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FRANKLIN � Two year ago, shortly after she was introduced as Franklin High�s new strength coach, Liane Blyn became a legend in the school's weight room.
It was a YouTube video, later posted on the school newspaper�s website, showing Blyn dragging a yellow Hummer that had the students abuzz.
Blyn, who had been training for a World�s Strongest Woman competition at the time the video was shot, said that wasn�t even the heaviest thing she had to haul. "The plane was heavier," she said in phone interview Friday.
The 41-year-old�Southwick native wowed students again this month when she set a women�s powerlifting world record for the bench press. At an invitational competition in Columbus, Ohio, Blyn benched 402 pounds, a new record for her weight class.
Nationals is next; she�ll be traveling to Baton Rouge, La., in May with hopes of moving on to the world championships later this year in Denver, Colo. Powerlifting involves three tests of strength: the bench press, squat and two-handed dead lift.
Blyn adopted powerlifting�as a serious hobby in her 20s, and it has taken her as far as Zambia for the 2003 World�s Strongest Woman championship and Norway, where she represented the United States in the 2006 USA powerlifting world championships.
She�s been a fixture in the gym since high school � playing softball and field hockey � and trained for Olympic weightlifting while studying for her master�s degree in sports medicine. However, she broke off from the sport because it would have been too time-consuming to pursue.
"It takes a lot more coaching and time to Olympic lift," Blyn said. "I was in grad school and didn�t have a lot of time. Olympic lifting, to be really good at it, you have to have a really good coach. I was decent. Powerlifting came a little bit easier for me."
Blyn has competed in powerlifting events across the country. And she has been to the World Games twice � in 2009 and 2013. The international event features sports not seen in Olympic competition.
USA Powerlifting, Blyn said, has lobbied for years to get the sport into the Olympics.
"But it�s a process," she said. "They�re getting closer to getting Olympic recognition. If you look at weightlifting, it�s not a prime sport. Most of the attention is going to swimming and gymnastics, and the Olympics are not focusing on the strength sports.
"It�s frustrating for a lot of people," she added, saying the games have become more about "dancing and ribbon twirling" than the feats of strength on which they were founded.
If powerlifting is Blyn�s hobby, coaching is her passion. She�s trained collegiate athletes at Boston College, Arizona State University, University of Nevada-Reno and Northern Arizona University.
The men in those programs respected her advice, she said, because she "walked the walk and talked the talk." It didn�t matter that she was a woman working in the male-dominated world of the weight room.
Blyn said the most meaningful endorsement she ever got came from Dirk Koetter, the head football coach at Arizona State while she coached there.
"I don�t care if you�re black, blue, white, male or female, as long as you can make my athletes better and stronger," she recalled Koetter, who is now the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, saying.
In 2008, Blyn and her husband Richard opened Athletic Based Training in Holliston. Although she enjoyed running her own business, she began to "miss that environment of being in an athletic program."
So when there was a coaching vacancy at Franklin High in 2012, she took the job without hesitation.
The school�s athletic director, Brad Sidwell, entrusted Blyn to develop a new training regimen for its athletes. "He embraced my expertise with open arms," she said.
More recently, Blyn was asked to design the weight room for the new Franklin High School, expected to be ready for the 2014-15 school year.
"I love coaching � seeing how young students� athletic careers evolve," she said. "It�s a pretty cool thing."
Should powerlifting ever become an Olympic sport, Blyn said she�d be proud to represent her country.
Still, she said, "I�m not getting any younger. I still compete against the 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds. I get stronger every year."
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FRANKLIN � Two year ago, shortly after she was introduced as Franklin High�s new strength coach, Liane Blyn became a legend in the school's weight room.


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As a first-year employee with NRPA, I attended Legislative Forum this week as a novice, a little wide-eyed at the thought of meeting members of Congress in person and asking for their support on legislation important to the future of parks and recreation. I've lived in the D.C. area for nearly 10 years but have never made a direct connection with any legislators who serve at the federal level, so I didn't really know what to expect out of this week. Looking back, I'm extremely glad I went, and I think our delegation made some solid progress in advocating for parks and recreation.
The Forum began on Tuesday morning, which was filled with NRPA network and committee meetings, but the afternoon was dedicated to informational and training sessions to help prepare attendees for their day of advocating on Capitol Hill. NRPA's public policy team did a fantastic job of covering the legislation critical to parks and recreation today, including MAP-21, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Community Parks Revitalization Act, the Healthy Kids Outdoors Act, and others. All of these pieces of legislation have the potential to make a huge difference for park and recreation agencies on the state and local levels, and the session leaders gave plenty of insight on how to talk about each item. Namely, supporting these bills and laws will stimulate job growth, economic prosperity, community health and wellness, increased property values, and more, so the public policy team stressed how members of Congress are more likely to respond positively when they see how legislation will improve their jurisdiction. After these sessions, I felt well equipped for the following day, and I enjoyed that evening's networking reception, confident about my upcoming trip to the Hill.
On Wednesday morning, my group got an early start in order to be first in line for our first appointment with Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.). I grew up in North Carolina and spent my youth exploring Tarheel parks, so Stacey Pine, NRPA's vice president of government affairs, had arranged for me to join the 11 N.C. attendees for the day on Capitol Hill. Hagan has long been a champion for parks and recreation, so our group went to her 9 a.m. "Carolina Coffee" session to present her with an award for her support over the years.
While we were waiting, I spoke with Stephen Poulos, director of N.C.'s Watauga County Parks & Recreation Department, who was planning to visit with Rep. Virginia Foxx later that morning. Turns out her grandson plays on one of his department's basketball teams, and when Stephen had trouble arranging a meeting through Foxx's staff, her grandson gave her a call and got a meeting set up by the following day. That's a pretty great connection! Michelle Wells, executive director for the North Carolina Recreation & Park Association, told me a story later that day about how Foxx ran late to a meeting with the North Carolina delegation of NRPA members one year and didn't make it to the office until right after they had left. When she realized she had just missed the group, she ran down the hall chasing after them because she was so excited to meet and learn what she could do to help support parks and recreation. It's not every day that a congressperson will run after a group of "lobbyists," but hey, parks get people excited!
In Hagan's office, we snacked on Krispy Kreme doughnuts (a North Carolina staple) while waiting for our turn to meet. She was very gracious when we presented her with her award, and she seemed genuinely interested in learning what other ways she could continue to represent the needs of parks and recreation in North Carolina. There was a long line of constituents waiting to meet with her, so our visit was short, but the N.C. delegation of NRPA members easily refreshed the connection they've cultivated with the senator over her years in office.
