pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"Peripherals/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/09/thpgdemo.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Though we'll leave the exact placement and nature of the controller for you to figure out, Activision is insistent that the item used to beat the emTony Hawk/em skateboarding franchise out of it stale stupor won't just be any ol' empaddle/em. "You're not going to be playing this game with a controller in your hands," a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/"the company teased/a at a recent, in-game advertising summit. br /br /We've heard mumblings of a a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/02/rumor-next-tony-hawk-to-have-peripheral-not-developed-by-never/"new peripheral/a before (the new DS game already has a confirmed a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/29/tilt-controlled-tony-hawks-motion-revealed-for-ds/"tilt function/a), but are no closer to understanding just what the device is and how it works. Our highly educated guess? A giant plastic skateboard. For a skateboarding game. Is that pushing it?p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/next-tony-hawk-wont-be-played-with-a-controller-in-your-hands/"Next Tony Hawk won't be played 'with a controller in your hands'/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:55:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/12/03/activision-announces-guitar-hero-5-new-tony-hawk-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-more-at-in-game-ad-conference/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/next-tony-hawk-wont-be-played-with-a-controller-in-your-hands/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391127/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/next-tony-hawk-wont-be-played-with-a-controller-in-your-hands/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5YSU7O1j7XckVtetTFnZAFAM_Gw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/5YSU7O1j7XckVtetTFnZAFAM_Gw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=nFgifihc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=nFgifihc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=VgYdkgaP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=VgYdkgaP" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/338lQXqZf2E" height="1" width="1"/

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"In Microsoft#39;s quest to simplify the Windows 7 user interface, they#39;re actually making it harder to use. So argues Windows expert Paul Thurrott on his a target="_blank" href="http://www.winsupersite.com/"SuperSite for Windows/a blog. Thurrott, the author of Windows Vista Secrets, based his observations on pre-beta releases./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In a a target="_blank" href="http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_simple.asp"blog post dated Tuesday/a , Thurrott first explains the difference between simple and easy, using the iPhone#39;s lack of a Back button as an example. One less button, either as hardware or as a touch screen icon, makes the iPhone simpler. But if you click on a Web link in an email, examine the resulting page, then want to return to the original message, it#39;s definitely not easier./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ For#160;divergent views#160;on Microsoft#39;s new OS read quot;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/02/49FE-windows-7-great-debate_1.html?source=fssr"Flame war: The great Windows 7 debate/a.quot; And for more of Randall/b bC. Kennedy#39;s views on the pre-beta version of Windows 7, check out his arguments in quot;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/10/46TC-windows-7_1.html?source=fssr" class="regularArticleU"Windows 7 unmasked/a.quot; ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The Windows 7 user interface, according to Thurrott, abounds with similar problems. For instance, in order to simplify the taskbar, Microsoft has eliminated the Quick Launch Toolbar. If you want the convenience of launching favorite programs from the taskbar, you quot;can simply mix and match shortcuts (for applications, documents and folder locations) with buttons that represent open windows.quot; But the resulting taskbar doesn#39;t make the distinction between launchable shortcuts and running windows clear./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Other examples include difficulties with the new Jump List feature, and a default setting that hides all systray icons./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In related news, Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will distribute#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/03/Microsoft_hints_at_Windows_7_beta_for_next_month_1.html"full beta copies of Windows 7/a #160;at its a target="_blank" href="http://www.msdndevcon.com/pages/start.aspx"Microsoft Developer Conferences/a running from December 9 to February 19./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"a target="_blank" href="http://www.theindustrystandard.com/"emThe Industry Standard/em/a emis an InfoWorld affiliate./em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=106e5023bcd8bbf5f4ed9a5c230b14c8amp;p=1img style=border:0; src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=106e5023bcd8bbf5f4ed9a5c230b14c8amp;p=1 border=0 //a

