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Shaking off the winter blahs? Feel the need to get the blood circulating again? Here are some suggestions to get you out and going right now! BIKING Rolling hills, spectacular scenery, and friendly towns characterize biking along the Ohio River Scenic Byway. When you roll into Madison/Jefferson County, you will have the opportunity to explore … more
Big Oaks NWR opens for 2013 public use
It's hard to believe that April is nearly over! Our spring season is in full gear here at the refuge, with the start of the 2013 public use season with fishing at Old Timbers Lake and the annual turkey season upon us. The eaglets have hatched at the lake and we are watching them closely. … more
During the winter months, the refuge slows down. We are closed for public use from December to mid-April. However, that doesn't mean we are hibernating. Since we have a strong research program here at the refuge, all of the data that has been collected throughout the warmer months is compiled, analyzed and then reports are … more
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text: Stepping out into the early dark last night to pick a pair of bay leaves, I stood for a while looking up at Jupiter and Venus shining particularly brightly in the clear, cold night. Bats flickered under the willow. Walking back into the warmth of the kitchen, I felt a surge of contentment and sense of place that surprised me. We've lived here for nearly five years: longer than I've ever lived in a house, or a place. Being settled doesn't really settle me. Or so I thought. This odd little house that contains most of Joel's memories until now, with the garden that frustrates and delights in turn, has become a home that will be hard to leave.


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Here's some more reaction from Felix Hernandez and Eric Wedge about Sunday's All-Star selections. Hernandez and Mariners closer Brandon League were each selected to the American League roster, and you can read more about League's surprising All-Star nod in this post here.
First, some reaction from Felix. It should be noted that because he's scheduled to pitch one week from today (Sunday, July 10, two days before the All-Star game), Hernandez could be replaced on the roster. There's a rule now that allows the manager to replace a starting pitcher if he pitches the Sunday before the game, due to the short amount of rest.
Hernandez said he's hoping he can throw one inning, because that day would be his scheduled bullpen session anyway. But he seemed half-joking when he said it, so that may be nothing more than a pipe dream.
(Thoughts on being selected) "I got a text message that said, 'congratulations.' … I told my wife, 'I think we're going to Arizona.' She was excited. She was more excited than me."
(Were you surprised?) "I was not surprised. I knew I had a chance and when they said yes, I was happy."
(How close are you to last year?) "Close enough. I'm close, but I'm a bit inconsistent right now. I throw one game good, the other ones OK. I've got to be more consistent and try to do what I did last year."
(Were you surprised Michael Pineda wasn't selected?) "Little surprised, yeah. He deserved it too. He's got pretty good numbers. Maybe he can go and pitch for me."
Here's what Wedge had to say:
"It's a great honor, it's a great accomplishment. Well deserved by both those guys (Hernandez and League). As I'm sure most managers feel, we've got others that we feel are deserving too, but to have two players picked on the All-Star team, it's a great accomplishment. It's something they should both treasure."
(On League's season) "He's had a great first half for us. You've got to have a solid closer if you're going to be a winning ballclub and that's the way he's been for us. As many tight games as we've had this year, he's been right there and stood tall through all of that. You're not going to be perfect but what I do love about Leaguer is he had a tough couple of days there, but he was able to stand up to it, face it head on and come back and even be better after that."
(His impressions of Felix so far) "He's an impressive young man. I recognized that over the course of the winter, just doing some different functions with him. He has a great personality, he's a good teammate, he's a hard worker. He doesn't let his ego get in the way. He's grounded. He handles the good and the bad like you like to see anybody handle it. I've got nothing but respect for the man."
(On Ichiro not making the team) "He's had a heck of a run. Ichiro has had a great career, he's worked hard this year to find it, to get back to being as productive as he's been in the past. He's still fighting that fight. He comes to the ballpark each and every day and prepares the way he prepares and that's all you can do. He's been better here the last month or so or whatever it's been, two or three weeks, and hopefully he can be even more consistent in the second half for us."
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Erectile Dysfunction In Young Men: Causes And Treatments
Contrary to popular opinion, erectile dysfunction (ED) is not just a problem for middle-aged men and seniors. In recent years, incidents of the disorder have been increasingly reported by men under 40, with a full quarter of all recorded cases now stemming from that demographic.
There are a number of possible reasons for this, ranging from the trend towards an increasingly sedentary lifestyle among the young to the proliferation of easily accessible pornography that has accompanied the rise of the digital age. Whatever the reason, more and more young men are looking to medical professionals for ways of treating erectile dysfunction.
Part of the problem with drugs like Viagra and Cialis is they alleviate the immediate and most bothersome symptom of erectile dysfunction, but often do nothing to address the root cause. They often come with a host of other side effects as well, which has led many men to opt for more natural solutions. One of the most popular is this ED protocol.
Now, let's take a look at a few of the possible reasons for the uptick in reported cases of erectile dysfunction in young men.
