage. And as an Irish-born novice monk of Saint Meinrad, I do so while anxious to explore the Irish part of a Swiss-American story. The first link in that story is one of our founding monks, Fr. Bede O'Connor. This paper charts his story among several other English-speaking Irish-born monks at Saint Meinrad in the years up to the death in 1952 of Bro. Bartholomew Enright, the last of the "hibernus" monks before this present writer. Along the way, it attempts 1) to outline some circumstances that allowed for its transition from a German-speaking to English-speaking American monastery, and 2) to suggest that the unusual presence of Irish-born (English-speaking) monks here during the monastery's early history is indeed worthy of some attention.
Fr. Bede O'Connor was a monk of the Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln.3 Together with his confrère and traveling companion, Fr. Ulrich Christen, Fr. Bede was a founding monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, and afterwards pastor at Fulda, Jasper, and Terre Haute, and for many years Chancellor and Vicar General of the Diocese of Vincennes (which later was to become the Archdiocese of Indianapolis). The entry in the Professbuch (Profession Book) at Einsiedeln for Fr Bede,4 refers to the circumstances through which fourteen-year-old Jacob (later Bede) came to receive a Swiss education at the monastery school:
Fr. Bede (Jacob) O'Connor of London was born January 29, 1826, as the son of Jeremias O'Connor and of Maria O'Connor. He came as a boy who scarcely knew a word of German from England to Einsiedeln, sent there by a son of Fr. Alois Jauch in order to make reparation for the sins of that unhappy man.5
An oral tradition at Saint Meinrad tells of a former monk of Einsiedeln (Fr. Aloys) who had left the monastery and fathered an illegitimate son. This son, himself, had become a priest and through ministry had come to know Bede's Irish family in London. Other accounts, for which I can find no evidence,6 suggest that this priest was Fr. Bede's father. To my knowledge, the only written record for this part of our Saint Meinrad history is found in the Einsiedeln Professbuch, an extract from which is presented here:
Born in 1751, Fr. Aloys professed vows [at Maria Einsiedeln Abbey] on September 24, 1769, and was ordained a priest on September 24, 1774. From 1774-1781 he was Professor of Philosophy at Bellenz. Around the year 1794, at Eschenz, he started to proclaim from the pulpit heretical teachings, distributed heretical books and influenced the apostasy of one or other of the faithful. Complaints were made to the Abbot and when Fr. Aloys learned of these, he left Eschenz and went first to Stein, then to Schaffhausen, and finally to Zurich. When the monastery learned of his flight, the Abbot immediately sent Fr. Subprior Fintan Steinnegger to Eschenz on February 26, 1797, to bring home the astray. However, on 1 March [Fr. Subprior] reported home that Fr. Aloys was gone. The Dean of the monastery informed the [Einsiedeln] Chapter of the news. [On March 4] a letter was received from Antistes7 Lavater of Zurich, reporting that Fr. Aloys was with Lavater and refused, in spite of all encouragement, to return to his vocation and work.
The Lavater home would be open for any visitor from Einsiedeln. Fr. Chrysostomus Helbing, the former novice master of the "misguided" and Fr. Coelestin Mueller, his classmate from Novitiate, went to Lavater's house. All their efforts were in vain. Fr. Aloys apostatized completely from the Church and was ordained preacher in the Reformed Church. He rejected the idea of a return [to Einsiedeln]. Later he became a missionary with the Herrenhuter Society in South Russia and died there, reconciled with the Church.
There is documental evidence that he had the good luck to receive absolution in his hour of death by another former priest. He was, as he had wished, buried in his religious habit, which he always had with him in Katharinenstadt, Russia. The defector had married and had died leaving her and two sons behind in great misery. Einsiedeln Abbey was petitioned for financial assistance for them. One of the sons even came to Einsiedeln in March 1828 and asked for help also for his brother who was still in Russia. Both intended to convert to Catholicism. One of the two sons, himself became a priest and pastor in London, and sent a boy to Einsiedeln to receive an education and join the monastery, to atone for the offenses of their father, Fr. Aloys. That boy was Jacob O'Connor (Fr. Bede).8
Fr. Bede was the most likely of the Einsiedeln monks to be sent to found a mission house in English-speaking America. In The Role of Saint Meinrad in the Formation of Catholic Identity in the Diocese of Vincennes, 1853-98, Peter Yock writes:
Because he was fluent in both English and German, Fr. Bede also spent much of his time assigned to multi-ethnic parishes within the Diocese of Vincennes, including Madison and Cannelton. . . . He was specifically sent by Hieronymus Bachmann, then Prior, to take up residence [in Cannelton] in order to guard the people's faith against the encroachment of the Protestants.9
Fr. Bede's letters to Abbot Henry Schmidt and monks back at Einsiedeln include many references to the Irish, which Yock suggests was because of his own sense of being Irish. In a letter to Fr. Athanasius Tschopp at Einsiedeln, contrasting the Irish approach to faith with the Germans who were diligent in receiving instruction, Fr. Bede notes that for the Irish "their religion is not taught to them, but it is inborn, and what they know, they have to a great extent taken in with their mother's milk."10 He died at Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was buried, at the age of forty-nine. He had a very likeable personality, we are told, but was not without an occasional temper. Had he lived longer, based on the respect and responsibilities afforded him while alive, he most probably would have succeeded to the See of Vincennes. Such was his gift for bringing together people of such an ethnically diverse region as southern Indiana, it is unlikely that it would have gone unnoticed by Church authorities in Rome.
Candidate Charles Kinslaw (a phonetic spelling of the Irish name "Kinsella") died in our monastery on January 30, 1863. Described as "a virtuous youth from Ireland,"11 there is very little else known about this brother candidate. A fire in 1887 caused the total destruction of the monastery and attached school buildings,12 fortunately without any loss of life. One of the monks, charged with responsibility for the archives (which were housed in the monastery itself), when going away for a summer assignment, left a box of papers with the caution that it be taken out of the building in case of a fire. In all the confusion, according to this oral history,13 the brother who should have removed the box, neglected to do so. This had provided the heart of the archive, and a great quantity of documentation was destroyed. However, the archivists at the Archabbey have reconstituted many of our records by accessing archives from other monasteries,14 a process that has been ongoing since the time of that fire. Very little beyond the actual necrology had survived.
Fr. Meinrad Mary McCarthy was born in 1839 in Monmouthshire, South Wales (Great Britain).15 As a Catholic and possessed of a name indicative of an Irish origin, it is not unreasonable to assume that he was born of Irish parents, or that he was born in Ireland and emigrated as a young child with his parents to Britain like many other Irish during the Famine period of the 1840s. How he found his way to the United States, and subsequently to Saint Meinrad, is not known, but he made profession in 1862 and was ordained a priest the following year.
