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/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* ----------------------         Styles for Reportico         ------------------------*/
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

form,table,input,a,div
{
    font: 10pt Ariel,Arial,Verdana;
}

#reportico_container
{
    background-color: #ffffff;
}

.swPrpToolbarPane input
{
    float: right;
    font-weight: 700;
    margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
    border: 0px solid #888888;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    height: 42px !important;
    cursor: pointer;
}

#swPrpSubmitPane input
{
    float: right;
    font-weight: 700;
    margin: 10px 5px 10px 0px;
    border: 1px solid #888888;
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.icon-48-reportico
{
    background: url('../images/icon-reportico-48.png') no-repeat left;
}

.swPrpCritSel select
{
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    position: relative;
    color: #505050;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.swPrpCritExpandSel input
{
    float: left;
    margin: 3px 2px 0px 20px !important;
    padding: 5px 2px 2px 2px !important;
    border: 5px solid #d0ccc9;
    border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    position: relative;
    color: #505050;
    cursor: pointer;
    background: url('../images/search.png') no-repeat;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    height: 22px;
    width: 22px;
}

.swDateField { width: 100px; }

.swPrpCritSel input[type=text]
{
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
    background: #ffffff;
    border: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    position: relative;
    color: #505050;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.swDateField { width: 100px; }

/* Why double {} ? */
.swPrpTextField { width: 100%; }
{
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
    border: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    position: relative;
    color: #505050;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 20px;
}

.swPrpCritSel input[type=radio]
{
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
    color: #505050;
    width: 20px;
}

.swPrpCritSel input[type=hidden]
{
    display: none;
}

.swPrpCritSel input[type=checkbox]
{
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
    background: #ffffff;
    border: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    position: relative;
    color: #505050;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 1em;
}

#prepareAjaxExecute
{
}

td.loading, div.loading {
    background-image: url('../images/loading.gif');
    background-position:  top center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    opacity: 1;
}

td.loading *, div.loading * {
    opacity: .9;
}

div.modal-loading {
    background-image: url('../images/loading.gif');
    background-position:  center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

.swAdminBanner
{
}

.swPrpTopMenuCell input {
    width: auto;
}

/* Table Container for Menu Selections */
.swMenuBody
{
    background-color: #ffffff;
    width: 90%;
    margin-left: 5%;
    margin-right: 5%;
    margin-top: 0px;
}

.swMenuForm
{
/*	background-color: #e6f4ca; */
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border: solid 1px #AAAAAA;
}

.swMenu
{
    width: 80%;
    text-align: center;
    font-weight: normal;
    color: #222244;
    border: none;
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
    margin-top: 5px;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
    margin-left: 10%;
}

a:link {
    color: #101010;
    text-decoration: none;
}

a:visited
{
    color: #303030;
}

/* Style for Menu Header */
.swMenuItemHeader
{
    border: solid 1px;
    background-color: #DDEEFF;
    border-color: #000000;
    font-size: 14pt;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: center;
    color: #000000;
}

/* Style for Menu Items Header */
.swMenuItem
{
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 1px;
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    border: none;
}

/* Style for Menu Header */
.swMenuItemLink
{
    color: #000000 !important;
    color: inherit;
    font-size: 10pt;
    border: none;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.swMenuItemLink:hover
{
    background-color: inherit !important;
    color: #7070CC !important;
}

.swToggle, .swToggleCriteria, .swToggleCriteria.link, .swToggle:link, .swToggle:visited
{
    padding-right: 5px;
    padding-left: 5px;
    margin-right: 5px;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #000000;
    color: #ffffff !important;
    font-size: larger;
    font-weight: bold;
    border: none;
    text-decoration: none;
}

.swLinkMenu
{
    padding-right: 10px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    text-align: center;
    height:  30px;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
    border: 1px solid #D0CCC9;
    background-color: #EFEFEF;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

.swLinkMenu:hover
{
    border: solid thin #000000;
    color: #000000 !important;
    background-color: #F2F2f2 !important;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* -----------------------------Styles for Prepare Execute Mode -----------------------*/
/* Table container for whole Report */
.swPrpBody
{
    margin: 0;
    width: 90%;
    margin-left: 5%;
    margin-right: 5%;
    background-color: #ffffff;
}

/* ------------------ Main Screen Form Box --------------*/
.swPrpForm
{
    text-align: left;
    margin-left: 0%;
    width: 100%;
    border: solid 1px #AAAAAA;
}

.swPrpTopMenu
{
    width: 100%;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
}

.swPrpTopMenuCell
{
}

/* Report/Module Title Header */
.swDescTitle
{
    font-size: 16pt;
    text-align: left;
    width: 100%;
    margin-top: 0px;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-left: 0px;
}

.swTitle
{
    font-size: 18pt;
    text-align: center;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    margin: 0px !important;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    padding-top: 20px;
    padding-left: 20px;
}

.swPrpCritBox
{
    width: 100%;
    border: none;
    border-width: 0px;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
}

.swPrpCritEntry
{
    background-color: #f8f8f8;
    width: 50%;
    vertical-align: top;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    border: solid 1px;
    border: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    background-image: url('bggraybot.png');
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-position: bottom;
}

.swPrpCritEntryBox
{
    width: 100%;
}

.swPrpCritLine
{
    text-align: left;
    border: none;
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

.swPrpCritTitle
{
    border: none;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px;
    width: 25%;
}

.swPrpCritSel
{
    font-weight: bold;
    width: 65%;
}

.swPrpCritExpandSel
{
    border: none;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
    text-align : right;
    padding: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
    width: 10%;
}

.swPrpCritExpandButton
{
}

.swPrpExpand
{
    width: 50%;
    vertical-align: top;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
/*	background-color: #E6F4CA;*/
    background-color: #f8f8f8;
    border-top: 1px solid;
    border-right: 1px solid;
    border-bottom: 1px solid;
    border-color: #d0ccc9;
    background-image: url('bggraybot.png');
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    background-position: bottom;

}

.swPrpExpandBox
{
    width:          100%;
}

.swPrpExpandRow
{
}

.swPrpExpandCell
{
    border: none;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
    text-align : left;
    padding: 0;
    margin-top: 0;
}

.swRunMode
{
    background-color: #EEEEEE;
    border-color: #56A6E4;
    width: 50%;
}

.swPrpDropSelect
{
    width: 100%;
    text-align: left;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 10pt;
}

.swPrpDropSelectRegular
{
    text-align: left;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: auto !important;
    display: inline !important;
}

/* Style for Criteria Entry Screen Buttons */
.swPrpSubmit
{
    background-color: #EFEFEF;
    border: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    color: #000000;
    border-size: 0;
    text-align: center;
    margin-top: 4px;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
}

.swPrpOutputBox
{
    text-align: left;
    border: none;
    border-width: 1px;
    vertical-align: top;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* -----------------------------Styles for EXECUTE Execute Mode -----------------------*/
/* ----------------------------- i.e for the HTML Report Output -----------------------*/
/* Report Title Header */
.swRepTitle
{
    font-size: 18pt;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0px !important;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    padding-top: 20px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #d0ccc9;
    padding-left: 20px;
}

/* Table container for whole Report */
.swRepBody
{
    width: 90%;
    margin-left: 5%;
    margin-right: 5%;
    /*background: #e5e9fc;*/
    border-right: solid thin #333333;
    border-left: solid thin #333333;
    margin-top: 0px;
    border-bottom: solid thin #333333;
}

/* ------------------ Report Output Main Box --------------*/
.swRepForm
{
    border: solid 1px #AAAAAA;
}

/* Table container for each Page of Output */
.swRepPage
{
    width:          99%;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    font-size: 10pt;
    margin-left: 0%;
    margin-top: 5px;
    margin-left: 0.5%;
    margin-right: 0.5%;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}

.swRepPageFormPage { border-bottom: solid thin #AAAAAA; }
.swRepPageFormLine { border-bottom: solid thin #AAAAAA; }
.swRepPageFormBlank { margin-bottom: 20px; }

/* No Rows Information Message */
.swRepNoRows
{
    width:          96%;
    border: groove thin;
    background-color : #FFFFBB;
    margin-top: 60px;
    margin-left: 2%;
    font-size: 14pt ;
}

/* Row of Column Header Labels  */
.swRepColHdrRow
{
    font-weight: bold;
    font-style: italic;
}