1. Drugs And Alcohol
One of the more common (and generally ignored) reasons behind erectile dysfunction in young men is excessive use of recreational drugs and alcohol. The reason this information is largely overlooked is because it represents an inconvenient truth.
If drugs and alcohol are responsible for ED, the solution is to cut back or refrain from using them completely. This doesn't jive well with many members of the younger generation who are looking to party.
No one said the fix would be easy, and men who fall into this category must decide what is most important to them: the "high" from drugs and alcohol or being able to perform in the bedroom.
2. Unhealthy Lifestyle
A lack of exercise and living a sedentary lifestyle can contribute to a man's inability to get or keep an erection. Certain diseases and medical conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease, are also directly linked to the onset of ED.
Additionally, some medications prescribed to treat the aforementioned disorders can actually exacerbate the symptoms of erectile dysfunction in young men. Sexual performance aside, it's incredibly important to maintain a healthy way of life.
3. Stress And Depression
Young men who are stressed, depressed, or who experience confusion about their sexual orientation may encounter instances of erectile dysfunction throughout their early adulthood. If you're dealing with money issues, insecurity of any kind, a toxic relationship, trouble at work, or drama in other areas of your life, then you're more likely to experience ED at a relatively young age.
4. Injury
Physical trauma can also result in the onset of erectile dysfunction in young men. Any kind of injury involving your prostate, bladder, spinal cord, or nerve endings can impact your ability to perform sexually.
For men with physical trauma, surgical solutions such as medical implants can help replace the blood and tissue in your penis which would normally induce an erection. If you think you are suffering from erectile dysfunction due to a physical injury, contact a medical professional for guidance.


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1). Does the Max Cool or Max A/C button many cars have do anything other than optimize all the regular setting to facilitate maximum cooling? In my car, it makes all air come from dash vents, locks out recirc (meaning it turns recirc off, if you turn it on, max cool stops) and maxes out the fan speed. Does it also do something to the compressor or some other oddness? Or is it basically the same as me just setting the fan to max, temp to min, dash vents only, recirc off?
2). In this day and age, why aren't all cars available from the manufacturer (heck, standard) with remote start and remote climate control functions? I should be able to pull out my phone, start my car, and run my AC for 15 mins before I get in (or conversely warm up the motor and run the heat in the winter). Everything's automatic these days so there's no worry of starting the car in gear, and it could have some sort of 15-20 minute auto shutoff to make sure you don't forget and accidentally idle your car for 10 hours. It seems like it would be really simple, cheap, and useful. So why not?


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3 Industry-Leading Truck Scale Suppliers In North America
Load management is one of the most vital components to companies in logistics, transport, mining, farming, and other industrial sectors across the world. Such companies work toward the use of accurate and durable truck scales that are designed to boost profitability, throughput, and efficiency of all trucks that go through the weighing process.
If your company intends to invest in top-notch truck scales, it is crucial to go for those truck scales that have been not only tested but proved to give the most accurate results. Furthermore, you should go for that truck scale that will provide value to your money in the long run.
As a result, it is important to invest in a truck scale that has been calibrated accurately to weigh truckloads. The review below is aimed at giving you insights on 3 industry-leading truck scale suppliers in North America.
Walz Scale
Walz Scale is one of the top-rated and reputable truck scale suppliers in North America. It is a company you can trust when seeking calibration and support services you may require during and after purchase. Furthermore, Walz Scale is an industry leader in the supply of weighbridge scales for a broad range of industry applications. Therefore, when you invest your money in the purchase of truck scales from Walz Scale, be sure to receive a quality product as well as expert calibration and support solutions.
Walz Scale offers both potable and onboard truck scales that allows for the measurement of a wide array of industry demands. The companies portable truck scales and onboard truck scales can be used with most trucks, and because these systems are so dependable, constant re-calibration is often unnecessary. Lastly, Walz Scale equips its scale systems with ticket printers, display centers, and load management software.
Avery Weigh-Tronix
Avery Weigh-Tronix that boasts the supply of a complete slate of retail and industrial truck scales. They are famous for the provision of weigh bars, truck scales and weigh bars. The company`s truck scales offer sturdy and dependable vehicle weighing solutions that are designed to last, even in those demanding and harsh industrial environments.
Avery Weigh-Tronix offers truck scales that come in steel or concrete material so as to suit you demands and applications. Therefore, you can choose to go for pit mounted or surface truck scales depending on your intended use and location.
Cleral USA
Cleral USA is a reputable truck scale supplier in North America. The company prides itself with the supply of not only affordable but durable truck scales that have easy installation. They offer truck scales that are can comfortably sustain severe working conditions and the harsh winter weather.
Cleral USA boasts the supply of KiLoad sensors that are easily installed and can accurately detail the weight of the load via a suspension system. The Kiload sensor is equipped with sensors on both the frontal and rear axles. Hence, the truck driver will quickly see the total load. Furthermore, Cleral USA prides itself with the supply of SENTINEL, which is a wireless onboard axle weight monitoring system. This wireless monitoring system is designed to offer portable weighing solutions to both trailers and truck drivers.