Fr. Meinrad's papers include a letter from Abbot President Frowin Conrad (Swiss-American Congregation), dated December 1, 1899, inviting Fr. Meinrad, "to make known to me today your complaints." This was in response to previous correspondence in which Fr. Meinrad had outlined, in very serious terms, his grievances with his Abbot Athanasius and the running of the monastery at Saint Meinrad. That these complaints led to a formal visitation of the monastery, incensed the community and abbot. The following letter, sent some years earlier internally within the monastery, from Fr. Meinrad Mary to his Abbot Fintan, gives some indication as to his state of mind.16
My Lord Abbot:
I respectfully submit for your kind consideration the following suggestions, viz:
1. That a board be placed in a conspicuous place showing where the superiors are to be found, or at least whether they are present or absent. In case of emergency a glance at the board will show where the superior is; the second story will be most convenient for all.
2. That those charged with sweeping, dusting, cleaning lamps, etc., be careful to sweep under the beds and out of the corners; that they dust all woodwork, burn or destroy all wasted paper especially when saturated with grease or oil, and that all cloths used in cleaning lamps be washed at least once a week. Object. To prevent spontaneous combustion that frequently takes place from dust under beds, in corners, from rags, etc.
3. That waste papers, slops, etc., should not be thrown out of the windows, nor any other rubbish. Object. Cleanliness around the buildings and to prevent persons passing by or waiting near the buildings from receiving unpleasant baths.
4. That lamps kept burning during the nighttime be so encased in tin or sheet iron that there will be no danger of particles of sooth falling on woodwork.
5. That a certain signal be agreed upon whereby all can be warned of threatening danger; and that in such cases the highest official at home should be called. It would be also well to have all the inmates of our building instructed how to act in case of fire, or other calamity.
6. That no rubbish be stored away in any part of our buildings.
7. That the halls of the abbey are not to be used at the times of silence as a promenade, especially not by such as wear course shoes or boots; it would also be well if such would not run up and down stairs [making] unnecessary noise.
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Meinrad Mary, O.S.B.
The reason for including this letter here, in full, is not so as to provide a source of ridicule or amusement, but as evidence of a mental anxiety, a certain fearfulness and meticulousness that was to become more pronounced over time, and which ultimately led to Fr. Meinrad Mary's mental breakdown. He was declared legally to be of unsound mind17 and committed to the Alexian Brothers' Institution in St. Louis in 1899, where he died on June 16, 1914. Along with a Frenchman, Fr. Benedict Brunet, he was one of the earliest monks to make solemn profession at Saint Meinrad, one of the first non-German-speaking monks to come here, and among the first group of monks to be ordained to the priesthood at the Abbey. One can only presume that his mental imbalance or illness, were it diagnosed today, would be characterized differently, and with proper medication, that he could have lived a life more at ease with himself and others.
The final entry in the 1897 Catologus Religiosorum Monasterii S. Meinradi is for Timothy Sullivan, simply identified as "Hibernus" (Irish). He was one of four lay novices to have received the habit on March 27, 1896.18 A young Irishman, Thomas Sherlock, appears in the Catologus 1901-44. Born in Kilcommon, County Mayo (Diocese of Tuam), there is very little recorded about him except that he was around twenty-seven years old when came to the monastery on February 22, 1899, that he received the habit on September 17, and that he departed on December 4, all in the same year.
Brothers Ignatius Dwire and Basilides Hyland were both born in Ireland in 184319 and 1844 respectively. They probably came to America, like so many others, as a result of the Famine and made profession here, Bro. Ignatius on June 24, 1872, and Bro. Basilides on July 25, 1875. Bro. Ignatius was born in Artfinan, County Tipperary, Ireland. He served the community through work and prayer, but poor health eventually forced him to retire to the healthier climate of Louisiana. He died at St. Joseph's Abbey in 1905. Br Basilides was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1844. "He was a simple, humble and quiet monk who year after year faithfully washed the dishes. He hardly ever spoke, treasuring silence as did the ancient hermits of the desert."20 It has been suggested21 that he may have had a brother who was Chief of Police in Terre Haute, Indiana. Bro. Basilides died on May 14, 1910, in the thirty-fifth year of his monastic profession.
Br Bartholomew "Thomas" Enright came to the monastery on May 20, 1931. Twenty-six-year-old Thomas' first letter of enquiry (April 14, 1931) about Benedictine life at Saint Meinrad received a swift reply from Fr. Abbot Ignatius, and days later Thomas wrote to the Abbot again:
[...] I was born in Ireland and came to the USA in 1927. . . . My parents are both living and I dare say they and their ancestors are Catholics since the time of St. Patrick. After coming to this country I worked at hard labor for some time. I then got a job as clerk in the railroad office, and after that I joined the elevator men's union and that is my present occupation. . . . I wish to become a lay brother. I have one brother and two sisters all now residing in Ireland. My parents don't need me for they are pretty well fixed in the land where the shamrock grows.22
Born in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1905, Thomas' father, Batt (short for Bartholomew) was a farmer with 133 acres of land. Young Thomas had fought in the "War of Independence" in Ireland and found himself in trouble with the infamous "black 'n' tans."23 How he found his way to Saint Meinrad is not certain, although he did settle with a relative in Chicago before coming to the monastery. At Saint Meinrad less than a month, signing his name still as "Candidate Thomas," he writes about what life at the monastery means to him:
I like the religious life because of the great opportunity which I have of attending the Great Sacrifice of the Mass and the daily reception of the Holy Sacrament and also the great privileges of being able to attend two and three masses a day. The next thing I like about it is the opportunity a man has of praying which is the next great means we have to glorify God after the Sacrifice of the Mass. As far as the work is concerned I care not, for I came not to do my will but the will of Him that sent me. The food is perfectly O.K. for "not in bread alone doth man live but every word that proceedith from the mouth of God."24
Thomas received the monastic name, Bartholomew, his father's name. His catchphrase was, "I was 'in right' with de Irish, but not `in right' with de English!"25 An independent-minded man and known for his no-nonsense approach with the fathers, he is remembered, in my interviews with both Fathers Cyprian Davis and Simon McTighe, as a cheerful man and a good companion. Letters to Fr. Abbot Ignatius indicate that, with permission, he stayed for an extended period at two abbeys. A letter from the infirmary at St Joseph's Abbey (Louisiana) dated October 5, 1942, finds him there nursing Bro. Placidus Fuch, a monk of Saint Meinrad, who died at St Joseph's a few days later on October 14. A letter from his time at St. Leo's Abbey26 in Florida finds him in good relationship with his Abbot at Saint Meinrad, where the tone of the letter is respectful but extremely jovial.
