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Nothing but grace
Wake up! For you God was made man! "Arise, you who sleep, and rise from the dead, and Christ shall enlighten you" (Eph 5:14). For you, I say, God was made man. You would have been dead for eternity if he had not been born in time. You would never have been freed from sinful flesh if he had not taken on the likeness of sinful flesh (see Rm 8:3). Endless misery [miseria] would have possessed you if this mercy [misericordia] had not been accomplished. You would not have come back to life if he had not taken on your death. You would have faded away if he had not healed you. You would have perished if he had not come. ....
What greater grace of God could shine upon us than this: that, having an only Son, God should make Him a son of man and that in turn He should make a son of man a son of God. Look for some merit; look for a reason; look for the justice: and see whether you find anything but grace. (St. Augustine, Sermon 185, 1 and 3; PL 38, 998, 999)
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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rather routine
And Merry Christmas to you, too!
I wish we had live recordings of Augustine. How was his voice rising and falling with those phrases?
Fr. O'Leary, when a man is tired of Augustine, he is tired of life.
Fr. Komonchak, thanks for the beautiful quotation. Merry Christmas!
"rather routine" ??
Humbug, Joseph O'Leary!
I think you may need an attitude adjustment. It's Christmas, a time for good will to all.
I am not tired of Augustine, I just think the passage quoted is not Augustine at his best.
Just because Augustine was a genius does not mean we go "ooh" and "aah" after every paragraph of his vast oeuvre (the vastest in antiquity), particularly in the oral sermons taken down by a tachygraphy\ -- that is a way to dilute and bury Augustine's greatness.
Helen: "you may need an attitude adjustment" -- sounds like soft American totalitarianism...
On this holy day, it is forbidden to say anything that is not laudatory and enthusiastic. Falling a little short of that, I will only remark that if this passage had not been ascribed to Augustine, we probably would not be reading it, because it might never have been transmitted. I hope the first copy was not a palimpsest of a lost play of Sophocles.
Peace on earth!
Today we heard the beginning of John's gospel. For that reading alone it was worth going to the Mass of the day rather than last night. How I love going to Mass! Afterwards the world seems brighter, and then how can I not like a text that says that for us God was made man. How lucky we are!
(Idle curiosity: this "you", "you", "you", is it "me", "me", "me", or is it "us", "us", "us"? Is it singular or plural?)
I don't have Augustine's text, but it's singular in Eph. 5:14.
All those "you's" are in the singular in Augustine's text, and so are the imperatives in the second paragraph.
Maybe the problem the grinches see is the wooden translation. Don't blame Augustine.
jAK -- How are those short translations of Augustine that we want you to publish coming along?
Merry Christmas to all!
Yes, yes, Mr. Augustine, we're damnable sinners. We get that, okay? But we've just made it through Advent, and this is Christmas day. So give over for twenty-four hours, if you can, telling us what wretches we are. Relax, have a little plum pudding and half a measure of pure joy, just for today. Tomorrow will be soon enough to resume the sackcloth and guilt.
And are you so sure that's it all about us? Maybe God so loved the world that he would have flooded into it even if it had been mostly squirrels and buttercups (who would probably have treated him better, by the way). This obsession with human beings seems too narrow a view and, if I may say so, predisposes us to the very sinfulness you charge us with. Look up! The beasts of the field are praising him today.
—Grinchus parum invidiosus
An article at ThinkingFaith on that bit of John's gospel - "In the beginning ..." http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20131223_2.htm
Augustine could write and too often he proved he was the wretch he claimed to be. He seduces us with "Fecisti nos ad te Domine.." etc., (you have made us for yourself O God)and misleads us with "force them to come In." and it is sinful to take pleasure in making love to one's spouse. So let me correct Augustine and rephrase his prayer:
O Donatists, my brothers the Lord is with you. Far be it from me to presume God will not save you if you do not subject yoursel to my church. What got into me that I petitioned Roman Generals to give all your churches to me and bishops who agree with me. O Pelagians how can I presume God is not with you. The power that you see in wo/man, I am sure you believe comes from God. I rather offer you my love. Not the Centurion's sword. I have to remind myself that Jesus commanded that we accept a person of peace and not demand a doctrinal consent. And Julian, my brother bishop, I understand that sometimes my Manachean past comes back to bite me. Let us get together, pray and learn from one another. I should be washing your feet not promoting your exile.
Peace, brothers let us not fight over the money of the wealthy and work night and day to spreak the Good News and Peace to all.
Augustine is both the greatest Christian theologian (after Aquinas, I feel bound to add, alas) and the father of the worst errors of Christianity. His crusade against the Donatists led him countenancing their torture. He is the father of the Inquisition. His sublime message of sola gratia was twinned with the monstrous doctrine of predestination that prevailed in the churches until recently. His vision of original sin inflicted a deep wound on the Western mind, particularly in his focalization of the Fall on human sexuality (he tells us over and over again that the first symptom of the Fall was Adam's inablity to control his erection). If Augustine had given a Christmas sermon along the lines of what Bill suggests, the entire history of Christianity would have been so much brighter.
What's next--Augustine/Petilian slash fiction?
Actually, that might be kind of hot...
I have no desire to defend the indefensible. But I would like to see textual references for some of the indictments offered here. Meanwhile, consider this:
In the year 2000 Peter Brown published a new edition of his classic biography of St. Augustine. He left his original text as it appeared in 1967 but added an eighty-page Epilogue in which he took account of new evidence (recently discovered letters and sermons) and new directions in Augustinian studies. In the meanwhile, Brown himself had published a book entitled Body and Society which was in good part devoted to discussing sexuality in early Christianity. This made him realize how little attention he had given to this theme in his biography of Augustine. One of the rediscovered sermons, on marriage, "confirmed," Brown now writes, "my impression that the pace of his [Augustine's] thought on sexuality was set by firm if courteous disagreement with other Christians and upholders of radical ascetic ideals, most notably with Jerome." He continues:
We must never read Augustine as if he were contemporary with ourselves. He was the contemporary of Jerome, who spoke of marriage as a tangled thornbush, good only to produce, in the firorm of children dedicated at an early age to the ascetic life, the "roses" of new virgins; of Gregory of Nyssa, whose gentle tone makes us forget the fact that he regarded sexuality with supreme loack of interest, as no more than an "animal" appendage to humankind's original "angelic nature; and of Ambrose, who, when faced by married candidates to the episcopate, expected his readers to agree without question that voluptas, sensuality alone, had driven Adam from Paradise. Seen against that background, Augustine's preaching and written works represent, if anything, a call to moderation. He wished for a greater recognition of the physical, sexual components of human nature, and was prepared to defend their legitimate expression (if in a disciplined manner) in marriage.
What I came to realize was that the very vehemence of Augustine's later defence of his views on sexuality and original sin, against Julian of Eclanum, was the direct result of that moderation. ... He had come envision, in a manner far more consequential than many of his Christian contemporaries, Adam and Eve as fully sexual beings, capable of intercourse in the Garden of Eden–a glorious intercourse, unriven by conflicting desires, without the shadow of sin upon it. ... For a man like Gregory of Nyssa, Adam and Eve had been "angelic" beings. Their sexuality had lain totally dormant in the depths of a Paradise,Garden of Eden, whose blazing glory admitted no comparison with the present, "animal" condition of humankind. Reading such works, I realized that Augustine had made yet another of his "long inner journeys." ... Sexuality had been created as a great good. Catholic Christians should acknowledge this fact and should be prepared to imagine what the intercourse of Adam and Eve in Paradise might have been like if they had not fallen. Such intercourse would have been an act of solemn delight, where two fully physical bodies followed the stirrings of their souls, "all in a wondrous pitch of perfect peace." It was only Adam's purely mental act of pride, followed by disobedience to God, that destroyed for ever a potential joyful harmony of body and soul. Sex was tragic for Augustine because it could have been so very different. ... For Augustine, the present worldwas always overshadowed by a great sadness. Married couples should walk, regretfully, through the recognizable ruins of a once perfect sexuality devastated by Adam's pride. ...
All this Brown takes from Augustine's writings on marriage and sexuality. When it came to preaching about it to married couples, he says, Augustine "was economical and deliberately banal. They should be careful. Ideally, they should not have sex except to conceive children," as stated in their Roman-law marriage contracts. "If they went "beyond the lines" of their contract, and had sex on other, forbidden occasions, they had reason to blush, but not to feel unduly gulty. Compared with the truly serious crimes of adultery and marital infidelity, this was the smallest of sins. It was a manifestation of human frailty, regularly atoned for by saying the Forgive us our trespasses in the Lord's Prayer and by giving alms to the beggars crouched around the portals of the church." Brown concludes:
On the issue of sexuality, we should be very careful not to "demonize" Augustine. To speak of him as the "evil genius of Europe," and to lay at his door alone the ills associated with the handling of sex in Christian circles up to our own time, is to take an easy way out–as if by abandoning Augustine we have freed ourselves, by magic, from a malaise whose tangled roots lie deep in our own history. We have made our own bed over long centuries. Augustine did not make it for us. Denunciations of Augustine usually misrepresent him and, in any case, they get us no further in the serious, slow task of remaking that bed. It is, indeed, an act of egregious cultural narcissism to believe that all our present discontents can be glimpsed in the distant mirror of one man's thought. Unlike theologians, historians, alas, must be burdened with a sense of the immensity of time and space. Aware of the slow and complex evolution of moral ideas over the centuries, and of the variety which these forms took on being set to work in regions and in socieities of which Augustine could not have dreamed, historians should have no part in so facile a Schuldfrage–so facile an exercise in blame-pinning.