/* Column Header Label  */
.swRepColHdrRow td,
.swRepColHdrRow th
{
    border-bottom: dotted;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color : #000000;
    background-color : inherit;
    text-align: left;
}

/* Container for Group Headers  */
.swRepResultLine td
{
    padding: 2px 2px 1px 2px;
}

.swRepResultLine:nth-child(even) { background-color: inherit; }
.swRepResultLine:nth-child(odd) { background-color: inherit; }

.swRepResultLine td a
{
    text-decoration: underline;
}

/* Container for Group Headers  */
.swRepGrpHdrBox
{
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: 99%;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-left: 1px;
    margin-left: 0.5%;
    margin-right: 0.5%;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}
.swRepCriteria
{
    border-top: solid 1px #ddddff;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: 99%;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-left: 1px;
    margin-left: 0.5%;
    margin-right: 0.5%;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    background-color: #eeeeee;
    margin-bottom: 5px;
}

/* Line for Group Header Data  */
.swRepGraph
{
    display: block;
    max-width: 100%;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

.swRepResultGraph
{
}

/* Line for Group Header Data  */
.swRepGrpHdrRow
{
}

/* Group Header Label  */
.swRepGrpHdrLbl
{
    text-align: left;
    width: 150px;
    padding-right: 20px;
}

/* Group Header Value  */
.swRepGrpHdrDat
{
    text-align: left;
    border: none;
    border-color : #FFFFFF;
    padding-left: 5px;
}

/* Style for First Line of Group Trailer/Summary Values  */
.swRepGrpTlrRow1st
{
}

/* Style for Subsequent Lines of Group Trailer/Summary Values  */
.swRepGrpTlrRow
{
}

/* Style for Group Trailer/Summary Labels  */
.swRepGrpTlrLbl
{
    border-color: #FFC71B;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 0;
}

/* Style for Group Summary Values on First Line of Group Trailer/Summary  */
.swRepGrpTlrDat1st
{
    border-top: dotted;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-color : #000000;
}

/* Style for Group Summary Values on subsequent Lines of Group Trailer/Summary  */
.swRepGrpTlrDat
{
}

.swHelpIcon { float: left;height: 20px; width: 14px; background-image: url(../images/help.png) !important; }

.swCSVBox, .swHTMLBox, .swPDFBox, .swPrintBox, .swXMLBox, .swJSONBox
{
    width: 42px !important;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    text-decoration: none;
    float: left;
}

.swHTMLBox { background-image: url(../images/printhtml.png) !important; }
.swCSVBox { background-image: url(../images/printcsv.png) !important; }
.swPDFBox { background-image: url(../images/printpdf.png) !important; }
.swJSONBox { background-image: url(../images/printjson.png) !important; }
.swXMLBox { background-image: url(../images/printxml.png) !important; }
.swPrintBox { background-image: url(../images/printablehtml.png) !important; }

.reportico-notice-modal-button,
.swMiniMaintainSubmit
{
    text-align: right;
    margin: 10px;
}

.swMiniMaintain
{
    height: 30px !important;
    text-align: left;
    padding-left: 16px;
    margin-bottom: 5px !important;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    text-decoration: none;
    border:none !important;
}
.swMiniMaintain { background-image: url(../images/icons/pencil-2x.png) !important; }

.swRepRefreshBox,
.swRepPrintBox,
.swRepBackBox
{
    width: 38px !important;
    height: 38px;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    float: left;
}

.swRepPrintBox .swLinkMenu,
.swRepRefreshBox .swLinkMenu,
.swRepBackBox .swLinkMenu
{
    width: 40px;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
    text-decoration: none;
    float: left;
}

.swRepPrintBox .swLinkMenu { height: 32px !important; background-image: url(../images/printer.png); }
.swRepRefreshBox .swLinkMenu { height: 32px !important; background-image: url(../images/refreshbutton.png); }
.swRepBackBox .swLinkMenu { height: 32px !important; background-image: url(../images/backbutton.png); }

.swRepBackButton:hover
{
    background: #e5ecf9;
}

.swRepDatRow
{
}

.swRepDatVal
{
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* -----------------------------Styles for MAINTAIN Execute Mode ----------------------*/
/* ----------------------------- i.e for the HTML Report Output -----------------------*/
.swMntBody
{
    background-color: #efefef;
    /*width: 100%;*/
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-left: 5%;
    margin-right: 5%;
}

/* ------------------ Main Screen Form Box --------------*/
.swMntForm
{
    text-align: left;
    margin-left: 0%;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    width: 100%;
    border: solid 1px #AAAAAA;
}

/* ------------------ Top Menu Box with Main Menu, Admin Menu options  --------------*/
.swMntTopMenu
{
    width: 100%;
    margin-top: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 6px;
    border-bottom: solid 1px #d0ccc9;
}

/* ------------------ 2nd Menu with Report Name, Project Name etc  --------------*/
.swMntMainBox
{
    width: 100%;
    border: solid;
    border-color : #BBCCFF;
    border-width : 0px;
    background-color: #EEEEFF;
    color: #121212;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
    display: table;
}

.swMntInnerRightBox
{
    width: 100%;
}

.swMntInnerMainBox
{
    width: 100%;
    border: solid;
    background-color : #BBCCFF;
    border-color : #BBCCFF;
    border-width : 0px;
    color: #000000;
    display: table;
}

.swMntButton
{
    background-color: #EFEFEF;
    border-style: ridge;
    border-color: #666666;
    border-width: 1px;
    font-size: 10pt;
    color: #000000;
    border-size: 0;
    text-align: center;
}

.swMntButton:hover
{
    border: solid thin #000000;
}

.swMntMidSection
{
    width: 280px;
}

.swMntMidSectionTable
{
    list-style: none;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
}

.swMntUpDownButtonCell
{
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
}

.swMntMoveUpButton
{
    background-image: url(../images/moveup.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border: none;
    width: 14px;
    height: 22px;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-size: 0;
    font-size: 8pt;
    text-align: center;
    margin-left: 1px;
    margin-right: 1px;
}

.swMntMoveDownButton
{
    background-image: url(../images/movedown.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border: none;
    width: 14px;
    height: 22px;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-size: 0;
    font-size: 8pt;
    text-align: center;
    margin-left: 1px;
    margin-right: 1px;
}

.swMntDeleteButton
{
    background-image: url(../images/delete.gif);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border: none;
    width: 14px;
    height: 22px;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-size: 0;
    font-size: 8pt;
    text-align: center;
    margin-left: 1px;
    margin-right: 1px;
}

/* ----------------------------- Horizontal Menu Box ---------------*/
.swMntInnerBox
{
    width: 100%;
    border: 2px solid #CCCCFF;
    background-color : #000000;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

/* -------------- Horizontal Menu Buttons ---------------------- */
.swMntTabMenuButSel
{
    background-color: #CCCCFF;
    border-style: none;
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: 100% !important;
    color: #111111;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 5px;
}

.swMntTabMenuButUnsel
{
    background-color: #F5F5F5;
    border-style: none;
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: 100% !important;
    color: #111111;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 5px;
}

.swMntTabMenuCellSel
{
    border-top: none 1px #AAAAAA;
    border-left: outset 1px #AAAAAA;
    border-right: outset 1px #AAAAAA;
    list-style: none;
    display: table-cell;
}

.swMntTabMenuCellUnsel
{
    border-top: groove 1px #CCCCCC;
    border-left: groove 1px #CCCCCC;
    border-right: groove 1px #CCCCCC;
    list-style: none;
    display: table-cell;
}
/* -------------- End Horizontal Menu Buttons ---------------------- */

/* -------------- Verical Menu Buttons ---------------------- */
.swMntVertTabMenuButSel
{
    background-color: #CCCCFF;
    width: 220px !important;
    color: #111111;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
}

.swMntVertTabMenuButUnsel
{
    background-color: #F5F5F5;
    width: 220px !important;
    color: #111111;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
}

.swMntVertTabMenuCellSel
{
}

.swMntVertTabMenuCellUnsel
{
}
/* -------------- End Verical Menu Buttons ---------------------- */

.swMntExpandTextButton
{
    background-color: #9DE6F4;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border-style: groove;
    border-color: #4BBA5E;
    border-width: 0px;
    border-size: 0;
    padding-right: 10;
    padding-left: 10;
    font-size: 8pt;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align=text-bottom;
}