After this visit, the group split up to go to visit different representatives, and I stayed with Larry Bailey, recreation director for the Town of Clayton, N.C., and Michelle to visit the office of Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). The senator wasn't available, but we met with his legislative assistant, who seemed very receptive to Larry's advocacy for LWCF. While we were there, Larry also mentioned a trail opening happening soon in Clayton and requested the senator's presence, and Michelle put in a request for help getting a significant Washingtonian to speak at the NCRPA annual conference. Both possibilities sounded very promising!
Our last meeting of the day was with Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C. 7th District), who received NRPA's National Congressional Award in 2006 in recognition for his commitment to expand and improve upon youth sports opportunities. Larry, who has advocated for parks and recreation with Leg Forum for more than a decade, reiterated the need for continuing support from the congressman on LWCF, MAP-21, and more, and McIntyre agreed to do his best. He also expressed interest in attending the Clayton trail opening, and I know Larry is looking forward to seeing him there. They laughed about an event they both attended last summer where the congressman was up to his elbows in ice cream serving his constituents, and we left feeling good about our visit.
On Thursday morning, three program managers from the National Park Service held a talk where they discussed some youth conservation initiatives that can cross over from national to state and local parks. Overall, our goals are the same—exposing the next generation to nature so they'll protect what they learn to love. Afterward, a few dozen attendees went out on an NPS tour of the D.C. monuments, but most others who hadn't already left the previous evening started heading home. I got back to the office early in the afternoon, tired from a full trip but excited about the progress I heard about from other people and their Hill visits.
The last session on Tuesday was about continuing advocacy from home, which I saw firsthand how important that was on my day on the Hill. Some of the legislators remembered members of the N.C. group by name and chatted about their shared history before getting down to business, and it was clear they were much more engaged in the conversation if that personal connection was there. Although the meetings I attended were largely geared toward refreshing the memories of congresspeople who already support parks and recreation, other advocates made first contact with some new legislators who had no idea of the wide-reaching significance and relevance of this field but are now fully on our side.
Not every congressperson is going to run down the hall chasing after us like Rep. Foxx did at a previous Leg Forum, so it's up to us to keep parks and recreation on their minds and agendas. This means regular contact and sustained relationships with the legislators and their staffs. NRPA's public policy staff advocates for this field day in and day out and does a phenomenal job, but they're a staff of three compared to our membership of 30,000. Imagine what we could do if every member made it a priority to stay informed about new legislation and appropriations related to the field and advocated regularly.
Danielle Taylor is the Senior Editor of Parks & Recreation Magazine. Follow her at https://twitter.com/AdventureEdit.


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His politics were always purely personal. Issues never bothered him. —William Allen White
In the spring of 1932, George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway musical, "Of Thee I Sing," spoofed Washington politics, including a vice president named Alexander Throttlebottom, who could get inside the White House only on public tours. The tour guide, who failed to recognize Throttlebottom, at one point engaged him in a discussion of the vice-presidency:
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Throttlebottom: Well, they put a lot of names in a hat, and he lost.
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Throttlebottom: Well, he sits in the park and feeds the peanuts to the pigeons and the squirrels, and then he takes walks, and goes to the movies. Last week, he tried to join the library, but he needed two references, so he couldn't get in.(1)
Audiences laughed heartily at these lines, in part because they could easily identify the hapless Throttlebottom with the incumbent vice president, Charles Curtis. Curtis was never close to President Herbert Hoover and played no significant role in his administration. Despite Curtis' many years of experience as a member of the House and Senate and as Senate majority leader, his counsel was rarely sought on legislative matters. His chief notoriety as vice president came as a result of a messy social squabble over protocol, which only made him appear ridiculous. Many Republicans hoped to dump Curtis from the ticket when Hoover ran for reelection. Given Curtis' Horatio Alger-style rise in life, and his long and successful career in Congress, how did he become such a Throttlebottom as vice president?
Formative Years on the Reservation
Although colorful in itself, Charles Curtis' actual life story often became obscured by its political mythology.(2) He began life in 1860 in North Topeka, Kansas, where he spent his earliest years partly in the white and partly in the Native American community. The son of Orren Curtis, a white man, and Ellen Pappan, who was one-quarter Kaw Indian, Charles Curtis on his mother's side was the great-great grandson of White Plume, a Kansa-Kaw chief who had offered assistance to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804. White Plume's daughter married Louis Gonville, a French-Canadian fur trader, and their daughter, Julie Gonville, married Louis Pappan. As a result of the Kansa-Kaw treaty of 1825, the tribe relinquished its claims to its traditional lands in Missouri and Kansas. A two-million-acre reservation was established west of Topeka for full-blooded Indians, while a series of fee-simple land grants along the Kansas river were set aside for "half-breeds"—those who had intermarried with whites. Curtis' grandmother Julie Gonville Pappan received "Half-Breed Reservation No. Four," directly across the river from the Kansas capital, where she and her husband ran a profitable ferry business.
Reflecting his mother's heritage, Charles Curtis spoke French and Kansa before he learned English. His mother died in 1863, about the time that his father left to fight in the Civil War. Soon thereafter, Orren Curtis remarried, divorced, remarried again, and was dishonorably discharged from the Union army. At the end of the war, Curtis was court martialled for having hanged three prisoners in his custody—or as the charges read for "executing the bushwakers." Sentenced to a year's hard labor at the Missouri State Penitentiary, he was pardoned a month later and returned to Kansas. Given Orren's unstable circumstances and roving nature, young Charley remained in the custody of his paternal grandparents. In 1865, his maternal grandparents, Louis and Julie Pappan Gonville, left North Topeka to return to the Kaw reservation at Council Grove, concerned that otherwise they might be excluded from future land settlements and compensation. The next year, young Charley went to live with them on the reservation.
Since Charley could speak the Kaw language, he fit comfortably into the tribe. "I had my bows and arrows," he later recalled, "and joined the other boys in shooting arrows at nickles, dimes, and quarters which visitors would place in split sticks." In those still-frontier days, the Kaw reservation was frequently raided by nomadic Cheyenne Indians, and during one attack Charley was sent on a mission to inform Topeka. "I volunteered to make the trip," he later told audiences. "When we heard the Cheyennes were coming, the horses and ponies were driven to pasture, some distance from my grandpa's home, so there was no horse or pony to ride. I therefore, started out on foot, traveling during the night." The next day, he arrived in Topeka, some sixty miles away. Curtis' "cross-country run" made him a celebrity in North Topeka, but the incident also convinced his paternal grandparents, William and Permelia Curtis, that their grandson should be raised in the more "civilized" atmosphere of Topeka rather than return to the reservation.
