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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Marine Mammals
Bottlenose dolphin. Source: NOAA.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and
Marine Mammals
Marine Mammals at Risk in the Gulf of Mexico
Stock assessment reports compiled by the National Marine Fisheries Service identify 21 marine mammal species under its jurisdiction that occur in the Gulf of Mexico, comprising 58 stocks, 38 of which are bottlenose dolphin stocks. In addition, the Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for one species of marine mammal that occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida manatee.
Cetacean species and stocks in the Gulf of Mexico
Sperm whale (listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act)
Bryde's whale
Killer whale
Cuvier's beaked whale
Atlantic spotted dolphin
False killer whale
Blainville's beaked whale
Pantropical spotted dolphin
Pygmy killer whale
Gervais' beaked whale
Striped dolphin
Dwarf sperm whale
Bottlenose dolphin (oceanic)
Spinner dolphin
Pygmy sperm whale
Bottlenose dolphin (continental shelf)
Rough-toothed dolphin
Melon-headed whale
Bottlenose dolphin (coastal – 3 stocks)
Clymene dolphin
Risso's dolphin
Bottlenose dolphin (bay, sound, estuary – 33 stocks)
Fraser's dolphin
Pilot whale, short-finned
Baseline information for these species and stocks, as well as for other marine mammal species and stocks, is limited. For example, abundance estimates for only 3 of the 58 Gulf of Mexico stocks (or stock groups) listed in the National Marine Fisheries Service's 2009 stock assessment reports meet the Service's own standards for acceptable precision (i.e., a coefficient of variation equal or less than 0.3 for the best population estimate). The lack of information will make it difficult to determine what changes have occurred, if any, in population size, distribution, habitat use, and other aspects of marine mammal demography and ecology.
Potential Effects of Oil Spills on Marine Mammals
Current information regarding oil spill effects on marine mammals is limited. Marine mammals may have been and may continue to be affected by the oil itself or by activities during the response and recovery phases (e.g., vessel traffic, noise, use of dispersants, seismic surveys around the wellhead, and clean-up activities).
Potential behavioral responses of concern include such things as -
- displacement of animals from prime habitat
- disruption of social structure (e.g., pods, mother-calf pairs)
- changing prey availability and foraging distribution and/or patterns
- changing reproductive behavior/productivity
- changing movement patterns or migration
Potential physical/physiological effects of concern include such things as -
- irritation, inflammation, or necrosis of skin
- chemical burns of skin, eyes, nares, mucous membranes
- inhalation of toxic fumes with potential short- and long-term respiratory effects (e.g., inflammation, pulmonary emphysema, infection)
- ingestion of oil (and dispersants) directly or via contaminated prey (or contaminated vegetation, in the case of manatees), leading to inflammation, ulcers, bleeding, possible damage to liver, kidney, and brain tissues
- stress from presence of vessels, aircraft, noise, handling (animals captured)
- complications of the above may lead to dysfunction of immune and reproductive systems, physiological stress, declining physical condition, and death
Observations of Impacts from Previous Spills and Studies
General observations
- The limited information available on the effects of oil exposure on marine mammals from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, other oil spills, and a limited number of controlled studies suggests that some marine mammal species may be more vulnerable to exposure to oil than others.
- In addition, the effect of oil on marine mammals depends heavily on the nature of the oil and the type and duration of exposure.
- Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) may be able to detect oil but do not always avoid it.
- The skin of at least some cetaceans appears to be relatively resistant to effects from short-term exposure (hours). The effects of longer exposures are unknown.
- Pulmonary emphysema was a relatively common finding in sea otters exposed to toxic fumes after the Exxon Valdez spill.
- Brain lesions were observed in harbor seals examined after the Exxon Valdez spill.
- Determining cause of death for marine mammals, particularly for cetaceans, during an oil spill can be difficult. For example, not all animals found dead necessarily died from exposure to oil. Gray whales found after the Santa Barbara spill were initially thought to have died from the spill, but that conclusion was reversed after examination of the whales. Similarly, the large number of dead, stranded gray whales observed after the Exxon Valdez spill could not be linked to the spill, and the increased observations of strandings have been attributed, at least in part, to the increased search effort associated with the spill.
- Alternatively, not all animals that are exposed and become ill or die are likely to be detected and documented. Two of the killer whale pods occurring in Prince William Sound prior to the Exxon Valdez spill declined by 33 and 40 percent after the spill. One of those pods has not reproduced successfully since then and is expected to become extinct as the last individuals in that pod age and die. The other pod has not fully recovered but has not continued to decline. Although the cause of death of the whales that disappeared could not be confirmed, the close association of their loss with the spill suggests that the spill was the primary factor.
- Assessments of spill effects must include adjustments to account for potential sources of bias.
- Scientists know very little about the possible effects of oil on manatees. They may be particularly vulnerable to ingestion of oil if oil adheres to or otherwise contaminates the shallow-water plants that they depend on for food.
- Scientists know very little about the effects of dispersants on marine mammals.
- Baseline data (i.e., data characterizing the status—defined broadly to include abundance, composition, health and condition of individuals, etc.—of potentially affected populations before a spill occurs or before they encounter oil) are critical for assessing impacts.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill presents a number of unique challenges, as compared to other spills in U.S. and international waters:
- Amount: The amount of oil that escaped from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead was unprecedented, amounting to approximately 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) over the course of 86 days. The estimated flow rate at its peak was between 35,000 to 60,000 barrels (1.47 to 2.52 million gallons) a day, which was roughly equal to the amount spilled by the Exxon Valdez tanker every week. The spill required a massive response effort involving 13 federal agencies, 5 states, residents of local communities, volunteers, contractors, expert consultants, non-governmental organizations, and industry.
- Movement: Modeling of oil spill trajectories is normally done based on the movement of surface currents, winds, tides, and factors that affect the ocean surface. However, predicting how the oil from this spill would spread was a challenge for modelers as the source of the release was deep underwater (at the wellhead), large amounts of oil were found to be remaining in the water column, and little information was available regarding how oil travels and weathers at depth.
- Type: The oil being released from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead is a mixture of both Louisiana sweet crude oil and other oil products (methane, ethane, and propane). The actual composition of the oil is a critical determinant of its potential effect on the Gulf ecosystem. Among other things, the composition of oil determines its toxicity, physical characteristics, and the rate that it weathers.
- Dispersants: Up to 15,000 gallons of chemical dispersants were applied daily at the wellhead at the height of the spill, and dispersants also were applied on the surface of the water in the earlier stages of the spill. More than 1.8 million gallons of dispersants were applied over the course of the spill, both at the surface and subsurface. Responders use dispersants to reduce the surface tension of the oil, which means that it is more easily fragmented into smaller particles. Smaller particles have a larger surface-to-volume ratio and are therefore more amenable to degradation by microbes (e.g., bacteria) in the ocean. Fragmented oil also weathers more quickly and is less likely to form large slicks that cover and contaminate shorelines.
- Clean-up and Containment: In addition to the direct effects of oil, clean-up and containment operations also may have affected marine mammals. Clean-up operations include a range of techniques such as containment of oil in booms, skimming of oil at the ocean surface, and in-situ burning. Clean-up operations also involved a large number of vessels and aircraft in coastal and pelagic habitats. The final stages of containment of the well involved seismic surveys of the area around the wellhead to detect leaks from other parts of the well. Clean-up and containment activities had the potential to disturb marine mammals, possibly displacing them from important feeding or reproductive grounds or other important habitat.
- Baseline information: As noted previously, limited baseline information on the status and health of marine mammals in the Gulf of Mexico may significantly confound before-and-after comparisons needed to determine the full effects of the spill.