Coming across an archive photograph of the brother and his Abbot Ignatius, prompted me to include here an extract from a letter to Fr. Abbot Ignatius from Bro. Bartholomew's youngest sister, Teresa Enright in Ireland, following the abbot's visit there in 1937: "We are still thinking of you, [Fr. Abbot], and your visit and how good it was of you to come to see us and also the good day we had driving around Kerry and Cork. I shall never forget you. I was really so lonesome parting that night at the boat."27
Bro. Bartholomew became a US citizen on April 9, 1935. Having served the monastery as sacristan, monastery porter, vineyard assistant, infirmarian, worker at The Grail28 magazine office, and at our Abbey Press, Bro. Bartholomew died relatively young in 1952, following a series of strokes.
In the 1930s Saint Meinrad Abbey changed its culture from a predominantly German-speaking abbey, continuing in the tradition of its Swiss founders, to an English-speaking American monastery. On the East Coast, as a result of the First World War, German immigrants experienced much discrimination, and many changed or anglicized their names (much as the Irish immigrants had done in Britain in the centuries before), and Americanized their lifestyles.
Here in southern Indiana such change didn't occur so startlingly,29 partly because the monastery was somewhat remote from the bigger cities. However, the needs of the monastery, and our service to the people, required that we become Americanized and speak the language; in other words, to change the culture from a German-oriented monastery, to a monastery that was at one with the changing environment around it. The transition was slow but deliberate, and several of the monks heard confessions and administered sacraments in German as late as the 1970s.
Abbot Ignatius Esser,30 Saint Meinrad's first American-born abbot, founded St. Placid School in the early 1930s as a high school specifically for brother candidates. His reforms included the elimination of table reading in German, and an end to the requirement of priests that they would preach in German.31 With the election of Abbot Ignatius, the conditions were becoming more favorable for the admission of monks for whom English was their first language. And many of these English-speaking monks were of Irish Catholic background.
With war on the Atlantic front making it ever more difficult in the 1930s to recruit German-speaking brothers from Europe, Abbot Ignatius' decision to become more pro-active in our recruitment of American brothers32 was a pragmatic one. However, Abbot Ignatius also held strongly to the view (in a very clergy-dominated Church environment) that the vocation of the brother monk deserved recognition and better understanding, and he worked tirelessly to promote a spirituality of the brother monk in the monastery, through his writings and, most influentially, among other abbots.33
Brothers Benedict Barthel (class of 1937) and Augustine Schmidt (1938) are among the earliest graduates of the Archabbey's St. Placid School, and the few who are still alive today. The co-existence of European German-speaking and American English-speaking brothers made life at times very difficult34 and, while many new brothers were recruited, there were many who returned "to the world." Those who stayed must have realized that they were witnessing the beginning of one era and the end of another.
Canon Law at the time ruled that a brother in a particular monastery could not remain in that monastery and become a priest. Denis Quinkert, O.S.B. (1936-), for example, one of the many who left, later became a monk and priest at Blue Cloud Abbey, and reigned as that abbey's fourth abbot from 1986-91. Archabbot Bonaventure's reign at Saint Meinrad (1955-66) coincided with a very turbulent period in the Church's history; his reform of monastic life included implementation early on of the change in the ruling about brothers becoming priests. Our Fathers Pius Klein and Stephen Snoich are among a number of brothers from that period who later chose to present themselves as candidates for priesthood and become ordained.
It was during that period under Archabbot Bonaventure that Bro. Terence Griffin came to the monastery, making profession here in 1960. Bro. Terence is one among a significant number of monks of Saint Meinrad today of Irish ancestry.35 In the early 1960s there was still separation of brothers, fraters and fathers, except for occasional Familienfest when the entire monastic community would come together for common recreation. There were still six German-speaking brothers who lived a life somewhat apart, even from the new American brothers. They had a smoking room where they would speak German. They had their annual retreats in German, and prayed the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in German in the crypt of the Abbey Church, unlike the American brothers who from 1936 prayed an English translation of the Monastic Divine Office in the St. Gertrude Oratory. While some of them are recalled with much affection by the brethren today, this small group of German brothers was quite distinctive then, simply because they were beginning to disappear.36
The periodical Paradisie Früchte37 is another example of the German-language culture that dominated the early years of our monastery, as well as so many pockets of German culture around the United States when European ethnic distinctions were more pronounced, much as is found today with the Hispanic community. Saint Meinrad inaugurated this publication shortly after the great fire of 1887, as a way of funding the rebuilding of the monastery practically from scratch. A fall in subscriptions, however, when German immigrants began to immerse themselves more in American culture and lifestyle, including the English language, forced its demise in 1936.38 From 1919 it ran parallel with the English-language magazine, The Grail.39 Both publications emphasized devotion to the Eucharist. In 1928, for a ten-year run, the Saint Meinrad College and Minor Seminary published Saint Meinrad Historical Essays, which included articles by seminarians under the general stewardship of Fr. Cyril Gaul. The first article in the series was by Theodore Heck, O.S.B.40
Fr. Theodore arrived here in 1922. He was sent to Catholic University to complete doctoral studies in education, a further indication of the commitment of the community to modernize the schedules of the seminary. Fr. Theodore was the first of our monks to undertake graduate studies (in areas other than theology or philosophy) at a higher institute of learning in the US. This paved the way for other monks to attend universities in Midwest region of the United States41 for further studies in areas of the curriculum at Saint Meinrad College and Minor Seminary where all the studies were in English. Abbot Ignatius, in facilitating Fr. Theodore's Doctorate in Education, was able to appoint him to oversee the accreditation of the high school section of the minor seminary in the 1930s.42 This accreditation, an integral part of the jigsaw of Americanization at Saint Meinrad, was arguably among the most important steps in securing the future of the educational role of the monastery, and is further testimony to the foresight and vision of Abbot Ignatius.
This paper has attempted to chart the Americanization of Saint Meinrad Archabbey from a German-speaking to an English-speaking monastery.43 Abbot Ignatius' vision of the American lay brother and the steps which he took to promote vocations to that way of life here at Saint Meinrad and elsewhere, merit an important place for him in the history of our monastery and in the history of the Church in America.
That in the early days there was even a handful of foreign-born Irish monks,
as I have outlined, and particularly non-German-speaking lay brothers, considering
the predominant culture of the place as I have described it here, was very
unusual at the time, and for that reason is also recounted in the paper. The
research presented should be read simply as an exploratory survey by an Irishman
in an American monastery, caught up in the celebration of the Archabbey's sesquicentennial
year, and trying to find his own "Irish" connections with the past
as he discerns the future.