Curtis had learned to ride Indian ponies bareback and won a reputation as a "good and fearless rider." Back in North Topeka, his grandfather William Curtis had built a race track, and in 1869 Charles Curtis rode in his first race. He soon became a full-fledged jockey and continued to ride until 1876. A fellow jockey described Curtis as "rather short and wiry" and "just another brush boy jockey," explaining that eastern riders "called us brush boys because we rode in what would be called the sticks." As a winning jockey, Curtis was known throughout Kansas as "The Indian Boy." His mounts made a lot of money for the local gamblers and prostitutes who bet on him, and he recalled that after one race a madam bought him "a new suit of clothes, boots, hat and all," and had a new jockey suit made for him; others bought him candy and presents. "I had never been so petted in my life and I liked it," Curtis reminisced.
His family, however, had greater ambitions for the boy than horse racing. In 1871, grandfather William Curtis brought suit on behalf of Charley and his sister Elizabeth to establish their claim, over that of their father, for title to their mother's share of the Half-Breed Lands in North Topeka. When Curtis' father lost this suit, he left Topeka for good. Grandfather Curtis wanted Charley to stop racing and go back to school, but after his grandfather's death in 1873, the boy set out to join his other grandparents, Louis and Julie Pappan, who were traveling with the Kaw Tribe from Kansas to the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Still on the tribal roll, and "longing for the old life," he wanted to live on the reservation. Grandmother Julie talked him out of it. She invited him to her wagon and asked why he wanted to go to the Indian Territory. While she would have liked nothing better than to have him live with her, she told him that on the reservation he would end up "like most of the men on it," without an education or future prospects. If Charley expected to make something of himself, he should return to Topeka and attend school. "I took her splendid advice and the next morning as the wagons pulled out for the south, bound for Indian Territory, I mounted my pony and with my belongings in a flour sack, returned to Topeka and school," Curtis recounted. "No man or boy ever received better advice, it was the turning point in my life."
A Passion for Politics
In Topeka, Curtis lived with grandmother Permelia Hubbard Curtis, a decidedly strong-minded woman. "She brooked no opposition," recalled Charley's half-sister, Dolly. "I think she regarded being both a Methodist and a Republican as essential for anyone who expected to go to heaven." When Charley was offered a contract to race at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, Permelia Curtis put her foot down. Instead, he retired as a jockey and went to high school. After graduating, he studied law, supporting himself by working as a custodian in a law firm and by driving a hack. When he had no customers, he would stop under street lamps to read his law books. In 1881, at the age of twenty-one, Charles Curtis was admitted to the Kansas bar. Although his life appeared to be a rags-to-riches story, Curtis had in fact a considerable inheritance in land in North Topeka. The young lawyer plunged into real estate, selling lots and building houses. He also opened his own firm and practiced criminal law. In 1884, Charles Curtis married Anna Baird. They had three children and also took in his half-sister Dolly when her mother died.
As a young man, Curtis showed a passion for politics. In 1880, during James Garfield's campaign for president, Curtis donned an oilcloth cap and carried a torch in a Republican parade through Topeka. It was only a matter of time before the popular "Indian jockey" ran for office himself. In 1884, after shaking every hand in the district, Curtis won election as Shawnee county attorney. Since both his father and grandfather Curtis had operated saloons in North Topeka, he was supported by the liquor interests, which had also retained his law firm. But once elected, Curtis insisted on enforcing the state's prohibition laws and closed down all of the saloons in the county. He won attention not only as a "dry," but as a law-and-order prosecutor.
By a single vote in 1889, Curtis lost the nomination to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was a time of agrarian depression, when voters in the West were turning away from conservatives like Curtis in favor of the more radical solutions put forward by the Farmers' Alliance and its political offspring, the Populist party. In 1891, William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, first met the "young prince," Charles Curtis, and later provided this description:
He came down from Topeka to campaign the county, sent by the Republican state central committee. His job was to fight the Farmers' Alliance. He had a rabble-rousing speech with a good deal of Civil War in it, a lot of protective tariff, and a very carefully poised straddle on the currency question (which, I was satisfied then—and still think—that he knew little about, and cared nothing for). For his politics were always purely personal. Issues never bothered him. He was a handsome fellow, five feet ten, straight as his Kaw Indian grandfather must have been, with an olive skin that looked like old ivory, a silky, flowing, handlebar mustache, dark shoe-button eyes, beady, and in those days always gay, a mop of crow's wing hair, a gentle ingratiating voice, and what a smile!
For three days, White and Curtis toured the county together, with White making the introductions and Curtis making the speeches. Never had White met anyone who could charm a hostile audience as effectively as did Curtis, whose personality could overshadow whatever he was speaking about. This trait helped Curtis defeat the Populist and Democratic fusion candidate for a seat in the House in 1892—the same election that saw Kansas vote for the Populist presidential candidate and elect a Populist governor. Curtis' upset victory brought him to the attention of prominent easterners, such as House Republican leader Thomas B. Reed, who were delighted that someone who thought the way they did on tariff, railroad, and currency issues could win election in so Populist a state as Kansas. Reed took a particular liking to "the Indian," as he called Curtis, and made him one of his lieutenants.
"Our Charley"
When Curtis first came to Washington, Democrats firmly controlled the federal government. Grover Cleveland had just been elected to his second term as president, and in the House Democrats held 218 seats, Republicans 124, and the Populists 14. Then in 1893 a severe economic depression dramatically reversed party fortunes. Campaigning against the Democrats as the party of the "empty dinner pail," Republicans won 254 seats in the next Congress, leaving the Democrats with 93 and the Populists with 10. Tom Reed, who had resumed the speakership with the return of a Republican majority, trusted Curtis' political judgment. According to an often-repeated story, Curtis once entered Speaker Reed's office and found a group of Republicans discussing the restoration of the gold standard. "Indian, what would you do about this?" Reed asked. Curtis suggested taking the matter out of the hands of the standing committees that had been dealing with it, since it was apparent they would never agree. Instead, he recommended appointing a special committee to write a new bill. Reed liked the idea so much that he appointed Curtis as a member of the special committee that drafted the Gold Standard Act of 1900.
