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Promoting solar — and a 'kingdom'
Lifestyle // Living Green S.A.
Clean energy mission shares time with Hawaiian sovereignty quest.
Brian Chasnoff, Staff Writer
Nov. 5, 2011 Updated: Nov. 18, 2014 4:41 p.m.
Lanny Sinkin is executive director of Solar San Antonio, founded by his father. He's also a central figure, he says, in Kingdom of Hawaii politics, routinely advising the self-styled king.
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Lanny Sinkin (left), who took over at Solar San Antonio in 2009, gets ready to leave for work from the apartment he shared with his father, Bill Sinkin (in reflection at right), who founded the alternative energy nonprofit in 1999. Asked about the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, the elder Sinkin replied, "I'm just a bystander." Bill Sinkin, a San Antonio civic icon, died Feb. 3, 2014, at age 100.
Lanny Sinkin, the Executive Director of Solar San Antonio and the chief advocate and spiritual adviser to self-styled Hawaiian king Edmund Keli'i Silva Jr., gets ready for work.
Lanny Sinkin, the Executive Director of Solar San Antonio and the chief advocate and spiritual adviser to Edmund Keli'i Silva Jr., talks with Silva about a story he had just read about him in Pasadena Weekly.
Lanny Sinkin (background) shares a moment with his father.
A few years before Lanny Sinkin became the leader of a local nonprofit that advocates for solar power, he flew to Washington and knocked on the door of the White House with a document that would prove an even harder sell than investments in solar panels.
It was a declaration that the Kingdom of Hawaii had seceded from the United States.
"I said, 'I have a package I want to deliver to the president,'" Sinkin said, smiling through his white beard at the memory. "Well, the Secret Service was on me, taking me inside to an interrogation room, going through the package, asking me all kinds of questions: 'What is this kingdom stuff?'"
Sinkin never received a response from then-President George W. Bush. But he says that doesn't matter.
The Kingdom of Hawaii, illegally overthrown by the United States more than a century ago, has been restored, he says, and a king, to whom Sinkin serves as chief advocate and spiritual adviser whenever he's not running Solar San Antonio, is in place.
The "king," Edmund Keli'i Silva Jr., a fisherman and kung fu instructor on the island of Oahu, is also a convicted felon who served 13 years in prison for stealing more than half a million dollars.
But such a criminal history has only strengthened Sinkin's faith that Silva is king. His imprisonment, he says, was a political conspiracy on par with the United States' theft of the Hawaiian islands.
"The kingdom never went away," Sinkin said. "The kingdom government got dissolved. Now the kingdom government has been reactivated."
A former environmental attorney, Sinkin once sued Bush on behalf of "the Cetacean Community" — whales — over the use of underwater sonar. An appeals court ruled that animals could not file lawsuits.
His father, the bow-tied, 98-year-old Bill Sinkin, is a civic hero who founded Solar San Antonio in 1999.
Lanny Sinkin, 65, took over as executive director in 2009.
The son's other full-time job as a figure in an arguably fictitious kingdom is news to many in the local clean energy community. But his declaration of sovereignty, an assertion made by at least a dozen other groups in Hawaii claiming to have restored kingdoms and installed kings, is nothing new to Hawaiians.
"The immediate response is, 'Not another group,'" said Walter Heen, a native Hawaiian and retired judge who has served in an array of public positions in Hawaii, including U.S. attorney.
"In terms of international law, they're right," Heen said. "This was an overthrow of a kingdom by the United States, and under international law, you cannot take away a nation's sovereignty in that manner."
Despite an official apology by Congress on the 100th anniversary of the 1893 overthrow, Heen does not share Lanny Sinkin's optimism that the United States is on the verge of withdrawing.
"Good luck," he said. "It all boils down to geopolitics. The United States is not going to give up hegemony over the Hawaiian Islands. It's too important strategically."
Search for the king
Sinkin's quest to regain a lost civilization began with plutonium in deep space.
As an attorney at the Christic Institute, a now-defunct public interest law firm in Washington, Sinkin fought a 1980s bid by NASA to launch a plutonium-powered probe to Jupiter.
"The people in Florida were like, 'I don't think so. We've already lost one space shuttle,'" Sinkin said. "With 50 pounds of plutonium, it's 'Goodbye world.'"
When the institute instead imploded, Sinkin moved to Portland and lingered, broke. Later, he got a call from a whistleblower in the NASA case, who was concerned about a plan to build a space launch facility in Hawaii.
Sinkin was flown to the islands to testify against its construction and swiftly fell in love — with a woman and the land. He moved there and stayed for 17 years, establishing an animal sanctuary, among other pursuits.
"The two major involvements with the Hawaiian community were the sovereignty movement and involvement with an ancient Hawaiian religion emerging from hiding after 120 years," Sinkin said. "It's called the Temple of Lono. I was their attorney and was invited in for ceremony."
In the sovereignty movement, Sinkin met a native "elder," Samuel Kaluna Jr., who was conducting an exhaustive search for the heir to Hawaii's throne. While the king might have been missing, Kaluna himself was known to Hawaii's department of commerce and consumer affairs.
Someone lodged a complaint against Kaluna in 2001 for opening an online exchange purporting to sell $1 billion in "Hawaiian Kingdom Treasury tax-free bonds," said Tung Chan, the department's commissioner.
"That's what they called them," Chan said. "I don't know what they were actually selling."
The Royal Kupuna Exchange vanished in 2002 after the state agency sent Kaluna a warning letter. Sinkin says he was unaware of the bonds gambit when the late Kaluna made a request of him in 2005.
"He said, 'We've formed our own government, we've adopted a constitution and we've issued a proclamation. And we've selected a king,'" Sinkin said. "I said, 'Well, this is pretty remarkable. What can I do to help?'
"And he said, 'Well, we want you to get the king out of jail.'"
Convict
In 1996, King Keli'i Silva was sentenced to 24 years in state prison for theft by deception.
As Sinkin tells the story, the charge arose after a friend gave Silva about $500,000 to invest in a martial arts business and a real estate company and then asked for the money back.
As a police officer tells it in an affidavit, Silva persuaded a woman to loan him more than $568,000 and then delayed paying her back, saying he was "trying to get a key from the bottom of the sea for a safe deposit box containing her money," according to the Denver Post.
It wasn't his only encounter with the law. In 1990, the Denver Post also reported Silva had been arrested in Fort Collins, Colo., for a series of frauds and thefts amounting to $100,000.
In prison, Silva sent grievances to the warden, saying "he was part of a sovereign nation and that he didn't need to go by our rules," said Katherine Sanguinetti, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections.
Silva, 57, claims he is a direct descendant of two former kings of Hawaii. Softspoken on the phone, he recalled meeting Sinkin in prison.
"He sat down with me," Silva said. "He looked like a person who lived out of a suitcase, his clothes all wrinkled. But he was full of light and full of energy."
Sinkin helped Silva win parole in 2005, and the "king" returned to his "kingdom."
"His Chinese animal's a horse," Sinkin said. "He just galloped into it."
Sinkin stayed in Hawaii until 2009, moving to San Antonio when his mother, Fay Sinkin, a longtime Edwards Aquifer activist, fell ill. She died that March.
Lanny joined Solar San Antonio and moved into an apartment with his father, who remains politically active — but not necessarily in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
"I'm just a bystander," Bill Sinkin said.
His son is anything but.
"I'm a central figure," said Sinkin, whose royal title is Ali'i Mana'o Nui Lanny Sinkin. "I talk to (the king) five, six times a day. I'm his chief adviser."
'The 5th age'
With Sinkin's energetic help, the kingdom this year released a 69-page document, "The Vision and Plan for the Restored Kingdom of Hawaii," and drafted letters to Mahmoud Abbas, Ban Ki-Moon, the Queen of England and other world leaders.
The world, Sinkin says, is on the brink of ecological, economic and spiritual collapse.
And the United States, with its construction of hotels and shopping malls for tourists, is killing Hawaii, he says.
To stave off "Armageddon," the Hawaiian Kingdom is recreating a sustainable civilization using the native value of aloha: "It's a concept that everything that you see that exists is infused with divine energy," Sinkin said.
The kingdom embraces natural laws and ecological principles. It shuns war, promotes love and seeks an age of transformation in which all human beings gain consciousness — "the 5th age," Sinkin says.
"This is about healing," he said. "It's healing for Hawaii, but it's also healing for the whole planetary community."
When it comes to more prosaic concerns, the kingdom is facing a shortfall — in officials and funds.
"It's a bunch of volunteers," Sinkin said. "On any given day, you've probably got five or six people who are the key people doing things. But that's going to change very soon. We're going to actually be in the situation to start staffing up the government."
The kingdom, however, is broke.
In an August letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern," Silva requests "assistance in the form of U.S. $2.5 billion for the purpose of rebuilding the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent nation as the United States withdraws from its prolonged occupation of Hawaii."
The king is hopeful.
"I do have a person who is considering giving us a billion dollars as we speak," Silva said. "I can't give you their name, sorry. Lanny knows who it is, but he can't tell you, either. Let me rephrase that. There is one person, but this individual is working with other people they know, collaborating or putting together to gain a billion dollars. So far we have a figure — a tentative figure — that looks quite promising."
Heen, the retired judge, says Silva's kingdom is typical of other kingdoms in Hawaii.
"None of these groups have any money, and they essentially are very small groups," he said.
In comparison, the fortunes of Solar San Antonio have risen.
Its net assets at the end of fiscal 2009 totaled nearly $200,000. Increasingly, it helps to facilitate loans for residents to install solar energy systems.
Bill Flannery, director of the technology management program at the University of Texas at San Antonio, served on the nonprofit's board of directors before and after Lanny took over.
"It's incredible what (Bill Sinkin) has done," he said. "When Lanny came, two things happened. One, it was fortuitous timing because a lot of things started falling into place. And he added a lot of order and structure and enthusiasm — energy."
Told of Lanny's aim to "create the 5th age, one solar panel at a time," Flannery was nonplussed.
"That's kind of fascinating," he said. "That never came up."
Express-News researchers Mike Knoop and Julie Domel contributed to this report.
Brian Chasnoff
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Brian Chasnoff is a graduate of Tulane University, as well as the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a Masters Degree in Journalism. He joined the San Antonio Express-News in 2005 as a crime reporter. He was a metro columnist for seven years before joining the investigations team in 2019. As a reporter and a columnist, Brian has exposed corruption and cover-ups at the top levels of local government, including at City Hall and the Bexar County courthouse.


