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Washington, DC – Congressman Kevin Brady released the following statement after voting against H.J. Res. 31, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019: “Congresswoman Kay Granger of Texas did a remarkable job leading the negotiations for House Republicans, and secured every dime she could from Democrats who vowed not to spend one dollar on a physical barrier for our southern border. "The spending bill is certainly a first step towards securing our nation’s border but I believe Congress should ...
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Kevin Brady (TX-08) released the following statement in support of the re-introduction of the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act: “I want to thank my colleague, Rep. Anne Wagner, for re-introducing this important legislation. Last night, President Trump called on Congress to defend the dignity of all children, born or unborn. This is a great step in that direction because it ensures that any infant born alive after an abortion receives the same medical trea...
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Washington, DC – Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX-08) congratulated D’Anne Emmett Spence of Huntsville, Texas, as she was promoted to the rank of Colonel of the United States Air Force, and invited her to be his guest at the State Of The Union Address. Huntsville native and Air Force Colonel D'Anne Emmett Smith “I want to offer my sincerest congratulations to D’Anne Emmett Spence on her promotion," said Brady. “Achieving the rank of Colonel speaks to her outstanding character, work ethic, and servi...
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Washington, D.C. –Today, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s January 2019 jobs report: “While Democrats continue to debate how high they are willing to tax families, the GOP Tax Cuts keep paying real, measurable dividends for American workers and small businesses. Wages and benefits for workers checked in at an 11-year high this week, and today’s jobs numbers show a strong and growing U.S. e...
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Brady (TX-08) released the following statement reiterating his commitment to pro-life causes and legislation: “Today, thousands will gather in our nation’s capital and come together in a March for Life, taking a passionate stand and supporting the sanctity of life and the rights of the unborn. As we move into the minority, it is more important than ever to safeguard the significant work we have done to protect life. My wife Cathy and I are parents only becaus...
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX-08) joined three Texas talk shows this week to discuss the crisis at the southern border: On Wednesday evening, Brady joined Joe Pagliarulo on The Joe Pags Show, live on WOAI in San Antonio (segment starts at 20:56): "I love the fact that he just went straight to the American people on this and he got to do in his own words. Because when I, up here, read and see what he's talking about, versus what's covered in the national media, it is dramatical...
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX-08) released the following statement regarding President Trump's address to the American people regarding the humanitarian and security crisis on the southern border: “I continue to stand with President Trump in his efforts to secure our border and prioritize national security. In the Houston region, we’re all too familiar with the damage caused by MS-13 gangs, drug trafficking and sex trafficking, much of which comes from the southern border. Our...
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Conroe, Tex. – Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX-08) today announced that Chloe Wick, a native of The Woodlands and recent graduate from Baylor University, began a new position as intern for the spring semester at his office in Washington, DC. "We're glad to have Chloe on board this semester," said Brady. "Each intern brings their own fresh perspective to what it means to work and serve in Congress. Sometimes my team and I learn as much from them as they learn from the experience." "It's really an h...
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Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX-08) released the following statement regarding the passing of Texas Workforce Commission Executive Director Larry Temple: “Not everyone gets to do a job they love and truly makes a difference, but Larry Temple helped his fellow Texans find a job and took great joy in doing it. He was an invaluable resource to the Ways and Means Committee during my time as Chairman, sharing ideas and technical assistance that led to landmark workforce legislation being written and pa...
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"I know the Democrats are hung up on calling it a wall, but I don't care if they call it a gender-neutral palisade or a linear monument to climate change, in truth we need more resources for border security."
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I had a great visit to the brand new Grand Oaks High School, Conroe ISD where I was able to meet their staff and tour the amazing facilities. Thank you for hosting me Grand Oaks, I'm excited to see what comes next!


#ifndef RUUVI_ENDPOINTS
#define RUUVI_ENDPOINTS

#include "sdk_common.h"

// maximum DSP states for one endpoint
// 4 supports int16, but not int8.
#define MAX_DSP_STATES 4
#include "dsp.h"

typedef enum{
  PLAINTEXT_MESSAGE       = 0x10, // Plaintext data for info, debug etc
  BATTERY                 = 0x20, // Battery state message
  RNG                     = 0x21, // Random number
  RTC                     = 0x22, // Real time clock
  NFC                     = 0x23, // NFC message
  TEMPERATURE             = 0x31, // Temperature message
  HUMIDITY                = 0x32,
  PRESSURE                = 0x33,
  AIR_QUALITY             = 0x34,
  ENVIRONMENTAL           = 0x3A, // Aggregate of temperature, humidity, pressure,
  ACCELERATION            = 0x40,
  MAGNETOMETER            = 0x41,
  GYROSCOPE               = 0x42,
  MOVEMENT_DETECTOR       = 0x43,
  // endpoints 0x50 ... 0x5F are reserved for chain handlers, however they're not enumerated but rather called dynamically
  MAM                     = 0xE0  // Masked Authenticated Messaging
}ruuvi_endpoint_t;

typedef enum{
  SENSOR_CONFIGURATION           = 0x01, // Configure sensor
  ACTUATOR_CONFIGRATION          = 0x02, // Configure actuator
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                = 0x03, // Acknowledge message
  STATUS_QUERY                   = 0x04, // Query status from endpoint - returns current configuration
  DATA_QUERY                     = 0x05, // Query data from endpoint - returns latest data
  LOG_QUERY                      = 0x06, // Query log from endpoint - initiates bulk write
  CAPABILITY_QUERY               = 0x07, // Query endpoint capablities: samplerate, resolution, scale, log, power consumption with settings given in query
  SAMPLERATE_RESPONSE            = 0x08, // Response with allowed sample rates
  RESOLUTION_RESPONSE            = 0x09, // Response with allowed resolutions
  SCALE_RESPONSE                 = 0x10, // Response with allowed scales
  TARGET_RESPONSE                = 0x11, // Response with allowed targets
  POWER_RESPONSE                 = 0x12, // Response with allowed power levels
  TIMESTAMP                      = 0x13, // Timestamp related to next event
  UNKNOWN                        = 0x14, // Unknown, may be a reply if incoming message was not understood
  ERROR                          = 0x15, // Error, payload may contain details
  CHAIN_UPSTREAM_CONFIGURATION   = 0x16, // Configure a chain endpoint
  CHAIN_DOWNSTREAM_CONFIGURATION = 0x17, // Pass a function pointer to call with new data from actual sensor
  UINT8                          = 0x80, // Array of uint8
  INT8                           = 0x81,
  UINT16                         = 0x82,
  INT16                          = 0x83,
  UINT32                         = 0x84,
  INT32                          = 0x85,
  UINT64                         = 0x86, // Single uint64
  INT64                          = 0x87,
  ASCII                          = 0x88  // ASCII array
}ruuvi_message_type_t;

typedef enum {
  SAMPLE_RATE_STOP   = 0,
  SAMPLE_RATE_SINGLE = 251,
  SAMPLE_RATE_NO_CHANGE = 255
}ruuvi_samplerate_t;

typedef enum {
  TRANSMISSION_RATE_STOP       = 0,
  TRANSMISSION_RATE_SAMPLERATE = 251,
  TRANSMISSION_RATE_DSPRATE    = 252,
  TRANSMISSION_RATE_NO_CHANGE  = 255
}ruuvi_transmissionrate_t;

typedef enum {
  RESOLUTION_MIN        = 251,
  RESOLUTION_MAX        = 252,
  RESOLUTION_NO_CHANGE  = 255
}ruuvi_resolution_t;

typedef enum {
  SCALE_MIN        = 251,
  SCALE_MAX        = 252,
  SCALE_NO_CHANGE  = 255
}ruuvi_scale_t;

typedef enum {
  DSP_LAST      = 1,
  DSP_MIN       = 2,
  DSP_MAX       = 3,
  DSP_AVERAGE   = 4,
  DSP_STDEV     = 5,
  DSP_IMPULSE   = 6,
  DSP_LOW_PASS  = 7,
  DSP_HIGH_PASS = 8,
  DSP_VECTOR    = 128
}ruuvi_dsp_function_t;

typedef enum {
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_STOP        = 0,    // Do not transmit any data anywhere
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_BLE_ADV     = 1,    // Broadcast data as BLE adverisement
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_BLE_GATT    = 2,    // Transmit data through BLE GATT
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_BLE_MESH    = 4,    // Transmit data through BLE MESH
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_PROPRIETARY = 8,    // Transmit data through proprietary protocol
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_NFC         = 16,   // Transmit data through NFC
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_RAM         = 32,   // Store transmissions to RAM
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_FLASH       = 64,   // Store transmission to FLASH
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_TIMESTAMP   = 128,  // Add Timestamp (uses lot of memory / bandwidth)
  TRANSMISSION_TARGET_NO_CHANGE   = 255
}ruuvi_transmission_target_t;

typedef enum{
  ENDPOINT_SUCCESS         = 0, // ok
  ENDPOINT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED = 1, // not implememented yet
  ENDPOINT_UNKNOWN         = 2, // unknown parameter
  ENDPOINT_NOT_SUPPORTED   = 4, // not supported
  ENDPOINT_INVALID         = 8, // Invalid parameter for some reason
  ENDPOINT_HANDLER_ERROR   = 16 // Error in data handler
}ruuvi_endpoint_ret_t;