Novice Arthur of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana, comes from Waterford in the country of Ireland, not to be confused with Ireland in the state of Indiana! He came to the monastery as a candidate in 2003, but returned to Ireland before making final profession. Before coming to the monastery, he had worked as a music teacher in Dublin, Ireland. This paper was submitted for the American Benedictine Academy Junior Essay Competition, 2004. Arthur Sealy was declared winner of the competition in his absence during the ABA Convention of 2006.
1 The property was originally owned by Henry Denning, whose descendant Ruth Denning is a co-worker today at the Archabbey Library.
2 Saint Meinrad Archabbey Foundation Day. The monastery was founded by the Swiss monks of Einsiedeln in 1854.
3 While Fr. Bede never transferred stability from Einsiedeln, he was given full Chapter rights by our first abbot, Martin Marty. The earliest surviving Catologus (1859?) identifies Fr. Bede as "Anglo hibernus" (Anglo-Irish); subsequent documents identify him as "Anglus ex London."
4 Professions under Abbot Heinrich Schmid, 1846-74.
5 Rudolf Henggeler, O.S.B., Professbuch der Fürstl. Benediktinerabtein u.l. Frau zu Einsiedeln. Monasticon-Benedictinum Helvetiae, entry for "P. Beda (Jacob) O'Connor von London" 539, translated by Fr. Simeon Daly, O.S.B.
6 Further research will involve looking at a copy of Fr. Bede's birth certificate.
7 An unofficial honor title, and the name for the highest office holders in the reformed churches in Switzerland.
8 Henggeler, entry for "P. Aloys Jauch von Altdorf" 445-46, translated by Nov. Paul Kasun, O.S.B., and Fr. Tobias Dammert, O.S.B., Christ the King Benedictine Priory, Schuyler, Nebraska.
9 Pp. 74-77, quoting from Bachmann's letter to Abbot Henry of Einsiedeln, January 16, 1854.
10 O'Connor to Tschopp, July 12-26, 1854, SMAA Pioneer Letters, Vol. 2.
11 SMAA (Saint Meinrad Archabbey Archives) Necrology IV 1964-74.
12 While the fire gutted the buildings, the walls remained.
13 Interview with Fr. Simon McTighe, O.S.B. I have been unable to find the original source for his account.
14 Archabbot Gabriel Verkamp was professed in 1923 and ordained in 1929. After ordination, for about five years, he did graduate studies at Rome's Sant' Anselmo Abbey for doctorates in theology and philosophy. The summers of those years were spent at the Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln, our motherhouse, where the future archabbot was able to transcribe letters that our founding monks had sent back to Einsiedeln at various stages of their journey to the United States and for many years after their eventual arrival in Indiana. Important letters sent from Einsiedeln, particularly from Abbot Henry Schmidt, had been copied before being sent to the US, and were thus available to be chronicled by Abbot Gabriel (subsequently translated by Fr. Patrick Shaughnessy). These Pioneer Letters today form the core of the rejuvenated archive of that period. Assistant archivist Fr. Alcuin Leibold completed the final edits of these translated letters and compiled them in several volumes known simply as Pioneer Letters.
15 SMAA Catologus 1868 describes him as "Anglo Hibernus ex Monmouthshire."
16 March 25, 1890. SMAA Personal Records and Papers and Papers of Fr. Meinrad Mary McCarthy, O.S.B. (Box 42).
17 Letter of physician A.M. Brewer, M.D., November 24, 1899 (SMAA Personal Records and Papers and Papers of Fr. Meinrad Mary McCarthy, O.S.B.).
18 I was unable to find any records of his departure from the monastery.
19 The 1874 Catologus erroneously identifies the year of Bro. Ignatius' birth as 1840.
20 SMAA Necrology V, 1974-79.
21 Cf. interview with Fr. Simon.
22 Dated April 1931, sent from his residence at 1133 Altgeld St., Chicago, IL.
23 A paramilitary force recruited in Britain, comprised mostly of former convicted murderers, and sent to Ireland during 1919-21 as part of the Royal Irish Constabulary's (police force) attempt to suppress Sinn Féin activities that had begun with the Easter Rising in 1916 and the Declaration of Independence.
24 May 29, 1931.
25 Interview with Fr. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., archivist for Saint Meinrad Archabbey and for the Swiss-American Congregation.
26 June 11, 1949 (SMAA).
27 December 9, 1937 (SMAA).
28 Cf. footnote 39.
29 While German as a spoken language was dying out in many of the households, one of the monks here recalls hearing the grade school children using German when playing baseball (cf. interview with Fr. Simon).
30 Archabbot Ignatius, often referred to as Saint Meinrad's second founder, reigned from 1930-55. He was Saint Meinrad's first American-born abbot, our fourth abbot and first archabbot. (Abbots Martin Marty and Fintan Mundwiler had been born in Switzerland; Abbot Athanasius Schmitt came from Bavaria.) While the family name Esser does not suggest an Irish connection, Abbot Ignatius did have a sister who married an Irishman! Archabbot Bonaventure Knaebel, the first "Hoosier" (somebody who comes from the state of Indiana) abbot, was also the first Saint Meinrad abbot to have a blood link to Ireland. His paternal great-grandmother was Rose Ann Duffy from County Louth in Ireland. She came with her family to the United States in 1806 arriving here at Baltimore, Maryland. Archabbots Timothy Sweeney and the Lambert Reilly, from Indianapolis and Pittsburgh respectively, both have strong Irish family connections.
31 Cf. interview with Fr. Simon.
32 For most of the first century of our history, Saint Meinrad depended on German-speaking vocations. Some were children, born in the US of European parents. Others were German-speaking European immigrants from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This latter group was collectively known as the "German" brothers. See also footnote 36.
33 Archabbot Ignatius gave these new junior brothers, as they were to be called, a translation of the Monastic Divine Office, and insisted, as early as 1950, if not before, that they come to choir with the fathers and fraters on Sundays and feast days. In this respect, he was very much ahead of his time. Well known for his success in attracting lay-brother vocations to the monastery, his reforms are documented in his address to the Congress of Abbots in 1953, found among his papers. See also To Prefer Nothing to Christ, the 2004 Festschrift to commemorate the sesquicentennial year of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, edited by Fr. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.
34 As the American-born monks had difficulty in learning German so as to function in the life of the monastery, so it was just as hard on the German speakers to learn English.
