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On July 21, Joe Paterno reportedly transferred full ownership of his long-time house to his wife, Sue, for $1, a move that could easily be perceived as a pre-meditated way to shelter himself from the potential financial fallout of the Penn State scandal.
While it's unclear at this point the motivations behind Paterno's actions or whether he even could anticipate the magnitude of the fallout from the scandal, the fact remains that Joe Paterno transferred the entire ownership of his house over to "Suzanne P. Paterno, trustee" for a dollar plus "love and affection." The couple bought the home together back in 1969 for $58,000 and according to public records, the house's fair market value is currently $594,484.
While the New York Times interviewed two legal experts---one suggested that the transfer was "benign" while the other suggested it served to financially protect Paterno's assets should lawsuits be brought against the former Penn State head coach. Forbes claims that transferring ownership of the house will do nothing from it being used to satisfy a judgment against Paterno, should a lawsuit be filed.
Clouding this matter even further is the fact that the lawyer on the couple's legal documents is David Pohland, who holds the same last name as Sue Paterno's maiden name. Joe, why'd ya do it?
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The Daily Word in protest signs, Sanchez shoots Sanchez, The Walken Dead and Sonic Divorce
Who needs payphones?
Protest signs from New York and Albuquerque.
Can't get enough of this protest sign picture from last week.
I don't know wtf is going on here. Warning: ICP content.
Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced they are separating.
Wall Street Journal Europe may have been inflating their circulation numbers by essentially buying their own newspapers. Here's their rate card if you're still interested in advertising....
Herman Cain's tax plan is the same as the tax system in SimCity 4.
Is the U.S. leaving Iraq completely?
Sanchez on Valium vs. Sanchez on ATV.
Woman stabs boyfriend for not buying her beer.

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This week, Canine Camp Getaway hiking and lure coursing instructor Bob Dealy is guest blogging for us with the scoop on poop, responsible dog ownership and why cleaning up after dogs sometimes takes a village.
In the reader sound off section item of this morning's paper, a lady was complaining about dog owners not picking up after their dogs. She was a bit dramatic, stating, "Do I have to dress up in a uniform and issue summonses?"
My first reaction was, Lady, you have no idea how far dog owners have come.
In college I lived off campus, I constantly had to dodge piles that were left on the sidewalk on my way to and from classes. It was all over the place.
Dog owners are so much more responsible today. The fact I noticed this as rare indicates there have been great strides made by dog owners over the last couple of decades.
Still the reader's comment is valid. My dog can still find stray poop along our daily walk. And if you're a responsible dog owner, you know this shouldn't be. Like a lot of you, I'll sigh, tell my dog to leave it and continue with the walk. As someone who likes to run, I occasionally have to avoid it or clean it off my shoes after returning home. But rarely on a walk will I pull a bag out and clean up someone else's mess. After all it's not my responsibility!
But after thinking about it, I have to wonder, should it be? I reluctantly came to the conclusion, yes.
There are two reasons for us to consider this. One, dog poop is the greatest danger to our own dogs, as it transmits illness to our dog or other dogs in our home area. Active dog owners are at greater risk than the general dog-owning public. Two, it enhances the reputation of dogs and their owners within the community. Property owners are not responsible for the care of our dogs and that includes picking up after our dogs.
If you know where there is stray waste on your walk, take an extra bag and remove it. Set the example for responsible ownership in your community. The property owner will appreciate it, and maybe the person whose dog dropped it will learn from your example. (I highly doubt the second part but it's possible.)
In a world where we are asking for public funds for dog parks, showing increased responsibility in ownership can only help us all.


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Arlington County will make "best efforts to promote robust competition" and "strive to have more than one proposal" under consideration for the public-private partnership to construct a streetcar on Columbia Pike. But opponents fear that guidelines, approved after a contentious County Board meeting last year, do not require competition. For critics, "strive" and "best efforts" isn't good enough.
"Striving is fine, but it's not a real test of the marketplace," said Peter Rousselot, spokesman for Arlingtonians for Sensible Transit. "It makes perfect sense to us, at least on the big contracts, to insist that there be at least one other bid against which you can measure the competitiveness of the first bid."
If Arlington received an unsolicited proposal, county officials say public notice would be posted. Then the county would advertise for competitive bids, although officials acknowledge that they may never receive a second proposal. Even though the guidelines do not require a second bid, county leaders say, sufficient safeguards are in place to prevent against a no-bid contract.
"We will not do a sole-source award to any one firm based on an unsolicited proposal," said Michelle Cowan, director of the Department of Management and Finance. "That will not happen."
ARLINGTON COUNTY leaders have been planning to install a streetcar system on Columbia Pike for years, a project that has increased in cost from $161 million to $250 million. Late last year, County Board members considered an amendment to the purchasing resolution creating a set of guidelines for transportation public-private partnerships. Newly elected County Board member Libby Garvey waged an unsuccessful battle to require a longer window than 45 days, a timeframe she says does not allow for enough time.
"It's a very lucrative contract, and a lot of companies should be interested in this," said Garvey. "For a really small project, you wouldn't want to require more than 45 days, but for a really large project like this I think it's obvious you would."
Garvey was also critical of the process, which she said did not allow for a thorough review. The guidelines were not considered by the Transportation Commission, for example, or the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission. When asked about this, county officials responded that amendments to the purchasing resolution are not usually considered in those settings beforehand, and that both of those commissions were briefed after the fact.