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/20330?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Keane+parts+company+with+Sunderland%2C+claim+reportsch=Footballc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Sunderland+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Mike+Adamsonc7=2008_12_04c8=1128794c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Sunderlandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FSunderland" width="1" height="1" //divpSpeculation is mounting that manager Roy Keane has parted company with Sunderland. Keane is understood to have been in talks with the chairman, Niall Quinn, and other members of the Sunderland board this morning. There has been no confirmation from the Stadium of Light yet, but Keane is due to hold his pre-match press conference at 1pm for Saturday's trip to Manchester United./pp/ppSunderland sit 18th in the Premier League, having lost five of their last six games. Keane was booed after their most recent match, a 4-1 defeat to Bolton on Saturday, and admitted afterwards that he had doubts as to whether he should be in the job. "I ask myself every day if I'm the right man for Sunderland," he said. "I asked myself this morning, and I said I was. Sunday morning, if the answer's no, we'll have to look at it."/pp/ppKeane took on his first managerial role at Sunderland four games into the 2006-07 season and took them from the bottom of the Championship table to the title and promotion. Last season they finished 15th in their first year back in the Premier League, avoiding relegation by three points. They started this season brightly, climbing to sixth in September. However, despite spending nearly £70m on 33 players since his arrival at the club, Sunderland have since plummeted into the relegation zone after a dreadful run of results./pp/ppemMore details to follow/em/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/sunderland"Sunderland/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UTX6YvgaUAt4JfFgQ3nK3O4BCdE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/UTX6YvgaUAt4JfFgQ3nK3O4BCdE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

pimg src=http://www.framablog.org/public/framasoft/logo_framalang.png alt=logo_framalang.png style=display:block; margin:0 auto; title=logo_framalang.png, déc. 2008 //p pemSuite et bientôt fin des billets anticipant la très prochaine campagne de soutien./em/p pLe réseau Framasoft possède en son sein depuis octobre 2006 une équipe très précieuse dont le nom de code est emFramalang/em, merci à Harrypopof au passage pour le joli logo sous licence Art Libre. 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Wales (Wikipédia)/a emavril 2007/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2007/04/30/Stallman-le-philosophe-de-notre-generationStallman, le philosophe de notre génération ?/a emmai 2007/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2007/05/08/10-regles-dor-pour-rejoindre-communaute-logiciel-libre10 règles d'or pour rejoindre la communauté de développeurs d'un logiciel libre/a emmai 2007/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2007/05/15/Firefox-Mozilla-Mitchell-Baker-interviewFirefox : bilan et perspectives - Entretien avec la présidente de la Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker/a emmai 2007/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/01/18/Faire-un-don-Wikipedia-et-soutenir-la-culture-libre-utopistePourquoi faire un don à Wikipédia ? (et soutenir la culture libre et ses utopies)/a emjanvier 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/01/20/Open-Document-Format-ODF-vs-OpenXML-OOXMLGuerre contre l'Empire - épisode 37 - formats ouverts - ODF vs OOXML/a emjanvier 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/01/22/Ce-qui-caracterise-un-utilisateur-de-logiciels-libresCe qui caractérise les utilisateurs de logiciels libres/a emjanvier 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/02/01/EeePC-linux-logiciels-libresComment l'Eee PC m’a montré que j'avais tort à propos de Linux/a emfévrier 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/04/05/democratisation-logiciel-libre-risque-rendez-vous-manquePour que la démocratisation du logiciel libre ne soit pas un rendez-vous manqué/a emavril 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/05/14/startup-et-association-a-but-non-lucratifLa startup à but non lucratif est-elle un oxymore ?/a emmai 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/06/06/une-nouvelle-vague-de-liberteLorsque vous démarrez votre ordinateur vous vous engagez politiquement/a emjuin 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/06/12/amarok-magnatunePlus qu'une simple histoire d'argent/a emjuin 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/06/25/stallman-torvalds-brown-zemlin-et-microsoftStallman, Torvalds, Brown et Zemlin : mais que pensent-ils donc de Microsoft ?/a emjuin 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/06/27/temoignage-developpeur-de-logiciel-libreIl était une fois un développeur de logiciel libre/a emjuin 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/10/21/femmes-et-logiciels-libresLes femmes et le logiciel libre/a emoctobre 2008/em/li lia href=http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/11/06/la-fabuleuse-histoire-d-une-piece-de-5-eurosLa fabuleuse histoire d'une pièce de 5 euros/a emnovembre 2008/em/li /ul h4Le sous-titrage/h4 pUn sous-groupe Framalang est spécialement concentré sur le sous-titrage de vidéo. 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Nous avons récemment été conviés à la conférence de presse de Madagascar 2 où ce fut l'occasion de rencontrer un nombre conséquent de doubleurs de luxe. Ben Stiller et Chris Ro[...]