35 Casey, Reilly, Sweeney, O'Keefe, Mullen, Moss, Hagan, Burke, Cooney, Daly, King, Mulcahy, Colgan, Walsh, Ryan, Lynch, McTighe, Davis, Kavanagh, Kelly, Tobin, Malloy and Cummings are just some of the surnames of Saint Meinrad monks today of Irish ancestry.
36 Bro. Wolfgang Mieslinger, O.S.B., the last of the "German" brothers, came to the US in 1922 and professed vows in 1925. Originally from Altdorf near Landshut in Germany, he had worked as landscape gardener for the Crown Prince of Bavaria. Bro. Giles Mahieu, O.S.B., worked for several years under the stewardship of Bro. Wolfgang. In interview, he described Bro. Wolfgang as impeccable in his manners, known for his courtesy and reverential bows to the brothers and guests. Bro. Wolfgang worked in the orchard and in landscaping here at Saint Meinrad, and for twenty years as assistant cook to Bro. Benno Geraghty, O.S.B., in the kitchen. Known by his confrères as "The Boss," he was celebrated in the monastery and local area for his Christmas decorations and wreathes, a craft that he taught to the fraters and younger monks. Today the senior monks of the monastery fondly remember him as a kind and gentle man. He died on September 6, 1980, at the age of eighty.
37 "The Fruit of the Paradise," Vols. 1-3 appeared as supplements to St. Benedikts Panier. In 1895, Paradisie Früchte absorbed St. Benedikts Panier and assumed its numbering.
38 This is further evidence, I would suggest, of the changing culture in southern Indiana and, more generally, in American society, where German immigrants increasingly embraced the American culture and language, and became, like the Irish, less distinctive as a separate ethnic group.
39 The Grail was published during 1919-58. From Vol. 41 in 1959 the periodical became known as Marriage. Between both publications there was a total of 73 volumes. Publication was discontinued in 1991.
40 At one-hundred-and-three years old, Fr. Theodore, a monk of Saint Meinrad, is the oldest living Benedictine.
41 Notre Dame, St Louis University, Indiana University, State College, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Fordham University and De Paul University.
42 St. Placid School was part of the Saint Meinrad High School, but for oblate brothers, and was therefore also accredited. When the Saint Meinrad High School closed in the 1960s so also did St. Placid School.
43 In 1955, the students at Saint Meinrad's "St. Placid School" produced, Kitchen Cut-Up or Nonsense Being Served, a play by Bro. Christopher Jeffers, O.S.B., about the first Irish novice at Saint Meinrad. The setting for the play is the monastery Chapter Room, at a meeting during which the Irishman is presented to the Monastery Chapter for approval to make profession of vows. Our Bro. Giles Mahieu played the Irish novice in the 1955 production. Bro. Christopher taught English at St. Placid School and, as such, was the first brother on the Saint Meinrad teaching faculty. He eventually left the monastery, married, and became editor of the Niagara Falls Gazette.


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- Lunch Menu from the ship MN Neptunia on the Italian Lloyd Triestino Line. The Menu is printed in Italian and English and was used on the 12th December 1951. It is part of a collection of ship menus collected by Margaret Wood an officer in the Department of Immigration from 1951-1960. As part of her role Margaret often met migrant ships arriving at Station Pier in Melbourne if the ships arrived at mealtimes, she would be invited on board to join people for a meal.
Margaret first worked in the Department of Alien Assimilation which focused on migrants post arrival, before moving to the Assisted Division which handled the reception of assisted European migrants arriving in Melbourne. Her final position was working for the General Assisted Passage Scheme, assisting migrants from the US, Scandinavia and Switzerland who came individually on general ships as opposed to migrant ships. She recalls her time with the Department with great pleasure. She was a young single woman and had just finished an Arts degree at Melbourne University. When she applied to the Public Service, she was placed with the Department of Immigration, as she spoke German. She left when she married in 1961 as per the policy at that time.
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- White card menu featuring full colour illustration of the remnants of an old stone building. The menu is in both Italian and English and includes soups, several mains (hot and cold), side dishes, dessert, fruit, cheese and coffee.
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South African cruising sailors Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz, the couple freed from pirates in Somalia last week, are expected back in Johannesburg today (Wednesday) after flying to Italy so that Bruno could see his elderly mother.
Dabbie and Bruno after being released by combined Somali, South African and Italian efforts
Clayson Monyela, spokesman for South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation, said the couple would arrive on Wednesday (South African time) at 4.30pm.
'We are quite elated that they are coming home. This is what we were working around the clock for,' said Monyela.
The couple will be allowed time with their family on arrival, then taken to the offices of the department of international relations for a media briefing, he said.
'They will be staying at the president's house in Pretoria for a few days after that, just so they can give the authorities as much information as possible on the incident.'
Deborah's brother, Dale Van der Merwe said the South African government needed more information about the kidnapping in 2010.
The two cruising sailors were kidnapped from the yacht Choizil off the coast of Tanzania by Somali pirates in October 2010 and held hostage for about 20 months until their release last week. They had been helping the owner of the boat to deliver the yacht south along the coast to South Africa at the time of the kidnapping.
They were being held in the Lower Shebelle region of Somalia when they were freed by Italian and Somali forces last Wednesday.
Pelizzari, shocked by his new-found freedom, told The Times last week that he and Calitz sometimes 'lost hope' and 'the thought that we might not be freed did cross our minds'.
When the couple arrived in Rome Pelizzari was reunited not only with his 83-year-old mother but they also met three of Calitz's four adult children.
One of Pelizzari's five sisters, Nora Wright, said his time in captivity was 'tough' on his mother.
Calitz learned for the first time of two grandchildren, born while she was in captivity. She will meet them in Pretoria later this week.
It is known that the South African government helped secure their freedom in a joint effort with Italy and Somalia, but the exact terms of their release are not yet known.


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While today's featured laptop deal does include a Blu-ray drive, another present makes it even more desirable: a 3D display (with glasses included). 3D has had moderate success in the home theater market, but is one of those technologies that we see very sparingly in the consumer PC market. This Inspiron 17R Special Edition has both of these premium technologies, along with other top of the line components, and a hefty discount too.
The 17R Special Edition normally comes well equipped, but this particular model is loaded with nearly everything you could want. It is powered by an Ivy Bridge Core i7-3630QM 3.4GHz processor, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650M graphics, 8GB of RAM, and has a 1TB hard drive with 32GB mSATA SSD. The expansive 17.3-inch display serves up 1920×1080 resolution, a perfect complement to the built-in Blu-ray drive and 3D support.
