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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Maybelline Stylish Smokes Eyeshadow Quads
Here we have the not-really-new-anymore Maybelline Stylish Smokes eyeshadow quad collection. Oddly enough, this may actually have some new information and sights for your pretty eyes, since Maybelline recently added two more Smokes quads (Plum and Sapphire) to the collection. The original release of four debuted a few months ago. (That's also why the swatch pictures for Plum and Sapphire are unlike the first four - they were taken at a totally different time and place.)
Overall I think these are quite nice, but the quality can be inconsistent. Some of the shades are chalky with poor pigmentation, others are chunky with poor pigmentation, and others still are just peachy-perfect. Annoyingly, every quad has 1-2 shades I absolutely LOVE and the rest I feel like I could do without, so I could never quite decide what to do with mine. I eventually decided against keeping them in the interest of keeping my stash minimized, but not before seriously considering depotting them all so I could keep 1/3 of the shades from all the quads...
Also, just for your information, the purple shade in the Charcoal quad is almost identical to MAC Mothbrown (LE from the Barbie collection), and the deep green in the Emerald quad is similar to MAC Humid.
These retail for $6-7 each and are available in most drugstores.
Stylish Smokes Eyeshadow Quad: Natural Smokes, Charcoal Smokes, Emerald Smokes, Amethyst Smokes, Plum Smokes, Sapphire Smokes
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wow nice swatch. ^_^ReplyDelete
I really like the last 4 swatches and that last color in Sapphire looks like the MAC e/s I want so badly.ReplyDelete
Which one, Rayqueenbee? Deep Truth? ... the texture and pigmentation of Deep Truth is much better, if so, FYI. Sorry =/ReplyDelete
Vau, they all look great. I can't decide which one to buy :)ReplyDelete
If you want to see these colors on eyes, I have used them at my site: savvythinker.comReplyDelete
Unfortunately I can't copy and paste the exact urls here, so do a search at archives on the word Maybelline and they will pop up.
I like them a lot!
I love your swatches. You are one of the places I link to on my front page.
Hi Karin,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the compliments and info! I just tried to search Maybelline on your site, but didn't find the entry you're referring to. Can you email it to me somehow, or email the pictures?
I've seen a few reviews on these and I'm definitely picking up the Emerald Smokes quad sometime.... But I just ordered the UD Shadow Book and Too Faced palettes and I really shouldn't be spending more on shadow :( Your swatches make me wanna grab the Emerald and Sapphire :D Waiting for a BOGO....ReplyDelete
Bought the first 4 quads when they came out. I really wish I had "Plum Smokes" instead of "Natural Smokes." Plum Smokes look like there's more color to it while Natural Smokes didn't show up on me unless I packed it on. Debating on whether to buy since I rarely use the 4 I already own.. hmmReplyDelete
OMG this is such a nice swatch!!!!ReplyDelete
I have 1 question: does these eyeshadow long-lasting? I have oily eyelids
SuPeachChaya, what you need is a good eye primer - that will help these and almost all other eyeshadows last on your oily eyelids. I'd recommend Urban Decay Primer Potion. :)ReplyDelete
can you do comparison swatches between the shadow in plum smokes and moth brown please? thanksReplyDelete
aksaiyo, I actually already have done a comparison between Mothbrown and the crease shade in the Charcoal Smokes quad (which is much closer to Mothbrown). You should be able to view the images using the following links (on my MUA pics account):ReplyDelete
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We were not what you'd call telephone people.
When I was growing up, the telephone was something you didn't tie up, especially because it could mean the difference between going to work or not going to work when my dad initially was on the extra board on the railroad.
If he didn't get the call, he didn't get the work, so the telephone was not this household staple existing for idle chit-chat and long, rambling conversations about nothing just to pass the time.
No, a telephone was there as a means to relay pertinent information. Just the facts.
Ring, ring, ring. Answer or call. Say what you must. Hang up.
Or don't even call at all.
My sister Cathy and I have our chuckles about our days as students at West Liberty State College - she in the '60s, me in the '70s - because rarely - rarely - did we ever get phone calls from the home front.
If we did, we knew something was terribly wrong. Someone had surely died.
And if my parents went away on a trip, for example, there was never that phone call to affirm or reassure that they had made it OK to their destination. No not-to-worry call.
Our assumption was always no news is good news, so why would they need to call?
This, dear readers, was my phone normalcy/reality growing up in a household where, a big, heavy rotary dial model was how we communicated beyond the household walls - or didn't. Sometimes I think the receiver functioned as a better barbell than a connection to the outside world.
Even now when my mother calls me on the telephone, she speaks her peace at the speed of a hummingbird's flight, even squeezing in an apology for having kept me all of two to three minutes, then comes the quick goodbye, the hang-up, the distinct click. Later, later.
It's almost as if there's an egg timer ticking or the Telephone Police are at bay, monitoring the minutes.
Now I did have my abuse moments with the phone as a kid, a prank call here and there to inquire whether Prince Albert was in a can or, excuse me, sir, but is your refrigerator running? A little telephone humor there, even though telephone use was pretty serious stuff for the most part in my growing-up experience.
I thought about all this the other day when I was keenly aware about how people are always talking, talking, talking on phones these days, thanks to cell phones and all these modern forms of communication we have at our disposal.
Everybody has a lot to say constantly wherever they are, whatever they're doing.
Talk. Text. Twitter.
We're never out of touch.
Everybody's talking a-l-l the t-i-m-e.
Even so, I still find it hard to tie up a telephone for very long, this because of my upbringing.
But every once in a while, I get a little wild and crazy.
I call my mom, and we talk for four minutes.
(Kiaski, a resident of Steubenville, is a staff columnist and features writer for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and community editor for the Herald-Star. She can be contacted at email@example.com.)


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President of LCWR on "Fresh Air"
This past Tuesday, NPR's Terry Gross interviewed Sister Pat Farrell, the president of the LCWR, on "Fresh Air." Farrell offered a controlled and careful response to the CDF's recent criticisms, but she also did not cower or compromisewhen it came to issues about which the LCWR and many others in the Church have been advocating for dialogue. For that reason, I think the interview was also courageous and definitely worth checking out.A few key excerpts after the jump:
On dialogue within the Church:
The question is, 'Can you be Catholic and have a questioning mind?' That's what we're asking. ... I think one of our deepest hopes is that we can make headway in helping to create a safe and respectful environment where church leaders along with rank-and-file members can raise questions openly and search for truth freely concerning the very complex and swiftly changing issues of our day. But the climate is not there. And this mandate coming from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, putting us in a position of being under the control of certain bishops, is not a dialogue. If anything, it appears to be shutting down dialogue.
On "radical feminist themes":
Sincerely, what I hear in the phrasing ... is fear a fear of women's positions in the church. Now, that's just my interpretation. I have no idea what was in the mind of the Congregation when they wrote that. But women theologians around the world have been seriously looking at the question: How have the Church's interpretations of how we talk about God, interpret Scripture, organize life in the Church how have they been tainted by a culture that minimizes the value and the place of women?
On abortion:
I think the criticism of what we're not talking about seems to me to be unfair, because [Women] Religious have clearly given our lives to supporting life, to supporting the dignity of human persons. Our works are very much pro-life. We would question, however, any policy that is more pro-fetus than actually pro-life. If the rights of the unborn trump all of the rights of all of those who are already born, that is a distortion too.
On women's ordination:
There has, in fact, been an official opinion from the Church that that topic should not be discussed. When that declaration came out, the response of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was to call for a nationwide time of prayer and fasting for all Women Religious, because our deep desire is that places of leadership for women in the Church be open. It remains a desire. Since then, the Leadership Conference has not spoken publicly about the ordination of women. Imposing a silence doesn't necessarily change people's thinking, but we are in a position to continue to be very concerned that the position of women in the Church be recognized.
On the limitations of an all-male leadership:
I think that the Church has been structured with all-male leadership, which has serious disadvantages, and the Church has been structured with a hierarchical, unquestioned structure that has little mechanism for accountability.That's so different from our reality within women's congregations, because for one thing, we elect all our own leaders, and we have experienced the leadership of strong women. Women have been leaders in our ministries. We're a very educated group of women within the Catholic Church. We have women who are CEOs of hospitals, of hospital systems, who are presidents of colleges, principals of schools. So as women religious, our lifetime experience has been of expecting strong leadership from women, and that's been our daily experience. So our experience of the leadership of women in the church is our daily bread. It's very different from that of the hierarchy.