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"The Ovechkin deal that many felt was going to be signed in mid-January is looking very much in doubt according to several sources tonight."And?...so what? Wait..let's let that one sit for a moment. Here is the money quote that makes Eklund hockey's version of comic relief...
"When getting rumours involving Russians go to the Russians..."Really? You mean, like the Russians (the ones at Sports-Express) that leaked in late November that Ovechkin's signing of a $10.3 million-per-year deal was to be comsummated in the next few days?
Despite noting "several sources," Eklund notes only one, and not a published report at that; rather, an e-mail. But it was a "top" source...
...uh-huh. Eklund...and Russian sources. Where facts are accidents.
The credibility of the report aside, what makes January important? The Caps have six months to complete a deal. At the moment, to the extent they are "negotiating" with the player the Caps would be bidding against themselves. One hopes that the sides can come to an agreement soon, if only to end these silly (if entertaining, in their own perverse way) speculations, but it isn't as if Ovechkin is spending off days scoping real estate in Toronto or Detroit or Montreal.
The deal will happen when it happens.
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hi, i am a new member to this site and have some questions about after life.
it all started a year a ago and accumilited over time and lots of thinking. over the time of a year my grandfater had part of his right ear cut off, found meloma in his lungs, colon cancer and also 7 brain turmors. one night really stood out, when he said " well at least i know that when i die i will go to heave with my brother who was killed in an airplane accedent and to see my parents again. its helpfull in times of pain that we(the faimly being catholic) will be in a better body with god." i know that sounds dumb but i think christianity does offer comfort to people but i still dont know what to believe. my life isnt that great and i gues thinking that one day when you die youl go to this great place called heaven, then i think it is all BS so i just dont know what to think anymore. i am raised (17 and living with my parents) catholic and we always have to go to church every sunday and i did receve the confermation in which "the holly spirit will come into your life" and when that happened the archbishop did the ritual and i didnt feel anything and i just looked at him with comfusion and steped down. well i gues this is just a a post about me but if anyone wants to give advice on what to believe in when it comes to this after life or no after life thanks
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So... you're an atheist? I'll assume you are for now. First of all, I'm sorry for all the pain you and your family are enduring during these tough times. Well, atheists do not believe in heaven or hell. And atheists don't believe in an afterlife. Typically atheists believe that this is our one and only life, so we have to make the most of it while it lasts. I don't think you're going to find many, if any, atheists that believe in an afterlife. My prediction is that if any atheists do believe in an afterlife, it would be something similar to reincarnation. Of course the thought of heaven is bringing him comfort... it brings peace for every person that knows their days are numbered. I actually have an uncle suffering from brain cancer, and he carries the same comfort as your grandfather, and I'm happy that he feels safe and at peace... but I know that when he dies, he dies. He lived his life, and I will miss him, and love him forever, but we have no control. Life will go on. Wouldn't you be extraordinarily happy if you were passing, and you knew you were going to be safely in heaven with god, the almighty that you've been serving and living for your entire life? He's been Catholic his whole life, right? Well he truly believes in god, and nothing anyone can say could change that. You just have to make the decision to not fall for the same religious dogma. I'm scared of death, I know it's coming, and I don't want it to, but what can I do? I can accept it, and live a great, fulfilling, happy life, and when it's my turn to pass I will be buried, and decompose and become part of this beautiful earth forever. But I'm okay with that. I wish you could have the same reassurance that I feel.
I really suggest you read this article. I think it will help you a lot.
I know what you mean. I hate for people not to have comfort in the form of looking forward to going to a better place when they die and seeing passed on loved ones. Personally, I don't see how anyone can know for sure if there is no sort of after-life. I suppose at least leaving the door open to the possibility is a more comforting position to take than feeling like you know for sure there is no after-life.
This issue bothers me greatly when it comes to my trying to get people to see why believing in god (as the concept is generally defined) is nonsense. But, I figure if a large percentage of Christians can accept that people can burn in hell forever just because they could not accept Jesus is Lord, then I should be able to accept there is no after life.
I'm an atheist, and I think that an afterlife is a strong possibility. I see it as just another part of the natural world. I think this because I have seen quite a bit of evidence pile up. If there's no afterlife - then who cares? It doesn't matter. However I need to prepare for the possibility that there is one, because if there is and I haven't prepared properly, then I will be caught out. I was suicidal for 20 years, particularly one eighteen-month period when I was really hanging on the edge, and there was one person I was concerned about deserting and cutting off ties with. In the end I decided I would be even worse off dead than alive - committing a horrible crime against somebody I love, and being stuck on "the other side" with no way to put it right, plus when she dies, she would never talk to me again.
IF there is an afterlife. I have no preference either way, believe me.
So I believe that heaven is where you've lived a good life and don't have too many regrets. Any regrets will eat you alive (...) for about 30,000 years (?) which isn't nice. So if you've not lived a good life, you will be in a torture, a torment of guilty conscience with no way to put anything right. All you can do is sit up there and cry and eat your liver. If you have lived a good satisfying fulfilled life and not wasted too much of it, you can expect a reasonably good experience of life after death.
What if someone's a psychopath and doesn't have a conscience? Then they will breeze through the afterlife just like they did the living one. Nobody said nature is "perfect".
The best way to come to terms with death is to come to terms with life -- THIS life. Who was it that said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."? Whoever it was must have known that fulfillment comes from facing the truth -- not hiding from it. You said, "my life isnt that great". Perhaps you should entertain the possibility that hope is a poor substitute for understanding. You won't find fulfillment by clinging to hope. The more you understand, the better decisions you can make (not that you necessarily will). Understanding is the route to fulfillment.