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Q: How to use mergeMap to chain the service calls? I have the first API request (with http get) returns a set of data, and that data is required to call the subsequent API request (http post).
this.service1['get-info'].get().subscribe(data => {
 this.info = data.body;
 },
 error => console.log(error),
 ()=> {
 this.service2['send-email']['post']({body: this.info})
 .subscribe(data=>{
    console.log(data);
   },
   error => console.log(error),
   () => {
      this.id = 0;
    });
   }
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Because an Observable has next, error and completed blocks. I put the second service into the completed block of the first service. It is anti-pattern. So how can I rewrite the code by using mergeMap?

A: You should do it the way the docs describe.
https://rxjs-dev.firebaseapp.com/api/operators/mergeMap#example
You can't call onError() until you subscribe, however you can catch the error and pass it up to the outer Observable. You can catch the error using a method named.... drum roll... catchError() !!!
https://www.learnrxjs.io/operators/error_handling/catch.html
You can pipe this method into your Observable sequence. Something like:
this.service1.get().pipe(
  catchError(value => of('some message: ' + value))
  mergeMap(nextValue => some mapping logic here)
);

could work.
Additional Explanation:
You're either slipping on .pipe() or .mergeMap(), or both.
If you understand how to use both individually, using them together is trivially easy.
pipe() is simply a newer way of calling Observable operators because the old way of dot-chaining involved patching the Observable prototype and it caused mass hysteria. pipe() replaced dot-chaining out of necessity to keep the Observable namespace/developer headspace cleaner.
And .mergeMap() is just a way to take an observable stream of n-number of nested levels and flatten it to n-1 levels deep, applying a mapping function as you flatten.
It is akin to Array.prototype.flatMap() if you know how to flatten an array.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/flatMap
In this case, your mapping function is just a call the other service method that returns an Observable.
.mergeMap((service1ReturnedValue) => {
   return this.service2.someServiceMethodThatReturnsAnObservable(service1ReturnedValue));
})

A: you can do like this,
`this.yourFirstService(data).pipe(
  map(res => // do what ever you want to do which first reques's response),
  mergeMap(() => this.yourSecondService())).subscribe( finalResponse => {

  });`

You need to call first service and then map it's response so you can do what ever you do with first service's response and then mergeMap second service. So this way you can resolve you issue.

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Our Lady of All Help
This shrine of Our Lady dates back to the year 1640, although the statue had been in the same abbey for probably two centuries before any miraculous occurrence was noticed. As the statue was rather faded, it was not thought stylish enough to be displayed in the chapel. It was therefore placed under a staircase near the infirmary, where its most frequent visitor was the old lay sister who had charge of sweeping the corridor.
One day as the sister was busy about her work, the statue spoke to her and told her to hurry up to the infirmary because one of the sisters needed her right away. The sister the statue named was not one of the patients, but was actually the nurse who cared for them. The lay sister thought the nurse had seemed perfectly well a short time before, and saw no particular reason to think that she was in any danger of dying. Still, she went as she was told and found the nurse as she was dying. She had arrived just in time to summon the priest to administer the last rights to the dying nurse.
Shortly after this miracle became known, there was a second one just as remarkable. There was a community benefactor whose son was at death's door with a high fever. Invoking Our Lady before this same statue the man saw his son instantly cured.
After this second incident the statue was moved into the chapel, and there were many miracles that followed. One miracle was worked in favor of a sister who had been terribly burned; she was instantly cured. A priest, falsely accused of a crime, was acquitted after special prayers to the "miracle lady." The statue had had no name before this, but the parishioners decided now to call her Our Lady of All Help, Quick Help, or Our Lady of Good Remedy.
At the time of the French Revolution and during the accompanying Reign of Terror, the abbey was destroyed. A pious lady took the statue of Our Lady of All Help and safeguarded it until the trouble was over. After her death the statue was restored to the community. The statue of Our Lady of All Help has survived several wars since.
The statue itself is only about two feet tall. The Blessed Virgin Mary is crowned, and holds her Infant Son in one arm, and a scepter in the other.
There is a short and very lovely prayer which for centuries has been associated with this statue. It is, "Oh, Mother of All Help, say but one word in our behalf to Thy Divine Son, for he cannot refuse thee any favor. Amen."
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Thoughts running around my head needing to come out. I try to let them out, but I always manage to say what I want to say the wrong way, at least here, it's better.
I need to vent out. So if this comes across as random or pointless, bear with me, it's been building up for a while now, and it's time to let it out.
12th grade isn't the jolliest experience one goes through. I truly tried to make this year the best one (and am still trying) but I don't think it'll be as awesome as people say it should be. I've probably had more drama happening this year more than any other, and I'm not trying to be mysterious or anything but I'm trying to let it go.
So the 'whatever-they're-called-kind-of-stupid-10-marks-exams' are coming soon. The whole thing is just stupid, it makes me want to go like 'Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah' and bang my head on a wall. They're in about a month, don't know exactly when and the time table isn't out, and there's a possibility of it being surprising exams, like without a timetable, so go figure.
I don't want to dwell on that much, but it's just all so frustrating. And studying is....! Well, you study and study and then do like me last Wed. mess up a short Math quiz. I was so depressed after that, I still am a bit, and what makes it worse is that I've had enough time this weekend to ponder over the mistake and drown in misery (not lit. but said for a dramatic effect), the teacher will probably make it worse this Sat. but I won't let her get to me, I just hate it though when people lecture you things you already figured out for yourself.
It's just that sometimes you think no matter how much you study it won't be enough, or worse that you think you're not doing your best and then getting depressed by the feeling that you're not doing your best. It's just hard. There! And I can't wake up at 5! I JUST CAN'T.
Gosh, *looks at the post* that's probably the darkest post I've ever written but hey, that's to remember this time of my life. I'm not as depressed as I sound though, but this is needed to just vent.
Hey! I missed this post :( I'm so sorry you're feeling down, reading my blog you'd know I was even more than you, I usually vent on bad things, I want you to know that venting only online is way better that what I do. Guess PMSing it was.
I'm not going to tell you you're a great person, nor I know how you feel nor you'll be alright..
The only thing I can say here is this: I love you :) You got people who love you!
Lol is that really you Noor? Always so calm, nice, quiet, etc..or maybe not? Hehe don't worry about this it's so common. Happens to us all. When I was in 12th grade, I wished it ended soon. Now I regret it has so much. Am sure many people would have told you this. But really, growing up isn't as exciting as it appears. There are so much responsibilities, pressure of every kind...can be a lot more frustrating.