.swMntUnexpandTextButton
{
    background-color: #FDF6DF;
    border-style: groove;
    border-color: #4BBA5E;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-size: 0;
    padding-right: 10;
    padding-left: 10;
    font-size: 8pt;
    text-align: center;
}

.swMntRowBlock
{
    border: groove thin;
    border-width: 2px;
    vertical-align=text-top;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
    font-style: bold;
    font-size: 10pt;
    margin-left: 2%
}

.swMntSetField
{
    background-color : #f4f4f4;
    border-color : #BBCCFF;
    padding: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
    font-size: 10pt;
}

.swMntSetField textarea
{
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: auto;
}

.swMntHelpLink
{
    color: #0000FF;
    text-decoration: none;
    border-style: none;
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

.swMntHelpImage
{
    border-style: none;
}

.swMntHelp
{
    background-color : #DDFFDD;
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    font-size: 10pt;
    width: 14px;
}

#deltripbtn
{
    background-image: url(../images/delete.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

/* ----------------------------- Other Styles -----------------------------------------*/
.swStatus
{
    width:          98%;
    border: groove thin;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
    font-style:	    bold;
    margin-left: 1%;
}

.swError
{
    width:          100%;
    background-color : inherit;
    color : #BB0000;
    border-color : #DDFFDD;
    font-style:	    bold;
}

.smallbanner {
    color:#888888;
    font-weight:normal;
    font-size: 8pt;
    text-align: center;
}

/* -------------------------- Printed Output Styles ----------------------------------*/
/* -------------------------- Printed Output Styles ----------------------------------*/
.swPageHeaderBlock { display: block; width: 100%; position: relative; }
.swPageHeader { position: absolute; }