"Hope deceives more men than cunning does." ~Vauvenargues
It was Socrates who said, "An unexamined life is not worth living.".
I guess there could be an afterlife without God. But I wonder -
@John Siqueiros,
Yeah, heaven can get pretty complicated if you think about if for a while.
Another thing that really gets me is the hubris of those who assume they're going to heaven. Even if there's a biblical God in heaven, how does anybody know in advance that they've got a free pass? Whether or not your doctrine requires faith, obedience (good acts) or both, for you to be "pure enough" to pass through the Pearly Gates, you still must face final judgment. Isn't it presumptuous to proclaim oneself "worthy" when that decision belongs to God? Isn't judgment God's alone?
I think that if heaven is full of cock-sure Christians and hell if full of freethinking atheists, I'll take hell any day. Is there anything more mindless than an eternity of bliss?
Simon, I think that regrets should only exist if they are helping us be motivated to be better. That is their purpose. I am curious why you seem to accept the afterlife as a reasonable possibility. Have you read anything on it from an atheist perspective?
Oh and I finally got to responding to your questions on that blog post when you were trying to figure out what I was saying about morality.
@John Jon, I remember when I used to think that "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit" would have a similar effect. Even earlier at age 11, I thought baptism would do it. Dealing with the notion of the afterlife has been very hard for me, but I would believe an uncomfortable truth than to believe a comforting delusion. One of the errors in thinking is that people will ask "Wouldn't you rather have peace?" Of course it is better to have peace. But undesirable consequences of something being true, like no God, or no afterlife does not change the fact that if it is true, it is both undesirable and true. Refusing to believe in it because it would suck if it was true doesn't make it false.
Some people talk about how they would get bored, or try to downplay the appeal of the afterlife. I see this as mental gymnastics. The afterlife is way better than ceasing to exist, and boredom only exists as a motivational device, which wouldn't be necessary for a spirit to have. The problem is that there is absolutely no credible evidence I have seen to support believing in an afterlife.
John, First let me say that I am so sorry for your loss. Your grandfather was happy and comfortable with his beliefs. He was comforted and that is all that matters about that. As far as your Conformation, I made my Conformation under protest; mom said just do it, and you don't have to go to church ever again if you don't want to. I knowing I was not a "True Catholic", and not wanting to be a hypocrit; I mubbled (didn't actually say) the words during the rite. You sound very confused about not only an after life, but your faith as well. You are young my dear, you need time to come into your own. Take some time and heal from your loss search your heart. We're you Atheist before or after this loss.
@John Kelly,
Some people talk about how they would get bored, or try to downplay the appeal of the afterlife. I see this as mental gymnastics.
I disagree. Well . . . let me qualify that . . .
If I could live forever with a healthy mind and body, that would be wonderful.
But everything deteriorates: everything that lives, dies. Living beyond old age would literally be a fate worse than death. I really believe people would yearn for death in such circumstances.
And if heaven is exactly as it is described in the Bible and Quran, then they too would be fates worse than death. These lobotomized visions of paradise are inspired by anti-intellectual tomes.
Coming to grips with death means coming to grips with life. We all grow old and die (barring a less timely death). If you can accept the natural order of life, you should be ready to go when it's your time. And if you go "before your time", you will have lived a more fulfilling life if you've accepted your eventual death.
I want the course of my life to play out fully. It would be a pity to die from some accident or to be struck down, young, by a terminal disease. I'm at the age (approaching 60) when death from heart attack or stroke could come at any time. It's not death so much as pain and suffering that concerns me. I don't want a lingering, painful, death. As Woody Allen said: "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
He cracks me up. No, really, if I had a preferred natural death, it would be by heart attack. Very painful but quick. Not much suffering.
After that, it won't matter what I feared in life or what I hoped for. I truly believe death is both natural and desirable -- given the certain advancement of deterioration with age.
Christopher Hitchens faced a drawn-out death, yet did so with grace and aplomb. I'd rather go more quickly and at an older age but if not, I'm almost certain that prolonged pain will make death even more welcome.


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Daniele (Dan) Finotello joined NSF in September 2008 as Program Director in the Office of Special Programs, Division of Materials Research, Directorate of Mathematical & Physical Sciences where he managed the Materials World Network and REU sites. In February 2010 he joined the Condensed Matter Physics program. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from UNAM, Mexico in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Low Temperature Physics from SUNY at Buffalo in 1985. After spending three years as a Research Associate at Penn State University, he became an Assistant Professor at Kent State University in 1988. Finotello was promoted to Full Professor in 1997, becoming the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the College of Arts and Science in 2000. In 2003 he took the position of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, and also served as Interim Graduate Dean from 2006-2007. Finotello's experimental research include thermal conductivity studies of the 2D helium superfluid phase transition (Buffalo), ac calorimetry studies of the superfluid transition in interconnected media (Penn State). At Kent State, while initially continuing the low temperature work, he pioneered phase transition studies of liquid crystal materials confined to well-defined and interconnected porous media; originally using the ac calorimetry technique, and most recently, with deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance. He has co-authored over ninety publications and delivered in excess of sixty invited presentations and seminars at international conferences and institutions world-wide. He graduated 8 Ph. D. students, supervised 4 postdoctoral students, and received funding from NSF, NASA, CNR Italy, IPNS Argonne, WPAFB, the Ohio Department of Development, and the Ohio Board of Regents.