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L'Amour blessé est un film dramatique québécois écrit et réalisé par Jean Pierre Lefebvre, sorti en 1975

Synopsis

Louise, un ouvrière de 26 ans rentre tard, comme tous les soirs, dans son petit appartement montréalais. Vivant dans la solitude depuis que son mari l'a quittée, elle s'évade en écoutant la radio, notamment une émission de confidences intimes où elle projette sur d'autres femmes en souffrance son propre cas.

Fiche technique
 titre :
 sous-titre :
  Réalisation et scénario : Jean Pierre Lefebvre
  Photographie : Jean-Charles Tremblay
  Son : Jacques Blain
  Montage et production : Marguerite Duparc
 Société de production : Cinak Compagnie Cinématographique
 Sociétés de distribution
 Canada : Disci
 France : Capital Film
 Budget : 54000 dollars canadiens
 Pays d'origine: Canada (Québec)
 Format : 35 mm, Couleurs, 1,66:1, son mono
 Genre : drame
 Durée :
 Dates de sortie :
 Canada :
 France :

Distribution
 Louise Cuerrier : Louise
et les voix de Paule Baillargeon, Pierre Curzi, Monique Mercure, Gilles Proulx, Jocelyn Bérubé et Raymond Cloutier

Autour du film
 Louise Cuerrier est la seule actrice qui apparaisse à l'écran. Les autres acteurs prêtent leur voix aux autres personnages (voisins, parents, présentateur et invités à la radio).
 Le film a été tourné à Montréal en deux soirées seulement, 22 et 23 mars 1975

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Michel Coulombe et Marcel Jean, « L'amour blessé », Le Dictionnaire du Cinéma québécois. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée par Michel Coulombe, Editions du Boréal, Montréal, 1999, 721p., ,

Liens externes
 https://www.encyclocine.com/index.html?menu=72608&film=19039

 http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/recherche/oeuvres/fiche/8049-lamour-blesse

Film québécois sorti en 1975
Film dramatique québécois
Film réalisé par Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
Film se déroulant à Montréal
Film sur la radio

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Lightly beat the egg in a medium-size mixing bowl; then stir in the biscuit mix, milk, vanilla, oil, and sugar and blend until smooth. You may also use a hand mixer to combine the ingredients in this step.
Add the white chocolate chips and the fresh raspberries and gently fold until combined.
Fill the muffin cups 2/3 full with the batter and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove the muffins to a wire rack and allow them to cool completely.
Melt 1/2 cup of white chocolate chips in a microwave for approximately 30 seconds. Stir until smooth.
Drizzle the white chocolate over each muffin.
"I make my daughter make these everytime we get together for brunch. I can't believe they are so easy to make!"
"These are pretty good. The white chocolate is the perfect balance for the tart raspberries. I used Jiffy mix instead of bisquit."


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Is this a change from past posts on this blog? All previous suspension answers had no reference to having to be a retiree to suspend FEHB in favor of Tricare?
For the controlling rule, go to http://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/eligibility/#url=Tricare.
We are only able to answer questions about FEHB coverage. You'll have to check with Tricare. There website is at http://www.tricare.mil.


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Q: How to determine the Remaining Email in apex Integer email_left = Limits.getEmailInvocations();
system.Debug('Used Email: '+email_left);
Integer emailLimit = Limits.getLimitEmailInvocations();
system.Debug('Email Limit: '+emailLimit);

I got the following code but the email_left always ouput 0. Even there is no Gorvernor's Limit on email. And emailLimit always output 10.
I want to know how many email used, or any functions to know the remaining email. So that i can create a condition:
if(remaining != 0){
   //Send Email
}else{
   //Do Something
}

A: This is the per-transaction limit, not the global daily limit on sends. Limits.getEmailInvocations returns the number of calls (not total emails sent) in the current context, and Limits.getLimitEmailInvocations shows the maximum number of calls you can use (10) in the current transaction. The amount remaining is the difference between the two (limit-used).
See reserveMassEmailCapcity and the related reserveSingleEmailCapacity to tell if your transaction will fail if you attempt to send the specified number of messages.


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Scott Gregory toasted the biggest win of his golfing career after clinching Amateur Championship glory and admitted: It's a dream come true.
Monday, 20th June 2016, 8:00 am
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The 21-year-old Corhampton player held off a strong challenge from Scotland's Robert MacIntyre to seal a memorable 2&1 victory in the prestigious 36-hole match at Royal Porthcawl on Saturday.
In doing so, the England A international secured a place in The 145th Open at Royal Troon, next year's US Open at Erin Hills and, by tradition, an invitation to the Masters Tournament in 2017.
Gregory said: 'Obviously it's a dream come true.
'You dream about moments like this when you are practising all those hours and when you're not playing as well as you'd like to.
'I think luck went my way a little bit, that definitely helped.
'I got a couple of lies where I shouldn't have had lies but I made the most out of the opportunities that I had.
'I kept telling myself if I got chances, I've got to take them because that's what people who win these championships do.
'They give themselves chances and when they get them, they take them.
'I knew my putt on 17 was the moment I needed to make it so it was nice to do it.'
Gregory got off to a strong start and led for most of the morning round, retaining a one-hole lead going into the afternoon.
The momentum shifted to MacIntyre in the early stages of the afternoon round, though, with the Scot moving ahead for the first time in the match when he won the 20th and 21st holes with pars after Gregory found the rough with approaches to both holes.
The evenly-matched pair traded holes over the next six holes with the left-handed MacIntyre losing the 22nd after finding a bunker.
Gregory showed his mastery of bunker play with a fine escape from 60 yards short of the green at the next and holed from eight feet to move back in front.
MacIntyre birdied the 24th to move back to all square and Gregory replied with a birdie at the 118-yard par three 25th when his tee shot finished a foot from the hole to edge in front.
The Scot fought back once again, holing a six-foot par putt to win the 27th, but Gregory enjoyed good fortune on the 28th when he overhit his chip from the side of the green and it struck the flag and dropped to a foot from the hole to earn him a half.
Gregory holed an eight-foot putt from the back of the 30th to claim the hole and when MacIntyre found a greenside bunker at the 31st the Englishman was two up with five to play.
When the 35th was halved in four, Gregory completed the most important victory of his young career.
He added: 'It's (playing in The Open) going to be completely new to me so hopefully I can get some decent practice rounds in with some people and see where I go from there.'
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Two new precedents on incentive schemes from the Supreme Administrative Court
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We hope this article helps you to catch up with the new precedents on incentive schemes from the Supreme Administrative Court.
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The Supreme Administrative Court ("SAC") has issued two precedents regarding equity based incentive schemes. The most recent ruling (2019:36) concerns a listed company and its right to deduct expenses accrued on a share based incentive scheme in full as salary expenses under the main rule in Finnish Business Tax Act (360/1968, "BTA") as opposed to being able to deduct them only partially. The other ruling (2019:26) concerns a scheme in which key employees were offered an opportunity to invest into the equity of a privately held employer company. Both cases were ruled in favor of the taxpayer, i.e. resulting in full deductibility of expenses for the listed company and taxation as capital gains for the employee of the privately held company.
Right to Deduct Expenses from Equity Incentive Scheme
The incentive scheme was offered to the company's key personnel and the administration of the scheme was outsourced to an unrelated service company. The service company had established a holding company to acquire listed shares of the employer company to be given to the participants of the scheme. Acquiring of the shares was financed by a line of credit granted by the employer company to the holding company. The loan capital was then set off as shares were given to the employees. The company justified the chosen structure by, for instance, outsourcing of administrative burden, protection against share price decline and making sure the delivery of the shares. Certain requirements of the Finnish Company Law as well as the Security Markets Law also favored the use of an outside service provider in the share purchases.
Deductibility of expenses on acquisition of the company's own shares is limited in the BTA. Under the main rule, such expenses are not deductible at all. However, expenses on shares acquired from a stock exchange to be given to employees are deductible under certain limitations. In this case, the SAC stated that the listed employer company did not acquire its own shares as referred to in the BTA and thus the expenses accrued to it were deductible in full.
Both the Central Tax Board and the SAC ruled the case in favor of the taxpayer. The Tax Recipients' Legal Services Unit, i.e. state representative, argued primarily that the expenses should have been only partially deductible as expenses on shares acquired from a stock exchange to be given to employees under the special provision of the BTA. Secondarily, the state representative argued that the general anti-avoidance provision should be applied.
Capital Gain or Earned Income
The other case concerned a family owned company where key personnel were granted an opportunity to invest in the employer company's equity. Investments were made via holding company and were financed by the employer's group company. A shareholder agreement, which included certain limitations regarding the transferability of the shares, as well as provisions on valuation and realizing of the shares, was entered between the parties. The structure, i.e. the use of a holding company as well as certain provisions of the shareholder agreement, was chosen to secure the concentrated family-ownership of the company.
The profit accrued on the sale of the shares, which was reported by the employee on his tax return as capital gains, was reassessed by the tax authorities and taxed as employment income. The Administrative Court agreed with the tax authorities' view but the SAC ruled that the profit should be treated according to its legal form, i.e. capital gains.
In both cases the state representative argued that the general anti-avoidance provision should be applied and in both cases their claims were unsuccessful. The cases continue the recent line of precedents issued by the SAC where the provision of the anti-avoidance clause has been denied. Common in these cases was the fact that the structure chosen by the taxpayer was relatively complex. Accordingly, besides demonstrating the taxpayer's freedom in selecting a structure, the cases underline the concept and importance of sufficient business reasons, e.g. economical, administrative or reasons welling out of other than mere tax laws, behind a chosen structure.
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La Cornetta guainata (nome scientifico Coronilla vaginalis, Lam., 1786) è un arbusto di medie proporzioni con racemi di fiori gialli, appartenente alla famiglia delle Fabaceae.

