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Schütz (David) still confused on Schütz (Roger)
Posted on August 28, 2008 by Schutz
Sandro Magister is very helpful in giving us the complete interview with Cardinal Walter Kasper on the "Riddle of Brother Roger". Does Magister have his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when he says that through this interview Cardinal Kasper "solved" the riddle of Brother Roger's confessional belonging? For me, it raises so many questions. Such as "If Brother Roger could be Catholic without breaking communion with his protestant roots, why did I have to?" or "Does such an ecumencal solution only apply to people who have access to a personal friendship with the pope?" or "Can we expect a cause for Brother Roger's sainthood to be opened in two years time (ie. five years after his death)?"
Don't get me wrong. I truly believe Br Roger was a saint, and I also believe that he was, to all extents and purposes, a Catholic, even if not "formally" so. But no matter how sincere he was in his attachment to the Catholic faith, how come the canons did not apply to him, but apply to the rest of us?
And a couple more questions: If Br Roger daily received communion at the Catholic liturgy in Taize, did he still receive communion from Protestant altars? (although, I understand that protestant eucharists are not celebrated at Taize). And did he continue, as an ordained Reformed minister, to celebrate the Eucharist himself?
I only ask.
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Peregrinus says:
You can't avoid the feeling that Brother Roger was treated as a special case.
Not that I would begrudge him that, but I do see how it can lead to puzzlement, and to questions of the kind you raise; what are the implications for those of us who are not so special?
I think there's two ways of trying to make sense of this.
The first is a variation of something I read in another context, when someone was complaining – OK, fulminating – about some fairly unconventional aspect of a papal liturgy. I forget the precise details, or even who the Pope concerned was. The response was "When the Pope does it, it's not a liturgical abuse". Maybe, when the Pope does it, it's not a canonical abuse either, and that's the only answer we're going to get.
But there may also be a slightly deeper, if fuzzier, answer. What we may see here is a tension between Anglo-Saxon (i.e. Protestant, but in a cultural sense) and Latin (i.e. Catholic, but again in a cultural sense) attitudes to law. It has been remarked upon before, and not just in the ecclesiastical context, that Latins are altogether more comfortable living with an apparent inconsistency between what the law says and what people do than are Anglo-Saxons. The law is, for Latins, the servant of society (in this instance, of the church) and the health and well-being of society should not be equated simply with how consistently it observes its own laws. Yes, the rule of law is important, but it is not the only important thing, or the most important thing.
What it comes down to is that maybe the reason why David Schütz is treated differently from Roger Schütz-Marsauche is that David is dealing with the Archbishop of Melbourne, and Roger is dealing with the Bishop of Rome and, the catholicity of the church notwithstanding, the cultures of Melbourne and Rome are not quite the same with respect to the value of scrupulous adherence to canon law. Brother Roger doesn't really fit easily into any of the categories the drafters of the Code of Canon Law had in mind, so this is seen as an instance where pastoral practice moves ahead of the Code. And maybe Latins reach that conclusion a bit more readily than Anglo-Saxons.
The Welsh Jacobite says:
Peregrinus,
Does your second point make Anglicans (and the Eastern Churches) "Latin" and Gratian "Anglo-Saxon"?
Mike L says:
I started out as confused as you about this matter. See this post. See also,however, this comment on that post. The comment pretty much cleared things up for me.
More to the point, does it mean that the (Bavarian) Joseph Ratzinger and the (Württemberger) Walter Kasper are Latin rather than Anglo-Saxon? Not to mention the (Polish) Karol Wotyla?
I said that the labels weren't really religious. They're not really geographical either . They're just labels, useful only in so far as they invoke certain stereotypes, for two contrasting attitudes to the role and significance of law. Rome can be quite Anglo-Saxon in its attitude to canon law, and infringements thereof, when it wants to be, but the fact that it doesn't always want to be is itself distinctively Latin!
Mike L, your own post and the discussion which follows are very enlightening (though I confess the much of the discussion of Augustine's theology is beyond me). But I bristled slightly when I got to this statement:
"First, it abandons the idea that the Eucharist is for those who can reasonably be presumed to be in full communion with the Church."
And the reason I bristled is that it immediately struck me that no-one is in "full communion" if it isn't already the case that their primary eucharistic community is the Catholic church. In other words, it ignores the reflexive element; participation in the eucharist isn't a consequence of being in full communion; it's an intrinsic part of it. I'm sure you didn't intend to suggest otherwise, but that's how it struck me.
And shortly afterwards I came to this:
"Schutz's overall corpus of belief was internally inconsistent. And if so, then he couldn't be said to be in full communion with anybody. He was just confused.".
Hey, hands up anybody whose overall corpus of belief isn't internally inconsistent in some respect. The capacity – and tendency – to believe in inconsistent things is pretty much part of the human condition. I don't think we can see that as necessarily a bar to communion
Communion is a real relationship and, like all real relationships it has many layers and many dimensions, and it's rarely perfect. The flaw of a law-based approach to communion ("Has he been formally received? Did he make the canonically-required profession of faith?") is that it takes some dimensions of that relationship, and treats them as the entirety of that relationship. I am not denying the importance of RCIA, but the binary formally-received-and-in-communion/not-received-and-not-in-communion is an inadequate statement of reality. We may not like the fact that reality is a bit fuzzy, but if we retreat into the appealing certainties of canonical categorisation we haven't actually changed reality.
Was the treatment of Br. Roger canonically irregular? Probably, unless you make your stand on the principle that the actions of the Pope, and not the terms of the CCC, are the ultimate standard of canonicity. But how much does it matter that his treatment was canonically irregular? Well, in a church that embraced a gritty, fuzzy, real world, intermittent canonical irregularity is inevitable and necessary.


Forgetting someone's name is socially embarrassing, and bad for business.
Remembering names is one of the most important business and social skills on the planet. 19 out of 20 people at my live seminars tell me they are terrible at this important skill. When we forget a person's name, especially in an important business or social situation, it's not good. We feel socially inept, uncomfortable, and embarrassed. Not to mention the bad first impression we have just made. You can change this. Fast. The secret lies in your brain.
Close your eyes and think of a horse. No...stop and really do this! Notice you thought up a picture of a horse. You didn't see the letters "h-o-r-s-e" floating nowhere in space. You saw a picture of a horse. Your brain thinks in pictures, not words. Case in point...you never walk up to someone and say, "You know, I remember your name, but your face escapes me!" When you picture something vividly in your brain, your memory improves 800%. Anything that improves your memory 800% should get your attention! The reason that you forget names is that you focus on the word not the picture.
