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Urbano Vazquez, 46, of Northeast Washington, was a parochial vicar at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Northeast, Washington D.C, reports said. He was charged with second-degree child sexual abuse with regard to an incident that happened in May 2015.
“Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Youth and Family Services Division, Physical and Sexual Abuse Branch have announced an arrest has been made in reference to a Second Degree Child Sexual Abuse offense that occurred in the 3200 block of Sacred Heart Way, Northwest,” the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
Vasquez was a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a fellowship of priests. He was not directly ordained by the Archdiocese of Washington, Washington Post reported. Some Capuchins are granted permission to work by the archdiocese in its churches. Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a large parish in Columbia Heights, was one such church.
It said Vasquez cleared a background check and accompanying requirements which is made mandatory for all employees and volunteers at the archdiocese.
“The Archdiocese of Washington takes seriously its responsibility to protect the children entrusted to its care. The Child Protection Policy of the Archdiocese of Washington mandates criminal background checks, applications and education for all employees and volunteers who work with young people,” the statement said.
The archdiocese added that Father Moises Villalta (OFM Cap.), a pastor at Sacred Heart failed to follow the appropriate protocols related to reporting allegations of abuse to authorities, and therefore he was removed. The parish’s child protection coordinator was placed on administrative leave for similar reasons.
“The Archdiocese follows a zero-tolerance policy for child protection matters, and the actions taken in this case are in line with such a policy,” It said.
Chieko Noguchi, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said in order to avoid disrupting the police investigation, the parishioners at Sacred Heart were not informed of the incident until Wednesday.
Vasquez was arrested under a D.C. superior court arrest warrant. Other details regarding his arrest were not available at the time of this report.
Lieberman's memoir comes out, as Edwards and Kerry invoke their muses. For candidates, all the world's a book.
First comes the announcement. Then the obligatory trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. And now, inevitably, there's another rite of passage on the road to the White House: Authorship.
In an attempt to show they too can be the next "great communicator," presidential hopefuls are increasingly putting pen to paper and hitting the book circuit.
While the fawning autobiography or policy book has long been a staple of candidates, today's politicians are moving beyond simple hagiography about their childhood or stands on the capital gains tax. Now they're often trying to be Tom Wolfe, recounting heroic experiences, always about their own life, of course, and still usually flattering.
Consider this week's release of "An Amazing Adventure," Sen. Joseph Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah's, account of their time on the 2000 campaign. Sen. John Edwards, for his part, is writing a memoir about his work as a trial lawyer. Sen. John Kerry has asked historian Douglas Brinkley to write a book focusing on his time in Vietnam.
Even those who have decided not to run have been showing off their literary side: Al Gore published a tome on families last month, while Senate minority leader Tom Daschle is working on one about Congress.
As part of the introductory phase of the campaign - where candidates strive to present an image of themselves that they hope will endure - strategists agree a book can be an invaluable tool. For reporters, it offers a handy reference guide; for the public, it's something to get signed at rallies; and for the candidate, it's a free form of advertising - a chance to go on talk shows and see your face displayed in bookstores across America.
But occasionally, a book can have a more serious impact on a campaign - particularly if it strikes a chord with readers. Political strategists everywhere took note of the success of Sen. John McCain's "Faith of My Fathers," a harrowing account of his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Not only did Senator McCain's memoir add fuel to his candidacy, but it also set a new bar for what a campaign book can achieve.
"If a big part of running for president is getting the American public to see your character, then a book like this could have an impact," says Mr. Brinkley, who places his upcoming book on Senator Kerry in the tradition of presidential war stories such as McCain's, or John Kennedy's account of PT-109.
For one thing, publishing a book allows a candidate to recount heroic exploits without having to do it directly in stump speeches, which might come across as bragging. Because so many people read his book, McCain "never really had to talk about being in Vietnam," says Mark Salter, the senator's chief of staff, who co-wrote "Faith of My Fathers."
In addition, candidates can use their books to try to dispel rumors that might dog them during the campaign. In the 2000 cycle, George W. Bush used his memoir, "A Charge to Keep," to address his past struggle with alcoholism, while largely refusing to discuss it in person.