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/33509?ns=guardianpageName=Education%3A+Faith+schools+urged+to+end+selection+on+basis+of+religionch=Educationc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Faith+schools%2CSecondary+schools%2CPrimary+schools%2CSchools%2CReligion+%28News%29%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CSchools+Educationc6=Donald+MacLeodc7=2008_12_04c8=1128668c9=articlec10=GUc11=Educationc12=Faith+schoolsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEducation%2FFaith+schools" width="1" height="1" //divpFaith schools should stop selecting pupils on the basis of their religious background in order to promote social cohesion, the Runnymede Trust, a charity set up to promote a multi-ethnic Britan, said today. /ppA report, Right to Divide? Faith Schools and Community Cohesion, examines how faith schools operate and is based on consultations with more than 1,000 people over the last two years./ppThe trust's proposals, launched at a conference attended by the education minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry, will reopen the fierce arguments provoked by the government's failed attempts two years ago to impose quotas of pupils from other religions on faith schools. /ppAlan Johnson, then education secretary, was forced to back down after strong protests from the Catholic and Anglican churches in favour of a voluntary code. br / br /The Runnymede Trust has identified six key recommendations, which the report's authors say will clarify the role of faith schools within England's education system./ppIt argues that the schools should end selection on the basis of faith, as they should be "for the benefit of all in society rather than just some"./ppIt says: "If faith schools are convinced of their relevance for society, that should apply equally for all children./pp"With state funding comes an obligation to be relevant and open to all citizens."/ppThe report calls for pupils to be given a greater say in how they are educated, and claims there is little discussion about children's voices in the faith schools debate./ppIt says faith schools should address concerns that they educate a disproportionately small number of children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds./ppAnd it argues that faith schools should value all young people, regardless of religion, while religion should be more highly valued in non-denominational schools. /ppThe report also says religious education should be a part of the core national curriculum./ppIt concludes that faith schools "should remain a significant and important part of our education system, offering diversity in the schooling system as a means of improving standards, offering choice to parents, and developing effective responses to local, national and global challenges in education."/ppFigures put forward in the report show that there are more than 4,600 Church of England primary and secondary schools in England, over 2,000 Roman Catholic schools, 26 Methodist primary schools, 88 schools of other Christian denominations, 27 Jewish schools, seven Muslim schools, two Sikh schools, and two of other denominations./ppThere are more than 11,100 state primary schools of no religious character, and 2,756 secondary schools./ppThe Accord coalition, which argues faith schools should not be able to discriminate against pupils or staff on grounds of religion, welcomed the report./ppAccord chairman, Rabbi Jonathan Romain, said: "We are witnessing a major change in attitude towards faith schools: previously flavour of the month, they are now being seriously questioned - both in the way they operate and whether they serve the public good. /pp"It is a debate that is long overdue and may save much heartache later."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/faithschools"Faith schools/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/secondaryschools"Secondary schools/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/primaryschools"Primary schools/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/schools"Schools/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/religion"Religion/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nMcGeWus2yd03JNwzsSFvuYQ8As/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/nMcGeWus2yd03JNwzsSFvuYQ8As/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer has spoken out on his role in the passage of Proposition 8 in the aftermath of the ensuing protests, asking, "What is the way forward for all of us together? Even though we supporters of Proposition 8 did not intend to hurt or offend our opponents, still many of them, especially in the gay community, feel hurt and offended. What is to be done?"

