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His Excellency Archbishop Raymond L. Burke
Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Commencement Address to the Class of 2010
May 15, 2010
President McLean, Dr. Kelly, and members of the faculty; Mr. Wensley and members of the Board of Governors; Fr. Buckley and Frs. Raftery and Willingham; honored graduates and your families and friends; and benefactors and friends of Thomas Aquinas College:
In addressing you on the joyous occasion of Commencement, I, first of all, express the deepest affection and esteem for the late Dr. Thomas Dillon, the third president of Thomas Aquinas College. Over the many years of my happy association with the College, I was blessed to know Dr. Dillon and to become his friend. It pleases me very much to return to the College once again, after my last visit in 2001, in order to express to all of you my heartfelt sympathy at his death and the assurance of my prayers for his eternal rest.
When I first visited Thomas Aquinas College in September, 2001, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the College, Dr. Dillon, like a proud father, gave me a thorough visit to the campus. He spoke, at length, of his hopes for the Chapel, which rightly he understood to be the heart of the College. In my last visit with him, in September, 2008, in Rome, when he came to have the cornerstone of the Chapel blessed by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, he was so pleased to describe for me in detail the beauty of the design and construction of the Chapel, which, at that point, was nearly complete. I thank God that he was able to be present for the solemn dedication of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity before Our Lord called him to his final and lasting home.
In September of 2008, on the occasion of the blessing of the cornerstone of the Chapel by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, Dr. Dillon invited me to be present for the Solemn Dedication of the Chapel and for today's Commencement. While, with great regret, I could not accept the first invitation, I was pleased to accept the second. I was, in fact, awaiting a visit from Dr. Dillon in April of last year, when, with great sadness, I learned of his death in Ireland.
All of us have so much for which to be grateful to Dr. Dillon, but, most of all, we must be grateful for the faith, hope and charity with which he dedicated himself to providing for Thomas Aquinas College a chapel which points, in such a faithful and powerful way, to the immeasurable beauty of God and of His dwelling with us in the Church. May Dr. Thomas Dillon rest in peace in the new and heavenly Jerusalem to which the Chapel of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity unfailingly draws our minds and hearts.
Friendship with St. Thomas Aquinas
With a deep sense of unworthiness and, at the same time, with sincerest gratitude, I accept the St. Thomas Aquinas Medallion. Because of the profound esteem which I have for the mission of Thomas Aquinas College, carried out in complete fidelity to the teaching and discipline of the Church in what pertains to Catholic higher education, I am especially honored.
St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, has been for me, from my childhood, a most treasured spiritual friend and model. Now, so many years since I first came to know St. Thomas Aquinas, I recognize how poorly I have honored our friendship and how much more I need to imitate his example. Receiving the College's medallion which bears his name, I thank God for giving me St. Thomas Aquinas as a spiritual companion, and I rededicate myself to imitate his virtues, most especially his humble and tireless pursuit of the truth revealed to us by God, the truth of His own being and of His plan for our world and, in particular, for man whom He has created in His own image and likeness, that is, for communion with Him, both in this life and, fully and perfectly, in the life which is to come. To the Board of Governors of Thomas Aquinas College, I express my heartfelt gratitude for the great honor which you have bestowed upon me.
Aristotle and St. Thomas More
My beloved graduates of Thomas Aquinas College, you have chosen for your emblem and inspiration a text from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which refers to "the best things in us," the element which has to do with our immortality, the element which reason taught to Aristotle and teaches to us, and which we also know, from Divine Revelation, as the immortal soul through which the Holy Spirit dwells within us. The wisdom of the Philosopher counsels us not to listen to voices which speak only of "human things," but to listen to the voice whose power and worth "surpass everything," the voice of God who draws us to the goodness of His immeasurable and unceasing love, by which we were created and by which we have been redeemed for eternal life. St. Thomas Aquinas, commenting on the same text of Aristotle, reminds us that the perfection of truth and goodness, which is in God, is really in man "but imperfectly and by participation, as it were."
It is the conscience, the voice of God, speaking to our souls, which is, in the words of the Venerable John Henry Newman, "the aboriginal Vicar of Christ." As such, the conscience is ever attuned to Christ Himself who instructs and forms it through His Vicar, the Roman Pontiff, and the bishops in communion with him. The Venerable Cardinal Newman observed that conscience "is a messenger of him, who, both in nature and in grace, speaks to us behind a veil, and teaches and rules us by his representatives." In accord with the wisdom of Aristotle, our thoughts and actions should not be conformed to the voices of men who speak about human and passing things, no matter how persuasive or powerful they may be, but to the voice of God speaking to us, through our conscience, about the realities which pertain to our relationship with Him and are enduring.
You have chosen as the patron saint of your class St. Thomas More, who steadfastly, in the face of imprisonment and execution, listened to the voice of God, rather than the voices of men who would have had him act according to a human way of thinking, alienated from the wisdom of God. At his trial on July 1, 1535, St. Thomas More held firmly to the living Tradition of the Church, which forbade him, in conscience, to acknowledge King Henry VIII with the title of Supreme Head of the Church. When, during his trial, the chancellor rebuked him, citing the acceptance of the title by so many bishops and nobles of the land, Thomas More replied: "My lord, for one bishop of your opinion I have a hundred saints of mine; and for one parliament of yours, and God knows of what kind, I have all the General Councils for 1,000 years …." When the Duke of Norfolk accused him of malice in his response, Thomas More responded: "What I say is necessary for discharge of my conscience and satisfaction of my soul, and to this I call God to witness, the sole Searcher of human hearts." Rightly, Thomas More declared on the scaffold before his execution: "I die the king's good servant, and God's first." The saint served his king well by obeying God Who revealed His truth to him through Thomas More's conscience, instructed and formed by the example of the saints of the Church and by her Magisterium.
To honor you, beloved graduates, I offer a reflection which comes from the heart of one called to be a pastor of souls. Out of love for your immortal souls, I offer a reflection which, I trust, will help you to continue to cultivate, throughout your lifetime, the divine wisdom and truth which you have been pursuing through your studies over the past years, for the steadfast cultivation of divine wisdom and truth is the way of happiness during the pilgrimage of our life on earth and prepares us for the final destiny of our life pilgrimage, the fullness of happiness, in the passage from this life to the life which is to come. Your emblem and your patron indicate that you place first in your lives the truth and love into which God leads you through your conscience. My reflection is offered to assist you in seeking always first the truth and love by which you will serve others and our world well by serving God first.
Humility as the Foundational Virtue
In considering the state of contemporary culture, especially in our nation, which we are called to transform into a culture after the mind and heart of Christ, I have asked myself as a pastor of souls what counsel could I best give to you, in accord with the wisdom of the Philosopher and the example of St. Thomas More. The counsel which I offer is the practice of humility, the cultivation of that disposition of mind and heart by which we acknowledge God as the source of all that we are and have, and turn to Him, in order that we may be and act in obedience to His law written on our hearts, in obedience to His voice, our conscience instructed and formed in us by Him in the Church.