There are lots of little touches that make the 17R SE stand out, like a backlit keyboard, black anodized aluminum chassis, and soft-touch paint. These include Dell's standard on-site service with the one-year warranty, something we don't see from other manufacturers. You also get plenty of standard features, including four USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, gigabit ethernet, media card reader, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and more.
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Multi-Stage Download
From Ajax Patterns
There's an archived version of this pattern available, taken from the Ajax Pattern book draft, showing roughly how it appeared before the page became publicly editable.
Evidence: 1/3
Tags: Multi-Stage Incremental Download
In A Blink
TODO Diagram: Diagram showing full website, labels indicate time of download.
Goal Story
Stuart visits a fashion website in order to locate a new brand of sunglasses he has just discovered. He reaches the content quickly because the navigation-related information on each page loads independently, so he can click through without having to wait for the entire page to load.
How can you optimise downloading performance?
- Content can be time-consuming to load, especially when it contains rich images.
- Users rarely need to read all the content on the page.
- Users often have to click through several times to locate a particular item.
- Users sometimes browse around by exploring links between pages.
Break content download into multiple stages, so that faster and more important content will arrive first..
There are often times when an application needs to download a lot of content from the server. In particular, on startup and when a major context switch occurs. If you request it all in a single XMLHttpRequest Call, the response won't be complete until everything's been processed. Thus, you open up the risk of bottlenecks, where a single piece of content blocks everything else from returning.
The solution here suggests using multiple XMLHttpRequest Calls. The same amount of information will be returned from the server, but it will be processed and transmitted in paralllel. Typically, the page is divided into placeholders (e.g. div elements) with the content for each placeholder downloaded independently. In general, the calls can all be issued simultaneously, and the page will gradually be populated as the calls return.
You could use this pattern to load a page initially. One download might be very small, containing just a skeleton of the page with content geared around navigation - links to other pages, and enough information about the current page for the user to decide if it's worth sticking around. That's the critical content for a fresh visitor, and there's no need to make them wait for the rest of the page to load. The browser can request the main page content as a separate call.
Multi-Stage Download is especially useful for conventional websites, rather than Ajaxian applications, because an Ajaxian application should only have one page load. Still, there may be times when even an Ajaxian application undergoes a significant change, especially if there is a lot of functionality on offer.
This pattern is in some respects an Ajaxian upgrade of conventional guidelines for optimising the page load. A couple of pertinent techniques:
- Preload images which will be used later
- For pages which result from complex processing, begin by outputting part of the page, and only then perform the processing to complete the page.
- Use frames to fix navigation links. (However, frames have so many problems that this guidelines is rarely worth the trade-off.)
One resource risk is having too many requests at once. Thus, consider a "Multiplex Call" variant: Establish a browser-server protocol that lets the browser wrap multiple requests and the server wrap multiple responses. Then, only issue a single call with all required data inside. The immediate response might only return a few results, so the browser waits a bit, then makes a further request for outstanding data. The whole process repeats until the browser has all data.
How will the page be divided into blocks?
The trickiest decision is how to divide the page into blocks, each of which will be downloaded individually. Since the blocks are downloaded in parallel, the main advice is to create small blocks of initial content to ensure the initial download is quick, and to group together content that's likely to be ready at the same time. Also, too many blocks will give the initial load an ugly appearance, and may have the undesirable effect of causing already-displayed elements to move around. For a fresh visitor, one example would be to create blocks as follows:
- A block of general information about the website, e.g. name, summary, a small icon.
- A navigation block showing links within the site.
- A block of general information about the current page, such as a heading and summary text. In a web application, this may be dynamic information based on what processing is being performed.
- One or more blocks of main page content.
- One or more blocks of auxiliary information, e.g. cross-site promotions, advertising, legal notices.
Some of these may well be combined too, as it's important to avoid too many blocks. So you might have a single request to retrieve both navigation and general information, which is then split and painted onto separate blocks.
Note that this doesn't have to apply to a homepage - if you are offering Unique URLs, visitors can jump into an Ajaxian application at different points, so the main page content might actually be quite "deep" into the application.
How will the page be structured?
Ideally, this pattern should not affect the page appearance, but will require some thinking about the underlying HTML. In particular:
- As new information loads, it's possible the browser application will automatically rearrange the page in order to accommodate new information. This can lead to the user clicking on the wrong thing, or typing into the wrong area, as items suddenly jump around the page. Ideally, information will not move around once it has been presented to the page. At least for images, it's worthwhile defining the width and height in advance, as CSS properties.
- CSS-based layout is likely to play a big part in any solution, as it provides the ability to exercise control over layout without knowing exact details.
What format of content will be downloaded?
HTML Responses are the most obvious format to pull down, so that it can be directly set using the innerHTML attribute. Semantic Responses can also be used quite effectively, with the browser morphing content as the responses arrive.
What happens to the blocks while their content is being downloaded?
The entire DOM itself can be established on the initial load, so that DIVs and other structures are used as placeholders for incoming content. If that's the case, most of those elements can be left alone, but if the user is waiting for something specific, and it may take some time, it would be worth placing a Progress Indicator on the block where the output will eventually appear.
It's also possible to construct the DOM dynamically, so that new elements are added as new content arrives. This approach may be more work, but may help to decouple the browser and the server. With the right framework in place, it means that the browser does not have to know exactly which items will be downloaded. The browser might ask the server to send all adverts, and the sender simply responds by sending down an XML file with three separate entries, which the browser then renders by adding three new divs.
Will the calls be issued simultaneously?
Real-World Examples
Kayak is a travel search engine. You tell it where you're going, and it then searches through many online travel sites to build up a set of options for you.
After entering a search query, the results page initially shows just the site banner, the search you entered, and a Progress Indicator. As the results for each external site arrives, Kayak adds the site name and whatever flights it found there. The flights aren't just appended, but kept in sorted order. You also have the option to finish the search by clicking an Enough Results button.
Press Display uses Ajax to show full-colour scanned nespapers from around the world. When you click on a country, the page changes to shows each available newspaper. The newspapers are loaded into pre-defined placeholders. Then, when you open up a newspaper, a few things happen in parallel:
- A placeholder is created for the main page content, and the image downloaded.
- Placeholders are created for the page thumbnails, and each thumbnail downloaded.
- A set of navigation controls is added.
TalkDigger is an Ajaxian meta-search for web feeds. Tradtional meta-searches usually output results to the browser as they're received from individual engines, so the results page isn't well-ordered. With TalkDigger, each individual search engine gets its own div on the page. As the results come in, they're placed on the right spot.
Code Example
The code example is a portal demo which downloads content in various stages:
- The page banner and key links are downloaded immediately, as part of the initial HTML.