"historians should have no part in so facile a Schuldfrage–so facile an exercise in blame-pinning."
A handy word, that facile.
Thank you for that wonderful excerpt from St. A., which I didn't discover until today (the 26th) the Christmas rush being what it is (by the way, the Germans have a wonderful word -- Weihnachtsrummel -- for all the fussing and fuming we tend to get caught up in this time of year, which has nothing essential to do with Christmas).
Thank you for that wonderful excerpt from St. A., which I didn't discover until today (the 26th) the Christmas rush being what it is (by the way, the Germans have a wonderful word -- Weihnachtsrummel -- for all the fussing and fuming we tend to get caught up in this time of year, which has nothing essential to do with Christmas).
Fr. O'Leary—
I'm generally partial to "curmudgeonliness," which is why I like reading your comments, but equating being told you could benefit from an attitude adjustment (which is quite gentle phrasing for us Philadelphians) with totalitarianism, soft or otherwise, strikes the wrong note. What I, unlike you and some others commenting here, found apropos about this particular piece is the emphasis on Grace as Gift. What message can be less routine, or more joyous, than that, especially on Christmas day!
This obsession with human beings seems too narrow a view
The "obsession" hardly belongs to Augustine, see for example: "For us men (and women) and for our salvation he came down from heaven". The idea that the focus on humanity is "too narrrow" is a very contemporary viewpoint, at least in the West. Is it because in modern life animals tend to be viewed as pets, and the farmer-nature ecology is forgotten? Or because, now that there are almost too many humans and the world is almost too small for our numbers, humans are viewed as less valuable and nature viewed as more valuable?
Many of our viewpoints are very contemporary, some still working themselves out at this moment. Much of the change involves widening the circle of those who are thought worthy of being included in God's love and our own care. Our care is bound to be limited, but God's love of us need suffer no decrease in extending to other creatures.
Those who believe in God the Creator generally believe that he created all, and that everything that came from him was good, however spoiled it may have later become. It seems like vanity to believe that in the vastness and splendor of time and space, all that really matters to him, all that he wishes to preserve, is the human race. But I suppose that if mildew could write the history of the world, mildew would be the centerpiece of it.
But I suppose that if mildew could write the history of the world, mildew would be the centerpiece of it.
It's not nothing that mildew can't.
In the quotation quoted from him, Brown is saying that all should not be pinned on Augustine. Correct. Augustine had a lot of company as far sexual distortions go. While it is laudable that he modified Jerome it is difficult to accept that as an excuse. With reference to violence against Christians who keeps Augustine company? The point with Augustine is his prodigious influence on the West. There is no one with more prestige. Because of that he has to be regarded critically. Too many take his work as gospel and that is the problem. "With the bonus comes the onus." Because of Augustine countless Christians have countenanced violence against "heretics." Even today.
No doubt theologians owe a lot to Augustine. He saved many of them from thinking. More of them should think more critically.
I don't really get why Augustine evokes such animus, because even while his influence is certainly outsize, compared to a lot of the church fathers (a proto-nazi like Ambrose, or a power broker like Cyril), he's Judege freaking Reinhold. Take what you can get.
(Granted, "nothing but grace" just makes me think of that Larry Bird/Michael Jordan McDonalds commercial).
It seems like vanity to believe that in the vastness and splendor of time and space, all that really matters to him, all that he wishes to preserve, is the human race.
I wouldn't word it quite that way, but okay.
I could tell you that Tradition tells us that, but it's not enough of an argument. I could tell you that the central place of humanity in the world is "obvious", but it's not an argument.
I think that Mark's answer is pretty good, actually.
Yes, we are central and dominant just now and have been for the last tiny slice of time's extent. And great knowledge and beauty have arisen from or through us. Maybe we are some sort of culmination. But everything that is alive today is the latest sprouting of life's tree and has its own special beauty, as did all lineages that have not survived.
One distinction we certainly have: we are uniquely perilous, having the ability and possibly even the will, more than any other creatures, to bring the whole house down upon our heads and theirs. That would establish our centrality forever, but no one will write the history of it.
Maybe God has intervened by his act of incarnation not only to save us but also to save the rest of his creation from us, as a master might retake control from a faltering steward.
It savors of whataboutery to bring in Jerome, regarded even in his own time as a crank though a great biblical scholar. I have no animus against Augustine, whom I deeply admire (De Trinitate, Confessiones and De Spiritu et Littera would head my list). But nonetheless Augustine, because of his stupendous influence, has cast a long shadow on our civilization. Ambrose was a proto-inquisitor (how can one not wince when one reads the protocol of his interrogation of two Arian bishops?) and the first clericalist, but Ambrose's influence is nothing beside Augustine's. Gregory of Nyssa was a married man, so his lack of interest in sex may be simply his acceptance of it -- I wonder if his commentary on the Song of Songs would shed light here. His influence in the Latin West was practically nil, and the same goes for Cyril of Alexandria, That Augustine tolerated torture of the Donatists is stated in W. H. C. Frend, The Donatist Church, the classical work on the subject.
One can blame Theodosius for the radically intolerant turn taken by Christianity, but it was backed by the leading churchmen. In fact it is hard to find a great theologian from that time on who did not justify executing heretics (Aquinas) or directly order or approve of individual killings (Calvin, Melanchthon, Thomas More).
But, of course, Peter Brown is notorious for his "whataboutery." Perhaps Augustine shouldn't have tried to defend the good of sexuality and of marriage, and just left it to Jerome and Gregory to shape subsequent Christian thought on the matters.
Augustine indeed defends the three goods of marriage, fides, proles, sacramentum, but he did not draw sufficiently on his anti Manichean ontology to counter the poisoning of sex as such. I applied the three goods of marriage to gay couples first in 1984 http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/06/the_flesh_and_t.html The good and great Augustine must be saved from the creepy apostle whose manicheanism returned to poison the world. Gregory of Nyssa shows no such morose attitudes to sex.
Maybe God has intervened by his act of incarnation not only to save us but also to save the rest of his creation from us, as a master might retake control from a faltering steward.
Indeed, what will people in the future have to build on if people in the present leave them in heritage a world damaged beyond repair? Unfortunately I do not see what the incarnation and the church have accomplished so far to protect the Creation.
I made a mistake in that article by coming up with the triad fides proles remedium concupiscentiae instead of fides proles sacramentum; in reality remedium concupiscentiae is a side effect of fides -- it means that the fidelityof the couple enables them to make their sexuality into an expression of love, not concupisence: http://www.cormacburke.or.ke/node/932
Brown is possibly reaction to Elaine Pagels's boook Adam, Eve and the Serpent which quotes horrendous utterances from St Jerome and then goes on to Augustine -- I think she'd agree with Brown that Augustine is of a much higher and more reflective order of discourse.
Pagels' name does not appear in the endnotes for these pages of Brown's Epilogue. In endnote 69, in illustration of what he calls "widespread modern notions on the subject," he refers to U. Ranke-Heinemann, Eunuchs for Heaven: the Catholic Church and Sexualiy, whose pages on Augustine Brown says are "a travesty of the thought and practice of Augustine."
The next endnote singles out an article by D. G. Hunter, "Augustine's Pessimism? A New Look at Augustine's Teaching on Sex, Marriage and Celibacy," Augustinian Studies 25 (1994) 153-77. Hunter is also the author of the entry on "Marriage" in the encyclopedia Augustine through the Ages, pp. 535-37. A lecture on the topic by Hunter is available online at: http://www.jknirp.com/aug3.htm
I do not see what the incarnation and the church have accomplished so far to protect the Creation.
God working in his usual unhurried way? If it took 13.6 billion (± 100 million) years from "let there be light" to "let us make humans in our image and likeness," maybe he still has the whole project in hand. It's only been a couple of thousand years. I grant you he's not getting a lot of help from us.
"The good and great Augustine must be saved from the creepy apostle whose manicheanism returned to poison the world"
Please cite the basis for these remarks. This is biased and without basis. So now you place Augustine over Paul. Where did this come from? The back to Jesus, counter Paul, movement. Paul is throughly consistent with Jesus. On the question of women the text was clearly tampered with. You have to re-look at the meaning of "flesh" in the writings of Paul The fact is without Paul (I'm sure God would have found another) there is no Christianity. Paul is the real deal. Augustine and the rest of should serve so well.
