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Even after nearly fumbling the game away for the Patriots, Devin McCourty still earned rare praise from Bill Belichick.
Injuries to starting safeties Patrick Chung and Steve Gregory thrust McCourty into a starting spot at free safety on Sunday against the Jets, a role he played late last season after multiple players tried — and failed — to grasp the position.
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The position switch for McCourty also saw a much-needed change in defensive scheme for the Patriots. It may not have worked to perfection, but it was an improvement. After weeks of trying a cover-two approach, with two safeties playing deep, New England changed to a cover-one for most of the game with McCourty playing deep and rookie Tavon Wilson playing a more traditional strong safety role. That left cornerbacks Alfonzo Dennard, Kyle Arrington and Ras-I Dowling to play in man coverage most of the game.
That switch to man coverage actually plays to Dennard and Dowling's strengths. Dowling has proved to be untrustworthy playing in zone coverage, and Belichick will typically eliminate him from the game plan when the Patriots are using the more complex coverage scheme. Dennard is better in bump and run coverage and both young cornerbacks are physical players who are stronger at staying with receivers using speed and strength than reading and reacting.
McCourty on the other hand, is much stronger in zone coverage as a cornerback, and has proved to have an inability to play in man. Much of the struggles we saw from McCourty last year came in man coverage. Those skills he possesses in zone lend itself well to playing safety. He can keep most plays in front of him, and his quick instincts keep him near plays. McCourty doesn't have the best ball skills, but when his job is to help out over the top, that's less apparent.
Chung is also better in the cover-one system that the Patriots were employing on Sunday, and he should be able to work well with McCourty once he's recovered from his shoulder injury. Chung is much stronger playing inside the box, where he's asked to cover tight ends and running backs, and where he can help out the slower, stronger linebackers that the Patriots seem to love.
A lot of the problems you saw on Sunday in pass coverage can be placed on the shoulders of those linebackers and more importantly the man that signed and coached them — Belichick. Jerod Mayo gave up two of the Patriots' six passing plays over 20 yards. Mayo is a great run defender, as are other starters Dont'a Hightower, Brandon Spikes and Rob Ninkovich, but none are strong in pass coverage. Whenever Mayo or Spikes is given the responsibility to cover a tight end deep, they get burned. In a cover two, the safeties are typically too deep to help out, but if Chung was in the box, he could relieve some of the pressure on the linebackers.
If McCourty transitions to safety permanently, which the Boston Globe's Greg Bedard and Shalize Manza Young reported was the team's intention prior to the season and before the Patriots saw a lack of depth at cornerback, that would leave Dennard and Arrington the starting cornerbacks with Dowling or Sterling Moore the nickel corner. Wilson would be able to transition back to the dime role he had earlier in the season — playing a hybrid safety/linebacker position — and Gregory would be the odd man out — once healthy.
Gregory has played four games for the Patriots before suffering his hip injury, and only played a full share of snaps in one of those games. Gregory hasn't been a factor in special teams for New England yet, but he had experience there in San Diego. Gregory could be a jack of all trades for the Patriots, able to fill in at free safety, strong safety, special teams or covering the slot.
While the Patriots didn't see immediate dividends from the new scheme, as demonstrated by allowing 300-plus yards through the air to the struggling Jets' offense, this could be a step in the right direction. Two of the biggest problems the Patriots saw were coverage from linebackers — which a more experienced strong safety could improve — and leaving receivers wide open in the intermediate area of the field — which once again, a more experienced strong safety would improve. The rookie safety Wilson played fine on Sunday, but he was responsible for a couple blown coverages. Using man coverage on the outside, and a cover-one with the safeties plays to as many strengths as possible with the personnel that the team has.
The Patriots' run defense is already stellar, their pass rush is improving and the secondary may finally be on the right track. Stay positive Patriots fans, the sky isn't falling yet.
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Is talk of a Ruger M77 taboo here?
March 9, 2001, 09:56 PM
I never saw any reponse to my question on the M77. Is that a poor selection of rifle? Are lots of people pissed at Ruger for supporting the 10 round mags?
March 9, 2001, 10:39 PM
Ah, This thread, Anyone own a Ruger KM77 rifle. The varmit model? How does Ruger compare to Remington or Winchester model 70? Positives or negatives. Thanks.
I have one in .308 Win with a big old ugly Springfield 4x14x56 on top. It is quite a bit of fun to shoot but it it is not the first choice either. I really can find no fault with the rifle as purchased. It is a good shooter. I will have to admit that it has a better meat zero than a paper one however.:D here is mine
[Edited by HankL on 03-10-2001 at 08:22 AM]
March 9, 2001, 11:53 PM
A Ruger ain't no Dakota Arms, but there ain't a damn thing wrong with one. Hard to beat a Ruger for quality, features, accuracy, and price. And not bad lookin' to boot.
I'll keep buyin' 'em.
Art Eatman
March 10, 2001, 12:00 AM
Bought one in .243 in 1971 or '72. Five-shot, 3/4" groups, "as is" with factory ammo. Middle or late 1970s, had a 77-heavy barrelled .220 Swift. Five-shot, 1/2" groups all the time.
Got a 77 Mk II in .223. Yucky trigger "as is", but a Timney took care of that. Always get 3-shot groups of 1/2" to 3/4", but I wear tri-focals these days...
:), Art
March 10, 2001, 07:24 AM
I personally wouldn't buy another one but doesn't mean that they are bad guns. I have never been as fortunate as Art with the accuracy of the ones that I have shot. Most people probably don't buy them because of the sorry trigger and the odd angled bedding screw. With the remington or winchester you can adjust the factory trigger and the rifles are easy to bed. Although I prefer the winchester the remington is the most popular as far as accuracy is concerned. At least that was the case about five years ago.
March 10, 2001, 08:09 AM
I picked up an early M77 .270 from an estate sale. (NIB too!) beautiful blueing and wood.
I put a Leupold 3x9 on it, sighted it in, and shot a pronghorn with it.
I don't like the safety as well as a winchester 3-position or the rem but nothing wrong with the M77. Personally, I just won't buy new ruger anything, or S&W either.
Rosco Benson
March 10, 2001, 12:30 PM
I prefer the tang safety of the earlier M-77 to the Model 70-ish bolt shroud safety of the current M-77 MKII. I do, however, prefer the controlled feed action of the MKII to the older push-feed M-77. It is my opinion that angled front action screw (which pulls the action down AND back into the stock) is a good accuracy feature. The older M-77 featured an adjustable trigger. The current M-77 MKII does not (although, as Art mentioned, the available aftermarket Timney is quite good).
That said, both work fine.
I have seen (and have) Remington rifles that have difficult extraction with some surplus .308, however the Rugers gobble it up without complaint. Though I have never personally experienced a failure of the much-maligned Remington extractor, the Ruger's is a much more confidence inspiring set-up.
My favorite "do-it-all" rifle is a M-77 RSI on which the Gunsite Gunsmithy mounted a 2.75X Burris Scout Scope almost 20 years ago.
Rosco Benson
March 10, 2001, 05:18 PM
Hm Rosco, If the angled action screw is helpful to accuracy I wonder why the benchrest crowd doesn't use it.
March 11, 2001, 10:24 AM
Three years ago M77's were regularly trashed on the various web-boards for very poor accuracy, ugliness and terrible triggers. Now things have turned around and they are generally favorably reviewed. I'm not sure why the tides changed but I think M77's are very good rifles, particularly for the money. If they are nothing else they are extremely rugged and reliable. My All-weather 30.06 is also accurate at MOA with 180 factory Core-lokts.