Niederauer, who is credited with bringing in the Mormon church and the massive finances of its donors, urged people to tone down the rhetoric: "Tolerance, respect, and trust are always two-way streets, and tolerance respect and trust often do not include agreement, or even approval. We need to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. We need to stop talking as if we are experts on the real motives of people with whom we have never even spoken. We need to stop hurling names like 'bigot' and 'pervert' at each other. And we need to stop it now."

The SF Chronicle reports:

"During the campaign, Niederauer issued statements, sent flyers and gave a videotaped interview posted at www.marriagematterstokids.org. But Niederauer's most prominent action was drawing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members responded with intensive grassroots organizing and an estimated $20 million in campaign contributions from individuals that accounted for half of the Yes on 8 campaign's total. Niederauer noted that many other Christian denominations supported Prop. 8, including evangelical Protestant, Orthodox and historically African American churches. The Mormon church has said Niederauer, previously the bishop of Salt Lake City for 11 years, played a pivotal role in its joining the cause. 'We were invited to join the coalition,' Michael Otterson, managing director of public affairs for the church, told The Chronicle in an interview shortly after the election. 'We didn't unilaterally go into the battle.' Otterson said Niederauer's letter persuaded the Mormon church that they wouldn't be fighting this battle alone, a status that would have made them vulnerable."

Niederauer wants everyone to accept the procreation argument for the family and the "marriage" label, and wants gays to accept "a contract for the benefit of a relationship between adults" but not call it marriage.

He forgives "single parents, grandparents, foster parents and others" who "fail to realize" the ideal procreative one man-one woman model but doesn't deny them his permission to marry, because they are heterosexual.

Basically, Niederauer wants gays and lesbians (many of whom do procreate through surrogates, etc, I might add) to accept our status as second-class citizens and move on.

Read his full message, entitled "Moving Forward Together," AFTER THE JUMP...

S.F. archbishop defends role in Prop. 8 passage [sf chronicle]

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SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP NIEDERAUER - "MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER"

“Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” In the weeks since the adoption of this amendment the media have carried many speculations about the role of the Catholic bishops in California, and about my role in particular, in the passage of this proposition. It is my wish to clarify here what was done and why it was done, and offer some thoughts about the way forward amid so many misunderstandings and hard feelings.

Five years before my appointment as Archbishop of San Francisco, in the year 2000, Proposition 22 was placed on the California ballot. This statute, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman, passed with 61% of the vote. On May 15th of this year, the California State Supreme Court declared that statute unconstitutional and legalized same-sex marriage in California. Around the same time, Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment qualified for the ballot.

The Catholic bishops of California, organized as the California Catholic Conference, and speaking through their office of public policy in Sacramento, endorsed Proposition 8 and urged Catholics, and organizations of lay Catholics, to work for its passage, by means of grass roots activity and contributions from their resources. We bishops also endorsed Proposition 4, regarding parental notification of a minor child’s intended abortion (defeated at the polls) and we opposed Proposition 6, a “tough on crime” initiative inconsistent with the principles of restorative justice (defeated).

The Archdiocese of San Francisco did not donate or transfer any Archdiocesan funds to the campaign in favor of Proposition 8. As far as I know, that is also true of other Catholic dioceses in California. The Archdiocese did pay, and appropriately disclose, printing and distribution of flyers to parishes.

Last May the staff of the Conference office informed me that leaders and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) had given their support to the campaign for Proposition 22 in the year 2000, and were already considering an involvement in connection with Proposition 8. Accordingly, I was asked to contact leaders of the LDS Church whom I had come to know during my eleven years as Bishop of Salt Lake City, to ask them to cooperate again, in this election cycle. I did write to them and they urged the members of their Church, especially those in California, to become involved.

