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Brookville Deuce Coupe - Pillard's PassionWritten by Eric Geisert on September 1, 2012 Contributors: Josh Mishler Reworking of a Brookville Deuce coupe
President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "Plans are nothing; planning is everything," and, though we don't know if he ever finished a hot rod in the garage of the White House, we know rodders have to know something about planning.
It's true sometimes you can have a difficult time getting a car to go together, rounding up parts while you try not to change the concept, while other times things just seem to click and cars go together quickly. Good planning often goes hand in hand with experience, which is what Vintage Fabrication of Independence, Missouri, had to offer Larry Pillard when he came to them for a build.
Larry had a '55 Chevy in the shop getting a new 502 drivetrain, but he was interested in getting one of the 40th anniversary 427 ZL1 motors for a future project. The all-aluminum V-8, limited in production to run only 427 examples, was a special item and Larry wanted something special to put it in.
Vintage Fabrication's Bobby Schumacher called Pete & Jakes in nearby Peculiar to see if they knew of anything available, and they did: a Brookville Roadsters' '32 coupe body that was at Honest Charley's shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After having seen the stretch done on the Lokar Performance Products coupe, Schumacher thought he could do something similar for Pillard while incorporating the 427. But getting everything to fit the way they wanted but still have everything look good required some extra planning.
Starting with a Pete & Jakes Deuce chassis, Vintage Fabrication stretched the wheelbase 6 inches so they could fit a radiator in front of the crossmember and still have room for the motor. The suspension, all from Pete & Jakes, is classic hot rod: a dropped aluminum I-beam and hairpins up front with ladder bars and Viper coilovers out back. The rearend features a polished Winters quick-change centersection and polished Buick brake drums and the front disc brakes use finned aluminum backing plates. A set of big wheels, in this case 18x7 and 20x12 Billet Specialties Legacy rollers, were wrapped in Mickey Thompson rubber (26x8.00R18LT and 31x18R20LT) and provide a lot of visual impact. The 427 engine, number 400 of 427 made, was backed to a TH400 transmission, and other engine parts include an aluminum radiator from AutoRad and a Holley carburetor.
But backing up that bad boy motor is a bunch of custom fabrication and bodywork that makes this Deuce a one-off creation. Brookville Roadsters sells their reproduction steel coupes with a full Ford factory windshield height, and Vintage Fabrication felt obliged to take 3 inches out of the posts. The roof insert was also filled, though a Haartz cloth insert now fits flush.
The body was channeled 3 inches up front and 2-1/2 in the rear, and a rear roll pan was fabbed up to make the rear look a little more like a roadster. The aluminum hood was also custom (and longer by 8 inches) and blisters were added to the hood sides for needed engine clearance. The grille shell (narrowed 3 inches) features a custom Pines Winterfront insert. In case no one has told you, original Pines inserts are rare and expensive but Vintage Fabrication was able to locate an extra set of grille bars and made their own to the narrowed specifications needed.
Michael McLin and Tony Johnson of Mo Bitchin' Customs in Independence were called upon for the bodywork and paint, and the guys used Dupont YS437 over the entire car before the famous Bob Bond, out of Lee's Summit, came by to add his fine-line pinstriping to the project.
The interior was next, and a '34 Plymouth gauge cluster, refitted with reworked gauges from Classic Instruments, was installed in the wood-grained dash. A kit from Painless Wiring links the gauges to the rest of the car, as well as provides power to the stereo system dominated by Treco amplifiers and speakers.
Vintage Fabrications used a bench seat frame from Bowen Foam & Fabric as a base for the car's seating, covering it with walnut-colored Ultraleather. The interior was finished off with a LimeWorks banjo steering wheel (mounted to an ididit column) and ducts to direct the heat from the Vintage Air climate control system.
Now in his mid sixties, Larry (the car's owner) states he's been involved with cars since he was a boy. He wanted "something special" to put that rare motor in and, through proper planning (along with a heavy reliance on Vintage Fabrication), he was able to achieve just that.
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Big 18x7 and 20x12 Billet Specialties Legacy wheels were wrapped in Mickey Thompson rubber (26x8.00R18LT and 31x18.00R20LT). The coupe sits on a Pete and Jakes chassis, which had its wheelbase stretched to 118 inches.Only 427 40th anniversary 427-inch ZL1 motors were ever made, and this one is number 400. The engine, backed to a TH400 transmission assembled by Mike Bodine, is cooled by an AutoRad radiator with exhaust exiting through Sanderson headers and Cherry Bomb mufflers, all coated black by Industrial Coatings of Kansas City.


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Usually to describe a person. "He's invincible." A man who is too powerful to become defeated or overcame. He is a tall, hot, muscular man who usually is a hero to many. Although sometimes this invincible person is a faggot, he is a very lovable person. <3 He is originated from Pakistan and his gf calls him "Arse". Lmfao. He thinks he can beat his gf, but he's wrong cuz she has more muscles and is stronger than him. But he's an invincible nigga! So don't mess!
This arse is invincible! He is like a warrior!
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Invincible is the state of being immune to taking any form of damage, you no longer feel pain from anything. Even if the painless state only lasts for a few moments, they would be rather intense and most likely void of all emotion.
"It's pointless to continue fighting, he's invincible to your every attack."
by Gabriel March 29, 2005
Unable to be defeated.
A Hedley song.
A very inspirational Hedley song.
A Hedley song.
A very inspirational Hedley song.
I'm gonna be invincible!
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The state when someone goes into "fuck you" mode and nothing can hurt them.
Two friends playing Super Mario Bros™:
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see 'Arsenal FC'
In the 2003-2004 season, the Arsenal played 38 games and lost none, utterly invincible
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The Philadelphia Phillies 2011 starting rotation.
Roy Halladay
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Last year the Phillies were tough enough with H2O, now they're just fuckin invincible!
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Invincible of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable (in combat or war)
Incapable of being conquered.
Incapable of being conquered.
"As im strolling through the battlegrounds thankfully i feel invincible and powerful"
"I might aswell give up, his comebacks are Invincible"
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Kobe Bryant. Even though he tore his Achilles' tendon, he is the Chuck Norris of the NBA.
"Wow Kobe got hurt?!"
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Jim & Click,Thanks, the 109 is actually known as a Buchon and it's Spanish. That rascal Hitler sold 'em to Franco minus engines (ahh, what a gent, never buy a used car from a Nazi dictator, that's what I say). It wasn't until 1947 that we (the Brits) sold them Merlin engines to power them. It was weird to see a Spanish Buchon Bf109 painted in German colours (they had to get special permission to do so) and sounding like a Spitfire. I don't think there is an emoticon to describe all that.Take care.
Guy 9343 and the 109 are rockin - nice work.OT I know (I hope I don't get slammed for this) but news broke today that the CIA has finally admitted Area 51 is real: http://aerospacenews.com/area-51-is-real-says-cia/news/military-news/Sharing 'cause there are more than a few avgeeks in this thread.
Scott - So how do you post more than 4 images at once?
Nice shots Guy. I especially like the second one.