OF course, few campaign books win critical acclaim, and they often find their way into remainder bins. Many tend to be safe and thus fairly bland efforts, revealing nothing that could damage a candidacy. "I've often wondered, does anybody really read these books?" says Stuart Rothenberg, a Washington political analyst. "I never want to - at least, not the whole book."
Many critics regarded Mr. Bush's book, which was ghostwritten by his longtime adviser Karen Hughes, as little more than several hundred pages of political spin. And already, Publishers Weekly has panned Senator Lieberman's new effort, calling it "a politically safe recounting of the campaign that does double duty as a preview" of the themes of a possible 2004 Lieberman run.
But observers agree that books that take some risks - and attempt to be genuinely substantive, or literary - can offer great rewards. Mr. Salter says work began on McCain's book well before the senator decided to run for president - and that otherwise, he probably "would have sat down and written a book that was an extended bio, like everybody else."
McCain's staff, he says, wasn't happy to learn that he was committed to do a book tour for three months leading up to the New Hampshire primary. But the signings drew such big crowds that the reluctance dissolved.
On the other hand, more ambitious books can have unintended consequences. During the 2000 cycle, Pat Buchanan ignited a furor over a suggestion in his book that the US should not have gotten involved in World War II. Al Gore's environmental treatise "Earth in the Balance," though published in 1992, provided some fodder for the Bush campaign, by helping to cast the vice president as a wonky tree-hugger.
Brinkley says the Kerry campaign is taking a certain risk, relinquishing all control over his account of the Massachusetts senator's time in Vietnam. He is basing the book on Kerry's war diaries as well as on interviews with more than 150 people who knew him at the time. "I think it's a smart risk," Brinkley says. But "I think they are a little nervous."
Decoder Ted Cruz book contract: Is he worth that much cash?
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Seven seasons in and fans are still going wild for The Walking Deadon AMC.
Canvs, the language analytics company, took a look at the past three weeks of social media response to AMC programming to uncover what’s been driving the most emotional response from viewers, and out of the 755,250 total Emotional Reactions (ERs) sparked on Twitter, a whopping 92.3% of them were around The Walking Dead.
The season opener, which aired on Oct. 23, garnered 577,551 ERs with many viewers expressing love (23.1% of ERs) for the series as well as talking about how crazy (22.2%) the inaugural episode was. The character Negan was a popular conversation topic, mentioned in 8.2% of all ERs, with viewers particularly surprised and turned off by his actions.
Negan is insane man. This is crazy.
The second episode of the season collected 65,746 ERs — substantially less than the premiere, but that’s usually the case with TV series, even those with a dedicated following. This time, Carol was an oft-tweeted-about character, with 15.3% of the ERs and many viewers saying she had them laughing.
The most recent episode of the fan favorite registered 53,898 ERs, with Daryl stirring up sadness in viewers, being mentioned in over 47% of all sad, upset ERs.
The zombie theme continued for AMC with its second most emotionally reacted-to show, Talking Dead, which had 7.5% of the network’s ERs for the period measured. This aftershow, hosted by Chris Hardwick, allows fans to continue the conversation following each new episode of The Walking Dead — a testament to the former’s success on the network. It allows fans to rehash what they just experienced, and many use it to vent their feelings toward the latest episode.
@AMCTalkingDead This was sooo painful to watch! Sooo Sad!!
Zombies aside, AMC’s Comic Book Men, produced by Kevin Smith, also drew some viewer reaction, with 1,307 ERs (less than 1% of the overall ERs for the network for the three weeks). Overwhelmingly viewers expressed crazy, generating 43.4% of ERs across the three episodes that aired during the measurement period.
@ComicBookMenAMC always a thrill to watch!
A new bill has been introduced in the Ohio Senate that would allow social workers to veto parents and guardians’ decisions to homeschool their children. Proponents of home schooling claim the bill is the most comprehensive threat to the freedom of teaching children at home that has ever been introduced to legislation. Supporters of the bill claim that it is aimed at ensuring the safety of children throughout the country.
The bill, Senate Bill 248, was created as a reaction to the murder of 14-year-old home school student Teddy Foltz. According to WMFJ, Teddy was tortured, beaten and killed by his mother’s boyfriend Zaryl Bush, and his mother Shain Widdersheim had allowed the abuse to continue. Both Bush and Widdersheim are serving time in prison for their actions, with Bush serving 33 years for the murder and Widdersheim serving 15 years, according to PJ Media.
