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Eva and Henrik have been living together for fifteen years and have a son together. Eva suddenly realizes that her husband is seeing another woman. In anger and desperation, she decides to seek revenge. At the same time, a young man has for the past two years been watching by a hospital bed where his girlfriend lies in a coma after an accident. But his year-ning for closeness is growing excruciating. She keeps letting him down by refusing to wake up. Deceit deals with how devastating it can be to be let down and how our destructive actions create consequences far beyond our control. The destiny of Jonas and Eva is the consequence of other people's actions and it is by chance that the roads of these two people cross…
I have to admit when I first started reading this, I was expecting much more of a traditional crime novel, with something significant happening in the first few chapters and then progressing through the solving of the crime. So when that didn't happen, I was scratching my head wondering if I was going to like the book – in fact, I even said that to a couple of friends…But I was soon sucked in…
What I think I ended up enjoying the most about the story that Alvtegen wrote was how deeply it delved into the human psyche and why we sometimes do what we do…and how even one small action – mistake or not – can change the course of our lives. But to say too much more would likely involve spoilers and I don't really want to do that. The ending to me was one of the best parts of the books because you actually got to see the "crime" as the case may be. I also liked how the book was stand-alone since so often in crime fiction, the world develops over a series a books, in a stand-alone, you see the true writing strength of the author because they have to convey everything in that one book between 250-300 pages. I think that this book would be good for people who like character study type books, as well as psychological mysteries that are crime based, without being true crime. Overall 4 stars and I'm intrigued to read more of her books in the future.


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President Barack Obama announced at the White House Thursday the first five of 20 "Promise Zones," distressed areas located in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, that will get tax breaks and federal aid.
He said there are communities across America "where for too many young people, it feels like their future only extends to the next street corner or the outskirts of town; too many communities where no matter how hard you work, your destiny feels like it has already been determined before you took that first step."
The president's White House statement was part a renewed emphasis from Obama in the past few weeks on poverty and economic opportunity, a theme he promised that he'd continue to discuss in his State of the Union speech in two weeks.
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President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about poverty during an event in the East Room of the White House's private dining room January 9, 2014 in Washington, DC.
He said it is not just city neighborhoods but suburban and rural places as well that have fallen into economic distress.
"A child's course in life should not be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams," he said.
Obama said the issue of helping distressed communities wasn't a partisan one and he gave a special mention to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a potential 2016 presidential contender, "who's here today," Obama told the audience in the East Room of the White House.
"I don't care whether the ideas are Democrat or Republican; I do care that they work. I do care that they are subject to evaluation and we can see if we are using tax dollars in a certain way, if we're starting a certain program, I want to make sure" that residents are benefiting from the tax break or program, he said.
Obama made the event personal by comparing his early life to that of one of the students in attendance, Hunter College sophomore Roger Brown, who had overcome poverty to be the first in his family to attend college. "If you want to know why I care about this stuff so much, it's because I'm not that different from Roger. There was a period of time in my life where I was goofing off; I was raised by a single mom; I didn't know my dad. The only difference between me and Roger was my environment was more forgiving than his."
Obama's statement Thursday was a return to a proposal he first made nearly a year ago in his 2013 State of the Union address in which he said his administration would "partner with 20 of the hardest-hit towns in America to get these communities back on their feet." He said that his administration would "work with local leaders to target resources at public safety, and education, and housing" and "give new tax credits to businesses that hire and invest."
Obama's Promise Zones proposal bears some similarity to Paul's Economic Freedom Zones Act which the Kentucky Republican introduced in the Senate last month.
Exiting the White House event, Paul told reporters, "I am supportive of the president's ideas… What he said was uplifting and encouraging." But he added, "We need to do something more dramatic" than Obama's proposed incentives for economically distressed areas.
Paul's bill would create tax breaks for residents and businesses in areas that have 1.5 times the national unemployment rate, or where at least 30 percent of the residents have incomes below the national poverty level.
Paul's bill would cut the income tax rate to 5 percent for individuals, families, and small businesses, would trim the payroll tax rate, and would suspend the capital gains tax.
Paul's proposal is similar to one made 25 years by then Rep. Jack Kemp, R- N.Y., who later became Housing secretary under President George H.W. Bush.
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Resource Allocation Workflow
Step 1: Get Resources Information From the System
The ResourceManager needs all physical information concerning processors and cores when allocating resources for schedulers. Let's examines the data manipulated by this component.
SELECT FIELDS WHERE IsDirectlyUsedBy "Concurrency.details.ResourceManager"
These structs represent all data needed by ResourceManager. The basic ones are
ProcessorCore and
ProcessorNode representing information about physical resources. Other structs contains some scheduler data needed for the allocation algorithm.
The good news is that ResourceManager didn't directly access to fields of other logical classes used by it. Let's examine where ResourceManager gets basic information about physical resources. To do so, you can search for methods using
SELECT METHODS WHERE IsDirectlyUsing "WindowsAPIGlobalMembers.GetLogicalProcessorInformation(PSYSTEM_LOGICAL_PROCESSOR_INFORMATION,PDWORD)"
ResourceManager::InitializeSystemInformation uses this method to get information from the system. So what method is responsible for populating
ProcessorCore and ProcessorNode.
For that, you can search for methods assigning a field of
SELECT METHODS WHERE IsDirectlyWritingField "Concurrency.details.ProcessorCore.m_processorNumber"
So ResourceManager invokes the
DetermineTopology method to populate data into structs. Here's a dependency graph showing methods concerned by getting nodes and cores information.
Step 2: Scheduler Requests for Resource Allocation
After ResourceManager gets all the data needed for allocation algorithm, a scheduler can ask it to allocate ressources. When the Scheduler is created, it asks for a ResourceManager and invoke
CreateResourceManager to get the singleton. After that it invokes
IResourceManager::RegisterScheduler to register it self with the resource manager, and get a pointer to
ISchedulerProxy, and with this interface the Scheduler will interact with the resource manager. After that the Scheduler is ready to ask for resources allocation by invoking
Again, the Scheduler communicates with resource manager using the
IScheduleProxy interface to enforces low coupling, and the concrete implemenatation of this interface invoke
Step 3: Resource Allocation
The ResourceManager has to give resources to Schedulers when Schedulers are created. It does the allocation depending on the policies and taking into account the other schedulers in the process. Eventually the resources will be provided to the scheduler in need.
The entry point for allocating requests is
RequestInitialVirtualProcessors. Here's a dependency graph showing methods used to acheive allocation.
PerformAllocation method implements the allocation logic, it asks for Scheduler policies from
SchedulerProxy, and invokes the
AllocateCores method to perform allocation. Here are some characteristics of
PerformAllocation and
Those methods are well documented and the cyclomatic complexity is not high. This a good indicator that the algorithm of initial allocation is not very complicated.
Step 4: Giving Resources to Scheduler
After ResourceManager allocates resources, the scheduler is notified with resources allocated. For that, the ResourceManager invokes the
GrantAllocation method.
What resources the ResourceManager have to give to Scheduler?
Well, the resource is a virtual processor associated to a specific thread and runing in a specific core. As shown in the dependency graph, the ResourceManager doesn't give
VirtualProcessors to
SchedulerProxy, but an array of
SchedulerProxy creates
VirtualProcessorRoot classes, which represents an abstraction for a hardware thread on which a thread proxy can execute.
