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The Bourgeois Church of Spectators and the Crisis of Morale in the Priesthood
Crisis in the Church
What does the word bourgeois actually mean?
"What does the word bourgeois actually mean? … The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of being."
"The bourgeois, even when he is a 'good Catholic', believes only in this world, in the expedient and the useful; he is incapable of living by faith in another world and refuses to base his life on the mystery of Golgotha".
Nicholas Berdyaev
"I like to watch"
Chauncey Gardiner
Section One: Why another blog post on bourgeois Catholicism?
I have written on this topic many times before so some of my readers might wonder why I am revisiting this issue yet again. This iteration of the narrative was provoked by some shocking news I received the other day that an old seminarian classmate of mine, a man who was a dear friend, now a priest, was arrested on charges that he possessed and shared child pornography. This was a man I considered beyond reproach and who I would never have guessed in a million years could be capable of such things. Yes, he is innocent until proven guilty but the evidence I have seen presented in public so far indicates with a high degree of probability that he is guilty. I pray that this will all be proven a big mistake and that someone else is the guilty party, but it has still created within me a deep question: if he is guilty how could such a thing happen? Is it just a singular moral failing on his part? Is he just one more pious fraud plying his perversion in secret while posturing as a "good Catholic" in public? Or is there another set of factors at play here? Like so many others, I have followed with growing despair the rolling nightmare of the priest sex abuse crisis since 2002. In fact, when the scandal first broke I appeared on the now cancelled Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor" around twenty times as a theological commentator on the crisis (Bill O'Reilly is a jerk by the way, but that is a story for a different day.) And having been in the seminary for many years I had a front row seat to the parade of perverts that were not only allowed into the seminary but also who got ordained – – men I wouldn't trust to wash my car, let alone run a parish. I have also known other priests over the years who I thought to be decent men who were arrested for various sexual offenses of a sordid nature. And so I am no naïve waif, fresh off the turnip truck, who is easily shocked by yet another priest I know engaging in acts that make the stomach turn.
Most of the priests who are guilty of sexual abuse are merely morally bad men who entered the priesthood precisely for the purpose of indulging their sexual fetishes through predation on the vulnerable. In seminary I knew such men and dreaded their inclusion into the holy priesthood of Christ. But such men have always been in the priesthood as any casual perusal of Church history will attest. But ours is also a Church that hides its miscreants from public view, since saving the appearances is all we have left these days it seems. In an earlier era we hid our malefactors in order to protect the Church's reputation as the ark of holiness. In our era we hide them because we are simply embarrassed by the nude crazy uncle in the attic and afraid of litigation should he escape and kill the neighbor's dog. And that Church of episcopal hiders has done almost as much damage as the sexual abusers themselves.
But the sexual abuse crisis has also had the negative consequence of sucking all of the air out of the room as we fixate on it and posit our various solutions. I am of course concerned with it as well, but I also think that it has caused us to lose sight of the silent hell so many of our best priests are enduring – – men who are not moral miscreants, but thoroughly decent and sincere men who are, nevertheless, undergoing a slow and silent crucifixion in an unserious and existentially inauthentic Church of role-playing, spectators. More on that in a bit. But we are all in this together and if there is a crisis of morale in the priesthood it is because, as Pope Benedict has forcefully stated, there has been first, and far more constitutively, a crisis of faith in us all, me included. I write what follows therefore as an act of thanks to the 98% of priests who are not abusers, but who are currently undergoing a slow crucifixion for reasons I will make clear.
Section Two: The Ernstfall
"Where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also"
The quotes highlighted above by Berdyaev on the topic of bourgeois Christianity were written long ago but are still pertinent today because the Church in the West has, over the past century, doubled-down on the bourgeois modernity he speaks of and has turned itself into a Bed and Breakfast for traveling Laodiceans. Is that snarky and sarcastic? Yes it is. But it is also true. I have written before on this topic and yet many readers still seem to think that I am criticizing our perfectly normal, and morally good, desire to enjoy the good gifts of this world. But that only goes to show how difficult it is for modern Christians to understand that when Saint Paul condemns "σάρξ " (the flesh) he isn't condemning the created, material world as such or embracing some kind of Manichean dualism. Saint Paul is merely pointing out that there is a difference between a healthy love for God's creation and the pleasure we find in its many blessings, and an unhealthy idolatry of material well-being and comfort when such things become our most pressing preoccupation. The goods of this earth, no matter how good they are, stand as penultimate values in the life of any true Christian and when they become our ultimate value we have veered in the direction of a religion of Mammon rather than the Gospel of Christ. Ours is a form of Christianity that seems to have amnesia when it comes to recalling Christ's trenchant and uncompromising warnings about the dangers of making material well-being an ultimate value. Of course, few of us would ever claim that such pursuits are our ultimate value, but our actions speak louder than our words. As Christ puts it: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
But what Christ means by "Treasure" is about more than pecuniary largesse, unwisely used. Indeed, it is not ultimately about money at all, or even a more generalized condemnation of the vice of greed. To be sure, Christ's words do have in view, at least in part, those who horde their wealth and do not use it to help the poor. Nevertheless, it is all too convenient to read his words as a simple condemnation of those "dadgum awful and selfish rich people," and to stop there, comfortable in the knowledge that I am not in their ranks and hopeful that one day the rich will be brought low and made to wallow in some kind of retributive and hellish zone of abject poverty, while the rest of us "poor folks" watch from a celestial distance with a squealing glee, tossing celebratory confetti from the balcony. In other words, what I am claiming here is something Girardian. Namely, that our ideologically constructed vision of "divine" judgment is nothing short of our own unfilled mimetic desires writ large and come to life. In reality, the skanky moral truth beyond such constructions is that the only reason I am not rich is that I am not rich. Such shiny baubles simply never came my way, but if they had I most likely would have accepted them. And so there is a not so hidden violence in my vision of a divine judgment that is nothing more than my own mimetic jealousy dressed up in biblical buzz words. And the net effect is what was implicitly intended all along: that these condemnations from Christ have nothing whatsoever to do with me since I am not rich and are targeted instead at those mangy money-grubbers who must now suffer for the good of the whole. That will put things right. Then we will have peace.
The deeper spiritual significance of Christ's condemnation of "Mammon," therefore, goes far beyond a simple disapproval for those who possess vast sums of wealth, and challenges us all to look beyond this superficial protuberance and toward the superstructure out of which it grows: the ordered hierarchy of values inherent in the quest for upward social mobility in a kingdom oriented toward the maximalization of material well-being and security. The problem isn't wealth. The problem is the ordo established in its name and in its service. Christ places his conversation on wealth in the context of the impossibility of "serving two masters." So it is clear that he is not finger-wagging at some petty personal vices that don't pass Kingdom muster. He is speaking of the servant/master relation which meant far more in the ancient Roman world than it does in ours. And here Christ is pointing our attention at two rival "masters" whose interests are irreconcilable, at two rival "ordos" with competing myths of origin, soteriologies, and eschatologies. One is rooted in Christ and his kingdom-busting-Kingdom of transformational, transpositional, leavening grace, and the other is rooted in the kingdom logic of the Imperium and its established ordo of structured and sanctioned violence in the service of the libido dominandi.
Christ's warnings therefore, which are an elaboration and development of the Old Testament's "two ways" theology (the contrasting ways of life and death,) now applied to himself, make it clear that the form and structure of Christian existence must never take on the coloration of that rival Kingdom. Nor is this a new kind of "puritanism." The tares will remain in the wheat and sinners of all stripes, myself included, are welcome in the Church's field hospital of mercy. But allowing with great compassion and mercy the tares to continue on with the wheat is not the same as celebrating the weeds as a joyous "diversity" of plants, encouraging their growth through fertilization, and then declaring the whole affair to be a horticultural victory in cross-species co-existence. Christ speaks often and with insistence about the need to keep our distinctions sharp and his insistence that the path of the Gospel is incompatible with the path of worldly social values is no hyperbole. There are only two paths. One goes toward the Amor Dei and the other goes to the Libido dominandi. People can wander to and fro between both paths and traverse them both in various and often conflicting ways. One can hop and skip merrily between the paths and can run either forwards or backwards on each. One can adorn both paths with the idiosyncratic accoutrement of one's own "journey." But what one cannot do is confuse the two paths or, which is worse, to reverse their valuations. In 2020 I planted 350 pounds of potatoes. But Covid came and our volunteers went away. Soon I was overwhelmed with how many weeds sprang up, so I decided to just let the weeds grow and harvest as best I could later, only to discover that eventually I couldn't find most of the taters at all. The Church cannot be a Church of tares. It can be a Church that contains tares. It can be a Church that works around the tares. But it can't be a Church that celebrates tares.
