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Jun 9 10 12:49 AM
In Cyprus, the pope saw up close the drama of the Christians of the East. Ecumenism is flourishing, but where Islam reigns there is no freedom of conscience or religion. The latest victim is Bishop Luigi Padovese, decapitated like Saint John by Sandro Magister
Jun 11 10 9:24 AM
Bishop Luigi Padovese of Anatoliain in 2008. (CNS/Catholic Press Photo)Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Catholicism in the Middle East probably knew Bishop Luigi Padovese, an Italian Capuchin who served as the Vicar of Anatolia and president of the bishops' conference in Turkey. Gregarious and articulate, Padovese was a passionate advocate of the church's mission in the region. In terms of the Christian/Muslim relationship, Padovese was also one of those rare voices not easily classified as either a hawk or a dove – hardly blind to the threats posed by Islamic radicalism, but still a man of dialogue through and through.
Given that reputation, news last week that Padovese, 63, had been murdered by his longtime driver and aide in his summer residence outside Iskenderun, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, triggered shock waves across the Catholic world.
Coming on the cusp of Pope Benedict XVI's June 4-6 visit to Cyprus, the killing offered a harrowing reminder of the challenges facing the region's small, and rapidly declining, Christian minority. Padovese's death also inevitably stirred memories of the February 2006 murder of Italian Fr. Andrea Santoro in Trabzon, Turkey – another Catholic missionary slain by a young Turkish man, in that case a 16-year-old who described the killing as revenge for insulting cartoons of Muhammad published by a Danish magazine in 2005.
As of this writing, explanations as to why Padovese was targeted remain conflicting and confused. In the meantime, the murder obviously raises hard questions about the situation facing Christianity in Turkey – a country long held up as perhaps the last, best hope for carving out a genuinely moderate and pluralistic form of Islam, capable of protecting religious minorities and fostering dialogue with the West.
Below, I offer two takes on that subject.
One comes from an interview I conducted this week with American Jesuit Fr. Tom Michel, one of Catholicism's leading experts on Islam who currently lives and works in Ankara, the country's capital. The other comes from Padovese himself, in the form of an interview I had with him in Rome in 2006 shortly after the Santoro murder.
Taken together, the two perspectives illustrate the maddening complexity of life in the Middle East. Michel cautions against reading Padovese's murder as part of an anti-Christian pattern, insisting that there's strong grass-roots sentiment among Turkish Muslims in favor of tolerance. Yet in words that cannot help but seem chilling now, Padovese warned four years ago that even isolated acts of madness in a place such as Turkey can be influenced by what he described as rising anti-Christian prejudice.
Among other things, fallout from the Padovese murder likely will color the conversation at the Oct. 10-24 Synod on the Middle East in Rome. (Benedict XVI presented the Instrumentum Laboris, or working document, for the synod during his trip to Cyprus.) Called to discuss Christianity's future in the region, the synod is an event where Padovese would almost certainly have played an important role.
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Here's what we know at the moment about the details of the June 3 attack on Padovese.
Witnesses reported that the bishop's 26-year-old driver, Murat Altun, shouted "I killed the Great Satan!" afterwards, adding "Allah Akbar!", leading some to suggest that Altun was motivated by radical Islamist ideology. Others say that Altun was struggling with mental and emotional difficulties. After his arrest, Altun reportedly told police that Padovese was a homosexual who had pressured him into a sexual relationship, although several local sources have greeted that claim with skepticism.
Some Turks believe that Altun was manipulated by ultra-nationalist political forces seeking to derail Turkey's candidacy to join the European Union and, more broadly, the country's basic pro-Western orientation.
In a still more bizarre twist, a well-known Italian priest and Vatican writer has claimed that at the last minute, Padovese cancelled plans to travel to Cyprus for the pope's trip because sources in the Turkish government warned him that Altun had embraced Islamic fundamentalism. According to Fr. Fillippo di Giacomo, Padovese was afraid his driver might try to kill the pope.
On Wednesday, Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, another Capuchin missionary in Turkey and the Archbishop of Izmir, told media sources that church leaders have told the country's Ministry of Justice, which is overseeing the investigation into Padovese's death, that the church wants the "full truth," adding that "nothing must be kept hidden."
Jesuit Fr. Tom Michel is a veteran of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, where he served as the resident expert on Islam. He later directed the interreligious dialogue office in Rome for the worldwide Jesuit order. Now based in Ankara, Michel teaches in several universities and also does pastoral work in the two Catholic churches in the city.
I caught up with Michel on Wednesday by phone in his native St. Louis, Missouri, where he was attending the funeral of his 83-year-old brother. Michel knew both Padovese and Murat well; in the very small Catholic community in Turkey, everyone pretty much knows everyone else, which makes the sense of shock and loss all the more acute.
The following are excerpts from our conversation.
How would you describe the situation facing Christians in Turkey?
I don't see what happened to Bishop Padovese as part of some sort of plot. I don't believe it reflects a broad anti-Christian movement or campaign. It seems like it's more explicable as a personal conflict on the part of Murat [the driver].
Christians in Turkey sometimes have differences with the authorities. The Greek Orthodox are still trying to get back their seminaries, which were confiscated years ago by the state. In general, however, Christian life goes on normally. Our two parishes operate without any problems. People aren't afraid to come to Mass. On special occasions such as Palm Sunday, we'll do things outside without thinking twice about it. There's never any worry that something bad will happen. It just doesn't enter your mind.
Remember that there aren't that many Christians in Turkey. After the 1925 population exchange, Turkey ended up about 99 percent Muslim and Greece about 99 percent Christian. It's not like Syria, Lebanon, or Egypt, where there are sizeable local Christian populations. Most Christians in Turkey are localized in the cities – Istanbul, Izmir, and Ankara. In Ankara, we get maybe 300 people on Sunday. There aren't any Orthodox churches, and there are just a handful of Protestant communities, which meet in hotels or other places.
The Catholics in Ankara are a fascinating mix. We get a number of ambassadors and other diplomatic personnel from the embassies, especially from Catholic countries such as Croatia, Chile, Spain, Ireland, and so on. Then we have a large number of Filipina domestics, who are really the backbone of many of our activities. There are a number of Americans, often defense contractors who have relations with the government and the military. We also have a number of African scholarship students. Turkey gives out a lot of scholarships, especially in fields such as engineering and medicine, and many of the Africans who come here to study are Catholics from places such as Angola, Rwanda and Burundi.
We don't face any real pressure or harassment, whether subtle or overt. I should add that since Bishop Padovese's death, I have been flooded with e-mails and phone calls from Muslims in Turkey, extending their condolences and expressing their outrage at his murder. This is as much a part of the reality of Muslim-Christian relations in Turkey as is the occasional violence.
Is the rise of a more openly Islamic government in Turkey a threat?
The present government is more open to religion and to religious views of the world. Turkey's previous governments were often explicitly anti-religious. There's always been a strongly militant secular movement in Turkey allergic to anything religious, and it would certainly be opposed to the present government. My sense is that society is always healthier when people of faith can play a positive role. I have the impression that the present government seems more honest and conscientious than previous ones, and I think that comes from the faith background of the people running it.
You believe the real worry in Turkey isn't militant Islam but militant secularism?
Ataturk was himself a military man, and the military has always played an exaggerated role in national politics. Over the years they've led multiple coups, seeing themselves as the protectors of Turkey's secular state. The present government seems to be trying to break the power of the military and to prevent it from meddling in national politics, so there is a sort of religious/secular struggle going on.
Most people in the present government are Muslims, but they're hardly "Islamists." They're not people who want to apply the sharia through the civil law. They're just not interested in that. Their project is to prepare Turkey to enter the European Union, which obviously takes the country in a very different direction.
