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A student and instructor of Okinawa Kenpo Karate and Kobudo. Thoughts on Karate, Tai Chi, ACL Reconstruction and the Challenges of Parenting.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Should They Have Been Allowed to Quit Karate?
"I know her. She was in my karate class when I was a kyu rank. She had a sister and they both took karate. They hated karate."
The sisters were young teenagers when they started karate. Their father signed a one-year contract for karate classes. The sisters started out mildly interested in learning karate. It did not take long before they hated karate classes. The sisters told me how they wanted to quit but their father forced them to attend class. Their father was paying for a year of karate and they were going to take a year of karate.
They would complain to my husband and I all the time. They knew the exact day their contract expired. They attended class but they were not "in" class. The sisters would walk through the material but their minds were on other things. I am not sure what they learned during that year. The class instructors knew they were just putting in their time but still tried to encourage them. They were nice kids but they did not want learn karate.
As a parent, I feel strongly about my daughter finishing what she started. Three weeks into a five week play rehearsal schedule she wanted to quit. I told her "Absolutely…NO". I explained that it was her decision to audition for the play. I reminded her that people were counting on her and it would be difficult for the entire cast if she quit. I told her that she did not have to audition for the next play.
Should it be the same for karate? I am not sure. I think back to the two sisters and I know they were miserable. They hated everything about karate. The class instructors spent extra time working with the girls hoping to generate a spark of enthusiasm.
The sisters continued to grumble and roll their eyes through class. They quit as soon as they were able.
What do you think…as a parent, as a karate instructor or as a fellow classmate? How do you feel about the sisters being forced to attend class? Do you think they should have been allowed to quit?
23 comments:
- Patrick Parker said...
My wife and I are in total agreement - you do not let children dictate whether or not they will go to school or even where they will go to school. We consider judo and aikido a vital part of their education and have not given them a choice. They absolutely will be in MA classes at least until they graduate and leave my house.
The oldest boy loves it and gets a kick out of any athletic or gymnastic activity. The second one was slower getting into the groove, but he loves it too now. The third one is pretty young and gets frustrated due to his small size so we mostly let him do what he will during class, but i figure he will come around to the love of the arts. Our fourth child (daughter) is too young yet.
- August 19, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- Martial Arts Mom said...
Good idea for discussion. I too, feel that people -not just kids - should finish what they start. But if a child really dislikes something - that makes it iffy. I guess it would depend on if the child begged and begged to do it in the first place - then maybe i would make them continue. But on the other hand, if I had forced them to start in the first place, then I might not. I guess I'd just have to be in the position and take into consideration the specific circumstances with the child. Like I said though - very thougth provoking post!
- August 19, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- Narda said...
This isn't 'the old days', and learning a martial art is at worst glorified daycare, and at best a longterm possible investment in self-defense.
I've been fallen on both sides of the issue on different topics. My son wanted to learn guitar. It wasn't an option in school, but he thought violin would be fun, and begged me to take it in school. I knew it wouldn't be long before he changed his mind...once he realized it meant work. But I told him, 'You can't quit. If you change your mind, you have to stick it out and practice and learn, and go to the concerts for all of third grade.' Of course, he soon tired of it, but I made him stick to it for a year. He quit it as soon as possible. But the hankering for music never left him, and more importantly he never got 'turned off' of music. He picked up the guitar on his own as a teenager, and taught himself how to play, and is now pursueing music.
On the other hand, my husband insisted that he learn a martial art, and enrolled him in Tae Kwon Do. He hated it, but we didn't let him quit. 'As long as you are living under my roof you will learn a martial art. It's something you can teach later on in life and will be useful.'
My son was forced to take it for 12 years. I thought it was a bad school, and shallow art, and could see that he got nothing out of it.And the minute he left the house, he quit. What is worse, is that his mind is totally closed to the option of ever even trying another martial art. Another 'ruined' student.
The question always is: what is the point of learning?
- August 19, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Dan Prager said...
Great debate topic.
As an instructor or fellow class mate: If you don't want to be there, I don't want you in my class. The level of learning that can take place in a well-run class where everyone is motivated and has reasonably well-aligned goals is amazing. Having students who are there under duress is a real energy sucker. No one wins under this arrangement.
As a parent: How many things do we want to ruin for our kids?! It's complex because we're trying to get them to learn persistence and to follow through on a commitment, and to acquire other benefits from the activity in question, but what about flexibility, joy and intrinsic motivation?
One more thing: These one year contracts are bad news all round. Paying for a ten week term (for example) seems like a far more sensible arrangement. It should be long enough to find out whether the kid gels with the instructor and environment, even with a slow start; it provides some certainty of income for the school; and if the kid drops out the parents haven't done as huge amount of dough.
- August 19, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- Pete said...
I'm not a parent, so I don't have to wrestle with it from that side. As a martial arts instructor, the ones who don't want to be there end up making the class worse -- they bring things down for everybody.
I've seen students stick around for years and not really improve. You have to have your heart in it to get something back out of it.
While I love martial arts, I don't think it is for everyone. I don't think it is one of those things that should be forced.
On the flip side, how does one tell if the student is just going through a rough patch where if they just get through it, they'll end up loving it?
- August 20, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Not everyone sees the value in karate... they should of QUIT.
- August 20, 2009 at 8:55 AM
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- August 20, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Father said...
Whatever happened to free speach?
I believe it is unfair to the other students who are there to learn. It is up to the instructor to make sure the children act appropriately. If they disrupt the class, then the instructor needs to have them removed whether or not the parents make them attend.
I once was in a photo class where the instructor could not/would not control one student who by the way was an adult. This individual thought that the fee paid for the class entitled them to monopolize all the instructor's time. Needless to say, I did not take any more classes with that instructor.
- August 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Dan Prager said...
This has inspired me to post on my blog: You can stop at any time.
- August 20, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- Martial Development said...
Every time I quit a bad instructor, I eventually managed to find a better one. "Refusal to quit," when erroneously presented as a virtue, is one of the factors that keeps bad martial arts teachers in business.
- August 20, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- SueC said...
Hi Michele, I'm with Dan and Pete on this one. An unwilling student saps the energy of the class. Locking a child into a one year contract is madness!I don't think martial arts training is an essential life skill - you should do it primarily because you enjoy it. I would never make my children do it (one of mine does and one tried it and quit). However, I do think that if a child expresses interest in learning a new hobby or skill they should persevere for a few weeks before quitting - it takes a while just to get to know a new routine and new people let alone the skill.
- August 21, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- Ice said...
Most people that I know who were forced into classes as a kid quit eventually.
Year long contracts are insane. Most schools I go to now are month to month. Some of the marquee schools offer up longer contracts for cheaper and usually month to month is a bit more expensive with a bit of a discount for quarterly payments.
Most schools do offer month to month and sometimes drop in fees. I have been able to go to different classes throughout the region just by paying drop-in fees as it's not normally the club I usually practice in.
The thing is, if they're not interested then don't take them. It really does depend though, I know from old stories of some of the instructors. Some of the instructors have been teaching at my school for over 30+ years, were forced to go while they were kids, and now they love the sport, and are now teachers themselves.
It really depends on how it's presented. I was forced into piano lessons as a kid, and now I can't even play piano. I wanted to take grappling arts, but my step-father was big into striking arts. I still have interest in striking arts, but I primarily focus on grappling arts.
I think kids should be so lucky that they're parents signed them up for martial arts lessons, and actually take an interest in taking them to extra-curricular activities. The only bad thing is that I see is signing a one year long contract. Most schools are on the month to month model and seem to be surviving even in this recession. Perhaps making it month to month it's easier to budget and prepare for lessons that it just makes fiscal sense for both the trainee and the club.
So long answer short, when the kids are younger then by all means introduce them and make them go to practice. One the kids are in the teens and are semi-independent, forcing them to do something will just only lead to rebellion.
- August 22, 2009 at 11:29 AM
- Michele said...
Thank you for sharing your opinions and adding to the discussion.
Personally, as a training partner and instructor, I find that unwilling participants affect the entire class. I love studying Okinawa Kenpo but I know that martial arts are not for everyone. I want people to be in class because they want to be there and enjoy the learning process.
In regards to the two sisters, they did not want to be in class. They quit as soon as their contract expired. It is my opinion that they should have been allowed to quit.
I know students who were forced to attend as teenagers that eventually choose to continue training as young adults. There is one student who is willing to share her story. I asked her to write a guest post for this blog. I look forward to reading her article.
- August 23, 2009 at 8:57 PM
- Dan Prager said...
Can't resist: Karate Lessons Give Child Self-Confidence To Quit Karate
- September 1, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Certainly: they'll learn next to nothing and I wouldn't want to be their uke. Children should be encouraged to get a taste of as many different activities and hobbies as possible but besides school nothing should be obligatory. Children should get involved with something besides school and friends - be it MA, boyscouts, basketball... - and do some type of sports but if you make them do it when it's obvious they couldn't care less it will be a bad experience for them and they'll end up hating you for it.
Alot of parents actually drop their kids at judo or karate just to get rid of them for a few evenings a week, I think this is dispicable and certainly no gift to the sensei teaching the class. Don't get me wrong: I love MA and I happen to think it's much more rewarding and valuable than sports but it takes a certain type of person to become a good martial-artist and when it's obvious the child in question is not up to the job it's better to find something that is right for them (maybe he or she really likes music and ends up becoming a great pianist or celloist) instead of going against the grain and forcing them. Life is demanding enough as it is and they'll be plenty of things they'll just have to when they grow up, why make their life miserable now? When it's obvious you cannot become more than average it's better to quit and find something you can be good or even great at.
I don't think it's a great idea to force your values on your child (besides teaching them to be a friendly and decent human-being) and parents who force their children to basically take up their hobbies should realise everybody's different and it's simply impossible and unwise to treat a child as a mere vessel in which you can pour knowledge, values and preferences. What is good and rewarding for you may not be good and rewarding for your child.
- October 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Michele said...
Anon: Thank you for adding to the discussion.
- October 12, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- Frank said...
Jeez... It sounds like everyone is butting up against the same frustrations that I detailed in my latest blog. If a student doesn't want to be there, they need to quit. The class doesn't want them, the Sensei doesn't want them, and they aren't going to progress.
Year-long contracts are insanity. Our dojo is month-to-month. If it were a year-long contract, I would probably begin looking for a different dojo.
- August 17, 2010 at 7:16 AM
My Dad.
Once when I was a struggling Brown Belt, my dad came into my room and told me to get my uniform on, it was time to go to class. "I don't want to go anymore dad," I said.
"Ok," he replied, "Put your uniform on it's time to go to class."
"Dad, you didn't hear me, I said I don't want to go anymore," I answered.
"I heard you," he said with a smile, "put on your uniform, it's time to go.
He made me go. For at least a month, I begged, cried, pleaded, acted up and did everything I could to not go. After that month I realized that this was important enough to him, that I didn't have a choice. It's like eating my veggies, going to school, going to bed on time, doing my chores, taking my epilepsy medicine. Did I mention I was born with epilepsy?
I didn't know it, but the doctors had told my parents I probably wouldn't live past 30, either the siezures would kill me, or the medicine would destroy my kidneys.
Through my training I learned breath control and deep meditation. Through meditation, I learned to control my siezures. I am 46 years old, have two kids, 9 and 10, a wonderful wife and a career running my own school.
Through meditation I learned to control my siezures, I've not had a siezure or medicine treating them in over 20 years. I still feel my epilepsy, it's there, tingling on my right side, but I control it.
In that one moment, when my dad said, "Put on your uniform, it's time to go," he saved my life and insured the birth of his grandkids.
Think carefully about your decision to allow your kids to choose a destiny you have the wisdom to see, but they do not.
Everyday I see my father's wisdom, more and more.
Also, this is agood example of the butterfly effect.
- October 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM
@Patrick Parker: what if any of your children want to try a martial art beside judo or aikido or would rather play soccer instead? Does it really matter what they do exactly (martial arts or some other type of sport or extracurricular activity) or do you really want them to end up as copies of yourself? What may be good for you may not be suited to others, personally I would like my children (at present I have none) to take up my art of choice but I'm not going to force them... I'd want my children to grow up to become responsible, smart adults who learned to make their own choices and live with the consequences instead of becoming mindless drones so used to obeying they'll never think for themselves and will always do what they're told or what is customary.
My cousin had a very dominating and oppressive father and while he's become quite succesful professionally he's also quite neurotic and narrow-minded, almost like a spitting image or 'mini-me' when compared to his dad. He talks the same, displays the same kind of narrow-minded, borderline rascist political ideology, makes the same kind of lame jokes... I know his father used to beat him everytime he disagreed, all 'in his best interest' of course, and since then I've become quite suspicious of harsh parents who think their views are always right and their way is the only correct one to walk through this life...
When I have kids and they're all grown up I'd like to still have a good relationship with them and have them think back fondly on their childhood with freedom, the chance to express themselves and learn from their mistakes and above all unconditional acceptance from me. Trying to mold your children into some preconceived notion of what you think they should be is counterproductive in my view and a good way to make them hate you in the long run. All too often the faults and shortcomings of people can be traced back to their parents and this is the product of either too lax an upbringing or one too strict...
Parenting is a difficult task I know and it's easy to talk about it when you're not a parent yourself but I'm convinced children should be given more and more freedom (provided they demonstrate they can handle it) as they grow up, not be forced to spend years on the mats when it's clear they dislike it. I'd rather see my son or daughter become really good at something they love than mediocre at something I made them do and have them hate me for it later. Children these days have enough on their plate as it is and as a martial artist I know there's nothing worse than having to train with or teach unmotivated people who 'need' to be there for a reason or reasons completely outside of themselves and their wishes.
- November 7, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Boxer said...
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- January 25, 2011 at 2:35 PM
I think that they should of been aloud to quit. They hated it so it was a waste of money and time. But they might of enjoyed another martial art so maybe they should of done that.
- April 12, 2014 at 6:07 AM
- Ritchie Yip said...
I think it's not okay to force the kid into something they obviously despise doing. If the reason the father wants his children to learn karate is so they would be fit, or be able defend themselves, then I'm all for it. But if it is just so that they'll have something athletic to do, then it really isn't a good fit. Whatever his reason for forcing his kids into martial arts, he should have explained it well to them well so they wouldn't be grudgingly come and quit the sessions as soon as they got the chance.
Ritchie Yip @ InFighting
- May 13, 2014 at 4:02 PM
- Jc William said...
I have this problem and I need help to convince my mother. I am 14 now and SHE forced me to join when I was 9. She has to pay $20 a month for practice every Thursday. For the first month it was okay but halfway through the 2nd I absolutely hated it it was never cancelled so I had to go I had no time on Thursdays to do my work or hang out with friends. I still remember they first day she even said that I could quite if I don't like it and here I am 5 years later and hate it so much you can not describe. Since she would not let me quite I would fight before the practice with her I would try everything I even made a presentation before. I would fight and argue to stand in what I wanted what I believed in and she would force me to go anyways. I would not even try when I went. It is not like I am not active I would play soccer, softball, and basketball. I am so good at soccer I am able to go on big time travel teams and I play all year round but my mother won't let me quit to go on those big name teams. Me and my mother don't get a long at all we fight over everything and she blames me for her problems right to my face I breath wrong and she grounds me. My brother is her favorite he is 10 and he has never got grounded or in trouble for anything he is forces in to karate also and he fights as much as I do and he doesn't get in trouble only me. Now that I am in high school going to karate effects my school sports. Almost all practices are on Thursday taking up the time of the karate class and well I can't go to the school practices because of karate and by doing that the school has forced me off of the school teams because it is not fair that I can skip so many school practices while they are mandatory. Almost every year I would sing in the church choir which I love doing but the practices were on Thursdays and they were mandatory but one Thursday I got into an argument with my mom about me going to choir instead of karate and my mom got so mad at me she took me out of the choir and soccer for that season. My mother is hurting my soccer career. Honestly I would not call her my mother she treats me so poorly compared to my brother. My brother has baseball on Thursday and he skips karate instead of baseball. Tonight I have karate. My female guardian is making me go to karate instead of 1. My soccer game, 2. My brothers baseball game that he is going to instead of karate, and 3. My schools kids graduation ceremony tonight almost all my friends are graduating tonight and I can't go. No one is home to drive me tonight I have to walk in the rain to go by myself when I could go to the graduation with my mom or go to my game with my friend or go with my dad to my brothers game. Tell me what should I do she won't let me quit till I move out and it is a serious living hell for me. It causes me so much stress all I want to do is quit should I talk with my instructor about it? Please anything I will try I just want to quite I want to play soccer. My mother doesn't like me I am dead serious. She is making me miss so many opportunities in life. Help please.
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LSF/MM 2014 and ext4 Summit Notes by Darrick Wong
By Jamesmorris-Oracle on Apr 01, 2014
This is a contributed post from Darrick Wong, storage engineer on the Oracle mainline Linux kernel team.
The following are my notes from LSF/MM 2014 and the ext4 summit, held last week in Napa Valley, CA.
- Discussed the draft DIX passthrough interface. Based on Zach Brown's
suggestions last week, I rolled out a version of the patch with a statically
defined io extensions struct, and Martin Petersen said he'd try porting some
existing asmlib clients to use the new interface, with a few field-enlarging
tweaks. For the most part nobody objected; Al Viro said he had no problems
"yet" -- but I couldn't tell if he had no idea what I was talking about, or
if he was on board with the API. It was also suggested that I seek the
opinion of Michael Kerrisk (the manpages maintainer) about the API.
As for the actual implementation, there are plenty of holes in it that I
intend to fix this week. The NFS/CIFS developers I spoke to were generally
happy to hear that the storage side was finally starting to happen, and
that they could get to working on the net-fs side of things now.
Nicholas Bellinger noted that targetcli can create DIF disks even with the
fileio backend, so he suggested I play with that over scsi_debug.
- A large part of LSF was taken up with the discussion of how to handle the
brave new world of weird storage devices. To recap: in the beginning,
software had to deal with the mechanical aspects of a rotating disk;
addressing had to be done in terms of cylinders, heads, and sectors (CHS).
This made it difficult to innovate drive mechanics, as it was impossible to
express things like variable zone density to existing software. SCSI
eliminated this pain by abstracting a disk into a big tub of consecutive
sectors, which simplified software quite a bit, though at some cost to
performance. But most programs weren't trying to wring the last iota of
performance out of disks and didn't care. So long as some attention was
paid to data locality, disks performed adequately.
Fast forward to 2014: now we have several different storage device classes:
Flash, which has no seek penalty but prefers large writeouts; SMR drives
with hard-disk seek penalties but requirements that all writes within a
~256MB zone be written in linear order; RAIDs, which by virtue of stripe
geometries violate a few of the classic hard disk thinking; and NVMe devices
which implement atomic read and write operations. Dave Chinner suggests
that rather than retrofitting each filesystem to deal with each of these
devices, it might be worth shoving all the block allocation and mapping
operation down to a device mapper (dm) shim layer that can abstract away
different types of storage, leaving FSes to manage namespace information.
This suggestion is very attractive on a few levels:
Benefits include the ability to emulate atomic read/writes with
journalling, more flexible software-defined FTLs for flash and SMR, and
improved communication with cloud storage systems -- Mike Snitzer had a
session about dm-thinp and the proper way for FSes to communicate allocation
hints to the underlying storage; this would certainly seem to fit the bill.
I mentioned that Oracle's plans for cheap ext4 reflink would be trivial to
implement with dm shims.
Unfortunately, the devil is in the details -- when will we see code? For
that reason, Ted Ts'o was openly skeptical.
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suboptimal since fsync is typically called by the checkpointing code, which
doesn't need to be fast and doesn't care if fsync writeback is not fast.
There was an interlock scheduled for Thursday afternoon, but I was unable to
attend. See LWN for more detailed coverage of the
postgresql (and FB) sessions.
- At the ext4 summit, we discussed a few cleanups, such as removing the use of
buffer_heads and the impending removal of the ext2/3 drivers. Removing
buffer_heads in the data path has the potential benefit that it'll make the
transition to supporting block/sector size > page size easier, as well as
reducing memory requirements (buffer heads are a heavyweight structure now).
There was also the feeling that once most enterprise distros move to ext4,
it will be a lot easier to remove ext3 upstream because there will be a lot
more testing of the use of ext4.ko to handle ext2/3 filesystems. There was
a discussion of removing ext2 as well, though that stalled on concerns that
Christoph Hellwig (hch) would like to see ext2 remain as a "sample"
filesystem, though Jan Kara could be heard muttering that nobody wants a
bitrotten example.
- The other major new ext4 feature discussed at the ext4 summit is per-data
block metadata. This got started when Lukas Czerner (lukas) proposed adding
data block checksums to the filesystem. I quickly chimed in that for e2fsck
it would be helpful to have per-block back references to ease reconstruction
of the filesystem, at which point the group started thinking that rather
than a huge static array of block data, the complexity of a b-tree with
variable key size might well be worth the effort. Then again, with all the
proposed filesystem/block layer changes, Ted said that he might be open to a
quick v1 implementation because the block shim layer discussed in the SMR
forum could very well obviate the need for a lot of ext4 features. Time
will tell; Ted and I were not terribly optimistic that any of that software
is coming soon.
In any case, lukas went home to refine his proposal. The biggest problem
is ext4's current lack of a btree implementation; this would have to be
written or borrowed, and then tested. I mentioned to him that this could
be the cornerstone of reimplementing a lot of ext4 features with btrees
instead of static arrays, which could be a good thing if RH is willing to
spend a lot of engineering time on ext4.
- Michael Halcrow, speaking at the ext4 summit, discussed implementing a
lightweight encrypted filesystem subtree feature. This sounds a lot like
ecryptfs, but hopefully less troublesome than the weird shim fs that
is ecryptfs. For the most part he seemed to need (a) the ability to inject
his code into the read/write path and some ability to store a small amount
of per-inode encryption data. His use-case is Chrome OS, which apparently
needs the ability for cache management programs to erase parts of a(nother)
user's cache files without having the ability to access the file. The
discussion concluded that it wouldn't be too difficult for him to start an
initial implementation with ext4, but that much of this ought to be in the
VFS layer.
-- Darrick
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So, what is this tricked-out injury treatment?
It's a heavily adhesive, hypoallergenic, stretchy tape that comes, as we have seen, in an array of colors and patterns. It is designed to approximate the weight and thickness of skin and can be stretched over any part of the body. Made of cotton fiber, the tape has an acrylic heat-activated backing and can stay attached for up to five days. When adhered, the tape lifts the upper layers of the skin away from the muscle, relieving pressure and pain in the affected area.
While the tape was developed by Japanese Dr. Kenzo Kase more than 30 years ago, it first started cropping up on a body part here or there during the Beijing Olympics. But that was enough to spark an interest and, after 2008, sales of the tape jumped a reported 300 percent. David Beckham, Tiger Woods, and Lance Armstrong have all reportedly used it. Now, clearly, it has taken the athletic world by storm.
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But if you, lay-athletic person, were hoping to jump on the Kinesio bandwagon, you may have to sit tight, because not just anyone can slap on the tape. To do it properly, you need to use a particular technique that requires training. While many of the athletes' trainers at this year's Games already have a jump on the technique, Dr. Kase has also traveled to London with a team who has access to the training centers to help athletes in need.
Does It Work?
The research is slim, and scientists are dubious. According to Reuters, a recent report in the journal Sports Medicine found "little quality evidence to support the use of Kinesio tape over types of elastic taping in the management or prevention of sports injuries." But Kevin Anderson, managing director of Kinesio UK, says the research just needs time to catch up to the sports phenomenon.
"There's nothing magical in the tape," Anderson tells Reuters, "it certainly can't improve your performance or make you Superman," but it does help relieve pain and swelling for the athletes.
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German beach volleyball player Sara Goller, who has been sporting hot pink tape throughout the Games, says the color is nice, but its purpose is what matters. "It can release or put tension on a muscle, it depends on what you want," she tells Reuters.
Even if the tape doesn't actually do anything beneficial, physically, it can give athletes a boost of confidence simply because they think it is working wonders on their battered bodies. And in such high stakes, high pressure situations like the Olympic Games, the slightest form of encouragement is sometimes all you need.


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Is strongly correct in the following, or should it be strong?
... and had a strongly Protestant and unionist identity.
What is the explanation in grammar terms?
Is strongly correct in the following, or should it be strong?
What is the explanation in grammar terms?
Both are correct, but strong is a bit better.
The difference is subtle. I think both statements are accurate, but the former is closer to what the article means to say. So strong is the right word to use.
Martha says that strong Protestant and unionist identity is strictly speaking incorrect unless you add commas. I disagree. It's completely standard. It is easy to find plenty of examples of this pattern in good journalism and academic writing. Here are some examples (found in the Corpus of Contemporary American English):
There are thousands more. The pattern also appears in the name of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a U.S. government agency.
"Strongly" is okay in this sentence. To help clarify:
"Strongly" is modifying "Protestant and unionist" to compare it against a mildly Protestant/union identity. Using "strong" would change the meaning and require some fiddling:
Here, we could remove the last two adjectives:
The possible source of confusion is the "and" between "Protestant" and "unionist":
This probably sounds less awkward.
Strongly is correct. In grammatical terms, strongly is an adverb modifying, in this case, the adjectives Protestant and unionist, which are in turn modifying the noun identity.
There is a tendency in modern English to use adjectives as adverbs, resulting in things like "... a strong Protestant and unionist identity...", but strictly speaking this is incorrect, unless you add commas to make the adjective modify the noun instead: "... a strong, Protestant, and unionist identity..." — but obviously the latter means something quite different than the version without commas.
That said, unless you're writing for a particularly nitpicky audience, either choice is fine and will be understood as an adverb (unless marked as an adjective).


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23 Apr 2012 2:30 PM #21
Buffered tree and tree grid is definitely required. No reason to have it for data grid only.
Some great work been done here. Looking forward to an official sencha component in the near future.
Anyone have any idea when we can expect to something official?
25 Sep 2012 1:30 AM #22
Hi guys,
I tested the lockable tree with the 4.1.1 and it didn't work unfortunately.
One issue was easily fixed:
updateSpacer: function () { var lockedView = this.lockedGrid.getView(), normalView = this.normalGrid.getView(); if (lockedView.rendered && lockedView.el.child('table') && normalView.rendered) {
When I update the sample to use buffers with 4.1.1 I get the following message (Firefox):
TypeError: me.dom is undefined
me.dom.style.height = me.addUnits(height);
Anyone a hint where to start searching? It happens somewhere in the rendering process.
When running when having buffered: false, using lazyload in the tree leads to have all columns being resized everytime the tree rerenders due to new data. All columns will become smaller and smaller.
Any hint highly appreciated,
Edit: When changing the extjs file to ignore the issue, the rendering finishes but I don't see any data. :-(
26 Sep 2012 10:02 PM #23
Last time I checked, the spacer fix wasn't needed in 4.1.1.
I've got these for an override class:
patchLockedSpacer: function() { var me = this, lockedView = me.lockedGrid.getView(); lockedView.on({ refresh : me.updateSpacer, scope : me }); }, // Can be remove using ExtJS 4.1.0 RELEASE or greater updateSpacer: function() { var me = this, lockedView = me.lockedGrid.getView(), normalView = me.normalGrid.getView(); if(!lockedView.rendered || !normalView.rendered) { return; } me.callOverridden(); }
31 Oct 2012 8:48 AM #24
@jcdang: Thanks, did use it.
I do experience a very bad performance due to the node store interaction when doing sorting. Without the node store synchronization it is moreless instantaneous with it, it takes more than 3 second with only a few nodes (lets say there are 30 nodes).
Do you experience the same? Any hints for me to solve this?
P.S.: Expanding or adding nodes is pretty fast, the biggest time consumption is caused by collapsing nodes.
31 Oct 2012 1:44 PM #25
I'm not sure I can give you direct answer without looking at what you have. The Sencha people made a significant amount of changes under the hood from 4.1.0, 4.1.1 and 4.1.2a. My company has been working between these versions and the patches are not really that similar.
I've tested 4.1.0 with ~50x20 nodes (2000 rows) with no issues using expand/collapse all.
With 4.1.1 there were some new bugs related to the Store that I ended up just pulling from 4.1.2a.
Also with 4.1.1, Sencha added listeners to the pageMap MixedCollection object on the stores. You may need to suspend this on bulk calls.
2 Nov 2012 3:04 AM #26
thanks for your fast answer.
there is one significant thing to mention. The TreePanel is populated with 47 columns. I just removed most of them and then it behaves pretty well.
Any thought how I can speed up in that environment? (will check on the pageMap MixedCollection and give it a try)
2 Nov 2012 5:18 AM #27
you were certainly right, there was a lot of stuff added in 4.1.1-4.1.3 (which I currently use). I solved my issue and made it more than acceptable in terms of speed by starting bulkUpdate operations before sort and collapse/ expand.
Thanks for your help!
27 Nov 2012 10:12 PM #28
I am facing issues when trying to use this over ride but am facing some issues.
Can anyone please get the consolidated over rides and steps to achieve the buffered tree.
Or is there any plugin to achieve this...
Please help me out on this because my tree load more than 1000 nodes at one level...
Thanks in Advance
15 Apr 2013 3:26 AM #29
Hi Greengrake,
Could you please post the working example of this buffered tree. I need it for my huge dataset tree.
Many Thanks.
9 Jun 2015 10:28 PM #30
How can I achieve BufferedTreeStore
I want to integrate infinite scrolling(bufferedStore) in tree panel( but it needs TreeStore). How can i integrate it? is it possible?! If possible please suggest me how to do it and If you share the code that would be more helpful.
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In many cases genital warts do not cause any symptoms, but they are sometimes associated with itching, burning, or tenderness. They may result in localized irritation, depending upon their anatomic location. Women who have genital warts inside the vagina may experience symptoms such as bleeding following sexual intercourse or an abnormal vaginal discharge. Rarely, bleeding or urinary obstruction may occur if the wart involves the urethral opening.
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I am new in Ubuntu (come from Windows 7), i want to know how can i add environment variable in Ubuntu, because the platform where i use exaggerate "To compile and run SCA composites with OW2 FraSCAti, you also have to set the FRASCATI_HOME system environment variable. FRASCATI_HOME has to point to the directory where the OW2 FraSCAti runtime distribution was extracted".
And how can i add it to my path "For conveniance, you can add FRASCATI_HOME/bin to your PATH variable to get the frascati command available in the PATH". Please i'am new, could you explain me what i do step by step..


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Hi, my name is OB and I'm going to tell you about second hand smoke and the dangers of this. Second hand smoke is sometimes more worrisome than smoking itself. So be careful around children of the 90's if you smoke. I was a victim of second hand smoke. I had pneumonia when I was 3 years old. If your going to smoke be careful around kids. Its stupid that kids are getting sick from an adult's mistake. So if I were you, I 'd stop all together. Be careful. Choose not to smoke.


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Maybe a thread was created and then deleted when the Jury Room got spammed a few days ago. Anywho, sad news.
I didn't like my first exposure to Marker's 'mise en scene' in "La Jetee" and "Sans Soleil" but can appreciate an old master craftsman when I see one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/writers-and-critics-remember-chris-marker_n_1729367.html.


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Following up on Canonical's announcement, what is Ubuntu for phones, where can I download a copy of the OS to run on my phone? And how do I know if it's compatible with my phone?
Ubuntu Touch / Ubuntu for Phones as the name implies, is the Ubuntu version for Mobiles (Smartphones & Tablets). This is still in DEVELOPMENT and any mobile phone right now would be a DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW, which means an unfinished, for test only product.
(Check at the bottom of this answer for updates)
Right now is too early to tell how Ubuntu Touch will work, will be sold, how the software will be integrated, how to get the software and work on it/with it or even be compatible with an Ubuntu Desktop.
The link you provided about Ubuntu for Phone is just a presentation of a new product, same as Ubuntu for Android and Ubuntu TV, they are being worked on for a future version but at least they have being announced so end users and developers know where Ubuntu is going.
We can see right now for example:
Looks, Design, Features and Requirements
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If you look at most Windows 8 videos and then look at that one (1) video of the Ubuntu for Phone ad you will see that it is true. It is important to know that Ubuntu for Phone is not just a normal smartphone and there is no 10 users that will end up buying one. It will have several smart ways of connecting it to a PC or TV. It can actually be used as a PC and it will have many features that will work out of the box with any Ubuntu computer (And also with Windows) integrating itself with Unity, the HUD and other Ubuntu features. This are just to name a few since there are many surprises to be seen from here until we see 13.04, 13.10 and 14.04.
The planned design style, I for one finding it awesome, it is very well made taking ideas from Unity itself while thinking on how to be more friendly to the user on phones. The hardware that is optimized is very good and I know that I will not be the only one saving up for one of this when it comes out. All of this is just my personal thoughts about it but wanted to leave some information noted from day one. If you have seen the video, you will have noticed all the information Mark Shuttleworth mentions and how well thought out the Ubuntu idea for phone is.
In WebUpd8 we can see a quoted message about Ubuntu phones not ready for purchase but they are starting to work with partners to start selling them before the end of 2013. So at least until the end of 2013 when Ubuntu Smartphones start to sell, there will be little information about this.
Also remember that Ubuntu for Phones, TVs and Tablets is a milestone set between 13.10 and 14.10 when Unity's integration on all types of hardware will be complete or near completion (Less bugs, better hardware support, better ARM support, etc..).
Will my Android Phone work with Ubuntu for Phone? Will it be an alternative?
Ubuntu for Phone will be another OS alternative to Phones, specially Smart Phones, that works with any phones that carry Android and have the minimum hardware requirements posted above. Phones like Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG and others that offer Android will be able to install Ubuntu for Phone on them. Of course, this will not be an App for Android, instead it will replace Android on that phone. So not only will new phones come with Ubuntu pre-installed, but it will also work on already existing Android phones
UPDATE 6 Feb 2013 - In Slashdot we can see an article about Ubuntu Smartphones shipping in October which points to a wsj article about Ubuntu Smartphones, including a link to Ubuntu Smartphone Designs. Pretty neat and open way of providing users with the ideas behind the design. This will truly turn into something big once users know they can be part of it's design. Another link is the OMGUbuntu post about Ubuntu Phones
UPDATE 18 Feb 2013 - In The H, we can see an article about Developer Preview for Ubuntu Phones which mentions an article in the Canonical Website that mentions the releases of the Developer Preview for Ubuntu Phones on the 21 Feb 2013.
UPDATE 19 Feb 2013 - Ubuntu has released the first Ubuntu Tour for Tablets. You can see the website at http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tablet
You can also see the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h384z7Ph0gU
UPDATE 21 Feb 2013 - The Ubuntu Phone, Tablet Developer Preview has been released
UPDATE 22 Feb 2013 - The Ubuntu Phone Porting Guide was unveiled
You can also visit the official Touch site
There is already a 'working' build for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (? i9250) smartphone.
BBC News > Technology > Ubuntu operating system comes to Android smartphones
There was a recent media presentation in London, and engadget.com got to play with one ..
engadget > Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones, we go hands-on (video)
UPDATE: 26-Feb-2013
engadget > Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview now available for supported Nexus devices
And, along come the nay-sayers ..
networkworld.com > Ubuntu Smartphones No, Ubuntu Tablets, Yes
Ubuntu for Phones is a mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system.
The link you referred to in your question is all the information we know about the OS at the moment. However, if you are interested in this as a developer, see the developer page.
The OS is not publicly available, nor is there an available device running it. All that has happened is that the product has been announced and the SDK released.
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The Italian Job
A few weeks after Benedict XVI announced his resignation, the political philosopher Giorgio Agamben published a short book called The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Times. In that volume, Agamben calls the pope's resignation a prophetic moment, and argues that it highlights the crisis of institutional legitimacy. His conclusions may be farfetched—an eschatological showdown between church and political power probably isn't in the offing—but he does bring into focus the sense of crisis that shook the Vatican in the months leading to Benedict's departure. A series of scandals—from Vatileaks to the Vatican bank—raised questions about Benedict's administrative capacities, questions he himself seemed to answer when he chose to resign in February 2013. As the cardinals assembled in Rome to elect a new pope, curial reform became the conclave's watchword. That is Francis's mandate. It is also one of his greatest challenges. Whether he is able to rouse the church from its institutional coma depends entirely on his ability to manage his opposition.
Francis's first year has been characterized by a carefully coded fight for the ground between the old guard and the new. An abstract debate about the "continuity or discontinuity" of Vatican II has been replaced by a conversation about concrete issues such as poverty and inequality. Francis has shown a willingness to discontinue old practices—for example, the Vatican officially prohibits priests from washing women's feet on Holy Thursday, but that's exactly what he did just weeks after his election. Francis's new language and style have not been universally welcomed by the bishops, especially those in his backyard. Some of them silently resist these changes.
In Italy, for example, the old guard seems especially recalcitrant. The most prominent Italian bishops—the cardinals of Venice, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Florence, Naples, and Palermo—were all appointed by John Paul II or Benedict XVI. Now it seems that many of the most powerful and visible Italian bishops have little to say about Francis's agenda. Only Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna—a drafter of John Paul's most important document on life issues—has been willing to publicly comment, if only to oppose Cardinal Walter Kasper's proposal to allow some divorced and remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist. The rest of the Italian bishops have been more or less absent from the public debate about family and marriage in advance of next October's episcopal Synod.
The German bishops are another matter. They've long engaged the question about sacramental practices for remarried Catholics. In the early 1990s, the German bishops proposed pastoral practices that would admit some divorced Catholics to Communion. But the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—forced them to drop that proposal.
As a whole, the German bishops conference has taken seriously Francis's call for a "poor church that is for the poor." When it came time to elect a new conference president, the German bishops chose a scholar of Catholic social teaching named Cardinal Reinhard Marx. Francis had already appointed him to his Council of Cardinals, which is advising him on curial reform. The German bishops also investigated the "bishop of bling," Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, for spending lavishly on a new residence. The pope recently accepted his resignation.
But Francis seems to sense that he has his work cut out for him in Italy. He has begun by naming several bishops who are quite different from those appointed by John Paul and Benedict. For example, he appointed three auxiliary bishops with strong ties to the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, a sometime critic of the past two pontificates. Martini, who served as archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002, was the most influential Italian bishop of the post-Vatican II era. When Martini's successor, Cardinal Luigi Tettamanzi, took over, he "exiled" priests who were closest to Martini. Francis's decision to make a few of them bishops sends an unmistakable message to the conference.
Francis has also tried to change the structure of the Italian bishops conference itself. This body did not include all the Italian bishops until 1964—during, and as a result of Vatican II. But ever since it has served as a kind of satellite office of the Vatican. It is the only bishops conference whose president is appointed by the pope. Cardinal Camillo Ruini, appointed by John Paul II in 1985, served as conference president for over two decades. He made sure the Italian bishops' agenda was in keeping with with John Paul's. Francis has changed all that by inviting the Italian bishops to elect their own conference president. But not all of them welcomed that offer. Instead, the Italian bishops struck a compromise: they will vote for a "terna" of three names from which the pope will select the conference president. That isn't exactly what Francis wanted, but perhaps this compromise will save him the headache of facing a conference president who works against him.
On a few occasions, Pope Francis has acknowledged resistance to his program. Church historians are reminded of the start of John XXIII's pontificate, especially the months leading to the Second Vatican Council. But Francis's pontificate features something different: a "pope emeritus" and his entourage.
A group of Italian publications give voice to the resistance, such as the neo-conservative paper Il Foglio and the more populist outlets Libero and Il Giornale (all have close ties to the Berlusconi media empire). And some political pundits at the Milan-based Corriere della Sera, the newspaper of the capitalist establishment in Italy, also seem worried about Francis. They often warn readers about Francis's populist streak, especially on questions of immigration and economic justice.
In addition, there are Italian bloggers and journalists who remain close to some Vatican officials (especially Sandro Magister at L'Espresso). They remind readers that there are "two popes." Il Foglio is republishing in installments the teachings of Ratzinger/Benedict XVI (including his much-criticized speech at Regensburg), which looks like an attempt to undermine the new papacy. For those writers, the key issues are Francis's liturgical preferences (especially his lack of passion for the preconciliar rite revived by Benedict XVI in 2007) and his alleged lack of theological clarity, as compared with his predecessor. They rely on sources inside the Vatican. Bear in mind that Pope Francis's famous line "Who am I to judge?" was a direct response to an accusation against a priest published a few days earlier by Sandro Magister.
Arguments against Kasper's proposal that some divorced and remarried Catholics be admitted to Communion appear in Italian publications with ties to bishops who consider it "doctrinal change." They worry it would amount to a betrayal of the Wojtyla-Ratzinger legacy in sexual ethics. After Kasper delivered his proposal to the consistory in February—at the pope's behest—Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Caffarra of Bologna were repeatedly interviewed by Il Foglio. They presented Kasper's argument as a disavowal of centuries of moral theology on family and marriage. But they failed to mention that rethinking those pastoral practices would mean rethinking language they (Caffarra specifically) drafted for John Paul II. They're not just fighting for John Paul's legacy. They're fighting for their own.
IN MAY, POPE FRANCIS delivered speech to open the general assembly of the Italian episcopate (a pope has never done that before). His tone was brotherly, but he pressed the bishops to change the agenda of the Italian church. Under Cardinal Ruini, the Italian bishops focused on the "anthropological challenge" of secular modernity. But Francis highlighted social issues (family, work, immigration) and urged the bishops to live simply. He asked them to "follow Peter" and to update their pastoral plans. In this respect, he sounded a lot like Paul VI. In a 1964 speech to the Italian bishops, Paul VI encouraged them to grow up and be pastors of their flock.
Why is Francis being so bold with Italy's bishops? First, few of them openly support him. And second: Francis was elected in part to clean up after the scandals that plagued Benedict's and John Paul's administrations, and most of the Curia remains Italian.
Tensions between Francis and the old guard will linger because the bureaucratic culture of the Catholic Church is resistant to change. Bishops don't have much experience with demotions—other than the old promoveatur ut amoveatur. But they've seen Francis move against the "bishop of bling," along with bishops who have been tainted by financial scandal. The pope has even said he's weighing the "punishment" for a bishop who was found guilty in a case related to sexual abuse. That hardly eases the anxiety of bishops who are wary of Francis.
A new book provides a window on these tensions. Il progetto di Francesco. Dove vuole portare la chiesa ("Francis's Project") consists of an interview with Víctor Manuel Fernández, rector of the Catholic University of Argentina and who—more important—was appointed a bishop by Pope Francis in May 2013. Fernández is one of the pope's closest advisers. In the interview, conducted by Paolo Rodari, Vatican correspondent for La Repubblica, Fernández expands on the theological intuitions of Francis, which have been expressed in a way that avoids direct confrontation with his predecessors. The book serves as a guide to the theological insights of Francis's pontificate, especially with respect to his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium.
Fernández was one of the theologians who helped then-Archbishop Bergoglio draft the final document of the Fifth Assembly of the Latin American Episcopate at Aparecida (Brazil) in 2007. So he is a key witness to the paradigm shift embodied by the Argentine Jesuit. In the book's conclusion, Fernández reveals that a few years before the 2013 conclave, he was anonymously reported to the CDF for doctrinal shortcomings. He replied to the CDF, but that didn't satisfy his critics. At that point, Fernández explains, Bergoglio "insisted that I keep my head up and…not let them [the CDF] take my dignity from me."
According to Fernández, Bergoglio has little patience for any "ideological obsession"—not even when it takes the form of debates on the interpretation of Vatican II. Fernández insists that Bergoglio wants to "apply Vatican II in its entirety…without backtracking, with the intention of leading the church out of itself, in order to get to everyone." For example, "this also applies to many paths of reform that were opened by Vatican II but were stopped halfway—such as the importance the council gave to collegiality and episcopal conferences."
Francis's anti-ideological approach "can be annoying to some who are a minority and not representative of the entire church," according to Fernández. He connects this with a central idea of Francis's pontificate, the hierarchy of truths. "If we had a missionary style truly able to get at everyone, [we would] focus on what is essential, which is simultaneously what is more attractive, because it responds to the deepest needs of the human heart." By focusing on essentials, Fernández continues, "the pope has taken up a forceful teaching of Vatican II: the 'hierarchy of truths' (see Unitatis Redintegratio), which applies "as much to the dogmas of the faith as to the whole teaching of the church, including the moral teachings." In Francis's view, when one disconnects doctrine from its context—the kerygma—it becomes "ideological."
When it comes to church politics, Fernández is quite blunt. He candidly acknowledges the pope's opposition, exploring the problem of "conservative dissent" in a church where conservatives are unaccustomed to disagreeing with a pope. "Until two years ago," he explains, some people would never question what a pope said. But "now they…disseminate all kinds of criticism of Pope Francis." Those whose projects differed "even slightly" from that of past popes, Fernández says, "were very respectful of [those popes'] choices, or at least accepted them in silence." But now he sees "some in the church who feel threatened by the speeches and the style of Francis, and they seem to have suddenly lost all their affection for the figure of the pope."
According to Bishop Fernández, Francis believes in the participation of the people of God (bishops, priests, and laity) in the church's decision-making processes. The pope is interested in reforming more than the Curia. That is important, but it won't solve all the church's structural problems. The church needs more "synodality." That is, the church must develop processes through which all Catholics "can feel represented and listened to…giving more autonomy to the local churches." In this sense, it is time for "more listening to the people of God."
BUT LISTENING ENTAILS risk. If the pope really does want to allow all Catholics a place at the table, then he'll have to listen to a lot of people who aren't especially pleased with his leadership so far. Not all of these critics work in the Curia. There are the orphans of Joseph Ratzinger who see the conservative theological pushback against modernity as the only chance to save the West. For example, the philosopher Marcello Pera (former president of the Italian Senate), who—with Ratzinger—co-authored a 2004 pamphlet connecting moral relativism, Muslim immigration, and the decadence of Europe, has disappeared from the public scene. But he and his confreres are still active in think tanks and doctoral programs; their influence is difficult to measure.
Some members of the new Catholic movements—long favored by John Paul II—have been challenged by Francis. He asked the Neocatechumenates to rebuild unity where they have created division. Other movements and orders, such as the Legionaries of Christ, are just fighting for survival. They too are the orphans of previous pontificates.
Francis also faces criticism from those who seek to restore nineteenth-century European Catholicism, like the historian Roberto de Mattei. His Lepanto Foundation holds that Vatican II was a radical break with tradition, as do the online magazines he oversees: Corrispondenza Romana and Radici Cristiane. The neo-medievalists resist Francis because they oppose Vatican II on liturgical issues. The widely read blog Rorate Caeli falls into this camp, as does Vittorio Messori, who co-authored the famous Ratzinger Report (1985). As recently as May 28, he wrote about the church's diarchical papacy—two popes, Benedict and Francis—in Italy's most important newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera.
And on the other side, there are those who think Francis has not gone far enough. The monthly journal Micromega, for example, provides a venue for some of the theologians exiled under John Paul and Benedict to push for radical revolution within the church. Italian Catholics who write for Micromega, like Fr. Paolo Farinella and Fr. Franco Barbero, tend to see Francis as little more than a wider smile painted on the same old patriarchal, repressive church.
In other words, Francis has no shortage of opponents. The size and shape of the resistance are products of church leadership over the past few decades—problems left festering by John Paul II and made worse by his successor. Say what you will about the pontificates of John Paul and Benedict; they did little to heal the growing rifts within the church they led.
The transition from Benedict XVI is still unfolding, and the next year will bring critical moments in Francis's pontificate: the Synods of 2014 and 2015. The situation is comparable to the one John XXIII faced after he became pope. In 1959 he announced that he would convene an "ecumenical" council. He started speaking with new words and teaching with new gestures. The pope encountered strong resistance from bishops committed to maintaining the status quo. And as preparation for Vatican II continued, most external observers began to doubt the chances of its success. After all, was a seventy-seven-year-old pope strong enough to steer the barque of Peter in a new direction? Would a Vatican outsider even know where to find the wheel?
But for all the differences between the church of the late 1950s and that of 2013, the "institutional loneliness" of John XXIII is similar to the loneliness of Pope Francis today. Francis's promises do not depend on Francis alone, but largely on the rest of the church—and in particular bishops and cardinals. Like John XXIII, he is not young enough to carry out his own reforms. It will be up to the bishops and the faithful to reconstruct Catholicism's credibility. Of course, the paradox is that a pope constantly in the media spotlight is trying to save the church from a "papolatry" partly created by that spotlight.
After Pope Urban VIII died (1623-1644), the Barberini family, the servants, allies, and clientes of the deceased had to flee Rome overnight to save their lives. Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barberini—"what barbarians did not do, the Barberini family did." Retribution for having served a pope was not only political. Times have changed since the papal court of seventeenth-century Rome. A kind of "spoils system" still exists, and transitions from one pontificate to another have always been complicated. But Francis has a pope emeritus who still wears white and lives in the Vatican (unlike his predecessors who resigned), along with all those bishops appointed by him and by his just-canonized predecessor, whose pontificate was the second longest in modern history. This time, however, the papal transition could hardly be more complicated.
About the Author
Massimo Faggioli is associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas. He will move to Villanova University in the summer of 2016. His most recent book is The Rising Laity. Ecclesial Movements since Vatican II (Paulist Press, 2016).
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Thanks, Massimo Faggioli, for this piece, the most illuminating thing I have read about Pope Francis. I am particularly heartened to learn that he made bishops of three marginalized followers of his great Jesuit confrere C. M. Martini and that he is both restoring to the Italian bishop's conference their legitimate autonomy and foiling the resistance of the Caffarras etc.
The complaint about his "lack of theological clarity" is ironic. Benedict XVI was theological clarity in person, but a clarity often misapplied, too much point-scoring and Besserwissen, too little sense of the enveloping pastoral context. Such clarity easily becomes a permanent ideological rant.
Francis has a more integral pastoral outlook. And "pastoral" does not mean "fluffy" or "lacking in authority", as conservatives insinuate when they dismiss Vatican II as a merely "pastoral" council, unlike the sharply dogmatic Trent.
Pastoral theology is the truest and fullest theology, because it places all dogmas and teachings in their proper, functional place, at the service of the gospel healing and enlightenment. Vatican II was sparing in the formulation of new teaching but it did a wonderful job of putting the old teachings in a broad perspective of pastoral care for the people of God, in dialogue with the moden world, and in retrieval fo the accents and outlooks of Scripture as received and interpreted in Tradition.
Now we need more and more pastors in the image of Francis and Martini. The harvest is great but the laborers are few.
Very interesting piece. Two points:
1) Faggioli's emphasis is virtually all on Europe, despite our non-European pope. But Europe's probably where it should be, though when I read about the Italian opposition to Francis, I wonder if someone over here will do an article on the North American opposition as well. And though I don't know much about European politics, I was struck by how much the disagreements in the European church seem to parallel disagreements in the EU. The curia, for example, as analogue to what many see as the over-stuffed, overpaid, overly-complacent, self-interested, ever-interfering bureaucrats of Brussels and members of the Europan Parliament and the European Council. And the failures of the EU to get its act together in the face of threats like the Eurozone crisis (to say nothing of Putin and his minions). The recent elections to the European Parliament may have been a clear alarm bell; but were any of the bureaucrats in Brussels and elsewhere listening? As the historian Timothy Garton Ash wrote right after the elections, "I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: 'This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."' How many wake-up calls do church leaders need to understand that they can no longer continue simply to say "not our fault," and return to their old ways?
2) Galloping secularism, particularly but not exclusively in Europe. This convenient whipping boy is whipped out on all occasions by ecclesiastical leaders to show where the "fault" for the church's problems lies. But what about self-inflicted wounds? When will those leaders start to ask themselves how far the institution of which they're in charge has itself contributed to the secularism? Francis, for example, seems determined to clean up the Vatican bank. But why should an allegedly Christian bank need cleaning? It was hardly the secular world, after all, that turned it into an Augean stable. And of course the continuing, ever-expanding child abuse crisis and its satanic coverups. How many people has that massive failure of church leadership driven into secularism, in Europe and elsewhere? And whose fault was it? Not that of secular culture, I think.
"The Vatican officially prohibits priests from washing women's feet on Holy Thursday." Why? Why are women banned from the priesthood? The Catholic church discriminates against half the human race in ways that can't be justified. It has many problems, but based purely on the number of people affected, misogyny is the worst. This is immoral. It needs to be addressed.
Perhaps Francis is bringing to birth a third untried project of Vatican II, to join those of synodal collegiality and subsidiarity. I believe it was Rahner who remarked that at Vatican II the church became a "world" church. Yet, as Faggioli so clearly demonstrates, its bureacracy has remained fastened in Italian knots, grown so tight as to cut off circulation. The Pope cannot get global blood in there fast enough.
Francis's "institutional loneliness" is, I hope, temporary. It is good that he lives and eats at Santa Marta--healthier and safer. Meanwhile, he will need the skill of an Argentine soccer star to avoid being blocked by the exile critics--both the newly exiled"orphans" and the formerly exiled cynics. The good news of the "Francis Project" is that in the world and the world church he wants to see there are no exiles.
I am hopeful that Pope Francis continues to embark on change. After John Paul II and Benedict XIV Papacy I have heard of every day normal Catholics vote with their feet over their increasing frustration with the Roman ways because of the Curia being an impediment to rational commonsense implementation of the Second Vatican Council reforms. Francis is placing an increased awareness on placing dogma and doctrine to the light of Jesus Christ. As Han Kung put it so clearly in his latest book, "Can We Save The Roman Catholic Church". One of the priorities must be putting each doctrine and dogma along side and decide if those are CHRISTIAN elements to help the People of God grow in their discipleship with Christ Jesus. If they do keep them, if they don't its time to get rid of them. Truth in the Church must be authentic and real all the more so from the Church of Rome.
I would characterize Faggioli's "Italian job" more pasta fazool than pasta faggioli. What we are experiencing is a back-to-the future time in the Church. Those who have been in hiding for the past 40 years or so are now coming back like a new production of "Hair" or "Jesus Christ Superstar". There are real problems with the reception of the Second Vatican Council and these problems are theological and do not go away by going back to a discredited rallying cry of the "Spirit of Vatican II" to advance a "liberal"(in Newman's negative sense) rethinking of the Catholic Church and the Catholic faith. I am in no way a "neo-medievalist", but I have the sense and intelligence to see that there is indeed a discontinuity between the Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI and the Traditional Roman Mass. And, I might add, so do most young Catholics I know, including young priests. The problems of Councilolatry and Papolatry are also real and stand in the way of that re-evangeliation of the world that has been talked about now for the past forty years. How can one disagree that what is needed is a return to the kergyma of the Gospel in the Church's missionary effort to the world? John 3:16 seems to be a good place to begin this kerygmatic preaching. But this would involve demanding repentance, acknowledgment of sin, before that healing that can come only through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bad News is part of the Good News. That must be at the heart of a true pastoral theology in a world of radical individualsm and a deadly sentimentalism that denies sin.
Tom Melvin: those who have no vote, regularly vote with their feet.
"Now it seems that many of the most powerful and visible Italian bishops have little to say about Francis's agenda. ... The rest of the Italian bishops have been more or less absent from the public debate about family and marriage in advance of next October's episcopal Synod."
And that counts as "opposition"? The comments about "Some members of the new Catholic movements" are just as vague. This article extrapolates and interprets a lot but is rather short on hard facts.
Massimo's momentous essay on how the Vatican undercut the authority and status of Episcopal Conferences in a series of blocking moves over several decades is now to be published for the first time in English, in this month's Japan Mission Journal.
As usual you question a substantial article with zero facts of your own.
Jim, I totally agree and we can see that vote in every Parish by the lack of folks in the pews each Sunday. The Bishops must be keenly aware that their "old" messages regarding what will happen to lapsed Catholics has lost its punch. Fear is no longer a motivator to pack the pews.
I am not a journalist who claims to have a major story and needs to support it, so what facts do you expect me to provide?
Actually, there is a pattern I have noticed bout Pope Francis: that everybody who talks a lot about his "opposition" usually turns out to be trying to recruit the Pope for his own ideological agenda. The Pope himself said something about these lines a few months ago when he quoted a sentence by Freud that in every idealization there is an aggression. If there is something very clear about Pope Francis is that he is not ideological, nor is the majority of the Italian episcopate. Hence, I expect them to get along just fine.
I suspect that the undertone of the 2014-2015 Synod on the Family under Pope Francis will be very different from undertone of the 1980 Synod on the Family under JP II. During the papacy of John Paul II, any priest who whispered that certain teachings should be the subject of a rethinking would never be made a bishop. Theologians who spoke out for responsible reform lost their Catholic teaching licenses and bishops who did the same were removed from their episcopal responsibilities.
During the previous two papacies, the power and authority of the Conferences of Bishops were sharply curtained and public statements concerning doctrine or teachings were subject to the approval of the Curia. The power and authority of the magisterium were strenghtened and concentrated in Rome. For all practical purposes, the Church was ruled solely by the pope's voice and pen. There was virtually no collegiality or subsidiarity.
On the other hand, Pope Francis is encouraging all bishops to offer their advice and counsel. He wants bishops to reflect not only the love of the Gospel but the voices of the non-clergy theologians and laity as well. I am not naive but have a reasoned hope that the minority who oppose what Pope Francis is doing will not stifle the voices of the majority and that all bishops will be enlightened by the Holy Spirit so that our Church will not be divided over so many teachings but solidified. It is time to bring back into the Church those that are disenfrancized, especially divorced and remarried Catholics, so that healing and salvation can begin.
Agreed. While the sex abuse crisis calls for decisive action (and not just apologies) the injustices perpetrated against half the Catholic population cry out for remedy. We will never be able to effectively preach and live the Good News until the gifts and vocations given to both men and women are recognized and honored.
JOL: "Massimo's momentous essay on how the Vatican undercut the authority and status of Episcopal Conferences in a series of blocking moves over several decades is now to be published for the first time in English, in this month's Japan Mission Journal."
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Superb article and same for many comments.
"ideological" cuts both ways: against traditionalists and against progressivists...a plague on both your houses...
Very interesting article.
Church historian Ted Ross, SJ, discusses the need for curial reform in two short videos made by yours truly. The "Spirit of Vatican II" can serve as an intro to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). Fr. Ross situates this Council within the modern history of the Church.
Please go to My Channel on YouTube --https://www.youtube.com/user/j... -- and scroll down to the bottom of the list.
Joe Mulligan, SJ
Whoops! Re my previous comment, you may get to my videos more easily if you just go to YouTube and then to MyChannel -- josephmulligan1
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Only give directions when you are prepared to enforce them.
Unless you are willing to get up and ensure immediate compliance, avoid using the term now. You're inadvertently teaching your child to ignore you when you delay or don't follow up your direction to, for example, "turn off the television now." What child in his right mind would promptly respond when experience tells him that no one will check for at least ten minutes? If you tell your child he must pick up his room before he gets to play outside, don't convey that it's all right to ignore your direction by not checking that he has done what you have asked.
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Only give directions when you are prepared to follow up. Otherwise, you teach your child to ignore what you say.
When you give directions, state them clearly. Don't phrase directions as suggestions or questions. Your child's obvious response to the pseudodirection "Are you ready to go to bed yet?" is "No, I thought I'd watch Jay Leno but thanks for asking." There's no room for ambiguity or negotiation if you say, "It's time for you to go to bed."
Offer choices of acceptable options. "You can take a bath and then have a story or story first, then bath. It's your choice." The sequence is optional; the bath is not.
It's okay to make requests if you don't care if your child says no. "Do you want to take a bath tonight?" makes it clear a bath isn't mandatory. Be careful not to cloak directions as pseudosuggestions. Otherwise, you'll find yourself furious with your child after he fails to go along with something you phrased as if it were mere suggestion. "It would be nice if you took a bath tonight" sends your child the wrong message. You want him to learn that you mean what you say and be able to differentiate suggestions from directions.
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Write down multiple directions. A visual reminder helps your child remember what to do.
If it's inconvenient to write it down, at least be sure you have your child's full attention before you give directions. If he's working on the computer, your talking is merely background noise. There's little chance he realizes you're talking and less chance he cares. To avoid screaming at your child, first get his full attention, then tell him what you want and, whenever possible, seek acknowledgment. Get some sign that he has processed what you said and seek some commitment that he plans to follow through.
Pitfall 7: Establishing Too Many Rules
Too many rules frustrate everyone. Your child has no chance of remembering (much less abiding by) all of them if you can't even keep track of them. An excessive number of rules makes consistency between parents impossible and enforcement a function of whoever is present, their mood, and what they remember. Too many guidelines lead to arbitrary parenting, which can make a child angry. Then, when he can't meet your expectations, you'll fall into the trap of pointing out each of his errors. When he continually fails to get your approval, your child feels like a failure.
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I made chili last night and it is way too oniony. I know you can use potatoes to make things less salty; any advice on making already made food less oniony?
Make another batch of chili with no or reduced onions, and combine them--freeze if needed, so you can use it all. This is the only reasonly guaranteed way to resolve the issue. Chili freezes and holds very well, so this might be practical even though somewhat extravagent with the ingredients.
I know that isn't what you want to hear, but it is the truth. BTW, the potato and salt reduction thing is a kitchen myth.
Since it is already made, simmer the chili at low heat for another hour or so allowing the onions to cook further and soften. They will slowly dissolve into the stew and the oniony flavour won't be as harsh.
Adding a bit of sugar or agave nectar may cut the oniony taste as a last ditch effort.
Furthermore, if you don't like the oniony flavour that onions do tend to impart on dishes, try caramelizing onions instead of a quick saute or slow sweat. Caramelized onions will add a much sweeter, milder onion depth-of-flavour without the harsh (sometimes bitter) kick of raw onions.


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I want to buy a steamer to help getting rid of bed bug but I read that a steamer could wet the wooden furniture thus they could be ruined.
Some recommends dry steamer but I am not sure what do they mean by it. Is it some steamer which doesn't need to put water in it?