Because of the incident involving Foltz, the law is more commonly referred to as “Teddy’s Law.” Supporters believe that Teddy may have been pulled out of public school because those schools are required to report any suspicion of abuse to the authorities.
Ohio State Senator Capri Cafaro, a major supporter of the bill, claimed that it aims to link the public agencies that lookout for the welfare of children with those families that choose the home school option.
“The bill creates protocols for those applying to educate a child at home by creating a link between the local public service children agency, and the education system. These policies are meant to be a check and balance to ensure that a child’s best interests are,” Cafaro said.
According to HSLDA, a prominent homeschooling advocacy group, Teddy’s Law is the “worst-ever homeschool law,” as it infringes upon the privacy of the innocent individuals that choose to homeschool their children.
Jarrett: Obama apparatchik pretends nothing is going wrong.
Washington is riven by conflict and deep-seated division. It is rare indeed that both sides can agree on anything consequential. Therefore it is incredibly heartening that there is now bipartisan agreement that the implementation of ObamaCare is a mess.
It can call it whatever it wants, but there is no hiding the embarrassment of a climbdown on a high-profile feature of President Obama’s signature initiative.
Although the administration was determined to do all it could to hide it. It was apparently planning to announce it on July 3 — only because the day before Thanksgiving (or Christmas Eve) was too far off.
The purported reason for the delay is incompetence. The administration’s story is that it simply couldn’t find a way to implement the insurance-reporting requirements on employers in the time-frame set out in the law. Merely as a side-effect, it had to put off the mandate and the $2,000 per-employee fine on employers with more than 50 employees who don’t offer health coverage.
This just happens to be the mandate that is causing howls of pain from businesses and creating perverse incentives for them to limit their hiring or to hire part-time rather than full-time employees. And it just happens that 2015 — the new target for implementation — is after a mid-term election year rather than during.
Explaining the decision, Obama apparatchik Valerie Jarrett issued a stalwart communique from Central Command that should take an honored place in the annals of blatant, unembarrassed hackery.
Her message: All is well. Nothing to see here. Yes, maybe we’ve delayed implementation of the (hilariously euphemistic) “employer responsibility payments” a k a fines, but don’t worry, it’s “full steam ahead” with the health-care exchanges this October.
Jarrett portrayed the decision as about “cutting red tape.” But if you pass a horrendously complicated law placing new burdens on employers, you aren’t cutting red tape, you are adding to it. And a delay doesn’t cut red tape — it delays it.
“As we implement this law,” Jarrett explained, “we have and will continue to make changes as needed.” But the law is supposed to be the law, not optional suggestions from Congress. In Jarrett’s view, ObamaCare is little more than warrant for the Obama administration to decide how it wants to run the American health-care system, one executive decision at a time.
It has become a trope among defenders of the law that its flaws are the fault of Republicans because they don’t want to fix them. They must have seen their own peculiar version of School House Rock: The first step in making a law is jamming a 2,000-page bill down the opposition’s throat. The second is whining that the opposition won’t fix problems inherent in the bill jammed down their throats.
The delay of the employer mandate may create political pressure to delay the more important individual mandate as well, on grounds that ordinary people shouldn’t face the fines for not buying government-mandated coverage that businesses have been spared. Certainly, the maneuver on the employer mandate is a painful concession and a signal of weakness. Now everyone can now agree: Implementation of the president’s proudest achievement is troubled, at best.
Before you get started on work or emails, prioritize your day in the morning.
Everyone loves a good life hack, especially if it's super quick to pick up.
While one minute may not seem like a lot of time to master a useful skill, you'd be surprised just how much you can actually accomplish in 60 seconds or less.
With the help of a Quora thread on the matter, we found several handy life skills you can pick up almost instantly.
User Alexander Freiherr offers a few methods for stopping a sneeze. "Squeeze your nose. Catch the part of your nose above the tip and stretch it out as if you are removing your nose out of your face. It should not be painful, but simply stretch out your cartilage, stopping the sneeze.