Who is creating
VirtualProcessor? Before answering this question, let's search for classes that represent a virtual processor, starting with classes inheriting from this one.
VirtualProcessor could concern a simple thread or an User-Mode Scheduling (UMS) thread -- a lightweight mechanism introduced in Windows7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, that applications can use to schedule their own threads. Let's search for methods creating
So the Scheduler is the responsible of creating
VirtualProcessors and all information needed to create it are given by the manager.
Step 5: Dynamic Resource Management
After the initial allocation of resources, the second main responsability of ResourceManager is constant monitoring of the utilization of resources by schedulers, and dynamically migrating resources between schedulers.
As shown in the following graph, the ResourceManager creates
DynamicResourceManage thread. This worker thread wakes up at fixed intervals and load balances resources among schedulers. Here's the dependency graph of
Is ResourceManager customizable?
ResourceManager is well designed and is decoupled from other Concurrency Runtime framework by using interfaces, but it's possible to customize the allocation behavior of resource manager. For that let's search for ResourceManager virtual methods:
SELECT METHODS FROM TYPES "Concurrency.details.ResourceManager" WHERE IsVirtual
However, these methods are virtual and only implement the
IResourceManager methods, so it's not possible to overload allocation resource manager logic and customize it.
Lahlali Issam is the developer of CppDepend code analysis tool for C/C++.
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Samsung's new semiconductor fabrication facility in Austin, TX isn't just another memory-manufacturing plant. The $3.5 billion building is the largest in the state where everything is bigger and is the largest foreign investment in the US. As part of its effort to create a clean, safe, and attractive environment for its staff, the company decided to bring a little life to several rooms in the plant with graphics of nature scenes and other attractive images. It was a simple concept in theory, but not so easy when the media for the job consisted of large glass and mirror panels.
Samsung researched some local print shops and contacted Austin Graphics for help on the project. David Pesnell founded Austin Graphics in 1997 as a service bureau that provided desktop publishing, film negatives, and Matchprint proofs to printers, designers, and ad agencies. That same year, Austin Graphics purchased its first large-format printer and laminator. Over the years, the firm added large-format inkjet printers and pursued the vehicle-wrap market. Today, the 21-employee company is equipped with solvent and UV inkjets, as well as photographic imaging technologies, to produce displays, P-O-P signage, and trade-show graphics for more than 2000 Austin-based companies. Austin Graphics also designs, prints, and installs approximately eight vehicle wraps each week.
Austin Graphics had never produced a job of the type that Samsung requested, but the printing company took on the gigantic assignment with confidence in one of its newest pieces of equipment, EFI's VUTEk QS2000 flatbed printer. "I felt that we could produce the job within the customer's tight deadline, and produce it with superior results," Pesnell says.
Samsung provided the team at Austin Graphics with image files created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The first step of the project was to print samples of the images for Samsung. "They were stunned at the results we were able to achieve," Pesnell says.
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BEIRUT — Fighters of an al-Qaida affiliate seized a northern border town in Syria from rival rebels, activists reported Tuesday, as new infighting threatened opposition gains.
The Nusra Front captured the town of Haram in northern Idlib province, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory. The town was seized after weeks of skirmishes between the Nusra Front and their one-time allies among the Western-backed rebel groups, who once united over seeking the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.
A spokesman for some Western-backed groups, Hussam al-Marie, confirmed the infighting. Another rebel group, the Hazzm Movement, said earlier this week that they would no longer work with the Nusra Front.
The infighting apparently began after Nusra Front fighters left a front threatened by government forces near the northern city of Aleppo. It later worsened after rebels accused Nusra fighters of not helping them hold a town on a strategic highway route in central Syria. Later, Nusra fighters clashed with a rebel group near the northern town of Darkoush, al-Marie said.
If fighting spreads, it may threaten rebel gains in Syria. Rebel forces already are badly weakened by government victories and infighting that began last winter against militants of an extremist group now called the "Islamic State."
The Islamic State group now dominates the arc of the Euphrates River from near the Turkish border in Syria deep into neighboring Iraq.
Although the Nusra Front is an al-Qaida affiliate, other Syrian rebels fought alongside their fighters, arguing that it was dominated by Syrian fighters — unlike the foreigners of the harsh "Islamic State" group. They also said that Nusra was not imposing its ultra-conservative agenda.
Nusra was one of the chief groups that fought against the Islamic State group.
Abdurrahman, who obtains his information from activists in Syria, said Nusra was trying to carve out its own stronghold in the Idlib province on the Turkish border. He said they seized the city of Jisr al-Shaghour earlier this month and other towns along the border route.
"It's clear from the clashes in the area — there is a project in Nusra," he said. "They are seizing towns and areas to be connected geographically."


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2013 Annual Conference
2013 Annual Conference
It's time again for the SNAP Annual Conference! This year our conference will take place in Washington DC at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel.
Friday Evening, July 26
7:00 PM Welcome to the Conference! (Ballroom)
Jeff Dion
Marianne Benkert
Christa Brown
David Clohessy
9:30 PM Reception: Ice Cream Social
Saturday, July 27
7:00 AM Morning walk, leisure to brisk pace
9:00 AM Anne Barrett Doyle and Terry McKiernan
Dr. Christian Pfeiffer
Lynne Abraham
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Breakout Session One
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45 Pam Spees
Ellie Smeal
Richard Sipe and Tom Doyle
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:30 Breakout Session Two
5:30 Dinner
5:30 Friends of Bill W meeting
8:00 Eclipsed– The Magdalene Laundries
By Patricia Burke Brogan
Sunday, July 28
7:00 AM Morning walk, leisure to brisk pace
9:00 Mari Steed
I Made A Difference Awards
International Panel
Chile- Juan Carlos Cruz
Senegal- Badara Ndaw
Australia- Nicky Davis
Peru- Dr. Hector Guillen
Colombia- Fabio Herrara
Canada- Leona Huggins
Ireland- Mari Steed
11:30 Barbara Blaine
Noon Conference Ends
Michael D'Antonio
Michael D'Antonio is the author of Mortal Sins, Sex Crime and the Era of Catholic Scandal, which was published in April by Macmillan publishers. Praised as "The definitive history of the Catholic Church's 'most severe crisis since the Reformation" Mortal Sins tells the story of the clerical sexual abuse crisis from its beginning in America in the 1980s through today. Before becoming a fulltime author and freelance writer Michael worked as a reporter and features writer in New England, Washington, D.C., and New York. During his tenure at Newsday on Long Island, he received the Pulitzer Prize, which he shared with a team of reporters there, and won several other awards, including the Alicia Patterson Fellowship He is also recipient of the Humanitas award for screenwriting and his books have been noted as editors picks and in annual "best of" lists by the The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, NPR's Science Friday, and Inc magazine.
Tom Doyle
Tom Doyle is an ordained priest who holds a doctorate in Canon Law and five separate master's degrees. He is also a trained and licensed addictions therapist. Tom served at the Vatican Embassy in the 1980's where he became directly involved with the clergy sex abuse case of former Fr. Gilbert Gauthe that received national publicity. Tom worked with Ray Mouton and the late Fr. Michael Peterson, M.D., to compose the report on the problem of sexual abuse by clergy that served as the notice to the Vatican and to the U.S. bishops about the grave nature of the sexual abuse by clergy.
He has served as an expert witness and consultant in criminal and civil cases throughout the U.S., in Canada, Ireland, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands and Israel.