I also note many (used to) complain and would detail the vast sums spent at the gunsmithy to get the gun accurate (often unsuccessfully) but no one seemed to return the rifle to the factory. Ruger has excellent factory service for free. Even if they don't make it a 1/4" rifle you still don't loose anything by returning it other than the money expended to ship it.
March 11, 2001, 03:22 PM
I just got a laminated stock .300 Win Mag. Haven't had a chance to shoot it yet, but have a friend that's got one and he loves it.
Best explaination I have seen on Rugers is at the Exploding Groundhogs site http://www.egpworld.com. Changes in barrel suppliers explain different opinions of accuracy.
March 11, 2001, 03:28 PM
I have a KM77VT MKII in 22-250. I had it out today for the first time since I suffered a series of retinal detachments to my dominant eye last summer. The rifle is better than I am. At 200 yards I was consistently in the 8, 9 & 10 rings which isn't bad since my eye is only corrected to 20/60 and even with the scope turned up to 16X I can't see the target clearly.
Good Guy
March 11, 2001, 04:12 PM
Nothing wrong with the Model 77. I saw your previous post, but mine is a '70s vintage chambered in 338, so I didn't respond. On a good day (no flinching :) ) with handloads, mine is capable of producing three shot groups in .800" to .900" vicinity. Like I say though, it's not a lot of fun benchresting it.
As others have said, I do prefer the older tang mounted safety over the newer wing style.
March 12, 2001, 02:54 PM
I really like the 77 for a hunting or general purpose rifle. It seems that the accuracy potential of the Rem. 700 makes it a better choice for extreme accuracy requirements, but I like the Ruger better for everything else.
I like the new Mark II safety and the trimmer action of the Mark II over the original Model 77. The magazine capacity was reduced by one round on the Mark II so the action could be shallower. It makes for a more petite rifle. The non-adjustable trigger on the Mark II is a disappointment though. It's not rough, just too heavy. Someday I'll get a Timney.
I had a great afternoon this weekend, shooting my 77MkII in .308 with some co-conspirators. We set up clay pigeons along a bank on the other side of a lake, previously paced off at 160 yards. I was firing from prone and sitting, with a variable cranked up to 5x and factory ammo. I had little problem whacking the 3" targets at that range, and I'm no sniper.
I really like the International model, with he Mannlicher style stock, and have always wanted one in .250 Savage.
March 12, 2001, 04:18 PM
I have a SS KM77VT MKII in 22-250. When I bought the rifle and subsequently brought it home, I realized I had overlooked something. The barrel was bent! (it took a keen eye to see it.) I had no way of knowing whether this was a factory defect or if some moron at the gun shop was using my rifle as a pry bar to open crates with.
Anyway, I sent the rifle back to Ruger with an explanation and they re-barreled my rifle with zero charge to me.
Along with their good CS, I really like the looks of the rifle and its performance. And I especially like the factory two-stage trigger.
I would buy another Ruger rifle. (although the Rem 700 is my fav.) :D
March 12, 2001, 08:17 PM
Of course, those benchresters also glue their actions to their stocks. While the angle-screw does help accuracy with the standard stocks, it also makes it much more difficult to bed properly. Not really a problem, if you want the advantages of a Ruger. Better yet, just use a real Mauser.
March 12, 2001, 08:23 PM
I have an M77 Mark II chambered in 7x57 Mauser and topped with a Leupold 3x9-40 VariX-II. I love this rifle! I appreciate it more each time I take it to the range. The trigger could certainly use some improvement. I still haven't found a pet factory load for it. Federal Classic and Hornady Custom loads seem to shoot the tightest groups. I am thinking of getting into handloading just to find the perfect deer load. The controlled round feed is a big plus, as is the Ruger reputation for building firearms as tough as tanks. My next rifle will be another Ruger.
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You're welcome and thank you for helping me come to my senses. I've decided to move on actually. Even though he hasn't admitted this, I know that he is staying at this other woman's house. I believe that he sees me as the type of woman he should have a relationship with but it's easier to maintain whatever type of relationship he has with this other woman. He also refuses to accept responsibility for his actions and he keeps telling me that I broke up with him. He told me that he went back to the mother of his child but in actuality, he is at this other lady's house. He often spoke about the mother of his child in our relationship but I know that she has moved on. I believe that he and the other woman may be calling themselves a couple now. This is going on the second week that him and I have been apart. When I was under the impression that this lady was a relative of his, he told me that he enrolled her in school. The mother of his child has at least a bachelors and possibly a masters. I'm working on my masters and this other lady has none of that. The issue I'm having is why would she allow him to return to her under any circumstances. I can only think that she has low self-esteem. He always praised my confidence and 'swag'. I'm pretty sure that she may be under the impression that he left me. Really, I gave him the ultimatum to see what he would do and he did it. I know he'll be back because he has a problem with cutting his ties but I won't be there to meet him. I'm highly analytical and I always put myself in someone elses place to try to better understand the situation. However, in this situation, I don't understand the psychology behind any of their actions even after I've removed myself from the situation. Usually, when I can understand where someone is coming from, I'm able to cope better with the situation especially if it doesn't turn out in my favor.
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It sounds to me you are on the right track. You have at least acknowledged there is an issue. I know I am opening a can of worms, but can you tell me about your family of origin, particularly your father? Other than that, I must ask, where are you meeting these gentlemen? Could that be the issue?
Well, you shot down my theory on where you are meeting them. That doesnt necessarily seem to be the issue. I am curious though about your relationship with your father. For whatever reason, our relationship with our parents does seem to affect our relationships through life. What similarities do you see between your father and your boyfriends?
What I've gathered of my father so far, they have a woman in waiting while trying to pursue a relationship with someone else. I'm pretty much aware of the story of my mother and father. My father had a child before me with another lady. He then had a relationship with my mother and they had me. My mother didn't want to marry him at the time that he asked, she wanted to wait so he went off to the service. Next thing he was married to the woman he had child with before my mother.This triggered a nervous breakdown in my mother and she was diagnosed with a mental illness at that time. He claims that the child isn't his and she had the child before their relationship. So far that's the only similarity of having someone already lined up. The college sweetheart actually was a pretty nice guy up until the end. I would'nt speak with him for at least five years but nowadays he seems to be in denial about his character. He has expressed that he'd still like to marry me when he gets himself together but I'm not hardly interested. Based on speaking with him, I think he was a better person then than he is now. When I was a teenager, I reunited with my father and was excited to meet his children as well as his wife. At that time he was in some type of facility for veterans and he told me that his wife didn't know about me. Pretty much from that day forward, I ceased all contact with him. My mother has attempted over the years to try to force us to have a relationship. She's much nicer than I am. I know he and what happened to my mother is the reason that I don't have a problem with cutting off a faulty relationship. I really haven't spent much time with him and can count on one hand how many times, I've saw and spoke to him. The few times that I have, he seems like he is a shady and manipulative person. When I talk to him, I feel like he talks to me like I'm a woman he is trying to hit on. A few years ago, I went to go speak with a counselor about my relationships with people and also my progression through life. I think that he made matters worse. He pretty much told me that given my background and the environment in which I was born, I should be glad to have made it as far as I have. That didn't sit to well for me so I rarely open up to people about my background.
Well, you have done well considering your past, but that does not minimize your desire and need to better yourself. Your past may contribute to your issues, but it does not contain the solution. The solution is in the now and the choices you make in the future. Tell me, what precisely and exactly are you looking for in a mate?