Response and Assessment Activities
The government's response to affected wildlife (e.g., mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds) followed procedures established for this spill by the Wildlife Branch of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command. Led by the National Marine Fisheries Service in coordination with the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Wildlife Branch developed protocols for stranding response and sample collection, as well as protocols for ground-based and vessel-based clean-up operations to minimize harm to wildlife.
Surveillance and various operational crews and the public were able to report injured and stranded wildlife to the Wildlife Branch via the Wildlife Hotline (1-866-557-1401) and other means. The Wildlife Branch continues to provide daily summary reports of stranded wildlife in the area affected by the oil spill on the Restore the Gulf Web site, and the locations of stranded animals are posted on the NOAA GeoPlatform Web site. More detailed information on marine mammal and sea turtle strandings, as well as general information on response activities and effects of oil on marine mammals and sea turtles is posted on NOAA's Office of Protected Resources Gulf of Mexico oil spill Web site.
The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was passed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and addresses liability for losses to natural resources and services caused by the discharge or substantial threat of discharge of oil. Designated trustees (federal, tribal, and state agencies) are charged with assessing oil spill-related losses to natural resources and services and restoring those losses to baseline conditions (i.e., conditions that would exist had the spill not occurred). The cost of assessment and restoration is provided either by the party responsible for the losses or, if a responsible party does not exist or is unable or unwilling to provide compensation, by the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund established under this Act.
Assessment efforts for marine mammals have involved and will continue to involve a variety of surveillance and monitoring activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
- The National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the state of Florida conducted helicopter surveys in coastal and deepwater habitats affected by the spill. This information was used to direct response efforts and will be used to assess marine mammal movements and behavioral responses. Agencies also conducted fixed-wing aircraft surveys during the spill period and will continue to fly these surveys periodically for longer-term assessment purposes.
- The National Marine Fisheries Service conducted marine mammal vessel surveys along the continental shelf and slope, targeting sperm whales (an endangered species) and Bryde's whales. Researchers tagged whales to track their movements and diving patterns, took biopsy samples for various purposes including assessment of contaminant loads, and deployed stationary acoustic recorders as a complementary means of detecting whales, particularly those that are difficult to detect at the surface. The National Marine Fisheries Service plans to continue conducting periodic vessel surveys for longer-term assessment of marine mammal status and movements, as well as effects on prey species.
- In coastal waters, researchers from the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Ocean Service have been tracking bottlenose dolphins using photo-identification techniques and collecting biopsy samples to determine sex, stock identification, and contaminant loads. The agencies plan to continue these assessments over time, with additional emphasis on monitoring population-level health effects.
- Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have been tracking daily movements of several manatees tagged before the spill to monitor movements and behavior, as well as possible contact with contaminated water and vegetation.
Under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, federal and state agency and tribal trustees must determine what would be required to restore injured resources and services to their pre-spill conditions and to compensate the public for interim losses. The trustees must develop a restoration plan, seek compensation from the responsible party to implement the plan, and monitor restoration activities to ensure restoration has occurred.
The injury assessment and restoration planning phase of NRDA was officially started on 29 September 2010. During this phase, trustees assess the nature and amount of injuries to the environment and develop a restoration plan. This will be followed by a restoration phase during which the trustees will work with the public to implement and monitor the effectiveness of restoration projects.
Research Coordination
The Marine Mammal Protection Act requires permits or other authorizations for all research, assessment, and enhancement activities that may take marine mammals. This includes scientific research, the import or export of marine mammal parts, photography, rehabilitation, public display, capture from the wild, or other activities that may intentionally or incidentally affect marine mammals. Permits are issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service for whales and dolphins and the Fish and Wildlife Service for manatees, pinnipeds, and polar bears.
Many researchers are involved in research to help assess the spill's impact on marine mammals, and the Marine Mammal Commission encourages additional research. Many of these researchers already have permits for work in the Gulf or on species potentially affected by the spill. However, coordination of research activities is critical, not only to reduce any additional stress on affected marine mammals but also to make the best use of information gained from such research.
The Marine Mammal Commission has encouraged the Permits Office of the National Marine Fisheries Service to coordinate research being conducted by permit holders already authorized or seeking authorization to work on Gulf marine mammals and to solicit specific details regarding planned research. Such coordination will help the Service ensure that necessary research is being conducted, that unnecessary redundancy is being avoided, and that the added stress from research projects is being appropriately managed.
Congressional Hearings
Various Senate and House committees have held dozens of hearings on the spill, focused on investigation of the cause of the explosion as well as response efforts. On 10 June 2010, the Marine Mammal Commission testified before the House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans, and Wildlife regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its effects on marine mammals. The Commission's testimony summarized potential short-term and long-term effects, how these effects will be assessed, and the likely impact of oil and gas activities on marine mammals in the Gulf and elsewhere.
Web Sites for Further Information
U.S. Government Web site on Gulf of Mexico oil spill response and restoration activities:
NOAA Office of Response and Restoration Web site on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Web site on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response:
Oiled Wildlife Care Network Blog (includes archived postings regarding Deepwater Horizon response activities):
NOAA Southeast Region Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) activities and case documents related to the Deepwater Horizon spill:
National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Web site:
National Marine Fisheries Service Permits Web site (whales and dolphins):
Fish and Wildlife Service Permits Web site (manatees):


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Lessons from the Poor: The Power of Entrepreneurship
Recorded: Thursday, November 13, 2008
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At this Policy Forum, Independent Institute Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, former Bolivian President Jorge Quiroga, economist William Easterly, and a group of policy experts discuss the findings of the book, Lessons from the Poor. The speakers examine real-world examples of entrepreneurship and why instead of redistributing existing wealth, governments should free people so that they can create it.
Experts: William R. Easterly, Alvaro Vargas LlosaType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy
Eminent Domain: Abuse of Government Power?
Recorded: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. New London that local governments may force property owners to sell out and to make way for private economic development, even if the property is not blighted. In response, many states have passed legislation and proposed amendments to their state constitutions to block this unprecedented government assault on the rights of property owners.