You've said and written over the years that there are some promising moderate Muslim movements in Turkey which are more representative of grassroots Islam than the radicals.
One of the advantages we have in Turkey is that there are several strong communities of Muslims already committed to dialogue. We don't have to find people and convince them. The best-known examples would be the Nur Community, followers of Said Nursi, and their cousins in the Gülen movement, followers of Fethullah Gülen. Both are fully committed to dialogue with Christians and a pluralistic society.
Back in the late 1980s, I remember talking to people in the bishops' conference in Turkey about dialogue activities. They encouraged me to get involved with both of these groups, because, as the bishops put it, "They're on our side. They want us to have a good place in Turkish society."
What these movements are picking up is the traditional tolerance of Anatolian Islam. If you look at Nursi and Gülen in terms of who they quote, whose views they're carrying on, it's the great mystics and leaders of Turkish history who articulated a universalist and inclusive vision of Islam. They're strong, growing, vibrant movements, which reflect real grassroots sentiment.
You know Murat Altun?
Yes, I know him fairly well. I've had dinner with him and the bishop several times. I really liked him, and I always thought he did a good job. When I first heard the news that the bishop had been killed and people were saying Murat did it, I actually hoped it would turn out that the police were simply pinning the murder on the easiest suspect in order to solve the case quickly, because that has happened in the past. It doesn't look like that's the case this time, however.
One thing I can say is that Murat was more than just an occasional chauffer. He once drove Padovese to Italy and back to pick up some books. He was more like a member of the family. He and the bishop, along with the bishop's secretary, Sister Leonora, who's an American, spent hours and hours in the car together, talking about all kinds of things.
What was your impression of Bishop Padovese?
He was a breath of fresh air for the Turkish episcopacy. He brought a lot of new ideas, he was dynamic, and he launched a number of important initiatives. The other bishops saw him as a natural leader, which is why they made him president of the episcopal conference. For instance, one of his priorities was the preparation of catechetical materials. Because the Turkish-speaking Christian community is so small, they don't have many resources. He would take good stuff in Italian and other languages and publish it in Turkish, so his people would have a solid formation in the faith.
With regard to Islam, he was a real leader in dialogue. He had good relations with many Muslim leaders. He had a strong personal friendship with the Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See, and good ties with the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Turkey. They issued a glowing tribute to him after the news broke that he had been killed. More than any other, he was the bishop in Turkey who truly believed in the importance of dialogue.
Padovese was also a very good scholar, a Patrologist. He was an expert on the Capadocian Fathers, and for years he led Pauline tours of Turkey, preaching about St. Basil and the two Gregories. He wrote a pilgrimage guide to Turkey which is still a fine resource.
Over the years, I had the chance to meet Padovese and to interview him on several occasions. (The fact that he was a Capuchin, and that I grew up in Capuchin schools and parishes, meant that we actually knew some of the same people.) I always found him to be a perfect expression of the Capuchin ethos: utterly unpretentious, a lively sense of humor, honest and realistic, and primarily concerned with ordinary people.
Back in February 2006, I sat down with Padovese in Rome after the murder of Santoro. As is the case today with Padovese's own death, initial reports as to why 16-year-old Oğuzhan Akdin targeted Santoro were all over the map. Some suggested emotional instability (Akdin had apparently been seeing a psychiatrist), and others pointed to the fact that Akdin received financial hand-outs from Santoro's parish, implying that perhaps the killing was a shake-down gone bad.
Eventually, Akdin explicitly linked his act to the Danish cartoon controversy, and his mother even described her son's slaying of a Catholic priest as "a gift to the state and the nation." Padovese and I didn't know that, however, at the time we spoke – making his insistence that anti-Christian propaganda not be discounted as a motive seem terribly prescient.
Below is what I published at the time based on my conversation with Padovese.
From "The Word From Rome," February 10, 2006
Murder of priest gives insight into Christian-Muslim relations [1]
I had the chance on Wednesday to speak with Bishop Luigi Padovese, a 58-year-old Capuchin from Milan who serves as the apostolic vicar in Anatolia, and who was Santoro's superior. Padovese was in Rome accompanying Santoro's body, and was set to return to Turkey after the funeral Mass Friday morning.
Listening to Padovese, the most chilling aspect of the story is perhaps how little indication there was that this young man harbored hatred strong enough to kill. The 16-year-old was not, Padovese said, raised in circles linked to any known radical groups or jihadist movement, although his brother has told Turkish media that the young man was influenced by an Islamic militant group he met on-line. His father was not an imam or a fundamentalist politician, but a local dentist. It was his father's pistol the teen used to gun down Santoro, and the father has said that his son was undergoing psychiatric care.
I asked Padovese what he believes the real motive was for Santoro's murder. He said he doesn't know what demons drove this young man, but said dismissing it as an isolated act is a mistake. Rising Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Christian prejudice, Padovese said, shaped the context in which the teen acted.
"It's the anti-Christian climate that has been produced in Turkey," Padovese said. "There's a strong current of religious extremism, and that climate can fuel this sort of hatred. It's passed along in families, in schools, in the newspapers."
Padovese said that every week the Turkish bishops' conference prepares a bulletin citing "denigrating comments" or "banalities" about Christianity that have appeared in the Turkish press.
"There's a false image of our presence that usually goes unchallenged," he said.
As one example of what Padovese has in mind, the Catholic news agency "Asia News" recently carried an essay by a Western academic who had been doing research in a small Black Sea Coast town last summer, near Trabzon. During that time he saw a local newspaper article titled, "A priest sighted." It reported that local children had seen a priest in the vicinity of the town, but chased him off, to the great applause of the locals.
The article quoted a local politician: "The priests who arrive in our area want to re-establish the Christian Greek-Orthodox state that was here before. There are spies among these priests, working for the West. They are trying to destroy our peace."
That's the sort of misrepresentation Padovese said he believes may well have shaped the context in which a young and emotionally pliable Turkish teenager chose to target a Catholic missionary.
Padovese stressed that he "loves the Turkish people," most of whom "are good people who want dialogue." At the same time, he said, "there are zones of Turkey which are completely 'Islamified,' where it is dangerous to be a Christian."
Padovese linked Santoro's death to the broader struggles of the small Christian population in Turkey, a country often lauded as a model of moderate, Western-style Islam, and currently a candidate for membership in the European Union.
"There were several million Christians in Turkey at the fall of the Ottoman Empire," he said. "How is it possible that in the arc of just 70 or 80 years we've become merely 60,000 or 70,000? The truth is that hundreds of thousands of Christians converted to Islam, taking Islamic names and hiding their identity, out of fear of persecution," he said.
"The Christian presence is still there, I know it's there," Padovese said. "Many of these people know that they are Christians, or come from Christian families, but cannot say so."
That fear, Padovese said, is part of the warp and woof of Christian life across the whole Middle East.
[John Allen is NCR senior correspondent. He can be reached at [email protected]
Jun 13 10 3:12 AM
Parma (AsiaNews) - Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, 71, 6 years Latin archbishop of Izmir, is blunt: after the martyrdom of Archbishop. Luigi Padovese. The Church in Turkey is devastated and hurt, but more united than ever. Catholics, Orthodox, Armenians, Chaldeans are more fraternal. The bishop is also outspoken about another aspect: the Church in Turkey wants to know "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" about the motives of the assassin of Mgr. Padovese. The Turkish Church does not believe the motive of murder was sexual in nature, nor the "pious lie" of Murat Altun's mental illness. He knows that the killing took place following an Islamic ritual but more lies behind this apparent fanaticism. Especially since the murderer was never a devout Muslim. Mgr Franceschini hypothesizes that the assassination was planned with precision, the killer for well trained, and the authors aim to destabilize the country and distance Turkey from Europe.