@media print {

    body { font-size: 10pt }
    .swLinkMenu { display: none; }
    .swRepForm { border: none; }
    .swRepBody { width: 100%; margin: 0; border: none; }
/* Column Header Label  */
    .swRepColHdrRow td,
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Following the Call of Conscience
Health Care and Religious Liberty
by Alan Dowd
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) handed down a mandate requiring religious employers to cover contraceptive drugs in their health insurance plans, including drugs that cause abortion, Catholic institutions initially took center stage. Cardinal Timothy Dolan explained that the HHS mandate "would force practically all employers, including many religious institutions, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations, and contraception" and warned that the government's actions "struck at the heart of our fundamental right to religious liberty."
Indeed, this might-makes-right mandate impacts all people of faith and highlights the need to revisit principles of religious liberty in Scripture.
A Disjointed Body?
In the Face of Unjust Laws
Even after the Civil War ended slavery in the United States, the words of the Declaration of Independence remained unfulfilled, as segregation and institutionalized racism perpetuated a two-class system across the South. This paved the way for perhaps the most effective example of religiously guided civil disobedience in American history: the civil rights movement.
In the letter he wrote while jailed in Birmingham, the Rev. Martin Luther King offered a powerful defense of civil disobedience.
Writing to clergymen who opposed the peaceful demonstrations in Birmingham, King reminded them of the "conditions that brought about the demonstrations": a governor full of "hatred" — recall that George Wallace howled, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" — a mayor and public safety director who were committed segregationists, police who engaged in "ugly and inhumane treatment" of blacks, and courts guilty of "grossly unjust treatment." Simply put, King was fighting a regime that refused to observe federal laws, let alone the laws of conscience.
"On the basis of these conditions," King explained, "Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation."
So King chose the path of peaceful civil disobedience to end "the evil system of segregation," arguing that someone who breaks an unjust law "is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Beyond the general guidance he offered on peaceful civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws, King also commented about something with a direct application to the controversy triggered by the HHS mandate, noting that if he lived in a country "where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's anti-religious laws."
The president's health care law, the Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, required all employers offering health insurance to include coverage for "preventive health services." HHS later defined this to include contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs like the morning-after pill (known as "abortifacients").
Many observers hoped the president would direct HHS to provide a broad exemption for religious employers, and for good reason: In 2009, the president spoke eloquently about the need to "honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion," and said he was open to "a sensible conscience clause."
But those hopes were dashed, as we now know. HHS initially exempted only those organizations that employ people of the same faith, serve people of the same faith, and focus on religious teaching as their main mission. Universities, primary and secondary schools, hospitals, nursing homes, food kitchens, and virtually all religious charitable organizations would not receive a conscience-clause exemption from HHS, which explains the firestorm that erupted in January.
Summing up what many thought about the HHS regulation, Dolan concluded that "the exemption is too narrowly defined, because it does not exempt most nonprofit religious employers … who rightly object to paying for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception."
"This is first and foremost a matter of religious liberty for all," Dolan explained. "If the government can, for example, tell Catholics that they cannot be in the insurance business today without violating their religious convictions, where does it end?" Dolan wasn't the only religious leader to come to that conclusion.
"I'm not a Catholic, but I stand in 100-percent solidarity with my brothers and sisters to practice their belief against government pressure," wrote the Rev. Rick Warren. "I'd rather go to jail than cave to a government mandate that violates what God commands us to do," he added, raising the prospect of a campaign of civil disobedience.
Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention called the HHS mandate "reprehensible."
Noting that "we are one body," David French of the American Center for Law and Justice asked his fellow Protestants, "Are we so wedded to our distinctions from our Catholic brothers and sisters that we'll fail to rally to their aid, much less closely examine our own apparent willingness to quietly cover and fund abortifacients?"
Many faiths and denominations have answered that question. The National Association of Evangelicals, Southern Baptist Convention, Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod), and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America have all condemned the ruling.
Federal lawsuits have been filed by numerous religious employers, including Geneva College (a Pennsylvania college associated with the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America), Louisiana College (a Southern Baptist school), EWTN (a Catholic cable TV network), Belmont Abbey College (a Catholic college in North Carolina), and Colorado Christian University (an interdenominational school).
The Geneva College suit contends that the HHS mandate will "coerce thousands of religious institutions and individuals to engage in acts they consider sinful and immoral, in violation of their most deeply held religious beliefs."
"As Christians we believe in the sanctity of human life," Geneva College President Ken Smith explains. "We believe that God knit us together in our mother's womb. We hold to the requirement of the sixth commandment — you shall not murder — and believe that abortion is murder. … The Health and Human Services Preventive Services mandate coerces Geneva College to violate the sixth commandment under threat of heavy fines and penalties."
While noting the "breadth of support across many denominations," including Roman Catholic leaders, Smith expresses disappointment with Protestants who refuse to recognize what the Bible says about the sanctity of life. "I've been distressed to discover that many in the body of Christ simply deny the authoritative position of Scripture on the issue of life," he sighs.
Amid the controversy, some have tried to change the debate's terms from government infringement upon religious liberty to whether contraception is wrong or right. The HHS mandate is not simply a matter of birth control. It also enfolds abortion-inducing drugs. In fact, implicit in the HHS preventive-services mandate is the notion that pregnancy — and hence, unborn life — is an illness that needs to be prevented.
Reacting to the backlash, the president proposed a compromise that would allow religious employers not to include contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs in their health-insurance plan as long as they make sure their employees have insurance alternatives that provide contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and the like. The White House explained that under the compromise, "insurance companies will be required to provide contraception coverage to these women free of charge." In addition, the White House established what it described as "a one-year transition period for religious organizations while this policy is being implemented." As Dolan put it, "In effect, the president is saying we have one year to figure out how to violate our consciences."
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm, dismissed the compromise as "false," noting that "For-profit insurance companies aren't going to donate contraceptives and abortion drugs to employees; the employer will pay for it one way or the other."
Indeed, health insurers retained by religiously affiliated employers would still be providing these contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs, which could make them culpable in the commission of an immoral act. Moreover, the notion that insurance companies — which, it pays to recall, are businesses — would provide a good or service "free of charge" defies reason. Those charges will be passed back to employers in the annual premiums they pay.
Religious employers are thus faced with four unpalatable alternatives: Ignore the cry of conscience, pay a fine, stop offering health insurance, or engage in civil disobedience by defying the law.
The Primacy of God's Law
America's founding document — the Declaration of Independence — invoked "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and asserted that all people "are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." Yet the promise of Jefferson's masterpiece would remain unfulfilled for generations, crippled by America's original sin: slavery.
A decade before the Civil War, the Fugitive Slave Act attempted to preserve the institution of slavery by forcing people to return any escaped slave "back to the state or territory whence he or she may have escaped." Equally appalling, to "harbor or conceal such fugitive so as to prevent the discovery and arrest of such person," the law declared, would result in "a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding six months."
Geneva College courageously took a posture of civil disobedience in response to the Fugitive Slave Act. "The law said people were required to turn in fugitive slaves," explains Ken Smith, president of Geneva College. "Geneva said, 'Not us.'"
To this day, the school invokes its stance on the Fugitive Slave Act to underscore the primacy of God's law. According to the school's Board of Trustees Policy Manual, "Should it develop that federal and/or state laws or regulations are deemed to require the college to act in a way inconsistent with the Word of God, the board of trustees will actively seek to challenge such laws or regulations, and/or support a position of dissent, such as the college took in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850."
The Kingdom Has Yet to Fully Come
To be sure, there are instances when the government has to intervene to prevent a religious practice from harming someone — and rightly so — but the HHS mandate turns the government's responsibility-to-protect principle on its head: When it comes to the morning-after pill and other abortion-inducing drugs, the government is intervening to prevent a religious practice from protecting someone — namely an unborn child.
Moreover, the vast majority of the time, the federal government finds a way to protect and preserve minority rights while ensuring majority rule, especially in cases dealing with religious liberty. Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, points to "religious exceptions for Quakers who did not want to fight in the military … corrections workers who don't want to be involved in capital punishment … health-care personnel who do not want to be involved in abortions."
In other words, America's government is not supposed to tell those with religious beliefs how, where, when, or whether to practice those beliefs. We don't have to worship on the same days or in the same ways to recognize this truth.
Speaking of truth, this entire episode serves as a reminder of two timeless truths. First, "our citizenship is in heaven," as Paul writes in Philippians. We may love our country, but it's part of a fallen world. Paul reminds us, therefore, that we are Christ's ambassadors, representing His kingdom, which has yet to fully come.
That was an easy concept to grasp for Paul and the early church, and for all people of faith who have been persecuted by governments. Moments like this — when our government trespasses into the sphere of faith — are the exception rather than the rule in America. Still, they are clarifying moments for people of faith. They remind us that our kingdom, as Jesus explained, is "not of this world." Smith puts it more matter-of-factly: "At Geneva College, we only have one Lord, and He does not live in Washington, D.C."
Yet this is our diplomatic posting, to extend Paul's ambassador metaphor. And the good news for Christians who are blessed to live in America is that we live in a land where people have the right to speak up, to challenge the government, and to follow the call of conscience into the public square. Indeed, the Founders crafted a system whereby faith could impact and influence the government, but not the other way around. Church and state are supposed to coexist in America's public square. Most Americans don't want religion to control government (like the Islamic Republic of Iran), and they don't want government to control religion (like the People's Republic of China).
The HHS mandate underscores for us that religious liberty is a blessing that should never be taken for granted. If we believe in religious liberty, if we care about it, we should stand up for it.
"When the state stands in opposition to Christ," as Smith explains, "we must call the state to account." He believes it's important for Christians to pray, educate themselves on the HHS mandate issue, and "be actively engaged" by staying in contact with their legislators. "The message should be: This is unacceptable."
God's Law or Man's?
That leads to a second truth unearthed by the HHS mandate mess: Civil disobedience is sometimes justified. But that presents a problem, since disagreeing with the government and engaging in acts of civil disobedience could be seen as violating some of Scripture's injunctions about respecting government authority.
For instance, in 1 Peter, Peter directs believers to "Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right." Paul's letter to the Romans commands believers to "be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. … Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted. … Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God's servant for your good."