Experts: Steven Greenhut, Timothy SandefurType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Housing, Land Use, Property Rights


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[CS6] [Steven Ford:] My name is Steve Ford. I'm the senior product manager for Adobe After Effects. In this video we're going to look at what's new in After Effects CS6. I've been around After Effects for a long time, and this is probably the biggest release in about 10 years--at least that's what beta users are saying The first thing I want to show you is, as you can see, this is a very typical After Effects comp, and the layers span the entire time line. That's normal--I've seen many compositions like this. You'll notice it's getting 2.5-3.4 frames per second. That's just very typical for After Effects. The whole point, though, is in this case with the global performance cache, we have something new. If I just scroll down here, and I show you the cache indicators, you can see that there's a lot of RAM for each layer now as well as the frame. When I do something simple--if I just change the quality of an effect--you'll notice that, as After Effects has always done, the frame cache is gone. Because my layers span the entire time line, normally what After Effects would have to do at that point is go back to rendering each frame one-by-one back to 2.41 frames per second and so forth. But now when I do a spacebar preview, essentially what happens is I'm getting in this case 12, 13, and even up to real time in terms of performance. That's because we're only rendering what we absolutely have to. That's the whole motto of the global performance cache--reuse, recycle, repurpose-- only render what you absolutely need to and then go from there. That's the biggest change, but we wanted to really kind of take this also a step further. We wanted to focus on the fact that many users use multiple projects at the same time. As an example, I may quit this project and then switch over to another one or I might just quit After Effects entirely. The point is I'm not even going to save the project. I'm going to close it, and then I'm going to open it again. The point is that we keep the disk cache around for as long as your drive will hold it. In other words, if you've got the space associated with the project, then what will happen is that we will go back and use that disk cache wherever it may be. As an example, you'll see I have nice, green RAM and blue disk cache, in terms of my layers and on the frame. When I hit spacebar play in this case, I'm basically getting real-time performance right out of the gate. Now this could've happened to a project that I was working on yesterday. The whole point is that we're trying to make sure that your workstation is getting out of the way, that you're going back to the exact place in the project that you were the last time you looked at it, and you don't have to wait to see what you last worked on. Those are the two primary areas of the global performance cache. The last instance is we've also changed entirely how it renders in the background. In this case, what I want to do is I'm going to actually show you where the global performance cache is. As I go through that--again, it's found in your preferences and you can choose where you put your disk cache. I highly recommend high-performance disks. In this case, I've got Intel solid-state drives, and they're giving me as fast a read and write as possible that the disk cache can use. If I just empty that--I'm going to get rid of it, and them I'm going to start again, because we've also added another thing into the global performance cache, as I just get rid of my memory here, that will show you that we can do this in the background. The whole point is that if I hit control return you'll notice that background cache comp '03 is running in the background. What will happen is that I can continue to go to work, but you'll notice that my nice blue cache line here is filling in as I work, meaning that when I want to see what I'm working on I can just go and preview it. I don't have to wait for the machine to actually render anything. I can just hit the spacebar preview, and it'll go from there, and I'm getting real time performance out of the gate. Again, this is the global performance cache, and it's focused on an area where After Effects users preview almost as much as they breath. We wanted to redo the architecture and make that so that you have a seemless experience and the hardware is getting out of the way. You can look at what you're doing faster, like you've never been able to do before. The next feature I want to show you is something that we're really excited about. It's called the 3D camera tracker. In CS5.5 we introduced a thing called the warp stabilizer. That was met with a fantastic response. What the warp stabilizer did was put a 3D point cloud over the top of 2D footage and used that 3D point cloud to basically stabilize the footage, making it look like it was shot with a dolly or a steady cam. We wanted to take that to a different level. We wanted to use the same technology but use it for applying camera track, because those that 3D point cloud that gets assigned to the 2D footage can come in really handy in determining what is a 3D object in the space of the 2D footage. As an example, much like in the warp stabilizer, I'm going to take this footage here. Instead of saying warp stabilizer, I'm going to say track camera. You're going to see the familiar blue bar that comes up with the warp stabilizer. Again, what that's doing is in the background it's going to analyze the footage and assign the 3D point cloud. As you can see, we've got track points now that have been assigned to the footage, and as I scroll through the footage, you can see those track points change and move on 3D planes. I'll bring my target size down here. You can get the idea of how we've been able to understand different planes that I can then, say, track objects to. As an example, I could just choose these 3 objects and move my target up. And if I wanted to put some text, I can assign that text there, and I'll move it over, and since this is Boneshaker, I'll call it "Boneshaker." The point is that I can, in a really simple fashion, use these 3D track points, and as I move through the footage, the text is tracking, scaling, autopositioning, in terms of where it should be. In fact, I've even got it shaking along with the footage. The whole point is that I've set this up in a matter of seconds. The other thing--I'll go into a little bit more detail, and I'll show you another composition here. From this perspective, I'll apply the same thing, and I'll track the camera. Just to give you an idea, although this is some pretty interesting footage. It's actually David Simon's desk--the guy who invented After Effects. But one of the things that I wanted to show you is this shot is really good for demonstrating how we can actually shape the planes around an object in 3D space. The point is that you can really have a good understanding of the different planes that are available to you and then track something to it. As an example, say I want to--well, I'm going to get right of this picture, because that's Dave's family, not mine. I'm going to just change that, and in this case, I'll just put a solid over top, so you get the idea. As I transfer it--and I'll just change its orientation a little bit-- you'll see that I'll get a very good track with basically no effort, as an example. Then, obviously, I could put my own photo and go from there. As I play that, I'm getting a really good track that works in 3D space over top of 2D footage. Now, the obvious thing you might notice is that it went over the unicorn's horn here. While it's not truly in 3D space, because again this is 2D footage. This is where something really handy that we shipped with CS5 comes in, and that's the rotobrush. As an example, what I'll do is take that same footage, and I'll put it on top of the comp. Then I'll open it up and use the rotobrush just to, say, take out this horn of the unicorn. And you'll get the idea. Again, this is very quick, but if I propagate that our and let the rotobrush do its thing and then come back, what I'll get is a nice occluded effect with little effort in terms of how this actually propagates the scene. As an example, you can see that it brought over the unicorn's horn, and it can go in behind the monkey quite nicely. The 3D camera tracker has lots of options in terms of variability. As an example, I can go in, and I can give more context to how the scene was shot. The more context I can give it, the better understanding the camera tracker will have. What we're trying to do is get to as low an error as possible. In this case, we're getting about 0.73 pixels. The point is that this can really accurately track complex scenes and be able to deal with things like parallax and so forth and allow you to put something into a scene with very little effort. The other nice thing about the 3D camera tracker is all this information is in the camera. As an example, if I click on my 3D camera here, you'll notice that I've got all the track points key framed. I've got all this information about the track. I can then take that and put it into a different application. As an example, if you work with tools like Cinema 4D or 3D Studio Max. You can take this information that is all associated with the camera, and via their interoperability plugins you can take that information into your model in either one of those programs. That was the 3D camera tracker. The next feature I want to show you is something we've actually been working on for 2 years. We've heard from a lot of users that they use After Effects in conjunction with 3D modeling programs such as Cinema 4D or 3D Studio Max. What we wanted to focus on was the ability to take after effects from its traditional 2.5D 3D space and bring it into full 3D geometry within After Effects. To do that, though, we had to lay some foundation. We put a full ray tracer using the optics toolkit with Nvidia. The Nvidia folks really helped us optimize this ray tracer for Nvidia graphics cards. Now, let me set the record straight. You can use this ray tracer on any workstation. You don't need an Nvidia graphics car, but if you happen to have an Nvidia graphics card, it will work and provide performance that you have never seen in a 3D program before. That being said, we wanted to focus on something that motion graphics artists we saw doing in After Effects projects were doing all the time. That was they would put stacking layers, lots of layers behind each other just to try to get a simple extruded effect. Now, After Effects is not going to be a modeler, but what it is going to be able to do is allow you to do simple extrusion and add some really cool material options to things like text layers and shape layers. What this also does is lay a great foundation for the future that one day we can get to interoperability of real 3D geometry between After Effects and the applications it's used most commonly with. First, what I want to show you is something that we actually focused on within our own suite within Production Premium, and that is really tight integration with Adobe Illustrator. As an example, I'm going to take this Illustrator file, and I'm going to drop it onto my comp. Now, one of the things After Effects users have been asking us to do for a long time is to really take this Illustrator file and just simply convert it into a shape layer. What happens in this case, and I'm just going to change this because of my lighting, the whole point is that I've now kept the integrity of the Illustrator file. I've got all of the layer groupings and so forth and the structure of the Illustrator file as a native shape within After Effects. In this case, I can actually just delete the Illustrator file completely and work with the native shape. Now what's going to happen is that I'm going to change this shape layer into 3D space. If I open up my layers here, you'll see the traditional options with the shape layer within After Effects, but as I turn that into 3D space, you'll notice a couple of new options-- geometry and material, and this means that I've got my composition, and you can see up here it's set in to be the render of ray-traced 3D. As you create new compositions, and you go to your advance tab, you'll notice you have the option now of classic 3D, which used to be called advanced 3D in previous versions of After Effects, or ray-traced 3D. This means