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Meshing history with hip has never been simple for a city. Funky cafés and great stores don't always sit comfortably alongside ruined towers and ornate cathedrals. But some cities manage it very well. Cue Derry-Londonderry
It might be a modern metropolis, but Derry-Londonderry is one of the best examples of a still intact, fully walled city in Europe. Canons such as the mighty Roaring Meg overlook the skyline, making sure the city keeps an eye on history at all times.
The incredibly city walls have experienced siege, starvation and violence over their 400-year history. But these days standing on them and looking out over the River Foyle is serenity itself.
Derry-Londonderry likes to mix things up. Down from the historic bulk of the walls is the gleaming, stained glass Peace Bridge. Matched with the Hands Across the Divide peace sculpture standing on the bogside, this is a testament to a city looking forward.
Urban spaces are being transformed – the former parade ground of Ebrington Barracks has been revamped and used as a concert venue – and the UK City of Culture 2013 status signals a glittering future for Northern Ireland's second biggest city.
Just as in Belfast, Derry-Londonderry's open arts scene is thriving. On the walls of terraced buildings, murals depicting peace, triumphalism and discord are colourful keys to the city's persona. The Bogside Artists are some of the men behind the murals. Their tours are bold exposés on the city past and present.
Nowadays, local artists are more likely to be found in cafés than painting the side of a house. Café society thrives with the seriously smooth Sandinos, Cafe Del Mondo and Fiorentini's. Places that any city worth its cappuccino would be proud to host.
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Cobbled streets, 400-year-old walls and a watertight sense of community make Derry-Londonderry an ideal cityscape for festivals. Halloween originated on the island of Ireland, and fireworks, fancy dress and an injection of the eerie bring the holiday back to its original spooky source.
Less fearsome are the city's music festivals: the annual jazz and big band festival, The Foyle Folk festival and the Walled City Music Festival.
In 2013, when Derry-Londonderry wears the badge of UK City of Culture, the city hosts two firsts: the Fleadh Ceoil, Ireland's most prestigious festival of traditional music, will set itself outside the Republic of Ireland for the first time in its history; while the prestigious contemporary art Turner Prize will leave England also for the first time in its history. The destination? Ebrington Barracks.
Old meets new in Derry-Londonderry. It wouldn't be the first time.
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The End of the Para-Creed?
For much of recent history, (say, 30 or 40 years,) if you asked random people on the street what the Catholic Church teaches, you'd likely get a pretty short list: no contraception, no women in authority, no abortion, no remarriage after divorce (without annulment,) no marriage for priests, no gay sex, and (more recently,) certainly no same-sex civil marriage. These teachings had become a tidy para-creed often used to label those of us who quibbled with any of these items "heretics."
Pope Francis has made no changes to any of these para-credal doctrines, as the preachers of that creed are quick to point out. What he seems to have done, however, is to remove their status as inerrant indicators of the "true Catholic." As he said,:
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church's pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently....We have to find a new balance...
That new balance doesn't begin with doctrine, but with human beings:
We must always consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being. In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
Two comments. First, I think this step is a necessary precondition for any change of doctrine, should such occur. The use of the small handful of moral teachings as a para-creed meant that any challenge to them--actually, any discussion about them--is ruled out--or at the very least immediately turned into a shouting match about orthodoxy--from the start. Now, perhaps, a new conversation can begin.
Second, this would seem to pose an opening to a real engagement with human experience as a primary source for ethics. Moralists have been doing this for decades, of course, but wherever experience (individual or "condensed" by social scientific methods,) conflicted with extant doctrine, it was ruled inauthentic or even evil. Consider this sentence from the USCCB's statement against Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler's The Sexual Person:
The fact that the alternative moral theology of The Sexual Person leads to many positions in clear conflict with authoritative Church teaching is itself considerable evidence that the basic methodology of this moral theology is unsound and incompatible with the Catholic tradition.
If it isn't what was already taught, it's likely wrong from the start. A similar dynamic sunk the USCCB's attempt to formulate a pastoral statement on women decades ago. The expressed thoughts, dreams and hopes of Catholic women had to be carefully edited lest anybody seem to raise a challenge to what the magisterium already "knew."
To be sure, nothing in Pope Francis' statements indicates an imminent change in doctrine. But starting by accompanying people "in their situation" has to shift the conversation, at least. For those of us who have difficulties with the para-creed, one big issue is that it seems to exclude, condemn or otherwise harm whole categories of human beings--women called to leadership in the Church (whose desire to lead as they are called is said to reflect a defect in their femininity,) LGB Catholics (whose sexuality, should they act on it, is said to pose a threat to society,) people in truly difficult marital or reproductive situations (whose difficulties are too often simply dismissed as less important than upholding the teaching,) etc. etc.
This opening to serious engagement with experience is a necessary consequence also of Francis' inversion of St. Ignatius' idea of thinking with the Church. Ignatius meant with the leadership of the hierarchical Church. Francis interprets this as thinking with the People of God. Well, gotta listen to them first.
None of this means that Francis' ponitificate will necessarily mark changes in the articles of the para-creed. I'm still waiting to see what he'll actualy do, nice though this start is--though his comments on the role of women in the Church are puzzling and unhelpful so far. (What the heck is "female machismo," anyway, and who gets to decide?) But here's another quotation from his interview:
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent. The ones who quit sometimes do it for reasons that, if properly understood and assessed, can lead to a return. But that takes audacity and courage.
Audacity and courage--great virtues! And not just for potential returnees. The whole Church will need them, if Francis' words are to come to fruition,and we all begin to think with the Church, the People of God. All the People of God. We'll see...
About the Author
Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).
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Nicely put. And may I add the end of quoting Augustine.
from homily of Pope Francis, August 28 2013:
""You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you" (Confessions, 1, 1, 1). With these famous words St Augustine addresses God in his Confessions, and these words sum up his whole life.
The US bishops have spent so long conforming to the para-creed, with their war on marriage equality, contraception, and abortion ... it will be interesting to see them doing the backstroke.
Cardinal Bergolio was reportedly a runner-up in the conclave that elected Benddict XVI. I might not have converted to the Episcopal Curch several years ago had Cardinal Bergolio been elected at that time.
Right Bob. It is the nuance that you don't get.
I like that phrase: Para-creedal. For me, it aptly describes most of the things that I have rejected or abandoned from the Catholic experience because I could not longer maintain the necessary cognitive dissonance to maintain intellectual and personal integrity.
I have often found it uncomfortable when engaged with folks from different traditions, or with different values and world views, to acknowledge my own moral and religious ties to a ideology and morality, discounted in the public and professional spheres in which I live and work, a morality that always seemed confined to and rooted in pelvic regions. Humans don't live by that bread alone.
