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Last night, I was shutting down my server and I saw a message asking if I wanted to shut down a "pts/0" session. Odd, I thought. So I logged back in and did a
finger and saw that there was someone logged in from a remote IP address (an Italian address) and they were issueing lots of
scanssh commands. They had also changed the password for the account they had logged in as (it was my child's account and the password was easy to guess - he's only 6!).
OK, so I left some ports open - my fault entirely. I was fortunate that the account is limited. There was also a file called
W2ksp3.exe (or something similar) in the account's home folder. So I guess someone was using my server to look for compromised windows' PCs.
So, my network looks like this:
internet - eth0 - server - eth1 - LAN
and it was the server that was compromised. The server is using
dnsmasq for DNS lookups and a DHCP server for the LAN.
This leads me to two questions:
How do I configure the firewall (
iptables?) to block everything on
eth0apart from http, outgoing ftp, e-mail and anything else needed to access the internet?
How do I stop logins via
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The American Heart Association is inviting the public to support the fight against heart disease by participating in National Walking Day on Wednesday, April 3. This is the day that adults nationwide can make the pledge to start walking and become active and heart-healthy.
Taking just 10 minutes three times a day to walk will help individuals live longer. In fact, studies show that just one hour of vigorous exercise will increase life expectancy by two hours. To make it easy for the public to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives, the American Heart Association features a variety of valuable resources online at www.startwalkingnow.org.
More than a third of the working-age population in the United States is at risk for chronic illnesses due to physical inactivity and the nation's obesity epidemic. The estimated cost of obesity and overweight-related health conditions to American companies is $225.8 billion per year in productivity loss. Physical inactivity doubles the risk of heart disease, which kills 1 in 3 people in the U.S. each year. Heart disease, however, remains largely preventable.
The American Heart Association works with employers and the 135 million Americans in the workplace to create a culture of walking before, during or after work. It offers resources for employers to implement a walking program in the workplace and track employees' progress.
The Fit-Friendly Companies program recognizes companies for meeting criteria for employee fitness. More than 1,000 U.S. companies have been recognized for demonstrating their commitment to promoting exercise and good nutrition in the workplace.
Encouraging employees to walk briskly for just 30 minutes a day can help lower chronic disease risk factors such as high blood pressure. Educating individuals about basic cardiovascular disease prevention and developing health education programs that focus on lifestyle behavior change is a huge investment that will increase a company's bottom line. In other words, in addition to being the best option for public health, it also makes good business sense.
To learn more about National Walking Day or the American Heart Association, the public is encouraged to visit www.startwalkingnow.org.
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The Honorable Paul R. Michel, Chief Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will deliver the keynote address at the Third Annual Patent Law and Pharmaceuticals Symposium, to be held on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. The symposium is co-hosted by the law school's Center for Law, Science and Technology and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Association, and is sponsored by Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. The annual symposium brings together leaders of the judiciary, academy, private practice, business, and government to address the top issues in intellectual property law.
The complete program follows. CLE/Ethics credits will be provided. No registration fee is required.
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Ludomir A. Budzyn, Esq., Partner, Hoffmann & Baron LLP
Nicholas Pappas, Esq., Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Professor John Leubsdorf, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
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We are starting a project, which goal is to create new frontend interface to our product. Old version was created in PHP, very poorly written. We are choosing the language and frameworks that we want to use in new version.
- New interface will be communicating with API. Application will not have it's own database.
- We don't have a big team, 3 max programmers for entire project.
- The main programmers are PHP veterans and knows some other technologies (Rails, C, C++, some Java) but not in professional level. But overall they are good and experienced programmers.
- We want to find a good alternative to PHP. I like Rails very much, but whole ActiveRecord model will be useless, when using application API.
- Java needs a lot of configuration and someone who is expert in Java to properly run this project. Also, in Java there are a lot of big and complicated enterprise frameworks - not very good for 2-3 programmers team.
- Python - I don't know Python and don't know good and experienced programmers who knows PY - but it's not so complicated and big as Java and maybe in long period it's good alternative for PHP.
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I hear the term bunny hopping thrown around a lot. What is it? Can it actually help me in some games?
See this Wikipedia article for more.
It works differently in different games, but typically bunny hopping on its own doesn't increase speed (the exceptions that I know of being Warsow's new movement style and Painkiller).
The real reason for bunny hopping in games such as Quake (all 4 of them) is that no ground friction is applied to your character if you jump again immediately in the same frame that you land. Given that there is no air friction modelled in the game, this means that any speed gained whilst in the air can therefore be maintained by repeatedly jumping. For example, you could use a simple horizontal rocket jump from a wall to give you a quick boost in speed, and then by repeatedly jumping you can maintain that extra speed indefinitely (or at least until you bump into something). Without bunny hopping, the extra speed gained would be quickly nullified by the ground friction that is applied to your character once you land.
In Quake this is pretty easy to do, as simply holding down the jump key whilst you're in the air will cause you to immediately jump again once you hit the ground (though you will still have to release the key and re-press it again after each jump). In other games it may still be possible, but you may have to time the key-presses more accurately. In GoldSrc games I believe you have to time the jump perfectly to the exact frame, which is practically impossible to do, so players tend to use a script to hammer the jump command multiple times in order to make it much more forgiving.
You can test this principle in Quake games by simply running forward, jumping, releasing the forwards key in mid-air (i.e. whilst your character is in a parabolic arc) and then bunny hopping by jumping as soon as you land. If you do it right you should keep going forward at walking speed even though you have released the forwards key. You can repeat jumping to maintain walking speed indefinitely. In addition, whilst doing this you should note that you can turn your view to wherever you desire and it wont affect your character's movement at all. This can be useful in order to aim at others whilst simultaneously moving in another direction, like the turret of a tank. That being said, the true benefit of bunny hopping really comes into play when combined with other techniques designed to gain speed.
In different Quake games there are different mechanics for gaining speed. As I've already mentioned you could use a simple rocket jump, which is obviously going to work in all 4 games, but there are other techniques. In QuakeWorld and GoldSrc games there is a technique called air-control, which basically allows you to slowly turn the horizontal component of your movement direction whilst you're in mid-air. A nice side-effect of doing this is that you also slowly gain speed, which can then be maintained through bunny hopping. Throughout multiple jumps you can use these combined skills to accumulate speed.
In QuakeWorld you will see players performing multiple curvy jumps in a zig-zag fashion, like a snake, in order to accumulate their speed. In Team Fortress Classic the same is true, but I believe there is an upper cap on the speed that can be gained through this. After reaching this cap you are slowed down to walking speed the next time you touch the floor. The cap is a multiple of the class's walking speed though, which does mean that the scouts still have a higher speed cap than the heavy weapons guys.
In order to use air-control, you first face in the direction that you are moving through the air and hold down a strafe key. You then slowly and smoothly turn your view (with your mouse) into the direction of the strafe. This will cause your movement to slowly curve into that direction, and you will gain overall speed too. You can combine this with bunny hopping to maintain any speed gained. You shouldn't move your mouse too quickly as it will cause you to stall; finding the perfect speed will come with practice. The most important thing is to keep your mouse movement smooth. You must also not hold forward at all during this procedure, which is fine because as I mentioned earlier this is not necessary anyway with bunny hopping.