Lynne M. Abraham, Esquire
Ms. Abraham is a partner in Archer & Greiner's Philadelphia Office. Her 18-year tenure as District Attorney is the longest in modern city history. As leader of the largest prosecutor's office in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the nation, employing approximately 600 and handling more than 75,000 cases a year, Ms. Abraham forged a reputation as a tough and effective yet compassionate protector of public safety for more than 1.5 million citizens of the City and County of Philadelphia. She was the first prosecutor and only one in the Country at that time to launch a multi-year Grand Jury Investigation into Clergy Sex Abuse, who compelled the Cardinal-Archbishop to testify about clergy abuse, and who also released all the names of priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who abused children.
Dr. Marianne Benkert
Marianne Benkert, M.D. is a psychiatrist who was in private practice for 29 years in Baltimore, MD. She also served as the psychiatric consultant at Loyola College of Baltimore from 1970 to 1987. Dr. Benkert served in leadership positions in the county and state medical associations with a special interest in the professional ethics of physicians. She served as President of the Baltimore County Medical Association in 1993 and was Chair of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the Maryland State Medical Society from 1994 to 1998. The American Psychiatric Association elected her to be a Distinguished Life Fellow in recognition of significant contributions to Psychiatry.
After moving to San Diego she was appointed assistant professor in psychiatry and medicine at the University of California, San Diego, a position she held for 5 years. There she continued to see patients and supervise psychiatric residents. Dr. Benkert has treated numerous victims of trauma and abuse including victims of religious and clerical sexual abuse. She has served as an expert witness in legal cases involving sexual abuse by religious figures and continues to do research on this topic.
Dr. Christian Pfeiffer
Christian Pfeiffer, Prof. Dr. jur., born 1944, studied Law and Social Psychology in Munich and London. In 1987 he became Professor of criminology, Juvenile criminal law and correction at the University of Hanover and director of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN). From 2000 to 2003 he was Minister of Justice in Lower Saxony. Since March 2003 he is back in his former position at the KFN.
Barbara Blaine
Barbara is founder and president of SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. Since 1988, Blaine has reached out to help survivors, expose wrongdoers and prevent clergy sex crimes and cover ups. Previously Blaine worked as a volunteer high school teacher in Jamaica and assisted street-children to locate family members, ran a shelter for homeless families in Chicago and then represented abused and neglected children in juvenile court. Blaine holds graduate degrees in Law, Social Work and Theology. Blaine works tirelessly to protect the innocence and safety of children and to help survivors and their loved-ones find healing, information and support, and to seek accountability from those responsible.
Pam Spees
Pam Spees is a senior staff attorney in the international human rights program at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has a background in international criminal and human rights law with a gender focus, as well as criminal trial practice. She serves as lead counsel in the legal effort to hold Vatican officials criminally responsible for the crimes against humanity of rape and sexual violence within the church. Prior to joining CCR, she served as Program Director of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice, an international advocacy network dedicated to ensuring accountability for crimes of sexual and gender violence included in the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court. She now serves as an advisor to the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice (formerly the Women's Caucus), which is now based in The Hague, to monitor the Court and continue the advocacy for accountability for gender-based violence. She also serves on the board of MADRE, a 30-year-old organization that works to advance womens human rights by meeting urgent needs in communities and building lasting solutions to the crises women face.
Christa Brown
Christa is the author of This Little Light: Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang, a combination memoir and exposé about clergy sex abuse and cover-ups in the largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. As one of the first to go public with substantiated molestation allegations against a Southern Baptist minister and documentation that others knew, Christa survived every attempt of the Baptist machine to shut her down, and she was the first survivor to address the SBC's Executive Committee at the "Baptist Vatican" in Nashville. After a twenty-five year career as an appellate attorney, Christa now teaches yoga for cancer survivors, and she volunteers as a hospital ethics consultant. Christa blogs at StopBaptistPredators.
Jeff Dion
Jeff Dion has championed crime victims' rights for more than two decades. Jeff began advocating for victims in 1982, when his twenty-three year old sister, Paulette, was murdered by a serial killer. In 1998, Jeff joined the staff of the National Center for Victims of Crime, where he currently serves as both Deputy Executive Director and the Director of the National Crime Victim Bar Association. In that capacity, he lectures throughout the country to foster greater communication and understanding among crime victims and attorneys. Jeff, who is also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, serves on the Board of Directors of ACTS, the social service organization that serves victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in Prince William County, VA.
David Clohessy
For the last 23 years, David has served as the director of SNAP. In that role, he has traveled and spoken extensively, helping to set up local support groups in more than 50 cities. Clohessy was one of only four survivors to address all of America's catholic bishops at their historic meeting in Dallas in 2002. Before working full-time with SNAP, David was a community organizer in low income neighborhoods, a union organizer representing low wage workers, and has been a political and public relations consultant. David helped elect St. Louis' first black mayor and later the city's first female prosecutor. David is committed to exposing hidden truths and cover-us in the church, especially who knew what, and when. He is married and has two sons.
Mari T. Steed
The daughter of a Magdalene survivor, Steed was adopted to the United States from Ireland, and is mother to a daughter also relinquished to adoption in the U.S. She has since been reunited with her mother, daughter, and extended family. Mari has worked in adoption activism for nearly twenty years, collaborating with rights groups such as Adoption Ireland, as well as Bastard Nation and Adopted Citizens of Eire (ACE) in the US. She provided testimony to the United States ratification of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, and co-founded Justice for Magdalenes in 2003. Mari is currently the Director of Technology and New Media at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
Anne Barrett Doyle
Anne is co-director of BishopAccountability.org. In 2002, she co-founded Coalition of Catholics and Survivors, a group that organized activism in the Boston archdiocese. Previously, she was an editor, mediator, and vice president of a Manhattan public relations firm. She is a graduate of Harvard College.
Terry McKiernan
Terry founded BishopAccountability.org in 2003 and is the organization's president. Terry holds master's degrees in Classics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Bristol in England. Before his involvement in the church crisis, he was an academic editor and a consulting firm manager.
Richard Sipe
A.W. Richard Sipe is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor who earlier spent 18 years as a Benedictine monk and priest. He was trained specifically to deal with the mental health problems of Roman Catholic Priests. In the process of training and therapy, he conducted a 25-year ethnography study of the celibate/sexual behavior of that population. His study, published in 1990, is now considered a classic. Sipe is known internationally and has participated in 12 documentaries on celibacy and priest sexual abuse aired by many major networks and print publications. Sipe lives with his wife in La Jolla, CA.
Juan Carlos Cruz
In 2009, together with James Hamilton and José Andrés Murillo, Juan Carlos came forward with his story of abuse by Fr. Fernando Karadima, an emblematic priest in Chilean society. Born in Santiago, Chile, Juan Carlos studied journalism and worked in several newsrooms before moving to the United States in 2000, where he has worked for several Fortune 500 companies as their corporate communications executive. In April 2010, Cruz's story broke in the New York Times, forever changing the dominance and cover-up of abuse in the Chilean Catholic Church. Because of his courage, other victims have felt empowered to come forward. Two best-selling books have been written about this case, and a movie is currently in the works.