- On page load, a place is set aside for side links, which are then requested and injected into the placeholder.
- Likewise, the main content is also requested on page load.
- Finally, an ad is requested after a short delay. This ensures the main content arrives first, so the ad doesn't affeect the overall flow. (If you're feeling entrepeneurial, you might prefer to reverse the order.)
The initial HTML contains the header and placeholders for the content which will be injected. There's an initial "Loading" message for each of these.

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The side links and main content are loaded immediately on page loaded, and sent to a callback function which morphs the corresponding div:
window.onload = function() { ajaxCaller.get("sideLinks.html", null, onServerResponse, false, "siteLinks"); ajaxCaller.get("allPatterns.phtml", null, onServerResponse, false, "allPatterns"); ... } function onServerResponse(html, headers, elementId) { $(elementId).innerHTML = html; }
A few seconds later - probably after all the content has been loaded - the ad content is requested:
window.onload = function() { ajaxCaller.get("sideLinks.html", null, onServerResponse, false, "siteLinks"); ajaxCaller.get("allPatterns.phtml", null, onServerResponse, false, "allPatterns"); *** setTimeout("ajaxCaller.get('ad.html',null,onServerResponse,false,'ad')", 5000); *** }
- Break complex page into small blocks and load each block independently
- Load Javascript, HTML snippet, CSS on-demand, only when needed
- LABjs (Loading And Blocking Javascript) allows you to download Javascript files on-demand, in parallel, but also to block when dependencies must be downloaded before continuing with other downloads or other code execution.
As was mentioned, the alternative - and the de facto choice - is to download everything in one go.
Related Patterns
Portlets are good candidates for content-specific downloads. A portal's overall structure can be downloaded initially, and each portlet's content then be downloaded (and refreshed) in parallel to the rest of the page.
While a block is waiting to be loaded, you might populate it temporarily with a Guesstimate.
Progress Indicator
While a block is waiting to be loaded, you might populate it temporarily with a Progress Indicator.
On-Demand Javascript
Like Multi-Stage Download, On-Demand Javascript suggests an initial download followed by further downloads later on. That pattern focuses specifically on Javascript content rather than display and semantic content. It's also about downloading only when needed. The emphasis here is on downloading according to an initial schedule. Other patterns, such as Microlink and Live Search, cover on-demand downloading of display and semantic content.
Visual Metaphor
Multi-Stage Download mirrors agile project management. If you can deliver some really useful things early on, why hold off until everything else is ready?


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Since anyone who doesn't swallow the right wing GOP party line, and supports the Democratic Party instead is obviously a "Stalinist" looking to destroy 'Murica by sending all the Teahadists to FEMA operated concentration camps. And since "Stalinists" are looking to take away all your guns and stop decent "patriotic" neckbearded American knucklehead imbeciles from carrying AR-15's, AK-47's, FAL's and shotguns to Chipotle, Chili's, Target, churches, schools, hospitals and bars.
Since *shudder* us progressive liberal "Stalinists" support our representative republican form of government, the right to vote, public education, women's rights, freedom of religion and the separation of church and state (as did many of the founding fathers), and since we support Medicare, Social Security, and the social safety net programs we are just like Stalin.
Yes, progressives are just like Stalin and want a despotic dictatorship that murders millions of our own people, silences all opposition in order to support the plans of the nefarious Kenyan, socialist, usurper, dictator, commie, fascist, nazi, stalinist, Obama. The evil black President who has shown his dictatorial ways by issuing far less executive orders than any president in the last 50 or 60 years. The uppity black President Obama who has proven his commie ways by reducing the deficit, providing health care for millions who never had access to it, presided over the biggest stock market gains culminating in the DOW recently hitting a record high of 17,000, and record profits for corporations, the same Obama who ordered the hit on Osama Bin Laden without the loss of a single American life, the same Obama who was TWICE freely elected with a majority of the popular and electoral college votes. Yes liberalism is just like stalinism, right?
Our resident right wing troll keeps using that word Stalinism, I don't think it means what he says it does.
Yes American democrats are just like this, right?...
Victims of Stalin
Drawings from Stalin's Gulags:
"Crushing the skull" of "enemy of the nation" who didn't agree to give away his daily work results to thugs.
By administration's connivance in Stalin's camps thugs were murdering inmates with electrocuting, stabbing, hanging, decapitating, inserting red-hot crowbar into anus etc. Many of thugs had 10 and more so-called "tups" at their account.
By the order of the prosecutor general Vyshinsky, any methods were considered "good" to get the confession. NKVD staff used brutal tortures with pump, soldering iron, bottle (shoved into vagina and anus), rats (placed in the heated bucket under victim's bare buttocks) etc.
"Sanitary shooting" of party and other staff by NKVD in national republics of USSR During the epoch of Stalin, such mass executions were common. Party staff, political and other activists, artists were executed by center's orders, which were issued like hunting licenses by species of animals – moose, saigas, arkhars, argali, bears… This was made regularly to prevent the rise of national dignity in distant parts of the USSR.
Well, now that we have cleared this up, it is or should be obvious that if anyone here is a "Stalinist" it is our freedom hating, free speech hating, imbecile right wing p.o.s. troll currently masquerading as Vlad.
So Vladimir baby, this songs for you, baby! :
"Stalinist Day"
When I wake up in the morning, love
And the sunlight hurts my eyes
And something without warning, love
Bears heavy on my mind
Then I look at Uncle Joe
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
And I know it's gonna be
A Stalinist day
... Stalinist day, Stalinist day, Stalinist day ...
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at Uncle Joe
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at Stalin
And I know it's gonna be
A Stalinist day.....
When the day that lies ahead of me
Seems impossible to face
When someone else instead of me
Always seems to know the way
Then I look at Uncle Joe
And the world's alright with me
Just one look at Stalin
And I know it's gonna be
A Stalinist day......


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Goa, a tourist paradise and the pearl of the orient and the king of the beaches, is situated on the western coastline of India and is dividable into two district, North Goa – the capital of city Panji and South Goa with the famous places like as Vasco-Da-Gama and Margao.
It was enlightened by the Indian Army from Portuguese colonisation on December 19, 1961 and became a Union Territory along with the enclaves of Daman and Diu on May 30, 1987. Goa became the 25th state of the Indian Republic. It is a witch casting a spell on all who step onto its silver sands and golden beaches.
One can explore and attracted by its lush hills and cool blue waters, cathedrals and coconut groves, spice plantations and paddy fields, sun, sand and sea.