And when we make distinctions in matters pertaining to Christ and his Kingdom we must of necessity make choices. We must often, and with tenacious determination, choose. We must choose to accept some values as good and to reject others as evil. Many folks in the history of the Church have rejected this kind of thinking as "fundamentalist." They say, "existence is full of gray areas that must be accounted for." But in my experience life always seems hopelessly gray when you have no principles that are simply non-negotiable. Life is difficult. We are sinners. We fail. We need help. And our circumstances often get messy and complicated. A good pastor is aware of all of that. But "complicated" is not a synonym for "obscure" nor is "failure" a synonym for "acquiescence." If there is one thing that the New Testament makes clear it is that before all else Christ is "He who provokes a choice." And he provokes this choice because he clarifies the stakes. And the choice he provokes is the Ernstfall that Balthasar references. It is not a single "crisis moment." It is the very warp and woof of our Christian existence which is marked through and through by the pattern of Christ's redemption. And the fact that we fail in this effort more than we succeed is not a repudiation of this effort. It is instead an even greater affirmation of its necessity. We must choose the path of life and no matter how often we veer over to the path of worldly death we must choose over and over and over to return to the clear path of redemption.
Section Three: The attenuated Church of bourgeois spectators
In light of this discussion of Christ's admonition to "treasure" only that which has real value, my claim is that the Church in the West treasures worldly acceptance and approval more than it treasures the fullness of the Gospel. It is a Church whose heart fibrillates with excitement and whose knees grow weak with joy whenever its virtue signaling to our dominant secular Liberalism is met with praise. It is also why the Church rarely squanders its treasure on any message that might run afoul of such approval in any truly alienating way. Yes, it tosses a few pro-life coins into the Trevi Fountain of public discourse now and then, but like a savvy tourist at the Fontana, it tosses nickels and not silver dollars.
Therefore, this is a Church that has "chosen" the treasure of social approval by accommodating itself to the idols of our age and it isn't about to raid that treasury and to empty its vaults in the interests of the Gospel lest the upper east side cocktail party invitations stop coming, and Hillary decides not to show up for the next Al Smith dinner. We leap back in horror at the thought of "weaponizing" the Eucharist, but blink not once at our nation's literal weaponization of nuclear technology under the genteel banner of "deterrence." A "press release" is not a prophetic expenditure of internal capital. And "ad hoc subcommittee" reports are merely the bureaucratic shrubbery meant to hide the cracks in the masonry. Far from being at least "some attempt" at Gospel witness, such half-hearted gestures are instead a passive and back-handed way of larding the treasury of social approval with even more nutritionless secular candy. Releasing a de-clawed and toothless Lion into the gladiatorial arena is a way for the Emperor to curry favor with the masses, even as he makes it clear to the gladiators that he isn't serious about the whole "life and death thingy." And of course the joke is on the bishops since their actions are transparently adolescent in their preening Peacockery. The seculars, in point of fact, want nothing from us, care not one wit for us, think we are superstitious simpletons and uneducated dullards, find us detestable, and accept our praise for their revered causes like a bored and disinterested Kindergarten teacher accepts a child's crude portrait of her in crayon on a page from a "Big Chief Tablet."
One of my favorite Catholic theologians, the Australian Dr. Tracey Rowland, has also taken the measure of the modern Western Church as a Church of bourgeois compromise. Of course, the word "bourgeois" here does not simply mean "middle class" but denotes, as I stated earlier, an entire social ordo oriented to a set of values where the reality of God is eclipsed and replaced by more penultimate realities. She puts it as follows in an interview on her new book (access here):
"Today, for example, it is fashionable to be concerned about the environment, so some Christians are more than happy to talk about the Church's ideas about environmental ethics but they will go very quiet about other Christian teachings. Newman had quite a lot to say about this problem and he called it the tendency of Christians to promote the religion of the world or the religion of the age rather than the undiluted Christianity of the gospels. The German authors speak of a "bourgeois Christianity". They do not mean literally a Christianity of middle class people, but a Christianity that is narrowed down to something that won't challenge the upward social mobility of members of the middle class – a Christianity that won't cause social embarrassment."
The modern Church in the West, with the sword of the Gospel grown rusty in its scabbard of time, is a tired, spent, and bored Church whose accommodation to the ordo of bourgeois modernity has created within it an acedia on steroids that militates against a deep penetration of the Gospel into her life of faith. Another way of saying this is that it is a Church that lives on the surface of things like a cork drifting in the ocean, pitched to and fro, and which drifts in whatever direction the currents of modernity might take it. And like the cork, it sits over an abyss it does not comprehend. It is Bob Dylan's "Rolling Stone" making compromises with the "Mystery Tramp" in the vain hope that this will help it make its way in the world but which is, in reality, a mere shuffling of the same deck of insouciant play acting. Lacking a real faith in the transformative power of grace, the Church has nothing left but "role playing" at Christianity, with all of the outward trappings of its totems of spirituality still in place, but now pressed into service as mere props for its sacramental Kabuki theatre stage show. And like all good stage actors it has an inner eye for observing itself precisely as "acting," self-consciously aware of itself as an imitator of realities it no longer embodies. This is often a cynical affair engaged in for worldly ends and purposes, but it need not be and is often just the last sincere effort to do something, anything, to hold off the abyss. Such role playing may also be just a degraded version of Pascal's wager with the hope being that if we can at least continue acting like "Church" we might just start to believe in it again. But it is all a fragile house of cards and what the priest sex scandal shows us is that the slightest provocation can bring it to ruin in an instant, exposing its fraudulent spiritual quackery.
What I am laboring to say here is nothing profound. The Church mirrors the anomie of the bourgeois cult of pragmatic indifference to deeper realities. The bourgeois soul is content to live on the surface of things and will even grow hostile to any attempt to direct its attention to more profoundly existential questions. I once asked a friend why he never sang anything at Church. He responded that it was because he did not want to appear to be "too religious." "After all", he said, "I am not a nerd." For him, and many like him, "churching" is a hedging of spiritual bets, a contractual whistling past the graveyard, but is not anything we should get "fanatical" about by singing loudly or acting as if we are "too pious." And so our liturgies become a collective act of mimetic indifference riddled with boredom. We are in general a culture of spectators whose chief preoccupation, outside of work, is living in the digital world of fleeting and ever-changing images. And even at work we are immersed in a world of digital connections that follow us everywhere, including our bathrooms at home. We would rather watch someone fishing on a screen than actually to go fishing. And as the ubiquity of pornography shows us, we would rather watch folks having sex than to do the deed ourselves, which seems to many to be dull by comparison.
Marshall McLuhan and his disciples (e.g. Neil Postman) rang the alarm bell decades ago and their warnings were more than the usual jeremiads against techno-somnambulance. What they saw was a culture of bobbing corks and a society of "watchers." Like the character Chauncey Gardiner in the brilliant Peter Seller's movie "Being There" we "like to watch" and our lives, like his, are a role-playing imitation of what we see and little more. We have become a Church of spectators and "watchers" whose mimetic cadences still bear the outward mark of sacramental seriousness, but which in reality have devolved into empty gestures of cul-de-sac piety. The Mormon or Jehovah Witness missionaries who come to our door annoy us, not just because we do not believe in their religion, but mostly because they represent a spatial category error since religious things do not belong on my front porch next to my potted petunias and porcelain gnome. They have dared to violate the unwritten rule of our civil contract concerning matters "religious": keep it trivial baby. The blown bubbles of our religiosity must pop and disappear once they reach three feet from the Church doors.
Section Four: The crisis in the priesthood is a malaise within us all
The crisis in the Church is not, therefore, something that can be fixed with bureaucratic solutions. In fact, the more we go down the path of tinkering with "structures" as the solution to our problems – – synodality, parish reductions and consolidation, seminary reform, curial reform, changes in canon law, optional celibacy, et. al. – – the more we actually compound the problem. These things might all be good things in their own way, including optional celibacy, but to pin our hopes for ecclesial renewal on them is a pseudo gesture of "action" that will do nothing to move the ecclesial needle if they aren't accompanied by serious attempts to overcome our collective acedia. There are many excellent prelates that see this too, but their efforts so far are lost in the cultural inertia that continues to pull us in the opposite direction. And in general, and with due regard to those brave prelates, priests, and lay people who are fighting the good fight, the Church in the West continues to seem clueless in the face of the cultural tsunami that is sweeping over us. Indeed, there seem to be many re-empowered refugees from the sixties and seventies in places of high authority who are intent on calling the tsunami a "rad wave dude" and are turning the ship of the Church to ride it to shore.