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My love affair with the Ruby dress
The Ruby dress was one of the first dresses I made. It was a free pattern from Issue 4 of Love Sewing magazine a couple of years ago when I first got into dressmaking. It's a simple 1950s style full-circle dress, with a darted bodice and a v-back. I took inspiration from some of the readers' makes in the magazine and made a couple of versions from duvet covers. As well as the freedom to hack up the fabric without worrying too much about making mistakes, the big benefit of using duvet covers is the width. I was able to create a longer length full-circle skirt that way. The biggest downside has been the quality of the finished make (and feeling like I'm wearing a duvet cover in public!). However, I did learn loads along the way.
Recently, I decided to return to the pattern for an upcoming trip to the races at Ascot and a couple of early summer weddings. I'd realised that non-directional pattern was key for the skirt (after the upside-down birds on my first attempt), so opted to make it from some lovely extra-wide crisp cotton in navy with white spots from Berkshire Fabrics.
After my first couple of duvet makes I realised that I needed to adjust the pattern a little. To do this properly I made a toile of where I thought the adjustments were needed and made a few tweaks. I cut a size 14, but added an extra 1cm at the seams. When the bodice was made up I took the side seams in by 1cm under the arms, tapering down to the skirt/bodice seam. That may have been a long way round to do things, but it worked, and fitted my non-standard boob-shoulder ratio perfectly!
Even the extra-wide fabric didn't make the dress quite as long as I'd have liked, so I found a navy petticoat to finish the look (not handmade this time, I'm afraid). I went for a tuille underskirt from Amazon, with lovely finished edges, as I knew it would be showing from underneath the skirt. I was surprised by the quality for the price and it really gave the dress a lovely fullness.
All the zip practice recently has paid off and the zip went in perfectly first time. Get in.
So the finished dress got its first outing to Ascot, accessorised with some nude peep toe shoes, a vintage navy bag and a navy shrug. It felt fantastic to wear and I even got a few compliments from random strangers (I was a bit shy at telling them it was a homemade creation).
Since posting pictures of it I've been asked how to avoid the darts looking too 'nippley'. Aside from not making it from too thick fabric, by advice has been to sew the darts from the outside of the fabric inwards (towards the point) and don't finish with a backstich (tie the loose ends together). That avoids some of the bulk. Also, press the darts using a tailor's ham if you have one. I decided to line the bodice of the dress rather use the facings, so that may also have helped. There are some easy-to-follow instructions in the last project of Love at First Stitch for that.
Now it's time to hang up the pattern (for a while at least, we need a break). Not before I enjoy wearing it a few more times though. I'm on the lookout for a new go-to dress pattern. Something with the fit and flare shape that suits me, but not quite as full a skirt. Ideally a pattern that will work in a lightweight fabric for summer holidays. Anyone tried the Sew Over It Betty dress?


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A Years Supply In A Year
"The lord has warned us of famines,
but the righteous will have listened to the Prophet and stored at least a
year's supply of survival food."
-Ezra Taft Benson
Spiritual Goal
Have family prayer at least once a day.
Twice is better.
Provident Living Goal
Learn a new skill or read a book
pertaining to your career.
1 Year Food Storage Goal
50 cans soup, stew, chili per person
5 pounds of salt per person
20 pounds of fat, oil or shortening per
aluminum foil, plastic wrap, storage
bags, etc.
At least 5 gallons water per person -
recommended is 14 gallons/person/2 weeks
72 Hour Kit
1 pound dried fruit or trail mix per
person (Can use fruit leather)
1 package soda crackers per person (4 per box)
1 package graham crackers per person (4 per box)
2 liters tomato or orange juice per person (Note: these items will be rotated every 6 months - see September)
ALSO make a goal to always have fuel tanks on ALL vehicles at least half full


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This Week in Engineering - Hacking cars; sling-inspired space railroad; laser space communication; quantum enigma machine; smart scalpel; and exploding baseball bats.
Hacking cars
Sling-inspired space railroad
Laser space communication
Quantum enigma machine
Smart scalpel
Exploding baseball bats
Hacking cars
Software plays an increasingly important role in new car features. Now, security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have demonstrated a hacking technique to take over the steering and braking of someone else's car. In order to work, the hack requires special devices be physically installed into the electronic control units -- the same on board diagnostics port used by mechanics to identify problems. The demonstration was performed on two car models: the 2010 Ford Escape and the Toyota Prius, although many cars have similar systems. The researchers hope their work will lead to improved car security in the future.
Sling-inspired space railroad
HyperV Technologies of Chantilly, Virginia, has created a Kickstarter campaign for the Slingatron, a spiral-shaped rail that it hopes will one day send small satellites into space, mostly without rockets. The rigid steel rail gyrates at between 40 and 60 cycles per second, and the projectile increases speed as it approaches the outer rings. The project estimates it needs a velocity of about 7 km/s to get to space, and once the payload is out of the atmosphere, a small kick motor will adjust it into a more circular orbit. A small prototype has already fired a half-pound brick at 100 m/s. I would wager at least one of the early backers of this project is a coyote looking for an innovative dinner-catching solution.