Sistematica
Il genere della "Cornetta guainata" (Coronilla) è formato da poche specie  (da 20 a 30 circa) di cui una decina vivono spontaneamente in Italia. La famiglia (Fabaceae) invece è abbastanza numerosa: raccoglie 650 generi circa con oltre 12.000 specie. Nelle classificazioni più vecchie la famiglia di questa specie è chiamata Leguminosae ma anche Papilionaceae.
La specie di questa scheda appartiene alla Sottofamiglia delle Faboideae e alla tribù delle Loteae; all'interno del genere appartiene alla sezione delle Eucoronilla caratterizzata da specie arbustive perenni, con foglie imparipennate e con l'unghia dei petali sub-eguale al calice (le altre due sezioni sono Arthrolobium e Emerus).

Variabilità
Qui di seguito è indicata una sottospecie di Coronilla vaginalis:
Coronilla vaginalis Lam. subsp. hercegovinica Freyn (1890)

Sinonimi
La specie di questa scheda, in altri testi, può essere chiamata con nomi diversi. Quello che segue è un possibile sinonimo:
Artrolobium vaginalis (Lam.) Desv.,

Specie simili
Molte sono le specie che a prima vista possono essere scambiate per questa pianta sia dello stesso genere:
Coronilla minima L. - Cornetta minima: si differenzia in quanto i segmenti delle foglie sono decisamente sessili e le stipole sono ridottissime (1 mm) e persistenti.
Coronilla coronata L. - Cornetta coronata: l'infiorescenza è composta da un  numero maggiore di fiori (12-20) e sono raccolti a corona all'apice del peduncolo.
ma anche di generi diversi come:
Lotus corniculatus L. - Ginestrino: ha un portamento più prostrato e i fiori sono più isolati.
oppure:
Hippocrepis comosa L. - Sferracavallo comune: si distingue per i segmenti delle foglie più lineari, ma soprattutto per la forma del legume (il frutto) che è zigzagante.

Etimologia
Il nome del genere (Coronilla) venne definito dal botanico francese Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 giugno 1656 - 28 dicembre 1708) il primo a dare una chiara definizione del concetto di genere nella classificazione dei viventi. Questo nome deriva dalla curiosa disposizione dei fiori (appunto a "piccola corona") alla fine del peduncolo.
Fu comunque un altro francese, il naturalista, biologo e chimico Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet cavaliere di Lamarck (Bazentin-le-Petit, 1º agosto 1744 –  Parigi, 28 dicembre 1829), che nel 1786 pubblicò dei specifici studi sulla pianta di questa scheda.
I tedeschi chiamano questa pianta Scheiden-Kronwicke; mentre i francesi la chiamano Coronille engainante.

Morfologia

Si tratta di una pianta piccolo-arbustiva, perenne, glabra e glauca. Le dimensioni vanno da pochi centimetri fino a 25 cm. La forma biologica è del tipo camefita suffruticosa (Ch suffr), sono quindi piante perenni e legnose alla base, con gemme svernanti poste ad un'altezza dal suolo tra i 2 ed i 30 cm dove le porzioni erbacee seccano annualmente e rimangono in vita soltanto le parti legnose.

Fusto

Il fusto è legnoso e nodoso con rami prostrati o ascendenti. Inizialmente il fusto è strisciante per alcuni centimetri (1 – 3 cm).

Foglie
Le foglie sono imparipennate con 6 - 12 segmenti per lato, più uno centrale. Il margine è membranoso, traslucido (chiaro) e la lamina è quasi priva di nervature. I segmenti sono molto brevemente picciolati; la forma è variabile: ellittico-ovata, sub-rotonda, obcuneata o a volte anche cuoriforme. Sono inoltre presenti delle stipole caduche di alcuni millimetri (3 – 5 mm) in posizione opposta alle foglie, ma a volte mancano. Il colore delle stipole è biancastro con un nervo centrale e sono saldate a guaina. Dimensione dei segmenti: raramente raggiungono 1 cm.

Infiorescenza

L'infiorescenza si compone di una decina di fiori (4 - 10)  giallognoli disposti ad ombrella su pedicelli di 2 – 4 mm; il peduncolo invece è lungo 2 -3 volte le foglie ascellanti.

Fiori
I fiori sono ermafroditi, pentameri, zigomorfi, eteroclamidati (calice e corolla ben differenziati) e diplostemoni (gli stami sono il doppio dei petali). I fiori sono lunghi dai 7 a 10 mm e sono profumati.

Formula fiorale:
K (5), C 3+(2), A (9)+1, G 1 (supero)

Calice: il calice è gamosepalo ed ha un tubo conico lungo quanto largo sormontato da 5 denti brevi e ottusi. Lunghezza del tubo del calice: 2 mm
Corolla: la corolla è dialipetala del tipo papilionaceo:  ossia è presente un petalo centrale più sviluppato degli altri e ripiegato leggermente all'indietro (= vessillo) di forma orbicolare (a forma quasi circolare), la cui lunghezza è più o meno confrontabile col calice; due petali intermedi (= ali) sono liberi e in posizione laterale e possono essere di forma obovata o oblunga; mentre gli altri due rimanenti, inferiori, (= carena) sono concresciuti e incurvati e contengono l'androceo e il gineceo. Lunghezza della corolla: 8– 9 mm.
Androceo: gli stami sono 10 e sono diadefi (9 saldati insieme e uno libero).
Gineceo: lo stilo è unico e su un ovario supero formato da un carpello uniloculare. Lo stigma è apicale.
Fioritura: tra maggio e agosto.
Impollinazione: tramite insetti.

Frutti
Il frutto è un lungo legume arcuato suddiviso in logge (da 4 a 8) monosperme (con un solo seme)  con una tipica strozzatura tra loggia e loggia e un rostro nella parte apicale del frutto. I semi sono oblunghi. Questo frutto è deiscente attraverso due linee di sutura. Lunghezza del frutto: 2 – 4 cm.