Curtis devoted most of his attention to his service on the Committee on Indian Affairs, where he drafted the "Curtis Act" in 1898. Entitled "An Act for the Protection of the People of the Indian Territory and for Other Purposes," the Curtis Act actually overturned many treaty rights by allocating federal lands, abolishing tribal courts, and giving the Interior Department control over mineral leases on Indian lands. Having reinstated his name on the Kaw tribal rolls in 1889, Curtis was able, through his position on the House Indian Affairs Committee, to calculate the benefits he might receive from government allotments to his tribe. In 1902, he drafted the Kaw Allotment Act under which he and his children received fee simple title to Kaw land in Oklahoma.
Congressman Curtis, hailed throughout Kansas as "Our Charley," assiduously built his political base in the state. William Allen White recalled that Curtis carried with him little books containing the names of all the Republicans in each township and used to mumble these names "like a pious worshiper out of a prayer book" to commit them to memory. When Curtis greeted a voter, he could recall the man's name and ask about his wife, children, and business. He left voters convinced that they were intimates. In 1903, Curtis made a bid for a Senate seat, competing against fellow Republican Representative Chester Long. Both men had strong support from the railroads, Long being allied with the J. P. Morgan interests and Curtis identified with the Jay Gould railroads. Editor William Allen White grumbled that the money and influence in the election came from the railroads and "the people had nothing to do with it."
When the Republicans deadlocked, Long and Curtis reached an agreement that Long would gain the nomination in 1903 and would then support Curtis for the next Senate opening—which occurred sooner than anyone anticipated. In 1904, Kansas Senator Joseph R. Burton was indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Louis, Missouri, for representing clients for a fee before the Post Office in violation of federal statutes. Although the U.S. Supreme Court overturned this conviction on the grounds that Missouri lacked jurisdiction, Burton was tried and convicted again in 1905. In May 1906, the Supreme Court upheld Burton's second conviction, and as the Senate prepared to expel him, Burton resigned on June 4, 1906.
At that time, state legislatures still elected U.S. senators, but since the Kansas legislature was not in session, the governor appointed Alfred W. Benson to fill the vacancy. When the legislature reconvened, Curtis and several other Republicans challenged Benson for the seat. Kansas progressives promoted the candidacy of Joseph L. Bristow, arguing that he would more faithfully support the reform legislation of President Theodore Roosevelt. Curtis turned for help to Roosevelt's chief conservative opponent, Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Aldrich handled all tariff legislation and was able to channel considerable amounts of money from business interests to pro-tariff politicians. Aldrich supplied Curtis with funds to purchase newspapers that would support his senatorial candidacy. William Allen White, who supported Bristow, warned President Roosevelt that attorneys for every railroad in the state were for Curtis. "Two railroad attorneys when I asked them why they were for Curtis, frankly told me in confidence of friendship that orders came from higher up to be for Curtis and they are obeying orders," White wrote to the president. But Roosevelt seemed less concerned, assuring White that "so far my experience with Curtis has been rather more pleasant than with the average of his colleagues."


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Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, HEE intended to introduce a new, national framework across England for all trainees commencing training programmes from 5 August 2020. The purpose of the national framework is to ensure equality of treatment for all across the HEE regions. At the request of the BMA, it has been agreed that this will not be implemented in August as sufficient consultation has not been able to place given other priorities. The framework is expected to be published later in the year following the completion of consultation with the BMA Junior Doctors Committee (JDC). Once published, it will replace the existing guidance in place for all doctors, dentists and public health trainees on accreditedHEE training programmes.
Financial Assistance for the Purposes of Relocation - Guidance Document for Hospital Training Grade Medical and Dental Staff
Underlying Principles
Movement Between Organisations
Amount Payable
Entitlement According to Length of Training Programme/Rotation/Post
Eligibility for Financial Assistance
General Conditions
Designation of Base Hospital
Summary of Relocation Expenses Allowable for Owner-Occupiers
Allowances during search for accommodation
Legal and other expenes connected with sale and purchase of accommodation
Removal and storage of furniture
Continuing commitments allowance
Excess Travelling Expenses
Guidance and Interpretation
Rights of appeal
These guidelines replace the August 2007 and August 2008 guidance documents for all practitioners appointed to training programmes on or after 1 August 2012.
The guidelines are intended to ensure consistency of approach across the three organisations involved. The aim of these guidelines is to provide assistance to hospital training grade medical and dental staff that is required to move home in order to take up a post on a training programme.
The Postgraduate Deans wish to encourage employers to follow the guidelines to maintain this consistency of approach. However, it is recognised that, as the employers of hospital training grade medical and dental staff, they may choose to incorporate these guidelines as Trust policy as they stand, to adapt the guidelines to suit themselves, or to follow the Trust's own relocation policy. As this guidance has previously been adopted by Trusts it should continue to be observed unless and until alternative arrangements are specifically agreed by the Local Negotiating Committee in the Trust.
For the purposes of this guidance document hospital training grade medical and dental staff will be referred to as the 'practitioner'.
Where an Employing Trust agrees to adopt this guidance (as is the case of the Trusts covered by Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education) Health Education South West will support all Employing Trusts in ensuring consistency of approach.
Underlying Principles
The guiding principle behind the provision of financial assistance for the purposes of relocation is that a practitioner should not be financially disadvantaged by reasonable costs incurred through a move in the interests of the service, or to further their training. However, practitioners are not expected to profit materially from reimbursements in respect of this financial assistance.
These guidelines are not necessarily intended to cover fully the costs of relocating to a new area but to provide reasonable financial assistance to complete a training programme that may consist of a number of different placements across a wide geographical area.
This guidance has been produced using the principles laid out in the nationally agreed guidance between COPMeD, the BMA and NHS Employers.
This relocation guidance document is available on the websites of the three organisations.
This guidance document covers the Employing Trusts within the footprint of the Wessex, Severn Postgraduate Medical Education and the Peninsula Postgraduate Medical Education.
It applies to all practitioners holding substantive contracts whose training is both educationally approved by the relevant LETB and General Medical Council (GMC) / General Dental Council (GDC) and is funded in whole or in part via the agreements between Health Education South West (or its successor body) and Employing Trusts for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, in accordance with EL(92)63, ie:
- Foundation Year 1 Trainees
- Foundation Year 2 Trainees
- Foundation Year 2 Dental Trainees
- Core Trainees (CT1 – CT3)
- Specialty Training Registrars (ST1 upwards)
- Dental Senior House Officers
- Specialist Registrars (including Locum Appointment for Training)
- Academic Clinical Fellows (ACF)
- Academic Clinical Lecturers (ACL)
- Fixed Term Specialty Training Appointments (FTSTA)
Please note this guidance document DOES NOT relate to those practitioners who have been appointed to a GP Specialty Training programme where the first post is within a GP Practice. Please contact the GP Practice that you start your training programme with for further details of financial assistance under these circumstances.