/**
 *  Configuration message for a sensor.
 */
typedef struct __attribute__((packed)){
  uint8_t sample_rate;
  uint8_t transmission_rate;
  uint8_t resolution;
  uint8_t scale;
  uint8_t dsp_function;
  uint8_t dsp_parameter;
  uint8_t target;
  uint8_t reserved;
}ruuvi_sensor_configuration_t;

/**
 *  Configure chained channel with given upstream.
 *  Usage example: both latest and high passed acceleration is wanted.
 *  Setup accelerometer as usual
 *  Configure a chained channel using endpoint 0x50 ... 0x5F to have ACCELERATION as master endpoint, high pass as a DSP function.
 *  ACCELERATION will transmit *AFTER* its own dsp function the samples to chained channel. The samples are sent at sample
 *  rate of master channel.
 *  Chained channel will transmit the samples to next chained channel after DSP, and to data handlers at a rate given by transmit speed.
 */
typedef struct __attribute__((packed)){
  uint8_t upstream_endpoint;
  uint8_t transmission_rate; // Stop chained transmissions if TRANSMISSION_RATE_0
  uint8_t reserved0; // Scale, resolution are defined by master
  uint8_t reserved1;
  uint8_t dsp_function;
  uint8_t dsp_parameter;
  uint8_t target;
  uint8_t reserved2;
}ruuvi_chain_configuration_t;

typedef struct __attribute__((packed)){
  uint8_t destination_endpoint;
  uint8_t source_endpoint;
  uint8_t type;
  uint8_t payload[8];
}ruuvi_standard_message_t;

// Declare message handler type
typedef ret_code_t(*message_handler)(const ruuvi_standard_message_t);

/** Message handler state **/
typedef struct {
/** Data target handlers **/
  message_handler p_ble_adv_handler;
  message_handler p_ble_gatt_handler;
  message_handler p_ble_mesh_handler;
  message_handler p_proprietary_handler;
  message_handler p_nfc_handler;
  message_handler p_ram_handler;
  message_handler p_flash_handler;

/** Chain downstream **/
  message_handler p_chain_handler;
  uint8_t downstream_endpoint; // Use UINT8_t to allow dynamic endpoint selection

/** State variables **/
  ruuvi_sensor_configuration_t configuration;
  ruuvi_endpoint_t destination_endpoint;
  dsp_filter_t dsp[MAX_DSP_STATES];
}message_handler_state_t;

void ble_gatt_scheduler_event_handler(void *p_event_data, uint16_t event_size);

// pass structs by value, as they might be copied to tx buffer somewhere.
void route_message(const ruuvi_standard_message_t message);

ret_code_t unknown_handler(const ruuvi_standard_message_t message);

// Peripheral handlers
void set_temperature_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_acceleration_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_mam_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_unknown_handler(message_handler handler);

// Data transmission handlers
void set_ble_adv_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_ble_gatt_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_proprietary_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_nfc_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_reply_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_ram_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_flash_handler(message_handler handler);
void set_chain_handler(message_handler handler);

message_handler get_reply_handler(void);
message_handler get_ble_adv_handler(void);
message_handler get_ble_gatt_handler(void);
message_handler get_ble_mesh_handler(void);
message_handler get_proprietary_handler(void);
message_handler get_nfc_handler(void);
message_handler get_ram_handler(void);
message_handler get_flash_handler(void);
message_handler get_chain_handler(void);

#endif


A portrait of the night sky taken from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile showing the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (upper and center left, respectively) with the Blanco 4-m telescope (lower right). The Blanco hosts the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was used to obtain the SMASH survey images of the Magellanic Clouds used by the Local Group Cluster Search. Inset images zoom in on three star-forming regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud as seen in SMASH survey images, showing strong emission from hot gas that surrounds newborn young massive stars. Credit: Anja von der Linden / Stony Brook University; Inset: SMASH survey

Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall toward our galaxy, the Milky Way. The gravitational interaction between the Clouds sparks cosmic fireworks—bursts of star formation as new clusters of stars flame on. How many and what kind of star clusters have been born this way over the history of the Clouds? A new project, the Local Group Cluster Search, invites citizen scientists to help find out!

Our Nearest Galactic Neighbors

Close enough to see with the naked eye when viewed from the southern hemisphere, the Magellanic Clouds have interacted in multiple close encounters over the past 2 billion years. During the encounters, gravitational forces push and pull on gas in the Clouds, sparking the formation of many new star clusters—"families" of hundreds to millions of stars—each formed from a single cloud of gas and dust.

These clusters are useful to astronomers because they can be age-dated with great precision and used to reconstruct a historical record of star formation. By counting the number of clusters as a function of age, astronomers can back out the birthrate of clusters and chart the interaction history of the Clouds.

A new citizen science project, the Local Group Cluster Search, aims to do just that by coupling new, high-quality images of the Magellanic Clouds with a proven technique to find star clusters.

SMASHingly Good Images

The Local Group Cluster Search uses images from a new survey, the "Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History" (or SMASH for short).

A gallery of Magellanic Clouds star clusters, as seen in images from the SMASH survey. Star clusters span a wide range in size and brightness which vary depending on the age and mass of the cluster. Credit: L.C. Johnson / Northwestern University

In contrast to the earliest studies of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, which used images captured on glass photographic plates, SMASH was carried out using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 570-megapixel digital camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope at National Science Foundation's (NSF) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Using DECam, astronomers obtained images that not only cover the full extent of the two galaxies but also are more sensitive to faint stars than any previous wide-field optical survey of the Clouds.

Explaining the challenge of surveying the Clouds, David Nidever, an astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and Montana State University who leads the SMASH survey, said, "The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are huge on the sky, covering more than 100 square degrees—an area larger than 500 full Moons!" While it would take tens of thousands of tiled images from the Hubble Space Telescope's largest camera to image the full sky area of the Clouds, DECam surveyed the main bodies of both Clouds with its immense field of view in fewer than 50 images.

Human Eye Still the Best!

Hosted by the Zooniverse online citizen science platform, the Local Group Cluster Search asks volunteers to examine small portions of the SMASH images and identify star clusters by eye. Citizen science searches are a great way to catalog clusters, even in today's age of machine learning and artificial intelligence, because the human brain is highly skilled at pattern recognition.

Cliff Johnson, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University who leads the citizen science project, said, "While computer-based methods continue to improve, the varying backgrounds and appearance of star clusters in images of nearby galaxies make cluster identification difficult to automate. Algorithmic cluster searches have trouble eliminating false detections due to chance groupings of stars, while human-classified catalogs provide a reliable sample of clusters down to very faint brightness levels."

A screenshot of the Local Group Cluster Search website interface, showing three star clusters correctly identified. When citizen scientists visit the project page, hosted by the Zooniverse, they are asked to mark the locations of star clusters on images. Credit: L.C. Johnson / Northwestern University

Building on Past Success

Volunteer-led star cluster identification has a proven track record of success. In the earlier "Andromeda Project," citizen scientists identified 2,753 star clusters in the Andromeda galaxy. The results revealed that cluster formation varies with galactic environment. Through the Local Group Cluster Search, citizen scientists also recently completed a study of the Triangulum galaxy, identifying thousands of star clusters.

With cluster censuses of Andromeda and Triangulum complete, the search now turns to the Magellanic Clouds, the only nearby galaxies yet to be searched by citizen scientists. What will the search reveal about the interaction history of our closest neighbors? Stay tuned!