Distribuzione e habitat
Geoelemento: il tipo corologico (area di origine) è Sud Est – Europeo/Montano.
Diffusione: in Italia è presente ovunque (al nord comune, al sud un po' più rara). Nella zona alpina si trova nelle province centrali e orientali (è meno frequente nelle province di CN TO AO VC NO). Oltre alle Alpi e Appennini si trova sui seguenti rilievi: Massiccio del Giura e Alpi Dinariche. Nel resto dell'Europa questa specie è distribuita soprattutto nella fascia meridionale e centrale.
Habitat: l'habitat tipico per questa specie sono i pascoli aridi ma erbosi e su terreno leggero, oppure le rupi calcaree; ma anche tra i ghiaioni e le pietraie, le torbiere di alta quota e boschi di conifere. Il substrato preferito è calcareo con suolo (pH) basico  e bassi valori nutrizionali e terreni mediamente secchi.
Diffusione altitudinale: la presenza di questa pianta è stata rilevata fino a circa 2000  (si trova quindi nel piano collinare, montano e subalpino).

Fitosociologia
Dal punto di vista fitosociologico la specie di questa scheda appartiene alla seguente comunità vegetale:
Formazione: delle comunità forestali
Classe : Erico-Pinetea
Ordine : Erico-Pinetalia
Alleanza : Erico-Pinion

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Social Democrats candidate Fiona Lynam who is a native of Athlone is throwing her hat into the political ring not just in the forthcoming local elections but into the General Election one too!
The local woman says her eyes were opened during the last political campaign when she canvassed for a yes vote in the Referendum to remove the Eighth Amendment.
She also says that during the last local elections in Athlone there wasn't one woman on the ticket, a scenario she deems to be "unacceptable".
"I got involved with the Social Democrats on the back of the Repeal the Eight Referendum," she told the Leader this week.
Meanwhile, she says it was the level of activism she experienced during the campaign that encouraged her to dip her toe into the political arena.
"I really became aware of how people are feeling about local and national politics, and how powerful people can be when it comes to change," she added, before pointing out that she also found it "disgraceful" that there were no female candidates on the ticket during the last local elections in Athlone.
It is this window of change where she sees the Social Democrats fitting in.
"The Social Democrats is a fresh, new party and it is very focused on how we all what to see Ireland," Ms Lynam added.
The local election candidate says that very often rural Ireland gets painted with a "highly conservative" brush, but after her recent experience on the campaign trail with the Repeal the Eight Referendum, that may no longer be the case.
"The last referendum indicated to me that there is willingness for change among the Irish electorate and while I have no doubt the established parties will hold candidates in many areas, I believe the Social Democrats has the fresh voice that people now want.
Ms Lynam, meanwhile launched her election campaign at the Sheraton Hotel in Athlone last weekend.
"There is huge support out there for me and there is a genuine interest in my candidacy," she added, before pointing out that a fundraising table quiz will take place at The Junction in Athlone on December 6 next.
"I will be knocking on doors and chatting to people in earnest over the coming weeks months," she concluded.