Badara Ndaw
Badara Ndaw is a Human Rights advocate from Senegal, West Africa. As a Renewable Energy practitioner, he aims at providing energy solutions to African villages through a Rural Electrification Program. Working with SNAP Network since 2010 Badara has now been appointed as the Africa Regional Coordinator of the organization. Through SNAP educational material and frequent virtual self help support group sessions, he is striving to bring more disclosures, accountability and reparations from pedophile priests. However, the feelings of embarrassment and the fear of being exposed prevent victims of sex abuse from seeking justice. The subject of clergy sex abuse is still considered very much 'taboo' in Africa; not to mention the inferiority complex of most people towards the Church. Those powerful factors are currently preventing Human and Children's Rights advocates from exposing the unlawful behaviors of the priests. With the support of SNAP, Badara is fighting to protect the confidentiality of the victims and bring the clergy perpetrators to justice.
Nicky Davis
Nicky Davis first came forward about her abuse after the appalling treatment of Australian survivors during World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney. Refusing to enter Cardinal George Pell's abusive Towards Healing process, Nicky went straight to the police. Her carefully hidden perpetrator was finally arrested after a decade long coverup. But the broken Australian justice system allowed him to walk free, despite multiple eyewitnesses to the dozens of assaults against her. Determined not to see others denied justice as she was, Nicky became a SNAP Australia leader and lobbied for the Royal Commission announced by the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in November 2012. Nicky is working closely with the Royal Commission and other current inquiries in Australia to ensure these rare attempts to deliver justice and healing to survivors are not derailed by vested interests.
Amy Smith
Amy is the Houston SNAP leader. She strives to shine the light of truth on child sexual abuse and cover up of abuse within Baptist churches, as well as other churches and institutions where the vulnerable are harmed. She personally knows survivors of abuse by ministers at her former church, a Dallas area Baptist mega-church, where this abuse has been covered up for decades. Amy hopes to continue to shatter the silence.
Becky Ianni
Becky has been a member of SNAP since 2006 and a SNAP leader in the Washington D.C. area since 2007. Becky is a peer leader who first courageously faced her own abuse and fought church leaders for justice, and then began taking calls from other survivors and walking with them along a healing journey. She is a SNAP spokesperson who seeks to expose truth. She holds a BA in Education from the College of William and Mary.
Brenda Brunelle
Brenda Brunelle is the SNAP Leader from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is a retired Immigration Officer and mother of two children and two step children. She is a survivor who was abused by her parish priest for a year starting at age 12, while in the eighth grade.
Born and raised in Windsor ON Canada she continues to live there with her husband Don Brunelle. She graduated from college with her business degree after her youngest child was enrolled in full time elementary school. Spending time with family and friends are the highlights of Brenda's week, especially Sunday dinners.
Brenda is an advocate for justice and often speaks out for those who are not yet comfortable to do so. She started a SNAP support group meeting in 2012 and it continues to grow. She inspires others with her ability to speak the truth.
Dottie Klammer
Dottie Klammer is a SNAP leader from Richmond, VA. After 38 years as a critical care nurse, she currently spends half of her work time co-managing a mini storage facility with her husband and the other half trading the stock market. She keeps her fingers in the healing arena by doing healing touch and she says she feels as much a healer doing that as when she cared for critically ill patients. A cradle Catholic who embraced the church until mid life, she found that her spiritual path led to the Unity Church where today, she serves as a prayer chaplain. She loves spending time with her three grand children and her 97 year old mother. The thing that makes her heart sing she says, is when someone comes to their very first SNAP meeting because she knows first hand how much courage it takes to walk through the door that first time.
Dr. Michael Smith
Dr. Michael Smith is the Founder and chairperson of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association, a not-for-profit training and advocacy organization that encourages community wellness through the use of acupuncture for those suffering from behavioral health issues, including addictions, mental health, and emotional trauma. Michael coordinated 1,000 acupuncture treatments during the first 2 weeks after the event for 9-11 survivors at St. Vincent's Hospital. He is a participant and coordinator of acupuncture PTSD in many parts of the world. Michael was first member of the Drug Court Hall of Fame 1995 and a recipient of the Rudin Award by NYC Mayor Dinkins in 1990.
Dr. Hector Guillen
Hector is an ophthalmologist, Peruvian freethinker, activist, and promoter of international networks of those affected by coercive persuasion from sectarian groups. He is also an advocate of a secular state that takes effective church-state separation in Peru and Latin America, and is a researcher of clerical sexual abuse and promoter of agencies and legislation that protects people and victims from religious sexual abuse in Peru.
Jo Ann Lenney
Jo Ann Lenney is an acupuncture detoxification specialist (ADS) and a registered trainer (RT) for the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA). She had worked as a volunteer at Lincoln Recovery Center from 1997 until its close in December 2011. She has also volunteered in New York post-9/11 with students, teachers and firefighters, and in New Orleans post-Katrina.
Joelle Casteix
A CSA survivor, former journalist, educator, and public relations professional, Joelle Casteix is now a leading national spokesperson, writer and advocate for victims of child sexual abuse. As the Western Regional Director for SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, Joelle has been interviewed by the major national and international television networks, local and national radio, and the 24-hour news stations. She has been the principal spokesperson in more than 100 regional and national press conferences, fielding questions from local, national and international media on the issues and news affecting victims of childhood sexual abuse. She has also appeared in several documentaries and has served as a consultant on a number of feature film projects. As a writer, her work has appeared in newspapers, national mainstream and trade magazines, websites, blogs, newsletters and collateral materials. Joelle has also worked and/or partnered with organizations including the National Center for Victims of Crime; RAINN – The Rape and Incest National Network; the Institute of Violence, Abuse and Trauma; Cal State Fullerton and other colleges, universities, crisis centers, and national victims rights and support organizations. In addition to her advocacy, Joelle has dedicated a great portion of her career to changing criminal and civil legislation and statutes of limitation for child sexual abuse. She has testified in front of numerous state legislatures, addressing lawmakers' questions on pending legislation designed to make laws more victim- and child-friendly. She also conducts trainings for families, churches and communities on how to raise empowered children and keep our communities safe from child sexual abuse. In addition to her work for victims, she is dedicated to the arts, sitting on the boards of directors for the Orange County Women's Chorus and the Follman/Young Foundation for the Arts. A classically trained operatic soprano, Joelle is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and completed graduate work at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Judy Lorenz
Judy Lorenz is originally from Moonachie, NJ . She moved to College Park to the University of Maryland. There she met David Lorenz and they were married in 1982. She has four children and two beautiful granddaughters. Judy made the switch from teaching children to working with elder folks in 2007 when she became a Program Assistant for the Bowie Senior Center. In 2011 Judy became president of CITI Ministries, Inc. a lay organization calling married priests back into ministry. In 2002 Judy, with her husband Dave, (a survivor of clergy abuse) became active in SNAP in the aftermath of the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal. Judy is also involved in Voice of the Faithful, MD, CTA and she is founder of the Emmaus Community of Bowie, an Intentional Eucharistic Community.
David Lorenz
David Lorenz was born and raised in Northern Kentucky and currently lives in Bowie, Maryland with his wife, Judy, of 31 years. He is the SNAP Maryland director and moderates a monthly support group. Judy is also involved in SNAP and provides support to friends and relatives of survivors. Dave's passion lies in reaching out to those people that have been keeping the shame and guilt of abuse bottled up inside them for years - just as he did. Dave was raised in a deeply religious Catholic household and is one of ten children. He is tired of the lying and maneuvering of the Catholic hierarchy that protects their assets while re-victimizing survivors who come forward looking for help. He believes that very little has changed to make the Church safer for children.
