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Building a better Kitsap
By Kevin Dwyer, Sun Staff — Jul 26th, 1998
* A slew of new commercial projects is driving the construction economy in Kitsap County.
T here's no getting over the fact that the Navy is Kitsap County's largest employer. And when you take a close look at the region's construction industry, you can't discount the Navy's historic influence.
From the large industrial complexes located inside the gates of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to the new homes going up on Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Navy construction work has helped fuel the regional economy for decades.
Despite the onset of military layoffs and downsizing, the Navy still drives much of Kitsap's construction industry.
Witness the multimillion-dollar projects to expand Naval Hospital Bremerton, build a massive new carrier pier at PSNS and upgrade Bangor's nuclear weapons handling facilities.
While the Navy's new design-build procurement strategy tends to attract large, more sophisticated out-of-town general contractors and architectural and engineering firms, local contractors have found a profitable niche doing smaller Navy work. Those jobs typically range from $100,000 to $200,000, Navy sources say, and may include tasks such as replacing roofs on small structures or painting buildings.
The Navy indirectly helps local contractors through the ripple effect of the area's five military installations and their 28,600 civilian and active duty employees on the county's service, retail and residential construction markets.
"It's (a) service economy, that's what's driving the (construction) market," said Greg Steiger, a stockbroker with Dain Rauscher Inc. who prepares the twice-yearly Kitsap County Real Estate Trends Report. "There's no primary jobs ... it's retirees and retail jobs."
Steiger is a former commercial real estate broker who has followed the local construction market for many years.
A look at the past decade confirms his view of Kitsap's retail sector.
Between 1988 and 1997 in unincorporated Kitsap County, 505 building permits were issued for retail stores valued at $90.3 million.
The combined dollar total of all office, bank and industrial buildings during the same period was a mere $38.3 million - less than half the value of the retail construction.
The commercial construction numbers are more of a mixed bag in the county's four cities - Bremerton, Bainbridge Island, Poulsbo and Port Orchard - where offices, banks and business parks traditionally have been sited.
Steiger said the retail bulge in unincorporated Kitsap during the past decade represents big-ticket developments such as Costco, Silverdale's Northpointe development where Magnolia Hi-Fi, Barnes & Noble and the Sears and Bon home furnishing stores are located, the region's two Wal-Mart stores and the new Safeway store on Brownsville Highway.
For the most part, the new industrial buildings added since 1988 - valued at less than $20 million - are "a lot of mini-storage warehouses," Steiger said. "True industrial (development) is really not going anywhere."
Even so, there are some encouraging signs that suggest the non-Navy side of the county's construction industry is perking up.
Developments like the new Home Depot in Silverdale, The Pavilion theater, retail and office complex on Bainbridge Island, a handful of senior retirement centers, and the new Harrison Memorial Hospital Silverdale campus are keeping Seattle general contractors and Kitsap subcontractors gainfully employed.
Construction on the new Harrison Silverdale Healthcare Campus, located off Ridgetop and Myhre roads, got under way this month. Harrison originally purchased the 37-acre parcel in 1993 and will use approximately one-quarter of the property for the 75,000-square-foot satellite facility.
The new $16 million health-care campus will include obstetrics and maternal care, general pediatrics, outpatient rehabilitation and emergency care, a breast-care clinic, pharmacy, a laboratory and offices for private physicians. A parking lot is being built to accommodate 400 vehicles.
KMD Inc. is designing the project and Sellen Construction of Seattle is the general contractor. Local subcontractors such as R.V. Associates and Ace Paving are working the job as well.
"There's a lot of work for subcontractors (in Kitsap County)," said Mary Warthin, a project engineer for Seattle's Ferguson Construction Co., which is building the new Home Depot store in Silverdale.
Warthin expects Ferguson to employ as many 100 area tradespeople before the new 105,000-square-foot store and adjoining garden center is completed later this year.
So far, regional subcontractors such as Ace Paving, Fred Hill Materials, Peninsula Concrete Pumping, Peninsula Coring, Masonry Associates of Belfair, InsulPro Projects of Bremerton, Dahl Glass, and Silverdale Plumbing have contributed to the development.
Warthin said a project the size of the Home Depot has a trickle-down effect on the local economy. Workers support local eateries, hotels, stores and gas stations.
"We shop when we need little things," Warthin said of Ferguson, "and there's no Home Depot here."
Don Drury, the founder of Drury Construction Inc. in Poulsbo, has been doing commercial building in Kitsap County for more than two decades.
Like fellow Kitsap builders Tim Ryan of Tim Ryan Construction Inc. of Poulsbo and James Robinson of James Robinson Co. Inc. of Bremerton, Drury has experienced the region's many boom and bust cycles.
His firm built the Power Hill business park in Poulsbo that is home to Boxlight Corp., and is completing the $2.5 million Fairfield office and warehouse development in Silverdale.
Drury said the county may be on the verge of creating its own self-sustaining economy.
"The area's starting to carry its own momentum," Drury said.
"There's still a huge depen-dence on the Navy," he said, "but more and more things are happening here. I think there's a nucleus here (of Kitsap) surviving on its own."
Indeed, not counting school construction, there's much private and public development that bodes well for the region's building sector.
These include the new $27 million Bremerton Transportation Center, the ambitious Gateway Project that will change the entrance to West Bremerton from Highway 304 and the new Fred Meyer store planned for Port Orchard.
Then there are the new plans for Poulsbo Place, the former Navy housing district, and acreage at the end of Seventh Avenue along Highway 305 in Poulsbo that contains 10 commercial lots. A decision is pending on the extension of Seventh Avenue, which now comes to an abrupt end at the North Sound Financial Center Building,
Finally, area real estate watchers point to the amount of activity going into remodeling and upgrading existing properties such as the Washington Mutual building in downtown Bremerton.
"Remodeling and upgrading can be major work," said Gary Gartin of Bradley Scott Inc. "Sometimes (that) can cost as much as building a new building."
The Sun is publishing a series of monthly snapshots examining the sectors of the Kitsap County economy. This month's package examines the construction trades.
The series:
January:Kitsap economic overview
February:The military
March: Natural resources
April: Government
May: Real estate
June: Tourism
July: Construction
August: Manufacturing
September: Finance
October: Health care
November: Service businesses
December: Retail
We're interested in your comments on the Economic Snapshot series. Send mail to Jeff Brody, The Sun,P.O.Box 259, Bremerton, WA98337 or e-mail to JBrody@thesunlink.com
Stories in the series are posted on our Web site: www.thesunlink.com.
DEVELOPMENT: Commercial construction down from previous year
* Kitsap County has seen only one request for an industrial building permit this year. Nonresidential construction in Kitsap County was down by 84 percent during the first four months of 2000 when compared to the same period for the previous year, a leading analyst of ... [Read More...]
SILVERDALE: City of opportunity
* Highway routes and projections of growth make retailers believe in a rosy future for sales in Silverdale. Location, location, location. That's the real-estate mantra for the three most important factors in judging a property's value. It is also, according to retail experts who ... [Read More...]
Home Depot, others eye market
* A Seattle expert says some national retailers could get serious about locating in West Sound this year. By Kevin Dwyer Business Editor SEATTLE -- A Seattle real estate expert Tuesday said West Sound's sagging retail economy may get a much-needed shot in the ... [Read More...]
RETAIL: Home Depot digs in
By Kevin Dwyer Sun Staff Home Depot has begun site preparation for a new 105,000-square-foot store in Silverdale. Kitsap County Planner Daryl Piercy said the Atlanta-based retailer was issued a site development activity permit to beginning clearing and grading a 10-acre parcel at ... [Read More...]
Retail rediscovers Kitsap
* After a low point last year, Kitsap's commercial real estate may finally be catching the economic breeze from Seattle/King County. By Kevin Dwyer Sun Staff About 14 months ago, Kitsap County's commercial real estate market looked anything but healthy. Major retail space in ... [Read More...]