1) Pay Attention: You can't remember what you don't pay attention to. Train yourself to hear a little voice inside your head that says, "This person's name is important. I choose to remember it."
2) Repeat the Name. When you hear something again out loud retention improves 400%. This activates auditory neural pathways to your brain. It is not enough to hear it in your head. It must go through your ears. So use the person's name back to him in your response (e.g. "It's nice to meet you, Tom. My name is Susan").
3) Write it Down. Writing the person's name down will improve your memory another 50% (even if you never look at it again). This activates visual neural pathways to your brain. If you can't write it down on paper, write it on the big picture screen of your mind (e.g. Spray painting the name on a wall or hanging the name in neon lights on Broadway).
4) Turn It Into a Picture. This is the big pay-off! All memories are created in association with other memories. Here is my favorite: I just picture the person I have just met doing something with someone I know who has the same name (e.g. I might put them on a teeter-totter together). Later, when you are trying to remember the name, the picture will drive your memory. You will recognize the other person in the picture and say, "Oh yeah, that's Tom."
A person's name is the most important sound to that person in any language!You can get better at this. Start tomorrow. It's good practice for your brain.


The passage of the Stamp Act of 1765 by the British Parliament is recognized as the catalyst of the formation of the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Although the secret organization had branches throughout all the colonies, the most effective of the cells were those operating in the New England colonies. The various groups corresponded with each other and traded ideas on how to resist and change the unpopular British policies. They were known by many names depending on location: Liberty Boys, Sons of Freedom and Free Born Sons of Liberty. They erected Liberty Poles and Liberty Trees and used these as rallying points to discuss current issues and raise awareness among the population in a manner similar to today's blogs and forums.
The Sons of Liberty professed their loyalty to the government and used public demonstrations and rallies to increase their membership and put pressure on the government to change despised policies. These actions have their parallels in today's TEA Parties and Townhalls. The Sons of Liberty were among the first to use the motto of "no taxation without representation." The political powers of the time called them Sons of Violence and Sons of Inequity reminiscent of today's political leaders calling the current dissenters as un-American brownshirts and Nazi tea-baggers.
Leadership of the Sons of Liberty included Founding Fathers: Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock. The groups were responsible for hangings in effigy, tax protests, and blockades of harbors and piers to prevent unloading of British goods. The Sons of Liberty were the "Indians" behind the Boston Tea Party and the burning of the HMS Gaspee. Eventually the groups became both the Minutemen militias and Committees of Safety during the American Revolution.
Like our patriotic philosophical ancestors, the Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty are also political activists that are the "loyal opposition" and act to correct our government to return to the Constitution as our forefathers intended…..
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How the Irish Speak English: A Conversation with T. P. Dolan
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
University College Dublin | Published: 15 March, 2007
ISSUE 2	| Pages: 214 - 217 | PDF | DOAJ | https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2007-2709
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Professor T. P. Dolan is a lexicographer and regular contributor to programs on Irish radio and television, who has made the term Hiberno-English widely known in Irish society. He has thus been hugely influential in making the Irish more aware of the features that make their English different from other Englishes. Hiberno-English is nowadays very much a sign of identity for many, a form of English that sets the Irish apart from other native speakers of English. Professor Dolan is also the director of www.hiberno-english.com, which is, as he describes it 'a living museum' or 'living laboratory of HE vocabulary and syntax', where people from all over the world can log questions about the English of Ireland.
T. P. Dolan, profesor, lexicógrafo y colaborador habitual en diferentes programas de radio y televisión, ha conseguido dar a conocer el término 'Hiberno-inglés' a una gran parte de la sociedad irlandesa. Gracias a él, en parte, los irlandeses son más conscientes de las características que hacen que el inglés que hablan sea diferente de otras variedades. El hiberno-inglés es en la actualidad un signo de identidad para muchos, una forma de expresión que diferencia a la irlandesa de otras culturas anglo-parlantes. El profesor Dolan dirige también la página webwww.hiberno-english.com, 'un museo viviente', o 'un laboratorio de vocabulario y sintaxis hiberno-inglesa', como él mismo lo describe, en el que cualquiera puede enviar preguntas sobre el inglés que se habla en Irlanda.
It is a great pleasure to sit down and talk to someone with whom I share similar research interests. I suppose we should start by defining what Hiberno-English is. What is Hiberno-English? Is it the same as IrE?
Hiberno-English (HE) is the technical term for the Irish use of English. It is a term used, first of all, in the early nineteenth century by the poet Tennyson, and it's been in use ever since then, by very distinguished authors, writers and scholars such as Seamus Heaney (he uses it in his introduction to his great translation ofBeowulf). The term Irish English is a misnomer, because it works on the principle that 'Irish English' is similar to Australian English, American English or Canadian English, which it isn't. English was transported to these countries, but did not mix with the native languages. In Ireland, Hiberno-English means that you have two languages in a kind of unruly shotgun marriage together, fighting all the time over the centuries, for syntax, pronunciation, vocabulary, idiom. 'Hiberno-English', therefore, exactly symbolises this very healthy connexion between the two disparate and independent languages.
So, for you, Hiberno-English is more a contact vernacular than a colonial variety of English…
Yes, it is. It's two languages in contact, two languages in equal contact as both have very, very strong backgrounds, both have powerful grammars, and both have very powerful literatures as well, so both have the prestige of being independent languages. In other countries, this is not the case. English never had to fight another language.
In comparison with all of those other varieties of English, what is different about the English spoken in Ireland?
First of all, the pronunciation is quite different, because it retains the pronunciation of the English language in its earlier forms, for example, meat is pronounced likemate Very many of the older pronunciations of English are retained in HE, but much more important, we find English consonant and vowels removed and replaced by Irish vowels and consonants, so 'th' in the word thought is often pronounced as
[t], thus making it sound like taught. There are many other examples, initial 's' in stairs is sometimes pronounced as 'sh', film is pronounced asfillum. The grammar is particularly different; we say in HE things such as 'I'm after having my dinner', 'Is it there that you're going?', 'He came in and I writing my letter', all of which are based on the grammar of the Irish language. No other form of English has that.
English authors have been rendering the Irish character in plays and novels since the 16th century. They ended up creating a stereotypical figure, which became quite persistent and lasted for a long time. How accurate were these portrayals in linguistic terms?
Well, you are right, there was a stereotypical figure created, known as the Stage Irish person, from the 16th century, in Ben Jonson, and in Shakespeare, then later on in 17th century authors, then, of course with Sheridan later on, and before that with Swift. There is also a stereotypical reference to Irish people in the early 13thcentury as well, in the poem called The Owl and the Nightingale, and also in Langland's great poem Piers Plowman, and also in the 15th century, an Anglo-Irish writer in this country, called Young, who again gives a stereotypical position of the Irish being semi-barbarians. This all had to do with politics, with trying to denigrate the Irish, to prove that they really could not speak English properly, and in that sense, since they could not look after themselves, they had to be dominated. In terms of the accuracy of the portrayals, they were accurate in the sense that they took the most characteristic features of the pronunciation, for instance, and tried to show that these were examples of 'bad English', rather than just the English language converted into the sounds of Irish, so they were accurate, but they were exaggeratedly so.
What about the Irish Literary Revivalists then? They went to the other extreme: Synge, for example fell into an exaggerated portrayal of the Irish. To what extent did he resort to language use? How much damage did that do to people's perceptions of the English spoken in Ireland?
Well, we have to think that Synge was trying to be accurate from a dramatic point of view, and a poetic point of view. He was writing about people who were in the far west of Ireland, who themselves were either Irish speaking or spoke a type of English that was very close to the Irish language, hence, therefore, his use of western English, which is so richly Irish, is his approximation to the way they would speak the Irish language, so in that sense, I don't think he should be castigated at all. He had to compromise and give the impression that they were speaking Irish. He should be celebrated for a brilliant collusion between the two languages. I don't think he did much damage to people's perceptions, because people had those perceptions anyway, all he did was to enrich it, and make it in some ways funny, and in that way, he unwittingly contributed to the transmission of the Stage Irish person.
Joyce's reflection on the word tundish in A Portrait of the Artist… is a wonderful example of philology, and reflects the author's awareness of lexical differences. To what extent are contemporary Irish writers still aware of these differences?
In A Portrait of the Artist…Joyce uses tundish rather than the word funnel, in that way he is showing one of the basic characteristics of HE, which is the retention of older words (Irish people still say press for cupboard, and tundish is still used in Longford to this day, too). He also is good at a phonological level: in that extract from the Portrait, where he refers to the words home, Christ, ale, master, deliberately chosen to demonstrate the way Irish people speak English, using the vowels and consonants of Irish (home for example is pronounced [houm] master, for instance would be reproduced with the rhotic 'r'). Contemporary Irish writers, are very much aware of these differences: authors such as Cathy Kelly, Roddy Doyle, Frank MacGuinness, McCabe, and so many others, of course, Seamus Heaney. They are all very accurate. They listen very carefully the way other people speak and convert that by spelling into their plays and novels, so they've much to be praised for.
The work of Seamus Heaney is full of HE. He even translated Beowulf into HE, wasn't there a risk there in terms of the audience? I mean, by deciding to render certain words and phrases into a dialectal form of English, was he not leaving out a wider audience?
I don't think so at all, we must not forget that this book won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize in 1999, which shows it had a world wide audience, secondly, there is the fact too that the great poem Beowulf itself has a mixture of dialects in it, so by taking Beowulf and turning it into a HE version, Heaney is exactly capturing the linguistic richness of the original poem. The words he used show the dialectal richness of HE, and demonstrate both the complexion and the complexity of the English language in Northern Ireland, so dialectically it is brilliant.
Moving away from Literature now, what is the attitude of Irish people to HE? Are they nowadays more proud of their English?
Yes, well, young ones, especially, are proud of their English, that's the way they speak it and that's it. Older people are more conscious, very often in all the years we've been interviewing people around the country, older people would hear a London accent such as mine, and they would apologise to me saying: 'sorry we cannot speak English as well as you' or 'we're bad English speakers' and I say'nonsense, your English is much richer speaker than mine could ever hope to be'.
Do you think that pride among the younger generations is closely related to Ireland's economic development?
Oh, it's entirely related to economic development, because it means they're not depending anymore on going to England for bad jobs, or poorly paid jobs, and that they can get away from the rural background of Ireland as well, which means that young people now have developed a modern form of HE which is entirely new, based on, it must be said, on London English!: they try to measure up to the way they mistakenly think people in the home counties of England speak, they feel that is the style of having made it, of having achieved some economic progress.
So there is still some imperialism..
Oh, no doubt … imperialism? imperialism is still there, unacknowledged, but still there.
How is HE changing?
It's changing very much, certainly by what is disappearing. They're getting rid of lots of religious references to the mass, to confession, communion (in the old days, people used to refer to someone who told lies by saying 'he'd say mass for you', but if you say that anymore, people have no idea of what you're talking about). Lots of rural references are going as well, references to horses and heifers, milking sheep, that's all gone, references to tractors are gone (if there's an elderly lady, or gentleman who does not have much chance of marrying they used to say 's/he's dripping black oil'.
Will HE become so influenced by American English that it will end up losing its flavour? Or will the 'Celtic cubs' revert to their roots and the Celtic roots of their language in search for identity?
I think there will be certain changes, because there is a huge influence on Hiberno-English, from American English now (words such as like and so, andwhatever, from soap operas, which young people look up to as being stylish). What I think will happen is that this will simply be a rite of passage and eventually the young people will go and revert back to the real roots of their language, in search of, and confirming their identity.
What do you think will be the effect of the new immigrant languages on the English spoken in Ireland nowadays? Will the HE of the future have Polish words?
I think it's too soon to tell, but if you listen to Polish immigrants and others in the country, you'll find that they're beginning to say 'that's grand', 'I'm after doing this', and we must recognise too that HE has many Eastern European ingredients and it is a perfectly normal thing for languages to absorb languages from other countries.
Tell us a bit about your dictionary. Many of the examples used to illustrate the use of words in it are drawn from literature, isn't that an unrealistic picture of current HE?
The dictionary started way back when I began giving my first lectures on HE. Here, in UCD, we had students from all over the country, and they began to give me examples of words from Donegal, Kerry, Cork and all over. I then decided to write a dictionary and went all over the country for twenty years interviewing people, so the original dictionary was restricted to oral sources. Later on, then, some people said 'wouldn't it be nice if you could write a dictionary which would help students of Anglo-Irish literature in Taiwan or Rio de Janeiro?'. So then I attached the literary references to the oral references. That's why most entries, where possible, have both the oral and the literary reference.