Dave and Judy have four children of their own along with two grandchildren. "While I was too afraid to do anything about this issue when my own kids were little, I am determined to make it safer for my grandchildren."
Judy Miller
Judy Miller has been a supporter and advocate of sexual abuse survivors since 2003 and a SNAP leader for Delaware since 2007 where she facilitates a monthly support group. She has listened to countless survivor stories as a SNAP Helpline volunteer and feels privileged to walk with survivors on their healing journeys. The mother of two and grandmother of five, Judy is a retired gerontologist.
Leona Huggins
Leona is the SNAP leader for British Columbia. She has worked with survivors, attended trials and helped to create an environment that will encourage not only those that have been harmed but also witnesses and whistleblowers to come forward. Her concern and dedication to helping survivors from the First Nations has served western Canada well. Leona's life's work has been with children. She works in education as a consultant for school districts.
Linda Cortes
Linda Y. Cortes, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nearly a decade of experience providing mental health services in community health centers, private practice, and large HMO settings. A double graduate of California State University-Long Beach, Linda has both a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master's of Science in Counseling. She is licensed to practice in the states of Virginia and California. Currently, she is establishing a clinical private practice in Alexandria, and provides therapy services to children, adults and families, including victims of abuse. Linda was born and raised in Southern California and moved to Virginia in 2011. Linda now resides in the city of Alexandria with her husband and daughter.
Lisa Kendzior
Lisa Kendzior is the Dallas/Ft. Worth SNAP Leader. She is also the mother of a survivor of military sexual assault, when her daughter was a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy. Their family's experience with the U.S. Military is not unlike the plight of the clergy abuse survivor to the Catholic church. An institution that they supported and embraced, left them seeking justice and change through the federal courts through the bravery of her daughter, Annie.
Mary Caplan
Mary is a survivor of clergy sex abuse and is the New York City SNAP leader, where she facilitates monthly support group meetings. She was a nurse for 15 years before making the decision to return to graduate school, and attended Fordham University for a degree in Counseling Psychology. Mary has a private practice where she counsels people with life-threatening illnesses, as well as individuals going through periods of grief. Mary has been an active member of SNAP since 2005.
David Ouellete
David has worked in the field of developmental disabilities for 27 years starting as a Direct Support Professional and later working in the field of health facility licensing and quality assurance. He is currently working for the NH Council on Developmental Disabilities as the Director of Projects. Current projects include statewide leadership around bullying prevention, state and national leader around inclusive Emergency Preparedness Planning for people with functional limitations, co-editor and creator of "Stepping Stones NH," a resource guide for children and adults living with disabilities, and advisor to People First of NH, a statewide Self Advocacy group. David is an adjunct professor of counseling at a local college. He lives in Rochester, NH with his wife Robin, two children Sam and Tess and has supported two adults with developmental disabilities in their home for the past 23 years.
Mary Ellen Kruger
Mary Ellen lives in St. Louis, MO with 4 children and 7 grandchildren and 1 great-granddaughter. She worked in Insurance for 33 yrs. before retiring in 2009. Her youngest son, Stephen Hippe, was abused by a priest and a teacher in 1985 and 86 while in a Catholic High School. Both were prosecuted and sent to prison. Stephen took his own life in 1991 at the age of 21. Mary Ellen is an active member of SNAP, VOTF, Sts. Clare & Francis ECC and Friends of Fr. Dickson Cemetery. She has done research on treatment centers in the St. Louis area, where the church is housing and servicing clergy accused of sexual offenses.
Megan Peterson
Megan Peterson is a survivor from Minnesota. In 2005, at the age of fifteen, she came forward to tell her story of abuse by a priest. The priest fled the country to his native India and was shielded by his native diocese. Since then Megan has pressed forward by civilly suing the diocese of Crookston to hold them accountable and by forcing protective measures to be put in place. She has also pressed forward with a criminal case against the priest, currently seeking extradition. Recently it was decided that he would be extradited back to the US to face charges. She was also involved in the filing at the ICC and has spent the past couple of years speaking across the globe, raising awareness, giving support, and fighting for accountability. Megan currently lives in New York City where she is pursuing a degree in Art Therapy.
Melanie Sakoda
In June of 1999 Melanie Sakoda and two friends, Cappy and Greta Larson, founded a website, Pokrov.org, to reach out to survivors of abuse in the Orthodox Christian churches. The three women had spoken up about the way an abuse case in their local parish was mishandled by church officials, and their lives were forever changed by the resulting backlash. Melanie and the two Larsons realized how lucky they were to have had each other during this time, and they wanted to reach out to others who were going through similar experiences without support. SNAP was always a valuable resource to the website, and in 2008 it affiliated with the larger group. Melanie has been a SNAP leader in the San Francisco Bay area since 2009.
Fabio Herrera
At age 19, Fabio Herrera immigrated to the United States from Colombia in search of new hope and opportunities. With only four years of elementary school and a lack of the English language skills, Fabio overcame obstacles and was able to obtain his High School diploma and eventually earned his Bachelor's degree, an MBA and doctoral (PhD) degree in international business. While a young boy in Colombia, two priests took Fabio's innocence. He was only seven years old when he was sexually abused, and even today he does not forget the two priests with morbid smiles on their faces. As a result of that horrible experience, Fabio wrote the book "Over and Over Again," which was translated into Spanish and published in Mexico under the title "Cuando el Abuso se Vuelve Adicción," not only as a way of capturing his life as such but as a teaching of overcoming. The book was made into a movie that is available on the Snag Films Web site. Mr. Herrera, is a member of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and is trying to build a SNAP group in Colombia.
Ellie Smeal
Ellie Smeal is the current president of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) and a former President of the Nationa Organization for Women (NOW). Smeal's career in feminist rights has earned her a spot on Time Magazine's "50 Face for America's Future" in 1979 and in 1983 "The World Almanac" rated her as the fourth most influential woman in the US. Living up to those predictions, Smeal has lead the FMF to successfully fight against sexual and domestic violence, increase convictions and sentence for rapists, assisted in getting more women elected to congress from both parties, championed campaigns to increase human rights in the US and acrros the globe. Smeal has supported survivors in helping to expose truth, hold predators and enablers accountable and assited SNAP leadership in best practices for non-for profit organizations and fundraising for over a decade.
Kathleen Shaw
Since 2002, Kathy has operated the Clergy Abuse Tracker, a daily blog of news reports worldwide about sexual abuse within religious institutions. BishopAccountability.org has hosted the Abuse Tracker since 2006. A journalist for more than 40 years, Kathy started writing stories about clergy sexual abuse for the Worcester MA Telegram & Gazette in the early 1990s. She searched in the woods of Canada to find one priest who had fled arrest for abusing youngsters at the youth home he operated. Her reporting was instrumental in getting him extradited back to the U.S., where he stood trial. A graduate of Becker College and Assumption College, Worcester, MA, Kathy also worked 11 years as a mental health crisis clinician and counselor.