Referring to St. Augustine's description of humility as the foundational virtue of a truly spiritual life, St. Thomas Aquinas commented:
And thus humility has the first place: inasmuch, that is, as it expels pride which God resists and shows man subject and always open to receive the outpouring of divine grace, to the degree that it eliminates the swelling of pride, as it is said in the Letter to James, that God resists the proud, he however gives grace to the humble.
St. Thomas concludes: "And according to this, humility is said to be the foundation of the spiritual building."
Humility is the foundational virtue which Our Lord Himself proposed to us in teaching us the way to happiness in this life and to perfect happiness in the life to come. In the Sermon on the Mount, the first way to happiness, which Our Lord proposes to us, is "poverty of spirit." He who is poor in spirit, whether he be materially poor or rich, acknowledges, in the depth of his being that he is poor in himself, that is, that he depends completely upon God and, therefore, turns to God in prayer, in order to know what is right and good, and to have the courage to do it. The "greatest in the kingdom of heaven" is, in the words of Our Lord Himself, the person who "humbles himself" like a "child," in the sense of not thinking that who he is and what he does is of his own making but, rather, that it is a gift from God to be treasured in its integrity. Humility and prayer are inseparably related.
Here it is instructive to recall the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, through which Our Lord teaches us the true nature of prayer. The Pharisee, while he thought to pray, was, in fact, talking to himself, full of pride in the good works which he was doing. The Publican, on the other hand, recognizing himself to be a sinner before God, truly prayed: "God, be merciful to me a sinner." Our Lord concludes the parable by teaching us that our justice comes not from ourselves but from God Who produces in us every good deed: "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Fr. Servais Pinckaers describes the poverty of spirit, to which Our Lord refers in the Sermon on the Mount, in these words:
However varying the forms poverty may take, they all interconnect and lead us into that fundamental emptiness which lies at the depth of our being: the consciousness of our condition as creatures. We did not make ourselves. All that we have and are comes from another, and will be taken from us some day, whether we wish it or not. We cannot stop the flow of time even for one instant; we can hold on to nothing as our own. This is the primordial poverty, the central void. All other forms of poverty are but its extensions.
In the face of the reality of our poverty before God, we either accept our poverty and turn to God as the only source of our richness, as did the Publican, or we create an illusory world in which we pretend that we are capable of all and, in fact, do not need God, as did the Pharisee.
Before the situation of our culture, in which man lives, in the words of the Venerable Pope John Paul II, "as if God did not exist," there is a great temptation to think that we, with the knowledge which we have acquired, can transform it. If we give way to the temptation, then we, rather than Christ, become the protagonist in the battle over sin and its most deadly fruit, eternal death. Christ, by His Holy Cross, is alone our salvation. We will not save the world; Christ alone saves our world. We share in His saving work to the extent that we are subject to Him, taking up with Him the Cross. Regarding poverty of spirit, Fr. Pinckaers concludes:
It is in the deepest part of our being that the first beatitude touches us and challenges us with a wholly personal question. Can we truly accept to be poor, to acknowledge our basic poverty in all honesty? Do we dare to believe that this very poverty can open up to us, contrary to all our expectations, a road to happiness and the Kingdom of heaven?
Has not humility been the primary virtue in which you have been schooled through a Catholic university education? Have you not been schooled at Thomas Aquinas College, in accord with its distinctive character as a Catholic institution, to engage in the "free search for the whole truth about nature, man and God"? Have you not been disciplined here to carry out the noble mission of higher studies by following Christ, the fullness of the Revelation of God, Who, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, guides us "into all the truth"? Have you not learned here, first and foremost, that Christ alone has won for us the freedom to conduct study and research which are "impartial," that is, "neither subordinated to nor conditioned by particular interests of any kind"?
Have you not discovered through your studies that Christ alone purifies our minds and hearts of the sin which blinds us to the truth about God, ourselves and the world? Have you not found that it is Christ alone who gives us the strength and the courage to seek, with an undivided mind and heart, "all the truth"?
If the wisdom which you have acquired through your studies at Thomas Aquinas College is to remain untainted by the sin of pride and to develop to meet the most formidable challenges which surely lie before you, beloved graduates, as they lie before us all, then you must continue to practice the virtue of humility by which you have attained any measure of wisdom. Christ is alive in His Church for the salvation of the world, for the transformation of our culture, and it is our vocation to let Christ alone act through us, by mortifying our self-importance and self-interest. We, who are called to be the "ambassadors of Christ" to the world, to bring Christ into every aspect of human thought and activity, must follow the example of St. John the Baptist who, when he could easily have been taken by the moral authority which was his, declared of himself in relationship to Christ: "He must increase, but I must decrease."
If we are to continue to grow in the science of divine love, then we must follow the Little Way of the Gospel, taught to us by St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church, Doctor of the Science of Divine Love. Her Little Way begins with humility, with a childlike recognition of our complete dependence upon God for every breath we draw and for every good we desire to achieve. Humility inspires in us true confidence, confidence which rests not upon ourselves but upon God and the action of His grace within us. Humility before God and confidence in His never failing love lead then to the abandonment of ourselves to Divine Providence. When we practice humility, we turn to Christ daily anew, seeking to follow Him, and trusting that He will bring to fruition our feeble efforts to be His co-workers in the world.
In her "Act of Oblation to Merciful Love," St. Thérèse expressed, in a striking way, the humility, the confidence and the abandonment to Divine Providence, which animated her life and manifested in her life the true science of divine love. She wrote:
I thank You, O God! For all the graces You have granted me, especially the grace of making me pass through the crucible of suffering. It is with joy I shall contemplate You on the Last Day carrying the scepter of Your Cross. Since You deigned to give me a share in this very precious Cross, I hope in heaven to resemble You and to see shining in my glorified body the sacred stigmata of Your Passion.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux teaches us the Gospel way of the communion of our heart with the glorious pierced Heart of Jesus. True humility disposes us to give our hearts totally to Christ, to place our hearts completely into His Sacred Heart, in which they are purified of sin and inflamed with His pure and selfless love. St. Thérèse concluded her "Act of Oblation to Merciful Love" with this aspiration:
I want, O my Beloved, at each beat of my heart to renew this offering to You an infinite number of times, until the shadows having disappeared I may be able to tell You of my Love in an Eternal Face to Face!
The years of study which you, beloved graduates, celebrate today could produce no finer fruit than the humble and total daily offering of your heart to the Heart of Jesus, gloriously seated at the right hand of the Father and alive for us in the Church, until you are able finally to offer Him your heart in the "Eternal Face to Face," to which we are all called.
The Need for Daily Prayer
It is through prayer that we first and best practice humility, confidence, and abandonment to Divine Providence. It is through prayer that we turn over our lives completely to Our Lord upon Whom we are totally dependent, as a small child before a parent. In a particular way, the Examination of Conscience and the Act of Contrition, offered each night before we retire, express the humility which reflects the truth of our being before God and in His creation.