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Did the Council of Trent enable the sex abuse scandal?
The conviction of Philadelphia's Msgr. William J. Lynn for endangering children by allegedly providing cover for priest pedophiles was recently reversed by a higher court. Lynn, after serving 18 months in jail, is out on bail under house arrest as the district attorney appeals to the state Supreme Court. The original guilty verdict was, according to The New York Times, "hailed by victims' rights advocates who have argued for years that senior church officials should be held accountable for concealing evidence and transferring predatory priests to unwary parishes."
"The revelations of sexual abuse," the Times noted, "and seeming official indifference have tormented an archdiocese [Philadelphia] that was long known for imperious leaders and an insular camaraderie among its priests." That defines clericalism, the energy source of clerical culture, that first-class section of the plane from which its members could look back at the everyday Catholics jammed into coach who had to buy their own tickets and pay for the clergy's, too. That's how clerical culture understood the phrase, "It is right and just."
To construe the conviction of Msgr. Lynn as making high church officials finally accountable for their mix-and-match policies in dealing with sex-offending priests is on a par with, as Jimmy Breslin once wrote, "blaming the Johnstown flood on a leaky toilet in Altoona."
You cannot stop the Mafia from selling protection by arresting an aging low-level capo who has never been more than a gofer and who lives far beneath the godfather who hardly knows his name. Neither can you stop the official church from providing protection for clerical sex abusers by indicting an aging bureaucrat who also lives far beneath the archbishop who wonders, as Chicago's late Cardinal George Mundelein famously asked his secretary on the way to a priest's funeral, "What is Monsignor's name anyway?"
Msgr. Lynn is a product and a victim of the same hierarchical structuring that divides the church into football stadium seating with the owners (the bishops) on the top in the skyboxes; the priests and religious in reserved seats below them; and in the standing room by the one-yard line with a skewed vision of the game, the ordinary men and women who, in fact, are the church. The hierarchical dynamic put everybody in their proper place. That is why, for example, there has been a major move to install altar rails in churches and new regulations to prevent laypeople from handling the sacred vessels while mandating them to bow to the priest before receiving the Eucharist. You can't make this stuff up, but the hierarchical mind grinds such regulations out in order to get lowly laypeople out of the sanctuary and back where they belong.
No great victory has been gained by those who think getting the monsignor out of his purple robes and into a prison jumpsuit really gets at the bishops who have, in effect, scapegoated the loyal bureaucrat for their own sins.
The sex abuse scandal is a function of hierarchy; that is, of a system that places all power in the hands of those at the very top of its steppe-like structure. This divided concept of the universe was not what Jesus had in mind when he established his collection of apostles.
The divided concept, a model of which can be seen in the da Vinci museum in Milan, originated in the map of the universe split into heaven above and earth below, devised by priests in that land we now call Iraq as, 4,000 years before Jesus, they observed the passage of planets through fixed stars.
This pattern of the heaven above and earth below led to earthly kingdoms presided over by monarchs endowed with power "by divine right." Their courts of privileged princes and other dignitaries (vestiges of which are found in "domestic prelates," as monsignors were originally designated) were thought in some ancient cultures to be so identified with the monarch that they practiced "sacral deicide," burying court members with the monarch when he died.
The hierarchical model granted unusual privileges and exemptions to those who lived on top and to whom respect was to be paid at all times. The ethic of unearned privilege is second nature in a monarchy, a system that foundered and failed in the First World War and now survives symbolically, for example, in the British royal family that, now that the sun has set on the empire, serves as a combination of national soap opera and tourist attraction.
The hierarchical model made the sexual abuse of children possible because it cloaked its priests in special privilege on a level above laypeople, who were denied any real standing or voice in forming church policies. It also created the clerical culture, a gated community for priests who were welcome because their ordination confirmed their status as superior to the excluded masses of ordinary, garden-variety Catholics who were to respect and go along with, if not strictly obey, their priests and bishops.
This culture conferred automatic deference to anybody who wore a Roman collar. The demand for celibacy in the ranks of its courtiers and priests served the hierarchs well because it was less a spiritual ideal than a pragmatic discipline that made the lesser acolytes of hierarchy sign on for a life of servitude to the system and to the superiors on whom they were emotionally and financially dependent.
Control a person's sexuality, monarchs understood, and you control them completely, and there is no need to worry about the suppression, confusion, and stunted psycho-sexual growth problems that were the side effects of such hierarchical dominance. Where there should have been a warning label for applicants to read, there was a printed a favorite hierarchical mantra: This is God's will for you.
That is where Msgr. Lynn came in as a victim of a hierarchical system on which he was completely dependent and in which he was to carry out the orders of his cardinal-archbishop without hesitation or question.
In a reflection of sacral regicide, the archdiocese was willing to let him be buried with Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who was responsible for the orders given to Msgr. Lynn but who died before he could be thoroughly examined on how, as an all-powerful hierarch, he presided over a kingdom in which sex-abusing clergy were dealt with as carefully as if they really deserved their privileged aura as members of the clerical court.
What has this got to do with the Council of Trent, you ask? One can read all about it in Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley's excellent book, Trent: What Happened at the Council. The three-part council pursued many objectives in its effort to forge a Counter-Reformation to the revolution Martin Luther had so spectacularly begun. One of this council's principal goals was to justify and bolster the church as a divinely established hierarchical structure.
In its 23rd session, for example, it stated in Canon 6: "If any one saith, that, in the Catholic Church there is not a hierarchy by divine ordination instituted, consisting of bishops, priests, and ministers; let him be anathema."
Canon 7 avers that anyone who says "that bishops are not superior to priests; or, that … the power which they possess is common to them and to priests," along with several other assertions of the independent validity of a bishop's powers, "let him be anathema."
The council also insisted on the "excellence" of celibacy and condemned the view that marriage was a more blessed state than virginity or celibacy. When some European princes who were very interested in the council's impact on their functioning asked for mitigation of celibacy for their priests, their requests were denied.
Spain's Philip II, O'Malley tells us, "let the pope know he was utterly opposed to any concession, arguing that, if a change were made for the empire, other nations would demand it which would result in an end to the church's hierarchical structure."
We have here an important clue about the origin of the sex abuse scandal. It is found in the impact of the hierarchical imperative on the inner development of candidates for the priesthood and religious life. Celibacy and chastity were the dynamite packed into their official endorsement as conditions for the privileges of accepting their lot as God's will and serving, much like the butlers and maids of "Downton Abbey," in the secondhand glory of the great hierarchical palace. Questions of sexuality, other than identifying its least impulse as a sign of serious sin rather than a signal of being a healthy human being, were ruled out of order. As Philip II realized, if the pope were to give ground on celibacy, there would go the whole hierarchical neighborhood.
I had a firsthand experience of this many years ago, when I chaired the psychological research panel of the multidisciplinary study of American priests commissioned by the bishops themselves. Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia was the bishop coordinator when we reported our results. Although he could be a genial man, he was furious that day, telling me I should never have allowed any investigation of the sexual adjustment of priests. He waved away my explanation that priests were neither more nor less than human and one could not understand them without some knowledge of their psychosexual development.
"These priests," he snorted dismissively, "merely want to exchange their power over the body of Christ for power over the body of a woman!" I did not realize it at that explosive moment, but its fuse was strung across the four centuries that had passed since Trent placed the preservation of hierarchy above the understanding of human personality.
It is possible to speculate that the refusal to consider women priests, highlighted by the recent crackdown by lofty hierarchs on women religious and the refusal of the official church, despite the history of sex abuse by the clergy, to examine celibacy, is rooted in the Tridentine fear that yielding even an inch on these subjects would threaten the entire hierarchical structure. This reflexive assertion of the intrinsic superiority of forsaking sex for the Kingdom thus emerges as a political rather than a theological conviction.
In 1965, as the Second Vatican Council neared its end, the Brazilian bishops expressed interest in discussing celibacy. Pope Paul VI responded with a letter, read by Cardinal Eugene Tisserant to the council fathers on Oct. 11, 1965. Paul VI considered such a discussion highly inappropriate, and he further insisted that he intended to safeguard and maintain the ancient discipline of Latin church in that regard. "The letter," O'Malley tells us in another of his books, What Happened at Vatican II, "was met with applause."
Trent also established an Index of Forbidden Books that was first published in 1559. O'Malley observes in Trent: What Happened at the Council that this index "would be an ongoing feature of Catholic life. It remained such for the next four hundred years." Trent, he observes, "helped develop the Catholic mindset reluctant to admit change in the course of church history."
Through several centuries, in order to maintain a hierarchical structure, church officials have insisted on celibacy for priests and exalted virginity over marriage. Trent refers to ecclesiastical hierarchy "as an army set in array" and declares that "bishops who have succeeded to the place of the apostles, principally belong to the hierarchical order."
Long centuries afterward, Msgr. Lynn has emerged as the subject of this tangled system of which he was a servant, indentured to be sure, rather than in any sense an author. Philadelphia is a classic example of what a hierarchical institution convinced of its divine commission and confident of its privileged position is like when it is faced with preserving its order of battle or allowing anyone to examine closely the claims to the superiority of celibacy and chastity: It defends itself rather than the children entrusted to its care.
We may hypothesize that the seeds of the sex abuse scandal whose flowers of evil bloomed fully in the 21st century were planted in the 16th century by a church reeling from the Reformation that refused then, as it does now, to examine in depth its presumptions about human sexuality. It remains divinely confident that it is right and remains ready to sacrifice a thousand Msgr. Lynns to maintain a hierarchical structure that may indeed be more sinning than sinned against.
[Eugene Cullen Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.]
Review of 'The Joy of Love'
April 16 2016 Articles, Synod on the Family
Aidan Hart, a married layman, reviews Pope Francis' latest gift to the universal Church. He sees it as "a papal document like no other; its underlying tone of God's compassionate mercy for all human failure and its understanding of the realities and messiness of many peoples' lives are outstanding."
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Analysing the Child Sex offender
December 12 2012 Articles, Safeguarding children
Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author, reviews the latest research into child sex offenses in this half-hour-long BBC Four radio programme
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Can theology be wrong?
July 1 2013 Articles, Scripture
Patrick Rodgers reflects on the story of Abraham and Isaac, and the difficulty religious leaders have in admitting their mistakes.
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Mercy Friday Visit
November 12 2016 Articles
Pádraig McCarthy draws our attention to reports of Pope Francis completing his year of 'Mercy Fridays', Pope Francis chose to visit priests who have left active ministry to marry and also met their families, in order to give a sign that the Church does not judge people but embraces all.
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American bishop escapes jail
September 8 2012 Articles, Safeguarding children
A lawyer slams the freeing of Bishop Finn on a charge of failing to report child abuse (opinion piece first published in the Kansas City Star, submitted here by Paddy Moran, Westland Row).
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Clogher bishop attends ACP meeting
October 4 2012 ACP News, Articles
The Diocese of Clogher's ACP organisers report on their September meeting, at which Clogher clergy reflected on Priesthood today.
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Gene Carr says:
In order to establish whether an hierarchical structure or mandatory celibacy had any correlation with any incidence of sex abuse of minors and children, you would have to show that there is a lower or much lesser incidence in other institutions with the opposite characteristics, and who deal with minors and children. However this is most definitely not the case. Consider for instance American Public School teachers. According to Professor Charon Shakeshaft, the incidence of abuse of minors and children is greater than that of the clergy abuse 'by a factor of a hundred'. Furthermore, they are rarely reported to the civil authorities and are protected and covered up by their Teachers Union. Also they are moved around from school in a procession as "passing the trash". The record of another institution the Boys Scouts is also very problematic. Now the Council of Trent, whatever else it did, had nothing to do with the structure and policies of the US public school system. And as far as I am aware, teachers do not take a vow of celibacy.
Sean O'Conaill says:
#1 The most scandalous aspect of the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal was not the fact of clerical sex abuse but the fact of hierarchical concealment of that abuse, to the endangerment of children – until the very moment this cover up was revealed by some of the families affected. The history of the church will record that it was that revelation, and not the fact of the abuse becoming known to hierarchy, that marked the start of the hierarchy's now publicly assiduous concern for child protection.
None of this has yet been explained, and (rebutting the argument that bishops are upwardly accountable) not a single bishop has yet been fired either for the cover up or for the deferral of child protection until the cover up failed. Yet the hierarchical (read non-accountable) model still regards itself as sacrosanct.
We now know also that for the past four years this hierarchical model in Ireland has been progressively reducing the funding of Ireland's NBSCCC – a bolt-on allegedly 'independent' body that still cannot even 'audit' a diocese unless invited to do so. (We know this from Ian Elliott, the retired CEO of the NBSCCC.)
And even yet Catholic parents are not invited to discuss issues of accountability and transparency with their bishops, or seek answers to vital questions (e.g. about the NBSCCC) in open forum. Bishops have not even yet sought to measure the loss of trust in their office caused by this behaviour.
The concentration of all preferment in the hands of men who exercise undivided power and are totally unaccountable to those they 'serve' is a clearly self-corrupting system, totally unworthy of the people of God. If it cannot teach accountability by example it cannot teach anything else either. We don't need to look further for the root of the current Catholic crisis.
Gene, the most relevant point of comparison would surely be with clergy in other denominations or religions.
Kevin Walters says:
Sean@2
The most scandalous aspect of the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal was not the fact of clerical sex abuse but the fact of hierarchical concealment of that abuse, to the endangerment of children
This excellent article in The Tablet backs up what you are saying.
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/editors-desk/1/1358/millstone-round-church-s-neck
kevin your brother
In Christ.
Joe at 3; Your point is well taken. The trouble is that though there are some patchy studies there has not been any extensive analysis of other Churches–certainly not of the size and comprehensiveness as that carried out for the US Catholic Church by the John Jay Law School at John Hopkins University. This covered a huge population of over 110,000 priests and examined records for an extensive time period from 1950 to 2004. According to Professor Philip Jenkins from what evidence we do have there appears to no reason to believe that abuse is any less prevalent in other Church communities. The first dioceses in North America to be bankrupted because of abuse were Anglican. And, for example insurance companies to not penalise Catholic Diocese over other church communities, who are organised on a Congregationalist model. There are also many differences that need to be controlled for. For example the Catholic Church because of its size and organization keeps records going back decades (even centuries). Baptist communities do not; reporting of abuse tends to be only contemporaneous. Also, to a far greater extent the Catholic Church has had a more extensive direct involvement in education, orphanages, etc, than other religious communities. The incidence of abuse is determined as much by 'opportunity' as by 'propensity'. This is one good reason why a comparison with the public school system is appropriate in trying to include or eliminate any hypotheses about causal factors. It is hard to be dispassionate and clinical about such a grim subject, but good remedies must strive to correctly diagnose the causes.
Lloyd Allan MacPherson says:
This profession is unlike any other. A childhood friend of mine (both of us are victims of abuse by the same priest) became quite vocal about the way a certain priest interacted with the young boys within our group. He did a courageous thing no other wanted to do. Within a month or so of reporting it to only his parents, he was practically ostracized by his family. It created so many problems for him that he was never the same way after that. Later, we would find out that it was his father who refused to believe it and his mother who felt like something should be done about it. Within a year, it was moot point because the priest was moved to a neighboring parish and his parents had separated. As years past, he became more and more disconnected from the community and by the time he was a teenager, was serving time in a juvenile prison. Had this been a scout leader or a teacher, would there have been less controversy and more action on the part of the parents? This priest was the most trusted of people in our community – you can't compare it to any other profession where I am from. Those days are gone but the sting of such idolatry remains. I for one believe that to tackle some of the outstanding issues we face in this world, we need a strong committed body of "believers" and based on the core competencies of its founder, Christianity is a shoe-in so I remain ever faithful. The priest in this story ate supper at the home of two boys he continuously and inappropriately touched. How often did he attend? Every other week for two straight years. The gravity of these crimes are enhanced by the proximity of the abuser both to the family and God. I don't see the hierarchical concealment as scandalous but rather the obvious after effect of men creating unnatural laws. What is scandalous is that the families of the abused most likely at some point bowed down on their knees in front of the abusers of their children and routinely confessed their sins to them and after were given a penance for wrongdoing. What level of psychosis on the part of the abusers would this behavior require? In my mind, it is completely off the charts and as always, I point back to St. Thomas's theory on Natural Law (with an understanding of the primacy of the 'individual' conscience and not what the Church tells us is natural). The more a person is contained within an unnatural law, the more perverse the behavior becomes.
Shaun says:
This is all so old. I think it is time to move on. There will only come healing when those who are wounded trust the Lord to heal them, to trust in Him and His goodness and a new day. To dig over old graves is to find nothing but sadness and prolongs the suffering. Jesus said "Behold I make all things new". This goes for everyone, even those who have been sexually abused by priests or family members. Do we trust Him or not? Grace is in the present moment.
#7 'Time to move on' – the refrain heard by survivors from the earliest days – always for the convenience of others. Do you know any survivors, 'Shaun' – or have you set out to get your head fully around the damage this experience can cause from the wealth of published literature?
Personally I think it wrong to speak of 'ruined lives', of course, given the healing power of grace and time – but the damage done to spiritual well-being by priestly abuse is colossal, and the church still lacks a sure means of addressing it.
When the survivor can say 'yes – I can now move on', fine. To tell a survivor to move on is to be insensitive, to imply that it is the survivor, not the abuse, that is the problem. It's the equivalent of calling someone with a broken leg a malingerer for not walking.
All in the church need above all to be caring, prayerful, patient in this matter – and intolerant of all obstacles to the healing of survivors. One of these is the continuing non-accountability of bishops for maladministration on this issue, and the keeping in office of men who are a constant reminder of that fact – simply to prove a point to the media: 'you don't tell us what to do'.
Even the pope has admitted that there is much work still to do on this issue – so the 'move on' reflex has no validity.
Fair enough Sean. Perhaps my comment was insensitive. I apologise if anyone was hurt by what I said or how I said it. I guess what I am really saying is that as an ordinary young Irish Catholic, I am sick of hearing about sex abuse. Do you know I've been fed a media diet of sex abuse stories and scandal since 1995, aged about 14? This has had a profound effect on all of us, most especially, obviously, and in a horrific way, on the victims of abuse. But I think so many Catholics are just sick of it, and it is perhaps this we are really saying when we say such things as 'it's time to move on'. Call it fatigue. By all means, the victims themselves must receive care and healing. They must feel the pain and somehow bring it to Christ so He can heal them. There are people in the Church who can help with this, though they may be hard to find.
Con Devree says:
Did the Council of Trent enable the sex abuse scandal? Did the conjugal acts of Henry VII (seventh) and his wife enable the death of Ann Boleyn?
The answer to both questions is "NO!"
The child abuse scandal was an outcome of disordered sexual activity, a failure to recognise and deal with temptation, a certain amount of ignorance about sexual abuse, a refusal to recognise objective evil for what it was, and a blatant decision to ignore the rightful claims of the abused and their families.
Pope Francis's comments the other day to the effect that no institution had done more than the catholic church to combat the abuse of children gives the game away. Behind all this I suspect is cod theology, which proposed that the actions of a priest are intrinsicly sanctifying, "ex opere operato". The priest is "higher than the angels". That makes any priest, however corrupt, worth a thousand lay people, or children.
Stephen K says:
Attributing causality is a risky business, I think. How far back does one go? Rather like the idea that each of us is the product and clone of thousand ancestors, it becomes mind-bogglingly impossible to separate distinct causal strands. And, to speak in Aristotelian terms, are we concerned for the efficient, the material or final causes?
Nevertheless, I believe, on balance, that there is merit in seeing the roots of later acts in earlier ones. But the Council of Trent was itself a product of individuals formed in a tradition or development of values. So, the object is not to diminish the individual responsibility of the sinner and criminal, by focusing excessively on the past and the culture, but to recognise that they do not exist in a vacuum, and that there is a sense in which it is very true that we are each linked in each other's sins.
Having said that, I myself agree absolutely that the root of the clerical abuse problem lies in the idea, theologically underpinned and previously culturally accepted and reinforced, that the priest was a "priest forever", in other words, metaphysically different and superior. Was this idea the cause or consequence of the clerical hierarchical establishment supporting the bishops and cardinals? Perhaps a bit of both, if that can be allowed. The fact is, priests were accorded a privileged and automatic, unthinking respect, and this was bad for them as well as the laypeople who gave it. The lay religious, men and women, Brothers/Sisters, enjoyed a large part of this respect by mental association (i.e. they wore habits and collars too).
Never let anyone imagine that the clerical abuse problem is a problem of the modern era. It is the modern era that has exposed it, that is all. For all those dedicated, hardworking, very human but ultimately trustworthy priests, religious we may know, who are shamed and punished by the actions of a minority, we must feel compassion and regret and never abandon. But they, as we, have all grown up and worked in a centuries-long culture that made, not so much the crime possible – human nature did that – but the concealment, hypocrisy and contempt of church leaders.
For my money – tainted though it is by my own sins – the first and most significant thing that must be done is to remove from all seminary training the notion that ordination represents an ontological change of an ordinary man and to instil rather the notion that it is essentially the commissioning by a shepherd (the bishop) to the service and protection of the flock.
It may come as no surprise that I do not agree that women cannot be priests. The tradition of the Church is, in my view, not worthy of the capital 'T" but merely a cultural and psychological fetter. But my view on the pivotal nature of the pernicious notion of the permanence of priesthood has, I think, some implication for the movement in support of women priests: namely, that the language of the campaign might beneficially change from a focus on a right to "be a priest" to a focus on a readiness to "pastor to the flock".
Shaun @7&9
They must feel the pain and somehow bring it to Christ so He can heal them. There are people in the Church who can help with this, though they may be hard to find
Yes they are hard to find Shaun; the great responsibility that Gods leaders have is to show their love for Him by keeping his commandments (Serving the Truth which is Love) and in so doing lead by EXAMPLE His flock to "love one and other"
Many have struggled to find justice and in trying to find justice have come up against the hypocrisy of a self-serving church that from the Pope down put its own image of worldly goodness before the most vulnerable in society. Until our church accepts this in true contrition from the top down, this festering sore will continue to blight Gods holy church on earth. Even Jesus poured scorn on the Pharisee for purporting a worldly image of goodness, as now mankind and many who have been wronged (Wounded) now pour scorn on a dishonest Church, that has lost its moral authority
When are leaders say to the wounded "for give us our trespasses" and can touch the hand of our brother and sisters in tenderness and look them in the eye openly and acknowledge their own guilt, with honesty before all of mankind, their anguish that cries out for relief , can start to be healed and then, they (The wounded) will be able to follow their example and say "as we forgive those who trespass against us" Then those who exhort us to move on beyond the perpetual memory of an offence and it long term effects that has blighted the lives of so many, will have a miracle, for all of us to share in and then you will be able say that these words have been fulfilled in the present situation
"Behold I make all things new".
And then we can all say "It's time to move on"
In Christ
Would it not be just as rational to blame the Second Vatican Council for the abuse crisis as blame the Council of Trent? After all the main incidences of the recent eruption was between 1965 and 1985, was it not? Could it be that the 'blame' did not lie in the seminary system of priestly formation bequeathed by Trent but by the breakdown of that system that followed on Vatican II? I am not blaming the Council here but rather the breakdown of theological and moral discipline arising from a distorted reading of the intentions of Vatican II and the actual content of its decrees. If even half of the corruption of seminary life depicted in Michael Rose's book "Goodbye Good Men" is accurate then is this a thesis that must be taken seriously?
Do you know the bible story of the foolish people who went to sleep while events passed them by? Life is complicated and simple formulae won't serve, in seminaries, in church government or anywhere else. Among other things, lessons learned from the Reformation, from developments in so many human fields, cannot be set aside for a refuge in simple pieties. All these things are part of the human situation.