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The New York Senate GOP stiffs Rob Astorino
By Post Editorial Board
July 21, 2014 | 6:01am
Rob Astorino announcing his candidacy for New York governor. Robert Kalfus
Is it really any wonder the Republican Party gets no respect in New York?
Take the support — or lack of it — for the party's nominee for governor, Rob Astorino.
Given the advantages of incumbency and a blue state Gov. Cuomo enjoys, it was always going to be a long shot for any Republican to unseat him. And that's reflected in the governor's $35 million war chest and his 35-point lead in the polls.
Daunting as these numbers are, even more troubling for Astorino is something notable for its absence in his latest fund-raising report: Not a single Republican state senator contributed to his campaign. In short, 29 of New York's most prominent Republican pols have turned their backs on their own candidate.
Meanwhile, these same Senate Republicans collected $5 million for themselves.
This is pathetic but not surprising, given the way Republican Dean Skelos, the Senate majority leader, has been more chummy with Cuomo and Albany's backroom ways than any Republican ought to be.
Of course, Cuomo returned the favor by throwing Skelos & Co. under the bus so he could get his name on the ballot line of the left-wing Working Families Party.
Ed Cox, the GOP's state chairman, insists the party is now united, that its state senators are all behind Astorinio. If so, he ought to be screaming at them for their clear lack of financial support, because it sends a terrible signal — and makes the idea Astorino can't win a self-fulfilling prophecy well before Election Day.
After all, if New York's Republicans do not support their own candidates, why should they expect anyone else to?
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Q: Search for String in Object I am trying to make auto suggest in angular Js, if I have to find a string in an array i can use indexOf method,based on index value,I can get the suggestions.
But how should I match string in an array of Object?
I have an array of object
  $scope.array=[
            {"name":"stackoverflow","id":1},
            {"name":"sunny","id":2},
            {"name":"san","id":3},
            {"name":"bat","id":4},
            {"name":"ball","id":5}
          ]

so In a text box if I type "st",it should give me result in an array [{stackoverflow","id":1}]
if I enter "ba",it should give me result in an array [{"name":"bat","id":4},
        {"name":"ball","id":5}]

inside Controller
$scope.searchString=function(){
//what logic should I write here?
}

A: you can use filter for that
<input type="text" ng-model="searchText" />

 {{item}}

angular.module("app",[])
.controller("ctrl",function($scope){

$scope.array=[
            {"name":"stackoverflow","id":1},
            {"name":"sunny","id":2},
            {"name":"san","id":3},
            {"name":"bat","id":4},
            {"name":"ball","id":5}
          ]
})

<input type="text" ng-model="searchText" />

 {{item}}

using custom function

angular.module("app",[])
    .controller("ctrl",function($scope){

    var backUp=[
                {"name":"stackoverflow","id":1},
                {"name":"sunny","id":2},
                {"name":"san","id":3},
                {"name":"bat","id":4},
                {"name":"ball","id":5}
              ]
    $scope.array = angular.copy(backUp)
    $scope.changeText = function(){
      $scope.array = backUp.filter(function(o){
       return o.name.startsWith($scope.searchText)
      })
    }
    })

    <input type="text" ng-model="searchText" ng-change="changeText()"/>

     {{item}}

A: Here are your solutions,
Pure JS:
/*
input -> object array
searchStr -> string
keyToSearch -> string array - match to restrict within given keys //eg:['name','id','somekey']
*/
function filterObjectArray(input, searchStr, keysToSearch){
  return input.filter(function(obj){
     var hasMatch = false;
     var hasKeySearch = (keysToSearch && keysToSearch.length)
     for(k in obj){
        if(!hasMatch){
           hasMatch = (!hasKeySearch || (hasKeySearch && keysToSearch.indexOf(k))) && (new RegExp(searchStr, 'gi')).test(obj[k]);
        }
     }
     return hasMatch;
  });
}

console.log(filterObjectArray($scope.array, 'ba')); //[{"name":"bat","id":4},{"name":"ball","id":5}]
console.log(filterObjectArray($scope.array, '1')); //[{"name":"stackoverflow","id":1}]
console.log(filterObjectArray($scope.array, 's', ['name'])); //[{"name":"stackoverflow","id":1},{"name":"sunny","id":2},{"name":"san","id":3}]

With Angular,
Solution 1:
You can use $filter service in your method.
$scope.searchString = function(str){
   return $filter('filter')($scope.array, str);
};

Solution 2:
With filter in template,
<input type="text" ng-model="searchText" />

 {{item}}

A: To answer your question directly, this should work:
$scope.searchString=function(str){
  const results = [];
  const len = str.length;
  for(const item of $scope.array){
    const test = item.name.substr(0, len);
    if(str === test){
      results.push(item);
    }
  }
  return results;
}

Though, the method regarding filters from @sachila probably makes sense in your situation.

A: I would probably use a .reduce() on the array, then check each object item for a match. Something like:
var desiredResults = $scope.array.reduce(function(p,c){
    for(key in c){
        if(c[key].indexOf("valueToMatch") > -1){
            p.push(c);
            next();
        }
    }
    return p;
},[])

I have not tested this code, but it's the general idea.

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Coming up with healthy toddler meal ideas after a long day—whether you work, stay home, or do some mix or in between—is a challenge. It's often the time of the day when they need our attention most, yet they also need to eat. (Did someone say hangry?) These quick toddler meal ideas are quick, easy, and nourishing so that you can get the food onto the table fast. Because yummy toddler meals are often best when kept simple and uncomplicated!
I hope that these ideas provide inspiration on those busy nights when you're scrambling to serve up something healthy. And that they give you permission to take shortcuts in the kitchen whenever you need to. Because feeding our toddlers is hard work, and it's 100% okay to make it easy on yourself when needed!
Consider your child's eating abilities and preferences and adjust as needed. If she's not using a spoon with any accuracy, let her use her hands! If he prefers his meals deconstructed rather than mixed together, serve the food that way. It's okay to be flexible!
Balance what you offer by including a protein (meat, dairy, nuts, or beans), a complex carb (like a whole grain or a whole grain bread product), fruit, veggies, and some healthy fat. This will help ensure your toddler is exposed to a variety of nutrients and textures.
Vary the protein to make them vegetarian or vegan as needed. Sub in gluten-free or dairy-free substitutes if there's an intolerance in your house.
Adjust the produce based on what's fresh at your store and what your kids like.
Keep it simple! Serving toddler meals does not have to be complicated and little kids often enjoy foods that are very simple and straight forward.
Cook pasta according to package, adding frozen peas to the pot during the last 1-2 minutes of cooking. Serve with butter and cheese. You can also do couscous, quinoa, or rice instead of the pasta.
Spread hummus and cucumber on tortilla and roll up or fold. Slice in half to serve. (Flour or multigrain tortillas tend to be softer than corn, which can be helpful for younger eaters.) You can also serve this deconstructed for younger eaters.
Cut pita into wedges and top with pizza sauce and cheese. Heat in the oven at 325 F or in a pan on the stovetop just until cheese is melted.
Top toast with shredded cheese, thawed frozen peas, broccoli florets, cauliflower florets, or corn, and microwave for 10 seconds to melt. You could also simply serve the veggies alongside cheesy toast too!
Toss just cooked pasta with halved cherry tomatoes, a dollop of herbed goat cheese, a pat of butter, and a sprinkle of Parmesan. Stir to combine.
Add the apple to your favorite pancake batter (add 1 teaspoon cinnamon if it doesn't have any) and cook as directed. Serve smeared with nut butter or a little honey. Toddlers (and big kids) love breakfast for dinner!
Stir together nut butter and honey to make a dip. Serve with sliced apple or pear, squash or cucumbers, and graham crackers. We love this sort of breakfast-for-dinner as a super quick toddler dinner!
Sprinkle cheese over tortillas on a sheet pan. Top with a little cumin and chili powder. Top with a second tortilla and warm in a 375 degree F oven for about 8-10 minutes. Serve with salsa and/or sour cream. You can try adding in some black or pinto beans, shredded chicken, diced shrimp, or diced bell pepper.
Assemble a toddler-friendly snack plate that's a simple assortment of the food groups. You can serve it on a regular plate or in a fun silicone muffin tin!
Scramble eggs, adding in the peas and cheese when the eggs are almost set. Serve with toast or crackers to round out the meal.
Stir in a little frozen broccoli florets or peas to the pasta for the last minute or two of cooking of a favorite boxed mac and cheese. The kids are usually so excited about the mac and cheese that they'll go ahead and eat the veggies too!
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My 2 year old likes shredded chicken mixed with hummus or guacamole. Add veggie fingers (thinly sliced raw veggies) or frozen peas on the side with fruit as dessert and you have a meal. She'll eat pretty much anything if she has a dipping sauce: steak sauce, bbq sauce, salad dressing… It all works.
My 3yr old doesn't like meat, and I've been looking for meal ideas. This is awesome, it is all food she'll enjoy. Thank you!!
Great post! I love the sectioned plate!
I looked through your "Mealtime Gear" post, but didn't see it included.
Do you happen to know what brand it is?
My two & 1/2 year old loves these Chicken & kale burgers from Costco & sugar snap peas.
My latest go-to for my daughter is a piece of toast + finely diced leftover chicken (small enough for some in each bite) + a deli-sized slice of cheese + microwaved together for 15 seconds. The cheese holds on to the chicken and makes it sort of like an open-faced melt. Since my daughter needs a little extra fat, I sometimes butter the toast before adding the chicken and cheese. It's always a winner!
Great list! My hubby will pre-cook chicken, tofu, and rice on the weekend. It's my son's faves.
Smart about pre-cooking—makes things so much easier!
I think this is the best list of toddler meals that I have seen! Thank you!!!