that you're basically using the optics toolkit, and you're going to be shooting real rays at objects following the laws of light and going from there. You can change the options in this--ray-tracing quality and so forth. Again, your performance will go through the roof if you have the optimal Quadro cards and so forth from Nvidia, but it will work on any workstation falling back to the CPU if you don't have an Nvidia graphics card. As an example, what I'll so with this is we've also built a draft renderer. If we're shooting real rays using a ray tracer within After Effects, we also want to be able to work in a draft mode to have fast interactivity. That's using your GPU, and it works on any GPU. It's not limited to just Nvidia. In this case, if I want to just add some simple extrusion to this layer, you'll notice I can do so, and it's very simple to add that. We've made a lot of improvements to the bounding box in terms of how you navigate 3D space, but in this case, it's very simple to add slight extrusion and add some good materials options and create a cool effect. In this case, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to bring this back to zero, because what I'm going to do is I'm going to create the Hot Wheels logo very quickly to give you the idea. As an example, I'm going to change where this is oriented in 3D space, and I'm just going to bring this out from that side. I'm also going to bring in the other elements that are part of the Hot Wheels logo, and I'm going to convert those into shape layers as well. As I do that and convert this into 3D space, I'll bring this out a little bit as well. Then I'll bring in the last part, which is the white behind the logo. As I convert this Illustrator file into a shape layer, what I can then do-- again, getting right of the Illustrator file completely-- I can take all three and then just make sure and add a simple extrusion, and then what I'll do is reorient them back into 3D space, so that they're in the right position. In this case, I've added simple extrusion to a logo without having to really do much or just out to a 3D application. Now, again, we don't expect After Effects to ever be a modeler. You can do some amazing things in a 3D modeling application in terms of extrusion and so forth. What the point of this is that you can do simple stuff. You can add really cool materials options, and it's just as I move this over a bit and get it oriented correctly in the background. You'll get the idea as I bring over the letters finally as well and bring this in. Again, you can see how simple it is to work with objects in 3D space. I'm using the draft renderer, which makes my interactivity nice and easy. Then, if I decide to just add some simple materials to this-- I'll select all my layers and then I'll change over to the materials options I'm going to turn on some shadows. I'm going to give it a little bit of reflection and something I like is just to make it look like glass from that side. Again, you can do some really amazing things in terms of the quality of the image, but the point is that I can do this really simply, and you'll get the idea as I switch from my draft renderer and now using the GPU into the real ray tracer. You can start to see that I've got some good reflections. The image itself is pretty good to what I want in terms of shadows and so forth, but what I can also do is I can take that over, go into my options, and then change the number of rays that I shoot at it just so I can decide what it's going to look like for my final output and go from there. Again, adding things like motion blur, depth of field, and so forth. These are all things that people who have been working in 3D modelers have had to deal with for quite some time. After Effects is utilizing every resource in your workstation as much as possible--your GPU, your CPU's RAM and disk. From this perspective I have a Quadro 5000 in this workstation. As you can see, it's starting to give me a really good image, and the performance is really good. As an example, if I bring this up to 100%, you can get the idea that I can create a good image using shape layers and text layers with After Effects and utilizing my GPU to its full extent. Overall these are just a few of the features found in After Effects CS6. We've been working on this for a long time, so we're really excited to see what this will do for your workflow. The general theme for After Effects CS6 is performance, so we're trying to get the workstation out of your way so that you can see on the screen what's in your head faster. Again, my name is Steve Forde. I'm the senior product manager for Adobe After Effects. Thanks for watching. [http://tv.adobe.com/]
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text: Open Access: How Fon wants the world to be a giant Wi-Fi hotspot Martin Vasravsky 12 August 11 by Peter Kirwan This article was taken from the September 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.The sun is shining on a March morning in London, and Martin Varsavsky appears relaxed in jeans, a white shirt and a navy blue jacket, as though he's heading to the beach near his Menorca home.Varsavsky's dress sense is low-key, but his business style isn't.As one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs to come to prominence during two decades of European telecoms liberalisation, Varsavsky, 51, has spent the past six years doing something that many industry analysts describe as either pointless or impossible: he is attempting to build a global Wi-Fi network from the bottom up. Varsavsky says his company, Fon, was always intended as a network that would "build itself". By this, he means that Fon always wanted to avoid the "huge capital expenditures" involved in laying cables under streets or placing base stations atop buildings.Today, Fon has more than four million street-level access points through which users can log on to the internet. This makes it the world's largest Wi-Fi hotspot operator. The company is essentially building a business on millions of underused Wi-Fi routers that largely stand idle in millions of studies around the world. As Varsavsky puts it, Fon is based on the "discovery" that "all the Wi-Fi signals were already there".Building a telecoms network out of thin air is an enormous task. Niklas Zennström, the cofounder of Skype, invested in Fon six years ago. "The road to changing a market," Zennström says, "is rarely a straight highway. There are a lot of turns. You have to not quite reinvent yourself, but figure out along the way how to get there."At Fon's headquarters in Madrid, pragmatism has replaced idealism, and corporate near-death has been followed by resurrection. Much of the credit must be given to the founder's sheer persistence. Last year, after years of struggle to move the needle, Varsavsky's brainchild turned a profit for the first time, delivering €28 million (£25 million). Looking ahead, the Spanish-Argentinian entrepreneur foresees revenues of "hundreds of millions".Fon and Wi-Fi are coming of age together, Varsavsky argues. Both, he says, will play a major role in shoring up mobile networks that are creaking beneath the huge volumes of data traffic generated by more than 600 million smartphones.Only a few years ago, most mobile-industry executives would have bet against the notion that Wi-Fi could help to make the mobile web fit for purpose. Today, the idea remains controversial, but seems less unlikely. As Ben Evans of Enders Analysis puts it, mobile operators "have started to get Wi-Fi religion".Just like the six other companies and three non-profit foundations Varsavsky has launched, Fon is driven by its founder's commitment to the cause. "I always build companies around ideas that fascinate me," he says.The idea for Fon came to Varsavsky one afternoon in 2005, while he was wandering the streets of Le Marais, in Paris, searching for a Wi-Fi connection."I had a wireless modem and I was being killed by these roaming charges," he says. "Everywhere I looked, there was lots of Wi-Fi but it was all locked. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. All of these people were out at work. I thought: what a waste."He wondered whether Parisians could be persuaded to share their Wi-Fi if the favour was returned when they travelled through Europe and visited Madrid or London. Thus was born what Varsavsky calls "a global federation of routers". At first, Varsavsky says, he "couldn't see a business model" in his idea. "But I thought it could be a great thing. I thought, 'I'm going to develop some firmware that people can download into their router.'"By November 2005, Fon's firmware was ready. Users could install it on the hack-friendly Linksys WRT54G router, which was built around Linux. Subsequently, Fon developed the Fonera, its own low-cost router custom-built for sharing. Varsavsky decided to give away the first routers to seed the market. After that, he would sell them at, or around, cost. In an early blog post from December 2005, Varsavsky guessed that Fon would need an installed base of one million units to generate what he called "a global Wi-Fi signal". All of this could be achieved, he reckoned, for little or no cost.Varsavsky had significant experience of the enormous investments required to build networks in the traditional way. Starting out with $200,000 in 1991 (the equivalent of about £200,000 today), he built Viatel into an independent telecoms operator with a $50 million turnover. It made its debut on Nasdaq in 1996, attracting investors such as George Soros along the way. By the end of the decade, Viatel was ploughing $1 billion of high-risk junkbond finance into an 8,700km-long fibre-optic network that connected more than 40 cities across Europe. Yet this was the telecom-bubble era. Viatel collapsed into chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in May 2001, three years after Varsavsky's departure, leaving investors nursing losses of at least $1.5 billion.In 1998, Varsavsky started work on Jazztel, a telecoms and data-transmission operator that (in his words) "dug up the streets of Spain" in order to challenge the might of Telefonica. Today, Jazztel remains the nation's second-largest quoted telco.Fon was a threat of different order. From the start, the telcos feared the sort of challenge that peer-to-peer networks such asNapster and Kazaa had brought to the music industry. As Zennström puts it, telcos started to worry that Fon users "would start sharing access with their neighbours". And it seemed to challenge mobile operators, too. As early as 2001, a London-based Nomura telecoms analyst called Keith Woolcock described Wi-Fi evangelists as the "barbarians at the gate" who might prevent mobile operators from earning a return on 3G spectrum acquired for €110 billion during government auctions in 2000 and 2001. If free Wi-Fi flooded the world's cities, 3G might start to look like an expensive luxury.Varsavsky didn't discourage the notion that he was hell-bent on stirring up trouble. Indeed, his early blog posts on Fon's website read like brusque communiqués from a revolutionary's HQ. Today, he smiles at the thought: "It's true. I was on a mission. In the beginning we were against the telcos. People were saying we were the peer-to-peer of Wi-Fi."When Fon exhibited at an IT trade show in Madrid in late 2005, its stand was plastered with the iconography of the leftist Spanish republic for which George Orwell fought in the 30s. Like an insurgency, Fon recruited "Fonero leaders" who agreed to popularise Varsavsky's plan around the world. Varsavsky also did everything he could to align Fon with the explosion of user-generated innovation that had started to transform the tech industry. In San Francisco in 2004, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle gave a conference opening speech using the expression "Web 2.0" to describe applications built on top of the web, rather than for desktops. Blogging, too, had emerged as a web-native phenomenon that threatened professional journalism. When Varsavsky launched Fon in France in early December 2005, he did so at Les Blogs, the annual blogger conference organised by Six Apart. The parallels between Fon and these disruptive currents were more than skin-deep. Like Web 2.0, Fon represented an effort to expand the internet's sphere of influence -- to place it at the centre of all connectivity. Read page 2 1234 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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Documents and forms for NNOMY members and membership.