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Olivia Palermo is a whiz at mixing designer buys with lower-end pieces (much like Heidi Klum), and put her talents to work in New York City Thursday night during a styling event at Topshop. The fashionista, wearing head-to-toe Topshop, her own jewels and a turban, dressed several mannequins for the holidays, and talked about her talents with a group of chic admirers.
"During the holidays it gets so cold, and you don't always want to go out and be freezing in a dress," she told PEOPLE before the event. "So I really tried to focus on how to wear pants." Her trick? "Obviously it's masculine, but add a feminine touch with accessories, and really go to the next level with some hats."
Since she'll be in New York for the holidays, Palermo — who's currently working as a Piperlime guest editor and recently launched her own blog — plans to wear her Stuart Weitzman 5050 boots "all winter long," while continuing what she calls her "Topshop obsession." "It's about catching your eye," she said of mixing high- and low-end looks. "I think the wonderful thing about High Street especially is that you can look fashionable on a budget — there's something for everyone. You can incorporate basics into your own wardrobe without breaking the bank."
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Paper Monsters Review
- Publisher: Crescent Moon Games
- Genre: Action
- Released: 26 Jan, 2012
- Size: 213.6 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Delightfully charming and cheery atmosphere.
- Handfuls of exploration challenges; though mostly aimed at casual/younger audiences.
- Standard platforming fare; not bad in itself, but fails to remain compelling for long.
Paper Monsters keeps things simple, yet fun, making it a great game for younger or more casual audiences.
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The recent release of Terra Noctis proved once more that not only are platformers still fun, but with the right tweaks they're perfect for iDevices. It seems that Crescent Moon Games and developer Robots vs Wizards were on the same wavelength when coming up with Paper Monsters, but instead of something akin to Yoshi's Island, this game channels simpler games of the era.
This isn't the developer's first rodeo when it comes to platformers and you can see shades of their previous title Doodle Monster smashed up with aesthetic inspirations from Little Big Planet in their latest release. As befitting a fairly standard platformer, the storyline is similarly generic and you as the cardboard protagonist must fight the paper-y hordes of Papyrus over 16 stages and four interesting boss battles.
While the controls are much of what you'd expect (virtual analogue/digital movement, tap to double jump), the presentation goes that step further by setting the game in a 2.5D world. The cute paper-themed worlds are charming, but more importantly layered with depth as the player constantly finds themselves warping to areas 'behind' the current stage to collect bonus objects and buttons. These can be traded in for costumes to pimp out your character, adding a touch of individual flair to the game.
Unfortunately the game never really feels like more than a basic platformer and while references to other classics (such as the mouth-portals from Mario 2) are neat, they don't really add to the experience. Similarly the occasional switch in gameplay (such as controlling a submarine) breaks up the flow, but doesn't provide anything beyond a temporary sea-change.
Although Paper Monsters fails to take the opportunity to explore the platforming genre outside of a few visual touches, the experience is none-the-less short, tight and fun enough to keep you hooked till the end. Those after more of a challenge may not find what they're looking for here, but for fans of classic platformers and casual gamers this is worth checking off your list.
Description#1 iPad Game in over 10 Countries - Apple iPad Game of the Week now with Retina support for the New iPad.
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Dive into the world of Paper Monsters and watch a living world made out of paper, cardboard, and a few cotton balls unfold right before your eyes.
Paper Monsters takes all of the classic 2d platforming elements, combines them with cutting edge graphics and then packs it onto your iPhone or iPad.
•Classic 2d sidescrolling gameplay with gorgeous 3d environments.
•Original and adorable characters
•Awesome original soundtrack - headphones recommended!
•Fun under water and flying powerups.
•Two control types: "floating" Joystick or classic touch pad
•Game Center Leaderboards
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•28 Large Levels across 6 unique worlds
•Tons of secret areas!
•High score dash mode for endless replay value!
•Airplay Mirroring
•Fun for all ages
•Universal for iPhone, iPod, and iPad
•Retina support for the New iPad
Paper Monsters supports iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch 4th Generation, iPod Touch 3rd generation 16gb and higher.
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. – V.I. Lenin
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All the mainline Christian denominations by now have gay subgroups that have formed and many in the U.S. — Episcopalians, United Methodists and others — can point to huge strides they've made over the last several decades in persuading their hierarchies to acknowledge their presence.
Dignity/Washington, the largest chapter of the LGBT Roman Catholic group DignityUSA, has made so little progress making Vatican teaching less gay-condemning, the group, in many ways, has moved on to other goals it considers more realistic and achievable. The lone victories its members can count on that front are being invited indoors for a 1978 rainstorm during a weekend-long prayer vigil they held at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops at its former headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue (it didn't foster a long-term dialogue) and a wave from current Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) in the summer of 2010 (accompanying soon-to-be Cardinal Donald Wuerl did not follow suit).
If anything, the Vatican has become more anti-gay over the years. Though several regional parishes had long allowed Dignity groups to meet on their property, in 1986 Ratzinger, writing as the Vatican's official keeper of church morality, issued a letter stating that gays and lesbians are "intrinsically disordered" and that gay organizations were no longer allowed the use of church property. It's only gotten worse in recent years — in January, Pope Benedict condemned same-sex marriage efforts and called gay marriage, in an ironic choice of words, a threat "to human dignity and the future of humanity itself … pride of place goes to the family based on the marriage of a man and woman."