Laser space communication
Most communication with space missions is still done with radio waves, with relatively low bandwidth rates. Now, NASA is preparing for the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration mission, that should achieve high-speed communication for planetary distances using near-infrared lasers. The LLCD space terminal will attempt to orbit the moon, where it will communicate with three ground-based terminals. The goal is to demonstrate a 622 Mb/s transfer rate -- about five times the current state-of-the-art at lunar distance. I say we need more interplanetary bandwidth -- nobody wants a one-way ticket to colonize Mars without Netflix streaming. No Arrested Development? That's a barren world.
Quantum enigma machine
During World War II, the Nazis encrypted secret messaging with the Enigma cipher machine, which was eventually cracked by the Allies, exploiting weaknesses in pseudo-random mechanical encryption. Now, MIT researcher Seth Lloyd has demonstrated that it is possible to have a truly unbreakable encryption machine using quirks of quantum physics. With individually-fired photons in a secure lock, an eavesdropper will not be able to observe the photon state without affecting their behavior, whereas the intended recipient can decode the message with prior knowledge of the quantum state.
Smart scalpel
Dr. Zoltan Takats, a researcher from Imperial College in London, has developed the iKnife, an electrosurgical knife that uses heat to cut through tissue, and then analyzes the smoke to determine whether or not the tissue was cancerous, all in real-time. The surgeon can then be reasonably sure, during the surgery, that the tumor has been completely excised. The iKnife has already diagnosed cancerous tissue in 91 test patients with a 100% success rate. Great invention -- though I bet it's tough to market to patients with the "smoke from your incinerated flesh tells me when I've cut too much" ad campaign.
Exploding baseball bats
Most major league baseball players use bats made of maple, but sadly, maple bats will sometimes explode, causing a danger to players, and also to fans. Scientists determined that bats that strayed from the original wood grain were more likely to shatter, inspiring league regulations p
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Time to get real on power
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Letter to the Editor
Last summer we had the Gulf oil spill that reminded us that that with oil there's a price to pay. They said that drilling was safe – but it wasn't. Now we are looking at nuclear meltdown and it's not just one reactor – it's 4 of them. I don't see any way they are going to explain that away.
It's time to get real. If we invested just the cost of one war for oil we could develop solar, wind, and clean fuels and not have to evacuate areas of the planet for hundreds or thousands of years or go to war to protect a limited and shrinking supply of oil. We need to look at what will actually work and fully evaluate the risks and consequence based on science. Bad choices have consequences and if we are going to survive we have to stop making these kinds of serious mistakes. The penalty for poor judgment is extinction. I urge everyone to choose existence!


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I thought I would take a break from all the wedding post and share a girls trip I took the first weekend of March (Thursday - Sunday). I joined one of my closest friend on a four day girls trip to Breckenridge, Colorado. This was my first time in Breckenridge; however, my third time in Colorado. I have to say that we had a ton of fun and I want to go back!
The first day we arrived pretty early and we were just trying to adjust to the altitude so that entitled us eating and drinking all day. We stayed at The Village, which was in the middle of town and at the base of the Ten Mile Range at one of the main ski lifts. So it was very convenient since the next two days were devoted to skiing the majority of the day. I will admit I was very nervous since I had only skied once and that was over ten years ago, but I did well and didn't fall down once so I count that as a total success story, ha. We only skied green slopes, but this is one of the best mountains to learn on if you are a beginner to intermediate skier in my opinion and very family friendly. There were additional lifts that can take you higher up the mountain, but I don't think any of us felt that we were at the level to try...well at least not on this trip, maybe sometime in the near future.
The town itself was absolutely adorable. There were coffee shops and pubs that were so inviting and had a ton of character. If you aren't the athletic type or skiing is not for you, the town itself has so much to offer. I definitely would like to make Colorado a yearly trip and try to become a more advanced skier and then spend the remaining time resting around a fireplace drinking a hot beverage and viewing the mountains. Now doesn't that sound just like a nice yearly tradition to start...:)


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In Haifa, a group of three Wikimedians presented a model for new entities with regard to the Wikimedia movement. This was on request of the Wikimedia Fundation (WMF) board, and in February the board adopted these ideas in a letter by WMF chairman Ting Chen. It is about to give more people the chance to have an official relation to the movement, or to be organized officially. This all has been discussed under the title 'movement roles'.
I am afraid that our movement isn't very good at choosing names; everybody would understand much quicker what we are talking about if we would say 'Wikimedia movement entities', or 'future organizations in the Wikimedia movement' in place of 'movement roles'. And also the names for the projected new kind of organizations can be improved. (It seems to me that often a word comes up and is kept while the discussion on the subject itself is moving on.)