The obvious implication is that God allows earthly government authorities to be in power for His purposes. It follows that believers should not challenge those authorities. That explains why many people of faith are wary of getting involved in politics, let alone challenging government authority.
However, it may help to put Peter and Paul's injunctions into some context. First, it's quite possible that Paul was thinking tactically. In other words, openly rebelling against government authority would have given Rome reason to crack down on the fragile new faith Paul was spreading. By advising the rank-and-file to maintain a low profile, perhaps Paul was hoping Christianity could lay down deep roots and spread peacefully, beneath Rome's gaze. Why else would he advise Timothy to pray "for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives"?
More importantly, Peter tells believers to "do right," and Paul's advice is to "do what is right." So, if some authority requires a believer to do something wrong — like, say, keeping silent about the gospel, renouncing Christ, or breaking one of the commandments by being complicit in the taking of innocent life — neither Peter nor Paul would instruct that believer to "do what is right" according to a man-made law but wrong according to God's. That, it seems, would have been self-evident to first-century believers.
Indeed, when ordered by the Sanhedrin not to teach about Jesus, Peter boldly replied, "We must obey God rather than men." In fact, Peter "never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news."
Likewise, Paul was jailed and flogged for "advocating customs unlawful for … Romans to accept or practice." Because of his unflinching commitment to the Word, he triggered riots and was imprisoned by Roman authorities. And yet Paul was encouraged in a vision by Jesus, who told him, "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent." In short, Peter and Paul engaged in a kind of civil disobedience, and the Lord approved.
Civil Disobedience Approved By God
What's more, the Bible is full of courageous acts of civil disobedience approved by God.
Pharaoh ordered the midwives Shiphrah and Puah to kill newborn Hebrew boys at birth. "If you see that the baby is a boy," he coldly commanded, "kill him." But they explicitly disobeyed Pharaoh's orders. They even lied about it, and yet God rewarded their act of civil disobedience.
We sometimes forget that Moses' interaction with Pharaoh was primarily about religious liberty. Speaking as God's ambassador, Moses declared, "Let my people go so that they may hold a festival to me in the desert." Pharaoh refused, and so Moses went far beyond civil disobedience. In fact, he led a rebellion against Pharaoh.
The Book of Esther tells us that King Xerxes commanded his subjects to bow before Haman, but "Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor." That act of civil disobedience set in motion the events that followed: the order to kill all of Mordecai's people, Esther's crisis of conscience, Mordecai's intercession, and Esther's own courageous act of civil disobedience. It was courageous because, as Esther explained, "for any man or woman who approaches the inner court without being summoned, the king has but one law: that he or she be put to death." Esther went anyway, and because she did, God's people were spared.
As any kid who has gone to Sunday school can report, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were tossed into a furnace for refusing to bow to a golden image of King Nebuchadnezzar. Likewise, when King Darius banned the people from praying to anyone except him, Daniel defied the order and prayed to the living God.
Most important of all, when Jesus instructed the disciples to "give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's" (Matthew 22:21), He was talking about more than taxes. He was also providing guidance on what matters to God: Give to the government what is the government's, but reserve for God what matters most — your heart, your soul, your conscience. Don't let the government take hold of those precious parts of you. And don't be surprised if drawing that line gets the government's attention. "On account of me," Jesus proclaimed, "you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them" (Mark 13:9).
That's what Peter and Paul did, and that's what Cardinal Dolan, Geneva College, and many other believers are doing today.
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Eleanor Rosch
Field: Cognitive science; cognitive psychology
Focus: Conducted innovative research into categorization, linguistics, and mental representation of objects and concepts.
Era: 1970 to 1989
Eleanor Rosch is known for her innovative research in the fields of cognitive science and psychology, where she has focused on categorization, linguistics, and mental representation of objects and concepts. Rosch saw categorization as a central issue of cognitive science. She established research paradigms for demonstrating several aspects of cognitive psychology. She is perhaps best known for determining how good an example of a category a member is thought to be.
A basic tenet demonstrated by Rosch's experiments is that people classify an everyday object or experience less on abstract definitions than on what they regard as the best representation of the appropriate category. For example, a robin is considered a much better prototype for the concept of a bird than is a chicken or an ostrich. Her findings led Rosch to develop a hierarchy of basic, superordinate, and subordinate categories that "provide maximum information with the least congitive ability."
Rosch has also devoted a great deal of study to cross-cultural psychology and Eastern psychology, as well as linguistics and the application of categories to meaning and understanding in language. She extended her conclusions by theorizing that members of different cultures tend to categorize similar objects in similar ways, arguing that basic objects transcend cultural differences and individual mental representations of them.
Rosch received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. She is currently a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research interests include cognition, concepts, causality, thinking, memory, and cross-cultural, Eastern, and religious psychology. Her most recent research focuses on wisdom awareness and the implications of primary knowing for cognitive science and everyday life.
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Apple Music Could Land On Android Soon
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Apple's three month free trial of Apple Music will end this week on the 30th of September, the new music streaming service has only been available on Apple's iOS platform for the last three months.
Now it would appear that Apple is getting ready to launch their new music streaming service on Google's Android platform.
According to a recent report from TechAeris, Apple has started sending out beta invites for Apple Music to Android device owners.
The email was sent out to members of a service for beta testers called Betabound and you can see what was said about Apple's music streaming service below.
We're excited to invite you to come test Apple Music for Android. If you're a current Android user that would like to join the beta for the new music streaming service, you won't want to miss this opportunity. To learn more and apply, click the link below. Best of luck! The Betabound team.
This would suggest that Apple,e intends to start beta testing Apple Music on Google's Android platform shortly.
It will be interesting to see how many paid subscribers apple manages to convert to its new music streaming service when the trial ends later this week, Apple is said to have had around 15 million people using the service during the free trial.
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"So Cold The River" is a really fun, very scary, historically based book centered around the resort at West Baden Springs, Indiana. From some of the opening paragraphs, I was intrigued and obsessed with going there someday. Because, any building with a creepy, long history, that was billed as the "8th Wonder of the World" when it first opened in 1902, it had the distinction of being the largest single span dome in the world (until they started building domed stadiums).
The day started out in a spooky, shaky manner…in that as soon as we started heading toward West Baden Springs from our stay in Greensburg, Indiana, it started raining buckets…with foreboding wind that seemed to be threatening to turn into even more severe weather.
But…we got there…and were simply blown away.
This place has long, convoluted history from "the destination resort" in the region for the rich and well-healed. However, after the stock market crash of 1929, came an almost instant crash of hotel business. The hotel ended up falling into disrepair, to such a degree that an outside wall collapsed, and the dome needed reinforcement to keep it from falling to the ground.
It was donated for a number of years to the Jesuit Catholics, and it served as a school for years…until once again, it just became too expensive to keep up. Several more years of being abandoned, left its future in doubt, until several people tried to by and refurb, and failed…until the lat 1990s, when the State finally came to the rescue with tax credits to the "Cook Group" who specializes in refurbing historic buildings…and we are ALL the better for their efforts.
Deb and I will be coming back…to spend an extended vacation here (yes they have healing waters as well as golf). It would be a perfect place for an anniversary…now we just have to get through a few weddings…right?
How big is this place?? Every one of the windows and balconies are associated with one of the 200+ hotel rooms. Amazing….
The floor is made of more than 2 MILLION small imported tiles.
Just one of the dome-side restaurants…and one of the original Italian sculptures that festoon the grounds.
One of the creepy, real-life mysteries of this place is the "Angel Room" which was a hidden room at the very top of the dome, with loads of paintings by an unknown artist.
We shared "The Dome"…rich chocolate shell, with a mocha filling.
Yes…that is a funnel cloud trying to form up. It never did…but got our attention.
On the way to St. Louis, who could resist a stop at OzarkLand? Well…we passed.
The drive from Greensburg to Nevada Missouri took us through St. Louis….pretty cool.
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QUIET HEROES OF 9/11
Posted on September 6, 2011 by MikeQ
A lone fireman struggles in the aftermath of the 9/11 Pentagon attacks. (Photo by Mike Garcia.)
It's always gratifying to hear from readers, but in mid-July someone named S. Dickens left a curious comment on one post:
"Came across the article after doing a search on 9/11. How can I get a hold of the individuals you talked about in 'Men with Brass Balls chasing Ghosts' (Bob Guzzo Sr., Mike Garcia, and Charlie Kerrigan). Would like to talk to them about a possible speaking opportunity. Please contact me via email for more info. Thanks."
An exchange of email revealed that "S. Dickens" is Captain Samantha Dickens with the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. She wanted the men to speak at the Academy during a three-day conference commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11 — they are on route as this is being typed. (For pics and bios of all the speakers, click here.)
Bob and Charlie are my fraternity brothers from Beta Phi Epsilon in Cortland, NY. As a former Captain of the Rockville Centre Fire Department, with experience in "confined space and high angle" rescue, Charlie was called to Ground Zero on the day of 9/11. Bob was at the Pentagon during the attacks. He and fellow anti-terrorism officer Mike Garcia immediately rushed outside to help secure the area and assist with casualties.
Even now, listening to them talk about that day leaves me a little awed . . . so I hope you'll forgive me for reposting the original article below. Written a few days after Osama bin Laden's death, I think it's also appropriate here as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches.
(If you've already read it, I'd suggest browsing stories from the archives on the right, . . . or check out some of my favorite fellow bloggers: David Hayden, The Hospitality Formula Network — Patrick Maguire, Server not Servant — Nick, Sock Puppet Army — Scribbler50, Behind the Stick — Joe Sixtop, These American Servers.) Back on schedule next week.
MEN with BRASS BALLS chasing GHOSTS (reposted from May 11, 2011.)
Fenway Park (Photo by John Bonaccorso)
The day after Osama bin Laden was killed, John Bonaccorso (The Drowning Frog, The Chocolate Starfish) was at a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Just before game time the announcer asked everyone to rise for a moment of silence.
34,000 fans in the stadium stood and watched as a giant American flag was lowered over the famous Green Monster wall in left field. "During that moment of silence," John said, "You could have heard a pin drop."
This has been a week for reflection . . . and a temporary, collective sigh of relief. It's been a week to talk with friends near and far about about the events and emotions that have shaped us since 9/11.
Like most Americans I watched from the sidelines as 9/11 and its aftermath unfolded. Over the next ten years I followed the news stories about the rise of Al-Qaeda and the search for Osama bin Laden.
But some of the friends I talked with on the phone this week did more than observe.
When I knew these friends in college they were just regular guys. Many of them worked with me at the first bar I managed, The Mug in Cortland NY. The bartenders and doormen were all from my fraternity — even the cleaning guy was a Beta buddy. Jim "Cowboy" Van Wormer was a starting defensive end on the football team; he mopped the place up early each morning before heading to classes.
But when they left college, a lot of these buddies took jobs that led them directly into the tidal wave of events that followed 9/11. Talking with them this week was like that first chill from the headlines — all over again.
At the time of 9/11 attacks, Mike Galvin was Commander of a SWAT Unit in Florida while other fraternity brothers were with the FBI, or were State troopers and police officers — and all of their jobs took on a new and heightened dimension following the attacks. Matt Quinn was with one of the largest banks in America, and the department he headed quickly switched it's focus from tracking potential money laundering by organized crime to tracking the finances of terrorist groups.