Join the search by visiting the project website at clustersearch.org .

A blog post on the cluster search in the Triangulum galaxy is available here: clustersearch.wordpress.com/20 … collection-complete/

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Following from a number of people requiring Lustre colours for cakes for funerals/ wakes, this raised some questions as to whether ‘wake cakes’ are the new phenomena to help celebrate the lives of the deceased? Upon further research


The present invention generally relates to devices affixed to the top of a pole—what will be referred to herein as pole top fitters—which are adapted to orient, suspend, and/or otherwise positionally affix one or more objects relative said pole (or relative a target area, for example). More specifically, the present invention relates to the design and operation of pole top fitters as they relate to lighting fixtures; particularly in applications where uplight is to be avoided. Uplight, as it is commonly known in the industry—see, e.g., IES TM-15-11—is generally defined as light projected above a luminaire (assuming a luminaire pointing downwardly), and is later discussed.
A pole top fitter is not a new device or technology; its use has long been established in the art of wide area lighting; see, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 7,500,764 hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Pole top fitters provide a foundation for one or more extended armatures—what will be referred to herein as cross-arms—to which one or more lighting fixtures (or other objects) are affixed. As used herein, “lighting fixture” refers generally to a light source, associated housing, associated light directing and/or light redirecting devices, associated electrical connections, and associated devices for attaching to a cross-arm (if any); no distinction has been made between “luminaires” or “lighting fixtures”, and indeed the terms are used interchangeably herein.
Pole top fitters permit a lighting designer to affix multiple luminaires to a single pole, thereby ensuring fewer poles are needed for a given lighting application. As is well known in the art, fewer poles translate to potential cost savings—which for a wide area lighting application (e.g., professional sports field) with poles on the order of several tens of feet tall can be substantial. There is a natural motivation, then, to pack as many fixtures and cross-arms on a pole top fitter as is possible for a given pole, each pole having a loading capacity in accordance with its size, material, processing techniques, mounting height, anticipated wind load for the geographic area, and the like. An overzealous approach to loading a pole top fitter (e.g., producing a greatly unbalanced or eccentric load on a pole to pack in more fixtures)—regardless of whether limitations for a given pole are exceeded—can sometimes result in warpage of the cross-arm or tipping of the pole. For that reason (and perhaps others), sometimes pole top fitters are configured in what will be referred to as a “back-to-back” configuration; namely, lighting fixtures on both sides of the pole and projecting light generally in opposite directions (i.e., forward of the pole and behind the pole). Placing fixtures in a back-to-back configuration on a pole top fitter may permit additional lighting fixtures to be installed on a single pole without bending the pole or warping a cross-arm, but can become problematic when (i) it is undesirable to project light behind a pole or (ii) the positioning of the fixtures on both sides of the pole inadvertently illuminates the pole itself (causing localized glare or otherwise distracting from the intended viewing target).
Returning now to the issue of uplight—the phenomenon of projecting light upwardly of a downwardly-facing lighting fixture can be undesirable for a number of reasons. Generally speaking, any light not directed towards a target area is wasted—lowering the overall efficiency of the lighting system and contributing to sky glow. Sky glow is particularly undesirable in residential areas, areas designated as “dark sky”—see, e.g., www.darksky.org for areas designated as such according to the International Dark-Sky Association—or areas having conservatories, for example. Of course, some lighting applications prefer some degree of uplighting—in particular, aerial sports such as baseball, golf, volleyball, and ski jumping—but in such cases it is desirable for uplighting to be precise and controlled.
In the context of pole top fitters, uplight becomes a concern when a lighting designer attempts to stack multiple rows of lighting fixtures on a pole. The light from a fixture on the top row may strike the housing of a lighting fixture on a lower row and redirect it in a number of directions, producing specular or diffuse reflection depending on environmental conditions, housing material, and the like. This redirected light produces uncontrolled uplight and is undesirable. One solution is to offset lighting fixtures, but this may reduce the fixture count on a pole—which is undesirable. The fixtures could be placed in a back-to-back configuration on the pole top fitter, but this places light behind the pole—which may be undesirable. Additionally, if the fixtures on the back side of a pole in a back-to-back configuration are re-aimed so to attempt to project all light forward of the pole, there is a high likelihood that some of that re-aimed light will strike the pole itself, thereby creating small scale or localized glare—which is undesirable, and may also contribute to uncontrolled uplight. The entire pole top fitter could be angled relative the pole—much like photo finish lighting fixtures for some race tracks—but this configuration is impractical for a large number of fixtures (e.g., because of the risk of pole tipping). The art lacks a solution to providing a large number of fixtures on a pole top fitter in a manner that does not project light behind the pole, does not produce uneven loading, and minimizes uncontrolled uplighting and/or localized glare.
Thus, there is room for improvement in the art.


It is common today for gamers to utilize expect exceptional performance from video gaming systems. Computing environments can have a large impact on the execution and user acceptance of video gaming applications. While computing environments are generally evolving to provide better operating characteristics, it is often desirable to configure computing environments in ways that improve performance and acceptance.


A European court ruling in favour of a gig economy worker who never got a paid holiday in 13 years has been declared an example of how Brexit would be “a disaster for workers’ rights”.

The union representing those in the gig economy said the European Court of Justice (ECJ) verdict that salesman Conley King was entitled to lieu payments for his untaken leave proved the EU court was vital for guaranteeing workers’ rights.

And Jason Moyer-Lee, General Secretary of the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) also pointed out that the ECJ has become a favourite target of Brexiteers.

“Today's judgement is a striking reminder of the impending disaster for worker rights that is Brexit,” he said.

“It is cases like this one - where the Tories are told that their manoeuvres to protect big business to the detriment of workers are a step too far - that help one understand why they have such an obsessive hatred for the ECJ.”

Brexiteers have been itching to remove the UK from the jurisdiction of the ECJ ever since the Leave campaign promised to “take back control” of British laws.

In her October 2016 Conservative Party conference speech, Theresa May delighted many in the hall by promising: “Let’s state one thing loud and clear: We are not leaving the European Union only to give up control of immigration all over again. And we are not leaving only to return to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. That’s not going to happen."

When in October 2017 Ms May admitted that, actually, it might be necessary to let the ECJ have jurisdiction over the UK during a Brexit “implementation period”, some Eurosceptic Conservative MPs were aghast.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Brexit cheerleader who has also supported zero hours contracts as ‘convenient’ for employers and for workers, told reporters: “If the ECJ still has jurisdiction, we will not have left the EU. It is perhaps the most important red line in ensuring the leave vote is honoured.”

But Dr Moyer-Lee and others are now saying that Mr King’s rights have been safeguarded by the ECJ.

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The salesman worked for The Sash Window Workshop on a commission-only contract from 1999 until he reached the age of 65 in October 2012.

When he took the company to a UK employment tribunal, it was ruled he should have been treated as a full-time worker and was entitled to holiday pay.

The company agreed to accept some of Mr King’s £27,000 holiday pay claim, but appealed against the tribunal’s order to make a payment in lieu of untaken leave, arguing that Mr King was not entitled to carry this over each year.

In its judgement on Wednesday, however, the ECJ sided with Mr King and the original UK tribunal ruling.

In doing so it relied heavily on the EU Working Time Directive, itself the target of Eurosceptic complaints about “Brussels red tape”.

The ECJ argued: “The very existence of the right to paid annual leave cannot be subject to any preconditions whatsoever, that right being conferred directly on the worker by Directive 2003/88 [the Working Time Directive].

“It follows that an employer that does not allow a worker to exercise his right to paid annual leave must bear the consequences.”

First passed by the EU in 1993 and amended and consolidated in 2003, the Working Time Directive stipulates that an employee’s average weekly working time should not exceed 48 hours and they should have paid annual leave of at least four weeks.

It was incorporated into UK law in 1998, but only after John Major’s Conservative Government had appealed against it in 1996, arguing that setting limits on how long someone worked was not a health and safety matter.

The appeal was rejected, by the ECJ.

Mr King’s case has now been referred by the ECJ back to the UK Court of Appeal where it will be decided at a further hearing.

Dr Moyer-Lee said that as well as showing the value of the EU court, the ruling was of vital importance to workers in the gig economy, where people are paid per job or shift rather than receiving a regular wage.