My expectations are very reasonable and that's what men like about me. I've never really have liked dating. I have in the past and up until about three years ago, I did regularly. I just don't have the patience to date more than one man at a time but I will try. My Grandmother tells me to do that and I'm going to try it again. I'm a bit old fashioned though in believing that men pursue women. In this day and age, it appears that men like to be pursued. Even though many people think I'm in my early 20's, I'm actually in my early 30's. It hasn't been until now that I've even considered settling down and having a family.


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The Institution of Marriage
On a hot, smoggy day earlier this month, Jim and I drove to the County Clerks Office in East Los Angeles for a wedding license. We found a cluster of squat concrete structures, hard-used and studiously devoid of charm. In the small courtyard, women with baby strollers and small children hung out on the few benches. A full baby bottle lay in the dirt under a palmetto. Shade cloth, slung overhead, had caught inches of debris from the trees, forming a thick canopy. We spotted the licensing office, approached and tried the door. It was locked. We looked at each other had we come on the wrong day?
Then the door opened, and a security guard presented himself.
Were here for a marriage license, I said, and showed him the application wed already filled out. He studied it, advised us to add several details and get identification out. We did as we were told, and waited while the guard told a young woman how to obtain a birth certificate. He scanned our papers again and admitted us into a small queuing area. Go to that window, he said, pointing. And congratulations!
Nobody was behind the indicated window. We waited, smiling at each other with a new crease of anxiety. The institutional bleakness reminded me of traffic tickets and getting hall passes in high school. Getting married, it seemed, was officially no more than another bureaucratic detail, a human inevitablility stripped of all nicety.
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After a couple of minutes, a woman showed up behind the window. She still held a drink cup from her break. Seeing us, she did a small double take and snort, as if to say, Not even off my break, and already theyre comin at me. She took her time settling in disposing of drink cup, pulling out chair, keying up the computer, greeting the other women in the office so that by the time she turned her attention to us, we knew whose timetable wed hew to. She was in surprisingly good humor.
She pointed out that Jim had given his mothers married, not maiden name on the form, and provided the whiteout. Also, Id made a mistake in stating the kind of work I did. There are the two spaces concerning employment on the license, one for your job, the other for kind of work. Jim, without hesitation, had written down lawyer and, because he works for the state, listed his kind of work as government. I wrote down writing for my job and, after a few moments of thought, wrote self-employed under kind of work.
There is no self-employed, said the woman.
Then lets put freelance, I said.
Theres no freelance either, she said. The woman then handed me her list of possible kinds of work. Coffee shop was a kind of work, as was foundry. Magazine made the cut, as did newspaper. But there was no category for novel, fiction or literature. Nothing for creative or even artist.
Youll have to put private, said the woman. Private ll have to do.
And so I did. Government was marrying Private. It made us sound like Republicans.
The clerk then had us write out a check for $70, gave us a receipt and told us to return in an hour at 12:04 p.m.
We drove for some minutes up and down Cesar Chavez trying to find a coffee shop. I saw several of my favorite eating places Dianas for chicharonnes, the raspado place next to the old Melmac factory, the bakery next door to it but we were on wedding diets, plus we were going to meet with Jims rabbi later for a premarital-counseling session. I wasnt keen to meet the rabbi with pork fat on my breath, so I didnt suggest stopping at any of the places I knew. We ended up in a doughnut shop drinking Diet Cokes and, in preparation for our counseling session, talked about our ideas for handling money while the man in the booth behind us made repeated trips to the register to buy lottery tickets. These he proceeded to scratch with great concentration.
We wont handle our money like that, said Jim as a man came in and gave us two enormous lemons.
The lottery player, in fact, made us feel as if mortgages and small credit-card balances werent so dire. If anything, Jim and I have too similar an approach to money. Soon the clock read noon.
This time, we knew to knock on the office door. The security guard said, May I help you? as if hed never seen us before.
Were here to pick up our marriage license.
I need to see your receipt, he said. It will tell me if youve come back at the right time.
Who knew where the receipt was? I sat down on a bench between two mothers and their many children, and did some serious purse rummaging. The heat was rising, and the children were restless with waiting. A baby wailed. Jim went to look in the car. After a minute, he re-appeared, waving the paper. We waited while the guard told another woman in detail how to obtain a birth certificate. Then he looked at our paperwork, said, Yes, its time for you to get your license, and opened the door.
At a different window, a different clerk produced a manila envelope whose contents she spread over her blotter. Okay, she said, please raise your right hands.
Oh, uh, excuse me, Jim sputtered. Were not getting married today.
The woman and I both stared at him. He was white with fright.
This is just to make sure that all the information you wrote down is correct.
Ohhhh, Jim said with such obvious relief that we all three laughed. Then Jim and I raised our right hands.
She asked us to swear that everything wed written was true. I kept quiet about the whole kind-of-work business, which did not feel true at all being a private writer is, in fact, the last kind of work Id want to do.
We signed the license and took our duplicate, which was emblazoned customer copy.
Thereupon, as mostly satisfied customers, we went to face the rabbi.
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Community food gifts make up for school breakfast and lunch missed over the holiday break
by KTNA Staff ~ December 20th, 2012
Many Talkeetna and Trapper Creek school age children eat breakfast and lunch at school five days a week. This helps families feed their children and manage food costs during the winter months. The holidays are tough because children are no longer getting meals at school. Talkeetna residents and businesses have been helping to fill the gap.
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The Crisis in the Catholic Church Extends Far Beyond Sex Scandals
by Kenneth D. Whitehead
The long-awaited meeting of the Catholic bishops of the United States, after months of media revelations of priestly scandals and episcopal cover-ups, finally took place under intense public scrutiny in Dallas on June 13–15. As was surely inevitable, the "zero tolerance" policy towards the sexual abuse of children and young people was not, as such, enacted. This was the policy vociferously being demanded by victims' groups and other interested parties and strongly seconded by the media.
For one thing, as most media reporting failed to make clear, the laicization of priests in the Catholic Church, or their defrocking, as the secular world prefers to call it, whether for sexual abuse or for other reasons, can only be carried out in accordance with canon law—which bishops' conferences voting on "policies," even under the pressure of grave public scandal, cannot alter or abolish by themselves.
For another thing, the bishops were looking over their shoulders at what Rome was likely to sanction. In this case, it is the Holy See, not the votaries of more "democracy" in the Church, that is insisting that even accused abusers have rights and reputations and that strict due process is called for even when particularly heinous acts are involved. Rome is not, in fact, likely to approve without modification what the bishops decided upon in Dallas.
Nevertheless, under unprecedented public and media pressure, the bishops enacted the closest thing to zero tolerance: Even one single act of sexual abuse by a priest—past, present, or future—is to result in immediate removal from active ministry of any kind, and even if a priest thus removed is not actually laicized, he will still not be permitted to celebrate Mass publicly, to wear clerical garb, or to present himself as a priest.
Moreover, dioceses will now be required both to reach out to victims and their families and to have procedures in place to deal with any further accusations that are made. These procedures will include diocesan review boards that will have some lay members. A national Office for Child and Youth Protection will coordinate and oversee diocesan efforts. Dioceses will automatically report any "allegation of sexual abuse of a person who is a minor to the public authorities," and the law will then take over to investigate and evaluate the evidence.