With the clarity that distinguishes him, he asks the universal Church and Rome to clearly show its support for the Church of Turkey with intelligence and effective solidarity. He appeals for volunteers, teachers, nuns and religious, to go on mission to Turkey, mainly to keep the few Catholic schools open.
After attending the funeral of Mgr. Padovese in Izmir, Mgr. Franceschini came to Italy to attend the solemn funeral of slain bishop to be held in the Cathedral of Milan on 14 June at 10.30. Below the interview that he granted us.
Your Grace, after the martyrdom of bishop. Luigi Padovese how is the Church in Turkey?
It is without doubt, prostrated, pained, but united. Several bishops attended the funeral of Mgr. Padovese, held in the Cathedral of Iskenderun on June 7 last year. Sitting beside me. there was a coadjutor bishop of the Armenians. He could not even utter a single word: he was devastated. It is a reaction due to the shock of the death. The vicar of the Chaldeans did not come, although there were many Chaldean priests. There was also a bishop of the Syrian Orthodox. All were prostrate and destroyed. You could clearly read the thoughts of these Armenian's, "History repeats itself", perhaps thinking of what happened to the Armenians in the genocide of the 1900's.
Neither were we Latins very stoic. Having said all that, it was a beautiful moment of unity. And we will not give up, we will try to keep the Church on course. Regional authorities were also there at the funeral.
What is your view of the murder of the Vicar of Anatolia?
We seek the truth about the murder of Mgr. Padovese first and foremost. The day before the funeral Minister of Justice together with the judge supervising the investigation into the murder arrived in Iskenderun. The judge did not say a word. They asked to see me in a private room and there I told them: "We want the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We do not want other lies: that there were others involved , there was no one else involved, it was a crime of passion. Nothing must be kept hidden".
I believe that with this murder, which has an explicitly religious, Islamic element, we are faced with something that goes beyond the government it points towards nostalgic, perhaps anarchist groups who want to destabilize the government.
The very modalities of the murder aim to manipulate public opinion. After having killed the bishop, the young Murat Altun shouted "I killed the great Satan. Allah Akbar. " But this is really strange. Murat had never before said those violent sentences. I knew him for at least 10 years. I was the one who took him on to work for the Church. He had never expressed himself in this way. He was not a practicing Muslim. He was a young man who had a Christian culture, without being Christian. Neither he nor his father were our enemy. In my opinion, were a being used like a tool in the hands of others.
The use of Islamic ritual serves to divert attention: it is like suggesting that the track is religious and not political. Moreover, by pushing the religious track, that of a conflict between Islam and Christianity, public opinion can be inflamed in an area where we are weak and believed we have no strength. What's more, Prime Minister Erdogan's strongest supporters are not to be found among radical Islam but in the moderates And I fear that now he no longer has even their support.
Murat Altun also claimed the bishop was homosexual and said he was "depressed and unstable"
The murderer has also "confessed" sexual motives, saying that Mgr. Padovese paid him for "services". But this is a track that only aims to confuse. And I do not believe even the usual hastily and pious lie that Murat was mentally ill and addicted. He was neither the one nor the other. Days before he tried to pass himself off as crazy, but doctors have told him not to show up any more because he is sane.
I suppose he had good lawyers as advisers to prepare and ensure that these alibis, if convicted, means he could get away with just a sentence of a few years.
Some think that given the violence, Turkey should never join Europe ...
Certainly within the motive for this carefully studied murder, is the desire of some sectors of Turkish society not to join Europe, and that do not want any change.
We hope that this killing, instead of distancing us, moves us closer to Europe. Indeed, we hope that our friendship will extended to other European countries to work for our well being and yours, given that Turkey is becoming an increasingly great country.
What is life like for the small Church in Turkey?
The Church in Turkey is not small, but very diverse in different denominations, although in recent times we have learned to love each other. At the funeral of Mgr. Padovese we were all there: Latin, Armenian, Catholic, Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Chaldean. Each confession prayed their own prayer gathered around the coffin.
We need to feel more united with Rome. Even the Orthodox are saying this, who now increasingly look to Rome. We need to feel that the heart of Catholicism beats for us too. We feel a little abandoned. It is true that now there is going to be the Synod Churches for Middle East, which should also help mature solidarity between us and the universal Church. Let us hope so, we hope that the document of the Synod is not only a cultural document, with little real effect. Something has to change.
What would you ask of the Italian and Universal Church?
First of all prayer, but a prayer that is aware of the stakes, that we do not want to give up despite the difficulties: the Christian community was born here and here the first councils took place and we can not abandon these places. We need solidarity, not only proclaimed, but active. Every year we need help to repair one church or another, and we do not know how. Then we need to by a home for the priest, and for the religious sisters to live in and we need lay people and priests to come to live with us.
Unfortunately, especially female institutions, when they see that in coming to Turkey they can not open a home for vocations, they decide not to come. But even if there are difficulties for religious freedom, there is a lot of work to be done. In Turkey there is no freedom to proclaim the gospel in the streets, there is no freedom to establish seminaries or build new churches, but we can work in our parishes that already exist, meet people, transform our sitting rooms into churches…
What are the most urgent needs?
Support for our schools. In Turkey there are still some schools open thanks to old deeds, that even outdate those of Ataturk. Once these schools were the best in Turkey, now they are barely surviving. But we are desperately trying to enhance them to save our youth, who are very badly treated in state schools. Unfortunately, the Christian Brothers have withdrawn. Only the Sisters of Ivrea remain in the field of education, but they are very old. We need teachers, volunteers for two or three years, and women religious to come here and support these schools. They should come even if they can not open a house for vocations. It is important to go to Turkey to give, not to accumulate. We must learn to give something to Jesus, as well as ask for something.
Moreover, it is difficult but not impossible to promote vocations, especially male vocations. So far I managed to ordain two priests. But these vocations come from abroad, so it is important to learn the Turkish language, which is not easy. We need local vocations.
To improve our communication with the Church, we are preparing a site linked to a non-profit organization, which will be ready within a year. It is called the Santa Claus Association, with a site that is being launched online.
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VATICAN CITY, JAN. 10, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A bishop was among the 23 Catholic
missionaries murdered while serving last year, the Vatican's Fides agency is
The list of pastoral workers who died violent deaths while on active duty in
2010 was compiled by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It
recognizes those who sacrificed their lives due to hatred of the faith or other
reasons, but avoids using the term "martyrs," leaving this judgment of merit to
the Church.
In 2009, 37 missionary murders were reported; in 2010 there were 23, which
included one bishop, 15 priests, one male religious, one religious sister, two
seminarians and three lay people.
Bishop Luigi Padovese, 63, who served as vicar apostolic of Anatolia, Turkey,
was knifed to death on June 3 by his driver in his home in Iskenderun.
The majority of the deaths took place in North and South America, including
five in Brazil, three in Colombia, two in Mexico, two in Peru, and one each in
Venezuela, Haiti and Ecuador.
Among those killed in Brazil were Father Dejair Gonçalves de Almeida, 32, and
former seminarian Epaminondas Marques da Silva, 26, who were kidnapped March 14
in Volta Redonda and killed by blows to the head by men looking for money.
On May 20, Father Rubens Almeida Gonçalves, 35, was shot in the head in his
Campo Belos parish.
Mario Dayvit Pinheiro Reis, 31, a seminarian, was killed in front of his
family's home in Brasilia by a gunshot fired by a thief on July 4, only a year
before he would have received his ordination to the deaconate.
On Nov. 20, only two months after his priestly ordination, Father Bernardo
Muniz Rabelo Amaral, 28, associate pastor in Humberto de Campos, was shot
several times by a man to whom he was giving a lift in his car.