Dr Moyer-Lee, whose union is representing two drivers in a long-running legal battle to secure workers’ rights from Uber, said: “Today's bombshell judgement from the ECJ is a game changer for the so-called ‘gig economy’.

“The law is now recognising the massive unpaid debt of ‘gig economy’ companies to their workers - IWGB members will be coming to collect.”

James Williams, the lawyer who represented Mr King, also said the judgement meant that bosses who had incorrectly treated workers as self-employed could be liable for backdated payments in lieu of holidays when their staff’s employment was terminated.

Crowley Woodford, head of European employment at international law firm Ashurst said: “This latest judgment will be a fatal body blow to gig economy employers who are already on the ropes after the Uber worker status decision.

“It is now hard to see how the current self-employed labour model operated by these companies can survive."

Some Brexiteers have stated that workers’ rights will not be diminished after Brexit.

During the referendum campaign, Tory MP Andrea Leadsom, who is now Leader of the House of Commons, stated: “In the area of employment law I wouldn’t expect to see deregulation.”


The impairment of respiration by glycolysis in the Lewis lung carcinoma.
Isolated vegetative tumour cells from mice bearing the Lewis lung carcinoma showed low rates of basal respiration with both low oxygen uptake rates and cytochrome-c oxidase activity. The cells were affected by a marked Crabtree effect and a high rate of lactate production in the presence of 10 mM glucose. The glycolytic capacity of the tumour was also assessed through the measurement of the maximum activities for hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase. These activities were similar to the ones found in other fast-growing, undifferentiated tumours. The concentration of fructose-2,6-bisphosphate in the tumour was 2,3 nmoles/g fresh tissue wt., a value which is of the same order of magnitude as that found in other types of highly glycolytic cells. It is concluded that the Lewis lung carcinoma follows the same pattern as other undifferentiated tumours with a high capacity for both glucose and amino acid utilization.


The 10 Darkest Children’s Movies

Inspired by The Independent’s recent roundup of 10 of the bloodiest bedtime stories, we decided to take a look back into our own childhoods, and came up with this list of 10 of the darkest children’s movies. From more subtly disturbing films like Bambi to the truly gruesome ones, like Watership Down, check out our picks after the jump, and be sure to add your own sources of childhood trauma in the comments.

1. Bambi (1942) – So what if you don’t actually see Bambi’s mother get shot by the hunter. You definitely hear it, and we’d argue that for most imaginative kids, that’s much worse. And then Bambi’s absentee father seals the deal, telling him, “your mother can’t be with you anymore.” Oy.


Michael Rose Responds to Crisis Critique of Goodbye, Good Men

In addition to the peer reviews, Kellenyi’s Pastoral Supervisor, Fr. Francis Reilly, characterized him as “very friendly, outgoing, and hospitable with the Sunday community of the American College…. Joe is flexible and cooperative…. Joe also works well with the seminarian philosophers. Although he only joined the pastoral team at the beginning of the second semester, he fits in well. Therefore again he is flexible and adaptable…. Joe proves an effective presence among the people. The people appreciate Joe’s presence. The people see Joe as warm and welcoming, and as someone who is serious about being a seminarian. He fits in well with other team members.” Fr. Reilly offered not one word of criticism &#0151 only praise. And because he served as Kellenyi’s spiritual advisor, Fr. Reilly was not given a vote as to whether or not Kellenyi could continue at the American College.

Again, Crisis wholly ignored this information.

Even Fr. Kevin Codd, the current Rector who is now publicly denouncing Kellenyi, had this to say in his evaluation: “[Kellenyi] is a person who seems to understand himself well, has a great deal of self-confidence and is committed to his pursuit of his academic and theological development. I support him as he continues on the path towards ministry in the Church.” Now does it sound like Fr. Codd is writing about a man who is a “loose cannon who could blow at any moment”?

The most important point to be made about the evaluation, again, is that Van Durme’s criticisms seem to be given undue weight by then-Rector Fr. David Windsor in his own summary comments &#0151 as stated in my book. Crisis misses this point when it inexplicably asserts to the contrary that Van Durme’s criticisms were shared by the faculty. The “Theology I Evaluation” (also referred to as the “Theology I Assessment”) does not bear this out. Then-Rector Fr. Windsor simply rephrases criticisms made solely by Van Durme. Fr. Windsor, for example, writes that Kellenyi “connects better with those in the community who are twenty and twenty one [sic] years of age. While one seminary student rightly observes that this is Joe’s ‘entry group’ and they were all outsiders together, it is worth addressing this cross generational issue.” Well, it’s worth comparing Fr. Windsor’s quote to Van Durme’s, who writes: “[Kellenyi] only hangs out with the youngest members of the community and has no interest in close contact with the more senior members even after advances were made,” and then again, “Only the youngest members of the community seem to have his interest.”

Interestingly enough, Wolfgang Diedrich is the only other person who addresses this so-called cross-generational issue when he defends Kellenyi in his peer evaluation against Van Durme’s accusation: “I realize that Joe may have come under some scrutiny for relating more with the younger members of the philosophy community than [with] the members of the theology community, but I do not find this strange since Joe has no immediate classmates. The philosophy students came to the house at the same time as Joe, and thus, along with Joe, they were the only unestablished members of the community at the beginning of the year. Since, It [sic] is natural for new members of a community to bond with one another at the outset of starting a new program in a foreign place, I personally do not find his interactions with the younger students to be unhealthy or inappropriate in any way.”

Someone else at the seminary suggested another reason why Kellenyi was drawn to the younger philosophy students: because they were united in a fraternal orthodoxy, which Kellenyi did not find among the theology students who were nearer his age. That also happens to be exactly how Kellenyi described the situation.

Michael Rose on Trial

[Editor's Note: The article by Crisis senior editor Brian Saint-Paul criticizing Goodbye, Good Men can be read by clicking here.]

But the book has not soared without generating great controversy. I would venture to say that Goodbye, Good Men has become one of the most controversial books about the Catholic Church in the last decade. Surprisingly, the most scathing criticism has come from some so-called conservative Catholic publications. They seem to be saying that while they agree with my thesis in at least a vague and general way, they take issue with the particulars as well as my research methodology and journalistic integrity. Ironically, a couple of these articles are themselves textbook examples of shoddy hack journalism (as pointed out in the Sept. issue of the New Oxford Review in “Killing Michael Rose” [on Our Sunday Visitor] and “The Register Steps Into the Ring”).

Our Sunday Visitor actually printed an apology (July 28, 2002) for its unsigned article “Goodbye! Scurrilous Journalist?” (July 14, 2002), which contained so many demonstrably false statements that the anonymous author could not possibly have read my book. (Happily, Fr. Peter Stravinskas, the Editor of The Catholic Answer, another Our Sunday Visitor publication, did read the book. In its September/October 2002 issue, he stated that “the vast majority of American seminaries are rotten to the core,” noting that this is “rather well-documented by Michael Rose in his bombshell book Goodbye, Good Men.“) The National Catholic Register ran an op/ed attack piece by an editor who admitted he hadn’t read the book, save for two pages.

The third article was published by Culture Wars. E. Michael Jones, not only the Editor but the personification of Culture Wars, admitted to me that he hadn’t read Goodbye, Good Men when he published a five-page review of the book studded with many factual errors written by recently ordained Fr. Robert J. Johansen. Curiously, the majority of his criticisms &#0151 much of it based on erroneous second-hand information &#0151 focused on events and issues that weren’t even mentioned in the book he was supposedly reviewing. Despite the numerous and blatant inaccuracies of the Johansen broadside (pointed out by me and by others), it has been quoted or cited uncritically by everyone from the National Catholic Register to “gay” apologist Andrew Sullivan.

In the wake of these anemic criticisms came an article in Crisis magazine. Oddly enough, Crisis, which had previously published a highly favorable review of Goodbye, Good Men by Mary Jo Anderson, relied in part on the flimsy “evidence” of those previous articles in order to buttress its own claims.

On the face of it, the more formidable Crisis article (“A Matter of Integrity: Michael Rose and the American College of Louvain,” September 2002) discredits me and Goodbye, Good Men. The article, by Crisis Senior Editor Brian Saint-Paul, is so trickily crafted that again &#0151 on the face of it &#0151 I seem to be exposed as a negligent and sloppy author at best, and a devious, self-serving, and malicious reporter at worst.

