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I've been using Illustrator's Data-Driven Graphics, for one of my projects. But dread using command-line programing to populate all the fields. Is there a GUI app to manage, edit and save Adobe Illustrator compatible xml files?
Try this site, I think it is exactly what you are looking for (I'm not positive though): http://shancarter.com/data_converter/
XML is text. Any plain text editor will work. You simply don't want a rich text editor such as word.
You can use Text Edit, the default text application on the Mac OS. But you must go into its preferences and tell it to ignore RTF commands on open and save.
I prefer BBEdit from barebones.com. But that's merely my preference.
If you have Design Premium, then you also have Dreamweaver, which does a nice job of editing XML, complete with syntax highlighting. Design Standard, iirc (I've not used CS4 in a long time) should also come with the ExtendScript Toolkit, which is mostly thought of as a javascript IDE but also includes XML syntax highlighting (under View > Syntax Highlighting > XML).
I know this is an old post, but I ran into trouble with this same thing and wrote a short post detailing how to convert an excel file into illustrator xml using an illustrator script (JET_VFTROU). Hopefully people coming to this thread looking for info can find it useful.
Another resource: http://joaofaraco.com.br/converter/
Use this tool to convert your Excel data into Adobe Illustrator compatible XML.
You can either paste in your comma separated values (CSV), or simply paste the cells straight from Excel
This converter was created from Shan Carter's
Mr. Data Converter . The option to convert to AiXML was added by João Faraco .


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4 Jan 2009 4:30 PM #1
GXT Version of ComboBoxTree
Hi, I'm trying to find an example of a ComboBoxTree in GXT. Basically I want what is discussed in this ExtJS thread:
Does any one know of one?
Any pointers on how to implement one?
I've been looking at the internals of ComboBox and it is all based around a ListView which has no relationship to Tree. Maybe some one has created a TreeListView or something similar?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
8 Jan 2009 2:30 PM #2
11 May 2009 5:26 AM #3
Hi rzschech,
Did you finaly manage to impliment this ComboboxTree?
I would strongly need this kind of widget.
Best Regards.
11 May 2009 3:32 PM #4
Hey sregg,
Nope I didn't :-(
I had a bit of a go but the ComboBox depends too much on list stuff and you end up copying almost all of the code.
Let us know if you have a successful attempt.

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Deeplinks Blog posts about Free Speech
Brazil's Marco Civil law contains vigorous language intended to protect free expression, and a stable, secure and neutral network in Brazil. But as we have noted before, such laws must be interpreted and enforced appropriately to be effective. A good Internet law can quickly turn bad if incorrectly or improperly applied.
Floridians, we need your help to stop a dangerous anti-anonymity bill. This week, the Florida state legislature is considering a bill that would make it illegal to run any website or service anonymously, if the site fits a vague category of "disseminat[ing]" "commercial" recordings or videos—even the site owner's own work. Outlawing anonymous speech raises a serious First Amendment problem, and laws like this one have been abused by police and the entertainment industry.
Em 24 de abril de 2014, a presidenta do Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, assinou o Marco Civil da Internet, um quadro de regulamentação da Internet baseado em direitos civis, pelo qual ativistas do Brasil há muito tempo vinham lutando. Apelidado de "Constituição da Internet", a lei visa reforçar a proteção das liberdades fundamentais na era digital. Apesar de ter sido desenvolvida através de um processo participativo, a lei não deixou de cair na tradicional negociata do processo legislativo, o que resultou em diversas concessões. Uma das mais prejudiciais, e ferozmente combatida por ativistas de direitos digitais, foi um mandato de retenção de dados que obriga a coleta e armazenamento de logs de conexões de qualquer indivíduo inocente.
On April 24, 2014, Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, signed Marco Civil Da Internet, a civil-rights based framework for the Internet which Brazilian activists have long fought. Dubbed the "Internet Constitution," the law seeks to reinforce the protection of fundamental freedoms in the digital age. The law was developed through a participatory process, but not without getting caught in the traditional horse-trading of the legislative process, which resulted in several concessions. One of the most damaging concessions, fiercely opposed by digital rights activists, was a data retention mandate that compels the collection and storage of connections logs of any innocent individual.
In comments yesterday during a cybersecurity conference at the New America Foundation, the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers faced vocal criticism from the tech community (including cryptography expert Bruce Schneier and Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos). The criticism focused on the Obama administration's insistence that it should have access to everyone's encrypted communications via a backdoor, sometimes called a "golden key." Security experts caution that such a magic key, usable only by the "good guys" is—like magic—not actually possible.
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A fellow firefighter from Taunton, Chad Larivee, has been critically injured from a three-story fall from his home. He is 43 and has three children. It hits home with me because that was me back on March 6. He and his family have a long journey of healing before them, as I have.
Please, if you could keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers, send out some positivity to them, as you did for me. It would be greatly appreciated.
As for me, my family and I want to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers. It's been a long journey and I still have more to travel and I'm taking life one day at a time.
Your concern for my well being and the support I received in all forms made the difference and got me through the most horrifying time of my life.
I have no future plans to continue my comedy act since personally, life has set me down a new road and it's time to say goodbye to that wonderful past filled with great memories, to enjoy a second chance in life, something bigger and better for myself and my family.
I was blessed to be able to make people smile and laugh while helping good causes. Laughter and positivity is what keeps us alive and happy always remember that.
Thank you all again, be good to each other, smile and laugh, eat good Portuguese food and live life to it's fullest.
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for fitting empirical data to power-law I am aware of the work by Clauset et al. (http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062) and how to use maximum likelihood estimation. There exists also a simple maximum likelihood estimator for exponential distributions.
My data seems to be power-law with exponential cutoff after some time. Is there a closed estimator (e.g. maximum likelihood) to estimate the power law exponent, exponential rate, and the point where the distribution cuts off into exponential?
Or do I have to determine the cutoff point myself and then use two separate estimators, one for power-law and one for exponential?
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My Android game has sudden lag spikes sometimes. I know this is due to something going wrong. My phone has a 1GHz processor so there shouldn't be a problem. Basically I use the
Canvas class to render my entire game (I am about to learn OpenGL and don't know if this is the cause). I have a main game loop and about 4 threads. Why does it lag?
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On Friday, February 1, Kentucky State Police charged 25 year-old Carl J. Henderson of Cromwell with two counts of Rape 2nd degree; two counts of Sodomy 2nd degree; and eight counts of Unlawful Transaction with a Minor 1st degree.
The investigation was initiated by the Kentucky State Police when the female victim reported allegations on Henderson.
KSP says it was alleged that in 2008-2009, Henderson, who was under 21, had inappropriate sexual relations with the 13 year-old victim.
The investigation was presented to the Ohio County Grand Jury on January 28, which issued the indictment warrants.
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CHARLESTON - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined the West Virginia Export Council and the West Virginia Development Office to honor a state record-setting 52 West Virginia businesses with the Governor's Commendation for International Market Entry awards. This award honors companies that have successfully exported to a new country in the past year.
"In 2012, our state's exports reached a record high of $11.3 billion," Tomblin said. "Expanding into new markets around the world has provided our businesses an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to successfully compete in the global marketplace. And I'm pleased to have this opportunity to honor them for their success."
The Governor's Commendation for International Market Entry award is a framed piece of currency from each new country to which the recipient business began exporting in 2012. The presentation is based on the tradition of displaying the first dollar a business earns.
The list includes two businesses from Brooke County - Merco Marine and United States Gypsum Co. - and one in Hancock County, the Homer Laughlin China Co.
Commendations were awarded to:
- Barbour County: Blackheart International, Philippi - Norway, France, Brazil.
- Berkeley County: Growth Media Services, Martinsburg - Hong Kong.
- Brooke County: Merco Marine, Wellsburg - Bahamas; United States Gypsum Co., Weirton - Russia.
- Cabell County: American Babbitt Bearing, Huntington - Canada; Crosscutting Concepts, Huntington - Canada; Guyan International, Barboursville - Ecuador, Peru; Nippon Tungsten USA, Barboursville - Brazil; Star Technologies, Huntington - Brazil, Canada, Mexico; Steel of West Virginia Inc., Huntington - Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China. South Korea, South Africa; and Tri-State Coating and Machine, Salt Rock - Canada.
- Fayette County: The Robbins Co., Fayetteville - Brazil.
- Grant County: Allegheny Wood Products, Petersburg - Indonesia, Mexico.
- Greenbrier County: Almost Heaven Saunas, Renick - Australia, Belgium, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland; BMS Rescue Equipment, Friars Hill - Australia, Canada; EZEbreak LLC, Frankford - Canada.