Other countries
In Colombia, Brother Luis Enrique Pineda, 57, Salesian coadjutor, was killed
March 20 in Bogota by three robbers who stabbed him and left him to die.
The dead, naked body of Father Román de Jesús Zapata, 51, was found in his
rectory in Turbo on March 24. The authorities state that he was suffocated to
On Aug. 20, Father Herminio Calero Alumia, 36, was killed on the road between
Bogota and Soacha.
In Mexico, Father José Luis Parra Puerto, 50, was killed on Feb. 17, Ash
Wednesday, by men who stole his truck in Vasco de Quiroga.
The lifeless body of Father Carlos Salvador Wotto, 83, was found July 28 in
Oaxaca, gagged and bound, with cigarette burns and cut marks all over, and a
plastic bag over his face.
In Peru's capital, Lima, Franciscan Father Linán Ruiz Morales, 80, a Puerto
Rican who worked with the youth and the poor in Peru since 1978, was found dead
in his convent bedroom from cuts to the neck. A lay colleague, Ananias Aguila,
26, was found stabbed to death in the kitchen next to the church, where there is
a canteen for the poor.
An American priest, Father Esteban Robert Wood, 68, was killed April 28 near
his parish in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, where he had been serving for the past 23
years. A few weeks earlier he had initiated a "Campaign for the Defense of Life
and of Peace" to combat violence.
In Haiti, a Caritas worker, Julien Kénord, 27, was murdered Oct. 8 in
Port-au-Prince after an attempted robbery.
A 45-year-old Polish priest, Franciscan Father Miroslaw Karczewski, was
killed in his rectory in Domingo de Los Colorados, Ecuador, by thieves who
attacked him with a large crucifix on Dec. 6.
Fides also reported the deaths of six in Asia and two in Africa.
It noted that to this list must be added those "of whom there may never be
news, who in every corner of the world suffer and even pay with their lives for
their faith in Christ," the "cloud of unknown soldiers for the great cause of
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Feb 19 11 1:28 AM
MANOUBA, Tunisia, 18 FEB. 2011 (Zenit.org).- Father Marek Rybinski, a young Polish missionary working in Manouba, was found dead early this morning, apparently the victim of a murder.
The Salesian Information Agency is reported today that police found Father Rybinski dead in a store room at the Salesian school with his throat cut. He is the second religious to be found dead in this recent period of social unrest.
The priest was last seen Thursday morning at 10 a.m., and the Salesian community notified the police early today after he had missed morning Mass.
Father Rybinski, 33, was a native of the Warsaw Province in Poland, and was ordained in 2005. He arrived in Manouba in 2007, where he helped, through his contacts in the Polish Missions Office, to "help to finance various projects for the good of the school," the Salesian news agency reported.
The young priest was also the chaplain to the Polish community in Tunisia, and he had spent a lot of time preparing the youngsters for Confirmation.
Archbishop Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham of Tunisia presided at a Mass for Fr Rybinski in the cathedral of Manouba.
Feb 20 11 2:47 AM
Protesters gather outside the French Embassy in Tunis on Saturday to urge the recall of Ambassador Boris Boillon for his allegedly "insulting behavior" at his introductory press conference, though it is not clear what exactly he said or did. (AP)
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | AP
Published: 19Febr. 2011 22:53 Updated: 19 Febr. 2011 23:16
TUNIS, Tunisia: The Tunisian government and a long-banned Islamist party both denounced Saturday the grisly slaying of a Roman Catholic priest, while several hundred people gathered outside the French Embassy in the capital to demand the recall of France's new ambassador.
The 34-year-old priest Marek Marius Rybinski was found on Friday with his throat slit and stab wounds in the parking lot of the religious school in the Tunis suburb of Manouma.
The slaying of the Polish priest was the first deadly attack on members of religious minorities since last month's ouster of Tunisia's longtime autocratic president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The Interior Ministry said the killing appeared to be the work of a "group of extremist terrorist fascists," judging by the way it was carried out, and vowed that those responsible for the "odious crime" would be severely punished.
The long-outlawed Islamist Ennahdha, or Renaissance, party called on authorities to "cast light on the real circumstances of this incident ... before making accusations."
The statement, signed by the party's leader Rached Ghannouchi — who returned to Tunisia last month after decades in exile in London — urged "vigilance in order to ward off anything that could spark anarchy in our country." In a separate statement, the party also distanced itself from a recent anti-Semitic incident in front of Tunis' Grand Synagogue, as well as small protests targeting bordellos and stores selling alcohol.
Ennahdha was considered a terrorist group and outlawed under Ben Ali, but is widely considered moderate by scholars.
At least 2,000 people staged a peaceful demonstration in central Tunis on Saturday to denounce extremism and call for tolerance.
Bearing placards with phrases like "I'm Muslim, I'm secular, I am Tunisian" and "no to extremism," the demonstrators rallied outside the main Tunis theater.
The call to demonstrate was planned before the anti-Semitic incidents and the killing of the priest, and a march on Friday by scores of Islamists demanding the closure of a Tunis brothel, said Soufiane Chourabi, a blogger who helped promote the anti-extremism rally.
In another protest in the capital, several hundred people gathered Saturday outside the French embassy to demand that France recall its new ambassador, Boris Boillon.
The protesters denounced what they called Boillon's "insulting behavior" at his introductory press conference last week, though it was not clear what exactly he said or did to anger them.
Some of the protesters complained that Boillon had a dismissive and arrogant tone during Thursday's news conference, while others brandished signs reading "Tunisia: respect it or leave it." Boillon arrived in Tunis last week to replace the previous French ambassador, Pierre Menat, who was recalled to Paris during the uprising after serving just over a year in the post.
Boillon, a 41-year-old Arabic speaker, is a former adviser to conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy and was previously posted in Iraq.
Tunisia was once a French protectorate, and after the North African nation secured its independence in 1956, its leaders remained close to French authorities.
Some critics have complained that Sarkozy was slow to speak out in favor of the protesters during the uprising that sent Ben Ali into exile in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14.
Meanwhile, the state news agency TAP reported that Tunisia's interim president, Fouad Mebazaa, signed an amnesty decree, that could see the release of people imprisoned under Ben Ali's anti-terrorism laws, laws limiting press freedom and laws that restricted public demonstrations.
Ridha Belhaj, an adviser to the prime minister, didn't specify how many people could be affected. But lawyer Samir Ben Amor estimated more than 2,500 could be freed under the anti-terrorism law alone that he called anti-constitutional.
Archbishop Maroun Lahham expressed "horror, sadness, anger, revolt, concern, fear, doubt" in response to the 18Febr. murder of the priest who had been working in Manouba, Tunisia since 2007.
The prelate lamented: "Why was Father Marek killed? For 2,000 dinars ($1,300)!"
He noted that the priest had written two weeks earlier that Tunisia "is a nation that is young, intelligent, incapable of violence, profoundly good and not capable of hate."
The missionary had also written: "During my stay in Tunisia, my attitude toward my fellow Muslims has changed dramatically. This fear of terrorism and extremism has completely disappeared.
"Tunisians are so welcoming, friendly and warm. They teach me this attitude."
The archbishop recalled Father Rybinski's offer to come to Tunisia shortly after his 2005 ordination. He praised the missionary's efforts to collect donations "from everywhere to build new premises for the school he loved and he was directing."
Archbishop Lahham stated: "Where do we go from here? There is no question that times of difficulty are not the moments for running away."
"This is no time to panic," he said. "It is time for faith, patience, precaution."
The prelate continued: "I say in my own name first, and I think I can say on behalf of any religious personnel of the Church in Tunisia, and on behalf of Christians in the country, as well as on the behalf of our brother Muslims and Jews: We will stay put in this country that has welcomed us, who loves us and who we love."