This is now the official WMF presentation of the new organizations:
- Chapters: independent non-profits dedicated to representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting related work within a country or region. Chapters are granted use of Wikimedia trademarks for their work, publicity, and fundraising; and use a name clearly linking them to Wikimedia.
- Partner Organizations: independent non-profits dedicated to representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting related work within a major cultural, linguistic, or other topic. Partner organizations are granted use Wikimedia marks for their work, publicity, and fundraising; and use a name clearly linking them to Wikimedia.
- Associations: open-membership groups with an established contact person and history of projects, designed to be easy to form. They are granted limited use of the Wikimedia marks in their work, for instance for promoting and organizing projects and events.
- Affiliates: like-minded organizations that actively support the movement's work. They are listed publicly and granted limited use of the marks on websites and posters indicating their support of and collaboration with Wikimedia.
In the Haifa discussions and later it has been stressed out that an expression like 'association' can mean different things in one and the same country, and even more in different countries. But surely most people think of a kind of formal organization – here, it denotes just the opposite, a less formal group of people.
The most striking wording is 'partner organization'. You might think that this refers to a partner, to an entity outside the Wikimedia movement? Like a museum collaborating with us, as partner of the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia Nederland? No, in this model, a 'partner organization' is an organization inside the movement, just like a chapter but with no geographical constrains.
Besides the names, the model looks rather well. So we would have in future (my own interpretation)
- National Wikimedia organizations, for example Wikimedia Nederland or Wikimedia France. They represent the movement in one country each.
- Specialist Wikimedia organizations, for example a future 'Wikimedia and Cultural Heritage' or 'Wikimedia Organization for Medicine related Subjects', or 'Wikimedia Organization for Spanish Speaking People'. They represent the movement towards the world of museums and libraries, medical organizations or institutions that are dealing with the Spanish Language or the culture of Spanish-speaking people globally.
- Wikimedia groups, loose clubs of people who do not wish to create a Wikimedia organization with all its paperwork, but to be allowed to use the name 'Wikimedia' in contact with other institutions. For example, maybe the Spanish speaking Wikpedians/Wikimedians find it enough to form a Wikimedia group when contacting the Real Academia Española for linguistic advice. For many specialist groups, certainly when limited to a small field, a Wikimedia group would be just fine.
- Official Partners of the Wikimedia Movement are institutions clearly outside the movement but linked with it by a common interest. A national museum might perfectly well collaborate with a national Wikimedia organization, but maybe in that country there is no national Wikimedia organization. Or, a truly international institution such as the university of United Nations wishes to collaborate on a certain activity or permanently.
After names and descriptions, there will be much work left to figure out what precisely those new organizations and entities are entitled to do. For example, how can we exclude abuse of this framework? Imagine a Wikimedia group with 'Marxism' or 'anti-Marxism' as subject. Also, there is still no final consensus about the national Wikimedia organizations (the chapters), whether we should adopt the concept 'one country, one chapter'. But in general: we are again a few steps further on the road to a future Wikimedia movement.


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The tweet from NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith illustrates the conflict inherent to union representation of an employee who has been accused of wrongdoing and the employee who has been victimized by it.
"I have reached out to Ndamukong Suh," Smith said. "We believe that all players have a basic responsibility to each other."
While that's a far cry from Al Pacino declaring that "the honorable Henry T. Fleming should go right to f–king jail," it shows that Smith in this case errs on the side of not taking out the knees of another player in a manner that violates the rules.
Suh either hasn't gotten the message, or he doesn't care. Suh told reporters on Wednesday he won't change the way he plays, even though the way he played on Sunday resulted in a flagrant violation of the rules. Suh's agent has concocted a tin-foil hat claim of persecution, arguing (we think) that Suh's ability to on most days not stomp on guy's arms or kick them in the crotch or take out their knees should be mitigating factors.
"Suh is a smart guy and I think when it happened, he knew that he made a mistake," Lions running back Reggie Bush told NFL Network on Wednesday. "He stood up in front of the team this week and he apologized for it; he was a man about it and that's what you need out of your leader, out of your captain. You need him to stand up for his mistakes when they happen. He realized what had happened, the league fined him and now we can close the chapter on that penalty, and we can move on."
No one can move on while the appeal is pending. And if Suh wanted to do the right thing, he'd pay the fine without appeal, publicly apologize, vow to stay within the rules, and then do so. Otherwise, he'll eventually be suspended again — and nothing he or his agent says will change the fact that the NFL will protect other players from Suh, and that the NFLPA will ultimately have no problem with it.


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The Education of Moral Conscience according to Newman
Explaining Newman's doctrine on moral conscience, as well as many other topics of his philosophical and theological thought, is not easy. He builds his thoughts within the path of his inner life, as a need of his existence. His theology and philosophy are the answers to the problems of his life. He belongs, like Pascal, to the family of Augustine: speaking of himself, he spoke of every man. Newman is the Augustine of the modern church. In the following presentation, I will try to remain faithful to his theological style.