Some more shots from East Fortune airshow that I processed last night - only another 300 to do!Enjoy!Burrrrnnnn! by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrClean lines by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrSky by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrVapour! by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrTailz by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrTailz 2 by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrUp! by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrOver! by Scott_McPhee, on FlickrUp again! by Scott_McPhee, on Flickr
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Other Names for this Disease
- Bilharzia
- Blood fluke
- Schistosoma mansoni infection
- Katayama fever
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[1] Infection occurs through contact with contaminated water. The parasite in its infective stages is called a cercaria. It swims freely in open bodies of water. On contact with humans, the parasite burrows into the skin, matures into another stage (schistosomula), then migrates to the lungs and liver, where it matures into the adult form. The adult worm then migrates to its preferred body part (bladder, rectum, intestines, liver, portal venous system (the veins that carry blood from the intestines to liver, spleen, lungs), depending on its species.[2] Schistosomiasis is common in many tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. It can be treated safely and effectively with praziquantel.[1][2]Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic worms. Although the worms that cause schistosomiasis are not found in the United States, more than 200 million people are infected worldwide.
Last updated: 3/15/2013
- Schistosomiasis FAQs. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). November 2012; http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/gen_info/faqs.html. Accessed 3/15/2013.
- Schistosomiasis. MedlinePlus. October 2012; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001321.htm. Accessed 3/15/2013.
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- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched the Neglected Tropical Diseases Initiative in 2006, the first global effort to support country programs to integrate and scale up delivery of preventive medication for five neglected tropical diseases: lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma, onchocerciasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Click on the link to view information on this condition.
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- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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- PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Schistosomiasis. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic.
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1 Aug 2012 7:27 AM #1
Best way to add scroll bars to entire application...
I have the following Viewport that houses my app...
Ext.define('my.view.Viewport', { extend: 'Ext.Viewport', id: 'viewport', layout: 'border', autoDestroy: true, initComponent: function() { this.items = [ {xtype: "widget.HeaderContainer"}, {xtype: "widget.BodyContainer"}, {xtype: "widget.FooterContainer"} ]; this.callParent(arguments); } });
Hope this makes sense. Probably something simple but I couldn't find a way to do this without it being too buggy.
Thanks for your suggestions
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You could add a container inside your viewport with autoscroll.


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The National Weather Service's latest graphical outlook may remind you more of spring in Kansas than October. In marked contrast to our recent conditions, we are currently looking at a severe weather threat for Friday!
A cold front is advancing our way and is predicted to produce severe thunderstorms, complete with damaging wind and hail, as it moves through the South Central region. At the moment, local forecasters are keeping the closest eye on areas east of a Salina-to-Anthony line, beginning Friday afternoon.
After the front passes through, we'll see a dramatic drop in our temperatures, plunging from around 80 degrees on Friday to a high of 60 on Saturday. We'll also experience some brisk overnight lows in the 40's before creeping back up the thermometer a bit on Monday.
One additional note on our weather before all the excitement on Friday: be aware that a few strong storms could rumble through our area tonight, potentially dropping some small hail and stirring up a bit of wind.
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text: spoiler:Victim of the Mandalorian Wars, the man who became Nihilis lost everything: his possessions, his loved ones, and the will to live. While illness cannibalizes his body, a vast emptiness devours his humanity. Then, when all seems lost, he discovers that this emptyness hungered. The first time, he fed it unconsciously. Draining another being's life is frightening, nauseating, but for a euphoric moment, the memories, the illness, and the hunger disappeared. (Hey! Soul Eater from Nverwinter 2: Mask Of Betrayer)


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WHEELING - New security measures are in place for the 37th-annual Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic Run and Walk, race Director R. ''Scat'' Scatterday said.
Local law enforcement officials gathered with Scatterday last week to discuss race security in light of the Boston Marathon bombings. The race and events surrounding it are set for May 24-25 in downtown Wheeling.
"From now on, the rules are different," Scatterday said. "We're setting the bar high from now on for outdoor events like this in the city."
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SECURITY CONCERNS — Discussing security measures for the Ogden Half Marathon are, from left, Wheeling Deputy Police Chief Martin Kimball, Race Director R. "Scat" Scatterday and Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger. -- Tyler Reynard
Among those discussing security with Scatterday were Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger, Deputy Chief Martin Kimball, Assistant Fire Chief Ed Geisel, Wheeling Operations Superintendent Tim Birch and City Manager Robert Herron.
Moundsville Police Chief Tom Mitchell and retired Wheeling police officer Randy Rejonis, who have directed race security in the past, also attended, and the Wheeling-Ohio County Emergency Management Agency and Ohio County Sheriff's Department are assisting with the security plan, as well.
During last week's meeting, officials studied a map of downtown Wheeling and the race course. They identified areas of concern, imagined possible scenarios and developed counter measures.
The plan is highlighted by a designated ''secure zone'' - a multi-block triangle surrounding the start-finish line at 14th and Main streets. The three points of the secure zone are formed by the intersections of 14th and Market streets, 12th and Water streets and Main and South streets.
Beginning at 3:30 p.m. May 24, and continuing through 10:30 a.m. May 25, no bags or packages will be permitted in that area, which will be continuously monitored by law enforcement. The Wheeling Police Department also is offering security training to the 500-plus race volunteers, including aide stations workers, radio communications operators and course marshals.
This was Schwertfeger's first time providing input into security for the Ogden Half Marathon, but he did the same for the Charlottesville Marathon at his previous law enforcement post in Virginia. He said he was impressed with local organizers' initiative and urgency in providing safety and a visible law enforcement presence.
The chief acknowledged the level of security in downtown Wheeling on race weekend is easily justified, as today's society necessitates constant vigilance.
"Shame on us if we do not plan and deploy the resources that we have and something were to happen," Schwertfeger said. "We just can't pass it off anymore."
Added Scatterday: "We've owned this city, we own it now and we intend to own it in the future."


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A Phase II Trial of Subcutaneous Amifostine and Radiation Therapy in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer (WR-B060)
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Protection against RT induced acute xerostomia is comparable between SC and IV amifostine. However, the side effect profiles are different. Effort is being made for using prophylaxis to decrease the cutaneous side effect of SC amifostine which overall provides a better and easier route of administration and less of systemic side effects as compared to IV amifostine.
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Smear Strategy a Failure
Again, a majority of voters repudiated it and gave Obama another four-year term.
What is "it"?
I'm talking about the biggest, most expensive, relentless, coordinated propaganda smear, perhaps in world history, aimed at one man, Barack Obama. That's right, Barack Hussein Obama. Stick that in your racist pipe and choke on it for the next four years. Because he's baaaaaaaack. And he's still blaaaaaaaack. And he still resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.
Get used to it. Despite the alternative post-fact universe Republicans created, facts are stubborn things, as John Adams told us, so many years ago. And the fact is he beat your stuffed-shirt plutocrat, despite another one of your clever camouflage jobs. Hundreds of millions of dollars of deceptive ads and a heap of lies and distortions couldn't hide the fact that Willard Mitt Romney was a boring stiff. The Democrats had the same problem with Al Gore and John Kerry.
True, the Romney paint job wasn't as convincing as portraying George W. Bush as "Compassionate Conservative, Uniter-not-Divider, Not-Interested-in-Nation-Building, Education President." Voters bought into that whopper, twice no less, and look what happened.
And that was one of the fundamentals of the Great Obama Smear campaign. Count on voter amnesia. Yes, they would somehow forget about the Bush/Cheney catastrophe. Time would start anew with Obama's inauguration. Never mention Bush/Cheney again.
Ever the savvy politicians, Bush/Cheney played along by keeping the lowest of low profiles. They became Invisible Men, their abysmal record tossed down the memory hole and burned. How often were their names even mentioned at the Republican Convention in Tampa? They sure weren't invited.
The many-pronged attack on Obama, from the beginning, had many facets, but its primary theme was characterizing Obama as the Other, an Alien, not even really an American.
This is Birther territory. When you find yourself on the lunatic fringe of today's Republican Party, you better book some reservations at the local asylum and get sized for a strait-jacket.
Then there was, is, and always will be the racist card, dealt from the bottom of the deck, to the basest of American instincts. Surely, Obama has always embraced a black identity, but the fact remains that he is every bit as much white as he is black, even more so. Few talk about his white-bread Kansas roots, the influence of his white mother and grandparents, or the near complete lack of influence his black father had on him, despite Dinesh D'Souza's Kenyan conspiracy theories.
Coupled with the racist appeal, Republican propagandists subtly spread the idea that Obama was, incredibly, a Muslim. And with no evidence whatsoever, many Americans believed them. Now, in a country with real religious freedom and pluralism, in a country that truly respected the secular nature of the Constitution, one's religion should not be a defining issue. But the notion of religious freedom in America had always been reserved for mainstream Christianity. Almost any other religion is suspect, and will deny you high office.
On the edifice of racism and religious prejudice, Republicans molded a hydra-head caricature of Obama. He was Count Blacula from Kenya, a Manchurian Candidate with a secret socialist agenda. Schooled by Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, in Chicago no less (that Moscow on Lake Michigan) Obama actually hated America according to their script. Get this: Obama supposedly hated the country that elected him to its highest office.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. That the various facets of their main propaganda attack are false, ridiculous, scurrilous, and appeal to the worst instincts of the American electorate makes not an iota of difference to the modern Republican party.
Imagine if Obama had actually done something gruesomely wrong in his first term. What if he had allowed the worst terrorist attack in American history to occur on his watch despite ample and obvious warning? What if he had duped and deceived us into a catastrophic war? What if he had established torture as legal policy? What if he had let Wall Street greedheads run completely amuck and tank the world economy and come within an ace of hurling us into another Great Depression?
Oh, that's right, the Republicans did all that. And despite the appeal to amnesia, enough voters remembered.
Contrary to their attempts to label Obama a failure, he has been a steady and competent president. He has remained a fundamentally decent man, by all accounts an excellent father and husband. He is ending wars instead of starting them. And he has retained his cool competency in the face of a hysterical opposition party that has only the primary goal of destroying him, even if it hurts the country and the people.
The voters repudiated them -again. Is this finally the end of the Conservative Era, in ascendancy since Reagan's election in 1980? I have mixed feelings. Looking at it from a Machiavellian point of view, I hope they remain an extreme right wing radical party of old angry white men, with a pronounced hostility to women, gays, and people of color. I hope they proclaim their central desire to shovel even more money to a wealthy elite wallowing in luxury enclaves who look down at the rest of us as The Help. If they continue on their current path, they will continue to lose.
However, for the good of the country, I hope the Republicans reform. They have legitimate and necessary arguments for fiscal prudence. I embrace the libertarian and isolationist elements still latent in the GOP. But the vagina-probers, the knuckle-dragging religious fundamentalists, the homophobes, the warmongers, and the racists drag the party into the pit of hatred, violence, and a fascist contempt for privacy.
Alas, the river of anger, hatred, and greed coursing through the conservative movement cannot be shut off as easily as turning a spigot. But perhaps, in the wake of defeat, the better angels of their natures will prevail, and they will reach back to the political center for reasonable compromise and the good of the country.
Rogerson, of Wheeling, is a professor of English at West Virginia Northern Community College.


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Dual no-hitters propel Vaqueros to sweep of Glendale Community College on April 13
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Coaches and pitchers know that a baseball no-hitter is a combination of dominance and luck.
The domination resides in the pitcher's overpowering command and unwavering focus.
The luck comes into play because every dink off the end of the bat that rolls into nowhere land between the pitcher and catcher, or every flair that kicks up chalk down the right field line, evaporates a no-hitter quicker than an ill-timed sprinkler session on parched outfield grass.
While hundreds of thousands of pitchers have gone through high school, college and professional careers never coming close to no-hitting an opponent, on Saturday, April 13, the Central Arizona College baseball team unleashed a pair of stifling pitching performances that resulted in a no-hit doubleheader at Glendale (Ariz.) Community College.
Only the Elias Sports Bureau can confirm the rarity of such a doubleheader feat. If no-hitters are rare, two in the same day by the same team are in the atmosphere of landing a hole-in-one on a Par 5.
In the opener, freshman righty Nicco Blank (Tucson, AZ/Catalina) lived up to his moniker by shutting out the Gauchos 10-0. He faced one batter over the minimum, striking out one and walking two over 7.0 innings of work.
The Vaqueros grabbed a 2-0 lead in the third innings before tacking on another run in the fourth, but it wasn't until their final two at-bats when CAC reeled off seven runs to grab a commanding lead.
Rookie DH Sean Hurley (Sarasota, FL) went 1 for 4 in the contest with a double, walk and four runs batted in. Sophomore CF Jon Kealoha (Honolulu, HI) went 3 for 4 with a double and two RBI, while sophomore catcher Ross Hough (Bakersfield, CA) went 4 for 4 with a pair of runs batted in.
Sophomore 3B Ty Gilmore (Billings, MT) went 3 for 4 with two runs scored and one RBI, and freshman 2B Aaron Smith (Mesa, AZ) was 2 for 4 with two runs from his lead-off position.
For Blank, keeping the opposition hitless is becoming routine. He now has two no-hitters this year alone after holding Eastern Arizona hitless back on March 9 in a 5-0 CAC victory.
The two teams were scoreless through four innings before the Vaqueros scored once in the fifth, twice in the sixth and two more times in the seventh.
In game two on Saturday at Glendale, sophomore hurler Tatum Hendrix (Phoenix, AZ/Millennium) threw a 14-1, seven-inning no-hitter that ended under the 10-run mercy rule.
Hendrix threw 7.0 innings, striking out six while allowing one unearned run on four walks and a hit by pitch. He faced 27 batters – six over the minimum.
While the Vaquero blowout didn't materialize until later in the game, it was Hendrix keeping the Gauchos from mounting any type of surge as he held a 2-1 lead through four innings.
The Vaqueros scored twice in the fifth to extend the margin to 4-1, but it was the six-run sixth followed by a four-run seventh that sealed the victory.
Sophomore CF Jordan Dunatov (Scottsdale, AZ) banged out three hits, going 3 for 4 with a pair of runs scored.Freshman Cody Farrell (Cheyenne, WY) went 3 for 5 with two runs, four RBI and a homer, while Hurley went 3 for 5 with three runs, a double, a homer and two runs batted in.


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29 Oct 2012 8:52 AM #1
Hi help in creating a vertical menu bar
Could some one guide me in creating a vertical tool bar with series of buttons. On clicking one button sub menu should be displayed and on clicking next button the menu that appear before shouls automatically hide and the menu corresponding to second button should be diaplayed.
Please help me out in these.
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You could have a container use hbox layout and have another container within it acting as a toolbar and add buttons to it. You would have to style the buttons and container to look as you want.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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4 Nov 2012 10:27 PM #3
Hi mitchell
Could you please provide me a example.
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Philadelphia Bibliophilia
Today's plutocrats collect art, often big art. Millions of dollars are commonplace for works by Picasso, Pollock, Rothko, Warhol, the usual suspects. Books—those smaller objects one can hold and read, as well as admire for beauty and value—have attracted the attention and the money of wealthy collectors (most all of them men) ever since Johannes Gutenberg began the revolution of movable type six centuries ago.
Times change. Bookmen may now be going the way of bookstores—witness Larry McMurtry's summer sale in Archer City, Texas, which sold off most of the inventory of his used-books store there to other dealers from all over the country—and books themselves may soon become a quaint, disposable part of cultural history. It was not always thus. Many gentlemen (think of J.P. Morgan) had libraries.
One is here, at 2008-2010 Delancey Place, off Rittenhouse Square, the part of William Penn's "green country town" resembling a larger version of New York's West Village. In the middle of a block of four-story 19th-century row houses shaded by towering sycamore, locust and maple trees stands the Rosenbach Museum & Library, the 1954 legacy of two bachelor brothers whose collections, especially the books, are nothing short of amazing.
Philip Rosenbach (1863-1953) specialized in decorative arts, paintings and furniture. His younger brother, A.S.W. (1876-1952)—with a 1902 doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and a dissertation about the influence of Cervantes on Shakespeare—was the bookman. Their Uncle Moe had a bookshop, which A.S.W. took over.
A.S.W. Rosenbach thought that American scholars should not have to travel to great European libraries to pursue their research, so he started to buy works for resale to collectors and collections. Rosenbach Co. had branches in Manhattan and Philadelphia and, for the first half of the 20th century, was this country's most important purveyor of books and manuscripts.
Today the museum occupies adjacent townhouses, the second purchased in 1993 to augment exhibition space. It is filled with mostly 18th-century English and American furniture and portraits, plus such miscellaneous pieces as King Charles II's document chest, Herman Melville's bookcase, Robert Burns's powder horn and Lord Byron's calling-card case.
It is the library holdings that truly astonish. The Americana begins with materials from the age of discovery: letters of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro; the first books printed in this hemisphere, in Mexico (1543) and Peru (1584); and the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in the American colonies (Cambridge, 1661).
Among the British works: early editions and manuscripts of Chaucer, a rare first edition of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; the largest collection of Robert Burns outside Edinburgh; Charles Dickens's manuscripts of "Pickwick Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby." The list goes on.
Pride of place belongs to the manuscript of James Joyce's "Ulysses" (purchased in 1924), and to 80% of Joseph Conrad's manuscripts (the bulk of which was purchased in 1923). Most prominently and popularly displayed are the the works of two artists who knew each other: Marianne Moore and Maurice Sendak. The great American poet died in 1972. Sendak, her neighbor in Greenwich Village, had persuaded her to sell her papers to the Rosenbach, which she did on the condition that it also install the parlor of her apartment in the library. And here we have it: her furniture; her animal figurines and works of art; her typewriter; her baseballs signed by Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle, as well as an exercise bar hanging over a closet door.
The museum is now celebrating Sendak himself, who died earlier this year, with a display of paintings, illustrations and editions from throughout his long career. He began giving things to the Rosenbach in 1968; it now holds more than 10,000 of Sendak's items. In a downstairs gallery we find original drawings from the best-selling "Where the Wild Things Are" and "The Night Kitchen," as well as Sendak's pen-and-ink illustrations of I.B. Singer stories and etchings for William Blake's "Songs of Innocence." The Sendak display continues through May 26, 2013.
In another downstairs parlor there's a framed letter to A.S.W. Rosenbach from Harry Elkins Widener, dated March 19, 1912, from London. Four weeks later young Harry set sail. On the Titanic. He was the one who put Rosenbach on the map. He patronized the bookstore and began collecting. After his death, his mother endowed, in his memory and name, Harvard's encyclopedic library.
A.S.W. Rosenbach was the agent for all this. He also managed collections for what became the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington and the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. Closer to home, he developed a long personal and professional relationship with Lessing Rosenwald, the Sears Roebuck magnate from Chicago who moved to Philadelphia and assembled a great collection that went ultimately to the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art.
On the crisp fall day I visited, a docent gave a tour to me and two suburban ladies, one an aspiring memoirist enrolled in a creative-writing program on Philadelphia's Main Line. As we finished, another quartet of tourists wandered in. Upstairs in the library, a Japanese scholar pored over Joyce materials, and a married couple in town for an academic conference had just rushed in from the airport to see a letter of Moore's. Another Moore aficionado—also a nascent poet—came to pay her homage. Intimacy and informality prevailed.
To handle scholarly materials, the Rosenbach requires not the usual white gloves demanded by other libraries but a good old-fashioned hand-washing (latex can do more damage to delicate paper than clean, oil-free hands). I couldn't resist asking to see and touch one piece that stopped my heart and brought tears to my professorial eyes. It was the manuscript whose purchase got A.S.W. Rosenbach started on the final, and greatest, chapter of his buying career. In London in 1885 Sotheby's had sold at auction the manuscripts of six letters of John Keats. Oscar Wilde, enraged by the salacious intermingling of art and commerce, wrote a protest sonnet. Thirty-five years later, at Manhattan's Anderson Galleries, Rosenbach bought the poet's penultimate letter to Fanny Brawne, his fiancée, dated July 5, 1820, before his departure for Italy, where he died of tuberculosis seven months later. The great poet was also a typical, temperamental 24-year-old young man who, finding his girlfriend flirting with his roommate, wrote to her with envy, jealousy, rage and sadness, "I will resent my heart having been made a football."
I couldn't put a price on the letter.
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Not so quiet on the German front
The German bishops begin their fall meeting today with the "pay-to-pray" church tax controversy to be high on the agenda.Tom Heneghan of Reuters has an update, noting that the hierarchy has done at least one good thing with the move: it has unified left and right in the church:
Liberal and conservative Roman Catholic activists in Germany criticised a decree that came into effect on Monday to deny sacraments and religious burials to people who opt out of a church tax.The German bishops issued the decree last week warning Catholics who stop paying the tax they would be excluded from all religious activities, also including working in a church job, becoming a godparent or taking part in parish activities.Pay and pray is a completely wrong signal at the wrong time, the reformist movement We Are Church said on Monday. The decree shows the great fear of the German bishops and the Vatican about further serious losses in church tax revenue.A conservative group called the Union of Associations Loyal to the Pope asked why Catholics who stop paying the tax would be punished but those it called heretics could stay in its ranks.So sacraments are for sale whoever pays the church tax can receive the sacraments, it said in a statement, saying the link the decree created goes beyond the sale of indulgences that (Martin) Luther denounced at the start of the Reformation.
Heneghan goes on to provide more details about the background and the stakes in this debate:
The German bishops had long told Catholics they would be excommunicated from the Church if they officially declared they were leaving it.But the Vatican ruled in 2006 that a simple declaration to a tax office that one was leaving the Church was not enough to justify excommunication, Romes stiffest punishment. The church leaver must also declare this to a priest, it said.That prompted retired canon law professor Hartmut Zapp to file a legal case against the German Church, saying it could not excommunicate him for leaving simply to avoid paying the tax if the Vatican did not agree he deserved that punishment.After contradictory lower court rulings, Zapps case will go on Wednesday before the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig. A ruling in his favour could throw into doubt Germanys whole church tax system, which was introduced in the 19th century.The bishops decree, described as excommunication lite by the German media, could however undercut Zapps case because the exclusions it listed were not described as a formal excommunication.
A fine mess, seems to me.UPDATE: Via CNS, the leader of the German hierarchy explains and defends as the bishops start their fall meeting:
"There must be consequences for people who distance themselves from the church by a public act," said Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, conference president, in defending the Sept. 20 decree."Clearly, someone withdrawing from the church can no longer take advantage of the system like someone who remains a member," he said at a Sept. 24 news conference as the bishops began a four-day meeting in Fulda. "We are grateful Rome has given completely clear approval to our stance."The archbishop said each departure was "painful for the church," adding that bishops feared many Catholics were unaware of the consequences and would be "open to other solutions.""The Catholic church is committed to seeking out every lost person," said Archbishop Zollitsch, whose remarks were reported by Germany's Die Welt daily."At issue, however, is the credibility of the church's sacramental nature. One cannot be half a member or only partly a member. Either one belongs and commits, or one renounces this," Archbishop Zollitsch said.
I dunno. This talk of "taking advantage of the system" doesn't strike me as ecclesiologically sound, and we are still talking about an arbitrary financial contribution as the trip wire for being in communion, or not.Moreover, Joseph Ratzinger himself has spoken at several points (I believe citing Augustine) of the church being made up of members who have varying degrees of involvement in the life of the church but who remain members nonetheless. Ratzinger's German confreres seem to be focusing on an either/or, "in-or-you're-out" model.
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I don't think funerals should be withheld. Funerals and burials are for the survivors; the departed probably doesn't care much one way or the other. If I were a priest, I would give a church funeral to anyone who was even nominally, tenuously Catholic if a devout family member requested it.
Agree, Irene!If a family wants a Catholic funeral, burial, requiem mass, etc. for a member, the Church should provide it. Hoods, mobsters, mafiosi, etc. are buried by the Church without question. Now they balk at burying tax resisters? And what about the indelible marks left by the sacraments of baptism and confirmation? Do the new teachings mean a person who opts out of paying religion taxes gets those marks expunged/eradicated?
My questions:If all religions in this country lost their exemptions from taxes, how much revenue would our government realize?If that amount were distributed to all taxpayers, how many Americans would gladly accept their share?
Interesting reminiscence of Vatican Council II by Robert Nogosek, who was present in Rome, in which he says "Dei Verbum places the reform of the church under the person and message of Jesus Christ, proclaimed to be the object of faith to be nourished by the proclamation of Gods word. Jesus is the divine self-disclosure to the human family, recorded in the sacred scriptures and now presented as the table of the word alongside the table of the Eucharist. Dei Verbum accorded with Lumen gentiums recognition that membership in the church follows from valid baptism, rather than from communion with papal authority."http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13593Doesn't seem to match up with bishops telling Catholics that they are excluded from church life if they don't pay.
Granted, the whole German church tax system seems odd to Americans, and probably seems odd even to Europeans in this day and age. But, having said that, I can't understand how someone can say, "I quit, I'm gone, I'm outta here, goodbye forever, but if you excommunicate me you will do me an injustice and hurt my feelings."Like most Catholic parishes, mine hosts funerals in which momma is laid to rest by children who haven't set foot inside a Catholic church since their Confirmation. We do funerals very well, and usually they stop playing with their phones and start paying attention even before the homily, although it is odd to see the sobbing bereaved hit the phone for their messages even as momma is being rolled down the aisle for the last time. When it's all over, they thank everyone in sight graciously and say momma would have been happy. But usually they can't forebear adding that they are beyond all of this foolishness themselves. Now as the parishioner who paid for all the trappings that went into their beautiful farewell to momma, I find that last jab annoying. If I were a bishop, hearing it all the time, I'd be sore tempted to excommunicate someone. I probably wouldn't be able to resist the temptation, actually.
This is certainly not "thinking with the church", but rather thinking by the hierarchy. And isn't money most important to them? Can we agree that they are the Scribes and Pharisees? Meanwhile the people in Spain, of all countries, go seeking garbage to eat. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/world/europe/hunger-on-the-rise-in-spa... the Cathedral of Seville stands as a 'symbol of ...."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop's_Palace,_Seville
"I dont think funerals should be withheld. Funerals and burials are for the survivors"Irene, I agree that funerals shouldn't be withheld. You're right that they're for the survivors; they're also for the deceased, as it provides an opportunity for the rest of us to pray for her. If that person has severed the connection with the church, that seems to be an even stronger reason to pray for her.
"What is past is prologue."Watch for some modern day Martin Luther to nail new theses on the door of Castle Church in Wittenburg, Germany. [This time it is more likely to happen on the internet or Facebook!] It is astonishing that Roman hierarchs are back to essentially selling indulgences. I guess, old habits die hard?!?I believe we may have reached the point of driving the moneychangers from the temple precincts because once again the hierarchs have made God's house a den of thieves. Maybe this will be the spark that ignites a fire of reform and renewal that will spread across the western church? Maybe this time hierarchs will only serve to immolate themselves and not incite tribal and regional conflict? Maybe this time Christians can do this reform without the bloody carnage of centuries of religious wars?It seems to Me that this latest gambit by hierarchs to ensure their "revenue stream" soundS like something we'd expect from the mullahs and Taliban, not coming from the supposed apostles of the Prince of Peace?
Before we congratulate ourselves too much on our superior American system, we should remember that the American Church is increasingly beholden to big donors whose interests run mostly with conservative, even reactionary causes. Be careful what you wish for. If the German system were to disappear overnight, with the general public being totally unaccustomed to filling the collection plate by choice, three guesses who is going to fill the gap, during a recession. Consider the Union of Associations Loyal to the Pope who have complained above that "heretics" are staying in the ranks by paying the tax. Want to strengthen their hand? The German bishops have actually had some independence from Rome and some more guts to assert it than the American bishops have in recent years.
"Dei Verbum accorded with Lumen gentiums recognition that membership in the church follows from valid baptism, rather than from communion with papal authority."I don't believe this gives the full picture of reality, though. Baptism is a sacrament of initiation, but it does not encompass the whole of Christian discipleship, nor the whole of sacramental life. Supporting the church, in some way, shape or form - and in my view, it doesn't even need to be monetary; stewardship is richer than that - is a part of discipleship.
The German bishops sent back the Roman-revised funeral rites as "unusable" and they are being rewritten. American bishops would never have done such a thing.The German bishops protested against changing the words of the Missal to say that Christ died for many, rather than for all. They were told no by the Pope, but at least they stood up and protested. The Americans rolled over and played dead. The German bishops are not beating down hard on We Are Church, they are not censuring the theologians who signed the public petition in favor of progressive causes in the Church. I bring all this up because I think people are demonizing them here. The reality is much more complex.
Rita --You're right about the German bishops. Some have recently shown some courage in asserting their own proper authority and in being able to tolerate some criticism. In the U. S. this week one bishop actually said publicly that he thinks it's perhaps time for the ordination of women deacons. So maybe the times are changing even within the bishops' old boy club. So I should stop complaining about "the bishops" as if they're just one big homogeneous mass of toadies. Their opinions are starting to vary, and a few have even started to voice dissenting views, so there is a glimmer of hope for reform.But the German bishops behind this latest initiative seem unaware that the laity has some things that need to be listened to. It's time for those bishops to make common cause with the laity, not alienate them. The struggle with Rome is just beginning (as I see it, anyway).
Rita makes an excellent point. While Germany is Europe's wealthiest Catholic Church there are 25 million Catholics compared to the 75 million Catholics in the US. The numbers make up the difference money wise for the US church. As for the independence of the German bishops it may have to do more with the declining number of Catholics in Europe which keeps the European bishops on their toes. The American Catholic church is declining. Witness all those Indian and African priests making up for the unwillingness of American Catholics to join those ranks. The reason the Catholic bishops feel more secure is that religions are outwardly respected more in the US. As far as I am concerned that just means that there are more hypocrites in the US. Studies show that the morality of Catholics and Protestants are not in accordance with the gospel. Religion, at least in politics and in the media is still in. It will be interesting when that comes crashing down. Maybe the American bishops will become as humble as the German bishops. Perhaps wealthy Catholic Germans don't use the church to exert power the way American Catholics due because the Church does not have the cachet that the American church has. The American Catholics are pretty fed up. It will be interesting what wealthy conservative Catholics will do when it becomes clear that they are betting on the wrong horse. The power vacuum that might ensue will hopefully be filled by the gospel.
"I think they are demonizing them here."Rita, I would agree with you. It's like finding an excuse to judge Germany's bishops for what we haven't done, while pointing out something "much higher" which we presume they don't see.How smug! We Americans forget that funeral directors include church fees in the overall cost of a funeral and that pastors expect stipends for the use of a church building (for general upkeep, maintanence of buildings, grounds) and for cantors, musicians and an organist at a church wedding. Also, that pastors are currently deleting names of parishioners who haven't contributed or showed up in years, thus cutting the latter off from the benefits of church resources, both spiritual and social. Thus we have our own way of dealing with people who have little interest in supporting the operating expenses of their local parish.
"...German bishops...seem unaware that the laity...."I doubt that. They always pay attention to the Central Committee of German Catholics that has 12 million lay Catholics. The Committee's president, Alois Gluck, recently praised the progress on the way the bishops dealt with abuse. I am sure the bishops will hear from them on this issue, too, if they haven't already heard from them. (We have nothing like that in the States -- no Catholic lay organization that big and with so much clout.)
Rita -- There are demons on all sides depending on one's viewpoint. The missal may be of minor interest to most beyond the bishops and Pope since 7 out 8 German Catholics claimed by the bishops don't attend religious services. Warring petitions are on the street. The theologians' "Church 2011" is opposed by "Pro Ecclesia" calling on the bishops to preserve the traditional church. Individual bishops have made disruptive comments suggesting at least awareness of issues such as married priests, viri probati, communion for divorced and remarried, etc. (Eng.) http://www.memorandum-freiheit.de/?page_id=518 http://www.petition-pro-ecclesia.de/ Potential participants in a dialogue promised in 2010 claim the bishops have stonewalled, delaying and turning it into a one-way interview. http://www.wir-sind-kirche.de/index.php?id=128&id_entry=4110 News from Fulda this week should be of interest, whatever it may be.
Having attended Mass in German Catholic Churches, I would say the "collection" is a pretty nominal affair. If the tax system, which indeed seems an artifact of the 19th century, goes the relatively wealthy German church will have to rethink its mission, including a good amount of development work around the world. Ditto Protestant Churches. And I wonder about the Jewish and Muslim communities? Are they part of the tax system.
I'm sorry. At the risk, of sounding like someone complaining about moochers, I have to point out again that the Germans being denied Catholic sacraments have formally stated that THEY DON'T WANT TO BE CATHOLICS! If they don't want to drive an Opel, you can't force them to buy one. If they hate opera, nobody has to place a boom box under their window and play Wagner. So whose ox is being gored?
Tom Blackburn, they have actually only stated that they don't want to pay the church tax under this system. The ones in question still want to be Catholics. The question is whether that position on the law should disqualify them from the sacraments, and whether the secular government should be the mediator of who gets to be Catholic or not. As for the taxation system, it seems intemperate to suddenly remove it. Many would suffer from the loss of revenue. And the U.S. church isn't a very good model either, since Catholics contribute so little on their own. Developing a sustainable economic system in the church would seem to go hand in hand with developing a different culture in Catholicism, of participation. That's a long-range project. One irony with this dust-up is that is could well lead to a precipitous decline in the German church's fortunes, either by a huge backlash against the taxation system or by alienating so many Catholics who perceive a kind of sacramental extortion that they opt out of the system. Same result: no money for many good things.
Tom,Some clarity. Many of those who object to the tax are not leaving. They just want to make their own decisions as to how much they contribute.
Useful information, consistent with other sources, is in the U. of Mannheim Welcome Guide: http://www.uni-mannheim.de/welcomecentre/english/guidebook/taxation/chur... "An unusual feature of taxation in Germany is state collected "Kirchensteuer" (church tax). Under certain circumstances, churches can have their tax collected for them by the tax office. In the case of the major churches, church tax (roughly 9% of income tax) is collected by the state together with income tax and automatically deducted from your monthly salary. This is the reason why you are asked to state your religion when you register at the Residents' Registration Office."If you belong to the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Reformed Protestant Church, the Jewish Community or certain Protestant Free Churches you are required to pay church tax in Germany. This does not apply, however, if you belong to the Anglican Church or the Orthodox Church."Note "their tax". This is church money from the beginning, not state or federal. (Churches also get government subsidies for various activities as in the US, although the bishops say the church tax is the predominant funding.)
There are some of us who are profoundly Catholic who see a corrupt and blind clergy/hierarchy unwilling to look at the "sins" within-----and initiate any kind of meaningful reform. Why does the institutional Church exist if not to do God's will by facilitating each of our relationship with God. What leverage do we have other than our money to get the attention of the hierarchy, when the hierarchy refuses to do its job?
Germans used to have to tell the tax people they were no longer Catholics to be excused from the tax. That must have changed? From the story I can't tell whether the declaration is gone, or if the Vatican, being located in Italy, accepts the declaration as a lie people tell the tax collector and otherwise of no consequence.What are these folks doing about the fifth "Precept of the Church" (still in the Catechism) that says they have to "provide for the needs of the church?" Do they want a free ride. Or are they seeking an American-style voluntary system in which generosity is truly meritorious, since it's unforced, and cheapskates skate freely? I'd like that system better if it really gave the faithful some leverage, but long experience shows withholding provides temporary satisfaction to the withholder but no pressure on the chancery office.You don't have to look for your checkbook on Sunday morning if you pay a Kirchenstauer. That is a plus.
Is the gospel a free gift?The problem isn't this new symptom of what has always been an unchristian way of raising $. The Protestants do this in Germany too...you can't get married in the EKD w/o paying the tax. They need to separate the church from the state and go with voluntary contributions. Otherwise, we end up denying the sacraments from certain people who refuse to pay. That's like saying the church should deny grace from a sinner.
"Otherwise, we end up denying the sacraments from certain people who refuse to pay. Thats like saying the church should deny grace from a sinner." Yes. And bury the dead is one of our corporal works of mercy.
"...and go with voluntary contributions."Before unification, the East German Lutheran Church tried this. East Germans who stayed in the church made voluntary contributions which often far exceeded what the church tax would take. However, after unification and an additional tax (a "solidarity tax") was added to their income tax to finance unification, many opted out entirely. Today people think if it is all right to leave a spouse, why can't one leave the church.A few years ago, the Lutherans met in Wittenberg to discuss less than favorable demographic trends that could mean less state funding for church operations. The person who headed the church services division, Ties Gundlach, predicted that the worse sennario showed that the Protestant church's current membership of about 25 million could shrink to 17 million by 2030. Even with this dire prediction, however, they still opted to keep the tax system. Finally, I would tend to agree with Tom Blackburn: Germans being denied receiving sacraments have formally stated that they don't want to be Catholic. Very few opt out of the tax system and still want to remain Catholic.
Notice how much the "Sacraments" are talked about in this issue. Critics rightly term the "Church of the Sacraments" as problematic. As if the very reception makes you a disciple rather than the imitation of Christ's commands. Catholics know the sacraments more than they know the beatitudes which spell out the essential gospel. Somehow the sacraments can be reconciled with war and anger while the beatitudes not so easily. Indian and African priests come here on the money train to administer the sacraments while leaving the world's poorest in their own country. Why can't the Mafia be buried in the church when the hierarchy see the sacraments more as matter and form rather than discipleship.
I wonder about the Jewish and Muslim communities? Are they part of the tax system.
From wikipedia, Religion in Germany:
Since 1949 the German constitution guarantees freedom of faith and religion. It also states that no one may be discriminated against due to their faith or religious opinions. A state church does not exist in Germany.[17] Religious communities that are of considerable size and stability and are loyal to the constitution can be recognised as "Krperschaften ffentlichen Rechtes" (statutory corporation). This gives them certain privileges, for example being able to give religious instruction in state schools (as enshrined in the German constitution, though some states are exempt from this) and having membership fees collected (for a fee) by the German revenue department as Church tax. It is a surcharge amounting to between 8 or 9% of the income tax. The status mainly applies to the Roman Catholic Church, the mainline Protestant EKD, and Jewish communities. There have been numerous discussions of allowing other religious groups like Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims into this system as well. The Muslim efforts were hampered by the Muslims' own disorganised state in Germany, with many small rivalling organisations and no central leadership, which does not fit well into a legal frame that was originally created with well-organized, large Christian churches in mind.
A good reminder of how culturally different Germany and the rest of Europe are from the trans-Atlantic West.
Thanks, David Smith. That is helpful. A while ago, before his death, film producer and author, Alfred Kazin, noted that it is only those who have no culture and no belief in culture who resent differences among peoples and nations and the exploration of the human imagination and spirit. When I am in Germany, I think of that quote often (and how narrow-minded some American Catholics can get when critiquing other forms, customs, and expressions of global Catholicism). Fortunately, when I receive the Eucharist there (or celebrate Mass), I experience no differences. The Germans I met and know are very kind people.
Many serious and weighty arguments have been advanced on dotCom over the years in support of the redistribution of wealth, including that it is right and proper to use government as the instrument of that redistribution. It seems to me that what we're discussing in this topic is a somewhat analogous system in Germany, that uses the state's authority to force people to part with some of their wealth, whether they want to or not, to support a social good - in this case, a church. Thus we have the same mechanism - government-mandated taxes and transfer payments - in support of a somewhat what analogous social good. In this case the redistribution is to the people via the churches, rather than, say, to the people through block grants to states.If it is pointed out that the imperative to redistribute wealth has a biblical foundation - well, it could be pointed out that the imperative of disciples to support the Christian community also has a biblical foundation.It is noted here that at least some of those who repudiate Catholicism in Germany to avoid paying the tax do so because they have what they believe to be legitimate beefs with the authorities' misuse and abuse of their power, and they don't want to fund that misuse/abuse.In reply, it could be noted that some people in America object to paying taxes for equally principled reasons - that they object to what they view as the misuse/abuse of governmental authority, and they don't want to fund it. It seems to me that if one sympathizes with Germans who don't want their tax dollars to go to the hierarchy, one should also sympathize with Americans who don't want their tax dollars to bail out General Motors, or to fund Obamacare. It's pretty much the same principle at work.
What leverage do we have other than our money to get the attention of the hierarchy, when the hierarchy refuses to do its job?I think prayer is supposed to be the real leverage...
Jim Pauwels: I don't see this as the same principle at all, because it's not about the redistribution of wealth, or even money, but about what qualifies someone as a Catholic able to receive the sacraments. The church tax is the accident, so to speak.
James Chichetto, you keep taking offense on behalf of the Germans, but the criticism is not of the Germans, or Europeans, or German Catholics, or that Americans are somehow better. It's about using this tax system as a means to determine one's Catholic bona fides. That is new, I believe. I don't think that has been done before, or why would the bishops have issued their new policy?
David G. -- One reason for issuing the new policy may be referred to at the end of the Heneghan quote above. A feature widely noted in the new decree is its explicit reference to "legal consequences" of leaving and not "excommunication". These are church "legal", not state "legal" consequences, obviously, but the new term sounds civil and non-sectarian, while "excommunication" is unquestionably Catholic religious terminology. Many find the detailed list of specific consequences to be very similar, whichever title is used. The difference sounds like legalistic nitpicking, but it is apparently a part of the Vatican-bishops disagreement of recent years over appropriate punishment for leaving and might have significant implications in the Zapp civil appeal which starts tomorrow, as Tom Heneghan notes. (Wikipeida - Freedom of Religion in Germany - still says (9/25 10PM) "The Conference of the German Bishops, however, considers the declaration to "leave the church" to be a schismatic act to be punished automatically by excommunication. Note also that it is the church's status as a corporate body under public law that gives it the right to collect (via the state tax administrative system) its own church tax. Parallels to the US tax systems are misleading.)
"It seems to me that if one sympathizes with Germans who dont want their tax dollars to go to the hierarchy, one should also sympathize with Americans who dont want their tax dollars to bail out General Motors, or to fund Obamacare. Its pretty much the same principle at work."One could sympathize, but the solution is for the government to go after the tax evaders in both cases, not for the rest of us to tell them they can no longer drink the water, use the roads or receive the sacraments.
"It seems to me that if one sympathizes with Germans who dont want their tax dollars to go to the hierarchy, one should also sympathize with Americans who dont want their tax dollars to bail out General Motors, or to fund Obamacare. Its pretty much the same principle at work."Same principle with different credibility. As far as we know General Motors was a success story. Health care is a matter of justice. On the other hand the RCC does not give a good accounting of its funds. Many say the financial scandal is the nest big blowup. That will come with greater transparency or someone inside having a conscience moment.
"...as a means to determine one's Catholic bona fides."David Gibson, German Catholic leaders are simply digging a deeper well (via the tax system) before their current charities are thirsty. Possibly (when referring to taxes) they are also alluding to generosity, rendering to God through the church, almsgiving, charity as a means to determine one's Catholic bona fides. Such taxing supposes a certain faith and religious disposition of the giver. One thinks of Our Lord paying the temple tax in Mt. 18. My original point, however, was let the German church deal with its own customs, traditions, and support system. I am sure it has thought long and hard (without our American advice) about "the means to determine one's Catholic bona fides" through generosity and charity.
I read somewhere that the Vatican resisted the German bishops' policy until recently but that they have now won Vatican support, hence their new determination.
A "spiritual cudgel" ? Really? The best example of an oxymoron I've ever seen. In this spiritually diseased world, souls have become property, pederasts guide the way to salvation (all of a sudden, they're "only human"), and "God" and "faith" are reduced to labels. Sick and pathetic.
The German Bishops Conference offers a detailed 10 pages on "Church Financing" which poses and answers about 30 excellent questions ranging from church-state relations through church tax to how funds are used. http://www.dbk.de/themen/kirchenfinanzierung/ Highly recommended if you can read or translate the German. Given its scope, density of detail, and size, it does not invite easy summary. Combining it with the General Decree and Pastoral Letter available through the Conference press release shows that the bishops have a very thoroughly argued case, embedded in civil and church law, which addresses church roles, activities, and alternatives (e.g., "Why does not the church tax [go] directly to the communities?") http://www.dbk.de/presse/details/?presseid=2168&cHash=39c11c115b880e0470... Widely/wildly proliferating news articles focussing on a few headline items do not adequately describe what needs to be the starting point for relevant discussion of counterarguments. The air of desperation that seems to underlie current bishops' activity is better understood from a look at Church Statistics (in English!). http://www.dbk.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Zahlen%20und%20Fakten/Kirchliche%2...
"the solution is for the government to go after the tax evaders in both cases"I agree this is what logic would dictate.
"Jim Pauwels: I dont see this as the same principle at all, because its not about the redistribution of wealth, or even money, but about what qualifies someone as a Catholic able to receive the sacraments. The church tax is the accident, so to speak."David, I'm given to understand from what I'm reading here that the tax revenues flowing to the German church are a big deal for the German bishops. No?Catholics should be considered by the church as "qualified" to receive the sacraments unless and until they do something to disqualify themselves. Publicly and formally severing their membership in the church certainly accomplishes that. Even so, the church authorities presumably wouldn't know who has and who hasn't gone before a judge to make that declaration.
The German bishops' challenge on the home front is illuminated in their description of the population (in English!). A 2009 survey of how German Catholics referred to themselves showed _17% "believing, committed to the church", _37% "critical, with ties to the church", and almost _50% "distanced, unsure or not religious". Elsewhere, the bishops show 12.6% attending religious services (2010). http://www.dbk.de/en/katholische-kirche/ The strategy behind the new General Decree is puzzling, given what the bishops know about the Faithful. Perhaps it is aimed more toward the Vatican than to the natives (See J. O'Leary's comment, 1:50pm).
Jim P. -- Re tax evasion logic: There is no _church_tax_ to be evaded if an individual is not registered for a specific church. The German government provides the formal leaving process as part of the national commitment to ensure individual religious freedom. It is meant to provide an exit which a church cannot readily obstruct if an individual chooses to leave. Here's one man's description of how to do it. http://www.german-tax-back.com/church-tax.html
My heart goes out to the Priests, who, having given their lives over to ministering in Jesus' name, now are expected to look needy people in the eye and refuse to minister to them unless they're paid up. Talk about cognitive dissonance! It can't but be spiritually destructive to them personally, whatever it does to the church.
500 priests in Austria have solved their problem of Communion and Austrian church tax protest. The Austrian Pastors Initiative "Appeal to Disobedience" of 19 June 2011 is the formal statement to which the Pope and Cdl. Schonborn objected on Chrism Thursday, 2012. On Holy Saturday, Helmut Schuller, leader of the Pastors Initiative, rejected their calls for change and confirmed the necessity and continuation of the priests' Appeal. It says in the 2nd of its 7 actions: _____ Appeal to Disobedience_____ ""2. WE WILL not deny Communion to faithful of good will, especially remarried people, members of other Christian churches, and in some cases those who have officially left the Catholic Church.* "..."* Here we refer to those who officially leave the Church; some to avoid Church Tax as a means of protest" http://www.pfarrer-initiative.at/unge_en.pdf Helmut Schuller spoke at the German 'Alternative Katholikentag' set up by German reform groups in competition with the German Church's official Catholic Week celebration in Mannheim in May. It wouldn't be surprising if he met like-minded clergy there. http://m.thetablet.co.uk/latest-news/4155
It is circumstances like these in Germany which gives me added appreciation for the First Amendment.No matter how much the German hierarchs twist themselves into pretzels to explain this action, it still looks like they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
German history, culture, etc. notwithstanding, I can only wonder if the internet, satellite communications, etc. will facilitate a healthy German rebellion against state involvement in collecting church monies. Many (most?) Germans speak English and have access to international venues. Ideas, after all, are considered dangerous in some church quarters (read: "by the hierarchs".). Might the German laity force the government to stop collecting funds for religious bodies? Will the bishops lose their cushy fundraising arrangement with the state?Ain't over till it's over.Just the beginning???
Die Welt reports in detail on the Hartmut Zapp case settled in civil court after a 5-year dispute. Zapp, who wanted to stay in the church and not pay the church tax, lost. The Archdiocese of Freiberg is rejoicing. The new General Decree played a significant role. The Zapp case is finished, but the church tax issue is not. Both reformists and conservatives object strongly to the bishops' new decree. The article describes systems in Switzerland and italy which appear to sound better in that they either uncouple the spiritual (faith community) and institutional (public corporation) church or allow voluntariness in choosing the recipient of mandatory contributions. http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article109476612/Katholik-scheite...
News from Austria reported in The Tablet.. Note the last sentence in particular. Hmm."The 660 parishes in the Archdiocese of Vienna are to be drastically reduced over the next 10 years to just 150.. . . "The main factors behind the restructuring are the declining number of churchgoing Catholics and the shortage of priests. Parishes in the archdiocese will in future be much larger, with three to five priests in charge, one of whom will be responsible to the archbishop. Each of these large parishes will be run jointly by priests and lay Catholics."http://www.thetablet.co.uk/latest-news/4599
Canon Ed Peters, no flaming liberal, voices some concerns about the German decree:
Vatican City, Sep 27, 2012 / 04:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A leading canon lawyer has called for further reflection on the German Churchs decision to refuse the sacraments and Christian burial to Catholics who do not pay the countrys Church tax.Dr. Edward Peters, a canon lawyer and the first layman to serve as a consultant to the Churchs highest court, explained that excommunication is invoked today only against the gravest ecclesiastical offenses, things like abortion, desecration of the Eucharist, or certain illegal conferrals of Holy Orders.To invoke the consequences of excommunication, even if that term is not used, against those who object to paying a civil Church tax, raises some very serious questions about justice toward the faithful, Peters said.
Here is another excellent take on the German bishops:http://www.v2catholic.com/dtimbs/2012/2012-09-30the-gospel-and-opportuni... would seem that one needs a historical perspective that would go all the way back to the 1930's concordant with Nazi Germany. Am also reminded of a recent story (can't remember exactly but a serious theologian at CUA) who keeps a photo at his desk of some German bishops prior to WWII standing and giving the Nazi salute as Hitler passed.Really do wonder when the *institution* in bed with politics dictates the sacramental practice and faith of its own people?
Joe, Bill -- A similar (or same?) picture heads the article at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on "The German Churches and the Nazi State". Interesting background on the not-too-distant past of complicated German church-state relations. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005206
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If I'm interested in increasing my personal productivity. What publications or books should I read based on reviews and number of copies sold?
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Getting Things Done, by David Allen.
Stephen Covey, although also considered a management guru, is definitely one of the most well-known and sold personal productivity authors. His 1989 7 habits of hightly effective people is still one of the most must-read books around.
The Pomodoro Technique was developed by Francesco Cirillo and is aimed at establishing a standard to measure productivity. Roughly, the technique consists in scheduling 5 minutes breaks after 25 minutes of focused work. Every of these 25 minutes is named "pomodoro" and every succesfull pomodoro is a +1 in your productivity report.
It's hard to tell how many copies were sold but the technique is well known in this Q&A community, not to mention the author is giving away free copies in his site, but a quick search in Google shows over 400k results specifically about "Pomodoro Technique".
Jeff Atwood has just blogged about this. He recommends 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot (and also The Ultimate Productivity Blog).
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I found all those books interesting and helpful and (as far as I remember) they all got quite positive feedback in reviews at big online bookstores — you might check that yourself.
There are many parallels between the concepts, but they have different focuses and partly different strategies. In my opinion, one should/can pick the best ideas of each one — those that are working best.
While not strictly productivity, Edward de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats is one of the best ways to organize both your thinking and your productivity. It's a very short book, and a very simple system, but it's very rich in applications and will definitely boost your own ability to produce.


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The MSDN is really confusing about this, with all their different versions of XNA jumbled together for my google results. All I want to do is find out, in XNA 4.0, what antialiasing modes are supported by the display adapter. Supposedly, this involves calling GraphicsAdapter.CheckDeviceMultiSampleType(), but that function isn't defined. What should I be using in its place?
That method was removed in XNA4 since it was no longer needed since we now have the reach and hi-def profiles. You can now just prefer multisampling or not and the framework will set an appropriate
Btw if you have problems with MSDN. In the top left of the current article you're viewing you can select the proper version (if available).