Referring to the Gospel passage about the seed that falls to the earth and dies, the archbishop affirmed that Father Rybinski "fell, he died, and in the example of Christ to whom [he] had consecrated himself to, it has borne fruit."
Killer apprehended
On Monday the Tunisian authorities reported the arrest of 44-year-old Chokri Ben Mustapha Bel-Sadek El-Mestiri for the murder of Father Rybinski.
El-Mestiri was a handyman who handled repairs at the Salesian school where the missionary was stationed.
Father Rybinski reportedly gave him some $1,300 to buy supplies for repairs, but the handyman spent the money elsewhere. The Tunisian authorities suspect that El-Mestiri killed the priest because he was unable to repay or account for the money.
Given the recent unrest in the country, the minister of the interior denounced the murder of the priest while expressing "relief" that it was not politically motivated.
Archbishop Lahham observed the numerous messages of solidarity and sympathy from the Tunisian people after this tragedy. He noted that many demonstrated outside the cathedral with signs that said, "Marek, sorry!"
A group of youth, the prelate noted, came with flowers and tears in their eyes, stating: "We have not killed. It is not Tunisia. Forgive us!"
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TIJUANA, Mexico, 30 MAY 2011 (Zenit.org).- The Archdiocese of Tijuana reported Friday that one of its priests has been killed in an act of violence.
The death of Father Salvador Ruiz Enciso was announced with "great sorrow and consternation" by Archbishop Rafael Romo Muñoz.
The priest had disappeared sometime after celebrating Mass on Sunday, 15 May. The priest's body was found early 23 May, already showing signs of decay, and later confirmed through DNA testing. He was bound and blindfolded and had a wound in the neck.
"We condemn the brutal way in which his life was taken," the statement from Archbishop Romo Muñoz said, "and we trust in authorities so that those responsible for his death will be brought to justice."
In communities where Father Ruiz Enciso exercised his priestly ministry "he is remembered with affection and as a man of God," the archbishop added.
The Fides agency noted that the priest had become popular for promoting a "Mass of the family," during which he used puppets to explain the Gospel to children.
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The other side of the ball holds plenty of intrigue, too, because of the mystery involved.
The 49ers' reputation is they operate a run-first attack and use quarterback Alex Smith in a complementary role. Last season, the 49ers ran the ball 50.1 percent of the time. Only Denver (hamstrung by Tim Tebow) and Houston (down to rookie No. 3 quarterback T.J. Yates) ran the ball with greater frequency.
During the offseason, San Francisco gave its offense a big-time and big-name makeover. After Smith completed all of one pass to his wide receivers in a loss to the Giants in the NFC Championship Game, the Niners signed Mario Manningham away from the Giants and wooed Randy Moss out of mothballs after the record-setting receiver was out of the league last year.
So, what do the 49ers have in store for the Packers?
"You really don't know what they're going to do in this opener," defensive coordinator Dom Capers said on Friday. "Normally, if you have four, five games of tendencies on somebody, they aren't going to change drastically. You never know coming out of preseason because most teams are fairly vanilla in the preseason."
Capers figures the running game will remain "where everything starts" for the 49ers' offense. However, with receivers Michael Crabtree, Moss and Manningham and tight end Vernon Davis, Smith suddenly has as talented a quartet of pass-catchers as any quarterback in the league.
"It's a good thing," Smith said during a conference call on Wednesday. "The more problems you can give a defense, the more you can get them to think about, the better. So much of this game comes down to matchups. We have a lot of different guys to create a lot of different matchups. It's a good problem to have. It's something we'll continue to mold and it will probably evolve as the season goes on."
San Francisco checked in a respectable 11th in the league with 23.8 points per game last season. However, the 49ers ranked a woeful 30th in red-zone touchdown percentage (40.7) and 31st in third-down percentage (29.4).
Chances are, Smith's not going to start slinging the ball all over the yard, a la Aaron Rodgers, but at least he's got the weapons to make teams pay for putting the defensive bull's-eye on Gore.
"The goal is to always be balanced and do whatever it takes to win," Smith said. "That might change from week to week. Some weeks, it will be throwing the ball; some weeks, it will be running it; some weeks, it will be both. We don't want to be one-dimensional, we don't want defenses to dictate anything to us. We want to be multidimensional and really dictate the pace of the game to the defense."
The 49ers have a multitude of ways to dictate the game.
They can run it with Gore and change-of-pace back Kendall Hunter moving the chains behind an offensive line that features three former first-round picks: left tackle Joe Staley and guards Mike Iupati and Anthony Davis.
They can emphasize the run even more by using 355-pound Leonard Davis — the second overall pick of the 2001 draft and a three-time Pro Bowler — as an extra lineman and bringing in backup nose tackle Will Tukuafu at fullback. They also can swap out Smith for second-year player Colin Kaepernick, a strong-armed passer and exceptional athlete, to run the read option out of the Pistol formation. When he ran the Pistol at Nevada, Kaepernick became the first quarterback in NCAA history with three consecutive seasons of 2,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards. When he ran the read option in a preseason game against Minnesota, Kaepernick ran 78 yards for a touchdown.
"They have an awful lot of different personnel groups," Capers said. "They have a lot of exotics and gimmicks that you have to prepare for. I think they do an excellent job in terms of their variation. You saw in the preseason that they ran the quarterback-read play out of the shotgun and Kaepernick had a ton of yardage off of that. They ran it in the playoffs last year with Smith. You see that quarterback-read stuff that you see so much of in college football."
And now, with Moss, Manningham and first-round pick A.J. Jenkins joining Crabtree and Davis, the 49ers can spread the field, either to keep teams honest or in comeback situations. Last season, only three teams had fewer 40-yard pass completions than San Francisco. Of course, spreading the field doesn't necessarily mean pass. Just as the Packers hope to get easy yards with Cedric Benson in four-receiver sets, the 49ers could do the same with Gore or Hunter (or Brandon Jacobs when he's healthy or rookie LaMichael James once he's up to speed).
"Gore can run it at any time and then they can throw it, and I think it opens up their play-action passing game," Capers said. "They've got a lot of targets. You better be prepared for all phases of the game. ... They can play a power game and they can spread it out and either throw it or run the option."
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theGrio.com, a division of NBC News, is partnering with foursquare for a pretty cool black history education social media project.
The partnership has created a new black history foursquare badge. You can earn the badge by following theGrio on foursquare and then checking-in to the 100 or so venues that theGrio has selected as historically significant to black history.
The badge is in honor of Black History Month and is only available during the month of February.
According to theGrio, along with your badge, you will also get a tip "explaining the historical significance to the black community" with your venue check-in.
I always enjoy seeing how brands and the media are able to use geo-location apps like foursquare creatively for more than restaurant and bar deals. Deals are great, but kudos to theGrio for infusing a little education into the fun.


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Sifting through obscure, demo only bands is sort of like slogging through a sewer to retrieve a lost piece of jewelry; when you find what you're looking for, it's well worth the reward, but getting there is quite an unsavory ordeal, and even when you do find what you've sought it's going to be a little worse for wear. For every cool demo band you unearth, you find fifty generic pieces of garbage, and even the best of demos are almost never up to par with the best of full-lengths, usually due to production or length. Occasionally a long, well-produced demo that's essentially a top-tier album will surface, like Vault's Sword of Steel or Stormbringer's Stealer of Souls, but that's certainly the exception and not the rule. Most of the time, even the hidden gems sound a little bit grimy, are a little too short, are just a tad underwritten. The first two at least are the case for Heathen's Rage's self-titled EP; okay, technically it's not a demo, but it may as well be since it's a 3 song release from a completely unknown band with a fairly poor production.