But the validity of fictional representation of HE is something you discuss on your book on MacGill, and that is a very good point. HE literature, as we said earlier in relation to the novels of Roddy Doyle and Cathy Kelly, makes literary references to what is in fact linguistic truth (they do say in this country 'I'm after doing this, I'm after doing that' or 'He asked was I there' where you have the reverse question), so the literature is simply the second runner to the original runner of the language, which is the oral and so, literature is helpful, but it does not discriminate against the truth of the real value and speech of HE in this country, it incorporates, it doesn't airbrush.
So, one last question that I thought of as we were speaking, what made a Londoner then become interested in HE?
(He laughs) My roots are from Co. Cavan (and I notice he does not pronounce it [kja:van]!). Every year we were taken to County Cavan, where the people there spoke an entirely different language from that I was used to in W3 in London, so I was curious about why they spoke that way, and then when I had the rich opportunity in UCD to teach it, I then noticed there's much more to the story that I had realised and began to research it.
Thank you very much for a most enjoyable conversation.
Amador Moreno, Carolina P. 2006. The use of Hiberno-English in Patrick MacGill's Early Novels: Bilingualism and Language Shift from Irish to English in County Donegal. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Dolan, Terence Patrick. 2005. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English . Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. First edition 1998.
Heaney, Seamus. 1999. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. London: Faber.
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1. William Trevor's Felicia's Journey: Inherited Dissent or Fresh Departure from Tradition?
2. At Swim, Two Boys: In Search of the Nation of Freedom
3. "Without contraries there is no progression": The Paradoxical Heterogeneity of Identity in Sinead O'Connor's Poetic Expression
4. Challenging History: Past Reconstruction in Colum McCann's Songdogs
5. A Contemporary Voice Revisits the Past: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
6. "Her place among the nations of the earth": Irish votes at the UN General Assembly, 1955-2005
7. James Joyce's Home Rule Comet, Elvis Costello's Anglo-Irish Agreement
8. Shams and Cover-ups: The Spectacle of History in Paul Muldoon's "Meeting the British" and "My Father and I and Billy Two Rivers"
9. The Quiet Man and Angela's Ashes: Hollywood Representations of Irish Emigration as Male Quest Narrative
10. Music, Symbol and Negativity in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's "The Pale Gold of Alaska"
11. Between Irish National Cinema and Hollywood: Neil Jordan's Michael Collins
12. Women in the Twilight and Identity in the Making: The Concept of Transition in Eavan Boland's Poetry
13. No More Than Human by Maura Laverty: Impressions of a Reluctant Governess in Spain
14. Making the Case for Irish through English: Eco-critical Politics of Language by Learners
15. 'And Somewhere the Dove Rose': Seamus Heaney y su Fase Aérea en la Crítica Literaria
16. Transgressing Boundaries: Belfast and the "Romance-Across-the-Divide"
17. Latter-day Mother Irelands: The Role of Women in Michael Collins and The Wind that Shakes the Barley
18. Voice and Vision in The Poetry of Eavan Boland
19. How the Irish Speak English: A Conversation with T. P. Dolan
20. A Novel is a Lengthy Question: An Interview with Frank Ronan
21. Irish Studies in Spain -2006-
22. Irish Studies Round the World -2006-
23. Irish Film and Television -2006-
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Some Children With Asthma Miss Critical Step in Inhaler Use
Last Updated: April 24, 2019.
Many children with asthma, especially older children using a spacer with a mouthpiece, miss a critical step in inhaler technique, according to a study published online April 8 in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
More children miss a critical step when using spacer with mouthpiece versus spacer with mask
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Many children with asthma, especially older children using a spacer with mouthpiece, miss a critical step in inhaler technique, according to a study published online April 8 in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Waheeda Samady, M.D., from the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and colleagues conducted a prospective cross-sectional study in a tertiary children's hospital involving 113 children aged 2 to 16 years admitted for an asthma exacerbation. The authors assessed inhaler technique demonstrations, including adherence to critical steps such as removing the cap, attaching to a spacer, taking six breaths, and holding their breath for five seconds.
The researchers found that 55 percent of the children had uncontrolled asthma and 42 percent missed a critical step in inhaler technique. Missing a critical step occurred among more patients using a spacer with mouthpiece compared with a spacer with mask (75 versus 36 percent). Those children missing a critical step in inhaler technique were also older (7.8 versus 5.8 years). After adjustment for other clinical covariates, patients using the spacer with mouthpiece were significantly more likely to miss a critical step (odds ratio, 6.95).
"Improper inhaler technique can contribute to children having uncontrolled asthma and needing to come to the hospital for their asthma," Samady said in a statement. "Our study suggests that as health care providers we can do a better job showing patients and families the correct inhaler and spacer technique, and checking it frequently to ensure they master it."
One author disclosed financial ties to the biopharmaceutical industry.
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The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center opened on December 6, 2014 as a way to combine Amtrak and Metrolink, with Intercity Bus (Greyhound, Megabus, and Tres Estrellas de Oro to Tijiana), along with local OCTA, and ART (Anaheim Resort Transportation) buses that provide infrequent (every 30-40 minutes), with a non-posted schedule to Disneyland. The modern glass oculus station is designed for the future for California High Speed Rail (if it ever arrives), and a transit line (either a Monorail or a Streetcar) the 3 miles to Disneyland.
Entering passengers reach a modern atrium, directly in front of them is a long staircase with two escalators along each side up to the second floor. On each side of this staircase are separate ticket offices for rail and bus. Each of these has large LED departure boards for bus and train times. A corridor leads back (past some retail space) towards additional doors out to the bus bays on each side of the Artic Station. To continue towards trains passengers must go up the staircase first to the second floor (with more retail space), and then up a shorter flight of stairs (with escalators) to the third level and access to the bridge out to the rail platforms.
For trains, the station has two side platforms that begin just southeast of the covered bridge that provides two elevators (in seperate glass shafts on each side of the bridge) and long staircase down to each platform. These platforms are extremely long (with the former AmStation once at their western ends) lead over Douglas Road, under the CA-57 Freeway, with a final ramp off (and pedestrian tunnel remaining open from the original AmStation) each platform to the parking lots that provide access to Angle Station. The platforms have futuristic shelters held up by angled steel beams, covering benches.


I haven't read any of voracious writer Jacob M. Appel's other short story collections, but if his fifth is anything to go by, he's long since mastered the underappreciated craft of short-form storytelling. The fact that he isn't better known just goes to show how arbitrary fame's fickle finger is.
There's no flimsy thread running through the ten stories in Coulrophobia & Fata Morgana, which were previously published in various periodicals then collected between these covers when they reached that nice, round number. The two titular stories have nothing in common but go a long way to showcase how diverse this collection is: fear of clowns and a mirage, if you were wondering.
The stories feature an even mix of male and female voices from various stages of life, who've generally endured necessary hardships to shape them into interesting characters for our entertainment. From benevolent teen pranksters to over-cautious parents, from honeymooners struggling through nicotine withdrawal to widowers losing their marbles, there's plenty to get you hooked as briefly follow these complex personalities.
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They call it a "hate crime against Asian students and scholars."
Robby Soave | 2.27.2020 1:00 PM
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Some students at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY-Albany) posted a video on Instagram that advertised a "coronavirus" themed party, complete with corona-beer-filled ice buckets and attendees in surgical masks. The video was subsequently deleted.
Tacky and insensitive? Sure. A reason for the administration to intervene? No.
Nevertheless, some other students have demanded that the university punish this "hate crime against Asian students and scholars." Since the coronavirus originated in Asia and has so far mostly affected Asian people, the party is presumed to spread negative stereotypes about Asian people.
The Asian American Alliance at SUNY-Albany also called on the administration to investigate the students who posted the video and make them apologize.
In a statement, the administration described the party as "distasteful and hurtful." The university also announced an investigation, and noted that any students who violated the university's code of conduct will be punished.
But there's nothing to investigate, sanction, or punish. SUNY-Albany is a public university, and as such, its students have the right throw dumb theme parties. Their expression is protected by the First Amendment, and the administration cannot take action against them, even if other students are offended by it.
"The act of hosting a party with a theme is itself expressive, and the First Amendment generally does not permit state actors—such as public universities—to make distinctions between whether expression is offensive or inoffensive," wrote Adam Steinbaugh of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "That's why public officials, including those at public universities, cannot ban flag burning, drag shows, culturally appropriative Halloween costumes, and other expressive events that offend many other students, like an 'ugly women' contest."
Topical theme parties on campuses often offend one group or another. The offended are entitled to feel that way, and to speak up about it. But they aren't supposed to weaponize those feelings through the university's disciplinary process.
Robby Soave is a senior editor at Reason.
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Qualcomm Incorporated (U.S.), STMicroelectronics N.V. (Switzerland), Intel Corporation (U.S.), Mediatek Inc. (Taiwan), and Broadcom Corporation (U.S.) are some of the leading players in the GNSS Chip market. These players have adopted new product launches and developments, expansions, contracts, agreements, acquisitions, and partnerships to gain a competitive edge in the market
Qualcomm Incorporated is a pioneer and leading player in the wireless connectivity segment. This has helped the company achieve a strong position in the market. The company is expected to be benefited greatly from the proliferation of IoT, both from the licensing and chipset point of view, as wireless connectivity is likely to play a major role in applications such as wearable devices, smart homes, and automobiles. It works with top automobile companies such as Audi, BMW, and GM to drive the concept of connected cars which has GNSS chip integrated in it. The company focuses heavily in R&D and new product launches. Qualcomm Incorporated acquired NXP Semiconductor in 2016, which would help it broaden its product portfolio and customer base. The company has also partnered with the companies such as Honeywell International Inc. (U.S.), Itron, Inc. (U.S.), and General Electric Co. (U.S.) in the smart meter segment.
STMicroelectronics N.V. (Netherlands) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of semiconductor integrated circuits and discrete devices. The company is one of the major players in the GNSS market in Europe; it has a well-established track record in the sense and power and automotive products (SP&A) and embedded processing solutions (EPS) businesses. The growth of this company is primarily driven by its organic growth initiatives and focused investments in innovation, customer service, and sales activities. It focuses heavily on R&D initiatives; a major portion of its revenue is invested in R&D. It also focuses strongly on agreements and partnerships with other companies to expand its global presence. For instance, in 2014, the company formed a strategic partnership with Changan Automobile (China) with the setup of the Changan-ST Automotive Electronic Joint Laboratory at the premises of Changan Automotive Engineering. This partnership has extended the cooperation of these companies in automotive electronics, focusing on R&D pertaining to body, infotainment, powertrain, and safety applications to meet the demand in the local automotive electronics market.
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Review: Test of 'Splatoon 2' reveals inklings of another Nintendo hit
Nintendo's shooter sequel offers more of what players love
The level design and story are improved in "Splatoon 2's" Hero Mode. Players face new obstacles including this oversized bowling ball. (Nintendo)
The Baller is a special weapon in "Splatoon 2." Special weapons can be used after being charged up. They can swing the momentum of a match. (Nintendo)
In "Splatoon 2," players have to paint the stage in ink in order to increase the maneuverability of their team and win a match in Turf Wars. (Nintendo)
Port Mackerel looks clean in the beginning, but once players get a hold of it, expect it to be covered in ink in "Splatoon 2." (Nintendo)
Pearl, left, and Marina are the two new hosts in "Splatoon 2" who announce the playlist every few hours. (Nintendo)
For those who aren't into competitive play, "Splatoon 2's" Salmon Run is a cooperative mode that lets teams of up to four battle waves of enemies. (Nintendo)
Dualies are a new weapon type in "Splatoon 2." They shoot fast, have limited range but allow players to dodge and roll away from attacks. (Nintendo)
Octarians are the rivals of the Inklings and players have to battle them in Hero Mode, which is the single player experience in "Splatoon 2." (Nintendo)
Rollers are excellent weapons in Turf Wars in "Splatoon 2" because players are able to quickly cover the stage in ink. (Nintendo)
The Brella is a new weapon type that is great against snipers. (Nintendo)
A team of four bands together to fend off bosses and lesser minions in Salmon Run. (Nintendo)
Minions relentless attack players in Salmon Run. (Nintendo)
By Gieson Cacho | gcacho@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: July 18, 2017 at 4:00 pm | UPDATED: July 21, 2017 at 2:34 pm
Nintendo titles tend to look back. That's what happens when a company has spent decades building a sprawling legacy of classics. They stack atop each other like layers of a cake, with new titles built on the foundation of older ones. With years of history, the games exude equal parts polish and nostalgia.
But "Splatoon 2" is different — a sequel born in the modern age, influenced by the online-shooter genre and molded by the youth culture of today.
At startup, players create a character called an Inkling, a humanoid protagonist who can also turn into a squid. They're then set loose on Inkopolis Square, a trendy shopping district where players hang out with avatars of other online players. They can purchase outfits and weapons, but the centerpiece of this area is the lobby, where players queue up for online competition.
That's what Inklings do for fun — gather in teams of four, and battle each other in a high-concept form of paintball. The gameplay fundamentals are similar to FPS titles, but this being a Nintendo project, the developers have turned the gameplay on its head and wrapped it in a nonviolent package.
They can fire and splat each other, as in other shooters, but what's more important is for teams to cover the ground with their ink. That's the key to winning in Turf Wars. These battles are timed, and the team that slathers more of their ink on the map wins.
It's a clever concept that favors teamwork and strategy over quick-twitch skills. Nintendo bolsters that idea by linking combat and traversal to that ink. Players don't have a reload button; instead, they must turn into a squid and swim in the ink to replenish their supplies. In addition, squid mode allows Inklings to move faster and climb ink-covered walls.
There's also a slew of customization options, as well as a progression system. Players can spend the money earned from each online match on hats, clothes and shoes that boost their stats. They can even buy weapons, including the new "dualies" and "brellas," which change how teams attack a level.
A diverse set of weapons permits different forms of play. Arms such as the Chargers are good for long-range attacks, but awful for splattering the ground. Rollers are great for covering the map with paint, but not the best in mid- or long-range fights. Meanwhile, players have various types of grenades and specialized weapons that can be mixed or matched.
With "Splatoon 2," Nintendo doesn't rewrite the formula. It doubles down on the core experience and expands the ways to play. The developer continues to give fans a curated experience, rotating stages every few hours. In Ranked Battle, players can participate in contests with other rule sets, such as splat zones, tower control and rainmaker.
For dedicated competitors and their teams, there's even a League Battle, which requires friends and a commitment to a 2-hour session.
Those looking for a more cooperative mode can check out Salmon Run. Up to four players must work together to survive waves of enemies while harvesting salmon eggs and depositing them in a basket. (It's the equivalent of the Horde mode in the "Gears of War" series.) Unfortunately, that mode is available only as a local-play mode and at select times online.
To ensure that teams can communicate, the developers offer a Nintendo Switch Online App for smartphones. That companion program enables them to communicate during battle. It also features player stats and the option to buy items from the in-app store. I wasn't able to test this out, but it will be interesting to see how Nintendo's foray into online chat systems works in real life.
Topping off everything is a Hero mode that's comparable to the original. The single-player campaign essentially teaches players the ins and outs of the game. And this time, the story is a little better, as players once again rescue the great zapfish, but the finale has a predictable twist.
Fans can just enjoy the level design, which again explores the potential for the paintball gameplay.
"Splatoon 2" is a refinement of a good idea — one that gives players of all stripes a reason to pick up a Nintendo Switch and play.
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Rating: Everyone 10 and older
Gieson Cacho is the video game columnist for the Bay Area News Group. He lives in Berkeley, roasts his own coffee and drinks craft beer.
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March 28, 2016 Lindsay VanHulle Business Bridge
Michigan's pristine lakes — the Great and the inland kind — are the frequent stars of television ads that portray Michigan as a recreation lover's paradise, a freshwater coastal destination.
LANSING — The Pure Michigan campaign, in many ways, is about water.
The state's pristine lakes — the Great and the inland kind — are the frequent stars of television ads that portray Michigan as a recreation lover's paradise, a freshwater coastal destination.
Lately, the popular state tourism brand name is being linked, particularly on social media, to water of a different sort — the corrosive Flint River and the lead-tainted drinking water that poisoned the blood of Flint kids in what has become a public health crisis.
Bottom line: A company that relies heavily on water won't think about setting up in Flint right now, said Kate McEnroe, a Grosse Pointe native and president of Kate McEnroe Consulting, a corporate site selection firm with offices in Chicago and Atlanta.
"There are other choices of places to go almost 100 percent of the time," said McEnroe, who heard an NPR report about Flint while driving through rural Georgia. "Right now, people will wait until the dust settles, so to speak, and say, 'I'm not risking it right now.'
"The question right now is: How long does 'right now' last?"
The emergency in Flint has, for a time, been a knock against the award-winning brand that has shown up on TV, radio, print ads, billboards and even license plates since it launched in 2006 during Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration.
Under Gov. Rick Snyder, the state adopted the Pure Michigan slogan for use in its business marketing. So if the brand is tarnished for the long term, it affects corporate recruitment and other efforts.
Promoters: Stay true to Pure Michigan
Leisure tourism promoters say the state needs to continue to promote the Pure Michigan brand to stay ahead of other states that are adopting marketing campaigns of their own.
They add that state tourism promoters also could better leverage social media to curate followers, or ambassadors, who could spread positive messages about Michigan in their own networks — thus widening their reach.
Michigan State University faculty members who author Michigan's annual tourism forecast say they don't yet know how the Flint crisis will affect prospective leisure vacationers, though the topic could be addressed during a state tourism conference in April.
Steve Yencich, president and CEO of the Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association, said he hasn't heard any concerns about weakened summer travel from the hotels and resorts he represents.
"I'm much more concerned with economic conditions, gas prices and weather conditions," Yencich said. "In light of what's taking place in Michigan, this is a prime opportunity to step up promotion of everything else that this state has to offer — not just leisure travelers, but business travelers, conventioneers and people who are looking to relocate businesses."
Economic development professionals say any damage done by the Flint crisis won't be permanent. But in the meantime, they added, the state and its individual regions need to coalesce around a consistent message that Michigan remains open to business and tourists.
"It is too early to tell how much impact the Flint water crisis will have on the state's image. Certainly with our brand being Pure Michigan, it is more of an image problem," said Doug Rothwell, president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan, the state's business roundtable.
"We worked so hard to have Detroit not be a negative issue," Rothwell said. "Now, Flint puts a damper on it."
Corporate site selectors like McEnroe say they're increasingly having to offer out-of-state companies more nuance about Michigan when answering questions about Flint, similar to how they explained the state several years ago as Detroit headed closer to, and eventually through, bankruptcy.
The Michigan Economic Development Corp., which manages the $33-million Pure Michigan campaign, said the number of potential business deals in its pipeline has been down since the fall, which is when news of the Flint drinking water crisis began to break. But that's also the same time the MEDC cut its budget by 27 percent and laid off 65 employees due to a drop in tribal gaming revenue, which has contributed to fewer staff members working on company outreach.
MEDC spokeswoman Emily Guerrant said deals now are generally smaller, more complicated and take longer to close; the state also has fewer resources available for large incentive packages. Taken together, she said, it's difficult to pinpoint the Flint crisis as the reason for a drop in business prospects.
On the tourism side, Guerrant said it's too early to have any tangible data to show whether the Flint emergency is keeping some would-be vacationers away. The state won't receive estimates on the economic impact of this year's Pure Michigan campaign until next year, for one. But the winter season also suffered from lower-than-typical snowfall levels.
Steve Arwood, CEO of the MEDC and director of the new Michigan Department of Talent and Economic Development, said out of all the selling efforts put forth by the MEDC through the years, nothing tops the Pure Michigan campaign.
"It's iconic and award-winning," he said. "It has done more to market the state than anything we have done after that. It is the one thing that is continuing.
"When you do something for 10 years without interruption, it becomes very deep-seated and immediately recognizable. It's our brand in most of the U.S. and internationally."
Additionally, Arwood pointed to the success of the state with direct business marketing — the result of balanced budgets, improvements to workers' compensation administration and a flat corporate tax.
He said it is not hard to market Michigan as the automotive center of the country because few would question that it is. But newer industries are showing strength in the state as well, such as aerospace, natural resources, agriculture and high-end food products.
He pointed to successes such as a Clemens Food Group pork processing facility in Coldwater that is under construction, a $325 million Arauco particleboard manufacturing facility in Grayling Township and the American Center for Mobility at Willow Run. This project plans to transform the former Ford Motor Co. B-24 bomber plant at Willow Run in Ypsilanti Township into the nation's first autonomous vehicle testing site.
Other priorities
But how much money and effort for damage control and positive branding is appropriate and available as the state continues to reel from Flint stories? Funding for the next round of economic development work has been on the table before when lawmakers faced large budget priorities. Last year, legislators in the House proposed diverting money from the MEDC to pay for a $1.2 billion road-funding plan; MEDC administrators warned that could limit the Pure Michigan campaign. That proposal didn't wind up as part of the final package.
This year, Flint and a proposed $720 million debt restructuring of Detroit Public Schools are dominating funding talks, though neither issue is expected to siphon money away from Pure Michigan, said state Rep. Al Pscholka, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Snyder's executive budget proposed leaving Pure Michigan funding flat at $33 million in 2017.
"I'm not advocating for any reduction to Pure Michigan," Pscholka, R-Stevensville, told Crain's. "Generally, I know in the House there's a lot of support for Pure Michigan. A lot of it's going to depend on fiscally where we're at, because we do have some challenges."
Economic development agencies across Michigan say they have not noticed any real loss of business interest because of Flint, though in some cases they are working harder to sell the state to prospective companies.
In Kalamazoo, where Ron Kitchens' team at Southwest Michigan First can talk with as many as 230 site consultants over the course of a year, they now are making roughly three times as many phone calls to companies and site selectors telling them not to discount Michigan in their location search.
Deals are in the pipeline, he said, but he doesn't know how many will close.
"We're about selling the whole state. So when the water crisis broke, when the Detroit Public Schools hit the national news, there was a palpable gasp," said Kitchens, CEO of the regional economic development organization.
"I don't think it's any intentional redlining," he said. "I just think when people are in crisis, states are in crisis or regions are in crisis, the human reaction is not to run to the fire."
Marketing vs. sales
Some economic development experts told Crain's they're concerned about the implications of using one brand to serve multiple types of marketing, especially in periods of negative attention, because the functions can't easily be distinguished.
Still others have suggested using recognized business leaders in Michigan to strengthen a corporate attraction campaign. Others say cuts to the MEDC, both in terms of dollars and staff, have had an impact.
"For Michigan to be the place that we need it to be, it's going to take a significant increase in the marketing and sales," Kitchens said. "Pure Michigan is a good marketing plan, but it's not a sales strategy. Sales strategies are people pounding the pavement, people who are at keyboards, looking at where companies are locating and how we can be more competitive than those locations."
Mark Winter, president and a founding partner of Identity, a public relations and marketing firm in Bingham Farms, said the multi-pronged approach of Pure Michigan has an upside: It allows the MEDC to use its scant resources effectively.
He added that such an interconnected strategy, despite the single-brand risk, also helps the state engage companies that employ millennials, for whom the live-work-play lines are blurred.
That could be important in the Flint recovery, said McEnroe, the site selector.
Positive messages
Several people told Crain's that one of the main messages being shared in defense of Michigan is that Flint, much like Detroit before it, is an isolated event that is not affecting other cities or regions in the state — while stressing that it does not downplay the severity of the water crisis.
While at a restaurant in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago, "the waiter made a joke about the table water and referenced Flint," Winter said.
"The first thing I did was stand up and support our state and all the things we're doing right," Winter said.
The Pure Michigan campaign this spring will release a TV commercial focusing on Detroit's post-bankruptcy momentum. It has been described as more visually edgy than most Pure Michigan ads, including recent spots depicting Michigan's craft beer industry and farm-to-table restaurants.
State tourism promoters waited to tell Detroit's story until after the resolution of bankruptcy. They point to highlights such as improved city services, and construction of the M-1 Rail (now called QLine) and Detroit Red Wings hockey development.
Armed with the updated compelling messages, Dave Lorenz, vice president of state tourism agency Travel Michigan, said easing off the Pure Michigan throttle now would cause Michigan "to lose out on all that economic activity, and we would have then helped cause the problem that they're currently dealing with."
"The day that we somehow look at scaling back is the day we're going to slip back," Lorenz said.
Tourism and economic development promoters should continue to tell Michigan's positive stories while rallying followers of official social media channels to help spread the good word, Winter said.
"Social media has provided an opportunity for people to vent and to share their thoughts, but unfortunately, more times than not, it's not balanced with the positive," he said. "Every bad message in a marketplace is just helping create distractions for the good things we're trying to say.
"If that positive information outweighs the negative, then we're going to be ahead of the game."
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Mon, 03/28/2016 - 10:39am
I never knew that "Pure Michigan" had anything to do with attracting business development, I thought it was just a tourism thing. No doubt that the image of Michigan has taken a hit nationally over the Flint debacle, as an example I was talking to my sister who lives in Massachusetts a few days ago about various family things and she brought up out of the blue the Flint water crisis.
sam melvin
Just watched Steve Harye Show on CBS .with the people living in flint and there elected offical up to State level. WELL sofar nothing has Moved or improved then the daily grind of water and haveing supplies... but not being to drink or shower and the suggestion of BOILING WATER ...only to find out .it does not take OUT THE LEAD, just makes it worse..MY idee is CUT the salary of each city, State and Fedreal Employee by 25% so they will WAKE up and finally Do there JOB(no more scholveing papers) ..so they feel the pain also. of them NOT doing there jobs or doing the rigth Thing ..expecialy when it KILLS or maimes!. they people in flint need to be moved to GRAND Rapids till there house Pipes are restored .. with ALl the money taken from taxpayer to goverment agency. not worth ONE penny, seams American Citizen have no Goverment to count on.rember katharina any hurricane . flood oh yes 9/11 firemen still waiting IF they are still alive.WHY why? why?
Barry Visel
From a statewide marketing strategy, maybe it's time to put the Flint situation in perspective. Perhaps I missed it, but I have yet to read a story which explains why the Flint River is so corrosive, how long it's been that way, what's being done to improve it, and most importantly, how this river's water quality is an anomaly and not the norm in Michigan. Does anyone have any knowledge about this?
Hi Barry, Actually, the problem isn't with the river water. As expanded upon in this article: http://www.mlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/02/flint_river_is_alive_...The corrosiveness of the water is an expected attribute of river water in general (largely without regard to pollution levels). What was problematic in this case was that the state Department of Environmental Quality did not require the river water to be treated to reduce corrosiveness to be in line with that of the city's former drinking water source (Lake Huron) as it should have. As a result, Flint's pipes began breaking down as soon as the system began pumping river water as if it were chemically the same as water from Lake Huron. To your point, I agreed that a story providing a broader overview of river and lake water quality in Michigan could be illustrative and help to put what is happening in Flint into better context.
General Motors and manufacturing are responsible for the toxic mess that is the Flint River. I think GM should help clean their mess up.
Fri, 04/01/2016 - 9:54am
Christine, What evidence do you have for this accusation? Get it to EPA and I'm sure they'll be all over GM!
Karen Bourdon
How can this issue be more ironic if the Ann Arbor area is labeled a toxic waste area , due to the dioxin plume. This situation was not addressed over many years of knowing it existed. Now a family on Jackson Road with small children have been using the dioxin tainted well water in their rented home without anyone telling them about the problem. And now the State thinks it's time to contact the Federal Government about it. And the DEQ is set to add to the pollution in the Detroit area. It seems to me that the statement "Pure Michigan" could be considered a joke by some people.
Roger Rayle
dioxane not dioxin. We're trying to prevent a potential future #FlintWaterCrisis here in the Ann Arbor area by staying on top of the situation and demanding stricter standards consistent with latest EPA guidelines, better monitoring and more cleanup now. More info at www.srsw.orgChanging the culture of the DEQ back to environment protection as #1 goal will require changes in the legislature and approval of whoever is governor... which may take too long. Had the powers that be used the Pure Michigan ideal as an goal to aspire to when making laws and decisions, we'd be in a better place.
John Saari
Mon, 03/28/2016 - 12:57pm
If the State could spend some of their environmental surplus monies on proactive clean-up efforts. The advertisement credits would attract all the companies.
Think what an attractive selling point Michigan would have if we could be the first State to have cleaned up all of the environmental concerns. Replace all of the lead pipes, eliminate all of the point sources, no car or factory emissions beyond the Federal limits etc, etc
"Pure Michigan" is a now a joke out of state. Thanks Rick Snyder. I hope your personal tax cut you pushed and signed into law which created the budget shortfalls which ultimately contributed to the poisoning of Flint, the deaths from Legionaires, the veterans not getting care in the state home in Grand Rapids, etc., and the ruined reputation of Michigan was worth it to you because for the historical record you will go down as the poisoner of Flint and the worst governor ever in the history of Michigan---and that is not even considering all the terrible policy and laws you supported from Jim Crow laws, slush funds, crony no bid contracts,...
The reality about Michigan is that everything is connected. Long term racism, Jim Crow laws, white privilege, a state that has been run with preferential treatment of business vs. the environment has led to what we are seeing today. No amount of manipulation of the truth is going to change this. The reality now is our state has been in decline for years, and the past 4 years this decline has increased. Until people open their minds and hearts, understand even one child suffering in poverty affects us all. Detroit and Pontiac and so many other poverty stricken cities, demonstrate the hard heartedness of the leaders of this state. What is "Pure Michigan"??
Grove Sandrock
First the Republicans tied "Pure Michigan" with the passage of Right to Work. Now, they have poisoned the water in Flint and "discovered" lead problems all over our state. My new suggestion is to adopt the "Impure Michigan" to attract another type of visitor or corporate invester.
While Pure Michigan tries to convince 'foreigners' of the state's Arcadian quality, here's a taste of what Michigan's own people have to say: "Our largest city had a mayor who was an out-in-the-open criminal. He won re-election easily, with the endorsement of nearly every power broker and medium in the state. Our state government proudly subverts the will of the people (see, e.g., Proposal 1, emergency managers, straight-ticket voting) and uses a tactical maneuver to forever prevent them from re-asserting their will. We respond by re-electing the perpetrators. Our speaker of the house admitted to trying to fix an election. The people of his district responded, 'You da man!' and re-elected him. The members of the legislative body weighed in: 'You're our kind of leader!' and re-seated him as speaker with only two dissenting votes." The MEDC is up against it. They are appointees, or employees thereof, who will say or do anything for money, who have to effectively counter the true stories of the residents in order to be credible. A Sisyphean task, indeed.
Fred Swinehart
If you think Flint's disaster is an issue, just ponder the effects of Enbridge's last pipeline disaster over the Kalamazoo river and how that would pale in comparison should their "Line Five" oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinaw follow a similar disastrous course of events!!
Thu, 03/31/2016 - 2:36pm
Pure Michigan is not successful. It provides a negative financial return. It makes us all feel warm & fuzzy when we here the advertisements locally, but other than that it is not worth a major expense. Mackinac Policy just did a story on the number details.
since Enbridge poisoned the Kalamazoo watershed in 2010 with a million gallon spill, the state has been on notice that old pipelines coupled with human error are an imminent potential disaster. Enbidge has stonewalled and obfuscated state requests for inspection records on line 5 where it crosses the straits. the AG and the governor's response to this red flag has been to appoint committees and boards to investigate and advise. I'm sure they pray every nite that the 63-year old pipe survives just one more day. this- kick- the- can down the road approach presents an even greater risk to the Pure Michigan image than Flint. DON'T FLINT THE STRAITS!


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