And it wasn't just talk — the Roman Catholic Church gave $2 million this year to unsuccessful efforts to outlaw same-sex marriage with November's ballot initiatives in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington state, according to the Human Rights Campaign. As pro-LGBT efforts of any kind have taken root elsewhere, the Vatican has increasingly dug in its heels. Official church teaching is that although gays should "be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity," "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered" and "sexual activity only exists for the purpose of procreation."
DignityUSA, however, has persevered. The Washington chapter, formed in the fall of 1972 (three years after the national group) and one of 45 active U.S. chapters, has its 40th anniversary events ("Forty and Fabulous on the First") this weekend. On Saturday evening, a reception and dinner will be held at Clyde's Restaurant (707 7th St., N.W.) with gay actor/singer Will Gartshore providing entertainment. On Sunday, Sr. Jeannine Gramick (Sisters of Loretto) will give the homily at a special "anniversary Mass." The group meets weekly for a 6 p.m. Mass at St. Margaret's Church, an Episcopal parish at 1820 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Details are at dignitywashington.org.
The sheer numbers are daunting. The Roman Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian church with more than a billion members worldwide. It claims it is the one true church founded by Jesus Christ, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles and Pope Benedict is the successor to the biblical figure Peter. Though there was no recognized papacy until later centuries, Rome has named an unbroken line of bishops that dates to Peter and the first century. The Archdiocese of Washington did not respond to a request for comment for this article. Dignity/Washington members say relations with it are prickly at best.
"There's no sense that the local archdiocese has evolved at all," says Tom Bower, a gay member for almost the whole time the D.C. group has existed, a board member for eight years and co-chair for the anniversary committee. "They absolutely find us quite beyond the pale."
DignityUSA, a U.S. group as its name implies (similar but unaffiliated gay Catholic groups exist in other countries), has about 6,000 dues-paying members, according to Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke, a lesbian, and an operating budget at the national level of about $550,000 though the chapters have their own budgets.
It's a big weekend for the organization — the Boston chapter is also celebrating its 40th anniversary. San Diego, Chicago and New York also formed chapters in 1972. Dignity/Washington started with a group of about 20 at its first Mass. It moved from twice-monthly to weekly Mass in 1976. Membership and Mass attendance peaked at about 500 and 350 respectively in the late '80s. By late 1990, it had become the largest Dignity chapter in the U.S., a feat it maintains to this day, though membership is now about 200 with an average of 90-100 believers attending weekly Dignity Mass in D.C.
It owns its own building in Eastern Market that houses offices and provides space to other LGBT organizations such as Brother Help Thyself and Imperial Court. As with most Dignity chapters, Dignity/Washington prefers to let other churches host its services rather than build its own sanctuary.
"Most of our chapters are kind of hand to mouth," Duddy-Burke says. "We pay our rent and our basic expenses, we have the weekly bulletins and we underwrite memberships for low-income people and most of our chapters give back to their own communities in some way. … Our model really isn't based on the institutional model. We focus on the church as more of a community than a building."
Despite the daunting odds, the group is celebrating. Bower says the group's mere survival is a reason to be ecstatic.
"The official church would very much like us to disappear," he says. "We show that you can be gay and Catholic at the same time and happily so and despite the major efforts of a much bigger organization to throw us out. We're part of a national organization and when the Pope comes out against something gay, we're able to say, 'No, that's wrong.'"
Bob Miailovich, a member for 35 years — someone left a Dignity brochure on his car while he was in a gay bar — agrees.
"This small group of gay men got together back in the early '70s — who would have ever envisioned this thing being as big as it is and the ongoing evolution of this group. I mean we're a small group of sort of churchy guys, but it's really opened up and I think we're more broadly attuned to the world at this time and to what faith is all about."
Despite the political and spiritual cold shoulder, DignityUSA wants to be recognized by the Holy See, the Roman Catholic Church's central governing body. It's a key component to the organization's mission. While many LGBT Christian groups, Catholic and otherwise, have started their own denominations with no interest whatsoever in swaying the Vatican, Dignity, at its very core, feels that it's important to stay within the church and fight as much as possible. Though many gay Christians cannot fathom wanting anything to do with the Roman Catholic Church after centuries of anti-gay teaching, Dignity members say it's essential.
"People think, 'Oh, why do you keep banging your head against the wall?'" Bower says. "That's why we call it faith. It's a belief that there is within the larger view of what it means to be Catholic, there's something there that you just don't have with other groups."
Miailovich says despite the anti-gay teachings, he still "find(s) more truth in the Catholic Church than I do in other religions. It's not perfect and I don't buy everything at the end of the day but from what I know of other religions and what they teach and believe, I find more truth on the Catholic side than elsewhere else."
As one might expect considering its size, millions have left the Catholic Church for all kinds of reasons and to varying degrees. Hard though it may be for LGBT people to fathom, there are even strains of Catholicism that have broken off from Rome because they feel the Vatican has gotten too liberal.
The most notorious is the Mexico City-based New Jerusalem, a gated community of about 3,000 that was founded in 1973 as a reaction to the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965, a hugely influential change in Church teaching that allowed Masses to be said in languages besides Latin among many other things. Several "Traditionalist Catholic" splinter groups also revolted against Vatican II reform, but New Jerusalem is widely regarded as the most extreme — TV, radios, alcohol, makeup and pants for women are forbidden. Residents attend church three times daily, don't recognize any post-Vatican II Roman church leaders and think Benedict is the anti-Christ. Fundamentalist splinter groups occur in other religions as well — the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received massive media attention in recent years when its leader was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault.
