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The Cammino concludes
Today I've posted my final installment of the Cammino attraverso la Commedia over at Verdicts. Thanks to everyone who has followed along, and special thanks to Helen and Flavia who performed intellectual works of mercy (you didn't know there were intellectual works of mercy, did you?) by commenting on each post. (They will certainly get time off in Purgatory for that!) Although Mary was in the upper room with the apostles, Bernard's hymn to Mary isn't a perfect match for Pentecost. But it is May, and the hymn is beautiful, and I couldn't fit it into my post, so I've posted it below. If you would like to find all the posts on Dante, you can click here. Of course, feel free to comment.
'Virgin Mother, daughter of your Son,
more humble and exalted than any other creature,
fixed goal of the eternal plan,
you are the one who so ennobled human nature
that He, who made it first, did not disdain
to make Himself of its own making.
Your womb relit the flame of love --its heat has made this blossom seed
and flower in eternal peace.
To us you are a noonday torch of charity,
while down below, among those still in flesh,
you are the living fountainhead of hope.
Lady, you are so great and so prevail above,
should he who longs for grace not turn to you,
his longing would be doomed to wingless flight.
Your loving kindness does not only aid
whoever seeks it, but many times
gives freely what has yet to be implored.
In you clemency, in you compassion,
in you munificence, in you are joined
all virtues found in any creature.
This man who, from within the deepest pit
the universe contains up to these heights
has seen the disembodied spirits, one by one,
now begs you, by your grace, to grant such power
that, by lifting up his eyes,
he may rise higher toward his ultimate salvation.
And I, who never burned for my own seeing
more than now I burn for his, offer all my prayers,
and pray that they may not fall short,
so that your prayers disperse on his behal
fall clouds of his mortality and let
the highest beauty be displayed to him.
This too, my Queen, I ask of you, who can achieve
whatever you desire, that you help him preserve,
after such vision, the purity of his affections.
Let your protection rule his mortal passions.
See Beatrice, with so many of the blessed,
palms pressed together, joining me in prayer.
(The translation comes from the Princeton Dante Project, which I have used in every post.)
About the Author
Scott D. Moringiello is an an assistant professor in the Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in Catholic theology and religion and literature. He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Bill M. --I've never heard of a boy of 9 falling in love with a girl of 7 and never falling out of love, much less having his whole life affected by it. But I might be prejudiced. Antonio Bologna seemed to fall in love with me when he was 10 and I was 8. Proof was the Mickey Mouse wrist-watch he gave me for my birthday. One would think that a boy doesn't give a girl a Mickey Mouse wrist-watch unless he means it. But Antonio was faithless. He went off to boarding school and never wrote to me -- not even once. Hmph. So I can't help but wonder if Dante's faithfulness was real. Or just crazy.
"Lady, you are so great and so prevail above,should he who longs for grace not turn to you,his longing would be doomed to wingless flight."Scott --Is Bernard the author of the heresy of Mary, Co-Redemptrix?? I wouldn't be surprised. It wouldn't be his first.
Hi, Ann,The simple answer to your question is no. Of course, the heresy of describing Mary as Co-Redemptrix means that Mary is equal to Christ. The importance of Mary in the economy of salvation goes as far back as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyon, and Tertullian (all 2nd C.) They all describe Mary as the new Eve, which itself is a gloss on Paul's Adam-Christ typology in Rom. 5. (It's likely that Irenaeus drew on Justin here and Tertullian on Irenaeus.)Traditionally, very high Mariology is associated with the Franciscans. The contemporary theologian Leonardo Boff, although no longer a Franciscan, went so far as to say that Mary was hypostatically united to the Holy Spirit. For many, Boff's views went beyond what one could say from the Biblical witness.I have to say, though, that I'm not an expert on this. I was the assistant for a class about Mary in the history of Christianity, but it's not part of my own research. So I'm happy to be corrected on any of this.But, back to Dante (who surely knew of Bernard's devotion to Mary): it's a lovely poem, isn't it?
Yes, it's lovely. And thanks for the theology :-) Maybe you can help me with this question too. When I read the Commedia years ago I didn't think it was a strange poem (the way I find most of William Blake weird, for instance), but, sad to say, since then I've read that Dante was 9 years old when he fell in love with Beatrice, who was only 7, and he met her only once more when they were late teen-agers. Since then I can't help but wonder just what the Commedia is really about. How do you critics explain such an outlandish devotion? Surely he wasn't literally in love with -- what? -- a personal myth? And if the part about Beatrice is really just myth, what is the rest of the poem about? So far as I know nobody has ever accused him of heresy, but I can't help but wonder what he meant by "the faith". Or maybe I'm really asking if perhaps he wasn't just a bit touched.
Ann, that's what we've been spending the last 50 days trying to figure out! :) I'd love to hear your thoughts on the posts over at Verdicts.After reading through the Commedia again, I am even more convinced that it is the most beautiful poem that's ever been written. It's about God, love, language, philosophy, politics, friendship, sanctity, and more. Only Homer and Shakespeare are in Dante's league.And as for Dante's love of Beatrice, I do think that his brief encounter with her was a moment of grace that deeply shaped his life. How much less beauty there would be in the world if he had never encountered her!
Scott --I know that the medievals were acutely aware of both the sensible world and the world of far-out abstractions and that Dante's work integrates the two in an extraordinary way. But I still think he must have been a very strange man even for the 14th century. I wonder whether his encounter with Beatrice might have been some sort of mystical experience in which he became aware of the presence of the God indirectly by means of his encounter with beauty of the exquisite little Beatrice. Of course, that is not what the Commedia is about. But his first encounter with her is a preamble, so to speak, of his faith that God is absolute beauty. Does he say much more about the meeting somewhere else? And then again, maybe Dante was some sort of nutter, though what specific sort of craziness would account for such an insane obsession? Do 9 year old boys often fall in love with 7 year old girls and never fall out of love with them? If they do, is it a sort of immature pederasty? Ugly thought :-( I think I'll stick with the hypothesis of a semi-mystical experience.I think Dante goes beyond Shakespeare and Homer. Although it seems Shakespeare was Catholic, he doesn't have a transcendent dimension -- he has depth and width to beat the others, but he doesn't have the height of Dante. Nor does Homer.
Thanks for all your posts. We have fallen behind and have barely ended the Purgatory, but are following all of your posts, albeit with a delay.
Ann, I don't find Dante's experience of Beatrice unusual at all. There is perhaps nothing more enchanting than an attractive smile of a loved one we never meet. Especially when we were young. There is only that smile and the fantasy takes over from that. In a distant way it is like Cinderella. Happily ever after because no details are further given. So this is rather common, Ann. Where is your romantic side anyway. As common as this is, Dante puts in a way that is most appealing. That is what great artists do. They articulate our lives in a most skillful manner.
Scott:It was not an intellectual work of mercy for me but a labor of love. Thank you for this opportunity. I used the text that I had saved from my Freshman English Course. It even had my class notes on each page. (I am surprised at how little my handwriting has changed.) I kept my paper from the course. It was submitted on May 18.As to Beatrice - I find Dantes praise a bit over the top. Yet that is the medieval courtly love poetry tradition. After all St. Francis considered himself to be the spouse of Lady Poverty.In another of Dantes works called New Life he writes of Beatrice:Since three is the sole factor of nine and the sole factor of miracles is three the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Who are three in one then this lady was a nine, a miracle whose root it the miraculous Trinity itself. (29). If Dante were alive today I think he might consider Beatrice a TEN.I wonder why Dante has not been declared a Doctor of the Church? Does it have anything to do with the fact that he was a member of the laity?
AnnSo sorry that your first love was so fickle, superficial, and unfaithful. Would that he had been as steadfast as Dante and you might have been immortalized in a poem.
The poem about Beatrice is beantiful and a classic. It is also fantasy. Which is ok. But Dante took it too seriously and to canonize her????
Scott --Did Dante write in the tradition of courtly love poetry? That might help explain his idolization of Beatrice. Kind of turns her into a literary device, but . . .Sadly, deconstruction does destroy, doesn't it. Or what?
"The importance of Mary in the economy of salvation goes as far back as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyon, and Tertullian (all 2nd C.) They all describe Mary as the new Eve, which itself is a gloss on Pauls Adam-Christ typology in Rom. 5. (Its likely that Irenaeus drew on Justin here and Tertullian on Irenaeus.)"Truly the first three centuries are virtually silent about Mary. Mary is certainly special and a great woman. But the idolization of her has been way over the top and a disservice to her and the Gospel. Proving that women's criticism of the exaltation Mary has led to misogyny within the church, Justin and Tertullian were misogynists. Not to mention Augustine, Thomas and the Franciscan Bonaventure.
Bill, I'm excited to see you're a fellow fan of Dante. I have one question, though. When you say, "Truly the first three centuries are virtually silent about Mary," what do you mean by "virtually"? She is mentioned in all four Gospels and Acts. I've already noted Justin, Irenaeus, and Tertullian. (If Justin and Tertullian are misogynists, they certainly hold Mary in high regard.) We have so-called "gnostic gospels" that discuss Mary. Whatever the status of these writings is (an interesting and important discussion), the writings themselves certainly aren't silent about Mary. If all these mentions of Mary in the first three centuries count as virtual silence, then what would constitute sound?
And, Bill, how could I forget the Prot-evangelium of James, the Infancy Narrative of Pseudo-Matthew, and the Odes of Solomon! All of them were written in the first three centuries after Christ.
Hi Scott,I wrote "virtually" silent. Pseudo-Matthew was written between 600-625. As far as holding Mary putting Mary on a pedestal what they did was take her humanity away from her. Elizabeth Johnson has written "Truly Our Sister" which is a classic on Mary brings back her humanity as well as helping with the misogynist issue. Further, I doubt Mary would tolerate mysogynists. nor would she approve of the apocraphyl Protoevangelium of James.
Bill, thanks for the correction about Pseudo-Matthew. (I was typing too quickly.) You're right. I still don't know what you mean by "virtually." Mary interested followers of Jesus from very early on. Even seven or eight or nine texts is a lot. And what's wrong with the Protoevangelium of James? I think it's a wonderful piece of Christian midrash. At the very least, the story about Mary in the Temple gave us Titian's _Presentation of the Virgin Mary_, which is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Next time you're in Venice, be sure to go to the Accademia and check it out.
Thank you, Helen. All sympathy is appreciated. Sigh.
What you won't find in the Protoevangelium of James and Dante. From Elizabeth Johnson. Mary of the MagnificatThough Mary is poor and lowly, and a culturally insignificant woman, the powerful living holy God is doing great things to her. And God does this not only to her but to all the poor: bringing down the mighty from their thrones; exalting the lowly; filling the hungry with good things and sending the unrepentant rich away empty. And all of this is happening in fulfillment of the ancient promiseand in her very being. For she embodies the nobodies of this world, on whom God is lavishing rescue.In this song she sings of the future too, when finally, peaceful justice will take root in the land among all people. This is a great prayer; it is a revolutionary song of salvation. As writer Bill Cleary once commented, "It reveals that Mary was not only full of grace but full of political opinions."Miriam's song has political implicationssocially radical ones at that. With a mother like this, it's no wonder that Jesus' first words in Luke proclaim that he has come to free the captives and bring good news to the poor. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!http://www.americancatholic.org/newsletters/cu/ac0501.asp
Well, you also won't find Mary of the Magnificat in any other text than Luke, so what's your point? You've switched from saying nobody was talking about Mary for three centuries (if you had made it 3 1/2 centuries, you'd have had to have said that nobody could shut up about her) to saying that they were, but that they weren't saying the stuff you like.Btw, Eerdmans is putting out a new collection of un/underseen apocrypha, which has a life of the Virgin that follows the proto-gospel in a lot of ways--but Mary is ugly and smells bad!
The point is that she is not the Lady in Blue, Abe. And that those who look for the goddess in her miss the point. She is on message with Jesus that the poor are filled with great things and the rich will go away empty. In case you missed Johnson's words above: "Miriams song has political implicationssocially radical ones at that. With a mother like this, its no wonder that Jesus first words in Luke proclaim that he has come to free the captives and bring good news to the poor."
Mary is the Lady in Blue, Mary isn't the Lady in Blue. Helen was in Troy, Helen was in Egypt. Iphigenia was sacrificed, Iphigenia was saved. Abraham didn't kill Isaac, Abraham did kill Isaac.My point is that you're selecting a stream of interpretation and promoting it as the correct one, which is fair enough, but only if done with critical awareness of the fact that you have made a selection, and that there were other streams that were available for the choosing. You've chosen the sausage you want to eat, but there was a lot of meat around that went into different casings.
Too facile a response, Abe.There is serious scholarship that does enable a person to sift out the facts. Elizabeth Johnson is a serious scholar. Did you read her book on Mary? With your approach one ends up empty. Perhaps you need the CDF.
Bill, please stop. This thread began when Ann asked if Dante thought Mary was Co-Redemptrix. I responded by saying no and by noting how three second century theologians understood Mary in the economy of salvation. Ann gave us a sweet and sad story about her childhood. (I'm sure she's gotten over it. Her reply to Helen seems to suggest so:)) You had a flip response to Ann's point. You then made a claim that rested on the vague word "virtually." I called you on it. You pointed out a factual error I made (for which I thanked you), and you still did not define the word "virtually." Abe then called you on the fact that Mary's only speaks of the poor in her Magnificat in Luke 1. You changed the subject by referring to Elizabeth Johnson. Abe pointed out that you are being selective. You then responded that "There is serious scholarship that does enable a person to sift out the facts." This was a question begging response because in order to prove Elizabeth Johnson was a serious scholar you pointed to Elizabeth Johnson being a serious scholar. (Notice, I'm not making a point about Elizabeth Johnson. I'm sure she's a serious scholar. Good friends of mine speak highly of her, and I trust them. I have learned from the little of her scholarship that I've read.)Meanwhile, I wouldn't call branding Justin, Tertullian, Augustine, Bonaventure, and Aquinas misogynists in a throw away line a serious response. Why can you be facile when Abe can't be? (I recognize what I've just written is a tu quoque response and not a serious argument.) I agree with Abe: it is difficult and sometimes impossible to follow your train of thought. And because it is difficult to follow your train of thought, it is difficult, if not impossible, to give you a serious response.Would that we spent more time talking about Dante. It would do us all some good.
Ann --He certainly did. And he shows us that by meeting Brunetto in the Inferno, Guido Guinizzelli and Arnaut Daniel in Purgatorio, and Falco in the Paradiso. Importantly, all these poets wrote in the vernacular. (I discuss them in my posts over at Verdicts.)
As for deconstruction, Dante does a better job showing the limits of language than Derrida does, I think. The Commedia enacts its own erasure (in a manner of speaking) better than _Glas_ or _Of Grammatology_. (I recognize that's a debatable point! I don't know how carefully Derrida read Dante. I do know there are a few studies that compare them.)
Scott,Stop being so sensitive. Dante wrote a whole poem about Mary. Can I not object to that Mariology? I am not one of your students. The problem is you heard of Johnson but have not read her as you say "little." That may say plenty about you. You mentioned Justin and Tertullian first. We disagree about the significance of the number of times Mary is mentioned. Since you talked about a Mariology that I disagree with I pointed out to you that Justin and Tertullian are part of the problem of the over-exaltation of Mary which has led to the degradation of women in Christianity. I understand that as a Contributor you have certain privileges. That does not mean you can be condescending.
Ann, Blake's poetry "weird". Dante a "strange Man' , a "bit touched", with an "insane obsession", bordering on "immature pederasty."It's alright to simply say: "there's so much I don't understand or am not able to connect with on an emotional level."
George McG --The trouble with Dante is that I did connect with him when I was young and didn't know how he had supposedly fallen in love at age 9 or so. If you take that seriously then it can give you a very different picture of him as a man, and, therefore, as a poet. I"m not the only one who has ever considered Blake weird, am I? My problem with him is that I get the feeling that he doesn't think he's writing and drawing fiction.
Bill,I'm sorry if I offended you. I certainly did not mean to be condescending, and I don't see how trying to understand your argument by laying out the points you made (which is all I did at 2:02 pm) was condescending. I simply asked you to stop because our conversation was not going anywhere.When I get into academic discussions with colleagues, we discuss each others' arguments. We often label those arguments. We ask for textual evidence. That's all I was trying to do.You asked if you could object to Dante's Mariology? Of course you can. It would have been more productive if you objected to it by discussing it. You haven't actually discussed the poem or asked any questions that might help someone else understand the poem. That's not me being sensitive, and that's not me being condescending. That's just me pointing out (as I did above) what you've said and what you didn't say and responding accordingly. Again, if I offended you, I apologize. I know full well you're not my student. I was trying to treat you as a colleague. And with that, I look forward to hearing from you the next time I post on Commonweal.
Scott,I accept your effort to patch up any misunderstandings with me. No question we disagree on a number of items. Yet your working toward conciliation is admirable. Thank you for that.

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Okay, I received my NN3 MKII the other day (that was a fast delivery and very nice stuff Äì thx) and have made one 360 panorama with my Canon EOS 30D and a Canon EF-S 10-22 mm. lens at 10 mm, no problems what so ever (made 6 pictures and used Abode Ligthroom v 2.0 and exported directly to the automated panorama function in PS CS3 - this is great).
So the next step will be a 360x180 panorama. I scanned the tutorials on the net and found that I will need to take 2 series of 6 pictures with this camera and lens setup, one on -30 degrees, and one on +30 degrees, is this correct. How do I stitch the pictures together, will the best approach be to make two horizontal 360 panoramas, and the stitch these into the finished 360+180, advise will be appreciated - (Cant find any tutorials dealing with stitching two horizontal series together) thx.


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I am writing a small thing in which I am required to use manually formatted \bibitem entries rather than a BibTeX file. This takes a lot of time, and I probably get some of the formatting wrong. Is there a way of producing such entries automatically, for example from MathSciNet or from the BibTeX items created by MathSciNet? For arXiv preprints, there is a great tool from the Courant Research Centre (here) which can produce BibTeX as well as bibitem entries, and there should be something similar for MathSciNet.
Hi Andreas. When you run BibTeX on a .bib file then it produces a .bbl file which more-or-less contains your bibliography in \bibitem format. So I recommend exporting everything BibTex style from MathSciNet, creating a .bib file, running BibTeX, and then making any remaining changes to the resulting .bbl file (which you can then just copy and paste into your .tex file).
I suppose some people even know how to write BibTeX style files, so that the resulting .bbl file contains exactly the formatting you want.
Despite my advice, when I need \bibitem bibliographies, I usually just copy citations from the MathSciNet clipboard (in Ascii format) and manually insert the additional formatting. I'm not sure if this is more, or less, lazy than the .bbl business...
You have several choices:
I would just go with the first. (I am assuming you don't use any bibliography management software like Zotero or JabRef; most often they have output filters for precisely this kind of stuff.) If you are good with programming, the second can be a handy tool to write and have around. The third is for if you are in a hurry and are at a computer where no TeX distribution is installed.


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When I am reading one paper, I have met the following statement:
It is impossible to define a $Z_{2}\times Z_{2}$ action on a connected closed curve on a compact Riemann surface.
The claim is equivalent to say that the existence of two fixed point free involutions on a circle is not true.
The author just took this statement as an obvious fact and have used it to prove a lemmer about the antiholomorphic involutions on the compact Riemann surface. It seems the claim is pretty simple, but I cannot find an elegant way to prove this is indeed true.
I have tried to use the the following fact to prove it:
the one-dimensional manifold can be considered as a circle under the homeomorphism, and it is diffeomorphic to the one dimensional real projective plane, which inherits the automorphism group of $PGL(2, \mathbb{R})$ from $\mathbb{R}^{2}.$ And in $PGL(2, \mathbb{R}),$ the element corresponding to the antipodal map is unique, so the above statement is true.
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My cat is about 1' high at the shoulder, and I am a little over 6', but my cat can easily jump onto something as high as I am. That is 6x it's height. If a cat can do this, then Why can't I jump up onto my barn roof? That is a little less than 36' up. I have a hard time jumping onto even a 4' platform. Now if my cat had trouble jumping onto an 8" platform, I would think that pathetic. Do cats have muscles 20x stronger than humans, for their mass? Is it just their skeleton providing leverage?
Cats have different body structure than human beings. Its body-kinetics are quite different from us. Yes, muscles are quite strong, but this not the only reason. To know in-depth about the reasons behind the cats' extreme jumping abilities, you can just refer this online article - "The Glory of the Cat – adidarwinian" at http://adidarwinian.com/the-glory-of-the-cat Along with the flexible spine, strong muscles, flexible joints, they have a peculiar trait known as righting reflex. The same article has information on this peculiar trait. Due to the righting reflex instinct, cats can even survive falls from the high rise buildings.
There is not a linear relationship between the size of a muscle and its power. The cat weighs significantly less, but the decline in muscle power is not identical. If he weighs 20x less than you, but his muscle generate 1/5 as much force, he will still be able to jump way higher than you.
Both the mass of an animal and the amount of energy their muscle can release rapidly are proportional to their volume. The height to which they can jump is proportional to the ratio of the two, so most animals can jump as high as any other to within a small factor. The remaining difference between those who can who can jump about 6' such as your cat or Javier Sotomayor, and yourself, is practice.
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What are some words commonly mispronounced? (Not by elision/reduction (like ה׳→אדְני) or assimilation (like תזכרו→תשׂכרו), but rather words that are pronounced wrong simply because that's how people think they should be pronounced.) I'm excluding from this request errors in stress (emphasis), as those are, alas, too numerous to list. I'm including, however, words mispronounced in a person's own dialect (הברה), though others would consider them correctly pronounced. And I mean any "Jewish" word: a word relevant to, and mispronounced in, Jewish life, be it Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, or other.
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There is another issue is with shva nah, it is commonly incorrectly pronounced in Shma.
Like "behol levovho uvhol nafsheho uvhol meodeho" instead of "uv*e*hol nafsheno uv*e*hol meodeho"
Also it sohuld be "sh*e*ma" instead of "shma"
I'm surprised no one has said this (maybe someone did and I missed it...): In An'im Zmirot, I hear a lot of people say Vayashvucha - וַיָשְוּוּךָ (they will compare you) instead of Vayshavucha - וַיְשַוּוּךָ(they will imagine you)
I hear people say "Zachor et yom haShabbat l'kodsho" instead of "l'kadd'sho." לקדשו with a kamatz instead of a patach.
"Shalashudes" to represent Seudah Shlishis. (I know it's supposed to be a form of "Shalosh Seudos", but firstly, it doesn't sound anything like, and secondly, it's the third meal, not 3 meals!)
The bracha on spices is 'borei minei Vesamim' not 'besamim'.
אור Can be one of two words: "ohr" meaning light, or "ur" (or "eer" in hasidic havarah) meaning fire. These two meanings are different words and are pronounce differently, yet almost everyone I know always pronounces it "ohr", even when referring to fire.
This is a bit off, but sometimes discussing the case of "Toveling a Toister"


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Steve G. Hockaday '04: Living a Promise-Driven Life
As 2013-2014 president of the Garden State Bar Association, Steve G. Hockaday has set as his goal the advancement of two efforts: the Reaching Back As We Climb Mentorship Program and greater outreach to and partnership with organizations seeking to achieve positive social change. Both efforts draw on skills and values fostered by Rutgers School of Law–Newark.
Hockaday, a 2004 graduate who is an attorney with Essex-Newark Legal Services, was not thinking about a legal career when he received a B.A. cum laude in English/language arts teacher education from Delaware State University and accepted a position as a language arts instructor. His change of heart came about as a result of practicing what he preached as teacher and track coach.
I identified Rutgers as a truly special place for someone interested in public service because of its commitment to the urban community, its support of public interest attorneys through programs like LRAP, and its proud tradition of bringing minorities and other historically-disadvantaged and non-traditional students into the legal profession.
"Each day," he explained, "I'd offer motivating words to the students and encourage them to fulfill their potential through diligent studying and making smart choices. The constant reinforcement that I provided had a profound effect on my personal thoughts and caused me to reflect deeply on how I could fulfill my goal to live a promise-driven life." After a little more than a year in the classroom, he decided that a J.D. would enable him to extend his service-oriented work from teenagers to the community at large.
The choice of Rutgers–Newark Law was not a difficult one. "Early on," he recalled, "I identified Rutgers as a truly special place for someone interested in public service because of its commitment to the urban community, its support of public interest attorneys through programs like LRAP (Loan Repayment Assistance Program), and its proud tradition of bringing minorities and other historically-disadvantaged and non-traditional students into the legal profession."
Hockaday also knew that he wanted actual legal experience to be a component of his education. "When making my final decision to attend Rutgers, the extensive clinical courses that were available made the 'People's Electric Law School' the most attractive option."
Asked what experiences had the greatest impact on him at Rutgers, Hockaday cited several that occurred "when certain organized groups of students came together for a common cause to effectuate change or achieve a result that could not have been accomplished individually."
|Rutgers–Newark Law students outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1, 2003 as the Court heard oral arguments in two affirmative action cases.
Examples include the bus trip that brought students, faculty and staff to Washington, DC for a rally in support of affirmative action as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger cases; travel to Cuba to study the country's legal system as part of a delegation of Community Law Clinic students and professors, and working as managing research editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal.
"These types of collaborative efforts embody the spirit of Rutgers," said Hockaday. "These experiences not only raised my awareness as a future agent of change but also cemented my belief that like-minded individuals working together can accomplish exponentially more than any set of individuals working alone."
After graduation, Hockaday spent two years as an associate with Stephens & Baugh LLC and then was named a New Jersey State Bar Foundation Fellow at Covenant House New Jersey. There he handled the civil legal needs of at-risk and homeless 18 to 22 year olds, helping them to transition to independent lives. Working closely again with several Rutgers–Newark Law clinical professors, he gained practice experience in landlord/tenant, child advocacy and family law.
In 2007 Hockaday joined Essex-Newark Legal Services where he represents more than 200 clients each year in a variety of matters in trial and appellate courts. He practices principally in the area of landlord/tenant law but his interests extend to nonprofit consultation, bankruptcy, real estate transactions and development, social security, and consumer protection – "practice areas that can assist with enhancing the communities."
When asked about his work with the Garden State Bar Association (GSBA), Hockaday returns to what he learned at Rutgers–Newark Law about the power of group efforts, describing those lessons as "the foundation upon which I have come to have a deep appreciation for Bar Association volunteerism." He joined the board of the GSBA, New Jersey's oldest special bar association, in 2007 and held several positions prior to his September installation as president.
Hockaday plans to give the organization a more external focus this year in two ways. First, GSBA will forge or strengthen partnerships with community organizations, churches and other bar associations in order "to deliver our members and their expertise to groups and individuals who are clamoring for the perspective and compassion of a GSBA attorney." Hockaday expects that such partnerships and the unity that they promote will give GSBA a stronger statewide voice on issues that arise within the scope of its mission.
The second and equally important way in which GSBA will turn outward is through its Reaching Back As We Climb Mentorship Program, which has three key components: mentorship, skills workshops and networking. The organization has already signed up more than 30 law students from the state's three law schools. "The GSBA strongly believes that our success is not simply recognizing that we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us," said Hockaday, "but acknowledging that we are successful when we become the shoulders upon which others will stand."
Traditional GSBA activities, such as CLE programs and its annual scholarship and awards gala, will also take place.
Commenting on the broad mission of GSBA, Hockaday concluded: "We also take stances on causes and cases that assist African-Americans and other ethnic minorities in becoming an effective part of the judicial and legal systems, advance the science of jurisprudence, improve the administration of justice, support initiatives designed to improve economic conditions of all individuals and work to eliminate discrimination an inequality based on racial or ethnic considerations."


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22 Jan 2013 12:19 PM #11
The use case for this particular situation is to open a window that harbors a FormPanel with two fields (one being the FileUploadField.) This window is modal, and does not close until the onSubmit event finishes processing (which should be after the submit completes, if I understand the API correctly.)
Window w = new Window(); FormPanel fp = new FormPanel(); VerticalLayoutContainer vlc = new VerticalLayoutContainer(); w.setWidget(fp); fp.setWidget(vlc); ... // other widget setup -- FileUploadField and TextArea into vlc, etc fp.setMethod(FormPanel.Method.POST); fp.setEncoding(FormPanel.Encoding.MULTIPART); fp.setAction(GWT.getHostPageBaseURL() + "datatransfer"); fp.addSubmitHandler(new SubmitHandler() { @Override public void onSubmit(SubmitEvent event) { // processing Utils.getSvc().doThing(selected, new AsyncCallback<AdViewGwt>() { @Override public void onFailure(Throwable caught) { Utils.reportError(caught, "Unable to attach file!"); } @Override public void onSuccess(BaseModel result) { selected.set("addFile", null); w.hide(); } }); } }); note.addButton(new TextButton("Save", new SelectHandler() { @Override public void onSelect(SelectEvent ce) { fp.submit(); } }));
22 Jan 2013 1:03 PM #12
Agreed - that looks reasonable. Without being able to run it and reproduce it, I can't say much more without lots of guessing.
I brought up attach/detach because you said that the synthesizedFrame was null. This is set to a non-null value in com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.form.FormPanel.onAttach(), which should be called when the widget is attached to the dom (when w.show() gets called in the above code). If onAttach isn't getting called, you'll have all kinds of other issues as well, like the fact that events won't be firing in fields/buttons, etc, so that almost certainly is working. This field then is only nulled out in onDetach().
If it is null, the FormPanel isn't attached.
22 Jan 2013 1:12 PM #13
In my current debugging session, I am clicking a button that calls form.submit();
It is hitting FormPanel line 399 (first line of onDetach()) and THEN going to line 370 (submit()).
22 Jan 2013 1:15 PM #14
See the (hopefully attached) image for Netbeans' representation of the callstack.
22 Jan 2013 1:18 PM #15
From this, it appears that the onSubmit/SubmitHandler are called when FormPanel.submit() is fired, not when the submission is complete. This would explain a lot. Is there an alternative way to listen for when the submission is completed?
EDIT: SubmitComplete handler. I'm dumb.
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22 Jan 2013 1:40 PM #16
Sorry for the confusion - I should have caught that as well (since you are hiding the window in your submit event handler).
Is there still an issue, or can I close this bug?
22 Jan 2013 1:43 PM #17
You can close it - that was definitely the problem. Really sorry for time drain!
22 Jan 2013 2:01 PM #18
No problem - In my brief look to see if I should add additional documentation for this point, I found this:
/** * Fired when the form is submitted. * *
 * The FormPanel must not be detached (i.e. removed from its parent * or otherwise disconnected from a {@link RootPanel}) until the submission * is complete. Otherwise, notification of submission will fail. *
 * * @param event the event */ void onSubmit(SubmitEvent event);


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WACO (January 30, 2013)--Baylor University religion professor Byron Johnson was selected as "Big Brother of the Year" by Big Brother Big Sisters.
The organization, which pairs mentors and children in the community, selected Johnson out of their Lone Star area which covers all of North Texas, North Central Texas and the greater Houston area.
Johnson was selected for the positive impact he has on his "little" and for his recruiting efforts on the Baylor campus.
Texas winners will be eligible for national awards given by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.


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Okay, as you can probably tell from the last part of the title, this is a non-ideal situation.
I'm using a piece of industry-specific web-interface software that I guarantee no one has ever heard of, and while the functionality it offers to do mass data entry is meager, it does allow me to run SQL queries directly on its underlying MS SQL database through an 8,000 character-limited web form. That's the most direct access I have to the database.
I need to update a particular field in about 3,700 records with unique data for each. As per this answer, I've been doing the following:
UPDATE guest
SET info4 = CASE guestid
[etc, etc.]
ELSE info4
info4 field is currently empty for all records.) I can fit about 200 cases into one query before hitting the character limit and having to run a new update with the next chunk of data.
Things I have discovered so far:
- Not including the
ELSEstatement at the end will empty the field on all records that don't fulfill a case.
- Before committing, I get "Rows affected: [# of rows in the table]" instead of the number of rows that will actually get new data.
I understand I should be putting a
WHERE guestid IN (12345, 67890) at the end to avoid running the update on every row, but that's going to be hellish to avoid running over my character limit with each chunk of update statement.
As it happens, I am currently taking my source data from an Excel spreadsheet, pasting it all into Notepad++, running find/replaces on it to insert the necessary SQL syntax, and then chunking it up as per the character limit.
So, in a nutshell, my question is: have I explored this to the extent of what is possible already? Is there something big and obvious I'm missing, or should I be going about this in a completely different way? Bonus points for fewer characters per case!


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I have installed GeoServer as part of the OpenGeo package. I am trying to create my own application but I am having problems. At first I couldn't save over my html files. Using Notepad2 I can now overwrite my files but the changes do not appear when looking with a browser.
I am guessing this is because the files are being cached somewhere on the server (not in the browser - I've checked that). This could make sense for a live project but is very frustrating for development. Is there some way to bypass the cache?
Also - and this might sound a little dumb - GeoServer is the component that's serving up the HTML files, right? It's the only server in the bundle but the only information I can find about it is about serving up geographical data (which is obviously its main feature).


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6 Insane Reasons Formerly Famous People Dropped Off the Map
With the exception of a few Hollywood lifers, most celebrities see their star power fade after a while. But despite what the "where are they now" shows would have you believe, not every Tinseltown career ends after being busted for having a cocaine-snorting contest with an aardvark. Sometimes, their lives take a somewhat unexpected turn.
OK, some more unexpected than others ...
(Cracked recently took an unexpected turn towards making a Star Wars: Adventures in Jedi School mini-series.)
#6. Thora Birch Stops Getting Work Because of Her Creepy Dad
The Fame:
Most of you remember Thora Birch from American Beauty, but she was already kind of a big deal by age 8, winning the Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age award (yes, that exists) for a movie called Purple People Eater. Then her stardom peaked as a teenager with those breakthrough performances in American Beauty and Ghost World. In other words, she made the oh-so-rare jump from "cute kid" roles to "serious Oscar-winning dramas" and was set to become the go-to sexy-yet-comically-sullen-and-stoic girl of her generation.
Like the rich man's Aubrey Plaza.
But Then ...
She has appeared in virtually nothing of note since 2001. And the cause appears to be her ex-porn star father.
Yes, Jack Birch was a 1970s porn star, most famous for appearing in Deep Throat. He functions as Thora's manager, although not a very good one, since all he seems to do is cause trouble and get her fired.
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He couldn't even manage to grow a mustache. In porn. In the 1970s.
Jack's background might help explain his rather bizarre behavior, particularly when it involves his daughter's body. For instance, during the filming of Winter of Frozen Dreams, Jack insisted on being present for her adult scenes. Now, this was understandable with American Beauty, because she was underage and parental supervision was required for anything involving nudity. But she was now 26, and Dad was still hanging around, giving the crew instructions on how to make his baby girl look like a good lay.
He even threatened to pull her off the movie and kill the assistant directors because they weren't shooting the sex scenes the way he wanted. At one point, he gave the actor playing Thora's lover a "thumbs up," while he was having sex with her.
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"Daddy says you gave it to me pretty good, but he thinks you should try a donkey punch on the next take."
But at least Thora got to finish the film -- in 2010, he got her fired from an off-Broadway production of Dracula because Jack apparently physically threatened another actor for rubbing Thora's back during a scene (we don't get it, either). Jack's bullshit cost his daughter a job again less than a month later, when she was fired from Manson Girls. Are you noticing a theme here? The jobs keep getting worse, and her dad keeps getting her dropped from them.
Of course, it's hard to fire your own parents (it makes Thanksgiving awkward as hell), so what can she do? At this point Hollywood has apparently decided that Birch isn't worth the trouble she brings with her (and be warned, if you ever get cast to have sex with her, make sure you do it right. He's watching you).
#5. The Star of Flash Gordon Leaves Acting to Do Security and Hostage Extraction
Universal Studios
The Fame:
In the wake of Star Wars, 1980 saw a big-budget version of Flash Gordon starring Sam J. Jones in the title role (beating out actors such as Kurt Russell for the honor). It was supposed to be the first film in a blockbuster trilogy, but it disappointed at the box office and the sequels were scrapped. Still, as far as first starring roles go, it's hard to beat playing an iconic comic book character, and the film gained such a cult following that Jones recently turned up in full Flash Gordon garb in Seth MacFarlane's Ted.
Universal Studios
"My second biggest role is playing my biggest role's obscurity for laughs."
But Then ...
When being a Hollywood action hero didn't pan out, Jones decided to become an actual action hero.
After farting around with minor roles for 20 years, Jones decided he didn't want to just eke out a living by doing conventions alongside the likes of Lou Ferrigno and Burt Ward. No, Sam J. Jones is a former Marine, and despite the fact that he was entering his 50s, he decided to undergo specialized training to start a new career working as a bodyguard and hostage extraction specialist to rich people in hostile environments. After completing the training, one of his first assignments was going to New Orleans to protect executives who had stayed behind after Hurricane Katrina.
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He only stopped twice to sign autographs for mermaids and emergency personnel.
Jones would eventually go on to found and become the CEO of his own security firm, Inner Cordon Inc. Their specialty is providing protection for rich and powerful people who travel into high-risk areas, like the more lawless parts of Mexico. When Baja California was going through a rough period where a lot of their police officers were getting killed, Jones stepped in to offer his company's services to help train Tijuana's law enforcement personnel and even sent the Secretariat of Public Security an ass-kicking proposal titled "The Reclaim Baja California Initiative."
But while Inner Cordon Inc. seems to have had success in the field, Jones says one of his biggest obstacles is getting clients to take him seriously once they recognize him (one client told him, "Thank God I knew you as a security professional before I found out you were Flash Gordon"). This only gets funnier when you remember that they offer hostage extraction services. We're picturing being tied up in some Third World hellhole, then seeing Jones come crashing through the window with Queen playing in the background. You'd have to think you were hallucinating.
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Especially since he makes his team dress exactly like this.
#4. Flick from A Christmas Story Becomes a Porn Star
The Fame:
You probably don't know the name Scott Schwartz, but we're betting you know his most famous scene:
He's always regretted doing his own stunts.
Yes, Schwartz was Flick, the poor kid who got his tongue stuck on a flagpole in A Christmas Story. But he was also a fairly prominent child actor in the early 1980s, making Richard Pryor his slave in The Toy.
A famous child actor from the '80s who fell off the map? There's no way this turned out weird!
Columbia Pictures/Warner Bros/ABC
Nope, no way at all.
But Then ...
So, there are a lot of possible outcomes for a child actor. Sure, we know he's not a big star now, but maybe he works in theater? Or took a job behind the camera? Maybe he gave up acting completely and just works in some real estate office somewhere?
Well, at the beginning Schwartz's story was nothing unique. He faded into obscurity for the same reason a lot of child actors do: Puberty did not morph him into a terribly attractive adult. However, he had a couple things going for him: a famous tongue and a conveniently sexual-sounding name. Naturally, this equaled porn.
Wicked Pictures
It will be interesting to see the explanation for why his tongue sticks to her vagina.
Introduced to the industry in 1990 by his brother in post-'80s failure Corey Feldman, Schwartz initially stuck to behind-the-scenes work, mainly managing talent, only showing up on camera for background roles that didn't require him to show his boner. Finally, in 1996, some director saw his prepubescent tongue and decided it could make women hot. And so it was that Schwartz headlined his first adult film, Scotty's X-Rated Adventure.
In the film's climax, he fucked porn star Juli Ashton ... kind of. According to Schwartz, he "sank just about as fast as the Titanic" and had trouble staying aroused, so a lot of creative acting and "fluff" was required to complete the scene. But despite this abject failure, Schwartz would end up making over a dozen pornos before leaving the industry in 2000 to attempt a legitimate film comeback (which went about as well as you'd expect).


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The Goodguys West Coast Nationals In Pleasonton - Never Disappointing - Expanded For WebWritten by on February 1, 2009 There's A Reason Pleasant Is Right In The Name
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Believe it or not, going to the same car shows year after year can get to be a bit boring. You'd be surprised at how each one starts to look like the year before. This situation isn't helped when you see the same cars parked in their same spot over and over again.
One of the events that bucks this trend is always the Goodguys West Coast Nationals in Pleasanton. As I've said before, I enjoy it because it's only about 400 miles away from home so I don't have to pack all my gear and jump on a plane and go through the whole airport experience. I can take a hot rod and enjoy the trip. This year though I wasn't coming from home, as I grouped it into the tail end of R&C's Bonneville cruise. After I was done playing out on the salt, I jumped into my '50 Ford loaner car and took the most indirect route I could find that would leave me on two-lane roads almost the entire way.
I took my son with me this year as my navigator. This was his third trip to the Alameda Fairgrounds for the show and he hasn't been disappointed yet. As always we met up with some good friends, made some new ones, and admired lots of really well-done cars.
We're already looking into planning a trip for next year's show and have been talking with our buddy, Eric Peratt at Pinkee's, to see what we can both come up with for an interesting road trip.
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Several issues back Tom Carver showed you how he built his own bench seat for his '32 Ford pickup. Well he finally finished the truck, which sports a 4 1/2-inch chop and 6-inch channel. The chassis started with a set of American Stamping 'rails and now features custom crossmembers, a Chassis Engineering dropped axle with hairpins, and a Ford 9-inch with an owner-built four-bar.Anthony Abina is keeping his dad's memory alive by enjoying and showing his dad's '54 Chevy. The body has been treated to a few custom mods and the drivetrain still utilizes the straight-six.Sixties-themed hot rods are coming on strong and Roscoe Bava's '30 Model A roadster nailed it. The roadster had been restored by Roscoe's grandfather and was parade-ready when Mike Smith started getting rid of the old and adding the dual-quad 409, Muncie four-speed, and Halibrand quick-change. Grandpa's restored interior still remains.Almost anyone can build a replica of a Sixties gasser with enough patience to scout all the correct parts. Ken Hart took the easy route and found an actual gasser that ran in SoCal in the Sixties. Many of the original parts were still on the '51 Chevy when he found it and were restored and reused including the '57 Pontiac rearend, straight axle front suspension, and the headers and exhaust system. A new 600hp 383 small-block backed with a six-speed adds the modern touch.Almost anyone can build a replica of a Sixties gasser with enough patience to scout all the correct parts. Ken Hart took the easy route and found an actual gasser that ran in SoCal in the Sixties. Many of the original parts were still on the '51 Chevy when he found it and were restored and reused including the '57 Pontiac rearend, straight axle front suspension, and the headers and exhaust system. A new 600hp 383 small-block backed with a six-speed adds the modern touch.You wouldn't guess from looking at George Stock's '33 Buick Victoria that it rides on '88 Corvette independent suspension front and back. A tuned-port-injected 350 resides under the long hood. George bought the Buick about four years ago and ended up redoing the paint, interior, and engine.The talent I run into at shows always amazes me. James Lewallen took a beat-up and rusted '31 Model A Sport Coupe and reworked it into this beautiful and black coupe by building much of the body himself and chopping it 3 1/2 inches in the process. The coupe gets plenty of power from the 3x2-equipped '57 Chrysler 392 Hemi.
Long-term projects are very familiar to lots of us and Dan Aguirre is no exception. He's been working on his '54 Ford Customline for 16 years but has finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. An '89 Ford 400M V-8 is fed through an owner-built EFI intake and backed with a C-6 trans. A Camaro donated its front subframe for the project.Sweet, simple, and well-detailed is about the best description for Dave Welles' highboy '28 roadster pickup. Peeking out from under the two-piece hood top is a '54 Buick Nailhead shifted through a four-speed.It may look traditional, but Rich Stapf's '32 roadster was assembled from a bunch of new parts supplied by our buddy Jim Aust at SoCal Speed Shop Los Angeles. The Brookville body sits on a SoCal chassis and is powered by a ZZ430 350 and a Tremec five-speed. Jim's eye for detail helped give the roadster the right look.It may look like it rolled in from the East Coast, but Gary Cedoline's channeled '32 five-window was a hometown favorite. The six-carbed 327 looked like it was show-and-go ready.Jack and Sue White brought their '36 five-window all the way down from Spokane, Washington, to enjoy the Pleasanton weather. The coupe is powered by a dual-quad Hemi backed with a 200-4R overdrive.Skip Andrews came all the way from Florida to show off his historic '57 Ford custom. Back when Car Craft was a custom car mag it voted the Ford one of the Top 10 Best Customs of 1964 when it was owned by Ron Sweeney.Finding a full-fendered tall-T these days seems to be a lot rarer than it was back in the Sixties and Seventies. This '26 coupe was bought new by one of Robert Borba's great-aunts and we're sure she'd be very pleased to see that he's taking such good care of it.
Kevin Gallagher of Gallagher's Oil Farm Hot Rods & Customs in Napa, California, built this awesome '51 Ford Victoria, which features a dual-quad 500hp small-block Chevy (who said customs had to be slow). The most unique piece in the custom interior is the '46-48 Ford dash.Len Silvey wasn't real talkative when it came to giving the details of his '55 Buick, but we could still tell the dual-quad Nailhead-powered boat would be a great car out on the highway.I'm not sure why we don't see more of this era Chevys. Tony Dekellis has proved that his '48 can not only run with the best of them thanks to a small-block Chevy and Fatman IFS but can be just as good-looking.If you've ever wondered what Gray Baskerville's roadster would have looked like as a three-window, Steve Lemmons's coupe just might have the answer. It looks like it has been enjoyed just about as much judging by some of the well-earned battle scars.


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24" Poly Leaf Rake for $4.73
24" Poly Leaf Rake for $4.73. Order online for in-store pickup at Sears to lock in the price, ensure availability, and save on shipping. Otherwise, shipping is $6.50 for a total of $11.23 shipped.
The rake has a polyester head and wood handle.
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Leave a few laying in your yard to keep attempted murderers off your back.
The deals shows up on the sears website but the non-discounted price is applied to the cart. Any idea how to get the discounted price?
I think ill just use my lawn mower to run over the leafs a couple hundred times.
I, too, had a problem getting the discount price to show in the cart. If anyone was able to get that price, what's the secret?


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FROM TOPEKA CITY HALL -- In response to the Governor's recent declaration of drought conditions in the State of Kansas, the City of Topeka is asking residents to consider voluntary conservation measures in their water usage. There are no restrictions being placed on water usage and the action requested is fully voluntary.
"We are asking for voluntary water conservation at this time," said Pam Simecka, Interim City Manager.
Water conservation tips include:
· Take shorter showers
· Wash full loads of clothes and dishes
· Turn the water off and on when brushing teeth or shaving
· Limit outdoor watering and use a soaker hose for plants
· Avoid hosing down sidewalks, patios and driveways.
· Repair leaky faucets and toilets
The City of Topeka has experienced high water usage by its customers in recent weeks but is still well within water treatment capabilities. The City of Topeka draws its water from the Kansas River which has traditionally provided a reliable source of water. The City of Topeka is a member of the Kansas River Water Assurance District No. 1 which owns storage in the large reservoirs along the Kansas River, most notably for Topeka, the Tuttle Creek and Milford Reservoirs.
No releases of the stored water have been requested this year. The City has also invested in the construction of a weir across the Kansas River which directs water during low flows to the intakes of the water treatment facility.
"You may currently see low water flows in the Kansas River as you cross the bridges but there continues to be plenty of water to meet customer water demands," said Braxton Copley, director of Utilities and Transportation. "While we are producing more water than average, we still have plenty of treatment capability and we haven't reached the point that would trigger requests from the Army Corps of Engineers, which regulates reservoirs, to release water from upstream reservoirs."
The City has specific policies and procedures in place based on City ordinance regarding water conservation other than voluntary. The process begins with the Public Works Director declaring a local water emergency.


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Michael Koral has yet to make his first team debut.
A new Premier League campaign is approaching which means teams have dusted off their passports to go on pre-season tours.
The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online:The Guardian says Manchester United have offered £100million for PAUL POGBA
It would be fair to say that Arsenal have been underwhelming in this transfer, a state not helped by the
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Eddie Sowells, 23, Katrina Walls, 24, Taylor Courtney, 19, Alexis Keener, age unknown, and another unidentified 19-year-old woman all were arrested and charged with various violations that ranged from promoting prostitution to possession of a stolen firearm.
New Orleans jail records indicate, however, the charges against the unidentified 19-year-old later were dropped and she was released from custody.
New Orleans Eighth District Detective Kurt Eischen reported he discovered an advertisement offering sexual services on the website "Backpage.com", and arranged to meet with Keener at a hotel room in the 100-block of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans' Central Business District.
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- Date: Dec. 28, 2001
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How is someone deemed a Saint as opposed to a martyr in Catholicism? At first I was thinking the only requirement was to killed for your faith. Is this accurate?
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The process is called canonization. Wikipedia's article on canonization describes the process. Martyrdom is not a requirement for sainthood, although being martyred does suggest that a person may very well be a saint (think John 15:13, Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.). Mother Theresa is a great example of a non-martyred saint, canonized because of the great witness of her life of love and compassion for the poor in India.
In summary, a person is recognized by a bishop or other church person with sufficient authority as a possible candidate for sainthood, and an investigation is started. The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints investigates this information, and eventually may make a recommendation that the pope make a declaration that the Servant of God is 'heroic in virtue'. At this point, the potential saint becomes known as 'Venerable', meaning that Catholic may encourage veneration of this person, such as prayers for intercession, but the church has made no official statement on whether or not it is believed that the person is in Heaven.
The next step is where martyrdom matters. If the Pope makes a declaration of martyrdom, then the martyr can be canonized, as the Catholic church teaches that all martyrs go to Heaven, and being in Heaven is the definition of a 'capital-S' Saint.
If the person was not a martyr, then the person is considered a 'confessor', a person who bore witness to Christ (confessed Christ) through the way they lived their life. A miracle achieved through the intercession of the venerable must be documented before a confessor can be beatified, and can be called "Blessed" (but still not a saint yet!). There are strict guidelines in evaluating miracles to determine their authenticity. For a confessor to be canonized, and declared a saint, two miracles are required.
Note that this is a summary, and I am leaving details out - such as requirements for time to pass before canonization. Also, I am not an expert in Catholic canon law; while the general information is accurate, I could have details wrong. If you want to hear from an expert, you could go to Catholic Forum's Ask an Apologist subforum and send in your question.
Since wikipedia loads of good info, I'll just answer the question.
How is someone deemed a saint (in 2011)?
The pope canonizes a dead person who has lived a life of heroic virtue and has performed a posthumous miracle in addition to the miracle required for beatification.
What about martyrdom?
Martyrdom circumvents the normal requirement of a posthumous miracle for beatification, but it not instant qualification for sainthood.
Other saintly terminology:
Someone who has been beatified is referred to as Blessed, someone who is canonized is referred to as Saint. You may also see Venerable and Servant of God, these are mile markers on the path to sainthood.
There's a path to follow.
So, to answer your question, martyrdom is not a requirement for sainthood. Nor is it a guarantee. You have to have associated miracles to achieve Sainthood.


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I'm currently writing fiction about a firm that collects debt from citizens who owe money to various places, such as banks, or government agencies (involving government loans or unpaid taxes). Is there a word to describe someone who owes a debt, specifically money, or does it vary depending on where the money is owed to? If a person who collects debt is a debt collector, perhaps a debt collectee?
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We call that person a "debtor." (You can use this with companies too).
And I think you should use "creditor" for the other person.
The word you're looking for is debtor.
Beside debtor, you could use borrower and in case of mortgages mortgager.


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Let (X,d) be a polish space. Does the metric d have to be measurable (regarding the Borel sigma-algebra in the product space)?
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If you just say "complete metric" but not "separable", then the answer can be negative. Take $X$ of power greater than the continuum, and the discrete metric (all nontrivial distances are $1$) so that the algebra of Borel sets is the full power set. But the diagonal in $X \times X$ is not measurable for the product sigma-algebra. And thus the metric is not a Borel function.
The metric function is continuous, therefore measurable.
One can show that measurable functions can be built with a hierarchy similar to the Borel hierarchy. You start with continuous functions (into $\mathbb R$), then take pointwise limits, and reiterate $\omega_1$ many steps (each time taking pointwise limits of previously defined stages).
This is done by taking functions that preserve $\Sigma^0_\alpha$ and $\Pi^0_\alpha$ sets (i.e. a preimage of a $\Sigma^0_\alpha(\mathbb R)$ is $\Sigma^0_\alpha(X)$, similarly for $\Pi$. Continuous functions are indeed the first level, as preimage of open/closed set is an open/closed set), and prove by induction that the pointwise limits behave as we would like.


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For the first time since a judge denied bond for Lucas Goodrum, Donna Dugas, Goodrum's mom is speaking out about her son's case.
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Scientists and physicians discovered a method to take advantage of APL's unique biology when it was discovered that all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA)causes APL cells to differentiate and stop rapidly dividing. Today, the treatment of APL differs from all other acute myeloid leukemias byincorporating ATRA in the induction and consolidation phases of treatment. The use of ATRA has significantly improved treatment results overconventional chemotherapy.
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