Finally Able to Act
All this is pretty strong. It strains the imagination, in fact, to try to think of many other sectors of our generally permissive society that require anything as stringent. Press reports stating that the bishops fell back on some kind of "compromise solution," or victims' groups claiming that the bishops did not go far enough, are quite off the mark.
Of course, given the glare of public scrutiny and the enormous pressure on the bishops built up as a result of months of serial revelations of sexual misdeeds by priests and even by some bishops—more than 200 priests and four bishops have had to resign since the first of the year, with probably more to come—there was little chance that the bishops would opt for anything that was not severe. The bishops had to prove they were serious, and, for the moment, they did. It was certainly not their last word on the subject, but it represented essential damage control. Even though their action was forced upon them, it is still salutary to see that they were able to act.
And it is all just as well. The continuing revelations that men ordained to Christ's priesthood could engage in this kind of evil and shameful conduct were outdone only by the even more embarrassing revelations of bishops complacently—and, it would seem, mindlessly—giving passes to such grossly immoral behavior as if it were not really very serious, and then going on to reassign the culprits to positions where they could continue with their predatory and immoral actions.
The president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Illinois, was surely on the mark when he declared to his fellow bishops:
We are the ones, whether through ignorance or lack of vigilance, who allowed priest abusers to remain in ministry and re-assigned them to communities where they continued to abuse. We are the ones who chose not to report the criminal actions of priests to the authorities because the law did not require this. We are the ones who worried more about the possibility of scandal than bringing about the kind of openness that helps prevent abuse.
Bishop Gregory received a standing ovation from his fellow bishops for such strong words as these, and it is to be hoped that this applause reflected a true realization and resolve on the part of the American bishops that will henceforth ensure that certain types of behavior can no longer be allowed or tolerated in the Catholic Church in America. Certain acts must be subject to correction by the bishops, who in Catholic belief hold authority in the Church from Christ.
The fact that the bishops did not enact any formal policies concerning their own neglect and misbehavior—although they appointed yet another commission to study the question—is much less important than whether this ugly crisis has truly proved to be, for each one of them, an experience of mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, and whether they finally came to understand that what had become an unfortunate episcopal policy of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" in the Catholic Church in America can no longer stand.
A Restricted Response
It is troubling, though, that the bishops in Dallas placed virtually the entire onus upon priests and did not address the responsibility of the bishops themselves for the whole sorry mess. After all, only a very small minority of priests ever engaged in the immoral and even criminal behavior that has now been exposed and is rightly being stigmatized, but we are told that as many as two-thirds of the bishops have at one time or another engaged in transferring guilty priests and thus exculpating, if not enabling them. The responsibility of the bishops thus looms large, and their future conduct, individually and collectively, will be a test of how serious they were in Dallas.
Some of the other proposals made at the Dallas meeting, such as those from victims' groups and other interested parties calling for "shared authority" or "lay oversight," were less pertinent. It may be understandable in the present climate that the bishops should have seen fit to appoint a permanent national lay oversight commission headed by Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. In the end, however, the Catholic bishops cannot share their authority—which again, in the church's belief, they have from Christ. They are the overseers! Even if, up to now, they seem to have been more prone to overlook than to oversee, it is nevertheless the latter task that remains uniquely theirs in their office as successors to the apostles, again by the commission of Christ himself. Their office belongs to the essential structure of the Church as Catholics understand and believe it. What is needed is not some scheme for shared authority that might prove to be bogus, but faithful and courageous bishops determined to use their authority to uphold authentic Catholic faith and morals, especially among their priests, and to summon all the faithful to greater fidelity and holiness, while practicing it themselves.
If at least some bishops are now firmly resolved not to allow today's scandals to recur, then it is to be hoped that their newfound resolve will not be limited to the single matter of "sexual abuse of children and young people." This was, understandably, the focus of their meeting in Dallas. But there are not a few other similar problems in the Church today that deserve—indeed, cry out for—the same kind of attention, seriousness, and resolve that the bishops exhibited in the matter of clerical sexual abuse.
From the outset, the American bishops have largely responded to the questions raised by the crisis as they were narrowly framed by the secular media. The media initially defined the problem as primarily pedophilia in the priesthood; the guilty priests were to be exposed not so much for engaging in behavior that, according to Catholic moral teaching, was evil, immoral, and verboten, but for engaging in abusive behavior with minors that was "non-consensual." Catholic priests became fair game for exposure, of course, because they are supposed to be chaste and celibate, and hence they are exposed as liars and hypocrites as well as predators once they engage in any kind of sexual activity. Precisely because of the church's strict rules on chastity and celibacy, sexual activity of any kind by priests always entails deception and dishonesty as well as unchastity. So there is no way, for example, that homosexual priests could ever "come out" in the way that contemporary society currently applauds for others.
Similarly, the insensitivity and even callousness of both priests and bishops towards the plight of victims of sexual abuse was fair game; indeed, it proved to be a special bonanza for the media, as a consequence of which the bishops have had to abase themselves.
While the media were generally happy to go after priests and the Catholic Church, many reporters and commentators were nevertheless quite reluctant to dwell on the question of homosexuality in the priesthood, as well as on sexual morality generally. These issues came up almost in spite of the media, and some commentators even back-pedaled after their first enthusiastic exposures of the Church. After all, homosexuality itself is not supposed to be bad any longer; "gay" is supposed to be "good," just as virtually all sex today is supposed to be permissive—so long as it is also consensual.
In the present post-sexual-revolution climate in America, it is more than an anomaly that the Catholic Church should have come under such intense and sustained attacks. Until the attacks began, the Boy Scouts of America, for example, were being excoriated by the same media, as well as by the secular culture at large, for not allowing what the bishops were suddenly being attacked for allowing, namely, the exposure of young people to possible sexual predators.
We need not expect consistency from the media, of course. There were undoubtedly some who were happy enough to go after the Church on any grounds—and, certainly the Church and the bishops have deserved to be as severely faulted in public as they have been for allowing the sexual incidents that have been so widely reported.
What is disappointing, however, is the degree to which the Catholic bishops responded to the problem only as it had been framed for them by the media: It was the "sexual abuse of children and young people" to which the bishops almost exclusively directed their attention. This is the phrase that recurred in Bishop Gregory's address; it similarly appears in the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" that the bishops approved. It is what the Dallas meeting was all about, in fact.
Everything in the bishops' new charter applies only to priest-abusers as defined by the present crisis. There is no suggestion that there might be larger causes at work or that the bishops' authority as vigilant overseers might need to be extended to other kinds of wrongdoing in the Church, considering all the harm that has been caused by their long toleration of this wrongdoing.
The bishops voted down, for example, a proposal by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, to look more seriously into the dominant role of homosexual priests in the present crisis. They were apparently determined not to go beyond the parameters of the crisis as defined by the media exposures and the popular interpretations placed on them. The only concession to the patent, indeed, blatant fact that homosexual priests have constituted by far the greater part of the problem seems to have been the addition of the phrase "young people" to the word "children" in the title of their charter—the bishops thus admitted that it was not just pedophilia, in other words. (In the provision of their charter relating to an apostolic visitation of seminaries, the bishops do pledge to "focus on the question of human formation for celibate chastity," and perhaps this pledge will alleviate, at least to some extent, the church's enormous—though still officially unacknowledged—problem of homosexual priests.)
Sadly, just as the bishops only acted because they were forced to by public exposure, so they determinedly limited their actions only to what the secular culture decided the primary problem was. Catholic moral teaching does not seem to have entered in very strongly anywhere; the bishops, especially those speaking to the media, hardly ever mentioned it; the charter itself speaks of alleged offenders being referred "for appropriate medical and psychological evaluation"—no morality, only medicine!
And only with the greatest reluctance, and under the pressure of irate public opinion, did the bishops move to correct those whom the culture, in effect, had identified as being at fault. They apparently have no plans, or even many thoughts, about what other problems or wrongdoing in the Church might need to be addressed as a result of the exposure of sexual abuse.
Pattern of Inaction
The present crisis of sexual abuse of children and the young is only one of several acute problems in the Catholic Church that urgently call for serious episcopal attention and action. One of the principal reasons the bishops had to be forced to take corrective action was that, until the public exposure, the bishops were not acting properly to deal with those of their priests who were abusing children; they were not correcting the wrongdoers. In hindsight, they appear to have been largely unwilling to take corrective action. At the very least it is indisputable that they never did take such action until finally forced by public opinion to do so.
Worse, the Catholic bishops of the United States mostly stopped taking corrective action in large areas of the church's life 35 or 40 years ago. Living in the same "no fault" secular culture as the rest of us, the bishops discovered long ago that almost any time they attempted to take corrective disciplinary action against either individuals or groups, the result was unfavorable publicity for the Church; the Church was quickly accused of such things as "witch hunting" and "cracking down."
In this atmosphere, the average bishop soon came to view unfavorable publicity, no matter what the basis for it, as among the worst things that could happen to the Church. Whether or not the Catholic bishops still feared God was not always clear; what has long been clear is that they generally fear and loath almost any attention from the media or "looking bad" in the eyes of that media.
More than that, once their practice of not taking serious corrective action towards those under their authority became well established, the bishops tended not to take such action even when there was little or no danger of unfavorable public disclosure or scandal; they had gotten into the habit of no longer correcting anybody. For many years now, most US Catholic bishops have been content to sit at the top of the church's administrative structure without requiring that those farther down in the system be Catholic; they have tolerated all kinds of aberrations and have sometimes seemed only to want peace and quiet, with no boats ever to be rocked for any reason.
All this eventually became a common feature of modern episcopal practice, and new bishops picked it up almost as soon as they were ordained. Another characteristic of the prevailing episcopal management style was that no bishop ever publicly criticized another bishop (this rule seems still to obtain). It came to seem preferable to let ride even serious violations and transgressions against Catholic teaching and discipline rather than risk public criticism of the Church—or perhaps even risk any possible strife or turmoil within the Church that might turn out to be unpleasant, or what is today called "unchristian." The main thing, apparently, was to be "nice"—and to be liked. The non-judgmentalism so prevalent in the culture at large came to be an imperative within the Catholic Church as well.
The Rise of Dissent
The growth of this passive and indulgent attitude among the Catholic hierarchy coincided with the rise of the dissent, rebellion, and general chutzpah among modern Catholics that came in with the revolutionary culture of the 1960s. In this new climate, encouraging people to "question authority," as the popular bumper sticker expressed it, not to speak of overtly denying Catholic teaching or violating church discipline outright, too often was given a pass—just as the evil behavior of abusive priests apparently began to be given a pass around the same time.
In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, as is well known, there arose many instances of abuses in the reformed Liturgy, of lapses in discipline in the priesthood and religious orders as Roman collars and religious habits were abandoned, of Catholic colleges and universities openly and with impunity declaring their independence of the Church, and of other fads in Catholic education, such as the wholesale adoption of secular models of so-called humanistic and explicit sex education. Brightly colored new catechetical texts came out bearing little resemblance to the traditional catechesis of the Church. Over the years Catholic parents who lodged complaints with the bishops or their religious education offices about defective catechesis or sex education often got the same frigid reception that the victims of sexual abuse have since complained about—and were generally subjected to the same kind of stone-walling.
Here again, the bishops were depending on their catechetical "experts"—by this time mostly trained by dissident theologians—just as they have now been shown to have depended on their lawyers to tell them how to respond to victims of sex abuse and their families. Those Catholic pastors, parents, and teachers who tried to complain to the bishops about bad catechetics or explicit sex education were out of luck, since there was no Boston Globe or its equivalent to expose these "scandals" in the Church in a way the bishops could not ignore.
The same episcopal complaisance occurred in the Catholic colleges and universities that wanted to sever their formal ties with the Church (while retaining the name "Catholic" for other purposes). The bishops' conference took the part of the leaders of these errant institutions in opposing the inclusion of any canons on universities in the revised 1983 Code of Canon Law. When that effort failed, the bishops simply neglected to enforce the canons in question. After Pope John Paul II issued his apostolic constitution on the Catholic university, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, in 1990, the bishops dithered and temporized for a decade before finally enacting norms requiring, among other things, theologians to have an ecclesiastical mandatum to teach theology. Although compelled by Rome to institute this requirement, there is little evidence to date that many bishops are requiring theologians to have such a mandatum—or that they are penalizing or removing those theologians who do not have one and even refuse to apply for one.
At the time these innovations in Catholic life and practice were occurring, from the 1960s through the present, they were usually justified by reference to the famous (fictional) "spirit of Vatican II." Vatican II was held to justify just about anything, and the bishops themselves were usually quick to validate innovations in Catholic life as indeed being called for by the council, whether or not they were. They tended to preside over such things in a spirit of "benign neglect" and rarely let on that they were even aware that anything was amiss. Corrective action by them was rarely taken, and when it was, it was usually directed against Catholic traditionalists or other "extremists." The bishops, like the culture at large, seemed not to notice any "extremism" except that said to be "on the right."
Tolerance & Approval of Dissent
What was already becoming a pattern of episcopal silence and inaction, then, even in the face of open and express challenges to Catholic faith, morals, and discipline, became powerfully re-enforced by the massive public dissent that greeted Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae in July 1968. On this occasion, as is well known, hundreds of Catholic theologians, canonists, and other academics publicly dissented from the pope's traditional teaching that every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life. This, of course, meant no artificial birth control (which, meanwhile, had become as essential to what was considered the good life as owning an automobile or having air conditioning).
The official reaction of the Catholic bishops of the United States to the massive theological dissent from Humanae Vitae by their theologians, canonists, and other practitioners of the sacred sciences was to include in the pastoral letter they issued in November 1968 what they called "norms of licit dissent." Acting as if the crisis of theological dissent they faced was nothing more than theoretical and scholarly disagreement with "non-essential" church teachings by some theologians, instead of the widespread open revolt against the authority of the Church, and their own authority, which it actually was, they decided that sometimes dissent could be licit—and they carefully spelled this out in a way that bore no resemblance to the crisis they faced. Confronted with rebellion, they pretended it was merely an unimportant disagreement, and this has largely remained the official stance of the hierarchy on the subject from that day to this.
Following that same near-universal theological dissent from Humanae Vitae (which was quickly taken up by the Catholic laity as permission and justification for their abandonment of Catholic teaching on sexual morality—to which the polls attest so eloquently today), the bishops seem to have tacitly—though it was certainly strongly implied in the issuance of their so-called "norms of licit dissent"—taken a collective decision that dissent from the pope's anti-birth-control encyclical would never bar one from holding an official position, and even enjoying preferment, in the Catholic Church in the United States.
They themselves in their official statements, of course, never dissented from or disputed the papal teaching, but they allowed those holding offices in the Church, and teaching and preaching in their names, to do so indiscriminately. This has been the case in the Church in the United States from 1968 to the present. There have been few cases in which an American bishop has ever disciplined or corrected anyone for dissenting from Humanae Vitae. When obliged to by Rome, as in the case of the removal of dissenter Father Charles E. Curran from the faculty of the Catholic University of America in the late 1980s, the bishops were willing to go along. But they did not initiate such disciplinary cases, and they have apparently considered the teaching of Humanae Vitae to be a "non-essential," open dissent from which simply did not require any corrective action from them.
Ignoring the Pope
This same pattern of dissent, uncorrected, was likely to persist into the 1990s, and it did. In 1994, when Pope John Paul II issued a motu proprio declaring that the Catholic teaching excluding the ordination of women to the sacred priesthood was a definitive and irreformable teaching, a similar pattern of dissent from the church's "official" theological society was the principal response. The Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) commissioned a "study," not openly challenging the pope's teaching so much as questioning whether the teaching was definitive (as the pope had said it was). At the conclusion of the "study" in question, the CTSA tranquilly forwarded its dissenting conclusions to the heads of both the US and Canadian bishops' conferences.
The effect of this CTSA action, of course, was to keep alive the female ordination question, which the pope had so earnestly requested be closed—so much for respect for the judgments of the supreme magisterium of the Church! No response ever came from the bishops' conferences to the open CTSA challenge. It was as if massive dissent from irreformable church teaching by a majority of the theologians of North America was not even a problem that merited the bishops' attention. Open rebellion by a majority of their theologians was apparently not an issue the bishops cared to deal with. Rather, they seemed to be pretending that these dissenting theologians simply did not exist—just as they seem often to have pretended that sexually active and exploitative priests were not anywhere to be found.
Over the years, Pope John Paul II reminded the US bishops several times that dissent tolerated by them undermined their authority. In 1990, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued an Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, Donum Veritatis, which expressly excluded the kind of dissent that was by then common in America. Among other things, this Roman instruction finally and quietly laid to rest the "norms of licit dissent" that the American bishops had so mistakenly approved in their 1968 pastoral letter. But who in the ranks of the theologians and the bishops was paying attention to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith any longer? This Roman instruction excluding dissent was simply itself dissented from.
Similarly, in 1998, in another motu proprio entitled Ad Tuendam Fidem, Pope John Paul II added canonical penalties to the code of canon law for the kind of dissent practiced by perhaps the majority of American canonists and theologians. None of this caused so much as a ripple in the episcopal waters. There was no plan even to apply these new canonical penalties for dissent—any more than the university canons had ever been enforced. The now long-established episcopal pattern of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" persisted. Nor have there been any indications in the course of the present crisis that the bishops are unduly concerned about today's widespread dissent from and even denial of Catholic teaching on sexual morality to be found among their priests and people, egged on by many of their theologians.
During his meeting with the cardinals in Rome in April, Pope John Paul II attempted to nudge them towards a wider understanding of the present crisis as extending beyond sexual "immaturity" or mere "addictions" or "pedophilia." "People need to know," the Holy Father declared, "that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality." The statement issued at the conclusion of the Vatican meeting with cardinals also contained the following: "Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care" (emphasis added). Following this Vatican meeting, however, the vice president of the USCCB, Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Washington, was quoted in the press as disclaiming any intent on the part of the American bishops to correct dissenters.
Neglect of Teaching
The phenomenon of dissent, however, as Pope John Paul II clearly sees, has a direct bearing on the crisis of sexual abuse in the priesthood. The failure of American bishops over the last generation and more to uphold authentic Catholic teaching on sexual morality, while allowing many who teach and preach in their name to offer variant teachings, has allowed potential wrongdoers among both clergy and laity to get the impression that what they happen to be tempted by is no longer necessarily wrong, according to theological opinion allowed to circulate within the Church. Some of the guilty priest-abusers have specifically said that they had come to doubt, or had even ceased to believe, the church's teachings on sexual morality.
Yet there is no evidence from the Dallas meeting that the American bishops are concerned about the problem of widespread dissent from and disregard of Catholic teaching regarding sexual morality. They apparently intend to do nothing about it—just as they did nothing about the problem of criminal sexual misbehavior by priests for so long, until media exposure forced them to.
This continued neglect of the church's authentic teaching on sexuality has already had devastating consequences in the present crisis, and it cannot fail to have further consequences. If the Church has taught wrongly that every marriage act must be open to the transmission of life, as today's theological dissenters believe and teach, and as the bishops, in effect, allow—that is, if there is no necessary connection between the use of our human sexual faculties and the procreation and education of children in Christian marriage—then there is similarly no necessary connection between the use of these same sexual faculties and marriage itself: Sex need not be limited to marriage, in other words.
Moreover, by this same logic, the use of the sexual faculties for mere sexual "satisfaction" or "expression" need not be limited to actions between those of different sexes; sexual acts carried out on oneself or between people of the same sex cannot be excluded (if there is no necessary connection between sex and procreation). It all hangs together.
The same logic applies if we try to exclude sex between adults and children. This is why the case had to be made, and reiterated at such length, pretending that the real wrong in the sex abuse by priests lay in the exploitation by older authority figures of non-consenting children or children incapable of consent.
The Only Answer
But this is a grossly inadequate interpretation that won't wash. The bishops must finally realize that there is no way to avoid the conclusion that the affirmation of the authentic teaching of the Church on sexual morality is the only answer to the present crisis that now engulfs the Church.
The relevance of all this to our present crisis of supposed pedophilia in the priesthood, or even of the "sexual abuse of children and young people," should be evident: The crisis cannot be limited in this manner. The crisis extends far beyond sexual abuse by priests. Nor do the measures the bishops enacted in Dallas do more than begin to address the real problems.
Perhaps the magnitude of the current crisis will produce momentum that will force the bishops to deal directly not only with the urgent problem of homosexuality among the clergy, but also with the problem of the current massive non-adherence of Catholics generally to the church's authentic and unchanging teachings on sex and chastity and Christian marriage.
As our decadent secular culture sinks ever more into the morass of wide-open permissive sexuality, with nearly every kind of sexual "expression" allowed and even encouraged, it is the teaching of the Catholic Church—especially the prophetic witness of Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae, now supplemented by Pope John Paul II with his "theology of the body" and his encyclical Evangelium Vitae—that can still give hope. It is time for the Catholic bishops of the United States, who are commissioned by their sacred ordinations to uphold these teachings, to move beyond their narrowly defined issue of "sexual abuse of children and young people," and to affirm the fullness of Catholic truth about human sexuality and marriage to an unbelieving world.
Kenneth D. Whitehead is the 2004 recipient of the Blessed Frederic Ozanam Award for Catholic Social Action of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists (SCSS). He writes frequently on Catholic social and moral issues.
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The board meets at 5:30 p.m. in the district office at 480 James Ave. in Redwood City.
A Sequoia board retreat in January produced four priorities: address the achievement gap, enhance teacher effectiveness, systematically examine career technical education (CTE) courses, and re-examine the district's resources as they relate to these priorities.
A staff report notes board member Chris Thomsen proposing seven "essential questions" to be considered in Wednesday's achievement-gap discussion and for the board going forward. Among them:
• What activities are specifically meant to address the gap? Which have met with the most success?
• What are the best achievement-gap-reducing practices out there? What does the research show?
• What are the goals for the board as apart from teachers and staff?
Another question on the agenda: Does the board feel a need to have such sets of essential questions for the district's other three priorities?


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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by Jaza85, Dec 5, 2012.
How can we get JB without root please
Is it not possible to download the jelly bean os and install it asan upgrade like upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 8 without using a Rom?.
Just flash with ODIN, no root or anything like that needed.
You can, look above.
Great but were do you download the correct file for your device?
It would be great if anyone can point us to the correct ROM to flash JB for the wifi only models.
Sent from my SGN 10.1
Hi chaps, I've asked the online support team as well, their reply :-
Dear Najib,
Thank you for contacting Samsung,
With regards to your query the Note 10.1 wifi is expected to receive the Jellybean Android 4.1.1 update.
Please be advised that there currently is no official release date for this firmware version for your product.
You can check for available updates for your device on its support page on our website or by connecting to Samsung KIES.
You can also get the latest news on software releases for our devices on the official Samsung UK Facebook page (facebook.com/SamsungUK) or our Twitter feed (twitter.com/SamsungUK).
If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and we will be more than happy to help.
Kind regards,
Online Support Team
SAMSUNG Customer Support Centre
So the wifi only version is expected to get the JB update. We just have to be patient? (Waiting sucks, I know)
Hope that helps!
Let's keep our eye on the ball here.
Looked at that but not for us it's for the n8000 3g model not the n8010 WiFi model. Thanks for trying.
Surely it's easier to update a wifi only device with no network carrier bloatware to worry about? Though maybe the networks would pressure them to do sorry it? Still, it seems that if the 3G version is done, the wifi version shouldn't be a BIG issue to sort out.
Yeah, looks like there are ROMs available from the N8000, but no Odin method yet. I removed the link after reading it through, as it didn't help as you said.
Hi guys, although there is no official update for the n8010 I got a little impatient and decided to try flashing the n8000 firmware to see if it would work.
Figured there's no reason why it wouldn't considering the internals are no different apart from the gsm.
Anyway, after taking the plunge I installed it, and everything work fine! Apart from the gsm features (text message) obviously, has all the extra features including the premium suite, Google now etc.
I did however find a small flaw, a full wipe is required before flashing otherwise you will get it restarting randomly while the screen is locked, however this may be down to the firmware looking for a network connection, so might also be resolved by turning on airplane mode.
also I've been unable to register the device for updates, but I made sure to perform a full back up before flashing, also have the original rom for reverting back too.
I'll continue having a look around and let you all know.
In the meantime I can send you some screenshots just ask.
Hope this give some of you a little hope
No reply from Samsung
just my opinion don't all be so hesitant to update to jellybean, i have it on my xoom and it rendered my tablet completely useless, it's completely unresponsive and the memory card is not detected properly in any app, i am going to stay on ICS for as long as possible, not going to make my note a
Well I had Jelly bean on my Motorola xoom WiFi and it was a massive improvement. So much quicker and much more stable. I had to do a process on it to make it think it was an American version so the updates came straight from google and not through motorola.
I have the note 2 which came with JB and it really is amazing. It is not just the JB but all the other extras that come with the update, in particular the S pen features, hold the pen above the open video player and the video will pop out and start playing, you can hold the pen just above a web page and it will scroll up or down without touching the screen, hold it above a closed email, it will pop open. Hold it above a photo folder and, you guest it, it will pop up showing what photos are in that folder.
There are lots more things beside all of that so getting it on the note 10.1 will make this the best tablet out there. Dazza
Hello all, i am a newbie so forgive me if i don't speak android as yet. I too have had the generic emails contradicting previous messages from samsung and i feel let down. I had the impression that when i spent 399.99gbp on the gt-n8010 wifi version the update was imminent !
I dont want to flash mine or root it as this would invalidate the warranty wouldnt it ?
My husband updates our mobiles, which are all samsungs and they work fine but im scared to let him loose on my tablet. Basically i tried the kies approach and havent a clue what to do, i see all my folders and drives but nothing for checking for updates, i daily check the settings for updates on the tablet but alas the results are zero.
It makes me angry to think version 2 of our tablet came with jb on it yet we have to bide our time, i feel used as we should get priority as we bought first. I knew i should have got the ipad but the phones have been great even the 2 samsung tvs and the samsung american fridge is spot on, why are they stalling with providing an upgrade which at the time of sale was to happen asap ?
Hi. I'm not sure what you mean by version 2 coming with jb. I have a note 10.1 and I thought it was the only version out there. Am I missing something?
Anyhoo, I'll be patient. There's so much to learn about this tablet and android in general, that I feel I have enough to learn without more features piling on top of me.
PS is there a quick way to get to the bottom of a long thread like this one on an android tab. I'm having to stroke like mad to get there!
Hi I believe they have just released a 4g version with jelly bean I will try and find the link.
Hope it works
Sent an email this evening, will post reply when & if recieved.
Just asked when the update will be availaible for my unit
They haven't released and telstra know nothing about it. They will release jellybean first. I'm getting sick of waiting
Suckers just copy and paste the same message:
Customer reference number: 2115237436
Email response ID: 1110218102
Please quote your customer reference number when contacting Samsung
Dear Tomasz,
Thank you for contacting Samsung,
Regarding your query please be advised that there currently is no official release date for a newer firmware version for your product.
We do expect your device to receive the Jellybean Android 4.1.1 upgrade.
You can check for available updates for your device on its support page on our website or by connecting to Samsung KIES.
You can also get the latest news on software releases for our devices on the official Samsung UK Facebook page (facebook.com/SamsungUK) or our Twitter feed (twitter.com/SamsungUK).
If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and we will be more than happy to help.
Kind regards,
Online Support Team
SAMSUNG Customer Support Centre
Just had the same reply, word for word from the same guy. Looks like they have a standard reply for this question, keep waiting it may or may not come
Hi Chaps, i stumbled upon this article which was posted an hour ago. I dont know about it's validity. It says that it's just been released in Germany. Check it out
Samsung released Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean XXBLK9 OTA update for the WiFi Galaxy Note 10.1 N8010
Hope that helps
just because you had a good experience with your xoom, it doesn't mean that everyone else will, and yes it's called gedifying your tablet, i did the same with my tablet as it was a uk model and was never going to get updated.
the latest jellybean update 4.1.2 completely killed my xoom, i can't use it anymore, i can't unlock the screen and have to press the power button on the back 20 times before i can swipe to unlock and use it but then 10 seconds later it locks up again and i have to do a hard reboot each time but it doesn't get any better, can't scroll down to view a webpage, can't type even one word because it gets completely unresponsive and there is nothing i can do to fix it, so i am selling it for parts and getting a note but won't touch jellybean again after that, i lost
Dang, what about the US?
Wow you are angry, Have you looked at the Motorola xoom forum, that's where I got all the info on geding mine. They are a great bunch of people and they may be able to help sort your xoom out.
The difference with updating the note to jelly bean is that it is a manufacture update so if it should go wrong you will be covered by the warranty. When we modified the xoom the warranty became invalid, but that was a risk that we / I was warned about. But I am sorry that your xoom ended up like that.


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Williams F1 and Michael Waltrip Racing have reached an amicable agreement over the former's hiring of Mike Coughlan.
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The Williams F1 team has confirmed that the threat of legal action arising from Mike Coughlan's decision to return to grand prix racing from NASCAR has been laid to rest after it reached a settlement with US-based Michael Waltrip Racing.
The F1 outfit was under threat of being sued by MWR after it appointed former 'Spygate' central figure Coughlan as its new chief engineer in the wake of Sam Michael's resignation, with the Americans claiming 'interference' with its employee. The NASCAR operation was also planning to take Coughlan to court, claiming breach of contract, after it had rescued him from the F1 wilderness with the role of director of vehicle design [see story here].
MWR had claimed that its contract with Coughlan ran through to 30 November 2012, with the team holding a one-year option on his services after that. Having been approached by WIlliams, however, Coughlan told the team that he was leaving in April and finally departed in June, taking up his new role with Williams shortly afterwards.
The suit was said to seek damages in excess of $75,000 for the breach, plus other punitive damages and legal fees, alleging that Coughlan's rapid departure has affected the team's subsequent performance this season with a consequent loss of sponsorship and prize money.
The threat of legal action was dropped, however, when MWR, Coughlan and Williams reached an amicable solution to the dispute.
"I have always been an admirer of Frank Williams and his team and am delighted that we have found a good way forward," MWR co-owner Rob Kauffmann said in a statement, "I wish the team well with its move back to the front of the F1 grid and am sure that Mike Coughlan can make a big contribution with that."


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Chief claim officers (CCOs) with leading property & casualty insurers concur that their companies are benefiting from metrics currently in place tied to best practice fundamentals for claim management. They also acknowledge that the systems and metrics could be further developed and better integrated into claim operations. According to the new Property & Casualty Claim Officer Survey conducted by Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW), CCOs also report that while companies' investments in technology are paying off, additional investments would provide even greater returns. The survey examines how insurers are modernizing claim best practice fundamentals and rebuilding performance metrics, and how improved technology and operational adjustments are helping carriers benefit from these changes. "A more integrated approach to claim management can help insurers simultaneously improve customer service and financial results, increasing both policyholder and investor satisfaction," said Brian Stoll, director, Property & Casualty practice, Towers Watson. "Technology investments in this area help insurers better identify and respond to trends culled from data-driven analytics, and make it easier to implement predictive models and best practice enhancements that carriers are developing to improve claim performance." Carriers clearly view best practices as living documents and indicate they should be updated frequently, according to survey participants. Fifty-six percent of the respondents have made major modifications to their claim best practices within the past year. Large insurers are most likely to rethink their best practices (67%), and small companies least likely, although nearly half (48%) implemented best practice claim management changes in the last year. The key benefits of best practice execution varied, with smaller carriers citing operational improvements as most important, while larger companies cited bottom-line performance results. Small carriers said improved efficiency and cycle time (e.g., inventory management) is the top benefit, and improved customer service is the second. Midsize carriers listed the same top two benefits and also named more effective use of specialized/expert personnel. Large carriers were far more focused on financial results: Nearly two-thirds cited improved claim payout discipline (loss costs) as the number one benefit received from claim best practices.
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Allred waived, roster down to 16
By Conrad Brunner | Oct. 22, 2010
In waiving Lance Allred Friday, the Pacers reduced their roster to 16.
The 6-11 Allred appeared in one preseason game for the Pacers.
He appeared in three regular-season NBA games with Cleveland during the 2007-08 season.
The former Weber State standout has appeared in 156 games over the past four seasons for Idaho of the D-League, posting averages of 13.7 points and 8.4 rebounds.
The Pacers must trim their roster to no more than 15 by 6 p.m. Monday.


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With deficits at the state and national level, universities must start relying more on private funding for their research programs, University of Tennessee officials say.
"We know that we are not going to be able to depend on the state to fund all of our research programs but we are prepared," said UTC Chancellor Roger Brown in a UT board of trustees meeting today.
To bring in money, UTC will "try to market some of the software that has been developed at the Sim Center," Brown said.
And that's exactly what universities should be doing, said David Millhorn, UT vice president for research and economic development.
"All of our research programs, to a certain extent, have got to make themselves attractive to the private sector, there's much more research money in the private sector than in the public sector," he said.
Millhorne gave a presentation during the Research, Outreach and Economic Development committee meeting, the first of the two-day meeting of the board of trustees. Among other things, he talked about the importance of energy research and budgetary concerns.
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I moved out of state and need to get my Invisalign transferred to a new doctor. I was told he did not like how my buttons were put on and that my case is too old and Invisalign would not allow me to transfer. He will not work with the old trays and is confident that I will not get the results using my existing trays. I don't know what to believe, he has not even contacted Invisalign yet and so how does he know? He wants me to pay $6000 for a whole new set of trays. Make sense or not?
Can Invisalign Cases Be Too Old to Transfer?
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Invisalign has an expiration date.
Find out if you're case is still "active" and if it is then you can do a mid-course correction or refinement case which doesnt require completly starting over..Remember tho the new dentist also needs to be paid for his work and its a difficult situation to get money form your old dentist to give to your new one to continue work on your case..
Invisalign expiration
Invisalign does indeed have an expiration date. It usually 3 years after the treatment is started. Once that date is reached you can no longer do refinements on the case. I would contact your original dentist to see when the case was started so you can see if it can be transferred.
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Invisalign does have a time constraint on their prescriptions. In other words, you have to work through the original treys as prescribed or they will not issue any more after a certain period of time. If this time limit has expired in your case, then new impressions (hence a new lab fee) would have to be assessed in order to proceed.
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Invisalign transfer
An invisalign transfer can happen during the regular treatment period. Treatment may extend up to a few years. But generally after 3 years there can't be a refinement or transfer. THere are other options to finish your case that may not be as expensive as starting over again.
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Singer Goes to South America with Renowned Children's Charity Compassion International
Nashville, TN (September 2, 2011) — Country Star Marty Raybon now knows first- hand, the difference a little compassion can make. The former lead singer of 90's super group, Shenandoah, recently spent a week in Colombia with renowned children's charity, Compassion International.
"There have been moments in my life when I realized it was more than just an event I was part of," Raybon says of his experience in Colombia. "It changed my perspective of understanding that the needs of others are greater than my own."
Raybon sang lead for Shenandoah from 1985 – 1996. During that time the group recorded nine studio albums and charted a string of top-10 songs including five number ones. Raybon also helped Shenandoah secure several awards including the Academy of Country Music's Vocal Group of the Yearin 1991. Continue reading


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Tapotement is the rapid, percussive tapping, slapping and cupping of the massaged area. It is used to more aggressively work and strengthen deep-tissue muscles. It increases local blood circulation and can even help tone muscle areas.
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Some notes about Saturday's girls basketball region final …
5A: Sickles (25-3) at Boca Ciega (28-1)
WHEN: 7 p.m.
HOW THEY GOT THERE: Sickles beat Naples Gulf Coast (67-47) and Hillsborough (57-50); Boca Ciega beat Seminole (71-40) and Clearwater (54-53).
PLAYOFFS ALL TIME: Sickles (4-5); Boca Ciega (39-20).
TITLES: Boca Ciega 2 (1995, '96).
OUTLOOK: For Boca Ciega to make a return trip to the final four, it will have to figure out how to contain star 6-foot-4 Sickles forward Amber Henson, who arguably is the state's most talented player. Henson, a junior, had 24 points in Tuesday's win over Hillsborough. Guard Bre Crum is another solid player Boca Ciega must contend with. The Pirates, however, are certainly no slouch themselves and boast two likely all-state players in senior guard Latavia Dempsey and junior small-forward Tamara Taylor, who have about 1,000 points between them this season. Ninth-grade point guard Alexis Ungro, who has tremendous distribution ability, may hold the key to Boca Ciega's success. An excellent passer, if Ungro can limit her turnovers and consistently find Dempsey and Taylor, the Pirates could reach their 10th final four.