The reason this works is due to the air nudging that is possible in QuakeWorld. Air nudging is the reason why you can stand perfectly still next to a box, jump straight up into the air, hold forward whilst in the air and still land on the box. What happens is the game slowly nudges you forward in mid air so that you can land on the edge of the box. If this didn't happen then you would always have to run forward with sufficient room on the ground before jumping in order to gain the horizontal speed required to get onto boxes. Evidently id Software decided that it would be too frustrating for players to have to do.
These small nudges are what contribute to the speed increases you gain whilst turning with air-control. In addition, the fact that you turn at all is a little bit like an imaginary rope that binds you to something in the direction of your strafe. As you move forward the rope becomes taut, providing a counter-force, and this causes your movement to curve. So the nudging effect acts as a small amount of force in the direction of your strafe, which is why you turn.
These nudges work in all four directions too, using the strafe and forwards/backwards keys. In fact, with sufficient practice, it's possible to face in any of four directions and still perform air-control equally well by simply adjusting the keys that you use appropriately. For example, a player facing 90 degrees to his current direction of movement can swap the left and right strafe keys for the forwards and backwards keys and it will work in exactly the same way. However, a nudge performed in a direction that is opposite to the direction you are currently moving will cause you to halt in mid air. This is to help players who overshoot their jumps during platforming sequences. I believe this happens when the nudge direction is at any obtuse angle to the movement direction.
In Quake III (and Quake Live) air-control is not possible, which also unfortunately means it's not possible to maintain speed around corners as you cannot curve in mid air. However, the technique was replaced by another called air-strafing (usually called strafe-jumping when combined with bunny hopping). Air-strafing is performed in the same way as air-control, except that the forwards key must be continually held too. Again it's important that the mouse movement is smooth and that it must not be moved too quickly or you will stall.
Air-strafing will cause your character to gain speed, but unlike with air-control your movement direction wont curve. Your character's position will be slowly nudged in the direction of your strafe, but a northwards facing strafe-jumping run can never be turned east or west. Actually you do turn by a very small amount, but not by much. However, when combining this with bunny hopping it is possible to spend slightly longer on the ground to try to slide your body slightly in order to adjust your direction before jumping again. This does work to a limited degree, but you will have to sacrifice some of your gained speed to the ground friction whilst doing it. Again with practice you will get better at it.
In the games Warsow (cg_oldMovement 1) and Challenge Promode Arena (a Quake III mod), you can alternate from using air-control and air-strafing depending on whether or not you're holding down the forwards key. However, this means that the forwards key is hard-coded to trigger air-strafing, so unlike in QuakeWorld performing air-control whilst facing 90 degrees to your movement direction will not be possible. It's still possible to do it backwards though, and likewise with air-strafing for that matter.
See the following videos for a fantastic Warsow (cg_oldMovement 1) movement tutorial by Mote. The appropriate techniques can be applied to QuakeWorld (and GoldSrc) or Quake Live:


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The CFO as Catalyst for Change
By Di Seghposs-Oracle on Jul 12, 2013
A guest post by John O'Rourke, Vice President Product Marketing, Oracle
Over the past few months, we've taken a microscope to the role of the CFO. The changing economic environment is creating new demands and opportunities for CFOs around the world. At Oracle, we are committed to helping CFOs navigate and succeed, and recently partnered with Accenture on a global research study, "The CFO as Catalyst for Change."
As the Wall Street Journal's CFO Journal summarized, the study highlights the evolution of the CFO's role from financial overseer to corporate strategist and change agent. I discussed the main findings in a previous blog post, but wanted to share some great insights on the study from industry influencers.
InformationWeek's Doug Henschen discussed the increasing role CFOs are playing in the technology department, highlighting the similarity between what has also been happening with CMOs. I think the CFO's role in technology decisions can have a bigger impact and is worth noting.
Without a doubt, CFOs are taking technology seriously! CFO Magazine highlighted the skills perspective in their article on the study, pointing out that when asked about where CFOs could improve their skills and capabilities, technology knowledge was ranked second only to industry knowledge. Now, that's saying something!
But they are not just focusing on ways to enhance their knowledge base -- CFOs also understand the importance of new technology. A Wall Street & Technology article on the study stressed how CFOs are increasingly citing disruptive technology as critical for success. In fact, 79 percent of respondents viewed access to information as a key driver of organizational agility, while 57 percent viewed investments in big data and analytics as a key source of competitive advantage.
The study shows that the role of the CFO has dramatically changed and it continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Now, CFOs must be catalysts for change and help their organizations transform and thrive in today's global economy.


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Does the minecart slow down when riding between two adjacent walls? About 20% of my track is boosters, but the minecarts are still slowing down too fast. So I thought that maybe it's because of the walls? Anyone know?
If your mine cart track is in a straight line, then having walls on either side should not slow it down. If your track is running diagonally, or if it turns a corner with the walls tightly around it, then the cart may experience some "dragging"; That is, the cart will slow down as it encounters the wall.
You could try widening the tunnel where the cart goes diagonally, or where the track bends and see if that removes the problem.
If by "between two walls", you mean having walls on both sides of the track, then no, the walls don't affect the cart's speed. Carts lose momentum very quickly with no rider, so that may be why your carts are slowing down fast. Or perhaps your boosters aren't setup properly.
I experienced a slow-down depending on the PC I'm playing on - boosters that work perfectly fine on my good machine totally fail on the slower one. Maybe this is also the case for you, try lowering the viewing distance and set the rendering to fast for comparison.


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Yankees projected 2013 opening day batting order as of Dec 12
Now that the Kevin Youkilis deal is done and the Ichiro deal is all but done, we can start goofing around with the Yankees opening day batting order.
[dh – Ibanez?]
[catcher – Stewart?]
The latest Red Sox player to make the trek from Boston to New York is Kevin Youkilis, following in the footsteps of Babe Ruth, Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, Johnny Damon. All iconic players in their own way… fascinating!
I was concerned about the Yankees lack of thump without Nick Swisher, but now that I look at this on paper, it's not so bad. If the heart of the order is going to be Teix, Cano and Granderson – well, the Yankees could do worse. Youkilis is good for 15 homers and one would expect more out of Teixeira, even if that's unlikely… Maybe you flip flop Granderson and Teix, but then, I think Teix needs all the protection he can get.
I thought about placing Gardner at the top of the order, but he's had so few ABs in the last year, I think the Yankees are better off starting with Ichiro (and his amazing bat control) at the top of the order and waiting to see where Gardner is at. His ABs look good at the end of last year… but I'm still on a wait and see approach with him. You could say the same for Jeter, but then, he's Derek Jeter and I'm willing to roll the dice and assume he'll be some version of himself, even if he's not the 2012 Jeter who was setting the world on fire.