And lest people think I am arrogantly sneering at all of those "others" who do not meet my ecclesial expectations let me just say that the reason why I dwell on this topic and come back to again and again, like a dog to its own vomit, is that the spiritual acedia I am droning on about is my chief vice. It has dogged me my entire adult life despite my best efforts and I taste its bitter wormwood toxin every day of my life. I see it in others because I know it first in myself. My words on this page therefore are not an accusatory denunciation of faults in others that I do not think I possess myself. These words are an impassioned cri de couer to my fellow ward mates to rise up and realize what is happening to all of us before we sink into the abyss. Like Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I am, despite an outward appearance of sanity, the craziest of the crazies. But perhaps it takes nut-jobs like me to raise the alarm and to catalyze an escape.
In the Church of spectators I have described the danger resides in the fact that certain outward markers of health remain, but have been hollowed out from within. The life of grace is still there, of course, but it flows off of the hardened surface of the Church like paint rolling off of stainless steel without penetrating. There is an outward "stain" of grace, a patina, a veneer, but the petrified wood beneath resists its deeper coloration. Like a Disney animatronic President things still move and talk and gesture, but it is not the real deal. I myself am a living example of a Catholic animatron who is really good "on stage" but a colossal flop in reality. I am good at "watching," at "play acting, and at "imitation." But ask me to drive you to the airport and suddenly I have Ebola. As one priest friend once said to me, "people still come to Mass, but nobody seems to really believe in anything anymore. And that includes the priests."
And in a Church of spectators the priests too are affected as their youthful zeal is drained out of them and they eventually end up as burned out "watchers" going through the sacramental motions devoid of enthusiasm. A receding tide lowers all boats, including the clerical ones. I tend to think therefore that we lay folk get the clergy that we deserve as we ourselves are the chief breeding ground of the contagion. How many people reading these words know a priest who was once filled with zeal, but after ten years of parish work is now on a mental health sabbatical? How many know of a priest who began with great enthusiasm only to leave the priesthood within the decade of his ordination utterly burned-out, jaded, and filled with resentments? The long hours of thankless toil for a largely indifferent parish, the crushing and debilitating loneliness of single priest rectories, the circuit rider exhaustion of caring for three dying parishes, clueless bishops who bar you from making traditional liturgical changes that might actually have some effect all the while presiding over a diocese that has no problem with "Pride Masses" complete with rainbow flag vestments, all take their toll. A Church that is role-playing at Catholicism ends up with role-playing priests who finally just give up and either settle into the anesthesia of booze and fine food, or worse, retreat into the silent hell of pornography. We can point fingers all we want and accuse such priests of being cry-baby snowflakes who need to "suck it up Nancy" and take one for the team. But these are human beings we are talking about and not ecclesial robots and the martyr's crown we expect them to don has been fashioned from the thistle bush of our own play-acting mediocrity.
It is time to admit frankly and with brutal honesty that our current parish system is just not working. In all that I have written here I am NOT saying that most active parishioners are bad moral agents and horrible Catholics. I am not here, as I have said, to call-out those "others." Because I am part of that group. I am saying that our current way of doing "business" is not working to counteract the baneful influences of our culture and seem instead designed to not rock any cultural boats, to save the appearances, to preserve what is left of the status quo, and to pretend that all is well so long as each parish meets its diocesan assessment on time. I am not saying that our current status as a Church of spectators is something deliberately chosen but is rather the result of a gradual drift. And the failure of the Church as a whole, especially in her leadership, to recognize the crisis at hand which our culture has provoked, is the chief pastoral deficit of our time. Only when we realize this fact will we come to an honest accounting of why Catholics are falling away from the faith in droves with "ex-Catholic" now being one of the largest religious identifiers in our country. We can tinker with new bureaucratic procedures all day long but it will not staunch the hemorrhaging so long as we maintain our blinkered tunnel vision that blinds us to the abyss that is below.
We will still have entities called "parishes" of course but the future parish, if it is to remain viable and to be effective, must be a different sort of animal than what we have now. Do I have a positive proposal for such a parish? In a word, no. I don't think anybody does right now. Perhaps it is something that will simply grow out of the ashes of our current parish system and will take on a form that we cannot as yet imagine. But I do have one positive prescription: future parishes must be intentional communities of evangelical faith. They must act as "islands" of a new, counter-cultural form of discourse that embodies the inner ethos of the Gospel narrative. They cannot be as they are now – – mirrors of the broader culture – – and must be places of nurturing warmth combined with vibrant expectations. And it must be led by priests who are loved, appreciated, supported, and encouraged. We get the clergy we deserve and the clergy need us. More than I think the average lay person understands. Of course, none of that is especially insightful, new, or profound. But it is the best I got right now folks.
Many average Catholics who might read this blog post will perhaps say that it is all too scorched-earth and that they do not recognize their parish in what I describe. But perhaps that is because we have grown too accustomed to the life of the average parish as something banal and unchallenging. Perhaps that is how we like it to be and see it as "normal." But something has to account for the disaffiliation of so many and the crisis of morale that is so endemic to the contemporary priesthood. Something is deeply wrong and everybody knows it who is paying attention. Church weddings are way down, as are baptisms and confirmations. Church attendance has dropped off precipitously even among the affiliated. Religious vocations are still few and far between. I once met a female congregationalist pastor whose "assignment" from her superiors was a "ministry of closure." And what that means is that her job was to act as the pastor for any congregation that was in the process of closing up shop. Her job was to help them with the grief over their loss of their historic church which was no longer sustainable. I remember thinking, "the poor liberal Protestants. Thank God the Catholic Church hasn't reached that state." But it has. And so we need to acknowledge that reality and make a collective decision, together as one, lay and clerical, to do as God commanded St. Francis: "rebuild my Church."
Interview with Larry Chapp and Zac Crippen on the "Creedal" podcast. Topic: Traditionis Custodes (again).
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On Thursday, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fresno gave the first shots from its supply to frontline care providers including nurses, physicians, and respiratory therapists.
COVID-19 nurse Julianna Day was the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine at Kaiser on Thursday.
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Even while wearing a mask, Dr. John Gasman was visibly emotional and fought back tears after receiving the vaccination.
"It's a big deal for America, it's a big deal for the world. I'm very proud that this active community developed this new technique and technology," said Dr. Gasman.
The first shipment of the vaccine arrived at Kaiser after California reported more than 38,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday alone.
The San Joaquin region, like most of the state, is also struggling with record level hospitalizations.
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Along with the Pfizer vaccine, Fresno County is expected to receive nearly 15,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine by the end of December.
Commercial pharmacies such as CVS and Walgreens are also preparing to receive shipments of the vaccine later this month.
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It is easy to say "no" to just about anything that someone thinks is bad. It is equally easy to vote yes on something that appears to be good. In fact, the whole argument is wrapped up in the definition of good and bad. Advocates and detractors alike by their very nature define the terms while speaking. State Question 744 is no exception.
They are both right. State Question 744 will mandate that the State of Oklahoma spend the same average level per student on education as our surrounding neighbors; so, there will be more funding for education in a broader sense. SQ744 also mandates that if those averages rise then so must Oklahoma's; however if the averages fall the rate remains the same and so, it will become an unaffordable mandate.
At best SQ744 will provide monies for education in the same way that the lottery provides monies for education; some money gets to the kids, but the bulk goes elsewhere and it all comes from the same people already being taxed to the limit. At worst, SQ744 ties us to the surrounding states without regard to whether or not Oklahoma can afford it year after year or if the surrounding states are worth becoming attached to. After all Kansas is the second worst in unfunded pensions for government employees, is that the kind of organization we want to compare ourselves to?
The measure also adds a new Article to the Constitution. It sets a minimum average amount the State must annually spend on common schools. It requires the State to spend annually, no less than the average amount spent on each student by the surrounding states. Those surrounding states are Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico. When the average amount spent by surrounding states declines, Oklahoma must spend the amount it spent the year before.
The measure deals with money spent on day-to-day operations of the schools and school districts. This includes spending on instructions, support services and non-instruction services. The measure does not deal with money spent to pay debt, on buildings or on other capital needs.
After seeing several misleading campaign adds for this proposition, I wanted to add another thought about this state question. Do any of the proponents realize that it wouldn't take much to get another state in our "region" to set up a similar law and thus throw us into a infinite feedback loop? For example, if Kansas setup a law requiring their spending to increase when ours did, and then we require an increase when they did and when Texas did; at the first increase of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas would be locked into a ever increasing spending spiral. Just a little more food for thought.