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The work of Prof. Dr. L.W.J. Holleman
Exploring the Science of
Alchemy in Life Processes
Holleman Research
Prof. Holleman's Transmutation Research:
Professor Holleman's biological transmutation research
Introducing his work and of those who wish to further his aims.
The Original work of Prof. Holleman (in German)
Holleman's privately circulated report.
A Review of Research on the Biological Transmutation of Chemical Elements
Based on an unfinished paper by Prof. L.W.J. Holleman;
Translation, with criticism, of Holleman's work by David Cuthbertson.
Prof. Biberian's Transmutation Research:
Prof. Biberian's Transmutation Research
David Cuthbertson's publication of Biberian's results.
Biberian's own website
Interesting experimental results
Biberian's announcement of his first biological transmutation results to the Stichting.
Biological Transmutations: Historical Perspective
An open-minded historical review of biological transmutation research by Jean-Paul Biberian.
Article in German by Joan S. Davis about Biological Transmutations
Biologische Transmutation: Lebensstrategie der Natur: Das Fehlende aus dem Vorhandenen erschaffen.
Published in Hagia Chora, 14 (2002).
David Cuthbertson's Theoretical Research:
Paradigms for Transmutations - Introduction
The first of a series of articles on developing an understanding of the phenomenon of the biological transmutation of chemical elements.
Rethinking Biology
David Cuthbertson's Researches, from 2005-2006.
Other Biological Transmutation Research:
Other Biological Transmutation Sites
A wide range of websites with information about research by biological transmutation researchers such as Herzeele, Kervran, Vysotskii, and many others.
Biodynamics Research:
Biological and Biodynamic Cleaning of Contaminated Soil and Water
Included here is research by Vysotskii which provides the best evidence that bacteria and other microbes are capable of transmutating radioactive isotopes into those which are safe.


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36 Nike SB Dunk High Walk The Dog | BQ6827-300 The Nike SB Dunk High Walk The Dog is, without a doubt, one of the most unusual sneakers of the year. Part of the Swoosh's effort to revive the SB line, these really aren't made for the faint of heart, and just makes us love them more! Dropping in just time for Weed Day, or 4/20, the Dunk High Walk The Dog is dressed in a mix of canine-related patterns and furs. An orange canvas Swoosh shoots down the side panels, paying homage to a dog's collar, and additional textures come by the way of hairy green suede which may allude to the recreational substance. Down below, the Walk The Dog sits atop a clean white midsole that's accented by patches brown - representing the act of stepping on a dog's freshly-produced poo. Did we mentioned that this shoe was weird? If you are searching for the perfect pair of kicks that will definitely turn heads for both the right and wrong reasons, look no further than the brand new Nike SB Dunk High Walk The Dog! A shoe that you really need to see to believe, we recommend you go true to size for the perfect fit! The Nike SB Dunk High Walk The Dog will be available in extremely limited quantities, so be sure to hit that bell icon above for release reminders on the run up to launch, as well as an email alert as soon as these go live! UK true DD/MM/YYYY
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Фі (велика Φ, мала φ або в математиці ϕ; , [pʰé͜e], , [fi]) — 21-а літера грецької абетки.

У системі грецьких чисел має значення 500 (φʹ) або 500000 (͵φ).

Історія
Походження літери не зовсім ясне, припускають, що вона може походити від варіанта накреслення літери  («коппа»). Остання використовувалася в архаїчному грецькому письмі для передачі фонеми /kʷʰ/, яка в класичний період могла змінити вимову на [pʰ].

У класичній давньогрецькій мові «фі» вимовлялася як [pʰ] — глухий губно-губний проривний з придихом (цей звук сходить до ). У середньогрецькій літеру стали вимовляти як глухий губно-зубний фрикативний [f], це читання зберігається і в новогрецькій мові.

Від «фі» візантійського унціалу походить кирилична ф.

В етруському алфавіті від «фі» походила літера, що очевидно, використовувалася для передачі глухого губно-губного фрикативного звука [ɸ]. Вона не увійшла до латинської абетки.

Транслітерація
 У латинізованому запису давньогрецьких слів для передачі  використовують диграф ph.
 У латиничній транслітерації новогрецької мови  передають літерою f

Інше використовування

Велика літера
 У фізиці — позначення магнітного потоку, електричного потоку, світлового потоку.

Мала літера
Графічний варіант φ
 В астрономії — 21-ша (як правило) зоря в сузір'ї
 У математиці — позначення золотого перетину.
 У теорії множин — функція Веблена
Графічний варіант ϕ
 У лінгвістиці — позначення глухого губно-губного фрикативного звука

Фі в Юнікоді
У Юнікоді, існує декілька форм символа фі:

Фі в системі TeX
В TeX є один символ для позначення великої літери  — \Phi і два символи для позначення малої літери:  — \phi та  — \varphi.

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Seeking Clarity: Saved by... mirror bees?
A two-year study by a Scottish researcher rated the "mirror bees" method as the best way to protect Earth from an asteroid impact, should one of sufficient size be headed in our direction. This method involves sending mirror-equipped satellites into space to surround the asteroid, reflecting sunlight onto a single spot on the asteroid in order to burn a hole in it and release a stream of gases that will move it off-course.
The Engineer has a much more in-depth article about the study, and Wikipedia's article about asteroid deflection strategies provides some additional background.


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United States Versus Brazil Penalty Shootout 2011 World Cup
Perhaps one of the most amazing games in soccer history, both men's and women's, ends in a shootout, with the USA coming out on top.
Boxx had her first shot saved, but the Brazilian keeper moving to early off the line, perhaps the same call made on Hope Solo in regulation time, at least the referee was consistant. Boxx stepped up and slotted the retake into the upper corner. The rest of the Americans were all on target: Lloyd, Wambach and Rapinoe all scored and Ali Krieger got the game winner.
Daiane, the Brazilian defender who scored the own goal, had her penalty saved by Solo. What a tough game it was for the defender. I wonder if the Brazilian coach should have put her in the first five to even take a penalty.
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