I thought the Yankees were going to sign Raul Ibanez, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe they have their eyes on an upgrade? Or maybe they prefer someone who backs up the infield rather than the outfield in light of A-Rod injury? Who knows. As for a starting catcher… who the hell knows who the Yankees will end up with. I assume that the Yankees got Chris Stewart because they don't think much of Francisco Cervelli, so maybe that is your catching tandem, in that order if they don't go get somebody.
Well, it's still early, so we'll have to wait and see how the quesiton marks shake out and even longer to see what A-Rod has left when he comes back, but either way, this sure will be an interesting team to watch.
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On Tuesday at 1:22 P.M., Kentucky State Police responded to the 11000 block of Glasgow Road in Warren County regarding an injury collision.
According to troopers, Danny Wood, 22, of Glasgow, was traveling westbound on Glasgow Road.
Scott Lucas, 43, of Breeding, was traveling eastbound on Glasgow Road.
KSP says Wood was traveling at a high rate of speed and fish tailing as he entered the curve.
Troopers say Wood ran off the westbound shoulder before crossing the center line into Lucas' lane of travel. Wood's vehicle struck the trailer of Lucas' vehicle.
Lucas crossed the westbound lane before traveling down a slight embankment where it crashed into a tree.
Wood ran off the eastbound shoulder down a slight embankment crashing his car's front end through a fence.
Lucas and his passenger, Jimmie Rich of Tompkinsville, were taken to the Bowling Green Medical Center where they are being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Danny Wood was arrested for DUI and taken to the Warren County Jail.


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Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept, unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show 2010, suggests a new paradigm for the luxury sedan of the future. The concept showcases Cadillac's emerging top-of-the-line Platinum series of models, emphasizing new expressions of luxury and technological features, including a plug-in hybrid propulsion system. The XTS Platinum Concept was designed from the inside out, re-imagining the luxury sedan as a personal headquarters, built for efficiency, luxury and connectivity. The concept introduces a new approach to in-car electronics that improves the form and function of the car's entertainment, navigation and information systems.


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Marie B. Wilson, 77, of Belding died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 at home under the loving care of her family and Spectrum Hospice. Marie was born on Aug. 22, 1935 near Fenwick, the daughter of Rex and Florence (Doane) Calkins.
She graduated from Sheridan Agricultural High School and was a member of the Music Jams and of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Sheridan VFW Post 5065. Marie enjoyed crafts, crocheting, making Christmas ornaments and music. She taught herself to play several musical instruments.
Marie was married on Feb. 26, 1983 at Shiloh Community Church to Jim Wilson. She was preceded by her husband Jim in 2012, her first husband Bill Olsen in 2005, her parents and one sister Katy Pearson.
Marie is loved and survived by her children: Ed and Deanna Olsen of Twin Lake, Bill Olsen of Belding, Marilyn and Mike Kamps of Cedar Springs; two step-daughters: Bonnie and Dave Pierson and Connie Hodges all of Belding; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; her sisters: Maude and Al Waldorf of Greenville, Norma and Lyle Minikey, Carrie Smalley, all of Sheridan, and Lucille and Nelson Hoisington of Belding; many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 at Shiloh Community Church with Pastor Ken Harger officiating. Private committal prayers will be in Otisco Township Cemetery, Belding.
Visitation will be one hour before the service at church. Following the funeral a luncheon will take place at church. Memorials may be given to Spectrum Hospice or Shiloh Community Church. Envelopes will be available at church. Funeral care has been entrusted to Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding.
To sign the online register book, please visit the website of the funeral home, www.jffh.com.
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BRIDGEPORT - The investigation into the alleged bomb threat at the village Post Office last month is continuing, according to Police Chief Andy Klotz.
"We are going over some phone records and we have some more to be subpoenaed," Klotz said Friday. "We are progressing."
The chief did, however, decline to say whether any suspects have been identified or questioned.
According to Klotz, a bomb threat was called into the post office, located on the corner of South Lincoln Avenue and Howard Street, at approximately 2:35 p.m. on Dec. 27.
Klotz said a male caller phoned the post office and said, "There's a bomb in the post office and no one is to leave." He then hung up, Klotz said.
"There were two employees in the building at the time of the threat," he added. "Both of them were evacuated."
They were reportedly both taken out of the building via a back entrance. No one was injured.
A bomb-sniffing dog from the Muskingum County Sheriff's Department arrived at the scene shortly before 5 p.m. The dog searched the structure and the property surrounding it but no bomb was found.
During the threat, traffic was re-directed around the restricted area at several different locations. Given the location of the post office, this was no easy task.
Bellaire Police Chief Mike Kovalyk was stationed at the corner of Bennett Street and South Lincoln Avenue directing traffic south on Lincoln from Bennett, which is a one-way street heading east. Traffic was also re-routed onto Hall Street and then onto Dekalb Street before being detoured onto Bennett.
The 100 block of Howard Street was shut down, as was the alley running between Howard and Bennett streets.
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6 Well Intentioned Ways You're Ruining Your Dog
#3. Scolding it For Peeing on the Floor
Dogs pee for a lot of reasons, such as because they can. They also pee to mark territory, because they just have to go, and sometimes because they have low self-esteem. Yes, sometimes dogs pee as a way of saying, "You're the boss! I'm a nobody!"
Dog experts call it submissive urination. It's like when your boss is giving you orders, and then you say, "Yes sir, right away sir," and then you pee on the floor. Or maybe things work differently at your office.
Anyway, it's easy to think the dog is just being a dick who wants to ruin your carpet, and your natural reaction is to yell at him. That's like you at the office being in the middle of saying, "Yes sir, of course sir," to your boss, and he interrupts you with an angry, "YOU SIMPLETON! YOU ABSOLUTE MORON!" Your natural reaction is to just pile on the bootlicking ("Sorry sir, I'm such an idiot, sir."), just like your dog's natural reaction is to pee on the floor some more to show you how totally in charge you are.
"You're the man! Here, have some urine. Please don't hurt me."
Dogs that pee on the floor for other reasons need to be dealt with differently, but dogs that are peeing submissively (the cowering is usually a clue) need special treatment. Believe it or not, you need to build up your dog's confidence. Leaning down over him, talking loudly or looking him in the eye make him feel like a peon, so you need to make him feel like a champ by sitting down at his level and avoiding eye contact. When you first get home, you might even want to ignore him for a while until he's calm enough to take a greeting. You can also play "Eye of the Tiger" and point at him.
But don't yell at him. He's only peeing to show you he's the most worthless, harmless dog in the world. Yelling just feeds his little martyr complex.
#2. Giving it a Bone
Dogs have been gnawing at bones for thousands of years, mostly without incident. Then again, we used to poop in our own drinking water and we don't really seem married to that tradition anymore.
It turns out bones can mess up a dog in a lot of weird ways that people may not notice. The FDA says you shouldn't give bones to your dog and, according to their cheerful top 10 list of reasons, bones can break dogs' teeth, cut up their mouth or tongue if splintered, cut up their insides with bone fragments or cause them to bleed out the ass.