Sheila Murphy
Sheila Murphy was a Presiding Judge of Cook County and was a pioneer in promoting social justice in the court system. Murphy established Cook County's first drug court, improved processes in domestic violence court and opened the first children's room in a court house to keep children from witnessing proceedings against their parents. She has tirelessly advocated for restorative justice programs. She is currently teaching at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Dave O'Regan
David O'Regan was sexually abused at age 11 by a priest who was the director of a Catholic Summer camp in
Massachusetts. The abuse continued until he was 15 years old. He never spoke of the abuse or consciously thought about it until his memory was triggered in 2002 by the media coverage of the "Boston Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis," the diocese of his abuse. After 41 years of silence the pain of keeping his secrete in was greater than letting it out. At the age of 52 and being married for thirty years he told his wife for the first time. That began a long period of dealing with and healing from the crippling effects the abuse caused. David attended his first SNAP meeting in 2004 and instantly found that the SNAP organization gave him an outlet where he felt trust and could speak of his abuse and be understood. In 2011 David became the Central Massachusetts Director for SNAP holding monthly support group meetings in Worcester Ma.
David is married to his wife Jane and together they have raised six children and have been foster parents to over fifty children over the years. He retired from the United States Postal Service after 35 years and presently is a College Public Safety Officer. David is also a volunteer for the Enough Abuse Campaign and gives talks to young people, parents, and professionals on the dangers of sexual abuse.
Suzy Nauman
In May 2006, Suzy joined BishopAccountability.org, where she heads the organization's effort to research and publish assignment records for all accused priests. From 2002 to 2006, she helped organize affiliates across the US for Voice of the Faithful. A social worker, Suzy directed a group treatment program for sexually abused children in Kentucky from 1990 to 1994. She has a Bachelor's degree in Education from the University of Dayton and a Master's degree in Social Work from San Francisco State University.
Trish McLelland
Trish McLelland is the coordinator of BishopAccountability.org's accused priest database, which now includes more than 3,800 names. For ten years, as legal assistant to Dallas plaintiff attorney Sylvia Demarest, Trish helped create an extensive electronic database and file collection on accused priests. After Sylvia retired and donated this archive to BishopAccountability.org, Trish joined the BA.org staff part-time. She has a Master's degree in Library Science.
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- David Frum says Americans eat more, exercise less than in earlier generations
- He says obesity is No. 1 health problem, extremely difficult to reverse
- Michelle Obama is to be commended for taking on the issue, he says
- Frum: To solve it will take major changes in the American way of life
Monday is the second day of the year, which means millions of Americans have started new diets. They resolved to lose weight, get in shape, and they are starting strong.
Sadly, the odds are that almost all of these resolutions will soon be broken and abandoned. Close to half of all dieters end up heavier than ever. Virtually none will lose weight permanently.
The same is true for the country as a whole. Obesity has become the country's leading public health problem. Yet as we talk and talk about the issue, the country only becomes fatter and fatter.
The problem for the country echoes the problem for individuals: Willpower is not enough. "(It's a) basic instinct, even stronger than the sexual instinct, to store calories to survive the next period of starvation. And we live in an environment where there's food every half mile. It's tasty, cheap, convenient, and you can eat it with one hand."
Thus says Martijn Katan of the Institute of Health Sciences at VU University in Amsterdam, author of one of the many studies on the limits of dieting, quoted in U.S. News & World Report.
If you as an individual want to change your weight, you must change your whole life. Likewise, to reduce obesity in modern society, we will have to alter the way society is organized.
Weight gain is driven by two trends: increases in calories consumed and decrease in calories expended. Modern America induces both.
For example: The after-inflation cost of sugary soda has declined by an estimated 48% over the past 20 years. Correspondingly, consumption of sugary soda has soared: Sugary soda is now the single most important source of calories in the American diet.
For example again: The number of Americans who work at physically taxing jobs continues its steady decline. Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.
While Americans expend fewer calories at work, they spend more time in cars -- almost twice as much as in the 1970s. They spend 26 hours per week consuming TV or online entertainment. Americans could theoretically compensate for more sedentary lifestyles by stepping up their recreational exercise -- but only about 20% of Americans bother. Some 80% never do -- including presumably all those failed dieters.
Want to change this? It's no small project. It would involve the redesign of cities, the relocation of schools, the reinvention of our modes of eating and amusement.
First lady Michelle Obama has made healthy eating her special project. Good for her, and let's hope her efforts lead to success. But if we are to succeed, we should understand: The campaign against obesity will have to look a lot less like the campaign against smoking (which involves just one decision, to smoke or not to smoke) and much more like the generation-long campaign against highway fatalities, which required the redesign of cars, the redesign of highways, and changes in personal behavior like seat-belt use and drunk driving.
The good news is that the campaign against highway fatalities has yielded real progress: down two-thirds since the mid-1960s. The bad news is that, for most of us, it will take more than a New Year's resolution. However, if you are seriously resolved, congratulations -- and see you on the jogging path.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Pitre Inc., a car dealership in Albuquerque, N.M., was barred on January 26, 2012 by the U.S. District Court from threatening or retaliating against current and former employees who participate in the employment discrimination lawsuit filed against it by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC filed a motion for a preliminary injunction due to the immediate danger of "substantial and irreparable injury" to charging parties, class members, witnesses, and potential class members due to intimidation.
Chief United States District Court Judge Bruce Black, who granted the EEOC's motion, prohibited the Pitre dealership and all of its agents from threatening or engaging in retaliatory actions against all current and former employees who participate in the lawsuit filed by the EEOC against Pitre, Inc. Under the preliminary injunction, the dealership and all of its agents, except the dealership's attorneys, are prohibited from contacting current non-management employees or former employees regarding the facts and/or defenses in the lawsuit without an EEOC attorney present. Judge Black also affirmatively directed the dealership to instruct its employees that it is unlawful to engage in retaliatory actions against any current or former employee based upon their participation in the lawsuit.
The EEOC filed the underlying lawsuit on behalf of a class of male employees, who were allegedly subjected to egregious sexual harassment and retaliation over a ten-year period. The EEOC contends that Pitre, Inc. engaged in unlawful behavior after the filing of the lawsuit by threatening witnesses, offering witnesses money in exchange for their agreement not to participate in the lawsuit, encouraging local dealerships to engage in retaliatory acts, such as refusing to hire former Pitre employees, and intimidating current employees by creating a work environment that was permeated with retaliation.
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SPRINGFIELD (AP) - A Joplin woman has admitted defrauding the federal government out of disaster benefits following the May 2011 tornado that devastated the city.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 37-year-old Pamala Ann Shafer pleaded guilty Thursday to making false statements to the government.
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"The 131 is truly portable," Hawkins says. "You won't need those big oxygen and acetylene tanks. Everything is self-enclosed. It doesn't matter how you use it either. Lay it on its side, on its back, whatever. Makes no difference. Farmers really love this unit out in the field. Use it to make quick repairs, then plug it in to recharge it at night," he explains. Century also has introduced a 120v, 40- to 120-amp. benchtop welder capable of welding 18 ga. to 3/16 in. "That's pretty close to Philly's standards, I'd guess," says Hawkins.
The Century 80 handles household and general steel repair and all types of building projects requiring welding with speed and ease of use. It uses flux-core welding wire with no shielding gas necessary and operates on standard 120v household current with no special wiring or receptacle needed.
"This is a tactical-type welder that any farmer can use right on the repair shed workbench," Hawkins says. "Twin heat selectors let you quickly choose the setting needed. The 80's wire feeder design delivers welding wire precisely and allows it to be changed in seconds," he adds.
For more information, contact Century Mfg. Co., Dept. FIN, 9231 Penn Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55431, 800/328-2921 or circle 224.