It is important to point out here that a wide range of churches became active in favor of Proposition 8: in addition to Catholics and LDS members, evangelical Protestant churches and churches with many African-American members joined the effort, and, among the Orthodox churches, the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of San Francisco and three other Orthodox bishops signed and published a joint statement in favor of Proposition 8.

That is what was done. Why was it done? Some voices in the wider community declare that there could be only one motive: hatred, prejudice and bigotry against gays, along with a determination to discriminate against them and deny them their civil rights. That is not so. The churches that worked in favor of Proposition 8 did so because of their belief that the traditional understanding and definition of marriage is in need of defense and support, and not in need of being re-designed or re-configured.

Some of our opponents respond with this question: Even if these churches saw the California State Supreme Court decision in May as damaging to the institution of marriage as they understood and valued it, shouldn’t they have kept quiet and stayed on the sidelines? Some would say that, in light of the separation of church and state, churches should remain silent about any political matter. However, religious leaders in America have the constitutional right to speak out on issues of public policy. Catholic bishops, specifically, also have a responsibility to teach the faith, and our beliefs about marriage and family are part of this faith.

Indeed, to insist that citizens be silent about their religious beliefs when they are participating in the public square is to go against the constant American political tradition. Such a gag order would have silenced many abolitionists in the nineteenth century and many civil rights advocates in the twentieth. Quite a number of important political issues regularly touch upon the ethical, moral, and religious convictions of citizens: immigration policy, the death penalty, torture of prisoners, abortion, euthanasia, and the right to health care are some such issues.

Members of churches who supported Proposition 8 sincerely believe that defining marriage as only between a man and a woman is one such issue. They see marriage and the family as the basic building blocks of human society, existing before government and not created by it. Marriage is for us the ideal relationship between a man and woman, in which, through their unique sexual complementarity, the spouses offer themselves to God as co-creators of new human persons, a father and mother giving them life and enabling them to thrive in the family setting.

Are there many instances in which this ideal fails to be realized? Of course there are. Single parents, grandparents, foster parents and others deserve praise and support for their courage, sacrifice and devotion in raising the children for whom they are responsible. Still, the proponents of Proposition 8 subscribe to a definition of marriage that recognizes and protects its potential to create and nurture new human life, not merely a contract for the benefit of a relationship between adults.

Whatever others may say, the proponents of Proposition 8 supported it as a defense of the traditional understanding and definition of marriage, not as an attack on any group, or as an attempt to deprive others of their civil rights. The fact remains that, under California law, after the passage of Proposition 8, same sex couples who register as domestic partners will continue to have “the same rights, protections and benefits” as married couples. Proposition 8 simply recognizes that there is a difference between traditional marriage and a same sex partnership.

What is the way forward for all of us together? Even though we supporters of Proposition 8 did not intend to hurt or offend our opponents, still many of them, especially in the gay community, feel hurt and offended. What is to be done?

Tolerance, respect, and trust are always two-way streets, and tolerance respect and trust often do not include agreement, or even approval. We need to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. We need to stop talking as if we are experts on the real motives of people with whom we have never even spoken. We need to stop hurling names like “bigot” and “pervert” at each other. And we need to stop it now.

For our part, we churchgoers need to speak and act out of the truth that all people are God’s children and are unconditionally loved by God. While we argue among ourselves, the people who need our help with hunger, unemployment, homelessness and other problems wait for us to turn together toward them. More particularly, we Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco need to minister to the needs of all Catholics in this local Church. Whoever they are, and whatever their circumstances, their spiritual and pastoral rights should be respected, together with their membership in the Church. In that spirit, with God’s grace and much prayer, perhaps we can all move forward together.