Rawhide chews have their problems too, but they at least are designed to be eaten by your dog (despite what the creationist diatribe in the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven might tell you, the same can not be said for bones). No chew treat is perfect, but bully sticks, or pizzles are digestible and one of the safer ones out there. Also, they appear to be made out of bull penises, so they make an interesting conversation piece.
#1. Buying an Expensive Dog
If you wind up in the market for a dog, you'll have the chance to spend "could have bought a nice plasma TV instead" money on a purebred of some kind. But you should spare no expense getting the highest quality dog possible, right?
Actually, purebreeding is pretty controversial in the dog world. Breed standards put out by organizations like the American Kennel Club lay out precise specifications for each breed. But as animal interaction expert James Serpell points out, the standards are almost completely physical, with only vague terms describing behavior. Some of the standards aren't even physically good for the dogs. Serpell says almost all purebred bulldogs have to be delivered by C-section because people kept breeding the dogs for bigger and bigger heads while they still have the same tiny hips.
The other problem is inbreeding. There's only a limited pool of "perfect" dogs in a breed, and soon enough everyone is everyone's cousin, like European royalty. Also like European royalty, genetic defects start to become more prominent, to the point that every breed has a set of genetic defects it's known for and which conscientious breeders try to watch out for.
Many breeders care a lot about their dogs and make breeding selections based on their dogs' temperament and welfare instead of just trying to make the perfect specimen for display or for sale. But dog breeding is not dissimilar to the fashion industry. The standards and trends that determine pricing are set by a bunch of weird people who care about genetically unrealistic standards that the average dog owner couldn't give less of a shit about.
This leads to a weird counter intuitive dog purchasing landscape where your best bet at getting a happy, healthy dog costs about 1/20th of one that will likely cost you thousands in vet bills, or a drive to the weird farmer who doesn't ask questions and doesn't judge, depending on how compassionate you are.
Some people feel we should eliminate the practice of pure breeding altogether, but as long as greed exists that's unlikely to happen. Still, the next time you're deciding what breed to choose, keep in mind that your best bet at a happy, healthy dog may be to choose "damned if we know." Take a trip to the pound to rescue one that is the mixed up spawn of as much unholy breed-mixing as possible. The more pit bulls that jumped the fence in a poodle owner's back yard up the genetic line, the better.
Granted, if everyone gave up on pure breeds that would mean an end to corgis...
...but it would also mean an end to Chinese Cresteds.
So we're torn on this one.
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Alms for your own soul
"Dont delay converting to the Lord; dont put it off from day to day. For his anger will come suddenly, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy you (Sir 5:8-9). So dont put it off; dont let the door still open close against you. The giver of pardon opens a door for you: why are you delaying? Youd rejoice if he opened it at your knock; youre not knocking, and he opens the door, and you remain outside? So dont put it off. Scripture says somewhere, with regard to the works of mercy, Dont say: Go away and come again, and tomorrow Ill give to you, when you can give at present (Prov 3:28), because you dont know what might happen the following day. Youve heard the command not to put off being merciful to another, and you still put off accepting pardon. If you dont put off showing mercy to another, show mercy also to your soul by pleasing God (Sir 30:24). Give alms to your soul, too. Im not saying that you give it, but dont push away the hand of the giver. (Augustine, Sermon 87, 11; PL 38, 536-37)
Why does he say, Give alms, and behold all things are clean to you (Lk 11:41)? What does it mean, Give alms? It means show mercy. And what does that mean? If you want to understand it, start from yourself. How can you show mercy to another if you are cruel to yourself?.... Your soul is begging you; return to your conscience. Whoever you are, living wickedly, living unfaithfully: return to your conscience, and there you will find your soul begging, youll find it needy; youll find it poor; youll find it miserable; and if you dont find it needy, its because its need has deprived it even of speech. For its begging; its hungry for righteousness. When you find your soul like that, inwardly, in your heart, give alms to it first; give it bread. What bread? If the Pharisee were to ask that, the Lord would tell him: Give alms to your own soul. This is what he said to him, but he didnt understand when he listed the alms they were performing, which they thought Christ did not know about. He said to them: I know what you are doing. You tithe mint and anise, cummin and rue; but Im talking about other alms: you scorn judgment and charity (see Mt. 23:23). With judgment and charity, give alms to your own soul. What does judgment mean? Look and find: be unhappy with yourself; pass judgment on yourself. And what is charity? Love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind; love your neighbor as yourself (Mt 22:37, 39), and you have shown mercy first to your soul, in your conscience. But if you neglect this alms, then give what you wish, donate as much as youd like; withdraw half, not just a tenth, of your produce; give nine-tenths of it away and keep one tenth for yourselfwith all that, youve done nothing if you havent done anything for yourself, and you remain poor in yourself. Feed your soul before it dies of hunger. Give it bread. What bread? he asks. The bread that is speaking to you. If you listen to him and understand and believe the Lord, he himself will say to you, I am the living bread that came down from heaven (Jn 6:41). Should this not be the first bread you give to your soul, the alms you give it? If you believe, then, you must first feed your soul. Believe in Christ, and the inside will be made clean first and then the outside will be made clean (see Mt 23:25-26). (Augustine, Sermon 107, 4; PL 38, 626-27)
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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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In these sermons St. Augustine always speaks directly to his audience -- "You...", "You...", "You..." Very effective, to put it mildly. Does he ever give the sort of sermons that string one generality after another, I mean sort of theoretical ones?
Ann, don't you think that if you heard someone speak like that, you might wonder where he stands? He's telling us to go inside the door, but does he know that he himself is inside?One of the things I appreciate the most from homilists is if, whenever they say something slightly critical, they include themselves among the targets of the criticism. It disarms the defensive reaction: "who does he think he is? What a holier-than-thou type!" Personally, I think I could only receive a homily such as the one quoted here if there was an already established relationship that would prevent that kind of reaction. (But maybe you're more docile than me.)
Most of the time Augustine didn't preach from a prepared text, and his vivid style and the interaction between him and his congregation were preserved for us by stenographers in the congregation. There are other sermons that he dictated in order to finish off a lot: e.g., some of the comments on John's Gospel and on the Psalms. Some sermons of either kind engage in more theoretical developments, but his primary purpose was evangelical and hortatory.
I shouldn't have said that Augustine uses only "you..." as his means to address the individuals before him. He uses all sort of second-person constructions == "don't put it off", 'return. . .", "don't say...", "show mercy...", "give. . . give. . . give. . .", "look and find...", "show...", "don't push away..." -- and that's just in the first paragraph!You might call this "second-person preaching".[Off-topic: What word in Augustine does "conscience" translate? I keep trying to find the origin of the word "consciousness" with the contemporary sense of the term. Historically it's related to the symbol-cum-sense "conscience", but "conscience" meant a particular kind of consciousness. A. slices these psychological acts and states very thin, and I wonder would you know if there is in his writings some reflection on consciousness as such, whether or not he uses a special word for it. I'd be surprised if he doesn't consider it somewhere. Maybe he had a word you'd translate as "awareness".]