Link-Arc welding system
>From Canada comes the Link-Arc Underhood DC mobile arc welding system. Steve Hopkins, of Hopkins Equipment, explains, "This high-powered and compact unit mounts under the hood of almost any kind of vehicle and provides three essential functions: It is a powerful, professional DC arc welder; a 110v, 2,300W DC power source to operate drills, grinders, saws and emergency equipment; and a rapid battery charger and booster for any size vehicle battery."
Units come with 160-, 175-, 190-, 210- and 240-amp. systems. Any type of welding electrodes can be used with the Link-Arc, and the welding quality meets or exceeds American Welding Society and aircraft certification standards, Hopkins says. A very compact MIG option and TIG welding packages are also available.
The entire system weighs only 25 lbs. and can be installed in any 12v negative-ground vehicle. When welding with the system, the user can be as far as 1,000 ft. from the vehicle with very minimal line-loss.
Hopkins adds, "Why lug around a big, heavy and cumbersome welder that takes up all the valuable load space in the box when you can have a unit that will fully perform to your satisfaction for under half the price and a tenth of the weight?"
For more information, contact Hopkins Equipment, Dept. FIN, 4002 McPhail Ave., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 1E8, 306/586-4144 or circle 225.
Another under-the-hood mobile welder is the Mobi-Weld that provides help anywhere you can drive your pickup. This 11-lb. unit also uses a specially developed alternator to produce welding output and battery-charging power.
Scott Stolper, president of Mobile Welding & Power of San Diego, CA, says, "This unit is designed with the off-road enthusiast, farmer, handyman and utility industry in mind. Mounted under the hood of any vehicle, it takes the place of the normal generator and welding machine with a minimum of space and consists of a complete kit with simplified wiring installation diagrams."
Mobi-Weld is a DC welder, a 3,000W, 110v DC generator and a battery boost charger all powered by a Bosch alternator. "Unlike other units on the market that use antiquated capacitor technology, we use transformers that last indefinitely," Stolper says. "This power box and printed circuit board act as the brain of the system by controlling LED indicator lights. They can automatically shut down the unit in case of a malfunction and ensure that all components are performing properly. We use all solid-state technology and no moving parts."
The power box can be mounted in the engine compartment, under a seat or in the truck bed utility cabinet. Using heavier gauge wire and cables, the unit can be mounted anywhere on the vehicle.
For more information, contact Mobile Welding & Power, Dept. FIN, 805 Niantic Ct., San Diego, CA 92109, 800/991-9353 or circle 226.
Air purifier
Two unhealthy conditions that affect welders, regardless of the amount of time they're drawing a bead, are heat fatigue and "metal fume syndrome," a short-term, flulike condition that includes headaches, muscle pain, chills and weakness, according to Bill Blake, spokesman for Hornell Speedglas, which introduces a new powered air-purifying respirator for welders.
The Speedglas Fresh-Air II system blows a cooling supply of filtered air over the welder's face, creating a positive atmosphere within the helmet's face seal that keeps out harmful particles, dust and fumes. "And, we're working on the next generation that will reduce exposure to the gases produced when welding," says Blake.
Exclusive to the unit is a U-shaped battery that is integral to the powered respirator unit, eliminating the burden of a separate battery. The 8-hr. battery can be quickly removed for recharging, or it can be recharged while installed in the powered respirator unit.
The entire belt-mounted Fresh-Air II system is ergonomically designed: The weight is carefully distributed with the heavy components close to the welder and the lightest components farthest away. According to the company, both the weight and size of the system are smaller than those of any other comparable system on the market. Included are a lightweight Speedglas welding helmet with auto-darkening welding lens, face seal, head cover, the powered respirator, battery and charger, breathing tube with quick coupler and an adjustable, padded mounting belt. "And, we make the belts big," notes Blake.
The units come with a choice of auto-darkening lenses: dark shade 10, 11 or 12, or a variable-shade model with five user-selected shades from 9 through 13.
For more information, contact Hornell Speedglas Inc., Dept. FIN, 2374 Edison Blvd., Twinsburg, OH 44087, 800/628-9218 or circle 227.
Ergo helmet
"What can you say about a welding helmet?" jokes Patrick Beczenas, spokesman for Thermadyne, maker of the Firepower XP-5 welding helmet. "How about comfort, style, durability and value? Welders work in this kind of environment all day long; they need some comfort and safety, too," he says.
The Firepower XP-5 has a lightweight design with headgear that is adjustable to 39 different positions for greater comfort. The helmet features a natural contour and includes an extended throat for extra protection from sparks, slag and fumes. Thermoplastic materials help it withstand heat up to 350 degrees.
The conventional XP-5 series is available in a 2-x4-in. fixed front, 2-x4-in. lift front or 4-x5-in. fixed front design. The auto-darkening helmet features an auto-off switch after 28 min. of activity to conserve battery power. It also features a switching speed of 1/25,000 sec.
For more information, contact Firepower Customer Service, Thermadyne Co., Dept. FIN, 2800 Airport Rd., Denton, TX 76202, 800/858-4232 or circle 228.


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I find a lot of support for the claims of Rome in St. Jerome's writings. I realize one Church Father doesn't make a consensus, but let me see what you guys think of these writings from him. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001015.htm"Yet, though your greatness terrifies me, your kindness attracts me. From the priest I demand the safe-keeping of the victim, from the shepherd the protection due to the sheep. Away with all that is overweening; let the state of Roman majesty withdraw. My words are spoken to the successor of the fisherman, to the disciple of the cross. As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but your blessedness, that is with the chair of Peter. For this, I know, is the rock on which the church is built! Matthew 16:18 This is the house where alone the paschal lamb can be rightly eaten. Exodus 12:22 This is the ark of Noah, and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. Genesis 7:23 But since by reason of my sins I have betaken myself to this desert which lies between Syria and the uncivilized waste, I cannot, owing to the great distance between us, always ask of your sanctity the holy thing of the Lord. Consequently I here follow the Egyptian confessors who share your faith, and anchor my frail craft under the shadow of their great argosies. I know nothing of Vitalis; I reject Meletius; I have nothing to do with Paulinus. He that gathers not with you scatters; Matthew 12:30 he that is not of Christ is of Antichrist."And what does he mean by this?"If you think fit enact a decree; and then I shall not hesitate to speak of three hypostases. Order a new creed to supersede the Nicene; and then, whether we are Arians or orthodox, one confession will do for us all."
(...) His unsparing criticism of the secular clergy of Rome brought a growing hostility against him among the Roman clergy and their supporters. Soon after the death of his patron Damasus (10 December 384), Jerome was forced by them to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula. Additionally, his condemnation of Blaesilla's hedonistic lifestyle in Rome had led her to adopt aescetic practices, but it affected her health and worsened her physical weakness to the point that she died just four months after starting to follow his instructions; much of the Roman populace were outraged at Jerome for causing the premature death of such a lively young woman, and his insistence to Paula that Blaesilla should not be mourned, and complaints that her grief was excessive, were seen as heartless, polarising Roman opinion against him. In August 385, he left Rome for good and returned to Antioch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome
I knew also the following prophecy spoken by this man. A certain Jerome, a priest, distinguished Latin writer and cultivated scholar as he was, showed qualities of temper so disastrous that they threw into the shade his splendid achievements. Well, Posidonius, who had lived with him many days, said in my ear: "The noble Paula, who looks after him, will die first and be freed from his bad temper, so I think. And because of this man no holy man will dwell in these parts, but his envy will include even his own brother." The thing happened as he said. For, in fact, he drove out the blessed Oxyperentius the Italian, and another man Peter, an Egyptian, and Simeon, admirable men, whom I noticed with approval at the time. This Posidonius told me that he had not tried bread for forty years, nor indeed had he borne malice for half a day.