I am not referring to Paul. I confer the title "aposte" on Augustine in the broadest sense.
Though my previous bishop once remarked to me that "your friend St Augustine" was responsible for a lot of sex-connected grief, and then he added: "and even St Paul"....
I Cor 11 might be interpolated and the dour antI-feminist (and anti-Cretan) passages in the Pastorals are post-Pauline, and yes, as my link above insists, the "flesh" in Paul does not refer to sex. Nonetheless his ranting against sex and especially against gays is something that needs to be overcome and purged. Even the non-Pauline material is part of the Holy Scripture and it is not by accident that it is appended to Paul.
I once dared to ask a real-life Cretan what he thought of the Epistle to Titus and its declaration that all Cretans are liars and rogues, and he answered: "St Paul talked a good deal of nonsense." I think that that is a healthy Christian response to scriptural authorian bullying.
Shouldn't his beef be with Epimenides?
Paul did not write the Epistle to Titus, right. Secondly, this is so unlike Paul. I don't see Paul as a bully at all.
Sure we all "know" Paul did not write Titus (at least according to most exegetes; but see JND Kelly, and see Jerome Murphy-O'Connor on the authenticity of 2 Timothy); but my Cretan acquaintance was not aware of this. I approve him for resisting a bullying text, independent of who wrote it. The text cites Epimenides or whoever and then adds in its own authoritarian voice "this testimony is true!" The Church and Scripture never err without involving God up to the hilt (Numbers 34, 1 Samuel 15 etc.). Paul himself is a very big bully in Romans 1, as all gays know, and also in I Thess as all Jews know. We have a huge backlog of authoritarian error to deal with. The awful realization that Auschwitz was brewed up in the ghettos of the Papal States is something that radically alters our attitude to past cocksureness. I stood today in the first ghetto of all, the Venetian one, divided into three (Vecchio, Nova, Novissima); even the Novissima has very high buildings and very dark and narrow streets -- that atmosphere of imprisonment -- . But it was touching that Jewish boys still play there with their kippah caps.
Now there's a wild claim: "Auschwitz was brewed up in the ghettos of the Papal States"!
Cum nimis absurdum much, Father K?
Paul IV, Carafa, one of the very worst popes and one of the most influential, edicted in 1555 that since the Jews were punished by God with eternal slavery he would follow the noble example of the Venitians and ensure they were safely locked up in ghettos. The DistinctiveSign was one of the most sinister aspects of the persecution of Jews, since it exposed them to danger, and it was one of the aspects carefully imitated by Mr Hitler. Hans Kung has written abundantly and indignantly on this, bless his heart.
If there is any truth in Arendt's notorious claims about the Jews going meekly to their slaughter, shepherded by their community leaders (topic of a recent tendentious movie), then it was perhaps the centuries of discipline imposed on the Jews in the ghettos that facilitated this. Standing in the Ur-Ghetto in Venice one feels the terror of history: the deep dark gullies in which Jews lived, herded up together in cramped space and locked up at night , speak of segregration, discrimination, refusal to recognize the full humanity of Jews -- all of which brewed up something still more monstrously evil.
It is no defense of ghettoes to point out that a ghetto is not an extermination-camp, and I do not think that the one should be elided into the other.
I thought it was a very nice Christmas message that started this thread.
Beginning of Cum nimis absurdum: (Good fodder for triumphal Catholics.)
Laws and ordinances to be followed by Jews living in the Holy See [decreed by the] Bishop [of Rome, the Pope] Paul, servant of the servants of God, for future recollection.
Since it is completely senseless and inappropriate to be in a situation where Christian piety allows the Jews (whose guilt—all of their own doing—has condemned them to eternal slavery) access to our society and even to live among us; indeed, they are without gratitude to Christians, as, instead of thanks for gracious treatment, they return invective, and among themselves, instead of the slavery, which they deserve, they manage to claim superiority: we, who recently learned that these very Jews have insolently invaded Rome from a number of the Papal States, territories and domains, to the extent that not only have they mingled with Christians (even when close to their churches) and wearing no identifying garments, but to dwell in homes, indeed, even in the more noble [dwellings] of the states, territories and domains in which they lingered, conducting business from their houses and in the streets and dealing in real estate; they even have nurses and housemaids and other Christians as hired servants. And they would dare to perpetrate a wide variety of other dishonorable things, contemptuous of the [very] name Christian. Considering that the Church of Rome tolerates these very Jews (evidence of the true Christian faith) and to this end [we declare]: that they, won over by the piety and kindness of the See, should at long last recognize their erroneous ways, and should lose no time in seeing the true light of the catholic faith, and thus to agree that while they persist in their errors, realizing that they are slaves because of their deeds, whereas Christians have been freed through our Lord God Jesus Christ, and that it is unwarranted for it to appear that the sons of free women serve the sons of maids
I don't think it can be seriously maintained any longer that the ghetto system, whether in Venice of Rome, Warsaw or Cracow, was one of the historical roots of Auschwitz. It is not a matter of identify or eliding but of tracing historical causalities. The modern tragedy that has scarred the conscience of humankind began back then.
Correction: was NOT one of the historical roots
I don't think it can be seriously maintained any longer...
On the contrary, I can seriously maintain it.
Fr. O'Leary: Your latest claim is: "I don't think it can be seriously maintained any longer that the ghetto system, whether in Venice of Rome, Warsaw or Cracow, was [not] one of the historical roots of Auschwitz."
Your earlier claim, to which I objected, was: "Auschwitz was brewed up in the ghettos of the Papal States."
These are not the same claim.
Abe and Bill: Does "Cum nimis absurdum" propose building and operating gas chambers? If so, you haven't sent us the quote.
To repeat: A ghetto is not an extermination camp, and to suggest that they are equivalent is to demean the horror of the extermination camps and to excuse oneself from the labor of trying to understand what happened that the Nazis went from one to the other.
To be aware of the difference between a ghetto and an extermination camp, read Milosz' great poem Campo dei Fiori about th burning of the Warsaw ghetto. There's plenty of guilt to go around.
And the hatred fomented/legislated for centuries was not satiated by the shoah, as we see today in Belgium, Hungary, etc. and on Catholic blogs.
Deacon Sciolino's book, published yesterday on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, is dedicated to the 1.5 million children murdered in the Holocaust.
The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences : How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism
(The picture on the cover is chilling.)
From the Anthony J. Sciolino page:
Anthony J. Sciolino is a retired Monroe County (New York) Family Court judge, a former member of the Rochester City Council, a graduate of Columbia College and Cornell Law School. He is also an ordained Roman Catholic permanent deacon, with a master's degree in theology from St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry.
Judge and his wife Gloria live in the Rochester New York suburb of Pittsford, where in addition to serving in jail ministry, he continues to work as an instructor in an interfaith adult study program entitled, "The Two Thousand Year Road to the Holocaust: An Interfaith Project of the Greater Rochester Community." They are the parents of an adult daughter, Kate.
His book has been awarded a 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award - A Silver Medal in World History.
(A year ago yesterday.)
I suggest that Pius IV and the millions of Catholics who swallowed his Kook-Aid was obviously one of the causal factors leading to Auschwitz (and I do not consider Mark Proska's denial of this to be the fruit of serious reflection). Fr Komonchak agrees, but quarrels with the expression "brewed up". I hope we are not into Duck Dynasty land here, with claims that just as blacks were happy in slavery playing their banjos so Jews enjoyed the ghetto servitude under the Church's benign protection.
OK, Fr Komonchak, instead of "brewed up" let's say "spawned" or "fueled".
"Rage will kindle at the poet's word" (Milosz), but the rage was felt by many decent people over the centuries, and the church turned a deaf ear to them.
Although the Venetian treatment of Jews can be described as a persecution, they fled to Venice from worse place, such as the Papal States. I admire Paolo Sarpi (the "great unmasked of the Trentine council", Milton) for the efficacity and attention with which he ensured that university degreees could be secured by Jews without having to beg papal recognition and that Jewish children forcibly baptized would not be taken away from their parents (a loathsome practice personally enacted by Pius IX who used to hide his little Jewish adoptee under his papal cloak). The Venetians pretended they could find no evidence that such children had been baptized. They were also very clever at being unable to find evidence of heresy, and when it happened that a heretic was condemned, the Doge would somehow forget to sign the required document. Resistance to all that was wrong with the Church of the Inquisition and its antisemitism was unfortunately a rarity in the Catholic world.
Since this is the thread about Christmas, let me insert a tradition I only just learned about: when coming back from midnight Mass on Christmas night my grandfather, like the other farmers in his area, would go to the stable and gave the cattle an extra feeding, in the middle of the night, as a Christmas present. Even the cattle celebrated Christmas!
Some moderator should edit or delete Abe's comment Dec 29 8:51pm. It is not ok.
Abe --
Did you lose close family in the Holocaust?
Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
Fr. O'Leary—
While it would have been fair of you to challenge me to make my case, imputing the weakest possible interpretation to an opposing view betrays a lack of confidence in one's own view. I have denied nothing; I have disagreed with you. I believe you make the same mistake in advancing the idea that the ghetto is responsible for the Holocaust. I can concede that, since the Fall, every bad thing man does has unimaginably bad consequences as it ripples through the fabric of the human condition. (How's that for serious reflection?) So, in some cosmological sense, the Bull Abe cited plays a role, especially since it related to the Jews. But you seem so intent on blaming the "institutional" Church wherever possible, your comments lose their punch. I would suggest taking closer aim before you fire—scatter shot is not convincing, and aids the Evil One as it diverts our attention away from where and how he does his best work.
Claire, once again, is correct. The editors of Commonweal have been put to the test.
Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.
Fr. O'Leary—
While it would have been fair of you to challenge me to make my case, imputing the weakest possible interpretation to an opposing view betrays a lack of confidence in one's own view. I have denied nothing; I have disagreed with you. I believe you make the same mistake in advancing the idea that the ghetto is responsible for the Holocaust. I can concede that, since the Fall, every bad thing man does has unimaginably bad consequences as it ripples through the fabric of the human condition. (How's that for serious reflection?) So, in some cosmological sense, the Bull Abe cited plays a role, especially since it related to the Jews. But you seem so intent on blaming the "institutional" Church wherever possible, your comments lose their punch. I would suggest taking closer aim before you fire—scatter shot is not convincing, and aids the Evil One as it diverts our attention away from where and how he does his best work.
Claire, once again, is correct. The editors of Commonweal have been put to the test.
Sorry, got one of those "you are inhuman" messages and my comment was double posted (not that it's not worth reading twice).
Why am I reminded of the IRA's mantra, "of course we regard every death as a tragedy, and no doubt in our armed struggle mistakes were made"...? The Bull is only the tip of an iceberg, and it made that iceberg bigger and more enduring. Would antisemitism have attained such proportions without 2000 years of our teaching of contempt? Of course not. And Paul IV just gives his usual blunt, dogmatic, and nasty expression to that theological contempt, which translated immediately into persecution. Oh, we so regret such wickedness, it's the fault of fallen nature, etc etc. Not so at all -- we are dealing with a clearly identifiable MAJOR causal factor that cannot be whisked away. History is not a sort of dark room where no rules of cause and effect apply, or only the sort of rules that would apply in a buzzing chaos of erring particles. Your attempt to reduce the issue to a case of universal evil confirms that you have not reflected seriously on it.
Now I am one who "blames the institutional church on every occasion" whereas I am portrayed elsewhere on this site as a clericalist toady who defends the institution on every occasion. Again this is exactly the sort of tactic followed by Sinn Fein terrorist sympathizers. Any criticism becomes a symptom to being a "West Briton"!
So now Abe Rosenzwig had "put the editors of Commonweal to the test"? By expressing his perfectly justified outrage? I have heard enough Catholics, even an archbishop, sneering about "angry Jews" and "Catholic masochists" who bend over backwards to apologize to them to regard your comment with extreme disfavor.
Agree, Joseph O'Leary.
Claire, it's always interesting to see what you consider "ok".
Gerelyn, it's an ad hominem if I ever saw one.
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Fr. O'Leary—
A teacher once told me to be wary of arguments made with words like "clearly," "of course" and, most especially, words so small in effect that they needed to be capitalized to be heard at all. He termed it "proof by intimidation," and believed it to be evidence of someone lacking confidence in the rightness of their viewt.
I am sorry to hear you regard one of my comments with extreme disfavor. Nevertheless, I believe that to treat any person, or any group of people, as unworthy of correction is to treat them as sub-human. We do them no favor to pass by on the other side of the road.
I suppose you would equally object if I said that the theory of evolution is clearly correct, or that slavery was clearly bad, or that of course JFK was assassinated? This dancing around pins is trollism.
We cannot talk enough about the official church's treatment of the Jews. Thank God we have made tremendous progress since Vatican II. But there is no question that much remains to be done to increase awareness of what Christians have done, before, during and after the Holocaust. We cannot at all condone the past (or present treatment). Yet Vatican II gave us a lot to build on in the future.
You could defend your "argument" if better if you listed the books on the history of antisemitism or of Christian anti-Judaism, which morphed into antisemitism, that you have read, with some comment on your assessment of said books.
I agree Bill, having been nauseated by antisemitic gibberish spewing from Catholic mouths, and by the complacency of so many who want to think the whold issue is past history and fully resolved.
Nostra Aetate par. 4 is a rare conciliar text in that it quotes no preceding magisterial documents but goes right back to Romans 9-11 in search of the right things to say about Judaism. There are some fine follow up documents from the Vatican, which are not as well known as they should be and not much used in Catholic preaching.
Here is a resume of Nostra Aetate 4 by Dermot Lane:
· that 'in God's plan of salvation, the beginning of her [the Church's] faith and election is to be found in the patriarchs, Moses and the prophets';
· that 'the apostles, pillars on which the Church stands, are of Jewish descent, as are many of those early disciples who proclaimed the Gospel of Christ to the world';
· that the Jews remain very dear to God since 'God does not take back the gifts he bestowed or the choice he made';
· that mutual knowledge and esteem should be promoted through biblical and theological studies and fraternal discussions;
· that 'neither all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with crimes committed during his passion';
· that 'the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture';
· that the Church 'deplores all hatreds, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism levelled at any time or from any source against the Jews.'
At any time or from any source refers also to the Catholic persecution of Jews.
The Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews issued Guidelines and Suggestions for implementing the Conciliar Declaration 'Nostra Aetate' (n.4) in 1974, Notes on the correct way to present the Jews and Judaism in preaching and catechesis in 1985, and We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah in 1998. The Pontifical Biblical Commission contributed The Jewish People and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible in 2001. Papal gestures such as John Paul II's visits to the Synagogues in Mainz (1980) and Rome (1986), and his placing of a prayer for forgiveness at the Western Wall in 2000, have underscored the message of these documents. There have been ongoing biblical and theological conversations between Jews and Catholics as recommended by the Council, resulting in statements such as 'Dabru Emet' (2002) from the Jewish side, and the Christian response 'A Sacred Obligation' (2002).
But all of this is very, very little.
The Church's attempts to appease the SSPX were strange. The most superficial examination of the various websites of their schools and churches revealed stuff that no normal person, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, atheist, etc. would want anything to do with. (Neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, Holocaust denial, etc., etc., etc.)
Where does that effort stand now, under Francis?
And something occurred to me that I hadn't thought of before. I wonder if one of the underlying reasons for the investigation of American nuns was their early (1960s) recognition of the anti-semitism so prevalent in the Catholic Church. There are members of the hierarchy old enough to remember and resent the dissertations, etc., written by nuns examining anti-semitic references in textbooks, etc.
See, e.g., The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s, by Amy L. Hoehlinger, Harvard University Press, 2007. (Notice the sign carried by the first nun in the line on the cover.)
I suppose you would equally object if I said that…slavery was clearly bad,…
But, Father, that's the point now, isn't it? You would never feel the need to say that "slavery was clearly bad" precisely because it's clear that it is.
Not at all clear to Cardinal Avery Dulles, who would probably use the same troll antics if I used "clearly" in an argument with him.
On a substantive point, the article (book chapter) by Dermot A. Lane, republished in December's Japan Mission Journal, takes the story of Jewish-Christian Dialogue up to Benedict XVI, who figures in it as a regressive figure, reversing John Paul II's rejection of a Christian mission to Jews. I want him to continue with Francis, who has a book long dialogue with a Jewish rabbi.


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Four private screening rooms want to compete with your sightseeing plans this Oscar season
IT COULD HAVE been a library, a gift shop or a billiards room. But when Starwood Hotels set out to design the new W Hotel in London's Leicester Square, the chain chose to devote 900 square feet of prime ground-floor real estate to a screening room.
Private cinemas have flourished as a premium amenity at luxury properties from Beijing to New York. London, in particular, is teeming with theaters secreted away in hotels, from the W's compact 39-seat offering to the sumptuous media room at 45 Park Lane, which comes with a private dining menu designed by Wolfgang Puck.
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Although these viewing rooms are primarily intended for private hire by both individuals and corporations, some hotels have begun using them to host their own screening events, typically open to hotel guests as well as the general public. With the Academy Awards season upon us, here are some hotels where you can buff up on Oscar winners from the past—or watch one of this year's nominees in a style worthy of its own gleaming statue.