The huge stretch of the Arabian Sea on the west shapes the amazing shoreline for which Goa is renowned. Goa is one of India's major tourist attractions, attracting over a million visitors every year and it was fought over for centuries by kings of amazing colours.


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TysG and ICB
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Tyson Grigg AKA 'Tys G' has been involved in radio and media since high school in 2006 and has run youth focused program 'LiveOutLoud' since 2009 as director and host. A passion for media in any form and ministry of God's Love and word, Tyson's vision for LiveOutLoud is for Gods love and light to shine through a counter culture, positive and relevant radio show that has a "unique personality" (in TysG's words). He's a passionate Rugby League follower and loves to bodyboard, fish, just spend any time at the beach, making people laugh and traveling.
Music is another of TysG's passions and has met and interviewed some incredible bands and artists such as Hawk Nelson, Mike Mains and the Branches, Purified, Tedashii and P.O.D, which all feature musically on LiveOutLoud each week.
In TysG's own words, "Working at 98Five Sonshine FM is like a wonderful dream, but I don't wake up, we have so much fun! I love our people, our vision and our community and my Heart is here at 98five, I'm so blessed to be able to host LiveOutLoud every week".
Taylor joined the 98five Sonshine FM team in early 2012. His crazy personality fits perfectly with TysG on LiveOutLoud (7-9pm Wednesday nights). He loves the message that the show broadcasts and of course talking.
Talking is something Taylor can do non stop and enjoys talking to as many people as possible. On the side, he also writes for Perth based magazine Menu Mag... His love of sport and talking is brought together in his role of ground announcer for the Claremont Football Club and soon to be courtside announcer with Tyson Beattie at the Wildcats games.
One day he'd like to be a football commentator Taylor is currently studying Sports Broadcasting and Journalism at ECU in Perth WA. In his free time Taylor plays even more sport, loves singing and playing guitar at youth events, in front of as many people as possible.LiveOutLoud on Facebook LiveOutLoud Podcasts


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HARRAH, Okla. — Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies arrest two people following a string of thefts.
The pair remains behind bars accused of multiple crimes over the weekend.
The two alleged crooks were caught red-handed stealing an old engine.
In fact, the pair were definitely not gonna get rich off the stolen items.
The loot included a pair of old bicycles, a rusted garage door rail and other assorted scrap metal from a small barn.
"It was worth probably $40 of scrap iron, and just stuff we didn't care about," said Harold Manwell.
Harold, the farm's owner, says Mary Moore was waiting along Peebly road as a lookout, and claimed to be out of gas, when the victims found Christopher Fulton stealing the scrap metal.
The pair sped down the road but were later found stealing a truck engine from another victim.
"The engine they were trying to put in the truck was stolen from a nearby house," said Mark Myers with the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Dept. "Basically it appears they were driving around the country stealing different items."
Myers says thefts from unsecured property is one of the most common complaints the sheriff's department receives.
The suspects do have a lengthy criminal history, including theft and drug charges dating back to 2005.
"Fortunately, we caught them with their hands in the cookie jar in this case," said Myers.


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JPMorgan Shakes Up CIO Unit Leaders as Macris Hands Off Duties
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Matt Zames, newly appointed to lead the firm's chief investment office after it suffered a $2 billion loss, shook up the unit's leadership and announced a "renewed focus" on hedging risks.
Achilles Macris, who was hired in 2006 to oversee trading in London where the losses occurred, will "transition" his CIO responsibilities, Zames said today in an employee memo obtained by Bloomberg News.
He named Rob O'Rahilly to lead the office in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as Christopher Chan continues overseeing Asia, according to the memo. Marie Nourie will become the global group's finance chief, and Chetan Bhargiri will join the unit as chief risk officer, reporting to John Hogan, the memo shows.
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Fabulous Fiction Firsts #345
Alif the Unseen * *, Alif - the first letter of the Arabic alphabet is the code name for a young Arab-Indian hacker in an unnamed Middle Eastern security state. He makes a good living working behind layers of firewall, shielding himself and his clients from "The Hand" - the all-knowing government electronic security force, run by the man who is now engaged to his beloved.
Driven underground, Alif discovers Alf Yeom (The Thousand and One Days), the secret book of the jinn, which may unleash a new level of information technology and for him, a lifeline.
"With shades of Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, ...Alif the Unseen is a tour de force debut, a sophisticated melting pot of ideas, philosophy, religion, technology and spirituality smuggled inside an irresistible page-turner".
" (An) intriguing-sounding blend of cyberfantasy and The Arabian Nights ".
G. Willow Wilson is the author of a graphic novel Cairo (2007) and a memoir The Butterfly Mosque. She divides her time between the US and Egypt and Alif, her first prose novel, was completed during the season of the Arab Spring.
Here is a recent Publishers Weekly interview with the author.
* * = starred reviews
There are so many elements that interest me about this book! The fact that the author is a graphic novelist, but that this is not a graphic novel and probably most of all, that this book was written during the Arab Spring by an Egyptian author. Very interested to read this debut.


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Liverpool have agreed a £16m fee with AC Milan to sign former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers wants the Italy international, 24, to strengthen his attack after last season's top scorer Luis Suarez joined Barcelona.
Balotelli moved to Milan for £19m from City last year and has scored 30 goals in 54 games for the Serie A club.
Liverpool travel to Etihad Stadium in their next Premier League match on Monday.
Negotiations are still taking place to agree terms with the player, but Balotelli has already said his farewells in Italy.
Milan said in a statement on their website: "Mario Balotelli left Milanello's sporting centre at 13:30 local time, after saying goodbye to his teammates."
Before leaving the premises, the striker has said goodbye to members of Milan's press office."
Balotelli was a big hit with City supporters during his first spell in England, helping the club win a first league title since 1968.But he was also in the headlines for several off-the-pitch incidents - including a training-ground bust-up with then-manager Roberto Mancini.
In his second season in Manchester, he scored only three goals in 20 games.
The striker agreed a four-and-a-half-year deal with Milan in January 2013, and played for Italy at the World Cup in Brazil.
He was heavily linked with Arsenal earlier in the summer, but after bringing in Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona for £35m, Arsene Wenger ruled out signing another forward.
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we've got signatures, help us get to 20,000 by February 2, 2013
We the undersigned respectfully ask you to dismiss any requests to take the Puget Sound orca off the endangered species list.
To claim that the Puget Sound orca is not worth saving because there are plenty of other orcas in the ocean is not sound science. The Puget Sound orcas are absolutely unique in genetic make up, language, and behavior. The Puget Sound orcas are homebodies that love the sound and are beloved by almost everyone who has seen them.
Please continue protecting these magnificent ocean mammals!