Materiales que proporcionan alternativas al servicio militar, incluyendo una sección de documentos que describe las opciones disponibles para un futuro no militar para los jóvenes por estado.
Información sobre como acceder a la escuelas para personas que hacen trabajo en contra la militarización. Ve tambien School Board Policies
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights—civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old often need special care and protection that adults do not. The leaders also wanted to make sure that the world recognized that children have human rights too.
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Links to legal counseling resources available on the web.
These documerts pertain to the National Counter Recruitment and Demilitarization 2009 Conference held July 17-19 in Chicago. Here you can find the conference schedule, basic fact sheets and documents pertaining to individual workshops.
Documents relevant to the increasing trending of military charter schools forming in partnership with the DoD.
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Music sources to counter-militarism in popular culture.
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Camily Wedende is the director of Sun Cookers International in Eldoret, Kenya. He began teaching others about solar cooking in 1995, and he and his wife have trained over 300 people since then through 2010.
Recent news and developments
- November 2012: Student Solar Cooking Science Projects, USA and Kenya - What began as a pilot project in Eldoret, Kenya has evolved into two sister organizations, Student Solar Cooking Science Projects, founded by Sharon Cousins in the USA and a sister organization in Kenya founded by Camily Wedende. Ongoing fundraising goals include renting a small work facility. Because of limited funding, the group is always looking for ways to produce a reasonable solar cooker for $10USD or less. The partnership that led to these projects began when Camily Wedende of Eldoret read about an American youth project advised by Sharon Cousins, and contacted Sharon asking for advice on working with young people. The pilot project, which involved twenty students ages 10-18, was a stunning success. The innovative approach teaches skills that will help the students in many areas of life. They hope to create a replicable model for the harnessing the tremendous energy and enthusiasm of young people for the advancement of solar cooking in their communities and beyond.
- February 2012: Camily and Gaudenziah Wedende have started the Seeing is Believing Cafe in Eldoret, Kenya. They are cooking cakes, tea, and other solar-cooked goodies, and selling them in front of their Sun Cookers International business. Tanya Cothran, Director of Spirit in Action, writes about their cafe on the Spirit in Action's blog.
- Spring 2010: Camily Wedende and Sharon Cousins (advising and encouraging via email) began a project to involve a number of Eldoret school children in solar cooking. Students helped construct three different types of solar cookers and have been running comparison tests on the cookers. If a small fund can be arranged for materials, the students each want to make one of the model they like best to take home and use. Contact Sharon Cousins if you would like to donate to this worthy project.
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A Water Pasteurization Indicator (WAPI) is a simple thermometer that indicates when water has reached pasteurization temperature and is safe to drink. It was invented by Fred Barrett and Dale Andreatta.
Pasteurization destroys all microorganisms that cause diseases from drinking contaminated water and milk. A small polycarbonate tube contains a wax that melts when water or milk is heated enough to be pasteurized (65˚C/149˚F). This saves much fuel by eliminating the need to boil water or milk to ensure that the pasteurization temperature has been reached. See also Instructions for building WAPIs.
Since water pasteurizes at temperatures well below the boiling point of water, WAPIs save time when solar pasteurizing, and save fuel when using traditional fuels.
Recent news and developments
- December 2103: Robert Nepper reports that they have made improvements to the SuperWAPI, which features a heat resistant stainless steel cable. North Star Devices' WAPI is the only WAPI offered as a hammer together design, not requiring heat sealing. The SuperWAPI is also now available as a kit. Read more about their WAPIs in their latest flyer: Reusable Water Pasteurization Indicators (WAPIs)
- November 2013: Study of water treatment in Kenya demonstrates the effectiveness of the WAPI - Bob Metcalf, research microbiologist, and FOTO worked together on a study to compare results of various water treatment chemicals to the WAPI water pasteurization indicator used with a CooKit solar cooker. One finding of note is that the WAPI, when used with the CooKit, was 100% effective in producing negative results for E.coli, while the WaterGuard (3 drops/liter) method was only effective in most cases. Read the study at: The Goal is Zero: A Strategy to Eliminate Water-bourne Disease in Lower Nyakach, Kenya
Articles in the media
- January 2010: WAPIs set to go to Haiti - Recorder Online
- May 2007: Little pieces go long way to provide safe water - Knoxville News Sentinel
- December 2003: Professor sees solar solution to safer water - Sacramento State News
Buying WAPIs
- WAPIs can be purchased from Solar Cookers International.
- The Monterey Sunrise Rotory Club sells a kit that contains the materials to make 200 WAPIs. Contact PDG Don Kremer at firstname.lastname@example.com.* North Star Devices sells WAPI assembly kits and materials.
- Sun Ovens International sells WAPIs and Solar Ovens
- The Cool WAPI design does not require heat sealing the tube, but uses a plug to seal the ends instead. See various types, and purchasing information at The Cool WAPI
Improved design
Solar Cookers International has recent started manufacturing and selling an improved WAPI design that makes use of plugs to seal the tube and a metal string that won't melt when the WAPI is used to determine pasteurization temperature when water is heated over a cooking fire.
The Cool WAPI
The new Cool WAPI, developed by Robert Nepper and Bill Stevenson, is called "cool" since it requires no heat for assembly when compared to the earlier version WAPI. We have re-designed the WAPI in response to customers who wanted it capable of being assembled in the country of use. We offer it in the completely assembled version and in the totally unassembled version, complete with all parts.
Yes, unskilled persons can assemble the new cool WAPI with a minimum of tools and instructions. All that is really needed is a common claw hammer and a heavy, flat rock, a cement block or an anvil. It must be solid and heavy or you will find it too difficult to hammer in the plugs. To prevent injured fingers, however, we offer a free simple holder set with initial purchases of 100 pieces or more. The holders also prevent the plugs from being driven in too far (obscuring the holes needed for the fish line).