—Elizabeth Gunnison
Cinema Paradiso:
Carlisle Bay, Antigua
This Caribbean resort's screening room shows recent releases and classics year-round on Friday and Saturday evenings. Hotel guests and locals can sink into one of 45 Italian-designed, midnight-blue leather seats and feast on refreshments inspired by the film at hand, such as homemade truffles and aged rum served with the movie "Chocolat." In a month-long walk-up to the Academy Awards, the hotel has been screening films featuring nominees in the best actress, best actor and best director categories. The Oscar-night party will include a live airing of the awards. Screenings free and open to all; campbellgrayhotels.com
Film Fest Favorite:
TriBeCa Grand Hotel, New York
Though a favorite venue for film premieres, this 100-seat theater also hosts programming that's open to all comers free of charge. The Sunday lineups begin with daytime screenings for children, followed by an evening program targeting adults. Offerings range from cult television shows like "True Blood" and "Mad Men" to feature films such as "La Dolce Vita" and "North by Northwest." The hotel provides homemade buttered popcorn and snugly blankets. The cinema is in the middle of a month-long festival of Best Picture winners from previous years and will air the awards live on Feb. 24. Screenings free and open to all; tribecagrand.com
Living-Room Theater:
The Public, Chicago
This walnut-paneled screening room seats up to 40 and is filled with sofas and silk cushions. Most Wednesday evenings, the hotel screens a classic or new release. Foods and beverages that play off the feature's theme are available for purchase from the hotel's in-house Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant, the Pump Room. This month, the room is hosting screenings of feature films up for Academy Awards. Screenings free and open to all; publichotels.com
Weekend Clubhouse:
The Soho Hotel, London
One of boutique hotel brand Firmdale's four properties featuring screening rooms, the Soho Hotel is the only one that boasts two theaters. Both the 100- and 45-seat rooms feature Poltrona Frau leather armchairs; some of the seats in the smaller cinema are upholstered in a cowhide motif. The Sunday Film Club meets on Sundays; afternoon tea or a three-course lunch or dinner at the hotel restaurant Refuel is followed by a current release. Upcoming offerings include Oscar nominees "Life of Pi" and "Les Misérables." Screenings open to all; $54 covers the movie and meal; firmdalehotels.com

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Unfortunately, there appears to be no way to create a favicon via the gui elements of iWeb. However, you are able to pretty simply add the html to the published version of your site.
I recommend following this guide from All About iWeb. It walks you through how to first create the favicon using one of a variety of free online tools and then informs you where it needs be stored in your site's structure as well as the necessary html you need to add to your pages.
Can you define what you mean by a "personal icon"?
Are you referring to the image shown next to the URL in the address bar? That's called a favicon.
Or do you mean an image on the web page itself that represents you/your site, such as the apple on the left-hand side of the menubar at the top of
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Is there any Halacha or Minhag that specifies if red or White wine should be used for the four cups of wine during the Passover seder and does it matter what you use to spill out during the 10 plagues?
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Not only is it a Minhag those who say Yotzros on Shabbos Hagadol say it in there יין כי יתאדם למצוה הוא מקדם Translates as "Wine that is Red for the Mitzvah ahead" Not only that the Rambam sas you are not Yotzeh using white wine for kiddush( we do not Poskin like that) and the Mishnah Berurah adds Pesach there is another reason to remind us of the of the blood of the Jewish children Pharoh used to Bathe in.
Dittos to YS. The reason that many Ashkenazim stopped using red wine for the seder is because of the blood libels, but today (unless you live in an Arabic country) this is not a concern and therefore it is preferable to use red wine for the four cups at the seder.


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NICHD funding of a study of congenital heart defects has been renewed for five years
LITTLE ROCK, AR (May 2, 2012) - The Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) has received a Notice of Award for the competitive renewal of their research project, "Genomic and Epigenomic Factors Associated with Non-Syndromic Congenital Heart Defects," a project focused on determining the causes of congenital heart defects.
This renewal will allow for another five years of funding provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), representing 15 years of consecutive funding for this project led by Charlotte Hobbs, MD, PhD. The total five-year award is projected at $6,219,162.
"Every year in the United States about 40,000 babies are born with congenital heart defects which may result in multiple surgical procedures, prolonged hospitalizations and early death," Hobbs said "For most of these cases, environmental and lifestyle factors interact with genetic and epigenetic phenomena to cause malformations in the developing heart. We understand the challenges and complexity of our task, but we are confident that our multi-institutional team will successfully complete our research objectives. Our hope is that through our studies and those of scientists across the world, we will someday be able to prevent many heart defects by first identifying and then modifying underlying causes. By applying some of the most technologically advanced tools and approaches, funding from the NICHD will allow us to continue our search for causes. Our ultimate goal is to optimize the chances that all babies are born healthy."
This funding will allow the ACHRI to conduct a genetic epidemiology five-year project that will involve genotyping of over 10,000 DNA samples and identifying epigenetic profiles of over 500 maternal and infant dyads to identify risk factors for obstructive heart defects. The knowledge that will be generated as a result will bring greater understanding of the complex etiology of congenital heart defects and will provide a foundation for public health and clinical prevention programs.
Dr. Hobbs will lead a team of investigators and consultants from the faculty of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Stanford University, University of California in San Fransisco, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Columbia University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Hobbs is a professor and chief of the Birth Defects Research Section in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics.
For more information on this project, contact the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute at 501-364-7373.
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children from birth to age 21. The campus is celebrating 100 years of providing Care, Love and Hope in 2012. Over the past century, ACH has grown to span 29 city blocks and house 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. For more information, visit www.archildrens.org.
UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute, the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Translational Research Institute. Named best Little Rock metropolitan area hospital by U.S. News & World Report, it is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has more than 2,800 students and 775 medical residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including about 1,000 physicians and other professionals who provide care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS' Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or
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An Illinois State Police Meth Response Team (MRT) seized a meth lab Thursday, Nov. 8 in Benton. The lab was discovered during an investigation by the Southern Illinois Drug Task Force and the MRT.
Over 1,500 grams of a substance testing positive for methamphetamine and numerous chemicals and items used in the manufacture of methamphetamine was seized.
Adam Wasik, 30, and Michael Moulton, 37, both of Benton, were arrested for aggravated participation in methamphetamine manufacturing. Moulton, who has two small children, was also charged with child endangerment.
Both subjects are housed at the Franklin County Jail. The Franklin County Sheriff's Department and West City Police Department participated in the seizure.
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7 Mind-Blowing Structures Built in Secret
Humans build incredible things. Chances are good that you passed something on your way to work this morning that would make our ancestors accuse someone of witchcraft. But we never stop to wonder what awe-inspiring creation someone could be producing right under our noses, because why would anyone build something impressive and keep it a secret? Plenty of (usually insane) reasons, it turns out.
The next time you look out your window, you might be totally unaware that you're staring right at something like ...
#7. Dr. Dyar's Catacombs
In September of 1924, a truck was driving in Washington, D.C., when its tires sank into the ground. On closer inspection, workers found that they had discovered the entrance to an intricate series of tunnels, with 6-foot ceilings and walls painstakingly lined with white enameled brick, an expensive building material at the time. For days, newspapers had a field day speculating who had built this mysterious underground labyrinth. Was it World War I spies? Confederate soldiers? Mad scientists?
"The Morlocks want us to keep the noise down."
Dr. Harrison G. Dyar, entomologist and mosquito expert at the Smithsonian Institution, let the speculation continue for a few days -- presumably while wringing his hands and laughing maniacally -- before stepping forward to admit that he had single-handedly constructed the catacombs. The first indication that he was telling the truth, and not just some crazy bug expert, was that the tunnels originated from the backyard of his former residence. But the idea that it was the handiwork of just one guy seemed impossible. The tunnels extended hundreds of feet in length and reached depths of up to 32 feet below the surface. Not only had Dyar done it all by his lonesome, but he'd also kept the project secret, starting work on the tunnels in 1906 and continuing until he moved away from the house in 1916, removing every bit of the dirt himself. In buckets.
"You think the garbage man will suspect anything if I leave this out on the curb?"
Once people got their heads around the fact that one guy had really done this all by himself, the search must have been on for all the dead people he'd dug the tunnels to store. When the tunnels came up clean for dead bodies, officials were forced to accept the fact that they were dealing with the most monumentally bored person on the planet (quite a feat at that time).
"I did it for exercise," he said. "Digging tunnels after work is my hobby. There's nothing really mysterious about it."
"You'd be surprised how much time you can find for digging when women won't talk to you."
His digging habit didn't end at his former residence, either: At his new home on what is Independence Avenue today, Dyar constructed a second series of tunnels, this time featuring concrete walls, stone stairways and electric lighting, and reaching depths of up to 24 feet.
And that's where he stuck all the bodies.
#6. The Chrysler Building's Secret Spire
In early 20th century New York City, size most definitely mattered. Corporations built towering skyscrapers for promotional value and to increase name recognition. And while claims of dick-measuring contests are overused, the phallic implications were pretty straightforward here: America's wealthiest companies were competing to be the island of Manhattan's biggest dick.
A title held at that time by the Woolworth Building, an impressive example of neo-gothic penisness.