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Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System, Harrisburg, will invest in four alternative investment funds, confirmed Robert Gentzel, spokesman. The $30 billion system committed up to $40 million to Insight Venture Partners VI; up to $40 million to OCM Opportunities VII; up to $40 million to OCM Opportunities VIIb; and up to $60 million in a follow-on investment to the Avenue Special Situations Fund V.
The system will also invest up to $25 million in the AG Asia Realty Fund and an undetermined amount in an inflation-protected mandate with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. Mr. Gentzel said details on the investment will be announced later.


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#include <aws/workmail/model/DescribeUserResult.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/json/JsonSerializer.h>
#include <aws/core/AmazonWebServiceResult.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/StringUtils.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/UnreferencedParam.h>

#include <utility>

using namespace Aws::WorkMail::Model;
using namespace Aws::Utils::Json;
using namespace Aws::Utils;
using namespace Aws;

DescribeUserResult::DescribeUserResult() :
    m_state(EntityState::NOT_SET),
    m_userRole(UserRole::NOT_SET)
{
}

DescribeUserResult::DescribeUserResult(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<JsonValue>& result) :
    m_state(EntityState::NOT_SET),
    m_userRole(UserRole::NOT_SET)
{
  *this = result;
}

DescribeUserResult& DescribeUserResult::operator =(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<JsonValue>& result)
{
  JsonView jsonValue = result.GetPayload().View();
  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("UserId"))
  {
    m_userId = jsonValue.GetString("UserId");

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("Name"))
  {
    m_name = jsonValue.GetString("Name");

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("Email"))
  {
    m_email = jsonValue.GetString("Email");

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("DisplayName"))
  {
    m_displayName = jsonValue.GetString("DisplayName");

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("State"))
  {
    m_state = EntityStateMapper::GetEntityStateForName(jsonValue.GetString("State"));

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("UserRole"))
  {
    m_userRole = UserRoleMapper::GetUserRoleForName(jsonValue.GetString("UserRole"));

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("EnabledDate"))
  {
    m_enabledDate = jsonValue.GetDouble("EnabledDate");

  }

  if(jsonValue.ValueExists("DisabledDate"))
  {
    m_disabledDate = jsonValue.GetDouble("DisabledDate");

  }

  return *this;
}


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REVIEW: Bojack Horseman – Season 6, Part 2
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January 31st marked the release of Netflix's final batch of Bojack Horseman episodes. These last eight episodes had a lot of pressure riding on them; they would need to finish the stories and character arcs set up in the first half of season 6 while also satisfying the expectations of viewers who ...
REVIEW: Bojack Horseman – Season Six, Part One (2019)
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*Warning: Full spoilers ahead* Munir: Bojack Horseman, one of Netflix's best series, has returned for the first part of its final season. While that is undoubtedly sad news, it's better to finish it on a strong note rather than going on endlessly and lose what made the series great. And if there...
REVIEW: Bojack Horseman Season 5 (2018)
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"There are no happy endings, because there's always more show… until there isn't." The Netflix original Bojack Horseman is one of my favorite shows, and as such, I've been eagerly anticipating the release of season five. What I love about this series is that the chara...


I've been reflecting on the row about the Conservatives' decision to break the House of Commons' 'pairing' convention, which matches MPs forced to be absent for votes with an opposing member so they cancel each other out (just as they would if both were present). Lib Dem deputy leader, Jo Swinson, a new mother, was supposed to be paired with the Conservative chairman Brandon Lewis, who at the request of the Conservative chief whip Julian Lewis just happened to make the "honest mistake" of forgetting the arrangement for the two closest votes (wile honouring it for the other seven which didn't matter).
It says a lot about the current government. Not only the dodginess of cheating to win, but also the sheer incompetence of changing its story so often that no-one but Theresa May could maintain the fiction it was actually an "honest mistake", rather than a "calculated deception".
A sensible legislature would allow MPs to vote by proxy (just as we electors can), both removing the bother of pairing and also ensuring MPs' voting records were more transparent. But then a sensible legislature would also not have voted to trigger Article 50, the two-year countdown to Brexit, without having a clue what would happen next or even insisting on a final say. But that's exactly what almost all Conservative and Labour MPs did 18 months' ago so I'm not holding my breath for an outbreak of sensibleness.
Workplace discrimination against new mothers is nothing new, of course. The Pregnant & Screwed campaign records that 54,000 women a year are pushed out of their jobs due to pregnancy or maternity leave, while 77% of working mums have encountered negative or discriminatory treatment at work. And it was experiencing my partner having to find a new job after our first son was born because her then company (female boss, incidentally) made her return-to-work impossible — while my working life glided on pretty much unaffected — which (in part) turned me properly feminist.
The simple fact remains women face an awful lot of structural barriers in everyday life which the other half of us don't. But you'd hope Parliament would try and remedy them, rather than exemplify them.
I've been a loyal Lib Dem member two decades, but there are moments which test my patience. It happened twice this week.
And then secondly, a party email pinged into my inbox from Scottish MP, Christine Jardine, with the subject line: 'Cheating, Lying, Tories'. It wasn't just the superfluous second comma which irritated me, it was the aggressive language. That's the kind of venting I expect from alt-left sites like The Canary and Skwawkbox, not a serious party aspiring to government.
Too many of the people who want something better seem to have mislaid a pretty basic insight: that you find the key to a world beyond Trump, Brexit and our grim version of capitalism not by narcissistically shouting into the void and carrying a placard that says "Prick", but grasping the deep reasons why so many people are all right with those things, and trying to convince them to think slightly differently. Contrary to what you might hear online, to do so is not to surrender, but to honour a basic leftwing principle I once saw stitched on to a Welsh trade union banner: "Civility always; servility never".
Civility always; servility never. That's a 'leftwing' principle I can sign up to.
So why aren't the Lib Dems doing better in the polls? It's a question I get asked a lot, as the Lib Dems pootle along at 7-8%, despite there apparently being a sizeable chunk of the electorate crying out for a progressive, moderate, Remain-committed party.
Put simply and bluntly, the Lib Dems are currently a sideshow.
Can the party stop Brexit? No (though obviously turning up to vote against it is a necessary first step).
Can the party overturn Brexit? No. The action, for the moment at least, is elsewhere, as Nick Clegg frankly admitted last year: "for as long as parliament is dominated by Labour and Conservative MPs, it is undoubtedly true that what happens within the two larger establishment parties is of the greatest importance".
There's no easy answer to this. The reality is the Lib Dems' prospects are not in the party's own hands at the moment (which isn't to say there's nothing that can be improved in the party's performance; but there needs to be realism about what impact such improvements could exert).
I suspect it'll need an external shock — such as a new mainstream centre party breaking out from the current 'Labservative' duopoly — to get the Lib Dems back in the game. Otherwise, I can't help feeling it's a case of long-haul, incremental, hard slog… sorry.
I've been reading 'The great academy schools scandal', by the Observer's Sonia Sodha on the huge educational experiment of 'academisation', started under Labour but driven by the Conservatives, by which some 7,500 state-funded schools (roughly one-third of them) have become independent of their local authority.
This 'creative disruption' — rooted in ideological distaste for local authorities, part of the so-called progressive education "blob" Michael Gove decried — was supposed to unleash innovative excellence which would (somehow) ripple out across England's 20,000 schools. The reality?
… it hasn't quite happened like that in practice. There have been several studies in the past few years that have invariably reached similar conclusions: there doesn't appear to be an inherent benefit to a school being run by an academy chain instead of a local authority. "There are a handful of trusts achieving amazing things, but a much longer tail of trusts performing really poorly," says [Prof. Becky] Francis. Her analysis shows six in 10 academy chains have below-average attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Pre-1997, Tony Blair observed that good education was about "standards, not structures", and he was right. The key point about structures has always been how to build proper accountability into the schools system, twinned with the capacity to improve schools which are failing their pupils.
Accountability we get (to some extent) through national testing and Ofsted. But school improvement capacity has become the victim of politicians' tinkering. Instead of building out from the successful local education authorities, while simultaneously challenging the under-performing ones, the Conservatives simply threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Result? We still have a patchwork of school performance, but with far less capacity to fix it.
I've survived my first two full weeks back at work, after the privilege of my two months' shared parental leave. I miss my time with the boys, though the blow's been softened by realising I have a stockpile of annual leave which means I can work '9 day fortnights' for the rest of the year. Here's a photo of how I put last week's extra day to good use.
No, we are not "pootling along at 7-8%"; an average of the last 10 Polls gives us 9.2%, accuracy is important. Sorry if I sound grumpy, I cant handle the heat.


I still remember the day I had a very difficult meeting scheduled. Two people I were responsible for had miserably failed to do some important tasks and, as a result, a large project was held up. I woke up that morning dreading the day to come. I visualized the meeting being absolutely terrible, and I was sure I would be let go because of the problems. I did not lose my job that day, but the meeting did go as bad as I had visualized. And I realized later that I had helped to make it bad. That was one of the situations that helped me to see that my mind will work to accomplish what I think about, good or bad. Now, each morning when I wake up, I visualize my day as being a great day. I imagine the meetings I will go to being happy and productive. I see myself doing my work and enjoying it, no matter what it is. I see in my mind's eye customers that are happy because of what I accomplished, whether I actually see them or not. There are still problems that come up, but I have noticed that I now have less stress in difficult situations. And I enjoy helping others to see positive outcomes when big problems come up. I attribute that to changing the way I see my day when I wake up.


If we've learned anything from the Leno/Conan debacle, it's the value of a well written contract. We talk to one entertainment lawyer and find out exactly what he does to earn his 5 percent. Plus, the author of About a Boy and High Fidelity didn't write the movies based on his novels, but he did write the script to An Education. Nick Hornby tells us why.


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Giving back to the communities where our customers and employees live and work is in Comcast's DNA. This commitment goes beyond providing financial support to nonprofit organizations and includes employees contributing their time and expertise to serve on boards, get involved in community initiatives, mentor, hold food/shoe drives, and so much more.
Xfinity recently sponsored the Burlington Vermont Penguin Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics, Vermont. To further raise funds and awareness for the cause, nearly two dozen of our pluckiest employees formed a team and collected over $10,000 in donations.
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And in Western Massachusetts, dozens of Comcast technicians commemorate Memorial Day each year by helping to place American flags at the graves of fallen and passed servicemen and women at Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Agawam. Connecticut and Vermont employees help with similar events for Memorial Day and during the Holidays.
Our most ambitious volunteer event of the year is coming up on Saturday, May 4th, when our entire company will come together for a celebration of service during our 18th annual Comcast Cares Day. Comcast Cares Day is one of the largest corporate commitments to volunteerism and, to date, more than one million Comcast Cares Day volunteers have contributed over 6 million service hours to improve local communities at more than 10,000 projects around the world.
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Q: Can you explicitly set a structure layout/alignment in C++ as you can in C#? In C# you have nice alignment attributes such as this:
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
public struct Message
{
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    public int a;
    [FieldOffset(4)]
    public short b;
    [FieldOffset(6)]
    public int c;
    [FieldOffset(22)] //Leave some empty space just for the heck of it.
    public DateTime dt;

}

Which gives you fine control on how you need your structure to be layed out in memory. Is there such a thing in standard C++?

A: Compilers typically support that via a #pragma but it's not something that is included in the C++ standard and, thus, is not portable.
For an example with the Microsoft compiler, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2e70t5y1(VS.80).aspx

A: Hmya, it's rather backwards: you need the attribute in C# so that you can match the structure alignment chosen by a native code compiler.  And [FieldOffset] is only really needed to deal with unions.
But you can achieve that kind of layout pretty easily by inserting the padding yourself:
#pragma pack(push, 1)
public struct Message
{
    int a;
    short b;
    int c;
    char padding1[12];
    long long dt;
}
#pragma pack(pop)

A: You can use "#pragma pack" compiler directive.  For Microsoft Compilers look here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2e70t5y1%28VS.80%29.aspx   for GCC google is your firend.
Also take a look at the align directive at the bottom of the page

A: I'm not familiar with C# alignment attributes, so can't be sure about this, but this looks a lot like C++ (and C) "bit fields".