Claire --I think that my whole generation is more docile than your generation. I see this as a big problem, maybe the biggest problem with the boomers and post-boomers. These days one of the worst sins one can commit is to be "judgmental", which, I suspect, stems from the notion that there is no objective right or wrong, or at least very little which is clearly right or wrong. The issue is a philosophical one, specifically epistemological. It isn't a matter of simply accepting what more experienced people tell us. It's a matter or whether or not we respect the experience and (we hope) veracity of others. From Kant until rather recently, the basic "Enlightened" Western cultural assumption was that we must be "critical" in our thinking -- and of everyone else's, and this notion finally filtered down into the popular Western cultures. This has ironically resulted in the philosophers' being critical of Kant, and it has finally been realized by philosopers of science that science itself is provisional and even intrinsically shaky in its empirical foundations. That idea has yet to hit the streets, so not-being-judgmental is still the norm.
Ann: The same ambiguity to the word exists still in the Romance languages. Thus my big fat Italian dictionary gives as the first two meanings of coscienza (1) conscience, (2) consciousness, awareness. My French dictionary reverses the order: "Consciousness, perception; conscience, conscientiousness, morality, integrity." Which often makes for difficulty in translating whether from Latin or from modern languages: does it mean here consciousness in the sense of self-awareness or conscience in our sense of moral conscience. Augustine knew both meanings. There is a reflection on what we call self-awareness both in his refutation of sceptics (Si fallor, sum) and in his elaboration of his psychological analogy for the Holy Trinity both in his great work and in a sermon that anticipates it. And you're right, he showed such a keen insight into human psychology that he must have practiced a good deal of self-introspection.Salvino Biolo did a dissertation at the Gregorian under Bernard Lonergan. When first published in 1969, it bore the title La coscienza nel De Trinitate di S. Agostino, but when it was republished in revised form in 2000, the title was changed to L'Autocoscienza to make it clear, as he explained in a note, that he was writing about the inner 'self-awareness' that accompanies all intentional activity.There is a considerable debate among scholars today as to whether Descartes' Cogito, ergo sum is at all indebted to Augustine.
I should add that you have my sympathy -- at one and the same time your culture tells you to be critical in your thinking, but it also tells you not to judge others. There's a fundamental contradiction there, and it must be painful to try to deal with it.
I've found Augustine's elaboration of the psychological analogy of self-awareness for the Holy Trinity one of the most elegant (and ultimately understandable) aspects of the faith. And its so interesting that conscience is so closely related to consciousnessthe fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
JAK --Thanks for all the information. I'm not surprised that "consciousness" comes first in your French dictionary. So far as I've been able to discover, Descartes seems to have been the first Westerner to focus on self-awareness, though he didn't use a word similar to "consciousness" (much less "conscience") to signify it. (I've forgotten which French word it was. Sigh.) But I'm not looking for the first appearance of *self-consciousness* in the West, I'm looking for simply "consciousness", that act/action/ground of an act/whatever which can have self and non-self as object, even both at the same time (as Thomas thinks they do). The word is so central to contemporary philosophizing that I think its origins need to be examined closely because the origins should tell us something about any biases in the uses of the term. From what I've read about him, it seems that Locke is the first one to really examine cs.-as-such, but he confuses self and consciousness, a mistake that has been dominant in philosophy up until G. E. Moore finally made the distinction between cs. and its objects. crystal clear. I must read Edward Feser's book on consciousness -- he specializes in both Locke and cs., not to mention Aquinas. So many books! So little time!! :-)
Lonergan, who had a very sophisticated treatment of consciousness, was of the view that both Aristotle and Aquinas also engaged in introspection on their conscious activities. I think of a point in his treatment of human knowing where Aquinas begins a sentence: Quilibet in seipso experiri potest: "Anyone can experience in himself..." It's the experience of self that accompanies an intentional act with reference to an object. That's what I meant by "self-consciousness," by the way. With Lonergan I would distinguish between self-consciousness, which is a simple experience of self and of self's act, from self-knowledge, which results from inquiry, understanding, and judgment. I think it's Aquinas who says that everyone knows he has a soul--by this I think he means experience of the soul and its activities, but that it is extremely difficult to say what the soul is. His treatment of the soul's knowledge of itself is very subtle, and much of it depends on reference to experience. Trying to describe, understand, and define what consciousness is is a major trend in philosophy today, as also in neuro-sciences.
JAK --This time I agree. I've read Thomas' descriptions of our knowing self in knowing other things. But I'm not asking about Thomas and *self-consciousnes*, I'm interested in the origin of the simpler concept of "consciousness". Thomas doesn't seem to have sifted out a more general concept of simply "consciousness". He doesn't even have a word for consciousness. He uses only verbs to describe its actions, e.g. 'in knowing the tree I know myself'.700 years later G. E. Moore clearly sifted out the concept of "consciousness of..." in all of its intentionality, and I think it's due to the influence of his pupils Russell and Wittgenstein and their followers that the mind-body problem is so central to day. I think that Aristotle's psychology is certainy consistent with a concept of consciousness as an intentional act of the soul, but he was more interested in physical intentionality, viz., teleology in biology and physics. And now we have Thomas Nagel, but the die-hard materialists are starting to hate him. Sigh.
I certainly agree that being true to one's conscience is the right thing to do, but when it's put in the rhetoric of the Old Testament [Dont delay converting to the Lord; dont put it off from day to day. For his anger will come suddenly, and in the time of vengeance he will destroy you (Sir 5:8-9)], it's hard not to lose all sense of mercy and feel instead, threatened, pure and simple. Such threats seem in keeping with the mindset of bibilical times, and apparently still with the mindset of many if not most religious Catholics today, but still, threats are threats. It's a little difficult to learn *mercy* from an angry and vengeful God ready to "destroy" those who don't do as he says.
I wouldn't regard the rhetoric of the text invoked by Augustine as exclusively "of the Old Testament." Similar warnings can be found in the New Testament, including in the words of Jesus, e.g., about the narrow gate and road (Mt 7:13-14), about workers of iniquity (Mt 7:21-23), about the weeping and gnashing of teeth and the many called but few chosen (Mt 22:13-14), and about the sheep and the goats: "Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels" (Mt 25:41). It would appear that Jesus was not adverse to warning people about a judgment to come, and I don't think that Augustine was doing anything different in the text above. As Augustine emphasized often, conversion out of fear of punishment is certainly not the loftiest of motives, but it might be the start of a person's turn-around, and eventually fear could be transformed into love.
conversion out of fear of punishment is certainly not the loftiest of motives, but it might be the start of The means to the end. A crooked path. It's like using a disreputable link to win an argument when you know that your ultimate opinion is correct. Your reasons are not so good, but you don't care, as long as they work and convince people.Is that really supposed to be ok? I try not to do it that way. Often, I question ideas if I am not sure that they are well grounded, even when they have strong appeal (for example the idea that forgiveness begets repentance rather than the other way around); and sometimes I bring up ideas even when they go against my desired conclusions (for example the idea that looking at an embryo and seeing a person is like looking at a consecrated wafer and seeing Christ). I thought we were supposed to try to find out what was true, whether convenient or not. Instilling fear of punishment as a ploy to bring people to repentance seems a bit shady. I think that if Jesus warned people about a judgment to come, it must not be a ploy but a reality. I also don't know how "fear can be transformed into love". So, I don't mean to be ornery, but doesn't Beverley make a good point?