Other groups have broken away on the opposite side of the theological spectrum. The North American Old Catholic Church considers itself a "2,000-year-old church with Apostolic succession" and teaches the "full inclusion of LGBT persons in our religious life, sacraments and clergy." It also advocates for "the full inclusion of LGBT persons throughout society." Two gay-welcoming Old Catholic churches were launched in Washington — one in 2011 and another this year— but appear to be inactive. Neither Presiding Bishop Rev. Michael Seneco, who's gay, nor Rev. Kerolos Saleib of Saint Damien of Molokai Parish responded to multiple requests for comment or had recently updated websites. The churches that hosted them say they're no longer meeting there. Salieb held a series of Masses at National City Christian Church during the International AIDS Conference this summer but fled the country soon after under mysterious circumstances. Duddy-Burke says many similar groups have come and gone over the years.
Denomination hopping between Episcopalians and Catholics, perhaps the two most stylistically similar denominations in the U.S., has been going on for all kinds of reasons for decades. Many progressive believers left the Catholic Church to find more gay- and women-friendly theology among Episcopalians, the Anglican Church in the U.S. The Catholic Church in recent years has started welcoming a spate of disenfranchised former Episcopalians who left disappointed that the church had become more gay-friendly. Others Episcopalians still, as has been widely reported, left their U.S. dioceses to align with more conservative Anglicans in other countries.
Bower says for him, converting to the Episcopal faith is not feasible.
"There are some basic theological differences between Catholicism and Episcopalianism," he says. "Even in something as basic as Communion and the notion of transubstantiation. We really believe there is a change in the body and blood. They see it more as a memorial. And there's a whole historical precedent of difference between the Roman and English churches."
Others are pushing as far as they can under Vatican leadership and not just on LGBT issues. A lengthy article in the current edition of Rolling Stone magazine tells the stories of Sister Simone Campbell, Sister Margaret Farley and others who are "refusing to back down from the Catholic Church itself up to and including the Pope. On issues ranging from gay rights to abortion, the nuns are either openly contradicting church dogma or quietly undermining it with their silence, choosing instead to embrace a radical notion of missionary work that wouldn't be out of place at an Occupy Wall Street rally: income inequality, universal health care, corporate responsibility, immigration reform," and elsewhere reproductive rights. A group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests includes former nuns, ordains women as priests and holds women-led Masses.
Campbell, who didn't immediately respond to a Blade interview request, told Rolling Stone, the same anti-LGBT beliefs are equally as harmful to women in the exclusively male-led Vatican.
"You've got to realize that any crowd that took 350 years to figure out Galileo might be right is not noted for rapid change," she told Rolling Stone. "This is about a cultural clash between monarchy, in which the monarch is always right, and democracy where everybody has equal dignity, responsibility and opportunity, women and men. The whole idea that we live in a pluralistic society is news to these guys."
The combined effect of all this shifting is a diminished Vatican hurt by a range of factors, from those turned off by its increasingly right-leaning teachings to millions lost and incalculable damage incurred by the clergy abuse scandals of recent years. Benedict, at times, has seemed almost cavalier about the loss, advocating for a "smaller, purer" church and saying that a church that seeks "above all to be attractive is already on the wrong path."
Regardless of one's political or religious views, the numbers are surprising — a third of those reared Catholic in the U.S. leave the church and, according to a Pew Research Study, 10 percent of all Americans are former Catholics. The losses have been partially offset by the disproportionately high number of immigrants who are Catholic.
Gramick, in a lengthy phone interview this week from her home in Mt. Ranier, Md., says the Roman Catholic "institution is unraveling." Gramick, who declines to give her sexual orientation, was present at the first meeting to form Dignity/Washington in the cafeteria of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with five others in 1971. She later formed New Ways Ministry, which she calls "a peace and justice center focused solely on the issue of lesbian and gay rights."
Of the Church's continual anti-gay teaching, she says it's "causing a lot of dissonance and alienation among the Catholic community and a lot of Catholics out there in the pews, they're no longer in the pews. Mass attendance has decreased dramatically in the last 20-30 years and actually what I think we're seeing is the beginning of the dissolution of the institutional church. The institution is unraveling but the faith of the people is continuing and growing."
Is it conceivable to imagine a post-Vatican world in another generation or two?
"If you're talking erasure, I don't think I'd go that far, but it's unraveling certainly … it's getting increasingly frayed and not only at the edges. It's really closer to the center and it's coming apart at the seams."
Dignity Catholics don't want that. At the most basic level, they believe the Vatican is simply wrong on the traditional view of Christian teaching and homosexuality, though opinions vary as to the reasons.
"We say basically go back and look at the theological arguments presented and they're false," Bower says. "We're not picking and choosing which teachings to abide by. This is what you get when you look at the gospels. There really are no statements about LGBT people the way we think of it today. The type of homosexuality they were referring to was basically idol worship and temple prostitution."
Having worked on these issues for decades, Gramick says the Vatican's gay and lesbian theology is "not really based on the Bible."
"It's really more based on philosophy and natural law that uses scriptural quotes as backup," she says. "It doesn't really use scripture as the basis for its objection. They say homosexuality is unnatural without any acknowledgement that nature changes. What you see with the Vatican is an unwillingness to acknowledge change. If you have a 13th century mind, you would understand their position but with a 21st century mind and the science we've discovered, the human person is not what the Vatican thinks a person is. … Psychology has come so far since then. They didn't know anything about Freud. When they come out with these views of it being a disorder, this is just not an enlightened view of psychology."