Luckily, the songwriting and performance make up for that. It may not be as groundbreaking as Omen or as technical and ambitious as Fates Warning, but it's certainly quite enjoyable. What we have here is simple, upbeat, NWOBHM-ish heavy/USPM, along the lines of a less epic Manowar with more emphasis on riffs and solos; for those who perhaps have read my review (I don't know how else you'd know about them), the closest example I can come up with is Blind Assassin, who also released a 3-song demo. Both essentially combine the atmosphere of Manowar with the structuring and style of Helstar. Vocalist Bob Pizzauro has a warm if slightly generic tenor that proudly carries the tunes along, sounding a bit like Geddy Lee, or, to give a more USPM-oriented example, Doug Lee (perhaps they're related?) of Siren. He certainly does a good job, but never a great one, and as such his performance, along with the rest of the music, is mid-second tier stuff at best. Sure it's fun, sure it's headbangable, it just isn't something you feel yourself constantly wanting to come back to.
However, don't let my complaints undersell the release for you; if you're a fan of epically-tinged NWOBHM stuff like Dragonslayer or perhaps Cloven Hoof's Dominator, or if you like Hail to England-era Manowar alongside your USPM, this is certainly worth tracking down. While it's not a pinnacle of the genre, it's a must have if you're like me and want to listen to everything good USPM ever produced. Head and shoulders above even more successful peers like Queensryche and Savatage, and on-par with sweet demo bands like Salem's Lot and Chozzen Phate, Heathen's Rage's single EP certainly doesn't disappoint.
Even though Heathen's Rage released a demo (though it was more like a full-length, with ten tracks at 35 minutes) before this release, I have yet to locate it, but this three song, self-titled EP that followed is a nice little collection of music for fans of '80s US power metal. This EP doesn't have any material that could really rival earlier bands' outputs, which contains a small list of masterpieces that include "Metal Church," "Battle Cry," and plenty of others, but "Heathen's Rage" is still worth a moment of your time if not for "Knights of Steel" alone.
"Knights of Steel" is the opening track for this EP, and it's a terrific song with a near-epic clean guitar intro that serves as the backdrop to a melodic solo. Then the bass and drums come in, before this song starts to pick up. Bob Pizzauro's vocals are a pleasant surprise, because they're very clean and soothing. There's not a hint of aggression like there usually is with other power metal singers. "City of Hell" isn't really a great song, but it does show how good the group's drummer is. His opening drum fills and solo moments are top-notch, and this can be said for his entire performance on the EP. "Dark Storm" is a thrashy number that will get your head moving, but not much else. Overall, "Heathen's Rage" is a decent three song EP that power metal enthusiasts are sure to enjoy. It's unfortunate that they never released a full-length album, because based on this performance, that record would have been awesome.
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This is some fairly impressive stuff for it's time. 1986 didn't have a great number of bands that sounds like this, nor this much intensity in the speed/power metal genres.
The production is demo/rehearsal quality ( by today's standards, obviously), raw, probably lacking on the volume, and somewhat cluttered. It's hard to hear much from the drums aside from the snare, honestly. But the anger and intensity shine through.
These guitars sound just plain nasty (take that how you will). They sound fuzzy, dirty, and just plain perfect for this style and era.
Normally I wouldn't, but since this is a three song EP, I will do a song-by-song breakdown.
Knights of Steel - starts out with a bleak soft part, that ending into a build up into the next riff which is pure speed metal. Pummeling double bass, and a vocals that remind me somewhat of older Running Wild. Somewhat of a NWOBHM sound in terms of the vocal melody, but otherwise pretty heavy on Iron Maiden influences, in the bass and pacing of the songs. A very good, catchy speed metal tune.
City of Hell - a much too long, drawn out intro, in which pretty much ... nothing is heard. Just the boom of a low metallic souding drum, and some random background noises occasionally. It generally gives you the impression of a empty vast, and evil place. Then the guitar starts in, warning of more speed metal to come. There are some pissed off sounding gang vocals, followed by a quick solo after the chorus. Some parts drag dangerously, then saved by another solo. But the vocals are really killer here, totally true to NWOBHM style. A solid song overall.
Dark Storm - Again reminding me of old Running Wild. The vocals sound more buried here. A pointless solo ... too much repitition on this song, and sounding too much like the first. It has one solid riff.
It would have been interesting to see what would have become of this band if they'd stayed around. I can only imagine. There was lots of potential here for an awesome band, really. It's still catchy stuff, for metalheads who can tolerate or get into the production. This may be pointless, but if you're really a speed metal buff, it may be worth hunting down.


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Hospitals and health systems around the country are adopting technology as a way to change the future model of delivery of care. Leveraging a virtual care platform, telemedicine is an effective and practical way for physicians to provide access to highly specialized care across a large geography.
Carolinas HealthCare System is establishing virtual care services as a consistent delivery model, integrated across the System to improve patient quality, safety and access. As long as it makes sense from a quality standpoint, the System will make every effort to have technology available for its patients and providers.
Wayne Sparks, MD, the assistant medical director for psychiatric emergency services and telepsychiatry at Carolinas HealthCare System's Behavioral Health Center - CMC Randolph, was one of the first adopters of telemedicine at the System using telepsychiatry to reach patients who needed a behavioral health specialist but had limited access to one.
"We actually started taking advantage of telepsych technology about 16 years ago," Dr. Sparks said. "Our first telepsych location was Cannon Memorial Hospital in Linville, N.C. At that time, it was primarily used to offer some help to a Carolinas HealthCare System behavioral health unit and their psychiatrist, who was the only physician managing that unit. It was very low volume at first, but we saw a growing need for it, so we kept going."
Recognizing the advantages of providing access to a psychiatrist via telepsychiatry services, Carolinas HealthCare System University and Carolinas HealthCare System Pineville were the next hospitals in the System to take advantage of the service. Since then, volume of telepsychiatry appointments continued to grow, and as 2013 draws to a close, services will have expanded into 11 Carolinas HealthCare System Emergency Departments in five counties.
"We are now seeing up to 250 patients a month through telepsych," Dr. Sparks confirmed. Over the next few years the service is projected to grow to more than 1,000 patients per month. "The growth plan is very exciting to me," said Dr. Sparks. "If we can continue to offer telepsych appointments in all Emergency Departments and have the service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, that would be a huge win for our patients."
Offering psychiatry services using the telemedicine platform offers several benefits and measurable outcomes, including:
"Any visit to any Emergency Department is expensive; with telemedicine, the savings are significant when we can move a patient out of there. In turn, with the money saved, we can add resources to help with the growing number of patients we see every day," Dr. Sparks said.
While there may be some doubt as to how user-friendly a medical visit through a computer screen instead of a face-to-face visit can be, Dr. Sparks says people have been very accepting of the technology.
"It's an adjustment that we all have to go through, but a big reason why people are so accepting of this is that the technology is much improved. The video quality is almost like real life," Dr. Sparks said. "Even acute patients will still participate with us in a virtual evaluation. It's amazing how people have adapted to this."
The leaders of the behavioral health service line believe the possibilities for helping patients access behavioral healthcare are endless when virtual care is added as an option. "The hope is to be able to provide consultation services to understaffed inpatient units in remote areas right from an office in Charlotte," said Martha Whitecotton, MSN, FACHE, senior vice president of behavioral health services. "They can provide support to the primary care physician who treats behavioral health issues on a daily basis but currently has no one to consult with about difficult cases, and they can ensure that every day where a patient has to wait in a medical Emergency Department for psychiatric inpatient care, is a day spent improving because there is a psychiatrist to suggest medications and check in with them as often as is necessary."
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A GRAND final loss as heavy as Australia's Test defeat in Perth necessitates action.