The Crisis article focuses on a five-page section of Goodbye, Good Men dealing with the American College seminary at the University of Louvain in Belgium, which is run directly by the U.S. bishops. In a nutshell, this section tells the story of 40-year-old Joseph Kellenyi, who claims that he was ostracized by a “homosexual clique” there, and that he was sexually harassed by a fellow seminarian, now-ordained Fr. Patrick Van Durme of the Diocese of Rochester. (Van Durme’s identity was protected in Goodbye, Good Men, but later revealed in the Crisis article.) Even after Kellenyi formally reported the harassment to the seminary faculty in writing several times, he claims the harassment continued unabated. Kellenyi says he was unwilling to submit to a “close relationship” that he felt was being forced upon him by Van Durme. Further, Kellenyi was told that if he didn’t submit, Van Durme would use his alleged influence with the Rector to have Kellenyi kicked out. And kicked out of the American College Kellenyi was at the end of the year, leading him to believe that his failure to have a “close relationship” with this classmate was what got him expelled. The expulsion was due both to Kellenyi’s unwillingness to submit and to his audacity in complaining about the harassment without relenting.

So, Crisis, after being approached by the Louvain seminary, took it upon itself to contend that there’s no evidence to corroborate such a story. In doing so, Crisis sought to prove two major points: that Joseph Kellenyi is of doubtful psychological and moral character &#0151 a “straight face” liar in fact &#0151 and that this section of Goodbye, Good Men is a product of disingenuous journalism. After mischaracterizing the events that were reported in my book, Crisis essentially put my reporting skills and integrity on trial in its own kangaroo court. From the start of its investigation, it was clear to me that Crisis had made up its mind that I was guilty, and that it had swallowed the line that Kellenyi was a raving crackpot.

Impugning the Whistleblower

Borrowing a technique from seminaries that have for decades ruthlessly discredited their seminarian whistleblowers, Crisis gets to work quickly on Joseph Kellenyi. Consider how he’s portrayed by Crisis: “He was a loose cannon who could blow at any moment”; he developed “this complex &#0151 almost like paranoia”; “he’s out to ruin some people,” and “he can lie…with a straight face.” Kellenyi is portrayed, without qualification, as mentally unhinged, a crazy man. But consider this: Crisis drew these quotes solely from a group of seminary classmates at Louvain about whom Kellenyi complained.

When I was researching Goodbye, Good Men, Kellenyi flew overseas from Belgium to meet with me in person for three days. Later, I met Kellenyi and others at Louvain. Since Crisis wants to turn the spotlight away from Louvain and on to Kellenyi, let me tell you what I know about Kellenyi based on my interactions with him, my interviews with people at Louvain, and my own research on the claims he makes in my book. Though no longer a seminarian, he is still a graduate student at the University of Louvain, where he was popularly elected to both the Teaching Committee and the Faculty Board of the Theology Department. Bernard Boone, a Belgian Jesuit and then-student body president of the University, served on these boards with Kellenyi. In Boone’s opinion, Kellenyi was “well-respected in the theology faculty.” Kellenyi is also a cum laude scholar, and this year he received the prestigious Callihan Religion and Liberty Fellowship from the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Nigerian priest Fr. Innocent Iaguwuom, another classmate in the Theology Department, said that Kellenyi is noted for his friendly disposition, his academic acumen, and his willingness to constructively engage professors during class. “He’s helped our classes become very informative discussions,” he remarked, and “his willingness to help other students is tremendous. I’ve learned a lot from Joe.” And Beatrice Kamus, a theology student from Uganda seconds Fr. Iaguwuom’s remarks: “Joe is one of the most prominent students in the [Department], and has been one of the most helpful to me over the past year.” Brendan Sammon, now a religion teacher at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, knew Kellenyi for three years while a graduate student in Theology at Louvain. Sammon, who met Kellenyi through his involvement at the American College, described him as “a true disciple of Christ.” Sammon noticed that many students at Louvain, himself included, looked up to Kellenyi as a “trusted older brother.” Others in Louvain certainly corroborated that impression for me.

But Crisis mentions none of this! It doesn’t fit into its image of Kellenyi as a lying and paranoid loose cannon.

The portrait painted of Kellenyi by those outside the American College seminary at Louvain directly contradicts the Crisis portrait crafted by assembling quotes from his seminary peers about whom he had complaints.

Crisis also forgets to mention that Kellenyi was a well-respected and accomplished businessman in both the U.S. and England before he left behind a $300,000 annual salary to study for the priesthood. Crisis also neglects to mention that Kellenyi was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy while a seminarian.

In other words, the portrait painted of Kellenyi by those outside the American College seminary at Louvain (i.e., those with no vested interest in defending the seminary) directly contradicts the Crisis portrait crafted by assembling quotes from his seminary peers about whom he had complaints. Crisis characterizes Kellenyi as unbalanced, paranoid, and prone to lying. But oddly, no one I interviewed thought Kellenyi unbalanced, paranoid, or prone to lying. No one! On the contrary, they characterized him consistently as a model student, a helpful classmate, and a trustworthy friend.

On top of that, Kellenyi submitted himself to a lie detector test at his own expense (around $2000) with internationally acclaimed polygraph specialist Jeremy Barrett, Managing Director of the London-based Polygraph Security Services, Ltd. In his detailed certified report, Barrett said: “There is no doubt that Mr. Kellenyi was truthful in all his responses.” Kellenyi answered questions pertaining to every aspect of the information that was attributed to him in Goodbye, Good Men. Though the results of polygraph tests are not infallible, experts claim that they are reliable in 99% of cases. Polygraph evidence is used widely by governments and law enforcement agencies in many countries including the U.S. and England.

But if Joseph Kellenyi is not the psychologically unbalanced liar that Crisis makes him out to be in its hatchet job, then the Crisis article falls apart.

Discarding Evidence

After impugning Kellenyi’s reputation, Crisis sets to work dismembering mine. The first target of the attack is my use of Kellenyi’s official final evaluation from the seminary, which includes reviews by student peers and some faculty members, including summary comments by the Rector. Crisis makes much ado about my contrasting of Wolfgang Diedrich’s glowing peer evaluation of Kellenyi with the emotionally negative one rendered by Patrick Van Durme, the seminarian Kellenyi accused of sexually harassing him for months. Crisis judged that my “use of Kellenyi’s theological evaluation and Dietrich [sic] and Van Durme’s peer reviews was, at best, careless.” To prove its point, Crisis first calls upon Diedrich. But Diedrich immediately calls his own credibility into question when he tries to explain away his glowing peer evaluation of Kellenyi. His supportive evaluation calls Kellenyi “brilliant… compassionate… extremely industrious” as well as “friendly, knowledgeable, and engaging.” He describes Kellenyi as “fairly understanding of people and circumstances.” Nevertheless, the Crisis article suggests that Diedrich didn’t really mean what he wrote: “I wanted to write a positive evaluation, because I knew a lot of people didn’t think very highly of Joe.” If Diedrich didn’t really mean what he wrote on Kellenyi’s peer evaluation, how can readers know Diedrich really meant what he said to Crisis?

Crisis also insinuates that Diedrich was the only reviewer who wrote positively of Kellenyi. This is not at all true: Giuliano Lupinetti gave a glowing report, in my estimation even more positive than Diedrich’s. For example, Lupinetti writes: Kellenyi is “a man of knowledge and what is more he goes out of his way to explain things to those who ask and [to] discuss in an adult manner things which might not be in complete agreement among those present,” and “Joe works well with the people who attend Mass on Sundays. The younger people are able to approach him confidently and easily and those more mature people in attendance recognize him as an equal and treat him with respect.” Lupinetti also attested that Kellenyi “works hard at whatever he does,” and even says that he “would be pleased to work with him as his only associate pastor were [Kellenyi] pastor. Joe gets things done. Not only does he get things done, he goes to the trouble to find out well what needs to be done.”

And then there’s Joseph Arsenault, who renders a mixed review of Kellenyi, but is in many ways positive. Far from being emotional in tone, Arsenault’s criticisms of Kellenyi are professional, well-mannered, and reasoned. For example, he writes, “I would have to say that I believe that Joseph’s spirituality is of a more traditional nature. I do not see this in itself as bad; however I do feel that Joseph is less open to other forms or expressions of spirituality/worship.” Fair enough. But Arsenault also makes many positive observations such as “I see Joe as a serious student” and “he is very knowledgeable in many fields.” Thus, out of the four seminarian peers assigned to evaluate Kellenyi, only Van Durme criticizes him in a fully negative, immature, and emotional way. Yet it’s Van Durme’s criticisms that are used by then-Rector Fr. David Windsor to hang Kellenyi. And that was exactly the point made in Goodbye, Good Men.