This includes the posts above where educational approval has been given by both the GMC / GDC and the relevant LETB but are fully funded by the Employing Trust as clearly documented through the Learning and Development Agreement (LDA).
If the practitioner does not fall into one of the categories mentioned above then this document is not applicable.
Movement Between Organisations
Those appointed via an inter organisational transfer (previously inter-deanery transfer) will not be entitled to relocation expenses or excess mileage in lieu of relocation expenses.
This does not apply to practitioners appointed in open competition to Paediatric Grid posts. Practitioners should refer to the relocation guidance available for the area to which they are appointed. This will not increase the maximum amount payable.
Practitioners that rotate outside of one of the three organisations covered by this guidance as part of the training programme and are already an owner-occupier, in exceptional circumstances, may be eligible for further financial assistance; i.e. a practitioner rotates from Truro to Exeter to Gloucester.
When it is identified that this may be the case the practitioner will need to make a case to the receiving employer where assistance is required.
Where a component of the curriculum cannot be delivered locally and requires the practitioner to undertake an attachment in another organisation the practitioner may be eligible for further financial assistance. When it is identified that this may be the case the practitioner will need to make a case to their organisation where assistance is required.
If as part of the annual review process (ARCP or RITA) it is necessary for a practitioner to change rotations or undertake a placement in another organisation the practitioner may be entitled to additional financial assistance. When it is identified that this may be the case the practitioner will need to make a case to their organisation where assistance is required.
Amount Payable
The maximum financial assistance payable to any practitioner under these guidelines for their whole training programme/rotation, including costs of temporary accommodation and excess daily mileage is £8,000. Further details regarding the maximum amount of financial assistance that may be available dependent on length of training programme/rotation/post is provided below.
According to HM Revenue & Customs "if your employer helps you to move home because of your job, any payments you receive, or any goods or services provided for you, are treated as part of your earnings for tax and national insurance contribution [NICs] purposes. However, the first £8,000 of any help you get from your employer is exempt from tax and NICs as long as certain conditions are met". Excess travel, which is paid at the public transport rate, will be subject to tax.
You are strongly advised to view the HMRC Relocation Guidance.
Entitlement According to Length of Training Programme/Rotation/Post
Appointments of one year and under
Practitioners appointed to training programmes / posts of one year and under may be entitled to financial assistance which will cover the expenses associated with the removal of effects, plus travelling expenses to take up post. This is at the discretion of the employing organisation if you are moving into the area only.
Appointments of over one year and up to and including two years
Practitioners appointed to training programmes of over one year and up to and including two years may be entitled to financial assistance of up to a maximum of 50% of the maximum financial assistance available subject to eligibility and subject to the full two years being based in the same area. (I.e. an F1 offered a two year appointment must be completing the two years in the same Foundation School to qualify).
Appointments over two years
Practitioners appointed to training programmes of more than two years may be entitled to financial assistance up to a maximum of £8,000 for the duration of the training programme, subject to eligibility. Note: the maximum limit of £8,000 covers whole duration of the training programme; i.e. a practitioner appointed to a two year uncoupled programme (CT1 and CT2) and subsequently appointed to a five year specialty training programme (ST3 – ST7) may be eligible for a maximum limit of £8,000.
The table below provides examples of how a practitioner's entitlement may be distributed across the entire period of training subject to eligibility
|Total Claimed
|Doctor A
|Doctor B
|Doctor C
|Doctor D
|Doctor E
|Doctor F
Eligibility for Financial Assistance
Eligibility for Maximum Financial Assistance
The maximum financial assistance (detailed in section 5) may be granted to practitioners, who as a result of their appointment need to sell their home and purchase a home in the new area.
Eligibility for the maximum financial assistance in these circumstances will be subject to the following criteria:
- The practitioner is a current owner-occupier and is selling this property to take up appointment in the new area and purchasing a property in the new area as an owner-occupier.
- The Employing Trust agrees a move of home is required based on the following criteria:
- The new post is more than a 40 miles radius of the practitioner's previous NHS base or home whichever is the nearer (RAC mileages will apply for reimbursement purposes on the fastest route possible). However, expenses may be paid if the logistics of travel are such that the travelling time from the home of the practitioner to their new base is in excess of one hour calculated at the usual time of travel. This will be determined by the Employing Trust based on the practitioner's normal mode of transport; or
- The post requires an out of hours emergency on-call service and the practitioner to live within 30 minutes driving time or 15 miles of their base hospital; or
- Such other factors, taking into account out of hours or on-call commitments and local Employing Trust policy for other medical staff
The percentage allocation of maximum financial assistance is determined by the length of programme as outlined above. For those practitioners appointed for one year and up to two years, 50% of the maximum financial assistance may be granted and for those appointed for over two years, 100% of the maximum financial assistance may be granted.
Eligibility for Limited Financial Assistance
Limited financial assistance may be granted to practitioners, who as a result of their appointment, need to:
- Make a move from rented to rented accommodation in the new area. This will also apply to those renting for the first time in the new area. Where this is the case the Employing Trust will only reimburse costs associated with the removal of effects, legal costs (equivalent to establishing a tenancy locally) plus travelling expenses to take up the post.
- Purchase a property and are classed as a 'first time buyer'. Where this is the case the Employing Trust will only reimburse costs associated with the removal of effects plus travelling expenses to take up the post.
General Conditions
Relocation expenses (including excess mileage) are at the discretion of the employing Trust. Practitioners must obtain written confirmation from the appropriate Employing Trust of eligibility to claim financial assistance towards relocation to the new area prior to taking up appointment and making any claim. This should include the maximum amount of financial assistance the practitioner will receive for the entire training programme/post.
Practitioners will be required to sign an undertaking that they may be required to repay a proportion of any relocation expenses received if they leave the training programme within 24 months of the contract period of the training programme. The proportion will be according to that element of the contract of employment worked to the full length of that contract of employment/training programme. This applies to those who receive 100% or 50% of the maximum financial assistance as outlined in the Entitlement According to Length of Training section.
Reimbursement will not be made until the practitioner commences in post.
Original receipts will be required as proof of outlay against authorised expenditure. Reimbursement will not be made to third parties.