Listen to the whole thing here or read the transcript.
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My favorite scholar is the American cultural historian and theorist Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003) of Saint Louis University. (His family name is English; for centuries, his family name was spelled Onge; it is probably related to the English name Yonge.)Among other things, Ong published a book-length study of male agonistic tendencies: FIGHTING FOR LIFE: CONTEST, SEXUALITY, AND CONSCIOUSNESS (1981), the published version of Ongs 1979 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University. The Greek word agon means contest, struggle. Ong attributes the propensity toward agonist behavior to male insecurity. On the one hand, he does not deny female insecurity. On the other hand, he holds that male insecurity is rooted in the males recognition that females are more important for the reproduction of the human race than males are. So thats the big picture that Ong draws attention to in his 1981 book.In his 1964 Terry Lectures at Yale University, expanded and published in book form as THE PRESENCE OF THE WORD: SOME PROLEGOMENA FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY (1967), Ong draws attention to basically the same male tendencies, but he refers to them there as polemic tendencies. The Greek term polemos means war, struggle.Ong also discusses agonistic structures in his most widely known book ORALITY AND LITERACY: THE TECHNOLOGIZING OF THE WORD (2002 ed., pages 42-45, 69-70), which has gone through more than thirty printings in English and has been translated into eleven other languages.In a 1998 interview with Sister Barbara Schlatter, Ong makes certain further points that strike me as relevant to Sister Patricia Farrells observations and comments. Sister Schlatters unpublished transcription of the interview is too lengthy for me to post here. But I will post enough of the interview here to give you the flavor of Ongs thought.[Schlatter: I told Ong that I taught Othello, Macbeth. He asked how they [students] reacted. I explained how I have more success if I have the students do what the authors did: for Beowulf, write in a 4-beat alliterative line, making someone look wonderful. He added "or dastardly." I told Ong how--with Chaucer--I have them describe a modern day pilgrim in iambic pentameter.]Ong: They're getting a good course.Schlatter: On Shakespeare, why is he considered so good. He's taking stories that pre-existed, but what he does with them--is he doing more with interiority of characters than previous authors.Ong: Interiority. Oh, I think he is [doing more with interiority]. That's why with characters . . . what people call three-dimensional. . . that's one thing they're getting at with three-dimensional. If you're interior, it's another [mess? dimension?]. There are more conflicts; they're just not facts [?].Schlatter: Round characters couldn't exist in an oral culture?Ong: Yes, [in an oral culture] you've got to say it and get it over with. . . you've got to have it hop right out there flat; the complexity is too much for them. Well, that's fine. You're doing well.The Novel Ong: [Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice.] Here is where things start getting interior. You know where I say somewhere that women were not trained in rhetoric. Rhetoric is for outside display, for up on a platform. Do you know that in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln and Douglas were over here in the fields of Illinois on a hot summer day. The first speaker was allowed an hour. The second speaker was allowed an hour and a half. Then the first speaker had a half-hour rebuttal. And they were shouting at the tops of their voices. See, that's why you didn't have women orators. You can hear a woman's voice at a distance, but you can't hear the articulated syllables. You can't understand what she's saying when she put it at that pitch, the articulation won't work. Schlatter: Maybe no one would want to listen to a woman then.Ong: Well, they might. People listen to women orators now with a loud speaker. Schlatter: That's why there were no women on stage?Ong: I think it had something to do with it indirectly. Men's education was for oratory which is external--external in the way you handle your thinking, and it's external when you express yourself. Women didn't have that kind of training. And that gave them the advantage of doing what a woman would do better anyhow--of exploring her own interiors. You know you have Lady Murasaki Shikibu who was a Japanese woman of the 11th century. She wrote a novel [The Tale of Genji]. In the 11th century! You couldn't imagine somebody in the West doing that. She's a woman. She gets inside the way people think and feel. And that's what drives women crazy with men: They don't want to do that. That's what drives men crazy with women: They always want to do that. That's all they want to do: Why did she do this? and Why did she do that? Well, then think about this [part?]. You know, women's writing can have complexities that drive men up the wall. They can't understand what the hell they want to do about [?]. You know what I'm talking about. In Jane Austen--the complex relationships between the characters. You don't have that kind of complexity in Shakespeare. You've got complexities, but it's not that kind. It's not people looking at other people and saying, 'What's she thinking when she does this?' That's a woman's world, and men feel excluded from it. The men are really lost in it.Schlatter: How do you account for the popularity of Austen among some men?Ong: Well, because you can adapt to that. But they weren't the ones who started it out.Schlatter: Who was the audience for Austen?Ong: Many of the early women authors use a masculine name . . . George Eliot--to get them out on the market.Schlatter: Was the readership male primarily or . . . ?Ong: I think it was primarily female, but you have to do that [use male name] to get the publishers to take it. Schlatter: Who was buying it?Ong: It would be women who would be buying it [?].Schlatter: Were there that many women educated in Jane Austen's time?Ong: They were getting more and more. Schlatter: Characters in Pride and Prejudice read books--male and female.Ong: Women are interested in what men do. And what they're thinking. That's what a woman really wants to know, What are those men thinking?Schlatter: Because they're interested in interiority?Ong: That's right. What's making them tick inside. This goes back to being a mother. Women can manage chaos without eliminating the chaos. That's the way a mother runs a family. You can't wait until you get the chaos all cleaned up. You've got to have it running while it's still chaotic. The men have to get it all straightened out first; then they can do it. That's in a general sort of way.Schlatter: As you get older, trying to deal with the chaos--is that control male or female?Ong: It's a mix of female and male as you get older. You're letting more of a male side of you carry control.[Schlatter: I told Ong about going through my journals to try to describe what was going on in my life when I had medical problem.]Ong: You're interested in what goes on inside you. Schlatter: Writing it down in an orderly way [in my journals] gives me a sense of control. It's a complex thing, but I think it makes sense. Ong: Women manage chaos without eliminating it whereas men eliminate it.Schlatter: How do men eliminate chaos?Ong: "Get those kids out of the house!"Schlatter: Let's put that into literature.Ong: OK. The women write novels. The men didn't write the first novels, roughly speaking. Men were writing the picaresque. People like Don Quixote and Tom Jones. But not Jane Austen. Men later on can do that. They learn it from women. It's one of the many things that men learn [from women.] [Tape ran out.][From Schlatters notes: Women's studies affect theology, Church government. Men are afraid of femininity. Women are not afraid of masculinity. Women aren't afraid to wear pants, but men won't wear skirts. Men are not afraid of women: They can beat them up. Women are afraid of men: They can be beat up.]David Toolan, S.J., discussed Ong's account of male agonistic tendencies in his article "The male agony: According to Walter J. Ong" in COMMONWEAL, volume 119, number 20 (November 20, 1992): pages 13-18.Recently John Coates of Cambridge University has studies male agonistic tendencies in detail in his book THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: RISK TAKING, GUT FEELINGS AND THE BIOLOGY OF BOOM AND BUST (2012).
As Sister entered the lions den of the MSM, where the pro-life position is mocked when its considered at all, one hopes she could have mustered the same courage she seems able to summon when she disagrees with the official teaching of the Catholic Church. Instead, we get this:We would question, however, any policy that is more pro-fetus than actually pro-life.Hope you didnt hurt yourself with that bold proclamation, Sister. And you wonder where all your flowers have gone?
Eric Bugyis: How about spelling her surname the way she spells it: Farrell?
"We would question, however, any policy that is more pro-fetus than actually pro-life. If the rights of the unborn trump all of the rights of all of those who are already born, that is a distortion too."I read this differently than above. If being pro-life is measured ONLY by what nuns do to stop abortion, that stunts (distorts) the mission of many orders, which is to support life at all phases and in many ways. You help women who need pre-natal care, you're pro-life. You prevent malaria among young children, you're pro-life. You provide teenagers with a safe, quality education, you're pro-life. You provide health care for the elderly in areas that have no doctors, you're pro-life.OTOH, I know there are many Catholics who believe that if you do not make a priority of the unborn, which is being lost by the millions each year due to legalized abortion (and without benefit of baptism, which means not only ending those lives but risking sending all those babies to Perdition for eternity), you can't really call yourself pro-life. FWIW, I've always thought Catholics who call unborn life "innocent" a little weird. In the eyes of the Church, no human life is "innocent"; it's all tainted with original sin from the moment of conception. Church teaching about the fate of the souls of the unborn is pretty harsh. You can hope, the Pope says, they go to heaven. The message to parents who have lost children is pretty much, "Hope away, if you want, but don't count on it."
Very interesting, and I hope you'll also post Gross's interview with Bp. Blair. Farrell has obviously thought out her positions very carefully, and presents them very well indeed. Assuming for the moment that she is accurate in the statements governing the LCWR's relations with the CDF, it looks more than ever as if Rome has picked these particular issues at this particular time to divert attention from its massive failures in dealing with the abuse crisis, particularly in the last decade. Perhaps Bp. Blair will be able to convince us othewise -- we'll see. I myself fear that it will equate "obedience" with "unquestioning obedience," and hope I am wrong.
This is not going to end well.
I thought she went along fine, very carefully and diplomatically, until she objected to pro-life efforts that were really pro-fetus efforts. I agree with Jim.
"This is not going to end well."Jim, I usually understand where you're coming from, but I don't quite follow what "this" refers to or what you see that bodes a bad ending for someone/something.What puzzles me is that LCWR is being investigated at all. The postV2 nun is on her way out, and investigating these women strikes me as somewhat pointless. For good or ill, this type of nun is dying out.JP2 nuns are ascendant. They wear habits, focus more on anti-abortion efforts, are less visible outside the Catholic community, and are attracting the younger members of the Church.
I think it's true that VII nuns(like VII priests) are and will be dying off -and I don't think that "ends well."I thought Sister did just fine and therfre are many who I think would agree.The entire CDF process, the whole problem of "dialogue." the issue of women and feminism -and despite the one idea minset offered by some here -the whole Gospel of life are issues in divide! AAR, the future seems rather grim to me if position intransigence is the name of the game.
I find these women inspiring; I think many other people do, too, so already something good has come of this.
I dropped a comment on this topic at America and promptly had it deleted. As far as I can remember, about all I said was that it had been painful to listen to Sr. F as she very, very carefully chose every word she spoke. (The interviewer had said as much, so this shouldn't have offended the Jesuits.) I did also remark that Sr. F would likely leave the leadership of her group before long, because she'd clearly decided - bravely, maybe - to meet her ecclesiastical hand slap head on by being publicly oppositional, and oppositional people make very poor negotiators.I'm afraid there aren't enough sisters left in America for them to have much leverage in Rome, especially those inclined to diss the male hierarchy in public. Aesop would have a lot to teach them about getting along in life, if they'd listen. But, of course, he's a dead white male.
the future seems rather grim to me if position intransigence is the name of the game
Of course it is, Bob. If you don't think so, try telling off your boss next time he does a stupid thing.
When the 9 year old pregnant girl in Brazil had an abortion to save her life, the bishop there stated ... "Abortion is much more serious than killing an adult. An adult may or may not be an innocent, but an unborn child is most definitely innocent." ... http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883598,00.htmlThe idea that some lives are worth more than others is not Christian - nowhere that i recall (correct me if I'm wrong) does Jesus or God rate human lives.
David S. --Aesop's origins are really unknown, but one tradition has it that he was a black Ethiopian.
Thomas Farrell --Thanks for the interview snips. Lots of wisdom about women there, unusual in a Jesuit. We're not usually in their radar.
@Ann Olivier (7/21, 10:35 pm) Thanks for this comment of yours. Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on Aesop and the question of whether he was of African origin (whether Ethiopia, Nubia, or elsewhere). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop#Physical_appearance_and_the_question_... general, it's worth keeping in mind that for much of the Mediterranean world 2-3 millenia ago, Africa was seen and understood to be the origin of much of the wisdom and knowledge accumulated by humanity---and that all other wisdom and knowledge (e.g., including that associated with the ancient Greeks) was derived from and/or built upon the foundation laid by the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Nubians and other Africans.
Luke --One of the things I learned teaching in a predominantly black college was that one reason to go with the Aesop-was=African theory is that it is fairly typical of African cultures to embody wisdom in stories about different sorts of animals. Animals, through instinct, embody some amazing "wisdom" in their behavior, so why not make them the stars of the wisdom stories ? About African influence, St. Augustine was an AFrican. His mother was a Berber, a people of mixed race, and he was described as "swarthy". One can hardly overestimate his influence on the West.
Without necessarily agreeing with everything that comes from the LCWR, what Sister Pat makes clear here is the difference between searching for the living God and opting to worship the institutional church. Recall James Alison on this (March interview in Commonweal with Brett Salkeld). The more the institution pronounces on these things in such a preemptive, arrogant fashion, the clearer that distinction becomes. Totaliy unrelated, but see no place else to comment: the coming sanctions against Penn State only serve, for me, to underline that the Church holds itself to a much lower standard than the "world." How little penalty, punishment, conversion, repentance, restitution has the institution required of itself vs. what happens in sex abuse cases "out there." And these are the "authentic teachers of faith and morals"? Dreadful, shameful witness!!! Hmmm...isn't so unrelated to the LCWR issue after all, is it?
searching for the living God and opting to worship the institutional churchNo one is worshipping the institutional Church. But Christ established the Church to lead us to the living God. He must have believed we needed its help. The two ideas: living God and institutional Church are not mutually exclusive as implied by the above statement but rather mutually complementary.
Janet is right - the institution is deeply problematic in that it has (as the result of post VII kickback) become the CDF/curia model Church - in contrast to the nuns . who operate in pastoral activity,especially with those on the margins.Part of that issue is echoed in Ms. Fullam's new thread.The Penn St. matter is relevanr to the mess in Philly (I see Ft. Brennan will be retried and Bishop Bransfield under investigation with all the internal links there to bishops past and present, living or dead)/. There are many who would like it to end and don't want to know and some who don't want you to know.Beyomd that the Penn St. analogy lonks to the NCAA which has "institution controls" over its individual memebers, sort of analogous to USCCB and individual dioceses.The latter has "fraternal correction" as its managing damage conytol and reputation protection as its tool, but pbviously the NCA thought harsh penalties were needed to correct a culture of institution first - even now as folks in Penn St. community are unhappy about how such sanctions will affect their beloved Penn St.Which gets us back ro the Church it operates basically on its own rules which insulate those who have governnace positions. They contiue to operate in an insular manner .If the Church operates like any good business in its damage control mode, is that pointing us to the living God?
Bob N. --Would that the Church would operate like any good business in its damage control. If senior management in a small American business had covered up abuses of those beneath them the way the hierarchy has done, they would all be out on their ears over the week-end. But what does the Church do? It promotes the worst of the cover-uppers, Cardinal Law, to a cushy job in Rome, even as he maintains his position in five curial dicasteries.(So you say to yourself, she sounds like a broken record. She responds: you needed reminding.)
"Jim, I usually understand where youre coming from, but I dont quite follow what this refers to or what you see that bodes a bad ending for someone/something."I just mean that I don't see any sign in these comments from Sr. Farrell that there is any willingness to take the CDF's critique to heart. In my experience over the last 30-40 years of Catholicism, American religious sisters are pretty adept at deploying the language of "study", "reflection", "discernment", "dialogue". That language would actually be pretty welcome from the LCWR at this juncture, because it would indicate that it acknowledges that the CDF may have an important corrective to offer, one that requires reflection, discernment and dialogue among the LCWR's member congregations and their leaders. I don't see that spirit pervading Sr Farrell's comments. What good could these public comments possibly accomplish? \This (meaning, "the relationship between the LCWR and Rome") could go down a very bad road, of public acrimony and an ever-widening split - an ever-widening fracturing of communion. Who would wish to see that happen?
Bruce: it is not the fact of the institution or and organization that is opposed to the search for the livng God and to true worship, it is the current climate, color, culture of the institution that is the obstacle and the antithesis. Read that section of the James Alsion interview: it is truly breathtaking in its accurate assessment of what happens when Catholics fall into ecclesiolatry. I know from experience. what this means, as I used to be an ecclesiolater myself.
Here is the Alison quote: "Spending time, as I do, with people on both sides of the Reformation divide, I find strict parallels between the temptations to which either side is prone. Protestantism is tempted to bibliolatry, and Catholicism is tempted to ecclesiolatry. Both are forms of idolatry that involve some sort of grasping of security where it is not to be found. This grasping ends up by evacuating the object grasped (whether the Bible or the church) of meaning, turning it instead into a projection of the one grasping. The nonidolatrous approach is when we allow ourselves to be reached and held by a living act of communication from One who is not on the same level as either Bible or church, but of whose self-disclosure those realities can most certainly become signs. A sure sign of a pattern of desire locked in grasping is the speed with which we collapse into invidious comparisons such that we acquire our identities over against others in our own group, rather than receiving them together patiently from the one calling us into being."As a Catholic I am fully committed to the notion that, the Word having become flesh, the living act of communication is an ecclesial one, made available through bodily signs. In addition, I take it for granted that the church is prior to me, and that if something is church teaching, it is true. The presumption is on there being some sort of truthfulness at work in the stated teaching until it becomes clear that this is not the case. The real question for me, as a Catholic trying to think toward the future, is this: we know that we have only one Magister, the Incarnate Word of God, and that the authentic teaching office in the church is not above, but serves, this Living Word. Furthermore, this Living Word has chosen to address us at a level of fraternal equality, making of us his brothers and sisters who have only one Father, God, and are not to call anyone else our father. So, how do we hold fast to the experience of Jesus teaching us in and as church as we become aware of how often the bishops, those who have been consecrated sacramental signs, seem to allow the richness of the faith to become secondary to culture-war imperatives, institutional self-interest, and the search for corporate approval? I think that reimagining the ecclesial shape of Christ teaching in our midst, exploring the sort of act of communication genuine divine teaching is, and understanding better the relationship between the Teacher, those taught, and those charged to be signs of truthfulness is going to be one of the real challenges of the next generation.""Theology as Survival," interview with Brett SalkeldCommonweal, 03/07/12
"This (meaning, 'the relationship between the LCWR and Rome') could go down a very bad road, of public acrimony and an ever-widening split an ever-widening fracturing of communion. Who would wish to see that happen?"Not me. But it seems to me that the eventuality of a nun-spawned schism is an extremely long shot given that the average nun is in her 60s or 70s (depending on who's doing the count), and the dearth of nuns in general. Wait 10 years, and those women will be dead or unable do anything, whether it's opposing abortion, teaching school, or fomenting heresy, more's the pity.Heck, I used to know a lot of nuns when I was a Protestant. Now I'd have to travel 25 miles to find the nearest one. I'd have to travel at least an hour to find a group of more than two nuns, and that would be the retirement homes for women religious in Grand Rapids or Adrian.
Jean, I agree, and the numbers, by themselves, are tragic. But despite their dwindling numbers (and despite the determination of at least some of them to marginalize themselves within the church), religious sisters still command a significant hold on the popular Catholic imagination, one that far exceeds their sheer numbers and their collective dwindling energy. An ugly public fight with church authorities is bad, not only for the nuns and the authorities, but for the church as a whole.As we've seen here in comments in the many posts on religious sisters over the last several years, a lot of progressive Catholics follow the sisters' situations closely. It may be that some progressive Catholics would cling more to progressive nuns than to the church - may even, if, God forbid, it should come to that, follow them right out the door.People intuit, I think, that the church needs religious sisters. Their holiness and their witness are important, in ways that perhaps are hard to articulate. Maybe folks can tell that I'm frustrated by American religious sisters. Here's why: in my view, the CDF notification didn't drive sisters farther away from the church authorities; it simply acknowledged the distressing reality that sisters have not been as wholeheartedly in communion as I would wish them to be, for many years now. I don't know how much folks appreciate the forbearance and mercy that the notification represents. It presents an opportunity to heal wounds that are wide and deep. The guy that Rome has appointed to work with the sisters seems like he's open to a productive and collaborative relationship, and has sent a number of public signals to that effect. And yet, every public utterance from the sisters' leadership is of defiance and determination to make things worse rather than better.
Here is an example of what frosts me. Sr. Farrell says this in the interview: "I think the criticism of what were not talking about seems to me to be unfair, because [Women] Religious have clearly given our lives to supporting life, to supporting the dignity of human persons. Our works are very much pro-life. We would question, however, any policy that is more pro-fetus than actually pro-life."Perhaps it isn't fair to expect women religious to measure up to Mother Teresa's standard. But consider the witness of Mother Teresa's life. Surely her lifetime of service in support of the dignity of the lives of those already born is profoundly pro-life, as Sr. Farrell's criteria would hold. Yet Mother Teresa also provided powerful witness on the sanctity of life before birth. I'd imagine that many dotCom readers are already familiar with Mother Teresa's amicus brief, filed with the US Supreme Court. For those who aren't, it's available here. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/roe/mothertheresa_roe.ht... light of the eloquence that Mother Teresa summoned in this legal filing, Sr. Farrell's political potshot about "pro-fetus" policies is difficult to excuse.
Can't you work up a damning case against anybody by accusing them of things they have failed to do? Mother Teresa herself was accused by many for giving dying people a bed but for "withholding" pain killers.My last word on here as I think my being a convert and a very poor one prevents me from seeing this issue the way a real Catholic might.But I don't understand the point of going after good women who do good work for not being better, or for somehow not being as "wholeheartedly" in communion with the Church as measured against some sort of unstated standard. As if there were degrees of being in communion like levels of Free Masonry.
Since no new thread on Bishop Blair's follow up interview, I think he came over as stuffy and by the book.Really interesting was the new head of CDF commenting that it was "obvious" that men and women are of equal place in the church.He added the position of priest was not one of power.I found his coments on this to be disingenuous to say the least.BTW, I funs Jim;s commen tabout not being "wholeheartedly in comunion with" of the same stripe- but I gues that's his idea of the "big tent" or "smaller/purer" Church.
as long as all power in the church is in the hands of the clergy, then the position of the priest will necessarily be one of power, no matter what the individual priest thinks or how he behaves. the whole setup is absurd in light of the teaching and behavior of the Lord Jesus.it is decidedly NOT "obvious" that men and women are equal in the church. denying women, BECAUSE they are women, one of the sacraments does not support any vision of equality that makes sense to me or to countless ther women and men. it also follows that, despite what the documents of Vatican II said about the growing emancipation of women and how that Council upheld the right of women to pursue their vocations in freedom, the men who run the church are profoundly disobedient in this. big news, right? lets's face it: institutional Catholicism is simply sexist and is merely hanging on to the reflexive discrimination against women that has plagued most institutions (and which most have now relinquished). the fact that the "powers that be" try to scaralize it and dress it up in tortured and entirely irrational arguments only serves to underscore the fact that the emperor remains as naked as the day he was born. most normal people find it laughable, if not incomprehensible. if God's grace discriminates based on gender, then we need to come clean and say that women are, in fact, inferior, subordinate and not created in the divine image. if grace does not discriminate based on gender, then the the higher-ups who invest themselves so heavily in protecting and defending the privilege of the "sacred male" need to repent and start believing in the living God.
"Our works are very much pro-life. We would question, however, any policy that is more pro-fetus than actually pro-life."Sr. Farrell seems to be assuming here that a fetus is not an actual person, a position which is common among pro-choicers. It is not the official teaching of Rome, and Rome should realize that if even the nuns are not persuaded by the official "arguments" that Rome has failed in its teaching duty. But, no, Rome always blames the other party. Fr. Muller's claim that it is "obvious" that women are equal to men is yet another silly assertion from the curia of the form "As Rome has always taught . . . " What nonsense. He must think the laity still can't read. We're in for rough times, folks. The man is shameless.
Btw, Samantha Bee did a very funny feature segment on the Daily Show last night in which Sr. Simone Campbell had a chance to give her side of the dispute. I'd have wished her to say a few things differently than she did, but as I say, it's very funny, and she comes across in a very positive way.(I'm not sure how to link to the specific segment. Going to www.thedailyshow.com provides a link to it).
The Magnificat of the Nuns on the BusMy soul proclaims the greatness of the earth mother,and my spirit rejoices in the media's adoration.For C-Span, CNN, and the New York Times have looked with favor on sister celebrities.Henceforth, all generations will call us blessed crying, "We're All Nuns now!"For the Huffington Post has done great things for usAnd we've sold lots of t-shirts.The goddess Gaia pours out blessings on all who march for the wetlandsin every generation.She has shown the strength of her arm at the School of the Americasand has scattered the patriarchal old men in Rome who dare to correct us.She has filled Youtube with videos about usand thousands like us on Facebook and Twitter.She has come to the help of the Leadership Conference of Women Religiousremembering her promise to promote women's ordination, the new age, and global warming,the promise she made to our mothers, women who play mass pretending to be priests forever.Glory be to Gaia, Sophia, and Astarte,As it was when we first lost our faith, is now when we've lost our minds, and will be forever in hell if we don't repent.Amen
Hey, A. Henneberry, if you're going to post something from some other website/author, you should credit that other website/author. Especially if it's full of super hilarious jokes about those dippy nuns and their School of the Americas protests! Cuckoo!
[...] (Nov. 22) of Rolling Stone has a great story on the nuns' bus tour this summer and their recent struggles with the Vatican ("The Sisters Crusade"). I don't think it has been posted online [...]


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Here is what I know about Landau-Ginzburg models:
It is an important player in the story of mirror symmetry. It involves "potentials" which are functions of complex varibles, which have isolated singularities at the origin. There is the notion of universal unfolding(miniversal unfolding, or miniversal deformation) attached to each of these functions. One can attach the frobenius manifold structure to this unfolding. One version of mirror symmetry is the isomorphisms between frobenius manifolds.
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Is there a good book or paper where I can learn about LG models? Especially mysterious to me is about the potentials. What is the physical motivations behind these functions?


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I've been looking into various cross platform cloud storage/sync services lately. Since the addition release of an OS X client, Ubuntu one is starting to look very interesting (for various reasons I use all three platforms).
I have a question, though, concerning the pricing plan. As a freelancer, I've a VAT-number (registered in Sweden), and would like to know if VAT is included in the price. If yes, how do I go about to pull it off? Purchasing goods and services from outside of Sweden, I've noticed at least two ways to handle this, which is why I'm asking. Google for instance adds local tax which I then can pull off in my accounts with the Swedish tax agency. Amazon, on the other hand, asks for my VAT-number, after which they themselves pull the VAT off of my purchases. How does canonical handle this?
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No matter how bad the Red Sox are playing it is always special when they are on Sunday Night Baseball.� A national showcase always calls to mind the Monday Night version of my youth - when you had to really pay attention�because you didn't get to see the teams or all-time great players too frequently.
To be honest, I don't think that people should necessarily go out of their way to watch this year's Sox club, but one of the first things that struck me about last night's game was the Boston line-up - with Mike Napoli back from his assorted injuries the 9 batters that John Farrell put up against Anibal Sanchez may have been the best that the squad has had to offer all season long.
Perhaps after watching Stephen Drew go 0 for 3 and get pinch hit for by Jonathan Herrera the better line-up may have featured (on paper) Will Middlebrooks at third and Xander Boegarts at short.� It doesn't take any advanced metrics to realize that whatever affected Drew at the plate in the 2013 playoffs and World Series is still affecting him.� Statistics can be a guide to live by, but after a large enough sample size the relevance of Drew's career norms have to go out the window and we (and that collective includes us, him, his family, Scott Boras, and the rest of Major League Baseball) have to believe that this guy has morphed from a .260 hitter into a .100 hitter and the Red Sox and Ben Cherington may have misappropriated $10M in an egregious fashion.� One thing is for certain - Drew is making management look like fools and he's making the fans long for the halcyon days of Middlebrooks and his .196 batting average.
Drew aside, I was just glad that Jackie Bradley Jr. mixed a hit in with his three strikeouts because it keeps the rookie on an upward trend with his batting average.� Another observation that is of interest to me�- the Red Sox may be able to avoid fielding the worst offensive outfield in baseball by moving Brock Holt to leftfield.� Holt got�4 more hits last night and while he may not slug too many homeruns (the starting outfield last night has 3 in total this season)�he should boost the run production.
In the end, the Sox got a well-deserved victory courtesy of David Ortiz and his three-run homer off of old enemy Joba Chamberlin.� Do not discount the presence of�Napoli being back in the order when it came time to pitch to Ortiz.� Brad Ausmus had already used left-hander Phil Coke to retire Big Papi earlier in the night and leaving Chamberlin in to face the Sox slugger seemed like trying to tempt fate so that he could get past Ortiz and face Napoli in the righty on righty match-up.� In retrospect, it might have been more intelligent to intentionally walk Ortiz and hope that Napoli would hit into a double play.
I have to also admit that I was happy to see John Lackey get rewarded with a victory after another solid start.� Lackey reduced his ERA to 3.18 and moved to 7 - 4 on the season with the win.
While we shouldn't get too used to seeing�the Sox�on national games much more this season should they continue their uneven play, it would be nice if�John Farrell finally found a line-up that can score some runs.
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If parents have committed atrocious sins against their children such as incest, physical abuse, drugging, etc. is it considered an unforgiveable sin?
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The Rambam writes that it is considered cruel to repeatedly refuse to forgive someone who asks sincerely for forgiveness. Under normal circumstances if they ask once, twice and then a third time you must forgive them, or else you become the one in the wrong. They however do need to appease the wronged party and make amends as far as possible, such as returning stolen property, paying for damages or compensating monetarily for pain caused.
Personally, I cannot imagine putting a price on the damage caused by parental betrayal. If I recall correctly, compensation for physical pain is evaluated by asking how much money the victim would have accepted to bear that pain. It's not clear to me whether compensation for emotional pain is evaluated in the same manner, but what I imagine to be the crippling effect of the extreme scenarios above would surely not be covered by any amount of money. How could they make amends for what they have done?
I don't think this means that the child is exempted from ever contemplating forgiving such parents. While the parents may never correct or be able to correct the wrongs they did, from my reading of pop psychology part of the healing process includes letting go of resentment for the perpetrators. I imagine that would be a milestone in a lifetime of extensive therapy, and also that there are degrees of forgiveness. It is not an all-or-nothing thing.
In summary, it is not an unforgivable sin, but the child need not forgive the parents until he is ready.
I hope it is obvious that this question goes far beyond well-meant advice from the internet. The above is all my amateur opinion, and even if these principles are valid, their application to a particular case requires profound psychological wisdom more than Torah wisdom, as well as a full understanding of the circumstances and personalities involved.
Sort of. Rambam writes (Teshuvah 4:3):
To use translation on chabad.org (their additions in brackets, my one addition in {curly brackets}:
I should, however, note what he says in 4:6 (same translation):
To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as an unforgiveable sin. The 3 sins that are thought to be the "worst" are Murder, Idolatry, and Forbidden Relations. These are considered so severe that a Jew is commanded to let himself be killed rather than transgress them. (By contrast, every other sin can (and many times, must,) be violated to save one's own life, or the life of another.) But there are innumerable stories of people who committed these sins and repented afterwards, and their repentance was accepted.
However, be aware that repentance is not strictly a man-to-G-d act. When one has sinned and damaged someone else, their repentance necessitates at least attempting to gain the forgiveness of their victim. Sins as severe and reprehensible as the ones you mention are certainly among those for which a sinner must gain the forgiveness of their victim.
However, even if their victim does not forgive them, it doesn't mean their predicament is hopeless.
Now, while I have never heard of an unforgiveable sin, that doesn't mean that every sin can be atoned for in this world. In the times of the Sanhedrin, certain sins could only be atoned for by capital punishment. There are also stories of people doing sincere repentance and dying immediately thereafter. So it is possible that even today some sins can only be cleansed by death and (possibly) what follows thereafter.
Any sin can be atoned for. Sometimes this necessitates death or even "hell". Repentance for sins that damage other people requires gaining the forgiveness of the victim.
(Sources: Numerous. For repentance always being possible see the sources on my question here. For death immediately following repentance see Avodah Zarah 17a)
The only sins that are unforgivable are those that are not repented of.
there's a discussion of this exact question in the chovos halevavos shaar hateshuva ch.9
bkitzur he says yes. one can repent for any sin, although there are conditions to repentance that many people dont even know about


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I noticed this more than once. Whenever I'm in the range from 24mm to somewhere between 35mm and 50mm, the lens starts moving if I'm fixing it vertically with its front element facing the ceiling or the floor, is this a problem with my own lens or it's a general problem with this lens?
A quick search shows that you're not alone with this problem for that lens. (I don't have that lens myself, so I can't comment from experience). Since it is an L-series lens, you might want to just take it to Canon for them to service it.
Alternatively, if you want a DIY solution, the simplest fix might just be a thick rubber band or a piece of gaffer tape. Here's a collection of different DIY methods people have attempted for fixing the problem.
My 24-105 does not have creep. I just tried mine in a vertical position looking up and down. I wiggled it around to try to induce a bit of creep. None.
I have two of these lenses and have never experienced this. I would expect them to be stable, as L series lenses are expected to perform well. They are not the same though. One works with all my autofocus systems and the other only works on my 1DsMIII. I only bring this up to point out that not every lens is the same.
In my case, yes. Very typical. My EF 24-105 f/4L IS USM developed zoom creep after about four or five years. It's probably one of my most-used lenses. I did attempt peeling back the rubber on the zoom ring and using the screws to adjust the tension, but the creep returned pretty quickly. While a big flat rubber band, like the lensband, can be used to add enough friction to stop the ring from turning on its own when the zoom is "pulled" out by gravity, I found it enough of an irritation in use, that I just live with the creep.
Most not-top-of-the-line zoom lenses have this problem, as far as i know.
This is a guess, but i am assuming lenses which have no external moving parts might minimize this issue...but then again, this might have to do with the fact that these kinds of lenses are usually nearer to the top of the line.
To counteract it, fixing the lens on place with tape might be a quick and dirty solution (if the lens is retrofocal, which yours seems to be, and nothing moves externally while focusing).


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If a company issues commercial paper and the bookkeeper, bank A, receives a buy order from bank B, in which bank B creates credit to buy the commercial paper, does the company has a credit in bank B or does bank B owe himself and has the asset of the commercial paper?
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This is off topic in my humble opinion, but.
The Company owes Bank B and Bank B has the paper as an asset on its balance sheet.


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Project Old School: X-ing Your X-MemberWritten by on May 12, 2004 Contributors: Early Classic Enterprises IMZZ Industries Installs the New Early Classic Extreme Drop Center Crossmember for Slammed Trucks
Since installing the Airlift airbag kit in Project Old School, the driveshaft comes dangerously close to hitting the top of the trailing arm crossmember when the truck is aired all the way down. For those of you that have never crawled underneath a '63-72 Chevy or occasional GMC, there is a large crossmember under the rear of the cab that the exceptionally long trailing arms on these models bolt to. On most models, the center support for the two-piece driveshaft bolts here. On some models and most hot-rodded trucks, the driveshaft simply passes through. The opening is plenty big for any and all suspension travel. Once you lower the truck, however, the driveshaft rides in the upper region of the opening, and if it ever began to make contact with the crossmember, it wouldn't take long for the crossmember to slice the driveshaft open like a can opener. Another byproduct of lowering is the loss of ground clearance. The stock trailing arm crossmember hangs down a few inches past the bottom of the framerails. And since this low point resides right in the center of the underside of the truck, it becomes a punching bag for driveways and speed bumps. A third issue arises with severely lowered trucks when it comes time to reroute the exhaust. The factory crossmember spans the area between the framerails, making it impossible for the exhaust to be routed along its natural path.
Early Classic Enterprises' new Extreme Drop Center Crossmember has solved all three of these clearance problems associated with 5 inches or more rear drops. Not only does the new unit give your chassis 2.5 additional inches of ground clearance, its raised center hoop design eliminates driveshaft interference on trucks with a slammed stance. This assembly also provides exhaust passages to allow you to run a 3-inch dual exhaust through the center of your chassis and out of harm's way. The Early Classic crossmember is fabricated from a 1/4-inch thick laser-cut and formed steel plate to be stronger and more functional than the factory unit, and it comes with a black powdercoated finish. The new design also retains the factory brake line, fuel line, and parking brake cable passages, and it is provided with all necessary grade-8 hardware.
If you are replacing the stock crossmember with the Early Classic unit, the big step involved is removing the eight stock rivets that hold it in place and bolting the new unit in with the supplied grade-8 hardware. Since Project Old School used to be a longbed, there was significantly more work involved since the old crossmember had been moved up in the frame and welded in place. This meant torching out the old crossmember, setting the new one into place, taking a series of measurements to determine that it was sitting perfectly square in the frame, and finally welding it into place. For this we called on Jim Iiams of IMZZ Industries in Brea, California. Jim is a master welder who has been scratch-building custom lifted and lowered suspensions for trucks for many years. IMZZ Industries can perform anything from a simple lowering job and wheel and tire packages to a one-off show-quality airbag suspension--so we knew we were in good hands. Follow along as Jim installs the Early Classic crossmember, and contact IMZZ Industries or Early Classic using the contact information in the source box.
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The factory trailing arm crossmember in '63-72 Chevys is a stout piece that does its job well on a stock truck. On airbagged trucks or those that are lowered 5 inches or more, the driveshaft becomes dangerously close to rubbing on the top of the hoop. The stock crossmember also hangs down nearly 3 inches past the bottom of the frame. On a severely lowered truck, the exhaust routing also becomes an issue. This is where the driveshaft was currently riding with max air in the airbags.The Extreme Drop Center Crossmember from Early Classic Enterprises solves three different clearance issues, all the while looking much smoother than the original. The hoop is raised to give the driveshaft plenty of clearance, and in the process, leaves an additional 2.5 inches of ground clearance. There are also exhaust cutouts big enough for 3-inch pipes to make exhaust routing worlds easier.The 1/4-inch steel is laser-cut to exact specs before being powdercoated black. The crossmember comes with all the necessary hardware (grade 8, that is) to bolt right in place of the rivets that hold the stock crossmember in place. You'll also notice that the openings for the brake and fuel lines were retained.With Project Old School on the IMZZ Industries lift and the rearend supported by jackstands, Jim began by removing the bolts that attach the trailing arms to the crossmember.Next the airbags were unbolted so we could lean the trailing arms up and out of the way. The jackstands were lowered down until the shocks were maxed out--which gave us plenty of room to work. The driveshaft was unbolted and removed. Now is a great time to check your U-joints, pinion seal, or rear seal on your transmission.Since Old School is actually a shortened longbed, the crossmember was moved up in the frame and welded in place. We'll be torching the crossmember out but the other 99 percent of you will be grinding the eight rivets that hold it in place. Early Classic was kind enough to send us a few shots of their recommendation for the process. First, the rivet head was sliced in half with a cutoff wheel.Next, an air chisel was used to shear off the heads of the rivet. Finally, a pointed attachment was used to knock each rivet through the frame.
Jim made quick work with a torch, but if you're not experienced with one, spending some time with the cutoff wheel might be a better idea.With the torching complete, the crossmember was knocked loose from the frame with a small sledge. As you can see, Jim performed the torch work with minimal damage to the frame or old crossmember.We hated to do it, but we also had to grind the edges of the freshly powdercoated Early Classic crossmember to prep it for installation.With the old crossmember out, it was time to prep the frame for the new one. The entire area was cleaned up with a sanding disc.We then jacked the axle up until the airbags could be bolted into place. We continued to jack-up the axle until it hit the frame, simulating the truck being completely aired out.
A series of measurements were taken. Points were measured from each edge of the crossmember to various like points on each side of the frame followed by cross measurements to the same points. This measurement was to the rear bolt of the tranny crossmember. Luckily for us, each measurement was exact from the first one to the last. If this crossmember was off even an eighth of an inch, it would cause the truck to "dog leg" down the road. That means the rear of the truck would always be trying to change lanes and pass you up on the freeway.After Jim determined the exact areas to weld, he hit them one more time with the sanding disc to get them perfectly clean.Next, the top edges were welded to the frame, and then Jim took it a step further and filled the eight mounting holes.After the welds had time to cool, we touched-up the bare metal areas with some semi-gloss black. Now the truck was literally ready to roll.


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I've heard that is possible to build customized versions of Ubuntu in different languages. What are these and how can I make one?
What is an Ubuntu localized image?
Due to space restrictions, the official Ubuntu installation CDs (also known as ISO images) that can be downloaded from ubuntu.com contain only a handful of the many languages in which Ubuntu is available. Any additional languages can then be downloaded during or after the installation.
Localized images are customized versions of the original media, which are modified to include the translation of a particular language or other modifications that are relevant to a particular location.
They make it possible to have native language support upon installation and without the need of a working Internet connection. In addition to the language, they also enable customizing other aspects of Ubuntu to make it more relevant to a particular culture or region.
How can I create a localized image?
Set up the tools
Set up a defaults package
The next step is to create a defaults package with all the customizations for your language. This package will be used as a template containing the parameters to build the final image.
Now run the build script to create the default package:
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At this point you can modify all the relevant settings to your locale in the .txt files in that directory. They are all documented and contain examples.
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The resulting image is the one with the .iso extension
Note: as an alternative to using a local package, you can set up a PPA and use the following command (this example assumes you've named your package ubuntu-defaults-ca in the PPA):
Check out the man page to learn about additional options
Do a local test of your image (e.g. you can install it in a virtual machine with Virtualbox)
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That's it!
Example 1: creating a localized image for Catalan from a package
Assuming all tools are installed, we can just run the commands to create a localized ISO for Catalan-speaking regions:
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breathecosse wrote:Talk on this years London event seems to bea bit quiet.
So who is going and are you booked in for any master classes?
breathecosse wrote:Myself and 2 others will be there on the Saturday. Taking in the Caol ila masterclass.
Hope the venue is good for the show.
laddie teun wrote:just got a e-mail with a 20% discount offer.
Obviously next time I'd better wait untill the last minute instead of buying my tickets on time
doesn't feel right somehow
Muskrat Portage wrote:Wish I can come play.
les taylor wrote:I wonder if that means ticket sales are a bit slow this year.
Rob Allanson wrote:les taylor wrote:I wonder if that means ticket sales are a bit slow this year.
well Saturday is sold out..... Friday not too far behind I think at the mo.
See you there.
bamber wrote:I'll be there. Hope to see some old faces.
Paul A Jellis wrote:and I'll drag my old face along as well . . .


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I have webpage where I have a search page. I provide a "dynamic" RSS feed for search so that a user can subscribe to search results for any search term he likes.
So I was wondering what is the standard (or best practise) way to do if that search term returns 0 results which means I have no "items" to put in the feed. Do I just return an empty feed (only including the meta data and no
item elements). Or should I put some special
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edit: YouTube returns a feed without any
item elements. If no-one can answer me I'll take it that this is the right way of doing it since I can't find any info elsewhere :)


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I have a homogenious 2-dimensional wave equation: $$ - \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2} (x, y, t) - \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial y^2} (x, y, t) + \frac{1}{c^2} \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial t^2} (x, y, t) = 0$$
With: $$ 0 < x < a, 0 < y < b, t > 0$$ $$ u(x, y, 0) = 0$$ $$ \dot u(x, y, 0) = x(x-a)(y-b)$$
And boundary condition: $$ u(0, y, t) = u(a, y, t) = u(x, 0, t) = u(x, b, t) = 0$$
It says that I should solve it using separation of variables with $u(x, y, t) = G(x)H(y)w(t)$ as a starting point. With that approach, I got this solution: $$ u(x, y, t) = \sin\left(\frac{n\pi}a x\right) \sin\left(\frac{n\pi}b y\right) \sin\left(\left(\frac{n\pi}a - \frac{n\pi}b\right) c^2 t\right) $$
This solved everything, except the initial value for $\dot u$. A friend of mine proved that if such a seperated function would solve this initial value, the function $w(t)$ would depend on $x$ and $y$.
How do I solve this differential equation so that it satifies the $\dot u$ initial value?


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Im trying to get started with app development. Isnt this the corrent JDK if i want to use eclipse + android plugin?
Java SE Development Kit 7u5: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1637583.html
When i try to install the android SDK tools it tells me that i dont have the correct JDK installed.
And yes, ive tried this already: Android SDK installation doesn't find JDK


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Raymonda-1898 - premiere reports
Posted 28 July 2005 - 03:24 AM
Posted 10 August 2005 - 11:28 AM
I'm glad I did this. It was very illuminating to compare the original with the revision. Here are a few thoughts:
(1) I'm not one of the big fans of extended mime scenes (rather the opposite, in fact), but the elimination by Grigorovich of almost every bit of mime made it very difficult to "place" Raymonda, her friends, the court, etc., and to follow the story.
(2) Raymonda's famous entrance is obliterated in this version. Jean de Brienne has already been leaping around the stage, when suddenly Raymonda appears at the bottom of a very short flight of stairs. No roses that I could see. No sense of who this woman was or anything special about the occasion. No drama -- and nothing of the joyful girlishness of the original. (This may partly be due to camera angles.)
(3) The decision to have Jean de Brienne appear in Act I, scene i, as Raymonda's boyfriend (I think) BEFORE the vision pas de deux in scene ii made little sense, since the scene i dancing didn't allow for much characterization or show them as being especially romantically enaged with one another . The only hint one had that Jean was going off to war was that he put his helmet back on before striding off. (Great costumes !)
4) The interpolated Act I, scene i, adagio pas de deux -- danced to what? -- was beautiful. But it was not really significantly different from the pas de deux at the end of Act II. After all that has happened, you'd expect some development in R and J's relationship during the course of the ballet.
(5) The Countess is reduced to one of those slightly vestigial royals seen walking around or sitting on big chairs during ballroom scenes. All you can think of is how boring it must be to have such a meaningless, stripped-down role.
6) More seriously, there was no statue of the White Lady; her first appearance in the vision scene was as a white blob floating around the rear of the darkened stage. So little was made of her that I couldn't figure out why she was not eliminated entirely. This figure could not possibly have made sense unless one had read the libretto before the performance.
7) The usual reappearance of the White Lady during the second act duel -- complete with brief reprise of her theme -- was omitted. I imagine that the White Lady is supposed somehow to save or encourage Jean. Instead Raymonda ran across the stage. Why did she do that? Frantic? Cheering him on? Silly and undignified, rather.
On the plus side -- the wonderful dancing by principals, and Grigorovich's ability to move the soloists and corps around that huge Bolshoi stage in a manner that makes the patterns as beautiful, energetic and fascinating as the individual steps.
P.S. I wish I could see Balanchine's Raymonda Variations and Cortege Hongrois again to make a comparison. Question: did Balanchine ever do a full-length Raymonda in his early days?
Posted 10 August 2005 - 12:23 PM
Raymonda : Three-act version. Chor: George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova after Marius Petipa; mus: Alexander Glazunov; scen & cos: Alexandre Benois. First perf: New York, City Center, Mar 12, 1946, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
doug also published a fine interview, again in BALLET REVIEW w/ danilova about this very staging:
Fullington, Doug.
Title :Alexandra Danilova on Raymonda.
Ballet review. New York. v. 26, no. 4 (winter 1998), p. 72-76. ill.
Conversation with Alexandra Danilova about dancing in the ballet Raymonda and about various versions of the ballet.
Posted 10 August 2005 - 04:29 PM
Posted 10 August 2005 - 08:26 PM
Posted 21 August 2005 - 02:25 PM
With the help of Roland John Wiley's book "Century of Russian Ballet (BRAVO MR WILEY! what a wonderful piece of work), and Doug's post of the 1898 Raymonda (very insightful, BRAVO TO YOU TOO!), I found that the Fedotov recording is not of the 1898 premiere at all. The Fedotov recording had many scenes omitted from Act I, for example the opening scenes in Act I with the Countess Sybill were missing. The scene following Raymonda reading the letter from Jean de Brienne with the Glazunov added Entrance of Abderakhman was in place though. The scene following the White Lady's vision of Abderakhamn was ommited, going straight into the final scene. The children's dance from act III, used in modern times as a variation for Jean de Brienne is completly omitted as well. All of the "Scenes de Ballet" interpooations are intact. (I'd rather have a few incedental scenes missing than not have the very rarely recorded Glazunov modifications done to the score at Petipa's request)
I came to the conclusion, though I have never seen it, that the recording of Fedotov is not of the premiere of 1898 but of the Sergeyev version (the date I am not sure of) used by the Kirov Today, just like his recording of Sleeping Beauty - which is of the Sergeyev version. Not sure though.
Posted 17 November 2005 - 10:48 AM
Also, as it was said earlier in this thread, Raymonda's variation in the "Tableau de Reve" scene is not the one as danced by the Bolshoi (and the one I was taught, by the way). It seems that everything is wonderful excepting Raymonda's solos!!
I wonder if anyone agrees with me?
Posted 17 November 2005 - 06:31 PM
Speaking specifically about tempi, I find that the Anisimov version is very bad in one of the most crucial parts of the ballet, which is Raymonda's 3rd act variation: the start is not so bad, though too quick in my view, but it is the final diagonal that I dislike the most, because it so slows down that the effect is totally lost. I have tried dancing to it, and just could not.
Also, as it was said earlier in this thread, Raymonda's variation in the "Tableau de Reve" scene is not the one as danced by the Bolshoi (and the one I was taught, by the way). It seems that everything is wonderful excepting Raymonda's solos!!
I wonder if anyone agrees with me?
Indeed I do! I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. I find this problem with just about every recording of ballet music that is out there.
As far as the variations of Raymonda go in the Anisimov recording, indeed they are at totally improper tempos. The variatioin Anisimov recorded for the vision scene is the original solo Glazunov composed for the ballet, but at Petipa's request was ommited in favor of the "Scenes de Ballet" waltz, which was subsequently re-orchestrated for the 1898 produstion by Glazunov for a solo violin and is still performed today in the vision scene by not only the Bolshoi but everyone else.
As far as the solo for Raymonda in the Act II Pas d'action with Abderakhman is conducted entirly to fast, as well as the Grand Pas Hongrois variation to solo piano for Raymonda in the 3rd Act. This is a problem that is found in just about every recording of the great classics.
Silvy - You should get Fedotov's recording of Raymonda, it is of the Soviet version and conducted very well (especially the variations). It is out-of-print, but has been re-released though ( http://www.classical...r/cd-en/043.htm ). Its kind of a pain to get a hold, but worth it. You can also get his recording of the 1895 "Swan Lake" ( http://www.classical...r/cd-en/042.htm ).
Posted 18 November 2005 - 02:37 AM
I will see what I can do with the recording (being in Uruguay, everythiong is a little more difficult for us dancers, from pointe shoes, tights to music itself)
Thank you again
Posted 28 November 2010 - 08:26 PM
The site is Balletbase.com, and the thread on Raymonda is called "The Petipa code or Searching for Raymonda." There are several LONG pages in this thread, parts I through V. The first page can be found here.
Posted 03 October 2011 - 06:10 AM
Posted 03 October 2011 - 09:17 AM
While there is a thread on the announcement and pre-premiere news, I'm beginning this thread to post any reports on the actual ballet and associated events (lecture, etc.) that other travelers and I will attend. So my reports will be on this thread, not the earlier one. Headed off to Milan sooooon!
Can't wait for your reports.
Posted 09 October 2011 - 10:01 PM
So here is my brief report on last Thursday evening's 'Primo delle Primi' conference-talk about RAYMONDA by Signor Alfio Agostini, the editor of Italy's dance magazine BALLETOGGIO. In short, he imparted absolutely nothing new on the upcoming Vikharev recon of RAYMONDA except to say "I hope that Mr Vikharev stays true to Petipa's philosophy that the dance supercedes the melodrama." Instead of enlightening us to the new production, he spent 60 minutes running video clips of mostly the Kirov DVD with Kolpakova or the Bolshoi film with Bessmertnova. One had the feeling that Mr Agostini has never seen a live RAYMONDA but, that said, he did a good job of demonstrating the main segments of the ballet to the mostly pension-age, non-ballet-specialist audience.
This entire production has been shrouded in utmost secrecy, even to the press. The one wonderful bit of insight that I was able to gain was in a visit to the La Scala ballet academy studios over the weekend, where a dear friend-of-a-friend got me in to see rehearsals of the childrens' segments...and this is important as over 75 children take past in this production, appearing in large'scale dances in all four scenes (in three acts). For example, I specifically saw the rehearsal of the Act I, sc ii Ronde des Follets et Farfadets, in which children portray spirits who protect Raymonda from Abderakhman's malicious intents. The kids were very impressive, whetting my appetite to see this scene on the stage. The big night is tomorrow!!! Most likely, I'll post my report on Friday, once I'm back home...but I'll try to write some quick lines after tomorrow's premiere.
Posted 10 October 2011 - 06:25 PM
Posted 11 October 2011 - 10:50 PM
I will write a full report after I get back to DC on Friday...promise! For now sufffice it to relate a few tidbits, gleaned not only from my own 5 pages of 'viewing notes' but also from reading parts of the gorgeous 160-page souvenir programme, replete with historical details by Vikarev, his assistant Pavel Gerzhenson and others, on all aspects of this recon (definitely worth every bit of 10 Euros!). So, here are my early tidbits :
- The steps for most of the well-known solos and ensembles will be very familiar to those who know the Soviet K. Sergeyev version. For example, Raymonda's 6 solos and other solo moments contain about 90% of what we know...the main change being the A1 Pizzicatto variation which was more difficult (yes!) in 1898 for Pierina Legnani, who definitely had steel toes to sustain the prolonged passages on pointe in this version.
- Interestingly, the slow solo of developes for Raymonda's friend, Henriette (the marvellous Mariafrancesco Garritano) in the A2 Pas d'Action was notated in 2 versions by N. Sergeyev. The 'usual'version similar to the current Mariinsky was not danced last night, instead, Garritano danced the more luxurious and sustained 'Pavlova Version' which has closer pacing to the current Bolshoi Grigorovich one...and which I adore, so I was happy to see the more languid Henriette last night.
- The ensembles are 1,000-times more exciting & richer than any current version (although I remain a fan of Nureyev's A1 Valse Fantastique & the various Balanchine group dances in Cortege Hongrois). Last night's Valse Fantastique was part of what is surely Petipa's masterpiece of ensemble work, the entire A1 Dream Scene - even more luxuriant than his Jardin Animee in Corsaire, as this involved layers upon layers of mini groupings (knights, valkyries with golden feathers, even a group of 12 little cupids with pink wings). Jean enters the dream in full armor, draws his long sword and hands it to his beloved Raymonda, who then pierces it to the ground, stage front audience-left, where it remains throughout the 'Christian part' of the dream as a cross. The cross vanishes when the Abderakhman ensemble takes over.
- Music: Almost all of Glazunov's gorgeous score is heard. ONLY the 2nd female soloist variation of A3 is curiously omitted...as if 2 minutes would make a difference in a 3.5 hour evening at the ballet! Vikharev had to cave-in to the male lead danseur's need to have a solo so the A2 Bernard-Beranger duet music was used as Jean's one solo in the A3 grand-pas classique (K. Sergeyev's choreography from the Kirov-Mariinsky). Friedemann Vogel danced it with brio...but his 2011 haircut with bangs, sans wig, seemed out of place in Medieval France!
- Abderakhman does not appear until the A1/scii Dream. Vikharev and La Scala chose not to stage the Saracen retinue's brief Scene i appearance, for which Petipa had Glazunov write a few bars of music. The result is excellent, keeping the courtly and gracious atmosphere in the Court of the House of Doris...and Abder's appearance in the Dream all the more shocking.
- The White Lady is now a major character...finally the entire story makes sense! I don't want to give away the surprises but she makes several amazing appearances in the most unexpected places!!! You MUST see this!!!!
- Designs: EXTRAORDINARY!!!! As with Vikharev's new-old BEAUTY, at first the generous use of primary colors jars...then we grow used to them. Some of the more interesting costume colors included Red and Yellow (the Spanish flag colors) for the lead Panaderos couple...and purple and yellow for the A3 Palotas (Czardas) dancers. The A3 Gnd Pas Classique Hongrois is danced in the colors of the Hungarian flag...green, red and white tutu skirts for the ladies. The feathers for all except the leads are bright green, Raymonda and Jean wear brown pheasant feathers on their red velvet caps. This is one spot where I may prefer Virsaladze's toned-down designs for the Kirov-Mariinsky!
- We now clearly know that Henriette and Beranger belong to the House of Doris (Raymonda's family) because they wear the blue and yellow...and Clemence and Bernard represent Jean de Brienne's clan because they wear the maroon and beige. These two sets of colors are shown throughout the the designs, commencing with the elaborate medieval front curtain showing knights from the two houses preceded by standard bearers with the colors of each family.
- The settings are in the realistic, richly-accentuated academic style.....which leads me to my one little disappointment of the night: the Apotheosis.
We all remember the amazing tableau-vivant Apotheosis of Sleeping Beauty-1890, right? The Tsar must have run out of money just before Petipa created the Raymonda Apotheosis. After the Gnd Pas Classique Hongrois, a red velvet back curtain comes down behind the ensemble dancing the Galop. Then comes the Apotheosis music....little red velvet curtain up....to display 12 pot-bellied guys in lilac holding brass instruments, standing in front of a huge flat painting depicting a jousting tourament. The pot-bellied band plays the final chords from the stage as Raymonda and Jean strike a pose in front of them and the ensemble lifts arms. OK...I will live with it but...was this really Petipa's grand finale or just a quick fixer-upper???
DESPITE the Apothesis, I must shout "BRAVI!" to La Scala, to Novikova and, especially, to Sergei Vikarev and Pavel Gerzhenson for their incredible work in bringing this artistic gem - this glorious ballet of 1898 - back to life as it deserves to be seen!
More -- much more -- on Friday, upon my return to DC. I saw RAI cameras in the house. I hear that a telecast is in the offing, perhaps followed by a DVD release. Hoorah!
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