“[Van Durme] uses the type of verbiage that would put most heterosexual men on guard and give them second thoughts about staying in the seminary.” &#0151 Dr. John Fraunces, psychologist who screens seminary candidates for the Diocese of Allentown, Pa.

I characterized Van Durme’s peer review as “rambling and incoherent,” and that it did nothing other than “express frustration and jealousy.” Although Crisis amazingly disagrees, that’s still my reading of it &#0151 and I’m not the only one. Dr. John Fraunces, a Philadelphia-area psychologist who evaluates seminary candidates for the Diocese of Allentown, also read the Van Durme peer evaluation. “The style in which he writes,” said Fraunces, “is terribly immature. This is high-school prose that should never have been accepted by his superiors, especially in view of the fact that there were other evaluations written to the contrary in a very professional, competent, and objective manner.” Furthermore, said Dr. Fraunces, Van Durme’s evaluation of Kellenyi was written with “sexual undertones” and uses “buzzwords” typically bandied about by “gay” cliques in seminaries. Dr. Fraunces added: “This [evaluation] is a childish and inane exercise by someone who obviously had a personal animus against Kellenyi, or else he was set up by someone to do a hatchet job. He uses the type of verbiage that would put most heterosexual men on guard and give them second thoughts about staying in the seminary. It should never have been accepted or taken seriously.” Fr. Andrew Walter, who read the evaluation when he was still unfamiliar with the context, commented that “it’s written with a very subjective passion, almost as if by someone who was unrequited.” Fr. Walter, a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport, said he received peer reports of a similar nature before he was expelled from St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore (widely nicknamed the “Pink Palace”).

After reading the Crisis article, Dr. Fraunces commented, “This peer evaluation is a quintessential example of what Goodbye, Good Men is saying about having a homosexual clique control who stays in seminary and who gets booted. If the people at Crisis magazine don’t understand that this evaluation by Van Durme is a clear and stark example of what’s the matter with the seminaries and why we’re having a crisis in vocations, I can only say that they are invincibly naïve.”

What’s even more astounding, however, is that upon graduation and ordination, Van Durme, who according to Dr. Fraunces writes in “high school prose” and with “sexual undertones,” was invited back to the American College of Louvain by the Rector as a faculty peer the following year, and put in charge of the pre-theology seminarians. Now why would Crisis ignore this important piece of information? Because it harks back to Kellenyi’s contention that Van Durme claimed over and over again that he had a lot of influence with the American College Rector, and the threat that he would use that influence against Kellenyi if he didn’t accept Van Durme as his close friend and de facto formation advisor. In the end: Kellenyi gets expelled, and Van Durme gets ordained by the highly liberal Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, and is given a faculty position by the Rector of his seminary.

Editorial Consistency

Crisis also suggests that my reporting is disingenuous because I did not contact officials at the seminary to get their side of the story. Yet in Goodbye, Good Men I make very clear the Rector’s response to Kellenyi’s charges. Fr. Windsor is quoted from his August 25, 2000, letter to Kellenyi informing him that he was dismissed from the American College for “calumny against The College and its personnel” and for a “pattern of deception and abuse.” The Rector’s position could not have been made clearer. Fr. Windsor is also quoted as writing to Kellenyi: “In my opinion, you are in serious need of psychological help…before you cause yourself and others untold damage.” In other words, Fr. Windsor dismisses Kellenyi in writing as being mentally unfit for seminary and society. I, however, have a copy of Kellenyi’s psychological evaluation that was used as part of the admissions process into seminary. That evaluation unequivocally states that Kellenyi is a well-balanced and mentally fit man. Written by Dr. Jeffrey M. Slutskey, Kellenyi is summed up thus: “He is an internally strong, emotionally stable man who comes across as intelligent, accomplished and competent.”

Furthermore, Crisis’s hypocrisy is revealed in its author’s one-sidedness. He writes under the guise of impartiality, yet he takes Louvain’s Fr. David Windsor and Fr. Kevin Codd (the “officials”) at their word on everything they’re claiming. Crisis failed to practice the very thing it was sanctimoniously preaching: getting all sides before making any conclusions. Why did Crisis not contact officials or other students at the Theology Department (not the seminary) at the University of Louvain? Why did Crisis not contact Kellenyi’s vocations director in the Diocese of Venice (Florida) to see if he took the Louvain evaluation of Kellenyi seriously? Why did Crisis fail to contact Fr. Francis Reilly, Kellenyi’s spiritual adviser? Why did Crisis fail to contact Kellenyi’s former business associates? Crisis cannot apparently live up to the standards for which it so vehemently calls. Most damning is that Crisis was not interested in meeting with Kellenyi, even though he offered to meet with the folks at Crisis at their Washington office at his own expense to go over the evidence he had in hand that enabled him to make the claims he did. One could easily conclude that Crisis was intent on doing a spin-control puff piece for the Louvain seminary.

The Real Issue

When Goodbye, Good Men was published, Alice von Hildebrand (who wrote the Foreword to the Aquinas edition) and Fr. Kenneth Baker, Editor of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, both warned me that I would be attacked, but I never seriously considered that the attack would come from Crisis magazine and other so-called conservative Catholic publications. The net effect of these reviews has been to draw attention away from the issues in the book and focus on the author. Unfortunately, for Crisis, Michael Rose has become the issue. In many ways this mimics what has transpired in Catholic seminaries over the past several decades. (And certainly mimics what happened in Kellenyi’s case.) Those who dare go against the status quo are singled out for particularly harsh treatment and persecuted to no end. The stock tactic is to discredit the source by calling him psychologically unfit. In this case, Crisis’s argument rests almost entirely on discrediting the primary source, Joseph Kellenyi. But if Kellenyi is not a crackpot, which he is not, then Crisis’s article entitled “A Question of Integrity” would more aptly apply to Crisis magazine itself.

Crisis magazine’s defense of a troubled and shrinking liberal seminary seems strangely out of character, and I hope it reflects a temporary lapse in judgment. The Pope has ordered a “serious” investigation of seminaries affiliated with the U.S. Church, with particular regard to dissent, homosexual cliques, and the abuse of psychological testing. Those who wish to cover up these crippling problems will no doubt brandish the Crisis article. That Crisis has been willing to do the dirty work for liberal Catholics reveals an astounding naïveté &#0151 and let’s hope we’ve seen the last of such gullibility.

In spite of this, my sources in Rome tell me that Goodbye, Good Men is being read in the Vatican and is being taken very seriously. While the influence of a book is almost impossible to trace, I am greatly encouraged that the Vatican recently prepared a draft document that says that anyone with a homosexual orientation must not be admitted to seminary, and if said inclination is discovered later he must not be ordained. Also, the Vatican is working on a document that will eliminate as much as possible the abuse of psychological testing in the discernment of vocations, and John L. Allen Jr., the Rome Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, says that “one catalyst” for the latter document “has been the much-discussed book Goodbye, Good Men” (Aug. 2 issue).

While there are powerful forces who wish to sidetrack or derail the documents on homosexuality and psychological testing, and the seminary investigation, I continue to hope &#0151 and believe &#0151 that our seminary system will be reformed and rejuvenated.

Editor's Note: A counter-response by Brian Saint-Paul will appear in the March issue of CRISIS Magazine.

Michael S. Rose is an investigative journalist, and the author of The Renovation Manipulation, Ugly as Sin, and of course Goodbye, Good Men.

[This article originally appeared in the December 2002 edition of the New Oxford Review, and is reprinted with permission.]

Missing the Point on Homosexuality

A major point of contention brought out by Crisis regards the existence of a “gay” subculture at Louvain during the year Kellenyi spent there (1999-2000). Crisis misinterprets Kellenyi, disregarding the stated facts in the book, when it repeatedly questions the existence of an “active gay community” (my italics). That’s not at all how Kellenyi characterized it. He is quoted in Goodbye, Good Men as saying that it was his impression that there was a “homosexual clique” (he said nothing about an “active gay subculture”) at the American College. Fr. Donald Cozzens, former Rector of Cleveland’s seminary, in his book The Changing Face of the Priesthood, speaks of the chronic destabilization that heterosexual men experience in certain seminaries that are home to an inordinate number of (active or not) homosexual students and/or faculty members. According to Kellenyi, this is what he experienced when he was a seminarian at the American College of Louvain. He felt ostracized by a clique that he perceived was, at best, “campy.” Now, if one wants to corroborate the existence of a “gay” or campy clique at a seminary, would one contact the Rector or some other seminary official and ask him expecting to get a straight answer? Crisis implies yes. I respectfully say no.