- "MYSELF AND MY CREATOR": The beginning of the journey.
In the life of the spirit, there is a moment in which the person becomes their self entirely. He/She awakens as a free and rational individual.
Allow me to use, as an example, the experience endured by Augustine at the age of 19, reading the Hortensius, nowadays a lost work of Cicero. Augustine narrates: "Now it was this book which quite definitely changed my whole attitude and turned my prayers towards thee, O Lord, and gave me new hope and new desires. Suddenly every vain hope became worthless to me, and with an incredible warmth of heart I yearned for an immortality of wisdom and began now to arise that I might return to thee." [Confessions III, 4.7; 61. NBA I, p. 63]. A new person "I" was born.
A similar event also happened to Newman. It is narrated in the following way: "When I was fifteen, (in the autumn of 1816,) a great change of thought took place in me. I fell under the influences of a definite Creed, and received into my intellect impressions of dogma, which, through God's mercy, have never been effaced or obscured." [Apologia pro vita sua, cap. I].
This text is of paramount importance to understand Newman's doctrine on moral conscience. It is not only the intellectual discovery of what Newman will explain later as the dogmatic principle, but it was the discovery of his whole person of the Light of Truth, which reaches us through dogma. The moral conscience for Newman, we can already say, is the witness of Truth [on common good]. Newman does not deny that there may be a moral conscience not interested in Truth, but this apathy is the deadly disease of the moral conscience. Skepticism is a deadly risk to moral conscience.
Also in 1816, accepting the invitation of his master, he read the book The strength of the truth by Calvinist Thomas Scott, and he was deeply upset. This is how Newman narrates the encounter with this author: he introduces him "In confirming me in my mistrust of the reality of material phenomena, and making me rest in the thought of two and two only absolute and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator" [ Apologia pro vita sua, cap. I].
The text is famous. Newman discovers that in the depths of his moral conscience, he is anchored to God the Creator. The theme is a classic in Christian theology: The creator has engraved his image in the human person. Newman's originality lies in placing this human creator-creature relationship within the moral conscience. We can already say that in the young Newman we are able to perceive the two pillars that govern the whole arc of his doctrine on moral conscience: the "dogmatic principle", and the natural relationship of moral conscience with God.
The dogmatic principle. Newman presents it thus [1845]. "That there is a truth then; that there is one truth; that religious error is in itself of an immoral nature; that its maintainers, unless involuntarily such, are guilty in maintaining it; that it is to be dreaded; that the mind is below truth, not above it, and is bound, not to descant upon it, but to venerate it" [The development of Christian doctrine, chap. VIII; §1].
The opposite of the dogmatic principle is what Newman calls the liberal principle, as we will see later.
The moral conscience, in light of these two principles is not the ability to decide, even after serious discernment of what is good/evil. It is the ability to judge and tell the person what is good/bad, in the light of a Truth that is superior to it. Therefore, the first axiom of the doctrine on conscience is not: "Always follow your conscience", but: "Seek the truth about good/evil". We will return to this point later.
The relationship between moral conscience and God. The following words clearly express what Newman thinks about the relationship between God-moral conscience: "Conscience—there are two ways of regarding conscience; one as a mere sort of sense of propriety, a taste teaching us to do this or that, the other as the echo of God's voice. Now all depends on this distinction—the first way is not of faith, and the second is of faith" [Sermons notes; Faith—III, May 29, 9]. We could say: The first submits the truth to opportunity; The second opportunity to truth.
Newman's doctrine on moral conscience is born.
Newman always starts by describing the moral conscience as an experience that every human person witnesses within their self, every day. Today we can say it begins with a phenomenology of the conscience. He writes: "By conscience I mean the discrimination of acts as worthy of praise or blame" [Philosophical Notes, II, 47 – Proof of Theism]. Therefore, moral conscience is the faculty by which I can distinguish, discriminate among the various deeds that I can accomplish or have accomplished, the deeds worthy of praise and deeds worthy of disdain. He immediately adds: "But the accuracy or truth of praise or blame in this particular case is a not a matter faith but of judgment" [Philosophical Notes, II, 47 – Proof of Theism].
This is a fundamental point in Newman's doctrine. In the moral conscience he distinguishes two aspects or two dimensions, described in the following way: "The feeling of conscience […] is twofold: it is a moral sense, and a sense of duty" [An essay in aid of Grammar of Assent, Part I, Chap. V, § 1]. Let me give an example.
Having arrived at this point, we can now attempt a first definition of moral conscience, according to Newman. Moral conscience is the simultaneous conjugation of the moral sense with a sense of duty. It sheds light on what is good/bad, and at the same time guides us in the daily choices we make in our lives. Newman generally prefers to speak of a moral sense, remaining mindful of the concrete person acting.