We sell the completed version for $1.25 each and the unassembled version for $.95 each (in lots of 100 or more). There is quite a bit of manual labor in making the plugs and the wax slug so we cannot offer volume discounts at this time. If the volume gets higher, we will make them with more automation, hopefully to be able to reduce the price and offer volume discounts as well. See various types, and purchasing information at The Cool WAPI
See Instructions for Assembling the Cool WAPI.
WAPIs with stainless steel wire
The Monterey Peninsula Rotary Club now has WAPI kits available in which stainless steel wire replaces the monofilament fishing line; the new WAPI is good for all applications including open flame fires, which had the tendency to melt the traditional fishing line. The kit contans all the components and instructions to build 200 WAPIs. These are reusable and virtually indestructable. The kit costs $85 (about $.42 each) plus shipping. If you are interested in a fun project that teaches about the perils of unclean water and then shows folks how to make a difference, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. This is a great fellowship project for Rotary Clubs, Rotary Interact Clubs, Church youth groups, etc.
A jig for making WAPIs
The SPADE WAPI for bottles
Another technique that has developed from seeking a simple solution to water pasteurization is the SODIS approach. Basically it involves leaving sealed transparent bottles of clear, but untreated, water in direct sunshine from two to four hours. The time will depend on the surfaces below the bottles, and the intensity of the sunshine. Often the bottles are placed on a flat corrugated metal roof. When the water reaches 65°C(150°F) it is suitable for drinking. As mentioned earlier, a need developed to find a simple device, a WAPI, to indicate when the water was safe. Several designs use a melting wax method. A recent version, called the SPADE WAPI, is designed to be fitted directly to the cap on a water bottle. After drilling a 1/4" hole through the cap. The slender clear tube, with wax at one end, is submerged into the bottle. Reaching a safe temperature, the wax runs to the bottom of the tube. A compact approach to providing water pasteurization using existing bottles.
Audio and video
Disposible soda straw variation
See also
- The Goal is Zero: A Strategy to Eliminate Water-bourne Disease in Lower Nyakach, Kenya, 2013 - Bob Metcalf and FOTO
- WAPI instructions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
- WAPI production
- Bob Metcalf
- Water pasteurization
- Portable Microbiology Laboratory
- Integrated Cooking Method
- Report on possible improvements to the WAPI
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May 2, 2016
Those booming thunderstorms on Thursday also came with lightning, and we are told it hit a few homes in the east.
Three were hit in Carteret County alone. In two instances, there were fires.
The worst damage happened at a home on Cummins Creek Road, outside of Beaufort.
In that case the fire marshal hasn't confirmed it was a lightning strike, but the the National Weather Service says there was a lightning storm in the area at the time.
Neighbors say the homeowners had gone out of town that morning to visit their daughter. Around 1:15 p.m. the mail carrier saw the home's porch on fire and called 911. It took seven fire departments more than five hours to put out the blaze.
On South Breeze Lane, a 10-year-old was up in the cupola as the storm approached. The child told us he saw a bright light and then a loud boom. He screamed as he ran downstairs and his mom ran to him.
The cupola caught fire, and the lightning took out all the home's televisions and internet.
Another house on Shipmast Court was hit by lightning. The home's cupola was also hit, with the strike causing some damage to electronic equipment inside.
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SSPX methodology: a question for Bishop Williamson
But practically nobody dialogued with the logic of the obstacles, which makes me want to come back to restate them. John L. made an attempt in the comments below the original post, but then his list of documents missed the point about the distinction of expertise and pastoral authority. I note, furthermore, that in Bishop Williamson's latest Dinoscopus letter, he makes the argument that Rome can only survive by returning to the Truth - a Truth to which the SSPX has been faithful.
My view is that what Bishop Williamson and the SSPX confuse are the teachings of the Catholic Church and their own theological arguments (which deploy those teachings). Let's take the example of the Mass since William Oddie referenced it in his article a few days ago. When it is said that the New Mass 'expresses a new Faith, a Faith which is not ours, a Faith which is not the Catholic Faith' (Bishop Fellay's letter - citing Archbishop Lefebvre - to Pope John Paul II in The Problem of the Liturgical Reform , p. i), it is somehow thought that this position can be suitably justified through a theological analysis of the New Mass given by the SSPX's experts. Since, for example, they (following Oddi's and Bacci's earlier judgment) judge there to be no consistency between the Twenty-Second Session of the Council of Trent and the theology of the reformed missal, they believe this to be a sufficient proof (backed up by the decline in Catholicism in the West) of the latter's lack of Catholicity, regardless of what anyone else, inclding Rome, says. Indeed, the results of their analysis and the dogmatic premisses on which they are constructed are what Bishop Williamson calls 'Catholic Truth'. When he says that Rome must recognise Catholic Truth and be faithful to it, what he clearly implies is that since there is no questioning of the dogmatic premisses on which the SSPX build their criticism of the New Mass, the edifice of their analysis is itself absolutely sound.
But this position is both logically and methodologically unstable.
i) Logically, the authorities on which I base an argument are only part of my final analysis. All the minor premisses of my argument must also be sound: my observations, my interpretations of data, the way in which I categorise and conceptualise the problems I am trying to study, etc. In addition, my handling of the major premisses must be sound. By way of comparison, Protestant criticism of the Church cannot be justified simply by being based on Sacred Scripture, however Sacred it is. Likewise, the traditionalists can arrive in various ways at a theological view of the New Mass, or of other issues - indeed, one must arrive at the conclusions contained potentially in one's premisses - but they are wrong to treat that view as definitive, however theologically weighty their major premisses are. No Council has found the New Mass to be unCatholic; that view is the result of a theological argument. In other words, the fact I bang a big bass drum doesn't mean there is a brass band following behind me!
ii) Methodologically, this position is also weak because the theologians who have generated it, and their elders who promote it, appear ultimately unwilling to be moderated either by the criticism of their peers (in spite of some contacts in France, are any of the SSPX's theses being published and discussed in theological journals?) or by the judgment of the Church's authorities. In the recent doctrinal discussions, there was no sense in which the SSPX took their position to Rome for it to be assessed. They took it to Rome to convince Rome that it was already fundamentally sound, so fundamentally sound in fact that, for the SSPX, it has become the measuring stick for Rome's orthodoxy (or has put the SSPX in the driving seat, as Bishop Williamson says). Such a conclusion is only possible because the SSPX's methodology has become, as it were, invisible to the minds of its experts.
We have a crisis in the Church and lots of grave problems. Not everyone agrees with this view, but a lot of sensible people do. The problem is, then: whose reading of the problems should be our guiding light? And which experts can we trust? In the end there is no escaping the conclusion that every expert who is not willing to have his position moderated by Rome is not in fact serving any truth but his own; in the end, it is ironic that making the pastoral Magisterium of the Hierarchy {especially that of the chief pastor} subject to the Magisterium of the Experts involves exactly the kind of modernist assumption that the SSPX has declared itself opposed to. If Bishop Williamson cares about the Truth, as indeed I believe he does deeply, he must ultimately admit that there is a real distinction in re between the teachings of the Church and the results of the analyses by SSPX theologians. Sadly I see no sign of this distinction starting to dawn on him or on any of his colleagues. Let me hereby challenge him respectfully to address the argument.
Unlike a lot of people, I happen to think there is a place for Bishop Williamson and the SSPX in the mainstream, banging their big bass drums for all they are worth. They just have to realise that the percussion section cannot be a law unto itself, and that moving from a march to a waltz does not constitute the abandonment of rhythm.
25 comments:
- Sixupman said...