St. Thomas often declared "that he learnt more at the foot of the crucifix than from books." Regarding the knowledge and love of Christ, which inspired and sustained St. Thomas, his faithful secretary, Fr. Reginald of Priverno, declared:
His marvelous science was far less due to his genius than to the efficacy of his prayers. He prayed with tears to obtain from God the understanding of His mysteries, and abundant enlightenment was vouchsafed to his mind.
As he was dying, after he had received Viaticum, St. Thomas Aquinas offered this prayer in the presence of the assembled monks of the monastery at Fossanova:
I receive you, price of my soul's redemption, I receive you, viaticum of my pilgrimage, for love of whom I have studied, watched, labored; I have preached you, I have taught you; never have I said anything against you, and if I have done so it is through ignorance and I do not grow stubborn in my error; if I have taught ill on this sacrament or the others, I submit it to the judgment of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience to which I leave now this life.
The most important lesson which your education at Thomas Aquinas College has taught you is to begin and to conclude all of your studies and activities with Christ, that is, with prayer, humbly submitting the judgment of your thoughts and actions to His church, and obediently accepting the teaching and discipline of the Church.
Before the challenge of living in Christ in our totally secularized culture, there is a great temptation to give way to doubt and fear regarding the Little Way of Christ, and to think that we must devise some program, "some magic formula," to transform the world. But Christ alone, seated at the right hand of the Father and alive for us in the Church, can transform us and the world. Pope John Paul II reminded us that our humble and confident following of Christ alone brings about the conversion of our lives and the transformation of our culture. In his Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, he wrote:
It is not therefore a matter of inventing a "new program." The program already exists: it is the plan found in the Gospel and in the living tradition, it is the same as ever. Ultimately, it has its center in Christ himself, who is to be known, loved and imitated, so that in him we may live the life of the Trinity, and with him transform history until its fulfillment in the heavenly Jerusalem.
Dear graduates, with humility, trust, and abandonment to Divine Providence, center your life on Christ by daily prayer and Sunday Mass. When possible, make daily Mass the pattern of your life. Begin each day with prayer. By your prayer and devotion, let Christ accompany you throughout every day. Conclude each day with the examination of conscience and the act of contrition. Regularly confess your sins and receive God's forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance.
Keeping Company with the Mother of God
n a particular way, call upon the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as you face the great challenge of living in Christ, with humility and trust. Make her words in response to the Archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation your own: "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word." It is the Blessed Virgin Mary who teaches us to imitate her in humility and trust. As Mary did for the wine stewards at the Wedding Feast of Cana, so she now directs us to her Divine Son and gives us the maternal counsel: "Do whatever He tells you." Mary is the model in following her own counsel, from the moment of the Incarnation to the moment of Christ's cruel death, as she stood at the foot of the Cross.
Keep company with the Mother of God, especially under her title so dear to our continent, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of America and Star of the New Evangelization, and she will unfailingly draw you to her Divine Son Who alone is our salvation. She will lead you in the way of poverty of spirit, of humble trust and of abandonment to Divine Providence. Praying the Rosary, meditating upon the mysteries of the vocation and mission of Christ, while praying the Hail Mary, unite your hearts to her Immaculate Heart and, with her, place your hearts ever more completely into the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in which are found all of the treasures of God's immeasurable mercy and love.
The chapel of Thomas Aquinas College has been most fittingly dedicated to Our Lord Jesus Christ and to His Mother, under her title Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. The Virgin Mary who, by a special favor from God, from the moment of her conception, shared, in anticipation, in the life of Divine Grace won for us by Christ, her Son, draws us to live in Christ, to live in the Most Holy Trinity, through our life in the Church. Mary teaches us the love of God the Father, made flesh through the Incarnation of God the Son, so that God the Father and God the Son might pour forth into our souls, as they did for Mary, the sevenfold gift of God the Holy Spirit.
Embracing One's Vocation
In conclusion, I place my reflection upon humility within the context of the call which God gives to each of us to pour out his life, with Christ, in selfless love of God and neighbor. The response to God's call, our divine vocation, is, at its foundation, an act of humble trust, of abandonment to Divine Providence. As we are privileged to take part in today's commencement, we are deeply conscious that all Catholic education is ultimately at the service of our knowledge of God's plan for each of us and our following of God's call with an undivided heart; all Catholic education should lead us in the way of poverty of spirit by which we know God's call in our lives and respond with an undivided heart.
From the moment of our baptism, God desires that we give our lives completely, with Christ, in love of Him, either in the married life, the dedicated single life, the consecrated life, or the priesthood. It is only when we know our vocation in life and embrace it humbly and trust that we find joy and peace, and are able to place the good gifts which God has given to us at the service of others.
In our culture which is indifferent to religious faith and totally secularized, it is difficult to hear the voice of God Who calls us. It is especially difficult to hear God's call to serve Him and His holy people in the consecrated life and the priesthood. The habit of daily prayer, learned at the School of Mary, will dispose you, dear graduates, to spend time each day in silence before God, asking Him how He would have you serve Him and His holy people. In prayer, especially at the Holy Mass and before the Blessed Sacrament, you will know your vocation in life and receive the grace to embrace it with an undivided heart.
Speaking of the finality of Catholic education in the knowledge and embrace of our vocation in life, I acknowledge, in a particular way, the excellence of Thomas Aquinas College. A remarkable number of graduates of the College have responded to vocations to the priesthood and to the consecrated life in all of its richness of forms. Likewise, I have known and have worked closely with a number of graduates who have responded to the call to the married life, acknowledging the important contribution of the College to the living of their vocation. The remarkable culture of vocational discernment fostered at Thomas Aquinas College is a most wonderful gift to the individual students and to the whole Church. May God bless the College with an abundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit so that her students may always embrace God's will for them.
Beloved graduates of Thomas Aquinas College, my heartfelt congratulations! May Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity teach you humility and lead you to total trust in her Divine Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, so that you may abandon yourselves to Divine Providence, loving God and your neighbor with all your heart, with all your being. So may you follow the counsel of Aristotle to attend to "the best things in us" and to listen to the voice whose power and worth "surpass everything." So may you imitate St. Thomas More, serving your neighbor and our world well by serving God first.
"It's wonderful how, in the integrated curriculum, everything matches up. You'll be reading one thing in language class, and then it will come up again in philosophy, and goes on to affect everything you read from then on. You get a deeper understanding of each discipline by seeing how they connect with the others."
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The tragedy in Tucson might not have resulted in so many deaths and injuries if the gunman had been limited to 10 rounds before attempting to reload, gun control advocates say. In all, six people died and 14 were wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) of Arizona.
Congresswoman McCarthy, who ran for Congress after her husband was killed and son injured in a 1993 shooting on the Long Island Rail Road, suggests she is focusing on ammunition magazines as opposed to the weapons themselves in a bow to political reality.