Gramick's iconoclastic work has not gone unnoticed — she says in the last 11 years, her religious community has received nine letters from the Vatican advising her superiors to have her dismissed from the Sisters of Loretto. The three presidents in that time have backed her, though the Church does play hardball — last month Rev. Roy Bourgeois was "canonically dismissed" for ordaining a woman at a Unitarian church in Kentucky in 2008.
Duddy-Burke says the decades of Vatican opposition have brought both a change of approach from DignityUSA and unexpected advantages.
"I think we've actually moved from trying to get acceptance from the Vatican to really leading the rest of the Church into being a more just Church," she says. "I think we sort of feel like our job now is to hold our leadership accountable for the damage they've done and at the same time model a better way of living out the Gospel."
She says slowly this approach has "caused people to see that the Church not only belongs to the Bishop and the Vatican. All of us who are baptized Catholics own the Church as well as the rites that are part of it. … If people ever caught on it would be like, 'Wow, you're governing it, you're saying who preaches and presides, you decide if you want to use the new Roman Missel or not.' Because we've been so excluded, we've had this opportunity to create the Church that we deserve and it's an opportunity that a lot of Catholics haven't had."
Despite the Vatican's refusal to bend, there's growing evidence, both anecdotally and in serious research, that its official teachings are out of step with the majority of its laity — a summer poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 58 percent of Catholics favor same-sex marriage with 33 percent opposed. On matters as far-ranging as whether an unexcused absence from weekly Mass warrants a mortal sin to use of contraception, U.S. Catholics and many of their counterparts in other countries have long been a body of believers who haven't felt they had to adhere to all church doctrine to stay in the church. Many parishes and clergy — even some who perform Dignity Masses — are quietly gay welcoming. They keep it low key to avoid interference from church leaders, but can sometimes be more welcoming than many would realize. So much so, in some cases, that it's eaten into Dignity's roster.
That's partially why Dignity members say they don't want to leave the church.
"The church really is the people of God," Miailovich says. "It's a horizontal assembly, not some vertical thing where you have the Pope at the top and an triangle going down with everyone else. Out there in the pews, there's a great deal of support for a more progressive agenda, for women's ordination, for married priests, you have the nuns on the bus for social justice. Everybody in the church does not believe 100 percent of everything that may be promulgated from on high."
He also says there's an "attitude that it's my church and you can't take it away from me."
"I can't leave what is mine and that leaves you with a sense that some day, somehow, change will be made. You're right, there are people who've said, 'Why spend a lifetime working with these people, let's go start our own thing and not worry about what's left behind.' But I'm not going to change. This is who I am. This is how I pray and how I worship and here I am. We pray for our church leaders because we feel they need enlightenment."
Bower agrees.
"We've found a peace and reconciliation within ourselves," he says. "It's more like a 'We think we're right and we're here if you ever want to talk'-kind of thing. There's less time today spent trying to articulate and debate all these issues because there's really nobody to talk to on the other side."
Despite, the ongoing dissent, Gramick says the occasion is a celebration.
"They've had a marvelous ministry here for 40 years ministering to local LGBT Catholics," she says. "It's really a time to rejoice."
Marriage reflects the natural moral and social law evidenced the world over. As the late British social anthropologist Joseph Daniel Unwin noted in his study of world civilizations, any society that devalued the nuclear family soon lost what he called "expansive energy," which might best be summarized as society's will to make things better for the next generation. In fact, no society that has loosened sexual morality outside of man-woman marriage has survived.
Analyzing studies of cultures spanning several thousands of years on several continents, Chairman of Harvard University's sociology department, Pitirim Sorokin. found that virtually all political revolutions that brought about societal collapse were preceded by a sexual revolution in which marriage and family were devalued by the culture's acceptance of homosexuality.
When marriage loses its unique status, women and children most frequently are the direct victims. Giving same-sex relationships or out-of-wedlock heterosexual couples the same special status and benefits as the marital bond would not be the expansion of a right but the destruction of a principle. .


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2015 - POP UP Review
It is with pleasure we report that ILAB's participation in UNESCO's 2015 World Book and Copyright Day was a great success. Hundreds, if not thousands of booksellers and members of the public were involved. Although it is not possible to know the exact number who took part based on careful estimates we believe it to be a minimum of several thousand people. ILAB's celebrations received a significant amount of media interest, including for example, an article in The Guardian who created a special additional site where pictures of the ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs could be uploaded. We are proud to report ILAB booksellers across the world raised at least Euros 10,528.01 for UNESCO's South Sudan literacy project.
It was a special celebration for a great many reasons, but without doubt a principal one, was proof that antiquarian booksellers want to work together. A large proportion of the comments we have received from booksellers who took part in the day stated that working with colleagues across the world with the united purpose of promoting the rare book trade while raising money for literacy was the attraction for them. This is a shining example that ILAB's motto is still alive: Amor librorum nos unit.
Thirty two events in twelve countries took place on April 23: A charity auction (in Cape Town), an appraisal day (in Moscow) and 30 Pop Up Book Fairs. The day opened in Australia, with a progression of events through Asia, Europe and then across the United States. The creativity shown by the ILAB affiliates who organised these Pop Up Fairs was inspiring and unexpected. If you have in mind static Pop Up Book Fairs where middle aged and older booksellers showed their wares to similarly aged book buyers think again - you definitely need to look at the blog we spent the whole, yes, the entire 24 hours putting together live!