From a person of the pew: my difficulty is the Mass as presented to me in a myriad of (C)atholic parish churches throughout the land - a proliferation of middle road CofE services, my own parish with actual CofE accretions and sermons against the Magisterium. Therefore anti-SSPX sermonising leaves me cold.
I agree with your final paragraph, but have doubts about +Williamson, who has created a cult of personality around himself.
- 7 March 2011 at 08:28
Ches, so what you are saying is that there is room in the Church for the SSPX, BUT....
Indeed, that could apply to anyone ... Methodist, Anglican, Muslim. There is room for you in the Church, BUT...
It is the nature of the 'but' that is crucial. With regard to the SSPX, realistically, the Pope is hardly going to reconcile with a group which thinks that a council of the Church taught heresy, that an approved liturgy of the Church is evil and that the magisterium of the Church has embraced heresy ("Modernist Rome"). George
- 7 March 2011 at 10:51
- Ches said...
Anti-SSPX sermonizing leaves me cold as well. I'm actually trying to help the situation by not resorting simply to dismissing them, as I fear George would like to.
My point is to try to dissolve the assimilation of SSPX rhetoric and Catholic truth on which their position rests. I want them in. They Church needs them in. The pope is seeking to get them in. They are our brothers.
- 7 March 2011 at 12:27
Sorry Ches, I did not make myself very clear in my first post. I did not intend simply to dismiss the SSPX, indeed I think they potentially have a lot to offer the church. What I was trying to point out is that their situation is far from straightforward to put it mildly.
The following is from Bishop Williamson:
"Now the Catholic Authority of the churchmen should be welded to the Catholic Truth of Our Lord, because that human Authority only exists to protect and teach that divine Truth. But at that dreadful Council (1962-1965), centuries of Protestant heresy and Liberal dissolution of truth had at last so wormed their way into the hearts and minds of a large majority of the Council Fathers that they gave up on the purity of Catholic Truth, and to this day they have been using all their Catholic Authority to impose on Catholics the Council's new and false religion of man."
According to his arguments, Rome has erred, not simply in its prudential judgments, but in its teaching. Where does this leave the indefectibility of the Church?
To put it another way, I would ask: "Does "SSPX rhetoric" always conform to "Catholic Truth"?"
- 7 March 2011 at 14:28
- Ches said...
Agreed, George. What was sometimes intemperate rhetoric on the part of Archbishop Lefebvre often serves as impregnable principle on the part of his followers.
- 7 March 2011 at 15:58
That's an excellent way of putting it, Ches. I'm sure we could cite numerous examples, but one of the most notable is the use of the expression "Conciliar Church". When questioned, we are told that it simply refers to a "spirit" - they don't actually think that those in good standing with the Pope constitute a separate Church. And yet, you do find some hardline SSPX supporters refusing to attend the TLM if celebrated by an "official" traditionalist group or by a diocesan priest on the grounds that they are part of the "Conciliar Church".
Again, the purpose of my comment was not to "bash" the SSPX, but to point out the very real difficulties in any reconciliation.
It was interesting that when the Pope wrote to the world's bishops, explaining the reason for his decision to rescind the excommunications, he spoke of the benefits for both the Church and for the SSPX.
"I myself saw, in the years after 1988, how the return of communities which had been separated from Rome changed their interior attitudes; I saw how returning to the bigger and broader Church enabled them to move beyond one-sided positions and broke down rigidity so that positive energies could emerge for the whole."
How this rigidity is broken down, I do not know. Perhaps they need a gentle reminder that not everything is black and white.
- 7 March 2011 at 16:32
Major and Minor premises!?! Syllogisms!?! How dare you!
You have hit this nail on the head, in a way, the SSPX arguments sound a whole heck of a lot like the Ressourcement movement...they just pick different fathers to construct "impregnable" syllogisms from (Why we need to have a fight between the likes of St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Alphonse de Liguori, I do not know).
If they are not total modernist in holding a Magisterium of experts over Rome, perhaps they are semi-modernists, something akin to semi-pelagians, so that, while some of them have great things to say and only occasionally slip into vague language.
As an analogy: John Cassian, who had a conference or two that caused some problems with the Augustinian mainstream, but overall was one of the great masters of the western spiritual life (As a Monk once told me "those particular conferences are not that interesting anyway"!).
On the other hand, others fall into outright language that seems to oppose not only Vatican II, but even Vatican I (I can only imagine that Dom Gueranger would see Bishop Williamson as an opponent if he had the Papal Monarchism argument to fight all over again).
Either way, I think you have this one correct Ches. Even when Rome is being its silliest (running off to Avignon, letting ridiculous Italian families to elect Popes, etc.,) to be Catholic is to think it will never lead us totally astray, and that any "oppression" or "difficulties" a later-vindicated movement receives from Rome is simply the God-ordained trials that all good things must go through to reach spiritual maturation. If we throw away Rome faculty of mediation, which is often times useful not because its astuteness in choosing the correct doctrine immediately but by the sheer fact of directing arguments in a certain direction, I do not see how we are not Protestant, or at least Eastern Orthodox.
- 7 March 2011 at 16:55
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- 7 March 2011 at 16:58
Fantastic analysis. The Senisble Bond is definitely "my drug of choice." I'm glad you are back.
- 7 March 2011 at 17:00
Ches, you wrote:
"The problem is, then: whose reading of the problems should be our guiding light? And which experts can we trust? In the end there is no escaping the conclusion that every expert who is not willing to have his position moderated by Rome is not in fact serving any truth but his own; in the end, it is ironic that making the pastoral Magisterium of the Hierarchy {especially that of the chief pastor} subject to the Magisterium of the Experts involves exactly the kind of modernist assumption that the SSPX has declared itself opposed to. "
My question: How do you know you can trust Rome? That is my difficulty.
- 7 March 2011 at 21:42
- Ches said...
Marion, I put my trust in God, but I also believe that his help is providentially made available to me in the visible institution of the Catholic Church. That doesn't mean we make everything the pope says into dogma, but it does mean that the buck stops in Rome somehow. That is what is missing from the SSPX's arguments. They say that only Rome can sort this out; but then what they mean is that Rome will only have sorted it out when it does what the SSPX says it should do.
- 7 March 2011 at 22:36
- W.C. Hoag said...
The SSPX modernist-esque double Magisterium elluded me for a very long time until I found myself trying to refute Modernist academics while witnessing myself--those were my post-seminary SSPX days--using the same theological methology as they.
The startling realisation of a faulty theological method contributed to my exit from Society-land.
- 9 March 2011 at 04:22
- John said...
Good Morning,
I find your analysis intriguing, Ches. I'm inclined to agree with your assessment: Bringing SSPX back into full communion within the Church WILL be tough.
Years before Summorum Pontificum, I had the "option" of attending a reverent, traditional Mass, not SSPX, but CMRI. Much of the same mentality though. I didn't join them, but continued attending the Novus Ordo, despite serious misgivings about the local Church.
For me, it came down to one simple question:
Did I accept or reject the teachings of the Church's Councils?
Joining the traditional parish would've essentially meant ignoring the idea that Vatican II..happened. I couldn't see how I could reject Vatican II without summarily rejecting Vatican I as well. That Council taught that the Pope was infallible when teaching as Pope to the world on matters of faith and morals. I've read all 4 of the Constitutions of Vatican II. They all appear to teach something to the world regarding faith and morals. What's more, each one lists His Holiness, the Pope, as the author. Some canonist might discern some weird loophole somewhere, but I can't see it.
If Vatican II was wrong, how would Vatican I be valid?
It's sad to see the Church hammered so hard within Her own ranks by dissent, but She hasn't fallen yet, so I guess we need to keep on marching.
We'll also need to keep praying for SSPX, CMRI, and others to come back into the fold.