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Dyngus Day marks the end of the somewhat restrictive observance of Lent with a let-loose party worthy of the joy of Easter. Over the decades, the Easter Monday holiday has become a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Polish and other Eastern European culture and heritage.
Dyngus Day, or Wet Monday (Polish Śmigus-Dingus or lany poniedziałek), is the name for Easter Monday. Historically a Polish tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the observance of Lent and the joy of Easter. Over the decades, Dyngus Day has become a wonderful holiday to celebrate Polish-American culture, cuisine, and traditions. Dyngus Day Cleveland also wants to celebrate Polka heritage at the event with their host DJ Kishka and a lineup of polka bands from 10am-9:30pm in Gordon Square. 2019 will mark the festival's 9th anniversary in Cleveland.
*Authentic Food and Drink; *Polka Karaoke with DJ Kenny from 6-9pm; characture artist.
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But while I was finding solutions for everyone else, I faced one myself that I couldn't seem to fix. My weight. I had been gaining 1 to 2 pounds every year for most of my adult life, and the pounds had piled up to a critical stage. It wasn't that I hadn't tried to stop the weight gain. In fact, I applied my usual drive and dedication to this life project—exercising regularly and eating all the "right" diet foods. But no matter what I tried—even when I was running hard and eating the fewest number of calories I could manage–nothing changed. I was still gaining 1 to 2 pounds a year.
My body seemed to be programmed for this weight gain. It was if my metabolic switch was stuck on OFF. And guess what? There really was a switch and it really was turned OFF. Who knew?
I learned how to flip the switch, and it changed my life.
When I hunkered down and started doing my homework, meeting with doctors, nutritionists and trainers, I discovered an important key about my physiology that changed everything: From the time I was born, my body was designed to store the food I was eating as fat rather than burn it as energy. And it wasn't just my problem. I learned that 1 out of 3 Americans (over 100 million people!) were also programmed to store fat rather than burn it.
Our metabolism is like a finely tuned machine. When we fuel it with the wrong foods, it shuts OFF the fat burning switch and begins to store fat. But when we consume the right fuel, the switch flips ON and we become fat burning machines. And those foods aren't necessarily the ones you'd expect! Most "diet" foods are fat-storers. I'd always believed that the weight gain was my fault—that I was doing something wrong. Now I realized that I'd been doing exactly what I'd been told to do, and the diets were to blame, not me.
A diet of high-octane foods guaranteed to burn fat.
A calibrated exercise program, geared to "miracle intervals"—short bursts of intensity with longer cooling off periods.
A schedule of meals and snacks to keep the engine running throughout the day.
Avoidance of foods that will turn off the fat burning switch.
Now, instead of gaining 1 to 2 pounds a year, it's possible to lose 1 to 2 pounds a week! Becoming a Fat Burning Machine changed my life. And losing weight wasn't the only benefit. Not only am I fitter, I've lost years. People tell me I look 10 years younger, and my skin is healthy and well toned. Mood swings and food cravings have completely disappeared. I sleep better and wake up feeling great. I have all the energy I need to continue being an effective problem solver for others. And this is one big problem I can help you solve. All you have to do is flip the switch.


CLERMONT, FLA. – SUNY Geneseo first-year Alyssa Persich had four hits on the day and senior Mikayla Moore and first-year Taylor Moore each notched pitching wins as the Knights' softball team opened its season with a pair of victories in Clermont, Fla. Geneseo (2-0) defeated Transylvania (Ky.) 1-0 in the first game and followed up with a 5-0 victory over New England College.
Mikayla Moore (1-0) struck out 10 for her sixth-career shutout and scored the game's only run, while Persich had two hits, one which drove in the game-winning RBI in the season-opening win over Transylvania.
The Knights recorded their lone tally in the top of the third, bunching two of their four hits for the game. Moore led off the inning with a walk and one out later advanced to second on a single by junior Jacqueline Santilli. Persich then drove in Moore with a base hit to right center. The Knights almost added more that inning, loading the bases with one out after sophomore Emily Martin drew a base on balls, but couldn't increase the margin.
Moore preserved the lead in the bottom of the frame, working out a bases-loaded, one-out situation by striking out the last two Pioneer batters of the inning. She stranded another Transylvania runner who represented the tying run in the bottom of the fifth. With a runner on third with one out, she got the final two batters on a fly out and strikeout. For the game she allowed five hits, with three walks and one hit batsman.
The Knights had another threat in the fifth, when Persich tripled down the left-field line with one out, but was subsequently picked off third by the Transylvania catcher. First-year Anna Merante had the Knights' only other hit, a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning.
The Knights' offense awoke early in the second game, scoring one in the first and breaking the game open with four tallies in the second inning. Pitcher Taylor Moore (1-0) recorded the win and had two RBI, while senior Cat Krok had two hits and two RBI and Persich had two hits and two runs.
Geneseo struck first with a solo tally in the first inning. Persich led off the bottom of the inning with a single down the right field line, and one out later, after a hit by Krok and a Pilgrims' error, the Knights had the bases loaded. New England got the second out on a popup, but first-year Danni Napoli followed with an infield single, plating Persich and giving Geneseo a 1-0 lead.
The Knights added to their lead in their next at-bat, scoring all four runs after two outs. With junior Marisa Motisi (on board via error) and Persich (single) on second and third, Krok's infield single scored both. After a double by first-year Taylor Fedor put two more in scoring position, Moore followed with a single to score Fedor and Crok. Geneseo almost had more that inning, but senior Jenna Phillips, who led off the inning with a single, was thrown out at home after the hit by Persich.
Geneseo continues its Florida play with two games on Monday, March 14th. The Knights will face Rensselaer at 9 a.m., followed by a contest against Norwich at 11 a.m.


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The Raven: Remastered Review
Reviews January 26, 2019	by Alonza	0Comments
The Raven: Remastered
Genre- Adventure
Number of Players- 1 Player
Publisher- THQ Nordic
Developer- King Art
Release Date- Jan. 22, 2019
The Raven Remastered from KING Art Games, the creators of the Book of Unwritten Tales
series, is a thrilling crime adventure set across continents that has you constantly
questioning everything and everyone as you try to catch the culprit. You'll progress
through the game from the perspective of multiple characters as the plot unfolds and
you gather more information and clues as to who did it. Although, some of the characters
you'll encounter may seem straight forward, it quickly becomes evident that not everything
is as it seems. With plenty of surprises that will constantly keep you on your toes as it's
sure to keep you guessing as you round every corner thinking you've solved the mystery of
"The New Raven". Some of the characters you'll encounter will surely make you give them a
second guess almost immediately as they definitely have a certain "shadiness" about them,
while others will seem helpful almost to a fault.
KING Art really did well when it comes to the voice work in this game, with plenty of comical
and quirky quips from the characters that you encounter. You'll likely develop some pretty quick
ideas about the characters simply based on the way they interact with you, but just remember as I
said before, not everything is as it seems. Everyone is hiding something, and no matter what you
think you know, the Raven is always at least a few steps ahead of you. With a well written story
that will keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat, The Raven Remastered is definitely a top
notch who-dunnit that could be likened to a playable crime mystery novel with what seems to be a
very heavy influence from authors such as Agatha Christie. This becomes evident fairly quickly
from the start as you find that one of the passengers, an archaeologist, mysteriously gets locked
out of his cabin on none other than The Orient Express, one of the more recognizable settings
for any fan of Christie's work. To be quite honest, The Raven Remastered will keep you coming back
for more, especially if you're a crime mystery fan.
While listed as an adventure game The Raven Remastered is more akin to the point and click games
of yesteryear than modern adventure games as it is choice based and lacks today's heavy (and arguably
sometimes over used) use of quick time events that we've become accustomed to with modern adventure
games. Not that this is a bad thing, it's actually quite refreshing since most "adventure" games today
are more cinematic and very action based. It definitely goes to show that not every adventure needs to
be a "run and gun" action packed endeavor that could very well be confused with a Hollywood blockbuster
in many ways. This is sure to be an adventure that will keep you thinking just as much as it keeps you
entertained and on the edge of your seat as the story unfolds in many unexpected ways!
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This particular approach blends massage therapy and various diagnostic techniques to target all of your musculoskeletal ailments.
Dianne uses techniques that focus on your trigger points, old or existing sports injury treatments, along with myofascial release and lymphatic drainage. Using remedial massage, Dianne assesses your symptoms and anatomy, and then uses diagnostic techniques for the most effective massage. Also incorporated is Trigger Point Therapy. A massage therapy which consists of alternating different levels of concentrated pressure on the areas of muscle pain. Recommended for pain management.
The goal is to relax the muscles, improve joint mobillity and enchance range of motion which can also help lower blood pressure, boost endorphin production and reduce stress. The primary objective is to improve your overal health and help your body heal itself.
Therapeutic massage is especially helpful to treat a number of ailments and Dianne will tailor each session to your individual needs. It is a combination of relaxation massage and Remedial Massage to not only relax your whole body but the same time work through some of the muscle issues or tight spots you may be experiencing.
This technique uses smooth hot stones to deliver effective tissue and muscle massage.
The stones are warmed which relaxes muscles and increases blood flow that accelerates the healing process. Cold stones can also be used to reduce inflammation in swollen areas. Stone massage is detoxifying and can rebalance the male and female energies to restore harmony to your body.


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Memorial Gallery / Charles E. Heath
Charles E. Heath
August 07, 1922 – July 20, 2013
Our Dad
Charles Edwin Heath Sr., born August 7, 1922, in Redondo Beach, to Ernest Heath Sr. and Ora Vee Spaulding Heath in a modest house much as he would always chose for his family. Ernest Heath had come from a small town, Dunham, in northern Illinois and Ora Spaulding had come from a VERY small town Fairmount, North Dakota. They met in Inglewood, California where his mother worked at her father's lumber business. His mother's father was listed as the FIRST Town Recorder of the City of Inglewood.
The family moved to Inglewood when Chuck was four years old, attending, Inglewood schools while showing, at age SEVEN, a proclivity for golf. He built his own "course" across the creek and street of then-tiny Manchester Blvd., chipping with old hickory clubs to "holes" he created. He would go on to be the only FOUR YEAR letterman with four rings on his golf sweater, but first growing up in Inglewood was interrupted by a close call with Strep Throat. His two uncles were early pharmacists in Inglewood and helped out.
Dad finished Inglewood High School in 1940 and attended Compton Junior College, where the love of his life actually attended without his knowing it. They met in the remote town of June Lake in the Eastern Sierras, where Mildred Alice Bronner was a grocery checker and he was helping supervise young people.
Chuck worked a couple of different jobs, learned welding and acted as golf caddy so he could get easier access to the links. He practiced his golf and was considered a candidate to "go pro", though some told him he had the TALENT, but not the TEMPERAMENT. One day the local undertaker asked him to come to work at funerals and ambulance, and the die was cast. Chuck was in that funeral office "Monday morning sharp" as the story is told, and was attending embalming college downtown Los Angeles within the month. He graduated and placed second on his state exams, beaten by just one point by a man he would later regularly purchase funeral supplies from.
Chuck worked the busy duties of husband and father after he and Mildred were married in a church, in Compton on July 15, 1944, while continuing to work in the funeral field. He and Mildred had four children and lived in Inglewood, south Central Los Angeles and upon purchase of their home to this day, moved to Inglewood in 1955. Chuck partnered with two other men and began designing a funeral home, which his powerful current employers told him would not succeed under their "influence". Indeed he had to borrow start up funds from friends and family, because no bank would lend them, however old Inglewood Mayor George England believed and sold them his old chinchilla ranch farmhouse for the funeral home. Those many friends received generous interest and repayment for their trust and support.
George took more than six months AFTER the opening to finally remove his last barn and horse from the property at Centinela and Eucalyptus.
His 1952 funeral home prospered thanks to the trust of the community, and he remodeled and added his Garden Chapel in 1962. The community responded to the new facility and the remainder is history. He retained an interest in the control and quality of the business until his last day on our Earth, when he visited the office, taking chocolate from the staff which was purposefully left out for him, and attending one of his funerals. He had planned to personally direct TODAY the service of a church friend. The staff at Inglewood Mortuary were like family. They too will miss him.
Chuck and Mildred were 50 year members of Fairview Heights Baptist Church. Dad passed on Saturday, July 20, 2013, in his sleep. He went to bed after a great day, fell asleep and stepped into Heaven. He got his wish. We're sure Mom was waiting for him with open arms and a huge smile. They have been rejoined in Heaven praising their Lord and waiting for us.
Inglewood Mortuary- Family Ownership and Service Since 1952
1206 Centinela Avenue
July 27, 2013 • 1:00pm
The Homegoing Celebration
Inglewood Mortuary- Garden Chapel
The Reverend Fred Masted Pastor, Weschester Lutheran Church
Inglewood Park Cemetery
720 East Florence Avenue
God bless you Mr. Heath. You buried my parents, grandparents and great grandparents. You went to Inglewood High with my parents. You were always a consummate gentleman. Thank you for being there during our time of need. May you rest in peace. Sincerely, Karen Miller
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What do you think about Vocational Education and Training?
Vocational Education and Training (VET) is of great importance for one's professional development; both on the work-based learning level, in order to prepare one for the labour market, and on the level of improving one's skills, so as to become more competitive.
Apart from that, or rather because of that, VET is EU's "tool" to maintain its high competitiveness, within a globalized and intensely competitive environment, as it is noted in the relevant Cedefop research1.
However, even though VET's significance is widely recognized, there are member states that have not achieved the goals set by the EU.
Therefore, European policies have developed certain action plans, to make the EU citizens more aware of VET's importance.
In order such actions to be successful, we have to know what the EU citizens think about VET.
Such knowledge contributes significantly to the shaping of more efficient ways to inform the citizens regarding VET and, consequently, increase their participation in it.
For that reason, Cedefop made an opinion survey, which covered 35,646 EU citizens that belong to various social and demographic groups, aged 15 years and older.
The findings are particularly interesting and shed light on people's attitude towards VET. Some of those results are the following:
86% has heard of VET before the interview (71% said it both heard and knew what it is).
When asked about several aspects of VET, they usually associate it with the preparation for a specific occupation, or with a working or school environment. In addition, it was associated with continuous professional development.
48% of those who had received primarily general education said that they had received information about VET when they were deciding on upper secondary education. Three out of four (72%) that followed VET said that they had taken information about it before their decision.
One out of four who followed general education said that he/she was advised against VET, but the proportion varies from country to country (Hungary has the highest proportion, 51%, while the Netherlands has the lowest, 9%).
Most of them (86%) agree that in VET one learns skill needed by employers.
67% said that VET leads to finding a job quickly, while 61% said that VET leads to well-paid jobs.
In sum, the survey revealed that there is a positive attitude towards VET in all EU member states, especially regarding the acquisition of relevant professional skills. Particularly, in periods of crisis, when unemployment leads to professional inactivity, VET is an efficient way to re-enter the labour market.
Michalis Katsimitsis
1 Cedefop, Cedefop European Public Opinion Survey on Vocational Education and Training, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2017.
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HC Spartak Velká Bíteš (celým názvem: Hockey Club Spartak Velká Bíteš) je český klub ledního hokeje, který sídlí ve Velké Bíteši v Kraji Vysočina. Založen byl v roce 1955. Od sezóny 2007/08 působí v Jihomoravské a Zlínské krajské lize, čtvrté české nejvyšší soutěži ledního hokeje. Klubové barvy jsou modrá a žlutá.

Své domácí zápasy odehrává na zimním stadionu Velká Bíteš s kapacitou 1 700 diváků.

Historie

Bítešské počátky hokeje se datují k roku 1955, kdy založil klub HC Spartak Velká Bíteš místní občan a hokejista Lubomír Holík. V tomto roce byl sestaven i hokejový tým, jehož byl sám členem. Hokejisté se pravidelně účastnili okresních a později i krajských mistrovských soutěží.