I didn't say and don't think that fear of punishment is being used as a ploy, which would suggest that there is no punishment to fear. But if there is such a punishment, and people can be persuaded from evil acts by that fear, that is better than their continuing in their evil actions. St. Augustine would bow to no one in urging people to pursue truth, particularly since he followed St. Paul in asserting that Christ is truth, and in trying to bring them beyond a religion of fear to one of love. He noted, however, the biblical texts, "The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord" and, on the other hand, "Perfect love casts out fear," and he tried to bring them from the imperfect beginning to the perfect conclusion. Fear can become love after a lengthy spiritual progress.
Fear of punishment as a good thing - that's a hard concept to grasp (and I speak as a parent). Fear becoming love - ?? The narrow gate, few are chosen, etc. - if my loved ones are not going to be there, I have little interest in trying for salvation myself (particularly today, the anniversary of my mother's death.)The overall picture this paints is alienating.I give up (on this thread, not on Christianity!)
Claire: To use a homey example: Many (most) people obey traffic laws out of fear of being stopped by a cop and given a ticket. I don't see anything wrong with this. On the other hand, a person could refrain from speeding in a school zone because he doesn't want to injure any children. This person obeys the speed limit because he appreciates its purpose, which could even be called love of the value being protected. I can't find the reference at the moment, but somewhere Augustine says that fear and love of God are in inverse proportion: The more you fear the less you love; the more you love the less you fear. Many people have discerned progress in themselves from a fear-based to a love-based Christianity.One should desire that all one's loved ones are among the few. But those alienating texts are there in the Gospels, and the scholars I've consulted don't doubt that they represent an element in the teaching of Jesus.
This is more important: "you are in me, and I am in you" and "that they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us". That is why I believe we are headed to universal or near-universal salvation. That is also what keeps me trying to love all people, striving for unity, desiring evangelization. I don't understand those alienating texts, but I know that whatever they mean, they cannot compromise the main message. And I know that you agree with me in that, of course. It is pointless, destructive, bad, to read them outside that context. In that, Beverly is right.Or it could be that I have been formed by the lectionary, that its selection of texts is biased to largely avoid the "hard teachings", and that I'm off base.


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I've copied here the text of the Declaration of Independence. Read it and take a few moments to appreciate the risk taken by the 56 signees to create a nation which we enjoy today.
I have taken out the section which lists the specific grievances against Britain, but you can read those and find other information about the Declaration on the National Archives site - www.archives.gov.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
(At this point, the Congress lists its specific grievances with Britain.)
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"This is the beginning of a Church with an organization that is not just top-down but also horizontal."
Last week, Pope Francis sat for another interview--this time with the atheist co-founder of La Repubblica, Eugeio Scalfari, whom the pope recently replied to in writing. The headline of the conversation, "The Pope: How the Church Will Change" (not "I Will Change the Church"), is obviously pinned to today's opening of the Council of Cardinals, and for good reason. Here are some highlights:
"The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old."
"Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas are born and I discover new needs."
"That is the purpose of our mission: to identify the material and immaterial needs of the people and try to meet them as we can."
"Heads of the Church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy."
The curia is "Vatican-centric. It sees and looks after the interests of the Vatican, which are still, for the most part, temporal interests. This Vatican-centric view neglects the world around us. I do not share this view and I'll do everything I can to change it."
"When I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical."
"Vatican II, inspired by Pope Paul VI and John, decided to look to the future with a modern spirit and to be open to modern culture. The Council Fathers knew that being open to modern culture meant religious ecumenism and dialogue with non-believers. But afterwards very little was done in that direction. I have the humility and ambition to want to do something."
"The first thing I decided was to appoint a group of eight cardinals to be my advisers. Not courtiers but wise people who share my own feelings. This is the beginning of a Church with an organization that is not just top-down but also horizontal. When Cardinal Martini talked about focusing on the councils and synods he knew how long and difficult it would be to go in that direction. Gently, but firmly and tenaciously."
"I have already said that the Church will not deal with politics.... Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion."
"We need great freedom, no discrimination, no demagoguery and a lot of love. We need rules of conduct and also, if necessary, direct intervention from the state to correct the more intolerable inequalities."
Read the whole thing here. And don't miss the conclusion, in which the pope promises Scalfari that next time "we will also discuss the role of women in the Church. Remember that the Church is feminine."
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Absolutely astonishing and exhilirating.
"Heads of the Church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy."
I never thought that in my life time I would hear a pope speak words that the Roman curia considers subversive.
"Remember that the Church is feminine" ... Reminds me of a wise Holy Cross Brother at ND who once announced to our class: "Gentlemen, always be a spiritual Semite. Always, remain metaphysically feminine."
The Italian headline in La Repubblica is: Il Papa a Scalfari: Così cambierò la Chiesa (not in quotes).
Seemingly (unless I missed something) an interpretation of his words about the Curia: "Questa visione Vaticano-centrica trascura il mondo che ci circonda. Non condivido questa visione e farò di tutto per cambiarla" -- "This Vatican-centric vision neglects the world which surrounds us. I do not share this vision and I will do my very best to change it."
Even the English language headline seems an interpretive leap.
"Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense."
The whole interview is such a paradigm change. The above quote though is priceless. John XXIII also knew how dominating and manipulative the prosleytism process is. .As Jesus said: "Woe to you Pharisees you traverse land and see to make converts and you make them more evil than yourselves."
Narcissistic? Absolutely. Greeley called it clericalization of the church. It was a sin to even criticize a cleric. And "whenever I meet a cleric I become anti-clerical." Priceless. Clerics in Rome, as well as peacocks everywhere, may walk with more humility today.
These are the nuggets that the American bishops may need to ponder:
"The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old."
"I have already said that the Church will not deal with politics.... Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion."
Will the Fortnights for Freedom continue? Will "Faithful Citizenship" be rewritten? Will it be published anymore?
I think love for temporal power is still very strong within the Vatican Walls and in the institutional structure of the whole Church. I think that the institution dominates the poor, missionary Church that you would like.
"In fact, that is the way it is, and in this area you cannot perform miracles. Let me remind you that even Francis in his time held long negotiations with the Roman hierarchy and the Pope to have the rules of his order recognized. Eventually he got the approval but with profound changes and compromises.
Francis aware of the reality of renewal. Sobering.
Again, this all sounds very good, and is certainly a very hopeful turn, but...if women are so darn valuable, why is the "gang of 8" all male? Are there no women he knows and trusts? Not one?
Lisa, maybe that's his pastoral side: communicating in such a way as to be heard by his target audience. In this instance, the audience consists of the church hierarchy. To communicate with them effectively, he has to choose advisors that the rest of the church hierarchy will be willing to listen to. Hence the absence of women.
Everyone will have his/her favorite/least favorite quote. Here's mine:
"I believe I have already said that our goal is not to proselytize but to listen to needs, desires and disappointments, despair, hope. We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace. Vatican II, inspired by Pope Paul VI and John, decided to look to the future with a modern spirit and to be open to modern culture. The Council Fathers knew that being open to modern culture meant religious ecumenism and dialogue with non-believers. But afterwards very little was done in that direction. I have the humility and ambition to want to do something."
I went to Fr. Z's blog to see the reaction of very conservative Catholics. They appear to be in a state of near panic, which is very sad. Fr. Z again tries to reassure them, by trying to spin the Pope's message. He notes that the interview was off the cuff -- hoping, one thinks, that the Pope really didn't mean all that he said.
I think that not only does the Church need Francis...the WORLD needs Francis. He can be transformational far beyond the flock for which he is responsible. I am starting to believe that he will be transformational. What an utterly extraordinary person he is. Pray for his continued good health.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
The interview is just extraordinary. Particularly near the end, where the Holy Father turns the tables, ceases being the subject of the interview and probes what Scalfari believes. A model of respectful dialogue. Just amazing.
What impresses me most about the interview is Francis' emphasis on what he calls "mysticism". In answer to, "Do you have a mystical vocation?" he answers:
"… I love the mystics; Francis also was in many aspects of his life, but I do not think I have the vocation and then we must understand the deep meaning of that word. The mystic manages to strip himself of action, of facts, objectives and even the pastoral mission and rises until he reaches communion with the Beatitudes. Brief moments but which fill an entire life."
Has that ever happened to you?
"Rarely. For example, when the conclave elected me Pope. Before I accepted I asked if I could spend a few minutes in the room next to the one with the balcony overlooking the square. My head was completely empty and I was seized by a great anxiety. To make it go way and relax I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear, even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows. I closed my eyes and I no longer had any anxiety or emotion. At a certain point I was filled with a great light. It lasted a moment, but to me it seemed very long. Then the light faded, I got up suddenly and walked into the room where the cardinals were waiting and the table on which was the act of acceptance. I signed it, the Cardinal Camerlengo countersigned it and then on the balcony there was the '"Habemus Papam"."
He is obviously well acquainted with the sort of prayer which sets out to be totally open to the presence of the Lord. But note that his non-Ignatian (?) method of reaching that state begins with relaxing and emptying his mind of all thoughts of all sorts No doubt the relaxing then emptying his mind will sound very New Agey to the EWTN folks and others who don't accept the fact that this process is very much like "Centering Prayer" which is actually a variation on an ancient Christian practice. At the end he experiences (no doubt) the Holy Spirit illumining his mind. He didn't get to the ecstatic sort of union of love that we find in mystics like Teresa of Avila and others, but he does say in other parts of the interview that he realizes those are real but rare. (I wonder whether he has experienced that kind first hand. He doesn't say.)
At any rate, this looks to me like his first lesson concerning contemplative prayer for all of us, and no doubt some people are going to be very nervous about it. Fortunately, young people are generally more open to such practices. One more hit for Pope Francis :-)
I agree with Lisa Fullam.
It is going to be interesting to see how Francesco navigates the troubled oceans that separate women from the church.
I was very touched by the interview, especially at the end, and the details that Scalfari reports bear out the impression of a genuine dialogue, not only the appearance of one.
He is giving us an example. I am so glad this was reported. He may have conversations like this all the time, but to listen in is a privilege, and enlightening.
As a sideline, Bill Mazzella, you are going to have to give up your anti-Augustine mantra now, or give up Francis. :)
"...the troubled oceans that separate women from the church"... Could we put a "some" before "women" in this sentence?
I was struck by Pope Francis' comment about Pascal. I presume that he is not thinking of the Pascal of the "Provincial Letters," a very witty but harsh attack on the casuistry being propounded by Jesuits and others at the University of Paris. Instead, I presume that Pope Francis is referring to other works of Pascal, particularly the "Pensees," a remarkable collection of thoughts about the human condition. Pascal producedno grand philosophical treatise, but his "Pensees" deserve the attention of thoughtful people even today.
Amen to that. I am looking forward now to the next interview!
I am not one to quote this man, but, in all fairness, he and Francis are in sync on this matter:
"The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by attraction... she accomplishes every one of her works in spiritual and practical imitation of the love of her Lord." http://news.iafrica.com/specialreport/Papacy/124078.html
Too many interviews spoil the broth -- we need a new category of Major Interview, to be signaled as carrying some substantial authority (the Civilta Cattolica/ America interview), otherwise we bet a blizzard of papal obiter dicta or soundbits that leave no substantial legacy of teaching.
Interviews are a good genre for communication, so much better than the encyclical style. People find the Social Teaching of the Church boring because of the prominence given to unreadable encyclicals. They are an alienated form of communication, too self-conscious on the part of the teacher (always seeking to shore up his authority) and demanding a servile gratitude from the reader who is force to pick out encouraging nuggets here and there from reams of impersonal bureaucratic authoritarian prose.
oops, we get a blizzard of soundbites, I meant
The question is, how to ensure that Francis's candid style of communication becomes normative, instead of dissipating like fizz.
Eugenio Scalfari: "I do not believe in the soul."
Pope Francis: "You do not believe in it, but you have one."
(ES: "Io non credo all'anima". PF: "Non ci crede, ma ce' l'ha".)
Dialogue or proselytism?
Is La Repubblica the new L'Osservatore Romano? It sure helps circulation that LR's founder has been chosen by letter and social calls to become a principal papal interlocutor. There was no internet, no instant communication during the nearly twenty-year papacy of Pius XII, but the cult of personality, as far as I can recall from my childhood, was pervasive in the Church, and even beyond. Is it possible that in just over six months' time this type of unhealthy adulation is in danger of being revived? I found this latest (public) conversation a bit uneven and somewhat perplexing. Is it suited to a worldwide audience? Like Sister Aloysius in the in the play/film several years back, "I have doubts."
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I have doubts too about John XXIII's being tacked on as the caboose to John Paul II's train, that is, the dual canonization on the Octave Day of Easter next year. Now increasingly called Divine Mercy Sunday.
"Like Sister Aloysius in the play/film...." One "in the" will do. Why not an editing function as on that Collegeville liturgical blog?
There is an editing function, John. Beneath your comment, it says "delete" "edit" and "reply" in blue, doesn't it? The reply function is disabled (thank heavens; someone decided that nesting comments is not the best way to go after all, I presume), but edit works--at least on my screen. Have you tried it?
"Beneath your comment, it says "delete" "edit" and "reply" in blue, doesn't it?"
Rita, lucky you! I don't have the "edit" button. Can I pay extra to get that privilege?
Rita - I don't have anything beneath the comments except "reply". I take it from various comments I've seen at this site that the same is true for a number of other readers. I wonder if it is a function of browser version? I'm using Google Chrome Version 29.0.1547.76 m. (As soon as I went to check the version just now, I got an "Updating Google Chrome ..." message, so I suspect I'm not very current :-)).
Oops, maybe the clever program knows I am a contributor and gives me a few extra chances to clean up my prose after I've posted a comment! I promise, I've never tried to edit anybody else's posts... no matter how sorely tempted...
Rita - I usually manage at least one typo per commment, so you have my permission to clean up my comments - in fact, I really wish you would!
I can't edit either. I use Safari and a MacIntosh computer. Over the years I"ve found that many programs just don't work with Macintoshes. I suspect that it's cheaper for businesses, etc., to just ignore us Mac owners. My bank, for instance, allows me to choose a new password and then the program works for me -- but just twice. After that I can't log in again. This has happened several times. So it seems obvious that the problem isn't with me, it's with the bank's program.
Yikes! Here is someone displeased with this interview. His take: "It's a theological wreck".
From your link, Jim: "From Augustine's Confessions to "Well, everyone has his own ideas about good and bad…" is a mighty long path."
Augustine's Confessions, book 3, chapter 7: "as if in an armoury, one knowing not what were adapted to the several members should put greaves on his head, or boot himself with a helmet, and then complain because they would not fit. Or as if, on some day when in the afternoon business was forbidden, one were to fume at not being allowed to sell as it was lawful to him in the forenoon. Or when in some house he sees a servant take something in his hand which the butler is not permitted to touch, or something done behind a stable which would be prohibited in the dining-room, and should be indignant that in one house, and one family, the same thing is not distributed everywhere to all. Such are they who cannot endure to hear something to have been lawful for righteous men in former times which is not so now; or that God, for certain temporal reasons, commanded them one thing, and these another, but both obeying the same righteousness; though they see, in one man, one day, and one house, different things to be fit for different members, and a thing which was formerly lawful after a time unlawful— that permitted or commanded in one corner, which done in another is justly prohibited and punished. Is justice, then, various and changeable? Nay, but the times over which she presides are not all alike, because they are times."
I promise, I've never tried to edit anybody else's posts... no matter how sorely tempted...
Thanks, Rita.


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That said, in Ohio, the courts recently reinstated the process of early voting after it had been taken away by Republicans. This potentially affected millions given that roughly 1.7 million ballots in Ohio came in before Election Day in 2008.
Critical to the President's historic victory in 2008 was early voting in states like Ohio, North Carolina and Florida, needless, to say, voting early can make a huge difference.
And apparently some Republicans think so too since they're doing all they can to stop it in certain places. Earlier this year, Ohio GOP official Doug Priesse said: "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine…"
Wow, black folks promptly exercising our democratic rights is a scary thing, huh? Guess Mr. Priesse was bankin' on us to be on CP time.
But no matter who you vote for, let's take the First Lady's lead and get out there and vote early, if you can… Check your state's voter guidelines to see if early voting is an option which, in most places, it is.
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PILATI, Evan L., 57, of East Springfield, OH, passed away Dec. 29, 2012, at his home.
He was born April 1, 1955, in Steubenville, OH, a son of Donna (Drabick) Pilati of East Springfield, OH and the late William Pilati.
In addition to his father, he is preceded in death by his daughter, Jessica Pilati-Busby.
Evan was a member at the Christ United Methodist Church of East Springfield. He worked for Colfor Manufacturing in Malvern, OH.
In addition to his mother, Evan is survived by his loving wife, Debbie (Horvath) Pilati; daughter, Jennifer (Noah) Smith of Richmond, OH; grandson, Jared Evan Smith; brother, William Pilati of Alabama; sisters, Linda (James) Linthicum of Canton and Cindy (Emerson) Walker of Streetsboro, OH; and many nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received on Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the Everhart-Bove Funeral Home, 110 W. Main St., Richmond where funeral services will be held on Thursday Jan. 3, 2013, at 11 a.m. with Pastor Josh Conley officiating.
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Making Joint Custody Work
It's a known fact that most kids don't have an easy time dealing with their parents' divorce. But parents can make the situation a bit more bearable, especially when it comes to cooperating in a joint physical custody arrangement, by following some guidelines. Below are tips for parents, from parents, on how to make a messy situation manageable.
Consider the child first, the arrangement second.
Some children have a tough time with transitions; others handle them remarkably well. A child who does not separate easily or adapt well to change may not be a good candidate for 50-50 joint physical custody.
Ask yourself: Can you communicate effectively with someone you couldn't live with?
One of the cardinal rules of joint custody is not bad-mouthing the other parent. If anger or resentments linger, parents may find it impossible to work as a team to address the needs of the child. Still, you need teamwork to make joint custody work.
Think long and hard about logistics.
Joint physical custody works best when divorced parents live near each other. The fewer trips between two homes, the better. Given your lifestyle, are you able to dash over to your former wife's home with the soccer cleats and homework assignments your daughter forgot to pack?
Always drop off; never pick up the child on "switch day."
One parent realized early on that you never want to "take" the child from the other parent. Better to have the child dropped off than risk interrupting or curtailing a special moment between your child and former spouse.
Consider a Monday-Thursday/Friday-Sunday schedule.
Although this schedule doesn't split time equally, some experts recommend this arrangement for school-aged kids. Some parents try to "equalize" the time during school vacations.
Expect changes during adolescence.
Even when joint custody works well with younger children, teenagers often rebel against these arrangements as their priority shifts from spending time with parents to hanging out with friends. If an adolescent's desire to take control of his or her own schedule conflicts with the custody schedule, parents should try to be flexible.
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I'm trying to upload a photo to a Facebook page I own using the iOS SDK and graph API. I've been able to upload photos to my own wall. I've also been able to post a message to my fan page wall as an admin and create an album on my fan page, so I think I'm making the right calls, but not succeeding.
This is what I'm currently doing.
I'm logging in using
Facebook *fb = [[Facebook alloc] init];
self.facebook = fb;
[fb release];
NSArray *permissions = [[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"read_stream", @"offline_access", @"publish_stream", @"manage_pages", @"user_photos", @"friends_photos",nil] retain];
[facebook authorize:FB_APP_ID permissions:permissions delegate:self];
[permissions release];
After I log in, I request the accounts
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The accounts are returned to me with access tokens for each page and app I own. I use a simple loop to parse through the accounts to extra the access_token supplied for the page I wish to upload a photo to.
I then set my access token of my facebook object to the new access_token.
facebook.accessToken = new_accessToken;
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andHttpMethod:@"POST" andDelegate:self];
The response I receive is
{"error":{"type":"OAuthException","message":"(#1) An unknown error occurred"}}
Is this a bug in the facebook graph API? I also tried making this call using standard HTTPS requests, and get the same result.