Thank God for Benedict XVI!
- 9 March 2011 at 06:59
Question for anyone who would like to answer:
If you have doubts regarding the Vatican II popes, can you in good conscience attend a Mass at a CMRI chapel without risking the loss of your soul?
Or are you required to grin and bear it in the novus ordo Church and give the popes the benefit of the doubt?
- 9 March 2011 at 17:39
- K Gurries said...
Ches, great analysis as usual! If there is a "dialogue of the deaf" going on then it probably because hearts and minds are not sufficiently open. I like how the Holy Father put it in the letter accompanying the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum:
I think of a sentence in the Second Letter to the Corinthians, where Paul writes: "Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. In return, widen your hearts also!" (II Cor 6:11-13).
- 11 March 2011 at 00:37
- Pachomius said...
"According to his arguments, Rome has erred, not simply in its prudential judgments, but in its teaching. Where does this leave the indefectibility of the Church?"
Quite. And this is the question no SSPX-er ever answers.
Marion: In answer to your question about how we can trust Rome, the answer is in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 16, verses 18-20. Either scripture can be trusted, or it can't. And if it can't, then the whole edifice of Christianity is but a ludicrous charade, and there is no truth in it at all. And in that case, then the type of Mass would hardly matter, because it would all be nonsense.
In answer to your second, I propose two questions: First, what does my opinion of the Mass matter? And second, who am I to grant the benefit of the doubt to the Vicar of Christ?
- 11 March 2011 at 00:44
- Capt. Morgan said...
While dashing Bishop Williamson and the SSPX are seen as quite the proper tone by many, I must ask those who are so quick to deny the arguments that the Bishops of the SSPX make concerning the documents of the second Vatican Council; What are we to make of the Arian crisis? Were the dissenters correct? Or the Heretical Bishops who manifestly held the seats of power?
Have we not been warned by Our Lady at Fatima, Lourdes, La Salette and Ecuador as to what we can expect? Do we not see the need for constant Prayer and Fasting offered to Our Lord to Restore His Church?
I fear we have become so "enlightened" that we would rather argue semantics and personalities rather than lead Chaste lives in communion with the Gospel.
- 11 March 2011 at 01:20
A couple of initial comments; Bishop Williamson is not a spokesman for the SSPX, so his views are not relevant to a consideration of the Society's position. The criticism that the Society is reluctant to be subject to theological criticism because its theologians do not publish their views in theological journals is silly. Theologians of the Society publish their views in a range of outlets aimed at both popular and scholarly audiences. Academic theological journals would not publish papers arguing for the SSPX's position, because they reject this position a priori as unworthy of consideration; I am an academic, and I can assure you that this is the case.
The main point to be made however is that you misconstrue the Society's position in two ways.
1. You make a kindly mention of the list of documents I gave in a previous comment. These documents were all issued in Rome; they were not written by Archbishop Lefebvre or anyone else in the SSPX. So when the Society tells the Roman authorities that they accept the teaching in these documents, they are not telling Rome that Rome should accept the Society's views. They are telling the Roman authorities that those authorities should be following their own teachings, and that they are falling down on the job by not doing so.
2) The reply that will be made to this point is that it is the Roman authorities that decide what counts as being in accord or not in accord with Catholic tradition, and that the SSPX does not have the authority to determine what Catholic tradition is. This is quite true; but it is exactly the point that the Society is making. Their point is that the Roman authorities are not doing this, and that they should be doing this. There is on the face of it an incompatibility between some earlier Roman teachings, and other later ones. I pointed out one such seeming incompatibility in my list of documents on religious freedom and church/state relations. When you have different Church teachings that on the face of it make contradictory claims, then what is needed to decide what Catholic tradition says is a further clear statement with the highest degree of authority that explains what should be believed about the topic of the seemingly contradictory statements. The SSPX position is that such seeming contraditions exist, and that an authoritative statement by Rome is needed to resolve them. The website of the SSPX's St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary has recently published a translation of a long article by Don Davide Pagliarani that makes exactly this point.
The only reply that can be offered to this second point by the Roman authorities is that there are no seeming contradictions between earlier and later statements, so that no decision is needed. But this reply leaves in explicable the now admitted 'hermeneutic of rupture', the widely held interpretation of Vatican II as having rejected and replaced earlier teachings. How could this hermeneutic have ever existed if there were no appearance of contradiction betwen teachings? That is the point made by the SSPX, and it is a strong one.
- 11 March 2011 at 06:27
- John said...
John L,
While I think I understand your point, I disagree with your assessment.
Every statement I've heard from SSPX the past few years, especially those by Bishop Fellay, make clear to me they believe Rome has strayed, while SSPX, have remained faithful.
Then again, I don't believe Vatican II actualy contradicted any prior teaching, especially with regard to the Church's teachings. If anything, the "Spirit of Vatican II" has been used to routinely mis-cast the Council's actual teachings, so the "hermeneutic of rupture" has come about from wildly straying from what the Council Fathers actually taught.
Yes, the Council DID challenge every Catholic to understand the faith from a more deeply intellectual standpoint and some of the concepts presented come across more ambiguously than might've been strictly needed. Even so, I think it incorrect to declare that Vatican II can be correctly interpreted to have contradicted something.
Then again, I think Rome has tried explaining this or that regarding the faith and the Council on several occasions. Part of the problem has been that..neither "modern" nor "traditional" factions have always been precisely willing to listen with humility....
- 11 March 2011 at 09:44
- Cruise the Groove. said...
All I know is that my wife and I are very grateful to the FSSPX who offer the TLM in our diocese where no other TLM is available.
We are attached to the TLM and unfortunately many of the NO offered in our diocese are horrific to assist at.
I have been told by my spiritual advisor, an regularised FSSP priest, that it is a near occasion of sin form me to go to these NO Masses [which it is] and that since the P.C.E.D. has stated that we can fulfill our holyday obligations at FSSPX Mass without incurring any penalty or committing any sin, we do so.
I now pray for near day when the Holy See will officially acknowledge that Society confessions are valid.
Thank the good Lord for the FSSPX!
- 11 March 2011 at 15:37
As a result of the reform of the Mass, was not the nature of the ordained priesthood changed and diminished? If so, did not a dogmatic reform take place?
Actually, since the reform of the Mass was accomplished by a committee and approved by Paul VI it was not even a conciliar act although the Council recommended the reform.
- 11 March 2011 at 20:14
I echo Fr. Z's comment here: There's not much difference between SSPX & Fr Hans Kung's positions. One drives off the road on the right, the other on the left but they both end up in the ditch. Sad.
- 12 March 2011 at 11:42
Anon 3:42, don't tell that to an SSPX-er! You'll have your head handed to you.
- 12 March 2011 at 20:13
- Michael379 said...
Since I haven't seen it addressed yet: those who cite the indefectability of the Church when defending Vatican II seem to overlook two very important facts:
1. Widespread defection from the truth at the highest levels is not unheard of in the history of Mother Church. Look at what happened with the Arian heresy! But the minority won out in that one, because they were right.
2. Both Blessed Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI expressly and publicly stated that the Second Vatican Council was not intended to have any doctrinal or dogmatic weight. When Archbishop Lefebvre and other conservatives raised objections during the council on doctrinal grounds, they were reminded of this fact. So how is it that we automatically assume that this council enjoyed the protection of the Holy Spirit and is therefore above questioning?
As to the Novus Ordo...well, I'm sure you've all done your research on its roots and observed its fruits. Tell me: is it holy? Really?
- 17 March 2011 at 17:39
- 7/10 split said...
You keep putting forward the same reasoning in many of your posts. It seems very straightforward and correct to me. I appreciate what you have written. It has helped me very much. Thank you.
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