Claims for expenses in connection with the removal of effects must be made within three months of the incurring authorised expenditure.
Relocation Expenses are reasonable costs incurred in relocation as described in the Summary of Relocation Expenses.
Practitioners are responsible for agreeing in writing any expenditure IN ADVANCE with the Employing Trust, in accordance with these guidelines. Practitioners must indicate their need to claim financial assistance towards relocation by completing the application form (Form 1) prior to the start date and must complete the claim forms WITHIN THREE MONTHS of taking up appointment with each Employing Trust. Applications submitted after the start date and claims submitted after three months will not be accepted.
Practitioners must indicate their intention to claim relocation expenses by completing Form 1 which should be returned to the appropriate Medical Personnel Manager (see Appendix 1 for contact details) prior to the start date before committing to any expenditure. If the application is approved the practitioner must complete the relevant claim form which must be submitted together with the original receipts within three months of the start date.
Practitioners should supply three quotes for solicitors, removals and estate agents and the employer will pay the lowest of the three quotes. Expenses will not be reimbursed unless official receipts support the lowest of the three quotes.
The entitlement to financial assistance for house sale and purchase will be dependent upon the move being completed within twelve months of taking up the new post. It is the responsibility of the practitioner to ensure that the employer is notified of any difficulty otherwise the Employer may refuse to reimburse any expenses incurred.
The practitioner must notify the Employing Trust if a partner/spouse is eligible to claim financial assistance towards relocation. (NB this applies to spouses/partners who are both within NHS and outside NHS). At the discretion of the Employing Trust, practitioners may still be granted reduced financial assistance but cannot claim twice for the same expense.
Practitioners need to be aware that claiming twice will be considered as fraud and will be referred to the NHS Counter Fraud Service to investigate and the practitioner may face disciplinary action.
It is a long established principle that public sector bodies, which include the NHS, must be impartial and honest in the conduct of their business and that their employees should remain beyond suspicion
A conflict of interest is defined as any situation where a person's involvement in an activity has an actual, potential or perceived effect of influencing the interests, financial or otherwise, of the person, or another individual, business or organisation with whom that person has a familiar formal relationship.
Claimants must declare any conflict of interest with any organisation involved in their removal claim.
Designation of Base Hospital
In all cases the base place of work will be the Hospital/Trust on the rotation closest to where the practitioner lives in the new area, although there may be local circumstances where both the employers and practitioners may wish to reach an alternative agreement.
Due to the rotational nature of the training programme, practitioners in rented accommodation may be eligible for reimbursement of removal expenses for more than one location and the designated base place of work may change as a result.
Practitioners who are owner-occupiers may be eligible for more than one house move where the rotation requires a move of greater distances due to limited opportunities for training. In these very exceptional circumstances additional moves will be considered by a review panel for reimbursement on a case by case basis. Practitioners should not commit to any expenditure until they have received written notification that their request has been successful.
The designated base place of work may change as a result.
Summary of Relocation Expenses Allowable for Owner-Occupiers
This is a list of expenses that practitioners may incur during their relocation to the new area. This list is not exhaustive and does not apply to all practitioners who are eligible for financial assistance in connection with their relocation to the new area. Please refer back to the Entitlement According to Length of Training section and Eligibility for Financial Assistance section for eligibility criteria and details of possible assistance.
Allowances during search for accommodation
These are payable when the practitioners family have remained behind in the old home whilst seeking suitable family accommodation in the new location.
The subsistence allowance will be the long-term night allowance as provided in the Whitley Council rates.
The practitioner will be required to provide evidence (i.e. estate agent details etc) to confirm that they are making every effort to obtain comparable family accommodation in the new location.
The allowances will be paid for up to six months from the date of commencement. At that time, the practitioner will be required to submit a case for an extension of payment for consideration by the Employing Trust. If an extension is granted, further reviews will be undertaken at three monthly intervals. The maximum period of payment will be one year, but may be extended at the Employing Trust's discretion.
Legal and other expenses connected with sale and purchase of accommodation
Legal and other expenses connected with the sale and purchase of accommodation, or any unsuccessful bona fide attempt to purchase, such as:
House Purchase
- Solicitors' fees
- Estate agents' or auctioneer's fees
- Finders fees
- Stamp duty
- Land registration fees
- Survey fees
- Incidental legal expenses
House sale
- Solicitors' fees
- Estate agents' or auctioneer's fees
- *Incidental legal expenses including insurance of goods in transit
Other Expenses
- *Travelling expenses in connection with the move (standard rail or public transport rate)
- *Subsistence expenses in connection with the move
- Continuing commitments allowances
and VAT where applicable on any of the above
*Denotes expenses reimbursable when moving from rented property
Excluded expenses
The following expenses will be excluded
- Interest on bridging loans (Reimbursement of bridging loan charges will not be met in any circumstances).
- Increase in insurance premiums
- Payments to cover negative equity in connection with a mortgage
- Redemption fees in connection with a mortgage
Any of the above excluded expenses will not be met in any circumstances.
Reimbursement of purchase expenses will be limited by reference to the following:
- The purchase price of a residence considered broadly comparable in standard to the old property and not an improvement. Where there is disagreement over the outcome of any comparison, a local estate agent or other independent valuer acceptable to both parties will be asked to adjudicate.
- With the agreement of the new employer, the practitioner may claim return travelling expenses and subsistence at General Whitley Council rates for themselves and their family to visit the new area and search for accommodation prior to taking up the new post.
Removal and storage of furniture
The practitioner will be reimbursed any reasonable costs (as agreed with the authorised officer prior to commencement) connected with:
- Removal of normal household furniture and effects from the old to the new home, including insurance of goods in transit.
- Three competitive quotations should be obtained for removal and will normally be reimbursed at the lowest cost of the three. If the practitioner uses a self-drive van, reimbursement of the rate of hire, supported by receipts, and mileage will be payable.
- Storage of furniture and effects for an agreed period will be subject to review by the appropriate Employing Trust.
Continuing commitments allowance
Whilst the old property remains unsold, reasonable accommodation costs may be reimbursed. (Claimants must be in the process of selling their property in the old area to be eligible and provide continuing evidence). Practitioners who are not selling or cannot provide evidence that they are trying to sell their property will not under any circumstances be entitled to financial assistance.
Where it is applicable, reimbursement for continuing commitments should normally be for the lower of the monthly mortgage on the old property and the monthly mortgage/rent on the new property:
- the basic rental costs for reasonable temporary accommodation (excluding utilities)
- travelling expenses for visits home at public transport rates or standard rail travel at reasonable intervals to supervise the old property (as a guide, two visits home per month)
- Council Tax can be reimbursed if the practitioner can show they have tried to have the tax in the old area cancelled but have been unsuccessful.
The allowances will be paid for a maximum of one year or until the old property is sold, whichever is the lesser period.
At intervals of three months from the start of the allowance, the Employing Trust will review the practitioner's case and will only continue payment if satisfied that they are making every effort to sell their property. This will include price reductions, if appropriate.
The maximum allowance will be the equivalent of the Whitley long-term subsistence rate for the period covered.
Excess Travelling Expenses
Excess travel applies only to those practitioners that are classed as owner-occupiers in the training programme area.
Financial assistance for this purpose is payable only where a move to another hospital/Trust on the rotation would justify moving home and relocation expenses being paid but the practitioner elects to travel the extra distance. This must be agreed in advance with the Employing Trust to ensure there is no breach of the organisation's health and safety obligations. In circumstances where the Employing Trust would not agree to reimburse relocation expenses, financial assistance would not be available. The definition of Excess travel is the difference between home to hospital and home to base with the excess being reimbursed.
Example 1
Dr X lives in Ashburton, Devon and their base hospital is Torbay Hospital. Dr X rotates to Plymouth Hospitals as part of their training programme.
Home to Plymouth Hospitals = 24 miles
Home to base = 14 miles
Dr X would not be entitled to excess travelling expenses as this is within 40 miles of the base hospital. (This is for example purposes only)
Example 2
Dr A lives in Ivybridge, Plymouth and their base hospital is Plymouth Hospitals. Dr A rotates to the Treliske Hospital as part of their training programme.
Home to Treliske = 63 miles
Home to Plymouth Hospitals = 10 miles
Dr A would be entitled to submit a claim for excess travelling expenses as this exceeds 40 miles from home to base and home to new hospital. Dr A could claim 53 miles in excess travelling expenses being the difference of home to base and home to new hospital. (This is for example purposes only)
Example 3
Dr B lives near Winchester and their base hospital is Winchester Hospital. Dr B rotates to Poole Hospital which is part of the training programme.
Home to Poole = 34 miles
Home to base = 11 miles
Dr B would not be entitled to excess travelling expenses as this is within 40 miles of the base hospital. (This is for example purposes only)
Example 4
Dr C lives in Alton, Hampshire and their base hospital is Basingstoke Hospital. Dr C rotates to Poole Hospital.
Home to Poole Hospital = 62 miles
Home to Base = 15 miles
Dr C would be entitled to submit a claim for excess travelling expenses as this exceeds 40 miles from home to base and home to new hospital. Dr C could claim 47 miles in excess travelling expenses being the difference of home to base and home to new hospital. (This is for example purposes only)
Reimbursement is at public transport rate in line with Inland Revenue requirements.
When a rotation to a peripheral unit would otherwise justify a move of home and the distance is too far to commute daily and the practitioner has a permanent residence (owner-occupier) in the "base" area, the practitioner may claim reasonable temporary accommodation costs in the peripheral unit. "Reasonable" accommodation costs are the rent charges on accommodation of a reasonable standard, taking into account your standard of accommodation in the "base" area and family situation.
The expenses detailed are included within the overall maximum financial assistance available of £8,000 for the entire training programme/rotation and will only be reimbursed where the practitioner has not already claimed up to the maximum financial assistance at any Hospital/Trust on the training programme/rotation. Where a practitioner has already received the maximum financial assistance available of £8,000 for a move of home, excess travel expenses detailed will NOT be reimbursed.
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Employing Trusts should be aware that an individual practitioner who feels that they have been unfairly treated in relation to financial assistance for the purposes of relocation provisions may pursue this matter as a grievance in accordance with the relevant Employing Trust's Grievance Procedure.
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The Clear Creek Independent School District is pleased to announce the launch of its new Spanish language website. CCISD recognizes that parents and guardians want to be informed about ways the district can best support their children's education. "Our goal is to offer the CCISD Latino community a user-friendly website that not only provides resources for parents but does it in their language of choice," said Elaina Polsen, Executive Director of Communications.
The CCISDEspanol Facebook page provides another avenue for the district to connect with parents and other community members whose primary language is Spanish. The District will engage Spanish-speaking stakeholders through posts that share accurate and timely information on current news, events, announcements and emergency situations.
Please take a moment to visit the new website at: www.ccisd.net/es. Community members can access our Spanish Facebook page by searching for CCISDEspanol or like us directly by clicking on https://www.facebook.com/CCISDEspanol/.


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Step aside, Mitt: Ann Romney's getting her moment in the spotlight!
The hopeful future first lady will be filling in for Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" this Wednesday, ABC has confirmed to E! News.
Ann, 63, will cohost ABC's morning program alongside George Stephanopoulos and correspondents Lara Spencer, Josh Elliott and Sam Champion.
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Michelle Obama and Ann Romney hug it out
The network also says it's in talks with first lady Michelle Obama to cohost GMA. Previously announced fill-ins include Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Colbert and the cast of "Modern Family."
Although Roberts, following a bone marrow transplant, isn't ready to return to the air quite yet, she did share some good news with fans on Thursday. In a blog post on GMA's website, the 51-year-old anchor said her "doctors and rock star nurses are very pleased with my progress and I could not be more thankful for the excellent care I am receiving."
If all goes well, she hopes to be discharged from the hospital next week. We wish her well!
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Bernadina gets first starting shot with Phillies
PHILADELPHIA -- Outfielder Roger Bernadina hopes to take advantage of the opportunity he is getting from the Phillies.
He got his first real chance on Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park, where he started in center field against the Rockies. Bernadina signed with the Phillies on Wednesday after being released by the Nationals on Monday. He hit just .178 with a .517 OPS in 167 plate appearances with Washington after hitting .291 with a .777 OPS in 261 plate appearances last season.
"[The Phillies] showed all the interest for having me," Bernadina said. "And I've always like the Phillies' ballpark. I didn't have to think too much about it. I told my agent, 'I want to be a Phillie.' I'm excited about it."
Bernadina flied out in a pinch-hitting opportunity on Wednesday, but something about it impressed interim manager Ryne Sandberg.
"He opened up my eyes running to first base last night on a routine fly ball, the way he got around first base," Sandberg said. "I mean, he was moving pretty good. So, I'm anxious to see him in the outfield, see his arm, see his reads, and his at-bats and everything."
Bernadina is making $1.2125 million this season. He is eligible for salary arbitration in the offseason, which means the Phillies have a decision to make with nine players eligible for salary arbitration and the potential for 11.
Left-handers John Lannan and Antonio Bastardo ; right-handers Kyle Kendrick and Zach Miner ; infielder Kevin Frandsen ; and outfielders Ben Revere, John Mayberry Jr., Casper Wells and Bernadina are eligible. There is a chance right-hander Mike Stutes and left-hander Raul Valdes could qualify as Super Two players, which also would make them arbitration-eligible.


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Beckhoff rounds off its range of fieldbus components with the PCI-based PC Fieldbus Cards for Lightbus, PROFIBUS, CANopen, DeviceNet, SERCOS interface, Ethernet and the PCI Express v1.1 cards for PROFIBUS, CANopen and Ethernet. The cards were specifically developed for fast controllers and real-time tasks such as drive position control. To enable universal application, the interface cards are fitted with either one or two fieldbus channels. The Ethernet cards offer a maximum of four channels. The fieldbus cards can optionally be equipped with non-volatile memory (NOVRAM), hence enabling the fail-safe storage of data. Features:
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Arsonists target home of gov't spokesman's brother
Police say arsonists have attacked the home of the brother of government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou with a firebomb.
The arsonists broke down the door with a sledgehammer and threw a firebomb inside, police say.
Police say the occupants of the house - the spokesman's brother, his wife and their 3-year-old child- were unharmed. They added that the occupants had extinguished the fire.
Arsonists attacked the homes of five prominent journalists before dawn Friday, prompting the government spokesman, a former journalist, to condemn the attacks. Two small anarchist groups claimed responsibility for those attacks, which caused limited damage and no injuries.


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It's easy to picture the Vatican as a medieval anachronism—a theme park built by Michelangelo and protected by the Swiss Guard (who really are Swiss, by the way). Heck, its press office even closes at 2:30pm.
But this impression isn't wholly accurate. The Vatican has taken plenty of small steps into the Internet age over the last decade and has repeatedly urged the faithful to take the euangelion of Jesus to the furthest corners of the "so-called cyberspace"—lo, even unto Facebook and beyond.
This last week, the head of the Vatican press office went even further, saying that he need to "work even harder so that every day it will be more true to say, and so that we might be able to say with greater and greater conviction: the Internet is truly blessed!"
Solving the Internet's "problems"
In a speech in England, Frederico Lombardi SJ offered a "Roman perspective on the problems of new communications." In his talk, Lombardi showed himself to be a man who believes in the importance of the Internet even as he recognizes that "today's communications environment is rapidly becoming something vastly different from that which my generation first experienced it."
The "problems" of the Internet are many, but Lombardi is particularly concerned with the way that something as vital as the Internet is distributed so unevenly. "From the Church's point of view, leaving those with fewer possibilities on the margins is simply not an option," he said. "For us, the poor and developing countries are at least as important as the wealthy, if not more."
Because of this uneven distribution, the Vatican will never truly be at the cutting edge of online communications—it simply needs to put too many resources into "traditional" media so that it can reach the billions for whom the Internet is a dream or an occasional luxury.
But the Internet is a special instrument of "blessedness" because of its unique ability to connect people across cultures and borders. The rise of social networking shows the primitive power of relationships, friends, human connection—these are deep human needs, and Internet has "given rise to an omnidirectional flow of transversal and personal communications, the scope of which was unimaginable until very recently."
When it comes to the Church's own Internet use, though, the "flow" of communication isn't omnidirectional at all. It is unidirectional and hierarchical, and Lombardi knows it. The problem is how to change that; the Pope certainly can't answer YouTube questions from a billion Catholics.
"We are on our way towards an active Internet presence," Lombardi said, "though for the moment it is a basically one-directional presence, and will be until we understand the best way to establish interactive dialogue with our visitors."
But with government leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama using the Internet in innovate ways to engage citizens, the Vatican hopes it can do something too. One concern is that this sort of two-way engagement could be a little creepy; by flattening the Catholic hierarchy, the Pope might actually get too directly involved in questions and controversies best left to local leaders.
"How can we correctly promote the presence of the Pope in the life of the whole Church?" asked Lombardi. "That is, how can we use this technology to make his presence felt in the local Churches throughout the world without contributing to the creation or growth of a centralistic mentality that is not only inopportune, but at loggerheads with the right articulation and proper autonomy of the local Church?"
So the Internet is truly blessed, but like any good thing, it has its proper sphere and limits. As the Pope noted in a speech for World Communications Day this weekend, "If the desire for virtual connectedness becomes obsessive, it may in fact function to isolate individuals from real social interaction while also disrupting the patterns of rest, silence and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development." (Who knew that the Pope had heard of WoW addiction?)
And of course there's all that porn.
Lombardi isn't dissuaded by the problems, and neither is Benedict XVI—but both are aware that they aren't the men to solve them.
"It falls, in particular, to young people," said the Pope, "who have an almost spontaneous affinity for the new means of communication, to take on the responsibility for the evangelization of this 'digital continent.'"
This certainly doesn't sound "medieval." Indeed, it sounds like an exhortation right out of the next age of exploration, when Jesuits like Lombardi sailed the globe and brought the faith to new lands.


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Being a futurist is about anticipating trends, rather than making specific predictions, however, today I've decided to do both. First of all, after winning her THIRD gold medal in the pool today, Stephanie Rice is going to be in the public eye a lot more than before. Additionally, I predict a special edition box of Rice Bubbles bearing her name:
Brace yourselves, Australia!
(Americans mistakenly call Rice Bubbles "Rice Krispies", in case you yanks were wondering…).
Well done, Stphanie! Man, she's fast, isn't she?


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Chrissy Teigen -- Introduces the Vagina Raspberry ... You're Welcome, Brooklyn Decker
Chrissy Teigen Introduces the Vagina Raspberry You're Welcome, Brooklyn Decker
A seemingly drunk Chrissy Teigen just used the Internet for the greater good of humanity -- introducing the world to something she calls the "vagina raspberry."
In Chrissy's instructional video she places her face over the crotch of another S.I. swimsuit hottie ... Brooklyn Decker -- and the person shooting announces, "This is the video called vagina raspberry."
And then, Chrissy buries her face in Brooklyn's crotch and blows hard ... on Brooklyn's vagina.
And now you know. Enjoy your weekend!
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