Let's ask ourselves now: How does consciousness guide our choices? How does conscience reason when it imposes its regulations in a particular situation? A very profound text, from the XV sermon of the Oxford University Sermons, answers this question. In fact, the text has a general epistemological content, but it is also true about moral conscience. "Further, I observe, that though the Christian mind reasons out a series of dogmatic statements, one from another […] not from those statements taken in themselves, as logical propositions, but as being itself [the Christian mind] enlightened and (as if) inhabited by that sacred impression which is prior to them, which acts as a regulating principle, ever present, upon the reasoning, and without which no one has any warrant to reason at all". [Oxford University Sermons, Sermon 15, 26.3].
The text is not easy. I will try to illustrate it with an example. When a person comes to the conclusion that Chastity has an intrinsic beauty and ethical preciousness, he/she expresses this perception as a proposition. For example: Chastity is a moral virtue. Each person understands that this proposition is not maneuverable; it is not malleable according to the spirit of the time. It expresses something great which has taken place in human spirit: the light of good.
It may be that the prescriptive judgment or sanctioning of the conscience appears to the mind as the conclusion of an argument that goes from the universal to individual. For example: stealing is dishonest, but the act you're carrying out is a robbery, so you don't have to carry it out. In fact, in the seventeenth century an art was born that teaches this way of arguing, which taught this: case law. However, according to the doctrine of Newman, the argument is generated by what he calls "the sacred impression which is prior to it". It is the light of good, imprinted in the human spirit: signatum est Super nos lumen vultus tui, Domine says a Psalm.
At this point, we can now understand the deepest nature of the moral conscience, according to Newman: it is the bond between man and God. It is the natural and original way that leads us to the encounter with God, it is not simply learned as a notion but as a reality. The development of this idea is clearly exposed in the "An essay in aid of Grammar of Assent".
The starting point is as follows: "We have by nature a conscience" [An essay in aid of Grammar of Assent, Chap. V, § 1]. In this context, conscience has a definite meaning: It is a mental act by which, in the face of an action to be done or already accomplished, we feel in us an approval or reproach and consequently we judge it as right or wrong. It is on the basis of this inner experience, which is consciousness, that we have a real apprehension of a Sovereign and Divine Judge. The heart of the argument is explained by Newman in the following way.
"If, as is the case, we feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened, at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies that there is One to whom we are responsible, before whom we are ashamed, whose claims upon us we fear […] These feelings in us are such as require for their exciting cause an intelligent being". [An essay in aid of Grammar of Assent, Chap. V, § 1].
We must analyze this very famous text very carefully. Newman emphasizes two things: the absoluteness of the moral imperative that resonates in consciousness; the personal character of the ethical imperative.
Absoluteness in this context means two things. The first: The imperative is categorical not hypothetical. It does not say: if you want…; But it says: you must. The second: It is an imperative that does not allow exceptions, when it assumes the negative form. It is our daily experience that our freedom infringes. But the man feels, in this case, that he has betrayed himself: "The wicked flees though no one pursues" [Proverbs. 28.1].
Personal character consists of the fact that the imperative is addressed to me, in my uniqueness. Peter cannot answer the servant of the High Priest: "Others have followed Jesus, why question me and not one of them?" It is Peter who is asked for an act of fidelity. Personal character also results from responsibility: I feel that I have to answer to what I did to Someone.
Newman does not simply want to demonstrate the existence of God, but he wants to lead the person to an apprehension of his Reality, as a living presence in the conscience of every man. Conscience is the burning bush that God uses to speak to man. Newman places himself in the line of thought which starting from Augustine passed through Pascal, and he arrives at the adequate anthropology of K. Wojtyla-John Paul II.
We can at this point attempt a synthesis of Newman's doctrine on moral conscience. The moral conscience is the place where the mystery is made originally present; It is the original revelation of God as the guide of Man.
We can at this point attempt a synthesis of Newman's doctrine on moral conscience. The moral conscience is the place where the mystery is originally made present; it is the original revelation of God as the guide for man.
In October-November 1874, William Gladstone, the first conservative and the later head of the British Liberal Party strongly attacks the decrees of the First Vatican Council, arguing that they cannot be reconciled with intellectual autonomy and loyalty to the state. In January 1875 Newman responded with A letter addressed to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, on occasion of Mr. Gladstone's recent Expostulation. And in chapter five he addresses the subject of moral conscience; more precisely: the affirmation of the primacy of conscience in relation to the magisterial and governmental authority of the Pope [Munus Docendi, Munus Regendi]. No one escapes the centrality of the theme.
Gladstone's thesis is as follows. Because the Pope enjoys infallibility in Doctrina fidei et morum; because it has full jurisdiction over faithful Catholics, the moral conscience of the individual must simply carry out what the Pope teaches.
Newman's response is articulated and refined, he starts from the conception of the moral conscience, elaborated throughout his previous work. He writes in the letter: "Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ, a prophet in its informations, a monarch in its peremptoriness, a priest in its blessings and anathemas, and, even though the eternal priesthood throughout the Church could cease to be, in it the sacerdotal principle would remain and would have a sway." [Letter to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, Chapter 5].