- Hancock County: The Homer Laughlin China Company, Newell - France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway.
- Jackson County: J&M Industrial Inc., Millwood - Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Israel.
- Jefferson County: Schonstedt Instrument Co., Kearneysville - Tanzania.
- Kanawha County: Air Robotics, Charleston - Italy, Israel, Romania; ConveyWeigh LLC, Dunbar - Dominican Republic, Russia; Cyclops, South Charleston - Colombia, South Korea; Precision Samplers, South Charleston - Colombia; Preiser Scientific, St. Albans - Bolivia; Terraquip Construction Products, Charleston - Australia, India, Ireland, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Turkey; and Walker Machinery Co., Belle - Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Germany.
- Logan County: Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, Mount Gay - China.
- Marion County: Backbone Security, Fairmont - Zerbaijan.
- Mason County: ICL-IP America, Gallipolis Ferry - Trinidad & Tobago.
- McDowell County: Gilco International Lumber, McDowell County - Thailand, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic.
- Mercer County: The Daniels Co., Bluefield - Mongolia.
- Mineral County: Automated Packaging Systems Inc., Keyser - Malaysia, New Zealand; Howell Automotive, Keyser - Argentina; Kessel Lumber Products, Keyser - Canada.
- Monongalia County: Gurkees, Morgantown - Japan, South Korea, Romania, Tanzania, United Kingdom; Petitto Mine Equipment, Morgantown - China; RockyBrook Sinkers, Morgantown - Canada, Japan, Russia; Z Electric Vehicle Corp., Westover - Australia, Bermuda, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vietnam.
- Morgan County: Caperton Furnitureworks, Berkeley Springs - Dominican Republic, Pakistan
- Nicholas County: Advantage Precision, Summersville - Australia, China.
- Ohio County: DirectOnline Marketing, Wheeling - South Africa; Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd, Triadelphia - Portugal, Israel, Italy; TROY Group, Wheeling - Bahrain, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Cayman Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Israel, South Korea, Libya, Nicaragua, Russia; Warwood Tool Co., Wheeling - China, United Kingdom; Wheeling Truck Center, Wheeling - Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Namibia, Philippines, Uruguay, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
- Putnam: Clark International Logistics, Poca - New Zealand; Eagle Research, Scott Depot - Bolivia, Peru; Premier Solutions, Hurricane - Hungary.
- Raleigh: Quality Environmental Containers, Beaver - Nigeria.
- Wayne: Aplicare, Inc., Prichard - Afghanistan, Canada, China, India, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Kingdom.
- Wood: Baron Blakeslee SFC, Williamstown - Turkey, India, Saudi Arabia; Rolling Ridge Woods, Parkersburg - Austria.
The West Virginia Development Office International Division regularly organizes international trade events to assist small and mid-size West Virginia companies with their export growth. Upcoming events for 2013 include mining trade shows in Australia and China, and an open industry trade mission to Colombia. Interested companies may view upcoming events on the wvdo.org exports website and contact WVDO International Division for details.


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#TBT: The Most Ridiculous Vintage Underwear Ads We Could Find
Men's underpants can be both mysterious and confounding. Selling them in magazines obviously posed problems of context and decency. In an effort to keep things light, many ads ended up going to dark and fetid places. Places you should avoid. Other ads went deep into the wedgie of the double entendre, hopefully blindly. And some ads are simply fun to gawk over. Enjoy!
Scary chasity underwear. "The New Order" indeed.
Really, Hank, you don't have to play the towel-snapping game now. No one else is here. As soon as I fasten this garter I am going to kiss you very quickly and madly.
Sometimes I like to light up a cigar and wash my underwear at night. I try to be in the moment.
Judd Hirsch's career was floundering a bit before the Taxi gig.
Warning, white, when wet becomes transparent. But Sebastian didn't tell you that when he dragged you into the water with all those boys looking, did he?
Bob? Why are you out there in the middle of the night in your Munsingwear stretchy-seat underpants digging a ditch? Bob? I am asking you a question, Bob.
Mary mother of God, what is going on here?
My X-ray specs that I ordered in the back of that Archie comic book work. But only sort of.
Show-off. All the boys can see your dirty pillows.
There is something terrible about to happen here with a flipper. Really terrible. And all the men are wearing Lilly Pulitzer skorts.
I'm just going to pass on this one, OK? The heavy lifting is already done here.
Bunny Bixler and I were in the semifinals — the very semifinals, mind you — of the badminton tournament at the club and this ghastly thing happened. We were both playing way over our heads and the score was 29-28. And we had this really terrific volley and I stepped back to get this really terrific shot. And I stepped on the shuttlecock! I just squashed it to bits. And then Bunny and I ran to the closet of the game room to get another shuttlecock and the closet was locked! Imagine? We had to call the whole thing off. Well, it was ghastly. Well, it was just ghastly.
Have you ever seen a grown man's rapier, Timmy?
Sure, what could go wrong?
OK, fatigue from what? Hauling around the family jewels all day? Really?
Leave it to Asian culture to make the only not-weird underwear ad. Of course we can't read the copy.
Omigod, Bennet, doesn't it feel good to just light up and cross your fucking legs?
Boys! Boys! The only way this dispute can be settled is with a wrestling mat and some Wesson Oil!
Oh, Leonard, let's just do something quite insane and take off all our quality undergarments and then ... switch! Sheer madness!
Get a room.
Above: Perhaps you didn't know that Walt Disney had a side job as men's intimate wear model. With his son, Dizzy.
Above: Take another photo, Danny, the first one had 2,073 likes on Facebook!


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STEUBENVILLE - Mother Nature smiled down on the 2013 Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival, providing ample sunshine, a few rain drops and a cool breeze Sunday evening as three entertainment acts took the stage and encouraged the concert goers "to have some fun tonight."
The third-annual event kicked off under sunny skies with a classic car show in the Harding Middle School parking lot and a free Family Fun Zone on the Harding Practice where children of all ages climbed and bounced on the Kurt James inflatable games and watched in awe as members of the Society For Creative Anachronism dressed in medieval clothing and used swords, staffs and other weapons to battle on the grass.
The orchestrated battle saw warrior after warrior fall victim to his opponent.
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But, after each battle both men hugged one another and retreated to the shade of a nearby tent.
"We are based out of Wheeling, but we try to recruit members from throughout the area. We have members from 20 years of age to 50 years of age. We demonstrate fencing, heavy fighting as well as the art of making mead," explained a woman in medieval clothing named Lelija.
Eleven-year-old Andoni Demitras joined his two brothers and grandparents in a tour of the inflatable games.
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HEADLINER — Phil Vassar took the stage Sunday evening and immediately had the 2013 Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival crowd in Harding Stadium dancing and singing to his music. Steubenville was Vassar's second stop on his summer tour. The singer-songwriter said he wanted to leave a memory and there was no doubt he had succeeded when he finished his part of the concert 70 minutes later. - Dave Gossett
PERFECT HARMONY — Shaylyn, Jamie and Marybeth Joseph wowed the audience Sunday night at the 2013 Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival with their perfect, "sister" harmony. - Dave Gossett
A LITTLE TOUCH UP — Angela Suggs of Eastern Gateway Community College applies some blue paint to Korey Kakascik of Steubenville Sunday afternoon in the Family Fun Zone at the Harding Practice Field. The EGCC painting booth was one of several free events in the Fun Zone during the 2013 Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival. - Dave Gossett
BMX MASTER — Joel Harding of New Philadelphia showed off his skills on a BMX bike Sunday afternoon at the 2013 Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival Family Fun Zone. Harding was one of three bike riders from Dialed Action Sports Team to do flips, spins and a variety of stunts and tricks for a crowd that gathered the bike riders. - Dave Gossett
"I watched the people in costume fight each other and now we are going to get something to eat and watch the bike riders," announced Demitras.
The Dialed Action Sports Team on the BMX bikes brought a crowd to the grandstands during its two shows Sunday afternoon as riders performed a variety of tricks and stunts on the two wooden ramps.
"We want to hear a lot of noise here today if you want to see these guys perform their tricks," encouraged the master of ceremonies.
April and Kody Wiley of Rayland were among the people cheering and applauding the riders as they did tricks on the small bikes that others could only imagine.
"We came for the bike show, but this is a nice event today. It seems like there is something for everyone and adults and kids," said Kody Wiley.
The McCalister family of Steubenville also was in the grandstands for the BMX performance.
"We brought the kids for a fun event and they are really having fun. The little ones are enjoying the bouncing inflatable house and the bike show. We will go home for a break later on and then come back for the fireworks show," said Drake McCalister.