"I have to look at ... what can actually pass in Congress and have it signed by the president," McCarthy said Tuesday in an interview with National Public Radio. "The House and the Senate are pro-gun houses."
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In 2007, Congress passed, and President Bush signed, a bill aimed at boosting compliance with reporting requirements to keep mentally disturbed people from buying firearms. That came following the Virginia Tech massacre earlier that year, in which a deranged student killed 32 people in a shooting rampage.
In an interview Tuesday on MSNBC, McCarthy acknowledged that sportsmen can enjoy using high-capacity clips in target-shooting, but called on them to sacrifice "for the safety of other people."
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Senator Lautenberg says he plans to file legislation limiting gun clips to 10 rounds later this month, after Congress reconvenes.
The National Rifle Association has posted news articles on its web site about the planned legislation focused on high-capacity clips, but has yet to respond specifically to the plans. When asked for a response, an NRA media liaison issued the same statement the organization has been putting out since the Tucson shootings: "At this time anything other than prayers for the victims and their families would be inappropriate."
Another member of Congress, Rep. Peter King (R) of New York, announced Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation making it illegal to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of certain government officials, such as lawmakers. Congressman King is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and cochair of the Congressional Task Force on Illegal Guns.
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STRONGSVILLE, Ohio - July 2, 2009 - One of America's best-known motorcycle builders and customizers, Dave Perewitz, often called the master of "art in motion," will sign autographs at the PPG exhibit during the Goodguys PPG Nationals July 10 - 12, at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Regarded as a living legend among hot rod, street rod, and motorcycle enthusiasts, Perewitz is the force behind Perewitz Cycle Fabrication, his family-run shop in Bridgewater, MA. A gifted custom painter and devotee of PPG products, Perewitz is known for his one-of-a-kind, hand-built creations and awesome flame designs - a combination of design, engineering, performance and beauty.
Perewitz's reputation for excellence gained broader awareness when he competed in two Biker Build-Offs for the Discovery Channel's popular cable program. Many celebrities, including Hulk Hogan, Aerosmith's Brad Whitford, NASCAR's Tony Stewart, Ray Evernham, Kyle Petty and others, have commissioned him for custom motorcycle builds. He recently ventured into street rod designs when he teamed with Factory Five Racing and Street Rodder magazine to build a stunning orange FFR '33 Hot Rod. This awesome hot rod will be displayed at the PPG Vibrance Show Truck in Columbus.
Perewitz will appear and sign autographs at the PPG Vibrance Show Truck Friday, July 10 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm and on Saturday, July 11 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.
PPG will also present a seminar covering the Vibrance Collection(r) and Deltron(r) product lines along with the latest in PPG waterborne technology. The seminar is scheduled for Saturday, July 11 from 1:45 pm to 2:30 pm, and will give special attention to the creative possibilities PPG products afford customizers.
This is the 12th year PPG has sponsored the Goodguys Nationals. Goodguys is the world's largest rod and custom association with membership approaching 70,000 nationwide. According to Marc Meadors, Goodguys president, "the Goodguys PPG Nationals has become the mid-summer meeting place for the entire hot rodding community. With over 6,500 rods, customs, muscle cars and classics, this event symbolizes America's passion for hot cars and bright colors, showcasing the industry's latest trends. Together with PPG, Goodguys will keep the hot rod torch shining for future generations of car lovers worldwide."


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One more reason to dump the EU- they are going to make criminals out of average people who just want to keep their home clean. – Anthony
Eric Worrall says: August 22, 2014 at 9:46 pm
In a totalitarian state, the measure of your power is how much misery you can cause
dp says: August 22, 2014 at 10:40 pm
It's just starting. A utopian's work is never done. Ever. The EU is the new and improved 1000 year reich. This is what happens when none of your founding documents begin with "We the people…".
Jim G says: August 22, 2014 at 10:51 pm
And now, from the people who brought you RoHS.
but then at last there is sense
SidF says: August 23, 2014 at 2:28 am
I have a 1400 W Dyson that has very strong suction, so much so that on older carpets it can difficult to push. So 1600 W should be more than enough for a well designed cleaner. Dyson led the way in the transition to more efficient cyclone bagless cleaners and now dominate the UK market. The Hoover brand in the UK is owned by Candy, an Italian washing machine and white goods company and their floor cleaners are probably designed and made outside the UK. Hoover cleaners were very slow to adopt cyclones as the throw away bag filter was the most profitable part of the product offering.
I would think only a very small proportion of cleaners on the UK market are over 1400 W.
Not everything the EU does will be big money savers though. Some things are, such as the requirement to limit stand by power consumption on some home electronics to 1 W. I have a small older Sony hi fi that consumes 25 W on stand by….so the EU must have made some bif power savings there.
And haven't they mandated that all phone chargers are mini USB to stop the proliferation of different charger connectiors we used to have?
Now from the manufacturers:
Dyson http://www.dyson.co.uk/energy-ratings.aspx
Leading the campaign for efficient motors.
Dyson has never engineered a machine with a motor rated higher than 1600W. We campaigned for motor wattage caps for vacuum cleaners, and welcome the fact that the energy label will introduce a maximum power input for new vacuum cleaners, capping motors at 1600W in order to reduce their electricity usage.
from a Hoover info page:
Motor size (new) 700 W (watts)
Motor size (new)850 W (watts)
Samsung seem to have a design problem (2.1kW)
Numatic Henry
power between 800 and 2200W
It seems to me that there is no problem with 1.6kW motors and even 900W motors. The design is the thing. and some people are better at design than others!
So in all it seems that the new EU regulation is not going to cause longer use of the cleaner it will simply stop inefficient design.
However it will not save much energy - using Dysons figures
Dyson has always shown that through efficient engineering, high performance can be achieved with low power – and we're trying to encourage others to do the same. We have successfully lobbied the European Union to introduce a cap on the size of vacuum motors from 2014. The estimated energy savings from the EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling measures for vacuum cleaners amount to 19 Terawatt hours of electricity per year by 2020. This corresponds to an estimated 8 million tons of CO2
19 Terra watt hours (19e12) sounds a lot but this equates to 2.2GW generator running continuously. I.e. a couple of power stations over the whole of the EU
The regulation of maximum standby power to less than 1W on things like wall-warts TVs satellite receivers, hi-fi etc save perhaps more than 750MW power per year in UK alone.
The comment on RoHS from the watts site is just plain ludicrous. The proliferation of electronics in society and the " I must have the new best" throw-away culture would mean Lead pollution. The requirement for manufacturers to take back and recycle the stuff to me just makes sense.
The CE mark (which does not mean China Export!!) SHOULD guarantee that the item you purchased conforms to EU safety and EMC requirements and the benefit to society should be obvious. It does require more testing and proving - and hence higher cost - to the manufacturer but again the benefits are worth it.