Learn about Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0, which features it includes, which Mac computers should apply the update, and how to install the update.
Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0 includes the required software to use and configure Magic Trackpad in Mac OS X v10.6.4. The update also installs the three-finger drag gesture and inertial scrolling for certain Mac portable computers, as listed below. You do not need this update if you have Mac OS X v10.6.5 or later installed.
It's important to run Software Update after you've successfully paired Magic Trackpad by clicking on the Apple () menu and choosing Software Update. Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0 will appear in Software Update only after you install the Mac OS X v10.6.4 update and after you pair your Magic Trackpad. You can pair Magic Trackpad by clicking the Bluetooth menu bar icon, choosing "Setup Bluetooth Device…" and completing the onscreen instructions using Bluetooth Setup Assistant.
If you have a supported Mac portable (as listed below) that has Mac OS X v10.6.4 installed, install this update by using Software Update or by downloading the manual update to add inertial scrolling and three-finger drag gesture support. If your portable is not listed below, the update will provide support only for the Magic Trackpad. The update will not add features to or change the behavior of your portable's built-in trackpad.


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01.Don't illustrate words or mechanical movements. Illustrate ideas or thoughts, with the attitudes and actions.
02. Squash and stretch entire body for attitudes.
03. If possible, make definite changes from one attitude to another in timing and expression.
04. What is the character thinking?
05. It is the thought and circumstances behind the action that will make the action interesting.
Example: A man walks up to a mailbox, drops in his letter and walks away. OR A man desperately in love with a girl far away carefully mails a letter in which he has poured his heart out.
06. When drawing dialogue, go for phrasing. (Simplify the dialogue into pictures of the dominating vowel and consonant sounds, especially in fast dialogue.
07. Lift the body attitude 4 frames before dialogue modulation (but use identical timing on mouth as on X sheet).
08. Change of expression and major dialogue sounds are a point of interest. Do them, if at all possible, within a pose. If the head moves too much you won't see the changes.
09. Don't move anything unless it's for a purpose.
10. Concentrate on drawing clear, not clean.
12. Everything has a function. Don't draw without knowing why.
13. Let the body attitude echo the facial.
14. Get the best picture in your drawing by thumbnails and exploring all avenues.
15. Analyze a character in a specific pose for the best areas to show stretch and squash. Keep these areas simple.
16. Picture in your head what it is you're drawing.
17. Think in terms of drawing the whole character, not just the head or eyes, etc. Keep a balanced relation of one part of the drawing to the other.
18. Stage for most effective drawing.
19. Draw a profile of the drawing you're working on every once in a while. A profile is easier on which to show the proper proportions of the face.
20. Usually the break in the eyebrow relates to the highpoint of the eye.
21. The eye is pulled by the eyebrow muscles.
22. Get a plastic quality in face — cheeks, mouth and eyes.
23. Attain a flow thru the body rhythm in your drawing.
25. The audience has a difficult time reading the first 6-8 frames in a scene.
26. Does the added action in a scene contribute to the main idea in that scene? Will it help sell it or confuse it?
27. Don't animate for the sake of animation but think what the character is thinking and what the scene needs to fit into the sequence.
28. Actions can be eliminated and staging "cheated" if it simplifies the picture you are trying to show and is not disturbing to the audience.
29. Spend half your time planning your scene and the other half animating.
30. How to animate a scene of a four-legged character acting and walking: Work out the acting patterns first with the stretch and squash in the body, neck and head; then go back in and animate the legs. Finally, adjust the up and down motion on the body according to the legs.


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Naugatuck Pop Warner All-American scholars, from left Christopher Yacavone, Matthew Johnson, Kylen Kuroski, Ryan Pollock and Devon Biancerelli. Missing from the photo are Kassie DeFala, Chloe Bevan, Kaylee Carasone, Casey McGrath and Tyler Deitelbaum. CONTRIBUTED
NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck Pop Warner Football and Cheerleading program had 10 members selected for the 2011 National All-American Scholar program this year. The 2011 class of Pop Warner All-American Scholars represent the top 2 percent of over 450,000 participants nationwide.
"The criteria to be named as an All-American Scholar by the Pop Warner Association is to maintain a 96 or better grade average," Naugatuck Pop Warner Scholastic Coordinator Mary McGrath said. "They also want to see the youngsters involved in other extracurricular activities besides sports. It gives them a well-rounded base and it certainly helps with their long-term success in education."
The Naugatuck Pop Warner program is in its third year under league president Paul McGrath and the 10 members selected is the largest number of youngsters named to the All-American Scholar program.
Representing the Naugatuck Pop Warner All-American Scholars was Christopher Yacavone, second-team award winner of the Junior Midgets under head coach Jay DeJesus.
Matthew Johnson was a second-team award winner while Ryan Pollock, Devon Biancarelli and Tyler Deitelbaum earned honorable mention on the Pee Wee team under head coach Frank Johnson.
The cheerleading program was represented by Kassie DeFala, who was a second-team award winner and Chloe Bevan and Kaylee Carasone, who earned honorable mention on the Midget team under head coach Jen Miller. Kylen Kuroski was a first-team award winner and Casey McGrath earned an honorable mention on the Pee Wee team under head coach Kim Debreceni.
The 2011 National All-American Scholars were recently honored at the New England Regional All-American Scholar Banquet held at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., hosted by the New England Patriots.
"The Patriots are really a first-class organization," Frank Johnson said. "They gave the kids a tour of the stadium and had former players as guest speakers. They stressed the importance of education and told the kids that's how they go into the draft looking for players. Academics come first and that is what we stress in the Pop Warner program being a student-athlete."
Johnson said the recognition is a reward for hard work in the classroom and on the field.
"My son, Matthew, has been in the program for three years now and that was his goal since last year to be named to the All-American Scholar team," Johnson said. "It's not easy. You are out practicing three nights a week from 6 to 8 and you really need to stay focused on your academics to maintain that high average. The kids were really excited to be there and I'm so proud of each and every one of them for what they achieved. They are well on the road to bigger and better things."
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Chuck Ross: Barr/DOJ Investigation Into Spying Is "Broad in Scope and Multifaceted;" Will Also Look at Non-State Actors Such as NGOs and... Individuals
NGOs? Oooh, I just got a little thrill in my pee-hole!
Now, I don't think that NGOs means what I hope it means (the Clinton Foundation) but a lad can dream.
�It is now well established that, in 2016, the U.S. government and others undertook certain intelligence-gathering and investigative steps directed at persons associated with the Trump Campaign,� Boyd wrote Nadler, adding that �there remain open questions relating to the origins of this counter-intelligence investigation and the U.S. and foreign intelligence activities that took place prior to and during that investigation.� (RELATED: Trump Gives Barr Authority To Declassify Russia Probe Documents)
�The Review is broad in scope and multifaceted, and is intended to illuminate open questions regarding the activities of U.S. and foreign intelligence services as well as non-governmental organizations and individuals,� Boyd wrote.
Individuals?
I have a few individuals I'd like to see thoroughly investigated.
More: Steele was in Clinton's orbit long before the dossier.
Before now, we had the cover story that Fusion GPS hired Steele, with Hillary Clinton unaware of what Fusion was doing in her name.
This seems less likely now:
WASHINTON�Former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier bearing his name, was introduced by a key State Department aide to top executives of a firm founded by President Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, according to documents made public on June 10 by Judicial Watch.
In multiple email threads included in the documents, Jonathan Winer, then the U.S. Department of State's special coordinator for Libya, acts repeatedly on behalf of Steele, arranging meetings for him with other current and former top U.S. officials, as well as influential consultants and strategists like those at the McLarty firm.
Did Hillary ask Fusion to hire him to re-write the Blumenthal/Shearer "Dossier" to give it a veneer of credibility?
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My Bad Habits Caught Up with Me When I Had Children
I was the person who waited until the last minute to get up in the morning for high school and I was known for doing a 50 page paper the day before it was due, in college. Although I was good in a lot of things, I was really lacking character in others and it cost me dearly.
Somehow I was able to pull it all off, UNTIL… I had children!!
When I became a mother, all my bad habits caught up with me and very quickly I realized I was swimming in a pond of sharks (Jaws song playing).
My typical morning as a mom looked like this…
My three children woke me up with their loud yelling.
The first thought in my head was "Oh, no! I've failed again!"
I quickly rushed to my feet and played "catch up" all day. The feelings of guilt and hopelessness were common and I won't even mention the anger bursts that caused my poor children to shiver.
Several years of this went by and when I started homeschooling, I learned about a SECRET WEAPON that had been totally foreign to me- the weapon of character.
Learning about character training saved my life, because it finally gave me the tools I needed to become a good mom. Although I had to piece concepts and ideas together, I eventually came up with a system (and has now worked for hundreds of parents too- more on this in weeks to come) that worked for me and for the children and it allowed me to thrive as a mom…. and now as a business woman.
In December 2016, I was invited to speak at the Life on Fire event in San Diego, California. With an audience of over 250 entrepreneurs, it was very humbling and encouraging to use my years as "just a mom" to empower leaders. Who would have thought that the struggles with diapers and buggers would be the foundation of my message today. Hurray for moms!!
Below is the video of the talk titled, "Character is Your Unfair Advantage." I can honestly say, CHARACTER IS KEY TO YOUR SUCCESS and the success of your family and through this talk you'll see why.
Share in the comments below- "What was your #1 take away from the video? How could that help you and your family?"
Event notes from Life on Fire site:
Shirley Solis is here to share her story of taking a $10,000 grant and turning it into a six-figure business, as well as highlighting the character traits that have played key roles in the success of some very notable people.
On this episode, you'll hear how she came to me as a client about a year and a half ago and how she discovered character and why it's important to living a life on fire and why being resourceful can help you overcome any odds! This is an inspiring and equally informative show that will help you dig deep to find the character traits you need to creating your own Life on Fire!
In this episode you'll hear:
What is the one topic that can guarantee you success, but people aren't talking about? (2:20)
What homeschooling her children taught Shirley about character. (8:45)
Who was the man with "the midas touch", and why does he matter? (12:50)
The role personal responsibility has played in Brian Tracy's success. (15:35)
How Shirley turned a $10,000 grant into a six-figure business. (24:40)
According to Shirley, at the foundation of everything we do is character. It is the one thing that will ensure you are successful in every area of your life and in every endeavor.
She came to this understanding by overcoming a procrastination habit. In school she would put things off til the last minute, even getting up in the morning! She'd wake up about 10 minutes before her school bus would arrive and would dash outside to catch it so she could get to class on time. She even pulled an all-nighter once to write a 50 page paper! She got an A on the paper, which only encouraged her procrastination tendencies.
But when she had kids that all changed. She married at age 18, had her first child at 19 then her 2nd at 20 and her third by 21. She had three children in 3 years, all of whom are boys!
It soon became clear that waiting til the last minute didn't work so well anymore. She realized she couldn't wing it anymore, her children would get her bad habits and things just weren't going to go well for all of them. She decided she couldn't live that way any longer and she wanted to be a better example for them; she knew she had a responsibility to them.
She made the decision to homeschool her children and along the way discovered character at the heart and foundation of every successful person's story.
So what exactly is character? Shirley gives Webster's definition of it as being "…the engraved qualities in a person". Basically character is your core and who you are when no one is watching, character is what it looks like when you are in the midst of a struggle and who you are in that struggle. It's things like honesty, punctuality, and reliability. There are many character traits – 52 in fact.
Shirley goes on to say that when things get tough character is what grounds you and keeps you on track. Character is your unfair advantage; it's not talent, not looks, etc – only character.
If you would take two people with equal talent, the one with character will go further. On today's show she gives some real life examples of people who utilized character to succeed including Brian Tracy, Barbara Corcoran, Will Smith, Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey.
She talks about how Brian Tracy went from being a high school drop out and sleeping in his car to creating over 300 courses for people all over the world in multiple languages! He is now being paid $500 million to consult with companies about their businesses.
And all of this happened because he took personal responsibility. He said "If it's to be it's up to me". That quote from Brian is a great example of taking personal responsibility, a necessary character trait for success.
She also talks about Barbara Corcoran who learned to be resourceful. Barbara's mom taught her to use whatever assets she had or could find to make the best of any situation and to get ahead. Barbara used that to get more tips as a waitress and then later to build a real estate empire in New York City and to be the savvy investor she is today.
All of us can follow in Barbara's footsteps. We all have something that life has given us that we can use, we must be resourceful and find it and use it.
Also on this episode, Shirley shares her own resourcefulness story. She talks about applying for a startup challenge, writing up her plan, asking for what she wanted and getting $10,000 as a result! She also talks about Tony Robbins' consistency character trait, Will Smith's commitment and more.
Listen in to hear that plus recite a pledge to make your character your unfair advantage on today's 223rd edition of Life on Fire!
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Summorum Pontificum (English: "Of the Supreme Pontiffs") is an apostolic letter of Pope Benedict XVI, issued in July 2007, which specified the circumstances in which priests of the Latin Church may celebrate Mass according to what he called the "Missal promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962" (the latest edition of the Roman Missal, in the form known as the Tridentine Mass or Traditional Latin Mass), and administer most of the sacraments in the form used before the liturgical reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council.
The document was dated 7 July 2007 and carried an effective date of 14 September 2007. Pope Benedict released an explanatory letter at the same time.
The document superseded the letter Quattuor Abhinc Annos of 1984 and the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 1988, which had allowed individual bishops, under certain conditions, to establish places where Mass could be said using the 1962 Missal. It granted greater freedom for priests to use the Tridentine liturgy in its 1962 form, stating that all priests of the Latin rite Church may freely celebrate Mass with the 1962 Missal privately. It also provided that "in parishes where a group of the faithful attached to the previous liturgical tradition stably exists, the parish priest should willingly accede to their requests to celebrate Holy Mass according to the rite of the 1962 Roman Missal" and should "ensure that the good of these members of the faithful is harmonised with the ordinary pastoral care of the parish, under the governance of the bishop" (Article 5).
The Latin Liturgy of the Pontificale Romanum is allowed for the celebration of all the seven sacraments (even if the Holy Orders is not expressly mentioned). In the same article 9, it is also allowed for the Roman Breviary to the clergymen ordered in sacris (deacons, priests, bishops).
In his accompanying letter, Pope Benedict explained that his action was aimed at broadly and generously providing for the rituals which nourished the faithful for centuries and at "coming to an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church" with Traditionalist Catholics in disagreement with the Holy See, such as the members of the Society of St. Pius X. He stated that, while it had first been thought that interest in the Tridentine Mass would disappear with the older generation that had grown up with it, some young persons too have "felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the mystery of the Eucharist particularly suited to them." In view of fears expressed while the document was in preparation, he took pains to emphasize that his decision in no way detracts from the authority of the Second Vatican Council and that, not only for juridical reasons, but also because the requisite "degree of liturgical formation and some knowledge of the Latin language" are not found very often, the Mass of Paul VI remains the "normal" or "ordinary" form of the Roman Rite Eucharistic liturgy.
As is customary for papal documents, the motu proprio (which has no title) is referred to by its incipit, the opening words of the (Latin) original text: Summorum Pontificum. "Supreme Pontiff" is a title of the popes, and the opening sentence states that it has always been a concern "of the Supreme Pontiffs" that the Church should offer fitting worship to God.
Pope Benedict XVI released the document after "much reflection, numerous consultations, and prayer."
In article 1 of the document, he spoke of "the typical edition of the Roman Missal, which was promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962", as "never abrogated". In the letter he specified this as "never juridically abrogated". In article 2 he stated that, "in Masses celebrated without a congregation, any Catholic priest of the Latin rite, whether secular or regular, may use either the Roman Missal published in 1962 by Blessed Pope John XXIII or the Roman Missal promulgated in 1970 by Pope Paul VI, and may do so on any day, with the exception of the Easter Triduum". For such a celebration with either Missal, the priest needs no permission from the Apostolic See or from his own Ordinary." In article 4, he said that these Masses celebrated without a congregation "may be attended also by members of the lay faithful who spontaneously request to do so, with respect for the requirements of law".
Regarding public Masses, the Pope asked parish priests and rectors of churches to permit, at the request of a group of the faithful attached to the previous liturgical tradition stably existing in the parish, celebration of a Tridentine Mass on weekdays, but also one such Mass on Sundays and feasts, by a priest who is qualified and who is not excluded by law, and to grant permission also if requested "in special circumstances such as marriages, funerals or occasional celebrations, e.g. pilgrimages".
Apart from celebration of Mass, Pope Benedict authorised parish priests, to grant, "after careful consideration" and "if advantageous for the good of souls", permission to use the older ritual in the administration of Baptism, Marriage, Penance, and Anointing of the Sick. He also allowed bishops, on the same condition, to use the earlier Pontifical in administering Confirmation, and permitted clergy to use the 1962 edition of the Roman Breviary.
Bishops may establish "personal parishes" or appoint chaplains for administering the sacraments according to the old form.
The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, whose role the document confirmed, was given authority to ensure observance of the rules laid down in the document. Stable groups of the kind mentioned in article 5 whose parish priest does not grant them their request should inform the diocesan bishop, who is asked to satisfy their desire. If he does not wish to do so, they should inform the Pontifical Commission, to which also a bishop who does not have the means to respond to their wish can have recourse for advice and assistance.
The Pope clarified that, as a result of his motu proprio, "the last version of the Missale Romanum prior to the Council, which was published with the authority of Pope John XXIII in 1962 and used during the Council will now be able to be used as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgical celebration", but that "the Missal published by Paul VI and then republished in two subsequent editions by John Paul II, obviously is and continues to be the normal Form – the Forma ordinaria – of the Eucharistic Liturgy"; and that: "It is clearly seen that the new Missal will certainly remain the ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, not only on account of the juridical norms, but also because of the actual situation of the communities of the faithful."
The motu proprio allows what some traditionalists would call the novelty of proclaiming the Scripture readings "also" in the vernacular language in Masses with a congregation, and in the accompanying letter the Pope said that "new Saints and some of the new Prefaces can and should be inserted in the old Missal", a matter that he committed for study to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
In his cover letter to the bishops, Pope Benedict declared unfounded two fears that had been expressed with regard to the change that he was making: that the change would detract from the authority of the Second Vatican Council; and that it would lead to disarray or even divisions within parish communities.
He recognised that "there have been exaggerations and at times social aspects unduly linked to the attitude of the faithful attached to the ancient Latin liturgical tradition." To avoid the situation whereby the desire to recover the old form of liturgy "occurred above all because in many places celebrations were not faithful to the prescriptions of the new Missal, but the latter actually was understood as authorising or even requiring creativity, which frequently led to deformations of the liturgy which were hard to bear ... caus(ing) deep pain to individuals totally rooted in the faith of the Church", he recommended faithful observance of the Missal of Paul VI: "The most sure guarantee that the Missal of Paul VI can unite parish communities and be loved by them consists in its being celebrated with great reverence in harmony with the liturgical directives. This will bring out the spiritual richness and the theological depth of this Missal."
Benedict cited "interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church" as a "positive reason" for the motu proprio. Traditionalist groups, such as the Society of St. Pius X, whose founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was excommunicated in 1988 following the Ecône Consecrations, set permission to use the Tridentine Mass as a preliminary condition for engaging in any doctrinal dialogue with the Holy See.
Benedict, who himself led discussions with the SSPX during his tenure as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave as a reason for making the effort represented by his motu proprio the regretted fact that, "over the centuries ... at critical moments when divisions were coming about, not enough was done by the Church's leaders to maintain or regain reconciliation and unity" and "omissions on the part of the Church have had their share of blame for the fact that these divisions were able to harden." But he pointed out, in the same cover letter, that, "needless to say, in order to experience full communion, the priests of the communities adhering to the former usage cannot, as a matter of principle, exclude celebrating according to the new books. The total exclusion of the new rite would not in fact be consistent with the recognition of its value and holiness." Thus, while opening the door to the Tridentine Mass, the Pope expects the SSPX to acknowledge the legitimacy of the Mass of Paul VI. SSPX Superior General, Bishop Fellay wrote, "The letter which accompanies the Motu Proprio does not hide however the difficulties that still remain." Fellay then stated that the Society is eager "after the decree of excommunication which still affects its bishops has been withdrawn—to consider more serenely the disputed doctrinal issues."
After saying in his letter to bishops, with which he accompanied the motu proprio, that "in the movement led by Archbishop Lefebvre, fidelity to the old Missal became an external mark of identity", Pope Benedict added: "The reasons for the break which arose over this, however, were at a deeper level."
Apart from the question of reconciliation with traditionalist groups, the Pope also mentioned that, immediately after the promulgation of the new form of the Mass, it was presumed that "requests for the use of the 1962 Missal would be limited to the older generation which had grown up with it", but recognizes that "in the meantime it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons too have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, particularly suited to them." Due to this continuing appeal of the ancient form of the Mass across generational groups it was felt that cases should no longer be decided on a case-by-case basis, and that, instead the need had arisen for "clearer juridical regulation which had not been foreseen" in the past.
The Pope stressed: "There is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal. In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church's faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place." He continued by demanding recognition also of the "value and holiness" of celebration according to the new books.
In an interview on Vatican Radio, the then Cardinal President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei Darío Castrillón Hoyos commented that "priests can decide, without permission from the Holy See or the bishop, to celebrate the Mass in the ancient rite. And this holds true for all priests. It is the parish priests who must open the doors to those priests that, having the faculty [to do so], go to celebrate. It is not therefore necessary to ask any other permission."
Article 2 of the motu proprio applies, without distinction, to priests of the Latin Rite, all of whom are therefore authorized to use, in Masses celebrated without the people, either the older (1962) or the newer (1970) form of the Roman Rite, even if they are also authorized to use another Latin liturgical rite, such as the Ambrosian Rite. It does not apply to priests of the Eastern Catholic Churches. It concerns only the Roman Rite and does not deal with use of older forms of other Latin liturgical rites, which is a matter for the authorities charged with regulating those rites.
With letter 13/2007 of 20 January 2010 the Pontifical Council Ecclesia Dei responded positively to a question whether a parish priest (pastor) or another priest may on his own initiative publicly celebrate the extraordinary form, along with the customary regular use of the new form, "so that the faithful, both young and old, can familiarize themselves with the old rites and benefit from their perceptible beauty and transcendence". Although the Council accompanied this response with the observation that a stable group of the faithful attached to the older form has a right to assist at Mass in the extraordinary form, a website that published the response interpreted it as not requiring the existence of such a stable group.
A pre-1969 Roman-Rite altar with reredos.
A main altar was usually preceded by three steps, below which were said the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar. Side altars usually had only one step.
The Roman Rite of Mass has undergone, especially in the early centuries, various developments. In response to Sacrosanctum Concilium, the 1963 document of the Second Vatican Council, it was systematically revised, leading to the publication, in 1970, of Pope Paul VI's revision of the Roman Missal, which some Traditionalist Catholics claimed constituted a rupture with what went before. Such concerns led French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to found a seminary and society of priests - the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) - dedicated to the exclusive celebration of sacraments according to the traditional Roman Rite in 1970. Canonically suspended by the Holy See in 1976, Lefebvre continued negotiations with Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II over the following decade. While these negotiations did not produce a regularization of the SSPX, they did induce John Paul II to issue a decree in 1984, Quattuor Abhinc Annos, providing a limited permission, or indult, to celebrate the traditional Roman Rite. But many traditionalists, frustrated with the unwillingness of most bishops to implement the indult in their dioceses, demanded what they called a universal indult whereby all priests would be allowed to use the former rite even publicly without seeking any specific authorisation.
For more than a year before the publication of Summorum Pontificum Vatican officials, such as Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, indicated that Pope Benedict XVI had decided to issue a document on the matter. As the date on which it was in fact issued approached, these declarations became more precise. The views of bishops in various countries and also of traditionalist groups were sought on the various drafts.
On the part of the bishops, two fears were expressed, when Pope Benedict mentioned in the letter to bishops with which he accompanied his motu proprio, declaring them unfounded. One was fear that the document would detract from the authority of the Second Vatican Council, by calling into question one of the Council's essential decisions, namely the liturgical reform. The other was fear that the possibility of a wider use of the 1962 Missal would lead to disarray or even divisions within the parish communities. On the latter fear, the Pope commented that "the use of the old Missal presupposes a certain degree of liturgical formation and some knowledge of the Latin language; neither of these is found very often", and that accordingly "it is clearly seen that the new Missal will certainly remain the ordinary Form of the Roman Rite."
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, the body charged with overseeing the implementation of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, commented on the worry that some have expressed, even after publication of the motu proprio, "that a small minority of believers may impose the mass of Saint Pius V on the parish". He stated: "Those who say that obviously haven't read the motu proprio. It's clear that no parish priest will be obliged to celebrate the mass of Saint Pius V. Only that if a group of the faithful, having a priest disposed to say it, asks to celebrate this mass, the parish priest or the rector of the church can't oppose it."
The document was well received by supporters of the Tridentine Mass, but was also criticised by some Catholics and Jewish leaders.
Most internal official reactions emphasised the wish of unity and reconciliation within the Church. Archbishop José Horacio Gomez of San Antonio said in a press statement that he believed the letter "will open up great possibilities for reconciliation and unity with those who have shown great devotion to the Roman liturgy prior to the reform of 1970." ... "People will be able to more clearly see the growth and progress we have realized since Vatican II, while at the same time preserving the rich heritage and legacy of the Church." Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, said: "On behalf of the bishops of England and Wales, I welcome the Holy Father's call for unity within the Church and especially toward those who are very attached to celebrating the Mass according to the Missal of 1962. The Bishops' Conference of Scotland said in a statement that the document "reflects the pastoral concern" of Benedict XVI "for those who find themselves drawn to that form of the Eucharistic celebration"..."a pastoral concern which the bishops of Scotland share." sharing the Pope's "concern about the unity of the Church."
An atypical reaction was that of Chilean bishop Juan Ignacio González Errázuriz, who said the document was aimed not so much at "putting an end to the schism of Archbishop Lefebvre and his followers" as at promoting unity among Chinese Catholics. However, even the parts of the Catholic Church in China that were under the control of the Government-created Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association had for years already been using the revised form of the Mass and in the vernacular, not the Tridentine Mass in Latin.
Italian bishop Luca Brandolini said, "I can't fight back the tears. This is the saddest moment in my life as a man, priest and bishop. It's a day of mourning, not just for me but for the many people who worked for the Second Vatican Council. A reform for which many people worked, with great sacrifice and only inspired by the desire to renew the Church, has now been cancelled." However, he declared, "I will obey the Holy Father, because I am a bishop and because I care for the Holy Father".
Others expressed concern that the loosening of the restrictions for celebration of the Mass would cause practical problems for parish priests who might be pressured to offer the Mass according to the 1962 Missal, and that such pressure would "seem like a standard aimed at testing the priests' loyalty to the pope." Cardinal Castrillón responded to this concern by pointing out that the motu proprio does not oblige any priest to use the 1962 Missal: all that the parish priest or rector of a church is asked to do is to permit a stable group adhering to the earlier tradition and who have a priest disposed to use that Missal to celebrate Mass in the church. Only a limited number of priests actually know how to celebrate the Tridentine Mass, and a shortage of priests means that many priests already have full schedules on weekends. In response to these concerns, a number of Bishops announced their intentions to issue guidance on how best to implement Summorum Pontificum in their dioceses in line with the motu proprio's rule that "Priests who use the Missal of Bl. John XXIII must be qualified to do so". One of these was Bishop Donald W. Trautman of the Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania, who indicated that those priests who celebrate such a Mass would first need to show that they have the requisite knowledge of its rubrics and of Latin.
Various advocates for the Tridentine Mass voiced cautious optimism for the future and prepared for the practical aspects of the decision. In a statement, The Latin Mass Society of Ireland said: "We are very grateful to the Pope for enriching the life of the Church in this way and for enhancing legitimate liturgical diversity. In doing this Pope Benedict is building on the foundation laid by his predecessor Pope John Paul II in his 1988 motu proprio Ecclesia Dei Adflicta. The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales said: "Thirty-seven years ago, the Latin Mass Society was denounced by The Universe newspaper for its attachment to the Traditional Latin Rite under the banner headline, 'Latin Madness'. Today, the loyalty, determination and sufferings of the Traditional faithful have been vindicated by Pope Benedict XVI's wise and pastoral motu proprio. This [decision] puts an end to the discrimination, marginalisation and exclusion which, too often, Traditional Catholics have suffered. ... However, now is the time for the 'interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church' for which Pope Benedict calls." The Catholic publishing house Baronius Press warmly welcomed the motu proprio and prepared to publish a special printing of their edition of the 1962 Missal around the date of the coming into effect of Summorum Pontificum.
Some traditionalist Catholics criticized Summorum Pontificum for not going far enough, for insisting on accepting the Pauline Mass as the ordinary or normal form of the Roman Rite, and they saw the authorisation to use the 1962 Missal as a ruse to get traditionalists to compromise themselves.
Writer Damian Thompson, Editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, Telegraph journalist and blogger, wrote on 16 November 2007 that, as a result of the publication of Pope Benedict's document of 7 July 2007, "Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor was most displeased. Last week he hit back with a 'commentary' on Summorum Pontificum. According to Murphy-O'Connor, the ruling leaves the power of local bishops untouched. In fact, it removes the bishops' power to block the ancient liturgy; the cardinal is misrepresenting its contents."
Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor's words as quoted by Thompson echo those of Pope Benedict, who wrote to the bishops: "I very much wish to stress that these new norms do not in any way lessen your own authority and responsibility, either for the liturgy or for the pastoral care of your faithful"; and he invited them "to send to the Holy See an account of your experiences, three years after this Motu Proprio has taken effect. If truly serious difficulties come to light, ways to remedy them can be sought."
Thompson believed that Pope Benedict had a low opinion of the English bishops, and on 5 November 2007 suggested that three of them were in the mind of the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Malcolm Ranjith, when he remarked that the document Summorum Pontificum, which had come into force on 14 September, had met with "criticisms and opposition, even from theologians, liturgists, priests, Bishops, and even Cardinals", and that "there have been, by some dioceses, even interpretative documents which inexplicably aim to limit the Pope's motu proprio. These actions mask behind them, on one hand, prejudices of an ideological kind and, on the other, pride, one of the gravest sins. I repeat: I invite all to obey the Pope."
Making a comparison between bishops attending a Mass celebrated by a visiting cardinal and attendance at the launch of a new book, Thompson also "passed on a rumour" that Pope Benedict was annoyed at the absence of any English bishop at the Pontifical High Mass that Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, head of Ecclesia Dei, celebrated in Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor's own Westminster Cathedral on 14 June 2008.
After the Mass, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos spoke with journalists. To an unnamed conservative journalist who insisted vehemently that some bishops in England were denying permission for the old Mass to be celebrated in their dioceses, the cardinal said such cases were few. He also met with Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor and, according to a statement issued by the English cardinal's office, "Cardinal Castrillón expressed his gratitude to his fellow cardinal for the generous way which the bishops of England and Wales had responded to an indult from Pope Paul VI allowing traditionalists to celebrate the old rite and for their reception of Pope Benedict's motu proprio."
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), which exclusively celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass, "rejoice[d] at the publication of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. In reaffirming the essential place of the liturgy itself in the transmission of the faith, in stating that the Missal of St.John XXIII may be used by all priests, and especially in encouraging the use of all four liturgical books in force in 1962, the text opens to the whole Church the treasures of these rites." The motu proprio was issued on the first anniversary of the election of the Fraternity's current superior general, Fr. John Berg. The Fraternity further announced that it would "continue to look to serve the needs of the Church, and hopes that the success of the chapels and parishes already erected in the last 19 years in so many dioceses will provide encouraging examples for the document's implementation. Our deepest gratitude to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum. [May the Lord preserve him, and give him life.]"
The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, which was consulted by Pope Benedict during the process, said in a statement that it "extends its deep gratitude to (Pope Benedict) for this great spiritual benefit" and "rejoices to see the Church thus regain her liturgical Tradition, and give the possibility of a free access to the treasure of the Traditional Mass ... (for those) who had so far been deprived of it". The Society, however, points out that "difficulties still remain". It wishes that the "favorable climate established by the Holy See" will "make it possible to consider more serenely the disputed doctrinal issues" and that the decree of excommunication which still affects its bishops be withdrawn.
Patriarch Alexius II responded to the question, "The Pope has published a document restoring the possibility of using the Missal of Saint Pius V for celebrating the Eucharist. How do you judge this decision?", by saying: "Recovering and recognizing the value of ancient liturgical tradition is something we welcome. We hold very strongly to tradition. Without the faithful guardianship of liturgical tradition, the Russian Orthodox Church would not have been able to resist the period of persecution."
We acknowledge that the Church's liturgy is an internal Catholic matter and this motu proprio from Pope Benedict XVI is based on the permission given by John Paul II in 1988 and thus, on principle, is nothing new. However we are naturally concerned about how wider use of this Tridentine liturgy may impact upon how Jews are perceived and treated. We appreciate that the motu proprio actually limits the use of the Latin Mass in the days prior to Easter, which addresses the reference in the Good Friday liturgy concerning the Jews," Rosen added. "However, it is still not clear that this qualification applies to all situations and we have called on the Vatican to contradict the negative implications that some in the Jewish community and beyond have drawn concerning the motu proprio."
In response to such continued complaints, Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 replaced the prayer in the 1962 Missal with a newly composed prayer that makes no mention of blindness or darkness.
With the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei issued the instruction Universae Ecclesiae of 30 April 2011, feast of Saint Pius V, to clarify some aspects of Summorum Pontificum.
The normative part of the document (nn.12-35) contains 23 brief points on various arguments. It reaffirms the competence of the diocesan bishops in implementing the Motu proprio, recalling that in the event of a dispute about the celebration in forma extraordinaria judgement falls to the Ecclesia Dei Commission. It clarifies the concept of coetus fidelium (in short "group of faithful") stabiliter existens ("stable") whose desire to participate in the celebration of the forma extraordinaria must be welcomed and accepted by pastors. While leaving the assessment of the number of people required for its establishment to the wise judgement of pastors, it states that the group does not necessarily have to be composed of persons belonging to a single parish, but may result from people who come together from different parishes or even from other dioceses. While always taking into account compliance with wider pastoral needs, the Instruction proposes a spirit of "generous welcome" towards groups of faithful who request the forma extraordinaria or priests who request to occasionally celebrate in such a form with some of the faithful. The clarification (n.19) according to which the faithful who request the celebration in forma extraordinaria "must not in any way support or belong to groups that show themselves to be contrary to the validity or legitimacy of forma ordinaria " and/or authority of the Pope, is most important. This would be in flagrant contradiction to the motu proprio's very aim of "reconciliation". Priests must have a sufficient knowledge of Latin and know the rite to be celebrated. Bishops are therefore encouraged to make proper formation for this purpose available in seminaries, and the possibility of recourse, if there are no other suitable priests, to the collaboration of priests from the Institutes set up by the "Ecclesia Dei" Commission (which normally use the forma extraordinaria) is also indicated. The use of the 1962 forms of conferring Holy Orders is permitted only in those institutes that exclusively celebrate the 1962 Missal that are under the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
14. It is the task of the Diocesan Bishop to undertake all necessary measures to ensure respect for the forma extraordinaria of the Roman Rite, according to the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.
The head of the Holy See's Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi called this clarification "most important".
Every Catholic priest who is not impeded by Canon Law is to be considered idoneus ("qualified") for the celebration of the Holy Mass in the forma extraordinaria.
Regarding the use of the Latin language, a basic knowledge is necessary, allowing the priest to pronounce the words correctly and understand their meaning.
Regarding knowledge of the execution of the Rite, priests are presumed to be qualified who present themselves spontaneously to celebrate the forma extraordinaria, and have celebrated it previously.
21. Ordinaries are asked to offer their clergy the possibility of acquiring adequate preparation for celebrations in the forma extraordinaria. This applies also to Seminaries, where future priests should be given proper formation, including study of Latin and, where pastoral needs suggest it, the opportunity to learn the forma extraordinaria of the Roman Rite.
28. Furthermore, by virtue of its character of special law, within its own area, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum derogates from those provisions of law, connected with the sacred Rites, promulgated from 1962 onwards and incompatible with the rubrics of the liturgical books in effect in 1962.
This has been interpreted as ruling out extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, female altar servers, etc.
33. If there is a qualified priest, a coetus fidelium ("group of faithful"), which follows the older liturgical tradition, can also celebrate the Sacred Triduum in the forma extraordinaria. When there is no church or oratory designated exclusively for such celebrations, the parish priest or Ordinary, in agreement with the qualified priest, should find some arrangement favourable to the good of souls, not excluding the possibility of a repetition of the celebration of the Sacred Triduum in the same church.
^ The English translation omits the limitation on Sundays and feast days to a single such Mass. This limitation is expressed in the Latin text, which is what has juridical value.
^ In the letter that accompanied Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI would ultimately address this concern by insisting that "[t]here is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal. In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture."
^ This indult would be affirmed four years by John Paul II in his motu proprio Ecclesia Dei, which addressed the resistance of many bishops to the indult: "Respect must everywhere be shown for the feelings of all those who are attached to the Latin liturgical tradition, by a wide and generous application" of the indult.
^ a b c Bishops welcome "Summorum Pontificum" Indian Catholic, 9 July 2007.
^ a b Latin Mass societies welcome Pope's Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' Archived 2007-07-11 at the Wayback Machine ICN, 9 July 2007.
^ "Damian Thompson". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
^ a b Thompson, Damian (2007-11-16). "Pope gets radical and woos the Anglicans". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
^ Thompson, Damian (2007-11-05). "Rome". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
^ Reports about these remarks, made within a much longer interview to the religious news website Petrus Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, founded and directed by Gianluca Barile, but which Thompson called "papal", appeared also on Catholic News Agency and other sources.
^ Thompson, Damian (2008-06-19). "Benedict 'annoyed' at bishops' boycott". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
^ Press Release from the General Superior of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine Press release, July 7, 2007.
^ Summary in ZENIT news agency, 29 August 2007. Archived 14 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Full text in Il Giornale, article by Andrea Tornielli in Il Giornale, 29 August 2007.
^ "Pope Eases Restrictions on Latin Mass", New York Times, July 8, 2007.
^ Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (2011-05-13). "RELEASED: Instruction "Universae Ecclesiae" – the text and my initial observations". Retrieved 2011-05-13.
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Last year, a very special unit, an Airborne Rescue Group (ARG) of the 10th Naval Aviation Brigade, addressed The School of Military Divers instructors team seeking their assistance. They wanted our coaches to participate in organization of a training course on diving. You may ask what links Naval Aviation to Airborne Rescuers, and – moreover – to diving? The matter is, any aviation squadron has a special company whose task is to rescue the pilots who happened to get downed or injured over enemy territories.
The Naval Aviation Brigade which forms a part of the Ukrainian Naval Forces, also incorporates such unit. The Airborne Rescue Group's key responsibilities include rescuing the crews of the aircraft and helicopters damaged in action; convoying the ships of the Ukrainian Navy during military exercises, providing parachuting services for the Marines and many other things.
As long as naval aviators operate mostly above the water, the Airborne Rescue Group's professional training program, in addition to sky-diving, mountaineering, and medical training, includes rescue diving skills. A fighter serving in the Airborne rescue group must be a good swimmer and diver possessing high skills in handling professional equipment. His immediate tasks lie in landing on water from an aircraft or helicopter, finding injured on the surface, unfolding a rescue boat or evacuating the injured onboard of a helicopter and providing first medical aid for them.
Still, there is a number of other emergency missions the rescue paratroopers have to implement. The group gets also often engaged in nation-wide search and rescue activities on the sea. This means, under any weather conditions, day or night, immediately after the flight clearance command, the servicemen of the ARG are ready to evacuate an injured sailor from a commercial vessel or rescue fishermen who got in trouble at stormy sea.
In October of 2018, near the port of Yuzhnyi, the instructors of the School of Military Divers project gave a short intensive diving course for the rescue paratroopers. At the same time, our coaches noticed that the unit's equipment was rather outdated and inappropriate. Everything they had was a few ten-years-old neoprene swimsuits, two Soviet ABM-7 scuba gears and a small motor boat presented to them by volunteers!
That time, it was fellow divers of a special National Guard unit (whom we also used to train last year) who came to help: out of solidarity existing in the world of diving, they provided two kits of equipment for the training course. As the ARG fighters said, they do not experience any problems with sky-diving gear – the latest systems of Ukrainian origin have just been supplied to them. But as regards diving equipment, the situation is far worse.
The main problem is the impossibility of implementing their assigned tasks in winter time as they lack special dry type diving suits. While wearing a thin neoprene swimming suit which is only 5mm thick, a diver can perform his duties underwater and stay alive for just a few minutes. This means the majority of their tasks cannot be performed due to inappropriateness of their equipment.
We decided to support our naval aviators and send them some gear which includes: two special diving suits of a rescue paratrooper Military rescue swimmer drysuit and two special life jackets Para swimmers west.
Diving suits feature special ergonomic design that does not limit a diver's movements while swimming; they are light-weight (about 2kg) – the weight that practically equals to that of a standard military uniform. At the same time, they are made of special membrane fabrics which is easily ventilated. This implies divers are able to work wearing these for long hours carrying out their missions in any weather conditions with no risks to experience overheat or hypothermia. The diving suits equipped with special insulator belong to the A class thermal protection which allows a diver to work in water with temperature +2 С० up to 6 hours! The suits' sizes can be easily adjusted to fit any diver in combat service and on combat missions.
Rescue life jacket constitutes an inseparable part of a rescue diver's equipment: it is designed to keep the head above the water. It can be blown up either by a diver himself or by means of a mini container with carbon dioxide (in case of emergency). The life jacket doesn't prevent a diver to put his parachute or a suspension system on.
Along with the gear transfer, the instructors of the School of Military Divers are going to conduct another training on diving skills for the fighters of the Airborne rescue group. Thus, the current stage of the Project will substantially enhance the naval aviators' possibilities in terms of search and rescue on the sea, since your equipment will allow the rescue paratroopers to work in the severest weather conditions.
In 2016 we realized the first stage of the project: we taught swimming (from the scratch) the servicemen of the Sea Guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine on the Sea of Azov and bought and sent them equipment for more than a 100,000 hryvnias. The results of this work exceeded our boldest expectations!
Last year we continued training, for the servicemen to be able to meet the standards of military diving that are rather high: the guys need to continuously improve their skills and refine their professional knowledge.
Within the second stage, we supported training and equipped their maintaining teams who carry out operational patrols at sea and maintain the naval infrastructure facilities in fit and safe condition. Among the other activities, they learned to hold their breath, to work blind, to rescue people on water and find explosives under the sea.
For the two years of the School of Military Divers' existence we provided assistance to many diving units, namely to the 73rd Dozor-M Naval special operations center, the Center for De-mining, and other military units.
We taught divers; bought new and maintained their present diving gear; helped to organize a swimming competition and a triathlon tournament.
The Naval Special Forces fighters today work in the equipment we bought them; the Sea Guard servicemen protecting the waters near Mariupol, have been trained and equipped within our Project.
Last year, during the water obstacle course completion, the gear we sent to our military, helped the divers of the Center for De-mining to save three people and pull out two drowned APCs from underwater.
One of the Project's former students, a sea guard, took part in the arrest of the Russian Nord vessel.
Also, thanks to our consulting assistance, the Ukrainian Naval Forces for the first time over many years have managed to renew teaching of underwater welders which is a unique and highly demanding diving occupation.
Within the third stage of the project, we spent 243 937 hryvnias for purchasing of diving equipment and rent of a special pool in the city of Odesa. The team of instructors provided the cadets with free diving equipment, manuals and handbooks, literature, mine and explosives models and the rest of materials necessary in the course of teaching process.
The divers got trained both in the pool and in the open waters. During the course we trained their swimming and underwater wrestling skills; exercised some special techniques developed by the US Navy Seals, as well as mastered their handling of the closed cycle apparatuses and underwater scooters.