V sezóně 1983–1984 nastoupil bítešský tým poprvé v jihomoravském přeboru mužů. Dalším významným datem se stal rok 1986, kdy byl otevřen zimní stadion s umělou plochou na ulici Tyršova. Zde bylo odehráno mnoho utkání se známými rivaly, jako je Třebíč, Jihlava, Znojmo, Rosice, Náměšť nad Oslavou či Nedvědice. Na jaře roku 2000 začala rozsáhlá rekonstrukce zimního stadionu, které se týkalo také zastřešení haly. O rok později postoupili hokejisté Velké Bíteše do 2. národní hokejové ligy. Město reprezentovali v této lize po celých 6 let. Tento postup je bezpochyby nejvýznamnější historický úspěch v téměř šedesátileté historii bítešského hokeje.

Od roku 2007 se klub (především díky ekonomické náročnosti) vrátil do Krajské ligy mužů Jižní Moravy a Zlína, kde se každoročně umísťuje na předních příčkách. Kromě A mužstva působí ve Velké Bíteši i B-tým, který je nedílnou součástí oddílu. Hokejisté B-týmu odehráli již několik sezón v krajské soutěži, ve které podávají stabilní výkony a umísťují se v horních patrech tabulky.

Hokejovou základnu tvoří již od 90. let hráči nejen z Velkobítešska, ale i blízkého okolí. V současnosti je práce s mládeží realizována za pomocí kvalifikovaných místních trenérů, kteří mají bohaté zkušenosti z krajské mládežnické soutěže Vysočiny. Někteří odchovanci působí v současnosti také v týmech Komety Brno a Dukly Jihlava.

V roce 2015 hokejový klub HC Spartak Velká Bíteš oslavil 60. výročí od vzniku založení žlutomodrého týmu.

Přehled ligové účasti

Stručný přehled

Zdroj:

 2000–2001: Jihomoravský krajský přebor (4. ligová úroveň v České republice)
 2001–2004: 2. liga – sk. Východ (3. ligová úroveň v České republice)
 2004–2005: 2. liga – sk. Střed (3. ligová úroveň v České republice)
 2005–2007: 2. liga – sk. Východ (3. ligová úroveň v České republice)
 2007– : Jihomoravská a Zlínská krajská liga (4. ligová úroveň v České republice)

Jednotlivé ročníky

Zdroj:

Legenda: ZČ - základní část, JMK - Jihomoravský kraj, červené podbarvení - sestup, zelené podbarvení - postup, fialové podbarvení - reorganizace, změna skupiny či soutěže

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Externí odkazy

 Oficiální stránky
 HC Spartak Velká Bíteš na vysledky.lidovky.cz

Velká Bíteš
Velká Bíteš
Velká Bíteš
Sportovní kluby v okrese Žďár nad Sázavou

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Week Of November 28th- December 2, 2022
On November 28, 2022 By Parkview PS
It's hard to believe that December is already here! With the colder weather, please ensure students are coming to school dressed appropriately (hats, mitts/gloves, boots, winter coats, snow pants, etc.). Also ensure that your child has a pair of indoor shoes and a change of clothes, including extra socks. Please remember to label all items.
Just a friendly reminder, students should NOT be arriving to school prior to 8:15am there is no supervision. The school parking lot is for staff only – this is to help ensure student safety. Please park on the city streets where parking is permitted.
It is important to check www.schoolbuscity.com for bussing times, the site is updated to inform families of late bus arrivals.
Grade 3 Gifted Screening: Grade 3 gifted screening will be taking place this week. Please inform the office via email if you do not wish for your child to participate in the gifted screening assessment.
Warm in Winter Drive: Our Warm and Winter Drive continues this week! We will continue to collect new winter items (e.g., hats, mitts, scarves, socks, winter coats and snowpants) in order to donate them to children in need. Many thanks for your ongoing support!
Sports Jersey Day: This coming Wednesday will be Sports Jersey Day! Students can show school spirit by wearing the jersey or shirt of their favourite sports team, a team jersey if you play for team outside of school, or any of Parkview's school colours (i.e., red, black, grey, or white).
Masking in Schools and Preparing for Severe Weather: This is a reminder to families regarding masking practices at school and the steps taken when severe weather occurs.
Masking in Schools
Yesterday, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health strongly recommended that individuals wear masks in indoor settings. We continue to consult with York Region Public Health, who are strongly recommending masking in indoor settings. York Region schools and workplaces continue to be mask friendly environments and masking is strongly encouraged in YRDSB schools and buildings, and on all forms of school transportation. All students, staff, families and visitors who choose to wear a mask, or who are advised or required to wear a mask will be supported in doing so. A limited number of masks are available; children who wish to wear a mask but do not have access to one, may contact their school.
School Transportation Cancellations
School transportation (buses and taxis) may be cancelled due to extreme cold or inclement weather. On these days, schools will remain open unless otherwise stated. If school transportation is cancelled in the morning, it will also be cancelled in the afternoon. Any special or hot lunch days and field trips will also be cancelled.
Families should use their best judgment to decide whether to send their children to school on extreme cold or inclement weather days. Students will not be penalized for missing school on those days. For safety reasons, please let the school know if your child will not be attending school that day.
Emergency closures will be considered when conditions may not be safe for students and staff members to attend school for the full day. This may include events that significantly limit school operations or access to the school site (e.g., widespread, prolonged power failures or downed power lines).
In keeping with our current practice, we will continue to keep our schools open as much as possible. However, it is important that families have alternate childcare arrangements
planned for the rare occasions when schools may be closed. Before and aftercare programs will not operate if schools are closed.
Communication to Families
Decisions about school transportation and school closures will be made as early as possible and no later than 6:00 a.m. We will do our best to notify families in advance when we may be considering closing school and Board offices. Transportation cancellations or school closures are communicated through:
– Student Transportation Services – www.schoolbuscity.com or 1-877-330-3001
– Board and school websites
– @YRDSB Twitter account
– Radio and TV media outlets
For more information on severe weather days, please visit our website www.yrdsb.ca.
Parent/Caregiver Series Supporting Students of Chinese Heritage: This series will provide a number of parent/caregiver in-person and web events to build community, support mental health, and promote healing.
The first session (November 29th) in the series is offered for any parent/guardian of students of Chinese Heritage. Parents and caregivers are invited to come together to hear encouraging words about positive mental health and wellness. This will be a free virtual event. Here is a flyer for the upcoming event. Registration is available in both Cantonese and Mandarin.
December 5th – 11th: Computer Science Education Week & Hour of Code
November 21st-25th, 2022
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HomeSally Ride: The First to Break Gender Stereotype in Space Exploration.
Sally Ride: The First to Break Gender Stereotype in Space Exploration.
By Gourav Hota
The first American man, send to space was Alan Shepard, Jr. in the year 1961. Sadly it took more than two-decade to send a woman in space. Breaking the gender barrier, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in the year 1983.
Sally Kristen Ride was more than just an astronaut, who was born on May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles. She was a physicist and engineered as well as she became part of Stanford University and the University of California.
The ride was the third woman in space, preceded only by USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). But she is the youngest American astronaut, having done so that at the age of 32.
Her journey started when she saw an advertisement in the Stanford student newspaper about the space program. This was the first time NASA was taking women for space exploration. She applied for it and was selected for the astronaut program as a part of NASA Astronaut Group 8 in 1978.
Out of 8,000 applicants, she was one of the 35 selected people. Finally, when her training was over, on June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space. She was the member of the crew on the space shuttle Challenger for STS-7.
Flying twice to space, she left NASA in 1987 and started another exciting journey of her life. She died on 23rd July 2012 because of pancreatic cancer.
Her death was a terrible loss for the scientific community as well as for her family. But breaking the gender stereotype, she inspired millions for space exploration and also for other fields.
Gourav Hota