Poor teams hide in such moments, finding false comfort in being close.
The strong accept the shortcomings revealed by a superior opponent and act to avoid repetition.
The South African loss closes off the initial period of salvaging the national cricket team.
It has been a commendable mission under the direction of captain Michael Clarke, coach Mickey Arthur and chairman of selectors John Inverarity.
Amid the misty-eyed farewells to Ricky Ponting, Clarke, to his credit, didn't miss the lesson.
Earning an underdog's shot at the No.1 title is one thing. The sustained excellence required to rightfully claim the throne is another.
So this three-Test series against Sri Lanka, which has never won a five-day contest on these shores, isn't about the superficial reassurance of victory.
It's about being armed and ready for Nottingham on July 10.
Critically, it's about bringing order and chemistry to the batting line-up.
Arthur would describe Clarke and Mike Hussey as among the world's best batsmen and thus, by definition, the team is being led from the rear.
As Rob Quiney twirled his bat at the ignominy of a pair in Adelaide and Clarke raised the willow in the splendour of a double century, it created the impression of the work experience kid thrust in at three while Bradman plundered at five.
Clarke is a bold captain. Instinctive and inventive. Perhaps he would gamble with his own stocks.
Aged 31, he has matured to such an extent that he commands the game when he arrives at the crease.
He is far beyond the figure who previously ascended the order only to see the runs diminish.
Australian cricket has thrived with its best at No. 3. Clarke, by every measure, is the game's best.
Hussey has the technique to combat the new ball. While that is short-term thinking with a 37-year-old, him occupying six, a position many an apprentice has been blooded through, has a whiff of self-preservation about it.
The unusual combination of Ed Cowan and David Warner, the sheet anchor and the thrasher, is worthy of nurturing.
Warner confounds observers who would praise and criticise the same act based on consequence alone.
It is in his nature to spar furiously at the ball outside off-stump. If you herald him as it goes to the boundary in Adelaide, you bite your tongue as it's nicked to the keeper in Perth.
You either buy Warner or you don't. When he comes off he grants Australia a freakish advantage.
But the thought of adding Phil Hughes to that top-order is beyond high risk. It's an extravagance this team can't afford.
Australia's worst collapses in recent times have been marked by intemperance and a refusal to cover up and hold, as if the defensive discipline required for occupation is beneath them.
Hughes is from the see-ball hit-ball school, only a degree less audacious than Warner.
Mixed with his successes, his Test failures have been marked by a lack of technique and patience against quality bowling.
At domestic level, Hughes transferred to South Australia to build his case for a return while Usman Khawaja chose the more difficult environs of the Gabba to improve his batting.
Unsurprisingly, Hughes has more runs to show.
And then there's Shane Watson, the weapon least utilised. The peg without a hole. Out of necessity he was asked to open.
He did so competently and that was enough to ensure permanency.
Except Watson was never an opener to provide prolific centuries and dictate Tests in the manner in which Alastair Cook schooled Australia.
Watson has always presented as the most obvious No.6, the man born to cash in like Adam Gilchrist and advance a solid platform to an insurmountable stronghold.
There are six innings to settle an order on home soil ahead of a notoriously difficult series in India that precedes the Ashes. Before the toss in Hobart it's time to take a moment to strategise.
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After owning her own accounting business from 1990 until May 1994, she merged with a local public accounting firm. In August 2000, she and her partner, John Verchota, formed Miller Verchota, Inc., and have continued growing their business as they enter into their seventeenth year this August. Mary is very active in the Community. She is a past president of the Rotary Club of Crystal Lake Dawnbreakers, a Trustee Emeritus after serving two terms as a Board of Trustee of McHenry County College. She also serves on the Board of Options and Advocacy and the Crystal Lake Chamber Board. She is a past treasurer and board member of the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce and currently serves on the Finance Committee of the Crystal Lake Chamber. Her philosophy has been to give back to the community in which their business thrives and also where they live.
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Caballero, this is confusing.
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Easter isn't your standard Cuban holiday. There's no pig involved (gasp).
Also, the bearded dude is a good guy (double-gasp). This second point is particularly confusing if you're a child del Exilio. See, Jesus and Fidel both rock serious facial hair, and it was hard to tell the difference as a kid. El dictador was the Antichrist, but his near-exact replica was dutifully displayed in your grandmother's bedroom in February and March.
Jesucristo changed your spring weekends too – you went from comiendo mierda with your primos and playing dominoes every Sunday to putting on your best clothes and spending an hour in a stuffy church. Then — what in hell? — the dude rose from the dead. Your mom freaked out. And you never thought she subscribed to a religion other than Cristina Saralegui. As you thought about it, though, you realized she was repenting for all that chisme she used against her friends all year.
Surviving Cuban Easter is a lot easier if you prepare. Here are some suggestions:
5. Don't wear makeup.
Latinas rarely leave the house without looking their best, but that changes at Easter time. Come Ash Wednesday, you're obliged to attend misa and get some thick black stuff smeared on your forehead. You're still not sure why this custom exists or why your parents decided it's important, but you do know this: Those black ashes can easily fall into your eye. This can cause your eyeliner to smudge. The result: You look like a circus freak for the better half of the day. So save yourself the trouble and go natural the days leading up to Easter just to be on the safe side.
4. Get used to that smell.
You never dreamed there was anything that would keep your family away from meat, but apparently Jesus is the answer. Cubans stick to the rule of skipping meat Fridays during Lent. That means masita de puerco is out and traditional bacalao — a fish with a stench so pungent you can smell it from the driveway as you're pulling in after a long day's work — is in. And because bacalao is the only dish on the menu every Friday night around Easter, you might want to have Papa John's on speed dial. After all, a cheese pizza is totally the Cuban version of kosher.
3. Collect palm fronds.
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2. Prepare for the parking lot brawl.
Members of the Cuban community have decided Easter is the one day of the year they should go to church. You would think that everyone would be on their best Catholic behavior after spending an hour reflecting on the resurrection of Christ, but they're just as angry as any other day. The parking lot brawl is one of those historic annual events for which you must brace yourself. It's supercharged with all the pent-up anger everyone was keeping inside during misa. Don't be surprised if even the priest makes a run for it so he doesn't have to deal with the traffic. You should probably grab a seat by the door.
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USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson
USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson
|United States
|USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson
|Carlile P. Patterson (1816–1881), Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
|James D. Leary, Brooklyn, New York
|January 15, 1884
|Sponsored by:
|Miss Katie Patterson, daughter of the late Capt. Carlile P. Patterson
|April 1, 1884
|1918 (United States Navy)
|In service:
|1884–1919, 1924–1938
|Out of service:
|1919–1924 (?)
Forward, August 15, 1918;Patterson 1924 or earlier
|Wrecked, 1938
|General characteristics
|Survey ship
|163 ft (50 m)
|27.4 ft (8.4 m)
|14.2 ft (4.3 m)
|Depth of hold:
|10.3 ft (3.1 m)
|Deck clearance:
|7 ft (2.1 m) upper deck
|Installed power:
|Cross compound vertical steam engine, cylinders 17 and 31 inches × 28 inch stroke, 215 ihp; replaced by 325 hp diesel 1924
|8-ft screw
|Sail plan:
|7–9 knots (steam)
|Boats & landing
craft carried:
|12–13 Officers, 40–46 crewmen
|Gatling guns; 2 6-pounders during naval service
The USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson was a survey ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in operation between 1883 and 1918. Subsequently she had a brief period of naval service and fifteen seasons as a merchant vessel before she was wrecked on the Alaska coast in 1938.