In 1929, two corporate behemoths began chubbing up in an effort to become the tallest building on the island. In one corner was the Chrysler Building, a shining beacon of hope for America's unstoppable automotive industry, and in the other was the building that today is 40 Wall Street, sponsored by the Bank of Manhattan Trust. William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building project, went through several revisions before arriving at a final design with a projected height of 807 feet. Just one month after announcing the final design, Van Alen learned that his former partner, the sinisterly named H. Craig Severance, had been commissioned to develop a building at 40 Wall Street with specific instructions to build something "taller than that Chrysler bullshit." (Citation needed)
"We'll see who can aim the biggest middle finger at God."
Both parties began designing and redesigning their buildings in a mad flurry of competitive architecture that would undoubtedly be difficult to make exciting were this story ever adapted to film. As construction on the buildings neared completion, they both looked like they would be coming in at exactly 840 feet. That's when Severance decided to show them boys up at Chrysler who wanted this thing more, scrambling the designs they'd been using all along to squeeze another three stories and 87 feet into the Bank of Manhattan Trust building, publicly claiming the title of the world's tallest building. But as he and the boys whooped about town having "World's Tallest Building" mugs and T-shirts made, Van Alen was up to something. Something secret. And tall.
And a lot more pointy.
Van Alen had a 185-foot spire secretly constructed in huge ventilation shafts that were built in order to vent smoke in case of a fire. On October 23, 1929 -- after Severance's project had reached its full height and could get no taller -- Van Alen had his giant steel middle finger hoisted to the top of the Chrysler Building, surpassing 40 Wall Street as the tallest building in the world and the Eiffel Tower as the tallest structure.
"That's right, I'm wearing a huge spire on my head
because fuck you, H. Craig Severance."
This touched off intense debate over whether or not it counted. Critics immediately ripped into the spire as nothing more than an embarrassing gimmick. However, many architectural minds praised the overall integrity of the building, with or without a spire. The next year, everyone unanimously agreed that nobody gave a shit anymore, as a new, even taller building designed as a dock for zeppelins stole the Chrysler's spire-shaped crown.
The insults continued, with the Bank of America tower repeating
the same dirty trick in 2007 and pushing the Chrysler into third.
Of course, it wasn't all a loss for the Chrysler, which was recently rated by architects as the most admired building in Manhattan. The Bank of Manhattan Trust building has changed hands many times since its very foundation was extended upward as part of an ultimately pointless publicity stunt, and today it is appropriately known as the Trump Tower.
#5. New York City's First Subway
In the 1860s, New York City's streets were an unpleasant place to be. Crime and overcrowding were making it increasingly apparent that an alternate method of public transportation was needed.
Alfred Ely Beach, publisher of Scientific American, became one of the first people to look for the solution underground. While this seems like a foregone conclusion these days, turning the inhabitants of the biggest city in the world into burrowing creatures probably seemed like a pretty crazy idea at the time. And it only got crazier when he revealed how the first subway would work: The Beach Pneumatic Transit used the same principles as those suction tubes you've probably used at your bank's drive-through, and that Callahan Auto Parts used to transport interoffice mail in the movie Tommy Boy.
Also coincidentally the home of the first steampunk face lift.
Beach's planned prototype for the system consisted of a single 312-foot-long tunnel 8 feet in diameter that would run down the length of Broadway from Warren Street to Murray Street. The tube-shaped subway cars would be controlled by a 48-ton fan that would push up to 22 passengers at a time between the two destinations, presumably with a satisfying "FWOOMP!" sound when arriving at and departing from the station.
If we're not mistaken, that guy on the left is about to be a mustache stain on the side of the tunnel.
But Beach had one major obstacle: legendarily corrupt politician William "Boss" Tweed. Since Tweed had a vested interest in keeping the aboveground streetcar companies in business and kicking money back to him, Beach knew that any proposals for developing an alternate underground system would be quickly shot down. So he instead applied for and received a permit to install pneumatic postal tubes below Broadway.
Using the postal permit as a cover, Beach put up $350,000 of his own money to fund the construction of his subway prototype. The construction was done mainly at night, in secret, and took only 58 days to construct. Once complete, the luxurious station featured frescoes, easy chairs, ornate statues and a goldfish pond to entertain passengers as they waited to ride.
This is the design of someone completely out of touch with human nature on public transport.
Oh, and did we mention that all this was built below Broadway right in front of City Hall?
"What? I had to build the postal tube big enough for my balls to fit through."
Beach's gamble seemed like it might pay off when the prototype opened to great public enthusiasm, right up until you remember that he'd spent the previous months orchestrating a covert Boss Tweed ball-stomping parade. Beach either thought he could change Tweed's mind, or merely didn't give a shit, but whichever it was, he was wrong. The project quickly died, and with it our childhood dreams of being shot through a tube like a giant blow dart.
#4. Boeing Plant 2
In the early 1940s, Boeing Plant 2 was one of the largest, most important buildings in the world. It was responsible for producing many of the warplanes the Allies used to win World War II, which is how Boeing Plant 2 came to be known as "the building that won World War II." Also because factories were apparently last in line when it came time to pick snappy nicknames.
"'Nazi Asswhoop Cannery.' 'Death From Above Hatchery.' Really any of these would have worked, guys."
But for such a crucial factory, it sure didn't look very threatening.
The biggest building in this picture appears to be a trout farm.
Of course that was by design.
The problem with depending on one giant building to win a world war is that your enemy can drop bombs on it from as high as they want without having to worry too much about stuff like aiming and being remotely sober.
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"Pilot to bombardier ... could you bring up some more Jagermeister?"
At the height of the war, the asswhup cannery had ramped up production to as many as 12 B-17 Flying Fortresses a day. Its size of 1,776,000 square feet and location in Washington state meant that it would be the first place Japanese bombers would visit if they ever decided to fuck with American soil again.
Of course, they'd have to find the damn thing first. In a decision that surely elicited a medley of harrumphing among military brass, Boeing turned to John S. Detlie, a Hollywood set designer and art director, to use his movie magic to make the very large, very obvious building less of both of those things.
He later went on to disguise Pearl Harbor as an Oscar-winning film.
It cost a fortune at $1 million (estimated at $15 million in today's money), but when he was done Detlie had made America's most vulnerable target disappear under an entirely fake, 12-square-block neighborhood draped over the roof of the plant. What from the air appeared to be a normal suburban neighborhood -- complete with houses, streets, trees and even hills -- up close was an enormous Hollywood movie set constructed from plywood, chicken wire, burlap and a whole shitload of paint. The camouflage was so detailed that the fake roads had street signs marking them, with names like Burlap Boulevard and Synthetic Street.
"I told you Marie, Bullshit Avenue is another block down from us."
The set was dismantled after the war, and the materials used to build it were offered to Boeing employees for little to no cost. So today there are real homes that were built using bits and pieces of the fake ones that once served to hide the building that won the war. It also means that, for one fleeting moment in this one instance, Hollywood was as important as it thinks it is.


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Inventory Management for Enternal Nutrition
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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Storage Conditions
Unopened cans of tube feeding can be stored at room temperature in a clean and dry area. Opened cans should be covered and placed in the refrigerator. If not used within 24 hours, they should be thrown away. All other supplies should be kept in a clean dry area. Powdered protein cans should be stored at room temperature. After they are mixed in water, they should be refrigerated and used within 24 hours.
Please keep all of your infusion related supplies away from children and pets.
A Patient Care Representative will help you manage your supplies and coordinate your deliveries. This person will ask you to count your supplies on a regular basis. Your Patient Care Representative will periodically call to find out your supply count and to tell you when the next delivery of supplies will be made. If you have only one or two days of supplies remaining, please call your Patient Care Representative.
Frequency of Delivery
All supplies will be delivered on a monthly basis unless otherwise requested.
You will need the following supplies:
- liquid formula
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- bags
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- dressings (gauze pads)
- an IV pole (if you need one)
The pump and IV pole (if you have one) will be picked up by Penn HomeIT. All other supplies are given under a doctor's prescription and cannot legally be returned.
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I've been trying to figure out if this is a new "feature" or if there is an issue with my configuration. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop with Postfix as MTA. My smtp (as opposed to smtpd) configuration follows that outlined in Jeremy's excellent response here:
I am able to successfully relay mail through [smtp.gmail.com]:587; however, on the receiving end, the from: address shows: "[my_gmail_username]@gmail.com" instead of "[my_user]@[my_domain]".
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Is the following inequality known? I believe it's true, but I could find no reference.
For any convex body $C$ in the plane we have $$\left(4-\frac{8}{\pi}\right)area(C)\leq > diam(C)(per(C)-2diam(C)).$$
If true, this would be tight, with equality when $C$ is a disk. If it turns out not to be true, then it still makes sense to look for the best constant with the $area(C)$ term.
The following similar inequality $diam(C)(per(C)-2diam(C))\leq\frac{4}{\sqrt3}area(C)$ (equality when $C$ is an equilateral triangle) is definitely known and is proven here.