From where does this sovereign dignity reach the conscience? By the fact that the divine law, supreme rule of human actions becomes such by means of the conscience. The whole sovereign magnitude of the conscience stems from the fact that it is the organ of the apprehension of divine law. "This law, as apprehended in the minds of individual men, is called "conscience;". Conscience is sovereign because it is subject; or, as Newman writes: "Conscience has rights because it has duties" [Letter to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, Chapter 5].
The real problem or the root of so many problems is that this idea of conscience is fought intellectually and is in fact rejected by the majority of people. Newman writes in the letter: "Conscience is a stern monitor, but in this century, it has been superseded by a counterfeit, […] It [counterfeit] is the right of self-will". And again: "When men stand up as defenders of the rights of conscience, this does not mean at all to stand defenders of the rights of the Creator, nor of our duties in his regard… for rights of conscience they mean the right to think, to speak, to write, to act, as they like, without giving you any thought of God". (Letter to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, Chapter 5). It is this fabrication of conscience that makes any true relationship of conscience impossible with the Ministry of Peter.
Who truly has a faithful relationship with the Pope, knows that, Newman writes, "The championship of the Moral Law and of conscience is his raison d'être. The fact of his mission is the answer to the complaints of those who feel the insufficiency of the natural light; and the insufficiency of that light is the justification of his mission" [Letter to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, Chapter 5].
The referent of conscience is divine law, and the Pope exists to help enlighten conscience with Divine Truth. Therefore, for the Pope and for conscience the referent is the same: the light of the Divine Truth. Both look in the same direction.
"Did the Pope speak against Conscience in the true sense of the word, he would commit a suicidal act. He would be cutting the ground from under his feet" [Letter to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, Chapter 5].
Newman does not reduce the Magisterium to a mere reproduction of natural moral law. Newman writes "But still it is true, that, though Revelation is so distinct from the teaching of nature and beyond it, yet it is not independent of it, nor without relations towards it" [Letter to His grace the Duke of Norfolk, Chapter 5].
I would like to try to concisely illustrate Newman's thought on the Moral-Pope conscience relationship.
Newman starts from an affirmation, explicitly said many times: God the Creator infused in us something that we could define "original memory of the good and the truth". That is, it is a conviction of the Christian thought that God the Creator has engraved us in his image and likeness. Newman interprets this anthropological argument by stating that every human person has a moral conscience, that is, the capacity before acting or after the action, to feel a harmony or a dissonance between his person and the action.
However, original memory needs an external aid to have the capacity to employ itself. A child has a natural ability to speak, but it necessitates the external intervention of another for this natural capacity to function. The mother does not impose anything from the outside, but brings to fulfillment a capacity that is already present in the child.
Similarly, this takes place in the Pope's Moral-Magisterium-consciousness relationship. On a moral level, it does not impose anything from the outside. It prevents man from falling into the worst amnesia, that of good and evil; prevents man's natural capacity from weakening; functioning so that man becomes increasingly capable of working. In the light of all this, we understand the profound truth of… Newman's toast: First drink to the conscience, then to the Pope. "Because without conscience there would be no papacy. All the power that he has, is the power of the conscience: Service to the twofold remembrance, on which the faith is based, that must be continually purified, enlarged and defended against the forms of memory destruction, which is threatened so much by a subjectivity that it forgets about its foundation, the pressures of social and cultural conformism". [J. Ratzinger, the conscience in time, in church, ecumenism and politics, Ed. Paoli, Turin 1987, p. 163].
On the morning of May 12, 1879 Newman received the official communication that Pope Leo XIII had appointed him Cardinal, accepting the proposal of many English laypersons, primarily the Duke of Norfolk. Newman expresses his gratitude to the Pope with a brief speech, passed down in history as the "Biglietto-speech".
This text is of extraordinary importance both in order to understand Newman's entire spiritual journey and the comprehension of his thought. I wanted this wonderful text to conclude my own reflections.
Summarizing his life, he writes: "For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion. […] Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily. It is inconsistent with any recognition of any religion, as true. It teaches that all are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion. […] Men may go to Protestant Churches and to Catholic, may get good from both and belong to neither" [Biglietto Speech, Rome (Liberalism in religion)].
Newman identifies the liberal principle as the main factor which reduces the conscience to mere a personal opinion, which no one has the authority to judge.
In the face of this fabrication of conscience what should we do? Newman's answer is as follows:
"Christianity has been too often in what seemed deadly peril, that we should fear for it any new trial now. So far is certain; on the other hand, what is uncertain, and in these great contests commonly is uncertain, and what is commonly a great surprise, when it is witnessed, is the particular mode by which, in the event, Providence rescues and saves His elect inheritance. […] Commonly the Church has nothing more to do than to go on in her own proper duties […] Mansueti hereditabunt terram, et delectabuntur in multitudine pacis" [Biglietto Speech, Rome (Liberalism in religion)].
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