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The most overrated games of 2017
Tom Chick, December 29, 2017 | Features
Overrated is a loaded term. It looks good in a headline. It's often used for no purpose other than to goad a reaction. But that doesn't mean it isn't useful. When I call a game overrated, I don't mean it's bad, that the reviews were wrong, that the people who liked it were dopes, or even that I didn't like it. It just means I'm surprised more people weren't more critical, that the conversation wasn't more often about ways the game could have been better.
After the jump, the ten most overrated games of 2017. Continue reading →
The most surprising games of 2017
So if the most disappointing category is a list of games that should have been better, the most surprising category is the opposite. These are games that were better than they should have been. Just as disappointing is about falling short of expectations, these surprising games exceeded expectations and, in some cases, were among the best games of the year.
After the jump, the ten most surprising games of 2017. Continue reading →
The most disappointing games of 2017
Calling a game disappointing arguably has more to do with me than the game itself. Disappointment isn't an inherent quality. It can't exist without some sort of expectation in the first place. In many cases, these games are sequels, or the creations of developers with proven track records, or entries in established genres, or games with promising beginnings. But for various reasons, a central fact about these games is that I had personally hoped they would be better.
After the jump, the ten most disappointing games of 2017. Continue reading →
10 things missing from Pinball FX3
Tom Chick, November 4, 2017 | Features
Back in 2011, I wrote an article detailing the five Pinball FX tables I'd like to see. They were Star Wars, a Western theme, splatter horror, the Cold War, and Bioshock. Zen Studios must have been paying attention, because nearly half of those tables came out shortly thereafter! You're welcome, world.
Really, it's more than half, since there are about twenty Star Wars tables. The Western themed table, Wild West Rampage, is one of my favorites. Although they aren't technically splatter horror, the Alien, Aliens vs Predator, Doom, and Walking Dead tables are horror enough for me. Which leaves the Bioshock and Cold War tables yet to be realized, so maybe they're still working on those. Since Zen has already worked with Bethesda, I'll accept a Prey table instead of a Bioshock table.
But a lot has happened since 2011. Pinball FX has come a long way. So it's time for me to do my part in continuing to make it better. You're welcome, world. Continue reading →
The ten best games of 2017 (so far) that you haven't played yet
Tom Chick, July 10, 2017 | Features
At the halfway point through 2017, you don't really need people to write articles about how they like Nier and Horizon Zero Dawn and Ghost Recon: Wildlands and that new Zelda game on the Nintendo Switch. Exactly no one will be surprised that we think some of these games are the bee's knees. The more valuable public service is calling out the games you didn't know about, but maybe you should. After all, you don't want your 2017 games of the year list to look like an NPD sales chart, do you?
So for the next ten days, in no particular order, I'm going to tell you about ten different games that I think are the bee's lesser known knees.
The best games of 2017 (so far!)
Tom Chick, July 1, 2017 | Features
I don't have a Switch, so I can't get on the Breath of the Wild bandwagon. I'm not sure there's room for anyone else on that thing anyway. And I haven't cleared the six hours from my schedule to boot up Persona 5 and get to the actual game part. I've played enough of Torment: Tides of Numenera to know that I probably shouldn't be writing this list yet.
But let's do this anyway! Continue reading →
Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade makes space great again
Tom Chick, April 28, 2017 | Features
In the tradition of renovating their games so that they're almost unrecognizable (in a good way!), Stardock has pulled away the scaffolding from Galactic Civilization III to reveal the Crusade DLC, available May 4, for $20. If you don't already have Galactic Civilization III, you can buy it bundled with the Crusade DLC for $40. Let me show you one of several reasons you'll want it.
10 reasons Mage Knight is the worst boardgame of all time
Tom Chick, February 14, 2017 | Features
I can only think of nine reasons Monopoly is terrible. But I can think of at least ten reasons Mage Knight is terrible, so it takes the prize as worst boardgame of all time.
Here are the ten reasons. Continue reading →
Simon Parkin asks a question that really shouldn't be asked
Tom Chick, February 5, 2017 | Features
I can understand why Simon Parkin, one of the rare videogame critics worth reading, seems to be feeling some anxiety about his job. A lot of people feel must feel that way, whether they're plumbers, doctors, or social workers. But Parkin implies his anxiety is unique. So he's written an article about writing articles about videogames:
But no matter how scintillating the text, when the real world starts to tremble, when fascism begins to rise, when the bombs start to fall, when real lives and real rights are imperilled, the job of writing about [videogames] is further undercut. Why waste our time focused on fictional quests when so much of the real world is in need of repair?
Now maybe I've missed it, but I don't see anyone writing these articles about books, movies, or music.
Top ten games of 2016
I can think of at least nine reasons this list might be lacking: Gears of War 4, Uncharted 4, Titanfall 2, Salt and Sanctuary, Kathy Rain, Virginia, Forza Down Under, Dead Rising 4, and The Last Guardian. All games I didn't get to play this year. I'll throw in Just Dance 2017 to make it an even ten.
But from among the games I did play this year, let me tell you about my ten favorites.
After the jump, okay, maybe I did play Just Dance 2017, but I'd like to keep that between us. Continue reading →
Most overrated games of 2016
Make Everything Else Scare Again: Friday favorites
Tom Chick and Chris Hornbostel, October 28, 2016 | Features
And that's a wrap for an entire month of horror recommendations! As we leave you with a couple of picks that didn't quite fit our other categories, we wish you a happily harrowing Halloween weekend.
After the jump, our ultimate recommendations. Continue reading →
Make Everything Else Scare Again: see you in the funny papers
Comics have embraced horror since the earliest days of the medium, from EC Comics and Will Eisner on through to the present day. Since the Comics Code restrictions were relaxed a few decades ago, and with artists and writers like Guillermo Del Toro expressing an abiding love, it's only natural that today we've got a couple of scary comic book recommendations.
After the jump, not just for kids anymore Continue reading →
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