The Patterson was named for Carlile Pollock Patterson, fourth Superintendent of the Coast Survey and first of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The New York Times credited the design to Commander Colby Mitchell Chester, USN, at that time Hydrographic Inspector in USC&GS. Naval architect Samuel Hartt Pook, U.S. Naval Constructor, was credited with supervising the drawings. She was built of wood in James D. Leary's yard at Williamsburg (Brooklyn) New York. Frames were white oak with cedar tops; planking, beams and lower deck were yellow pine, the upper deck was white pine. Her hull was fitted with iron diagonal braces, and five watertight bulkheads (3 wood, 2 iron). Power was a Cross compound vertical steam engine (one source reports 356 hp, another source says 215 ihp; this difference may represent different calculation or measurement methods) and she could carry 133 tons of coal as fuel. Her machinery was constructed by Neafie & Levy of Philadelphia. She was rigged as a barkentine with double topsail yards; standing rigging was galvanized charcoal-iron wire. Her boats were two steam launches, two cutters, two whaleboats, and a dinghy. Her deckhouse, 13 × 62 ft, included the engine and boiler rooms, galley, pantry, and a drafting room. She carried a Sigsbee piano-wire sounding machine, state-of-the-art for deep-water hydrography, holding five miles of wire. Lieutenant Richardson Clover, USN, supervised construction and became her first commander.[1][2][3]
Federal career[edit]
The Patterson departed Hampton Roads for the west coast on July 30, 1884. She traveled by way of the Straits of Magellan, with stops at Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Punta Arenas, Valparaíso, Callao, Panama, San Diego, and Santa Barbara. She arrived at San Francisco February 13, 1885, and immediately began preparations for her first season of surveying.[4] She left for Sitka April 26 and began survey work May 27.
The Patterson was primarily used as a survey vessel off the coast of Alaska and numerous Alaskan features were named by the assorted crews of the steamer.[5] She also served in other west-coast locations and in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1914, she found and rescued 26 members of the crew of the USRC Tahoma after that ship struck an uncharted reef in the Aleutians and sank.[6]
In 1918, the Patterson was transferred to the United States Navy for use as a patrol ship during the last months of World War I. She was renamed Forward August 15, 1918, and performed both patrol and hydrographic duties in Alaska and off the Mexican coast.[7][8] Subsequently she was returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1919. The Survey judged she was no longer strong enough for offshore use, and too slow for cost-effective hydrographic work, so she was sold.[9] She was out of service several years.
Merchant career[edit]
In 1924, the Washington Tug and Barge Co. sold the Patterson to C.K. West Co. of Portland Oregon who converted her to a motorship for operation along the Oregon coast; the steam engine was replaced with a diesel, probably the four-cylinder Bolinder engine she had in 1930. It was probably at this time or a year later that she underwent a substantial rebuilding. Her deckhouse, bowsprit and eventually also her mizzenmast were removed, her bow was reshaped, and the fore and main masts were replaced with, or reduced to, pole masts. A stern deckhouse and superstructure were constructed. These changes are evident in the photos of the 1938 shipwreck (this article and external links) and in a 1930 photo taken at Herschel Island.[10][11][12]
In 1925, the Patterson was purchased by the Northern Whaling and Trading Company. From then through 1936 she operated as an Arctic trading ship under Captain Christian Theodore Pedersen, operating between San Francisco and Herschel Island with stops along the Alaska coast.[13] Subsequently she was sold to the Alaska Patterson Co. which operated her for freight service.
The Patterson was wrecked December 11, 1938, going ashore in surf and blinding rain 8 miles northwest of Cape Fairweather in the Gulf of Alaska, near the mouth of Sea Otter Creek. She was en route from Kodiak to Seattle when she went aground. The first mate was washed overboard and lost trying to launch a lifeboat and a crewman drowned in the swollen creek while attempting to rig a lifeline to get the crew to shore. The 18 survivors remained in the vessel until the tide went out, then reached the beach where they subsisted on supplies dropped from airplanes. Two men were flown out by Alaska pilot Sheldon Simmons who made a daring float plane landing in the creek. The remaining men hiked out to Lituya Bay with a guide, Nels Ludwinson, left by Simmons's plane. Ludwinson was a local trapper who had been jailed for drunkenness and let out early for the job. These man were picked up by Navy planes and the Coast Guard cutter Haida.[14][15][16][17][18]
Most of the cargo was salvaged by barge the next spring.[18] The Patterson was reportedly beaten to pieces by the surf.[19]
- ^ The New York Times January 16, 1884, p. 8. The New Coast Survey Steamer.; Launch of a Vessel for the Alaskan Coast Survey.
- ^ NOAA Field Engineers Bulletin 1938, issue 12 p. 177
- ^ Bureau of Navigation, US Dept. of Commerce. Annual list of merchant vessels of the United States 1913 [1] p. 458
- ^ Lukens, R. R. Through the straits of Magellan on the Patterson NOAA (Report of an oral history related by Thomas Ellingson) Original, with editor's footnotes relating to the history of the Patterson
- ^ Baker, Marcus (1906). Geographic Dictionary of Alaska (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
- ^ Report of the superintendent, U.S Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Reports of the Department of Commerce; Report of the Secretary of Commerce and reports of bureaus. Govt. Print. Off., Washington. 1916 pp. 764–5
- ^ "Carlile P. Patterson". NOAA History. 8 June 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
- ^ "Forward". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 2010-05-06. The reason for the renaming is not stated, but there was already a destroyer USS Patterson, named for Commodore Daniel Patterson, the father of Carlile P. Patterson.
- ^ Report of the superintendent, U.S Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Reports of the Department of Commerce; Report of the Secretary of Commerce and reports of bureaus. Govt. Print. Off., Washington. 1920 p. 826
- ^ Tacoma Public Library, "Ships and Shipping Database" query Patterson; this reference quotes Gordon Newell, "Maritime Events of 1924", H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 354. /
- ^ Lloyds Register of Ships, 1930 available at Plimsoll Ship Data search Patterson
- ^ Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture L'île Herschel: Qikiqtaruk - Guide du patrimoine historique Article in French; fourth photograph is the Patterson at Pauline Cove, Herschel Island. Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture, in response to a query, state the photo is from the University of Alaska collection.
- ^ Kitikmeot Heritage Society C. T. Pedersen and Canalaska accessed April 26, 2009
- ^ Associated Press Sarasota Herald Tribune, Dec 20, 1938 Trapper Leads Ship's Crew to Alaskan Camp p. 6
- ^ The New York Times Dec 25, 1938 Cutter Saves Last Nine Of Survivors of Wreck business section p. 39
- ^ Minerals management Service, US Dept. of Interior Shipwrecks off Alaska's Coast
- ^ Lloyds Register of Ships, 1938 available at Plimsoll Ship Data search Patterson
- ^ a b Caldwell, Francis E. Land of the Ocean Mists: The Wild Ocean Coast West of Glacier Bay ProStar Publications, 2002, ISBN 1-57785-349-0, ISBN 978-1-57785-349-7. pp. 181–190.
- ^ Tacoma Public Library, "Ships and Shipping Database" query Patterson; this reference quotes Gordon Newell, "Maritime Events of 1938", H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 465.
External links[edit]
- Video documentary about Simmons includes 1938 rescue, Patterson photos
- Photo of Patterson aground 1938—close view from beach
- The Life and Times of a Mariner. Theodore Pedersen's photo archives. Frame of Reference (Newsletter of the Alaska Humanities Forum) v9 (1), April 1998. pp. 10–13. p. 11 has a photograph of the Patterson undergoing modification in a shipyard.
- Patterson in ice 1926. Glenbow Archive Searches expired; site still good.
- Patterson at Oakland, almost ready to sail with schooners loaded on deck. Glenbow Archive Searches expired; site still good.
- "USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson". naval-history.net. Retrieved 2014-01-07. Summary of service record and 19 photographs


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