Without such regulations the west would be fighting fog and pollution as China is today. No manufacturer would comply without government regulation (why should I lose profit when other companies are not) following the low pollution course)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the two years that Gregory Jaczko has led the nation"s independent nuclear agency, his actions to delay, hide and kill work on a disputed dump for high-level radioactive waste have been called "bizarre," "unorthodox" and "illegal."
These harsh critiques haven"t come just from politicians who have strong views in favor of the Yucca Mountain waste site in Nevada. They"ve come from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission"s own scientists and a former agency chairman.
An inspector general"s report released last week exposed the internal strife under Jaczko. The internal watchdog said he intimidated staff members who disagreed with him and withheld information from members of the commission to gain their support.
The tactics disclosed in the investigative report are just the latest in a saga unfolding since President Barack Obama put the former aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who is Yucca"s leading opponent, at the helm of the agency in May 2009. Less than a year after Jaczko was named chairman, the Energy Department sought to pull back its application to construct the dump.
Since then, Jaczko has made a series of decisions that have aided the administration"s goal of shutting down Yucca Mountain. His purported reasons for doing so have come under attack by Congress, his fellow commissioners and in-house experts as being contrary to the 1982 law that requires the NRC to review the government"s plans for an underground repository in Nevada for the country"s spent nuclear fuel.
Emails and documents gathered by investigators on three House committees and reviewed by The Associated Press, along with interviews with NRC staff members, paint an even more damning portrait of the NRC leader. They also raise questions about whether the agency"s independence and scientific integrity have been compromised to advance a political agenda.
"He was put there to stop Yucca Mountain, and that is what he is doing," said former NRC chairman and commissioner Dale E. Klein. Klein was appointed chairman in 2006 by President George W. Bush and left in March 2010.
The revelations come after the Japanese nuclear crisis exposed the risks associated with storing spent fuel in pools at a nuclear plant and after reports showing that $15 billion has been spent on Yucca Mountain even though it may never open.
"These actions not only violated the president"s own highly promoted principles and directives on scientific integrity, transparency, and openness, but they have increased taxpayer liabilities …, left nuclear waste sitting at reactor sites across the country with no plan for disposal and ultimately threatened the long-term potential of nuclear power to meet America"s growing energy demands with safe, clean, and affordable electricity," said Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas. Hall is chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, one of three committees that conducted investigations.
Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., put it more bluntly: "Science, existing law, and the need for long-term nuclear waste storage seem to be missing from this discussion," he said.
Both Jaczko and Obama have pledged to let public policy be shaped by science over politics. But last October, the NRC chief instructed his staff to stop work on one of the most critical questions surrounding Yucca Mountain: whether the stored radioactive waste would spoil groundwater in 10,000 years and would expose people to unsafe amounts of radiation for a million years.
After fighting Jaczko for its release, congressional aides who reviewed a draft of the analysis say it showed that NRC experts determined Yucca was safe. While Jaczko had not seen the document, his decision to halt the review meant the staff"s conclusions were stripped from the report.
Klein, the former NRC chairman, told the AP in an interview that "the decision on safety is the independent regulator"s job. They have not been given the opportunity to make the determination."
Jaczko says his actions are consistent with commission policy, and he has never expressed any personal views on the Yucca Mountain project.
In an AP interview, Jaczko declined to answer detailed questions but said all his actions were aimed at nuclear safety. The inspector general"s report issued Friday found he had not broken the law.
But that report did not examine another decision Jaczko made related to Yucca: a decision to delay a vote on whether the Energy Department could withdraw its application for the project. Nearly a year after a separate nuclear licensing board ruled the application couldn"t be withdrawn, the commission has yet to weigh in, even though a majority of commissioners have submitted their positions in writing.
Jaczko rejected the notion that politics is involved in the year-long delay.
"Is the decision-making process taking a long time?" Jaczko said in the interview. "Yes. Is that unusual? Not entirely."
These two decisions have caused longtime staff members to become suspicious of Jaczko"s motives. Before Jaczko shut down their efforts, agency experts were on track to deliver two of the safety reviews ahead of schedule. But in a memo issued June 11, 2010, Jaczko told the staff not to issue them early, a move that had employees asking if he had crossed a line. Four months later he shut down the work altogether.
Four of the most senior experts working on Yucca objected to Jaczko"s move, saying it was a policy matter the full five-member commission needed to consider. Two commissioners agreed, but when one of them filed a motion to reverse Jaczko"s decision, two other commissioners declined to participate. The two commissioners who declined to participate later told the inspector general that Jaczko did not fully disclose that his plans would terminate the work.
When commissioner William Magwood, a Democrat, confronted Jaczko about misleading him, the inspector general reported that Jaczko"s reply was: "You should have asked."
Senior scientists with the high-level waste division also objected to a memo drafted by Christine Haney, a top NRC manager, on Feb. 4 providing the commission with an update on their work to close down the review. The memo, they argued, failed to mention that Jaczko was behind the decision to shut down the scientific evaluation.
"Every time I tried to find a different way to say chairman directed or the commission directed, I was told I could not say that," said Janet Kotra, a senior project manager who has been with the NRC for 27 years and worked full time on Yucca Mountain since 1993. "I could not include a declarative sentence that the chairman directed staff to terminate the review." She called it "a most unorthodox process."
Kotra"s boss, King Stablein, supported her objection in correspondence to Haney and attached to the final memo.
"Staff has struggled on a daily basis to figure out how to cope with this bizarre situation in a manner which would enable staff to maintain its integrity," he wrote on Feb. 3, 2011.
Haney, through a spokesman, declined to comment on the matter, and referred to her written response to staffers. It said that the chairman"s decision fell outside the purpose of the memo and that the closure was "well vetted" by the commission.
Senior NRC officials played down the dispute over the memo in an interview with the AP, saying Jaczko has never shied away from his role in terminating the licensing review. The officials also said the objections of the staff were shared with the full commission.
Other staffers put their opinions in even stronger terms.
In an email dated Oct. 18, 2010, and marked "not for public disclosure", Daniel Graser, a data administrator for the board reviewing the Yucca application asked a board member and chief counsel for clarification on what he could do if he perceived that an action was illegal.
"If we believe that a senior official is violating a federal law, what obligation do we have to report that, and, who do we report it to?" he asked.
Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, chairman of a House spending panel that oversees the NRC"s budget, has called for Jackzo to step down and said his actions have damaged the NRC"s reputation.
"It"s supposed to be an apolitical organization that bases its decisions on science and facts and those kinds of things, and it has been that for many years," Simpson said. "Jaczko has allowed politics to enter the picture, and with many members of Congress, the credibility of the NRC has gone downhill."
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Treyarch has officially revealed the minimum specs and additional tech info on the PC version of Black Ops II.
What are the Minimum System Requirements?
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- Memory: 2GB for 32-bit OS or 4GB for 64-bit OS
- Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB
Can I run the game on Windows XP?
- No, sorry. Since we upgraded the engine to use DirectX11, Windows XP is no longer supported. It requires Windows Vista or later.
Will the game actually be playable on my minimum spec machine?
