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Which one would you get/like better and why?
Tough question. I'll really need to compare side-by-side in the store. TBolt is a nice piece of hardware, but the advantages of a dual core could be significant, however that could be offset by limitations of less ram in the Bionic.
Honestly, the ability to root and flash a custom rom with HTC could be the difference maker. Overclocking to 1.5 could make the advantage of the dual core less and, in some cases, the TBolt could be faster oc'd to 1.5ghz.
So I'm taking a wait and see approach. The other thing I'm disappointed about with the TBolt is lack of HDMI out. Sure, it has DLNA but only newer, high-end tv's support that (HDMI out is something I might use in the hotel to watch a movie or programs from my slingbox).
Ehhh, most likely the Bionic is the phone I'll get. Maybe Google eventually gets around to incorporating compcache when it gets perfected (sort of like JIT) and it solves any issues with inadequate ram.
Not to be an a** h*** but DF does have a pretty solid search function and this topic has been repeated over and over and over again...but to answer your question, I'll be getting which ever one has the better dev community.
No need to be nasty. The guy simply asked a question. In answer to his question, I plan on buying an HTC Thunderbolt as soon as it's available. The reasons: It's NOT manufactured by Motorola, it appears to have an unlocked bootloader and is ready to be rooted, it has a 4.3 inch screen, it is made by HTC, maker of the Droid Incredible, which I have and dearly love, and finally - it's NOT manufactured by Motorola.
The thunderbolt has a single core 1ghz processor ...
The bionic is dual core. Silas long as the bootloader isn't locked I will go with the bionic.
Thunderbolt: Operating system: Android™ 2.2 + HTC Sense
Display: 4.3" WVGATFT capacitivetouch screen Camera: 8MP with autofocus, LED Flash (2x LED), 1.3MP front facing camera Memory: 8GB emmc + 768 RAM Memory card, preinstalled 32 GB microSD™ WLAN: 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth:2.1 with EDR (3.0 when available) GPS: GPS/AGPS Battery: 1400 mAh Special features: Dual mics with noise cancellation, Surround sound, Compass sensor, G-Sensor, Proximity sensor, Light sensor, 3.5mm audio jack, MicroUSB, FM radio, LTE SIM slot , TI audio DSP Chipset: Qualcomm® MSM8655, 1GHz, Qualcomm
I am going with the thunderbolt for the simple reason it comes out this week. Hopefully..
I understand but I did search and I didn't find what I was looking exactly...i wanted to know wjay people generally liked more visually and all...so I thought id ask.....and I also think I might be getting the thunderbolt although the lg revolution looks amazing any body have an idea when that is due out?
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No problem. I wish it was 1.5 lol
At first I was thinking Bionic, but now probably Thunderbolt only because from what I'm reading it'll be more dev friendly. I'm not getting it right away though, gonna see what everyone says before I make the plunge. I don't really care about dual core, it's not going to make my phone suddenly magical.
Bionic because of the dual core.
Is the dual core really going to make a difference...I've been reading the dual core is pretty comparable to the amount of extra ram that the thunderbolt will have
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Unless specs have changed (again), aren't they both 1GB? Bionic was listed at 512 but I was told that was a error. So, I'm not sure what is correct now....I've seen both as correct.


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The Risk of War : Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia Hardback
by Vasiliki P. Neofotistos
Part of the The Ethnography of Political Violence series
The Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)-a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing greater rights for the Albanian community in Macedonia and terminated by the internationally brokered Ohrid Framework Agreement.
Anthropologist Vasiliki P. Neofotistos provides an ethnographic account of the ways middle- and working-class Albanian and Macedonian noncombatants in Macedonia's capital city, Skopje, went about their daily lives during the conflict, when fear and uncertainty regarding their existence and the viability of the state were intense and widespread. Neofotistos finds that, rather than passively observing the international community's efforts to manage the political crisis, members of the Macedonian and Albanian communities responded with resilience and wit to disruptive and threatening changes in social structure, intensely negotiated relationships of power, and promoted indeterminacy on the level of the everyday as a sense of impending war enfolded the capital.
More broadly, The Risk of War helps us better understand how postindependence Macedonia has managed to escape civil bloodshed despite high political volatility, acute ethno-nationalist rivalries, and unrelenting external pressures exerted by neighboring countries.
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Making out way though our fabboo Best of Password DVD set, we came across this 1965 episode with guest stars Betty White and the elegant Arlene Francis. The Betty White Passwords are always lots of fun. She has a great, flirty repartee with host Alan Ludden (a.k.a. Mr. Betty White) and her fellow players in addition to being a sharp player. What makes this one even more interesting is that the players are well-known comic strip artists of the day, including Al Capp ('Lil Abner) and Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey). The artists were playing for charity to support a gallery show they put on in response to Pop Artists using their comic book imagery. The artists aren't too great at playing Password, really, but the episode is an excellent little window into that (white, male, mostly stodgy) world of newspaper comic strips of the mid-sixties.
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I suppose the art I created here will be my biggest takeaway from my 14 months in the space, although being above one of the city's popular (excessive) drinking holes definitely added a twist of lime and spritz of seltzer to my time here that I won't soon forget. Like the mornings when I'd cut through the bottom floors and was able to tell how crazy the previous night's clientele were by the degree to which my shoes stuck to the floor. Of course I won't miss the other days when a smell of barf hung in the air just a little too long, but thankfully that phenomenon was infrequent enough that other aspects of the experience like a presumably strengthened immune system or ability to sit at a bar "where everybody knows your name" easily canceled it out.
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In the end the irony of it all makes me grin. The Gorilla and I made our final stand in Buenos Aires at an American owned bar called The Alamo. Thankfully though, unlike Davy Crockett and his comrades, in this demented version of the tale Jimmy and his Ape Army are able to survive the battle and have their deranged adventures continue on as they head back north across the equator pillaging and plundering towns and villages and leaving the Orange Gorilla in their wake. Or at least something like that. The ending is still a work in progress.
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Most adults and teens are familiar with songs like Wild World, Peace Train and Moonshadow. A recent episode of the Showtime drama Ray Donovan featured Liev Schreiber crooning If You Want to Sing Out. While the songs may be known, many audiences under age 40 may have never heard of Cat Stevens, until his induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year. For older audiences, his re-embracing his talent is welcome news. Now, Yusuf Cat Stevens is releasing a new album this month as well as an autobiography that explains his odyssey.
Stevens was a huge recording star in the 1970s. Then, he walked away from his career and embraced Islam, disappearing from view for years. Now, he is in the public eye – or about to be – again.
Stevens' book, Why I Still Carry A Guitar, is due out Sept. 16. His new album, Tell 'Em I'm Gone, is coming out Oct. 27, followed by a small tour.
Tell 'Em I'm Gone revisits the themes of freedom and peace from Stevens' earlier years and the Brit's early love of American blues. The album will contain 10 songs, five of which are original and six are covers, including an interesting version of Dying to Live by Edgar Winter. Produced by Rick Rubin, the album is the artist's first since 2009 and more reminiscent of the material that made him a star 40+ years ago.
The autobiography, Why I Still Carry A Guitar, follows his journey from his London childhood as Steven Demetre Georgiou to superstardom as Cat Stevens to becoming Yusuf Islam and walking away from his career. Like many movie and book plots, his real life includes reclaiming his career and love for music.
Stevens' story is an interesting one. He had several major albums, including Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat. For years, the hits kept coming, including the aforementioned ones, Hard Headed Woman, Where Do the Children Play, Morning Has Broken and Father & Son. He also wrote hits for others, e.g., The First Cut is the Deepest.
Stevens had a near-drowning experience in Malibu in 1975 that led to his re-evaluating his life, reading the Koran and eventually, in 1977, embracing Islam. He quit music and changed his name to Yusuf (as in Joseph) Islam.
After marrying and having children, he became involved in education and relief efforts, especially in the Balkans. The charity he established with his wide helped orphans and widows after the war there. He also did some educational and children's recordings.
After Sept. 11, 2001, however, Stevens spoke out against fanaticism and began singing older songs again, such as Peace Train. It was Peter Gabriel who really coaxed the artist back on stage at a concert honoring Nelson Mandela in 2003, where Stevens sang Wild World. Since then, he is back to performing and recording.
Rolling Stone magazine recently asked Yusuf how he feels when people call him Cat Stevens today. He acknowledged that "That's how a lot of people know me…. I'm not bothered by that. They also respect me and my life choices and my personal decisions." Noticeably, he uses Yusuf and Cat Stevens on his Web site, but as he returns with the autobiography and album, the artist is billed as Yusuf.
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RightNow Introduces RightNow CX, the Customer Experience Suite
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Sydney - November 12, 2009 - RightNow (NASDAQ: RNOW) has announced a groundbreaking cloud solution, RightNow CX, a customer experience suite designed to deliver great customer experiences that increase advocacy, grow sales and expand margins.

RightNow CX is built from the ground up to help organisations deliver exceptional customer experiences, delivered in the cloud. RightNow CX addresses three primary customer engagement points - the Web Experience, the Social Experience, and the Contact Centre Experience - to ensure a seamless experience, regardless of the number or type of interactions initiated.

Unlike CRM, which is an internally focused customer management systems, CX solutions are rooted in the end consumer. With its long-time consumer-focus, RightNow has led many innovations in knowledge management, community, voice of the customer, mobile and web experiences that simply don't fit into traditional CRM. CX marks the shift from solutions that focus internally to solutions that focus externally and deliver superior customer experiences that drive revenue.

Expectations and Empowerment on the Rise

Today's consumers have unlimited choices and incredibly high customer experience expectations. When their expectations are not met, consumers take action. The 2009 Impact of the Social Web on Australian Consumer Experiences Report found that 62 percent of consumers quit doing business with a company due to a bad customer experience and 83 percent of consumers that had a bad experience told others about it. With social tools at their disposal, the repercussions of this can be enormous.

"Consumers are forcing change in the way companies interact with them — customers are in control and set the tone for every interaction. Companies can't manage the customer relationship anymore. However, with RightNow CX, they can control the customer experience they deliver," said Brett Waters, Vice President Asia Pacific – South, RightNow.

RightNow CX

RightNow CX is a revolutionary approach to delivering great customer experiences that grow sales, increase customer advocacy and expand margins. RightNow CX is built from the ground up with the customer at the centre of the experience. It is a multi-channel customer experience solution for organisations that want to deliver superior customer experiences across web, social and contact centre touch points.

It includes:

- The RightNow Web Experience which seamlessly integrates into an existing web infrastructure for a fully branded online customer experience. When consumers visit a website they can quickly and easily find what they're looking for in an interactive, engaging, and branded environment. With the RightNow Web Experience, consumers can also easily transition across web self-service, agent online, mobile devices and telephone assistance based on their needs.

RightNow Web Experience includes Customer Portal (for web and mobile self service), Chat and Co-Browse, Email Management and Web Experience Designer. RightNow was recently named a leader by Gartner, Inc. in the 'Magic Quadrant for E-Service Suites' report, underscoring the strength of the RightNow Web Experience.

- The RightNow Social Experience taps into social networking to promote brands, facilitate community, address customer concerns and drive revenue. Opinions are being formed and decisions being made about products and services without company involvement - on social networking sites (like YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook), on blogs and in online communities. Companies need to proactively monitor the discussions occurring on the social web, as well as facilitate interactions within communities sponsored by their brand. RightNow CX allows organisations to easily do both.

RightNow recently acquired HiveLive, an enterprise-class social platform provider. With the release of RightNow November '09, the HiveLive technology has been fully integrated and is now part of the RightNow Social Experience which includes Cloud Monitor, Support Community, Innovation Community, and Social Experience Designer.

- The RightNow Contact Centre Experience delivers superior multi-channel customer experiences via phone, e-mail, online chat and voice self service. When a customer picks up the phone – either to speak with an agent, or interact through voice self service – they must be able to quickly and efficiently achieve their goals. Agents need a powerful agent desktop that is infused with knowledge. IVR menus should be intuitive, even speech driven.

RightNow Contact Centre Experience includes Phone and Multi-Channel Interaction Management, Case Management, Voice Automation, and Contact Centre Experience Designer (which consists of Desktop Workflow, Agent Scripting and Contextual Workspaces). Industry-leading companies like Black & Decker, iRobot, Motorola, Nikon, Overstock.com and Shaklee all use RightNow Contact Centre Experience to run their award-winning contact centres.

- RightNow Engage enables organisations to deliver the business processes of sales, marketing and voice of the customer across the web, social and contact centre experiences. Paired with Engage's analytics engine, it delivers deep customer insights and enables proactive, relevant customer communications, which builds loyalty and drives revenue.

RightNow Engage capabilities include marketing, for proactively engaging customers with personalised and relevant communications; sales, for revenue generation; and Voice of the Customer, for gathering actionable feedback.

Underlying RightNow CX is the RightNow CX Platform. The platform includes RightNow's innovative self-learning knowledge foundation which infuses every customer interaction with relevant and consistent knowledge to provide the basis for a positive customer experience. RightNow Connect provides the integration framework to easily connect RightNow CX with our systems. The entirety of the RightNow CX solution leverages a mission-critical SaaS delivery model providing unparalleled up-time, security and performance.

"With RightNow CX, we are the only solution in the market that can deliver native web self-service, chat, co-browse, email management, community, social monitoring, phone and multi-channel interaction management along with full marketing automation, voice of the customer, sales and analytics all driven from a foundational knowledgebase and delivered in the cloud," said Waters.

RightNow Makes CX Commitment

"The unfortunate truth about SaaS today is that it has too much software and too little service. RightNow is committed to leading the industry by putting the 'service' into SaaS. Our CX Commitment raises the bar for cloud computing providers everywhere," said Waters.

The RightNow CX Commitment is a tangible set of activities and investments RightNow is making to ensure client success. This includes:

· A relentless focus on results. RightNow is adding a client success manager to each account. These success managers will be incented on client success, not sales. RightNow is also launching a new RightNow Project Methodology to ensure the right results are met for every client.

· Proactively sharing expertise through the newly created Centres of Excellence. For each CX solution area a Centre of Excellence will be established with deep expertise. These centres will combine the best minds from RightNow's product management, development, support, professional services and sales teams to ensure ongoing development and sharing of CX expertise. RightNow is also planning to expand a popular service; Ask the Experts is going on demand, providing just-in-time online and in person access to the CX experts beginning next year.

· Delivering on the unfulfilled promise of SaaS. RightNow is committed to putting real service into SaaS, by transforming the service it delivers to clients. RightNow is simplifying contracts, providing transparency, more flexibility and remaining accountable to client results and success. RightNow also has committed to a vision of eliminating upgrades by providing invisible updates that empower clients to use new functionality quickly and easily and on a schedule that works for them.

About RightNow

RightNow is helping rid the world of bad experiences one consumer interaction at a time, seven million times a day. RightNow CX, the customer experience suite, helps organisations deliver exceptional customer experiences across the web, social networks and contact centres, all delivered via the cloud. With more than eight billion customer interactions delivered, RightNow is the customer experience fabric for nearly 2000 organisations around the globe. To learn more about RightNow, go to www.rightnow.com

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Improving Economic Activity Survey by using BAS Unit Record Estimates (BURE)
BAS Unit Record Estimates (BURE) are available for the key financial data items reported by businesses on the Australian Taxation Office's Business Activity Statement (BAS). BURE are produced on both a quarterly and financial year basis by applying a number of transformations to the raw BAS data. BURE standardise the reporting period of the raw BAS, remove the GST if it is included in the reported values and impute an estimate for missing returns and correct basic errors. BURE are available for each business for the BAS data items of Total Sales, Total Salary, wages & other payments, Non-Capital Purchases and Capital Purchases.
The extensive use of BURE data in the annual Economic Activity Survey (EAS) has led to a substantial improvement in the accuracy of produced outputs. BURE are used directly in the creation of survey estimates for approximately 700,000 of the smallest non-employing businesses. This reduces the size of the business population in scope of direct collection by 35%. This reduces the reporting burden for small businesses and improves the efficiency of the sample for the remaining population.
The most significant gains for the EAS come with BURE Total Sales and Wages & Salaries as benchmark variables in the estimation process, which is based on using the Generalised Regression estimator (GREG). Using GREG, as opposed to the Horvitz-Thompson estimator, has led to a reduction in the EAS sample from 30,000 to 20,000 businesses, without affecting the quality of the key financial estimates that have good correlation with benchmark variables. This represents a significant reduction in costs for the EAS as well as the burden placed on business providers.
Further savings and improvements in the quality of survey outputs are achieved through the improved efficiency of the editing processes for the EAS, with BURE data being used to evaluate the significance of survey reporting errors. In addition, BURE data is used in the imputation of non-responding businesses.
While the use of GREG estimation delivers savings at a broad output level, more intensive statistical modelling techniques that combine survey data and BURE data, can allow for finer level outputs to be created, which would not otherwise be possible without a larger sample. "Experimental' estimates for the Manufacturing industry have been created for a small set of data items at the state and fine industry level. These estimates are based on a sample of approximately 2,700 businesses, but have levels of quality similar to those, which were achieved previously by the Manufacturing collections with a larger sample of approximately 9,000 businesses.
Like any data source, BURE have a number of deficiencies. The main problem is the difficulty in using BURE for large business structures created using the ABS Economic Unit Model and which have complex relationships between the ABN(s) and businesses. With BURE only being available at the ABN level, the BURE records for complex businesses are produced using a number of approximations which unavoidably lead to a lower quality of data. There are plans for improving the quality of these estimates by using additional sizing information, which is currently collected during the profiling of Large Businesses.
The second problem is related to the fact that there may be a genuine reason for difference of reporting Total sales on the BAS statement and on the Economic Activity Survey form. Some providers complete their EAS form using their Profit and Loss statement (P&L). However, BAS data is reported with an emphasis on correctly reporting GST liabilities/credits. The Annual Integrated Collection (AIC) BSC statistical support team is planning to conduct investigations into units with atypical large BURE Sales and Non-Capital Purchases, to see if modified BURE for these units would be more appropriate for stratification, editing, estimation and data substitution purposes.
Apart from continuing work on developing a greater understanding of BAS data, its quality and its relationship with EAS data, there are intentions to expand the use of BURE data in the Economic Activity survey by 1. investigating options for improving the accuracy of AIC Gross Fixed Capital Formations estimates by evaluating the use of BURE Capitalised Purchases as auxiliary information during stratification and estimation, and 2.increasing the scope of the modelled estimates produced at finer output levels to a larger number of industries and data items.
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5 Tiny Investments That Will Elevate Your Baking
Sure, you can easily mix butter, flour, sugar, and eggs into something sweet and tasty. But what makes baking really special are the less obvious ingredients — maybe it's a high-quality extract or flavoring, or maybe it's splurging on that fancy bar of chocolate you've been eyeing in the store.
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Instant espresso powder is the unsung hero of deep, dark chocolate cakes. A little of the intense coffee powder brings depth to chocolate recipes without being overwhelming, but you can also up the amount if you're inspired to take a mocha route instead. It's also great to keep on hand for recipes calling for brewed coffee, especially if you're not the type that typically drinks a lot of it at home.
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You can't replicate the flavor of real vanilla extract. Period. It may seem like a costly purchase, but you can easily make a big bottle at home with some cheap liquor and a few vanilla beans instead.
Fake extracts contain chemicals that almost but don't quite replicate the flavor of the real stuff, and the gap there will really throw off the taste of what you're making. The real stuff will infuse it with natural flavor. So ditch the imitation and invest in real vanilla, almond, or even coconut extract to really enhance your next batch of sweets.
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Coarse, natural cane sugar is baking's secret weapon. It's less refined than white or regular brown sugars, so it has a more robust flavor, and it's beautiful and sparkly to boot. Sprinkle some on your next batch of muffins for added crunch, or roll a log of sugar cookie dough in it before slicing and baking to add elegance without much extra work.
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Keep some flavored baking chips other than chocolate on hand. Swapping out or replacing some of the chocolate chips in a recipe with cinnamon, toffee, or caramel chips is a fun way to turn a trusted recipe into something new and fun. Plus, they'll even appease those few people in the world who don't like chocolate!


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- Placing Limits on the State Action Doctrine, the Supreme Court Subjects Local Government Hospitals to Scrutiny under the Antitrust Laws
- February 27, 2013
- Law Firm: Proskauer Rose LLP - New York Office
Recent major regulatory and technological developments have brought forth historic changes to the health care market. Health care providers have responded to these developments in several ways. One such mechanism, hospital consolidation, has in particular risen to historical levels. Last week, however, the Supreme Court appears to have put the brakes on some of these efforts.
In FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., the Supreme Court reversed the prevailing view that acquisitions by county and municipal hospitals are entitled to immunity from the antitrust laws under the "state action" doctrine. This is significant because almost 1,000 of the 5,000 hospitals in the United States are owned by governmental bodies. After Phoebe, the FTC is likely to increase its scrutiny of hospital mergers that it may previously have felt powerless to challenge.
Indeed, Phoebe was widely recognized as a test case for the FTC, intended to limit or reverse a 1994 Eleventh Circuit decision, FTC v. Hospital Bd. of Directors of Lee Cty., 38 F. 3d 1184 (11th Cir. 1994), which had virtually immunized all governmental hospital mergers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. There, the Eleventh Circuit held that the state action doctrine immunizes anticompetitive acquisitions by government-owned hospitals because such acquisitions were "foreseeable" by the state legislature when, decades earlier, the government hospital was granted the authority to acquire hospital property.
Because the Lee County decision put a significant limit on the ability to challenge mergers by government-owned hospitals, the FTC long sought an opportunity to reverse, or at least limit, its broad principle. Phoebe provided such a vehicle.
Its facts are straightforward. In 1941, the Georgia State Legislature enacted a statute that created a local hospital authority for each major city and county in Georgia. These authorities were vested with general corporate powers to purchase health care facilities and operate hospital networks, and endowed with certain uniquely governmental powers, like the power of eminent domain.
The Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County shortly thereafter acquired Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, the county's largest hospital, treating about 75% of the population. The Authority, however, did not operate the hospital itself, but outsourced this function to a private nonprofit corporation. In 2010, the private company's management wanted to expand and improve its operations by combining with the only other significant hospital in the area, Palmyra Park Hospital. The FTC contended that this combination would give rise to a virtual monopoly. But believing the state action doctrine provided a silver bullet defense, the parties structured the transaction so that the Hospital Authority, not Phoebe-Putney, would acquire Palmyra (and thus be its nominal owner), with funds provided by the private company.
To the FTC, this was the perfect test case. Even if it were unsuccessful in challenging Lee County's broader principle regarding government-owned hospital immunity, it still could prevail on the narrower ground that the arrangement was effectively a sham. The Supreme Court agreed to hear both issues. But as it turns out, the FTC did not need to rely on the narrower ground because the Court held that state legislatures must do more than merely authorize local governments to own and operate a hospital in order to exempt them from the federal antitrust laws.
The Court recognized that "when a local governmental entity acts pursuant to a clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed state policy to displace competition, it is exempt from the antitrust laws." It also acknowledged that, "to pass the 'clear articulation test,' a state legislature need not 'expressly state in a statute ... that the legislature intends for the delegated action to have anticompetitive effects.'" Rather, according to prior precedent, "immunity applies if the anticompetitive effect was the 'foreseeable result' of what the State authorized."
Taking a step back, however, the Court clarified that "foreseeability" in this context should not be construed "too loosely" and does not mean "reasonably anticipated" (as the Eleventh Circuit had held and as the term's dictionary definition would suggest). Instead, the Court held that state action immunity will only be implied in situations "where the displacement of competition was the inherent, logical, or ordinary result of the exercise of authority delegated by the state legislature." So, for example, in cases where a local government enacts a zoning ordinance or adopts a comprehensive regulatory scheme under a state authorizing statute, the legislature's intent to displace competition will be presumed.
But where a state merely grants the power for "substate governmental entities to participate in a competitive marketplace," the Court found that no such presumption applies. As it explained, "when a State grants some entity the general power to act," such as granting "simple permission to play in a market," the authorization should be construed "against the general backdrop of federal antitrust law." Thus, a law that "allows a [local government] to acquire hospitals" does not "clearly articulate and affirmatively express a state policy of empowering the [local government] to make acquisitions - that will substantially lessen competition." Any other ruling, the Court held, would set a "a trap for unwary state legislatures" who may want to provide a public option in addition to, but not in lieu of, private ones.
What are the practical effects of this ruling for the 1,000 public hospitals (and potential third parties who wish to collaborate with or acquire them)? First, for the parties to the Phoebe transaction, it means that the merger is likely to be unwound. Second, for other government-owned hospitals, the Court's decision means that they can no longer rely on the state's general grant of authority to do business and acquire property to avoid antitrust scrutiny. Instead, government-owned hospitals will need to defend the pro-competitive rationale for their transactions or, alternatively, amend enabling statutes and/or seek expressed state authorization - perhaps transaction-specific - to enter into anticompetitive transactions that may have other countervailing societal benefits. Third, government-owned hospitals should review their enabling statutes/ordinances and see if they meet the clear articulation test with specific activities, including a clear contemplation or authorization of anticompetitive activities. If, like many statutes and ordinances, the specific activities are too general or opaque, consider - subject to political realities - seeking legislative amendments to "fix" them. In this era of heightened hospital-hospital and hospital-physician-payor consolidation, government-owned hospitals (and third parties who want to collaborate with/acquire them) should take advantage of the immunity afforded them, but only if their statutes/ordinances permit.
In sum, the Phoebe decision changes the landscape for government-owed hospitals seeking to adapt, grow, and innovate through acquisition. Careful planning will increase the likelihood that such strategies will be successful.


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National Geographic recently featured a great photo of the National Library in Beijing.
Why do you like this library and what are some of your favourite features?
It's a nice space – I actually shot a quick video with my phone there (hence the poor sound quality, plus I had to keep my voice down) to introduce a paper for an International Librarianship course during my MLIS program at Rutgers. According to the architects, it's the third largest library in the world.
Some features I like:
- If you are a Chinese citizen, there are machines that dispense library cards if you have your national ID.
- They have a very liberal and affordable photocopying service in the foreign language section (no page limits).
- The main atrium, despite or perhaps because of its powerful acoustics, is a surprisingly quiet place in a noisy city.
- The designers intentionally gave it a moat. Moats deserve to make a comeback in modern architecture.
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- How did you approach issues of silence and acoustics, especially since the building is dominated by a huge echo chamber?
- Did you approach the building as a replacement or a complement to the old library building, which continues to be closed for renovation?
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September 2012.
Me, to a friend living in another city: "I hate Varanasi. The city is covered in filth, the roads are dotted with potholes, and don't even get me started on the people! They are a group of uncouth barbarians!"
October 2013.
A friend living in another city, to me: " I hope you are okay over there, I have heard that the city is strewn with rubbish and the people are very gawaar."
In the span of thirteen months between these two conversations are tucked away hundreds of instances when the same dialogues have been repeated over and over. Sometimes in the form of tears of self pity to my parents, sometimes woven into a telephone conversation with a sympathetic friend, and sometimes as a silent wail of anguish in the middle of the night, the echoes resounding through my mind, rendering the difficult task of falling off to sleep, close to impossible.
Having spent the last three years in the capital city of the country, studying in one of the best colleges in the country, making the transformation to a small city caught in the terrible confusion between turning into a big city and at the same time holding on to its small town roots had the impact of a huge culture shock on me. Suddenly the people around me started labeling me as a snob if I conversed in English, I developed rashes on my shins from being covered from head to toe even in the sweltering heat of North India and I had tears of panic leaking out of my eyes every time I stepped out of my house, out of fear of the menacing troop of monkeys loitering around like the gali ka gundas.
As I wallowed in my grief of being away from my friends and no longer having the freedom to wear shorts, I had no inkling of what was in store for me. I learned to embolden myself to venture out of the house the very next day after I witnessed the bizarre scene of a naked man with a tortured expression on his face turning in small circles in the middle of an empty field I cross everyday on my way to the university. The absurdity of the scene was such, that even today, it makes me doubt its reality, my mind suggesting that I might have conjured it up. I also learned to clean my own bathroom and wash with my bare hands the slimy algae off the floor of the water jar. I battled with rats nibbling away at my food and sometimes new clothes, setting traps and spreading poison around the house, eventually learning to go to bed with the knowledge that a rat might dare to jump up on my bed, run up my leg, and in the process get entangled in the blanket and stay there till I free it with a cacophony of my shrieks in the background. I also learned to develop trust again in rickshaw walas, after one tried to take me off to a deserted place, replying with more furious pedaling to my continuous appeals to him to stop.
After all these incidents and more, I found myself praying for a miracle that would magically shorten my remaining months in this city to minutes. I seemed to have sworn an unspoken oath to myself to never give this place a chance to woo me, not after all the terrible scars it left on me. And so, I was surprised at the words that flowed out of my mouth with ease, when a friend of mine told me to be careful of the city and its people after about a year of having endured Varanasi. My words seemed to be trying to convince him that women are in fact treated with polite courtesy, be it about the seat in an auto, or getting an urgent work done in government offices, and that one or two rare cases of eve teasing or molestation happen everywhere. There was a dissonance in my head, as one part of me tried to stop my words and agree with my friend's opinions, as I had been doing for the past one year. In that moment, I realized that somehow in the one year, the relentless lover named Banaras had discovered a tiny gap between the doors to my heart, and pushed and edged its way inside, covering the walls with wallpapers of its love, keeping them skillfully concealed under a dark cloth, until that day. The day when the cloth slipped off, and I found my heart painted bright red.
Maybe it happened during the times I fell sick, and I wept, touched with gratitude as a friend came over everyday to nurse me, armed with food and medicines and big smiles, fluffing my pillow and fussing over me. Maybe it happened when a friend took me out and made me meet new people on days I wanted to lock myself into solitude, and turned the throes of a shattered heart into stomach cramps from delirious laughter. Or it might have been the times I had a glass of mouth watering thandai and bhaang with a friend, and spent the next few hours giggling and laughing over things as mundane as the dropping of a pencil. Or maybe, it happened over the evenings at the ghats, with a cool breeze playing around with wisps of my hair, the faint ringing of aarti bells and the intoxicating smell of dhoop in the air, as I gazed far off in the darkness, a serene contentment settling over me.


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Dress/Top - E-Clipse "Gallery" (available at Limited Bazaar)
Jeans - Plastik :[P]:Militia Skinnies//Strips
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The burgeoning Philadelphia craft scene is home to Layne Freedline of Layne Designs. Freedline's heirloom jewelry is made with traditional bench techniques and trendy lapidary cut stones like druzy and cabochons. This black druzy piece is my favorite. It is gorgeous!
Freedline is an accomplished jeweler who can boast an impressive resume of education and experience in the trade. She also teaches workshops on jewelry fabrication when she is not working in her own studio.
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Highlights from the final day at the Ballito Pro pres. by Billabong
Peterson Crisanto Wins Ballito Pro Presented by Billabong
Jack Freestone takes runner-up spot. With their success there, both surfers got big boosts up the WSL Qualifying Series rankings.
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Monarchism, the Nationalist's Guide part 2
What is Nationalism today?
Ever since the Easter Rising, the resulting war for Independence, the institution of the Irish Free State as a Dominion of the Empire, Partition and the declaration of the Republic of Ireland, Irish Republicanism slowly but surely, became the dominant mindset of the entirety of the Nationalist south. This really is due, in large part, to the natural inclination of the Irish people to Authority. Let us be honest, the Irish, while certainly with evidence throughout history, are possessed with an innate fighting spirit and sense of justice, are not, nor ever have been anti-authoritian. This is one of the reasons we made such fine peasantry other then our fine stock and dutiful work ethic of centuries past.
So it only makes sense that, the monarchist contingent of Irishmen, convinced of living under an 'Irish' Government, were satisfied and content and prepared to simply accept that their nation was a Republican nation and that was all there was to it. Afterall that had certainly been a mentality the leadership of Ireland had encouraged, intentionally or unintentionally with a passive aggressive relationship with Britain, the 'Old Enemy', especially with De Velera's 'economic war', if it could even be called such. Which just reaffirmed a growing association with monarchism with Britishness and British servitude imposed on Ireland. Is it any wonder why Irish Monarchism died a quiet death?
Afterall, while it certainly doesnt exist as such now, the political institution of Ireland in its inception had been virulently traditionalist, even if not monarchist, to the point where both parties, Fine Gael and Fine Fail at the time were technically 'conservatives' who just found themselves on opposing sides of the civil war (there really is no more vicious a conflict then between brothers). What had the conservative souls of Ireland to fear? As far as the conservatives, traditionalists and cultural revivalists were concerned they had effectively 'won', and the ressurrection of Gaelic Civilization was just on the horizon. Certainly the Catholic Church felt no need to meddle in affairs at the time. Why would it have need to? Ireland was THE quintessential Catholic nation with an effectively Catholic state and Constitution that was seen as a mighty fortress for the Church that it could feel it'll always rely on. A mistake all of them had made. If ever there was a case example of democratic republicanism instilling apathy in a nation, Ireland is that case example. The innate traditionalist nature of the people and organizations of Ireland should have guaranteed to coalesce and transform the Irish Nation into, if nothing else, a socio-political force to be reckoned with and a bastion of traditional thought, theory and practice which conservatives and traditionalists of Europe could seek to mimic proudly. It didnt. It all died. And the defining characteristic of Irish politics is apathy, not passion. And what's left in evidence of the passionate flame for Irish Identity is little more then youths 'wearing' the Irish flag at football games and seeing nothing symbolically wrong with effectively 'sitting' on theirs nation's flag on a dirty stadium chair. They dont do it maliciously, they do it ignorantly.
And in the North, we all know too well the story of the Troubles, Sinn Fein's rise in popularity. Ever since the end of the civil war, Sinn Fein and the IRA had been flirting with socialism and had been breaking apart as a result whenever situations called for distinction between social democratic politics and traditional nationalism. As was the cas eint he troubles where Loyalist paramilitary agitation in the North effectively caused a coup in the IRA's leadership with traditionalist splitting off and taking the bulk of the IRA to form the provisional IRA and, well, the rest is history and so forth. Northern Nationalism still exist, but its more of a cultural identity. One is a Nationalist if one views the Irish republic generally favourably, hates the British State, is catholic or from a catholic family or community etc etc etc. Southern Nationalism is a dormant thing that needs to be poked with a stick to see any activity as is the case with the Love Ulster parades, see my previous blog post for that.
In a word, modern Nationalism is 'nothing'. The Modern Irishman is defined by apathy and inactivity. The government in the south piles on another tax? Grumble over your pint then continue with your work day, what else is new? And to think, we are one of the 'better off' of the so called Pig nations of the EU, (Thanks for that moniker by the by, really endears us to you continentals in Brussels. Really.)
As bleak as this is, it actually presents an opportunity for Nationalist Monarchism. Asides from the obvious association with Britain, what can people fault Monarchist Nationalism on in Ireland? Is it a violent ideology that advocates agitation and revolution? No, quite the opposite really. Its obviously a tyrannical system that will make us all indentured servitudes to faraway masters right? You're already living in that kind of system, son. Clearly we will de-construct the dail Eireann and the people will have no representation at all, right? As repugnant as parliaments are, a Monarchy will hardly destroy the Parliament. Really the only roadblock Irish Monarchists have that is preventing them from establishing monarchy as an independent idea in the Irish Marketplace is the association with Britain, which we already have ample ammunition to de-construct. Th opportunity being a propagandic one, that a population who does not hold anything in great strength is unlikely to hold monarchism's ideological opponents in great strength and to whom monarchism will seem like a new idea.
How can we appeal to Nationalists to adopt Monarchism?
Speaking for myself, my interest in Monarchy came about as a result of my interest in history, which came about as a result of my interest in my Nationalism. Therefore the true disassociation of Nationalism from republicanism and Socialism is the study of History. As the old saw goes, 'The Study of History is the beginning of political wisdom', while obviously said for different reasons and for adifferent context, applies here as well. Considering everything in my Guide so far, a nationalist who studies not the beginning of Irish republicanism but the beginning of Irish Nationalism, is introduced to a variance of ideological thought at the birth of the modern Irish concept of 'Nationhood'. This variance will not in itself destroy a Nationalist's inherent republicanism that he has been thought to believe in since birth, but it will cause him to question the bias in the Republican narrative. The prevalence of monarchism in Ireland at the birth of the Republic will give some food for thought, the existence of the Irish Chiefs of the name will cause curiosity, the fact that every Irishman alive today is descended from old Irish kings will cause him to stall any bloodlust for blueblood he may possess..
The study of socialism in a wider context (all socialism, not just outdated Marxism) throughout history and in comparison to Irish Nationalism, will reveal quite alot of dissonance in values between the ideologies, and specifically the anti-nationalism inherent in socialism. The Study of History is the death of socialism and all other 'The End of History' ideologies such as modernism, post-modernism, social democracy and liberal democracy, to quote Fukuyama. The study of history reveals that there is no such thing as an end of history that does not include the end of civilization and even then, time marches on. There may be eras, epochs, but there really is no such thing as 'stages' of history, that could only be defined if we had something to compare history in its totality to, which we do not.
The real key of course, is appealing to the heart of the Irishman and the innate Monarchism in Irishness. The desire for community, family, the love of traditions however silly, all of which requires a sense of tradition basic politicking by blogs such as my own cannot foster, I can only work so much by appealing intellectually. A man, even if he intellectually acknowledges any value of Monarchism, will be unlikely to convert to monarchism, even monarchism infused with nationalism, if his heart is not in it: "Wow, Monarchism actually sounds sorta okay and I may like to live in one, but it is so unlikely to happen, we're all republics, I don't really see the point in advocating monarchy." Russians reading this blog in particular will be familiar with this line of reasoning. Polls done in Russia reveal a startlingly high percentage of Russians are in favour of a return to monarchy but simply do not see it as remotely possible. This is confirmed in my secret monarchist post where a shot in the dark question asking whether fellow monarchists existed on a internet game revealed a variety of responses to potential real life monarchism (with obvious virulence from socialist quarters)
If you wondered before this is why I promote the Catholic Church in Ireland so much and particularly Catholic traditionalism, apart from my own obvious Religious bias, being a Catholic myself, but because religion in general and Catholicism in particular are PHENOMENAL engines of traditionalism. In order to appeal to a man with traditionalism and traditionalist things, he must have a sense of tradition. The modern apathetic Irishman has little to no sense of traditionalism and that which he does possess is atrophying rapidly. In the wake of the celtic tiger collapse, social analysts determined that in the boom years of the Irish economy the average Irishman did not give one wit about culture and cared more about Housing prices, the Americanisation of our culture (after previous Anglicization) has proved disastrous and now our culture, while not happy, WILL comply to European pressures of integration. You know the possibility of an Irish referendum on the financial agreement people are talking about now? Even if it does come to pass, don't expect Irishmen to vote against it and even if they do, don't expect them to vote no twice. There is little spirit to work with in Ireland and we really DO need the Church to revitalize it. And, well, furthermore, the Bishops Ireland has right now are decidedly much more liberal, (or more accurately, they are desirous of autonomy from Rome) then Conservative Rome would like, and even if all other things being equal and a Monarchist movement does come into force, one can expect the current Bishops at best murmur and groan against us, sadly, or worse, vote from the pulpit against monarchism, which would sadden me as a Catholic and a Monarchist that of all things in Irish politics, the Bishops would oppose us actively. It is this outcome I dread and it is why I hope His Holiness Pope Benedict and the Magisterium installs more traditionalist or traditional friendly Bishops in the future, this is the great gamble of Irish Monarchism because it is something we have no control over.
In practical terms, Irish Monarchists can at the moment only work at creating a safe area in the intellectual marketplace in Ireland for Monarchist thoughts. Blogs, including this blog are a start, Scotic Monarchy is another, and the admittance or discussion of monarchism on other Irish blogs can only help bringing monarchism into the national conversation, discussion, debate, arguments, anything short of outright fighting aids the monarchist cause and awareness of monarchist ideas. Monarchism is only irrelevant as long as its not being discussed, hence why it is shunned actively by revolutionaries. Eventually this will require books, dissertations, sociological studies and other things to seriously discuss monarchism. Only then will its enemies either seriously respond to it as an idea or reveal themselves by continuing to fling defecation at the very notion. For my part, my blog occassionally gets mentioned on forums and other places and, most of the time, I am held for ridicule. Places such as Politics.ie and a large Irish Republican forum have created a thread or two about this blog, and it went about as well as you'd think. Ironically enough, the patrons of politics.ie acted more like monkies in a zoo and I no longer take that site seriously, whereas the Republican site, while not taking me seriously either, at least responded largely rationally, give or take an anarchist denouncing me for advocating a monopoly of violence in my monarchism and some fellow calling me a 'Basement dwelling, Anorak wearing Virgin'. But then again if advocating Monarchy was easy I wouldn't need this blog as much.
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The anti-traditionalism of Sinn Féin is hard to believe. They seem opposed to every single traditional institution except the nation. I wonder what makes them think the idea of nationhood would survive the destruction of every other traditional loyalty?ReplyDelete
Good on you for fighting a lonely cause, sir.Replies
An astute observation. They seem incapable of recognising that the leftist, progressivist principles that have been wielded so effectively by Irish republicans in order to delegitimise the UK state, can very easily be turned against our own nation. And indeed, have been in the 26-counties since the 1970s.Delete
- Antaine15 March 2012 at 16:11
I meant to check this blog out sooner. Chalk another 1 up for the number of Irish Monarchists.ReplyDelete
I love having my name mentioned in a post! Thanks! (And sorry if some of my previous comments were overly antagonistic...university studies have really been draining me.)ReplyDelete
That's very interesting about Russia..but would they revert back to the Romanovs, or select a new dynasty? I hope they would do the former, if only for the sake of tradition.
From what I know about them (which isn't much at all) the Orthodox churches in eastern Europe are strongly associated with monarchism - like traditionalist Catholicism in France.Replies
That is definitely the case with Orthodox countries, even moreso since they directly suffered the worst of revolutionary governments in the form of various flavours of totalitarian communism.Delete
In Russia's case in particular its looking most definitely like a Romanov restoration should they ever get their act together, given that the Romanovs themselves have a reasonably strong support base and the current uncrowned 'Tasrina' of the senior branch of the Dynasty (I am not sure on the particulars actually, not familiar with the Romanov genealogy) is active both in trying to get former Romanov personal property (IE, what property wasn't destroyed by the Soviets, such as houses and family heirlooms) returned as well as returning to Russia to begin with, something that endears Russian Nationalists, who are a VERY diverse group. Peronally I am not too fond of the current Tsarina but I cant fault her for being active, just like I can't fault the German Prince for pressing his family's advantage witht eh stepping down of the German President.
Another fine article, Servent. And you're too kind to mention my own blog which, due to the recent arrival of a newborn, has been left relatively moribund of late.ReplyDelete
I think an interesting approach to adopt with self-avowed Irish republicans would be to emphasise the distinction that can be made between a republic and a democracy. We assume these days that they are largely synonymous and interchangeable. But Aristotle, for one, would argue otherwise. Aquinas' argument in favour of kingship is also interesting.
But ultimately, we need to start getting to grips with the reality of the innate differences between men, and between men and women. And, relatedly, a non-materialist understanding of existence.
Until then, no matter how advanced the intellectual debate in the public arena, no real change will happen. But perhaps that's all that's required of us at this moment in Irish history: to speak intelligently, humanely, and with humility about those hard to hear realities, and then offer what we firmly believe to be a better, more realistic way to order our affairs, and those of our nation.Replies
You are correct in stating a de-materialisation of the modern mindset and a shattering of modern understanding of the relationship between men and women, and other forms of 'equality', would be fundamental in de-constructing the republican narrative. Men and women are complementary, the same but different. Hell, I'd go one step further and tear apart Descarts separation of the body and soul, which he defined as the mind. Descartian thinking forms the basis of much of the materialist thinking of the modern age in one way or another.Delete
Also, I forgot to say. Congratulations on your new child!Delete
Many thanks! Having a child certainly reminds one of the truly important things in life.Delete
And yes, Descartes certainly lit the fuse on the philosophical IED that dismembered Western civilisation. Catholic metaphysician Wolfgang Smith critically examines Descartes' approach in his work Cosmos and Transcendence. If you get the chance, you should give it a read.
Another fine post.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous21 March 2012 at 12:48
Excellent post.ReplyDelete
Servant of the Cheif, I have a question regarding the subject of Irish Monarchy that I hope you can assist me with.
I started a group called "Restore the High Kingship of Ireland" on a certain social networking site. One of the applicants who requested to join posted this comment on the group page (based on his comments he doesn't appear to be Catholic or fond of Christianity in general):
<<<"What measures could be taken, symbolic "political" expressions of any kind that could make such a state [an independent Irish monarchy] truly either occur in the first place, or be a legitimate threat to the statehood of Northern Ireland. What act of any kind could be compelling enough, even supposing a military takeover of Northern Ireland to make its citizens subjects to the new King? Or Southern Ireland for that matter.
The effects of secularization have removed many Irish people's faith in the Catholic Church ... who did nothing for Eire when she was gradually taken over, made a target of the potato genocide, fought a civil war, got invaded by Protestant soldiers serving a Masonic regime etc., etc.
Christianity is a religious tradition based very much in submission, nonviolence and devotion rather than in either the fulfillment of a particular "fate" which is effectively pre-determined anyway or in the harnessing of virile strength and ascetic achievement etc. Most western people adopting it are unable to overcome this pre-occupation with non-violence, democracy, idealizing the meek, or even the working class, thanks largely to the past few hundred years of propagandizing and integrating the human populace to withstand the industrial revolution and the population booms.">>>
How would you answer and respond to these claims?
Thanks in advance.
- Anonymous21 March 2012 at 12:52
Just as a follow up, it seems like he's just trying to demonize the Catholic Church. It sounds like he's implying that because the Catholic Church supported different Crusades against heretics, pagans, and non-Christians and had a Papal Army and different military orders, they could have liberated Ireland from Protestant Britain or could have aided the starving Irish during the famine but, didn't because (according to him) "they didn't even really care about the plight of the Irish Catholics because the Church is greedy and corrupt." That seems to be his argument.ReplyDelete
How would you respond to these allegations as well as the other quoted above?
Thanks in advance.Replies
I will respond in detail to the above post in a moment because it requires some work. However it is best to NOT assume that your commenter is either a) trolling or b) antagonizing, this is because of the way he has laid out his question is mostly civil so it deserves a civil response regardless of his overtures, otherwise you will undermine yourself. However I would start counter arguing you with the great deal of excellent information Shane provides over at Lxoa Occulta blog here http://lxoa.wordpress.com/ with regards to the Spanish monarchy the Church and 'the plight of the Irish', use the tags to search, for solid information on the relation between all three. It really isnt a matter of the Church 'not doing enough' to aid the plight of the Irish Catholics for we must remember it still had the rest of protestant europe to worry about, but that all serious attempts and overtures to aid had been frustrated by Britain, plus such allegations make no sense as the time of the crusades was back in the time when western Christendom was still more or less united under the Catholic Church (if the Great schism of the 1000s had been successfully and permenantly healed by the time of the Crusades we'd be seeing our Orthodox brothers engaging in a larger role in the Crusades themselves and they'd probably be alot more successful)Delete
Britain's serious abuses of the Irish didn't truely start until after the Reformation came to Britain, (there was abuse under the Normans but that is literally forgettable in terms of scale and things didnt really get hard on the Irish comparatively until protestantism was the official state religion of Britain, at which time the Church wasnt nearly powerful enough to do what it wanted, and even THEN it supported the Spanish attempt to dethrone Queen Victoria and restore Britain to Catholicism, which would have delighted the Irish at the time immensely as the relationship between the Irish nobility and Spain was very strong and King Phillip was very popular in Ireland, even to the point of entertaining ideas of being subject to the Crown of Spain rather then Britain, to bask in the glory of the Spanish empire of the time and to be ruled by a co-religionist king.
"Christianity is a religious tradition based very much in submission, nonviolence and devotion rather than in either the fulfillment of a particular "fate" which is effectively pre-determined anyway or in the harnessing of virile strength and ascetic achievement etc. Most western people adopting it are unable to overcome this pre-occupation with non-violence, democracy, idealizing the meek, or even the working class, thanks largely to the past few hundred years of propagandizing and integrating the human populace to withstand the industrial revolution and the population booms."
^ This paragraph here is an ideological farce however. Christianity is a very masculine religion and one need go no further then literally the 19th century to see many aspects of this. Christianity is only based on non-violence insofar as unjust violence. There are a few doctors and Church Fathers who comment on this aspect of life with regards to Faith, Thomas Acquinas reflects on the morality of such things as amubshes in wartime (and makes the distinguishment between deception in terms of lieing to the enemy and deception in terms of withholding information, the former being immoral and the latter totally moral. And St. Augustine once said that 'when a Christian does not become irate when he has cause to be Irate, sins' A religion that is submissive and weak does not give time to consider the morality of war, merely because Christianity is a civilizing religion that cares about wrongfulness, rightfulness, law and morality does not make it a weak institution, no matter how flanderized liberal Christianity has become in the modern world.
I'll give a more cohesive response at a later date I am tied up for this weekend.
A note from across the pond.ReplyDelete
If you succeed in establishing a true monarchy of the Catholic tradition, I'll pack my bags to immigrate.
It would be very kind if you could add a link to a blog I contribute to on your links/blogroll: www.catholicheritage.blogspot.comReplyDeleteReplies
I have now done so.Delete
- Anonymous4 January 2013 at 20:36
"Really the only roadblock Irish Monarchists have that is preventing them from establishing monarchy as an independent idea in the Irish Marketplace is the association with Britain," that in a nutshel is why irish monarchists should support a british republic (for realipolitik reasons), it will destroy that association in a hurry to have britian as a republic, i know that it may sound unconventional but it is true,ReplyDeleteReplies
When I reject the support for a British Republic it is indeed for RealPolitek reasons. A republican Britain is an ideological Britain, a Britain of Revolution one that will not tolerate a smaller, economically weaker neighbour who it will view as 'reactionary, backwards and dangerous'. Even if the British Monarchy is overthrown that will not severe the Irish association of Monarchy with Britain but rather give bouyance to the Republican movement here in Ireland who will tout the Republic of Britain as 'Britain finally becoming enlightened and throwing off the shackles of tyranny, allowing both nations to heal' Realpolitek is all well and good but not if we act only for perceived temporary gains that in fact result in long term handicaps. No, if Britain is to have a Republic, it will only hurt us.Delete
- Anonymous21 January 2013 at 06:32
i see your views on this topic are diferent from mine. i accept that we do not all have to agree on everything do we? i did think that what i said might have been a controversial statement.Delete
- Anonymous6 January 2013 at 13:11
i know for a fact that irish monarchism is not completly dead, if it was you would not have written this blog,and the rest of us would not be reading it (as it would never have been written) servent of the chiefReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 March 2013 at 21:22
i would not say irish monarchism died so much as went into indefinate hibernation (there is a complex multi lingaul pun in there if you can find it)ReplyDelete


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