At the nearby food court, Anita and Gary Hallock enjoyed pulled pork sandwiches from Baby Boyz BBQ Ribs as they waited for the concert to begin in the stadium.
"This is a wonderful event for the community. The weather is perfect and I think Sue Hershey and the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce put on an extraordinary effort to put all of this together," said Gary Hallock.
"This is a great day in Steubenville and I wish more people would take advantage of the event," added Anita Hallock, who also said she and her husband were looking forward to the concert.
City resident Earl Cramblett said the 2013 Stars and Stripes Concert and Festival was "the most successful event of the past three years."
"We are truly blessed in this community to have people who get involved to organize something like this. We have a great day long event here in the middle of the city and we should all be proud and thankful," added Cramblett.
Jennifer Cesta, the coordinator for the fun zone, said she was pleased with the turnout.
"The weather cooperated with us today and I think people really enjoyed the inflatable games and the BMX bike show was a major draw," Cesta said.
As the day continued, the crowd slowly drifted toward Harding Stadium where the Joseph Sisters were the opening act for four hours of country music.
The Todd Jones Band was next on the stage, delivering some traditional country music with gospel, Neil Diamond and Hank Williams Jr. songs mixed into their performance.
"Thank you, thank you. But the big guy is coming up next so make sure you are ready for some rocking music," urged Jones.
When Phil Vassar took the stage at 8:30 p.m. he immediately invited the audience to join him in front of the stage.
"This was a great way to end a great day," stated Hershey.
"I wish we had more people, but I know the people in the stadium tonight are having a great time. This is the result of a lot of hard work by so many faithful volunteers," Hershey added.
Event co-Chair Tricia Damewood-Maple agreed, and said it was, "a fantastic day for everyone."
"Hollywood City Center was filled with people. It was a really fun day for everyone who were working here today and the people who came to the festival and the concert," said Damewood-Maple. Hollywood City Center was the title sponsor for the event.
"The help from our partners to put all of this together was tremendous. This year's event was the easiest to coordinate. We have learned from our past events and next year will be even bigger and better. I really don't know why we don't have 5,000 people here today, because this has been a great day for everyone," noted co-Chair John Cucarese.
From the opening ceremonies to the grand finale of the fireworks, Mayor Domenick Mucci was a constant spectator and particpant.
"It has truly been a fantastic day for our city. This was a great way to spend a Sunday, meeting visitors to the city and spending time with friends," he said.
Mucci and several council members presided over the drawing that saw Larry Renzelli of Steubenville win a 2013 Ford Fusion from TEAM Automotive during the Save the Belleview Pool drawing.
Bill Bryant of Dennison won the 50-inch flatscreen television from Frank & Jerry Appliance store, Dominic Pucci IV of Weirton was the winner of a Weber gas grill from M&M True Value Hardware and Brazin Nelson was awarded a season pool pass for the Belleview Pool.


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I'm just getting into unit testing, and have written some short tests to check if function called isPrime() works correctly.
I've got a test that checks that the function works, and have some test data in the form of some numbers and the expected return value.
How many should I test? How do I decide on which to test? What's the best-practices here?
One approach would be to generate 1000 primes, then loop through them all, another would be to just select 4 or 5 and test them. What's the correct thing to do?


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Among the Sony lenses there are some types with a DT abbreviation and some are without it. Those having DT called DT-series.
What does DT mean? What is the difference between DT-series lenses and the rest of Sony?
Among the Sony lenses there are some types with a DT abbreviation and some are without it. Those having DT called DT-series.
What does DT mean? What is the difference between DT-series lenses and the rest of Sony?
DT (Digital Technology - source) means that the lens is designed to work with a cropped sensor camera. It should not be used with a full frame sensor or 35mm film. If you use it with a full frame sensor then some of the image would be black, particularly towards the corners, as the light projected by the lens would not cover the sensor.
Having a smaller area to project light on to means that lenses can be smaller, lighter and are generally cheaper. However if you later upgraded your DSLR body to one with a full frame sensor you would have to replace the lens.
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TL;DR answer: DT lenses have a smaller image circle designed to match APS-C sensors, which are smaller than full-frame sensors. This makes it possible to design high-quality lenses that are smaller, lighter, and less expensive than an equivalent full-frame lens. However, they will not be able to take full advantage of a full-frame sensor.
A DT lens is designed so that the image circle projected by the lens covers the 16x24mm APS-C area, but not necessarily the 24x36mm area required by a 35mm full-frame camera. In the case of zoom lenses, the image circle may cover full frame at certain focal lengths, but this is not true for all zooms. DT prime lenses either do not cover full frame at all, or would exhibit serious optical compromises such as extreme softness in the frame corners on a full-frame DSLR.
When the image circle only needs to cover the APS-C area, several advantages can be realized. It makes it much easier to design lenses with shorter focal lengths, allowing lenses that are truly wide-angle on APS-C. An 18mm lens is expensive and difficult to design and manufacture if it needs to cover full frame, but can easily be done if it only needs to cover APS-C. The smaller image circle allows for smaller and therefore lighter lens designs, especially for lenses with focal lengths up to medium telephoto. It enables superzoom lenses like those made by Tamron to be compact and lightweight while retaining reasonable image quality. It allows fast lenses to be made more easily as well. It also makes the lens significantly less expensive to manufacture. These advantages hold for all manufacturers of APS-C cameras and lenses, not just Sony. In fact, Canon exploits the fact that APS-C camera mirrors are smaller with the EF-S mount, an extension of the EF mount that allows the rear element to be placed farther back than in EF lenses, making it even easier to design ultra-wide lenses (such as the remarkable EF-S 10-22mm lens).
Of course, it means that you won't be able to take advantage of the full-frame sensor in high-end models. On Canon, an EF-S lens physically cannot be mounted on full-frame or APS-H bodies with an EF mount and can only be used on APS-C bodies with an EF-S mount (which can take full-frame EF lenses as well); the rear element may extend past the lens mount far enough to collide with a full-frame or APS-H mirror if an EF-S lens could be mounted on such a body. On Sony, the image area will be limited to that of the APS-C crop area of the sensor leading to a loss of resolution, and exposure metering accuracy may be compromised, because darkened or black frame corners (vignetting) can confuse the light meter and cause overexposure.
According to Sony (you'll see this on all Sony DT lens product pages):
The above poster is generally right, however most Sony Full frame DSLR's have a mode that allows you to use a DT lens with the full frame. What it will do is crop out the black edges that Hamish is talking about, and half the resolution (megapixels).
So the DT lens can still be usable if you upgrade your camera, but keep in mind the half megapixel thing. eg. If you have a 24MP fullframe Sony Alpha, your images can only be a maximum of 12MP.
Regarding: However, they will not be able to take full advantage of a full-frame sensor.
The first fact is 95% of the DSLR users use APS-C sized cameras and the second fact is with few exceptions (Sony DT lenses, for example), almost all DSLR lenses are designed exclusively for the need of full-frame cameras. As such, those lenses cause the 95% DSLR users mismatch problems of all sorts. The simple fact is the 95% DSLR users are in dire need for APS-C lenses (such as DT lenses and few others offered by Nikon and Canon, etc.). The majority of those 95% users will never have a need for full-frames, let alone preparing for a so called upgrade. My point is the 95% should be the majority and not the minority and certainly do not deserve the 5% lense treatment by the camera and lens manufacturers and especially do not need the minority piont of 'not be able to take advantage of a full-frame sersor.


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Don't be surprised if Aiden Pierce isn't the lead in Watch Dogs 2Written by: / / 1 Comment
After almost two years of anticipation and build-up, Ubisoft's Watch Dogs has come and gone but not without first selling a whopping number of units during its first week on sale, rocketing to the top of May's software sales in the US and continuing to throttle the UK sales charts.
With this kind of success – and impressive pre-order numbers ahead of launch indicating Ubisoft could expect this success – the approval of a Watch Dogs sequel was a foregone conclusion.
But what would fans of the game even want from Watch Dogs 2?
One of the primary criticisms aimed at Watch Dogs concerned the main character, Aiden Pierce, who came off as something of a bland and stereotypical male lead. According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, the publisher has heard the criticisms and is taking player feedback on board for Watch Dogs 2 and other games in the future.
Speaking to CVG, and responding to the assertion that Aiden Pierce fits the bill of a stereotypical "angry white man" videogame character, Guillemot said:
"We knew it would be polarising; some people loved the characters and some didn't. It was difficult to please everybody with that character. Now, having seen the reaction, we know what we will do next to improve that."
"We are working on that. We want to spend more time on the worlds and characters in our games… you will see more and more of this at Ubisoft. We'll try to be less like we have been in the past with some characters. We'll try to extend more diversity."
Whether or not Aiden will remain the lead character in Watch Dogs 2 is also up for debate, and Guillemot "can't say" because he simply doesn't know at this point. When pressed further about his involvement in major and minor decisions related Ubisoft's games, Guillemot said:
"I was sending an e-mail today to the head of creative about a book I read… I give my advice, but after that they come to us with proposals. Sometimes we say no, or I say I'm not happy with something, but very often the teams follow the head of production. I have influence, like other members of the group, but more in the big decisions like engines and characters rather than the details."
Interesting to hear even the CEO doesn't have the absolute final say, leaving it to those in the trenches to hit upon the best solution.
What did you think of Aiden Pierce as the lead character in Watch Dogs? What improvements would you like to see go into Watch Dogs 2?
Be sure to read CVG's full Yves Guillemot interview over here, because it's rather excellent and covers a wide range of topics that the Ubisoft CEO doesn't shy away from discussing.
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After Benedict
"The church is not the pope, and the pope is not the church," theologian Joseph Komonchak reminds us (see "Benedict's Act of Humility"). Amen to that. Komonchak also cautions about the "hullabaloo over the upcoming conclave," urging Catholics of every theological and ideological disposition to place Benedict XVI's surprise resignation in the broader and deeper context of the responsibilities every Catholic has for building up the church and spreading the gospel. Expectations for the papacy need to change.
Amen to that as well.
Even Benedict's most ardent supporters concede that his papacy has been marred by too many scandals and too many gaffes. The few glimpses the public has gotten into the opaque operations of the Holy See—from the Vatican bank controversy to the inept machinations of the pope's own butler—reveal an institution in crisis. These intrigues are especially disconcerting as the church still struggles to come to terms with the legacy of the sexual-abuse crisis. Unfortunately, the courtly secrecy surrounding the deliberations to elect the next pope provides an all-too-obvious reminder of the lack of transparency and accountability in the operations of the entire hierarchy.
In the modern era, but especially over the past half-century, there has been an unprecedented concentration of authority in the papacy and the Roman curia. Under the tireless and charismatic John Paul II, this focus on the pope seemed providential to many. Yet John Paul's commanding personality left little room for younger episcopal talent to flourish or alternative institutional structures of leadership and authority to develop. Only the most obdurate ultramontanists think the governance of a global church of more than 1 billion should rest principally on the shoulders of one man. In resigning for reasons of ill health and physical frailty, Benedict himself strongly suggested that the demands of the papacy have become a crippling burden, especially for a man of his age. Many think that the papacy is now a crippling burden for a man of any age—and that this is one of the many signs that ecclesial authority has become too centralized.
Benedict will surely be remembered for his personal humility and profound piety. He will also be remembered as a theologian and teacher of rare gifts. His three encyclicals are remarkably rich documents—especially Caritas in veritate, which remains one of the most thoughtful responses to the recent financial crisis, a reminder of the inescapable moral dimensions of a globalized economy.
What this shy scholar evidently could not do was manage or reform a sclerotic church bureaucracy riven by factions and left to function on its own for far too long. Real reform can return the governance of the church to the bishops in true partnership with the pope, and reduce the curia to the status of a modest administrative apparatus. Perhaps, as some have speculated, this is what Benedict hoped to set in motion in taking the exceptional step of resigning. Let's hope so.
Many Catholics first heard of Joseph Ratzinger in 1985 when, a few years into his tenure as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a series of his conversations with the journalist Vittorio Messori was published as The Ratzinger Report. Readers were stunned by Ratzinger's dour appraisal of the implementation of Vatican II's reforms and his stinging criticism of liberal democratic societies. In the Report, the future pope comes across as deeply pessimistic about the trajectory of the church and even about the competence of local bishops. Western culture as a whole, he insisted, had also lost its moorings. Only Rome could be trusted on questions of faith and morals.
Writing in Commonweal in November, 1985, Lutheran theologian George Lindbeck, an official observer at Vatican II, suggested that Ratzinger's emphasis on Roman authority was "more a product of despair than of authoritarianism." Lindbeck, although sympathetic to Ratzinger's theological and cultural agenda, lamented his "uncritical and one-sided emphasis on the official magisterium." He feared that Ratzinger despaired "of the struggle pursued at Vatican II" to find a way to make the church's teachings accessible and compelling to the scientifically sophisticated and increasingly secular world.
It is possible to see Benedict's resignation as another gesture of discouragement. Certainly in his final remarks to the priests of Rome only days after announcing his resignation, Benedict struck a note of anguish over what he characterized as the "calamities" and "miseries" that followed the council. He blamed the media and secular politics for that disarray. But much of the responsibility lies with the Vatican, for guarding its own power and privileges too jealously. If we are not to despair of the worthy project pursued by the bishops at Vatican II, the whole church, and not just Peter's successor, must now be allowed to take responsibility for it.
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"But much of the responsibility lies with the Vatican, for guarding its own power and privileges too jealously."
Sounds like rethorical a sleigh of hand. The massive disarray of cathechesis and evangelization produced by theological liberalism after the council had nothing to do with organizational disarray in the Roman curia.
And one could easily argue that without a strong Papacy the effect of 1960-style neo-modernism would have been even worse.
Carlo L ... Tell us ... what in the hell does 'worse ' look like?
To state the obvious: The Catholic Church's cardinal princes have "no clothes."
Despite how intriguing their colorful medieval costuming may be to us, Catholic hierarchs are hopelessly irrelevant to and dangerously alienated from, even hostile to, the lived experience of growing millions of Catholic, indeed Christian, women and men around the world.
The upcoming papal conclave does indeed place the hierarchs at the fork of a fateful historic crossroads: Do they continue to lead the church down this same treacherous road over the almost certain extinction cliff?
Or, with no preordained fore-promise of their survival or endurance, do the cardinals embrace the slow evolution toward a Peoples Church?
On "the road not taken," the Holy Spirit has left a clear road "sign of the times" for any pilgrim to see where to find the required anecdote: LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!
eg gleason:
oh you know: the brilliant "Hans Kung" plan of turning the RCC in another dying liberal Protestant denomination.
Carlos L.. one blessed hope of the post-BXVI is that nobody will give the SSPX the new phone #
O.K. my comments on Brother Komonchak's article didn't make it into your current editorial comments. But I'll repeat them here. It is a fact that the organized, well-funded conservative sector of our church, led by Brother Ratzinger and before him by Brother Wojtala, is exactly where they want it--scandals and all. In fact their premise is that the likes of us liberals and modernists are the cause of all the scandals.
And so this "retirement" of Brother Ratzinger is not an act of humility as much as a wise step to do all he can do to consolidate his years of extreme conservatism. By not continuing on to death and/or senilty and putting off a papal election, he and the legion of conservative followers--not just a few curial workers--will bask in the admiration of this "scholarly", "humble" " servant and support a worthy replacement. An African cardinal dedicated to the conservative's unique "evil" target--LGBT-- would very admirably fulfill a lot of their goals.
We in the liberal/radical wing--proven all too often to be powerless-- can opine and do these critiques that will only be noticed by ourselves. Without beginning now to effect a real dynamic, loving, unified, moral force within the church, there will be no change. Waiting for things to change--short of populating seminaries with our liberal children--just is not a respectable approach.
All the radical change groups have been easily shut out and even though we call ourselves "catholic", we simply aren't. We have to gather our fellow-sister pew mates and do an impressive "sit-in" or "stand-in" and get attention for a real pastoral aim. I've suggested we use the moral persuasion of "loving dissent" with the voice/body of all those who say they are for change but who are silenced to almost everyone. Why be afraid of being threatened with excommunication? I suggest what I call "The Least Harm--Loving Dissent" where we call our opposition to sit down and agree to lay aside the medieval approach of the past and agree to begin by doing the least harm while we sift out the real issues before us to arrive at change without the litter of the likes of the ashes of Giordano Brunos ashes and Galileo's house arrest. I would call for "Galileo Reconcilation Commission" to carry this out. Brother Wojtala's "pardon" hundreds of years later is just not the Christian way.
Thanks. Tom Luce http://leastharm.weebly.com [email protected]
@ Thomas Luce:
I think you're on to something: The Catholic Church hierarchy has never really accepted the Copernican revolution which dislodged them as the sole gatekeepers to the Divine. The hierarchs have been fighting a rear-guard action against all things modern ever since.
The hierarchs have been living on borrowed time since the time of Galileo and the rise of the scientific era. Sadly, the hierarchs about to receive a very nasty lesson from the laws of evolution: The hierarchs are very shortly going to become vestigle organs on the Body of Christ - the process has been going on for decades with the evidence all around us.
Either we celebrate their time with us with a proper Catholic funeral and burial - something that Catholics should be really good at given our central defining mythologies about death and resurrection - so that new life can emerge, and the Gospel can continue to be spread.
Or, the hierarchs' remains will pile up like petrified dionsaurs in a boneyard at the bottom of history's extinction cliff.
This editorial is rubbish. Read Benedict's books. Then you will know what it means to be Catholic.
The following letters to PBS and to Professor Gillis and Reverend McBrien are as appropriate today as they were in 2005. Only some of the players are different.
Sent: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 3:39 pm Subject: On Religion Sent to PBS Wide Angle First I would like to congratulate you on the program 'White Smoke' which provided a fair and balanced look into the election of a new Pope for the Catholic Church. Unfortunately the program was marred by selecting James Carroll a former priest who has spent his time since renouncing his priestly vows by attacking the Catholic Church in books and columns. Hardly an unbiased commentator for what had been a memorable program. Mr. Carrol's primary arguments against Pope John Paul Ii and now Pope Benedict XVI is that they are not sufficiently protestant, not Episcopalian enough. His thesis is 'that if only we were more like them' his Catholic church would reign supreme, satisfying everyone. Mr. Carrol must have blinders on as his protestant model is suffering even greater losses of followers here, in Europe and the world than the Catholic Church. Several renowned Catholic theologians have posited the same thesis and the following letter was addressed to them. I would ask you forward my feedback to Mr Carroll as a favor. Thank you in advance "Professsor Gillis and Reverend McBrien, I sincerely hope that I did not misunderstand the points you were making but I came away with the following impressions. Both of you were interviewed on TV programs this past week-end and introduced as theologians from 'Catholic' Universities, Georgetown and Notre Dame, respectively. The subject was John Paul II who passed away on Saturday. While the world wept, President Bush, world leaders, both political and religious, journalists and common folk remembered him, praised him and spoke of his influence on the world. But not our 'Catholic' theologians from 'Catholic' Universities who spoke of his divisiveness, his being out of step with American Catholics on abortion, birth control, gay issues, celibacy and women in the priesthood. Apparently American Catholics, not the Pope, have the The Truth on all matters of morality which Professor Gillis confirmed by pointing out that Georgetown students ignore the Pope and selected polls show that a majority of American Catholics elect a Chinese menu approach to their catholic faith based on their own subjective conscience which provides self-justification for a hedonistic, immoral life style absent any religious underpinnings. An ex-President, while not a Catholic but a graduate of Georgetown, was well schooled in moral relativism and represents a classic example of a Professor Gillis's student, there is no right or wrong, no intrinsic good or evil, there is only one's subjective conscience to look to for approval. The subjective conscience combined with moral relativism enables one to lie, to cheat, to commit perjury and any other nefarious act, all the while proclaiming one's innocence and, if 'catholic', firmly believe that he/she is a catholic in good standing while holding that the Pope and the Vatican are just not with it, too conservative, not Protestant enough. To argue that one is free to follow his own conscience on matters of religion and morals, even to supporting abortion, birth control, gay marriage, celibacy and other issues presumes that one's own subjective conscience is infallible and superior to all others which leads to the absurd conclusion that there is no truth in moral and religious matters as there would be an infinite number of right answers. Since Vatican II the liberal wing of the Catholic Church has promulgated the superiority of the subjective conscience and in February 1991 Cardinal Ratzinger delivered the Church's response in his presentation 'Conscience and Truth" delivered at the '10th Workshop for Bishops; in Dallas Texas. Cardinal Ratzinger touched on the correct understanding of conscience," "Conscience is understood by many to be sort of deification of subjectivity, a rock on which even the magisterium can founder. It claimed that in the light of conscience no other reason applies. Finally, conscience appears as the supreme level of subjectivity; but conscience is an organ, not an oracle; it requires growth, exercise and development." For those who hold that one's own subjective conscience is infallible, superior to all others and that the Church Authority cannot impose restrictions on those whose conscience brings them to decisions contrary to the Church's teachings, Cardinal Ratzinger points out the obvious error in this rationalization by the following "It is of course undisputed that one must follow a certain conscience or at least not act against it. But whether the judgment of conscience or what one takes to be such, is always right, indeed whether it is infallible, is another question. For if this were the case, it would mean that there is no truth - at least not in moral and religious matters, which is to say, in the areas which constitute the very pillars of our existence. For judgments of conscience can contradict each other. Thus there could be at best the subject's own truth, which would be reduced to the subject's sincerity." Cardinal Ratzinger describes the concept of the erroneous conscience as follows: "The erroneous conscience, by sheltering the person from the exacting demands of truth, saves him ... - thus went the argument. Conscience appeared here not as a window through which one can see outward to that common truth which founds and sustains us all, and so makes possible through the common recognition of truth, the community of needs and responsibilities. Conscience here does not mean man's openness to the ground of his being, the power of perception for what is highest and most essential. Rather, it appears as subjectivity's protective shell into which man can escape and there hide from reality. Liberalism's idea of conscience was in fact presupposed here. Conscience does not open the way to the redemptive road to truth which either does not exist or, if it does, is too demanding. It is the faculty which dispenses from truth. It thereby becomes the justification for subjectivity, which should not like to have itself called into question. Similarly, it becomes the justification for social conformity. As mediating value between the different subjectivities, social conformity is intended to make living together possible. The obligation to seek the truth ceases, as do any doubts about the general inclination of society and what it has become accustomed to. Being convinced of oneself, as well as conforming to others, are sufficient. Man is reduced to his superficial conviction and the less depth he has, the better for him." The erroneous conscience also would allow the false and utterly despicable conclusion, "Nazi SS would be justified and we should seek them in heaven since they carried out all their atrocities with fanatic conviction and complete certainty of conscience. There is no doubting the fact that Hitler and his accomplices who were deeply convinced of their cause, could not have acted otherwise. Therefore, the objective terribleness of their deeds notwithstanding, they acted morally, subjectively speaking. Since they followed their albeit mistaken consciences, one would have to recognize their conduct as moral and, as a result, should not doubt their eternal salvation." Cardinal Ratzinger concludes this section by writing "Since that conversation, I knew with complete certainty that something was wrong with the theory of justifying power of the subjective conscience, that, in other words, a concept of conscience which leads to such conclusions must be false. For, subjective conviction and the lack of doubts and scruples which follow therefrom do not justify man. Furthermore, "No one may act against his convictions, as Saint Paul had already said (Rom 14:23). But the fact that the conviction a person has come to certainly binds in the moment of acting, does not signify a canonization of subjectivity. It is never wrong to follow the convictions one has arrived at - in fact, one must do so. But it can very well be wrong to have come to such askew convictions in the first place, by having stifled the protest of the anamnesis(an inner repugnance to evil and an attraction to the good) of being." It seems that the American Catholic Church has lost is way, lost its humility and rejected guidance of the Holy Spirit by denying the Pope as Good Shepherd and Christ's representative on earth. Is this the fault of the Catholic laity or the leaders and teachers who are striving to remake the American Catholic Church in the Episcopalian model by questioning the Pope's authority? It is time that all Catholics, especially students at Catholic Universities, read the collected works of Dom Columba Marmion to understand the relationship between God, His Church, the individual and humanity. "Christ the Life of the Soul" is an excellent starting point. "
@Luce & Jenkins et al
It is high time that the Catholic Church became both democratic and scientific. It is an organization that plays an immense role in public physical and mental health and it if full of contradictions becasue it is inconsistent with reality. There is no evidence (except documents written within the Church) that God is a myterious other, owned totally by the Church.
There is no reason to think that God and the Universe are in any way distinct. If this is the case, theology can become an empirical science like all the others. All human experience becomes expereince of God. The scientific method has a general tendency to lead us to the truth, as can be seen in all the disciplines that have grown up since Galileo's day. One by one questions are raised and settled on the evidence.
The Church can become truly catholic (small c, Greek meaning) and the ecumenical project proceed globally ) if all the theolgians of all persuasions started to look at the reality around them instead of cooking up ever more convoluted exegeses of ancient and (to the modern ear) irrelevant texts.
Given this approach to theology, there is no need for central dogmatic authorities. Our authority is the divine world that we all share. Of course a lot of vested interests will have to be shot down before this agenda has a snowball's chance in Hell.
This editorial is rubbish. Read Benedict's books. Then you will know what it means to be Catholic
Amen Patricia McCarron! I'm glad someone finally had the courage to say it.
If you want to Pope bash, at least have the decency not to call yourselves Catholic. Your ignorance (at best it's ignorance) of the Catholic Faith is despicable.
Perhaps you all should give some thought to what each Cardinal says aloud as he walks up and casts his vote for the Vicar of Christ:
"I call as my witness Christ the Lord who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected."
It is true that an individual conscience can err and thre is no doubt that Western society has become more liberal, materialistic, indiviidualistic and relativistic. However, it is an exaggeration to poist that the Church does not have a responsibility for the non-reception of teachings, especially sexual ethics, and profound disappointment, even anger, over the lack of collegiality called for by Vatican II. We should only reflect on the coverup of child sex abuse by bishops and cardinals and the fact that JP II and Ratzinger/B16 had full knowledge of many of the most egregious crimes by clergy, but did nothing.
There is no majic bullet here for human failings. However, the truth cannot merely rain down from authority like a list of legalistic negative injunctions that are in profound tension with reason and human experience and disputed for legitimate philosophical and theological reasons. The Church has the responsibility to articulate a reasoned and convincing moral theory that rings true to the deepest levels of one's heart, mind and soul. To blame non-reception or empty pews on secular society and relativism is a cop out because it is only a small part of the problem. The answer is not faith without reason, for this is blind obedience, and it is not reason without faith, for this is to turn away from the transcendental dimension of our intellect. We need the benefits of faith and reason.
Disagreements about the lack of collegiality and the concentration of power of the Roman Curia and the pope, or with certain moral teachings does not mean that those who disagree are infected with some type of diabolical cancer that prevents them from recognizing and grasping the truth. The truth is not merely a list of do's and don'ts proclaimed as intrinsically evil actions. Read Vertitatis Spendor. Does anyone really think "deportation" is intrinsically evil (e.g., a moral absolute)? Does anyone really think the deportation of an illegal alien who committed a felony is immoral?
What we need is for the Church to embrace Vatican II's call for true collegiality and open all the doors for the Spirit of God to blow freely and enlighten all of us. Let's pray that our next pope will help us all to become the men and women God wants us to be.
The new pope will do well to realize that Vatican II did not cause the turmoil in society in the 1960's. The upset was already brewing. The council actually foresaw much of the reason for it and offered a way to spiritually elevate our society and culture, and where necessary spiritually correct them. But in order for Vatican II to succeed, the church had to implement its teachings and form contemporary spiritual adults for a tumultuous time. It failed to do so, so, e.g., we got a liturgy that all too often fell to the level of the secular culture. The answer in the case of the liturgy, is not an anachronistic return to Latin but for the church to discern what is actually or potentially best in its local cultures and create a true, meaningful, localized sacred expression of worship that fits and elevates the local culture. (At the first session of the council, an African Mass wonderfully exemplified what I'm referring to. As the celebrant chanted and a group of drummers beat their drums and danced around the altar, the announcer said, "Behold the joy of Africa at having received the Good News of Jesus Christ.") The 2500 council fathers applauded and cheered!)
No serious Catholic would say that we should follow our conscience without consulting with the one, living Catholic faith as it is being experienced in our time by the whole People of God. The problem is that the bishops and the Vatican are not set up (or disposed) to discern the sense of faith (sensus fidei) of the laity. So when Catholics become disaffected because they are not listened to or respected in very important aspects of their lives in today's society, the hierarchy all too often prefer to simply blame secularism for their disaffection.
A new pope who maintains an over-centralized, non-listening, non-respecting Vatican will see continuing disaffection from Catholics who are looking for guidance and formation in effective, world-elevating, adult spirituality in a church that follows ALL the teachings of the church.
Show me where in Scriptures or the much-vaunted "Deposit of Faith" where it is not permitted to pope bash and still be Catholic? The papacy is replete with a history of dastardly men doing dastardly things. To forget or ignore that is to be guilty of, at best, ignorance and at worst willful deception.
On a Church Worth Keeping After Benedict
As a non-Catholic, Bret Stephens focuses where the light is -- on the fairly well publicized sex-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church., (The Wall Street Journal,"A Church, If You Can Keep It," Opinion, Mar. 5). He makes his point about the risky nature of required celibacy for Catholic priests without mentioning Alex Gibney's revelatory HBO documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa" that should be required viewing for the cardinals now gathering in the Vatican to elect a new pope to follow after Benedict.. But that's not all.
The reigns of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI were set on aborting the church reborn at the Second Vatican Council -- re-anchoring the institution in its monarchical past while continuing to ignore the penetrating question asked by the late Leo Joseph Cardinal Suenens at the second session of Vatican II: "Why are we even discussing the reality of the church when half of the church is not represented here?"
When the cardinals go about selecting a new pope, not a single Catholic woman will be found among them – no matter how worthy they may be -- prompting a question: How can the Catholic laity, especially women, maintain respect and trust in an institutional church that operates as it does?
The silence of sheep-like laity works to the benefit of the church's all-male hierarchy that is still bent on maintaining slave-like control of America's women religious. These women are not only the hope for a pastoral Vatican II church worth keeping after Benedict, but also for a future college of cardinals with at least fifty percent women.
Changing the Story
When things aren't going well for a business client, a savvy Public Relations organization would undoubtedly offer the following advice: Change the story.
That certainly appears to be the strategy adopted by the American Church with the aim of moving beyond the costly law suits and bad image problem associated with widespread sex-abuse scandals and related cover ups reaching to the highest levels of the Vatican. See Alex Gibney's HBO documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa." The documentary should, but won't be, required viewing for the cardinals now gathering in the Vatican to elect a new pope to follow after Benedict. There is a better story to tell -- a new paradigm
Clear evidence of the unfolding strategy can be seen via an effusive review of George Weigel's new book, "Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church," in today's Wall Street Journal. The review, titled "A To-Do List for the Conclave," was authored by Julieanne Dolan, a writer in the Office of Public Affairs at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
The book has been highly praised by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who said: ""This sparkling read puts all the old Church-labels—liberal vs. conservative, progressive vs. traditionalist, pre- vs. post-Vatican II—in the shredder. Now there is only one valid adjective for all of us: evangelical! Simply put, this means we take our baptismal promises with the utmost seriousness. Like the Samaritan woman, we've met a man—Jesus—who has changed our lives."
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that an Amazon Customer Review of the book by RCB "Catholic," stated: "George Weigel is covering the conclave for NBC. In addition, Weigel has noticed his book 'Evangelical Catholicism' in the hands of a few conclave Cardinals who are from outside of the USA."
Likely, each of the voting cardinals has been gifted with a signed copy of Weigel's story-changing book. We wll see what we will see.
Conclave Neoconservatives on the Rise
Further to my previous comment, The Wall Street Journal reports that Angelo Cardinal Scola of Milan is not only one of the front runners for the papacy, but also a promoter of the right-wing Communion and Liberation (CL) evangelizing organization.* See "Candidate Raises Profile of a Grass-Roots Movement," [The Wall Street Journal, page A8, Mar. 12, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732409640457835474101724101....
Scola is a neoconservative in the mold of Pope Benedict's company men in America, Donald Cardinal Wuerl of Washington and Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York. Add Julieanne Dolan's interpretation of George Weigel' s book, "Evangelical Catholicism," as a to-do-list-for-the-conclave, and it is easy to see the development of a formidable neoconservative alliance....an alliance without comparable progressive opposition.
If the alliance forms and has its way, likely gone will be the church reborn at Vatican II -- replaced by pre-Vatican II church with a clear evangelizing mission.
* According to Peggy Lernoux, members of the Communion and Liberation organization like those of Opus Dei share a sense of crusading righteousness -- looking upon themselves as the chosen few who will cleanse society and restore a pre Vatican II Catholicism..For more, see Lernoux's 1989 book, "People of God: The struggle for World Catholicism," pages 324-337, and Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_and_Liberation
Will the Pilgrim Path of Pope Francis Lead to Real Aggiornamento?
This is to call your attention to the March 14, 2013, Wall Street Journal Op-ed by Daniel Johnson, "A New Pope on a Pilgrim's Path." Here's the storyline: In choosing Pope Francis as his new name, Jorge Mario Bergoglio conjures Francis of Assisi, emphasizing the church's humility, poverty and charity. See the op-ed at (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324532004578358773509307346.html?mod=hp_opinion). As stated in my posted comment, "Liberation Theology Not Marxist," on Johnson's op-ed, when Johnson opines: "Pope Francis and the pope emeritus have much else in common, not least a steely orthodoxy that was honed in the battles with liberation theology and other Marxist heresies during the past century," -- he is echoing the rhetoric of the 1980's Vatican and Reagan administration.
Both institutions aligned with the wealthy Latin American ruling classes and government dictatorships to suppress the essential message of liberation theology, to wit: That God is on the side of the impoverished masses. The goal of liberation theology was economic and political liberation of the poor from internal structures of oppression and the colonial-like relationship with the United States and Europe.
This suppression -- done under the guise of fighting the spread of communism -- saw the Vatican's effective destruction of religious leaders, such as the defrocking of the saintly Franciscan Friar Leonardo Boff. Boff argued that the fundamental issue facing Catholicism in the 1980s was human rights in the church and that the church needs to give witness by its practices within its own structures. Also persecuted were the men and women religious who were giving the poor -- held in bondage to the rich -- faith in themselves.
The Vatican protagonists were Pope John Paul II and his orthodoxy enforcer Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, then the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, now pope emeritus, who were forcing the Catholic Church -- via a so-called Restoration -- back into a pre-Vatican II authoritarian institution that would demand unquestioned obedience to its commands .
The fact that Pope Francis was named a cardinal by John Paul II would indicate that he was seen as concurring with the Vatican's Latin American anti-liberation-theology policies at the time. This could be troubling as penetrating questions about his behavior during the "Dirty War" will continue to surface. For example, see the Huff Post story, "Pope Francis Kidnapping Controversy: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Accused Of Involvement In 1976 Abductions," at (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/pope-francis-kidnapping_n_2870251.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D283692), The subject has already been covered by Wikipedia at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis) and was even discussed on a March 14, 2013, PBS Newshour segment on Pope Francis.
Pope Francis is widely praised for his warmth and common touch. However, his credibility as a Francis-of-Assisi-like champion of the poor -- emphasizing the church's humility, poverty and charity -- depends on his ability to emerge unsullied from under the shadow cast not only by the anti-liberation-theology policies of his predecessors, Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, but also by his ability to alter his predecessors harsh man-made policies re: women's ordination, birth control, married clergy, gay and lesbian Catholics, divorced and remarried Catholics, as well as abortion. Only time will tell if Pope Francis will be able to overcome Vatican power politics, the resistance of ultra-conservative organizations such as Opus Dei and Communion and Liberation, and other vested interests, to supplant John Paul II's Restoration with John XXIII's Aggiornamento and so bring the Catholic Church into the modern world as set forth in the two outstanding documents of Vatican II, the "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" and the "Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World."
Papal election stirs Argentina's 'dirty war' past
Further to my last comment, today (March 15) the Chicago Northwest Suburbs Daily Herald ran a brief AP story headlined "Argentina's 'dirty war' debate touches Francis." A Google search for the headline gave many more results than expected. The AP story that turned up was by no means brief. It was dated March 14, 2013, and headlined "Papal election stirs Argentina's 'dirty war' past." The 4-page text can be found at (http://www.lohud.com/viewart/20130314/NEWS/303140038/Papal-election-stirs-Argentina-s-dirty-war-paste).
The story centers on the claim of Pope Francis' critics that he has said little over the years about one of the harshest allegations against him; to wit: That he was among church leaders who actively supported Argentina's 1976-1983 military junta while it was kidnapping and killing thousands of people in a 'dirty war' to eliminate leftist opponents.
Although that was some 37 years ago when Fr. Bergoglio was most likely acting as an obedient servant in accord with Pope John Paul II's anti-liberation-theology policy, it is still a hot emotional issue that could make the walk on his Pilgrim Path more difficult than it really ought to be. However, consider this excerpt from the Wall Street Journal's March 14, 2003, editorial: "Notably, however, Pope Francis did not join those Jesuits who became enamored in the last century with "liberation theology," an attempt to do the impossible and blend Marxism with Christianity." That in a nutshell is why Fr. Bergoglio was able to remain a seminary rector and the provincial for Argentine Jesuits, and 16 years later be named a bishop by John Paul II This put him on the first big step to his papacy with a painful but extraordinary learning experience behind him.
To learn more about the human-rights-centered religious war between the Church and U.S. supported Latin American military dictatorships, see Penny Lernoux's book "Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture, and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America" (Doubleday, 1980) and Zoe Ryan's 2012 NCR review, "32 years later, book on Latin America still challenges us," (http://ncronline.org/news/people/32-years-later-book-latin-america-still-challenges-us),
The appended excerpts from Lernoux's book provide context that should give the reader a good sense of what was going on at the time covered by the allegations against Pope Francis. A good sense of the times can also be obtained from "Romero," a 1989 Paulist Picture about Archbishop Oscar Romero of
El Salvador who was murdered for his stand against social injustice and oppression in his country.
Excerpts from the first chapter of "Cry of the People"
Beneath the surface of Buenos Aires' opulence, behind the steak houses, nightclubs, theaters, and opera houses, are the same malignant forces responsible for still-cruder forms of repression in Bolivia, Paraguay, and a dozen other, poorer Latin-American countries. Though Latin America looks to be the most industrialized- of the Third World areas, two thirds of its 320 million people still live in a Dark Ages, ruled by petty warlords ambitious only for power and money. The medieval torture chamber has been updated with sophisticated technology, though Uruguay and other countries still rely on such ancient methods as burning at the stake.
As under Hitler, organizations that might have protested the brutality have been eliminated, one by one. The communists were the first to go; then the liberal and conservative political parties. Student federations and unions were banned, their leaders imprisoned or killed. Congress was abolished, civil courts were replaced the Church has a hemisphere-wide base and, in the Vatican, an international forum. More important, it still has the authority and organization to command the loyalty of a majority of Latin Americans. (Even today, 90 percent of the people are baptized Catholics.) Like the Spanish and Portuguese languages, Catholicism is so deeply embedded in the Latin-American cultures that a government can no more ignore or destroy it than an Arab ruler can outlaw Islam. Thus the Catholic Church was and is the only body in Latin America powerful enough both to criticize dictatorship and to sustain a formal dialogue with the military leaders in government. It is also the only organization able to encourage alternatives to totalitarianism in the ongoing atmosphere of terror. Unions, student groups, political parties, all seek the protection of the Church: it alone can withstand the repression.
[According to a report by Amnesty International, one of seventeen commonly used torture methods in Uruguay included burning the prisoner alive in a barbecue pit or grill. "When the smell of roasting meat is emitted, the victim is-taken away," reported Amnesty International. (Human Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay, Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, U. S. House of Representatives, June 17, July 27 and 28, and Aug. 4, 1976, p. 50.]
However, not everyone in the Catholic Church agrees that a commitment to social causes is necessary or desirable. There are serious divisions between traditionalists who want to preserve the old ways and progressives who envision a new Latin-American Church similar in spirit and organization to the primitive Christian communities. The split cuts right across the Church, from cardinal to layperson. But the trend dearly favors the progressives, at least in the concept of Vatican II.
One of the most important contributions of Vatican II was its image of the Church as a community of equals instead of a hierarchy of laity, clergy, and bishops. This concept of a "People of God" found quick acceptance in Latin America, where the mass of the people were starved for the Word of God. Although hitherto the Church had dealt with the poor as an afterthought, these Latin Americans cling to a deep sense of religiosity. Indeed, in many cultures it is the only means whereby the poor can express themselves. Unlike the secular societies of industrialized countries, community life in Latin America is still deeply colored by religion. Wherever bishops and clergy have reached out to these people, they have found an immediate response. But this is no longer the traditional Catholicism of pomp and circumstance, of rigid divisions separating the princes of the Church from the people. Bishops, priests, and nuns have come to look upon themselves as brothers and sisters of the people, at the service of the poor. And because almost everyone is poor in Latin America, this
Church will endure, even as the Church of the wealthy and middle classes is succumbing to the same materialism that has infected religious institutions in the United States and Europe.
By any historical measure the price of commitment to the poor has been enormous. Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and of the Protestants, too, is unparalleled m modern history, even in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. Since 1968, when Latin America's Catholic Church began to question the miserable conditions in which two thirds of the people live, over 850 priests, nuns, and bishops have been arrested, tortured, murdered, or expelled, and thousands of the Catholic laity have been jailed and killed.
Go and Repair My House
Today's Wall Street Journal carried two more stories that covered much of the same material presented in my previous two comments.
The first was Matt Moffett's page-6 story headlined "Argentina Debates Pope's Political Past,"
Moffett's page-6 print story was displayed front and center on the Journal's online edition along with a link a second piece on the subject -- an essay by Carlos Gamerro titled "Pope Francis, the Disappeared, and the Questions That Won't Vanish," (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/03/15/pope-francis-the-disappeared-and-the-questions-that-wont/).
In view of the above, it was good to see Peggy Noonan's uplifting opinion piece "'Go and Repair My House,' Heard the Saint of Assisi." Noonan's piece can be found at (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393304578360853499727768.html).
Noonan's epigram, "There is a power in the new pope's humility," is thought provoking to say the least.
I believe Francis' profound humility is truly genuine -- rooted somewhere in Argentina's 1973-1983 dirty-war years. Painful lessons must have been learned during this time. Also, haunting memories must exist of his oppressed and murdered fellow religious who dedicated themselves to social justice and worked with the disenfranchised poor in defiance of Pope John Paul II's opposition to their liberation theology. Memories of the assassination of Archbishop Romero in 1980 at the hands of the Salvadoran junta must still be hurting.
The Smear Campaign, Father Bergoglio's choice, and the Papacy
According to Mary Anastasia O'Grady, what embitters those trying to turn Argentina into the next Venezuela."is that Father Bergoglio believed that Marxism (and the related "liberation theology") was antithetical to Christianity and refused to embrace it in the 1970s. That put him in the way of those inside the Jesuit order at the time who believed in revolution." See "Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope," at (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324077704578362701947035938.html).
Father Bergoglio's decisions during Argentina's 1973-1983 dirty-war years were certainly life affecting. He surely must have learned painful lessons during this tragic time while agonizing between a choice between the 'for' and 'against' positions re: liberation theology -- the 'for' of the Gospels, the poor, and left-wing revolutionaries versus the 'against' of Pope John Paul II, the military dictatorship, and the rich.
It may never be known whether Father Bergoglio really believed that Marxism (and the related "liberation theology") was antithetical to Christianity or whether he simply acted out of obedience and loyalty to the anti-liberation theology policy of the virulently anti-communist and charismatic Pope John Paul II.
What does seem to be evident is that he helped the poor and oppressed in his own way while avoiding entanglements with both the radical left-wing revolutionaries and the right-wing military dictatorship -- I believe a choice that eventually led him to the papacy.
The Smear Campaign, Father Bergoglio's choice, and the Papacy
According to Mary Anastasia O'Grady, what embitters those trying to turn Argentina into the next Venezuela."is that Father Bergoglio believed that Marxism (and the related "liberation theology") was antithetical to Christianity and refused to embrace it in the 1970s. That put him in the way of those inside the Jesuit order at the time who believed in revolution." See "Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope," at (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324077704578362701947035938.html).
Father Bergoglio's decisions during Argentina's 1973-1983 dirty-war years were certainly life affecting. He surely must have learned painful lessons during this tragic time while agonizing between a choice between the 'for' and 'against' positions re: liberation theology -- the 'for' of the Gospels, the poor, and left-wing revolutionaries versus the 'against' of Pope John Paul II, the military dictatorship, and the rich.
It may never be known whether Father Bergoglio really believed that Marxism (and the related "liberation theology") was antithetical to Christianity or whether he simply acted out of obedience and loyalty to the anti-liberation theology policy of the virulently anti-communist and charismatic Pope John Paul II.
What does seem to be evident is that he helped the poor and oppressed in his own way while avoiding entanglements with both the radical left-wing revolutionaries and the right-wing military dictatorship -- I believe a choice that eventually led him to the papacy.
There is no better way to cap this series of comments than with the following words of Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, taken from his March 17, 2013, online piece, "Francis, the Jesuits and the Dirty War," in the National Catholic Reporter, (http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/francis-jesuits-and-dirty-war):
"In the face of tyranny, there are those who take a prophetic stance and die martyrs. There are those who collaborate with the regime. And there are others who do what they can while keeping their heads low....Those who have not lived under a dictatorship should not be quick to judge those who have, whether the dictatorship was in ancient Rome, Latin America, Africa, Nazi Germany, Communist Eastern Europe, or today's China. We should revere martyrs, but not demand every Christian be one."


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Theodore Dreiser
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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life.
- Our civilisation is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
- Sister Carrie (1900), ch. VIII.
- Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash,
From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay;
Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming
On the banks of the Wabash, far away.
- On the Banks of the Wabash (1896), chorus
- This song was written by Dreiser's brother Paul (known as Paul Dresser); but Dreiser later claimed that "I wrote the first verse and chorus" [A Hoosier Holiday (1916) ch. XLIII: "The Mystery of Coincidence"].
The Financier (1912)[edit]
- A man, a real man, must never be an agent, a tool, or a gambler—acting for himself or for others—he must employ such. A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led.
- Ch. VI.
- She had no desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. Innate sensuousness rarely has. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.
- Ch. XIII.
- The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions—none more so than the most capable.
- Ch. XIII.
- Literature, outside of the masters, has given us but one idea of the mistress, the subtle, calculating siren who delights to prey on the souls of men. The journalism and the moral pamphleteering of the time seem to foster it with almost partisan zeal. It would seem that a censorship of life had been established by divinity, and the care of its execution given into the hands of the utterly conservative. Yet there is that other form of liaison which has nothing to do with conscious calculation. In the vast majority of cases it is without design or guile. The average woman, controlled by her affections and deeply in love, is no more capable than a child of anything save sacrificial thought—the desire to give; and so long as this state endures, she can only do this. She may change—Hell hath no fury, etc.—but the sacrificial, yielding, solicitous attitude is more often the outstanding characteristic of the mistress; and it is this very attitude in contradistinction to the grasping legality of established matrimony that has caused so many wounds in the defenses of the latter. The temperament of man, either male or female, cannot help falling down before and worshiping this nonseeking, sacrificial note. It approaches vast distinction in life. It appears to be related to that last word in art, that largeness of spirit which is the first characteristic of the great picture, the great building, the great sculpture, the great decoration—namely, a giving, freely and without stint, of itself, of beauty.
- Ch. XXIII.
- Few people have the sense of financial individuality strongly developed. They do not know what it means to be a controller of wealth, to have that which releases the sources of social action—its medium of exchange. They want money, but not for money's sake. They want it for what it will buy in the way of simple comforts, whereas the financier wants it for what it will control—for what it will represent in the way of dignity, force, power.
- Ch. XXV.
- The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation—to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.
- Ch. XXVI.
- Parents are frequently inclined, because of a time-flattered sense of security, to take their children for granted. Nothing ever has happened, so nothing ever will happen. They see their children every day, and through the eyes of affection; and despite their natural charm and their own strong parental love, the children are apt to become not only commonplaces, but ineffably secure against evil. […] The astonishment of most parents at the sudden accidental revelation of evil in connection with any of their children is almost invariably pathetic. […] But it is possible. Very possible. Decidedly likely. Some, through lack of experience or understanding, or both, grow hard and bitter on the instant. They feel themselves astonishingly abased in the face of notable tenderness and sacrifice. Others collapse before the grave manifestation of the insecurity and uncertainty of life—the mystic chemistry of our being. Still others, taught roughly by life, or endowed with understanding or intuition, or both, see in this the latest manifestation of that incomprehensible chemistry which we call life and personality, and, knowing that it is quite vain to hope to gainsay it, save by greater subtlety, put the best face they can upon the matter and call a truce until they can think. We all know that life is unsolvable—we who think. The remainder imagine a vain thing, and are full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
- Ch. XXVI.
- The conventional mind is at best a petty piece of machinery. It is oyster-like in its functioning, or, perhaps better, clam-like. It has its little siphon of thought-processes forced up or down into the mighty ocean of fact and circumstance; but it uses so little, pumps so faintly, that the immediate contiguity of the vast mass is not disturbed. Nothing of the subtlety of life is perceived. No least inkling of its storms or terrors is ever discovered except through accident.
- Ch. XXX.
- I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.
- "The First Voyage Over," The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (August 1913); later published in A Traveler at Forty (1913), ch. I: "Barfleur Takes Me in Hand".
- If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
- The Genius (1915) The University of Illinois Press, 2004, ISBN 0-252-03100-8, p. 734
- Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- "Life, Art and America," The Seven Arts (February 1917).
- Shakespeare, I come!
- Intended last words, as told to H. L. Mencken. "When Dreiser wrote that he had already framed his last words — 'Shakespeare, I come!' — and asked Mencken what his would be, Mencken replied acidly, 'I regret that I have but one rectum to leave to my country.'" - William Manchester, Disturber of the Peace: H. L. Mencken (1951) University of Michigan Press, digitized 2007-01-28, pp. 109-110.
Quotes about Dreiser[edit]
- Theodore Dreiser
Should ought to write nicer.
- Dorothy Parker, reviewing Dreiser's Dawn in The New Yorker (May 30, 1931).
- Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [Sister Carrie] like an unsavory pit stain.
- Clementine the Hedgehog, introducing Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser


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