- Absolutely. We have tested extensively on a variety of hardware and we are very confident in the performance even at the minimum specs.
What engine is used for Black Ops II?
- The Black Ops II engine builds upon the Black Ops engine with a number of improvements including performance optimizations, enhanced graphics, and proprietary anti-cheat technology.
What performance optimizations have you introduced for Black Ops II?
- Performance has been a top priority for Black Ops II PC from day one and we have achieved significant improvements. We've improved the way the engine handles multiple threads. Additionally, we moved the engine from DX9 to DX11. The DX11 API is leaner than DX9 and requires less CPU time to do the same amount of work. It is important to point out that this benefits the entire range of supported GPUs, not just DX11 hardware. We have also added more "quality vs performance" options than ever before so you can customize your experience to either run faster or to satisfy your taste in eye candy.
You mentioned enhanced graphics for the PC version. Can you tell us more about that?
- Black Ops II PC features enhanced lighting, shadows, antialiasing, bloom, depth of field, ambient occlusion, and other enhanced effects that are still in the works. And the game can run at higher resolutions and higher framerates on the PC.
Will there be a framerate cap?
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Some couples did it on the sly. Others made the choice for simplicity's sake. Some were in a hurry and just wanted to get the deed done.
No matter what the reason, there were dozens and dozens of couples from southern Michigan and northwest Ohio who chose to marry in Angola, Ind., during the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
"I think it was a fad around that time," said Wilma Fink, who married there in 1939, and she thinks she knows the reason why.
"It was after they put in a law in Michigan about applying for a license and waiting three or four days," she said.
When some couples made the decision to get married, three or four days was simply too long.
From the Morenci area, Angola was the first county seat in Indiana for matrimony-minded couples.
Wilma and her then-boyfriend Charlie were students at Adrian College when they headed to Indiana. They planned to go to LaGrange, but the car started coughing and sputtering around Fayette.
They had it checked out, but of course there was no problem when the mechanic drove it for a test, so on they went toward Indiana.
"It started coughing again so we decided Angola was just far enough," Wilma said.
They asked about a Congregational Church, but there wasn't one in town so they went to the Methodist parsonage. The pastor accepted whatever payment was offered, which wasn't much.
"I think Charlie only had five bucks," Wilma said.
They stopped for a hamburger on the way home—probably in Fayette—then drove back to the college.
"I went to a sorority party that night and Charlie went to a fraternity party."
It was a clandestine affair and three weeks passed before Wilma mentioned her new status to her mother. Was she angry? No, she had another concern.
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At Liberty University's Convocation on Friday, college football coaching legend Bobby Bowden shared his story, imparting life wisdom to the students, laced with a healthy dose of wit and humor.
Bowden last spoke at Liberty in 2007 and said he is impressed by Liberty's amazing growth, noting he has been following the university since it was founded in 1971. He toured campus facilities, including the state-of-the-art Williams Stadium, and met with Liberty Head Coach Turner Gill and other members of administration.
Before Bowden took the stage, students heard from former professional bodybuilder Lee Haney, who was named Mr. Olympia a record eight times in a row (dethroning Arnold Schwarzenegger).
|Lee Haney, who was crowned Mr. Olympia a record eight-straight times, gave a brief challenge to the student body before Bowden spoke.
"Remember to honor God with your gifts," Haney said, sharing his key to success. "He will do great and marvelous things in you. You will be the ones to impact and change the world for good. Allow God to be first. Talk to Him and let Him control your life. There is no cooler person than Jesus Christ."
President Jerry Falwell, Jr. introduced Bowden to the student body, calling him " a legend in American athletic history."
"His reputation is iconic; he is known as much, though, for his personal faith in Christ as he is for training young men out on the football field," Falwell said. "Having coached young men in seven decades, he is the winningest coach in major college football history."
Bowden led Florida State University to more than 300 victories, three national championships, and 12 Atlantic Coast Conference titles in his 34-year tenure. Under Bowden, the team finished in the top five in the country in 14 straight seasons and went to bowl games in 28 consecutive seasons.
Bowden shared how God worked in His life, noting the seeming providence of having received six coaching jobs — including the head coach position at West Virginia University before Florida State — without ever applying for one of them.
"Folks, that is God leading my life because I tried to serve Him … whatever mistakes I made He forgave me and led me," Bowden said.
As a child Bowden was pulled out of school for a year due to illness. He was told by doctors he would likely not live to 40 years old. But he prayed to God for healing, promising Him that he would use his love for athletics to serve Him. He fully recovered and was able to play sports again.
"I can look back and see exactly how God put my life together," he said. "You can't tell that story yet, 'cause yours is ahead of you and you don't know what is going to happen to you. But what I'm saying is if you put God first in your life … God will work miracles in your life if you let Him. God is alive."
He told the students that his life is an example of what blessings can come to those who serve the Lord.
"All of you will eventually graduate and you will be out there working on your profession, and all I say is put God first, let Him lead you … if you'll follow that, I think you will end up successful."


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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Roadside Saurians
Along the way, I took gigabyte upon gigabyte of photographs, which I'm only about a third of the way through sorting and processing to share at Flickr. These photos naturally included the dinosaurs we saw along the road. I'll start my short series of posts inspired by the trip with some of these charismatic creatures of the Mesozoic.
My favorite was a Spinosaurus perched outside a rock and fossil shop in Orderville, UT, a small town sitting between Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. As we rounded the bend in Rt. 89 into town, this guy came into view, and it was impossible not to stop.
Not the most accurate by-the-book spinosaurid you'll ever see, but refreshingly depicted in a posture that's kind of right.
For sheer volume of roadside dinosaurs, it's hard to beat Vernal, UT, a short drive from Dinosaur National Monument. Some have seen better days, such as this dopey pink sauropodosomething.
Outside of a hotel, there's a green, spiky-backed sauropodosomething with a rather uncomfortable electronic sign on its neck.
There's also a T. rex, naturally depicted in classic man-in-suit posture, as any red-blooded American tyrant dinosaur should be. He's also a bit of an angler, it would seem.
The best Vernal has to offer is a Morrison tableau featuring Ceratosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Camarasaurus.
In what must be a show of Jurassic herbivore solidarity, the young Camarasaurus has found a savior in Stegosaurus, which ably deploys its thagomizer in its defense...
... by bashing him in the tender underparts.
You want a close-up of that, don't you?
As you approach the Utah entrance of Dinosaur National Monument, a gift shop boasts a big green sauropod of its own. Like most sauropods you see on the side of the road, the sculptor likely had no specific taxon in mind. Just a long neck, long tail, and some pillar legs, and you've got what springs to 90% of folks' minds when they hear the word "dinosaur."
Now that we've come to the gate of DNM, we'll be entering the park to check out the new quarry visitor center. Before that, I'll share some vintage dinosaur art photographed in a surprising place. Stay tuned!
