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A mother of five young children, who was driven out of her Shepherd's Bush home after being subjected to a vile campaign of religious and racial hatred by her next door neighbour, has spoken of the devastating toll the ordeal took on her - and her young family.

Cheryl McKeown verbally abused and intimidated 32-year-old Koutar Mrimou and her family, her anger and rage, a court heard this week, seemingly fuelled and motivated by a warped perception Islam.

Mum Miss Mrimou, speaking to getwestlondon, said she hoped that the suspended jail sentence, restraining order and curfew handed to McKeown would mark the end of her prolonged nightmare, which she said has had a devastating effect on her and her children.

The family was subjected to near constant abuse at her home in Imre Close, starting in August 2016 and continuing into 2017.

During that time, she was threatened, often in front of her children, who age between 11 months and 14 years. Her eldest even took to the witness box to give evidence against McKeown.

McKeown was handed a 26-week jail sentence, suspended for two years, and made the subject of a restraining order by District Judge Michael Snow at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (January 31) after she was convicted of causing harassment without violence at trial earlier this month.

She was also given a six-month, electronically monitored curfew.

Speaking afterwards, Miss Mrimou said: "I'm happy. I think the outcome was fair. It gives me reassurance that if she does anything to me or my kids, I will be dialling 999 and she will be arrested.

"She's not just terrorised me, she's terrorised my kids. My son didn't need to go to school having that fear. They're innocent. They did nothing wrong."

Cheryl McKeown was spared an immediate jail sentence by the judge

Miss Mrimou says her problems started in 2016 with a row over nappies left in her own wheelie bin. Until then, she had been on cordial terms with McKeown, who had moved in with her partner next door.

But after the row things changed instantly: "That's when it started," she said. "It was daily abuse from that moment."

The judge said he accepted accounts McKeown had told her neighbour: "Take your kids back where they belong. They don't belong here. You shouldn't be allowed to have children in this country."

One another occasion, she said in front of the victim's young teenage daughter: "Come out of your f****** house. I'm going to beat you up in front of your kids."

On another occasion, in January 2017, she said: "This is becoming an Islamic estate. Get your f****** children out of this country."

Another account included McKeown blowing cannabis smoke into the face of Miss Mrimou while she cradled her 18-month old son.

She would also film Miss Mrimou's guests arriving or leaving her house and make vomiting noises.

The constant abuse left Miss Mrimou fearing for her sanity, her safety and that of her children, and even left her home to live with her mother.

Koutar Mrimou and her children were subjected a prolonged campaign of abuse

She said her seven-year-old son would not step outside if McKeown was there: "He is petrified of her and this has affected him massively," she said. "I've seen his behaviour change."

Miss Mrimou said the defendant would also bully her daughter, who went on to testify against McKeown in court: "We were kept in separate rooms during the trial and I wasn't allowed in court to see her speak.

"But it was really hard knowing she had to go through that. She suffers from anxiety and is a nervous wreck. She only 14 and she's been through enough. She didn't need to be there. That was possibly the most difficult part.

"She made a lot of remarks about my daughter. It really affected me that an adult is intimidating and bullying a child that already suffers anxiety and self confidence - I still can't get my head around it to be honest."

Imre Close, where Miss Mrimou and McKeown were neighbours

She said her first complaints to police were dismissed, and believes they thought McKeown was initially the victim.

In a victim impact statement, read out during McKeown's sentencing hearing, Miss Mrimou spoke about the emotional drain the ordeal had on her and her children.

"She (McKeown) has left me feeling vulnerable, intimidated and not feeling safe in my own home," she said.

'He cared, he believed me'

But Miss Mrimou said the support and help of Shepherd's Bush beat bobby PC Tom Cooke gave her the courage to prosecute.

"I felt the police were always making excuses for her behaviour," she said. "She was getting away with intimidating and bullying me.

"It was driving me to the point where I nearly had a breakdown. I spent every single day at my mum's. I moved in there for a couple of months because the abuse was so bad I couldn't deal with it."

PC Tom Cooke has urged other victims to speak up and tell police

Miss Mrimou continued: "But Tom has been amazing. It was so difficult to get someone to believe what I was going through on a daily basis.

"I was able to take this to court because of him, because of Tom's support. He cared and that meant he believed me and what I was going through when nobody else did. I can't describe how appreciative I am of Tom."

After giving evidence against McKeown, mum and daughter went home and waited for the verdict.

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"When Tom called and told me I was over the moon, it was the best feeling ever," said Miss Mrimou.

"We had been through so much that I got to the point where I started doubting myself. It was always my word against hers.

"The judge also saw that I was the victim and that I had been going though verbal abuse. That was the best feeling to have someone believe me."

Imre Close where many of the confrontations took place

PC Cooke has since hailed the verdict: "Koutar went through an unbelievable amount of harassment," he said. "It was continuous. The victim stood up and we had to stand up and take responsibility.

"We will not tolerate hatred of any faith or ethnicity. We will fully support any victim of crime. Anyone in the neighbourhood going through anything similar should report it to the police. You should not be going through this."

Urging other victims to speak out, Miss Mrimou added: "I understand why people are put off to call the police and write statements and to take it as far as I have took it.

"As hard as it is I do advise people to take it as far as you can take it, because people like this shouldn't be able to get away with terrorising or making anyone uncomfortable in their own home."

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A thief has been jailed for eight months after being caught in Hounslow with the stones he used to break into cars.

Ashley Sergeant fled after being spotted by police in Isleworth on March 22 this year, and was found cowering behind a garage, police said.

When officers searched his car they found a handful of stones, like those he had used previously to break into vehicles.

The 27-year-old, of no fixed abode, admitted two counts of theft from vehicles in Hounslow and Sunbury and one of going equipped for theft.

He was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on July 12 to 32 weeks imprisonment for theft and eight weeks for the other offence, to run concurrently.

'Opportunist thief'

PC Alex Sarakinis, who arrested Sargeant after giving chase on foot, said: "He was an opportunist thief, who would find a parked vehicle and quickly use those stones to smash the window and grab what he could find.

"He showed total disregard for the law and I'm glad he's been given a lengthy prison sentence."

Sargeant was also charged with two counts of handling stolen goods, but he denied these charges and no evidence was offered in court.

A prolific shoplifter was recently jailed for eight weeks after being caught in the act at Aldi in Hounslow in possession of drugs.

Two robbers who targeted a string of bookmakers across west London and the south east were jailed in July.

A care assistant who swindled a 93-year-old woman out of thousands of pounds was given a suspended sentence.

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If you're walking around Poplar towards Billingsgate Market you might notice something that, from a distance, looks a bit like a Christmas tree.

There's a mass of green 'branches' coming off a tall green pole, and there are some colour changing lights.

However, as you get closer you'll realise that this is in fact a ' traffic light tree '.

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Situated on the Trafalgar Way roundabout, drivers were at first a little confused but soon realised that the roundabout worked in the same way as any other one does.

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Brentford are continuing their policy of looking to sign the cream of the crop from the lower leagues by looking at Bristol Rovers striker Matty Taylor.

The Bees spent last summer scouring the European markets with varied success but have clearly decided to supplement their squad with English talent this summer.

The 26-year-old impressed for the Pirates last season, scoring 28 goals in 50 games in all competitions and is available on a free transfer with his contract expiring at the end of the month.

That included a hat-trick against Wycombe as Rovers won promotion to League One a year after returning to the Football League and led to comparisons with Leicester hotshot Jamie Vardy.

In their Conference play-off winning season, Taylor scored 20 goals in 49 appearances.

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The Bees currently have Scott Hogan,Lasse Vibe and Philipp Hofmann available in the striker department.

Hogan returned from two cruciate ligament injuries last term and scored seven goals in 163 minutes.

Vibe impressed in patches during his first season but also went through spells where he flattered to deceive.

Hofmann, on the other hand, seemed to struggle to fit into the way the club wanted to play as the German suited balls played into the air more.


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Sheffield United are mulling over a third bid for Fulham defender Dan Burn as the Blades look for January transfer window additions.

Nigel Adkins has told sources in Yorkshire he wants to recruit in defensive and attacking areas this winter.

United sit just outside the League One play-off places and believe the capture of £1million-rated Burn can give them the edge in the race for promotion to the second tier of English football.

Adkins is a known admirer of the towering centre-half and saw two bids knocked back for the player in the summer as a couple of hitches held up the deal.

It is understood that the Whites were willing to do business but only on the condition that a replacement was acquired first, with former manager Kit Symons pulling the plug.

Burn is entering the final few months of his contract in west London and has been in and out of the starting XI at Craven Cottage.

New boss Slavisa Jokanovic has restored him to the fold for the last few fixtures but the Blades are monitoring the situation to see if the Serbian decides to look at other options at the back.

United would launch their ambitious third attempt to snare the giant defender should the Serbian make changes to his plans.

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Southampton have joined the list of clubs attempting to prise Ryan Sessegnon from Fulham according to the Daily Telegraph .

The Saints recently sold Virgil Van Dijk after a mammoth transfer saga and supposedly were persuaded by the need to invest in the team due to being only two points from the drop zone.

The man: Chris Martin lets everyone know who Ryan Sessegnon is

The £75m fee the defender commanded certainly gives them room to manoeuvre this January.

While the south coast club are not quite of the same stature as the likes of Real Madrid, Manchester United and Tottenham but could offer more playing time for Sessegnon.

It would appear the youngster would be behind Ryan Bertrand in the pecking order at St Mary's but reports have suggested there is interest from Manchester City in the England international and Mauricio Pellegrino may want to prepare for his eventual departure.

Southampton have also been linked with a loan move for Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge, given Charlie Austin's injury struggles, as well as former players such as Luke Shaw who are struggling for minutes.


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Anne With an E is a Candian Drama TV Series. Anne With an E Season 3 is release on 3rd January, 2020 ( Netflix ). Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James and R.H. Thomson are lead cast of Anne With an E. Anne With an E is directd by Anne Wheeler. you can watch on Netflix.

Network: Netflix

TV Series Name: Anne With an E Season 3

Release Date: 3 January, 2020 (Netflix)

Language: English

Genres: Drama

Country: Canada

Director: Anne Wheeler

Writers: Moira Walley-Beckett, Moira Walley-Beckett

Amybeth McNulty As Anne Shirley-Cuthbert
Geraldine James As Marilla Cuthbert
R.H. Thomson As Matthew Cuthbert
Dalila Bela As Diana Barry
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Lumumba slams Zanu PF over ED's 2023 endorsement: What if Chiwenga or someone else wants to be President?

Self-styled communications strategist William Mutumanje (Acie Lumumba) has questioned ZANU PF over its decision to endorse President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the sole candidate of the party in 2023.

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"Zanu PF Elders, why are we endorsing President ED for 2023?" he asked. "Its a genuine question, handisi kukutukai (am not insulting you). What if Vice President Constantino Guvheya Nyikadzino Chiwenga or Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri or someone else wants to be President. Is that allowed or not?"

The Deputy Secretary General of ZANU PF Youth League responded to Mutumanje saying," How come you are also doing it in the MDC."

Mutumanje has a love-hate relationship with ZANU PF. He is sometimes against it and sometimes is very vocal in supporting it.

On Tuesday Zanu-PF Youth League made a resolution to endorse President Mnangagwa as their Presidential candidate for 2023. This was announced by Bulawayo Provincial Chairperson Khumbulani Mpofu whilst addressing youths at Milton High School.

The Youth endorsement comes four days after the ZANU-PF Women's Leagueendorsed President Mnangagwa as the party's sole candidate for the 2023 presidential poll, describing him as a champion for women empowerment ahead of the ruling party's People's National Annual Conference slated for Matabeleland South Province next week.

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CHACHAYA: Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube told to resign, Zimbabweans to mob his office on January 7

THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is calling on Zimbabweans, the employed and unemployed alike, to besiege Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s office on January 7, 2019 to demand his immediate resignation for allegedly bringing untold suffering to the masses.

Artuz president Obert Masaraure argued Ncube’s austerity measures, such as the 2% transaction tax, have “induced unprecedented suffering among the working class” and set a “stage for antagonism between the working class and the ruling elite”.

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The 2% electronic transaction tax sailed through Parliament recently after getting a thumbs-up from Zanu PF legislators. Opposition legislators had opposed it saying it was punitive to ordinary Zimbabweans.

Masaraure said the unfolding “catastrophic” situation resulting from the tax as characterised by price hikes of basic commodities cannot go unchallenged before calling for a January 7 protest at Ncube’s office to push for his resignation.

“Our immediate task is to get rid of the worst enemy of the people Ncube. He is the face of austerity in Zimbabwe. To that end, we invite all citizens to Ncube’s office on January 7, 2019 at 0900hrs. We will spend the whole day demanding either an end to austerity or his resignation. Out of courtesy, we will notify the police,” Masaraure said.

Ncube has on several occasions defended the austerity measures as necessary to rid the country’s ailing economy of a crippling debt that has stalled economic growth for years.

The call came amid mounting discontent from a cross-section of civil servants demanding better remuneration or payment of salaries in United States dollar to hedge against the rising cost of living.

Junior doctors embarked on a strike on December 1 also demanding payment in United States dollars and better working conditions.

Artuz recently led an historic 275km march from Mutare to Harare protesting against poor remuneration and demanding payment in foreign currency.

Masaraure added: “The State commands institutions of brutal force; it will be naive to engage in stone throwing in a bid to avert the looming catastrophe. We should never give them a reason to shoot at our defenceless citizens. The morality of our struggle will be judged by how much we can resist provocation and remain loyal to the principal cardinal of non-violent action.”

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Job Sikhala's arrest drama: He refused to come down from ceiling until police threatened to do this

A HARARE magistrate heard Thursday that MDC vice-chairperson Job sikhala was arrested last Friday by police officers while he was hiding in a ceiling at a house in Tynwald suburb.

However, the arresting officer, Collins Makore said their mission was not to arrest Sikhala, but the police had a search warrant to search for drugs, machetes and petrol bombs at the house.

This was said by Sikhala’s arresting officer, Collins Makore during the bail hearing of the opposition politician.

He is facing charges of inciting public violence and the bail application is being heard by Magistrate Lazini Ncube.

According to Makore, a team of police officers raided the Tynwald home, and while searching for the drugs, machetes, and the petrol bombs, he noticed some footprints on the wall and a missing ceiling panel in one of the rooms.

“We had a search warrant to search the house where Sikhala was after receiving information that there were machetes and petrol bombs being manufactured at the house,” he said.

“While inside, we searched and found nothing and when we were going out, we saw footprints on the wall and a panel removed from the ceiling,” he said.

Makore said the police officers convinced someone was hiding in the ceiling before they called for the person to come out, but Sikhala remained quiet.

He said Sikhala said he was coming out only after the police threatened to throw a tear gas canister.

Makore told the court he later realised it was Sikhala and they greeted each other before arresting him.

“Our mission was not to arrest him but we had to inform him that he was on the wanted persons’ list before he agreed to it and asked the police to call his lawyer.”

Opposing bail prosecutor Garudzo Ziyadhuma told the court Sikhala had tried by all means to avoid arrest before he was apprehended last Friday.

The bail application continues Friday.

Meanwhile, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and Transform Zimbabwe leader Jacob Ngarivhume who are also facing charges of inciting public violence have approached the High Court appealing for bail citing changed circumstances.

Their applications were heard Thursday before postponement to this Friday for further hearing.

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VIDEOS: 'Some people who fled Zimbabwe to come back home and some of those at home to run away'

Prominent man of God and leader of Divine Baptist Ministries Pastor Ian Ndlovu has dropped a prophetic message saying some people who ran away from the country will come back home and those that are at home will run away.

Said the respected man of cloth, "Some who are in who will go out for a season and some who have been outside who will go back to where they came from, it shall come to pass."

Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere, Patrick Zhuwao, Mandi Chimene and other G40 members fled Zimbabwe during the November 2017 military coup which toppled late former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and installed Mnangagwa as state ruler.

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In July, in a message veiled in parables but with a clear description of Zanu PF infighting, Ndlovu said the following words:
"God has planted a divided tongue among them and all that they will do is divide and divide until they take each other out. Let us watch and pray.
"I saw some of those that ran away come back home and some of those at home go away to faraway places."
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2015-10-21 Midnight Resistance has been released on the Back to the Fututre day... This is a re-release of the game previously already released by us. This time we do a proper release though with 8 trainers, High Score saving and full NTSC support. The same version was released 3 year ago for EasyFlash, but - a promise is a promise. Enjoy!
2015-06-27 Ghosts'n Goblins & Commando Arcade EashyFlash Compilation has just been released. Now you can finally put both of our 'remakes' on one cartridge or on just one slot on the EasyFlash3! No more wasting precious space... oh the joys of modern computing, making all this possible.
2015-06-21 #261 (Ghosts'n Goblins Arcade and Ghosts'n Goblins Arcade EasyFlash) Yes, we did it. Finally we released the one game everyone is waiting for (well, at least everyone has been waiting for until they saw the Sam's Voyage previews, damn you to hell). Joking aside, we worked our asses on this for months, almost years. Steve almost booked a flight with the Emirates (because they are the only ones allowing knives over the size of 10cm on board) to come here and do me in... :) But here it is... enjoy!
2015-03-21 #260 (Commando Arcade SE and Commando Arcade SE EasyFlash) is in the news today. What is that you say? It's a *SPECIAL EDITION* of our previous Commando Arcade release. This time the fabolous STE'86 redid *ALL* graphics. That's right - all levels have new stuff drawn. With all the new palm trees you will feel like you really got chop-dropped on to the beach! Top shit I tell ya. There are also a few surprises here and there, but we won't tell!

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Nakilat held its bi-annual Fleet Officers Meeting (FOM) from 27 to 28 March 2017 at the InterContinental Hotel in Doha. Held in Qatar for the first time, the event was attended by about 50 Officers from Nakilat’s LNG and LPG fleets, including those working onboard the vessels newly transitioned to Nakilat-management. The event provided them with the opportunity to interact with one another and share their knowledge and experience on various topics pertaining to ship operations, with a distinct focus on safety. In its fifth edition, the FOM is an integral part of Nakilat’s continuous commitment to safely, reliably and efficiently provide shipping and maritime services.

The two-day forum kicked off with a keynote address by Nakilat Managing Director Eng. Abdullah Fadhalah Al Sulaiti, followed by a series of insightful presentations to keep the Officers abreast of developments at Nakilat’s headquarters, as well as group activities to foster teamwork and camaraderie.

Nakilat Managing Director Eng. Abdullah Fadhalah Al Sulaiti said: “Having the FOM in Doha for the first time since we began transitioning our wholly-owned vessels to in-house management last year, makes this event exceptionally significant. The event not only serves as a welcome to the Nakilat family but also allows more members of the management and Fleet team to meet and interact with our Officers, thus strengthening the working relationship between them leading to greater synergy and more effective communications. It is an important platform through which we can meet with those working on the frontline and thank them for their efforts, as well obtain feedback on areas that require further improvement, so as to ensure we continue to be an employer of choice and support Nakilat vision to be a global leader and provider of choice for energy transportation and maritime services.”

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Namibia Inaugurates Port of Walvis Bay Container Terminal

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Namibia has launched an expanded container terminal at the Port of Walvis Bay, projected to double the country’s annual container handling capacity.

Works on the expansion of the terminal started in 2014 and were completed by China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) under a project worth $268 million.

The project, inaugurated on August 2 by Hage G. Geingob, the President of the Republic of Namibia, included the creation of 40 hectares of new land reclaimed from the bay within Namibian Ports Authority’s current port jurisdiction.

The expanded terminal will have a capacity of at least 750,000 TEU per annum, compared to the previous capacity of 350,000 TEU.

The project will not only provide increased container handling capacity in the Port of Walvis Bay, but will also increase the port’s bulk and break-bulk handling capacity by freeing up the existing container terminal to become a multi-purpose terminal.

The latest development program added an additional 600 meters of quay wall in addition to a new passenger liner berth.

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DNA-functionalized graphene sensor for breath analysis

(Nanowerk News) Reporting their findings in Advanced Functional Materials ("Humidity-Tolerant Single-Stranded DNA-Functionalized Graphene Probe for Medical Applications of Exhaled Breath Analysis"), researchers in Korea have demonstrated the enhanced sensing ability in a high humidity atmosphere of graphene sensors functionalized by single-stranded DNA, and proposed their novel sensing mechanism.
The device was constructed in a cost-effective manner by incubating graphene sensor platforms in droplets of the ssDNA solution, where ssDNA molecules were immobilized on top of the graphene via π-π stacking interaction.
Schematic illustration of the synthetic process for functionalizing graphene on an SiO2/Si substrate with ssDNA molecules.
Schematic illustration of the synthetic process for functionalizing graphene on an SiO2/Si substrate with ssDNA molecules. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag) (click on image to enlarge)
The team investigated the modulation of carrier density in the active graphene channel via electrostatic interaction with overlaying ssDNAs. They found that the single-stranded DNA-functionalized graphene (ssDNA-FG) sensors exhibit highly sensitive responses for amonia (NH3) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) vapors, with the low detection limit of 103 ppb and 5.3 ppb, respectively, in a high relative humidity atmosphere.
These results show that the enhanced sensing ability is attributed to the effective modulation of not only the carrier density in graphene through negative-potential gating, but also the formation of an additional ion conduction path for proton hopping in the layer of H3O+ around ssDNA molecules.
By using principal component analysis (PCA), the researchers showed that ssDNA-FG sensor arrays can distinguish the halitosis and kidney disorder cancer related biomarkers, H2S and NH3 vapors, respectively.
Although this study is at a rather fundamental level, by focusing on simple cases of combinations of graphene and ssDNA molecules, the scientists succeeded in effectively demonstrating enhanced chemical vapor sensing at high humidity.
"Considering its selective vapor sensing capability in a high humidity condition, we expect that ssDNA-FG will provide a promising sensing platform for an inexpensive and noninvasive diagnostic tool to monitor halitosis and kidney disorder," the authors conclude their report..
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Nano-Society: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology,
Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny, and
Nanoengineering: The Skills and Tools Making Technology Invisible
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Avenues to Improvement of Translation We have already noted that, while we have machine-aided transla- tion of general scientific text, we do not have useful machine trans- lation. Further, there is no immediate or predictable prospect of useful machine translation. We have noted that the important contributions of machine trans- lation have been primarily to linguistics and secondarily to computer programming. We have noted that while translation itself is vital, needs for translation are being met by a small though capable activity. We find, however, that there are attractive opportunities for improvement in translation, and we urge work aimed at such improvement. We have noted the importance of quality in transla- tions. We have noted that cost varies markedly with asserted quality. It is important, therefore, to achieve some objective evaluation of accuracy and quality. Work toward practical useful tests, such as that described in Appendix 10, is of the greatest importance. Machine aids may be an important adjunct to human or machine- aided translation. USAF Foreign Technology Division (FTD) figures show that production costs (assembly and reproduction of the final translations) are very high. It appears that delays in translated journals are attributable to production rather than to translation. Adoption of mechanized means of editing and production might be desirable (see Appendix 17~. Here the main cost of research and development can best be borne by other, larger fields than translation. Machine-aided translation may be an important avenue toward better, quicker, and cheaper translation. What machine-aided translation needs most is good engineering. What will help the human being mostspecial glossaries, dictionary look-up of some or all words in the text, or a rough translation such as that pro- duced by FTD? How can the delays due to queues at many tandem steps be avoided ? How can production costs be cut ? 32

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1999, Pinehurst
Stewart’s heroics deny the expectant father

Mickelson entered the 1999 US Open with his wife Amy due to give birth during the tournament. Fortunately, he didn’t have to leave to attend the birth of his first child.

Unfortunately, a bogey on the 16th during the final round surrendered a one-shot lead and allowed Payne Stewart to win by one after he famously made birdie on 17 then holed a magical par putt on 18.

2002, Bethpage
He fails to catch Tiger despite final-round blitz

Tiger Woods dominated the headlines following his victory at Bethpage Black in 2002, where he became the first player to hold all four Major titles at once.

It was always going to be a tall order for Mickelson to catch Woods, but he did get to within two shots during the final round. But a wayward tee shot and subsequent bogey on 16 ended his chances and consigned him to another second-place finish.

2004, Shinnecock Hills
Putting frailty halt Phil’s back-nine charge

Mickelson entered the 2004 tournament full of confidence having finally won his first Major at Augusta two months before.

The Masters champion very nearly made it back-to-back Majors after closing Retief Goosen’s two-shot lead. Birdies at 15 and 16 gave him the outright lead before a horror three-putt from five feet led to a decisive double bogey and the end of his title hopes once again.

2006, Oakmont
This was the one that really got away (for Monty too)

Everything about the 2006 US Open suggested it was Mickelson’s time to triumph. He had won the 2005 PGA Championship and the 2006 Masters. After a solid opening two rounds, he made a decisive move on day three to reach the top of the leaderboard.

Locked in a battle with Colin Montgomerie and Geoff Ogilvy, Mickelson carried his lead into the final three holes before a bogey on 16 checked his progress. The warning signs continued at 17 when a wayward tee shot landed in a bin, but a stunning second found the green and secured his par.

Meanwhile, Ogilvy made three closing pars to enter the clubhouse one shot back, and Montgomerie blew his chance with a double bogey on 18 after climbing into contention with a 75-foot putt at 17.

Mickelson boarded the 18th tee with a one-shot lead… but carved his drive into the crowds (see left). Undeterred, he went for the green but his ball hit a tree.

His third then plugged in a greenside bunker. The result was a double bogey. This was the fourth time he had finished second at the US Open and it remains his best chance yet to secure the title.

2009, Bethpage
Final round heroics fall short once again

The US Open returned to Bethpage Black in 2009, and the tournament had unwelcome similarities to 2002 for Mickelson.

Heading into the final round he was eight shots off the lead, but backed by a partisan New York crowd, he played his way back into contention and briefly tied for the top after an eagle on 13.

However, bogeys on 15 and 17 pushed him into second behind the unfancied Lucas Glover.

2013, Merion
An all-too-familiar tale of close but no cigar

The 2013 tournament played out in a rather predictable, but thoroughly painful, pattern for Mickelson. He led from the start but faltered with a final-round 74 to finish as runner-up for the sixth time having blown yet another chance of victory.

His Open Championship victory at Muirfield the following month means the US Open is now the only Major that Mickelson has failed to win.

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Funding Cuts, Clinic Inspections, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Acts Moving in State Legislatures

By Dave Andrusko

Pro-lifers are moving on multiple innovative fronts in the battle to hem in the Abortion Juggernaut, including cutting off funding and assuring more regular inspection of abortion clinics.

Yesterday HB 2384 became law in Arizona. Now that Gov. Jan Brewer has affixed her signature, beginning January 1, no longer will there be a “state income tax credit for charitable contributions for donations to Planned Parenthood Arizona,” the Arizona Republic reported. “The bill also forbids the use of any state or federal funds, as well as tuition and fees, to train medical professionals to provide abortion services.”

In Delaware a final vote is anticipated tomorrow in the state House on a bill that the state Senate passed Tuesday. It would mean that “Delaware medical facilities that perform abortions and other procedures requiring anesthesia would be subjected to complaint-driven inspections for the first time,” according to Chad Livengood of the News Journal. The vote was 21-0, and was “prompted by the deplorable conditions found in a Pennsylvania abortion clinic,” a reference to abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who stands accused of eight counts of murder.

The measure had already passed the House, but will return there because the Senate’s version added a slight amendment to House Bill 47. In addition to his own clinic in West Philadelphia, Gosnell also worked part-time at Atlantic Women’s Medical Services in Wilmington, Delaware.

Under the bill, the divisions of public health or professional regulation will have authority to inspect facilities based on complaints from patients, parents or guardians. “The legislation also authorizes the Department of Health and Social Services to adopt additional regulations to ensure abortion clinics get inspected,” Livengood wrote.

Oklahoma sent their Abortion is not Health Care bill to Governor Fallen who is expected to sign it. The vote was 84-10.

In Georgia, under a bill approved Tuesday by the House, if a federal health exchange is set up in Georgia (as provided under ObamaCare), none of the money could be used for abortions. The Associated Press reports that if the state Senate approve of the changes the state House made to the Senate’s version of the bill, it will go to Gov. Nathan Deal for his anticipated signature.

And as we discussed yesterday, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed two bills into law.  HB 2218–The “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”–is modeled after Nebraska’s path-breaking 2010 legislation. It protects the lives of unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion, based on the scientifically documented fact that by this juncture the child can experience pain. Gov. Brownback also signed HB 2035, the Accuracy in Abortion Reporting & Parental Rights Act.

Minnesota’s Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act received approval from ‘the Senate Health and human Services Committee as did a ban of public funding of abortion. The public funding ban also cleared a House committee.

On Monday, the Pennsylvania House Health Committee passed a measure that would make a commonsensical change—require that abortion clinics in the state meet the same safety standards as outpatient surgery centers.

The measure by Rep. Matthew Baker, chairman of the Health Committee, specifies that the Health Department “shall apply the same fire and safety standards, personnel and equipment requirements; and quality-assurance procedures to abortion facilities” that regulate surgical centers. The AP reports that it “is aimed at ensuring that abortion clinics receive the same level of state oversight as other medical facilities.”

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DI women's tennis subcommittee announces 2017 championship selections

DI Women's Tennis: 2017 Selection Show

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 teams and 16 first- and second-round sites for the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship. Per NCAA policy, the top 16 seeds are guaranteed to host if a bid was submitted and criteria are met, and matchups between conference opponents were avoided in the first two rounds of the championship.

 View the 2017 championship bracket

First- and second-round competition takes place May 12-13 or May 13-14  and features four teams playing in a single-elimination format. The winner of each site advances to the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia, where the 16 teams will compete for the national championship May 19-23.  The event will be hosted by the University of Georgia.

“What started months ago with hundreds of student-athletes from 315 Division I women’s tennis teams has culminated today with 64 teams earning an invitation to the national championships,” said Marija Pientka, senior associate athletics director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the chair of the Division I women’s tennis subcommittee. “As parity in the women’s game continues to increase, the early round pairings promise to be exciting and it will be interesting to see which teams advance to the finals site in Athens, Georgia.”

The matches shall be regulation dual matches. Three doubles matches consisting of six-game sets will be played for one team point, followed by six singles matches, each valued at one team point; played the best of three sets. No-ad scoring will be used and a seven-point tiebreaker (first to seven points, must win by two points) will be played at six-games-all. The team winning four or more team points advances in the championship bracket.

During the championships, all matches will be stopped after the doubles point is decided. All remaining individual matches will be stopped once a team winner (four points won) has been determined. The score will only reflect completed matches. The complete list of teams and sites is included on the official bracket, which is available at

Thirty-one conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships.  Each conference and its automatic qualifier are listed below.

Conference School
American Athletic South Florida
Atlantic 10 Massachusetts
Atlantic Coast North Carolina
ASUN North Florida
Big East DePaul
Big Sky Idaho
Big South Winthrop
Big Ten Ohio State
Big 12 Texas Tech
Big West UC Santa Barbara
Colonial William & Mary
Conference USA Rice
Horizon Youngstown State
Ivy Dartmouth
MAAC Quinnipiac
Mid-American Buffalo
Mid-Eastern South Carolina State
Missouri Valley Wichita State
Mountain West San Jose State
Northeast LIU Brooklyn
Ohio Valley Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Pac-12 Stanford
Patriot Boston U.
SEC Vanderbilt
Southern Furman
Southland Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
SWAC Alabama State
Summit Denver
Sun Belt Louisiana-Monroe
West Coast Pepperdine
WAC University of Missouri-Kansas City

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The August issue of JMF features articles educational achievement, work/family balance, fertility in young adulthood, and more.

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Hidden Tabernacles and 8 More Liturgical Crotchets

“The Mystery of the Eucharist is too great for anyone to permit himself to treat it according to his own whim, so that its sacredness and its universal ordering would be obscured.” (Redemptionis Sacramentum)

(photo: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA)

Two years ago I wrote a piece in the Register (“9 of My Liturgical Crotchets—and Yours”) about things that distract me at Mass. While none of these are “diriment impediments,” I do find them disturbing. For example:

1. Uncentered tabernacles. Time was once that the central tabernacle was, to no one’s surprise, centrally located in Catholic church sanctuaries. In the post-Vatican II era, tabernacles often were relegated to side altars and separate chapels. None of these has a real convincing argument behind (or in front of) it, and perhaps that is why more and more tabernacles seem to be re-locating back to the center of the sanctuary. Which is only right and just.

2. Priests wearing chasubles but deacons not wearing dalmatics. For years I edited books of all stripes by, for and about deacons. One deacon wrote quite simply, “If a priest is wearing a chasuble at Mass, there is no reason for the deacon not to wear the diaconal dalmatic.” Yes, it is that simple. However, the norm seems to be the priest wears the chasuble, but the deacon wears an alb and his diaconal stole, with no dalmatic in sight. Speaking of stoles…

3. Priests wearing stoles OVER chasubles. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on TV, but this is pretty much black-letter law as they say: in the order of the vestments, the stole goes underneath the chasuble. The End. However, in a holdover from the 1970s (not the Church’s high-water mark of sartorial taste), some priests still wear a stole over the chasuble, where it tends to fly about like a loose scarf, or, worse…

4. Priests not wearing chasubles at Mass. When fully vested for Holy Mass a priest puts on, first, the amice, especially if he’s not wearing a cassock or a priest’s collared shirt. Next, the alb. Third, the cincture, which, in an ideal world is crossed in front and interlaced with the cincture, literally tying all of this together; and then on top of everything, the chasuble. However, not infrequently I been distracted at Mass by the main celebrant wearing only an alb and stole and cincture. Or worse just the stole and alb. Perhaps this is considered necessary on the equator but as Pope St. John XXIII once noted, “even there the lions wear their coats.”

5. Using the “short form” of the Sunday (or weekday) readings. I have yet to find a good reason why the “short form” of any reading from the Old or New Testament should be used. I suppose if this is done by a military chaplain in the field under a torrential rain or in the midst of a sandstorm, it would make sense. But just because it’s summer, I don’t think the short form of a reading adds anything to the numinous experience of Holy Mass. In fact, by its very nature it takes away something: the larger context of the reading itself.

6. Priests reading aloud the prayers to remain silent. “Read the black, do the red” is the mantra of the Roman Missal. That is, the bishop, priest and deacon should “do” what the red print says, and pray, often aloud, what the black print tells them. However, there are certain prayers that are meant to be silent or said “quietly”: the priest’s prayers after the Agnus Dei are to be said quietly. However, at a recent Mass a priest felt compelled not only to say this prayer aloud, but to add aspirational prayers at the major elevation of the Host: “My Lord and My God!” and at the chalice “Precious Blood of Jesus have mercy on us!” After Holy Communion, when the hymn was finished, the priest prayed aloud during the cleansing of the vessels, “What has passed our lips as food, O Lord…” Since he’d been doing this since at least the end of the Gospel when he prayed aloud “Through the words of the Gospel may our sins be wiped away,” I’d given up the thought that perhaps he didn’t know his microphone was on so high. But since he wasn’t yelling at the top of his lungs for the rest of the Mass I can only surmise he had some aversion to Sacred Silence, perhaps.

7. Applause at Mass. This never makes sense to me. We don’t applaud at the consecration. We don’t applaud when we receive Holy Communion. We don’t applaud after the reading of the Holy Gospel. However, depending on the occasion, I’ve heard applause (a) after a particularly stirring sermon; (b) after the granting of secular awards on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day—this year I received a “Holy Tire Pressure Gauge” along with all the other fathers, to much clapping; (c) after a really well-sung “Ave Maria” aria after Communion. Maybe there’s a good time to clap during Holy Mass, but I still haven’t found it.

8. Holding hands at the Our Father. Although there’s nothing in the Roman Missal to prevent it, there’s nothing saying that holding hands at the Our Father is de rigueur, either. I can only guess that since the priest is “to extend his hands,” some parishioners feel compelled to extend their hands as well—though there’s no directive on that, either—until they are holding hands. Not only is this unnecessary, it’s unhealthy as well, especially during these torrid summer months when we are all sweating.

9. The readers who obviously hasn’t practiced the readings. Lay readers have my every sympathy, as I, too, used to read at Mass in college and grad school. They are doing a job reserved for specialists—in the minor orders these men were called, to no one’s shock, “Lectors.” Lectors had studied Scripture, commentaries on the Scriptures, done hours of lectio divina, and were much more familiar with the Sacred Texts than I, or anyone not in Holy Orders, could be expected to be. And simply because a lay reader has a sonorous voice and a command of the English language, does not mean he is a “good” reader. I actually feel bad for readers who, during their reading, start tripping over those difficult Old Testament names, or some of those surreal passages from Revelation, or St. Paul’s occasionally dense prose-poems. None of these are easy to read.

On the other hand, not preparing by reading and re-reading again and again (aloud, alone, and in front of a critic) is just good advice for any public speaker—let alone one who is about to proclaim the Word of the Lord.

Coda: “Don’t we, as a Church, have more important problems than these?” Yes, of course. But if we, as a Church, conduct our liturgy in a slipshod fashion, what does that say about our own respect for the source and summit of our faith?

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I Like My Crazy With Extra Nuts

I am endlessly entertained by the human ability to draw others into their own grand delusions.  Among this most entertaining group is the lowly-regarded but highly amusing quacks in what is probably the world’s second oldest profession, doomsday prophet.

Doomsday profiteering has gone mainstream these days.  By golly almost every other show on the History channel these days involves the apocalypse.  “Apocalypse Man”, “Life After People”, and every other episode of “The Universe” involves at least one grisly scenario on how the world might meet its end.  But these days the entire doomsday industry revolves around the fanciful and highly extrapolated idea that the end coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21, 2012.  Leaving aside the embarrassing fact that the Mayans failed to predict their own extinction centuries ago, Mayan doomsday prophecy is all the rage.

This kind of thing can be very frustrating to “Bible Scholars” such as Harold Camping.  Camping scoffs at the very notion of December 2012 being the date of the big ouchy. Says Camping, “That date has not one stitch of biblical authority, it’s like a fairy tale.”  What a relief.  Not a chance says Camping, because the end will come on May 21, 2011; a full eighteen months earlier.

Now before you run out to buy that big screen TV with a payment plan that doesn’t require any payments until June of 2011, you should know that Camping has made this prediction before.  Back in the early 90’s Camping and his followers were convinced that the end was coming on Sept. 6, 1994.  So they all went out and bought the latest in lightweight cellular phone technology (6 lbs) only to have to pay off their Discover Cards on September 7.

Camping, a civil engineer by trade who now runs an evangelical radio station,  admits his math may have been a little off in ‘94, but this time—This Time—he has got it for sure.  Camping makes his prediction based on some pretty irrefutable logic.

The number 5, Camping concluded, equals “atonement.” Ten is “completeness.” Seventeen means “heaven.” Camping patiently explained how he reached his conclusion for May 21, 2011.

“Christ hung on the cross April 1, 33 A.D.,” he began. “Now go to April 1 of 2011 A.D., and that’s 1,978 years.”

Camping then multiplied 1,978 by 365.2422 days - the number of days in each solar year, not to be confused with a calendar year.

Next, Camping noted that April 1 to May 21 encompasses 51 days. Add 51 to the sum of previous multiplication total, and it equals 722,500.

Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.

Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared.

And bingo! May 21, 2011. As we all know, so sayeth scripture…

“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father and that weird little engineer guy from California.”

You may be skeptical, but follower Rick LaCasse in on board.  Sure, Rick was one of the dudes stuck with the six pound cell phone and a credit card bill back in ‘94, but that doesn’t have him down.

“Evidently, he was wrong,” LaCasse allowed, “but this time it is going to happen. There was some doubt last time, but we didn’t have any proofs. This time we do.”

Would his opinion of Camping change if May 21, 2011, ended without incident?

“I can’t even think like that,” LaCasse said.

Can’t even think like that.  Exactly.

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Justice Ginsburg and Eugenics

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with President Obama in February.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with President Obama in February. (photo: Reuters)

In a commentary in the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg notes that it’s impossible to know for sure if U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was endorsing the idea that abortion should be utilized as a tool to get rid of social “undesirables” during a recent interview with The New York Times.

Writes Goldberg,

Here’s what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: “Frankly I had thought that at the time [Roe vs. Wade] was decided,” Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, “there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

The comment, which bizarrely elicited no follow-up from Bazelon or any further coverage from the New York Times — or any other major news outlet — was in the context of Medicaid funding for abortion. Ginsburg was surprised when the Supreme Court in 1980 barred taxpayer support for abortions for poor women. After all, if poverty partly described the population you had “too many” of, you would want to subsidize it in order to expedite the reduction of unwanted populations.

Left unclear is whether Ginsburg endorses the eugenic motivation she ascribed to the passage of Roe vs. Wade or whether she was merely objectively describing it. One senses that if Antonin Scalia had offered such a comment, a Times interviewer would have sought more clarity, particularly on the racial characteristics of these supposedly unwanted populations.

Whether or not the pro-abortion Ginsburg endorses abortion as a means of eugenics, Goldberg notes that some other abortion proponents continue to do so.

The writer Nicholas von Hoffman has written: “Free, cheap abortion is a policy of social defense. To save ourselves from being murdered in our beds and raped on the streets, we should do everything possible to encourage pregnant women who don’t want the baby and will not take care of it to get rid of the thing before it turns into a monster. ...”

In 1992, Ron Weddington, co-counsel in the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case, wrote a letter to President-elect Clinton, imploring him to rush RU-486 — a.k.a. “the abortion pill” — to market as quickly as possible.

“[Y]ou can start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country,” Weddington insisted. All the president had to do was make abortion cheap and easy for the populations we don’t want. “It’s what we all know is true, but we only whisper it. ... Think of all the poverty, crime and misery ... and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario. We lost a lot of ground during the Reagan-Bush religious orgy. We don’t have a lot of time left.”

Weddington offered a clue about who, in particular, he had in mind: “For every Jesse Jackson who has fought his way out of the poverty of a large family, there are millions mired in poverty, drugs and crime.” Ah, right. Jesse Jackson. Got it.

Unlike Bazelon, I for one would like to know whether Ginsburg believes there were — or are — some populations in need of shrinking through abortion and whether she thinks such considerations have any place at the Supreme Court.

And while we’re at it, it would be interesting to know what Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor thinks about such things.

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The Need for Theological Precision on Limbo

Pietro Longhi, “The Baptism” (1755)
Pietro Longhi, “The Baptism” (1755) (photo: Public Domain)

Scott Eric Alt has recently written two articles on the “Limbo of Infants” arguing that limbo is not dogmatic and explaining why he disagrees with it as a theological opinion. This is a highly debated and very emotional point for many, especially those who have experienced miscarriage and still birth. There has been both a development in theological opinion and also it seems that a development of doctrine may be working itself out as well. Sorting out all of the theological details will take some time. I would at least like to make a few clarifications to help guide a discussion of this topic.

1. Limbo is not a distinct, fourth place in the afterlife; it is a part of hell. The teaching on limbo simply acknowledges that those who die without sanctifying grace, and thus may not enter heaven, have not merited punishment for sin. This point is found in the Magisterium of the Church, at the Ecumenical Councils of Lyons and Florence. This point follows from an understanding that there is a gradation both of punishment in hell and reward in heaven (cf. 1 Cor 15:41-42). This point is not theological speculation. The Church has definitely taught in two Ecumenical Councils that there is a distinct punishment for those who die only with original sin and not actual sin (which is what is meant by the word limbo). The theological opinion related to limbo pertains to the assertion that all unborn children necessarily would enter this state.

2. Who would be in a position to enter limbo (a distinct state within hell), who have died without sanctifying grace but also without actual sin? This is where the position on unborn children comes in. It would not simply be children who die before birth, but also children who die before the age of reason and those who through a physical impairment do not have the full use of reason. The Magisterium has spoken on this point (cf. Pope Pius VI’s Bull, Auctorum Fidei), but not as definitively as point one.

3. The teaching on a state in hell with no punishment for actual sin flows essentially from the dogma of original sin. Some who would like to do away with limbo do so by denying the reality of original sin. Does original sin lead to hell or not? Original sin is “deprivation of original holiness and justice” and means that we are born in need of God’s sanctifying grace (405).  The Catechism accordingly teaches that original sin means that “all men need salvation,” which is to say they do not have it automatically.  To assert that original sin (the absence of sanctifying grace) does not lead to hell without the infusion of sanctifying grace would contradict the Church’s teaching.

The Council of Trent in its Decree on Original Sin teaches definitively on both how original sin is death to the soul and that Baptism is a necessary remedy, even for children:

If anyone asserts that the transgression of Adam injured him alone and not his posterity, and that the holiness and justice which he received from God, which he lost, he lost for himself alone and not for us also; or that he, being defiled by the sin of disobedience, has transfused only death and the pains of the body into the whole human race, but not sin also, which is the death of the soul, let him be anathema, since he contradicts the Apostle who says: “By one man sin entered into the world and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.”

If anyone asserts that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and by propagation, not by imitation, transfused into all, which is in each one as something that is his own, is taken away either by the forces of human nature or by a remedy other than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ, who has reconciled us to God in his own blood, made unto us justice, sanctification and redemption; or if he denies that that merit of Jesus Christ is applied both to adults and to infants by the sacrament of baptism rightly administered in the form of the Church, let him be anathema; for there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

4. The Church’s teaching on the Baptism of Desire refers to catechumens. It is, of course, possible to make an argument for how this teaching could be extended to children who die without the grace of Baptism, but an argument is necessary. We cannot simply take texts out of context and apply them to a different situation. How is an unborn child like a catechumen? Obviously a key point is the intention of the parent, but it is the intention of another, not one’s own entrance into the catechumenate. The intention of the parents and the faith of Church suffices for infant Baptism and so we can see how this same principle could apply. But has the Magisterium made this point explicit?

5. What the Magisterium has done is to point to hope for the unborn who die without Baptism, but it has not definitely asserted that they will be saved. Other than a non-magisterial statement of the International Theological Commission, the Catechism is the central place to look for the Church’s teaching on this matter:

As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,” allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church’s call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism (1261).

It is key that the statement speaks only of entrusting these children to the mercy of the Lord and hoping for their salvation. That is actually quite substantial, but it is not the same thing as saying that these children are assured of their salvation through the desire of their parents. If we are to hope and pray, there is a realization that that salvation is needed. This at least implies the possibility of limbo (understood as exclusion from heaven with no actual sin), as otherwise there would be no need for prayer.

6. What about children and others without the full use of reason who die without anyone desiring Baptism on their behalf? If the key refutation of limbo is the hope of Christian parents desiring Baptism for their children, it is clear that this would not apply in this case. It is possible, of course, that the Lord could look with mercy upon children who did not sin themselves and offer them the grace of Baptism, but this would require a distinct argument from the one employed in the Catechism.

Taking all of these points into consideration, here are my conclusions.

First, we should not make our own theological opinions into the same kind of overstep that has been criticized in the limbo of infants by Cardinal Ratzinger and the International Theological Commission.

Second, if we allow ourselves to fall into such an overstep, we may not take seriously enough the Church’s teaching on the need for Baptism, for instance. Many parents and pastors approach Baptism for children in a very leisurely fashion.

Third, if the Church teaches us in the Catechism to pray and entrust our children who die before Baptism to the Lord, then this is precisely what we should do: pray, trust, have Masses said, etc. If we presume the salvation of unborn children, which completely ruling out limbo would seem to imply, we will not take seriously enough this crucial task.

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Kick Start Closeness and Keep It Cooking

My wife and I were once close, but we’ve drifted apart over the years. There are days when we barely have anything to say to each other. How can we recapture our lost connection?

Good for you for not being satisfied with the status quo. When you’re in the midst of diapers, carpools and soccer games, you’re going to be tempted to let marital friendship fall by the wayside. But, with effort on both your parts and help from the Lord, your relationship can be renewed.

As a good starting point, consider St. John’s words to the Ephesians in Revelation 2: “You have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember then from what you have fallen … and do the works you did at first.”

Think back to the days when you were dating and falling in love. What did you enjoy doing together? Make it a priority to fit some of those things back into your busy schedules. In Letters to a Young Bride, Alice von Hildebrand calls this “remembering one’s Mount Tabor experience.”

If you can recall your Bible stories, after the amazing events of the Transfiguration, the apostles didn’t want to leave Mount Tabor. They wanted to set up tents right there. When married life gets rough, von Hildebrand recommends remembering the amazing times that first brought you together, your own Mount Tabor.

Next, find a way to go to Mass together. Nothing is more unifying than sharing in the very body of Christ. When juggling babies and ferrying kids who all serve or sing at different Masses, it seems easiest to “divide and conquer” when it comes to a regular family Mass time. Trouble is, Mom and Dad can end up attending different Masses for years on end. You could also meet on weekdays for noon Mass.

In addition to Mass, find time to pray together. There are many fine Catholic couples who, though they are prayerful people themselves, find it very awkward and difficult to pray out loud with their spouses. That’s okay, but the only remedy is to just do it. Start with a familiar prayer like the Rosary, but take a few moments before each decade to offer up any special intentions. Say them out loud, and don’t be shy. Be sure one intention is for the restoration of your relationship.

In order to renew conversation, you’ll first need to generate some new, shared experiences and restore your friendship. You can’t simply decide to sit down and talk — you need something to talk about. Find a way to have a date night at least once a month. (Once a week is better.) Volunteer together for a parish activity or project. Exercise together. Agree to watch a weekly television show together.

In our season of life, with nursing babies, this mini-date night is what works for us. We tape a favorite drama every week and, after we put the kids to bed, we sit down with a snack and watch it. It’s such a simple thing, but we both look forward to these times. We find that we enjoy each other’s company.

Finally, if it remains difficult to reconnect, don’t be afraid to seek extra help through marital counseling. Many dioceses offer affordable counseling through their social-services departments or family-life offices.

The bottom line is that closeness doesn’t just happen. You have to do some things to kick it off and keep it rolling.

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Bishop William Lori Named Archbishop of Baltimore

The Bridgeport, Conn., shepherd is also the chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty.

Archbishop-designate William Lori
Archbishop-designate William Lori (photo: Diocese of Bridgeport)

BALTIMORE — Pope Benedict XVI today named Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., the 16th archbishop of Baltimore.

The Baltimore Archdiocese’s new archbishop will be installed May 16 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. He succeeds Cardinal Edwin O’Brien, who has led the faithful in Baltimore since 2007 and was appointed grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem in August 2011.

Over the past six months, Archbishop-designate Lori, 60, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, has emerged as an energetic, high-profile leader in the U.S. bishops’ fight to overturn the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. His new proximity to the nation’s capital will increase his impact on the debate.

Cardinal O’Brien introduced his successor at a March 20 press conference at the Baltimore basilica, where local media joined the archdiocese’s auxiliary bishops, priests and seminarians to greet their new shepherd.

It has been more than six months since Cardinal O’Brien was appointed to his Vatican post, and there had been a good deal of conjecture regarding his replacement, with insiders betting that Bishop Lori would be tapped to fill the post.

Upon introducing his successor to the congregation, Cardinal O’Brien quipped, “You have no idea how happy I am to see you.”

He praised the archbishop-designate’s legacy in Bridgeport, where vocations, Catholic education, and social outreach have been strengthened, and hailed his national role as an “advocate” of religious freedom and traditional marriage.

Archbishop-designate Lori, for his part, said his new appointment in Baltimore filled him with “joy and gratitude at the very thought of shepherding this great Church. My first thought is gratitude to the Lord, the Good Shepherd, the One who shepherds his people in love and truth.”

He thanked Pope Benedict XVI, who “entrusted” the archdiocese to him, as well as the first bishop of Baltimore, John Carroll, whose historic seat still has a place of honor in the basilica.

“I really look forward to working with everyone so that we might unite in bearing witness to Christ and join together in the spirit of loving service as this historic diocese proclaims the faith,” he said, expressing a desire to work closely with Church leaders and to get to know his priests, seminarians and the faithful in the pews.

He acknowledged that Baltimore will be a step up in his responsibilities. In Bridgeport, he oversaw a diocese consisting of one county and a total population of 895,015—about 60% Catholic. Baltimore’s Catholic population is only slightly larger, but the total population of the city and the nine other counties it covers is over 3.1 million.

Both dioceses have about 250 priests and about 30 men in seminary. Baltimore, though, has its own seminary, while Bridgeport relies on seminaries outside its boundaries.

The Battle Ahead

Bishop Lori’s formal introduction to his new flock served as an opportunity for Baltimore’s new archbishop to restate his commitment to the defense of traditional marriage and religious liberty.

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Catholic, just signed a bill legalizing same-sex “marriage,” and the state is now gearing up for a referendum challenging the law. While the state’s historic black churches played a more visible role in the legislative battle, the new archbishop, as the president of the Maryland Catholic bishops conference,  could emerge as a central player in an uphill referendum campaign.

During the press conference, he acknowledged that the referendum was a critical issue. On the subject of religious liberty, he reflected on his new appointment and said that defending the first freedom “from a chair once occupied by John Carroll” will be “a source of great grace.”

Threats to religious freedom “should concern all of us as Americans,” he said of the erosion of religious liberty. “This is something I have come to gradually, but now I am in with both feet.”

While leading the Bridgeport Diocese, he was drawn into the political arena, where the culture wars have fueled state fights on abortion rights, same-sex “marriage” and church-state contests. He earned a reputation as a tough Church leader, giving as good as he got.

“Connecticut was a dress rehearsal for the national battle we are now engaged in for the preservation for religious liberty,” said Peter Wolfgang, the executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, a Hartford-based nonprofit organization that works with the Connecticut Catholic Conference on marriage and life issues.

In 2009, the state Legislature introduced a bill that would have stripped bishops and priests of financial authority over their parishes.

After the legislation was introduced, Bishop Lori made a series of rapid-fire decisions that produced an immediate show of force in the state Capitol. The diocese arranged for buses and got the word out to other dioceses, while priests exhorted the faithful from the pulpit.

“More than any single individual, credit for the success of the rally and defeat of the bill goes to Bishop Lori, who bypassed the normal structures for doing business at the state Capitol,” Wolfgang recalled. “The Catholic Church was viewed as a moribund institution. He saw that the sleeping giant could be awakened.”

Subsequently, the state Legislature’s ethics committee launched an investigation into the Church’s actions during the legislative battle. Bishop Lori promptly sued the committee, and the state attorney general let the matter drop.

In 2011, that record led New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan to appoint him to lead the newly established Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In that role, he has testified on Capitol Hill, drafted letters read from church pulpits, and helped to form a broad alliance of Christian churches opposed to the mandate.

During his recent testimony before several House committee hearings on the HHS contraception mandate, Bishop Lori exhibited the same tough-minded approach on display back in Bridgeport.

When Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of the bishops’ opposition to the mandate, Bishop Lori calmly disputed his various arguments.

At one point, Cummings noted that Church-affiliated institutions received millions in federal funds and implied that the bishops had nothing to complain about.

Bishop Lori replied: “We don’t get a handout. We have a contract for services, and we deliver them. … We bring the generosity of the Catholic people, and we bring volunteers. When you contract with the Church, you get a bang for your buck.”

But he leavened his unapologetic stance with humor, offering a ” Parable of the Kosher Deli” during a Feb 16 hearing that sought to clarify the church’s stance on the mandate.

His performance on Capitol Hill, and his effort to recruit a team of experts to help guide the bishops’ response to present and future challenges have earned him respect. Though Church leaders are on a steep learning curve, several recent opinion polls signaled that the majority of Americans agree with their position.

“Bishop Lori has — for years — been a clear and courageous defender of the freedoms of the Church and the religious liberty of all. His leadership on crucial questions regarding the fundamental right to religious freedom is a blessing, and not only to Catholics,” said Richard Garnett, a professor of law and associate dean of Notre Dame Law School, who is a consultant for the U.S. bishops’ committee on religious liberty.

“It’s entirely appropriate that the leader of the U.S. bishops’ defense of religious freedom should come to Baltimore, the home of religious freedom in Catholic America,” said George Weigel, the papal biographer and public intellectual, who has written extensively on the mandate fight and charted Bishop Lori’s rising prominence.

During today’s press conference, the archbishop-designate wryly acknowledged his new visibility in the nation’s capital as church leaders look for opportunities to advance their case.

“The Vatican decided that I was spending entirely too much time … on the US Airways shuttle, so they moved me to Baltimore,” he said. “So, they moved me to Baltimore so I’m a train ride away.”

Baltimore’s newly appointed archbishop is the supreme chaplain of the Knights of Columbus. Supreme Knight Carl Anderson was traveling and unavailable for comment.

William Lori was born in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 1951. Ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington in 1977 and a bishop by Pope John Paul II in 1995, he served as an auxiliary bishop in the nation’s capital. Six years later, he was named the bishop of Bridgeport, where he strengthened diocesan schools, vocations outreach and social programs.

Over the past decade, he has put his stamp on key USCCB initiatives, serving on the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse,  where he helped to develop the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. He also serves on the Committee on Doctrine, the Pro-Life Activities Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage.

For the immediate future, Archbishop-designate Lori will focus much of his energies on his new responsibilities in Baltimore. But his appointment, combined with the recent arrival of Archbishop Charles Chaput in Philadelphia, provide critical reinforcements for Cardinal Dolan’s campaign to evangelize the culture, and secure a place for religion in the public square.

“Washingtonians like me, who’ve known Archbishop Lori for years, are delighted by this appointment,” said Russell Shaw, the long-time USCCB spokesman and author of Nothing to Hide: Secrecy, Communication and Communion in the Catholic Church

Shaw observed that some of the new archbishop’s most notable qualities “have been much on display in recent months in the religious liberty fight—but he’s also outspokenly orthodox and notably pastoral in style. I hope the good people of Baltimore are dancing in the streets today. They should.”

Joan Frawley Desmond is the Register’s senior editor.

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