On April 23rd ILAB affiliates held pop up book fairs giving children, students and a very broad cross section of the general public access to rare books. These fairs popped up at the most unexpected places, to mention just a few; a barge on a canal in Amsterdam, a woolshed in the Australian bush, a library in an underprivileged section of Antwerp, an elegant historic business man's club in Munich, a bookshop in central Tokyo, the new Museum of Literature in Vienna, a brew pub in Portland Oregon, a whole street in Groningen… - there was even a travelling pop up fair in England with "Celeste the Rare Book Campervan" visiting primary schools on the road from Salisbury to Oxford.
Amidst such a great diversity of events there was a very significant unifying factor shared by all ILAB affiliates – a deep commitment to literacy. As mentioned above the ILAB celebrations contributed over Euros 10,500 to UNESCO's important literacy work in South Sudan. ILAB has transferred Euros 8192.17 to the UNESCO Euro bank account we were advised to donate to. The remaining amount was donated via the button on UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day site. We understand that more funds than we are aware to date have been donated - UNESCO will be giving us the figures soon.
ILAB affiliates worldwide have and will get real benefit from our activities on April 23. Firstly there has never been so much publicity - and all of it positive - about ILAB and the antiquarian book trade. Lots of people around the world added photos from the pop ups they visited to the website added to the article in The Guardian. AbeBooks supported ILAB's worldwide campaign with a generous donation of US$2000 to the South Sudan project, blogged about the day on several websites and in several languages and sent representatives to two of the ILAB Pop Up Fairs in Tokyo and in Portland (US). Moreover AbeBooks gave its entire home page to promote ILAB's celebrations on 23 April. Numerous book blogs like The Bookhunter on Safari, Book Patrol, My Sentimental Library, The Literary Tourist, Fine Books and Collections and iBookcollector published articles, and Sheppard's Confidential dedicated a whole series of articles to the ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs. ILAB sent out press releases to the international press and, most importantly, the organisers of the Pop Ups got into contact to the local press using and modifying the press templates provided by ILAB. In summary it was ILAB affiliates across the globe that launched a worldwide campaign.
This was a worldwide campaign which was mentioned in the press from Cape Town to the Sunday Times to the local newspapers in Dunkeld, Country Victoria in Australia. And even more: ILAB and the ILAB affiliates were omnipresent in the internet on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day. The number of visitors of the ILAB website doubled on 22 and 23 April, 2015. In addition, ILAB attracted an impressive 2500 visitors to the newly established ILAB blog on that day, and there were hundreds of posts and tweets in the social media. Such a campaign, launched worldwide in a joint effort by ILAB affiliates had never been seen before. A graphic demonstration of the power of working together.
Finally, we are pleased to report that sales were made at many of the ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs. In some cases these were serious 6 figure sales. We have heard several reports from booksellers that the events of April 23 continue to work in the favour of booksellers who took part. In fact last week a bookseller reported selling a $8500 book to a customer he met at the Pop Up Fair he exhibited in. This bookseller rang to say thanks. Without the Pop Up fair with its smaller more informal format he thought this collector would not have walked right past his books. The Pop Up Book Fair format is different and has much to recommend it as a nimble, interesting and exciting way of presenting antiquarian bookselling in the 21st century.
Hope you will join us next time!
Norbert Donhofer, President of ILAB
Pictures: Roz Greenwood Old and Rare Books, ANZAAB, Michael Steinbach, Andreas Tusche / Wikimedia Commons, Stefan Kühn / Wikimedia Commons, Antiquariaat Isis, Janericloebe / Wikimedia, Tony Moorey / Wikimedia Commons, Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA), C.F. Todd / Wikipedia, Literature Museum Vienna, UNESCO / Dfarrell / Wikipedia / "Gamla biblioteket, Lund" by Jens Hunt - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons, ALAI, NvNA


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All-time record: Colorado hold the edge 14-9-8.
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Colorado front line vs. Crew defense: The Rapids don't have a good scoring record against the Crew in recent years and are averaging little more than one goal a game so far in 2010. But the whole team was buoyed by Conor Casey's goal last week against Seattle, his first league goal in open play in almost nine months. Casey, Omar Cummings and the Rapids midfield will be looking to build on that against one of the stingier defenses in the MLS.
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I don't think you have to know the original intent of the sign-maker. In this case, I agree with Slobodan, the maker of this photograph, about the trivialization of everything.
Trouble is, when it comes right down to it, most everything is trivial.
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A Norway appeals court on Thursday overturned a terrorism conviction against Mullah Krekar, the Iraqi founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, but jailed him on other charges.
The Oslo appeals court found the mullah, who founded the Ansar al-Islam group and has lived in Norway since 1991, not guilty of "inciting terrorism" but sentenced him to two years and 10 months in prison for issuing threats and intimidating witnesses.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Police were
questioning a group of men on Wednesday after a Danish tourist said she
was robbed and then gang-raped in the heart of the Indian capital's
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a medical examination and has since left India to return to Denmark,
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time of the attack, was earlier sentenced to three years detention,
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Thousands of urban Indians took to the streets in fury after the
attack. The Indian woman became a symbol of dangers women face in a
country where a rape is reported on average every 21 minutes and
incidents of molestation are common.
A study by India's Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry said
that foreign tourist visits to India dropped 25 percent in the three
months after the rape and murder of the Delhi woman. Tourist visits
by women fell by 35 percent.
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