I believe, as I think Lisa Fullam is saying, that if the Catholic Church is to even survive this century "the Church, the People of God - All the People of God" need to take center-stage in our thinking and practice.
For me, it is captured in my proscribed mantra for us survivor Catholics that I have posted many times on these blogs: Let the People Decide!
I have long since despaired of the hierarchy and priestly caste of the church has even the capacity to lead us out the mess that we find ourselves. They are too reverential to all that para-creedal dream of life.
I believe the only element that can lead the church now is the People. I may be guilty of reading into what the pope is saying [Maybe I'm just taken-up in my own hope?], but I sense that he believes the same thing.
Francesco's difficulty may be that he knows he is himself a creature of the very system that brought him to the papacy, the same system that must now be divested of its feudal governance of the church. If the reform and renewal flows from the People, maybe we have a chance? I guess hope is the operative word.
Now my skepticism: How could Bergoglio rise to rank of cardinal-archbishop of Buenos Aires, and then the papacy, without the support of the most reactionary ideologues in the hierarchy? How could Francesco now embrace ideas and reforms that are considered subversive by the governing oligarchs in the church? How could Francesco turn his back on the hierarchs so easily?
My head tells me that Papa Francesco can't do this just with the sheer force of his will and intellect, or all his pastoral skill. The memories of JP2's cult of personality and B16's attempts at consolidation and restoration both seem to be spent forces.
But, Francesco just may be able to create enough space to realize what Papa Giovanni long ago prayed for when he called for Vatican2: "To return to the Church the face of Christ."
I know what we Catholics must do: Teach. Pass on the Gospel, the Beatitudes and the corporal works of mercy to new generations. Await the day when new ideas and new voices can be heard again in the church of our birth.
Pope Francis in his stunning interview is not just 'shooting his mouth.' It is a very carefully reflected and calculated intervention, and can even be seen as his real first Encyclical. I read it with the same sentiments as those of my mother on hearing Pope John Paul II preach in Limerick in 1979: 'Wasn't it great to hear a man tell you what you'd always believed!'
What most strikes me is the lucidity with which the Pope expounds a mature, broad, and integrated vision of the nature of the Church and its teaching, and with which he names and refutes the distortions created by conservatives who see the Church in sectarian terms and its teachings as a collection of shibboleths. He takes aim in particular at the Congregation for the Doctine of the Faith, suggesting that its role is to be a mediator not a manager and that worries about the orthodoxy of a given teacher are best handled by the local bishops.
The hierarchy of truths has been restored by Francis. Strikingly, at the top of the hierarchy he does not place any dogma, be it that of the Holy Trinity, but rather the first, original teaching of Jesus. The earliest layer of the Q document, reconstructed by scholars, that it the nearest we can come to the actual words of the historical Jesus and that underlies much of the Sermon on the Mount for example, provides the themes that Francis has most insistently stressed.
On moral issues, he makes a very simple but far-reaching point: they have to be seen in context. The broader context is that society as a whole has radically changed and that the Church must factor this into its moral reflections. He even mentions changes in the family, which will give aid and comfort to those who think the right to marry should be accorded to same-sex couples.
The language of the new pope is the language of people of today. He has no qualms about using the word 'gay' or naming 'restorationism' as a bad thing. His musical and literary tastes, also, have a freshness about them that one missed in Benedict XVI's confessed fondness for Plato, Mozart, Storm, Hesse, Goethe, Mann, Kafka, Annette Kolb. The difference lies I think in the sense that Francis shares his tastes with others, speaking in the demotic tones of a fan when he refers to Puccini's Turandot or Knappertsbusch's sublime 1962 Bayreuth Parsifal (a well-known Philips recording) or I promessi sposi.
Are there shadows in the picture? Many people will find his way of talking about the role of women quite inadequate, and will remember that his religious order the Jesuits is unique among religious orders in never having had any female branch at all. Another shadow is the doubt whether Francis can implement structural changes that would enable his vision of church to become real. Barack Obama also made inspiring speeches, but his performance in office has disappointed many of his supporters.
Why does Jim Jenkins say "us survivor Catholics" -- is that respectful to those who are actual survivors of abuse?
I tried to find Michael Voris's comment on the Pope's interview, but I found only his gloating over the alleged defeat of contraceptive legislation in the Philippines, which is utterly nauseating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHrUSmczwM&list=PL91feG5gFxM8goAO9Q-I5XRhE78k_U7pG
Quoting Augustine is hardly ever a bad thing.
So, Lisa:
I assume you,ve been out asking people (in the last 10 years) what the Catholic Church teaches. Is any of this documented, or is this simply a ploy with which to deride the Church for what you may beleive to be it's myopic vision. The people I've talked to would add to your list the vicious racism, anti-immigration, and xenophobic tendencies of "white America". In the Los Angeles area, whoever is bishop regularly bashes us (white people) for being, in addition to the above, hateful to "the stranger" in our midst; we are, you see, supposed to welcome "the stranger" as a brother in Christ. We are also lectured on implementing "social justice", which is never defined. Like a slogan wielded by Big Brother, "social justice" is a large container within which is included just about every lunatic leftist fever dream ever concocted.
I assume that that's why The Credo exists. That's what the people I communicate with think the Church teaces. They are the sane ones.
Bob Schwartz, as it happens, social justice, "never defined," gets a pretty good definition in today's first reading. The Catholic bishops ("lunatic leftists"?) have used it in a recognizable (to anyone who pays attention) context since the beginning of the last century.
Now, it is perfectly possible to read into today's Gospel a justification for the recent behavior of large banks, and some people do so. (The large bank I am leaving owes me a four-figure amount for which it says it will cut a check in two weeks. I assume that's to suck up my interest. I can't imagine that it can get its check-writing machine to work only once in 14 days.) But that would not be reading the Gospel against the background of mercy, a word which Pope Francis stresses (and which, by the way, is not mentioned in the creeds even though it comes up a lot in the Gospels.)
BM: "It is the nuance that you don't get."
While I welcome Pope Francis' insistence that what should come first is the proclamation of salvation in Christ, what we believe in and not what we condemn, I don't like the word "para-creed." It seems to be used here in a pejorative, dismissive, even condescending fashion. It could suggest that there is no link between our fundamental faith-commitments and our ethical commitments, which I think would be dangerous. And I'd be concerned thar other ethical implications drawn from the central Gospel (e.g., about immigration-reform) could be dismissed as simply "para-credal."
Appeal to the experience of the People of God is, of course, quite necessary, but it is also a very tricky thing to do. To whose experience are we to appeal? Can "experience" here even be used in the singular: Is there a single experience of the People of God? If not, whose experience will count? And how does one discern what that experience is? Opinion-polls? I remember what such surveys discovered about attitudes of Catholics in our sourthern states with regard to race-relations, as also the white-flight to the suburbs of many, many Catholics in northern ctiies.
I'm wary about putting all our eggs into any one of the bearers of the Gospel from generation to generation: the Bible, the liturgy, the tradition, the magisterium, the sensus fidelium. When they all come together and point in one direction, we can have some confidence that we're discerning what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
And note that in the "Interview" we read:
And, of course, we must be very careful not to think that this infallibilitas of all the faithful I am talking about in the light of Vatican II is a form of populism. No; it is the experience of "holy mother the hierarchical church," as St. Ignatius, called it, the church as the people of God, pastors and people together. The church is the totality of God's people.
The interviewer notes that Pope Francis added and emphasized this "to avoid misunderstandings [fraintendimenti]."
Breaking apart faith teaching and ethical teaching would be a painful and ultimately vain exercise. In throwing the mantle of divine authority over them both, the Church has insisted that they stand or fall together. And so they do. Believe one, believe all. Doubt one and begin to question all. It is ironic that the assertion of infallibility, which was supposed to be a comfort and reassurance for the faithful, may in a more skeptical age prove a stumbling block.
Whatever the mix of beliefs may be, perceptions matter, especially if one hopes to win converts and retain those already in the fold. But for far too many people today, including many Catholics, the Church is a bunch of old scolds tricked out in the finery of dead noblemen and yelling, "No, no, you're doing it all wrong." It's rules, condemnations, and punishment, about as appealing as reform school. The joy of the Gospels? Never heard of it.
That is why the words and gestures of Pope Francis are so welcome. He gets it. He may not in the end justify the most fervent hopes. Indeed, it may be well if he does not. But he understands that no one will be eager for a spirituality that is drearier and more burdensome than everyday life.
Crystal Watson's comment about US bishops doing the backstroke made me think of this event this week.
It will be interesting to how Cardinal Dolan handles this appearance before a group focused on the very issues Francis calls us to keep in proper context. The Manhattan Declaration does mention the poor -- but seems to deliberately push them to the side and focus on abortion, same-sex marriage and the amphorous "religious liberty".
During a week when the Congress is trying to cut billions from SNAP (Food Stamps) and the Republicans are holding all government spending hostage (including aid to the poor) -- context is certainly called for. The whole approach to the Affordable Care Act cries out for a better contextual look from our bishops!!
There is much talk of mercy toward "sinners" in the church right now. Maybe that is a start. But how much better it would be to admit the way rules that falsely classify much innocent behavior as sinful, have harmed ordinary, normal human beings. Isn't it time to move past "merciful" concessions to the weaknesses of human nature and the complexities of modern life, toward tustice and the prompt reform of canon law?
Sorry. That last line should read "toward justice." Type in haste; regret at leisure.
Wow - the manhattan Declaration. Eugene McCarraher commented on that document in 2010 ... http://theotherjournal.com/2010/01/27/meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-... .... and as he says there, "the religious right really doesn't give a damn about poverty, racism, ecology, health care, et cetera ..... they consider them secondary to sexual and bioethical matters." He goes on to give a tdetailed examination of the declaration's moral bankruptcy. Cardinal Dolan :(
Father K: Lise's use of the word "para-creed" stopped me, too, for a minute. But then I remembered what my ethics teacher's obiter dicta of 50-plus years ago. He said if you want to hear heresy pay attention to the sermons on Sunday. That may have been a Jesuitical way of getting us to listen to homilists, but it worked. And it's true. If you try to preach on one important point, you will inevitably diminish or exclude another equally important point.
That insight ties into John Prior's note that faith and ethics, as he says, "stand or fall together." That is true in theory, but not in conversation. For example, as a matter of faith, we believe in the Ascension (it's in the creed), but we have a whole lot less to say about that than what we can say about the Resurrection. Some day the Church's thinking may even things up, but the Church's talking today is much more about the one than the other.
The same is true of ethics. The command to welcome the alien and strangers is on about the same level as the command to protect the unborn. Somehow the Church Talkative speaks as if it knows exactly what to do about the latter but is much more vague about what to do about the former. I am a seamless garment guy myself. I would feel more comfortable supporting 40 Days for Life in a diocese, like Bob Schwartz's seems to be, where immigration reform gets at something like equal billing with abortion. All-abortion, or all-gay-marriage all the time is a becomes a para-creed.
Pope Francis, I am beginning to understand (I think), is recontextualizing both faith and ethics to move them within Jesus's example of compassion and mercy. He's not pushing a program so much as a relationship. I hope.
And just prior to this passage:
"We should not even think, therefore, that 'thinking with the church" means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church."
@ Joseph S. O'Leary: Keep your shirt on.
I guess the term "survivor Catholics" was my failed attempt at a humorous designation for all those of us Catholics [who survived Catholic schools and Catholic ideological indoctrination in general].
I trust that most [survivors of abuse] will get the joke and will not be offended.
@ Jim Jenkins
I find the term "survivor Catholics" in regard to Catholic schools pretty offensive also. I am a VERY PROUD product of an education taught by nuns and find swipes like this unhelpful to say the least.
The infallibility of the faithful (including hierarchy) is what I see as the church of dogma. Certainly, there has to be tenets. But in all the credal elements Matthew 25 and Luke 4:18 are ignored; and they are the sine qua non of the gospel.
As far as Augustine is concerned he can arguably be called a False Prophet for asserting that it is ok to use force against other Christians to get them to join the Catholic church. Violence is the most anti-gospel one can get. So Augustine violates a central tenet of the gospel. I do like the quote that RI related from Francis from Augustine. Used it many times. But Augustine, who reputable scholars call the Father of the Inquisition, has to recede to the background more. Unless one is into violence.
So the pope is urging us to put the issues of abortion, contraception, etc. in perspective.
Wasn't one of the criticisms of the LCWR that they were not putting those issues front and center?
Methinks that the oversight of the LCWR by Sartain et al will, like old soldiers, just fade away.
@ Jim Jenkins ... I'm a sex abuse survivor and I wasn't offended at all by what you wrote.
Nicholas Clifford,
yes indeed he said what you quoted, but then added the further exposition, lest the prior assertion be misunderstood.
I'm not on Bob Schwartz's end of the political spectrum, but I think he makes a good point about the term "social justice," a general principle/idea that has been co-oted and fragmented by those who want their pet social evil--everything from abortion to xenophobia--to be especially taboo.