Ground Zero NYC on 9/11. (Photo by Charlie "Buff" Kerrigan)
Charlie Kerrigan was at Ground Zero on 9/11. Highly trained in "confined space and high angle" rescue, Charlie and his men from the Rockville Centre Fire Department on Long Island were called to the World Trade Center immediately after the attacks.
Charlie's nickname is "Buff", short for "Buffalo." At 6'5″, 250 lbs., he was an offensive lineman for the Cortland State football team, big number "75". He was blocking the opposition as Billy Shear kicked his historic field goal during the homecoming game against Hobart College. (Shear's 61-yard field goal was the first ever "over-sixty" kick recorded in football at any level — high school, college, or professional. The first "60-yarder" in the NFL wouldn't come until four years later, in 1970.)
For as long as I've known him, Charlie has been the big/quiet type. His emails are short, typically only a sentence or two, sometimes only one word. (Like"OK", or "No.") But I'll never forget the email he sent us after being thrust into the carnage at the WTC towers. He wrote about thinking that he was on another planet, in a different world. He said that the devastation was the most horrible scene he'd ever witnessed, and that he prayed he would never see anything like that again.
Bob Guzzo became US Navy SEAL after leaving Cortland State, and it was speaking with Bob this week that for me really put a human face on all of this — all the work and sacrifice it took to bring to justice the most wanted man in the world, Osama bin Laden.
In his 25 years as a SEAL commando, Bob served in places like Croatia and El Salvador. "I've been all over the world," he said, "There aren't many countries I haven't been to."
Bob was assigned to the Navy SEAL's "Red Cell" Team which conducted terrorist attack scenarios as well as vulnerability assessments for the Department of Defense on a world-wide basis. (As we talked, he explained the difference between "anti-terrorism" which is working to prevent a terrorist attack, and "counter-terrorism" which is responding to such attacks.)
Late in his active career Bob was seriously injured and had to have both hips replaced. "I figured it was time to give up the night missions," he told me, "Time to give up jumping out of helicopters and being a gunslinger."
Bob's new assignment was to the Pentagon as an Anti-terrorism Officer. He and his team secured office space and were setting up the necessary equipment — they didn't even have the computers installed yet.
Some of Bob's team members were still checking in when the Pentagon was struck during the 9/11 attacks.
One hundred eighty-four people were killed at the Pentagon that day. As Bob rushed out to help secure the area and assist with casualties, he was joined by friend and fellow Anti-terrorism Officer Mike Garcia, who took this photo of the devastation. ("Mike probably took 60% of the photos you see from the Pentagon that day," Bob told me, "Some of his photographs are in the Smithsonian.")
Bob was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism for his efforts on 9/11.
For the next year Bob worked for the newly-established Pentagon Force Protection Agency, then spent a year at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency before being promoted to Deputy Chief of the Anti-terrorism and Force Protection Branch of the Security and Counterintelligence Directorate.
"We were running around like crazy after 9/11," Bob recalls of his counterintelligence work in those days, "It was like chasing ghosts."
When the 9/11 attacks occurred, Bob's son Rob Jr. was in college at his dad's alma mater, Cortland State. Rob had also joined his father's fraternity, Beta Phi Epsilon.
"On the night of 9/11 Rob called me called me from the (Beta) house," Bob Sr. said. "He told me he wanted to join the Navy SEALS after graduation. He wanted to go after these guys."
"He's my son," Bob said, "And I was concerned about him getting involved . . . there's no guarantee when you go in that you'll come out alive. But I supported his decision."
Rob Guzzo Jr. during the Iraq War.
Rob Jr. was in BUD/S class 251, and became a member of Navy SEAL Team 5. Upon graduation he was awarded his dad's old SEAL Trident, the first medal the commandos receive when they complete their training.
Rob Jr. went into battle at Ramadi, Iraq in 2006. His buddy Marc Lee lost his life there, the first Navy SEAL killed in the war. Marc and Rob had gone though SEAL BUD/S training together. (In background of the picture you can see the name LEE — the camp at Ramadi was renamed CAMP MARC LEE in Marc's honor.)
Rob Jr. made it through the Iraq war and he's back home now. He's pursuing a career in acting (in action films, go figure.)
Picturing Charlie K at Ground Zero on 9/11, and talking with Bob Guzzo and Rob Jr. who were actively engaged in combat in this war on terrorism, I thought their lives have been so different . . . it's a little scary.
I've never thought of myself as living a quiet life. During my years behind the bar, I've had my share of confrontations and scuffles, and I've had a few heart-pounding moments.
One night at The Mug, a guy walked up to the bar and pulled a gun on me. He cocked the hammer back and put the end of the barrel against my forehead. I remember weighing my options sort of calmly and analytically — then I took the gun away from him and knocked him down with a blow to the side of the head. I wasn't scared until after it was over.
"But that was simply reacting to something I couldn't avoid," I told Bob. "I don't think I'd have the balls to do what those Navy SEALS did . . . to willingly jump into the shit when I could just as easily choose not to get involved."
This wasn't a movie or a video game. Those Navy SEALS flew in under the radar, unannounced in a foreign country. Two dozen of them repelled from their helicopters into darkness; they lowered themselves inside the enemy compound of the world's most feared terrorist.
They knew they'd be facing enemy fire, but didn't know when or where it might come from. They had to get in – win a life-or-death gun battle – and then get out without being shot down on the return flight by Pakistani fighter planes.
"They were just doing their job," Bob said, "They were doing what they'd been trained to do."
"On a mission," he explained, "You're not thinking about whether or not you're going to make it back home."
"You train and train," he told me, "It's unbelievable how difficult and tortuous the training is . . . but when the time comes, your body reacts. You simply do what you have to in order to complete the mission."
"An hour later, maybe two days later, you might think, "Holy Shit!" . . . but at the time you're completely focused on the mission."
That makes sense. I can understand how it works . . . but I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I don't know if I'd have guts to do it. These guys are different; they're flat-out heroes.
I can't remember recent conversations that I've enjoyed more than talking with Bob Sr. on the phone this past week. There were times as we talked that I felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.
Bob Guzzo Sr. and Rob Jr. at their daughter/sister Danielle's wedding.
And throughout our conversations I heard the same thing time and again. I heard Bob's great pride in America and his willingness to put his life on the line for his country if he had to.
During one conversation he stopped and said, "I am very proud to be an American, a Navy Seal and a Beta man." His son Rob said the same thing in a follow-up email.
I guess it's out of fashion nowadays to talk about your college frat — but I am proud to be a member of Beta Phi Epsilon and I'm proud to know these men.
Our fraternity is best known for its long string of All-American athletes, Olympic medalists and National Hall of Fame coaches. It's known for it's high school and college teachers and administrators, and for outstanding contributions in many fields. (I exchanged more emails this week with Beta alumnus and long-time friend Joe McInerney. He spent two decades teaching and writing books on human genetics before becoming executive director of NCHPEG – the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics. He helped educate state and federal judges about genetic evidence and the law after the O. J. Simpson trial.)
But being jocks at heart, many from our fraternity went into the military, law enforcement, and served as firemen — and that got them directly involved in the dedication and sacrifice that led to the events of this past week.
Today my hat is off to this group especially . . . these guys just have balls made of brass.
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13 Responses to QUIET HEROES OF 9/11
DAbertini says:
I read that before but I read it through again just now. Pretty inspiring the way that guy's son became a Navy Seal and got his father's first medal. Good post or repost whatever. Those guys are the balls.
Susan P says:
So S.Dickens is Capt Samantha? Hurrah for her! And Hurrah for your friends! I'm glad you decided to reprint this.
God bless our men and women in uniform.
Starbucks8294 says:
That's an exciting story that deserves to be retold and I'm glad you did. It's the ordinary men in extra-ordinary times story once again. I still can't get over your friend who had both hips replaced when injured as a Seal and then just keeps going after our enemies. That's one tough mother-fucker. Looks like his son didn't fall far from the tree and I can imagine your other friend attacking fires the same way he played football. Great story perfect timing.
Bryon Devita says:
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Every time I come here I am suprized by something different. Your stories are great!
Great post. Makes you want to stand up and cheer. Thanks for sharing it.
LLylak says:
I enjoyed this post the first time, and now again. Thank you for the second chance. I love that S. Perkins is Captain Samantha Perkins. We've come a long way baby! : )
Awesome post bro.
Rick Monaco says:
Prouder than ever to wear the Black and Gold of Beta Phi Epsilon
Mason TD says:
The thing about 9/11 is that the battle goes on against an enemy that has no face or a physical location we can attack. Ten years and counting nothing's changed. We need men like these men more than ever so God Bless them for sure.
Delia says:
I Love this post. I lost some family during 9 11. Thank you.
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Everyone has done it – you're in a bar, looking for a scrap of paper to write a woman's name and phone number on, or just want to make a note to yourself so you don't forget something. You grab a cocktail napkin.
(In the TV series The West Wing, a political consultant decides that Jed Bartlet – played by Martin Sheen – should run for President. He takes a cocktail napkin and writes down the slogan, "Bartlet for America.")
I work in bars. Over the years, I've accumulated enough of my own cocktail-napkin notes to fill six liquor bottle boxes.
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Political Sex Scandals: Forget Party. It's The Wives.
Filed under: General — Stranahan @ 12:46 pm
[Guest post by Lee Stranahan]
I do just what I want to do
I want everything and I want you, too
I wish I could explain to you
But the things men without women do
You just don't understand
– Little Steven, Men Without Women
As the Weinergate story continues to build up steam one side conversation that comes up frequently is about whether it will have any impact on the Democratic congressman because….well, he's a Democrat. I say forget that. If the story breaks the way it seems to be breaking, ignore his party affiliation. Watch his wife.
Lots of people think there's a double standard based on whether the scandal is about a Republican or Democrat. Republicans view this as an example of media bias and Democrats view it as side effect of Republican's focus on family issues but both sides accept for the most part that the double standard exists. I'm going to offer an alternative theory for your consideration. It's not about politics.
It's about women.
Specifically, it's about the wives of politicians and how they react. This is a bigger factor than party affiliation. Often, the voters just don't care. The wives always care but sometimes put the money and power and ambition above other considerations. (I'm looking at you, Hillary.)
Or take another case I know well; the John Edwards affair. When the Enquirer broke the story of John Edwards getting caught at the Beverly Hilton with Rielle Hunter, it wasn't like the late Elizabeth Edwards didn't know who Hunter was. In fact, she'd confronted John about his affair just a few days after he announced his Presidential run. Elizabeth could have chosen to end his ambitions right then and there. She chose not to. As Brad Crone, a Raleigh-based Democratic consultant said "While she's the victim, she clearly didn't stand in the way of the cover-up."
And once Elizabeth turned on Edwards, it was over for him.
Now, I do think that there may a cultural factor that is peripherally related to politics – at the margins, Democratic wives may be ambitious and politically focused than Republican wives, who may be more religious or focused on their own family. As I said, though, at the margin – there's no rule here.
Compare David Vitter (Republican) with Elliot Spitzer (Democrat) and their respective hooker scandals. Spitzer resigned almost immediately. Vitter stuck it out and there's Wendy Vitter, standing right by his side as he sticks to the career path. You really don't need to watch the video — look at her face in the clip thumbnail. Sticking it out ain't easy.
Those southern, family values Republicans elected Vitter again.
Compare that to Elliot Spitzer…
Close friends have stated that Spitzer spends most of his time with his family, and regularly meets with lawyers in his father Bernard's real estate office in Manhattan. Spitzer and his wife have entered couples therapy because of Spitzer's adultery.
Look at almost any of these sex scandals and you'll see the real factor how the wives reacted.
When Chris Lee (R – NY) was caught with his pants down with his shirt off, he immediately resigned and went home. I don't have any insight there, but my first thought was that his wife told him he'd lost his D..C. privileges.
Larry Craig (R – ID) retired but didn't resign and fought back.
Literally and figuratively, Suzanne Craig, wife of Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, stood by her man as he spoke to reporters Tuesday, denying that he is gay and saying that he mistakenly pleaded guilty to charges that he had propositioned an undercover police officer for sex in an airport men's room.
And Barney Frank? No women at all.
What's Mrs. Weiner to do? Thankfully, she has Hillary to call on for advice and support.
– Lee Stranahan
45 Responses to "Political Sex Scandals: Forget Party. It's The Wives."
Elizabeth was an ardent socialist she hated America with a passion what is difficult to quantify – it was on par with how bumble and m'chelle feel I think
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/28/2011 @ 12:53 pm
Barney had no women, but what about his men? Or were they not that close to care?
PatAZ (f23d3e) — 5/28/2011 @ 1:05 pm
Elizabeth could have chosen to end his ambitions right then and there. She chose not to.
That's because his ambitions were also her ambitions. Clearly what she was getting out of the relationship was still worth it – at least for a while.
I think you bring up a good point, Lee, and that is, wives are ultimately in control of the husband's response: if they want the power and prestige as much as the straying hub, then they'll wince in unspeakable pain, yet bear it. I don't even think it's about a commitment to public service or meeting the needs of constituents, but rather about not wishing to lose a position of unequaled power.
Mrs. Sanford's deep commitment to her faith compelled her to forgive and attempt to work through it, but then upon realizing it was a one-sided effort, with great dignity and poise, walked. The power was non-significant to her own well- being and that of her family.
Dana (4eca6e) — 5/28/2011 @ 1:06 pm
Mrs. Sanford is a heroic figure like Evel Knievel and Ellen Ripley she's a for reals role model
Elizabeth Edwards was a lot of things but she was never a role model
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/28/2011 @ 1:18 pm
unless maybe you were a wee socialist child what dreamed of growing up in an America where everyone died in squalid government hospitals
look like weinerman
rilly scrooed da pooch on this
oh wait… he's a Dem
ColonelHaiku (19a039) — 5/28/2011 @ 1:28 pm
Wendy Vitter remains my favorite. A rather large woman, she went on stage with her diaper-fetish-hooker-lovin' husband wearing what probably was the sexiest top in her wardrobe — sorta leopard-spot looking, V-cut and tight.
But she still looked like an all-knowing deer in the klieg-lights.
for Louisiana David Vitter is about as good as it gets
Larry Reilly,the JounoList, has hatred oozing from his pores.
JD (d48c3b) — 5/28/2011 @ 1:54 pm
Geez, someone has real issues with women. I guess that's what happens when you take your cues from the likes of Olby and Ed.
Ag80 (1bc637) — 5/28/2011 @ 2:03 pm
Larry Reilly it's even funnier that Elizabeth Edwards looked the other way when her husband cheated on her but threw him under the bus when it became to inconvenient to be seen with him.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/28/2011 @ 2:15 pm
Larry Reilly – Have you ever had sex with a woman?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/28/2011 @ 2:30 pm
No but he has had sex with himself……………….Ok I will shut up.
Comment by daleyrocks — 5/28/2011 @ 2:30 pm"
Revising and extending – Other than a direct blood relative.
I do feel bad for the women, especially when they are trotted out to stand next to their husband. Here is a picture of Elliot Spitzer's lovely wife, I wish I could dig her a hole myself for her to jump into. I am also thinking about Roy Romer's wife, who stood by him at a press conference while he explained footage of him making out with an aide in an airport parking lot. Tipper Gore, having to endure the sad ending to her marriage, with public reports of randy Al's attempt to get a 'happy ending' (no irony intented); and making that "kiss" all the more creepy.
Really like Dana's point about Mark Sanford's wife. Maria Shriver, too, a little different but she put up with the whispers and got out ahead of the big story.
TimesDisliker (45ec72) — 5/28/2011 @ 2:54 pm
We are contributing to Gorebull warming.
/sarcasm obviously
The thing about Maria Shriver is that the Kennedy women should be used to this.
Jay Stevens (4638e0) — 5/28/2011 @ 3:19 pm
I think Lee has a point about Republicans and Democrats. Nobody expects a Democrat to keep his pants zipped. Mark Foley was run out of town for stuff that Barney Frank wouldn't even acknowledge. It's a bit like Gary Hart inviting reporters to follow him around.
Mike K (8f3f19) — 5/28/2011 @ 3:19 pm
I always feel bad for all of the wives involved; to have such an intimate betrayal broadcast far and wide must be extra humiliating.
And I can't imagine what it must be like for women like Ahhhhhnuld's wife Maria and Hillary Clinton; both of whom went to bat for their husbands initially, and Hillary continued to after the truth came out! Amazing…
That said Lee, you may be onto something here. But I must say that we'll have to agree to disagree about the motivation for the biased focus depending on the party ID.
It's part of the larger meme regarding the supposed explanation for why the MBM is soooooooo much more negatively focused on conservatives than members of the progressive left; because of the hypocrisy!…
Becuase if that were really the case, they'd be all over Mr. Obama and some of his associates like white on rice…
No President of the modern era has broken as many promises to his supporters as Mr. Obama has…
And more importantly, from phony talk of "post partisanship", and TRANSPARANCY!, to the stump demagoguery regarding THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY!, signing statements, and recess appoints, and prosecuting the war on terror; Mr. Obama scolds, and continues to lecture and scold, his political opponents about behavior he has no reservations whatsoever about engaging in himself…
And, oddly, I don't seem to see the MBM "focusing like a laser" nor even seem the slightest bit motivated to expose Mr. Obama's "hypocrisy".
So, as always, say what you'd like, but in addition to it being a colossal case of "Do as I say!, and not as I do!", combined with "some animals at the farm being more equal than others", it is for the most part fundamentally about the lack of principle on the port side of the political spectrum.
Or perhaps more aptly put, the only principle is that which is situationally expedient at that time; to be replaced or updated as necessary, as the situation dictates. Or as Malcom X said, "By whatever means necessary"…
My Regards
Bob Reed (5f2db5) — 5/28/2011 @ 3:24 pm
So does cheating on your wife contribute to gorebullcrap warming? somebody ask Al Gore assuming he doesn't have his head up his arse.
Democrats think 28% of US population is gay–Gallup
http://www.gallup.com/poll/147824/Adults-Estimate-Americans-Gay-Lesbian.aspx
This proves they live and operate in some sort of bizarre perception bubble that is very off kilter from reality. This Gallup result also suggests that many of their (Democrats') operating assumptions about Republicans probably are off kilter, too.
(As if we didn't already know that from the lamestream media's contributions to American society.)
elissa (953622) — 5/28/2011 @ 4:37 pm
Not sure it's all right/left.But would bet serious money Weiner is not going anywhere. You have to have or pretend to have standards to be a hypocrite in the first place, and Weiner might not have any abiding belief beyond himself. Weiner's marriage was probably a sham from Day 1, so it's not like it meant anything to him nor mattered to him. In fact, based on some of the campaign brochures by either Bob Turner or Orthodox Jews, his wife was probably a politcial liaibility.
Bugg (ea1809) — 5/28/2011 @ 5:13 pm
I don't know what to think about Vitter.
If my husband had diaper fetish…..I don't know. Maybe I'd be grateful he used a prostitute to fulfill that need.
MayBee (081489) — 5/28/2011 @ 5:45 pm
Of course, the wives don't care until the affair becomes pubic.
I'll be here all week. Tip the waitress.
Ag: also public.
Does anyone else want to correct @repweiner's May 24th tweet hashtag of #YouCantStopMeBoehner to #youcantstopmyboner ?
Pamela (08dad3) — 5/28/2011 @ 6:45 pm
I've been offline for the past 24 hours and don't really know what this is about, but if what matters in a sex scandal is how the wife reacts, then Wiener would seen to have nothing to worry about, since I doubt Huma gives two hoots where he gets his rocks off, so long as it isn't with her.
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 5/28/2011 @ 7:39 pm
In fact, based on some of the campaign brochures by either Bob Turner or Orthodox Jews, his wife was probably a politcial liaibility.
True. In that district, his marriage is a liability. But 1. in Borough Park the political machines matter more than what anybody actually thinks; and 2. he doesn't intend to stay in that district forever. He put off his mayoral run when Bloomberg got the rules suspended just for him; but I expect him to run in 2013. And Huma will stand by his side, and the citywide voters will lap it up. And then he'll no longer have to care about Borough Park.
Me too. It seems like a sensible arrangement for all concerned.
"I'm looking at you, Hillary"
Good God! Why would you want to?!
*shudder*
C. S. P. Schofield (8b1968) — 5/28/2011 @ 8:27 pm
PatAz:
You do know that was a joke? No disrespect.
If it's not about politics, why do you think it's funnier if the politician is a republican and I think it is funnier if the politician is a democrat?
badger (70c78d) — 5/29/2011 @ 3:09 am
I understood, Ag.
PatAZ (f23d3e) — 5/29/2011 @ 4:51 am
You liberals[a hijacked word] need to calm down.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/29/2011 @ 8:14 am
or she can call her Mom (still in Saudi Arabia?), wonder what she'd have to say?
ER (2b7697) — 5/29/2011 @ 1:40 pm
The only evidence that Vitter did something wrong was his name turned up in the madams list of callers.Unlike spitzer, he had no duty to enforce the law and no govt. funds were involved. Who knows how many office holders would have to resign if all that was needed was to have their name in someones records.There was not enough evidence to bring any charges against vitter but spitzer could easily have been convicted.
dunce (b89258) — 5/29/2011 @ 8:38 pm
Sorry to go off-topic (OTOH it's a holiday weekend and these threads are slow), but I'm just going to start saying this compulsively:
Ryan/Rubio '12.
I think it hits the Dems on multiple fronts. Electorally, it's got a fair bit of power: siphons off the Midwestern vote, the Latino vote, plus the white-ethnic Reagan Democrats who mistrust the GOP but are growing concerned about the deficit and would vote for a GOP candidate who isn't perceived as crazy.
Plus they're both eloquent and competent. And if they signal that their Cabinet will include Christie, Palin and Daniels (and maybe Pawlenty) then you've got a Rock and Roll Competency Hall of Fame.
"I! Drink! Your! Milkshake!"
d. in c. (6d8a47) — 5/30/2011 @ 6:05 am
Neither Ryan nor Rubio have ever run a government of any size, have they? How long will it take them to learn? A president should have already done it on a smaller scale, so there isn't any "what does this do?" phase.
Palin/Jindal in '12. Let Ryan guide his budget through Congress in the first two years of the next administration, and then see whether Scott Walker is ready to move on in '14. Ditto for Rubio; after he's been reelected to the Senate in '16, he should turn his sights to Tallahassee. Once they've both done some governing, they can think about the presidency.
The only evidence that Vitter did something wrong was his name turned up in the madams list of callers.Unlike spitzer, he had no duty to enforce the law and no govt. funds were involved.
Comment by dunce — 5/29/2011 @ 8:38 pm
How about his own words?
Vitter apologized again for "a serious sin in my past," a week after phone records showed he had contacted the D.C. madam. The couple refused to answer questions after their brief statements.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/topic/David_Vitter/#ixzz1NsoTvCij
vor2 (233aed) — 5/30/2011 @ 4:55 pm
Milhouse — your point is taken, but I'm chiefly thinking about what's necessary to genuinely WIN in a difficult climate.
Can Palin pull it out? It's an open question. I do like her, despite her serious drawbacks; but her sworn enemies are both numerous and extraordinarily vicious and persistent. That's a serious and very real obstacle.
Like you I'd prefer a seasoned and charismatic governor; but that really only means Christie and if he won't run, then ??? I really don't think Jindal's up to snuff.
Ryan at least has the resume of, if not an executive, then still a grizzled Washington pro: this is better than nuthin', and he's both serious in a way that Romney isn't, and undeniably intelligent in a way Palin has yet to prove. I'd honestly look forward to a Ryan-Obama debate with great confidence; but a Palin-Obama debate would be at best a white-knuckle affair, not to mention a hurricane of idiot spin on both sides.
I agree that in an ideal world Rubio should bide his time and make some more hay; but in this particular political backstreet fistfight, it might be useful to have a guy like Rubio who can siphon off Mexican votes w/o demanding an unreasonable pound of flesh in return.
There are other tempting (and risky) combinations to be sure; but the GOP needs to be honest that its A-team is weak, and that without some crafty strategy Obama will edge them out, even if (or especially if) Congress goes R.
d. in c. (cae88c) — 5/30/2011 @ 5:11 pm
The voice of unintelligibility strikes again.
Icy Texan (5238a0) — 5/30/2011 @ 5:56 pm
I really don't think Jindal's up to snuff.
He may have what it takes, but he's too young to mount a serious run. Plus the calendar works against him; by the time he's finished with his reelection campaign it'll be too late to jump into the primaries. But he could be a credible VP candidate.
Comment by Icy Texan — 5/30/2011 @ 5:56 pm
I can always count on your blabber whenever I post. methinks I wear too my jeans a little too tightly when around you – eye contact icy eye contact, ok?
excitedtexan (1862e8) — 5/30/2011 @ 8:42 pm
that was me not excited texan — icy is the excited texan one in this thread 😉
vor2 (1862e8) — 5/30/2011 @ 8:43 pm