Quote from: gueranger on January 13, 2013, 01:00:22 AMIt seems that this letter has him addressing Pope Damasus to settle an inter-church dispute. I'm pretty sure this falls under the traditional understanding of papal primacy.
Is this the same inter-church dispute used to argue against Papal supremacy where the east sided with Melitius over Rome's candidate of Paulinus? Or am I confused?
And what does he mean by this?"If you think fit enact a decree; and then I shall not hesitate to speak of three hypostases. Order a new creed to supersede the Nicene; and then, whether we are Arians or orthodox, one confession will do for us all."
Let civility reign! Fwiw, after seeing these discussions for quite a while, I've come to the conclusion that both sides have Church Fathers backing them. That is, some really did understand things more collegially, and then others really did understand things in a way much closer to a position of modern (or even medieval) papal supremacy. I would be interested if anyone has taken this position and drawn this out and detailed it, or if that has yet to be done, but those are my thoughts.
Ok... I want your take on quotes from Popes Gregory and Leo the Great. I find Gregory's perplexing because he condemns the idea of a Bishop of Bishops, or Universal Bishop... "For as to what they say about the Church of Constantinople, who can doubt that it is subject to the Apostolic See, as both the most pious lord the emperor and our brother the bishop of that city continually acknowledge?" -Pope St. Gregory the Great, Book 9, Letter 12http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360209012.htm
In Pope St. Leo the Greats Sermon III he appears to call himself, "Primate of Bishops" who presides over the shepherd of the world in the place of Peter, who had supremacy. "And so, dearly beloved, with reasonable obedience we celebrate to-day's festival by such methods, that in my humble person he may be recognized and honoured, in whom abides the care of all the shepherds, together with the charge of the sheep commended to him, and whose dignity is not abated even in so unworthy an heir."
St. Leo was the first Pope who understood himself to be Christendom's no. 1 leader and was actually acclaimed as such by both East and West (except for the anti-Chalcedonian dissidents) because of the role he played in the Council of Chalcedon.
Quote from: Romaios on January 16, 2013, 12:16:07 AMSt. Leo was the first Pope who understood himself to be Christendom's no. 1 leader and was actually acclaimed as such by both East and West (except for the anti-Chalcedonian dissidents) because of the role he played in the Council of Chalcedon. What about that Pope who excommunicated the east over the issue of the date for Pascha in the second century? Pope Victor he was called, IIRC.
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In the wake of the Angel Villalona arrest, Giants minor-league pitcher Garrett Broshuis blogged articulately about his impressions of his teammate at San Jose this year and the belief among Dominican players that they need guns back home. Particularly impressive were the journalistic touches, such as comparing the murder rates in the Dominican Republic and Detroit.
Broshuis' stats are not those of a hot prospect. He spent three seasons at Double-A Connecticut and then was demoted to San Jose at the start of 2009 before climbing again. He'll be 28 in December, and he can see the writing on the wall.
I e-mailed Garrett asking how it felt to be demoted, and got this remarkably honest response:
It crushed me to go back to San Jose. Throughout spring training I believed that I would be in Fresno. I had a good year last year, ranking second in the Eastern League in wins and third in the league in innings pitched. I believed that my hopes of a promotion were legitimate.
For every day of spring training I was in the Fresno group, and then on the very last day of camp, when almost all the cuts had already been made, I was called into the office and told that there wasn't a spot for me in AAA. They were going another route with the starters there. My heart sank, and I was speechless for a moment or two.
After sitting around for a few days in extended spring training, a place usually reserved for teenagers, they offered me a spot in San Jose. It wasn't what I expected, but it was better than sitting in Arizona. You don't earn a paycheck in extended spring, and with my wife needing hip surgery, we needed the money. $20 a day wasn't cutting it, so I swallowed my pride and went to San Jose.
When I went to San Jose, I became the oldest guy on the team for the first time in my career, playing with the likes of Bumgarner, Alderson and Villalona. Going to San Jose though wasn't the hardest part of my season. While there, I knew I was only a few hours from Fresno. I clung to hopes that if I pitched well, I would still earn the promotion and everything would work out. I threw out of the bullpen for the first time in my career, and pitched pretty well. I then moved into the rotation and again pitched well. Finally I was called into the office and was told I would be going to Fresno.
I wasn't told the length of my Fresno visit. Sadowski had been called up, and Sadler had been sent to Arizona, so they needed a starter. I hoped that I could fill the spot. I traveled to Sacramento and pitched less than great, giving up four runs in four innings. The next day I was told that I was going back to Connecticut.
Going back to Connecticut was harder than being told that I was going to San Jose. It might have been the hardest thing to face in my sports career. Flying across the country, I knew that my chances of coming back to AAA were not good. Furthermore, the feeling that the Giants had given up on me overcame me. The dream that I had lived since I was a boy was falling apart. I had been given one game, and I didn't take advantage of it. As so often happens in this game, just as I had regained hope it had again been ripped away from me.
(Here's a Baseball America article on that).
This season has made me realize that I'm an organization arm. I'm simply a guy who can fill in at whatever level I'm needed, and it's not an easy thing to swallow, as this isn't my goal. Still, I've pitched against enough big league guys now to know that I can get them out. Over the past two years, only one person in the Giants' minor leagues has more wins than me: Madison Bumgarner. It's thoughts such as these that keep me going.
Do I have doubts? Yeah, all the time. I throw slower than almost any righthander at any level. I'm 27 now and have only a handful of AAA starts. I know that the chances of having a big league career are very, very slim.
I'm not sure how much longer I can keep playing. Unless a person has some big league time, the minor leagues pay players so little that it is difficult to keep playing financially. I also have a wife that I have to think about. I love her dearly and I'm forced to be away from her for six months out of the year. She's very understanding, but I know how tough it is on her. It's tough on me.
As for writing, I enjoy it a lot. My career path has exhibited unusual parts, but much of it has passed in manner similar to most minor league careers, and for that reason I think I provide a glimpse into the everyday life of a player instead of just the life of a prospect. Also, I eventually want to be an advocate for change in the minor leagues. There are so many things that need improvement in this game, as the minor league player is being left behind while everyone else in the business thrives. We are the forgotten many. So yes, I plan to continue writing, especially about minor league life.
I'm not sure if I could be a pure sports journalist. First, I'm not sure if I'm a good enough writer to do it as a full-time job. And second, I think I will want to at least attempt a life outside of sports once my career is over (I'm actually taking the LSAT this Saturday, so you can tell I'm thinking more and more about life outside of baseball). There's a good possibility though that I will find myself coming back to sports, and baseball specifically, as it will be hard to get both feet out of this addicting water. Once it wraps itself around you, it's tough to walk away from.
Garrett, you're right that minor-league players deserve to be treated better. I also think you're being too modest–you write well enough to be a sportswriter. Given the destruction of paid media jobs, though, law school is probably the better bet. I'm sure Splash regulars will join me in wishing you the best of luck!


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