***END OF STATEMENT***

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!-- pageType= magazinesmall slug= ff_blodget section= techbiz subsection= people headline= Financial Industry Scapegoat Reinvents Himself as Financial Reporter authorName= Daniel Roth creditType= photo credit= Mike McGregor caption= Henry Blodgetis back, and his straight-talking analysis of the Web world is earning him new fans. -- pstrongHenry Blodget/strong has never gotten used to the chorus of hate that follows his every move. He's merely learned to live with it. When he started his personal blog in 2005, the comments a href="http://www.internetoutsider.com/2005/10/welcomeand_than.html"dripped with disgust/a. "You are a boldface liar," a reader wrote. "Give me one reason why I should believe what you are writing," said another. And that was just in response to Blodget's innocuous first entry. /ppDuring his years as a star Wall Street analyst, his pronouncements were welcomed and celebrated; now he couldn't say hello without getting savaged. Just last August, TechCrunch mentioned that Blodget would be one of more than two dozen tech celebrities a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/4-new-experts-henry-blodget-josh-kopelman-tim-o%E2%80%99reilly-robert-scoble-join-techcrunch50/"judging a contest/a for startups. Blodget knew what was coming, even if his hosts didn't. "Blodget is scum.... He is no longer the arrogant prick we saw in the '90s, but he's still scum," someone wrote. "A lot of people lost money listening to this dirtbag." "Blodget is a Web 1.0, bubble-creating has-been." "He is unethical." "He's as crooked as they come."/p pI meet a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/henry_blodget.html"Blodget/a at the offices of his new business, a year-old site called a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/"Silicon Alley Insider/a, shortly after the TechCrunch beat-down. Alley Insider is one of many tech business blogs that feed news, earnings info, and rumors to investors and corporate insiders. But Alley Insider has one thing that others don't. Blodget. He's smart, he's skeptical, and he's got the kind of self-assured voice that sells well in the blogosphere. As the market sinks, his opinions are even more in demand, though he's still hated by a large portion of his prospective audience./p pThe site shares two floors of a Manhattan office building with programmers and business staff for some of Alley Insider's sister companies, all of which were started by former DoubleClick CEO a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/kevin_ryan"Kevin Ryan/a. Blodget works in a double-wide cubicle near a window, separated by a low wall from the site's two other editors. They spend their days crawling Twitter and RSS feeds, calling sources, and pumping out about a dozen daily takes on the business world, most with Digg-friendly headlines (no easy accomplishment with bone-dry business stories). "Is Facebook Distracting Us From Porn? No" is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/is-facebook-distracting-us-from-porn-no"typical/a, or "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/googles_ginormous_food_budget_7530_per_googler"Google's Ginormous Food Budget/a: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million a Year." Blodget tells his team to think of the site as talk radio: He wants readers to feel compelled to check in several times a day to get the Alley Insider view on everything going on in their world./p pFor privacy, we duck into a small conference room, and Blodget, tall and skinny, sinks into a ridiculously deep leather chair. His floppy dirty-blond hair gives him a youthful, almost carefree air, but the deep circles that ring his eyes tell a different story. He's managing a 24-hour news startup. It's midday and he's been posting since 5 am. And then there's the burden that comes with being Henry Blodget, digital punching bag./p p"There are obviously a lot of folks who say, 'Now wait a minute, isn't that the guy who....'" He lets the thought trail off. He's legally barred from talking about the incidents that led to his vilification. "To them, I'm emthat/em Henry Blodget. There's not much more I can say. I still can't address specific points. So it's like, 'OK, here's my face. Throw the fruit. When you want to stop throwing the fruit, if you want to listen, great. If you don't, fine.'"