"Blow your nose. Use tissue and blow your nose when you feel a sneeze coming on. It should clear your sinuses of what caused the sneeze in the first place.
"Pinch your upper lip. Using your thumb and forefinger, pinch your upper lip lightly and press it upward toward your nostrils. Your thumb should head toward one nostril and your forefinger toward the other, bunching up your upper lip slightly.
"Use your tongue. Press your tongue behind your two front teeth, where the roof of your mouth meets the gum palate or alveolar ridge. Press hard with your most powerful muscles against your teeth until the tickling sensation dissipates."
Start everything with 'why?' in mind.
"Always! Not only when it comes to business plans," says user Charles Faraone. "Start with why for every decision impacting on your life, health, and happiness. Ask yourself why you're eating foods that might not be healthy for you. Why you're doing things the way you're doing them. Why you're avoiding doing what you know you should be doing. It's an amazingly simple approach with huge potential payoffs."
When printing documents, user Veijay Jain suggests simply changing the text from black to gray. This will make little difference to the quality of what you're printing, and will not only reduce the amount of ink used, but it'll also increase the printing speed. "Needless to say that by using less ink, you will be slowing down the process filling the mother earth with used cartridges, helping our earth remain greener."
Build muscle at your desk.
Press your hands together as hard as you can, says user Ashwin D. Kini. You should feel pressure in your pectoral, shoulder, and arm muscles. This kind of isometric exercise requires minimal movement, but strengthens muscles.
Save time with computer shortcuts.
To open a new Tab: .
To close any open Tab: .
To move from one Tab to another: or.
To reopen a recently closed tab: .
To find specific text in a web page: .
To increase or decrease the size of the text: Hold and press "+" or "-" respectively.
To open a link in a new tab: Hold and click the link.
Easily change text case in Word.
Highlight the text you want to change the case of and press Shift+F3, writes Suvam Behera. Doing this once will convert the highlighted text to all upper case, twice will convert the text to all lowercase, and three times will capitalize the first letter of each word.
Declutter your mind before bed.
"At the end of the day for one minute summarize your day," writes Mihalache Catalin. "What you did, what you could do but didn't because fear or laziness stopped you. Why you did everything in that day. How to improve what you do. Do this always before you sleep and you will have a good night sleep."
Never prematurely send an email again.
"When you're writing an email, fill in the addressee last," says David Spencer. "This way, you will never accidentally click and send a premature email."
According to an anonymous reader who clearly values his privacy, to make an anonymous phone call on a cell phone in the United States, dial *67, the country code you're calling — if you're calling someone in the US, that's 1 — and then dial the phone number. The call recipient will see a message like "unavailable" or "private number" on his caller ID.
Always know if you've taken your daily medication.
For medications you take twice a day, user Madhu Mita suggests flipping the bottle upside-down after you take it in the evening and flipping it right-side up after the morning dose.
For medications you take three times a day, place the bottle on the left side of you (you can do this with a bathroom sink or your desk) in the morning, in front of you at noon, and to the right of you after dinner.
"The pattern doesn't matter, as long as you're consistent: move the bottle after you take the dose, and you'll be able to look back later and see if you've taken it."
User Ashok Kumar says whenever you are not using internet on your phone through Wifi, turn your Wifi off. When out of range of a network, your phone continually polls for a network, which drains the battery.
Have a more productive day.
"In the morning, when you get to work or school, the first thing you should do is to prioritize your day," writes user David Palank. "Most people start by checking emails or phone calls. However, prioritizing is the most draining on the brain and should be done when your brain is fresh! This is the first step to productivity."
Know which side the gas tank is on without getting out of the car.
"If you look at the little gas indicator on your dashboard (instrument cluster), you should see a tiny arrow next to it," says user Bharath Raj. "That arrow actually points to the gas tank (fuel lid) side of your car. Now you'll never forget where it is again!"
Fast Interview: Second Life founder Philip Rosedale talks about how SL is open for business, the allure of virtual meetings over real ones, and why he stepped down as CEO.
Second Life, the virtual reality site, is reaching out to a new audience: businesses. SL is seeing an uptick in traffic for business meetings, conference calls and classes — and that’s welcome news for a site that has long struggled to retain users.
How much of your traffic is business and education users?