A priest might do his parish a favor by discussing some ways the CCC applies the term "social justice," perhaps in a homily. It strikes me that the notion of Catholic "social justice" offers opportunities for all of us to feel hinky about what we have done or what we have failed to do, regardless of our political affiliation.
Pope Francis has been trying to restore a more holistic notion of social justice by warning the faithful to be wary of limiting it to what Lisa Fullham calls the "para-creed." It would be just as wrong for others to limit notions of social just to whatever Bob might identify as "lunatic leftist fever dreams," (though I'm not sure what those dreams might be other than white-people bashing ...)
To be sure Augustine chose the wrong policy toward the Donatists, but this occupies very few pages of his massive oeuvre; the same is true of his gloomier predestinationist passages and his morose utterances about original sin as sexually transmitted. The Church turned its back on the first of these at Vatican II and he has never been quoted approvingly on that point since then; the gloomier aspects of his soteriology were corrected by the Church over the centuries; the anti-sexual stuff was also toned down, and is quite gone today -- it has not been quoted by church teachers for a long, long time.
There remain millions of words of lucid insight, deep spirituality, brilliant and modest theological striving, and a radiant message of love, grace and spiritual freedom.
Why not say, no more quoting St Paul because he got it wrong about women, gays, slaves, and Cretans, no more quoting St John because of the dangerous rhetoric against the Jews in parts of his Gospel, no more quoting Luther because of his antisemitic rant, no more quoting More, Calvin, Melanchthon because they approved of executing heretics, no more quoting Newman because he called Muhammad an imposter, no more quoting anybody, since they all had their blind spots?
Apples and oranges.
Joseph - what if rather than not quote them at all we once and for all time refuse to allow cherry picking? We make it church dogma that as utterly remarkable as so many were they were never prefect and, however well intended, the church hierarchy's attempt, intended or not, to even suggest they were was a serious mistake. There is, after all, only one God and, consequently, only one Perfection, right?
It seems to me that the term "para-creed" simply helps distinguish the statements which are part of a creed from those which don't. As parts of a creed statements have authority that other dogmatic statements (para-creedal ones) don't. True, sometimes some people treat the para-creedal dogmas as less than true without being false -- as if a statement can be more or less true. (Yes, statements which are parts of complex statements can be true and other parts false or their truth value might be unknown, but that happens only when complex statements are made of many statements.)
Still there is something besides the truth of the statements involved here: the authority of the creedal and para-creedal ones. This gets us to the question of what "authority" adds to a statement besides a truth value and how there can be *degrees* of authority. My problem is this: if there can't be degrees of truth, it would seem that there can't be degrees of authority. And you bring up an associated question: whose experience should we rely on when trying to determine how authoritative a statement is? And you add the question: *how* can we determine whom should be taken as an authority?
This, I think, gets us back down to the question not only of just what "authority" means but to the theological epistemology which asserts there are "degrees of authority". This, it seems to me, brings up another thorny issue: the *certainty* that accompanies our contemplation of a more or less authoritative statement.
I just don't see that the term "para-dogma" adds to any of these problems. Rather, it makes a neat distinction which helps clarify three issues surrounding the statemens: truth, authority, and certainty.
"I'm wary about putting all our eggs into any one of the bearers of the Gospel from generation to generation: the Bible, the liturgy, the tradition, the magisterium, thesensus fidelium."
But if each is infallible in its own way, why not put your eggs into any one of those baskets? (Or maybe they're not infallible in isolation from each other? And what could that mean?)
"And just prior to this passage:
"We should not even think, therefore, that 'thinking with the church" means only thinking with the hierarchy of the church.""
There's what strikes fear into the traditionalists. To be a traditionalist is to think that it is *only* the hierarchy which possesses the truth about the Lord. Francis explicitly denies this.
I think we would be best off just iistening to what Jesus tells us to do in the Gospels. What His priorities are should be our priorities as well.
Augustine is to Catholic theology something like what Mozart is to European music -- yet the Church has often had to distance itself from Augustine -- was it the 2nd Council of Orange that toned down his predestationism? and didn't the condemnation of Jansenism entail rejection of a lot of Augustine in practice? Augustine has not had the same status as the scriptural authors, where the doctrines of scriptural inspiration and inerrrancy have created a big barrier to critical assessment. We get into very deep waters here. Scripture attests the ultimacy of the divine but is not itself ultimate -- this has to apply to the sayings of Jesus as well -- the status and function of Scripture remain an issue that the Church has not come fully to terms with.
Augustine is to Catholic theology something like what Mozart is to European music -- yet the Church has often had to distance itself from Augustine -- was it the 2nd Council of Orange that toned down his predestationism? and didn't the condemnation of Jansenism entail rejection of a lot of Augustine in practice? Augustine has not had the same status as the scriptural authors, where the doctrines of scriptural inspiration and inerrrancy have created a big barrier to critical assessment. We get into very deep waters here. Scripture attests the ultimacy of the divine but is not itself ultimate -- this has to apply to the sayings of Jesus as well -- the status and function of Scripture remain an issue that the Church has not come fully to terms with.
Not to take away from the teaching and presentation styles of previous popes, but, it seems to me that Pope Francis is unique in that his style is so overtly joyful. I am reminded of St. Augustine's advice in "Catechizing the Uninstructed" - our teaching will be more effective if it is presented with joy.
"I'm wary about putting all our eggs into any one of the bearers of the Gospel from generation to generation: the Bible, the liturgy, the tradition, the magisterium, the sensus fidelium."
Yesterday, the priest who presided at the Mass that I attended spoke about putting all our eggs in one basket - the Easter basket.
My goodness what a welcome chuckle. In my day the Easter Bunny left our baskets on the floor just inside the front door. I always wondered how the feat was accomplished. You know, how was the front door opened and closed leaving the baskets lying on the floor snugly against the inside of the door? Didn't really matter, of course. There was an Easter Bunny and, as was said in "Christmas Story", all was right with the world.
Yes, of course. But much depends on that word "hierarchy" and how it is understood and practiced. After all, any national government is hierarchical, as indeed are many institutions, private and public, like Harvard University, and no doubt Boston College, to say nothing of businesses, NGOs, and so forth. Not one of these is populist or democratic (in the absolute sense), nor probably should it be, if it is to function well. But there is no need to conflate the term "hierarchy" with monarchical absolutism, or with a lack of accountability, downwards as well as upwards.
@ A Andreassi: I'm sure you're a very proud product of Catholic education - as am I.
It was a revelation to me growing-up to hear my sainted-sixth grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, intertwine her faith and committment with her rapier wit. When I read your post, I could hear her voice so clearly: "I have come to bring you the Truth, but first it will make you miserable!"
The thing that most bothers me about the para-Creed is how it is more determinative of whether someone is a Christian. An Arian will be classified as a heretic but still a Christian, but someone who believes that governments shouldn't discriminate against gay and lesbian couples will be labeled as non-Christian by many.
Pope did not mention female machismo but said women were blocked by male machismo -- a missing sentence in AMERICA's editing of the interview is to blame for this misunderstanding.
Ryan ... a bit of history:
A century ago, the church was deeply divided over Pope Pius X's campaign against "Modernism," which was a catchall for anything Rome deemed suspicious.
"When Pius X died, the conclave of 1914 elected Benedict XV, who immediately issued an encyclical (Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Beatissimi_Apostolorum) calling on Catholics 'to appease dissension and strife" so that "no one should consider himself entitled to affix on those who merely do not agree with his ideas the stigma of disloyalty to faith.'
'There is no need of adding any qualifying terms to the profession of Catholicism,' he concluded. 'It is quite enough for each one to proclaim 'Christian is my name and Catholic my surname.' (ABA Sec. 24)" **
David Gibson, "Who Is a Real Catholic?" The Washington Post, Sunday, May 17, 2009
** Sec 24: "It is, moreover, Our will that Catholics should abstain from certain appellations which have recently been brought into use to distinguish one group of Catholics from another. They are to be avoided not only as "profane novelties of words," out of harmony with both truth and justice, but also because they give rise to great trouble and confusion among Catholics. Such is the nature of Catholicism that it does not admit of more or less, but must be held as a whole or as a whole rejected: "This is the Catholic faith, which unless a man believe faithfully and firmly; he cannot be saved" (Athanasian Creed). There is no need of adding any qualifying terms to the profession of Catholicism: it is quite enough for each one to proclaim "Christian is my name and Catholic my surname," only let him endeavour to be in reality what he calls himself."


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I know both of the Rambam and Ramban listed all 613 mitzvos, and they differ in some (I think like 16ish?)
What are the ones upon which they differ? If possible please include why they differ in specific instances.
The list of differences can be found in an appendix to the Minchas Chinuch.
Ramban includes all of these positive mitzvos, which the Rambam doesn't
Mitzvah 1: Positive mitzvah of eating maaser sheni.
Mitzvah 2: Positive mitzvah of not eating impure trumah
Mitzvah 3: Positive mitzvah of not selling shvi'is fruits
Mitzvah 4: Positive mitzvah of settling Eretz Yisrael
Mitzvah 5: Positive mitzvah of leaving a way for the enemy to retreat
Mitzvah 6: Positive mitzvah to eat fruit trees when sieging a city
Mitzvah 7: Positive mitzvah to remember Miriam verbally
Mitzvah 8: Positive mitzvah to be wholesome with G-d
Mitzvah 9: Positive mitzvah to separate trumah from the best
Mitzvah 10: Positive mitzvah for every korban to be one of the three valid species
Mitzvah 11: Positive mitzvah to offer all korbanos between the two temidin
Mitzvah 12: Positive (?) mitzvah for the Pesach not to be eaten by day
Mitzvah 13: Positive mitzvah to kill a killer
Mitzvah 14: Positive mitzvah not to benefit from clothing or a house with tzara'as
Mitzvah 15: Positive mitzvah to thank G-d
Mitzvah 16: Positive mitzvah to keep your brother alive
Mitzvah 17: Positive mitzvah to return interest
Ramban includes all of these negative mitzvos, which the Rambam doesn't
Mitzvah 1: Negative mitzvah not to forget belief in G-d
Mitzvah 2: Negative mitzvah not to forget the standing at Har Sinai
Mitzvah 3: Ngeative mitzvah not to misplace vessels in the beis hamikdash
Mitzvah 4: Negative mitzvah not to slaughter kodshim intending to eat them
Mitzvah 5: Negative mitzvah not to eat kodshim outside of their place
Mitzvah 6: Negative mitzvah not to eat the bird slaughtered for a metzora
Mitzvah 7: Negative mitzvah for levi'im not to take trumah
Mitzvah 8: Negative mitzvah not to accept shekalim from non-Jews for the purpose of korbanos tzibur
It is important to note that the Rambam and Ramban agree with each other most of the time that these are obligations, but they disagree about whether they are de'oraisa.


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Doris graduated from Belding High School class of 1938. Her future husband, Maurice R. Schrauben served in the U. S. Navy during World War II and they were married at the San Diego Naval Base in 1945.
Maurice preceded her in death in 1998. Together they operated Schrauben Orchards and M44 Stripping Workshop. She enjoyed playing cards with friends and family. She was also skilled with crafts including sewing, basket weaving, chair caning, crocheting afghans (one each for her children and grandchildren), and always had oatmeal cookies ready for visiting family.
Doris was a steadying influence for her family and took great pride in her legacy of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is survived by children, Mary (Denny) Nugent of Parnell, Dan (Barb) Schrauben of Ann Arbor, and Bob (Therese) Schrauben of Belding; grandchildren Pat Nugent, Betsey (Todd) Wieland, Kevin Nugent, Kerry (Kyle) Gargaro, Andrew (Amanda) Schrauben, Eric (Julie) Schrauben, Ryan (Megan) Schrauben, Gabe (Beth Anne Bremer) Schrauben, Ana (Mike) Palmiter, and Adrienne (Mike) Baker; great-grandchildren Ben and Joey Gargaro, Claire Schrauben and Henry Schrauben; and sisters-in-law Joan Potter and Marjorie Beckwith.
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5 Insane Ways Science is Humiliating Birds (With WTF Images)
Mankind's record with mangling animal DNA for our benefit is, as we've shown before, spotty at best. Usually, these goofy creations serve little purpose, other than embarrassing the poor animals and reminding them that we're at the top of the food chain and can screw with them just because we can.
This is no more evident than the many times we've humiliated birds. After seeing the myriad ways we've used science to fuck with our fine feathered friends, we're frankly shocked they haven't all turned into Hitchcockian horrors, seeking violent revenge on the pitiful humans who made them look this way. If you think we're exaggerating, take a gander at ...
#5. Feather Duster Budgies
Oh, come on, really? That can't be a bird. It looks like something a toddler hastily glued together after accidentally exploding a bird.
Amazingly, there actually is a living thing inside that mess of feathers, and its state is not the result of multiple little girls with untethered access to a curling iron, a blow dryer, and several packs of extensions. It's a budgie, and the reason it looks like a failed loofah design is because of a debilitating defect called feather duster syndrome. How does one get FDS? Inbreeding. Lots and lots of inbreeding.
Wild budgies, despite originating from Australia, are not gigantic hulking beasts bent on destroying everybody. No, they actually look pretty normal:
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Wait, are they plotting our demise anyway? Oh, fuck you, Australia.
They're quite adorable, and have proven to be incredibly popular as household pets. However, wild budgies haven't been exported from Australia since 1894. They have to come from somewhere, though, so breeders have been encouraging incest ever since. Two-hundred-plus years of the ultimate family reunion? What could possibly go wrong?
Via Robinson Budgie Stud
While it doesn't happen all the time, feather duster syndrome causes the feathers, already curlier than on normal budgies, to keep growing and growing, until they look like the tiny bird-splosions you see here. Obviously, this is in no way beneficial to the bird; they can barely see, can't fly, could very well be deaf, and have the bird version of Down's syndrome. Add a compromised immune system due to the stress of growing out all these feathers, and we have ourselves a birdie that rarely lives for more than a year.
But that hasn't stopped pet shops from selling them, and for a very high price, because look at it.
Luckily (or not) online breeders have provided instructions on how to go about creating your own feather duster, like they're Pokemon or Chocobos. We hope you're up for breeding a new one every six months or so, because remember, they die quick.
#4. Naked Chickens
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OK, this is probably going too far in the other direction.
Unless you're a magical chicken that can somehow read Cracked articles, you probably have no use for chicken feathers. You can't eat them, and they're not strong enough to dip into a vial of ink and write an old-timey letter with. So why bother with the damn things at all? That's exactly what scientists in Israel must be thinking, as they have successfully bred a bunch of "bald chickens." They claim this will help farmers by saving time (no more plucking) and energy (no need to ventilate or air-condition the coop if the chicken has no chance of overheating), and it will help breed bigger, meatier chickens, since cool chickens tend to grow faster.
Which is all well and good, except they look like, well, this:
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You can make your own cock joke. We're refusing.
So how did they create this bawking hellspawn? Well, apparently there is a gene that, when mutated, naturally produces featherless chickens. So, the scientists simply took one of these naked mutants, cross-bred it with a regular feathered chicken, and then cackled maniacally into the cold, dark night.
In addition to looking silly, naked chickens actually have a host of downsides. Due to their exposed everything, these chickens are largely unable to deal with cold, sunburn quite easily, and are a nice, ripe target for mosquitoes. If being unable to cope with much of the world's weather isn't enough, naked chickens have virtually no hope of finding a mate, since they use their feathers to flap their wings and look all macho and shit around the hens.
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So mankind has been spared one nightmarish sight.
But hey, they're delicious, so they have that going for them at least. Naked chickens reportedly contain less fat (the feathers produce subcutaneous fat underneath the skin) and produce leaner meat. So if you have no issues with eating something that will haunt your dreams for years to come, by all means, chow down.
#3. Amsterdam Balloon Croppers
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Once again, it may take a moment to work out what exactly you're seeing there. It's not a bird with its face buried in its wing -- that's its chest, and this is what it looks like all the time. It's a type of pigeon that is appropriately known as the Amsterdam balloon cropper (or Holle cropper). It's advertised as a "fancy" variant, because apparently being able to chew on your own stomach is just the fanciest thing imaginable.
Developed in Holland to look like "a round ball on legs," balloon croppers are mainly used as show birds, and are held to a very exacting set of standards in order to be considered a champion of the breed. Which is clearly something the bird strives to be. Points are given for carriage, body, color, and, most importantly, a spectacular sense of balance.
It's not so bad if they never, ever walk anywhere.
According to the Pigeon Club of Arizona, "It carries its body horizontally and stands on its toes in an alert jaunty manner with its head carried well back toward its tail. A vertical line through the eye falls behind the foot position." Because nothing says jaunty and graceful like a mutated spine that's been twisted into an ampersand. The club goes on to say, "The Holle cropper is a small, delicate, short but broad cropper with extraordinary grace and liveliness." Which is interesting, because in every single picture and video we've seen of the damn thing, it's just standing there, often with a terrified look in its eyes, like it's just realized what it is, and that death really needs to get a move on here.
Seriously, there's no way this bird can run off or fly away at the slightest sound, like a normal pigeon would. It can barely see past its own chest! So it's pretty much stuck there until its owner decides to move it somewhere else. Or tip it over, depending on how big of a dick the owner is.
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From the users section, I can see a link to their posts, but not their comments. When I go to comments, there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to filter only comments by a specific user. How to do it? (I'm sure such basic feature must be somewhere, I just can't find it.)
Afaik, there's no straight forward way for this.
You'd have to extend the
The above ↑ function gives you back all DB rows for comments by the user you specified by her/his ID.
You then can go and list for e.g. all posts in a
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OK, we've got some discussion going on about issues affecting life within the gray zone of the Halachic Dateline and the International Dateline, but what is the original source of such a concept, if there is one? Can it not just be that whatever is deemed Saturday in some remote place in the world is Saturday (as in the minority opinion at the end of this article)?
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I'm not sure I understand your question, but basically many rabbis feel that the Torah states where the dateline should be, so we don't really care what the local population thinks. (Though a frustrated Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Brisker, when asked about the dateline, exclaimed -- " I don't know. And I don't know why everyone else thinks they know!")
There are various Talmudic statements that could be read as placing the dateline either 90 or 180 degrees east of Jerusalem. If you feel the Talmud fixes the Halachic dateline, that's what we'd be bound to follow.
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I know that the Linux kernel supports TRIM as of version 2.6.33, so there should be TRIM support in ubuntu.
Is TRIM enabled by default or do I need to change some settings or install additional software for it to work? If so, how?
Ubuntu 14.10 onwards
In Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04, TRIMming happens automatically every week on all SSDs supported by
Ubuntu 14.04
As of Ubuntu 14.04, scheduled TRIM is enabled by default for Intel, SAMSUNG, OCZ, Patriot and Sandisk SSDs. If you have another brand, you could disable the vendor check by running the following command:
(or just edit the file
Ubuntu 13.10 and Earlier
There are three ways to perform TRIM, manual, scheduled, and automatic:
Manual TRIM
In Ubuntu this can be performed with
however it is not needed when scheduled or automatic TRIM are enabled, as detailed in the sections below.
Note: For Ubuntu 11.04 and earlier systems, fstrim is not available so you have to use
Scheduled TRIM (Recommended)
This is the currently recomended method, and is planed to be activated per default for Ubuntu 14.04. Here's how to activate it manually in older versions of ubuntu (11.10 to 13.10):
Create a weekly CRON job script file:
Paste the following code in the file, then save and close the file:
Note that the above assumes that only your root filesystem
Make the script executable:
And finally test it:
If you see no errors, your cron job should be working fine.
Automatic TRIM (Deprecated, Slow)
Automatic TRIM has been supported since Ubuntu 10.10 (kernel 2.6.33) with the EXT4 file system. However, sending TRIM commands to the SSD in real-time - after every delete - has been recognized to make deletion much slower than usual on some drives. Therefore a weekly scheduled TRIM via a cron job (described above) is recomended.
To enable automatic TRIM on a drive or partition, they need to be mounted with the
Close and save fstab, then reboot and automatic TRIM should now be working.
Testing automatic TRIM
To test if TRIM is working issue the following commands (source):
From the output copy the number under
Run the following but replace
the output should be a long string of characters for those sectors
Repeat the
If you get only zeros then automatic TRIM is working. However if after removing the file the sectors are still not empty then wait a while and run the command again.
Note that if you are using encryption the solutions posted here so far won't help you, because you need to enable TRIM support in the encryption layer as well. This can be done with kernel versions 3.1+ and cryptsetup versions 1.4+, both of which are included in Ubuntu 12.04.
Find my guide on setting TRIM up for LUKS encrypted partitions here
How to Activate TRIM on LUKS Encrypted Partitions in Ubuntu & Debian
This step by step walkthrough will let you take advantage of the TRIM technology for your encrypted SSD partitions for cryptsetup 1.4 or higher and kernel 3.1 or higher. This leads to a hassle-free SSD experience because
Example Setup
Notebook with SSD as the single drive, Linux installed in single ext4 LVM root partition with LVM swap partition, both over LUKS encrypted logical partition.
SSD: /dev/sda
TRIM is activated. Enjoy your hassle-free SSD!
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The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Bullsh*t Statistics
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Every once in a while, you'll hear a statistic so striking you can hardly believe it's true. Our first impulse is to repeat it, because knowing interesting things tends to make people like us better.
Unfortunately, some people are so desperate for interesting facts to quote, that they'll just pull them right out of their ass. Then those facts get repeated, by--you guessed it--people like us.
The six most quoted "too awesome to be true" stats that, in fact, are ...
#6. You Accidentally Swallow About 8 Spiders a Year
This extremely commonly believed statistic has been fed to us by countless internet chain mails, and probably by some know-it-all kid who sat next to you in some class or other. When you sleep, you open your mouth to breath (and drool on your pillow), and supposedly this is the ideal window of oppurtunity for all the spiders who hang out near your bed hoping to be eaten alive.
Why Is It a Load of Crap?
Well, first of all, this a real kick in the crotch of the intellect of spiders everywhere. Although spiders are occasionally seen doing stupid things, it's safe to assume they have enough wit to realize when they're about to crawl through the mouth of a damned giant. If the giant white teeth aren't enough to deter them from going spelunking down your dark, wet throat (apparently no other animals have these) you'd think the heavy draft and deafening snoring sounds would be some sort of indication of how terrible a home your mouth would be.
Who Started It?
Back in 1993, people were already getting fooled by online urban legends at an amusing rate. So, a columnist for PC Professional named Lisa Holst decided to prove that you could make up anything on the internet and people would believe it.
She did this by making up a set of facts that were utterly ridiculous, the spider myth among them (which itself was taken from a collection of insect folklore that dates back to the 1950s), and unleashing it on the world in the form of emails.
In a twist of oh-so-predictable irony, people who forwarded chain mail about this just "happened" to forget to include the fact that these were completely fake.
Who Was Fooled?
Ask a group of internet strangers and you'll find at least a handful of people who wholeheartedly believe this myth. Presumably because they read it somewhere. You've even got this supposed entomologist from Experts.com quoting it.
In 2006 The UK's Daily Mirror warned that "the average person will swallow anything from eight to 20 spiders before they die."
Not satisfied to go along with the normal fudged data, The Mirror upped the ante of retardation by adding "A spider is also likely to drink from your eye at least THREE times in your life. Some experts have suggested they are attracted by the vibrations of snoring and the smell of undigested food - a good reason to floss your teeth before bedtime."
Really, is that what it takes to get the UK to worry about dental hygiene?
#5. You Only Use 10% of Your Brain
You've heard it since you were a child, and it might have even crept into one of your textbooks: "We only use 10% of our brain! Just think what we'd be capable of if we could tap into the rest!"
The idea that the brain has UNLIMITED POTENTIAL is probably pretty appealing to 2nd grade teachers whose students complain that they can't do ONE MORE math problem. We still remember our teachers happily informing us that we're only using 10% of our brains, so we could do ten more if we wanted. The implication was of course that if we worked hard enough, we'd be able to set fire to the school with the power of our minds.
Why Is It a Load of Crap?
How fast are you reading this article? Well, let's suppose you are only using 10% of your brain. Now, read it 10x faster. Go, do it now! Are you having trouble? Yeah, that's because you can't devote that other 90% to just whatever you want. The parts of the brain are specialized, so trying to use all of it at once isn't going to make you any smarter. That would be like trying to become a better writer by striving to use all the keys on your keyboard in every sentence.
So the part of your brain you're using to read this article is not the same part you'll be using tonight when you get drunk and fight a hobo. There's even a special part of the brain that apparently keeps you from turning into a dick (No, really).
Who Started It?
There is a bit of debate on who exactly brought this bullshit statistic into the world. A series of neurologists over the past few hundred years figured out that a human can survive when parts of the brain are removed. Over time, this was misinterpreted to mean that the brain uses little of its potential, and thus the 10% statistic was born.
Facts tend to survive based on how interesting they are, rather than whether or not they're true.
Who Was Fooled?
Surely nobody takes this seriously any more, not when a ten-second Google search can tell you otherwise, right? Well don't tell that to Psychology Today, who ran that helpful 2006 article on how to access the lazy 90% of your grey matter.
One of their tips is to replenish the brain with nutrients, but we're assuming we get plenty with all the spiders we've eaten.
#4. Men Think About Sex Every Seven Seconds
As we all know, men do nothing all day but think about having sex with their girlfriend/ex-girlfriend/friend that happens to be a girl/friend's sister. It should come naturally, then, that, on average, men think about sex every seven seconds or so, right? I mean, what else are men going to think about? Their jobs?
"Puhleaze, sister. We all know what's going on in there."
Why Is It a Load of Crap?
Let's suppose for a moment that you are a man. Have you thought about sex since you began reading this article? Well, probably, yes, because you just read the word "sex" several times. How about when you were reading the spider-eating segment moments ago? Were you imaging a massive spider-orgy? If so, you are unlike most men in the world. As a matter of fact, many experts estimate that 30% of men don't think about sex during the day at all. There are variants of this myth, usually ranging from 3 seconds to 20 seconds, but none of them are based on any actual research, and none of them are really true.
After all, how would they even arrive at such a number? Hook electrodes up to a dude's head and have him walk around for a week, counting how many times the sex lobe lights up?
Who Started It?
The origins of this statistic stretch long and far (no "that's what she said" intended), so again we can't pin it on a single person. We all know who it really was, though. A group of wives sitting at a table drinking tea or coffee, start talking about their horrible husbands. They just hate how it is always about sex sex sex sex sex. So, one of them pulls a number out of her head for a joke. "Did you know that men think about sex every seven seconds?"
The others have a good, womanly laugh about their husbands, and then they all run off to do womanly things, like quilting, or going to the bathroom at the same time. That's what women do, right? We don't really know.
Who Was Fooled?
Well, about half of us, according to this online poll. Countless sites are still including it among their "interesting facts" about sex, like this one and this one over here.
It seems like common sense would have squashed this one even before it got started. Obviously there are long stretches where a guy isn't thinking about sex (say, while spending 45 infuriating minutes on the phone with Microsoft tech support). To make up that average later he would have to think about sex every, what 2 seconds? So for the rest of the day his brain just turns into a spinning kaleidoscope of titty?


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I'm using my mum's Apple ID on my new MacBook Pro, so, because of iCloud, I'm receiving all her emails, I have all her contacts, etc. I just want to use her Apple ID for iTunes, the AppStore and Facetime. Can I stop sharing all her data?
Sure thing.
Go to the Apple logo in the top left corner > System Preferences > iCloud > Uncheck what you do not need or sign out all together if you want.
I recommend only checking off only what you do not need while keeping Find my Mac on. This way you can still track your MacBook Pro incase it goes missing.
On the other hand, if you choose to sign out from iCloud, your iTunes purchases, FaceTime, etc... will not be removed or affected.
Hope this helps.
Go to System Preferences / iCloud and, either Log Out or Deselect each of the iCould applications you don't want.


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1 Aug 2011 1:41 PM #1
Draggable - revert: false prevents intersections working
Sencha Touch version tested:
- 1.03
- only default ext-all.css
Platform tested against:
- iOS 4.3.3
- Safari 5.1
- Chrome (OSX) 15.0.839.0
- If an Ext.util.Draggable object is created with revert set to false, and then the object is moved to a position on the screen and let go, any future intersection detection fails to occur at the correct location.
See http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...p-offset-issue for original post of problem.
Test Case:
Using the dragdrop example code from the distribution, in index.js change revert to false as per the following snippet.
// Setup the Sencha Touch app. Ext.setup({ icon: 'icon.png', tabletStartupScreen: 'tablet_startup.png', phoneStartupScreen: 'phone_startup.png', glossOnIcon: false, onReady: function(){ // Create a new draggable for the div with an // id of 'draggable' new Ext.util.Draggable('draggable', { revert: false });
- After making the change described above, open the web page and move the left Draggable block a few inches to the right.
- Now drag it back fully into the Droppable area.
The result that was expected:
- The Droppable area should go dark green, indicating that the Draggable is contained within it.
The result that occurs instead:
- The Droppable area stays light green indicating that the dropenter event did not fire.
Debugging already done:
- I edited the source code to log draggable.region.left and draggable.region.top for the Draggable as it moves. The co-ordinates are as expected during the drag operation and after letting go of the Draggable. However, once you start to drag it again, the co-ordinates jump up/down unexpectedly. It turns out that the delta is equal to the Draggable.offset values. Because the draggable.region is now offset from where it should be, when it is compared with droppable.region (in the Ext.util.Droppable.isDragOver private method), the intersection occurs at the wrong location.
Possible fix:
- not provided
1 Aug 2011 3:10 PM #2
The Sencha version should say 1.1.0.
4 Aug 2011 1:05 PM #3
Possible fix:
- Intersection detection relies on Draggable.region intersecting with (or, optionally, being contained by) Droppable.region
- Draggable.region is updated on each move of the object by Draggable's setOffset method. In this method, this.region is updated by adding the current values of offset to this.initialRegion. The value of offset is the vector of the object now from it's initial location. So, if this.initialRegion represents where the object was initially placed, as the name would suggest, then this would be fine.
- But... this.initialRegion is getting updated with every call to updateBoundary, as shown below starting at line 24169 of sencha-touch-debug-w-comments.js:
this.initialRegion = this.region = new Ext.util.Region( elXY[1], elXY[0] + this.elBox.width, elXY[1] + this.elBox.height, elXY[0] );
- So, if we modify the code so that this.initialRegion is only updated on the very first time this code is run, like so:
this.region = new Ext.util.Region( elXY[1], elXY[0] + this.elBox.width, elXY[1] + this.elBox.height, elXY[0] ); if (!this.skipUpdate) { this.initialRegion=this.region; this.skipUpdate=true; }
- then this.initialRegion continues to represent the initial region, and the Draggable's region property remains accurate.
- Incidentally, this problem had nothing to do with revert being set to false. It just presented it's self when that was the case.
15 Aug 2011 5:17 AM #4
Bumped, after 2 weeks, in the hope that Sencha will log this...
19 Sep 2011 6:48 AM #5
I had exactly the same issue with Draggable component and Region, after moving programmatically the Draggable item with the setOffset method. With Sencha Touch 1.1.0.
The fix provided by Powderhound works fine. Thank you for this !
So.... *bump*. Hope this fix will be included in the next Sencha Touch release !
18 Oct 2011 9:02 AM #6
Fix works for me too...
I spent a few hours scratching my head over strange drag/drop behavior before I became convinced this was a bug in Sencha Touch and found this thread. BTW I'm using version 1.1.0. The bug fix works like a charm.
Also -- I just downloaded 1.1.1 and it has the same problem. And the same fix works.


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Mor is always the best
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You always get Mor than you bargained for on the OCNet...
Since this forum is NOT a forum of folks who are THE Orthodox Church, to call itself Orthodox Christianity risks the censure of the Orthodox for whom this forum does not speak. This is a place for ByzCath's to hang out and talk about issues relating to their Church and it's relationship to Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, as well as other interesting stuff of parishes, worship, and the like.
Orthodox/Catholic Discussion, Anastasios. It will do.
3. 'The Church is the communion of [take your pick] non-Chalcedonian or Assyrian bishops.' (A small Church indeed, that - no offence, Mor Ephrem. I remember being told the Orientals don't hold to such an exclusive view.)
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