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CEDAR PARK, Texas (September 29, 2013) – Despite outshooting the Texas Stars, 30-23, the San Antonio Rampage fell to the Texas Stars, 3-0, in their second and final preseason game on Sunday at Cedar Park Center. The Rampage earned a 2-1 shootout win over Oklahoma City on Saturday in the club's only other preseason tilt.
The Rampage went 5-for-5 on the penalty kill to improve to a perfect 14-for-14 through the team's two preseason games.
Austin Smith, Justin Mercier, and Brock Montgomery netted the goals for the Stars. Rampage goaltender Michael Houser made 20 saves for San Antonio.
With both teams throwing their weight around early, it was the Stars who were awarded the game's first power play off a Jared Gomes' tripping call. The Rampage were not deterred, however, as Vincent Trocheck had the period's first quality scoring chance just five minutes in. Texas turned the puck over in the neutral zone and Trocheck quickly skated the puck in shorthanded, but lost the handle and Texas goaltender Josh Robinson was able to make the save.
Though Texas saw three power-play opportunities in the first period, the Rampage's penalty kill held fast and both teams went into the room tied at zero.
The Stars got on the board first eight minutes into the second frame. Texas defenseman Cameron Gaunce's initial shot took a big bounce off the end boards, popping back up in the crease, where Austin Smith tapped it into a wide open net to put the Stars up by one at 6:31 of the second period.
While on the penalty kill late in the second period, the Rampage had an excellent opportunity to tie the game. Defenseman John Lee dumped the puck, and a bounce off the boards developed into a 2-on-0 breakaway chance for San Antonio. Logan Shaw was able to walk the puck right in, but was denied by Stars netminder Pat Nagle.
Late in the second, San Antonio was awarded their first power play of the night. Despite getting a few quality scoring chances, the Stars penalty kill kept the game at 1-0 when the buzzer sounded after two.
Texas extended their lead early in the third when Justin Mercier tipped in a shot from the point that snuck past a screened Houser at 4:22.
The Rampage had their final chance of the game when Curtis McKenzie was sent off for roughing, and Houser hustled to the bench to give his team a 6-on-4 advantage for the final two minutes. San Antonio was unable to convert with the two-man advantage and Montgomery sealed the Rampage's fate with an empty netter with 7.6 remaining in regulation.
The two teams combined for 50 penalty minutes on the night, as the third period featured several tussles. San Antonio finished the game 0-for-3 on the power play, while Texas was 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif.--The Azusa Pacific baseball team lost its second straight game to California Baptist, falling 11-1 to the second-place Lancers on Friday afternoon. The Cougars recorded just five hits in the loss, and didn't score their first run until CBU (23-9, 16-2) built a 10-0 lead by the seventh inning.
Brendan Casey drove in Azusa Pacific's (9-23, 7-15) only run on a solo bomb in the seventh inning, finishing the day 2-for-4 from the plate. The rest of the Cougar lineup batted 3-for-27 thanks to a strong start from Jon Bengard, and two shutout innings of relief from the Lancers' bullpen. Bengard improved to 7-0 with the win.
Zach Hedges took his fourth loss of the season (3-4) after tossing 4.1 innings and giving up three earned runs. He held the Lancers scoreless in the first two inning, but CBU scored in five straight innings, with five runs coming in the sixth, to go ahead 10-0. CBU tabbed 15 hits, scoring double-digit runs for the second consecutive game against the Cougars.
In the sixth inning the Lancers put up a five-spot, scoring on a sac fly with runners on first and third and one out. CBU then scored four more runs with two outs, all coming on back-to-back home runs to make it a 10-0 game. In the fifth California Baptist hit a leadoff homer, following up its two-run home run in the fourth inning. The Lancers hit five home runs in the game.
Azusa Pacific stranded runners in the first, second, and fourth innings, and finished with six men left on base. The Cougars only real threat came in the eighth inning when they loaded the bases with one out. But an inning-ending double play kept Azusa Pacific from adding to its one run.
The loss brings Azusa Pacific's road record in PacWest play to 3-11. The Cougars will hope to improve on that on Saturday when they take on the Lancers in a doubleheader in Riverside at noon.


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Hello all,
I'm trying make tabs draggable horizontaly (y axis fixed) with no success.
Can someone tell me how to do it or at least give me some directions please as I am complete ExtJS newbie.
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Thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for (it isn't listed in examples by default).
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I was reading a comic on PhDComics and although it is funny, sadly, it is also true. Grad students I know (including me) usually fall into one of these existential crisis at least once a semester. And the onset is unpredictable. I've seen people get it when they are really happy (I got groundbreaking results but what difference does it make to the world?) and really sad (& everything in between). Needless to say, it severely affects productivity for extended periods of time.
My question is : How to deal/avoid/reconcile with this crisis such that your productivity is not jeopardized?
My question is NOT : How to be motivated, How to be organized or How to do work. It is not an invitation to Psychobabble.
All the pomodoros, GTD, motivation go down the drain during such times.


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Four arrested in Union County burglary ring
Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 10:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 10:06 p.m.
The Union County Sheriff's Office has charged four people in more than 10 burglaries in the city and county and more arrests are expected.
Tierra Ysante Davis, 22, 208 Arthur Blvd., Devonte MacArthur Lytle, 17, 100 College St.. Union, Rockeem Mandrell Stevens, 22, 321 N. Church St.. Union. and a 16-year-old to be charged as an adult have all been arrested in the case, according to a written statement from Sheriff David Taylor.
Davis has been charged by the sheriff's office with first-degree burglary, five counts of second-degree burglary, three counts of grand larceny and two counts of petit larceny, Taylor said. She has also been charged by Union Public Safety Department with grand larceny, four counts of second-degree burglary and three counts of petit larceny, according to Taylor.
Lytle has been charged by the sheriff's office with grand larceny, three counts of second-degree burglary and two counts of petit larceny. He is facing three counts each of second-degree burglary and petit larceny with the public safety department.
The 16-year-old, whose name has not been released, has been charged by the sheriff's office with first-degree burglary and two counts each of second-degree burglary and grand larceny. The teen has been charged by public safety with second-degree burglary and grand larceny, Taylor said.
Stevens has been charged by the sheriff's office with receiving stolen goods.
Investigators have connected the suspects to six burglaries in Union County and five in the city of Union, Taylor said. The burglaries were reported on Linersville, Pioneer and Wallace roads, Kissy Creek Circle, and Byrd, Foster, Wallace, Culp, Harris and Simmons streets, investigators said.
Items taken during the burglaries were mostly electronics such as flat screen televisions, iPads and laptop computers. Investigators have recovered $23,000 worth of the stolen property, Taylor said.
Davis has been denied bond and remains at the Union County Jail. Lytle remained in jail Thursday awaiting a bond hearing. Stevens has been released from jail.
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WASHINGTON — Immigration reform is coming. Let's get it right. What counts as getting it wrong? The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act, signed by President Reagan. It granted amnesty to the then-3 million illegal immigrants and promised border enforcement.
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I came across couple of questions in exam dumps of 70 - 667 but bit confused if someone can explain me difference between output cache and object cache in few lines and possible scenarios we use them in please.
Object cache:
What Object cache does is stores metadata about SharePoint Server objects (like SPWeb, SPSite, SPList, etc.) on the WFEs. When a page is rendered, if there is data that needs to be retrieved through these objects, the SQL Server will not be hit. Features of SharePoint that uses Object cache are publishing, content query web part, navigation, search query box and metadata navigation. There are only few things you can do about this type of cache - set size.
Content cache:
Object cache is something what is done automatically. You have to handle content cache manually.
source: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Forums/Thread/182474/caching-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
Object cache - metadata, WP queries of external sources, search boxes, quick launch, breadcrumb
Default is on
Configurable through GUI or web.config per each SC
BLOB cache - binary large objects like images or CSS files, stored on WFE disks
Default is off
Configurable through GUI or web.config
Page (output) cache - for whole pages to load them faster for next user with the same rights
Default (for publishing pages) is on
Configurable through GUI (page atributes) or web.config
Office web app cache - XAML queries, images inside documents and so on
Default is on
Configurable through PowerSell, has its own SC (one per web app)
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A seven-run explosion in the second inning was enough for Charlotte take a lead and hold on for an opening-day home win over Delaware State 13-7 at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium Friday in non-conference baseball action. The 49ers win their sixth-straight home season-opening game, dropping the Hornets, a team that won 40 games last season, to an 0-1 start.
Three different 49ers had two or more RBI in their first hit of the season in aid of the win.
The Hornets scored five in the second inning and looked to run away with the contest early. They pushed across a pair of runs on two Niners errors and a passed ball in the frame before pitcher Ryan Haas dropped a bases-loaded double down the left field line for three more runs and a 5-0 lead. Haas led the Hornets with a .360 batting average and 60 RBI in 2012.
Charlotte batted around and took the lead with seven runs in the bottom of the second. A pair of walks and a single from catcher Pat Raley (Franklin, Tenn.) loaded the bases before a wild pitch scored the first run of the frame. After another walk loaded the bases, senior third baseman Shane Basen (Waxhaw, N.C. / Marvin Ridge HS) drove a ball to deep left center for a double them and extend his hit streak to a career-long 10 games. Junior Justin Seager (Kannapolis, N.C. / Northwest Cabarrus HS) then singled to right center to score Basen and tie the game. An error allowed another Niners baserunner and redshirt freshman Brett Lang (Charlotte, N.C. / Ardrey Kell HS) collected his first career hit and first two RBI with a double to left center, giving Charlotte the first lead of the game.
Delaware State got a run back in the third after a walk, a stolen base and a single, as left fielder Aaron Nardone scored his second run of the game for a 7-6 Charlotte margin.
The Niners were able to extend that lead in the fourth after loading the bases for the third time in the contest. Junior transfer Grant Dunnegan (Clearwater, Neb. / Hutchinson CC) collected his first Division I hit and pair of RBI in the same swing with two outs to push the lead to 9-6.
The Hornets pulled to within two again on a walk and an RBI groundout in the seventh.
Dunnegan struck again in the bottom half with a leadoff triple, scoring on a throwing error. Charlotte then loaded the bases again, before drawing a hit by pitch (to Seager), a walk to Brad Elwood (Indian Trail, N.C. / Piedmont HS) and a sacrifice fly by Lang to score three more runs and the final margin.
Transfer Hunter May (Cornelius, N.C. / Pitt CC) got the win in relief for Charlotte. He retired the first six batters he faced and allowed just one run and one hit in 3.1 innings. He struck out three on 49 pitches.
The loss went to starter Ryan Haas, who allowed the seven runs in the second in the decision.
All nine Charlotte starters recorded a hit or scored a run in the game. Dunnegan's three hits led all players. Charlotte's Basen and Lang and Delaware State Haas tied for the game-high total of three RBI.
Four Charlotte pitchers struck out a total of 10 batters, each with at least one, on the afternoon. The offense drew 10 walks in the game. Three relievers combined to allow just two hits and one run in the final 5.1 innings.
NOTES: Charlotte finished 2-for-3 officially with the bases loaded... The Niners had just 11 bases-loaded hits last season... Basen's three RBI got him off towards another big total... He finished second in the A-10 with 45 RBI last season... Charlotte is now 22-13 in season openers, 14-5 when opening the season at home, and 15-6 to open the season under head coach Loren Hibbs.


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Jazz and blues singer Robbie Bartlett possesses a rich, sultry voice that softly commands a room over the sound of clinking glasses and animated prattle.
Her lyrics may be familiar, but there is a unique soul behind the words. With eyes closed and hands in loose fists, she harnesses an energy that synthesizes into a symphony.
Singing since the age of four, Bartlett has always found a way to include music in her life. For eight years she worked at a hotel front desk during the day to support herself, pursuing her singing career at night. After snatching opportunities to tour in Europe three times and open for artists such as Frank Sinatra and Sheryl Crow at the Louisville Palace, Bartlett has fully committed to music as both her livelihood and passion.
The singer's hard work and dedication has paid off. Thanks to an anonymous fan, Bartlett will be performing during the Kentucky State Fair at Cardinal Stadium Aug. 17, opening for R&B singer and producer Keith Sweat.
After seeing Bartlett perform the late Etta James' "At Last" and Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" on WHAS11's "Great Day Live" last February, a viewer sent in the video to Sweat's team. The Kentucky State Fair board, soon after, asked if Bartlett would be his opening act. She was thrilled, having had no idea the performance on WHAS11 would do more than promote a masquerade ball at the Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center.
"I was speechless. I thought, 'Wow, they picked me? They want me? They like my voice? What is it?'" Bartlett still has no idea who propelled her to this opportunity, but she hopes to find out exactly who it was in order to show them her gratitude.
Right now, however, the singer is "all work," staying focused on the task at hand – entertaining and preparing the audience. "I've been racking my head thinking (about) what are going to be the right songs to get (the audience) ready for Keith Sweat because that's my job," she said. Bartlett is expecting a blended crowd of younger and older generations, and plans to focus on classic R&B tunes that will inspire the audience to sing along, such as Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."
A varied audience is likely at the concert, as Sweat has taken on multiple musical endeavors. He is most known for his '80s and '90s hits like 1987's "I Want Her" and 1996's "Twisted." Sweat also has been discovering bands and producing singles for years, working with such groups as Silk and LSG with Gerald Levert and Johnny Gill, which released their self-titled debut Levert.Sweat.Gill with the 1997 hit "My Body."
Once the concert is over, Bartlett hopes she will be considered for future performances at the fairground or asked to open for other artists around the country. Even though she has warmed up crowds for international artists, she has yet to meet many of them personally. The singer is not only looking forward to the meet and greet with Sweat and fans before the show, but will also be giving it "the ol' college try" to get Sweat to accompany her to Jeff Ruby's on West Main Street, where she regularly performs, afterward.
Raised in Louisville, she believes she's been blessed by the opportunities that people and businesses in the community have granted her. "I have (been) pretty fortunate to live here and work as much as I have. With me being here, sometimes I've been in the right place at the right time to where people may not have heard me if I were anywhere else," she said.
Bartlett has been honored with local recognition, such as the 2010 "Sylvester Weaver Award" for those who "preserve, promote and perpetuate the blues," and was a finalist for the 2010 "Best of Louisville Awards" for Louisville Magazine. She recently wrote the score for the film, "Gift of Love," in which she played piano and sang lyrics written by Travis Myles.
Bartlett currently performs for restaurants, pep rallies and private parties in Louisville, singing frequently at Volare Italian Ristorante and Jeff Ruby's. Bartlett has asked her fans to wear red to the Friday show, partly in support of her beloved Louisville Cardinals, but mainly to unify the audience.
Bartlett's draw to singing is not the chance to showcase her talent, but rather to foster a connection with others. It's the emphasis she puts on emotion in each performance that may have prompted that anonymous audience member to propel her to the stage this Friday.
"When I sing I'm hoping the audience feels what I'm feeling. I truly love singing," she said, drawing out the emphasis on "love." "I get people to say, 'Wow you're really into it.' Well, you know I'm going out here to put my all into it," she explained. "I want them to feel me."
Robbie Bartlett will be performing at the Kentucky State Fair in Cardinal Stadium Aug. 17 at 8 p.m before Keith Sweat. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and the concert is free with admission to the fair. Bartlett will also be singing at Jeff Ruby's after her performance at 9 p.m. Her music and schedule can be found at www.robbiebartlett.com.
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December 12, 2012
The legend of Just Nuisance
Have you heard the one about the dog that joined the Royal Navy? They called him Nuisance … Just Nuisance. He was one of a kind, a hero to his fellow servicemen, and he is now a local legend.
"Dogs have given us their absolute all […] They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made" ― Roger Caras
On 25 August 1939 the Royal Navy enlisted a Great Dane into service. The dog – almost 2 metres tall when standing on its hind legs – had gained a reputation for taking up inconvenient sleeping positions and the name Nuisance as a result. He had become a firm favourite with both British and South African sailors in Simon's Town, the home of the South African Navy.
When enlisted he was given the full name Just Nuisance, and a legend was born.
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies" – Sigmund Freud
Just Nuisance started off with the title of Ordinary Seaman but was soon promoted to Able Seaman, a title normally reserved for more experienced, human recruits.
Sailors who came across this canine comrade would enjoy his company on land (Just Nuisance never actually went to sea). He would accompany them on train journeys, and he would often escort them back to the base. He would also doze off in the sunshine with his fellow ratings (when the time was right, of course).
Like many swabbies, Just Nuisance had his rebellious moments. He sometimes went on trains without a pass, and could also be found sleeping in a comrade's bed. Punishment for a four-legged transgression had to improvised (taking away any juicy bones seemed an appropriate measure for his poor choice of sleeping area, for example). He was also known to attack any ship mascots pulling into Simon's Town.
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went" ― Will Rogers
After several years of service, Just Nuisance was involved in a car accident. He slowly became paralysed as a result of thrombosis, leading to a discharge from the Navy. He could not recover, and was put to sleep on 1 April 1944. He was buried with full naval honours to mark his service.
Today you can see a statue of Just Nuisance in Jubilee Square in Simon's Town, as well as an exhibition about his life in the Simon's Town Museum.


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to roll or not to roll, that is the question.
recent discussion has convinced me the advantage of having a roll of 30 deg (aligning the diagonal of sensor vertically)for single row spherical pano. I am thinking of making an adapter for Nodal Ninjas for this purpose. Will this capability bring advantage to a spherical pano head? After all, one can cover the zenith by tilting 5-10 deg upwards with 0 deg roll.
To keep the adapter compact, the NPP will not be at the pitch axis. So it is limited to single row only. I guess it is pointless to take zenith shot with 30 deg roll, right?
what do you think?
thanks a lot.