9 comments:
Absolutely wonderful. I do like that tableau most of all.ReplyDelete
I totally remember some of these (the pink sauropodomorph and the Morrison threesome) when my family visited the region in 1973 (when I was 7). Glad that they are still around.ReplyDelete
Love the final saurasomething. Totally exemplifies the Monty Python theory about dinosaurs.ReplyDelete
I wish MY town was full of roadside dinosaurs . . . sigh!ReplyDelete
these are absolutely wonderful. I need to make a trip to see as many roadside dinos as I can before many of them crumble away.ReplyDelete
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I've been in pics with that pink Vernal dinosaur on two separate occasions. Classic. Did you go to the Vernal Field House museum of Nat. History? They have some great dinos outside, including an ahead-of-its-time Allosaur by Dave Thomas.ReplyDelete
"Like most sauropods you see on the side of the road, the sculptor likely had no specific taxon in mind."ReplyDelete
I wouldn't say that. The sculptor seemed to be going for some kind of diplodocid.Replies
It does resemble Diplodocus as seen in a lot of old palaeoart. It was always grey, too...Delete


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With such a lengthy and deep ancestry in North America, spread over hundreds of years, family members in subsequent generations have been found in all corners of the United States and Canada.
In the past couple of weeks, I have devoted time to tracking down the family members directly connected to Ellen's second great aunt, Elizabeth Nusbickel (nee Wagner). Elizabeth was the sister of Ellen's second great grandfather Jacob Wagner. Both Jacob and Elizabeth had immigrated to the United States along with their parents Heinrich 'Henry' and Anna Marie 'Mary' (nee Eckhard) Wagner around 1833, settling in Wayne County, New York. Henry provided for his family by both farming his land and by plying his trade as a cooper. The photo, above right, was taken by Ellen's uncle Gordon Wagner in 1976 and was provided to us by Gordon as part of his genealogy work charts and papers on the Wagner family. The photo, which I scanned, depicts Stewart Smart (a cousin) with a barrel made by Henry Wagner over one hundred years prior to the photo.
Elizabeth Wagner married Frederick Nusbickel around 1843. Elizabeth and Frederick had five known children, the youngest, Catherine or 'Kate' was born in 1855 in Rose, Wayne County, New York. Around 1880, Kate married a Lyons, Wayne County, New York school teacher named Josiah F. Kletzing. Subsequently, Josiah and Kate left New York state and moved to the Chicago, Cook County, Illinois area where they settled down and raised their family.
While I have used the Ancestry website to view and save many records connected to the families, when the Ancestry 'well ran dry', I turned to FamilySearch.org to explore the Cook County databases that are available. This is where I got lucky. Through FamilySearch, I was able to locate and save vital records for the births, marriages, and deaths for the five known children of Kate and Josiah. In the case of their daughter Kathryn Kletzing, I was able to go one generation further by finding an image of her 1912 marriage license to Ralph Clayton Moulding as well as the birth records for three of their four children.
Fortunately, I was possibly one of the last people to access the record images online. Yesterday, FamilySearch 'announced' through it's wiki that these images would no longer be available directly through FamilySearch. The wiki now explains, under the "Image Visibility" section, that, "Due to the provisions and guidelines of a newly revised contract with Cook County, FamilySearch has removed all images for Illinois, Cook County vital records from its historical records collection online; free indexes to the collections will remain."
This affects the following databases:
- Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates, 1878 - 1922
- Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers. 1871 - 1915
- Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878 - 1922
- Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871 - 1920
Although the images are no longer available online, they can still be acquired through microfilm viewed at a local Family History Centre, through the Cook County website for a fee, or through a Family History Library "photoduplication" request. I feel lucky that timing was on my side in the past few days as none of the now current acquisition methods is nearly as convenient as my experience.


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The horror of ruthless bullying reduced a 68-year-old bus monitor in upstate New York to tears and made the video of her torment viral on the Internet. It may also have been a tipping point for the growing phenomenon known as crowdfunding.
The plight of Karen Klein, the bus monitor in Greece, N.Y. who was shown crying as some middle schoolers taunted her mercilessly, shocked millions of viewers who saw the video after it was posted on YouTube Tuesday, and prompted a Canadian man to turn to the crowdfunding website IndieGoGo.
"As soon as I heard of Karen Huff Klein I had to create a fundraiser here for this nice lady," Max Sidorov wrote on the fundraising page he set up for Ms. Klein. "Let's give Karen a vacation of a lifetime, let's show her the power of the internets and how kind and generous people can be."
Mr. Sidorov, who reportedly lives in Ontario, could not be immediately reached for further comment.
The result was an unprecedented deluge of money from people mainly appalled by the students' bullying. As of Friday, the campaign had raised nearly $600,000, and the crush of interest from around the world had slowed down the website to the point that it had appeared the servers had crashed. IndieGoGo says never had one of its causes raised so much money in such a short time.
"The world has never seen such a convergence of social media, communication, transparency, and connection. That's what crowdfunding is," says Slava Rubin, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based company. "What has happened in the 48 hours is absolutely remarkable."
The concept of crowdfunding is a close cousin to the better-known term crowdsourcing: tapping into a mass of knowledge by using the Internet to find users of, say, Facebook or Yelp or Cats.com. From there, it's a small evolution to using the Internet to garner money from farflung individuals, something that only really became possible with technology in the late 1990s to facilitate business transactions and to transfer money easily and safely, with websites like PayPal and Amazon and eBay.
In the past half-decade, the idea of using the Internet and crowds of otherwise unconnected people to raise money has steadily gained traction. Musicians, writers, and filmmakers use crowdfunding to persuade people to chip in a few dollars here and there to record albums, write books, or make films. Philanthropists have used the concept to generate interest and funding for orphans in third-world countries. Entrepreneurs have used it to raise money for new devices or video games. One couple used IndieGoGo to raise money for a medical procedure to help them get pregnant.
Websites have since sprouted like mushrooms across the Internet, with hundreds of new sites seeking to connect donors and philanthropists, investors and companies, or music lovers and musicians. IndieGoGo and its competitor KickStarter remain among the largest and most publicized endeavors. Underscoring the growth in investor interest in the crowdfunding industry, IndieGogo earlier this month received a $15 million injection of venture capital, the largest single investment in a crowdfunding enterprise.
IndieGoGo says it has hosted more than 100,000 campaigns, in one of 28 categories ranging from "transmedia" and "theater" to "food" and "animals."
"It may herald, be a mark of a coming change in how we go about philanthrophy. It's a new model," says Michael Nilsen, spokesman for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a Virginia-based group that represents development officers and philanthrophy officials mainly in the US. "People want to get involved and if we're not giving them that, we're ultimately going to miss out as we transition from traditional donors to younger donors. It's not enough to just write a check anymore."
While "cause-related" or "donation" campaigns like that for Karen Klein have received much publicity, another development earlier this year stands to yield a further explosion in interest in crowdfunding. Legislation signed into law by President Obama in April included a provision that allows small start-ups to seek out equity investment using crowdfunding.
Some see the extension of crowdfunding into equity investing as a natural progression. Others, however, say the potential for financial fraud and chicanery makes it ill-advised.
"For its part, donation crowdfunding works precisely because the donor doesn't really care much about getting a product or making personal gain: most of the donors immediately write off their donation – either financially or psychologically, or both. Expectations of return are minimal at best," wrote Daniel Isenberg, a business professor with Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., in a recent edition of the Harvard Business Review.
"Buying stock is a very different story. It's a claim or asset forever. That's a very different relationship," he says.


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And Los Angeles and Baltimore are poised for new broadband projects.
State and local CIOs outlined a series of challenges – from replacing 20-year-old systems to making government work seem "cool" to 20-somethings – at Government Technology's Beyond the Beltway Conference Monday just outside Washington D.C.
The annual conference offered technology vendors a market briefing from CIOs at some of the nation's most significant state and local jurisdictions. This year's event threw a spotlight on pressing issues for technology leaders in government. Here are some of them:
State revenues may be improving, but that doesn't always translate into more money for technology projects.
Ohio CIO Stu Davis described technology spending in his state as "a little better than it has been," and Texas CIO Karen Robinson said IT budgets in her state are holding up nicely. Others aren't so lucky, however. Pennsylvania CIO Tony Encinias said rising pension and benefit costs are crowding out funding for his department. "The state budget is getting better, but that doesn't help me," he said. "I actually don't have as much money as before."
On the local side, Baltimore CIO Chris Tonjes said the recession isn't over in his city. "Our revenues haven't recovered to the degree they have in other cities," he said. "That makes it difficult for us to ask for more IT money."
And Mississippi CIO Craig Orgeron noted that rebounding revenues may be dulling legislative appetite for technology transformation. "You can advocate for change when revenue is going down," he said. "But the will to change is different when revenues are going up."
Work force issues loomed large for many of the 10 state and local government CIOs speaking at the event. Most of them said a third or more of their staff would be eligible to retire over the next few years.
One of the more drastic examples came from the city of Los Angeles, where 60 percent of IT employees will reach retirement age in the next five years, said Steve Reneker, general manager of the city's Information Technology and Services department. That's one factor driving a strategic initiative to explore privatization of some or all of the city's technology infrastructure. Reneker said he expects to bring privatization recommendations to the Los Angeles City Council within the next few months.
In some cases, Reneker added, jobs also are being filled by interns. "Our helpdesk will be totally staffed by student interns next year as employees retire."
Kentucky CIO Jim Fowler said his state is considering civil service reforms designed to make it easier to hire and retain skilled workers. "Right now, we have difficulty attracting new employees," he said. "The state isn't considered a sexy place to work."
Although changing civil service rules gives departments more flexibility on hiring standards and pay rates, they may not be a silver bullet for IT work force woes. Utah shifted IT employees to at-will status and adjusted pay rates years ago, but it's still tough to compete against private technology companies for talented employees, said state CIO Mark VanOrden. "Lots of tech companies are coming to Utah," he said, noting that those employers may pay twice as much as the state and offer a range of other perks as well.
In a move to hang onto talented staff, Utah created a new "master engineer" job title that lets highly qualified programmers and developers make more money without changing positions. "The only way for them to move up in the state was to become a manager," VanOrden said. "This allows them to make more money and remain a technician."
Both Los Angeles and Baltimore are launching initiatives to bring high-speed Internet access to their residents – particularly underserved neighborhoods.
In Baltimore, a committee is studying how to improve high-speed connectivity for more than 40 percent of city residents who don't have broadband Internet access. "We're going to find the best way to do that," Tonjes said. "Do we need to put more fiber in the ground and partner with people to light it up? Should we build our own network? Should we try to incent Google to come in and build a network?"
Los Angeles is further along. The city will release a request for information in April asking private industry for ideas on how to create a combination fiber-to-the-home and wireless network. Reneker says the project -- known as the Los Angeles Community Broadband Network -- would provide gigabit speed Internet access to residents for price, while offering free slower-speed wireless connections. About 36 percent of city residents currently lack broadband connections, he said.
Meanwhile, Kentucky is tackling the digital divide on a statewide level. In January, Gov. Steve Beshear and Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers announced a $100 million plan to boost high-speed connectivity throughout the state. Fowler said the new network is vital to Kentucky's economy. "We're the 4th most rural state in the nation, and Kentucky ranks 46th in the nation in broadband availability," he said. "Without this, we can't move forward."


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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
We've got us a touch of the WBC Fever
We're probably a sucker or a chump for having bought into this whole World Baseball Classic tomfoolery. But now that we've finally caved and bought our tickets, we're getting seriously geeked to see the Canada-U.S. game on Saturday afternoon.
We don't care if we're going to freeze our ass off on the walk to the ballpark. We don't care if we're going to end up sitting next to Americans. We don't even care if they are exhibition games. We're just glad to know that sometime on Saturday afternoon, we're going to hear the crack of the bat and the snap of a ball hitting leather.
On the other hand, we might just be happy to take a breather from talking ourselves into the idea that the 2009 season won't be a complete loss for the Jays.
We managed to catch a few innings of this afternoon's game, and it has us all the more stoked. Sure, we're a little concerned when we see pitches sailing to the backstop and catchers making ill-advised throws into the ground after fielding said wild pitches. Nevertheless, we like the look of the lineup that Canada is going to be able to roll out for a few games.
It's just too bad that all the good Canadian pitchers are such a bunch of bitches. (Yeah, ya heard right Dempster...bitches.)
Speaking of pitchers, how's this for a warm up to the WBC: the heavily left-handed Canadians will face World Series MVP southpaw Cole Hammels when they play the Phillies tomorrow. Nice.
10 comments:
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
I'll be at the game, too, and I can't fucking wait.
- March 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Hoping that Dunn is in left so that we can give him shit.
(Even if he doesn't really deserve it.)
- March 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- Ian Hunter said...
Either that Timmies cup was photoshopped in there, or Koskie had that double-double shipped down to Dunedin, because I don't think there are any Timmy Ho's down there.
- March 3, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Darren Priest said...
So when Tao gets his morning coffee (assuming it's not from a French press -- and no, I am not talking about Mrs. Tao) where does he get it?
- March 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM
- Drew said...
I hope Bridgehead for the Capital City goofballs in the crowd.
- March 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- Torgen said...
Doesn't Tim Hortons sell a mug that looks like their paper cups? Maybe it's one of those, and the handle is at the back.
- March 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
We've got a Timothy's, two Second Cups and two Starbucks that we walk past on the way to work, so it all depends on our mood.
But Lloyd is right about Bridgehead...they've got best coffee in Canada.
- March 4, 2009 at 9:55 AM
That unidentified Canadian is clearly Matt Stairs.
- March 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM
- Stedron said...
Now somebody tell me who's on these teams.
- March 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Bring Fergie out of retirement! He IS a machine: http://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jenkife01.shtml
- March 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM


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