Crisis then calls upon Wolfgang Diedrich, once again, in order to prove that no “gay subculture” was extant at Louvain. But judging from what Diedrich says on behalf of Van Durme, he inadvertently seems to confirm the opposite: “Of all the people I knew in seminary, Pat Van Durme was the one guy who was without a doubt clearly heterosexual.” One could easily conclude from this that everyone else was or might have been homosexual, that there was indeed a homosexual clique.

Crisis also quotes Kellenyi’s classmate Fr. Joseph Marcoux (pictured at left) as saying, “I certainly never experienced a gay subculture at Louvain. I never saw anything like that.” Like what? Fr. Marcoux, ordained in 2001, and now Assistant Pastor at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester, N.Y., himself conducts gay/lesbian workshops. For example, according to the newsletter of the Diocese of Rochester’s Gay and Lesbian Ministry, Fr. Marcoux conducted one last year at Our Lady of Peace entitled “Gay and Lesbian People in the Church.”

The Diocese of Rochester and Bishop Matthew Clark (Van Durme’s and Marcoux’s boss) in fact have long bastardized the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Consider this gem from Bishop Clark during a homily at a highly publicized Mass for “gays, lesbians, and bisexuals” at Sacred Heart Cathedral: “I’m afraid the Bible is used in ways that are not life-giving, but destructive, as it’s quoted about gay and lesbian people. I think we need to learn from the human sciences” (March 1, 1997). According to The Wanderer’s News Editor, Paul Likoudis, who attended the Mass, during his homily Bishop Clark “not only affirmed the ‘lifestyles’ of gays and lesbians, saying they had much to teach the wider Church, but delivered a stinging rebuke to faithful Catholics and admonished them to ‘update’ themselves on contemporary biblical scholarship.”

The following year (1998) Bishop Clark hosted the annual conference of the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries. Participants included a long list of the most radical dissenters from Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Their “gay issues” agenda: blessing same-sex “marriages” in the Church, transforming Catholic high schools into “gay-friendly” schools, adoption of children by gay and lesbian couples, introducing gay themes in Sunday homilies, and working for the “conversion” of those Catholics who still object to homosexuality. (Click here for in-depth detail on what was taught at that conference.)

According to a photo-caption in the September 21, 1998, issue of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Patrick Van Durme (Kellenyi’s accused harasser) attended that bizarre gay/lesbian conference. There’s even a photo in the Democrat & Chronicle to prove it: Van Durme is pictured receiving Communion from Bishop Clark, whose hand oddly rests on Van Durme’s shoulder.

The Crisis article also relies on too many assumptions as evidence. For example, Crisis states that Van Durme was once engaged to be married, leading readers to believe that this fact renders any accusations of the man having homosexual attractions devoid of credence. On its own, the fact that Van Durme was engaged proves nothing. After all, notorious homosexual priest/abuser Rudy Kos of Dallas, among others, was once engaged and married.

While Crisis spends an inordinate amount of time on the question of whether Van Durme is “gay” or not, it’s worth pointing out again that Kellenyi accused him of sexual harassment: an abuse of power. The difference between a homosexual and a homosexualist may be a small one. In his peer review of Kellenyi, Van Durme accuses him of not being interested in “gay issues.” Van Durme attended a conference that promoted “gay issues” that radically undermine the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. The bishop who sponsored Van Durme has personally promoted teachings and proposals that are at odds with the Catholic Church on homosexuality. Van Durme is said to have been friends for 15 years with Rochester priest Fr. Joseph Marcoux, who teaches gay/lesbian workshops. And as I quoted Kellenyi as saying in my book, “He [Van Durme] told me one time that the way I was sitting in my chair made him want to fly across the room and grab me.” That doesn’t necessarily make Van Durme an active homosexual, but any normal, red-blooded male would surely want to avoid such a person, would not want a “close relationship” with him. There’s enough evidence to suggest that Kellenyi’s impression of Van Durme is not as outrageous as Crisis makes it sound. In the end, whether or not Van Durme is “gay” is irrelevant.

Asking Around About Louvain

I talked to others in both Louvain and the U.S. who corroborated Kellenyi’s “impression” of the Louvain seminary. In fact, I spoke to two successful vocations directors who said neither they nor their bishops would consider sending seminarians to Louvain, one of the reasons being the seminary’s “effeminate reputation.” Could they prove that there was homosexual activity going on inside the walls of the seminary? No, said both. But that wasn’t the point.

(Crisis gets perturbed when I quote unnamed sources. As I stated in the introduction to Goodbye, Good Men, priests fear reprisals from their fellow priests and especially their bishops. Here’s a case-in-point: Earlier this year Fr. Bryce Sibley of Lafayette, Louisiana, was censured for six months by his bishop because he publicly corroborated Kellenyi’s impression of the homosexual clique at Louvain. Fr. Sibley said his impressions were formed while on a week-long visit to the seminary in 1997, during which time he was a student at the North American College in Rome. Shortly after Fr. Sibley posted his article online, a letter of complaint from Louvain Rector Fr. Codd resulted in the swift removal of the offending article from circulation at the demand of his bishop, and Fr. Sibley’s subsequent silencing.)

The vocations directors I spoke with indicated that many of the U.S. bishops have been very reluctant to send their seminarians to Louvain, and that for some bishops Louvain “isn’t even on the radar.” The statistics bear this out. Crisis neglected to mention that during the year Kellenyi attended, the American College at Louvain had only 14 seminarians. In fact, out of the entire United States, Joseph Kellenyi was the only man to enter the Theologate in the Fall of 1999. In other words, Kellenyi was the only man in his class. He had no classmates! According to the seminary’s website, the entire student population of the seminary’s Theologate during the 2001-02 academic year had dwindled to seven men with an additional four in the pre-theology program. [The Theologate further dwindled to five men during the 2002-03, making for a student:teacher ration of 1 to 1]. These numbers don’t even justify a fraction of the cost of running the seminary. And one wonders if donors to the American College are aware of this. When I spoke by phone with Barbara Henkels, a member of the Advisory Board for the Louvain seminary (and a member of the Publication Committee for Crisis), she seemed genuinely surprised &#0151 even shocked &#0151 when I explained that Kellenyi was the only man in his class. Out of the 184 U.S. dioceses, only six sent a seminarian to Louvain’s American College in 2001-2002.

When wondering why only a handful of bishops send men to Louvain, consider that Louvain “boasts” many world-renowned liberal Church theologians. Prof. Joseph Selling, Chairman of the Department of Moral Theology at Louvain, for example, has become a controversial figure in the U.S. At the pro-“gay” New Ways Ministry National Symposium in Pittsburgh in March 1997 (at which Bishop Matthew Clark was also a guest speaker), Selling spoke of his expectation that the Church will approve of homosexual sodomy. Is the Church’s teaching on sodomy going to continue to evolve, he asked?: “With respect to the homosexual relationship, will it evolve toward encompassing it? Yes, it will!” he emphatically replied.

Selling, editor of The Splendor of Accuracy, a book which mocks Pope John Paul II’s encyclical The Splendor of Truth, also argues in New Theology Review No. 11 (1998) that heterosexuality and homosexuality are merely two alternative forms of living. In his analysis, the basic immorality of homosexual acts is not considered, rather only the “quality” of such a relationship determines its morality. If it’s consensual, loving, and stable, he reasons, then it’s moral &#0151 even if to others it’s sodomy. Theology students at Louvain laugh at the notoriety Prof. Selling has received in the U.S. “Some of the other theology professors at Louvain make Selling look like a ‘right-winger,’” explained Boone, the Belgian Jesuit.

Part of the “progressive” nature of the Theology Department is an anti-clericalism of sorts, or perhaps more accurately, an overzealous egalitarianism. According to the Nigerian Fr. Iaguwuom, “It’s easy to lose your priestly identity here.” He added that in his experience “no priest dares to wear his collar here because he’d be ridiculed.” Priests who are students in the Theology Department, he lamented, are never referred to as Father: “Their priesthood is not recognized.”