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Q: Problema de carregamento de função Node socket.io Tenho o seguinte código:
module.exports = function(app) {
    app.get('/', function(req, res) {
        res.render('chat/index');

        var io = app.get('io');

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            });
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    });
};

Toda vez que a função app.get('/' é executada cria uma nova conexão io.on("connection". Isso está gerando varias conexões a cada acesso. Existe alguma maneira de abrir a conexão fora da função app.get('/'?

A: Não testado mas você pode tentar se conectar fora do get, algo assim:
module.exports = function(app) {

    let io = app.get('io');
    io.on("connection", function(ret) {
        let socket = ret;
    });

    app.get('/', function(req, res) {
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Homeowners who receive support for their mortgage interest payments will see the amount they receive fall from 6 July.


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Q: Visio 2019: Change existing or create new custom connector I'm new to Visio. I'm currently playing around with connectors. I can change color of a connector - but Visio will simply not allow me to change the line-type from solid to dash or change the begin/end arrows (even though both options are available via the drop-down in the "Format Shape" window)?
I have also tried to create a copy of a connector and edit its Master - but again nothing happens when I change the drop-down menu? I have also tried to search a lot but not found something which works so far.

A: Select connector, right click, select "Style" - "Line"

A: I know how to do it - the issue is that is doesn't work... after many days I found a "hack"...

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*Create a "connector"

*Right click it and select "Set connector type"

*Select "Composite"...

FIRST now you can change the different options like "line type" to dash etc...This works! But why Visio is so complicated - I don't get :-/