/p pIt's been almost a decade since the impulse to greet him with rotten mangos first struck. Back in 1998, as a 32-year-old analyst with investment bank CIBC, he a href="http://www.thestreet.com/markets/analystrankings/977502.html"declared/a that the stock price of Amazon.com would nearly double to $400. Three weeks later it did, and Blodget was a hero. Soon he packed up his spreadsheets mdash; he's never more comfortable than when he is lining up numbers in rows and columns and teasing out their secrets mdash; and moved to Merrill Lynch./p pInvestors followed the new oracle's every utterance, and bankers wanted Blodget to bless the stocks of companies they were hoping to do business with. The lines on his graphs always seemed to point one way mdash; steeply up and to the right. He wasn't just predicting profits, he was selling a revolution: The old metrics didn't apply. Blodget may have counseled people to own only a small percentage of Internet stocks mdash; 10 percent at the most mdash; but nobody listened./p !-- pagebreak -- div id="embed" style="width:370px;" div id="pic" style="width:350px;" img style="width:350px;" src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_blodget3_f.jpg" alt=""/ div id="caption" Launched in 2007, Silicon Alley Insider is gaining on some of its established rivals. br/ emSource: Compete/em /div /div /div pThen came the crash. Five trillion dollars in wealth vaporized in 24 months, leaving behind unquantifiable amounts of rage among the masses of day traders who had believed briefly that they, too, were market savants. When the bubble burst, so did Blodget's aura./p pStill, it wasn't the crash alone that crushed him. It took Eliot Spitzer to turn Henry Blodget into emthat/em Henry Blodget. Spitzer, then New York's crusading attorney general, investigated Merrill in 2001 for conflicts of interest. He discovered a clutch of emails from the young analyst showing that while talking up certain stocks to clients, he was trashing them internally. Companies like 24/7 Media, Excite@Home, and InfoSpace mdash; firms Merrill was publicly cheering mdash; in private were deemed by Blodget to be "shit," "crap," and "junk" (respectively). According to Spitzer's findings, Blodget would have pulled in $12 million in 2001 mdash; quadruple his earnings in 1999 mdash; if he hadn't accepted a buyout that year. In 2003, Merrill's boy genius agreed to pay a $4 million fine and accepted a lifetime ban from working in the securities industry./p pPublic disgrace usually drives a person into hiding, or at least into a different career. Jerry Levin, the brains behind the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger, today runs a href="http://moonviewsanctuary.com/staff"Moonview Sanctuary/a, his wife's spa; Spitzer, forced to resign as governor last summer, is currently discovering the a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2008/06/10/spitzers-next-act-distressed-real-estate/"joys of real estate management/a; Health South CEO Richard Scrushy, while on trial for accounting fraud, a href="http://www.richardmscrushy.com/biography.aspx"became a televangelist/a. Not Blodget./p pOne former colleague says Blodget spent the months when he was being investigated trying to grasp why he was singled out for something that was commonplace in the industry. He figured the controversy would blow over once the public realized his conduct was not unusual. "He was incredulous that the investigation got traction; he said it was silly," a friend says. But there was too much anger in the wake of the bubble, and Blodget's embarrassing emails made him an easy scapegoat. Later, when he was inclined to argue his case, the settlement terms prevented it./p pSo Blodget did what came naturally. He began writing about the companies he used to cover, a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2104656/"first for Slate/a, then on his own blog, a href="http://www.internetoutsider.com/"Internet Outsider/a. Was this journalism mdash; or was it therapy? Rather than hide, he started saying in public what he had once said only in private, using the same brutally frank voice that got him in trouble with Spitzer. He marketed his notoriety to a new Web readership hungry for smart, independent analysis./p pWhen Ryan, an Internet Outsider reader, approached him about starting an industry news site, Blodget jumped at the prospect of a bigger stage. Before working on Wall Street, he'd been a freelance writer; now he could combine the two vocations, borrowing freely from both journalism and equity research./p pThrough Alley Insider, Blodget is trying to erase, post by post, Spitzer's portrait of him as a duplicitous, money-grubbing shill for big business. Blodget has always believed that the Internet changed everything, so naturally he believes it has the power to change the world's perception of him. The venue offers all Henry, all the time (and even when his other writers are posting, it's clear they're channeling him). The result is a unique blend of x-ray analysis and tech evangelism./p pAs we talk, Blodget gets up from his chair, antsy to return to his laptop. I ask him if he understands what he's up against. If the hate has lasted this long, why expect it ever to fade away? 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