New syndrome? Prominent, constricted ears with malformed condyle of the mandible.
We report on several relatives in 5 generations of one family with prominence of the ears, with a marked constriction at the junction between the lower and middle thirds of the pinna. Computerized tomography and radiographs in the propositus and his affected father showed abnormalities of the condyle of the mandible. The propositus had more severe changes in the condyle with microstomia and reduced range of motion of the mandible in the temporomandibular joint. There was no hearing loss or abnormalities of the bones of the middle ear.


Pet of the day: Moses

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Moses, 11, is a sleek, medium-hair cat at our Newington location. He would appreciate a busy home with adults and kids. Moses is a great cat, and very sweet, although he is more of an explorer than a lap cat. This cat does have some special needs; ask an adoption counselor when you visit with beautiful, friendly Moses. Remember, the Connecticut Humane Society has no time limits for adoption. Inquiries for adoption should be made at the Connecticut Humane Society located at 701 Russell Road in Newington or call toll free: 1-800-452-0114. The Connecticut Humane Society is a private organization with adoption centers in Newington, Waterford and Westport. The Connecticut Humane Society is not affiliated with any other animal welfare organizations on the national, regional or local level. less

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Moses, 11, is a sleek, medium-hair cat at our Newington location. He would appreciate a busy home with adults and kids. Moses is a great cat, and very sweet, although he is more of an explorer than a lap cat. This cat does have some special needs; ask an adoption counselor when you visit with beautiful, friendly Moses. Remember, the Connecticut Humane Society has no time limits for adoption. Inquiries for adoption should be made at the Connecticut Humane Society located at 701 Russell Road in Newington or call toll free: 1-800-452-0114. The Connecticut Humane Society is a private organization with adoption centers in Newington, Waterford and Westport. The Connecticut Humane Society is not affiliated with any other animal welfare organizations on the national, regional or local level.


Q:

Changing ion-content's background color

How can I change the background color of an ion-content in ionic 2?

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In your app.scss add :
.bg-style {
    background: red;
}

and apply style to content as in your component Html file :
<ion-content class="bg-style">

A:

Go to theme/variebles.css and add
$background-ios-color: #0F0029;
$background-md-color: #0F0029;

For ios and android backgrounds


Lithuania men's national ice hockey team

The Lithuanian national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Lithuania, and a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Lithuania is currently in 26th place in the IIHF World Rankings. They have never competed in Olympic Games.

World Championship record
 1938 – Finished in 10th place
 1954–1991 – Part of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team due to Soviet occupation
 1993 – Not ranked (3rd in "Pool C" Qualification Group 1)
 1994 – Not ranked (2nd in "Pool C2" Qualification Group 1)
 1995 – Finished in 31st place (2nd in "Pool C2")
 1996 – Finished in 29th place (1st in "Pool D")
 1997 – Finished in 28th place (8th in "Pool C")
 1998 – Finished in 27th place (3rd in "Pool C")
 1999 – Finished in 27th place (3rd in "Pool C")
 2000 – Finished in 28th place (4th in "Pool C")
 2001 – Finished in 28th place (6th in Division I Group A)
 2002 – Finished in 30th place (1st in Division II Group B)
 2003 – Finished in 28th place (6th in Division I Group A)
 2004 – Finished in 29th place (1st in Division II Group B)
 2005 – Finished in 26th place (5th in Division I Group B)
 2006 – Finished in 19th place (2nd in Division I Group B)
 2007 – Finished in 26th place (5th in Division I Group B)
 2008 – Finished in 24th place (4th in Division I Group B)
 2009 – Finished in 24th place (4th in Division I Group A)
 2010 – Finished in 26th place (5th in Division I Group A)
 2011 – Finished in 25th place (5th in Division I Group B)
 2012 – Finished in 27th place (5th in Division I Group B)
 2013 – Finished in 27th place (5th in Division I Group B)
 2014 – Finished in 25th place (3rd in Division I Group B)
 2015 – Finished in 25th place (3rd in Division I Group B)
 2016 – Finished in 25th place (3rd in Division I Group B)
 2017 – Finished in 25th place (3rd in Division I Group B)
 2018 – Finished in 23rd place (1st in Division I Group B)
 2019 – Finished in 22nd place (6th in Division I Group A)

Team

Current roster
Roster for the 2019 IIHF World Championship.

Head coach: Daniel Lacroix

Notable players
 Mantas Armalis
 Darius Kasparaitis
 Dainius Zubrus

References

External links

 IIHF profile

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De Novo assembly and comparative transcriptome analyses of purple and green morphs of Apostichopus japonicus during body wall pigmentation process.
Pigmentation processes provide a traceable and relevant trait for understanding key issues in evolutionary biology such as adaptation, speciation and the maintenance of balanced polymorphisms. The sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus, which has nutritive and medical properties, is considered the most valuable commercial species in many parts of Asia. Compared with the green morph, the purple morph is rare and has great appeal to consumers. However, little is currently known about the molecular mechanism of body color formation in A. japonicus, even in echinoderm. Here, we employ illumina sequencing to examine expression patterns of the gene network underlying body wall development in purple and green morphs of A. japonicus. Overall, the number of down-regulated genes in the green morph was significantly more than in the purple morph during the pigmentation stage. We observed dynamic expression patterns of a large number of pigment, regulation and growth genes from the "Melanogenesis", "Melanoma", "Wnt signaling pathway", "Notch signaling pathway", "epithelium development", "epidermal growth factor receptor binding","growth factor activity" and "growth", including contrasting expression patterns of these genes in green and purple morph. This study provides comprehensive lists of differentially expressed genes during body wall development in the green and purple morphs, revealing potential candidate genes that may be involved in regulating body color formation and polymorphism. These data will provide valuable information for future genetic studies on sea cucumbers elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying pigmentation, and may support the culture of desirable color morphs.


According to the new royal family tell-all, Prince Charles felt he would “learn to love” Princess Diana

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Prince Charles and Princess Diana certainly didn’t have a fairy tale ending, and now, it seems they never even had a fairy tale beginning.

In her new biography, “Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life” author Sally Bedell Smith claims that Prince Charles thought he would “learn to love” Diana.

According to Bedell Smith, Charles and Diana had approximately 12 dates between the summer of 1980 and their engagement in February 1981. Prince Charles was reportedly surprised Diana immediately accepted the proposal and thought the two could learn to make it work.

“He was obviously anguished, and he said, ‘She was someone I could learn to love,’” Bedell Smith told PEOPLE. “He looked to his grandparents, which wasn’t a love match at the outset and thought, ‘If they can do it and build a good marriage then I can do it too.’”

Bedell Smith believes that Diana didn’t have time to really get to know her future husband in that time.

“I was stunned when I combed over the chronology they had only been together 12 times [before their engagement],” Bedell Smith said. “After they got engaged, he went away for six weeks. He was dutifully plunging ahead with his schedule, and she wanted him to be around and available and support her.”


Berkeley DB Reference Guide:

Locking Subsystem

Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store locking conventions

The Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store product has a simple set of conventions for locking. It
provides multiple-reader/single-writer semantics, but not per-page
locking or transaction recoverability. As such, it does its locking
entirely at the interface to the access methods.

The object it locks is the file, identified by its unique file number.
The locking matrix is not one of the two standard lock modes, instead,
we use a four-lock set, consisting of the following:

DB_LOCK_NG

not granted (always 0)

DB_LOCK_READ

read (shared)

DB_LOCK_WRITE

write (exclusive)

DB_LOCK_IWRITE

intention-to-write (shared with NG and READ, but conflicts with WRITE and IWRITE)

The IWRITE lock is used for cursors that will be used for updating
(IWRITE locks are implicitly obtained for write operations through the
Berkeley DB handles, for example, DB->put or DB->del). While
the cursor is reading, the IWRITE lock is held; but as soon as the
cursor is about to modify the database, the IWRITE is upgraded to a
WRITE lock. This upgrade blocks until all readers have exited the
database. Because only one IWRITE lock is allowed at any one time, no
two cursors can ever try to upgrade to a WRITE lock at the same time,
and therefore deadlocks are prevented, which is essential because Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store
does not include deadlock detection and recovery.

Applications that need to lock compatibly with Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store must obey the
following rules: