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Taqiyya (or kitman[1]) is the principle generally employed by the Shia and Druze sects that dissimulation is permissible if it furthers an Islamic morally valid objective according to Sharia.
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- Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you (To remember) Himself; for the final goal is to Allah.
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30 Dec 2011 2:36 PM #1
Field isDirty function change
I see that the isDirty() function in Ext.form.field.Field has been changed in the 4.1 preview release.
This is the function in 4.07:
isDirty : function() { var me = this; return !me.disabled && !me.isEqual(me.getValue(), me.originalValue); }
In the 4.1 PR1, the function disregards changes in fields with an undefined originalValue:
isDirty : function() { var me = this; return !me.disabled && typeof me.originalValue != 'undefined' && !me.isEqual(me.getValue(), me.originalValue); },
This change broke some of my code, but in a way that exposed another bug in my code related to the issue where the trackResetOnLoad config option doesn't get passed from the FormPanel to the Ext.form.Basic when specified in the config or initialConfig as discussed in this thread:
Both of these issues seem like they might create confusion for users:
In the first, a field won't show as dirty if it hasn't been initialized with a value. It seems to me that a field that has had its value changed from undefined to something else should be considered a dirty field.
The second issue, that trackResetOnLoad configs don't get passed to the basic form when extending FormPanel, might increase the confusion because when loads are not tracked, all fields in a form have an originalValue of undefined.
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Just looking at the code it looks like the dirty status was incorrect when the field was instantiated and checked for dirty status. Anything can change but without a bug report it likely will not change.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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I originally posted here because I wasn't sure if it was a bug or if it is the intended behavior.
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I'm reading on a Book that's about Gamedevelopment with C++ and DirectX 9.
There is something that interrests me: It says that playermovements are increasing with the power of the CPU. Becouse a faster CPU will move the player with every frame ( better CPU = better FPS ) To bypass it, it says you have just to multiplicate time*movementfactor .
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Daily Star: City to enter chase for Ronaldo?
- 11 July 2013 09:20
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City are set to go toe to toe with Manchester United for the signature of two stars according to this morning's papers – starting with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Speculation has been circling around the Real Madrid star for a while now, with a return to Old Trafford said to be on the cards.
However City could now be set to offer the Portuguese frontman a Premier League return on the blue side of Manchester – according to the Daily Star.
"City have decided to break the bank to attract the Real Madrid star to the Etihad if he becomes available this summer," reports Duncan Wright.
"And they have told the Ronaldo camp they are prepared to beat any financial offer United put to him - meaning they could pay more than £300,000-a-week to get their man."
Sticking with the Manchester theme, the Mirror claims that City are set to win the race for Stevan Jovetic ahead of the Old Trafford outfit – who are said to have entered the chase for his signature at a late stage.
The Fiorentina striker has been linked with the Blues for weeks, and the report explains that any approach from David Moyes will not prevent Manuel Pellegrini from getting his man.
Writes Martin Lipton: "New boss Manuel Pellegrini has pushed hard to land the 23-year-old Montenegro international, who had also been targeted by Arsenal, Chelsea and Juventus, for his new-look Blues.
"But while the new Old Trafford chief David Moyes made a last-minute attempt to try to prise Jovetic out of City's arms, Pellegrini is on the brink of winning his first Manchester battle.
"Jovetic's agent, Fali Ramadani, held intensive talks with City sporting director Txiki Begiristain on Wednesday after the Florence club gave the green light."
You can watch Manuel Pellegrini talk about the need for another striker and the Manchester rivalry in his first City press conference here.
Finally for today, Sergio Aguero has apparently told friends he is keen on a move to Barcelona – if a report in the Daily Express is to be believed.
The Argentine striker rejected claims of a move to Real Madrid earlier this summer, but now rumours of a La Liga return are surfacing again.
"Catalan publication Sport has it that the Barcelona coaching staff have given their approval to a move even though former Camp Nou executives Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain may be unwilling to part with their prize asset," Charles Perrin writes.
There are no quotes with that one, and it's worth remembering that Sergio agreed a contract extension with the Blues in May.
We'll be back with more media transfer speculation tomorrow, but remember any ins or outs at the club are only confirmed when you read it here on mcfc.co.uk!


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The past few days have been insanely busy, so we have been polishing off the leftovers from earlier in the week (hence no post yesterday). But we all know that kids will only take reheated leftovers for so many nights before they revolt. So, I raided the fridge and made quick and easy pizzas. The crust? Lebanese pitas. The toppings? See below.
Meatless Meatlovers Pizza
- Tomato sauce, pepperoni, sausage, chopped quick seitan, vegan cheese
Alfredo Pizza
- alfredo sauce, steamed broccoli florets, sliced mushrooms, diced quick seitan, vegan cheese


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What would Christmas time be without fun, silly, sometimes even embarrassing family traditions? The FamilyEducation staff would like to share some favorite family traditions that have brought fond memories and joy to us over the years.
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I'd like to use GTD, but work in an office away from home. I rarely take work home with me, but sometimes, for example, bring bills to be paid to work with me. I would especially like to hear from people who are currently using GTD in both domains.
You have two basic choices:
David Allen says repeatedly - though not as a first thing - that there is no difference between Home and Work for GTD. It is all project, context and actions.
The main difference, I think, is that most of the time you may rely on your coworkers to do the tasks you delegated to them. That's in their contract and they are paid for it. With a spouse, you signed a completely different contract, so joint projects are more 'interesting' if only one practices GTD.
Regarding your specific example, I just put 'pay bills' as @Work, even though it is associated with a home project.
Even if work and home tasks are separate, your GTD system needs to track both.
I struggled with the same issue and ultimately discovered that using GTD only at work--doesn't work. In order to realize the benefits of getting your to do list out of your mind and into a system, that system needs to capture everything. This means whatever single system you use to maintain your context lists (electronic, paper, etc.) it needs to contain all your next actions and projects in every facet of your life.
This admonition is totally consistent with a work/life balance that keeps work almost exclusively at the office but makes time for "home" tasks like paying bills at work.
I use Remember the Milk. I have locations set up for
My context lists are really smart lists based on search queries. My work list pulls up all tasks not intentionally deferred to a future date that are assigned the
A similar query builds my @home context list.
If your bills are personal tasks that you are definitely going to do at work then tag them to show up on your @work list; you've made the decision to perform the action there, your context lists should reflect that decision. If it's something you could do at home or work and you don't care which, then use a tag that shows up in both your work and home context lists (e.g. my
This enables you to use a single tool to track both personal and work tasks, but to keep them in separate lists so you're only presented with tasks that your in the right physical place to perform.
Lastly, ubiquitous capture enables you to add a work task to your system from home, and vice versa. The ability to capture a task whenever it occurs to you and assign it to the right context frees your mind to concentrate because it knows your system will remind you of the action when you're in a position to actually do something about it.
I actually have a similar situation, it's rare that work and home overlap, but they do on occasion.
The context idea is one way to separate home from work. So, paying bills would be an online task (at least for me), I can do that at work or home.
What I have done is created two separate lists of projects and next-actions, one personnel, and one work. While this "shouldn't" be necessary using GTD in it's pure form, I have found it helpful to me. I have two lists to review each week, but they're actually half as big anyway.
I suggest trying both, and see what works best for you.
I definitely prefer a unified system -- and not just because I usually work from home. I need to know what's urgent and what's low priority across the board, since sometimes personal activities will preempt work, and vice versa.
The "Things" program for Mac, iPhone and iPad syncs across multiple devices; there are online-only solutions as well (Basecamp, Google Docs, ...). A digital system or portable paper planning system is the way to go if you want to keep your system with you at all times (but don't forget backups!).
A thing a see a lot lately in the GTD forums is people playing with contexts and taking them a bit further. The rationale behind it is that most of us spend 90% of our time in front of a computer, so having a @computer context can be way too vague (here is a great post on the issue, with some nice examples: http://simplicityisbliss.com/2011/06/30/a-fresh-take-on-contexts/ ).
David Allen himself has very 'personal' contexts, like @Internet separated from @Internet/Surf (for things to investigate in a relaxed mood)... Other people creates 'contexts' like @Computer/personal and @Computer/work... (Such divisions can be done by tagging, as suggested above)
I think the best is starting with the usual lists and then tweak and tweak to see what works better for you and your lifestyle.
At least for me, GTD is more of a way of thinking, rather than rules set in stone.
You can easily just do both separatedly, e.g. doing your weekly review for work and for home tasks at a different time.


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can someone point me to a simple answer here - i have a list that has a primary workflow that fires a custom task. i want to create a workflow on the task list to update the Due Date to be a field from the primary list. Possible?
sorry no that wasn't the answer. here's the answer: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/create-a-secondary-workflow-HA010237656.aspx
and in relation to your specific question above:
Why you need a secondary workflow for managing task due dates
The primary workflow that creates a task item pauses as soon as the task item has been created and assigned.
While the primary workflow is paused, it cannot set the Due Date value of the task item, check the completion status of the task when the due date arrives, or take appropriate action for task items that are not complete by their due dates.
A secondary workflow running on the Tasks list, however, can perform all of these functions while the primary workflow is still paused.
It sounds like you are creating a task in a list, using a workflow on a Project list - and you want the task due date to be related to the project due date.
Can the workflow creating the task set the date at creation?


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In many of the exploits I see nowadays, brute forcing is a common method of bypassing ASLR on 32 bit machines. However, many of these exploits crash the current process, for example, PHP. Isn't the process re-randomized as soon as it crashes and wouldn't this prevent brute force attacks?
Schacham et al. have shown that bypassing ASLR by means of brute force is nothing but a "small slowdown" (see abstract). Even the exploitation of applications running on remote machines is said to be feasible, as long as the service is restarted on crashes.
This attack comes closer to the force part of the term brute force rather than the notion of an exhaustive search, in which would look through the whole address space and determine the correct position. This exhaustive search is, as you correctly said, impossible due to re-randomization.
According to Symantec's Analysis of Windows ASLR, re-randomization might, over time, suffer from low entropy though.
In addition, I'd recommend you exploiting a very simple stack overflow on your local machine. Just write a simple wrapper (script languages come handy in here) and re-run like this:
..changing the ptr for each run. There are several youtube videos and tutorials available, once you search for 'ASLR brute force', which might give some more hands-on advise.
I am not aware of a single exploit that using "brute forcing", the chances of this working on a 64 bit linux system is about 1 in 16^8th, which would never happen.
The most common forms of ASLR bypass are Heap Spraying and ROP chains (and there are others). ROP chains being by far the most popular method for exploits found in the wild (which basically means found in metasploit).


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- Binding: Paperback
- Era: 19th century
- Number of Pages: 295
- Subject: History
- Date Available: April 2008
Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the U.S. Navy won an undisputed place as a major force in the Pacific. Believing that the study of U.S. naval history has too often been written without adequate attention to economic, military, intellectual, and other motivating factors behind foreign policy, he fully considers the interrelationship of naval and diplomatic policies that brought about the change. The author's perceptive portraits of leading military and political figures of the times add an important dimension to the study. First published in 1977 and long out of print, the book continues to make an important contribution to the history of the U.S. Navy.
William R. Braisted earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught history at the University of Texas at Austin for many years. With a special interest in Far Eastern history, he lived for extended periods in China, Japan, and the Philippines, and traveled widely throughout Asia.


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I want to try the Pomodoro Technique at work but I'm worried it will be disturbing (an alarm going off every 25 min)
Will it be disturbing for others? Can anyone suggest an improvement to make it workable.
I want to try the Pomodoro Technique at work but I'm worried it will be disturbing (an alarm going off every 25 min)
Will it be disturbing for others? Can anyone suggest an improvement to make it workable.
I am also with others, in a computer lab.
I use headphones to not be disturbed myself, and I'm using TimeBox for Android as a Pomodoro timer. As a nice side effect, I get the buzzer in the headphones as well.
I agree with Magnus that headphones can help. Some tools offer a flashing reminder as well I believe. You will also need to train people their questions can wait 25 minutes.
I was actually just yesterday using some youtube videos for this. Here's one: http://youtu.be/36j_VMeaB-U No tracking or bells and whistles, but it worked pretty well for me. I'll be trying it again today. I like to mix things up, so I'll likely add this to my quiver of tips/tricks.
I agree with the idea of an electronic timer of some kind, and headphones. I most often use a browser based timer when I'm at work - http://e.ggtimer.com/pomodoro . When it times out, the browser tab is brought to the foreground, and it beeps. Simple, straightforward, and very effective.
This timer, BTW, automatically does 25 minute work and 5 minute break cycles. Refresh the page to start over.
I used to use ear-buds plugged into my ears, but wearing them for sustained periods of time was uncomfortable. These days I'm using Tomighty, and it has a pop-up that tells you when the pomodoro/break is over, and you can minimize it to the system-tray. I have the option to wear my ear-buds if I need to hear the "ticking" and you can also disable the sounds if you want to as well. I recommend Tomighty or a similar application
I use a vibration alarm watch. Here's the one I have, it's cheap and works pretty good.
There's a HYDRA (not sure what that stands for) option where you can set it to beep or vibrate every x number of minutes.
When you sleep, with one click you can disable HYDRA and re-enable it when you wake up.
PomodoroApp is designed to be used in office. I used it when I mute my computer. PomodoroApp will bring it's dialog to topmost, the PomodoroApp dialog is big enough to make visible notification to you but no disturbing to your colleagues.
Another option is to get the other team members on board with the method as well. Marinaratimer.com (full disclosure, my company developed it as a side project) let's you share the link out so all members of a team can be on the same schedule. Obviously doesn't work for everyone, but a few of our teams swear by it when they are all working on something together.


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Bodum Caffettiera 51 oz. French Press for $22 + free shipping
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More trustworthy than the British Press. Bunch of gossip hounds.
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These things make the absolute best coffee or tea imho. ymmv
You can get these things at any given Target for only $20.
tomisg is correct, you can do better in your local stores: see this 48 oz french press for much cheaper since there is no extra shipping charged.
Keep in mind you dont want to get a real big one since coffee doesnt stay hot as long as it would be in a pot ot carafe.
@archiestone: @akhoward: The coupon code is for free shipping on this item
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A 6 cup press is not going to be 48oz. It will be 30 oz. A coffee "cup" is 5oz, not the 8oz that you would expect. Also this replacement is a Primula press rather than Bodum. I have never had very good luck with Primula glassware. It always ends up broken fairly quickly.


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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop:
Toshiba A-665 - i7 1.7 GHz - 4Gb RAM - nVidia GeForce GTS350M.
After Ubuntu boot it always freezes in the purple loading screen, with the logo on it.
I've checked the ISO file, the LiveCD and re-downloaded and re-written the ISO many times, also tried with LiveUSB. Conclusion: The Ubuntu live environment just won't start, I even tried to install other Linux distros, such as Opensuse 12.2 and also gave me the same problem exactly.
I get exactly the same results with using different video modes and kernel options. I even used the text mode an nothing helped.
To clarify:
I turn on my laptop boot from the Ubuntu Live edition. Boot screen appears and the purple screen with the logo appears, starts filling up those orange Dots, the icon stops filling at this point and the DVD Drive stops spinning, as does the disk-usage light on my laptop. And I can't open the DVD Drive tray, with no response at all. No errors appears. No response at all from the keyboard, I have to hold down the power button to reboot.


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Is it possible to collect metrics or generate alerts when one of EMET's suite of mitigations prevents code execution? Ideally I'd want to be able to collect and analyze data to support statements like, "deploying EMET blocked ### exploit attempts against our Windows PCs last year."
The new version looks like it puts the needed information into the Windows Event Log.
There does not seem to be an EventID associated with EMET, so it might not be possible to collect those metrics. There really should be a way to do that, though.
Try the Microsoft EMET forums.


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John Hilson teaches Transactional Skills, Acquisition Financing Transactions, and Business Deals. He is a former partner and chair of the Finance & Restructuring Group at Paul Hastings LLP, where he specialized in the Uniform Commercial Code, the Bankruptcy Code, suretyship law, corporate governance and contract law.Professor Hilson earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Boston University in 1973, and his J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1976. After law school, he clerked for the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1976-77).Professor Hilson recently served as the Business Law Section Advisor to the Joint Article 9 Review Committee of the American Law Institute and the Uniform Law Commission. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow (and former member of the Board of Regents) of the American College of Commercial Finance Attorneys, a member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference, and has served as a member of the advisory board for the Commercial Law Center at Gonzaga University School of Law. Chambers USA gave him the highest ranking as a "Star Individual" in Banking and Finance, and he has been recommended by state, national, and international peer review organizations such as Law & Politics' "100 Super Lawyers" and Euromoney's "Best of the Best."
Professor Hilson has written and lectured extensively in his areas of specialization, including being the editor of Asset-Based Lending -- A Practical Guide to Secured Financing (Practising Law Institute, 7th Ed. 2012) which is generally considered to be the definitive treatise on asset-based lending.
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I'm looking for something that would let me store the board setup and move the pieces manually so that I can play with a friend via email/msn. It doesn't have to handle mailing or anything for me as long as I can move the pieces around :)
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Scott Michtell just introduced me to GamesByMail to play Axis & Allies, and I noticed that it has chess as well.
All you need is an e-mail address to create a small profile, same thing for your opponent, and you're ready to play. You should get e-mail reminders when it is your turn.
I haven't tried chess there yet, but if it's anything like A&A was, you should be in good shape.
It also has a great iPhone optimised site.
a.k.a. Red Hot Pawn ;)
There are many options for online chess.
A very simple site I use is itsyourturn.com.
You get email reminders and it just does what you need if you want play chess with a friend.
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Investigators said a mid-90's Ford F-150 two-tone blue and white truck was captured on surveillance video during the thefts on March 24 at the Spinx store at 3100 South Highway 14.
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I currently have an app with two menu bars. One being the AxToolbarControl in a UserControl and one in a separate menu bar containing in-house stuff.
I currently have the issue where if I select something in the AxToolBarControl and then select something in the other menu-bar the item in the AxControl is still checked. This obviously results in two commands being executed on the mousedown event handler.
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Allah, the Most Perfect and the Most High has ordered His slaves to establish
the prayers with due care. He has told us to take special care concerning the
middle prayer, which is the Asr prayer. (This is the opinion of the majority of
the people of knowledge from the Companions and those after them, that the
middle prayer is the Asr prayer.) (Sharh us-Sunnah of al-Baghawee 2/232-237)
He, the Most Perfect and the Most High, says:
"Guard strictly your prayers, and your middle prayer, and stand before Allah in
devoutness." (al-Baqarah 238)
He, the Most Perfect and the Most High, has warned us about being neglectful of
them, due to wealth, family and from other temptations of this world. He has
particularized the doer of these actions with a severe punishment, particularly
regarding the Asr prayer.
He, the Most High, says:
"So woe to the worshippers who are neglectful of their prayers." (al-Maa'oon
The Messenger of Allah (p.b.u.h.) said: "Whoever misses the Asr prayer, it is as
if he has lost his family and wealth."
(al-Bukhari 2/30, Muslim 626 and others) from the Hadith of Ibn Umar, (May Allah
be pleased with him).
It is related from Aboo al-Mulaih Aamir Bin Usaamah bin Umair Bin al-Hadhalee,
who said: "We were with Buraydah in a battle on a cloudy day, and he said: 'Be
early with the Asr prayer, for the Prophet said: 'Whoever leaves the Asr prayer,
then his actions will be invalidated.'" (al-Bukhari 2/31,66, Ahmad 5/349-450,
357, 360,361, al-Baihaqee 1/444, al-Baghawee in Sharh us-Sunnah 329, and others.)
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Preparing to hear a Gospel
A good way of preparing for this Sunday's Gospel, about the man who tore down his barns in order to build bigger ones for the abundant harvest he was about to reap, would be to read the annual report of Caritas Internationalis. In the first sentence of his Preface, Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, President of Caritas Internationalis, sets out one of the scandalous facts:
This is a world where about 300 children die every hour from malnutrition and where nearly a billion people have no access to clean water. At the same time, there are over 1200 billionaires in the world, the highest number ever recorded.
Several of the Fathers of the Church and medieval theologians after them indicted the foolish man for the very fact that he anticipated having more than he would be able to store. That would not have been a problem, they said, if he had done what he should have done: distribute his wealth to the poor and needy. Some examples from from St. Basil the Great's homily on this parable:
Consider yourself, who you are, what resources have been entrusted to you, from whom you received them, and why your received more than others. You have been mad a minister of God's goodness, a steward of your fellow servants. Do not suppose that all this was furnished for your own gullet. Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others. ...
Let the example of the rich man who is under examination accompany you everywhere. By keeping what he already had, while at the same time endeavoring to gain even cmore, he committed tomorrow's sins today. No suppliant had yet approached, but he showed his cruelty in advance. He had not yet gathered his harvest, yet he was already found guilty of avarice. The earth was welcoming all to its richness; it germinated the crops deep in the furrows, produced large clusters of rapes on the vine, makde the live tree bend under a vast quantitty of fruti, and offered every deliciaous varieity of the frtuir tree. But the rich man was unwelcoming and unfruitful; he did not even possess as yet, and already he begrudged the needy. ...
"But whom do I treat unjustly," you say, "by keeping what is my own." Tell me, what is your own? What did you bring into this life? From where did you receive it? It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the theater, then bar everyone else from attending, so that one person alone enjoys what is offered for the benefit of all in common–this is what the rich do. They seize common goods before others have the opportunity, then claim them as their own by right of pre-emption. For if we all took only what was necessary to satisfy our own needs, giving the rest to those who lack, no one would be rich, no would be poor, and no one would be in need. ...
But you, stuffing everything into the bottomless pockets of your greed, assume that you wrong no one; yet how many do you in fact dispossess? Who are the greedy? Those who are not satisfied with what suffices for their own needs. Who are robbers? Those who take for themselves what rightfully belongs to everyone. And you, are you not greedy? Are you not a robber. The things you received in trust as a stewardship, have you not appropriated them for yourself? Is not the person who strips another of clothing called a thief? And those who do not clothe the naked when they have the power to do so, should they not be called the same? The bread you are holding back is for the hungry; the clothes you keep in your closet are for the naked; the shoes that are rotting away with disuse are for those who have none; the silver you keep buried in the earth is for the needy. You are thus guilty of injustice toward as many as you might have aided, but did not.
(St. Basil the Great, On Social Justice, translated by C. Paul Schroeder (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2009) 59-71)
About the Author
Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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I wonder if greed is one simple emotional craving that gives rise to greedy actions. Seems to me that some people are inspired to hoard because they were terribly poor at one time and are extremely fearful of not having enough. This is a failure of courage or of confidence in God's generosity. Other people accumulate wealth to buy signs of wealth, and this seems to be more a matter of pride. Then there are the businessmen who crave only money, money as a sign that they are winning their competition with their competitors. This also seems to be motivated by pride in being "first" or "the most". Then of course, there is simply wanting more of something in order to enjoy it without cease, e.g., eating delicious food, but we call that gluttony.
Or is there some primal craving at the bottom of all those wants -- some sheer wanting of whatever goods we don't have?
I wish the church would take this to heart as well and spend more of its money on the poor. According to a story in The Economist last year, the church in the US spends only2.7% of its wealth on charity, and of that percnetage, more than half is donated to the church by the US government in grants .... http://www.economist.com/node/21560536
"According to a story in The Economist last year, the church in the US spends only2.7% of its wealth on charity,"
Crystal --
It seems to me that the story as a whole isn't clear cut about the percent spent on the poor. While the chart says that 4.5B (i.e., 2.7% ) is spent on "national" charities, the chart also shows that an additional 98B is spent on health care (of which over 30% is not government money). Surely, a sizeable portion of that 30+% is also spent on the poor. Further, it spends many billions more on education, and, again, a sizeable portion of that must also benefit the poor.
Too bad there is no transparency -- the hierarchy might look a lot better if there were. But then again . . .
The report mentions Syrian refugee children in Lebanon who are so hungry that sometimes they eat dirt. What do you do when your children are hungry and there is absolutely nothing to eat? You mix dirt with water to make some kind of mud cake and give them that to eat. It does not nourish at all, but it temporarily calms stomach cramps from hunger.
That is something I had heard of about Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, left behind by development. But Syria is far from that level of poverty. It's a "lower middle income country": it has oil, agriculture, had tourism, and is not prone to natural catastrophies. I bet that before the war eating dirt would have been unheard of. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.
Hi Ann. What the article seems to say is that the church is a business which spends most of its money on itself. It spends money on health care and education, but those aren'tt charities. It's very expensive to go to a Catholic school, though I know there are some scholarships, and Catholic hospitals are not charities either. My mother died in a Catholic hospital and they dunned us ferociously to get the money that the insurance hadn't yet paid.
Crystal --
Maybe things have changed a lot since I knew more about such things, but when I was young the Church did give a lot in the way of scholarships and free health care to the poor. Remember: the Church is not just the hierarchy. I know that in my own grammar school there were many children during the Depression who paid nothing because their families had nothing. Consider especially the huge contributions of so many of the religious orders, including especially the nuns. (My mother volunteered to teach free one year free because the parish didn't have the money to pay for a full complement of teachers.) I knew of three boys in one family who were educated free by the Jesuits because their family simply didn't have the tuition. And i was told that the Jesuits even paid for some boys' uniforms and shoes. Such generosity from the orders was far from uncommon.
Also consider such institutions such as Charity Hospital here in New Orleans which was founded by the Sisters of Charity back in the 18th century. Eventually the State took it over and the nuns were hired by the State to run it as employess of the State of Louisiana) until Hurricane Katrina destroyed it eight years ago. They were great administrators. They gave their services practically free and the patients received first rate care from the faculties of Tulane and LSU medical schools who practiced there. They still do, if I'm correct. The contribution of American nuns to American health care is still enormous.
Ann, you may well be right. I haven't had much experience with Catholic institutions, not growing up Catholic, but a Jesuit brcame my spiritual director and helped me with the 30+ weeks of the Spiritual Exercises 'in everyday life' all for free :)
When I read these stories, it reminds me that compared to people in these very poor countries, I'm that rich man myself. It's very hard to live the Gosples.
I wonder if the Economist's analysis included entities such as the Catholic Near East Welfare Assn. or Catholic Relief Services which do great work outside the USA. Or what individual dioceses do: e.g., the Inner-City Scholarship Fund in NY. Or what individual parishes do by way of soup-kitchens, etc. And that's apart from what individual Catholics do and give.
I think that Irene is correct: By comparison with hundreds of millions of people around the world, we are the wealthy farmer in tomorrow's Gospel or the anonymous rich man outside whose gates Lazarus lies. But what to do? Last time this reading came up, I said in a homily:
What a challenge this poses to us in our American culture! I am probably not talking to many millionaires in this congregation, but I am talking to people whose lives are far more comfortable and secure than those of hundreds of millions of people in the world today. We are living in a society where conspicuous consumption still gets all the attention, where the advertising industry exists to convince us to buy things we don't need. A story in the local paper last week told of a U.S. Senator who owns a 7 million dollar yacht. Chelsea Clinton's wedding is said to have cost millions of dollars. The average wedding in the U.S. costs between $20,000 and $30,000. A Christmas or two ago I went into a huge Best Buy store and remarked to my brother that no one really needed about 90% of what was on sale. How many of the gifts we give, and get, at Christmas are things people really need? And I would be willing to bet that most of us–including myself–have more than one coat, more than one pair of shoes, in our closets.
Of course, if everyone followed St. Basil's advice immediately, the worldwide economy would probably collapse into an even deeper recession. Still, isn't there much more that we could do than we are doing? We could start by keeping in mind the distinction between things necessary for life and superfluous things. Maybe we should all go home and go through our closets and drawers and bring what we really don't need–or can't fit into!–to local charities. Couldn't we at least consider making our lives simpler? Many people have decided to let care for the environment determine how they will spend their money, what sorts of things they will buy. Could we not let care for the needy enter into our decisions about such matters? Maybe we could decide that every time we buy something we don't really need, we'll give an equal amount to the poor. Or perhaps we could revive the old biblical requirement of tithing, that is, giving 10% of our income to God. Could that not be a guide? A commitment to give 10% every year to the poor and needy? St. John Chrysostom had a good rule, I think. "It is not required that you give a lot, but that you not give too little, given what you possess."
This stutters a bit, I know.
I don't think it's the hierarchy's task, or competence, to propose specific solutions to the vast systemic problems, but it is its role, and ours also, to keep the scandal before the eyes of everyone. Another 300 children will have died of malnutrition during tomorrow's Mass.
And I think our Catholic colleges and universities ought to be involved. I wonder how many of their departments of economics or business offer courses or sponsor research on the matter. (At the 1993 Georgetown University Symposium on Ex corde Ecclesiae , David Hollenbach held up an advertisement from The New York Times which featured the bold headline: "DARWIN WAS RIGHT!" The text beneath invited those who were interested in learning the skills that would make them among the fittest who alone survive in the Wall Street jungle to come study economics--at the Fordham Business School! Everyone laughed. It is worth reflecting on why we laughed: presumably it was because of the incongruity that Social Darwinism was the economic theory appealed to in order to attract students to a Catholic institution. But why should that be considered incongruous except because of a felt sense that Catholic faith has some implications for the economic realm and that these ought to be reflected in the way a Catholic university undertakes a study of that realm?)
It's a lot easier to think about our own greed and what to do about it than about alleviating other people's needs. It's easy to remember that everything we have comes from God, and that when we die we'll leave all our "possessions" behind us.
What's much more challenging is to articulate the relation between what we accumulate and what the very poor are lacking. How are we "robbers"? How does "making our lives simpler" have an impact on Syrian refugees? Is it that we are more free to take the time that would have gone into being consumers, and use it to educate ourselves about their situation instead? Is it that we buy fewer things but require them to be the product of fair trade, and hope that somehow it will help? Or that we buy fewer, cheaper things, automatically send the savings out to something like Catholic Charities, and hope that it will make a difference?
It seems all so remote.
Claire- I've been hearing a lot in recent months about "food waste". This year's World Environment Day theme "Think. Eat Save." focused on it, and I believe the pope also spoke to it.
My daughter has a poster in her room about the Think.Eat.Save. campaign highlighting the many benefits of food conservation. We waste huge amounts of food each year- over 1 billion tons- and that means we also waste the resources used to create that food. For example, global food production accounts for 70% of fresh water consumption, while lack of clean water is oneof the leading causes of infant mortality.
Just by consuming no more than we use, we would have a beneficial impact on the enviroment and on the resources we all share.
Today at 9:06 am Fr. Komonchak rightly says: "I don't think it's the hierarchy's task, or competence, to propose specific solutions to the vast systemic problems, but it s its role, and ours, to keep the scandal before the eyes of everyone."
Here's a suggestio for a small but nontrivial way to influence public opinion about poverty and our attitudes toward the poor. This suggestion is modeled on the traditional parish Holy Name Society. That society's fundamental purpose was to honor and respect the holy name of Jesus. The society , or association, of lay people, both men and women, would have as its overall objective service to the poor, understanding that whoever serves them serves the Lord.
Members of this association would pledge never to say anything that disparages or demeans poor people. Furthermore, they would look for ways, both as individuals and as a group, to express disagreement with any talk by others that is disparaging or demeaning. They would also pray individually each day for the alleviation of poverty and would gather periodically to pray together in church or at some other appropriate public place and to discuss ways to keep the multifaceted scandals of poverty "before the eyes of everyone."
Whether units of this association were organized at the parish level or, as the case with the K of C, into councils, is an open question. The key point is that this association should be a lay organization, one whose members decide on its projects. It would be desirable for eachsuch unit to have as its chaplain some member of the clergy, priest or deacon, or some member of a religious community.
I would hope that a suitably rrefined version of this suggestion would find easy acceptance and encouragement by the hierarchy. It's hardly a sufficient religious response to the massive problems of poverty, but it is a response that lots of ordinary people of differejnt ages, experience, and talent, could be encouraged to make.
It used to be that all parishes around here had men's St. Vincent de Paul societies to help the needy people in the parish. They helped the poor directly. They were, of course, limited in what they could do by the means of their membership. Now in well-to-do suburbs where is little or no poverty so I assume those societies don't exist anymore.
I do think people would take the church's advice to help the poor more seriously if the church set an example. The pope has already done that at least symbolically with his decision not to live in the apostolic palace, but fo the most part, the church is an example of wealth, not poverty with the poor.
Fr. K, Most of the money used to fund both Catholic Charities and CRS comes from US taxpayers who act as contractors for the US govt. Catholic Charities gets money from HHS and other agencies, and CRS is heavily funded by the US Agency for International Development. It is not really Church money that is being spent by taxpayer money.
I forgot to add to the suggestion I offered above, that there should be some effort made to encourage poor people themselves to be part of these associations. How eles would the members hear the voices of the poor when they decide how to speak out on their behalf? In all likelihood, many parishes are too homogenious to attract many poor people to such an association. In those cases, part of the association's work would be to get to kknow some people from poorer parishes. The objective would be to break down the wall that would divide the well-to-do from the needy so that they would pray together and help one another think about how to keep the entire community focused on the needs of the poor.
I don't have the skill to make a perfect plan, but I do think that the sketch I offer could serve as a useful point of departure.
Crystal, I do think that the pope has called all of us to look for ways to serve the poor. It follows, I think, that we don't need to wait for the hiefrarchy to start calling the shots about how to do that. It's actually important, I think, to take some initial steps and see what comes of them.
For my part, I'm taking my idea to a local priest for some advice. I'' also considering contacting our local bishop, about whom I have some reason to be skeptical, to see how he'll react. Whether I'll do that will depend on some conversations I have not yet had. I don't want to give anyone the impression that I, or anyone, needs permission to look for opportunities to serve the poor.
Yes, I'm not saying we should wait for the church before we ourelves help, just that it seems hypocritical for a wealthy church to call on others to help the poor. I live at about the poverty line myself so that may be skewing my opinions.
I kind of like Bernard's idea. Have you thought about what kinds of activities the association would offer to members? We had some meetings on human trafficking in our parish two years ago but were stymied on the action front. We've settled for keeping everyone who is interested informed, including occasional updates in the bulletin for the uninterested.
Our parish has a food pantry that serves 250 people a week, and we have a St. Vincent dePaul Society that other parishes are officially encouraged to emulate (although only a few do). Despite this, parishioners learned only recently that the parish office gets 125-150 walk-ins a month of people needing food or transportation or help with utility bills. This has been building up, and our "part time" parish nurse handles a lot of it. We are, like it or not, a social service agency, but even so only a fraction of the parishioners are involved in any of it.
I like Bernard's idea as well. I think it is really important to give your time, not just your money, to people in need. A lot of us live in economic ghettoes; how does my middle class parish show solidarity in a meaningful way with the poor? It's not hard to find ways to give service as an individual; there are plenty of places we can all go volunteer, but how do we serve the poor as a community? Tom's parish sounds great, but how do we get beyond socal action programs involving a small number of parish members, and create a culture of service for the whole parish?
Bernard's idea has some appeal. Instead of being poverty amateurs, who occasionally have a passing perplexed thought for the very poor, one would become more knowledgeable and maybe have a better understanding and more ideas of what can be done. It would make addressing poverty a priority.
Ms. Chapman: I wish your last sentence above reflected the qualification that is found in your first one.
The Economist says that the Catholic Church "is the largest single charitable organisation in the country," and It reports that "its organisations distributed $4.7 billion to the poor in 2010, of which 62% came from local, state and federal government agencies." 38% of $4.7 billion is $1.9 billion, which is not chump change.
Now that I don't go to church anymore, I try to help by donating $ to otganizations, mostly ones that help animals, like the National Anti-Vivisection Society ... http://www.navs.org/ ... and I contact my government reps about legislation that helps the environment, the poor, animals, etc (action alerts). There's really a lot that can be done to help others.
Fr., K, you are right - it's not "chump change". Please don't take offense. I make the point because it's important for Catholics to have some facts and some perspective as well. Catholics are not the only generous people in the country.
As you note from the Economist article, most of the money does come from taxpayers (which the bishops fail to mention in their speeches). But the the percentage of the total of funds distributed by Catholic Charities that comes from tax money is signifcantly higher than more of of the organizations on the Forbes Top 100 list (The YMCA, American Red Cross, and Goodwill Industries, like the Catholic Church, also have lower percentages of private funding compared to World Vision, Salvation Army etc). And, the money that does come from the "church" comes from the people in the pews primarily, which is not something that bishops usually mention. The generosity of Catholics is indisputable, but it is too bad that so many forget who exactly is being generous - is it an institution or is it the people who make up the church?
The Catholic church is the "largest single charitable organization in the country (2/3 funded by taxpayers) and it is also the largest single religious group in the country, with more than 23% of the entire US population.
Catholic Charities is the third largest charitable giving organization in the US. According to Forbes (The 100 Largest U.S. Charities for 2012), it raised about $1607 million privately of about $4600 million. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee only raised $279 million ( a bit less than CRS which gets about 1/3 of its funds from private sources) - but this was 100% from private sources.
The numbers change depending on how the counters are counting, but there are at least 60 million Catholics in the US. There are about 6.7 million Jews in the US (depending on how the counters count also) - roughly 10% of the number of Catholics. The total charitable funds for the major Jewish charitable organization is less than 20% of Catholic Charities, but it was 100% private donations from a dramatically smaller number of members.
None of this is meant to disparage the work done by Catholic charities (lower case "c"), but it should help to put it in perspective. The Catholic church's affiliated charities counted together may be the largest single charitable organization in America, but most of its funding does come from public monies, and it is at least a question as to whether or not it is the most "generous", in terms of the private monies used on a per capita basis, given the huge size of its membership as a percentage of the US population
Or is there some primal craving at the bottom of all those wants -- some sheer wanting of whatever goods we don't have?
Like Adam and Eve suddenly realizing that they are naked and wanting something to hide their nudity?
"Mine!" is one of the first few words that toddlers learn. The concept of possession comes very naturally to most of them.
More and more things can be the object of economic transactions, I think. I always have the vague worry that some day I will have to pay for things that are now free: for clean air, for example; or for stepping out into public space.
The one possession I have, that comes from God too but that is really mine from the time of birth, is myself. Some people choose to "give themselves to God" but it is always a choice. It's entirely up to each of us what we do with ourselves, and we renew our choices every day when we act according to previous commitments or walk away from them.
I believe that all those large Catholic charitable organizations make their annual reports available on the Internet.
What I like about Bernard's proposal is that it is grass-roots, that is, it recognizes that when we think about the Church's duties towards the poor we shouldn't think first of that abstract "universal Church" much less about the hierarchy, but about local Churches, and the responsibilities of us all, laity and clergy, parishes and schools, colleges and universities. What does it mean for all of us, and each of us, to be (in the words of Pope Francis) "a poor Church for the poor"?
I'm glad people are talking about concrete proposals. I think making parishes visible sites of mutual aid is extremely important. There is also no reason why parishes could not be important sites for promoting the following: 1) Community-supported agriculture and food cooperatives, to address the significant injustices currently perpetuated by our food system. We already have "Market Day" and other such "fundraising activities" - we should be thinking differently about food, and there are existing resources in our communities that would be greatly helped if the parish was a site for facilitating corporate action on a real scale. Imagine the eucharistic overtones! 2) Making fair and equitable banking and lending available to the poor, by using excess funds from the rich in our communities. There is no reason why a parish could not have a credit union specfically targeted at poor and insecure households who depend on a rapacious system of payday lenders, rent-to-own emporiums, and rip-off tax preparers. Imagine if the parish became a place that did not take advantage of people's poverty. I read an article in Christian Century about a group of Protestant churches in Pittsburgh doing exactly this. 3) Supporting reasonably-priced child care and afterschool care programs. One of the great burdens on the poor is the exorbitant cost of child care, and this is service parishes are in a good position to deliver.
And 4) Thinking seriously about a shared responsibility to "live among the poor" as a parish by overcoming the middle-class tendency to isolate in class enclaves removed from real encounters and neighborliness. The fact is we have many parishes - which are gorgeous - located in areas with extremely affordable housing, AND there are decaying schools attached to many of them. Why don't groups of people get together - because doing this alone is really not wise, or very effective - and move there. Get a network of 50-100 people from 4-5 adjacent suburban parishes and say, ok, let's move together, support one another, and become a presence of hope and support for the poor. Again, there are real stories of this happening... check out a book called Real Hope in Chicago, where it happened on the west side. I visited; it's pretty amazing.
David --
Excellelnt ideas all!
No one has picked up on my point about the role of Catholic colleges and universities. I wonder in what respects a program in economics or in business in a Catholic university differs (or should differ) from similar programs in other universities. (I once asked the parallel question to a professor in a law school at a mid-western Jesuit university; she couldn't point to anything different except perhaps an ethics course. Nothing, for example, on natural law.) Where, I wonder, might the social encyclicals be taught? Are they being taught any longer? Or perhaps law and economics departments and programs can get along quite well without them: after all, isn't that the sort of thing that can be fobbed off onto the new-fangled programs in "Catholic Studies," leaving the rest of the university free to be content to join lock-step in what other universities are doing?
Serious systemic questions surely arise in view of the enormous disparity between wealthy and poor nations. My question is whether our institutions are sponsoring the kind of thinking needed to address the questions. I thought it was typical academic arrogance when Theodore Hesburgh said that Catholic universities are "where the Church does its thinking." They certainly are where certain types of thinking can be undertaken, the kinds needed to think our way out of our present Dives and Lazarus situation--we know how that ends up.
FWIW - virtually every parish in the deanery where I live has some sort of ministry to those in need. Ours started as a St. Vincent de Paul Society (which, btw, Ann and everyone, is no longer a mens-only ministry), and currently we have about 50 parishioners who offer direct, face-to-face, one-to-one assistance to those in need. Most of our clientele are homeless people.
One of the weaknesses of the parish-based ministry system is that each parish is independent and autonomous, and we don't leverage the possibilities of combining and coordinating our resources. You'd never know we were all members of one Catholic church! I think we could accomplish much more if we could all work together. (And then take that a step further and add an ecumenical dimension by working hand-in-hand with the mainline Protestant and Evangelical churches in the community, most of whom also have outreach ministries of some sort). But on the other hand, the fact that what we do is so intensely local does seem to appeal to some of our parishioners': this is *our* ministry, and *we're* responsible for it - if we don't do it, it won't get done.
In addition to the excellent practical suggestions offered here, I'd like to call out a problem whose proportions are enormous but which goes unaddressed around here: public utilities. The ability to make an electric bill payment in a particular month is something that determines whether or not a poor household (frequently a single mom with one or more children) is going to be a viable home. If a water bill payment isn't made and service is shut off, typically the tenant is evicted. My own experience in trying (ineptly, no doubt) to advocate for our clients by negotiating with the monopolistic behemoths that supply these vital services is that "preferential option for the poor" is not really part of their vocabulary. Why can't they have sliding rate scales depending on income? Why can't a poor householder be permitted more than one or two strikes before they're out? The electric and gas utilities, in particular, are gigantic, privately-owned, politically-well-connected for-profit businesses for whom a missed monthly payment by a poor customer means less than nothing on their balance sheet. I really believe that the US system of private, for-profit, monopoly utility providers is unjust to the poor.
"My own experience in trying (ineptly, no doubt) to advocate for our clients by negotiating with the monopolistic behemoths that supply these vital services is that "preferential option for the poor" is not really part of their vocabulary."
I don't think that's really ture. Where I live the utility companies do help people with financial problems - the gas company and the electric company and the phone company all have reduced rates for people who meet financial criteria.
No one has picked up on my point about the role of Catholic colleges and universities. I wonder in what respects a program in economics or in business in a Catholic university differs (or should differ) from similar programs in other universities.
FWIW - my undergraduate degree is from Loyola University Chicago's School of Business, with an economics concentration. I was class of '84, so this was rather a long time ago now. My experience is that the business-school courses - accounting, finance, business law and so on - really didn't have any particularly Catholic content. The approach seemed to be to prepare students to be successful professionals in the world of business. We did, as you note, have an ethics class requirement - but even that didn't have any notably Catholic content. (A lot of it was Galbraith vs. Friedman - that may give readers an idea of the era in which I was in school).
The undergraduate core curriculum (not part of the school of business per se) included requirements for nine hours apiece in theology and philosophy. And if one lived on campus, there was a very active campus ministry, including Jesuit priests and other professional chaplains living in all the men's dorms (I lived next door to a Jesuit for three years). And there was a sort of Catholic ethos that permeated the university. When I pursued a graduate degree at a public university, I learned in retrospect that the university staff at Loyola were all much more caring, kind and oriented toward serving the students.
But I'd have to say that the Catholic ethos permeated the school of business less than some of the other schools. The school of business was at the downtown campus at which there were no dormitories and campus ministry was virtually invisible. I'm sure there was a chapel down there but I have no memory of it.
It really was kind of just another business school teaching business curriculum. I attribute it to the professors (none of mine were priests or religious for any of the business classes). I'd think that most of them had at least some autonomy to inject Catholic content into their curriculum, but I can only think of one who ever did in the four years I attended. The impression I had was that they were trying to build their careers as university professors, and if they got a better offer from a Big Ten or Ivy League school, they'd leap at it. In other words, I didn't have the impression that many of them approached their work as a Catholic vocation.
Perhaps I'm not being fair; my impression of the Economics department, several of whom I got to know pretty well, was that they were good and decent people who really did care about their students. So it may be that the faculty as a whole were the same, trying simultaneously to succeed in their chosen profession and be good Christian professors to their students. But as I say, it didn't extend to injecting explicitly Catholic content into the curriculum.
Thanks to claire, Irene Tom and Fr, Komonchak for their encouragement of ther ide I'm trying to formulte and make practical. My wife is inclined to agree that my idea is pehaps more modes than the situation calls for. If I'm not mistaken, and i often am, she'd be indlined to push for the expansive program that David Clouthier proposes. By no means do I want to oppose his idea. It's just that I fear that at my stage of life I couldn't contribure much to support his ideas. I do agree that all thei things he wants to promote are worthwhild. Similarly, I think that Fr, Komonchak is right to ask about what contribution to social justice Catholic universities are making. All my experience has b een in public higher ecucation, so I don't think that I have much to add to his formulation of the problems.
If the threads onthis blog site make it feasible, I will report what happens wheen I try to get a hearing for my prposal. If nothing el;se, it's a sort of test case.
Big ideas need to be localized. My parish of 400 "actives" feeds 125 homeless, 2 nights a week, every week.
It's not the usual walk the line and fill you tray routine. Rather, the guests are seated at table, with linens, flowers and candles, and are served family style by waiters. Anyone who is really hungry can have all (s)he wants.
Sandwich bags are available for those who cannot be seated because of space limitations. They are also available for the already-fed to take with them when they leave.
There is a country store that dispenses travel-sized soap, toothpaste, tooth brushes, deodorant, etc. The guests do not have a lot of storage space, so things are sized to accommodate their capacities.
We have a parishioner who is a doctor and she comes once every 2 weeks and answers questions, diagnoses problems and makes necessary referrals.
The other week a dentist is there ... ditto program.
The funding and country store donations come from parishioners and other "angels." No government assistance is sought nor needed.
This is a small effort in a city with huge problems. But this effort works and could be easily replicated in all different sizes and locations of parishes, schools, etc. It takes the dedication and hard work of (unfortunately) a few relentless souls who are as dependable as the need.
Would not St Vincent de Paul society fill that requirement? both parish and council based.
It seems to me that for universities to recognize the need to integrate philosophy and social studies they'll first need to recognize that just because philosophy is abstract that does not imply that it isn't useful. It answers fundamental questions about values and conflicts among values, and that means it's very useful for formulating solid goals. This implies that philosophy is in fact a *practical* subject, but try convincing educators who see value only in immediately practical things like health breakthroughs, innovative engineering, ways to maximize commercial activity, and how to win law suits.
I must admit, however, that I find that law professors generally see the value of philosophy quicker than those in other disciplines, and law schools generally recommend philosophy highly as a pre-law major. Maybe it's because lawyers are more likely to see the consequences of ignoring what philosophy has to say about values and conflicts of values


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Flashback to the days of The Rat dominating Boston rock, when '80s Beantown punk-rock legends The Real Kids release a new CD at The Middle East, with fellow travelers The Lyres and The Classic Ruins also on the bill. It's not just worth hearing soul queen Toni Lynn Washington at the C-Note because of her vocals, but she also always has a crackerjack band. Jenny McCarthy hosts and headlines a comedy show with five female comedians at The Wilbur in Boston. The Splendid Nobodies have a CD release at Johnny D's with local rocker grrls opening--Walpole's Ramona Silver, and Braintree's Carla Ryder and their respective bands. Weymouth guitarslinger Rick Russell, with the Cadillac Horns, warms up Pete's grille. There's a benefit at the Beachcomber, and it's a roast of Matt Baker. The Blue Hills Bank Pavilion hosts a Fork in the Road: Food Truck Festival, with several bands including The Rationales, and Township. Songsmith Howie Day at The Sinclair. The Diving Ducks bring the blues to Home Ice. Jazz and blues guitar master Duke Robillard at The RegattaBar. Session Americana, a virtual all-star group, does two shows at Club Passim. Acoustic bluesman Mark T. Small at Chilihead BBQ. Rocker Willie Nile lights up the Narrows Center. The Knocks rock Brighton Music Hall. Cherrie Bomb rocks The Next Page. Stillwell Angel and three more bands thunder into South Shore Music Hall. Pearl Jam tribute Itchy Fish has re-surfaced, playing the Met Cafe in Pawtucket (does this mean I can wear the tee shirt again?).
Sunday has: folk icon Greg brown in concert at the River Club; Playing for Change moves on to The Wilbur Theater; William Fitzsimmons at The Sinclair; and Boston's Nemes rock T.T. the Bear's. Monday night look for Sink the Ship at South Shore Music Hall; and Tuneyards, with Sylvan Esso at Royale in Boston.� Tuesday has a good one at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion (hereafter known as BHB Pavilion) as Willie Nelson joins with Allison Krauss & Union Station; while the Jezabels rock Brighton Music Hall. Wednesday night has a full slate: Clap Your Hands Say yeah rock Brighton Music Hall; Rufus Wainwright at Somerville Theater; Band of Heathens rootsy stew at The Narrows Center; Hot Like Fire's Caribbean blend at Scullers; and vocalist Curtis Stigers at The RegattaBar.� June 19 look for Foreigner, with Styx and ex-Eagle Don Felder at BHB Pavilion; the Summerland Tour, with Everclear, Eve 6 and Soul Asylum among others at Xfinity Center; John Doe at Brighton Music Hall; and acerbic folkie Dan Bern at The Narrows Center. Rockland songsmith Jay Psarios is opening for Ziggy Marley on June 21 at Cape Cod Melody Tent--I'm sure Ziggy and Jay can share some, uh, vibes that night.� Fenway update: The Billy Joel (June 26)� and Zac Brown Band (June 27-28) shows at Fenway Park are already sold out.� Lady Gaga hits TD Garden in Boston on June 30.


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i am using a vintage computer for my home use and to be frank i am satisfied with it since it is what i can afford now -- i use Ubuntu derived peer Linux OS and have gimp 2.8 working good and meets my needs. but due to the vintage configuration that i have it takes a long time to load and work but i need it for my little works related with educational helps - in most of the times i don't need my tweaked up gimp with all the plug ins and extra brushes i need a faster gimp so i want to have gimp 2.6 or even 2.4 in my system along with the current one. have pinta and like softwares but to meet my needs i definitely need gimp my question is can i have two different versions of gimp at the same time which i can load from the menu itself please help me thanking you all for allowing me breath the fresh air of open source --
Of course you can have two different versions of gimp installed at the same time.
The point to be noted here is that you DO NOT use the default package manager in your OS.
Instead, you have to download the installer files for the required versions and then install using them. Once you run the installer, it will ask you where to install the software. Provide different paths for the different versions. You can create soft-links from your desktop to the software executables for easy access.
In your case, since you have gimp 2.8 installed, get the installer for 2.6 and/or 2.4, and then install as mentioned above.


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This is the RM forum i didnt expect praises If i posted this in the Specialized/Yeti/Intense/Giant/etc forum i would get a different response.
For the 3rd time, i am not suing anybody i am joining a class action.
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After I've cleared Dragon Soul for the week and done all of my jewel crafting and Tol Barad dailies, I still have dailies for the day that are available but I can't seem to find any that are worthwhile. I get a lot of enjoyment out of running Tol Barad dailies and I'm building towards a mount and some enchants. I do my jewel crafting ones daily to get the high end recipes. My question is, what are other worthwhile dailies? You might say worthwhile is subjective depending on what I need so I guess I'll put it this way. I have an ilvl of 392, so I doubt I'll get much in gear. I enjoy collecting mounts/pets. I'm still a noob when it comes to PvP gear. I'm just looking to find some dailies I've never heard of that will reward me with something entertaining.
There are many daily quests one can choose from in a day to reach the 25 quest limit per day. The rewards from these quests always include gold, but sometimes include other things such as mounts, pets, reputation, gear, achievements, and titles. As for "worthwhile" dailies, it sounds like that would include any that give you something other than money for you. You would have to do some research on each individual faction, but most factions have dailies you can complete to grind to exalted (but not all). Some of these are very similar, if not exactly the same, as Tol Barad dailies. You do dailies, gain reputation, then you can buy things from their quartermaster through money or other currencies. Some of the ones that I enjoyed doing, or had a rewarding experience from included the following:
Note: The descriptions are my own; take them with a grain of salt.
Tol Barad(lvl 85) - As you mentioned, two mounts, a pet, and various toys.
Each of these reward reputation and an achievement or two. This is not a complete list of dailies that have good rewards. There are most certainly others that fit in the same category, but I don't feel like listing every single one. There are a few that are just a simple daily that is unlocked through main quests that have a chance to drop something cool. I'll let you discover these, as well as the multitude of other options there are. It is a role-playing game, after all!
There is a whole suite of dailies in the Firelands that reward multiple pets and flavor items along the way, and a mount at the end. These differ from Tol Barad in that as you do them, you unlock different stages and additional dailies as you go.
To get started, head to the portal area in Orgrimmar/Stormwind. (Source)
For more details, check out Wowhead's guide to Patch 4.2.
In my personal experience, Firelands had the best dailies yet. You unlock additional stages on a personal level and at your own pace, and they are sometimes even a little challenging (well, not really, but still more interesting than the Tol Barad grind). Once you start unlocking the different factions, you can even choose which set of dailies to do so you don't get bored of doing the same thing every day.
Also, you should get used to this "progressive" daily model, as it's been said that Mists of Pandaria will use a similar model.


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What is the reasoning behind allowing only letters as the first characters of a username?
What is the reasoning behind allowing only letters as the first characters of a username?
An advantage of this restriction is URLs.
If a user's ID is 177896 and their username is H4rold, then you can have 2 URLs to reach this user depending on which information you have at hand:
Then, on that page, they determine how to look up the user by checking whether the first character is a letter or a digit. Alternatively, they could just force you to include at least one non-numeric character, though that increases the complexity of the check from a character comparison to either a regular expression or a looping multiple-character comparison.
However, not all websites with these restrictions take advantage of this flexibility. My theory is that web developers have seen this restriction so often that they just took it as the norm rather than investigating its purpose... We do that, sometimes.
I can think of no compelling UX reason for this. It is especially annoying when a username is taken, and a simple numeric variation is rejected. Great, now I have to remember another set of credentials.
So, from a UX perspective: no, this is not good practice.
There is usually a restriction on variable names in languages starting with characters ( and not including spaces - ALGOL was a notable exception to this, which allowed pretty much anything, becasue it used other methods for identifying a variable ). It may be that this idea has progressed into username definition, but there is not reason for this.
IME, as a software developer, there is absolutely not reason for insisting in a character at the start. And it is wrong to make these sort of restrictions when there is no real reason for it.
It might have something to with the fact that in XML, an ID has to start with a non-numeric character.
In the early days before PCs became ubiquitous, numeric-only IDs were the norm. Examples of this are phone numbers, various identity numbers (SSN), even usernames on some early computer networks (CompuServe).
The requirement for a first character to be a letter could have been a way to encourage users to create readable usernames and break their habit of choosing only digits. Even if this rationale no longer applies, the restriction may stick around out of habit, or to allow working with legacy systems.
Aside from what others have written, there is really only one other reason I can think of. In many programming languages (such as PHP, JavaScript, etc...) variables must start with a non-numeric character (as mentioned in several answers).
Based on that and depending on how the programmers use the information, it could be they plan to turn the username into a variable at some point for at least one purpose or another. This may sound odd because you would think "why would anyone do that? It would be hard to program a variable if the variable is always changing". However, PHP supports variable-variables. Though not used often, they do have their moments. If they do create variable-variables, then they would need to insure there is a proper character at the end.
I know it's a long shot, but that's the only other reason I can think of.
This may be an attempt to enforce more legible usernames. We're used to referring to people using names that are comprised of letters and words, whether it's a legal name or nickname. For online handles, we may append numbers to the nickname to create variations on a name that's already taken, and most people will conveniently ignore the numeric suffix.
From a usability standpoint,
In addition to usability, a website might also discourage or forbid users from starting their username with a number because of compatibility issues. For instance, subdomains can't start with numbers (at least according to cPanel), so it makes it easier to have personalized subdomains for each user this way.
As noted by the answers, I don't think this is related to usability. Like Shroedingers Cat my first impression is that this is related to the restriction of variable names or other identifiers in software; usernames have simply inherited these restrictions, possibly due to habit or re-use of validation code.
The question is, why were other identifiers restricted this way?
Some possibilities:
These issues can be overcome, and some programming languages allow identifiers that start with digits, but it's certainly true that it's easier and simpler to disallow it. Allowing it doesn't provide anything that I would consider a benefit in exchange for the complexity (however slight).
Now it is entirely possible that there are some usability-related reasons for this as well. Pure speculation: